----A correspondent of the N. r Observe ,
says, that in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., t.
, re daily, at which the'rZ z:
about a thousand present. This is a u
meeting of Christians of various names, am
there is an earnestness and fervor of religion,
feeling manifested that is refreshing to any I
soul which may come within its influence.
There is no
it excitement, but a real earnest
ness; and is soul-stirring to see men and
women, girls with their school-books, and
young boys, deeply moved by God's Spirit in
regard to their souls' eternal interests. Many
souls have been converted, and the work con
tinuesi--f—A letter from Hannibal, Mo., to
the same paper says:—" A great work of
grace has been progressing in this place for
More than two months past. Tnenutriber of
converts received into our churches cannot
fall much short of two hundred and sixty.
These are from all classes except those who
haVe passed middle life; but they are chiefly
of the yount—forming the advanced scholars
in our Sabbath-schools. The work is still
spreading and deepening." There has
been a very powerful work of grace in Leav
enworth, Kan'sas, the result of a union effort,
Presbyterians, Congregationalists. Metho
dists, and Baptists participating. The num
ber of conversions is supposed to be about
250.—The Baptist and Methodistchurches
in Hoboken, N. J., have been favored with
the gracious visitation. The accessions to
the former have been over 50, and to the
latter about 60.—Brooklyn, Cal., is the
scene of an interesting revival, in which dif
ferent denominations participate.
LAST HOURS OF SENATOR FOOT.
We cannot forbear quoting at length the
principal portion of Rev. Dr. Sunderland's
apply interesting and beautiful account of
his interviews with Senator Foot in his last
hours, as embraced in the funeral sermon
deliveredin the Senate chamber, and pub
lished in the Press of this city. The expe
rience of the dying man was so ample. so
distinctly marked, so evangelically accurate,
so satisfactory, that it is matter of congrat
ulation that one so competent was at hand
to record it, and that Senators and Repre
sentatives could hear from his eloquent lips
the story, which must have had all the
weight with . them of a powerful .ospel
sermon. We are sure but few of our readers
will consider it lengthy or tedious.
On Saturday evening, March 10th, on
calling at his rooms, at Mrs. Carter's, on Ca
pitol Hill, I found he was then in bed, and
that the disease had proved more difficult of
treatment than was at first supposed.. He
had suffered at times intensely. After speak
ing with him for a few moments about the
symptoms of his case, and the prospect of
fully meeting them by the remedies employed,
I rose to take my leave of him, saying, My
dear Senator, it is little I can do to help you
or testify my gratitude and affection for you;
but there is one thing I can do and shall con
tinue to do, and this is, to pray for you." He
immediately replied, " Yes, that is what I
want you to do—whatlwant you to do now ;"
then asking Mrs. F., who stood at the foot of
the bed, to come and join us in our supplica
tion • so for the first time we knelt together
in that chamber of sickness and • poured out
our desires to God. He seemed very grateful
to have such a season of
.worship, and bade
me " good-bye" for the night. On Monday,
March 19, 1866, I had an interview with him
at his own request. • When we were alone,
with the door shut (he always insisted on the
door being shut whenever religious subjects
were to be considered, perhaps in deference
to the command of Christ, "When thou hast
entered into thy closet shut to thy door"),
he commenced by saying that he had desired
to see and converse with me ; that he hid
received a very tender and .affecting letter
from his old friend and pastor, the Rev. Dr.
Aiken, of Rutland, Vermont, on the subject
of his spiritual welfare, and continuing to
speak with great solemnity and earnestness,
frequently interrupted by weeping and sob
bing, he said : " I know it is but a poor time
for a man to pay attention to , the'concerns of
his soul when he is brought face to face with
death. And I can say that having always
assehted intellectually at least, to the truth
of the Christian doctrines, I have only been
tod prone to postpone the practical question
for so long a time to find at last, what I now
have to lament, that life has been wasted in
not having been devoted to life's greatest
end. This thought, indeed, has more deeply
impressed me for the last two years, and at
the commencement of this illness I was about
purposing to assume a duty long neglected,
but which I have felt that I would take up
in hope of receiving some further light and
strength from the only source of our help—
that is, from our Maker and God. The duty
I refer to is that of family worship morning
and evening, day by day. For years I have
daily read the Bible in the presence of my
wife;but when I have seen her seeking her
God in prayer so habitually and earnestly, I
have felt that we ought to be united in it,
and have purposed, if ever permitted to do
so, that this privilege, as well as duty, shall
no , longer be neglected." .
