Year: 1879

the sef-inncted calamity that weighs as an incubus
most heavily upon many OF the Southern States.
They set themselves in the solid array of their own
unanimity. as IL the multiplication OF their weak
could furnish a product OF strength II. on
the other hand. ceasing to rely upon their
in the fellowship of the whole they would
permit and encourage Intelligent opinion IN
where else in the Republic, and thus form alliances
and sympathies will the national sentiment of the
country they would soon feel the currents of new
and powerful vitality quckening every fbre OF their
social frame. revivng their dropping and exhausted
energies stimulating their activities. filling them
with the ardor and JOY OF returning health and hope
and mparting to every tissue OF their system and
structure the rich nntriment OF an abounding ma
tonal hfe do not doubt the coming OF that result.
later. aud am willing patiently to wait for
it; tor otherwise should despair of the Republic.
1t will when forgetting the shame and humilia
ton of the past the people or the south shall drive
passion and prejudice from their usurped places and
liver them from the insane deluson that those who
fought to maintain the government against their
beon did 1t not because they loved their country,
but from hate to them.


ABOUT SOCIALISM.


The labor question--of the rightful relation ana
mutual rig hts and obligations of capital and labor
bo settled by political action; or ut least it
not ready for any such settlement yet. AS long
the principle OF competition by private contract
recognized by social philosophy as reguatve OF
industrial relations the law has done all II when.
as with MS. 1t breaks down tho caste of hereditary
establishes that equality of opportunity which Sc
to every individual oil that he according





his without infringing upon the cqunl right of his
neghbor. 1t is the race of diligence open to all.
without discrimination and without conditions.
where speed and bottom win. where tho weak and
unframed fall out and are distanced. some
iaw law" can n' do no more than rs an inpartisl
judge keep free and fair field, clear obstruc-
tions and let tho winner win. If. however, in the
course of industrial progress tho principle OF COM
petition should be superseded, in whole or in prr
and that OF cooperation be introduced in its
stead the law will fill ts Office in shifting it's provis
ions recognize and enforce this Organization
OF industry But or one thing we may be quite sure
The system Of social philosophy which would con-
vert the political State into an unlimited co-opera-
tive society. in which tho government should be tho
solo proprietor OF property and the sole employer of
labor, and which. therefore, necessarily subvcrts
the institution of private property and the idea of
the family can never prevail in this land until at
least, tho poop OF America And themselves sunk
into gross materialism, without God and without
hope in the world" But have faith in my coun-
has governed and guided them thus far. and be-
lieve that He will not leave Himself without witness
in their hearts and homes nor in thcir institutions


HAVEN RELIGION.


Bishop Gilbert Haven in delivering an address on
"The American Name" spoke in eulogistc terms of
General Grant as the great American dcliverer."
He said:-This great military leader showed equal
wisdom in tho council with that he had exhibited
the field. Some who dumb praiseful before
his military genius vocifcrous against his admin
istration Yet the future historian will commend
81 as q to r
serve nation which he had saved. The martyr
President had lett drunken imbc :lc In power; OBJ
stinate, unreasoning, unreasonable, with only one
saving quslity-devotion to the Union. Under his
bewilderng administration cvery onward movement
stagnated. Congress kept busy fortifying itself
against the Executive Only the presence at the cap


al OF the nation deivcrer kept tho public in pence
The splendor OF that height of national sovereignty
and human equality which attained in the ad-
ministrati0n of Ulysses s. Grant will be yet IL
lustrions wrigge at the base Of the mountain
from whose summit have descended in vain
scale its heights and bask again in its
shine. even the fosming writhing. idiotic
mouthings Of the weak lad possessed with the DEVILS
from which no thor himself nor his father, nor even
him, contrasted painfully to the three apostles with
the glorics of the Mount of TRANSPORTATION.


WANTED CHRISTIAN CONSTITUTION.


The last duty l shall mention prcparativc to
making the United States of America the Union OF
America is the definite Characterization of the
constitution. This country In not TO spread over
this continent except by the will of God It is only
In and through Christ that IL can grow and prevail.
the continent. Our sntc-kevolutionnry fathers
unanimously and intensely Christian. As sub
jects Of Christian princes they faithful to
Christian nags As victims OF religious persecution
Tho growing assaults on the Bible in public
schools, on the Christian Sabbath vcrything
distnctivey Christian would grow weaker and then
cease, II this rightful duty done. 1t must be
Ia joining with infdelity. that may be cast into
Ruch slough of hell to compel to call that
iniquity to come and save Tho increasing
tempt for tho Word OF God and the day of God, tho
increasing desecratlon Of both, win multiply and
strengthen. until both disappear, unless we stop
now the incoming floods by this erection of the
nation into . confessed Christian Commonwealth.


After dinner the speakers were Professor g. B.
Northrup, of New Haven. on "Highcr Education."
and A. s. Hatch, Of Fisk Hatch, New York. on
National Finances


A severe thunder shower prevented further exer-
! cses at the park. The attendance was large.