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HOR SAL , THE subscriber offers for sale a valuable tract of art situate in Patton township, Centre count ; Pa. adjoining lands of Isaac Lamborn, Gen Philip’ Benner, and others, containing ; - / : BY -crés. Op this tract is erected a square log wl Flocse § Baw, : “about 40 acres are tleared, six of which are MEADOW. The whole of the tract. is well watered.— For further particulars enquire of the sub- ‘scriber, living on the premises. Sa James Dillen. tf. 4 Nov; 18. . A PLANTATION, THE subscriber wishes to s ell his plan- . tation, situate cn the Grampian hills, Clear. field county, or to give it out on a lease for a term of years. The plantation is hand-1ang wherever this glorious light darred its benign influence, somely situated, on the public road leading darkness disappeated. Many were astonished at beholding this from Huntingdon to Erte. meadow. On the premises re a great va- riety of Fruit Trees, such as apple, peach, pear, quince, plumb &c. &c. A log barn, 60 by 22 feet, and | several I.OG HOUSES. Plenty of good springs of water, and a most beautiful COAL BANK. Any person wishing to purchase the 3aid plantation may have it on good terms. If not sold the subscriber would wish to give a lease ofit to ome honest, industri And if he should have no team, a team and farming bus, sober farmer, with a family. utensils will be furnished him. Possession will be given any time between this and the middle of March next. ~~ Samuel Coleman, Grampian Hills, Oct. 17, 1818. yr BLANKS FOR SALE AT THIS QITICh. c— DS TIMES wo dollars f paid hall yearly in adyance, two dollars only will be erin mre vant | ~~ thowto attain this happiness, the ~ |norznce, is far beyond the reach It contains two he Christian People of Centre county, Ji of all denominations. "The Subscribers, being appointed by the Auxiliary Bible Society of this county, to present to your view the great object of the 1n- stitution, beg leave, with great submission, to present for your consideraticn the following ADDRESS. Fathers, brethren, friends and fellow-ecitizens, : 1g; THE Bible is emphatically called the WORD of salvation and the WORD: of life, and with great propriety it if so called 3 for by it dife and immortality is brought to light; but without it alk is obscurity and thick dagkness—even darkness that ¢ may be felt. Many are the ways andigidgyices which those who have been de prived of this light, have iilnted as a substitute, but all have ut- terly failed of success. E¥en those nations who have boasted ol the greatest attainments in the aris and sciences, and the great: est refinements in civil life, have severtheliss discovered as much ignorance of the tine God, and the acceptable maaner of worship. ing Him as the most ferocious savage of tic wilderncss. ¢ They had gods many and fords many,” but all their inventions only demonstrated the impossibility of human reason, OF the mere light of nature, evep with the aids of tradition; discovering the nature and perfections of the LORD . EHOVAH, and the way to happiness ahd glory. Alas Df gh world by wisdom knew not |God. Professing to be wise they became 100i5 o chag od the Lalory of the incoriaptible God into an image made life to corrup- tible man, anid to birds and four:footed beasts and creeping things.” They changed the truth of God into a lie, and seivud the crea ture miore than the Creator.” They ascribed the vilest passions and propensities to their imaginary deities, and the kind of wor- ship they tendered them eonsist of the m abominable attro- | rofountd sophers and wisest sages, to scan this mys or ate the present his salvation hath ons and countries jo the ancients | of the true God, Tot | Patriot. a BELLEFONTE, CENTRE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, PRINTED BY W. BRINDLE. M ONDA 1 4 MO RNI NG, December 21, 181 8. liged to hide its head. AA = No. 32, "™ a sacred book was so completely illustrated and its supreme excol- lency so clearly demonstrated, that infidelity, as ashamed, was ob- And although it is certainly too true that many who live under the fight of tht gospely sill continue practi cal infidels ; yet, at this present time, none dare risk their réputa- ion in the world by becoming its avowed advocates. The consequence of this glorious victory began to be displayed about the beginning ot the present century. To diffuse the lieghg mote coplouslyy Sabbath day schools, Missionary societits. Tract societies, and Bible societies, were formed and orgauvized ww many parts of the christian world ; by whose unwearied exertions, under the guidance and protection of the Lord of light, the BIBLE hus been disseminated, to a certain extent, anmeng some of all people, nations, kindreds, tongues and languages. Many people who sak in darkness have, by this means, seen a great light, and to those who sat in the regions of death, light hath arise. But mich yet remains tobe done. There isa vast ficld to occupy '—-Many wil- lions of the human tace are yet shut up in utter darkness, haviog nothing to