New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-16

coughs reapPeaI again, and | sill there The
dark, sleeping taliows doomed wnb e,,erai5
blades Of corr, and the corn grew deem sr3 cr;.n
and blackened before the summer breeze e.
waves of shadow, as Mr.. Teunyson saws in ona
of his most exquisite lyrics; and then the fields
grew white to harvest day by day, and saw the
rows of sheaves rise one by one, and the carts
crawling bomeward under their load. could al.
most hear the merry voices Of the children round
tbep-children that could go into the woods, and
nick wild flowers, and still there No-l would
look at nothing but the gable, and the cedartree,
and the tall cathedral towers; there was no
change in them-they did not laugh at me.
Bat she who lived beneath them Months and
seasons crawed along, ana yet no sign or Hiht OF
her; I was forgotten forsaken And yet
eazed, AMI gazed. Icould not forget her could
not forget what she had been to me. Eden was
still there, though was shut out from it forever
and so, ike a widower over the grave OF her he
loves, morning and evening watched the gaols
and the cedar tree.
And my cousnl All, that was the thought, the
only thought, which made my life intolerablei
What might he nos be doing in the mean time
| knew his purpose knew his power, True,
had never seen hint, glance, which could have
given him hope but be had three whole years,
to win her in three whole years, and l tet-
tered, helpless, absent Fool could | have
won her if | had been free At least, |
would have tried; would have fought 1t fairly
out on even ground we would have seen
which was the strongest, responsibility aud cum
ming, or the simplicity OF genius But now =
And tore at the bars of the window, and threw
myself on the floor OF my CELL and longed to die.
After succession of hopes and disappoint-
ments. in which the heart of the Poet is almost
rent with despair. he is initiated into higher
wisdom, by the couusels of mystic priestess OF
Christian Socialism, whose words may be taken
as summary of the purposes aimed at in this
extraordinary volume With this passage we
close our extracts, commanding the whole work
to the perusal of our readers
1t is because Liberty is Gods beloved child,
that he will not have her purity suted by the
touch of the profanc Because He loves the peo-
pie. lie will allow none but Himself to lead the
people Because He loves the people, He will
teach the people by affections And even now,
while all this madness has been destroying itself,
He has been hiding you in his secret place from
the strife of tongues, that you may nave to !ooK
for a state founded on better things than acts OF
parliament social contracts and abstract rights
a city whose foundations are IN the eternal prom
ises whose builder and maker IS God
THAT state that city, Jesus said, was come
was now within us, had we eyes to see And 1t
is come Call it the church, the gospel, civillza-
ton. freedom. democracy, association, what you
will shall call it by the name by which my
Master spoke 1.-THE name which includes all
these and more than these-the kingdom OF God.
Without Observations rs he promised, secretly,
but nightly it has been growing, spreading, since
that first Whitsuntde; civlllzn8, humanizmg
uniting this distracted earth. Men have ancled
they found it in this system or i'll that and In them
onlv They have cursed it in its own name, when
tbey found it too wide for their own narrow no.
tons. They have cried Lo here and 10
there To this communion or To that set
of opinions! BUTT has gone Its way-the way
of Him who made all things and redeemed all
,l,; ip1sa
gospel to the poor. In every age 1t has, sooner
or later claimed the steps OF civilization, the dis
coyeries of science as Gods Inspirations noc
mans inventions. In every age 1t has taught
men to do that by God winch they han lalleo IN
doing without Him. 1t is now ready Ii we may
Judge by the signs of the times, once again to pen,
citrate to convert to re0rganize the political ana
social life of England, perhaps OF the world 10
vindcate democracy as the will and 8itt OF dod'
Take it for the ground OF your rights Ii, hence
forth YOU claim political eniranchlsement, claim
it not as mere men, who may be villains saya8es'
animals slaves of their own prejudlces and pas
! sions; but as members of Christ, children OF God,
inheritors OF the kingdom OF heaven, and there
fore bound to realize 1t on earth. All other rlBhts
! are mere mights-mere selfish demands to be-
! come tyrants in your turn. II you wish to Justify
your Charter, do it on that ground. Claim your
share in national life, only because the nation Is
spiritual body, whose king is the Son OF God
whose work whose national character and pow
Claim universal suffrage, only on the ground OF
the universal redemption Of manklnd-the uni
versal priesthood OF Christians. That argument
will CONQUER when all have failed for God will
make it conquer. Claim the Observation-Disclosures
of every man. rich or poor, who breaks the laws
of God and man, not merely because he is an oD'
stacle to YOU but because he is n traitor to your
common King in heaven, and to the spiritual king
dom OF which he is a citizen. DenOunce the eftete
idol of property qualification, not because it hap
pens to strengthen class interests against you,
but because as your mystic dream reminded you,
and therefore, as you knew long ago, there Is no
real rank no real power but worth and worth
consists not in property, but in the grace OF God.
Claim if you will, annual parllaments, as means
of intorcDg the responsibility OF rulers to the
Christian community, of which they are to be, not
the lords but the mIniSters-the servants OF all.
But claim these and all else for which you long,
not from man, but from Cod the King OF men.
And therefore, before you attempt to Obtain them,
make yourselves worthy OF them--perhaps by
that process you will find some OF them have be-
come less needful. At all events, do not ask, do
not hope that He will give them to you before you
are able to profit by them. Believe that he has
kept them from you hitherto because they WOuid
have been curses and not blessings On! look
back, look back at the history OF English RAD
caliSm for the last half century, and Judge by
your own deeds, your own words were you lit
for those privileges which you so irantlcally de.
manded Do not answer me that those who had
them were equally unfit; but thank God, II the
case be indeed so, that your incapaeity was not
added 10 theirs, to make confusion worse con-
founded Learn new lesson. Believe at last
that you are in Christ, and become ere atures:
With those miserable, awful, farce tragedies of
April and June, let old things pass away, and all
things become new Believe that your kingdom
is not Of this world, but Of One whose servante
must not fight He that beleyetb, as the prophet
says, will not make haste Beloved suffering
brothers are not your times in the hand of One
who loved yon to the death, who conquered as
you must d. not by wrath, but BY marttyrdom
Try 10 more to meet Mammon with ms own
Judges righteousy who is even now coming out
! Of lis nlace 10 nudge the earth and to help the