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POVTP.":.
Cfr The following lines we copy from the
Catholic Expositor. They are from the
pen of J. Augustus Shea, the friend and fel
low countryman of Thomas Moore. They
are taken from a Poem of some length, enti
tled " Clontart," which, with others from
the same author, will shortly be given to the
public. It is an address from an old Irish
soldier to his son just about to enter the army
of Ireland against the Dane. Mr. Shea is
connected with the Tribune Office, New
York, and contributes largely to some of the
first Periodicals of our country.
Strong pulse of my boson,
Fair light of my brow,
I never have lov'd thee
More fondly than now;
Than now that I give thee
To foe and to field,
Tu conquer or perish,
But never to yield.
Take the sword of thy father ;
A fie td's to be won.
Let it flash o'er that field
Like the beams from the sun.
If it sink, la it be
With the pride of its dawn
As bright with its heaven
As when it was drawn.
By the skill of a freeman
For freedom 'twas made.
In the hand of a freeman
'Twill not be betray'd.
I have lov'd it ; how clearly
Yon heaven can see,
Almost with the love spell
That binds me to thee.
That sword once was light
Asa rush in my hand,
But now I can scarcely
Its motion command.
No matter! come hither!
Ccme hither, my boy!
There! take it! Oh God,
What fulfilment of joy.
Go forth in young glory ;
Go, vanquish the Dane,
And swell the proud story
Our land must retain.
Go! leave not a footprint
Of foes on our sod,
For Glory and Erin,
For freedom and God.
spring.
There's a charm in spring when evr'y thing
Is bursting from the ground— [ilow'rs.
When pleasant show'rs bring forth the
- .
And all is life around.
In Summer day the fragrant hay
Most sweetly scents the breeze,
And all is still save murm'ring rill,
Or sound of humming bees.
Old Autumn comes, with trusty guns
In quest of birds we roam :
Unerring aim, we mark the game,
And proudly bear it home.
A Winter's night has its delight,
Well warmed to bed we go ;
A Winter's day, we're blithe and gay,
Snipe shooting in the snow.
A country life, without the strife
And noisy din of town,
Is all I need,—l take no heed
• Of splendor or renown.
And when I die, oh, let me lie
Where trees above me wave ;
Let wild plants bloom around my tomb,
My quiet country grave.
Bachelors.
As lone clouds in Autumn eves,
As a tree without its leaves,
As a shirt without its sleeves—
Such are Bachelors.
As creatures of another sphere,
As things that have no business here,
As inconsistencies, 'tis clear,
Such are Bachelors.
When 10, as souls in fabled bowers,
As beings born for happier hours,
As butterflies on favored flowers.
Such are married men,
THE JOURNAL.
ZZICOMLLAITTIOTTEI.
Ala R P c 1410.111
Mawr was pronounced by all a most
charming being ; for independent of her
natural beauty, there was a charm in her
manner that won the esteem and gained
her au interest in the bosoms of all who
had obtained her acquaintance. Her pa
rents having been unfortunate in losing
several of their children, it was no wonder
they clouted upon her with all a parent's
enthusiastic fondness ; their Mary was the
only hope of their declining years—the
only solace of their bereaved hearts, fur
they had now but ore fair supporting '
to a tottering existence. Mary knew this;
she felt deeply for their sorrows, and
strove by every art in her power to mit
igate them, and she saw too by the occa
atonal smiles and looks of heartfelt satis
faction on the face of her parents that she
was successful— her sweet voice warbled
'gaily and cheerfully through the house,
and infused a gentle tranquility into their
bosoms—she taught the honey suck!t, to
twine luxuriantly over the porch, and the
ivy to climb and mantle the chamber win
dows with its rich foliage; and while the
aged couple saw her light and beautiful
form glide actively before them, and her
hands busily engaged in adorning their
quiet habitation, they would ask u bless
ing on her head, and pour out their grati
tude to Heaven fur this dear and precious
gift. Our visit was paid on what was
generally termed a joyful occasion—at
the request of Mary, we, being particular
friends, attended in the afternoon, for the
evening was set apart, with the consent of
her parents, for the weddinz of Mary, and
a large concourse of friends and acquain
tance were expected to attend.
