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eaulA murk tike clo * ea £ « & epoch in whkh too protracted a peace bad narrowed tfeft anderstandings and bearta of th& £ ngliah people to grosser and inferior objects * tad that it might be the t ^ giiramg o £ * iwyfttfrt epoch in . which all classes shaalcl "his moM awake ta national feeling' and to jpux suits of which a world may be the ifc& If it were so , we should get moo * out of the coming contest than > tt » defence of Turkey or the subjugation of Russia . In
the moral satisfaction which the English , people' are lffeeijrtsfr earn < mi bt the contest , W- the exereia * of thei * generoug sfcreng ^ they will discover , once again , ttat there ace richer things in the iiniTarge than tlie profit * of u the ledger or the best ¥ a ^ Mey ffi | ft perhaps , its 1 ; h < y altered ebiiurfiDtror jsoxslwBJf ^* 4 *> iXli . -S ... * , ^ ii | , f ^ ^ TlT ^ ' •• tf * . "i' -s ' i ' j fa ¦ ? - f . M ¦* . jtfLft !^ £ tfj . ^^^ K ^^ &X ^< t'V ^^ U > f tuft Sir Tibs pOTBOa ^ alSciSWJr' bIHh ? w ^ PK eSCt l Doeone iwOTnouc Deing ^ vuabscl o * psv ' -1 OJWK " ' ' aonnr ^^^ ^^ r fltavr ^ wr ^ B ^ V ^ H ^ B ^ q ^ VVVV B ^ P * ^ i ^^ V ^^^ V ^^^ B ' P ^ r B ^ r "' ^^^^ ' ^ F ^ ' ^ V ^ ^^ r V ^^ HP ^^^ P * V «^ r ^ 4 B ^ PSHHfl | * ^ B ^^^^^ FI ^ PHV ^^^ p
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strength , possibly" our existence in the world , on the faith of divine law and its ultimate victory ,- —on tfca aide of light as opposed to wrong and to human dictation . It is a cause in which the people hate a jusfe ground to invoke , if not the spec ^ interposition of Pro vidence , at ail eyents that anstainmeiit which is derived from carrying on ? human : action under a ctmsciansneaathatjifc is m accordance
with divine beneficence . A day set apart for reflection , in this spirit ^ on the great course of action before ua ^ ean only be ren dered inopportune by tiae religioua discord wkteh will mark its obferrance , and by the default in the * religious fefttingf of jbhe peopie called upon to obserre the day retBgioiwly . For it will not be obserVed religiotirfy People who are r&leased from , tteir daily duties , in shop or public office , wdttfefemk ,, not of the divine aid , Hbufc of far inferior tlnxigs ;
will resect less upon the great objects of tbe war than bdozi : public g lorification in itt successes \ will calculate in the early part of the day , less the babtnce of right and -wt&a ttaea the bill of fare for ddnner ; wiH , kr the middle of the day , be > absorbed leas in dzvikte confeemplation , lasting , titan hi the eiFpjyment of creature repletiona ; am ! , as ifa © evenis ^ dravrs in , will be in a statesof anytbinte ; "boikhu
A POLITIC-aX SERMON : FOB THE BAY OF J ^ ST JlKB aiTMlXrATIOlf . Xob . b Aobbujjeeit has announced , in a reply to the Earl of < Boden , that a day of fast and humiliation ; is ; to be appointed , in order that the j people of this ^ country may pwt up prayers , specially anA together , for tbe ^ success & 4 otot arms in the approaching contests There m % ht be no objeetiort to the appointmont of suclt a day , tf the people of this coinrfery
were prepared to improve the occasion as l * c » d Aberdeen intends . Differences may erist amongafe u » as ^ o the form or efficacy of flayer ; some may prefer 1 ^ e set ceremonial of the Church of England , or of diffi&penfc Establiahiaeiits r others the impromptu entite&bf : or eibortatioE : upon which' dissenting bodies venture amid temptatibrts of raBsbling thought ; but manj clergymen ins * doubt vi b ® found who , whether accorcJing to fcfee set form of the EatabliBhment , or the diictate « € the h © art at the momesi , w ^ H . f > e aMe to
