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THE DIM OLD WOODS.
The dim old woods in the wintry , time!
How solemn and sad their tone;
When the winds sweep thro' the moaning chime
The aisles of the forests lone !
When the rout its wontbd thirst hath lost,
For the flow of he hidden rill—
And the fragile shoot is stiff with frost,
And the sap in its cell is still—
When each gay leaf, that threw so soft
Is shades o'er summer's brow,
}las loam from its wavy sphere aloft,
To rest 'Death the starry snow—
Ines each sweet flower, scented cup,
Foul witherino e where it grew,
Hell Hosed its faded petals up,
No more to drink the dew—
tr.l when each trembling note that gushed,
In so!'t arid silvery song,
An' the insect hum, are silent hushed,
P.e leafless boughs among!
Ah ! sorrowing seems those woods so dim,
As they lilt their branches bare—
The shivering twig and the rigid limb,
To:he clasp of the frosty air;
A n 'they seem to mourn, 'mid the w
, hairy storm,
F. the fl ush of the the greenwood bough,
And sigh for the sere and ruined bloom
That sleeps on the earth below.
And yet, those dark, sad solitudes !
love their music well—
'When 'Whispering Echo fills the woods
Ntth tones of her murmuring shell—
For though the wind no voice duth own,
As it sleeps in the silent trees.
Yet the forest breathes with hollow moan ,
Like the sound o(the ceaseless sea—
As if lie spirit forms of leaves and Bowers
That grace . warm summer's smile,
Were rustling still among_the bowers,
itiere era they shone the while—
And the spangled frost work, cold and bright,
That gleams on twig and stem,
Sres , n• a throw_ from each frozen light,
Will a diamond diadem !
Oh' I love those gems by the sunbeam kissed,
As they swing in the sparkling air,
And I love injthe dim old woods to list
To the voices stirring there.
sERMON TO YOUNG MEN.
l'rraro at COrist Churrti, tumult;
, BY REV. B.QJ. DOUGLASS,
November 14, 1252,
CORRESPONDENCE.
TOWAXDA, November 15) 143'.
t It J Dot vtAss '—The undersigned having been pee
k dei,rrry of your very execHent Sermon to
' • :ti ;;; lam. and thinking its careful perusal
.ii; and ms! ruction to.thuse who were unable
ni,ce • as well as tlit.se who were, respectfully
•• same for publimition.
\ PHILANDER LONG, •
!• k ft P WM. ELWELL. Jr.
I I; k) , 10,1,t:. G. H. IVA 'MONS,
1% 1.1. L. H. L. HORTON,
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Sincerely and Truth. - .,fours,
DLNJ. J. DOUGLA.%'.
SERMON.
Tr-.e•—x h I *hall • young :flan cleanse his way ? By Ink
o<,d .ne,eto Den:ailing to 'thy acrd.—Pcsam 119 ; 0.
04: text presents us with a question; it also fur-
answer. We have thus a clear division
), our gutret arising from ,the very terms of the
Ifli Which we propose to follow. The qu:jpn
ir:,.ca we shall w ith God's blessing proceed %orien
t 11 that 'simple and suggestive one—where
nti 014 a young man cleanse his Way ; dr by
inn means shall he rectify his conduct ? to which
L^, answer Is implied in the words of David, By due
, tfiev,ion, coupled with the devout study of the
God.
1";,e way of a man is his manner of life, his con
-1,!!. Thus in the same chapter, the Psalmist inns
-1 es the meaning of the terra, when he says :
• Tarough thy precepts I get understanding, there.
1 hate every false way." Anil Solomon in the
bo: of Proverbs often refers to conduct under the
of a way or, path. " Ponder the path of thy
f , 'e' and let all thy ways be established." (Prov.
-" " Enter not into the path of the wicked,
g.o not in the way of evil men." (Pros. iv :
14) (Wisdom) lead in the way of righteous
et., et the midst of the paths of judgment." (Prov.
20 )
NO man can go through the world without leas.
11; 2 gle,tirict and marred impression, either for good
o .or evil. " Even a child," says Solomon, " is
k'OSI by his doings"—much more those who are
kocicing to maturity, whose powers arepore de
i,,oped, and Whose influence is nioreideeidecl.
