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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.