New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-09-16

ne'u ~ h.r.rfer of God the work and MISSION 0,
- the duties, the hopes ana the uesOiY -
80 md the mind is everywhere tortured ~
IT,, c-,6ities and the heart .courged 10 "Iet.n
sdnsss by their opDressonf' lake, IIi ins. L 90
~ J.ef,;ne Of the Trinity. Now, although VIC
%" conc.de that the heart may freely ana spou
... a. love a Triune God, a beng oil Whon 1t
!. 4. ;mnossible 10 have any Just natural souSeP-
-. 20, IL .tiIl re mains difficult 10 discover no"
tbst heart can render the o)edience Ieqii9.
hi. II escapes the imputation ana Tie peru VI
;doIstry. On the one hand, there Is the uis.tno'
n'mrn.nd To worship one God; on the otner,
there i. the supposed Obligation TO worship 1n'co
cd. as one. and one as three, each OF wnon IL
sun,eme ard nj OF whom united are no more than
snnremr In this multiplication Of detles, there
is propoTtiOpste distraction OF the neart 10 lho
dispo,ai Of it's al, ctions and the homage must
be rendered under the apprehension that conform
ty 70 the command may be accounted scOrn OF
the creed, or that conformity TO the creed NAV
be idolatrous before God and on either hand there
is hell.
Bevilderipg as is this doctrine to the intellect
ard the heart, it perhaps less endangers the sim
certy Of devotion than that OF Nlcanous Atone
ment. Here, the puzzllng arithmetic oil DIVINE
persona while it is still retained Is in measure
ovsrbOrpe by a sense of horror, at the trsnsac'
tlons in which the moral character OF the DEITY 10
inevitably involved. Repr, henson OF reason and
distiust the Iectituds Of the Father, who could
punish the innocence OF his Son for the quit oil
beings himself had made totally depraved. Con-
nected with this are other absurdIrIes aud bias
phemies too enormous and appalling, to secure
freedom for the offering of an intelligent and
hesi tielt devotion.
That. however. to which present allusion is the
most pertinent, is the doctrine of Endless Mise
~ for il is this whose probabilities OF result bear
the most directly and fatally upon the affections
Explain the philosophy OF its justice as trey may,
and mngle with the administration Of that justice
a. much Of the glory of God as they can, there 10
still the unm if tied blackness OF the issue upon
which no human heart can look but with the
intenfest horror. 1t is the doctrine fro
whose dreadful grasp we cannot escape
whose searching applications no Fortunate COM
binatiOn Of circumstances can ever remit, can
ever render otherwise than infinitely personal.
IL comes with the stfrmatlons OF sovereign GER
talnty anc de clares to each heart that lHeTe -
no object too dear TO be damDed-that more or
less Of those YOU love shall be lOst-that you
cannot yourself fully conceive OF yosr Own e1-
posutes TO the 'prOfOundest hell Not content
with rendering the passage OF LIE cruei bltter,
il points YOU 10 the contamination, and cails IL
the DAY OF Judgment, and Tend' your soul win tue
wall that goes up from a miserable universe the
wall OF parted and bToksn hearts-a wal when
Heaven could not after hush in It's halls, but by
wip'ng out forever the last yestge of human
affection
And is this Christianity this, which all along
coDiuses the mind and cOriounds TIE heart
which all along exctes our fears ard dlsappOlnts
our hopts-whch every where outrages our rei-
son and proanps our moral sensi0ilities; - ms
the Cos I'll Of Jesus o tell IL not in Gatn, pub
lIsh II not IN thu streets q AskaloE, lest the
daughters Of heathenIsn triumph
We cone, now, IN room OF all this with re-
ligios which is pre- nnently rational. The Cos
pei as II appears 10 us, has been sadly miscon-
ceiyed We clam new light no new authority.
Our light is that of truth, our authority that OF
reason ard the Word Of God. We still cling 70
the Gospel, and find it amply sufficient. Men t. IL
us We mistake. But ask them 70 look at thei'
own history. We ask them to take either one OF
their doctrines and trace 1t back, anc up, from
creed to council and from council 20 creed, d.
vestlng II Of the contributions and notifications
Of ages, until Of they shall he 20 fortunate) they
come TO Jesus, then say to them, To. II ~
here We have IL ~ We ask the n To put their
finger upon doctrine which they deem essential
of v hich we have not al that IA essential. We
ask them how they have reached the TnnIty hut
| by ths Unity Of God; TOtel Depravltg but by
/ Partial DepTavity Supernatural Conversion but
/ by Rational Conversions Endl IS Misery but by
| limited Punishment; and so on through the cat
I GlOgue, oil OF which and other fundamental IN
! ciples have. but which they have not only as
conUptIOns We ask than - winnow their YER
capital, to extract from their systems the sGother
ed OnlytTsalIsm which salts them into per
petuity; End then come 10 Is and give IS the
balance of th.ir wisdom.
The Gospel we cay, is & rational religion. As
a scheme OF mercy
he'd Infinite degrees
Beyond the tenderness o. human hearts,
it is altogether eOnsOnant with reason in a.! it's
announcements, promises and acquisitions. It
speaks dstiIcrl, and cOmprehersIby OF God and
his will, Of JESUS and his work of man and his
wHntC, Of life and its lessons OF evIl and its end of
death and IT'S destruction, of eternity aud It's net
ureless tlOy. simple and credible at every
point accOTdant aud harmonious as whole Il
bears with il the clesrest evidence having been
designed for the guidance and Satisfaction OF tu-
mon reason.
liz should be further remembered, that by virtue
Of being To this extent adapted to the intellect It
is also adapted, TO corresponding extent, 10 tEe
heart. I. II m-Tcltgl system. The smiles Cf
DIVINE besgnancy run as Colleen threads through
lts whole texture. Ii Is reliable. IL hangs no IT.
fuste ns2es upon the Instability OF hGmin caprice
IL Is encouraging. ltpOurs forth the richest COO
solutions m the darkest hour. and p5eJIcat.s the
removal q eyil 90 the Inevitable triumph of good
neo IL Is sustaining IL points with the aspect
OF auth0nty 10 the death which shall sweep away
ceath-to tie grave OF the CTuci6e1, whence
sprung msRs warrant Of immortality. lt ia
enough The rev, lation and the pledge al the per-
fected hsppnrss Of the universe, no affection can
desire more--ro imagination can conceive OF
greater goo d than the finished work il announces
as rs crow ning glory.
Men NAV continue 10 call this heresy. We call
II ChrstlSnity-l nIVeTsaiism-a rational satisfy.
ing faith. Men msy scorn Il. II is none :he less
the hope Of the world, and without which the
world were damnes TO day and forever
There are those Christians VINO regard Chris.
;lsnIty as a fdlure.' ley are msappr-hsasiye
N their lamentations. Calvinism may fail Ar
'n'nisnlsm may iail, but the Gospel, never. here
are Others v no explain Why Christianity has done
80 little IN 1890 years. Let them yndicate cIso1s.
cont, ssions, conuptions for their oarrenness of