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_—, ~, ear irom impinging' on the Claim rowth ; they' are apparently theresult of a such a iiat' *
4 ? th
,_ ~-.... we' are se- to inspiration,. seemed only to confirm it. As
divine arrangement above anymore ' laws of theme he'
'nice to regard as- essential-to Christian— an illustration of this, we may refer to, the
nature' for the . very purpoSe, o l throwing faith.
which is the most valuable portion of the change made in the. views 'of astronomy in these great ;thoughts upon the world: ~,A.s- wh : `
, phlet. It touches upon and answers in a passing from the conjectures of the Ptolemaic
1 11 to the demonstrations of the Copernican sys
. - ' '
sure dl itwillnot.;e maintainedthat ,the
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interpretations, germ of Hamlet, and Lear, and the ,Tempest
et tem. The old of the Bible, was laid in the hearts of, some remote ane
in the systems of theology, were all based on ten of Shakespeare,
and: were in' the ',l
'
the idea' of the . correctness ef 'the Ptolerriaie • orageB - (1 - eveld - ;i1 - into - theie - Wender,:
• 'L.
system. The doctrines of the creeds .Werd" ations - of genius.' It will not he '
all adjusted to that That system of.itStron- ' that in the intellect of John She] -
. ,
ion. omy became the doetrme of- the Church, and father of Shakespeare,'' orig'
in
~, to maintain 'that , the ,earth revolved en 'its
- - and'Alen a skinner; ' and ' -
-Ju' axis and around -the 1 - sun ,was heresy—the . flentey street, in Strati
heresy for which Galilee wa.s persecuted and. was ' that e
was ,pay thi ng C
imprisoned, and which he required by those marvelous .w(r- -
the Church to "abjure,: curse„ and detest,"son' in creative gp
• and' which " he was never 'again: to teach, be-
And even if al'
cause err:meets, heroticliVtiid - ea/arc - irk -to some; germ ~
"Scripture. - 11. - en , turretia cndea*Ored to
• at which ha?
sustain ' - that systems` Vona' the Bible, and to an d, ge r
the .
demonstratethat, according to the Scriptures, the f'
, .
he the earth,was the Centre of the system„ . and a il
.171 F that the stinif 'aid :moon, and v stars revolve
i.'‘ Ad around it. * ' ;AK -'. * ' *. - .** * v
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ti
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"There have been however, readjust
of-
, Christianity attended with.. vi . o , ley
''
F ' which have convulsed the world
on cient system had becoine 'so et"
:, eteristms of an age or country. , w utte r had connected itself •so intir
s shown In the leading Article in Our opinions, the interests, and
ry number, there is and must be 'in mankind ; it- was so •de'
' ' tianity, as a revelation-from. God, that investments,. and law"
' Tll is ' permanent,' and which must be patronage of 06rTur
, '',changing as God, himself, it
- is also true amore corruptly''
'there is much in the system that may all philos o phy
` 've, in its application and development, its rule. ove
ky..tent forms—forms that may give its' re- blended v-''
1 ' ius character to a particular age or nation.' of rate'
' ` , ',1.,..i0n may put on an • oriental garb. It area
, i, appear in monastic SecluSion, or it may tie
. eveloped. in the active and public life of
'" ' hureh. It may be calm, contemplative
- ` I , Be ; it may attach itself to the prey
';,•• ';zhilosophy of the age; it may be ---
''i , in connection with the habits
...' ' and the temperament of a peer'
', ve its form under it 'certP"
4ophy, and become em}
ed on the suppositior
~ m ; it may reeeiv ,
le supposition t'
s in science ,a*
countenance r
attach to '
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Nottvg.
"Abide with Me?
with me 1 fast falls the eventide;
arkness thickens;—Lord? With 111:1Q abide.
other helpers fail, and emnforts flee,
of the helpless, oh, abide'with me.
to its close ebbs out life's little day;
L's joys grow dim, its glories pass away ; ;
,;(3 and decay in all around I ;
,u, who ehangest not, abidOirith'
a brief glance, I beg, a passing ,word:;.• •
as Thon dwell'st with Thy disOples,
'liar, condescending, patient free,
not to sojourn, but abide with me.
not in terror, as the King of kings,
ind and good, with healing in Thymitigs,
for all woes, a heart for every plee,—
, Friend of sinners and thus bide with me.
on my head inearly youth didst smile,
though rebellions and perverse meanwhile,
a bast not left me, oft as I left Thee;
to the close ) 0 Lord, abide with me."
H, F. LYTE.,
IJUSTMENT OF OIiBISTIANITY.
are pleased to learn that. Mr. Barnes
at given to the, public a treatise on
Essays and Reviews " controversy,
ho above title. It bears all the marks
author's well-known candor, breadth
kr, clearness of thought, thoroughness
lysis, and firm, yet conciliatory spirit.
says : "It cannot be denied that the
)n whether a re-adjustment of Chris
as adapted to this age of the world is
,le, and whether it can be effected so
lave Christianity itself, is THE great
ni of this age." After describing, the
and Reviews movement, and charm-.
the views of Bunsen and the West
_Review, and admitting the fact that
6ments of Christianity have taken
as at the Reformation, and in many
ways ; Mr. Barnes
,proceeds to state
eral points on which a readjustment
views is now demanded by these au
es. He then considers the reaponses,
have been elicited in England, to these
Is ; in the main they are inadeqnate;
are hampered with a spirit of exclusive
totally inconsistent with the high de
of the occasion. Mr. Barnes then
(.1s to take up and discuss the several
on which we are summoned to surren-
e evangelical' views which• we are se
mi to regard as- essential to Ohristian-
Lich is the most valuable portion of the
let. It touches upon and answers in a
c aous and masterly manner almost every
ion which modern skepticism has rcised.
well-timed acid effective antidote to these
forms of unbelief, it is a service of great
to the cause of Christ,- and well calm
to settle the waverintminds of this ge
.
