` 1 ' t e'N ‘ Pav . ji' \ ~ \ t‘i 7 . V - . , . ',;, -' * , ; ' - ii: .. ":1"- 7. .i.' . Mi,' , S '-- .%.` '---' ~ ...• 17'' ' ':.6; -C '''' ' %:" i: :', ' - --.- --- • . , . .. ~ , . ~ ,^. % r ,-, .. --, - - ... . • . C I % ' ' 111, * *_. (i.,,, („.•,. , ~ , '.•,„,,, ~...... ~,,,,,,„,.,...,„,,.,........:.....,„.....t,.. __, ..,. Vol. VI, Noy 37.—Whole No. ,306. to,irtxg, Horning and Evening Hymns. BY BISHOP HEBER. For nearly a year past the London Wesleyan . Times bas been publishing a series of articles, entitled " Hymn Books and Hymn Wilton," which abound in interesting and valuable inforination, and in judi cious criticisms. They are evidently the production of one iVhO is thoroughly versed in t. and a hearty student of, this iniportant branch of C hristian liter ature ; and who has at his conmiand an accumula tion of materials such as is within the reach of very few. Front the last article, which is on Bishop He ber, we take these excellent hymns, which have never appeared in any edition of his works, and had become very scarce.— Christian Advocate. A MORNING UYMN. To thee, 0 Lord, with dawning light, My thankfal voice I'll raise, Thy mighty power to. celebrate, Thy holy name to praise : -- For thou, in helpless hour of night, Hast compassed my bed, And now, refreshed with peaceful sleep, Thou liftest up my head. Granb me, 0 Lord, thy quickening grace Through this and every day;' That guided and upheld by thee, My feet may never stray. Increase my'faith, increase my hope, Increase my zeal and love; And fix my heart's affections all On Christ and things above. And when life's labors o'er I sink To slumber in the grave, In death's dark vale be thou my trust, Tb, suozdr and to save; That so through him who bled and died, And rose again for me, "The grave and, gate of death" may prove A passage home to thee. AN EVENING HYMN. Creator of• the starry frame, • Light of the souls that trust in thee, Jesus I Redeemer of mankind, To thee we.call on bended knee. Thou ) when the,tempter's arts prevailed, Did hasten down with tears of love, To shield and save a ruined.world, With health, and peace from heaven above. Exalted now, thy glorious power Extends through all imutensity; And saints,ln heaven, and fiends in.hell, Bow at, thy , name with trembling knee. To thee, 0 Xtidt.et , ofrall, we look ; Grantus thy heavenly help f we.pray; Guide us and.guard in death., And shield us in the judgment day. For thine the glory is and . power, Dternal Sire-, eternal Eternal Bpi Wad thee prone ) , 4.olQl l .4ria.ghret the. Three,ift One.: eflOry b 0 00t0 aod, Lanai FROM MU. NEW PHASES OP THE RELIGIOUS •ASPECT. OE THE REBEL MOVEMENT-IMPORTANCE. OE SPECIAL PRAYER IN BEHALF OF CHINA. MESSRS. EDITORS :—Since my letter re lating to' the religious aspect of the rebel movement in China, (publiiilied in your issue of October 31, of last year) was written, new and most unwelcome developments have, been made on that subject. I say new, but not unexpected in some respects. I say most unwelcome, because most unfavorable to the orthodox piety and the vaunted sincerity, of, the insurgents. Believing that most of your christian readers are not altogether uninte.- rested in the welfare of this vast empire, es pecially as relates to its evangelisation, I beg the necessary space in your columns for the following- items of intelligence, and for, the that China may not be forgotten in their prayers---should you have room , to spare for this purpose. The more there is known about the religious princip4is of the rebels, the more repulsive do they. appear. The chiefs are becoming more and more unfriendly to foreign missionaries. Let me make two quotations from public prints. The North,China Herald, published at Shanghai, says: "Even their friends the missionaries are becoming doubtful of their assumed friendly- sincerity. One zealous member of that body resident for some- time at Nankingi hasleft that desolate city and come, to Shanghai, under the fear that the Taiping chiefs , were., going to do him some bodily injury, or to incarcerate him.. Ano ther missionary recently arrived from Eng land,' introduce& - himself to the Tien-Wang (Heavenly King) who received him with great condescension, abut -let.him_ =understand that he must acknowledge him not only as the ' HeaverilY Father' and ' Younger Bro ther' of the Godhead, but that his son mast also be considered as divine, making, there fore, four persons in the Taiping theocracy. This shocked the missionary so much that <lie at once resolved on leaving this blasphemous council of Satan; but the Tien-Wang showed no desire to let him go, so he had to claim the protection of the British authorities,, and thought himself lucky to get out of their clutches scatheless." The China Mail, published at Hong Kong, says: "The celebrated Kan-wang, or ' shield king,' as theanissionaries call him, formerly one of D. Legge's pupils, is at present one of the many victims of the caprice and ty ranny which prevail among the chiefs. Though. related to , the leaders, and at one time entitled to the highest honors, he is now degraded, and his functions, whatever they were before, are placed in abeyance •, the reason assigned by Kan-wang himself, for this, is his friendliness towards foreigners. He Wafted, the Rev. Mr. Cox, who visited Nanking in the ',Coromandel,' and would gladly have remained, by no means to stay in the city, .plainly informing him that no missionaries need come there who would not preach the divinity' of the Tien-wang as well as that of God and Our Saviour. ; any other doctrine, he said, would' not