GENESEE EVANGELIST.—WhoIe No. 762. ottleg. HOW SHALL I THINK OP THEM TROM THE LOST HUNTER How shall t think of Thee, eternal Fountain Of earthly Joys and boundless hopes divine, Of Thee, whose mercies are beyond recounting, To whom unnumbered worlds in praises shine? I see thy beauty in the dewy morning, And in the purple sunset's changing dyes; Thee I behold therainbow's arch adorning; Thee in the starry glories of the skies. The modest flower, low in the green grass blushing, The wondrous wisdom of the honey bee, The birds' clear joy in streams of music. gushing, In sweet and varied language tell of Thee. All things are with Thy loving presence glowing, The worm as well as the bright, blazing star Out of Thine infinite perfection flowing, For Thine own bliss and their delight THEY KEE But chiefly in the pure and trusting spirit, Is Thy choice dwelling•place, Thy brightest throne, The soul that loves shall all of , good inherit, For Thou, 0 God of love, art all Its own. Upon Thine altar I would lay all feeling, Subdued and hallowed to Thy perfect will, Accept these tears, a thapful heart revealing, A heart that hopes, that trembles, and is still For the American Presbyterian. "How TO ENJOY LIFE:" OR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HYGIENE.* ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS.--NO. 2.-PITBLIO WORSHIP. BY Wlll. M. CORNELL, M. D. .Dependence of the Soul—True Enjoyment only in God—Public Worship—Knowledge of God—What Worship is—Bound to Worship God for his Perfections—Good Men, the Be- Election of God—Worship for Favors Bestowed —The Work of Redemption—Temporal Uti lity of Public Worship—Rs Influence over the Social Affections—A Means of Conversion— Of Growth in Grace—Profession---.The Gos- pel no Debtor—Man cannot enjoy Life with out it—The French Nation, without a Sabbath In my last I, spoke of the mind, soul, spirit. It seems appropriate to speak nest of the depend enee of such a spirit upon its Creator and Pre server; of the enjoyment to be found in his ser vice, and the consequent benefits of such recogni tion and adoration, Such a spirit can be hap?? nowhere but in the enjoyment of its Maker; and this opens to us the great subject of worship. Sterne has well said, "Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of sta tion and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubi to a man's stature as to his happiness." But in no situation does man find true content ment, save in the communion which he has with his Maker. I might here dwell on meditation, reflection, prayer; but as these pertain to indivi dual happiness, and, as I have in past articles upon this subject had reference to the clerical profes, sion, and as I design not to forget the clergy in these additions, I will select that worship for the present topic in which they bear a conspicuous part, namely, the Public Worship of God. Man evidently depends upon some being, and is instinctively led to express that dependence by acts of worship. We know something of this Being from his "works," from which are "clearly seen his eternal power and Godhead;" but still more from that volume wherein He is declared. to be "a Spirit." Even with both these—his works and his word —we know very little about God; and without the latter, we should feel very much as a cele- brated heathen did, when asked to give his opi nion relative to lie nature of God. He replied that he wished for a day to consider before he gave an answer, At the end of the day he desired an other, and then another, and finally at the end of the third day, confessed that " the more he thought of the subject, the more unwilling he was to give. an answer." Even with the Bible, we know very little about God, because the nature of the subject is so far beyond our compreftnsion. “Could we conceive him, God He could not be, Or He not God, or we could not be men.” But we know enough of Him to command our private and our public adoration. It is said above that man is dependent. This dependence', from the nature of the soul, he is led to express in acts of worship. This worship, when spiritual and sincere, gives the most substantial enjoyment. Worship implies love, reverence, adoration, and obedience to the Being worshipped. Before we can love, reverence and adore God, we must have some knowledge of him, and form some definite idea of his character. It will be this idea which we form in our minds, that We love. This we reverence and adore. If we form a true idea of the character we profess to dove, we do in truth love him. But if the idea or character, which we thus form and love, is ant true one, we do not I love the true God; but an idol of our own imagi nation. Such worship resembles that of ancient Athens, filled with idols, while its inhabitants were " too superstitious," and yet the true God was "unknown," and "ignorantly worshipped!" Not to dwell on these points, which may seem 'to some of our readers quite theological; especially, as the order of our time is opposed to dry doc trines, and craves "light bread," let me come to the point, 'the duty, advantage and enjoyment of public worship. We are bound to worship God for his own in trinsic excellence; and as we are social beings, and have social privileges, we are bound to wor ship him socially, or in the great congregation. Moreover, the Bible holds it up as the first duty and privilege of man to worship God "in the as sembly of his saints;" "not forsaking the ,assem bling of ourselves togethery as the manner of some When did our Creator ever command us to do that which was not for our good; ultimately, for our happiness us well as for his glory? If infinite excellency be an object of love, veneration and worship in all its properties, God is this object in the highest degree. He is the fountain from which everything excellent and lovely flows. If on earth there be a personage possessed of amiable ness in an eminent degree, anci l highly exalted by his acquaintance