1,1:e, indeed, it is for us to suppose that our life
tin be acceptable to God, or even useful to our fel
')Wv, if we take no heed to our way—if when
wiGing we will not retract our errors ; if when in
4alt we reline to confess it. No solid improve
lent ran be made if we persist in that which we
llow by our own experience, or by the voice of
eq r?scenee, or by the word of God to be wrOog.—
We need no argument on this point, It is plain to
to see n that he who is pursuing a devious course
:trollies at every step further from the straight line
recatpde and of honest duty. One thing must
t e dow:;4is a fundamental truth in all out rea
"cling, and that is the proneness of the creature to
Iverre he 4 la rectitude by Me Very force of his natn
r" jt9neition. We must allow in all our theories
i rnprarement fur this natural tendency, or we
id Inevitably make a failure when we put our
, 141 Into Novice.. The language of our Article is
Confirmed by the word of truth when it states that
tin " Is of his own nature inclined fo evil." It is
1,,:s tendency to self and bin which so often thwarts
our beet resolutions, and which has constantly to be
Illoggled against, and prayed against. The engi
nt't who would plant.his cannon so as not to fail
or his mark must allow for the downward tome of
fAttlalian, so he who would mark out for Weasel!
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a pathway bright and luminous must be mindful of
the hindrances that will beset his way, and above
all, of that ever present force of natural corruption
which is dragging him to the earth. This sense.
however, of difficulties to be surmounted, should
not deter but quicken to new diligence, and lead
him who strives for that greatest of all victories—
the victory over self—to the true source of strength.
We have Spoken of the tendency to sin inherent
in our natures. With equal propriety might we
have spoken of this prompting of our souls as that
which pollutes and defiles. It is viewed in both of
these lights by the sacred writers (Gen. vi : 5, 11,
It Pe. li, 2,3.) And here: at the very outset is
started the momentous question—how shall this
foul nature be cleansed 3 Where but in that blood
that cleaneeth from all sin, can this pollutedsoul be
washed 4 In the precious outpouring of the blood
of Calvary, do we find the fountain opened for all
uncleanness—there can we be lid of that guilt
which we nave inherited—of that penalty which
hangs over the head of the unrepentant and unbe•
liev ing
But we need to be delivered not merely from the
penalty, but also front the present power of sin.—
We need the provisions of the gospel to be apied
to our hearts in all their wondrous adaptation tithe
wants of tallen man. We need a present salvation
from the dominion of the Destroyer. We are not
pardoned through faith in the all•atoning blood of
Jesus, that we should continue in sin, but that - live
should die daily to its influence, and wage sift
against its power by the strength of the Holy Ghat,
and with the sword of the Spirit, which is the word
of troth. The word of inspiration must reach down
into the secrets of our hearts, and must bring to
light every hidden thing.
And besides our general corruption, each one
has his besetting sine. To each one. of us there are
peculiarities of temperament—of education—of sta
tion or employment, which hinder our usefulness,
and mar'the completeness of our character.' It be
comes us well to scan our characters, and in aim
plicitp and sincerity to ascertain in what points we
are most vulnerable—where we present least testis.
tance to the unseen toe of our good. To say that
we have no need of attention to these things—that
our faults are few if any—that our conduct is so
correct that it needs no improvement, is to attain to
a higher degree of sanctity than patriarchs and
saints, and holy men of old. "If I say 1 am per
fect," said the patient Job, " my own mouth will
condemn me."
Hence there is need in all of us of constant • self
correction—of a thorough revision and cleansing of
our way. We must :all to mind our weak pointh
—our special sins which are not hid-from God—and
should ask Him in the language of the penitent Da
vid : t• Cleans thou me from my secret faults."
There ate faults not a few, peculiar le`our age
and character as young men, which need Co be
checked. " Young men" writes St. Paul to Titus,
exhort to be sober-minded." Titus was enjoined
to urge upon those who were approaching manhood
the propriety of self denial and at sobriety of par
pose—as if they stood in particular danger from the
freshness and vigor of their buoyant spirits of being,
carried into excess. And who can gainsay the
wisdom of this apostolic precept? Old men are
not warned to beware of the untamed energy of
their natures, because there is but little occasion for
such an admonition, the fire of youthful vigor is dy
ing out—but whilejthe young man is not taught to put
on the cold, calculating formality of declining years,
he is cautioned against that which unless checked,
is his worst enemy—his headlong energy, and
his perpetual restlessness.
