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‘Wisdom qwas always found in the company of Scie
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5 CccASIONAL Essay,
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A FRAGMENT.
7 a lfow beautiful is liberality ?Howamiable are the |Yemind him of the weakness of his judgment. In the
liberal? said the young. Hassan, a Catholic of the days of boyhood, nature is before him,
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East, to ‘the pilgrim, the father ‘of Obesam, as they | Panse of creation within his view : che is dazzled at lessons. * Didst thou not assert, my son, that the man
conversed near the foot. of Jabel Chek, The scowl | the sight. Science displays to him her stores, and she
of the bigot, continued Hassan, is like the thunder | !eads him to the entranes ef-her habitation,
, cloud; it hangs heavily and darkly upon his brow; it splendid Tepository of Genit
threatens destruction to all who differ from him in | him of his discernment for,a lo—Tr
opinion, and the lightning of his eye flashes angrily | at a distance, and Obscurity riises a mist
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against his brother... Q | my’ father, why does man | The mother of Errok, delights to array Falsehood in
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seat himself upon the tribunal of the Most High; and | @ vesture like the raiment of Truru—an
Pass sentence upon another-child of Adam?. When | in the mist of obscurity'she deccives the unthinking,
ence, and that Humility were her companion. . Then
Lg {the aged would-be respected as they ought, and then | not the illiberal man equally its enemy? ,
an : ON LIBERALITY . +} Would the children of Religion be revered, Then
wanted experience—and the down of his cheek would | ju
the wide ex. | f,
Crit appears | why man arrogated infallibility to himself, and usurp~
ed the seat of the Most High? ~My sen, the princi-
ples of thy religion are blotted from thy inind, and
dafierwards | thou forgettest the truths which are open to the plain- f
est understanding, Cannot man, my son, be witness
around her,
‘were the keys of the eternal Prison delivered over | The eagerness of youth, ‘and its want of suspicion, | to
unto him, and the rod of punishment given into his | the novelty of the Scene, and the ‘distraction of its | of his senses? and can he not lay claim to infallibility ‘
hands? Surely, my father, if the Great Lord of the | Variety, prevent a close examination, But, my son, | in
Universe has enemies—if he is delighted in their | continued the Hermit, time ‘makes men fanil
affliction, he needs not the weak hand of man to| the same; he takes ature in detail he
éven if he er ?Lor who can infallibly assure’me that f ae ceases to be-astonished, lie is capable of detecting {day d
» Terr not, and that my brother is deceived > |, Where- the. imposition ; he penetratis through
*.. fore then'shall I condemn him? The mother of error,
said the Hermit, has deceived thee, my son! No,
" my father, said the Youth, interrupting him, I have | pecting youth, es
“sought Trurn, and I have found her, and she hath} But, my father, said Hassad, have you
informed me, Her abode is amongst the children of| Science to the habitation of Trury ?
learning, and to them she disclosed herself, and. she _ My son, said the sage, I have been in t
, ficth from the unlearned, J hive conversed with] of Science as soon asreasou had aylocke
science, and she hath Promised to introduce me to| of my childhood, and in her walks I have
Trurn: I have often beheld her. ‘I could not have
mistaken her appearance, Science called me at the
opening of the day. She bade me §0 forth, and in
the morning we conversed—when the busy ‘city was
awake, and the mechanic was led by industry ‘to la-
bour, and the noise of the artist brought distraction
+ near his habitation, I accompanied her to the abode | of their genius, would glory
taught me to dressthe lamp, and to steal part from the | —or I enquired, and treasured up for the food of my | BY son, the punishment which he thréatezed to this
crime of disbelief, was exceedingly great. The pub.
lication of those facts was part of the duty he imposed
upon his apostlesang my son, Were they bigots in” i
And | performing the duty to which they were sent by God?
night and from repose. In return she promised me | after years, the knowledge which I had thus cbtain-
‘that E should become acquainted with Trutn, Toled. I have travelled from home, to co
her I have often been introduced, Tam acquainted | the strangers of the West, * Thave seen them, and I
with her appearance—[ may have access to her when | have reaped the benefits of thir acquirements,
Iplease. I have conversed freely with her, and she after [had remained in the WORT for a time—when | Or
has told me that Breoray and Iuuineraniry were her | the God of my heart took ary the
“enemies, and that they deccived many who were in| cares—and tho Son with whom T yas blessed, had
search of her abode, and thus having suffered them. joined in the company of ten—knowing that my | °
> steps were directed to the grave, and the Angel of and therefore were certain that all who wilfully dis.
believed him were liable to the punishment which he
had threatened aguinst disbelief ?