We omitted to mention that it is
ted from the Presbyterian Qicarterly,
will be seen from the title, in what light
13arnes regards the present theological
roversy in England. The general prin
, that the current views ot Christianity
by its professors, need readjustment
time to time, is frankly and fay recog 7 ,
-d defended in the pamphlet. *he
time has arrived for such a.process,
.ther the atthors of the Essays and
4 have as they imagine, really per,
the work, are the questions on which
4rnes' argument turns. We quote
, e pamphlet :
READJUSTMENT UNAVOIDABLE.
is not to be denied that any system of
must be shaped very Touch by the
teristics of an age or canntry.•
shown In the leading Article in onr
ry number, there is and must be in
ianity, as a revelation from. God, that
is ' permanent,' and which must be
hanging as God, himself, it is also true
ere is much in the system that may
, in its application and development,
nt forms—forms that may give its re
; character to a particular age or nation.
on may put on an oriental garb. It
ppear in monastic 'seclusion, or it may
eloped in the active and public life of
urch. It may be calm, contemplative,.
e ; it fray attach itself to the prevail-,
ilosophy of the age ; it may be devel
n connection with the habits of think
d the temperament of a people ; it may
e its form under a certain system of
.phy, and become embodied in creeds
on the supposition that is the true
; it may receive its interpretations
he supposition that certain prevailing
s in science are correct, and may seem
luntenance and sustain these views ; it
attach to itself numberless superstitions
may he made appear to belong to the
'e of the system ; and, it rely be so in
d, in that form, withliterary and
yn:try establishments . that tire-ancient
of religious doctrines embodied in a
.hall come down with all that there is
venerable, sacred and philanthropic
ie establishments, and all that therali§
Ix charters to render them permanent. ;
the monasteries in England, in the
If - Henry VIII., were broken up, and the'
ulated property of ages was confisca
seemed to many that a fatal blow was
at vital religion ; and, in like manner,
that which is properly philosophy is rent
from the forms of religion as they were
the church, there is the same appreh en
religion itself is wailed, and that its
istence is identified with maintain-
religion and the philosophy together.
of the opposition to the, changes su...„tr
, by the theology of President Edwards
awl from the fast that he labored to
theology from the philosophy With
it had been connected in the older
stic system, and to unite that system
better philosophy; and, in our 'own
in the struggle between the two
larties in that church, the real contest
m not so much about the system of
unity as it is found in the Bible, as
that system as blended with certain
phical opinions, and as having re
their shape from union with such opin-
For, it is to be remetabarod that
Ipity has not come to us-directly from
It is not, to us a new revelOion.
Ne down to us through a desbbne of
eighteen centuries, collecting, in its progress,
whatever of'good or bad there might be that
coubli be made in any way to adhere to it;
adopting the .opinions in mental philosophy;
the doctrines , of science, rthe peculiarities. of
thinking and acting, that i have prevailed in
the world, and uniting. all, it may be, in its
symbols, of faith. It, is a .ship-- T not just
starting out of port freshand new, but one
that has 'sailed afar, And that. has uollected
whatever of barnacles And sea-weed that
could be made to adhere to .it. It is still a
ship ; whether its timbers are rotten or not
is a fair queationi , whether it can be. made
to encounter heavy:seas now, and keep;afloat,
is the question' which, these churchmen, and
the Westminster Review ,would help 'us to,
solve. Whether anything . would be. left, at
ter taking off all that the authors oE the ' Es
says and Reviews propose to take off, is a
question on which the writers in the West
minister Review, we think, are looking with
the interest of hatred and of hope.
FORMER READJVS'n&ENTS.
•
"It is not to be deniedlhat there has been,
from time to time; a new adjustment of Chris
tianity to the progress of the world, aceom
plished either Silently or by Violence. As a
general fact, it has been a' silent readjust
ment: old-interpretations of the Bible, in
consistent with : the position which the weed
takes in philosophy and science, have been
quietly dropped, and; without either shock
or commotion, the system of, religious doc
trines has quietly adjusted itself to the .ad
vances in science. It has been found that,
the ancient interpretation ,of the Bible,
though it may have been regarded as sacred
for ages, and though it may have been held,
under some Cf the best forms ofkpiety in the
church, was - in no way clemantlecl`by the fair
interpretation of: language ;< and as the new
facts in science were accepted by the world, 04
the old interpretation was 'quietly dropped,
and the new discovery in science was, found
to be, in fact, the best exponent of. the real,
meaning of the language of die Bible :---tor
it was seen - to imfart tb irnew beauty and
sublimity,
,ankte bein manner inconsis
tent with the meaning of-the record on the
most rigid principles of exegesis. In fact, it,
has. been Seen that the truth in science as dis
coveredf and the language used in the, sacred
writings - bearing en the general subject, were
so adapted to each ether that the one seemed
to have been designed to describe, the other;
or, in other words, that the language em
ployed by the sacred writer was such as he
would have used if the fact had been distinct
ly before: his mind. The new . discovery,
therefore, so far from impinging on the claim
to inspiration, seemed only to confirm its As
an illustration of this, we may refer to, the'
change made in the views of astronomy in
passing from the conjectures of the Ptolemaic
to the demonstrations of the Copernican sys
tem. The old interpretations of the Bible,
in the systems, of theology, were all based on
the idea of the cdrrectness of the Ptolemaic
syStein. The doctrines of the creeds .were
all adjusted to that. That system of astron- '
omy became the doctrine of the Church, and
to ,maintain that the .earth revolved omits
axis and around the esun was heresy—the
heresy for which Galileo was persecuted and.
imprisoned, and which he was required by
the Church to " abjure, curse„ and detest,"
and which " lie was never 'again to teach, be
cause erroneous, heretical, and contrary - to
, 43crt:pturr." .Even , Turret(n endeavored to
sustain Adt `system` 'froin the Bible, and to
demonstrate that, according to the Scriptures,
the earthwass the centre of the system,: and
that the sun;: `and:moon, and stars revolve
around , it. * * * * *. *
THE REEHRMATXON.
