TOWANDA:
, a n filorninn, Alan 1%, 1853.
( ititrti Vothz
'THE SONO OF THE SABBATH.
1 , 1 :I+ol,ol day —the gracious day !
artigine the gills of peace,
Done life's rudest cares away,
Letting tired labor cease.
like sunshine on the earth,
.j2..ng rain shadows flee,
f , ,, riz tor praise and sinless mirth,
ttst g the bondman free.
r6t Ssltltath Jay—the priceless boon !
sot the sordid deem
e 0 no estn, it comes too socßi,
$,: light esteem !
: sternly say
li,•ealf,:e claim: , it alt:
,ha„ Imprison Mercy's ray
W :hat ;hat narrow wall!
;it Sibbath day—the separate !
T o r wh,ch yearning sighs
vreanet: workers patient wait,
kri joy To see 'it rise :
'Dr arbtrg hand, the o'ertasked brain,
kl,te May find repose,
k: , ! either strength to toil again,
BEd strength to conquer woes.
Le Sabbath day—the gift divine I
that, whstsoe'er our creed, •
hpp:les with bounteousness benign
Le,sure for every need;
Fir prayer, fi..r prarse, for soothing rest,
For thought of boundless scope,
For heed of Charity's behest,
For love, for joi, for hope.
The Sabbath day—the g,torion. , day!
Beyond the City pale
Le: ten , of thousands wmt their way,
‘t here breeze and sunshine wan;
kr them 'See the streamlets flow,
!re.1,1 the darted sod.
1,,0k upon ihe buds that - blow,
search and find out God.
Sal lath day—the buckler strong
Tnat ituards 'he poor an.l meek,
in :he desolate from wrong,
roz the tyrant weak.
`alka•h day-0 prize it well,
tn :earn t scan
1, pr n •emf!e. field. or cell,
-The Sabbath made for man.''
''Al i - s tcliant oil 5.
The Soldier's,Story.
ras a ti me of the Duke of Wellington's
French had, retreated through
Fa la.-is had Hien, and we had driven
y over the Spanish frontier, the light di
- ai.4,:r.ieled on a few of their long leagues
xcepy a Ilne of posts among
_the moan
over the northern banks of the
A tew•companies of our regiment ad
,oe. I: occupy a village which the French had
1 , 1 ~,red
1 1 . 71 a brisk march over a scorched and rug
n which had already been ransacked of
have supplied us with provisions;
r L 3 :Etrt days since we had heard the creak of
Terdssary wagon, and we had been on very
::rr,rnons There was no reason to expect
..e village we were now ordered to The
:ost, marched out, and would of course,
r be;Nd themselves to whatever was portable,
E- dust have previously well drained the place.
Fr trade a search, however, judging that possibly
ctrt.tieng m,...eht have been concealed from them
peasan's , and we actually soon discovered
excel, houses where skins of wine had been se.
so:dier. sir. I take it, after hot service
seldom thinks 01 midi beyond the corn•
to excess ; and I freely own that
ta rash party soon caused a sad scene of code-
=EI
ISM
Ere' LOOS* and hovel was searched, and many
I ?''')f fellow, who had contrived to hide his last
tc of ume from his enemies, was obliged to
it to his allies. You might see the poor
s rp s 3r, all vides running away ; come with e
vise of food. others with a skin of wine in their
folsowed by the menaces and staggering
cr?saf the weary anal half drunken soldier*.
' :t.).'" was the cry in every part of the
, 4e Ar. English soldier, err, may be for months
a foreign land, and have a pride in not
I:ow to ask for anything 'but liquor. I was
,hat, the rest.
rrno ?" Eaid I, to a 'poor,half-siarv•
ta.-ged nmice, who ‘ras stealing off, and
Tte•liina under his torn cloak: " Tint
oz rourel ! give me vino ! said 1.
