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Prod, e f shoub 'i i. be' investe,... - r 'n rule' for God,;' au, ac 1 ''‘ •tvpioally), was A.,_ rig, it '-icrhteousness ..... hi, .:( --q not his i ~.. ; b 41 -4,, I iieen ~_ ,Aeo i :(i their Ma: ,' 1. -uir :,) .ear ! ). gita Ira raj, .; tl - I da . tee :Abe a AO .e ;di ,in:,, )..A e 1 }d Id. ..0) ( st: ;t1 Ant f'' alibi • aF. a: :,, , tc a ft B e , -I: Nigittrg, Behold the Man." O SA,OII,,ND head, now wounded, With, grief and scorn weighed down I sacred brow, surroundd With thorns, thy only 'brown I ' • Once on a throw* of &dry:, Adorned with 'light divine; Now, all despised and gory; I joy to oall thee mine. ono estbr o w , and dearest In other days the`*arid' ' • All feared when thou ippesaradat ;* What; shame on thee is hurled 1 How art Ahott.pale with anguish, With sore abuse and scorn ; Row does that visage languish; Which once *as bright as morn.l 4 04 me, 44 thOU, art dying ,, . oh, turn thy pitying eye; : • thee for mercy crying, Before thy cross 'I lie, Thine, thine the bitter *siva, Thy pain is all for.mel Mine, mine the deep transgression., My sing are all , on flee. What language can I borrow To thank thee, dearest friend, Per all thy dying•sorrow, Of allyty woes, the ,end , Then can I leave thee ever ? Oh, do not thou leave mei Lord, let nth nave; never Outlive ,zny love to thee. If' I 0, wretch should leave thee, 0 4esus i leave not me , In faith may.l receive thee, When death shall set me free; When strength and comfort languish, . ,A,nd ,I,must, hence 4epirt . , .11,4ilease me then from angupsh By thy own wounded heart. ..,43e near me *hen I'm dYing Oh t alum thy ercise to me., And. for my : euccor CoMe, tord, and set me free This heart, new faith , receiving, From Jesus shall not me . ; For he who diei believing Dies.eafely throngh,:thy,love. 4 Gerhardt tothropionintret LETTER FROM OHM. !blowup, Jr ly 28,1802. 4088 , 18 ,Editors : Truly, the harvest is great, but the labor ers aretfew. May , the Lord of the beliest send forth more laborers ;into this diarvest-- field. The opcninS for missionary effort in Northern Ohba are great and Wonderful'.. But where is the needed number of men to enter upon the work and reap the fields al ready White unto the harveSt? This is atm of the .new ports opened-to foreign residence, by the recent treaties between China .and the. West. , As a centre for missionary oper ations .it stands first in its importance north of Shanghai. It is s ottly about 100 miles from Peking,', l a city of 2,000,000 of immor tal souls. ;It has water communication to the westward an south*ard, aftording facil itieshardly to be surpassed in China lor itinerant missionary labia% •But there are only two American and four English mission.. aries‘here,,and ,cf, these, two or three are but beginners in the language.of the people. Is there not ample room for *more men? and Will not some of the. readers of these few, lines sat from this heathen city—ai large, or even larger, than the city :of Philadelphia —lift up their hearts in earnest prayer that God would send more laborers into this har vest-field ? Are there not a few not to say any) missionary pandidateg in America ho will covet a part in this work ? Let such beware bow they answer practically the question, Trh,om shalt I send?. May. they of be reckoned by the Lord of the harvest s replying, Do not send me. • ' The people here are ricw in a state of , reat excitement and of wonderful delusion. certain priest of. the Buddhist religion is hrobably the most popular man in this vast pity. He appeared here—a.stranger—only a few weeks ago, begging in the streets, ac cording to the custom of the priests. It soon became noised abrbad that he could cure the cholera and various forms of disease, by manipulation of the parts diseased, or by washing with water, Sto. • He uses no medic inal means for the cure of disease. A booth or neat shed was erected for his accommoda tion, and Multitudes visit him daily in the hope of being relieved of, their bely mala dies. Dotibtless.several thensands go to see him daily, actuated by various motives. A few days since, 4-company with two English` missionaries, I %Sea .te the .tplace north of the north gate of the city, where he is prac tising his arts, and the sight which met our eyes will, I am sure, not eemi be effaced from our memories, It was a =very warm day, add yet we found a large crowd. surrounding. the priest, some on their knies,holding,hurn ing incense in their hands. „ Re had. a bell in one hand, which he rung every new, and then, prostrating himself on the ground ,a•nd bowing his- head down towards, the image picture of a female divinity, the Goddess of Mercy, whieh recognises as his ,Fiatron. Whenever he .bowed, those who had , ancense bowed also end •made their worship of .the divinity. Women .and children, old men and young, were there, -Inipiaig to be benefited in some way by the power of this priest to heal, and doubtless many, believe, themselves to have been benefited by. him.. some assert that the mandatinsandthe gentry, intend, to build' ieariPle ,to • his 'hondr an vac* of the aid which he has rendered the sick. Others say that the 'officers are hot proposing 'to take saiy atitiveart in the erection , of the temple, but are willing thatthe people should do as they please Van rAeard to.the.matter. He positively refuses .to receive any money in return for the benefits he .is supposed to confer. A kind of self-appointed committee it is rumored are collecting