GENESEE .giNgilig. 7 --Whole No. 746. lade phis correspondent sends us the lowing;Nehich he thinks - sontitetat - Opal vas of the instonoeslareught to liighti in , ' . r:nals of the Pons" . b' stun' 44 italways interest, the record . ..of 'B's' _.evangi the suffering in the eitys' ORM TUB WAY. Aorees *warty there attinde.a-tivrollin .Neither,gloomy e grand, , or . ,:gay; 'Net eitraetive. not repelling— You have passed knietty,a'dey. Kota note of joy or swinges To my hearing ever flovied; Sorrow'splaisti . or musie's gladness, From Mit 4Met,,,oeita 'abode. b • : • Deteaa, gaily.g • ding, 'Mid her purple, like a star. But within the window ever, ..Morning, evening, shine,• or-rain, A maiden, pale from /Ong endeavor, • The needle plies with might and main. Needless of the joy that dashett O'er the pavement•by her door, Or the glare that furtune flashes, Tiles that•needlii evermore. •Save, perchance, whop summer blazes, And the zephyrs faintly play, Iler gentle hand the•window raises, In the house across the way. And with thoughtful.care she places; Near.tbe sash an elbow chair, Then, with slow and tottering paces Leads a feeble mother there. Still but short the time she lingers, Though to pious dut,f true, 'Soon again heti:amble - fingers Whirl. the rapid f stitches througL What sustains her patient spirit the,dearth ofjoy and hope? Where the world extols our merit, All with evils well may cope. But when toil is linked with itotirow, °are, and solitu4e, an 4,000112, nd 'tis known the coming morrow Will no brighterroy assume, There, with those who baffet longest, Longest atom tniefortune'i ware.; 'Where the warfare tasks the strangest, ,Feeble woman ehatnee the bran! Virtue, with befitting glory, Crowned, rewarded, all willeee, When with heroev, known in story, High ehall woman's record be. Bet, slat! her gentle giusei, Shrinking still from mortel,Big4l6 Glowing pencil never traces,' Poet's pee will never write. '• Yet Oambright immortal Veriults Ridden 'virtues shalt dieplity Tuna; if not on arch or colonial, : Lives ttte,name aormalzo ' ' gooAn MASQUE. 3VOlttqlOititsiteS. Tor me.Amegietwitteaboion. UTTER. FROM TEE N. T. WILDERNESS. :Mclntyre, MO= CINO N 4 lry• .Auguat eth, .1860. My last letter left our party asleep in'Walton 'Club Camp on Baguette Lake, August-2d. The next morning .was to restive the companyinto two divisioni, the , one porpoeing to•retnain a few .days longer, and.thett pass out by-either ,thetgara ,tuto route, or by Broern'sTract r as they had come .—the other, consistingof Messrs. 'Fowler, Board -maw, Dewey, and your oorrespondent, - intending to ;make 'the foot tour of .the Adirmidacks, and reach home ultimately by way of Lake:Champlain. Although a division of the tarty bad been con templated from the trat, yet when the time came, the thought of taking two different pathe„ and of no longer enjoying the lively and pleasant inter course of the whole band, was not an agreeable one. Those whom we were te leave behind, though acquaintanees before, had grown upon our appreciation as we saw them in the free, and natural, and spontaneous character of woodsmen. They had been honored as citizens, as Christians, as business -or. professional men'; but we knew -them now no longer at a distance, and under stiff, social forms, but in all those fresh, boy-like ha pulses, which, after all, no man can afford to lose. A FOOT ZOVEINEY or 180 MILES-Not) SYMVATHY ASK .D. With hearty good wishes on all sides, .the part ing hand was given, a salute of two guns rang out over the lake, and we moved off to the inter section of the Roquette, with the so-called - " Black River road," which was to lead us to thnAdira dack lower iron works, and thence to Crown Point. This with the contemplated detour to .Mt. Marcy and the Indian Pass, would make a foot journey of one hundred and thirty Miles. The Black. River vottglovhich extends , ftdm Crown Point through theentire wilderness to Lowville, in Lewis. Co., was laid out sometyearnsincennder the patronage of the State. From the Raquette westward fifty-five miles it is seldom used, has no settlements, and has almost ceased to be a road. From the , same point eastward it runs mostly through a denso remit, though a clearing `and a borne may be . founiff every: few miles, and, some large tracts by the way•side--thousanda of acres in extent have been desolated by accidental fires. The soil of this mountain range being very poor, and the climate at such' altitudeelielbg Coo cold for wheat or corn, or any kind of orchard-fruits, the rewards -of the farmer's toil- Ate of course scanty, and, he is compelled to eke out the re sources of the. plough and hoe, by:those of the rifle awl the Roll ;rod. We set out on.this wilderness road , Angwit with knapsacks of from fifteen to twenty pounds each, besides guns: and rads, Let no one who has been. panting under , the fervors of an August sun in the cities, waste Oifyupon us as way-Worn travellers, well nigh overcome with dust and heat; for these mountain forests are cool and dank, our path is overshadowed, or only.ideppled with cm ("anal gleams of, the sunk, instead of dust the air is laden with the peculiar and refreshing smell of the woods, and at short intervals n;clear and beautiful spring flows at , our feet We move-on leisurely; free from All care and' all.restraint, 'en joying a wide range of cheerful conversation in which the past is reviewed, authon3 discussed, and the great religious and political interests of the present and the future presented in various lights. Now a flock of partridges, or a trout brook, de mands a temporarildigression, and now we turn aside to a snug lothousefor dinner,: and with knapsaokfor a pillow stretch ourse/ves upon the ground, while the ample but abundant. mipast 'is . made ready. Notwithstanding the 'lucky/heat ,and the ,sugar maple I, tin combined product , otthese, .jurtapositionWhiehoery reader ~. is 'never to 111- refitted, hrtlie When the good Itouse4tife , has delieiotta maples BYrup , ,With Jan iltnlY "hnmezmade sugar," ;the it t r n tilkany;pardohed , end geeoi4l ) speckledt, , trOut ;hat% .:beett :ac cepted .without remonatrapciel s.a ,tolerable sub etitute for " boughtenv mackerel andteeddek. We have invariably. faredsumptubusly. :Even when we have foul 'no houses 'on our route and heen oompeljed -to. enkindle our own fire in. the woods, ;au boll coffee in our,' only cooking R44.7-401mal« s d broil l out trmison. on a'rp s ,and v 0 ; birch bark plate, and then adjourn to the neighbor ing raspberry bushes fora dessert, we lave kieatly eulgyed the repast—seasoned as it was with that best of condiments, a backwoods appetite. !wing CIJATUOTEIt OF THE I'oPITLATION — RELIGION IN On the whole we hare been .pleased with these scattered families whom we have found in various localities on our way. They are little affected by the commercial anxieties,,or political excitement, or social ambitions which disturb the citizen's breast. They follow their own fashions of dress and manner, with no thanks to Paris or New York. They are hosPitable and obliging, and are certainly `not eiorbitant, as they often hesitate between a charge of twelve, or of eighteen cents for dinner. 'They are natural and self-posiessed in tl:tir course with strangers of whatever rank or pre tension, andmany of them are acquainted with experimental piety, and are members of a Metho -dist cheiell Which has existed for some years at Long Lake: On each 'Sabbath we haVe met a handful of these people at.BolllB place of religious worship, and seine ones Of our party has preached to them the simple truth of the gospel.. In two instance; we have found little Sabbath schpois of a dozen petals, taught by two or three faithful women.. In whit 'corner of the world where the , not "find` has been made known at all, will you not 'find' the influence of `the' Christian woman? She is the true pioneer: ' She is first and hilt in _her the .11"lestei's` cause. 'W"herever the field is 'most hopeless, end_ the beginnings of religious influence - legblest, and the 'diaeOuragement and rppositiOn' of the world greaten, her prayer will *teed aline 'need he, and gentle hand. will put forth to id* the seeds ,of the, truth. She - Will gather the - prayer:•cirele and fortu 'tic 'little Sallbith schonl, and lai the foundation's of the church. " idlater generations the honored'names of•iitla Men will perhaps appear conspicuously in the earthly history of that church, but in the last great day she, whose gentler and humbler in fluence welftrat vatifltqdttree3tal t thoughdong since forgotten„ shall he placed high in honor among iedeemed,und shine as the stars in the firina intent • forever. We could but revere theie few mothers and sisters in Christ, as in the _presence of several men, some of whom were strangers, they endeavored faithfully to instruct their little Clesset; the word of life. lire did not fail to speak words of encoutagemerit - M 'them and unite - our prayers with theirs'for their success. The simple areas and Manners which appear in theselittle gatherings, are of course very far from conformity to the styles of high life. Instead of the- rustle of :oostly 'silks, and the rich:display of ".snoop-shovelthuts," you tee'tire plain dalico dress with <no great' circumference of hoops, and the sun-bonnet of home-manufacture, and every variety of style. Of course, uo plated carriage , or harness appears ,at the door, nor prancing: steeds., nor liveried lackey, but we have seen the ample :rick of, the hay-eart with its load of fifteen auditors whom it, had gathered from the_ scattered houses, and we have welcomed. the faithful ig Buck-board" (a simple elastic plank resting upon the two - axles of a wagon) as it brought•its row of five men and women over ten miles of Corduroy road to hear the truth. On one occasion we enjoyed the privileges of a prayer and conference meeting, and were truly refreshed in spirit by the earnest words a these brethren in the. Lord. RELATION OF WILDERNESS AND 'MOUNTAIN TO '. I °cannot resist _ the impression, that chat is trite df seafaring communities, is nisi:ll,rue of these people, namely, that their very . hardships Make them, if not worstr, theu better—lin:fit and restrict the fascinations of life, or give to all things a more sober and - serious htte. Nor is its mere fancy. I am sure, that these grand and awe-inspiring scenes Of nature have a powerful effect upon the mind and heart. - If the ancient Germans', Were constrained to believe that a divinity too great for shrines and temples dwelt in the dark, solemn forests, and if the American Indians found the great spirit in these very solitudes ofrottroWe latid;'why should not enlightened men find a moral power in the life-long companionship of these sunny, or tempest driven lakes, and in the vast overhanging presence of these mountains, so changelessly sombre with the eternal green of the 'balsam 'and the spruce? We have ourselves felt this.inffnende during these pastdayeand weeks. More than the ocean even, 'do these mountains seem , to me einblematic of the infinite, and divine. Apparently; though not really, they are immutable, while' generations come and'go; and•forests spring And decay. They embody the ideas of vastness and of power. They towerabove all else and touch'the heavens. • Like God they environ and Shelter these dweller's in the valley even, "as the mountains round about Jerusalem." - Like God their greatness stretches away into-the dim distance beyond all human ken. How often have'l been reminded of those inspired *oda, "Thy goodness is like - the great moun tains:" There' are men' here who havo divelt amid "these scenes forit quarter of a' eentutyl—men - 'Who' have 'from first to last shot' nearly a thousand deer, from twenty to thirty moose, aeons of wolVes, and bears, and panthers, and who have spent many a winter in the rigors of- the trapper's fife, but who have now scarcely enough accumulated to supply - the nepessities of their old age. Their life 'has been one_ of privation and hardship, and poorly re, munera t e d a t that, Bat "they are attached to-the wilderness, and. ,thoWohiefs. rvreuree-is 'their lioPe fidE imbErotiss—WOMAN RELIGIOUS 'OE'ARACTER AND' ~-~~~~ •.. f..: :in , .Christ.. :It is well, perhaps, that iheirsons'can. not =follow :in - their foottetikv=that garde is 'he 'cording 'nib iodide, 'and that' between the : Over : ly of the soil, and 'the leanness of-, the .hudting ground, they will be eodipelled, to ,find-emploi , anent in , more` fruitful eteterprises elsewhere. My next letter will have to do with our ascent of Mt. Marcy, and visit to the Indian Pass, and sinifeen ,Of taictxdrikillNT-ATM dEEAT IE44:ST ',I3I.