Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1888 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE G, 1SS8.

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THE LAME TAKE THE PREY.

DR. TALMAGE'S ELOQUENT SERMON. rh Invalid of tti World, Spiritual and riiTi-il-No Father to Flfftit Thetr Whj for Thrm TIia t haute of the Orphan. P UK ACHING from the text, "The lame Take tho Prey" (Isaiah xxxiii : 23), which is inrlulel iu tho pasagi-a Irelicting the utter demolition of tho Assyrian host.-, I Jr. Talma:; naiI: There arc in all communities many in-ali-ls. They never knew a well lay. They B'lhere to their occupations, but they go jtantingalnnxthe Ktreetn with exhaustions, anl at eventiine they lie down on the louno with achinprs beyond all iu?dicaincnt. They have tried all pre-riiptions, they have pm through all tlio eure which were proclaimed infallible ami they have come now to surrender to perpetual ailment". They consider they arc unions many disadvantages, and when they feu those w ho are buoyant in health pass by they almost envy t hid r robust frames and cay respiration. Hut I have noticed among the iinalid ela-s those who have W f; j. , u ; , v . -t , ! if the greatest knowledge of the I'.ible.who are in nearest intimacy with Jesus Christ, who have the most j;lo inj experiences of the truth, who have had the most remarkable answers to prayer and who have most exhilarant anticipations of heaven. Tho temptations which weary us who urn in robust health they have conquered. They have divido! aiimn them the spoils of tho conquest. Many who lire alert and athletic and swarthy loiter in the way. These are the lame that take the prey: Uobert Hall an invalid, Kdward 1'ayson an invalid, likhard Baxter an invalid, .Samuel lJntherford an invalid. This morn int.', when you want to all to mind thoau who are mot Chri.t!ike you think of pome darkened room in your father's house from w hich there went forth an i nil uenee potent for eternity. A ftep further: Through raised letters the art ot printing has been orouht to the atti ntion of the blind. I lind anion? that class of persons, among the blind, the deaf and the dumb, the most thorough ae.jnaintanee with (iod's word. Shut out from all other sources of information, no k inner does their hand AMich tho raised letter than they tather a prayer. 'Without eyes they look oil upon the kingdoms of t;.-Ml8 love. Without hearing they rateh tho minstrelsy of the skies. Dumb, yet with pencil, or with irradiated countenance, they declare the glory of (iod. A lad who had been blind from infancy was cured. The oculist operated upon the lad, and then put a very heavy bandage over the eves, and after a few weeks hail pone by, the banda.ro was removed, and the mother said to h t child. "Willie, can von see?'' lie said, "Oh! mamma, is this heaven?" The contrast between the darkness before and 1 1 i : briiriitii' -ss alterward was overwhelming. Ami I tell you the dories of heaven will b - a thousa'nd-fold brighter for thoe w !io nver saw anything on earth. While many with good vision closed tle-ir eyes in night, and many who had a good, artistic and cultured ear went down into discord, these afflicted ones cried unto the Lord in their trouble and lie made their torrows their advantage, and so the lame took the prey. A step further: There are those ia" all communities who toil mightily for a livelihood. Thev have Beaut wages. Perhaps they are di'seased, or have physical infirmities, ho they are hindered from doing a continuous day's work. A city missionary finds them up the dark alley, with no fire, w ith thin clothing, with very coarse bread. They never ride in the btreet-ear; they cannot afford the 5 cents. They never see any pictures save those in the show window on the street, from which they are often jostled and looked at by some one w ho seems to say in the look: "Move on! what are von doing diere looking at pictures?" Vet many of them live on mountains of transfiguration. At their rough table He who fed the 5,(kK) breaks the bread. They talk often of the good times that are coming. This world has no ihariu for them, hut heaven entrances their