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Wrestling Jacob
Charles Wesley's versos on Gen. mail. 24, etc.,
are full of strength and, beauty. They have been
greatly praised and admired, but beins , unsuited to
congregational singing, are not found in the hymn
books of the present day.
Come, 0 thou traveler unknown,
Whom still I hold , but cannot see
My , company before is gone,
And 1 am left alone with thee ;
With thee' all night 'I idean to stay,
And wrestle till the break of day.
I need not tall thee who I am,
My misery and sin declare :
Thyself haat called me by my name ;
Look on thy hands and read it there;
But who, I ask •thee, who art Thoul
Tell me thy name, and tell me now.
In vain then strugglest to get free,
I never Ntill.uolooso nip hold
Art thou the man that died for me I
The secret of day love unfold ;
Wrestling, I will not let thee go,
Till I thy mum, thy nature know.
Wilt thou:not yet to me raved
Thy neiv, - uhutterable name.?
Tell me, I still.beseeoh thne, tell;
To know it now resolved I are ;
`Wrestling, I will not let thee go,
Till I thy name, thy, nature know.
What tho' my shrinking flesh complain,
And,marmur to contend so long ?
I rise superior to my pain;
When I am weak then I am strong :
Arid when my all of strength (loth fail,
I shall with the God-man prevail.
Yield to me now, fer I am weak;
Bupponfident in seltdespair ;
Speak to my heart, in blessings sPeak ;
Be conquered by my. instant prayer;
Speak, 'or thou never hence shalt move,
And tell me if thy name is love.
'Tie love I 'tis love I thou diedst For me`
I hear thy whisper in my heart;
The morning break-s; the shadows -7
Pure, universal' love. thou art :
To me, to all ; thy bowels move,
Thy nature and thy name - is Love.
torreopoudinta.
TRUTH MUTANT.
[TAs following is the substance, of a •ser
mon preached recently in the First, Presby
terian Church, St. Louts, by the pastor, Rey.
11. A. Nelson, D.D. Our readers are fit
zanier' with the great and hopeful changes
going on in 'Missouri in the direction of
Etrittneipation and thorough-going loyalty.
.This sermon will help to explain these
changes, and furnishes another proof of what
Missouri owes to her faithful clergy.]
Think not," s a id our Lord, c "that lam come
to send peace on earth ; I came not to send. peace,
but it mord."
.
.HoW- Cali this. be ?' ' • l'he whole - Gospel
representation of Him is, that He was, per--
sonally,--eVen as He declared of ilimself,)
" meek : 'and lowly.ln heart:7., His..personal
behavior,. always, corresponded to . the pro
phetie description ,of Ain 4 .,-- "He shall not
cry, nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be
heard in the street." —`With wonderful wis
dom He repressed every tendency to popular
tumult and lawless violence on His behalf.
The,lamb f in its meek,: submissive gentleness,
iS ever
,thescriptural emblem of Him, com-,
pletely :fulfilled even to the extremity of His
being led, dumb and unresisting, to slaughter.,
In the most, glowing , prophetic pictures of
: is exaltation,and gleey,•among the " many
. nuns " that. He wears none 'is more con
:.picuous, or more resThendent,..:than that
'.which bears the inscription,. "PRINCE . 10
'EACE." And , in that notable prophetic.
`, ese,ription of the glory andhappiness of Hitt ,
ign upon earth, you ,rornember . he . ,delight
i I imagery which so forcibly' represents its
! neefulness : "The woll* .also shall dwell
th the lamb, and the. leopard shall lie
,wn with the 'kid ; and the- calf and . 'the
wig lion and the' fading together . ; and a
( tie child shall lead them." .
iThe recorded teaclaiap. of Jesus are equal
opposed
I' , l to the indulgence of all those Violent
i '
'4
lions which lead to them. If a 'Man
;Y.'. ite thee on the right cheek, turn to him'
the other also." "Resist not evil." "Love
cour enemies —bless them that curse you—'
t
o good to them that hate you—and pray for
t em that despitefully use you and persecute
you." Forbearance, forgivenessi meekness,
i are prime virtues in the character most lion
-
1 ored in His heavenly kingdond.
Clearly, we cannot understand Him to
avow a desire on His part to stir up strife
iand contention among men,-4o arm men in
mutual hostility s lor mutual outrage and de
struction. Neither ctn we understand that
the proper tendency of His teaching His
doctrines and His precePts—if ail men would'
' adopt theni, and obey them, would be to
occasion strife and war. Preciaely the con
trary is their obvious tendency.
' How, then, shall we interpretJ,his saying
of our Lord ? It plainly shows, :that our
Lord well knew that the promulgation, of His
doctrine, the inculcation of His principles,
among mankind, would, in fact, occasion
strife and contention ' yea, cruel and blOodj
violence : that, although the final triumph
and complete prevalence of what He taught
would be the extinction of all warlike vio
lence, exchanging everywhere the weapons
of war for the implements of peaceful indus
try, —the cessation also of private enmities,
and outrages, so remarkable as to deserve to
be symbolized by the lion and the ox quietly
eating straw together, and the kid sleeping
safely between the paws of the leopard,
nevertheless this blessed state of things was
to be looked for after long ages of conflict
between the spiritual forces of His kingdom
and the malignant powers of evil : -that
during' this period of struggle, in which His
principles would' be making their way to
their final ascendancy, it should be manifest
that the force of 'those principles in collision
with the falsehoods, and the:passions opposed
to them, would occasion the most terrible
conflicts, the most bitter enthities, the most
fierce and' unrelenting hostilities.
