Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1853-07-21

and commands the observation of them
Ill particular instances occasionally, al
ways supposes them. always enforceS
them, and makes the law of right reason
a law in every POSSIBLE definition of the
word beyond all cavil. | say beyond all
caUH. because a great deal of silly caUil
has been employed to perplex the plain
est thing in nature, and the best deter
mined signilicatioE of words according to
the different occasions on which they are
used. d.-Bolingbrohe, Essay 4, section 3.
The gospel of Christ is one continued
lesson of the strctest morality. of JUS
tice. of benevolence, and of universal
charity. ."-BOIiagbrOke, Fragment Of Ea-
says 20.
We then proceeded to remark, that
Mr.. Wright had called the Jewish
Priesthood a contemplate foolery," but
we would not call his criticism on our
Lords words ''cORtemptibLe" criticism,
ye: we would in :he language of Lord
Boiling broke, call !: ''silly cavll." 1t
was an unvarrantable constru ion OF the
words; an attempt TO make it appear tha:
Jesus was opposed to honorable marriage.
We called attention to Matth. 10: 4 e,
The Pharisees asked him, '.Is it lawful
for man to put away his wife for every
Cause? And Jesus answering said unto
them, Have ye not read that lie which
made them at the beginning made the m
male and female, and said for this cause
shall man leave father and mother, aad
shall cleave unto his wife: and they twain
shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are
no more one twain but one flesh. What
therefore God hath Joined together let no
man put aSuAdcr." How does friend
Wrisht's cavil look in the light of this
announcement? Truly it is silly cav
H."
Other spec kers against the Bible were
answered by Br. Turner; and answered
we'll. We must say that he did nobly
for the truth. If the speeches are report
ed and published, as the leaders in the
Convention said they should be. we shall
publish more fully Oh the subject at an
other time.
After the second day there twas a strong
desire manifested to prevent 1.-TWO men"
as they called Br. Turner and ourseif-
occupying half the time of the Conven-
tlon, and move was made 10 alter the
rule. which however failed, the more in
teligent of their own party oppos .ng it.
Nevertheless in several instances iniuS-
tice was done us by putting down on our
side of the question some spirit rappers.
and even one insane man, because they
Professed to believe some things ill the
Bible inspired. while they manlles.ly had
no confidence in it now. BY this means
the leaders managed to occupy just about
two thirds of the time. At this
point we take pleasure i'll saying, that
Andrew Jackson Davis did not approve
of that course; and however mistaken we
regard him in his theory, he acted gen.
flying to our feelings to give him this
credit.
The spirit rapping manifestations were
not reached before the Convention closed,
at the end of the fourth day. SO much
of the design of that meeting was defeat
ed, if We are right in our view of its de-
sign.
Mr.. Barker would be best replied to
by repub.ishing in this country his work,
published in England 1871, entitled
"Chrlstianity Triumphant;" mastery
work, which we deeply regretted we did
not have with us at the Convention.-
Had we antici pated meeting him there,
we should have mad it with us. We will
at future time furnish our re eaders with
some extracts from it, by which they will
see that Joseph Barker the Christian is
more than match for Joseph Barker the
Dcist.
Mr.. Barker said, 10 the Convention.
that our remarks ON the God Of Nature
would lead to Atheism. We were well
aware that we crowded him and his fell
low -laborers up to Atheism; that is the
ultimate and Legitimate end of their po-
sltion-they must 60 there or return to
the God of the Bible, there is no avoid
ing it. No man can prove whet ether there
be one God or many by natural theology;
nor whether the attributes of goodness.
truth. or justice exists in such God or
Gods. Hence when these men are shown
that their God or Gods of Nature mani
fest evil of the worst kind. and give them
no clear knowledge of any better state
hereafter, no wonder they talk about 60
ing into Atheism! that is their true posi-
tion.
We are truly sorry for our friend Bar
ker's position. We cannot imagine what
outrage some prOfeSsed Christians have
inflicted upon him which has SO emSit-
tered him against Christianity. We re-
spect him even in his apostasy from Chris
tlanity, but we have no sympathy for his
"silly caviis' on the Scriptures. HIS
"cavlls" on our Lords sermon on the
Mount. in the late Convention, we should
suppose would have satisfied any sane