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'True goodness Shines in Secret Devotion.
"When the eyes of thy God are upon thee,
And all fellow-ereatures afar,
With devotion's bright halo around thee,
Thy goodness shall shine like a star.
When,. shut in thy closet at evening,
Thou pourest thy soul forth in prayer,
Inditing thy simple petition,
When none but thy Makerielhere ;.
lihen thou breathest thy morning petition,
Low trembling upon the still air,
Although in a lone situation, '
Thy inolinethiiis ear. • '
When thou baited thy,harp in the morning,
In praise to thy Maker above,
The choir of betiien's bright minstrels
Will join- in the chorus of love;
".'he ()horns of love to their Maker,
And praise to our Saviour, the Lamb ;
0 t 'who would not love our Savionr,
And firmly believe in his name.
And should the grim messenger warn thee
To turn from the earth and her charms ;
Father will gladly receive thee,
Thy Saviour will open his arms,
There the oheriabio hosts shall applaud thee,
Thy soul shall be welcomed in love ;
!Thy purest of spirits conducted
To a home in the mansions above.
R. B. T.
The •Bashful Minister,
DrAle B-1-4 am obliged to you for
your complimentary acknowledgment of my
twiner , letter and am encouraged, there
by, to send you another, which, although
on a leas impOrtant topic, may, perhaps, not
belWholly roid'of use to a young minister,
especially 'one aof your nervous -tempera
mont. •
Was it 'Cowper, or was it some other
man, of heartland humanity, that said, "I
pity bashfull men r Without dis Owning
a compassion equally comprehensive, Pwill
reotrict myself)within the modest limits of
averring; thati. pity Willful ministers. I
do-knowl some: of this 'character; not a very
largo number, however, and not very con
spicuous persons. How they have failed
to -get this unattractive peculiarity dis
charged from their constitutions, in the
progress , of their scholastic training, is a
qt.estion that has often puzzled me. That
a certain refinement of manners, such as
springs from a delicate perception of the
proprieties of time and place and surround
ing circumstances, is becoming in a minis
te-:, rt.() one will deny. And yet it•may of
te 2 deter him from a • bold and effective
movement that would strike people with
astonishment and greatly promote his own
popularity. For the attainment of these
important ends,•sote moderate measure of
asourance seems to be indispensable. Ido
not recommend bashfulness, especially to
you, dear 13., who are sufficiently diffident
already. Nor do I advise you to cultivate
an arrogant .style of manners, for such
counsel would be thrown away on your
good' sense.
You have not yet become . acquainted
wild:it-anther Brown; I thiek. You will
meet him when you go to Synod, and will
fit d him, in that body, a useful though not
an offibiolisimember. He is such a man as
you will like ;, amiable, serious, and pos.
sessed . of .talents and scholarship above the
average of ministers of his age. A nat
urally generous disposition has been . im
proved by grace) - into a very pure sort of
geniality—the soil, in which tern, reliable
friendships readily take root. His mind
and heart are like a garden, to whose fruits
the sunshine has given delicious flavor,
and whose flowers have, from the same
source, derived!a striking beauty. But the
garden has a fence' around it—Brother
'Brown is a bashful man. Moderatelrele
vsted heads can look over the fence; small
people cannot.
It can hardly be said, however, that my
young friend's pulpit exereises are percep
tibly damaged by his diffidence. Earnest
ness in his work, and a consciousness of be
ing occupied in the line of his duty, give
him, then, a good degree of ease and free
dom.. And his thorough- preparation ena
bles him to be argumentative without being
obscure ) and instructive without being
prosy. His style is as far as possible from
ti.rgid and bombastic; it is clear, forcible,
and sufficiently ornate. He would no more
think of using a gaudy and glaring orna
ment of composition, -than he would of
wearing 'a gilt brooch on his shirt-bosom.
Ile does not send along with his arguments
certificates" of their irresistible strength,
nir do the ornaments of his style stand out
by themselves, like something stuck 'on af
terwards, like bows, feathers or spangles.
But I see that my admiration of brother
Brown is detaining my pen too long.
Bashfulness in a minister is often mis
taken for pride, and I admit that, if very ,
closely analyzed, they are somewhat alike,
although not so much in their essence, as
in their appearance, "Modest merit" and
"retiring worth" are eulogized in all ro
mantic systems of social ethics. But every
day critics usually ackndwledge them in
such phraseology as this—" Smart enough,
but desperately ungraceful." Among
strangers and out of the line of profes
sional duties, a' bashful minister will ap
pear to much, less advantage, than one of
more assurance, who may be in all impor
tant qualifications / his inferior. This will
be evident in the'iMpression made upon the
popular mind, and in the awards of the
popular judgment.
The " people "—by 'which is always to
be understood, both in Church and State, a
stirring minority of thern—think that a
minister, say of Brother Brown's descrip
tion, might get up sermons in half the
time, + t would sound just as well, "This,
p , is true. They - wish to have the
t • rongly asserted, and well backed up
with 'assurances of its importance; but
what is the need of argument and effort,'
when . they are willing to believe and do
just -what their minister wants them to.
Their way, they say, involves no waste of
tuba* (Which is certainly true,)'and then
the minister can spend nearly all his time
in " going round among the people!'
My dear B—, it is a real misfortune
'to be bashful. t is constitutional' with
some people, as impudence •is with 'others.
Both can be brought under control, by dis
cipline. Some of the meet impudent peo
ple I have ever known, could put on the
appearance of the' mast blushing modesty.
As yoU are a little affected with the former,
and by far' the'lesser want-to give
you a little counsel and comfort thereupon.
