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


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religion; and You will and him as regards government
not quest ionng-for he did not dare to question his
reason ever aspirsd to the right Of questioning
power which had placed in the hands OF those
who welded it with religious exercise. Even Rome It
self with all its pretended freedom had designated it
miitsry dsspotism Here It is that the monument OF
tbs Divine Saviour has its obligation He tells for
the correction Of all this that those who would be free
must begin by imposing restraints upon themselves He
insnustes that there Is In the heart Of man natural
ssldshuess that that sefhness originates In the cor
ruptsd sources Of his passions and that he at last
his own kingdom, would have his followers to re-
strain that selhshness, and far from insisting
upon preemnence, he declares that those who would
best him. must become first the servants
of their fellow beings, It WAS In this condition o.
the world. that our Divine Saviour spoke; and
though as have said he did not interfere with
the governments Of this world--whethsr they should
be monsrchies or republics-despotc sristocrato-
he treated not Of those questions all yet We hnd In
his teachings the germ OF all that great and
10 the social aud political condition Of the world He
did net that IL Is what II ought to be- because ne dd
had exhibited itself In the corruption of those thngs
but he rather to infuse new principle ne came
rather to breathe new spirit into tnoss VINO woua Dc
guided by his light and It from this source that we
may derive la the social and political con-
dton of the world twas necessary beloved brethren
that man should be taught by authority. Man had
not discovered his duties by any appeal to his own
breast Until the appearance of Christ the ssfshness
of his nature the ruling law Of his action The OPP
porunitiss that presented themselves for the grsta
ton that efshness always greediy seized and
heart It imposed no law Of self denial On the contra
~ prompted him to the indulgence Of his se6shness
to the qualification of his evil passions There
therefor restraint, and 1t that the
thory Of God should lay down those rules for the go
vernment of human conduct which Christ conveyed In
his lesson to his disciples; and these laws and whilst
calculated to try and exalt the individual man,
also adapted to the improvement and elevation OF
religion which the divine Savior came to teach He ap
peared without pomp. His birth was humble aud OBJ
scure His lot was equally So His death was mi
guilty In those by whom it was perpetratsd Neverthe
less, he the promised of the ancient prophet,
upon whom the eyes Of all antiquity, from the
darkness OF psganism with faint recolectons of
primitive tradition had rested for four thousand years
His coming not an event which took the world by
surprise. 1t had been anticipated II was shadowed
forth in the belief of the patriarchs and in the religion
OF the Jewish people-and much that his appear
ance essential to confirm the truth of the same
They wers 30 to speak Christau but Christians having
the object Of their hope In the future whilst the
other hand for nearly two thousand years have looked
declared should be SO glorious He established the evil
denoe of his mission from God by his Miracles that
man saw that in them was the teaching Of their Crsa
tor and of their supreme Lord Let now ask, what
was the sum OF the Saviors teaching! speak not
Of miraeles-although all miracles must have their
foundation in doctrneand all doctrine to be of autho
rity must have God for its author-deal would b i'm
possibs-but let us direct attention to two
principles which the teachings of cur Savior distinctly
conveyed, and established as the groundwork from
which other consequences in infinite variety of detail
may be educed. One of these principles is that no
his fellow creature may not have the right
or the power, the opportunity to call him to
account yet he lives under the universal and watchfu
eye OF his aseeng God and whether you refer to his
actions his words the OF his Utmost
heart there Is wituess-a God Of infinite justice to
whom he must render personal and awful account
There Is hope for the fallen race Of man-hope, man
will but believe this blessed docrne for in the subject
and the sovereign the weak and the strong, the OPP
pressed slave and the despotc master equally sub
ject to restraint-to prescription of 'mtsa Witness
and all know that according their obedience and
standard,
destiny In another world.
Thus this docrince teaches in itself the responsibility
OF man to law and witness that cannot be evaded
You make laws in this hall of supreme temporal power
but then can you make them binding In the conscien
ces Of men Yes with one condition. II men, before
your laws be enacted have principle In their hearts
that God sanctions authority-that subordinaton is
necessary TO society-thst subordination cannot be
maintained without laws-that there is higher and
boiler law maker who gives sanction to your laws then
they will fear to violate your enactmeuts, even when
there Is eye CT executive justice resting upon them
Here is the security and sacredness of legislation but
with this principle Of the necessity of account where de-
csption will be utterly impossible And yet this is
the sternest principle Of the divine teachings Of
our blessed Saviour for in other respects, he made
all those virtues which constitute at once the
hsppness Of the individual aud contribute to the
prosperity Of the Statehe made them sweet and dear
to the hearts of those who mbued with his spirit
sna sa n ans S a ms @ s
honorable posts Of the world but then he knew that hu
mainly had been too long and too deeply crushed not TO
sympsthize with IT, and he conferred honor this low
humanity according to the worlds estim ate by being
born and living in that state 1t we're in preference
to any other We know that love of wealth has been
the destruction not merely Of the souls OF those given
mp to avarce but also the OF destruction evil
to Others who stood in the way of its attainment, and
accordingly he chose TO be poor and humble Yet want
ed he dignity to fulfil his mission II he spoke accord
ing to the language Of human ideas and associations he
was King-he was Eternal King, by virtue of his
character But he was, even according to his human
froma nea descendant of the house Of David And yet
sn Mp S ns OsS b OTh a ms tr
yet the Son Of Man had not wherein to his
head Yes injustice exists in the world and injustice
that his the agent before
his face is victim of his moral courage pniug in
the dungeon until the dancing girl asks his head Of a
prince Of JUDAH and even in Judah where God had
been established the petition presen than
It ID complied with and the head Of the Baptist IL fur
ushed on dish and set forth before that CAV assembly
so, also, the life of Christ ustice places him tri
al though crime was imputed and he also is ade the
victim Of iniquy at which the heart OF would have
revoted had it not been under the dominion Of evil
On his trial do you could that The Roman Govern
there representing the majesty Of the mistress Of the
world Pagan, though he WAS having sufficient natural
light to discover the distinction between innocence and
guilt manifested that he knew in his soul the innocence
Of the culprit tried before HIM yet the moment that
the question Of enmity friendship to Caesar was
mooted that moment Innocence and justice all sacri
feed to the passion of slfshnes which, implanted In
the human heart cannot be rooted out except by the
influence OF the example and precepts Of blessed
Saviour. IL, however, we extend our view further,
behold how these principles began to work In the tenn
poral regeneration OF mankind 1t necessary that
power superior to the fears and the hopes of the
great of this world should be manifested and ccord-
audrulere to propagate his kingdom; he sought all
with the Of the earth for the protec
tion Of his religions but he took twelve humble men
and commissioned them to go forth aud preach his Cos
pei They dused his doctrines and for three centuries
under the iron pressure of Pagansn when 1t thought
extnguish the rising heresy in the bleed Of its first
disciples, that religion struggled showing martyrs,
heroes for the love Of truth the love OF God for the
love Of superior to the iniquous tribunals before
which they were condemned, and to the tortures to
which oftentimes their tender limbs Injected
Here was new lesson for mankind. Although the
ancient philosophers Of Greece spoke in pompous phrase
Of virtue they exhibit example they made no con-
verts If they did their converts did believe sum
centy in the doctrine to have exposed much
joint Of their little finger The religion of Christ then
triumphed the persecution of the Pagan emperors
and ut last we behold him who was the heir of the
Caesars himself making his reverence, and acknowedg
ing the supremacy OF the religion Of the cruced
Gallse. Looking back from the end Of the volume
towards Its commencement, can find many psge
more dazzling than that which added that day ;
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