The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-07
ORPHlC SAYINGS,
BY A. BRoNsoN ALcoTr.
/. REFORM.

l. REFORM.
REMUNERATION is the parent Of reformation.
Only Saints are reiomers. BE still, thou bus
tering, bristling Radical, and listen reyerently
awhile to the whispers OF the Divine Reiormer
within thee. Renew myself, ere thou seltest
out on thy crusade against The Ages. Ih9e
oyercomest the world by conquerng thyself.
Self-conauest is the initiative TO the maryels OF
reform.
II. MAGNANIMITy.
Brave deeds cost worlds.
III. EXPERIENCE.
Truth must be lived before il can be seen ;
loved, before embraced. The Soul but reflects
herself through images Of sense. She is, and
contains whatsoever appears without. Expert
ence alone lifts the veil Of sense to rebehold IN
Ideas the Face Of God Nature is the efhgy OF
man, and man the Idol of God
Lowest thou nothing thou knowest no.
thing. All knowledge is born Of charity all
wisdom, Of piety Love, and divine the mys-
teries Of the Godhead, love, and become uou.
V. pooMsDAy.
Wheresoever the upright sojourns, there doth
the great God cast his shadow 10 hold man IN
awe. In the presence of Sanctlly, all men fear,
all men adore, the perfect Deity. Then Is the
doomsday and there is the Judgment
W. INSPIRATION.
The logic of the Breast is too subtitle and IN
slant for the Reason. II is quick with Omnls-
cience Ii affirms always from present. face-to-
face, parley with eternal facts. II darts straight
to its quarry and rends all formulas Of the
Schools, as it Eliminates the heavens OF the
mind It's light, intuition, set-revelation. Daz-
zled BY excess Of its brightness sense IS blinded,
and reason gropes in the divine darkness. All
reasoning is but self-fnding, self-recovery
WI. ART.
The art of the will is action; of the intellect,
thought The prophet speaks, the SAINT lives,
the Divine Word. The literature OF each Is
s,blimely epic The Gods are heroic,
VIII. BEATTY.
Beauty is the health OF Goodness.
TX. DIsTRUsT.
Faithess and blind who stfowest distrust
and lookest for faith. Doth the husk yield the
kernel; corruption, interruption Impossible.
Faith alone yeldeth faith; hope springs forth
from the bosom of hope. Plant then your hope
if YOU would reap frution. Your faith qulckens
as your doubt perishes. Life leaves death be-
hind Away; the Lord fife ascendeth from the
sepulchres Away.
X. REGENERATION.
The Belly is not less the souls mediator than
the brain, heart, hand. Except man be indeed
born of water and OF spirit, he deceases and cor
rupls in the sludge of concupiscence. Body and
soul must alike be regenerate and baptized IN the
soul of purity, ncarnated and clarified by the IN
fuences of the Holy Ghost. Life is the regi-
men Of the soul habits, sacramental rltes, min
istering TO its salvation or doom. Whether We
eat, or drink, or whatsoever We do imbrutes or
gorifes Let all your functions mediate; all
your faculties hallow all your acts deity your
soul.
XII. LuCRE.
Bread there is Away enough and to spare in
the granares of Providence. But covetodsness
has driven long prosperous business In the
world monopoliZed the hunger and thirst, the
nakedness and exposure OF mankind; and held
market for selling the flesh and blood OF human
beings. Bodies are everywhere bought and sold.
Mammon, in league with slaughter, carnage, lust,
forestalls the breath of souls; the Babe even at
the breast is mortgaged to cancel the debts OF
the needy. Air light, fire, f,el, water, earth,
home, the grave even; heaven, hell all, are
stock in trade of the house of Mammon Belize
bub and Co which, emboldened by its gains,
plots always specuatlons, daring and lmpous,
approaching the Godhead even 10 transmute his
attributes into gold, and would melt the universe
TO fill the vaults of Plutus. God and the world,
all things, are coined, all things sold.
XII. BENEFIcENcE.
God hath, and is all things yet gives all
things, himself away. Go, churl, and do thou
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