The New York herald., 1862-02-23

would crush the weak or unhoy rebellion would dash
the hopes Of freedom. (Appause) sir, the true e'o
qnence OF is much in his words as II s IN MS
actions. In action his whole soul Is awake his form 10
erect and all his energies put themselves forth INTO deeus
cntre 1t struggling for its rights or FOR It's cxs'ehce
u ever does il stand before the world truly
e,oquen'. While surrounded by the long sun
shlae OF peace, if turn cur attention 10
the abstract topic Of war, very promo
to dwell upon it's horrors its havocs and tho miseries
entails We dread it incarnation Hof Satan-bru-
tazng men and devastating the earth II is only when
war thunders about ears that TO It's true
meaning and come TO remembrance of the fact that
hovah is not only God Of love but also God OF battles
We begin to realize that God sanctioned and commanded
the bloody conflict not merely in Old Testament times,
but that il his of righteous judgment TO fall in all
time whenever crowned yrany would crush the weak
unholy rebellion would dash the hopes OF the world.
As WEI turn and look back down the ases OF the past
there is not century, not half century, scarcely TO
my knowledge decade in which we DO not see the rays
OF gancng steel To by the martial records OF heroic
and fabuloCs find the phaanxes OF Israel sweep
ing from Egypt Palestine Joshua and Oihue and Shaur
gar and David scarcely pass from the scene when BABY
Ion and Assyria come together mighty shock. The
din Of has not died away in the Fast when begins
oswel In Heas and the Pcloponesus. The Messenian
wars the Persian mvasions the Peoponesian strngges
the heban and the Macedonian overlap and follow each
OTHER in quick succession In the turmoil Athens Sparta,
1hebes by roll up promnence and SO Greece
rose, hourished and died amid clash OF arms, The
noise of arms has not begun TO when Rome comes
soming Of Italy For three hundred Carthage,
Gau Spain Macedon, Pontus, Syria, Germany, bristle
with her armies The Mediterranean s worried with her
fleets Italy and the streets Of the capital itself resound
with her serve and civil struggles. And 80 Rome rose,
fourished and waned amid one clash OF arms We have
no time to watch this to the end before, from
the northern storehouse OF nations, hordes on
hordes Of armed bands pour down in sue
cessve waves upon Western Europe. Nor time
watch the OF this before hahomet is 10 be
sweeping round north Of Africa and into Spain Nor
time 10 watch the Caphs, when there stir of prcpa
ration Western Europe and human across
the continent to the capture OF the Holy land This tu
mutt has not subsded. when Europe stays it's rush TO-
wards Asia and all on re herself with the struggles Of
the Reformation. Charles " and Francis and Soyman
the Magnificent I'LL the sixteenth century with trouble
lilly and Wallcnstein and Gustavus Adolphus and Crom
and Frederick the Great-what OF tumun DO
they not suggest in tho eighteenth; bonaparts
and Wellington and Nelson and Washington and
Scott have given Marengo. and Leipsic, and
Waterloo and Yorktown Vera Cruz to the nineteenth
Applause) The history of the world, what sir has it
been but one scene of almost constant Now sir, il
be the unmitgated evil has been represented to
be, then this earth must have been little better than
hell from Adam to the present day and yet through all
man has been risng-has been becoming more culti-
vated moro humane Is true that war is this terrible
scourges Is II that the world has improved
in spite Of war, or has it improved because
Of war? War has long been dumb; has patiently
and unreplying borne al that peace has
has something TO say Of peace. Peace has nurtured
many an evil that war has cured. If ever there was a
time for to speak in selfdefcnce now and here
applause For. sir, we are Christian nation. IN
arms and the world friend to whose memory this day
is set apart we not only revere as statesman but we
venerate Christian warrior Ny subject, then, is
the worlds obligations to Man is boing OF con-
science. reason, taste and will If you correct mans
religious belief exat his reason purify his taste
and ennoble and direct his will you have raised the
whole This is the course Of education bv which the
modern man has been produced. Now, sir, claim that
the modern man has been mainly indebted to war for
his present high grades in these respects IL Is no dis
covery of mine that ludea has educated mans consc
Greece has exalted his and purified mis- taste
and Rome by her force by her laws has controlled and
directed his will. The three stand in mans gallery as
the patterns he loves to dwell on lie goes to them as
fountains for refreshment he sets a their sacred and
classic feet at this late day. as an humble STUDENT
Athens What thrill does the very name send through
