Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-03-25
From tae N,1-n;ar Har,iuo-r.


The popular belief or opinion entertained
| of sptzlts and miracles constitutes positive
proof of Divine revelation. Reason ritliosa
imagination create nothing, or should any one
prefer another formula of this idea, such as,
reason has creative posce,. we will not demur.
And, perhaps. it is equally true that imagina-
ton cannot literally orStruly create anything.
| It's materials of operation are not supplied by
| its own power or providence. Give it materi-
ais and it can fashion and mould them indefi-
nitely. An image always implies previous
positive entity or existence. 1t could not
make nothing the parent of something, any
more than it could create a sun, a moon, or a
STAR Reason compares entities, but it cannot
compare non-entities. 1t must, too, have
plurality of entities before it can institute a
comparison. These are incontrovertible facts
or principles which cannot be overthrow or
falsified.
The Drama of Creation reported by Moses is,
therefore, incontrovertible. Creation implies
a creator and creature. The human mind
can repose on nothing else. Each of these
terms implies the other. There could not be a
creator without creature, nor creature
without creator. The first chapter of Cen
esis is wholly incontrovertible. The highest
reason, and the most fruitful Imagination can
not entertain one objection to it. 1t is, there
fore, superlatively Godlike. 1t gives to man
in his origin transcendant glory. He is
personality. Every thing reported in the
drama of creation is infinitely worthy of the
highest conception possible of the grandeur
and majesty of God. So much so. that no
sage, no philosopher, no Jew, no Gentle, of
any school. has ever found one rational OBJ
lection to it. No imagination has ever con-
ceived wherein, in any one point, it could
have been improved.
There is not an automaton in all creation.
Wbaro thn,.n &c, N,trilI fl,ora Sc Wn
talk and write of material pTin,na mobile.
1t is chimera of a disordered brain. All
| true and real power. in its original and true
| conception, is found in nil. Hence the pro-
priety of the word fGt-fat her. % Lei there be
light, and light was or light began But the
| Identical will that commanded it into being
continues it in being; and what is true of
it is true of every other creature or creation
| in the universe. This is the only true and re-
al pillow for an aching head. The prtn,ttm
mobile is the perpaIntm mobile of the universe.
| Or, in other words, the same aciH that created
| the universe continues, and uphOlds it. This
! is just as true an Oracle as that man ''lives
and moves and has his being" in and by God.
| There is nothing above him, beneath him, or
| beyond him who inhabits eternity and who
| fills immensely. Reason, all true reason, re-
poses upon this pillow, and upon none else.
| Paul, in Athens, affrms this grand oracle en-
auto gar zOmep. hH kinOumetha kan esnlen. - In
him, or by him. we live and move, and have
our being" for we his offspring Areas
Aretas, Grecian poet sang-tou gar kan genes
| esmlen.
Christianity is wholly supernatural and Di-
vine. No man or angel ever had capacity or
knowledge adequate to its conception or in
ventiOn. 1t is - no cunningly devised fable"
for one good and impregnable reason man
had genius imagination erUdihon 10 conceive and
execute, or create ii. Its claims, its moral and
spiritual power has brought to their knees
the Newtons, the Lockes, the Bacons the Mil
| tons. the Youngs, the Luthers, the Calvins,
the Washingtons, the BrOughams. the Jetireys,
the Jenyns, the Maculays, of European and
American fame. The martyred legiOns of
Asiatic and European story are immortal wit
nesses of its eternal truth and divine authen-
ITCHY
But it is no mere theory. no pure philoso-
ply. 1t is Divine life seated in the heart of
man that transforms his heart, his spirit, his
! life, creating him a son of God, and heir of
| glorious immortality, and fitting him for an
| eternal life-for an inheritance incorruptible
undefiled and unfading the throne of God.
A. c.