The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-06-16
No. $50.

.ne condiuoned and the absolute, 1t were bettar
10 mark their dissimilarity as one, not of de
| gree, OUT rather OF kind. Space and time are
| 'hihgs SUI 9eneris, elements in the universe az
progressive beings. 1t is a vain question
why God did not create the universe millions
| ct centuries sooner ." how God was emnloved
| throughout the boundless cycles of duration
before the rise of things which do appear y
now can we affirm that time is separable from
| the inhabitants of time? The words ,chen and
| 0here have no more applicability to the abso.
| iute, than have the words npUard and docn-
| 'odrd to the stellar universe. Here. ain this
region OF inhnity, we have our existence :;
| whereby / mean that we exist in a certain man
| ner, by US called material existence The
| scheme, whatever it may be, is to us incompre.
hensible, and forever feeds the idea of space
to which idea it has given rise. And again
we nave our existence now, Eat this hour, in
eternity; whereby | mean that we have
reached certain place in the perpetual course
OF mite things, whose mutation is time Ont
OF chaos and night forever lifted, " round we
survey our sublime, immortal heritage. Blu,
'ohere we are, achen we are, ,rhof we are-tbese
are mysteries profound as the gulf from which
we arose
dreat Is the mystery of our being. Time
sweeps ON. The sun drsgs us through the uni
verse-whither, We know not. The fair face of
earth, LIT by the pomp Of day. watched in it's
siumoer by the stars IN their courses changes,
from age to age, its nations 1ourishing and
fading like the flowers of the field while bv
its thousand restless rivers, all the works of man
ana all the dust Of man, all the haryest.wavino
wales and pleasant wood-crowned hills, and
even the frames of the heaven-propping noun
tains, all this world and the glory Of it. are slow
" borne, by its thousand restless rivers. down
70 the mysterious deep" Interchangeable, save to
ITS wild waves play" and everlastingly suggest.
i've to man Of that Nature and that BeinS +" of
whom, and through whom, and 10 whom. are all
things" Occ,nryT
LORD SHAFTEsBURY ON THE AGGREssIoNs OF
AusrRiA.-Lord Shaftesbury, than whom no
noDieman exercises a greater influence among
certain classes, has addressed the following
note to the Record. The tone of it is strange,
ly In contrast with most of the late ministerial
speeches. and may be regarded as a kind of
manifesto to the religious public.
Sir: Sardinia having accepted the pronos;
tons made to her by England and Prussia,
the mediating Powers, and having exhibited
her iul Willingness for the maintenance of
peace, is to be basely and cruelty attacked by
the Emperor of Austria.
ION which side should be the homes and
prayers of the British people, there can be little
question. Sardinia has declared and proved
herself to be the defender of civil and RELIGIONS
liberty in Italy. She has rasd the Waldenses
from degradation and suffering, and planted
their church IN the principal places of Genoa
ana Iurin she permits the free preaching of
GODS Word In public and in private and
where on the Continent is the circulation of the
Scriptures so open, so wide, so countenanced
by the authorizes of tho Stata1 TO- ,ol;.,. ::
to resist the Entertainments of the Church of
Rome; nay, further, it is to seek, by all legiti-
mate means, the total abolition of the secnlar
power of the Papacy
Austria, on the contrary, is opposed to
everything great and good for the benefit of
Italy. If there be one thing that she hates
more than another, it is civil and religious lib
erty What human being or what sacred prin.
cipie IS she now endeavoring to rescue from
degradation and suffering? She is the chief.
her domnions can attest the bipotry or hef-t
rule while her rigorous prohibition to admit
the Scriptures and her despotic seizure of
whole depots in 1853, and the transportation of
their contents beyond the frontier, amidst as
the report says, 'the unavailing tears aud signs
of tens of thousands of the people, show that
she had no claim whatever on the sympathies
of the British nation.
In the deplorable absence of the Houses of
Parliament there can be no expression Of the
public voice But let US all, singly or unitedIy,
wherever and whenever we can, implore Al
mighty God that the nascent cause of truth
and justice, religion and piety,' may, by His
blessing speedily and universally prevail in
lands so long in thraldom to ignorance and OPP
preston.
81 am, sir, your obedient servant,
SHAFTEsBURY."