Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1857-06-10

an Ignorant one, nor nasty one, nor an un-
forgiving one. An editor must Of necessity
turn himself inside out to the public. He
cannot be hypocrite any more than hus-
band could be hypocrite to his wife. He
must expose himself in all that he does, as
much in selecting the thoughts of others
as in publishing his own. Whosoever sue
ceeds tolerably well as an editor, is'something
more than an ordinary man-let his cotem-
poraries think of him as they will.
MEssRs. EDITORS There is at the pres
ent time considerable talk abont the proba-
biities of the earth's receiving "personal
violence" at the hands of comet, and ap-
prehend that the world will be periodically
agitated by such fears, until the true purport
and meaning of the prophecies of the Scrip
lures are understood; for SO long as we be-
lieve the literal earth is to be destroyed by
fire or otherwise, there will not be wanting,
persons who will give this belief food for sus-
tenance, by endeavoring to point out the
time and the instrumentality to be employ
ed.
The idea of general judgment on this
earth has been one which has interfered very
materially with the development of Christi
anity, ever since the church was in its in
fancy.
The exact time has been frequently an
nounced; and the last great movement with
view to the end of all earthly things, was
Milerism," which, Haman-lke, came to its
own end, but the world still moved on
Starting as Millerism did, and based as it was,
on the popular Christian idea of general
destruction of all earthly things, the great
wonder to me always was, why SO few en-
braced it.
The idea which we entertain in regard to-
the Word of God, is that it is written ac-
cording to the science of correspondence,
that it has in every part an internal sense;
and consequently the image which Nebuchad-
nezzar saw in his dream was statute repre-
senting successive states of the church, and
the stone cut out of the mountain without
hands was not comet to break in pieces this
literal world, but was a stone signifying the
divine truth of the Word, which is to extin-
guish and demolish the fallacies which have
arisen in the church, from selfderved intel
ligence.-Augusta (Ga.) Dispatch.
THE KoRAN.-The Koran was written
about A. d. 6l0. Its general aim was to
unite the professions of Idolatry and the Jews
and Christians in the worship of one God
whose unity was the chief point inculcated-
under certain laws and ceremonies, exacting
obedience to Mahomet as the prophet. 1t
was written in the Koreish Arabic, and this
language which certainly possessed every fine
quality, was said to be that of PARADISE
Mahomet asserted that the Koran was re-
vealed to him, during period of twenty
three years, by the angel Gabriel.
The style of, the volume is very beautiful,
fluent and concise; and where the attributes
of God are described it is sublime and mag
nifcent. Mahomet admitted the divine
mission both of Moses and Jesus Christ
According to Gibbon, the leading article Of
faith which Mahomet preached is compound
ed of an eternal truth and necessary fic-
ton, namely, that there is only one God, and
that Mahomet is the apostle of God. But
as Gibbon was deist, he would say that
any revelation was necessary fiction"
The Koran was translated into Latin in
1143, and into English and other European
languages about l763 1t is rhapsody of
5000 verses divided into IL sections.
SpoNeEs.-We exported from Key West
last year about 100000, worth Of sponges;
and this years exports, stimulated by the adj
vanced price will probably reach S300,00O,
or about 15O,OoOibs. of sponges. About
forty boats and two hundred men are engag-
ed in the business, who catch the sponge in
the shallow waters of South Florida, as far
west as Cedar Keys.
A HUGE BrRD.-Three fragments Of the