*'VISAED-A EDLFILM:EiNT AND A r' American Presbyterian with , , common other large cities, taltimore has also had , her " ex citements," during the heat of summer. We have had our exciting pfiljgold conventions ip of .it A the boar through wantlif attention on the 41-4 4,16. . . `hands, fireman, engineers, coal-heavers,captains, and ,passengers, sky-high—n spectacle and a-cau tion to political steam companies and all those who venture upon the stormy seas, where blow the North and 'South gales at the same time. We had, also, - the Japanese, for whose sake , we did not take leave of our senses, to the tune Ofia hundred thotisand dollars, as did the New Yoi•kers, who are Still rubbing their eyes at the, discovery of the extravagant price of that Japanese whistle. And we haVe now recently had the Great "Eastern, Which, with the unwonted fervours of dog-days, has run the temperature of our excitements up to 100° 'Fahrenheit, end, now that they, are all past, have left is in that comfortable state of ex hausted interest which dne fpels on issuing from an'oiiental bath: 'This last matter of interest—the visit of the Great Eastern to the waters of the e r hesapeake, is Jine, the memory of Which, will remain in the minds of thousands who have seen her, when.the broils and disgusting contentions of paltry politi cians shall have long been forgotten. Probably, - 25,000, persona have embriced the opportunity* of her, seeing not one of whom will, perhaps, ever see, the like again. No one can have seen , her 'without ever afterwards entertaininv more just and exalted views of the greatness, the wealth, the enterprise, the power, the mechanic skill; the genius of that people, of which she stands, as the latest and noblest witness and monument. The' Great Eastern is not merely so many thou sands.of tons of iron, put together into water-tight compartments, so ingeniously as to re-enact Eli °slues miracle of making iron to swim-not in the Jordan, bet across the stormy waters of the At -lautic --but is the embodintent of the highest ideals of the human mind in mechanism, art, and scienc.e,-in this or any' ther age. She is an iron realization of the highest conceptions of the ge nius - of man thus far. That laboring genius, through.the germinant struggles of centuries, has at length broughtforth and .in..thisi great aohiev.c meet walleye its noblest, truest and grandest ideal realized.. In harmony of proportion, in symmetry of outline, in power and perfection of mechanism, in capacity of utility, in 'hartridny With the laws of arehitectural and scientific art, in all these re spects, • what the. progressive Mind of, the world has, -until the middle of the nineteenth century, been able to conceive,is there wrought out in iron-. While contemplating her massive, majestic, and perfectly symmetrical proportions; as such a reali sation of the earnest ,struggles of ages, we.seemed _to see gathered aroundlier thousands of those de parted sons of genius, who have,, each in, their day, labored upon the grand ideals, of which it was re served for a. Bitum., to give us, the complete reali sation. , The Great Eastern is the art, the scien tific genius and the mechanic might of the nine teenth century bodied forth in iron. As such, itis the fulfilment.of the - prophecy ,of :which Fulton and Watt were, unconscious seers, and Fulton's little steamboat on the Hudson was the prediction ?re fulfilment of the predictions of strug . glingsemus from their.day to, this. • And it is not only a realization of the high ideals of genius,, a monument.of the architectural and ,scientifie art of the . age,. a fulfilled prophecy, but the Great •Eastern is herself a prophecy, a pro phecy significant of, the grandeur and glory of that wondrous Feture; which is now, so rapidly • opening upon, us; a Future in, which art, science, commerce,,,religion; shall alt eombine to subdue nature tomap, and man to God. And we eau , not but, regard that noble,,vessel as also, a national Symbel7—awitness to xis ,and, all, the world, where ,ever she may ge r of #l4 supremacy Which Eng land has bad, and still has a right to claim upon the sea: ,a symbol ; of that supremacy which she has now worthily won by the enterprise„,the.skill, the laborious industry, and the commercial ener gies,of Itei island people—a symbol of the - majesty and commercial glory of that people, which, for ages, has stood forth the chief defender of a free Protestant Christianity •in every part of the world: . this, and much mornwe see in the Great Eastern, and we do onrselves, and our ages and race, no honor if we - refuse. togrant this homage to the genius and enterprise of our elder brethren across the sea, and this we, should be the,more free to grant, since, in the ; great conflicts which are approaching in the history of man, England's and our interests must and ever will be the same. In the extension of her, influence, as of - our own, we can see no harm foreboded to us, and only good to the human race. Let the. Great Eastexn visit Avery land, and everywhere she shall benswitness of thegrand achievements of a : free-Protestant; Liberty-loving, Bible-loving people. / We, should beAshamed,of that, narrow, national bigotry that cannot, see any thing great or worthy of homage in this great achievement of the scientific genius of - England, or that seeing it, is unwilling to ac knowledge it. But , "will it pall?' as some standing before the Duomo of Aldan or Chimborazo ask, willitpae Pay? ,yes—a - thousand .per cent., , though evory pound of her"value should be sunk by her owners Pay, in the glory of . the achievement itself, in the moral influence she will exert wherever she goes, and in the settlement oe - gfeat, mechanical, scien tific' and commercial questions,• which could not be determined but-through-sigh an experiment. All honor to the getiius'that conceived; the enter prise that originated, the wealth that freely paid fdr, and the strong hands that ribbed the gigantic sides and - welded the mighty scales of that Levia than ofthe sea.:--the Great Easiern.' D: Itimare, Augusaa, 18'60: PHILADELPHIA, LIETTER' PROM ntirtitoki. 