Vol. VII, No. 20.---Whole No. 332.
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The Wild Dead Leaves.
•
EDDYING, whirling all around,
Plying over the dusty ground,
Iteeling now in a reckless flight,
Chasing eaoh other out of sight.
Back again with a sudden gust
Of shrieking wind and a cloud of dust,
Up in the air with a sudden spring,
See how they mimic the swallow's wing.
Whirled in a column, dispersed like a train
Of startled birds, they are off again ;
Then with a swoop they flock to the ground,
In a weird witch•dance they circle round.
This year's leaflet is greening the trees,
Last year's leaves are away on the breeze;
This year's leaflet shrinks from the blast,
Last year's loaves on the winds ride fast;
This year's leaf is a living thing,
Last year's leaves are the ghosts of spring.
This year's hopes—ah 1 how faint they start,
Last year's hopes lie dead in the heart;
But a sigh can stir them, they move with a
breath, '
And they dance like the dead leaves—a dance of
death.
Bow to Live
HE liveth long who liveth well!
All other life is short and vain.
He liveth longest who can tell
Of living toot for heavenly gain.
He liveth long who liveth well 1
All else is being flung away;
He liveth longest who can tell
Of true things truly done each day.
Waste not thy being; back to Him
Who freely gave it, freely give;
EThe is that being but a dream ;
'T is but to be, and not to live.
Be wise and use thy wisdom well ;
Who wisdom speaks, must live it too;
He is the wisest who can tell
How first he lived, then spoke, the true,
Be what thou seemest I live thy creed I
Hold up to earth the torch divine :
Be what thou prayest to be made :
Let the great Master's steps be thine.
Fill up each hour with what will last;
Buy up the moments as they go;
The life above, when this is past,
Is the ripe fruit of life below.
Sow truth, if thou the true wonldst r'eap';
Who sows the false shall' reap the vain;
Erect and sound thy conscience keep;
From hollow words and deeds refrain.
Corttoposiena.
OUR FOREIGN LETTER.
TEN IiAI4OASHIRE BIIFFEREIia.
THE Lancashire distress is the absorbing
question of the One: It occupies a promin
ent place in newspapers, sermons; public
meetings, private conversations, and personal'
meditation. It has brought to light many
illustrious examples of extensive self-denial'
and unmurmuring patience under heavy suf
ferings. It has also elicited an amount:of cha
ritable contributions from rich and poor in
other places which has seldom, if ever, been
equalled. While the Peer gives his £5OOO,
as Lord Derby did at a late meeting in Man
chester, the peasant gives his sixpence or shil
ling with as much good-will—and in doing
so, perhaps he makes a greater sacrifice than
the aristocratic donor. All denominations
have taken up the matter heartily, and given
substantial expressions of sympathy. The
Roman Catholics kept aloof for a time ; but
now they are forward with their gift: •At
the Manchester meeting already referredlo,
the munificent sum of ,:£70;090 was subscrib
ed on the spot. But what is this among so'
many-431,395 persons who are relieved
weekly by twenty-seven Unions and seventy
eight Voluntary Committees ? At the pre
sent rate of disbursement, it would last'little
more than two weeks—the weekly expendi
ture being £33,545,- which gives about nine
teen pence per week to each`of the distressed.
These statistics have been supplied by a
special Government Commissioner ; and they
may, therefore, be relied on. As far as
practicable, girls who used to work in the
factories, are employed in sewing, by which
they earn a trifle; but there is nothing for
the factory men to do. It is to be borne in
mind that, in addition to the Lancashire ope-
ratives thrown out of work and wages by the
want of cotton, there are many others—
clerks, and porters—who were employed in
connection with other departments of the
trade, and who are now without the means
of support. Something must eventually be
done for them-; for they cannot live on air.
It is greatly to be regretted that some are
taking advantage of the charity of their
countrymen, prefer,ring to live on it, in idle
ness, to accepting good wages for honest
work. Cases of this kind—and they are not
few—being brought before the public, will
have the effect of stopping the flow of cha
rity, though they are to be expected, where
ever sinners, not , . subjects of the grace of
God, are to be dealt with.
GAROTTING IN LONDON.
Perhaps next to the Lancashire distress,
garotting in London engages the largest
share of popular attention. This is a species
of criminal anidsen3ent carried on at mid
night or mid-day, as is convenient for the
performers, by ticket-of -leave men—convicts
who are let loose on society before their time
of punishment has expired. Persons of all
ranks—and at, all hours—have been abused
and robbed by these villains 'who should have
been sent from their country for her good,
or shut up from society fors her good and
their own. Never did a morbid philanthro
py make a greater blunder, than to suppjse
that she shall reform confirmed criminals` by.
pampering them. Justice and charity alike
demand that the lawless shall be punished,
and not suffered to go at large to the peril of
the life and property of peaceable citizens.
Mc proverb—more true than beautiful—
" save a, thief from the gallows, and. he will
cut your throat," should teach our rulers the
folly and danger of the course they are now
plirsuing, in granting a ticket-of -leave to con
victs, before their period of punishment has
expired. An old book for which some of our
modern reformers have very little respect,
says, the law is " for the lawless and disobe
dient ;" and, on its authority, we hold it to
be wrong, however well meant, to act towards
certain convicts as the Government is now
doing.
