274 ti final Ciasutimitatiw. LETTERS 'MON A. GARRET. - BY Z. al. IL the MR. EDITOR I—Letters from s. The breath no novelties in these summer Sountry are Will there be too of the bills and the meadows the columns of city journals . vcsaa.Ybreathes through an muchrubbish of dust in letters from a garretthe ? Carlyle is severe upon the sifters r of a New ..11. Pittsfield, Mass., tiquity. the most fascinati: .. knefar the charm ° Aug, li garret—onee ne ver man who is chief England the world to a 0,. places in flavor (IP 1 + he perpetual ~. And I enstomed ,D t iet .:1,:: which pervades American soc . I . t irr.; character to all our daily associtiL, him of Dr. DryV , g et, tired asdus , scree place where the mould of antipth e 'inn swept • ' ~, t 4 ''' fres but here it is a 're in the . , t reasures into his favortV n :"ol poxes take the above the gar e ak korecious wood below, bed-rooms, i dhair offers you the most . _ of peat , kr ,4.c ., And. A the n best of day s , for v isiti n g ace . pl ~ ~'i murmur a a n . the, or the roar of the ,6 ro4 just above . head ' 5 d q .1' your is de .A ou have such ~, a ,a sense of security . o rthestorm when it expends• ~ . .-1 , i); . its force close - to ieu, without being able to reach you. ' There is , . 4 x such a suggestion of disappointed effort on the part of the rain, whichseems t - o be strugglingyon—sounding to a get at you 'arid the dust; about on the Aringles as-if Wl:icy • ald split , them ,driving'in under' them to ndi , soine •crevi • ce for entrance, angrily knocking off the moss on their edges as if it had grown =there on purpose to close up all possible seams. And then when the gust is oVer, , and there is. only the sound - of a few languid , drops lallini from• overhanging boughs, you. glory mere than ever in your protection and!in that of the relicsof other days about you: No garret is 'worthy-of the name, which is well-kept. It must be more , or less littered, or it loses one of its principal charms. There must' be papers scattered on the' floor. Bits of old , finery must he' seen peeping out, of chests, or hanging from under the lids of ancient trunks: Do yak know; Mr.'Editor, what manner of 'thing an old trunk is? Let me describe this one in the corner. It is not rectangular. It has no 'fresh Saratoga air. It ishattered as to its leath er; it is eccentric as to its curves. It seems to have been modeled after one of the mountains you can see through that dim window. It rises precipitously from the floor on one side, and slopes away gradually on the other side with a gentle inward curve. It was " built" for use in those good , old days when railways were not. It was intended for journeys made in chaises, such as Holmes has immortalized in one of his poems, so comic and yet . so' serious. That long slope, you see, was meant to fit under the curve of the vehicle beneath the c§eat. There ,was once a look on the,,front or the . receptacle ; but what would be the 'appropriateness of , a lock now, when we are so anxious to explore the interior ? Could such a trunk, 'in its` present position, be complete; if it did not show glimpses of what it contains through the crack made by its ill-fitting lid? 'Open it,' and tell me, did you ever imagine' such fabrics , could'be made by the needle'? A wee body' in shortclothes, once said when giving her nurse a lecture on the superiority of the Creator over the creature, "When God would make the light, he only Says, 'Let there be inicrthere is , light. - When he would make ' a little girl he says, .‘'Let therie be a little girl;' and there is one; but 'when we would make a collar, we can't say k,Let there be a collar.' We have to take a -needle •and a scissors, and go to work !" good sermon truly ; but how could any mortal ever have taken " a needle and a scissors" I to make such fabrics as those which this trunk contains ? How is it possible to im-, agine that such curious gear as this could ever be worn . , or if that is possible, what odd People , they must have been who could consider such things befitting their style ! Did our grandmoth ers have any waists at all? Did they not have , enormous heads, to wear such bonnets? How' did they arrange their bah ? Heads