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the Grood Samaritan ? 420 THE LEADER. . ...
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The Grood Samaritan ? 420 The Leader. . ...
420 THE LEADER . . [ No . 319 , Saturday ^
Notices To Correspondents. No Notice Can...
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . No notice can be taken of anonymous communications Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press Of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reao sons quite independent of the merits of the communica-° tion . . .. " We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . During the Session of Parliament it is often impossible to find room for correspondence , even the briefest .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is "by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Abnoij > .
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THE SEBMONS TOMORROW . The Queen , Parliament , and people of this country will specially set apart certain hours to-morrow for rendering thanks on account of the Peace to the Supreme Ruler , and the clergy of the land will be called u P ° ji Jp moralize the war and its conclusion foifTnir instruction . The subject is vast , and its treatment may vary without blame to the teachers for enforcing special portions of the moral ; and we may expect that if some moralists are too narrow in their view , it will
be corrected by the broad instinctive feeling of the great section of mankind peopling these Islands . Assuredly , the lesson drawn from partial issues , and strained to enforce partial truths , will not be respected by the resistless course of future events . As little as the course of the torrent respects the baric of the boatman who has derived his wisdom from man-made canals and aqueducts , and shapes his navigation according to the course which rivers ought to pursue in the judgment of the pedant , not according to
the seemingly wild courses into which they are impelled by the force of resistless and unerring laws . So some of us will be doomed to hear to-morrow of the special favour shown to " this Protestant country , " by preachers who will find it convenient to forget , who will perhaps be too blind to see , that a larger share of immediate benefits has been vouchsafed to the child of the Roman Church , and of the Greek Church . One sect may be purer than another , because it is loss
trammelled by human dogmatisms , and therefore less prevented from searching and obeying the laws which rule us all ; but when the purest of faiths turns from implicit reliance on the source of all faith and power , to contemplate in vainglorious pride some supposed merit or preference for the human part of the faith , the sect , the sight is filmed , the sense is perverted , truth is lost in error , pride becomes humiliation , and the favour , which might have been earned by faithful service , is bestowed elsewhere—the " chosen" are
not chosen , but passed by . Some of us will bo doomed to hear that war is sin , and that wo have only now returned to a stato of virtue : but the victory ia with ua ; the defeat with the people on whom we declared war ; the blessings which the peace brings nro the direct fruit of the struggle . . Nay , there have throughout been preachers of learning and eloquence who have censured the war as a contest waged in . defence of Islam against Christianity—of the Crescent against the Cross ; yet tho verdict is given , if these prophets wero speaking truth , against Christianity and its standard
So perilous is it for finite human wisdom if we anticipate the judgment of Providence ; so misleading to "weak human reason if we substitute the symbols of a faith for the living virtue of a faith , and imagine that we are quit of our duty , when we are faithful to our livery , though heedless of the principles whose champions that livery should array . If these Christians were right , they must confess that the divine judgment has been given against Christianity—a blasphemous reductio ad absurdum which shows that their doctrine was false .
We forget the source of our strength , if we forget to return thanks for the glory that has been vouchsafed to our arms , and , forgetting , we forfeit the hope of strength hereafter ; yet it is no sectarian victory which Protestant and Catholic have achieved in defence of Mussulman . We return thanks for peace , —but not with a grudging mistrust because that peace is won in an " agony and bloody sweat , " or verily we forfeit the power to
bless the earth from time to time with fruitful peace , even as lifealternates with death : It is our privilege to w alk to life through the valley of death , and do we fulfil our duty , or increase our life , by grudging the terms of our privilege ? It is our blessing to live in a world peopled by many faiths , some wiser , « orae less wise , but none so wise as we may all become by fidelity to the Power that rules all , wise and simple .
Thanks for victory and glory will be tempered by the memory of those of our brethren whom we have lost—those whose death are the wounds of the nation . But not for them need we mourn . Love must feel the severance , or it would not be love ; without that bitterest sense of death , life would be without its dearest sweet . But the soldier mourns not his own wounds ; and the
monuments of the fallen are the scars of which a nation is justly proud . Nor did they fall in vain . Whatever of earthly blessing has been purchased by this country , they paid the largest part of the sacrifice . Blessed , indeed , in the sense of life ' s sweets , is the life of that man who is capable of dying for his country . Patriotism has no honorary ranks ; and the man who means to le esteemed for the
nobleness of the patriot and the soldier , must mean to die if he be summoned ; and blessed is he , we say , who has that " glorious great intent . " Shall we mourn because we now know what he was ? Because he has proved to us what virtues of old days still live amongst ua ? Because we find the noblest qualities among the humblest as well as the highest ? The tears of widow , mother , and sister may fall to-morrow , and not a few manly eyes will be moistened ; but the nation will rejoice at
tho thought that sueli as they—tho lost ones —were amongst us , and that there are more amongst us still j and in the heart of grief itself will rise a just find grateful pride that the death which awaits us all , was for those—tho chosen—an imperishable test of their worth , a lasting badge of honour to their kith and kin . And so amongst ua , by tho death of otir representatives in tho tomb , shall a nobler spirit survive , rendering the sum of life richer and more assurod .
