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AND WILL PREVAIL.
NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1825.
NO. 14
conversed near the foot of Jabel Chek. The scowl
“i °~ of the bigot, continued Hassan, is like the thunder
‘loud; it hangs heavily and darkly. upon his brow ; it
ae threatens destruction to. all who differ from “him in
en opinion, and the lightning of his eye flashes angrily
« against his brother. O ! my. father, why~ does man
\""\. seat himself upon the, tribunal of the Most High,, and
Be "pass sentence upen another child of Adam?) When
*. were the keys of the eternal, prison: delivered. over
ef." unto himj and the rod of punishment given into his
bs)” hands? . Surely, my father, if the Great Lord of the
: Universe has euemies—if he is delighted in their
_» afffiétion, he needs, not the weak hand of man: to
a “ assist him—and why will not man indulge his brother
even if he err ?—-or who can jnfallibly assure. me that
. Terr not, and that my brother is deceived?» Where-
+, fore then shall I condemn him? The mother of error,
. said the Hermit, has deceived thee, my son! . No,
~") pmy father, said the youth, interrupting him, I have
. “sought: Trurs, and I have found her, and she hath
.:* informed me. Her abode, is amongst the children of
eye learning, and to them she ‘disclosed herself, and she
‘| flieth from! the unlearned.:."I have conversed with
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: science, and she hath promised to introduce me to
Trutn: I have often beheld her. ~ I could not have
af ‘mistaken her appearance, Science called me at the
© opening of the day. “She bade me go forth, and in
; the morning Wwe conversed—when the busy city was
. > awake, and the mechanic was led by industry to la-
Pay bour, and ,the noise of the artist brought distraction
: neat his habitation: _L accompanied her to the abode
, ' of solitude ; and when the day had gone down, she
taught me to dress the lamp, and to steal part from the
night and from repose, In return she promised me
-that I should become acquainted with Truru.| To
“her Ihave often been introduced. Iam acquainted
with her appearance—I may have access to her when
‘I please. ‘I have conversed freely with her, and she
_ 4.4 has told me that Bicoray and Inuiseraurry were her
:* enemies, and that they deccived many who were in
«search of her abode, and thus having suffered them-
“1. * selves to be led away by her foes, they have never
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»» * My son, I repeat it, said the father of Obcsam, the
{> smother of error hath deceived thee, 0,
And have I never beheld Taura? and has science
stey locks of the aged, and I revere the child of Re-
i. Figion + but years spread a cloud before the eyes, and
.. time drinks up the moisture of the brain—and in old
age prejudice is seated upon the throne where reason
held herseat, My father, Lhave spoken with Tautu,
i and ske has informed me, ..O! said the Pilgrim, that
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Sd + ‘How beautiful is liberality ?—How amiable are the
: 0 »sTiberal? said the young Hassan, a Catholic of the
4 ' East, to’ the pilgrim, the father of Obesam, as they
_|of'account. Science is now my recreation, but my
‘deceived me? said the youth, . Father, I respect the]:
ence, and that Humility were her companion. ° Then
the aged would be respected as they ought, and then
would: the children of: Religion be revered.. “Then
would the youthful companion of Science feel that he
wanted experience—and the down of his cheek would
remind him of the weakness of his judgment. ' In the
days of boyhood, nature is before him, the wide ex-
panse of creation within his view: he is dazzled at
the sight. Science displays to him her stores, and she
leads him to the entrance of her habitation, . The
splendid repository of Genius and of Taste bereaves
him of his discernment for a while—Truru appears
at a distance, and Obscurity raises a mist around her.
The mother of Error delights to array Falsehood in
a vesture like the raiment of Trura—and afterwards
in the mist of obscurity she deceives the unthinking.
The eagerness of youth, and its want of suspicion,
the novelty of the scene, and the ‘distraction of its
variety, prevent a close examination.‘ But, my son,
continued the Hermit, time makes men familiar with
the same ; he takes nature in detail; he ‘goes slowly
and carefully through the range of science, and when
he ceases to be astonished, he is capable of detecting
the ‘imposition ; he penetrates through, the mist of
obscurity, and he discerns Tur from falsehood, and
the experience of age corrects the mistaké of unsus-
pecting youth, Week
But, my father, said Hassan, have you been led by
Science to the habitation of Trura ?