be tole rated, and a 'missionary could only preach the truth at great personal risk. Another Chinese :teacher informed the same reverend gentleman;that he would lose his head if he attemptedto. preach the foreign doctrine. A privite letter from a missionary at Shang,hai r dated' February 4, states " that the' Rev% 1 L. froVerts, of Nanking i lids fled that place in feark cd his life, arieni now in• Shanghai," It is averred that the Heavenly King at Nanking exacts the most degrading adulation from all of his followers who ap proach him. In giving audience to his un derlings, they are required to knock their heads on< the ground before him in the most abject manner, under pain of being bam booed. It must be borne in mind that this Mr. Roberts was, a long, while ago, the mis sionary teacher at Canton, with whom the chief of the insurgents spent some time when a young man, as a catechumen or inquirer, andthat this " shield king" (Ran-wang) was employed only a few years ago in the south' of China, by the missionaries of the London Missionary Society as a native assistant in preaching the Gospel. Being a near relative of the chief, on reaching Nanking, he was promoted to the post of Prime. Minister. Let the above items, reported, to be facts, adverse to the preaching of Scripture doctrines by missionaries, speak for themselves in regard to the present religious aspect of the rebel lion, whose centre or capital is at Nanking. Again: The Imperial 'Government is ma, : wiles* tenable to protect the Chinese and foreigners at the .oonsular ports against the rebels. Your readers, before this letter can reach you, will have already heard of the fall of Ningpo, and of the march of a large rebel army in three divisions on Shanghai. Ningpo is yet in their hands, and at latest dates, no attack had been made on Shanghai, although the rebels had been encamped within three or four miles of the latter place. The pros pect is, that owing to the inclemency of the weather there, and the bold and determined stand taken by foreign residents and by, the English, French and Russian forces,. Shang hai will be saved for the present from an ' assault from the rebels. There is no secii rity, however, that they will.not soon return ,from their retirement on Suchau, to Amoy ,and Shanghai, and devastate the country around. They dread armed opposition on the. part of foreigners, which they are- sure to meet if they should approach within can non-shot of Shanghai, or the foreign settle ment outside its walls. Ningpo would have been defended by British troops, but they arrived there only to be too late to prevent its falling into the hands of the insurgents. Missionaries and merchants there do not seem to be personally maltreated. It 18 said that some rebel soldiers who insulted' some English missionaries, have been summarily beheaded. The rebels evidently desire fo reigners to continue the pursuit of their avo cations there as before its capture. But there does not seem to be any confidence in their good intentions, or , in their ability to establish a respectable government there, either on the part of the Chinese or foreign residents. Undoatedly Shanghai would have fallen weeks ago into the possession of the rebels; had it not' been'for the formidable - preparations on the part of foreigners to repel any attack'. It is rttost‘manifegt that foreigners in China must not depend upon the Chinese government to ,protect them at 'the ports or-places threatened' by the rebel army.' The, Must proieetthemselveeand Chinese too, as 'at Shanghai. Missionary labor must in a very great measure besus pended, if not entirely stopped' at Ningpo; and in the surrounding country. The same remark will apply to the work at Shanghai, and vicinity. Where the Taipings are, there fear prevails. Wherever they go, anarchy is rampant. The natives at Fiih-chau are. anticipating that they will , visit this place. Various exciting rumors are current in, re gard to them, though they may be two or three hundred miles distalfit. They probably would meet with- little or no resistance from the government, if unaided . and unsuppOrted by foreign soldiers at:this place. In view of the abovefacts, let me ask the prayers of western chriatians iii. behalf of dis tracted China, and esPeciallyin behalf of the resident representatives, of foreign 'Govern ments, and in behalf of 'foreign missionaries. Foreign officials occupy a very responsible position at the consular ports where the rebels rule, or where there- is- danger of their ap proach. They need more than human wis dom, so as to discharge their duties in the best manner. They may involve their re spective nations in quarrels with either the Tartar or the Taiping governments, or they. may take .a course which shall endanger the lives and the property of foreign residents. It is feared by many that in ease of forcible opposition from foreigners at arty one place, the rebels will become so exasperated as to arrest or massacre all' foreigners who may fall' into their hands in any-part of the' em pire. It is an. exceedingly difficult problem to solve, what course to take in regard to the Taiping rebellion. American christians are _especially inte rested in the continuance of amicable rela tions between the rebels and foreign residents in China. For the large and prosperotth mis sions at Ningpo and at Shanghai, to say no thing of other places r just at present, will be broken up or largely crippled, 'in case of po sitive unfriendly manifestations, on the part of the rebels, who bear the sway there, or who have large