Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-07
TIE noRRoRs or PEACE.
A DISCOURSE By Rev. M ID. Conway, IN the
Eli 81 Unitarian Church, Corner Of Fourth
and Race streets, Sunday, NAY 8.

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is, and will eiys u him - Ezekiel XII ~. VI
There Was once philosopher who lived 10
o tub. When he was, dying he was asked
how he would ike TO be buried. He replied
that be wished TO be buried with his face
downward; "For,p said he, ~ am sure that
one day the earth will be turned upside
down, and then shall be all straight"
Many generations have passed over the grave
ofold Diogenea and suppose each has con-
tributed something toward lifting the prone
face of the old philosopher. Ever old error
goes under; ever the yet older truth ascends;
the pure right that begins ia a tub is en-
throned in the capitol and still over the fair
seeming plain OF peaceful wrong, sounds the
ofnenous Voice, Il will overturn, overturh
overtuTn it,
There is, my fellow-men, a Great Year Of
Cod The days Of that year are the epochs
OF humanity; the seasons Of that year are the
historic periods which record how wfntry
Wrong, enveloping humanity in the white
snow.shroud of frozen Peace, has had its
icy fettefs melted by the ere of suntike hearts
and brsinE, awaking the naked branch 10
blossoms, and ever leading on the crowning
season of fruitioD. All history Is the open.
ing calendar OF Gods Great Year, thus made
up Of the great days of man. We can
not be enough thankful that it is
our privilege TO live at period which
ADDS another day TO that calendar, and
to bear part in the advancing sea-
con. o., my friends, God seems very
near in these timesl How clear and strong
sre the invisible things Out in the glen to.
| day, who doubts the presence ofSpring2 We
trace her footsteps in the wild fox, blood
| root and violet; her gentle kiss is in every
wavelet of light and air that touches the
cheek; the more invisible, the more trans
| pal ent her presence. And when aNation is
budding all around us with Saviors: when
| the realms where self seeking reigned, now
| flush with the vicarious blood which rises
like Spring sap for country, humanity aud
God, can we not trace the steps OF the in
| visible Father of men and nations?
Is it wonderful TO you that the Father of
Spirits, who loveth all, who maketh his sun
TO rise on the evil and the good, aud sendeth
bis rsi1 on the just and unjust, should ride
through the world in a chariot of fire, its
wheels stained with blood Is it q dark
thought 10 you that every ray of the sun of
| righteousness as it rises over the nations
should call up storm; that every step of
tie Prince of Peace toward the throne OF the
world has been marked by earthquakes2 2
Then look we'll, and see if your ideas of a
| real paternal love and of true peace may
not be low and false. Jesus said, "Peace /
leave with you, my peace give unto youn
but he was careful to add Not as the pord
! 0iUeth gt0e 1 unto you. The divine peace is
not the peace of the world nay, to that
| it comes not "to send peace, but sword p
| The love wherewith God loves the world is
not the weak indulgence which would foster
the evils to which the world clings; not the
dotipg which allows his children to go on and
| degrade themselves, unrebuked and un-
chssteDed. He hath in this world set his
angel with a sword of flame turning every
way to guard the Paradise of Peace from
those disobedient to His Law. His Love is
mighty enough TO seattle and smite. The
| Peace which the serene Heaven holds out
for human aspiration, is not the pesce of pol
iticians; not the patchwork of expediency; it
| is the quiet of worlds moving ON God as.
signed orbits, the repose of those who scorn
all rest but that which fulfills eternal laws.
There is no need in this age that any one
should paint the horrors of war. Every
class in society is by instinct foe to war,
Trade hates that which blockades its normal
avenues. Education, science aaHde study
] hate That which destroys the quiet in
which they delight. Religion hates that
which should reflect truths holy stars.
Every home shudders at the mailed hand of
War coming to pluck the manly flowers
| growing in its sacred heart. Ruthless War
all know thy horrors But how untold are
the horrors of Peace! How deep and undis-
closed, tester on the wrongs and expressions,
which desire only the quiet which lets them
alonel Sin loves nothing so much as se-
cTesy the deadliest beasts cultivate the
velvet paw. The quiet of perfect motion,
the repose Of complete health are good as
they are rarej but in diseased bodies, the
wise physician prefers the fever that is deliri-
Gus to that which is typhoid he knows that
the painless stupor is Oftenest the precursor
OF death. .
To day the bugle of war sounds through
our land, like some wild, half clad John, It's
voice is in the wilderness, crying, Prepare
| ye the way OF the Lord; make his paths
straight For now, also, the ak is laid at
the root of the tree"
In what condition did this conflict, dating
| it from the last election, find this nation? !?
! Halfparalyzed with an ignoble, dapper
| peace, under wrongs TO our nation and hu-
manity which cried to Heaven. There is a
new force discovered in physiology called
| hypnotism: small bright object held a
short way before and between the eyes, is
found to produce a sudden inseusibiIity; and
in this cataleptic state, arms, legs and so on
may be amputated without being felt by the
patient. There is no doubt that a certain
small glitteriDg object had actually Supplied
the moral senses Of America There is no
doubt that trade was selling and betraying
Christ in every city of America for cotton
bales and Southern custom. The peace
which, ere the agitations that now uplift
Gods pillar of fire over toward the Promised
Land came on, we presented to the world
was the peace Of the smooth upper-deck of a
slave ship, with the horrors of the middle
pssssge underneath. Order reigned in War
saw. Order with five millions of men
end twenty million eonsciences ia chains
That was our peace; and SO far were
we sunk in its lOathsome stupor, that the
man who first among US declared it false
and ruinous peace was taken through the
streets of Boston with a halter around his
neck, and only not hung because of his sup
posed insignifcanee. Brave old man You
have lived to see the truths set up in type
Gin en- attic, with one negro boy" by your
own hand, stereotyped on the page of His
tory by the hand of God You have lived
to see America offer for the head of Slavery
the price set upon the head that flashed the
first lightning upon Slavery God grant
that the heart and hand that never wavered
may remain ruddy and strong until they
have written the epitaph of Human Slavery
This was the peace. Massachusetts, saw
her freemen, her children, Imprisoned in
South Carolina, simply for being her child
rem and when she sent distinguished soE
to urge trial of their case in law, saw hin
mObhed and sent home without a hearing
But the glittering coin had stupe6ed her
she did not dare TO urge her own case; hel
honor suffered painless amputation. But thI
other States were the same they saw theil
TOrreys pine away in slave.prisons, theil
Lovejoys shot, their noblest freemen lynched
because they would not lie; they saw thu
peoples hard. earned money taken TO pur
chase new territory for slavery, the blood o
their children split that slavery might rol
Mexico of her property; they saw il, AM
their self respect ebbed away; and the!
went on faitening upon cotton, grow
ing rich upon human flesh, Withou
indignant pulse or breath; abandoning
ss a leper the prophet who rebuked 0
the statesman who pointed out the fagrap
crime: Saying 10 their seers, see not; an,
TO their prophets, pIophesy unto us smoot
| things, prophesy not to US right things.
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