"" ' " -■ " • •• ' ' ill,-.-u-i, A,- W i... .A. ,01. YI, -Jo. M.—Whole Jo. 283. the stranger and his friend. *• Ye have done it onto me.”—Matt. xxv. 40. A poor wayfaring Man of grief Hath often cross’d me on my way, Who sued so humbly for relief, That I could never answer “Nay:” I had not power to ask his name, Whither lie went, or whence he came, Yet was there something-in his eye That won my lovei I knew not why. Once, when,my scanty meal was spread,' He enter’d';—not a word he spake.— ,1 ust perishing for want of bread; I gave him all; he bless’d it, brake, And ate,—but gate nte part again; Mine was an Angel’S portion thon, For while I fed with eager haste, That crust was manna.,to my taste. I spied him, where a fountain burst Clear from the rock; his strength was gone; The heedless water mock’dhia thirst, He heard it, saw it hurryjng on: I ran to raise the sufferer up; Thrice from the stream he drain’d my oup, Dipt, and return’d it running o’er; I drank, and never thirsted more. Twas night; the floods were out; it blew A winter hurricane alocif; I heard his voice abroad, and flew To bid him welcome to my roof; I warm’d, I cloth’d, I cheer’d my guest, .Laid him on my own couch to rest; Then made the hearth, my bed, and seem’d In Eden’s garden whilel dream’d. iSlript, wounded, beaten, nigh to death, I found him by the highway-side: I roused his pulse, brought back his breath; Revived his spirit, and supplied Wine, oil, refreshment; he was heal'd; —I had myself a wound conceal’d; Hut from £&ffiTßstfr forgot Ike'smart,- And Peace hound up my broken heart. Tn prison I saw him next, condemn’d To meet a traitor’s doom at mom; The tide of lying tongues I stemm’d, And honor’d him midst shame and scorn: My friendship’s utmost zeal to try, He ask’d if I for him would l die; The flesh was weak, my blood ran chill, I! ut the free spirit cried, 44 1 will. ’ ’ Then in a moment to my view, The Stranger darted from disguise; The tokens in his bands I knew, My Saviour stood before mine eyes: lie spake; and my poor name He named; "Of me thou hast not been ashamed: These deeds shall thy memorial be; Four not, thou didst them unto-Me." Montgomery JOHN Q. ADAMS AS A STATESMAN. '"i. m. cornbli., m. d. nt wbw r, solans *' Wc will give one indire instance of the wlorful power of Mr. Adams. Oh the 2d ' December, 1889, at’the opening of the «rniy-sixth Congress, the Clerk began to ill the roll, according to custom. When he line to New Jersey, he .stated that five seats rW members from that State were con •!'1, and that, not feeling himself autho- I to decide the question, he should pass , ! those names, and proceed with the call. '>■dent debate arose. It was declared by i jiart that, this was a preconcerted plan i \dude these five members from voting in organization of the House, and by the I r that these members had no right to • Three days were spent in the most t r controversy; and the close of the ;a was described'as follows by an eye i,i „ s :—“ Mr. Adams,from the opening- af ■> scene of confusion, and anarchy, had lintained a profound silence. He appear i 'be engaged most of the time in writ -• To a common observer; he seemed to i ' ldess of anything . around hint. Bui ’ I iitg, not the slightest- incident; escaped The fourth day of the struggle had now 'ii Nencod. Mr. Hugh A. Garland, the |> . was directed to call the roll again. I < "mmenced with Maine, as usual in those 7'. and was proceeding with Massaehh ' I turned and saw that Mr. Adams ' ready to get the floor at the earliest mo , ; possible. His eye was riveted- 1 on-the T ; his hands clasped the front edge of T sk, where he . always placed them to i i him in rising*. He looked, in the lan o of Otway, like a ‘fowler eager for prey.’ ‘New Jersey!’ ejaculated Mr. ' Ti A. Garland, and Mi*. Adams imme ly sprang to the floor. ' ‘lrise to inter-' ' the Clerk,’ was his first exclamation. s inee! silence!' resounded thifough the ‘Hoar him! hear him! Hear what ' sto say! Hear JbhmtQuindy Adams!’ * 3 * Vociferated on-ad ,#idef. n: A ' In an instant, theTfootf profound stillness - '.'ll throughout the hall. You might ; heard a leaf of paper, fall in any part 1 ■ and every eve was riveted on the ydn ' ■ Nestor of M purest 'ti'smen and the noblest of men I He <1 for a moment, and havhig xgiveii Mr;- U| T a withering, look, he proceededtto " the multitude. ‘lt was npt my fo -11 said he, ‘to take any part < in, these "i-'liimry proceedings, I had- hoped douse would succeed in organizing if* that a Speaker Clerk would be* T. and that the Ordinary business of ation would be progressed in. This is time, or place tojj&iseuss the merits-of :' liai; claimants frofe New-Jersey A That belongs to the House of BepVesenta ' which, by the constitution, is made the "to arbiter of of its '" is. But what a speotaole- we here ut • We degrade and disgrace our con “urs and the country*.Wef do : hot;' and ;'T organize, and why ? Because the " "f this House~thd mere>clßfk;'''Who»' iV:| fe. whom-we employ/and/-Whctsfe I 'leponds upon our willf—UsurpS’the ■ and sets us, the representatives; the -; l i nts of the whole American. p«wmle r !l:|,ir ;c, and holds ftS in contempt. -And "'his clerk of yoiirs? Is he tosu e* " *', v his mere negative, the functions of ,j 'anient, and putdinend to thipCorf • Ho refuses rdll !* 3 H is-ftf i’uwcr to compel him to call it; if he will not do it voluntarily.’ (Here he was in terrupted by a member,, who said that he was authorized to say that compulsion could not reach the Clerk, who haff avowed that he would resign rather than call'the State of Few Jersey.) ‘ Well, sir, let him resign,’ continued Mr. Adams, ‘arid we may possi bly discover some way by which we can get along without the aid of his-all-powerful ta lent, learning, and genius! , If we cannot organize in any other way—if this clerk of yours will not consent to our discharging the trust confided to us by our' constituents— then let us imitate the exairtjJle of the Yir ginia House of Burge&sOs, tfhich, when the Colonial Governor Dinwiddie ordered it to disperse, refused to obey the .imperious and insulting mandate, and; like men, —’ The multitude could pot contain or repress their enthusiasm any longer, but saluted the eloquent and indignant speaker, and inter rupted him with loud' and deafening cheers, which seemed to shake the ctyifol to its cen-' tre. -the turmoil, the darkness, -the very “chaos of anarohy,” which had, for three days, pervaded the American Congress, was dispelled by the itnagic, the ialismanic elo quence of a single man,- and once more the wheels of government and legislation were put m motion. Having by his powerful appeal brought the yet unorganized assembly to a percep tion of its hazardous position/ he submitted a motion requiring the acting clerk to call th 6 roll. Mr. Adams .was interrupted by a burst of voices demanding 4 Who will put the question? How shall the question be put?’ lhe voice of Mr. Adams was heard above the tumult, 4 1 intend to put. the question myself. That word brought order out of chaos. There was the in lister-spirit. As soon as the multitude had' recovered itself Mr. Richard Barnwell Rhett, of South Carol lina, leaped upon one- of the desks, waved Ms hand and exclaimed, 4 1 move that the Hon. John Quincy Adams take the chair of the Speaker of the Hpuse, and officiate as the presiding officer till the House b_e orga nized by the election of its constitutional officors. As many as are agreed to this will sajji aye; those: —He ha'dnot an opportunity - to complete the sentence*—Those - who - are not agreed will say no!’ For one universal, deafening, thundering aye responded to the nominatien. Hereupon it was moved and ordered -that Lewis Williams, of North Caro lina, and Richard, Barnwell Rhett conduct John Quincy to the chair. Upon this, Henry A. Wise said to Mr. A., ‘SiiyL regard it as the -proudest part- of your life;" and if, when you shalb be gathered to yotir fathers, I were asked to select, the words which, in my judgment* .are best calculated to give at once the character of the man, I r would inscribe upon your tomb the sentence, • 1 1 will put the question myself!”’ Mr. Adams died under the roof of the Capitol, in the Speaker’s room, at 7, o’clock, on Wednesday evening, February 23d, 1848, in the eighty-first year of his age. His mental vigor held-out to the last, and he died with Ma tiraarJon. - Ss-9togfiggi to Miss Rewards’, of Springfield, Massaehit ■ setts, the following lines the day before Ms • decease:— - In days of yore, the wet’s pen From wing of bird was plundered, ■ Perhaps from goose, but now and then From Jones’ own eagle sundered. But now metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers; In iron inspiration glows Or with the poet slumbers. Fair damsel,-could my pen impart,' In prose or lofty rhyme. The pure emotions of my heart To speed 'the Sight of time, What metal from the womb of earth Could worth intrinsic bear To stamp with corresponding worth The blessings thou shouldst