The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-03-31


we must so often differ. Xsyier served the
Lord Christ ID most unworldiy and unset
fish way, with all the power. Of an intense
spirit and a lofty mature. The Jesuils have
been only a pest and nuisance in every Euro
pean uation, aud the dislike and terror, even,
of the Pope himself. Yet in their foreign
missionary labors they gathered sometimes a
worthy fame to themselves and honor to the
name Of Christ, when they chanced 70 employ
men of earnest faith and holy life. Such was
this Apostle of the Indies.
A native of Navarro, and educated at Paris,
he early joined the Society Of Loyola, and be-
came one of his most devoted disciples. The
king of Portugal, John III, sent him to the
Portuguese settlements in India to propagate
the Gospel. He labored unweariedly in Him
dostan, Japan and the Moluccas, and was
about to sail for China, when he died Of a
fever in 1862, having by bis gentle apostolic
spivit gained many converts to Christianity.
We are reminded That the missionaries Of
this society reclaimed great numbers of saw
ages to civilized aud Christian life in all
known parts of the New World yet nowhere
have the effects of their labors been permanz
ent. Whyp The following suggestion of a
thoughtful writer on this subject is worthy of
consideration, las bearing ON the missionary
methods of other bodies. 1t ought not to be
doubted that the Divine plan for the extern
sion and perpetuity of the gospel, Is the Ma
tional Church by no means, State Church.
Z" Whether it was that the corrupt doctrine
which they mingled with the true. 9th, d.
minished its living force, or whether it was
owing to their having kept their converts de-
pendent on themselves instead Of founding
National Church, it is certain that they could
not maintain what they established, and that
the traces of their preaching have been almost
entirely swept away"
Hugh Blair, D. D.. an excellent Scotch Di-
vine, native and lifelong resident of Edin-
burgh, honored not his city alone, but the
by his writings in the interests Of
religion and literature. His sermons were
translated into several languages of Cont
mental Europe, and won the admiration Of the
learned. His lectures on Rhetoric, delivered
before the University, met with such favor
that the King founded professorship Of that
branch Of literature. In 1762. The century
since has made great advance in literary crit
icism, and produced many able writer's IN the
department that had, until his day. received
little attention but Doctor Blair still speaks
Ia the college classroom, and lives in the
Of many broods Of collegians. We
smile now, at his labored dissertations on the
authenticity and beauties of Ossian and yet
we may almost think it would have been
pleasant TO have been left in the matter, socli
deceised, as Swift hath 1t.
William Wordsworth may not be disposed of
in paragraph and we will only allude, in
passing, to the asserted fact that our own day
is witnessing great increase in the number
Of his readers, and juster appreciation Of the
poems of w. w. 1t was hardly to be expect
ed that the age that idolized Byron could
heartily enjoy Wordsworth. The cynic tried
to sheer him to death. But he has lived, po-
tentially, a second life In the Muse of Tenny
son, Ito name no more) For there is, in the
generations of poets, true metempsychosis,
and the bard that reverently regards his an
cestry, has from them a rich spiritual heritage
There are thousands who will never read the
Lake Poet, yet receive his nectar in the ex-
quisite goblet of the present Laureate. We
imply no servile imitation, hint at no plagiar-
ism, (for neither exists when we say that
had not Wordsworth first sung, Tennyson's
notes would not have been SO deep, so high,
so clear, SO pure as they are.
FOURIER was one of the dreamers, who see
the evils of human life, and think they see
bow all may be remedied by a reconstruction
Of the frame work of human societys He is
the father of modern socialism although he
would have worked revolution and reform
without violence. The Phalanstery, his ideal,
was attempted in France and in America, in
several places and various forms of course
only to worry the founders, waste their means,
and then fail. Hawthorne's Brooke Farm
exhibits Fourier's dream on its prettiest, DO
etical side. But Utopia has not yet been dis
covered.
The only way to realize the beautiful vision
Of peace on earth is, in connection with the
other parts of the Angelic proclamation, GLORY
10 God Good soiH 10 men. Strikes and lock.
outs, sandlot oratory and Nihilism, are not
promoters Of the Millennium. Employers and
alike must work by the same rule,
If they would secure permanent prosperity
" Love thy neighbor as myself X.
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