Continuing, he said, " I feel that I can
never / be thankful enough to God for giving
me a pious ancestry. My father and mother
were both devoted Christians, and I was fully
instructed in early childhood in the lessons of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I have never
doubted, from that day to this,
the truth and
finality of those teachings. I know and feel
that lam 'a sinner. I believe that Christ
made an atonement sufficient for all men, and
that this atonement -is the only ground of
salvation to human beings. lam even con : .
vinced that none will ever be saved by the
works of righteousnes which they have done.
"I have a strong desire' to accept these
te,rms of mere y, if only I might have an as
surance that God will not now reject me after
my long rejection of him. That is the point
to which 1. have come. Is there anything fort
me to do that I have not done, and will you
. ' point out the way,.that I may go onward in,
it?" In-commencing a reply to this appeal,
I adverted to the fact that I had long had a
desire for such an interview as this, and e.x-`
pressed a thankful sense that it had been so
graciously accorded at this time.
Since I was going on to state, by way of
evidencing still farther the tokens of Divine
favor granted to himself and his friends in
the low* b , upright, useful life 'be had been
enabled to lead, and judging by the standard
of men in the companttively pure and noble
example he had given both in private and
public relations to his fellow-countrymen, and
especially the young men of this generation
in our land ; • when, misapprehending the ob
ject of my remark, and hup posing I was about
to lead him to rely upon his past life and
character for his future prospects '
he quickly
interposed to say, " All that will not answer
me now. I must have a heart -work. I must
have the foundation of the atonement of
Christ alone to stand upon. I know there is
no other name given under heaven or among
men whereby we must be saved." Then
leaving the topic on which I was speaking, I
tried to address myself to the one point which
I discovered to.be weighing upon his mind,
and that was how he should be saved simply
and solely: upon 'the plan of God'a' grace
through faith in the Lord Jesus.
I explained to him, by reference to my own I
nerience, the nature of saving faith and tLdifficulties I found ih exercising it. - I
it-ted him in the distinctions that exist
b n :t t l r ve e ' the full submission and surrender of
God and those expectations which
t. ,, lit t e e
fi t, 0 11 t
e l.
n,
,this surrender—expectations of
,o.l e vivid LO ' - lit or manifestation from God
that we are a cc e Pnd of Him, and expectations
which are general,
meta, simply becam.,
doomed to disappoint
misapprehension of 'l., e
they originate in a
God's Spirit in the sound are in no wise
gracious work of
necessary to the progress.. perfection of
that work ; the first thing o',..aii. being the
very surrender itself which cuts\ff a ll expec
tations ; and all the work which can do
\
is summed up in those, two familiatT
often sun ~ 5 by Christians: mes, so
,
" ere, Lot d, I give myself away,
'TLS all that I can do. ' s \
~,
I then endeavored to turn his mind away
from the thought of trusting to the simple2l
work of submitting and surrendering all into
the hands of God, and distinctly made the
proposal that he should now, in the spirit of
a little child and with unquestioning confi
dence, commit all the interests of his entire
being, for time and eternity, to God, and
asked if he would join me in a prayer, thus
conselrating him forever to the Lord ; to
which he promptly and earnestly assented.
After prayer I gave him some further counsel,
designed to aid him in keeping to the solemn
dedication of his soul to God which had just
been made and after an interview somewhat
protracted I took thy leave of him for the
time. _ . _
I then visited him daily for several days,
watching the development of what I cannot
doubt was the gracious work of God's Holy
Spirit begun and progressing in the soul ; and
in those subsequent Interviews I perceived
that he was becoming more and more like a
little child, his faith more simple, and conse
quently more strong. He said at length,
" that he thought he had found the way."
"I have," he continued, "been thinking
much of those two lines repeated the other
day:
"' Here, Lord, I give myself away,
'Tis all that I can do.
