Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-12-08

with sleepless vigilance, "we have river the
streams whereof maketh glad the city of oul
God !" and with the thunder's peal would re.
utter, Righteousness exalteth nation but sin
is reproach to any people,"
History has no tongue TO speak out a clearer
demonstration of the text, than in our own re.
cord. Weir and Trumbull, have spread its Al
pha" and " Omega" with master hands on the
adornments of the nations walls. The Landing
of Columbus" the Embarkation of the Puri-
tans," the Baptism of Pocahontas," each and
all were oracuar. How symbolic of what we
shall vindicate is the latter, that christianity,
pure and undefed religion, in her principles
doctrines and ordinances, must baptize into
righteousness all human schemes Of either hopes
or faiths. Columbus seems to have been a second
Caleb, and Captain Standish and Others, very
Joshuas.
purposely pass from the recollections of the
extreme tortuous prosecutions, and other causes
of flight, of the pilgrim band. l suppress an
honest ndgnity at the matron-land of such pro-
cedure. charitably and forgivingly look upon
her mis-directed ZEAL and like the sons of patri-
archal sres, cover her nakedness by silence, and
with to.day's Cuban-se sepulchred dust, but then of
life. courage, and efficient activity, commit, in
Imagination. to the frai Mayfower, the hopes,
hazards and fortunes of that faith moved COM
pany.
Who that has read history, or heard its chroni-
cles can reasonably doubt our position i. e.
Christianity must bdptiZe into Righteousness all
human schemes, if success and glory would per-
manently crown their conceptions and compile
tions. All who would blot out the ,oritten avHI of
Heaven, are forced to admit the authority of the
Ler non Script, in their hearts. And if waste
aud barren Palestine, and the Orient paradise
land, speak not the clear demonstration of our
text. then the nations of higher civilization,
but of more recent existence, have fearfully
shown it true.
The Jewish nation, in its entire history, is a
perfect illustration and example of all succeeding
nations, complete transcript of the Divine con-
duct, in all similar cases. None need gaze on
the wide, antediuvan waste, or the smoking
ruins of the cities of the plains, to be sufficiently
convinced Of or impressed with, the fact, that
only obedience to Gods will will secure real and
enduring happiness in the present and future
states of being or that dire calamity, misery,
and destruction inevitably succeeds disobedience
and transgression.
AS turns the desert wanderer towards the flow
ing stream and the laden vines, so turn we to
the agencies and appliances for the acquisition of
Righteousness. If | say that the Bible is the
grand panacea for all the evils of mortal life, l
but utter what seems a truism, almost universally
accepted but if we leave the broad, generally
conceded fact to the particulars Included, we
shall still more and more love and cherish the
sublime truth. Standing at the very threshold
of mortal life, and first barrier against the en-
trance of Bible, philosophc or scientific TRUTH is
pitiable ignorance.
suppose it to be moral axiom, that a dffu-
sion of knowledge among all classes of society,
would dissipate the foolish superstitons and
false alarms which not unfrequently torture and
enslave the minds of men that pestlences and
accidents would frequently be prevented that
physical as well as moral science, mechanism and
art, inventions and discoveries. would all be ac-
intensiication of the views of the glorious attri-
butes and moral government of Deity that a
more extensive acquaintance with the evidences,
facts, and doctrine of the Divine revelation,
would promote present and future pleasure,
would unite and extend the peace and harmony
of nations, and herald the fulflmcnt Of the Sa-
viors prayer in the ear of the christian church,
the world over =" that they all may be one !;
thou, Father, art in me, and | in thee, that
they also may be one in us."-John XVII Il.
And in the full realization of our text, the Beth
leheman song" Peace on earth, good will to
men, would make vocal the whole earth.
Within the range of mind, or the compass of
vision, s there more sublime mission, or a
grander field, than is here presented, and among
the world of nations where, more needed work
to be done and where, more abundant appliances
with which to do it, than our own He hath
not dealt so with any nation" is most emphati-
ealy true of America.
But this work of the diffusion of knowledge,
christian baptized knowledge, pre-supposes labor
and expense and this the misanthrOpist will
loudly declaim against. Who is he Whoever
and wherever be be, who scruplcs and hesitates
to establish and sustain the school, press church,
and State. Nor is this quadruple interest dsin-
tegrated. Education, from the humble primary
class. up to the university, needs nay, must have
as her piuions, guard and propulsion, the press.
The church and state, must have both school and
press. The school iu its classifcations, is the
substratum, the garniture and furniture, to
great extent, of the other three. If it is not it
ought to be the delight and pleasure of every
citizen of our land, to willingly establish, and
diligently sustain, what is our nations glory
the common public school system-and in order
to furnish qualified instructors, the higher insti
tutions of learning must also be encouraged
and sustained. And in our common school
everywhere, | ask that the worlds great
xtbook-the Bible-shall have place. know