Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-02-03
VOL. Vino. 80.

from the dead, or raising himself We see
no difficulty in believing that by the patu.
raj laws laws of mind, IN its perfect mora
and intellectual development, it may do
all that. Good God! do We not all die as
often as once in twenty-four hours and rise
againa Has not Spirit created all the
material bodies we see, by a mere fiat of
his willard if we are rot sons of that
Spirit, wha, are we7 Our perfect brother,
whom God sent 10 reclaim US from our evil
ways, kne,o that he was the Son Of God
In the solitude Of the mountains he thought
it out, and came down in the mi ghiy power
Of the divine thought 10 accomplish the
most glorious of oil possible human achiev-
ments. He succeeded. He rose to the
perfection Of his nature-a perfection
which makes him, as q matter Of course,
The Savior Of sinners, So TO reg I'd him,
so to worship him, is 10 love him, to follow
him. TO be saved by him.
To believe in him as one of three Gods
who. in past eternity, bargained together
for the salvation from the pains Of an
eternal hell of race not yet existen,-he
agreeing TO suffer the full penalty Of their
aggregate sins in two or three hours on The
cross. TO satisfy The aggregate vengeance
of all three, or TO make their broken law
whole. Tin The sight Of God knows what
other planets.) in consideration of being
crowned King Of oil he should save-that
is to say,a certain portion whom theTriune
God decreed from oil eternity 10 save
while the rest were 10 Weller 70, ever in
liquid lava or suferings aplly ,ypifed by
it, 10 US seems 10 be not TO worship Chris,
Jesus, but TO rush out Of the warm atmos
phere Of his love, and to leap from the firm
pavement Of his human presence, in;o a
freezing ocean of mingled aDsurdty and
mprehensibility What merit for toll,
or suffering, sinlessness, can DO attributed
TO such conjunction of God and man. If
he was pre-exls,ent and divine. as IRE NOR
tails cannot be, how is our great need Of n
comprehensive object of reverence and
worship met? How are we encouraged
in pressing on to perfection? How nre we
shown the dignity and power Of our human
nature, and our unworlhiness in degrading
it by sin?
We read nothing Of all this in the New
Testament, but only the strong expressions
OF warm and woIshiping hearts, out Of
which cold and merceDary system mongers
have manufactured. When we look around
and see all that is done in the name of the
modest, magninamous, unselfish Jesus, who
consolted with ishermen, loved manhood
in all lis sin and rags, loalhed pomp, abb
horred, dcspised and denounced all hypoc-
risy and false dignity TO The very face Of
the wea'ers, and earned his Icing wih his
orn hands, we are sick Of "Chris'ianity"
and ready TO call il total failure. but
when we look into the beautiful, simple,
natural gospels sparkling with heavens
own dew, and see the radiant face Of the
Redemer as he says, Go and sin no more
TO the trembling woman taken in adultery,
and when we look again into the world and
see the humble Wash;ngtonian dividing
his last loaf with fallen brother, saying,
come cheer up now, put your name in
with ours, ana We'll bury up all the past,
and you shall be man again. or when
we see, as thank God we ofen do, the rich
and learned man devoing himself TO daily
and nightly toll TO heal and comfort the
sick or relieve the poor, or when we see a
mniste: OF the gospel laying down his life
IN loahsome prison, that the slave may
be free, we rejoice in Christianity as all
achieved fact, which no depravitv of men
or devils can destroy.
'Nec deus inersl. nisi dignus vindice
nodus," said an old professor of poet
ry- hat is, Don't call in a god, nalcss you
hare mork for him ,eorthy Of his dignity.
When Christ was born, there WIS fit occa-
sion that choir of angels should wish the
world "Merry Christmas. Through
Him that song Of theirs is ye, to be truly
fulfilled. 10 spite Of craft, selfshness, pride
and hypocrisy. i. has been and IS fulfilled
already, in millions of noble hearts and
lives.