share?” [for the banner of the cotf.nant.] NATIONAL RELIGION REASONABLE. Many of the American people entertain a strong pi'ejudice against national religion. They do not deem it merely unnecessary ; ’ they regard it as positively dangerous. Not ‘ only will they take no pains to'seeure r fKd election of men who fear God to rule the nation, but if by any chance such are' and;. should be elected, they insist that he keep his religion as a strictly personal matter, and conduct the government upon infidel prin ciples. It is strangely supposed that national religion is inconsistent witk that liberty of conscience which the Constitution"secures'; as though because our people profess various forms of the Christian religion, our govern ment should have no religion at all. It 'is. argudd that a national religion is in compatible with republican institutions, and appeal is made to those bulwarks of despot ism, the State Churches of Eurdpe, supported * by the compulsory contributions of the people, • who detest the worship they are taxed to sustain. I freely grant that such a kind of national religion is utterly incompatible with republican institutions; but It is not less ir reconcilable ;to the religion of the Bible, which abhors alii hypperigy, refuses’robbery free-will offerings, saying! “If any man will offer an offering to the Lord, of his own voluntary will, he shall bring it to the door of the ta bernacle of the congregation.” National church establishments are very different things from national religion; which is, simply, the profession and practice of obe dience, to the law Of Christ in their public policy, by the representatives of the nation. Bitch a national religion, so far from being hostile to republican -institutions; was re gaVded by the iff ; bur- Country' as 1 in dispensablo- to;their prosperity - pence. , ' ’ ! Jt alleged by some, that .the -nation being .pimply,an r association of men for political purposes, has nothing to do with religion; and thdt l religfon has nothing to do with politics; thkt by mutual consent of the members of the civil society, religion has been excluded from the aOddl compact, which ig the only basis .of t one government, s The mogt unmitigated abuse has, been,poured ,oufr' tmcordingly upon tbpse insnigters,.ftf jeligion-' • wfid have publicly applied-tb e 4 a w of! God to i ™:ppfiticd, as busy bodies and intruders into j. sphere- beyond- their jfmsdMion; and even [bny«nd ;their comprehension. Bixt- surely there never was a piece of more unblushing effrontery than this assumption, that crea tures, by a social compact among themselves, can let Aside the authority of their Creator,-, it wilF&t bdaenia diat eTO;iiiiym&i Composing th*e. nation is botuirto' 6b# thr law of God—the law of truth and righteous- PHILADELPHIA' ness—during every moment of hia life; and by this law to regulate all his conduct. Has hrod, however, repealed and nullified his law m regard to all the most important concerns? —those on which depend the welfare, not of individuals pr of families merely, but the happiness of a whole nation, arid the liberty happiness and eternal destiny of unborn ge nerations? so that, while he requires the pri vate conduct Of men' to be true and just; he permits them to combined guide the affairs ot the nation according to the dictates of selfishness, falsehood and oppression? It would appear that our politicians thought that as soon as they reach Congress they are freed from the obligation .of the tencotfrihand-. ments. But. h'ow does it come to pass that any body of men of common sense ever ori ginated the absurd notion of forming a society over which Almighty -God should have no control?,,- The .notion- of a few-merchants forming themselves'lnto a. Chamber of Com merce, and declaringthat as their object .was not at aH political, they Would have nothing to do with the laws of the nation, but would hold themselves bound solely by their own articles.'of partnership, and entirely exempt from the authority of the United States, would be'a piece of silly rebellion not com parable' to that of a nation resolving to ’have nothing to db-with God’s law.