But to close our article. The Divine Being is nowhere so perfectly, so
interestingly described as in the CHARACTER OF CHRIST. Here LOVE is
unbosomed as it could not be by language. Here heaven drops down to
earth; and the otherwise invisible beauties of the invisible God, are
made tangible even to the eye. The _arm_ of mercy, outstretched to the
sinner--the eye of justice softened by the tear of mercy--the heart of
love beating intensely with benignity, as well as every perfection of
the divine nature; are all laid open to the view of sinful, helpless
man, and we become "eye witness of his glorious majesty." Here the tears
of mercy may be seen dropping upon its wretched objects of
commiseration; and the most secret emotions of the divine mind, we may
behold, heaving in the bosom of the immaculate Jesus. Here indeed "God
tabernacles and walks with man." And as a confirmation of the glorious
truth, at beholding Him, "the sun stood still in his habitation." "The
sea saw him, and was afraid." The earth trembled at his presence, and
gave back the dead at his voice. Well indeed might one exclaim, to
behold such a personage, "MY LORD AND MY GOD."
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
By Charles S. Daveis.
Never--since the period that Cæsar conquered Gaul, when the inhabitants
enjoyed a barbarian license under their native chiefs and druids, had
the voice of liberty been heard in France, till the 14th of July, 1789.
Never before did such a note of exultation spread over the vine-covered
hills,--and echo among the beautiful valleys, of that fair country.
Never perhaps before was there such a burden lifted from the minds of
men. In the unwonted consciousness of power, they seemed to tread a new
earth. In the intoxication of triumph they burst from the bonds of
morality and humanity. So very singular, and strange, indeed, was the
position in which the people of France were placed by the revolution,
that their vernacular language was found deficient in the appropriate
phraseology of freedom; and they were obliged to resort to a foreign
idiom, and to the customs of other climes, and the usages of other
nations, and to ransack the regions of fancy and invention, for the
vocabulary, as well as the drapery, of their new republic.
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