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Like a swift fleeting meteor--a tut flying cloud— A flash of the lightning—a break of .the wave— fle from life to hie' feet in the Oar°. . , The leaves of the oak and the willow will fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid; As the young and the old, and the low and the high, Shall crumble to dint, nod together shall lie. The infant a mother attended and loved-- The mother, that infant's affection who proved; The father, that.mother and infant who blessed— Each, alit are away to their dwelling of rest. The maid on whose brow, on whose c heek, in w h o se Y e ' sh o r, bi„„„,,,,.........arnrrcpba are lay; And alike from the minds of the living erased Are the memories of mortals who loved her and praised. The hand of the King, that the sceptre hath borne, The brow of the Priest, that the mitre bath worn, The eye of the sage, and the heart of the brave, Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave. The peasant, whose lot was to sow and to reap: The herdsman, vs 3 ho climbed with his goats up the steep; The, beggar, who wandered in search of his bread, Have faded away like the grass that we 'tread. So the multitude goes, like the flower or weed That withers away to let others succeed. So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told: For we are the same our fathers have been; We see the same sights our fathers have seen; We drinlF the same stream, w•e see the same sun; And run the same course our fathers have run. The thoughts we are thinking our fathers aid think; From the death we are shrinking our fatliors did shrink; ¶Lo the life we are clinging our fathers did cling, Put, it speeds from us all like the bird on the wing. , , They loved,.bnt the story we cannot unfold: They scorned, but the heart of the'huimghty is cold; They grieved—brit no vital fioni their slunibers will come; They joyed- r but the tongue of their gladness is dumb. • , • They died—ab! theY Alla are now— Thnt walk on the turf that lies over their brc4,` And make in their dwellings a transient 'abode; Meet the things that they met oh- their, pilgrimage road. Yen, hope and despondenay, pleasure and pain,' Are mingled together in sunshine mid And the smile and the teat* and the Song and 'the dirge, Still follow each other like surge upon surge. 'Tis the wink of an eye ; 'tis the drang,lit of a breath, From the blossom of health to the palettes of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the Shroud: Ohl why shauld the spirit of mortal be proud? foopo-4,11101. - e..!, For the './ktierie,O, foiiebytFtan. ROW TOAN/NiOliTLEinairtYStOilL ADDITrONAIr OtTAZWERO - -011A - PTEIR XT.—TEng RE BELLION-CIVIL LIBERTY AND CIVIL RIORTS: fly REV. WM. M. CORNELL, M. P. NOTE TO THE EDITORSIT: I had -prepared. Older matter fur this number ofyour paper, but a s_ugges - •! tion from some who heard the Disoatuno ot". the following is the conclusion—that it at:inlet - do goeq• beyond tho sphere of those to whom it was - spoken, and a feeling of my own that, in she present crisis, perhaps, no subject is more necessary than a little Civil, Political, or State hygiene; of both a physical and mental character. have Maimed-me to send you the following. The Discourse was delivered in the Fourth Presbyterian Church, of Philadelphia, on Sab bath morning, April 210;1864 if 0 Assyrian, the roe of mine anger, and the staff in their hand, is mine ineignation; I will send him against a hypocritical nation; and against the people of my wrath will Ilive Ma' a charge to take the spoil, and to take the Drey,.apti to head them down as the mire of the streeid. HOWbeit, he mean eth dot so; neither loth his heave think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut ofhatiofis not a few."—lssienx. 5,6, 7. S e pt ( imeut:— God' s Intentions Good, Sinners' E6il";---* The • Jews--= their Prosperity,:— their Shia -- Our . Prosperity—our Sins --.Neglect of . Christians in their St ffragesßebellion' ugainst our Government—Attack on Fort Sum ter—Murder in Baltimore—lts - Atrocity—The Band of God - .in these Events—Horrors of a Civil War—Unparalleled Harmony for Govern ment—God never Scourged his People MO for their good—The Doom of Slavery All :Our Blessings at StakeNei Cowardice—Submis sion to Government, or Sqbjugation—Light Ahead. • . . , The marginal reading of a part of this text is a little different, in two- places, from our common version, and quite as consonant with the original. The first is, " Wo! to the Assyrian;'' the second, instead of "to tread- them down," "to set th.etn, treading : :" that is, as captives. The . sentiment is, the hand of God was in that invasion—that He meant good to the Jews by it; namely, their correction and reformation—bat, that their invaders meant evil, to gratify their pride—to boast of their wisdom and valor, and to perpetuate their impiety. In short, God means good always in chastening his people; but wicked men, the instruments of those chastisements!' al ways mean evil; and-hence, are justly !pani:hed for their wicked