- Ana When we consider that religion is the only’bond of society, in any form, the absurdity becomes apparent of attempting to confederate any association by dissolving the only-bond of society, the reverence due to the law of truth and justice and love. It were less absurd for a party of drunken travellers to resolve that they would not allow 1 the influence of the' law of gravitation during their journey, and thereupon to leap out of their tavern windows in the attempt to fly, than for legislators to dream of being released from the moral law during the rprocess of legislation. It.is worthy to he noted that, though all sin is folly, and the hope of any sinner to hide from Omniscience or to escape Omni poten4e is a gross, absurdity, yet tbe rash transgression of the individual sinner, earned away by passion or temptation, and often’em bittered by sad remorse of conscience, is never, made the subject of ridicule in Scrip-’ ture. *lt is the formal, deliberate, haughty' proposal of a convention of mortals to secede from the.empire of the Lord Christ,, to ter rify the Almighty into an abdication of his throne, and all acceptance of the great prin ciple of popular sovereignty, and to super sede the law of heavshby a Constitution, an i act of Congress, and -the shouts of a ratifica i tion meeting, which is the subject of heaven’s i seom and derision.. ■ As though ag nation taught to cast off the’ authority of their Orcatoj;, would long, submit to the rule of their fellow mortals, reverence . oaths • to a - being whose authority they have superseded by a vote, observe social compacts.any longer • than suited their convenience, or‘fail to fol low the example of rebellion presented by their .rulers, and refuse the obligation of any laW-o? God : or man. If it were granted that govorriaaeat is gf.p_o.higher..anthority_thair mere Social compact, of what tion is acompact among politicians who have expressly stipulated* as one .of its conditions, to be freed from -the law of God, and the fear of his judgments ? Let the answer be furnished " by the perjuries, treasons, rebel lion, ' robberies, piracies and murders now perpetrating in our land by those who repu diate the Higher Law. But a nation is something more than an assemblage of individuals for political pur poses,, ana its government,-though fashioned, is not created by a social compact. Lam aware that the opposite; dogma, that govern ment originates solely in an agreement among men to submit to certain and rulers, has been widely disseminated’; and under the plausible "names of Popular Sovereignty “and' State Rights, has been .adored as the' idol of a politioahparty in the'North* while it-is the favorite logical lever with which Southern politicians are laboring to disintegrate the nation. “ Government* say they, “is merely a social compact, deriving its authority from, the consent of the parties. The withdrawal of that consent, dissolves the .authority, of tlfe government. The right of 'secession is ! then inherent in the very nature of the social compact. The South is only fighting-for -its Constitutional right.” Now it is not worth while to reply, that even upon 'their own . showing* the -Union cannot he dissolved unless by. mutual : com sent, and that it would he a strange compact which only bound one of the parties; for we utterly refuse the atheistic definition of a‘ nation as a mere joint stock company, and' deny the origin of the authority of govern ment in any such social compact. No, Ration ever originated in an assembly of all its members to form a body politic; nor is any government on earth dependent fpr its au thority on any such social eompadt. Is it' by the voluntary agreement of children-un born that they are born citizens of this or of any other nation ? What had you or I to do with the framing of-the Constitution forty years before"we Were born ? Suppose ydu* or I «hould r take"it into our‘heads that as we did not vote for Mayor Rumsey or President Lincoln, there is no social compact binding us to obey them; would that nonsense justify our individual secession ? Tlie alleged so.cial compact is an utter fiction, which, never had, | arid never can -have,; any existence.'. But'if i it had, men could no more make a nation br j a government by their social compact, than i they could make a man or a country for'him to live in. Government is riorhuman iriven i tion: it is the ordinance of God. He created! i some men with the talent for rule,- and- im- j planted the instinct of submission in all, with the capacity for and choosing out those whom he qualified to govern. He' brings each one of us into being in a state of infantile weakness, and of compulsory subjection to family rule and discipline* and' to national legislation- and protection arid police, without any compact of ours in the, matter; an education, without which it would be as easy to bring a nation of bears into a, social 'compact'. From‘the Author of life alone does government derive the power to’ etifSrce itg lawk, without which govemm’e'rit is impossible—the power of life arid death. 