The advocate., 1892-02-03
THE OLD AND THE NEW.
o the Editor Of THE ADVOCATE:

ments grow old, and by natural law tend
to decline and decay. Partizans and
sectaries always preach the immortality
of their peculiar party or church forms.
The history of the worlds reformations
furnish no instance Of reform accom-
plished within the precincts Of the old.
Hugh Miller, in his Testimony Of the
Rocks" found proof of new creations at
the end of each of his geologic days in
accord with the genesis OF earth, OF
which 1t is recorded: ain the beginning
God created the heavens and the earth;
God said, let there be light, and there
was light, and the evening and the
morning were the first day" No devel-
opment of the old into the new, but the
old dies, and from its life germ springs q
new organism. Except corn Of wheat
fall into the ground and die 1t abideth
alone" A thousand years ripened the
old world into It's harvest OF iniquity, and
the deluge covered it out Of sight. Noah
bore the germ of new aud better order
ofshings. The Hebrew kingdom yielded
it's life, and outside the gate the Christ
united the Jew and GENTLE in new re-
liglous economy. The sixteenth century
marks the era of the ROmish hierarchy,
and Luther bears the germ of the new
protestant faith. The English independ-
ent outside the state church planted the
seed of civil and religious liberty In the
new world. The Federslist, the Whig,
the Republican, and different types Of
the Democrat succeed each other, each
yielding it's life, and followed by q new
political genus. The struggle between
capital and labor is the rock on which
the old crafts are drifting, and the air re-
sounds with signals of the coming new
order of things. God is in history, and
his resources are infinite. Churches and
parties are moved at His will on the
chess board of nations, and are mingled
in the story of the worlds progress. The
Mayfower bore to New England the
germ of civil and religious liberty, and
the Dutch fleet landed on the banks OF
the James river the nucleus Of a slave
oligarchy. "The sum of all Villianies"
threw its coils about the nation, and In
trenched itself IN the laws of the land.
The heralds of the gospel from northern
and southern pulpits prostituted the
scripture in the defense Of the system,
and "Cursed be Canaan" was the doc
trine born in many Sanctum, and pro
claimed through the land. Phillips snd
Garrison, the Lovejoys, and Sumner and
John Brown chsmpioned the cause OF the
oppressed. They were egged, and shot
and caned, and hung; but when the CUP
of our iniquity was full, God, in a bap
tism of blood, cleansed away our crime
We did not, nor could our honored Lin
coin, under the constitution, emancipst'
the slaves, but when God had "WhetteC
His glittering sword" then came thu
military necessity" and the decree wa
signed. As old as the pyramids is tn
sigh of the wage slave, and the commsnc
of the Egyptian task master repeats 1t
self from age to age, "Goye, make bricl
without straw; gather your stubble from
the fields, and fulfill your daily task, TO
no straw shall be given you." The oil
Egyptian sweater is repeated the chris
tian cities of this christian land. Ha'
the christian church, north and south
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