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with his ideas, bid them go out into all the world to impart the truths which he, himself, had taught, and to teach them to every creature. He declared in His following there should be 'no Jew, no Gentile; no Greek, no slave; no bond, no free.'
This new doctrine of the rights of the individual and the value of man, as man, from whatever class he came, the idea that the lowly and humble should be regarded equally with the most powerful, that there should be no further distinction between men of high degree, and men of low degree,—came in direct conflict with the teachings and pre-conceived notions of men, and clashed with the customs, oppression and infiquity of the times. The rulers and others in authority conspired both against the teacher, and His teachings, after three years of persecution they put him to death.
The workman died, but the work went on. The Teacher's voice was hushed, but the lesson remained. The doctrine of the rights of the individual had been given expression, and it was to speak on forever. For a time it spoke from dungeons and caves and hiding places, but it was never hushed. A great idea had had its birth, and it was born to be immortal.
The persecution resulting in the deathe of the Teacher did not cease to follow His teachings. The new doctrine had no means of communication except through individuals, and the persecution which followed dispersed and scattered its adherents throughout Asia Minor and western Europe. This persecution continued vigorously for nearly four centuries, when the Roman emperor, Constantine, espoused the Christian faith and gave it official recognition. After this time, the church which had been founded upon Christ's teachings grew; but the rulers both in church and state, thought to use it to such an extent as to pervert the purpose for which it had been founded, so that the church itself became a power for the accomplishment of ends rather than the spreading of great truths. It was as completely dominated by corrupt and selfish motives as the powers which had persecuted the earlier disciples.
But during all these centuries, the central truth of the rights of the individual had been permeating the masses, and the little leaven was gradually "leaving the lump." The Teutonic people, embracing largely the Saxons and others of Germanic origin, were regarded as the liberty loving people of their time, and it was most natural that these should be the recipients of this truth, and that through them it should have recognition. When these peoples afterward became united with others, and formed the Anglo-Saxon race, and eventually overrun and conquered England, they carried with them to that country the same desire for a large freedom of the individual; among these races individual rights had a fuller recognition than elsewhere.
As these truths were compelled to meet the opposition and persecution of those in authority during the first century of their existence, so during the following centuries they were fettered and hindered by selfish ambition and intolerance, and the church itself became a powerful agency to suppress the very idea, which, in its earlier years it was intended to promote. But the doctrines of the Great Teacher had never been forgotten. There was an upward struggling of the masses all the while to give these principles recognition and support; and this showed itself at the close of the Eleventh century, when a half million fighting men under Godfrey bandra themselves together to retake Jerusalem and reclaim the Holy Sepulchre. This was a reaching out after the shadow. Both the holy city and the holy sepulchre were but material manifestations of something that had gone. But these Crusades were not wholly without their good results. They kindled the spirit of adventure and conquest, enlarged the general knowledge, encouraged the spirit of investigation, and put on foot inquiries which took hold of the masses and led them to investigate for themselves more fully than ever before.
The church, however, in its attempt to elevate the people was but little better than the state. Pope and priest had as little regard for the rights of the individual as king or emperor.
But all the while the circle was widening and the territory enlarging within which there was a growing desire on the part of the people for larger individual influence and personal freedom. This was especially so in Germany, the Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries, Switzerland and Great Britain. The seed sown in Palestine had been germinating through twelve centuries, until, during the reign the reign of King John it produced the fruits of the great charter of English liberty. The fire kindled along the shores of the Jordan, kept alive by the apostles for four centuries, intensified by Constantine, smouldering during the dark ages, until the dying embers were rekindled by the misguided zeal of the crusades, slowly
burning through the intolerance and persecution of three centuries—burst forth at last in the riffes of the reformation, which burned with such a mighty flame as to dispel the darkness and superstition of ages, and fill the world with such a light that all nations might bereafter walk in its unfading splendor.
But if it is difficult to estimate the value of the great charter to the English people, it is impossible to estimate the importance of the reformation to the world. The history of the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is the but recital of bloody wars, carried on for conquest, or the destruction of rival dynasties. True, there was a growing desire among the masses for greater personal independence. The liberty-loving Saxons had forced concessions from their king. The victory of Sempach had given a degree of independence to the hardy mountainers of Switzerland, and Savanorola had gone to the stake that Italy might have greater religious tolerance; but in the main, the rights accorded to an individual, because he was a human being, were insignificant. Individual conscience was stifled, and freedom of opinion upon the part of the common people was almost unknown.
It is difficult to estimate the value to the English people of the Magna Charta. The movement resulting in this great instrument had been struggling on through the centuries, and it had encountered the opposition of principalities and powers in high places; but the victory was great, and up to that time the crowning one of English civilization.
The centuries had recorded many acts of crumely, and oppression and tyranny upon the part both of church and state, but all the while the doctrine of the rights of the individual was forcing larger recognition, even among the despotisms of the old world. Following the Magna Charta, England conceded more and more to the common people. Switzerland gave the world its first permanent republic. The throne of France had toterted to its fall. Constituents were granted, defining the powers of the rulers and the rights of the subjects. Serfdom has been abolished in Russia, and in the meantime, a new nation had asserted itself beyond the seas, where in the idea had its full development in the formation of a government, the very principle of which, as expressed in its written declaration, was that all men were created equal.