41 , For the Ara, :can Presbyterian. . . ' .TONAII'S 'SRI *ATE& i a We . readLthat•sfter4O h' had been thrown 'overboark the , sea , -becanae , & ltn, and the sailors Were:so:thankful for their d iverance from nth that they itninediately: be '' n to .offer sacrifices and , tenalrevows.. Wed , bt whether their re ligion was wortle,niuch. , he world is very - apt to forget God entirely until torms, and tempests, and troubles , come upon , -there, andthen, like .To-, nalea.mariners, they pray e, rnestly to God for de liverance, and some of theke o.as far as these men' did- 7 4hey reariember.:tooif e vo%vs :after trouble 11.3 'is over: .: '' • - V,.. : • . Religion, to be worth .fti e:" ything,:must bon ti band" when trouble pin ' .-.., It must-tie availa- I ble as we see. sorrew.appr: ping , or, -it comes suddenly.,:it 111340 be, An ti ' nd to be .applied at ; ;,nee to cairlelief.", , : - 1t ' - '•yotii h • , We arecreaty ,n ,,p le. It is really won derful how,meyepir , i. :and ,distress it is i our l .A. 'lot to bear. goo elderosed to say, idien,some' of the flock would tell .iiz f the extreme burden of their sorrows,-."Yes, friend, you must'eX-, pect to bear it all, and Mitre, too, dust" as long as You hie. When you Stip having trouble, you may expect your end is near, for a series of trou-, bles is our lot on earth." . Now, it is the expeii ence of all real ChriStians hat their religion has: taken away fully threeftlirtlia of their load of sorrow. In the ' darkeskhour those beautiful chords from Isaiah's lyrekiave come sounding in ,their ears—"-Fear,not; ford'lllll with thee: be not dismayed, for lam thy . I`will strengthen; thee; yea - , I Will 'help thee; yea, I will 'uphold thee with the right hand' of my righteousness." Or it may be, the vibratio cif , bavid's harp have come-trembling into:their ' _rk souls--" The Lord is my Shepherd;- I , shall-iiit want." 'Or they May have heard the whisper of 'Christ/8 loving voice Say to their dewneitatleaks, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are lib a;:pr lideq, and I wilrgive you rest." What do those poor forlorn souls do ivho, when overwhelin'eci:iiith - treabie, have no comforts like theSe to count, Of their earn accord, ' into their , souls and breathe ail their fragrant and subduing influences uponitorn, and bleeding, and distressed hearts? - - ''' a "wF~~-T~E Shtner! therea dttylbfdeeP troUble—of dire , Calamity coming, when joten will call upon the rocks and the mountai4 to fall upon them and hide them from the sight of God. Would You prepare for that day ? Have'the religion- of Christ in your scnil2, rfave it on hand when the trouble comes, an note like Jonah's ship mates, begin to pray only yhen the sea roars and threatens to swallow t theltup. Prepare to-day, for, to-morrow the wrath'of.God may be Upon you. RAWLINSON'S BAMPTON LECTURES. THE WESTMINSTia EIVIENiT AND THE CHRIS TIAN REGISTER. .The Westmmste Betiew,rin the number 'of July, returdi, with perhaps' greater than' ii"slial zeal, to the war which it is waging against, the inspiration of the Seriptures and the supernatural character of. the. Christian Religion. Its text oh this occasion is •the work .whosi title is at the head of this article, and While discussing in a sneering manner, and in every way endeavoring to depreciate, its arguments, it insinuates with more or= less boldness the rankest opinions of the destructive school of Biblical critics. Germany, in. which 'this sort- of criticism Originated, and where `Strauss carried it to its culminating point in regard to the NO , Testament, has, for years, been setting us the examplenf repudiating it as presumptuous, and as an outrage upon all-the Settled principles of human belief. And now forsooth,, the pining exotic is sought to be trans planted to ~the freshest,' .soil of England and America to gain for:it if possible a new lease of life.- The east off critical opinions' of our trans atlantic neighbors; these which they hive otitlived and outgrown are, forsmith, be,renovated 'under the skilfurtands of the Westminster ,reviewers, and palited off 'Upon is as new and astonishing. The very thickeit part of the fog through which German thinkers of the past half century have gone, iii their' struggle to harmonize faith with philosophy, is to be praised as the very noonday of critical illuiniriation--the last and highest re sult of human apeoulatioi3l, It is enough to say of this article, that it Will allow of no such thing'. as 'niiiacles, that it sneeringly term the 'Mir - tient:ins conception' of Christ, a.supphsed-case of pailltenogenesis! that it labors to reduce the evidence of the resurrection to a miiiimuni, and that it claims for Paul's Epistles.