The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-06-12
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~ have been engaged IN argument, TOT
TIE last twenty minutes, with our parish
schoolmaster,H he said "a shrcwd, sensible
man, prime scholar, but one Of the most
determined Calvlnists ever knew. Now,
there IS something, Mr.. Lindsay. IL abs,rac
CalviniSm, that dissatisfies and distrr ses
me; and vet, | must confess, there is -
much OF good la the working Of The syS-
ton, that would III like TO sec il Supplant-
ed by any other. | an convinced for il
stance, thcrc is nothing so efficient IN teach
ing the bulk Of people TO think as 1al-
vuistic church."
"Ah Robert said my. aunt, "a l9cs
mciklc mair nor that. Look round VI, my
hairn, an see II there be a kirk ii which
pgir sinful creatures have mar comfort in
their sufIerings or ilair hope IN thoiT
deathsn
"Dear MOTHER said my companion, -
like well enough TO dispute with the school
master, but ! must nave nc dispute with
lyon. ! Know the heart ~ evey,hirr in
70 these matters, ana yours KS much ai~ct
than mjnc'
There is something ia abstract Calvin.
ISM" he continued, "that distresscs me.
Ia almost al our researches we arrive al an
4 ultimate barrier, which iutcrpOscs its wall
tt fai NAEN0 AtkHNtA tab tltfA tue la-A Eldfftt
truth, In Che series which We had trusted
was q prove a masfcr-key to the whole
\ We dwoll in a sort of Goshen There il light
ia cur immediate neighborhool, and more
I than Egyptian darkness sll around; and as
every Hebrew must have known thar the
I hedge of cloud which be saw resting on the
landscape, vas q boundary not to things
\ themselves, hut mer TN % his view Of things
lor beyond there were critics, and plains,
Y and oceans, and centinenrs-ao We IN Ike
manner must know that TIE barriers of which
1 speak exist only IN relation 10 the faculties
which we employ, not 10 the objects on
wllch we employ thCm. And vet, notwitl-
standing this Consciousness that we are ne
cessarly and irrsmediably the bound prison
trs a ignorance, and that all the great
truths ne outside orr prison, we car almost
be content that, in most cases, ii should b.
so--not, however, with regard 10 those great
unatisinable truths which he IA the track e
Calvinism They scem too important 20 he
wanted, and vet want them We must-aud
We beat our very heads against the cruel
barrier which separates a. from them"
ii am afraid hardly understand yuu."
said; 'do assist me in some instance of III
lustra ti1nn
"lou are acquainted" " be replied, "with
the Scripture doctrine cf Predestination.
and, in thinking over it, in connection with
tne desunIes ~ m~1, it must have struck
YOU that, h0weyn~ much 81 may interiere
with our fixed notions M the goodness of
Derry, il il thoroughly IL accordance with
the actual condition III our race. As far a.
We can know 81 ourselves and the things
around us, there seems, through the viii #
peity-lCr 10 what else can ve refer 10 -
fixed, invariable connection between what
We term cause and effect Nor 10 We
marls any class III mere effects, W. the w
animate 0r irrational world That lhey should
regulate themselves otherwise than TIE
causes which produce them have determin-
ed. The soc and tha tiger pursue, u1ques-
toned Jhe instincts al their several natures;
tne cork rises, aad the stone sinks, and no
one sinks ~ refhnc ether ~ account tar
move ments s5 opposite. BGs il nos 80 with
thc family ~ man; anl yet our minds, QUE
bodies, our Circumstances, arc but camDiua-
iI1ns 0i effects, over the causes 0f which
We have no control. We Gid not choose O
country ourselves, nor Yet a condition in
.iie--nor DID We determine cur molIcun Of
intellect, Cr our amount OF passi0n-wc dii
impart its gravity % the weightier part vi
our nature, or give expansion t0 the lighter
nor are our instincts of our own planting
How, then, being thus a. much the creature
Of necessity as the deuiz1ns uf the wIii and
iorest-as thoroughly under the agency Of
1 fixed, -1aitcraoie causes, as the dead mrtter
matter around us-why are wc yet the slh-
jecls of a retributiye svstcm, and account
aolg f0r all our actions"
"N0u quarrel with CIyinism," ! saii.
and seem one of tnc most Thorough h-Roine
necessi.arians | ever knew
Not So" he replied; "though my iu1g-
ment cannot disproye these coac. usions, my
heart cannot acqaicsce 10 hcm-thoush
see that ! am as certainly the subject 0f laws
/ that exist and operate independent of my
VIII, as The dead matter around ME, | leel,
with certainty quite as great, that / am a
free, unaccountable creature. Is Is accord
ing 70 the scope of my entire reason that
should deem myself bound-it is accor ing
20 the constitution Of my whole nature tha,
3should feel myself free. Aud in this con
sists the great AMI fearful problem "a prob
lem which both reason ana revelation pro-
pound: bul the truths which can alone srlve
I 1t, seemed t1 he beyond the horizon 81 dark
ness-and We yvE ourselves IN vain. 'Iis a
sort Of moral asympotes; bu, Us lines, IN
stead Of approaching through ali space,
without meeting, seem recsdlng through al
/ space, and yet meet"
/ "RObeIt, my barn" said my aunt, IA fear
| you are wasting your strength on these myS-
teries ID your ain hurt. D.d ye no zee, III
the last storm, when ye stand ont among the
caves ull cock-crow, tnat ,he bigger an.
stronger the wave, the mair was Il broken
3 u. IS . l.
4 pride o. man ; understanding, u len ne mca-
sures il against the dark thing = q Cod. An
4 yet it's sac ordered, that the same wonder
I ful truths which pefplex and cast down the
proud reason, should delight aud comfort
I the humble heart. ! an lone, puir wo-
man, Robert BARNS an husband have
gone down to the grave, one by one; an
now, for twenty weary years, | have neen
chIldless an a widow. But trow ye tuat
the puir lone woman wanted guard, q
comforter, ar a proyider, through a the
lang miTk nichts, an' y the cauid scarce
winters o these twenty. years? Ne my
bairn-l kent that IInser vas VI me I
kent 1t by the provision fe made, an the
care lie took, an the JOY he gave. An
how, think you, did lie mfort me maist Z
just by tue blessed assurance that a. nv
/ Ilais ara Al my SpTF1wS were nae hasty
chance matters, but dispensatiln, for nv
| guid, an tie guii y ihose lie took 10 HIM
sef, that, in tbc perfect love AMI wisdom -
His nature. lie had ordained fra the begin
Ming
"Ah, mother" said nv friend, after a
pause, "gou understand the doctrine iar
better than 40 There are. fud, 10 cou-
contradictions in the CalvinIsm 0f the
heart
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il a stew-pan until it is slightly brosned
beat up one egg and add 70 IL; put in a.
much finely miuced ham as would cover q
round Of butteTed tcast, adding a. much
gravy as will moiSlen when quite hot.
I When All the ingredients are IN, sir them
quickly with FORK pour on the butter
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