Show 0 o A Sermon By the Rev Cyrus C rus Eddy in Philadelphia North American J 1 For God shall sh ll bring every work late Into Judgment with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evIL xiv 1 11 kE NIHIL NISI BONUM How taT fa alter after all are ue the dead clead exempted ex exempted D DE empted from criticism by the fact tact of or cerUI ill their Ulett intimately In tima tely and vitally concern the living and aDd the consequence stretch far Car into the future they then are ue legitimate subjects of dl eU and lid the t proverbs do not net obtain Undeniably li Sa this so iO of their nubile nets acts whatever may be their private life Ufe Last Lut week one ORe of tb the few great groat men teen of the present age died Ere Bre this te lEI read he be will vill be laid away for tor his hia long rest rent in the hills hUIs in that strange mysterious Africa out of ot which we wo constantly look for tor something nc new Con Considering Considering Considering his bis chosen cho en work in the lane Ion fine of British worthies I know boW of no noone noone one 0 with whom to compare hint him ha ni it tt be Warren Warra Bastings It U is difficult to contrast the present t with the neat aest at Posterity more often olma them therm not DOt reverses reverse the contemporary verdict but I should place Cecil Rhodes on a higher i nue not of ot ability but of achievement than Warren Hasting Both non men Meed shed for fot commercialism With Hastings oppression woo wall the tM necessary beginning of of his policy poIl y with Rhodes Rhode war was the unavoidable end Sloth Both were ex exponents exponents exponents of ot the th old IMpel gospel pel of tore line Hastings weapon was wu the sword nord Rhodes the railroad train this marks mark the Ute difference in a century of progress Had it not DOt been bee for v t Ys magnificent essay perhaps the finest t piece of writing of ot the kind extant there would be few today toda to remember the am ambitions ambition the successes and the failures of oC Hastings of Daylesford In India possibly po he would still sUIl be recalled but everywhere else be would be he forgot forgotten forgotten ten Rhodes was waa clever enough to identify identity himself by name with a great sec eec section tion of a great country Rhodesia and that little word will keep kee him eternally in view vie even though no Macaulay shall 11 arise rise with his hia h wieard wiard pen pea to enshrine the greatness peat of the tM South African Caesar After all is fa it not letters rather than deeds that give immortality Now a man may be great Teat morally mon l or great creat immorally or great peat in la spite of immorality Certainly the fondest panegyrist could not enter a wholesale defense of the careers career of such men as u Hastings and Rhodes possibly he could not even justify the major portion of their endeavors It hen baa h always been that the empire builder has baa founded his hili empire upon the ruins of ot older governments usually decadent involving the destruction or the degrada degradation tion of weaker peoples Even the children of Israel did not possess themselves of f the Holy Land and build there their Jewish confederation the th kingdom of Solomon without a campaign which for bloody ferocity and ud ruthless ruthleA extermination can calL scarcely be paralleled in history Yet if Hastings ruthlessly swept away the last vestiges of ancient and Inefficient Ine govern governments ments mente he also dispossessed bray brave peoples people of rightful rl domains and aDd with bit Nt bitter ter injustice made deserts duerta of smiling IU lUng lands in order to make that province of Britain which is il s so 80 great that Its rulers rulen do not disdain to couple the title of its Ita emperor with the ancient kingship of oC the British throne On the tile whole the results of the abrogation of the native governments and the domination of ot the British in India have materially bettered the condition of that ghastly land Whether or no some lOIne other means meU would not have brought about an even better result need Deed not be discussed now This ThI is my DIY ambition said aid Cecil Rhodes once passing his hie hand and rapidly over the map of South Africa to nave have that all English an as red nil His Ria ambi ambition tion has been realised in a way he be did fUd not desire de lre yet ought to have bAve foreseen f n nIt It is red with the blood of the slain the soldier in khaki the Boer vi tt his bandoleer the women and children It was wu through Rhodes that gigantic African provincial design de lp was conceived to him must mu t accrue the Ute glory about him must I cling cUng the shame If It good may mp 7 come in the end he be Will be