The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-05-27

a good hope through grace in dying hour,
and OF everlasting constitution in the life 10
come
What commendation does not such pro
cedure deserve! What wonderful patriotism
does IL evince A republican parent, you com
NIT the hope Of your country to the moulding
hands of the passive minions of despotic for
eign power What admirable consistency :
Prizing religious liberty yourself above all
price, YOU commit your child TO the instruction
Of those who teach that, in matters Of religion,
the exercise Of private judgment is SIN !!
What tender affection Grasping the Bible
as the lamp Of life for your own path, you Sc
leet for your teachers those who will withhold
it from your child. What praiseworthy ad-
herence 10 religious principle! Blessed with
the light Of the eyer-glOrious reformation you
expose your daughter to the proselytism Of a
power which in its efforts to quench that light
drenehed Europe in blood What cOnfding
charity Denounced as a hereto yourself you
commit your child to the care of those who tell
you that they keep no faith with heretics.
f" And what shall We say Of that mereg
which, after having learned from Gods own
word that It is not by works Of righteousness
that we have done, but according to His mercy
He sayeth us that there il but one mediator
between God and man. the man Christ Jesus
and that by deeds Of law there shall no flesh
be justified in his sight; places a young inn
mortal he ehiid Of us ogn bosom-and that
too, in the season Of its teBderest susceptible
tes-under the instruction Of those who sur
round their devotions with the most fascinating
and imposing splendor, but worship woman
as the Queen Of Heaven, trust to their works Of
penance aud modification for their acceptance
with God and rely on Me intercession Of saints
and martyrs aud who will tell her that there
is no salvation for her, without obedience to
human tradition. submission to Papal authOri-
ty, and communion with Rome
"Thsnk Heaven that the eyes Of our people
are beginning TO open to this absurd folly and
unnatural SIN. Yet we confess that we are not
without our fears that misjudging reliance on
the increase Of light and ON the Transforming
influence of our free institutions, may yet be
tray--as, to some extent it has already done
a portion Of the more wealthy and worldly o
our citizens into an encouragement Of fnrthe
experiments on the creduhty and forbearane
of American Professionalism.
"lt is agreeable to the best feelings of on
nature to exercise liberality, and il is ungraciou
to distrust professions of friendship But W
should at least recolect and credit Rome's ow
professions HEa SYSTEM is uNcHANGEABLI
and the saying Of one of her own pagan bard
: might fitIy be the motto Of her ChrSiGn ei
cutcheon:
cslum non animum mutsnt Qai trans marc Gu
runh'
"She will be the same in the New World tbs
she has been in the Old; and though she ma
coquette with our democracy, she will nevt
wed with our freedom 1t is preposterou
therefore, to suppose that, if intrusted with tt
education of the future arbitresses Of our nj
tional destiny she viii foster the free-bor
genius of our religion or Government"