New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-31
kingdom Of Judah they were fantastic The scale OF
things In communities like Judah or Athens was too
small, the numbers were too soanty.

thing regards states such as Judah and Athens Is not
that the remnant bears but small proportion to the
majority: the remnant always bears small proportion
TO the majority. The grave thing for states like Judah
and Athens is that the remnant must In positive bulk be
so small, and therefore at such disadvantage. To be
voice outsdehe state, speaking to mankind or to the
future perhaps shaking the actual state to pieces In
doing so, one man will suffice. To change the state In
order to save IT, to preserve by transforming It, body
Is workers Is needed we'll leader-a considerable
body Of workers placed many points and operating in
many directions This nslderabe body OF workers for
good Is what is wanting in petty states, such as were
Athens and Judah. II Is said that the Athenan state
had in all but 100000 inhabitants and that out OF them
but 10000 citizens; the rest slaves. II Is
calculated that tho population OF the Kingdom OF Judah
did not exceed million and quarter. The scale OF
things, say, Is here too small the numbers too
scanty to give remnant capable Of saving and per
pctuang the state. The remnant I'm these casos, may
Influence tho world and the future, may transcend tho
state and survive I'll; but it cannot possibly save the
state aud perpcate tao state: for such work 1t Is
numerically too feeble.
How different Is tho scale OF things I'm tho modern
states to which beong how far greater tho num-
Dersl II Is impossible To Overrate tho Importance OF tho
element introduced into calculations by increas
ing the size OF the remnant And in great modern
states where tho scale of things large 1t does
rs II the remnant might be increased to become
serious power, though the majority be unsound
To enable the remnant to succeed large strengthening
of lts numbers is everything
WHAT Is sAYINGi
Here Is good hope for Only before we dwell too
much this hope. II "a advisable TO mako that wo
have earned the right to entertain H. We have earned
the right to entertain It only when at with tho
philosophers and prophets In their conviction as to the
world which now is the world Of the unsound mIortyj
when feel whnt they mean, and when we go thor
ouclly with them Most Of u.s. "A haye already said,
would 10y means have boon with them. when they
In life and most Of not really with them
now What II saving Our institutions. says an Amer
lean; the British Constitution. says Ensllshman; tine
civilizlng mission Of France says Fronohnan. But
Plato and the sages, when they asked what ia
Of the mproiabeuc4s OF lnQut," And Isaiah and the
Prophets, when they asked the same .ton an
-wcr Ia u, the same cnpct that which Is saving Is to
to do evil and learn 10 do well = TO delight In
the law OF the Eternal" and to make ones study In 1t
The worst OF II that thi4 living Of righteousness and
this dcllAhtug 10 The law of she Eternal sound l"he
vague ~ Not that they vague really; indeed
they lcss than American nstitntions or the
British Constitution. or the civiilng mission OF France
But the phrases sound vague because Of the quantity Of
matters They cover Tho thing Il 10 have DrieI ont
mcut expands the idea of righteousness: In England
and America We have been brought mp IN familiarity
with the New Testament And so, brforc Mr. Brdlnnsh
ON side OF the wafer aud the Congress of American
Fr,ctLiukor your- hlUi,h nom our cdncaon aud
memory. let u- take from the New Testament text
showing what g., that both Plato and the Prophets
mean When ',rcv toll us that ought 10 love righteous
and &" mako our study OF th" law OF te Eteln' bur
OF texts Offer Themselves I'm moment Here Is
which wil' serve very WcU whatsoever Things are
true Whatsoever things are noby serious, WhalsoeNeI
things nrr just whaAncy"r things are pure wn3'sot e
thing- arc HWih', whatsoever lS' aIu o 6ud port
n there boz virtue and n thorc he any paso nave
thc,r iu y"ur MUD, let your thoughts run upon thrc
T.hlrou .u,-- aud making ones study In the law az tho
Eternal Ih' fno'"hc7 anu "lHos Hi S ~, 'a,
the" Wl'i"r-. ana mot the COMPUTATIONS ol Mu'i I'
hrud. Of the politicians are full do really govern politics
aud save destroy states They save or destroy them
hy silent n'Aoi'pr f1thnt{i VINE li. Pv'l,'hs h,'
making believe plLushly and nnlsy, with tbcir Amer
l.au Institutions, British Constitution, and cvIAug
u-..uu 81 France And because these matters arc what
do really govern politics and save Or destroy states
Who alone kept insisting the good " Righteousness
and t'c nabrnCss oil lnluij were the ohy real
politicians then living.
