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I=l.liftlitine eye i end leritilstray Where the evening briatzes-play .'lll.ld die boighe so light:id :air`; ' :Watch the suddiwshadows there n the trunks of fervid tone * the, chequ'ring foliage thrown. Bathed iii brilliance, low. they stand Forms of beauty sin ply grand'," • - • Awed by clouds whose musses dread All the'eastern heaven oterspread. ilaindrops fall—a summer show'r ,Letids its fragrance to "the hour ; Still the s'un is bright; aud,-low I On the cloud the radiant bowl Softly,lervently it glows And an arch of glory throws Upward o'er the silvef fir; And the trees encircling her. Fade trot, magic scene, away I Sinlcing sunbeam; longer stay I Morrow's eve may not bestow , Aft the contrast and the glow. Vain request 1 the'visiOri fades, Sets the sun, and fall the shades, Ere the pencil's aid can - give ` • Passing gloom throagh'years to live. Christign I work while day may last, soon the hors of light are past; ' Catch the moment's favoring glow, • Quickly do-thy task below. Christian I rise where sunsets never Leave Miffreishbd high` endeavor', Where the; 'aloud itg only'knoivn ll.y.the rainbow round the throne, Via OREMDIFFICUITY OF THE IN- QIJIRER. 1 - Those trho remain long convinced without being contorted, frame to themselves mani fold reaeons,Lh they do not repose their souls on ,the Jierd, Jesus, as made over to them in, the offer of love. But they, shrink tom looking at the true reason, which is 'their not believing the truth comprehended in that offer. Oho suppose , a soul awakened and desiring saltation, and all 'that is want ing in order ,to peace,, is simple faith: The pleas which are commonly urged by the in ,. quirer, that his sin is toogreat to be pardon ed-; that his case is' peculiar ; that he has for feited all,Possibility of grace ; that his heart is hard; ther,he itag not been ' humbled erikintlt 4 thitts.ottertrei dough r ok - grief enough; in a word, that any conditions romainfl-uncitlfilled ; .all .these x.pleas -spring from disbelief of -the fulness and, gratuity of siltation. ,All, this lingering betrays erro neous doctrine in the mind, or denial of true doctrine. All - progeeds front narrow, dis honourabte, and therefore false 'views of Christ and'his-work. - The moment the soul. apprehends; the Lord Jeius-Christ as he is, no longer a taskmaster demanding condi tions, but, as a Surety, fulfilling them, it falls into his arms. Yottdoubt him; it is the same as want of faith.. You doubt him; hence your evil conscience: You doubt his power, his love; his litith, his willingness to save. He has saved others, but you doubt his rea diness to_ save you. The' very instant that complete-trigh gains possession of your soul, you will surrender. It is the simplest thing in the world, but the hardest, where the truth is not believed, Piven true Christians, who have some faith, are not . always in the ex civise of 'faith in high degrees. The sun is not equally bright in the soul's firmament.' But *hen 'relief tomes, it comes by seeing this :truth and believing it. As the truth,. which is the object of saving faith, Mites to Jesue Christ, or - rather as Jesus Christ himself the Truth; the best : of all directions to the inquirer, and the doubter, and the batilkslifier, and the mourner, is contained in the trite phreseology that he should be con tinue*. "looking unto Jesni.". If life de pended an your seeing the sun, whither, I beinech you, , should you- be bending your eyes, :but yonder, eastward, where. the red dening de*n,-Itreaking into streaksof gold, harbingers - the approaching orb of fire ? Set tip. :before your - mind the one great aim of JESU§ CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS. All our exposition, argument, exhortatign, and entreaty Can only reiterate the cry, Behold. .him l behold him ! Infinitely below the re ality are all our representations of his gra:d ank:MS and earnestness to save. Angels and seirtted'spirits would` herdly recognize the' Mut whom. We delingste; Prophecy and Gospel' combine_to represent 'him as waiting to save. This is precisely what, you; disbe lieve; - .ln your careless hours of open sin, you, scarcely considered whether he would save or not; you entertained no genuine es timate of the. Christ that is, in beauty and glory ; you believed nothing. Now, though you have a partial illuntination brenking through chinks -of the'durtgeoni -- ertgugh to reveal loathsome horrors, you have not yet enough to show you the Son of God, standing in grace - and beauty, yearning over you with compassion, and offering to make you his at once. Still we cry, Pehold hiYrti l' behold him ! Ile is holy, he. abhors your unholiness. But he offers you redemp tion which includes your being holy. Keep your thoughts directed to the gracionekform,, who dignifies the Altar and the Cross. See, him your priest. See in him your eacrifioe. ",Behold..the. Lamb ,of G-od, which taketh away the sin of the world I"k—J. fir. Alexan der. I,ONO A.FFLICTIQNSer-Long afflictions will much set olf. ,the glory of heaven. The lon ger the storm the sweeter the calm ; the lon ger the wintig nights, the sweeter the sum mer days. "The new wine of Christ's king dom is most sweet to those who'havelorkg been drihking gall and vinegar. The higher the mountain, the gladder we Shall be when we get to the top of it. . ^ Gr o h' w ithout 'nig' taiga° sfung the heart, is but a tinkling cymbal; the heat' blessing