The atheist must deny these incontestible proofs if he deny the First Great Cause. Is the mind of such a being sane?

Let a derangement exist between the relations of the sun and any of the planets belonging to his solar system, and the physical principles are clearly proved to be existent; but the wise and sound mind has already, with sublime contemplation, recognised these principles, in the prevailing order of such spheres, and especially in the sublime harmony of the universe.

Much more do the moral principles apply, when we see the derangement of man's nature from his vices. Then physical, moral, and religious moral principles prevail, and must be recognised by all wise and sound minds.

MIND-FAITH-THEOLOGY.

MIND then has to assert its dignity, independence of Feudalism or feudal vassalage, light, right, beauty, strength, greatness, goodness, patriotism and wisdom, to resist a blind and fanatic faith.

Faith, religious particularly, must be addressed to reason, to claim mind's belief and truth's assent, otherwise it universally merits its supreme contempt, for enlightened conscience is ever excluded by blind relief.

Freemen know no other avenue for honest men, ever since the days of American Independence, when freedom of government gave freedom to reason, and independence to truth, on all legitimate subjects, of which religious freedom is pre-eminent.

Theology is then ever free for discussion, as any matter of mind in all its bearings, from thought to action.

Mind demands proper reading of reason's language.

But the people are certainly lost, many affect, if they do not have faith of peculiar character.

Can any people be saved, without honest, that is, rational faith? Such faith is not peculiar, but universal. Those who do not believe in some peculiar faith, are damned ! And yet they are to be saved by faith, honest or dishonest? Faith they must have! Was there ever such imposition on mind?

Is the world to believe in religion, but what is rational and honest, to have consistent actions?

The sublimest system of religion calls for faith on its merits, without which none can exist.

For want of faith, the soul is to be damned, yet she is not to call upon the only Sentinel on the watch-tower of her liberty and salvation, but is to cast her off most absurdly with ignominious surrender to seducers and speculators!

Can the conscience and reason of enlightened freedom exist and flourish in any such faith?

The greatest variety of peculiar faiths may rise up, all intended to deceive and beguile the people, unless all such faiths are made subject to the majesty of reason, truth, and principles, that are the only safe protection for mind.

The more diversified faith in her various peculiar systems, the more is that faith to be scanned by reason, for if mind do not consult reason in this labyrinth of mere opinions, what else can it consult rightly and justly, to reach the only one of truth ? There is no safety in any peculiar faith, without reason.

What mockery of wisdom and religion, to exclude reason, the noblest attribute of mind!

What treachery to the noblest treasure of the Universe, free agency of mind! Free agency of mind cannot exist, without reason, a position that excludes the responsibility of mind, of soul.

Where can there be a juster and wiser faith, than in reason that characterizes truth and justice?

Such faith is the friend and beneficiary of mind.

FAITH FROM UNIVERSAL FACTS.

THINGS seen do declare universally the character of the Creator; the hand-writing is there surely, not to be counterfeited.

The systems of the Universe do declare their soul and first cause, which is name potent enough in character for mind, just and true to his exclusive attributes.

Analogy of philosophical analysis gives us the balance in the process of freeman's

highest state, refined civilization. This is omnipotent faith, to mind progressing in the knowledge of science and thought.

Let none with the picture of iniquity resulting from peculiar faith and its attendant evils, arising as a necessary consequence for refusal to God his universal attributes, impiously and blasphemously mislead himself for the best years of his life, after a vain and particular faith that is to injure creation, marring its brightest lustre, and libelling its Creator.

Let none die, as millions of good citizens, thinking of adopting a faith, that their enlightened conscience refuses to their dying breath.

But let them, as worthy citizens, know that their Creator as great in preservation as creation, is fully competent to do all for his purpose, despite of all the legends of systems of man's opinions and libels.

Then all rational minds have the essential and inherent elements of true faith of rational religion, that honors, if rightly directed to none but the living God, and blesses the soul that it honors.

All rational beings are bound to one faith, honestly woven in their nature, by the God of Nature.

The only saving faith, comes from the Supreme Power.

Is faith competent to go beyond reason, then mind is competent to embrace a position beyond the great first cause?

This pretence, would expose a universal imposition. Any tradition of this character, carries on its face the clearest evidence of its own destruction, and the means of its own refutation.

The constituent elements of religious faith refer exclusively to the Creator of mind.

THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE.

DEITY AND HIS RIGHTFUL ATTRIBUTES, FUNCTIONS, AND PRINCIPLES.

