Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-10-11

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are glad to such earnest defence of the in
scparable alliance Of sound philosophy with spirit
ual Christianity It's leading position, that there is
way of thinking cognate with the progress and ri
umph of the Gospel, and forming kind of subjec
tive basis for it in the mental history Of the race,
wei! illustrated in detailed sketch of the differ
ence between the Jewish and the Greek mind in the
first ages Of Christianity and notice Of the same
difference substantially in subsequent periods. Mr.
Magoun's subject has led him to present in vivid
language the contrast between Popery and Puritan
ism. We hope his eloquent appeal in favor of phi
osophica studies will be responded to by the edu-
Gated young men in Illinois. We would not see the
natural sciences disparaged, but that
more attention is due to mental and moral philoso-
ply. We give an extract from the conclusion of
the address. The author is referring to New Eng
land, and to the state of mind there existing ia
sorable to the progress OF the Gospel.
Their ancient churches prove by the,
acute, large-minded ministers, and the sa-
gacious, well Undetermined laymen they
have given to the world, and by their ag-
gressive Christian efforts, all over the
earth, that the highest and severest style
Of intellectual action, does not unfit them
Tor the outdoor work Of Christianity.
Their colonies were missionary colonies,
and in twenty five years from the "lnnd-
ing" John Eliot began his labors at No
nantum. And these were colonies of
learned, philosophical minds, and never
has the noblest and most elevated of the
science Of mind-received so large and
fruitful culture from the Christian pulpit,
as among them and their successors. Or
: ifyou wish to see single illustrious ex-
ample Of what the purest Puritanism will
. do, both in metaphysics and missions, go
: back hundred years from this present
time, and enter in your thoughts, hun
dred years after Eliot, small Indian
,, village in Western Massachusetts,
There are about two hundred of the So-
:, wing Mohegans, "set,led in thriving
town, with 20 houses built in the English
,, style" "The boys are taught husbandry
, or mechanics trades, and the girls all sorts
Of women's work." In the midst of them,
you will see grave, plain, deep-,hinking
r, man, protounder than any of his time, in
= theological thought, and the knowledge of
. mind, man of a heavenly aspect, and OF
the sweetest, loftiest, most angelic pety
who has passed from "a years. minis
r try among most intelligent people,to this
. missionary work, and will go hence to the
= presidency of College. During his six
y years toll among these poor savages, you
. shall see him write treatises on the free.
I, dom of the will and original sin, which
: fix his fame as the great man of his. cen
J. fury; and a century afterwards, you shall
= find his philosophical proposition, tina
/. holiness or moral rectitude consists in be
:, nevoence, the root from which ha.,
= grown the most active and successful mis-
. sionary enterprises of all time.
:, 1t is well, then, if those who are t,
,. help on the Future in this and other lands
: receive in such institutions as this youth
# full College, the finest phlosophic trainin!
:. we can be>tow. 1t is we'll, that in tn
4 closing year, mental science and religion
;. are mingled, and thus there is begotton il
II them, through Gods blessing, the divine
;: harmony Of philosophy and piety. LIE
). them be able TO say with Richard Baxter
e 81 have read all the physics and meta
i physics could hear Of" Let them ais
+ be as ready as he, TO give place to wha
b. God has said, before what the proloundes
= thinkers can discover; and as quick as he
to notice when 'the jingling of too mucl
: false philosophy among them, browns tn
. noise Of Aaron's BELLS" Let them be of
y ten reminded that "Henry Martyr foun
y y occasion for all the skill in dialectic
= which the University of Cambridge coul
$ furnish, among the Moolahs of Persia; an
v his talent was not lost, for he left pat
! of living light from the Gauges 10 tn
Enphrales." Let them adopt Jonatha
: Edwards custom OF study, "to follow ev
o cry clue to my utmost and cultivate a
the same time, holiness Of leart deep an
: humble as his. Let them be iearIes
= thinkers, and go 10 The bottom of all sys
IS tens Of thought, if they can-iree, flexi
y ble,-charitable thinkers, taking up trut
l. into an Observation-Disclosures whereverfoun
y and building their consistent systems of be
=. lief, in the love of various and multiforr
d truth, and not in the spirit of system. lie
l. them notice that all scholarship is gettin
$ 10 he knowledge of the reasons of things
IS merely, and recognition OF them as God
o reasons. Let them observe that Will
It we hear constantly Of the tendency q
e science towards iniidelity, we see con
e >tantIy the progress Of science toward
g religion. LIE, them give TO the winds, tn
IS idle suspicion tina! German philosophy i
d one half unin,elligible, auI the other hal
y intideI, and let them caniidly examine tn
II methods by which our serious and piou
- Teutonic brethren Withstand infidel at
" tack., we are not called to suffer. LIE
IS them remember there is a providence il
ID the schools, us well as in camps and courts
" and that Christ looks with more intere>
h upon the disputes and struggles Of truth
" seeking minds, than he does upon the war
=, of kings. Let them believe that thong
= the world Of philosophy has been hitler
ri to world OF troubled waters, and Chris
l. tianity, looking in upon the surface, ha
g been able to see only thousand fragmen
5, tary reflections, the day is coming when
IN as surely as Christ i, 10 reign over al
= opinions, the waters will be still and calm
re and reflect one sweet face, with taultles
$ precision. Let them know that thong
- Herder did not say true, when he declare
at that ..if Jerusalem was the cradle c
I'm r,-; tl,,;tx, Alexandria was the school