God fitirkrthirtaglie,- is sweet but still .ittusidg {both tin' Concer'tr make thlit harmony which fills atuLdelights leaven and. earth. tontoponatta. THE RELATIVE POSITION OF coutAGE N THE CIRCLE OF 'CHRISTIAN • -GRACES. • itkv. E. E. .ADAMS COURAGE is energy of heart ; &ninese of tieuVi Settled purp6serstrong foree of dill intelligintielf-truStAnv:Vieiv of 'danger, oil. positkon, Uuty;Jrepioa:Ch4and , 'death. It isnot hitetliiig, boastful; noisy.;-,-, bdt'silentytuodest;! calm. It site in -the :sold, as:a diviinityurlets revealing its presewn : by throbs and lia,shes,T like clOilds,overchaml with electric fire, but by a . steady, burning beam as front the solar . glory, not by impulsive, fragmentary an- . tion, but by constant pressure like the eqna- ble law of gravitation: It lives in the man,. and %rims' strong byi itk , trial. -It acts against' the World's voice , ---often against the ment of the wise, great , and.good:? It is not passion,. not a meye impression, but, a.life; It does not enter the soul from without, itis born in it. . • Manliness is, native elementally, - where it at'`all. It sets' pihion at defiance, .al though modestly res2septing opinion. It; d'oes not'worship succes§, nor seek to he *orship ped bicausc , successful. It endures liforroW, reproach, neglect. -It'calmly bears accusa tion... Scipio, accused of appropriating the pub lic funds, would not, wait for vindication, but in the presence , of the :Tribunes, tore in pieces the scroll , which would have proved his innocence • Courage is more than boldness. We may be bold beeause we 'outnumber the foe; be cause we have -better- armor ; or because the public mind sustains use k'man tddy'boldly defend our Government amidst a.loyalpopii laden ; but he needs courage to do so where only rebels hear him. a .Courage • does not reckon on numbers, on means, on the public will. .It stands alone in its own conviction. The Spartans asked in.battle—not how many, but where are the enemy?'Courage does not reason ' nor always weigh =probabilities ; al though in its completeness, it is partly a re sult of reasoning. Often it takes- a stand against probabilities, deeming suffering and death the noblest victories. It cis more than bravery, not hasty, transient, fitful; not sti mulated . by music, by martial array, nor, by popular, applause. Courage is independent of such extraneous influences. The soldier, may be brave when the eye of his leader . is on him ; and the noise , battle sounds 'in his ear, but utterly lose heart *hen berrie wounded from the field. Courage-Wouldreiv der him joyful, even sportive in his agonies. Socrates • smiled at, his condemnation. Sir Thomas gore was .playful on the scaffold. Paul gloried in tribalation. Coivage is not stoicism '''The 'conrageous - Man - has sensibility. His nerves may quiver at the burning touch of pain. He may fear death.- •lle may dread tourids, and shiink at the sight of suffering. Yethis courage • surmounts all these, and.from. deep, principle, from right,from conviction, he will "do what he is afraid to do !" He will press down every throb of feeling, and hnsh.eyery Clamor for ease, comfort, safety, replitation, and march into flames ; and - floods,-andthunder ing batteries ; and what is •'often more lerri.; ble, into battalions of critics who condemn - what they _cannot: compass into a whole continent of superficial ,sages ' who sneer at convictions and sentiments too lofty, too pure,' for their minds and hearts. ' Courage may exist with wrong. But not where the man is conscious of wrong. He must believe himself right, or his heart will fel:. Even the madman, whore no persuasion, no terror can deter from his deadly purpose, is-first deluded - into the conviction thatheis right ;- which amounts to .the same in if— feet, is utterly 'free from the impression of wrong.. There - are to forms of vourage,'such as intrepidity in battle, oblividus of life, breast ing the sea of bayonets; standing 'erect - in the - leaden. rain,.and marching, with steady. pulse into the hot focus of the strife. And yet to . that. high quality may be wanting the still nobler attribute of moral firmness which " endures the cross, despising the shame." There are present those possibly, whose cou rage would bear them, through the 4nest.ap pilling dangers—through torture; blood, and flames, and yet in the - gentler scenes of home and social life they-barve not the moral prin ciple to 44 endure as seeing him who is invi sible." ' . There is literary courage moving a man to write histories, to lay before his mind the work of years; to go through dim and blotted manuscripts, .to sift old traditions ; compare conflicting testimony ' and finally' record the facts as they are found, against the beliefs' of men ; against preceeding histo ries, against the deductions of statesmanship and iearning; , to compose an epic which con-.' temporaries .cannot fathom, which must lie entombed like the " ParadiseLost ' " and' wait. for future ages; to discover and announce, truths and laws of science,like KePler, and be called- a dreamer, a madman,.a heretie, deserving the flames-; hilt inwardly assured that his day of vindication will come; that truth shall triumph. • The man of -courage says—" This I dal This . I utter: This I write. The world may be behind it; let the world come up with it. I:cast it forth on the sea'of humanity, and of time. It shall float, and reach a shore. It shall be found, and taken up, and tested, and proved to be worth It is truth, I plant niy - soul on truth, and risk all ! Nay—risk nothing ! .1 1 hat is • true ,insight, true fore sight.. Such a mind masters, while it re freshed us. Our thoughts blcomand ripen in its light. To such, as Goethe gays 44 thoughts came like I blessed 'children .from God.'