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An Irish Maiden's Love.
Not in jov could I forget thee,
For tha pulses of my heart
Can thrill whit gladness only
While they Ireablo where thoru art.
There nro anany wiles of tungio.
Taugh I by fairies 'neath the skies,
Buit I final any spell of beauty
In a pairuf Irish eyes.
Not, in grief could I forget theo;
II. would not be hard to bear
Nor the tear-drops half so bitter
If the thought of thee were there
Nor the thorny way so toilsome,
'so wearisone the strife,
Wit i thy tenderness the hencoi
And the promise of my life.
Not. in time cotid I forget thee,
For the brightness of thy sile
Is a mnemory forever,
And a beatty all the while.
They my talk of Friendship's treason
Words are worthless-truth is sit ange;
There's a tenderness, Mavourneen,
Titne can never touch or ohange.
Wealth could not tetnpt me from thee,
For no weight of yellow gold
Can be meted in the measure
With a consciettee never sold,
t ith an honor all untarnished
In the world's polluted mart
No, I find my mine of rielaes
In an honest Irish heart.
Blessings rest upon thee brightly;
As the dew of even lies,
May no sorrow ever darken
The blue heaven of thine eyes,
For in every tlaoight I hold thee
Abive all, where e'er thou art,
Anal I love thee with the fidness
Of an Irish Maiden's beart.
Uses of Knowledge.
[BY THE REV. G. R. nRACKETT.]
My people are destroyed for lack ofknowl
edge.-Iloa. 4 : 6.
Man was originally a creature of
wants, and when created was placed
in a condition where everything re
quisite to supply his varied wants was
stored away in the bosom of nature,
and in the constitution of his own be.
ing. Had he continued in a state of
innocence, his physical, intellectual,
and moral well-being must have been
secured by the continual acquisition
. ' knowledge from these two sources,
i#lcss his Maker should be pleased to
advance him to a higher state of exis
tence by means of a supernatural
revelation.
The effect of sin, however, was to
create new wants, beside introducing
innumerable evils ; a curse was pro.
nounced upon the earth, as well as
upon the transgressor, and physical
and moral suffering was the judicial
consequence. The necessity of knowl
edge must now be measured by naan's
resent wants and miseries, as a fal.
Ten creature. We must take man as
find him, individually and socially,
in his unnatural, abnormal, condition.
Viewing him with reference to his
present wants and sufferings, we shall
attempt to show that the lack of
knowledge is destruction of every in
terest of man. Let us verify this pro
position by an appeal to facts. What
is man's present condition? What
are his wants and sufferings ?
1. As a physical being, he needs
food, raiment and a habitation, and
had he no other wants than those
which pertain to the body, then hav
ing enough to eat, and comfortable
clothing and shelter, he ought to be
as contented as a fox in his hole, or a
pig in his pen :an animal nature has
onl~y animal wants, and when these are,
satisfied, the end of life is answered.|
It is a heart-rending reflection,
enough to make angels weep, that
millions of mankind have no loftier
apurpose than this, and al1 the knowl
edge they seem to desire is that which
~,brute instinct alone is sufficient to ob.
tain If man has no higher end of
life, reason is altogether an unnecessa
*ry faculty. He has no need of truth,
abut only such raw materials, as the
Sland 'the bee, the ox and ass, in
e otly seek to gratify their Immedi
ate wants.
But man Is a rational and social
jbeing. As God has made him, It is
criminal to be content with bare food
'raiment and shelter-to be content
rl~with that which satisfies a dog or a
%rabbit, when ho has the means and
opportunites9f obtaining, more.
2. As an inteliectual being, man has
corresponding wants. The very na
ture of the mental faculties, as Aris
Stotle observed two thousand Jyears
a "o, Indicates that truth is the end
ittended by their Creator. If' the
4ee was mdae to see, and the ear to
, s the mind was made to know.
