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Tous les autres exemplaires originaux sont filmis en commen^ant par la premiere page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustraiion et en terminant par la dernidre page qui comporte une telle empreinte. Un des symboles suivants apparaitra sur la dernidre image de cheque microfiche, selon le cas: le symbols —^' signifie "A SUIVRE", le symbols V signifie "FIN". Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre filmds A des taux de reduction diffdrents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul clich6, il est filmd d partir de Tangle supirieur gauche, de gauche d droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images ndcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 ^' - %'■* g i>t»«j!»y«<«'".^M r.:»iito!o:»* 'i^' ■; ' LKCTURB, DtllTdrod In ths Ohuroh of tlio Btdeemer, S41if&z, June 80, 180!7. r. 8., The nntional grandeur of Britain is mviheme. In those days, over all tmiy^ritish Empire, the very air IH charged with jubilant voices ol f)itriutic pride. We are upon the eve uf a national rejoicing upon so vast a scale that it assumes the rank ol grandeur and the features cf mag- nificence. The ro\al splendor and pageanty of this Diamond Jubilee will be centred in London, but following the sun around the glot)e, ancient colonies and vast dependencies will continue the acclamations of loyalty and swell the magnificence of mate- rial display. The torch of patriotism will be passed from hand to hand, and land tu land, and Engliiih speech l>c taxed in glowing phrase to tell the glories and the virtues of the Victorian age Nothing is lacking to make the Jubilee the most splen- did celebration of national progress under a single reign the world has ever witnessed. At the recent coronation of the Czar his empire was ransacked for material to make impressive the scene, and sttiking the occasion, but wide and varied as arer all the Rus- sias, they are poor beside the sour- ces of all zones and all latitudes that will contribute their quota to this august Festival of Britain's Queen. P.op'e from all these possessions will go up to London to join in the mighty processions, and take part in the functions of the day. AIniost every type of mankind will be pre- sent as a loyal s'uhj ct of the Sove- reign. Dusky Princes from the Orient, Premiers from stalwart col- onies that girdle the globe, and ac- credited nobles and distinguished citizens from every nation upd'er the sun, will be there to take part in a celebration that has no equal in the annals of history, and will never be repeated in the years to come. 'I'he Queen acts 5»ith a deep sense of the htness of things, when she desires a patriotic demonstration oa a scale as grand ISHier domain. Na* ture herself almost^calls a halt on this threescore line oNloaj&ucceigftil rule to mark it as one of me grand epochs of human progress tke the f?i7 closing of some geological period. For a woman, while yet m the blos- som of girlhood, to receive the re galia of sovereignty from a mighty people, and th^n for sixty unbroken years perform the duties of her great office, is of itself without a puallel ; but when we add that m all that lapse of tinie she has worn the pur pie without a stain, then our admi- ration is added to wonder, and ven eration to respect. She may fairly exclaim with Bonaparte that the "nobility of my family begins with myself." Fortunate woman, to live through so many decades with un- failing prosperity and marvellous growth of every element of national strength and perpetuity, and still eager lo witness this jubilee of un feigned loyalty of a united empire. She will at last rest from her labors when her *Mong days' task is dune," but her lame will live on, embalmed and secure, in the hearts of her peo pie, and the annals of all the world. If this Jubilte had no other signi ficance than a personal compliment to a successful sovereign, we might well claim . that a less expensive function would have answered the ends of leasonable respectful courtesy, ment is vastly mere tacular entertainment public eye, or gratify a royal vanity It is A loyal response of the British empire to the desires of a Sovereign who wishes to mark with appropriate demonstration what mu!