.! A great thinker ..is courageous. He fears not contradictions. He has no -.reverence for namm and. forms, and opinions. Re wor ships truth, works for it,' would, die for it. He is more than' willing to drop a creed which he cannot keep and defend. Ile walks along the - line it'Tatailbx - fitid lietegy that he may 'find the tbi4indarrot - truth. Those wlcalways Eire on one side Of a stream are ever looking across it; they need to stand on the 'other Side`and look back Some times, to get a broader, more harmonious view. - • There is the courage of udrenture. It s'omeiitles happens that a man has t agieut, irghtetnte d be,seke4; m utt spli"epae to de;,; ivelope ; but wants the courage to proppAp4 t, _--to meet the ' expense, the resistance; PHILADELPHIA, 1 the questioning, the ordeal to which it will subject him. He needs an executive. . Ife has found the law, another must apply and prove it. his conception is Old, but courage is wanting to give it realization. Columbus both conceived the bold - idea of another con tinent and had the Cour - age to find it, though courts, and superstitions; and poverty, and 1 clamorous mien, and storms, and the spirit of 1 the age, - and oceans lay between him and the goal. The man of courage is genuine, above-, board. He makes On pretension, lag( no of-' fmity wit Alain ; ereepitlireagiino hy:Pit'lis. —has no undgitttiundr;M•elle-IfOkg‘VWhiCli' to rest h-liieefidi. "- Re' heVeit takes - 16h by, the button to Whisperin Year' ar suspieions against a neighbor.. He does Mit 'rage at you, neither does he faWn. When needful he speaks, but is often greatest . in silenCe. He is a man. - He knows himself. , He feels' the dignity and' Worth of - menhOed. He Is, not afraid falstudr his oWn heart, and , Char acter. His life:is greaterthan time---he has, grasped ireniditality. Courage is the vital pillar about Which all the graces of the heart and. life_ cluster_ and bloom. It gives Itarrnony 'to the wholecirele of virtues.. It is--generous-4n- its strength, and self-reliance:--it is benevolent, for it be-, longs,te the r auffering. It is ; humble, in-its towering exaltation. It is sublime - iii its humanities Conciliating where it might over whelm. Like a broad and lefty oak, t stretch ing its.arnis to the air . offering its protectipn. to . the warblers thip hide in its leaves, cast ing its Shade* Over the Weary laborer, nor despising th'e daisy and the violet that bloom modestly below,—conrage gathers* the gent ler graces to itself, gives them its protection, and blends majesty with their sweetness.' It , has aplaee in Christian life. Add to your faith virtue., -That is, courage, manli ness; intrepidity: It will cost inueh to- aye* , and hold :the faith. of the Gospel. - It may cost reproach, labor ' suffering, death. You will need cour s age., Not a blind force of mill, not ignorant belligerency—but intelligent self-reliance. Therefore`add knowledge and, that the intelligence - may be unimpared, that the Mind may act and reSolve healthfully, be, nioderate in meats - and„drinks, in all lawfill pleasures; in the exercise} of that intrepid purpose which would defend the faith at all hazards. For indulgence makes the mind turbid, gives, wildness to fancy, prevents cul ture, and leaves courage only a blind giant wasting,its energies and destroying the tree mire it is sette defend. , And, as in the prac tice - of Moderation you will have to resist and endure, add patience--ilie power of Suffering, and the twillingness to suffer. Discipline the soul to resistance. The appetites will clamor ferlndulgenee. 1)o not yield. Bear the pain of, temptation. , : If moderation ; fail, know-, ledge-will be invaded i ,courage will:become a, biuteAMM , P44-4-4e W- 1 0 e - 044 -$4 4 4 1 :4-Z9t, to decay. To patience add. Godliness. Be like, God in patience, who bears with the. errors and sins of the universe theugh. he •might if he desired it, sinithe sinning universe' in Utter death. Let the: motive of , your patience be in his long suffering. Be patient toward others' fears, others' ignorance; toward their falls under temptation. Strengthen your own faith., courage,,,moderation, and contribute to the.increase of your knowledge and richness of Youi, - exPerience by enduring hardship. Be like ~experience in - goodness. Let likeness to him add its glory. to your highest manhood. Then, `that your piety may. have, as it is designed, the complement of Its God-ward relation, add brotherly kindness. - Let your firm, intrepid purpose in the Chriatian life, bear the gentler affections, bending- to wel collie brotherhood with the weak; thus exalt ing your manhood by its harmony with= that of the .Son of ,God. Crown all with charity,. the grace Vii. that lives and sings,"—that fills, the Godhead and shines through all his works; that gives nian his noblest altitude, his fullest breadth and depth,-,Lthat adds power - tei faith, - informs the understanding, quenches the arrows 'of temptation ; makes endurance eagy, 'gets its'light and life from God; and like a glorious angel, leads cour- , age to its Mightiest achievenients.. : ..