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It is 4t that I loot ace
Thif liinis and owers of spring,
'Tis nut that beauty scents 10 Inc
A t+aniy, unknown thing:
It tt. tlatt I cannot mark
The Poe and sparklitti sky,
Nor miles loam, tier nimmusin's peak,
Thate er I weep or sigh.
Thad- ill me that the birds, whole nottis
atad sweet and full—
ttlo.se I listen to and love,
Are hot all b.•ai ti,id !
They 101 me that the gayest llovvers
liqh sunshine ever brings,
Are n 4 the ones I know so well, •
But ,trange and scentless thiogs!
My lit4e brother leads me forth
To ilwre the violets grow :
His gattle, light, vet c areful step,
Anitp.in,y hand I know.
My n4ther's voice is soft and sweet
music on my ear:_
q - atmosphere seems love,
Wheat these to me an• near.
Div 41er twines hi, arms around,
Atattlrtws toe to Iris breast,
To kis; the hoot. Mind, helpless girl
lie 'iptys hest°.rs the best.
Tis t 6 n 1 ponder unknown things,
Lt flit tot --4% eep or. sigh,
And t6ilik how glorious it must be
To titeet ASTeelittu's ryr !
Dfrge for the Beautiful.
Softly, 4acefully, lay her tweest :
l'hee thel,turf lightly on her breast—
(.ently, s*lenmly, bend o'er the bed,
t here yi hare pillowed thus early her head
Plant a Along willow close by-the grave;
1,1 its Lang branches soothingly wave ,
'I wine a'Oweet rose-tree acr the tomb,
14esh buds there—brainy mid bloom
Let the Wright fountain. limped and clear,
Murmur through n tear—
Scatter it diwends ‘s - liere the loved lies,
Boilliant ri'd sutrry, like Anger:. eye! , .
Thin' bill& the bright birlt_on golden wings,
Lingviii4ever, murmuring
Thi•ti .1,4) the i.iift brre•7. pensively sigh,
l'.earitr , Ad' fragrance anti-nit-lolly by.
Lav the Ami lizlnlv over her beast. '
Calm bei s lier .lainla•rs. peaceful her rest.
Renntifuii lovely, :.he NV aN bait given,
A lair 14 to earth, to Illossom i❑ heaven
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A VISIT TO vim DESERT AND
-THE DEAD SEA.
US" PROFESSOR ADOLPHUS LEWIS KOEPPEN
From tl(e height above Bir-Mousa we
fur the first; time had a distant view of the
Dead Sea dnd the towering mountain ridge
beyond it in el-Belka, the ancient Moab.
Beneath isa level table-land extended east
ward, `sinkft down toward the steep, pre
cipitate cliffs, skirting the western shore o
the lake, t 1 highest of which is the promi
nent Ras eFcsbkah. The sky had been
elouVd in the morning, but now t began
suddenly tb clear up and the warm and
glowing c4ouritig diffused a marvellous
splendor titer the dusky rocks around usr
while the dtep mirror of the Dead Sea lay:
glittering i the East. On the - Northern
hills toward Jericho we distinguished thel
white cup A la of-the Veli Neby-Mousa or
sepulchral (chapel of the, prophet Moses,
where according to a curious Moslem tradi-:
non Moset is supposed to be buried. Not
far off on the East a heap of ruins Was visi-i
ble on a cOtical hill, but we bad noltinte tol
divert froni!our course for their examination.li
Front the Ipwer terrace of thcosirearf table
land, we nOw descended to tli pass of Ku-
reiterah. his defile winds along a-mile or
two, eileopassed by high chalky
partly coved with arid grass. and stunted'
bushes, hating a-deep glen on the left of the'
path and lens upon the plains ofthe ,Jor
dan. All st once the mountains recede and'
the most biautiful view presents itself upon
the norther:h coast of the Dead:Sea,lltinded
by the hie/ mountains of Moab, upon the
broad Gitilr or valley of the Jordan and the .
river, whiet at this distance is discernible by
the green itripe of thickets and groves, overJ
growing itt banks down to its discharge inj
the lake.
