A>1KliU'A i)I:FKX I) K I);
f)i\ Em^hsh Cdhrmny Jlchutlcd.
1 ROM THE NORTH »Mtlu’CA5 UEVIEW.
(fO»( 1.1 Itnil.)
T^ut ‘ somo’ It socnis, iti the words of
nil Aincricaii writer, (luotcil by this re-
viowor, ‘ plrad the sullioionry of n;»turul
I t li^ion, !t!i(l rf'jcct, revelation :ts uniio-
c(‘s>ary aiul fahuloiis, and many, \v(!
liavp rerion to In'heve, liave yet their
reliacion to choose.* Say you so ? And
wiiat did Sliatle.Voiiry :n)d Lord Herbert
}»U‘ad, and Boiina:brckej and 'I'oland,
luui (’ollins. and 'I'indal, and Woolston,
and Mandevillo. rnd rhuhh. and Hume,
flnd (iihhoii ; and u hat ilo Crodwin, fuul
Sii- William Drumrnoiui, and J^ord liy-
ron, and, if they afc not sorely belied,
jiiany of the Kdinhnri^h Ueviewrs, and
l-Miidinrjrh l*hilosoph(.Ts, plead at the
present day? The writinu;s of ;i few
}jerv{>rted p*niuses i»: Frano“. in the f--
%er of tile revoln’litMi, have given to the
leading men of that eountr} , with Iho'.e
who are willi iic to take n[; with every
hasty impression, the repniatioii of hav'-
in^ been the apostles of intidelity to the
noi-ld. it is ;in (Mitireiy fal'C inipi-e.s-
Kion, for modern iiilidelity was t;ni«;ht
in I-^nijland. 'I'here have Ix-on more
ili''tin:>:iiislicl writers in lha», eonntry
.'igainst Christlanit}', than in all otlu rs j
totJiether. \S’o do not. sjieok it rashly,
nor withont hnvinn; onrselvos veriiieil
the remark, that there is r.o cavil of im-
j)orl3noe, in the French infidel writers
of tlic last cenlmy, which cannot be
found in enrlier Kngilish writers. More-
ove)'. it is erpcdly true, that the infidel
writings in Kngland, for the very rea
son that they are less scandalous, are
far niorc danicerous, many of them be
ing, from their nature, such as cannot
be excluded Irom any respectiiblc library,
iind others eoni])ONed with a gravity,
which secures them access to readers,
Avho would turn away with disgust from
the iicentioiiSMess of V'citaire. Think
but a moment of such books as Boling-
broke's Letters on ilistory, Hume’s Es
says, and Gibbon’s Home, or ol the lat
ter of them alone, a work, which must
itand in every English library as 1 'ng
ns the language shall la't, which must
h(' read by e\ ery Jnan of liberal educa
tion, and yet which grew’ out of the
idea of accounting tor the origin anrl
progress of Christianity by mere himian
means, and contains the most danger
ous attack upon it, that was ever matlo.
It is theP'.nglish infidel writers, more
over, who laid the foundation not only
for the school of their successors in
France, but for the modern Geinian di
vinity, which in any common accepta
tion of terms is anotlier j’orm of infidel
ity. 'I'he first lines ol that scheme,
which Avas in^perfectly shadowed out
by Semler, and has been lilkid up by
Kichhorn and his followers, and which,
with much variety*in details, insists on
denying anything superiiatuial to be
long to Christianity, may be very clear-
Iv traced in the works of T'oland and
(’ollins. \Vill it be‘■aid, that if Eng
land has brought forth powerful writers
* to plead the sulliciency of natiu-al K'li-
glon,’ it lias brought forth jjonerful le-
luters of them ? it is not so. Every
tb.ecdogian knows, iliat a very large ma
jority of the )jiol'cswf.(.[ joj)lies in Eng
land to the inddels arc miserable ; the
productions of feeble men, .stri\’ing to
gain ])i'el’crni(Mit by def'Midin''; a popular
ei.ii-e. ^VMy does not tiie ehurcii of
England, ‘I'.e national churcii,’with oil
l)(‘i' prineely i ndou ii;ent, her prelacies,
lier stail>;, lier eoijeges, (sonur of which
ulone jiosse--> a rovenue twice as great a.>
1h;'l of the '-late oi' M:'ssac!iiisetls,) pn^-
iluce soni»' cliaini'-ions (tl’ religion
C'fjual to thf.se who hav(' ai--;:iil('d it ?
