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CONSISTING OP PINET OASTILIJON & CO. BLSQUET, TRICOCHE & CO. JAMES HENNESSY & CO. OTARD, DUPITY & CO J. & F. M ARTLE. JULES ROBIN & CO. MARETT & CO JOUR R. ZIEGLER, 73 Market Street. For sale by 17d HOSE desiring to paper their houses, • will find a Nvelbaelected stock of WALL PARER for at COST PRICES, at - BERGNER'S CHEAP BOOKSTORE • •\,4,IFIM' • : ~.\ .\. .) ; \Ax ,44- 111'10 ill e : - -1 r • )4 - • "," $ 2.00 12.00 15.0 D AN N 'UAL S ERMON Delivered on Sunday Evening, Jun. nary -6, 1861. '' 1.04 D HAITI MADE ALL 111LNG5: stilt H SUF. " —. Proverla ' Vl-4. It is well for us at Hines like the present, when the affairs of the world are more confused than usual, and the rapid succession of import ant events tends to draw our thoughts to the sole consideration of the visible, to remind ourselves of the invisible, and :Of Him, who, unseen; is not unseeing nor unconcerned. When all things move on calmly and regular ly, we are disposed to forget God, since we see no indications of His interference. When new and startling events are hurrying us onward so rapidly. that we can liardly pause for a sober thought, then we behold so much of human policy, contrivanee, prejudice and passion, that we again forget God, turd. in effect we thus thrust Him at all times beyond the sphere of human affairs. We are disposed to attribute all things to human agency; to say when we be hold great revolutions, especially if we are in the midst of them, . and can observe the play and conflict of human interests, that God has naught to do with them. We behold the' wickedness of men, we observe how much they are affected by prejudice, by education, by their position in society, and feel inclined to protect the honor of God by removing him from all contact with affairs so moulded by human vices. We charge the events to Satanic agency, to anything, rather than accept the real truth, and live by the faith of it, that never is a time so peaceful or so troubled, but that God's mighty hand is in it, reducing its elements to order and peace, or stirring them up to do his bidding. • The Hebrew monarch in my text, and in the words immediately connected with it, expresses this truth in his terse strong words. His eyes saw the whole course of nature and human his tory under the direct superintendence of God. He was not stumbled by the power or the suc cesses of the wicked. They too, were in the hands of God, and all their plans were made mysteriously to co-operate in carrying out the divine purposes. This doctrine of Solomon's is the doctrine of the entire Scriptures, expressed so strongly at times, as to appear to exclude human freedom and Make man a mere machine in the hands of One infinitely mightier than he The Lord himself uses the strong langpage---"I have hardened Pharaoh's heart." It is said again, "The Lord bath puta lying spiritinto the mouth of Ahab's prophets." Wicked men are said to he "foreurdnined..to condemnation," and the righteous to be "predestined" to eter nal rffe ; and :Solombii - firCorikeation. with tn. text says: God bath made the wicked for the dayof evil." Whatever interpretation we may place upon such passages must - be one which does•not, in any way; infringe with the idea of man's free agency and responsibility. They rather present us two ideas; first, that of a general scheme of government and providence which sees the end from the beginning; and secondly, that of the,eXjstence of upersbnal and ever-present God, whose hand •moulds and whose will directs all the current of destiny, both with nations and men. There is the freedom and the accountability of the creature, but he moves in and under a. government - which has both its origin and its end in eternity; a government in which the principal actor is God. Or, to give a further statement.of this truth, I would say, my test teaches that the ,entire universe of events, es pecially understanding human affairs, is so ar ranged, overlooked and directed by the great God, that , even the day of evil, -of calamity, 1 trouble or revolution which wicked and rebel- lious men, acting in the strengthpf human liber ty, bring about to serve their own purposes, shall be made to adjust itself harmoniously into the vast scheme of God ; so that ultimately, while every wicked man shall bear the burden of his own responsibility, he shall by no act of his infringe upon, - muchless defeat ; one of God's purposes; but on the contrary, every act of, rebellion, every evil perpetrated, shall fit into' God's plan and work out God's end. Solomon was a great man and wise. He had opportunities of observing and understanding . human history in its relations to God, such ea few men of his age possessed. The history of his own nation and