pesent the ease for the thoughts © f their hcaTer » so m wortMly ta associate human action mi divine law . For that ia the object of prayer , smce men have abandoned the i&en . &f ahi&wmg by particular re ^ aeafe a special int € Kpomtion-of Provid ^ ncew If ever m country had the Tight t& appear with its owk case of action before tbetorone of divine power , England had that right at the present moment ; The contest which we undertake is waged for no- s ^^ eh interest of our own . It is tr ^ ie that in- the endeavour to convince s * onaeof the rrwyre reluctant of our
countrymen , we have shown that English interests are at stake in the * drspositdon of national independence and freedom *; that Turkey is a better' customer for orar convmeree thaipt ! Bius-S 3 a ; and that if ah © be superseded and appro < - ppiated hy the g ? e « ft power of the Worth , ai supremacy wan be established ins Europe dangerous to > our own political existence . 3 But although that is true , th « - intereata at stake aref so infinitel y larger than our own , that selfish considerations are merged . It is
with some satisfaction that we find England capable of national act * on motives so enl&rged . Peace and trade arppeared so » completely to have narrowed the English mind , that utilitarian objects alone , tested hy the results of profit , appeared sufficient to rouse us . Those who occupied the most conspicuous place m pia ? blic openly avowed these doctrines . But the English nation appears collectively to have been better than its more conspicuous citizens individually ; amd the whole country is acting upon generous
motives which her " representative men , " a year or two baek , would have disavowed as ronaantic nud obsolete . ~ We are taking up arms , not to uaak © conquests for our own profit or pride—not to establish our own dictate , whereof we have as witnesses those " nations tliat do nob go with us—not to compel converts to a creed ; but to establish the sacred principles of law and national independcaey . We are fighting to secure freedom of states in self-development . In short , w © are risking our substauce , our
miliation . Sott ^' seriOQ&p&fSQBa , m ^ igedf r wiH work themselves mto > a- state o £ j * ewvi b ** k sorrow amd agony . prepense ^ wiC ^ tftwarda night , sit in sackcloth 4 nd ashee , ^ --iKsti m * dee < J , corporeaBy , forwfe do not iskketUmga nov-a-dayski tha * subitantial and sterling fasfliion , but ' spiritually . They will sifc in tb « moral sackcl < 5 th * n # asfcea of ostenatatimis
abetmence from festivitr j th © coattam «> b « ing the state robes of their 3 eetariaiiprid # , whid exalte them above other r » env ] $ & $ it iffiKrt as a day of fast and numiliation that tK » daj ; cam be turned to accowat for eoutltiny tim ' i spirit of the En ^ K » hpeopfe . The subject , indeedy i # most proper for thet clergy t ^ handtey since * it "is the specwi fu « o iimt of that body to execute the at » dy whic ^ ttte many will nerer noseeasi the- frent t&
accomplish , and' ' to > bring to the multitudiBi wisdom from tn « - stores el knowlfedg « human and dfivine . On . ifeat day moat especially it would ; be the business ^ of the clergy t& throw a ( Hvine light-BFpo «< tb&'path before us . %% mm& churches this will be done ; aaditkose ^ wMos « intelligenee guides them into suck chtrpchew , wiil e © m « awntjr wiser im thmw mtellteefc , and firmer in the support vrMchtkey are prepared to give tG > the nation m its ; jwrt
eoarse . But it is as a day of leisure foe the ov ©* - wox&ed English people , —as a day * efc apftTt for aa English purp < we a * contradia * uiigiaiBhed from individual otr class (^ gectsy —« s a cfay ,, in slkort ? ^ cleared from © tiier pursuito , tend secured for tftw contemplstesix of otur his € ory , that it will hme thef best moral effect . It will remind the tradesman that
there aregreater things-than the * till—thingsi which can avrest the progress of commerce ^ and yet command the sympathy of tradeusi It will tell the working man . ' tta-t there- a * e vicissitudes 1 in the life &i sbeeh&B greatr « r even than strikeB and charfrtfrs . It wilt remind the leiauTely peer that fehe streuafch of Eng " - land lies in those multitudes -whom he will