bodies of armed men in the, vicinity of those places. And what will be come of the hundreds of native chtistiatts in connection with foreign missions in` those cities, should the rebels obtain the Supremacy and incline to tolerate only that form of reli gion which the chiefs. at Nanking uphold ? It is evident that, foreign missionaries. ,as as foreign officials, sustain a very responsible position in relation to the rebel movement. Of course neither-will sanction the bla,sphe mous pretensions of the rebels. The religious and - the political aspects of the subject of Taipingdom, are various and complicated.' Mar the Lord of Hosts-give wisdom and grace sufficient unto their day, unto all who may be called to take a decided and prominent ,course in regard to the inte rests, temporal and spiritual, which are in• volved in the great struggle 'professedly and principally between the Tartar and the Tai ping govermients. England, France, Russia and America are in'treaty relations with the Tartar government. But, that government is incompetent to carry out the treaty stipu lations of its treaties in thoge parts of the empire - where the rebels Otago to go: Should' these foreign'governments feria treaties of amity and commerce with those who are at' war with the government whose centre is at Peking, the latter vrould probably take um brage and become hostile to foreigners and their interests. While the rebels kept at a. distance from the, old consular ports, every thing went smoothly. But when they 'come` toe cosely as at Ningpo and it Shanghai, •• centres , of an immense foreign- trade, end of , extensive missionary operations, the aspect of affairs is changed. PHILADELPHIA TITITItS Let, then prayers be offered up frequently and fervently, that the Divine blessing may rest largely upon those foreigners who are called in God's providence to sustain posts of great responsibility in this land, in any wise connected with the rebel movement— that they may do 148 will. Dim% Fah Chau, China, Feb. 14, 1862. LESSONS:OF: WA& NO VII THE most weak and effeminate of all mo tives to action is retaliation. What a man does for his own aggrandizement or profit may be wrong, but it does not necessarily rob the mind of its reason and its vigor. In this case it is a suppdsed real advantage that is aimed-at, which, from the nature of: the case, must place some limits to itself, and must be sought by the common means of prudence and ability. But, revenge, being .a. phantom of the mind, and not, akin to any ot our interests,,possesses no rein to moderate and guide its career, and` naturally seeks its obiect in' violation of 'every dictate of a well regulated understanding. Hence wars waged for glory or dominion - , have commonly been conducted with judgment and capacity, whilst . folly and extravagance have, in some distin guished instance ' s, marked the course of, those that, have been undertaken with no other motive than to punish an injury and, gratify revenge. Charles the Bold, Duko of Bur gundy, always prudent and successful when he fought for'renown against 'the 'King and' poiverful Lords of France, only began to fol- . low unwise counsel, and to feel the reverse of war, when he attempted to avenge. some . insianificant af f ront upon the poor and hun gry Swiss, from whose overthrow he could not hope to reap any increase of honor or of power. They had humbly offered to re store all they had taken away from him, and to follow his standard wherever he was pleased to lead them ; but he, - closing his eyes to reason and interest, and carried away by his resentment,- attacks E them with out his usual skill and judgment; and is de feated in the great battle of Gransoni which puts a stop to his conquests, and accelerates his ruin. The present war undertaken on, the part of the rebels, not from any sound motive of policy or honor, but from the angry recoil* of disappointed avarice and pride, and mark ed in its progress by the plainest evidences of infatuation, and by strange and unac countable miscarriage at every point, is rapidly niaturing another, proof that such warlike operations as are,begun in animosity, and prosecuted for the, gratification of ran corous and cruel passions, bewilder the nn 7 derstanding of those engaged in them, grip their of their equanimity, and 'render .con- ‘ duet and experience unavailing. - Our conclusion froin . thed reflections is,'' hat' every 'form rof hostility-;exereised- to satisfy a vindictive spirit, is e§sentially'weak and; irrational, There are times; indeed, when one owes it to himself, in 'the sight of the world, to demand satisfaction from in jurious men; but it is forbidden by every law of the human mind, as well as by every precept of 'the Saviour, to inflict any evil upon a fellow man, however great his offence - , for the pleasure of lessening his happiness, and witnessing his pniiiShment: It is a satisfaction no man'can ever seek with safety to himself. It is folly and extravagance added to disobedience. It disarms reason, disregards interest, will not permit a man to pause when his own - happiness and honor— the natural goal of human pursuit—are.se-, cured, but hurries him blindly onward to the ruin of his victim, and ,more surely to his own. S. P. 11. —Banner of the Covenant. EXTEMPORE, OR WRITTEN SERMONS. IT were to be wished that this notion so often produced, that much more would be gained were all our preachers to take up the extempore method, could be accurately weighed, and its precise value -ascertained. The writer hereof distrusts- its soundness, and believes it to 'be one