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Show Cjf ajilem.aone. Dr. John Lord last week lectured in New York on th. great Charlemagne of whom hp ia a great admirer. He uaid he was without with-out a peer during a thousand years, Charlemagne was tho first to raise a harrier against tho barbarians, and tor this tho doctor honored him, It wa a curious fact that no long as be turned his arms against tho people who threatened tho existence of civilization civil-ization and Christianity ho was successful suc-cessful without oxception, but when, urged by Ibo dream ot universal kingdom king-dom in Europe, be carried his arms where war was not necessary, as againjt the saracens, whom bis graud-Itithcr graud-Itithcr had reibjertyl loreyur powerless to injure christian Europe, or against the Lombards, his expeditions bad met with failure, as had tlioso ol Napoleon at a later period. Tho doctor doc-tor drew a moral from this that war waged in the intercut of justico and humanity was noble and commendable, commend-able, but that, waged fur selfish ambition am-bition and Hfc-m-andiifcnient, it was nut permilttd Jong to last. Oharlc-nirtgno Oharlc-nirtgno waged war from tho purest motives iu the intercuts ol chrblutmty and against Ibo outspreading of barbarism, bar-barism, and Cod bad prospered him and rewarded him with years and honor, fcapuluqn had warred from the lovo of htrifo alone, and he was humbled and cut ofl in the prime ol hi? years. |