New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-13

suspicion OF the surrender Of sefsoyereghIy' FarV
whips" would have affected him than tne seoufg
ing he got at Philpp He would never nave oeeh
Republican partisan for morgaslns ones In
teigence and he permitted liens on MS personal estate
Where light and knew he right he would yeid
nothing for the sake OF His opinions were sueh an
integral part OF himself that to submit MS convection
was to give himself into captivity
AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE LIFE OF JESUS.
A stn more moving and tender example Of the same
evnced in the life OF Lord. The spiritual and the
personal in resigned It's kinglhess' lie lived
among things and in the intmaces OF things as certainty
as you do He thTonged by the mutt 1uCssi he
was pushed upon by and affairs OF the times
He was crowded by the demands o His material
nature. Furthermore exposed to the assaults
leyclled Hin from world Of sin and temptation
wound round and round with bad limitations hat
tiled and strained and fretted Him. d that were con-
stantly on the watch TO divide with His proper
sovereignty over Himself He delivered over TO the
cnmlty OF appetite and ambt on. He was loaded with
eanal nature. He made the prey OF the raDoie
and submitted tfrNnplements OF torture uhe deVn
permitted to have his own way with Him and 70
discharge upon any piece that His fertile battery Of
evil solicitation might comprise But no strain that
any where upon Him bent Him. Whatever He went
into, when he came out He was Himself, purely and
entirely; no edge broken border frayed. However
closely contingent influences pressed Him. there was
still eft between them and Him broad margin, that
showed Him in His separatcness from them and in His
sscendency them. He made no bargains with any
thing with anybody entered into no cOmpactsi mort
gagged Jewel in His There was no division OF
authority, suitcase Of autonomy. He was nobody's
but His not against His Heavenly Father, do
not mean. but against contemporary influences that
tried to compete with Him; against tendencies that
sought to trepass upon His personal domain to rayage
the territory OF His free spirit, and to humble 1t To
provincial dependence upon foreign power. All OF this
estnes ~ the unabridged sesoyeregny that nhered in
His spirit, and gives glowing opportunity to what
the true and prerogtives of spirit when at its
best really
We shall be sure to act like things unless we are
agow with consciousness and alive with a power that
puts US at distinct remove from things We not
denying the lmitedness OF OF authority
only insisting that within certain limits possessed
OF authority that is such In fact and in sembance only
and that within that aea-smal but privileged
be absolute God Himself in the authority where
with lie rules the universe at large where God
Himself-I 1t In all reyerence-where God Himself
choose to NEEDLE. That Is the only platform
that be laid that is sufficiently tnbered to hold
the doctrine personal responsibility. II account
able for acts 1t is because determine acts
You knock a clock to pieces for going wrong but
can punish 1t for going Punishment means
that the criminal absolute sovereign within the
domain upon which the act was crimnaly performed
and that 1t a king thot he performed the act
Personality is inherently royal; 1t is kinglness done
up in small packages. and is bound to be kngy. to
behave in exercise Of kngness and to cultivate the
consciousness Of kingliness. 1t is in this respect
already seen that Lords life furnished With eX
ample so noteworthy He in particular TO have
been spared those assaults and attempts at invasion to
which humanity regularly liable "Tempted I'm all
points like are, says the Scripture And yet from
the beginning to the end He betrays first symptom
OF capltulation. pickets never driven in. He
kept distinct frontier No foreign influence is detected
as being on the edge gaining leverage Him. 1t is
given US distinctly understand that temptations
by Him temptations but they were never taken
into conference seat assigned them at the
council board. You appreciate instantly the difference
In or bct Adams
the Garden and Lords temptation in the Wilderness
Garden the serpent cast the tie vote in the Wilder
ness there only one ballot counted. Christ dealt
coureously even with devil and listened long
he talked him plead advocate but did not let
him sit as juror Christ made up His verdict while
standing distinctly His grounds, and sense Of
knglness saved His becoming slave.
TROUBLE CAUSED BY DRIFTING.
The power OF England Is in part in her nsular char
acer The advantage which she possesses in this pect
she appreciates the systematic opposition which
any scheme Of bridging or tunnelllng, by
which she would become established in Continental rea-
lions (connectons and she become weakened to the point
Of her isolation Where she Is she can maintain
her own character and pursue her destiny once an
solid communication is stretched across the Chan
mel and nsular character Is sacrificed she becomes
a peninsula Of the European Continent and her history
complicated henceiorth with the history Of Europe So
ZACH mans life and history only by his being TO
degree nsular and maintaining life that Is channelled
from Of contemporary life. We are not safe
LII onay frOntlcrcd by q line, defensive
offensive, which competing power ever trinscehd5
where we are oursel simply and wmiXedly and out
from which look upon everything without US as
something that belongs 10 foreign world, and which
never comes close enough shadow upon the
door OF our true nncrmost self Men leave oil being men
really when they be individual bits OF reality each
little sovereign in little empire. The first step which
nan takes in direction Of his overthrow not to
do overt Of evil boat that lies Oh the waters
edge does not begin to wreck by itself
hariu Inv o.
beach and letting the current play with it. II it +
chained the rock harm can come to IL; mischief
begins when 10 half lies the beach and half floats on the
water The trouble with people is that they are drifting
They are the chip on he instead watchtower
on the shore.
When we say that men and communities and churches
have departed from their Old modes Of life and Il char
acter we mean that they have slipped from their old
moorngs they have at no time deliberately doeEled TO
al ancOn former methods Of living IL has not come about
as the result OF lib ration. One has influenced
another his example has told upon that other That other
has resigned himself far forth become the payhlg Of
anothers influence. L do not to partcuat!ze Let
each do his own matchmaking We arguing that
every man should 90 about with armed spirit ard
throw himself necessarily attitude Of antigonls
But when a man been accustomed to REGARD certain
thing as wrong and then comes in course OF une 70 90
that wrong himself having come t. the deliberate
o,clusion that f. is wrong simply be ause he has
been washed down by the tide Ct current thought
or custom that has Just to that degree resgheu MS
kngshp and lecome the playthng OF his generation a
chip on the wave. And believe that 1t Is one OF the
most dscouragng features OF times There people
whom you know and whom l know, AMI whose names we
could speak, whom the justest thing We could say "ouu
be that they are lapsipg. They are slipping. They are
being managed by their surroundings. They are sitting
up on the box spek and span hourtshlng the whip and
manipulating the ribbons, but they are In runaway the
horse Is doing the driving We are not crucising the
things they do we are Only ertesng the fact that they
are nothing but heap sand piled up against the Atlantic
and the pulse the tide Is ploughing into them ana
converting them from coast line into sea-bottom
SUGGESTING A USE FOE CASTLE GARDEN.
The steamship companies have recently been making
vigorous protest against being Obliged to receive on
board their vessels immigrants who have been barred
from landing at the Barge ONCE under the new law
They complain that they cannot take care OF such
foF their return trips The immigrants can easily
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