COLENSWS BOOK, ETC.
Critics of all capacities and of many
churches, are trying their hand at Dr. Co
lenso's book on the Pentateuch. I suppose
the reviews already published, would make
a good volume, it they were collected ; and
yet, they donot expose all the mitred author's
errors, and absurdities. His lordship who
semis to have a kind of menomania for
aritlithetic, finds his chief difficulties in What
may bi termed the arithmetic of the books
of Moses. The rapid increase of the Israel
ites in Egypt, the ordering of such a multi
tude, as left that land, for marching; and the ,
arrangements of the camp do.not tally with
his views, and of course they unzstbo- wrong
—not he; . Both its contents and style, will
render it a more popular book, than the Es
says and Reviews which have dOne very lit
tle harm, compared with the noise they
xitade.
Dr. Lushington, Judge in the' Court of
Arches, ha's' delivered sentence in the cases
Of Dr. Rowland Williaing and Mi. Wilgon,
two of 'the leading _Essayists and Betiewers.
These Rationalistic worthies are to be sus
pended for one year ab officio et beneficio
Of course in 1864 they shall be restored to
their places in the Church, to teach what,be
the first principles of infidelity, and to urge
their hearer's on unto perfection—blank
atheism. Both gentlemen haVe appealed to,
the Privy Council whose hands are so tied,
by its decision in the celebrated Goshaincase,
that it is highly probable Dr. Lurshington.'s
sentence shall remain intact.
EVANGELICAL AGENCIES-THE WIGTON MAIL-
TYRS-CARVROSS CASE.
The various evangelical agencies are pro
secuting their winter work in- London-and
the other large cities, with their usual vigor,
and though the number of conversions re
corded, be not so large, there is every reason
to believe that, the cause of truth and right
eousness is making steady progress. There
is much land to. be possessed; for home hea
thenism prevails to an alarming extent, and
calls to the Church, "work while it is called
to-day." 0 that ChriStians responded a;c
cording to their responsibility, and according
to the importance of the work !
While men of learning and professed re
ligion in England are directing all , their en
ergies against the Bible, men of a similar
class in Scotland have been making singular
aud,strentious eudeavors
to disprove the, his
tory, of the " Wigton Martyrs,"those two
Christian heroines who were hardy enough
to avow the principles of the Covenanters,
for which they were condemned by the Laird
of Legg. There is not a more authentic
record in history than this, and yet' prejn.
diced men would , remorselessly out it out of
its page; because, forsooth ! it awakens un
pleasant memories of blood :unjustly shed, in.
the sacred, name of religion. The next thing
we shall hear in this age of scepticism shall
be that Queen Mary and John Knox never
played any part in the drama of real life,
but were mere' mythical personages, dressed
up in certain ch6racters by hiStorical
Maims"!
The notorious Cardreas case has' come up,
again in the law courts on the same grounds
as formerly, but . the defendant, the Free
Church, is brought into court in a somewhat
different form. This re-introduction of the
case declares, as plainly as anything could,
that other interests, than Mr. ,McMillan's ?
are involved, and being tried. 'The degra
ded minister of Ca.rdross` is but a stalking
horse in the hands of Erastianism to aid in
the overthrow of the independence, in spirit
ual matters, of the Free Kirk which acknowl
edges no king but Jesus. If it lower a man
—and nothing does so more thoroughly—to
allow himself to be made the tool of a party,
Mr. McMillan is now as low. as he can get ;
and we, feel confident all those he is acting
for will do for him, shall never raise him
Much above . his present level. Now, as in
by-gone day's, the Lord `will defend the right,
and the prey shall be snatched from the
grasp of Erastian intolerance.
FACTIoN FIGHTS.
The faction fights in thel,xish parish of
Emly, alluded to in my last letter, have been
brought to a happy termination by the Re
demptotists, the three year oldi and four year
olds shaking him& utider solemn pledge
not to use shi/a/agh, or any weapon ainst
each other at fair, market, or chapTif. It
would be good for the people of his diocese
'if-Dr. Leahy, gave them more f the sound,
scriptural inStractions, contained in his late
pastorals which, I apprehend, did more to
quiet the bloody factionists than all the
masses, and relics and images the Redemp
torists sold. I believe many of the RoMan
Catholics of Ireland would gladly receive the
Word, if they, had confidence in the raessen
gers. Unfortunately strong party feeling
haS so long. existed. in Ireland that Roman
ists have learned to look on Protestant min
isters, especially missionaries, es a kind 'of
sacred kidnappers whoa have no higher end
in view, than to swell their numbers, at the
expense of Al - other Church.
The Archbishop of Tua,m, the incarnation
of ultraraontanism in Ireland, has threaten
ed to oppose the ()Tomei statue, unless all
allusion to civil and religious liberty be with
drawn from the inscription. His Grace
awoke in time to save himself from a glaring
inconsistency . ; but he shall not be able to
carry with him the advanced liberals of his
Church, who are breathing more freely every
year, and becoming less afraid of spiritual
pains and penalties, being Protestants in
fact, though not in form,
The Presbyterian mission to Romanists,
and open air preaching have lost some of
their best human friends in the removal, by
death, of the Rev. Dr. E."M. Dill, and Dr.