(’annot the honorv. powers, dignities,
and tnillidiis of jjalmimoie, lavi>.iied on
this clinrcli, raise n]> a ('liri.'.tiari schi)lar
to wril; the history ct Konni or the hi.''-
loiyot' Mngland ? Can they i'.m (hice
iK^thing liut \V.ir!/Urto!)‘s nie-n-lrotiN p u--
;u! i\, w hic!) no man e\cr b( ile\cd. and
VN at'-orr> supi rlicial tlioiigh jiMli'.'ious
painphk't au.iii.-it J’aine, and J^.deyV
eompiiati(>n iroin tlie I’nitji ian, ;lie Sn-
rinian Laidner ? Fn' judi' ioii> '■ernmMs.
'oii1ai;;ing po/.Neiful ilhi'tiafions dl'sin-
f^ie p(;in1s of the ('hri tian evidence-,
the modern Enujihli clitneh has sonie-
thins to l)ori''t, and in the old e(intro\er-
sv Vv ith the Papi'jts. her earlier di\ ine^.
evinced aWorid (jf learning; but slu'
has not a work in an}’ degree ent tled to
tiie iiitnH of a flas>K‘;jl treatise o) Chris-
lian e\ idences. liMtler'- Analotry, in
deed. is a work, whIeln'Jor tlie u;i;'!id
Conception oti w liich it is !)iiiii. anil the
jM»W ( roi arLrnnii. iit w iih whieh it i''arni-
od, is lilone 1 ijionunient of modern
t!i(.olo”:\. it i‘ not, howe\-er, a work
un (,'ln'isllan evidences ol which we are
now ‘•:j)eakin'.':.
/rtC.iin, 'in the old sfalt s of Ameriea-
tio kind!\’ assoc;.int)ns are connected
with the iiionmy and heartless perl'orin-
ance of reliii;ious wiT!’'-'iip.’ hat think
yc ul this, ineijJjcr.-r cf ihc Anicriuin
Epl'^copal Church, 'vvho'io nr.mijcrs avo no'
much inferior to those of the same ( hurch
ill England ; wdiose bishoj)s derive their
consecration in unbr(den '■.uff-ession
from the national church as there
established ? ‘ The Village cliuich with
its sj)iry steei)le, its Ix lls, its clofdi, the
well fenced churchyard with its.aneienl
\ewtree, and its numerous monumental
records of the dead, are here iif/c/ij/
unl. Read this, trr*veller in
New’ England, amonic whose thousond
villages there is scarcidy one without its
steejile and sjiire ; (w hich, by the ^vay,
is nut fre(iuent in the English country
(diiirches, which generally have low
towers :) there is not one, in w liich there
is not a graveyard decently enclos(’.d.
Hut we have no ^ ye'v trees’ in our
graveyards, no *])onsivc cypresses.'
..Now that God of nature, who apj)ointed
that the dust of man sliould return to
the dust, from which he was taken, has
been jdeased to v. ithhold the yew tree
from our soil, and if this reviewer really
thinks, what he says, that the want of it
is a piece of ii religion, ho must cast the
blame (dseivhece. As to the |>ensive
cypress,’ for which, according to Fauv
ami his Kevievv('r, it is in vain to look
in the graveyards of this country, we
hav(! strong doubts wiieiher it be not
'eciually in vain to seek it in England.