>t be near to the high tide '^f her reij|>n. This step ii di tated by no vu gar ambi- tion or unworthy pride. While she has not brougl^ • about the great changes of the last sixty years, that have mad$:,iURw world by imposing new~«ont)itions of human life, yet she has so deported herself that art and move loyalty This than a sptc- to please the and sdence and invention, and re- forms of every kind, have had with- in her realm a royal patronage and a hearty support. Whatever the future may hold, there can be no sixty years again m which the powers of the human mind applied to material research and invention can so touch the world with far-reaching consequences as the last three score year^ have done. It is within the bounds of sober boasting to say that Britain has been no laggird in the nintteenib con- quest of nature. She has furnished her proportion of mighty rnen in every branch of science and art, and every realm of research. What is better still, she has been wise enough to appropriate the best results of all her labors, and enrich the national life by every new won fibre of strength the modern world could furnish. The strongest proof of this large claim is deeply writ in the mighty strides of prosperity that nave marked this single reign. The spirit of the age must have fertilized the life of the nation with a new energy, to have it bring forth so abundantly of the best fruits of this unparalleled epoch in human affairs : Let us for a moment refresh our memories with a backward glance. Sixty years ago, Britain was a firat cla&s national power. Her col- onies were planted in all quarters of the globe. Her wealth was ui- matched. Her ships traded in all oceans, and her navy patrolled the seas without an equal. When Vic- toria was called to the throne, her rule in the U.iited Kingdom extend- ed over 26 million people, today there are 39 millions. At that time, the total annual revenue was 52)^ million pounds, now it is 112 millions. Then the yearly value of I'jl ■ Hrfl all her exports wa< 42 millions now it is 34a millions. In 1839, the whole amount in the Savings Banks was \g millions, placed there by 598 thousand dupusiiurs ; now the sum is 155 millions deposited' by 8 and one quarter million persons. For every letter st-nt in the United King.iom, in 1836, now there are twenty two posted, and for every newspaper sent in those days, now there are twenty eight. Since the accession of Victoria, ttk: new territoiy added to tt e realm is a sixth larger than all EurofM?, and her empire now embraces 21 |)er c-nt ot all the land of the globe, while her rule extends over 402 millions of people. When Victoria became Queen* Australia was but little more th.in a penal colony, with a population of 350 thousands ; to- day its capital city contains 500 thousand people, and the trade of Australia exceeds that of all great Britain sixty years ago. Within that period, more than one third ( yield deadly products instead of the elixir tf life — Thus much for Rome that we may make sure that there is a form of national grandeur as transient as passing youth or rosy dawn. We are often told that Rome was ruined by wicked rulers. We, too, have had Henry VIII, and George I, and many another royal rascal, and Britain has survived such accidents. Rome perished of sheer violation of moral principles on a scale so great that there was no sufficient resistance to be offered to check her downward career. Right ^ousness exalteth a nation, unright- eusnessdttstmyfi it. ^hc law is in- lejcorable. ' The brawny • arm of •Caiesarism is but a puny prote^it to its operation. "Scrptre and crown must tumble down and in the dust be laid," when armed might tran»ple8 on unarmed principles. All was not lost whon Rr»me was lost, iho lesson remains. There is nothing for human nature to r'o but try the experiment over aj;ain, equip- ped with better opportunities than ever before. If mankind is ever to rise above savagery, then there must be social compacts and nations become ncc- tsbiiies. The State must not only have the right to command, but the power to enforce her judgment*. She must have armies and navies, and treasuries of currtnt wealth, and permanent improvements and natu- ral resources. Mritain has all of these. She is endowrd with power and dominion be>ond the largest ex- pectation of her statesmen of a few generations ago. The length of her great strides in the direction of pow- er, may be roughly measured by the fact that sixty years ago her annual outlay for naval txpenses was four million pounds, and now it is twenty two million pounds. The army cost in 1835 eight millions, and now it is eighteen millions. Il all I could say ol the national grandeur of Brit- ain lay only along these lines of force and national strength, then we might as well fear lest her day of doom was hid in no faraway future, and some Gibbon, yet unborn, wtuld write the Decline and Fall of the British Empire. If the fuundations of her material grandeur were not built into something that comes of higher use of human talents, and loftier living than Rome had practi- sed, then we might well abate our jubilee and let "the mourners go about the streets I" If all her con- quests yielded no higher trophies than ftrll to Rontan