they must „ have possessed---and shOulders. As for the rest, —well, their children were not so much.mistaken whenihey fancied that old-fashioned clothes-pins were like enough to the human form to Serve as dolls. This, however, is only imagination. I am sure that no one, was ever, more comely than my grandmother, however she was di:eised, and I am "cepain that my grand-children 'will' think" that present fashiOns are wonderful combina tions. But what is in that -hair trunk," studded with'bra's's nails; and 'edged With a secdliipbd ffinFe' of leath'erl? Nothing but an old' astral -11 - ow wellti femenebei that lamp in 'the days of itsglory--Wheii kerosene was unknown; whin *Waft one of 'the wonders of New York and' Londtia 'htately whalers flocked in. and out of•ThJiharboi df New Bedford, bringing un told wealtlito - its mer6hailtat .- What a soft radi auce. did: fo Wseval feet about the ,parlor tithJet witeik that lavpgra4s.ligixtted I What pleasant eveningstWete Ahem, whew parents! and , ehildren collected with books and papers, and TIE AMERICAN knitting, and slates, and pens, and pet the as_ lamp bas long since shed its last r as ever in sociations it recalls shale as 1 , , , - , -attiniare books. the memory. in these boxes coverer'AgY, of p how oetry, wen_ books, book books, bookseaten ; but how much travel : science, of bineo g gonethey were fresh thumbed; he-. E - aMOII prized wilfiloor are three bulky folio's : The and ne.vider ; six volumes from the corn prof the paper in 1816. AM here is "for another day. Good Dr. Dryasdust go'Clown to dinner. Z. M. H. A SUMMER DAY IN SWITZERLAND.-v. From the Note-Book of our Travelling. Correa- pondent DOES THE GLACIER REALLY MOVE? Agassiz has told us that he observed the mo tion of the glacier downwards from the mown: tain to the end which is constantly melting off. I was anxious to observe some traces of the motion, and tried my best 6 climb the side of *the glaeier,"t6 observe where it would grind against the rocky walls of the mountain. My efforts were unavailing. The climbing had al ready exhausted me, and as I approached the sides; the surface was more uneven, with more steep ridges to climb, and I gave it up after sex eral ineffectual attempts. In fact, it seemed as if the whole movement theory was incorrect;—as though it were impos sible for such a mass. such millions of tons of ice, bulky as a mountain inverted, to move at all. As I walked and slid down towards the bottom, however, I looked more closely at the little val ley we had just crossed, in coming from the cha let to the glacier. For nearly a quarter of a mile beyond the edge of the ice, in a semicircle, the valley had evidently been one day covered• by the glacier. The rough stones that had been carried down the surface of the ice were lying scattered around, some of them several tons in weight. c The surface of the ground was totally barren, as if ploughed over; no grass nor bushes of any kind growing; and I at once satisfied Ty- , self that that whole surface had once been cov-. ered by the glacier. ,After descending, I asked the guide if it were not so? "Oh yes," said he, " fifteen.years ago, the ice covered all this hol low, filling it up to the edge quit'e full, and we began to climb on the& at the top of the hol loW, and not"down at the hottom." Evidently, during the last fifteen years, the end of the mass, bad been melting q tr more -rapidly th- 40 the , s ja,. tier had pushed' itself forward from the gorge: The little hollow, once filled with ice, DOW emp• ty, was, perhaps, one hundred feet deep ,and semicircular around the bottom of the glacier, with a radius of 500 to 800 feet from the point where the stream issued. Had we known then, as we afterwards learned, • that the stream issuing from the lesser, glacier down the valley, comes out Of an arch in the ice seventy or eighty feet high, :ore should certainly have visited it before leaving the region—just to get a view into the body of the glacier. Close to the edge of the ice, in the hollow, I pulled a handfUl of little yellow flowers. How could they grow there, not. five yards from that eternal laank of ice? .I must bring them hem, aridshow my friends how . a tiny flower