'has appetites which knowledge
Salnen 'an satisfy-a life, Wvhieh truth
jaone can nourish. There can be no
"lhealthy development of our being
4:without the love, pursuit and posses
'i~sion of truth, any more than without
:arelish for our food or an affection
oour species.
a The relation which our Maker has
astablished between our nature and
bo external world, Indicates the
ource of that knowledge which meets
the wants of the body and mind. The
aterial used contains all that man's
'aahysioal necessities require. There Is
ot an animal want for which the all
iso and beneficent Oteatot hte~ not
? ade suitable and ample provision.
very appetite has Its appropriatis
ource of gratification. The "eouth
s a vast storehouse wrhere everghlpgis
reasured up, seleceIe, and arranged
or his use, '--every variety of food
o nourish him, boundless forests to
jrih mat jral for h I ellings,
nexhaustible beds of coal to warm
urm, every species of mineral and me
:alliu ore to enrich him and promote
ais comfort.
In a similar manner, it might be
ihown that the earth is adapted to
mian's rational nature. The material
system, is exquisitely adjusted to his
mental constitution, All the laws
and agencies of nature are so arrang
ad as to facilitate the acquisition of
knowledge
The uniformity of nature in her
regular laws is ada pted to a being
who acquires knowledge by observa
Lion, abstraction, comparision and
3lassification.
As a rational being roience opens to
man her boundless fields for the exer
Dise and unlimited expansion of his
faculties, affording him at once the
widest scope for improvement, and an
inexhaustible source of enjoyment. As
a being endowed with imagination, and
raste, he can contemplate the beauti
ful and the sublime in the actual
world, and soar into the regions of
possible beauty-evoke the hidden
forms of nature and give them a "lo
Dal habitation and a name ;" and thus
entertain himself indefinitely with
visions of beauty, majesty, and glory,
which eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, and which he has no power
adequately to express; affording him
the most refined and elevated intel
lectual joys, filling him with noble
and lofty aspirations, and elevating
him above the gross and sensual things
of earth. The graceful forms and
delicate coloring of nature, her mag
nificent landscapes, her gorgeous sun
sets, her sublime mountains, oceans,
and cataracts, respond to his love of
the beautiful, the grand, and the sub
lime; and he is endowed with that
marvelous creative and constructive
power of calling into existence new
worlds, and peopling them with his
own ideal creations.
Again, there are emotions in the
human breast which nothing but the
gush of music will satisfy-sources of
joy and happiness which nothing but
her magic key can unlock. Now the
earth is a vast sounding gallary re
sponding to these emotions and sensi
bilities. God has inlaid the princi
pies of harmony in man's nature, and
Riled the world with music to awaken
and develope them. le formed the
spirit of the air, and set in motion
those invisible wings. He contrived
the cunning mechanism of the ear to
respond to those mysterious undula
tions, and framed the soul to inter
pret their hidden meaning. 'He gave
to the extended wire its melodious
vibrations, and breathed into the or
gan pipe its solemn voice.' Thus
music meets an essential want of our
nature, and comes as a divine nessen
ger to supply this felt necessity, and
preside over the mysterious operations
of the soul.
We observe further, that the forms
of matter are not unchangeably fixed,
but capable of infinite combinations,
to suit our infinite needs; and this is
adapted to the genius of man, whom
God made in his own image, when he
endowed him with a creative power,
out of existing materials to construct
now forms of matter, in the sphere of
fino art, and useful invention, as well
as new forms of beauty and sublimity,
in the realm of poetlo and imagina
tive literature.
Now put these facts together. On
the one hand, we find man endowed
by his Creator with reason, imagina
tion, taste, the love of music, the
power of invention.
On the other hand, we find nature
singularly adapted to such a being in
her uniformity and variety, her analo
gies and correspondenoies, her images
of beauty and grandeur, her music,
and materials for instruments of mu
sic, her mutable. and mobile forms of
matter, ausceptible of infinite change
and combination.
Thus it appears that it was our
Creator's design, that Nature should
furnish the 'waterial for the supply of
our physical and rational wants. Only
In so far as these wants -are supplied
can ye be happy. But these materi
als to meet our' wants must be known
and applied. They are obtained by
knowledge, and this knowledge is de
nominated Science, Philosophy, Poe.,
try, Art, Literature, according as it
is applied to our various 'wantg, to
satisfy our reason, imagination, inven
tion, and taste.
