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THE WILHLHGTON UESSEKGEE,: SUNDAY, U fa Itewmv JACKSON & BEIil COMPANY. TEBMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. r ... -.... ' v. x: ?Tlie Dally Messanger, by mall, one Tear. $7.00; six months, $3.60; three sooths, $1.75; one month, 60 cents. Gerved In the city at : CO cents a MM4-f' An A . dtp. .15 cents: $1.75 for 1 nff" f ww w - ; friend of humanity, ; Whoever he may he. Tennyson has also some nofole, vig orous llnfe in the same direction, writ ten in the fifties; we think It was. "We have no copy of his works at hand or we would reproduce a few' of (his stir ring, ringing lines. He has sung in a high, Impressive strain In two or three of his masterful poems on liberty and patriotism. The fine poem of Sir Wil liam Jones, the celebrated English Orientalist, who died in 1794, more than a century ago, is well known to most intelligent readers in our country. His .. theme was "Patriotism." What he . . a . sfrv AA maa ' ThB Semi-Weekly Messenger ease papers), hy mall, one year, $1.00; months, 50 cents, in advance. WILMINGTON, N. C SUNDAY, JUNE 27,i897. SAIMAGUNDI. It is known that the Greeks set great store by athletics. They knew nothing of the latter-day foot trail savagery, fut they had foot races and other sports. Beading lately some Greek opinions about many things, we found tone philosopher, Xehophanes, as quoted In Bergk, taking decided ground in fa rf of the intellectual over the physi cal: He endeavored to countervail the true now, is eternally true. We give some -of the opening lines and closing: "What constitutes a Stajte? Not high-raised battlement or .labour'd mound, -: Thick wall or m'oa'ted gate; Not cities proud with spires and tur " ' rets crown'd; . , Not ibays and broad-arm'd ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich na vies ride; ' ; Not starrd and spangled courts, Where low-brow'd baseness wafts per " fume to pride. No: Men, high-minded men Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. . ' " " These, cons'titute a State." A year or two ago Edmund C. Sted man, poet a-nd critic, and Professor WoocBberry, of Harvard, aumor u.iu, published an edition of Edgar Allah Poe's works in ten volumes. Both the irv rt rfvf New England, and such favoritism in behalf of mere physical undertaking by them and the pub- powers, endurance and other-supposed . ushers showed that there was still un , . a n aaaort thp ore-emi- L, lurhansi avmi'9. rowing, in- tience y,a intMwtual over physical n the unfortunate, unhappy j tiiu w j w advantages. React wnai; "" jw. poet, ana xnai tney oher said, who wrote some 500 years elegant edition would prove accepta- - - i - Sefore Christ came EL Loalt. yw OiUaaa, TUItftnort, upon. He is clearly not in harmony with the contention of some, perhaps all, of the miscalled higher critics. The able New England organ of the Bap tists, The Watchman, says this, and we see no reply that is possible: ' "TTarnack may be right or wrong In his conclusions; the indisputable thing is that the scholar under whose name so many of the advanced critics have sheltered themselves has admitted the early date of the first Christian docu ments. We have been told ad nauseam that in these high matters the decision rt tn M-nprts is final, and we have been taught that Harnack is a high priest of the experts. Now that Har nack rejects only II. Peter as wrongly attributed, and regards all the Pauline epistles as genuine with a little hesi tancy as to Ephesians, and even roots the pastoral Epistles In original real letters, and places all the Gospels with in the first century, why is it not per fectly fair, without going into the mer its of the question at all, to point out that the chief of the experts has bro ken with the higher critics?" When a writer like Harnack accepts the substantial trustworthiness of the Christian Scriptures, . and their early date, which is the chief matter in dis pute, then the men who have been quoting from and relying upon Har nack will have to get support else- He said: , xou M& t( tlie public and prontaDie xo xneni. v. 0 better come m out rfve all kinds of honors precedence ax We have never seen tnis eaiuou, rtHrals. pensions, and public mainte nance to runners, boxers, pentatn letes, wrestlers, pancratists, and char ioteers, who bear away the prize at Olympia; yet these men are not so rwrtit of reward as I am; for; better Mod ern books are so high that few per sons in the south who love the 'best literature can hardly ever .get a glimpse of the fine editions and never hope to read them. New books are to day three or four times higher than of the rain. 4.1. r nmo.n nv 'h'rtrsP'S is i T,,r nrara "-Atwipipn 1840-60. Our OWn than xne sirtriis-ii ,,mcjr vv - our .wisdom. What is the use of all ( library can make that statement good, this muscular development? It will not. That -the edition is desirable is no improve the constitution of the state, d,ouM true. Professor wooaDerry puu or increase the revenue?" This opin-iished before this a life of Poe that was ion of Xenophanes was by no means ' cruel in its harsh revelations, as well singular All through the most glo- ; as .most painful. The work is divided rious portions of Greek literature , you ' in this wise:' Five volumes are given nthin? norresDonding to , to his tales, altogether the most ong- 1 All. v wv-.- the above in the censure of the physi- j inal, marvellous, and ingenious In lit cal sports. It is stated by one thor oughly versed in Greek literature that "Plato Aristole, and all political mor alists of Greece blamed Sparta and Thebes for training mere soldiers and gymnasts, to the exclusion of intel lectual culture ; V thus retarding the erowth of their constitutions and forc ing them to depend in all emergencies upon brute force." The Athenians themselves were censured, for it was . charged! that they suffered from 'ef (feminacy and ignobility of purpose." But two remarks we make. It lias not been long since some of the very fore- of learning the erature. In fact .roe .invwiw short m'odern story as It is now writ tenthe wierd, the canny, the myste rious, the inventive, the curiously and are given to his essays.and one to his poems. The information concerning all is said to be most minute "and equal to all demands. v We preserved the fol lowing that appeared last year in a northern criticism of the edition: . "With the notes on the poems a dom Tipk variorum is printed for the first ' time, the editors having thought this I desirable, 'partly because there is no such illustration in literature of the ; elaboration of poetry through long- .. . rr- v,,i.ixr rtnr t in erf and rnlnute verbal processes, athletics were tne neroes. 