But there is a groat and Christian moral to be taught out of tho lesson that wo have undergone , and it must find bold and eloquent enforcement in not a . few of our churches . It is not givon to ua to determine what is truth ; at the best , any human sect is but a society of students who have made more or less progress than other sots of men so banded together in the pursuit of truth ; but we can at all events ho sure that we are in obedience to tho Divine law , when wo do our boat to uphold justice and to help our folio wcroaturos who aro oppressed . Who told tho
parable of the Grood Samaritan ? When a Christian inflicts injustice upon a Mussulman , do we extend Christianity by abetting the oppressor , or by defending the oppressed ? In the East we stood up for no claims of the Turk , for no principle of Islam , but for the claim of man and the principle of Christianity ; and what have been the practical results , regarded even from a doctrinal point of view ? We have obtained from the Mussulman a recognition , not of one Christian sect , but of all ; we have won over the descendant of Mahomet , and of Mahomet the
Second , to permit the building of an English church at Constantinople , as a monument of the joint victory ; and we have placed Islam itself in the way to that more developed civilization which is one of the preliminaries of Christianity . Christian powers , in short , threw their bread upon the waters , and it has been returned to them . There is our true glory ; the Crescent begins to do homage to the Cross , because we treated Islam in the spirit , not of another Islam , but of Christianity ; and the result , humbly practical as our purpose was , is something like a miracle at which Constantine would have started , and Peteb the Heemit would have
exulted . But the war has seen our shame as well as our glory , and it is for the preacher to improve that bitterer moral for our health , so that our shame may be the seed of higher glory . Will this duty be performed tomorrow ? In some pulpits . In the pride of peace we suffered the art of war so to sink amongst us that we could not rightly perform the meanest offices in the cainp ; and our own bad scavenging , neglecting the plainest laws of nature , did a deadly work that the enemy was powerless to do . These are the deaths that have to be redeemed by amended diligence among the responsible stewards . We sacrificed our men in divided
councils ; and because a cold indifferent-ism , had replaced a nobler ambition among our public men , or because favouritism set incapacity above capacity , we wasted life and risked our mission . The spirit of chivalry has not departed , for at Balaklava and at Inkerman it was found resurgent in the humblest ranks ; but the inheritors of the badges of an ancient chivalry may ask themselves whether they have done all that they might to keep tho foremost place which they ^^ o ^^ cic-i / l . rw -w-1-ifi . f . lir » r wliilft "the WOl'klMC possessed or whetherwhile the working
; , chivalry earned its bloody spurs in the doomed charge at Balaklava , tho patent chivalry has not voluntarily selected its own liwta for the swaggering charge against public opinion , among tho pensioners in Chelsea , Hospital ; where a Lucan browbeats the public servants amid the gay ladies of the West , in the asylum bequeathed by the thoughtfulnoss of Neli , G-wynne and tho gallantry of CnAitiiJSS to the working veterans of tho English armv ? This ia an exhibition
which warns ua to put our houso in order ; and if the Church do ita duty in rebuking the vices and follies of the day , whero vico and folly do most pregnant mischief—m the high places—tho sermon will not fail to scourge those unfaithful servants who have done less than their share to earn , more than their Him re to tarnish , tho glory for which wo return thanks to-morrow .
The Protocols. - Taia Protocols Establis...
THE PROTOCOLS . - Taia Protocols establish beyond a doubt , that tho liussian Plenipotentiaries caino ta Paris determined upon peace . Tho points thoy resisted wero : Tho uho of tho won ' " protectorato " to doscribo tho privilege m »>' - rondored by Ilussia in tho PrincipalitioH ; M >« presence- of Hinall vcwhoIh of wnr under tho lugs of all notions , ill ; tho mouths of tho
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Leader (1850-1860), May 3, 1856, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03051856/page/12/
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