Gospel Herald, 1860-11-17

              De-v-oted to Cliristianiiy, Morality, the Interests of  Sakibiath ScihooLs, Social ItTiprovexn.ent, Tem.peru.nce>, Ediaoation, and General New^B.
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VOL. 17.
DAYTON, 0., SATURDAY, NOW 17,1860,
NO. 28.
ORIGINAL POETRY.
}Veitten for the (losjiet  Herald.
The Grave-Yard,
BKAHAM ,SNl!THElf.
One day I was among the tomba, I heard some f'rieuds lament and mourn; Death like a foe, their friends had elain, And tilled their hearts with grief and pain.
I said, "dear fripnds you're not alone; I too, like you, am made to mourn; " "I had two sons to me most dear, Behold they now aro lying here."
Tliose marble slab.i now mark the place, Whcro they are laid iu death's embrace; Those anus that once embraced me 'round, Lie cold and mouldoriug in the ground.
Cousumptioa seisicd one's lungs severe, Aud preyed upon him for long years; Then death did come at close of day, And look from me my dear sou James.      „
Bat death I grim death ! did not stop here; 1 had anuiher son moat fair;   .    - Duath, like a Vulture, came again, And took from u: e my dear sou Va a.
I have a hope that cheers iiiy breast, That my dear sous have go»e't»rest; For they professed to know the Lord, , Aud leaned upon his faithful word.
0, bless the. Lord I the truth declares, .That Christiscsare "Sweet Heaven's heirs; Then cease my heart to ache aud paiu, Since I shall meet my sons again.
"Why should I thus, then ehed a tear,
I soon shall end my laboring here;
If faithful then, 111 glory gain,
Aud praise the Lord with Van and James.
We'll have sweet robes so oleau and white. And wear those crowns that shine Sebright; There palms of victory we shall gain, Aud ever in Christ's kingdom reigu.
jOmGINALITIES.
WrUtcn fenr the Go>i>e.l I{a-ald.
TJnitariaiiism vs. Trinitarianism.
By TTnitarianiBiu I mean, the belief that tho Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is the only true G-od. By Trin- itariaiiiam, 1 moan, the dogma, thai, three personB comi)o,i;e the Supreme G-od. These two vie.vB ever have Seen, and ei^er must be, ho-'^tilo to each other.    Tho   Unitarian,   of whatever
. grade, adopts the simple and sublime doct.rine of the unity of the Deity; all Trinitarians, receive as true, the math¬ ematical absurdity, that three porscjha
: are.one person, and compose one in¬ telligent Being,, -whom they call the Triune G-od.
The tendency of human nature to multiply objects of 'worship, is a ro-
; markablo phenoinenon. Moses pro¬ claimed to the Israelites in the wilde.r-,
: ness, that the'Lord their God "is one Lord." And yet his back was hardly turned, till they demanded .Aaron to
• make them a golden calf. The 'ipostles were scarcely laid in ' their graves, when the early Christians be^..an to demand other objects of worship, than the Father of the TJriiver.sa. Hence the ';'Arian Controversy;" hence the Nicene and Athanasian creeds; hen co that' self-contradicting dogma, that '•the ..Father is G-od, and the Son is God, and the Holy  G-host is  God; and yet
these are not three Gods, but one God," This shocking absui-dity, being established, opened the way for further departures from the trae worship.— Then came the worship ofthe Yirgin Mary, whom they blasphemously call¬ ed "the Mother of God." After this, followed the worship of divers Saints —then the adoration of relics—last, the worship of pictures and images. And thus, Christianity was not 500 years old till Christian Homo had as many objects of worship, as Pagan Eomo had before adored.
