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    • SA^TTJjBDAX, MAT 3, 1856.
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      THE iS ^ ilMQNiS a ? O-MC ® . KOW . The Qaeen , Parliament , and people of this country wiU specially set apart certain hours to-morrow - for rendering tibiankB on account of the Peace to the Supreme Boiler , and the clergy of the land will be . called , tipon . tQ moralize the war and its conclusion , for . our 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 barjt of the boatman who has derived his wisdom

      from man-made canals and aqueducts , and shapes his navigation according to the course which rivets ottijiit , to pursue inthe judgment of the pedatii , not , acpprding tQ the seemingly wild courses into which they are impelled by ibhe . force < j resistless antf Tirierring l&ws . Bo soiritp-of us witl be doonhed to hear td-riiorrbw / of the special favour H-ihowir : to ' * ' ; thifr' Protestant country , " by preachers who will find it convenient to forget , who * will fjerhaias be' too blind to see ,

      that a larger share of immediate benefits has bcea vouchaafed to the child " of the Roman Church , and of the G ^ eek Church ? One ' sect may be riurei than anothe ' bec&us ' e'it is less trammelled by humaadOgfrtotisnf ^ i ' and' therefbfce ¦ lessprevei ! it »«( l * oti ( l'B ^ a * c hinig' and obeying the laws which rule us all ; butfWhetf tjje purest of faiths tuina from iithplvcit / i-eliarice on ! the-source ofiall Mth ' atod :. j > oWer , to contemplate iin vainglorious pride some supposed merit tdx preference for the human part of the

      faith , tbfe sect , ; the sight is iihne'd , the sense is ^ evtterted , tnlth id lost ) iri' error ; p ' ride becoweft , humiliation ^ and I the ' faroiir , Which mtebt / jhav&rbeen > « oimed- by ' faithful service , is bestowed , elsewhere^—the . ¦ ¦ ' * choSefa . ' * ' ¦ are no ^ l QhoeeD , but pafased by . ; > H 1 i i ' £ ojne ,. of . ua will , be doomed to hoar that wra jUh&in . iJti&d tlnat ^ we v hai ^ e' / only now

      returtt ^ d ,. tp a , fltete of virtue :- bifli * the victory ia ^ Jftjrus . * - * b » idefttot i .-with ) tiie people dn ' wh # fip wa , d # 4 la 3 e 4 iwftnj it&e . blessings which tto 4-I > ft w ^ && " 8 efWe 'jbho I diredtJ frui ^ > of the etrjgiMl ^^^ fy ^ tUore jbalveH ^ broii ^ houtiibOBn preff ^ ra | lf&tau » i # & Mj&iwloqumMfe iwho ftave C € ^^ red ^ he > w iftrna ^ ari > pwteat' Kvfi ^ ed im dei-^ Wi ^ fA ^^^« WBa ^ i » Cb | r ^< j ii »( oit ^ df ; the Qttf& ^ jiM&mti $ m < finwi \ t& <** nvq * vB » a * ct * W ^^»» ff iJ B ^ siJ ^ Pf ^^ V ^ Ap ^ aMivp trujgj ^ agqtygfj ^ hrjffciajMty aqdl itel < tokirodard u > i \ ti * . > hh \ M ,: n ( i ! i ]>« * nf ! . . tj ; M . » jii' . r > u < r . i T > il (((<

      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 iiving 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 r # diwiio ad absurd-urn 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 , -rr-butinot with a grudging mistrust ¦* because that peace is w . QU , in , <«»» - ' . ^ ogony and bloody sweat , ' . ' or . verily we forfeit the power to bless the earth from time to time with fruitful peace , even as life alternates with death . It is our privilege to walk 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 worm peopled by many faiths , some wiser , some 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 iajustly 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 * jndeed , in the sense . of life ' s sweets ,, is . the life of that mail who is capable of dying for his country . Patriotism has no honorary , ranks ; ^ and tfie man wljq jrieans to , . b ^ esteettie ' d , j ( or ( $ li $ nojp le ^ ness o £ the patriot and thesoj ^ r ^ musfo mean to dip i £ he lbe summoned ; anct bless . ed i i s'he ^ we say , ' who hastfyat " gh ^ ious , great dptent , "' Shall we mourn , "because we nffl ^ knftw what he was ? Because he has pc «| Sft ^ u ^ wba $

      virtues of * old days . stjll \ fiy ^ , amongst u ^ ? Because we fi 11 ^ ^ P ® xxobjrest qualities , among the humblest as well aa the highest ? The tears' of ' widow , tnotlier , and sister may fal \ to-fl > prrow ^ an | d not a few ^ a . nly eyes , will be' moistened ; but the nation wjl , l rejpjce at the tibought that such as they ^—the . lost ones —were amongst us , and that there are more amongst' us still ; and in the heart of grief itself will rise a just and gratefuVpride that the death which awaits us all , was for tjiose . —nth e chosen—an imperishable test of their WQr | b . b , A lasting badge of honour to their kith and , kin . And so amongst us , by the ' dea | bh of piur representatives in the tomb , shall a n ^ Wer spirjjb survive ; ren'dering the sum of life rjipuer ! and

