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PHCENIX.
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Cherokee Phcenix.
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RELI&XOU3.
PATRIOTISM SUSTAINED BY
RELIGION.
The knowledge, contemplation, and
Yvorship of God, unquestionably pro
duce the strongest and purest emotions
of which our minds are susceptible.*-
Every attribute of deity, every evolu
tion of providence^ every bright dis
covery of grace and mercy, tills the
goal with ideas, as salutary as they
are sublime. We melt in penitence,
wrestle in prayer, and exult in adora
tion and praise. Reverence, admira
tion, gratitude, love, hofta, and joy,
lienee take their rise; and here tind
the amplest scope and finest field tor
f their exercise. Nor is it conceiva
ble how these passions of the human
tnind should be moved towards the
f reatest and best of beings, without
heir having collaterally a benign in
fluence on the civil relations and the
fcocial duties of life. To expect good
citizens, where conscience is extinct,
Were a project as egregiously foolish,
Bs an attempt to rear a stately edifice
Upon a foundation of yielding sand.—
The wisest men of evccy age have
thought it better that mankind should
bavc even a religion full of error and
Superstition, than be given up to the
Mark and desolate vacuity of Atheism.
'‘Were reverence towards the gods
destroyed, I know not but mutual fi
delity, and the social ties which bind
man to man, and that most excellent
Virtue, justice, would be banished out
of the world.” It is, however, pass
ing eulogium on the superstitious wor
shipper, to prefer him to an Atheist.
We are far from thinking with Mr.
Hume, that activity, spirit, courage,
magnanimity, ‘‘love pf liberty, and all
the virtues which aggrandize a peo
ple,” are the natural growth of poly
theism. A comprehensive and im
partial view of facts would lead to a
very ditfeient conclusion. But what
ever may be said of the sacred rites
of Greece and Rome, Christianity
gives such views of the Being and mo
ral government of God, as have an ob
vious tendency to purify and regulate
the movements of the mind, and ad
vance the welfare both of individuals
and of nations. Nothing else can be
fouud equally capable of touching and
exalting uii the springs of action. To
say, as some do, that instinct, sympa-
tuy| and uabit, are sufficient grounds
unci guarantees of morality, is to cov
er nonesensc with a veil of general but
unmeaning language. Instinct inay
direct th© inferior animals; in man the
control of reason is required; and rea
sou requires that illumination from a-
bove which the gospel only supplies.
Sympathy ,;nd habit become virtue or
vice, just as one is directed and the
other lormed. A sound system of re
ligious belief has a favorable iniluence
m purifying and elevating the soul of
man: and the process of argument,
by which this conclusion is drawn, is
as clear as any train ot reasoning on
moral topics can be. Just concep
tions ol the wisdom and goodness of
God in providence produce content
ment and resignation, and, of course,
suodue the irctful emotions of anxie
ty and impatience. Glowing love to
God, from a vivid apprehension of his
boundless benignity and grace, begets
a benevolent feeling towards all his
creatures—particularly our fellow-
men, to whom we are bound by vari
ous ties. How can envy, hatred, and
malice, arrogance, tyranny, and op
pression, find a place or predominance
in such an element? A deep and se-
rious sense of the presence of Deity,
of his unspotted justice, holiness, and
truth, is utterly inconsistent with the
deliberate practice of any kind df sin.
A firm conviction that the present is
only a probationary state, and that a
worid in which the righteous are su
premely happy, and the wicked are
wretched and miserable, is soon to o-
pen upon us, is adapted to weaken the
servile attachments of odr hearts to
time and sense. Thus truth, equity,
sell-denial, temperance, benevolence,
disinterestedness, devotion, and all
other virtues, receive their main sup
port and nutriment from pure religion.
One of the greatest philosophers our
age has produced, has justly remark
ed, “that scepticism is an evil of the
most alarming nature; and as it ex
tends, in general} not only to religion
and morality, hut msoms measure al
so to politics and the conduct of life,
it is equally fatal to the comfort of
the individual, and the improvement
of society. Even in its most yioflen-
sive form, when it happens to be unit
ed with a peaceable disposition and a
benevolent heart, it cannot fall to
have the effect of damping every ac
tive and patriotic exertion.”—Spirit
and. Man. oj the Jlge.
NEW YEAR S DAY.
Or the Measuring.
“Now girls’,’ said Clement to his
sisters, “as we have finished our nuts
and apples, let us go and measure
how much we have grown in the last
year. You know that on this day
twelve month father marked with his
encil, on the shutter K the exact
eight of each, with our names a-
gainst them; 1 dare say I have over
topped finely;”
“Not so much as you fancy,” ans
wered Anne; “for I am sure Louisa
grows quite as fast, I am not a great
way behind her” “Seeing is believ
ing,” cried Clement; and away they
nil ran to the window. They pulled
the curtain aside, and began hastily
in seek for the pencil marks; but in
vain. All agreed as to the place that
they should have been found in, yet
none could find them.