Charles Seaton was a gay and hand
some looking youth, and extremely pre
possessing in his manners, but many who
knew hint well, saw there was a dark spot
upon his heart ; a growing canker that
would eventually bring destructicn
and ruin upon his prospects, and the
peace of her who was to be his partner
forever. He was addicted ttl.hat
tiro anu -taint taut,. rosemperaimc ; uuL IL
had been carefully concealed from the
family of Mary, and although an anony
mous letter had been received by her, dis
closing the fact, and warning her against
encouraging the addresses of a person of
such principles, she discountenanced it as
a malicious interferance of some bitter
enemy, and showed the letter to Mr. Sea
ton. The effects to any other than the
pure and devoted heart of Mary would
have been convincing proof, toe his ac
tions were the boisterous declarations and
manners ',f a madman ; ho passionately
declared it a wicked falsehood, und would
nut be pacified until Mary assured . him
she did not credit it, and that her faith in
him remained unaltered.
.....
The evening closed in bright and beau
tiful on which Mary was to become uni
ted, and the party assenahled at an early
hour, but amid the mirth and hilarity that
prevailed around me, L alone telt an ach
ing heart, a secret foreboding that all would
not be well, stole upon toe, and it was in
vain that I attempted to discourage It as a
foolish illusion--an idle phantasy. I could
not succeed—my imagination was still
haunted with a vague idea of some dread
ful result, so that when 1 approached to
congratulate Mary on her happiness, my
heart became full almost to bursting. and
I turned away in silence to conceal my
tears.
I was absent after the m.ove mentioned
event for several years from Mary, and
the enchanting little spot where she resi
ded•—but imagination was ever carrying
me back to the same beautiful and fairy
haunts; 1 could still fancy the snow-white
cottage, the rural and secluded walks, the
winding stream—the ivy honeysuckle,
and little wicket gate of my friend's hab
itation, and the sprightly grace and inns
cent simplicity of Mary herself; and thu'
a doubt of her welfare and happiness
would sumtitnes cross my mind, I could
nut for an instant harbor the idea; it made
my heart sick, for I felt then that it the
pretty little picture of human life had fa
ded, I cared not for any other—all ro
mance was at an end, and existence had
lost its greatest charm.
But a few years brought me back to
this little spot. It was a beautiful after
noon in the month of June ; the birds
were chirping and bounding gaily among
the leafy boughs, and the beauties of na
ture, like inspiration stole upon my senses
and lucked them to a sweet retrospect, a
dreamy forgetfulness of every thing but
Mary, as when I last saw her, and every
little incident connected with her and her
happy home, until I unconsciously found
myself on the little winding footpath al
most at the very threshold of the sweet
cot. But my dream was at an end—Ma
ry, t exclaimed mentally, has become neg
lectful—nature still exerts herself, but she
is no longer aided by the delicate and
pruning hand of art. The honeysuckle
Imp front the porch, broken and wither-
"ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY."
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1843.
ed, and the ivy has died away upon the
windows. 1 approached and knocked at
the dour, and a light step was quickly
moving along the entry in answer to the
summons. Was it Mary? the dear 3 oath.
ful friend I had parted from in real soma ,
four years ago 7 This idea of meetin ,,
again was delightful, and t was prepared
to clasp her in my arms, when the door
opened, but the unwelcome face of a
stranger intruded itself. I was disappoin
ted. "Where is Mary Seaton i" I en
quired with some anxiety. The elderly
female I addresssed informed me that she
had come to administer the last comforts
to Mary, who was then lying at the point
of death. "Come in," said she," if you
are a friend, and see her for the ast time;
I fear the vital spark is almost extinct."
