The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1841-11-11
KNOWLEDGE, THE HANDMAID
OF RELIGION.

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sars by Pssfsssar Jssaa !. l1ursi.,. flrsiataa e
h,skiasaa rallrgs. r.. drlnrrFra brlsss &c
niIbar Frk Iasiisale.
The ball d he Frssklia Insuiuie Was
crowded on he evening Of the l9th, 10
hssr Mr.. Durbia. who hsd been anuoan-
eed a. de lectarer Who should open The
rourse 20 be delivered before the Wilbur
Fisk institute. The subject chose By him
sas . knowledge. ille handmade d Reli-
EiOn," and he considered il in reference
a coins, medals, and monnments-Parti-
eulady, the sigpeaiOus natural monu-
NESTS OF primssal world. So unex2erl.
el and n0Fel . selection Of material for
such Important Illustrations as he pIopo-
sed, struck Us q singular; b.. we were
soon deeply interested. First, in refer
ence % knowledge of sncient COINS, he
dsduced single instance Of the important
use which Il may perforIn. In Genesis
il is related iha, Jacob bought sheld Al
the hand Of The children Of Hamor, She
rhem's father. for one hundred lambs.
Oar English edition has |. pieces Of mo
ney. bai in he original il IS lambs, and
j. 50 rendered in every other translation.
In the Arts q the Apostles, in allusion 70
this fact, II il said that Jacob paid sum
of money. This apparent contradiction,
de lecturer said, had been seized upon
by in6dels. and christian philosophers
and theologions had Tor years been Al fault
in mseling satisfactorily their objections.
Now, however. the whole difficulty is
solved, and solved. too, BY simple'refer-
ence 10 an ancient Phenician coin. disco
yered in Palestine nv DR.. Clark. On one
side Of this is PhGnician inscription,
and upon the other a lamb; and the infer
ence is thar such coin wen, by the name
OF ga lambs" and therefore il was said.
IN the passage named, thar 50 many lambs
were given for the field. Just 50, an Eng
lishman would say, that he paid 50 many
sovereigns for house. No one now
would suppose that he had paid certain
number Of kings or queens Cor The pro.
perry, bu; that he paid coins known by
the name Of soyereigns, upon which were
Impressed the likeness Of the reigning
monarch. In like manner. an individual
in these United States pays fifty eagles
for carriage. One utterly unacquainied
with the names and denominations Of the
gold currency Of the United States might
be puzzled to understand how he paid &c
~ eagles; but one familiar with the whole
matter will have no difficulty.
Medals came next in the lecturers con-
silerahon Of Knowledge, as the handmade
OF religion. Several rare and curious
ones, in some OF the cabinets of Europe,
were referred 10, particularly a very old
one, evidently stamped, The lecturer
thought, in commentator of The Noa-
rhian delugc, thus coming in as collateral
proof in favor of the Mosaic account of
the slbm.rsion Of the earth.
Monuments, OF human erection, next
claimed his attention, and his brief but
interesting notice of these, in connection
with their confederation Of some passages
of Sacred Writ, which had been ailduced
as proving the historicals Of the Word TO
be in some eases untrue, were received
with marked attention All evident sails
faction By the audience. The researches
Of Wilkinson, Champolean, and others,
in the valley of the Nile. have brought TO
light monnments, inscriptions, and histo-
rical paintings, that have astonishci Ell
ropean scholars--inscripiions and paint
ings commemora,ing events far anterior
10 the time from which the records Of pro-
fame historians date. In one Of the monu-
msnts now explored, after its secrets have
beea profoundly kept for thousands of
years, Il to be found painting dascsip-
live Of the whole process Of wine max
ing, from the growth AMI training of the
vino, up TO the Tine when its rich clus-
iers were ready for the wine press-aad
still farther, vessels forgthe reception of
vii were found in the sane apartments
with these paintings, and the incrusiations
~ he liquid still apparent on them. Now
the value Of this discovery, the lecturer
showed, was in the fact that iproyed The
truth Of Moses declaration in one place,
that wine was made in Egypt. In oppo-
salon to this declaration. infidel writers
bring forward the testimony of Herodo-
ias an Plu;arch, who both assert that the
Egyptians did not cultivate the grape, nor
make wine-aRd that the reason was,
shey considered wine - the blood of the
gods, and therefore refused to taste il. In
these relics Of past ages, buried from hu-
MAJ eyes for many thousand years, are
thus found incontestible proof of the au-
khcDtici,y of Moses writings.
Ap1lher allegation against the truth of
the ikistoricals of the Bible, is made from
abe fact that it is related in Chronicles
shat certain King Of Egypt, Pharaoh
necho we believe. carried away one OF
the Hebrew kings into captivity. No
such Egyptian king is panied by the old
est historians. and therefore the account
is assumed. by cavaliers and infdels, to
be incorrect. .....-