Johnston. The forther was personally known
to many Christians in America, having visi
ted that country almost thirteen years ago ;
and the latter, by report, as the early friend
of Sabbath Schools, prayer-meetings, and
open air preaching, all of which he lived to
see working vigorously and systematically.
Though the prophets do not live forever, the
God of the prophet does, and his work shall
never stand still for want of agents. Provi
dence is a perpetual motion—never back
wards. Let this thought go to console the
PHILADELPHIA, -MURSPAY.,;,-iff.A.NUARY.WW.
friends of the late Dr. Campbell who fell at
his Tost in India, having "served his own
generation by the will of God."
THINGS IN ITALY.
The same event is contemplated with very
different feelings by different individuals,
according as it affects their interests. The
!ate appointment of a new French Foreign
minister has exasperated the Italian people
conSiderably, while, it has been the occasion
of intense grati4cation to the priests who
would cling to the Pope at all hazards. In
spite of Napoleon's tortuous policy, the cause
of United Italy is making progress ; Anid i we
would not think it strange, if imperial Ma
chtaveliSm should be taken in its own crafti-,
'less ' and becOme the helper CT the power of
wished to hinder: A large number, both lay
and clerical,rwithin the Italian Church, ea
gerly bent on political rag/pm 'cannot be
silenced or turned" aside by a negation or a
sham: The more such -mentare curbed, the
more resolute do they beCome, and when,they
do put forth,their ;united power, they hurry
on from reform to , revolution, as much to
their own astonishment, as to their opponent's
confusion and idea: Hope"` 0 4, Italy, humanly
speaking, lies Withia`the 'Church of Rome.
The greater the internal dissatisfaction of her
members, and the more Napoleonic policy
does to increase that dissatisfaction, the near
er is the crash in
,whieh hoary, but unright
eous institutions shall be broken to pieces,
never to be reand again. After alt the
French Emperor is little more than a nega
tive quantity in the present Italian struggle,
being what a Secession minister of the last,
century was desoribed to be—a protesting`
body.
Reader, Pod's kingdom is ,adVancing in
the world; though' dark clouVests on it in
your land at preserit—a cloud which we trust
and pray shall soon pa,salrom your sky, that
in the brightness of peace the mighty ener
gies of A.merican, churches may be fully giv
en tot the diffusion of Christianity. Has the
kingdom of. Christ come into your, heart,
kind reader. The Close
,of another year is
a Very suitable time for the work of self-ex =
aminatioh. - I would urge you to make an,
earnest endeavor to ascertain how you stand
with God, and not to rest till you known the
true state of 'your case. If you have hith
erto been , a , worshipper at' the atm- court of
religion; having a "form of godliness, but'de
nying the power thereof, you Must either aban
don your refuge of lies, or perish forever, and
that soon with the unbelieving
. and abomin
able in the lake of fire,where you shall live the
indestructible victim of torment which none
out of hell can have any conception of, and
Which no thinker, or :writer, or speaker can
possibly eiaggerate. Leaving the outer court,
and'entering into the hay of hello. - of Christi=
anity, or worshipping God in spirit you shall
be safe and happy on earth, and, in God's
good time, be transported to heaven, where
sorrow is unknown, because, sin cannot
_enter,
and where altitude after-altitude , of -Miss ;
like the many peaks of a, mountain range,
shall rise - enchantingly beforejou, sending
&Val' to you, in 'musical WhisperS, theinvi
tation, " Come up hither." If you are 'a new
creature in Christ Jesus, I wish you, with
all my heart, "a merry'Christinas and a
happy New Year." If .you are still in your
sins, it, would only be a' mockery . to express
such =a wish., 0 that the beginning of another
year may : find all the read.ers of the Banner
of the Covenant in. covenant with God, and'
setting up their banners in His name
LESSONS OF WAR.
NIJAIBER XXV.
THE ADVANTAGES OF A PEACEABLE DISPOSI-
TT is an eminent mark of skill in , the
practice of war, to 'know how to permit an
enemy to reap the fruits of. his own folly,
without diverting him, by an ill , timed or
needless opposition ; to exercise the good
sense and patience, to leave to themselves
things that are doing well enough, and to be
willing' to. owe the accomplishment of our de
sires' to the quiet - piogress of events, without
the eclat of sanguinary victories.' Few men
ever understood better this kind of warfare,
than Louis XI of France. During the pro
tracted, though 'sometimes disguised, hostili
ties that existed between him and Charles,
Duke of Burgundy, his conduct upon one oc
casion is thus commented upon by DeCo
mines i "The King ".says he "was a great
er enemy to him in not opposing him openly,
than if he had . deClared open warr - against
hiii; for, upon such a declaration; the duke
would have abandoned his rash' enterprises
and designs, and that would not have occur
red, which happened to him afterwards."
Indeed, a man is commonly his own great
est enemy ; frequently he will, when
left alone, soonest complete his own destruc
tion, A maU4orrupted by vice', and infatu
ated 14 prlde and Undeserved succebs, needs
no assistance in bringing about the day of
his calamity. Any interference, on the part
of others, will but delay his fall, by teaching
caution to an imprudent enemy, and sug
gesting to a wicked one the necessity .of
counterfeiting virtue.
