The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-07-04 00:00:00

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iS F01:101V;I it remarkable that so great an !lon mr
should only now, at this thee, be dose to his
memory. hut the nen:many whieh has taken
place in Worms is signideaut and suggestive.
In that hi t UllllllllllCat has boon erected in
his honour, au 1 at the ceremouy of nueoviTing
he monument wera present the King of Prus-
sia, the King of Wurtemhatg. the Grand Doke
of ik%li.) Weiamr, the Grand Duke of
“nil several other German potentates and riots-

lite beAtles a largo nuo-ber of men of learn.

lug and influence. The Qacen of England, t,o,
w.ts virtually present, for she sent by telegraph
her congratulations to the Protestant prin s
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and people of Luther's native country on the
accomplishment of the work. The city of
Worms is, of all others, the most suitable for a
monument to Luther, for it lvaa before the Im-
perial Diet in this city that he nos summoned
in 1521. He bed rendered himself hostile to
the Church of Home by his vigorous denuncia-
tion of the extravagant doctrine of indulgen-
ces promulgated by Pope Leo X., and how far
the reformer had gained an influence over the
'popular mind may be partly estimated from the
f ict that 2,000 people met him a league from
Worms and conflueted him to the tiihunal. He
was warts! by friends of the danger he ran, and
advised to escape, bet he replied, with charac-
teristic force of langnage, " If there were as
many devils in Worms us there are tiles upon
Ilie roofs of the houses, I would go on." And
Ito did go, and in the presence of Emperor,
Archduke, dukes, bishops, and ambassadors,
Luther maintained his opinions. Those opini-
ons have uever died, and at this day are main-
tained with oily less vigour becanse they have
gradually increased in power. That the time is
homing when the freedom of religions opinion
will have to be again formally asserted is main-
tained by some ; but he this as it may, the value
of sueh freedom is permanent, and the memory
of Luther will be dear to successive genera-
tions.

It would lie too much to assert that what Lu-
ther was in regard to ecelesiastical domination,
Cobden was in respect to commercial restric-
tions ; but Iti..:llard Cobden wita as decided a re-
former in one departmant as Lal.tin Luther was
ill another. The labour that they performed was
for the benefit of their fellow alea, although the
scope of the reforma was widely different, and
the one 0.55 i7:lloit,:ly more important than the
other. The rincoverilig of the statue to Cobden
Vila very different to the imperial and regal cere-
mony in Worms. In the former case it was a
manifestation of the honour in which the me-
nmry of a fellow eitizn was held. A few mein-
hers of Parliament, and a number of compara-
tively uninfitieutial persons met thus to pay tri-
bute to the worth of the deceased statesman,
and to honour the principles and the poliiiy with
which his name is identified. The old Whig,
motto, " Peace, Iletrenchinent, and Reform,"
hail no more vigorous expenent than Richard
Cobden ; hut his name will over be inseparably
connected with Free Trade. There can he no
question that Colic;; did more than any man of
his time, or than any living mom to aholisll re-
strictions on trade, and open up the whole world
to an interchange of national productions. The
names of Peel, Gladstone, and Bright are aim
identified with this pokey, but Cobden was em-
phatically the apostle of free trade. To him
are mainly owing those enlarged and liberal
ideas of of commercial intercourse which have
male such steady progress ever since he enun-
ciated them. And they will yet progress. They
may lie for a time opposed, mad their working
out may even bo for a time injurious to special
innvei.ts, lint they are for tho lemefit of man-
kind at lar,fe ' and they can now be no more re-
. pressed permanently than society can be forced
1 back into ruedimval theories.

ITou.owAy's I'ILLs.-11;arehtra and o:l,.itery.—The
me.iieines reternoniy use Sr the ,eahjitwtti el these

,iisea-es so fiequeidly fait of effecting t t t that is
shonlil be known to all suf.:l-el, from these neilalies that
Holloway's Ointment, well rubbed upon the ahlainen two
or three times a day, with the application of warm bran
poultices in the intervals, gives immediate relief, gradually
soothes the irritable bowels, and assuages their most die.
teeming pains. This treatment is applicable te all forms
of diarrlima, dysentery, and cholera. awl, with at'onti,n,
Ald il•wopn be suecessful. Furionceous diet, milk, and
barley water should give snbsistence during the continu-
a., f the disease, to the utter exclusion of all solid
food, which the deranged bowels are incompetent to assi-
milate.