Her words sunk like a blight into my
heart, and I followed her to embling and in
silence. Mary lay pale and emaciated on
a wretched pallet in a corner of the room,
apparently in the last stage of life. She
turned her head languidly towards me,as I
approached, and I in an agony of feelings
called upon her name, and a faint smile of
recognition passed across her features.—
She seemed glad of my presence, and re
quested I would stay with her until the
messenger of Death came to summon her
to a world of spirits. I accordingly re
mained with her the two succeeding days
in which life flickered in the socket, as
they were the last moments of poor Mary.
She gave me, as the intervals of weakness
would permit, the particulars of her sad
story. Her husband, Charles Seaton, had
became an habitual drunkard and a gam
bler ; their little property was sacrificed,
and he was then imprisoned for debt.—
She did nut disguise from toe that his
treatment was the cause of her death, but
she still spoke at and forgiv.
ingly of him, and prayed the God of mer
cy would also pardon his transgressions.
Her parents were both dead—sorrow artd
disease had combined to terminate lives
whose only hope of happiness rested on
the basis of a blessed immortality.
Such was the fate of the interesting and
—as.
beautiful Mary
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.
tilliUenCe ot ve when t
per
mitted to rear its serpent head in the bor
soon of families ; the virtuous and
cent too often feel the greater portion of
its venom ; and the sorrow sricken heart
of woman, when she has drained the last
cup of bitterness to its dregs, can find
nothing in life to atone for the pangs of
blighted affection and ruined prospects;
she can look to but one source for the
balm of consolation, to but one hope for a
soothing ray, and that source is the quiet
of the grave—that only hope the calm
bright peace of Heaven.
FATIIERLY ADVICE.-" Where have
you been all day 1" said Richard Brinsley
Sheridan to his son Torn.
" You could not guess, though you
should guess a week," replied his dutiful
offspring.
" Perhaps you have been to pay for that
pair of boots. That is the most likely
improbability." _ . .
No fattier, I have not ; but I don't
think you'll ever guess; so I'll tell you to
save trouble. I've been at the bottom of
a coal pit.
" What carried you there i"
"0, no particular motive; I only went
into the pit to be able to say 1 had been
in one."
" Could't you say that without going
there, you tool 1"
GUESSING AT HARD D'ORD3O—..A mis
sionary in 1822 stepped ashore from a
Het-boat 01l the Mississippi with some
tracts, to speak to an old woman who was
knitting under a low tree by a shanty.—
Lt was the height of the Cholera panic.
" My good woman," said the evange
list, as he offered her a tract, "have you
got the gospel here 1"
" No, sir, we havn't," replied the old
crone, " but they've got it awfully down
to New Orleans:"
" Don't you think my eyes look quite
killing this morning'!" said a country
dandy to a smart girl, and he twisted his
leaden visionaries in the most cruel and
fascinating manner. " They remind me"
replied the damsel, "of a codfish dying
of the toothache."
A sailor having attempted to kiss a lass
he met with on shore, she bridled up and
declared he had insulted her ; whereupon
Jack exclaimed, " Well that beats all !
I've been to sea these twenty years, and
never knew a saltac called an instdt afore!"
.. What's the next thing to oysters,
Zeb," says an urchin to the Louisville
Pet►ant's roller boy. '' Why the shells,
you fool," retorted Zeb. 'flie Penaut
is safe.
t• My love, you must take the reaponsi.
bility," us the man said to his wile when
the child began to cr
Dr. Benjamin Rush's Defence
of the Bible as a School Book.
Letter from Dr. B. Rush, written al Phil
adelphia, 10th March 1791, to Res,
Jeremy Belknap, of Bastin!.
DEAR Slit,
It is now several months, since
proposed to give you my reasons for pre ,
Perrin; the Bible us a school book, to all
tithe' compositions. I shall nut trouble
you with an apology for my delaying so
lung to comply with my promise, but shall
proceed immediately to the subject of my
letter.
Before I state my arguments in favor of
teaching children to read by means of the
Bible, 1 shall assume the five following
propositions.