direct their course but the feeble, treacherous stor light of degenerate nature. And even among ourselves, in our own ba- tien, our own Slate, our Own county, where the light shines with- out any thing to intercept its transparent beams, we are afraid, nay we are certain, there are. Hy siill destitute of it; and still move, shut their eyes againstit. O many ofusy we are learful it may be truly said, that « the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness is reason to fear that there are comprehendeth it not.” There is reason t many individuals among us, and some families, who are destitute s from inability to procure ite others from want ofp v wie have it, to whom, nevertheless; itis a sealed book. ~The contemplation iy of these things must; surely, move with compassion the hearts cf all those who have tasted that the Lord is gracious. To co-operate with those socicties which have been {ormed to remove this great evil, and, as far as practica- ble, to enable all mento acquire a knowledge of the truth, is that to which we are now celled by the good providence of God: and for ofir encouragement to go on, we have the promise and oath of Jehovah himself, that ultimately, the work shall be suecessful— GOD hath spoken it in his holiness therefore let cvary sincere bible believer rejoice. HE hath pledged bimself to his eternal Son, to give him the Acatien for his inheritance and the utiermask ends of the earth for a frossession. ¢ The glory of the Lord shall d an eager desire to § cannot give; but by their gross ig- pn ; and of this they ‘of human reas appear themselves to be consciotis. Rh Lo But whenever and wherever the Bible penetrated, then and there the darkness was dispelled. The Sun of rightconsness arese wis nent under Ais wings, and that which before wis bid gider an impenetrable veil, now became so visible, that he who runs might read. BRIE BA fe a oT When it pleased God to disseminate the khowledge of his will 10 the gentile world, by the ministry of bis Apostles, and their suc- cessors, Pagan darkness ficd before it, notwithstanding the most rigorous efforts of human power to support this darkness ; but j and corvapted, by worldly grandeur and prosperity, as to lock up the scriptures of truth from the people at large ; then did what was called Christendom relapse again into worse than Pagan ige norance and barbarity; and that period of tine which passed over the world, from the end of the sixth to the beginning of the six- ieenth century, has, with great truth, been called the (Dark ages.’ Towards the beginning of the sixteenth century, the two wit nessesy who were supposed, by their enemies, to have been slain, having been resuscitated, began to prophecy again. The light of divine reveldtion, which had been nearly extinguished, began to break forth in one of the streets of the great city which lis spiritually called ¢Sodom or Egypt’—or mystical Babylon § glorious iflumination—and when they contemplated the sublime i A is and heavenly truths which bad been so long concealed from their hundred acres, about fiity of which are views by those who professed to be their spiritual guides; they cleared, and about twelve acres of good! glorified the Gad of Heaven, and a great reformation succeeded, {notwithistandieg the rage, the malice, ahd the powers of hell and carth were exerted to suppress it. Satan then came down having greas wrath, because ke knew his time was short § he endeavored by force and violence to extinguish the light of truth, and drive the |woman again into the wilderness, but finding all his efforts in this yy way ineffectual, he attempted, about the middie of the Jast centu- ry, to transform hithself into an Angel of light. He raised up an host #f opposers to the true light, composed of persons who called themselves philosophers. They entered into a conspiracy to drive the light of the gospel out of the world by cunningly devised so- phistry, and perverted metaphysics. Many of them even attempt- ed to extirpste the knowledge ofthe true God ; and towards the close of the century, they vainly lancied that their success was certain. But woe lo man that striveth with his Maker, We all know their end was terrible. Like Jonah’s gourd, they came in a night and they perished in a night. So far were they from shut- ing out the light, that they were the occasion of making it shine more luminously, and of diffusing its rays more extensively — Their attempts brought into the field a phalanx of brave gospel champions, who, armed with the sword of the spirit, completely exterminated this ephemeral excrescence* The divinity of the | *The Rev. Dr. Andrew Fuller, one of the most renowned of those gospel champions, in 1799, the time when infidelity seemed most tri. umphant, and had apparently reached the zenith of its success, speaks of it in the following langage, which at the present day has the appear- ance of prophecy. s Let not the heart of any man fail him, on account ofthe high tone and scornful airs assumed by infidels. The reign of infidelity may be ex- Al Cl when