tw: ;
, he cried, es he broke from
tae r,rma and ratl quickly and fearfully away
ver7 had not bad above halt
lily clur' 'y—and I pv.aned him up a street. But
thefimer and I should have lost him,had
mare a rudden turn and cane upon him in a
b - raken. a:;ey, Where I suppose the poor thing
<lei' , I se,zed him by the collar. He was small
(pre, and be trembled under my gripe; but
Ir cal held his own, and only wrapped his croak
rk,ser round his property.
quitro row?" said 1 , " give me vino
• Szl:, FLtda, ttno!" be repeated.
sad tiready drawn my bayonet. lam asham
kl,o taf t , err , that we seed to de that to terrify the
Div vreac:les, and make them the soonei give us
1:: " `.3' 3o r As I held him by the collar with one
lia24. I ?r,nled the bayonet at his breast with the
c ctr : and I again cried " F:rrro "1
dip ao
tengv !-. 4t ippo, vino , est , --and spoke
Irznas wah such a look of troth and earnest,
that had I not tancied 1 could trace through
; *...*bLis of the cloak the very shape of a small
t lze-skin, I should have believed hint.
LYing rascal!" said L g so you won't give me
h4:430t The dry earth shall drink it!" and I
P"&ri the point of iny bayenet deep into that which
acrd to his breast.
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Oh, sir, it was not wine that trickled down—it
was blood, warm blood l—and a piteous wall went=
like a chill across my heart! The poor Spaniard
opened his cloak ; he pointed to his wounded child
—and his wild eye asked me plainer than words
could have done, " Moulder ! are you satisfied
I was sobered in a moment. I fell upon my
knees beside the infant, and I tried to staunch the
blood. Yes, the poor tallow understood the truth:
he saw and accepted my anguish ; and we joined
in our efforts to save the little victim. Oh ! jt was
too late !
The little boy had fastened his small clammy
hands around a finger of each of us. Be looked at
us alternately, and seemed to ask, alike from his
father and his murderer, that help which it was
beyond the power ot one ot earth to give. The
changes in the poor child's countenance showed
that it had but few minutes to live. Sometimes it
lay so still that I thought the last pang was over;
when a convulsion would agitate his frame, and a
momentary pressure of its little hands would give
the gasping father a short, dim ray of hope.
You may believe, sir, that an old soldier, who
has only been able to keep his own life at the ex
pense of an eye and two of his limbs, who had lin
gered out many a weary day in a camp hospital
after a hot engagement, must have learnt to look
on death without any unnecessary concern. I have
sometimes wished for it myself ; and often felt
thankful when my poor wounded comrades have
been released by it from pain. I have seen it,too,
in other shapes. I have seen the death-blow dealt
when its effects have been so instant that the brave
heart's blood has been spilt, and the pulses have
ceased to beat, while the streak of life and health
was still fresh upon the cheek, when a smile has
remained upon the lips of a brother-soldier, even
after he had fallen a corpse across my path. But,
oh ! sir, what is all this, compared with what I suf
fered as I watched the life ebb slowly away from
the wound which I myself had so wantonly inflict
ed in the breast of an innocent, helpless child ! It
was by mistake—by accident. Oh, yes ! I know
it, I know it well, and day and night I have striven
to forget that hour. But it is of no use : the cruel
recollection never leaves my mind—that piteous
wad is ever in my ears! The lather's agony will
follow me to the grave.
A DODGE —When Deacon B. got into a bad po
sition, he was very expert at crawling out of it
Though too quick tempered, he was one of the best
deacons in the world. He would not; in a sober
moment utter an oath, or any thing like one, for his
weight in cider.
At the close of a rainy day, he was walking up
on a knoll in his barn.yard ; on one side of vrhich
was a di , ty slough, and on the other an old buck,
that, in consideration of his usually quiet disposi.
uon, be was allowed to run with the cows. The
deacon was piously humming" Old Hundred,"
and had just finished the line ending with "exal
ted high," when the ram, obeying a certain impulse
to be aggressive, gave him a blow from behind that
sent him np a short distance, only to fall directly
into the slough, where the dirty water was deep
enough to give him a thorough immersing. '
As he crawled out, and before he rose from his
hands and knees, be looked over his shoulder at
the rsm and then vocilersted :
•' You d—d old cuss!" but on looking around
and seeing one of his neighbors looking at him, he
added in the breath, " if I ma) , be allowed the
expression."