I begin to understand that this comprehends
all, and I am beginning to lean alone on Jesus
Christ as my Saviour and Friend." I re
peated' to him several of the promises of the
Bible, on which his mind seemed to fasten
with evident satisfaction. On one occasion
be commenced by saying, as I appnached
his bedside, "Well, my dear minister, here
I still am, trying to do two things—trying to
get well and trying to prepare to die.". I
told him "that though the issue wasin God's
hands, yet I have strong hopes this sickness
would not be unto death; that it seemed to
me to be rather but another mercy' of the
Lord in disguise to give him that time for
Meditation and prayer which it would be im
possible otherwise in the circumstances of - his
position to obtain, and that when the moral
purposes of his eavenly Father had been
accomplished he would then be restored to
his customary walks in life, with an experi
ence of affliction sanctified to his highest
good." But to this he made in substance
his unvarying reply: "That he could not di
vest himself of the conviction that he would
not,rteover." It seemed useless to try to
shake his conclusion in this respect, and I
left hird on that day resoved'not to renew the
attempt.
On, Thursday, the 22d of March, there was
an evident progress in his spiritual experi
ence, and I began now to think that his feet
were surely planted upon the rock, and his
hope was being confirmed. On alluding to
the effect of faith in Christ upon the mind,
and quoting to him the words from the 51h
of Romans, "Therefore being justified by
faith we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ," he spoke out in answer,
as if carrying forward the conclusion of the
apostle, by repeating the following most suit
able and affecting lines :
" Jesus, the vision of thy face
Hath overpowering charms,
I shall not fear death's cold embrace
If Christ be in my arms.
Then while ye bear my heartstrings break
Row sweet my minutes roll,
A mortal paleness on my cheek
And glory in my soul."
Then, after prayer, in which he again
solemnly dedicated himself to. God, I again,
took leave of hilt,.
Thus he continued until Monday, March
26, when the symptoms of his disease became
more alarming. The day before (being Sun
day) he had informed his friends it would be
the last Sunday he would spend with them
on earth. Nothing then appeared to indicate
a change for the worse, and his frlends re
ceived the suggestion as but anotlier proof of
the mental depression so natural to. disease
of this specific type. On this day, therefore,
the physicians became alarmed, and at one
time it was thought he might not survive
even a few hours. But, rallying again, the
feeble powers of nature made k stand, and
in the evening he seemed somewhat revived.
I did not see him during the day. But on
Tuesday morning, March 27, I repaired early
to his chamber, arriving about nine o'clock,
and, with a short time of absence, remaining
until about the hour of six o'clock in the
evening. This was the last day with him on
earth. As if fbrewarned of his approaching
end, he spent the whole day in receiving and
parting with his friends, and performing his
last acts of religious devotion. For several
hours he talked almost incessantly, until he
seemed to have finished his work and was
ready to depart. As I approached him in
the morning, there were none present at the
moment but members of the family, and I
proposed we should have a season of prayer. •
Oh, yes," he immediately exclaimed, "that
is what I want—close the door—l think it
tight—and come then and kneel down and
pray loud. All kneel down; all pray—pray
that my faith may be strengthened ; that my
heart may be renewed; that •my sins may be
,forgiven through that one atonement of Jesus
Christ,; that my views of it may be clear;
that I may see in it a sufficiency for the sins
of the whole world, and particularly my sins,
which have been so many and so aggravated
during a long life, that they may all be
cleansed away and remeMbered by no man I"
Then atter prayer, he repeated • again at
our request, the lines already -quoted, and
with great emphasis and appreciation. It
was now ten o'clock, and the tidings that he
was sinking brought niany of his friends to
his bedside, among whom were the Secretary
of State, the Secretary of War, several of the
Senators and others of the Senate, the
members of the Verniont delegation and
others of the Rouge of Representatives, and
many others in private life.
A few moments after, at the request of a
friend, and when the number present had
somewhat diminished, he repeated for bhe
third time, and with his hands so placed to
gether as if to emphasize and impress them,
the striking and expressive verses already
quoted, and then said, " Sing, them ; I like to
hear the voice of sacred singing ; it bears me
up as on angels' wings." And to a suggestion
that he might be wearied by so many visits,
8 h l p It
it n nh o ge
so much excitementand talking, he said "No;
ve
it does not hurt me; I rather desire
borne up as on angels'
for me to converse orhbsearw:ishYgosi effort n g.