-. Courage, t though a, virtue " greatly inde pendent', is-reased and invigorated by hope.. Tn, work, And, fight, and endure without , hope were impessible,. The discipline of labor and of sorrow ,has no blessing in it if there.be nothing to hope for. Life here has, no pur-, pose if there_ be not perfect good beyond. Courage is sustained by the hope of another life, of self-culture for' immortality, of con scious right forever, of results *hich are not subject to Change. - This virtue- then,,bears an intimate rein,: tion to all the .Christian graces. Their ac tion is mutual, love and hope inspire con rage ; make us strong to do and bear. Every sentiment, and „ purpose of the frame, ; springs,,, to.the OpifliCt when love calls. They press their way through brazenharrierswhen hope, *area her garlands. .Courage in return in-' creases'the intensity of , love and the'power of faith and=hope. What -we have'fought for' we love the more:, We value most that which etists most. We have 1-seen, that courage is joyousitiscal.4o peaceful. The man, of firm purpose does not need to contend,. and , hicker and chafe himself. . ~,In peace he gathers up his energies and Waifs ,for . the hour when he can best expend them. ' He wastes not-his strength on lonelracotinels, but pours his crushing thunders' on the hosts. Courage promotes peace. As in warfare an army hesitates to attack's', strong, a - resolute foe, so distracting passions ,and dares are slow to assail the intrepid heart-e7the heart that rests on truth—on immortality and God. , It requires no small amount of courage lfve, W.heri we take in the . whole of life, or as much of it as our poor faculties can com pass, US relations, its Agencies, its tests of virtue, .its gad - failures, its eternal cense pienees,L-we feel that they are too much for us, and it puts all our firmness to the proof. We -are obliged to lookzaway, from the-deep - mystery-±from the deluge of .con flieting devouring, forces—to the hope - laid up for us ; .as the lone dove turned her ti mid eye from the whelming , water s and sped breathless to the ark. , Some of home's he roes to whom she decreed - an apotheosis,- coin milted suicide. 'TlitYlliAd not live. We need courage to.:suffer—to seek truth —to knotio and defend justice; liberty, loVe, purity, , „religion. To .do our' life-work in the fact' of ignorPoe",:tieOrn, prejudice;vio leimeand death, These-are days in which all is ' great in purpose in brave? . conkant resistance of evil and of wrong, is . THURSDAY I NOVEMBER ,6 1862: called into :action. Vriendeiiip may p i loaa; power M;ay threatin 'scorn May, end ;) anger LL may lie4t• shall we say ts§ ? ath tforry to oppose your ten derness; . ' . to influttieLj-Our: hatted, 40 be the! objeet; ,Of your tderticioni ; - but. Lath sot moved. by YqtAriopitkoro , Fltnow-theT,right. You can dV'-otit4ouPllVPYßlloth-Y, APToPeTAtion—'-' I can dispense with you4A. Ilenoefo;th we ego P. o u rr r ° A . V- w 9, 11" 3 e ' 1 074 11 ,1 8 4" / Y eoMitienu,.my, n d purpose. I appeal to the higheitjutil t pie Uniipilie.": 8.4 icha'se,"'Thela y4° W !deehii&eitePt b A.Yktiofiat k . oltiate r i*hie"h‘ coilfol44thritb PAprime {power :Ts *e'rretilia lime,eiVftakagiabmit,'ithos'intrepidly everythingrthAtinaqieppose or, ilittack b Mind 1 04^. offitniF4iitftlyho waqdinkßerlititwAkaiitla. the ruins of . :the:wm#44 a r l>Rsti l 'Ms= toward,hig object 1 Tdeeth3ift iMpenduagi : a Daniel,braving tite ileoree wilt& eorfaignect hiin to the , lionS; sinV-the ' :three‘ youths who were not eireful ieswer th 6 ines;'* senger :When the ANN' of the fiqinioellashe'd in their eyes, affoga:elintriles" sublime Oottrage'anftlierb4oiir;s:or is the firmness' of Mosos at all lAf f erer, ;41io.ehoses rather to suffer ffiietion, the people of God, than to enjoy, the pleatures_ it,seat: Lady Macbeth, „int :dra'tnfatic .charaoter, as a possibility, is the sublithest pima': out . of hell7she,7 3 mtrAgig.ls e4;9lBistPntlY_wigkeci. Abdiv, standing fr apicl fay. 9 ; potentates! ; in flaming zsal of ifoxit4i4n, hnrling his fiery, logic at the great , r) "Among innumerable : false umnoted, , • Unshaken, unsidus;*cl,.untellified,".— turning toward heavaNand doomingthe towers of Panderaoniumte dsstrne tiont:-is the grand- , est concept : o%Z lten &great eine. at- an intrepid soul like 1.4 Deborah,,,,and Joan of Arc, and' Win* ,Beland f 'and-PerPetua the martyr' child Mee, that .of John the -Baptist, tairliap'y nnOther—then; and now-;--- - whose tifthifna, and is Martyrdinn-I is a creation of 'Gott-L-411.8ve 'angels !, Heaven' . s . doors ; arcifshut against the 'coieL• ardly. , Among • tloSeinwhe sink into' "-the lake of fire," 4r,e,t4 l; f4fgarty,/," who resist not evil, wh o dare4 f m,t,Ameet truth, ; who; Bt2i'm not against ,OlNwtlf t ear to, suffer for the right, who are ashamea or Christ, and his words. Perfect love casteth out fear, Charity. is the la'stlialyitls(Of" heroism. The times- in4liiehWeillie : demand ''cou rage.. Not so •much'' forilkh with gun a sword ;, not so mncivittrztreareh 'hungry and bare-foot ;46 lie , in -trenchefnand Swamps, —as to await uutudrixtgriggirthenwill of God.' We are impatient.: `Welar t e,disposed to take the sceptre and 04 ". To.snatch the trem. _ :m u t - , - itektWer • r g 16 4 4414 4 1 5 4 ' l . - not geVerri.'