The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1848-07-05

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conquered by tie Romans, and ruled hy
their IribHiary kings and procnnsuis. Vel.
through III their vieissiiudes Of fortune,
they never complied with The dulles 10
which Ihey had bound themselves hy The
covenant without being loaded with the
blessings promised on Mount Geuizim,
and never departed from them Without be.
inc afflicted with some az The curses de-
nonncej upon Mount Ebal. The pro.
plieiiral books are lhemsslVes historical
FIR prophecy. in lie slrirlesi sense. i no
more Than history related before the event:
but The Jewish Prophets. lof whom there
was succession almost constant frnm the
time uf Joshua 10 that Of Christi we've
messengers specially commissioned uf
Gnd. 20 warn the people Of their duty, 10
fareiell The punishmenis which awaited
their lransgrcssioas. and finally 10 keep
alive By uniniermilled preiirlion The "a.
pecla'l0n Of the AIessish, "lhe seed of
Abraham. in ham al the families of lie
earih should be blessed" With this con.
c6piiOn Of The Divine nature. So infinitely
surprising ihsi of any other nalon-wilh
lhis .ys'sm Of moral virtue. so indiss"lti-
bly, M,pting. u hy ihe eternal cnnsli,a.
,inn of lhirgs must he blended, piely-
with this uninterrupted series ofsigns and
wonders. prophets aud seers. miraculous
interpretations of Tie 0mnipOlen, Creator
To preserve and rin.licaie tie truth. il is
laintniahle-but 10 those who know the
nature Of man. il is not surprising-,o find
The Jewish history li!lts else Than mr..
raiive Of ilolalrIrs and corruption of the
lsraeliles and their nnnarchs; that The ye
~ people who lad heard the voice of
God from Mount Sinai. within forty days
compel Aaron 10 make golden calf and
worship thai as the (" God who thought
them out OF llie land Of Egypl;" that The
very Solomon. the wisesl Uf mankind. 10
whom God had twice revealed himself in
vislons--lhe sublime dictator Of the lem
pie, the witness, IN The presence Of The
whole people, Of the fire from Heaven
which consumed tile offerings from the al
tar, and Of the glory OF The Lord that filled
the house---illal he, in his old age, hegui-
led by fair idolatresses. should have fallen
from the worship Of the eveI-blessed Je.
hoyah 10 that Of Ashlarnlh ard Milrom,
&C., the abomina,ion of all the petty tribes
of Judea--lhat nf Bail aud Dagrn. &c.:
HAT The Sun. Moon and. Planets, and all
the host Of llearen-the mountains and
plains, every high place, and every grave
should have swarned with idols, 10 cor
.rup, the hearts and debase The minds Of a
people So highly favored of Heaven, the
elect Of the Almiehiy--may he among the
mysteries Of Divine Providence, which it
is no, given tn maslaliiy 10 explain. bur as
inadmissihIe only To those who presume
to demand why il has pleased The Supreme
Arbiior Of events 10 create such being as
man. Observe, however, that amid The
a,rocious crimes which that nation so Of
ten polluted themselves wiIh-lhrungh
all their serviudes, dismemheiments. cap.
invites and transmigraions-,he Divine
light, which had been impaired exclusive
iy 10 them, was never extinguished the
law delivered from Sinai, was preserved
in all its purity; the histories which at
tested lis violations and IFS accomplish
menls were recorded and never lost. The
writings Of the prophets, Of David and So
lomon. were all inspired with the same
idea of the Godhead, the same iniertwlne-
ment Of religion and morality, and The
same anticipaiions of the Divine "lmman-
uel, the God with u.s." these survived all
the changes of government and Of consti-
buttons which belell The people; "the pill
lar Of cloud by day and the pillar Of fire
by nigtt,"-,he law and the prophets,
eternal in their nature-went before them
lunsulied and unimpaired through all the
ruins or rebellion aud revolution, IF con-
guest and dispersion, Of war, pes,ilenee
and famine. The Assyrian, Babylonian,
and Egyptian empires. Tyre and Salon.
Carthage, and oil the other nations of an
iiquity, rose ard fell in their religious in
stiulions at the same time as in their law
and government; i, was the practice Of
the Romans when they besieged a city 10
invoke lis gods 10 come over TO them !;
they cnn>ileredihe gods as summer friends
ready 10 desert their votaries in the hour
: Of calamity. or as traitors ready TO sell
themselves for bribe: they had no high
err estimate ofiheir own than OF the stran-
ger drilies, whom, as ti,bbon said--"they
were always ready to admit 10 the Free
dom Of the city," All the gods of the
heather have persisted with their makers;
for where on The globe could now be found
the being who believes in any one Of them!
So much more deep and strong was the
hold which the God OF Abraham, Isaac
aud Jacob took upon the imaginations and
reason Of mankind, that ] might almost
invert the question. and saw, Where is The
human being found believing in any God
at all and not believing in Him!
The moral character Of the Old Tesla.
ment. then. il Thai niety 10 God is the fiun-