Delaware State journal, advertiser and star. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1832-1833, 1833-08-23

ADVANTAGE OF RELIGION IN THE oPln
ION OF AN INFIDRL.-Who would dare,
in casting a glance at the career traced
for us, to declare the succor of religion
| is useless and superfuous7 The sour
ces of our sorrows are numerous: we
may be prosecuted by power, calumniat-
ed by falsehood. The bonds of socis-
ty, altogether Fictitious, wound us. Des-
tiny strikes us where we have garnered
up our affections. Old age, that sombrs
and solemn epoch, steals upon us, spread
ing chimes and dizziness over the OBJ
iects by which we are surrounded. We
search every where for consultations, and
almost all our consultations are religious.
When the world abandons US, we form
an alliance above the world. When men
prosecute. us, we create for ourselves an
appeal beyond men. When we see our
most cherished illusions-justice, liber-
selves with the belief that Being ex-
faithful, in despite of our age, to justice,
to freedom, and to our country" When
we regrei beloved object, we throw
bridge over the abyss that separates us,
and traverse it in thought. Finally,
WHSH iiS AaSo away iiOAk Ao3 w PANSs
forward to new state of existence
Thus is religion the faithful companion
, the ingenious and interchangeable friend of
the unfortunate. He no regards as err
: rors all these hopes. should, in my opin-
t ion, be more profoundly affected than
any other, by this universal concourse
, of all suffering beings; by the demands
| Of grief, addressed to a heaven of brass,
e from all quarters Of the globe, to remain
S without answer; and by the deception
= which gives as reply the confused noise
d of so many prayers, echoed in distance
e through the air. 1t is easy to exhibit the
: liuleness of man and the immensely of
| the universe; but if we place the great
/ ness Of man in what really constitutes it
e in his soul, in his sentiment, in his
1t thought, all these philosophic declama-
d tons become as the idle wind. There
6 is more greatness in noble thought, in
II profound emotion, ina sublime act OF
it devotion, than in all the mechanism OF
l. celestial spheres.-Benjamin Consfdnt's
as Posth,mous Works.
lie The following simple and efficacious
o. mode of counteracting the effects of the
S, bite Of rattlesnake is related in note
~ addressed to the editors Of the Miners
SO Journal by M. Robinson, Esq. civil ep=
a. gineer,
AS party of assistants engaged UNI
der my direction in the location of the
Philipsburg Rail Road wero occupied a
few days since, in protracti ons' at their
he encampment, information was given them
I'd that an ax-man attached to the party had
been bitten by rattle snake. One oi
d. the assistants, Mr.. Henry Hopkins, Of
Massachusetts, Immediately FASTENED to
ly. the spot, and applied his lips to the
lot wound, sucking it for some time, and as
he long as i, appeared to him that the
ey treatment could be of any service. The
NY hand and arm of the man nevertheless
1 's swelled excessively, but in the course
in. of day or two the swelling went down
lat and neither the assistant nor the man
Ter have since experienced the slightest in
as convenience. The case seems to be q
TX, very conclusive one in favor OF the efficien
pie cy Of such treatment, where an individu-
~ al happens to be at hand sufficiently re-
80, ,olute to administer it, as the snake
md had been previously very much ir
In ritated, and the wound in the hand wa
,th a deep one. II is scarcely worth while
rst to mention that the assistant tool
es, the recaution, after resigning the pa
md tents hand, of giving TO his owl
tn mouth the benefit Of a pretty thorough
.; .n ablution.
Ute MONCURE ROBSON.
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