On the renewal of
i n g, •we were obliged to change the W or d s h e
had repeated for that beautiful and now fa
miliar hymn, "Just as I am,, without one
plea," &c. As we sang thi s h e lay as if
en.
trained by it, and suddenly perceiving all pre
sent in tears, and his wife ,sobbing, her head
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN , ,THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1866.
bowed upon his hand in the grief of her af
fection, he said, looking round on the circle,
" why these tears? There is no occasion for
weeping. This is heaven begun 'below ! I
am only going home a little sooner, that is
all." At the conclusion of the hymn, as if
repeating the sentiment of the last stanza, he
said, "I do trust in my Saviour!"
A few moments after, when his brother,
Dr. Foot, but two years young . 3r than himself,
who had arrived a few days before from his
home in Canada, and to whom in their first
meeting .he had expressed the same feeling
that he should not recover, now came towards
him, but filled with emotion, immediately
turned away to conceal it, he said to me in an
I under tone : " If God has given, it to me to
leave such a name as my family will not be.
ashamed to remember, it is not a cause of
pride or boasting, but of gratitude to Him
only who doeth all things well ; and if when I
am gone they shall sometimes think of me,
and mention me as belonging to them, it will
lin e pin,
yscthaat.l, ei
have at least studied not to giv
them,
l
' InXrs. Browning a lady .friends in tin
house,
: is
b• \ said : "I am glad to see you th
morning ;
ese earthly partings are sever
but there ar', no rears, no sorrows in heave -
There we shall , mee t,
enatus Doolittle trust, 'ere long!"
When S
olittle approached
bedside, he immediately
stretched out 1
hand and said : " Dbar brother D., you hav6
been always kind to me- a dear good brotht
Senator—l can never laward you, but yo t a
know where your reward'iies; you have long
been a professor of the religion of the Gos
pel. You know what it is to enjoy its conso
lations in sickness and in health. The mere'
of God has been very great to me in this sick
ness. I have so many kind friends, so men}
angelic ministers all around me. It seems a
though a company of • angels were all aroun
me, and hovering over me, to bear up a sink
ing spirit from its immortality.." Then, afte I
a pause, as if reviewing his past life, and col
deavoring to recall its conflicts, he said, " I
have been trying to recall to mind 'if then!
was a human being on earth to whom I hav :
done wrong or injustice. If there is, I pra,
God to forgive me." And on another occa
sion during the day he said, "if I have a'
enemy in the world, I thank God I do no'
know it."
When Secretary Stanton entered the mon
some time about mid-day, he seemed ver.
much gratified, and said: "You are kind t'
visit me, Mr. Stanton. lam here yet ; liv
ing and dying. I have no acute pain , n
seyere distress; but a general sinking of th.
system, the constitution breaking up. But I
ate surrounded by so many kind friends, tie,
seem to bear me up as on angels' wings."
The Secretary of War said to Senator Foot :
"The President intended to come with me,
but was unavoidably prevented by the /pres
sure of business. If he could get.off he Foul,
call during the day, and directed me fu ex
press his kindest regards and sympath . B. l -'
Not hearing the words distinctly, so e o
I
repeated them, to which he replied : ' 0 ,
yes : if he comes I would be pleased fib. see
him. It is twenty-three years ago since we
first met. If the President comes I siall be
glad to see him. The Secretary alway anti
cipates everything ; he is one of the bt men
I ever knew. This world cannot rewa him,
h
but there is a God in easeh can lo so,
and lam suee he will not lose that ward.
There is a God on high who will nett ail to
reward him.' 2
Presently he added; "I have a goo deal
of physical strength left yet, so that I ight
continue perhaps a week, but on that int I
do not speculate." On the the Se etary
remarking that "We are,all in God's h ds,"
he responded : " Oh, yes: mu he is aling
with me in great mercy. 'The Lord igns;
let the earth rejoice ! And well ma God
i
,reign, and well may the earth rejoice t t at he
does reign. That thew is a God wh reigns
over all there can be no manner odoubt.