spirit. They often divide their scant crust vith home forlorn w retch who knocks at their door at night, and on the blast of the night wind, as the door opens to let the wayfarer in, is heard the voice of Him who said: "I was hungry and ye fed rue." No cohort of Heaven will t;e too bright to transport them. y (Jod's help thev have vanquished the Assyrian host. They have divided among them the f-poils. Jlune, lame, yet took they prey. A step further: There are in nil communities many orphans. During our laMt war and in the years immediately following, how many children we heard pay: "Oh! my father was killed in the Avar." Have you over noticed I fear you have not how well these children liave turned out? starting under the greatest disadvantages, no orphan asylum could do for them what their father would have done had he lived. The Fkinnisher at one night by the light of faggots in the swamp writing a letter hom when a sharshooter's bullet ended the letter which was never folded, never posted and never read. Those children came up under great disadvantage?. No fattier to light their way for them. Perhaps there w as in the old "family bible R'J old, yellow letter pasted fast, which toid tho htory of that father's long march and how he M'ffered in the hospital -but they look still further on in the bilde, and they come to the tory of how (iod is the father of the fatherless and the wiflow's portion, and they hm, Look their father's pi ace iu that housenold. They battled the way for their mother. They came on up, and many of them have in the years since the war. taken positions in church and state. While many rd those who suffered nothing during those times have had sons go out into lives of indolence and vagalondage, those who ftarted under so many disadvantages because they were so early bereft, thewj are the lamp that took the prpy. A step further: There are those who would like to

do good. They pay: "Oh! if I onlv had wealth, or, if rhad'oloquence, or, if,I had high social isition, how much I would accomplish for (Jol and tho church 1" I stand here to-day to tell you that you have great opportunities for usefulness. The trouble is that in the army of Christ we all want to be captains and colonels and brigadier generals. We are not willing to inarch with the rank and tile and to do duty with the private soldier. We want to belong to the reserve corps and read about the battle while warming ourselves at the camp tires, or on furlough at home, our feet upon an ottoman, we sagging back into an arm chair. As you go down the btreet you see an excavation and four or live men are working and perhaps twenty or thirty leaning on the rail looking over at them. That is tho way it is in the church of (iod to-day; w here you find oneChrNtian bard at work there are lifty men watching tho job. If this world is ever brought to Christ it will be through the unanimous and long continued efforts of men who, waiting for no special endowment, consecrate toCod what they have. Among the most useless people in the world are men with ten talents, while many a man with only two talents, or no talent at all, is doing a great work, and so the lame take the prey. One step further: There are a great many people discouraged about getting to heaven. You are brought up in goo 1 families, you had Christian parentage", but you frankly tell me that you are a thousand miles away freiu the right, track. My brother, you are tin one I want to preach to this morning. I have have been looking for you. I will tell von who you got astrav. "it. was not maliciousness on your part. It was jerU ips through the geniality and sociability of your nature that you fell into sin. You "wandered away from your duty, you tinconsciously left the house of (iod; you admit the (lospel to be true, and yet "you have so grievously and so piolotigedly wandered, you say rescue is iinpoMible. It would take a week to count up the names of those hi heaven who were on earth worse than you tell me you are. They went the w hob round of iniquity, they disgraced themselves, they disgraced their household, they despaired of return because their reputaiioli was gone, their