I cannot, however, endorse the prescription
of' one of my own excellent theological in
structors, to consider the people before one;
in pews, as so many cabbage-heads. De/-
crewel to an atidieece •is so essential to
in
fluence over it, that speakers often assume
the appearance of it, or make verbal pro
testatione in relation to It, for the very
parpose df conciliating favor. " Defer
ence, ',.says a good English Essayist, " is
the" most 'c'emplicated, the • most indirect,
and the mdat elegant of all 'Cortipliments "
to=. an -audience.- And there are always
sop2o.persons of judgment add taste, to ap
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preciate and approve the tribute. Defer
ence is but a chastened and disciplined
bashfulness in social exercise. I repeat,
for your special use, dear 8., a friendly
warning of the Essayist already quoted :
"Be cautious not-to consider a person your
superior, because he is so in point of as
surance; this has often damped the spir
it of persons of desert and diffidei3be."
Those oracular and dogmatical preachers,
who are imitating fancy Knoxes and fancy
Luthers, are carried away by an illusion
which does not carry the good sense of any
congregation away with them. Your re
spect for your people's judgment and edi
fication will be reciprocated. Another
scrap of comfort, I offer from my own ex
perience, to show that the internal diffi
dence does not always appear on the exter
nal manners of the preacher, so manifestly
as he imagines. I was expressing to a
friend, after ,preaching, the extreme em
barrassment I had felt in the pulpit, as a
sort of explanation, not to say apology, for
some infelicity in the exercise; he very
coolly replied : Well, I don't think any
body noticed it." Whether it was my
blundering or my blushing, that so fortu
nately escaped notice, it was inipossible . for
me to tell, and I felt, under the- circum
stances, very little like asking an explana-.
tion. Yours, truly, J.F.M.
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WREATHS ON THE COFFIN—A VISIT TO NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
—lra RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS—DODDRIDOE AND'HIS OELPEt
—COLONEL GARDINER AND His YEN—Kr.rtzaurct AND /TS
MEMONILs—CARET AND FULLER—TOLLER AND ROBERT mils
—POLITIOAL EVENTS IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE—Tas CIVIL
WAR--BATTLE Or NASEBY AND ITS ISSUES.
LONDON, Dec. 28, 1861.
THE. PRINCE CONSORT'S FUNERAL took
place on Monday last. Both on that day
and the Lord's day immediately preceding
it, the whole nation had its thoughts
concentrated, as it were, on an event not
only sad, but emphatically solemnizing. It
was so beyond any public events in modern
times—save first, the death of the Princess
Charlotte, in 1817, when there was an
outburst of national distress, almost border
ing on despair ; and again, the death and
funeral of the Duke of Wellington, when
all England mourned and lamented the
mighty man of valor. The remains of the
Prince 'Consort, after being placed in the
Royal funeral vaults of the Windsor Chapel
Royal, will not remain amid the dust of
England's kings. Just as in - the case of
the late Duchess of Kent, so now - the
Prince will sleep in. a. separate tomb in
the grounds of Frogmore. The Queen
longs to have a spot sacred to the se
ere, visits of her widowed grief. Thither,
as she has done to a mother's tomb, she
will oft repair, and " weep there." And
there, doubtless, despising all State forms
and precedents, she will at some distant
day mingle her ashes with those of her
devoted and cherithed husband,'and of the
father of her children. All this is woman
ly, human, rhumanizing, touching, admira
ble, and characteristic both of the heart
and head of .our good Queen Victoria.
At the Chapel Royal, the solemn and
beautiful service for the burial of the dead
was read in the presence of Foreign ,Am
bassadors, Lord Derby, the Crown Prince
of Prussia, the Belgian.Princes ' the Duke,
of Saxe Coburg,
(brother of the deceased,)
Prince Louis of Hesse, the Prince of Saxe
Weimar, the Duke De Neznour, the Canons
of. Windsor Officers of the Household, and
other gentlemen. Such a service has
always a sweet and soothing voice to the
survivors, when , a real Christian is laid in
the grave. , And such,. thank God ! was—
it is now • clearly ascertained—Prince Al
bert. His gentleness, meekness, benevo
lence, self-denial, purity of life, abhorrence
of low indulgences, his thorough - oneness
of resolve and feeling, in keeping away
from Court circles, vile men and women;
as well as his fidelity as a father to the
godly up-bringing of his children in the
fear of God and in reverence for the Holy
Scriptures—all these, there is good reason
to believe, sprung from vital union, through
faithi with the Living Saviour. And thus
it was that the thought of death, coupled
with aspirations after nobler honors and
joys than loftiest rank and wealth at com
mand could confer, were to be his. So
it is that on Monday the following
chorale, which was a special favorite with
the Prince in life; was sung by the choir.
It is a hymn instinct with • the Christian's
faith and hope in Him who is the Resur
reetion and the Life :
"I shall not in the gravnTemain,
Since Thou death's bond halt sever'd
By hope with thee to rise again,
From;fear of death delivered.
I'll come to thee, where'er thou art,
Live with thee, from thee ne'er part;
Therefore, to die is rapture.
"And so to Jesus Christ I'll go,
My longing arms extending.;
To fall asleep in slumber, deep,
Slumber that knows no ending,
Till Jesus Christ, God's only Son,
Opens the gates of bliss—leads on
To heaven, to Life Eternal P'
On the Wednesday before his death, one
of the physicians said, "Your Royal Highness
will be better in a few daYs.''' The Prince
replied, "No; I am sure this illness will
be fatal, but lam not 'afraid. I have no
fear for the result. lam surrounded with
rank and wealth; but if I trusted only to
these, I would be a miserable man. I have
made iny'peace with. Heaven."
To show the.pains taken by the Queen'sf
husband to train his eldest son aright for
future sovereignty, it is stated—not pub
licly, but on good authority—that the
young Prince of'Wlles received one of his
earliest and most,inipressive lessons, as to
the spirit which; as' a> future sovereign;
he ought to cherish, bylis father causing
to be executed a marble statue (the ideal
of young King Josi,h;) of young Edward
VI, who was represented as reading the
Law and Word of God as his directory and
counsellor. In like manner I hive another
anecdote, from an excellent' private.source
of information. When the boy heir-ap
parent was one day restive and rebellious
toward his governess, Miss Hildyard, and
pleaded as his excuse for his insubordina
tion that one day he should be King of
England, the. Prince Consort, his father,
was sent for. He came to the nursery; and
instead of speaking to the angry boy, he
read: from Rom. vii, 'in solemn tones, the
passage about the " heir " being " under
tutors .and governors." He then added:
fay may come when I shall be your
aeridr, but now you are my son to obey;
, .
a!! Moreover your governess is your supe-'
here end now,. and 'all the more, be-•
ca "‘ on are one day to be King of Eng
lan-.
