Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-16 00:00:00

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human lima, and in that change effects a change in all

—m our homes, in our worship, in our
the human heart
come to

must li

)e_ touched, and then the than:

Thus, then, since out of

issues Of 'life, and since r

yes to change the hearts

of men, therefore may it affect life in all its forms. And
- 'use of that obscurity which seems to have

what i

al principles of_ religion

is it that very wid

)n is, as we have observed,

away from life, and not
We know full well ,that

erting its powerful influence
s is so. Why, in this world, is

ea as a guarant
ain evidence that in whatever

its mora

worth, as giving a c(

service he may be, he is relic

le and ,trustwertl

43caus,

sion bein

used so largely as a cloak of sin, rather than an evidenc
that sin has been removed. Why is there this differeucc
between religious faith and practice ? It comes from
those who, in former times, endeavoured to give us laws
for the present, and to tell men what they should believe
in all course of time, as if they had conversed with the
Infinite God,.and drawn from the wells of wisdom; and
ventured to say, in their high presumption,
__" This, and
this alone, shall all men, in all ages of this world, believe."
If this had been soin astronomy, .Newton would not have
applied his sublime calculus. Had, it been so in science.

and facts

id truths connected with the mato
se. True, science had its mos

rials of this vast uuiver

gots put a Gal
ling power of t

But the battle was fot

Is ieliztion, sad to say, Ave have ,iiet acquired
the same freedom. Is this word the word of God-i
—is it the expression
,of infinite wisdom, of an infinite
nind ? and is -Were a universe of intellect that may
-atiite, and still discover new bodies, nc-sv glories, new
, of admiration of Him who is the snaker of this
univer. So may we diseover as the pallid expands
in spirituality gross more
.penetrating, and -gathers

vast univers(

deeper wisdom in th

-he mind of God. Oh
r of poor feeble man, that could venture to say
-
that he had drank dry the wisdom of God's holy word,
and fixed the belief of all future age as God had been.

the pi

As the world is advilicirg,;

to carry on. external pr(
in the areat . things

let us not suppose tha

Leera heaven, and the
soul, that God . will
They ghall •be lifted

3 wanting to hi

;deuce lifted them up
council said that fai

Yed men, ;whit

h faith a

course, never did,

The Lord said, " nom shall enter into the Kingdom of
God.but he that doeth the will, of my Father ;" but the
faith alone will save men. "By this_ shall all

couneU

nen ku

that yE

said the Lord.:
ne saved man, and

But the couacil did affirm that
-so gathered a cloud of dark-

eligion, ,and covered, it with mysterious

giving the merit to belief. Because buesleieitx)Lafs
was- impossible in that which was unintelligible,
1 fay giving merit. to , belief because
had to grope blindly in this dark °world , for d
.and man
knowledcre ; he was tossed about by . land and sea, ,he had
to contend with conflicting billows of passion and
setirreeztaanz,huisugaiudile,d by them who ought to ,be his
faith was divorced from hpirsachtoicpee, firr oe ill religious life; for it was concentrated in this narrow
raenidigiloutiss
parnoefleloosrim.
point—belief and creed. When the young man came to
Jesus and asked the question, " Lord, what shall I do to
inherit eternal life," the answer was, " Keep tho•com-
mandments ;" but in their blindness 2nd in their
infatgstion, the council forgot the commandments, and
said that man was saved by faith alone, and thus throw
ing 4, muffing-obscurity firer Ms subject or tie hearing

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