" I. That christianity is the only true and
perfect religion, and that in proportion as
mankind adopt its principles, and obey its
precepts, they will be wise, and happy.
11. That a better knowledge of this re
ligion is to be acquired by reading the Bi
ble, than in any other way.
111. That the Bible contains more
knowledge necessary to man in his pres
ent state, than any other book in the
world.
IV. That knowledge is most durable,
and religious instruction most useful,
when imparted in early life.
V. That the Bible when not read ►n
schools, is seldom read in any subsequent
period cl life.
Sly arguments in favor of the use of the
Bible as a school book are founded, I. In
the constitution ut the human mind.
I. The memory is the first faculty which
opens in the minds of chil d ren.O how
much
, to
impress christi
anity,
before it is -occupied wit
interesting
which gen erally
taste of taviichstijliedt,so all the knowledge, which is added to that which
Is treasured up in the memory Scout th.
iwieral I v reeelven an agreea b le and
usOnj_kiiictureis from it.
here a peculiar aptitude in the
minds of children fur religious knowledge.
I have constantly found them in the first
six or seven years of their lives, inure in
quisitive upon religious subj
on any others: and an ing enious instruc
tor of youth has informeme, that he has
found youtp , ' children inure capable of re.
ceivingjustideas upon the most difficult
tenets of religion, than upon the most
simple branches of human knowledge. It
would be strange it it were otherwise;
for God creates allhis means to suit all
his ends. There must of course be a lit
Hess between the human mind, and the
truths which are essential to his happiness.
3, The influence of prejudice is derived
from the impressions, which are made
upon the mind in early life; prejudices
are of two kinds, true and false. In a
world where false prejudices do so much
mischief, it would discover great weakness
not to oppose theta, by such as are true.
I grant that many men have rejected
the prejudices derived front the Bible:
but 1 believe no man ever did so, without
having been made wiser or better, by the
early operation of these prejudices upon
his mind, Every just principle that is to
be found in the writings of Voltaire, is
borrowed train the Bible: and the moral..
ity of the Deists, which has been so much
admired and praised, is, I believe, in most
cases, the effect of habits, produced by
early instruction in the pi inciples ol chris
dainty.
4. We are subject, by a general law in
our natures, to %Otitis called habit. Now
if the study of the scriptures be necessary
to our happiness at any time of our lives,
the sooner we begin to read them, the
inure we shall be attached to them; fur it
is peculiar to all the acts of habit, to be
come easy, strong and agreeable by rep
etition. .
.....
5. It is a law in uur natures, that we
remember longest tl.e knowledge we ac •
quire by the greatest number ut our sens
ses. Now a knowledge ut the contents
of the Bible, is acquired in school by the
aid of the eyes and the ears; for children
after getting their lessons, always say
' them to their masters in an audible voice;
of course there is a presumption, that this
knowledge will be retained much longer
than wit had been acquired in any other
way.
6. The interesting events and charac
ters, recorded and described in the Old and
New Testaments,are accommodated above
all others to seize upon all tl►e faculties of
the minds of children. The understan
ding, the memory, the imagination, the
passions, and the moral pun era, are all
occasionally addressed by the virtuous in
cidents which are contained ►n those di
vine books, insomuch that not to be de
lighted with them, is to be devoid of every
principle of pleasure that exists in a
sound mind.
7. There is a native love of truth in
the human mind. Lord Shaftesbury
sap, that " truth is so congenial to our
totutla, that we love cv eu the sheelnu of
it ;" and Horace, in his rules for compos
ing an epick poem, establishes the same
law in our natures, by advising the ', fic
tions in poetry to resemble truth." Now
the Bible contains inure truths than any
other book in the world : so ta ue is the
testimony theta hears of God in his works
of creation, providence, and redemption,
that it is called truth itself, by way of
preeminence above things that are only
simply true. How forcibly are we struck
with the evidences of truth, in the history
of the Jews, above what we discover in
the history of other nations? Where do
we find a hero, or an historian record his
own faults or vices except in the Old
Testament I Indeed, my friend, front
some accounts which I have read of the
American revolution, I begin to grow
sceptical to all history except to that
which is contained in the Bible. New if
this book be known to contain nothing but
what is materially true, the mind will
naturally acquire a love for it front this
circumstance: and from this affection fur
the truths of the Bible, it will acquire a
discernment of truth in other books, and a
preference of it in all the transactions of
8. There ma wonderful property in the
memory, which enables it in old age, to
recover the knowledge it had acquired in
early life, after it had been apparenily
forgotten for forty or filly years. sit how
much consequence, then, must it be, to
fill the mind with that species of knowl.
