Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-30

was not written by the laws of grammar
and spelling, but according to those laws.
The child might count the beads on the
wives in the frame, but the master held the
frame. AS we do not determine the
course of our lives, we did not determine
upon what wires our lives should be strung.
1t was not our hand that held the frame,
but Gods hand was behind the wool. 1t
was time that we should quit speaking of
the pen and talk about the penman.
WONDER NO. 2-NATIoNAL DELEoPMENr.
The second modern wonder was the self
reformations. This follow the cause of
intercommunications. Within thirty years
Japan had abolished her feudal system, and
reorganized her army and navy, her post
Office and her schools, upon modern sys-
TENS. There was now free teaching of
Christianity in the empire, and the govern
ment promised to established national par
lament based upon representation. In
Japanese book store in Toxic the lecturer
had found as good a selection of books as
in San Francisco. Japan was the rudder of
reform for all the Orient, and our Reople
should remember that it was Commodore
Perry who first opened the way for this re-
form. General Grant said that in his tour
round the world the three ablest men he
met were Bismarck, Gladstone and the
prime minister of Japan.
China had ceased to be hermit nation,
and in few years the young men now be-
ing educated to take the place of those now
at the head of affairs would see to it that
her people we're not Disseminated against
without reason. The speaker said he had
and been applauded, Notwithstanding the
fact that the newspapers there were bitterly
opposed to such doctrine. The paper of San
Francisco did not represent the people.
They were either owned by the monopolies
or the sand lots.
DISTINCTIVE QUESTIONS IN CITIES.
Every place had its mark of distinction.
In Boston it was a book; III New York,
Chow much are you worth?' in Washing
New Orleans, ''Who was your grand
on?" and in San Francisco "Who owns
your" San Francisco was better than her
press.
With Japan and China ceasing to be
hermit nations, India was following, and
there we're twenty cities in that country
where the English tongue was as much
spoken as the native. Mr.. Cook had lee
tured in these cities, and had good audi
ences who did not need an interpreter.
The trouble with India, and the reason
she did not advance to an independent
position where she could throw off the
yoke of Great Britain, was that there was
no great people, but many people. 1t
would not be possible for her to throw off
the yoke of Great Britain in the next hun
dred years, nor would it be for her good
to have such a thing happen. He had
said this to the people of India, and been
applauded for it.
In Great Britain there were two powers
republican Great Britain and tory Great
Britain. The latter wanted to absorb
Egypt. But she would never become so
powerful in Africa as in Asia.
OTHER WONDERS.
The third wonder was the parable adj
vance of education and democracy. Mr.
Cook said on this point wherever on the
face of the earth he had put his ear on
the breast of the community he had always
heard President Lincoln's prayer murmur-
ed: "a government of the people, for the
people, by the people, shall not perish
from the earth" Great Britain was not
so powerful as an example as our own
country. Even in her own dominions the
people were looking to this republic for
their examples. Australia was more like
America than England. The countries
all over the world were raising the same
questions that we were, and were watching
to see what reforms in municipal govern
ment would be made.
confederation of all the English speaking
and all Christian nations. They were
coming to see that arbitration was the
best way to settle difficulties. They were
working for common patent laws, bills
of exchange, and common copyright
laws.
The fifth wonder was the triumph of
Christianity in our century. In the last
eighty three years Christianity had gained
more than in the previous 1900 years. At
the beginning of the century there was one
of fifteen of the population in the evangeli-
cal churches. Now there was one in five.
The sixth wonder was the current fulfil
ment of Bible prophecy, and the seventh
was the establishment of scientific super
naturalism. Materialism had seen its best
day, and ell the skepticism, both learned
and vulgar, could do little against the
espistle in the New Testament to destroy
their genuineness. He had a world of criti-
cism and pity for lngersoII and Bennett,
the apostles of infdeIity and filth, as he
termed them.