The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-12-24
.To-morrow, Saturday, will be the eighteel

Tomorrow Saturday, VIII be the elghteeh
hundred and forty-seyenth anniversary Of
the birth on earth Of the WORD in the per-
son If CuRIsT THE LORD In honor OF this
blessed day, every individual engaged in this
office will cease from the labor Of his hands,
and the National IThig will not be issued
Tomorrow afternoon.
We have recently beenreading BUNsEN's
Church Of HE FMwe-a book that every
Christian ought to buy and read-and in il
abound thoughts and sentiments peculiarly
adapted to consideration at this season OF the
year. We may be pardoned for introducing,
on the present occasion, the following ex-
tracts from this choice work, for they embo-
sdy the whole essence of the object for which
= CHRIST came or earth, in so felicitous
manner, that, we are sure, they will be PEE
culiarly acceptable to our readers.
After having described mans natural dis
traction in all his worship Of Con, between
sense Of dependence and sense Of es-
arrangement, BuSsEN thus introduces his
views of his Gospel system:
"CHMsT put an end to this unhappy dis
cord by the free and loving surrender Of
His own will to that of the Father an
act of life and death, in which Christ and
{ the whole Christian Church throughout the
world with Him recognise the seli-sacri-
: fee Of the Deity Himself; and which phi
losophy in other Tords, reason auakened
TO conscience demands as an eternal act Of
COP. Through this act Of eternal love, the
act of the lncarnate COP; as many as be-
lieved in it, became recipients Of the new
spirit, Of new, divine, inward power.
The inward consciousness Of the eternal
love Of GoD--that is, FAITH-imparted
the capacity Of feeling at once with GoD in
spite Of sin; for it gave men the power Of
severing sin, as an evil hostile element,
from their real self, and, therefore, of free
ing their life from that selfshness which is
the root Of all evil in it."
Again, applying the principle of the life,
death, and resurrection of CHRIST to the in
dividual man, BUNsES brings the believer,
in virtue Of his justification through the Son,
and his sanctfcation by the spirit, into di-
rect and immediate personal dealing with the
Holy ONE, He says:
christianity first gave to mans moral
responsibility its true position, first made
it the central feeling of the individual, and
caused it to be felt as the nseparable APP,
'pendage Of the AWFUL GIFT OF PERSON
ALITY. The individual man became
spriest Of the Mosr HIGH, became moral
ly responsible to Him alone. Mans whole
life, in intercourse with the world, as well
'as in the direct worship of COP, was to be
a continual sacrifice to form portion Of
the great work Of the spirit Of love, by
whose influences mankind is restored, and
the kingdom Of truth and righteousness
founded and advanced"
Taking these grand truths, 50 beautifully
enounced, with US into our closet, to-mor-
row, we shall be able to read the Scnptual
account of the birth, life, death, and resur-
rection Of ,JEsus CHRIST, with new I'M
Outstanding, and to ask at the hands Of the
Father, with more than usual confidence, for
His assistance in enabling US SO to walk, in
future, as to please Him, and to prepare our
selves for meeting Him when we shall be
called hence.