“I declare,” exclaimed Clement,
in bitter vexation, “that stupid new
servant has done the mischief. I saw
her Gcrubbiug away at the wainscot
some time ago; but little thought she
was washing off our measures.”
His sisters joined in the lamenta
tion, and then they began to dispute
as to who would have proved the
quickest grower of the three.
At last their father said he believed
he could settle the question.
“How can you, father, whep the
marks are all quite gone?”
“I considered their loss as likely to
happen during the year, and noted
down in my memorandum-book the
exact height of each of you.”,
The children were very glad; and
while their father ivas looking over
his notes, he said to them,
“How little reason we have to take
pleasure, or feel p ide, in things that
may be swept away in a moment!
It is the folly of mankind to believe
that their names shall endure forever,
when they, have called their houses
and lands after their names; or put
them upon some monument of their
own vanily. Nothing is worthy to
he had in rememberance, that is not
meet to be recorded in the Book of
Life.”
Having found his memorandum,
he now measured the shutter with a
little fool rule, and made the marks as
they were before; saying that they
were exactly the same distance from
the ground.
CJement had the pleasure of finding
himself more grown during the year
than either of his sisters; and in
deed lie looked very tail upon it.
“Now, my dear children,” sSHl
their father, when they had once
more seated themselves near the
cheerful fire, “you are satisfied by
knowing by how much your heads
are nearer to the sky than they were
twelve jnonths since; but have you
asked yourselves whether your souls,
have been drawing nigh unto heaven?
—^whether you have grown in grace,
as in stature? &. whether the knowl-
ede of your Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ has increased like your ac-
quaintanue with earthly learning?”
The childreu did not expect this ques
tion: they looked on each other, and
were silent. Their father went
on.
“Ofthe infant Jesus, it is said
that he grew in wisdom & in stature,
and in favor with God and man. He
who left us an example that we should
tread in his steps, has mercifully
caused this to be written, as a pat
tern for chidren. To bo proiuf of
your growth in size and age, if your
laitli and holiness do not likewise in
crease, is to glory in your shame.—
Every opportunity that the past year
has afforded you of hearing-faithful
teachers, of study ingjUtftfi word, nay
of looking upon his wonderful works
Which surround you, if not improved
to the profit of your souls, is written
against them in that terrible book,
out of which the dead shall he judg
ed. Alas, my children! not a day of
that year which we look back so guil
ty upon, but has left against us many
a charge of ingratitude, unbelief, neg
lect of God, forgetfulness of the Sa
viour, and resistance against the Holy
Spirit. Our sins have taken such
hold upon us that we may well be
unable to look up.”
There was a silence of some min
utes, for the children were very much
affected at what their father said,
and they secretly recalled to mind
how very often they had knowingly
offended, without even having felt re
morse for guilt.
In, the mean time, their father
looked with a sad countenance upon
the pages of his book, and asked them
whether they did not remember a-
nother measuring?
“Yes, Father,” replied Louisa;
“but we did not like to remind you
of it.” 1
“So I thought. You all laughed
and enjoyed" the frolic of measuring
your baby brother who kicked, and
struggled so much.”
“I held his tiny feet,’* said Anne,
“and Clement steadied his bean
wiuit; idiii uii ludiuuid 5 lap, ana you
measured him with a bit of tape.”
The tear trickled from her moth
er’s eyes.* she remarked, “My baby
needs no measuring now; he is still in
nis cold grave.”
“He rests in the presence of God,”
added her husband, fervently, “afid
blessed be his holy name, who took to
himself our little one so early! A
short sweet, passage was his, from
the cradle to heaven. But my dear
children, does not this lesson speak
awfully to you? The youngest of all
has been taken away, since last year
dawned; and which of you can securely
reckon on being permitted to behold
another year? I, who have again
measured your height, may see you
measured for your coffins ere long;
then comes the dreadful measuring of
your short and sinful lives, by the
righteous law of a holy God. O, flee
to the refuge of sinners—cling to the
Rock of ages, Jesus Christ—implore
the assistance of Divine grace, and
use it diligently! So will you be
sale; and 1, if bereft of you, shall yet
be happy. Shun contention; never
provoke one another, except to love
•and good works; while every day
brings you nearer to death and judg
ment, let each find you more fully
prepared to meet your God.”
ueen caiieu lo pass sentence upon two
caSes of homicide, in one ol winch, bulb
the prisoner & the deceased weie, at
the time the oiicuce was alleged io
have been committed, in a slate of
beastly intoxication. And m the
other, the case of the miserable be
ing who is now arriagned at this nary
it was also proved by one of our li
censed retailers, that he sold bei on
the night ofthe murder three or lour
glasses, although, at the time she came
into the store, she was so intoxicated'
that she staggered. Thus prtqiaied,
in a stated'mind thus phrenzied, tins
crime was committed. If, as we
taught to believe, it is a crime to.
tempt as well as to be tempted, hew
can those hope to escape moral re-*
tribution, who hold forth lures of in
temperance, and, by assisting to over
throw the reason of the vicious, pre
pare them for the work of iniquity?