Most men exercise so little just concern
for their own welfare, that, if left to them
selves, they will desert, without a thought,
the most important interests of their lives ;
and yet they would meet death in defence
of these, if any one should attempt to'foree
them out of their hands,
There are few men so weak, that they
cannot find on some side the means of inflicting
serious injury upon those who have given a
wound to their
,pride, or awakened their
displeasure. They gather confidence from
meeting with respectable opposition, and
an unnatural degree of strength and spirit,
from the spurrings of their own dislike. Vice
is posseised of a barbarian nature, and, is
more perfect in the arts of war than of
peace ; of cohquest, thahof self-preservation.
It wilt spend its rage upon itself, if permit
ted to confine itself within its own deserts,
but will riot fail to spread boundless devas
tation, if it find its way, through unwise pro
vocation, into the fairer territory of its
neighbors.
To revenge an injury, is to sow the seed
from which many more are shortly to spring
up. A man may do us wrong, without be
ing our enemy, or possessing a disposition to
wrong us a second time; but if.we retaliate,
we make him our habitual foe, studious of
mischiefs; that may annoy lizer aglong as we
live. If; on the other hang', we .generouily
overlook: his 'offence •we .4ep. ourselves. in
the way of reaping ;lie advantage of what-,
ever good will he may feel toward us, and of,
an unbroken, friendship witli him should he,
ever become a better man. • The best way to
( • •
compensate ourselves for any act of unkind
ness another may have done is go '6 Act
toward him that we may fairly Dm* for many:
acts of kindness from him, during the Bourse
of life. • •
From these observations - it . appears:to be
the part of a prudent man,,tojeave injurious
people to themselves, as fares ; this is possi
ble. It is his wisest course; too, when,num-,
bera haie conspired against his prosperity.,
When such men, are not bound together by
great interests Which they have in 'common;
or by respect for reinarluda virtues which
they discover in one anothe4'theiivill; in 'a
shorter , period, , than could . 14#.10-en.suspec
ted, grow weary of each o - * •,; and it fro : -
quently happens, that the
is the first to_prove disloyatp'his oompari
ions, There is no feebler principle, than
friendshiii hetween men destitnie of worth,
when left to nourish itself? - tike fiie in a
toich,, it presently languishes, if 'Sheltered
from the wind. It is cippeiition'that blows
it into' flame, by mipplying*gry passions;
where the want of a bead principle of at
tachment began to be felt; • When any of
their number, especially those of ,greatest
influence among them, are lassailed, all, are
aroused in their defence, by the spirit of par
ty, and the feelings of pride Those.. Thosc.who
were the anthers of their, Wancement, or,
who are *omitted as their admirers; are
compelled by this attack, in:' order to - Justify
t i
the part' they have taken,"to - multiPly"-to
wards them the tokens!of t eiiiaffection, and
to supply, or the sake of co isteney, *hat is
wanting, in their devotion.. - They :will cep,
.
tinue to uphold in theil chagity, the men for
whom _they, m
as
fee fir former admi
ration';
ration ; and, as it happens when a leader
falls in battle, they will defend - their lif,Ss
bediei With,greater spirit than ever the'y
followed them'in the career'of their success.
From these observations it' ppears, thatthe
most effectual weapon anyone can employ
in self-defence, against his unjust opposers,
is a meek and fOrgiving spirit. And these re-.
marks are made for the. , purse of showing,
that the precepts of our SaViour, upon this
subject, which they enjoin everything that
is supremely lovely and good, are at_ the
same time the flower of essential and;con
sUttimate wisdom' WhateVei'he has inbul=
cated as a duty, in this and a - Al other ; re
spects, is found invariably to be as well a
strong and' prudent measure; and that tem
per of mind and coursesof actien,, that flow
from a simple desire to please him, .are
_the
keenest sword, any one, cai, draw, the most
impenetrable armor he can , put on, against'
every enemy that. may threaten to disturb
his peace ' S. P. H.
JONAH AND THE PSALMS.
JONAH in his prayer quoted portions of the
16th and 42nd Psalms. They were fitted to
his condition ; " when the hillows- and the
waves rolled over him, and the, sea-weed.
was wrapped about his head."
He had committed these words of inspira
tion to memory, and fouhd tbeng full,of cell
solation in his serrow. One (Ef e chief
beauties of a prayer is the appropriate Use of
sacred phrases ; of the Spirit's words; and
the Psalms are 'suited to all 'moods of the
Christian soul. in` their language he can
pray or . praise ; can utter words of comfort
or of condemnation ; express sorrow or: oy.
Those. Divine compositions are vehicles, of
loftiest devotion. They have been:epiployed
by godly golds nearly three tliglisand• years:
The poor haVe *uttered then:Wd felt rich.
The opulent have spoken them, and found
true poverty of soul.. The broken-hearted
have breathed them in solitude, and and found
healing. Souls new-born-have shouted them
in the , rapture of love. They have trembled
on dying lips which felt in return the,touch
of God's finger softly sealing them in the si
lence of happy sleep. They have burst forth
in the hour of victory over the enemy and
over sin, and gone up as on angel-wings in
the day of mighty 'hope. They have, been
sung in the Temple, by the quiet hearth, in!
the wilderness, on the battle-field, at the
coronation, .and near the-.tomb.. They have
filled the, cabin of the slave with prophetic
voices, and made the palace tun.eful when
crowns pressed heavily, and sceptres were
Only symbols of weakness. They are hea
ven's chariots bearing living , and departing
spirits to Paradise.
