The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1880-06-11
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thefoundation than tke xoundatien upon
the roof Nearly al, iS not quit slide
movements which have changed The
thinking and determined a. nep eepsxex
81 the world. have been upward, not
downward The great revolutions have
generally been Graded i, hangers Christ
himself began with the people He spent
Bit little time among the Jewish I leaders.
FIe set value Oh human nature Of which
men had never dreamed H taught that
the common people though rongh-elad,
rough-worded persons, were YET the hos
lest. perfectest, pufest persons that the
earth could show.
When the world had been sllrouded ina
darkness for thousand years, and Lu-
ther appeared 81 the stage 70 act a new.
partsin the drama Of life. he appealed to
the people and not 70 Popes, Cardinals,
.Archbishops and Abbots and although
these laid their heads together to- devise.
every means for his suppression, he had
touched chord in the hearts of the peosss
pie, and the success offthe reformation
was assured.
Cromwell and the Puritans inaug urated
movement which ended II the English
Revolution, ard England was snatched
from the side Of absolute and universal
monarchy, to become the most powerful
support. and instrument of civil and relig
ious liberty.
If Christianity had done nothing more
for society than torescue woman from 4
state Of degradation, and assign to her
that influential and honorable place which,
in every christian country she holds, it
would scarcely be possible to over-esti-
mate the benefits conferred BY it on the
world. You do not need to be told that
females amongst Moslem and heather
nations are either toys Or drudges Think
for moment Of the difference between a
family circle in Turkey or New Guinea,
and an English 81 American home, and
the home is the crystal Of society, the
nucleus Of national character from that
source, be- it pure or tainted, issue the
habits, principles and naaxin1s which gov
ern public as well as private life. What
ever institution effects the peace, order
and strength Of home ties, strikes
at the root Of society and the peace Of
States. Infdelity isl the deadliest enemy
of society. because It blots out the prin'ci
pies Of virtue and affection upon which
the home is. established Who doubts
that nations, like individuals, arc indebted
to christianity for all that makes life en-
joyable, prosperous and secure Il IS the.
Plymouth Rock Of American liberty. Our
.toiling millions ought strongly and widely
to be told that the much slandered relig-
ion Of Christ is the Life-tree which alone.
bears leaves Of healing for the nations !;
that the only remedy for their degrade
ton, want, and woe, lies in the regenera;75|I
ton Of their character that then, and
only then, will ours be a land, where viz
tue sits at every hearthfre, and the sons
Of the soil have3become the childrei, Of,
God #S.s
The annals of the past minister hope.
for the future The traveller pressing.
through the tangle Of a forest Of Wading#
through the mire Of a swamp, is hours
reaching point which 4 bird would have.
attained in moment, and almost with a
single dart Gifts wiring, Even thus hui
man depravity has Simpeded human adj
yancement, and the ground traversed il a
thousand years has not equalled what a
race Of pure beings would have accom-
plished in. single age. Nevertheless,
slow and concealed, progress is the law
The very clamor, and passion, and battle
around Us minister hope.
The millions of1every land are yearning
for that they have not. Let the war GO.
on war never to cease until every vassal
nation is free, every Pagan alter crumbled
every woe sof the world remedied, and
every inch Of earth won for him whose,
right it is.
1 Grafton 1.-THE Anglo Saxon Idea Of
Liberty. ~. G. Pearre.
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