Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-04-08

beyond the sea OF Galilee and the simple Oc
cupations of their craft, their boats. ant
their nets. But Jesus came and filled thei
minds with great idea; and instantly they
are emboldened to confront magistrates and
mobs and endure dungeons and death.
Thus must all men, in all times, find strength
to bear their burdens, to become men in great
thoughts, in right ciples=-sacfed truths liv,
ing in the hearts, and opening its inexhaustible
fountains of power. Thus alone can we do our
duty in our social relations. We need the in.
spiration Of truth, and the love Of truth. This
is the grace of God, this the power of the Holy
Ghost, necessary to the growth Of those private
affections that gather round the domestic altar,
and to the life Of every great public cause, the
establishment Of a religion, the revolution of a
nation, the vindication of great natural rights.
We must have faith in principles ruth, Jus.
tice, Mercy, the foundations on which the world
rests, the pillars of the everlasting throne, the
attributes of the Omnipotent, and then alone
shall we have power.
And although it may seem hard to become in.
tercsted in these things invisible and eternal, as
we must be interested, although they now ap-
pear to nost visionary, mere distractions, and
not principles more solid than the rocks and
mountains, yet God has made us to be interested
in nothing SO deeply. And there is nothing tho
worth Of which is in so many ways made mani.
fest. The whole universe is the Gospel oftheir
kingdom, and poets, patriots. apostles, and mar
tyrs, all Join in hymning their majesty. BY the
illustrations Of their value which every page of
mans history presents, by every violation ofthem
that we witness, how solemnly is their sovereign
dignity asserted! The wrongs of that great null
titude upon our soil, who lie under the mountain
weight Of merciless prejudices, and trampled un.
der the feet of unjust power, how do they appeal,
in behalf of Justice and Mercy!
The highest in nature is pleading thus with the
highest and deepest in man; and although indi.
vidual voices may be silenced, this voice of God
will keep sounding on, till all hearts quake at the
thunders of its remonstrance. We may for a
while persist in being interested in other things
in the vanishing shadows and corruptible gew-
gaws of the senses. Still nothing can so take
hold Of the inmost heart Of man, nothing so
kindle it into glow, as the sense Of the right
and the true. And the coolest, most self>intcr.
ested and most calculating man on earth shall
throw his money.bags into the sea, if need bt,
and set fire 10 his house, with his own hand, when
once his heart is touched with the divine lovU of
Freedom, Justice and Mercy. 1t is the love of
all goodness, the love of God, the soul of all re.
Igion, the fountain of all life, the gate of Heav.
en-. May Gods grace descend upon us and
breathe into us a boundess love of what is Just
md humane, and SO give us to be partakers of the
Divine nature and power. May humanity be the
Ill. commanding interest with US, for what does
he Lord our God require of us but that we do
Justly and love mercy, and walk humbly with our
God. Mark the phrase, lope mercy. Love is
active, irre2ressble. 1t does not fold its arms,
but runs on the wings Of the wind to defond the
weak against the mighty, and to search out the
cause of the friendless and the oppressed.-Lib.
srty Bell.