family had been such as was well calculated to impress a mind like his with a conviction of the truth, that "the Lord hath . made all things for Himself." He could not forget - the marvellous. deliverance of his nation Their bondage in Egypt—their journey for forty years in the deserttheir history:when; for four hundred years under military leaders and judges, they took possession of the promised land, and established themselves in it—the al= ternate successes and defeats—the occasional periods of anarchy when evil seemed about to tri umph over good, and the nationto be on the brink of dissolution. The wonderful history of his own Father, now a shepherd boy, now a hunted fugitive, now a brave warrior, and last a mighty and successful king, all these events were emi nently fitted to convince the observant mind of the wisest monarch of the times, that all things' were made for God and were governed by Him. Yet the experience of Solomon was very limited if we compare it with our own. In his day, though so long after the august scenes of creation, the drama of the world's history had hardly begun to be acted. It was still in its first acts. The great forces which have been moving iocietY and the world for many centu ries had hardly an existence then. The world was scarcely anything more than his own nation. Providence seemed to be occupied wholly with that single people. .We are permitted to study the plan of Providence as it runs through sev eral distinct epochs, as it takes up one nation after another, and develops itself more fully from age to age. We pass beyond the Jewish nation and the small district of Palestine, and view the various centres of civilization and learning and power as they successively come in contact with Christianity. We study the display of human passions .on a wider scale. We see Providence dealing distinctly with nations and races, lifting them up or putting them down, using them and setting them aside. .We trace indications of the DiVine hand in periods of great and general convulsion, bringing order and goodness out of anarchy and evil. We see a night of barbar- Wittpassitig away: - ,We - behold the brightness of law and learning; and ofiiberty and religion; dawning.upon.the earth. We behold the rising floods and storm of human passions anikiding at the voice of Him who sitteth-above the floods: Surely, as the reverent and pious :mind' studies_ the changes in histery,,,the perpetual and mar- Y'eloas evolution of good out of evil, the ionieiderdful scheine among bleu, J. R. BENFORD & CO `INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS-NEUTHAL IN NONE " XIV [PUBLIBIIED BY REQUEST.] By Rev. T. B. ROBINSON. MSBUIiG, r' A. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 12, 1861 11Ali it will overflow with gratitude for the pea and exult with confidence for the future, and join with Solomon in saying, "rhe Lord bath made all things for Himself." And, as now, in accordance with my custom for the few years I have been ministering among you, I review the history of the past year,. .1 - wish mainly to direct your thoughts*to the great fact, that God has been pleased so to order the structure and arrangements of society, and so to govern all those events in which both the best and , the worst passions of men are enlisted that they all finally operate mysteriously for 'good, in spite of the wickedness of man ; so thateVeu the suffering and misery caused by peribdi:of internal national convulsion are coniPensated subsequent good ; so that the seltiShileSs madness of parties who originate revolutiOns and disorders to gratify their ovhi passions, shall be overruled fur the advanceinent and general happiness of society and the triumph of the good and the right. The effect of evillia temporary, of good is permanent. Thet-Gnd who works in history carries His purpoSeS7dn ward. There is no .step . backwards, - eettgilly. nu continued movement. _This would iiidtetite. that God had relinquished the Q o - overunenfif men or had been eirenniverited by 7iis enei.Y. When we look for Anal causes, .we ninitldok forthem amid moral 4tributes of the Almighty, and looking there we cannot doubt that 'this. world, and the entire series of its troubled events, will conspire to reveal something of the inajeS ty, the wisdom and the goodness of Him.who iiileth all in all, and to proclaim that "The, Lord bath made all things for Himself." Before I refer to, our Own personal. historY or to that of our nation, let us look abroad into the world beyond. The historic events of the year.eighteen hundred and sixty will fiirirish to future historians themes to enlist their highest genius. They are so abundant that I can only glance at the more important. If we pass first to those continents which are farthest removed from us, and to those people who are most remote from christianity and christian civilization; We shall find traces of wonderful and pregnant Movements. In. Africa, that land of night tuni. darkness. there itarotishw . up. Sturdy, earnest and christian adventurers an. pushing their way from All sides into the heart oethat gratt laud. Its ancient foreits hear theitread of civiliied men. Its darkened tribes gazii in wonder •on civilized faces. Its rivers begin to be ploughed by the steam of eivi= lization. The work of discovery and of christian missions-iris been progressing as llCArer . 