swords we might well despair of a longer lease of Power, than has fallen to many a nation, that has been struck from the roll of the living, and left us to infer thtir national grandeur fruni the magnificence of their ruinb. Even now, groping in the palaces ol L^y'iian Empire are expeditions of European and American schol.irs, eagerly following the pirkn and shovels of swart Arab diggers, as they break into the libraries and royal halls of once powerful potent ates, whose tame once filled all the Etslern world, from the Nile to lar he)ond the Euphrates, and that too, lung, long before Home was found- ed. Everywhere in these silent ( hambers of dust and death are the boastful inscriptions oi Babylonian kin^s, running m this wise **1 am the iii.ghty king, the powerful," or this, *'( am Assurbanipal, King of hosts, King of Assyria." On numberless tablets of clay, on cylinders of stone, on blocks of alabaster, are inscribed the conquests ot the^e powerful monarchs, the subjection of their eiiemies, and the extent of their em- pire. Alter an eclipse of more than twenty centuries, the light of day, struggling down with the stroke oi Arab picks, into palace h.tlls and temple sanctuaries falls again on "winged teraphitn and creatures crowned," that once were gods to millions whose names have perished forever from the earth. But their kings did not forget to patronize learning, encourage industries, ad- minister justice, build astronomical observatories, worship the gods, re- pair the temples, and preserve the poetry and the annals ct the nation. I will not stop to inquire deeply into the causes that overthrew these |)owtrful dynastic*!, silenced their -| lan^u.igt*, and buried e\eiy ves(apeL- of iiKindiiiental pride and national spltndoiir in the deep dust, till a dis tant age, in new born tongues "asks wht re the fabric stood." Leaving out of sight the matter of charged conditions uf commerce, as factors in the fall of Babylon, we know that she was profanely wicked, "l»y merit raised to that bad emin- ence" where she became notorious among the nations of her day. It may be urged that skeletons like this should not be intruded upon our natioi al banquets. But in all sol)erness of judgment, we are bound to learn ^ome deep lessons from the past, tor our guidance in the future. Experience in the brute world is stored up in the form of instincts ov inherited habits, that give direction to their actions in conformity to their kind, but man has been cut clear Irom such lowly leading stiings, and invested with the privilege of using any or all experience in the in> tetligent guidance of his own con* duct. Warnings arc potent agen> cics in the voyage of lite. Ttie light houses, beacons, and fog hornt are as useful on our coast, as com* pass and chronometer. A sunken nation or a stranded commonwealth deserve the keenest scrutiny of our best statemanship. Says John Ruskin, "Since the first dominion of man was asserted over the ocean, three empires have been set upon its sands, — the thrones of Tyre, of Venice, of Eng- land. Of the first of these great powers only the memory remains ; of the stcond, the ruin ; the third which inherits their greatness, if it forget their examples, may be led ■\^ 5^^ i it ■ ■ i through prouder eminence to less pi- tied destruction." Not shall lead, may be led to destruction, says this distinguished Englishman. While we need not feur the tide, we must take note of its movements lest an unperceived current prove more fat- al than wind swept seas. The ele- ments that have proved desiruciive to national |)ermanence and prosper- ity are nearlyall within the human heart. While many have Ueen the changes in some portions of the world m two or three thousand years, still human nature remains nearly the sam^. Nebuchidnrzzir was very much like the German Em- p;;ror, especially when it came to royal prerogatives. On that level the distance tro4n Babylon to Berlin is but a step or two. The events that proved fatal, long ago, to a great state, might come dangerously near to repetition. We need not be cowardly, but the bold- est Prudence looks both backward and forward in shaping the course o' a nation or an individual. Britain is blessed with wise coun- sellors, and the horoscope ot her deiitiny has no very alarming signs. Her star is in the ascendant, and Providence seems to have predes- tined her for a mighty mission in the fortunes of the world. This is no partial estimate arising out ot narrow patriotism or a devouring jealousy of other nations. That England should have become the heart of such an empire, is ont: of the surprises of history. If in all ttie world of mankind, there are more striking indications of Pro- vidental workings, 1 know not where to find them. No man