The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-07-04

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Brotherhood Of Man"
We canno<zzAurz3sh CUR a,aGsons sny.
thing more psrtinent, for their perusal
this morning, tl,an the following ex.
tsncls frdgn Al orr ION delivered by Gen.
Charles +. Lippincott, Ut Tallula, ILL.,,
July 4th, 1885. It 10 IN eloquent pre-
sentation of the fundamental principles
Of Liberty and Of Republican institu-
lions, and should be read by every in
teiligent citizen:
"Neariy 1000 years ago, Jesus of Naz-
areth asccnded a hill side of Judea, and
taught the multitude which thronged
about him his Gospel.
at was the fullness Of time! From
the morning Of creation the human race
had been getting farther away from the
light Of the truth, until ut last it was
cropping in the utmost darkness.
"Arrayed against him were all human
forces. The religions of the world were
against him. The best of them taught q
philosophy. of sublimated selfishness.
There may be said to have been but one
Government on the earth-so wide was
the sway of Rome. And the world,
crushed and bruised and helpless, lay
writhing at the foot of the throne OF the
Caesars.
"As he spoke, the Jehovah Of the
Pharisees, the Jupiter of the Romans.
and every false God that had been en-
throned by blinded world, fell from
their throne forever. And as his earn
est tones through the soft, pure air of
Galilee, they awoke vibrations which
should never cease until the Roman
Empire should be dissolved; until every
dynasty built of it's rotten fragments
should fall +; until every Government,
every system, every superstition which
should raise itself against those quiet
words of that Jewish carpenter should
be driven from among men, and all HUI
man Government, and all human socie-
ty should be in harmony with the two
underlying principles Of that Sermon
on tho Mount:
~. The Fatherhood of God.
"2. The Brotherhood Of Man.
1.-THE Pharisees--the hypocrites-th
tyrants-and the traitors of every age,
and nation, and neighborhood, from that
day to this, have been arrayed against
these principles. What tyrannies-
what mobs-what Christless aristocra-
cies have not been arrayed against that
teaching of Jesus. And even yet, and
even in this land, how men protest and
fight against the truth. My fellow citi-
zcns-with what contempt must we
view the intellect which can look back
over the troubled history of the world
since the beginning of the Christian era
without recognizing the power and the
triumphs Of these great truths which
we have seen are the fundamental doc
trincs of the Sermon on the Mount.
I'm the troubles and conflicts which
have grown out of the antagonism be-
tween them and different forms of Or
ganized human selfishness, originated
the movements which resulted in the
formation of the Government Of the
First, and spcediest in the human
mind, was the adoption of the idea of
religious equality. God was the father
of all. To him was every child respon-
siblc Each human soul must answer
for itself to the God of the universe.
'Struggling-protesting against every
denial of this inalienable right of the
human soul, oppressed communities left
their homes in the Old World and came
to the then wilderness Of America.
"Hugenots to the Carolinas, Catholics
to Maryland, Quakers to Pennsylvania,
and Puritans to New England, came to
this new land for freedom to worship
God
"And in the new land to which they
came, they easily learned new lessons of
freedom. In their old homes their
minds oppressed by the hereditary pomp
of power, they had weakly bowed to the
tyrannies which oppressed them. But
it could not always have been so, even
had they remained in the Old World.
For, when once the human mind had
graspcd in all of its fullness that primal
doctrine of the Sermon of Jesus-the all.
fatherhood Of God-and inspired by it,
spurned the usurped spiritual control OF
Popes, Councils and eclesiasticisms OF
whatever kind or name, and stood out
under the clear, star-sown heavens, YES.
ted with the awful dignity and respons
Utility ola free human soul, free as whe,
God first breathed into human nostril
the divine gift of freedom, it was certain
that they would speedily attain knowl
edge or the inevitable corrolary, tn
BfotherhoodcfAm
but the most wonderful feature abou
that Declaration of independents is il,
embodiment, in the nohlest words q
Thomas jefferson, of the great truth
1.-The Fathcrhood of God and the Broth
erhood of man. SO long before breathe
upon the air of Galilee by Jesus of Na2
areth, and SO calmly left to work on
their necessary results.
1--WE hold these to be self evident tina
all men are created EQUAL, and endowe