" There have been, however readjustments
of Christianity attended with ' Violence, and
which 'have convulsed the world: The 'an
cient system had become • so establiihed ; it
had connected itself so intimately with' the
opinions, the interests, and the corruptions of
mankind; it was sudeferided. by charters,
investments, and :laws; it was so , under the
patronage of corrupt civil governments, and
a, more corrupt hierarchy :; it had so subdued
all, philosophy to itself, andhadse asserted
its rule over the hearts of men; it was so
blended with pomp, and Show, an splendor
of ritual ; it was so indentified With timedion
ored customs, and with time-hpnored institu
tions ; it so placed at the disposal of the
Church the wealth of the world, and so:made
the conscience of the world subject to its
control; it had so permeated through the
entire system of Christianity ; the Church
was so completely in all its parts, the repre
sentative of false 'philosophy, false opinion,
false views of God and of man,, false views of
the way by which sinful man must be Saved,
that it was impossible to adjust' it to the new
Condition of things in the world by a-calm
and , quiet process, and convulsion, revolution
and storm became inevitable. Such was' the
readjustment of Christianity at the Refor
mation. Literature had been revived., The
race had made progress. The world as
had become, could no longer bear the system
which had been well enough adapted to it as
it had been, and a readjustment of Christian
ity was indispensable. One of two things
was, to be done ; either the Bible must be
abandoned altogether, and the world be giv
en over to infidelity, or the system of Chris
tianity must be so presented to mankind as
riot to be seen to be inconsistent with the
progress which the world had made, and was
roaking„ It was, therefore, just a question
whether infidelity should become universal,
or whether the real system of Christianity
was of such a nature as to be adapted to the
world as it was ,becoming, and as it was to,
be. But, for the ;reasons above • stated, the,
readjustment -could not be calmly, quietly,
made. Hence the ,Protestant Reformation,
advanced amidst storms,_ revolutions, and per- .
But the adjustment was made.
Those things which had been attached to
Christianity by a corrupt philosophy and a
corrupt superstition were shown te be no es
sential part of the 'system;; the interpreta
tions which had been given'to the - Bible were
shown to be false interpretations ; the doc
trines of the Papacy, which had been claimed
to be the doctrines of 'theiScriptureSowere
demonstrated to' be perverkons, abuses and
corruptions of the pure word of God ; the
enormous system which had been reared to
tyrannize over mankind was shown to have
no authority in the Bible; and, as the re r ,
suit of, storms and conflicts, of the Refer:,
'nation, ChriStianity ,reappeared in much 'Of
its native purity, and the world has now,
three centuries, accepted it as not inconsis-
PERLADELPHIA
tent with any, disclosures which science or
philosophy` has made." ,
Mr R. then proceeds to state at length the points: in whiely the ;Essayists claim to
have readjusted Christianity to the demands
of the'. age ;. as : Inspiration, .the Antiquity
of the Rate, the' Origin of e.Species ; Pro
phecy ;- and. Miracles. --.;11e, next considers
the Replies which have been 'elicited-in Eng
land to these demands, both from
,the "Broad
Church ; " and the more orthodox portions of
the Church of England. With one or two
exceptions, such, as the contribution 'of'Prof.
Menial on - Miraclei; Mr. Barnes regards the
replies' as inadequate,: and as unlikely 't6'ic- -
complish good among those whwmoSt•rened
it.. Dismissing' them .with brief 'criticisms,
he-proceeds to, the, inquiry: What progress,
has,,been, made by these writers,,in the work
of re-adjustment;, and brings up certain ac
knoWledged facts, "which may, tend to-show
that the modes of reasoning adopted.only re
move the main difficulty a step, further, back,
and that no' real difficulty in the case is re
moved; even if what is assumed 'fp be true
should be conceded."
Our space will allow us- to quote only
a part of what is said on two of the _points
above-named: Inspiration • and the Origin of
Species. In- the-first .case:Mr. Barnes shows
how unsatWadOry is; the attempt made
by these writers to." adjust " the Biblical
idea of liiiptiation, by 'classing it with the in
,
spiratiops of genius.
IN t SPVRATD)N AND. ,ONN/lIS.
g‘r Now we would like to ask of the men who
object to the doctrine of inspiration onthe
ground that it is essentially a miracle,' or,
thafit is supernatural,' a solutiOn of the.
question about 'the Origin`
Of ' what is called
genius, and of what marks the' superiority of
one mind :over'-another. Is -not the fact
that such, thoughts came into the mind of
Plato or Shakespeare i qof, ,Baeon, Watt, or
Fulton, encompassed with the same, difficul+
ties which, are implied in. the. ritsuper
natural inspiration ; .that is, of c,ohnnunica
ting; directly to 'the world , thoughts that
God designs to communicate to mankind ?
If it be said that the thoughts 'in such
cases of genius to -me through human pow
ers, , and can, be measured by' thoge hu
man powers, we askwhence were those pow
ers themselves ? They. are not the result, of
any transmitted or inherited,,' genius ; they
are not the effect of development from the,
seminal genius of ancestors whose powers are
unfolded into this form ; they cannot be
measured, by anything in the line from which
they are descended that has grown to this
growth ; they are apparently the `result of a
divine arrangement above any mere laws of
nature' for the very purpose ---of throwing
these great thoughts upon the world. As
suredly it will not be maintained that the
germ of Hamlet, and Lear, and the !Tempest,
was laid in the hearts of, some remote ances
tors of Shakespeare, and were in the Course,
oragerdevelordd into theie wonderful' cre-'
ations, of genius.' It will not Pretended
that in the intellect ofJohn Shakespeare, the
father of Shakespeare, originally a glover,
and' thena skinner , ' and wool-stapier;* in
frePley street, in Stratford-on-Avon ' there
'Was ,anything that could be developed' into
those, marvelous works that have placed his
i,n
son creative genius at the head of the race.
