, 1886-05-23
MIR. BwEECHER'S SERMON.
OUR INSTITUTIONS THE OUT
GROWTH OF PURITAN WISDOM.

Brooklyn, May Mr.. Bsecher was 10
have made this morning n special plea for
the Indians, on behalf of the Woman's Ma
tional society for tho amclioration of that
race, but the sermon turned out to he an APP
peal for all the variou races and peoples who
go to make up our population. and he in
voked Christian tolerance, education and
care OF all OF them He even saw something
worth cultivation in the Anarchist after the
lay sh III have relieved him of his little
bomb, and after he has had his eyes
opened to the fact that our free institu-
tons furnish a better liberty than lie
can give u, with the weapons born of OPP
preston. The presence of Frederick Doug
lass. who was shown with distinction to the
pastors pew, where lie had declined to
embarrass Mr.. Beecher by sitting twenty
five years ago, seemed to further inspire tho
preacher to n culogy upon the capabilities of
tn, African race for advancement when
fairly treated, and the Chinese were treatei
from an nnti-sand-lot point Of view.
Mr.. Bcerher spoke from Genesis XII. l-3:
Now the Lord had said unto Ab~am. get
thee out of Thy country, and from thy kim
dred, aud from thy fathers house. unto a
land that | will show thee: And | will make
of thee n great nation, and l will bless thee,
and make thy name great, and thou shalt be
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thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and
In thee shall all families Of this earth be
bles ed -
THIS promise, said Mr.. Beecher, might
well he said to have been made to the Puritan
settlers OF this land 1t certainly has been
fulfilled. In thee shall al the earth be
blessed. ! will make thee n great nation. In
thee shall al the families of the earth be
blessed" That is the generic history Of the
Pilgrim and the Puritan civilization.
1t WINS the institutions that were the ont
growth of Puritan wisdom that created our
government and laws: The most complex,
subtle and difficult government in the world;
and by that token, the most evoluted, for rs
things unfold, they grow more and more
complex, and grow away from simplicity
ard toward many lranched development
They gave to us local government; the
things that belong to men Close by to
be under their supreme will; yet in per-
feet harmony with the national government
They taught men how it was possible that
the commonwealth might dwell together
Complementary. while the ~neighborhood
was perfectly independent, They planted
on these shores. and in forms so well fitted
md W tn idcns so thoroughly seasoned. that
they have teither warped nor cracked nor
broken the combination which sets our gov
eminent apart from every other ono on
the face Of the earth; or in all time
the unity Of the whole OF the people
in regard to things hat concern them
alone in their neighborhood. together
with the authority and the power of the
things that concern all the people and not
m%ercl, the PEOPLE of a neighborhood. In
every town hip in New England they took
care of everything that belonged TO that
f,v.HAffr. lint tho Naky EnU1auH common
wealth took charge of those things that were
common to all the townships; md 1t was but
another step in advance of that idea when
the national government was formed,
by which was given to it authority
over all those things that belong
to all the states in common, re
serving to each state, as the state reserves TO
each county, and thu county to each town
ship. the lhings that belong to TINT particu.
lfr ocality alone. And SO we have gained
the two things through these Institutions
that the world vent in travail for thousands
of years before IL produced. We have gained
local independence with national power and
community. 1t was a very simple idea, but
it never had any birth before; never had any
body, or certainly none to speak of. until it
was developed 10y the Puritan wisdom and
the Pilgrim wi dom; the Pilgrims were one
set o. men and the Puritan another, but
they both agreed asreSpects the fundamental
81 mc1ts Of state building.
III /, after thesn distinctions that the ma
Il, n # the earl to-day are ( -eling. France
is not staggering along her road of improve
ment because she does not want lib r v. but
/ ecau e she does not know how to institute
liberty. She is looking for machinery Of
government. And YOU cannot take the old
,prinss and wheels Of despotism and work
them into the machinery of n free govern
ment Of an intelligent people. 1t is after
Just This division Of local independence
and lis appropriate power, and yet unity
in tn. national or imperial government.
that Great Britain now is feeling.
At a t it has dawnol upon Gladstone; and
nfter two or three hundred years he has
foun | out what the Puritans meant. We
have been living in this meaning and in the
fruits of it. Even he, as cur conscience and
our reason oftentimts neels nuxiliaries to
stir 1t up. Col has kindly sent spurs from an
al iacrnt is and, and has stirred up the heroic
G ndstone towork, and Parnell, half Yankee
ami half Irish, had got the idea from
the blood OF his ANCESTOR, and he has
inoculated Gladstone with it, and at last lie
disccrns the light. and he Is feeling after it,;
and whether the fools will let hin develop il
or not yet remains 10 be seen. but 1t has goi
10 lt ucNtApf ell. anu wien luhl Jay comes
that imperial Great Britain shall have put
on the institutions that havs been proved,
and proved in civil war and in all forms OF
destruction. md will be proved in all forms
now OF labor troubles, and of every other
kind; when that Is achieved for Great
Britain, it will be achieved for all Europe.
While Gial stonc will nave the credit OF max
ing the beginning there, our ancestors on
that side. the hampd ms, the Pyms. the Mil
tons, the Pilgrims and the Puritnns. had vet
the haho unborn, and brought him TO
this wilderness, that when born he
might not be devoured by the rude
dragon OF oppression. Now the result of our
fathers schemes aud devices. organizations
has been the fulfllment of the promise OF
Abram: in thee shall all the nations be
b css d America to-day, North America.
stands . essing NIL nations OF the earth: and
the prophecy has only begun to be fulhllel
Our exam l. Of prosperity has stimulated
the anil ion, yea. oven OF semi
civilized nations. Such continued hap
pin . Tor the average OF human hap
pines is greater in this nation than in
any othe nation on the face OF the glote;
les oppress on, less poverty. less distress OF
every kind NOR, "A edon for the individual,
moro fI,eiom for the state, more wisdom
than n any other nation. We need not be
vain; W. have 80 quite enough faults TO
balance. 10 a considerable degree, tho other
sid Of the box; but, nevertheless, as it Is
seen abroad, Amcric. to-day is the champion
nat on OF the whole world.
The consequence Of all this has been that all
the river Of the earth emp y into America
I he emigration slmply is something nmaz-
ing | know not with how much accuracy
the sta ement Is ma e. hut It Is made, that
We have to-day with I Q sixty millions Of our
That unre-t oil Combinations.
True delicacy of flavor with true efficacy
oi action. has been attained in the famous
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