Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-10-16

cles performed by similar concdences or not per
formed at ALL. And faith is be shaken in the ift
and death and merits of the Saviour and the hopes
his promises to the living and their consolation to the
dying to be sacrificed to these dreams of morbid
imagination, which belong to world of peculiar ideas
and not to our world OF action, and which have sym
pathy with human nature and prospect beyond tho
narrow boundary of physical existence.
Let no man delude himself with the notion that when
he has mastered, if master be can, these Shbbo
leths of barren controversial theology he berr fit
cd IN head IN heart to study the history Of the Re-
deemers mission, that these and other great swell
ing words ~
For all this tedious talk is but vain boast,
Or subtle shifts conviction to eyade"
nave enabled him gain step forward in the path
Christian knowledge.
The human mind is strangely constituted forever
roaming in the fields of inquiry often disposed
push ons beyond the boundaries ASSIGNED
to man, and believe nothing does not comprehend
1t has been well said of the disciples of this school, that
to be defed TO the face by any stifnecked problem
which this poor universe produce, is humiliation
to which they are not accustomed to submit" As the
nature and attributes Of the Deity beyond their under
standing, His existence is beyond their belief They
belong to the class so well described by Pope,
"who boldly takes the high priori road,
And reason downward till they doubt of Gcd."
theory of Developments as it is called, not less
bold than startling has been advanced in work recent
ly published, and entitled ''Vesges Of the Natural His
tory of Creation and which, according to eminent
Scotch review has been received with 'sudden run of
favor while English review of equal authority con-
sders this book the best adapted of all the productions
OF modern literature to give right direction the phi
losophcal Investigations of the highest subjects of hu
man interest. This theory authoritatively announces
that he whole train of animated beings from the SIM
pest and oldest forms up to the highest and most
cent then 10 be regarded series of advances of
the principle OF development which have depended upon
external physical circumstances which the resulting
animals appropriate" And thus the mysteries OF
the universe unloldsd by the mystcatons of false
philosophy, and men who cannot believe in Creator
i'm
alton, and in the transmGtaton of species. Verify,
scepticsm and credulity very neighbors In
these mortal frames Of ours, and the old Latin saw
Credo quiG ip0SSbilis eI believe because il is i'm
We have TO Judge between the Redcemer of man, who
tells that the rery hairs Of head all numbered
and that not sparOac falls to the ground 'ohout the
kno,rledge Of Hearenly Father and the prophets and
neophytcs of this faith who assert that 'the
tiOn ol lower animal is inconceivably pary exer.
else OF Almighty power" And We are called upon to
believe that progentos monkeys, and that
posterty will be angels, something higher in the
der OF Nature by successive the result
Of ga creation by law" by which organc life presses
in" (or in other words creates itself hcrerer il has
suit the eircumSfances (this less clear than salts
lactory,) and ga superadeguacy in the of this
undeadequac ,couh enable the goose TO gire to has pro-
9eay the body Of rat and thus 'one species gave birth
to another till the second highest gave birth to
And also told that our horses vast Packy
derata, (namcs are things, says Mirabeau; and when
they not they too often their substitntes) huge
haliiormed. living monsters, stretching like the laen
archange Of Milton, ''many a rood" with three toes
and no claws, eating herbs strange themselves,
and that they will march steadily onward in the scale
OF being perhaps till they become able, like the wing
ed horse Of the ancient mythology, TO carry through
the fields of air. instead of the fields Of earh with i'm
proved powers and enlarged faculties suited higher
sphere OF acticn and that wheat fern
sea.weed and will in time become ambrosa-bearing
plant far exceeding its present condition il
advanced beyond its original prototype, fitting food II
may be- for the human when it has taken its high
position in that ascending series of progression and
development which it is destined by this consoatory
system OF psychology. Till that arrives thus FORE
told by this new faith and foresecn by these pro-
phets agriculture will be guided by the prnc
pies of observation and nduccn and without the vain
and mpious effort to break down the barriers establish
ed by the Creator and usurp His province in the 60
vernment of creation.
Reason and revelation equally that the
Great First Cause is everywhere, and everywhere and
always in operation. either primarily and by its
agency secondariy by the agency of laws has
tablished And it is not given to man to comprehend
where the ends the other begins, how the sys
TEN Of causation commenced its work, still goes
ward in its task:
"Earth on whose lap thousand nations tread
And Ocean brooding his prolific bed,
NIGHTS orb, bright and silvery zones,
Where other worlds eneTss GseT sSp
Weds the large limbs and mingles with the whole"
The fossil bones of antediluvan monsters in rocky
strata and their ootmarks upon ndurated cay strange
hierogyphcs upon the monuments oil Nature, written
in language which man is striving to decpher, have
been resortcd in proof illustration of this scheme
Of creation equally contradcted by the Book oil Gods
Word, and by the Book Of His Works. There are far
better vesges of creation in His oomarks around u.s.
His footsteps upon the and the land impressed
upon the whole organization oil Nature, than these re-
searches too often merely conectura into the remote
condition Of the GLOBE furnish They are interesting
as are all the facts connected with the natural history of
the planet nhabit, but worse than worthless when
used shake faith in the revolutions OF Christianity
or in the attributes of its Divine founder.
have presented for your conslderaton-ior your CO.
operation, indeed-vorous suggestions connected with
the advancement of agrcuure but far beyond these in
influence and Importance is the advancement oil the agr
cufurist-he education, sound, practical and enlarged
of that body of youth who orm and are iorm
the farming interest of countryan interest that en-
braces than one-hall OF pOpuatlon and still
greaterproportion of the permanent influence to which
social aud political institutions must look Tor support
those periods of THEN trial which have heretofore come
upon other nations and have come upon u.s. The cut
of the soil is engaged in OF the noblest occu
pations that belongs the whole circle Of human employ
ment-in replenishng the earth and subduing it, and in
multiplying epery herb-bearing seed, and ery tree in
rich is the fruit of tree yielding seed, all OF which
were given "fer meat before he left his priml
tive residence where God first planted him. He deals
with organic e with its production, its Improvement
its multiplication, with the means oil subsistence for that
great family of rational 6 a responsible beings which
q has dominion over all that the earth brings FORTH
well as orer erery Hiring thing that moDeth upon It, His
existence does not pass in crowded cities the works Of
man. surrounded with the physical and moral Ills which
dense population is sure 70 bring with 1t. He walks
abroad among the works OF God reading the great book
of Natures whose every page is filed with lessons OF
wisdom written in characters at no man can misunder
stand but the fool that said in his heart there no God
The light that shi-es the wind that blows the rain
that falls the phenomena of Nature the companions
Of his daily walks and work, not mere objects of Curl
osity or even Of contemplation, Indifferent or interesting,
as he nerects or hem bat active agents
in the progress of production coaborers with himself
the domain Of Nature performing the functions assigned
to them sn seed time and harvest and cold and heat,