eoriduet Go4'chose the Jews for his pecple, not for any goodness or greatness there. was In them, but of his own sovereign' pleasure., See how Carefully Moses impressed this truth Apon them,: ." The Lord did not set his love upon yciii i ,nOr clieese you, beano's° you were more in , number than any people, for ye were the feiest Of'all.peopre." See, also; heir he cat:done them again, when they should ,have entered Canaan: "Speak not thou in thlne'heart, for my righteousness the Lord Lath brought me in to possess this lanai: under-. stand, therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this gosfct land to possess for thy iighoseue noss; for thou E!.tot a atittnecked people." These minnonitiens wore given again and agiiin to keep Israel bumble. God had greatly blessed them, He had carried theta i 4 out of Egypt' with 714 high hand," .He had oterthrown their ene mies "in the Red Sea." He had led them forty years, "by a cloud by day,.ind a pillar of fire by night." He had 4 4 divided -Jordan;" prostrated "the walls of Jerlobo," and "driven , out before them the inhabitants 'of Canaini" He had given them "a land flowing with •milk and honey." Ile bad raised up Daxid, to be their Icing, who had subdued all their enemies; and, at the close of his long reign, and during that of Solottion, : . _ his sou, the kingdom of Israel was the most 'gloriotis of all kingdoms. But they had become csortupt, 'broken God's law, profaned his Sabbaths, robbed his altar, op pressed the poor , a nd withheld from the hireling Lis due. tied bee done ' great things for us as a nation.,l directed our fathrs hither. He sh ielded them while crossing the ocean. He ~u , " out before them the' heathen. He gave us' Luis good land. With a climate of every kind—genial and healthful; with a soil producing everything that is "good for man and beast;" with a country stretching from the Atlantic to the. Pacific, and from the polar regions of the North to "the sunny South;" removed from all the powerful, nations of the "old world" by the wide oceitt,, We have "sat under our own vine and fig tree" . for eighty years, under our present constitution; "with none to molest or make Os afraid!' God has thus long annually given us "seed time and harvest,",that there should be "seed for the soWer and breed for the eater." Our institutions for civil libeityhave been the freest, our edicational and religious prri vileges the greatest of any nation under-heaven. But, amidst all these multiplied blessings, we have forgotten the GrvEtt--we ,have, said, practically, at least, Our own hind hath getien us the victory. We have boasted in our atteitfli—iie haVe idol ized our glorious Union—we have considered our . nation invincible, and so it has been', against every foreign , foe. But our "enemies, are now those of our own house." Our "familiar friends hav,e lifted up" the sword against us. - Our Govern ment is traitorous) so Minn oath 'to stand by our Union—men intrusted with her entincils, sitting in her cabinet, living under her protection, fed from her table, protected by her flag, have wan tonly broken thane oaths, taken before high Hea ven, have betrayed_ these trusts, planned our de struction wh'ile'sitting> in our Cabinet and in our Halls of Congress, have stolen our treasure, robbed our arsenals ' seized our forts, trampled' our flag in the dust. "How has the gold become dinar &p. I have no, more doubt that Jefferson Davis, Ste phens, Wigfall, all, all of this traitorous band, Stave been raised up by God, sent by him; in hid Pro vidence, for ottr eorreetion;..than' that He . serit the Assyrian upon his chosen people, who, for their sins, had become the people of his wrath; and when they shill, have done, whit is his will, for our good, He "will punish their stout, fiearta and the , glory of their high looks." He "will put' his hook in their nose, and his bridle. in their lips, and turn them back by the• way _ttat they • came' Never before has our country, seen such a _day as this. God, in his mercy, grant that'we may ne ; - ver see another hits it. • We kilo* not what his 'purpose respecting uS is. That we as richly .deserve chastisement as the Jews, did from the hand of the Assyrian, !relieve not, a doubt. May Eto who chastised then' grant that it may be, as it was, in their ,case, for: our correciion—riót for our Time will alloW us to name but one of our nu:- morons sins, and.this is our crying neglect of duty at the .ballot-box. I believe, thishas been• : one: of the greatest sins of our land. (god has, given us a fiee government, a government dependenfupon ourselves. Ere hae nuide'eVery !nen a 'sharer ui it.