Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-10-02

Almighty so dear to US, AID bring, with |
such emphasis. to every pious bosom, the !
holy lessons oil humility and gratitude
The God who stitch above. and presides
in high authority over all worlds, is mind |
full OF man; and. though at this moment
his energy is felt in the remotest provin-
ces of creation, We may feel the same Sc
curity in his providence, as if we were
the objects of his undivided care. 1t is
not for US to bring our minds up TO this
mysterious agency. But, such is the IN
comprehensive fact. that the same Being,
whose eye is abroad over the whole uni
verse, gives vegetation to every blade OF
grass, and motion TO every particle of
blood which circulates through the veins
of the minutest animal that, though his
mind takes it into its comprehensive grasp,
immensely and all lis wonders, I am as
much known to him as if were the sin
gle object of his attention; that he marks
all my thoughts; that he gives birth TO
every feeling and every movement within
me; and that, with an exercise of power
which l can neither describe nor compre-
bend, the same God who sits in the high
est heaven and reigns over the glories of
the armament, is at my right hand, 10 give
ne every breath which draw, and eve
ry comfort which enjoy.
Bat this very reflection has been appro-
priated to the use of in6delity, and the
very language of the text has been made
10 bear an application of hostility to the
faith. What is man, that God should
be mindful of him, or the son of mar. that
he should deign to visit him ?" Is itlike-
~, says the ln6del, that God would send
his eternal Son TO die for the puny occu-
piers of so insignificant province in the
mighty field of his creation? Are We
the betling objects Of SO great and so sig
nal an interposItion? Does notthe large.
ness of that field which astronomy laws
open to the view Of modern science. throw
suspicion over the truth of the gospel
history and how shall we reconcile the
greatness of that wonderful movement
which was made in heaven for the redemp-
lion of fallen man. with the comparative
meanness aid obscurity Of our species?
This is popular argument against
Christianity, not much dwelt upon in
| books, but, we believe, good deal insin-
uated in conversation, and having no
small influence on the amateurs of a su-
perficlal philosophy. At all events, it is
right that every such argument should be
met, and manfulIy confronted; nor do we
know a more discreditable surrepder Of
our religion, than to act as if she had any
thing to tear from the ingenuity of her
most accomplished adyersaries. The au-
thor of the following treatise engages in
his present undertaking, under the full
Impression that something may be found
with which to combat In6delity in all its
forms; that the truth of God and of his
message, admits of a noble and decisive
manifestation, through every mist which
the pride, or the prejudice. or the sophis-
try OF man may throw around it and ell
evated as the wisdom of him may be, who
has assembled the heights of science, and
poured the light of demonstration over
the most wondrous of natures mysteries.
that even out of his own principles, it may
be proved how much more elevated is the
wisdom of him who sits with the docility
of ittle child, to his Bible, and cas's
down to its authority all his lofty imagin-
Iations.