roperty was gone, everything was gone, Mit in some hour like this tlieV heard the Voice of (iod and threw themselves on the divine compassion and they rose up more than conquerors. Ami 1 tell you there is the same chance for you. That is one reason why 1 like to preach this gospel, so free a gospel, so tremendous a gosticl. I,t takes u man all wrong and makes him all right. Inn former settlement where I preached a niemlicr of my congregation quit the house of (iod, quit respectable circles, went into all kinds of sin and was slain of his iniquity. The day for his burial came and his body was brought to tho bouse of (iod. Suue of his comrades who had destroyed him were overheard along the street, on the way to the burial, saying, "Come, let us go and hear Tahnage damn this old siniu-r!'' Oh! I had nothing but tears for the dead, and I had nothing but invitations for the living. You see I could not do any otherwise. "Christ Jesus came to seek and save that which was lost." Christ in His dying prayer said: "l ather, forgive them," and that w as a prayer for you and for me. Ohl start on the road to heaven to-day. You are not happy. The niirst of your soul will never be slac ked by the fonntaiu of hiu. -You -turn everywhere but to Gwdi'fvp.lielp. liightyoit are, call on Him. He knows you. He knows all about you. lie knows all the odds against which you have been contending in life. Do not go to Him w ith a long rigmarole of a prayer, but just look up and bay: "Help! hel;!" IS DEATH ALL? Or Is There n IIci aller for the Human Kanvn City Timen.J There came up in connection with Col Ingersoll's eulogy delivered upon tho life and character of Iloscoe Colliding some serious thoughts. To Ingersoll he was a paladin. Yes, and to many another besides Ingersoll. lie is described by tho orator as being brave, true, clean, immovable in his friendships, and unalterable in his love. The country knew that long ago. We put aside all of Ingersoll's slush, w herein the bloody shirt and abolitionism are mixed in equal proportions, and come directly to the question: Where, bevondthe grave, is the Pantheon for such a lero? Take this great American as he is put upon Ingersoll's canvas. Look at his face, his eyes, his pose, his stature and bis whole commanding presence in every feature and aspect. Is no soul there? If there is a soul, who gave it? Into whose hands does it return? Is it annihilation? Do men like Napoleon, Cajsar, Hannibal, Victor Hugo and a whole mighty array of other giants disappear into nothingness. It cannot be. It is against reason, common sense, revealed religion, the bible, the agony in the garden, the torture on the cross. It is also against human nature. Man, in any state, is supremely selfish, lie wants a hereafter, ho wants another w orld w hen he gets old, a place to lie down, to sleep, perchance to dream. Life's battle may have torne against him heavily. Kosoms despite all love, and courage, and watchfulness, and tenderness have been stricken home at Iiis side, lie knows where his graves are. Tho dew falls upon them like a benediction. The birds sing above them as they do w hen thev find sweet seed in tho summer grasses, lie is worn now, and feeble and far spent. Ho dies, and Ingersoll says that death is the last of him. He turns to a leaf, a sprout, a shrub, perhaps a four-loafed clover, perhaps a head of timothy, it may be one thing or it may bo another, but whatever it is the end is utter oblivion. It is against everv selfish instinct of man that such a fate is desirable. In his inner luing there is a constant revolt against such abominable paganism. Indeed, it is worse than paganism. Paganism did have its altars, its fchrines, its sacred proves, its temples, its vestal virgins, its priests, its augurs, its clysian fields, its gods, its goddesses, its spirits of good anil evil; but it never bad extinction. Instead it had sinners immortal In their capacity to Bufier and endure. It had Pluto and Prometheus; it had Proserpine- and Acteon; it had Midas and Tantalus; it had the Furies and the Eumcnides, but its future was never without a resurrection. That has remained for the superior