Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-03-10
The Religious sentiment.


However absurd or revolving may be the
religious rites of those worshippers whom
we term pagans and barbarians-h owever
dark the superstitions which weigh them
down in ignorance and degradation. tlie
candid student of the human mind discov-
ers in all these rites but the erroneous and
mis-directed expression of the religious
sentiment, which, however varied in it's de-
velopement, is yet homogeneous and COM
mon to all climates and countries.
The narrow bigot, who views all things
from single standpoint, will indeed deny
that the devotion of the heathen has an
origin common with his own While he
exalts his own, whether Justly or other
wise matters not, rs the offspring Of An en-
lightened conscience and regenerated
heart, he regards the orisons of the be-
nighted as only the manifestations of OBJ
durate hearts, blind to the truth and tena-
cious of error. In all the long array of
| their superstitious rites he discovers only
loathsome mass Of folly, error and crime
But if he would berid himself of n little
of his own self-righteousness and his dog
ged idolatry of the opinions of his fathers.
and learn to look upon all the nations of tho
earth as the common Father, inspired with
| like feelings and hopes, he could look with
more complacency upon the errors of the
superstitious, and find in them the evidence
of the universal aspiring to something high
and infinite. '..
The Christian religion, in the simplicity
of its forms, in the enlightenment of its
adherents, and more especially in the great
law of universal love upon which it rests.
is infinitely superior to all others. Yet
however dcplorable may be the errors which
are so thickly interviewer with all other
systems, we are inclined to believe that
the honest devotion of every heart, how
ever superstitious the faith to which IL
bows, has common origin, and is every
where the inspiration of the common God.
Can there be "a devotion more fervent moro
earnest, more unselfish, or yet more sadly
misguided, than that of the heather moth
er who punges her infant beneath the blue
waters Of the Ganges sacrifice to her
false God? How deluded is she By thai
false system which she believes divine; ami
how earnest and deep that devotion which
nerves her arm to sunder the ties of holi-
est consanguinity and tenderest love! Had
she the faintest conception of the true God
and the true spiritual worship, her acC
would be Il revolving and horriG crime.
But with her mind SO completely deluded,
is it not an act of heroic devotion anil self
I sacrifice? Can we not in charity believe
e that it exhibits a spirit akin to that required:
S s.He that loveth father and mother more
: than me, is not worthy of me; and he that
y loveth wife or daughter more than me, Is
+; not worthy of me- Is it not the spirit OF
3 marlyrdom and unqualified devotion
U But" we fancy the reader inquirnS.
= edo you believe these horrid things arc
right?' No, we answer, most decidedly.
e TRey are wrong and deplorable; yet they
i are not committed in the spirit of wrong
= or of malice; they are, on the contrary.
'f prompted by the motives just described.
l. And the spirit thus exhibited ever has been
g and ever will be the spirit of true worship
p the spirit which deties all dangers, an
e shrnks not at any sacrifice in devotion t"
8 what appears true and divine. 1t is the
t. spirit which sustained Luther, and all the
?. martyrs of Justice and truth in every age
IN of the world.
y The fact that in this case it is ignorant,
Il misguided and blind, does not alter the
/ divinity of it's origin or the beauty of lie
l. real significance. The precious ore which
d lies hidden in the mountain is no less gold
e than after it is refined and stamped; and
"a so this sentiment is the sentimenC OF uni
Is versal alteration to- the Supreme Father
.r though often irregular, absurd, erroneous
n and even frightful and mischieYous i'll its
n. manifestations. In all of them we perceive
the happy evidence of a universal feeling
&c of dependence upon higher power-;t
~ acknowledged of higher sovereign
>, than man. In this view of the case, too
r. we may learn to look with charity upon The
opinions at variance with our own, and fine
:, that no system or creed is utterly devoid o
n good. .. :.
-. The practical results of such belle
would be most happy We should lcarI
~ that error is rather misfortune than
+ crime-that it should be instructed rathc;
All than punished |, and that i'll every nation thu
"a sincere and honest, however misguided o
90 however wise, are entitled to the same re-
10 spect, and cherish alike the same divn
nd sentiment of worship.
"0 CoLoRING BUTrER WITH CARROTS
Some who practice this, commend 1t, u
~ not only improving the appearance OF TIL
:; butter, but the flavor and quality. III
following is the process -
To cream for five pounds Of butter TAX
good sized orange carrot, wash cle''
- and CRATE off the deepest cololed portion
10 pour tea-cup full of warm water to /
ietit stand short time, then strain throug
~ a cloth, and add to the cream just oetol
"a churning.
oh WARTS ON HoRsZs.--James Fulle
he Whiteside's Corners, N. y, states. III II
lT, bo ha1 1nN N-.ln nah