" Young men," says Bacon, " in the conduct and
manage of actions, embrace more than they can
hold - ; stir more than they can quiet ; fly to the end
without consideration of the means and degrees;
pursue some few principles which they have chanc
e(' upon absurdly ; use extreme remedies at first,
and that which doubleth all errors, will not ac
knowledge or retract them."
This it must be confessed is shaded heavily, but
there is much in it that is worthy of our serious
thoughts. We are too fond of doing things in a hur
ry —ot jumping at conclusions---of_tak ing up with
hasty and unduly ;tamed premises—and of cling
ing to tenets and iogmas simply- because they
present some novelty . , or are little out of the ordinary
track of thonht. Anil hence, often the rejection
of long established truths and the adoption of the
vaguest and most- whimsical theories. 41gainst
these menial aberrations, the force et a severely
disciplined judgment should be brought to bear.
Bc• would that ithese errors of judgment weie the
only ones against which we had to contend. The
passions now are in their full strength arid revel like
the snow capped waves of the stormy sea. And
shall the creature be allowed to run mad in his
wild recklessness? Yes—if you would uncage the
tiger, and unbar from his pent up prison the chafed
lion. Sell-denial is 'the only watchword that will
secure the boon of lasting peace. " The worst edu
cation" says some, one " which teaches self denial,
is better than than the best which teaches
_every
thing but that." Learn above alt things to conquer
self. Get the mastery of your passions or they will
get the master of you. It is somewhat pleasant to
enjoy a view from the peaks of die high Alps—to
behold far down below our feet, the dark . thunder
cloud, and the vivid flash...to hear the rush and
fail of the mountain torrents* it pours down kern
gluey heights—but this gratification is purchased
at too dear a price if immediately below us slopes
the glarry precipice, and one misstep abould hurl
us with lightning speed to the death grasp of the
yawning cavern. The intoxication of anger—the
eg.hilenstion of the wine -coif are purchased at too
dear a rate; if the loss of health—of inward quiet—
of happiness here and of happiness hereafter, is the
price which it in the moat of cases peremlaorily de
mands.
Our text assumes that men-do 'not live without a
fixed coutse of aclion. And rarely, the great quell
him which each one of us should settle in the si
ence of his own hearti ia , what l! am I living fur ?
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'tEARA
He who has no walled principles of action—no
marked course of conduct, is living to little purpose,
he who has wrong principles is adding the bitter.
ness of misery to the guilt of transgression. Awake
drowsy man. Live for something. What use
are you making of your time ? How do you em
ploy your talents? Are you living as your Maker
intended—for His glory?
With the deep consciousness that you are an im
mortal being, are you living for heaven With the
solemn reality every day brought to mind that you
are mortal—are you prepared to die 1 With the
feeling almostintuitive, that there is a God who
judgeth the earth, are you seeking to propitiate His
favor through the blood of Christ ? With the con
viction that your sins are many, and yoor transgress
ions great, are you seeking pardon through faith in
Him who alone can act as Mediator ? With the
pressing sense of the guilt and corruption of your
nature clinging to you, are you asking earnestly
and sincerely " wherewithal shall a young man
cleanse his way ? Are you really striving toget the
victory over self and sin ? Then out text is encour
aging.
IL bids us lake herd to our way. The traveler
who passes over a region with which be is not fa
miliar oaten slops and recasts in his mind his gene
ral direction, while he endeavors to recall his in
structions. Travelers we all are through i thorny,
briery, wilderness world, with a thousand by-paths
to intercept our course, and to lead us aside. But
what must we do ? We must do what every be
nighted traveler would do--what every bewilder
ed and lost mariner wocld do—•examine his bear
ings, and look to his chart. Where am I ? whither
am I going ? am I in the right road to Heaven ?