Who then is the bigot? said Hassan, Is he not
selves to be led away by her foes, they have never
been able to discover her, . i death was on the Wintg—TI haye retired to
‘) My son, I repeat it, said the father of Obesam, the] tion, where T endeavour to"
smother of error Hath deceived thee, * . Co
And have I never beheld Tauri? and has science
deceived me? said the youth, Father, 1 respect the
grey locks of the aged, and I revere the child of Re-
repare fort
of account.” Science js now! MY recreat:
business is the concern of eternity,
" But, my father, rejoined ti
time drinks up the moisture of the brain—and in old} her enemies ? Yes, said the’ fathor of Ob
age prejudice is seated upon the throne where reason |. Aud are you not ‘awar’hor
held herseat. My father, Ihave spoken with Tautu, | astray, who would otherwi
and she has informed me, O! said.the Pilgrim, that] of Trern? . :
oe Undoubtedly, my son; replied the Uerm
Come to the
to converse in many tongues With the’ living and t
dead, I enjoyed the advantages of the labour of those | fe
whom time and death h -d spread the shade of ages,
Thave spoken with many who in the days of my boy-
hood were sinking to the Braves other8 in the pride
E telling me the disco-
admitted you to:an acquaintance with Trurn,
at they lead numbers | ad
goes slowly
te mist of| splendour of the facts to which these bel!
obscurity, and he discerns Tria from fulsulioo
the experience of age corrects the mistake of
been led by
he cumpany
nverse with
to
this habita.
‘he moment
on, but my
the
assan, when Science] of the Redecmer, lays claim to the authority éf. an
were | €ye-witness in that which he has not seen, and of a
Jigion 5 but years spread a cloud before the eyes, and! you not informed that Bigotry and Mliborality were | ear-witngss in that which he has not heard? | ‘
esam, What! my son, said the Hermit, is no fact to be! iw?” .
mitted but as long as the witaess shal] exist? Will’
knowledge | you
- age
its “fits s
was illiberal, and a bigot, who presumed to say that
The | he was certain of his being in the way of ' Prura, and
d of. Taste bereaves | th
iar with | ceived? * Our Religion, my son, is not @ system of
opinions; it is a COLLECTION OF FACTS,—.
assist him—and why will not man indulge his krother | and carefully through the. rans of scieuce, and when |The fri
d, and testimony. Those first witnesses Were infullible iy». <P
tasus- | their relation—nor could they, if theix i 5
wicked, be able {
those facts, my Soik—we believe that the Redcéier
was the second perton of the aderable Trinity,—we
say that Jesus Chritt was God—we profess to believa |,
d the prison } that he called together the apostles, and commissioned
met but few | them to teach the naions of the eartli—we profess to
to whom she was more prodigal of know ledge. Taught | believe that ho commanded all persons to hoar them—
he} ¥¢ believe: those things, my sou, because they are
cts which have been proved, It is recorded that he
told them that he would ' considér Uisbelief, disobe-
dience, or disrespect towards ihem, as disbelief, and
disobedicnee,and disrespect towards kimself{—because
they were his dressengers, whom he had commissioned
of solitude ; and when the day had gone down, she veries which they fancied they had made, I listened | t© teach, aud whowhe kad promised to Support—and,
they usurp. the scat of th Most Tigh when boy do. .
elared that they believed the word of the Son cf God; .
NO. 1d
And is not the Bigot the bane of” society ?—and is‘
T acknowledge that they are, said the man of years."
Then, my father, said Hassan, my remarks were -
st, and the mother of Error has not deluded me,
Thou hast walked with science, my son, said the
ther of Obesam; and yet thou wilt not profit by her
at his brother was in error? Didst thou not ask
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the facts which takes place under the cognizance «!
the knowledge of that in which ke. cannot be de-
he first believers beheld them, The futher uf tiny
ges not beam forth with more lustre wthan the
vers bere
ation was ‘
} . Sayre . .
9 deceive, ‘We profess to believe
Were they illiberal, because they bore testimony: :
that which they bad heard-and beheld? Or did : ,
man of this day, who, ceaturias after the existence
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stop the current of information which runs from’
to age, and after every generation, will you turn ’
{ream into the ocean ef Shlivion? Willyou snateh