BROTHER. JONATHAN —The waist of his coat may
be iidicolocitily short ; the tails of it ridiculously
long ; his shirt collar may absorb the contents of a
whole field of fl ; his pantaloons may not come
below the tops of his boots, and his straps may
have the air of preventer-braces to keep the contin
nations trona going over his head ; he may be, in
short, the most unpresentable man you can con- -
ceive of, and " most mockabfe at court ;'' but be
neath the uncouthness of his dress, and the frequent
bizarierie of his manner, there is such a man, and
snob a soul as only Yankeedom and the nineteenth
century can produce or educate. We start with
the intention of making a flourish. Thorough-pac
ed, lull-blooded, conceit, stubborn, inperturbable,
go ahead Americans ; not afraid to try to do any
thing ever done by any other living man, from ma.
king a baby's go-cart to the conetructiot, of an em
pire ; and not a bit more afraid to attempt what no
man ever d:d, if either money, fame or power is to
be made out of it. We are precisely the people
to make the biggest of all possible flourishes, and
blow the biggest of all possible double C bombs
doons on the occasion of national success and tri
umphs.
A DUTCH Jcsucz Orroaric —A Dutch Justice is
the universal pad-horse foi alt judicial balls, but we
iste:y beard a story, we shall saddle upon a justice
residing not more than 1500 miles from lowa. A
man sued another in an action of account. Aher
Odra' ndy hearing the case through, his honor pro
nounced judgment as follows:
44 John Smith, stand tip : you have had a fair and
impartial trial by a jury of your own country, and
have been found indebted, to the plaintiff. This
court, therefore pronouncn lodgment against you
for a emu of eighteen and three fourth cents, and
may God .lErttigily fiate nary on your soul!"
Tns Paestar Mosnorr.—There is no moment
like the present ; not only so, but, moreover,-there
is no moment at all, that is, no instant force and
energy, but in the present- The man who will cot
execute his mph:dicing when they are fresh upon
him can have no hope from them afterwards ; they
will be dissipated, lost and perished in the hurry
and starry of the World, or sunk in the slough of
indolence.
cr An kis' hem being in entrieb where the col•
lection• apparstue resembled election boxes, on its
being handed to him whispered is the carriers co
that he wan:l 4 i naturalized and couldn't vote
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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
19E3
MOE
REMARDLESS OP VENIINC4NTRMI PROM ANY .IiIiMMTRR."
The Thriftiest Warmer.
The following picture of the thriftless farmer is
taken from a Western paper, and is so true to life
that we copy it. We hope that none of our farm
ing readers are touched even in one particular. If
they are, read and reform :
" The thriftless farmer provides no shelter for
his cattle, during the inclemency of winter; but
permits them to gaml shivering by the side of a
fence, or to lie in the snow, as best suits them.
He throws their fodder on the ground. of in the
mud, and not I:lnfrequently in the highway ; by
which a large portion of it, and all the manure, are
wasted.
He grazes his meadows in the fall and spring, by
which they are gradually exhausted, and finally
ruined.
His fences are old and poor—just such as to let
his neighbors' cattle break into his fields, and teach
his own to be unruly.
He neglects to keep the manure from around the
sills of his barn—if ne has one—by which they are
prematurely rotted and his barn destroyed.
lie tills or skims over the surface of his land cm.
til it is exhausted ; but never thinks it worth while
to manure or clover it. For the first he has no time
for the last, he " is not able."
He has more stock than he has the means to keep
well.
He has a place for nothing, and nothing in its
place. He consequently wants a hoe or rake, a
hammer or an auger, but knows not where to find
it. He and his whole household are in search of
it, and much time is lost.
He loiters away stormy days and evenings,
when he should be repairing his utensils, or im
proving his'rnind by reading the newspapers.