And even if all this could be traced back to
some , germ in some very - remote ancestor
which had been sloWly developed' for ages
and generations until it at last appeared in
the form of Hamlet and Lear, still We would
ask what is the true account of the origin of
the germ there Had it a beginning there?
If so, ;what caused it Or had. it also come
down as a germ as yet .- - undeveloped,, from
the beginning of things : and if so what
formed or produced it in the 'beginning ?
Now, what we are saying is, that in the case
supposed in our example, as a specimen of
millions of such examples in principle on the
earth, , , there is something—that something
which we. Call f,4enius '—that lies above' and
beyond any of the operations of natural laWs ;
above and beyond any thing of the nature of de
velopment.; Above and beyond any thing that
can be measured by what is anterior in time
or in order, as, really as in the visions of
Isaiah there is - that which is'above and beyond
all that there was of a siMilar kind in his
origin and training,' Of as really'as there was
in the act when Peter healed the lame man j
in the temple, or when ho raised up Tabitha
from the dead.' Any valid' objection in the I
one case, in the, sense of its being of the na-i
tare of a ',miracle,' or as being supernatu-,,
ral,' would be a valid objection in the other
any theory whicliwonld explain the one ease,
se far as the - Point before us is concerned,
,would explain the other; any argument that
the one could not he received, on the ground
that it is a departure from the course of
nature,' would be an argument of equal force
in the: other..l Let a man ,explain. the phe
nomena of geuius, , and he , would probable
find that he would; have little additional on
barassment on the spore of inspiration. In .
either case,, we apprehend, the fact for which
a solution is to be found is, that there may
be such a' control' - over a created mind, either
in 'its origin, 'or by some mode Of communi
eating with it after its creation, as to lodge
a thought in that mind whose existence there
cannot:be explained by an.* mere natural
laws. We see AOC that the infidel gains any
thing by denying the, fact that, God pan and
does suggest thoughts to a mind, that is al-,
ready made, while lie cannot but admit that,
there must have been, in the Creation of
genius,' some departare from, settled
or some direct agency in bringing upon the
stage a mind of rernarkabbs powers.' We See
not that the Essayists and Reviewers gain any
thing by adopting the same principle as the'
infidel, and by Attempting to , explain, what
the infidel rejects. In -pither case the, diffi-
Culty is merely removed a- step bacloivard,;
but it is
,no removal of a difficulty,, and: no
explanation, of a subject, to place it a little
further back..:
We 'shall not; we' trust, be considered as
intending to concede; by these remarks, that
there-is no difference :between., :the , play 'of
genins and the f of, inspiration ; or
that in the doctrines orthe prophets and the
apostles there is nothing more, than-can be
explained under some pr o per view of the phe
noneina. of genius. We believe' that there is
a marked difference. But what 'we are - say
ing is that, so far as we `can See, the objec
tions sand-difficulties the'one case may he
urged alsuin - the other; that if the difficnl
tie& could' be'renioved. in the:one case,%they
*lrici, Dramatic Art of Shakespeare. - O. 70
ta., TE[
, -
I 'l:if' ~: . 4 L : f; , it 4. .;
might in the other, tand:Ahat what An4y be,
an explanation in the one , ease,- may-contain"
in principle all tliei knight be neceSsary'in
the explanation of t' e Other." `'For ourselves;
we shall notlegard. t Ws 'litigant 4,0 1 stippose
that God could hav :' inspired the .'mind of
Isaish..when we: _hax . -in our recollection; the
fact that he created - Bel mind of /Pascal ; . nor,
shall we think it ab urd to belieVe...that• he
may have made ,use 0-the,riaiß49fPl4 ;te,
suggest 'truths to in kind quite in advance_
of what the world',eW, or could otherwise
have known, on sub tts of tie -IfigheSt int
portance, when he c 'sated the mind:ol34-
con to 'place the' - Wei I' on a 'higher 'elevation
in. regard to science tan it had before attaini
ed; or than it coula {lave — attained' by any,
coneemporary mindaOlie had not been cre
ated." - r ,-- '. . . 1, .. -: •': „, -... ; ' •
ORIGIN ':SPROIit:I%-*:f
, , .
On this-head, Mr.Bitrrtelao slioWS'what
extraordinary clegreaWaitli isitqiiireitthY
the •skeptic's view ettheorigin'of the Yariz
ous orders of being. q ,
" The theory whickive are required now to
Andte, t whichtithe Bible_ is to be ad-,
justed, ia that the !arent, heings An the
earth, had no origiAi., :prototype that could
properly be regard°asthe of-exis mg t .
species; that the orders of animated beings
are separated by no filed and impassable
limits; that any one;,; under certain eirCnipt-
stances, May: Melt away in its pecnliarity,
and be moulded in 6 ,, anothei -; ' that -vegeta
bles may becomemelittsca, andmollusea quad
rupeds, ftshes,.or faVils i !Men; that'there was
no original centre 4,,ereation for each of the
orders of beings on ' the.earth, but that ,l
they have sprung up b e y spontaneous genera-.,1
tion, or by successi*acisnf creation, or by
development, at various. c:onvettient, centres
on the earth or in the; 'Waters ; diet all the
varieties of species ;on the earth including
man : , are the results :of struggfes carried
on for indefirtitetfoagea in which `cOuntlegt ,
billions ,of.the-,'Nvaker ' have hecoine ex
tinct, while the stronger' have survived,
to engage in ,new ',straggles for the devel
opment ofnew,ordets ofr species, and that,
in fact, .all t'he varieties of beings' on, the,
earth ~nay~ by`a more profound analysis, 'he
found to have'sprung from a single' monad,'
in its struggle te'avelop itself,' and 'to Orig
inate new'fornia ofheing. This is the latest
forme of as ` , i.,resented, with' great
learning, .by Dr.. Darwin 'On the' Origin , of
Species.'
