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PREACIIED ON SUNDAY EVENING LAST IN THE PRESBYTERIAN (.‘IIURCH. ” And the Lord said unto Joshua,"&c. â€"-Joshua vii. 10 13. You will remember that Achau, at the fall of Jericho, in reckless defiance of the express command of Jehovah, stole from among the spoils .1 Babylouish garment, a. wedge of gold,arid 200 slickels of silver. On account of that wickedness, the army of Israel met with disastrous defeat, and some thirty six men were slain. This led to an investigation and discovery of the guilty party, and Acllfi," and his uri- happy family were stoned to death in the Valley of Aclror. The result was,we find, that great. prosperity immediately attend- ed their enterprises. The army of Israel marched out of that valley, where prob- ably they had buried their thirty-six battle-slain comrades, and where with their own hands they had stoned to death the author of all their iriisery, to victory They were now :1 better army. astronger army, than they ever were before. No army after that could stand before them. They swept right on to the possession of the land. Thus the “valley of Achor became to the nation a. door of hope.” Now, it appears to me, that there are lessons in this suggestive historical incl! dent, of a. very practical character, that it would be well for ris to remember. Ixâ€"Thai evil of every kind, is a source of weakness. trouble and disaster. Look at this bright picture. It's a battle scene. Yonder are 3000 lsraelitislr soldiers with battle axe and glistening: spear, marching against Al. They have just fought their first battle, and won it easily, they are, therefore, now flushed with victory, as they march from the smoking ruins of Jericho, to crush and destroy Al. The idea. of defeat never once crosses their minds, and everything truly augurs success. Their enemies are trembling with fear. They have heard of the overthrow of the strouguvalled city of Jericho, and it has struck consternaâ€" tion and dread into their souls. If great Jericho could not stand before Israel, if her massive walls toppled over at the warvwlioop of God’s hosts, what can coni- paratively defenceless Ai hope for. On comes the proud Victorious forces of Is. reel. As the men of Al see them ..,, preach, although filled with a. nameless dread and fear, they yet, nevertheless, are resolved to fight for their homes, for their wives and little ones. They sally forth to meet them, to repel the invaders of their country, if they can; if not, at least to die in its defence. The two armies meet. Then is a flashing of steel, a. crushing of helmets, a terrible hand-to- haud struggle, not long but exceedingly fierce. At length the forces of Israel give way, they break, they become panic- stricken, and iguominiously flee from the field. The men of Al have gained a glorious victory, and, consequently, there is wonlerful rejoicing in the streets of Al, and loud larueutatious in the camp of Israel. But what is the cause of all this terrible disaster? Was their bad gener- alship on the part of Joshua? Did he lose his head ’1 Did his intrepid courage forsake him I No. Joshua was not to blame. \Vns Israel’s army out-numbered by the foe l No l. “his there misman- agement or bungling of some kind upon the part of the officers, or cowardice upon the part of the men? No! No! Then there is a» mystery somewhere. What does Joshua. do I Just what many a hravu general has done sinceâ€"he goes down upon his knees and asks God the secret of all the trouble, and the answer comes. What is it I “ Israel has sinned.” That was the secret of their defeat. The generalshlp was good enough, and the army was strong enough, but there was an Achair in the camp. One man, to gratify his terrible lust for gold. brought about this terrible national :lisnstepâ€"thh crushing defeat to [smile army. Now ihcr'e are Athens iu the Conscr- vatlve camp at. ()ltriwummul not a few or them eiiher. There are Aclruus in Liberal enurp do“ n in the Province of Quebecâ€"mid not. u few of them cirlu-r. Men uho have fallen in lm‘e “llll the goodly Biilryloriislr garurerils. the Wedges of gold, and ilre Shekels of silver. Men who have. prostituted the honourable, and responsible pmitiorrs, in which by the sutl'rugcs of Iii-sir fellow citizens they have been placed, for their nu ii personal ends. They have usvil their Lillicirrl positions to enrich lllf‘lilst‘ll't‘s :lllfl ihrir' friends. To my (-rlirle \my of thinking the of Aclrziu. arr-.l the sin that those modern poliiicul Achnus have corrrrrritted. llut let us see! Aclmrr sll‘lc (luring the ox- circmeirf of u some of llillllL‘ owl from his open lllltl :l'i'lr\\L‘ll t‘lrk‘lrrlr‘fi. lint our political .‘iclmrrs in ()rtliwu :iml Qur lw- ', lune been rolling in their bilwr slrvlz. 