13elqie; The spirit of adventure, the spirit of commerce; and the spirit of christianity, are together enter : - Mg; the land to disenthral and regenerate it.' Asia, Asia, too, has been the theatre of memoralt „events. On its, Pacific border, in that Ki.,dta of Japan whielf Iran been ithimhering for Mani' centuries, a.progressiVe and inquiring spirit been awakened. F u r many Years the leadittg': nations vi christendoni have been knociting'.% it. doors. Now the light of a foreign civil'. _tion*.bas been let in. -Ilictorn# • sad lessons for our reading. It thils us that:the -rarito reiu4-111SMrASAQ/lettted hue when adniitted intol.7e - e - intercourse with them, save as they havercom- the missicaittries' of salvation. The negroes of Africa, the Indians of North Ainerica, the sons ..t the Montextines, - the dusky children of Hindostan; the - hapless. and toil-worn etiolies of China,' can all tell their dark and sanguinary tales of the white man's treachery and crime. We will hope for good in the great nations now opening their doomon the Eastern Continent. 'Recent news from the fat East announce the arrival there of our noble steamer Niagara, bearing to their own land the Japanese Ambassadors who but lately left our shores. They have already recounted to thou-• sands of their woridering'eountryraen the sight they beheld in the far off laud of civilization mid Christianity. The Ambassa' dors of the Prince of Peace, too; are hastening thither, the heralds of a better future. . Simultaneously with the news of their arrival home, we are startled by the fall of Peldn, the capital city of a nation of low hundred Millions of men. The profound quiet and death-like apathy of that strange people, will surely be disturbed, if anything Can_ awaken them.. :Never did the future of the Chinese nation. wear a more unsettled aspect than at:the' present mo-: - Merit A foreign foe,' the soldiers of two of the Mightiest nations of Christendom; has entered, sword in hand, the precificta of their' `sacred capital and enriched itself on, its treasure& An internal enemy, composed of:their own people has long been in openrebelliort, and:after a sue-. Cession of bloody triumphs, holds- now-'tuadis:: puted possession of a large portion of the corm try. Russia, from the north and: west, is:wat4ch.- . in.g eagerly the - progress of- events, - ready- to seize her portion of the dismembered empire. England will not be permitted-to'-establish her self there or hi India, nor - to - incinopOize the-re- - wards of victory.: If that - ancient land is cut up, among the more powerful nation. - France' must have her share' of it But While: England France and Russia are watching eagerly,- like birds of prey aromid. an.:expiring body, let us hold to the faith of the text, so often illustrat ed by history; that "the Lord hathnnuie • all things for Hinaself."- --- - Wstern Asitt, during the past: year las been the scene of - barbarities,- which we had hoped: the sun would never again shine upon. Run.: dreds of villages and homes hafebeenin the mountains of Syria and Lebanon have been. filled with thousands of fugitives flying from burning homes, from the sight of massacred. fathers,, husbands rind sons ; pursued by - the. fierce dogs of war, famishing in caves, falling and dying by the wayside. Christian . missions. have been broken up, and the seapOrts along the: Mediterandan are crowded with naked, famish- , ing women and children, stretching their hands to christian lands for bread. That these terri ble events will be controlled by the hand:of Al; mighty Power for the ultimate happinesi ' and blessing of the inhabitants of western Asia, the past history of Providence, and the revealed purposes of God, do not permit us for a moment to doubt. The most significant events of the year abroad are those which have occurred on the continent. of Europe. Another most fortunate and favored nation has been Italy. Many weary centuries have rolled around, since that land could.point to two years so full of hope, of glory and sub stantial advancement, as the years 1859 and 1860. Until a very recent period, Italy was di vided into a number of distinct ..overnments, controlled