brick, timbers, and other articles needed in building ; from those who imagine thetni,elveg to have re ceived manifest • benefit .from him, oaten- sibly for. the purpose of erecting a temple for him or to his honor. One of the mission.; aries, on jhe ,occasid? referred to, , engaged in conversation with him, charging him with deluding and deceiving the,coramon people. He did net loss his composure, but remarked• that he himself could do nothing, but wliat :was, done benefiting men was Ihrbugh the 'potency of the. Goddess of Mercy ; that-the •oacerebelieired 'in the genuineness of the 'fiereefits received; &c. isTotwithstanding his immense popularity, he continues to main tain a _very humble and devotional appear anee before the multitude. .Whereunto this strange delusion and ex traordinary excitement' will,grew remains to be peen. ,Notwithstanding the excessive 'heat of the day, two or three large censers or furnaces were' employed to burn- up the intense offered by the visitors who.' suppli cated his aid. This heat 'added not a little to the heat of the WM - Teeple were coming and going all , the while, he being the centre of 01 attractions, the supposed embodiment of power to heal., Would that the l people would open their ,hearte tothe. pize and- the ennobling doe trireti of the blessed gospel of Jane, and seek the salvation of their souls, with even a hundredth part of the zeal which they ex hibit towards the worship of images, or which they put forth in the pursuit of bodily good. . The cholera has been raging here.; and it is estimated that some,sis or seven thousand nakivea have bisen laid low by'it. Only one church-member has been fatally attacked by it, and be died with the name of Jesus on his lips. The subject of sudden death has been brought vividly before the minds of the native Christians. Some have lost a parent; others, a husband, &e. The scourge is now stayed 'as we trust. it was *ttought best some two or three ,weeks ago, for the native brethren belonging to the different missions, to hold a union prayer-meeting in,view the ravages of this disease, and behold, while they prayed the _Lord sent an unexpected shower of rain, which purified the atmosphere, and donbiless checked it some degree. The season has been.a, trying one to the faith of the brethren; but it is believed that the • presenee of the , cholera will have proved 4iessilag to them. LESSONS. OF .WAR. NUMBER XXII MODERATION UNDER- PROSPERITY. IT is in the.mons,ent of victory, an army l 8 exposed to the 'greatest danger. It is then that resistance, should there be any, usually produees the most:fatal effects. A few armed men, rising unexpectedly from an ambush, or a small reinforcement to the-routed party; arriving on the field, has often snatched the victory from the conquerors, now `disordered' through the excitement success, and intent only upon the spoil or the pursuit. It is a stratagem frequently employed in battle, to pretend to fly before the enemy, that,he may be attacked with greater advantage, amidst the intemperate joy : ; and -confusion of ,imams glued victory. From this cause have arisen some of the worst disasters recorded in his . tory. 'Hence 'we hear one of the great gene rals of antiquity say to his soldiers, on the eve of an engagement, " l ! et no, man run when he pursues." -rt was a noble - trait of the Spartah armies, that they were slow to believe, themselves the' - vietors, and continued to fight as against unbroken lines,. even after., the enemy bega4 to fly, and marched on in close array, with equal and steady pace, till the last foot' of the field was their own', and then did not pursue with/that immoderate thirst of slaughter - so often fatal to the arms of less warlike nations. . The moment of fairest prosperity, when every difficulty appears to be surmounted,` is that which calls for the greatest moderation. The elements of opposition have then, indeed in a great degree, disappeared; but we, in a funch.greater proportion, by .the influence of success upon the rabid, have become unpro tected against those that remain. Nothing should induce us to abandon in a happy hour the virtues by which it was ushered. in. Ai no tithe are watchfulness and self-command so requisite, as when not -a- drop of sorrow remains in our cup: At no' time is it so wise to close our ranks, and stand to our arms, as when one by o o ne, ur difficulties are giv ing .way before The guardian powers of the mind. should,be kept in line, even in pur suing the vanquished and spoiling the slain. .such -a state, of existence as the present, to be seente, is 'to be in fearfal jeopardy. CloudS may fordi and gitther in the inidst of the bluest sky ; 'and' dangers are ever hover ing near us, in the day of profoundest peace. Our'enly ist:fety is, Ivith• an "humble sense of ,weakness and of sin ' and •a= tender fear of meriting God's displeasnre,q.to place our selves in , his ,hand, and every moment to rem new our cry Ayr protection and for grace. ttortitino: XELMISEDEL 11E14144ED= was in himself nothing. He was a mere man'; but he was a typical man, appointed to foreshadow the eternal. Son 'of God. In Genesis, we, for the , most part, find the parentage and •descent of the:personages spoken of carefully,recorded. But,lielchis edek is an exception to this rule. ~The book of Genesis makes no mention o#` his'birth, or parentage, or deseent. He .Is, says the Apostle, "ungenealogized." • Without' re- corded `orentage, with nothing recorded re specting those who