-:--such as are :"probably-gennine"—a dubious assertion: of miracles,' if not an " " entire silence on the sfibjecti '• - It-would be worse than - useless, - in - siich 'a limi ted spate-as is at our ctinamand, tO`. atterapta; re ply to 'this article. It like a widely "extended lake, with seine` depth of clear Water, but With' a far 'greatei.depth of tired...beneath hoi deep, we Cannot undertake to/fathom. NG prefer to show how the work alluded to (itaWlinecri'S) is regar'de'd by another school of skePtics, the inederate Unitarians; represented by the Clwistian gegisier of Bosion. The testimony Of such critics, Who cannot be accused of at undue' attachment td the inspired volume, or of an extraordinary anxiety for the maintenance of its supernatural char:atter, will perhaps be more acceptable 'than that of orthodox persons.' We have been much interested in the perusal of the volutne, lately republished by Gould - At Lincoln, on "The Historical Evidences of the Truth of the Scripture' I,tecords," by George .Rawlinson, M. A. The author is ahrother of the distinguished Orientalist, Sir Henry' Haw linson, and him Self known - to the literary world by his elegant edition of Herodottia; in Which, as in the work before us; he has availed. himself of the assistance gived by the: researches: of his brother. Indeed those rasearches appear to have suggested the idea of the present work. Among the wonders or one age is the'deet= pherineof- inscriptions, in characters long un used, and languages long forgotten; found among the ruins of r g yptiart and Assyrian greatness. it was in, this work that the elder Rawlinson,,-as we Suppose him from the title that he bears,—gained for:himself an honor far greater than that of birth; while the younger, with talents more directly consecrated to the services of the church, 'saw in his'brotheris dis coveries the means of confirming the - faith that modern skepticisin assailed, in the correctness of the Scriptural record: The work before us was the result. The :work is worthy the atten tive study of all WhO are tempted to relinquish TuntstiAy AUGUST 30.' 18601 Le. :., ~ . . ; h those w °rip roes in h are . t e ound a on of 'religions faith, on the nierelictain orsonte Feld -brated -foreign scholar..:-' We give, a few ,extre,,cts, chjefly;:such 'as show the nature of the support ' afforded .by recent discoveryes;to the , truth, of the - Biblical attire- In'reply ta the' objectintr against the genuine ness of the Pentateuch, from the improbability that the, Itchrews,,.at their departure from Egypt, Were• ant:painted with the art of Writing, our 'authiSr evidence from the bricks of I:Tr, the city'from Whiett'AliiihniirMitrated bun 'dred of years before: "-Ur, -or, 'Hur, the modern lfugheir, :bas fur lashed some of the Most ancient of the-Babylo , • :Tian inseriptiene. It seems to have been the ancient capital ofOhaldia. The ineeriptionS, *Whiefr are either bricks ' t or' on clay 6Ylinders, and 'Which tire 'somewhat rukly'execnted, Moe heen ;: assigned:, to about 'the 22d century before Christ,which is-,at least three centuries before Notes, page 253. In the fourth lecture, '(page - an 711dst"ration is '‘giv'en Whin' the ruseriptiobs of 'Seiinacheribiof the expcditien of that =monarch .againgt.llezekiah, when he “came lity- against All the fenced . cities ~;of „Judah and :took them,; and Eidiekiah, l king:Of Judah, aentto the king of Aii4ii a' to `LaChieh, gaping , , return from nie that WhidlicthOu ritatest Upon me bear: and the king -of'-Assyria op pointed unto- Ilezekiab, king vf.Judah, - three hundred talents of and thirty talents of gold. 2,ings 4. e following is Sennacherib's own account, in the translation -of Sir H. Ra*linson: "And becanie HAiekiah, .king of Judah, wonld.not submit to my yoke, I came, up against him, and by forge o f, arms, and by the might of my power, I took forty-sii of his strong Tenced - Cities; and of the smaller Which - Weie scattered, about;' I took Anil plundered a7eorint less number. ..And from thesaplaces I captured and parried off, as spoil two hundred thousand one hundred and fifty people, old and young male` Tali*, 'together with ;holies and `mires, 'uses and Caine* a countless nitittitnde. :And Hezekiah himself I shut bp in Jerusalem, his capital. city, like a bird ;inos cage, , building towers around the city to, hem ,him, in, .and raising -banks of earth against the gates, so as itireVent escape. .. . hen ripen thiS -.llekekinh 'there fell thafeaf of the power 'of* arms; and he sent Out to me the ichiefs and the elders of Jerusalem with thirty; talents of ; gold, and eight.handred talents of silver, and givers Treasures, a rich and immense booty. All 'these 'things were bionthi to me at Nineveh, the Seat , of thygoverninerit, Hetiekiali haVing sent. them by way of fribcite, and'aif a token of his submission to myi power." • 2 . , • , "It is' neediess," says the, lecturer, "to per tiehlUrize the points of agreement between these narritife'd. The iirdy discreptuicY is in "the 'amouht of sifter,*bleb genimcberib received; and here we may easily conceive, either ghat -the Assyrian king hes - exaggerated, or that he has Counted in a portion of the spoil, while, the sa 7 cred Writer has merely mentioned the sum agreed to be Pat as tribute." Ai a third rehiiirkithle illnstratioii. o`f Seiip= tare, let us take the “Stabdard inseription" of Nebuchadnezzar, confirming, in a remarkable degree the account ,of that monarch's segues fration'iVdm the charge hiskingdoin through itsziaility; as it- kr. reCordd lathe foufth chapter ofTraniel. The following is the inscription, - is giv.en in our author's noteS, smite words appa rently wanting, , and a few, marked as, uncer tain: . "Fotir years (?) . , . . . . the seat of my kingdom'in the City .. . . Which ... . . did eot rejoice my heart. in till my dotriinions did'not build a high place of power; the pre-, °ions treasures of my kingdom I did not lay op. Iu Itabylon, buildings for myself and for the henor of my kiagdiiiii I- did not lay out. - the 'Worship 'of Merod'ach My lord; the kry of my heart, (?) in' Babylon, the city of . =his sove reignty and the seat of my empire, I did not sing' his praises, (?) ; and I .did ,not. furnish his WWII (with victims,) tier did I clear out the canals." • The last three lectures are devoted to the illustration ,of the New Testament history.