cannot be scared out oflts life, though a. mountain of freez ing death is close beside it I examined the lower edge orthe ieb, where it met the ground, to see if any traces of its having moved were visible. The ice I found, not frozen into the ground, as I expected, but separate from it, so that I could put my hand under . the edge, and in some places-run my alpenstock under, as far as it would go. In many paces, the edge of the ice-was a foot above the ground, and as it shelved flown to a thin edge, I broke off large pieces with my foot. This allowed plainly the probability of the mass moving all the time. If I had had sufficient time and strength, nothing would have pleased me more than to have set four or five poles in line across the glacier from mountain to mountain, and next day to , have sighted the line again, to observe, the two or three feet of motion that would have` taken place in that time. I would not have waited for a theodolite to .demonstrate accurately the, motion. But there are sights beyead, and we take it for granted that the glacier does move, every year, flowing down to be melted off, as all the philoso phers asssert. In vain I had searched for rocks worn smooth by the rubbing of the ice, but could not stay to hunt them up more thoroughly. It would have beep a great comfort to have comp upon one. AN ANTIQUATED AND. DUETY:QUST93I. The day began to decline, and we , had a long, ride before us, so with regret aye turned our backs 'upon the glacier and mounted our horses for the homeward march. Our Alpine guide, was, in high glee and warbled out some of hissongs nobly. In ; In fact, he started all „of us. to ,singing,so alternately, we,gaveihiman; Americas song, and„ he gave us .a.Swiss, and the I.;,itne rapidly., We soon meet other parties+ going up ,to the. l i la cicr. The pith iii.@o l uswrotir that ; it lial.difficult to pass. A stout ,igentlemen, sj:to in achair, ried by two stout; Swissimounteineers. , The, ges• tleman sits back leisurely, :comfortably,' whilsthe men carrying him are at hard work. The sweat 11, 1868 ESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1868. runs down their faces and they set down their load as we pass, to take a breath. " Does this thing pay ?" the gentleman asks of us. "Oh, yes ! Be sure and go into the grotto," we reply, and pass on. That man is an American surely, for no Englishman would ask the usual practical Yankee question. At the Grand Eiger hotel we settle with our guides, giving each a franc over the price agreed upon, pour Loire (for drink), as is the custom all over Europe with hackmen, porters and guides of s. every sort. We were soon in our carriage, on our way back to Interlachen. Justbefore us, another carriage set out, and kept far enough ahead to dust us quite unpleasantly; so, we urged our dri ver to pass it'; but he objected, and we then fell back to escape the dust. 'This was too slow travel, so we again urged the driver to go' faster. He did ;, but kept iinmediately in the dust cloud. We again urged him to pass the (other carriage; but to no j)ui T ose : Finally the' other carriage stopped to water the horses. Now we are free, certainly, —" Drive on d'on't stop' to water," we said; but no, he. n must water his horses,:too : So we hurried him - 4, so is to be off, ahead lit the slow coach. What was our chagrin to find start off leisurely just behind!' it 'again:' When we reMonstrated, he toldit would' ndver do to' pass it. It was not the maim: and. we abso lutely discovered that thiney'hil , adhere to a rigid custom, never to pass a fellow-traveler on the same road.' - We 'offered hire Additional pay; but it was Of no avail; and 'we arrived' at ourl hotel completely powdered with' dust; slate' color,' the whole pay,'carriage, horses, rider and travellers. They have other strange' bustomi,these drivers. If you'are riding 'one or two in a carraidge, with plenty of room fOr more;j'arid meet a friend walking in the road, they'will not allew you' to stop and take him in. Not on any account. /t is not' the custom: DIARADATION OF WOKEN. • We now pass , women laboring in the hay-fields. An old woman,, not much, under sixty-five years of age, we tholight,,was tying a load of