had. preceded, or these who ghciuld;succeed him, he appears sudden -I,Y, like ,all :linknewn stranger, on the scene. It is this silence 'as to his .parentage and descendants #3l,t, constitutes him, typically (not' actually), an eternal persen, 44 having neither beginning ,pf days nor end, of life," but made to resemble the eternal Son of God, as abiding a Priot in'perpetuitt 14elchis edek,•therefore, as a typically eternal foreshadowed laim.who, being a truly eternal. Person;hrings .the, , eternity and all the.ex cellency of that which He personally. is, into the offices which He assumes. •• In` human arrangements,`-.high office gives dignity to the person ; but, in the case of ~immanuel, it, is the Person who brings potency.ami adds digtitty to the office. Kingship, too, Was associated With the priesthood of Melchise dek. As a priest, he was typically one who knew God, having , acquaintance with His, mind; ,ffis .purposes, and His 'truth ; as, a king, lie witm - ae • one endowed with power to give effect to that which, as a priest, he knew. It is meet that one Who has all knowledge of God, should be invested with all power to act and to rule for God; and such an one, typically (but only typically), was Melehise dek. Jae was king of rigkteousness , and peace. King of righteousness was not his title, but his name. Anti-typiCally, it directs to the Person of - Vim who, having, by His service for ; 41s, on earth, secured for us tv standing in everlastingrighteousneas ;b efore God,*still. maintains and gives effect to the , principles of GOd's holiness? taking care that none of those principles should be tar nished, and yet protwting us, mid securing to ue everlasting peace. Accordingly, :Mel ehisedek,-the king of righteousness, ruled in and troM. Salem, tha.city of peace. Thence, in, the .power of righteouSneest and or peace, as p ne typically eternal and typically divine, he came forth, the' priest of the Most nigh G l ad, to bless saying, "Blessed oe .Abraham' of the Most Sigh God, possessor of heaven and earth." And after havipg thug blessed Abraham, he ministered to him " bread," the symbol of that which giveth strength; and "-wine," the symbol of that which giveth joy; and Abraham, on his part, recognized the giver of these blessings as fypically divine, for he, gave him tithes of 0-- I.Christian TreaBury. RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLE THE TRUEST SAFEGUARD. . , RELIGIOUS 'principle is' the only moral safeguard at man. Every other influence, will be ,only like the green withs with which the treacherous Delilah endeavored to bind the Hebrew giant. They will snap, like ;threads in the whirlwind of pasaion,. or shrivel like tow before the fire of temptation. The sea, of life is covered with dreadful wrecks iof character, where everything eon wired to . insure a , prosperottet voyage, save true religious prindiple. I care , not who or what a man-may be, if he Sties away from God will not warrant that he shall not be guilty of the foulest crimes, or sink to the lowest mint of moral degradation. The sad and sickening proofs' are around us on every side; and. though every sinner does not go to the .extremest - length 'in his wanderings from God and right, yet he =may do it.. There is no certainty where he,will stop when once he enters on the downward road. And even if a man .is kept by the restrain ing grace of God, to• which, and not .to say superiority of nature; he owes it that he does not become utterly depraved and degraded, yet all sin 'implies degradation. It takes a man from his true sphere, and lowers him from his normal position: A 'Orce,sus - or an Alexander, a Laplace or a Hume, a Itousseau or a Byron, a Franklin or a Humboldt, are none of them the highest style of man. To reach the loftiest prises of wealth, and secure, the best rewards of ambition—to wear the greenest bays of thesch * olar i _and smAieve the most distingiished bonoti_of the philosopher or the poet, may all be consistent with;what involvei •moral degradation in the sight of angels and in the estimation of God. That soul which is filled with anything less than the glories and achievements of eternity is a degraded soul, though it, may strut , its brief hour upon the stage of life, arrayed in-the tinsel of every diatinction. 'that belongs to P. _Rogers. ALL . ONE IN MUST JESUS. OR, A .PEARL IN AN AFRICAN SETTING. The following narrative may gladden many hearts, and awaken praise to the Father of. mercies. C. J. was born in the Island of Santa Cruz, in a state of slavery ; at fourteen years of age her master brought her to this country in company with several of his own children, whose education he was anxious to' Complete. For some wrong-doing of the mast ter, not immediately against her, she resolved to forsake his house, and.did so at once, seek ing from door to door for employment. She was soon taken in, and at no great distance from her former home. But a few weeks had elapsed before her place of service was known, and the master urged her return. She utter; ly refused: After the *sage of several months the master, of his own notion, made out , her emancipation papers, and gave them to her. Years were away, and when about. twenty-five years of age this sable child wa,s' washed with the "washing ,of regeneration," and knew herself a child of God.. She stood. fast in her liberty for the space of fifty years ) dining all which time she walked , with the people called Methodists joying and rejOic ing in their order. Seil;ing with