The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-12-31

seemed GOOD ana honest and al! women pure and
vrtuous whereas now Il seems 10 him as u az ie 10
desert aud everybody IL lighting With DIS
that the golden aud silver have passed away ior,
ever that only the brazen coming ana 'na' all
Is wrong.
THE RADICALS IRnArIoSAi-
The radical, TOO, from his standpoint aoors under
barren and waste II Is wrong tor him 10 say that TO-
day only Ii worth mentioning. Does the man forget
what be owes to the pastf strike away this that or
the other century and he would nave no
arts, Sciences philosophy, steamboats, or rail-.
roads Take away the Improvements made curing hg
would De again digging roots with his hngsrs from
the ground, and ioeding what the swine would
now refuse. Would ho destroy Venice, obilterate
Rome pull down London RAE Paris or destroy that
religion among men whose charity Is relieving Inc
snnerngs and wants OF thousands in all landsr An,
friends, respect the past, for u has gwen you al
things Can you tell when anything Is new. or when
II was old? The leaves OF autumn srew the ground
and mngle with the snow OF winter-where then, are
We TO draw the dividing line? Was shakespeare new!
But for the artists that went before Shakespeare we
genius descended from Others and was one step urher
ON ~ the ceaseless march OF mind which marks sue
ceeding centuries. Newton 10 spoken OF, put now
many pointed the telescope before his timer Iycho
Brahe, Copernicus and others In discovering the Inn
mutabe law oil gravity Newton did that one little
thing which the others could not do and thus linked
tho past with his own generation ana with ours.
When Luther came the time was ripe Tor him aud
German printers laid aside ali other work print ais
book yet Huss and other reformers had gone before
him. Did Luther make the ReiormationY No; but
the ages that went before him did the blow which he
THE WAY PREPARED FOR JESUS.
II turn TO Jesus will be that the ages bo-
tore HIM. not He, worked the changes taught ny
Him. The Saviour took up tho line Of tradition just
at that point where II possible Tor tho then pres
cnt to touch the past. He brought new revelation
He quoted the Ola Testament and fulfilled the pro-
phecy therein contained-that was ALL We think OF
The past; II IS tho region Of fact, OF what has been
fulfilled and accomplished, OF the decd performed,
which cannot DO recalled. The irrevocaDe past can.
not be mcaded none Of It's errors susceptible
OF alteration now, II we would sit
down and gr0an IN sacKcloth ana ashes The
rciormer thinks TO pick up the mistakes OF the time
which rooted IN race, and TO introduce reforms
with revolutionary haste But It is much better that
we are q state OF revolution; that we are tied
the rock OF ages tear up the tough old
world II tried. Tho ways OF wisdom slow,
sure, steady and II Is most consoling TO know that
the WORLDS revolutions DO not speedily revolutonize
The sudden tempest comes and RACES for awhile, alter
which few more leaves are on the grass the harvest
Is frustrated for few days. the grass itself
again and the traces Of hurricane have disappeared
Look back ~ the French Revolutionary attempted to
reform all the evils Of society; reason was wor-
shp ped, Christianity voted failure and all institu-
remodellcd. In live short years all these
things altered. The old Church re.cstab-
shed OLD State ruled again and the old Devil put back
IN his placer In concuding the speaker tried TO draw
moral from all these points, and showed how IN
cumbcnt II s upon every TO do hts pest as man
and member OF society, saying the good IN every
mans life aids to make up the sum total OF human
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