GENESEE EVANGELIST.—WhoIe No. 775.
Vottvg.
THE RIGHT MUST WIN.
O it is hard to work for God,
To rise and take his part
Upon this battle•field of earth,
And not sometimes lose heart
He hides himself so wondrously,
As though there were no God;
He least Is seen when all the powers .
Of ill are most abroad.
Or ho deserts us at the hour
The fight is sil'but.lost;
And seems to leer° us , to. otmelves
Just when we need him most.
0 there le less to try our faith
In our mysterious, creed,
Than in the godless look of earth
In these our hours of need..
ill masters goad; good seems to ohmage
To ill with greatest ease;
And, worst of all, the good with goo 4
Is at cross purposes.
It is not so—but so it looks;
And we lose oonrt►ge then;
And doubts will come if God bath kept
promises to men,
.4khl Clod is other then we think;
His ways are far above:
Far beyond reason's height, and reached
Only by child-like love.
Workman of (hod! 0 lose not heart,
But learn what God is like;
And in the darkest battle-field
Thou shalt know where tp strike.
0 blest is he to whom is given
The instinct that can tell
That God is ou the geld, when he
Is most invisible.
And blest is he who can divine
Where real right doth lie,
And dares to take the side ;hat geems
Wrong to tnan's blindfold eye,
God's glory is a wondrous thing,
Nest strange in all its ways,
And of all things on earth least like
What wen agree to praise,
As he can endless glory matte-
From time's misjudging shame,
In his own world hb is content
To play a losing game,
Muse on his justice, downs* soull
Muse and take better heart
Back with thine angel to the field;
Success shall crown thy part!
ior right Is right, since God is God,;
And right the day must win.
To doubt would be disloyalty
To falter would be sin.
Sovotopubsurs.
For the American Presbyterian.
HOW 70 EILTOY RIMICAL
AND MENTAL, =MAE.
MniNIONAL OFIAIV.EBS--CREWTER
DISEASES PRELIMIpURY TO LIINO DISEASES.
DT WM. M, OoRNELL, M. D. •
PANsieLiOns Vcessary—wisease of the Veroat,teua
ing to Oatissunption—Advire of-the Physieicue
esefui sOiere little Medicine is prescribed—. Do
s• tors ought to ktoiv more about Diseases than
other ren—J inister'e Sore Throat,Thdarged
Tonsil* a sign of AS Y crofula—TonSily not to ho
out out---Differance between , the Minister's „Sore
Throat and Laryngitis and Bronchitis—/40h
theria not a. New _Disease, and easily remedied,
iltaken in season—lt demands Active Treat
ment--What did General Washington of?—
*feeble child ought never to have a Sedentary
occupation.
It is by no means pretended that consumption,
in all its forms and stages, can be arrested; and
yet, ;here is much that may be done an thosepre
disposed to it, to ward of this dreadful disease;
and, in its incipient state, to atop the progress of
the destroyer. I shall hereafter speak of consump
tion, and refer to it now, only to show, bow other
diseases tend to induce it. Non-medical men have
generally, (as it would be supposed they would,)
very vague and indefinite notions' about con
sumption. Nor has it been,
,tilf within a few
years, that physicians theintuolies, have beep able
to tell, with certainty, thatit had really commenced
its ravages, and to ntithc out precisely its pro
gress; but since the attention paid to physical
signs, namely, 043cultation and pereuuion, has
been made veryprominent, they are rarely mista
ken. /
The'"usual method of treating consumption,
naively, swallowing drugs, and keeping away from
the air, in my opinion, was calculated to hasten
ofi the work of the destroyer. A. much better
course is, to eschew medicine, (except suet 'as is
calculated to change the tubercular predisposition,
or remove the highly arterialized state of the
blood, which always exists in consumptive pa
tlents;) throw off mufflers and expose the lungs
to the free and., full admission of the:air; which
was made for them, and they for it. , There is no
thing which will effectually ward off thelatal re
sults of this disease like the course here advised.'
Every one knows that the consumptive, usually,
lasts but a short time, after he gives up pure air
and exercise. But, when I Livia° not to take
drugs for this disease, 1 would by no means be
understood to undervalue the advice of 'ti - jarlicioue
physician in such oases. On the noutrnry, he may
be the instrument of saving life, by the advice
which he may give. People now have
,pretty
generally learned that it is not the amount of
medicine, which the physician prescribes, but his
advice, often irrespective of medicine, which is
valuable. It would contravene all our experience,
and disoredit all.our notions of common sense and
common philosophy, to believe that a man who
devotes his whole atten tion to study the anatomy,
physiology, and diseases of the human body,
should know no more abotit them than he who
has never studied them.
There are certain forms .of lung-diseare which
are often called consumption, ~ a nd which are con,
tiumption; which, also, are, and have often been
cured, both by nature and art; or rather, by art
operating through the poners of nature; for
nature alone can restore health, wherever it is
wanting,
But my object in these remarks is, !lather to di
rect attention to the "Clergyman's Sore Throat."
use this term, not because I think the disease is
more apt to attack clergymen than others; but
simply, because it has acquired a kind of technical
application, from the fact that many clergymen
were attacked with it in the few years after it
made its first appearance. Though many , clergy
men were early, in the development of this form of
disease, first attacked, as it might well be sup
posed they would be, from the nature of their
profession; yet, it was soon prevalent 'among. all
classes in the community. The writer, while in
general practice in Boston, twelve years ago; had
twenty clergymen, at one time, under treatment
for this disease. In his own case, failure of voice
was the muse :of his leaving the :pastoral office,
and entering the medical profession. It is u-dis
ease of debility, and is induced, by anyth:pg,
which, in the common course of life, depresses
the vital energies by imposing too severe mental
effort, or too constant bodily exertion. The
reason why many clergymen were attacked with
it was—not that they wore too high dickies;, or
neck-stocks, or ceased chewing tobacco, or spoke
too loud or too long, (though the latter might have
helped perpetuate it;)—but becalm°,f.'iffin t this.life
only they have hope, they, are of all men most !
miserable;" because most of them, like the "Le
'rites.' of olden time, •uhaving no inheritance
among their brethren,' being driven '< from :Dan
to Beersheba;" compelled to move, least,, once
in three years, with large families of children. and
sick wives; agdi no property,'were overwhelmed*
with anxiety, and worn 'doWia with care and ilia:
appointment. This, with the effort, of speaking,
was' sufficient to induce some, disease • and as
Trumbull facetiously remarks:
t , In all disease!, !its expected,
'The weakest part be, .most atreeted:—"
It was not strange that the throat 'should be - the
part to suffer.
