Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-09-05
THE INFIDRL,s CREED

nndels scof at the credulity of the
christian. But let us fairly state the
case, and see whether of all BEINGS in eY-
istence the infidel is not the most zeal.
" credulous. What ia the infidel . creed
ne believes that the whole world is
unlteo IN conspiracy to impose upon
themselves about the era Of the intro
oucuon OF Christianity; that they invent
ea an universal persuasion of the coming
Oh some great Parsonage, and that bV
mere accident their conjecture wa. ver;.
ned IN the birth Of Christ; that verses or
poems, the productions of men who lived
seVersi hundred years ago before, acct
oentaliy happened to apply to that ex.
traordinary person, and things the most
contradictory did accidentally concur in
him; that he was q deceiyer. and an on :
thuslast' and . false claimant to divine
commission, and yet, that he was, with
Out exception, the purest and most ami
able OF beings; and that he succeeded in
his object without any of the means
usually employed by similar characters:
Ior without money, without troops, with
out power, he convinced multitudes of
ms divine authority. He believes that.
after christ was openly crucified as a
maieiactor, twelve illiterate fishermen
took up the extraordinary tale that he
had risen from the dead, although these
fishermen must have known the con-
trary, if he was deceiyer. and without
any assignable motive, in the face of dan.
ger and death, they formed the bold de-
sign OF converting the whole world to a
Deilef OF thus strange story; that although
aware OF the calamities which they must
thus occasion to mankind, and therefore
men OF unfeeling, cruel disposition, their
writings and actions exhibit the unrest
morality and the most benevolent spirit:
that without education or literature thew
composed several works, in which the
leading character or subject of their me-
Inolrs, if fictitious parsonage. ia nm.
questionably one of the most wonderful
creatures OF imagination that the range
OF literature can furnish-a character
altogether unlike that of any being who
ever dwelt on earth-sustained through
out with the most exact consistency, and
the most minute and apparently unne-
cessary Particularly of dates and time,
and places; that they travelled ever the
greater part of the world, every where
successful. though everywhere prosecuted;
and that they weIe eventually the means
OF subverting the religious establishment
OF the most powerful nation on earth.
Yes, and the infidel believes that all this
was chance: these men impostors the
whole story fable and forgery! If it
be so, then the case is without a parallel
IN history and the man who receives
the creed of the infidel, betrsys a credu-
iity SO capscious, faculty so prodigious
OF overlooking difficulties, that we cannot
but suspect there is something wrong in
the ordinary powers of his understanding.
But the case is otherwise. Infdelity is
not 80 much arrangement of the head
as OF the Heart. Believing as we do,
that the words of Christ are words of
eternal truth, we maintain that it is i'm
possible for any man to disbelieve the
Bible, who searches it with right spirit.
&c If any man will do His will, he shall
know of the doctrine, whether it be of
God