Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-06-01

would have grated on the of the Manluan
bard; and meath he rosy skies, and in the sml-
ling valleys of his native land the piping of the
| Lazzar0ni has succeeded TO the departed music
of his song.
But the Bible is crowded with instances Of
poets, warriors, kings and philosophers, hose
warning history il there engraved as with the
point of diamond in a tablet Of aia.nant Does
he need To be prepared for patience under
wrong and forgiveness Of insult; there David,
The Lords anoinied, flies before his enemy and
refuses retaliation. while the deep gens and
lonely mountains of Judea echoed TO the tones
of his melodious harp, and many sorrow sha-
ded his brow ere it was fitted for the crown.
1t has been asserted that all religious feelings
rest upon one Of two grounds: that nf auth0ritY,
or conuiction; that The heart either bows 10 the
one or yields the other. That of the Bible rests
upon both. 1t has truth for reason, and truth
above reason; and the unsophsrcaied heart re-
spends TO both these demands. The young
soul receives the elements of all truth upon
trust, and generously confides until deception
arms suspicion, or condemnation wakens unbe-
lief The Divine authority is sufficient for
what is higher than reason, and all The rest is
laid open TO the comprehension of all the nqu-
investigation, ever lighted upon fact to CON
tradiCl declaralOn or even ntimailOn Of the
sacred Record True, we have often heard the
chuckle Of anticipated triumph as geology pen
etraled the earth, or astronomy The heavens, in
the vain expectation that the work of God would
contradict his Word Geology, skepical Ge
ology, traversed The bed of the river, and went
into the fissure OF The rock: bu, Geology return
ed believer; for from the dim aisles Of The
mountain cavern and the lofty peaks Of the
mountain summit she brought in her hands the
Tiny shells of The deep, or the mammoth bones
Of the huge Levialhan. Astronomy, skep,ical
Astronomy, turned her telescope gaze upon the
heavens 10 track the radiant orhs that light up
The far off immensely. And Astronomy return
ed 4 believer; for every where, amid suns and
systems she saw the lracery of The Divine fin
ger, and the evidence Of the Divine care: and
thus have all the discoveries of art and science
acted as the exponenfs and witnesses Of reli-
eiOn. Shall mol our children know this, and
know i. early and well!
Sir, il is a irile remark. and yet no less true
that that education which has respect only TO
the intellectual powers, leaves more than half
lis work undone. The most daring and giant
rebel, against all law, human and divine have
lowered in mind above he common stature Of
their fellows. The moral powers must he
trained ard guided as well as the mental ex-
banded and enlarged or the man is ont of har-
mony. Early and constant familiarity with he
Bible accompshes This training, and nothing
else will do il. If we neglect the training of
The young for heaven, the Prince of the Power
OF The Air trains them his own. 4 process
of education is constantly going on, which looks
to the JOY of the seraphim, or the agony Of The
lost. Which shall it be!
Mr.. Thompson then spoke 4, some length Of
the social and political bearings Of the subject,
but our limits forbid us 10 follow him
Sir, our resolution speaks of omens The
ChaIdean read them in The Stars the Egyptian,
/ in the mysteries Of CabaIlsic lorei the Greek.
/ in The responses of The Oracle! and the Roman,
1 in the flight Of birds, and The entralls of saugh
tered victims! and now, the home of the Maglan
sage, he who gave the elements of astronomy
TO the world. is the howIIng deserr, where the
lion roams and the Satyr dances.
| The philosophy Of Plato is unknown in the
home of its first promulgariun. DesOlaion
stalks hideOusly over broken shaft and moulder-
! ing column, and worse than all he bows to the
scepre of foreign king, whose Bavarlan ban
ner f0His the sky, above the very ashes of
! Themlsiocles; The Roman-the fire consumed
his dwelling, and the sword Of the barbarian
drank his blood, and O, er The grave of Roman
vaIor settled thousand years Of night which
! is lifted bu, TO show race of suplne and effem-
inaie figures, stealing round the crumbling mon
umenis Of ancestral achievement, and batening
on a heritage OF fraud and RIGHTEOUSNESS. West
ward the star OF empire took lis way, and we look
/ for OmenS he1et 10 the Bible and weald the
Greek look here and The mournful genius of
that cradle of ar and song, might YET rise from
the dust and stand revealed in as pure ligh
as circIcd The eloquent Paul, when with out
stretched hands and burning zeal he preached
Jesus and the resurrection, IN the Mars Hill of
her own haughiy Athens. Would Egypt look
here she might tear from the face of her Isis,
The veil dark and inscruable, which ages Of ig-
norance and crime have le, fall upon his gigan-
tic wonders; and lift to heaven The song of de-
| liverance, as the cross of Christ giitering in
the sunbeam from The summit Of her mountain
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