Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-06-14
Erhe World wf.nou. tia Bibre.

| y@.@ .Yne World without ina 1lDIe.
From the report Of sermon before the New York
Bible Society, by DR.. EDWARD BrEcHER, Of pos-
ton.
God has made some grand experiments
IN this world to develop, the power Of his
word. Let us as from an eminencc. trace
in bold outline the condition Of the world
without the Bible.
1t is world without God; by guilty
choice. All the old world sank into idol
try save that narrow strip where three
continents came together on which the
banner of Gods truth was held up.
A world without the Bible is without
the true idea of humanity. The basis Of
that idea is that man was made in the i'm
age of God that he might know Him and
live in His love. The power of that idea
exalts humanity above nationally: you
don't ask whether a man is an African or
an American when you conceive Of him
under that aspect. When men fall away
from that idea, the pride of races and castles
enters in-as with the Greeks, Chinese,
Indians. The Greeks never conceived Of
the unity or aimed at the axalta-
ton Of the race. Where the Bible comes,
the idea of humanity comes with it.
A world without the Bible is without
true liberty. This idea is based upon the
fact of certain relations of the mind to
God; that man has an inalienable right to
perfect his nature. God is at the head of
the highest government; there can be no
lawful legislation against him. This is the
deep root Of true and permanent liberty.
The liberty of Greece contemplated sim
ply the rights Of Greeks as Greeks. A
small aristocracy was reared upon vast
platform Of Slavery. 1t was the liberty Of
the few to despotize over the many.
A world without the Bible is without
domestic society. The basis Of this is the
Bible, which teaches us to honor woman
and properlyto organize and develope the
family. Woman is never appreciated
without the Bible. She is the divinely
ordained companion of man, and holds her
rights by divine charter. Husbands, hon.
or your wives. ....s. .--....e....
A world without the Bible is without
popular education. This is the ffspring
of the practical recognition Of the relation
OF man to God, and Of need of education
TO secure the intelligent service Of God.
This is motive sufficiently powerful to
sustain system of popular education. In
America, says De Tocqueville, "religion
is the road to knowledge" aa
Such world is without purity. The
conservative power of moral purity is
true view Of holy God. When that is
lost, terrific mental and bodily pollution
ensues. The Rehabilitationisis of Ger
many would re-instate the bodily appetites
in full license. There is not one holy god
in pagan mythology. Ambition, jealousy,
pride, anger. revenge. are the passions Of
cendlng human are attributed 10 their
chiefgods. In Greece and Rome, their
worst deeds were commemorated by festi-
walls, painting, statuary, music dancing and
the drama. If you should deity Don Ju-
an, and exaggerate his lusts and vices,
you could not reach the crimes of Jupiter.
No man with the character of Jupiter
would be admitted now to decent society.
The impure adventures of the gods were
celebrated in feasts and mysteries, with
obscene symbols and shameless debauche-
ry. The ruins of Herc,,laneum and Pom
peii illustrate that awful state of pullution;
and on account ofthis pollution, God swept
away the monuments of the ancient world
by barbarian hordes. Men justified
themselves in crime by the example of
the gods. The world was sunk in bcs-
TALLY. ....
The great central idea of the Bible is
is GoD. There is no such intellectual
and moral creation in any other book:
Being having personality and intelligence,
voluntary, full of emotion, Creator, Ruler,
Lawgiver, Judge, always consistent, so
vast as to exceed all thought, so full as to
meet all wants. The Bible presents also
the law of God-disclose the true cllarac-
ter Of the race, and presents remedial
system. ..... ..n.
Universal liberty, education and demo-
cracy, can safely exist only under uni
versal 7heocracy Independent.