development of the nineteenth century steam everywhere; electricity everywhere; oceans speaking to the land through great coils of w ires that even teach the tishes a speech, and cause tho great yet invisible monsters of tho deep to send forth their aranU courier, their krakens, their sea serpents, their devils of indescribable things which have as many arms as a wheel has spokes, and in each arm the strength of a serewpropellor send them forth to know all the meaning of the new things men have invented who are totally without souls, and yet with an intelligence equal to the angels. In fact, this wonderful period in the life of mankind has waited for Kobert (i. Ingersoll. It may be all as ho says, but be -lias put his race at a terrible disadvantage. Ho has made of them mummied, monkeys and blocks of wood. Ag firr bo could he has burnt out tho eyes ttlSMt. lie has taken from cripples, paralytica aud deformed people what little stair and script they bal for this unknown journey, creeping on apace and making fiercer and fiercer inroads at every returning season, lie ha mads of the holy mysteries thing-j

to deride, ridicule, Fpit on, daub with mud, dress in rags and scarify like lepers. And then to think that he had the audacity to deliver a eulogy to Iloscoe Conkling. Sacrilege 1 Sacrilege! Sacrilege I C'oiirteny in I liurrh. Tli Interior jnsb) t riati.) Do we treat fellow-worshipers w ith the same formal courtesy that prevails among the people of the world; or do we realize that, being dwellers in a spiritual home, there is something peculiarly tender in our relationship? Within church bonds, the terms brethren and sisters ought to mean a great deal. In these times, when the spirit of evangelical alliance and concord is in the air, it is a pitiful sight to see men running here and there with outstretched hands, forming new associations and laving down lines of agreement when they have not yet learned the foundation jirinciples of true Christian fellowship in their own church. They are professsing a charily which ought to bo first and always displayed in their own church home, but it is not ; and are thus proclaiming themselves liars, ording to John's plainly expressed judgment. The brother whose life in his particular spiritual home is marked by Christian courtesy a kindness noringing from n warm and loyal heart is the only one to whom the formation of mi interdenominational alliance may be intrusted safely. True politeness ought to be an easy acquirement. The emotional and elliisive man may seem the pink of courtesy; be is, in truth, a most uncertain friend. A slave of sentiment is usually a time-server. Put the ma;i of lirm convictions us to bis lc pcudcuce on a higher power and the direct control of that power over his own and other lives, natu rally tn-ut h with respect and consideration very object i( divine concern. With him courtesy will be the spontaneous expression of a tender conm-iencc and a loving heart.

I'r-nr1i tli True I itlth. I hn l'iiUcr- ilUt. We therefor;! s:iy, preach the doctrine. Preach it Hot ns a bare and skeletonized foi iu of tint h, but in all its richness and development of spiritual power and ellictetiey. Preach it as the central truth of the gospel, illustrating it in life and experience, and making the truth tributary to the solution of the world's great mysteries; as a contribution from tho very thought of (iod to the world's salvation; US a Herded Consolation ill Soltow; as strength in the hour of temptation; as Iheonly adequate interpreter ol 'The ways of (iod to man;" as the divine for;e that is vet to renovate human society; as the helper and friend of our struggling humanity ; as the diviim incitement to holy living; us the highest motive of virtue and the most blessed reMilt of creation. Preach it in this way as the fulfillment of prophecy, us the forerunner .f the golden age, as the holiest interpretation of the gospel, and as that system of faith which teaches that the ransomed universe shall y t rejoice and willingly return to the I'lither's ever-open arms -and there will be no cause for discouragement; while the faithful preacher will lind that it will