o( antiquity ever suspected that the seat of the most powerful state the world had ever known would be found on this obscure inclement island. Almost two thousand yeari ago, the most eminent nf living men landed there from a Roman ship. Beyond a horde of pauited harhari- aiis, whom he brought under the Roman conquest, Julius Caesar saw in Britain nothing of interest, and merely mentions in his works a few paltry incidc;nts of the place and the people. What if now, that amnle and acute brain was resurrected, a.id CtBiar could stand in the focus of this jubilee procession ? Surely he would say t^iat this march of events, this consumation of mightyand varied interests in a world wide nationality that has taught one hundred million people to speak her language, and touched the ends of the earth with beneficent agents ; surely he would exclaim, this is designed by the gods, 'et us fall down and worship them ! A map of the Empire would here show him thai the sun never left it all in darkness. Statistics would have made known hor advancement in wealth and populaiion ; he could learn that her naval fleet is so enor- mous ahat three other nations can- not be named whose naval strength combined could match Britain's squ idrons ; he could learn that her commercial marines have an unpre cedented monopoly of the carrying trade of the world ; that her factories are running over time, and her na- tional debt is rapidly decreasing I Never In all her history has the nation been so powerful and so prosperous, and yet one need not keep his ear to the ground to hear the warnings of the British press, and learn from other sources^ that a sense of uneasiness is in the air. In- ferior nations like wolves can hunt in packs. Britain has excited the cupidity and the j alousy of ConU- 7 inclement iand yeari living men man ship. >d harOari- under the Caesar saw erest, and )rks a few ce and the lat amoie ected, a.id i« focus of Surely he of events, and varied nationality ed million uage, and earth with he would i the gods, lip then) ! ould here vet left it cs would ancemcnt he could s so enor- tions can- strength Britain's that her an unpre carrying factories her na- icreasing ! has the and so leed not to hear sh press, :Sf that a air. In* :an hunt :ited the )! Con.i- nenial Europe. Ihere is the more than muttered thieat of a European Concert with England left out ''Isolation of England" is the carreni phrase. "They hurl their taunts, their oaths, their prayers. The snarl of greed, the growl of hate ; 1 hey spit upon the cloak she wejrs. Or grasp its hem to supplicate : But still as though she heard them not. Her anxiouH eyes are fixed afar, Among the cloudM, on one pale spot Where faintly gleams a single star. By that same star she chose her path. For every night in vanished years. Though screened by mists ot doubt and wrath. She sees it still, as if through tears. Then glancing at the fretful horde. Who call her now to bend the knee. She lays her hand upon her svvord And turns her eyes towards the sea.*' Napolean tried to isolate and boy- cott England, and it proved a wretch id tailuri, entailini; vas ly more loss upon his own resources, than it in- jured the objrct of his hatred. Ten inousand times more diffi.ult would it be to day for Continental Eu.opc to com|>ass her destruction without bleeding at every pore in their own dearest interests ' The triumphs of Science and the Arts have woven the interests of the world into one mighty web, and de- spite the ambitions of fire eating war-lords, the world desires peace. I know that political pessimists point to the armament of Britain to prove that after all our declarations of her peaceful intentions, she is an- imated with barbarism, and t quipp- ed with rifles instead of bows and arrows, cannon and maxim guns in- stead of catapults and armoured elephants. It is easy to make an error in judgment here. She can fighs but she prefers peaceful indus- try and thriving trade to the destruc- tive arts of war, and to her g*ory it ca.i bo truly satd, that thfie is not o!ie sphere of beniHcent human ad- II -n in which she has not made .1 noble record in lull proportion to htr power and her pride. The ^reat scale of her wailike prep::.ra- (ions are in proporliuti to her price- less interests, and afe not the meas- ure of any desire to fight. I'he honey-making bees are armid with poison and stings, not for aggressive purposes, but to protect their treas- ures upon which their exi tence de- pends. The stinging apparatus is an index of their danger and the value of their hoard, and nature did not leave them without the spirit to drive their weapons home when oc- casion demands. The stinging de- vise is the response of the bee or- ganism to the rapacity ot bears and other