by influences inimical to p the cause - of. hnman liberty and progress, and hostile to the true welfare of her sons. Austria ruled with an iron band over a large part of her fairest domi nions, and by her petty despotism held.l,taly as in a vice. Bomba, of infainous memory, tyran nized over •the two Sicilies, and dying, be' queathed to his weak son and heir, Francis 11., a subjected and hating people, impatient of tYr anny, and waiting an opportuny to rise. The Papal States, or 'States of the Church, oppressed by the hand of the Holy Father, lay in the om -1 inous quiet which evermore 'precedes a cen74 , sion. , With an almost magical. rapidity, a won derful change has been effected: ' These -long ./ severed and distracted principalities have-risen and been ; re-constructed into one - Mighty and imposing governinent, strong enough to com mand respect from the haughtiest monarchies of. Europe, and to niake every citizen of the coun try proud that he is an Italian. After a long series of fruitleas struggles, when everybody thought the hopes of Italian liberty were vain. and ehiMeriml, when every struggle seemedbut to , plqnge "the 'land in deeper misery and strengthen the despotism of their chains, an se-: complished revolution has proclaimed to the world the freedom of - Italy. Butnonnected with the prize of civil freedom for that laud; we may record another prominent 'event, Which:will have-an important - bearing ou - Europe and the world. I refer to the terrains tion of - the-temporal power of the Papacy. This event has not yet wholly-become a formal fact, but its probability is- now so universally recog nizo I, both in-Protestant'and in Catholic Chris tendom,. and the existing temporal power of the Pope is so shadowy and unsubstantial, that Ave may speak of it- as one of the events of the 'time. --It is reported that •Cardinal Wiseman, `the most -distinguished ecclesiastic of - that - church known- to American readers, lately re- Aired - fiord an interview with the Pope, saying 1 to his-friend, "It is full time to bow to the hand 1 of PreVidence, by which' the downfall of the temporal power is visibly decreed." Once the Roman Pontiff-placed his foot on the necks of Emperors arid Kings, ' •Once :his voice was po tent in all the cabinets of Europe.-- Once his court rivalled in. Splendor • and magnificence those of the monarchs of great kingdoms. He received tributes, regulated commerce, admin istered secular law, divided territories, and ex torted hoMage and fear. Now,none are so poor as to do him reverence. Hispossessions have dwin dled. away. instead of ruling aver a great country of many millions of people, and vieing with the strongest nations, in armies and reve nues, now but a few discontented thousands unwillingly acknowledge his temporal authority. Ono by cine his - states' have cast. off the rein, declared themselves free ; and entered under the constitutional monarchy•of a Man Who is under the ban of excommunication from the Church. Perhaps the most important of the human .agencies in effecting these changes is that re markable -Man, :Nrapoleon. TH., already honored with the title, "the true son of the Church." The Worlds has been strangely divided in its -opinion of tlxisiman. Some have regarded him as shallow and vacillating ; others as' deep, far .sighted and :decided. History tells us this pinch, that the'sword-which has been unsheathed 'on•the, plains of Italy has been mainly ; in his hand;: and-on , the side , of freedom and, progress. 'lt has: fallen on the .secular arm of the. 2 Papacy,'llnd.that net accidentally. . ' . A hioW-hai been - virtually struck for . Protes t -:It-nay .be that Napoleon has -been the 'area - titre 'of circumstances, but it would rather seeni - thithehar reatithe decree of Providence ; that the... Roman Babylon. must fall;has. seen ; • • -It'a''ar•= l. - e- -6 . 4 --anatnlace among the agen cies that-bless niankTria; -- tuat - n. ra taa-aiiamy ef. . ess'and true .liberty; -and that some new power, perhaps , Protestantism, must take its :place. He ha&said it—Papal Rome, as a seen lar 'fewer., hak lived out its time. ..All-that Po pery has to do, enfeebled - and emaciated as it is, deceiver of- the nations as -it -has been, is., to give up the ghost and allow itself to he carried. Out and buried. 