Prof. Hirsch's Lecture

Tin1 lectura of Prof. Emil Hiraeh, of Chicago, beíore the S. L. A., last Friday evening, was a pleasant disapointment to the audfertce. The subject gave the impivssion that the Jecture would be a dry, and to tbe common people, extremelj' uuinteresting ome. Kut the I'ioíessor so ohose his words and gave them utteranee th ai he kept the attsntion of his nmli, .-n.-e to the end. He 'jvidently ihad his heart in hi.s thoughts. He tiave a pl'ea for tin? retogiiition of the Semitas in nioiU'in pa'Ogress and litíoature that left its impresa upon íiis anditors. It seemd strange, lioiví'v.t, to listen to the utterances oi a .Tew in pvaise oí that Jewi.sh son whose lexample and teachinga Iiave come down these nineteen hundred years gnowing in stregth and power until "they have Chvistianized nearly ihi' civilizad world. But such was the lactj for Prol H rsch stood upon tibe platform and not only acknowledged the divinity ot' thrist, lut contended that the contrlbution that tlie .lewisli rawe had given modern civilization, in Him alone, was groat?r than that contributed by any other race. Prof. Hirscli is not graceful upon tlie platform, and yet there is sometliing attratcive about hini that retaine the attention. He is not an orator. His periods are nol well roiuuled. His gestupee are not pleasiiiir. Uut he has brains, and n'ives evidience ol beinig a student.