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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