the professed teachers of christianity became so degenerated! be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.” There isnot an old testament prophet, nor: prophecy, which kath pointed out and forctold the incarnation of our Saviour, and tke great work which he bas to perform, but hath also predicted that, ultimately, his dominion shall extend, and his gospel be published over the whole earth: and the new testa- ment hath illustrated, amplified and fully cotioborated all those great and precious promises. " hit ns oe Bilin . The great tribulation that the church was to suffer during the 1260 prophetical days, hath been foretold pnd di scribed under a great variety of figniesand images. The reign of ignorance and superstition ; the uivmph of Satan the success of his instru+ ments ; the four great beasts, with all their various changes and modifications, together with the banishment of the women clothed with the Sun intothe wilderness, & the prophecying of the evangel- joal witnesses in sackcloth, have all been pointed out ard declared by the sure word of prophecy ; and we fied every thing las been accomplished as it was foretold : and knowing this, con we doubt that those glorious things which aie spoken concerpiog rhe city of our GOD, shall iso be pccomplished, when te, even the sed time, shall come which he hath appointed ? Indecd the sigrs of our times seein to indicate: that this tme is nolL very far tistant, ees We have witnessed strange things in our day—ustonishing revo- jutiors have passed over the world in rapid and wpexpected suc cession. We have seen the symbolical earsh shaken to its cenwrey by unexampled storms, thunders, lightnings and earthquakes, (ac- cording to the language of prophecy )~aud although, at present, there seems to be a temporary calm, yet we dare not flatter our selves that it will be permanent. But what affords the greatest ground of consolaticn and encouragen crt that the time is fost ap- proaching when he seventh angel shall begin to sound, and ihe, mystery of GOD be finished as svas declared by his servants, the prophets, is, the great zeal every » here displayed, in difiusine the light of divine vevelation over the world § and this is bpe of the principal means by which Christ is to triumph over his enemies : for we are assured that the man of sin ¢ shall be consumed by ithe spirit of the Lord’s mouth, and destroyed by the brightness of his crescence which, tho’ it may diffuse death through every vein of the body on which it grew, yet shall die along with it. The beast, and ail which pertains to him * goeth into perdition.’ There is no space of time allowed for this government : no sooner it is said, Babylon is fallen, than voices are heard in heaven declaring that the marriage of the Lamb'is come. No sooner does the judgment sit, to take away the dominion of the little horn, to consume and to destroy it unto the end, than it follows, And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given tothe people of the saints ofthe Most High.” R #The following enumeration of Bible Societies, taken from the Reports, will shew the extent to which thé friends of the Bible have gone in thei labor of holy charity : : In the British dominions, the number of Societies is about On the continent of Europe, besides a great many Aux- . iliaries not reported, In Asia, In Africa, In the British provinges in America, In the United States Bbout 600 . 100 6 4 20 260 : Total 930 These Societies have nrinted, for gratuitious diateibution, or to be sold at very reduced prices, 181,000 Bibles, and 256,000 Testaments.—Numer- o's societies are formed every month, on the continent of Europe ; pur - - ’ tensive, but it must be short. It carries init the seeds of its own dissolu- | tion, Its immoralities are such, that the world cannot long sastain them | Scripture prophecy has clearly foretold all the great governments of the world, from the time of the Jewish captivity to this day: the Babylonian, Persian, Macedonian, and Roman ; together with the ten kingdoms into which the last of these empires has been divided, and the government which sprang up from amongst them ; but it makes no explicit mention ticularly in Russia, Sweden, Poland, Prussia, Germusny und Denmark, and warmly patronized by the most distinguished men in these respective governments ; in the United States the number of Auxiliaries to the, American Bible Society is rapidly increasing. We think we may safely, calculate that, atthe present time, there are at least one thousand Bible Societies organized in various pans of the world. —Of the number of Mis- sionary, Sunday schoel and Tract Societies, we have not data to enable us, af this. It has no individual subsistence given it in the system of prophecy. Itis not a beast ; but a mere putrid excrescence of ong of the beasts ; an ¢x- sven to conjecture ; but we know there sre a great many established Yet these are only the first frnitg—~the full harvest isnot yet come, but ® appears to be fast approaching.
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