havf', it is true, two ti'ces called cy-
presses ; and this Reviewi'r, wlu* will
iind nothing in the riljilt place, vilifies
us for our cypress swamps, iiut if by
‘ pcnsiv’e cy)>ress’ the gentlemen mean,
as we presume they do, the ‘cupre.ssus
ti istis’ ofilie anci .Mits, whicli was jdaced
Ix'fore the houses and planted by the
s^jiulchres of the deail, and is still in
many parts of the world, then we
plead again that the tree will nut grow
in the open air, in the greater part of
North America, and we much mistake
if it wilN« England. ‘ An American
apologist admitted, that the corpse was
no sooner laid in the earth than it ap
peared to be forgoiten ; the tear of sor-
r(iW and the hand of atiection neither
bedews nor decorates the sward under
wl'iich the friend, the parent, or the rel
ative reposes ; it is vain to look into-the
burial grounds ot^ this country for the
pensive cypress or the melancholy wil
low, the virgin wee])ing over llic urn of
her departed lover, or the motluM- hang-
i ng over the grave of her dejiartiid child. ’
\N hat sorry peilanlry is this ; let us fan
cy to onrselve.'?, as carried into execu
tion, what this wiio man desitleraLes,
and would leave us to infer is practised
in his ow ;i country ;—the young wo
men of a sizeable town, who have had
the misfortune to lose a lover, out be
times in the churchyard,-and a half, or
a third of the matrons upon the same
errand, weeping over urns ami hanging
over graves. \\'e can tell this llt.view-
er that he libels not us, but his own
coiiiiir}', in his intimation, that in this
way the English think proper to grieve.
Of real life or of the liuman heart, he
could have known nothing, or instead of
transcribing this trash, he wouM have
seen in it nothing but poor ribaldry.
These images arc the growth of a pe-
(hmt's garret, who thinks that tlie des-
criijlions of the poets are a mirror of
life. No man, thatc\er had or lost a
child (;r a wife,, would talk of pensive
cy|)rosses, and melancholy willows, and
hanging over urns, it is cold monkish
nonsense.
Ami then, it seems, ‘ the nuinerous
moniiniental reco'vls of the lead ai’e
wiioliy unknown.’ I'or this asseriion,
vengeance, if our pr(jpiii;ti(! spiiit de-
et,!ve us not, will sooner or lat(.'r o\er-
lake the critic wht. fabiicated this slan
der. Oil'Mided Nenie.->is w ill cause him
to fall in with ‘the lir^l nentade.’ I'all
in, dill we sa_\ ? aye, s'lhs.jibe for it—
read it,—and if afier this he declares
that ej)itaphs are induiown in America,
\Ne know not wha! will cure him.
'file tomi) of Washington is ‘a dog
kemif'!,’ a ‘potato gr;'ve,’ a ‘ J)ig .stye.’
’I’lie londj ol W a^'liington is, in our judg
ment. nortliy of him who is laid in it ;
a simiiU excavaiion in God'searlh, with
bricks eio-.’igh lt) form the ‘a\ ity, and
nothing ha' a '.rreen bod and a few nativ(!
C(.(lai' tri'es ainni' iL Jt sl;inds a little
in front of t he plain wooden house w here
ihe hero lived, on the hold baid\ ol’one
oftlie nohle'l river.- in the world. AN’hat
would iMbbisii ofniin ble orirranite add
to a spot like this. ^)ngres.-> once j^as-
'-ed ;> lescd'ition to remove the I'evered
I rei.iaiiis to the c:,j;ilal, and de])osit them
I in .1 national monument,' ilappy that
no sUv'h desit^n \\as can’ied into execu
tion. 'Die ih'itish soldiers wouhl ha^'e
wasted it with lire, as tliey did the li-
hra.ry of (’ongre-s ; and the hones of the
• Ivelu l,’ as certain of tlu ir poets have
called him, would have been tr;inij)led
under fool by the gallant (’ockburn's
maiine>. Or if they hud escaped that
I'alf, if iliev hail been allowed to rest un-
rcvr.i'incc ar.ob-iirrv.' I l'w.'>ru W osirnin-
ster Abbey, It w ouhl impart no jjleasure
to patriotic mind. If W est minster Ab
bey be ninv what it \.as live years ago,
there .^re few spotin London filthier
than the outside of poet's corner ; a noi;
some, exposed tiioroughlare. ithin,
—we trust we are not wanting in ten-
deniess to the spot wditre arc dejiosiled
the a-'hes of some of the great men of
the race from which \ve are sprung, the
poets and orators who have immortaliz
ed the language we sp;ak,—but we can
truly say, that the rabble of lords and
ladies of family thrust in among them,
the vile taste of most of the monumen
tal firchit«!cture, sculpture and poetry,
add but too much to the disgust, which
Uie dreary ciitrance has excited.