tThis view,appeys to man's fcdtk ; we will'
not now: say ,to his credulity.lt: presents,
however, some, propositions .to. hebelieved of,
such a nature that when a man has received
therahe has come'' to the Ultima Thule of
faith'. Beyond 'the exercise of •the faith'
whielt:Will be required' to reCeivethis theory,
there Will be little or nothing to. Stagger him
in anydoctrine of revealed religion'; in the,
doctrine ofttansubStintiationi, or in the rev
elationsTef :Swedenhorg., For, according-to;
this theory;, elePhsati4vid tadpolesmul men'-;'
Bacon, Newton, Plato i the orang 7 ou-tang and
the ape ; the lizard, the scorpion, the oyster ;
the oak, the cedar, : the ~ apple, :the laurel,
and the bramble; the hero of a liMidied hate
ties ' and the mastiff snarling over his hone
the hunter, the • dog with which' hehunts, and'
the animal which he captures and kills ; the
angler, •the worm with ;which he, baits his
hook,and , the fish which he. catches , and de
vours ;, the malt that lay in. the ' : 1:louse that
Jack built," and the' _rat that atethe malt,
and the, cat that, caught, the rat, and t,hq dog
that worriedthe,cat, and the cow that tossed
the dog, and the maiden 'all forlorn ' that .
milked the eow,` and the man all °' tattered
and tore that wooed the' Maiden, and the
priest, all shaven'and shorn-' ' that married
the man—all are derived-from "the same or
igin ; all are the results of the ." strugglings '
of the streogeit' in the formation of
species ; ' all have, in Tact, conie from one
little monad,' in 'its ~'struggles , ' to de
velop itself." • . t
CONOL USION.
‘ln conclusion, we wouldsaythat b
we y
no means intend to deny that there may be,
in our limes, occasion for the readjustment
of Christianity. ' (We are 'disposed fully to
admit:that there illay be . ;:but we trust that
we lave 'shown that what is demanded 48 not
that which is ; suggested bythe seven authors
of,the ' Essays And Reviews by what would
be in the line, of :the labors otthe
Bunsen,; by what would meet the approba
tion of 'Unitarians in our country, I:TWhat
would be sanctioned by the Westmiiitpr #e=
HOW CREST EXLLTED NATURE.
CHRIST exalted our whole conception of
nature by habitually associating it with the,
spiritual instructidn of man. He'made the
wind God's minister to raise'the'inind of Ni 7
codemns to a - , conception of the , ' Spirit's in
fluence ; He 'quicked- the Chrigtian energies
of • His disciples by pointing to the fields
whitening t ,to harvest ; He marked the flut
tering wings over the stony ,upland round - the
Galilean lake, and. drew a„,,warning for -the.
frivolens and the fickle in all ages from the :
devoiiiing of the seed by" the birdS and the
withering of the shallow-rooted.porn. While
nature, in its beauty and luillowed-sugges
tiVeness; was , ever present with Chriht, He'
showed no trace of the "ecstasy of mere in
dolent teouteinplation. -Ile never paused to
lay onthe colors of ithc scene-painter. • Na-.
tare He viewed, as made . for man,; ; her ilium,
inated lettering lie used to impreeS, upon
manthe lessens of Divine wisdom ; the lilies
of the field were to be eolsidered, in their
monitions to humility, in' their lesions 'of
trust in God, in their' gentle yet most ex
pressive'eatire regal glory and gorgeous
apparel. , . ,
All.this attests a state'," of: perfect Mental
health, a settled,calm of 'power: and.peace,
still and plaJcid , ,elevation of mai, infinitely
beyond reach '.(if any cloud or any , wind by
which the. Clearness of :the: intellectual eye
ht be dimmedor-ltSeafmness fluttered.
• aYne-
yOlir • afreetjQns , with, tbe cross •pf
Christ thati thcre may , be.no> room for sin.
The world once put, him, out of the 'house in
to a, stable,wben he came to save us ; let him
now blip. the' wbild out of doors, when he is
comb to sanctify us hn Open
waliouldnot praige his works) b* , 4 5 .
works should praise
r , 4 rv7 -
ItbDA ,d -rw tjl l /Y, 4 ' 2 ll l, 4862.
U.:
ißOlit r ltttsa.; ' BlJOhit
. . • V .`
following letter, from Mr. .Sloan, who.
is acting for the ".Christian- Commission' "
on the Peninsula, Will dinibtlesi prove inter
eSting to our: 'readers. may he well to
state that the chief design' of the' eicellent
Association Which bears that name is:to:min
ister „te: the religious wants of our soldiers .
found .in the. various field : hospitals,in . the
neighborhood', of our army. Other associa
tions, either confine their lubors to the hos
pitals at. lionie or mainly provide for the bo
dily necessities of our brave defenders. But
the "Christian Commission " folloWs, so-to"
speak, the -aritty, and oPerates 'on what is no*
the battle-ground of the present' conteSt, de- •
voting itSelf, as.its name implies, to , ,itisi spir
itual welfare— It is, true that .at the same
time it is doing vast.good in, he ..way of fur
nishing agreal variety; ot ; aticlPs,,neue.s.,9l.l7 , .;
to promote theceinfert and to contribute to
the recovery of the sick and 4ounde,d, but
this Work was rather' forced upon' by` the'
amount`' of physical wankarid 'suffering with
which its agents came in - centatit in their
to, convey religious instruction and,spir
itual.conselition to the thousands.on• the -Pe,
ninsula, who, have been prostrated by
ease and wounds.
