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

Divine law and the awful scheme of redemption. These,
# he chooses have may have part in 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
vered by geology or astronomy, when il declares that
"A Thy light shall we lghtthat the things which are
seen are temporal but the things which unseen are
eternal"
Waving all this let us examine the conclusion which
follows directly from the Doctors premises. Our pno-
sophy not OF tha barren Sort which has to do with facts
alone irrespective OF consequences The Mosaic account
contrary TO the facts of geology Therefore the Mosaic
account is not No empty prae about the Bible ha.
wing been given to teach morality instead OF science
avoid this conclusion. We proceed a step further =
The Mosaic account being true could not therefore,
have been given by inspiration This first and iundamen
tai record being convicted OF fasehood have evil
dence OF the truth OF any subsequent supernatural tact
contained in the history We have therefore evil
dence FL the food OF the passage Of the Red Sea OF 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
false have therefore evidence that those who 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
spre authorities and prophet cally tesfyng OF him.
But Moses so lar from being relates actual false.
hoods Christ therefore refers TO erring authority His
own clam to inspiration, to say nothing of any hing
higher falls OF course, and now where are wee Alas,
enveloped in darkness visible in which no ray
from Chemistry or geology can guide our way. The
gloom thckening around We cannot return to the
Ii Iht OF By the aid of the decsying embers of
Primitive Revelation il shed feeble and glimmerng
light until shiloh came" butt can no longer serve us
Its day has gone by Man, in these latter times OF
the world must have Revelation Aheismthe Bible or
nothing. Where now is the Immortality of the soul
The Immortality of the soul then, gone with the
thority OF Revelation. And what is left The be-
lief in a God! What God The God of spinoza-or the
Sentmentaist's Spirit of Naureor the Naturaliss Dy-
manic Energy-or the rranscendentalists First Truth
But what he to u.s. or we to him Beings OF an hour
what have to do with Cod What have we to do with
any thing7 What interest any longer in geology,
tTonomy, chemistry Atheism, then must follow the
loss of the belief OF the SOULS Immortality Better to have
it sobeer to believe in no God than in who cares
not for who has shed ray of supernatural light up
on our dark pathwho has given ushe feeng existence
OF moment only to sink into the nothngness OF an eter
nifty Better to believe that are borne on 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 act of virtue But why talk
of vrtue1 Moral distinctions gone. Nothing is eter
nal but matter and its us mopens Right and wrong no
longer exist Whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
things lovely, all all gone Truth longer pos
with that which is eternal a? Tartaric Chaos broods
the spiritual world darker than that which the
ming OF Creation removed from the face of the physical
Infdety is among its most subtle guise false
and superficial philosophy is the order OF the day The
most sanizng principles openly broached in edu
cation politics and philosophical under the guise OF an
extraordinary philanthropy, and pretendedly higher
and the authority of Revelation. Nothing conf
dent and clamorous than super fetal and halfformed
ence when is in that state in which its bearings upon
the whole range OF other sciences urpeTceved and
fills alone the entire vision OF its boasfu devotees
Whatever is isolated be fully understood al
though often demands that the whole should do
to It's claims 1t is thus at the present day. that certain
branches assume to themselves the exclusive name Of sci
ence Men who have no ideas beyond the collections OF
OF Neurological cabinets the processes OF the aborato
ry the examination of shells the dissection of in.
sects to determine the claims of revelation and
theology, subjects which they have studied, and in
respect which they have only the most commonplace
and superficial notions. We not afraid OF the charge
being visionary and ignorant aarmist. The danger
Is nd hp All
be found in stern resolution the part of those who
have an unwaverng belief in the bible TO guard by eve
means in their power all who under their influence,
from the insidous attacks OF this subtle enemyunder
deep conviction that when faith in revelation gone all
worth living for and that children had better
to be ignorant OF many things than to lose that without
which all science is worthless.
Ever since the establishment of the tribune it
has been considered the organ of the different Gre
evolutionary tribunals" going by the name of ely
ceums," Associations and Society Libraries"
All the various lecturers these subjects, that tend
to infideiy in religion or change in the organlZa-
ton of society, are seconded and defended in its CO.
lumHs. Under the mantle OF superior decency in
morals, and responsibility IN 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. and 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
nh, Eoot Il nd
amiable men, and acting through the instrumental
y of Lyceums and Associations, with their train of
lecturers and orators. Take away all belief in
Christianity, and you take away the foundation OF
morals in every avenue of life Let the pupits and
the churches be efaced from the land, by the supe
rior entertainments of Lyceums and Associations,
for modern philosophers, and fraud, injustice and
defacation of all kinds will have neither moral
check nor hindrance. 1t is both amusing and me-
lanchoy too, behold this black tide of nhdellty
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 revolution in the
ry organic ,on of society, its morals its religion, its
Thoughts that far outsrps that of France, and may
end no one knows where.
Our BAyKRUPTCY.-We understand from Mr..
Wyant, one Of the officers of the Superior Court,
that II. w Havens, Notary Public, of Nassau
street, has stated that he knew, of his own know
ledge, that note of ours for 1885 was protested tor
non-payment-and we were therefore bankrupt.
We pronounce this statement gross and lmpu-
dent falsehood-and he who makes such 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
nrnnerv emnlnyed by the 2nxernment had the i'm