A Jeremiad An Address Delivered Before the Kansas State Bar Association, Wednesday, January 15, 1896 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from A Jeremiad: An Address Delivered Before the Kansas State Bar Association, Wednesday, January 15, 1896

Noah, pottering away at his ark and explain ing to his fellows the oncoming of the flood Which should destroy the world; J eremiah, pouring forth his lamentations over the new evils about to fall upon his beloved J erusalem; Isaiah, pumping his lungs to their full capacity in his effort to outdo his rival prophets; Hosea, in more temperate language doing his share of wailing; Daniel, recalli'fig to Nebuchadnezzarhis dreams and reading the sad interpretation thereof, were undoubtedly unpopular in their day, and were both jeered and guyed by the people around them. And yet it has sometimes seemed to me that the fellows who jeered Noah, and excited the irrepressible mirth of the loaf ers by asserting that it was not going to be much of a shower anyhow, were not of meces sity wiser than old N oah, and certainly, though they may have laughed last, did not laugh best. And so, when the evils 'came upon Jerusalem which Jeremiah and Isaiah and their friends had foretold, it may possibly have occurred to some of the survivors who fled from Jerusalem to escape captivity and death, that it might have been well, possibly, to have received the words of the prophets, if not with respect, at least without derision.

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