The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-11-18

DIVINE law ana the awful scheme oil redemption 1hese
he chooses to have may have part his idea OF
science Other minds think differently, and regard all
other knowledge utterly worthless unless umined by
rays reflected from these sublime objects Of the souls
temptation. There those who feel that the scriptures
PROFOUND truths of science higher than any disco
Nefed py geology or astronomy, when II declares tha'
IN my lgh shall we ghtthat the things which are
seen are temporal but the thrg which are unseen are
eternal"
Waving all this, let Iamine the conclusion which
olows directly from the Doctors premises Our pho-
sophy not OF that barren which has to do with facts
alone OF consequences The Mosaic account
Is contrary TO the facts OF geology Therefore the Mosaic
account Is not true No empty prate about the Bible ha-
wing been given TO teach morality instead of science
can avoid this conclusion. We proceed step further
The Mosaic account not being true could not therefore
have been given by inspiration. This first and indame
tai record being convicted OF fsehood we have no ev
dence oil the truth OF subsequent Supernatural ae
contained in the history Wehsve therefore no ev
dence Of the food of the passage d the Red Sea oil the
awful transactions Mount sinai All these events are
appealed by subsequent historians and prophets Being
utterly without evidence and some OF them proved to be
we nave therefore no evidence that those VINO refer
to them were inspired by the Holy Ghost or rather we
have evidence to the contrary Jesus Christ appeals to
the Old Testament prophets and especially Moses in
spired authorities and prophet cally esying OF him.
But Moses far from being inspired relates actual false
hoods Christ therefore refers to errng authority His
claim to inspiration, to say nothing of any thing
higher falls OF course and now where are we Alas,
we veopedi in darkness visible" in which ray
from chemistry or geology can guide our way The
light of nature. By the aid Of the decayng embers Ct
Primitive Revelation ii shed feeble and gmmering
Hght until shiloh came y but can no longer serve us
now Its day has gone by Man, in these latter times of
the world must have Revelation or Athesmthe Bible
nothing Where now is the Immortality of the soul'
The Immortality of the soul then gone with the
thority OF Revelation. And what now is LETT The be-
lief in a God What God The God of spnoza-or the
sentmentass Spirit of Nature-or the Naturalsts Dy
manic Energy-or the Transcendentasts First Truth
But what is he to us, we to him. Beings of an hour
what have TO do with God What have to do with
any thing? What interest any longer in geology,
tronomy chemistry Atheism then, must follow the
loss of the belief of the souls Immortality Better have
it so-better to believe in God than in who
not for who has shed of supernatural light up
on our dark pahwho has given us fleeing existence
Of moment only to sink into the nothingness OF an eer-
nifty Better to believe that borne and crushed
down by the wheels of blind and relentless Nature Bet
ter, in such case, to say It once
"Out, out. brief candle !"
Suicide becomes the highest Of virtue. But why talk
vrtuel Moral distinctions gone Nothing is eter-
nal but matter and its us morens Right and wrong no
longer exist Whatsoever things pure, whatsoever
things are lovely all all gone Truth longer pos
with that which is eternal Tartarc Chaos broods
over the spiritual world darker than that which the
ming of Creation removed from the face the physical
Infdelity is among its most subtle guse. false
and superficial philosophy is the order of the day The
most disor anizng principles openly in edu
extraordinary philanthropy, and pretendedly higher
faith than is be derived the teachings the Church
and the authority of Revelation. Nothing is conf
dent and clamorous than superficial and halfformed sci
ence, when is in that in which its bearings upon
the range OF other sciences urpeIceved and
1t fills alone the entire vision of its boastful devotees
Whatever is isolated be fully understood, al
though often demands that the whole should do homage
to its claims is thus at the present day. that certain
branches to themselves the exclusive of sci
ence. Men who have IDEAS beyond the collections of
Of Neurological cabinets the of the aborato
ry or the examination of Shells the dissection of in
sects assume to determine the claims OF revelation and
theology subjects which they have studied and in
and superficial notions. We not afraid of the charge
Of being visionary and ignorant alarmis The danger
we contend, is real and imminent. The remedy can only
be found in stern resolution the part of those who
have an unwaverng belief in the bible to guard by
means in their power all who under their influence
rom the iDsdious attacks Of this subtle enemy-under
leep conviction that when faith in revelation gone all
gone worth living for and that children had better
o be ignorant of many things than to lose that without
which all science is worthless.
Ever since the establishment of the "Tribune'' it
las been considered the organ of the different re-
tribunals" going by the name of ely
,eums,' "A Associations and "Society Libraries"
All the various lecturers these subjects, that tend
o infidey in religion, or change in the organiza-
ion of society, are seconded and defended in its CO.
um"s Under the mantle OF superior decency in
morals, and responsibility management, ii is the
vehicle of deeper and more radical revolution in
morals, society and religion, than was attempt
ed in France or England, during the worst revou-
tonary periods of their existence. Magnetism,
Geology, Mesmerism, Fourierism Physiology,
Neurology, and thousand other different topics in
philosophy, al! tending to the same result-irreli
gion materialism and ultimately atheism-are there
found at large.
But this is not al-the terrible prostration of all
morals in trade, finance, politics, ard private life,
which have recently characterised the higher and
more educated orders of society, may be justly i'm
puted to the progress of this wonderful revolution in
religion and philosophy, set foot by educated and
amlable men, and acting through the instrumental
y OF Lyceums and Associations, with their train of
lecturers and orators. Take away all belief in
and you take away the foundation of
morals in every avenue of life. Let the pulpts and
he churches be efiaced from the land, by the supe
-or entertainments of Lyceums and Associations,
or modern philosophers, and fraud, injustice and
of all kinds will have neither moral
check nor hindrance. 1t is both amusing and me.
ancholy too, to behold this black tide of infdelity
moving over the land, in the shape of respectable
river, where the water nymphs sport about like so
many angels of heaven, inviting the unwary and
superficial TO the waves that is certain death.
Taking all these movements into consideration,
they present the character Of arevou,on in the We
ry organization of society, its morals its religion its
thoughts that far outstrps that of France and may
end no one knows where.
OUR BANKRUPrcY.--We understand from Mr.
Wyan, one Of the officers of the Superior Court,
that H. w. Havens, Notary Public, of Nassau
street, has stated that he knew, of his own know
ledge. that note of for S265was protested tor
non-payment-and we were therefore bankrupt.
We pronounce this statement gross and impu-
dent falsehood-and he who makes such a state
ment we also pronounce to be gross and impudent
liar-and dare any man in this community to pro-
duce the note in question, give any other evidence
of such thing. We know that Parmlee, formerly
our correspondent at Washington, and now very i'm
properly employed by the government had the i'm.
nndence 10 draw upon US Cor sum of nearly such an