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THE DRUNKARD’S WIFE.
There are new developments of human
character, which, like the distant stars, are
jet to visit the eye of man, and operate upon
human society. Ever since the image of
the Godhead was first sketched in Eden, its
great Author and angels have been paint
ing upon it; men have tried their hands
upon it ; influences, like the incessant
breath of Heaven, have left each its line
upon the canvas; still, the finishing stroke
of the penoil will not be accomplished until
the last lingering survivor of “ the wreok
of matter and the crush of worlds,” “is
•changed in the twinkling of an eye.”
The hemisphere of the present age is
studded all over with such pearls “ and
patines of bright gold,” as never shone be
fore in the heavens of the human soul. In
these latter days, the waves of time have
washed up from the depths that angels
never fathomed, “gems of purer light
serene” than were ever worn before in the
crown of man. We are now but half way
advanced in a new cycle of human society.
The race is but just emerging from the
long-reaching shadows of an iron age, and
coming out into the starlight and sunlight
of new influences. If, as we are assured,
scores of new stars have taken rank with
the heavenly hosts, during the last two cen
turies, stars brighter than they, have, in
the same period, kindled up new lights in
the moral firmament. Among these new
stars, one, a little lower than that of Beth
leham, has just appeared above the horizon.
It is the star of woman’s influence! In
fluential woman is a being of scarcely two
centuries; up to that period, and almost
hitherto, her influences have fallen upon
human character and society, like the feeble
rays of a rising winter’s sun upon polar
fields of ice. But her sun is reaching up
ward. There is a glorious meridian to
which she shall as surely come as to-mor- *
row’s sun shall reach his in our natural
heavens. What man will be when she
shall smile on him then and thence, we are
unable to divine; but we can found no
anticipation from the influence of her
dawning rays. Her morning light has
gilded the visions of human hope, and
silvered over the night shadows of human
sorrow. There has been no depth of hu
man misery beyond the reach of her
ameliorating influence, nor any height of
human happiness which she has not raised
still higher. Whoever has touched at
either ot these extremities, could attest that
“ neither height, nor depth, nor principali
ties, nor powers, nor things present or to
come,” could divert or vitiate the accents
and anodynes of her love. Whether we
trace the lineaments of her character in the
mild twilight of her morning sun, or in the
living beams of her risen day, we find that
she has touched human society like an
. angel. It would be irreverent to her worth
to say, in what walks of life she has walked
most like an angel of -light, and love ; in
what vicissitudes, in what joys or sorrows;
in what situations or circumstances, she has
most signally discharged'the heavenly min
istrations of her mission; what ordeals have
best brought out the radiance of her hidden
jewels; what fruitions of earthly bliss, or
furnaces of affliction, have best declared the
fineness of her gold. Still, there is a scene
which has escaped the “ vulture’s eye,”
and almost every other eye, where she has
oast forth her costliest pearls, and shown
such qualities of her native character, as
almost merit our adoration. This scene
has been allotted to the drunkard’s wife.
How she has filled this most desperate out
post of humanity, will be revealed when
the secrects of human life shall be disclosed
“to more worlds than' this.” When the
history of hovels and of murky garrets shall
be given in, when the career of the en
slaved inebriate shall be told, from the first
to the lowest degree of his degradation—
there will be a memorial made of woman,
worthy of being read and heard in heaven.
From the first moment she gavq up her
young and hoping heart, and all its trea
sures, into the hands of him she loved, to
the luckless hour when the charmer, wine,
fastened around the loved one, all the ser
pent spells of its sorcery—down through
all the crushing of her young-born hopes—
through years of estrangement and strange
insanity—when harsh unkindness bit at
her heart-strings with an adder’s tooth—
thence down through each successive depth
of disgrace and misery, until she bent over
the drunkard's grave; through all these
scenes, a halo of divinity has gathered
around her, and stirred her to angel deeds
of love. When the maddened victim tried
to cut himself adrift from the sympathy
and sooiety of God and man, she has clung
to him and held him to her heart with
hooks of steel. And when he was cast out,
all defiled with his leprous pollution—when
he was reduced to such a thing as the beasts
of the field would bellow at—there was one
who still kept him throned in her heart of
hearts; who could say to the fallen, drivel
ling creature, “ Although -you are nothing
to the world, your are all the world to me.”