The disease itself .is an inflammation of the
follicles, .or glands, in = the '-mucous" membrane,
or, moist skin which - lines the, throat. The of
fice of these glands is to
,secrete a fluid to lubri:
cate theparta where they are 'located. When in-I
flamed, like all other diseased glands, they pour
out an unhealthy fluid,' which irritates and exco
riates the surretanding.parts., IfralloWed
ulceration and Puriferai 'expectoratiOn ensue, and
tracheal coaniumption follows.,-.Thla,fdeurmtfcim
sureptieri .has-been Considered :the Most fatal of
any, tills within a fa -years.- - Many- of the -medi-:
eat writers have lOsit down' as mtterly incurable.
This .disease is not' laryngitis, Which is main.:
llama:nation Of the larynx. • It is not 'bronchitis,
which is an inflammation of the-bronchial tubea.-
But, thotigh it -is neither of these, andd distinct
Atam them, yet, it; may lead hi -them, or exist si
multaneously with them: in the same patient.
Those who -wish -to -see--this disease -more fully
stated will find it so done iat - "Ilew -to enjoy- life,"
pages 88 and 119, for sale .at thie office,.
There aM also ante forms. of throat disease
such as croup, and the old putrid sore throat; now
dignified with the new name Djp.htberia., There
are also various inflammations of the different
parts of the threat. -These were all considered
very, alarreinu diseases Ara. recently . . •
.I)l : phtheria ) like many. othrir new .names,.: and
new•faugled items, in medieine,:is mot half at!, fide
nite as the old name croup, or, putrid sore throat:
this neo l name. The. Greek word rliphdaeria means
simply a skin, or a prepared skin, ore covered skin.
Nor is this disease, if taken in season, unyielding
to medical treatment. The cholera is certainly in=
curablein the collapsed' state Of, the patient; so is
conaumption in its.last stage. Nor can diphtheria
be cared in its last stage. It is curious-to see-how
some love-to mall old diseases by new names; and
then, get up a credit upon discovering remedies for
them. No true medical 'pea will praetise such
humbtiggp7. ,
We may here well ask, "What's in a namer
A French •physician first gave this, name to an old
disease of the throat, and set half the "doctors in
the world upon the alert, and half the people
wondering at this new disease, when-the same Alis
ease had existed for centuries. It ehiefly, though
not- confined to' them, affects children. It is a
contagious disease, or rather prevails'as an epi. :
demi°. It often proves fatal, especially, when neg
lected or improperly treated. It first shows it,
self by soreness in the pharynx, the wind-pipe,
and passage leading to the stomach. These parts
are red, and appear inflamed at first, and then turn
whitish. A viscid kind of, serum, or liquid is
vetted out from the mucous membrane; which
concretes,, thickens, and hardens, and-forms a false
membrane, as in croup, which has been known for
ages. 'lle disease demands prompt and active
treatment; and all the hundred reciPes in the
newspapers and moonshine pamphlets are calcu
lated only to delay such treatment, till the disease
is past cure. A wise parent will seek early the
advice of his physician. No man should delay a
moment in sequins the best medical aid in a case
where such delay may speedily put the patient be
yond cure.
This trouble of the throat, (clergyman's sore
throat,)is from the slightest, up to the most intense
degree. Illauypersons for,yeers have soinething of
it, manifested at times bya feeling, as though some
thing were sticking in a particular spot; or, as
though something must be cleared away, upon at
tempting to speak. ,Sometimes, there is a slight
huskiness, or hoarseness of the voice; and this ex
ists in a.great variety of degrees up to the entire
loss of voice. I have seen many in whom the loss
of the power of speech was entire.
The mucous membrane, which lines the throat
and air passages, in its healthy state, is, of a pale
rose color, or a little reddish. When attacked with
the disease -now •under consideration, in its chronic
form, in which it usually shows itself, the inflam
mation, instead of appearing with aunifornaredness,
as it does in acute inflammation, shows itself in
spots, or irregular circumscribed patches. The
centres of Abase patches are often quite red, but
they 'grow paler as we advance towards the cir
cumference. Frequently, the inflammation is what
physicians call sub-acute; that is, the membrane is
simply relaxed, pale and swollen. These changes
in this membrane are frequently dependent upon
the vicissitudes of the season, or sudden changes
of temperature. I have often seen the following
symptoms: a deep redness aof the tonsils, and
burning of the palate, with light' or ash-colored
patches all over the surface of the inflamed mem
brane.. When these spots first appear theY are
mere superficial sloughs, and can be easily de
tached. Under these, the membrane is of a deep
red. The great danger, in this disease is, that if
unchecked, it will extend into the larynx, bron
chial tubes, and lungs, and finally end in consume.
tion.
The enlargement and frequently accompanying
PliTtiAj$,LPRIA,..i . -...- -- tTUR54#(..X0CR.....1 . ,._180 , t_
inflammation of-the tonsils; often'ealled by mothers
the almonds of the ear, l are mostly confined-to chil
dren, and persons who have
, not-ynt arrived to
maturity. Symptoms of catarrh -Usually accompa
ny them. •
There is frequently acute inflammation of the
epiglottis and trachearnhich Speedily runs its course
and• results, :or fortnerly did, result under the me
dical treatment, in death. Of this disease, Gene
ral. Washington, thelatherof his country, died.