S. M
COLLEGE SIIIDENTS. ARMY.
If half is true that is published; Mr. Buckle's
theory that education lessens men's taste for
war will receive but little confirmation in the
United States. Aecord ingc to calculation
in'the lait number of the Independent,:the
Western Colleges ,generally have furnished
soldiers at' the ' rate of about s eventy from
each, graduates and students. Indeed; the
correspondent thinks this would probably be
too small, on the average; and yet these in
stitutions are all of them Comparatively
young, and some of them have hardly any
alumnit. Hillsdale College, Indiana, eighty
three out of one hundred, and forty-three
students ; Adrian College, Michigan, forty
eight ; Marietta College, sixty-one, besides'
quite a number who had been students, but
not completed their course. Wabash Col
lege has sent off seventy six frem their stud
ies ; Oberlin, two companies and the present
graduating class has been rednced from
eighty to eight, mainly by enliv t ments.
noes College has enlisted thirty : two gradu
ates and fifty-one under grad - dates, while of
:those Who have been students one hundred'
and sixty-six in all have gone. .Beloit Col
lege numbers sixty-two in the army, and
'Shurtliff forty-five. If to these should be
added the long rolls of the Eastern Colleges;
the patriotism of the student class of society
will hardly be questioned. Indeed, there is
hardly . a College but has furnished sortie of
• .
its students for soldiers.
A little wealth will suffice us to, live well,
and less to die happily.
BY - AEI% - h% -. ; ADAMS:
idettionc
ARCHBISHOP LAUD: ,
He had a sincere faith in the exter . nalS of
religion; betattached infinite, importance to
Making Clean tbe outaide of the cup and plat
ter. He died with this aflrmation on his lip„,
and, beyond'question, it 'was true Ever
,
since I came- - in place," le said before
judges, "I laboured nothing ,more, than that
the external public. worship of, pod, too, much
slighted in most parts of the kingdom, might
be preserved.". Neglect of externals had, he,
averred' "ainiost east a damp Updnihe' true,.
and inward Worship of God; which; while we.
live' n the body,' needs external helps, and all
little = enough to „keep.; it in ariy vigour.'i
This was Land'-sidea of the beauty of holi
ness: •He conceived tha4in. seemly and im
pp,Sing,externals of iwcu:ship, therelay a Days-.'
tic ,power;to, win,. the heart, to religion. It
Was an idea which PosSessed an obvious;
attraction for the stately„ borethonii:ths
Charles. and' Laud went ranengths‘with the
king in affirming the right dame i 'uuma
and. ofbishops.l• :For the rest,lLMid , was in
tense, .vehement, energetic,; he, made.his soul
like,,untwa, wedge. He was ',troubled, with
no doubts or scruples", turned. neither to the
right hind nor to the left, paused for no re
creation, and via, never caught' slinnbering.
Like 'Robespierre, between whern and Laud
there wikin several 'a blose resein
bla:noe, he believed every word he spoke. It
is this character, in - whichtemperament plays
asimportant a part as, mental capacity, that
commands 811 Q C eSS. Bishop Willi am s—a man
of incomparably nobler, faculty
,than Laud,
brilliant, genial, eloquent, versatile ; who,
when he brought Laud tolames, had probab
ly neVer . conceiVed2 the possibility of his be- •
coming a rival—was soon thrust aside by-the
wiry, sleeplesit zealot, •alliron, and dull; burn-
ing unquenchable lire. • ,
14et: , ne one imagine diet Landr,Nes.gifte4
with. sensibility to grace and- solemn
lie is over,_ , when we, look at him
cleselythe raspy-voced;
,hustling, peevish
little doctor, whose beinty Of holiness is only
the apotheosis of formalism. In that famous
consecration of the Church :ofSt. Catherine,
in- London i byt the archbishop, we
,find, with
some amazement, that the ceremonial consis
ted mainly in , regulated ' anties=bowings,
steppings, jumpings .backward and for*ard,
according to number and measure, without
any discernible principle of bea'nty, or
pressiveness. "As he approached the com
munion -table," thus'proceeded the consecra
tion! at its most solemn parq " he niade several
lo* bowings ; and, coming up to the side of
the table; where the bread and wine were
covered, he bowed seven times ; and then,
after the reading of many prayers, he came
near the bread, and gently lifted up a corner
of the, napkin wherein the bread was laid ;
and, when he beheld the bread, he laid it down
again, flew back a step or two, bowed three
several times towards it ; then he drew near
again, and, =lifting the "coverof the cup, look
ed into it, and, seeinz the wine, let, fall the
cover, again, retired baCk, and bowed as be
fore." We calculate that Laud, the little,
red-faced, mean-looking man, bowed here
some two dozen times, with interspersed skip
pings and pachigs. Can' anything be con
ceived more grotesque than the whole affair ?