If man had never sinned he would
have had similar physical and rational
wants. The fall dld'not destroy any
organs of the body, or faculties of the
mind, but "wakened and perverted
them; nor alter the relations of man
to natute,but deranged them. Were
the race In a state of innocence they
would still acquire knowledge by stu
4l7 ,audrqfeotlon, though we might
dispst ,gith book~s and machines :
reason,' 'Imanation, all the sympa
thioes'nd -amotions of the mind would
still' find their gratification in the
inateial world.
IDat sin has dsetroyed the haelth of
thebody and mind lntredueed disease
ands suffering-. Labov -0 isased and
becomes. toil and drudging. The
earth Is. etbrsefr hma'w sake,s with
therns' se 'rihte, barrue nd
sterility, aarshes and- fenE, breeling
lIestilence and death.
Por all these physleal evils,; conse
quent upon sin, natnre cantains abn.
dant provision. Nature may be lik
ened to a vast storehouse where every
thing is sold that man needs for his
temporal wants and evils, and the
prihe is labor. The mind of man
must work upon matter and dig out
his supplis-in other words acquire
knowledge, and apply it in relieving
his necessities and sufferings.
She has her apothecary store, as
well as her grocery, her market, her
dry-goodo store, her machine shops.
Mental and bodily labor, in the ac
quisition and application of knowl
edge, will furnish the remedies for
disease, and the means for removing
sterility, for cultivating and enriching
the soil, for removing the causes of
malaria and the drudgery of toil.
Compare the nineteenth century with
the tenth, and observe how knowledge
has developed the nature of man, re
moved physical evil and suffering, and
added to the sum of human happiness.
But for knowledge man were a savage,
or a barbarian. low true it is that
men are destroyed for lack of knowl
edge! They perish by disease and
pebtilence, by drudging and exhaust
ing toil. The nind is starved for
want of food, and poisoned with error.
Most men have capacities for receiv
ing the treasures of Science, Philoso.
phy, Poetry, Art and Music, if they
were only developed and furnished
with knowledge. But they perish for
lack of knowledge. Their intellectu
al faculties are practically extinguish
ed.
3. We pass to consider man's social
wants and miseries. We do not de
sign to introduce here a discussion of
political economy, or civil government.
We merely allude to these branches
of knowledge to show how the doctrine
of the text applies to man's social
condition.
Man was made for society. Our
Creator has bound us together by mu
tual relations, and made us mutually
dependent, out of these relations arise
manifold wants-all that is essential
to an'enlightened civilization. Hence
we need not only a knowledge of the
facts of nature-the laws and proper
ties of matter, but a thorough knowl
edge of the nature of man and his
social relations-the principles and
laws of the social organization-"the
conditions under which association
shall be maintained, whereby each
member may, according to his position
and ability, best satisfy his wants and
improve his condition."
It cannot be doubted that the foun
dation of material prosperity is wealth.
the fundamental idea of which is the
means of gratifying desire. The first
thing essential to wealth is production,
which implies such a modification of
the materials God has given us, as to
adapt them to satisfy our wants. An
other thing essential to wealth is ex.
change, by which we receive the bene
fits of each other's production. This
is effeoted by a division of labor.
That every man may receive his just
proportion of wealth, there must be
laws of distribution and (on9umfption.
But in oid3r to production, there
must be facilities for changing the
form of matter, such as machinery,
mills, factories, tools. In order to
exchange, there must be facilities for
communication and transportation,
such as roads, bridges, canals, wagons,
railroads, ships ; and a circulating
medium of exehange, money, and
banks. Consider the vast amount of
knowledge involved in the construc
tion of this complicated system of
society--the knowledge necessary to
keep the whole machinery of modern
civilization in motion. Consider the
number of wants supplied, the desires
g ratified, the amounteof temnp oral coin
fort and happiness promoted. In the
distribution and consumption of
wealth, by taxation. Consider,
again, the extent to which the physi
cal, iellectual and moral wants are
supplied by public education, by re
moving pauperism, by maintaining
religious worship,by providing for the
aged and infirm, the widow and or
p han, the insane and the blind.