enemies. O.jce in their his- tory, the stings were egg depositor?, and their owners, | roductive females; thus it would have remained, had not greed and hung::r in others, slowly forced them into an armed and social compact. England, as the central element of the United K'ngdom, has no more made her- self, than she has been moulded in response to the attitude of other nations. In the animal, brute king- dom below us, each family, genus, and S|)ecies, has in a large measure been shaped, and forced into certain habits by other creatures. The de- sire and necessity of eating one another has brought fonh armour, and crooked claws, and tearing teeth, matched the tawny lion's hide with the color of his habitation, and whitened the foxes and polar bears to match the northern snows. On the other hand, the desire to keep from being eaten has strenuthened the tenses of smell and hearing, clothed the hares and ptarmigan ikith white in winter to hide them, and all the world abound wiih illus- trations in kmd. The same great law holds with individuals and nati- ons. The geography of the British Isles must count as the commandmg influence. Britain is daughter oi the sea. Nature lovts to cross het breeds and to Britannia came the choicest blood of the Teutonic slock, Angles and 84Xi>ns, h|ursemen and Danes, thrifty tillers of the soil and bold rovers of the sea mingled their blood with native Cchs and older Aboriginal belongings. Had ihia island been five hundred miles from the mainland, there would have been no British Empire. Contin- ental Europe acted upon these ele- ments, and Britain rose to n:eet all emergencies. She became mistress of the seas, because her eneiuie. stimulated her growth, and intensi- fied her energies until she grew to be the greatest and grandest empire in the world. Her national ideal i% one of peace. She prefers to trade rather than fiKht, and despite all talk of txtw-nsive wars, the actual danger is not great, unless the world desires to make havoc of the best fruits of all this wonderful century of progress. The Spirit of the Age, aside from the ambitions of despots, is bent on the advancement of man- kind along the lines of the peaceful conquests of nature. Victoria's reign and the Queen herself belong to a new epoch. The four Georges are as far behind as the Egyptian Kings, who made pyra- mids of their mountains, and mum- mies of their cats and dogs. We have no new religion other than St. Augustine preacned to the pagan Britains, but room has been made for the old faith to expand into practical work alon<< the broader sweep of its native genius. The in- tellectual power that was largely em- ployed in metaphysical discussions of earlier centuries, has been turned in* to directions of scientific research and practical inventiono, that have enormously increased the wealth uf the nation, and the happiness of the people, and revolutionized the constiuciion oi great buildings and railroads, and bridges. In the midst o( the peaceful conquests of nature, that are fast making a new and bet* ter world, it is* difficult to l>clieve (hat the entreating sb.idowmark will be set back on the dial of hu- man progress. A stroke of that kind, at the present, would almost seem like either a perversion in Pio- vidence, or an ar)aiidoi)ment of our interest altogether. Our pruniise oi national prosperity does not rest on any superiority of intclli ct. In tact there has hcen no advance in that direct iun. Greece, more than two thousand years agu, produced the finest Aower of intell- ect, the woild has ever knov^n. — Shakespere, Bacon, and Milion, will wait lon^; lor their peers, if they ever come at all. Our marvellous inventions are not the works of a tew great modern minds uf phenom- enal insight. Others, long goni, have worked, and we have entered into their laC)or.s. We, of this gen- eration, stand on the vantage ground of the upgathered knowledge of all who have gone before us. This ground for the advancements of the nineteenth century has long been in course of preparation. Far back- ward along the weary centuries, the seeds of progress were planted and sown, as nature sows and plants, in ihcy gom, entered (s gen- (round ut aU This of the :en in back- us, the Id and Ints, in faith, in the unsunned spaces in for est growths, with wind borne seed?, with squirrtl!