Th 8807718 readAq the nation and to .in
diVid' ,were.Aprfally brought out, on
last day, li"* he 'ministers of the'
metrOpei-. Of WWI? of. these discourses,'
surnmaryi- twe 'beeppublished in the,
newspaliers.iltAinone the preachers were
Dean Millman, in St: Paul's Cathedral;
Mr. Roussel', at St. Sidri rat's," Lothbury;
Canon Nispeari, at• Westminster Ablief; Dr.
Goulburit, 'at iPaddington Mr: Blaney, at
the Weigh House; the , Rev. Joshua, Har
rison, at, St. James' Hall; the Rev. Ne -
man Hall, at. Surrey Chapel ; Dr. Cuin-
Ming; and Mr. SPurgeOM 'The texts 'se
,
PITTSBURGH, SATURDAY,
lected were all suggestive 1 such as "Death
13 entered into our palaces," at Surrey
Chapel ; " Shall there be evil in a city,"
&c., at , the Metropolitan Tabernacle ; Mr.
Binney's text : " I will, cause the sun, to go
down at noon," &c.; and Dr. Gotilburn's :
" Take off the diadem and remove the
crown," : &c. The instability or earthly
greatness; the Coginnin lot; the benevo
lento of God's law-even in taking away the
good (" neither for the sins of themselves
nor others," said Mr. Binney, "did good
men die, but for the henek of the race ;")
the unexpectedness of Divine chastise
ments; the exemplary 'virtues of the
Prince • his home portrait; his sympathy
with the laboring class, and with otherwise
unfriended merit; the great loss endured
by the. Queen and her children (" who es
pecially need," said Spurgeon, " careful
training during the years of their minor
ity,")—all.these,-with the personal duties
of "watching and praying always," so as:
to-be ready to "stand before the Son of
Man," were brought out with great power
and fullness: Dr. Cummings preached
from the text : " He being dead, yet speak
eth." There was beauty and comfort too
in the words : "As a Christian, there, was
every reason to hope that he loved these
everlastine• truths which lie at the - founda
ton of a beggar's hope, and out of 'the
zaach of which a prince could not be saved.
Whatwas the death of Prince Albert
It was a transferrenee from-whatever Wind
sor Castle could afford, to that surilit,beau
tiful, and glorious world, where there was
'happiness . without suspension, blessing
.without alloy, and holiness-without end."
The preacher added, C 4 though we feel deep
ly for the Queen, yet let us not forget that
sorrow enriches the heart, as dew refreshes
the soil. She has lost one link that bound
her to an earthly crown, and gained one
link more to unite her with , a crown of
glory that fadeth not away."
London itself was gloomy beyond prece
-dent. The whole country was in mourning
on the funeral day. Churches were open
ed, sermons were preached, and meetings
fa. united-prayer were held. But the in
terest was specially: concentrated on Wind
sor. There, in the Royal vault, as already I
indicated, were the remains temporarily de
poSited. After the solemn...service for the
dead had been read with choking emotion
by, the Dean of Windsor, amid the unre
strained weeping ,of the boy Prince, Ar- ,
thur, dressed in (black) Highland costume,
whose young heart seemed almost broken;
and the Prince of Wales himself (at first
his brother's comforter,) as. be stood with
clasped hands, and , looked-down on the de
scending coffin„ , couipletely , overwhelmed
with sorrow. Minute. guns were fired; the
troops outside the _chapel —were heard
grounding their, arms; two chorals were
swig; then a solo- organ and' voice -was
heard. It was Luther's Ryinn that , was
sung—" Great God, what do I see and
hear," &c.; the same as at the singing of
which, while in this very place, when the
Duchess of Kent's obsequies - were being
held, eight months ago, the Prince Consort
had betrayed the deepestemotion.
Last of all, as the loving gift of , the
Queen, the Princess Alice, and the younger
children, (who had been all removed a few
days'before from the Castle of . Windsor to'
the Isle of Wight,) came three wreaths of
flowers ; and at the conclusion of; the fu
neral service,s•they were
. carried to the vault
and reverently placed upon the coffin.
The custom of scattering flowers upon the
coffin, has not been unknown in England's
past history. It wa.s a practice in Devon
shire and Cornwall. But if so, it was de
rived from. Germany, where it still prevails;
and meet emblem:were those fresh wreaths
of fragrant flowers placed on this Prince's
bier, of that life and 'immortality, on the
possession of which he has now entered.
'NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, as a region, of
England closely identified with some of
the most important events of English his
tory, has lately come, in the larger district
of it, under my special observation, and as
I write, my mind is full of its warlike
struggles in the days that are ,past,,as well
as with its chief religious associations.
Northampton itself is a memorable and
most interesting town in both these aspects.
With regard to the religious aspect, the
name of Philip Doddridge, the Academy
over which he presided, his house and
study, his chapel on the Castle Hill almost
precisely the same as in his day, the vestry
unchanged, his chair, his oaken table (on
which he was wont to write impromptu,
after preaching, many a sweet and solemn
hymn,) and the letter (in a frame) in his
own handwriting, intimating •his accept
ance of the, call of the church to become
its pastor—this illustrious name is imper
ishably associated with Southampton. As
I stood up to preach in 'Doddridge's pulpit,
and looked to the right into the very
double pew in which Colonel Gardiner sat
to listen to his beloved friend, I felt as if
the fragrant breath of his pious and honor
'ed memory filled all the place—as if the
spirit-presence of both gave' stimulus and
earnestness to hold forth the Word of life.
