28 PROLEGOMENON. 



as they are called!} man and social compact of the present 

 hour? 



After a life of sorrowful struggling for his race, the me- 

 lancholy Pestalozzi, whose formula of salvation for man was 

 universal education, was forced to say, ".I learned that no 

 man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help 

 another man." The good and honest Sandy Mackaye was 

 equally unsuccessful, during his pilgrimage, in finding the 

 heavenly man. He says, " Dinna spier what I believe in : I 

 canna tell ye. I've been seventy years trying to believe in 

 God, and to meet anither man that believed in him : so I 

 am just like the Quaker o' the town o' Kedcross, that met 

 by himsel' every first day in his ain hoose." The good 

 * * * * also wails, "I have hunted in vain for forty years 

 to find one man who really believed in God, and proved it 

 by loving his neighbor half as well as himself; or who 

 would, either from impulse or a sense of duty, do any thing 

 for his brother man without the desire of being paid for it." 

 Terrestrial croakers, whose abdomens are near the sod, say 

 that no project that had in it either benevolence or love 

 ever succeeded at all, or was ever enjoyed or realized by its 

 author; that the wicked are sure to reap the crops and 

 harvest the labor of the righteous; and that satanic spirits 

 have still their ancient desire to crawl into paradises pre- 

 pared for angels and men. Passing strange and inconceiv- 

 able seem the decrees of the Eternal. Did it really require 

 the martyrdom of the Divine Carpenter to found a "CHRIS- 

 TENDOM," with safe and comfortable sea-room, in which 

 money dragons alone could flourish, (the only order of 

 creatures he hated whilst upon earth,) and has it veritably 

 come to pass that "the sole bond between man and man 

 is cash payment," that the highest achievements of civi- 

 lization are the issues of money vs. love, money vs. virtue, 

 money vs. blood, and money vs. the soul, and that money, 

 as in the case of the thirty pieces of silver given to the 

 only sharp business-man of the Twelve, always must win, 

 whilst the noble endowments of generosity and faith in 