>' stores, and bird strown germ", and, patient, bides her time through lapse of years, till axe or fire remove the trees, and the sun shines on leafy mould and waiting soil, and a new life starts up from quicktned gt-rms, till the waste place IS clothed in varied verdure un- related to the growth before it. The rustic stares at the marvel, declares there were no waiting seeds, and "spontaneous generation" he would call it if he knew the phrase, liut there is no such phenomenon. Every living organism is Irom eggs, or seed, or living parent stem or root. Every idea, every mental suggestion has a lineage running back, till it is lo^t in the social organism ot human- ity, as the tips of the arteries are lost in the capillary citculation ol our bodies. Our long reign of sixty years of comparative peace, has bten like the sun shin.ng in on the forest moulds, and latent ideas have fructi tied in vastest blessings to our race. The fullness of the times has burst upon our century, and our country. Grander than the victories of Well ington and Nelson aie the triumphs and trophies of Peace in the reign of Victoria. Let us fortify our lofty assertion by a hurried glance over the fields of these bloodless con- quests of nature herself. At the beginning of her reign, the light of day was taxed, and the glass windows of the realm brought a million or more into the national treasury, now windows are free, and onr own Fara day took the first step that lead to the electric light, that now shines in palace and slums, like some gift of the gods to the necessities ot mor- tals. It is not only electric light that has heen let in on the people, but the lii{ht of better and more general education has vastly increased with- in sixty years. Useful knowledge has been diffused among the people by schools, and books, and many other agencies of great utility. Schools for the blind, and for deaf mutes, hos()ital and public charities, all on a generous scale, testify to the wholesome sentiments of the heart, while the contributions of science bear ample testimony to the intell- ectual life of the nation. The- con- ditions of pauper life have heen greatly ameliorated by systematic work, through which trained nurses and hired officers are detailed to care for the sick, mstead of the old cruel way of taking such help from the workhouse inmates. The aver- age of human life, as counted in years, has been considerably length- ened by sanitary science, and the average ot human lite, as estimated by the tact that "Better a hundred years of Europe than a cycle of Cat- hay," is immensly more worth living than it was three score years ago. At the beginning of the present reign, only a dozen years had passed since Stephenson had harnessed the first locomotive to a train, and there was but sixteen hundred miles of railway m all the world ; now there is 430 thousand miles, and Great Britain without railways would be paralyzed ahd impoverished beyond all calculation. Compared with the great Cylinder Printing Press of to-day, the best in use sixty years ago were crude machines, and all England proper had but a dozen daily papers, not a single illustrated journal, and photography was un- known, and the first telegraph line was not constructed till about ten 10 years later. Not till Victoria had been ten years a queen, was slavery abolished in the Empire, and she has lived to see it swept from the face of Christendom. Flogging, in the Naval Service, has been set aside. Children are not permitted to work in mines, and the death penalty has been rrduced from thirteen to two, in thib beneficent rei»>n. In this period illustrious names have risen on the horizon of fame, touched their meridian altitude, and declined to iheir western horizon and set in the glory of many achiev- nients. Tennjson, Brownmg, Car l>le, Dickens and Bulwer, Disrael and Bright, and Gladstone : " The Lancelot of our lists, for so long years. It scarcely seems old Time has force This many laurelled champion to un- horse. Shiver his lance, or stay his conquer- ing course." A galaxy of far famed Britains have been, and still are enriching the world and widening the fame oi the Empire by their genius and tal- ents. Darwin stimulated the intel lectual woild by his works, and ad- ded inierebt to every wayside flower, and invested every form of life with a new significance. Lyell turned the rocky strata of the globe, like the tattered leaves of a mighty }*alimpsest, underwritten and over written by the hand of God himself. This is surely a day that prophets and kings desired to see and saw it not. Our men of threescore and ten have been privileged to witness a tidal wave of human ingenuity and resource so complex in its di- versity, so profound in its thought, so fruitful in its wealth, so benefi- cent in its results, that the mind is strained and embarrassed in its ef- forts to comprehend or appreciate the situation. The finest features of British nat- ional grandeur lies not m her great guns and military equipments, but in the triumphs of broad-browed science, and the trophies of peace- ful arts. The great submarine cables threading the gloom of ocean depths, and carrying the messages