• .But, Oh,• how many Christians haVe wholly neglected this most important duty 1 . - ' It bas been too often considered *work of dia.: grace fora professed. Christian, or, a minister of ;the gospel Ad attend political Meetings. Many.ehris-. Liana hate fide only excused themselves from the perforiniince'of this .ditty, bit' they hie also charged those Who have done it, as being office seekers, as associating with the lowest sif the peo: plc, with, the vulgar ? :the, profane, the • drunkard. In this way, they,east ‘contempt* upon, those who, have honestly entleavored 'to de their "duty in elect ing . goect men te`offide: Trcid 'has jnitly frotv:iteld' upon us for this neglebt. There' have been geed men, Christian men, ;ministers—of the gospel,- enough in this land ; to , have secured thee Orrtialtfe,ti fee:met:in nine cases on o tea Are they not, thbi','reSOlisible not having done But, to. the. objection • that' the vomit let down their dignity, or lower the christian character by mingling with the puns who initiate, the plans, for dead - 10121M officers, magistrates and others, and wh ':itrtually elect geiiX, it mai he siisuiere,d,' firatrts it the'dilty of every good Man to jry j` fob kings, and. fot all. in , iinthority? Nest 'clearly it is a scriptural injunction - . Tben, I ask, ,are they not bound in a gov,ernmentolike ours te.4t6oz% tti put good men in - antharity,? Secondly, How does it, follow that, because Christian's, `arid Chris tian ministers meet. - with those who first 'nominate candidates for office, that-they, must: lose, their dig nity, or lower the Christian standard, or encourage anything michristian? It strikes me, if, a man is afraid of losing his dignity 'by performing - his . duty,he has not much to lose. Did Chriit lower' his dignity by "going to be ,a gueit * With - a man that was a sinner," with "receiving sinners and eating with them," . or in "talking with a wicked woman?" Did Paul dishonor the Christian charac ter by "making tents," by exhorting the half famished "sailors" to take some meat, or by "ad venturing himself into the theatre?" On the contrary, let the ministers of the gospel, the deacons and elders of the church, the,whole membership, go to such meetings; act as ministers and Christians, should when they have a sacred duty to perform, and' it would' throw a healthful,„ peaceful, moral, :heavenly influence into - such meetings, and secure the 'election to Congress and other places of trust, the- best men. - That the hand of God is in this event, we fully believe. That he will not chastise beyend our de serts, we know from his character, and from his merciful dealings with our race. Insurrection, with all its horrors, is upon us. But, upon those wicked men who have inaugurated it, be the responsibility. Our pacific , measures they have abused. Our forbearance they bave construed into pusillanimity, and improved the time in preparation for war: For Our attempt to feed our own starving citizens, under our employ, in our ewn Yea,. they have resisted, by the thun der of CUIIIIOII and . the ralisiles of death. . TheCattack noon a haiadful of half starved Men in &hater, was'dastardly enough. But even that bears no comparison with, the one in Baltimore. A company of meu, many of them unarrpedjrom friendly States l -- 2 Staibs in the same Union with Maryland,' sworn to support the same - GoVern• ment o .to maintain the same' Constitution L to ho nor the same flag; men, marching to our Capital; at the command of the chief magistrate of our na tion, under the white flag of peace, an emblem respected by all the civilized world, are sekupon by en infuriated mob; and assailed 'with demoniac'al .rage; some`of then] waurdered,others wounded and disllguredl The city pollee connive at, aid and abet thebanditti t Is this doubted ? Where is the ground for doubt? If these .officers did not thus aid the ruffians, why did they not make provision to con trol them?.Why; knowing as they did, the pre vious' unenviable, eharacter of Baltimore for' mob ocracy and outlawry, were they not armed to the teeth, and ready to resist to the last drop of union loVing and patriotic such''an uprising of fiend's in their own: borders? The indications are,' but too true, that these functionaries of the government, in Baltimore, and, Maryland, were in league with the violators of their sacred oaths, and the rebels igainstoet civil law only, bat civilizapion itself I know the Massichnsetts heart. I was born, and havelived: most of my days upon her soil. If blood niust be shed, I thank God that, as in the days of our Revolution, it,first ,flowed from the w veins of Massachusetts ee ,*April 19th, 1775; so, it has now first flowed from her sons, on this same month' and same day, April 19th 1801, in a shameful ~and disgiaceful riot in Baltimore.-' It has fully awakened the spirit of those bygone days. Thinks to Heaven that the first blow was struck by'lltese As.syrians. How completely have they miscalculated upon our States I How vain have been their imaginin.s that, we should be so divided among ourselves, that we could make no resistance to their abominable deeds! Was there ever a more perfect Union? ; How has every party feel been every party line obliterated and from Maine to California, and from the Cana das (and in them) to the southern borders of our State, has every.