the man of TASTE Rome-how does her patriotism, her
stern integrity summon forth the admiration Of time
Palestne-the land Of the tcmplethe home Of Jesus, s
it to still the Holy LsndS There three and these
three alone. Who thnks--what scholar; what de-
art what patriot what thccicglansver thuks
turning back for instruction for Inspiration 70 As
SYRIA to Carthage to Egypt toancient Germany Who
thinks of adorning streets our temples with mo-
des from the thick Tipped s1gies Of Egyptf Who thinks
Of reproducing even the simple, majestic form ef the
pyrsmidS And II the Egyptian temple architecture be
copied. It springs rather from very exceptional circum
stances-from eccentrcity whinthan from generally
received taste No. Egypt and Assyra, and ancient
world Let us look irst then At Judea at Greece, and
at Rome When the children Of Israel were bound by
the chains Of the Egyptians there was no word In any
language expressive of the idea conveyed by our word
"hoy.' Among all the gods OF the nations there was
possessed the attribute Of holiness. Man emu
a,es what he worships, and the very worship Of man
everywhere debasng to the race. destructive Of
mans purity. Among nil the nations Of the earth there
not one, TO knowledge, that believed in the
true God. There may have been individuals, but
there were not nations. II necessary, there
fore IL ever man was to be raised from his dcbase-
ment-if ever mans conscience 10 be educated
and his belief corrected-for people to be torn out
from among the nations, and the knowledge OF the one
holy God firmly panedGn it, that II might be the school
master Of the I'D. ns 3sctence must be eiucated
the .plni, Tor his tis, and VIII. Before the days
Of Greece aud Rome we behold therefore the children
Of Israel rescued from Egypt But what rs their sub
scqueut career? To learn their great lesson, aud then
teach the world they must be planted by themselves,
in central land, adapted to the purpose But that
tie. by thecommand o. God. Aud on the issues OF
those battles hung the welfare OF the world. jericho
falls Al is taken, the Anakims are cut of and by
the land is and there Is hope for man. But on all
hands the new nation was surrounded by disbelief and
polythesm. Again and again the nation falls before
pressure For three hundred years. therefore the
scourge Of closed arouAd the apostates. Saul
They were learning the lesson, and there was peace.
But then followed the four hundred OF wavering
and finally obstinate refusal OF the truth. Aseyris
and Babylon, the scpurges OF heaven each swept
thor forces now upcn Israel upon judah. Israel
was annihilatcd Judah laid utterly dcsolate and
those who escaped the sword were sent prisoners to
Babylon These overwhelming revcrscs were at last
eectua After seventy years Of captivity, suffering and
humiliation, the return Of the remnant to Jerusalem
that remnant learning from the that defeat and dis
aster always followed in their case adherence to error
last firmly held to the truth. And tho nation that
sprang from them became tho educator Of mans con-
sccnce-the OF his belief Now sir, the
Palestine from the de Of Joshua not conducted
by the Jews for Their own aggrandizement-they were
brought upon them by their And whether not
we may believe that Heaven directed thcm thing is
certain-he effect OF these constant defeats
tuay to settle the nation firmly in belief in the true
God the utter detcsacn Of the debasing gods Of
the nations around them 10 enable them to be the
educators and upfters Of the world. And. sir, we
may claim for that IL II has done nothing cseit
even with all its dcsolstons-even with its miserable
destruction of whole nation with its imprsonments,
its havoc, its mourning, turning fair Palestine
to a desert-we may claim for war, II nothing
else, that it has established belief OF God earth
Greece mother of arts home Of philosophy garden OF
logic come TO her Her parthenon her propypa
hort pleca nj
been the study Of the world. In tho groves Of her
academy and yceum the memory and the meditation OF
all subsequent generations have fingered. Her anguage
although the saxon English excel II in strength and
the German In the number Of Its wordsnonc not
the latin has equalled II In the perfection Of
structure the melody Of its numbers and the precision
Of its expression Under what circumstances did this
Greece oxaltcr Of the worlds reason enrcher Of ts
imagination, purifier Of its taste, come TO her bloomS
However much Of fable, sir, has gathered round
the story Of the expedition for the Golden
Fleece, at least "appears certain that IN
the thirteenth century before the Christian era, Thes
ssan prince collected the young chvary Of Greece and
sailed expedition partly commercial, partly pratt
cal. eastern shores Of Euxine Sca.p These