Looking to the social relations as
affected by the fall, we find them sad.
ly deranged. Under the dominion of
passion and lust, man, in his natural
condition, has but little respect for
the life, liberty, property and happi
ness of his neighbor. The selfishness,
avarice, rapacity and cruelty of man
haa filled society with thieves, rob
bers, murderers, libertines, so that the
very existence of society demands
some effectual mode of protecting the
rights of individuals. God has or
dained civil government for this end,
and left it to man to discover the
principles and laws,- as revealed in
nature, and republished in tlie moral
law. We must~ construct our sconce
of governiment for ourselves, just as
we construct any science--from given
facto and relations, deduce prinolples
and laws, and apply thoem to the ox.
toting state of society, our Creator
ha. left uas to form our own govern
ment, whioh must be determined by
the Intellectual and moral condition
of a people.
Cotatider the amoeunt of knowledge
involved In a sytemn-of igovernment,
like that. 'of En fand and Aerie.
Bitt out poInt toshow hot iil
government is fitted to Oounteraet the
evilofo soolety. Asour Oreater hae
made provision In nature for our phyi
sical evils, so he has provided in the
constitution of man and Pociety, for i
social disorders. How important is i
knowled ge in order to dlscover princi. 1
ples and laws and apply them to our a
social condition. In proportion as we i
lack this knowledge our wants and de t
sires are ungratified, our sufferings I
unrelieved. Ignorance is destructive I
of our social well being and happi. V
ness. The necessity of a general dif- s
fusion of knowledge to the existence V
of such a governinent as ours, is too v
plainly evident to need discussion i
here. Who can estimate the mis- F
chievous results of ignorance in a <
popular government: Who can say <
to what extent the text might be ap- I
plied to our own country. "The peo- <
plo are destroyed for lck of knowl- i
odo ?" Universal suffrage, without a
universal education, Is universal an- F
archy-the utter destruction of well- t
regulated liberty. I
The practical inference from the i
subject as thus far considered, is, that <
the acquisition of knowledge is the <
duty and interest of mankind. If a
God has given us a physical nature, v
whose wants and sufferings are provid- s
ed for in the material world, then it r
is our duty to satisfy our lawful wants, i
and remove our evils. We are bound
to acquire the knowledge requisite, F
and apply it according to our ability <
and opportunity. t
We are under still stronger obliga- s
tions to develop our intellectual and u
cmotional nature-reason, imagina- <
tion, taste, by acquiring all the knowl. v
edge of science, philosophy, art, poe. a
try, music, so far as we have the I
means, and satisfy our rational aolivi- r
ties and desires. We have as much
right to destroy our bodies, as our I
minds by starvation. It is criminal i
to allow either to perish for lack of s
knowledge. As rational creatures it is p
oriminal to be sati.'ied with food, rai- t
ment and shelter-to live in a log- v
house, and forego all the innocent re- s
finement of civilization, when we have <
the means of surrounding ourselves a
with the comforts. conveniences, and <
elegancies of life, which are fitted, to l
refine, and elevate our higher nature. t
It is our duty to adorn our Awellings 1
with works of art, to bless our homes a
with the harmonies of music, which I
have more affinity for heaven than i
earth: to cultivate and gratify the a
imagination with a knowledge of all
that is poetical in nature, history, and 1
religion. Our Creator never gave us i
these faculties, surrounded us with <
all that is filled to develop and satis
fy them, to be trampled under the t
sensual feet of the world and the i
flosh-of passion and lust. We are I
bound to develop the nature we have t
to its utmost capacity. As we have the t
means and opportunities of culture. '
it is our interest as well as our duty. <
As members of society, it is our '
duty to acquire and apply all possi- a
ble knowledge essential to promote its I
welfare, The prosperity of society a
depends upon the maintenanco of all "
our civil, educational and religious b
institutions, and this depends upon <
wealth. Each member is bound to do a
all he can to add to the material wealth 1
of society for this end. It is his in- I
terest as well nas his duty to make e
some personal sacrifice for the public I
good. We are bound to do all we I
can to secure the education and eleva
tion of every member of society, and
to contribute of our time, talents,4
money and influence, to establish pub. 1
lie schools, and support existing insti
tutions of learning, that all men may
have the means of acquiring that i
knowledge which is essential to their
own welfare, and the well-being of i
society. To the extent that we fail<
to fulfil this obligation, we are respon- 1
sible for the mischievous consequences I
of ignorance to society, and for the s
fate of the peonle who are "destroyed I
for lack of k noledge."
