The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-13

But this ~ not the TACT: many IN ehaited staohs ana I'M
der the greatest obligations To virtue have acted guilty
part without appearing miserable. Many have suffered
much and died in defence OF virtue Without any visible
plaudit from God How can these things be! Why Is II IN
the power of say of any one subject TO Gods law,
he inaccessible TO human authority, though worthy OF
the infection, if the soul be not immortal to bear
out the seeming discrepancies OF The divine government
Again. q future state OF KIND is denied by few.
Many persons have eXpunged suffering from their theo
res OF eternal duration, and would have regard all
beyond the grave at rest WIN .od and conscience In
view OF the seeming mpartiaity and injustice which
mark the dspensation of things In this life they would
relieve the character of Omnipoence from all mpuahons of
misrule by alleging that lie has so constituted the soul
that il invariably enjoys secret pleasurets reward II
viruous and that the rod falls secret till Justice is full
" satisfied that thus the stain otherwise affixed to the
Divine integrity is wiped away, and His eternal throne
brightens the midst of reproaches. A vruous
say they is happy IN his most calamtous estate,
than the wicked in his greatest prosperity. We know
that there Is no peace to the wicked and the man who
be his earthly circumstances comparatively happy
But the guilty of capital offences sleep with
blood stained hands The IRON heared landlord can
drown the shrek OF the pennyess orphan with the cink
of money Wicked men outye their sensiiveness, and
mock distress On the other hand the support and
comfort of good greatly depends his expectations
OF future state; the hope OF reward them encourages
him to perseyere virtue under his greatest discourage
ments But blot out his hopes eypunge the promises OF
the Bible, on which he wont lean for support let
him feel convinced that his light affections moi work
ing out for HIM weight of glory, and you cloud his
countenance wither his heart and drive him TO despair
by you tle
spread his branches kc green baytree; A time must
come when the moral Irregularities OF this word-for
whatever permitted-sha be rectifed; when
vice shall wither and virtue bloom Therefore, say,
the soul must be immortal. g. Unless the soul be
immortal, with reverence be it said, our Maker
must be an exceedingly cruel being. He can neither
be the God of the Bible, the builder of the uni
verse You have lively exhibitions of goodness on
ocean, EARTH and air, the structure of the body and the
flow OF blood You have poisons and antidotes-colos
suited to the eye; the and atmosphere adapted to
sounds Where without eNclaImlng,. 'sthe
hand that made il is divine " The gradual return OF the
seasons, and the pleasing alterations of day and night,
poor man. his mind, his body how full of pain Both
feversh at times and neither so fully satisfied to
crave no 1t as II rational beings were the
only that drink the cup of unmiXed bitterness
the only to whom perfect contenmen has been de-
MED What if you master placing his servant on
the rack and there dslocang each JOINT and dstendng
each muscle, till blood gushed from and mouth, and
ear The sufferer is remanded to his cell, and the
ter returns his study to refine his cruelty and seek
more ingenious method of torture. The slaves torment
is protraced through weeks and months, and years
| Would you pronounce that man mercul' Who does
not abhor the inquistOr in his heart! Cast your eye
abroad, and see We at the disposal of God he
trolls US, and if chance be denied, 1t must be admitted that
he alicts permits to suffer. Here is virtuous
gradually devoured by cancer, wasting piecemeal
under the baeful influence of scofula Are moi these
bitter suierngs known TO God and does he not watch
each deepdrawn sigh and hear each pteous call for
help Still the body is wasted by degrees but the skin
tghtens to the bone If the Almighty fit, he might
relieve the sufferer by healing him, speedily ter
inmate his sorrows through the agency OF death Bnt it
is not The man is on the rack, and there he is
less we believe that by this process he is training
and dscipning his servant for better world Deny
it, and you must mpeach his justice, and call him
cruel The heather, with greater wisdom than mod
ern deists, have met the difficulty by introducing
many gods, declaring one TO be the author Of good an
other the parent of evil Contemplate this subject with
out the Bible and while you admit the unity Of God, you
make him tyrant deighting TO torture his victims,
Teasing the tears and groans of his most loyal Subjects
while rebels against his authority have died without
pang Considering Affections instrument of moral
discipline Jehovah to act the part OF skiful and
benevolent practitioner, who nics necessarily the most
effect cure. Still this Scriptural view of suffering,
takes for granted the Immortality of the soul, and affirm
the present state TO be but the winter OF the Christians
existence 4. Ii there be no immortality Tor the soul
another of the admitted attributes OF God necessarily
called in question, VIZ: Wisdom. 1t adapts means TO
ends. What were made for' Look abroad and con-
fine your notice it peases you 10 the work OF Death
See him flooding the domestic hearth with tears, hnmbng
the pride of power drying up the only fountain OF soacc
left the widow, knocking down the props of declining age,
shaking every domestic circle IFS centre and Wild
~ ceerng over the hopes and happiness of the multitude
Beauty presides III the board to-day-s coined o-mor
row The only qnckens by his virtuous deeds the
remembrance of his fathers form and worth to-dayto-
morrow, you pronounce eulOglum at his grave The
flowers blooming at tables witherthe companions of
our joys wiring hearts with grief by their sudden dis
appearance; and sure OF nothing but the tomb.
Has Jehovah placed here to sport with railties,
and make His wisdom questionable? scholar confines
himself to classic retreat and after bordering for
Nature and her relations, prepares treatise, that will Ia
cate the abors, enghen the ignorance, and enhance
the happiness OF the world The learned decide upon its
eXcelence, and the community wait in GREATNESS anxiety
to receive it from the press, but the hopes OF all
blasted by committing his treatise to the flames Is
| he wise' What if our frend-who has taught us to
write with the lightning, and whose wonderful discovery
will cause his name to be remembered when Napoleons
is forgocnus after discovering the capabilities of the
telegraph had resolved to bury the secret in his SOUL
and carry it undiyulged to the grave' Might he not
have been loudly denounced for his folly he
Justly and extensively commended for his practical wis
domi have within soul OF vast desires; the eye
is satisfied with seeing, the ear with hearing
nothing can arrest the flight of thought--no vice can
hold it, The body may be dismembered the elements of
life whered for season; still the mind is active.
When cultivated, how capacious, how winning sooth-
ing, slutary its creations; how wise. and beautiful and
controlling its plans how exact its calculations how
masculine its energies To what heights Of intellectual
is enabled to athom How tender its love- and cruel its
lhate how superior to flesh in all its properties ask,
has God made and attuned this harp of many strings
hang, when ready to make lis living harmony in song,
by some Lethean stream Transmigration is preferable
yet that was only invented where the lamp OF reason
| never shone. Astronomy makes atheist.
lOftimes the telescope has enabled to look away
his theory of the infinite succession of second
The surgeon when fayng the muscles of the corpse,
has, through the agency of the scapel been induced to
cut away his connexon with materalism The florist,
when subjectng the petals of the half-blown flower to
the microscope, has world of wonder worthy of
God and so of all the sciences They help to annihlate
theorstic in6dey and raise the mind from nature
Author Shall the study Of the mind lead into the be-
wderng of uncertainty, and have question the
moral attributes OF the Deity by forcing the conc-
sion that there is hereafter Just the reverse 8.