The Yazoo Democrat., 1853-01-12


ners-it pleased God to speak bis peace into my
heart--that peace Of God which passeth all un-
derstanding TO them that know II not, and even
to them that do. And although have now, as
then, to reproach myself with time mis-spent
and faculties unemployed although my condi-
ton has on more than one occasion Eesembled
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 ond ner-
cy of God, may be- If they are not, vanqoished.
But where am running TO on this subject
more hereafter. Meanwhile, assure yourself Of
what IS Of small value compared with that Of
those who are piece Of yourself-of the un-
changed regard and sympathy Of your mothers
son. All my God ! remember 20 have seen
her die, to have followed her to the grave, to
have wondered that The sun continued 10 rise
and set and the order o. Nature to 60 on. lg-
norant Of true religion but not yet an atheist,
/ remember with horror my impious expogtuIa-
tions with God upon this bereavement bu5
not vet an atheist" The existence Of atheism
has been denied bat ! was an honezs one.-
Hume began and Hobbies finished me. , read
Spinoza and all the tribe. Surely fell by 70
Ignoble hand. And the very man 60 who
gave me Hume's Essay upon Human Nature
10 read administered "Beattie upon Truth as
the antidote-Ve Venice treacle against arsenic and
the essential oil Of bitter almonds "a brood ond
milk poultice for the bite Of tie cobra capello.
Had remained successful political leader
might never have been a Christian. But it
pleased God that my pride should be mortified;
that by death and desenion ] should lose my
friends that, except in The veins Of a maniac,
and he, too, possessed "of a child by 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 hu-
initiation. had tired all things but the refuge
to Christ, and 10 that, with parental stripes, was
driven. Often did cry out with the father Of
that wretched boy. "Lord believe--help thou
mine unbeIief; 2 and the gracious mercy Of our
Lord to this wavering faith, staggering under
the force Of the hard heart Of unbeliei, humby
hoped would. in his good time, be extended 10
me also.--St. Mark vii, l7--29.
Throw Revelation aside, and can drive any
man by irresistible induction to atheism. John
Marshall could not resist me. When ] say any
man, mean man capable Of logical and con5c-
quential reasoning. Deism is the refuge of those
that siartle at atheism, and can't believe Rere-
lation and my, (may God have forgiven Us
both and myself used. with Diderot & Co., To
laugh at the deislicIl bigots who must have milk
not being able to digest meat. All atheism is
derived from Reveation--that Of The laws con-
lessedly. Our own is from the same source-so
is the false revelation of NJ ihomet; and J can't
much blame he Turks for olsidering the Franks
and Greeks TO be idolators. Every other idea Of
one God that floats in the wottl is derived from
the tradition Of the sons of Noah handed down
to their posterty.
] But enough--end more than enough can
scarcely guide my pen. / VIII, however add
that no lukewam seeker ever became real Chris
tan; for '.lrom the days Of John lhe Baptist un-
til now, the kingdom of heaven su1ereh yio-
Ience, and the violent take It by forcer-a text
which / read 500 times before had the slightest
conception Of its true application.
Your Brother,
J. r., OF Roanoke.
To H. ST. G. TUcKER.