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and hath obtained the mastery of every thing but the tyrant thrones, and the superstitious altars, for which the terrible contest is about to be holden. whole science of Europe serveth Infidelity. The whole philosophy of Europe serveth Infidelity-the philosophy of expediency. The whole morality of Europe serveth Infidelity, which is also grounded upon utility. The spirit of freedom and liberty which is smouldering beneath her thrones and governments, ready to toss them on high, and shiver them to atoms, serveth Infidelity, and hath no end but to destroy that which is established. The spirit of the reformed religion over Europe, serveth Infidelity, for it hath set aside the Scriptures, and builds upon the common sense or reason of mankind, and were better to acknowledge Paine's Age of Reason, than the gospel for its standards.

"The spirit of poetry in Germany, where alone any powerful poetry exists, hath bowed to Infidelity, in the two bright and potent stars of Goethe and Schiller; and our Byron is becoming the poetical idol of foreign nations; and all over Europe, from Russia to the isles of Greece; and from the isles of Greece to the rock of Lisbon, our Bentham, the apostle of expediency, hath the upper hand of the lawgivers. And what is left I know not; but that these, the chief and sovereign influencers of the destinies of men, religion, morality, philosophy, science, poetry, and law, that have joined themselves to Infidelity, should dispense and disseminate their proclamations to the body of the people, which now they are doing by the wonderful extension of education, and professedly liberal principles.

"The wars and the rumors of wars which were to arise before the end, have come, and lo, they are past; and all Europe is pleasing itself with the imagination of peace. But let every traveller who hath looked into the veins and arteries of the constitution of every kingdom thereof, say whether they are not throbbing with the fever of passion, and every nerve vibrating convulsively under the weight which is oppressing it. And how can it be otherwise in foreign parts, when it is so even among ourselves, that expediency rides the chariot of the Lord in his own realm, so that faith is not regarded, even in our high places, as any thing beyond a word. They positively laugh you to scorn for propounding any other ground or basis of human action, or political government, than utility; and I have lived to hear the statesmen of this Protestant nation declare, in the hearing of those walls where heretofore the religious liberties of the land were established by two centuries of debate, that "there is little or no difference in creeds," or, in other words, that faith is little more than a name. It is gone forth that "a man is no more answerable for his faith, than for the stature of his person, or the color of his skin." How then must it be on the continent of Europe, where, in the universities, there is nothing but rationalism in religion, and liberalism in politics; in the Protestant churches, nothing but formality or persecution; where there is no spiritual sentiment but to be laughed at; no spiritual man but to be scorned; and hardly any at all either of spiritual sentiment, or spiritual life, intermingled with the great fermenting mass of feeling?

"Superstition hath driven Infidelity to its strong hold, which is, diffusion and ramification. And Infidelity hath driven superstition to its strong hold, which is, darkness and force. And the friends of the new power exult on all hands, in the march of mind, in the developement of thought and feeling. But in that developed feeling, there is no faith; in that mighty march of mind there is no religion. It is the natural man, unrestrained of God, fighting against the restraints of man. It is Satan in one form fighting against Satan in another form; it is the devil in his last and worst form, endeavoring to take and hold the earth."—(Irving's Babylon and Infidelity foredoomed of God.)

In the preceding description, the picture may be thought too highly colored, and the censures too sweeping and severe, but when it is considered that in European countries, church and state are blended in an unholy alliance, it will not be wondered at, if, on examination, there be found much of tyranny, hypocrisy, and Infidelity, and very little of genuine faith, sincerity and truth; and of that little we shall find that it exists not in the governments and churches, as such, but in independent societies, and isolated individuals, whose prayers and alms-deeds serve to the purifying and safety of the nations.

But how is it in our own highly favored land, where there is no unholy alliance of church and state, no reigning monarch, nor spiritual domination? Has Infidelity no place here? Alas for us! our free institutions will be found, it is feared, to tempt and invite the monster Infidelity to settle among us, rather than to repel and frown him from

our shores. For is it not a fact, that, among the ten thousand yearly emigrants that find a home and a resting place here, there are Infidels of the very worst stamp-men who styled themselves "free thinkers," at home, and who, by being proscribed there, have come here as "free inquirers," with a design to teach us how to think, rather than to profit by our former modes of thinking? Is it not a fact, that the professed disciples and admirers of our immortal Franklin, who, while the constitution was framing, taught our fathers to ask counsel of God in prayer, have prevailed to throw down our State altars, and stifle the voice of prayer in our halls of legislation? And whence this, but to the progress of Infidelity?

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It is feared that there is now going on a foreign conspiracy against our liberties," and that the introduction of so many Catholics yearly, is dangerous to the safety of the Republic. But wherefore? Are not all good Catholics true believers? Would to God they were! Doubtless it is the Infidelity that is mixed up with Catholicism, or it is that which produced Infidelity, and all its consequences, in France, which is to be dreaded, and which makes the prevalence of Popery so much to be feared.

It is well known that one of the most peaceable and quiet of all religious bodies on earth, has lately experienced one of the most dreadful schisms that ever rent a society. The FRIENDS have divided into Hicksite and Orthodox parties; but wherefore this division among a people who all professed to be led Most unquestiona

by the infallible spirit of God?

bly a spirit of Infidelity, in some form or other, was

the cause of this! "For the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith," and as the reverse of these have appeared among Friends, it is certain that some other spirit than the Spirit of God, has found its way among them, and that spirit, no doubt, is a spirit of Infidelity.

It is well known also, that in the Presbyterian church a fearful division has taken place, accompanied, as all such divisions are, with a sad alienation of affection in the living members of that powerful community; and it will be well if, in the "New Divinity," and "New Measures," as they are called, there be not found, at least, in a qualified sense, something that springs from, or leads to, Infidelity.

And in the great political and party strifes that now agitate the community, it will be well if there be found none of this "leaven of malice and wickedness;" if the love of party and party measures does not prevail above the love of the truth.

Here is the true Antichrist—the enemy of Christ, and the enemy of man-more to be dreaded than the power of either Pagan or Papal Rome. It is one of those "unclean spirits like frogs" which St. John saw in vision, that came "out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet." (Rev. xvi. 13.) This description is remarkable, and answers well to the spirit of Infidelity, which, like a frog, being an amphibious animal, can live in different elements; so this can live as well in church as state, on land as on the water, among the ignorant and vulgar as