, My son, said the sage, I have been in the company
of Science as soon as reason had unlocked the prison
of my childhood, and in her walks I have met but few
to whom she was more prodigal of knowledge. Taught
to converse in many tongues with the living and the
dead, I enjoyed the advantages of the labour of those
whom time and death h.d spread the shade of ages,
Thaye spoken with many who in the days of my boy-
hood were sinking to the grave; others in the pride
of their genius, would glory in telling me the disco-
veries which they fancied they had made. | I listened
—or Ienquired, and treasured up for the food of m:
after years, the knowledge which. I had thus obtain-
ed. I have travelled from home, to converse with
the strangers of the West.. I have seen them, apd I
have reaped the benefits of their acquirements. And
after [had remained in the world for a time—when
the God of my heart took away the partner of my
cares—and the son with whom I was blessed, had
joined in the company of men—knowing that m
steps were directed to the grave, and the Angel of.
death was on the wing—I have retired to this habita-
tion, where I endeavour to ‘prepare for the moment
business is the ccncern of eternity,
But, my father, rejoined. Hassan, when Science
admitted you to an acquaintance with Trurn, were
you not informed that Bigotry and Miberality were
her enemies? Yes, said the father of Obesam.
And are you net aware that they lead- numbers
astray, who would otherwise come to the knowledge
of Truru? -
Wisdom was always found
in the company of Sci-} :
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not the illiberal man equally its enemy?
I acknowledge that they are, said the man of years.
Then, my father, said ‘Hassan, my remarks were
just, and the mother of Error has not deluded me.
- Thou hast walked with science, my son, said the
father of Obesam, and yet thou wilt not profit by her
lessons, | Didst thou not assert, my son, that the man
was illiberal, and a bigot, who presumed to say that
he was certain of his being in the way of Trutr, and
that his brother was in error? Didst thou not ask
why man arrogated infallibility to himself, and usurp-
ed the seat of the Most High? My son, the princi-
ples of thy religion are blotted from thy mind, and:
thou-forgettest the truths which are open to the plain-
est understanding. Cannot man, my son, be witness
to the facts thich takes place under the cognizance
of his senses? . and can he not Jay claim to infallibility
in the knowledge of, that in which he cannot be de-
ceived? Our Religion, my son, is. not a system of
opinions; it isa COLLECTION OF FACTS,—
The first believers beheld them,. The father of the
day does not beam forth with more lustre than the
splendour of the facts to which those believers bore
testimony. .Thosé first witnesses were infallible ia
their relation—nor could they, if their intention was
wicked, be able to deceive. . We profess to belicve
those facts, my son—we believe that the Redeemer
was the second person of the adorable Trinity,—we
say that Jesus Christ was God—we profess to believe
that he called together the apostles, and commissioned
them to teach the nations of the earth—we profess to
believe that he commanded all persons to hear them—
we believe those things, my son, because thoy are
facts which have been proved, It is recorded that he
told them that he would consider disbelief, disobe-
dience, or disrespect towards them, as disbelief, an
to teach, and whom he had promised tosupport—and, :
my son, the punishment which he threatened to this
crime of disbelief, was exceedingly great. The pub-
lication of thoso facts was part of the duty he imposed
upon his apostles—and my son, were they bigots in
performing the duty to which they were sent by God? .
Or were they illiberal, because they bore testimony
to that which they had heard and beheld? Or did
they usurp the scat of the Most High when they de-»
clared that they believed the word of the Son of God, :
and therefore were certain that all who wilfully dis-
believed him were liable to the panishment which he .
had threatened against disbelief? : ;
Who then is the bigot? said Hassan. Is he not
the man of this day, who, centuries after the existence |
of the Redeemer, lays claim to the authority of an
eye-witness in that whlch he has not seen, and of an .
ear-witness in that which he has not heard?
What! my son, said the Hermit, is no fact to be
admitted but as long as the witness sha!l exist? Will
you stop the current of information which runs from -
age to age, and after every generation, will you tum‘
Undoubtedly, my son, replied the Hormit,
its stream into the ocean of oblivion? WEI you snatch
disobedience, and disrespect towards himself—becaus:
they were his messengers, whom he had commissioned’ :
And is not the Bigot the bane of society ?—and is. -
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