-''We catirmtputour hand on the secret 'springs - of the universe. What We want is perfect, repose in -God. Tiet , him drive us 'by his tempests to cast out the wares from the ship of State;; give,up our idols—whether they ,becommerce, liberty,. wealth, or greatness. • Let us look life in the' face ! Let its discipline come. Lefita fears thicken ! It is courage still to believe that God is-working our own highest good:; the greatest blessings for" the Church 'iand the world . ; '.the, largest happiness for man and glory .for: himself. And y.et,,it is our noblest: privilege •and duty. also, along with tho submission and 'as surance, to pray for the triumph of the right —because the right does not succeed alone , -to-pray for the survival of our, 'Govern ment, and its perfect victory too. To stan d 'forth in the presence of treason, 'of ig,no rance,,of delnsion, of depra,vity and madness; —to plead for man, for the best thing that .God , • has .for,'! man-- . --namely,ran intelligent; Christian. freedom. To 'advocate -fotaxthe crushed _and , fallen :everywhere, --whatever claims 'a common humanity urges 'for what .is just and equal—for .whatever character merits and capacity can fill. Why should Christian men, belonging to a higher kingdom than any upon earth, glo rified even now With a divirie citizenship, fear to suffer, since we were born from suffer ing'; since to suffer is the law of life ; sit-me w° havo•been 'the' occasion of suffering , in• ,others.-, :We are greater for suffering. Ser •row is, a divine worker for our souls--4or na tions ; _for all true life. Shall we;ask timidly what will become of us if we do this and.that right act ? If we_ pursue this or that, honest, humane, true,' Christian course ? When we conscientiously, ivith the light we liaire—and all we' can have' for the Mime, enter on a -course-of action-of what4".ire "believe- to be . Christian,action—we are to:leave-ourselves : and bur- work , with... God.; . We.cannot. control= results i ; We cannot see tho: end from the, ,beginning. s‘, The moo is not to the-swift, • nor the battle to the strong ; ner , yet bead to the wise," :All ,agencies fail ,. unless,q-od give 'success; the pborest - effort .Succeeds if he wills it. Are we called tO:defenT ou r' = civiiizat of ', our national unity and life; 4 by measures which avarice an . .-pride, , or whichrfeatition, and even honestr,eonviction may: -condemn;' shall we who belong-supremely to God's kingdom, though subordinately to the earth ly, be afraid, aid tremble . at any possibility- of sacrifice ? 1‘ We do tremble-4t'is net'm buman nature to be altogether:fearless. But Stall Christie* men fear to walk in the light of histetP and of Providence 2:: Areitherwilliog to carry in their bosomasouls fottgred and crushed by apprehension, or enslaved by the madness and depravity of ,the <present and the past ?. Ws are bound to obey the powersthat be as ordained. of God : --:-to obey them even - though they are sinful; .and all , are sinful---7all vastly below,* Puhlime standard of righte ousness; and Athetefore all unfit , for control and gnidanee;.ofimmortal minds ; but if we ,are to - , obey, .the appointed Go vernment, though it ,err: and sin . ; are, we under less : obligation to :.obey..and sustain it, when it would uphold, a great• national religious ,duty, ,of;emancipation, of pnity, and of brotherhood? When it,would slay the, fiend of, treasen, and , smite with barrenness the womb that gave treason birth ? I would cling to the. government to-day—though I knew it would be , disolved to; morrow;; then accept the best thing that ;remained f r o me. Government first, then liberty—for without hlb t `t, Governnient. t cr,? can no 1, '1" 11 both, if pOiSible: are.itnnimon i ed ;now, its. mi,nOterqiliVa , M.DPktt9 ;9414114,1e , :.an0 i t 1 411 and "offer others all that We possess of sym- K athy,, of influence, of religious power, of c,loitience,of ministration, of example ; to s'ti'mulateaevoti6.n;" and sustain courage, to infuse into sails' a IroftY religious enilithinee; to give tlie'%anctioio‘.ll:God to• every act, every sacrifice, 'every true gettercats utter ance fer.the nation's We need cpuiriip :to` confess 'our sins.; to , shirender 'our';', will to .God"; bait 'off alit: dependences butGpfl; to restraimouriheatts4 and 1 . 369p1, thewto i gus, piety, We med,tet: intp they high. spher.o of,pcgifidenee tSke hold of our _great' King aid be alinve the rage,andthen look anWii woi'ld . with pfaYer atrktY. We need:cour4e to h'ope for the church. theieting.s a* . d.'beiietiond, of 'aie l tUrn - gainte nitfrafi'd otaiikeis. Wei% lihillrfoPyWheft itiat - oidlititrofetirthisV IftriallifelPf6rlt us now andrthen, to . lb e tUrned tusi del Emu the track .been filming as:by -mere 4,111)100, .forgettiAg our f lifei and: diity, Acting only .mechanically,—to; have the. paithdisturbedand blopked lirp play, hve . new apPltancei stininlateir disci plined to suCriftee,---liaie • our whole' „nature ronied to itiraVented - rdefelepi'neik-414f'4hen ' if need be;' 'to fesrirrie rectilinear Dine i te t ion ;,. 7 s ,• 71..1 GodAas doni , of lite; and yet it'has-* not greatly disturbed our benevolence' 'our' devetion,-,,1t- T has not preyentol.revivals. ~ It has not lessened (moral eonvietion, kubrather increased: it, There ls , more l pe/isf now than there used_ ; More • gperous expansion Of soul is held more loosely. have' lost "some ,of our idolatry. , We'JqQrn to stiffly''a higher order . _ of provideriees. We se 4 e• more *elides in truth. ' The. Bible has . become" '‘hook to .us. Prophecy ar rests eurithimeit, aild we begin :to =look to- Tlie - kingdom of God seems greater and <more glorious. All the stable and valuable' things of time are, seen to be less than God's throne---and yielding to the final' consummation We Wa'nf:Courage 'now to speak for God- to het for dying sCurs:: • To 'stand out before the -rnitis of tirae, , ,and eafili, and proclaim the- immortal kingdom:' Courage gets its life:from iMmortality,' , We must have'contage to 'break from sin' . 