of the things con taining truth enough to give it currency, but usedias a whole, a fallacy. . We are not without facts which are in point. The extempore method is in use in Europe. Is the continental pulpit so supe rior to ours as to commend it to us ? Are the denominations in Great Britain among whom this method obtains, supplied With a ministry vastly more effective thin ours ? Have we not the Methodists, the Baptists, and various others who eschew the manu script, and does theii superiority-exeite onr, envy or emulation 7 Is there r in truth, any church, in any known country, with a. more successful ministry than is furnished by New England, where the manuscript scarcely knows any exception ? Our, extempore advocate does not care to rest the case on these examples, alleging the fact .of other influences;and co-working cir cumstances to produce the results here al luded to. He prefers to look elsewhere, and instances certain great orators who have swayed vast multitudes, and asks 'how such men would have succeeded in.reading 'from a paper. He instances Robert Hall, Adolphe Monod, Summerfield, and John M. Mason. The answer' is, that probably these men, and others of whom they are types, would have done but little with a Manuscript; 'as - Lord Byron would have succeeded poorly as pro fessor of mathematics, or Olinthiis Gregory .as poet-laureate. But a few selected cases prove nothing fora whole profession. It is not true that what one can do, another can, do also, unless he possesses the like powers and facilities. One of the tragedians could make the audience cry, by his saying Meso potamia., But if Edmund Burke ever made an audience cry, it was for grief lest he should never finish. No doubt the orator, secular or sacred, can sway the, great crowd better without the manuscript. But another question follows close , on the heels of the first : How many men can sway the great crowd at all? If the ministry were. to be reduced to that number, we fear its rank and file would disappear suddenly, and, that, the non-commissioned officers would follow very quickly. Our Mend offers the suggestion; not quite original with hith,stliat the example of' the liar ought to - instruct us, and proceeds lo e'xhibit the far greater power ofthe advocate over the popular mind, jurors, etc.; than is wielded by Our proression. W:dispute him at two points. Is he an attendant, oh ceurts ? Does he knoW the legal profesObn'well---as well as he does that to which i theobelongs ? Is he sure that the lawyers, as #tiey,"run, are in any wise superior in their pomfer over men,' in• the matter whereof he supposes?' We have respect for thatprofession, :and the name of, the writer will be found , in the lilt of the attorneys entitled to pr4ctise before the bench of the District Court, of the late, and now endeavoring to be, #iiited Stites. But: we solemnly aver that'we ttre' not pene trated. with any notion of the' - superiority alleged. Duty as a witness ketpt. the`writer in court, among a hundred lawyers'ifoli three tedious weehs together, not *great:Ai - Re an The time was inaprovedi to =measure the trade anew. Their wholoto,oPEP., were gone through with ; the inking of um tions, reading of papers, arguing . points of law before the bench, addreaslng juries at length, and all other thingsbeliniging to the practice. Sonic things'were exceedingly well done. A , ;half 'doien *re evidently superior men, but on: he great l bulk of effort no,praise,coul4 , be be.stowed,-/ The reading was uniformly . bad ; worse, tbitia the average pulpit reading. motic,rtmaking and short talking; did not ,east adeep shade at all over the leeture reom add ess or exposi tory diaquisition. A speech or,fwo of length; were well done; but as to. order of arrange ment, logic or expression; We Would-not think the pulpit need to , be:distiessedrfor its deff ciencies, as here measured.,; In •short,-ve deny the - whole _averment. But, on another. tack, thereitis no parallel as to the work of the two professions, except. `at few . points. - The work, of - the lawyer is, one, that of the preacher another. The first, does not, addieSs the same andience twice; on the Same. day, each of the fifty-two weeks in a year, and at odd times bet Ween the seven days-: - -/Each-snit he tries ,is a . n ew Be v o f factsy with new application. His case is all.inventedlfor him ;: the audience, the jury; are not; sitting_ to' criticise Ifitu—are plain men; and if his• eloquence be-loose, illogical andiiisjeinted,,, nobody cares. _ Put Whim,'up in a pulpit, ,make the - jury. tocensist of Aix_ hundred people, and set him to "talk, rather about the law itself than tilt; facts'of the tes timony, and - we would - see - whether he would be glad to. eseaTie - ...tcH his - piper, Britt: are there not Daniel Webster and Rufus Choate, and their peers ? Indeed there are. And there, are,many men in the, pulpit,Who •refuse 'to launeh upon, the extempore ,method,, yet with good, abilities, and who would not hesi : : tate, did their sermons only occur once in three months or once a month, or even once in a week. But, could'EdWard Everett pro 2 duce'his "fine' oration twice in each of the fifty:4*e 'weeks; to •the same peoplei think The truth is tliat;wheniyou have; a hnn area men of goOkabilit s, and have edu eateclithealt,they,eannOt& ..: their best, upon L their feet,ip-4.110.