4,f T Tfl1,.wo laree a portion of OllU fl" w w . . 'M. L "U rn A TTTQ C! Tint Strt man, ranKing ai ucou, h much as heard from. It was the man of brawn and staying physical ' force, who could jump higher or out-kick his adversary over whom poeans ' were sung and for whom : garlands were woven. The other remark is tnac while the pagan Greek moralists were united in condemning the excesses in the athletic grounds, there have been in the last three years' many modern and American "moralists" some even Christian "apologists" who enjoyed, the great excesses of the foot ball game1 and joined in - all the shouts and praises In hehalf of the physical over the intellectual. The Greek, was a much wiser man than the end of the century advocates of brutal games that maimed and killed and caused drun- -'kenness and many disgraceful scenes. Many a clergyman and professor in educational Institutions have shown far less insight, wisdom and genuine moral judgment in the matter of ath letics than the Greek philosophers who ; never so much as heard of Christ, as they all lived many hundreds of years toefore the epiphany of Christ on the earth. j Wa rmwfe-ri a savins: yesterday. Itv .came from a northern poet, name not known to us. He struck Mis resound tng harp a few years ago and sang a. strain worthy of attentive ears, . and particularly in these days of preten sion and small men and political cor- T-nnHinn and oersonal profligacy, and the worship of the "almighty dollar" that will damn more souls in perdi tion we believe than anything else but -drink. WecannOt, reproduce the whole, tmt give a part. He said, and he had the vision of a prophet as well as the convictions of a political philosopher fie saw the great desideratum of - the .age, of the boasted land of the free, tills vain, srlorious republic he saw .and sang of the most needed thing ' now; "God give us 'Men! A time like this demands .Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands SIen whom the lust of office does not kill; 31 en whom the spoils Of office cannot buy; Slen who possess opinions and a will; Slen who love honor; men who will not He; - . ? : . "Tall men, suh-crowned, who live above '"i f. the fog . . ..- ' ! Ta public duty and in private think ing: !. ....'. Freedom weeps, "Wrong rules the land, and waiting - . Justice sleeps." These are noble sentiments and vssrorthy of an American patriot and the verse written by. Poe perished in those processes.' Mr. Stedman's intro ductions to these two divisions of the works are as interesting, thoughtful, and discriminating as is that to the ! Tales." - j . i It must not he'' omitted that the northern critics ahdrpoets haye never done justice to Poe, and perhaps the reason Ts that he was !so very severe in his criticisms of !Longfellow and Other New Englanders contemporary with him. iPoe is much more highly appraised in France and in England than he is In New England. In fact, by many critical writers he is consid ered at the head of American poets. Mr. Stedman is a good critic, hut of New England. He said of the nature and quality of Poe's lyrical genius that "a distinctive melody is the element in Poe's verse that first and last has told on every class of readers a rhythmi cal effect which, -be it of much or little worth,-was its authors own; ana xo add even one constituent to the re sources of an art is what few succeed in doing." We do not know whether to class Poe with writers of the south. He was connected on his father's side with a good "Maryland family, his mother was an actress, and not na tive to the south and he was born in Boston. He Is in no respect a iNew England product. He neither thought with them nor wrote like their poets. ' The tendency for some years has been with many preachers and writers to ig nore the miraculous element In the Christian Scriptures. Hume tried in his way to destroy the credibility of miracles. But those who have read the little book of Archbishop Whateiy, -so marvellously acute and conclusive, on "Historic Doubts" will not be longer puzzled or annoyed with Hume's plaus ible sophisms. Doubtless men of-certain schools, men who are sceptical by nature or from, study, would like to get rid of the miraculous in the Bible, as some would like so much to get rid of the Bible altogether, but, like Banquo's ghost, "it will not down." This gener ation may quibble, may speculate, may deny, may pervert, may try to drop out of sight the supernatural in the Scrip tures but it'cahnot be done. The eter nal verities will remain, for without the miraculous and the supernatural the very foundations of the unnstian religion cannot stand. A distinct, clear, unfaltering recognition of the superna tural element underlies the whole Christian structure. Wipe out all of tnral." of the miraculous IliC OUVM" , and you sap the foundations by open ing up the way for all manner of fool ish "isms" agnosticism, theosophy and all the other balseless humbugs and naturalism in religion will come in abol ishing God altogether and all that be ire tn him. The New York Exam- iner, another very able Baptist paper, strongly, impressively says of the ten dency in later years to vhich we refer: "It is, without doubt, true that less stress is laid upon miracles as eviden tial witnesses of Christianity than a century ago. - More stress s placed upon the moral character of Christ and Christianity, the uplittmg powerot r,c.iQTi4tv its adaotation to the wants of human nature, than formerly. But the Christ presented to men as the one great nine-teenth-century witness for Christianity will not be effective if he be not regarded as something far different from the highest of men. Only, a supernatural Christ can be a convinc ing witness for our faith." 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