5 on. sit; and “edges or gold 1“ the most cool “lid ,1... f‘ll'l‘ll-‘V ; systematic rrrzrliiicr, apparently, for at _ trouble and ruin. the . l l l l l l l 1 number of years. Aclmu stole from his enemies, but there men have stolen from their friends. That is, they huVe squan- dercrl upon themselves and their friends, 'fi‘re nerd earnings of the tax-payers of this Durrrirrionâ€"your money and mine. Now as Achau was a source of weak- ness to Israel, and brought about the ruinous defeat of Al, so the political Aclrmrs, be they found in cilher Conserâ€" vative or Liberal Camp, I care not which. they must and they will eventually, bring about the utter (lefeut and ruin of the party to which they belong. The mural sense of the public, I know, or at least, I fear, has become materially blunted. by the systematic bribery and corruption, that has been practiced for years, especially in connection with elec- tion contests. Yet, it is not, thank God, totally dead ; and the events that are now taking pla‘ce, will be sufficient to aâ€" rouse such a. wave of popularindignation, all over this broad Dominion, from the surf-smitten shores of Nova Scotia to the placid waters of the Straits of Fuca. as will hurl from place and power, the party that will dare to throw the mantle of pro- tection around the Aclians that are in their camp. I think We have made toler- ably plain our first position, that evil is a source of weakness and a. cause of . I notice 11. A That the only remedy for the evil is the utter and complete destruction of the Aclrurrs. Joshua. went to work in a very systematic manner to discover the offender. He examined tribe by tribe, arid man by man. He did not employ “acorirrnittee of enquiry ” to do the work. or prob-\bly it would have taken a long time todo it, and then it would be only very imperfectly clone. Some one has said, that if a committee had been employed to build the ark, the deluge would have come long before it was finished, and all the people would have been drowned. No. Joshua. had no committee of enquiry, but he did the work himself. And finally “ Achari the son of Car-mi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zcrah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.” (Rciid verses 18 26). What a strange sight that is which we behold in the valley of Achor. We are almost led to cry out, “ Why, Joshua are you not making a mis‘akel Are you not cripp- ling your own strength. and helping on your enemies, by diminishing your own forces? Besides, Achan has been a good man and true, and has served our cause ______,___._..._ well in the past, therefore, you should 1 condone his offense as much as possible.” But no, brethren, Joshua made no mis- take. He knew that the destruction of evil is always strengthâ€"never weakness. The army of Israel marched out of that gloomy volley, stronger and better than if they had a thousand Achans in their midst. No Al throughout all the land of Canaan could stand before them now. The valley of Achor was to them the door of hope. The same principle is true to-day. Is there an Aclian in your camp, my Liberal or Conservative friend I If there is. then 9.an with him to the val. ley of Aclior at once. and stone him with stones until there is not a, particle of political life left in him, and then pile a. great heap of stones on top of his rotten political carcas, that they may serve as a warning to politicians in future gener- ations. It is Well for parties .and Gov- ernments to remember, that just like a chain, they are no stronger than the weakest link ,1 that, just like a ship, they are no stranger than the weakest plank. Your political craft, from stem to stern, from topmast to keel, may be as fine 8. looking craft as ever sailed over the stormy sea. of politics, but if sway down below water-mark there is a rotten,worm- eater) plank, then the ship is doomed, and “’1” probably founder in the first tempest. In conclusion, permit me to offer a few observations relative to our country and its future outlook. First with regard to the country itself. 1 have not the least hesitation lll saying that we have a grand country, the sun to-duv shines upon none better. I can Speak “llll some little authority upon this subject, sis I have ll\'L‘Ll for some years in every province of this Dominion, with the single exception of the Province of Quebec, and have travelled pretty well over that. We have everything within ourselves that is necessary for the dcl‘eloplln;lll‘. and main- tenance of a grout ruitiou. l’mtlr to rust zirid wet \ve litii'e the finest fisheries in the world, capable of indefinite rluvcl- opulent, :ll‘Cl n source of unlimited u errltlr. . in minerals we have gold, silver, I: mpI-r', iron, ll’illlrâ€"III fuel everything: in the ruiru I'ill line, nud all in ‘d state of infancy We have the grandest curil fiL'lllS found anywhere, bull) to the Oust and west. :rrul also in the centre of our curm- iry. \\'o have some of the llumt lumber tlnil gl‘ll\\"§,1‘.ll(lélllyljllulillly“fit. have! millions lllltl millions of acres of [he llluut of zigrlcullurul lziuil, capable of Slls‘l’lllllllL: :r rmgrulumui of millions of people. I il l:« not the faultof the c ruulr'y. Country is all right. This brings to be The inc to E «goodly»~lluve u'c rnzrdc, u; a calm- the“ ~ case. ' sources are vast. \Yr’ i r l Uh rm, if We have rr-r‘i p'ospcl'lryl‘ t try, any material prosperity during, the last ten years ‘1 Facts, stern, hard. im- placable facts. compel me to have to answer this question in the negative. I do not candidly think that we have, not in any particular, and certainly not in point of numbers, according to the figures given us by the recent census. I don’t intend to trouble you ulth many figures, for it will be difficult for you to remem- ber them. Still a few are necessary. According to the recent returns we have ROW 21 population of 4,830,000. In 1881 we had a population 4,326,000, the rate of increase during the decade has been a little over ll per cent. But during the last ten years, at a cost to the country of $3,000,000. we have secured about 000;! 