b entitled to the credit as U be he must mu t now JIOW bear the burden of ot responsibility God bring his 1118 work into lato Judgment ju nay he has baa Guilty as Cecil Rhodes may mal be behe behe behe he is t not so guilty a as Warren Wan Hastings In this case the tile less lees B guilt the t e greater Ute the man There runs aa sat It ancient tale taie taleThe taleThe The king was wu dead deaL He lay in I state ste in his bis castle hall ball Above him drooped the tile banners of conquered peoples Upon the waits wails in letters pf of gold were written the names of ol victories gained of nations on subdued of or liberties ab absorbed a absorbed Around him were ware grouped the veteran soldiers solders who bad fleshed hed their swords an aa hundred kids Ael i where be lie had bad led Stern Stera ruthless s grim crim faced and anti terrible they watch over the body of their dead dad lord The people with hushed footsteps foot and aad awestruck faces tace stole timorously up II to 10 look upon the body of the king lying so eo white so stilL and Iad so 80 terrible t a frown upon his face as they had bad seen him in life Ute his mighty m ty brand clasped in his hta hi lifeless hands The room was tilled filled with successes e eloquent of achieve achievement went meat redolent of empire In la that same hour a small perverted misshapen PU distorted soul stood before the Judgment bar of God weighed wel ed down with the woes of nations crimson with the blood of women and children c his feet upon the accusing ace bodies 1 of t the slain alain That soul was wag u pleading lD in piteous terror tenor for mercy mercy It was WI tile the king He was there with his h work God had brought him and aad It into Judgment e t Verily Terlly the works worb of men do follow them through the open epee grave va and aad gate of death into that mysterious lII Hurne whence WRence but one oM has baa returned to tell teU tellus tellus us u of it and lad God Judges our pigmy greatness s upon our tiny tJay globe glebe lObe in Ja its Ita true sad aad proper light Oh Ob what a mysterious thing is le life Yesterday Cecil Rhodes R was w the center of observation the focus of effort of a world Today he is what hat Alas nothing but a mass of cold clay elay soon to be resolved Into the elemental drat of origin onta Of no to more value than the body of ot the beggar beI J who died In Inthe Inthe the street Imperial Caesar dead and aad turned to clay might m stop top a hole bole to keep the wind away The change from Just Jut before to J just at after the last Jut breath is so 10 startling the transition so 80 tremendous that even enn the most ears care less leas mind is attracted to it and dwells upon it with witla inquiry and It ItIs ItIs Is as if one ODe had Md held the tile world wood in his grasp in one moment t and aad in the ue next had Jaad been a unable to support a bubble bobble I How Bo little after all II is hulas greatness We sum It up pp la in the there tea ter terrible i rib words which embody all the wisdom of el Solomon Aye it is not so 80 much achievement after all an that Mitts counts with God aa as char character character acter actor actorIs Is 1 he a Christian asked one of ot aa sat admirer of the dead empire builder A Christian was Wu 1 contemptuous reply re Why he is aa an It empire But is there incompatibility or should there be May Iday 7 not ROt empires e be Ita budded upon love lore Was Waa pot liot Christ himself bim elC the greatest builder HUder of empire re rethe the world has even seen Blessed did he be not say oay y of old are the tit meet meek and aad shall they not some day Inherit the earth in is spite of all the dress dreams eC of t the of the world and aad the kingdoms thereof Perhaps the ue subject Jeet is Ia toe too tta b lessons lemons too manifold ta to be considered in the brief compass compu of this lItt rmon yet I am very sure un that dust no man who reads read can aa fall fail to Had ft some ome lesson I 1 in the career of this teen man of el Africa and England Nor can caa any aay span man n be indifferent to it la In the tad end His career was wonderful yet et what does d ea it all amount to now What of all U his hla hopes bopes all his dreams and all an his hili aspirations They have all ail come so far tar as ashe asbe ashe he be Is concerned to an end and all aU that will be considered of him by bJ the tH Eternal t rower Power ower before whom he e must plead his final lIn case is What te Js the character and manner of the man And the answer to that query flu depends not so bush maeh aa oa hit achievements hents as tI a builder of empires as It does deem d upon the reply to that scornful dismissed Interrogation Is 18 he a Christ Christian fan |