| Show WAS EMERSON E DAY Great LIt Literary z L Character fly Rait lIlt lake Emerson was WIlS the theme of ot yesterday mornings discourse by lIo W II 11 of the Unitarian church fh h jie ker eulogized Mr Um him him as aa the mon and the tue great greatest est eat spiritual that this country has ban yet produce 1 wild said that with wIlh the publication of his hl essay on in Ill American literature so ao o far fill nij a aIt It had hul on an original acter aeter of Its own Is II held helt to have hae prop properly erly begun nit It U has hta never lIever In ill th of any other of at our writ era eie so so o high hl h a level hs no that to lo which ho he raised It Mr Ir Plait said sal further urther that the distin gut merit ot or that which puts huts him oven ever above Tennyson anti most moat other teacher leathers Is the tho clearness anti and steadiness with which he ho sees that this great greot nature of ot which we form n a aport port part is III to be bo Interpreted In accordance with its It highest anti ami not Its lowest t spiritual and not with physical laws nw The Tue riddle ot of the uni universe verse verie is Solved In his hll view Ie when we wo recognize In tn nature the same law which we te lind M nd In our souls souie The his outward world Is la but the symbol of a 11 spiritual pretence Prence 11 behind It and pervading nil all Its it operation anti and can be Jt understood only when wh n we study It II In the light of ot our in inner ncr ner life lIfo u not Ue be understood to Imply Emerson EmerlOn U III always equally wise equally luau clear or ar equally helpful We read rend as BR we read other J QI toe le r have ha e In our time learned to t cacti the with core care anti this Ills discrimination crimination endeavoring to prove au all things and ant hold fast that Is good gow Hut amid arnld 1 the breaking up of ot material supports And rind bulwarks bulwark of or religion which Is I going on all around us tie and ond Is 19 destined to advance till still more rapidly In the future he represents more plear ly I yand lIntl nd lY than any anyone one else who could cout be nam Hl the possibilities of otA a spiritual faith at once Independent of all outward evidence authority and In harmony with lIh the most mORt nd Rd discoveries and the progressive spirit of the th present day da daTher There Tiler Is II guidance gulden for each of us and by lowly listening lIt we shall user the tha right word ord Few teachers teacher do more to arouse toU anti and cultivate the listening Jl vow pow powers ers of the time soul than Kmer I on and thre there are many ways way in which h he helps help In the development of nr that which is highest and anU h best st within us Prof Tyndall the famous who wrote In his hla con co cops t of at the essay elMr on Nature Pur Purchased chased by II Inspiration d declared If J nn one ona on can be Of ald id 1 to have line given the tho lM to my mind It Is I Emerson Imerson whatever I have done the time world orld owes to There are doubtless others other on both aides ele of the tile Atlantic who could lIy le Mine same thing and there 1 re will be bema many malt ma more none though dead lINd our poet nod nM Meri ei yet ft and his Influence II Is destined lita ned to Increase till he h com cornea come to be bent beat beat at nt Jet lit generally reconciled as cc the greatest teacher in the lilt things that IOn eon concern ecrU cern our Inner life lire that this country or ur age has haa seen |