hay on a li,tle cart; she was alone in the field; and as she pulled and strained at the rope, we pitied her. They don'tlinitt hay loosely on a cart or wagon, as we do, bnt,they work it into a ball or bundle, binding it tight with ropes, in every direetion. The old woman was doino• alone What would be ample work , for.wo stout men, and we, had no doubt that she pulled the load.home when proper ly fastened, for e there was no hOrse or donkey any where in view .Half a mile further. along the road, we met a similar load..,ied on the ; same kind of a cart, -with-n-IDAn-4-04*fr443,w_htre--wc. jut a hilr4E?; but he was not ptPliug. - He only appeared to be guiding the load, for on one side ,of him was a woman, we took it to be his wife, and.on the other his daughter. They both were .. pulling hard, leaning forward and bealinc , their weight upon a rope ding that was fastened to the cart and passed around their bodies over one shoulder, across their breast 'and below the other arm. Our ladies were horrified at the'sight; byt .con 7 'eluded that it was really no worse than what we had seen before—woiKen'eallying, heavy loads on their backs t in A,large baskek or. pannier„faste,ned over each . shoulder _l?y ,a sling, • The baskets woulkhold over a bushel, being a yard long, near ly half a yard wide , at the.top,-and tapering down to a point. Others we had seen -carrying water in a tub made to fit the.baek,.and slung over the shoulders in 'the same-manner. The woman backs up to a, fountain, lets the tub runfull, then bends forward and walks off with 50 to 100.1ba. of water. Others we had seen, sawing,woed. in ,the streets; others sweeping the street: with great Jakob brooms, such as our street-sweepers use. INTERLAGHEN AGAIN We.had erigagedthe ,carriage for 'twenty five francs but' could not settle for less than lye francs, Additional pour ' boire. ‘ The twenty-five francs is for the carriage and horses,And the five. for the driver; yet the drivel. was ,the owner of the whole concern. , • ' • We soon brushed off the dust , and were seated at the latp dinner, (nearly 8 o!clock,)•of our good Victpria,Hotel ;--mountain; trout, and choice raspberries,equal to a ny "antwerps" we get at home, helped to render the .dinner ;inore> acceptable to our luingry party. , We had a delightful day ; so cool and bracing the air, so exciting and, in teresting the sights and incidents; but we felt alter supper, mach as ona'fee6 when he returns to the city after a long stay at thi3 sea side. The bracing cool sea air , ia wanting, and the .city,feels' so hot and close. We had been delightfully, cool with our overcoats on, nearly all day, and now we could scarcely endure the' ordinary pleiiiant temperature of the valley. • ; WHAT tatEitirs 34IAi COME Every pleasant day must have an end. Wea-` ry, but with heads full of mountains ; echoes of Alpine music, chalets; beggars, glaeiers,. guides,. raspberries, ice, grottoes, ,Tyorking women apd dust, we lay down to sleep. r At first the proces sion through sour mind was orderly enough; but presently wh Waked up:with' start and a jerk, as weisat.en the topiof a.loadlof lay, our whole party ; haraVsed in And pulling lit , with frightful speed down the : ,aurface ,of, the, glacier, going headlong into one of those funnels: Ali yes, only a dream; we thought so at the tline, we , turn over- and the glacier' melts from• view.' Mount tßiger grosis smaller; ands is somehow. moving Itself f9rt r he'raw4y—the eelmes t frowithu Alpinehorn spem,sweeter ae they the, silver seems to be fa'ding,'Propt.the summit. of Jangfran, and all is forgetfillnesh. - Raider, Whew yoia'go to ger than I did. G. W. M. REV. A. IL. STEWART'S LETTERS-XII. BELMONT, NEVADA. As may be seen by the map, this place is about as far out of reach as town can be, in the vast mineral regions of California and Netada. Twenty-seven months ago, civilized being claim ed nought of interest within a hundred miles of this vicinity. The Shoshonee Indians held un disputed sway. Now, a city—in this region al most everyplace where human habitation becomes doubled is called a city—a city is here now, with precincts numbering a thousand people. Nor in the wide world would it be easy to find. a, more :hustling, busy, scheming, changing, intelligent population. INTELLIGENCE whetted, sharpened, bent, twisted, screwed and doubled seems .t o. have absorbed all other human attributes and virtues. That.such a town as this should rise as by, ma gic at the temporary terminus of some. - westward. ,bound railroad, may be 'slight cause of won derment. Its inhabitara, goods.and even houses, can be brought easily, quickly, and cheaply by rail. But for such a busy mart of human Inter ests to rise so speedily in this far, out-of-the-way, mountain region, where there is no timber with which to build ou4es, no necessary article of hu man use or . consuniption, but must be hauled in ox Mule, wagons a oistance of . four .hundred wiles over mountain and valley—boxes f goods, for this region have been six months on the way by reason of, snow.on the mountains—yet fOr all these Chings, that a city shoiild rise Within the' space of a few months, does seern.maivellous. No other prothptings save the love Or moriey'and the hopes of speedy gairi could accomplish such re sults. MINISTERIAL VISIT My visit to preach for three Sabbaths, and en quire specially into the moral condition and wants of the ffe'ople, hlis been full Of newnes- , and interest-i-Lfor this..is a gospel field entirely new, where minister of Jesus had not labored.. Arriving on July the 3d, the entire population were found to be in the bustle of busy prepara tiimi for the delebration of - to-morrow.'Our Union is safe. By 'no possibility can it be dissolved. These Behtiontese, almost out of reach, one would suppose, of Union sympathies,,as they are from communion with the re,t of inankind, joined with as'great fervor - ; and More unanimity in cominemo , rating the glorieus Fourth, than could or did the people, of Philailelphia , or. CI tcago. THE ,CELEERATION A procesaion must needs be formed, which proved unique and , truly. Western. ' A band of such.• music .ae could be, raised took the lead. An improniptu fire-company of a hundred stalw,att men, went next, in red flannel,shir,s ; and as no fire' engine was within three or finir hundred inilbe their long rope betWeen 2 the double file was attached, to a,wheeled-';carriage 'fiintasticaily de corated ; on , which, and under ) a, canopy, sat a, young miss, arrayed in , queetily,state.. The re winder If ;,he,PopulaitilLa JUlDy9d_in such con veyance ae 'could be had—wagons, baggies, on horseback; and on foot. Arid 4irbat to me , proved the most interesting featurelarge delegations of Shoshunee ,I,ndians,, braves, squaws, youngsters, and papooses joined, in the celebration., Each one according to sex had obtained some ,ariiele of white man's or wdnian's clothing--a cast off one perchance—and had doffed it in honor of the occasion The,sullen gravity of the braves -Would, not allow them to manifest their pleasure:; ; but ; the ,squaws and younger ones were not to be re strained; becoming almost Unbounded in their' manifestation - Of delklit. PLACE OF CONGREGATING This was a space in front of large Mining Company's Office, about a hundred feet sqUare, enclosed by small' pine trees 'set firmly in , the ground and close together, and the entire space cuvered, with an, immensp:rnuslin awning. On my arrival in Belmont, I was waited, upon by the Committee of Arrawninents'and invited to act as Chaplain-not iner t 'elY, it was suggested, to offer a formal prayer, butt() read the Scriptures and have any other religious exercises might deem qpropriate, The singing , the reading; of the . Declaration of Independence,,serect speak,ing, original poem and' oi•ation, ivould' have done • discredit to In'ae'-• pendence Square' and before a Philadelphia audi ence.: • • PREACHINCI. At the•close of the celebration the officer of the day announced that the Chaplain, would: preach under the awning on to-Morro*, at 11 'IIC 'and. 8 P. M. At the Sabbath Liliornin,, , •• service quite a large congregation assembled.; and in the, evening almoSt the. entire City came-to gether. It seemed .like many , a well remembered camp scene, and how much I felt at hOtne ! The , services on the two suCceeding Sabbaths 'have been held in the only hall in the city,' which had been fitted,up , for