what poor man have they made rich, what miserable man have they sustained by their philosophy, in life or in death?

Well meaning they may be, but it is the well meaning of ignorant and foolish men-ignorant of the bible, ignorant of history, ignorant of human nature, and those moral causes which have always been auspicious or pernicious—not knowing what they say, or whereof they affirm. Reckless are they of their own and of your best good; wanton, rash, and desperate are they in their experiments; moral maniacs, more utterly bereft of common sense than any other class of men who ever set up for guides and challenged confidence. The evidence cannot be heightened of the falsehood and folly of their system. Should they propose a system of agriculture, which reversed every one of the known principles of natural philosophy, it would not surpass the violence which their system does to the equally well known, and established laws of mind, society, and moral government. That righteousness, such as they despise, exalteth a nation, and sin, such as they eulogize, is the destruction of a people, is as certain as the laws of vision or of gravity.

It is hard to elevate the mass, and harder to sustain, and none but by the help of God and his institutions have been able to do it. Christianity is the world's last hope for civil liberty; if this will not diversify the results of national prosperity, then are we with rapid strides making

for the precipice, and preparing to bid a long farewell to all our liberty. You must reject these evil counsellors. You must appreciate the bible, or you and yours will soon fall back into that state of hopeless ignorance and poverty, and vice, from which there is no resurrection. The priestcraft which has darkened and enslaved the world, is one which has rejected or sequestered the bible: not that which gave it to the common people, and preached the gospel to the poor. It is christianity which introduces universal liberty, which equalizes and elevates, and it is its absence which puts you down. The conspiracy against your liberties is forming by those who would banish from you the day of rest, and intellectual and moral improvement, and doom you and your families to toil seven days instead of six without the least increase of remuneration. This it is which will unintellectualize the labouring classes, and throw them back into the distance beyond the light of hope, and the reach of successful competition. If you wish to be free indeed, you must be virtuous, temperate, well instructed, with the door of honor and profit open to you, and to your children. As the sun draws up the whole body of the ocean it passes over, raising the tide in the career of his glorious way, so will the sun of righteousness take hold of you and your families and raise them up, and bring them within the constant attraction of hope and virtue. Those who wish for the preservation of the sabbath, are

not bigots; they do not seek a union of church and state; they seek the unextinguished lustre of that moral sun for your sake, who with it will rise and without it will go down to where all the laboring classes of the world have been, and now are-whom the bible and the sabbath have not emancipated and elevated.

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It is the agriculturists, merchants, manufacturers and day laborers, of the nation, who must decide its destiny. It is your hearts that must be the sanctuary of liberty; and your conscience that must stand sentinel, to prevent her perversion, and your bodies that must constitute a rampart around those holy and blessed institutions of heaven, which God has given to man in the bible-whose blessings our fathers with toil and blood put in motion, and which with augmenting prosperity, at every step, have come down and are now rolling around us like the waves of the sea; blessings which urge themselves upon us, and from which we cannot flee, and whose blest intrusion we cannot resist, but by taking counsel once more to break the bands of christ, and cast away his cords from us. We need not petition congress to spare the sabbath, if they do, the people can desecrate the sacred day-the people must decide, each man for himself and his family, whether he will live under the government of God, and enjoy its sunshine, and breathe its liberty, and be elevated by its power and sanctified by its puM

rity, and blessed by its exuberant, unnumbered and inexhaustible blessings; or, go back to the midnight of ignorance, and the bondage of corruption.

LECTURE VI.

THE

ATTRIBUTES AND CHARACTER

OF

GOD.

EXODUS XXXIV. 6, 7.

AND THE LORD PASSED BY BEFORE HIM, AND PROCLAIMED, THE LORD, THE LORD GOD, MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS, LONG-SUFFERING, AND ABUNDANT IN GOODNESS AND TRUTH, KEEPING MERCY FOR THOUSANDS, FORGIVING INIQUITY, AND TRANSGRESSION, AND SIN, AND THAT WILL BY NO MEANS CLEAR THE GUILTY; VISITING THE INI QUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN, AND UPON THE CHILDRENS' CHILDREN, UNTO THE THIRD AND TO THE FOURTH

GENERATION.

GREAT errors in doctrine, result usually from mistaken conceptions of the attributes and character of God. There are two extremes to which the mind is liable: the one is to regard the divine being only in his public character, as the lawgiver of the universe; and his power, and wisdom, and goodness only as they are manifested in his public relations in the government of a sinful world.