Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-04-26

the popuIous CRY, and JON the chime OF
the desert sea. OF Sabbath morn they
are repeated from church to church, from
isle TO isle, and land to land, till The mu-
sic goes round the world. These words
have become the breath Of the good, the
hope Of the wise, the joy of the pous,-
and that for many millions of hearts.
They are the prayers of our churches,
our better devotion by Preside and field
side, the enchantment of our hearts. tits
these words. that still work wonders, TO
which the first recorded miracles were
nothing in grandeur and utility 1t is these,
which build our temples and beautlfy our
homes. They raise our thoughts to sub.
Unity, they purify our ideal OF purity,
they halIuw our prayer for truth and love.
They make beanteous and divine the If.
which plain men lead They give'wings
10 our aspirations. What charmers they
arel Sorrow is lulIed at their bidding.
They take the sting out Of disease, aud
rob adversely Of his power to disappoint
They give health and wings to the pous
soul, broken.hearted and ship-wrecked in
his voyage through life, and encourage
him to tempt the perilous way once more.
They make all things ours: Christ our
brother; Time our servant; Death our
ally and the witness of our triumph.
They reveal 10 US the presence of God,
which else we might not have seen so
clearl v in The first vin1-h flower of spring
n the falling of sparrow; in the dis
trtsS OF nation; in the surrow or the
rapture of a world, Silence the voice of
Christianity, and the world is well nigh
dumb, for gore is that sweet music which
kept in awe the rulers and the people
which cheers the poor widow in her lone
Y toll, and comes like light through the
widdows OF morning, TO men who 81,
STOPPING and feeble, with FILLING eyes and
a hungcring heart. |! is gohe-all gone!
only the cold, bleak world left before
them.
Such is the life Of these Words; such
he empire they have won for themselves
over mems minds since they were spok-
en- first. la the mean time, the words OF
great men and mighty, whose name shook
whole continents, though craven in metal
and stone, though stamped in institutions
and defended by whole tribes OF priests
aud troops Of folIowers-,her words have
gone to the ground, and the world gives
back no echo Of their voice. Meanwhile
the great works also Of old times, castle
and tower and town, their cities and their
empires, have persisted, and left scarce a
mark on the bosom OF the earth TO show
they once have been. The philosophy
Of the wise, the art OF the accomplished,
the song Of the poet, the ritual Of the
priest, though honored as divine in their
dav, have gone down, prey to oblivion.
! Silence has closed over them only their
spectres now haunt the earth. A deluge
of blood has swept over the nations a
night Of darkness, more deep than the
flbled darkness Of Egypt. has lowered
down upon that flood, TO destroy or to hide
what the deluge had spared But through
all this, the words of Christianity have
come down to Us from the lips that He
brew youth, gentle and beautiful as The
: light Of star, not spent by their journey
through time and through space. Tael
have built up a new civilization, which
the wisest Gentle never hoped for, which
the most pious Hebrew never foreIold
Through centuries OF wasting, these word
+ have flown on, like dove in the storm
| and now wait to descend on hearts pur
and earnest, as the Fathers spirit, we ar
I told, came down on his lowly Son. Tn
5 old heavens and the old earth are indee
D passed away, but the Word stand;
I Nothing shows clearer than this, hoy
$ fleeing is what man calls great; hoy
! lasting what God pronounces tue
: Looking at the VOID Of Jesus. at req
Christianity, the pure religion he laugh
u nothing appears more fixed and certain. L
y influence wdens as light extends il deer
/ ems rs the nations grow more wise. Blu
9 looking at the history of what men ca
Christianity, nothing seems more unceI
70 tain and perishable. While true rellglo
- is always the same thing, in each centur
J. and every land, in each man that feels
t. the Christianity of The Pulpit. which
q the religion taught; the Christianity
i'd the People, which is the religion that
lie accepted and lived out, has never been Il
a. same thing in any two centuries or land
10 except only in name. The difference b
r tween what is called Christianity by Il
U. Unnarans IN our times, and that of son
ages past, is greater than the dIfferen
Is between Mahome, and the Messiah. III
lie differenc at this day between opposir
of classes of Christians the difference
en- tween the Christianity Of some sects, al
la THAT Of Christ hinseIi, is deeper and mo
'e- vital than that between Jesus and Pla
ID. Pagan as we call him. The Christian
*. Of The seventh century has passed ava
lls We recognize only The ghost OF Super:
ID ton in It's faded features, as it comes
its at ou. call Il is one of the things viii
Of has been. and can be no more, Cor Meth
VA. God nor the world goes back. lis terrC