Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-09-20
From the Washington Union.
The Refuge of Lies"

The following chapter of Isaiah, the 28th,
contains many precepts which, like ''apples
of gold in pictures of silver" may be applied
to the rapidly approaching overthrow of the
Know Nothings. Prophetic as it was of the
past, it will be found no less applicable to
the future:
81. Wo to the crown OF pride, to the drunk
ards Of Ephraim. whose glorious beauty is a
fading flower, which are on the head of the fat
valleys of them that are overcome with winel
go. Behold, the Lord hath n mighty and
strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a
destroying storm, as a food Of mighty waters
OVERLOOKING, shall cast down to the earth with
the hand.
"3. The crown Of pride, the drunkards OF
Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
~. And the glorious beauty, which is on the
head Of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower,
and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which
when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is
yet in his hand, he eateth it up.
as. PIN that day shall the Lord Of Hosts be
for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty.
unto the residue of his people.
sc. And for a spirit of Judgment to him that
stitch in Judgment, and for strength to them
that turn the battle to the gate.
az. PBut they also have erred through wine,
and through strong drink are out of the way;
the priest and the prophet have erred through
strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine,
they are out Of the way through strong drink;
they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
IS. For all tables are full of vomit and filth
ness, so that there is no place clean.
'9. PWhom shall he teach knowledge. and
whom shall he make to understand dOctrinef
them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn
from the breasts.
"IO. For precept must be upon precept. pre-
cept upon precept; line upon line, line upon
line; here a little, and there a little:
al. For with stammering lips and another
tongue will he speak to this people.
"l2. Towhom he said, This is the rest where
with We may cause the weary to rest; and this
is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
"l3. But the word of the Lord was unto them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept;
line upon line, line upon line; that they might
go, and fall backward, and be broken, and
shared, and taken.
al. Wherefore hear the word Of the Lord
We scornful men, that rule this people which is
Jerusalem.
"l5. Because We have said, We haze made a
covenant tcih death, and trifh hell are zoe at agree
ment; phen The ouerdoDing scOurge shall pass
through, IL shall not come unto us; for zoe hare
made lies our refuge, and under falsehood haoe zoe
hid ourselves:
"l6. Wherefore, saith the Lord God. Behold,
/ lay in Zion for a foundation q stone, a tried
stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation:
he that believeth shall not make haste.
az. Judgment also i1iH 1 lay 10 The line, and
righteousness to The plummet: and the hail shall
si1eep dipaq The refuge of lies, and The icdters shall
oDerfosO the hiding place.
"lS. PAnd your c0renaRt i0ifh death shall BE-
annuIied, and your agreement Nth hell shall not
stand; 'chen The orerfoping scourge shall pass
through; then ye shall be troddea dorm by IL.
"l9. From the time that il goeth forth it shall
take you: for morning by morning shall it pass
over, by day and by night: and IL shall be n
~vexation only to understand the report
40. For the bed is shorter than a man can
stretch himself on it: and the covering narrow
er than that he can wrap himself in IL.
= For the Lord shall rise up rs in Mount
Pcrazim. he shall be wroth as in the valley of
Gideon, that he may do his work, his strange
work; and bring TO pass his act, his strange act.
"22. Now therefore he We not Knockers, lest
your hands he made strong: for ! have heard
from the Lord God of Hosts IA consumption, even
determined upon the whole earth.
"23. Give We ear. and hear my voice; hearken,
and hear my speech.
"2l. Doth the ploughman plough all day TO
sow? doth he open ard break the clods of his
groundl
"25. When he hath made plain the face there
OF. doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scat
ter the cummin. and cast in the principal wheat
and the appointed barley and the rye In their
placer
''26. For his God doth instruct him to discre-
tion, and doth teach him.
"23. For the fitches are not threshed with a
threshing instrument, neither is n
turned about upon the cummin; but the htches
are beaten out with n staff, and the cummin
with n rod.
"2S. Bread corn is bruised; because he will
not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the
wheel Of his cart, nor bruise it with his horse
men.
s'29. This also cometh forth from the Lord OF
Hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and ex-
cellent in working"