—Peter Bayne in the "Weekly _Review,
AN ELOQUENT . APPEAL
Atheries is now undergoing severe disci
pline. It is not my habit to - link suffering
with sin, and trace a divine juidginent in eve
ry calamity: But we must be blind if we do
not see how, by the: operation. of natural
causes, God is punishing, chiefly the South
as the perpetrator of the wickedness, but al l : ,
so the North forlong•and guilty connivance.:
There has.been wicked conipromise. To up- ,
hold a constitution_ of man's devising God.'l
laWs haVe been 'set' nanght. Slavery has
been sanctioned and guaranteed in order to':
preserve the Union, and now by that very
slaverithe Union is, btoken up. There must.*
be no Compromise in duty. This is the les'
son sternly taught by the war. But let Eng: ,
land sympathize with and pray for Ameriea,.
They beyond the sea are our brethren and
kinsmen., They read the same Bible &54
sing the same hymns, and reverence the same
holy heroic names. Their forefathers lig',
buried in our ancient churchyards. Multf.'
tudes among them are British-born. Many`'''
havnbut recently exchanged an English for:
an AmeriCan home. Their missionaries with:
our own go forth throughout the world-* ‘ :
preach the Gospel of universal, freedom. '9,?",ni,.
must not, we can not be alienated from,pne
another. Our mutual mistakes will soonlbe
corrected. . Meanwhile, let Christian conee T
gations' aend over to them assurances of'syirt=
pithy. Let the voice of the people be heard . '
public' meetirignthroughout,the land.' ks
pecially, let prayers ascend to . the Prince of
Peace—the great Liberator of humanity—
that, the sword may soon be sheathed And.
the fetter broken—that America may come
forth from, the furnace seven times purified
—that the eldest daughter of Britain, clean
sed from the foul spot, which, indeed, she de
rived from - her mother, may emerge, from,
this eloud'of - trial the admiration of the world
—that the parent, not jealous' of, but rejoic
ing in, the growth of the child, andwithout
any airs of arrogant superiority, tho the
child, with no childish willfulness or pietfal
ness—that thus mother and child; iii . irihey
prefer it, the elder and younger born'dartgh--
ters of Freedom, may go forth hand inland
diffusing, among the nations the blessings' of
civilization, peace, liberty, and religion; and
foremost amongst the ministering servants
the Lord Jesus Christ, hastewon the fulfill,
ment of the grand old. prophecy, whichiells
of a golden age when " a King shall: reign
in righteousness, who shallffidge the rubor - of
the people, and break in ices the oppres
sor, and deliver the needy. when he crieth,
and him that hath no helOr, in whose days
the righteous shall flournib, and abundance
of ;peace so long as: thOmoon endureth."
Rev. Newman Hall.
. „ .
' IT is strange that thee perienenof so many
ages shonld not make u jike more solidly
of the present and of tliw future, so as to take
proper measures in flap one for the other.
We dote upon this world as: if it were never
'to have an end, and weinegleet thonext as if
It were never to have 4 beginning.
The•pebbles in our thveary us, and make
us foot-sore more tha the rocks, which only,
require a bold effolto
'~ 3 .
• ;-
T.R4,ATIIE4II IN 'TILE Plt i ggll7llEET
IN6
Iri'tt e' Paten ' street Prayer-Meeting, 'in
New-York, agentleman arose,'iand - - stood a
motnent deepl affected: He was ' in' the
middle lecture 2 room ' and the ;hour for.; the
meeting was altoukhalf gone.:;;. Alleyes were
turned upon hit* for he was xte.stranger. . ,He
had a.fine, intellectual face,
polished- brow. ;t ' All indicated,.thathe was, a
man °thigh intelligence and ou ture , He
said : • '*
" I came into, this meeting one year ago.
I dame here an atheist—in atheist .of no
common order4but made such by lbience,
falsely so calleA. I *as honest and earnest
in my views, end ftad- - not thought but that
I was right.: this 7ultoniqtreet
prayer-meeting because I had heard much of
it, and because I suppose skonld here see
another 'phase , of the himan mind: :And,
moreover,
,I:.4Wislied 'indge. for Myself:.
wished tol:trAwitness of the meeting: ~
- " not, been here many minutea,-he:
fore my mindcliecame, : deeply impressed with
the conviction that, there was• something, true,
and real in these things,,which was ; aboVe
knowledge-4pmetliing in what was Said, and.
done—but more in that which had no ioice,
but was hinn the reCessek of these hearts, - of
which I was entirely ignorant.' rlookedupen
these fatea=all intelligent—faces evidently
of business Men, and .I said - to myself, Why
do these Men Come here, in the middle of the
brief, flyinghours allotted- to business,, the
din and roar of which is in all earsl What
brings thet'ie men here ?'
" I haq.„.started a question, which as a
philosopher, I was Jionnd to answer. Here
was an effect, for which. I was bound to find
the realindadequate cause. What could it
be ? I had to say to Myself, '1 am unable
to assigathat cause.'
"1 came again and again, and was a si
lent and' most attentive Esther. had - to
admit, to my own' mind; that there was an
unseen power operating upon all these Minds,
—a mind above these minds, and that -must
be ged. I confess that ; a' conviction,: stron
crer than any ,external, evidence, of the na
ture of the, highest kind of, evidence, seized
,
upon my mind, that God, was here, or what
was here, dsthe moving pewer, must be God.