edge, in childhood and youth, which, when
recalled in the decline of life, will support
the soul under the infirmities of age, and
smooth the avenues of approaching death?
The Bible is the only book which is capa
ble of affindin. this support to old age;
and it is fur t his reason that we find it
resorted to; with so much diligence and
pleasure by such old people as have read
it in early life. I can recollect many in
stances of this kind in persons who disco
vered nu attachment to the Bible, in the,
ittit r iiiiiilVepeiii t. sl;rev s e,hl„: . zr Zi,7il, - , - W
reading nu other hook. The late Sir
John Pringle, Physician to the Queen of,
Great Britain, after passing a long life in
csmps and at court, closed it by studying'
the scriptures. So anxious was he to in
crease hie knowledoe in thew, that he
wrote to Dr. Michaeltn, a %earn*, yve.C.4-
, sor of divinity in Germany, for an explan
aunt' of a difficult text of scripture, a
short time before his death.
9. My second argument in favor of the
use of the Bible in schools, is founded
upon an implied command of God, and
upon the practice of several of the wisest
nations of the world. In the 6th chapter
of Deuteronomy, we find the following
words, which are directly to my purpose,
"And thou shalt love the Lord thy God,
with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
and with all thy might. And these worus
which I command thee this day shall be
in thine heart. And thou shalt teach
lhsm dthgently unto thy children. and
shalt talk of them when thou sittest in
thine house, and when thou walkest by
the way, and when thou liest down, and
when thou risest up."
It appears, moreover, from the history I
of the Jews, that they flourished as a na
tion in proportion us they honored and
read the books of Moses, which contained,
a written revelation of the will of God, I
to the children of men. The law was ,
not only neglected, but lost during the
general profligacy of manners which ac
companied the long and wicked reign of ,
Manassah. But t he discovery of it is the
rubbish of the temple, by Josiah, and its
subsequent general use, were followed by
a return of national virtue and prosperity.
We read further, of the wonderful effects
which the reading of the law by Ezra, '
after his return from his captivity In Bab
ylon, had upon the Jews. They hung
upon Isis lips with tears, and showed the
sincerity of their repentance, by their gen.
eral reformation.
The learning of the Jews fur many yeat s
consisted in nothing but a knowledge of
the scriptures. These were the text books '
of all the instruction that was g iven in the
schools of their prophets. t was by
means of this general knowledge of their
I law, that those Jews that wandered from
Judea into our countries, carried with
them and propag tied certain ideas of the
true God among all the civilized nations
upon the face of the earth. And it was •
from the attachment they retained to the
Old Testament, that they procured a
translation of it into the Greek language,
after they lost the Hebrew tongue, by their
long absence from their native country.—
The utility of this translation, commonly
called the septuagint, in facilitating the
progress of the gospel, is well known to
all who are acquainted with the history of
the first ag e of the christian church.
But the benefits of an early and general
acquaietance with the Bible, were not
confined only to the Jewish nations.—
They have appeared in many countries in
Europe, since the reformation. The in
dustry, and the habits of order, which dis
tinguish man;
,of the German nations, are
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!derived from their early instruction in
the principles of christianity, by means of
I the Bible. The moral and enlightened
character of the inhabitants of Scotland,
and of the New England States, appears
to be derived from the same cause. u
we descend from nations to sects, we shall
find them wise and prosperous in propor
tion as they become early acquainted with
the scriptures. The Bible is still used as
a school book among the quakers. The
morality of this sect of christians is uni
versally acknowledged. Nur is this all
—their prudence in the management of
their private affairs, is as much a mark of
their society, as their sober manners.