'The Catholic Church will con -tinue, but the fanatital conceit of an infallable Pope is a dogma -of the past, and will be flung away, with the dead men's bones and bits of the true cross which still keep up a lingering su perstition and idolatry among its people. The power of the Holy Father, as•a temporal sove reign, or an- infallible Spiritual Head, is nearly lost - to do either evil orgood. The fall of the temporal and the denial of the spiritual supre- Macy cannot long be separated. They have both been on the sick- list for many years, and in their death: they will not be divided. The time has'been. when he could compel princes to wait at his gaie and hold his Stirrup: He- has no powerful subjects now, nor powerful friends. There is no help for his. Holiness hr the earth beneath, 'not,lit seems from the course-of. vidence, in: the. Heavens above. Protestant I Bibles are finding ::their way all through his late doininions. ..iProtestant ,worship has even been established in a palace formerly occupied by one of his predecessors. -His spiritual ministrations are Of smaller and -smaller account every year. His fall is a sign of. the sure and steady progress of the Kingdom of Christin Italy pare to-day . accessible. : to •Protestant. Mfinences, who were nota a- year ago—who never were be fore.---rnillions Who are kist waking and asking, for right and truth. I should detain you too long, were I tcr ; spea .lt Of other extensive civil and religiouschanges the Continent a in France, in Northern-Europe:, in England, Scotland and Ireland; changes now . going on . , abolishment of passport, systems, the 1 struggle in - Hungary, the great religious refor mation, ihavhictitens of thousands have Veen converted to God, . . While these reyolutions have been taking place In other' lands, they have been regarded 13y us witheomparative indifference, because the 'great crisis through which our own country passing, excites the quickened and painful appre- - 1 hensions of _every -nicruannd. patriotic breast.— 1 As we pass from timpl&year.to - theneW, it -is 1 :Mahe : midst of one, of the most memorable struggles that will ever ; fund record on the page ollistory.: it is a - day of darkness and gloom. Thick: clondiiower sullenly upon our mann %have just united, at the request of ;our.: Chief Executive, in a solemn appeal. to - Heaven to avert the dismemberment of our - - confederacy and a resort ,to us 'Eachday of the.closing.year hrought us new - developMents :more startling then their, predecessors. The public credit, deStroyed, the.treasnly - Plinidered, treasonablemoy,ements assuminghold, auda • cious:maddefiantlinnt, and kept in countenance by those in )4 ; ghplacesiangryjealousies and mut-• tering on - all sides, new theones in - fespcbtle the perpetual enslavement - of.ah! - ,itiferitor Vice' demanding privileges which the enlightened ;consciences of other sections of the country le .fuse to allow: such are some of the things that filled the closing ; months of the year and seemed to presage the overthrow of the Repnb - The destiny of * nations, like that of men,, some times changes with astounding rapidity. It may be so with ours: Convulsion and revo lution are terrible for the age and generation-in which 'they occur, but this need not blind our minds to the fact already referred to, that God has so Constructed and so governs society, that no matter how much of evil_man mingles with God's - plan, the final result - Minister§ to the permanent good of the race. We are fully-alive, we truSt, to the' . sins . and faults that have. brought us, as a country, to our present com plexion. It is not, however, our piarpose now to speak of man, but of God ; of human acts, either to condemn or approe, but of God's .general plan; and speaking thus, we affirm that God, in .permitting periods of public misery, alwayg 'compensates for them •by unspe'akable .and 144,ing gpo - c1,.." 'The evils aSingle generation—the blessings are the perma nent inheritance of posterity. Society may seem to be almost dissolved. Law and moral order may give way to physical power. Impostors, with dark and selfish plans for their own aggrandize ment, znay push aside men of patriotic temper, and high principle, and 'may madly rain. ,the hOur; but the day of deliVerance always comes. • A beneficent Providence enables society to free: itself from its own excesses by implimting in the breasts .of men an instinct - against anarchy as strong as against tyranny. The cause of order revives again. The overborne conserva tive element rises towards the ascendency. The moral triumphs over the physical, the rational over the unthinking, and human pasSions die away. Men may not recognize the hand of God in it, but He bath done it, for "He bath made all things for Himself." lie has His ends to serve with all things created, and will not be de feated of them. He did not make this grand and beautiful world.in order to destroy it. He did not set the sun and the stars in the Heavens in order to cast them done thence and quench their fires. He did not make man in order to blot him out of existence. lie did not found this great nation and build into its corner stones such saving truths of justice; equality and freedom in