Martha's careful hands through all her threescore and ten•years, she provided things honest in the sight, of men, and laid up forilierself in :storei. both a good foundation .against the - time to come; and with commendable forecast pro cured a lot in Greenwood,,and adorned as a place for weary bndy among the rich at her death. Many. were the foretitstes of her heavenly blisi which she enjoyed with many`friends of Jesus still living in this city. To two of these she had intrusted 'the management of her. savings as she labored on, careful meantime to clo partfor the cause of goodness. A. marvellous feature in the life of this woman wasohat although never rising above the condition of a house-servant, her frugality and care found her when disabled by disease from further remunerating service, entitled to about $9, 1 300 in the hinds of her faithful' friends. In her case, , tere was a striking illustration of that which is written : " The blessing of the lord tuaketh rich and addeth no sorrow. " Now mark the , sequel of her hiStory:,she devised to , the Missionary Society ,seme-$l,- 00, and distribated the balance of her prepex ty to other charities and personal friends, and she herself has gone to the sight of her Re deemer and the society of those" who have washed their robes-and made them -, white in the blood of the Lamb.—The Methodist. CHRISTIAN reader, are, you faithful ? Are you earnest—ln season and out of season ? Were yen' called` to' give an account of your stewardship, could you say, " I am pure from the blood of all men ? "--Acts 26,: 26. ME Present propriety of the wicked can only be regarded' as a term of 'the long-suf fering of -God, , which zives•thern the oppor tunity, by repentance,to escape the 'final -- judgment of,God.To/uck. SaneVfied God to the and most ben the last survi the greatest been those pi est to their 'original inch and the yrayS and have labi and the liveF In the in the days of and when the equally low, it victions and lit scattered over its dreariness. - 17 - the holy dari monts o Ansi establialied in and the tale mystios, warm native, but. And the 'un to his sacred from the word did most higher eiviliz It was the broke over , the ality aod op modern world. nest and daring .guided by prud: fects of the pres: upon the grace o of the Reformat the sphit of ev, When the Pmte their independen fight of persectit , • of daring in - ord r t, • mice, .41heYstink int, work had. been ? , .e, was to enjoy thei pe ed the penalty in si growth of a ratio 8: lis to true religion.. 4 te shook all EuroPcf an over which religion h. needed- to rouse theli in formalitim. On: the es have bestirred th• their energies for the ptl, we have Been the ifestation of the Hol God.calls for our gress in knowledge, • the exercise of inge faculty, in' his''service according as that se On a large scale h tiated, in : the : epiritna terptieing early ehnre mindedness which.,l: security as the state revival which - eonstit in the lethargy which revivals of more react realm of Christian ent Earlier times had ohs , The avenues to work the principal authcorit of the world, expresses bitign.. ManY;9f . thes Moved, and the state is that of invitation t ment, of the gospel an ty r . • We have now fre task. But its .magni upon us, as the nation welcome the messenge enterprise proceeds in of Christian countries invading hosts of ini their strategy and cal to repel 'them. Never exacting of intellectua vice of - -the Lord than Christ ramifies endles• every kind of ability. the plea that there is for him. Any subject yield new weal* of the all the actunen of his i ideas wrciught at by • give peculiar . 'energy tion. For such' itis a. away. Ever,y , servant o senses -a mine, in his ow ral, it 1 . 13 in ;the jine of his way to . discovery rect ; and the chiser w: motives of t the indiwidn material, aid•the great handling: of 'enterprise. trade,- the farmer on h among his• pupils, and t .gregation, has the best •hy.kir mnre. lilkely to 4 han 4 ny IPir,,;d44arit ..ttis . nior e _likely to b: plain fact,'lminble as Oti PAUrS!lritico resulti3 endlesilyneW: TilE Two B A Wltrrinin the Fr Review forcibly presew .ofresemblatioe bet Ween and that,; whibb, at pr land with the - desoloo lovnng extract pers ders. It does not ems says_ on the' subject,' This war- - the • reboil his paient Absaloin ag' fore'at.elo great a distal by us dompatitively lit Sympathies were awake as we Were called active wants, and at; first too has , ftnally s3pl:oo,,aboost stones,' and hag. grAwY ticproporticm„ PAW sa4 9 ntt 40 ' It - of ol d t h a t: man ,of g hurim. OUR NATION'S F And doubtless the first is,, to act , just as pivid stances:; to evoke' for, th ement of its strength. lions times of - trusting 11 yeriance, so long; as. 'we in supineness and , slOth, sound to some ears, but Egp, , niore, it is,the Inost True,, eel and without him we can 04111tRISL MERIN] :.has L been. blessed`of ;I , ..itt- of the - greatett . ~, 4Oti•Society....Sinae - : . 6 - ppa*d froni - tit4, JO - of inanilnirhiVe .d`4° . who,-keeriln , o4- with.fi,explored, nidst ,ftsurei ;of his . wet•d,. .:0440e and,:grnee,- ; ' Y itigi.their , .thvn :lives I,to eonformity.there. Y ehurch's - deholation:. ... 7 Si es`-'4ld. hondage, jI l epeiety had' sunk 0, 7 ..0f earnest con, ,4.6 ; here.*nd: there ~-. that aleUerelioecl, qjt i i,n:lo. interest. nilOn' )71"A , ; aid achieve-. .; Of _` . 