for his virtue and worth, he is infinitely inferior in every excellency to God; and all that he possesses is the gift of God, flowing • [Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1660, by WY. M. Colmam., in Use Clerk's Office of the Markt Court of the United amble, for the Eastern District of Dehlleyirellial from him as streams from their fountain. As the moon shines by a lustre borrowed from the sun, so he, in all that he possesses, reflects only a faint ray of the divine beauty and excellency. If, in heaven, there is an angel of spotless pu rity, and highly exalted in the scale of moral ex cellency, he is but the oreatiod of God, and infi nitely below him in all that is excellent and lovely. Could we combine in one mass all that is glorious, praiseworthy and excellent in the universe, we should still have but as a sand in the balance, when weighed against the infinite glory and perfection of Jehovah. All good proceeds from Him, and yet his fulness is not diminished. What a source of enjoyment, then, must be the communion of the human soul with such a Being! It is the most healthful symptom of a happy soul, to love the worship of such a Being in the assembly of his saints. Indeed, such a spirit, as we spoke of in the last chapter, can find true enjoyment nowhere but in such a God. But there is another reason wbywe should 'eve the public-worship - Of God,-and that is, for favors bestowed' upon us as social beings. If favors be stowed justly demand a return of love in propor tion to their value, then God may well claim from men the highest veneration :and most profound worship. Who, on account of benefits conferred, can rival Him who gave us all our faculties, who constantly preserves us, who "setteth the solitary in families," and who blesses our households? Turn your eye within and see what you can find in the social affections, or the operations of the mind, which God has Tlot given. View these curiously made bodies, and see "what God has wrought." Whence came all our capacity for en joyment? Why is not every sound a shriek of terror? Why is not every sight that "of gar ments rolled in blood? Why does not perpetual winter bind the earth in icy fetters? Why is not every plant in the vegetable world a poison; every beast in the animal a tiger thirsting for blood? Simply because God is good, and from him these gifts - descend, and to him, for them, our hearts should be drawn out in worship by all the cords of gratitude. Nowhere can, good men find such enjoyment as in the worship of. God;, hence the following exclamation of the sweet singer of Is rael, when deprived of the privilege of the sanc tuary:—"How amiable are thy tabernacles, 0 Lord 1 My soul longeth; yea fainteth for the courts of the Lord. A day in thy courts is better than a thousand." This is health to the spirit— the true hygiene of the mind. ' There is still a work of God before which those of creation, providence, and all our social privi leges &kindle into insignificance—a work at which angels wonder, and devils tremble. It is the work of redemption. When the fatal fruit was torn from the tree of knowledge, "Whose mortal taste Brought death into our world, and all our WO," God, instead of barring man from Eden, by a flaming sword, devised a plan of redemption; gave. his Son to die, "that through his - qc; e ind inter cession the guilty might one dak e :\,,. a fairer Paradise, where no fruit shall tempo-ro serpent enchant. For this work, the soul of man should ever thrill with ecstacy. Human hearts cannot conceive, human tongues cannot express it. "The angels desire to look into it." Fathom, if you can, that ocean of gratitude which such a work demands. Eternity will be but long enough to tell the story of wonder. The true hygiene of the soul is to kn'llv "God's saving health" as diffused through the plan of redemption. We are furnished with another argument for the public worship of God, in its temporal utility. In it is true health for both soul and body. It is one of the strongest pillars of civil society. The true happiness, the richest enjoyment of civil so ciety consists in the suppression of crime; the cul tivation of the benevolent and social feelings, and the enjoyment of such laws as secure to all their rights and privileges. The preaching of the gos pel is the strongest antidote against crime. Those who have been trained up under the influence of the sanctuary, who have known this spiritual hy giene of the soul, this grand prophylactic against crime, have rarely been found guilty of any flagrant offence. The number of malefactors brought to the bar of justice has been found to be in.propor tion to the number of those who habitually neg lect the public worship of God. This worship extends the same benign and sa lutary influence over the benevolent and social af fections. It enjoins upon man every duty by the weighty consideration of reward or punishment from God suited to our character. It inculcates everything connected with peace, honor and hu man felicity; and discountenances, by the most weighty considerations, everything hurtful and dangerous, or tending to mar the enjoyment of life. Its blessings are not confined to one class, but extend to all. Here the ruler and the ruled, the parent and the child, the master and the servant, all meet for the same end, all stand on the same level, all participate in one common blessing. Here they have solemnly impressed upon their minds the greed, reciprocal duties they owe each other; and all true worshippers are one in Christ Jesus. The public worship of God thus becomes the bond and cement of society, its firmest sup port, its greatest ornament, its richest source of enjoyment. Furthermore, it has pleased God that the insti tution of public worship should be the chief means by which sinners should be converted. Those who neglect its ministration have but little reason to expect that "grace of God that bringeth salva tion." "Faith °meth by