Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-04-12
John Randolnh,s Faith.

/ JONI hauuOlpn, Ol I,OaNOhe, 10 E'S HALL
brother, Judge Henly St. George Tuck
er, evidently upon the loss by the latter
OF son:
May He who has the power, and al
ways the will, when earnestly, humbly
and devoutly entreated, support and
comfort you, my brother shall not
| point to you the treasures that remain
10 you in y,ur surviving children and
their mother, dearer than all these put
together. No. l have felt too deeply
how little power have words that play
round the head to reach the heart
commonplaceso of consolation are at the
tongues end OF all the self complacent
and satisfied, from the pedant priest to
the washerwoman. (They who don't
feel can talk | allure them all.
The father of Lord Russell, when con-
doled with according to form, by the
book, said, 81 would not give my dead
son raay othe: mans living" May this
thought come to your bosom, too hut
not on the same occasion May tue
spirit of God, which is not the chimela
Of heated brains nor device of artiul
men to frighten and caole the credu
lous, but is as much an existence that
can be felt and understood as the whis
perings of your own heart, or the love
YOU boie to him that you have lost-may
| the Spirit, which is the comforter, shed
Ills influence upon your soul and in
cline your heart and understanding TO
the only right way, which is that OF life
eternal Did you ever read Bishop
Buffers Analogy? Ifnot | will send
it - YOU Have you read the Book
What | say upon this subject | not only
believe, but | know to be true-that
the Bible studied with an humble and
con5ritc heart, never yet failed to do its
work, even with those who from
iGiosyncrasy or disordered minds have
conceived that they were cut off from
its promises Of life 10 come.
ASK and ye shall receive seek and
We shall find; knock and it shall be
opened unto YOU" This was my only
support and stay during years of mis-
| cry and darkness; and just as had al
most begun to despair, after more than
ten Yeas of penitence and prayer, it
pleased God to enable me TO see the
truth, 10 which until then my eyes had
been sealed. To this vouchsafement |
have made the most ungrateful returns.
But would not give up my slender por
ton ofthe price paid for our redemption
yes, my brother, our redemption-the
t rams ON OF sinners, OF all who DO not hug
their chains and refuse to come out from
the house of bondage-I say that |
would not exchange my little portion
in the Son Of David for the power and
glory OF the aIthian or Roman en-
pires. as described by Milton in the
lc nptation of cur Lord and Saviour, not
for all with which the enemy tempted
the Saviour Of man.
This is the secret of the change OF my
spirits, which oil who know me must
have observed within few years past.
After years spent in humble and con-
trite entreaty that the tremendous sac
riGce on Mount Calvary might not have
been made in vain for me, the chiefest of
sinners, it pleased God to speak peace to
my heart-that peace of God which
pr eth all understanding to them that
know it not, and even to them that
do. And although | have now, as
then, do reproach myself with time
misspent and faculties misemployed
although my condition has on more
than one occasion resembled that Of
him who, having one evil spirit cast
out. was taken possession of by seven
other spirits more wicked than the lis5t,
and the first also; yet trust that they,
too, by the power and mercy of God,
may be, if they are not, VAnQuished.
But where am ! running to? On this
subject more hereafter. Meanwhile,
assure yourself of what is of small value
compared with that of those who ale
piece of yourself-of the unchanged re-
gard and sympathy of your mothers
son. All my God / remember to
have seen her die TO have followed
her 10 the grave to have wondered
that the sun continued TO rise aud set
and the order Of nature go on. Ignorant
Of true religion, but not yet an atheist,
| remember with horror my impious
CONSULTATIONS with God upon this be-
reaVement; but not yet an atheist
The existence of atheism has been
denied; but was an honest one Hume
! cSIGu iutl IlODDS iulSlSu IuS. ISdti
Spinola and all the tribe Surely fell
by no igaoble hand. And the very
man 60 who gave me Hume's
Essay Upoa Human Nature" TO read,
administered ''Beattie Upon Truth ss
the antldote-Venice treacle against ar
scnic aud the essential oil of bitter
almonds, bread-and-nilk poultlce for
The bite of the cobra caDello.
Had emained . successtul political
leader I might never have been chris
tian. But ii pleased God that my
pyide should be emortitied That by death
and desertion I should lose my friends !;
chat, except in The veins of maniac
and ne. too possessed "of = child by .
deaf and dumb spirit. there should not
run one drop OF my fathers blood in any
liy;Dg creature besides myself. The
Geath ofTudor finished my humiliation.
had tried all things but the refuge to
Cmist, and to that with parental stripes
was | driven. Often did | CRY out with
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