Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-01-13
From the London Christian Observer.
DEATH OF VOLTAIRE.

From the London Christian Observer.
DEATH OF VOLTAIRE.
II. during his life time, you had been
asked to point out the man who would
have been most likely TO confront the
king of terrors with insoleni defiance; 10
rail. in his last agonies. at the terrors of
the Lord; and to make even the scaffold
echo with a jest" you would have pointed
Ito Volairc, and said. /" Thou art the man
Voltairel who inocula,ed France with
the soul-destroying virus of infdelily
who maddened her with the insanity of
atheism; who deluged half Europe with
blood; who sowed the poisonous seeds Of
that universal anarchy and insubordina
ton, whether TO God or man, of which
the world is now reaping the bitter har-
vest. Voltaire the walch-word Of whom
and his party, in blasphemous mockerv of
the hanllialions and suferings ofthe Son
of God was g Cruelty the wretch" as if
unsated BY the groans and agonies Of that
meek and patient sufferer. they would
l.crneify unto themselves afresll the Son
of God, ana put Him TO an open shame
But Voltaire too. the apostle vf in6delity,
must die. And did he, like the great
Apostle of Christianity whom he deriled
and despised, when standing upon the
brink OF the two worlds, look forward
with unblanched countenance into the
future; look back without regret upon
The past and in calm triumph exclaim.
The time of my departure is at hand -
/ have fought a good fight. | have fin
lished my course. Henreforth there is
laid up for me crown of righteousness 81
Did he, like that Apostle, know that if
our earthly house of this tabernacle were
dissolved we have building of God. an
i house not made with hands, eternal in the
heavens?" Were his groanings that he
might be clothed upon with his house
which is from heaven" Did he desire
to depart and to bel will not say
with Christ" but with the idol which
be had enshrined for the alteration of his
country, the goddess of Reason! Did he
know whom he had believed, and that
she was able to keep that which he had
committed to her unto that day No
The in6del confederacy indeed siudiousiv
en6eavored to veil with the shrond Of OBJ.
! iivion their dying leader; bur, in despite
: of all their efforts, fearful sounds aud
, CLEANS Of horrid light issued from thai
chamber of death indeed, TO tell the Sc
|, crels o. the prIson-house, and scare TIT
: guilty soul. This martyr of in6delity
was tortured on the rack of a gully con
. science-with all the agonies OF spirit
] nal cruci6xon; no ray OF hope cheering
. :. him; no .angeI from heaven strength
3 ening him." In the wild horror of de
!. spair he offered his physician an enor
! few months The wre:ched existence whiel
! had already run IFS course of eiehtv1fv
!, years and this. not with any define
! hope, but in the spirit of those who cried
: Art thou come 10 torment Us before th
: time r. He asked that priest WHOM
! he named might be sent Cor but the de
7 mons in human form who lowered roun
: 1.-The dealh.bed, fearful lest these strange mi:
:. oivinos and womanish weaknesses CT th
4 hitherto daring leader IN the aposlae.
J. might dispirit the host which he ha
] raised, and damage their bad cause. r
!. fused to him the broken reed OF superst
: ton onswhich the hardened Intidel woul
: cast himself IN despair, when she. arrow
: of the Almighty drank up bis spirit. az
!. the iron entered into his soul. The
= : compelled him shivering and reluctan
= 10 lake what a brother infidel well terme
y ia leap 10 the dark; and to plunge fro,
S. his solid footing on The cliffs OF tine In'
shoreless, fatholnless, gloomy eternity
:, Beneath those closing waves we look no
= 40 his own Master he standeth or ial
e eth p But surely we have seen enougl
- $ even on Ibis side of the great gull Ike
e 10 make the sinner tremble. Surely y
e have awful materials. in the death-bed
the infidel philosopher. for strong al
timuressive contrast With what every mi
ho isier of the Gospel must have often "
ne messed. as he SAT beside the death-be
ste the timid female. the unleaered peasal
i'd the humble Christian.
Sc THERE SHALL BE no MONT THERE
he The ways Of Providence shall be ma