The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-06-24
A SERMON
Which was Delivered by the Hon
Orable Charles Robinson,
At Occidental Hall Last Sunday
Evening.

The lecture OF this gentleman, at Occi-
dental Hall, last Sunday evening, deserves
| a more extended notice than our little par
| agraph OF yesterday. The Ex-Governor is,
As all who know him are aware, man of
marked ability, and what he may say pub
liciy OF the God-in-the-C Constitution
Amendment" is worthy the attention of all
intelligent people. The lecture was like all
OF his productions, clear, incisive, always to
the point, but little rhetoric, less flourish of
eloquent sound, and no nonsense, it showed
the core OF the Jolly in a purely theological
| aspect.
Taking the resolutions of the amendment
convention as his text he thought il peril
| nent to enquire what sort OF a God It is
that is desired in the National Constitution.
He begun At the beginning, and elaborated
the picture of the God of Genesis,-a being
| that was so uncertain of his purpose and
power, that he did things that he was very
sorry for afterwards, and vented the evil
results OF his mistakes upon the innocent
creatures he had created. He traced the
God-notion of the ancient Jews through all
their history, and marked with keen analy-
sis, the weakness of his character and the
insuticiency OF his power. 1t was rare
presentation Of the God thought OF the his
torical religions of christendom. Com
ing down to the modern time, he showed
the great diversity of mems notions abou;
God, and outlined the peculiar distinctions
of the many sects in their interpretations of
the God-idea. Then he held up the diff
Guilty of making any particular notion, or
the idea of any particular sect, the idea of
the nation. This much DONE it was easy
to show the trials that must ensue, when any
general thought of God should become the
national expression. Each one must give
to the expression his own Interpretation,
and the war of the sects would then he fair
ly inaugurated. heGovernor called attention
to the fact that the world had been in exis-
tence long time, and many nations
had lved,-fourished, and worshipped
God devoutly, and pious people had sac
riticed thousands OF human lives to their
own God. Yet it was only after a nation |
came that is now called goddess, . nation |
that makes no national expression of be-
lief in God, that the freedom Of man and |
the horror of slavery was we'll established,
and the worth OF the human soul fully de
w luc ualuu6l law anu
II the terrors Of the past, and the inhumani- |
ties of the ancient nations were done under !
the supervision OF the Deity they were 20
constant in acknowledging, and the grand |
est truths of life have been estab- |
lished in the world BY nation |
that has no Divine King, what
claim can be urged in favor of such an ac-
knowledgment now? The point was we'll |
put, and the attention of all our anti-slav-
cry friends is called to it. Altogether it was
a very fine exposure OF the want of intelli-
gence, in this direction, of the Constitution
makers. We hope the lecture will not be
filed away in some drawer, for it ought to
be given a wide circulation. In this effort
the Governor only followed the logical
course OF his whole life,-the defence of
liberty and the bureting Of all foolish bub-
bles.
We heps the Governor will preach often.