Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-28

That err from Natures honest rule
Cursed be the gold that gilds
The atraitened forehead of the fool.
But this Is the age Of progress men
say that old prejudlces arc forgotten, that
The evils Of former days have dlsap.
peared. Is not this another empty boast
Does human nature ever change True
we no longer burn our enemies at the
stake, tits not the fashion but D, how
we do hate each other yes hate zach
other as bitterly as a jew and Christian
ever did. II the Psalmlst who said In
his wrath, GAN men are liars" had lived
In our day, he might have said the same
In his cooler moments. IT'S part OF the
creed Of these days TO speak In grAndllo-
qnent language OF our liberal views on
religion and politics. Religion What Is
the religion Of the nineteenth century :
How many Of the crowds that fll our
churches are there from habit, and how
many because II ia fashiouablei We
cheat, and hate, and get gold all the
week, aud then wend our way TO church
ON Sunday, prepared TO sleep an hour,
while the lhunders roll unheard above
our beads. We tell white lies, aud black
lies, lies Of all Bhsdes--yes, our whole
life is lie and yet We dare TO come be-
fore God and call Him sour Father who
art IN Heaven"
Charity is fashionable luxury now-a-
days, Of which the wealthy are ever
ready TO avail themselves. Therefore we
worship In magnificent palaces, wonder
FULLY like the old pagan temples, whose
ruins are tue monuments Of heathenlsm
y other tlmas, There II great host of
Mrs Jelly bys at the present day better
dressed and even more enthusiastic than
the beneiactors of Barra- bOOla Cha. BY
such works tue world has persuaded
Itself that II Is astonishingly moral aud
yirtuous-in fact all Christendom is sui
{, ring under religious fever, Just as IL
once suffered under the gold fever. Bat
"Alas for the rarity
OF Christian charity
Under the sun W
How few, how very few, are the gen.
ulne disciples of that lOHly Que who
wandered eighteen hundred years ago
through the hills aud Yales Of Palestine.
How few appreciate the grand simplicity
OF the faith He taught. Where are the
ssckelOth and ashes noY7 Where the
locuats aud wild heney Instead of the
modest Industry OF that good woman
DOrcas We have now the modern srwiug-
circle, sort OF an apatpmleal sOc,ety ,
where one suffers all Tho lotpqrs Of the
dissec,ing knife, combined with The tor.
lures Of the rack. Whether are the years
carrying us 10 something better or TO
something worse The world Is growing
old now, and the dark ages are far behi. d
us, but that little domestic menagrrie,
spoken Of In the Scriptures, where the
lion shall lie down with the lamb, seems
rs far In the future as ever. Many haye
died like good Mrs. Easy, doing in the
chimney corner, IN h0prlrss expectation
OF the millennium. But a day of better
things shall come, day when truth
shall be holy, aud faith shall reign when
envy and Jealousy, hatred aud malice
shall be remembered but as the evil
spirits which once vered mankind. Then
shall that old kuightly creed Rgslu revive
which makes II dishonor 10 breathe 80
much as word against the purity Of
woman. A grand aud noble prophet
shall arise, whose harp shall ring through
all the coming years; and there are
silent chords within the human heart
which he shall wake and touch 10 noblef
strains than any that have sounded in
the ears Of men. May that tune hasten
Onward that time Of generous thoughts
and generous deeds, that tlnle when men
shall reverence truth aud beauty, for
beauty is the soul OF nature, aud truth
the strength OF beauty,