_Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus._ THE CAUSES OF NATIONAL DECADENCE Who has not sometimes, standing on Brooklyn Bridge, and looking off on the forests of masts, or upon the fleets sailing back and forth upon the river, or at the great warehouses upon one side and the homes beautiful and ha... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God._ IN THE GARDEN OF GOD 1. History, it is clear, may be written as poetry; and that, too, without any evaporation of its facts. Ezekiel’s figure gives us the essential spirit of a great age. We see its successes; we feel its pride; we thrill with its joys.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God._ THE RELIGIOUS CLAIMS OF THE BRITISH COLONIES Let Britain recognise, not merely the elements of her greatness in her commercial relations, but the type of her majesty in a state, planted l... [ Continue Reading ]
_By the iniquity of thy traffic._ CORRUPTION IN COMMERCE The tendency is to measure all things by a money standard. The business that cannot be ruled by Christianity is wrong. What this does for a land, if it grows unchecked, is to make men sell the best things. Phoenicia did, and the spirit of her... [ Continue Reading ]