We do not come into this world by chalice ;
us t
we are not creatures of accident. e have
been born under,a superintending ovidence
and are candidates for a certain im ruility. ':
Then pausing again, as if contem acing his
approaching departure, he said ; ' When I
leave this place I wish no parade, o ostenta
tious demonstrations to ,be mad ; only the
o f i
ordinary proceedings which cust and pro
priety impose; and thus I desire to be borne,
to my friends and home in Rutland, Vermont,
and laid among the people who have been sn'
faithful to me--more faithful, I fear, than I
have ever been to them. Let me be sent'
home to the people who have done so much
for me; they will prepare everything, an
there by them-let me be buried."
Presently Mr. Basset, the door-keeper ctt
the Senate, came in and was greeted in •th
same ardent and earnest manner by the dying
Senator. He recalled his first meeting with ,
him fifteen years ago, and_ testified to his
udiform kindness, and said,. "I cannot reward
him but God will do it, and that will be a
far Better, higher, more glorious reward than
man can ever bestow.:'
Some one again inaniring if he did not feel
great exhaustion and bddily distress, he re
plied; "Not muchdistress; '
this I consider
one of my comfortable days." Then turning he
saw Mrs. F., weeping at the foot of the bed,
with Mrs. Browning at her side. This seem
ed to pain him most deeply, and he said,
pointing to his wile, "there isply great grief,
my beloved wife—to part with her is like
tearing the silver cords asunder." On being
approached by these ladies, Mrs. B. remarked
" that they had been permitted to enjoy each
other's society long on earth, and they indulg
ed the hope that this society would he re•
sumed again in Heaven." .
" Oh, yes," he answered, "we have been a
family long held together, and memory is full
of tender visions of the past. God grant that
they may be renewed in another and better
world."
At this time Senatc,r Fesssenden approach
ed hlm, to whom he eagerly stretched out his
hand and said : " My dear frien,d Fessenden,
the man by whose side I have sat so long,
whom I have regarded as the model of states
man and pailiartientary leader—on whom I
have leaned and to whom I have looked more
than to any other living man for guidance
and direction in public affairs, the grief I feel
is,that the silver cord which has so long bound
us together must now be severed: Bnt, my
dear Fessenden, if there is memory after
death, that memory will be active, and I shall
call to mind the whole of our intercouse on
earth." '
The Senator thqs addressed, too much
affected to reply in words, stooped over and
kissed the brow of his dying friend, and
turned away in silence. Towards evening,
when it was intimated that the same Senator
,had returned to inquire after him, and he
was asked if he desired to see him, his reply
was prompt—" Always," " always." With
hands clasped they remained for some time;
the enfeebled Senator repreating his grateful
sense of the friendship so long existing be
tween them, and being in turn assured of its
vilued estimation by his friends.
Some one observed that though parted for
a while on earth, they might have hope of a
reunion in the spirit world hereafter. ~ 0,
yes," he exclaimed with great emphasis, "I
e And
finally, i i n n
a God o
ne an o d f t a b ff e ec l t i i f n e g e t t e e r n a
n de l
r .
n " e And
lie
bade his friends "farewell," saying, " Good
bye, and may God bless you for evermore."
Afterward Senator Giales approached
he said, "-A-h se , e my dear_ friend
him, to whom
Grimes, you have cometo
..
.rtie ? I have
terrible ordeal here the last
Big Weeks.' Then noti I .g that a ll w ere
T he n added, "Do not cease to
deeply affected, h
been throuo a v. ,
talk ; these things cannot alarm me." Then
taking the Senator by the hand, he said,
" Yes, I know the man—a man about whom
there is no deceit ; with whom, neitlier in public ,
nor in private, .was there a deceitful though
or a deceitful_ word." His friend then re- ,
marking that he must have suffered very
severely, he replied, "I have supposed that
the fiailty of' human nature could not endure 1
it so' long ;" and then recurring evidently
to the scenes of the past in which he had
winkled with his friend, and as if soliloquiz
ing/he added, " He was one of the first and
las% and best of my associates; and there was
no' mistake about him." Then turning to
the Senater. he said; as the latter was about
to leave him, "You are not going out of the
city?" On being answered in the negative
they exchanged " farewells," and were parted
forever upon earth.