-man been ready, to come forth with his money, his honor, and his life, to defend our all! What els'e mean these ban& thronging our street; p thesebriatling bayoneti, these stream ing banners? have never : been . a meddler with slaves. have ever been willing to give the South her rights to the last iota - But the doom of Slavery has conic': Its end approaches, not by Abolitionists, but by Secessionists! They have done the work, more .effectually; than all the ,Abolitionists of .the North,e9llld. , hre done it. Who, from:the North, will: fugitives now? The line of safety to the "slave has hitherto been that of Cootie. Ileticeforth, it 'maybe that 'of Washington; ,Per chance, of Pennsylvania. Moreiprobably nowhere.. The stain will be wiped out. A wise.maxim-of the, heathen was, ",Whom gods : the-intend .to destroy, they'first infatuate." And; could anymen be more infatuated than those . Whe' Itaie first drain the Sword against the Very' ones - 10in 'had - e.Ver been their right arm of defence - - They have cut atf -ttur- innb on winch they stood. Brethren', it is not, the people, as a mass, in.those States, that have arisen in this, rebellion. It mere, resembles that of korah, Vathan, and Abirana,„ who rebelled against MoSes and `the - Camp' of lintel. More re smithies that of Absalom and Adonijah againit David. , There are goad anditrtie weri, also, there among• officers., The, duty. of our Government, is Plain. What Not to stay its hand till every ; one of theSeleading rebels; these Perjured dema gegueiyis captured and hutig high as Hainan upon his own gallows, or return, to his allegiance to the Government;, net till they-who ; have first taken the sword sem - it:tat ,laeir,unolf,ending brethren - shall havePerialied by the sword, or eerie their, rebellion and yield - Up their _arms.' Does this language•seem strong? Who woad not use. stren.4language when such• Assyrians ire to be dealt with—such perjured wretches? What have we,- at stake?. Our lives, our fortunes, our honor : ---this fair inheritance, for which our fathers tOiled, and prayed, and died. What are we to leave to our' posterity? 'Shalt it be freedom, toleration. education; morality,'relf= Pion, or the abject condition of vassals? I seem to hear one ,universal responsel• God save our Na tion!Bot,if God saves, he works by means, and his`he not 'inspired every soul with a spirit of de termination to come forth on the side of liberty, of justice, of right, and. of 'mercy? - " Who is no the Lord's side?" I am remindtd of that Spartan mother, - . who, when her Son:Was about to .embarkin the defence of his country upon presenting, him with his shield, said, "Either this, or Upon' this." This was but little more noble than the following reported reply of one of our own mothers in true city. ".:.You have probably all secn,it. Her son, for along ° time, had been. drill ing. She had requested him to reign; hut he declined. But war begnu;. he said, " Mother,. 1 am now going to reign.", "If y9u do," was the patriotic reply, "I willnever• again own you fOr son:,' , Such a patriotic response seems. to come' up from. , every heart, andfrom none. more firmly,.more mm-: , more patriotically; than from sour actopted citizens. These have never b.een Want idg, when - .our rights have been endangered awl one, flag: threatened. Noble souls were : found , among them in .our 4evoltition h in ,t he spar. of iI812": and,thanki to the ,God of ;battles," such is now. the case:' In' Boston, in New York, in our own city, they are coming up like men to defend whit - - The curse of " Mcrae," of cowardice rests upon none of our":citizens, , native? or - adopted. Their hearts, their intere,sts, their privilegesiallmre one. And now, let us. remember that ."the,Assyrian", was sent upon God's people "for their good," and let us repent of our sins and be corrected: Let us - trust in Ged,..love our country;'defend, and . make a right use of our liberty, live as pilgrims; obey the gespel„and _"the God ef .Jacob will be our refuge." "Underneath us shall be .his ever-, lasting. arms." I'ani, by profession, a man of peace, lint if we would have peace in this world, God has ordained that it, shall, sometimes,. be. brought about by war. There is 'a sense, in which, Christ came, ",not to., send peace,, but a sword." I believe, in this cri sia, whed our mcidern "AiSyrian" shill, be ,pu-- nished, as was the case with him who scourged the Jews, we shall re.:bnird ouriemple of liberty, our nation; all our, rights, and privileges, shall he per petuated to the latest posterity. Let God be in the midst, of .4r, and- she shall not be. moved. i Brethren; I'am a firm belieier,in the Gevernmentl of dodi—in his glorions plans. • I believe his will will be done:—that he will cause "the wrath of man to praise him, and restrain the reihainder." That he will punish the, wicked ,for their wicked deeds. That, When Vis People sin,heeorrects them-, often, by the wicked : "Noah is my Washpot." Oh!" that we.iriaTfeel that this most /dire calamity is from God. . God helps - those who helP.thernselves. Buteannet, these things he adjusted without blood? War is at all times a fearful calamity, a: dreadful, resort. ,Yes, they,can