Show Character THE first of the series of lectures under under un un- der the auspices of the Young Ladies' Ladies Aid Society at the Theatre last Sunday night was a success in every way Every seat on the lower floors was filled and Judge Goodwins Goodwin's able lecture on Character was listened to attentively from the characteristic vein of wit at the beginning to the happy peroration at its close The program was opened with a solo by Professor Krouse Salt Lakes Lake's celebrated celebrated celebrated cele cele- piano artist Mr followed with a vocal selection The Holy City Both exercises were well rendered and well received After the lecture came a vocal sol sold by Mrs Lizzie Thomas Ed wards rendered in her usual charming manner and a violin solo b the noted violinist Mr Clive I Mr Bloor President of the Press Club introduced the lecturer Judge Goodwin Several persons in viewing a landscape will each receive different impressions One will mark the striking points that he may know it at some future time or estimate the elevation and where the best grades could be made another will note the flora or the alphabet of the rocks while yet another will drink in the vision from an artistic point of oJ view will be entranced by the lights and shades and the landscape pe will be a picture picture picture pic pic- ture swung by the great Artist for the admiration of mortals But a photograph photograph photo photo- I graph will make clear what each one saw what each one failed to see for it will be the impression which the sunlight sunlight sunlight sun sun- light will make and the sunlight is at once impartial and all x Character is the photograph of the soul No matter how subtle the intellect intellect intellect intel intel- lect no matter with what adroitness men and women may conceal their true natures the days lays and nights of human life advance and recede at length the light of the soul shining out through that life results in a picture f which reveals all that is rugged and grand and beautiful within while at the same ame same time showing all the scars and seams which sorrow or vice or crime has made upon it This picture which shines out from a alife alife alife life or hack back upon for it it for in many cases the negatives are not prepared until the lives are closed makes closed makes the impression upon mankind which is called character This grace called character does not depend on either race or blood The great Shawnee was an untutored red redman redman redman man but he stands out in history a presence for when dying the picture that his soul threw off was that of one who had the fortitude and valor to die fighting gloriously among his people the last of a race of chieftains who preferred death on the field to th the slow decay of surrender and servitude From the intellect alone even when attended by a multitude of graces no no reflection of character worth preserving can be secured A hundred years ago two men were living in our country One was an anA A Apollo polIo and every even grace of mind seemed to be his Men in his presence were magnetized ed by the charm of his hearing bearing and the of his inscrutable mind He captivated strong men and gifted and beautiful women alike He persuaded men and women alike against their wills As lawyer orator soldier as asa asa asa a conversationalist in a room drawing-room as a debater on the hustings hustings everywhere everywhere he carried men with him and strode the earth an intellectual conqueror The other man was slow of speech and reserved in manner He seldom smiled He could not make a speech He was a soldier but except in dauntless dauntless dauntless daunt daunt- less courage he never developed any of the attributes of of a great general he left no writings behind him to indicate that he possessed anything more more than medium intellectual attributes But now after a century has been unwound the statue of that bright man has dwindled dwindled dwin dwin- almost into nothingness that of the other is magnified into colossal proportions proportions pro pro- portions and the nations of the whole u T earth bow down in reverence before it The reason is that the light which shone out from the s soul ul of Aaron Burr r revealed the seams and scars which come of dark thoughts and sinister and selfish purposes and they so blur the picture that no grace can be found in it while the light which caught and illuminated and made clear the real soul of the tr silent man established that below his seeming stern exterior within him was wasa a hoi holy strength of purpose an integrity which could not be swerved one jot from froma 4 a straight line a self abnegation which whichever whichever f ever held his country first in his thoughts an absorbing love of liberty and sand justice and a sense of duty which I called hI him mat at all tl times m es to hold even his Ii r t life as nothing in its service What y wonder then that when to George Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington was given the title of II Father of His Country to the world hailed it as exactly just that men repeat it with added added added add add- ed enthusiasm as the years roll on and will continue to repeat it to the end of time with admiration reverent and pro pro- found r The highest character does not deA depend depend de de- A pend upon genius Indeed when genius poises its wings essaying to mount on high the string to give it connection connection connection con con- with the earth and to insure a glorious flight must be character else it will fall helpless as a kite that has no earthly stay Character does not depend upon genius or the graces graces of schools r but nevertheless genius and learning le t are splendid settings for character and f hence to a nature properly attuned every accomplishment adds grace To the young man I would say drink as deeply as you can at the fountain of knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge explore as far as you can all the i realms of learning climb all the heights i you can i in intellectual attainment only keep watch of yourself See to it that a ayour your motives are holy See to it that you always keep in thought that your life here is but a trust that the duty of a mortal is to perform the duties imposed upon him the duties to country country country coun coun- try to home and to the world so that when the brief struggle is over the verdict verdict verdict ver ver- dict will be that the world is better because because because be be- j cause you have lived 1 My friends as the sunlight of truth shines down into your souls revealing perfectly to each his inner self what picture does the negative reveal Look wi within thin and see if you are satisfied with it Would you like to hold it up where all the world could see it Well your souls are throwing off faint reflections of those pictures now They will increase in distinctness as the years roll rollon rollon rollon on more and more will they become visible to mortal eyes more and more will they turn to to- them or recoil before them and by and by men will turn their backs upon them and forget them or open their hearts and hanging those pictures on the inner wall treasure them forever Are you dreaming reaming of by and by making making making mak mak- ing a fort fortune ne without without earning it If so there will be dark lines on the pic pIC- picture picture pICture ture because you are proposing to turn aside the original decree that gave nothing nothing noth noth- I ing to man but the earth to stand upon and his own own faculties to work out for himself his destiny and in the decree was included the sentence that only by honest work could anything be achieved that would endure What shall the picture for each of us b bt We have in great part the power to give the tints the lights and shades to that picture to cover it with dark lines or to aureole it with light to make it something from which men will recoil recoil recoil re re- coil or to make it as II stainless as was the milk which fell from Hears celestial 3 i bosom which bleached the plant on which it fell to everlasting whiteness to 4 |