hearing, and hearing by the word of God; and how can they hear without a preacher?" "How beautiful are the feet of him that bringeth glad ,tidings! That publisheth peace !" Those who wait upon God in . his sanc tuary may hope for that "grace that bringeth sal vation." Here "the law, of God becomes our school-master to bring us to Christ." Here "the wages of sin are shOwn to be death, and the gift of God eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Here we are shown our guilt; the iniquities of the heart are laid °open, and our alienation from God made manifest. Here, too, "the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world," is pointed out as the only Saviour. "The pulpit— There stands the messenger of truth: there stands The legate of the skies. His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By bim the violated law speaks out Its thunders; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the gospel whispers peace." (Conclusion of the Chapter ne4 week.) PHILADELPHIA, . .TIIUW3DAY.,i..._:,;t):E-R)TUf1H.4,;,.1560..- For the American Presbyterian ENGLISH EDUCATION IN INDIA. MY DEAR EDITOR:-.—The value of English education to the natives of India, is a subject which has latterly elicited some difference of views. The following testimony, jUst received from India, and given by discriminating and ob serving minds, brings to view one happy result of such education, viz.: "English education, conlbined with the influ ence, direct or indirect, of Christian missions, has created in Bengal (and in other parts of In dia also) a peculiar and, in many respects, an interesting class of people. They form an in termediate class between the old orthodox, con servative Hindoo party, and' free-thinking, fast , young Bengal. They may be characterized as content with the position which an all wise Pro vidence has meanwhile assigned to their country in the community of nations, and anxious, at the same time, to see their countrymen elevated to a higher platform of soCial existence; loyal 'to their sovereign, the Queen of great Britain; repudiating, as altogether unmanly, all feel ings of antagonism towards the dominant race; having no faith in the systems of religion which hold sway over the minds and con sciences of millions of their countrymen; and believing, whether by outward profession or in private,-in the only, true' revelation vouchsafed to man." I have no partisan views or feelings on the subject iniolved in this statement, and never taught English in my mission schools at .Kola poor, though I did some six years in our Mis sion Seminary at .Ahmednuggur. The results in that Seminary fully corroborate the state ment in this quotation. Of my English pupils, some twenty have been converted, and several of them are valuable native *lechers or pas tors; and of those not professedly pious, I have scores of letters showing their fast - friendship for usmissionaries, and their honest convictions of the truth-. I hear of the conversion of some of them from time to time, and the influence even of those who. remain in this intermediate position is strongly in favor of Christianity. While I have no partisan feelings on this subject, and have borne no part in the public discussions it has elicited in this country, I am very willing to give my testimony to the special value of this class of mission schools in some lo calities and circumstances in India. They have proved a very effective agency in breaking up the superstitions and prejudices of the Hindus, and hastening their evangelization. Yours truly, R. G. WILDER.. December, 1360. HURRIED DEVOTIONS. Probably, many of us would be discomposed by an arithmetical estimate of our communion with God. it might.reveal to taw the-seeret-of-mnoh,of our apathy in prayer, because it might disclose bow little we desire _to. be alone with God. We might learn from such a computation, that Angus tine's idea of prayer, at the measure of love, is not very flattering to us. We do not grudge time' given to a privilege which we love. Why should we expect to enjoy a duty which we have no time to enjoy? Do we enjoy any thing which we do in a hurry? Enjoyment pre supposes something of mental leisure. How often do we say of a pleasure, "I wanted more time to enjoy it to my heart's content." But of all em ployments, none can be more dependent on "time for it," than stated prayer. Fugitive acts of devotion, to be of high value, must be sustained by other approaches to God, deliberate, premeditated, regular, which shall be to those acts like the abutments of a suspension bridge to the arch that spans the stream. It will never do, to be in desperate haste in laying such fonn dations. This thoughtful duty, this spiritual privilege, this' foretaste of uncorporeal life, this communion with an unseen Friend,—can you expect to enjoy it as you would a repartee or dance? In the royal gallery at Dresden, may be often , seen a group of connoisseurs, who sit for hours before a single painting. They walk around those halls and corridors, whose walls are so eloquent with the,triumphs of Art, and they come back and pause again before that one masterpiece.