The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-12-14

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be valued II could obtruds upon you auy or
argument, upon those dsctrp.l .u1scts which
Allow ms then to make some reflections upon Chris-
and q, .anfhor as eontainfns ana. SITTING forth
M Iaaen yorid Of Fer whilst admit It - true
. our divine Saviour seemed regard those mighty
@ which occupy the whole men, even Of vSe
; osIss9lsnt men, as II he would do them suhiosnt
py leaving In the Language OF the Inspired text
uDproyded for lnhis tsscSne Tss ohsc. no S s
mon upon earth was of higher and boiler oharsoter
had incurred the enmty Of his Mshss i've Ha Man
Man mad forfeited the nhertancs for which God had
originally created him. Jesus Christ. in fSImsnt
Of the hrst object of his mission came ~
bstween the offended Creator aud Supreme Lord sni
ns reoeiops ana disobsdent creature and subject
the direct object OF Christ appears to have hsd re
ference to another world, 1t Is singular tina. IL In
direct consequences seem to constitute the only
true ground Of hope and Of happiness, even in the
affairs Of this world. And IL in that point Of
reflections the first Of which will be- tho condition Of
human nature and especially its condition ut the period
som our by the infinite merits his stonssnt and
redemption, but also to reestAbsh open anew the
communication CON between the immortal soul Of man and
GOD, who is its eternal author This the direct OBJ
jec OF his mission and not to doubt that all those
nnss which appear to US mysterious inexpllcs-
ble-so incomprehsnsibe that sometmssws seem to de-
iverather elements Of scepticsm from thsm-thst eli
those things In the wise providence Of God are sua
ceptibe OF explanation and fall into harmony With the
general designs of his providence. The second
reflection will be the principles by which that
Amelior.tion, when it has taken place, has been
achieved the third the application Of those pr;n
cpes so far MS they have been applied the mere tran
speak arst then, OF the condition of human nature
speak from the conclusions to which every mInd has
come that familiar with the achisv Of man. un
sided Dy ths nght OF divine revelation, and unwarmsd
in his heart by the love which hrst brought from
heaven and oreathed as the spirit Of life into that
We ind man accomplishing in Greco and Rome what
AZ TINS day, objects OF our astonishmsnt and
with the superiority Of ri. ''f nt. lna e sn:s
lowing Gown to gods, the creatu res Of this earth,
deties whose history was made up of vices the vsrv
imitation Of which would have corrupt ed uurs nation
virtues what deity ought to exhibit And vhv Il Iii
this IL involves contradiction-that contradiction
SUI hi. soDsss IN our nature 1t the contradiction BY
which man susceptible under certain
OF such heroic and noble virtues and by which, on the
other hand he Is subject to such degrading and brut
flying vices 1t is the aspiration unbounded Of the soul
In which, this earth you watch its course not
all the wealth that possesses reach the measure Of
NE avaros not all the honors that Of his an
btion The origin Of this enigma revelation has made
known But even frsveation had been SILENT that which
the ancient philosophy Of surmssd with good rea
son, becomes manifest that man. the compound Of CON
tradctions never could have Originally from the
hand OF an infinitely wise and perfect God in that
dton There must have been . catastrophe and reve-
laton comes to teach what that was and in order
to the history of and the object Of the
ihoarnstion OF the Son OF God taking upon him our
nature for our redemption have one original but al
most mysterious key.that key IL revolt against
=
ing minds, who puzzled by this strange exhibition OF
our nature, why 1t that God left such awful oonso-
just formed The answer is such as We NAV give sc
cording to the limited MEASURE of knowledge for
Universe Its nhabants We must spt ak within the
limits OF our cspaciy-we have no measure to comprs-
bend God Our capacity limited and according TO that
small measure only are We permitted to speak; end
whilst We admit still the existence Of the mystery we
may present reasonable solution Of tho dmcuity hero
suggested It is this God is alone the1 Supreme Co.
vernor-the alone eternal Independent infinite Being
Concedng these attributes admit that conss-
especially rational being endowed with the attributes
Of mans spiritual nature leave him q
If he were to be another God
There Is no work Of God that ndependent of its su
preme author or Of his rule of his and
and the earth deformed in of mans disoSs
dience we yet trace may with great gratinc alton
the obedience of all things else to the government Of
their glorious Creator hyou turn your eyes upon the
heavens, you perceive with what regularity the starry
host move on their appointed way Day BY day and
heaven Is in Its place. in the beautiful order which
God originally appointed for their movements The
the appointed hour and for want Of light but nom
its exercise, when he she'd his eugence on the earth
the the u you turn to
In which We have to believe that thew vera
changed when man became rebel-the seasons them.
forth its myrads Of flowers The warm summer ripsns
all that the fertile soil is destined yield for the sus
tenance Of man Autumn furnishes the for ga
therng, and repose again furnished by winter II
you look upon the ocean, you the unvarying
obedience to the great Creator In all material things
we see this harmony with the will Of him who called
them into being Man !. the only exception to the
uni order Of obedience And why . man
by the very dignity Of his nature, could not
yield obedience to God in the way in which It is
sent book in which God has traced, with his
own hands, the evidence OF his power and the glory
self Man 10 necessary to read and interpret its con-
tents To him, man-created Free but not independent
known the law by which he was to shape his Conduct
and admonshed him Of the penalty OF the violation Of
man leave him without the power Of rebsIlion
then, what weuld have been the conse auepce? That
man, with an mmsrtal soul with reason which can
look abroad upon the works Of God and Imagination
which can gather to Its own chambers the majestic
armament itself, and then the distance, and
comprehend the Of the host heaven with
almost godke faculty Of and Of memory and OF
will would have been identified with gross thinss
lie would have been suhece with them to law Of me-
cessty such that by which God governs all that il
material in the world II man had been thus created
how could he have rendered unto God hom.g. and
such being would have given, would have been only
like that Of the tree which bends the blast that ag
reduced to the condition Of the puppe strung upon the
wire and not mortal throne would feel battered
by the mock homage Of q machine arranged that It
could not avoid bowling In reverence to his greatness
God has therefore, made man free because II requi
site for the dignity Of the mature bestowed upon him
tor Being free he necessarily had thepower Of DISC
bedence and there the key which explains the other
mystery-itsef indeed mysterious There Ii that
which accounts for the Introduction OF evil into the
world. Because disobedience reversal Of Gods
order by poweris itself evil in that Of having
its origin at the cradle OF race, and receiving
accumustons Of guilt and familiarity with deprayity In
the progress OF time-accounts for the condition Of
mankind God declared that there should be penal-
ties and these penalties marked In the book OF
reveation-n the book Of Geness.wers 80 FAR OF the
temporal order. Man should de-hs should have to
toll and here have the origin OF sickness, and Of
and of deception, and Of all the various
instrumen talites by which oftentmes man traces his
pathway from the cradle TO the grave. These the
con sequences OF mans disobedence. And then God
seemed TO have withdrawn 10 were, from the rebel
man not alogether-for first parent behed,
through the Of his repentance-one bright but
feeble ray OF hope on the horizon OF the future
and his posterity In the order Of the pstrisrobs,
we're not forsaken Of God. lie communicated to
them, from time to time, the purposes Of his
mercy and he made them, in the FIRST instance,