New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-19

Gent to resAite man with God. iuterposes the
priestly vistieun % Of indspe nsabls ebhss.ion.
Ne man cssld draw near to God whom HOLY
Church had not blessed, and any man might dra =
near unhibdered by SPY heaven Of deviltry. how
ever active, whom she lad blessed. This was the
sinplest form Of the error, and in q spiritual
though not secular point of view, the most harm
less"
There could have been little mischief in such q
notiop, with correct view Of the Church as en-
todyipg the regeDeIste life Of man. But suca
was not the prevalent view. The Church
meant the visible ortorason whose head d Eelt
at Rene, in tie person possibly Of some remorse-
less liberiiLe, while its inferior members were
made up Of the swarmipg monks and frisrs,
whose filthy frocks consecrsted more vice AMI
i6leness than went unwhipped any where else 10
the universe. Protestsniism was unquestion,by
right therefore in desecratipg such Church, and
stjuripg its blessing"
But Prett s'antism itself was blind to the suffi
cheney of Christs work of redemption BY ,ssulat-
ing the necessity Of spiritual change 10 man BE-
fore psrtsling Of the Divine favor. "Tne gos-
pei makes tie Holy Spirit free gift of Christ to
oil mankind, or a purchase Of his suferings aud
slorfcation. Professionalism turns 1t into an ex-
clusive possession of certain persons who are dill
ieeB'ly exercised with religious hopes and fears,
ard hence into a religio-legal basis upon which
one man il approved and another condemned BY
God Unit,risnism msy certainly be pardoned
for rejecting gospel SO niggardly as this"
Ubitarisnism, however not content with this,
plupges st once into still more devious ways. 1t
attempts to approximate msa to God, by vs:atiug
CbristiaIity as a supernatural method of saliva
tion, or, what is the some thing, by reducing
Christ to merely human dimensions, and thus re-
constructing purely natural basis of intercourse
between God and man. 'Unitarisnsm 10
thus fearful anschronism. II is nothing more
nor less than revivi6cation Of the old Psgauism,
with its sentence of death suspended, and the hne
of a wan and wntry life substituted instead. Pa
capism il good in It's place, because it looks as
sduOusly forward TO something better to ensue.
But take it out OF its place, give it the name aud
tie dress Of that better thing which is to come,
and i. becomes to all who f4edly persuade them
selves of its truth, most hurtful masquerade,
palsyiDg the Divine grasp of the soul, or chilling
the energy of regeneration at its very source.
This is tie exact inffmity of Cntarisnlsm, that
i, bsptzes nature, that it pOurs its cOnsecrating
oil upon the natural selfbood, aud bids it aspire
10 immortal bliss. 1t is thus prominently an OBJ
scursion of Christian truth. Viewed intellec.ualy,
it s religion adapted only to cultivated people.
people in whom their essential nsktsH.l GOOD and
nall, vailed nv the flo - ""'N
unN' ''''.u - ..va on the same impulse of asthet-
~ obligation, and with the same sense OF vital
sloofne.s as characterize their admiration Of
fine landscape or q beautiful flower
The positive sypthe,s to which Mr.. James ele-
Yates the conception Of the Gospel can only %
stated in bis own words;
Christianity is the doctrine Of the eternal ana per-
(, CT union of God sDd man in the person Oh Jesus
sngelic nature for He was already in sympathy WIN
angels end able TO minister to all their necessities; ne
took upon him the nature OF man on esrth, ns.Ie
go corrupted by the love OF self ana the love VI ths
world that all its primal brightness was obscured and
Uo nd no loDaar sny means of understanding its
yauts or Of sympabzDg with its fearful sorro~s ne
took upon Him body born OF woman ana sne, IN AL
probability her Batur al characerstlcs. one oil the
bssest IF her kind in order that by this fa OF her
womb He might put his finger upon the pulse OF the
Iowest he'll and eerDay assuage the res OF its other
vise in plSca able usts. Henceioth, then, go lar Is
God Hin self is concerned all men are In like propin-
auity 70 Him. fTe stands and forever VIII stand as
teIceIly related TO the lowest devil 10 neil Is 10 o
ost serapbc angel in heaven and to compassionate
the devil therefore under the impression that ne AZ
ali pr.iudieed at the Divine hand is to do hsgrant
outrage 10 the truth of The Divine Natural humanity
He who out of an hundred sheep loses one, love, inc
one which is lost than the ninety and nne when
had Or s,rayed and 80 we are bound 70 c9ncelvo
of the Divine love in ts direction toward he'll becou-
ing svaihed and penetrated and inteneraed, 20 20
speek BY an accessory pity which would be misplaced
toward heaven, but which yearns over the iost WIN
the ur SPEAK able tenderness OF mother yearnng over
the weak or mbecile, or deformed offspring of her
own bowels.
In regard to the influence Of S~edenborg as
An expounder of theology, we have several pas
ssges of surprising vigor, with one Of which we
cannot refrsin from enrcbiDg our columns;
The great truth which Swedenborg brings 70 the
illustration of the past to the illumination OF the iu-
ture, lie the truth OF the Divine Natural mummy
The NV T.,tament afirms this truth dogmatically,
ard without shedding any light upon It's r.tohsi con-
tents Indeed the sects have Lot done dbput'ng, ~
vet whether it actually does 30 much as make TINS
doematic affirmation. Swedenborg, however, leave,
ths TO settle their quarrel according TO thar severa
instincts and quietly proceeds ~ uphold the inter
ninable interior things which go 10 the iofmsu'n VI
that truth. He opens up transcendent pnysloiogy'
sbe wing Us the laws Of spiritual existence, aad bring
ing us Tor the first time in rational contact WIN ,1r
primal substances and powers Of the world. ne
proyes hat the things We have always thought the
vaguest and most powerless. are in truth the most
substantial and creative. Thus love ana "isdoini
which are the most incon,picuous things possible 70
TIL carna apprehension, turn out to be the essenns
Powers of the Universe and admirably elucidats az
the detail and all the harmony OF is mulflisrous NE.
He steers as we have seen, thousand miles VIDE o.
The deyouripg rock which has wrecked every Tsosy
that has btt erto tempted, with pory sails the penis
Of that silent and mystic sea- He denies indeed 81 no