— They go away, and return the next day, and again the first and last object which charms their eye, -is that canvass on which Genius has pictured more of beauty than on any other in the world. Weeks are spent every year, in the study of that one work of Raphael. Lovers of art cannot en joy it to the full, till they have made it their own by prolonged communion with its matchless forms. Says one of its admirers: " I could spend an hour every day for years, upon that assemblage or human, and angelic, and divine ideas, and on the last day of the last year discover some new,beauty, and a new joy." I have seen men standing in the street, before an engraving of that gem of the Dresden gallery, a longer time than a good man will sometimes de vote to his evening prayer. Yet, what thoughts, what ideals of grace, can Genius express in a painting, demanding time for their, appreciation and enjoyment, like those great thoughts of God, of- Heaven, of Eternity,. which the soul needs to conceive vividly, in order to know' the blessedness of prayer ? What conceptions can art imagine of the "Divine Child," which ean equal in spirituality, the- thoughts which one needs to entertain of Christ, in the "prayer of faith?" We cannot hope, commonly, to spring into'possession of such thoughts, in the twinkling of an eye. THE PAPAL CHURCH A..letter from Rome, in the Monde, gives the following statistical details: • . "The Roman Catholic world is divided into 1,007 bishoprics or prelacies, with episcopal ju risdiction, under different titles—apostolic vica riates, abbatial jurisdictions or territories, nui lus diocesan. Of the 1,007, 681 are in Europe; 128 in Asia, 29 in Africa, 146 in America, and 23 in Oceanica. In Europe there are two pa triarchs, 116 archbishops, 484 bishops, 45 con cathedrals, 15 abbots or priors with quasi-epis copal jurisdiction, 6 military chaplains, 18 vi cars, delegates and apostolical prefects. In Asia there are 6 patriarchs, 3 archbishops, 54 bishops, 65 apostolical vicars and prefects. In Africa there are 10 bishops and 19 apostolical vicars and prefects. In America there are 22 arch bishops, 115 bishops, and 9 apostolical vicars. In Oceanica, 2 archbishops, 12 bishops, 8 apos tolical vicars, 1 apostolical prefect. A Conference Between High Church Protes tants and Roman Catholics.—Professor Leo, of Haile, with several other prominent men of the Ger man High Churchmen, have had a conference at Er furt; with Stollberg, Dr. IVlichaelis; and other influ ential ultramontanes, to discuss the possibility of ef fecting a union between the High Church Protes tants and the Roman Catholics. Preparations are made for holding another conference of the same kind on a larger scale. LETTER - MRS. fENTON. - Bhamiln, Mt. Lebantll), irov. 1, 1860. M DEAR MR. EE I III`OR 1 ., -:-.Y04 delightful pa peri of October 4th, laas just iea iied our distant mountain home. You niention it it that Bham dun is yet safe; y„cs, bless th Lord with us. When we consider the dangers nd trials which encompassed II.; we are filled with wonder and amazement. 1 While so many of the stations and out-sta , dons of the different missions in Syria have been swept almost or quite out\of existence by the terrible events which have occurred in this unhappy country the past summit., we sing of mercy and the prqecting grace if God. The awful storm has pissed, and we itave lost no thing; nay, our huMble station rind labors are -a 'hundred-fold more deeply rooted in the hearts of all the different ,sects arouKab9ut us. As you will remember, we Stayed fer 4ty-five days in the midst of the fires, well Itiotwing that if we left, every family would folloir us, and. the Druse women even would burn and plunder this tml i, and the little villages at S. ' ,of us. , We the can never sufficiently thank God r enabling us to stand. Now near four thous rid Christians ark' safe in their houses, who, all f el to-day that they owe their houses and prop ty to the in fluence of your humble missiona les at Bham dun. From Beirut to Damascus here is not a Christian house or village left, gime Bhamdun ; nay, from Beirut to India is one\ long track of t darkness, save this little oasis in. • 4 he heights of Lebanon. Moslem fury seems tirred to the depths, and all the poor so-called; Christians of the Haunt; east 'of Damascus, are in .a state of terror, and are coming as fast its possible to Beirut The Pope and the falserr6phet seem to be going down together. ~ , It appears that some of. our friends in Ame rica look upon the late ferocious ckuilictbetween the Druses and MaronitesasfAteliftuon as a re- ligious war, a persecution upon the Christians because, they bear t,Jie name of Chllst. It is our object in the following brief statentent of facts, to correct this mistake if it. e4sts. We all know that the Moslem watchwoid is, enibrace the faith of the Prophet or die. But not so the Druses; they never proselyte, never persecute, never fight for ;religion. "We make war on those who make war on us." Tkey believe in the pre-existence and in the transtnigration of souls, and that God created the souls of all men at the same time, so many bhristians, so. many Moslems, so many Druses. : The Druses are the original proprietors of their part of the mountain. When they came here with about thirty-three families, about one thousand years ago, they found these wilds un inhabited, save by the panther and, the wild boar. They built comfortable houses,,and caused the barren mountains to bring forth frult4or food. _- The Christiana• PQ-MP frpni'tl4.orth 4 and set, tied among them, purchasing land of them, and ~ ~. when top poor to buy oceqied, the lands of the sheikhs as tenants. The Sheikhs were feudal .. lords, and reigned supreme in their, own moun tain wilds. In process of time' the Christians multiplied, till they became ten, to one of the Druses. Jealousies, animosities, quarrels and murders became common; there was no govern ment to intervene, no law save that of revenge and retaliation. The Druse notion of justice is, that if a sect or nation is five or ten times as large as another sect or nation, then five or ten of the larger must cancel the blood of one of the smaller. Thus they declared that for every Druse murdered by the Christians they would kill ten Christians. At kat the war seemed inevitable. It is im possiblelfor you to conceive the boastful pride and arrogance of the Maronites and other Pa pal sects. From the ill-fated town of Deir-el- Kamr came the plan of exterminating the whole Druse nation, or driving them all off to the Munn and taking all their property in the mountains. The Druses got ho'd of this con spiracy, and the plan became universal among the Christians. The Druses : were greatly alarmed; they feared the supedor number.of their enemies; they