The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09
Communicated
Bearing of Gods DisPensatiOns on
-.--r Infidelity.


The Jewish religion is a wonderful
display of divine wisdom, goodness.
and cOndescension to the wants and
circumstances of mankind No infidel
ever understood it, no man can under
stand it aud doubt the divine truth of
Christianity. To lay down a diagram
in figures which should, one thousand
years afterwards, and not before, be
read and understood by millions of
human beings as plain as literal de-
scriptlon could be, containing whole
volume in the compass of single sheet,
exhibits such an insight into futurity
as M human. being, ever did. .ersesITe
person were tv-t---4-aa 70 he divinoiy
inspired and commissioned, and In the
meantime would afford to the liv-
ing indubitable proofs OF his mission
by stupendous display of Almighty
power, but designing to have the same
credit with posterity thousand years
hence, that he has with the living,
| how would he most likely Obtain
credit The evidences which, when
Icing, he presents, he cannot present
when dead. Let him, however, leave
behind him any work which, when ex-
amined, shall be found to contain
| a knowledge of future events and de-
velopments, which no human being
could possess, this knowledge being
as supernatural as power which could
lift the mountains, must afford equal
proof to all who examine it, as the
miraculous display of physical energy.
| Could any man have written in sym
bols, or laid down diagram in figures
and numbers presenting full descrip-
tion of America before Columbus DIS
covered it, and history of all the
changes which have taken place since
its discovery till the present year--Is say,
could such a work have been executed
and deposited in the archives of the
Spanish government, we'll attested as
the genuine work of Spanish proph-
ct, who had died at any time, cay a
hundred years before Christopher Co
lumbus was born, no person could ra
tlonally doubt the inspiration of the
author, nor the certainty of the yet
future and unaccomplished part of it..
| Such work Is the symbolic worship
of the jews religion in all its promi-
uent characteristics aud import, in ref
erence to the institution of jesus
Christ. On the doctrine of chances il
would be more than two billions to
one that any fifty incidents could all
happen In any one character to lIve q
thousand years after the incidents de-
tailed were recorded. And these Incl.
dents not only were recorded on parch-
meut, but on stone and burnt bricks
yet dug out of the ground, in Babylon,
Nineveh and many other places, with
the dates of inscription on them, and
the characters and forms Of the letters
corroborating their dates. Now, more
than one hundred distinct incidents
are found in the Jews religion and
history detailed concerning the Mes
| slab, all of which exactly met IN him
and were circumstantially completed
in him. This is an argument in proof
of the mission of Moses aud of Christ,
against which the gates of skepticism
cannot prevail. Whatever proves the
mission of Moses proves the mission of
Christ; and whatever proves the mis-
sion of Christ proves the mission Of
Moses. This is happy arrangement
which is in accordance with the
whole divine scheme Of things.
II pretended chemist should, in test
ing or explaining the affinities Of GER
tain elementary principles, mingie and
combine such simples as have no chem
ical affinity, it would not prove the
whole doctrine Of chemistry a whimsi-
cal or imaginary science. Or should a
pedagogue, when iDstructing infants
| in the powers of vOwels and conso-
nants, form unnatural combinations in
syllsbicstion, 1t would not prove that
the powers Of letters and the import Of
words were unintelligible and indeter-
inmate. Neither does the foolish and
whimsical Interpretation of types and
symbols prove that all symbols and types
are arbitrary, unmeaning, unintelli-
gible, and undefnable things. Yet in
this way some reason. Because some
| young novices and some old vision
aries have made types where there
were roue, and misapplisd tbose that
I were, therefore. say they, the whole
system of types is unmeaning and m
intelligible.
II is well for man thEt faith and not
reason is the principle on which all re-
vealed religion 10 preaieated. For,
although sOme skeptIes scowl st the
idea of faith, and extol the superiority
of reason as guide, yet the truth Is
that faith Is incomparsbly more safe
guide than reason. Not one in thoz-
sand reason infsllibly or eyen correctly.
Numerous a. are the falsehoods be-
isTed, they do not beer the proportion