The treatment for theocure Of this elass ofdiseases
*now:very. different frore what it 'bilce.was. The
enlarged tonsilsiti children are often' exe ,, edingly
troublesome; ] sometitnes, so completely filling the
throat, as' scarcely affording room for the air to
enter the:lungs. , Whey are often ..remored , by the
knife. But•this need never be done; as hy proper
medical treatment, therrnay alwaya-be.redueed 'to
their normal 'size; 'aid, it iw hetter!to save them
for th.e Oreator put 'them there for ` some = Purpose:
In addition, it Should also be stated, that when
they are cut Out; they grew again to a larger?size:
Butwhen. reduned bye Pieper Mefireal treatment,'
they never afterwards:enlarge:l _
ieriiiiimrtaut point With• thlise:svhd
have children with tidlogerd• tot'a'ls. * , lt situtild
also be. stated, that: therenis lite surer .Sign of, a
tinge of scrofula in the system, than these'elarged
tensile. Parents, then, who have suet i children;
instead of selectingP a sedentary. etnployment;
should . :chriese. one which will afford: them •Mich
e.xercisez in the open air; There eanbe no greater
mistake, if you - wish a: child of this delicate orga
nisation to live and:enjoy life, than to make him
a st'Ardent, or lo.give.him ennecupation that ivill
confine him within „doors. His happiness, yea,
his liferaay-depend'-upon his occupation.
For tileArneriean Presbyterian:
TEE STORM
Look! amid Alpine summits dark clouds ate
gathering. - The distant thunder mutters and
reyezherates among the crags. And now - the
rata begine-to descend; and the loud winds blow,
as. rivAdets .sWell to torrents, teire.ntatoliveri3;
and, rivers to , iloo.ds.that dash and leap dewnthe
steep sides, and, through the habitable 4-alleys of
the-TotAntaina 'Higher and , still 'higher' - malls
the maddening flood, anti} the flocks, and-herds,
and men, , and .all habitations of- Men, except
those whose - :foundations: stand high on the im
movable rock," are swept before the impetuous
tide,:and left in unsightly' ruins on the plains
fat'below. No pains can repair' the loss;• no
hand can restore the Once' cotafortable 'home of
the mountaineer. It , is crushed, swept away,
htiried lan complete. Great was 'the fall
°tit,
Stmhis :the figure by which the Saviour de
scribes the wreck of.hoPe, and ruin of souls that
shall overtake - tho'final neglecters of his say.:
ings. They are fearful words ; for they fall from
the lips of one characteristically mild—one who
toOleno delight in - creating needless alarni--one
laFlui never deceived, bnt one who may not be
But winds' - -nail), in vain
around the habitation of him who builds upon
the solid 'rock; ' Ife need not fear ithat storms
or swelling floods soever . maybeat upon his ha
bitation. And to him 'the Saviour likens the
wise man who hears Ili - words, and does them.
The-results of his obedience thereto, shall be
both present and everlasting. Life will be
sweeter to
, 14333. than to others; death less ter
rific; the grave less gloomy; e ,the jadgmentless
dreadful; and his most joyous hopeT3 and ra
tional anticipationishall reach out into his eter
nity. For lie is the vise man, and only he is
the wise man, who makes it his most serious and
earriestobasiness to "make his calling and elec
tion sure."
This life _need not prove abortive. Man need
not prove an orphan, born only to mourn and
die. Human existence may be something more
than a distressful dream, a span of time mingled
and imbittered with solicitude and wo. :To the
ultiinate.despiser of a Saviour's' words and love.,
it must,•indeed, be but an anxious hour, a pain
ful throb, a lamentation that shall hereafter ye
commence to be forever drawn out. Bat: t can
not he such to the wise man. There is a rock
on which he blinds. That rock is G 4 "hrist.
Other foundation can no mail lay, and the wise
desire no other. But it is left for each - to build
as he will, on treacherous sand, or on that stone
" elect alicl precious " Life and immortality are
brought to light. Everlasting death is a thing
possible, WI the-wad to escape' it is made Imo wtt.
He who will, may come to Christ. And-to all
who come -he becoines the author of eternal sal
vation, but to no other. Every name but his is
worthless. Eiery method of gaining life but
his is groundless. Every teacher that points
not directly to him, is a false prophet, distined
to a doom more awful than those whom he de
ludes and destroy&
If these seem .to be mere Assertions devoid of
proof, 'then look at Christ; see'-his acts; hear
his words; weigh his sentiments; 'look-At the
history of his religion; mark .its influence; note
its power; ask his followers of all ages; ask saints
in light; ask angels. Nay, bow down and ask of
God. And then; and not till then, eta it be ex
pected that any will know of the doctrine, whether
it be of God, or whether these assertions, which
are Christ's sayings, are void, or whether they are
full of
,mosnentous truth.
Are you, kind reader of these lines, listening
to, and endeavoring to do, the sayings of Christ?
Those sayings are now scattered wide over all
Christian lands. They are contained in the lan
guages of all civilized nations. They have been . ,
studied severely by those of all ranks, from thrones
down to hovels, and by those of all , grades of mind
and culture. They have withstood the test ivery
where, and forced reluctant homage from the worst
as well as 'from the best of men. I.?ew dare deny
their purity— their holy tendency. But how are
you treating them? What think You of Christ?
Are his teachings such as you love? Are his
thoughts precious to you? When he commands
you to seek his face, does your heart respond?
"Thy.face, Lord, will I seek."
No man can show that the-instructions of Christ
are adapted to do anything but bless those who
receive them. Yet this is not enough to lead
many to commit themselves to them. How is it
with yo u ? 0, my dear reader! Are you seeking
to be imbued with the Savionr's teachings? His
words teach you there is a storm , arising Chat shall
ry foundatioi on, whim i on! are building.
They admonish, you that "The. , lniil..ohall sweep
away the refuge of lies." Are you digging deep,
and•building On the rook? ' Yele tire, if Ohriat is
the foundation of your confident .'w You are build-
ing on yielding sands, and youOtouse`; remit fall,
your hopes be oAisbed,ind yontiOYsiend'forever,
if to the, last your relianeeia wiAttly tut',
. ,
Forth, Am ..'. gm,Rresbytetian.