But tho Eeformation came. And the Eeformers saw that tho Church had become idolatrous; and they be¬ gan to lop off these idols. First they discarded pictiircs, images and relics, as unwortby of worship. Then they refused to worship any Saint, even tho "blessed Virgin." At that point, alas, thoy stopped 1 If they had dis¬ carded the worship of a man-made Trinity, and of that fictiori, a Triune God, thoy would have returned to tho true, ancient and sublime worship. Scrvetus, indeed, insisted on this, *.nd was burn ed at the stake for his Uni¬ tariauism. Others demanded it; but their voices wero drowned in a sea of persecution. But "truth crushed to earth will r'se n.gti,in." As tho Eefor- mation advanced, now and distinguish¬ ed advocates of the truo worship ap- ])earod. Among thepe, in England, woie Bucli men as Milton, a.nd, New¬ ton, aud Locke, and Watts; ami since then, in Englaod and Atnerica, a host of as great men as the two countries havo produced. Antl within a centu- ly, a very largo multitude, in America and Europe, havo declared in favor of the worship of God the Father, as the only Supreme God. And now, be¬ tween this niuintnde and the whole Trinitarian ¦ : jierhood, there has arisen an "ji.,..pressibl6 conflict."— Against this multitude, GatnoHcs and "Orthodox" Protc.-.tant8 have combin¬ ed their incongruous forces. And un¬ der such circumstances, Unit.arians liave but two choices—to submif'i or to stand up together bravely for tho truth. And the latter is plainly their duty.
In tho performance of this duty, there ought to bo a perfect union be¬ tween all Unitarians. And the cir- cumstanoo that among them there is variety of opinion touching the char¬ acter of Christ or any other specula¬ tive doctrino, should not prevent that union. There is more congruity be- between any two honest Unitarians or class of Unitarians, than there, can be between a .Unitarian.and a Trinita¬ rian. Tho central idea of all true re¬ ligion is the unity; of God. All Uni¬ tarians maintain that ceutr,il idea; all Trinitarians obscure and compound it. The Unitarian can truly say to the Trinitarian, as Christ said to tho Sama¬ ritan woman: "Ye worship yo know not what, we know what we worship." Unitarians agree jn all the essential points of Christianity. They agree that to us there is but one God, the Father ; they agree that Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior of the world; they agree that Christianity andits'blessed precepts are adivinere- velation; thoy agree that the grace of God which bringeth salvation hath.ap¬ peared unto all men, teaching us tbat.
BY   A. W. SANl'OKD.
We next inquire after tho conse¬ quences of sin. Paul tells us that "tho wages of sin is death." Mere death of the body ! by no means ; for we are also informed, that sinners are "dead in trespasses and sins," by which I understand that, as in natural death, thojjsoul, whoso indwelling vitality alom-i, gives life to the body, is separa¬ ted therefrom and leaves that body in¬ active and lifeless; so, in tho moral death, sin separates the soul from liv¬ ing communion with God, who is its spiritual life, which separation is, its- self a death to "righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost," Isa. 59 : 2, "Your iniquities have separated be¬ tween you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you,"
Being thus "alienated from the i^lfe of God, ignorant of tho love of God, there is in us, no vital and permanent incentive to a living obedience to his law, and, as in natural death, our physical senses become oblivious of beauty, harmony and feeling in the ex¬ ternal world; so, also, in this death, our spiritual sensibilities aro incapa¬ ble of appreciating tho adaptation of the Divine law, to tho wants and ca¬ pacities of our spiritual natuj-e ; in a word we are "dead in tresspasses and in sin,"
True, sometimes, under tho stimu- lousofsuddonfcar of doatn—or, when friends ai-e stricken down by our side —when some^ alarming Providence seems to threaten us with imminent danger, or extreme distress; the soul denying ungodliness aud worldly lusts,' may start up fitfully from this sleep
we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world. Who¬ ever believes all this in his heart, and practises it in his life, is a Christian, When such a man ascribes glory to God, I can say, amen. But when tho Trinitarian says, "glory to the Triune God," I cannot say, amen; for I am sure that he is worshiping "he knows not what!"