The pilrin-road runs North along the
western mountains toward Jericho and the
Jordan ; • W•,.e therefore dispatched the mule-1
1 teers with i; the baggage accompanied by
some Turtish troopers directly for the fa
mous lot/1101.in of Elisha, where we intended;
to encampZ: for the night, while the whale;
mounted p4rty, ladies and gentlemen, turn
ed thVit ldiries beads in a south-easterly.
direethsi and gayly spurred away • for tote'
Dead Sea.tl, eseending from the pass along'
the bioad oope along the shore, the huge
wild cragsf the precipitous Ras al-Fesh
kali rose ritore - than a thousand feet above
the lake, aid though the ele of the wander
erl does iiio discern. any.habitation nor any
human bei*g withiniitsiken, still the plaire,
now aisunits a kiss wild and dreary appear-1
inlet. W passed through thickets of aces-`
Sias, tainailsks, and a low tufted tree, with;
fruit like the sorb apple of Italy and erreece,l
which ofroided a momentary refreshMent to;
the fatigu4 travellers, who . had now been;
inure than''lve hours on horseback
awalmost _ urning sun. In those gitiVes we;
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remarked (,lie beautiful fruit of the /Ai/taut/at;
sanctum, l'ilhich-by the Swedish natdralist,l
Mr. Berggien, and others, is suppospl, to be,
the apples 43f Sodom,: about which Jositpbusli
the historitO, in . his poetical and eslggera-;
ted descriplion, says: " that resembling 'eata
ble fruits in colour, on being gathered with
the hands they are dissolved iritasmioke and
ashes." this fruit resembles a small round
apple : it lias a delicate lemon-colouied peeli
and is filled with small black kernels.
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The part .of the plain through which we
were riding,: is often mentioned in Scripture
and termed " the wilderness of Judah t "
which extended along the western shore pf
the Dead Sea, the plain of Jordan and the
mountains of Judah toward Jerusalem and
Jericho. During the rebellion of Absalom,
David on his flight from Jerusalem crossed
the Kidroni and withdrew to the bankii of
the Jordan, :and said " I will tarry in the
plain of the wilderness;" hut not Whig
secure there he passed over Jordan to gather
his army in IGilead.t. From the description
of Joseplin4 it appears, that this region be
tween Jericho and the Asphaltic lake was
en as stony and 'barren, as it is now.
At oat, o'clock, P. M., we arrived at the
Northern shbre of the lake, one hour's ride
West of thenouth of Jordan, and we plain
ly recogniztid the long, low tongue of land,
that runs oft into the Sea .011 - the western
side of its,ipubrochure. All along the eas
tern coast rises an uninterrupted table-land,
lie mountain-ridge termed Pisgah in the
Scriptures. This as seen here from the sea
shore does pot present any detached peak,
projecting from the nearly level line of the
highland, that might be considered Its
"Mount \cbo, the top of P isgah over against
Jericho," where Moses died. The general
colouring of the landscape was a ruddy
brown or violet, relieved by dark blue streaks,
the refle' ctiOn of the azure sky, indicating
the deep dels or - chasms, overgrown with a
rich and exuberant vegetatiOn running down
to the : simile. The height of this eastern
chain of uMuntaius exceeds two thousand
feet. Quitd.difrerent and much wilder and
sterner is the character of the western cliffs
from a height of 1500 feet overhanging or
sinking preOpitously down into the sea and
running out into far projecting capes. • The
nearest of The promontories is the above
mentioned Ras el-Feshkah. More distant
appear Ra - i el-Mersed, behind which .is situ
ted Ain-Ji4. Southward the unbounded
level of the sea lay expanded .before us, as
the southern coast is very low and the more
distant mountains, receding toward the Idu
&limn desert, could 'not be seen from our
point uf view, being hid by the promontory
of el-Nerseil.
The shores arc sandy .and strewn over
iviat Pebbles and gravel. Every where are
seen blackeited trunks and branches of trees,
which the Jordan has carried down into the
tea and. dui waves washed up on the sands.
Along the strand extends a thicker of
risks, willows and high cane-brake, forming
dense hedges. around the fountains, which
take rise near the coast.
The dark-green lake, the distant -violet
moutitains, and the clear, deep blue sky,
combined thgether in a mint romantic and
highly coloured picture, and it was but-the
heavy dash, of the sluggish waves on the
beach and file disagreeably bitter saltness of
the water, that reminded us of our gazing .
on the Sea pf Malediction and of Death,
From the times of remote antiquity dgwn
through the middle ages, so ninny wonders
have been fnbled about the wild, inanimate
scenery of this lake, about its uninhabitable
i shores, its dangerous exhalations, and the
sulphurous vapours, wherein this infernal
, pool was supposed to be eternally enveloped,.
that the traveller might well be willing to
imagine it. be situated in the profound
crater of at, immense volcano, surrounded
by all the terrors of nature. He will there
fare feel a pleasant disappointment, when
from the ttimarisk grove on the northern
shore he contemplates a magnificent lake,
the scener y' of which, as to the variety of its
colours and. the grandeur of its' outlines,
Ipresebt oneOf the finest views he ever saw.