When that awful insanity of the drunkard
set in upon him, witfi all its fiendish shapes
of torture; while he lay writhing beneath
the scorpion stings of the fiery.phantasies
and furies of delirium tremens —there was
a woman by his side, en-sexed with all the
attributes of her loveliness. There was
her tearful, love-beaming eye, that never
dimmed but with tears when the black
spirits were around him.
There she stood alone, and in lone hours
of night, to watch his breathings, with her
heart braced up with the omnipotence of
her love. No! brute as he was, not a tie
which her young heart had thrown around
him in his bright days, had ever given w.ay,
but had grown stronger as he approached
the nadir of his degradation. And if he
sank into that dark, hopeless grave, she
enswarthed him in her broken heart, and
laid it in his coffin; or if some mighty
angel’s voice or arm brought him up from
the grave of drunkenness, the deepest ever
dug for man, he came forth, Lazarus-like,
bound fast and lorever in the cerements of
her deathless aflectlon.
Such is her sceptre; such are the cords
which she throws around the wayward and
wandering 1 , and leads them back to virtue
and to Heaven, saying as she gives him in,
“ Here am I, and he whom Thou yavestme.”
—Elihu Burritt.
THE FRENCH PROTESTANT MISSION
IN TAHITI.
Some of our readers may, last fall,
have listened to the statements of Rev.
Mr. Arbousset, then in this country solicit
ing aid for the above named mission, of
which he was a member. Three years ago
he, in company with Rev. Mr. Atger, left
Paris to labor with the native churches in
the South Sea Islands under the French
Protectorate, which through the political
changes and the expulsion of English mis
sionaries, procured by Romish intrigue, had
long been lett without European pastors.
The missionaries were received with open
arms, and the Spirit of the Lord wrotight
with them. The churches are united by a
Synod, the last session of which numbered
not less than seventy members, all resolute
to go forward. Several native deacons,
who appeared sufficiently gifted and devoted,
have been set apart to the ministry, and
placed over flocks. In a recent statement
Mr. Arbousset says: —“ Queen Pomare and
her people remain firmly attached to the
pure and simple Gospel of Jesus Christ.
We do not believe that in the whole of the
Society Islands, with a population ot 25,-
000 souls at least, we can reckon more than
400 to 500 natives who have become Cath
olics, and on all the rest we may rely ; for
certainly Pomare and her people desire to
regard the Bible only as their rule of faith
and conduct. Last year we received from
Europe several thousand copies of this Holy
Book, and sold several hundred in a very
short time at the price of 10f., and even of
15f. for copies of which the binding was
superior.”
THE PENINSULA OF-SINAI.
The lack of geographical magnitude in
the Peninsula of Sinai is more than com
pensated by its geographical position, and
its unique associations. In the old world,
its position was at the junction of the two
.great continents of civilization, and closely
adjacent .to the cradles of the world’s chief
religions. Indeed, each religion in its turn
seems to have regarded Sinai as its holy
place. There are reasons for thinking that
before the time of Moses Serbal was a
shrine of Egyptian pilgrimage. To the
Jew it was associated with the most awful
and sacred events of his religious history.
The footmark of Mahomet’s camel upon
Jabel Mousa is still pointed out, as a tradi
tion of the prophet's association with it ;
while it has ever been a chief resort of
Christian Eremites. And yet the moral
influence of these traditions is so utterly
lost, that, perhaps, no people upon the face'
of the earth are more destitute of all that
constitutes a religion than the Towara
Arabs.
