, 1876-02-26

Love OF Sod.
THE FIRST CENTURY.
THE NEW HLPuBLlC COMPARED WITH TIE
| o..U KhP.B..iCs -sEKAuS
BYP kuk. SWING.
Prof Swing delivered On Sunday, the fol
lowins ,nt,r,snss rn,on bc."re IA large con
grvga,lOn ut M.Slvkci . tneairr.
lie hntu noL dealt s. wiin any nation
-fsallns rXNu, ~. lnasmurh us this sun
day inllouut,s Us TO tue 8, hours ui a new
century IN D.nonal affairs, shall ask you I,
priunt yuLr nlhds to-day 10 compare GU
Lat.on MnL Oh. vi the riuUlits hong sine,
dead. Lh,it. Is 81 ssentmi to the gIuwll
Vi religion tuat 1 nrcu not upuogiZe fu
making out ri national unalrs n th,lne iO
u ouu,Iay' > discourse. The sooner lhrlslin,s
learn ahu tue derpeI they ierl that the inter
esls ol nlan a.e ali one, anu That Ichgiun /.
II pat vi LOullrs una politics IL par. Ol rvlg
ION, tue netter 1t viii br tor surI,ty. tn,
gun that srparulro the Clergyman from I'll,
Statesman ann tne lawyer ami tile miu o
scirnce has niwa!o been only gull ol ahslrt!
caste Inuch likr Inc Caste ., lI,iu, where II
t"urh 'hc garment ar p,npeIly Oa heIng
not III une su"ncIcIr, Is u IrrrIUle pollution.
iue great PROFESSIONS overlap each uu,r.
III uvtaIjs snry d'Iier. IA fundamentals there
10 niurn III comIInu. Be tins rs II may. II is
| CEitalu ina t"e moment hurry lS menGlUnu
itliBioh UrCOlii\s aiitnInc, or that 10 the
ConuItiun ui n,r lie ami grONtI aAd pdr,ti
CATION. All llie Faces begin their rvligOn
III Ine u,p,hs y. SUPERSTITION, aud hence the
urhIesl '"ihB I" "o.snp Is the liberty IL
escape irnui iaIscIIuud una tOlk. As The
A.iivan saYe nnu The Rom N slave and tue
urc,h slave nc,'icu tn power 10 work Tor
sell aiIu educate s,ll nj a,lIn sell, 81 TIL
slave III rc'Is,"n, ne he limd0a or NJ rmn.
ni,,'un % irot, slant ur Catholic, IL eds hb
crIy that ne may dnIy examine hl- uI an,i
nIui ~ sre II Lurre ur any vlHlias on his
wrists. Or any master over him with n lasi.
Hence ~ tns hr>t hundred years 0t uur
ller,y, Christianity has been deeply inter
csted ahd standing upon lhe Ihrtsh0Id III u
new ase bic must Iecl II thrilling inrreSl in
unveiled tdture. In all the shapes ol govern
nenI TeliS'on Is u,tpl! interested parry.
Lot 10 urnne freedom. 1t is not 81 much
pussrss oh hs tn prvih &c ut hnding pos
s.sSiOns. Il 10 not the spiritual earth aud
planets aud siuIs, but the space in when
Ih,y may AL move III their lnIlnrnse orbits.
Butas space dus not make the planets,
heather does liberty make men. Tht Arab
ant the Sioux Indian pI-srOs pert 1t Icr.
dom, ami sn do tie negroes wlicI Scnwrln
Iur,n ncrntll discover. in AIrIca, but the
possession aVails them nothing, any InOrs
itnln infinite space will trinsio, N Il school.
boy 5 ball mo u planet or iiX, d sur. Free.
dom 10, hence, on'y the Sptue in which the
m,nL oi man may describe lis great orhits
., politics, Religion, art, poetry; but watcher
nidu Viii to llhS, l,hrlt, cannot say. II ul
tcrs tlie so,il space tor lis tnnrion, II heavens
'or its revou' OnS. ior lis apogrc or prrhe
lion. Calico enjO, Ell no sach bro ii ether
tur his Or"it, lOr when he began 10 M we he
struck pIpc, and 81 with the old African
slave, wis IIr began to move toward r,lu
cation ar property, Ur tho North star, his
trtt were cna,lcd, or his back scourge,, or
his ,ar heard 'hc bIylng nj blO0l.nuunls On
his track. Freedom, then, is not culture,
nor nn information, nor talent. but the up
pnrlunily III all goo /; not an edu ntOl,
but school b U.S. AMI the hooks. rnr Al.
ricnn along tue Amazon POSSES rs much
lIMr,y M was enjoyed 10y Franklin or Jnnn
Quincy Adams. ii nee the question of mo
ment always IL AMI always will br, what il
tne individual doing IN the great open - lrr
ot his liHryl /, IT, is slrt ping in the sun
like the African. his freedom il worthless
ii hr il t0ling 0nw ,rl in science like New.
ton, or in slalesInlnsInp like GlntlstOn,.. or |
in religion like Luz her and Dolingrr then
liberty means space through which sun |
Is whirllng along at II sIuprndous speed
over II sublime path.
Tie glory of an individual or Of II state
boastins OF freedom may lie found by de-
Of it or him whnt ia Iwing done;
along what paths its free powers are run
ming. In The answer to this inquiry will b.
foun' NJ Hsu r tor the merit or drm,rit Of
the hundred years just eLted. And by look.
ing over the long past al all those states
which historians style republics you may
determine their value by asking what they
were doing in the mi'st 0I their free air.
Thomas Paine WAS free, but he was inem-
pernte. Aaron Burr was free hut he WIS u
Iiherinc and Il freebooter This liberty
iynied nothing for the soul wns unworthy
Df its infinite eXpanse. No great work was
per orIne'I in it's long and beaut ful day.
Perhaps nu methods will assist us more in
Ending the value 0f the past hundred years
,f our land than the methOdOt comparison.
Fortunate. are We when in any line OF Thought,
scientific. religious or political, We can tind
that may he made "a measuring
rod b''tween us and the unknown. There
IRE. fortunately, some old republics or seln'-
'rpu'Ics whiCn in such days Of memory ns
hrse may help ns determine the good aud
,vll ut iiIe land We 1--we.