The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1847-12-09
fHE GREiT TEACHER.

-" Never man spake Ike tins mar. goHs vi. 10.
Suclrwas the testimony Of persons who
cmild not. lur moment, he suspected OF
parlialiiy, and who would never have NJ.
tered this eulagy il il had not been wresi-
ed from them by IN admiration, the ex-
preston Of which they were utterly UNI
= Neser. man spake like this man. -
And 30 you would have said If you had
heard him preach, Never mortal had
such doctrines 10 deliver. and never NOR
ial taught in so snlGnn and impressive, yet
so tender aud alIeciionale, q manner.
The philosophers Of aniiquity-ihey
only skinned the surface Of things; they
talked about the loyeliness Of virtue and
the odiousness Of vice; they speculat-
ed about the immortality Of The soul
and the life beyond the grave. and profess
sed 10 look forward with mingled hope
and fear 10 an hereafter, concerning which
none could speak with satisfaction or with
certainty. And rs for the scribes and Pha-
risees, who sat ia Moses's seat, they only
sophisticated and polluted the purity OF
his morality by their adding 10 the cum
brous mass Of rites and ceremonies. by
which his dispensalion was distinguished,
.innumerable traditions and enaclmen.s Of
their own. Blu, this man--he went at once
to the spring Of action in The human heart.
he unlolded The foundation Of moral obliga-
lion in the bonds that bind the creature TO
the Creator. lie taught the spirituality,
and purity, and perfection Of The law of
God. He threw a strong and steady light
upon the regions Of luturily, and surround
ed his hearers with the dread transactions
of the Judgment day, and the enduring re-
alities Of The eternal world. ...4 g..i4 d..
.Ncver man spake like this man.
So Nicodcmus thought, when, in reply TO
his complimentary address, he laid down
The fundamental doctrine of his gospel,
and said. Verify, verify, say unto you,
except man be born Of water and OF the
spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom
OF God" So Nathaniel thought, when,
casting a, him his mild and piercing eye,
he said. /" Before that Philip called thee.
when thou vast under the fig tree, | saw
thee" So Zaccheus thought, when he
up into the sycamore tree because
Jesus was TO pass that way; and he turn
ed unto him and cried, "Zaccheus, make
haste and come down; for to-day must
abide at thy house." So Peter thought,
when he would have reproved his Master;
but the Lord iurnes, and looked upon Pc
Ter, and said, i" &c, behind me, satan: thon
art an oifense unto me /; for thou savorest
mot OF the things that be Of God, but those
that be Of man." So the scribcs and Pha-
risees thought, when he took of the mask
of hypocrisy, by which they sought TO
impose upon the people, and exhibited
their character in all its true. odious, and
disgusting colors. and Numbered ont the
anathema, " Wo unto you, scrlbes and
pharisces. hypocri,es how can ye escape
the ,lamna,ion ofhell" So PLATE thought,
when, in reply to his questionable. per-
Ehaps, in veneralion, and half in scorn---
I. Art thou king" he answered, "Thou
saves, tina, | am a king. Thou hast an
nounced my true and proper dignity; am
"a king; but my kingdom is. not Of ihis
world.a | lead no conquering armies to
ihe battle, press not for thrones and pal
| aces, through fields Of carnage and seas
of blood. TO thisiend was BORN: and
for this cause came Isin,o the world, sha
/ shouI,l witness unto the TRUTH" 49, I'D
No matter .,where--+no when
40 matter whathe said--whe,her in thu
Elemple surrounded by the doctors Of ,h'
law, hearing and asking them questions
or whether on illeltlcck Of theivesscl. sur
rounded by the sishermcnI OF Galiiee; o
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