The importance of knowledge to a I
moral and spiritual being may be<
argued on two grounds.
I. The intimate connection between1
the rational and moral natures--be- i
Swoen the operations of reason and Oon
science. It is the ogfice -of reason to
analyze the facts of our moral nature
-the phenomena of conscience, and 1
generalize a code of morals. It is a'
function of the reason, also, to deter
mine the occasions and circumstances
to which specific roles are applicable ;1
in ether words, to examine facts, toi
weigh evidence, and ascertain truth I
In particular cases, to do for the eon- a
science, what lawyers do for the
jury, in examining witnesses, and <
eliciting evidence. If the evidence
be false, the jury must render a false<
verdiot ;for they judge not according<
to the real facts in the case, but the a
representation, whether true or false.
Thus, if the Intellectual faculties do
not elicit the mtruth from given facts a
and circumstances, conscience must
pronounce false judgement. hence
for lack of knowledge men are con
tinually pronouncing erroneous judg
mont upon their own principles and
actioni, and those of other., putting
darkness for light, error for truth,
corrupting the heartb blinding. the
understanding, and intig wrodg
and injustice upon the. lnoeent.
noranme aways geeates etrror
man who yieds t x b seepe ,0o
passionad prejudi eehssdo fsbi~
estly seeking the tratb, so prv1d
his conscience that it will very uoo#
>ronounoo false judgements as a mat
or of course, and his life will be a
issue of mitakos. Ile surrounds
inself with an atmoetphore of delu
ion, breathes In falsehoods with eve.
y breath, then stamping his nalignt.
y with the seal of - conscience,
>reaths out threateniings and slaugh
or," against the unuoffending. Thus the
roret crimes, the most relentless per
coutions, the most cruel and bloody
rars, receive the sanction of a per
erted conscience. The blackest. page
a American history is written with a
erverted conscience : all other causes
ombined, social, commercial, politi
al, could not have produced such
ertible results. Postulato a pervert
d conscience, and the mystery of
uiquity is unriddled. We see a cause
dequate to the effect. We see the
rinciple, operating in the perseou
ions of the inquisition, and the Prench
tevolution, oropping out it this Satan.
o strife, in its most awful, and hide.
'us development. The history of the
onscience of the great masses of those
rrayed against us, is a history of per
ersions and misreprosentations. In
ulated examples of abuse have been
eprosented as characteristic of an
ntitution they hated and sought to
lestroy. It would be a miracle, sur
assing all the "signs and wonders"
f the past, if a conscience, educated
brough all the gradations of the nur
cry, school, press, pulpit and lyce
im, to regard this system as the "sum
f all villainies" and the "climax of
rickedness," should do otherwise t han
anotion the horrid outrages and bar
arous vandalism of the federal ar
ules.
To a great extent ninny amongst us
ave employed the same principles of
uisrepresentation and sophistical rea
oning, to justify ignorance and do
radation to a degree uinite inconsis
cut with that justice and equity,
hich the Gospel requires. Tie re
ponsibility for these evil consequen
es of an unenlightened and perverted
onscienco rests mainly with the un
ducated, unreflecting masses, who are
orne along passively and irresistibly
pon the rushing tide of fanaticism.
?anaticism ensnes when the reasonihg
lnd reflective powers, are overborno
>y the tumult and excitement of the
magination, passions and feelings,
roused by a perverted conwcience.
What a weight of grief must rest
pon ministers of the Gospel. Edi
ors of the Press, orators of the Ly
eum, and demagogues of the Stump,
4orth and South, seek to accomplish
heir party schemes, or gratify their
ualice and ambition, by arousing the
>assions of the ignorant populace, un
il the tide of fanaticism sweeps over
he land, like a devastating flood I
here is no remedy for such fanati
ism but an enlightened conscience.
