Show REVOLUTIONS The fortunes of Mr PARXELL suggest a train of thought the reverse of that awakened awak-ened in the mind of the Bard Statford onAvon by the fall of Cardinal WOLSET This is the state of man says Shakespeare Shakes-peare in commenting on that event Today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope tomorrow blossom And bears his blushing honors thick upon him The third day comes a frost a killing frost And when he thinks good easy man full surely His greatness is a ripening nips his root And then he falls And when he falls he falls like Lucifer Never to hope again It is but a few years ago that tho Liberal party in England were entertaining Mr PARXELL in Kilmainham jail with prison fare and bed Today he is the political lion of that same party admired almost loved by his former jailors At the banquet lately given in London by the Eighty Club in honor of Lord SPBXCHR Mr PARXELL was a guest and not only divided tho honors of toe evening with Lord SFBXCBR but monopolized them Everywhere he appears he receives an ovation and the Liberal leaders who imprisoned him are now heaping honors thick upon him In view of this change of fortune which a few years have brought him may we not say This is the state of man today grim sorrow Claims him for his own and hope The best of heavens gifts to man in chains sits weeping Fierce black dispair grins hu ely at his woe And mocks his groans his silent tears and prayers And when he thinks poor wretched man full surely The heavn above his head is brass and all his efforts vain The third day comes and opens wide The prison doar and gives him fam ant freedom Even erst while foes arc tumd to friends And vie with friend to do him justice While sweet success sits smiling on his brow What revolutions take place both in the experiences of men and of nations I Eighteen Eigh-teen centuries ago Rome was the imperial mistress of tho world and about as much was known by the civilizedworld of the British Islands as is now known of the Samoa Islands and they were regarded as of no more importance For many centuries centur-ies however Rome has been stripped of her imperial purple her boundaries her power magnificence are known only in history while the little islands in the distant sea inhabited in the days of Romes pride and power by a few savage tribes are now the centre of an empire more extensive more wealthy and possessing more power than imperial Rome in all her glory could boast Nearly nineteen centuries ago Jcsus of Nazereth was driven barefooted over the hard pavements of the streets of Jerusalem bending beneath the weight of His cross The brutal rabble mocked His agony and lashed the thorncrowned King with a scourge of ropes No friendly hand stretched out its aid to help Him no voice spoke out in His behalf in all that mighty throng Alone He stood beneath his burden bur-den and bore it without murmuring amid the execrations of those it was his dearest wish to bless What a change has time wrought The Godlike man is now honored hon-ored worshiped by millions of those inhabiting in-habiting the fairest and most civilized portions por-tions of the earth while the people who I crucified Him arc broken driven from I their homes and their temple their prido and boast has passed away and their very city given over to the possession of strangers It was in 1810 that the question of the abolition of slavery firstentered into the i national politics of the United States At I that time slavery was supposed to be entrenched i en-trenched behind both the word of God and the constitution and those who talked of abolition were regarded as rash disturbers of the peace of their country A little more than a fifth of a century passed and the shackles of slavery fell from the limbs of three million souls and the rude disturbers turbers of the peace were hailed as the benefactors of their race Thus it is throughout human experience Civilized nations are thrown back by mighty revolutions or sink by slow decay into barbarism and barbarous peoples become be-come civilized and generally carry civiliza ion to a higher point of perfection than did their predecessors The rebels of one generation become the patriots ofthe next The heretics of one age are regarded either as martyrs or orthodox in the one following and the pzstilential fellows he movers of sedition that threaten the peace of the earth today are regarded as reformers tomorrow Since time brings to pass such strange mutations may it not bo hoped that communities com-munities which are distrusted unloved op iressed because they are not understood vill yet have justice done them and they honored the more becauso of the very patience pa-tience with which they bore affliction and injustice We think so Old Time turn on hy wheel and let it come to pass 0 |