order to tear it down with convul sions. Convulsions are good disciplinary steps toward final ends. When He takes in hand a work of judgment and destruction upon a na tion, it is never entirely and purely a work of destruction, unless indeed, it be that the nation has filled its cup of iniquity, and is a leprosy to the rest of the world. When. God shakes the Heavens and the earth, it is not that He may .crumble all things to atoms, but in order to save some part at least. Evermore in the past, has it been true,: that out . of darkness and convulsions, distractions and desolations, God has brought something purer' and' higher than anything that preceded it. Out of the ruins of the Old World, he brought Xoah, the germ of a better race. Prom the heart of convulsions in Egypt, He led : the cho sen race, destroying the Egyptians,. that His people might be safe. : And when He, who - e - as born at Bethlehem, was nailed to the Cr.*, the earth was shaken and the face of the Heavens was-, covered with : darkness, men's hearts trembled for fear ; but it was at that xery hour, when evil seemed to be rejoicing over good, and death over life, when the dark Wing of : the Prince of death seemed to fill the Heavens,, and the moral order of the universe to be going to rack, it was then God took His Sou out of the confusion of all things, declared Hint tole the • Son of God with power, h raising him from the dead ; gave Hint! the :victory over death and evil, cast down the Prince of Evil . from.the,ifeaV.ens of his fancied pre-eminence, and kid seni#e•the foundationS of that Chmeh, which,.as new creation,, evermore- rising • ;Mit,Of - the' wreck of this work' into the .;relli-a ins* life. A ku . Lue,D-,4e4e.m.-willalaell be baffled by the course of Providence.. Things will not Move *4, as wpAhlya:tiae.y oughtto. shaken which we-.supposed :Were unmovable. The powers of hell may seem to 'be let loose, to. be overturning all all order, all peace.— Constitutions which we deerned inmerbeliab e may prove as weak as flax in the fire. Aten's hearts may fail them for fear a.nd for looking after the things that are etaning.upoa the earth. Yet God will prove, as He .ever • has done, than the mastery is not.with the powers of hell; but with-the powers .. of - Heaven. "He hatinnade ail things for Himself He bath made this nation or himself ; He may, dash.us down frOm our places of pride. Hemay show - us how weak we are,. He may show us how easily the stablest of Gov ermnents may be dissolved, when 'He has any ends to serve by it, but let us not at any time, however dark, suppose - that evil is about to gain any permanent triumph over <rood, or that the Prince of Darkness will triumph over the Prince lof Light. At the very hour when the malicious I practices and designs of men are filling a land with confusion, God will bring forth the sign of the Son offnan in greater power and glory. As when the northern nations rushed- down in barbaric power upon the Roman Empire, threat ening the destruction of all law, all order, all civilization and christianity, the .conquerors themselves were 'conquered, infused their har dy blood, and manly courage into the decaying society or the Empire and became the chief sup porters and champions of civilization and Christ's i•Eiligion, so has it always been. and so will it always,be. , We might suppose tlmt when wild and un tam-able passions are let loose in a land like - ..0.115; we should ere•long be a social-and moral Wilderriess - sitewn with the wreck of our shat terect liberties and religion.- Buthistoty as ell as faith tells us to look for searrelib , her ei - iod to I spring. out of 'all - this evil.. -Lamest men. dis appointed of their hOpei, - IFre often -ready to des parr of the prospects of mankind,- and to look - with gloomy lorebodhigs on the 'future: And certainly, when we behold men thrown" rg away virtue and patriotism, reason - and humanity, and, giving the reins to passion rush forward to revolution - and war heedless .Ot-the. terrible emisequences; there is reasoh-fcir meditations...et 2 - proi6iind - sadness. .