I wish tube excused for repeating here,
that if the Bible did not convey a single
direction for the attainment of future hap
piness, it should be read in our schools in
preference to all other books, from its con
taining the greatest portion of that kind of
knowledge which is calculated to produce
private and public temporal happiness.
We err not only it human affairs, but in
religion likewise, only because " we du
not - know the scriptures." The opposite
systems of the numerous sects of chris
tians arise chiefly from their beinw ' morn
instructed in catechisms, creeds, and con
fessions of faith, than in the scriptures.—
Imin :me truths, I believe, are concealed
in them. The time, I have no doubt, will
come, when posterity will view and pity
our ignorance of these truths, as much as
we do the ignorance of the disciples of our
Saviour, wh o knew nothing of the meaning
of these plain passages in the Old Testa
, went which were daily fulfilling before
their eyes. Whenever that time shall
arise, those truths which have escaped
our notice, or, if discovered, have been
thought to be opposed to each other, or to
be inconsistent with themselves, will then
like the stones of Solomon's temple, be
found so exactly to accord with each other.
that they shall be cemented without ty' d
or force.
- —ern of f!euvon.
. 7 siz m o. • _ _Vs.,
But further we err, not only in religion
but in philosophy , likewise, because we
"do not know or uct.:cz:c the scriptures."
The sciences have been compared to t
circle of which religion composes a part.
To understand any one of them perfectly
Nit is necessary to have some knowledge of
..U•sion. mow. klacon. Boyle. and Newton in
cluded the scriptures in the tritimots v
which their universal geniuses disposed
them, and their philosophy was aided by
' their knowledge in them: A striking
I agreement has been lately discovered be-
I tween the history of certain events recor
t ded in the Bible and some of the opera
' lions and productions of nature, particu
larly those which are related in Whit
/
hurat's observations on the deluge—in
Smith's account of the origin of the variety
of colour in the human species, and in
Bruce's travels. It remains yet to be
shown how many other events, related lie
the Bible, accord with some late impor
tant discoveries in.the principles of me.
dicine. The events, and the principles
al:uded to, mutually establish the truth of
each other. From the discoveries of the
christian philosophers, whose names have
been last mentioned, I have been led to
question whether most harm has been done
to revelation, by those divines who have
unduly multiplied the objects of faith, or
by those deists who have unduly multipli
ed the objects of reason, in explaining
the scriptures.
1 shall now proceed to answer some
of the objections which have been made to
the use of the Bible as a school book.
..... .
I. We are told, that the familiar use of
the Bible in our schools has a tendency to
lessen a due reverence fur it, This ob
jection, by proving too much, proves noth
ing at all. If familiarity lessens respect
for divine things, then all those precepts
of our religion, which enjoin the daily or
weekly worship of the Deity, are improp
er. The Bible was nut intended to reps
resent a jewish ark; and it is an antichris
tian idea, to suppose that it can be pros
Paned by being carried into a school
house, or by being handled by children.--
But where will the Bible be read by young
people with inure reverence than in a
school ? Not in most private Families 1
for I believe there are few parents, who
preserve so much ord,er in their houses, as
is kept up in our common English schools.
IL We are told, that there are many
• passages in the Old Testament, that are
improper to be read by children, and that
the greatest part of it is no way interest
ing to mankind under the present dispen
sation of the gospel. There are, I grant,
several chapters, and many verses in the
Old Testament, which in their present un
fortunate translation, should be passed
over by children. But I deny that any
' of the books of the Old Testament are not
interesting to mankind, under the gospel
dispensation. Must of the characters,
events, and ceremonies, mentioned in
• them, are personal, providential, or insti
-1 tuted types of the Messiah : All of which
• have been or remain yet to be, fulfilled by
• him. It is from an ignorance or neglect
of these types, that e e hal is so many