.he mightiest power for evil is a con.
cience perverted by error. It is the
rime cause of social anarchy, strife,
nd bloodshed. Had the North and
louth always understood each other,
ad conscience on both sides been edu.
ated under the the influence of facts,
uoh a war would have boon impossi.
de. The people have perished for
ack of knowledge, and ,his knowl.
idge is not furnished wholly by the
ight of nature or history. Conscience
a no safe guide, either in the Aphere
f morality or religion (if the do
tinction is admissiblIe) until eunlight
d in the Word of God and guided
y a sanctified season. The efifeot of
in was not to destroy the human con
cienee-to eradicute the principles of
ight and wrong, innate in the moral
'onstitution, but to pervert and de
ange thme functions of conscience, to
bacure and darken the moral judg.
nents ; conscience still dimly reveals
he principles of duty, but does not
ecure their proper application. The
amp which God gave man, at his
reation, burns dimly, by reason of
he fuel-sin has deprived it, almost
ntirely of its oil-the seement of
ight-and there remains only' a thin
niok, emitting a fliokering, uncertain
lame, affording just light enouga to
how us what we ought to do, without
howinS hot, to do -t The heathen
eel that they ought to worship God,
ut without the Bible, they
'stumble on the dark mountains 'of
in" into every forn of supersmtition~
ad idolatry, The lamp whiph sin
as emptied, must be replemniuhed a
he Fountain of Eternal Truth.' This
a the provision God has made for our
noral wants. Hie has endowed as
ith faonlties which when satisfied,
nlightened by his Word, are capable
f acquiring that knowledge, in refer.
noe to the various oooasskns and cit.
umatanoes in whioh tre are placed,
equisito, to the performance of all
arivato and social duties.
2. The necessity of knowledge is
een, again, in making 'us aetguaited
uIth the natore of God, and oar tela.
ions, tobhina, ae the God of Grade,
ud l(edemption, in order to m99~ pyrt
want, as spiritual audfleneo
Itee wsin this p d r faln oit~
hat the effooth of the F41I ere thiot
Maal.; We~hye sek that sin n~ iot
leatroy the hys' l, Inli a4~~pd
inorel .faou1 Is, t. wa oe a~d
bas ,wligioe I*WId eesdittet
a i9ely VxeofIse as is manifst front
he religions of paqanism Bu sin
did utterly extirpate the principle of
holiness, in which man's spiritual life
essentially consisted, and which do
pended for its existence upon union
with God. Sin broke that union,
and separated man from the fountain
of holiness and blessedness. Three
things may be considered as essential
to the s4piritual well-being of man,
viz: that he should resemble G od in
the holiness of his character ; that he
should lore hihn supremely--as the
satisfying portion of his soul ; and that
lie should have free and uninterrupt
ed cornmunion with hiui. Indeed
fellowship wil Uod is the life of ho
liness and love,
But thle sinner has lost the divine
image. The form of his moral nature
is depravity, the very opposite ot'
holiness. Instead of love, the carnal
mind is enmity against God. Instead
of communion, man is alienated from
God, and shuus his society. This is
his misery and his ruin. It is the
utter destruction of All spiritual well
being.
Now as God has provided for our
physieal wants and sufferings, in the
treasure-housn of nature ; for our so
cial wants and ovils, in the' constitu
tion of man and socioty, in the appli
cation of natural principles and laws,
(aided by Revelation, HO far as they
are republished) ; so God has provid
ed for our spiritual wants and mise
ries,in the Scriptures. Nature, and the
historical development, of mankind,
are the great sources of the knowl
edge we need as material, rational,
and social beings : a supernat ural re
velation is the only source of
knowledge, which meets our moral
and spiritual uccessities and sull'or ings.
The truth of naturo is not fitted to
meet our wants as sinners. If met at
all, it must he by other knowledge
than that furnished by the light of
nature; and of other knowledge, then,
it must be that it is supernatural, and
this is just what the Bible claims to be.
