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men how. by this moral reconstruction they may
max the family q blessing to the State.

of the vorld-the problem Of Governments The
nations mn have Government But the Govern
ments of the world have thus far been the oppres-
,ors and the tormertors Of the race. And 90 long
as earth's Governments go forward as they have
done the hope Of human moderation, Of universal
freedom intelligence, thrift virtue end progress, is
az treacherous and delusive as is tie expectation
Of hsrvests on the sands Of Sahara, OF orange
groves around the crater Of Vesuvius. the world
is to improveth the nations are ever 10 rise to the
platform Of liberty intelligence and virtuethe gov
ernments Of the world are to be reconstructed,
transformed and TRANSPORTED And here arises
another great social question, to which not only the
philosopher but the people Of the world, are today
giving attention The Press, the Senstes, the Uni.
yerster the cottages and shops Of ChristendOm are
at this moment engaged in great world.debate on
the question How to construct and howto administer
Government to make it the patron, The protector
end the bepefactor of the nation subject TO it, And
what question is that what interests hang upon
its solutionl The Government that shall elevate
and bless its every subiect-the Government! thai
sbal overshadow a realn-the tree OF shelter, the
tree Of fruitfuness the tree OF lite and oil connu
auce to the millions who repose in its shades-th'
i. the Government for which forty millions OF I'M
pri,oned Germans are TO day caling-this Is the
Government for which the nations oil Cnri''e'D'','
are to-day calling And who shall give 'ne'" SUI"
a government Who shall bless tne "S'"5
World with model Government Inc American
,ord If b;s name and prouder Of the hePuoic, an
i,ror.. The land of Washington boqueashs this
hoon TO the nationsl But from the ruins OF score
oe renubljcs that have risen and intoxicated with
nopulsr passion, have fallen again on the soil Of
Southern America; and from across the sea, whore
republican France rises and sinks, svsys and
careers, ike ship in the stOrm-irom these tombs
and wrecks Of states the demoDiac nations answer
back: Republics will not serve nor save Us! To
whom, theE, shall the world look for that which the
world so much needs-the Government which shall
prove a shelter, stability, blessing to its sub
jects' Ireply and reply with assurance and With
pride asa Christian minister and man: The Church
Of Christ, dwelling in the soil and under the Gov
erDment of Christ is to answer this question for the
world. Not by experiments, contuvances upon
the structure of Governments-not by the skill OF
mechanical Craftsmanship, hewing, and sq1aring,
and fitting a framework Of State-not in this way,
but in another simpler, and more effestual way,
shall the disciples Of Christ work out this problem
for the nations. BY leaving the mere form and
framework of Government az they found 1t, and
going TO Kings and Presidents, and Senators aud
Judges, and peope and children, and servants and
saye, and pouring into the hearts OF ali the senti'
ments and the truths of Christian piety-by this
process, by turning the great heart OF an empire
Tint Hell and receptacle now Of all Internal passions
into a Heaven Of love and truth and duty-by
setting up in the popular mind government OF
Love and Light, where is now an empire OF Dark
ness and Discord-by this method the disciples oil
Christ are TO teach the nations how to produce and
how 70 possess governments that shall shelter and
ness the million. And all Christian men now on
Christian soil are engaged in secretly working out
this great problem. Every Christian citizen who,
whether he live under monarchy, republic, or a
dukedom, needs neither laws nor legions to compel
him 10 the duties of good ci.izenshP-eVery Chris
tan mother who, by nstlipg into the hearts of her
sons such lessons Of truth and piety as shall secure
them in manly virtue and ripening decorum-every
Christian voter, every Christian legislator. every
Cbrist;an ruler is engaged teaching by the instroc
ton of the lips, by the lessons OF silent example, by
the multiplied demonstrations oil actual experiment
teaching the nations the one only art OF good gov
ernment, the Christian Art.
And what lesson will this be when the Church
of God shall, by and bye, win the ear oil the world
and al the nations shall know and say the Chris
tim Church of governed men is now the world 8
model.
mt Let me call attention to other social ques
t;on which the disciples Of Christ and they alone
are appointed to answer for the world. 1t is the
opestion how to adjust the qualities and harmo
pize the disproportions Of human existence. Here
are two men Of equal intelligence, equal industry
and equal virtue, but Of unequal fortunes One ia
the owner Of millions-the other owns nothing
The two live side by side, meet together daily, and
interchange oil the Offices and all the passages o.
social community bat whenever they meet, and
whenever they act, each is conscious Of the great
dispruporton that divides their fortunes. To the
poor man attach a thous and Disadvantages of inHu
ence and action, because he is poor to the rich
man pertain q thousand superiorities, the fac
titious and arbitrary prerogatives Of wealth
Now the question is, How to reduce the
contrasts, and reconcile the rePulsens, ant
harmonic the disoOrds Of these two conditions =
And, since these two men represent the race-tht
race being set in just such contrast Of ortune-anC
since these dversities Of fortune are precisely imi
tated by other analogous dispropOrtiOns in condi
ton and rsnk-the question ascends TO the dignity
Of problem for the world-How to harmonic
the discords and adjust the diversities Of human
condition in the unequal alotments of social exist
ence. have already confessed ny earnest sym
patty with all the humane impulses Of Fourierisn
and Socialism. l believe the grea. question which
the disciples Of these schools-nsy OF the very ag'
itself-is instinctivey seeking to solve, is CUES
ton which Humanity will never dismiss till it /
fully and satisfactorily answered. Nay, say more
II is, in my judgement, the leading question OF th