American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-12-04
Natural Evidences Of the Truth Of
Revealed Religion.

ls0tuAAl tSiuCuOCo VI tuC III Iuku VI
Revealed Religion.
Edward Everett, in his eloquent ad.
dress recently delivered before the, Ag.
,icnltural Society at Buffalo said:
"A celebrated skeptical philosopher
of the last cen,ury--the historian Hume
-thought to demolish the credibilty
OF The Christian Revelation by the con.
else argument "lt is CONTRARY to expe.
risnce that miracle should be ,rue.
but not contrary To experience that tes :
timony should be false" The last part
of the proposition especially in a free
country, on the eve of popular cleo.
ton. !: unhappily too we'll founded !; bot
in what book.wotm's dusty cells, tape
tied. with the cob.webs ofaees, where
the light ofteai life and nature never
forced It's way-in what pedant's school
where deaf ears listen to the dumb Inns
and blind followers are led by blind
guides, did he learn that il is contra.
ry to experience that n miracle should
De truel Most certainly ho never
learned II from sower or ,eaper-.from
dumk animal or rational m N connected
with husbandry. Poor Red jacket off
here on Buffalo. creek, ifhe cooId have
Ecomprchend+d the terms of the promo.
siti"n would have treated it with scorn.
Contrary tn experience that plennme.
ma should exist which we cannot trace
to causes perceptible tn the human
sense, OF conceivab BILE by human thought.
IL would be much nearer the truth to
huf IN IL 4
kperlence there are 10 phenomena which
can be iarionally traced To any thing
but the instant energy Of creative pow.
Ier.
Did this philosopher ever contem.
Pia'e he landscape at the close of the
year, when seeds and grains aud Fl uits
\ nave ripened, and stalks have withrred
aud leaves have fallen, and, stern Win.
ter has forced her icy curb even into
the roaring jaws Of Niagara. aud sheet.
ed half Continent in her gli.tering
shroud, and alt this teeming vegetation
aud oreauized htu are locked in cold
and marble obstruction; and after week
upon week aud month upon month
have swept with sleet aud chilly rain
and bowling storm, over the earth, aud
riyited their crystal bolts upon the door
"t natures sepulchre, when the sun
ut length begirs to wheel III higher cir.
c'es through the sky, aud softer Winds
to breathe through melting snow, did
he ever behold the long hidden ea,th at
length appear, and soon the timid o, ass
peep f"Ilh, aud anon the Autumnal
wheat begin To paint the field, and vel.
Vet leaflets TO burst from purple buds
throughout the ievising forest aud
then the mellow soil to open its fruit.
tul bosom, To every grain aud seed drop.
ped from the plauter's hand, buried bui
To sp'ing up again, clothed with ne W
mysterious being; and then as more
tefVld suns inilame The air. and softer
showers disill from tho cloud, and gen.
tier de"s string their peails on twip and
tendril, did he ever watch the ripeninp
gram and fruit, peUdant from stalk aud
Vine aud tree; the meadow, the field, the
| pasture, the grove, each after his kind
arrayed III my'iad-tinted garments, in.
stlnct with circulating life seven mil.
lions Of counted Leaves on a single tree
each OF which is a system whose exoois.
ite conplicaiun puts TO shame The
shrewdcst cunning Of the human hand,
every planted seed aud grain which has
been loaned to the earth, compoundine
its pious usury, thirty, sixty, hundred
fold.-all harmoniously adapted to the
sus,enance OF living nature Tho bread
of hungry world; here tiled corn.
field, whose yellow blades are ,noddipe
with the food Of man there au unplant.
ed wilderness the great Fathers farm,
where he "who hears the ravens cry"
has cultivated with his own hand, his
mercilu crop Of berries. aud puts, and
acorns. and seeds, for the humber fam.
lilies OF animated nature; the solemn ell.
ephant, the browsing deer, the wild pig.
con whose flutering caravan daikens
the sky the merry squirrel who bounds
from branch to branch, in the Joy of his
little life has he seen all this. does be
see it every year, and month, and day,
does he live, and move. aud breathe, and
think IN this atmosphere Of wonders
!iimselrihe greatest wonder of all, whose
smallest fibre and fain,est pulsatiun is
as much mystery as the blazing gio-
ries Of OriJn's belt--aud does he still
maintain that miracle is contrary To
experience 7 If no has. and if he does
let him 60, in tho name of heaven,
aud say that it is contrary 10 experience
that tho August Power which turns the
clods of the earth iuto the daily bread
oj thousand million souls could feed
! five thousand 10 tho wilderness :"
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