It also, shows, that our Loll. deliberately
i purposed to have His principles promulgated,
and to secure their final ascendancy, even at
such cost. The kind of peace Which' can be
hint by universal acquiescence iii wrong, and
universal acceptance of falsehood,—the kind
of peace which can be had by the ignoring
of all solemn truth, and the negation of all
righteous principles, --the kind of peace
which_results from the general indifference
and apathy which cares for nothing but ease
andpleasure, all , such peaee.He 'meant to
break. up. Ali the strife, and tumult, and
agonizing struggle, which naturally result
fromothe -contact of truth with•antagonistic
errort,of mighteous principles with obstinate
human selfishness, —;.from the persistent,
earnest protest of evangelized human con
sciences against wrong, --- all this He delib
erately
,accepted as the clearly foreseen
process by which His kingdom should come
in this world. Tenderly as. He cared for,
and pitied, every human sufferer, He pre
ferred that any one should suffer for right
onusness' sake, rather than 'be at ease in
unrighteousness, .that any one should be
hated of all men for His name's sake, rather
than enjoy the esteem and favor of men in
disregard of His name, that any one of a
faniily should incur the hatred of brothers
or sisters, or children or.parents, and even
be delivered up to death by them, for beL
coming His disciple, rather than secure the
continued enjoyment of domestic tranquillity
by refusing to be His disciple.
'Highly as He must value - the peace of
communities, He preferred that there should
be tumults, and strifes; and wars, resulting
from the struggles of true with
.false prin
ciples, rather than that communities should
stagnate in apathetic indifference to. truth.
He doubtless preferred that faithful disciples
of Him should be torn by wild beasts in
.Roman amphitheatres, to, the savage delight,
of: admiring pagan crowds, rather than that
there should be no faithful disciples in the'
Roman empire. die doubtless preferred that
in later times, the fierce troopers of Clever
house should hunt and 'slaughter the cove
nanters in the glens of Scotland, rather than
that there should be no such people to wake
the _echoes of those glens with the fervent
voice 'of prayer; and the quaint strains of
their psalmody. He doubtless preferred
that the blood of the Huguenots should flow
in the St. Bartholomew massacre, than that
there should he-no such people for the per
fidious king to butcher. He doubtless pre
ferred that the bones of His slaughtered
saints should whiten the Alpine mountaini,
rather than that His Gospel should never
ascend those heights, and sanctify those souls
with its truth, for - which they would be will
ing thus to suffer and to die. He, doubtless
preferred that the ringing of Luther's ham
mer, nailingg, his defiant theses to the church
door in Wittenberg, should reverberate
through Germany; should rouse the papal
power to fury; and disturb the peace of Eu
rope,rather than that Europe' should slumber
on under the poisonous Opiate of papal in
dulgences till it should lose 'all power and
spirit to,break the papal He doubt- ,
less, ps,eferreil,,and does :prefer, for. .Iqe
"'the
.same • yesterday, to-day,,and forever,"
--that, in our day,, the .Christians of Mada
gascar' should speared to death, and pushed'
off from precipices' by command' of their
heathen queen, arid that Christians :in 'Turkey
should suffer all the varieties of persecution
which they have, borne for their testimony
against the corruptions of their apostate
churches, than that the darkness
,of paganism
should brood unbroken over that African
island, and the sepulchral quiet of cold dead
formalism should' reign in 'unbroken silence
over those Eastern Churches. He knew that,
in all these ages, and in all these lands, the
spiritual forces of His kingdom would-never
triumph over the forces of error and 'of sin,
without such painful struggles and. costly
sacrifices. Yet He,, even He, the Prince of
Peace, ordered the struggle to proceed, and
He will have the triumph, even at all its cost.
He purposely inserted' the leaven of nig doc
trine into human society, well knowing how
it would seethe there how it would heave,
and 'vex, and agitate the mighty grass; mtil
the whole should be leavened.
I think we are prepared to understand how
it is that our Saviour came not to send peace
on earth, but a sword, —to understand in
what sense it is, that this was the
_purpose of
His corning,-44d to see that this is entirely
consistent with is mild and pacific disposition
SOhave we sometimes seen a skilfur:and
kind physician order an application upon the
tender and sensitive skin of a child, : under
the intense smarting and burning of which
the little sufferer would writhe in anguish,
and look up from its cradle with a most: piti
ful expression of imploringhelplessness. The
answering look of the physician is expressive
of pity for the present pain," but it ha's also
a deeper expression' of grateful joy, for he
prefers the 'sensitiveness; which' that pain ye
veals, to the ease, of insensibility, and he
recognizes the evidence of vital activity
which, he , trusts, will rectify the morbid con
dition. He prefers that diseage should sting
and blotch -the surface rather than quietly
and fatally. settle upon the vitals.
So also the Great Physician,
when an un
happy father had brought to him his child
tortured by a malignant demon which .the
disciples had been unable, to expel, did not
hesitate,' with His alkpowerful word, to com
pel the evil to depart, although, in do
ing so he rent the victim - so sorely; that he
lay 4 as dead."
