Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1880 — Mr. Gough on “Blunders.” [ARTICLE]

Mr. Gough on “Blunders.”

The Wipstpd (Gonj).) Ifepald, (of March 9,1877.) speaks as follows of the lecture to be delivered by Mr. John B. Gough, in Black’s Opera House, on the night of February 18th:

Gough’s Lecture Wednesday evening,drew together the largest audience that has assembled in Music Hall this season—ln fact the room waa nearly filled to its utgeost cacpacity. The lecture itself, on Binders, was one of Mr. Gough’s best efforts, although, unfortunately, his voice was not in the best of condition for speaking. He defined and analyzed blunders of various kinds, and gave illustrations, ludicrous and patheic, of all the different varieties; educational blunder*, literary blunders, conversational bins* ders, legislative and.moral blunders, comical and criminal blunders. No one who knows Mr. Gough’s history ean listen to his thrilling descriptions of the battles constantly going on between individual wills on the one hand, and all the powers of evil on the other; of men struggling, oftentimes almost hopelessly, for mastery over appetites and passions, without feeling that he is painting, in all their rugged outlines; scenes from his own experience; and this is, beyond a doubt, one great secret of his unprecedented success as a lecturer ana temperance reformer. His silvered hair reminds his audience that he has reached the age when most men think they may lay down their armor and rest on their laurels. But Mr. Gough exhibits as yet no sign of weariness or faltering. May he be spared to many years of life and usefulness, for there is no one living, so far as we are aware, who is either worthy or able to take his place.