. At the tithe of our visit no exact adiithas
urements of the sea had been published,
though it appears, that English engineers in I
1841, had taken a military sorry of all Pa-1
Ilestine. Tile length of the sea is generally
given approximately at forty miles,
_and its
breadth froth ten to twelve miles, which it 1
retains for the greater part of its length. On
the North West it is somewhat harrowed by
the projecting promontory el-Feshkah ; and
on the South East the chalky mountains of
Moab form a lalrge peninsula having twelve
miles in length and eight in breadth. This
peninsula and the -southern coast, the salt
plain, is inhabited by an Arab tribe, which
has other, settlements on the eastern coast
and, in the; valley of the Jordan on the
North. o& i the precipitous western shore,
was situatecii in ancient times the city of En
Gaddi, mentioned by St. Jerome as a large i
borough in his days, and the Arabs stillpos-
sess gardens and cultivated fields around
the. copiouS fountain Ain-Jidi, (the goat
spring,) which bursts forth beneath the pic
turesque anil historically interesting defile of
Zl4. Farther north are several fountains
surrounded by a luxuriant 'Vegetation. The
banks of .the Jordan are covered with tliiek
ets of trees ,';and reeds, nor do the glepS of
the bloabite mountains on the East appOar
to be less Verdant, though the shores pre
almost uuknotin. These facts plainlY de-
Monstrate, bat the coasts of the Dead Sea
are inhabited and not devoid of all vegeta
ble life. Fielies do not live in it; snails,l
muscles and other shell-fish arc brought
down by the Jordan, and the great distance
at which they are found from the edge of
the water, denotes the extraordinary vebe
mence of theistorms that convulse the Sea'
during the Winter season. Numerous flights
of birds lodge in the crags, near the spriags
and' in the tamarisk grove on the nort4rn
Coast, and 'fly across the lake; swarms of
locusts froOthe plain attempt it in vain and
find . their *death in the waves. -The few
insects we saw appeared languid and crept
feAtly al6noAniong the jungles.
The two . mountain-chains that on the
East and two.
encompass the Dead KOal
are of a calcareous formation. On the Ba
zar before the-church of the Resurrectiohat
Jerusalem, Amenian merchant shoired
:me among jother
_curiosities from the.'Sea,
some pretty- goblets of a black basalt, which
During Wl:middle ages the Salt-Sea was teritied
mare - m aleit i cam and mare diaboli. The irobs'inill
call it Bali'r OLut : the boa of Lot. .
t-11. Sam. 0, 23. 16, 4. 17, 16; gr 2,
be said came from the rocks of En-Gaddi,
hut this . was perhaps' an invention, in order
t attach,higher importmoce to his merchan
dize, no modern traveller . having yet found
basaltic stones•in the environs of the lake.
4t many places is seen an ash-colored lime,
infixed with salt and nitre, stones covered
With a white salt -crust, and large heaps of
stones with layers of bitumen, chalk and
dint, covered over with crystalized salt ; near
these grow patches of salt-plants ' such as
iialsola and solicornia. At the Tank of
4braham (Birket-el-Khulil) on a shallow
hay, beneath the western precipices the
brine from the lake evaporates and deposites
a solid surface of salt, which the Arabs col
lect, load on their camels, and transport to
die tribes of the desert. On the southern
4ttlt-plain rises the interesting mountain
ridge of Uzdom, with beautiful precipices of
tiure ehrystalized fossil salt. Large lumps
of sulphur are found along the coast, par
ticularly in the neighborhood of the foun
tains. On the eastern bank, north of the
Peninsula, the ancient hot sulphur-springs
af Killiarhoe are still used by the Arabs,
Om call them the baths of Moses, David
and Solomon. Bitumen (asphaltum) from
the sub-marine slime-pits, rises in huge mas-
Ors, on the surface of the southern parts of
the lake, particularly after earthquakes, and
is cut up mid sold by the Bedouins at the
ports of the Mediterranean,t
In the valley of the Jordan, and on the
shores of the Dead Sea, a tropical climate
Prevails, which during the heat of summer
ij very unhealthy, and - causes frequent fe
vers ; in consequence of which the Arabs
inhabiting the environs of the .lake, look
pale and sickly. • The deep depression of
the lake, walled up by high, parched cliffs,
in so torrid a climate, must necessarily occa
iion an extraordinary ebullition and exha
lation of vapours ; still we find a great deal
6f exaggeration in the marvellous reports of .
