Life, 1889-02-28 · page 6 of 22
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# Page Analysis: Life Magazine, Issue 120 This page contains satirical commentary on contemporary political and religious issues. The main text discusses "Certain Williams," apparently a figure involved in St. Thomas's Church controversy, with references to church control and free churches. The bottom illustration depicts a man at what appears to be a podium or lectern addressing an audience, with the caption containing dialect speech that appears mocking. The cartoon seems to satirize either a specific church dispute or broader debates about ecclesiastical authority and democratic principles in American churches during this era. The page's title "The Divine Compensation" and references to "Delmonico dinner" suggest commentary on wealth, church privilege, and social hypocrisy among the elite. Without more specific historical context, the exact figures and events referenced remain unclear, though the satire targets institutional religious authority.
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THE DIVINE COMPENSATION. HOUGH Love is blind, as poets say, This the passion cannot smother ; For lovers, near or far away, Always feel for one another. * * * CERTAIN Williams, pi “Captain,” and later “Ih was once upon a time a gr and a famous bouncer. F still; but since a fortnight < liams” has been an ambigu: and whoever speaks it has whether he means the Ins the Sexton of St. Thomas's a man woke up one mor found himself famous it w Williams. If any one in 1 mentions St. Thomas's Ch a straight face it will be r his. The interview with hb marvel of complete inform: explained what he was in of doing, and justified his tions by proper explanatior * * * T° comment on what said is an unnecessary ment of the intelligence of the reader who has remarks, as every reader of newspapers must h He demonstrated beyond the necessity of ques sort of a Cerberus it is that controls the hosp St. Thomas's Church, and what sort of control it been acceptable for many years to the proprietc sanctuary. If in so doing he has made his emplc ulous, that is as much their fault for being his em his for protecting their rights. * * * FTER all, the most striking feature of Sexton episode is the demonstration of the progres lic opinion in the direction of free churches. Thomas's officers should have been so prompt t Williams and his sentiments, is evidence that eve minds there is a sense of some absurdity in the p an exclusive right to sit in a pew and listen to the} of the Christian Gospel. * * * Wate men say that their Delmonico dinner greatest ever known; that their victories 01 water are une. ~led; that they can kick higher a pull faster, pitch crookeder, hit straighter, and catch more impossible balls in better time than any other col- lege in America. It may not be modest in Yale to make all these claims, but it must be confessed that she has a good deal of documentary evidence in the way of flags and such frivolities to support her claim. Yale has done well—particularly well in that she has had her din- ner before her record has been spoiled. To be in time—that is one great se- cret of success, * OU are entering upon troublous times, Mr. Harrison. Your administration will not be all festivity like the first week thereof, but the American people will stand by you, so long as you do the right thing. That will necessitate giv- ing offense to the politicians, of course; but we trust that you will follow the example of your courageous predecessor, and consult the interests of the people first. But the office- wal seekers are a determined lot, Mr. Harrison! ‘Now, BEFO" I CLOSE, I WANTS TER GIB YO’ ALL ER FAIR IN’: DE MEMBAH OB DIS CHU'CH WOT AM FOUND AT DE ’NAU- UN BALI. WILL BE 'SPELLED FROM DIS CHU'CH FORTHWIF.’ comicbooks.com