Year: 1874

the number who will subsist upon the
government will, at the most, be not mora
than three millions. This is a gratifying cir
cumstance, as earlier advices had prepared US
for q much larger number AS an Immediate
measure OF relief the government will issue o
loan OF fifty millions of dollars, of which not
more than fifteen millions will be needed at
the present time. Lord Salisbury says that
no ''fine calculations" will be made in dealing
with India. The amplest powers will be
given to the Viceroy, and the resources of the
Empire will be strained to rescue millions %
Hindoos from the despair and misery which
have overtaken them.


AS to the future Lord Salisbury believes
the best plan to avoid famine will be the con-
struction Of more extended railway system
and the foundation of plan Of general irriga-
ton. If this could be attained the railways
would enable the authorities to send food to
any point, and the irrigation would secure
crops whether the rain fell or not. Lord
Salisbury promises to bring comprehensive
measure covering these two points before Par
Lament at an early day Few things are cal
culated to appeal to the imagination more
vividly than the spectacle ofa Cabinet Minister
on On island in the cold Western seas govern
ing an empire on the other side Of the world,
and the extreme anxiety of the Anglo-Saxons to
save their Oriental fellow subjects from this
sudden and extraordinary calamity. We might
criticise English rule in India harshly, and
never with so much propriety as now but we
prefer to see in what Lord Salisbury and the
English people are doing the nobla side Of
British character.


Spirit OF the Pulpit-Easter EIoquence.


AS will be seen from our graphic and full
reports Of the churches yesterday, the Easter
spirit prevailed everywhere, and the day was
truly season of love and rejoicing. Easter
is one of those feasts which appeal to oil sects
and sentiments regardless Of minor dstinc-
tions of faith. For as cornerstone of
Christianity is belief in Christ, so the story
Of His resurrection is one which appeals to
every heart with all the poetry and pathos Of
the Gospel Old Trinity was decorated with
all the Easter emblems, and st. Stephens was
o mass of flowers and light and beauty-a
new world of harmony and praise. Rev. DR..
Dix officiated in Trinity. The sermon was
preached by the Rev. Mr.. Houghton, who
compared the triumph of Christ in bursting
from the dungeons OF death to the triumph Of
Christianity. The same sentiment inspired
DR.. McGlynn. who addressed congregation
of about seven thousand souls in st. Ste
phen's, In Brooklyn Father McNamee, at
the Church of Our Lady of Mercy, dwelt
upon the festival of the Resurrection as
one of joy and gladness We saw that
the spirit which nailed the Saviour to the
enemies as His own love for US. In st.
Francis Xavier church Father Dealy preached
on the same theme, in which he made glow
ing apostrophe to the Church which for eigh-
teen hundred years was always suffering, yet
always conquering. The Catholic churches
especially celebrated Easter with unusual
pomp and rejoicing, and the earnestness which
found expression in the eloquent words Of
these divines was seen in all Of their services.


Even the simple, democratic pulpit plat
form of Mr. Beecher bloomed with flowers
yesterday. The eloquent and celebrated
divine was in fine health, his genius and piety
seeming to emerge with renewed lustre from
the clouds which have lowered upon them.
His theme was the Easter story of Christ's
resurrection. Life was career Of develop
ment We were not miraculously lifted up
from our original state of sin to sudden pos
session of oil the blessings of piety Christ's
own earthly career was one Of progress-be-
ginning among common laboring people in u
COW stable, and so ascending to the right hand
Of God. Where in the world was drama
more sublime than this history beginning
with Bethlehem and ending, SO far as earth
was concerned, with the resurrection? We
unfold in this world, and do not suddenly
burst forth in our growths. Men of low ami
NAL propensities who attain higher life
blessed by birth and fortune. Let us all begin
this life by encouraging unselfshness and
noble deeds. Every act of this kind will be
triumph. All such victories only lead us to
the moral resurrection. The family is the
foretaste of heaven, and the choir of the earth
is not the monastic choir Of St. Sistine or even
the anthems of Handel and Beethoven, but q
mother singing to her babes and the babes
responding to the mothers love.


The sermon of Mr.. rockingham will be
read by all who admire scholarship and taste.
There is cold and classic beauty about the
eloquence of this clergyman which contrasts
strongly with the exuberant and luxuriant
genius of Mr. Beecher. One reminds us of q
snow-clad peak in the cold winter sunlight;
the other of the rush of Nagaras waters or
the eternal roar of the seq. Like Mr.. Beecher,
Mr.. rockingham described resurrection as
process rather than an event. Spring does
not come in day, neither does resurrection.
Int IL does come An eloouent Swedenbor-