AVe must omit the notice we were
jn epared to take of some of Mr. Faux’s
tales and his Reviewer's comments. One
only we cannot wholly pass o\-er. These
w'lu'tlu colleagues labor hard to establish
the lawles.sness of America, lind one re
tails and the other swallows various bug
bear stories about ‘ rowdy juries,’ ‘reg
ulators,’ Lynch’s Law,’ and ‘violent
resistance of civil ofl'icers.’ Unlucky
w ights. Know ye the land of the
smuggler ; the wrecker; the jMJacher ;
of the white boy, and the peep of day
hoy ; of the l..uddite, and of the frame
breaker. We think w’e can give our
readers a sketch from the state of socie
ty in England, which w’ill compare tol
erably V, ell with thai of tl;? w’csternmost
county in the valley of the jMississippi.
We fjuote it from the Annual Register
of wliich we have opened merely
as the volume nearest at hand.
si’,Inc: traveller In this connfry. As A-j we liovc shown this traveller to
‘ On Friday night, the 6th Xov. 1818, a most
(lesptTulc giiiig- of poacli r>>, about twciiiv irr
miiiiber, known l)V tlic name of the IJedtbrii-
shii'e poaclK'rs,’ or Itohin Ilooil’s g*:iug’, he:ulcd
l)y :i t’lrnicr n.tnitd I'icld, of \e\v Inn, near Sil-
soc, wlio calk'd liimsclf Hobin Hood, attacked
ttic \W)ods Kinil estate of Joseph I.atonr, Ksq. of
Hi\ton near llietliin. Tlie Gamekeeper, Dal
by, and his assistant Godfrey, on findiiij,^ iield
and his companions advancing- near them, con
cealed theiii.sflves in a hedge, 't’hc g’anp, how
ever, crossing’ the lied;e near ti.c spot, dliscov-
ed them ; when without any utlack or provoca
tion wliatever, on the part of the Iccepcrs, tlie v
foniK d a lino around them, when four or live of
the party most cruelly heat them, leaving' them
for dead. Field h> !l liis dog by t(ic ear, while
it I,eked the hluod from the heaJ of Gcdlruy.
Much credit is »hie to Mr. Latour, for his spirit
ed exertion in sending' ininicdiately to Kow
street for assistance, wjjen an active ofticer of
tlie name of llolyland was sent down, who soon
ascei'tained that the g’ang consisted of at least
forlif invii with I'ield at tlieir htatl,-and’
And iciiaty think you, gentle reader ?
Perhaps that the county was up in arms
to iletect them ? No. Perhaijs that like
our roivdiei, regulators, &:c. they are
confined to remote, thinly settled dis
tricts? No. Perhaps that it was a com
bination of-vagabonds and paupers a-
galnst the rich ? Oh, no. The Annual
Register completes the sentence, which
we have broken olf, by saying, that this
gang of forty fellow's, ‘was found to be
encourageil by a number of gentlkmen
and f(rrmet\s.’ But let us see a litth:
more of these gentry ; for England, ye
must wot, being an exceedingly well
governed, well administered kingdom,
and having the advantage of a national
religion, of yew trees, of pensive cy-
pj esses, and monumental records, must
needs afford valuable lessons to this land
of godless ro^vdies. Where then did
fi;e ofiici'i's of justice, sent to apprehend
Robin Hood’s gang of forty, encourag
ed by (ientlenien and farmers, lind
h.im ? In the lieart of one of the most
populous counties in Engiand, of eoui se;
lh:it wa.i Ihe liidd f(U’their exploits ; but
in.'tead of lurking in the forests under
the co\-i r of night, they did the thing
genteely. ‘ Uolyland proceeded'to ap-
preliend Field, jis the liiigleader, in do
ing which he wa,-. exj)0‘'cd to gn.-il dan
ger, :is he found \i\]n (// a /ji/fj/ic hoi/sr,
siiri’oiindeil by tw enty of his r.olh agues,
who had pledged themselves to die to a
man rather than sullV-r Field to be taken.'