      mc / re"Assured . . . k . , , ; ,. , ! BliU'trhere is a great arid Ohristm ^ xnorp , ! to be taught out Sf , the lesspp . ' tljat wp ^ ve , undergone , arid it must find bold and eloquent enfbrceirient iri riot a few of our cliurcljie ^ . It is riot given to iia' to determine ' wf ) at is truth ' : ' at & b ^ fl « , ' any hii ^ ii'fee ' ct' jls ^ fa , Society " 6 f studerits' who jbu ^ ve ' ^ nia ^ fe , mor rd ^ feBS WUk bthj 6 r ' sets " of men . bq I banded together iri thb' pvti ' f hiih of truth but ; we'oaii &t ^ W ^ 6 tk ^ WWtQ !> uL ^ . W aw ^ , ( ibodience td'fhe Dlvlile'lawi WHef V ' e " do our bost « to ! ' u'ph' 6 ldius ^ e HnH ^ to Ti ^ tp owe renow-^ reft <« refa'l ^ hd' ^ ' tirt ' 8 ^ d . Who told / t he

      parable of the Good Samaritan ? "When a Christian inflicts injustice upon a Museulntan , do we extend Christianity by abetting the oppressor , or by defending the oppressed ? In the East we stdod up for nb 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 viewP We hanfe obtained from the Mussuhnan a reeognition , n 6 t of one Christian 4 ^ ^ V b ^ ^^^ A ^ B ^^ J ¦ _ . ^ b . ^^^^^^^^^^

      sect , but of all ;• we have won over the descendant of Mahomet , and of Mahomet mie Second , to permit the building of an English church at Constantinople , as a monument of the joint victory ; and we have placed Isla ^ i itseljt" in the way to that more developed civilization which is one-of the preliminaries of Christianity . Christian powers , in short ; , 1

      threw their . bi&ad > vepoit tttewtvte ^ s , ar id it hafe been returned to them . There is our true glory ; the Crescent begins to do homage te the Cross , because we treated Islam in tlie 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 hare started , and Peteb the Hebmit would have ex *>

      ulted . 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 camp ; 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 indifferentism had replaced a nobler ambitiori 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 fnlt ^ nwm-rifcf . ' wwia . found-, resurgent in the humblest blanks jubut a tbe ¦/ nffi&t Itoiw—of the b * d ges ;!© fr aa ^ ftodiettt jchrralry nittV ask themsel ^ a . wKefcheE'tiJByrbaTri 4 po ® iM that they mfehfc to , keep . 4 he . foxieimwfciBlawiwfciifef they or iworkm

      possessed ^> whether ^ TOhitei'the g chivalry earned iits bloody-uis ^ inS ' ' in the dopmod ; charge at / 3 Balakl » vaii the ! patetft chivalpy has not voluntarily seleeted its own lists for the swaggering- charge against public opinion , ; among the pensibners ; \ n ' <¦ Chelsea Hospital ; where a XitiOAN > browtoeat » the public servants amid the gay ladies of ; the West , in the asylum -bequeathed' ; by the thpughtfulneas , of NtoLii Gwyknb > and the gallantry-of CijAB-iiEs to the working veterans of the English army ? This is tax exhibition which warns us to put . our house in order ; arid ' .. $ tliko Church ( do , itsi duty in rebuking the vices and follies of thei day ^ where vico the

      and foUy . do most pregnant mischief— iri high ,, places- —the ( serraom" twill J not fail to scourge thosp unfaithful servant who have done Xese than their share to earn , moro than ^ thqir share , tp ., tarnish , , the glory for whicli we roturn tliaai , l < , a , to-morrow . ¦¦¦¦*¦¦ ' ' ¦'

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      . TH ^ PRp ^ QCJQlAiS .. i .... i ' ' The ( Protocols , . pajbabXiah , beyond a doubt , that tho I ^ usaian ,, Pl ^ nipotautiamea came to Paris ' defcermi » ei 4 uppr » peace ; ., The point *> they r re ei flt ^ d ( , were 5 , Thp , uao of ; the word '' prptc , 9 fpraj ;© »' , to , describe , tho privilego siir * ' r " pnd (? red , tbvi # ua 8 Ji % in ( tlwj Piii « cipalitie& ; th © 1 pre ^ e » ce , of . w 4 i vee ^ eU . Of war under tho ^ lags " p ( , j ^ V / natt 9 . , M , thfc' mouths of tno

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      420 THE XOE ^ A . P IB . [ No . 319 , Saturday , ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ _ _» _ .

      Sa^Ttjjbdax, Mat 3, 1856.

      SA ^ TTJjBDAX , MAT 3 , 1856 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 3, 1856, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2139/page/12/