To another Senator—Brown—who came in
soon after, he said, "I am glad to see you,
my dear associate ; you know what it is to be
a disciple of
011.7ist. I.hope we shall meet in
heaven. This world is a poor place for saints
or sinners to dwell in forever. Its scenes are
passing away, its fitshion perishes. There is
steadfast, nothing stable here." end
nothing
thus he continued for sonic time, speaking to
one and another, sending last tokens of love
to absent kindred and friends, and doing his
. ast work on earth.
At. about half-past two o'clock, all being
prepared, by his desire and with the consent
of his physician, who was indefatigable in at
tending to every wish, in the presence of his
family and a few Christian friends, he signi
fied his public profession of faith in Christ
by receiving the symbols of the Lord's Sup
per, and joining, for the first and last time
on earth, in that communion which all God's
children hOpe to renew in Heaven. On re
ceiving the bread into his mouth, he uttered
in a low, but solemn and reverential manner,
these words : " This bread is the symbol of
the broken body of Christ Jesus, through
whom, alone, 1 hope for the mercy of God
and the gift of eternal life." This most
affecting and solemn scene, only to be appre
ciated and understood by those who have
known expkimentally the life which it out
wardly sets forth, was concluded by singing
the following lines, during which his soul
seemed borne away, indeed, as on angel's
wings :
" How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word?
What more could He say than to you lie Inith said,
You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled—
' The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose,
I willmot—l cannot des'rt to its foes :
That soul though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I'll never—no, never! no, "never forsake l'"
After this he seamed to be satisfied, and
only awaited the appointed hour of depart
ure.
To Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, who
visited him in the after part of the day, he
addressed similar words of tenderness, and
exchanged with him the affectionate regards
of their former friendliness. But his hours
were rapidly running out, and he seemed only
too eager for their conclusidn. The day set,
the night wore on. The morning came again,
and all this while he lay peacefully, attended
by gentle women, his kindred, whom he de
scribed repeatedly as ministering angels sent
to soothe and comfort him,' and make light
his pathway to the tomb.
At about eight o'clock, on the morning of
Wednesday, the 28th of March, it was evi
dent he could not much longer survive. Then,
as if admonished by some invisible attendant
that his Moments were few, he signified his
desire to see once more the light of the sun
in heaven, and the Capitol on which it shone,
and where he had so long served the people
of his State and country, and where his asso
ciates would soon again assemble. They
Jilted him up, butlis eve was already dim.
He.sank back upon his pillow. Seeing his
time was at hand, the words of the 22d Psalm
were then read, and a solemn prayer went up
from the lips of one, the dearest to him on
earth. He called her to his side, and folded
her in his arms for a moment, then, as his
breathing became choked, he said: " What!
can this be death ? Is it come already?"
Then, lying a few moments longer with eyes
all full of a celestial radiance, he lifted his
hands and looked up, exclaiming : "I see it!
I see it! The gates are wide open! beauti
ful ! beautiful !' and without a movement or
a pang, immediately expired.
f have no apology to offer for dwelling so
long nil the closing scenes of one whom I
lov. d as a father. and to whom, for years
past, I have learne'd to look for a father's
counsels in many of my earthly affairs. Thus,
how Many will miss him in all the ranks and
conditions of society ; how will he be lament
ed by a harrassed and sorrowing peoPle.
I' They shall tell to whom it More properly be
longs—others there are who will make the
)record of his history, and depict the attri
butes of his private character, and trace the
odirection of his private life ; others there are
bvho will show hispositimitin the mighty pas
'page of the nation through one of its most
wentful and momentous periods, who will
ath,r the garlands for his brow and erect a
(moment to his memory. It is ours to de
ive fiord the solemn dispensation of Provi
ence, which has thus removed him from
ur midst, the practical lessons it is so pre
minently designed to enforce upon us.
1. First. we see the difference between Pa
ir; 'tin(' Christian light. The sentiments of
dim ancients and of heathen sages now are
abd were exceedingly uncertain, clouded and
obscure in respect to a future state, and the
conditions of happiness therein. Their hopes,
though often earnest, were and must be. con
seuently far from having a good and firm
foundation on which to rest. But in the
clear light of the Christian revelation all is
consistent, significant, and satisfactory. The
deepest cravings of our nature are here met,
and the soul rests upon the word and promise
of God as upon the basis of an everlasting
rock.
