THE COMING REVOLUTION.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 466, 26 April 1890, Page 5

THE COMING REVOLUTION.

MR VARLEY AT THE CITY HALL. Auckland, April 23. The title of the address given by Mr Varley at the City Hall last night was a good one. “The Coming Revolution” souuded like an interesting subject, and indeed it proved so. Mr Varley was a little late, bub his place was taken for the few moments by Mr Corrie Johnston. During the first hymn Mr Varley entered by the public entrance and passed almost unnoticed to the back of the platform. YVlien after some little time had elapsed he did appear, ho received as usuala hearty welcome. Mr Johnston had given a short address in the meantime. The subject was a comforting one—the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ. Mr Varley commenced his discourse by saying ho did nob believe there was any truth or phase of truth more important than this truth of the coming of Jesus Christ, which was in effect the new revolution. He then again reiterated his oft repeated assertion that a man had no right to think as ho pleased on these subjects any more than he had to do as he pleased. He then explained what he meant by THE COMING REVOLUTION. In ordinary cases the word meanttbe overthrow of Governmental institutions. This should nob happen, of course, if the Governmenbwas good, but modern Government was anything bub that. He was quite out of sympathy with the democratic form of Government, because he could nob see that God showed He thought it to be good either in nature or any other way. The sun was monarch of the solar system. In the divine institution of the family the same form of monarchical government was desirable. He hoped there was no woman present who did nob bow to the divinely-ordered authority of tho husband. Oi course if some good wife had an old woman for a husband, the case was different. Y'et his difficulty was nob, he said, so much with the democratic platform as the men put upon it. The voice of the people was not yet ths voice of God, and till it was so democracy could nob be right. Mr Varley then said that some friend had written to him hoping that he (Varley) would not become conceited. In reply to this he neither wished to be conceited nor proud. He was on the platform to serve Christ, and the less of Henry Varley there was the better. Returning to the question of democracy, Mr Varley pointed out that the United States was the most democratic country in the world, yet, when once the President was elected by the voice of the people, he was the most absolute and autocratic ruler in the world.

Going on to prove that the modern governmental institutions of the world were weak and poor, Mr Varley pointed out that our Queen lived at Windsor. Now, Windsor was not, perhaps, a whit worse than many other places. There was there, however, a vast amount of drunkenness and licentiousness, and, in fact, it was a wicked little place. Here, then, was his point. The most mighty monarch ot the world was not able to make a little place like Windsor, whore she lived, better, spiritually or morally. There was not a single nation on the face of the world, in bis opinion, that had a competent Government. England, for instance. What about the East India Directorate, who iorced the , OPIUM ON THE CHINESE? Nay ! at this very time our Government was receiving £10,000,000 a year for opium grown in India and sold to Chinese. Three million Chinamen died every year from opium, so we were practically murdering men at something over three pounds a head ! And this was our boasted civilisation ! In South Africa, too, how was it? A hundred tons of fearfully bad spirits were sent there monthly. A ease of this “ hellfire water” cost the exporter two and eightpence halfpenny. For these bottles of spirit, valuable tiger skins and ivory were exchanged. The cases were then opened, and bobbles emptied. From the decks of the steamer would then be seen scenes which would rival visions of hell itself. Yet we claimed to have a competent Government.

And the United States, where there were over 3,000 murders in one year! Where two great Presidents had died at the hand of the assassin ! Was that a good Government? How about France, where God’s name had been erased from the courts of law as an effete institution — how about that Government? All the other countries were disposed of on the same lines—Germany, the strained relations between Bismarck and the young Emperor—was that good ? Russia, where men were sent to tho mines in Siberia to work and die, and the soldiers terribly underpaid ? Thei'e was nob a single nationality whose Government was competent, therefore was the revolution coming, and he wanted everyone to be prepared. He would speak another night (to-night) on the coming of the King. He was now at hand to rule us beneficently and to pub a atop to tho terrible moral carnage now going on. His rule would be unselfish and perfect. Mr Varley ended with a most passionate appeal to the Christ to come quickly and take possession of His kingdom.