Deep and dark is the mystery of evil,:un
der the government of the supremely: GOOD
not only In respect to its origin, but in
respect to all its, history, including the phe
nomena of its cure, .or removal. Always and
everywhere it demonstrates its, essential char
acter ; shows forth its utter malignity. The
divine, processes of its cure first develop its
hatefulness ; increase its intensity ; rouse it
to'its most violent activity.
Our Saviour .entered into His great strug
gle with evilin,this world, fully understand
ing all this, 'calmly prepared for it, able with
divine composure of mind, to contemplate
all the ages of strife, of strenuous debate,
Of fierce contention, of red carnage, which
it would ,cost,, to .win for,,His truth, complete
ascendanciin this sinful world.
It was a pleasing illusion, in which we have.
lived, during the whole life-time of the old
est among us, that truth had; incur country,
gained such ascendancy, that opposing error
and wrong would never be able to break up
the public tranquility. Particularly, we
fondly believed that our institutions of gov
ernment were so happily framed—that they
were so elastic and so strong—so pliantly
adaptable to all the genuine growth of free
doint and yet so strong to repress wrong, and
repel' oppression—that here the struggle- , of
free thought; the conflict of opposing opin
ions, could freely go on, without endangering
the peace, without destroying the security of
the, commtuskity.
We are waked from that pleasing illusion
by the noise of a civil war which surpasses
all that we have known Of such conflicts,
both in the magnitude of its. forces, and the
extent of its arena—God grant that its his
torians may
,not- be obliged to add, in the
terribleness of its desolations.
It is, preeminently, a war of ideas. .The
conflict of arms has resulted frum the con
flict of opinions. The whole struggle is, to
decide Whether one Set of principles or anoth
er shall preVail. Foremost in the array are
two opposing theories of our National: Gov
ernment :—On the one side; is the theory
that our National Union is indissoluble, the
people of, all its States constituting one peo-•
ple—one nation.. (.. Pluribus Ununt . )— and
its constitutional government exercising a
limited but paramount sovereignty over all
the wide land—a sovereignty, limited by the
Constitution, but irrevocable within those
limits. On the other side is the theory that
the sovereignty of each State is absolute,
the Union only a voluntary association of
States, from which each may withdraw at
its pleasure; and that any attempt on the
part of the general government forcibly to
restrain States from such secession, is sheer
and tyrannical usurpation.
:Such is the political issue which has been
made up between the parties'to this fearful
controversy. We do not now discuss this
political' issue ; but it seemed necessary to
state it,• in order that we may seer *hat is
behind these two. opposing political: theories,:
in this hostile array. Why haie any States
desired to exercise their alleged right of se
cession, thus compelling the government
either to resign its claimed sovereignty, at
their bidding, or to maintain it by ' force of
arms? •
-Most evidently they have wanted to use.
their separate and unlimited sovereignty, first
of alli and above all-else, to secure, and to
render permanenttheir institUtion of-slavery.
The moral right to, hold men in slavery--to
maintain auinstitution which reduces human
beings to the, condition of chattels—and
which continually exposts men, and vronfen,
and families, to all the shocking liabilities
which that absolute chattelhood involves—
the moral right of all this has been very
thoroughly discussed throughout evangelical
Christendom and outside of these revolted
States, the overwhelming preponderance of
opinion, throughout evangelical Christendom,
is. against the righteousness -of slavery. Al
though the holding of slaves within the States
was a subject to which the national authority
did not extend—over which the National
Government under all adMinistrations, dis
claimed any right of control, there were
questions pertaining to Slavery io national
territories, and pertaining to the influence
of slavery as a ; political force in the national
administration; and there wore .{claims. ,of
absolute right of ; property in slavesrto be
maintained by interpretations of the national
constitution, sought to be eitablished. On'
such questions as these, those discussions and
political contests proceeded; on account of
the political results of which, war has been
made upon the National Govertment, by men
who make the theory of state sovereignty
their plea, of justification, and who pholaini
their purpose to: establish a confederacy of
States based upon the system of slavery, as
its foundation.
I am aware that very many and various
other forces enter into
,the contrast on both
sides—innumerable persorial ambitions, and
personal passions, besides the modifying
influence of immmerable and collateral ques
tionS.
But I assume as unquestionable, that with
out the controversy which relates to- slavery
there would have been no war. If through..
out all this land, in all the years of its his-'
tory, there had been. no one who questioned
the righteousness of slavery—or if all who
believed it to be wrong had, _refrained ;from
expressing that opinion, .and from speaking
and printing arguments in support of ,that
opinion—if all had acquiesced in the demand
which the supporters of slavery so generally
made, that that, alone, of all human institz
tions, should be exempted from the scrutiny
of free thought,.and the liabilities of free, die
cussion—if thus there had been no moral opl
position to slavery, no religious protests
against it, no
. attenipt to examine its moral
character—there would, have been no pUblic
agitation concerning,it.,,,and nobreaking of
the public peace onr account of it. There
may be those who think that such, peace
would have been better than this:fearful war.
There are some mph, who think that, in feel
ing thus, they exercise the spirit and teinper
of Jesus. Have they considered the utter
ance of Christ 7 --" I came not to send peace
but a swore ?, Can they give it any intel
ligible meaning ? lf such had been our
Lord's,view of the paramount; importance of
peace, it seems to: : me that he would never
have sent his servants to disturb anywhere
the quietude-of ' bypreaching against any
of the evils that baVe' Strongly , entrenched
themselves in the world :—nay, it seems to
me that, if He had held such views, our Lord
would not have come into the .world at all.
