The hydraulic press. (North San Juan, Nev. Co., Cal.) 1858-18??, 1858-10-30

Week after week, month after month, and
year after year, the Apostles of Christ, wher-
ever disseminated, are preaching to willing
or unwilling ears the precious doctrine of
future life and of salvation from eternal woe
by faith in the vicarious atonement.
There is no moment when, from some part
of earth, one of these spiritual warriors is
not battling for the conversion of sinners, or
ardently beseeching to that end the aid of
Omnipotence. At this instant-for it is the
Sabbath-what thousands are warning man
of the wrath to come, and calling on him to
repent what thousands, on their knees in
prayer, are passionately calling unto God
1t is strange thought, that this little plan
ct, one of the starry multitude that people
space, bears with it round the central sun so
loud chorus of imploring voices. Are they
smothered by the enveloping atmosphere that
clothes the globe in azure' Do the words
they syllable gravitate back to earth like me-
rest particles of matter? Who shall tell p
For eighteen hundred years these ministers
of grace" imbued with all-surviving faith,
have stormed high heaven with their prayers.
Ceaseless have been their pleading for our
race.
Through all these ages the best and great
est intellects have been devoted to the task Of
converting human souls. Through all these
ages what host have laid them down to die
that man might live The heights and depths
of human ability have been reached in search
of arguments to rouse mankind. Every az
peal has been in turn exhausted. The most
dreadful conceptions of endless torment have
been painted before the sinner to intimidate
licious scenes of infinite happiness. He'll,
with its never-dying flames, has yawned be-
meath his feet for eighteen centuries, and
paradise above him cleaned in irridiscent
hues through gates of gold. Religious zeal
fired by its heaven-appointed task, and wea-
ry of the slow success of spiritual means, has
even sought to save mankind by force-by
rack, and stake, and sword. All the ma
chinery that human power and invention
could bring to influence the will, has been
employed. There never was before so great
an effort made to any end. There could be
no other end to justify such an immense ag-
gregate Of long continued endeavor. The
human mind can conceive nothing else Of
such stupendous Importance as the salvation
of infinite beings from infinite torment,-no
thing so glorious as the raising of man to ev-
erlasting felicity in the companionship of De-
ity.
And all this unparalleled exertion with
which the ages have rung-what has it &C
complished Has it redeemed the world =
Doc universal love, and peace, and joy, now
stream around the globe 1T is a startling
thought, that the earth, clothed in silver ra
dance, flashing with out,eard starry splend-
or, is yet sable car of woe and bears thro'
space hideous freight of wickedness. Null
titudes have fallen, and are falling now, be-
yond the possibility of aught but endless
misery. The result is disproportioned to the
labor. We look around US, and instead of
saved rejoicing millions, see world of blank
indifference. Here and there little hand
full of believersar singing melancholy songs,