But although Sinai has always lain, and
still lies, beside the gateway of it
has never been their' path. No city has
ever stood within its [boundaries. No port
has ever given commercial life to its shores.
Migratory Bedouins, scattered hermits, and
passing pilgrims have, from the days of the
-Ainalckites, been its only inhabitants; the
little ecclesiastical city of' Paran being
scarcely an exception, inasmuch as it was
only,- for a while, a larger aggregate of pil
grims and hermits.
The entire history of the Peninsula is re
stricted to the eighteen months during
which the Israelites sojourned in it. It has
formed no nation; it has had no govern
ment ; it has witnessed no events that the
historian might record. In all other coun
tries that have won a record in the annals
of the world there has been, first, a local
history, generally springing out of legend
and myth, and recording invasion, conflict,
and conquest—one nation superseding or
intermingling with another, until national
character is formed and national history
achieved. Not so with the Peninsula of
Sinai : it has no aborigines; it is identified
with no race; it has no antocthonous his
tory ; it owes all its renown to the transient
passage through it of a foreign people, and
the remarkable events that befel them
therein. Before their advent, we know
only that it was possessed by the wander
ing descendants .of Esau; and since their
advent, we know only that it is possessed
by the wandering descendants of Ishmael.
Its history* is a great darkness, upon which
only the light of the pillar of fire and of
the lightnings of Sinai have broken in.
But these were so vivid and Divine, that
they have filled the world with their awful
glory; and Sinai has become one of the
world’s most sacred places. With the Jew
it divides religious reverence with Jerusa
lem—with the Mahomedan, with Mecca—
with the Christian, with Bethlehem. There
is, perhaps, no place that gathers so many
various sanctities, that inspires so much
reverent awe, the associations of which are
so thrilling, the power of which is so sub
duing. In part, this probably arises from
the fact that its sacred associations have
been preserved so inviolate. Its desert
barrenness, its mountain ruggedness, have
restricted human habitation to the tent of
the Bedouin or the cell of the hermit. It
has thus been preserved saered to the asso
ciations of the law-giving: In Jerusalem,
the hurrying, irreverent toot of generations
of Crowded city life, interrupted only by
the devastations of war and the solitude
caused by exile, have almost obliterated the
sacred footsteps of Him who once trod its
ways. The debris of its ancient buildings
lie twenty feet thick beneath its modern
streets. Even Gethsemane has been dese
crated into a trim and gravelled garden,
with gaudy flowers in partitioned beds, and
fancy palings around its venerable olives;
the whole enclosed by a lofty wall, within
which the cottage of the custadian is built,
and at the doorway of which you pay for
admission;—a place over which irreverent
crowds are irreverently shown. The lone
liness that sustains hallowed association;
the venerable antiquity that no modern
touch profanes, that only hushed and trem
bling feet approach, are utterly wanting.
The Mount of Olives, again, whose paths
remain as when trod by
“ Those blessed feet
Which eighteen hundred years ago were nailed
For onr advantage on the bitter cross,”
is the suburb of a great city, and is daily
trodden by hundreds of thoughtless way
farers. Not so the valleys and mountains
of Sinai: rarely is it visited and the traveled
conscious of no other presence beside his own
save a few monks and servants of the con
vent, occasional pilgrims, whose reverence
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN. THURSDAY, MARCH 8. 1866.
is attested by their arduous pilgrimage, and
perchance a few Bedouins pasturing their
flocks. The holy mount has ever been a‘
desert solitude. It has suffered no effacing
power of later events, or of a numerous
population. Like a great cathedral in the
heart of a city, it has stood sequestered
from the world. Its awful peaks are soli
tary) solemn, and unchanged; they are as
when the foot of Jehovah trod them, as
when the lightnings of Jehopah enwrapped
them, as when the awful trumpet rever
berated from summit to summit, and the
still more awful thunder made them trem
ble to their base. Cities change; moun
tains remain the same. It is, therefore,
with a feeling of undisturbed and indescri
bable awe, that the pilgrim first beholds
these solemn peaks, and climbs to their
summit. It needs but little imagination
to make him feel as if the Divine footstep
were still upon them, as if the awful voice
that the people could not “ hear any more”
were latent in the < atmosphere. And yet
no solitary ruih remains to help the imagi
nation of the traveler; no record save the
mysterious inscriptions here and there
upon the rocks —which only fanaticism can
associate with the law-giving; no mouu
ment save the unchanged and silent face of
nature, which, in every feature and with
startling minuteness, testifies to the local
truthfulness "of the historian. British
Quarterly Review
CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN SWEDEN.
