The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1871-03-14

By power, bat 81 my Spirit saith q
, Lord this work shall b wrought
Tho religious power q man can sloa
conquer 30 things unto God io trua
} It's tools o. agencies may BE- mauf, hu
. that alone can be q sufficient meteor.
l. was iu The history q tho jews iha
. Thomas palue found ,be facts hIat mad
bis Crisis" (wuiteu 81 The most cliiles
point of tbs mental revolution which pre-
oceded aud produced The American Rev
oluHoul, which turned the hearts o
Thousands Of the people towards the Re
publican idea Of government thus begin
ming to break ia pieces The nonarchies o
the old world, by separating The most i'm
portani foreign possessions Of Great BrIt
ain twith her Church and Statel iirs
from her ecclesiastical and then from bel
civil control.
I As many Of the bes, men and women ir
America belonged 10 the esiablishe,
Church, they could not rebel against d,
/ Government until they We're first separa.
ted IN III, religious faith and feelings from
the Church This was effected by the IN.
tidels, Of which Paine was the leader
I Paine, Franklin, jefferson and THEN
/ -keptigal coadjutors who created and sus.
! tanned the Revolution, and founded a Re.
/ publican Government, with IA consiltu-
/ ton, omitting the name Of God and Christ
as theological terms, We're infdcls to the
orthodoxy of the day as YOU are inldels
to each othcr-the Protestant 10 the Cath
Ole, and the Catholic TO the Protestant,
/ &c, &c But they were good men aud
true, according 10 the light in which they
stood.
They represented on this continent, as
did Yoltaire, Vomcy, Mirabcau, Freder-
ick of Prussia, Hume and their compatri-
ots in Europe, the 'horns' or powers that
grew out OF the beast, (whateyer that
may be-, aud who hated the "whore of
Babylon stripping her naked, tormcn-
ting her with the fire of their intidel truth,
and yet eating her flesh; thus incorpora-
ting her clements into their Prostestant
infdel Republicanism, with all its subor.
dinate subdivisions
Paine, In his ''Crisis" wildly SET forth
the fact, that the Jews were delivered from
the bondage Of the Egyptian Monarehs
by the agency of Spiritualism, through
which, under the direction Of the God Of
Israel "a subordinate or tutelaryDiyinity)
the ten plaques were created, The Red
sea DIVIDED, the rock smitten to furnish
water, the mama rained down upon
them from heaven, like flakes of snow,
for food; and, under the wilderness di-
etetie and other habits, "thc promiscuous
multitude were all healed-their God,
by those physiological means, "taking all
sickness away from the midst Of them"
Thus, during forty years, they enjoyed a
Theocratc Republic, under whitehall their
natural wants, in food, clothing and lodg-
ing where supplied in the most approved
democratic manner.
lie also set forth, that, under Joshua and
the Judges, the Jews were happy repub-
lic2n people, each family possessing a
homestead that could not be alienated
from them, even by debt, for more than
six years as, on each recurring septcnnial
sabbatical jubilee lldebts were liquidated
by the sounding of the silver trumpets,
and all slaves were emancipated; thus
antcdating, some four thousand years,
the great act Of Lincoln.
But, when these Jews became inidel
to their own religious convictions and be-
gan to desire a king, like the nations
around them, whose manners and customs
they aped Gas the planters of the South
aped the manners of the Europen aris-
tocracy, and desired government that
should represent their own idea, with
Slavery for the corner stone, )Samuel,
their theocratic leader, forewarned them
Of what a king would do to them; that he
would destroy liberty and republican
equality in land and in its products. But,
Ms they persisted, their God gave them
king in his wrath, and monarchy in
his sore displeasurs.
Thus did Paine wean the people from
the Church and State Government in the
person Of George the Third And Jeiler-
son wrote the Declaration Of Rights and
Of Independence, on the basis that the
earth belonged to man IN usufruct, and
not forever; nor to pass bylaws Of pr-
mogeniture, aud by will, from generation
to generation.
We have, then. a republic founded by
Matcrialists, with the element ofprogress
Inherent in it; and, although not formal
ly or legally recognized, the inspiration of
the powers of the world to come has Of
ten infused 4 religions vitality into the
councils Of the legislatures and the decis-
ions Of the Chief Magistrates, both in the
several States and in the Presidential
chair.
Religious people have not prayed in
vain for those in authority In the civil
governments Of the American Confedera-
ton.
The United States Government is the
second appearance Of the Tdecoratic Re-
publicanism Of the Jewish race, a. the
government Of the United Society Of Be
levers, or Shakers, IL the second appear
ance Of the Pentecostal Church Of the
Jewish Christians. Each Of these, az vet
IS In germinal or undeyeloFed state, 10
be fully aniolded by othersix coming de-
grecs of progress, signihed to John by