be settled withont , blood. But it must - be by'yielding up the right of eleet ing our Chief Magistrate by the popular suffrage —by.yielding,,toe principle that an:insurrection is a revolution-by yielding that we '/nave _no go vernment—Jai engrafting ,npon s our . Ponstitutien that any, and every State, when she is out-voted, or displeased in anyway, may break off from our Confederacy, and set up for herself. It is a war for our Goatuntent: Whether .il shall stand or fall, is the issue. Armed rebellion will, not yield. to timid supplication., • Now, such being the isstie, what is to be done? What! hut juit What is being_ done I—mothers sending their sons, With tender bededictions— young women'. buckling the sword-belts around their husbands—sisters and lovedones . ,paying, " Oh ! brothers and lovers, go, go, and the God of,l battles go with you"--merehant : youths, with de licate bands' and reap - Cheek* leaving: their soft labors{ to grasp the burnished siteelstudetita leaving their "Academies: shades .; " and .nniet re-1 treats for the camp,-old men of, :1812, who were then young, feel the pulse' of youth again beating, in thetibosotes—and old clergymen encourage' the young and pray for their success. You know it all. . - Whht.need Of my attempting to tell it? God grant that we may-go on to maintain this Government with right feeling of heart, and with a well-gioniaded hope that ; vrhild we strive-"-to-per petuate it, we belong.ito. the kingdom of Christ, which, shall swallow up all other kingdoms. COMFORT IN VIEW - OF''SPEED'ir DEATH. To''Bß DI PARADISE, the' home of the saved! To be there this day! Whlt blies! • And who is the.happy man: who is ,to brto-day with Jesus in paradise? By what good. work.s _has he, earned heaven? Good works! r lie is a robber, dying on the areas for his 06616. Bit he has - even in that hour, seen his - sins. He has turned to the dying, Saviour and cried, "Lord, remember me when _thou. comest into thy, kiugdora." And Christ aniwers, "To-day thou,slaalt be.with mein paradise!' He is penitent.. He. believes on Christ. He is forgiven. He is saved." Poor Sin ner! Turn now to Chrigt: Repent. Belieie. He longs to save you. - For you he died. For you be rose again. For you he "intercedesat the right hand of God. Ph! b, persuaded to be saved front endless turnings, Look-to Jesus7—now,l The Next . World's Fair in London.—The Exhi bition will open on . Thursday, the Ist day of May, 1862, and it will'be 'held on a convenient site in the in►mediate ,ieinity of the ground occupied in 1851, on the of the first International-Exhibition. . ..., • . • 11.i:111'1il 111 s, 11 „ R: A y , Soldier's Frialid. - • - ...' 'rerithe' American fresbyterfan. PRA '1: R ' ANSWERED. . ' ' DEAlit. 8110. M. 21 'few weeks :ago a: young man, the son ofvenerable elder in one of our congregations and ivhe had heen'sacredly devoted tl to God in infancypu& Carefully 'edheated for His service; but who had been'a wandering ; mild- and wicked youth, wasikilledhy a fill' from a- horse. He did not die itimediately,-butwas`taken up in sensible an& born Ito a sister'hottse, where he continued insensihke.twdoi: three'days: If Froth -the pressure of the broen' skull ou-the 'brain, he'was thrown into spasme l and this -friends C thought hint ii in the agonies of 'tleaillt, .1 illitihik Vrayliaired father could not halide sewhilla-die '66,-and While holding his son, rails'e& withreontulsions, ponied out his Trayera " WAN, stroni , eryingeteir i si"' -that Ged would restereliireasineantis - , life that ho-inialit:fifkailacrefeirkifeefriful wins;,}; j ‘. ma, ehe ci4dAnereintereating was; that for about two week}previous-to the felt fie had been Feeding• his 4ilc ii, and seeking Christ, giving evidence' that lel had becothe a subject of the Spirit's convicting influences.' "Arotild the Lord cut short his work 'u 'finished? Would the 'cove ,nant-keeping God a frei a child of the covenant to perish, for whom hiis> thisaged father and an al ready sainted mothe' 'Offered so many prayers? -Behold, how the , ' -` d Ads 'a way to: answer; praygr. -See how he solves the problem, Corn pletes his, workout& keeps his word. The sur geon removes some pieces of skull pressing-on:the - brain; reason wts reatered- 7 the pat:twit-tan lived ahout nine, daysporel; and the house of death was made a house o prayer and praise! The injured =tn.-began agar to 'seek the Lord,. and with 1 re newed .earnestne ..! •lie wrestled' with :God in prayer; he besould= all Christian friends that came in to pray Kt him and for,hitn,'till he .., found peace in CliSt and died at length full of hope in the Redeem 'r.- Was not this,‘!,a i e-brand plucked out of the 1 1 burning?" Verily l „pd keepeth covenant with them that love Hint.',--'4,-fte knows how,to answer prayer. Had the iejnry • proved immediately fatal;, or had 'the comatose state • continued ~ :. . . a s:: ,s - a number of trained voices, call them choir, quar tette, or what you may, will be indispensable. Now, then, with the congregation able to sing, and.an instrument and choir all ready, what more is needed? for the, aim' is not yet reached. One , thing, and'that eseential,=.