A knowledge of natural relations and
necessary principles mny he all-sufli
oient for an unfallon being. Adam
had no need to transcond tho natural
relations he austained to God and Ili
fellow-man, nor the necessary princi
ples of imorlity and religion given in
the striu tiur of his being. -11it sin
has modifim) our relntions to God end
completely changed our moral charac
ter. Hence a knowledge of those
new relations, and now moral and
spirtual wants must be made known
by a special revelation.
The- fitt want of a sinner is pardon
and acoeptance,doliveranoe from guilt
and condemnation, and reconcilia
tion with God, securing peace of con
science and a hope of heaven. The
second want Is a new principle of life,
or holiness, implanted and sustained
by the supernatural power of the
Spirit, applying supornatiral truth,
securing a deliverence from the power
of indwelling sin.
The next want is strength and con
solation amid the duties, temptations,
and sorrows of life. This is supplied
by the conmmunicationsof divine grace
in connection with the promise of the
covenant.
Another want Is personal Intercourse
with the Triune God. This is in fact
the prime want of the soul, that in
which its very life and felicity con
sists.
There was first. a necessity for thme
atonement of Christ,' to change our
relation to the laws of God, and then
for the renewing and sanctifying slir
ito change our depraved heart. TJhe
firat scures a righteous statec. The
second, a holy nature, in sympathy
Iwith God's moral perfectione, which
qualifies us for loving communion.
Hence the necessity of spiritual
knowledge. The9 kqow lodge of Christ
and his atoning work, is rnecessary for
'our justifitiobm. The knowledge of the
HolyiSpirit andk his peculIar mission Is
tequisitie to our sanotifloation. r~The
knowledge of izr relation to "'God ammd
Father .of our Z4 J1, 0.,"' and our
covenant 0,d in ):Im, is essential to
afford us spiritual- consolation. The
love of. the Father, the merit of the
8QO, the strength of the holy Spir it,
meet all the wants of the sinner. "This
is life eternal, to know thee the true
God, and Jeosus Christ whom thou hast
sent." "We are saved by' the wssh
qg'fregcnoia'tiod and the rotewing
of h' fr.y Ohost4"~ It is by means
of the truth, i6telleotually apprehend
ed, and experimentally received, that
Wpen ini regenerat ion, the. prinei pe of
h lines# Is imbilted, the peow, Jife is
siistained anid nodrished bf -spiritual
truth, under th& tuition of the Holy
Ghost. "Wo purify. ourselves,,in
obeying the trudll through tihe Sjpirt."
The discussion of this part .of thme
enhjeot conducts us to the anepFac
tIMal lesson, as the foame~r. "i It Is tour
duty and our interest t uek~ forimo
dtot providp for. tle wants and auf
efm~ of our physical, rational and
' Kmtira, hiow ineh sonethe
-obligatioh f?d provide fot' our' ruo-al
wseeesities and evi ls-.--to "satiefy the
Qpa0$, tAf a beeg ,ho, ie capsbje
eo~froi to4nt Inadru the bar
des of~~i W Ip Le an4wiey.
How shalt these want. and *ederings
be met? IlRaoon taches ta the
provision God line made for the ani.
mial, tle intellectual, and social na
turcs, is not ruited to our moral and
spiritual nature. The body cannot
eat, drink, and wear scictice, litera
ture, and art. Reason cainnot feed
upon bread and ment. Neither can
the moral nature le nourished with
bodily anil mental food. No ! the
Bible furnishois the only knowledge
adapted to our imoral wants, and how
inany souls are destroyed for lack of
his knowledge. Milfions of the hu
nan familv ire perishing by a "'fain
lae of the Word of God." What a
t-miiiendous res1ponsibility rests upon
tlho.< who have the vord of life, with
referen to t he destitute nations!