He spends much time in town, at the corner of
the streets, or in the " snake holes" complaining
of " hard times," and goes home in the evening
" pretty well tote."
He plants a few fruit trees,' and his cattle forth.
with destroys them. lie has no "luck in raising
fru it."
His plow, drag, and other implements lie all
winter in the field where last used ; and just as he
is getting in a hurry, the next season, hie plow
breaks, because it was not homed and properly
cared for.
Somebody's hogs break in, and destroy his gar
den, because he had not stopped a hole in the fence
that he has been intending to stop for a week.
He uhen.is in a great hurry, but will stop and
talk as long as he c o an find any one to talk wi . h.
He has of course, little money; and when lie
must raise some to pay his taxes, &c., he raises it
at a great sacrifice, in some way or other; either
by paying an enormous Aare, or'by selling his scan
ty crop when prices are low.
He is a year behind instead of a year ahead of
his business—and always will be.
When be pays a debt, it is at the end of an exe
cution; consequently his credit is at a low ebb.
He buys entirely on credit, and merchants and
all others with whom he deals charge him twice
or thrice the profit they charge prompt paymasters, ,
and are unwilling to sell him goods at that. He
has to beg and promise, and promise and beg, to
get them on any terms. The merchants dread to
see his wife come into the stores and the poor wo
man feels depressed and degraded.
The smoke begins to come out of his chimney
late of a winters morning, while his cattle are suf
fering for their morning food.
Manure lies in his inable,his horses are rough and
uncurried, and his harness trod under their feet.
His bars and gates broken, his buildings unpaint
ed, and shingles falling ofi—he has not time to re
place them—the glass is out of the windows, and
the hole stopped with rags and old hats
He is a great borrower of his thrifty neighbor's
implements, but newer never returns the borrowed
.article; and when it is sent for in can't be found.
His children are too late at rchool—that is if they
go to school—their clothes ragged, their faces un
washed, their heads uncombed, and their books
torn and dirty.
If the, printer wants a quarter of beef, or a few
bushels of oats, corn or potatoes, on this bill out far
mer has " none to spare:'
Take him, all in all, he is a poor farmer, a poor
husband, a poor [dater, a poor neighbor, a poor
christian, and a poor decil any nay you can take
him.
NEW RAILROADS tv PIENICSTUSAIDA the list
of acts passed at the fate session of the Pennsylva
nia legislature we find the titles of no less than
thirty-one newly incorporated railroad companies.
Estimating each road at forty mites in length, they
would makes total of 1,340 miles of railroad, and
estimating the cost at say 3.2.5,000 a mile, we have
the moderate sum of 331,200,000 to be expended
on entirely new works.
MERE is a girl in Troy who wears such a stn
shiny lace, that when she goes out of doors the
snow birds take her lot summer, and follow her
about as if she had apple blossoms in her apron.
With such a power in etteerfolneis, isn't it singular
that women ever allow themselves to have the
sulks!
A Faitow who was being led to limonite s told
the officers they most not take him through a ca.
rain street, lest a merchant who resided thpreithoeW
arrest him for an old debt!
Ott-Tits Atlantic is pearl, four miles deep
,off
Cape HaUstaa—so says the United Sims Coax
Surveyors.
(1:!y- An enthusiast so (tetemed the very name, of
anneal rood, that he mused to partake at kidney
beans.
it a body see - body t;arriinr, tiff Ms wood,
a body whale a body—if a body could
~?lTfr'e~f~~- Mte ' Mrr'R~S~r
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Fos ewe Baearoao Reimers% . Edda.
The following notice of the Meeting of the Luzerne
County Bible Society. and the Address of the Rev.
Mr. Muss. will be read with interest by Christian.
of every denomination. who cannot but wish well
to such a cause. Would that a deeper interest in.
this noble work were felt in our own county. Will
you be eo good as to insert this in your paper,-and
you will oblige
Your bumble servant, B. J. D
Towanda, May 2, 18.53.
