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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 <aapjMU„j_‘* The
powers that be areyraaified 9?Gro|.
resistbth the pdwer&'esisteth the" ordinance,
of God; and they th&resist heceife tb
themselves
novr the guilt of iteellibn !i agaiirist hhmiii
rulers, as Servsnrts_p>#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»<w be taken awfe/-” r ie : other part was
no ‘doubt since«Oin| well ‘attended to,
namely, the : bu4in%fe r of f thJe'diimer. Mirtha
might have bervea ffie dinned in silver dishes
and well dressed &|shat. She was, perhaps”
wealthy, as-was M§|:y also; if we f maytrust
to circumstantial eullehceand tradition, and
shejwas deternunetf -that her-diyine Master
should have,a dimqyyorthy of,Him,-,.and.
there was much tdj|e dqne,-andit vyas*gnite
provoking -to be dSserted and left to serve
up this splendid dimer all atone,'while fiary’
was sitiShg; doing 1 nothing in'the
parlor/ AtleaSt swfhduglithtartha, ' 3SToWj ?
the • Saviour disp'amgefl B nothhaill Martha’s,
kindness and hosmi&Kty'hysthe? answer he
mUde'. UIULt,:
one which should bea permanent blessing to
her*. She, Martha,, had honored Christ by
her- hospitality,, and had honored,
Christ by sitting at his feet to learn of Him,
and the good Results of that lesson should
last forever. Both Mary and Majrtha in"
Heaven-are h&h'py- vntnesSeS to the truth of
the Saviour’s word, and so are we ;~for while
Mary.’s course has been approved, the fame
or, excellence of Martha’s dinner never was
mentioned.
All Mary gained, however, was gained at
the feet of Jesus. , She felt that her heart
could better ho established “with Grace than
with'iheatsl” „ It;‘is this position, at th§ feet
of Jesus, which is so important. There is
no place of : publie worship where the heart
may get nearer’ the feet of Jesus' than in the
prayerrineeting. '. One feels, Mary did,.
thahit l ;;is:the,,;wgr|. of Jesus to ihim, or. toi
her, .all, (done. , , There is an absence of ex-.
citement, of . formality, of curiosity—rthe '.afe
tendant comes usually because the Spirit
moves. And ’tiswoipfy of notice that' the
truly earnest, pious, and spiritual members
of the church-arO'frequently in the pfayer
. meeting; The pastor, if truly a spiritual;
man, must-have very good reasons for being
absent;.; Heywdl le there if V he cani • The
elder,and deaeon,>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.” . ,
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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.
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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<tm whit deny ike insmifar
of God.
P r °of.” We will am
ply refer to the notofiomr * Bsg&ys and
views.’ Six clergymen of the English Chinch
contributed to that-volume, -None of thesfe
has yet been deprived of license or emolu
ment on account Of the views expressed:
One of them, indeed, Dr. Williams is threat
ened with a prosecution, but it will cost his
prosecutor £5OOO sterling-; -and the Arch
bishop of Canterbury would, not undertake
any disciplinary act unless'some party would'
guarantee to him the sum’ of £lO,OOO to de
fray the costs in which he might become in
volved. ' '
The errors of the ‘Essayists’ are thus
summed; up by Bishops and other clergymen
of the Church of England:
1, They deny the Incarnation of bur Lofd;
2, His miraculous Conception and Birth;
3, His Resurrection from the dead.
4, His Atonement.
5, The Credtion of the world.
6, The Possibility of Prophecy or of any
Miracle. ' J
7, The Personality of the Holy Spirit.
8, The Fall of Man and' Original Sin.
9, The descent of ihSitkirid'frbm Adam.
10, The Inspiration of the Scriptures.
The Buloarians.— The Bulgarian ques
tion has made no progress during the last
month. I know not that any new proposi
tions for its settlement have been made from.
an y <JlM#ter. Meanwhile .the exiled bishops
remain in banishment.; The monthly allow-
S-nbe made for their support is discontinued,
in fact was never paid beyond their first
month.
The Government in every, way is. manir-
Festjrig Its indifference .to the just .claims of
five, millions of its most faithful subjects. On:
the other hand, if we may,credit reports, not,
a few of these five millions' are seeking a
solution of their question,, and deliverance"
from*'their troubles, in a .gay that; ban be
neither agreeable rior ;prc«Rble t6 : the } @or
d&teafct ntlirifesssyit
froiri the Northern parts of Bulgaria!
into Russia, to Bessarabia*, smd ; the Crimea,!
attracted there by promises of religious and;
civil privilegesbeyond .what they can enjoy,
in Turkey. The Government has despatched,
an agent to inquire into the-causes of ; tfis
movement,, preparatory, to taking measures
to put a; stop, to it .—News of the Ghureliik
ABible Reading. — l was, two nightsngo,;
at a 4 Bible reading/ convened atlhe housQfof;
one of the Plymouth brethren." About one
hundred persons were present. The hymns
were sweet, the prayers fervent and-scriptm
ral in the main, hut as foi* the'reading (the
portion which came up Being 2 These. xi: l-4r)
it brought in what appeared-to me strangely
crude and untenable views - about the second
advent, the battle of Armageddon, etc. The
■ Man of sin and son of perdition’ was only
recognized as partially applying to Popery
—it; was apostate Christendom—and the
Napoleon, who, with ‘ the beast,’ is literally *
to 4 be cast alive into the lake of fire!’ Had
these people got a Presbyterian education*
they would have been kept from such ab
surdity.”—Cor. of Presbyterian.
Baptism op a Jew- in Turn.— -On Friday,'
12th July, in Vaudois Church of Turin, the
ordinance of baptism wad administered by
the Rev. Mr. Laurie of tke English Church:*-
to a young Israelite from Leghorn, Em
manuel Arios, who* after several months of
constant study and meditation, has come -to
the full conviction that Jesus of Nazareth is
the true MessjaJh. , The solemn service
which had attracted many acquaintances and
friends of the young Jew, was conducted
much to the edification of those who were
present add witnessed the accents of pro
found conviction in which the neophyte (who
in baptism - added' to Bis own name of Em
manuel that of Paul) replied to the questions
made to him concerning his faith.
~ Reform in 'Naples.—A large portion of
the clergy in and around Naples,are tinged
with liberal views. They are the unwilling
agents of the Pope in the present state of
affairs. They beli'Cve nearly all the doctrines
of the chnrcn,’but abhor mahy of her prac
tices, and; they hope by forming a new branch
to keep to the faith of;the:masses, which, they
plainly see will otherwise . soon be entirely
out of their power. Among other changes,
they propose to abolish the .celibacy of tße
clergy. How large a number this disaffec
tion includes is somewhat uncertain, bat cir
cumstances seem to indicate that it is widely
extended.
SABBATH DESECRATION IN ENGLAND.—
In view, of the fearful desecration and wick
edness that usually follow the running of
railway ears on the Lord’s Day, the Lord
Bishop of Chichester, in England, has headed
a remonstrance, signed by the ministers of
all denominations and four thousand laymen,
at Brighton, to the Directors of the Brighton
railway againstthisgreat evil on their road.
It is believed the remonstrance will he
promptly regarded.— Christian Instructor.
A Nonconformist Patriarch. The
Christian' World mentions' a visit paid by a
correspondent to Rev. James Spurgeon of
Stambourne, Essex, the grandfather of the
popular preacher. This venerable man, now
in his nighty-sixth , year* still preaches ft* the
people to; whom he has ministered-for fifty
years. The church of which he was pa’tor
, was formed iq 1662.