He seems to me—to'' say as -much—" 1 came
not to' Send peace, b'ut a sword."
Let us not then be utterly dismayed at the'
fearful calamity which has come upen us—
nay, let us not assume that it is‘altogether
calamity. There might have been a peace
that would be far more . calamitous. The
peace of prevailing indifference to wroug,
the peace of, a benumbed pUblic conscience,
a peace:Which depends on abstinence froth
all rebuking of wrong, and all 'inquiry Whe
ther that which claims to 'be right is so—
such peace is by no means to be desired.
Dreadful as are the desolations which;this
war has already wrought—appa)ling as is the
safering which it hap oceasioned-and dark
as is the uncertainty which hangs over I ,its
future—let us not, think that, its speedy ces
sation is above all things desirable. Let us
consent to bear all its sorrow and.anguish—
all its privations—all its anxieties—all its
bitter bereavements—till'it shall have fulfill
eit the purpose for which God has allowed it
to' come upon us.
Does that purpose include the utter "abo
lishment " of the institution of slavery by
means of the war, and, before its termina
tion ? That result has not heretofore seemed
to me so desirable, eitlier to the slaves - them
selves or to us, as :a more gradual removal of
it, by peaceful nieans, and with suitablUtire-,
paration for their real ,enjeyinent cf,regula-*
ted liberty., , In - the early tiOnthe, of the, re l ."
hellion, I hoped (in common with most of my
loyal countrymi
give the Govel
suppressing it,
would be only to
sion, and give it
slowly die.
°' On the cont
cess in. that ei
made, amazing
near to success.
nation cannot
plete abolition
client` has at I.
the , 'temperate,
us Tor our chief
continual prayel
Let it not be
edict can be
tranquillity ca,
severe; and pf
will doubtless
edict effective.
events, manifest
this great undey
emnly, in His.
To strengthen
er we nkay•have
progress of this
agemen,ts . that
from God's hol
comfort and
expected his t
not without ago,
conamotions--ay
horrors of-war,
His kingdom Of
peace ?
THE DiPOE,TANCE,
V
DE, t vpsTnErTEs,.. , ,
had seized and forti
into the enemy ,
thia insult, - resolired
their ''soil: And n :
preaching in their
formidable desoent
the other hand, is S:
lichorting his men t
left their ships,,to,sl
beach, to yield not
give back for their ten
seem thrust upon th she
waves they dashed'b i efore
the la,st man ' *her &an s
which,in the rianie ch* the
gallantly taken Passessio
stance of one of thame•
ry, and the sublimest ti
matic effect. It is. a pie,
that could not be too ke
intrusted with f a, struggl
DeMostheneS was convict
better'not to haVe` (imp
ing - done--4o;tv-itbiadol
that if it Were• a politic 'n •
'place, it was mueli tram
to keep possession , pfit.
hostile coast, should •rim,
with the well
that
every foot that should be
Initiation to use every pr,
possibility of a repulse, I
prise. It is the-fray.of•
cy, to adopt strong meals
port them by corresponi
means. It is, to acquaint
dangers of his situation„,
the necessity, of watchful
never should be done, ord.
inflicting a Mo.* from, wh
for hith to recover. It is
ice of the invader, withou ,
ability to execute7it. ' It
out intircidating his .foe.
to expose his 'own weak
the enemy, - in histurn to ass
A victory;:hy, its: moral
a commander-a reinforc•
as many Men as, he, empli
After a successful battle,
with little diminntipn,. of
whiCh the victory was w ,
the_ power Aleh . that viet
From this it fo lows that
ry; the result of .power, s
contains in itself the geri
cess. And the leader with
niftes 4othing, and who
the...hope of adding vic
More than sluggard,. and
that his successes were of
not by the influence 'Of
despite 'of 'his' iCapanity
The same pr'incipl'e is
cation in hump. life. It
succeeded in gaining sof
he should •begin , to. act
and determination.. It. is
best, afford to address hi,'
he had 9. 1 * motiVe Ptlri
tion, he has a hundred`
Serve it. • ItlieWfici ne
*mild not haVe'repiiaoh ,
scurity ;• 'but 'new he'dan
notice . and itsoriticisrn..
encounter sloth and inac
jealous' descent upon;:hire
nation r tp.,exhaust, every e'
yield the auspicious, spot
pf,,ff.eayen .upon,hi§effor
to plant,hs foot.' F9r 7 oi
the less of glory and 'se
Scarcely be able to advai
time 'in the road of honor
,
It is better ,
to occupy 'd
blestpost, than . b'e
only , to•prove to the; world
equal to its duties. For,
our friends are A t liberty
to, contradict them, that, 0
equal_to our desert . ; and i
dulge through life the
belief, that our qualifica4o
proved in ferfdr tc . higher •
it was ;our let to- enjoy.
even , this imperfect. censol
It Was said of Galba, th
been thought capable, of
never reigned.