He was linaily taken sword iii hand,
'riit; Annual Ri'giskr conrludes, ‘ibis
gangh.ad been for some tinn; ;■ terror to
till', whole neighborhood, and Field has
lri'(|uentl\' given notice to the gentle
man, whose i)ark he was going to at-
taclc. Some id( ;i iij.iy he formed of the
depridations committed hy Field's i:;ang,
w hen it is pret'v coi recti} asi'ertained,
that I’ii.'ld Jid.sjjuiif Jrnnl CoO in JilO t
K'ceh' Id hi.s i/nn, iiinl cinjiloijvd a car/
/(f rnnvci/ (iii'iii/ ! hr j)'l under.' i’erliaj)s
wIh-11 the (^uarteriy Reviewer writes
another ailicle I'li America, he will not
say the "roirdli's are a deseription of
geiitlemeti fiuih; mic\.o us.’
i’iul w e are weary of tliese traVc lh'rs
and their critics. This calling of hard
names and .•':;v iiig ii,ir>h thiiiLrs is not a
w ork we are used to, nor mie in which
we take plea.-ure. Every body see.s
how easy it would be to diavv the most
frix!itful picture of J-'ngMsh society, an«l
more than retaliate all that even tlieir
imaginations can dev icean'ainsl us. W
disturbed, if a monumental church wI'l e i engage, out (d'anthentiv works,
erected over them, and a lon^ line of_[_to lind a parallel lor every tale of hai’ha-
kindre.d worlhie.> laid by their_side, un->ity, vic(‘ and misery, which can Ik* coI-
kjs the i,aacd sp>l were IrealCLl with aiiected fiuui the mok failhless and gos-
merican citizens, we liave had provoca
tion ('uouirb, and temptation enough to
do this. 'rheunprincij)led character of
most of the Engii"h travellers in this
counlry would fully authorise It. 'I'bti
lone of their leading journals calls lor it;
and it would \ery naturally, under these
circumstances, conlribute to the popu-
laritv of ours, to m'aintain the causc of
our country. Rut wu have chosen to
do that, as'far as wc can, in other ways;
and have left this work to those w'ho like
it better. W'e do not remember having,
before now', directly noticed any ol
the.se travelling libellers, nor have we
formally retorted upon the Quarterly
Review, in that strain, which it has
thought proper to ailoj)t toward this
country. Hencefoi ward we arc ready
to pursue a somewhat diiferent course,
and we invite our worthy colleague be
yond the ocean, to reconsider the ex
pediency of forcing us into it. Though
we will not use his weapons, arrd lirst
ctmimend and then quote the wretches
like Faux, who from every (piarter of
Europe infest England, and return to
vent their spleen in German and French,
vet from English woj'ks ol standard au
thority, we will read him such a lesson,
as shall teach him cither to be silent as
to this country, or to change his tone.
For his country, the country of our
fathers, we entertain the tenderest sen
timents of respect and veneration. The
memory of the great and good men, the
countrymcn of our ancestors, is dear to
us in theHicxt (Ti}gree to that of those,
whom we honor and love at home. In
the English constitution wc see some
things, in the state of society and con
dition of the arts in England, we see
inuch to admire and to emulate. W
also see monstrous dtjfect.s, enormous
contrasts, institutions most pernicious,
customs and }>ractices corrupt be^'ond
the example of im|)erial Rome, and an
excess of private jirofligacy, in j)ro])or-
tion to the excess of wealth and the ve
hemence of temptation. There exists
in England a maturity of vjce as un
questioned as the maturity in wealth and
art ; and there are enormities of no un-
freijuent occurrence in that country, as
far beyond the measure of a ice in A-
merica, as the Duke of Bcilford’s in
come is beyond that of our richest land
ed propi'ietors. From this indubitable
state of things, it is plain, that it merits
a little hesitation, on the part of our
colleague of the (Quarterly, whether he
will pursue this contest; and provoke
the exposition of the abuses in his coun
try by presses, beyond the reach of tlie
‘Jiridge 'treet Association.’ It merits
consideration whether he will do all,
that can be done by a literary journal of
commanding influence, to turn into bit
terness the last drop of goo'd will toward
England, that exists in this country.