This last is the all-important question. You have
but one life to live, and you bad better know of a
certainty, that you have the narrow way that lead
eth tato heaven. Remember that Christ speaks of
another way not very difficult to find—tut one Chit
ends in everlasting misery. Thought, was bestow
ed upon you far this very purpose, that you might
choose wisely and well. ", I thought upon my"
ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies t. "
said David. Think upon your ways, beloved.—
Call home your wandering thoughts. You, though
a young man, are bat an infant in the scale of:your
being—just starting out in a life which knows no
end—and are you prepared to enter upon the real,
du)iea of your after lite 1 You are soon to start out.
on a ioyage across the boundless expanse of met.
nity—you are soon to meet death, and after death
cometh, we are told, the judgment. Alas ! are you
ready 1 Are your loins girt, and your lamps trim
med ?
"Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his
way ? By raking heed thereto ;" are you pondering
the path of your feet, and looking well to your steps?
Do you reflect upon your condition as a sinner—
your relation to just God—to a righteous law
which reveals to you your sinfulness and exposing,
to condemnation—your obligations to your Redeem
er—your need of repentance and faith. In the mul
titude of your thoughts of business or of pleasure,
do not thoughts of a different kind often steal across
your mind, like the strains of solemn music borne
upon the night wind ? Do not drive them away.—
Do not seek to silence them in the din of revelry,
or of noisy mirth. Entertain them as you would
bright angel visitants from the realms of bliss.—
Cherish them, they are your lila.
But our text Proposes something else besides the
mere exercise of thought. Thought most be ' prop
erly directed Our views and principles most be
brought into conformity with God's written word.—
We are not left to ourselves—to be our own coun
sellors. If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God•
The scriptures are able to make us wise unto salva
tion. " The entrance of thy word giveth light; it
giveth understanding to the simple."
When then, we ask—" wherewithal shall a
young man cleans his wayt' We are pointed to
the word of God as to the lamp of our feet, and to
the light of our path—" by taking hurl/hereto accord
ing to thy word." We should rejlect, we should al.
so read. We should consult the oracles on Zion's
hill, and meditate upon those treasures new and old
which are profitable for doctrine, foe reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness. Where
else can we learn our duty better I Not in unin'spired
writings—not in the school's of ancient philosophy, or
indeed of modern. The world by wisdom knew not
God It is in the armory of gospel truth—with the
shining weapons which the Spirit provides that we
are thoroughly furnished. There we may lay hold
of the bteast•plate of righteousness, and the shield
of faith, and the helmet of salvation. The law of
the Lord is perfect converting the soul. (Ps. xix. 7 )
It is the direct purpose of the scriptures of truth to
teach us our duty, to instruct us in our obligations
to our God, and to fit and prepare us for the enjoy•
meat of his presence in heaven. It teaches us both
what our duty is, and hOw we may perform it. In
both these respects the mere light of nature is defi
cient. The.heathen felt most painfully the need of
more light. What a sad yet truthful commentary
does the state of the Pagan world present upon the
efficacy of merely moral motives without the gm
pel. Look at facts, and then let the question be
asked—why amid the highest intellectual cubit's.
lion, amid the claisic eloquence of Greece, saddle
matchless rhetoric of Rome—amid, moreover,
schools of Philosophy and wisdom—the :arise of
morals has been retarded rather than advanced
How can we account for this except in the abeenee
of these powerful motives to duty, which the - bible
presents. The systems of the heathen are a fair
exponent of what man can learn from the light of
nature, and of the practical effect upon the conduct
which this imperfect scheme produces. We du not
say that it is the object of the religion of nature thus
to demoralize he heathen world—for the God of
menu. is the God of the bible--his revelation by his
work. ; :rgmes with his revelation by his word.—
They aro 'Without excuse, writes St. Paul, because
that which may be known of God is manifest in
them. But what avail did the heathen make of
this light I Did they lice up to the tight given to
"azsAnDLEss OF DaNirscrATioN FROM ANY QtrAUTEtr."
them ? Let their profligate and demoralizing dei
ties, who were exalted to this high honor not ttn
frequently from the very notoriety of their crimes,
answer.