LITZEiONE COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY
Do Sabbath evening last, a joint meeting of the
several religions congregations, of the Borough of
Wilkes-Barre, was held in the Methodist Church,
in accordance with the recommendation of-the late
annual meeting of the Luzern County- BraLa So.
tier'. The object was the delivery of addresses
in behalf of the Bible cause, and to take more effec
tive measures for the distribution of the Scriptures
through our County.
The meeting was opened by prayer ty the Bev
Mr.. Uorrance, pastor of Presbyterian Church, the
choir then sang a hymn, after which Rev. Mr. Shep
herd announced the Rev. Mr. Miles ot the Episco
pal Church would delt#er the Opening Address.
We are conr►ened this evening as the ministers
and members old). several Protestant Churches of
dos Borough, to consider our position and duty
with regard to the word of God; l nie the term pro
testant here, as designating those who appeal to the
standard of the Holy Scnptores, and protest against
the co-ordinate authority of trailition in settling the
doctrines of our Christian faith. We meet as those
who whatever may be oni differences upon other
points, are mutually in favor of the universal and
unreserved eirbolation of the Bible in the com
mon version without note or comment throughout
our own nation and the world at large.
.To the casual observation of one who admitted
either experimentally or thernetically the divine ori
gin, and practical influence of this volume, oar pre.
sent effort might seem superfluous. Are we not alrea
dy
blest with a full supply of that wont of tile! Is
not its influence extensively felt throughout our com
munity 1 Have we not churches and sundaysthoote
and bible classes---where it is continually taught
from earliest youth to latest age—and are we not
surrounded with its ordinances, and largely blest
with its benevolent inatiretional Yes truly; and
yet the very fullness of the blessings which we en
joy may make us insensible to our danger of los
ing them, or forgetful of the wants of those less
highly favored. The present call therefore may
be a favorable time for consideration :—a call to re
view the present condition of the bible cause in our
world and our own duty in connexion with it, We
must never forget that we live in a state of proba
tion; in a world whete conflicting spiritual influen
ces are at work, and where the Lord himsellworks
uy means through the humble instrumentality of
earthern vessels in carrying on_his own vast pur
poses. ‘V hat then is the present aspect of the Bi
ble cause ! in answer to this question it may be
viewed in the various aspects of progress,—of eon
-1 flict,—and of apathy, according as it is viewed
from different stand points. •
I. Let ns view its aspect of progress. The mo
ment t mention this word, I seem to realize how
busy your minds are in running through the history
of the past, and tracing God's word from its early
Mosaic records, through Psalmist, and Chronicler
and Prophet; through Evantielial and Apostle down
to the full completion of the sacred canon, in the
Revelation of Si John. Yoa remember that once
the sacred writings were confined to a small people
not remarkable for their numbers or influence am
ong the nations of the distant east; and hardly
known beyond the territory of so called Holy Land.
And when the advent of the Saviour of the world,
hailed the old and added the newt—it was grad
ually that the united rays of the divine light spread
through the nations of western Europe, and not till
after centuries had rolled away that the son of righ
teousness with healing in its wings arose upon this
oar western land. Quick as thought your mind runs
through the midni,gbiagetrof the church, when the
bible was locked up in convents and monasteries,
and the people groped maapirittral darkness, tilt the
morning star of the RefcirinatiOn dawned and God's
Providence devised away through the i.;ventiou of
printing, and threw open this new , world, to the
combined influence of all united. Wonderful is the
eight that has thus been exhibited. The writings
of a few shepherds and fishermen and tent makers,
have been invested with a divine power—and
charged with an influence that has turned the world
upside down. They have been carried by the mis
sionary of the cross to almost every quarter of our
earth, from the trozeu shores of Greenland to the
coral strands of India. The isles of the ocean have
waited for God's law, and the wilderuess has re
joiced and blossomed far and wide. All this you
appreciate the moment it is mentioned, The weak
things of God have overcome the strong. The hum•
blest christian in the audience has helped to &flea
it. Not a child's prayer, nor a widow's mite has
been without 13 influence. It. has been written
down upon the great recotd above—and it has been
winged by the power of God to fulfill its mission
here on earth. This is.not mere declamation; it
is the enstaciation in words of facts of which (gores
are the proof; and to impress your minds with the
Mathematical argument which weighs with so ma
ny, I may briefly refer to a few data which express
the progress of the Bible within the last fifty yeant,
—or during that period when the morolearnest of
fotts have been made through the medium °lasso
elation for its dissemination. Al the commence
ment of the present een , try, it is according to the
best estimates that can ls:obtained, ' that, !hie was
in eziawne ooly about t,090 1 009 copi es of the
Bi-
We; noeilietts ate,more, M 211.0,000.006, it had
thee heeit,puiale* in 48 or,..49.lartguNesi new it
is read in something lite iitt thezlit.,s4fAccefir
ibie in largriai;es sicken by atvist f:t.1 . (0)0,000 rf
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CIF Ggiblt taut.