-- The assertion is made, and well „supported by proof, that "there is far.better evidence of au thorship.in the ease of the four. Gospels and of the Acts of the Apostles, than' exists with ,re speet to the works - of almost any classical writer. It is aver* rare„ occurrep,ce for classi dal works to he. distinctly quoted, or 'for their authors to be mentioned by name, within a ,cen,- tury-of the time of , their publication." (Page 159.) Upon the mythic theory of the origin of the 'New Testament writings, Mr. Ra,wlinson well remarks, "To suppose that a mythology could be, formed in such an age and, country, is to confuse the characteristics_of the most oppo site periods—to ascribe to a time of luxury, over-civilization, and decay, a,phttse of ; thought which ~only belongs to the rude vigor and early infancy of nations." . DOCTRINAL PREACHING-TNITRUOTI-:14 AND AGGRUSW.g. No preacbing is so instructive as doctrulal preaching, by reason of the fertility it gives to the preacher's own mind. Mind is very much as its - objects of thought. If a - Child should ever confine his thoughts to hihplaythings, he would alwals be a child. kvery day we see, the fact illustrated that, mind takes on the type of its pnrsuit. If the minister dint at what re'teehni cally,termed ( ( popular preaching," *here mat ters of taste or culture, or the tragedieS of the dal, are . the principal topics of dispofitse,o may be a sensationist, but not en itistrucci. He may;utter soft sentimentality; he tutty,Aperkle, and flash, and catch the fancy and the ,i,tfagina tion; Wit from the nature of the case le cannot be ''a fruitful preaeher. Soule flower- Ili ay blOs sera there bat the' vigor that,eotnes from striking down into the soil' beltiV, grappling with its forces and extractinviStrjuices, will be wanting. l,. The doctrinal`preacher cd"; he into, direct corn urunion with , the mind of`i: He listens to the still striall voice as, teittilby - tritth, it urifOlde the'Sublime mysteriesf godlinesi. That truth enlists his energies, '41,1 develops his mental i g forces as no other tAlth, can. It clarifies his reason; opens the I s ngs of thought, and stirs the profounddit d lis - of his Soul. The dis course puts his sou g l lciw.. He sees saline - he saw before; thought chases thought; truth id linked witl:trut his mind is brimming and be must speak. ,se inspiring doctrines are like the, cherubim a ~ ,,litiming sword of Eden which turned every w f They point wherever bintilsj ciente has left a thought. They reach fronittid "minutest a... alcitle to which a drop is air ocean," to t ; - .'burning seraph on high. •,,• H. The second reason in favor of doctrinal preaching is, `at it is aggressive. Just so cer mly as there is a positive antago nism.betwe futh and error, sin 4.11'd holiness, the preach must engage in the conflict. The master "ca e not to send peace, but a sword," and the se :nt must use it. When truth is enthroned , . each soul; when the celestial fire glows in e 'hearty then peace shall crown the triuinph. '''tben it is a strife and struggle. In the mean f 3 Ind doctrinal preaching is the in: strnitent of Nver and the grand - condition , ' of success. . - ' , ' --"''i • it has been my remarked by a brilliant writer, that great 'revOltitiOns hive their 'origin in an 'abstract principle." It is an ab -striepriiiniple working convietion'that incites . ;toznoble aetion. It is °.a;. first truth germinating in the soul,:radiating its; lifethroughall the theart, th robbing in every pulsation, that realizes any, hifh achievenient • • . P'ie'd rival `realiiis these essential prindifile's. It appeals' , to the primal forces of 'the soul. It besieges the main citadel. A rad i transformation of life is.its crowning object. It'yests only when the central purpose, the re al will,"are committed to the struggle for eter nal life: That it these, it' summons conscience into iiction;lamd: neth ink but the doc trines of the..-gospel. will. effectively move this high faculty : The preaching that spends its strength on the mere moralities, or civilities of life, or declaimitiF againet mere apiniOns and Manners; preaching that deals:in Caricatures more than in.the Goepel, itupifies the conscience, instead of arousing it.. Law-degenerates into a mere instinct, however noble, and the love of the Cross into - a - sentiinentalism. But to the doctrinal preacher there : is a reason for that law and love. This reason "lie lays upon the con science, 'which then reets-apon the soul . , “Like 'fiery tofigues at Peritecoit." and Glad, heaven take on - their true signi •fidatice • holy action begins, and grace has tri ) nmphe3- The doctrinal preacher, for example, gives true place and promitience to the justice of God. Re magnifies that justice as expressed by the Atonement. Ile demonstrates that justice, as swell as mercy, radiates from the. Cross. Love for man is the Motive, but it is justice that de mands the sacrifice., There, is compassion, but only as it is righteousi there is pardon, but ndt at the expense - Of law. The pity of God would be weakness did ittoreproinise his integ rity. Men are•readyto cry out against the civil authority ,when itsundne leniency subverts the foundatknit, of .justice- Much more shall God's ttnivavering .fidelity to law, his wonderful re 'sped for justice, produce its proper impression 'on his universe. AS a father he would bend over his children with restoring pity; as a hdly God he would lift the creature from the degra dation of sin, and Open to ~him the liberty and glory of holiness; but he could not do this at the' forfeiture of his , integrity. He could afford to stoop to earth, to incarnation, to Pilate's judgment hall, to Calvary, to the grave; but he could not afford the,surrender of his,throne and his kingship. It is this stern adherence to jus tice, running parallel - with God's love, that ex cites the wonder of angels as they desire to look into IlieSe things; it is this that%givei vitality to grace r eompleteness to salvation ;= it is this, as much as, love, although he may not think so, that arouses, the sinner from his lethargy to the pursuit of eternal life. WO are well aware that a""liberal Christian ity," Its well as the diluted orthodoxy of-out. tittles, would ignore the principle of fear in our nature. It is called , harsh, unphilosophieal, re pugnegt to a refined sensibility, and even un christian. ,The "liberals" Would contend that in'the strivings after a shliiiine manhood, in the struggleS, and "npreachings of divine souls," amid the sublimated impulses of true hero-wor ship, fear would be slavish and is to be scorned. But, the fear of doing Wrong, and the consequences of Wrong doing, in view of justice and the right, underlie the'eritire structure of