But whence came this American idea—the American institutions—this American civilization? Some say that American civilization is innate; some, that it arose among our Teutonic ancestors in their German forests; some that Switzerland was the place of its birth; some, that it had its first growth among the Anglo Saxons. But, have not all these sources, and more, united together to make our civilization great? Who shall say that it had not been growing and germinating for seventeen centuries in all the liberty-loving countries of the world whose thoughts had been quickened by the teachings of the Man of Galilee? That when Winklerleid made a way for liberty by sacrificing himself upon the altar of human liberty in Switzerland, that when Savonarola went to his death in Italy for conscience' sake, that when the Puritans followed Cromwell in England for the dethronement of a tyrant king, that the people might have larger privileges, that when John Hampden became the people's hero fighting for the people's rights, that when Luther nailed his immortal theses to the door of the cathedral in Wittenberg and burned the papal bull of excommunication, that when the martyrs in dungeons and at the stake offered the full measure of sacrifice for freedom of opinion—they did not sow in the hearts and consciences of men the seed which in the lives of their descendants should spring up in after years and bring forth the splendid fruit of a government founded upon the doctrine of equality before the law.
But strange as it may seem, even in this country, under the same flag and protected by the same laws the highest individual freedom and the baset and most abject slavery dwelt side by side. The same arrogance, intolerance and oppression which had characterized the civilization in the old world characterized it in the new. Slavery profaned the very name of liberty by its presence and defied all the power of the law to prevent its further aggregation. Its representatives sat in the councils of the nations and its advocates filled the highest places in out judicial tribunals. Its coffers were full of ill-gotten wealth and obsequious courtiers were ever ready to do its bidding. It built a temple, and dedicated it to the cause of human oppression; its dome reached to the very skies, and every institution of the nation lay in its baneful shadow. Every stone in its massive walls was laid by the hand of unrequired toil, and every decoration in its spacious chambers was the price of blood.
But all the while the doctrine of the rights of the individual and the value of man as a human being, had been getting a firmer hold upon the conscience of the age, until at last the genius of the new civilization came forth out of seventeen centuries of strife, oppression and discussion girded and panplied for the great fight, and marching up to the doors of this infamous temple, like Richard at Askelon—he demanded admission, broke down its gates, and there in the midst of the arrogant worshippers at its shrine, he proclaimed his faith in the sacred cause of individual rights and human liberty, and reaching out his strong arms, he grasped the pillars of the temple, and like Sampson at Gaza, pulled it to the earth.
The destruction was complete, and personal liberty had won its most signal triumph. The cause of humanity caught up a new song and a new chorus filled the earth, every cord and note and vibration of which was in perfect harmony with the old, old song that in the days of the birth of the new idea was sung by heaven's choir on old Judea's plains.
Henceforth this nation was to be the mighty power in Christendom, moulding and shaping all things toward the accomplishment of the great purpose of the elevation of the individual. Its example was to be the inspiration of struggling humanity everywhere, and its object the amelioration of man's condition. Every white sail of its commerce that dotted the seas was to be a messenger of peace to bring the nations closer together; every hospital built for the care of the suffering, every university, college or other institution of learning, scattering its blessings and disseminating knowledge to rich and poor alike; every church wherein the old, old story of the Man of Galilee was so often told; every almshouse and asylum built as a place of refuge for those who found life's burdens too heavy to be borne, was to be a land mark along the shining course leading all the way from the declaration of independence to the proclamation that emancipated a race, and these were to speak more eloquently than words of the triumph of the civilization which had its birth in the orient, and after the lapse of ages finds its richest developments in the occident.
When the armies of this nation marched to the liberation of a people struggling for liberty, and our navies sailed the seas to bring deliverance to the captive, it was as truly a prompting of our civilization as the doctrine of the equality of man is a principle of our government.
Those who pretend to see in it anything else or anything less, are insensible to the highest impulse of our civilization. Men and organizations are but the agencies of the growth of an idea. The deliverance of the Cubans was the full harvest of the seed sown in Judea centuries ago, and carried to all lands and implanted among all peoples by the utterance—"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
The rallying cry of the future must be the rights of humanity; the strongest inspiration to duty. a desire to do humanity a service. The song of the era which is to come, will be the song of the era which has gone—the song of "good will to men."
The armies of the old civilization marched to battle and conquest to make dependencies and men vassals; the armies of the new civilizations are marching out to make men free, and give them back their birthrights.
The civilization that has gone reared monuments, *builted cities*, established commerce, promoted literature, encouraged art, and rejoiced and was satisfied at the work of its own hands.
The civilization that is coming—aye, which has come—will build greater cities, establish a wider commerce, promote a better literature, encourage and patronize a higher art—but these are only incidents of the greater work which it must accomplish. Its real work will be to elevate and dignify the individual, to break down the prison doors of ignorance and superstition and lead the captive out to moral and intellectual freedom; to bring the occident and the orient together in bonds of intercourse and to bind the whole world together by the ties of a universal brotherhood; to make man in his own person, the incarnation of every great truth and the embodiment of every lofty idea, and to take the civilization which has produced such splendid fruit back to the place of its origin, and scatter its blessings there; and it is only fitting that the instruments through which this civilization will be carried back to the orient, shall be the citizens of the republic in which it had its highest development, and that those of our own loved State, where forty years ago through the sacrifice of old John Brown and his followers, the doctrine of the rights of the individual had a new birth and a new baptism, should
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Mother Asia, we stand at your threshold!
In far immemorial peace
But We left you, great Mother of Nations,
But God brought us back to your door.
We have circled the seas and the islands,
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There are weeds in the garden of morning,
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Your blind eyes are drear, and your heart has
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The years that your sons were away.
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The youth of the world have returned.
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And before Christian sons at your side.
They will toil in your gardens of morning,
They will cleanse you of mire and fen;
You shall hear the glad laughter of children
You shall seize the strong arms of men,
You shall hear the clamor of warriors,
Despair from your threshold be spurned,
A new day shall arise in your Orient skies,
The youth of the world has returned.
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