the ancient pilgrims and crusaders about the
pestiferous evaporations of the sea. From
the mount of Olives I have often beheld the
tea enveloped in mists, particularly dense
during the morning, and the Greek monks
(a the convent of St. Sabas likewise decla
ied the light clotids that hung over the val
ley on the morning of our visit, as rising
from the salt sea, adding at the same time,
that these morning mists, though frequent
through spring and summer, do not carry
star pernicious vapors along with them, and
therefore, in the abstract, do not exercise any
detrimental influence ou the atmosphere of
these regions.
The traveller, in his descent of seven
hours, from the height of Jerusalem, to the
bores of die Dead Sea, is astonished at the
' iteep declivity of the mountains, and the
sudden change of the temperature in the
plain. It has therefore long been admitted,
that the Valley of the Jordan and the Sea
lay deeply depressed between the two moon-
tain ridges, emerging from Mount Hermon
an the Anti-Lebanon ; but it was not until
the year 1537, that English and German
aaturalists, by repeated thermometrical and
barometrical observations made the discovery
of the deep depression of this region beneath
the levet- of the Mediterranean. This was
.confirmed the following year by the Aus
trian geologist Russegg,e - r, rho found the
depression of the Dead Sea to be 1300 Pa.;
fisian feet, and by the exact trigonometrical
measurement of the English engineer, Lieu
tenant Symonds, ia--154:2, the. depression of
the Dead Sea has been fixed at 1337, and
that of the lake of Tiberias at 54 feet below
the level of the Mediterranean.
The great difference of 17253 feet here
Stated; which, as it appears, has been ascer
tained by actual admeasurement of the rela
tive levels of the lake of Tiberias and the
Dead Sea, and consequently the extraordi
narily rapid descent of the Jordan in the
Short distance of one degree, or about 70
*les, without exhibiting any cataract or
fall, is beyond belief, and requires farther
elucidation.
The attempts which travellers, during the
Tate years, have made by navigating the
bead Sea, scientifically to investighe its
;hays, depth, and the, almost unknown east
ern coast, have not hitherto been crowned
with , any happy result.: The disastrous ex
-siedition of the Irish traveller, Costigan, who
: from the Lake of Tiberias brought a boat
.down into the Dead Sea, is well known.
',ln the year 1837, Dr. Schubert, the Baya
tian, had the agreeable surprise of behold
ing a nice sail-boat, with the British flag
,hoisted, at anchor in a bay on the lake. It
'belonged to the English travellers 'Beke and
'Moore, who likewise, by unexpected cir
cumstances, were deterred from the success
ful execution of their arduous undertaking.
t See the interesting particulars in licy. Dr. Rob
inson's Biblical Researches, vol. ii. pag. 233 et seq.
Rev. Dr. Bl'lrlekar's Address
To the California Regiment.
UNDER favor of your Colonel's permission
I address myself to you—Officers, non
;Commissioned and Privates of the California
Kee went-and never before, I confess, have
addressed myself to my fellow man with so
deep a sense of my inability to say what be
fits the occasion and thesudieuce. It isnot
your numbers that daunt me—l have ad
"dressed assemblies as numerous—nor is it
. your military array, and that I a man of
(peace am called to counsel soldiers—with
pat too my official duty lull modems farad
ar—nor yet that I speak to men presently
i ilaound for the battle field,--even with such
Solemn partings, recent events have made
)me alas but too conversant; but never before
Ijiave I been called to address an organized
body of armed citizens who go forth alike to
;conquer and to colonize, and who bid adieu
to their country and their homes, with the
;professed understanding that they return not,
but are to find alike their dwellingsandtheir
graves in a far distant land. 'This thought,
I confess, overcomes me, and when all the
!deep and varied responsibilities involved in
such an expedition arise before me, I feel be
4ildered as well as overpowered, and, can
only throw myself as a man and brother on
'your own sensibilities on this occlusion to
give any• weight to the few feeble parting
words I have now to utter.
But it is to the ulterior objects of your eat
pedition*e I shalt speak. As a military
artname ook not at it and speak nut of
The duties end responsibilities of that are
•in other and higher hands—nor is it a sub
ject that befits my peaceful mission to you
this day. From the dark fields of bloody
Strife, if such await you (which God fore
fend)l turn gladly to the brighter scenes
which greet the prophetic eye when peace
has converted your "swords 'into plough
shares and your spears into pruning hooks,"
and the transplanted germ of American free
dom shall begin to strike its roots deep ()tithe
_shores of the bread Pacific.
