New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-18

being 80 great - - that . Greatness s'nk iato
rothnr befu. Hunt Be.s year foolish heart, 40
but only 60 grea,-"t tia; We SCARCITY SEKD '-n
Mt ths ri.h - ,,iey 10 sAs trrc fYs4i'toE' Ja'f
.aN,d 10 sinh al isai ., 5slov Hi1. ard "a called
" EGt9re, into COM Grgt,re nsyUihcanoe.' Ani "ao
are these {" free populat M thst se thus Necessary
TO exc out the comparstiv. supsro'y Of G'd to 81
rur.' They sre men Gods own Great ire'. BIZ
yea reasonably ak GOis Owa creatures
as lot sepw Hin sso, AZ! sh.;Aer via
any prfpriety 81 speech they b. ssh ., auPify
TIE Creators perfection DR.. reptile, ia substance,
that GoJ's creatures we're decidedly belos HIa unt4
thy were created but thss alter ths: evoot winch
clearly they could oct hep hey became in all respects
coordinate powers AMI Personsses, consciously s1-
=" Ier.or 10 uaure, Streaming into Il IN eurrsI.t' %
4" causabfy iron. Ae@se!re', subdnng il, developing
-" III secret as-, FiRsr c.ts,s AL, IN sense aud
"srElScs ofsciOn SIDE ny siDK WITH I'M CREAToR.
THUS the Doctors meaning is very plap. CD"
very gres, "a amse and greatly superior 10 nature,
bot sssoci.,ei with innumersbe numbsr OF ohsr
Gods lac ourselves, His grandeur - toSers IS TO
make us,urs t,uy ashamed OF berself lie does not,
ipc,e6 rsl n. Gods bat what better. be proves no
80 FOR al We noets Of mep and porers snd God TIE
Lord ofthe,e hosts Ar. al alike "cspsbl. c1.fcssr,
society, duty love, CREATORS AL, N seose, Of
things st otherwise could be, FIRST CAUSES
" all II ti,ir orn dG, aai dolSgs, abe n aiorn
" VIA. is and cOriTive wat is rot God Himself
il. 20 be regarded simply, as tse arctdted Poser a.
",be head Of HIS immense fairly dpo.ers, al per-
4" fd a. g0od or elss 10 Be perfected UNDrR oNE LAW
"ibe ,t.Iual Necessary imuut,bls lac ofr'gM ls~
which God 6ist Of all ACCEPT, HIMSELF, race H'
"oc. character fbeauty and true and eres IA ,cy
=, 5ose5 and which, therefore he ordsins for AL TO
GER THE CONDITION or TuIIR cuiRAcrEK A. or nis
owS" Page 50 see also 2Gi. fanny after rssdsg
tbose ps,.ases 60 re.kpg sth ssAoic pride have say
doubt a. TO Whist the old serpent meant, wren he sad
" It ,laR be as gods kSowISo GOOD AND EVtL,'
shoni think nm rather dull Of understanding. Ii 80,
let him read smother passage. p.ges 956 in which Dr..
BushIe ell undertakes TO explain Why God crested Tea
moral seeing that they thus liable to wrong and
misery lie will then ind the reason 10 he thst God
loves CHARACTER" s,d IN comparison with tots
car,s for pobirg che. In bcsto -ipg msn ths,s-
" fore The FERROUS CAPACITY OF CHARACTER, He
6esto.s the HIGHEST POSSIBILITY or WEALTH AND
"eLoRr, capacity to know, to love To enjoy, 70 be
"coSsCIoUSLY GREAT And RLxssED ~ rHk rAHri-
"crr,rIoN OF HIS ows pWISi1rA And cH,RAcrth II
ever humsn pOmponty got adequate ut'eraooe before
in speech of this seriousness, If ever before svses
itself Ou TO sucn Divine diner sious ling the urverse
With its own hasulenco, a5d flashing tls wsrmest
spiritual life AMI meaning through that old symbolic
Capitalization in Eden, | an uasbls 70 imagin. the
occasion Surely, DR. Bu-hnells thought Is Do~ ain.
