Punch (63.1872)

198 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [November 9, 1872.

TEMPORA MUTANTUR.

Flyman (to Tourists at Alder shot). "Yes, 'M, that's 'im, Mum, with the Hoedebly folleein' 'im—that's the Genebal. But,

bless tee, he's undeb conteol hisself now ! hebe's the hoefice, you see, Mum!!"

MORE MILITANTS THAN ONE.

"What Church but's up in arms, right hand and left

Exchanging fisticuffs with priestly unction ?
Their Levites into warring unions cleft

With mutual damnation for chief function :
In Congress, Convocation, sounds the clash

O'er disputation's waste but well-fought field ;
From Conference, Council, Synod, rings the dash

Of Dogrma's double-sided shield with shield ;
Rather than put her weapons on the shelf,

Lilburne-like, each Church militates with herself.

Sooner than stoop her hand to such plain work

As bringing Christ's light Christian life to guide,
If she can't burn heretic, Jew, or Turk,

Each of her sects 'gainst all a tilt can ride :
Forbidden to plait halters, she '11 split hairs ;

In surplices, if not in straws, find quarrel;
Bid every Doxy kick the rest down-stairs ;

Call reason blind, search sin, and doubt immoral;
Then, as from faith she feels the life-blood failing,

Thrust Dogma-doses down to cure her ailing,—

A sad and sorry sight—a black look-out,

If Christian light were inside Churches cabined,
If choice of Dogmas were sole 'scape from doubt,

Sole safety to be Rectored, Poped, or Rabbined.;
But through Church-Militants' drear dark chance-medley,

A wighter, brighter Militant I see—
Truth-Militant, of Dogmas foeman deadly,

Champion of Faiths, that have been, and will be—
The Sermon on the Mount upon her shield

In blazon of light, life, and love revealed.

"Whoso in Truth's picked army seeks his mates,
"Will see all fighters friends, all Churches one,

Spite of Theology's bewildering hates

Round Dogma's holds, alternate lost and won ;
Will find that not from Church-fight's flash and glare,

But from Christ's plain, pure words on that white shield
Comes all the light that all the Churches share,

That warms to fruit all growths of their wide field,
The bond that all their hatreds underlies,

And gives them all what each to each denies.

HARO ! HARO !

The award of the Emperor of Germany concedes the Strait of
Haro to the American construction of the blundering Ashburton
Treaty of 1846. There is an old Anglo-Norman usage still kept up
in the Channel Islands—that stronghold of obsolete usages. When
a party is wronged, he makes what is called his " Clameur de Haro"
invoking the powers of the island to do him justice.

But where the powers of the island are the authors of the wrong
suffered, in what form is the " Clameur de Haro" to be raised?
"We are waiting to see.

Comparative Liberty.

No King of England, except Charles the First, a contemporary
essayist, in Estimates of English Kings, remarks, "has ever
seriously tried to be despotic in the true sense of the word, and even
Charles did not desire to interfere with the course of daily life."
No ; that remained to be done by the Liberal Government which
has blessed us with coercive, paternal, sumptuary and Sabbatarian
legislation. _

a cbow from the cradle.

The question of Baby Farming, considered as destined to be
affected by the progress of paternal legislation, assumes an aspect of
national importance.

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