, 1886-03-28

VIII, 'hn hci VIII the governments IN
government acts IA them. and don't wa I
any reaction from them on IT. This Is taking
place preparatory, | suppose, 10 u grand
earthquake that will shake down the
whole system. and 1t Will be reconstructed,
but through long periods OF sorrow and Of
distress: and yet, in the centuries, 1t will lie n
wonderful mercy. 1t Is like the blowing Of
an old held-it turns under the grass AMI
roots that rennain; turns under weeds; turns
under. also, the mice nests and the crick, &,
and the IN iects and the sparrows' nests on the
ground; turns them all under; but the crop
that comes nfterward makes up for the
whole; and 20 ihn red-hot b,owshare
Of war prepares for a future, though
We know not how far a future it Is TO be.
In Germany we do not know exactly what
Is TO take place. We know two things-that
God reigns in heaven and Bismarck ON earth.
When Bismarck dies | don't know what the
Lord will do-Aomething very different !
think. though But there Is so much
Intelligence, and there Is such n
dawning sense OF civil libe. ty; there Is
such an e~xpansible force there, that
though there may he a good deal of disloca-
ton and ground healing, yet | think that
Germany, the Germanic stock, out OF which
has come most Of our freest institutions, laws,
customs, will assert itself; long smothered
and held under. after a suitable time 1t will
come TO supremacy.
France, slowly, and Italy, slowly, are,
through gradual reformations, saving them
selves from revolutions Nations may take
their choice-growth is on them. they
cannot get rid of it, and that growth will
produce either revolution or reformation
Reformation viii he slow, aud with a good
deal OF trouble; nevertheless, IL Is safer.
Revolution will leave the nation we do not
know where, and Is always to be avoided II It
be possible.
This popular intelligence Is the worlds
sap. The moment the sap begins TO rise
under the warmth OF the spring sun, that
moment the tree begins TO feel that 1t has got
to do something. The bud wakes up, and
the leaves are getting ready, and the very
twigs themselves are empurpled and chang
ing color, and this popular intelligence. this
growing knowledge OF the common peoplo,
which is promoted by schools all over the
world, by the facility OF books and literature,
by the Intercourse Of man with man,
through commerce, through war, through
everything-the development OF the thought,
power and the %will-power OF the great mass
Of men at the bottom Of society, Is the sap
that is bringing spring and summer to the
human race. And since the sun OF righteous
ness will not go down, and viii still shine,
you cannot stop 1t, you cannot force it.
Now, in Great Britain, which we under
stand better, there seems to be a hopeless
tangle. Yes, hat is TO say, we do not know
exactly. by which way the changes will come.
We know they will come. We know per-
fectly well that there is not going to be in
Great Britain a great while anything in the
nature OF an absolute monarchy. | do not
think that the queen OF Great Britain, though
she Is called empress Of India and queen of
Great Britain, has any more authority than
our president; and to call her queen and
empress does not make any change. The
nams does not make 1t different She Is
simply a symbol; she Is an image. When
you see n fair virgin on the bow Of a ship,
that does not draw the ship; the control is at
the other end. where tho rudder is; and be-
cause the queen has revenue and honor and
certain mild functions, it does not follow
that she is a controlling influence in
the government She is not. Not nearly
50 much as our president is. And
on the other hand, When you look at
the privileged class, hereditary, where men
are born, not to the position which their
talents would locate them In, but to an arti-
tcial superiority. to revenue and glory and
honor and function and power, we know per
fectly well that has got 10 change; it cant
help IL; il will change. We know perfectly
well that the doctrine which Is now cur
rent the world over Is representative dem
ocracy; We know that democracy under
Christian auspices now means this: That
God has given power and authority TO the
multitude. and they give 1t up to those that
are exalted to be their representatives. The
monarchical idea is: God gave kings and
mobiles power, and they send it down, with
their permission, to the bottom OF so
uisty. Things arr turned end for end. The
fundamental philosophy OF the forms OF
government is antagonistic; and as the
modern repre- e~ntative democracy, which we
ourselves in this land have developed and tho
yeast from which has gone over all Europe
and Is working everywhere, US that spirit
works in Great Britain, you may depend
upon IL thst 1t will change the theory as fast
as 1t changes the practice, and the people at
the bottom win send authority up, and the
pcopls at the top will have no authority
to send down 1t Is a dole TO give schools to
PEASANTS in Germany; no charity to give
schools TO our people. They own them; they
are theirs by right OF being born into the
world. Permissions and charters come
down from the government in Great
Britain to the common people. All
charters and institutions and privileges
go up from the common people
in our land. And that silent change which
is exomplfed now in the attempt 10 reconcile
ireland and Scotland with England. by a
certain home rule unity, means this all the
way a ong, at every single stop. that YOU
cannot make a uniform government where
these two opposite principle. ars in an
tagoniSm- We can, because We believe
In this declaration that ON a political
basis all men are born equal; on no other, but
rs before the law and as to privilege and or-
portunity. all men are born free and squat in
this land, and they can make compacts
with each other, and they will stand. We
can elect in one way a senate. and H.
another way a house Of Representatives,
but you cannot do that where the
house Of lords in Great Britain has II
hereditary privilege, with it, immunities
handed down through carnations. They
cannot make a compact with people below
them; people below them say, 1--WE are equal
with YOU and they say, you are not. ard
while they would fam hand down nv a pri,t-
lege, the common people are asserting "a born
right 10 IL, on an equality; and those
principles arc dwelling. And while I
believe reformation will take place,
10 that Ireland will be- a great deal
happier than she has been, nevertheless it Is
an opaRt courier simply; 1t is not peace.
Growth never brings peace; growth always
brings change. They get foot room in order
that they may thrust up Their shoulders
higher and lift everything superintendent
above them that binders.
Now IL would look, II we had
no guiding principle, as II all Europe
were In commissions through misrule and
anarchy. No, no Christ says; II am the
way l have always been glad 10 attach
the idea that He laid Himself down that men
might have guidance by walking ON Him. as
men get guidance by walking in a road; but
when God Almighty has been lying down
and gets up, something has got to change
And He Is getting up throughout
all Europe; and Il is not the unmannerliness