The kingdom of Sweden has recently un
dergoneagreat political change, the only fea
ture of which, to be noticed in this connec
tion, is such a revolution in the houses, or
estates, of the realm, as leaves out that which,
consists of the clergy. They are no longer
practically a class, but have only the com
mon relation of subjects. As the natural
result of any great overturning, whether
good or bad, a season of uncertainty and
restlessness must follow, and in such a
state we find the Church in Sweden at the
present time. Still spiritual life appears to
be waxing stronger in the conflict which
believing Swedes have to sustain with in
fidelity in the various forms which it
assumes. Many of the best new apologetic
works of other countries have been recently
translated, such as Suthardt’s “ Fundamen
tal Truths of Christianity,” and another
work by the same author on the view of
life given by Renan, Strauss, Schenkel, &c.
Oestersee’s (a Dutch theologian) able ex
pose of Renan, under the title “ History of
Romanism,” and several other original
works have also been published, among
which may be mentioned an “ Apologetic
Catechism,” by a young minister Dr. Hog
rell. The authority of the Sabbath which
infidelity and broad churchism uniformly
set themselves to destroy or diminish, has
also found some earnest and able defenders.
The boldness and recklessness of the infidel
party are sufficiently attested by the fact
that they have recently published a trans
lation of Tom Paine’s “ Age of Reason!”
British America.— Rev. James Hor
den, who has recently returned to England,
after fourteen years labor on the shore of
James Bay, Hudson's Bay Territory, states
that there is scarcely a family of Indians
connected with his station at Moose' Fort
of whom some one or more are not now able
to read; in some families the whqle are able
to read fluently, and write neatly, in sylla
bic. There are some 120 altogether who
can speak English. Mr. Horden speaks
highly of some of the native Christians.
Two services were carried bn each Sunday
whenever he was away from his'post; one
native on these occasions reading the les
sons, and another addressing the people.
These ministrations were very acceptable.
When he first visited the Rupert’s House
•Christians, he had found them a poor and
despised people, without any knowledge of
syllabic reading; now there is scarcely one
unable to read. Mr. HordeD referred to
several recent happy deaths among the
natives, and to their dying testimony to the
blessed results which have attended the
preaching of the Gospel amongst them.
Extinction of Heathenism in Man-
GAIA.! —At the latest dates from this island,
a very interesting meeting had just been
held at Ivirna, where the church members
from the three villages of the island were
assembled to report their collections for
twelve months to the London Missionary
Society, and to unite in the celebration of
the Lord’s Supper. The chief point of in
terest in the occasion, was the baptism of
the two last heathen of Mangaia —a man
and his wife, both upwards of seventy, and
he blind and very infirm. He had remained,
until within the last few months, a bigoted
heathen, but allowed his Christian son-iir.
law to have family worship, and under those
prayers experienced his first softening of*
feeling.
West Africa. —The United Presby
terian missionary at Creek Town, Old Cala
bar, has baptized three young men, ail of
whom are described as being from “the
mysterious Mburukom region.” “ This,”
writes the Rev. Mr. Goldie, “the most dis
tant region in the unknown interior whence
our population is derived, is contributing
more of our membership than any other,
Calabar itself excepted. The Mburukom
people are prized above all others brought
into the country for their docile disposition;
and tribal differences, mental as well as
physical, are very marked in a state of rude
nature."