win its own constituency of believing souls and become I he angel of blessing in many a home and many a heart that now needs its blessed influenae. lOloT Itelilouii Ilfini. P.isliop Tetter receives a Hillary of $10,000. Mr. Sjnirifeon i ugaiu a iiiciubfr of tho Kuidish I : j lit union. Pope I.i e XIII lias K nt his beneliction to the American t'atholie Tciiiperaiiev societies. The eleventh world' onventinn of tho Y. M. C. A. meets in Stockholm, Sweden, this summer. Th! Americnn hojird received in Heven mont'is J-ra.eou more thau in the corrtspomling period la a year. Fii.unciid renins will compel tho Seottis'i unite ! joesby ti ri in church to withdraw its niUtjions in Spain and Japan. The bo:ird of militias of tie meth idist j ilscopal church (Souih ) nu t in Na-hvilU; in May and appropriated nearly .s.'.Jimo for the coming year. tierin.iny has taken possession of S00 miles of the east coat of Africa, mid a society has bfti formed to colonize it in the interest of the Lutheran church. The ctght hundredth anniversary of the I'nlversitv o! 'boiouna, om- of tin oldest ia the world, will le et let. rated on th.- l.Mt ot June next. The university was founded in luS. The Tin 'kish government will not allow the writings of Dante, Uyrou, Voltaire, and l'uh-y ti enter its domains, for theso antlers speak, disrespect till ly of Mohammendauism. A' lie Liiiitj Church. The gift of rA0o0 by Mr. bliss of New York city, for an episcopal hapel on lllaekuell's island lias heea doubled by that gentleman, and the building will be erected ul uu early date. JririaU Jlfxurifjf r. At present the heathen worl l lies like n poor Lazarus at wealthy Christendom's door, so that this, as it were, can neither go out nor in without Ktumldiii'' over its unhappy brother, luxe case may well awaken to compassion nil who have a heart to iff 1 for the w n tchedness and for the religious degradation of their fellowmen. The A'iitii'j. The Cliicngo Jewish industrial school for poor girls, which the ladies of the Sinai temple nave conducted with great success for six years, seems animated with the spirit of Him w ho came to seek and save the lost. Pcccntly the school has received a donation of S-'JiMio from Mr. Ivcon Mandel, and it is proposed to enlarge It so ns to include boys, and call it "the kindergarten and traile schools for Jewish boys and girls." President Cleveland continues to receive censure from the Christian tuiblie for the department of the interior order relative ta the ue of the vernacular in Indian h -Imols. First the Methodist ministers of Philadelphia voiced their displeasure; then the congregational association of Ohio; then the congregational association of Chi ago, and last week the president had a personal exhortation from an especially appointed committee of the prelyteriau general assembly. The first Young people's society of Christian endeavor wan organized in a eongreirational church in Portland, Me., in February, l.s-si. since that time tlicy have spread throughout the United States and are fast making their way into foreign lands, in lssi it id known there were Lixty-eight members. To-day it is estiinaU'd that the various societies throughout the worlJ have a membership of 173,1 K). In July, 1&S, the membership in New York state was 1,400. In Jan., l.sss, it was .'J.5,(00. It is reported that Mrs. Carso, president of the Woman's Christian union, lias already svcured i'.")0,ij(K( for the proposed "Temperance Temple"' at Chicago. The plans for the structure ure extensive. It will be twelve tttories high with a tower on one corner surmounted by a statue of the Sistine Madona. A h ill ia which 1XX) people can be seated will take up the first lloor. mid will be named in honor of Franc K. Willard. The total cost will be Ssoo.oot), and it is hoped that the corner-stone w ill be laid a year from May 1. School Journal. Th seventy-second annual meeting of the American Piole society, New York, was held May 10. The cash receipts for general purposes amounted to $"7,.ilO, and disbursements, -"iO,4t.'5. The receipts from legacies for general purpose amounted to ii;),T73; Irom churches, individuals, and nuxiliary