A DDRESS.
BEIBEI
men; AEA, it fa open' to more, eau 600;000,0bil.--
What other book will find a parallel in this pro
gress! Once the great Bible was chained in some
public place, that all who would might come and
peruse it, or listen to the few who were competent
to read; now the mull of life is unchained--and
the leaves of that irealwhich are for the healing of
the nations, are mewled broadcast o►e/ out earth.
Bat let us return to facts again. Sis. years ago an
agent of ail English Bible Society visited Afraca,
and in a journey of 3,000 miles he found scarcely
a person without one or mom copies of the Sacred
Seriph:nee, having the mark of the Bible Sociale
upon it.
The people in some parts a Africa were 30, 40,
50, and even 70 miles distant from a station where
they could hear the Word of God preached, but by
the inetrumantality of societies they were furniehed
with copies of the Bible, by reference to which,
Christian knowledge were kept give *ithin them.
Glancing at Ireland, we find that the entire Bible
has been printed the lash toogue. Through the
means of appointed . missionaries and Scripture read
mit, thousands have been converted from Roman-
Ism and led to embrace 1 pure faith The Emerald
Isle bide fair to be regenerated, and it - may be that
the ancient tradition is about to be fulfilled—that
when Ireland was lost to the RoMieb Church, that
Church throughout the whole world would, be de
stroyed.s Certain it is that this progress has awak
ened the fiercest opposition on her part. Look at
France—that country which I , lying teographieally
on the yen confines of the strongest Bible illurni.
nation, has been the most agitated and tossed of
ati the tufts of civilization; now rolling and wel.
tering in blood and fire, during its proscription of
the oracles of Gird, and now eonvokted with the
restless workings of a mind stimulated by the ev.
eiywhere penetratine light of surrounding but re
giving truth." During the past year 135,000 copies
of the Sacred Sciiptares have been sold in that
country, making an increase in six months, of 9,000
copies over any six months. When the Pope
turned his bark on the people and fled, the.opror
rcmity was taken, to print in Rome itself an edition
of 4000 copies of the scriptures; When abort 100
copies had been issued, the cardinal Government
pat a stop to the twitter circulation, and the remain- ,
lair , ' copies were subseqnunity destroyed by the di
rection of the Pope on his return. !laving heard
that the copies were being gradually destroyed, ap.
plications were made by the S.orietyto Lord Pal
merston, who intimated to the Pope that the Biblers
were the property of British subjects. Ultimately
it was agreed that the Bibles should be paid for,
and the Society actually received £lO9 119.
In Russia too, the Bible has been circulated, and by
an order of the Emperor it is said 60,000 copies
were lately admitted ditty free, saving thereby
about £3OO. In Vienna, and Florence, and many.
other cities the word has taken effect. With regard
to our own country I need not take up your time to
speak. The Bible was early.endotsed and respect
ed by the framers et oar government, and an edi
tion printed at the recommendation of Congress—
the efforts of infidels nainst it have proved una
vailing. Selene., has been summoned with all tier
wisd.m drawn horn the depths of the earth, • and
with her light gathered from the starry firmament,
to overthrow it ; but in vain. The smoke and dust
of the conflict have cleared away, and left the Bi
ble resting on a fume; basis ; even turning the ob
jections of science, or of philosophy falsely totall
ed, into weapons for her own defence. Such is the
aspect of the Bible progress—act exhibited briefly,
in words, and facts and figures, drawn from a few
only of the many nations of the earth—where with
more time we might trace its successful history.