At Geneva, ten converts from Roman
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National Church at its last Christmas ser
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mothers of families, who have either been
trained as Protestants or will henceforth
receive such training.
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Or aide, o. liver, terribly compressed;
ETo more «re curving ribs, or waving spine,
Twisted **d tortured out of Beauty’s line ,
For %nn tad r-otence both Unite to show j
How- much d r ealth to dress do women owe. I
In Mbs. Shsrmak’s Cobssts, todies find
The laws of Health with Fashion's taste combined
Supporting equality each separate part,,
They cramp no action of the longs or heart;
And no injurious ligature to placed
To mar the flexure of the natural waist;
Their fit is certain—and, what’s sure *0 please,
In all positions there is perfect ease ,*
The figures of the young they help to form.
Aiding and not repressing every charm
Irregularities of shape they hide.
Bo that by none can slight defects be spied.
While e’en a figure, which is understood
As being “bad,” may by. their help seem good;
And matrons wearing them a boon will gain.
The** early symmetry they’ll long retain.
intuiting comfort, gr&ce, good Health, pnd ease,
Theae Sherman Corsets cannot fail to please :
One trial ia the only teat they need, *
For then all others they must supersede;
Fashion’s demands with usefulness they biend.
And so are truly every woman’s frirn*t> f
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WILLIAM YARNALL,
IMPORTER AND DEALER IN
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
S«. 1232 CHESTNUT ST., S. E. COR. ISTH.
SUPERIOR REFRIGERATORS.
„„„ WATER COOLERS
PINE TABLE CUTLERY.
FAMILY HARDWARE.
IRONING TABLES. Ac. Ac.,
WILLIAM MORRIS,
VENETIA N BLIND AKD SHADE MANU
FACTURER,
No. 110 N. EIGHTH Street, Philadelphia.
Blinds and Shades always on hand, of tho most
Fashionable Patterns.
JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
Store Shades Hade and Bettered to
1011-3 m Order.
S. E. BALDERSTON & SON,
DEALERS IN
WALL PAPER AND WINDOW SHADES,
NO. 902 SPRING GARDEN STREET, '
N.B. —Practical part in both branches promptly
attended to. . 1012-3 m.
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Wm. L. GARRETT,
No. 31 South 2d St., above Chestnut. East
Side,
Has constantly on hand a large assortment of Men's
Boots and Shoes, Oity Made.
Ladies', Misses, and Children's Balmorals, &c. Be
sides Trunks, Traveling Bags, etc., in great variety
Mid at LOW PRICES. Men's Rubber
-01 Boots and the boat quality of Gum Ol
dl Shoes of all kinds. 1012-ly ol
HENRY HARPER,
No. 520 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA,
Dealer in and Manufacturer of
WATCHES, FINE JEWELRY
SILVER WAKE,
AND SUPERIOR PLATED GOODS.
G. C. REUKAUFF,
MANUFACTURER OF
I LOOKING-GLASSES,
I PHOTOGRAPH AND
incmi FRAMES.
PLAiy AN» fAYCY
WINDOW CORNICES,
GILT MOULDINGS,
NO. 939 ARC Iff STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
! PAINTINGS. AND A GREAT
VARIETY OF ENGRAV
INGS ON HAND.
OLD WORK BESIIT
EftTIAl TO NEW.
R E M 0 V A L.
a Tff^T>^ ave inform the Public that I have
Oil Art (LED my business lc cation from
If. £. Corner fourth and Chestnut Streets,
Commodious Booms in
SANSOM STREET HALL.
Having re-furnished my Office with
IMPROVED STEAM PRESSES
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new type,
X am enabled, with the aid of SKILLFUL WORK
MEN, to execute ordtrs for
P.RISTISG IX THE BEST STYLE,
jExpeditioualy and at Moderate Prices.
Trustii if? in a continuanca of your patronage, J
respectful?, Yours, Ac.
Offic e on Pirst PJoor.
SAMEJJEIi JLOAO.
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