Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1853-02-19


shall find knock, and il shall be opened
unto you. This was my only support and
stay during years of misery and darkness
and just as had almost begun TO despair,
after more than ten years OF ppniirnce and
prayer, it pleased God 10 enable me 10 see
the truth, to which, until then, my eyes
had been sealed. To this vouchsaiement
| have madr the most ungratelul returns.
But ! would not give up my slender por-
ton Of the price paid for our redemption
yes, brother, our redemp'ion-the ransom
Of sinners ol all who do not hug their
chains aud refuse TO come out from the
! house Of bondage-l say that would not
exchange my little portion in the Sor Of
David, Tor the power and glory oi the Par
THAN or Roman empires as described by
| Milton in his temptation of our Lord and
Saviour-no. for all with which the enemy
tempted the Saviour Of man.
This is the secret OF the change OF my
! spirits, which all who know me must have
observed within few years past. After
! years spent in humble and contrte enlrea-
! ~ that the Tremendous sacrifice on Mount
! Calvary might not have been made in vain
for me, the chiripst of sinners, it pleased
! God 10 speak his peace into my heart
the peace Of God which paSseth all under
standing to them that know it not, and even
to them that DO. And although | have
now, as Their, 10 reproach myself with time
misspent and facuIies miSemployed al
| though my condition has, on more than
one occasion, reSembltd 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 o! God, may be, il they are not, van
quished.
Bot where an running to- On this
subject, more hereafter. MEANWHILE, a.
sure yourself-ot what is of small value
compared with that of those who are a
piece Of yourself-of the unchanged regard
aud sympathy Of your mothers son. All !!
my God! | remember to have seen her
die, to have followed her to the grave, to
have wondered that the sun continued to
rise and set, and the order of Nature 10 go
on. Ignorant Of true religion, but not yet
an atheist, remember with horror my I'M
pious cxpostula,lons with God upon this
bereavement--''bu not yet an athrist."-
The existence of athe m 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 - who
gave me Hume'S Essay upon Human Ma
tnre" to read, administered "Bea,tie upon
| a., ia.
against arsenic and the essential oil Of bitter
almonds-a bread and milk poultce for the
bite of the cobra capello.
Had | remained successful political
leader, | might never have been Chris
tian. Blu, it pleased God that my pride
should bp mortified that by death and de-
serton | should lose my friends; that, ex'
crpt in the veins OF a maniac, and he, too
possessed "of child by deaf and duml
spirit" there should not run one drop o
my fathers blood in any living creature hr
sides myself The death of Tudor finished
f my humiliation. had tried all things bu
the refuge TO Christ, and to that, with pa
. rental stripes, was driven. On did CT,
ont with the father Of that wrrtch"d hoy
: "Lord, belirve--help thou nv unbrIl"f;
: and the gracious mercy Of our Lord to ihi
l. wavering faith, staggering under the fore
r. of the hard heart OF unheliri, | humbly ho
4 ped would, in his good time, be ex,ende
,s 10 me also.-St. Mark, vii. 1873.
r Throw Revelation aSid'', and can drlv
is any man, by irresistible induction, to ath,
,s ism. John Marshall could not resist ~
# When | say any man, mean a man capG
i BILE of logical and cons qnentiaI reasoning
+ DpiSm is the refuge Of those who startle
,r atheism, and can't believe Revelation an
! my -, (may God have forgiven us both
"A and myself used, with Diicrot & Co., I
laugh at the cris'iCat bIots who must hav
milk, not being able 10 digest meat. A
th-iSm Is derived from Revelation-tt
laws conirsSedly. Our own is from II
same source-So is the false revelation
Mahomet; aud | can't much blame It
Us Turks Tor considering the Franks and Greel
nd to be idolaters. Every other idea Of o,
,rt God that floats in the world is derived fro
ne the tradition of the sons of Noah hand,
Il. down 10 their posterity. But enough
or and more than enough can scarce
ye guide my pen. ] will, however, add tn
dc no lukewarm seeker ever became a re-
he Christian for, "Irom the days of John Il
he Baptist until now, the kingdom of heav
he sufftreth violence, and the violent take
nd by force"--a text which read five hu
he cred times before had the slightest co
an ception Of its true application.
or Your brother,
ID ]. R., Of Roanoke.
81 To H. St. G. Tucker, Esq,