The Irish standard., 1894-04-28

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J eternal home. The "ship OF state"
Ifreighted wit, our fondest hopes an,
! anxious fears for our country prosper
GUS future. No honest and thinking
man can be Indifferent about matters Q
religion, which instills "the beginning o
wisdom" "the fear of the Lord" int
the heart of man s'The fool saith in hi
heart there is no Cod" Intelligent, citi
zenship demands that thinking men
bashing in the sunlight Of human free
dom, manifest honest and intelligent &C
tivity in the affairs Of the country.
| "Breathes there man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own. my native land?''
| Man is composed of body and soul
the immortal. spiritual and nobler part
and the material, temporal and morta
element. 1t is his destiny that both
should work tremendously for their mu
tual benefit and welfare during the brie1
span of their earthly existence. Body
| and soul are distinct from each other,
yet they are not separate. Separation
means death, while complete recognl'
ton of the distinct claims and duties OF
each means temp raj and eternal bliss
for both. While, therefore, the best in
terests of either body or soul engage our
thoughtful attention, we cannot we'll pro
mote the welfare of the one utterly un-
mindful of the needs of the other.
Chr st entranced the souls of his hear
ers with the musical cadences that &C.
compsnied the words OF heavenly wis.
dom, as they fell from his divine lips
during his sermon on the Mount. His
kingdom was not of this world. He was
called Emmanuel, for he came to save
his people from their sins. Yet be had
compassion on the multitude, lest they
might faint on the way, for some OF them
came from afar off, and he provided food
for the furnishing five Thousand.
The duty of religion is to instruct, to
enlighten and to lead the soul OF man to
higher and ncbler ends. Religion must
not only point out the way by which
men may clearly see how humanity may
attain to better things. But religion
must also, by constant encouragement,
by gentle admonition and timely sug-
gestion influence men to follow in the
bright and inviting pathway, which she
has made luminous and attractive. -
The benign and wholesome influence
of religion soon "renews the face OF the
earth" enobles and elevates human ma
ture. No honest and devoted adherent
of true religion can fail to give evidence
in the nobility of his outward appear
ance OF the sweet charm which religion
reflects in the human face. The busl~
ness of human government is to care for
mans temporal interests. But govern
ment, whether of the town, village, CITY,
state or nation, must concern itself about
the temporal interests of man as he is
an intelligent, sentient being with an
immortal soul, an eternal destiny, a
capricious will, an independent spirit,
varying moods, violent passions, evil in
clinations, good impulses, strong, pref
udices; often the slave of vicious habits,
the victim of hereditary vice Or the pro-
duct of accursed environment and cruel,
pitiless circumstances Any system of
human government, whether local or ma
tional, that contemplates mon rather as
sentient machines than thinking beings
is unworthy of it's name and should sur
render it's impractical authority.