THE hOUTil AMKKIL'AN KAKTliy LAKES. 1-lj 



the unity of mankind in the apostasy and in the atone- 

 ment. Tlierc is something more tlum the man, there is 

 humanity ; — humanity, -wliieli falls as one in Adam, and 

 in everyone of the sons of Adam; humanity that is 

 lifte'd up as one in Jesus Christ, ami in every one of the 

 brethren of Jesus Christ. "\\'heres(-)ever falls the stroke 

 of supreme justiee, what individual or what eountry so- 

 ever it nuiy smite, it punishes and redeems, at once, the 

 "whole race of man in each one of its victims — each a 

 victim of wrath, marked beforehand for punishment, 

 if lie be more guilty; each a victim of propitiation, of- 

 fering himself for expiation, if he be more innocent, or 

 rather, if he be less impure. 



^lay I venture — not to sound unfathomable righteous- 

 ness, but to lean trembling over the brink of that abyss ? 

 May I venture vaguely to inquire, so far as it is possible 

 to the timid and uncertain thought of mortal man,* 

 what is the special crime that could deserve the punish- 

 ment of which I am this day speaking? 



I would not give olFence to any, whether God or man ; 

 but something urges me on. I am a European, as their 

 fathers were, of Latin race and Catholic religion. I feel 

 myself constrained to confess their crime as if it v.-ere 

 my own. 



There was of old, in that land, a strange empire that 

 seemed still to retain something of the splendors of the 

 king of day, from which it conceived itself to have sprung. 

 Absolute as the sun himself in power, and exercising it 

 only for the happiness of their subjects, the Children of 

 the Sun presented the rare spectacle of a beneficent des- 

 potism. Eare sjiectacle, indeed, and I thank God for it. 



* "Fcr what man could know tho counsel of God? Or who could Uiink 

 what is the will of God ? For the thoughts of mortals are timid, and our foro- 

 çi'rbr ic uncertain." Book of Wisdom, ix. 13, 14. 