THE great first cause, is Supreme and Immortal God of Nature, to be recognised by enlightened mind, and best appreciated by soundest reason.

His names may be as diversified, as mind can portray God's supreme excellence. God is Creator of the Universe and its eternal conservative principles, that vindicate themselves for his supreme power, that is Almighty, Omnipotent, and Supreme Ruler of Creation. There can be no other God, as all else are his created beings.

God's function is creation, to which all others are subordinate. His functions, attributes, and principles, render him omniscient, knowing all things in time, space, and eternity.

Omnipotent, existing throughout and occupying time, space, and eternity, the perfect Creator of the Universe.

God is not peculiar, but universal in his attributes.

God's excellence is unmistakable to enlightened reason, through which his only language is addressed to all created minds, that approach nearest with their essential qualities, to his best appreciation.

God's excellence is eternally proclaimed and vindicated in all his works, through which he alone communicates his qualities, and unveils his attributes.

God's presence is veiled to mortals, and can only be approached in a better, future, and more elevated state of excellence, through immortality, the exponent of the soul's worth and character, and of its blissful fruition.

God's word is the Universe document recognised in the tablets of mind, to be enlightened by reason as worthy analyst of the Universe.

The court of conscience which declares mind enlightened by reason, can only take cognizance of any affirmation or tradition of faith, on the just principles and proper analysis of truth. All others are preposterous and unjust in the sight of Omniscience. Among God's Principles, written by the Immortal Hand of Infinite Wisdom, that the finite finger of mortals cannot counterfeit, are Purity, Justice, Mercy, Goodness, Benevolence, Immutability, Perfection, some of his attributes.

God's power is indivisible and adequate, therefore excludes any participation of his attributes in every respect. God is too powerful to need, as his attribute, Omnipotence, or Almighty, implies, and too great to admit any Vicegerent assistant or Messiah, mere creatures, but his conservative principles, that embrace universal good, and exclude its negative partial evil, ministers alone of his excellence, and exponents of all others as impostors of blasphemy.

Under those principles, the means of universal inspiration, mind acts on mind.

Man's crude opinions and insidious dogmas have superceded principles, and Messiahs with their minions, priests, preachers and devotees, have invaded the province of the Almighty! Superstition enslaves minds and renders them vassal.

God's goodness and purity created good in its amplest extent, which is only limited in enjoyment by the operations of mind, that creates by perversion its negative, evil. The goodness and purity of God, exclude the original or subsequent creation of spirits of evil, as non-essential to his magnanimity or greatness, and antagonistic to the goodness of his soul, and the supremacy of his Omnipotence. Much more do these attributes exclude any seduction by sin from his pure presence, into which impurity cannot enter, of any beings, especially blessed souls, and happy in that blessing.

God's purity and immutability in that purity, are the best guarantees of immutability of happiness to beatific beings, that otherwise would be liable to temptation, transgression and expulsion, consequent thereon at any duration and period of eternity. There can be no greater libel of Deity and imposition on mind, than the code of machinery of devils, and the necessity of messengers or angels and messiahs in the universe of the Almighty, supreme in his perfection. Mind, inspired by the wisest philosophical science, can only appreciate the first elements of Deity's genius, in the sublime magnificence of the works of his universe. The very equilibrium of its sphere silences in the profoundest admiration, mind. Mind yields all its aspirations and intellectual claims of the loftiest ambition, in due voluntary submission of humility at the shrine of his Creator, beyond whom it cannot pass, and has to invoke for the solution of the mightiest problem, the self-existence of God, the gift of higher intellectual organs, and a nobler, an immortal position.

On this earthly theatre it is our duty to seek the right appreciation of Deity, for superstition that has such deceptive impersonations of religion, enables corrupt priests and preachers to libel Deity's attributes.

God's noblest work is the honesty of mind, and its immortal capacity for truth and happiness.

God alone, is the confessor of his creation. It is he that permits the mind to commune in the silence and solitude of its musings, with immortal hopes. Who, sinful mortal, shall usurp this sacred place of the Most High: who shall presume most blasphemously to his holy office?

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Who shall, destitute of principle, excommunicate God's people who can foolishly arrogate this Supreme function? Such presumption is accursed.

God's essence is universal good; its negative is the position of penalty to mind, delinquent in duty and reverence. God's holiness of purpose must be recognised by mind, in the various deductions of reason, the means of truth. Devotion to this recognition, resting on God's immutable principles, the essential laws of the universe, bespeak respect to nature's rest, both of mind and body, that sustain injury by their violation. This is the supreme principle of humanity and philosophy.