*HEREFORE BOST 21 1 11 - 11013Bri.' , :I
Not long since; a 'party- of. '1 4iek were `passing
through thelospital wards..ef : . Inishdlisein one
of `our large cities.. While"the..*te-italking:with
two or 'three- of ' .the patients ) eni
t.szuhe op
posite - sid e-
of
the - room - a tmi
,dthei rla tten tion
by - her ghastly birea'breathing:
On.isking about her, they wer'itild thoSheves
dying. 'No'one:was doing 'a .
;gig Yor , her-'i-Gi
fact; there was nothing. to i'\ \ilei,e.iiibitt'JPeriple
around her were goiorattuwit.;', 44 ~: rinintal distiot,
giving out food,,Sto:, while% : . -v • ''"), .1
, sififer§thri
among thenilto anothenfirorld . ....Atitlierrequest .of
one. of the ladies; water. was sought lb 'moisten
the parched:4pp ,of :the dyinglivoniani but, just as
it was, 'hold to' them, she kvaai gone! . The spirit
had fled.-,-ahl *FIERO . She lad been brought
t
in ,from thelitreet two days limforei under the in
fluence of liquor, it was': skid, and. no - one-knew
anything of her ) or eared •aughtefor her.y There
was no blame -to any one heity4 for this- state..of
things. She died ' in. a clean, coinfortable bed—
Whereas, bad:. she :not beenii.br,ciught ;here, her
death would probably:have *en: in - wretehednees
and .filth. . .. ~t• ' .., . ' - -:,
A women , on, the other aideetf:the room Was also
dying, although she was -eobrious,• and, for- ease
of. O respiration, W sittifig, up ght in• bed. Of her,
too, no .notice was taken ;by', ay one. Been,es of
seireTiog, misery and degrads on met the.eye.ooo,-
tinually, even lu - the sreal4rt of the : establish r
meet, 'through ; which :tbeselisitors passed—aod
that ,hy no means the 'worst;, and they left the
plaee, their ,-hear.ts,Atearysd, siulr with dark, sad
thoughts. -:. :,. ~.i- 44 , .. - .
'A -§IN was Written . giglstiverla on tbis wo
ful picture, they well knewi,frem the first link to
the last,in the chain of sorr4 i and sliffering r which
ended in a desolate; death=like that , above de
i
scribed, sru had been at O-13,
r. utthis *now:.
ledge did not, would= =not, revert ;deep,question
ings from coming up into ; e,, heAt,rt. , Why is all
this? Why, in world 4 which 04..? .Creator ip
goodness and love itselcisthereSuch. a vastbur
den of guilt and misery tu,be borne by His crea
tures?
,If, sin must ePtneftPd Annst stay on the
earth, could not its .power* so held in cheek .by
en Almighty Being,' tha,t, , ;suok scenes as these
r
need not bp found - =. - .• . =
!
ip,
. Alki. doubting % heart,. - still. . c-,`Whatldp
thou knowest not pr," 44 if thou dos / never
know, still : trust that Hg otto do onPthing:but what
is right, wise, and loving:-..1* A 'father has tried to
matinee Ili ,headstrori,g;childreti= that the Ways' of
t
disobedl*e are far itin'i',W' '',' ' i''' , A7e nn i dpaintql
ti - Tritifise' - "Ziniat;T a , i2 ;;rtu6. iey . o . n6'
believe him, and he Se .at' last that they must
try the wrong - a little wayrereitliey. will be per
suaded. They.make . the experiment,• and come
baek to him trie,d, siek, and suffering. ,He chas
tens ere he sends another far.fronr his presence
into. solitude for' a time; he gives a third whole
some ,
counsel, he deals with -all-as he sees best.
Shall the infant of two years old, lacking all
this, -rise up in judgment on his father's actions,
saying, "Is my father a man of kindness and of
love, when he lets his children suffer thus ? Has
he Power to feed, and clothe, and comfort= them=all
--and does he let any of them know what it is to
want these things? Could he not so restrain
them that these trials would not be'c
necessary ''
Less, infinitely less than,that child of two years
, .
knows of hi _s father's -plans, and of his father's
heart, do we know of the orderings and of the love
of our Heavenly Father. A aid who showed his
love to.. a= lost -worldi btutach - a gift as - that of
04,105 T • our Saviour, will ne, 3 / 4 +crlet one nuneces
sFY grotku - 0 r -tePT, be Wrung from human beings.
411 the suffering ,and f_misery;ow, earth must, be
PPOful, Pr it would not be. Let us, then,' "rest
in the Lord, and wait patiently. for Him," till the
veil is removed, the darkness dispersed and the
power of tip forager broken and gone. .8...,
THE .DI- VINE .APPOINT=NT d3F SONG
,
Poetry, song, and -instruments of music, were
the. Hebrews' delight. No,doubt their songs had
cheered their hours Of.toil,in Egypt, andulitiga
ted their wearisome boodne•
He Who " giveth swigs in the night" had fur
nished theinthis,sdlaceiri , the long years 'of their
oppression. For ncy sooner :do they stand upon
the Shores of the Red Sea, a free oation,und,safe
from the fury of their pursuers; than they , are
ready, with timbrel in hand; for .the, perfdrmance
of. the. triumphal ode, elaborate; andihighly artistic
in its structure, which Moses inditei for their. In
the haste a theirillightfrom the land of thefr task
masters,,they.forget not to take , iith them their
instruments . of ~initsical ~rerre Oen and , delight.