Looked at in this light, what scenes of du - -
ty and high responsibility arise before the
thoughtful mind. 'Tis then that I see in
your array a mission not of war but of peace
and love—like unto some armed convoy of
high benevolence• freighted with precious
gifts--from the wealthy East unto thei. for
ests of the West—a royal donation front the
boistererous Atlantic unto her quiet • ocean
sister.
In your departure ocean speaks unto o
cean and says, "Receive at my hand', the
gift of civilization.
That lamp of Science, Law and Religion
which I myself received from the far East I,
now, in turn, hand over to the distant West.
Freely I have received—freely I giVe. Take
the boon and hold it worthily."
But to speak without figure, who but
must see in this transfer of American citizens
from ocean to ocean, a • forward step taken
(whether man intend it or not) in that great
Providential movement which from the;ear
liest times has sent the tide •of civilization
westward. Thus Idoked at, you, my follow
, citizens, constituting the California Regi
' anent, are the living scion cut off from the
Parent Americati - Stock, destined to engraft
the Institutions of the East on the wild Aims
Of-the West—you are our chosen carriers to
introduce into less favored lands a -higher
and purer thristian civilization. And now
Ilet no man scorn this as au ideal picture,
for if your armament in its more peaceful
objects will not bear this interpretation; and
if, in its fulfilment it shall not reasonably
carry them out, God's blessing, be well as
sured, does not and cannot rest upon it, for
such is his blessed and unchanging wiif ) that
even- thus shall knowledge and virtue and
fair Religion circumnavigate the Garth,
through men who go forth as you do bearink
in your hant4 the seeds,of a better c„ititliza-
Lion- ,Whatever else your vocation, fiat is
ymit primary chic, as God's children. Nor
can man's neglect or abuse wholly def6t it
—even out of evil God still educes good, the
sword of conquest is made to open Hisiway,
and the deep laden barques of self-interest
that rush in, are still made to bear Hid gifts
to destitute or savage lands—peace and the
arts of life, order and law, science and its
teachers, the Missionary andjhe Gespel.
Such is ever the circuit of God's footsteps
on the earth. Such, therefore, must ever be
the tracks - of man's deity in following it_
Enlightened and Christian man is ev( to be
the pioneer of a better civilization.
And now among the Carriers of this Netter
seed, what race stands so prominent on ;earth
as that of which we Americans are on this
Western Continent the Representativ.e.s—a
race that in the tide of time, since first call
ed forth on the theatre of the world's hiitory,
has never yet turned back, whose daurse
has ever been onward and upward, and over
whose destined Empire there would seem to
hang no other, cloud than that which may
arise from their own possible unworthiness,
should they be found tottii-ti into base gain
or lust of dominion, a trust of power coin
mittiNo their hands for the, Civilizing and
Christianizing of the earth. Then do I
truly believe that the abused talent all be
taken
from them and 4iven to otherS more
worthy, and when the spiritual light is
quenched, that the candlestick of )iower
will be removed ; fOr what right have we to
claim exemption from that righteouS fate
which has withdrawn the gift of doMinion
from other chosen races, should w like
them prove unfaithful to the mission on
which we are sent. Let us then, as Ameri
cans, " not be high-minded but fear- r -let us
" be watchful and strengthen the things that
remain."
To make void that curse of unworthiness
is a responsibility that rests in its due degree
on all of Anglo-Saxon blood ; but in spe
cial degree, permit me to say, does' : it rest
on each member, high or low of this Cali
fornia Regiment. Ncier belitre has it, in
nirpoor judgment, so rested on ant' equal
number of American citizens, for never be
fore have we as a nation thus colonized, and
in the fate of the . civilized World pia the
stamp of our name and government and
land, on a new, distant and dubioni settle
ment. We have at least in this giveina gage
to the civilized world Which we are bound
to redeem on peril of our - honor. It behoves
us all to remember that it is itideeda most
high and solemn act, one which thci Chris
tian world looks at in. doubt or fear, one,
therefore, "that shall hereafter, take 08 place
in the world's history. The living 'germ of
a new State and a new' Empire is alion this
day to be solemnly planted by Arnerican
hands—a living fountain titi on this day to
be opened in the wilderness, whence noming
generations shall drink either sweet waters
or bitter. Which that i shall be—on you, I
-repeat it, mainly depends—on'you, its fowl:
ders, legislators, citizens, rulers --on mon offi
cers and men of this california Regiment.
