Christian Cynosure . ecalls anold story related of Lord Bolingbroke, theEnglish statesman and author, and patron ofAlexander Pope: The famous infidel Bolingbrokewas reading Calvins Institutes of Theologywhen Dr. Church, an Episcopal clergyman, calledon him. Said he: I have been reading CalvinsInstitutes; what do you think of them, Doctor?Oh, my Lord, he replied, we dont think aboutsuch antiquated stuff; we preach plain doctrinesof virtue and morality, and have laid aside those abstruse points of grace. Look you, Doctor,said Bolingbroke, you know I dont believe theBible to be a Divine revelatio
Christian Cynosure . ecalls anold story related of Lord Bolingbroke, theEnglish statesman and author, and patron ofAlexander Pope: The famous infidel Bolingbrokewas reading Calvins Institutes of Theologywhen Dr. Church, an Episcopal clergyman, calledon him. Said he: I have been reading CalvinsInstitutes; what do you think of them, Doctor?Oh, my Lord, he replied, we dont think aboutsuch antiquated stuff; we preach plain doctrinesof virtue and morality, and have laid aside those abstruse points of grace. Look you, Doctor,said Bolingbroke, you know I dont believe theBible to be a Divine revelation, but they who docan never defend it on any other principle butthat doctrine. To say truth, I have been attimes almost persuaded to believe it upon thisview of things; and there is one argument whichgoes far with me in behalf of its authenticity;that is, that belief in it exists even when it iscommitted to the care of such as you, who pre-tend to believe it and yet deny the only principleupon which it is The intensity of political strife, and the subor-dination of all public interests to mere partyends, is illustrated not only in our national Con-gress, but especially in State legislations. Themere fact of a Democratic majority in the Statesenate of Ohio was regarded as sufficient war-rant for turning out Lieutenant Governor Samp-son, and seating his rival. The legislature ofMontana, after spending a number of weeks inaffecting an organization, during which all sortsof party trickery had,on both sides, been resortedto, is finally broken up, to the great detriment ofthe public interests, by every Democratic memberof the upper house going out of the State. Un-less there can be an abatement of party spirits,and a reform in the methods of legislation, wemight as well, be under the autocrat of could at least know where to look for thesource of authority. It is said the final battle-ground of the Statelottery business will be in the Louisiana legisla-ture next
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