The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-02

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i. has s,cetf said flias severs Ileopie which
aacpfs Christianity as fts creed ass fHliatesa
loaitsei9 psst s fsa that Eystera the feaching
which suits st8 nature, ard rejects The
faachirfg wiitb which II finds la itseif no tr-
t,esenB tyfnr5at hi ss The refDafk. though
cYsiIcasay intetflled, Is I'D one way Q tsst!..
f,lony Id. stin truth of creed in Hh1eh all
natures. however lifierents find enc0lhnge-
rne,,t aud restraint, and It lis .undouhtedlY
i'm great part true 81 the British people.
They feel aud accept, notin practice aiWa ys.
hut siill es q theeretic IDEAL, a great zeal
of Christianity, But they reject great deal
more. They ignore altogether Chrlst.s
speeches about. wealth, which, whatever He
taught about Il, He meant should be very
secondary object; they slur over HIS per.
gonai and diyecs testiDlonysto the eluaHY OF;
men before the Lord they Z. wait for the
explanation . OF whit certuin Z. gcgtatistie "
utterances mean ! and as TO His tsachipg
about submission, trey Tepudiate il alto
pother The business of a Nohamn,edan,
they say, ,is 10 ,he resigned !, an Englishman
must struggle with adversely, even II no
bone ;remains. His dutYfis.war, ;Hot:sub-
mission; gTumblirg, mott CONTEXT efort,
not resignation; and IL 4 anybody teaches
the contrary, why he is either q fataiist, or
d Reakling, or "a man given to. suggesting
6 counseis OF perfection y as guides for the
everyday life of world in which the man
VINO does not contend is sure to be crushed
down In The endless stampede. Everything,
SAYS the Eng lishman, except death, can De
prevented or remedied, and ought to be;
arkt.o see toll rpcrpptpd 1yhn
gives way the least, even before the ineyita-
IIe:t Success In struggle, not peace, is the
Ensfishman's object; to assert bis own I'M
diyiduaIity, not TO yield to any higher pow
err. So deeply rooted is the feeling that il
The Spectator, which breaches free will
about i've times week, chances to remark
OF misfortune which it believed to have
been unpreyentable that cit taught the les
son OF endurance" 1t is peited with the
cries of Hfatalisn1." and accused Of wish
ing to suspend effort, while majority OIL
Englishmen would utterly reject the Massa.
chusetts Senator's prayer. He was asked
in writing by some impertinent journalist
to explain. also in writing, his views as to q
future state, for the public benefit, and re-
piled, il we remember .aright,, 81 do not
know much about it, and / never Feel Ger
tain, but do in my better moments hope
strongly that T shall 10 toanother world,
where / shall find less friction and no
editors, The Englishmau would have
hoped for a world in which he specially
Should always have strength to overcome
the friction. 4 fs3'-a ~. ~,
So far MS this spirit Is the outcome OF en-
ergy or OF combativcness. against The curat
BILE evils OF the world, 1t has, we need not
say, our most hearty sympathy though we
can see also the beauty for some natures OF
the Catholic notion OF resigned submission
and retreat-but we are not fully assured
that energy is the root OF it all. The
grumbler is not always the worker or the
tighter either, We think weltrace some OF
it, at least, possibly good deal OF it, to
much lower impulse-that passion for
strong that it grows destructiyelY angry
when; anything in:erferes with it
which would punish the heavens for
hailjng, il it could, and which at heart ut
terly rejects the notion that Providence can
be stern. We noticed the strength Of that
passion fifteen years ago, during the discus
sion on eternal punishment, marking with
pain that while the argument which moved
thinkers was the disproportlon between
finite guilt and infinite penalties, the aTgu-
ment which moved the multitude was The
probable and, as it were, motherly kindness
Of the Creator. Since then the feeling has
spread, as we notice, very rapidly, till the
very ideas that law Is hard, that endurance
In faith may be virtue, that resignation is
one OF the highest graces, that elevation
and not happiness may be the OBJ
iect Of the grand plan, seem disappearing
from mems minds. People seem positively
to be affronted with the Divine will because
occur; to be ready to quarrel
with Nature because gas eXplodes in mine;
to doubt all supernatural energy, because on
the earthquake belt earthquakes kill inno-
cent folk. 1t is not. that they believe that
all is love, but; that all ought to be gentle
ness. There ought to be no violence, even
in hurricanes; no .bloodshed, even when
eagles are hungry; no pain, even Wnep
flame has struck on flesh. There should be
no teaching Of endurance but only such
q Development: OF intelligence that there
shall by ana by be nothing whatever to be
endured. - vas - ho2H'1 ..s ~ !, =
It avery geIatiuous creed, all that, and.
one for which we confess we have butscant
respect. 1t is utterly inconsistent with the
facts of the world, and with any conception
any rejecting creature can, form Of divine
Providence. Suppose;We adopt the physi-
cists, theory; reject government by a SEN
tient mind, and believe everything to be
cause and effect, then the faith becomes
positively iudlcrous. Man has then to bear,
without protection from anything but bis
own brain, which, in the direction OF fore
sight, is nearly poweriess, all that is and all
that may be. II science is gospel, heavy
proportion Of pain is as certain as a demon
stration in Euclid. Granted SO many mil
lions Of people, there will be 80 many burnt, |
so many drowned, SO many induced to kill
themselves with strychnipe.: or corrosive
subimate, so many afflicted with .tubeFcle
OF the spine and the proportion may, pn7
der certain contingencies, be Indefinitely in1
creased till everybody. for instance, may
die in solitude and neglected. yellow-feyer.
There is no earthly reason, under a regime
of simple, science, why q whole population
should not.go raving mad why everybody
should not, have hypocondria; why aliood'I
alike should not be stricken, as was the POI
tato,; and all sentient beings die out. from |!
any one country. There is grave reason'to
suspect that that very thing did occur to
the whole. people of Cambohia.l Surely, II !
the scientific l,by pothesis is true-the very
first notion to be taught is the necessity Of
endurance. Of cultiyating that form, Of many
illness which can submit Ito the inevitable
without whining and without wasting men,
tai strength in impotent scratches at an
incoming food, sure, al least,.of this thing,
that man retains control over himself. The