11. Let us now turn to the aspect of conflict.=
Some may be ready to eaelaim alter this review,
as was at first snggested—where is the Call for any
spasmodic effort since the the great work has so
well and so steadily progressed ? We hare not
met to encourage any such spasmodic effort : but
to arouse ourselves to a more steady and progresa.
ire work, stimulated by the times in which we
live. The work that has been already done calls
for more. The seed that so long has been nitwit
and sowing among the nwions of the earth is spring
ing up. The leaven of God's word hidden in ma
ny a house, is working throtr ‘ bout all turope, a n d
there are indications on every side that there lea
desperate conflict at hand. When we plant the
seed we do not leave it to iiseit. There is often
more labour to be expended its if . germinates, and
grows tovranl the harvest lest the earlier labour
should be lost. The Bible so freely and extensive
ly circulated is taking effect. It is friend that civil
and religions liberly are more nearly connected
than IMP et first supposed The extinction of the
one is the extinction of the other. The spiritual
and temporal despotisms of the 'old world, are in
(ague against free Iv nciples. The kings of the
earth in tolfitmeni of Revelation are giving their
power to the beast, the fake church, and receiving
assistance in retain. The spread of the Bible and
the spread of republican principles, are only hit d
eted now by the presence of French and Austrian
bas °nets, and the Papacy in its dotage trembles on
an iniatcute throne. And yet such is just the time
when a most vigorous effort must be put forth to
retrieve her falling kmenes. They Must Mize as.
cry copy of the word of life whose leaven is hear.
tag the troubled surface of society, and pettish the
temerity of those who will date to read it in their
homes. A bold movement is nntisrto divide the
Ml6* realm and parcel out its territory to foreign
ecclesiastics. They have seen this crisis and are
preparing for is. In Flcalenee, that city so tamed
for its tearnizg and aria, a man and his wife have
been detected in reading the word of God, and a
dungeon is the penalty. How strangely has this
street upon the ears of men in this enlightened
age ; ! To be imprisoned for reading the bible. It
hattimented like the tern al of the Inquisition and
indeed le only a slight lotaaste of if, if it be suffer
ed to p.xsiWithonfrebt.e. It has reused op the in
.
(tivatiori of honest men ateetinp bkve been call.
eJ tuhl vended by !loons D:c4ingnithell awn
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of different nations have interceded for she prison
ers, and at the last accounts they have been relieve
ed but banished from their country. Here in our
land every field is occupied, every totality is visit
ed. Her emissaries are in the distant west, With fins
the advance of emigration, and a vigilant and trite
ty snrveilliance is exercised over our whole land.
First an effort is made to drive the bible trona the
public school, and next they undertake to seize et
a portion of the common fund to devise to their exe
elusive system. As a matter of coarse resistance
is made, the people are aroused, public meetings
are held, exciting speeches are made, and the time
of conflict comes It is important to remember too,
that the scene of the contest is changed. As the
power at war against the bible seems to weaken in
the old world it strengthens here. be ranks are
reinforced by constant immigration. ft has thrives
to a certain extent in that very freedom whielk
would seem in other respects its natural enemy,
and there are not wanting those who with mistak
en views and seeking preferment, at any sacrifice
are willing to pander to die prejudices of 'his Ste
creasing portion of the population, In this conflict
too we shall find that infidelity will side with Re-
martinis.
Th oug h apparently antagonists in some respects,
yet there is a point where that system which be.
lieves everything, and that sysfem which denies
everything, meet : and it is in opposition to, and
deadly hatred of pure and spirituel religion. In&
delity met and vanquished in het own stronghof
can accomplish through the guise of Romilistri
what she could not accomplish in heraelt. The
one is the legitimate hub of thelother as elaratian ty
proved by the operation of the individual mind and
more at large by the mate of whole countries sub. ,
jetted to Romanish domination. These are . OR
dangers, and this is the conflict for winch we must
alt be prepared.
