The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-02-23
For the Grand Haven News.
THE WORLD AND CHRISTIANITY.

1
Although finite, hence of limited powers
and attributes, man will only cease max
ing discoveries when he has found in the
arcana of nature an analogy to every law
of his being. That all of these laws or
analogies are yet discovered, we are not
justified in supposing. But, that sufficient
of them are now known, if practiced by
all, to unite the nations in one great broth
erhood, and establish a millennial peace
we cannot deny, since the oceans may be
cabled, and the gospel of Jesus is spread
ing in all lands. Among the most pa
tent and potent, of the laws of mind, is
the necessity which every man finds in
every act and enterprise of his life, of hay
ing some object before him which he wish
es to gain.
What is true here of an individual, is
true of societies, communities and nations.
The man or the nation which has no high
and noble object for which it strives, will
sink into oblivion before the close of its
succeeding generation. BY the aid of this
principle we are able to solve some of the
most difficult problems. This alone will
account for the rapidly increased, and in
creasing light of the Gospel Dispensation.
Eighteen hundred years ago the Day
Star Of humanity arose over the hills of
Palestine. Before il darkness retreated
and disappeared. It's light shot athwart
this life into tho Valley of the Shadow of
Death, and lighted up its dark domain.
That world-before only guessed to be
then appeared all bright and beautiful,
shining with gems and jasper. To man.
kind it revealed future as endless as the
existence of Jehovah, and as glorious as
the home of the highest seraph. Soon
the world was all astir, stimulated by this
new excitant. The souls true destiny
was revealed, and its discovery thrilled
the race.
| That Star was not among the fixed
orbs. 1t took its course westward with
the sun, and shed its first light upon the
j years saWp4y pnQre. plastic nations. A few
over the hills of furthest Europe; nor did
il stop at the shore of old ocean. The
treasures of the "New World" were OPEN
cd to an amazed continent, and the un-
explored Atlantic soon blossomed with the
white sails of commerce. Another ma
ton threw its banner to the breeze, OH
f which was inscribed in characters of blood,
Liberty and Equality in the great Broth
erhood Of Humanity. From that day,
Onward has been the watch-word, and
, Upward the motto of the civilized world.
Inspired by that revelation, men have
since striven for their own elevation; God,
however, directed where the first move
ment should be made. 1t was not in the
Orient, where caste had sway, and man
was bound by superstition and devotion
to the gods; but in the West, where in
vestigation and enterprise had broken all
shackles, and disenthralled the mind.
In this was wisdom. Look at India,
and what the worlds own light, indie
independent of the gospel, can produce
when fully developed, is clearly seem
The world, without future life or Re
deemer, has, in six thousand years, pro-
duced India, Africa, China and Japan.
The Gospel, in less than two thousand
years, has produced Germany, England
and America. Its superiority and excel
lence need no illustration; the world sees
them, and cries more light. And now,
since it has passed its infantile days, and
has grown to the full strength and vigor
of manhood, it prepares for an attack up
on those institutions which have with
stood, defiant as the everlasting mountains,
the commissions of forty centuries. Will
it be victorious in the conflicts Will In
dia, that country which was the home Of
Eastern civilization, while Europe, now