From all this, we are led to believe that God's
wish revealed in language isfnot at all improbable,
but highly necessary. The Bible is made indispensa-
We by our helplessness. onr ignorance, our prone
ness to sin even in the face of conscience and of
knowledge. The dark place of the earth cry out
for the gospel; our own erring nations seize and
appropriate it te the only effectual guide. We
want the Bible. Aod when God paw it into our
hands we feel from our inmost souls that the want
is supplied, that the key n‘w given fits every ward
in the lock.
We now rest assured that the Bible would not
have been given if we could have learned our duty
as well without it as with it. The fact that it is sent
from Heaven as an authoritative guide should make
it tank far abrive all human and uninspired writings.
We should prize it not as the word of man, but as
the word of God, whose we are, and whom we
ought to serve, and whose will in whatever manner
make known,"should be;the law of our conduct.
We are not, however, to suppose that revealed
religion is contrary to natural. Natural religion
that which draws its motives from the dictates of
conscience the results of experience, and the deal-
ings of God its this present world, leaves us in the
dark in regard to the future. It cannot overleap
the grave. It reveals certain truths entirely in ac
cordance with what God has plainly declared in his
word and not a syllable does nature utter which is
dissonant to the voice of God in the Bible It is
natural to expect that when God would in his own
good time communicate his vvillfby prophets,byholy
men and by his own dear son, that lull information
would be given to us as to our duty. We 'have
this full information. We are now instructed clear
ly and completely in oar relations to the Father,
Son and Holy-Ghost, into which blessed name we
have been baptized. We are now fully informed
as to our duties to our lellow men, whom we are
to lave after no stinted measure. We learn more in
)he Bible than we would hom nature, but we learn
nothing different.
, The light of nature, dim and shadowy tho' it be,
is not contradicted by revelation—and in the absence
of any proof from the light of reason or of natural
religion—what is laid down as a fact in the Bible,
can never be overthrown by an appeal to any info.
riot law or rule, The whole tenor of God's deal
ings/with man in this world goes to show that sin
will be followed by suffering—the whole tenor of
revelation gives us to understand that this indication
of nature is substantiated by express declaration of
holy writ, and that in a future state, of which, na
ture can give as no idea, ilke same law of adminis
tration will hold good. It is reserved for the gos
pel of Christ to bring life and immortality to light.
Its blessed radiance guides us safely through the
windings and turnings—the trials and difficulties
—the temptatives and dangers—the snares and the
pit-falls of lite—but it leaves us not there, it lights
up the narrow- house appointed for all living, with
the cheerfulness of day: It whispers peace to the
bereaved—consolation to the dying saint. It bids
the mourner not to sorrow as those without hope
for those who sleep in Christ. Is summons the liv.
ing to the realities of death, and with clear, unva
tied note, from -- the lime thattPaul stood on Mars
hilt till the present, speaks of the resurrection both
of the just and the unjust, and of the terrors of of a
judgment to come. (Acts xvit : 31; Acts axis : 15.
John v : 29.)
By the hell of which it warns us, and by the
heaven which it urges us to win ; by the goodness
of God which leadeth us to repentance, and by his
mercies which are over all his works—by that
crowning mercy of the gift of our Saviour, and by
the constraining summons of that Saviour's dying
love, are we are entreated to present ourselve4-
our souls and bodies—a living sacrifice, conserria.
ed to God.
And, then ag,aut, think of the Spirit who is now
pleading with you, think how oft you have grieved
Him, and how your impenitence must still grieve
Him. We are not told of our duty, and then
left to ourselves to know how to perform it. We
are not left with the problem, with no clue to ' its
solution. We are first to entrust ourselves unre
servedly to Christ for salvation and to his Spirit for
strength. We may seek to wash ourselves with wa
ter of the driven snow, we may think that we com
ment ourselves to God by our stainless obedience
u the meritorious grpond of our pardon. But it is
not so. "By the deeds of the law there shall no
flesh be justified." " By grace are ye saved airouo
faith ; that not of yourselves ; it is the gift of God ;
not of works, lest any man should boast" (Eph
ii :8. ) Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and
thou shalt be saved. (Acts xvi : 31.)