-*--14,,,._ 4 '''''' ; .even_ hour,;, allotted to them. - Knowing this, and de siring to present to their congregations their best thoughts ,on subjects so elevated as those belonging to the gospel; they shrink from the cruder utterances possible-only to them in the extempore method, and ;betake them to the-manuscript. Three exceptions qualify the statement. One is , where4he. custow.is. the off-hand- method, and all are therefore judged, alike. Another, - where_the,audience is so far deficient in culture as not- to care for, nor even to. be sensible of logic, and to regard deficiencies or excrescences not as blemishes, but positive commendations. The third ',is the case of that small nuMber of speakers who are able 'to rise' above all ob stacles,• and to -be able, with -training,. to stand before any audience vand instruct it,- by virtue of such preparation. as the pastor's time allows him.... The inference from such facts as these is, that the use of the, manu script saves to the church an, order of teach ' ing many degrees higher in quality than is possible under the extempore method. The effect of that method enforced would be to' exclude from' the pulpit one.grade of men, of good,-if-'note excellent Aninds;o:and to= bring down another, of equal value,-to.one of mere comraon-placn talkers, while many others would be reduced to corresponding degrees of ineffleieney.—.Preab. Quart; Bev. 4 - THE - PRESS AIDDIO , THE PULPIT. THE religious.press with itshooks tracts journals and.,periodical publications,, itfitting the mind' of the'masses for receiving and re taining the impress of ihii.power. So that the faithful undzealous professors, conscien=: boos and religious editors; and wise and•pioits authors, are the subordinate agents that God has chosen:, togive toe pulpit much of , :its present influence., These are,God''skplough. men. They do much to turn over the fallow ground of the heart.. Their labors remove the rocks and rubbish that nature JR:Frei in. the wide field of the World; that the minister: has to sow Ti'uly; they are_a needful class of workmen, and are worthy of their hire EvirYgood book, religious_; pamphlet and' papetythat gains a reading iii any family; in any-congregation, adds. efficiency to -the-mi nistry. And. every pastor ) , who is not ur gently solicitous for the general circulation: of such-helps among, the people oDlis,eluu•ge; is really blind _to his own,interest,,as,,well as that of his Master. Fox, a family. in ..the church who never reads books and, journals this order, is like a thorn-thicket in the midst of a wheat-field, or a miasinatic'sWainp in the midst' Of "a, lawn, or a black spat on the disc of the sun, or a deformity in the face . of beauty. And , a'whole congregation-without such issues of the religious press, is nothing. but a cold, dark, black, moral desert,. WOey woe to the poor son of Levi, who, may bp un fortunate enough to be , callecltQ pt'eaeh such a place! , He may thunder, he may lighten, he may labor for years,' and see iio fruit of his toil; for the people, iviif sleep on, and on, and on in ignorance and' inaction. Let ministers, ;hen, pray for a.rieh blessing on, our pious and self-denying colporteurs, authors, s editors and,. prefessOrs, t,for. , they greatly promote the .pulpit's power.---Presb. Expositor. SOUND DOCTRINE.- Of all thaforms sker;- tieism ever 'assumed the moat ihsidiens, the most dangerous, and the most fatal, is that which: lsuggests thit Unsafe .thlierforta plain' and simple dilty,for feartthat.4isastrons consequences mayaesult therefrom..-4erw tor Hale. AY` .'fATTAY...,I,O:;:ijS..?-;.:-.':::,: IMMIM/111 EEL DR. DUFFIELD TAXINOLIQUORS. THE following, from the pen of the 'vete ran- minister A-nd advocate-of temperance in Detroit, expresses. the views of vast nizmhers of eur,people,whoare waiting patiently and cheerfully to be taxed," :and ,Whe only ask s our" to practise *a reasonable degree of dispriniinatron int favor of henest, labor as against injuriens piirsuita' and practices. It is addressed to Dr: Marsh, and appears in a recent number,of the journal of the Anzeri-l' can Temperance . - Union. . Rep and clear Brother; 7 -4. have just finish, ed,the reading of the discussion- or debate in Cpngress, on the subject ,of ,the tax to be. levied on distilled.spirits, lager beer, etc.,. as iettertqd published in the daily Globe of the 2Tst ult.' Will ykoa.' give : PS:eel to - a few theiaglitilsiiggegtedlay thati+eadingV , 4Whart i `affe,otindaiscliisurei3have - bedirreade by that discussion! First,, the great levity and attempt at sallies of wit and humor, dis played in the ,debate,,-compert illy with the gravity :keeping. that honorable body,,, and the soleinarinterests affected by tieir,legisla 'Rext, it is humiliating to notice the manifestation' of great ignorance and cep:fu sion- of thought made on the - part of some of the speakers, who*seemed unable to compre henikthe- difference between the capacity of the , still andthe quantity of liqtiordistilled; 'and in other respects showed.themselves.. totally unacquainted with the subject on which they were, undertaking, to legislate; which made one member to say it was very manifest that gentlemen understood far more about' the drinking than the making of whisky, lager beer, etc: Although the fa,ct wW'referred "to that immense corruptions were praOliced--ia the latter*procesS, yet , not oneseemed.to aware,-or , had the - moral courage to declare-and. set; forth the. enor- Mous profits'securedlay manufactured liquors, adulterated with the most deadly poisons. For 414, by the aid of sulphuric acid, a small portion of alcohol and certain poisonous ad ditiena to flavor the admixture, a barret.of "Bburben Whisky" has:been produCed netted the enormous profit of $l4O. •"itecti fication of liquors'?" was