1 Ear by no social compact can’any man con vey, to -another* what : he does : not himself possess—-the power to take his own life. But this power of coercion, force, punishment even unto death, which contra-distinguishes government from counsel and compact} is the very pssence of government, without whiefi are' merri' comedy and law a farce. This power both Scripture and the consent of all piondunce sacred*; tßi^ j &Mips , dch ] atidrftolerable object for which go\»tathentS arecinstitttted; such, for example, fes '.our »fatib§rs against the ; Britain /in jthef Declaration oflndejto&enoe, eggaustifyany i m resisting the rulep,of .the #odJbe;ed how much greater ilf/ theTgniltiofi these-ser vants, if they reljel against .-th'eir Divine Master ? The ba^|,cowardice ; and; jngrati *?de of cheers, desjgftingj tie sjtajtipns. they appointed Mdefend, fh.e". black treason of using them official.delegated.power itW on thq' f pl?ti6p fc ffom they derived'their is' jßSdy sti^lt ! aJ- ! titeddii the dSfndld and 3 Mdyd; but why his^it' ; our nation with ay® ®P§^EoFlffi3 ; i!bf s,';ia‘i every office of the Stj unless to impress onf the conspierfce of our} rulers the -awful gmlt- i and fearful consequt .of their disloyalty to the Governor of me . Nations} from whom i they derive, their ,cm|missions. [prom THE BANsjiR OF THE COVENANT.] THOPeHTS FMfjB-iqijgTMjgl ■ y: : j i; : Otm Saviour'cerjkiriiy. was not unmindful of Martha-s hospitality aitd good Luke : x., 88. undoubtedly, bhose a! “good part’fin to Obrist’s words; hut Martha, was, also doing, a good; .part; in, attending,to,.the wfmts of her Lord and guest. Our .cquynended, all such hospitality in dthefe* and their .exhibition of love and kindness m temporal matters, even to the gift of | a, ffip "water to a, disciple. u builded us a synagogue,” lLuUeplii/|>,| was a recbmmM-' dation which the Saviour ! regfad.ed. It was kind in Martha; &hd ,our. Saviour, toqk it'.ins good part; but be 3 it, remembered there were two goodparts -bptvfcnthe /two sisters ; , one was a good, parl'ibqw,ever, --which .should; “njs»ih they have chosen - .that gpofkpart. which shaU,~never t be will be there. Thd ( spiritual member will he there, too, at the feet of Jesus,, in an hum ble place. And if. yjou' want to ’ know who in’ your church living, earnest,,active , sand useful spiritual iheinbers, doh’t be de ceived by their gift of-talking, or the- gift of giving, or- of coUttselj ‘but' let the glft\ of at tending the prayer-meebing decide' .and; you will not come far off from the exactjstate of the case; ,-The f^reat.ihindra,nce .'to..hearing, the words of Christ in the prayer-meeting is “mueh serving” and being ‘/cumbered about p” There’s {Be store to belooked after to night. The' clerk is Sure 'to he gone, or to he‘*sick, on pra/er-ineeting night. ' Company or the jb»okAafe f to be m&de up, "or ’ti? too far and too Aark; : or the room is too; damp, or too cold, or too hot, and-you are* tired by iseryingcthe WQjld all day,! too tired? '-toigo to prayer-meeting at jnight. * .The fact _ is, - That is bent on an other kind of thLan . knee-serviee.. Wellj there are iwo parts, and .some* have chbsd ( ‘thht good shaft, not; be taken'away frbmtftem.' ; H. S. HOUfiS^raiIVINGPREACfHEBSi Balaam. ; WHAT'kMtMige ctfafseTras'his ! strafige, I mean,, regarded theoretically, and without referenee td ‘tb‘e, weakness and wilfulhess of men,—not] alahi—either strange or un cohiifiola“%ifeld i we tMuk of men asthey really areh He F fifet?aBk's ; th#dffection of God, ana] receiving! it,, follows it implicitly. He will ;not ; go, for the. Lord vhas' forbidden him. When the ‘.‘ more honorable” ambassadors press him further,,be.sins by soliciting Godr again, and endeavoring to alter his will. . He /ecjeivjfs his permmsipn ; Vhut] it is -given in an§erShe* hi>w’tne- worldly leaven is work-, ing in his hear!, and h6w hearly,'biit 'for the rebuke 16 ’his-madnlkS' reCbivedf his *'Btit' He'abkhow l ' ledges his fault, and is ready-tore torn home, -r—again a-partial return-to ddiy and repent ance. Sent foijwardibylGed; hestill attempts, . curse, Cfoa resigned to bless. . gJEjpjj dors-shej struggles against the light aha truth of God ! I till at last inspiration overbears him; and he m -■ s ■ : ; ':i v . ?n'.« y-m-d;.u-u. jj.