The Arkansas advocate., 1833-09-25

sSisi;i fs iilits tlllis, @ t is itl tie Re. deemer bv which alone cometh freedom from the aalliag yeke and vild dominion of error and sin a tha affeilfitien q, glorious aI object, we have no hesitaney in relying on the heaity approval and vigilant co-operation of every tue friend of God or lis coaatfy. or it is net ny purpose to enter the lists of unproital.le, if not hurtli
 cantrcrersy, with tlie bold and uasanetiiied champion on paleme theology with ruth tofnY imposing motto, as many ot tie pfo- liners ot Gods s8crcd revelation have done. Eut, II possible, under Sod, to luli tue truly pious into aregious lorgetiulness oi their elansh badges and opposing differ i ences, ether Ill sentiments or in forms, and to lead them into a more intimate acqnain- tanee with, and attachment to, that faith winch enlightened piety never has of will, and winch sectarian bigotry with all intel- feet and science and learning to it's aid, never can successfully controvert; and to finnish, if possible, an additional cement to the building made of living stones. For winch purpose, and not for the low and ig- noble eradication of being thought scribe
 bier, ] ask small place in your columns sIow, and may continue to do so, II time and freedom from other urgent cares shall afford opportunity for deliberate thought \ It is not my design ut this time to take up. every branch of the subject. might speak of 1t as the opposite of all faIsehood eissi- mutation and error, whether in physics, met aphysics, morals or a1se or science, of what ever kind, and as the affirmation of all ac- cufacles of the same. l might further speak of 1t as the great law ia every king dom, natural, moral or spiritual, rational, animal, vegetable or mineral also pass physical truth on the correctness of senfi- ment, in the true philosophy of the universe, and mechanical truth or the adaptation ol
 causes 10 all manner of effects, and moral truth or eoincideney of conduct with en- agreements or sentiments. l might also speak of 1t as the reality of all type, prophecy and promise, but proceed to speak of spiritual or evangelical truth, by
 which, mean the conformity ol man, par
 tleuiarly the inner man, and all moral and
 intelligent creatures, to their maker. And Fhere, but for the precious Bible, to destroy
 which and oYeTtuff the church have ever
 been the united objects of the most furious
 fanaticisms, the effort of all infidel works, Z the concentrated energies and strength of empires, and the hope of the power and pol- icy of hell, We would be wrapt in darkness gfosser than Egyptian; for could read the volume of nature renall it's various pages, and In every line, even from the son 10 saturn, and to other systems, 1 troW, tEat solid ground could not be found forproper thought of God. Without the scriptures man may speculate. Yet only right, perehance, but
 then he may know and be assured even unto doubtless faith of what is true. God is truth,
 But man can only be regarded as possessed
 ol truth, III such measure as he may have attained to a correct knowledge of the dei- z Y and his will, and have been conformed thereto in his sentiments, affections, teni- pers, &c. The being of God, therefore, presents itself to me as the very fist les son in the great subject of evangelical truth, few remarks on which, in connection with the foregoing introductory thoughts, will add for the present. That God is, I would from t,.s fact, tls,t -,tif intelligent be- ings of which we have any knowledge, whether Christian, Mahomedans, Jews, or even Pagans of the most supersttious kind, are all impressed with the existence of a great first cause, or maker and ruler of all things, 10 whom Is attributed not only in- teIlgenee, but power, wisdom, goodness, ruth, purity and happiness. The differ
 efsee efseia!inent, as to the mode of the di
 vine existence or character, of the being whether 1t be in Sun, Moon, Star, River, or 5uggenaut, does not weaken the argument as to the one single fact of the existence of a great just cause and ruler of all, possess ed of the foregoing attributes. Again--in i addition to the iucontrovoftibIe hosts of ar- guments fer the truth of the bible, Is the pre- serYation of the church, to destroy which, tides of blood have been made to roll as rushing waters from the bursting veins Of her sons and daughters. Thick roles of curling smoke have arisen from the flaming stake where her sons have gained the glo- rioas crown ofmartydom. Her mighty foes, arrayed in fiendlsh like tribes, have sponed in hellish triumphs over her woes and cares, and have erected statues, as they vainly thought, to be monuments of her everlasting ruin. But where are those tyrants who have dared to raise their arms against her? Where are tae kingdoms that so proudly opposed her! They are gone hence, and no more. l They who made the kingdoms of the earth tz C. J,,-y.