there ever such- a `perversion and prostitution, of; language ? Should;there not be discrimination and vir tue enough on the part of legislators, to sub ject such, outrageous, and murderous decep tions to heavy taxation, if not to penalty ? It, Wa,s*well said -by Mr. Rice, of Maine, ' "If , we are to collect, any revenue . from this soiree all, let us have all'Nie can get." Even should'the tax be high enough to be prohibi tory, Mr. Fessenden, with great truth has declared, that "in that, way' :I believe - wel should- increase, our revenue rather- than diminish it." A heavier tax, with increased. ability to pay it, would be raised fromother. articles, consumed by those who akistaineA, from intoxicating drinks. But all such Sug gestions were sneered at by some, - who ob jected to having temperance diScourses de livered-on the floor-of Congress The prin ciple that-shbald respected' laying , taxes, such as.were-, contemplated , by the , - government,l , it- was well and ;truly statedi, should bemake men payfor their ; luxuries, habits of indulgence and vices, if they would not, be restrained by moral considerati e ns,, and_thus compensate for_ the burdens : of so andinjuries they generate arid Sestet.. If, ,after the 'example of England, a heavy excise tax were laid on liquors and tobleco, there would beAess need 'i.e tax so• many other things. • The wealth the health- the, .increase of population, and. general prosperity, will be promoted,by thetax, that restrains demoral izing, destructive luxuries, and fraudulent impositions, injurious to industry and 'virtue. I should be pleased to see you transfer to, your columns some of the' remarks Made in that discussion, if for no. other' purpose than to preServe a record for the future; -as faith ful and illustrative of the - disgrace we suffer 'as ,s people from the examples of ligtior-sell ing, distilling, ~and. drinking, members . of Congress, and the.shamefil exhibitions-some times made before the eyes of the nation in the high places trust and.p,ower. :Cannot the attention of t toggresalib - call6d,` - in some way,jot,-the memorial of Mr. E.,0, Delayan, and others presented to tlie Senate a year or two ago, on the subject of the, fraud, and. imposition praetised in the importation and , manufacture Of adiilterated; yoisonous liquors, to be= sold • as' brandies, wines, ete.? I See that General McClellan- is repotted 'to , have said, that if the officers `of our 'army <could all be - ,brought to abstain - from intoxicating drinks, it would be equivalent to r ah addition of 60,1100 to our forces. Whit an immense Saving Saving of life,--dorible that amount, annually—and - of property, would be secured lay the 'universal abandonment 'of the eating cup.' Enough, and more'thareenough' in fifteen years would be,secured to! , pay off; our ,national debt, though it be doubled ; and: , tripled beyond its present amount. You and I will net to see it ; r but shall-we ,1;Lot work as long as life lasts to resist intempe , ranee and reform society ? • GEORGE DUFFIELD. Simday eiening, - a feWboirs Set, - 'whiinwe Were sitting' in ourient`in coin parry with several others, one of our number, laying2, , his :hand upon our knee, suddertly said to us, 1"-Hark,,What• is that:?'' a,sdeondf•-- all had ceased ttalking„.and every ear endea, vored to catch the sound which bajLattracted the attention of his comrade. There 'was a, ; silence for.a moment, and then there was wafted across the air the music 'of that, glo rime' anthetti, " Old 'Hundied;" in Which it deeded a 'thousand Voices were'participafing.- ° All' of Us -iininediately sought the open air, and there stood until the last note diedaway upbn our ear. Never before have've :heard_ anything so magnificently,grand as that same c` Old Hundred,' sung by, the, soldiers' of the ; 2 1:rnion,arpy on the,plains of fortown, The air was - Made vocal with the musk, and - ,the. woods around reverberated.witk the mighty strain. Beneath 'the canopy 'heaven `the' seldier - gaieT upward into the'Star-lfght sky - and sang unto add, " from when,. -all = biess ings' flow," an anthem that stirred in the heart.of man the best and, holiest - emotions. The incident was a-sublime one , either for the poet or the,artist. —inquirer. NOTHING: grieves Christ -more i.thin- to lime;',his love slighted ; pleaseth: - =hitt:l.lllore than to,hsve l , OLD lIUNDRED 2 IN CAMP. .': -. 4-'.. , ; HEROES OF ENGLISH ;NONrOONFOILIIITY. BY BBY ! ', JAMES HAMILTON, D,7 p. 7 .pr,LoNDON- Wno Niiretheselminisfers whom the Church of England_ thus-cast fortlhfrout her bosom, and who,nfor-,the -next six -and-twenty years, were 'treated, by a profligate court and a haughty hierax.chy, asnthe, tronblers of the and i the off-scouring of , all things ? They, inehided., such men as Goodwin and o;ffen—the two names of renown in Congre gational annals, and each of them still stand ing up gigantic as we look back along the centuries: They included Mattew Poole, that mighty biblical scholar, who, in his five enormous' folios, has given the essence of all previous' comnientators. They included men of massive thought, like Thomaa•ganton• and • JosephlCarryl;, men• of fruitful fancy n and 'ent• tertaining„ information, like ,Bridge, and Brooks, and Nehetniahßogers ! arid •Ifenner,, and Adam and BUrgess : whose voluminous writings rise from the field of our reliffions literature like a twin, mountain-range—the one set, in their very disintegration, Supply ing the rich all uvium which covers the vale with corn, and makes it smile—the other, rolling down those: golden; nuggets:which