The "Lecture-Room" he had little respect for, none at all for the "Variety Show." To every device he wishes a cordial farewell, exclaiming: Restored! Restored! Well known so long a time, These buried glories rise as in their prime. Our tastes may change as fickle fashions-fly, But art is safe: the Drama cannot die. More than restored! Whate'er the pen since wrought Of loftiest, sprightliest, here that wealth has brought. Whate'er the progress of the age has lent Of purer taste and comelier ornament,-- To this our temple it transfers its store, And makes each point shine lovelier than before. But the drama must be clean: But more yet,--and how much! We claim a praise The Playhouse knew not in the ancient days. Own us, ye hearts with moral purpose warm! Our word Renewal adds the word Reform. * * * * * Come, friends of Virtue! Share the feast we spread. It loads no spirits, and it heats no head. But rouses forth each power of mind and soul With food ambrosial and its fairy bowl. * * * * * Hearts are improved by Feeling's play and strife; Refined amusement humanizes life. So wrote the Sages, whom the world admired; So sang the Poets, who the world inspired; Why in New England's Athens is decried What old Athenian culture thought its pride? Thus Righteousness and Peace are made to kiss each other. Art and Virtue walk hand in hand. The sole condition is that art shall be virtuous and that virtue shall be artistic. There was a singular blending in his mind of the sacred and the secular. Perhaps Matthew Arnold's definition of religion as "morality touched with emotion" comes as near expressing Dr. Frothingham's conception as any. There must be morality; that is cardinal; that lies at the foundation of all systems; that must be strict and high. But emotion is indispensable also. This runs into praise, the love of goodness, the worship of the highest. This imparts warmth, glow, passion, the upward lift that inspires. Morality alone is cold, emotion alone is apt to be visionary. But the two united propel the ship, one serving as ballast to keep it steady, and one as sails to catch the winds of heaven.