Four Weak Feet—Their Significance.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4528, 10 July 1883, Page 2

Four Weak Feet—Their Significance.

By thb Rbv v D. H. Nkwton, D.D.

(Concluded.) \ There is in these days a popular will, that indeed has fouud its force, and assert* itself truly but still blindly. It is unsanctified and godless,- and selfish, and hence, can't be trustee] eitherfor God's workoc.man's. Self-interest blinds the people. ' They can't co-operate—they must antagonise, as iron and clay. " Vox populi vox Dei" is a fine phrase, because it defies the people who are as little, like God as need be. But they like and act for. it; and before long we shall, see more decisive effects from it than ever/ ' Aid * so (he '' Rights Pf DQ*n ",la, a nice phrase, excellent indeed in proper bounds. Bat when the people interpret it—«ooone can tell where their application may come. When France. sVsJpid that the was in* vincible and baltoaM O«tt £* fjtife us the Rhine," she,elected LouitJldMMm tog© to the Rhine, and drive the Wifott to tUt wall. -They could whip Gmi^.nl therefore ought to do it. B«t wfe«a' thejp: found it harder getting the Bhine tbsm by shouting in mobs, then it was dowa' with Louis Napoleoi . and; all the Napoleons. And at it. they went to rid themselves of all Napoleons, images and all. If they had gotten to the Rhine Louis would have been as big a hero as Napoleon I. And if Disraeli oould tare gone oa ; fighting.-in the world/by r talk, and not ' Have*caused so:maoh cost, tax, and English blood—why he would bare been seated t<h4w> an* Afghans and Africans might have oeen prey and booty to him— because it was glory to the English, and extended commercial opportunities. But trade was dull, money scarce, and famine rather unpleasant—and Englishmen had to die for all this glory; so they would have no more of it. And germane to all this a few other considerations' come in. That French boy,, the Imperial refugee, must go to see them kill Africans/that he' might learn how to kill Frenchmen; an, important duty. But hero H another' ' Mephibosheth:—he ended )ua dynasty ignominionsly. The iron. and.the clay won't hold together;, we are nearing the end. WorldUnesa must learn its importance and its end. But'to~exa~ggenfcd kef other inconsistencies,-Victoria orders extra honors to this French waif, anci laments for him as Antho&y 4id %■ Cassar and honors him with a.memor.yin'tt Westminster—and sheds actual tew*; but her own subjects, murdered for her ambition, may die unmentioned and 'laknown. The hundreds of youth brour-M to the dust by hereonunand exoit© no concern. We are talking about clay, but it is symbolic clay. It has feeling io it. And this English clay winced when it felt Victorias unconcern, and ,it crumbled from the iron supporting beneath the throne. Its very motion was change; as* it demanded more. And hence,. th»throne found itself alone and it had to call | on Gladstone, hateful aa was the task, to bring back what clay he could to hold Urn •; tnrone up. - . , , Another event that has given import, ance to the day element i» tae.touV of General Grant. The honors afforded to him were amongst the remarkable things ■2 nm™ h|story. But here again «v anWohism, rmco«gr.ity. w¥.rf-** «d a peculiar, exhibition of it, importance, inthSdayJ 7 of the lowest portion of th» image. T& fPi mZ9 m ''nA U ■*"■*«■% ip iwl foresee the next change. If ©ladriSa misaea soma chance to glorify Ewdaaii* fflrJiy »*y won be found s»aaUs« the windows. o f king and ministers, or the ikulls themselven. Though lam glad to

■c* s principle appear only to triumph, I cannot found on that any lasting hope. It is rather a calm just ahead of a tempest. I have stood on a rocky bluff on a tropic island where the sun sbene down clear and bright. I hare listened to the ocean's pulse as it beat against rock promontories. The humming-bird whirled around fear lessly, and the gnats lived their sunny -lives in unruffled*, swarms. In a small indented bay, suddenly a larger wave would rush with unusual thud. You could see ho eanse. But again another, and a next, pushing before each one a ware of sand burrowed from the ocean's floor, and alive with shell fish and olber animals, showing the energy of the swell -Yon conld see no cause. But in a few hours tbe pale bad reached this spot, and revealed why the previous waves were so] •nary. Thus, now, we'see the transient billow!) and their sullen roar; but the gale will «oon be felt sweeping over the whole ejirth.—Our Rest.