-bring them together! Either'put your congregation nit where the choir and organ" are, or bring the latter down to the congregation.. Or,. as compromise is the order of the day, let them meet midway! But,bring them together !. Abolish all singing galleries with the remorseleesiiess of a Broom among cob-webs. ' They never hatt-any bliainese' in a Church; they'were brought; in , by the. popish* priestbdod, and have ;clung : to ; n illegitimate existence with the tena city of ,ann,lnse. Ant ; ront - thon2 ; .give them no quarter ; put the organ and all its. troupe as low as you putthe pastor not an inch higher. Wh'at `bueineashave 'they above him? ` Is he not navel" entitled ito.speak , froin the clouds, as they to sing --therefrom ? Presbyterian Quarterly ••Resietw THE MYSTERIES , OF REDEXPTIOR. Both on acceunt of ourlittleness and our sin, it is not,easy, for us to have just ideas about God'sac tnal designs toward us. .We are very little ores turesin his sight.' Annihilate us, and it could make very' ittle difference to him.. We are as linvforthpaslWe are insignificant before him. Yet we have, wants we have - amazing wants. There is an indescribable depth in the agonies which sometiines make our hearts bleed even here; and when our thought takes its journey to the world to come, along a pathway of thorns and thistles, down into the valley of 'death, and away beyond the resurrection of the dead into the abysses of eternity, Still as much-beyond thought as ever—the idea of our destiny, our eternal want, presses upon the spirit within us, as if it would. crush us' into no thing! What friend shall help us? Human sympathy can do .much for us, we admit; it is precious to, us, very precious. But we require something more. Human sympathy cannot reach our deepest want of spirit even now, and cannot reach our spirits at all after our breath stops. We need- God's- sympathy. We need God to love us, and be kind- to us, and let us lean on him now, when our footsteps stagger upon the dark moun tains of death, and when tve take thespirifjouroey Of an awful eternity I Nothir , but God will do for us. We want the friend who knows the secret chambers of our heart,' and who owns eternity. But how shall we get ; him.? how shall we be as sured of him ? It will.be an amazing stoop of his infinity if he cares much for me lam a worm of the dust,- a -vile worm, a sinner. It must be an eternal marvel if the infinite and eternal Monarch, holy and august as he is, will extend his actual and everlasting kindness toward me! And I will not believe itupless he approaches me -in some inade as wonderful 'as is my wonderful need—in some amazing mode to correspond with such an amazing and wonderful condescension to his guilty and -dying worm. He has done so, in this ama zing redemption--he has precisely done so. The mama itude of his grace corresponds with the mag nitgde of my needs, Christ's worthiness becomes my worthiness. The necessities of my immortal spirit, which. I am Called on ,to "wonder at more .then,to explain;perfectly accord with the eeono uky. of ,redemption,, which ; amazes me--comforts me beeause. it, amazes me. The kindness, and lam of God, aur Suniour:"towdrd "man !lathop hmysteriousdemonstration. - 0 rise is the` Begone,' my fears! Lie still, my. throbbing heart! Hope, shop°, my:immortal spirit! God -does love me ! God, does care for me ! The wonders of his mode of showing it correspond with the -wonder that he should care for me at all—that the Infi nite One should stoop to his worm, that eternal holiness phould be pacified towards guilt. Here, then,. canpust. Here I, ean live—here I can di.4—here Lean east my mysterious and mysteri . ously wanting • soul into the arms of God, and whatever it inky 'want on earth or in the spirit land, the -majesty of Christ accords with the mag nitude of its distressful necessities. Be that spared not his own Son but freely delivered him up for us all would not be the, premises of an ar gument broad enough for the conclusion How shall he not with hint freely give us all things, were there not in the gift such a majesty as must be a mystery to us But there is. Blessed be God there is! Beyond Christ, I cannot want anythinff.. The mode of the gospel assorts with my creature littleness and guilt, and with the wormer of God's needed care for •me, Return unto thy rest, 0 my soul! Rev., I. S. Speneer is Sacramental Discourses. YOUR OWN WORE. Did you• ever see, how far the candle , in the cottage .window would send its raxs streaming through the depths, of night, though it should only shine .to illeinine the narrow walls of the huniblest cottaAe? Do your own wait; fill your ()NM:sphere. Why, brethren, the greatest things that were ever done, on. earth have been done by little, little agents little persons, little things. How was the wall built around Jerusalem? By every man, whether his honie were an old palace or a cabin; building the bit before his own door. How was