have made the fortune of explorers from every sect and region. They included such men as 'Howe, whose lofty intellect and luminous insight give us new conceptiona of the ma jesty of mind, ,and Whose walk with God, so lowly and so loving, reminds us of the sera phim, attracted towards the Light of lights, but veiling their faces as they approach the overwhelming vision;--such' men as Flavel, the rapture of whose spirit , would have made him touch the earth but lightly, had not his holy benevolence drawn:him down into the abodes of his itrethren ; such men as Alleine, of whoni it has been said, that, "in fidelity and tenderness, in toils for the salvation of, men, in frequent converse with eternal things; he was scarcely inferior to Paul' him self, the first of human`teachers, the inspired prince of mankind__ , _•" * such men as Baxter, whose "Call to the Unconverted," and "Ever lasting -Rest," still,-waken echoes, in men's hearts,-and are still a living, presence in the world. These, and such as these were the men whom. Charles in his perfidy, arid the bishops in their bigotry cast forth froth the Church of England'. These, and sueli` as these, were the - men, Who, yea being , yea, and 'nay being nay;; knew nothing of subscription in a> sense non-natural,.:and. who, , rather than , accept a mess, ofpotcage poisoned by •falsehood 'or em uittered by ,self-contempt, threw away their earthly all, and cast themselves on Provi dence. „ The prospect was abundantly dark. Few of them were . in the position. Philip lenr and' Di.. Ow6n; wito,-wheri deprived of their preferment, -had personal reso.urces on which to fall back. Many of them were like Mr. Lawrence of Basc,hurch,, who, when urged that he:had elevengoodreasons for conform ing- 77 , in his-wife and " There one reason. which outweighs the whole : W hoso loveth:wife, or:children more than `me, is not worthy of ac:' We must learn to live on the sixth.` of Matthew : Take no thought- for your life; what ye shall eat, or what:ye shall drink ; nor , yet-'-for your body, what, shall put OIL: " And many. of them had to gird up their minds with con, siderations like- those with which Baxter ei- eouraged.himself in the Lord : • " Most' he driven froni . my bOoks? Frain houie,.and goods, and deareSt friends ? One of Thy sweet and-grneions'lixikg For more than.this Make amends " My Lora hall taught me how to want A plabe wherein to put my head; While'lle is mine, 1 1 11 be content To betor kelt - my daily bread. " Heaven is my roof, earth is my floor, Thy love can keep me dry, and warm; Christ and Thy 'bounty are my store; Thy angel§ guard 'me from all harm. " As, for my friends,,they are not lost; , , The several vessels of Thy fleet, Though parted now,' by tempest;s toss'd, Shall safely in the haVen meet" *W. Rhodes, in Stanford's "life of Alieine," p. 379. Mg - LIFE TO,COME. My readdkA rdek , you for onee to forget that-yoware to- dieta thing which I: need: not commonly ask you to do. .It ls net_com monly remembered too much—but I ask you to forget it for a moment, and to look just at one pdint=the continuance of existence—as if there - were no death; ,no grave. "I ask you to remember' that death sn.spends not your' existence,`- Changes not your nature, affectsonot Your character ;—that your soul will live on in,death And will live on, beyond forever. You , are ,pow a.. probationer for future health, reputation, , property, office. This you know; this you will not deny. Your `character and conduot now is to affect all your course ever onward in this world. You are on trial'every day with reference to fu ture yeara,, and you expect that your destiny in this life mill be determined by the charac ter :you form now. Why. should. this state of things stop, at death? Tell me, what is death'?..ls it annihilation? IS it the de struction of any mental power ? Is it the lOss - ef*colisciousness ? Is it a, change in the nature of the' soul ? Oh no. Not . , so much as one night's sleep. 'Forin Sleep our senses are docked--up ;we become unconscious, =and sink.ipto;forgetfulness; and the intercourse withthe living world is . suspended; and to ms it- is as if it were not. Yet, when we wake we find the actions of yesterday de termine our, destiny to-day. We walk amidst the results of the plans and deeds of the past. The man who toiled yesterday sees his fields to-day ripening, and waving in the sun; the professional man of induStry and skill yes terda,y finds to-day ' his - , way thronged by those attracted by the character he has formed; the man, of temperance rises strong as in. the dew of youth from healthful repose ; and each one , meets the rewards of the pro bation of yesterday. So the man of idle ness, and intemperance, and - vice, and crime, meets to-day the Consequences which have traveled - With him- through the distukbed slumbers of 'the might; and he reaps'ihe , re :cOmPenie -of-1 the. , conduct of the , preceding day. should ;not the same - thing: go -through the sleep of death=thatsleep which we speak of as long, and quiet, and undis- GENEStr.it EVH,G-ELIST.:---Whole No. . 834 turbed—but wh ch may not be, and which is not, probabl.y , moment Death is not even sleep. It suspends - nothing ; arrests nothing." The unsluinbering soul, in the ful ness of its immortal energies, breaks from its clay tenement, and wings its way to God. It goes a complete moral agent, with the character formed here, up to the bar of God ; and while the living convey the body to Ale grave, and speak of the steep of death, that immortal.spirit ,has•boared to higher regions, and is fully awake te bleep no more.