7 from old, dead opinions; frinn.a world or dy ing . philosophies,- ands false maxima andt habits;. and look forth tolhe glory to come what God.. has promised=what Christ, shall i lulfd---to::iyhat the church shall be. Tofarithe 3ingodly, and persuade their to. repent. To teice bereft„..4ying souls, .4ml * lead' them' to the sure — rack—to the living. waters. Wolieed-:ptiwer , With,fGrod.This i 'gained by courageous faith rby firm devotion to tratkk ; hy t consoientielia:suffering for. law-and gdO e niila Sktjr#6 l loPJillgOs Stf - gAi a , in - respects we were rightin sighto7„ God: we would have power with, men. ‘‘,. The peof t le that. do know their God, shall. do e.Nploits. Were , We such a yeople we would soon see our ' enemies scattered as:' chaff before - the wind.' Nothing could rise' against us and prosper i The Lord-Ood Would be.it wall of fire about us: He would set.his seraphim along our shores. The:light' lof their swords ,wculd flash; across. the. ocean, and .blaze` overthe mountains; and prairies ! But has 'he not, occasion to say ofus7--".1) , that My,peoplehacl hearkened untoine,, and, Israel , had walked in my ways : I should soon hive subdUed their enemies, and turned my hand against their 'adversaries."' We may` yet have a larger detnand for Christian firmness.' The, upheavings ef"jour social fabric may -have' only just !beginn `The wliole-ivoild may soon. totter and -la bor asin a tempest. Opinions may - clash; 'battles -rage, vonimeree, fail ; kingdoms , and republics, fall before the throne of the "Great. King. So let it he. It is-well-to look-away from the iransitory and vile • to the perma nent and pure. Oh, for the hope that shall enable us to say—'though 4 elouds and dark ness are round ahoitt him, righteousness and judgment are the 'habitatipn of his throne. "Thy judgments are a great 'deep"-like an unfathomed'sea=but 64 thy righteensnesses are like the great mountains "—surrounding-' the sea,.running.heneath it. as a foundation, so that the,4nchor ,of hope oast into the deep shall sink ; through the :judgments ' and hold Ole mountain, base ,below I f' Therefore will net 'we fear though the earth ,h6,r97 moved." We 161 k for a: new earth wherein Ithielleth righteousness • ; L E SAO N 01 NUMBER f . .XIX. ' ADVERSITY'. War is a keen dissector oil:lumen life. It reveals the.:hollowness „of 'many" things,,that appearectof great inpprtance_during peace, aridithe significancy,Of,others that had pass ed 'unnoticed in thei Unthinking repoSe of (inlet times. It teneoverkhe frim e:work Of human iffaira;'ind-lays open tnvigiVeaCh l ob scure liganient and vein, , that serves to bind together 'And sustain 'the' whole. • The attentivereader of'hititory must have been-often: struck with . the importance , the greatest: apparent; trifles•aometinies , assunie, - in : the perilous emergencies of war. When Xeno,phen, in the famous retreat of the ten thousand Greeks, came to the river.Pentri tes, whieh was the boundary of Armenia, he discovered On - the opposite 'bank, at some distinee from the river; a body of horsepre pated to 'oppose his advance. At this sight the Greeks were greatly dficouraged, for they' saw not how it was possible to pass so deep a river,,in face of ,such formidable op position, especiallyovithithe hosts of,the-Car ducians hanging open their: rear. „In the midst of this suspense, two soldiers straying , in search of fuel, happened to see on the Othelbatik, an old= man with' some *Onien, " apparently hiding bags of clothes among. the rocks.that reached down to the. very rivet.- ' From` this they-concluded that it Wouldrnot be unsafoo pass,to ',that part of theihore, for it was evident, from what, they observed that it was 4eemod inaccessible to the ene iny.s horse. 'Raying stripped. they began to cross, intending to swim ; hut, befote the water had radlieirabaVe3 the•waist, they found themselves at the opposite shore. o' Thus safely-rover, and with -no enemy =in sight, they seized-Are bags. of 4 ciiithesand7 return-:'. edit- .11avinglintthis , wayascertainel at _once - Where4he night Ae.scAeiliforde4a44l that ananding could 'be effected on 'die other Side without danger from ()Deno they repaired to Xenophotes tont;,who,hearti : thew with, joy, and poured.t likratien. 2 .to.the.gods. in gratitude for iim i c , kyr,4o % , l?l;rl t Oi l rixeri . 9. Thus in the moment Of pressing dltwer, an occurrence so ``trivial as that of. an old . Wien concealing ritiiffln the ea, vern of" a reek, is 'arrest 'the - eye; miakewithefittettibil; and eariveyeihfortait ' timi :that inVolves--the iafety of ilimisanda; of huMan' lives. ; • .: - 5 There are: two discoveries: made by:this' story. One is, the iinportanceiot the staall 7 , est things, ,and tbc true and.