Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1858-06-22
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matters an IDdileUa5fe one
By inalienable, we mean. what the proper
dignity of our patures, our manhood, requires
should be conserved to each and every one IN
tact This question VIII be decided different
ly by different persons. according TO that where
in they make mans dignity to lie.
Some make up-ishness,' in matters of spec /
ulatlve opinion, that is to say. the insisting up
scientific evidence always, the Tho nas-like /
call for actual. palpable demonstration, the APP
plication to the full, AMI always. of the maxim,
'sc apparertbnS ct eriste7tib,ss eaa est
ratio things that do not appear, anywise are
rightly accounted non-entities-to be the manly
use OF our minds others find most eoinplaceney
in Pyrhonism.or literally the profession ofknow-
nothing-ism others, like to be known as free
inquirers they would their minds might ever
be upon the hunt after the true and substantial
in contraiisiinct!on to the Elusive and evanes-
cent they believe that II is the proper life Of
the mind to hunt, 10 discriminate, to prove
all things holding fast that which is good" this
( with them is nanlness others, make it, that
the lifelong habit of passive implicit, unreason-
ing, obsequious yeneration for the oldest if pos
sible the patriarchal way Of thinking and speak
ing of such high subjects Difference to anti
guilty. as being best adviser about them; fol-
lowing the early parchments; inquiring in all
cases, only for the old paths, Is the true wisdom
These may, without offence, be denomiuated the
self-abnegating class the class, V no have, for
wise ends, put out " their inquisitiyeness.-
The advantage which these last claim for them
selves is that they need never differ among each
other; because they give their minds nothing to
inquire differ about the bond Of their union
is not affair Of the inquistive, and reasoning
faculties it Is 4 matter OF emotion, OF reverence,
merely.
| They say too, and. Logically, that this intel
lectual self abnegation, is TIE indispensable
dition of any large body of minds continuing
| uniteu, on any subject; that otherwise, they are
doomed, inevitably, to be sub-diyided into
schools and isms, aa infaatm that 4" in the
| churches, this has led on, at last, brigham
| Young" And hence, ) their idea of the high
est dignity, the utmost perfection, the proper
christianity of the race. conten plates them as
being,of one doctrinal stripe, the world round in
words of holy writ, one God one faith, one
/ baptism they logically conclude that no 9TH
err than theirs be the ordained model of the
! Church Universal, any other body must have
/ the elements of schism in ii and hence not be
the Church. They start, it viii be observed,
with the assumption that twas divinely ordered
that men should all think alike upon the subject
| of theology. They do not discuss this point,
it Is regarded as sclf-evident or at least as not
to be questioned by Christians
l have doubted myself if it be self-cvident
There Is truth more sure, 40 dictum more
certainly divine, than that the Creative Power
has had pleasure, $50 to speak, in endless va
/ riety, throughout all the realms of being. The
watchword, " all of 4 stripe there is not an
indication, or 4 lisp of it, anyhow, in all nature
Universal Harmony is but the dream of
poets; universal flat the world over, would
not be more, chimera. 1t is not necessarily
/ to be presumed that sameuess of belief with
regard to the proper treatment of diseases-that
very important branch of Acknowledgements in
the plan of creation why more so, that a same
ness of belief with respect OF the concerns of
mems souls was? How does it appear, but that
manifold variety is diyinely ordered in the
/ one case, as well rs in the other For my part
l believe infinite variety has been Natures
programme, everywhese,i in mind As we'll as mat
/ ter
The point IS made, however, or attempted
% he made, in another way. The schedule or
plan Of the Church, it is said, is not to be look
Ell tor IN mems priorj notions of the order of
Providence, such rs have been expressed above
bat in the black and white of the Churchs re
cord, or organic act, the Bible and there we
have it from the Head of the Church, that, his
prayer Is, tnat it may be a unit, as truly rs a
vine and its branches are" that they may be
one even rs we are one"
Ireply, that all through our Sa7iour's day the
scope of gospel minstrations throughout the
world, was bat very scantily recognized De
ny, who can Witness such expressions as the
! following: Go not DC, for I ana not sent but
unto the lost sheep of the House OF IsraeI. -
Passages having like implication might lie null
tiplied. I; is not too much to say tha; the plan
of the Church waited TO be uufoldcd at a day
subsequent to Christ's time.
On the other hand we do know that in old
/ Testament times a less ezacJing spirit prevailed
Instances Of this may be found Judges, l Chan.
/ ~ Y, Ibid, Chap, % Y, and II Chap, 81 Y.
See traces of the same in the \. T. g =. Matt
/ -. Chap, 20, y w. The uHreprored Iaxitv of
The syrian Naaman,is another instance in point.
And IN fact, to the minds of many. the doctrine Of
divine partiality, commonly known - the doc
uIne OF election. seems predicated upon the same
presumption il: that they, the house of Israel.
IN the larger, or the more restricted sense Of
those words, are alone JehovsL's. proper care !
The passage in l Kings, Is Chap, "a v Ito 90
back to the Older scriptare) admitted as it is to
the dignity OF place in The sacred record. must
be held to carry with it The implication that the
gods of the heather. however inferior e Tebo-
YAH were yet held TO be disiantly comparable to
him and the way of showing his superiority
was-a Try and and the making indeed
-imPortantresuits,s seriously to hinge upon the
strife OF the two respectively 9 if the Lord be
God, follow him but if Baal follow him"
This o. 7. argument is entitled to the benefit +