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Show 308 APPENDIX TO NOTES. AJ>J>};NDIX, N. Ji'rom tlte Fifth Satire of l't:rsiu.~t. r hn.d intended to give a long: extrn.~t in .English, but have room only for the following lines of tho Origmn.l: "Noll Prrotoris crat stultis Urtrc l?nuin. r~rum Oflicia, n.lfJUC usum r n.pidn.c pon~Hltcrc ntac. Sambuc1tlll c itius cnloni apt1WCI'JS n.lto. Stat contra ratio, ct sccrct:tm gnrl'it in nurcm, Nc Jiccat fai'Orc id, quo!l quis vitil~bi~ ngcndo. Publica lex h ominum natumquc contmct hoc f,\s, Ut tcncut vctitos inscitia. Ucbilis a.ctus." Sn.t. 5, I. 03-99. APPENDIX P. From tlte Roston Trat-cller, as copie(l info Littell's Living Agf, No. 45!), page 437. 'l'UEODORE 'pARKER, * * * * * "'Vo refer now to two 'Sermons,' ns he calls them-one delivered on tho 14th November, 1852, when he was a.bout ~o le:~\'~ tho .Melodeon rmd tho other on tho 2 1st, when he began lw! mectmgs m tho new 'Music llall- both of which ha,·c been published tog;cther in n. pnmphlet since this year (1853) e~me iu, Ly qroshy~ Nichols .& Co. In those • sermons • he Jets ns somewhat more mto hts p:1st htstory n.nd future purpos~s, than tho public hn.d bc~oro .been permitted to sec; but still, it is quite plain, th:1.t the revelatiOn 1s not e.omplotc. "He tells us, thn.t he en.me to l3oston eight yc:1.rs :l.f;O, wtth gre:1t rc· lucta.nce and mi sgivi~1 g, but with .an 'ide::..' tL:l.t he wtshcd to teach nml ineule:1.tc. Precisely whn.t that tdca tlwt wa<~, he doC's not hct·e ex· pbin; butwhn.t his 'idea. in pr~aching now is, he .tell.s us pretty clearly. Prob:tbly it h:LS been but one tdea from tlw !JC'gmrung;. "First, then, he tells us, under tho two heads of hi.£~ 'ldC'as' ,ofGorl and :Mnn, nnd subsequently under two mor~ heads, of ~be rcl.tdJO.n~ of r:lod t.o Man and of M:1n to God, wha.t arc Ius own not1ons ot roilg•on, ~ud leaves ;10 douht tha.t l.IC is nn unbeliever in Clnistinnity :ts .n di· \'inC'ly rcve:1.led relig ion. J n . short, he leaves no doubt that he Js an iufirlcl, of tho class called Dc • st~. . . "]3ut, flCCondly, Jrst th('rr. flhould be any rmstake r~ tho matter, he tells us what he docs not behove. He says \PP· 14-lv) :-;- "'I do not believe there c,·er was a mirac c, Ol' ever wdl be; every· where I find law-tho const:wt mode of opcmtion of tho infinite Gnd. I do not IJelicvc in the miraculous inspiration of the Old 'l'cstameut APPENDIX TO NOTES. 300 or the Nc,v Testament. I do not believe that the Old •rcstamcnt wns God's first word, nor the New Testament his last. 'l'be Scriptures are no fina lity to me, lnl'.piration is t\ pcr!Jetunl fact. Prophets and !~~~t~: ~~~~c~~~~~~~onopolizc the l!'nther. lo inspires men to·dny as * * * * * * * "'I do not believe the mimculous origin of the Hebrew Church or the 13udUhist Chu •·ch, or the Christian Ul11lr0h; nor the miracul~us charactct· of Jesus. I take not the Bi!Jlc for my master, nor yet tho Churcli; nor even J esus of Ka·/.;\l'Cth fot· my master. I feel not at all hound to Uclie,·c what the Church f;;tys i::~ t rnc, nor what any \\'!'iter in the Old or New Te!)tn r!lCnt d('elares U·ue; and .[ run rC'ndy to believe that J rsus tnuP;ht ns· I tlunk, eternal torme-nt, the existence of n devil, nnd that he •lnm.<~rlf Hhoultl ere long come baek in the douds of heaven. 1 clo not accept these things on his authority. * * * * * * * * "'lie is my best hi.<:torie idc-a.l of human p;rratness; not without crror.s, not without the stain of his times, and I presume, of course. not ~·ithout si.ns; fot· men without sins l·xist in the dreams of girls, not m real fact; you nc,·cr sttw such a one, nor I, aud we never shall.' " Of course, there can hcr c:1ftcr ho no mis:1pprehension about Theodore Parker's clairns to be called a. Clrristinn rnini,'<tC'I'; f.IO that, if wo 1Ww \'Cnturc to say that he is uot <me, we shall, as we presume, no Jon;;er be tuld that we 1~1·c UIH.:h:nitnl.le and cn!urnnions; fot· to be a. nr inister of Jesus Christ, n.nd yet to ridicule Jcsuf! Christ M n. man who had the full~ to teach 't~mt he F;houltl ae lonrJ ~~ome hack in the ~!o~~~~sc~~.hc~~~~~:' ~~~~,~~~v~:~."~:.~l~.~~~· ~~~i~~r~i~~\ft .f~;~ ~;~~ ~f~~~~;~~cof~~~~ \'Cry 'sermon~,' J\J t·. Parker is nunountcU a:-~ the minister of tho 'J'wenty-Eig;hth CuuJ!;regational f:oci1'ty in Bo:-:ton, pre<'iscly ns if lie stood on the Hnmo f()(lflng Wilh .Dr. J~lngde11, Ul' 1)1·. 1.\dnms, Or any other of tbr Chri:<~tian Uongt·egationallllini1'1ter.-. of the city. "Stl fitr, then, '.l'h('odorc .l'n.rke•· ha~ openly come out. He ridicules the iden. of' Christianity ns n. religion of mimrulous ~tuthorily, nnd he l·idicules J•·sus Chrif;t, whom tlw Scriptures rep•·csc11t to be • without sin,' :H! zt character that can only ' exi~t in the dn'ams of girls;-not in real fact.' llow much farthet· he will g;o in the zmmc direction we cnnnot tell. l>I'Obnhly he canrwt tell him ~'lei f. "But he gil'cs w• a glimpHo of fi1tnrc po . ..:siiJiliticil. He says, p.12, 'It m:ty be pos!'li!Jie that. 1\ man comes to the coul'iction of atheism, but )'CL has IH'Cil fnithf'ul to himl'l(·if.' \\rc nrny. therefor(', necording ~~'~ ~~~~ ~~'f ,1~ ;. ~/:./~~ ~.~ ~~ 1{:C /; ~; :; :~;;:ll'e) :~\~~~'I' t·~~ ~·~:l;~~ i •: ~~~I ~~,~i~~n~n.~ :llt1~1 it id more unlikl·ly he will do thi~ fift('f'n .P'ar·::; lwnce, than it was ten or fif'tc('n years ago-( when as IL ('lu·i::;t iaH ct·itie he attacked Dr. l)a!frC'y so fiNeely, OJ' whC'n as n. L:lrristian mini ~tcr hr rcceivC't! the degree of M al-t<'•· of J\t·t!; uL om Tl!'i.J.!;hbo•·ing UniH'I't:iily,)-that he would, ic lSJ~-0, h(' utter·in.:.; in Bo!<ton f;IJth ri!Jnlt.ll~ttiiCks on Christianity us Bl'c (;Ontaincd in these two dir;court=Cfl, "'l'hcte is, however, nnutlJCr side of his pul;lie character and tench- |