Litchfield enquirer., 1859-01-27

Temple, the place for the chief part of public lectures. to give my own ideas, and to exert whatever power had by my thoughts and by my feelings uron, such audience as pleased to come. If they were good men they needed me less if they were bad they needed me more. But either way, was responsible fer my own testimony, and for nothing more and this was not lent to Mir. Parker, but to the audience. Yet, whenever Theodore Parker does what is right and noble, if it were ross- ble for me to lend him anything. l would do it gladly. 1 have nothing to Iend however, but good will, and that never lend, but give free as Gods ,f 1
 But. it will be asked, will the public under stand youl position, and, however you may de- sisu it, will not the impression go abroad ei- tiler that you sympathize with iu6del views, or are indifferent 10 them? No. The public are just the ones who will not misunderstood There is formed and forming a moral judg ment in the intelligent part of community that popular Christianity heeds more love ill il. Men at large will be great deal more apt to say that have done more exemplary Christ ian act, in daring to avow all ethical sympathy with Theodore Parker, between whom and my self there exists an irreconcilable theological diff renee, than if I lad bombarded him for a whole year, and refused to touch his hand !
 What pitlul thing it is to see men, who have the chance Of saying what they believe, who do say it two hundred times year, who write it, speak it. and fight it who, by all thcir social afinities, by all their life work, by I'll their positive and most solemn testimonies, are placed beyond eptio'.-alwaysn nerv- ous lest they should sit down with somebody, or speak with somebody. or touch somebody, and so os: an immaculate repu at on for sound- ness Therefore Hi, n peep out from their sys- tens as prisoners in jail peep out of iron-barred windows hut dare not come ont for fear some sharp sh. If of the faith should arrest them.
 l we LeId Theodore Park.r's views, we should not Wait to have it iMferred. Men would hear it from onr lips, and hear it past all m s'ahi E. Aid we are not gon g at our time Iof life to gin to watch over our "amjsue ee';; to cut and trim OFT sentcEcrs lest some nous ing critic should bounce u,'on an inteiicity and draw rp7n suspicion. We have never sought influence, and we never shall seek it. Any that we lave now, came to Us because We went straight forward, doing whatever was right, ard always believing that lariag Heart was
 
 | aud accurate head. Neither is illfaiihie 1 Both make mistakes But the errors of the heart dissolve in the kindness Of mems natures as SHOW flakes dissolve in warm-bosomed lakes, while the errors of cold intellect pierce and stick like arrows If cannot make my peo pie understand ny belief in ffty-two Sabbaths Of the year, l shall not mend the matter by re- f:'sing to follow the generous sympathies of my heart.
 No. The common pec1fe will not misunder stand. Nor will practical Christian ministers. They may differ from my judgment but they will understand my deed It is only those pro- fessed defenders of tie faith, who, having erected suspicion tito Christian grace, lfrac- tice islander. as a Christian duty, that will be liable to mistake. And it makes 20 difference whether such men understand or not These men are like Aspen trees growing on rocks. In conceit and arrogance they gre hard us gra- nite, while they tresubIe all over like aspen leaves with perpetual fears and apprehensons of dismal mischief to'conle
 When Theodore Parker appears in his rep resentative character as theologian, l am ir- recoucilabiy opposed to him as it is possible to be. The things that are dear to him, are cheerless and unsreHkabIy sorrowful and mourn ful to me. The things which are the very cen tre of my life, the inspiration of my existence, the glory of my thought and the strength of my ministry, are to him but very little. differ from him in fact, in theory, in statement, ill doctrine, in system, in hope or expectation, liv ing or dying, laborng CT restiug-in theology we are separate and irreconcllable.
 Could Theodore Parker worship my God ? Christ Jesus is his name All that there is of God to me is bound up in that name. A dim and shadowy efiuence rises from Christ, and that am taught to call the Rather. A yet more tenuous and invisible fih of thought arises, and that is the Holy Spait. But nei- the ther are to me a0glt tangible testial accessi- 1 They are to be revealed to lay knowledge hereafter, but now only to my faith. But Christ stands my manifest God. All that know is of him, and in him. put my soul into his arms, as, when was born, my father put me into my mothers arms l draw all my life from him. l bear him in my thoughts hourly, as humbly believe that he also bears ne. For do truly believe that we love each other !-I, speck, a particle, nothing, on- y mere beginning of something that is glo- r.ously yet to be when the, warmth of Gods bosom shall have been summer for my growth ;-and He, the Wonderful, Counsellor, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace And this Redeemer of the world, this Say four of sinners, l accept, not only as my guide, my friend, my deliverer, but as an ato- hing God, who bore my sins upon the cross, and delivered me from their penalty. And, since my life is spared to me by him, I give to hm that life again. This hope of Christ is the staff of my ministry. First, highest, and ill measure beyond all other things, I preach Jesus Christ. And all other topics are but arrows shot out of this divine bow. And this has been so for twenty years, eleven of which 1 have labcred in Brooklyn. Aud yet the Examiner is pleased to reproach me, as if, against the sweep of my life, and the current and testimony of mx heinsr bod to