One of the greatest m
between men is seen in
of success upon their mi
elated and self-confident i
it; the, 'other beconies mor ,
trustful of himself, and cal
hensive that his success w:
deserved.- One regards
unquestionable , fruit of hi'
and doulits not hisability
he wild ; ,the „other ba!s,gro'
than before, and begins
ilia t voct
peed success in
et' iipon slaveiy
"dwth and eiten- -
i .which it would
not given us
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d ; 4s-iP 4 RIBP BO
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nce in,`
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epared till:fake a
Demosthenes, on
ling on the , shlre;
them .before they
them ,on the-very
of ground,. nor•
Lt.
cdri
Est.
assa
ught
e
prows, as they
nor for the fierce
em ; but to die to
render`the Soil, of
ountry;"theyhad
This is the sub-.
iassagcs; of histo . -
s moral and dra-..
e of earnest- war,
studied by. thew
iike the present.
that'it' had' 44 , itt
Y I to . thfc'enenif
sure to seize.that
1, •at ..any hazard:
descent upon .a
be .planned,-only
bility to preserve,
in, and the detor 7
ution againit the
force by'sur
ard incompeten
's, andfaiLto:Eittp
g and adequate
e enetnywiththe
id suggest .. to him
ss,—a thing that
n the very act Of
it is imposible .
reveal the Mal- .
ern migrating' his
to provoke with
t is.gratuitously
ss, and to invite
e the aggressive.
ects is orth
nt eopsisting of
ed in gaining it.
• is yet possessed,
11 the
,power by
enhanced by all
y added tp hiin.
e genuine victo
-11 and discipline,
of ultimate sue
'horn victory sig
tot be fired with
y to victory, is,
akes it, evident
accidents, won,
genii* but in
d mistakes.'
universal
whew a min has
• advantage, that
th renewed vigor
at then .he can
if to xspose.
fora .botter p9si7
ci.ng him to pip
risen, - the world
him with his ob.
t fall without to
erefore Ile should ,
ity in their. , first
ith, the Aletermi-
,
rgy,j,wtner tuau.. ! ,
ere the l ,l4eauin.g.
has,. enabled him
driVen Off, with
reliance, he will
e sofa a second
firdsperity.'
ing fife the huni
to,the highest
hat ;tee' ; :un the'forruer ease
say ; ,, with moue
fortune
,was not
"selves, Might in
eeable, and fond
wohid. not have
spoiritrnents than
tut in the latter,
ion is denied us.
he would have
'Tire if he had.
ks of difference
different effects
ds. - One grows
consequence of
subdued, and dis
4ot but , be appre- ,
greater-than he
success as the
own, superiority )
U . repeat it when
more solicitous
edulonsly to iin-
prove, the, point and temper of hismeapons,
lest a second trial might prove how little his
'former advantage was owing to himself. One
leans upon his success, and securely makes
it his reliance for the future; the other lonks
,upon it with diffidenCe, ani determines to
support it by every addition which it is in
the power of his arm to make. Indeed, the
prosperity:that God affords to men-is not in
to fill them with pride, and: their
faculties io sleep; but to encourage exertion,
to stimulate desire, ;to awaken hope,.. and
gradually to, lead them forward to:the attain
ment_
of yet unconceived and incomparably
higher things. And the man who is not
wont tnmake this use ,of the instances 'of'
tsuceess with whit'''. `meet's, proves `hiingelf
incapable of greatness, and wanting in
.first element of solid progress in every case
of honorable ambition.
These, prineipiee m are. "auk* tlfft'''
religion. The, folloyirog nguage,it
everywhere speaks : ," Hold fast. that thou
halt." " Take, fast hold of, instruction ; let
'her not go : keep , her ; for she is thy life?:
When a'man is able to trace in his heart one
foot-step of the`Divine presence, one emotiori,
of gratitude to God, one feeble inclination
ask his blessing, this is aCritical moment:
if he neglect it, it were better it had not been
afforded ; but if helaw learned promptly to
embrace, and cheriskthese happy motions of,
'his soul,wpoing ..their stay,, and eagerly atrk
yang, to set
,the stable seal Of habit them, he hes master e d the chief Secret in the
art of living . for eternity. ,
POLIES : OF NO USE.,
IT cannot be' denied that the Chaplaincy,
from just caiMes,'has in part fallen into dia
repute', hi ,same; cases,. immoral men, de
,posed minister* and even in ordained lifeacht.
ers= have, from improper' influences, been
elected, :or; arbitrarilyappointed Chaplains.
In order 'to remedy this great evil, and
draw-back to the - usefulness of worthy, minis
ters, of the Gospel serving, as. chaplains, Con
gress' -at-ihe close of last ,session passed ; , Beni
act, whieh makes it the duty
, Of the comm!"
a.
'der of, a post, to inquire into the efficiency,
credentials, and moral character of all Chap
lairi,s, and to muster` out of service any *liose
papers, labors, or character are not satisfac?
tory.
As a matter .of course all good men .rejoice
at this, sifting the 'chaff from the wheat, and
am glad to say, it will, if faithhilly attend,
ed to, re-establish the chaplaincy in the
confidence and estimation of the whole, army.
Nevertheless there are those in every re-.
gitneiat,Who prate' aboutthe Chaplaincy, ,and
with a deep sigh lament that'the GoVernment
is put to se much expense every month to pay
the Salaries of the chaplains. I have'taken
pain's; for the last twelve months or more, to
inquire into the character of `this, class of. in-.