feared foreign intrigue, especially as tbey knew Many of the Christians were armed with French guns. No one expected such results as have been witnessed. The Chris tians tauntingly challenged thci Druses for a day to fight; they would acceptnf no overtnres for peace, except it should be the voluntary re tirement of the Druses from the•iountain. The Christians knew little of war, 1141. little ammu nition', no leaders, no disciplin4 The Druses, ' "sons of the sword," regularly organized into distinct elan under their noblh sheikhs, now stood on the defensive. The Christian.soldiers received the blessing of their bishops and priests, were sprinkled with holy water) * d sent forth, with the asSuranhrfEntiiii the ethers would 4 . beseech the' Virgin and all'the',nts for their success, and with burning zeal they-rushed upon the bruses, "deteimined to make Clean work of , it, and not leave a Druse alfiie enaJebanon." Thus compelled to fight,ibe Druses flew into' their ranks, and with fire and Si'ord, and With an almost incredible • speed, devastated vil lege after village and - town after town, fighting like mad tigers; and the world has turned pale at the recital of theiratrocious deeds. The Lord gave them a tearful victory. Now the armies of France are here to ask and demand the rights of the conquered Papists. , Suppose the scene transposed; had the bhristians ac complished their most unchristian design, and not left a Druse alive on Lebanon, who would have asked after the rights, of these poor hea then Druses? who ? Do the Christians of the United States know that under the protection of these same Druses the American missiona ries entered Mount Lebanon, and that during all these years we have never received a word -of insult or unkindness from a..Druse, while by these heathen Christians we have been .hated, insulted, reviled, stoned,, mobbed, and been in danger of our 'lives? Now, how can we see , these, our friends and protectors, heathen though they be, driven out of their ancient homes and possessions, and not lift up our voice against it? As there are many well-disposed, peace ,loving people among the Christians, so there are many high-minded, honorable and friendly Druses; As a people the Druses are most kind and hospitable to their friends, but cruel and The Still Hour. implacable to their enemies; they never forget a kindness or forgive an injury. Daring the terrible scenes of the past summer there have been many houses and hundreds of lives saved by friendly Druses. Bhamdun, and the other villages and hamlets at the south of us, in the district of the Jurd, were most completely in the power of the Druses; but they took good advice, kept their - neutral position, maintained their fealty to the Drum governors, and all were saved. As we stood by the Christian part of our flock in their days of terror, so now we feel it our duty to stand by our Drftse friends, and do all we can to save their nation from destruc tion. When the French troops first entered Leba non, the Druses of our district were all about to flee, they knew not whither. Mr. Benton, after consulting Lord Diifferin, the English Coma,. sioner, advised them all to keep in their houses, and nearly all stayed i,,s..opp?fttliOsnli3dsT ImPH eated fled:fii Vitreff SIIIVeAa'S Seen, that in all the past fire, and bloadshed, and Mas sacre, the Turkish authorities have sided with and set on the wild Drnses, and made them their bloody weapon by which to wreak their ven geance on the Christians. Now, with charac teristic treachery, they forsake the Druses, and appear willing to sacrifice the whole Druse na tion and property to appease the wrath of of fended Christendom, to wash out their own crimes in the blood of the Druses. • When Ibrahim Pasha, with his Egyptian rule, was driven out of Syria in 140, the Druses took part with the European Powers, and from that time have regarded themselves as under the spe cial protectipn of England. They have the greatest ,respect and veneration for England, hence the petition of the Druses to the Queen of England. There is no doubt but this war will open a highway for the gospel. It has broken down the pride of both the Druses and Christians, and the Moslems are learning a most humiliating lesson. Before the Druses began •to celled to attack Zahleh, the Turkish troops came np and ~enc amped near Zahleh. We had heard from Beirut that the troops were to go bettaen the contend ing parties, to prevent further war. A large company of our Bhamdun friends, some of them Protestants, 'went out to - meet and welcome the troops. The soldiers took them to - be Druses, and congratulated them on their victories over the Christians, called them "the sword of the Moslem," but said, "don't think you- have ac complished all the will of the Turk till you have crushed the two heads of the serpent, Zahleh and Deir el Kamr." The,,Zahleans are rebuilding their houses as fast as possible; the walls were of sun-burnt brick, atid Mostly standing; they desire to get the' roofs on befo,re,.t„he...he ik y r r a inia, sionary family could go there now!, They would give us a thousand welcomes now. , Most of the families of the Metn district are returned to their desolate homes, and are living in one corner of their roofless houses under a little booth of leaves; few have any beds of covering. Poor, poor things ! they come by scores to us every day for medicines. A Protestant Swiss gentlel man gave us .220 (about $75) for distribution; it has been a great comfort to add this to our own scanty means for the relief of the shivering poor. Had it not been for the abundant charities of far distant Christians, thousands would have starved to death Ever yours, for the daughters of Lebanon, L. G. BENTON GOD AMONG THE NATIONS EXTRACT FROM A SERMON BY REY. E. E. ADAMS, ON THE TEXT -"THE IS NOT YET." I. God has still a work to do among the nations. We do not argue the continuance of our world, in its present condition, from