-But:the.whole past .of the, world declares,. no less explicitly , than the Di vine i' that "God hath Made all things for Himself." He will take his .own way, to teach us - ,the insecurity and unstability - of all earthly things, -how`-thrones and-"kingdoms;may be wrested from - their possessor in re moment, yet it behooves - Ms not to-be.. dismayed- byany fears as if'the sceptrewas about-to pass. out of tire, hands' of Christ;' -It has ever • been , the. way of - God's providence when he is. about to raise • the kingdom of His Son to higher stages of .power and glory, to let the kingdoms of the:world be shaken and troubled. .!..Nior can- we-see any reit snu• why we, as a nation, shoUld eximipted fi'Oni. the operation-of-that general law by which Rod works, m , Purifying- and exalting both - nations . . . and en by.. ailhe tons and-calarrutres.. .If - have - failed to take varningfrom G od's{lealings' with Other 'nations; and the—cal:fess riie, brought tipon them-, but have: -gone:on...in our liang - htiness and pride, refusing - to arknowledge him, :and sayin g m 'ls not this. _ga - eat;: - .Balhylot.y 'which we havebuilded4' 2, let us - not dre... - dismit s 'y - - . ed beyorid•measure, if Ile•shoulti .teribrs on us and send ealainities - sweeping , over :ns to ' - ;:emind us, that "He hal/ made'.a.ll' things Air Himself." - • - - , _ I shall =refer but-briefly-to-the ;history of this church and Its families. during the _year /lOW past. Each passing year larinEs_ 01111 e of Its , changes for us, and calls us to sad hours. and, seasbni of despondency as We..ll._asilf.,gladriegs:. Some of our tomes, which one year ago were light and cheerful,; have: been darkened: by the great shadow, and the-memory of the departed 'comes back to blind with. unavailing team,:the eyes of survivors... Seven hays been ren3nYe.d. from us--a less :number than-in any former year of my ministryamong you. Of this,runn ber, three were..in the.very dawn of existence not having passed the first year of ; life. . lri the e . first month of the year, an infant : daughter .fol t lowed to the: grave a. mother ::who been maid the falling.leave4pf pae.jikoidis J 'ftam tinting flirt. Having procured Steam Power Prea, , e arb prepared to execute JOB and 8008. MD: I ....cription, cheaper that it can ire done At t.V bstatentin the country iKit - Four:areas its 3 Censinute raft luare- - nt...re than tour cort•ututo a egnare 11111 Square ono day . . • one week 0.1 one mouth... icunths.. . one year... .1 fist id - Tiara one day - one week • one month__ ...... 00 • three mouths._ ...... ; . 5 , 00 c. six mouths • ............. BUU •-• one year.......... 10 00 zy , Bositiess notices inserted iii the, Loed. coreintaii, Or before Marriages and Deaths, FIVE CFuNT, PEd LINE for each insertion. ~,a rriages and Deaths to be charged ea regular sidvcrnsementa. NO. 8 October. Two months later, one of the bright est lads of our congregation came home from a distant school, unwell, lingered in :wetdr.nesi and pain a few days and was gone, the. one sad loss which has fallen on our large Sunday school. The month 'of May, the merry month, was the saddest of the year. First, a young And lovely wife, then a tender child, then a be loved mother, in quick succession—all in one short month.. Later still an infant daughter and only child, and in the closing month of the year a husband and , hither. This completes -the roll ofthe departed:. -There are 41,aose among us who will cling to. the memories cif 'fb.4l) year. They will long continue to linger at the gra-es of their: kindred, as if to hear again their voices floating on the air. They are not forbidden to remember or to regret. They are allowed still to pursue with a fond recollection, those whom they tenderly _loved while on earth, and to cherish hopes of their abiding safety and peace. The year has had its blessings also. The eyc is permitted, as it reviews the year, to rest on many bright and happy days, or many quiet, peaceful, happy., scenes in the family and the sanctuary, on many Holy Sabbaths. How many happy evenings in our homes, secure from rude alarms.. How many cheerful hours in the society of friends and in the various avenues of benev olent activity I How often have onr families been permitted to bow in lowly prayer at the domestic altar, to commend ourselves, and all the - world, to the care of the infinite kind Father of all. • In the month:of March we were alloived to enter and dedicate our new sanctuary to our God, and hither, since, picnsandloving hearts have turned each Sabbath to pour forth their praise. Our weekly meetings for prayer and praise and in struetibti, have been continued, with usual prosperity. Our youth and children with scarce ly an exception.ha.ve been regularly gathered into the SimdaySchockl, and some of their rum& ber -have entered into the holy vows of the church. A few, of our laborious and self-deny ing Stinday School Teachers have inaurated and are carrying successfully onward a Mission Sunday School enterprise. The highest 'sriacess attend them. • There are some causes of grief. When we refer to the spiritual conditibu and groWth of the church, penitence and sorrowshould ,fill all our bosoms, that we have , been so. unfaithful to our solemn vows—thatW6 have been so forgetful of our obligations—that we have lost so many op portunities of usefulness, and wasted so many precious hours that will never come back again. —that we luive been