New-York tribune., 1874-09-22


sing IL morn ana nlgnt[
'Tbe little anchor on the left,
The great one ON the rightP"
"But how's your wife and little oneY'
"COme home with me-" he said
"GO on, go on; follow you"
followed where he led
He had pleasant little house;
The door was open wide,
And at the door the dearest TACO
A dearer one inside
He hHgged hs wife aud child: he sang
His spirits were so light
"The little anchor on the left,
The great one on the right
Twas supper-tme aDd we sat down.
The sailors wife and child,
And he and L: he looked at them,
And looked at me. and smiled.
"I think Of this when AN tossed
Upon the stormy foam.
And though thousand leagues away.
Am anchored mere at home"
Then, giving each kiss, he sad,
II see IN dreams at nSht
This little anchor on my LETT
This great one on my rghtF
The series Of papers on "The Republican Movement in
Europe" by Emilio CASTELAR,, is resumed in this number
describing the progress Of religious ideas in the Ger
manic races with sketches of the great leaders OF mod
ern thought at the OF the Reformation 1t Is seldom
that such scnte discrimination is combined with such
gorgeous aoquence In biographical portraitures Here
Is the refor1ner OF Switzerland In living colors.
he chief OF the Reformation there at the same time
the chief OF "a great democracy. The Proostants may
number Zwngus their apostles and their teach
ers; we, who are democrats liberals, repuDilcans
number him among great tribunes, our heroes and
martyrs. Born in The great mountains, which speak OF
God and OF the Infinite; nuIsed IN the BOSOM Oh nature
his intelligence nourshed by great deas and his body
by Wholesome food mnglng with me nlooa ot MS ms
lungs the puTost air. leading rustic life In his earliest
years; Of temperament robust ss the riue .l ana
sublime Alpine country; gong 10 sleep through
out his boyhOod at the hour when the hocks
were folded and the twilight falling, TO wake at the
call of the cock. when the skylarks were taking ther
flight and the hope OF new day was aWaKlng IN the
' flush Of @ m99s m S6 Te word S ike he
BIRDS his soul bathed in the divine as star ia etheI lie
preserved the battles of life the candor of the shep
herds In the abOrs and innovations OF reform love on
tradition in the midst of cities the aroma ot the eean
tine and the song OF the thrush amidst the wrath OF
aud Of parties the Infinite charity OF the ar ana o
the light free all beings and after having oonyersed
fonntan Of Pato and the bitter tears OF job singing the
psalms of David and odes OF PndaT, IL all the
his own reduced the abstract ideas TO common
place maxims, to scatter them among the people he
sister Of Charity in the hospitals. tribune in the
p@6e place fs tds IN res ee bo yaav q
and with the breath OF their thought with
the force Of their will. the currents Of time, he
died in the battle for truth in the purifying embrace of
holy martyrdom And MS reform was porn ana grew
and developed in the midst OF democracy rep9one,
a liberty ancient aud deep-rOOted, plrtaking OF the
character OF -aedium in which IL ana march
ing resoluely forward TO modliy ana improve u Less
opposed and less persecuted than other reormer he
appears much more His reform springs from
tine conscience rather than from passion aud relies more
upon than upon sentiment Without breaking so
openly his cOadiutOrs in the common work with tue
Pope ana the Church, he restricts himself solely TO wnat
he luds expressly set down III the Scriptures he Is an
than OF the nre tribune he Press "ho
grace and who distinguishes himself by the charity and
the grandeur OF his acts, VINO prays anu WORKS. Inc
logic OF his arguments does not damage the subtety Of
his system the force Of reasoning the eoquence OF
his discOurses lie Is confronted by essoppOslOn ana
consequently fights with less revolutionary than
other nuovators It's plain that his individual soIl
is a part of the soul of great democracy; that hrs
inner education has flowed from the two great schools
OF aud society," the country and the republic
the OF Christ, and exats the rights OF every
Christian; he from his heart the ancient theocratc
fha IN " I.lI lp
earth the feudai traditions. He speaks or the Lords
Supper as OF religious ana democratic communion;
lie the time hatred or spiritual
tyranny and hatred of the reactionarY arfsocracies
and the revolution against Roman cosmopOtanism
a worship or the swiss fatllerland. He reforms the
understanding and the morals. He demands that the
nresfs shall seek to carry souls 10 sacrifice before
the affairs Of an unQuestODabe authority and tat the
swiss SHALL 10 sell the blood OF tnelr dearest ch
reu 10 the armies pitess despOts that the cradle Of
human nature shall not become pedestal OF monarch
tyranny. His doctrfne IN fact is religion ana rc-
TINS Of IDEAS this soldier ot logic this William
Tel OF the spirit, who e1t above the material nation
more lofty and more enduring than the eterua
Alps the ideal nation ot the conscience.
The analysis OF the position of Calvin is not less mas
terly although the wordpainting is In more subdued
tone.
Wherever there appears great social aspiration It
impellel followed by great religious aspiration
Tue gay City Of Geneva, wAich was 10 found the new
morality OF the modern democratic world, needed TO
keep t falling intO the claws OF the eagle or savoy
It's aud rapacious neighbor severe ana aus
tere religion, which should renoyate society with It's
doctrines, which should by its discipline subject
to saiutary yoke, which should on the one hand
touch the lofty submits Of theology, and, on the other
the doep pers OF politics. 1t fousd al this in stole
youth, French In origin German IN thought, great
writer, beGtted literary city, theoogan OF the
united TO the conceptions metaphysics
the clearest notion of right Widely different been
been even accused OF fatalism by a harrow criticism
winch wastes itself IN minute details aud cannot
the general effect of great human works But when
remember that, as tbeologan and magistrate,
he gave democratic discipline to the new idea,
fvI1 nd IN Tho
new society that, thanks " this ideT, he created
powerful party even in England against the anthora-
tive tendency and the aristOcrac hierarchy OF English
Protestantsm tnat when this party was prosecuted by
priests and kings, II went forth from IT'S troubled
homes from uugrateful country spread itself through
Switzerland aud through Holland with the word Of the
with sentiment and idea, ready always to sacrifice life
for ts dOctrine that large fragment OF TINS party,
the sea Moses to the desert crossed the ocean with
the Bible In their hands aud Christian equality in their
hearts, aud founded on the virgin sol Of the New
World the temple OF persecuted conscience, and the
government of despisod democracy, liberty, and the
when remember this grand epic OF human progress
forget all the defects OF Calvin, all the ncODssten-
principle of religious emancipation. and him on
the lofty nights of history among tue redeemers Of hu
mauy, shrned in the im mortal nght OF luminous and
human ideas.
Among the remaining articles. the Talks OF an As.
trononer" by Professor Newcone will deseryedly at
tract attention ntellgble exposition of the ele-
mentary principles Of his favorIte science.
LIPPISCOTT
The usual variety of attractive fiction and
hgey sketches Of travel which always gives interest TO
the pages OF Lppncot makes mp tho greater part
the contents Of this number Readers who have never
heard Of the little watering place Baden (he Less) In
Switzerland. will find description Of
that primitive Summer sojourn. The writer Mr. T. A.
Troope we suppose by the initia) labOrs under the
dread Of letting the public into the secret But still he
feels bound ~ sacrifice to his beneyoence
Tnero arc plenty OF Swiss and few Germans here
1he pers the doctors the Carriage propre
aud knickk dealers, perfectly we'll under