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III those duties of Christianity; aud what
, they can, that they should. How could gov
ernmcnts hope TO see their own citizens and
! other nations observing toward them the
positive duties of Christian morality, when
they themselves do not observe them against
others when oppressed nations, the victims,
not OF their own faults, but of the grosscst
violation of the law of Christ, look in vain
around to Gud out n nation among Christian
nalions, and government among Christian
governments, doing unto them. in the hour
'of their supreme need, as the Saviour said
that it is duty to do unto others in every
case.
Yes, gentlemen, as long as the principles
oi Christian morality are not carried up into
tho international RELATIONSHIPS long us the
fragile wisdom Of political eXigcncics over
rules the doctrines of Christ, there is no free
dom on earth firm, and tile future of no ma
ton sure. But let powerful nation, like
yours, raise Christian morality into its pub
lic conduct, that nation will have q future
against Hhich the very gates of hell itself
will never prevail. The morality of its poll
cy will react upon the morality of its indI-
vduals, and preserve it from domestic vice,
which, without that prop, ever yet has at
tended too much prosperity and ever yet was
followed by n dreadful fall. The morality
ol lis policy will support justice and freedom
on earth; and thus augmcniing the number
OF free nations, all acting upon tho same
principle, its very future will he placed I'M.
der the guarantee Of them all, aud preserve
It from foreign dangcr--which is better to
prevent than to rcpcl.
And its future will he placed under the
guarantee of the Almighty himself who, true
10 his Eternal DEGREES, proved through the
downfall of so many mighty nations, that lie
always punished tho fathers in the coming
generations; but alike beautiful and just, will
not and cannot iorsake those whom he gave
power 10 carry ont his laws on earth, aud
who willingly answered his divine CALL
Power in itself never yet was sure. 1t is
right which makes power firm; and il Is
community which makes right secure. The
task of Peters apostolatc is accomplished
the Churches are founded in the Christian
world. The task of Paus apostolatc is ac.
complishcd-lhe abuses of ianatncism aud
intolerance are rcdrcssed. But the task of
lin whom the Saviour most loved is not yet
accomplished. The gospel of charity rules
lot yet the Christian world and without
charity, Christianity you know, is but sound
ing brass and tinkling cymbnl'
Oh Charity thou iaircst gilt of Heaven (;
thou family link between nations thou rock
of their security; thou deivcrer of the OPP
pressed when comes thy realm Where is
the man whom the Lord has chosen to estab-
llsh thy realm? Who is the man whom the
Lord has chosen to realize the religion, the
teuets Of which the most beloved disciple
of the Saviour has recorded from his divine
lips; who is the man to reform, not Chris
No, that is no task for n man, but for ma
tion. Man may teach n doctrine; but that
doctrine of charity is taught, and taught with
such sublime simplicity that no scctarist yet
has disputed its ruth. Historians have been
qunrrelng about mysteries, aud lost empires
through their disputes.
The Greeks were controversially disputing
whether the Holy Ghost descends from the
Father alone, or from the Father and Son;
and MahomGt battered the walls of By2ln-
tium, they heard it not; he witnessed the
cross from Santa Sophia; they saw it not,
I'LL the scineter Of the Turk stopped the rage
of the quarrel with the blow of dcaih-in
other qunrters they went on disputing ana
deciding with mutual anuthcmas the ques-
tion OF TRANSPORTATION, aud many other mys-
terles, which, being mysterious, constitute
luc llhulC uollllllOll vi nGiltl uut llc tuC-
trine OF charity none of them disputes, there
they all agrec-nay, in the idle times of scho-
laslical subtilty, they have been quarrelling
about the most eXIravagant fancies of
scorched imagination. Mighty iolios have
been written about the problem, how many
angels could dance upon the top of II needle
without touching each other.
The folly of subtilty went so far MS TO pro-
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he, being omnipotent, has the power TO sin
II, in the holy wafer, he be present dressed
or undressed? II, the Saviour would have
chosen the incarnation in the shape of
gourd, instead of man, how would he have
preached; how acted miracles, and how had
been cruciied? And when they went 10
the theme OF investigating il it was whip
or lash with which the angels have whip
ped ST. Jerome for trying to initiate in his
writings the pagan Cicero, it was but after
centuries that Abbot Cartant dared to write
that il ST. Jerome was whipped at all, he
was whipped for having badly initiated
Cicero.
Still the doctrine of Christian charity is so
sublime in its simplicity, that not even the
subtilty of schoasticism dared ever TO pro-
ihne il by any controversy, and still that sub
ilnle uoctIlne ID NOT executed, anu llle IeilSluh
of charity not realized yet. The task of this
glorious progress is only to be done by free
aud powerful nation, because il is task OF
action, and not of teaching, individual man
can but execute it in the narrow compass of
the small relations of private life, it is only
the power Of a nation which can raise Il TO
become a ruling law on earth; and before
this is done the triumph of Christianity is
not arrved-and without that triumph, free
dom and prosperity even of the mig.htlest
nation is not for moment safe from inter-
nal decay or from foreign violence.
Which is the nation to achieve that tri-
umph of Christianity by protecting justice OF
charity9 Whom the Lord has blessed above
all, and from whom he much expects, be-
cause he has given her much.
Ye ministers of the Gospel, who devoted
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