Di4ur broken resolutions indispose us to future
exertions I and teach us a lemon of our weakness
—let us look away from ourselves to 00d, the
Spirit, who is the author of sancti&alion and of
spiritual life. Let us betake ourselvell to prayer,
and calling upon God. Let us endeavor to realize
the strength and power 01 religion. Let us seek to
be cleansed not only t rum one vice but from all vice
- -let us not teat satisfied with an external reforms
tion—a washing of the outside of the cup and plat.
ter—but let the heat( out of which are the issues of
life receive our first, our greatest attention. Let the
prayer of David be upon our lips; "purge me with
hyssop, and I shall be clean ; wash me, and I shall
be whiter than snow : create in me a clean heart,
0 God, and renew a right spirit within me."
Guided by the directions of the word of life, the
young man parenes his bright and shining, way, se
cure from many snares, dangers and temptations
which befall the ungodly and Odom He has ,
about him a wall of defence on the right hand and
on the left. He is living for some purpose, and
that purpose, the highest conceivable, the glory of
God ; and in the smile of his Heavenly Father he
realizes true and solid comfort; for the Bible is to
him +he sale : . rule of faith and pumice. It is
not laid upon srime• dusty shell, valuable only on
account of its bea - itiful prints, or its superb binding
but it is reset and re-read. In doubt and difficulty
its weighty maxims me consulted—in jib)! .its pre
cious promisee are brought to mind—in the boor
of sorrow its healing balm soother. the wounded
spirit. In no condition' and circuinstance of life
nre its searchings vitueless. Under the shade of
the parental reef, or far Sway amid the forests of the
boundless west—this book of hooka carties with-it
the same eteret; the seme comfort, the same in.
erection. ft is the staff of mane agis,"the solace Of
declining years. It is the first book that warns. the
childish heart—a is the last that is laid aside when
the commis falk upon: the sce..es °trim's.
Could I put into 'mit hand, my brother, a title to
an immense estate, you would scarcely sehnte
could the riches t pf California or the. wealth of the
ladies by some magic strobe be laid at your feet,
gladly would you embrace the boon, and earnest
would be your protestations of gratitude—tut we
ask you in all affection, and in all sincerity to make
good your title to the skier —ism ask you to lay up
'for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither
moth nor rest loth corrupt, and where thieves do
not break thrott,h and steal. Are you estranged
from God, following it may be the multitude to do
evil—doing what you kilo* in be wrong and say..
ins to an accusing conscience, I shell have peace,
though I walk in the imaginations of ray heart—
your devious comer, cannot injure your maker—
you are the worst enemy to yourself, fey true to
experience is the language of revelation : lie
that sinneth agailiSt me IA rongem his own soul" !
(Pr. viii: 36.) In forsaking the narrow way that
leaded, unto life you have forsaken the ways 0(
pleasantness and the paths of peace youstand in
your own light, and es you add sin to sin, you
plant yonr dying pillow with many a thorn, and
add fuel to that fire of retribution which is never
quenched. There is no peace, snith my Girl, for the
wicked. You are either living for God, or you
are not. If the former, yotir. course is as the
shining light that abineth mote and more unto
the peifect day—if the latter, your flattering fancy
may promise you peace, but the wad of truth does
not. You are afraid tc be seen with God's people.'
You have no relish for God's worship. Yon are
seldom in your ptaee at the sanctuary. You have
no ardent wish to be Christ's, and confess Him,
cost what it will. Religion is clothed with the
sombre livery of autumn, and itsfluties are draped
with the livery of the grave. Yohrs is the frolic
and the song—the joke and the iciclel glass—yon
cannot be disturbediu your gay keinion of mirth,
—religion will do when youth has passed, and
when the hosts of age make theirappearance—
but now, is the time to dance, now, le the time to
laugh—but, alas, now is too often "1/4 time 10 rru"
Youth is the time—for what I a To neglect God I
no—but to remember thy Cieejear ere the days
come when thou shalt say, I ive no pleasure in
them. In no passage in the Bible are you bid to
defer repentance to old age—buteverywhere youth
is pointed out as the best, as thq:lmost convenient
season for securing God. Rethember now, thy
Creator in the days of thy youth. In these Jays
then, of youth and high health; remember whose
you are, in whose hand your breath is, and whose
are all your ways. In these days—when hope
beams from your eye, when energy is graven on
your countenance, and strength is written on your
form, when as yet the keepeii of the house do not
tremble—nor the grinders cektie because they are
lew—nor those that look out rid the windows be
darkened—remember thy fed, thy Creator --
Now, when the dew of youth is resting on you—
ere yet the long drawn shadows of the even-tide
of life are shed around you—now,' nor to-morrow,
not the next year, but now, re'rnember thy Creator
in the days of thy youth.