1 ,1 ; ' 140:w1es' :OS o f Gerard rieg-z-elecitienee 'of, the., ir:,,Retitaps too hirtagit editretian. upon God. r, who, truly devoted ught to learn of thein belhnged `to` the elase, " re e - tiie way I'7 . the m., 1 oaf syekliffe'whicla of an enforced form ic Approaches , to -the enterprise more ear,. at of Luther, always cast of the future ef ,u. in ardent ;reliance Such was:the spirit aghout, and has been e reformation since. hutch 6 had. secured were free ,from the from the necessity ;g4iptaintheir exist indolence,- as if *Or, d all that remained They soon',suffer- I tual torpor:, and the hat threatened death fie conwlsion, which diecinsed the abyss been suspended, -was rote. their ihdolenee her hand, as , ohure,6 Ives ,pnt forth .emotion of the, gos blqsed,hy the man- pint among them. rgies, for , our pro ' righteoasne§s,,,ana ty, invention, every nd grants -14 grace is rendCred. his truth"- -been illus asperity of .the en in tlij cold Worldly it when settled in Itipp, in the great tteltefOrinatiOn, weeded,• and in the times. Nor is the rise exhausted now. les to contend with. ere obstructed,. and of the church and themselves in prohi thstacles are now. re the -world' generally; labor for advance= melioration of socie across to , the proper de is only dawning 'pen their portals to of salvation, and as certaining the wants and encounters the •ty, ever changing g forth new devices s there a time more • ourees in the ser ,The::cause of . It has workifor a a Bone can mile place enterprise ill brighten up and ht to him who turns ' ellect upon it. 2end man's own industry id power to execu-r necessary to go far hrist, asJinch, pcs vocation. man's business44o4 most open and di me to the life and man, the ' r icher the variety for the" he mechanic in his farm, the .teacher: minister in bia,c4- il for altd , productive,-.,t0 .014: specelatiye &IL bepaiiite look l , is the •onry Ball generati* - of rinceton ELU Quarterly' some of the points bsalones rehellioni ent has -filled our of War.. .The foi ls interest our rea- Ice all our, author of a sou Against 'St bavid—herete e froni as' to be e felt, 'save 'as our d for thelallen, or rainfst,er to their Eaparatively weak, P, uur,o,wri heart h -0 - the oogigan fugitive bgfOe . 4 11fr i sitting down rd at a 88604 Bei- ST DUTY. iuty of this nation, d in like eireum struggle every el talk in these per- God for our deli-. main aliation 1k ay hive a ' , pious ally, it is all :cant; rrogant: presump lity is with God, nothing, but ; is it not plways through the. instrumentality of 'second causes that. Jehovah , employs His , efficiency ?, It would ',ler no more , vain tor, a 'sinner to sit.down spiritual idleness, and expect that God would irrespective of his own activities, interpose for his salvation, than for this'nation to hops that Ahsalom• would be defeated and slain, while yet David did , not summon to his aid the armies of Is. rael. It is indeed, well for us in these trot"- blow, times to remember that our help is in God, and even to sing that sweet Song ,of confiding foigi, ".The - Lord is our -refuge and strength," but neither the I feeling, or the song - have any meaning, unless at the same time We summon to the Struggle 'every resource of power and influence that we pog Here, then, is unquestionably our , -first duty, and let no one seek in any ' way to evade it. The question, whut can 1 Y pefson -47 .do to assist 't4e-gPY.PPIWIS uPaerzll 3 i44 I live to crash this, rebeillen ie cue that every man should now ,diligentlyTropose to himself; and by the reply that his min con science givei to this interrogation,' should - all conduct be governed. This is no time for hesitation or delay, or for fhat inquiry that self-inierest is so prone to make:; how is or that going to affectlne " the pol itician with a sharp eye to the future position of his party,, the, merchant to his contractS, theponey holder to his property, the inilita-, ry.o - fficer to his chances, of preferment, and the private, citizen to his comfOrts." We are unworthy sons' of noble sires we are. the ungrateful= recipients of` divine blessings, if, as when now ; everything truly valuable in this <country is- imperiled, we hesitate at any sacrifice of "either time, , or property ; or.' life, that duty calls upon us to make.* GII9IINDS 0 . 1" SUCCEO. But let Us turn - to the analpgies cif hope our theme suggests. :Unfavorable' as to all hutaan - appearances seemed the cause 'of Da vid upon thlt night,that miih. his little band of: faithful.followers he rested at Bahurim ; his confidence in , .Cred was ',still unshaken. laid m down slept, I awaked , ; ~.for the Lord sustained me ; I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, ;that 'have set themselves against me round about.? And may we not cherish for ourselves, in this day of our national peril a like confi dence ? 13ad David a singte ground for. has faith in the , success of his cause that we do not Possess Was.that rebellion :of Absalom any more unrighteous or, wicked than that, which' is now. deluging our. country ;with blood? • • •li*as a fabehood for Absalom to say that Pavid perverted julgment in ;Rides ; and is equally false for any portion of this land . ' to affirm that a single one of its constitution al rights were ever denied it.• •The great producing cause of both these rebellions was ; the lust of power. It, was ambition for place ? , *let the reins of ..this. government loLvlt..