It is a responsibility that so rests upon you
that you cannot shake It ntr.
Shall then your country permit you to,de
part laden with such respunsibilities,,bearing
forth as you do in' the face Of the whale civi
lized world, her name, and fame, the credit
of- herinstitutions, her moral training and .
her Religious faith without one parting word
of kindness:or of cati'oni No, my friends !
Though it be but front lips feeble as mine,
yet as an anxious mother will your ;country
this day lay her hand on the head and her
parting charge en the' heart' and conscience
of every sou liet-e present; who goes forth
net . toeeturn. Even ivhile -I thus ,Spea kdo
I she her, the venerable Genius ot, our An
gle:Saxon land,l the com Mon mother of us
'all. t see her rise up, front this.her watery
throne: where she sits .embosomedhunid the
peaceful fleets o an unbounded cdmmerce, 0
to hicilyou, her armed sons, forma. I see I
her followed iti ditri proCession,bit* a long '
.train cif patriott, and heroes and phristi n n
men. w Men whn not only ;here bug ; in older
lands ,have toiled and ifet.tght and“ l ed, not
lbr conquest \ bet for • right ; not f4r license t
but fol . law, and that they might huild up h
for posterity that - which :.we lierel,enjoy, a
fair and (I truan enduring fabrio of con- fi
stitutienal freed nl.- In that long !line may s
I mot Inky I recognize conspicuous the verse- 'I
rated form of Washington, the Father of our ti
country. He Who built up ourlibeety on the u
foundhtion of virtue and !religion,l and has h
left an impress* every Americanibeart the ft
faires4ortraiture the world ever spw of the b
Christian soldier—the hero, without stain u
and without reproach. But higher vet do, I g
recogOize the Genius of. our Atiglo"-Saxon a
land. :! I see het form, I hear her w!ords, and b
mine ,believe ide, are their'faithfulecho. it
“Go forth,” 'she says, "my 1411 armed o
sons-4the sworin your bands, bud peace in 0
your hearts an djustice in your dneds. Go I
forth 'es Apostlis from this my fevered land g
to tench and tothiess those to which you go. d
Iteindmber dint:yowl:tear a Widel* honored a
name; It has ever been: a ligagh orfaith a
and , Virtue, of icouraire mud nentleness of d
•e
peacci of order! and of religion. .1
ucli has I
it beet, in the eld world, such in the heroic I
`timest!ef the new. Let not its fair fame be c
tarnished or itsi Institutions defamed by un- r
filial bands, or !unworthy. tongues.!, As you
bear your country's ensign, So reme mber, do t
'' honor; .!,
you, your coun ry s Let notnne name - •4
of American Citizen ever recei4 a blot I (
through you. Let it not! be saidithat with I
AmeOcans, Might was the measure of right, 1
or that gold outweighed justice, o r that the . 1
soldier's swordl made heavy the scale of a ;
vanqdished enemy's ransom. Rather let 1
that tame bel known as one- of blessing I
'wherever it is heard even as that of a Teaqh
er appoiuted of Heavenip instruht the tra
tionsg the earth—to exhibit to the world
the hying proof how Liberty - may dwell uni
ted
*Rh law, bow individual frecidom may
swat linked together with public. Order, and
Christian faith! in the nation walk hand in
hand ith an Unfettered Private chnscience.
•
Gal. forth theii, - my Children, ant) not only
as-citizens buil as men, :remembhriug, that
you leave at home those ivhontliyou will
make* to hold ep or to hang their bleeds when
in fulOre daysiyour names and: pareer are
mentioned—the Father, whose name you
bear.-the Mother who !nursed i - P,,i,u at her
bosom—the Siiiter with whom in early life
you Olayed and -who now dasheo from-her
eye 4 parting tear, in , her biased confi
dence: that yeti, a brother and ci! son can
nercr.." - i forget those whont you ealy loved.
