Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-12-29
The Letter.

NAV He, who has the power and always the WILL |
when earnestly, humbly and deyotedly entreated,
support and comfort you, my brother l shall not
point to the treasures that remain to you IN your
Surviving children and their mother dearertha all
of these put together No; have telt too deeply
how little power have words that play round the
head to reach the heart when 1t is sorely wound
ed The common places of consolation are at the
tongues end of all the Self-complacent and Sa- |
tisfed from the pedant priest to the washer woman
(They who don't feel can talk.) ablure them
all. The father Of Lord Russell, when condoled
with according 10 the form, by the look, Ieplled:
al would not give my dead son for any other mans
living" May this thought come home to your bo- |
som too, but not on the same occasion. May the
spirit of God, which is not the chlmera oil heated
brains nor device OF artful men to trelghten and
caiole the credulous but is as much an existence
that can be felt and understood as the whiSperingS
Of your own heart the love you bore TO him that
Won have lost; may that Spirit, which is the COM
forer shed His influence upon your soul, and in |
cline your heart and understanding to the only right
way which is that Of life eternal! Did you ever
read Bishop Buffers Analogy! If not, will send
It to YOU. Have you read the BooKY What say |
upon this subject, not only believe, but know
that the Bible studied with an humble and contrte
heart never yet failed TO do its work, even with
those who, from idioSynCracy or disordcd minds, |
have conceived that they were cut of trom It's pro-
misses of life to come.
"Ask and We shall receive; seek ard ye shall
find /; knock ana it shall be opened unto you"
This was my only support and stay during years OF
misery and darkness; and Just as had almost be-
gun to despair, after than ten years OF peni-
tence and prayer, it pleased God to enable me to
see the truth, to which until then my eyes had
been sealed. To this vouchsaiement have made
\ the most ungTateful returns. But would not give
up my slender portion OF the price paid for our re-
Idenption-yeS, Try brother our redempGon-thc
ransom of SinnetS-o[ all who do not mug their
| chains and refuse to come out from the house OF
| boudnge-I say that would not exchange my lit
tie portion in the Son of David for the power and
| glory of the Parthian or Roman Empires as de-
Scribed by Milton in the temptation OF our Lord
and Saviour-not for ali with which the enemy
tempted the Saviour of Man.
| This is the secret Of the change of my SplrlS,
| which all who know me must have observed within
| q few years past. After years Spenti humble and
contrite ertreaty that The Tremendous sacrifice on
| Mount Calvary might not have been made IN vain
| for me-the chiefeSt of SinnerS-lt pleased God 10
speak his peace into my heart-that peace OF Gou
which passeth all understanding to them that know
il not and even to them that do AMI although
| have now as then, to reproach myself with time
| mis- spent and faculties mlS-empoyed; although
my condition has, on more than one occasion, re-
scmbi.d that of him who having one evil spirll
cast out was taken possession of by seven other
spirits wicked than the fist and the rst also
vet trust that they 100, by the power and mercy
OF God. may be, if they are not, vanquished.
| But where am running to9 On this subject,
more hereafter. Meanwhile assure yourself of
what is of small value compared with that OF those
who are piece Of yourSelE-of the unchanged
regard and sympathy Of your mothers son. An !
my God l remember 10 have seen her die, TO
have followed her TO the grave, to have wondered
that the sun continued TO rise and set, and the or
der of Nature TO go Ignorant of true religion,
but not yet an atheist, remember with horror my
| imDiouS expoStuIationS with God upon this be-
Ireavement-" but-not yet an atheist" The exls-
tence of atheism has been denied but was an
| honest me. Hume began and Hobbies finished
me. 1 read Spnoza and all the tribe. Surely
fell by no ignobIe hand And the very man 81
who gave me Hume'S Essay Upon human Ma
tute'' to read, administered "Beatile Upon Truth
as the antidote-Venice Ieacle against arsenic and
the essential oil of bitter almonds-a bread and
milk poultce for the bite of the cobra capello.
Had remained successful political leadero
might never have been n Christian. But it pleas
ed God that my pride should be mortified ); that by
death and desertion should losemy friends that,
except in the veins of maniac, and he, too, pos
sessed "of child by deaf and dumb spirit"
there should not run drop OF my fathers blood
i'll any living creature besides myself. The death
of Tudor finished my humiliation. | had tried all
things but the refuge to Christ, and to that, with
parental stripes. was driven. Often did cry out
with the father of that wrctched boy, g Lord l
believe-help thou mine unbelief;" and the gra.
cious mercy of our Lord to this waverlug faith,
staggering, under the force of the hard heart OF
unbelief humbly hoped would, in his good time,
be extended to me alSo-St. Mark, vii, 17-29.
Throw Revelation aside, and can drive any
man, by irresistible induction, to atheism. John
Marshall could not resist me. When say any
man, mean man capable of logical and conse-
quenlial reasoning. Deism is the refuge Of those
that startle at atheism, and can't believe Revela-
ton and my -, (may God have forgiven us
both,) and myself used, with Diderot& Co., to
laugh at the deisticaI bigots WHO must have milk
not being able to digest meat. All theism is de-
rived from Revelation-that of the laws confess
eIly. Our own is from the same source-so IS the
false revelation of Mahomet; and can't much
blame the Turks for considering the Frank and
Greeks 10 be idoatoEs. Every other idea Of one
God that floats in the world is derived from the
tredition of the sons or Noah, handed down to
But enough-and more than enough can
scarcely guide my pen. will, however, add that
no lukewarm seeker ever became real Christian
for from the days of John the Baptist until now,
the kingdom of Heaven suffe-eth violence, and the
violent take it by force "a text which read 500
times before l had the slightest conception OF It's
true application. Your brother,
....-g.-s J.R., of Roanoke.
Tou Ct r. Tucxrp Eso