New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-02-07

We will give in the present article a very brlet
sketch of the principles and policy OF the advocates
of Association us regards Religion. We extract 1t
from The London Phalan1, which is under the
editorship of II. DoHBKrY, Esq, who has studied
profoundly Religious questions. He sums up as
follows the principles and policy OF Association as
regards Religion, Politics, Industry and Morals:
(Uaiyersal Unity
Private judgement.
PROGRESSIVE IN PRINCIPLE
POLITICS.. and
Conservative in Policy.
+ ATTRACTIVE TO ALL PERSONS
Advantages TO all Interests.
(CosTRoLLED BIZ UNIVERSAL AVTHoRiT S
I Preserved by Unitary Discipline.
We are Christians, because we believe the
Gospel of Christ 10 be the highest Revelation given
to man. and VIC believe that this religious DisPen-
sation will endure until it has been fully establish
ed by the creation ola New heaven and New
earth described in the Revelation. And, again we
are Christians, because we believe that the frovi'
dence of God is universal and that He has sent the
doctrine of the passions to be instrumental IN de-
veloping Christianity in natural lite, the ultimate
of order in the universe.
We believe it is our duty to obey the command
ment of Love, and to have perfect Faith in the
Promise of Light, given by Christ. We believe it
is the duty of all Christians to beware OF false
prophets who come in sheeps clothing, but III
wardy are ravening wolves = and that, BY
their fruits we shall know them" Do men ga
Their grapes of thorns or figs of thistles r.
Z" If they have called the master OF the house
Beelzebub how much more shall they call them oil
his household" We
:. F ear them not therefore, for there is nothing
covered that shall not be revealed; and hid, that
shall not be known
"Seek We first the kingdom of God and his
righteousness, and all these things (worldly com
forts) shall be added unto you.
In obedience to this commandment, and with
explicit faith in the Promise, seek hat we may
find the kingdom of God and his righteousness
and we arc afraid of those who say, that nothing
can be found by seeking; that the mystery of the
universe is impene,rable, and that the kingdom OF
God and his righteousness cannot be established
upon earth; that human nature is too bad to be re-
deemed; that the will of God cannot be done in
earth as it is in heaven; though Christ instructed
US to ask for this ia daily prayer.
We are afraid, we say, of such negations, and
the persons who maintain them we regard as IN
tdels, whatever they profess TO be.
We loath the mock professions OF hypocrisy, but
we are not intoerant OF various spinions with re-
gard TO doctrae. On the contrary, we believe that
all sincere varieties of doctrine intended TO de-
vclcpe Christianity liz its ninutest parts until the
whole be nantes, in its celestial unity.
| We believe that every word of the Gospel Is
divine but we believe also, that no human under
standing of tina, Word is perfect. The apparent
contradictions in the Word OF God, like these IN
Nature, or the Works of God we view as the mere
stumbling blocks OF human reason or misunder'
standing which is incapable OF reconciling human
wisdom with divine, in many cases, such as the
| apparent contradictions in creation; the wolf and
the lamb, the tiger and the antelope. the lion and
the buffalo, the vuture and the DIVE, the herring
and the whale, The rabbit and the ratlesnake, and
many other facts in living Revelation, not less
strange than the apparent contradictions IN the
Word OF God, and quite irreconcilable to common
rationalty and unenig htened human consciousness
of truth and Justice. These seeming contradictions
in the Word and in the Works OF God, however
are explained and justified sbundanty in Fourier
doctrine OF the passions aud OF human destiny.
As far as popular opinions OF religious coniro
vsrsy are concerned, we are neither Catholics MOI
Protes,ants exclusively; but we admit the right o.
private judgement in the universal church, ano
Catholic (universal authority, at onee, Ii dltiersn
spheres of action: the TO teach authorltauvelJ
and rule in ciplines, the other to thiak freely
| and surses, whatever seems essential to the vel
fare of the soul, according 10 the light of natura
sud spiritual Revelation which suggestions have
no right TO claim authority until they are adopted
| by the Chucch collectively.
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