‘..,-.< ma .!»■&;# i •f V' tjAj pd&sgftt Ah'iMl Weuce of propfietic ulter-- 1 ance, iawTseems tbfdse all hopesljf' 'wbr'ldly i honor- and-.-:advancement from the fait&M : fuliij|§g p||hj whiphlhe ' speaks cordially iforth’ tKOmne r hleseing, ;; ~ - : , ,<; jX ; ,\ •-, t gopeihpme then, and stayed thpi#.; poor, but' true; unhonored of Balak,’ but faithful at the last and in the main tc> r God, we shouldhaVe drawn a different lesson from his Mould have magnified the which had interposed so woh derßifihf fo-whscue* one who had so. long endangered Himself,' and we should have -read the lesson of hopeful ness and .encouragement to those who • have often felt- tenipted to give way, drawn from ~ thd .example pf .one who had ( totliered, a-nd dyeh and oyer again,, on the.very ed|h l pf > p|dl’sih and woyldlmess, at' J last yielded 'himSelf up to the guidance of giabe;'” and-ln- thtfs strength, of 'that ; gthee' fiWbongttered,;am|;was faithful in the end; - . '., •• - i higß-f^r|he|dypgt l ' harpness: of ynt which leads ms> to endeavor to compass our f ends, by indirect and . circuitous means! The , p6liliciah,,whp could not forego true words,;. tried His craft. He succeeded and he faijed. ’ He succeeded against man; he failed against. God. The-evil that he planned, by-meanS of other men’s sins he brought about. The personal l advancement that he sought was overthrown by miserable death, and a name blasted to all generations in the inspired ora cles of God. , r . Oh, brethren, let .us. turn our eyes upon ourselves!' Can we hot read ourselves in much, at least, of this history ? Sow apt we" ’ arb to totter thus'and stagger'upon the edge of triitli and duty !■ Sot indeed -visibly, in tentionally, distinctly giving it up and for- : Baking it; but-trying to hold it together with : as much of worldly.-indulgence-and prosperi ty as we can;-layingto serve God and mam mon, God and pur own heart’s dusts; trying by .all sprts of-cunning- self-deceit to keep . truth (so at'least as not to abandon it) and be prosperous, to keep truth and be Jncli, to • keep .truth ajad be popular, to keep truth and ‘ be bomfortable. ' - : ’ But if a man does thus allow himself to palter-Wiih that* which ought to be the fourid- > atioh and basis of all else ; if he divides his 'aim between two objects in his life; if bn -1 goes.- on so, venturing. to the very edge of duty r and .truth continually—going,, so f; to ; say, as near to 'the wind on every occasion as he, possibly can, -without actually disown ing' and forfeiting ‘ the truth which’ he be lieves, and thinks that he is holding ) do you supp®se : that J that Conflict'Toll don-1 tinue long ? do you imagine that sb painful 1 a balance and inward battle'ean last?' -No'; by no meahs; that which the intellect holds' will yield taad- jithatiwMch-tbei? heart loves, willgain-staengthvand.have.vic-:., tory... At last it must.needipbe so, whether.- the ultimate condition of .the man be pro duced by the gradual dying away of the in- ‘ tellectbal hold' d;f, truth, .or by some'sudden"’ Balaam, designed, tty a stroke of poircy-and^, skill, to gain both objects at once. One way or the other, the worldly heart will have its ! way.: jit smothers the. intellectual faith. It t necessarily kills if. The world ; cannot be taken in to share the empire of) the heart without becoming, ere long, the sole ruler: and tyrant in it.— Greorge Moberly, D. D., [Oxford.) * - v 1 DEATH OF BUXTON. Toward the end of November, 1843, Mr. Buxton rapidly declined in health. His weakness was also accompanied with loss of memory and confusion of ideas, from which, however, he was afterward restored, the. mind recovering its accustomed clearness. The following summer was spent at North repps. ‘-On the fine summer morning,” says his biographer, “he would often rise at four or five o’clock, and go into his dressingr room,- wheretoigwqtogJUigaMybffijxeaTd for im hour; or; twp-vat a; time, jn fervent prayer.; When remonstrated with on the risk to his health, he would answer, ‘I have not'time for prayer. I must have longer, time - for prayer.’ The objects of these, prolonged Supplications, at another time he referred to, -as ; being, ‘that I may] receive faith, that I -receiye the grace of God in my heart, that I may Have a clear of Christ, that I may‘perfectly obey Him] that T iuay have the supporting arm of the Lord in every trial, and be admitted' finally into His glo rious kingdom,’ ” It was remarked ;of him also, at : another time: “It wouid be impossible to describe ‘the energy of] his, prayer, while imploring ‘every good and perfect gift’ for those whom he loved; nor in liis daily petitions did he Forgef'tb entreat, ‘that his heavenly. Father would :stretch forth his hand to deliver poor ’ Africa.’” : ; ; - , With- strength gradually yet surelyfail ing,: he-; passedthe V summer and autumn months.' In,X>ecembcr, he was: seized with, “a.severe spasm in the chest.” Though re duced to the lowest state of weakness at this 'time, He again,revive,d. . the end of January, on experi ;enciiig''some return of strength,’ he remark ed, ‘How pleasant is the feeling of rest on ' recovery from illneks] while all our worldly occupations'- are 1 aid aside !’ - and when some one observed to him that it seemed' like a foretaste of * the heavenly reSt prepared for a the children of God, he immediately broke ; forth into prayer, for each member, of his , family, that they might be partakers of,that blestod rest, 1 .through Christ our Lord. , The varied exprolkions of‘ tenderness for those ] most dear to him] which 'werO' blended with these prayers, were singularly impressive. He continued to take a lively interest in. everything connected with his’poorer neigh bors; indeed,: his own needs seemed .to open his,heart more than ever to; the wants of others,; so;-that,it was necessary to avoid . mentioning eases of - sorrow or suffering, . from the‘pain it occasioned him.” . , ' jR 5 # SR ★ i. - > jfc ■- About a week before - his . death, he was visited by Mr. 3. J.-Gurney,,who thus'writes concerning his state at the time— . /‘ It whs almost, if not entirely, a painless] ‘ illness. Nothing could be morequiet and' comfortable' than the sick room, with an easy access tq all who were nearly connected with a ■him; no feati'of^disturbing; him,., who was : :,MUre to be either asleep, or, if awake, unruffled, cheerful state of mind, giving us, from time to time, characteristic tokens of i ■ u.Uu V; J«ll himself, vtithi-Ms Well-known arch manner, and .with tfndeviating" kindness and good temper to all- around him,. and no fretfulness or, irritation.' : Hover was a Christian be liever more evidently rooted and grounded; in his, Saviour; never wasthe Christian’s hope more evidently an anchor to the soui, sure and steadfast. ' .“P4 my ; remarking to hifh that I per ceived he had a firm hold on Christ, he re plied, in a clear eihphatib manner, ‘Yes, in deed, :I- rnito - eternal life / After a long-continued; state;, of torpor, he revivet surprisingly. ; ,Just before we left him, his mind was lively and bright, ‘as a morning, Without cloudß.’. ;; While memory lasts,, I can never forget his pager look of affection, of love, joy, an)!, peace, all combined, as he gW s Pf^. m j band and kept hold of it for a longtime; 5 oh bidding him farewell, and say ingyto''Mm, -‘Eye bath not seen, nor ear heaid/ueither have entered into the heart of man, the things-which God hath prepared’ ; ;hn| came the endingef thp|e ; s|pred sc.enes. On the 19th of Febru- he.sank into-a qujfef .sleep, from which he awoke no more.— M. A. Collier. ; Gon, forbid we -should live to see the day jprocjbaip.edrfar between ...Christianity; and . Science—a civil way, a war between brothers ! Nature is. one booh of God, the Bibik is. another: it's 'claims as such resting on grounds in depen dent'of Science, and un assailable by the %vid'dhcte' of Science. They 'eamiot be y at varidnek Every seeming dis crepancy, in thenfftmust be capable of recon ciliation., In. every page the Bible sends ns back to Nature to read there its mysteries and laws, written only in other symbols ; and Nature, when,rightly,read, pmst lead us also to the Bible, , Both' employ the same instru ments of the intellect—-faith and reason; faith by which we accumulate our facts from testimony, reason, by which we deduce from those facts ; Both de mandithe same, rigid scrutiny of testimony, the same careful application of reasoning., Both-have their how won drously analogous! Both rest those creeds things which have been heard and seen. Both link those things with one. great First Cause, the Creator of heaven and earth, both minister to each other's wants. The closet, the most affectionate communion, mutual confidence and sympathy, joy in its spread, pridd in , its .triumphs* ought to be - the feel ing of Christianity to Physical Science. And little more is needed to;,eementshis union* to heal- all wounds, to soothe all. heart-burnings,, than, a strict apd acentate'enforcement