_And now in the third place what do we find
our own position in view of this approaching con.
flictl 1 fear it is one of apathy and unconcere.—
We are so accustomed to see the work go on, and
to read of its progress, and to see the waib of OW
churches rising out every hand, to tinder our vine
and fig tree with none to molest us or make us
afraid, that we do not dream o 1 danger. We seem
to have no idea that any reverse can come. We
feel too much ert everytbmg would take ease of It
self and these blessings would eentintre as a maner
of course. We ate needing just now perhaps a lit
tle of this very persecution to make us value our
liberty more highly.. Do you realise i tny Christian
friends and fellow eitizens that you, might be fe
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career-sled here in your owtrconnty priron for reed
ing that bible which now you so freely hold !
Such a thing would be almost - sure to some it
Rome should gain the ascendency as she has in
other countries and wield the power of the State.—
, She is unchattgerble in her mica, and only wants
the opportunity by her own admission to he use
same in external manifestation. Our liberty, both
civil and:religious, can only be preserved by aeon
slant watchfulne'sa, and by bearing aloft the bible
as our standard, our shield and our defence. "
tree bible, a free press and free schools," was the
noble gentimem uttered by our tote minister to
England daringhis visit to to the Emerald isle and
which was blotted Inset I,:s Printed speech thensgh
priestly influence. There is apathy here. That
word of life which we profess to prize so Isie,hly
we mi he too fittle effort lo disseminate. There
are famihes all around as which are destinies. In
theigreatness of our wont we most not neglect to
Took after or neighborhood. Each intlivideel, each
minister, each chureit, hasa portion of the work
cornet - Wed to them within the limits of their res.
pective influence. and's!, these individest minis
ter and churches united, have their work to do 14t
on the destitute regions around. It is to awaken
us to a sense of duty in this respect that we have
met this evening. Nor should we lose sight of the
highest consideration. It is not merely the tact
that this temporal conflict or crisis is approaching,
but far more than fitis, that souls are constantly
noting AM lack of knowledge. White -we have
fight in our dwellings and oar churches, there is
fearful darkness at too shott a distance homes, and '
many a house in our county might now be found
where the candle of Gods word shines not upon
its inmates. Have we no dry to diecharge ie this.
respect Shalt we enjoy to satiety these blessed
pritilnes rends others are destitute I Shall we
say " am t ray brother', keeper," or throw there.
sremsibifity of his unetpeeted lass ape himself
atone I
"Shill se whose soots are lighted
Srilh Wisdom' , from on high ;
Shalt are to men benighted
The lamp of light deny P
f surely need only to ask the question to have
intelligently and rightly answered in yonr bead -.
!t is the year of jubilee in the Bible cause in our
mother England, Mother in more respects than one
in thiags pertaining to the advancement of Christ',
cause, and the diessentination of that version dent
bible which her own divines transla•ed. A few
weeks since the 50th anniversary of the British ark!
Foreign Bible Society was celebrated with eireom
glances of unusual interest in St. Pad'. Cathedral
Loudon. The sermon was preached by the Arch
Bishop of Cante.bnry, in presence of membeta of
every Christian Jena:al:mime in England (saes
one,) whose good and gifted representatives both
clerical and lay thronged that noble edifice, f 3.11
was the amount of the collection on Ifni defy,
which is tut the ber„inning , et that Jubilee hoe
flowing in firms all parts of the kingdom. in no
imitate their zeal. Let es arouse from our apathy,
and blessing God for that progress asf his wool
which we haveseen, arm ourselves for the ap
proaching conflict. God worts by means, and we
may be efficient agents in his hands. The work is
ours the strength and the glory shall be all his own
when the kingdoms of ibis world shall.becorne the
kingdoms ofour Lord and of His Clarist,and tie
shall reign for ever and ever. •
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