Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-11-11
Religious.
The Resurrection.

VI the doctrine OF the resurrection not a trace
can be found in all the investigations of philoso-
ply. Paul. when declaring it to the Athenjan
philosophers, was pronounced babbler. 1t was.
therefore, doctrine unknown, and unheard of
within the purleus of their science No philos-
opher, to that time, had been so fortunate as to
light upon it by accident, nor so ingenious as
to derive it from reason. The resurrection it.
self is an event depending absolutely on the will
of God ; and what He will choose to do with re-
spect to to this suject, no being but Himself can
determine.
Hon. he will do it, is question that never
troubles me, The assurance that he wiH, is a
sufficient ground on which to rest my confidence
If, indeed, had never seen the loneliness and
fertility Of spring burst from the GOODNESS and
torpidty Of winter-lf had never seen the RI
pened harvest waving in the wind, from the
grains of corn that were committed to the ground
and persisted in the soil-if had never wit
messed the power of the magnet, that collects the
particles Of steel from the midst of other matter
with which they have been mingled-if had
never g considered the heavens, the work of his
fingers" those suns, the centres of other systems
IN magnitude and beauty far surprising ours roll
ing in the immensely of space around me, all
brought into existence by the fiat of his omnipo-
tence-it | had never contemplated the curious
structure of my own Frame SO fearfuly and won
derfuIly made, and inspired by his breath with a
living soul and an intelligent mind-if, in short,
| had any doubt as to the mission of Christ or
the being of Cod might shudder. But Christ
says, 81 am the resurrection and the life" and |
am satisfied
No doctrine of philosophy has the subIimity
consolation, or joy Of this. To the dark and
desolate grave, man, by the twilight of nature
looks forward in despair, as his final home. All
who have gone before him, have pointed their
feet to its silent chambers, and not one of them
returned to announce that an opening has been
discovered from their dreary residence to some
other more lightsome and more desirable region.
His own feet daily tread the same melancholy
path, AS he draws nigh, he surveys his prison
walls, and sees them unassaable by force, and
insurmountable by skill. No lamp iumnes
the midnight within No crevice o pens to the
eye glimpse of the regions which lie beyond
In absolute despair he calls upon philosophy to
cheer his dropping mind but lie calls in vain
She has no consultations for herself and there
trore, can administer none to him. {" Here" she
coolly and sullenly cries, " is the end of man.-
From nothing he sprang; to nothing he returns
All that remains of him is dust which here min
giles with native earth
At this sullen moment of despair, revelation
approaches, and with a command, at once aw-
tul and delightful, exclaims lazarus, come
forth! r In momeut the earth heaves-the
tomb discloses-and a form bright as the sun,
and arrayed in immortality, rises from the earth,
and stretching! its wings towards heaven, loses
itself from the astonishing sight--Brooks.