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