I ..,
M ATERIAL* roa NlA:Witt - 1 , T Loolll9 again urge you
to collect and compost everyitung on your farm that
is sumepuble of being converted into manure; and
there is nothing that ever for Med part of living body
that is not—add to these materials, as you throw
them into heaps, a few bushels of ashes per load.,
and a bushel of plaster for every twenty loads. Or
it you have not the ashes, 49 one load of barn
yaid or stable manure to every two loads of the
rough material—and it mattitrs not whether the la..
ter be peat, marsh mud, cre e k mud, woods-mould
and leaves, pine-shatters and mould—by the time
next spring that you are prepared to haul it out to
your corn ground, it will alqbe good manure—all
sufficiently fertilized to teed and vastly increase
your corn crop. i
hi the spring, previous to hauling it out, shovel
it over, so as to miz the mk thoroughly and equal
ize its fertilizir.g properiep. when you are sub
i
jecting your manure pile to this.process, you were
to add two bushels of emit to eery twenty loads,
-you would add greatly to its valatik\.
Cnortec Csrrt.e.- 1 --We recollect es,ell, when up
-•-,,,
'En a tutu, some years ago, in the lath a fine co w
got choked, as Cattle often do, upon apples Lind pa
tatoe*, and would have diet!, if the obstaule had not
been at once removed from the passage to the
stomach, where it was lodged. Various "bid reme
di, a were tried ta uo pirp,s,e. P t t se n tly ' ell e Fee •
olected a remedy propo.ed in an agriculturl paper
a few weeks before : It is to pat a stout line arounJ
the neck just below. the substance, which can be
felt with the hand on the outsiile,And draw it r \ los , ..
This prevents the piece of apple or potato, or what
ever it may be, from tailing back when the anim I
makes an effort to throw it out, which it will taunts ,
alwaysido directly, when assimaed in this way. The' ,
remedy was at once successful. The offending
morsel proved to be the hall of a hard greib apple.
Sothic little scrap of newspaper knowledge_ was in
this instance, worth a tine cow of thirty or forty dol
lars. How can we know ibefore•hand, what kind,
of knowledge is going to be `most beneficial to est
We cannot. And there islardly any intormaticen
especially in our own business, that will nut soine•
time or other, in the long sun, turn otft Lobe ofgreat
value to es.
MEI
EMI
Atgriettfttivar.
Settthr out - Rear Orthal ds.
If you have art apple , orchard on your farm, it is
a duty which you owe yourself, you: family, and
your neighbour, by way of example, that you bhoulil
supply that deficiency: In selecting your fruit trees
consult your location, and procure trees from nor.
series in your own latitude, iJ good worts are to be
there obtained, and especially should you look to
this in selecting your winter fruit. Apples which
are celebrated in the North as excellent winter fruit
when grown in the South often turn out tall apples ;
this difference furrowing being effected by a few
degrees of latitude. The ground to be aelscled,.
should be fertile--should be such as will bring a
large crop of corn, and, before being planted in ap
ple trees, should receive, per acre, a compost
comprised as whom,: 10 double horse cart loads
of marsh moil, river mod, peat or woods-mould
and leaves. to double horse cart loads of stable or
barnyard manure, i bushels of borte•dust, 10 bush.
els or ashes, 2' bushel of salt, and 1 bushel of phis.
ter, to be formed into a heop, arid permitted to re
main in bulk one month, then to be shoveled
over, evenly distributed over the land, and plowed
under.
Lind to be set in an orchard aliould 'mice at
leam two plowings, one very Jeep, the other not et)
deep, the manure to be applied at the .econd plow•
inc. lndeed, it would be better that, at the time
of the first plowing, if the land were bob *oiled
ako.
