New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-04

sible to return to tie Old, kcomplacent self
satisfaction. | think of him going always
away and always sorrowful; he has the
pain without the peace.
There is a plant in Mocinoan, also spoken
of by DR.. Kane as a native of the Arctic,
that blossoms in mid winter, up from the
earth and through the frozen sand-up
through ice it forces its way to the light.
In every man there is something that lis
tens to the call of Christ. and that tries to
lift itself out of the hardness and GOODNESS
and deafness, and make an answer: 1t is
the life it stirs and disn1rbs
Where even that little plant springs the
frost melts around it; the sun sends its
messengers down the tiny stem as ladder.
They carry heat into the very heart of the
iceberg and make summer there. 1t is no
longer death in grave. but life in gar
den That is the miracle of the light of the
world. What looks like destruction is
transformation. There is nothing broken
but bonds. There is nothing goes to the
dust but dust.
You may build a splendid prison, and call
it a temple-a triumph of architecture-line
it with gold and face it with marble. If it
holds man within it unjustly condemned
to darkness and oppression-not allowed
hearing-it becomes, therefore, an offense-
thing hateful to the justice of God. Let
it be torn down. If nothing else will do it
let a mob do it. No matter what their
motive is, if it results in letting the man
out, even if he should be half idiot, or
cripple, so that he is not helpless-not
dead. His pardon is worth more than the
roof and walls that held him.
city, the first that has thus been
leveled, is evidence to me that it laid heav-
lily on something alive--On souls that wonld
speak if they could, and grow if they might.
CANDY q info nlya
that the life it shut in might not utterly
die. 1t may be a very feeble life-it doubt
less is-but there must be some there. Let
1t build anew peaceable city, and dedi-
cate it to God
1t has tried moss under the old and Mann
mon under the new. 1t has tried no God
under both it has found out that what
these men laughed at as myth is the God
after all and before all, and the laugbers
are dead. If it has found this it can afford
to lose its palaces and its pictures.
1t has Jared better than Jerusalem, per-
haps better than the next city. Christ in
tends to make peace; lhere is no other
way. The nations and men that shall be
saved must repent; whoever will not re-
pent must be made 10 cease from troubling
those who would.
Fist pure The world has not reached
that, neither have We. Until that is reached
the truth is sword, and there can be no
peace to nation or man.
Till then, while the ages roll onward
through war, toll and strife, must roll with
them this turbulent star. And man can no
more exclude war than he can exclude sor-
row, for both are conditions of man and
agents of God. Then let the war roll, and
strike steel upon steel and soul upon soul.
If in striking We kindle keen flashes and
bright from the manhood in man stricken
t1,,,ef into lrrIt hot
shall be struck through the world, till the
stars be recalled and the armament furled,
in the dawn of daylight undying; until
the signal of Zion is seen on the hill of the
Lord, when the day of the battle is done.
and the conflict with time by eternity won.