see paradirag in the streets ,- and ib may remind all classes of our countrymen , that the individual life of the peopl « , with all vita comforts , depends upon : the life of the wbol © nation , and upon the co-operation of ite several elasses to sustaii * the strength of the state . It is » festive occasion of rot unnatural pride in the past , strengthening us for the future , UTider such divine sanction as oiw religious discords and narrownesses will
permit us'to obtain . Would that it were ihe commencement of a better spirit , aa it might well bo ; that it
jw wwmuvm aro j uw ^ gwg j . ihat which Mr . Xuwall has vainly Bought Djr " & mechaitiical " * a % » aM 6 it ntfiij ^ cijtffi ^ 'tfr j ^ ii ^ tnrtmgft in tiff © aittered eostoms' or * th ^ peoj ^ ^ hSnn . thPD |) i [^ s iM ^^^^ ol ^^ pi ^^ lItt various : claaaetf have * tried i to ) bring abouik at toaaon between . En ^ ahmen ^ afl 8 Ufsh > irreapeo tively of rank . . Young "Ruglflnd , Charl ^ Kingaley and : the Chnst £ anr Socialiets , some cf tlie rfifeoi the workmg-classes , : ani othera irt
Mm easily cr ^ siffed , har ^ latwurect vain-ae that wMcfe vi ^ jtoriev « r eom * a < in 45 » l « mitie may bring obowt asf Aatua ^ y tt A& su ^ ce ^ SMiftofjwgk fcanA . dftyi ; - ¦ nvr ^ kt ' n , ^ k ; k ' tHey have Ween negl « ct « d £ their charter baa ; beenr set aside ijj ; tl ^ j fowerynML nidi £ # iicert » to # &ditt to ^ fblbw 1 # w % af io M $ JB ® d » cover ^ that tbey « an seenre tibt \ nk&mk
themselves , tot are the ajport o € -eircumatatJ ^ ev Should the , € Oiite « it . lifi ^ fl ^^| i tJ ^ Mpbably it will—certain State BecesaitieswilV alter these things . Already it is oDserved tfiat sentries are posted , with an economy dictated by the wiaitr &' * M&W ft ^ fi&M ^ dfifcevsi have beeoratf faisiH *( f in Horn 'Strtf * t « j andf for a titoe th « f arnay may be fcept uprby that proeesBof recruiting . But the ( Jrattmg of our armies away ntust at la ^ t leave ua short of defence . : * ;
, That' defence , the people itself cangive . There are politiciaD * in tbi& country , filled with an ; alarming , idea that-Napoleon HI , ia working upon , this calculation—that he ia enticing ovtr- armies abroad ,, in order ta enter with bia into England , and to avenge Vfafap-, loo in Waterloo-place . The idea , would hawa been : mote nditurai many months "back . But even now it ia only an , exaggeration * of a truth y forf although we do not suspect the
Emperor of the ? jfoenofy , and do » not dread him if wfr did suspect binv i * i » J 10 * * hat England should remain imdefeaded . She cannot remain so : if her armies ba gone , her people musfe be cadied out ; and then that true charter , tbat true universal suffrage will be accord « d>—the rifle in every mail ' s hand . That is true political , power , not because it
secures " tlie right of inaurrectioo ; " - ^ q ^ nite the reverse j but because it readers pow ^ r * nd people convertible expressions * . Theie is mo possibility of surprising a state whose whole people are ita army ; there is no hope for the internal traitor ia a land whose people are its guoxd ; there is no possibility of slighting a people "whd an © its own army . The Government of the United States can as
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Shore is notH-ng so revolutionary , because ttiete ia aotfaing '« g Tnuaainiral aaad convulsriv © , aa t& « strain tp keep tMn ^ a fixed . when , all the -worlel ia by the very laiv of ita cfetttiort in etecual progress . — IXe . Abboud
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April S , 1854 . THE LEADER . 3 ^ 3
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Leader (1850-1860), April 8, 1854, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2033/page/11/
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