mend with your lips, butdisapprove by year
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mend with your lips, but disapprove by yoar
practices -!


Religion says to the ambitious man, "be
thou mereyul. as thy father in heaven is
mercJal; be meek and ioquiy ofheart; fove
thu enemies, &c. He answers, can ] re-
strain my ambition for military glory, when
l see that rank, honor and power are the
rewards which christian governors bestow
upon heroes! How can resist the desire OF
gaining the admiration OF the world by the
destruction Of my fellow creatures, when l
see the universal appreciation that is given
to the man who dextcrously caused nifty
thousand men to be slain in one day, who
has dcpoDulated whole provinces, burned the
towns, destroyed the fair fruits OF the earth,
and left hundreds of thousands of women and
children to perish with want When see
that the most excruciating pains OF millions
OF men, women and children are overlooked,
or cast into the shade, when weighed in the bal
ance against the daring exploits OF that spirit
which achieved such miracle OF misery and
desolation; 7phcn Ihape been taught BY my





government, and the suifrages of my fel.
| low citizens, 70 view such horrible courage
as virtue, almost beyond reward, you 7vW
in ya,a feN me to be meek and mer3M -!
Thus we could go through every precept OF
the christian tiispensation, and prove them
to be less important than mere dead letters;
and such is necessarily the state of society
under existing circumstances. We leave it t.
the Editor of the Bcreap, (the avowed enc
nv of written creed S, and champion jor
reformation of ohinions " reckless" q hrac-
tices, to reconcile the Inconsistency, ant
damp, il he can, the efforts Of the only MAJ
who has attempted a thorough reformation
Of the world, Gil rational principles


EROSTRATUS.