In than sacred .olifidericc of limn affection
[.
do I too trust, that nothing unwclliy, noth
ing base, will ever be permitted to stain
your 4 - mtne or that of yinir country. I read
it in your look'l see it in yo 4 eye --in
that !eve whit i even ! now glisthns when
' Hoine' is m tioned and which , in a far
i---.
distatit clime,' Will daily turn to the picture
of goine ; ' asi to a charm to guard alike
your heart anddife—to fill the olidiwitli pure
and 'generous thoughts, the other!: with yir
tuou4 and noble deeds. • i ,
And that yon may perform well all your
,partA whether as soldiers or Colonists, as
Citizins, or as private• men, go forth as Chris
tians) and take the ,Bleised B#k I now
proffl?r to you,; the gift of your l!C, hristian '
Country as the sum and substage of her
fare4ell. Tape it as the bestrter you
can draft of your public liberties! lie surest
( ir
safegtiard you can have of privat4,irtne and
the Only enduring basis on which your So
cial tustitution+Cangrow up. Beheve me—,
beliqe the voice of : history, thin - Society!
without Religien is a rope of sand, and gov
einnient withotit the fear of Godliis but ty
ranni under the name of-law. Think not
then
4 i g htly of !this gift _of a Bat, even us.
hornet' Legislaters r for as'no State i can stand
but Upon Religion, so no Christian State
can stand but Upon the • Bible)lt $i its LIFE;
and losing /halt, even Empircesink into ruin,
they the and rot like the things ofehrth. Take
this blessed bohk in your handi, lit contains
the cip' ly Religion that can strll; inquiry,
bincli-it to your! hearts and lives end Social
Institutions the greater will be !tour new
State as the More enduring its Trosperity.
It will prove!a!safe-guard amid tbe perils of
the wilderness i far beyond whaqi,man can
give,' Without its aid vain w4l_. be your
arms; when physicalstrength will be irr the
governed ; vain your laws,lbrii What will
theythe without reverence for thellawgiver ?
vain ;your freedom withotit virtue, to secure
it, and very vain all attempts tcOmild up a
peop)e's -virtue on any 1 otherilbundanon
than_ftliat of the Religion! of the3,!Bible, 'on
revecnce for that great unseen;i , Lawgiver,
whole hand auks not the aid oflosman pow
er, aird whose ,secret justice keeps an llC
coura with man's conscience Ihether on
the Ames of .theill'acificier of the Atlantic
sea. 1 To that-inestimable gift I ai3d another,
riextlin my ItO and as I think (iiewed as a
Ptaelical embediment of Bible touching) in
vidui, the Liturgy of the Chur C h of that
land is the' home; Of our Aiiglo-Saxon
'race/ the home where our libertiqg were era-
!lied; and out', pore Religion Uprsed, and
tihettee-ourliational blood has *inky 'low
a. ~.,, Go forth then," I say +in, 4 , 'my
vfrellgarmed SOns," confiding natiSto much in
theurms you ',hear, as in the Godiyou. serve,.
the faith you !profess and the
, 'J i irtues you
ptaitice. Lo('k up in trust to tinlp great and,
holy Being 'rho had. ,bithertol:guided '44ur
i;ice-;, and nation as by a " pillar of cliptid Und
fire;l' and wbO . will lend you, tliiir Song, as.
Ile led your Sires c if you prove worthy of
"414, to peaceful homes,-over I ' a stormy
**On and through trucklesi fo, t ; Ai. Only
felldw as becomes your lineuge'p i he Anglo-
Sax‘ei footsteps, take God's wOrd for your
t .
guide and build up all your, institutions in L
His faith 'nod fear. Ltd the banner of Christ i.
be planted, wheresoever you place your foot -
place tod, God's house ;in the wilderness- -1,
T tis, even as a mother's j dying word I A .
c 'arge upon your filial. obedience. Build
e ly a temple to God's honor, dedicate it ,
t a Savior's worship, nd,from the the rude
t io
lo Church let daily ; rayers ascend (ram
consec rated , lips to . , ring down ti' daily ' Ii - .
blessing on the still ruier log cabin.'
• ,
Such words! of pa,. ing caution, fellow - I- -
40mM; seem II to ha ve heard from thelips
3 our common mothe „and as such have I, 'I. .
11 wever feebly, rehearsed them, unto you.
