The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-06-05


sand religions with mystic emblsms solemn rituals
philosophy had thought and learning had studied for
sss The arts Of taste had grown to heroes
had won crowns OF vtctory-empires republics arts,
the same suffering, misguided unheped being still
noble creature, susceptible Of such exalted senti
ments-struggling, longing, thirsting painting, dying
lot nre bread light hope progress: immoraity Must he
which rolls round the world amshng for the bread Of
life signing for some new bark to bear him to cmes he
Odd Fellowship heard the signal and sent back Its
sponse-"No generous, hoping, signing, suffering ga
cred BROTHER help and light are coming! The day Of
flaming on the eastern sLy!, Such were the wants
such the exgenciesthat brought up institution.
the werld needed t-because 1t has answered the
mands Of the age. 1t must continue to do So II 1t
would live Is the age Is changing every hour Thel
the life Of empire. Time is no longer to be
measured by the successive vibrations Of pendulum
not by moments even, but by revolutions Time is no
more marked by the dial the hour glass, but by
strokes Of the engine and flashes Of the telegraph
Less than century ago France required fifteen years
to dethrone monarch; she does 1t in day The
morning dream of Louis Philippe, in the gded cham
Der of Louis Quartorse Is broken by the march Of
vouton. He rises and orders out his body guard to
shoot down the mob. You know the rest. The sha-
dows of the evening close around his aged head
rocking in a fsherman's boat on the bleak bosom Of
the Atlantic and the mounting beams Of the next
morning shone on Lamartne's Republic Odd Eel
become an electric institution An institution, to be
perpetual, must meet the varying exigencies and
swer the varying demands Of the successive ages,
through which 1t travels In its ncipient stages,
Order chiefly occupied in mnisterng to the physi
cal wants of mantending the couch of languishment
visiting the prisoner in his cell, the widow in her
tears and the faherless in their orphanage and these
noble objects must continue to engage It's attention;
not one Of these duties must ever BIO forgotten.
But Odd Fellowship Is lifting its eye wider field
1t begins to ask what its business with the minds Of
men! While It for the body, it begins to feel
ratons and the progress Of the soul that the spirit
not for day nor, like the of Shakespeare for all
time 1t spreads Its wing over the battements Of the
invisible world 1t leaps the life to GOMEZ 1t begins
feel that the body Of Is sacred and instead Of
leaving the form that will one day put Immortality
to rot in foul vault In crowded city churchyard,
where the dead touch another in few days to be
torn up by Vandal hand rural cemeteries are be-
ing every founded in the still country where the
which shed their perfume and the birds who pour out
their requiem anthem over the seeper's pillow Thank
heaven that foul charnel. houses giving place to
green gardens for the dead Odd Fellowship begins to
feel 1t Ia q more sacred, more imperious duty, to
cheaper science than to cheaper Bread for there Is
sadder spectacle than man dying from hunger 1t is
soul furnishing for the bread life Hence in every part
of the land atheneums, libraries and reading
being founded where six hours work gives the aboring
intellectual foodament for the soul for 300 days
1t has alwas been Of prescribed duties to edu
cate the orphan, and the duty has been DONE But it
must be done more silectualy Orphan schools ought
to be founded by every LODGE and till 1t Is DONE
Odd Fellows themselves cannot measure the agency
snbno,moster hns Isst tho rnversv and zone .br.ad
through the world He is in Labrador in Oregon, in
and In the distant islands Of the South Sea-
lie has sailed up the Golden Horn-he has passed tho
pyramids Brothers we must widen the sphere Of our
we must for the minds
in our feebeness was once did only their bodies
Every sign in the political moral armament betoksns
progress and inspires hope The whole world is In
notion and the whole world is bid ling us God speed
new and better day for mankind everywhere break
ing Religion which in all its forms seems destined
to the blessing or the blight Of man has begun
interest itself with the life Of the world-with our
hearts-oar homes-our every day occupations. The
to minge with the life and earnest struggles OF
man; and they their backs the tall Expresses
which for centuries held their steady those
grey sepuchres of the buried alive they feel the undu-
ntons Of the new nge The age scholastic theology
Of mystic rites Of monkish rituals, Of besottng and
enslavng priestcraft has gone by-and it will return
no more And who would roll our Of progress back
again into the misty shadows of those gloomy ages
Would you rebuild the Pyramids! The schoolmas-
ter has been in Egypt and the sovereign who
now rules the Nile, puts an hundred thou
rand to building railways and canals across
the isthmus and the shrill whistle Of the engine Is
echong around the tops Of the sky reaching Pyramids
Would you again launch five million Crusaders on the
the East
Westward the star Of empire takes Its way!
Would you send powerful German emperor once
more, barefooted to the gates OF the Vatican TO be
perdoned by pope! There is no longer pope In the
Vatican to pardon him, nor German emperor to send
there Would you re dig the dungeons OF the inqui-
ston or chain again Gods glorious revelation the
altar or light once more the martyr fires Of mithfcd
| An !! Go be dog and bay the moon" but bring ii
no moro things like these. II cannot be DONE Foul
centuries ago, the monks pen produced illumi
| mated Bible during life time. Then the prizes
| thought for the people. When that blessed bool
| 10 thrown of by the Titan arm Of steam, men viii
do their own thinking and make their creeds On,
hospital IL now worth more than hundred converts
| Lone Bible more than all the creeds-one decd o.
huma ity, more than thousand sectarian dogmas
When men can think free, they begin to oct free
Europe has woke up to schievc her freedom; and fo
twelve months every steamer has brought with It sigma
guns Of distress from expiring dospotism. Old Hun
gary has lifted her valiant arm Aul the fnvinciblo 10
sions Of the already immortal Koesnth are on the
march TO Vienna. Inc uoe OF Datte IN Europe; DC
tween iioetIy ana s ~ tne ou anu s
ne. sse r~ VIC p .ss.I" o.. n.;..;n,a II ~
sna NJ" os. ,.,, .tson,sr "a staaJI;or On,
thsn The s,ruguie Tor bread There is no danger lk
that OF irving to fcourge the newly spirit
bact 10 a. prison house IL Is the frenzy of madness
for eovernment. with the wrong all on their side
| stt.n,nt Inv cannon and troop of the line I,
arre,t the avalanche rush OF millions towards thei
| rirbts Over such frail barriers the tread o.
| the multitude is like the march Of tho storm
II Il not always that ninetenths OF mankind are T.
lie "a Al remaining fraction