Show daniel websters conics sion of faith dr smith orthis of this city concord Con cordo N 11 has put into our hand band the following letter of deniel webster to rev thomas worcester formerly pastor of the congregational conre church in salisbury which abic jaccom is accompanied with a confession of his religious faith both of which are in his hia own handwriting we havo have seen mr air websters name in the records 0 of f the church jn in salisbury enrolled amona among its members if we mistake not about ab 0 ut the time the letter below bearsdale bears date he remained a member 0 of f that church till his death the letter and confession were never bei be 1 i fore published they are as follows BOSCA Wr au cufr dra acan R SIX sir the other other d aff kao were corn conversing erseg i ay W 8 ty p c r of faith so bome rel ti tim e lr aid wrote down for over ur my own nv use se propositions in in the 1 shape ia of ar wi artial tel intending very r ehor W lit ht mary of of the doctrines 0 of t the c cb va 0 ad religion as they ap E impress in iiii J I 1 have taken the y att liberty t to 0 allt naj eat a copy for your perusal I 1 arn 1 1 f go with respect gle yours sc I 1 believe ill in the D IVESTER eniti tib to bit th goj god 00 tf almighty I 1 ho created YI W V governs the NN whole hole world orld I 1 ali taught this thia by the biks of ut am loe ille and the word of revelation mille sleep I 1 believe that god I 1 exists exi z is ii vs itro three persons this I 1 learn from re apio ee at alone nor aatlo ala a pa no is it any j thi his belief that I 1 cannot Co 1 0 comprehend how ho w ono one can be three or three nat r hold it efty duty to believe not 4 I 1 S gad 0 b I 1 can comprehend or ace accost 0 wit for forbus b distl 00 what my maker teaches me i at I 1 believe the SePt utes of the old or ei and new testament io tehel 11 e 1 and word of god P I 1 believe jesus christ to e ell son of of f god the miracles lah ahl in he wrought 0 estaba establish ish in myn D li hi I 1 perso personal ilal authority and caiti to 01 proper for me to believe blat tb to a 1 he asserts I 1 believe therefore Cl 11 declarations as ivell w ell adien n I 1 he e deahr det i him himself self to be the son of god 0 oil li asral i a h he e declares any other p tion wit lt and I 1 believe there ia 13 no DO fro of salvation salia tion than through the morl maril tal losi Ss of his atonement ih i h I 1 believe that things past arese prese presen sot k and to cotie come are all equally pres presets el sp sla a ira is the mind odthe of the deity deil that an ii him there is no suc cussi oil of bliele aine e nor of id ideas aas that therefore ill the 0 D r u hine hin e betins past present prea ent and fuw as 1 am among conr men cannot milij str strict ct propriety be applied to den j I 1 believe bi liei e in in ohp doctrines of boreli eil ed edge and predestination as th 1 yr expounded v I 1 ido I 1 ot believe in athi tb nr doctrines as imposing aay batah oil 01 essit ty on mens dpn actions or aril a to a ov v in infringing fin free agency j Is 1 I believe in the utter er inability to te I 1 n any ny human being to abik aik oik out oin h ha 0 own onn ali al tion without the conat coitt liB r aid of tile t lia spirit of all grace I 1 believe in in those lic ws a of the ih chris christiaa rel religion IX a evart A 1 tion from the dead end a judg ment ll 11 11 1 I 1 believe belie bel vM ih n the ibe universal pro jk dence of cod aa d leava to laicu allt B and his moil moie 6 unreasonable follo followers lers h in in modern time the incon ncy 0 li be living that god coil nude made a world orld I 1 y lie he does pottage not take the trouble of go eai p in ing h although Alt it hyugh I 1 have haie great hespen ja for somo some other forms of work worship hip I 1 p believe the congregational mode fi OB tle the hole to bu be preferable to any an othar ot t I 1 believe balie e re religion lilion to be a matter r I 1 not of demo demonstration lestrat clon but of faith god requires us t to agne ive credit tole truths aich N ho he reveals rei eals not hot becane beca ii ave e lan call prove e them I 1 alien the mirl is is bonvin convinced ed that th at the th P bible bale is is the word of god the only rennau renan ing duty is is to receive iti its doctrines with full confidence of their truth trull and practise them with w ich a pure heart I 1 believe that the BI bible ble is to lie be understood and received in in the plan i and obvious ob lous meaning of its passage pas sage since since I 1 cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruct instruction ioa and conversion of the whole tv should cover its true meaning meaning in bucl mystery m astery and doubt that bone none but critics and philosophers can disco di corer it I 1 believe that the experiments and subtleties of human are more likely I 1 to obscure than enli enlighten ghlea the revealed will of god and that he is is the most accomplished din scholar who had been educated it t ohp b P feet of jesus and in in the college of fishermen i I 1 believe that all true roll rollion religion ion conas si fists t in in the heart and the 0 and that dial therefore afore all creeds aw 11 confessions are fallible and uris bertalla evidences of evangelical ei angel ical piety piet finally I 1 believe that christ tos 1111 imposed on all his disciples a ile of active bene benevolence that he who re fr aj ns on only ly from w what hat he be s to be W sinful in f ul I 1 has aas p performed er formed b but ut a part pal and a nd a small part of his duty that ua i heis he is bou bound 11 it todo good and cate to love ins his and give I 1 to food and drink to his e nemy enemy d endeavor endea or as far as in in him lies to P pi mote the peace truth piety and wr hap d in in a icken and forlorn vwe believing that in m the great day ivelich vl is is to come there mil ivill be leboon no other n standard stan daid of merit no other criterion I 1 that which Js isa of character than their fruit tr ready established by C cong co jot 0 ye shall know abe them nal dr dr sherlock t poet describes thus atter after 17 aoi aas JH ie of 0 longfellow ifie elopement ot of indian nulan lover and the amr aide der gitil an 9 very of the susceptible damsel by ir 1 anant indignant ant father 1 titell tell us a he bow the dusky indian lit ht a and d won IN the pale faced maiden caher her from her fathers mansion ila great meat arid and wicked city L er I 1 the deep and mighty echan I 1 P 1 r jibe die tied lied from home and parents par erts ox the schoolgirl school girl young and bande hand I 1 bone lover johnny Ne lvell dill tb her ber the west iest or to the we westward his fl sm small abma and smoky margin of 0 a river t the I 1 through a country village HOW ij 6 alas sl e dwelt within athin his wigwam aade jg of poles and anso en cotton et pig oil 0 the te damp daitha bosom bragge indian blanket blan liet agh ij the chil chilly nights of 0 autumn rutn the harvest arve moon oon shone brightly fitly on the quiet iet landscape so oitis ivr ner er fath father missed assed his dau daughter abter mas eaher an ad benl en the e fact discovered at a young an and swarthy indian fai levoyed her er to his I 1 wigwam Is diee L tins IMS wigwam wigwam cold an and de cheerless e aless the tha margin of a ru ri er war ar a pleasant country village abere the hum of looms and spindles breet reet the ear morn till evening i how the angry injured father med himself with ith a revolver ivr hearing earli g vengeance on john newel lan alin the e cussed little injun ibalio 0 had robbed him of his daugn daughter terp obe made a dirt dirty of guito ind to tend his red papooses oses intent ina Ii tent of poles and cotton I 1 HOW hov he be sought his lost maria juht ht arid and found her sunday morning aitay morning bright and lovely afta b a smoky indian wigwam ni aith her lover johnny newell from vi hose bose presence she was taken talen laten back to boston city boston city near the ocean where the deeply injured father soundly spanked hii bis erring dang daughter liter spanked her smartly as he ought to |