It is undeniably true, that a very ia.gc
proportion of the crimes which are
committed, arc traceable either di
rectly or indirectly to the influence of
spirituous liquors; and I will add,
that the poverty and wretchedness
which prevails in society are to be
ascribed more to this than all other
causes united. These facts are mat
ters of notoriety, and yet the evil con
tinues; Bpreading and extending A
baneful influence. In probing the
sources of ibis evil we are met with
the appalling tact, that there are at
this moment three thousand persons
in tins city, who are licensed to retail
spirituous liquois—licensed to pur
sue a calling, the direct tendency ; nd
necessary consequence of which n is
to ruin the health and deprave the
morals of thousunds of our lellow
beings. While such facilities are af
forded lor depraving morals and de
throning reason, is it matter of snr-
blood-stained murder”
INTEMPERANCE.
From the New-York Observer.
T11E VOICE OF JUSTICE.
4
Punishment for an evil deed ought
to extend to all who inay have par
ticipated in the guilt of it. The prin
cipal and the agent—the temper and
live tempted—he that actually perpe
trates the crime, and he that conupts
and entices, and stands by consenting i prise, that
while it is done, should sutler togeth- j stalks abroad among us? If the pow
er. Wherevej' it can be done this er ol applying a corrective was not in
principle is recognized in legislation;! the hands of the people—if the gov-
and never docs public sentiment give j eminent unuer which we live was ini
a more heart-tclt sanction to the j dependent of and superior to the will
awards of law, than when the wretch
who has stood behind and urged on its
ostensible violator, is dragged forth
and made to feel its vengeance.
But there are certain cases in
which,—strange as it may seem—the
legislative, judicial,, and executive
ol the. people—'if an enemy liar] done
this thing,” there might be some* ex
cuse for us. But as all power i4
either mediately or immediately do-
rived Irom them, and is in their hands,
as it is but necessary tor them to will
: that a corrective should be applied,
and it will be done, how can we stand
a
ng
powers are ail vested in one of the i lU1 ^ ‘f; done, how can we stai
parties—in which the corrupted are ac, l ul ! le d hi neglecting to apply
openly and in the face of day punished , reme ‘v ? In our-ardent and headier
by the corrupter. Of the many who ' careei through this world, in the pur-
expose themselves to the penalties of s , u *^ P ro perty or honor, let us pause
law, 8 very large proportion—three- * or a moment to consider the cause of
c—<i._ .4 i..-„* 4i._: suffering humanity; let us devise the
most judicious measures for the cor
rection of this evil, and by a firm,
fourths, at least,—owe their suffer
ings to intemperance. By the cus
toms and institutions of society, by
allurements a sanctioned&.made traf-
tick of by the public authorities, the
unthinking victim is gradually led bn
from one indulgence and crime to an
other, till he stumbles headlong into
the pit prepared by the power that
has ruined him.
Even here, however, the punish
ment is not bo unequally divided as
might be supposed. There is One of
higher authority, to whom communi
ties are amenable, and by whom they
are punished, although with no visi
ble array of ministers of justice, yet
certainly and severely, ar.d with an
equity that it becomes the framers of
human lat^s to study and adore. It is
impossible that a community, by
whose pernicious legislation and cm;.,
rupting practices an individual is
into crime, should escape daily bud
hourly retribution—retributio'., made
up of the loss of what the individual
himself might have contributed to th«
power and happiness of d, e communi
ty, and of all the offering and ex
pense resulting from the depravity
and pauperisr^ occasioned by bis ex
ample. £*uch a guilty and suffering
community is ours. The following
retLarks of Judge Edwards, on pro
nouncing sentence of death on Catha
rine Ccshiere,furnish both the proof &.
the illustration.
“During the present.court we have
and determined concert of action,
carry those measures into effect. It
is the cause of public justice, of pub
lic morals, and of suffering humanity,
which demands our aid- Vain are all
the expectations which are formed,
of its being in the power of the minis
ters of justice to restrain the workers
of iniquity—to stay the hand of vio
lence, until this evil is correctedj
Fifty are corrupted bv ardent spirits,
where one is corrected by the law 7 .—
Shall w'e listen to this appeal of
“public justice, of public morals, and
of suflcri’.ig humanity!”
•—— We must!
\v r e read the dictate in the infant’s
eye;
In the wife’s smile; and in the placid
sky;
And, at our feet, amid the silent dust
Of them that were before us.
Doubtless it will be a hard le-a’te* 1
to correct evil we have so long clier-
islicd. Yet it can be done, and we
believe at less expense of ti/ne and
labor than some other important
changes in the feelings and habits of
society have required} Those who-
would shut up every ^ram-shop ar©
already far more numerous than were-
the opposersjof the slave-tradfc when
Clarkson wrote hi* celebrated Essay,
and since his triumph, no man who de
serves, tp be called a philanthropist^
, can shrink from an undertaking 'hfe