-- Barnes's " Way. of Salvation. THE PAST NOT LOST. WHY should Men so sadly lament the past? Whatsoever of virtue, honor, loyalty, courge, heroism—whatsoever of true love and self- Sacrifice—whatsgever of truth, beauty, love liness and .goodness the past contains, is not lost or lessened or perverted. God loves, and` God will preserve and per putliate the memory, and if not the memory, the influence and the loveliness of choice and lofty spirits. • You may pluck from a flower garden a rose, but its _fragrance will remain to make sweet the air. Ever is the great moral hus bandman walking through the garden of earth plucking the fairest, flowers, and re moving them to a more genial region, but not all their sweetness and loveliness is with drawn. Thought lives, truth lives, goodness lives, influence lives. The past departs not on a returnless journey. It incorporates itself a new, and so with its thousand generations lives in the eternal present. We are all of ,us re-productions of what has been before us. So comes it .t 0... pass that there is such a thing as lineage of character, and hereditary traits, and peoples., and races with distinctive fea tures; and peculiarities in common. Thus is it a matter of great desirableness, since " "like begets like, to be descended from. a virtuous and honored ancestry. So, not simply because of family pride, but for the reason that it puts the implication of dis honor upon their own character, men blush for the guilty misdoings of their fathers ; and so they appropriate, and with the satis fied feeling of personal deserving, they re count their virtues. The spirits of ages that have been, are incarnated in the age that now is. Noble souls have never lived in vain. They impressed-their earnest and illustrious lives,. their virtues, and examples upon his tory, and all history is ours. The: sweetest poets, and the holiest prophets, and the tru est philosophers, and the wisest sages, and the hest men from everlasting . time sing and prophesy, and impart wisdom and example to so many now and henceforth, as will be instructed and'blessed. • Abraham is dead, but a, race survives to call ?him. father. Plato, these twenty centu ries and more, is departed from the porch and the lyceum but Platonism lives to teach _the ToiAli of en;iless generations. Christ is gone from earth, hat Christianity lives to educate the church, and redeem the world and bring many sons of earth to glory. Human worth, and influence, and charac ter, and example, have an earthly immortal ity: - These are great forces which commin gle.themselves in. the world's life, and live and work;through' endless changes, and end less ages, affecting the character and the 'destiny cf the race for good. The antithesis of this view of human ini3u ence is that whiCh invests human responsi bility with - its appalling interest ; for bad 'men likewise live when dead, and live in evil expanding irr volume, and endlessly progres sive in intensity. Not in vain then lives upon earth a true and good man—not in vain a sweet and gen tle woman—never for naught are beautiful deeds, and heroisms, and voluntary suffer ings, and generoUs labors, and sublime en deavors'and self-sacrifice, and magnanimity, and faith, and courage, and hope, and love ; human graces and human virtues in this L. Robbins. PAYINIR DEAR FOR A NEWSPAPER: Mr. J. Seabury sued Bradford 0. Wait for seven years' subscription to his newspa per: The case was recently tried before the Supreme Court in Albany; N. Y. The pub lisher recovered, and the delinquent subscri ber had to pay in judgment ,and costs, a sum amounting to between two and three hundred dollars. The New York Observer speaks as follows of his ease : 4 4 It is surprising that so few subscribers fully understand their responsibilities to pub lishers of newspapers. The law which go verned in this decision' is a law of Congress, and therefore applicable to every-State in the Union.. Many subscribers seem to re gard the bill for a newspaper the last to be settled, especially the last which the law will enforce. Responsible men, even, under tri fling whims, refuse to take their papers from the office, regardless of the payment in the arrears, and when half a dozen more years have• been added to the arrears at the time of stopping, - think it hard to pay the in bill with interest and cost of collec tion:' Thelaw holding subscribers to a rigid re sponsibility is a wise one, and essential for the protection of the publisher. His dues are in, small sums and. scattered so widely, that positive and decisive law is absolutely necessary' in his behalf. People sometimes complain that 'they find a great deal of tronble in stopping newspapers. This arises in nineteen cases out of twenty from the failure to pay what is justly due the publisher. No roan, who sends $2 at the end of the year with tho request to stop when $2.50 is due, has any reason to complain because •his paper is continued.--Congregationalist. LET ,no. day pass 'without a review of God's carriage, towards you, and of your's towards him ; of rnercios and afflictions ; ,of duties and your frame of heart in them,; of your sins and inclinations to sin. And let God have' the glory of what is good. --John 21fa,son. 4.ELIANCE is the essence of faith, Christ is the object, the Word. is the food, and obedi ence is the proof; so that the true faith is a depending upon Christ for salvation in a way of "obedience, as he_is offered in the Word.— If your friend offends you forgive him.
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