Polynesian., 1845-04-26
5 L l. f. G. II E d.

1 w N''"N Nv ioiioNlhS hOW All article IN the
U. 5. Democratic Review, entitled "The Present
State of Society. What's the Remedy ," BY
O.. A. BRowNsoN.
But if we would not reconstruct the old
Feudal and Catholic society, we would have
what Feudalism and Medieval Catholicitv
sought to realize; and to some extent.
though in a rude and imperfect manner, it
may be, did realize. We would have men
gorerned, and well governed, let who will be
the governors, or what form adopted there
may be for selecting them. Gods curse
and Humanity's curse also do and will rest
on the no-government schemers. Satan
himself was chief Anarch, and all anarchs
are his children. Men need government.
nay, a right to demand government, without
which there is no life for them. We would
also see revived in all its medieval force and
activity the Christian Faith, and as the in
terpreter otthat Faith, the Christian Church,
one and indivisible; the ground and pillar of
the truth; clothed with the authority which
of right belongs to it; and enjoining and ex-
erclsing a discipline on high and low, rich
and poor, as affective as that of the Middle
Ages, but modified to meet the new wants
and relations of Christendom.. There is no
true drag on this Gods earth, for men who
do not believe in God, in Christ, in the ever
present Spirit of truth, Justice, Love; in the
Reality of the Spiritual World; nor without
the Church of Christ, active and efficient,
authoritative over faith and conscience. COM
petent to instruct us in the mysteries of our
destiny, and to direct us wisely and surely
through the creation of a heaven here on
earth, to a holier and higher heaven here
after. We must revoke the divorce unwise-
" and wickedly decreed between politics
and religion and morality. 1t must not be
accounted a superfluity in the politician to
have a conscience; nor an impertinence to
speak and to act as if he believed in the
eternal God, and feared the retributions Of
the unseen world; nor Inconsistent with tho
acknowledged duties of the minister of re-
ligion, to withhold absolution from the base
politician, the foul wretch, whatever his pri-
his country, or support an unjust policy
through plea of utility or mere expediency.
1t must not always be in vain that a public
measure is shown to be unjust in order to
secure its adoption. Nations must be made
to feel that there IS a Higher than they, and
that they may lawfully do only what the Sow
ereign ofsovereigns commands. Right must
be carried into the cabinet councils Of minis
tiers, into legislative halls, inlo the bureaus
of business, and preside at the tribunals of
justice; men must be made to feel deep in
their Utmost being. whether in public life or
in private life, that they are watched by the
all-seeing Eye, and that it is better to be
poor, better to beg, better to ~starve, than to
depart in the least iota from the law of rigid
justice, and thrice blessed charity. This is
what we need; what we demand for our coun-
try, for all countries; and demand too in the
reverend name of Him who was, and is, and
is to be, and in the sacred name of Human
ity, whose maternal heart is wounded by the
least wound received by the least significant
of her children.
But how shall this faith be reproduced?
1t is not for mt to answer this question.
There are, as | compute, some fifteen thou
sand clcrgymen in this country, of all names
and grades; all, | am bound to presume,
good men and true; apostolic men; laboring
with an eye single to the glory oftheir Mas
ter in the salvation of men; able ministers of
the New Testament, comprehending all myst-
RES, and competent to unfold to us the desti-
MES of man and society; speaking with an
JUNCTION from the Holy One, words Of truth
with power, as men having authority. To
these belongs the prcrogative to answer the
question proposed. ] have no disposition to
encroach on their peculiar province. But,
holy fathers, permit ne with all respect for
your order, to ask, you being what have
presumed, how happens it that truth dies out
Of the hearts ofthe people, that Gods affairs
are everywhere digged down, and those Of
Mammon set up' 1t is not for me to rebuke
an elder, but, holy fathers, does not this fact
speak of neglected duty, unfaithfalness to
your charge? Your profession falls into dis
renute. your nocks RIM affair stronUo GODS