000 immigrants. Without at all reckon- ing the natural increase of that number, the country to-day has a population in round numbers, of 400,000 less than the addition of the original immigrants alone would give. This simply means that 463,000 of them, that we have at a great cost brought out to this country, have been lost to Canada. Again, when you. take the natural increase of the whole country, which, putting it at the very low estimate of 14 per cent. would give us 600,000 more. The question then arises, what has become of the 1,000,000 of people that we have lost during the last ten years I Where are they I Some of us perhaps might venture to guess, but we Will not. Again, going back to the census of 1871, or for twenty years, we find the population at that time was 3,686,000. During the twenty years 1,300,000 imâ€" migrants have settled in the Dominion, so that the population at present should be 5,000,000, without taking into account the natural increase of the 1,300,000 in- migrants, as well as the people who were here before they come. It follows their (hot during the last twenty years we have actually lost more than all the natural increase of all the people. But where have these people all gone? I would rather not answer that question. I will leave you to guess. But another quest- iou presents itself here, and one that we must look in the face. When will we ever become a nation at this rate of iii- orease’l The answer is very simple and plainâ€"We never will! Exit this brings me to occurre: Thirdly-â€"What is the particular cause of this state of things? You may rest assured that there is a cause. What is it? \Ve pointed out to you already that it cannot be because there is any defect in the country itself, for that is not the The country is good and our re.- Wliat’s the trouble then? It must be that there is some (le- fect somewhere in the administration of affairs. Of course the Grits lay it at the door of the National Policy of the Govâ€" ernment, and say that it is that that’s ruining the country, and driving the people out of it by thousands every year. I know that I am not the man, and I am quite sure that this is neither the time not place to enter into a. discussion of this purely political aspect of the quest- ion. I wish to view it rather from the standpoint of an outsider, that is one who is outside the pile of party politics. The first thing that impresses me as such is the excessive extravagance that charâ€" acterizes the administration of public affairs. The fact is we are pretty nearly governed to death. That witty French- man, Max O’Rell, in his book, “ Brother Jonathan and his Country,” comme' cos with the sentence: “ The population of the United States is fifzy millionsâ€"mostly Colonels.” This is an exaggeration in doubt. But it is no exaggeration to say that the population of the Dominion is four millionsâ€"mostly Legislators and Govern ment officials. Perhaps you don’t believe me. Well take a few figures. The Federal Government at Ottawa con- tains 300 rneiiibersâ€"2l5 iii the Commons and 80 in the Senateâ€"each getting his $1000 ii year. besides mileage. In the Provincial Legislatures there are 71 Legislative Councillors and 349 repre- sentatives III the Provincial Assemblies. Thus we have a grand total of 715 laiu‘w makers to uruke l:i\\‘S for less than five millions of people; 'rr one for every 1400 fairriillcs. Prince Edward Island, u'iih about one half us many people in the whole m‘ovirrcc :13 there: is in the crly of Toronto. has 40 Iit‘glsl'rhlrs, or one for every ill) fillllllli‘s iu the province. IlVell, we have rr'crriy HI Legislators, \thlevn‘ also we are suii'erirrg for, it is not for their. Then with r'ogrir'd to public «illi'irils, from the Guri-rrror'lJrirui' .l with his $130,- 001) ii your", insides :is much more for In- clLli-rririls. ilnwu iv) (he irrrsscrrger buy in lhe- srrmllosr Provincial 11.1.rrzirzeuiâ€"wliy there 1:; :i '.\!;le* urury of themâ€"wire half the errllrc ,r rpzrlziliorr is furl :ilril clothed ill the crap-use oi the nilrcr half, and yet run pic '.\"Ix* l-sr We don‘t get along. We 11m jil‘l :rlr rut one hull {no runny llllllllxl will ‘iuln lr. looks to me like put~ ingot-r1) ,. r‘\:-r engine in :i lurch lurk curioc. It will shake. ill-.2 Il'ull filling; to pivccs. tum! (CU/“0170“;{.ilfil‘l’ll [Mm l ..-YY'.'L .