the new World redeemed: from gloomyArests ? By every emigrant cultivating his own 1)40 of ground. How have, the greatest battles been fought and won ? Not by the com manders that. ; carried away the lonor„got their breasta blaibned with stars and their heads crowned with garlands: not by these, but by the rank and file, every man standing at his own, post, every man ready to die on the battle field. They won the _victory. , It was done, not by one or two indi vidnals, but, by the Many; and I say, if the, world is ever to be conquered for myblessed leard, it is not by ministers—it is not by elders—it is not by the great and noble and mighty—but it is by every map. and woman, who is -a member ,of Christ's Church, being.a working member, doing.their own work, filling their own sphere, holding their own posts, and saying to Jesus. Christ, "Lord, what wilt: thou. have me to do?" And when it •is all delne, brethren, I .venture to say, that, after the busiest life, the busiest man in thisbouse and out of it, when he is lyingon. his bed of death, and Death stands grim beside him, that man i a thought won't_ be the pleasant reflection, " - How ranch have I done?" but the regretful one, How much have I left undone r —horf • many sinners might I have warned--- ; how manrwretched might I have blessed —how many naked might 'I have clothed—how inany poor might I have fed--how many are in hell, cursing,me for my want of, faithfulness—how few are in.WeaVen blessing me for my Christian fidelity, care - and kindness." • Prayer-itMetings are good 'things„ and So are preachings, sermons and religions services ; but, my,deET friends, they are not banquets at which you are, to sit doWn. to enjoy yourselm,aud gra tify your tastes, and indulge your spiritual appetite, and, gratify= your spiritual taste and 'palate; so to speak, like a mart 'sitting down to a feast and getting well filled, and gratified and happy. Vas is not; the use of them: it is the Abuse of them. Yonder-'do you see you 'sun-burnt man sitting down in'a - nottage fon simple Meal? He rises to spend the strength- you 'meal has given him on the field. So. with odr Sermons and -Sabbaths and' serviees—tbey are to stfingthen us" for work other wise, `l3itr religion-is ay selfish -as the liVeS'of these that indulgein sensuous Pletteures. They are for work, :to .strengthen me- fOr God's ivork . in the world, and: however fair a distatioef to follow the stepsaof who -is= My pattern as well as propitiation—who went about doing good.—Dr. Guthrie.. They 'that laugh, at9 - fetilltind,:and Otat "fret; atevery . thing, are fools —NO . 38. 77 -Role No. 255. VOL.- V. Rev. Dr. Thompson, formerly of Philadelphia and Buffalo, now of .Cincinnati, has_ recently preached a sermon, defining the duty of Christians in the• crisis, and using no dubious language. The gospel trumpet in his hands never, was wont to give 'an uncertain sound. He is reported to have said:— "I do not feel that I am in the slightest degree departing fioni my proper work as a Christian bY they introtiuction here of *such a theme as, thik ...Nay, in the crisis *hick has come so suddenly upon envnation, I should not, be able to justify. myself were I to keep silent in, regard to the Claims which the country righteously has upon her sons: l fshOuld feel that. was false and faith less 'salt bi uister of religion, if I did not now say to yoh•that.4lmt.religion demands of every citi sen, and what is...its• first and foremost demand of !wary eitizcn, is 'that he shill stand by his country, and by the government which, in` the Providence - of God, is legally conitituted over it; pledging thereto, with all the solemnity of. an oath, 'his life, his fortune;.and his.sacred honor.' "Referring, to the song of- Deborah, the pro phetess, and of Barak, be said he believed the curse of 141'eroz to be a perpetual one against trai tors; that the terrible judgments of God will speedily overtake those who have kindled the fires of civil war in this land, and equally upon all who aid and abet them, either directly by their trea sonable practices, or indirectly by their supine ness,. by reftising, to use according to their eircum -stances-and their country's need all the strength whieh,God.and nature have intrusted to them for beating, back and subduing and chastising their country's enemies. "It is a time to fight. Sad, is it, to think of 'fighting against our own brethren? They are not our brethren—they are our enemies. Sad, is it, to think of opening the deadly batteries of war upon.our own countrynien ? 