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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
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-crés. Op this tract is erected a square log
wl
Flocse § Baw,
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“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.
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Nov; 18.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.