**y4.Femainediattie hande.itluat.now. seek its :overthrow , . and 'let them havel?een permitted to drive it wheresoevei they and they would never` hai4i''lifted one finger again:it it. • And with a dissimilation that cannot• fail to auggest,.thesibsequiouiness of Absaloni, in - kissing every man in Judea that came, to make obeisance to him ; has this revoltkin• our land teen promoted. The pos session of power under the Federal govern ment was largely used for its overthrow, and with loud professions of an earnest jli . for compromises secret efforts were made to se core their defeat. Nor is this all. There is in this Amdricau rebellion one feature- 7 -in oar appiikentilon supremely unrighteous, 'arid wroke4--4,hat had no place in the rebellion inlUdea. We refer, of coarse, to the- avowed ~ purpose of conserving and perpetuating an .matitution, for clinging to which the hosts ,of.Pharoah were overwhelmed in, the 1 .11 ed Sea; . and ever- twhich all . our fathers olden. limes, both North and SolltiltoWer9, wont to weep. And now a rebellSon.thus.conceived and pro moted, will Ged pOtiper•it"? A government with such a corner-stone--a corner . ..stone laid in the falsehood that denies 'human equality, and personal liberty,--will it ever be estab lished ? cannot 'believe it. As well think of Absalom'a sitting down upon Da vid's thrbne, and wearing David's purple, as such .p ossibility • this land. [Reference is.then ma ,ta those 4 .o3nger,s :God has deliyeied:pui'fmihim the past, as a ground Of hdpe'thi't lie' 'will provide it *4' of escape'fronilhose whfch at present en•us.] " •`• ' 1. • • • The article then proiAleas'as GOD DOES NOT INTEND. OUR RUIN. But David had, as we have seen, a stillfirmer and surer ground for his confidence in the overthrow, of Absalom'A rebelliOn. Deeply - Condeiousof the sins of his 'people the Psahniit still 'believed that Igraer had, under ' God, a great and divine mission* , of ,blessing •to perform to the world, and hence: tthat her present affliction. could not be in tended for her destruction;but was only dis. ' ciplinary. And' are we not right in cherish ing precisely the .same views of our land in her present sorreio pike Isiael of old, we are, indeed, a wicked people. , Our sins are many and 'aggravated, and they are contin ually crying - to heaven ;against us ' lye are Proud. We are ever saying to the nations of the earth 'in the ' swelling ,of our national` vanity, " Behold' 'this= great Babylon which we have built." We are covetous,•greedy of . gain, practicarmaterialists, ever pampering the '.,body and starving ,the smil., We - are a ~ tz remarkably. intemperacit eopk:. Drunken ness is a, vice, perhaps. k i re prevalent with us than any other peoplein the world, either 'civilized or barbareita. And, to complete the `catalogue`of our iniquities, we should add many - other things equally displeasing to • God. ,But after saying all this, and every thing else that can in this' airection lye said, does.'net the: truth still remain, that, in:every thiFl,g Whie,hconstitutes a trulyreligious peo ple, we have, as,snation, , tbeen gradually ad vancing ever since the cOmmencement of our . national life ? I know, indeed, that there are.many who say, "that the former days were better than..these," hut if this is nut to be attributed to a cyni4lspirit, it is certain ly occasioned by a wrong induction of facts. Go back 'to our revolution.ary'history,. and contrast the religious condition of our coun try now with what it was then. Had Chris tianity in those days the same, hold; upon the faith of our citizens as it, .has now? Were *there not ,then .vastly more infidels than with us Education, ? now BO *clitisol4tily con; , nected. with the Church, that we 1441* Okno single institution of higher learning in our land, that is not nnder, its direction, were they not dim, to as great extent, either in different or hostile to Christianity ? An ag gressive religion—a religion that seeks by itsgifts both of men' and money, to evan gelize the darkest portions of the •world—is not that Aomething that 'has quite recently appeared in our 14ind ?, Are not all the great bonevolent institutions of our land, of com paratively recent date ? And then, as to the public recognitip of Christianity ; would it he''pessible now for - any 'Convention or As sembly of men, to meet 'day by day, and , month by , month, anywhere in this land, and never once implore 'upon their proceeding' s the divine bletiising, as that Convention did, Which in 1787 framed, our Federal Constitu tion? There was not , one single ,prayer.in: all* sessions.* We cannot -feel' then— , -evedwith all our. i 4V-R 14.0, 1 4tEM Rijn 77,,t.ht t IiOU. nag, in IRs.reoecitien,; urvexrti upon-us in wrath, and: that He is about to consign us, as a nation, to remediless de struction. We; indeed, recognise our nation:: al sins, and the connection that exists be tween them and= our present sorrow; but the connection is not, we believe, one of judge ment and 'retribution, but of discipline and purification. The passage of Holy Writ that we think most aptly applies,to this nation, is not those words of the old prophet of doom: "Behold the . eyes of the Lord God are upon this sinful _kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; but rather those- sweet words of .comfort that 'Christ spake to •His own people : "Every branch that beareth fruit, •He purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit. Our reading of the purpose of God toward this people, in this terrible rebellion, is all summed up in the words—" Cltastelted,blit not killed." " Chai: tened, but not killed." 