The idolatrous service: witli: A whielr - the people soon
after:worshipped thigoldtatkailf;tiras - re.nderied by
the aid; of song. " The , tioise;of them that sing,
do Lhear," said Moses, aidie haute downfrom the
mount. They celebrated,their victories with mu
sic. David returns;froin the slaughter of the Phi
listines, to meet the , weleorne of Singers and play
ers from all the cities of Israel:: 'The army of Je
hoshaphat returns from its victory. over the allied
forces of 'Amnion,. Moab, and ,Mount Seir, , with
psaltuies, and harps, and trumpets." The. social
life of the Hebrews bore witness
_to their love of
tensie. "The harp and. the viol, the tabret and
pipe, were in their feasts." The bringing of the
ark from the house- of Obed-Edom to Jerusalem,
was, an occasion .of a Nery , imposiog musical per
formanee. And pumore, ordinary occasions than
this, the journeys of the peopletoward Jerusalem;
in companies, from ,the towns And villages, of the
land, were enlivened by song. The collection of
psalms cotomencing ,with the 1 . 20 th, and ending
with the 134th, were probably-used on-these mo
ans. ", Ye shall have a song," says the,prophet
Isaiah,• is as inlhe night when a holy solemnity is
kept; and gladness , of heart, as when one • goeth
with a. -pipe, to come Unto the =mountain of the
Lord." Evidently Davidlmd taken a part in those
musical processions, and his, delight , in ,them is
shown by the pathetic allusion which be makes to
them, during his temporary exile from the holy
city: " When I remenibtr-these things, I pour
out my soul in me; for I. gone with the mul
titude; I went with them to the hci,use of God,
with the voice of joy and praise." A greater than
David was once found in one of those travelling
companies, on •its way to Jerusalem from Nazareth.
He was then bra twelve years of nge; but he was-
a Jew, and doubtless partook of the charactexistic
tastes of the nation to which he belonged. I:oid
not he also, like David, - mingle his . " voice' of joy
and praise," with the voices of his parents, his
" kinsfolk and acquaintaneeT" Wane* the plea
sure with, which, in after-life ; he listened to the
hosannas of other Jewish children in the temple,
and we always expect the children of a musical
people to be singers. Perhaps there is no more
striking illustration of the love of music in the
Jeirish people, than their taking their - harps with
them, to. Babylon, when Amy-went there, as;.cap
tives,;. Exiled from their homes,„and fro* their
native' hills and - valleys, Cut off from ;the joy of
their great annual festivals in the city and temple
Of their pride, reduced to a humiliating subjection
under an. idolatrotis power, they seemed to have
looked upon their harps arid song s as , the 912 1 . 3' 4c
which remained to them. And when their
captors call,pon theta 'for one of 'the snags of
Zion, we disebver that'this hational Characteristic
of the Hebrews iS fully underitoodin Eabylon.
The national, existence , of this= long-pppressed
people was ,commenced,in one of the Most• subliale
outbursts, of song which the earth has, ever. heard.
Thechosen captains Of. Pharaoh, his' horses, his
Char`iots,'and"his mighty host, were drowned in
the Red Sea. They sunk.to thebottom. as a stone
4.43- 1 .14 ClkfAo - .1110.ffekthqt4. 4 .... Of the eastern
sh9ro !stood two :pt.,libeTte4
bondmen, still agitated , , l 4;,tlie Conga .between
and fear, while Wawa' of boy Were breaking
in upon their hearts,• like. the -returning billows
upon which they gazed. `,.flow shall this , day of
wonders be made to teach this emancipated •and
exulting people its appropriate Lesson.? , How shall
these swelling and rapthrous emotions-upon this
birth-day of a 'nation's freedom,= Which naturally
would minister to pride-and self-glorying, be turned
into the channel of praise to God? Immediately,
doubtless on .that very morning, a song is furnished
'for ihe oenasion from the lips of their inspired
leader, picturing in most graphic eipression the
scene which had'just beenwrithessed; and ascribing
its . glorious result, in almost every •phrase, to Al
mighty, power and; good MSS.
The ,heavenly piesn is caucrlit.from hire sail re:
echoed from more than a million of voices, till the
Sir, now, filled with morning light, is flooded with
their song. "I will sing unto the Lord, for he
hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider
bath he thrown into, the , sea." The.vivid descrip
tion proceeds, only pausing at the cloSo Outwit
stanza, for another million of voices, led by Mi
riam, to pour in the sublime antiphonal refrain,
" Sing:ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed glo
riously y the horse and his rider !astir- he thrown
into the sea?'
o r
".' .F# .:.C.Eviiiijzft;
Many thinds conspire to put it beyond question
that this remarkable song, the most ancient now
in exiStenee, was dictated . by'the Spirit of inspi
ration—its intrinsic grandeur and simplicity, the
importance of the occasion, the desirableness that
this first great national exercise of worship should
embody a model form of praise, and, more than
all, the reference which is made to it in the Apo
calypse, as conatituting a pait'of-the song of final
victory sung martyrsin heaven, standing upon
the sea of
.glass mingled with fire,—" And they
sing the song of Moses, the ,servant .of God, and
the song Of the Lamb."
