Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-03-04
ILMINGToN. TUESDAY. MARCH A, 1862

Z HOnOf Ill lntlf uOulnbs llllh HollV sh"''
he my solace, and l will know no baser
Joy than its prospective fulGlmont shall
bring. A wider prospect this, We admit,
and vision that pierces further; but the
prospect is stil tie iOorid, the vision is
still murky with the smoke OF selfish torres.
The man secs not in DiUiRe ends Of use,
and his will rests not in humble submis-
sion to the will of God. Is the tiger less
blood-thirsty than the fox, because he
chooses nobler victims, is clad with more
agile and stronger body, and springs with
deadlier certainty upon his prey Is the
eagle less q bird of carrion than the crows
because he rises to sublimer heights, with
more certain vision scans wider field,
and sweeps more swiftly to the unclean
repast But even this does not exhaust
the frame work of human ingenuity. The
man of letters sees this defect in human
nature, when he has become familiar with
its Workings, and has acquired the ability
to reason upwards from facts to general
laws. lie calls these sighings for great
ness in a worldly sense by their proper
name; the pride, the vanity of man OF
course then, since he sees its character,
he will avoid it, he will be philosopher.
AT safe distance from the scene of strife
he will yegetate and repOse in its contem-
plation No sound of disaster shall dis
turb the quiet of his meditat;ons; nor
shall the inprudent sympathies of the
martyr drag him into the daa gers of the
battle. To him, rearon is thc sovereign
good, the palacea and the end Of life.
But looking at his purposes, wherein does
his defence of self differ from that Of other
men He fortifes self-love and sclt-in-
tercst by reason another by power /;
another by social position; another by
sensual passions; another by gold. The
means are different, the end is the same.
But philosopher, and sensualist, and
worldling, and inverted selfshness aside
Gods Prophets and Apostles, baptized
with his spirit, are the only men who have
ever dared to tell us what all these things
are, and where all these things come from
and whittier they all go. They are the
only men who have had the courage,
given from on high, to break the
hollow truce of selfish peace which
keeps back true peace from man
and man from the Lord, and to throw
wide open the chambers of imagery in
the unregenerate heart, revealing all its
denominations, They are the only men
who have had the wisdom and the strength
to resist all the powers of evil which fes-
ter in the daily lives of men, and shut
close their lips till they dare not uttel
what they know to be true, and dare moi
, condemn what they know to be Internal il
its tsnature, even when their duty to the LORD
, and man requires it Of them which Close
, their understandings till they cannot dis
, Germ their spiritual right hand from theil
! left, nor distinguish between the sheer
and the goats which close their hearts
until they cannot feel when great wrong
is done, good affection crushed, pro
phetie love stricken down in the bosom
, /. its solemn voice hushed forever; till the,
cannut feel when the life that is 'mor
. . than meat" is being sacrificed TO selfinter
I est, and to short temporal triumphs
They are the only men who could hay,
I I had the power and the courage to ignor,
everything but their duty to the Divin
. Master, and in opposition to all tn
> fallacies that encrust the natura
man, to proclaim the truth tina
Il the proper life of man is eternal
. . religious, spiritual; and that the Lor
; himself, with the balances Of infinite justic
J. in His hand is mt the bottom of it all
u working every human problem to its onl
> possible solution. The natural man think
!, that it only requires the concentration q
u y selfderived energies, and the acutenes
q of selfish thought, to enable him to shir
the trials of life, and to accomplish all hi
z own ends. "Treat the world well, say
y y he, "and it will repay you for all you
q trouble. Conquer it, and it will worshi
e you" Not so the prophets; Gods Low
u and wisdom, say they, have fixed thei
y boundaries, the outer circle beyond whic
y they never pass, in the regions of eterni
&c use TO that use, in its in6nitude Of forms
the highest angels and the weakest mel
Q are servants torevermore. The demand
} of that service may be resisted for a time
e and hedging himself about by every avail
l. able arti6ce, the man may hide from other
. and even from himself, temporarily, th
u deep desolation that self-love is working OF
e in the spiritual substance of his being
u But the laws of use, its peace, its loves, il
1t Joys, being established in the omnipoten
= must finally prevail; and no human bein
6, snail escape their jurisdiction.
II All must serve the Lord at last fire.
III ", led by the internal loves which goveI
sr in the heavens or in slavery, ruled /
Ct the external laws, which keep order
"a the hells. The truths of heaven are IL
'e wisdom of the spiritual man in heave
, and of that same man on earth. The iii
20 of heaven, which is the love of doing goo
Is in its outward activities, is the life of ii
CT spiritual man in heaven and upon Il
earth-so far as that life is possible to h
re circumstances and his state. The heave
Vi ly will may be shut up in the prison hou
VI of adverse circumstance, but such co
10 dition is never without its interior col
ny pensations. It is said of the Lord, tn
III in one Of the villages through which
sp passed, while inhabiting the earthly bod
gh His mighty works. were few, because
10 the barrier of "unbelief which withsto
N Him. Doubtless the same might be sal
eu' in humble sense, Of many Of his d
ip- eiples, both now and in times past L
n Word of the Lord carries us at once
- yond the mere philosopher and all W
lre are beneath him, and tells us plainly IL
iey heaven cannot accept our distinctions
er' morality even, ms final, though they t
me right; cannot accept our ,plans, in vi
4hu of their extent, their magnifcence, or tn
'oil probable duration, though these thin
rec NAV he we'll. in short il cannot. I'M