The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-26
NO. 40


was most at home when presiding
over some conference. All force and
i impetuosity, Whitefield was the blast
I in the quarry, and by one explosive
| sermon would shake district and de-
| tach materials for other men to work
( deft, neat Snd painS-tsking Wesley
loved 20 split snd trim each fragment
into Uniform and polished stones.
! They were the men of their times, ana
zach supplied what the other lacked.
! Again, it is a'so law Of the kingdom
If grace that the conscientious employ
ment of the one GOd-given talent, ana
hat the least Of all talents, NAV be the
means OF the greatest results. 1t Is al
| once fault and a temptation either to
| iverestimate or to updervalue your
! gifts for usefulness. You may not be
the noble Hudson, bearing on its bosom
the commerce OF great State, but you
can be the little rill among the Adj
| roRdacks to slake the thirst of the
| [assing traveller.
THE CNBELTEvRR'S CREED be-
lieve that there Is NO Go6, but tha,
matter is God, and God is matter; and
that it is no matter whether there j.
any God or no. l believe also that the
world was not made; that the world
made itself; that it had no beginning /;
that it will last forever, world with
out end. | believe that a man is b
beast, that the soul is the body, an6
the body is the soul; and that after
death there is neitber body nor soul.
believe there is no religion; that nat
ural religion is the only religion, ano
that all religion is unnatural. | be
ieve not in Moses; | believe in tn,
first philosophy; l believe not tn,
EvaDgelists; | believe in Chubb. Col
lins, Toland, Tyndall, Morgan, Shafts
bury, Vaudeville, Wool ton, Hobbies
believe In Lord Bolinguroke; be
lieve not st. Paul; believe not Reve
laiion; | believe IN tradition; | believe
in the Talmud; believe in tn. Al
coran; b, heve not in The Bible; be
lieve IN S1cia'es; Ib leseln Confucius
| believe In = SInCuniHth4n; | believe il
Mahomet; believe not in Christ
Lastly, | believe IN all unbrhei."
When skeptic sm triunphs in any
heart, the hope of immortality is ban
Ished. 1t crowns the ,yraut a.cath for
ever on his throne, it seals the con
quests of the grave over the whole hu
man race. II wraps the tomb in eter
ual darkness and suffers not one par
ticle of the remains of the great, tn
wise, and ;he good of all ages to sto
he light oi eternity; but consigns, b,
An irreversib.e doom, all thIt was ad
uired. loved aud revrred in man t,
perpetual annihIlstion. II identifie
numan existence with the vilest reptit
md levels man TO the grade OF tbs
meaHest weed whose utility is yet an
discovered. Mans origin and his 1es
inv arc to its ken alike fortuitous,
unimportant, and uninterestiDg.
Ii wing Iobbcd him of ev,Tythin;
which .u.d mske him dear TO himsel
md pr .ui of himself and proud OF hi,
existence, it murders all his hopes
future being aud future bliss. Ii cut
the cable and casts away the goljel
anchor; it sets man adrift on tn,
mighty, unlathomab.e and uneXplore,
ocean of uncertainty, to become tn,
sport ot the winds and waves Of ami
NAL passion, until at last, in some tire
mendods gust, "he sinks 10 everlasting
! ruin" Say then, proud rcasOner, o.
what utility is your philosophy-wha
| ,our boast? You boast that yol
| nave made man ignorant Of his
| origid and a stranger to himself. You
BOAST that you have deprived him o.
any real superiority over the bee, tho
bat, or the beaver; that you have dI
vested him of the highest infringement
70 virtuous life by taking away til
knowledge of God and The hop,
of heaven. You boast that you
have made death forever tri-
umphant not only over the body, but
he intellectual dignity of man; aud
that you have buried his soul and body
in the grave of an eternal sleep never 10
see the light of life again. o sceptl
cIsm is this thy philosophy, is this thy
| boasted victory over the Bible! AnG
for this tx ingu shment of light and
life eternal, what dost thou teach, and
what bestow thou teachest us to live
according to our appetites, and dost
promise us that in thy millennium mar
shall live in paradise of colonies al
most as industrious, as independent,
and as social as the bees. Well thep
dost thou preach with zeal, and exer,
thy energies; for thy heaven is worthy
of thy efforts, and the purity of thy life
is just adapted to the high hopes oI
eternal annihilation.
! Pm OTUEAN