'cliviclualSomid after strict obserffation, and
particular inquiry, I am - bold in_saying that,
with
,scarcely an exception,. I haire found
them to be men whose- habits, occupations,
business, and influence at home were, and are
now diametrically opposed - tO - the religion
the Bible-L-nien, who have in no .way aided
to promote the moral welfare of the soldiers;
who have proclaimed, that a Dian in the - army
is not supposed to have a. soul:; :who on
march, or after battle, have , given orders.,
to "let the soldiers, go, but to,gather the ,
horses, as it costs government ; ,moire to re
place the latter than the former ;" Otters
whO strike men, under their command, with
sabers, and heap the most awful curses upon
them, officers who defraud the government dur
ing the Year, by 'drawing 'pay for horses - they
have not by pominuting their• foragea nd yet
'stili'drawing the forage; by using the govern
'meat and making, their : ; official positions!the
'base of operations for self-aggrandizement,
more than Would pay the salaries of 'half a
dozen° haplains.. Ihave feundthem to be, men
who lead lives of intemperance ' gambling,,
and profligacy. Yes ! it •is becatise the
faithful chaplain . standa in the Way. Of such
men, as a Silent if not, a personal and•public
"reprover; because he hedges up their way
with moral impediments' against bringing
abandoned characters. into. camp ; , because
he is a restraint upon unscrupulous . sutlers,,
:in their dealings`with soldiers whose wives
and children, and, widowed mothers, are sue
fering for the necessary comforts of life. It
is, that scheme§ 'of plundering the' Govern
ment,,,through quartermasters' departmentii
and bakeries: capturing horses, anknillag
ing private property, may not be known to
others than'those interested, and thereby be
come exposed. It is. beeause a... ? faithful
chaplain cannot and , will netlecorne a party
to, or a winker at, these gross evils in the
army, he is, lOoleed' upon by - the above class
as a "banger-on," and. Of 21 .° 'use 7!! This
is why, at the sutler's counter, or in the, Ade
room of ' his establishment, while theli.ottle
passes' round, the chaplain:o- is' diaigeil ~ 1 7K
and made to appear, if .pesSible, diSrepu
table: • • -
. A few
,days ag I over-heard. an officer
discoursing. to others with a popippua air on.,
the, utter uselessness •of the chaplainey; and,.
upon .inquiry of those who knew his autecp-,
dents and his course since he came to the.
ai'My I learned that his charaCter was ruined;;
honie, and that only n few days before he
had" stolena horie•and sold him.
I visited a regiment se ime ago, and
found' a chaplain, a most worthy man, aliaost
heart-broken.' lie' WeS persecuted' in -the
most cruel manner thy the Colonel, so litEtell
so he had to leave head-quarters and' stay
with a detached party elsewhere.: I felt
deeply for
,him,, and wept witir,hitn, . Net
long afterwards, that very Colonel was dis
missed for• cowardice.
Ah l the very presence. of a faithfu c ap
lain, to say nothing of hiS daily . Visits to the
tents of the officers and men, of his weekly
and' Sabbath meetings, is a check to vice, a
restraint; to imniorality, and exerts an almost
irlesistible influence on 'the whole command.
If • the chaplain is faithful, all will x.spect
him, even shoublthey, feel,, as most, of us do,
that the chaplaincy has.been dishonored by
the course of many in it. " Chaplains of no
use I " Who would address words of encour
agement to the depressed soldier in, hie tent,
pondering over the destitution of his •wife
and children? Who. would 'be disposed to
bring. Up before the wayward son of praying
parents - and unfaithful:husband of a devoted
wife, the, home left behind; with: its hallowed
associations,? Who would so continually
and faithfully. Minister to the . poor sick,
3704114.1, 'and4yipg soldier ? Chaplains
of no . use " What I: sitSil the sordiei
buried like the horse shot under him? Shall
home - frietids receive no intimation of the
death of the one they loved, the particulars
of his sickness, and how and where he was
buried ? " Take ,:away the faithful chaplain,
and you take away the soldier's best friend,
the officer's silent monitor, the wife's, and
&flare*, and parent'sr vediator, and safe.
guaid. Pray for the 'ehaplaip ! His work
is.peculiarly difficult ; but in its results none
more delightftd.
' • ' 'CHAPLAIN 1:1111 Pa. Vol. 'Cay.
Suffolk, Va,., Nov: 6,1862.
PRAY AND DO.
JOITAIT AND THE MARINERS.
TOSE mariners their danger cried to
their'goda. Prayer is the language of nature.
Men pray s , wheu 'they are dying' Danger
awakensi conscience, Unth - the - soul utters its
true thoughts.'
Religion,is given us -,for the hour of dan
ger ; , but also for all other hours. It is right
to cry unto God when other helps fail, but
wrong to be silent until they, fail. God is
ready to bless us in extreme difficulties; but
waits to bless us in prosperity. Indeed, did
we 'know it, our greatest peril is in our most
peaceful; our - fearless hoUr. Jonah was're
ally., as safe in the jaws of the tempest, as
when.he first started taxon away from God.
The.greatest peril is in -sin. When the soul
departs from God it matters, little where the
body is. It is hablly worth the while to
Shelter the outer man when the intimr mauls
dead ! It was guilA that called Up this ele
mental war • '
But prayer 'was, not all on that occasion.
The.shipmen used the ordinary means. They
lightened' the ship. Anything to save life.