society'and govern- This -is the Soul 'Of-patriotism. Respect for justice wasa characteristic element of the 'great !less of Washington, -and the faith of the people in,this fact was one deep source of their faith in him Histories and eivilizatious sometimes turn ett'a single occasion. The trial and execution of Major •Andr6 was one of the crises in our Revolu tionary history._ It revealed to the world the true character of Washington ,and the dignity of, the cause which he represented. The father of our country, holding the, death warrant, as yet un signed, listened to the appeals 'coming from all parts of the world that Andr6 should = be saved. He heard the entreaties and the threats of the Yacrlish general the meltingpetition of the British mother, the' pleadings of bosom friends r he felt Mere than all thoSe the quiet dignity of the noble prisoner, hut abore everything he heard the calm, serene- voice of jUstice. OUr countrymen thus learned that they were not.fighting for an aspirer, nor for, a name, but for a principle dearer. than ,life. The old world, too, caught the lesson, as t,herein they satv the spirit and aim of the Revolu tionary struggle: If 'Washington's sense of justice, speaking: through the death of an unfortunate sol dier, could so reach .11is countrymen and the civil ized world, how much more is that unparalleled utterance for justice and,right in the death of the S4t of God, saving the condemnedcriminalwi out'violating justice; fitted .to arouse a sinning world! - . The past is full of monuments to the progres, sive Power of doctrinal, preaching. What , had Luther done, and where had the Reformation been, were it not for the doctrine of justification by faith? Was it not Ibis 'that went crackling and flaming through the dry rubbish of centuries like a current of fire 2, What but the doctrines of Chrjatiagity gave Calvin and Knox power to Feats Sccitland and America? Whence than these, canoe the trum. iiet tones' of Whitefield? And were not these the right baud of our giant EdVirllal? And by parity of reasoning, what but the preaching of these truths is to stay ,the 4 ineorning tide of infidelity in the future ati.zrapple with spiritual. wickedness in high places?" The . hard struggle for the tree doni of litlefi - hOdy and soul, 'aye too, for the, prithel doctrine& inspiration, is yet to be fought. Past emanate's - re but prelithinar3r skirmishes to the great battle " like the booming of cannon on the morn- 4ng of Austerlitz." • . • ,Preabytexian (invite - AI Rthiew. THE. MILK OF THE WORD The safest place for the Bible to be' is in the hands of the people that can read it, and if any man tells me that that produces heresies, and misundirstandings, and superstitions, I say ne *dr, airmOie than the sun prOdaces the malaria that: comes froth the morass or the poison Thal, is exhaled from the poisolions plant. The poi son is in the plant, and the malady is in the malaria and the marsh, itis not in the sun. The sun is the indirect occasion of it, but he is not the cidse - of it. And so I say the heresies and errors and superstition's, may be put upon the Bible, but• they never came from the Bible. 'lt was well and beautifully illustrated by a plain. liishinaU, as I have been told, who, &rough, the iiistitimentality of the Old Irish SoCieiy, think it was, was taught to read - Gbd's Word, and loved to - readit, and the priest heard of his reading it, and saw the effect in his withdraw ing from mass and never coming to confession. The priest came horieback to his door, and "What's this I heir of you, Pat?" said he; "is Wyatt; a poor ignoraht fellour, taking on your self, te,study that deep book, and I, a learned man, never can venture, to understand it myself —not a word of it—but as the church teaches; shathe on yon, mai!" ":Well," said the humble mnn "if you ahem me in the tank that I ought` riot to read it I' ill give it'np,ibut I, believe nothing : but. what is in the book." .."You poor Wiwi fellow," said the priest, "I Will soon show you. how unfit you, are for it,, for here, in his First kpistle, Saint Peter; the first great Bishop of Borne, adtionigied'lock to desire the sincere•milk orthe Word that 'they might grow thereby;; You, seithere is not a word there about anything .but the ' of the • Word.," , "Oh, hnt,' said .Pat, with' ready wit, "sera' a VOL V.—NO. I.—Whole No. 218. poor fellow would liketo have the cow himself in order that be might get a drop of that milk, whenever he like's." 6%. The rebuke of"moroseness contained in Matt. yi. 16-18, should be well pondered by every C'hris _tient, Surely he, of all men on, earth, ought to be cheerfUl., How can he, who has God for his friend and heaven for his home, indulge in sullenness and - gloom? COnie What may, he 'knows that "it Shall be Well with the righteous." He may lose children, friends health. reputation property, still he knowathat "all things work together for his gdod" Let him, then, shOW forth his cheerful ness atla "contentinent," 'as well as ,his "godli -ness,"'thit others may ':net "great gain" from his exaraple. The moroseness arid austerity of.semi professed Christians bane done much injury to 'the cause. of the. - Redeemer, and brought , great re 'preach uPdn. His religion. The aour countenance of Pharisaic dliciples has often made the ; young regard Christianity as the embodiment of all that is dismal and lugubrious; and thus a stone of stumbling has ,been thrown in the way of the youthful and, light:hearted. Ristorians tell us that the ribaldry, buffoonery and grass licentious ness during the reign of Charles'll. of England, were brought :about in ,good part by the 'Cant, na sal tones, long prayers and sour visages of the Puritans. Those who could not appreciate the bright and noble qualities of the Puritans, could iidimite their dress and thinner. Had' the purest and best men that the world has ever produced been more e,heerful, more joyous, more courteous, and more conciliating, England might have been spared the ignominy of the disgraceful reigns of Charles' Irand jellies IL The fact is, that the Puritans at the outset