OCTOBER 6, 1895.
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deserves to be regarded as manifestation
of Divine favour, in as much as they dis
pose the heart to kind and gentle inclinations.
For ! think them ordained by God for some
great and holy purpose. Do we not know
that the professors of the fine arts are COM
monty men greatly distinguished by special
gifts of a creative and discerning spiritf 1T
there be any thing i'll the usual course OF
human affairs which exhibits the immediate
interpostion of the Deity, it is in the pro-
gress of fine arts, in which it would appear
he often arises up those great characters,
the spirit of whose imaginations have an in
terminable influence on posterity, and who
are themselves separated and elevated a.
mong the generality Of mankind, by the
name of nien of genius. Can we believe
that all this is not for some useful purposct
What that purpose is, ought we to pretend
to investigated Let us rather reflect that
the Almighty God has been pleased among
us, and in this remote wilderness, to endow,
with the rich gifts of 4 peculiar spirit that
youth who has now our common consent
to cultivate his talents for AN art, which, &C
cording to our humble Judgment was pre-
viously thought an unnecessary ministrat'on
to the sensual propensities OF our nature.
Nav it be demonstrated by the HE ana
works of the Artist, that the gitt OF tIod
has not been bestowed upon him IN VAN,
nor the motives of the benihcent Inspiration
which induces us to, suspend our partlcu-
lar tenets, prove barren Of religious moral
effect. On the contrary, let us confidently
hope that this occurrence has been for good
and that the consequences which may arise
in the society of this new world, from tht
example of Benjamin West will pc enabiee
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peace as shall tend to draw the ties OF attec-
ton closer, and difFuse over witier extern
of cummunity the interests and blessings
fratc,nal love-


"At the conclusion Of this address, th'


women rose and kissed the young Artist
and the men one by ono, laid their hana


on his head and prayed that the Lord nigh


verify in his life the value of the gilt which


had induced them, m despite OF their rei


gious tcnents, to allow him to cultivate thu


faculties of his genius.