Hardly one of the.great writers o€ :the past or
present generation can be ca.lled.in. any thorough
sense,. Christian. With the eiception of Cowper,
among the eminent Poets, not"one of all - that won=
drone galaxy that 4 '•flanaeil in the forehead of •the
morning , sky".of this century, reflected:his-glory
pp the 2bright.omi owning star,'.', ,frop: whose
,140.,..urn _they artw„tike.,loL9LP.PiPs
which they shone7Tht: o
nal doctrines of the Gospel. - Wordsworth -ob
scurely•hints .at them`-in one or two indifferent
sentences. Ills mighty flights arena to. this ,em=
pyreati. • Campbell, Scott, Keats,•Meote, Shelley,
Byron, Burns and Coleridge, in all their burning
pages there are no burning - seraphim, prostrate and
praising `Some of them; and they the most dis
sokte,did write a few hymns the Church conde
scends to sin,q. In maudlin moments of reeoyery
from debauch„Burns and Moore and Byron sang
of God and Christ, in tender, though to them
powerless words. They usually took their vast
treasures of God-given genius and cast them at
the 'feet of Satan. The others, if less wicked,
Were not more holy. I:hey and their songs werc
of the earth, earthy. _Equally alien are the living
Magnates of this realm. Truly dpes Ruskin say
Of these and other contemporaries:
"Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the
world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt
and misery, the worst in reckless defiance; the
plurality in pludding_hesitation, doing as well as
they can what practical work lies ready to their
hands. Most of our scientific men are of this last
class: Our popular stain:inf. - either-set themselves
defiantly against all religious forni, pleading for
simple truth and benevolence, (Thackeray, Dick
ens,) or give themselves up to bitter and fruitless
statement - of facts, (De Balzac,) or surface paint
(Sbott,) or careless "blasphemy, sad or smiling
(Byron, Beranger.) Our earnest poets and deep
est thinkers are.doubtful and indignant, (Tenny
son, Carlyie,) one or, two anchored, indeed, but
anxious or, weeping, (Wordsworth, Mrs ,Brown=
ing,) and of these two the first is not so sure of
his anchor but that now and then it drags with
him, even to make him cry out:—
."In polities religion is now a name, in art an
hypocrisy or affectation. Over German religious
pictures the inscription 'See howpions I am' can
read,at.a glance by any clear-sighted person;
over French and En,glish religious pictures, .the
inicription 'See how impious am'-is' equally le
gible. All sincere Mill-modest art is among us;
profane."=ilfociern Painters ; volume iii. , p. 259.
The like paiitfol truth mnst he told of Ameri
can literature. From Washington Irving, its fa
ther, to,thelatesl. pf kis song, no greatsgpius has
yet shone ,forth" ".apparelled in celestial - light."
North" of the& drink of
`They. seek their..inspiration in• lower fountains.
Excepting Whittier, ourfew:failloescpoets, Bryant,
Longfellow, Lowell, Poe, never cast their crowns
at the feet of Christ. 4. most dismal and inAdel
vision of death is in the stately "Thanatopsis."
It has-no hint that Christ 'is its victor, or . Of 'the
corresponding
_victory in - andthrough •;him. Its
last lines might have been written ; hy ; Sophocles
or Seneca, for all they contain of,the light and
immortality' that is brought to life in the Gospel.
So the "Hymn`to Death," the "Future State,"
and whatever other of his pieces that •are of a re
ligious tone, are •but the mournful.breathines cif an
4p. !Fr, the singings and sighing of an
earth-bound soul.
From Longfellow's "Psalm of Life" to his
“Rhyme of Miles Standish, i ' there is the same
insensibility -to the glory of God- and of man that
shines , in the face of Jesus-Christ. He often
gilds his numbers with a devotional tinge , but
never does one giishirig verse leap forth from that,
full fountain to its Lord and Saviour. Compare
his first hymn, which he dares to call a Rahn of
LIFE, and which.he says is what the heart of the
young man says to the Psalmist, with that hymn
with whiehDavid begins his odes, and which is.
what the heart of God thrOugh that psalmist says
to all young men. flow cold, how worldly, how
unbelieving is the one; how warm, holy, heaven
ly the other! The "Rhyme of Miles Standish"
afforded an admirable
been
to utter these
feelings, and had he been a real Christian poet he
could not have kept . ailence. That great pilgri
MODERN LITERATURE
" 'Great God! I hnd rather be
A pagan snekled on a creed outw.orn;
So might 1, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have gliinpses that would make me less forlorn.'
‘‘
Slimes brook that flowed
Feet by the °facie of God." • •
Hymns and Choirs
We prefer to stand with Oh - risk-and to reiterate
whatHeliere4tffirms,.thet.G.tul, wheat Itegave the
- Safi;gave - him for the WORLD; that God loved the
world; that of all the myriads and millions of our race,
there is not 'a soul whom God would not save—not
a soul in whose perishing he takes pleasure. Some
perish—perish eternally; but they will perish de
spite the infinitude of His love to their very selves.
Got/loved the world—hope-inspiring truth 1 He
loved the world';' not a sinner did He overlook in
the unspeakable gift—" the wondrous provision;"
He did not pass by the chief of sinners when He
gave His Son. My fellow sinlier, God loved the
world, and He therefore loved you. And now
He waited) to be gracious; He would save you.
One only condition does he append—FAlTH.
"That'whostoever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life." These words are
repeated frotit the statement which the Great
Teacher had previously made : "As Moses lifted up
theserpen t i et the wilderness, so must the Son of man
be lifted up, that 2vhosoever believeth in Him. should
not perish, but have eternal life." The perishing of
the Israelites in the wilderness through the plague
of fiery serpents, and their.deliverance, is employed
by the highest authority as typical of the danger
and salvation of the sinning race of Adam. This
reference of Jeans a 'Well known fact' iii Jewish
history will assist as to understand the mode in
which the. Divine remedy;for saving men becomes
efficient.
Observe, ,that the mode in which the remedy
was applied to' the relief of the Israelites was en-
tirely supernatural—a look accomplished the cure.
The mode by which' the 'Divine remedy for human
salvation is applied is, equally above tiature—re
movedfar from the sphere of, human appliance--
altogether opposed to the devices which men invent
for producing even moral effects; looking unto Je
sus—" that whosoever believed/. in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life." That pole on
which the brazen serpent was erected, became an
ensign to the people; set up on , high they looked
upon it as the Divine token 'of their victory over
the death that assailed them. The Son of man
was lifted up •upon the cross as an ensign of life
and salvation to a sin -envenomed, perishing race;
a token.of 'God's will and purpose that they should
not perish, but have etereal fife : "I, if Ibe lifted
up from the earth, will ,draw all men- unto me.' ;
Such is the attraction of the cross of Jesus; the
World°, dying and perishing, haVing vainlyitried
every other remedy, shall turn Its languiihing eye
to the,,,Lamb of God as he - -.hangs upon the ac
cursed tree, and then, in that,great consummation,
the general sentiment of humanity shall be that
-which Paul embodied in his well-known peayi
triumph-4 may thus speak of it,•foi it is true poi
etry, a victor's shout: "God forbid that I should
glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ!"