4 meriow., The discipline may, indeed, be long and severe. hod may . need to hold us in the furnace for many weary months. Physical defeats may be necessary, to secure .moral' victories, in the future, as they have been in the past. Clinging very firmly to our sins; we may have. to be .brought still lower in the valley of humility, ..before. we will forsake them. " The plugh-share of 'affliction may have to make .a deeper furrow, to reach the hard subsoil of our pelf-devotion." Our ma, terial wealth, as a nation may need to be greatly reAced, before a. generous patriot ism will 'supplant selfishness and party-Spi rit. `But filially, the process ended, and the nation Purged of those great'sine which have" so long polluted. , her fair fame, liberty and the blessings ;of brotherhood,. secured to all. who wear the form and possess the attributes of man, we, doubt not but that the. darts of some modern .Joce'b will be thrust through the heart of this, Absalom, and the trumpet of.Pa vid be heard, calling back to their h6tes our And bh, amidst all the darkness of this night of gloorn, is it not sweet -to think of that qemipg day, of glory;.aye, more, to see, even now, breaking over the distant hill-tops, its first, bright morniog beams? This beau tiful land, physically, -"the glory of all lands,'" with its Nbrthern mountains, and Western prairies, and Southern savannahs ; and, intellectually, the ,home of a race, whose character, formed by the commingling of al niost all European nationalities, is like, Co rinthian brass, for that very reason the more precious : such a land, emerging from this terrible baptism of blood, purified from all the, dross of sin, and thus' starting out upon a, new career of blessing ; will not that be a spepta,ple that angels Will delight to behold ? May God hasten it, in our time, and all the praise shall be His forever and ever. Amen. - .*As statements 'directly at variance with this have recently, been publiclyanade, it may be well that we should here distinctly state what the facts were,. The Coniention which fratike,d our Federal Consti tution, met in Philadelphia, May 25th, 1787. "On the 28th of June--more than four weeks after.the opening of the Convention—Dr. Franklin made, and Roger Sherman seconded the motion, .that, "henceforth -prayers, imploring the assistance .of heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning." Mr. Ham ilton and several'others expressed their 's.pprehen sions that, however proper such a resolution might have been, at, the beginning of the,Convention, it, might, at this late day; bring on it some disagreea ble arditrailversions. Dr. Franklin • and Mr. Sher- IVA Answered, - that the past•cmission of duty could not justify a, further, °mask); etc. Mr. Randolph Proposed, in order - to give a favorable aspect 'ye the measure, that a Sermon'be ;preached, .at the re quest of the Convention on the4th of. July and thence:A . )ll6rd prayers. Dr. Franklin seemided this m' /items not ccirriedholdever, 'died the oripinal motion of Dr. .Franklin was lost by a very decided. vote. See SparkS' Franklin vol. 1, pp. 514, 515, and vol. 5; pp. 153, 155; also'Madisons Journal, in /oco. A STARVING SOUL • Ati able writer asks, "Is not your soul as 4ikely to starve Trout selfishness as the beg gar's body for , want of food V' A man may feast his body and starve his soul. Ile pro cures the richest food. Ile parta,kes of, it, in. abundance, It gives vigor.to his body. The, rounded muscle and the well filled - veins show, the care bestowed upon the body. But while this process is going on, the soul may be pi ning for lack of nourishment. Its' nourish= ment.is truth—spiritual troth 7 -truthrelating to auty. If this truth .be withheld, the is .ignorance with respect, to ;the great r end-of existence. Its powers. cannot be deieloped ; It cannot grow. It is star ving,' • The 'body is strengthened by exercise. Nourishing food gives strength for, exercise, and exercise increases strength. So with the cnowledge• of duty is a dohdition of the exercise 'Which promotes its growth. There can•be no performance of duty with-, out-the , knowle„dge 4 .dity. Hence the• soul cannot,,W r ithout spiritual knowledge, avail it , self of exercise ~as. a means of growth, any, more than the body .can, without food, 'avail itself of exercise. A man may feast his intellect, and at the same time starve his soul. Truths of science may occasion that intellectual exercise which shall proinote . intellectual - .growth. But sci ence cannot directly affect those powers which we have in mind when 'we speak- of the 'soul. Science may give the idea of:law and,govern mgnt, but not off a moral law and moral gov ernment. At least, it cannot give those ideas with a clearness that shall .exert any consid erable influence, on the life 7 Revealed truth 'truths contained in the Bible, can alone cause those exereises which shall promote. the growth;of the soul, the de, velopment of its moral powers, and the puri fication of the affections. It is dead in tra paSses and sins. Its Vitality must be restored. This can be done only; through the agency of the Holy Spirit. From, science we can not so much as learn ;whether there. be any Holy Spirit. From the Bible; „alpne Pan we derive that knowledge. - Pardon must be hid, and a perfect righteousness: Science can give no assurance of pardon, and silent as to the. Mode 'by Which it .may be secured. From the bible alone. can we derive that knowledge. 