The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-17

 the teachings of Jesus, that while his ultimate aim might be the building of Kingdom of peace, that his ultimate aim was so iuconDict with their immediate purpose as to make his immediate ain their overthrow. They perceived that right could only supplant wrong through destruction.
 It is absurd to suppose the Redeemer would come to a wretched and sin-cursed earth to establish kingdom of peace, save He first undertake to destroy that which had brought about the curse. To make men contented with bad conditions would be to dwarf manhood and to de- story all high aim. It would destroy hope and blight faith in all good. Take, for instance, the tyranny over conscience, as 1t Is found today in Russia, and 1t Is not possible to bring liberty of thought and speech until first the bands that bind be broken.
 Making of English Liberty.
 To take the opinion of MT. Taine and MT. Hume they declare that to certain spirit which brought about the taking Of a positive stand by men, made the whole English constitution of civil and religious liberty possible. When we find a proper place for this spirit in history we find 1t incarnate in men like Cromwell and Will Hams of Orange, who loved peace and hated war and yet who fougnt wars and killed kings in order to have peace; for the simple reason that peace could be had in no other way. Cromwell looked Charles l. in the eye, and said, Your head or mine," and then proceeded to cut the kings head off. William of Orange marshalled armies, and from the fiat lands of Holland came that influence that not only saved England, but gave to us our largeness of liberty who dwell on these far off shores Every form of cor ruption, if it be gotten rid Of, must be under the operation of the great law that Jesus has laid down in the text. For in- stance, a bad individual is made into good one under the operation Of the laws of grace, but those laws do not operate totally different from the laws of nature. The stony heart must be replaced by the heart of flesh. The family relationship is emphasized in the teaching, and those re- lationships have been made more beautiful in the life of Jesus than in any other. That which puzzles so many, when he de- clares that father shall oppose son, and daughter mother and brother brother, becomes easy of explanation when we ap- ply the law that goodness and trueness. even though they be opposed by blood kin cannot control until badness and un- trueness shall have been destroyed. In- dividuals sustaining certain relationships make families, and families nations The law for the nation therefore cannot be different from that which governs the several parts which make the nation.
 Secret y Bonaparte's Speech.
 Possibly one of the most appealing speeches made in the last thirty years was that made the other day by the Sec retary of the Navy. Mr. Bonaparte when he spoke to the youths assembled from all parts of this great country, and made a plea for simple honesty, because he knew that dishonest individuals will. in the end. breed a dishonest nation. and that dishonesty can only be gotten rid of by putting honesty in its place; or, In other words. that the safeguarding of the na- ton is not in saying '1et things alone that there may be peace;" but in the using of a sword for destruction. that afterward there may be real peace. That his plea is not in vain may be seen from the fact that from Massachusetts to Missouri. and from Missouri to the Pacific dishonesty and corruption have lifted their heads high to the public gaze.
 Senator Mltchelrs Conviction,
 One of the most significant happenings
 in our political life in tIe lifetime of the present generation was the conviction the other day, by jur.'. of Senator Mitchell on the ground of dishonesty and bribery. Nothing has so emphasized the determin- alton for righteousness to be established in high places than just this act. The people are coming to see that not only the kingdom of God, but the kingdom of man cannot have peace when 1t un- dertakes to bring peace in the midst of corruption and death. The lie must die at the birth hour of truth, and dishon- esty must hang its head shame-faced in the presence of noble honesty. There has been a tendency on the part of both the pulpit and the pew to believe that the kingdom of God would grow faster in the world by compromising with the world, and that meaningless. but pious- sounding phrases would do more to over come wrong than a manly and straight forward condemnation of wrong. This governments foundation was laid by our fathers in the everlasting principles of truth, righteousness ard love. When these are all ignored, and we seek to shift to the foundation of intrigue. dishonesty and hate we have come to the building of the house on the sand. and when the floods come and the rains descend. mighty will be the fal- of 1t. No man, no fam