American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1855-08-18
NUMBER 8. Z.

dropped his trade Of carpenter when Ho
entered, properly, on His mission of
converting human souls into temples OF
the living God, and had no further con
neclion with the building snug little u.
corn cup. in the great world of craft
This "grond Cathedral" is very art
but if the perfection Of religion is rep
resented by tho size and beauty of those
articles, how immensely superior was
our jewish dispensation to that which
has superseded it! Even Muhomme-
danism as far in advance of Ills, for it
has mosques superiorto this establish
ment. l wonder what kind of religion
this is, aud where ] am. The conduct
ing angel must have landed me in tho
wrong country. 1t was the new world,
where the religion of J Jesus of Nazareth
is said to prevail, that wished to visit.
He said, my kingdom is not of this
world!" but here is branch Of church
whose head is u temporal sovereign, and
claims that he is king in this world by
virtue of his succession to the office Of
this same Jesus who thus distinctly said
that his kingdom was not here and who
positively refused to DO made a king
when the people would have taken him
by force to crown him! Kingdom not
of this world Why, they have throne
ings of dead worms; ant! men come aud
kneel before the occupant, who will
soon be dcaI worm himself aud DO
eaIon up by living ones-kncel before
him just as my subjects used to do to
me, before the worms took possession
of the house used to live in. But this
throne is shabby concern compared to
mine, aud this temple would not make
an anti-chamber To that built. Tho
world has been going backwards, and [
may return to the spirit land and tell
The patriarchs that that spiritual king
dom which we all hoped for, and whose
gIories we typifrd with architectural
splendor, has noTyct appeared in any
part of the world can find. The peo-
pie on every part Of tho surface Of our
old globe are busy tyPifying some relig-
ion in stone or wood, and moIter aud
mud and mixtures Here they are
sehow!ug forth its glories by means of
glaring red blankets with bright yell
low borders, aud other forms ti,at
look SO much like those of that worship
which the old Druid priests carried on
in tho infinitely more magnificent Cath
edrals Of the English forests, that can
not imagine what these people want to
! be at. | have not heard any one orthcnl
utter word to-day about tho impor
tance of identifying human souls, those
living temples of God, with the beauty
OF holiness ; but the orator dwells low
ingly on the beauty of these mud walls
and the glory Of these red blankets.
had handsomer coverings for my horses
in my day and generation than the best
of these trappngs and if this is all that
has come Of Christianity in the loug
lapse Of eighteen hundred years, it must
bo miserable failure - And so wo
imagine the disappointed cx-soveroign
OF Israel might return to where he came
from and puzzlc his wise head TO the
end of eternity without being able To
discern what it is all about; aud that il
we had met him ever so often on that
day he would have been too busy gap
ing and wondering to have paid any at.
tention 10 us, besides being so much a.
shamed of the race to which he belong
ed as to lose sight, for tho instant, of his
own deinquencics.