New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-01-26
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perry OF falsehood and superstition, and, stnppin
these away, he oRly presented it in It's naked SIN
pliotv and beauty, that man might wander Z
, longer in the thick darkness BY which &c was sur
rounded.
But, an Director may say, (for objections Away
seem most abundant 10 truths the most important.
how do we know that Moses did not borrow el
this from tradition BY looking at it il the lish
of common sense, we know it. II ne did borrow
it from the traditions Of the day. he could nav:
had no motive but his own misguided ambition
seeking 10 give himself Influence, and establish {
character among those 10 whom his book shouic
pass. Now how did ne actl Like the impostc'
OF Mecca. dad he hold up images Of asciviens
Heaven of houriesl No. Upon this .upposition
stupidity of an egregicus fool. he took
si.h ,s- = defeat his own purposes. No,
the very mean. he vanity Of those who
| for an instant did be Nstter said 10 have
held the traditions from which he loath
borrowed His very first words aimed 49,
blow at one of their cherished dogt1ss. In 'the
| beginning" said he, :. COP created the world
You hold tina. matter is eterna-that it had no Be-
sina:ng and can have no end. tell you that it is
all dream; the Earth had beginning, and God
was its Creator" And when he goes on TO give
the details of Creation he tells them that the Sun
was made TO give light by day, and the Moon by
night But NEST unw;se was he in this if ne
sought to win their favor and applause; for ne
must have known that they thought the Sun and
Moon were made for alteration and for Worship
| IN his account OF the Deiuge, too, he tells them
that the Earth vas destroyed for their rckedness
mot that it might again Sc renewed, as they sup
posed. Was this aaitsring their selt-lo7e and their
pride
We must suppose, then, either that Moses was
greater fool than his writings show him TO have
been or that he spoke the truth with holy bo!dness
ind iiierent whether it accorded with their preIu
dices or not.
Blu, il may be said that if he did not borrow, ne
tarsnte1 them. Now other. were as familiar WIKI
the traditions as be was and in case OF the lsra-
elites, for instance, do we suppose that when he
told them that they were descended from Abraham
he could have persuaded them that this was true II
it had not been? Could the same thing be done
at the present day This must have been truth
or those for whom he wrote must have known It is
be false; and the thing may be said OF all the
great events of which he wrete.
Yet it may be said that the Pagans drew their
traditions from the history of Moses. No" we
know when the Exodus took place and contempt
rary with this event are told OF the expulsion oil
the Danacii and the Cadmeans from Egypt We are
told that they brought in the ship Argo the rites OF
| the sacred hefer and of Osiris. Then OF course
these rites must have been in Egypt before their
expulsion and before the Exodus of The lsraellies
They, therefore, could not have been learned from
the institutions OF Moses which were not then IN
existence The very history Of the Exodus shows
this, The golden calf was symbol of Osiris and
the very names of the god establish the Something
Thus do all these demonstrations 60 to estab-
lish the truth of the Mosaic record.
DR.. HAWKS said he found it twas becoming fash
ionabe at the present dayto make Science contra
dict tho inspired Yolume. and there seems to be
ground for just complaint as 10 the method OF at.
tack. When manly enemy stands forward and
strikes blow, you can understand him, and eau
ton may guard against, or bravery may prepare to
meet him. But there is such thing as meeting
an assassin He who secretly Stabs the body Is
deemed the viIest of the vile. He who assassi.
mates characters, if possible, baser still. He who
would as sassnate the Truth is bascst Of ALL To all
such foes | say, stand forth and let me sea your
banner If you wish to say that the Mosaic record
is not true say it like men-and we shall know
where TO meet YOU The mode you adopt OF insin-
uatlng it by shrugs, and hints and broken COW
ardly inuendoes is ungenerous as it Is unmaniy.
am of thar number who believe that science,
rightly interpreted, car never come into conflict
with the truth of God recorded in the Bible
care not what field of science you choose-for al
true science is the child CT God No matter how
YOU hear them, all Gods words speak one harmo-
minus language; read it upon the sacred page, or
hear it in the winds of heaven trace 1t in the light
ming writing the sky listen to 1t In the voice
of his thunder or the music of his wayes-t Is all
the same, for God never con,radicts himself In
regard to the particular departmental science from
which these attacks are most frequent, have only
to say that my subject has not at all extended 10
it, If it had would cheerfully have met it for
do not believe that Geology, rightly interpreted
intereres with sing title OF the Mosaic record
But have nothing to do with Geology. have
spoken of testimony drawn from another source TO
prove that which Biologists make point OF as
sailing. And was the more anxious TO DO this in
precisely this FORM because if the Lecture room Is
to be selected as the proper place to attack the
truth, then the Lecture room Is also the place TO
meet 1t. And | am anxious to call upon those VINO
proclaim that upon the buried rock God mas written
that the Mosaic record is false, and to challenge
them 10 explain this remarkable phenomenon III
the history Of the nind-this fact, quite rs slgnh
cant and as wonderful and conclusive as any thing
they can find upon the buried rock How nap
pens il that all the traditions of the most ancient
nations, ali their systems Of idol worship sena
with enc voice their attestaton to the truth OF THIS
record In my soul do | believe that the Grees
Being whom we worship has made visible MS
power in this that he has left this evidence OF ms
truth 10 slunber ill now that IL might now add us
weight 10 that which bears testimony To the truth
ard majesty eff Jehovah. Science, nightly inter
preted, adds it. voice TO that which comes up from
all quarters of the world; but let us ever guard
against the doia,Iy of Scence-the idolatry OF the
Human Intellect, for what is 1T bat the iaintest
spark from that Infinite intelligence which made
and enlightens the universe!
In conclns;an .aid DR.. HAwKs, If have sue