Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-03-18
WEEKLY TRINITY JOURNAL.
Z z EIPTs FOR sUBsC RIPTION
FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH l7rH.
National Reliance on Providence.

YetifGod wills the continues until al the wealth
Quilted sunkunt every drop Of blood drawn
with lash shall he paid with another drawn with the sword
said three thousand still !; must be said
that the judgments Lord and righteous alto
gcther.-Presidefs Inaugural
We are pleased with Mr.. Lincons expressed
reliance on the overwhelming and directing in-
fucnce of the Great God OF the Universe. Those
were wise and timely expressions. more TO the
purpose than had been the most logical formula
of political economy. The influence of the spir
itual is the mightiest agency that can be brought
10 bear on the passions and energies of men,
The fercest battles which redden on the pages
of history fought under its irresistible I'M
pulses and faltering old men and beardiess
boys, returning from the caves Of prayer pano-
piled in strong faith aud inspired from the pres
ence Of Deity, have made the field red ana ghaSt-
ly with the blood and carcasses Of the lnhdel.
We cannot conceive Of a civilized nation with
ont God There never has been any Man Is
an adoring creature he must worship some
thing if it be only the ugly reptile OF the Me
or the sacriicial floods OF the Indus. Not even
the savage goes on the war-path before perform
ing his semi-religious, kalfdiabolical orgies,
having some relation to the unseen but dreaded
Spiritual. The bursting of thunder IN the SKY
the zig-zag, angry plunge Of the lightning the
cclipse of the moon. the grand splendors of the
Polar Light, bring him to II stand-still and make
him worshipper. Great orators. from lsocrateS
10 Webster have well understood this principle
When Patrick Henry had spent all his thnndeFs
TO arouse the timorous Colonists, as last resort
he appealed to the :. God of Battles, and iorth-
with the valley of dry bones swarmed with armed
men and great nation was created. When the
plague besicges city, the people run to the
churches; when the angry ocean tosses its foam
about the bewildcred ship, the mariners VINO
never looked heavenward, except to the eternal
compass of the poles. pray for salvation. "hen
our national horizon is bark and full of storms.
we have days Of fasting and prayer when great
successes follow arms. days ofthank Sgi'inS
are ordered Every vital principle of our Gov
ernmeut. every moral institution is based upon
- national faith in the presence and supremacy
OF Deity.
The President alluded to the fact that the
rebels also, make their prayers to heaven We
are curious to know what sort ofa God would
answer the prayers of cnsiavers, negro-brecdcrS
and soul-drivers The description of such a
Deity would be something new in Theogcny-
Let us imagine the PRAYER of the stony-hearied
enslAver. 80. Lord bless oul blood-hounas :
improve their seen, for human tracks and sharp
en- their f,ngs to tear the fugitive to pieces
Bless our sl.vc-penS and our auction-hlocks. and
make oar negroes fruitful in their Eeaeration
Lruethen the chains aud maze the manacics
stroug Bless the branling-iron, and the long
sharp lash OF the overscer. Comfort ;he co'oTed
thriSti.ln mother when tear her ScTcaming 2
Oh i'd from her bosom Bless the bed Of the adu-
trrrr and the raysicr aud pardon him who sells
his own offspring 70 the sout-drvcr. This we
,sk for Chrsts sake, who die for al mAnEiaf
Horrible ani baspac lous the fors rirg n;aY
seem il is thr very 'prit ot slarcholding thco!o-
" and it there he god, who sits up in Hca-
yen 10 hear and answer the prayers ot such bias
phcmers aud tyraats, he must be Moloch, within
whose scctlline furnaces infants used 10 be roas-
tcd He is not thc Most High Cod who lei
Moses and his people out OF the land OF Egypt.
aud out of the house of bondage. Not lie who
answered to the outstrcched hands Of Joshua.
nrrved the arm OF Judith steidied the hand Of
J,cl aud smote the sleeping Assyrian. Not He
whose bcaming star of hope aud redemption hung
on the horizon Of Bethlehem. and " ose cloud
and pillar of fire went before the fugitive Save
OF Israel
No. If there be god sufficiently cruel 10 be
moved by the prayers of the enslavcrs and sellers
OF men. he must be some horrid demon from the
under cavcrns Of hell. familiar with suffering
and sitting upon a throne Of skulls for the wor-
shin Of the inhuman President Lincoln may be
NJ rest the PRAYERS of these hali-Savagcs DO not
rise above the malaria Of their swamps and the
fcrtor oftheir poyerty-Strickcn novels. Fora hun
drcd years the imporiunate prayers OF the slave
have been ascending to the heavens and at last
Jehovah stands forth from His throne, unloosing
the thundcrs and letting fly the lightnngs that
shake a continent and light up a hemisphere
-imericdn Flag.