a theatre, but, -fon 4iduses nn- known, that institution has become extinct ,; Al though in the place no cessation in worldly bus iness is made on the Sabbath, yet at each suc cessive service the congtegatiOn grew in "numbers and' apparent-interest. I am sorry' that appoint ments elsewhere-take me away so soon. • SABBATH-SCHOOL An' elder in 'the New School 'Presbyterian Church found his way here a year ago, and,being an earnest Christian, at puce started , a little Bah-, bath-selipol: - Although almost unaided, he has since continne&the`good work'. Since'my "coming` the 8601 has been greatly enlarged, and has , started,anew.withi increased= prospects:or useful ness. About five, huudred, dollars haye been raised, in coin, to increase the ; cfhciency of the ; Bch - 691 7 Seats, chairs, table, blackboard arid 'cabirit or-' gan 'hive been proviael Tor - the hall.' One' hun dred and)ftfty dolls i , have'been sent f for ry, 'an d. also money . for. hundredab copies of cSun day-school papers. ; .„ The new arrangements wentinte i effecton last Sabbitt i .h, with the:organiiation,of ten clilEiea an' adiilt Bible claWilibre' beiiii'V'fnacher each: A)rnore intellectually 'competent, ' , corps of , teachers it; would mut be easy to ,fukdAlsewhere, It, included , - jndges,,. lawyers,; doctors, mining r agents, i merchants, and lades of education and refinenient. All ; 'hoVever;, 'riot p r rofiskuk Christians. 'AVOulfiibat i sno' 4 only pjb ° ' otelisto' but in reality, all were in Christ Jesus: Having no direct communication with the good brethren of the Sunday-school Union, and this locality being far beyond the present reach of their agents—through you we commend to them the Sabbath-school of Belmont, Nevada, not for pecuniary help as that is nit needed ; but that it be numbered among the increasing throng of these institutions everywhere blessing our land. Perhaps for long months to come this Sabbath school may be the only means of moral and reli gious instruction in and around this ,mining region. The Church at large should not allow it long to be said, as it may now perhaps in truth.— "Par Home Missionary Society has neither the man nor the means to send us a Missionary to Belmont." July 20th, 1868 To-morrow, a friend comes for me in his buggy from Ophir Canyon, sixty, miles distant. Ophir is another silver city of the mountain, as yet Un visited by Gospel minister After being there 'and preaching you will again hear from A. M. STEWART. I was greatly' interested in an admirable letter by Dootorli. A'. Nelson, to Doctor Cuyler, 'in the Evangelist, some months ago, with reference ... r :..,,, to his equally interesting article on" Pu l p i t p F ir e ." e. . It suggested.anew some old-questions. As they pressed heavily upon my mind 'I would like to -repeat them for'intiny of our churches and their pastors to read aird'ponder over: Is hot a pro per delivery of serrnens greatly undervalued and neglected in on # r churches and by our ministers? Is not earnestness, velietheiece, looked upon with suspicion, a& repudiated as Mere rant? Dees not, the prevailing taste prefer a mild, unimpassioned , essay style of delivery? ,If a man . con' write a smooth, easy, elegant serinon, is not a proper de livery of it considered of less than emondary im portance'? Has not, custom rather than the in trinsic, merits of the prevailing style, educated such :a , taste? ?It is quite pOssible ftir habit to make men prefer the worse instead of the better, and if I am not mistaken, a vehenaent earnestness is distasteful to' many churches; more because they, are not ae , •nstonaed to it, than because they see any want, of adaptation : in ,_it to reach and move men. If they would educate themselves to more earnestness and fervor and even noise—if it be not the l mere thumping upon an , empty barrel —they would like such alstyle better: ~i • Why, should noise in the 'pulpit, if it be : e*- pressive of , true sentiment:and emotion, as surely it may be,—as much as from' the grand organ which speaks - from the other end of the house— start le the eats- of . 