, 1876-05-01

founder of tho Christian religion reri.it sasth
for tho last timo. Ho uttercd tho hnai words.
the doopest ruth Of ilts Church truth that WAS
to pervado all the centuries 70 oo.ne between
bethlehem and the final Judgment. What we're
those words We're thov full Of fAtaleno, or
injustice, OF caprice Obi no., they hold Ia
tle'r aotemn depth = hoavsn and bell which
command reason to bow "a In the pfesonoe Of
q thrilling truth.
TO- And 1ls ssth INTO seal not tho sayings Of Tho
prophecy Of tits book for tbs time Ia Il hand. 1o
althy let him bo nhy IT'LL and lo that is righteous,
it M be rshtcous sill; and be that holy. let him
2. And behold coma quickly; mud my reward !.
With me to giro orery man according ~s bis work shall
is. am Mphs and Omega, tho beginning and the
cnd. tbs arnt snl the Isst.
~. Z. Blessed srs tney shas do llis COMMANDMENTS
cnsos In through the gates into Tho city.
Thus the Holy Book Was cfoacd, and No want
no 1toman Church, and no Dante, and no Mil
ton, and no puritaniam, no CAlvtnism. to coma
with tho brains, with tho figures, aud fate. aud
injustice, with the heart hot with passion to-
wards onamios, OF tumid with self-cougratula-
ton, and roopon this Book and insBtt futurD
world whoso gates admit tho foul 70 paradise
and consign the moral to tormentB.
Ncftbert dAro NO Welcome religion Of un-
bounded 1oyo and permit It to taAr open the
Realed book, aud ornae the awfill dehttnJ Of the
unjust. This wicked world aud good world can
not part with the religion that rewards here and
hereafter tho faithful, and that punishes hero
aud hereafter the wiukod. We need = heaven
easy Of acccsa to those who sock 1t by obcdi-
encc, and no need BORROW Of vide gatoa for
those who tratnp'c under foot TINT jewel Of
earth aud heaven called tho right Out Of the
right every state draws its value, each man Lila
honor, each child its protection, its home, its
poace: mud henco ovcr those who trample the
right undor foot thers muat be seen rising a
atorm Of Justice. The great rulnH sin has
wrought ia tho world OF government point out
what Il Ia doing In the Individual soul. A nation
- only soul 80 enlarged That iss life
set ''ntgs's d bed it's w.ss cradle 0sss%ss ssSss
Buia like Greece, or a vast domain
like Asfs or old Rome. a nation Is q man
thousand yesss old whose e1sdis nnd grave
the destipy OF the wicked soul. All tho totter-
ing ruins whore lizards Bloep and owls boot
only toll us what SORROWS overlook tho Horcds,
the Pilates, the Aspasiaa, aud 1}orgiaa, whoa
tho blaze Of their sin had burned out tho fuel
OF thoso brief years. All history Of nations and
Of individuals, tho written history OF tlo paus
tho uuwtitten mcmolrs of mon aud women. Of
many Just dead or dying, tell us that tho angel
Auy more surely than flies the dark aguro Of
NemoB1s, that daughter Of Night carrying III
ono hand ecourRe, in tho other the balances
Of Justice. But this Nemesis ia not M angel
the Oldest poets, was tho emblem Of conscience
after the soul had Bfuned. It Nas painted aa
beautiful and crowned virgin, moving on sub
limo or1and. that OF Furnishing tho guilty, md
thus OF lehdlbg tho human family to lore those
ways that arc pleasant and those paths TINT
arc pehce.
OF tho flna1 shape to be ashuntd by rewards
and puntshments wn know little, But We ncod
| not know more. As In youth We 20 back to
school each day aud study faithfully, not reading
| tho future,-not knowing whother tho bar OF tho
| pulpit or the pnth Of business will aux for our
mind and heart, and, as in our childhood daga, ws
know not whoro our home shall be, whether By
| the Hudson or tho mississippi. or by ocean Of
lake, and as We know not what friends will ntand
nearest US IN far-on future days, but III our
| ignorance move on until time slowly evolves tho
plan Of God; so a. to the greaier future beyond
the tomb We must clasp tho present to our heart,
Ing stream Of Timo to carry ia 70 tho sea- As
to the laughing babe, at last old age comes with
suow-whito hair, 90 to liz all hero to-day, in
health md n Ignorance OF the future. tho great
Eternity will come, telling us all Its joy aud sor-
row IN words QqYcf to b0 recalled.