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Show 106 THE GOLDEN II UR. is too high to be sati ·ficd with what suit an Au.trian. Cen tun·e s o f 1. .., ·111 an<l ·unshi.ne arc not wa. Led on the <AI (. ... • V·l llCyar d f God ·where nations of men clunb to 0 ' clusters. Therefore, althono·h the country ·was never so disturbed before in its in11necliatc interests, it was l . 1 . tll"ll now This snn<lcring of a great Con- never 11g lCl '" • . . fedcracy, -this panic fuJlcn upon a.1l onr matcl:u11 tutcr-e ts - thi division of the large ehurch bo<lles,- all 1 tc L~l fy g1 o n·o tt·s ly ho\v larob ·c a price a young nation is ·11· t y r01, a 1)rinci1)le. N ver 1norc fitly coul<l \Vl Ino· o pa 11 (. it be ;allc<l a cho:cn people of Gou than no·w, ·wh en it says, "y cs, we arc ready to pre ·s o~lt. even _into a for~y- years w1. 1d 01· ness , followin<r the gu1U111g ptllar of Lib- b . erty, whether it turn to us it. fiery or 1t clouded S.l .u1 0 1. " The cannon' s roar to-day, then, proclain1s Liberty rauiant in the heaven . A..n1crica is a .. ailed only he-cause she has turned fron1 ~ lavery, an<l pre ·cu for-ward to touch the vc turc's hcn1 of Frecdo1n. That was her only cri JUC. rrhen let the prophets be stoned ; let tho 0 who proclain1 that the axe n1n.-t and shall be laid to the root of the tree be slain, and the head of Radicali ·n1 be brought on a charger to the llcrodias of Dcn1ocracy ! \Vhen the V oicc in the \Vildcrncss is hu ·hod, the Voice in J crusalcrn breaks out. llcrc, then, in our Dial of Growths, is ih0 first hour traced,- the nigbt .. hade of a fatal an<.l ignoble peace in the mid ·t of critnc closes. Far nobler this blood-red flower of war ! TITE DIAL OF GROWTH .. . 107 Again, I sec fast closing beneath tbc glo\v that old athci n1 which has fancied that thi world ,vas not governed by the laws of God. It \vas said by l\fr. Gladstone, that "the king of ieily had reduced athcistn to a sy te1n of govenuncn t." That k ing n1ight ecrtainly, at any time in the last twenty years, have sued tho United States govcn11ncut for an infraction of his patent. And the govcnuncnt was so because the people were so. W oulcl a people C\rcr drca1n of disregarding habitually law.· in \vhich they hart faith as involving interests of life auJ death ? \Vould they cat poison ·, launch ship without con1pa .. sc ·, leap over pl'ccipiccs ? That is just what we have been doing in the real world,_ the worl<l where gravitation tak s the fonn of jus Lice . And Y.OW co1ncs the ·cvcrc experience \Vhich shows us that the Golden Rule i not only a n1oral Lut a phy ·ical law; that these iuri ·iblc laws which arc called moral arc not abstractions, the violations of which arc to end in a grand scenic display of Zamicl with red Hght in the future world, but laws which encircle the world above and bclo\v, an<l govern it infallibly in every in 'Lant; and that no 'vrong is without i ts penalty on the mo1ncnt. Our nation' crime is to-day i ts own retribution ; the stain on our flag ha · bcco1nc a plagnc-spot on the body. An<l upon those in our land who 1nost abetted the \\Tong the rctri!Jution i~ heaviest. There were sundry atheistic iustitutions in our laud, calling thcmscl vcs Tract and ~fi ·sionary ocicti "'S : these, |