, 1873-05-19

it, aud intellectually hostile to it. selflove;
prejudice, and vanity always make. seH-reform,
difficult. The wish Of the poet, that = -; =:
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points ont not only weakness Of an individual,
but Of a Church ora government. a despotism
OF monarchy never doubts itself. It is neces-
:sary for some outside man; some Republican
Kossuth or Patrick Henry, to spring the first
doubt. So with the Church universal. Blinded
by sef-love it has had to accept Of reform at the
hands Of those standing outside e. OF its ; atmos- %
faith could indeed reform the Armenian, and the
Armenian the Calvinistio, and so on, until each
sect had pruned away something from 1ts neigh
boris folly; but beyond this slight work there is
q vast region in which all the denominations sat
down together in deep and mutual admiration,
fatal to all sense Of fault and to all hope Of re-
form. It is necessary in these hours that blows
should come from parties outside OF ITSELF.
*An the Christian Church held to the Justice Of
persecution even to the death. From Rome to
Geneva and Edinburg, the stake and the gag
law we're az universal as the Ten Commandments.
In this awful condition of things, it Was only a
kind Providence that turned the French infdels
loose into that field, dripping with the blood OF
the innocent Huguenot, and Covenanter, and
Catholic. So the Church once Sustained such
relations to slavery that Light could not dawn
upon it out Of it's Own horizon but vas poured
upon it BY free-t thinking world moving in an
lation Of the Church to oscence and to woman awaits
also q schooling from her enemies, and while it
will never accept tho whole argument Of sci
eutists nor the whole declaration OF Yomnna
rights, as set forth BY Mr.. Mill and his school,
vet By these outside voices it will be led Into
some new world OF truth, brighter with the glory
OF both man and God. .-.
; There was another feature IN the character Of
Mr.. Mill that illustrates cardinal idea Of Chris
tianity. You know tho Bible is full OF the idea
that the soul il the chief thing. The Bible is
the book Of the SOUL. Christ came in the name
OF the eoul. He Himself had no property, no
Office, no empire, no equipage, no retlnue, be-
cause he came: in the name Of the mind divine
aud immortal The New Testament is the grand
est delineation Of the souls greatness that ever.
came to earth through the lips Of men. IF you
read the pages Of profane history, you read OF
wars, armies, palaces, diadems, royal families.
of the. immortal spirit. Over, each page the
golden word :: soul might well be written. In
all profnne history, the last word tB DUST but OF
the Testament, the last worlds always immortal
ity be- the winter John, or Paul, or the Savior. :.
= II it we're not for such men as Mr. MIL COM
ing here and there in human life. ne might fail
to know what that thing called soul is II do not
know whers, in the public men OF our land, We
can see so well the picture of human dignity
swayed out..of balance by q love of ofnce: and
gold; disturbed By storm Of bad passions, our
public men reveal the SOUL not in its noblcness,
but in SOME. shape that begH for pity and for
givensss, .:..a,..i :.
pointed and. half .broken-hearted,< because they
TAIL to catch afouryea bauble from the tumultu-
ous crowd. To run for President, and then die
IN glory or in cloud according to the counting Of
the votes, has become g. brief history Of one Of
or greatest men t is I'D f ed
reach great office turned their days into win
ter OF discomfort.
All over our land it seems to be forgotten that
a human soul may be !somethmg to which no
office can add anything, and from which no po-
!litical defeat can take anything away: ::
:: God has inuo why connected human greatness
with . hallot-box: IA ,.;...3 49, =. -
-, The bosst Of heraldry, tho pomp Of power,
:: And al that rank aud Or fortune e'er gave, -,
- AWAIT alike the inevitable hour - =: --.-:-
And paths Of glory lead but to the grave. -,
:: From such 3 scene it is street. to turn to
e man who might have 'honored-' any
Office, but whom no office could have honored:
Nothing lasting for four years could have added
to q soul great before the four years aud great
afterwards. Mr. Mill would scarcely known
when an earthly honor came to. his forehead, or
when it departed Like Marcus Aurelns,
whose laurals Of virtue srere greater than the
throne Of the Roman Empire, Mr. Mills own
forehead WAS nobler in itself than it could have
been rendered by all the political :Wreaths OF
Tue greatness never reveals nor cherishes
much ambition, for the gift Of mind aAd the
possession Of profound character leave little
for the soul to ws or Or 70 d9r eaTsn 90
ceiye no trace of popular ambition, but every
where simple greatness Of spirit, as il that we're
the supreme destiny Of RATIONAL being.
j. oh, what an era would begin in our land Il,
instead Of waiting for something oniaae oi ,.,5 nGa
unfold the glory within them as . flower sends
forth beauty and perfume. from it's OWL opening
heart 49,. y -.
Let mo ask you now to come to one
more point where Mr.. Mill illustrated = truth
that Belongs By adoption to the family Of re-
ligious ideas. The Catholic Church makes It
eacrament: the Protestant churches Little less
than that. But let the ceremony be considered
civil or religious, the relation ltse1 = an n
woven with the past and future OF Christianity
There is no debate 50 loud and 50 apparently
disgraceful az that now filling the civilized
wofld over the nature and obligations Of the
marriage relation. It seems now to have been
the good fortune OF Mr.. Mill to unfold y ez-
amnfe this great form Of friendship that Was
astablished In earth'a first paradise. After the
Greak and Roman picture in which the wife was
i sanni-slaye. after the French and American
picture in which the wife is an inferior or
creature Of fashion, leads us up to t9e old 1aea
~ cod when re behold the wife Of q Stuart MIL
to have been she perfect equal OF him IN educa-
tion- in dignity, and in liberty. By educating
arr youth along difficult paths, man seeks TO
holds converse With man. he talks the hghest
thoughts to his brother, the humber ts ~ nis -
added the influence of the possession OF power
md authority held by man for. thousands OF
wars Separated by long cultivated vanity ano
1onq-assu1ned authority on the one sloe, ana y
difference Of studies on botn s1oes. anu ao oouuo
fha marriage bond Of today stands exposed 70 20
constant peril of unhappiness or SEPARATION; r
ia . atructure moved from it's base. Bnt N stnese
two souls now gone from this shoIe We oeu1i1 t1e