The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-06-30
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ee-f"AAVacN tuc tHtuiStty anu StuQfcu ihWs 4 OF
opposing the American war be was fined aud
imprisoned by his government. His advocacy
of free trade and of Parliamentary reform
was likewise offensive, and helped to gain him
the character of 8 a political pest, and radi-
cal. Yet few years after his death both
measures were adopted, and Englishmen gen
orally have come to regard the war on the
colonies as he did. Horne Tooke is best
known as the author of 6 The Diversions OF
Purley which is not such dieertiag boob,
as village librarians expected to find it, on its
publication, but "a solid quarto, full of pro-
found genealogical disquisitions." We name
it, not SO much to recommend its use to the
present generation of students, as to suggest
the study of more recent works, by writer's
who have followed anu improved upon Tooke's
method. Archbishop Trench's "Study of
Words" aud g English Past and Present" as
well as "Graham's Synonymes," edited by
Prof. Reed, and many another similar work,
open line of study, that will be found inn
proving and delightful to the intelligent stu
dent, who desires to know more of his moth
er-tongue. 1t is recommended to school teach
ers, particularly. The analysis of words and
study OF their history, will open up trains of
thought and mines of knowledge, quite I'M
dreamt of by one unfamiliar with such pur-
| suits.
June 90, 1909, was the birthday of good
Philip Doddrdge who tells us that his first
| religious instructions were obtained from his
mother, VINO taught him Bible stories from
the old Dutch tiles around the Fireplace. He
became eminent as a Nonconformist minister,
of great learning and piety, and the writer of
nearly four hundred hymns, many of which
have place in every Protestant hymnal.
| Henry VIII, born June 49, 1891, we are ac-
customed to regard with unqualified aversion
and horror, as an unprincipled voluptuary aud
royal Blue Beard. 1t is at least interesting,
sometimes q to hear the other side," even
when we think our opinions rightly and I'M
alterably made up. The historian Froude be-
lieyes there is very strong "other sde," in
the case of this detested Tudor. If we find
no reason to change our present convictions
as to the ultimate character of Henry, the
contrast between his early and later life may
| impress us all the more with the peril of ire
sponsible authority, the harm that comes from
hGgiig ones oon soGy amid the adulations of
weak or interested hatterers. Bad servants
made a bad master" of this prince, respect
ing whom Sir Walter Raleigh said, that 81 If
all the patterns of a merciless tyrant had been
lost to the world, they might have been found
in Henry" And yet, hear what Froude says !:
Left at the most trying age, with his char
acter uniformed, with the means at his dispos-
al of gratifying every inclination, and mar
rled by his ministers, when boy, to an unat-
tractive woman, far his senior he had lived
| lOT tHlTby-blA years dituOSt WttuOub pidiDe,
and bore through England the reputation of
an upright and yirtuous king.
His form and bearing were princely; no
knight in England could match him In the
| tournament, except the Duke of Suffolk he
drew with ease as strong a bow as was borne
by any yeoman of his guard and these pow
| ers were sustained in unfailing vigor by a
temperate habit and by constant exercise. He
| had fine musical taste, carefully cultivated,
i and ha ennka and w rnte N fnur Il ffntant lam
guages. His state papers and letters lose
nothing in comparison with those of Wolsey
and Cromwell. He was among the best ply
sieians of his age was his own engineer !;
invented improvements in artillery and new
constructions in ship-buildng. His reading
was vast, especially in theology. He was at
tentve to his religious duties, and showed
real sense of religious obligation in the energy
and purity of his life. As ruler he had been
eminently popular. All his wars had been
successful. He had the splendid tastes in
which the English people most delighted aud
he had substantially acted out his own theory
of his duty" This, at thirty six. How I'M
speakably mournful, then, his last words,
twenty years later " All is lost
June 20, is st. Peters day, being, it is be-
lieved, the day of his martyrdom, under Nero,
| A. ID. So. His name, perhaps, loses somewhat
of its deserved veneration, in popular esteem,
because of its false association Historically
false) with the claims of the Papacy. Three
| things are asserted or assumed, of each of
which the candid historian smust write mot
prooen." Il. That St. Peter was Bishop of
| Rome. 2. That as such he was universal
bishop. 3. That the supremacy thus enjoyed
| was capable of transmission, and was thus
| transmitted to his successors in the eE iscopacy
of the city of Rome. On the contrary, these
points cannot be dsproved, are, in fact, in
conference.-the. 1. That st. Peters pre-. emil
nence was merely personal. 2. As such 1t
could not be transmitted to successors. g.
| The first five Christian centuries knew moth
| ing of Papal supremacy which, after that
time grew very slowly under favoring politi-
| cal influences, and did not reach it's height
until the second half of the eleventh century.
But Furthermore, SO far as the sacred nara
| tive informs us, st. Peter had neither suprem-
acy nor infalibility.
The power of the keys was given, equally.
| to all the Apostles [See st. Matthew, xviii,
the flock of Christ was given to the Christian
ministry generally as st. Peter himself shows,
! in bis first epistle, v, Q.
| AS for st Peter being above and over the 9TH
err Apostles, st. Paul did not hesitate to
s Withstand him to his face, because he was
to be blamed !" and st. Paul says Of him
self ~ am not whit behind the chiefest
/ VI tuO ApOobiCn.
But St. Peter was a glorious character, born
| for leadership, foremost in resolution and
action, energetic, impusiye, ardent, glowing
with love and zeal. His very faults were
those of great man and we cannot too
much admire or love one upon whom the
Divine Master bestowed so many marks of
His high favour. Nothing in all his life is
more touching than the humility that APP
peared at his death. He was copdcmned to
the shameful, terrible suffering OF the cross,
and led to the top of the Vatican mount for
execution. Here he besought the officers that
no might not be crucified in the ordinary way
but might suffer with his head downward and
his feet up toward heaven, because he thought
himself unworthy to suffer in the same pos
ture In which his Lord had suffered for him.
Happy man." says st Chrysostom, {" to be
set in the readiest posture Of travelling from
earth to heaven I"
July and A, will be, for all time, days OF
national commemoration. On the former, In
1868, was fought the battle of Gettysburg,
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