Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1853-01-06

work, even with those who from idiosyn-
crazy or disordered minds have conceived
that they were cut off from lis promises Of
life to come
Ask aud ye shall receive seek and ye
shall find knock and it shall be opened
unto you" This was my ony support aud
stay during years Of misery aud darkness !;
and Just as had almost began to despair.
alter more than ten years of penitence aud
prayer, it pleased God TO enable me to
see the truth, to which, until then, my eyes
had been sealed. To this youchsalemeut
have made the most ungralcinl re;urns.-
Bot would not give up my slender portion
OF the price paid for our redenpton-ye
my brother, our redemption--thc redemp-
ton of slnncrs-of all who do not hug their
CHAINS aud refuse To come out from the
house Of bondage-I say that would not
exchange my little portion IA the son of Da-
ud for the power and glory Of the Parihian
or Roman empires rs described by Milton
IN the temptation Of our Lord and Saviour
not for all with which the enemy tempted
the Saviour of men.
This is the secret Of the change of my
spirits, which all who know me must have
observed within a few years past After
years spent in humble and contrlte entreaty
that the tremendous sacrifice on Mount
Calvary might not have been made in vain
for me-the chleiest sinners-t pleased
God TO speak his peace into my heart
that peace Of God which passeih all UNDER
standing to them that know it not, and even
to them that do. Aud although have now
as then, Ia rcproach myself with time mis-
tftt f.l
my condition has ON more than one occa-
sion resembled that of him who, having one
evil spirit cast out, was taken possession of
hy seven other spirits more wicked than the
FIRST, and the first also; yet trust tia, the
toe, boy ihe power and mercy of God, may
be, they are not, ,duquishcd
But where am running to- Ga this
subject more hereafter Meanwhile, assure
yourself of what is Of small value compared
with chat Of those who are piece ol our
sc.i-otthe unchanged regard and ,ympa-
thy "i your mothers SON. All co., God
remember % have seen her die, to have
iaiioWcd her lo the grave, to have wondered
THAI thc sun continued TO rise and set and
the order OF nalne TO 20 on Ignorant of
true religion, but not an atheist. femcm.
Der with horror my lmpious oXposluauon
with God uDon this bereatment-" bnt not
yet au atheist" The existence of atheism
has been denied bat was ara honest one.
Hume began aud II 1bbes finished me-
read Spnozl aud all the tribe Surely
ie.l by no iguoble hand And the very man
(-) who gave me lIumc's Essay upon
Human Nature to read, administered Be
attic upon Truth" as the antidote-Venice
treacle against arsenic and the essential oil
@, bitter almonds bread and milk poul-
uce for the bic ofthe cobra capelln
liaa ter,' never nave been christian.
But it pleased God that my pride should be
mortified that 10y death and descrtIon |
,oouu rose my friends, that, except in the
veins OF maniac, and he, too, possessed ''of
a child by a deaf and dumb spirit" there
should not run one drop of my fathers
blood in any living creature besides myself
The death of Tudor finished my humilia-
ton. / had tried all things but the refuge
10 Ch-lst, aud to that with parental stripes,
was driven. Often did cry ONT with the
father of that wretched boy Lord | be-
he,e-help thou mine uube,ef;" aud the
gracious mercy Of oar Lord 10 ibis watering
faith, staggering under the force of The
hard heart OF unbeliei, aumbly hoped would
in has good time, be extended to ne also
ST. Mark va. l7-29.
Throw revelation aside, and can drive
amy man by irresistible induction To attic
ism. John Marshall could not resist me.
When | say any man, mean man capa-
bic of logical and consequential reasoning
Deism is the refuge of those that starle
at atheism, and can't believe Revelation
and my - (may God have forgiven us
both) and myself used with Diderot * Co.
TO laugh AZ the dcsical bigots who must
have milk, not being able 10 digest meat
All lhe'sm Is derived from Revelation
that Of the laws conlcssedy Oar own is
from the same source-so is the false reye-
iatlon oi Mahomel; aud can't much blame
the Turks for considering the Franks aud
Greeks To be idolalers Every idea of ONE
God thai floats ~ the world Is derived from
the tradition Of the Suns Of Noah handed
down TO poslerity.
But cnough-and more than enough
can scarcely guide my pen. viii, howcy-
er, add that 10 lukewarm seeker ever be-
came a real Christian; for "from the days
of John the Baptist until now, the king
dom Of heaven sufIereth violence, and the
violent take it by force"-a text which
read five hundred times before had the
slightest conception of its true application
lour brother,
j, R., of Roanoke
To ii. St G.TUcKER, Esq.