Article February 27, 1902 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from I. A. Shanton, T. J. Beall, Edgar K. Betts, W. J. Geer, A. Hollingsworth, F. P. Casey, Anon

Mr. Edward A. Kimball, C.S.D., of Chicago, lectured at Melvin, Ill., Thursday, January 30. This is a small place but a large audience attended the lecture. Mr. Kimball was introduced by the Rev. I. A. Shanton, D.D., pastor of the First Congregational Church, in the following words:—

This is an age of expansion,—expansion in things and matters material, political, intellectual, moral, spiritual,—an era of universal evolution from things lower to things higher, of things smaller to things larger, of things human into things divine. We do not occupy the vantage ground of our fathers, even though they were a noble and illustrious ancestry.

Politically, we have circumnavigated the globe, and touched the antipodes with a vital and lustrous civilization and life. Rome no longer holds the sceptre of monarchial authority, nor wears the mitre of universal culture. Greece is no longer the one only creator of art, nor the only educator in things æsthetic. Persia is no longer the banking house of the world, nor the only financier and dictator of the world's commerce. Athens is no longer the sole arbiter of human thought, or the expounder of systems and philosophies, nor yet the only teacher of things ethical. The splendor and glory of these ancient empires and civilizations have faded out, and a more gorgeous halo crowns the brow of to-day.

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