Therefore I long to see all Trinitari¬ ans—^whether they bold to Christ's proexistcnco, as Watts, Worcester, and Stone did, or hold tho more Socin- iau view, as Dr, Samuel Clark and Dr, Priestly did—unite in the common de¬ fence of a liberal and rational Chris¬ tianity against the bigotry and absur¬ dity of Trinitarianism,
I would kindly say to all Unitari¬ ans of every grade, do not bite and devour ono another, lost ye be con- sun.ed one of another. Let us all combine in this good cause. The Trin¬ itarian shows us no quarter. Wo can expect none from them. But we are brethron ; let us love as brethren. Lot all who hold tho unity of God, have the unify of the spirit in tbe bond of peaco. Let all the worshipers of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Clirist, whether thoy dwell in tho East and are called Unitarians, or in tho West and are denominated Christians, regard themselves as one body called lo maintiiin "tho faith once delivered to the Saints,"    Aineti.
D, M,
Indianapolis, Ind.
Wrillen for the Ganjiet Hei
Positiire Theology. "HoTo.
;,f tlie grave, and make some spas- modhr efforts toward external obedi¬ ence to tho law of God.   ,^' ¦¦'^ -.¦^•'¦f^
Those efforts, however, aro "like the ghastly and horrid contortions of tho face, the laborious heaving of the chest and spasmodic action of the limbs, of the pallid corpse, under the stimulus of electricity; the symptom.s of life are fearfully counterfeited, and,, for tho moment, ono might believe it existed ; but the cadaverous counte¬ nance, the leaden eye and pulseless heart, all tell, tliat the momenttho ox-, citement is removed, theso seeming evidences of life, will again vanish in the reality of death.
One thing, however, this spasmodic exertion of the moral powers, doss de- monsti-ato. Tho organism is not de- struyod. Despite this moral death, the deconi])osition of our moral suscepti- biiilieslias not yet ensued, or, .atloast, is not yet consumated,:
"The dead hear the voice of tho Son of 'God and thoy that hear live."- Let the voice of mercy, from Calvary, fall upon the ear—the light of the "cj-osa", shine full upon tbo eye and ."the love' of God, bo shed abroad in tho heart by. the Holy Gluist;" and then the regular and earnest breathing after holiness, the firm and even . pulsations of a re¬ newed heart,, and tho consistent devel¬ opment ofthe ticiivo powers and ener- ,gics itl life, will demonstrate tho adap- tiition of tho law tif Loviito man's mor¬ al being.
Written for tlm Goiitel //ornW.
Law Argument.
NoTz ¦
In Eom, 7th Chap,, the apostle first makes a decltiration ; second, gives an illustration, and then gives his conclu¬ sion.
His declaration is: "Know you not brethren, fcu' I sj-ieak to them that know th6*|jaw, how, that the lawhasdomin- iofi over a man, as long as he livcth," Tho words, "he liveth," do not refer to natural lifo, because this is nottbcsub- jcct upon whicli the Apostle is treat¬ ing, in harmony wilh his discourse, iu these chapters, tho phrase must have reference to. what ho calls, tho Carnal mind, or old man. Then we under¬ stand Paul to mean.that the law has dominion over a man, as long aa lie lives in tran.sgression of it.
For illustration~We aro passing a given point in the State of New Ytiirk; we meot two men carrying a cast-iron ball, of 56 pounds ; each man is chain¬ ed to the ball which he carries, and an ofHcor following thorn. Theso mon had been breaking the law, and it had do¬ minion over them, because the_y liad not kept it. Wo walked on witli free¬ dom, for we had kept the law. Our feelings wore in hai'mony with the law. To sajT tbat those who keep the law of God, aro in bondage, under the dominion of the law, is a stupid blun¬ der.
Paul's illustration is: "For the wo¬ man which bath an husband, is bound by the law to her husband, as long as he liveth. But if bor husband be dead she is loose from the law of her hus¬ band : so then, if while her husbatid liveth, she bo married to another man, she shall bo called an adulteress ; but if hor husband be dead, she is freofrom that law, Bosho is no adulteress, though