We wonder not that this plan for human deli
verance should be treated with scorn; that the ra
tionalist should despise has unworthy of the Coin
mon sense of the world; that following the pl3ilo
sophical Greek, he-should-regard the preaching of
the cross as foolishness. "The means- are so in
consistent with the end; a crucified man save a
world of mankind: a malefactor's death bring life
to Millions—eternal life! It cannot be; there is a
flaw somewhere; it is opposed to all our notions of I
God and of the relationship of man to His maker!" I
But what do got& kupw of God's relations to ,man?
What do you know of the springs of the Divine
government over the intelligent universe? How
much of these things has speculation disclosed—
brought out from the depths olthe Infinite? How
much has it grasped of that which its uplifted hand
and outstretched atm has sought to reach?" Ahl
vain man you are driven after all to the Bible;
that whieli you know of these secret things, you
have derived from this source. -Can you take a
part and' reject a part? Can you consistently take
what suits you, and -throw back the rest as fable,
and.therefore as unworthy of credence? The Bi
ble must be taken as a whole, or it is nothing. He
who spoke those deep, those wonderful words on
the Mount, Submitting the moral nature -of man
to His marvellous power of analysis—revealing the
depths - of the human spirit, He whom you so much
admire In-His moral teaching* gave 'utterance to
this declaration, which you esteem folly : "As Moses.
lifted up •the serpantin the - wilderness so mast the
, .
mage, its greater incentives and supports, the he
roic faith, the serene patience, the triumphant
deaths in that terrible winter, .have they found
expression in this beautiful chronicle? Not a word
of real praiie or prayer, not a word of the Christ
they loved and had followed into this wilderness,
not even a hint, is found in all these lines. Once
Priscilla is represented as sinning sweet tunes out
of the old Dutch psalm-book , but this remote allu
sion to the, piety of the heroine is only introduced
for the sake of uttering a conceit on the appearance
of the tunes. The conversation of the lovers, of
the friends at the sailing of the iltaglower, of the
captain and his clerk, even of the elder and his pari
shioners, is empty of the intense and:almost exclu
sive life which they really lived. So is it with all his
rich verses. There is a show of religious senti
ment in some of them but not one pulsation of
Christian life.
Lowell and. Holmes are imitators of Burns and
Byron, not only in their democratic and reforms-
Cory proclivities, but in blasphemy and in wit,
without the , penitence of the one or the remorse
of the other to redeem their pages. They toy
with the religions sentiment. They never feel its
humiliating. ? elevating power. No Cotter's Satur
day Night shows that the sorrow is as deep as the
seorn, that a gpdly fear, semotinskes Feplaces.a god
less scurrility. .4olre:cs, in prose and poetry, is
but a cold 2 hrpeded dissectionist of a life he , never
lived. ge tints and carves the: • body erObrist pro
fessedlyin the cause of science. Ile never ieaches,
he never beholds the divinity that dwells within
it. Our prose writers are equally secular. Ban
croft ,can describe the sufferings of the pilgrims,
Prescott those of the Protestants of Holland, with
out any such throbbings of , indignant sympathy
as Milton felt when he bled " and suffered with the
Albigenses. Etnerson is a brilliant but Obristless
heathen. Their fellowers keep eqUal pace in these
r,espects, however far theymay fail in others. We
have no ,great literary writers, save, perhaps,
Mrs. Stowe, who are wreathing with their genius
the cross of Christ. Tennyson's'painful codes
slat leaps unwittingly from all their lips :--
"But what am I? •
An infant eryinm in the night;
An infant crying, for the light;
And'with no language but a aryl"
We wait for our Dante and our Milton, who
Shall pour their alabaster box' of 'ointment, very
costly, on the feet of the blessed Redeemer, and
feel that in so doing they have done the greatest
deed permitted to man, and gained their greatest
glory when this deed shall, be told for a memorial
of them throuot the races and ages. They will
arise for Christ must be crowned of letters, ? king
as he now inking
of saints. ,
To this end Ruskin will be no small contribu
tor. It is refreshing for a Christian mind to open
his pages. No darkness, no weakness of faith, no
slurs at piety, 'no ignoring of divine justice and
hOiiness, no emasculation of the word of God, but
a full, beady, livitt flow of Christian faith, and
hope and joy.
It crops out naturally, as if its primitive bed
held all the superineumbent strata in its arms.
It leaps up easily and instantly wherever a fissure
oeciirs;‘as if fountains of therliving water per
vaded his whole nature. It crowns unconsciously
the swell of his grandest sentences. Except-Je
remy Taylor, he is the first great prose, writer
since Milton, that has risen to the height of this
great argumdiit..
Rey. G. Haven, in the litethodist Quailed y.
SALVATION FREE FOR ALL WHO BE-
LIE VE
VOL. 30.—Whole No. 247.
Son of man be lifted up,"that whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish, but have eternal life."
You ask why this mode was adopted? I know
not, You ask, could not another plan have been
devised? I cannot speculate on what may be pos
sible to the Infinite; but I do say, thattlis is
God's plan, and that, therefore, I accept it. I
further say, - that it is the plan which, according
to the will and counsel of God, from all eternity,
became the one necessary plan. The language in
the original is very forcible—"so it behooves the
Son of man to be lifted up;" So must, it is a neces
sity fur us—there is no other way of salvation; the
only method of healing is the uplifted Saviour.
One look at Him, orte.earnest, simple, trustful look
at, the Lamb of God saves my poisoned soul from
the present pain and the future terrible results of
sin. I question ,not—l ask not, "how can these
things be?" I accept the provision. I under
stand not all the reasons, though I can see how it
tends to, self-renunciation and to the manifestation
of God's glory, that all ground of human boast
ing should be .done away in the siwplicity and su
pernaturalnes.s
_of the remedy: I say I understand
not all the reasons; but forasmuch as no other re
medy appe.srs, forasmuch as every attempt of mine
to be•cured of sin has been wholly vain, forasmuch
as this remedy is brought'before me—lifted up in
my very sight—and God, in His Gospel, invites me
to:look—simply to look—iud be saved, I give up
reasoning; I give up every human effort; I give up
every human appliance; and in my bitten, poisoned,
perishing condition, I cast myself at the foot of the
cross, and "look to Jesus!" That look heals me!