2. Again we see the nature and necessity
of making preparation for death and a future
state. It is, to believe in God and in the rec
ord which he has given of his Son, that if
thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God
hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be
saved And this is the work of God that ye
believe in him whom he hath sent; and then
it is added in another place; ".Show me thy
faith without thy works, and I will show thee
iny faith by my works, for faith without
works is dead, being alone." Then since by
nature we are alien from God, having rebelled
against him, doth not reason teach, as well
as ILevelation declare, what is now so vitally
enforced by our own experience, even under
human government and in this imperfect
earthly state of society, that there must be
repentance and regeneration of heart and re
formation of life in nrder to the restoration of
those who have so rebelled and so endeavored
to destroy the Government and disintegrate
society itself! ,We cannot fail to see the
reasonableness and the imperative motive of
all this under the Divine government, how
ever it may be questioned in those political
systems'which have been erected by the hands
of men.
3. We may„ see, also, from the example
before us the inheritance of a pious ancestry.
They, who consider the worth of things in
their' proper light, will readily assent to this
great truth, that there is a hereditariness of
influence descending from generation to gen
eration, which renders the ,character of our
ancestry a matter of the deepest moment and
concern to all their posterity. And on this
point permit me to introduce the testimony
o f an old friend and college class-mate of the
departed Senator, which has jest now been
kindly furnished.
[From a class-mate.]
THE VALUE OF A PIOUS ANCESTRY
When Solomon Foot was a member of college,
he was living with a widowed mother, who had
removed to Middlebury to give her son the pe
culiar literary and religious advantages that the
place afforded. It was understood. in the class
that the father of Mr. Foot, a physician, I think,
by profession, bad been a man of very decided
religious character; and this was judged to be
a favorable circumstance, by the religious
members, when speculating on the probalilittes
of the son's conversion. The father was judged
a man who must have derived great consolation
in his early separation from his family by death,
from a scripture passage like this: "Leave thy
fatherless children; 1 will preserve them alive,
and let thy widows trust in me."
But the widowed mother of Mr. Foot is par
ticularly remembered by her prevailing anxiety
for his conversion and usefulness. 1 scarcely
can recollect an interview that I had with that
excellent lady during my four year's residence
at Middlebury r in which this was not the burden
of her conversation. I have often thought that
the mother of Augustine never felt more anxiety
and persevering desire for her son's conversion
than did the mother of Solomon Foot for his
conversion.
4. We may see, too, the value of early re
ligious training and the'benefit of an habitual
observance of the ordinances of God's house.
I have had'ocaision to observe many persons
in the closing scenes of life, and I have never
found one who had enjoyed such training
and observed such habits that did not exhibit
the fruit of it in the final hour. Nor did I
ever see one who had gone through life with
out them. that did not manifest a correspond
ing deficiency in sentiment, opinion and expe
rience, when the last trial came upon them.
This result must necessarily follow, and that
human being who has come and gone out of
this life without such a training and such a
habit deserves the most profound commisera
tion..
.5. We may see, again, the consistency and
dignity of a Christian life and the satisfaction
of a Christian hope. Such a life bears in it a
self-demonstrating power ; such a hope is evi
dence of its own priceless, inestimable nature.
Those who have attained them in early years,
and worn them well to a good old age, show
by their example, as well as their profession,
how true and how real is the excellency they
possess. Those who have to regret their
long neglect of or indifference to such a life
and such a hope, still bear witness to the in
comparable value and desirableness of both.
They are confirmed by a sense both of their
loss and df their. gain, both now and for
evermore.
6. We see once more the beauty and glory
of a Christian death, and the abounding faith-.
fulness of a covenant keeping God. What
clearness, calmness, composure, moral sub
limity in the chamber where a child of God is
dying ! How surely, tenderly, punctuallyjs
the Almighty power and grace vouchsafed to
make " all that bed in peace," and to fill the
dying scene with memorials the most living,
and the most lasting,, and the most affecting
of all human experience on earth I And it is
God's power and verity displayed when he says,
"I will never leave thee nor forsake thee!
Who in view of all this would not strive so
to lead this life that our departure from it
may be joyful and triumphant? And who
would not exclaim with one of old, and with
a clearer motive, " Let me die the death of
the righteous, and let my last end be like
his!"
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