, 1886-03-28

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iod, and the process is going ON
Well, IN our own land, there Is a change
going on. We are undergoing u change that
Ne are In the worst part OF now. We brRg
o ourselves Of being n Christian nation We
coast every Fourth Of July that We are free;
hat we love liberty. I What must the Indian
my about our love OF Justice and libertyi
What will the Italian say in the mines and
'oundries about the spirit OF equality and fair
nance for all menf What had the negro TO
ay on that subject during the long years OF
his bondagei And what has the Monaghan
o say to-day, the Chinaman. on the subject
II this great nations love OF liberty. and love
VI the poor man, and love Of giving every
Oody a fair chancel Tho more intelligent
;lasses sAe this anachronism, and SEQ that
he spirit Of the animal Is dominant yet
TO a very large degree we are indebted for
hese denominations to the foreign element
hat has come among us; and in some parts
If the land to the Irish element that has come
imong us. One OF the curses OF bondage Is
that it teaches men not to understand liberty.
Mncaulny says that the measure OF the OBJ
preston Of the French people is to be found in
the excuses that took place in the movement
by which IL was broker up. How came they
10 be so wild and bestiali If they had been
lightly treated before they would have
broken out that way; and if the Irish emf
grants that come to US are disposed TO initiate
that which they have been subject to,
and having found lordlings stepping down
IN them they turn around and step down
On those below them; largely they do it
through their education, or the want Of edu-
cation; but the better men arc already emery
ing from that, and learning better and bet
ter, and little by little, the whole nation win
do It, We are passing through n period OF
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With our co, 600, 600 Of people, more than
$1,000 900 Of whom were born abroad and have
comew with foreign ideas. customs and methods,
Is II not strange that there is no little of It'll
They have done in some respects wonderfully
well, and on the whole are bringing a class Of
men who, themselves and their posterity, will
add to the strength of the national character.
But at just this stage some things they have
not learned. Do not be afraid; they win
learn it; II is coming.
Now, also, we near the whole land rncked
with the disturbance produced by labor and
capital. When you come to look into that,
there IS wrong on the part of corporations,
and It is matched by an equal amount Of
wrong on the part of those that are asserting
their rights as against corporations. l am
very glad to see labor organize itself. l am
very sorry to see 1t so unintelligent that it
involves in its interior elements despotism
that would dethrone even the czar
Of Russia himself. Labor organized has got
a great deal to learn. 1t will learn it, too.
Organized wealth has a great deal Of human
ity to learn, and responsibility; but it will
learn 1t. We are going through the success
Sive stages of an education and evolution,
and laws and customs will gradually
ameliorate and enlarge, or change, or
find substitutes to meet the rising facts OF
human nature and human necessity, and In
no land more certainly than in our own land.
And although great Inconvenience and great
suffering betides us just now, / am not afraid.
1 love 10 see the barrel work; the leaves viii
60 to the bottom and the wine will be puri-
fed. 1t Is God where God is; there Is
always more or less turmoil, more or
less change; and where there Is
turmoil and change there is more or less suf-
fering. Somebody has invested in every evil;
somebody has an Inherent or ambition Of
money or of lust in evory lower form, and
when you attempt 10 exalt it and make 1t a
higher form somebody squeals, and will; and
though | do not like to hear the note, distress,
| am very glad 20 TEAR that Tn change Is
going on.
That which Is true in all these respects
thus far is just as true and demon
strable on the subject Of religion.
There are a great many persons that are try
ing TO get back into their churches and into
their creeds and lock themselves up there, be-
cause there is so much disturbance outside,
they do not know where things are going to
or what is going to become OF us all
1t Is perfectly natural that they should-and
perfectly foolish You cannot make the year
in which we live initiate the year 1000
years back. Human nature is not the
same. The expression Of mems thought
and feeling Is not the same. Righteousness,
what is itf That is the drift OF the Old Testa-
ment and of the New. 1t is the working out
in human nature OF the divine love, rever-
ence and obedience Of God as expressed in
the wide sweep of natural law and in the
wide experience of social law, and in
the findings out md establishments
Of Justice in civil law. God Is not away there.
He is here; He is behind; He is beneath; He is
everywhere; He impletes all lands,
all breasts; above, below, everywhere.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God"
may almost be said to be intelligent
obedience to all law everywhere; love
through love; sympathy; unity Of soul
"And thy %neighbor as thyself'-that in
cludes in it all social and political economy,
love being the factor, love being the yeast,
and working out in all these things And
righteousness is simply that a man is estab-
lished intellectually and morally on Gods
great central law, and that binds him as much
as IL does the least child in creation
Thou shalt love. That IS righteousness A
man that has learned to love, and conform
upward and outward his disposition and con
duct to the genuine Inspirations OF true
sympathy and love; that is righteousness.
You may call it piety, religion, anything you
please.
Iprefer the old Hebrew term OF righteous
ness'-right living and right manhood. And
we are working up toward that; and like
everything else that is working from a lower
plane TO a higher one, it disturbs< 1t di%
turts theology, it disturbs creeds; it disturbs
mems ideas of churches and Of sanctitics and
Of liberty and Of restriction and bondage.
Everything is changed. As a man
ascends toward the height OF the mountain,
at every twenty steps, looking out, II be
were q photographer, he would see that the
features are changed, 80 the picture that was
twenty steps below 20 and 50, Is not the same
there: and agnin and ngnin clear to the very
summit.
Things are changing simply because men
nre rising, and mainly they are clothing
themselves with better forms, better laws,
better habits, better expressions, better IDEAS.
Amember OF the church comes to me and
says: Mr.. Jones, do you think it is wrong
70 uhhcef Anu ehyt ~ YOU want 70
dancer YES "Well, go ON and dance,
and dance as much as you please, and be sure
to 20 la and get all you can OF it here, for IL
Is going 10 be too warm where you are going
for that sort OF exercise" Another saws:
ANY harm playing carSisf7 Go on aud
play all you can, and be sure and get your
game ended, because it is going to be too hot
for any SORT OF cards in the country you are
going 70 unless they are mado OF asbestos or
something OF that sort. You had better havs
Il all out here "Well, Is there any harm Ia
taking n dramr &c and take a drink, old
fellov. for 1 teu Won xnn viii not only rat NO