1- grant
i tless. ,
throughthat true
the ft
tr h r i ti e
o s e
s m s a o y f to i t m prove - ,
aks theni. One thing gives me hope.—
Vis day will be remembered by You in - dis- I'
o t lands not so much for what is said as i
I d
vbat is given. When,' oceans shall roll -be
ween
mi, and the words of the speaker be
o -gotten, and the ineark that prompted them i;
love long ceased to be it, still shall this vol 7 !:
HOC speak, and this say, when they were l'
Oen, be by you freshly remembered. It !!
nay be on the battle-field, in one hurried !;
i t true thought of Gl' Id and your ; Saviour ;
t nay be on the bed sickness, in 'the hour
if penitence and pray t ;,I trust it .will of, ,
t
t d you will say to,tb dear ones clustering
and i you : " Yeli, remember well the -r.
ti
y when this blessedf,volunie was put into I ' 1.
a bands—l thank God for - the gift. It has ; -%'
en my guide and 4ounsel, my stay and . 1
nsolation in many aidark hour in the wil- ';
I mess."
il
I,
Such. men and Bre thren, fellow-soldiers (
t e i
y i
ini
g b ea e irnnad
; l io n t
0; the
nthist
hi
when
peacefuloisLout,
br,ooyaonko , t; 1
the home
iysshallebbeauteous
bring
a o mu f
tye t
oh
back
Brother,
c h s
e ka
scene, nh p
e y i s . l t:i:
ilO fellow-citizens, b,it a bove all, fellow i,
tristions, such is the .' parting farewell,. of 1!
n e whose prayers w . I follow you, where ' 1
f words can no loner reach you, and i
di
iv to preys
,now, that t e God and Saviour, 4
iv nose he is, and wholo he serves, Father, i
Sn, and Holy Ghost, *ill be your guide and 1
and Wherever you eke, will bless, preserve i'
o d keep-yon, now, and forever. Amen.
DISTRIBUTION.
t i
To each - non-com 'issionedefficer . and i '
Idieri of the Regim k, do I now present, i,
it the name of the Ne, - York Bible Socie-
t, by whose libemlit it is furnished, a -- co- ,
„ T v
prof that Sacred. Vol me, together with an I
d
affectionate prayer, t at it may prove to i li I :
each one of you, the ords of; Eternal ' Life. ';'
each
lit carefully, it faithfully, - and ;
ay GAZII blessing with you in the daily
rauttl °tit. - . 1
lam also comm is loped, Ito present to
each soldier desiring i,as a Manual of de- ;..
vbtion,i both of public find private use, a co-
py of the Book of Common Prayer; on the :.
piut of the Bible and °Limon Prayer. Book '
S i ocietY of New York the Bishop White i
Prayer Book Society of Philadelphia and i'
,!.
veral' private- contrib tors.
I ern also enabled t present to the 'Regi-
nient,.bn part of many donors, (a list of
whom is herewith amt:Fxed,) three small li- i-,
,
braries, apportioned tp the three ships of. , (:
the command, with a lietv to their re-union. i
14 your future settlemnt, as the foundation
1
of a Colonial library: However small the
collection, it will sere at least to strengthen
the ties of home, and tp remind you, that i
your country still hold t you in affectionate
r ,!,.
remembance. r , - ~
,
7`o kieut. Col.
Henry
S Burton and Ma
:Or James A. Hardy:—To you, Gentlemen, 1
us vested with distint Command in your
respective vessels, I hlve the honor to pre
sent, on the part of th same Societies a ice
py of Bible and Prays t Book, inscribed With -
. ypur mimics and officitil rank, with a view
to facilitate the SerVicis of Public Worship,
ob ship board. Receive them, .as a part
ing gift of a friend, who is well assured that
you can value themight, and m 111.8017,
them as to make the m e blessing to y 7 ,
selves4lnd those unyour Coltman&
Col J. I To' Po D. Stev on:—To ,%oti; sir ,
and
as the ; ol- of the R „ ment, Leader of `the
Expedition and probable: ruler of the new
Colony, I have the-Itor to present an len
&awed Bible, on part f the New York Bi,
ble Society, and on art the New York
Bible and Common yer Book Society,
i l l
al Book of Common P yer, similarly inscri
bed, With yoUr name and rank. Receive
diem in expression o the deep. sympathy
flt by this Christian rid, in the religious
1 elftut of yourself an Command, and of
teir equally deep co eviction that you will -
I
tied in them the sure.aid to ,dilicipline, as
ell aS the wisest gu once to • those .who ,
tt i
im era. It is die. clong prayer of one who
yields - to no man here present, in the , deep
intercht hefeels, that is Expedition, shall
L e one of honorablessue-z-the prayer of
one, Who is alike you friend and servent,
it is his prayer that y ur path of duty may,
ever be open - and you. course in it ever blest,
as hick it doubtless I be, as long as:guid
ii
-dd by he precepts an principles thtlsei' rot;
Imes teach, of juste and piety, purity , and
the name offitir Com
m!, bid to you, and,
nand, an affectionate
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