New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-01-09

happiness beyond this life. I believe tho equality OF
man; and believe that religious duties consist in doing
Justice loving mercy. and endcayorng to make our fell
low creatures happy"
"The world my country to do good my religion
was this unbeeyers motto
Can any good thing he urged for matcriasts like Hell
vctius or atheists Ike Dr. obachi Their articles Of
faith indeedfew. They in such wrath against
the Church that they struck away the last vesgo of
religion, leaving neither God nor Immortality Man was
for them AN ingenious piece OF mechanism-the
universe a machine But they taught obedience
10 the laws OF nature, which, II fully carried out
would almost make Gods kingdom come on earth as 1t
In Heaven. Sensible have done talking about the
infdety OF Rousscau-thc apostle OF sentiment in re
ligon the prophet of the conscience, the passionate
culogst of Jesus The sentmentalists win glory to-day
10y their repetiton of his thoughts the absolute good
ness Of God and the large hospitality of Heaven.
When we test the faiths OF our nbeuevcrs by their
works do not find them fautess neither do we find
that they need shrink from comparison with the be-
levers They like the rest of u.s. sharing the
faults, sometimes The 'ices OF their times nut a" hau
certain nobility Of soul. aud some were heroes;
sSTions deists Of Iis time Taylor calls Herbert
Of Cherburg man Of religious mind sir James Nc
ntosh describes SALISBURY man OF many excel
lent qualities; temperate, chase, honest and lover Oh
M country me pTnclph traits IN .nS @ o W.
to the weak hatred OF wrong and oppression IN
deed yotare's grand acts of her0sm are well known
devoted effort to obtain a reversal Of the sentence
against the family of Jean Calas-yicm NJ OF
culinary superstitions and brutal lawsan effort which
lasted three years. during all which time he declares
rcproached myself with every smile rs If Il were
guilt" was only one OF his Sclf-sacridcing attempts
10 aid the weak and oppressed We find HIM paying the
debts OF the poor restoring the fallen fortunes t one
and another making himself benevolent Providence
wherever he found suffering surely at the en ne conlu
8" have fought good ight nave kept tle al.l.
Even to the low grave of Thomas Paine the new day
spring that Ia coming over the hills has reached anu
covering II with flowers. Every true american snouid
he clad 10 know something OF that grand, iseprc~encd
NE II %as Thon1s Pane mno NE s' Crsis
written in hour of extreme national diseouragolnen
electrified the army, PM SOU nto t5e county, , hn
worth more 1" the IdlnS cause ol nan
an army with banners. Atterward. when he was high III
pubic favor, and on terms OF intimate friendship
with the founders OF the new government he declined TO
accept any place OF cmOuneut, saying, must ne IN
unteer." No private character has been more foully
illuminated in the name Of God than Thomas Paine =
Dead for more than sixty years, few people care
perhaps whether he was slandered not but, speak
ing historian alone one would be just ped IN de
this name, remarkable in our own annals
Speaking not "a historian, but as tIec rehglohlrI
surely one may allowed brief space wherein 10 show
that Inhdels had their virtues a. Wen as tef DeheS
that the territory occupied by the Cm9cneHet, Is mUe
itirs dwell and the angels sing. All the grayest charges
against PANE have been utterly d'PLoNGu, ana hS'e
man full of zeal for God and for hunany-nOt a SAINT
indeed, but surely not sinner above al VINO IWet III
would he deemed dgnihed, but the eminent
Christians Of his time more than kept nun eom@y. mc
was no dandy, but is danyisn r,ckoned an apOstOho
eTacei He used snufT; but is snuff taking much
heinous than smoking whch Il sHd 10 o . a cIv th
belicy er and the indci He lost his temper sometimes
but what amount of Orthodoxy viii make ii sure that
good mans temper shall never fan 49, ,,-,
There we're magnificent moments in this much maligned
life. 1t was of them when the French Assembly
met TO order the execution of Louis XVI, and Thomas
Paine protested in the name Of liberty against the uct
DESTROY The King" he cried but the strike
the crown, but spare the heart" The members In
rage would not believe their ears These are not ths
words Of Thomas Paine resOunded tr0uf every slde OF
the Chamber. "Thcy my words, said the undaunied
man But they cost the hero his reputation, ana came
near costing him his life ~, -. So, A..
courage TO disbeeve, and should hold them in mind
tendefy. The who bore hard names through NE,
their memoresl The men who wore themselves down
with thought! The men who lived solitary ana ana
into the wilderness who were G ,h INN nm
dels because they believed more Inan c Inem
painful pursuit Of truth in preference to the Gle luxury
Of traditional opinion; and Atheists because they rested
line and mage-breakcTs because they adored the u-
seen spirit, and deuers OF the Christ because thcy
We win cTv with Erasmus "Holy Socrates pray for
us" We viii say with Scheicrnachcr, JOIN me in offer
n6la Fun OF religion he, and full Of the Holy
Ghost" Aud if there louder voice calnS ON Us
ul Inhdels and believing UnbeHeyers, We would say
Amen, and Amen!
SO ended this mastery defense OF the outcass from
the Christian world. have tried TO give You its out
lines and its spirit; but missing the earnest, eloquent
voice Of the speaker the powerful persuasion Of those
clear, full tones you miss that Of which can
not even give you suggestion Did |
say Mr.. Frothin CHAM does not melt hearts
At least he upifs and inspires them think howeVer
we may quarrel with his belief soul which heard him
was so dead as not TO reused 70 ofter endeayOr ana
kiLdlcd to a warmer, wider, more generous charity
toward an the children of the God, who look, down
on The struggles OF The ages, and ptcs them VITA the
all1Orgiying pity OF a Father