Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-09-16

senger of God 10 the breast;"S If all this or any
portion Of it be truth, (and. who controyerts
little Of It y would in 7allsoberness and with
reverence inquire, with what element OF mans
SOUL beside conscience, cau the Holy Spirit so ef-
fectually communicate in His divine and saving
influences, and lead sinners back to their duteous
connection with their sovereign Lord and pleading
Redeemer? Think, Christian reader, Of the mo-
mentous value Of conscience-of a good con-
science! Yet b A. Crenshaw would disparage
the teachings Of this messenger Of God in the
breast"-tLis representative Of His holy WILL
He would hide under busheI or put ont this "can-
die of the Lord, searching all the inward parts.'
May the Holy-spirit lead ~him~into the light Of
truth and may hstnot be the instrument d mis-
'ss "Thsre Z hope of reformation" says Dr. Thorn.
well, Gas long ms the principles remain uncor-
rupted but when the light whch-is inps is con
verted into darkness, when lies.are greedily en-
braeed and errors deliberately justified, the gill
max OF guilt has been reached, the ruin OF the
character is complete, and the perdihon1o Of the
f,soul, without jstupendous miracle of grace,
seems to be Inevitable" ."-"From the intimate al
lance which subsists betwixt the understanding
and the conscience, speculative falsehood must be
fatal-to the integrity of morals! Hatwho tribes
with the constitution of his nature in those prima-
knowledge and philosophy-and error must be
ultimately traced to some, transsressier Of their
laws-is cherishing temper which shall soon
rise in rebellion aganst the authority ofconscehce,
and cxtnguish he only light that can convict him
Of crime. From the obseurity and confusion
which have been permitted to shroud the UNDER
standing, may be antici pated deeper gloom which
is soon to settle on the heart" make no appli-
cation Of these remarks of Dr.. ThornWell hope
that some, both old and young, may. regard
them as true and important
"The moral Eaw," says DR.. Tuloeb, els to US
nothing more thnn the revelation Of ths-higher or
divine Will 10 the soul We do not, therefore,
need to rise from it to God, for it is already the
yoice Of God rithin u.s. We are carried out Of our.
selves, so to speak, in the simple reality Of con-
science. The authority whicn, in conscience,
speaks to US is not merely something from which
| we may infer divine Power, but is ALREADY the
direct expression Of that po1er Il is not merely to
the, fact of divine Power that conscience testi-
fes, but eminently to The character Of that power
The moral law, which Il reveals, is not simply the
expression Of o supreme VIII, but Of VIII which
is tssentiaily good and rigAteoas It Is this in
truth, which gives all its force to conscience. 1t
is by the good alone that 1t governs. II is the
law Of goodness which asserts itself in the human
heart, under whatever violation, and holds itself
] sovereign, even when its kingdom has been in
vaded aud laid waste To this idea Of God above
man, claiming his obedience, we alone oVe ths very
conception Of duty. 1t is this which gives al it's
peculiar sacredness and beauty to human life
Apart from 1t man would merely be as the brutes
around him, with no nobleness Of piety IN his
heart, and no long suffering love mingliug ftspu-
rifying fires inhis lot 10 conscience, therefore,
we must recognize a peculiar testimony TO the
| divine goodness. As the organ Of duty, II IL in