WheiJ,kii,t' , was settled, 'I said to myself,
'WhaPthese men pray for, I ought to pray
for; they feel, I' ought to feel;•and
what need, I 'need .as much as they.'
I inquired, cls this. religion'?' 'My heart
answered, 'lt is religion. My conscience
said, lieu pught to embrace it.' -My des
pairink, heart
.said, ' Oh,! that I might,ern
brace it: How long and how diligently I
soughC yet how blindly; I need not- say.
That ikpast.
cc My friends," and his voice' was a tre 7
mor of deep emotion as he stood, struggling
for `veice to speak, " I am here, just a year
after)* first coming into this room as an
atheiTtrt,in tell yin what -
1 havo,'4ound—humbly yet joyfully to no
knowlage what he has done for-a, sinner-like'
me
. t He held a small Bible in his hand,:and
cOptinued : I haye found Him of , whom
Mbies' and the prophets did write` 7 -4esus ex-.
aited a, frierid and a Saviour togive repent
ance andreinission This," said he,
hi:dding uphis Bible, " is the Warrant of all
my hopes. I fold' this Bible to 'inY - heart;
which I so' long'rejected as having no' author
ity—l fold it to my heart as airevelation to
my soul of all I hope for and all I enjoy.
Oh!the glad hour when Jesus Washed my
;
sins away.. As a little child, I have received
the kingdOm of heaven.' I knew nothing,
and God haS taught Me.* I Underitand now
Who inspires' these prayers I. understand
now why these butiness men come here to
pray at the middle of the'day—hour of all
the day the best."
He then said that he had a father and
mother for whom prayer. They
had never taught 'l4th S.eriptures when
he was young = never teaching him even that
religion was a reality. He wished we would
earneetly pray for ;them. He urged reasons
why we should not; be faithlees in regard to
them; but believing. " Ob.!- do pray—
pray," said he, " for my po - or Tather - and
mother." And he sat down amid flowing
tears.
On the ensuing day he appeared again,
and renewed his request for prayer for his
dear father and `mother. He said they were
intelligent;aeease m worldly circumstances,
surrounded comforts ; but ,since 'the
change in,his views, their comforts and ease
bad departed.,, ; He had tried to be faithful.
He was praying and-bnping that they would
become Ohristians, What it had cost him to
openly write' POOL on all his former boasted
knowledge and opinions, no aortal mind
conlaiiknow—no language could describe.
Agaifi%eiteld that precious little Bible up
t vaotu. es—of—wisdom—awl
' This is the Judge that ends the strife,
Where wit and reason fall;
- Our , Guide to everlasting life,
Through all this gloomy vale.'
",Oh ! that I had been instructed in this
blesied book when I was a child. Then,
perh4s, My life woUltnot have been a blank,
so far as all godd doing is concerned, up to
thislate day. Then, perhaps, I should have
been saved from the sad influences which I
have been under, and which I have exerted.
Oh ! teach the blessed words which this book
contaihs, 46 your children, that even while
young they may lay hold on eternal life."—S.
S. Times.
ASIA.—The light of Christianity is pene
trating into ASIA on all sides. The Gospel
is making'real progress among the old and
decayed churches of Turkey, Northern Persia,
and Syria ; whilst its prospects in India, with
its more than one hundred and fifty millions
of Souls, are truly encouraging. ~great be
ginning has been made, and more than five
hundred :Missionaries are it. work. In the
portion of Burmah not included in India, and
in Siam a good work is doing. So too in
China; the door is open, and a goodly number
of Missionaries—Presbyterians, Congrega
tionalists, Baptists, Episcopalians, Reformed
Dutch, ethodists—are laboring with decided
hopes of soccess. A great and good begin
ning has thus been made in the ":Celestial
Empire?' And at length ;the door seems to
be, opening in the neighboring Islands of Ja
,
pan, and Missionaries are endeavoring_ to get
a foothold there.
'GENEStk'EMGELIST.--Whole No. 869.
HOW-111410X- AIM LUTHER. PRAYED.
DURING the tiou hrois'times of Scotland,
•
when , the Popish cpurt and aristocracy were
arming themselves to suppress the Iteforma
ti6Ain thafland, and the, cause of Wptestant
Christianity was in eminent 'Pea late on a
certain night, Bohn Knox was seen to leave
his study, and to Pass from the libuse doWn
into an inclosure td the rear of it. :.4116'was
folloived friehd, ;. :when after akfeW, mo-
ments of silen6e,,his yoipe was heard as. if in
prayer. In
~ Atnott h er 'moment the accents:
deppened into words, and,the
earnest petition from his struggling„
soul to heaVen, Lord, -*give me Scotland, -
pr I die l" Theirarpose of intshed stillness,
when agailithepetifferartiker6rtlil '!‘ -. 0 Lord,
give me Scotland, or I die I" Once more all
Was voiceless, when with. 'a; yet intenser
pathos,Tthe thrice repeated intercession strug
red forth,. ", Lord, give me Scotland, - or :
(b• IP
e I ',And God gave - him. Scotland, in .
spite of Ataxy and her .Cardinal Beaton a
lanii Pilt:47crurclref-nolite-Christian loya ' lty
to 'CliriSeand his crow.: How could it be
otherwise ?