the large tracts of un cultivated, unemployed nature. The purposes of civilization and the comforts df life are such, as well as the system of compensation-which God has esta blished in material things, that the forests are as much needed as the cultivated fields; and the warmth that diffuses itself through colder, regions, from burning Saharas, cannot be spared from the equilibrium of climatic action and law. Nor do we predicate a long future for our earth in its present condition, on the immense amount Of materials which human• ingenuity is working, and which might furnish the elements of labor for millenniums to come; for God sees not in all this a value so great that he would not consume it in 44 the last conflagration," if thereby it might con tribute to the glory of the New Earth, wherein ' dwelleth righteousness. We believe, however, that God has still a work to do among men r ind therefore that "the end is not yet." None of the nations now existing have fulfilled their mission. There is a prophecy in the- past, and •it must become history. Some of the nations and cities Of antiquity have done their work, and had their day. Many have faded from the world, because they failed to do their work. But Bri tain, and 'France, and Russia, and Italy, and Ame rica, and Africa, and Asia;.have yet to' completf:h their history. And they shall not come to an end too soon. The mighty - preparation through which God _has„led our own, country, is, an intimation that she shall yet endure. But'this intimation has not the force of a gua rantee. FOrGed does not est i mate worth, the va lue of agencies, and ; materials ; and institutions, as' we do. When the heavens parted, and the foun tains ofthe great deep were broken up to deluge a godless world, the hand of vengeance was not stayed for the wealth, and cities, and institutions of men. Man is greatei: than institutions; and if he is to fall a sacrifice to his sin, it will not be his surroundings that shall ward off ,the descending stroke. - • But, in the days of the flood, God delayed his coming for his church, and he spared the world until the germ`of, a hew moral creation was fos tered into vigor, and sheltered in the ark—then cane the end! May it not be so now? What does God care for the palaces of the East, the golden mountains, and the coral-beds of the West, and the institu tions by which man nurtures his pride and revels in luxury, and-sets himself . "above the stars of God I" What cares he for liberty, and education, and commerce, and statesmanship, and wealth, if they do not contribute to lift the heart and'mind to Heaven? He will cause all these to work together for his church—his true people,—and when they have done their work, down goes the whole machinery into the dust. Just as men take down the stay ing, ‘when the tower is finished, or the grand*dome swells. out in wondrous proportions to the' eye. Shall we mistake the staying , for the manikin ? Shall we look with tears and terror at the pins _which are dropping from the scaffolding, when the temple is rocking to its foundations God has a work yet to accomplish for his church in Italy, in India, in Russia, in Britain, and France, and America. And he is doing it by asi tation and conflict. There must be disintegration before there can be re-construction. The church is to be taken out of her bad involvements and affinities—separated from all brotherhood with sin, social and national. To do this, there are battles and upheavings of mind; the engulfing of nationa lities; the re-constructing. of States. God will destroy all our earthly confidences, perhaps even break us into separate, lics, or, in his anger, giving us monarchsii e be no other way by which to humble our pride"' *chyle and cure our boasting, our luxury, our ession. He will let,our countr so long as he can make it a nursery for the c by all the ways that enter into his sublime !sbandry. He en dures the tares, if there be ^r, but when the wheat is ripe, he will gathe I—the one for the garner, the other for the,fire. We would have union, if May; without the sacrifice of -truth and right; kit we .must take what God shall give us, if he sees it needful to crush our idol. Our country lives because God has a church in it! and so long as be can get out of its institu tions, its commerce, its statesmanship, its wealth, its mind, that which shall enrich his vineyard, cause its clusters to grow and ripen, be will spare the country, but no longer. See, then, the solemn duty of man! -Feel the stupendous mission of every citizen and every in stitution. All shall come to an end, and shall end in disaster, that is not capable of mingling harmoniously with the kingdom of Christ. "Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arroc , ancy come out of your mouth; for the Lord is a of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. The Lord killeth, and he maketh alive. He bringeth down to.the ground, and bringeth up! He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he bath set the world upon them. By strength shall no man prevail! The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, he shall exalt the horn of his anointed! The very heavens shall be rolled to . gether as a scroll, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat." Shall the great Proprietor hesitate, when his time is come, to wither, a nation from the earth?