--real 'dependence, that great interests mayhave, upon. them., The other is,,thoeffectof o;lvel!eitY in givin tflifigo froper weagght und lirmgtog_ tflei l iimpottailfe j inte vieW Whentlie fl 0f,31 wet twkiisikirtfrelidilevertifiii k k:i,i they CC cur :Abut his; .amd`as - they , exist micraothihg *hat ail oft! seeming'Conse-- .qaence succeeds in , arresting Hiur-iattention. It is : when- ,the Astream -,begitiniog to and. its waters. to-dry,.away, that we discover what ; As lying . at.the bottom. r-:It. is -ifheti the. cup "begins to beemptied, that ',we see what ,'it was that "irbparted' the .. sweet df Ihe bitter to its contents.' When 'our - - affairs are broughtio extremity,' every perception of -Mind and heart is quick ened,:, the will becomei strong and daring, we can delude ourselves .no longer,- and week from, our breasts a faithful oonfession of the -,true ingredients ,our ,character, and the natures and extent of; our errors and our , dangers; whilst everthing , within us and without, is - Closely inspected that may possi bly contain an intimation of any means of "sound 'and lifting dellierance. Not in the full stream nor overflowing cup; not in the deep, -wide, exuberance ,of prosperity and quiet, do we learn the existence and locality of our follies, and the true sources of our dis appointments and sorrows. Neither is it in , these we are effectually taught where strength 'and redress are to be found. The jeopairdies of life are its ,profOundest 1 schools.' One hour, filled to the brim with peril, is of more value to the heart,` than many years of peaceful study and observation. I It removes -the loamy snrface, and brings us 1 to the solid rock, making;us at once humble 1 and, strong, correcting self-confidence . and , vaan-glory, and compelling us; by an.inevi table and ,divine necessity, to look for the honor, and . protection that come from God. ;. It is not,. hmiever, great losses and be . redvements, nor the'heavy stroke of sickness :and" bodily, pain, that usually prove the means 1 of"hringipg men to tlr j, nowiedge of God and. r of,,themsclVes. . These -things leave a man's:' Imide utihroir:en; for it is a' thing that can: feeCuponMisery itdelt, : But those forms of affliction that ihumble lira"- in-ibe; sight.of lothers ; that - fill - his face with , Shanie ; ihaf irender,him helpless,; that rob -him othis'gli= ' that, wouhir Ha Tilde' and itidePiendenee.; t ry; that strike at-his-hopes-andveputatiofi-; „tint expose 1 0 1 .4 0, 0 e c...on;terqPt of little ncon;".4n ; :fulfil the prayer of his. enemies;; these are !the 'things that Are-wont to-rectify his iniet iertte folly and self-confidence ; that- bring him ..to value the divine r _favor, and betake himself to the diiine help; to read. with ;sharp, attention the chart-, of his own condi tion, to sound the channel of his own heart, and diseover the passage to eternal rest. ' . . _ . S. P. H. Aeltictiono. "THE HARVEST IS PAST." How solenin are these words! 'How start ding shouid they be to the who-are pressihg through life careless and uncon cerned ! The - harvest is past Yes, it is - past! What has been gathered.is safe. What has not been gathered 'IS lost---lost, it maybe; forever. The summer is ended—ended for ever ! It., can never return. Its weeks,and days are with the past. The record is made ; the page.is closed: and what is the result? Are we sa'Ved,' or are we lost? One or the other`is our eendition. There is no neutral' ground upon which .we can Stand. These months past have been full of epiritual ides: sings and privileges. 'God has been forbear mg and long suffering: The Saviour has been pleading and waiting ; the Holy Spirit has- been; striving; and 'yet how many have ne? .glected all these, things They have passed through the simper ; life and health have • been "nontinued Cind yet they are not saved ; !,` Neither the_ mercies, nor the judgments of God'have =had .any apparint effect. Thou . sands Ilion thonsands'-have ' fallen all around them, and yet they are careless. They , heed not.the;calis of mercy, nor the thunders of judgment. But it will not- always be so. To many, the last summer lies come and gone. The leaves, the fading flowers are the last, they see. tefore another summer shalt begin, - they Will 'have passed 'to - that 'shore ‘x;virliefesdays4ind years are known no imore.", Row solemnly are they admonished to put their_housesin.order,,and prepare for ;their departure If they are still unsaved, have Trot a da7 to lose—no, not atchotu'. Tha summer 'of privilege and'of hope is past. The Autumn has come,• and at any moment' 'they_may be .summoned to' their great; ac count. To all, the ..past summer has been one of special blessing and of special trial God has crowned it with abundance of every kind. The fruits and grains have aboundedbeyond almoSt any preceding year. But 'strife and carnage have filled the land with' latnelitation and woe. Every dwelling has been darken ed,r and every heart , has been saddened.: :the scenes through which we have 'passed: :will render thenununer, of 1862 not only memora ble in history, but-memorable in - every fami ly throughout our land.---Parish, Visitor. lill LON43:KG FOR THE SAITATIOIi OF SOULS. been of- the godly Alleine, that he was "infinitely, insatialckly, greedy-of the conversion , of souls."- Matthew, .Henry, was,accusto.ned to say, "rto win a single, soul "frein Satan to Christ would afford .me greater joy thin to possess a mountain of sirier and,gold." And Sanwa Rtitherford told- his people, a my witness ,is'abeire that your heaven would be twoheavent to me • and the salvation of , youii-all / As two salvw• tions to me." Oh that all Christ'S,Umbas-' sadors had Abe detout,JerAromt.aspirations of these excellenk menl ai Then 4 would elitist& of grace and grory l)e largely multiplied. GENZSEL MM MM9 Tq l !