The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-07-07

by precept, by example, and by authority
restr lined the Jews from the worship of false
Gods. to which they were ever prone; but
the Kings, so far from restraining them, Of
ten led the way to idolitrous worship.
Again, in the Mosaic times the sins ofmer
were amply atoned for by the blood Of Bulls
and Goats. Since the advent of Christ, God
repels such sacrifice; the sacrifice now re.
quired is richer far: the sacrifice of the heart
new heart and new spirit: faith in Christ
and obedience to his Gospel. Between these
two religions there is scarcely any feature in
common; the one is all external and cere.
monial, and all who were not unclean or mu
tilated might enter into the covenant; the
other is emphaticaly new birth; a regene.
ration of the heart; and disease or wounds
form no bar to communion with Christ.
1t is the opinion of the most learned and
eminent Christians that as Moses has nc
where distinctly taught the doctrine of the
souls immortality, the entering into, or ex,
clusion rom, the Congregation" decided
the condition Of each individual after death
Let us now see in what manner the true re.
ligions deal with two individuals under the
same circumstances. In Deut. XII we find
that persen who, in peculiar man.
ner, is mutilated, can nerer enter into the
congregation Of the Lord. A person of ille-
gitimate birth is also excluded from the con-
gregation, and his children also, even until
the tenth generation. These persons un-
doubtedly were not within the covenant, and
the Jewish dispensation pre- sentcd no hope
beyond the grave. How does Christianity
deal with this class of men ?-are they re-
PEELED when they approach the Mercy Seat ?
We find in Acts VIII that the Angel OF the
Lord specially commanded Phillip to go into
the chariot with an eunuch; Phillip obeyed,
preached to him, and baptised him. Now,
be it remembered this eunuch was one of the
very class which the Mosaic law exco'nmuni-
Gated forever. From comparison of the
mode in which these two case are disposed, it
will readily be seen that if we hold the
Christian religion to be true, ami at the same
time rigidly adhere to the doctrine that "God
never changes" we shall be forced to admit
that the Mosaic dispensation is not of Divine
origin at ALL Dealing, as the two systems
often do, very differently with cases pre-
cisely alike; they cannot be an emanation
of one mind if that mind must travel only in
the narrow circle which pro-slavery CON-
mands. The Christian will see that Infdel-
ty achieves no such triumph as that. The
praying, hoping, trusting Christian will new
by the advocates Of slavery of half its beams
Of glory, the unity and Diviness of its au-
thorS.
conceive that Mr.. Taunton hit the vital
point when he said or intimated, that the
very name given to the Bible (old and new
Testaments) was standing and perpetual
reply to the new theory; this is so or the
Christian world have for eighteen hundred
years been ignorant of ths very name of that
Book which preserves and transmits 'gla,'
tidings of great joy"
am perfectly aware that we read 'God
changes not" at the same time we find
marked and manifold instances in which he
has changed, which forces us into the be-
lief that the attribute of unchangableness
refers to great fundamental lans-laws
which it is, probably, not given us to
comprehend leaving himself free to work
out the operation of these laws by such
varied modes as to him may seem fit We
are bound to admit this solution. or drift
at once upon the qmck-sands of infidelity.
As see no prospect of my getting up
on the fence again, | can no longer prop
erly retain my old signature, but shall in
future subscribe myselfa a#
REPUBLICAN,.