II IT, thst men by virtue OF thoir moral force, By vitae
of their dieting this deadly tree of the knowledge OF
good and owl realize life and not death or, what lie
the .eme thing become gods not only in ibeir ~n
foolish ia agiraiiou, but in Gods righteous Judgment
alio; and hence, that they and God constitute To-
getber sort Of mutual admiration society, which shall
nsyer know any end tder insane reciprocal rsyish-
nerts
Bnt a. yet we have only pesped into the gbsitly
chamber OF horrors which tbs able bat peryer'e book
duooses to the pbilo-opbic gaze Doctor BdssRsirs
most sudsc0us view Of the origin OF evil renars to
be cabvasd and it will be seen TO refer tsef directly
to this morsstic and degrading conception be sntsr-
tans Of the Divine perfectioh For II God bo moral
being being under lsW q. we are, whose character
10 conditioned upon his obedierce TO law, bang
shaped by it," being built up by His ready and per-
feet homsge 10 IL He must be az least capable Of vio
siir it-e0gaJl Of doing wrong just irs any ono Of
his creatures lie may not actually do wrong, and, in
deed, does not, TO al eternity but this capacity
10 DO 20 oanro be aid aside. constitutes bal POS
"sIBnI1Y that euvrons Hin from eternity" aud
NUT if lie create sfeAlm of powers, by prior aad
eternal certainty" issue in heir outbreak in evil.
Such 10 Dr. Bushn.ls marvellous discovery Of the true
source of all our eyiS. II is this latent capacity Of
evil which, according TO the moral Hypothesis Of tbs
Divine nature 10 insepar.bs from God; tois bad
"PosrEuirr which environ, Him from eternity,
and which His own urswervipg vbtue forever keeps
in the state Of a possibility only thai becomes
actual or patent 10 the creature so, according 70 Dr.
Bushnell, constituting the origin Of hell The afro
cious dootr.Le 10 so eIqulsitely jumblsdi 90
much more is limited to the Imagination than
il fairly propounied TO the sense the arch inposture
30 bsdzzeus ise here and ttcre with the shrsts Ard
patches Of ackno We'd god truth that tue CONSCIENTIOUS
inquirer is for long time unafectedly puzzled ~ to
what the author doe. mean; but a. l,st ;hs tGbd
stream runs clear, and we have q doctrine Of evil
which iar shear, unuiXed, intellectual eudscty, out
stips sysytbiIg yet hsEaIdsd il literary history 1t
is doctrine which turns crestion into mere con-
trvsnos GOa's part for getting nd OF, By
overcoming, certain possibility or capacity OF
evil in His own mature thus slcyat,ng -
tan into 6 convenient conductor by which the
p,nt-up "IyII THAT ySVlEOSs Con FROM ALL ErIr-
SItr Is ssfsy led OF aud discharged in tue conmos
earth OF human nature Here 10 the theory in the
authors own words, psgs l37: Satan 10 thsn bod
POSSIBILITY, ,ie,naly eyi'ting prior 10 tie "o,lGI
'ey>a,on becoming emerging there into bad &C.
iualfg rh,eh Il - tAe pyotkm NJ Jehoraks GocerH-
"H,at 10 Hasfer. For il has been I'VE PLAN ~ Con,
"IS THF CREATION And TR,ISIsG ~ rHE POWERS, 10
"t0 Jriag them on as finally 10 raHqGssh he BAD Pos
"slBILirr OR NECESSITY l!i!J THAT nSVfroSrD HIN
BfroGE rnz WORLD wfHE SiDE; 80 TO Greats ssd
",u1agste. OF by bis love regerersis TIE BAD 'o"-
"Trs LousxSED Br Bis ACT or CEt4riOs, ~ ~ nave
them IN eternal dominion"
Nothug can be more reUorselessly explicit. Cres
81; f.r frl I'D isir lr leoexnlert nnerA % a. haze