In this departnient of benevolent enter
priie; it has already effected much,: having
sent no lesS than two Xundrid and forty
one boies, whose contents have beenprudent-'
ly used for the bodily geed of the inmate's of
the hospitals. As has been:already intima
ted, however, its main feature is.to care fig
the souls of ear soldiers. ,
A. deep interest is, felt by many portions
of - the Christian community in this noble
cha
rity. "Though nothineis paid to its laborers
except' their expenaes,,there are more volun
teers than ban besent"; and contributions of
boxes, and also 'of money, are constantly
made from different parts of our land. Still
much is.to be..done,,and'all who feel
should at once forward their offerings for
this, good work—. Another battle. may, soon
be fought, and 'multitudes more of wounded
May &inland the care of the," Commiasion."
Any contributions 'calculated to . benefit our
soldiers, either - phySicallyni religiously, sent
to Mr, George Et. Stuart,-12 Bank street, to
whom Mr. Sloaresletter is'addresped, will be
proterly applied and expended.
- ; Owboard Steamer . Aramaelvisetts,l,
July 4th, ; 1862.
MY DEAR BROTHER am without ink,
and hard pressed to 'find" - conveniences for
writing, since I lost
_everything in:the late
movements of the army: You will therefore
excuse .the, Use - of my pencil— wrote you
on my arrival here from up the James river.
To-day we go up again with a number of
boxes of steres--heping to ,de much good
with them ameng_ the great number of sick
and wounded there, and on the boats Coming
doWn. ,Youlave`no 'doubt' thoughtme neg
lectfaf in not .ansiering' 'arid heknOiledging
the receipt of many boles sent.to me at York
town and other points: I;hope you will make
;
allowances, „and other friends' who have so
generously contributed, for my silence in re
gard to this, Manyboxes were, sent to York
town, birt I have been from there for the last
three or four weeks;up with the army, visit
ing all the reginiental hospitals;'and those
established the houses abandoned in that
region. I remained there longer than I ex
pected, because of the great suffering and
want which I found among _the - soldiers '
and
the difficulties attending - the getting of sup
plies,sofarup. During this time many boxes
came to Yorktown ; ' they were judiciously
used however by Mr. Ogden, who is A % n most
active:` and faithful worker, and in whose
praise I can never say too much. I wish we
had a hundred like him. 'He will as soon as
I °inset a spot and leisure, be able to give
me soine account .of these looxes,. and I will
write to all the parties.l can. But if they &k
-not, and have not heard from me, I t nst
they will,not think their generous dons t ens
have not been appreciated. , They .ha e,
assure you, and made glad the hearts o our
sick boys in many of these hospitals. The
Lord` reward'with his kindness and gra e in
return: They can never know hovi mu re
lief they have afforded. And Ilregret at 'I
could-not give to > each , Chinch or Associa
tion a: brief' account of their receipt.and,dis
posal.: But your letters And invoices
stopped - at Yorktown Postoffice, together with
my commission, and only, came into, myliands
thisporning. Mr. Ogden 'came down from
there tolday as the sick and wounded will he
removed from , there,' and brought me about
thirty letters., All these circumstances:will
account,for my failing. to' acknowledge the
receipt of boxes or to answer inquiries made
in some of your letters. =::I have, through the:
kindnees of my Heavenly Father kept up,
andheen able to go,out in the discharge.of.
my duties every day. But when. I have seen
so much want, I have had no disposition to
stop to write to parties 'in regard to their do
nations knowing that could they see what I
was' constantly witnessing,. they. would 'pa
tiently wait. And yet, with-all; I have daily
a large,number of letters to write for the sick
and wounded,' and ansicersito,llive to those,wri
tiny -about their;sons, brothers and husbands.,
In the. retreat of the. army I lost, every
thing I had with me, r -r t my, note book, letters,
memorandnms, locks of hair to, be sent to
parents and Sisters, and my book containing
the lait' Messages of those'who had died, to
their friends at heine:' In my attempts to
help and cheer up the poor fellows who were
limping along.andtrying,to reach the banks
of the Jameariver, I had to abandon the wa
gon, and,: leave..., my carpet-bag; hoping it
Would finally reach me at the river, but I
could not find, it, or my friend who remained
in the waion--:ConsequentlY I was left desti
tute of everything • only my muddy and tat
tered clothes upon my back.
Ikept With the - sick and wounded all the
way=thelroad was lined ;: those who could
not by' any effort , atull crawl along, succeed
ed in . geiting into a.. wagon.. or. :: ambulance.;
but hundreds walked through that long,weary
day, and through half, the night. It was so
dark that we : could not find water, so that
we all inffered intensely with thirst. The
muddiest " stream was a perfect hriury,
and . cooling draught was ever swal
lowed with greater relish, or more grate
ful feelings to Thin Who feeds the cattle
on the hill, and .giveth to all their meat
in due season. „Oh how' much we see of
God'agreatness 'and goodness in our straits.
aid difficulties and man's littlenesS About
MO or - six hundred of us, that Wounded
and sick in our train arrived about 3.0'010d
in the morning, in, a large wheat field-Aunt
four, .miles from,the, river.; -there we- halted
and.cast ourselves on the
,groinad for restr.--
first:Making for i the ditch on the side of the.
field to quench our 'thirst. 0 h,ow sweet that
middy yellow ioater'iasted—whi I think'l
shall endeavor - to feel a thousand tunes more
grateful . for 'the common blessings of life,
and not' to= tomurmur at`deprivation. or disap
pointment. - As : soon' as we drank, each
sought.: to fix himself as best hp could, and
all scattered themselves over ty whole field,
among the teams, and horses, s i ncl mulesyetc•
I took a sheaf of wheat for my pillow, and cast
myself on the ground and slept soundly until
the sun was far `up;'iliining and glistening
in the 'dew-drops Upon the`trees and &in.
It was - a refreshing' sleep—a 6 'sound a sleep
as .1 ever 'enjoyed: , ' '
~
Anil now we are going b ack.:again with
otheT.b'reWert from Phila Iphia,and will bp
constantly at, work. . 4 t
Yours in, C h rist Jesus. _ i
- . l J: et. SLoArt.
