, 1874-03-30

| nothing but q mangor IN tho outsct and from
only r1ldo croEant last has for eighteen hundred
yeara ditiuscd itsef al over tho Eastern HomiB-
phere, embracing Russia, Germany, Franco, En-
gland, America, nil, as U mother throws hor at1ns
around hor ohiltlren who we're lost but aro found.
Christianity Bot forth not as conversion none, but
a'so as Hight for tho mind. pontius Pilntc may
haye bcon sincere, but he was ignorant Of duty
and wonls III his 1noral attributes. Christianity
moved upon tho world not M simple zeal, but
as a light, and hence II to know what tho body
ist aud what tho soul in, whnt heaven, vlat holt
may be, II to havo Hon1o just conception Of God,
il to hold some correct views ahvut our noigh1or
mud all tho reciprocal duties Of lifo, it to know
the golden rlllo snd that tho pnro III heart shall
SEQ God nre tEs,ths Of any valuc. then Christian
| ity comoH M the profoundcgt information Which
has ever burst through the clouds and shone
down upon tho world Of man. Looking upon
Christ as q moral light, and us far Ms q fooble
| intellect can grasp such m effu1geucc upon tho
mind, wo ought to conclude thnt vice has a'lf-
fcrl shock, IN that 70 much Of tho foundation
| OF ignorance has boon swept aWay. But we
reminded you that evil had two elomonta in its
foundation. tho ono ignorance, the other hostil-
| ity to tho truth, even waon wall.known. Chris
and works equally with tue intellect and tho
| heart, revealing duty mud making tho soul lovo
\ duty,
seeing, therefore, n gtadnal increase of lsnowl-
! edge from tho great EaBtorn sourcos Greece.
! Rome, and Palestine, aud seoing this knowledge
| spreading out westward in all that varied mag
niticenco Of scicnco aud gospel, of crucible anl
| cross, OF body aud soul, Of human liberty and
| divine loyo, and then romomboring the invention
| Of printing, which has poured this varied wisdom
into every house as sunlight pours III at tho wins
| dow, must reach the conclusion that tho Woes
Of tho civilized world ought to DO on tho declino
Our second inquiry was Designated as boiug a
survey Of tho actual facts IN tho case. Having
pllsh, wo inquire whether thoro has been any
such moral achievement. First. lot mo warn you
against surprising TINT tho loud cutlery now
raised on all Bidcs nGalBt every form Of vco aul
advance advanco and goodness on % tie doclino,
for The prosehs turmoil proven only
it will no longer submit silently to great wrongs
and follies. Tho judgment audtl moral and prll-
dental senses havo boon 10 developed iu tho past,
longer possible. What former agos GU
dused easily because Of tho feoblo public light
and public conscience, raiaos now vast uproar
when seen in the now light and now morals Of
war which ragged III olr land from 1880 10 1860
did not ariso from the now barbarisn OF slavery,
for as fact bondage Ind not grown more inh,l.
man, but aroao from tho fact that old evil Ind
encountered . new intellectual and moral doyel-
opment mud honca came the great conflict. It
Is with such reflections wo look upon the proaont
conflict over intcmporance and the socinl evil.
These monsters lave not absolutely gained iii
BIO huu l0TUCt4, uHL tuS luuI4G CU1aaElDuC9 uu6
grown until it lias not tho indifference to yice
which marked the world when Kings lived for
pleasure. aud uollos for banquots and tho fox
chase. Thoao monsters, which We call BY tho
general naine Of Vice, havo been dragging their
foul lengths nlonE over hundreds OF years. and
much of baltic il located in our times because it
has so gathered light from reason and Christi
anitv that it can no longer endurs such great
wrongs.
Laaying these suggestions to tho Judgment Of
to tho historical points in tho caso. Whoever
would deduce any conclusions regarding the
moral proAroHs OF society must doal only III long
pcriolH, for earth H r. star w]loso physical days
are composed Of twouty-four hours, but whose
moral dayB are each aH Thousand years. Coming
! up out Of Gods etornity, where ages sink like
snow-d:ops iu the ocean, our eartl brought with
1t this awful disregard OF tiue aud makes little
count OF tho days Of you and me, looks upon q
| summer and winter ~ only grains Of sand upon
iss mighty shore, and ali our three score yaars
sink into Its mighty lifo Us autumn leaves toll
upon the mountutu side, and are only received
tendozly into its mold, but create no jar in tho
wide aud deep foundations of ndamant.
to mark an increase or decrease Of sin, yon must
look away from thla day, this year, thus geuera-
tion and 10 fur AZ possiblo to behold a!l the i'm
preBsiyo spectacle that reaches from the old
Eden to tie nowost Anerica. What WAS that
past? Tho words sodom aud Gomorrah recall
| at once tho worlds corruption. The vices oil
that period, as revealed in The history and con.
duct Of Lot, are not tue incidental vices of 4
nations, for the Hebrew Commonwealth as fur as
tho age OF David md Solomon rcpeated tho alns
Of Sodom, only upon gradually diminishing
scale, and thus was mirror not ct barba,istn
but Of the best typo. Of old civilization: The
and splondor, and sin: The Egyptians actually
"eysR respects oqisled tl.o reputation M Of soaon
and Gomorrah for tndescribabio deprarity, Tue
4 exLuuing Of Herou!anoum and Pompeii haB lift.
cd q yeil from the customs Of tho Greek and
Kouau worlds, Ior those two civilizations art
combined thoro, and tloto at TINT mountain /
base those two cities sat while naturo suddenly
e1ubalmed them for far-oR generations. Tls
old vice, art aud dahonur, cultivated intelloc
uild u dRrkenel conscience, d light upon culyA
aud marble, but httlo light upon tho uoul.
Passing BY tho notorious i1nlnoralitty or i'm
purity 0f the Greek, md Roman, and Egyptian
lands, look upon HoMe felt1lroA OF tlOso at,G,
not 50 commonly alluded to Ill these surveys o
antiquity.
slavory was universal, tho rights Ut man a
mnn were unknown. Tho dreoks knew tAs
rights of Greoks, the Nomuns tho rights Of ITO
mans, but Mother knew the rights OF man. Honct
no man did anything which a Blavo might do
II possible, tho literary man lay Oh q loung
whilo sayos wrote down l,iB thoughts, or brough
and took away volume, or prepared glass 0
ship, mud the coprtesan often moro honoroa b.
statesmen than the moro rofinel, home-loyiu
wife. Tile n,npitheatrcB o full blosBomin;
Of the ignorunce Of Tug rights ON Of ma'l; and o
whom 10000 Innocent men woro dying i
ono rcign, in proseucs Of 10. 900 spectators, com
, posed Of the beHs oitixous Of Homo, Cicero wa
. iustifying tho bloody spootaoe nnd, III one III
. u tI.no, petition Was sent to tho District Gov
ernor or Project that ho would order show q