'The soul must starve if the truth contained in the Bible be not furnish.' edit. " , • How many are voluntarily starving their. souls I- Who, would starve his body-,if j abun-, dance, of food was spread out ,before him ? Why will Men take better. care .or their - dying bodies than.Otihikr undy c iug souls sdiaoi RELIGIOUS WORLD ABROAD. FRANCE. , Me Jews and -the Emperor.—The Paris, correspondet of the News of the Churches; says; " Israel has not been .forgotten fly the Governm . ent. ''The Emperor has lately decreed the re-organization of the Jewish worship, Crespecting the age and mode of electing the rabbis, 'the formation of the eonsistories, the list of electors," etc. • 17fficieney of Protestant labors.—The nor there section 'of the Central Protestant Si - - cietSr of , Evangelipation, also of the Re formed Church, lately held•its twentieth an-. niVersary at Lille. It has perseveringly laboured ; and has succeeded in insuring reg ular opportunities of meeting for Diving worship to. the disseminated Protestants its field of six departments, besides answer mg repeated and' pressing calls to establish ProteStant service among Roman Catholic:, Thirty 7 one •places of worship thus openerl are frequented by about 3000 persons. • Its indirect influence has also been such, that it is .partly owing to its exertions that the government created six places for resident pastors, and that other societies have joint! to build various churches and schools. This, with kindred societies, is seeking out th.e remnants of the ancient Protestant families, who survived the persecutions of the last century. Many of these have merged into Roman Catholic circles; or livc in total religiolie indifference; yet the old Hugenot Bible is net seldom found, and some tradition connected therewith, which. warms up the heart and' prepares it for the seed of Divine grace. The Reformed Church in Paris has well nigh doubled its charitable exertions and in come for the poor during the last ten years. Its deacons Were forty-eight in number, now they are ninety; the sum they had to distri lrate--wa5.....48,00.0.- franca, it now ,above 80,000; the number of schools has increased from to 16. - ITALY Royal lifarrage Pee forfeited.—Theltal iart,prests perpetrated an act of effrontery to their Sovereign's family lately, whick was hut lightly punished by the pecuniary loss they subjeated themselves to. In the month = of September, the Princess Pia, youngest daughter of the King of Italy, was married-by proxy:to the,King of Portu gal, and .most of the cities of Italy sent her valuable .bridal presents. The clergy of the Cathedral :of Turin refuseil to allow the royal marriage to be celebrated in the Duo mo,, under pretext that it'was by proxy, but in reality out of hatred - - to' the present state' of things; and the'-ceremotiy took place ac cordingly in the, private chapel of the Royal Palace. They claimed. the -fee, however, amounting to 20,000- piasters, presenting an order, forthe';" signature ; but Victor Emmanuel dreW 'his pen throngh it, and per emptorily refused, as he considered the refu sal to celebrate the marriage in the Cathedral as an insult to himself. ne Traklensiai Senz*try.—At the end of Septeraber f the second annual examination of the ~ s tudents, attending the Waidensian Theologidal College, since its removal to , Florence, took 'place, when seven students presented themielves, and passed through a severe Ordeal of three days' continuance with greitt credit. During thelast two `leeks five ,candidates for ordination, to the holy, ministry have been under examination by the Theological, CoMmission, and they have all acquitted' themselves creditably under examinations great' . length and severity. One of these was An et priest named Peccininni, who has• been labouring as an evangelist for a year at Porto:Ferrain; in the island- of Elba. 13"operti Inclietttions.-31. Turin, Walden- . sian pastor at Milan, writes thus, under date: 14th October':—" I received last week a. most excellent letter from the delegate of police in Merbengo, begging' me. to go to that city and, preach the g(Apelv? Several gentlemen, the syridic,,fhe judge, a; margins, etc., etc After having bought the. Bible from one of our colporteurs, desire to, hear, .the preaching of a minister, and 'say they await, my arrival with anxiety." The little chnrch at Rio is avery interest ing one. It'had its origin in a visit paid by one or two seamen belbriging to the village of:Nice, several years ago, when Francesco Madiai resided there' He gave-them tome' copies of the Scriptures and religious, books, and the study of these, with the teaching of the Holy Zpirit of God, wrought many real conversions. They . have, been exposed Ao much persecution, and this has had:the effect of consolidating and strengthening theni. Last year the persecution was carried so far, that when the first evangelist canae`to preach in the village, the people, With the priest vt their head, actually heaped. faggots of wooA round the house to, burn it down; and to save the louse, as well a,s,,the lives of the occu pants, the evangelist had to make a flight by. night to Longorte.—News of the Citurelbeg. THE wicked man, not only disguises hi& crime& or intentions from others :.but through excess of .Self-love he becomes his own flat terer, calls his - vices by soft names, or mis take& them 'for virtues ;, and deems his pe * n ductljustiaable perhaps meritorious, when * fact is a hateful compound of, impiety, in jUatice,, and malevolence;and will very soon be 'proved to be so.-7-Seott. ol.e, r 4, To. 863.
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