Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-03-25

one who attentlvely considers the signs OF
the times, the present is an age Of hope
Of anticipation Of that bright era which is
10 crown the aspirations of down trodden
and oppressed humanity with full fruition.
1t gives US pleasure to meet with senti-
ments like the following, which we copy
from the New York SAM
That the progress of enlightened knowl-
edge and Christianity will continue until
they prevail over the globe, way be con
tidently predicted from facts already es.
tablished. Europeans or their descend
ants have been spreading themselves, for
the last two centuries especially, over eve-
! ry part Of the world, coaquering first by
their physical power, but subjugating per.
manently by their arts and their intelli-
gence. They have established in each
conquest, their opinions, their philoso-
phles, and their refigior aii1e=sinpie arts,
narrow philosophy, and -traditionary, le-
gendary religion of the aborigines have
been passing away before them, and will
continue to pass away until they shall be
completely absorbed by the stronger ligh!
Of European civilization. Mankind, as
they have one common interest, must event.
ually have one common mind. The same
opinions will pervade all minds, and the
same convictions influence all. The d.
versi,ies of creeds will merge into one
creed; since in the natural course of events,
Christianity, considered merely as a sys-
TEN of human opinion, must become uni.
versal being the only system equal to the
highest stale of human intelligence, and
ample in its precepis and exalted spirit to
/ be The standard Of the purest Individual OF
social virtue. AS mankind had one CON-
mon source they will again become one
common family ,worshiping at one common
altar, and giving obedience to one common
Father and God. .,s.
Whatever opinions, or grounds of opin
ions, there may be to the contrary, society
| is preparing itself for a great transition
indeed. it is already in the transition state
towards the result. indicated And in this
transition there is less of human volitior
than submission to an external invisible
power, propeling the great mental nh
chineryof this earth. The wheels Of this
complicated maehinism are in motion, ant
though seemingly slow and complicated in
its movements, fresh impulses will aceel
crate its motion, and its onward course,
will carry with it this world Of frosts and
SHOWS, and man-made miseries, into {
brighter and SUMMER tmosphere-beneath
Heavens of serener and happier influence
lit will warm into an eternal spring
the best feelings of the human soul-feel
ings that have slept too long beneath the
cold surface Of hate and sellishnes, Chris
tianity will then be the adornment of man;
nature, begeuing within him that true be-
nevolence which shall be the source o
that happiness which before escaped his
search.
Though evil may not, and undoubtedly
will not be entirely eradicated from human
nature in this world, yet it will be SO re
pressed in its first manifestations, that i
will not be allowed 10 pollute the secia
channels. Then the revolution of The
moral world will be consumated; wrong
and injustice will not stalk abroad through
the earth, monsters in power and terrible
! in their train of evils, marching over the
corpses of men and women and children
to the discordant music Of sighs and groan:
and curses. They will lie PROSTATE grount
to powder in the dust. Men will be Who'll
ly emancipated from every tyranny thro
the fullest knowledge of the truth, calling
no man Lord and Master, for One shall b.
their Father and they all as bretheren.-
Wisdom and virtue shall be the only ex
cellence, and love alone, the animatin,
principle Of their thoughts and actions.