4h, they should have thought of that. .Now they are not our country men. They have made themselves aliens and out casts. *They, have lifted the hand to smite the Mater 'that bore them, and to defile the breast that gave them suck. With my whole heart I agree to the wide sentiment of our minister at :who said, I had rather fight a traitor iu my own country than any foreign enemy that could possibly come against me.' So I think every loyal citizen should feel. "Idt us have done with all squeamishness on this subject-. Our brethren are all those who are faith ful to their country—all else are. strangers." The. venerable President Humphrey, who re cently died in Pittsfield, Mass., and whom the Pre - -slavery Unity Society had the effrontery to elect' as ene.of -their: honorary members, used the following language in the last public address he ever made, which was on the late National Fast. "And now, when instigated by the demon slavery, traitors are plotting for the overthrow of the Government, may I oot speak what I think in this presence? .1 shall not be hindered. My heart is full of the matter. Fhery drop of my old blood is,qnieVened. I will not denounce anybody; but I will meet the system of slavery, the embo diment-4.iiil.oppressicm and crime, face to face, as the instigator of the present insane attack upon the •Confederation, which our fathers established and bequeathed to us, as the palladium of the tem ple of Freedom, not only for us, but, as they hoped, for our children, forever. .It is slavery which has been gnawing at the vitals of the body politic, and bringing on this 'tremendous out break, for more than thirty years. If there had been t rio slavery, there would have been no seces sion. No star would have madly rushed from its orbit, and plunged into that soundless gulf, which has swallowed up , so many larger orbs from other constellations." . . After enumerating the crimes with which slavery is,charg,eable, he says: " Slavery is at the bottom of it all; and if it should result in a civil war, and torrents of blood shmild drown half the land, slavery, without which no Sllel revolutionary madness could have occurred, will be answerable for all its horrors." "I like controversy, when it is thoroughly ho , nest. Ido admire to see two large and generous minds; approach a, subjeCt from opposite quarters, and ; then t'o watch the new lights that flash over it and,show it in a thousand relations that were not obvious before.. It lifts us out of the ruts of our'sect and party, in whose tread-mill we have been grinding all our lives, and mistaking it for the universe. But controversy with small minds is-the smallest business that is done in this world. It slides inevitably into word-catching, and ends personalities.in Tile moment I saw a • man con sciously trying to put my language to a different use from what I had put it myself, I would stop shortwith him and say: 'I am glad to compare ideas with you, but I have no time for word catching.' To say, as Dr. Johnson did, I can't furnish meaning and brains too,' is not courteous. The only controversy that ever convinces the con trovertists is a friendly comparison of beliefs, each turning the other's'round, and viewing it under all,the angles of reflection. It is not, this sort of controversy, but fighting with word-mongers, that Dr. Holmes must have in mind. 'You.know that, if you had a bent tube one arm of which was the size of a pipe -stem, and the other big en.oughrto bold,the 'ocean, Water would stand in the same height in one as in the other.' Contro versy equaliies fools and wise men in the same way, and the fools know it." Our country has 'entered upon a mighty strug gle and if it continues long; it will probably strike a 4toath-blow to the pre-eminence of the cotton producing States in the supply of that staple. This has been apparent from the start, and cotton planters have assured us of their well-founded apprehensions that should seceasion be followed by wax this result wauld be inevitable. • The English cotton spinners have already lost confidence in the stability of the cotton supply of this country, and are using every exertion to in crease it in' other sources where it can be culti vate& in great abundance: The latest intelligence from England .states that already the cotton culti vation in India is going forward with great acti vity, and it,is well known, from recent authentic information that more cotton is absolutely cultivated in Africa than is rinsed fa the American Cotton. States. Under the influence of Thomas Clegg„ agent orate Manchester Cotton Supply Association, who resides at Abbeokuta, in the Yoruba district, the supply of cotton shipped from the port of La gos is rapidly increasing—all that is needed is commercial and mechanical facilities, which eapi-• tal can supply, and a system of organised labor to produce and prepare it for market. A colony is now organizing in New York under the charge of the Rev. Henry Hiland Garnett, an able and energetic minister of the Presbyterian Church; of thia citY,'Who will soon proceed to Ab beokiita :with-: colored mechanics and machinery an&other implements mecessary to found a colony there. • A liberal treaty has already been formed witli.the king and he promises the most ample protection. and support'to the colonists. This is no idle Seheine—it is in the hands of some of the shrewdestuud wisest.men in the city, and will be ,pusjied:fpFward with zeal and fidelity. Scientific American. OUR PLAIN DUTY. LAST WORDS OF DR. HUMPHREY :CONTROVERSY. COTTON AND WAR. Rev. E. IL Sears.