The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-08-21
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 16. l845.
For tho Voice of Freedom.
"Order was Heavens first Law"

How beautiful the natural world around
US, and how full of interest and instruc-
ton. Ia every department Of nature, the
hand of an order-loving Creator may be
seen. The animal, vegetable, and miner
al kingdoms, proclaim aloud 10 US, tina,
order is a general, and immutable law;
and By the helps that science has given US,
we may leave our home, and place our.
selves amid other spheres. The grandeur
Of design, the systems, and groups ofsys>
tems,th harmony and precision of action,
will force upon us the conclusion that the
God of nature is God Of order-and if
the law OF order is general, and immuta
BILE, it must apply, as well 10 the moral
as 10 the physical world. But The medi-
I'm through which it operates in each case,
will differ as widely as the circumstances
and condilons,upon which each exist. In
the physical world. this law is manifested,
through material affinties and powers;
in the moral world, through moral afiu-
tiles and powers. The Natural sciences.
furnish many examples of the harmoni-
Gus subsection 10 which matter, both in its
inorganic, and organic form has been
brought, and the beautiful order resulting
from it. But these terrestrial harmonies
are but an nsi On ;ficant part Of the vast,
universal harmony that reigus throughout
the universe Of God. Astronomy gives
US clear view of the harmony Of the solar
system. In what beautiful order its
members all revolve around their COM
mon centre. All obeying the same law
of motion, each in his appropriate position,
each fulfilling his appropriate Junction.
No joslling there, no crossing each others
orbits, no collision. In looking at the
solar system, in the condition which sci
ence presents it 10 our mind, we are irre-
sistiby led to ask; where was the begin
ming! Were these vast bodies, with their
vast and all powerful centres, placed in
the armament in moment, and in that
same moment set in harmonious action p
Reasoning from the known TO the un-
known, we are led 10 believe they were
not. Science has come to the conclusion
that some, If not all Of the planets, were
once cratic bodies, which the sun has
brought within its influence and reduced
10 harmonious action. But the sun itself,
with all its revolving planets, is but a
single member Of a system, the vastness
Of which may indeed stagger the mind in
somprehendiug. Blu. go far, far beyond
this, as far as the mind in its utmost ten
sion is capable Of reaching, and it falls
for short Of all the universal harmones.
And, can it be possible that the ailwise
Parent Of mankind has left His noble
work, mans moral nature, without cen.
ire, around which to revolve in harmoni.
GUS actlon2 Lei us for moment look at
lhs necessity of the case. Applying the
law of growth to mankind, there must
have been time. far back in the din
distance of his history, when ignorance,
Like the veil of night broOded over his men.
lal and moral powers The present, as tar
ps be was capable of approaching it, mu't
have been full Of suffering, and the future
without hope. Was he to be lett in this
dsrkened condition or was the centre Of
life. and light, to be manifested to him D.
Surely, an allwise Creator, would do no
less In the moral, than be had done IN the