One day is as another with God, who created all, and their light that reflects his supremacy, but the effect of various labor, mental and physical, from business of appropriate character, even of vital existence, must cause respect to the principle of rest. The functions of sleep and advantages of general repose, establish a universal necessity for conservative laws for the mental and animal economy.

The present seventh day Sabbath, by habit, seems to fulfil the object generally, for humane and philosophical purposes.

The observance of many, not less than seven, distinct Sabbaths, all claiming origin from peculiar authority, best establishes their direct emanation from man, and incontrovertibly proves the peculiarity of his Bibles, characterized by tradition, that reason does not sanction, since truth is not antagonistic to itself.

God could only have had one universally over the world, and that would have been unmistakable to mankind in general. The sanction of refined civilization furnishes the best universal code for humanity.

We will find in the end that it is wisest and most humane, to reserve not less than the seventh day for rest.

It should be justly kept inviolable for man and beast, and no business that can be rightly avoided should be started on a travel just before that day. Do not hunt for stock or game on that day, for pastime. Let all have its best benefits.

God's purity and goodness, his attributes, require a superior goodness and exaltation of all, that have knowledge of superior cast, illustrating the universal purpose most consistently identified with the mass of mind on earth, advancing in one mighty phalanx, sustaining itself in eternal progression, and approaching in its improvement by proper results, the Divine character of its Creator.

The code of social and moral relations require as a paramount duty, that mind and

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conscience be enlightened at the right time and in the right mode, to establish its best attainable condition and position.

Mind's professions of rational religion, are from innate faculties, universal to mankind as rational beings, proved by conscience, that elicits in proportion to its successful cultivation at the right time, mode and natural capacity, the most successful possession.

Mind's professions of religion should be with God in direct reference to its best light, pure and unsullied by trade, speculation or power, and its actions towards the world, should be consistent and uniform, kind and just, in all things.

The certain and immutable principles are conservative for the religious moral as physical universe, hence the indispensable necessity of a correct faith for correct morals, all for correct rational action.

Knowledge is then power and virtue of mind, and the eternal result must be to universal good of creation.

The conclusion is irresistible, that mind's mission to the universe, has to develope these fixed principles in time, and apply them in their best solution to space and eternity, to secure in full man's highest blessing, the best purpose of the Almighty, who created nothing in vain.

Rational religion, that acknowledges the unity of a Supreme immortal first cause, rests with the mind, that should be embellished in all the loveliness of wisdom. .

God's attributes, functions and principles, by which he brought creation into organization and being, keep it in eternal preservation, securing the universe in its perpetual action, and regulating all in order and harmony, represent him, and are his sole and sufficient ministers.

In all ages of creation, they are the pioneers of mind, to pilot all who are incompetent to decide best for their own good. Under the circumstances of moral free agency of mind, God is not heard by those who act vaingloriously for themselves or traitors for others and their own minds, while affecting to benefit the gullible sovereign the people, that can be easily coaxed into an immolation of itself, the tool of tyrants and the sport of menials, perverting most abominably conservative principles, all God's capital, by their deeds the veriest libel of God and mind. But God must be heard, and the people have to return to the right point, to listen to reason, the brightest inspiration of mind, to secure God's holiest blessings.

Then it will be perceived, that is the messiah, all-sufficient in its mission to do God's designs, and perfect his purposes. Elevate it to its loftiest powers and inherent capacities, that the soul may use its best capital, the life-gift.

God's works cannot be mistaken, all the time and space. The workman is characterized by his munificent works. Who, in sane mind, does deny them? Rational faith reaches a point, in looking at the attributes of the First Great Cause, where the mind submits, impressed with the magnificent truths of God's creation of his universe, beyond which we cannot go by reason of our finite, earthly, mortal faculties, and want of data to reveal to our view.

Where the data stop reason is arrested, as truth stops, and imagination can do no good, then the virtue of humility, that teaches mind all confidence, all trustworthy faith in the Creator, places the soul in the bosom of the Eternal, who is sublimely triumphant as the God of nature, its ruler and organizer. In the Creator exclusively, then, created mind is estopped, and analagous principles are only to be embraced for life, and those only referable to God's attributes that are undeniable.

Mind rejects and impeaches all else, not compromising with imposture at any mo

ment.

God stands alone, sublime in his majesty, that none others dare approach, much less fill in his universe.