Then with Northampton is to be con
nected the name and memory of other
good men, including the late very able and
successful William Bylands, M. A., father
of Dr. Rylands. In the large chapel
.(twice enlarged by reason of' Rylands' sue
:Oess,) was held a meeting on the day and,
at the hour of the Prince Consort's funer
al. It was for united prayer. At the
Parish Church, the Corporation with the
Mayor, the volunteers, and a motley crowd,
come rather. to see the„show, were present.
But in the evangelical Nonconformist ser
vice., a goodly band of various churches
united in dirge-like hymns in solemnizing
and heart-prompted supplication, and - in
listening to'a brief address which was aSked
from the 'stranger visitor from London.
Northamptonshire!s religious • associa
tions, I recollect with the deepest satisfac
tion on a visit which I paid. to Kettering,
•
a place identified forever with the memo
rie.s of a glbrious mission enterprise—the'
Baptist Missionary Society. With .rever
ential regard did I look at the fine- old
house in which (its aspect all unchanged
since then,) in 1792, William Carey and
Andrew Fuller, with' other ministers, and
a number of intelligent and devoted-lay
men held their first conference; at which
the Baptist Missionary. Society was estab
lished. The English Baptists have the
honor of having been foremost and first in
the great Societies which now seek the:sal
vation of the heathen. From Kettering
spread the hallowed flame wide and far;
from Kettering, Andrew Fuller, the inde
fatigable worker, oft went forth to advo
cate- the God-like enterprise. Thence did'
he write his stirring letters to Carey, who
said to his brave-brethren, " I will go down
into the pit, if you hold the rope." No
bly, firmly, was' it held by Fuller's hand
above all others, till that hand was released
in death. And what "rich jewels from
the mine " have since been 'brought up,
and how other fields, the West Indies and
Africa (as well as Bengal) have since been
sought' out, and fiesh shafts sunk in order
to bring up from the'deep recesses beneath;
the gemslwhich are to shine(for'e.ver in the
diadem.of Ammanuel I •
Fuller was a pastor and preacher of pre
.
eminent usefulness and power. Ills waa,a
stalwart and :manly piety ; his theology was
emphatically Pauline ; was calm, logical,
totus teres et roeundits--in a word l 'Calvin
istic and Scriptural. How he lakhed the
Antinomians of his days—those Vi p pan
derers to licentiousness, under the pfetence
of free grace zeal ! How he congunded
the infidel followers of 'Payne, hy his
" Gospel'its own Witness." How h& grap
pled with the lingering •Socinianism of
England—the religuim of the si4rititil de
lusion of the eighteenth - century—_which
especially blighted Presbytery in England
—in his " Calvinism and Socinianism "
compared. ' With' golemirihierest I;stood
at his grave in the old burying ground, in
front of _which has been reared a mak,. no
ble, and spacious edifice in room of the
plain old chapel in which he discoursed.
And I think that the following inscription
on the' marble tablet within the chapel
will be interesting to many an American
reader.. It was, erected soon .after Fulle's
death, which took place as will be seen;
forty-six , years , ago. I may here say fiat! I'
conversed with more than one who remem
bered fuller very distinctly.; his stature the
middle height, his hair 'black and slims;
his face rugged but full of energy and et`
pression.
The following is the inscription : l i pid'
", In memory of their revered , and. beloVid i , ''''
pistori , the-Rev. Xndrewl'uller, the churhh
and congregation have erected this tablEt.
His• ardent.piety,.the strength and sonfil
ness of..his judgment, his intimate knowl
edge of the human .heart, and . hisprofound
acquaintance with the Scriptures, eminebt.'•
ly qualified him rfor the ministerial office,
which he sustained among them for thirfy-
two-years.i
"The force .and originality of hisgenits;
aided by .nndaunted > firmness,' raised *-
from obscurity to high distinction in the
religious ;world. By the wisdom 'of lis ,
plans, arid unwearied diligence in executtg I
them, he rendered the most important iiir
vices to the Baptist Missionary Societylif
t
which he was Secretary from its contrckezt e.-,
ment, and to the prosperity of which he
Voted his life. In addition to his other: a
bora, his works are numerous and celebre d.
He died May 7th, 1815, aged 61'." ''' '
It is probable that the foregoing admia
ble and comprehensive summary of Fulley's
career and character, was a feint-composi
tion. But it was told
,me that the words,
Sc " intimate knowledge . xif the human he t,
and profound aCquaintance with the Sett
tures," were suggested by 'the illustrips
Robert Hall himself. Hail was a freqiiinto
visitor (when at Leicester) of Kettering , ;
and
,I conversed with those who knew. )44,n
intimately. . The memory of Mr.' Tolley`
Kettering, is specially embalmed'in 'Hall'a
printed sermons. The son of that Mr.' Tol
ler is now.the minister of the:Congrega
tional Chapel—an ancient structure, quite
unchanged in its interior, which, even in
our age, when church architecture is "Ninii
drouSly improved, and barn-like - structures
are being 'fast . demolished •to give wAylto'
the Gothic, or Grecian style—are specially
venerable,when . realized by the visitor in.
connexion, with great men and ministers
who teach us— - . 4
" How to make.our lives' sublinasi
And departing; leave behind us'
Footprints on the sands:oftime,.'.,• . R
Old people and old saints are ito`lielmet ,-
with in rural districts, whose-reminte,enees
are very` valuable - Thus); - Nartharep :
ton, itra 'gentleman now eighty-three` years a.
old, and on the . grave's brink, whose father"
was one of JDoddridge's catechumens and
communicants. So that~ while Doddridge
is dead one hundred and-ten years, *here is
a man who is , only one remove - from his con
temporaries ! In like manner, at-Ketter
ing, I was-told of <a person, still living,
whose grandfather told him that he remem
bered seeing Colonel Gardiner and Dr.