#,Alr_ CONGIMOA. _ gene to t o cliuitS, and we slid. PP,..1.14g8 Pt 11 C °ld "RAM no 'inbre. -. `Tfikklalidilicgtirs iii so that 'cape toiterlig iti!iithitheir it kerchiefs Suukhly folded'and laid arms ; the feii,browedf t irls that sang and the air .' the chibir b en l laitTt :the ain, .4ralWaY .and dill; gaol: . 541 , P9 3 . ,rwire94, hie:mimed like air I mut tree hard V i ta pit door; the woman that in..Winteis ' , 1 brought-,ths tin-footed atores fon s ,tfe • theAittle paper fans that Waved: ,-i. . l '' l wareAummer dike so many hal:twinge -,- d t the church, as if the old minister had briAkerlgtil:l4fgrvtile_Angence.ri the 444.4 ' they used . t9,ogg e ljts,43 .4- aft*tro ;fi n d .r , ipme t 4ii3g, iip l oict„ir,,. like •i 6,1 we e sy ' .14aV 4# -1 1rgil; tley reeeived----the ( lug shad never see' and hear .again a . d olid b' No longer, iii Sabbath' m oo n s, t upon the grass beneath the old popultag & talk in tones subdued, while takingiii_ to frugal meal i no 'longer do -they lin; the old gray gravestones of the ground, that is since a " cemetery ( ,' template . the atone willoWs 'that forth a'Teif ; for the times have and there is' but one ,sermon a i day, with - brought their dinners'. of Fold, dOwn, the most of them,' to the feast taieb,.wheie:the tree of life,:thetier' ven, andmo poplar, ieblooniing fort The deaf who Sat on the pulpit these old-times, can hop. the wa' 'seraph's wings to-day ; for the daui music," have been lifted , fromthe dui in they were lying. The old bl whose doubtful feet ,yoting eyes lives now in morning Tight. - And Jonah, that stole softly in, and set do; in a pew beside the door, has been ma . white .at last and . bidden to come higher, . . . •-. pl i We think it ought to be set dow n . n r u ' map somewhere, the old church was very the "house not . made with hands"—oni:vitr gravejard's . breath removed. We thiil wlu ought somewhere to be written, 4 The K Til that they builded of old, let it remajit.diti ever." Gire: to time the silvering of the IP have hallowed; let the wind the dead singers begaia, and 1 its " eChOleoB .thresh, P. Taylor. . 4 STEPS IN, 13 - OW . NEGVECI I secret pray : - 2. Disregard-0f the 'Ns- iv. 6 -: 41,Foraakingthe means B * 9 * -1 1'; r 1diiiit4editess: John ii: V B: lieviti in conveiiiittiF 0-4 m. it 1 Cor. iii.' 3. T. Dwelling on the faults of others...l: , 4ii..3=5. ' _ . 118 ' . ' dif ..8. 4eadineas to take offence.—Pre 3 . ? 17, xviii. 19. 9: .A. murmuring , repining - spifit.—i nd . x- 10 . ;1%11. ii. 14. mk up, 10. .A critical hearing ofthewciid,—iith pl , • iii. 4; 2-Tint. iv. 3. U. Covetonsness.—Luke xii.: 15; :car by 12. Light thoughts ,of sin: :1 :Kist feelin, 41 ;rMatt. xxii.-5. ness ? 13. Intemperance.=.-Prov. xxii. 29- tubers .14. Loveofprt•emi4ence.—Prov x and 3 John 9,10. - anes ? ... 15. Indulgence in secret sin.—Numb.l . ured 23 ; Eecles. xii. 14. . ildren ' 16: Falling into outward" s i n ,„ p ro Ahabib 4 ; ilos. iv.: 17. "Thus far a true believer may fall, an 7 8,1 corrections will be the consequei Ps. - lxxXix. 30-32 ; Micah vii. 9; Mai 75) ; but the false professor may desct er still. . 17. Into sooffiing_and infidelity.— 18. Persecuting the righteous.- 52. 19. An awful deatb.—Prov. xiv. ' Finalperdition.—=Mitt. Turn to the Scriptures attached. step in the lachier , '--ponder them. • unto Him ithatis able to keep you fc ing„ be ,glory , and majesty, dom' Dior, both now and for ever. A., --Christian, lyre, THE ITALIAN PRIESTHOOD POPE'S "TEMPORAL ?OWE The London Times'. Turin corm refers to the memo - era' against tie poral Power," evenamong the *nabs.,.:- hood in. Italy : ' I'as Jr .Already : we know ;that a petition o t A r ag 4 Pontiff, requesting him, ".for the taker Church of whiCh he :is- the visibie" hi ' laY aside that teniporal, power 'Which! . RESP. bane not only of the country, but also. . religion and morality;" • has teen 'Blearing no.less than 12,000:members of the Ale and , clergy. By keepingthe Pope at Rono' id a t closing against the Italians : the gates aye Burro' capital, the Emperor : of the French 0 morel that ,religious ,reform Which could haittiwas bes to follow ClOse upon political re4ell sail , 12,000 priests are a powerfulspiritutato )' If , Pius' IX disregards their just aA t *they ? aPpeal, - Whit else Will the I)etitione . read a t .but a leader to-seek' the , egiancipativi, 3 hard national - -Church in a schism' which wil''kirks h' Rome spiritually, as it already stint ' 'tently . politically-? The leader himself is n pines pa ing, for, although the Chaplain- einguage Monsignor Capnte, died ,recently at 111, when and 'with him the, ititi=Papitl movemom. the N one of its thaiiiitayklFither Passaglishen they living-at Turin,'-aildltis _doctrines gitet:ed arc selytes among -the , best educated anfilieY wet clergy of -Upper Italy- in sufficient Au. *YI to effer a -safe support to the govet re Pr:, .whenever -they dare, to hurl de a ...lies,' Rome. sail • t,he 4. MUCH IN A SMALL PLAcE---. —.A. ;fi l e " sal( ' lebrated Scotch divine says. "Th ;we are.l which we inhabit must hal , e had an- must have consisted in a cause; th _J77 have - been inielligent';' that intellige ro e co havebeen efficient; 'that efficiency m tluot pie! -teen `ultin ate that's ultimate povi r 1 j have beenAnpreme-; -and Ahat whin 1' was and is supreme, we know,by...the ' t God.'
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