The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-02-21
From the Baltimore Patriot.
TIL E SAVIO U r.
wRIrrEN on CHRISTMAS.


losophy. she asks the question. is your
opinion OF The divinity of Christ, and bis Cos
peh' ~. n. .., s,ts, M s..-... /.
Having read the biography and writings oi
most Of the English skeptics. such as Hobbies.
Hume and Gib5on, having diyed into the Ham
tian philosophy, and read the works and lives
OF the French llluminat, such as Rousseau, Vol
taire, D'Aenbert, DiderOt, Mirabeau and Mau-
pertius; having stood by the bed of the dying
deist, and seen practical exampllticaton OF his
doctrine, and having studied the Sacred Scrip
tures with attention and unbiased judgment,
! am convinced Of their truth, and can say in
the language Of the talented though teacherOus
Rousseau, that-'Socrates deG like philoso,
pher, but Jesus Christ like 6od' The prin-
ciples Of Rousseau prepared the minds OF the
people, for the French Revolution, and Napole-
on, when standing over his tomb, said i had
been better for France had Rousseas never lived.
but then General said bystander You had
not been what you are.' Then, said Napoleon,
il had been better had webOth never lived
The following is an answer to the queries Of
the lady 'Exortum estin tenebris lumen rectisi
missricors, et meserator, et justus.
! Redenptionem mist populo suo: mandavit in
aternum testamentum SUM. Sdnctum ct terri-
bile nomen ejas.'
, The second timc in my life, am invited to
record my opinion of the most grand aud glori-
GUS character that ever dignifed or adorned the
pages of history that ever Illuminated the hu~
man mind with the rays Of wisdom. The Sa-
vour of the world came not like the conquerors
of the earth in n triumphan. car, surrounded by
pomp aud pride, but he came AZ minister Of
1h G, nd q nf mi xnn
10 the proud - he came not like Alexander or
Cesar, to rise upon ruin, to build in blood, and
trample to the dust thousand thrones. He came
not like Napoleon. to dazzle the eye Of the mag
ni6cence Of his career, or TO u ark in his march
| the monuments Of human genius crushed and
crumhIing beneath his feet, but he came to inns
molate himself that millions Of mankind should
live forever. he came 10 perish for season, that
in his death he might perpeluate the doctrine Of
RedemDtion How magnificent were his mo-
tives How magnanimous his mercy1 To teach
humility to the mighty, he consented to become
the scott aud scorn of the Jews, when at his
nod nations kneelng would have trembled, had
he thrown off the veil of flesh and revealed the
MAJESTY Of God. Sublime, indeed, was the
spectacle Of him who came 10 practice the pre-
cepts he inculcated Of love and mercy, and yet
on whose lips hung the destinies Of men and OF
millions vet unborn. Methnks see the brill.
ant and beautiful star as it rises over Bethlehem.
and the shouting shepherds as they gaze on tllt
glorious symbol of salvation. Methinks be,
| hold him in his humble cradle, and afterwards
confounding the dignlfed Doctors in the Tem'
plc. And whether we view him in his mirac
ulous birth, or in the brighter hour ofhs triumph
over death, he'll and the grave, he is the SAN,
l Il. ,,hor tb.
! dences Of his divine original. . .t..-,.r,. .
, Let us contemplate for moment, the insuhe'
and suffering Saviour expiring on the Gross
Thou h he suffered all the excruciatins aRonie
ofths mortal, Yet he exhibited none ofthe veal
/ ness of the man. With the very spear, sa,
the sublime DR.. Blair, with which Il crucif
I'd the world At that awful moment, when h
bowed his blessed head and died. very con
vulsions Of Nature witnessed to the mLtitud
! that shiloh had come, and that it was the Son O
God on whom the doom of popular injustic
, had been passed In that moment, when uni
versal darkness overspread the eorth-when tn
ell of the temple was rent - when the rock
were rlven, and The marble jaws Of the tonb
! # Oriental genius we're opened, and the slum
',ering saints and ssges arose, the astonshe
rowds were convinced that he was the Son
God.
Brilliant indeed were the bene6ts which thl
d ,acrifire conferred upon mankind. In the mo
: ment in which he bowed his head and died, III
, empire Of darkness passed away, and geaI
=. of glory broke in upon the midnight Of the lIu
man mind In that moment, to borrow some
! the brilliant ideas of DR.. Blair, the temples an
P statues of Pagan superstition tumbled to III
p lust the Priestess fled affrghed from her shrn
!, md the Dilphic Oracle was silent forever.
A The glorious Gospel of our God not only
pens to the peritent the impershable truths
: salvation, but it contains the most mild, tf
: most merciful, and magnificent SYSTEM lof mo-
II ais ever promulgated TO tho human race. II CO
% talns system of ethics far superior to the spe
did doctrines of Socrates and Seneca, and as
V narration fact 1t is more worthy Of credit ths
q The harp OF Homer, or the history Of Hesio,
, Chere is spirit in the inspired pen Of st. Pau
If which the Roman never felt while listening
The thunders of the tongue of Tully. The G.
: pel IS superior to the Zend Avesta Of the Psrs
ans, and the Talniud of the Jews, and the K,
e ran oc the Turks are but limitations of epiton
!. les of the same. Could we call up Ptolen
from his cl%ssc tomb and snatch from the rllil
# the Alexandriam Library The most brillia
VdBteoi dRd'i cdluiHS, IeHSiOii anu law Ouu
e we search through the Vatican at Rome. who
!, shelves have been groaning for ages with Il
% trophies of the intellect of man. we should fit
{ nothing that could compare with the pages
the Gospelof Jesus Christ. And vet, there a
e those who dash from the lips Gf the expiril
r, penitent his only cup Of consolation, and snat
D. / from the hand Of the dying, The page which p
IN trays his only hope Of heaven. Melancholy
r the record OF human, error and human ruinl
III more emulous was the serpent, which crawl
r over thelcradle Of innocence ia Eden, TO see I
downfall Of Adam, than is the skeptic TO ext
"a guish in the human heart the glorious spirit
the Gospel. -., --.-.....-.,,',, e I'M,
10 But the honris rapidly approaching, when
v mighiest princes aud potentates % Europe sh
Of flnet only read il, hut practice its precepts a
no lprincipics. The day is dawnlng in the E,
r when the Gospel shall go forth into the gard,
w. Of Asia, and her isles, when the songs Of H
1 annal shal! be heard on the 5anks ofthe go!t
ou river, and 'he temple Of Juggernaut shall /,