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60 Religions Intelligence, AUDWICll ISLAHDS.. Ltlr from Mr. Coa, dated at Illloria ' Trail, Ja. lU 183V. Contlamed Prop- af tba llalTI Great Additions to tha Cbaurclu The following letter contains the latest .intelligence received froru the station to which it relates, though not so late as what has been received from some of the other islands. The tidings relating to . what the Spirit of God appears to be do ing at the Sandwich Islands, is similar to what thocromises of the Bible en?nur;ir t!ie church to expect to hear from all parts oi tne neatnen world, at no distant day. Zion' t Herald. In letters dated March 19th, and Sept. CCth, 1838, I gate some account of the good hand of our Qod upon us, and of his great tmercy to this people. Since the date of my last the work has been, steadily advancing. Thus fir the con verts have, for the most part, stood fast and appeared well. Some have fallen, but less, perhaps, than might have been expected among so many thousands, es- Cecially when we remember the ignorant, esotted, and loathsome condition in which they have lived from infancy, and from which they have but just now been res cued. They are all babes, and they need the most anxious watching, and the most tender and patient nursing. As their pastor, I feel loaded with a weighty responsibility. The multiform and. innu merable cases which call for counsel, re proof, correction, encouragement, rebuke, instructions, ecL, fin up many laborious and anxious hours by day and by night, and call for all that wisdom, that meek ness, that patience, that fidelity and love, which a poor worm may draw from the Living Fountain above. How many of these converts, as we now hopo they are, will reach heaven, God only kno.vs. That a great multitude ' will, I firmly Relieve. But fchow shall they bo sanctified?- Through the truth surely, if sanctified at all. But how shall the truth be kept in such constant and Quickening contact with their minds as to dispel their dakness and consume their lUSU? ThrV ATA fUorr,A nn... ...:.L B w . w w,uvivv Ulfcl u J la I 1311 ot a hundred miles in length, and of difi cu!t access. How shall one weak pas tor feed them with knowledge and under standing? How shall one frail shepherd lead them all? Howchtrish the feeble, bind up the broken, reclaim jhe wander ing, restore the lost, and beat back the beasts of prey that roar on every side ? Much of my time is necessarily spent in jnaking tours through Hilo and Puna, and this will probably be more and more the case as the church enlarges. On these tours I usually spend from two to five weeks, visiting all the church mem bers in their respective villages, calling all their names, holding personal inter" views with them, inquiring into their itate, their hearts, prayers, manner of living, etj.,counse!ling, reproving, and en couraging, as the case may require, and often "breaking bread" from place to place. The battle with the prince of the power oi me air nas Deen very warm ana hard contested. Satan has disputed everv inch of ground, and - the Spirit that works to the children of disobedience" still ral lies his scattered and broken forces, and returns to the charge with all the marl nets of desperation. But Jesus rides glo riously, conquering and to conquer. The kingdom is his and he must reign till he have put ail enemies under his loet. Some of the wicked are oVtnpiMi. in their rebellion, even denying the Lord wai oougni mem, ana madly rush.ng up on the thick bosses of Jehovah's buckler. Some have turned bitter persecutors of the saints. " In the land of uprightness they ttill deal unjustly, and will not be hold the majesty of the Lord." But he that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision." The spirit of bitter nnd open hostility is, however, confined to a few, so far as this district is concerned. The great mass of the people wish to be thought on the side tf God, hut many are still in their sins The number on the road to death is, how ever, constantly decreasing, and the com pany of the saints multiplyiog. Believ ers are dtily added to the Lord. : In my letter of September 26th, I re marked that about 3,400 souls had been added to this church from the first of Jan., 1838, up to the date of that letter; and thnt the church then numbered (Sept. 26.) 