Doddridge . walking down the -main street of
that town. It was, to me, as if I had seen
the resurrection of the two men; as I looked
np the street, I could almost see them.
As to the political and military events
associated with Northamptonshire, (to
which my late journey wa,s confined;) they:
extend back to A. D. 43, when the Roman
General, Publins Scapala, defeated the na
tives in their entrenched position; they
embrace the desolating. inroads of the
Danes, under Sweza, Kink of 'Denmark,
as well as the times of William .the Nor
man—a Norman baron, created the. Earl of
Northampton, being founder of the Castle. .
So in like manner, the quarrel of Henry
11. and Thomas a Becket is identified with
Northampton, when the Arehbishop was
summoned thither tounswer heavy charges
before a solemn Council in 1164. At the. ;
well near Northampton, which still bears ,
his name, tradition asserted that Becket
knelt and prayed. It was in this dietiint'
there met the great assembly of the Eng
lish and Irish Abbots .and Priors of the
land, together with the heads of the laity,
at the instigation of Richard 1., and thence ,
the " Cceur de Lion " went forth to do battle ',-
with the Paynin in Palestine. Here - 'the'
first i demghd of " Magna Charter" rights.
was , made of King John at St, Edmonds
bury, which, in spite of hisrage, and-his
oath" that he never would yield to such
freedom as would' make himself a slave,"
he was afterward compelled to - concede at
the.field of Runnymede. •The-wars of the
Roses are also identified with, this region,
and from the windows of my kind and ac
complished host at Northampton, I looked
out on the meadow through which flows ,
the river Nene—both the same as then, in
aspect—where, on July 9th, 1640,,the royal
army under Henry VI. was defeated by
the Yorkist forces under the Earls of War
wick and .March -- , Henry .taken -prisoner,
Margaret of Alagou, and his son-driven as. •
fugitives into Scotland, and -upwards of
10,000 , men perishing from the sword, or
drowned in attempting , to cross-the river.:
It
It was •in•this county where Wolsey was,
banished from Court. He was entertained -
on his way 'to. York by Sir William Fitz.
William, at Milton ; here was' the stately
mansion ofone, whose "nod," as a lawyer and
ajudge, was almost as potential in Court, as
in the fabled court of Olympus was' that of
" Jove," which, , shakes the. spheres. For
theringay Castle,. (thehuilding gone, the
mound and mote alone remaining,) ::where
Queen Mary perished,- and Peterborough,,
with its magnificent Cathedral; where I
stood' at her now empty. tomb--the head
less-corpse taken afterward to Westminster
Abbey—this is also in Northamptonshire.
The Cromwellian period, especially rin
connexion, first, with the, draw* battle, Of •
Edgehill, and the victory over Charles'. at
Nasebyois specially identified with North
amptonshire soil. It •has been, my„ privi
lege to have =been on thelehhof Nasehy,
withltwo gentlemen resident in' the neigh?
.borhoodoirho traced for me the antecedent
march of.botharmies ;: their respective• posi
tions on the'field;• thelery onset of. Rupert
upondreton's left, pan& his apparent saccess-1
leading to~ a pursuit which disabled , him
from taking part inithe fierce fight'whenit
was at its laottest._ had aTlan_of the bat
tle before me—drawn up by an eminent an-! .
tiquarian. I look from a low ridge on one
side to another a' mile away. Between,
them -is the valley where` host 'met- host:
Yonder to the`right,l see /Rupert• head' thel-
Impetuous charge---on the ,left, Sir Marma-:
duke IVlaxwell
. leads his troopers over. a
morass, while Cromwell's,invAncible Iron
grinily Wait till they are just -cinierg=
lAN V.ik.*:.Y' -25;;•,-1862L
ing, in -confusion, and then descend on them
like an avalanche See how Cromwell—
dispatching two or three regiments in pur
suit of the defeated right—turns fiercely on
the centre of the Royalists, already hotly en
gaged withyairfax., Deadly is the onset 7--
tradition sa ys that ,whole regiments were
often throWn into squads, and using the
pike, werehroken up 'in the valley and cut
down to a man. There Charles; seated on
his ; white, horse, proposes to charge with his
Guards—a resistance is .made—his horse is
turned round—his troops are-panic-struck,
and they fly to perish, or to reach Leicester
with their King, whose cause and crown
and life have been weighed this day-in the ,
balance of the Righteous Governor ; and lo!
they kick the beam. When Charlcs,Stuart
was .afterward on his trial in Westminster
Hill; one of the charges was, that on the
field of" Naseby, mounted on a white
horse," he had waged war upon the peo
ple: ,of,England. : One thanks God, on •such
a spot, that despotism thernwent down ,not
to rise again, and that the Liberty won on
the:field - OVNaseby, is ours in a nobler dc:
iyeptit even t--was befoiV.
natioi waits with. anxiety for
tlietainswer,of the American President. Vlt
,eal*i44 spiv:, for some . days.
Principal Ommingham, of Edinburgh, has
died, in his 56th year.
' lithe Eil.,htle to the Corinthians.
It was written, you remember, from, that
delightful' and populous city planted by'the
lonian colony:on the hills overlooking "the
Asian meadows," along the On*ker. In
this, city. of. Ephesus, important, and pecu
liar, partly Greek• but still more. Oriental in
its 'manners and 'spirit, the metropplis a
proVince,' and with a commerce that • drew
to its-wharves the representatives of all na
tions, in which , schools •of philosophy 'seem
so much to have abounded that one of them
was opened ; Co Paul for his labors, yet in
whielithe Eastern superstitions and magic
darkly -and haughtily confronted philOso
phy, and stili had a power which they had
'not,eithersat Athens or, at Rome—:in this:
city, the remains of whose magnificent
theatre yet strew the ground in colossal
confrision and above which then shone in
splendid 'beauty the Temple - of Diana,
-hose , graceful eolonades first revealed the;
fitlL: , beauty of the lonic style i ; and..whose
columns ; of Jasper still , perpetugelamori g ,
men the vision of its glory—in this city
wtere the Est and the West were com
mingled - -and within whose - spacious walls
and harbor was assembled so busy end , so
various a life- f —it was; - natural. that the
Apostle, ,coming Westward from Antioch,
shetild tarry, for a time, that he might
f there proclaim"the And so he
alSode there for' more than two years, and
`froth then cenhe: wrote the epistle before us.
