The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-01-13


when il is sofely wounded. The common
places Of consolation are the tongues end
II all the solt.complaceDt and satisfied,
rom the pedant priest to the washer wo-
man. CFhey who don't feel can talk) !
lbiure them ALL The father Of Lord Rus
sell, when condoled with according to form,
by the book, replied: II 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 occaslon.-
May the spirit Of God, which is not the
chimera OF heated brains, nor devise o
artiul men TO frlgh,en and ca oe the credu
Gus, bu is as much an existence that eau
be felt and understood as the whisperings
4 Your own heart, or the love Won bore 10
hun that YOU have lost--may that Spirit,
which is The comforter, shed his influence
upen Your soul, and incline your heart and
your understanding to the only right way,
which is that of life eternal! Did you
ever read Bishop Buffers Analogy? If
not, viii send il to Won. Have Won read
THE Book? What | say upon this subject
| no, only believe, but know to be true
that the Bible, studied with an humble and
cnntEite heart. never yet failed to do it,
work. even with those who from idiosyn-
Inracv or disoraered minds have conceived
that they we're cut off from the promises Of
a life TO come.
ASK and ye shal receive; seek and ye
shall fnd knock and il shall be opened
unto kou.n This was my only support
nd STAY during wears oi misery and dirk
ness, and just as bad almost begun to de.
pair, after more than ten Years of penl.
ence and praser. i, pleased God 10 enahif
ne ia see he truth 10 which until then m
let e. bsd been sealed To this vonehsaie
m ut have ~ ide the most uugratetni re-
lr6rns. But would mol give mp nv sifn
er portion Of The price paid for onr r.
Il tmptlou--> e., my brother. our redemp
lttan--fhe ransom oi SINNERS all Nho d
uat bug heir chains and refuse 10 come eiit
tfam the house of hondage-i say thi
would nct exchange my little portion IN
he Son of Dsvid tar The power and glor7
4 fthe PartIlian or Roman empires as des
rribed bl Milton in the temptation OF or
i Lord and Stvior-nos for all with which
the enemy tempted The Savior oi man.
This is The secret of the change OF mt
spirits, which all who know me must have
hserved within few years past. After
ears spent in humble and eon,ri'e entrea-
llv that The tremendous sacrifice on Mount
| Calvary might not have been made in vain
i0r me-,hc chelest Of sinners-it pleased
/ COP to speak his peace into my heart
ihat peace Of Cop which passeth all unde.-
standing 10 them that know it not. and
even to them that do. And although !
have now, as thea, TO reproach myself
with time mispent and faculties misemp'oy
ed; although my condition has on more
i ih1n one occasion reserpbed that Of him
Who, having one evil spirit cast out, was
taken possession ofby seven other spirits
! more wicked than the first, and the first
,lsa: We, trust that they, too, by the pow
er aud mercy OF Cop, may be, if they are
not, vanqnishod.
Bot where am ! running 10? On this
subject more hereafter Meanwhile, rs.
sure Yourself Of what is OF small value com
pared with that "f those who are piece ol
Iyolrself-ot tho unchanged regard and
| sympathy of Your mnther's son. An! M
God! remember tn have seen her DE, T.
have followed her to the grave. to nave
| wondered that the sun continued to rise
nd set sud The afder of nature to 60 on
| remember with horror my impious expo
n'4tinns with God npon this bereavement
--..buf not vet an a'hels'." The existence
II Atheism has been denied but | was an
honest one Hume began and llobhes tn
she'd me- read Spinoz, and atl tn
tribe. Surely fell by no ignoble hand.
| And the very man (-) who gave me
..Hume's Essay upon Human Nature" I"
read, administered "Be attic upon Trn'h
az The an,idule--Nenice ,reacle against
arsenic and the essential oil Of bitter al
monds-a bread aud milk poultice for the
bite of cobra capelo
aad remained successful! political
leader might never have been Chris
,isu. Bu, it pleased God that my pride
should be mortified; that BY death and de,
-ar,on should lose my friends; that, ex
cep, in the veins Of . mnaiac, aud he, 'a,
possessed ..nf u child bs a deaf and duni
SPIRIT there should not run one drop oi
m, fathers blood in any living creature be
sides m, self The death ol Tudor finished
my humiliation. had tried all things bhi
he refuge to Christ, and TO thai with pa
rental stripes was driven. Oten did !
4 cr, out with the father oi that wrelcted
boy, Lord! | be!jeve--heIp thou m'nf
nnbeiet:" and the gracious mercy OF our
Lord to this wavering faith, staggering un,
der the force OF the hard heart of unbelet,
| humbIy hoped would, in his good time.
be extended to NE also.-St. Mark, vii, II
30.
Throw Revelation aside, and can drive
Ianv man by Irresistible induction inio
! Atheism. JOHN MARSHALL could not re.
sisl me. When say any man, mean a
man capable Of logical and cousequen'iaI
rcas oning. Deism is the refuge Of those
itl.a, startle at Atheism, and can't believe
Revelation; and my, (may God have
forgiven us bolh,) aud myself used, with
:, DInERoT g. Co, TO laugh at the destical
bigo,s, who must have milk, not being able
II digest meat. Al .heism is derived
from Revelaton--.hat OF the law confessed
by. Oar own is from the same source
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