To perish without the Bible is aw
ful, but to be destroyed for lack of
l:knowledgo, iu a Cbristian land, and
with the Bible in our lmide, is horri
le to co!template It is our duty
and interest, ncreover, to keep in
mind the relit ive importance of physi
1al and moral truth. As God has but
one system-nature and tihe superna
tural -the former being subservient
to the latter ----so the end of all knowl
edge is one. Physical, historical,
moral truth, how much soevor they
may differ in their nature, look to tho
same end; in relation to ian, his per
footion and happines'i ; in relation to
God, his glory. It is essential to hu
mnan perfection, that the physical and
rationial naturo should b subservient
to the miioral ; that we should seek for
knowledge in nature, and history,that
we may hetter utlerstand inil apply
the siupernaitural knowledge of reve
it ionI. 1Both n aturo aind revelation
meet inl history, which is but tihe de
velopietint of the hunan race, natu
rally and supernat urall y. I I' such be
the importanen of trut i we do not,
wonder that the 8,!riptuires utter such
terrible denunci ations against thos3e
who hato and reject kno( wledge,
a oiiur suifferings, physically, men..
tally, 10oeily, moraliy nd spiritul
ly, are thlie n1t ura v n ncessa ry conl
seilice of th lack of knowledge
aid wisdom----kInowlodge, adapted to
or nature, and visely applied. ''Wis
m ' Phe prhpe thIin iug." Knowl.
edge ean he of servive to us, only as it
is applied. "T e letter killeth.''
"Knowledge puffeth up.'" "Ilic that
iencreas(th knowledgv, increaseth sor
ro W." On 01na1.y uniderstanld aill mlys..
tory and all1 knowledge," and it,
"proflt hiin iothin."'
More knowledpl' feeds on pride,
vanity, self-conceit, and under tho
guidance of passion and Iuist, renders
its possessor powerful for mischief.
"Wisdoim is the prn aci pal tling'
truth known tiid applied to its appro
priate uses. Wisdom consists in oim
ploying the right ine1ans for aecoiml
plishiig the right end. The 11imme
diato e1nl of man is hisown well-boing
an d perfection, piysic. 1, 111onial and
mtoral. Tho icalls, 1ruth, whatever
(od hasstored away in naturo and to
volation. True wisdoin consists in dis
covering this truth, and then practi
cally using it to satisfy our waiits and
relievo our sulffering. It is not moro
food we want, but. appropriate food,
properly prepared, eniteni and digested.
It is not materials maorely, but ma
torials wisely put together so as to
form comifortable and elegant gar
mnents and( dI wellings. It is not mere
intellectual knowledge we want, but
knowledge cordially embraced, ox
peorimentally recoivedl andl daily prac
ticed. "TIhe excellency of know
ledge is, thant it giveth /fe to them
that have it,"' and life in the scrip
tures is only another namie for well
being anid happiesso. In scoiuring the
immediato end of k nowledge, to satis
fy the wants for which it is applied,
Wisdom keeps in view the uhlimule end,
the glory of the rTriunej God-our
moral and spiritual perfection as a me
dinum of "mnamfasting the manifold
wisdom and grace of God to princi
palitics and powers throughout eter
nal ages."
iuar. Nicanyngn A'r As'impoo Fr~in
nr.-Tlhe Ubarleston News. on Satur
day learned the following rogarding ai
buamurder comm113ittedl on Tuesday
latbythree niegrees, at Ashepoo
Ferry, on the Charleston and Savan
nah lie ilroad, thirty-sovon miles from
theo city. A negroJ man, it appears,
had interfered with the domestic ar
rangements of another negro. The
wronged husband, with two friends,
went to the plantation where the dIfs
turber of lisa peace lived, and, withott
warning, shot hitn. 'The negro fell
andi was 1(hen bacikedU to picous ith
hoes ~y' the two frionds. T1hie vbtimn's
hoad wasB boaten in, and his, logs and
army out off. .Thma huisban<L has es
ecaped, but his companions are under
arrest.
'lhe historiaiis wh6 have beon vext.
ing their. hearts over-the persistent re
fusal .of the WVar Popartment to ran t
them access to the .archives or theo
Confederate GIovernrnent might hotter
have posessed their souls in patience.
It Is reported 'that the Presi dent is
about to throw open those records, un
deriproper pestrIctIons, to applicant.
~e No g ork /Tribune says thKt if
the testli'ioy of those wdo have ex
adlilned themii may be excepted, it will
then ibe tiod that the' arohlve 'to'
psagerly *ought are nearly. worthleas
when attainerd.