American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-07-31
BIBLE OR NO BIBLE.

Lie WHO WOulu KNOW tne Value OF the
Bible may learn it by comparing the
United States with Mexico. Mexico
was first settled, and by as good men
perhaps as could be found anywhere,
without the Bible. The soil, the eli
mate, the minerals of Mexico, we're all
superior to those of the United States.
She had the superiority in everything
except men, and the difference in the
men was chiefly attributable to the BIZ
bic. We talk much Of Aglo Saxon
blood. But why is that blood better
than the blood of Aragon and CASTLE?
The blood Of all our race is feculent
and feeble until the religion of the BIZ
BILE gives it purity and Nlgor. No can.
did man can find any adequate cause
for the boundless disparity between the
people of the two republics, except that
one is Protestant and the other a Cath.
olic nation; one has the free word Of
God, the other has it not.
Let the world look at the state of
facts now exhibited in the two nations,
and give verdict of truth. Let them
say whether the Lord is God, or the
Pope of Rome; whether they will be
ruled by the laws of God, or by those
of an ignorant, lewd, and lying priest
hood.
In Mexico is q population of eight
millions of people, poor ignorant, vio-
olent, revolutionary, and priesthood
who have contrived to amass all the
wealth in their own hands;-a people
and country in abject poverty, and a
church with seventy millions of dollars.
In one nation cities rise on every hand,
navies float on every sea,-canals, rail
roads, and communications of every
sort facilitate the growing greatness
and happiness of the people, while in
the other cities dwindle away and COM
merce scarcely has existence. In one
nation every man is Industrious and
inventive, secure in his home, his fam
lily, and his property; in the ether, ev-
erything is Incidence and insecurity.
In one country schools are everywhere,
instruction everywhere, intelligence
and manly independence in every coun-
tenance; in the other, superstition, ig-
norance, servility, worthlessness. One
country feeds the starving Catholics of
Europe; the other starves Catholics at
home. One is the land of freedom and
plenty, to which the oppressed and star
wing OF Europe are thronging as to q
paradise; the other the abode of op-
pressors, and shupnad by the most mis-.
cradle as the place where they would
only be made more miserable. One
country is adorned and blessed with
thousands of churches, few of them
rich, but filled with intelligent Chris
tlans, taught by thoroughly educated
and pious ministry; the other has chur-
ches filled with images, pictures, and
ignorant devotees bowing before them,
under the dictation of priests, who with
some exceptions, are ignorant, vicious,
cockhghtlng, gambling, sore.legged,
ana al IN all as thorough going set
OF villains as ever took holy orders this
side of the bottomless pit. One nation
is full of Christians; the other is full
OF Catholics. One nation is full of Ri.
bles; the other full Of tradition. The
Bible has made us to differ. Let US
thank God and keep it, and not only
keep it but study it, and fill our minds
and the minds Of our children With its
purifying and ennobling truths.--Jour.
nal Of Commerce.