The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-03-07

b the unnttural to throw adoubt over thu
t statement that sixty such men united to
gether 10 assassinate man to whom
{ they owed so much, and from whose
f powerful friendship they might reason
D ably expect security of present gain
t aud additional assistance for the future
1t would require an immese stretch o.
e credulity to believe for a moment tha
: any one Of the party struck one blow fol
5 freedolnz And then another weak lini
!, in theeyidence is found in the fact thai
) the first writer who record these trans.
actions was not born nntilsixty years af
ter the death of Caesar. Yet who doubts
, this portion of humnn history
Alas for the vagaries of the human
mind { Men can Be infused with the
widest fables and induced to reject the
plainsst amatters of truth. But what
must be the state of that heart and OF
that mind that has no past with It's
clustecing fruits. no future with its
bright, glowing, and ennohling hopes p
He who has capacity to weigh facts in
the scale of evidence, who does not find
from the most rigorous Investigations
that the Bible is the revelation of God
to man, that its histories arc records of
actual occurrences, its teachings the
inspirations of Heaven, its predictions
tho breath of eternal wisdom waited in
to tho atmosphere of time, and its whole
eontekts, in all its parts and relations, a
living truth, can believe nothing what
ever that lies in tho last beyond the
shadow of his own generation. Such a
being has no past, and can have no Wis
ion for the future. Upon that narrow
isthHus of time, the present, he stands,
and even that present is bounded by his
immediate surroundings. To him all
kother things are vain alike. 70 him
Eden presents no bowers the choral
anthem of the angels on the morning of
creation utters no music for him Egypt
wss no nursury of-arts and sciences, Ca
naan no land flowing with milk and
honey TO him Assyria and Persia ut
ter NO sound; Greece is voiceless in her
poetry, her history, her philo osophy, and
her arts; Marathon breathes no NOR
ming call to the battles Of freedom; All,
all is5one vast dreary blank isaF'a
But is for moment this mind, thus
" cabined, cribbed, confined, )" shall for
get its inconsistencies and assume the
power Of reasoning, what happens to it
Let il survey and believe the progress
of the human family. And Nbat was all
that Egyptian, Assyrian, Greci1p, and
Roman civilization accomplished COM
pared to that which originated in the
! I.zsss-....seAlth portions of .Judea It is
possible ttraT even a Turner might -s1.sa-
mon faith enough to believe that Plato
and Zenophon did no injustice to their
masters system but if Socrates at
tained height in human intelligence
STAR beyond all his predecessors that
he was considered at an apex of human
intelligence, let the skeptic on the sub
ject of Christianity tell, if he can, how
that Nazarene and thoss Galilee fisher
men became the promulgers of a doc
trine as infnitly beyond the utmost at
tainme ents of Socrates in all that belongs
to mere humanity as Socrates was above
the philosophers of the fogs of Boeotia !?
And if Jesus Christ was uot precisely
what he claimed to be, /" the idea of
God, made visible by a word" if the
companions who walked the earth with
him are not the most truthful of mon,
they were at once liars of the greatest
magnitude and fools of the utmost
folly for they adopted and proclaimed
sonol min ,--Tb oro mas not ono Of thor,
eJn,- IL. -, o.s 10, Ias L. 80 - - -,
VIZ, aOs nao" s Wha,s st5s
conceivable motire.for these, thinas that
is not more nonstrosity than any one
can show the simple truth to be p But
towering above all other things is one
conspicuous object which rises superior
to ali the hcadland of unbelief. Inwhat
infideiity callssits reason it utters this
startling miracle in human afairs-that
the yilest immpostors, themost thorough
ciIarlatans, the most debased wretches
tbatseyer steepcd in folly. devised. pro-
claimed and i,bo.ed. Wit sineessant tolls
,,,,f,er- constant sstr;fes sorrows. suffer-
;,,s and zvey;Is -, as - blisb not onIv the
Il, res ), svsteIo' of morals the most nesr.
Tot ,ne,ns for b,,,,,.n develcnment
and .balsnrest methods for bannines even
i th;s vorld that had ever beeD nt-
tered brt -pnon which the myriads of
blazing ;nteileots that-haye adorned
every Ace of the past .eieeteen hundred
veors have not even nronose1 an i'm
1rovcment He who can beIeye that
-s.ch = svstem Of morals had such an
-, 80 anJ .,,nnor. o,,obt NOT To distrust
he cana.;tv for baI;ef for his novers
are far bavond apv exercised by a Chris
tion IN believing the Holy Scriptures,
r,,o.o fo.n,s of+ost;,nonv tbat NAV
No rooI, Nv W. iis IanS, of years. b,t IN.
go "o@n 80 ~ odls s ~ tbo stranotb and
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