0, tbe simplicity of faith! I have no theological
definition of faith to supply from the formularies
of the schools; I have nothing to say by way of
explanation as to what faith is in the general, and
what that faith is which saves; no, I simply say it
is "looking unto Jesus"—looking to the divinely
appointed remedy—looking at it as sufficient to
accomplish all that was proposed by its being
"lifted up." fleas a voice; it cometh from the
Gospel, "Look uuto me and be ye saved, all ye
ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none
else."
llow sinner, do you feel that sin is a terrible
disease? Do you feel that it has poisbned your
soul? Do you groan under those wounds which
it has inflicted upon your moral nature? Are you
conscious that your soul is now dying, perishing,
just ready to sink into eternal death? Have you
struggled, vainly struggled to conquer the rankling
disease, to heal the burning wounds? Have you
given up in despair, as though no hope were left
to you but to perish? Think you your wounds
are too numerous, too deeply seated to be healed?
Despair not; behold from that wilderness in which
you languish—
Behold the Saviour of mankind,
Nailed to the shameful tree;
How vast the love that him inclined,
To bleed and die fur thee—
For thee! A look is sufficient; a look at the en
sign of -infinite love and mercy as it rises before
you in the Gospel; a look from thee sick, as thou
art; a look from where thou now Hest; a look, this
moment, to Christ, as the Lamb of God, the world's
atonement, will save thee from perishing—will
heal thy poisoned spirit, and bring into thy soul
the deathless germ of an eternal life. You need
not perish; you will not perish if you but "behold
the Lamb of God." You say that you already
feel" the sorrows of death and the pains of hell—"
that you feel as though yon could not make another
effort—that you cannot go to Jesus: " Effort!" re
main where you are! "Go to Jesus!" you need not
go; Be is here; Ile is nigh thee; the word of faith,
Which we preach, is nigh thee; and is this: " Look!"
Rev. Dr. Jenkins.
`MISSIONARY NATION.
The Boston Atlas gives the following synopsis
of Dr. Fisher's address befoie the Jubilee Mis-
Sionary meeting, in Boston, some time ago:
"President Fisher took the ground, and with
equal ability and ingenuity, that America is the
destined nation to convert the world. He argued
that our people, resting on a solid Anglo-Saxon
foundation, improved by influences and circum
stances which exist nowhere else, were peculiarly
adapted for the missionary enterprise, and also,
that, thus far, they had achieved more than any other
or all otber nations. This assertion is but the re
petition of a historical fact. No other nation has
the wonderful activity of ours. In whatever di
reetion,it acts, it is 'sure to achieve more than
others. For more than fifty years it has showed
an irrepressible desire if not a fixed passion, to
carry forward this great enterprise.
" Accordingly, it has had thousands of laborers
io the Indies, the Sandwich Islands, and other dark
places of the earth. It has printed the Bible in
more than one hundred and fifty different languages.
It has created and spread abroad a literature that
is extraordinary, both in its nature and extent.
Some of the best talent our country bas produced,
has been consecrated to this work. Nowhere in his
tory has more heroism been displayed. Nowhere
shall we see sublimer martyrs. Women, too, have
showed equal devotion, heroism and sacrifice. If
ever the world - fippreeiates its best spirits and grand
est souls, it will honor not so much its warriors, its
statesmen, its rulers, its legislators, as those who
leaving their homes, sod all the comfort, attraction,
and beauty which surround them, go to foreign
climef, where there is little but toil, danger, suf
fering, and frequency of death in its most horrid
form, as the record of violence and disease show.
"All honor to the missionary enterprise. May
America be true to this destiny which is claimed for
it."
The effect of asperity in a clergyman is well il
lustrated in the following story, the scene of which
was laid in 'the State of "steady habits," and the
events of which transpired there, several years
since. Two clergymen were settled in their youth,
in eontiguous,parishes. The congregation of the
One bad become very much broken and scattered,
while that of the other remained large and strong.
At a ministerial gathering, (both of these pastors
being D. D's.) Dr. A. said to Dr. 8., "Brother,
how has it happened that, while I have labored as
diligently as you -have, and preached better ser
mons, and more of them, my parish has been scat
tered to the winds, and yours remains strong and
txobroken?"
Dr. B. facetiously replied, "0, I'll tell you,
brother. When you go fishing, you first get a
great roua P h-pole for a handle, to which you attach
a In* cod-line, and a great hook, and twice as'
much bait as the fish can swallow. With these
accoutrements, you dash up to the brook, and
throw in your hook, with, Therebite you dolls.
Thus, you scare away all the fish. *hen Igo
fishing, I get a little switching pole, a small
line, and just such a hook and bait as the fish can
swallow. ' Them I creep up to the brook, and gen--
tly slip them in, and I twitch 'cm out, twitch 'ens
out, till my basket is full."
The grumbling disciple is never satisfied. The
preaching is bad; it don't warm up his feelings.
The prayers are cold; he can't join in them. Ills
brethren are cold; he can't fellowship with them.
Be thinks the * Lord cannot bless such a church.
He is almost afraid to belong to it, lest he should
be responsible for its sins, and be dragged down
to perdition along With it. He sees so much in
consistency all around him that he is discouraged.
" Brother A. drives a hard bargain ; brother B.
is crooked in his dealings; sister C. is not careful
how she handles the 'Unruly member;'" and so
on to X, Y, Z. Pour man: how I pity thee !
But "I have been young and now am old, yet I
hays never seen" any good come of grumbling,
fretting or sColding.
SCOLDING CLEB,GYMEN
Erom Cornell's "How to Enjoy Life."
GRUMBLING