donations, $--, 4o.": fmiu books and the purchase account, Sltkiiu; from trust funds, etc., iMJll; Iroiu rents, II',;;.!, and the remainder from miscellaneous sources. The appropriations already pledged by the board tor foreign work luring the coming year amounted to lS.'l,07tl. To translac, publish, aud distribute öcO.OnO volume of the scriptures in foreigu lands, Sll.'I,b70 was paid. The Southern baptist board has sustained a nnssion in Cuba which it characterizes as one of the most remarkable works of modern missions. In little more than two years Mnee the org uiiation of the first church 1,100 have been l apli.ed. Nine native preachers have been enf raged. Daily schools us well as Sunday-schools lave been established. The int rest of the people is shown by their contributing $l,t10 in one year. The report nays that uhnost oncdialf the population of Havana are in sympathy w itli the mission, and that nearly half the dead of Havana are buried in the baptist cemetery. It is stated that eight thousand persons have npplied for membership in the church' s, though many of these are ignorant of the true quabficatiousfor c Lurch membership

THE DETTER SIDE OF LIFE

SCENES IN GOTHAM POLICE COURTS. Tnlinnge, .Julian ftnwtliorn nnd Father Puccy lsny the ltde of I'ollce Iteportrs What They Saw nml Heard nt the Tombs and Jefferson Market. Till: New York Worhl has mado a novel hut characteristic departure in journalism by engaging a number of celebrities to report, in succession, tins police courts Sn that city. DeWitt Tahnago, Julian Hawthorne, Fallier Iueey,a prominent catholic priest, are among those who have essayed the role of police reporter for tho 1IW, and their work is Mrikin; nnd interesting. lr. Talmago Makes a lively sketch, and philosophizes very wisely upon what he Haw and lu ard nt the Tombs. lie concludes bin "rejiort" thus: I came away from the police court thinking, as I fdill think, d the mighty contra! iu city life. Oh, men und women of virtuous and comfortahh' hotncH, 'onsid-rl Ab they passed ulnii I thought of their miserable homes or th fact that they had no homes at all, and all this within a chort walk of homesteads lilh-d with luxury ami peace. Scene tho First Mother putting the. little children to bvl, trying to hush tho frisky and giggling group fr the evening prayer. Their foreheads against the counterpane, they tire trying to f;v ther evening prayer. Their tongues are so erookd that none but (iod and I he iitothc rait understand them. Then the children are lifted into bed and tlu'V are covered uu to the chin. Then the mother given them a good-night kiss and leaves them to th guardian angels, ho spread their wings us a can ipv over the tl undlc bed. Sceim the Si-ond. A lxiy kennelled for lh night und riieath the stairway iu a hall through which the wind weeps, or lying on the col. I ground. lie bail no parents, lie was piu-hod In the world by u merciless incognito. 1Jmch not goto bed; he has 110 b.tl. His -old lingers thrust through his matted hair, hia only pillow, eid not sup last night; he will imt breakfast to-morrow, An outcast; a ragaiiiullin. lie did not nay his prayer when he retired; h! knows no prayer; he never heard thu Word of (od except an Mtmet hing to ew far by. Tho wlngn over him are not tjie wings f ungels, but tlm dark, batdike wings of penury and want. S'ene First Family gathered around tho argand burner. Vitt her, feet 011 ottoman ; mother sewing pit ture.sijue pattern. Two chihlreii pretending to studv, but chiefly watching ither children who are in unrestrained ronm. S many balls of fun and frolic in full bounce from room to room. Ikiekgruiiud of picture; and upholstery and .musical instrument, from which jeweled lingers HWtep "Home, .Sweet Home." Scene Second A grounintoxicated ami wrangling, cursing (iod, cursing each other. The pal all shame, the future all Millcring. Children lleeing from the missile Hung by a father' hand. Fragments of a -hittr pnipped against tin? wall. Fragments: of a it:h;r Mandiug on the mantel. A pi ki of refuse food brought in from the kitcjjen, torn by tho human Mvinc plunging into vhe trough. Scene First A Christian daughter lfa.s