The daily gazette., 1880-02-09
The TsosubIe, IL ireland. i.
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In the course Of his sermon abont
'Ireland's Troublesv last evening in
the First Presbyterian Church, Rev.
f. B. Du Val said that the Word Yof
God was intended to meet the needs
of communities, and sections as well As
of individuals. When properly. dis
seminated in peoples heart, it irnpels
them to look to the good of the whole
world; If this were nottrue there would
have been no mission work, But the
Bible not only, does this, but takes cpg1
nizance of different rulers and differ
ent classes and kinds of rulers. -
"What is the trouble in Ireland p
asked the preacher in the outset.--
There is a great famine in the land.
Something, then, must be wrong If one
years failure of crops can bring three
million people 70. starvation, and that
wrong must be violation of scriptural
truths. Ireland now has rainy day,
and the cause Of, the distress during its
progress is that nothing has been laid
up in store for 1t. She should have
enough laid up npast years TO prevent
starvation fora one year, and such not
being the case, something must be
wlpng In her political economy. We
should examine the condition of things,
find the cause of the trouble, and avoid
it ourselves. .'f 70
The Irish people, to use homely
term, live very close TO the wind, and
lay nothing up. And the reason of
this is plain. The land accumulates in
the hands Of few, who live abroad and
are not identified with her interests,
except to draw their revenues from
the property. They constantly take
away, but give nothing in return. Po-
litical economy teaches that a country
must grow poor if there is constant
out go and no income. England rules
Ireland and ought to rule her wisely
and well. In the eyes of God, a king
Or prince should be the shepherd OF
bis people, and should care for them.
And for this reason the Prince of
Wales has no business to go to Paris
TO attend the whirls of fashion, when
his peoplesare starving for want of the
money he spends in that City of Sins.
The Queen should also aid them. She
has often been praised almost as much
as God himself, because she gave a
charitable gift of $500. What is that
TO the Queen of England, with her
enormous revenue p.u In Ireland the
condition of affairs is such that poor
man cannot get a home. The land is
reserved for a few who hold on to it.
This is wrong in, the eyes Of God.
Speaking Of England, John Stewart
Mill has aptly illustrated the natter
by saying that a man there "has noth-
ing to gain by an increase of industry,
and nothing to lose by an increase OF
idleness." 1t was the state of affairs,
thus described, that brought on the
famine OF 1846-47. 80 oqa
The reverend speaker now turned
to another wrong, viz; That.of estab-
lishing the English Church over the
Irish people. against their win, Eng
land essayed the same thing with Scot
land, bht they successfdllyiesisted the
faith they could not receive. Ireland
surely had a right to worship God as
she saw fit, SO long as the worship was
proper. Scotland, in resisting the un7
Just effort of England took the matter
upin debate and vanquished herop1
ponents. Not SO with Ireland. Her
men took up the sword, and put to
death the Pfotestants in certain neigh
borhoods. This led England to put
over her a force that would compel
submission, and to continue the sub
lection, hard laws were framed. The
unhappy result of those laws is vividly
revealed in Ireland to-day. an.4 '1fs
Another great thing lis Ireland Is re-
ligious affiliation to the Church at
Rome. Daniel O'Connell in 1841
started for Rome, and died in Geneva
lie was taken on to Rome where the
rites were gone through with, and the
body returned To Erin. 1t is today,
Ireland's heart is at Rome, and her
body at home. These three things
the unjust religious action, the unwise
land laws, and the subjeetion TO the
Romish Chnrch--are the causes of the
trouble In Ireland to-day. - ..
In Ireland there Is a pauper to every
fifteen citizens. When the common.
condition of a country is this, what
else than great distress gan we expect?
And the question arises, what can we
do about the matter. TO meet pres
ent needs we can certainly send the
sufferers food. But more than this,
we can consider the wrongs and cure
them if possible. Men should have
homes in Ireland as well as in sAmeIi-
ca, and the government should be 80
that justice and right could be ineted
out to man. The minister went on to
argue that the plan of aristoc,acy was
wrong, and was thing to which God
never gave His sanction. He not only
did not sanction this but also kingly
government was opposed to His wishes.
Attention was called to the immense
amount paid to the Queen to support
this system, and Sir Robert Peel was
lauded for his great and good work in
aiding the Irish nation. In closing the
hope was expressed that the day would
come when England would see the
wrongs, and right them. od.,L td suaA
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