Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-08-14
JOHN RANDOLPH AND INFI-
EitaI ita Y DELf4Y. a ae f

stta4i 3ta 4 DELf9Y. Hj g ee
A letter from tie celebrated John Ran
'lolPh, Of Roanoke, was published in the
Washington ,fnion some fine since, which
contained the following altusioa to his own
case, he lad been 40 iinfdel,aha had1suf-
tered intolerab,e misery, and hscn fuvolted
in gross darkness sader that state Of mind.
At ienght the losing 6fhis mother Shook his
whole aatare. lie says ~ s''t.i
81 remember to have seen her DIE TO
have followed her to Tie grave; 10 have won
dered that the sun continued to rise ana set,
and the order of nature 60 on Jgrorsnt
Of true religion, but not yet af tbeist, I
remembered with horror my impieus Expos
tulations with God upon tbIs tafeavement
-'but not yet an Atheist Tie existence
of Atheism has been denied, but I was an
honest one. Hume began and finished me-
read Spinoza ard all the tribe. Surely
fell BY no ignoble hand. And the very alaa
who gave me 'Hume's Essay upon Human
NATURE to read, a6ministefed ,Beattie Hpon
TRUTH as the ahtidote- Venice treacle
against arsenic, and the essential oil of Bit
alinonds-a bread and milk pl ultiee for
the bite,af the GobrasCopello. Had re-
nained % successful political leader, ! might
never hhVo been Ghristian.-Bati il pleas
edoGod that my pride should be mqrtifed /;
that by, death and dosertioE. | should lose
my friends, tAat, except in the veins Of a
msniae. and he, too, possessed .of aehild by
a deaf and dumb spirit there should noJ
run drop of py fathers blood in any
creature besides myself. The death Of Tu-
dor finished my humiliation. | tried all
things but the refuge Of Christ, and 10 that,
with parental stripes, | was ren.-0ften
did / cry out, with the father of that wretch
ed boy, Lord, | believe; help thou by an
beliof' and the gracious mercy ef our Lord
to this wavering faith, staggered under the
force Of tie hard heart Of unbelief, lhuubIy
hoped would, in his good time, extended to
me also St. Mark vii. II 20. Throw
Revelation aside, and | can drive aLy man
by irresistible induction to atheism. John
Marshall could net resit me. When say
any man, | mean any man capable of logi-
cal andsconseq uential reasoning Deism is
the refuge of those who startle at Atheism
and cannct believe in Revelation; and my
--tmay God forgive Us both] and myself
used, with Didoret & Co, to laugh at the
deisiical bigets who must have Eilk not be-
lug able to digest nest. All iheism is de-
rived from Revelation-tha of the laws
confessedly. Onr own Is from the same
source; SO is ahe false revelation Of Mahom-
et--and I,eapnot blame the larks for con
sidering the Flanks and Greeks to be ilolp7
tiers. Iacfrt -
s"Evcry other idea Of one God, tina, ,foats,
in tho world, is derived from the tradition
of. the sons of Npah, handed down, to their
posterity. But enoush-more than enough.
/ can scarcely guide my pen. I viii add,
however, that no lukcwarln seeker ever be-
came real Christian, for, sfrom the day
of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom
of heaven sufieretll violence, and the violent
take Thy force, text I read FIVE hundred
times before had the Slightest conceptions
of its application, a