Itwas - written. to Corinth ;,. that wealth
ier,, ;more brilliant, and, more , luxurious
town, planted upon the celebrated Greek.
Istlimns, and 'by its poSition attracting the
trade not, only' of Greece;'bUt. of. all the
countries whose shores were weshed by
either of the seas,:between whose almost
meeting waves it, fortunately stood; above
which arose in austere grandeur the precip-*
itous heights'of the Acro-Cerintlins;'ardund
which 'was spread the loveliest beauty of
the land and the water; -whose architecture
.„.843,,xvivt110i even in. Greeee4,anwita.
sumptuous elegance, in whose streets all
arts that skill could gain, and all the gifts
that commerce could bring, were equally at
home; and yet whose manners -were so
,licentious that even in' that gross pagan
ago its very name was a synonym for vice,
and that.from it went a constant influence
which defiled and demoralized.wheresoever
it touched. To the Chri,stians in this city
Paul wrote from Ephesus the >letter which
contains the declaration of thertext.
In effect, therefore, he had! before him,
,while writing, the whole expanse of the.
Mediterranean—that "many-nationed " sea,
still full of interest to us and our times, but
which was to the old world what all the
'oceans are to ours; yea, more than this,:
-which was not only the cradle and school
of its maritime.enterprise, and the scene of
its naval strifes and conquests, - but the con
stant centre' of its most powerful civiliza
tions; around.which were grouped , , as if by
a force as necessary as that which.'forms the
crystal around its axis, all the arts, and the
[empires then most prominent in the world,
or which now most attract and influence
our minds. Upon `or near the shores of
this sea, the labors of Paul-were constantly
performed. Born in sight of it, his whole
after-life clung to it. In all his incessant
missionary tours lie scarcely left it; but at
Caesarea, Antioch, Ephesus, Philippi, Thes
salonica, Athens, Corinth 'Rome' perhaps
still further to the gates= of the Atlantic,
he had it before him, and strove with all
'the energy of his will, inspired and
_sus
tained by' his Christian enthusiasm, to stud
its shores itith Christian churches, and to
make it a centre of the kingdom of God
and his , Son in the world.—Dr. /Storrs'
illusionary Sermon.
As to Calvinism,.which is a common butt
for every frivOlons Wit, every vain worldling,
every hard'-faced economist and every fasti
dious . prig—this much-abused Calvinism,
' , whatever harm it. may do to weak' wits and ,
i'delicate ,sensibilities, certainly never, has
:stood,- and never can stand, between the
Scottish mind and the lofty philoiophy of
Plato. There' is, oh the 'contrary, a- certain
high kinship and:brotherhoOd' between the
Genevan interpreter of Divine decrees, and
the Athenian expounder . . of- Divine. ideas,
IWhieh fully justifies the significant conjunc-,
ltion'inwhich 'Scottish theology and Platonic
Ilphilosephy are placed in the . directioritif the
Book 'of Discipline. The vulgar ideas- enter-.
tained about Plato, that he is a " tran seen den
tal dreamer," and so ferth,will noteertainly
go far to establish this kinship; for though
Calvin might be . " traiiseenden Lai " enough.
.1
• indeed' - questions abOut Divine de-
. 7
) crees'ineeskarily must he certainly was
2nothing of a " dreamer." But, in fact,• to
those who-Will take the trouble to read him,'
Plato . is not one , whit more a dreamer than
alvin: His magnificent `intellect - is in no
wise to be compared to la grind pile of sunlit
clouds, or a rich garden of, the imagination,:
bright With. all dazzling biles., fragrant with
.all sweet '.odors, fanned by all celestial
Ineetes, and interflowered by the deep, full
music of all lucid - streams; his colored
'Clouds are the beaUtiful backgrinind of the
:stately 'edifice of his 'thought; his lowers'.
1 the festoons hungTiponits: walls. • }leis at
' ;bottom- granitepalacei as solid as Aristetle,
as severe , as - - Calvin,-as imperturbable' as'
Goethe: • Whit...the 'world-Often talks about
as Platonism; ishmrely a few' rampant los
- ordosities-on the massive columns-of his'ar- -
.gument, Whichjhave ncrinere to do With the'
strength'and- sustaining power' of it than
the gold whichgilds the' horn's of the sacri:.
ficial ox has to do with the ox itself-some
"thing that contributes mightily, no doubt,'
to the pomp of. the exhibition; • but uot.it
all to the - seriOurniese. cif 'the husinesi;
'Stritiped-bf Siich-fantestic4ecorations; •
Itonismis;irt- fact; tt - wCtik pf.w43ll4Niml),abted
letthiniMii of reason? *MI6 Calvinism 'might
,with equal truth be designated' i'PlatOnisni
of the Will. 'Divine reason de
r crees'• differ 'Lonly'tovthought diffeil from
Calvin and Okla
WHOLE NO. 487.
purpose. They are equally necessary and
eternal immutable, stern, inflexible, inexo
rabic. Hence the lofty position and the
high attitude which'both Plato and Calvin
assume with regard to the world and its
sways witivregard to the multitude r and the
opinions of the multitude. They are both
extremely, one-sided in their, ideas, and,ter-,
riblydespotic in their way of avowing theta;
and rightlY So because the highest truths
in
in orals - an'cl , theology,like. the axioths of
,mathematics, admit' oflio compromise, and.
can , tolerate no icontradiction. Though
Phaeton, the giddy boy, might not be trust
ed to reign, the coursers of the sun, yet. Pal
las Athena, the only begotten daughter of
the •Supreme Wisdom, might, in virtue of
the brain from which she sprung, •
" Alone of all who tread the Olympian halls,.
