Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-03-31

nankind-spenetfalte intos every circle, alt
branches of society, and forms the most sue
cessfui barrier with which the agcntsof evil
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Natural Evidences of the Truth Of
'a THp1l Revealed Religion. Z
Edward Everett in his eloquent adiress
reccnfiy delivered before the Agricultural
Society at Buffalo, said ~
A celebrated skeptical pbilosopher Of. the
last centnry-the historian Hurne7-thotIght
to demolish the credibility of Christian Rev
elation by the concise argtHnent a1t is con-
trary to experience thata miracle should be
true, but not contrary t9.experiencc thatstes-
timouy shouIdbe false.' Tic last part Of
the proposition, especially inaafrec county,
on theeee Of ar6pular election, is uhliappi-
.ly, too well founded; but in what book
worms dusty cell, itapcstried with the cob
webs Of ages, wliereStho light Of real life
and nature never forced its way-4in' what
Lpedanes school, where the deaf cars listen to
dumb lips, and blind followers are led by
blind sridcs--tiid he learn that it itisseonttary
to experience that a miracle should be true 2
Most certainly he never learned It from sow
Per or reaper-froni dumb animals or rational
man connected with husbandry Poor Red
Jacket, off here on Buffalo Creek. il he could
have eompreliended tire terms Of the propo-
sition, would have treated Il with scofh.-
Contrary TO experience Chat. phenomena
should exist which we cannot trace to causes
perccptiblc to the human sense, or conceiva-
bic by human tliought1 IL would be much
nearer the truth to say that within the hus-
bandman's experience there are no phenome-
ma which can be nationally traced to any
thing but the instant energy of creative pow
er. ''. f''1- '~' t"@ '~ go
Did this philosopher ever contemplate the
landscape at the close e.of :he year, when seeds,
and grain and fruit have ripened, and stalks
have whithcred, and lcavcs have fallen, and
winter has forced his icy curb even into the
roaring jaws of Niagara, and slieeted half a
continent in glittering STROUD, and lall this
teelning vegetation and organized life are
locked in cold and marble obstruction; and
after week upon week and month upon
month have swept, with sieet and chilly rain,
and bowling storm, over the earth, and rv-
etcd' their crystal bolts upon the door 6f ma
ture's sepulchre when the sun at length be-
| gins to wheel iniiighcr circles through the
tsky, and softer winds 70 breathe over melting
snow did he ever behold the long hidden
earth at length appear, and soon tile tinid
grass, peep forth, and anon Autunnal wheat
1 begin "a pair tlc field and velvet leaflets to
/ burst from purple buds, throughout the re-
fyiying forest and then the mellow soil to
opcnits fruitful bosom to every grain and
seed dropped from the planters land buried
but to spring up again clothed with new
mysterious being and then. as more fervid
suns 6llame the air, and eoftcr. showers dis
til from the clouds, aud gentler dews string
their peals on twig and tepdril, did he ever
watch the ripeiiing grain and fruit, pendant
from stllk, and. vino, and tree the meadow,
| the field, the pasture, the grove, each after
his kind arrayed in lnyriad-tinted garments,
instil. c. with cir uIating hfe-scven millions
Of counted leaves on a single tree, each of
which is system whose exquisite cotnphca-
tion puts to shame the shrewdest cunning of
the human band;, every planted seed and
grain, which had been loaned to the earth,
compounding its ptous usury Thirty, sixty,
and hundred fold-all harm oniously adapted
| to the sustenance of living nature-thc bread
of a hungry world; here a titled cornfeld,
whose yellow blades are nodding with tho
food of man there an implanted wilderness
the great Fathers farm-where he "who
hears the ravens cry has cultivated, with
his own hand, his inerciful crop OF. berries,
and nuts, and acorns, and seeds, for the hum
bier families Of animated nature the solenfh'
elephant, the browsing deer, the wild pigeon,
whose fluttering caravan. darkens the sky -
the merry squirrel, who bounds from branch
to branch, in the joy OF his little life;. has
he seen all this, does he sce'it every. year and
month and day, does he live and move and
breathe. and, think, in this atmosphere of
wonder himself the greatest wonder Of all,
whose smallest fibre and faintest pulsation is
as much a mystery as TIE blazing glories of
orion's belt-and docs he stilr maintain that
a miracle is contrary to, expcricncc?, If he
has, and il lie doee,. then let him 60, in the
name of Heaven, aud that it is contrary to
experience that the august Power which
turns the cIods Of the earth into the daily
bread of thousand millions souls could feed
five thousand in the yyilderuesei