He sees in Faux’s book itself, that
England has too many and too partial
friends here. What our j)olilieal feuds
could not do, is rapidly doing, by j)ub-
lications like the Qi’arterly Review
and it is matter of notoriety, that the
feelings entei tained in this country to
ward England are less friendly now,
than in the hottest of the late war. 'I'hl.'
alienation has been mainly elfected by
this very journal. For the purpose orig
inally of discouraging emigration,—a
policy very unsound iu itself, for why
keep shut up in your empire a crowded
starving, rioting, maddening })Oj)ulatioi
—some writers in this jourii.il under
took to vilify Amei'ica, Next, out of
a hatred to the radical emigranls, who
flocked hither, and some of them maih
favoia!>le report of the land, they .set
themselves still more sternly to defame
it. The luihit thus formed ha.s gained
strength by indulgence till it now a
mounts, iii Is seen in this review
Faux, to perfect insanity. Itssupi»osei
writer Is an ag(:d man bow ed w itii year
aniLvvith inlirinitles, and very shortly
must apj>ear at a higher tribunal than
that even >f an Indignant nation
give an account of the'usc he has made
of the talents put into his hands. W
despise cant on all occasions ; hut wi
prote’'^t that we think more .solemnly
than he aj)pe;irs to do of literary respon
sihillly. \Vantonly to defame an Indi
vidual, or to stinuilate neighbors to a
f]uarrelj wouhl he ihouL'-lit a crime ol’no
ordinary baseness; what is it for one
who controls a press a! the very 'ceuhe
ol inlellei'iual eirculation—who utters
his voic‘, and Is heard !'S i-apidly
wheels can roll or winds blow , on tin:
(Ganges, the Neva, the La Flate, and
the iVlIssouii, to defame, not individu'
als, but-count ries ; and to exasperate in
to vvrath and bitterness not an Individ
ual, but a mighty emjiire, an empire
peojiled from iiis own native land, and
in the language of a w l iter in this very
nundxr id the (Quarterly lleview,
‘wIiTch, of all that histoiy re.c)rds, has
employed the shorti-st time to rl&e to
the grejitest power and freedom.’
To conclude, if oitr^readers should
l.el .suij)i ised that an individual so low,
should have occupicd our attention sq
long, we beg them to consider that this!
journal, in the, best style of common
London typography, fine type, fair j),|.
per, and a handsome engraving at {|],i
head, is brought before the world to h,.
read, quoleil, and believed, like those
of the swindler Ashe, the gardener Par.
kinson, and the stocking weaver Fca.
ron, and a half dozen, others, vvhosJ
names and trades wc forget. By vir! I
tue of the scandal propagated of this
counlry, and without one single title to
common attention anil credit, this wii
ter, like his kindred, has received the
sanction of one of the most respectable
journids, and will, perhaps, bo quutisi
by lords and gentlemen, and be referral
to as a competent eyewitness.
If, again, it should seem incrcdll)le,
that a person so low as Mr. Faux, should
have found admission, on any occasion,
in this country, to the houses and tables
of' private IiMlivIduals, we beg to sut;.
gest, that, as his doing so of'ten dej)cnili
on bis own word, no credit whatever is
to be givim to it. Wc have personal
knowledice, that ho can speak as if f;,,
niiliarly acquainted with an individual,
vviio never lu^ard of his name, till It,‘>p.
peart d in the title pfge of his })noL
]>ul it must also be remembered, tluum
all foreign countries, the stranger’s r;.
eeptlon di'prnds, at first, not a little tn
the quality of his coat. Mr. Fau.'i,
who, among the stock on his i'arm, ;i[>
pears to have caught a little instino!,
understood this, and tells us on landin;;
here, he dressed in the London fashion;
tjiiis imjiosing ujion those, who coull
hot know him, by a decent exterior.