Borrow Jove's thunder."
It is the faculty of all great minds to be
despotical.—North British. Review.
ntirences of Jesusn hOop.
"Dr. , 'Stier; hia 'admirable, but prolix
commentary on , - the "Words of Jesus,"
shows ,what a depth of, meaning is hid in,
the Saviour's teachings, revealed only to
those who with humble prayer seek to un
derstand them. Their riches can never be
exhausted ; and the Christian world needs
to study them with.an insight quickened
by a deep spirituality. One, of our ex
changes groups together the utterances Of
:the Saviour on the cross; with brief com
ments
L Father, forgive them, for they know
not what they do." ' '
2. " TO-day thou shalt be with' me in
`Paradise."
3'. " Woman ) behold thy son. * * Be
hold thy matter."
4. " I. thirst."
5 "My God, why halt "thou forsuken
me ?"
6. It is. finished."
7. " Father:into' thy hands I commend
my spirit."
You will notice that the relationship is
recognized in the first cry and the last.
When the wrath-bearing hour commences
it is "My God, My God," but directly he
says, "It is finished." The atonement
.thns made—he again , says, " Father."
T,115 first, cry tells of grace—of love to
enemies. Stephen evinced the same spirit
The second of his power and willingness
to save; a poor thief's soul is taken at once
to Paradise, fitted by' the precious blood
that was shed for it. ,
The third shows his perfection as a man
—caring for his mother, and intrusting, her
to the beloved disciple.
The fourth tells of suffering endured,
and yet man mocked his'thirst with " vine
-gar and gall."
t The fifth cry shows us how the wrath of
God was upon him for our sins. - "By his
stripes we are healed." God did forsake
hiso,n. that he might never forsake us.
'The sixth, tells of the completed work of
redemption.
And the seventh shows how fully the
work was accomplished, for he again says,
"Father;' and gives up the ghost.
Lord Bacon on Atheism
PROM CARTER'S LATE VOLUME OP HIS
' 45 411ELE ',THOUGHTS."
":The fool hair said "itt` , lll l eAreitirt; there-is'aio
Go d."--Pe., : .
First, it is to .be noted that Scripture
saith, "_The:fool hath safel in this heart,"
and not thought in his heart; that is to say,
he doth not so fully think it in judgment,
as he bath a,good will to be of that belief;
for seeing it makes not for him that - there
should be a God, he doth seek by altmeans
accordingly to persuade and resolve him
self and studies to affirm, prove, and verify
it to himself as some theme or position; all
which labor, notwithstanding that sparkle
of our creation = light, whereby men ac
knowledge a Deity, burneth still .within;
and in.vain doth he strive Utterly to alien
'ate it , or put it out; so that it is out of the
corruption of his heart and will, and, not
out of the natural • apprehension of his
brain and conceit, that he cloth set down
his ,opinion, as the comical poet saith,
" Then came my mind to be of my opin-.
ion," as if himself and his mind had been
two diverse things; therefore the atheist
hath rather said, and held•it in his heart,
than thought or believed in his heart that
there is no God; secondly, it is to be ob
served that he bath said in his heart, and,
not spoken it with his mouth.
But again you shall note that this smoth
ering of this persuasion within the heart
cometh to pass for fear of government and
of speech amongst men ; for, as he saith,
" To deny' God in a public argument were
much, but in a familiar conference were
current enough; for if this bridle were
removed, there is no heresy which would
contend more to spread, and multiply, and
disseminate itself abroad, than atheism;
neither shall you see those men =which are
drenched in, this frenzy of mind . to breathe
almost anything else, or to inculcate even
without occasion anything more than
speech tending to atheism, as may appear
iu Lucretius the Epicure, who makes of
his invectives against religion as it were a
burden or verse of return to all his other
discourses;.the reaa,n seems to be, for
that the atheist, not relying sufficiently
upon himself, floating in mind and unsat,
'isfied, and enduring within, manrfaintings,
and as it were fails of his opinion, desires
.by other men's agreeing .with, his, to be
recovered, and brought again ;..4for it,is a
true saying, ".Whose laboreth earnestly to
prove an opinion to another, himself dis
trusts it."
Thirdly, it is a fool that bath so said in
'his heart, which is most true, not only in
respect that lie hath no taste in ,those
things which are supernatural and , Divine,
but in respect• of human and civil wisdom :
for •first of all, if you mark the wits and
dispositions, which are, inclined to atheism,
you, shall find them light, scoffing, impu,
dent, and vain ; briefly, of such a constitu
tion as ie most ' contrary to wisdom and
moral gravity.
Fourthly, amongst statesmen and politics,
those which have been of greatest depth
and compass, and of largest and most ;uni
versal understanding, have not only in cun
ning made their profit in seeming religious
to the people,' but in truth have been
touched with an inward sense of the knowl
edge of Deity, as they which you. shall
evermore. note to have attributed much to
fortune and Providence.
' Contrariwise, those who ascribed all'
things to their' ownlcunning , and• practices;
and to the immediate and apparent causes,
'and as the prophet saith, "Have saeriftced ,
to their own nets,", ,have been aiwa.ys, but
petty` counterfeit' statesmen, and not caps
ble of the greatest actions.
Lastly, this I dare affirm, in knowledge
of nature, that a little natural .philosophy,
and the first entrance into it, doth dispose
the opinion to atheism, but, on l the other
side, much natural philoSophyyand. wading li
'deep into it; will' bring "abont'inen's minds
to religion ; wherefore atheism every way.
seems ,to be combined with folly. and igno
rance, seeing , nothing • can, be more, justly
allotted tube the saying of fools than this,
There is no (Ad."
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A Good Roarer.
We often read about good preachers, and
, we wish there were hundreds of them
where there is now but one. But we are
disposed to think that good hearers do
much to make gaud preachers. Ministers
often find that 'they can preach far better
to some hearers than they can to others.