'the ' most, refined audience? Would , they improve Niagara by having it hush its thundernetes, to stupid whispers, as it, pours its endless cataclysms - over the precipice ? To , be sure the spray and the - rainbows - Which glitter around the cataract are beautiful to look upon, but its chief charin• is in the o idea f.pewer which its mighty voice and its world a f waters convey wthe mind , * .•- , - !eVelTume of its waters are bleficrea, - iii' -,:, ~. • I caitnottat , mtred. So that mode of deliver Th '. , ijii convey t e most commensurate idea of the tiefireT Of M gospel to the greatest nuinber, even if it be by vehement voice and gesture when such may be made ex- Fessive of the greatest felt earnestness, should be demanded by the church , s and cultivated by the Ministry vastly more , than it is. People of tender nerves'may educate'themselves to'prefer tulle tin kle of the cdneeMptible little 'fountain in some rich .man's yard, instead, f the noise of the cata ract, but the vontaneolfs tribute of ) the human heart is laid upon the shrine of the cataract, when the melody. of its great anthem first breaks upon the air: melody, have not to cuttiVate the habit of giving attention to that. 'So men .may educate themselves to' love lest l; the' nice utterances of mere, pulpit , essayisis, wlp, represe all , emotion from their style, but the spontaneous tribute of the masses is paid to' the orator'WhO'follows na ture in giving expressiim to 'ideiis,'' sentiments and emotional by not only appropriate words,, but also, appropriate tones and, gestures. _ It seems to, • me, and I am profoundly, i m pr e ssed with the thought,. that the great want Of the Church and the Ministry, in our tfm' l s is 'in in 'tenser eaittieStnett in their great mission. When all feel this aithey ought, vehement deliverywill be less distasteful. Young ministers, and old ones, too, will be less controlled , by the bug bear of "rani" `when -they are Moved to cry aloud to. perishino:'sbuli to warn them from destruc tion. It s hould not be lost sight of, that andi enees whieh have: cultivated "the power and habit of giving close attention Ai) the truth for , its own sake," ,in that "plain, claim, quiet style!' of delivery which preyais so largely among us, constitute but a small minority of those:WM)/ must hea l i 'the gos pel or' perish ." The i tuasses hatte n r o taste for such a style and will not be attracted by it. So while a thousand go to ..hear L augh preachingten thou sand stay away. The`greatqpestion of the act is how to reach` the tea thOusanX. me ask, Botem Itt:e, ply onnt,,,tn' any 9. 0 ' And here let ourministers, ministers, our "plaini, calm, quietl, , doctors.of divinity, vo° liable to be . content with their miltivated and kneel, and to' tnalte•it . '`abeint. their only study to interest and Plense',thein, 'while the tramp of the masses, outside,. in, tiladir dpEa g tarch to per charm, is heard. with comparative indifference? Is it not about 'the chief aim of-many churches to fill their' pews - teletAly'vrell **ith' cultivatel men and ' '79 l 4Mg` 1 1 4:Oiigh` no OthS ' eares for the souls of the peris'hing masses? 'ls it not coosid ered-the chienniainesi'of'Thediogicid Seminarie , to :.prepare.: first Clain "ministers, fore first c l3 ' churches ?' 1131 .the iiiitae. of;,ouritfaster I en . treat , the . wat e4 3 9R. , 4Piii .t.ite,, , alls of Zion 0 , blow the . trumpet lender, and ' inarbe some, o f those perishing maiSeiwiloa ) h siblast, think t h it means something s ; home -WA. he Church, glee heed' to the' ifforttionint be saved. Let us have More, Atfathe 'oratetvoCulttinv Mutt swells nr from II full . heart. oa n o. ~, 'di. th q . ri''g ' lip, the moistened% 1 s 1 +3 _' _ *1 e . -m ve lip, the eye and the earnest gestate. 1 4") , greAt 4fte,nr., i insii s t l aetima 41,1cie, is not that bur , young , nunistnnittatntAttidepte will make 3 mistake in "their direct+effortitirbe earnest," btit that:they will he VaitijideNl toning down tle:r f it ill..:a l , l4. o***ll4 lt WiMotion to suit tai fastictioia,tas?,4 or V' ' ds Oh dui: , . .43n. Isn) u maces. thatporinhing missesimigiwrather attract the:` attention,- fitl t theiriheartwrand• inspire and dire' their preparations! EARNESTNESS IN THE DELIVERY y or SERMONS. BY REV. E. B. BERDICS..
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