New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-02

wife, friend aud child. clergyman and policeman,
arc so many confessions OF my impe'fr Of
mi nsu fciency to ny self 1t takes all that aPpa-
ratus to give me finite eubodimen TO make ne self
conscious, 10 prove me creature and not creator.
Hence, say they are my in6rmty, not my
strength my rtproach, not my consolation. Ac-
cordingly, if forever identify myself with this
finite or infrm side Of me, If nv very immortLty
prove the mere perpetuation of my mortal condi-
tiors existence becomes a curse instead OF
blessing to me. Gods great gift of life becomes
the mere consciousness Of living death, and
instead Of being superior to the worm tire al
upon a n his inferior by all the immense interval
between a total consciousness and total uncon-
seriousness Of imperfection. Now, the gospel Of
"the nppers" implies this mere indefinite extern
zion of our mortal conditions, implies this Goddess
Propagation Of our baby hood, and the unabashed
enjoy ment ofthe things which now give Us shame.
To think Of great calf Of a Cory don profaning
that majestic shore Of Death, by an insane beat
after the pensiye Aminta he has left behind him
Can ina g nation frame more degrading picture
At all events, Christ bttraye ed no such cOncep-
ton of the subject. His thought appears to have
been as void of sent mentality as his words were
void Of cant. He had to do primarily with Life,
and with immortality only as involved in that.
He denied the vulgar notions Of the divine cor
Ioreity, as OF person occupying space, or capa-
DC Ot being in one place aud not in another, as for
e1ample, in the bread-basket Of the Romish
Church, and not in that of the Lutheran, and de-
Glazed him a Spirit conversant therefore only
with tine sprit Of man. He represented the Di-
vine power over man as an exclusively inward
power, renewing his heart and weiliBg forth
thence in I'LL outward beauty. The divine li1. he
SAID, was not an outward fountain, which man
might reach by diligent labor and scsrch, but il
is " ia him n we'll of wafer, spHDging up 20 cvaI-
lasting life" Whose had this life, whose left Oh
the worship of God "a a fetish, or outward person
Teedns in this place or in that, aud recognized
han only in the life of the soul, ia the ideas or
infinite goodness truth and beauty enshrined only
IN msn he alone had IN mortality. tie was not
mortal not subject to DEATH because he was no
logger center-d upon his proper cir:umierences,
which are mother and father, wife and child, friend
sndpOliceman but upon God, who is the cenierotall
things; and consequently when these given cir
conferences should depart BY death nr alienation,
the event would leave hun steadiast and even I'm
pertuibed. He would fad his immortality there
ware ne found his life, not in any miserable mush
ana confederation Of finite ties, but IN that inf.
nit, beauty which is the lie CT The human soul,
and ia manifested onls thence. His immortality
is a effect Of his inward peace; 1t Is, in other
words, the superiority which his jry Ia imperiiha-
be justice and nagnanInlty gives him over his
peIishable circumstances.
But ON eXcseding your limits. Very much
more remains behind, urgently pleading to be said,
anc will go on TO sa, it speedily. Yours, H.