just lied. Carriages , rolling up. p ' the iloor in sympathy.' Flowern in crowns and anchors and harps covering the beautiful casket, 'the Kilver plate marked 'Aged is.' Funeral services intoned amid the richly-shawled and gold-bracelet cd. bong processions going out this way to unparalled (ireenwood in tho beautiful family plot w here the sculntor will raise the monument of burnished AlaTihen with the inscription, 'She is not dead, but sleepeth.' Uli! blessed is that home which has a conserratel Christian daughter, whether on earth or in heaven. Scene Second A joor waif on the street has just expired. Did she have a doctor? No. Iid Khe have any medicine? No. Did she have any friends to close her eyes and fold her hands in b ath? No. Are there any garments in the house lit to w rap her in "for the tomb? None. Those worn-out shoes w ill not do for these feet in their last journey. Where are all the good Christians? Oh ! some of them are rocking-chaired in tears over J. ul wer Ly turn's account of "The Last J tays of Fonijieli." Thev arc eo sorry fur the girl w ho was petrified. Come, call in the coroner! call in the charity commissioner. The carpenter unroll.s tiie measuring-taixv and decides she w ill need a box live leut'aud a half long; two men lift her. into tho box, lift the box into the wagon, m l it starts for Potter's held. The excavation is not large enough for the box, and the men are in a hurry, and inc of them gets on the lid and forces it ilown to its place in the ground. Stop! Wait for the city missionary until he can come and read a chapter, or say "Ashes to ashes, bist to dust." "No," say the men of the spade, "we have three or four more cases just like this to bury beforo night." "Well," I say, "how, thou, is tho grave to le filled up?" Christ suggests a way. Perhaps it had better bo lilled up with htoncs. "Let those who are without sin come and east a stone at her" until the excavation is lilled. Then the wagon rolls oir and I see a form coming slow ly across potter's held, lie walks very slowly and his feet hurt, lie comes to that grave and he stands all day and all night and I come out and I accost him and I say, "Who art thou?" and he savs "I am the Christof Mary Magdalen 1" And then I thought that perhaps there might have been a dying prayer and there might have been penitential tears, and around ! that miserable spot at the last there may : be more resurrection pomp than when ; Queen Llizabi-th gets out ot her mausoleum at Westminster Abbey. Julian Hawthorne was impressed by many things at Jefferson market, and particularly bv the impoU'iiey of the prownt methods of ju.sti-e for the reformation of convicts. He writes: "As soon as 1 legin to contemplate reform (either with Or without a capital letter), 1 lind myself going back to the origin of civilization. Nothing of large importance in contemporary procedure can be changed without l-eginning the change at the tap-root. I paw this morning, lor example, a great variety of sinners come to judgment, eaeh particular one of whom had abstract justice been done would have been meted out a fipfcial penalty precisely adaptel, neither more nor less, to his or her particular case. As a matter of fact nothing of the sort was done. There were cases ol drunks, simple and complex, and for all these there was a printed lorm, designed to cover the average of such offenses. Lut th! average is not the reality. The culprit is fined $" or $10, or is frnt up for one month in default of bail to maintain good bouavior for one month. Nobody was lined 3 or 7 or $10; no one was pent up for twenty days, or thirtylive r forty-seven. They had to take the average punishment. Some of them got more than their deserts, no doubt; quite es many got less; und so average justice w as done. Hut it was no consolation to the man who got too much to know that the next man got bo little. Nevertheless, how can these cases be h-alt with at all, except by classifying them broadly, ami m gU'cting to consider the liner shades of immorality? .. , A man is lrunk, is he? Very well; fino him $10. You cannot imptire into his pait Hie, the conditions ufi'ccting his birth.

