Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-01-19
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soothing moon, the ever gushing fp5s.
tains, the abundant haryests, The joyofls
birds and flowers, the falling deWs, the n
vigorating rain, the purifying voice lof
mighty thunders, a knowledge ef the win-
drous systems Of worlds had no argnnaets
in them to attest their Almighty reaass.
Accident chance, nothing, made all tllIssa
stnpendous, glorious, enduring, and exAel-
lent beings and blessings wonYeTs
unfathonable.
Forsaken indeed must the minds 81 HAese
Goddess philosophers be, forsakon tlla
Spirit of Grace and truth !; when a sese
wonderful works, these incstinable ouh
ties and blessings to our race, sFef
frightening and sprinsir s afp7t1 uss
ing and shining above gls. bot
savin i;ty into tifcii Iost, 1i,ssss II =
From their certain, deserved and awfuI
doom, may the blessed Spirit of grace and
love, forever shield those Of our weaker sex,
who have not yet imbibed their soul des-
troying poison.
The arguments employed by Mrs. Wood
byman in her last interview with her be-
loved disciple, exhibited somewhat the tone
Of her mind its darkness, its hardness, its
contentcdncss, its ignorance too of the
voice Of that very nature whose divinity she
acknowledged. Reasoning from analogy, as
she pretended to do, in the example she so
inaptly chose-of the hen and chickens,
there was no obligation on children to honor,
love, cherish, Or obey their parents, she had
not the light to see in this very hen and
chickens the voice of nature in support of
the goodness, and providence of Creator.
In truth she might see, by the light of her
own weak reason, that there was no fair
analogy in the instance adduced nor
would she be willing to admit the hen, on
an equality with herself in the scale of
being; being SO totally another, and in
tinitely y superior in order.
Another fundamental doctrine of our
holy religion is furnished by this very hen
and chickens, and the analogy runs through
the whole Of creation, had she the light to
see it-the doctrine of vicarious sacrifice
the suffering of one for another, of Gods
creatures.
The hen, created as other inferior ami
mails for the benefit and use of man, fulfilIs
her appointed part, to her offspring faith
fully and tendcrly, as long as they need her
f good offices, that done, she betakes herself
again to her appointed work, and rears
with the same divincly given wisdom and
care, another brood, for the use Of the lords
Of creation, man Gods peculiar care the
being most nearly allied to His own glori-
ous existence.
S The hen too, as the blessed Scriptures
assumes, furnishes figure of the goodnessA
s Iindness and tesqderne3 S.LssssoR,
ate care Of our HeaNeik I'D =
7 these things the enlightened phlios' p.
!, Woman's Rights was too blind to see
S But to any and every tribe, and cassts
untutored man-man in state of nature
e that nature she adored, let this unnatura
/ philosopher turn. What is the analogy
: there witnessed Is not the strictest, thu
+ profoundest, the most holy reverence de
e manded from the offspring to the parent
d and its failure furnished with the sevcres
=. laws, oftentimes with death itself?
Y Docs not this furnish an apt analogy IL
proof Of the obligation on the creature t.
e reverence and adore the great Creator q
d Surely has God chosen the weak things c
this world to confound the wise.
O (TO BE CONTINUED.)