| Show A PARSON PUFFING THE DEAD PARSON new newman ra known to our readers by reputation as the priest who was so signally defeated by the late orson pratt in the discussion does the bible sanction polygamy and as the clerman clergyman y who hll hil had to leave his church in new york lately on account of its divided and bankrupt condition has made himself obnoxious already to the san franciscans ile he lias has disgusted a great many people by the fulsome character of a funeral discourse lie delivered a short time since over the mortal remains of the son ut of governor leland stanford some idea can cun le be formed of charac character tei of the sermon by the following from a coast corre correspondence poli poll to a chicago paper dr newman made a lons iong address intended principally to flatter the parents which sounded like the dies of a court chaplain over the remains of a departed prince newman compared young stanford to all the areat reat of earth and then as if weary of the effort to find a nitting fitting prototype for him among human beings he boldly declared t that ha t he boy was some sort of a reproduction of jesus christ the pacific coasters stood all the other things connected with this extraordinary funeral but newmans flat blasphemy has caused their orge gorge to rise and he is r receiving ecalvin sharp criticism and vehement denunciation on all sides his address is now in circulation here as a curiosity and it is everywhere pronounced tile tiie most fulsome ever delivered in the western hemisphere sphere no funeral oration over washington jefferson adams or lincoln contains a tithe of the praise lavished upon this poor boy whose only achievement was to die newman found that he had the wisdom and philosophy of a bacon the keen foresight and penetration of a richelieu the ile beauty of apollo belvidere the artistic taste of michael angelo the eye of an angel the forehead of a god the mental promise ot of a hamilton the eloquence of a pitt ritt the of a peabody the tenderness of a pascal seal and the studiousness of a gibbon and he predicted that for generations to come the youth of the country recognizing in leland stanford jr a savior would visit his tomb for inspiration and that his example would be as a beacon light to all the nations the suggestion that young stanford had been a savior to the young manhood of the world was not explained by 31 mr r newman but it seemed t to 0 remind him of an another oilier point of similarity between the dead californian and the victim of cavalry like our dead leland I 1 said the impious newman the savior also died young 11 i it is said around town that gen grants old pastor received for this precious discourse |