3,500.. During the month of October 1 baptized and received 450; during Nov. 786 j and in Dec. 357; making in all a fraction less than 5,000 souls added to this church during the year 1838. Since th commencement of the present month I have received sixty-three; The whole church now numbers something more than 5,100 souls, and 500 more now stand 'propounded for admission to its privileg es Prny tbeiGreat Shenherd k,:., them nil tJ his heavenly kingdom, and to him shall be glory and domioion forever. Through the great mercy of God we are all in comfort ible health at this Na tion. . Probably I have preached more nuring lae past year, than during all the former years of my ministry. My least wceKij- numoer oi sermons is six or ev en, and thtrrcatest twenty-five or thirty ; often travelling in drenching rains, cross ing rapid'anj dangerous streams, climb ing slippery and bettl in r precipices preaching in the open air, and sometimes in wind and rain with erprv -non ,t. uratrd with water. Preaching, however, 1 one of the smallest, as welt as one of ,ltie most pleasant items ff dutv which civa upon me as a pastor and wt.t;hman to these thousands ol souls. Though my labor were never before, so arduous and overwhelmingryet I have rarely enjoyed more health ot body and elasticity of vnind than during the rust year. You hate doubtless received much in telligence from these islands during the past year, and it has been such intelli gence es you are not heard before from heathen lands since the commencement of modern missions. The ear 1838 has been the year of thet right hand of the Most High to this people. It has been the year of jubilee. Surely the prayers of Zion have been answered, and God has appeared in his glory to build up Zi on. Your heart and the hearts of your associates will rejoice, and while you stand upon the watch-tower beyond the flood, and call out to us in these wide realms ol darkness, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" we will respond in notes of joy, " The morning comt-th." It is " spread' upon the mouutains." "The shadows flee away." The Lord doth build up Jerusalem. He gathereth together the outcasts. His mercv endureth forever." So will we "praise the name of the Lord from the west," and you in the east will unite in the anthem, and thus the watch men shall lift up the voice, and with the voice sing tDgether." Missionary Her ald for December. Rer. Joseph Wolff, the Missionary; This eccentric convert from Judaism, after wandering for twenty years in Eu- uj,v, txaia, ah tea, ana America, pro. claiming everywhere the gospel of Jesus Christ, has at length, it seems aitll down the nastor of a small nrUh i Yorkshire, Eng. A correspondent in Loudon sends us the following notice of him; . London, Oct. 15, 1839. Upon the bleak moors of Yorkshire, about four miles from Huddonfipld nH surrounded by the rugged scenery of uiumivanc, uvea mai singular ana eccen tric character. Dr. Wolff. Yo (1 h n vn nn doubt read some account of his journeys in 1 f lift in n .....4 T I ! , I I f 1 Hi uiv9iiuc cum iuuio in searcn oi me ten lost tribes of Israel. A small church of recent construction, standing unon the summit of the hills, and visible from the road, is the most conspicuous object in this neighborhood. A few rude stone built cottages with their stone roofs are scattered here and their unon th rforliv. iue3 of the naked, cold and barren hills. 1 horns and briars can scarcely find a footing, and one feels that the curse upon Adam's first transgression is carried out to the 'ery letter. About JbdO a year is all the Doctor receives for his official duties in this hum. ble sphere of action. But an active man may always be useful, and I believe it is 11 . i . generally uue mat those who are of most service to others are least provident for themselves. I was much delighted to learn that the Doctor had recently opened a iree scnooi lor the instruction oi the neighboring clergy in the Hebrew Ian- guage. x ney meet once a week at the Doctors house, and the present class is composed of six. I met one of his pu pils at my old friend Mr. Stable's, Cros land Hall , near Huddersfield, from whom I received this information. In addition to his Hebrew school his parochial duties are singularly useful, and he has been the instrument of correcting one most extra- ordinary local error which was common amongst his parishioners. You remem ber that most solemn and impressive ser mon of our Savior upon the mount Blessed are