POSITIVE INSTANCES N rLUsTRATioN.
There h, nothing Ike positive instances 10 illustrate
general proposition. Of this kind and 10 make them be
ucycd Ihr.iatc Ia take such an Instance from Amer
lea. Probably there some Of you who think that al
ready on former occasion. have said quite enough
about America without having ever seen H. But win
take my Instances from England, and from Englaud'7
old n,icibor aud co-matT In hl-t0ry-francc. hope
that the union bee tween England aud ireland vi hcroWe
solid that between England and Scotland. Bat ~
viii, not become ,old by 81 the contryaucc, ~ the
mere politician without The intervention ~ moral
causes OF concord healing ne mischief wrought 10y moral
causes of division All m mi, case dcpcnis upon tho
remnant" ~ NUMBER and IT, powers Of action
BY -ccuud iu-tuu,ri IS even important, aud It's
roach Wide that must point a. % with some ite
nlIue,. The question asked 10y the town cck
~ Epbc-u-: bat man Is there that hn""cu not lhat
the tfy Of tho Ephc-ians T. woumppeI OF TIE blCh
poI ulI literature ~ tho French at tli- moment their
popular novels. popular "%.papcts popular s,aEc
iGr .ud,.,-ono Il tempted make goddess ont of
,oul 81 their own and then Ike the town clerk o,
Tphc,ts. io ask; What man l. there That knoNtlh NOT
That tine city Of the French II worshppcr Of t1" great
goodies Iubrcity e. The higher French literature OF h'
,-,ut day has knowledge and moro range than In
great predecessors hut lrs~ souudn"-S and perfection
and % cNcr- much less influence than they did Action
France with the popular 'rlturc I'm The service 81 the
rodIr-- GubIirty. And the popular modern French III
and fIlr 70
and America far better than their predecessors lhy
appcul people arc beginning boldly 70 say, TO Nature
herself
rNSoUNDNEss or TnE MAJORITY.
II r are 10 take the benefit OF the comfortable doc
trnc Of the remnant we must bo capable Of receiving
also and OF holding fast. the hard doctrine Of the I'M
-ouuduc-s the majority and OF the certainty that the
un.ouudncss Of the majority II Is not understood and
p.mcdi,d. must De their ruin Aud therefore, though
even gifted man like NJ. Ecnnu be so carried away
b the tide Of opinion In France where no hNe7 ~ t'
.v that nature cures nothing about chastity. aud to see
with amused Indulgence the worship OF the great god
dc,s Lubcy. let stand Ist and say that Il agnns,
mature, human nature and that 10 r. iuiu For th IL mo
tc-t or it. being against human natue-thnt Tor human
80 II. toad Of saying that Nature nothing about
chastity, let ur say that human nature cares anout u
Great deal and that los her present popular literature
France gives proof that she Is suffering from dancer
in which /. the real enemy of the French so much "A
their goddess and II they mono OF th'm see thl'
gone and the /, much tho worse. lho case Is so
much the worse; aud for men IN SUCH case 10 DE- :"
yrnrmrutN busy about Clcrcai-n. HHd l'SllIHI7l,
OrrnnlI and BouHpnr-t ntrigueS M nome anu au"us
alliance, aud colonial acquisitions ana Phin'a'"SS -,
the dag abroad. might well make ono b"ll'N u' 'y
Prophet. AID cyclnm: surely yo are pCryorsc' Aud
,, tf, iru IN, md inc Shusiibc VI. BlOwiZ, of our
crrnf English Times who rccs every body nud knows
everything when hc cNponnd- thr sp,,,hT "5 po' th
NJ, cru-t OF the fall and success of Ministries ana me
combinations which hive not been ticd Oli Hnpnu n,
aud takes upon him the mystery oi Things ~ tur WY
with which lamlnr-O this wise man hl''t y'lv
/. often tempted again To zay with the Prophets m lct
thc Eternal is and VIII bring cI ana wiz u"t
call uark his words" NJ. BlOwitz il not the ohy MHe
one; the Eternal has IIi- Weldon also, ana somehow VI
other IL f. always IN, Eicnav- wisdom when al d'i car
llr, a &c day. The Eternal has attached 10 CERTAIN Wo
causes the safety the ruin of states ana tho pIcscu
dangerous moral disease. fiji,
U,t Mo- " mn moi think OF destruction Tor agtc win
.l lt aud rracrs as France and which has had such