• IL Our text is suggestive of the Divine pa tience toward man. What has been the motive mainly lying at the foundation, of human governments and human achievements?" Undoubtedly pride, tyranny, self ishness, in some form. The origin of our own country is an exception; but the, history of na tions—onr own as well as others—is one of crime. GOd forgotten, warfare encouraged, man oppresSed, wealth and ,prowess worshipped, power employed to suppress mind, to quench high and holy desire; to keep down the true church; to rule, if not an nihilate, Christianity; and has not nominal Chris: tianity fawned before the state ? bowed to human opinion? flattered pride and power? and brawled after a royal smile ? And does it not speak for the wondrous patience of God, thA nations live so long? That thrones do-not sooner crumble r and discord and crime rend to fragments confederated statdp ? This is what, we :ought.now. to e, sq.:. of...e;onfliet that, are dashing over` theglobe: , Goeir patiencC has been too long and too deeply tried. He is now mercifully giving the world—giving us— warning. He will not bear with us as he did with those ;hose ignorance he once winked at. Our light, and privilege, and discipline, have been too great for longer indulgence. Now he command eth all men everywhere, in all forms of social and civil life, in all stages of guilt, to repent! MONEY OR, THE AINSWORTHS We print from the sheets of the Prize Book of our Publication Committee "Money," just issued, a chapter which will give an idea of the style of the book. Told without pretension, the story yet shows a fine power of description and a keen analysis of character. Harry, the oldest boy, illustrates the generous spendthrift; Paul, the second, the too eager lover of money; Bertie, the youngest, the happy class who know the true value and use of that agent of good and ill—Money. " Come„boys, don't be late at Sunday-school this morning. Get your hats; for it is quite time you had started." Mrs. Ainsworth spoke anxiously, and as if she felt worried. It was Mrs. Ainsworth's misfortune to be worried and anxious about something nearly all the time, and her children's to have become so accustomed to this tone of voice that it fliled to influence them as it should have done. Bertie lingered at Netta's door to say a few more words to her. Paul went on studying the catechism question, which, with his other Sabbath-school lessons, he had neglected until the very last mo ment; and Harry was off somewhere out of hear ing, no one knew exactly where : it was exceed i9gly difficult to keep regularly posted as to Harry's whereabouts. Again their mother raised her voice, even more anxiously than before : " Boys, don't you hear me tell you that it is time to go to Sunday-school?" "Good-by, Nettie," said Bertie, hurriedly; and in another minute he was standing in the hall, cap and books in hand, ready to start. Paul moved slowly toward him, with his cater Chism still open, studying a'he went. He closed it quickly, however, as an important recollection suddenly occurred to him. " Maher," he said, c‘ you know that this is the, day when you give us our missionarykmoney." " Oh, yes," she returned: "I have not forgotten. The money is safe in my pocket, ready for you. But where is Harry?" "I'll look for him, mother," said Bertie. The offer was scarcely made when Harry ap. peared. There was no difficulty now in knowing where he had been; for he bad both hands filled with egos, and his clothes were plentifully sprinkled over with dust and small pieces of straw. .Harry was very fond of eggs, and was generally successful in finding them. . " Dear me,, Harry!" exclaimed his mother: "what have you been doing in the barn this morning?" " Finding eggs, mother," he replied: "don't you see bow many?" "I do wish you had let them stay quietly where they were a little longer," she said, complainingly: "there was no such great scarcity of eggs in the house that you should ruin your best clothes to find those. You don't look fit to be seen now any where, much less at church and Sunday-school." Harry laid down the eggs carefully upon the hall-table, and, for the first time, began to take an observation of his dress, which Bertie had already commenced brushing vigorously 'with a small clothes-wisp that was kept hanging in the hall for general use. Paul, in the mean time, took upon himself the office of distributing the three half dimes—their monthly allowiwce of missionary money—which their mother had taken from her pocket. Mrs. Ainsworth assisted Bertie in his efforts to free his brother from the straw and dust; and when the process was finished to her entire satisfaction, the three boys started for Sunday school. " I am very sorry that I did not remember the missionary-box before I spent my two-and-a-half VOL. V.—NO.. I.7.—Whole o. 234. gold-piece," said Harry while they were on their way. Mr. Martin told us so much about the poor Sunday-school children in the Wes; last Sunday, that I wanted to be rich purposely so that I could buy a whole library for them; and yet, when I had money in my hands, I forgot all about them until after it was all gone. It is really too bad!" "It is just like, you, Harry, to spend your money foolishly, and then be sorry when it is too late," said Paul, reprovingly. "I am only sorry that I spent my money be cause I would like to help to buy a library for the poor people who cannot buy one for themselves," urged Harry. Then, turning to Bertie, he added, " I dare say you have brought some of your own money with you to-day." " Yes," •replied Bertie: "I have one dollar,— a half-dollar for each of the boxes." "That is entirely too much for you to give, Beale," said Paul, with the air of one who knew what he was saying. "No, it is not," Bertie answered, quite as deci dedly : "I took time to think about it, and talked it over with Nettaiund neither of us thought it too much. I want to give a dollar between the two boxes." " Well, I am sure I would be very glad if I had that much to give myself this morning," said Harry; " but I have not got it, andi am sorry; and it is too late to do any good." "You always put me in mind of an old. proverb, Harry," said Paul. What old proverb ?" inquired Harry. "A fool and his money are soon parted," re joined Paul, dodging his head quickly to avoid the blow, which Harry showed. some inclination to be stow upon him. "You had better take care how you quote your 'old proverbs to me another time," said Barry, with some difficulty restraining his hy3d. "If lam a fool in spending