The Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1850-1852, 1850-05-30
ONE BLOOD AND ONE BROTH.
ERIIOOD.
~ TLIilu BtREITT.

The iigh, Of Divine Truth, which
ages ago was cas-, like II solitary torch
,s,o the Egyptian night which brooded
over the world. has shonc on brighter
and brighter and brighter unto an al
mos, perfect day. The clouds and
chao. Of iempe.tuons confusion have
slowly rolled away and disclosed this
great truth spanning like n rainbow the
new heavens Of humani,y---!'' God hdM
made ~ one Mood all nations of men,
Strange, startling. obnoxious truth -
which mercy lit up the Eternal Throne
and cast. all burning with the oil OF
heaven. into the midst Of the warring
world. The principalties and powers
81 darkness have ieagued with men
from age to age TO put out tha, light
which The tyrant could not bear. /" Put
put ,hat light " has been the watch
word of War and like the apocalyplic
dragon which John saw, it has deluyed
the earth With blood to qucnch that
hcavcn.lii star o. hope. The freeman
pu; on his mail, and the slave made n
buckler Of his manaclcs, and ran with
the master and the monarch into the
CRIMSON rifts Of BATH, and when he
mingled his blood into the same pool
with theirs, the wolves and rarenous
dogs which slakcd their thirst thcrcar,
.aw as far as beasts could see, that God,
in the highcs, sense of lher perceptions,
"haih made Of ole blood all nations Of
men"
The earth has been one vas, battle
field. where men have waged war with
Michael and angels. with the Gospel OF
God and the Gospel Of nature. 10 prove
iba, there was no identity Of the origin
sad destiny OF the human race. ReIig
ION mistaken, car,h-wedded religion,
WITH her eyes glaring with fire that new
er burned in heaven, he has rushed like
fury TO the combat. With her angel
robe all dragaled in human blood, she
la. stood npon high places ofthe Garth,
and br andishing the Bible in one Land,
a, il II were the agis Of Jupiter, and in
the other the desdliest weapon Of carnal
warfare, she hissed for the nations to
Join her sanguinsry banner. The chief
tain who FURNISHED his armor by the
hgh, Of burning Hccla, came. The
Scandinavian champions Of the North
led Oh their trained clansmen from the
sunless shores Of the Frozen Sea. The
'artaned Scot who foul b, at Bannock-
burn, marched shoulder TO shoulder with
the mailed Sou,hron, and both forgot
they ever me, in angry parlance there,
~hiie the clarion of holy war resound.
Cd from glen TO glen, and from noun
tam TO the sea All deadly feuds, pri-
Naie griefs, and elannish aaimosi,ies
were merged into one in,enre cnthusi-
as;,c frenzy, which religion babtised IN.
TO a christian zeal 10 do Gods service
with the sword. Seizing the standard Of
The cross, she led the hammered hosts 10
Europe, 10 the plains of Palestine, and
lcit them bleaching there, before the
walls Of Acre, GAIA, and Jerusalem, to
.hsw uncircumcised in6dels o! The East
tina, they had no, par, nor 10, in Calva-
~ nor 10 the common blood Of man.
From Peter the ilcrmi,'s time 10
Bonap~rte, and from his to the earliest
despos after The food, the human race
in concert with every 6endish spirit that
hated God aud man, have wsg~d per-
psaal crusade against tha, great truth
WHICH Paul uttered in the midst Of Mar
iiilL But did they succeed 7 did the
dArk passions Of their alienia.ed hearts,
or all their crimson issues put on, thai
i.gh (! Ns,ions fell in The struggle
Crowns fell like stars in the apocalypse
10, did the Angel, flying through the
m'da Of heasea with the everlasting
gospel suspend bis aigh, and rest upon
hn folded ~insN No: had we but
esr 70 hear ANY thing but the din Of
Tins noisy, seihsh world, we might even
no~ catch the soand Of his trumpei pro-
claiming q be Aies--