Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-02-17
"Ti.e Impending Revolution. &"

"T1Re Impending Revolution"
LECTURE or VICTORIA c. wooDHULL-CHR IsrI-
ANITT cRITlClZED-yUeTICE BEFORE CHAEI-
TY-coNMUNIsM APPRovfD-A BLOODY REV.
oLUTIoNs THREATBNEr.
A large audience assembled sGt Lincoln Hall
last evening 70 hear the lecture Of Mrs. Victoria
q. Woodhall on the "Impeading Rev Jlutiosl.' -
She was Eodestly attired IN ablack six dress
and short jacket, in the lapel of watch vas
placed Bi blown tea rose.
She began by taking q retrospect Of the pest,
depicting the gigantic strides and progress OF he
world, and tsen traced the history OF govern
ment f1oR its earliest patriarohal form, down
this country ,sshe said, the future race of the
world Is being developed, so, also, will the
foundation of The future government be &c
veloped, which shall become universal. IL was
no mere child's play or idle fancy of the old
Prophets. whose prophecies Of Christ, 'wEo
should rule the.world, come trooping down the
upon this. Neither were the Jews entirely at
fault when they locked for Messiah who should
reign over the world in temporal as well as in
spiritual things since il is beginning to be COM
pretended that a reign of justice IN TEMPORAL
things can oE,y' follow from
TIE BAPTISM OF THEM BY sPIRxgUALIT-.
AND 1t is the approach OF these heretofore
widely separated principles which is 70 produce
the impending revolution. An d that revolution
viii be the final and the ultimate osstest be-
tween justice and authority, ia which the latter
will be crushed, never gain tn raise it, despotic
head among and to divide the members of a
common humanity. st. Paul said " Faith,
f
est Ofthese is Charity" Beautiful As this friplet
nap appear to be to the casualist; it cannot
bear the test of analysis. 1t will be replaced in
tie vocabulary of the future by the more perfect
oDe-knowledge, Wisdom, and Justice. These
three, but the greatest Of these is Justice Char
ity, with its long closk OF Justice escaped, has
long enough
COVERED MrLrITUDz OF SINS.
Justice will in the futuse demand perfect COM
pensation in all things, whether material men
tai or spiritual. tAppialse.l
Ia N N %. aH Ia. rr;,-
alizationof the terms liberty, equality and ius.
tice, and their practical relation to each other
and discussed at length the vexatious questions
OF capital versus labor, presenting her views
with great earnestness oi manner.
Now, say that the cOmsaon public is en-
titled te all the benefits accrRing from common
enorts ana u Is an Infamous wrong that makes
it accrue to the benefit of a special few. And
system OF society which permits such arbitrary
distributions of wealth is a disgrace to christian
CIVILIZATION, whose Author and HIS disciples had
all things in common. Let processing chris
tanS who fer pretence, make long prayers,
think of that,
., AND THEN DENoUNCE COMMUNISM,
II they can; aid denounce me as a reyOlutiopist
tor advocating it, it they dare" In abiding TO
the impending revolution, which she declared
vas to come, ske traced the struggles OF human
lty, during centaries past, for freedom. But the
struggle now approaching was to be different
frosl these-it was TO destroy capital and the
privileged classes, for whom, she stated, six
hundred millions o. people constantly toll all
their lives long.
The speaker next paid her attention to the
public Gebt and TO RAILROAD and land monOpOlies
and with regard to the latter charged that the
public domain was bought up by the rich, and
that, with its Improvement by the building I'M
OF town sites and cities, the wealthy doubled
their investments. In the pame of ilistice she
said, the increase of the value should not acerue
TO such classes, as they profit by the action of
others at the public expense, and have done
nothing themselves to entitle them to receive
dollars for what they paid only cents Instead
OF having few milli0naires, and millions on the
verge OF starvation, we propose that all shall
possess comfortable competence-that is shall
plause.
Branching OFF to the subject of
CHRISTIANITY
She said: think Christianity has been preached
at long enough. l go for making a practical
application of it at the very foundations OF
society. 1 believe in recognizing the broad
principal of all religion-that we are all children
OF one great common parent, God, which, since
II dhproves tho pro- itions Of the Church that
az least large portion of us are the children of
the devil, laughter, j and renders the services of
the clergy to save us from that inheritance nm
necessary, will abolish our present system OF a
licensed and paid ministry. Which one of them
dare tell ms congregation the truth, as he, if he
DC not blockhead, knows it? / here and now
IMPEACH THE CLERGY
OF the United States, great and continued an
pause t as dishonest and hypocritica, since the
to preach the whole truth, for, il they should,
they would have to preach to empty seats-an
admission sufficiently damnable to consign them
TO the contempt of the world and to the hell of
which they pirate so knowingly, but whose loca-
uon they have not been able to determine. And
mere cannot forbear to depart from the strict
trne, from the effects OF which even this coun-
Try Is but slowly recovering-that OF
ETERNAL DAMSATION.
say that people who really believe i'm God
who could burn his own children in a lake of
literal fire and birthstone, "where the worm
dieth not and the fire is not quenched," and
from which there is no present escape nor future
hope. for single unrepented msdeed, and still
profess to honor, love and worship a fiend so
internal as that would make Him, cannot be
honest and conscientious, [long and continued
appiause,I since they must mistake fear for love-
ana confound sycophancy with worship.
A BLOODY PARIS COMMUNE REVOLUTION.
The lecture closed with certain amendments
she proposed to the federal constitution; but
MIS- woodruff said she desired to saw few
words more. This war of the people had to be
made through the churches: "ro-day, Com
quiet, and let's bridge this over for wear or so,
and you come out all right Matt Carpenter
sad today, If you are to have your rights at
party Well have them through no party but
that OF the people. L am going 10 begin a reyo.
Iutlon-a bloody Paris commune revolution,
from Maine to California to accomplish it,"
(Great applause.l
VIC. sPiTs UPON CONGRESS.
during her lecture, speaking of her interview
with Senator Carpenter, Mrs. Woodruff said
81 told Matt. Carpenter to-day, when he told
m me mat should be Imprisoned because spoke
so unexpectedly of the Constitution, that |
mated II; that WOuid spit upon IL; you'd spit
on Congress. 1t is stencil in the nostrils of the
people, and to overthrow it 1 told him l would
raise a revolution. That's why L come before
the people, and mean to succeed. [Applause.l
he said would find myself in Fort Monroe
wish l could put all in Congress there"
tLaughter.l
THE SALE IN THE CoUNTRY.-The sale of the
enects Of y. p. Bartholow will take place on
NJ ohuay, the iyth instant, when great variety
implements will be sold; and for the accommo.
datl0n Of parties wishing to attend the SALE we
would state that the cars leave the WASHINGTON
depot at S.15 and 1880 a. m. stopping at Penn's
CiCssing, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
which is on the place, thereby making it verv
convenient to parties wishing to attend the sale.
FRESH RRADING.-From the National News
company we have The Gdldyy for March, and
from ID. A. Brosnan The Catholic World for the
same month. INV