Don't sell ynor corn on the cabs; but save the
cobs-to be.grouud into cob meal to teed ant to your
cattle, rinx.ed WWI cut hay or straw.
To Cure U.
As I have seen nnmerous receipts for cutiog
harns,and and as I have trued the annexed for sever
al years, and found it to excel every other m my es
timation, I take the liberty to send it to you, that
you may publish it fur the benefit of any who may
be disposed to try it 13y letting my hams remain
in the piek.e, it is less trouble to keep it than by
other method which I have found, and it keeia
sweet and tender all summer.
Take a barrel, and tarn over an old pan or kettle,
and brim robs, (I think the beet.) or hard wood,
for seven or eiglirdays, keeping water on the head
tq prevent drying. Make a pickle- with 8 pounds
of salt, six ounces salystre, two gowns of molasses,
and three gallons of water, td one hunthett pound it.
Boil and skim the pickle thus prepared. Then
pack your ham in the barrel, and when the pickle
is cold, pour it ott the meat, and.itriout weeks you
have escellent ham, very tender Enid well smok
ed.
Measuring Corn In the Crib._
As farmers, ltequently Wisk' to . know Jlow
estimate the arnontit of corn contained in a crib or
the storehouse, we give the lollowing mte relating
thereto, which may be considered as reliable:
Having levelled the COl3 ail thin it *lll be of equal
depth throughout, ascertain the length, breadth and
depth of the bulk, multiply like dimensions togeth
er, and their product by 4, reinuving, one, figure
from the right of this last product. This will give
you so many bchhelo and decimal of a bushel id
shelled corn. It nbe required,to find die quantity
of earedcom, substitute 8 tor 4, and remove one
figure as before.
Piample —For a bulk of cons in the ear, 12 feet
lane. 8 feet broad, and 10 leettlecp: there will be
384,0 bushels of shelled corn, or 768,0 of eared
corn. Thus, as 12Xt3X 10 X 4-38-10, or 12X8X 10-
X8—,763 0. The decimal 4id need when the ob
ject is to find the quantity of sije#llyd corn; because
that decimal is one half the il4l.imal 8, and ti re
quires two bushels of ear-corn , o make ore bushel
ofshelled corn.
lafinence of a Fie wspgq/er.
A school teacher who has been engaged a long
time in his profesNion, and witnessed the .ntluence
of a newspaper, upon the minds of a family of
children, writes to t;.e edit* of the Ogdensburg
Sentinel as follows:
have found it to to a ofitaiteal Let, without
a:cerium, that those scholati of both sexes and of
all ages, who have bad access to newspapers at
home, when compared with those who have not,
are
I Better readers, /mailing in pronotmeiation and
erriph.ca, and consequemlyiread more unJennand-
ifl i).
2. They are better spelle:ra, and define words
ar:th greater ease and accuracy.
3 They obtain a practical knowledge of geogra
phy, in almost balfihe time it requires oth4rs, as
the newspaper has made them familiar with the lu
nation of the impatient places, nations; their gov.
ernments and doings on the globe.
4. They ate-better grarnai . ariaiii, for having be.
come so fami'iar with every variety of style, in the
newspaper, from the common phice adlentsement
to tie filished anti iclasical oration of the statesman,
the) more tenthly comprehend the meaning of the
text, and - consequently anal) ie its construction with
accuracy. _
5 They write bpiter compubitins, using better
lam:nage, containing tante thoughts, mote clearly
and cuntiectealy ebtpressed.
6. Those young men who have tot years been
readers of the newspapers, are af says tali ing„
tiad in the debating socie:y;ethit , itin2 a more er
icrisive knoWledge °pan a great variety of , iitietnr
and expressing, their views with greater fittency , ,
cletantess and correctness in their use (.1' tangnage.
MR Basciinrr has dia firdi vttiume ol his "heel
o f t h e u otte j States in the hoot!. of 0 13 steteuirptIts.
!Ch Li;e4,,urtii volume, issued lasi spring, Like very
huge i6mber cf yorenty thousand copies is uuthitl
e t eeed tray beet.l e,ity-svid,
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