New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-14
THE GREAT LESSON.

II has been the reprosch of our sge thai Il is
material-tbst It's triuInphs are over the bind
forces Of nature DO; over mind and sPiri'-tha' 1t
is objective not subjectiye-that It IS great II Us
SUPP. macy Of man over bis accidents, and not over
man bimself We Trust We are lucid
Blu, the reproach is wiped out. 1t is individuals
who make ages. Generations die, but the memory
of the MAD of the generation lives and makes the
age Thus the past has is Moses, Plato, Crom-
well, Washington, Napoleon, and other represents
tive men. ~ have sickles. We trust We do no.
put too fine point upon it.
The virtue of semi bar baTism is physical courage
-rirtus Tie crown Of Christian civilization is
forgiveness and mercy. The highes. Christian
idea is reached when the strength and yalor Of
msn is united with the love and tenderness Of
woman. This is the true msrrisge oftle human and
divine which makes tie perfect humanity. 1t WAS
reserved for Us 70 attain II. Our sge has iIs
future in lie representative man.
Only little While ago, frail and fallen woman
confessed 10 her "bosom's Lord tha. for many
months .he had been fsitlless 10 her marriage
VOWS, and lad dlshOrored the bed Of the VIE and
mother. In brOSd dSyigt. she had gOas many
times, through 81 sdmring crowd, 70 the place OF
sssianstion. was received in .te arms Of para
mour, not once, but many times, constrained,
net BY snotbers viii, not by love, bu, b.
uncomfortable lust What ssii the husband
The ssme planet could not hold the partner Of her
sin and himself So on sweet Sabbath" he
sought and Killed the man whose deed every ne
o -. Ill = n
from TIE face Of the earth. and went j., fully TO
the prison 10 sn.wer if need be- 70 the offended laws
Of his country, but bowed down in an unu.terabe
ssopy over tee shame and the sin Of c0njugi inf
dehy-the contine 1T and faithful husband mourning
over the iBeontnent and fsithess wife aud mother.
\ jury Of his countpmen approved the deed 1t
was done IN tie very spirit Of the heroism Of The
cbSalric ages which, conscious Of the loftiest AMI
sttrnest virtue could not brook even the breath Of
dishonor spd .corn. II was the assertion Of that
divine justice which the judge, irreproaeaable and
pure measures out 10 the guilty sid The weak, BY
higher law than tina. embodied II human statutes.
He who had never sinned, be whose soul turned
psle a. the thought Of wong so horrible, wAs
IF mini.ter Of this divine justice.
But his duty WA not completed. Next 70 d.
vine Justice comes divine forgiveness aud mercy.
There is now but one bosom on which the fallen
woman can lag her head, and into which she may
weep tears Of penitence and shame and ind the
unBttersbe blessing Of forgiveness. He calls her
thither almost before the worms have begun their
feas, OF the form which she had foudled, and on
which be bad wresked his great revenge The
di;holcred sheets have been washed in blood;
new love, born Of tenderness snd forgiveness, waits
Oh The second nuptials. Tie negroes knew
before, and death wiped cut dishonor. Now min
isteriDg angels watch around the couch where psr.
don il sealed AID the world learns the gres, lesson
that ' TO the pure all things are pure, aud tina.
mercy IS vel as punishment is sublime.