National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-10
ONE RULE FOR IRELAND,
ENGLAND HAS LIVED A CENTURY IN
THE LAST DECADE.
REV. DIR. Talmago Predicts ireland
VIII Have Home Rule and he rs Free
as the United states-Transformation
of Character.


NEW YoRK, April 9.-Tho Brooklyn taberna-
Gle was crowded tonight, when Rev. DR.. Tai.
mage lectured on home rule for Ireland. He
said During the past week the world has
had Its eyes fixed on the parliament house Of
England amid the most intense excitement
ever witnessed in any legislative body on
either side Of the Atlantic. The prime minis.
Ter Of England has proposed that Ireland have
two houses of parliament, and viceroy, while
at the same time II shall forever be q part OF
the British empire. BY the time that the
minutes Of Mr.. Gladstone's policy Of home rnle
sarrangcd It may be something very different
from which is now proposed. But that Il
, hould find such splendid advocacy aud have
any reception nt all Is proof of progress
beyond anything we anticipated aud
shows that England has lived con.
ury in the last decade. Whether now
or later, whether under this adminlstra-
tion or subsequent government, whether
during the reign Of Queen Victoria or the
Prince Of Wales home rule will be established,
and after that will come another step, although
may rSeg9e nal Se6hny oS 6 ISaSpd Sg
and Ireland will stand TO England as United
States to England friendly, neighboring
power God draws water mark or noun.
tain malk around nations to show how large
or small they ought to be. government may
for while establish this or that or the other
arbitrary line, but there will bo no
permanent peace until nations spread
or dwindle to that divinity drawn water. rock,
ormountain mark. God drew the water mark
around England and Scotland, as much as 10
say: "Lct all this be one natiOu." lie drew
another waterline around ireland. as much as
10 say; "Let all this be one nation" The En.
glish channel and straits of Dover no more
certainly separate England from France aud
Belgium than st. Georges channel and the
Irish sea separate Ireland from England. The
tories and liberals of the house of lords and
house of commons may continue TO fight over
IL for fry more years, but there VIII
he no permanent settlement OF tho
Irish question until II Is settled by Jehovah's
water mark, and some one will rise in parlia.
mcnt much In advance of Gladstone's theory
as Gladstone's theory Is In advance Of Lord
Churchills, and make Ireland as free as the
United States are free. Our declaration OF
that one. may be written In ink Ours was
signed with sword. May theirs be signed
with nothing sharper than pen.
But there are matters nearer home to attract
our attention. The religious bodies OF various
denominations of Christians are now holding
their spring meetings, and one report comes
up from all the bodies OF souls converted aud
churches built and the Gospel triumphant
One denomination this week reports an
average of two new churches built every week.
There Is no sign on earth so sure today ns that
the Christian religion Is going to take posses
sion of both hemispheres lam nightly en-.
couraged, because find among other things
that while Christianity has been bombardcd
for centuries, inndelity has not destroyed one
church or crippled one minister, or uprooted
one verse Of one chapter of the Bible. Ifthat
has been the complete failure OF hostilityin the
past, what may We not expect from the future?
The church is all the time getting Its victories
over our enemies, and their shot and shell are
all gone. / have been examining their ammu.
milton lately. have looked oil through their
cartridge boxes. The enemies OF Christianity
have not in tho last twenty years advanced
one new idea. They have utterly exhausted
their ammunition In the battle against the
church and against the Scriptures, while the
sword Of the Lord Almighty is as keen as
troops into line. They are coming up in COM
panies, in regiments, in battalions, and You
will hear a shout after awhile that will make
the earth quake and the heavens ring with
hallelujahs have noticed also in talking
with people in all parts of the land that they
are getting dissatisfied with philosophy aud
science as n matter OF comfort They say at
docs not amount TO anything when you have
dead child in the house" They tell you when
they were sick and the door Of the tomb
seemed opening, the only comfort they could
demonstrated all over the land thatscence
and philosophy cannot solace the troubles aud
woes of the heart, and they want some other
only sympathetic religion that ever came into
the world. You Just take your scientific con.
ISOLATION into that room where a mother has
lost her child.
Try in that case your splendid doctrine OF
the survival of the iittest Tell her that child
died because II was not worth as much as the
other child That Is your survival of the fittest.
Go TO that dying man and tell him to pluck up
courage for the future. Use your transcenden-
tai philosophy upon him. Tell him he ought
to be confident In the great "to be-! and the
"eyCrlasting now and the "eternal what Is II !"
Just try your characterization on him. Go to
that widowed soul and tell her that II was u
geological necessity that her companion should
be taken away from her. Just as IN the course
TO pass out of existence, and then you go on in
your scientific consolation until you get to the
sublime fact that fifty million years from
now we, ourselves, may be scientific speci.
mems ON geological shelf, petrihed
specimens of an extinct human race and
after you have. got oil through with
not crazed by It'll will send forth from this
hour of prayer and reading. OF Scriptural
promises. the tears will be wiped away, and
the house from floor to cupola will be flooded
with the calmness of an Indian summer sun.
set. There is where l see the triumph of
Christianity. People are dissatisfied with
everything else. Talk about the exact sciences,
there is only one exact science. 1t Is not
mathematics. Taylor's logarithms have many
lmperfections, the French metric system had
many imperfcetions; the only exact science Is
Christianity, the only thing under which you
can properly write quod erat demonstrandum,
You tellme thattw aud twomake four;I don't
dispute 1t, but 1t Is not so plain that two and
two make four as that the Lord God made this
begotten Son to die. But the best evidence Of
the advancement OF the Christian
religion is in the transformation
of character being effected all around us.
That is something that cannot be controyerted.
Lions turned to lambs, desperadoes into meek
disciples, Jerry McCauleys from river thieves
into selfsacrifcing evangels. One such trans.
formed character rose in q meeting and gave
this testimony "0n my way here onight
met man who asked me where was going,
i said i am going to prayer meeting,'" he
said:'There are many religions and think the
most of them delusons as 10 the Christian re-
ligion that is only a notion, that is a mere
notion" ! said TO him stranger, You see
that tavern over there" Eyes" he said, ~
zee it," do you see me-" 'Yes of course
see YOU" Now, the time was as everybody in
this town knows that If had quarter of a
dollar In my pocket ] could not pass that
tavern without going in and getting drink.
AL the people OF jefferson could not keep me
out of that place, but God has changed my
heart. and the Lord Jesus Christ has destroyed
my thirst for strong drink, and there is my
whole weeks wages, and have no temptation
TO go in there, and stranger, If this is a notion
/ want to tell you 1t is a mighty powerful no.
tion; 1t is q notion that has put clothes on my
children's backs, and II is notion that has put
food on our table, and 1t is a notion that has
filed INV mouth with Thanksgiving IN God