of the laws of Inductive,Lpglc, the great charter of science itself:' Draw!, a rigid line of demar cation ahd"fancy', experience, arid thebryl ; '3^Wbr‘aBOw a theory of seienca to trespass -upon a fact of Seriptrire, rior a theory xdainterpretatipnsofcScripthre'tbinter a difference arises, scrutinise its terms; see ifTt dbesmpt-emwge-exclusively in the region of theory, not of fact; in some hypothesis, or ■ assumption, or inference of man, not either in the real Word, or the real Work of the- Creator; and we may preserve both peace and freedom. Here lies our hope and comfort reverie in the present uneasiness and seeming estrangement of Christianity and Science. —London QuarterlgMeview. There is nothing that will .more help to form an English heart in- ourselves and in others than will this. We could scarcely have a single lesson on the growth of our English tongue, we could scarcely follow up one of its significant words, without having unawares a lesson, in English history as well, without hot merely failing on, some curious fact illustrative of our national life, hut learn-r ing at the centre of that life was gradually being shaped and moulded. We should thus grow, tooj in our feeling of connection with the past, of gratitude and reverence to it ; should estimate more truly, and therefore more highly, what it has done for us, all that it has bequeathed us, all that it has made ready to our hands. It was something for the children of Israel, coming into Cannan, to enter upon wehS which they digged not, and vineyards which they had not planted ; but how much greater a * boon, how much more glorious a prerogative, for any one generation to enter upon the inheritance of a language, which: other generations, by their truth and toil, have made already a recepta cle of choicest treasures, a storehouse of so much unconscious wisdom, a fit organ for ex pressing the'subtlest distinctions, the tender cst sentiments, the largest thoughts, and the loftiest 1 imaginations, which at any time the heart of mancan conceive {-—Trench. ■' ' jWmwg.- DeaconesslnstitutionatKaisbrwerth. —We extract from the G-erman Reformed Messenger, the following in regard to this noble charity: The care of the sick,.which commenced in 1836 in a house at. Kaiser werth with one sick person by one'deaconess, is now 1 attended; to'in fifty-thrbe hospitals ex tending from Alexandria and 'Jerusalem to Pittsbtfrig'ih North America, by deaconesses froin Kaiserwerth Institute: - - . Twentymine Deaconesses set apart to the work by the Church authorities, have been laboring for the, relief of the poor and. starv ing families, which; attach to our cities like a cancerous affection.. Besides, these, anum ber/ have been Actively engaged at Poor house'S, Institutions for the Blind, and Fe male Asylums, one of the latter of which at Berlin* hah, during the seven years of its existence, furnished shelter for over two thousand females. The care :of the impri soned was > commenced already in 1833, (be fore the fonndingjof the Deaconess Institute, by the Asylum, in Kaiserwerth fpr. discharged female prisoners and reformed females, dhd is now carried forward abroad'' in prisons by dealconessesi ; The nurture 1 , education and instruction of children is attended to by dea concss-teachers, of whom there are sixty coinudcted with the' Institute* id schools, phan bouses , and i; seminaries, and* also, by •morefthan; ninej; irtgitoisliesiolieM anif-govt ernesses, who have been educated in the Seminary at Kaiserwerth since 1836. - > CHBISTIMITI AND SCIENCE. OUR ENGLISH TONGUE. ®IESBE EVANGELIST.—WM« No. T 7 "* In all three hundred-and forty sisters are ini connection with the-Beaconfehs association*-of whorn' tWo 'hundfedvand- four .etatipned, abroad, at different among which -the seven oriental hospitals,and seminaries at Alexan- Beirut, .Sjdph, Smyiba,Con stantinople .and Bukarest have gone forward with special sriccdssj ahd promisfe tb insure a permanent- benefit to the Crieht, especially in the moraleletationof-females. -. ; • The spfecial successyvdthi wdnefc has crowned the work at Kaiserwerth;: jsg» the reporter* cannot! fuil-te awakeu in all who havej been engagejl mit,;feeLinga of the deepest humility, and gratitude, .Btill it is to be admitted, that the work"was often carried forward in the midst great diffii culties, especially of a pecuniary flatttre., ; Heresy in the Church. of Englastd.--- The Presbyterian 'of says; “ that the Cliprch of EngfandyiulpUsgreayen tosss/s»,dnd. P,ers