;This shows that hearers have , an effect on
,preachers, as well as preachers on hear
ers. I propose to' characterize a good
hearer.
1. He comes to the house of God with a
desire to be instructed and profited by the
Word preached. Do not many attend
church 7 , vitliontuny f ruch.desire Bit the
good hearer has an object in view in visit..
ing the sanctury—he wishes to increase in
Divine knowledge and grace.
• 2. That he maybe profitted by what he
hears, he humbly asks God to make his
heart like the good ground,_which brings
forth a hundrted-fold 'when the good seed-is
sown:upou-iti •' , --I(iit"that prays well before
ding to chunk-will - be likely to hear wel
when' he gets there.
. 3. The good hearer endeavors to fix his
mind on. Divine subjects while on his way
to the Place of worship. Men are, too apt
to think and talk on worldly matters when
going in company to the house of God.
The good hearer guards against this.
4. When he arrives at church, he goes
!directly to his seat, and raises his earnest
aspirations `to Heaven, that he may not be
a sleepy or forgetful hearer, but a doer of
the Word. People are too apt to linger
about the steps, to meet old acquaint
ances, shake hands, and talk on worldly
subjects. The good hearer seeks'to avoid
this.
5. He gives devout attention to each part
of Divine worship. During prayer, he
puts himself in a devotional attitude, in
stead of sitting erect with his eyes open.
He looks out the psalm, and sings with the
spirit and the understanding, if not with
his 'voice. During the singing, instead of
looking at others, he looks at his book, and
follows the sacred' song with his eye and
mind,as it proceeds.
6. Instead of gazing about the house,
below or above, or putting his head down
in a comfortable attitude for sleeping
during the delivery of the sermon, he
keeps his eyes most of the time on the
speaker.
7. If hedoesnot make a memorandum
on paper of the text and main thoughts of
the discourse, he endeavors to fix them in
his memory and conscience.
•
8. He endeavors not to 'have his atten
tion so taken up by the manner and style
of the speaker as to lead him to forget the
truths which he utters. He does not
hear to criticise, but to remember and
practice.
9. While be is charitable enough to de
sire all the hearers to " receive with meek
ness,the ingrafted word," yet he hears for
himself as well as for others.
10. After returning from the Lord's
house, he 'endeavors to recall to mind as
much of the discourse as possible, and in
wardly digest it, that he may grow thereby
in knowledge and grace. And perhaps he
recounts the main points of the sermon in
the presence of others, for his own and
their profit.
11. And finally, the good hearer is care
ful and conscientious in paying his regular
allconance to—his minister as soon as it is
duei.lhat — his.olinister!s inirrd may le free
from worldly cares.
Good hearers, as well as good preachers,
are quite too scarce in our day. Well for
all to seek to improve.
Shut Your Mouth.
George Catlin, the traveller among the
American Indians, has recently, published a
book, the object of which is, to inculcate
-the importance to health' of keeping the
mouth shut. He says that the Indians are
very. careful in observing this rule. Old
squaws shut the mouths of their pappooses
while the little ones lie sleeping, and thus
get them in the habit of always keeping
them closed while in sleep. Mr. Catlin
contends that very many of our diseases,
and 'the facility of taking contagions, are
induced by our practice of keeping open
the mouth in sleep. Though, like most
men who have got hold of a theory founded
on a few leading facts, he has carried -his
notion to a somewhat absurd extreme, the
Indian, traveller's advice is worthy of con
sideration.
Now,
from a much larger induction of
facts, T would boldly say that keeping the
month shut, as a measure of morality, will
save us many vexations and quarrels, and
any quantity of unhappiness. When any
one is, inclined to say insulting things to
you, just answer him back with hot and bit
ter words and the result will surely be a
fierce, wordy altercation, and, -perhaps, it
may come•to blows and ruises and both of
you will come out of the conflict seriously
and nearly equally damaged. But just
keep a close mouth at the start, refuse to
retort insult• for insult, to give passion for
passion, and show the attacking party your
superiority of self-control in restraining
your anger, and he will blow himself out,
and retire from the scene of action very
much shattered inspirit, but with a sense
of respect for you, who are left stronger
than beibre ; for while hot and foolish words
poured-forth from his ever opening mouth,
your lips 'were compressed, and never award
of rotort came out of them. Plainly, you
were the conqueror.
When criticisms of men, and what men
have done, are boldly ventured by those
'about you, have a care to your mouth, and
remember charity and human weakness be
fore you join in the'outcry, lest afterwards
you discover that what was said in haste
and ignorance did injustice to a brother.
When idlb gossip is the current coin of
talk, guard your 'mouth. When personal
detraction is the staple.of- conversation, re
member the Indian rule. When judg
ments of actions are- rashly given, your
part is to keep a olosed,mouth. hen a
.quarrel is brewingrin_ your church, set the
example of careful abstinence from contro
versy, and thus keep peace.
So, in the family, in . the church, in ordi
nary social life, regard the rule to ke4
your mouth shut ; and _as those Indian
mothers-gently bring together the opened
lips of their babes, to guard them from
Contagion, and the maladies that lurk in the
night air, so do you teach your children to
guard their lips, as a prime preventive of
'disease- of temper and disposition.---New-
York Chronicle.
spiritual Depression.
Bodily, exercise and:recreation are often
the only 'remedy for spiritual epression. •
''Godints , been pleased to lay down certain>
~ Tulea for theigovernment of theworld, and
it those who nrepeenliarlybispeople should
be allowed to 'violate these rules, then we
would be having two kinds of government,
one for the sinner, anethe other for the
saint Bericeitwititliat for a/re/trims man
;to violate the rules; ofihealth: will bring on
him;ras it would,brillg on, any other, sieve)*
, judgments. liugh ris an illustration
ortiiis, In such: cp,..0 the physician is as
important ailtitiNiii'as the cler4inatt..