money, you are a miser in saving it,—which is .a great deal worse, I think. I would not use the mean ways to get money which you do, to be the richest man in the world. And you had better take good care not to try me too far, or I'll tell father all about some of your tricks." Paul was about to retort by calling him `tell-tale;" but, upon second thought, he concluded it would be wisest to profit by the warning, and aggavate him no further. "You have no right to say such thin g s to Harry. He is very generous to you When he does spend his money, 7 ' said Bertie. And, putting his hand affectionately through Harry's arm the two walked quietly on in advance of Paul, leaving him to his own reflections. These turned upon a topic sug gested by his brother's conversation,—the mis sionary collection,—and a wicked thought suddenly occurred to him. Suppose, instead of putting the money which his mother gave him in the box, he should add it to what he should save in the next few months, and let it go toward making up ano ther five dollars. Not that he bad any intention of cheating the missionary fund in the end; for that would be stealing; and he was not a thief. No: but he would save up closely and invest until he had got fifty dollars, - and then be would com mence drawing interest, , _and ,a portion of this should be devoted to paying back, what he should borrow from the missionary box. It would only be borrowed to be repaid at a certain time. This reasoning was all as false as it was wicked, and Paul knew it very well; for conscience was striving . to raise her voice of warning in opposition to it all the time; but he resolutely closed his ears and refused to hear. His only desire now was to gratify his covetous inclinatiOns. "They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish , and hurtful bists, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil, which while some have coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sor rows.' Paul knew his lessons : it was an uncommonly rare thing for him not to know them. He was a quick, studious boy, and frequently received marks of approbation from his teachers for this; and, being naturally ambitous, he lyas very careful to use every effort—as far as outward behavior was concerned— to retain their good opinion. The missionary box was made of stiff card, having a slit cut in the lid, through which the various donations of the pupils were slipped. The boys were all anxious to be allowed the privilege of passing it around the class; but on this day Paul being particularly earnest, the teacher decided in . his favor. This afforded him a better opportunity of evading suspicion. Upon taking the box, he hurriedly performed the operation of appearing to take something from his pocket and then placing his closed fingers over the opening, as if for the purpose of dropping it in; while in reality the half-dime, which his mother had merely intrusted to his care, remained still undisturbed in his possession. The deception was adroitly practised, and no human eye saw the transaction: yet it was not hidden from the most important witness: the great Judge saw it all. "The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him ac tions are weighed!' " The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh upon the heart." When it was all over, the box emptied, and its contents safely deposited in the teacher's 'hands without any annoying questions having been asked, Paul con gratulated, himself upon having entirely escaped de tection. He forgot the plain truth, "Thou, God, seest me," inscribed upon one of the large cards which hung upon the wall of the very room where be was then sitting. Like the foolish bird who in shutting his own eyes thinks to elude those of his pursuers, so be endeavored to persuade himself tha t his guilt was unknown because he refused to look at it himself. The three boys went up into the church and en tered the pew together, Paul bearing in his heart the uneasy consciousness which must always attend the sinner. The prayer and hymn were scarcely heard nor the chapter that followed, until the mi nister in the course of his reading repeated, with solemn emphasis, these questions:" Will a snan rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and of ferings. Ye are cursed with a curse • for ye have robbed me:" He listened to these fearful words with horrorstricken conscience, as if they had been: meant for his ear alone, and pondered upon them; missing all that intervened until the closing of the chapter :—"Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, be tween him that serveth God and him that serveth hioi , not." There was a wide distinction between these two classes, he knew; nor had he any diffi culty in understanding to which he himself be longed. This uneasiness clung to him through the whole church-service, and followed him to his home. It is wonderful how easily the light from a text of Scripture can dissipate all the mists which a de ceitful heart by its false reasoning may gather around a sinful action, exposing it to view in all its hideousness, that we may see it just as it is. The keeping back of the half-dime was no longer a mere act of borrowing, as he bad vainly striven to convince his better judgment. It was a theft,— a plain, wicked theft. There was only one safe way of settling the matter. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." But Paul was not ready to do this. His conscience re proved him for having done wrong, warning him that it was all known to the Lord, and his own selfishness tortured him with fears lest his fellow men should find it out; but he had no true sorrow for having sinned, nor hatred of his wickedness as committed against the holy God, nor any real db 'sire to forsake it. His chief anxiety now was to hide it from others: the confession of it would not in any way contribute toward relieving his fears.
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