Throw out the wares. This is the motto of
the penitent "Away with my dearest sins !
They will sink nv. I make the sacrifice,
Go wealth ! go, pleasure I go fame ! go
society ! go all,that would separate me from
God, and lifer ,
But this is' humiliating to human pride.
It will cling to its idols until it must let go.
The first:Choice of God and heaven is often
a Stern necessity. The sinner does-not-take
hold of theicross, Until-the waves dash over
himl;—does•not enter the ark until the roar
of the deluge is in his ears and the dark wa
ter& are hurling their spray at his feet !
Through appointed means salvation comps'
to us. We , insult God if we pray without
doing. The fact that God can, and will save
shbuld stimulate our hearts the mere; and
not lulfus to lazy expectations: Paul in the
storm was assured by the angel of God, that
all aboard - should be saved. That was abso
lute certainty. God had decreed it. And
vet Paul : assured the centurion. and the sol
:diers that the shipmen must not leave the
vessel—" Except these abide in the ship, ye
cannot be, saved." They must.remain to do
th6ii.a4ty.-ittAt is -oipially a' decree of God.
The two' decreeS harmonize. God 'will save
but you must do-what he cotnnaands—=pray,
repent, use the means.- SucCess depends on
the :will of God, but does not dispense with
the action of, man.,--Bev. E. B. Adams.
kelerticito,
SUPREMACY AT ROME.
THE appointment of M. Drouyn de Lhuys
as the successor of M. Thouvenel is signifi
cant. That gentleman was Minister. for Fo
reign Affairs during the first years of the
present empire, and has been a, consistent
advocate of the old policy, which dates from
the middle ages, that France should never al
leviate Papacy to be quite independent of her,
stilrlese to fall under the power of any other
State: Pepin le Bref *inaugurated this po
in the eighth century, when he extinguished
'the Exarchate of Ravenna, and laid the
foundation of the temporal power of the
Popes, and it was confirmed by Charlemagne,
'who became " the, eldest son of the Church."
From his time down to the present French
armies have been , continually seen in Italy,
; and it has beccmie a kind of religious belief
'in the Minds of 'the majority of Erenchmen
'that interference in Italian affairs' is their
birthright... It is something 'that'" French
ruler, whether Bourbon, Orleans, or Bona
parte, always fancies to behing to his coun
try. Even Cavaignac, the hero of the last
revolution, entered upon the policy of defend
ing Pope Pius, against the Italian revolution
ists, and new the Etnperor, after long men
tal struggles, declares that he cannot forego
it. He has not forgetten Villafranca nor the
conferences of Zurich. He then did his best
td 'establish that curse of Italy, a confedera
tion.of = States and was , deeply - mortified at
theimiversal ridicule the scheme met with.
The Princes whose...thrones he had guaran
teed were
,sent to the right about min:in:tardy,
bythe Italians, before he bed time. to inter
fere their behalf. He made a show of
saving Francis of Naples at Gaeta, and would'
have doneit effectually bit that such an act
would` hive cost him'all his influence in Italy.
But aibe haS got a.hold_ on Rome, he clings
to-'it with the'determination that nothing
shall be wanting on his part to prevent the
unification of the country. Venice is just as.
far.frouLobtaiument as Rome, and, will re
main so until, a favorable •concatenation of
circumstances shall alter the present chances.
Death May , remove the great obstructor a
patriotic ope may succeed the present 'one ;
a reVoliition in' Germany" may swallow up the
Austrian Empire, and Italy may-then take
her owne.again.. These, 'contingencies: are not
Merely -possible. bitt probable, and:the Ital
ians would do well to devote their 'attention
now, to 'the consolidation of their present
kingdom,: instead of diverting their thoughts,
to Rome and Venice, and dwelling on the
grievances of foreign influence and interfer-
Owe. There is much' to be done in organiz
ing the due administration of the various
'departments of governinent, some of which—
especially the Departments of Justice And
the Interior—are said to be in a deplorable
state ; so much so, indeed, that it was with
the utmost difficulty that any, one could be
found to fill them, when the last Ministry was
formed. These abuses cry aleud for reform,
and the 'Roman question may -well
they are rectified. IrL ten years time both
Pope and Emporer may have - ceased to troll;
ble the world, and it is quite possible that
the great question of " Supretnacy at Rome"
may, solve itself of:its own accord .in, favor of
the It halts
•
said, end not without out reason that'
the protracted solution of the Roman ques-
tion—as it Cannot be hastened by any display
of energy or by any bold resolution—has a
tendency to Paralyze the activity of the. Ital
inns' and to perpetuate - their, helplessness
and desponioncy. The
,-,their,
however, lies
not withM',` hat .with their rulers.
None of t& statesman' have dared to •
lay the ieir state of affairSlefore them, or
appeal;te their Sense, or call foitli their .real
strength. They have trained theni to an ex.;
pectant, transitional and pusillanimous poll.,
cy they haye.taughtthem to look to Patis,
for salvation, and to submit to its statesman-,
ship. WerotheEmperoT full of the evest in
tentions towarde - thcm, he could not help
them so king as they lean so heavily and in
dolently on his suppoi.t.' ; Italy must have
career arid, a life of own. So-far'as Rome
is coneerned,:Shemay, perhaps,: have to 4ctin
pound with France: , T6' obtain• Venice; she
May, have-to - 4.49 u with Europe: :.I:*t. t .
to unite, organize and. .tranquillize her own
territory,. to make it thoroughly and perms-,
nently her own, is a task which lies' with her
self alone, in which she ought not only never
to require or solicit fereign aid and interter
encei but strongly 'and indignantly to reject
such extraneous support. The-mere habit of
`managing her 'own internal affairs will give'
her :nerve 'to manage her foreign policy. AL
ter all, she is at the present moment a nation
of 28,000,000 souls, swhich, strongly knit to
gether and Veil governed endowed as it is
with the highest faculties of the mind, must
in time have its *eight with the world. When.
