Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-06-06
Gbronicle.
FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1856.
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Truth, Triumphant.
Communicated for the Lewisburg Chronicle.

Truth, Triumphant.
Truth is the offspring of the Divine
mind it emanates from God and as well
might the powers of darkness attempt to
auench the fires of hell, as to fetter its
progress, or to prevent its fral ccnsumma-
ton. Its power has been felt in all ages,
and under all circumstances. 1t sustained
Abraham, and the Patriarchs. 1t cheered
Elijah, and the Prophets. 1t supported
Paul, and the Apostles. 1t comforted
Martyrs in their severest trials, and will
accomplish the glorious predictions of the
inspired Word.
When Cain, branded as a fratricide,
went forth with the Almighty's curse res
ting upon him, did be not feel the value of
the treasure he had lost and have not his
successors in crime, when stepped in guilt,
been troubled with the thought that Truth
and Righteousness would rear themselves
upon the ruins of error and sin?
There have been times in the worlds
history, when damning heresies, with their
bligbting, blasting influences, have shrou-
del the moral world in more than midnight
darkness; good men become bad-bad
men, fcnds The caDker-worm of Sin
devoured the fairest flowers of earth.
Yet, did not Truth rise triumphant? Is
the splendor of the sun dlmmed by the
mist and darkness of night?
Man is Gods epistle he has been writ
ten by the Almighty's hand, in characters
of eternal light: He has stamped him
with the seal of divinity, and directed him
to heaven But, alas! the seal has been
broken; ruthless Sin hath defaced tie fair
inscription, and without direction he wan
ders down to the final receptacle Of all
error, where, like /" dead letters" they are
consigned to the flames.
Fawning sycophants Of the Man of Sin,
cowardly desertcrs from the cause of Truth,
may prophecy its downfall, and attempt to
supply its place by the Infamous canons
aud senseless anathemas of Popery but
has not the Eternal spoken, and will His
word be rendered futile BY the prstings of
aworm? Sooner would yonder rock-ribbed
mountain quiver and tumble to its fall by
the tapping of the tiniest insects wings
that sportively plays upon the summers
breeze.
Truth and Error arc antagonistic in their
nature This world has been one vast
battlefield, where these powers have strug
gled for the mastery long and doubtful
was the contest-glmmering slowly suc-
ceeded to glimmering-breaking light still
struggling with suffocating darkness. Yet
no sooner did Luther, the morning-star of
the Reformation, lift up hi, voice and
strike aome for Truth, than Error trem-
bled as some vast fabric weakened by the
storms of ages shakes before the roaring
blast No event since the birth Of Chris;
has been more pregnant with good than
the resurrection of Truth in the sixteenth
century. The great interests Of mankind
awoke as if from the dead, and nerved
themselves to run glorious career Of use
fulness.
MetLinks no tears will be shed, no
groans will be uttered, no sighs will be
heard, when Error shall struggle in death,
and when stiffened corse noshroud shall
cover its naked deformity no mourners
will deplore their loss but grateful praise,
such as human heart never knew, shall
ascend from disenthrslled millions to con-
quering Truth, and one universal shout
shall proclaim that /" the Kingdoms of this
world have become the kingdoms Of our
Lord and his Christ" and Truth, trium-
phant, shall reign for ever and for ever.
COMMON SCHOOL