somorldly--;hay_e_ spoken. SO many creleas,,gerhaps cruel words—have har bored so nitiny uncharitable and-Unforgiving thoughts, and hav6 , been guilty of such; base ungratitude to the great teuefacior and Re dednia of-oil - I'6°llli. We have cause also for mourning that so few. haveforsaken their sins and turned to God—that so many have restrain ed -To?e:yer, and added . another Year's burden at =forgiven sin and guilt to the load already on their souls. We have stepped` acroas- :that invisible that ; divides , the old year from the .. new. ‘y . , , iyalk in the bordera of .an untriedtind un discetered• county. A veil woven a/eland of inetnylidestrom our sight all that lies be fore us. We are in the midst Of stranger events than usual. Within the letting of two more suns.the whole, state. of afiaira, public and psi- Vitte, May entirely alter.'• What shall fall to our lot no mortal can tell.. ..Calataities; public and :private may, increase. around_ us, but He ivhdae.' house is built upon a rock' will not be distnayed,•albeit.the:ivinds roar . and the 'waves beat and dash against it. He knows that the foundations are sure and wifFifinlist the' pties ing of the. tempest. . Indeed, my hearers, if you are beloVed of God, if this land is God's land, if we and itare designed for a brighter, more :lawful and glorious future, it seems to me that the of Provi dence tells us, a thousand times repeated, that God will come to us, and if we are not serving Him as we ought, He will send great and search ing sorrows into our familiCa; He will }Mil down the pillars_ that we lean upon, and will, send great and terrible calamities into the land - that shall shake the earth - under our feet. It is thin He warns us not to give up our hearts to this frail and perishable world. It is tilts He buns nations to leave the •quicksands of expediency and worldly policy, and build the foundations of their states on righicOusnesS and the sate teachings of His word. • The eventful, memorable year 18&i is past. Its deeds are rapidly receding from us into that abyss which has swallowed up, all the former births of time. The PrOVidenee 'Which guided i 'tbe.' past guides all the &anis inlthe midst of ! Which we are still moving. remains , for us to ask ourselves, whether we - are severally by our conduct co-operating hi carryring..out the plan-of Providence, or helping to, thwart it. The great end of the Dlijne adtriiniStration over us ia;GoodriesS,:littal - f ,perfeet,letetiialtGooduess. Ii we. are - tinning pt that, then are. we,, in our sphere ;, ,are , Selfishly seeking 'our own ends—if oui lieattsJare filled with; hiOel3AW to ward men, and disebediehee toward God, then are we arrayed againsi God and must udeet the doom of his foes. • , _ . . Oh, how kissed the opportunities given to the very feeblest of us; to - be Co4orkers with God, with him to - confront : and civerpoer -evil with. good: but how can we battle, with evil unless_ our own hearts are good?-,''And'how can we be good.unless:Sqpreine gpodnewintroduces into our evil the goodness which we di') not by nature pcisstss? Yes:,. we Must' he regenerated into - goodness.. Then; .hexiug ,ciod for our friend. however humble anclitowevergre:it may be 'our earthly lot tlotl=will rife us: as polished shafts in-his quiver in. ,battle , of, good against e r il. Welaye - passedihe threshhold the. , new year itmlAind. amid its opening. scenes... Their gtavity 'find importance yylgli on . Millions of hearts. So, 'ere long, - ere '.inany:Lyehrs have rolled: away, we shall ,be.s*ading a , t e the thresh of a new - life. : former things will 'llay - e-passed away.. A new4rderief ;things will fur. ns_ . lrc u Altat.threstihold onward our be either with the Children ‘of Gocl,..zfront - rhOse. eyes. -gp,4 will -wipe away: all tears,.or we,. shall he banished forever from the` 'the' sight' of •goodneiii" 'Here ealainities and -blessings are mixe4.bup,together. , There they will he separated ev.erlastingly.— ' They who here endeavored ) to' ,- -tinl - riLOvil into gOod thetn.F4v.es - Paeq filled ~and en ' compassed with goodness and flint: forey'er. 2nd they yylio haYe sough#to tnittiti good -into evil, shall.dwell everlastgly ht evil without any mixture of, good.. • • • Forin that gteat , day, When :all the years of time_arC ended i sind the_angel? et destruction fly_ forth. on their . niii.Sion, they shall - liear e. \race crying to :therm:: Hutt, not the: earth, tieither4lie r sea, nor,the..trees icfr pate seal €4.the gerventiLor 'ohr God." Ihe a rithteous 1 - ritht last great calamity .shall_--be. ; Are, and , 4 /14 1 meanino,, the, words of So, lomon--'"flie I-ord bath made ii.ll l thiriks for Trinielf."-- 4 £l.36' . .Ute AlkllatalSlXG
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