never could have gained a party sufficiently' strong . to overthrow the throne of Charles for,the popularity of their great leader,, John Hampden. All know how much of lies popularity was hie to that "natural cheerful ness, vivacity, aid flowing courtesy to all men," of which Clarendon speaks. The broad and genial humor of John Bunyan makes him niore read than any other author. : The same quality in Spurgeon makes him the most popular of living preachers. Our Baviour, though"a roan of sorrows, and ac quainted with grief," yet mixed freely with the people in kind 'and n heerful , conversation. He honored a marriage byhis presence. He eat with publicans and sinners. He talked with a poor, ignorant woman by the well of Samaria. He wept isvith the bereaved sisters at the grave of their brother Lazarus. All'this shoiv's a diaposition the farthest removed from the sullen and selfish gloom of morbid religion. The excellent Wok of. ProfesSor Gibson on the Irish revival, will, tie doubt, serve to dispel some errors that have been generally entertained in re lation to that great•awaliening. We presume that many of our readers suppose that the movement took Ireland as much by surprise as it did us; that it came upon that country like a clap of thubder in a Clear sky; that it burst 'forth sud denly without any preparation for it. According to Professor Gibson's statements, this is a very great mistake. True, the depth of the Work and the rapidity of its spread were, no doubt, greater thin the most sawn:tine had dared to hope. c, But the revival'hadbeen long prayed for and, la bored for.. ;The fallow ground had -been broken pp, the precious:seed had been sown-and harrowed in, and all that was needed to produce the abun dant harvest was the copious shower. We may, in fact, trace this movement back for— many years. We'd° not doubt that the doctrinal revival some thirty or forty years ago, has exerted apoiverful influence upon the present. The.union of the two great sections of Ulster Presbyterianism about twenty`yeirs since . aiso had a happy effect in preparing the way of the Lord. As the united body engaged .more 'earnestly in sending the gos pel to Jew and Gentile, many began to sigh for a better state &things at . home. Ministers preached More faithfully and felt More deeply the need of the Holy Spirit. Great efforts were - Made to-mac ter the Seed of divine truth:by open airpreaching, Sabbath schools, and prayer meetings, and tract distribution. One. Presbytery, Omagh, had had the Subject of revivals before them at their regu lar" Meetings fel. twelve or fourteen years back, and had eirculate.d statements upon the subject, and in various other ways had pressed the matter upon the attention-of the people. Professor Gibson says : "For several years some of the Synods never separated without direating the Ministers to bring before tbe *pie 'Committed to their care the qizesz. Lion of the:state of religion-the-deity and perso nality.of the Holy,Spirit----and the necessity, and nature of conversion. In 1858, the necessity of a'revival of pure reliftion occupied a prominent plebe in their deliberations. The reports that had been presented were ifterivards, in several in stances, printed and, circulated, and Presbyteries were enjoined to meet on a giyen day for, the pur, pose of cenlerring on the means which Should, be iised for promoting the - I.oft* &religion. Thithigh the report of- a standing committee appointed for the: purpose; the same subject had been regularly brought under the, notice of the General Assembly it its annual meetings, and many consultations were held among the members for the advance- Mont Of the interests of vital gndliness.".l The great doctrines of grace' were preached in simplicity and in faithfulness. In those districts where the revival was most remarkable, it seems that the reasonableness of expecting a time of re freshing-was Much dwelt upon in the stated mi nistrations of the pulpit. "Extracts were read: fromr,the existing Memorials of the work of God in Wales, under Daniel Rowlands; in America, under Jonathan Edwards and the Tennents; and in Scotland, under the many eminent ministers who were. similarly honored in other days. The idea a great revival accordingly took hold of many' , in the cengregations, and many prayers were offered in public and in private that it might be realized in vitality and in power." It is remarkable that the religious movement in the Connor district, to which the dyes of all Chris tendom have been turned with so profound an in terest, commenced in 1855 in a somewhat obscure way. - At the earnest:solicitation of the pastor of the district, Rev. Mr. Moore, a young man corn tizeilced a Sabbath school at Tannybrake. In the summer Of 1856, a prayer meeting was formed by the teachers of the Tannybrake Sabbath school. At their first meeting only one solitary visitor was present. But the young men went on, and in a short time a great interest was created in the neigh borhood. The work continued to increase so that the revival in this district attracted the attention of the - General Assembly of 1858. Christian Instructor. . When ,employed as a mason, it was usual for his fellow workmen to have an occasional treat of drink, and one day two glasses of whisky fell to, hiS share, which he swallowed. When he reached home, he found, on opening his favorite hook— Bacon's Essays—that the large letters danced be fore his - eyes, and that he could no longer master his senses. " The condition," says he, "into which I had brought myself, was, I felt, one of degrada tion. I had sunk by my own act, for the time, to a iower level of intelligence than that on which it had been my privilege to stand; and although the state could not have been, very favorable for form itig a resolution, I in that hour determined that I ahead never again sacrifice my capacity of intel lectual copy:Mei:it to a drinking usage; and with God's help, I was enabled to hold by the deter mination." - KOROSEViSS REBUKED. THE IRISH REVIVAL. HUGH. MILLER AND DRINK Major MIL
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