Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-01-24
Letter fron, John 1sandoinh.

| ACSaSE AAO4e 0uBAA AhAn0OApAs
| The following letter was addressed by John
Randolph, of Roanoke, to his half brother, Henry
| St. George Tucker, on the occasion of the death
of Judge fuckers son, youth Of singular
| promise 1t was found among the papers of the
! gentleman to whom it was addressed land was fur
nlshed to the Washington Union by the Rev. Mr..
| Tustin:
s'May He who has the power, and always the
| Will, when earnestly, humbly, and devotedly en-
treated, support and comfort you, my brother!
| shall not point to the treasures that remain to
you IN your surviving children, and their mother,
deater than all OF these put together. No;I have
felt too deeply how little power have words that
| play round the head to reach the heart when it is
sorely wounded. The common places of conso-
lation are at the tongues end of all the selfcom-
piacent and satisfied, from the pedant priest to
| the washe7-woman. They who don't feel can
talk. abiure them ALL The father of Lord
Russell, when condoled with, according to form,
by the book, replied, 81 would not give my dead
! son for any other mans livng.' May this
thought come home TO your bosom too; but not
on the same occasion. MAY the spirit of God,
which is not the chmera of heated brains, nor a
device of altlul men to frighten and caiole the
! cEedulous, but is as much an existance that can
| be felt and understood as the whisperings of your
own heart, or the love you bore lo him you have
lost-nay that Spirit, which is the Comforter,
SIZED His influence upon your soul, and incline
| your heart and understanding TO the only right
way, which is that of life eernal Did you ever
read Bishop Buffers Analogy? If not. will
send it to you. Have you read THE Book
What | say upon this subject, not only believe,
but know to be true-that the BibI3, studied
with humble and c0ntrite heart, never yet fail
ed to do its work, even with those who from i'd
iosyncracy or disordered minds, have conceived
that they were cut off from its promises Of life
TO come.
ASK and ye shall receive; seek and ye shall
ind; knock and it shall be opened unto you'-
This was nay only support and stay during years
oil misery and darkness, and just as had almost
begun TO despair, after more than ten wears of
penitence and PRAYER, it pleased God to enable
me to see the truth, to which, until then nv eyes
had been sealed. To this vouchsafement, / have
made the most ungratelul returns. But would
not give up my slender portion of the price paid
ior our Tedempton-yes, my brother, our re-
dempuon-the ransom OF snners--of all who do
not hug their chains and refuse to come out from
the house Of bondage say | would not ex-
change my little portion in the son of David for
the power and glory of the Parthian or Roman
empires, as described by Milton in the tempta-
ton ofour Lord and Saviour-not for all with
which the enemy tempted the Saviour of man.
L ITS II tlic SGCltb vi llb CHuUSB Vi ny Spirits,
which all who know me must have observed with
in few years past. After years spent 10 humble
and contrite enreaty, that the tremendous sacr-
fee on Mount Calvary might not have been made
IN vain for me-the chlefest of slnners-it pleased
God to speak peace into my heart-that peace
| of God which passeth all understanding to them
that know ii not, and even to them that do. And
although have now, as then, to reproach myself
with time ms-spent and faculties mis-employed /;
although my condition has on more than one &C.
casion resembled that of him who, having one
evil spirit cast out, was taken possession of by
seven other spirits more wicked than the first, and
the first also; yet trust that they, too, by the
power and mercy of God, may be, if they are not
vanquisEed.
Put where am running to On this subject
more hereafter. Meanwhile, assure yourself of
what is of small value compared with that oflhose
| who are piece of yourselt-ofthe unchanged re-
| gard and sympathy of your mothers son. All
! my God | remember to have seen her die, Ito
have followed her to the grave TO have wondered
that the 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
impious representations with God upon this be-
reavement, 'but not yet an atheist The existence
of atheism has been denied; but was an honest
one. Hume began and Hobbies finished me. |
read Spinoza and all the tribe. Surely fell BY
no ignoble hand And the very man g who
gave me llume's Essay upon Human NATURE to
read, administered 'Beattie upon Truth as the
antldote-Vence treacle against arsenic and the
essential oil Of bitter almonds bread and milk
! poultice loI the bite of a cobra capella.
Had | remained a successful political leader, |
might never have heen a christian. But il pleas
ed God that my pride should be mortified, that by
death and deserton should lose my friends, that,
except in the veins of maniac, and he, too,
possessed 'of a child by deaf and dumb spirit
there should not run one dropof my fathers blood
! In 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 wretched boy, Lord
believe help thou my unbelief;' and the gracious
mercy of our Lord to this waverng faith, stagger-
ing under the force of the hard heart Of unbeliefI
humbly hoped would, in his good time be extend
ed 10 me also.-St. Mark, vii, l7-l9.
Throw revelation aside, and | can drive any
! man by irresistible induction to atheism. John
Marshall could no. resist me. When say any
man, mean man capable of logical and conse-
qnential reasoning. Deism is the refuge of those
that starte at atheism, and can't believe Revela-
ton; and my---(may God have forgiven US
BOTH and myself used, with Diderot & Co, 10
laugh at the destieal bigots, who must have milk,
not being able to digest meat. All atheism is de-
rived from revelation--that OF the laws confes.
sedy. Our own is from the same source-so is
the false revelation of Mahomet; and | can't
much blame the Turks for considering the Franks
and Greeks to be idolators. Every other idea of
one God that floats in the world is derived from
The tradition of the sons OF Noah handed down to
their posterty.
But enough-and more than enough can
scarcely guide my pen. will, however, add that
no lukewarm seeker ever became real Christian,
for 'lrom the days Of John the Baptist until now,
the kingdom Of heaven suflereth violence, and the
violent take It by force''-a text which | read 500
times before had the slightest conception of its
ture application. Your brother,
J. r., Of Roanoke.
To II St. G. Tucker, Esq.
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