, In many:cases thesufferings of the ejected
Puritans -were tOrible. Before most of them
nothing appeared but the. _precarious charity
y i
of friends to save them and their children
from starvation., Ever means of livelihood
if
was them. * A taken from' of penal
laws, pissed in rapid su Cession,. drove them
from every employmen forivhich they were
fitted': They , were no allowed to exercise
even, inn-private hour Et those funetionS to
which they were bound;:.by their ordination
vows. ' Their books.. ciould not be published
without ;the license of the hishop. The
•Con.
venticle Act punished , with fine, imprisonment,
or transportation, eery person who should
be present, in any ivate house,: during any
meeting-for worsh . , where there were five
attendants in addition to the members of the
household. The xford Act imposed on
Nonconformist mi 'stersian oath proMising
passive obedience, and non-resistance ; and
all who refused to, take tthis. oath were pro
coming within five miles, of, any
corporate town, Or of any -place where they
had formekly ministered; it prohibited them
also from . keepiig schools•or taking boarders. ,
The Conlenticl Act was shortly reimposed,
with additional severities. The prOteetion of
a jury was ref Used, 'and any justice of the
peace was empowered to convict on the . oath
of a single informer, who was to be rewarded
with cne third of the fines levied. It was
decreed that no,fiaw in.the mittimus should
vitiate, it; and the fundamental principle of
English criminal law was violated, by a pro
vision that all d'oubtfiil clauses should be con
strued i i t the sense most unfavourable - to. the
accuse; - ' '
.
-It -is , Moult to reallie the amount of suf.
fering -hichthe NoncOnforinist olergy in
dured in. • consequence.. of these Acts. The.
Act,o . Uniformity.; dro•Ve.:::them-. from th•eir
hene ; , the ; ,Oxford ;Act., prevented, :them.
from , ! nding, shelter in the houses of their
Men. ,: ' ..',Their hpirieless-andl,starving, chil.- ,
dren. v% a'Sheitered and fed
,by . .tnembere of
their,fi tiler congregations, until I'many 'Of
these gt:cid'Siniaritinaj were ruined by
- the
.fines: levied: under ' the''idenventiole, • Acts.
During the twenty-six years . of4erseentien
which ensued,' it'is computed-' that the -Ikenal
ties which Wereinflicted amounted td between
twe ye atid fourteentrnillions sterling, ,, and the
suli.,rer.s are tuimberedat 60 1 000. . 1311t ; home- :
les !ess, sunger, and penury ~,were not the
wo • st evils endured by these, Puritan heroes,
T't, jaila.were - ,filled with, Sufferers for con,-
F. C - rice sake,: Who:, rotted off like sheep in '
ti Ise noisome pest`-houses. • .
~ .
~
It may doubted Whether 0!6 ) 81 . * of the
• fferings inflicted by Papists in the reign of
ary is. not exceeded by - tboio which were
4 reposed by the. Protestants on oneianother
during the, reign ; f that 'most.religious king,'
Charles 7I , : 4,ir l ay be . a question - ;:whether
the. short,harp Agony of Smithfield were, not
. ..,.. .. ~ . ,
to be preferred to the loathsome arid equally
fatal horrors of the lsleWgate ofthat time.
Defoe; Penn, and other' coteinporarY writers,
assure us that fropisooo toe $OOO
.IsTenconfor-
Mists I periehed in jail, - arid Vast: nunibers died
outeide the prison-• walls -from the . diseases
which they hid contracted within -
Baxter, wbohad•just refusad a bishopric,
was hunted,,by.. the• vilest informers 'from
chapekto chapel,, front hOuse to house , 7 -13.0-
hid to part with his_ books, dearest trea
t sures •-4again:, a.tiaagain.l4, 'goods were die
-
trained upon -'.he 'could not appear in
street for fear of being carried off to jail-Lhis
health was undermined By confinement to his •
ho s
e—fOrtwenty4our OOnsectitive Sundays
th loonstables watched!his chapel door: to
sej&e.birn.. ,He.wnshurried to jail. .. He ~und
.- went the „mockery.. of a ! trial before thain-
Vuous 4ffries,whobeaped - .all , his copious
vocabulary of ahnsel.; upon. the prisoner and
his counsel ';:;ol , these things he endured
while racked by6iistAT4 and painftil' disease,
living out. thushiS"herdie and unselfish life.•
-T-Notli )3iitish:Reviet v. -
8 0
.dg,StO LNA BOBS ON MT. LEBANON.
MOE
BR AmpuN, April 22, 1862.
IN Comparison with other parts or the mis
sionaryrfield in. Syria, we have indeed great
reason-to rejoice and take courage. -When
we first dame here there were two Protest
ants, now, there are over twenty communi
cants, and a number more indulging hope.
Let me speak particularly of' a fpw cases..
First. 'Soon after 'nur coming here a wo
man called and asked us to go and see her
son; a lad about fourteen years `old. Now
Abdullah had been a most wicked lad, would
beat and kick his
,mother arid. little sisters,
and was'so, profane that his people;-were
shocked. He worked in a neighboring silk
factory, and there he got, no good, but grew
from bad to worse. His sickness was dis
casepf the heart, and a bad case ; after long
and weary attentions, and the advice,' of the
beit`Rhysicians, we felt it was, best* to tell
him there was little hope in his case, and urge
him 'to prepare fOrdeath.
*.Now hear his own ',words : '"‘ When the'
lady told, me so, 0 how I wanted to see her
cometin. •,She begged. me to read the Bible
and. pray. , I could not, and I. could get 40
rest.,.3.t, last I began, to read, (he had lea.rned
in the Mission school before his sickness) and
the more I read the more clearly_l saw all
the missionaries Said; was s tiuo-4Aioino rest
till I cast myself on the mercy of Jesus', and
GENESES 'EtANGEtIk'-.—Whole No. 844.
