Elizabeth-Town gazette., 1819-09-28
PHILOSOPHY AND CHRISTIANITY.
By DR.. Mott, President Of Schenectad d
College.


Philosophy confines its views to this
world principally. 1t endeavors to satis-
fy man with the groveliug joys of earth
till he returns to that earth from which he
was taken. Christianity takes nobler
fight. Her course is directed towards
Immortality. Thither she conducts her
votary, and never forsakes him, till, hay-
ing introduced him into the society OF
angels, she fixes his eternal residence
among the spirits OF the just. Philosophy
can only heave sigh, longing sigh
after immortality.-Eternity is to her an
unknown waste, in which she scars on
conjecture's trembling wing.-Above-
beneath-around is an unfathomable void :;
and doubt, uncertainty and despair, are
the result of all her enquiries. Chris
tianity, on the other hand, having fur
Dished all necessary information coucern-
ing life, with firm and undaunted step
crosses deaths narrow isthmus, and bold
iy launches forth into that dread futurity
which borders ON it. Her path is marked
with glory. The once dark and dreary
region lightens as she approaches it, and
benignly smiles as she passes over it.
Faith follows where she advances, till
reaching the summit of the everlasting
hills, an unknown scene in endless varie-
ties Of loveliuess and beauty presents itself,
over which the ravished eye wanders
without cloud to dim, or limit to OBJ
struct its sight. In the midst of this
scene, rendered luminous by the glory
which covers it; the city--the palace
the throne of God appears. Trees Of life
wave their ambrosial tops around it; riv-
efs of salvation issue from beneath it; be-
fore it angels touch their harps of living
melody, and saints in sweet response
breathe forth to the listening heavens their
grateful songs. The breezes of paradise
&aft the symphony, and the bending sky
directs it to the earth. The redeemed Of
the Lord catch the distant sound, and feel
sudden rapture. IT'S the voice of de-.
parted MISUNDERSTANDING the loss Of
which they mourned upon earth,but which
they are now assured will be restored in
the heavens, from whence voice is heard
to say, "fear not; death cannot injure
you through its chill mansion, grace will
conduct you up to glory. We wait your
arrival; haste, therefore, come away"
HOME.
The pain which is felt when we are
trsnsplanted from our native soil-when
the living branch is cut from the parent
tree--is one of the most poignant which
We have to endure through life. There
are after griefs, which wound more
deeply, which leave behind them scars
never to be effaced, which bruise the
spirit, and sometimes break the heart but,
never do We feel so keenIy the want Of
love, the necessity of being loved, and
the sense Of utter desertien, as when we
first leave the haven of home, and are, as
it were pushed off upon the stream Of
life.
In all arguments, the weakest disputani
is still the loudest, who presumes that
noise viii supply his want Of reason.
MIR. -, fell in love with remarka.
BILE thin woman. On being asked by hi.
friend the reason Of bis cfoice; be made
answer, 1t was to ease the fatigue d
courtship, as the avenue to her heart mus
be so much nearer than that Of one more
plump"
A husband wishing to know how som,
money had been disposed Of by bis wife
and daughters, was told il had been vel
employed, being laid Out for iadispensa
bies.