The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-10-07


ship, the monument, the pyramid, the catacomb
and the like. Thirdly, be defined politics as 'the
art OF State" and called it 1.-The necessity OF man.
kind" but humorously remarked that its form de-
pended very much on human caprice, and was much
affected by the accident Of democratic or Know
Lastly, piety or religion he defined to be the art
of universal life. He also characterized II a. the art
to that Divine Power, which call God, and to
use our spiritual instincts SO to regulate society
and effect the highest deveopement, perfection and
happiness of the human race. Oar faculties incline VI
naturally and instinctvely to God, wine in the
cellar does to delight. These are our spiritual
instincts. The end and aim OF religion are to make
the most perfect man and woman, subjected to com
mon sense, but common sense, regulated by con.
science and enlightened by genius, which is uncom
mon common sense; and to serve God with ali our
powers God furnishes the materials and the cir.
cumstances, and man, under the overriding Provi-
dence Of Diety, controls and directs them to human
purposes and results:
- There Is a divinity
That shapes our ends rough-hew them how we WILL
The religious element is the strongest of our spi-
ritual gifts and looks to eternity as we'll as time Is
we are beings, having the promise OF the life that
now is and Of that which is to come"
There is more mystery in religion than In sgri-
culture. Magic, on the contrary, Is the imaginary
art to control nsture-t0 trick Jehovah out Of what
we not entitled to, in hope or by work-and It IL
neither constrained by conscience, nor controlled by
genius.
Holy Spirit and is that which is the object OF hn nan
religious worship, whether that homage OF the soul
be rendered by Peter, the Roman Catholic; John,
the Protestant; Portia, Sally or Tabtha, Presbyts
rans; Jemima, the Quakeress; Rebecca, the Jewess;
or the like. The infinite God ID, in the universe, the
creative power and conservative providence.
All are but parts OF stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is. and God the soul;
That, changd through ali, and yet In all the same,
Great In the earth as in tn ethereal frame
Warns in the sun. reiresnes in the breeze,
CLOVIS 10 the Storm and blossoms in the trees;
Lives through all life, extenos through all extent,
Spreads undivided and operates unspent;
Brlahes in our soul, informs our mortal part,
As iu. as perfect in a har rs heart;
Az full az perfect, in vile man that niourus
As the rapt teraph that azores and ourns-
For him no hign, 10 low, no great, no small
He fills. he bounds, connects, and equals all.
General confidence and lively trust in the Divine
power, wisdom, goodness and perfection OF God
stand high in the catalogue OF human virtue =,
and lead to rich enjoyment here and to inexpressl
BILE happiness hereafter. In his presence there 10
fulness OF joy and at his right hand there are plea
sures foreyermore."
II is the Development Of natural and general
human power that produces individuals varying ia
character and pursuits, such as sally Peter, Black
Hawk, Alexander. Victoria, and the like; and col
ects and arranges men into villages, tribes, planta
tons, &c.
The ysical Development OF man belongs proper
ly TO physiology we want doctors of the body,
skilled In the art OF producing and sustaining strong,
healthy and handsome human bodies. The Irish
woman. with dirty hands and freckled arms, hand
ling purchasing cabbage In market, Is the same
in prospect in representative provocative futa
rty, with the scholar In his library; and the former
may produce, under due conformity TO physiological
conditions, higher type Of progeny, IN comparison,
than that OF the man OF letters and refinement
XIn America, as q general rule few attain emf
ncnce who are born 10 wealth; greatness Is the
growth Of nature and IL depends much on the right
use of time and opportunity whether one shall wear
the comey .rnents Of elevated humanity, or the re-
spectacle hahilments OF the carpenter the baker,
or the motley of the clown. There great odds,
OF inequalities, in the fidelity OF men - time and 10
sefculture. The New England States are great In
every thing but In men great In nature, great Ia art
but poor Ia men. They want brave men; and excellent
men and women are rare among them--like angels
visits, "few and far between Let young and old
lay their shoulders to the wheel, and, by strong
united and GOdaided effort, remove this disparity
between the rational and the irrational creation in
our New England abode.
Absolute good IL. In the order OF Providence, the
end and purpose of life. The provisional means for
its attainment are: i. general power OF SELF
command. Strong viii and unity OF action are 70.
qaisite 10 control and govern the passions, when,
like team Of wild horses, they are drawing aud
| tearing 10 the right and left, and fnging away
from virtue and pfopsiey into vice and criminality
the young, and reflective ejaculation In the old Pas
sion assas and overcomes the young, chiefly between
the ages OF eighteen and thirty years. and they
to the erog shop, the gaming table. and the hannts
Of pollution. Ambition attacks the old or elderly,
between the ages Of forty and sixty years; II IL then
| that ambition reaches its highest point, and tue
great battle Of life Is fought. Ambition Is worse
than debauchery; IL hugs and clngs to the
old. like the fatal shirt Of Nessus, while passion
commends "the unblessed cup, whose ingredient IL
DEVIL 10 the lip and the draught Of the young;
| and pIunges them in ruin-in "steepdown gufs
| Of liquid fire. Let men beware OF both, for
| wide h the ruin which the Juggernaut car Of
ambition leaves In its bloody crushing track, and
terrible is the desolation, when wine becomes q
"mocker," and strong drink IL raging" when
l.. L.
cup; when Il biteth, like serpent, and stngeth
| like an adder. Seek, then, self command at
once over sensual and selfish passions; avoid
| youthful lusts and that calculating ambition aud
sordid covetousness, which too often beset and
master those Of matursr years. ?. knowledge
OF right, giving tenderness and susceptibility
to conscience J. Some object OF special anec-
ton. Love some one unseldshly. Without this
man or woman Ia sufficient for happiness. Choose,
then some worthy object Of lovesearch out objects
Of charity and benevolence-practice that twice
blessed virtue, which besseth the giver more than
loved back again. but only for loves sake. This Il
education and elevation Of the highest ordereduca-
ton and elevation OF the heart, which approx mates
the creature to that God who s love. Go out Of SELF
aud selfishness seek some favorte pursuit, other
| than that 10 which business or custom binds
| you. Let not the lawyer bury himself In his
| papers, or hide himself In his musty tones,
bound In sheepskin, until, like them, he Is laid on
i tht hhci III JUST huu usirts 70 moufucr away, I'M
read OF hH fellow men. Let not the divine hide him
self In his gown or oanonicsls, or even In his Bible
and his divinity; but let him 20 out into The world
and expand his heart and his humanity in social in
tercourse with his fellow men. Finally let not the
merchant, or any other Of Gods rational creatures
hing TO his gold or to his other favorte object or pur
suit, in solitude in seshness; but let ALL of All
conditions and all huee, seek genial blessed and
blessing companionship with their kind and tSus DO
homage 70 the Creator in service 10 the Creature
The eloquent and gifted speaker closed with
an appropriate invocation Of the isvor OF the
Deity, commensing, Bless the Lord, nv
soul, and All that " within me bless his holy
All his benefits; who forqiveth all thine iniquiti-s
and healeth Gil thy dseases; Who redeemeth thy life
from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving
Kindness and tender mercies; who satisfetb thy
mouth Nth good thing. . that ny , ypn,h y re.