MISTS.
he gave me peape.-4esus Christ became
pillow to my hew( and heart."
As:God would have it he slowly recovered ;
and then he Ivishecl. ,to get ,an. education.
He has obtained a- good, education, and has
been 'Theology this winter with Mr.
Benton. We hope he will do mu' li good.
Second. 'The husband of the 'TeSta-ment
reading liride, whOm we wrote about before,
is beeoming , a sort of Boanerges.:_ With no
education except 'what he has got from his
wife and.his own efforts, and the wonderful'
teaching of = the Holy Spirit, he, goes abroad
preaching the. Gospel in his kind, simple im
pressive way; . , and is doing great good. Long,
long, may good Aisaad. take bishundle of
books, and go up, and 'down and over these
high stimmits of Lebanon, Speaking for Christ.
Not long. ago he went a tour to thenerth of
Bhstadun.• He camel° Haniana, where is
one good native - brother. As he: was passing
along; one roan Seeing his little bundle sup
pose,d he had ; something, to sell, and he ac
costed him : " What are you selling ?". -"The
truth,replied Aeaad." " What is the truth ?"
asked the, villager.. "Sit down,here, and I
will'show you. They sat down upon a stone,
and Asaad opined'the precious volume, and
talked, and read,u,nd read and talked till the
man exclaimed "=really this is the 'truth; "
and he:went and told others, and the next
day, us he walked the village, one-told him :
"if you don't• want to get beaten: or killed,
you had better be out of Hamana quickly, for
there is a plan to do you harm." "Let those
who wish to beat me come, on," said Asaad,
"My sword is ready." Where is your
sword ? " " Here," replied the undaunted
Bible man, holding up the Testament,
" Where- did you sleep last night ? " asked
the man.' " With m a y` relations," replied
Asaad.: " Who are your relatives in Ha
mana ? " "All who read and love this bless
ed book," was the bold reply.
At another village he was asked, "What
have you,in your bundle, anything to sell ?"
"'yes ; the pearl of great price, showing
his good books. " Well, come to my house"
said the man. And he went and spent two
or - three hours in teaching and preaching the
Gospel in his.hurable way. This man is well
elfin the world, and receives no compensa
tion for his time thus spent.
Another case is all I will mention now. A
young ,man, Adekhiel, was a wicked youth.
Once he and, another worse than himself,
waylaid a man and nearly beat him to death.
Now he hopes he has found the Saviour. He
has been reading his Bible for about two
years. Yesterday le was `here, and really
he does not seem like one taught of the Spirit.
It was Very, encouraging to hear him talk.
Pray for 'us: • -
Your affectionate sister in Christ,
TIE BLOOD OF MAST.
How difficult does_ the believer find it to
obtain - such a clear and transparent concep
tion of his own 'guiltiness, that the atoning
work of his 13,edeemerbecomes_all luminous
before hie eyes, and he knows instantaneous
ly that he. needs ,it, and that it is all he
needs Usually this crystal glearness of
vision is reserved for certain , critical moments
in his religions history,- when he must have
it or die . : Usually it is the hour of affliction,
or sickness, or death, that affords this rare
and unutterably :tranquillizing view of the
guilty self and. the dying Lord. "We have
the; blood of Christ," said the dying Schleier
macher, as, in his last moments, he began to
count up the grounds of his confidence on
the brink of the invisible world. Here was
a,mind uncommonly contemplative and pro
found; that, had. made the spiritual world
its home;it were, for many long years of
theological study and reflection; that; in its
tone =and temper, seemed to be prepared to
pa:ss over into the supernatural realm with
out any misgivings or apprehensions ; that
had mused long and speculated subtly upon
the nature of moral evil; that had sounded
the depilis of reason and revelation with no
short plummet-line,---here was a man who,
now, that death had actually come, and the
responsible human Will must • now encounter
1161rJustice face to face, found that noth
ing but the Hood, the atonement, of .Jesus
Christ could calm theperturbations of his
planet-like spirit: The errors and inadequate
statements of, his theological system, which
cluster mostly about this very -doctrine* of
expiation, are tacitly renounced in the im
'plied confession of guiltiness and, need of
atonement,' contained these few simple words
" We have the blood of Christ."
'lt is related that bishop Butler, in his last
days drawing nearer to that dread tribunal
where the highest and the lowest must alike
stand in judgmant, tremblecl in spirit, and
turned. this way and that .for tranquillity of
conscience. One of his clergyomong other
texts, quoted, to him the words : " The
blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin."
A flush of peace and joy passed, like the
blind west wind, through his fevered consci
ence, 'as he made 'answer : "I haVe read.
those words a thousand times, but I never
felt their meaning as now." And who. does
not' remember!that thefinal hours of the re
marka,bly earnesti, but too legal, life of the
great English Moralist were lighted up.with
peace that he had never been able to at
tain in the days of his healtli by the evang
ellim of a humble curate ?--Shidd's Essays.
BULBS AND PRIRsTs. , --- The Rev. Mr.
Blackford,. a.missionary of the Presbyterian
Foreign• Board, in making, a report of an ex
ploring yisit .to the interior of Brazil, speaks
of.the awfully depraved state of morals gen
erally prevalent among the people, ,and says
the' priests are among the basest, and worst."
They' positively prohibit the people-from rea
dingtheßible, and the copies of it which have
been distributedthey collectandhurn. Amid
such discouragements he remarks: "Does
any one ask.what are the prospects for the
triumps of the Gospel, here ? answer—dark
as depravity, and sin, and the hatred ,of man
can make Ahem ; ,but on-the other hand, 83
Judson, oncemaid, ' bright as the promises of
God,' are sure as his eternal-councels."
A souND'heart doth not only like and re
spect' all God's commandmems but respects
them alike or shows them . all the like re
spect. -
CORMITITION'with God is more in=conversa
tion with God than iii conteniplatiOn of Gast.