Italy shall have achieved a coniplete victory
over herself, Rome and Venice will fall to
her of their own accord, as something, that it
may no longer be possible or worth while to
withhold from her---Phi/a: N. Aniericon.
OBJECTIONS TO THE DOCTRINE OF
PERSEVEIMCE.
The biblical objections to the perseverance
of the regenerate are not of a nature to un
settle the direct averments of its truth. The
warnings of inspired men are always largely
relied on to disprove our conclusions. Con
cerning theee; it is to be said, that they are
invariably hypothetical, or supposed, cases.
Not' one of them asserts that an apostasy
from a state of salvation ever did occur.
This is their formula ; " if the righteous shall
turn from his righteousness, he shall die";
.Ezk. xviii. 24 : " if, after they have escaped
the pollutions of the world, they are entang
led again therein and overcome ' the latter
end is worse with them than thebeginning";
2 Pet. ii. 20, 21.. Now, it is allowable, in a
fair interpretation of language, to regard
these and like passages as employed by way
of motive to the exercise of that salutary
carefulness, that individual, untiring firmness,
which is the human means of final endurance,
as a part of Ged's,method of keeping his chit.,
dren from the power of Satan. This takes
as granted that the persons thus specified"
are born again. ' 'But tlitif May be somewhat
questionable in both of the last references.
For not all who are called " righteous" in the
Bible are evangelically thus ; and of those
who are, it is distinctly declared, the righ
teous shall hold on his way." The citation,
too, from Peter, may describe nothing deeper
than a reform from:heathenism to a decent,
outside. Christian life.. Besides, another of
these `minatory texts most relied on (Hebrews
iv: 4-8) proves too much , if, which is by no
means certain, even it refers to inward piety
at all : for it unequivocally states that they
who - fall away, as it intends, can never be re
covered to repentance. Our argument does
not-require of us an exegesis of this'passage.
This much it evidently conveys—a fearful
caution to men enjoying unusual means of
grace and the special strivings of the con
,verting Spirit, that, if they resist and fall
back into a careless life, their hearts will grow
hard beyond all further agencies of renewal ;
a, thing not altogether unknown among our
selves. ,But if the apostle does refer to per
sons in a state of salvation, then: we maintain
it to be another instance of hypothetical ad
monition put in the most forcible terms. And
if it be replied, that, to suppose a cage which
never will occur is beneath the .dignity and
wisdom of God's revelation;ve answer • not
so, if the prevention decurrencelnges
morally and volnntarily 'on the restraining
power, among other spiritual forces; "of" just
such cautions as these. We answer again,
not so; for the Bible does adduce supposed
cases which are equally unsupposable as the
loss of a regenerate- soul. Here is one
" But though . an angel from heaven
preach any other gospel unto you than that
which we have preached unto you, let him be
accursed"; Gal. ;—a Opposition ; to say
the least, as violent as any which we find in
these threatenings concerning a Christian's
apostaay from holiness.
The expression in Galatians- 7 " ye are fal
len.from grace" 7 -has done as much as any
one thing to popularise , the dogma which we
oppose : but it has no connection whatever
with the subject, as the slighest glance at the
context (ch. v. 1-4) determines. The reason
ing .'of the apostle is this :—if, abandoning
Christianity as'a system of salvation, ye will
be justified by a legal obedience, thus going
back for your ground of hope from Christ to
,
Moses frem Calvary Sinai;, ye, by, that
!act of repudiation, exclude Yuirßelvs from
Gespel mercy and,redemption ; ye are sons
[ of Abraham according to the flesh, not
,ae
cording to the election Bo ston
grace.—oston
Review.
nom ON 1111 r MINISTRY.
It would be difficult:to find in the writings
of any ago, even in the pages of'Raxter's
"'Reformed. Pastor," a lofter standard of
pastoral diity, or more thrilling appeals for
its faithful discharge, han are to be found
scattered here .and there through Alcuiri's
letters. He seems to write with eternity in
full view ,before him. He describes the pas
tor as the watchman on the walls, who is to
sound:the alarm, that blood. of souls may
not be required at his hands. .13. e is to be,
moreover, the light of the world, the salt of
the earth, a candle set upon a candlestick.
He is, to, be stainless in life and guileless in
heart, an example to the, flock, and a teacher
of all. ITo vice, no worldly ambition, no
passionate indulgence, must stain the'sanctity
ofhis character, or expose his official standing
to reproach. When the Archbishop of Can
terbury, for fear of personal danger, desert
ed his post, Alcuin exhorted him to return,
and in view of the sin that had,been committ
ed both by the people and the clergy, he ad
vised aisolenin fast should be appointed and
faithfully observed.--Pree: Quay R6ieto.'
►le: No. 862,