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bis: temptation, his temperament. All you ran deal with is tin- f.x t that In- stands to-day in tin prisoners' dock. Punish him or discharge him ; tln-rc is no other alternative. It In s not seem, certainly, in if a small diih-ivncn in the pi naliv could mako a great liilerenco to the offendiT. Put it may possibly make all the litleii nc in tho wuld. That is the ire of formula nnd averngi n; hut then is no escape for litem, that 1 can see, titih ss you go back and nk the primitive questions: What is Minie? What is punishment? Should society arrogate to itself the punishment of 1 i .' ir hhoiild soeit ly abandon rverylhing else its huMim, its pleasures and its idleness -and devote itself exclilhively to the -urc of it 1 !isc:ied members. Soci ty may be obliged, ne day, to lo no less than this, or p ri.h: but until that lay arrives it w ill be hard to prov' that it could do much betler than it is doing now. Again, it is a manifest injustice that the vast majority of punishments should be inflicted upon poor people, l'ii h Meople tiro possibly, and probably, just as Vi k d as poor people, if you 'oilld read tln'ir hearts. Hut their wealth enahles them, in the first place, to avoid sou e of tho strnigst temptations to avert crime; in t hp H-ond place, to conceal the crimes they do commit ; and in the third place, to defend themselves to the uttnot when accused, l'oor people, on the other baud, are under constant temptation to stra', because theft will give them tho foo I and clothing that they lack; to attack others, becau .-, sometimes, tho theft can only be accomplished by violence; sum ti 11118 b-eause f the intoh rablo crowding and collisions inseparable from their mode of life; and, to get lrunk, beauso hink is the poor man's onlv means of temporary escape from the dfsmal pressure upon his senses of the horror, misery and squalor of his surroundings. Prink is his brief parody of heaven, from which he falls next morning into th c ll of the police court. The thirst for Irink in such people represents really a perverted aspiration after better and heemlu'r surroundings; but, sine it leads to unrestraint of all kinds, instead of being merely an amiable weakness, we necessarily and (things being as they are) justly visit it with summary penalties. In Kiiort, we cannot too clearly realize that our present methods of justice can never reform the criminal; they can at best only deprive him for a time of the means or opportunity to commit crimes. He almost invariably emerges from confinement a worse man than he went in. It is very doubtful whether punishment ever has'a dete rrent etlect on other (intending) criminals. Father Dueey was saddened by tho fact that a majority of the culprits at the bar were of Ins nationality (Irish) and he explains it in this way: Few men will question the high intcllctual development of the Irish race, of which we have evidence in the highest as well as tho lowest walks of life. Nature has given to us the priceless but unfortunately tho fatal unrest which leads to extremes in all things. Tho very vivacity and eagerness which in a proper held leads tj the highest honors and the greatest distinction is the obvious cause ot their criminality in the condition of society which awaits them in thi great ity. The emigrant lands in New York from Ireland with little knowledge of life and tho characteristic hoia-fulness of his race. lie experts a field for the happy development of the irrepressible character; be imagines the same industry and fervor w hich enabled him to support life in Ireland aud acquired for him the sympathy and all'ection of bis associates will bring him here competence and distinction, lie is essentially a giegarious and responsible animal. The conditions of socity are uncongenial to his nature. His associates havo already passed through the mill nml have no hesitation in the struggle for existence to take advantage of his trustfulness, which hitherto had never been betrayel. He seeks for work and finds none. lie is compelled to herd with the dishonest and the dissolute, lie hears of the declaration of independence ami of the equality of man in opportunity and consideration, lie expects comfort and finds starvation. His condition at home was virtuous and negative. Here his surroundings are positive and vicious. Nature has gifted him for good or for evil with a large share of natural energy. Temptation and necessity combine to dofeat his virtuous tendenens. The wonder is that so many of our race have weathered the fearful storm of degradation and reached in safety the harbors of virtue and competence. Otlur nationalities w ho come to America havo organizations w hich aid them. They are passives or phlegmatic in character, or they bring with them a sufficient sum of money to tide over the education periol of "tho new life. He is the victim of the beneficence of Cod pervertevl by tho greel of man, ami it would appear that natural justice should mete out to the latter a present atonement for bis pins. It may be true that there is very little, if any conm'Ction between true religion and thecriminal classes; but, perhaps, it may bo said with some appearance of truth that the religion of w hich the majority of tho Irish race are meinls-rs may have a certain lefect when regarded irum tho economical and purely human itandpoint. It permits no compromise vith sin. It eloes not tolerate the swindler, tue bigamist or the adulterer to bo'd high p'.ace in the synagogue and act as a beacon-light to guide the less listinguishevl si briers to solvation. . Vhe catholic religion teaches those who learn it truly and practice it faithfully that ho who breaks one of God's commandments breaks them all, so far as sin against th author is concerned, and therefore from the statistical standpoint of the politk'al economist ami the xpedientist a grave d feet exists in our doctrine. Undoubt'lly the rigidity of our tenets is conducive to desperation if not to U'spair in the castaway. 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