1 8th March, igoS. 



Dr. S. W. Allworthy in the Che 



THE LESSONS OP HISTORY. 

 By Rev. J. Rosenzweig. 



(Abstract.) 



Rev. J Rosenzweig said the title of his lecture was "The 

 Lessons of History." For the education of the young for the 

 instruction of the mature, for the edification of the old he knew 

 of no aid more powerful than history. Its broad pages were 

 covered with the gifts of time and they were mighty among the 

 mightiest of instructors. History was written in every land, in 

 every age, in every tongue, and it had always the same lesson to 

 teach. Like the Holy Bible, history owed its pre-eminence as a 

 teacher to the fact that it was the concentrated essence of 

 biography. It was the mentor to mankind, the practical and 

 practising preacher of highest truth and greatest wisdom. Properly 

 studied, it disclosed to man the themes that might give him the 

 motive for the onward tendency. It was a sacred oratorio, in 

 which the story of each nation formed a part and each person 

 represented a musical note. In spite of the discords and bars that 

 occasionally met them its inspiring melody had resounded down 

 the centuries, so that to-day they might gather from its tones notes 

 of warning and consolation ; and even to the remotest age it 

 would go on reverberating through time, bearing a message of 

 faith. However widely men might differ as to their view of 

 history there could be no gainsaying the net results of the 