or commetce and the salutations of good will, are invested with noble grandeur, and are better evidences of national strength than turreted ironclads and Armstiong guns. A great Bessemer furnace in fdll blast amid a pavillion of sparks and flame, furnishing steel for rails, ft)r wheels, (or massive trusses and gird- ers for bridges and buildings, is grander far than the cannon foundry ot Krupp, and tells us how it is that "peace hath her vciories no less reiiowned than war." But here let me say my last should be first. There is a moral grandv:ur of nationality, without which all else lacks foundation and support. Says Eiiier'on, "The truest ttst of civilization is not ihe census, nor the size ot cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man the country turns out. Not only the brilliancy of talents, the glow of genius, and dis- play ol heroism on tented fields and warring ship«, but what is the av- erage moral product of the country ?" That is the question. "What hath the house of Isiael done in the dark," that is the eternal interrogative of God to every nation under the sun. Let it be remembered that whatever there is of principle in the policy of a representative govern- ment is but the expression of the people behind it. The nation can be no better than the units that 11 in its ef- )preciate ilish nat- er great ents, but l-l)rowed >f peace- ibmarine 3f ocean ssages oi itions of h noble vidences turreted uns. Mt • in fim irks and rails, for ind gird- Idings, is foundry it is that no less it should ;randtur lich all port. est It St u<, nor [ps, hut turns incy of id dis- [ids and Ithe av- iniry ?" hath in the )gative ler the -d that in the lovern- [of the in can Is that make it up. Each one contributes something to its strength or its weakness. No man lives to himself alone. Politics, in that light, become invested with the solemn dignity of religious obligations, and a bribed vote, a false return, and a lying pledge of patronage are revealed as so many thrusts at the vitals of the commonwealth, that can have no other perman-^nt foun dation than the conduct of the people themselves. It turns out that disloyalty to principles is more treasonable than disloyalty to a a|^en or a dynasty. Said Wendell fflillips : "You may build your Capitol of granite, and pile it high as the Rocky Mountains, yei if it is lounded on or mixed up wiih iniqu- ity, the pulse of a girl will in tiiue beat it down." Said Pericles of old, "Men are a city, and not walls." Referring to wise laws, our Bible sa)s : "Keep thertfore, and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, «h:ch shall hear all these statutes and say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and unoerstandmg people'" Said Cromwell, "You glory in the ditch that guards your shores, but I tell you that your ditch will not save you if you do not reform yourselves." " Not high-raised battlements or labor- ed mounds. Thick walls or moated gate. Not cities proud with spires and tur- rets crowned. Not bays and broad- armed ports Where laughing at the storm rich nav- ies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts. No? Men — high-minded men ! Men who their duties know, and know- ing dare maintain. These constitute a State.*' Said Lincoln, "Let us have faith that might makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it." To do our duty as we understand it is the loftiest privilege accorded to mortals. National grandeur, at its best, muttt be wrought out along the great strikes and trends of underlying principles that will not fail to make themselves felt in massive features of enduring strength, and curves of endless beauty. This can never be the work of the few, but the many. Nelson presented an aspect of grand- cur, when he exclaimed "England expects every man to do his duty !" Men sprang to their guns on that word, and found a shotted shroud and a watery grave, but the nation was enriched by every drop of their blood. The words of the great Admiral are of imperishable significance, and England still expects every man to do his duty ! While it cannot al- ways be shouted from quarter decks by laurelled captains, yet the words must pass on with earnest emphasis, and brave hearts must respond in every walk of life, for it is always possible to be great even in bmall matters, and amid humble surround- ings, and there are invisible crowns of fadeless laurel encircling brows where no coronets ever rested, and heroes of many a bloodless fight, and saints never canonized. The grandeur of our nation will depend upon such as these, for out of their loins will come the great Common- ers of State, and men of science and art and commerce, and the grand- eur of Britain will be in the moral grandeur of her people.