,
- So - Luther, when Germany and the Refor
tdatioU seemed 'to be lost, and humaii help
was none ; this was the prayer which that
second -Moses went and laid down at Vie foot
of -the eternal throne. " 0 God, Almighty
God everlasting ! how dreadful is this world !
behold how, its mouth opens to swallow me up,-
and how small is my faith in thee ! If lam
to depend upon any strength of the world, all
is over. The knell is struck. Sentence is
gone forth. 0 God ! 0 God ! 0 thou my
God ! help me agarnst all the wisdom of the
world. Thou shouldst do this. The work
is not mine, but. thine,. I have no business
here. The cause is thine, and it is righteous
andeverlasting. •0 Lord, help me. 0 faith
ful,andi unchangeable God ! , I lean not on
man. 'My God, my God, dost thou not hear ?
My God, art thou no longer living? Nay,
thou canst not die. Thou dost not hide thy
self. Thou' hast chosen me for this work.
I know it. Therefore, 0 God, accomplish
thine - own *ill.' Forsake me not, for the sake
of thy well-beloved Son, Jesus Christ, my
defense, my buckler, and my stronghold.'
But he had not done. Once more the tide
of emotion and importunity burst forth, "Lord
where art thou ? My God, where art thou ?
Come, I pray thee ;I am ready. Behold me
prepaxpd to lay down my life for thy truth.
For' the cause is holy. It is thine own. I
will nOt`let thee go ;—no, nor yet for all
eternity ! My soul is thine. Yes, I have
thine own -Word to a,ssure me of it. My soul
belongs to thee, and will abide with thee for
ever. Amen 0 God, send help ! Amen !"
--,The history of the salvation and sanctifica
tion of human souls hitherto is the history
of such praying as 'ails, in spirit, if not in
these or any uttered words. Such holy
earnestness and faMiliarity never offends the
Father of our Lord Jesus 'Christ, who
.through; him is - the_God of all grace and con
solation.— The Family Treasury.
140,101133i110/1101k1N311:10,101 14
DIE Church of the living God, in her own
voluntary membership and spiritual vitality,
asks not, and 'would even shun, the patron
age and livery, and hire of the state. Per
meating and ,interpenetrating the member
ship and citizensship of the state, she is yet,
in her laws, spirit, and constituency distinct.
She is,-in some sense alien to all civil rule.
She haS "another King, one Jesus." But,
on the other hand, the state needs a, morality.
She'cannot, as a republic, with any consisten
cy, refuse to recognize the morality which the
majority of her citizens consider as the true and
the divine. That morality, in the Christain
system, is a portion—a vital portion indeed
—but not the entirety of the Christian reli
gion. The state, as a state,
taker for its se
cular uses the morality ; but is compelled
also, in the oath, the rest-day, and the mar
riage contract, to give a distant nod of re
cognition to 'religion, as furnishing the re
quisite sanctions of this morality. But while
the state in mass, stops short with the mor
ality, the several citizens of the state, in
their individual immortality, and in their ae
countability beyond the bounds of this world,
have larger and more lasting wants than the
collectiVe state ; they need personally, and
of free conviction, to adopt the religion.
And without a large active, prayerful, and
resolUte body' of such citizens, so holding in
dividually the religion, the morality of the
state will not be kept in working order. The
state may indeed have no conscience of her
own ; but unless her citizens many of them
keep a conscience, she is lost. Christ does
not need the republic but the republic needs
Christ, as the base and bend of her morality,
without Which she cannot shape or keep her
political life. And every man, woman, and
child in the republic 'needs Christ, as the
Ruler. Oivner, and Redeemer of the soul for
both worlds and for all days, here and be
yond. And Re, the Thrice. Blessed, invites
them to his' salvation.—Rev. Dr. WM. B.
Williams.
BRITISH IGNORANCE.—It is a remarkable
fact that while the literature of the North has
been hitherto inferior to that of any. Euro
pean State, the South has produced no lite
rature at all. It is true that Edgar Allen
Poe was a Virginian,, but all theother poets
whom we shall have occasion to mention, by
birth, and he himself by adoption, with all
the -great prose writers of America, belong
to the,Northern States, To the names of
Longfellow, LoWell, Hawthorne, Irving, and
Emerson, the - Carolinas . can only oppose the
genius .of their one' great orator; Daniel
Webster.-- 1 -The hfuseuna : A,,Quarterly Ma
gazine of Education, Literature,m4Seienee.
JESUS CHRIST ALL IN irsaptist
minister, who has been . soine- 'time at Hilton
Head, and had, charge nf an African church
there, gives the following account of the ex
amination of, a negro who was a candidate for
admission to the church : " What is the
ground of your hope ?" " Jesus Christ," was
the reply. "'Do you think yourself worthy
,to be saved ?" " Not at all I Jesus worthy."
1" Do you , want to be baptized ?" " I do."
" Why, will that save you?" "No ; Jesus
save. He tell me to believe and be baptized."
A GREAT'many speakers seem to endeavor
ibY give their speeches'in length what they
lack in depth.