The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-01-28
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a Letter Whcrelu tho Great Expounder
Gives Ills Religious Views.
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a Letter Whcreiu tho Great Expounder
Gives Ills Religious Views.
San FrnHeisco ChroHie,e.
In these times Of Theological unrest
and shifting definitions Of doctrine, the
following, reprinted from newspaper
Of twen,y.iour years ago, will be read
with interest:
DR.. Smith Of Concord, n. H., hns pub.
lislIcd tho following letter OF Daniel
Webster to the Rev. Thomas Worcester,
formerly pastor OF tho Congregational
Church in Salisbury, NIL, which Is nc.
colnpanied with confession OF his re-
ligious faith, both OF which are In his
own handwriting:
"BoscAwIS, Aug. s, lS07.-DgAR SIR:
Tho other day We were conyersing re-
specting confessions OF faith. Some timc
ago wrote down for MY own usc few
propositions.in the shape OF articles, Ill.
tended to exhibit q very short summary
OF the doctrines OF tho Christian religion
rs thoy impress my mind. llave taken
the liberty TO incloae copy for your pc.
rusal. | nm, sir, with respect,
Yours, etc.,
DANIEL WEBSTER.
'Ibelevcin the existenccoi Almighty
God, who created and governs tho whole
world | am taught this by the works
Of nature and the word OF revelation.
81 believe that God exists in three
persons; this learn from the revelation.
Nor is 1t any objection to this belief
that cannot comprchen: how one can
be threcor throc one Ihold tiny duty
to believe, not what | can comprehend
or account for, but what my Maker
teaches me.
'Ibcliove theScriptures Of the Old and
New Teslaments TO be the will and word
OF God.
"a believe Jesus Christ to be tho Son
oil God. The miracles which he wrought
establish in my mind his personal au.
thority, and render 1t proper for mo to
believe whatever he asserts. believe,
therefore, all his declarations, as when
he declares himself the Son OF God, as
when he declares any othet proposition.
And believe there is no other way
OF salvation than through the merits OF
his atonemcnt.
II believe that things past, present,
and TO come are all equally present in
the mind OF tho Deity; that with him
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