In regard to any rival power in seduction of souls, if we refer to the origin, we must estimate it as fable too.

The mighty elaboration of God's purposes needs no angels, much less fallen ones, whose misfortune in the presence and place of purity, by transgression, a violation of eternal conservative principles, producing the most remarkable of all phenomena, revolution of conservative principles themselves, implies the most absurd imbecility of God's highest attributes, not only in permission of this horrible outrage, but incapacity of reducing this dangerous and opprobrious rival, too often successful in getting away souls from God, to even decent subjection.

Our respect for truth, ever consistent with herself, and reverence for Deity, cause us to discard such absurd credulity, not entitled to the name of faith, and all its nefarious propagators.

These are the vile heresies to mind that condemn them as most contemptible, to reach

the object of priestocracy, who violated all that is sacred in their heaven, and polluted it by their treason.

We must believe the God of the universe is a perfect being, and we must not permit one single idea to invalidate it, as that invalidates our most perfect confidence in every respect in him.

So perfect is he, that his central residence is holy and pure. All souls that reach it, must be sanctified or they cannot enter, the best gaining soonest the appropriate prize. The transcendent magnanimity of God puts him above the seeking to estrange fallen souls or render them desperate, much less befoul his own high character by a penalty machinery that destroys the highest objects of creation. His magnificence is in his munificence, and that can never be better displayed than in the elevation of the soul. Mind in its feebleness should be modestly silent, and bow in wisest humility to the majestic supremacy of God whose ways, presuming to define, it may libel. Their god of peculiar faith thus portrayed and caricatured, never was the Almighty God that reduced chaos into order when he was incapable of checking the worst of all disorder in their heaven, even where harmony had previously been established. All such, are priestocracy abortions. Such God-portraitures are unworthy the esteem of mind, and justly condemn the authors as degraded blasphemers. Now the attributes of Deity, creator of the universe, will admit of no such construction, unless language be changed. The creation of the Almighty proves conclusively his full supremacy, beyond which even mind cannot go, and less than which it should not presume to stop.

The idea is the essence of sublimity, of supreme majesty. Nothing can be more conclusive, for this idea concludes all; the universe and creation stop there in sublime silence.

His immutable power and essence are forever.

But, then, who knew there was a God or his name?

Who needs being reminded of the sun of this solar system, when his light and heat prove his presence? All the suns and their solar systems are effect of a great First Cause, the name, sublimely stamped on the whole universe.

Mind on the principles of its own action, that of ratiocination, or in tracing effect to cause, knew there was a great First Cause possessed of characteristic attributes. That is all that honest minds can know, or believe can be known.

We can more highly appreciate his character, whose universal attributes convict all the advocates of peculiar faith by principles that irresistibly lead to one universal rational faith that will shame them for their plurality of gods, or for the exclusion of the Creator from his creation, the greatest of absurdities, as corruptors of mind.

The difference between polytheists and atheists seems to be this, that the first only give the Creator partial and the atheists give no power to the God of nature, but all to nature. The first admits only part of a Creator, and the last admits none, both taking a wrong basis.

God is universally great and sublimely supreme; his universe and principles are his eternal agents and prophets, expressive of the living God, whom mind, God-endowed with free-agency, immortality-seeking to all ages, disposed to do right, cannot mis

take.

God will amply guarantee for future bliss on the conservative principles of his loftiest attributes, otherwise none can be valid or safe in his august purity.

As it is, there can be no unity nor elevated morals in any faith short of unity, for society never can reach higher in the very highest of all others than the fragments of a disunited brotherhood.

Such will be its state in time, never prepared for eternity by the very constituency of its elements, that run them into quicksands and quagmires inextricable and irremediable. Take all the systems of faith and its concurrent codes, and all, each and every one, past, present and future, or to come for all time, will fall short of conservation here, and eternal salvation, till they secure the proper conservative principles of an Almighty's attributes.

All wise men must observe and acknowledge all this.

It must be so, from the nature of creation.

All that we are, and can do, is by God; all that we can expect is from God, who supplies all.

God that made us, the First Great Cause, that mind and reason enlightened with just and true lights, declaring true religion, must exclusively adopt, is the true Ruler. He can never be superseded by doctrines of atheism, messiahships or any species of polytheism disguised in modern Trinity, or indefinite ancient numbers. The no-godism implies no principles, a radical and ultra want of system, order and harmony, policy, law and penalty, which is absurdly false to rational mind.