This is more or less the case in allcou^
tries, even those where the avenues ci
good society are most shut against stiar,-
gers. Not only a univei-sal hosjiitality,
which j)revalls in civilized countries,
but a willingness to believe others well
bred, which prevails nowhere so iniieli
as among tho.se, whoai’c so themselves,
brings tlie unknown well dressed stran
ger into better company abroal, than
lie could find at home. But it must be
confessed, that the fault Is in a good
measure our own. A foolish admira
tion for what is fjureign Is far too con>
mon here ; and the readiness to extui.d
to strang(‘rs the greatest confidence pf
hos|)itality has, in other instances th.in
thi.s, exj'osed the good citizens of o'jr
country to ,shameful impositions. Tl.ij
is happily an evil, however, which O'-r-
reels iLself, and a few more travellcn
like Mr. Faux will establish the nece.-|
sary degree of inhospitableness; ariil
teach Americans, if they must reoei\!|
this rabble, to let It be at a side table.
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MORAL.
(.OOT)\r,.SS OF THK C HKA'IOH.
Malignant must be the mind of tk
person ; with a distorted rye he nuisth.i'i
tonti nipluted creation, wlio can suspect,
that it is not the production of infinili'bi"
nignity and goodness. Ibnv many ciea:
murks of Ijenevolent intention appear rO'
where around us.' \Vhat a j)rofiisioii''
beauty and ornament is ])oiired forth uii
the face of naiure t—\Vhat a nuignitictu’
sijcctarlc prcseiiK'd to the view of man.'
hat supply contrived for his vvani>'
What a variety of objects set I)efore hin.
to i^raljfy his sense.s, to employ his wii j ;
(ItM'staiiding. toeniertain hib imaj^inaiioi i ^
toclicerand !;l:!d(h‘n his heart.' IiuUa:'..
the very exibience of tin* uni vers'', i’-
standing memori al of the goodness of : ^
C!rea;or. For nothing except gooiln' >'',
could originally i)i(;inpt creation.
Supreme Rcing, self-existent and self-s'i
ficiiMit, had 111) wants which he could si'i
to supj)V\-. No new accession to fcru i '’
or glory was to result to him, from (m-
lures v\ horn he made. It was good'
commi'uicatin;; and jjotii-ing itself t'e: -
goodness dcli^litiiifi^ to impart hajipi!' '
Jii all its form, wliicii in the, begitini:''
( reated the heaven and the earlii. if ::-'
those inniimeiMble orders of livingc! '
lures with w hich the earth is pcop!;"!:
Irom the lowest ckiss of si iisilive bciti--.
to the hie-hcst clas.s (jf leasini and m''
h;;ence. Wherever there i.s” liic, iliei;'!
some degree of happiness; ihei-c ai '- ' ■
jnynu nts snited to Uu‘ difi'erent pov,
feeling : Sud earth, and atr, and
are w ith inagnifu ( nt liberal’.fy made ' i.
teem with life. Let those strikiir;: ‘‘‘-'I
plays ol creatin;;^ goodness call furilu ■
oiir part, responsive love, jrratitude. J
vcnei ation. 'I'o' this I'alhcr ol - |
existence and life, to Him v\ ho hath I'l'’
eil us up to hi'hold ihc lii- ht of day ati'i'
enjoy all the eomfurts vviiich this vvd-''
prcseiUs. h‘t our hearts send forth a [)'■
petual h\mii of jiiaise. LveniiiK
morning let ns celei)rat' Him, s\ ho ni>"-
eth the morning and the evening to i>^^'
joice over our heads; who ojx'nctiii-
hand and salisfieih ihc dt'sires ol •'' '
living thing. Let us rejoice that "c u
brought into a world, which is the
diiciion of inliiiite goodness, c)\ervvln'
the supreme intelligence jnesiik--?
wiiere nothing happens, that was v
plamicd aiul arranged from the
ning, in his decree.—H/nir.
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-I',ilher suy nolhini
Sint; or spMl; us a friend.
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