the vca.ce.ma.kerz. A-r.. In Yorkshire the small weavers and manufacturers who make a single piece of cloth and take it to market, (and before ui cium biiu tatte it iu uiurnei, anu Deiore I machinery had superseded manual labor tKia ivflO tria TAnaral jasvaaam f i. II I this was the sreneral course of the wnlln trade,) are called piece-makers. These hardworking but simple-minded" people took the blessing of our Savior all to themselves, and had no idea that reference was made to any other peace-makers than the makers of a piece of cloth. Dr. Wolff has rendered service by correcting this popular error in his own parish, and no i t-.i . ... . aouoi tae correction will extend to other. New Misalonary Field. Whv does not either the Ampriran Board or the Home Missionary Society establish missions, or Send missionaries to the two and a half millions of slaves in this Christian nation? The Southern Church calls them heathen, and we showed in our last that Southern Chris tianity was inadequate to their salvation. There they are perishing lor the gospel, and no man cares for their souls. - Is it said that 'the law of the slaveholdinr States 13 in the way? So they are in China so they are in most countries where we have missions. The command of the Head of the Church is, "Preach the gospel to every creature.11 No mat ter what laws what human arrange- ments interpose, the gospel must be preach ed. We have missionaries among the Indians, why not among the slaves? It is said, the gospel is within their reach nominally at least" So it is in Ar menia and Greece so it is in many other countries to which we send the gospel in its purity. God commands, his gospel the preaching that he bids," to be preached to those slaves. The word must be received "at his mouth," and not the slaveholders. The Bible Society "pro claimed to the world that thev had sun plied every family in the nation with the Word of &od, when millions never saw it. We have agreed, tacitly, with the siavenoiuer iq pass by the poor slave and leave bitn to Derish. Is it said, this will bring U3 into collision with the South? This is what we want. Uod has a con- troversy with them, shall his people have none"? We wish to see Christian mis- sionaries ira there in stonaries go there in the spirit of the apostles, ood preach ihe gospel to the shres; aud il they are put' to death let a . . there be the sam f pint manifested as when Munsoo a od Lyman fell by foreign violence.- It is the d-jty of our missiona ry societies ic take xt'si lead in this. VERMONT Let the churches of the North gi with the high commission of their Lorf, and do their duty. Here is moral groind. Try this, if political action is wroig, try this. ( We hope this point will be pressed to an issue. -Advocate of Freedom .We learn, by a recent Jetter froii Bal timore, that one man at Jeast is acing in accordance with the above sentimjnts. A " clergyman of the Baptist penuasion has been for some weeks preacjing in that city, drawing around him ihmense audiences, of all colors and classs, bond and f ree. He is bold, eloquent, ind im pressiverebuking a popular-seelantr and time-serving clergy & denounciig those who make merchandize of their fellow beings as men-stealers." In oni of his sermons, he took up the subject o preju dice, and "respect of persons," a rd gave many anecdotes, demonstrating thj vinoi bility of prejudice against colo. Hi allows of no distinction in this reipect in whom he serves is no respecter of per- Sons, and that nn rfitintn T 1... ...-. , . iv4. ui iuiui f AISIS in Heaven. VVTe understand an exlensive and almost unprecedented revival of reli gious fee ling has resulted from his labor. Penn. Freemzn. VERMONT TELEGRAPH. BRANDON, WEDNESDAY, DEO. 17, 1839. Tlie Law ot God, and the Lair of Mail Were the subjects of two discourses, delivered by William Mitchell, Congre gational minister of Rutland, in the Con gregational meetinghouse in this village, last Lord's day. There had been some flour ish of trumpets about the matter. Jt was reported that friend Mitchell was coming to Brandon to preach against Non-Resistance. Having some cu riosity to know what he could say in opposition to this sect that is everywhere spoktn against,' I attended, listened with diligence, and took some brief notes. By the way, when I was informed of what was going on, a spontaneous, invol uniar' thought that forced itself at once upon my own mind was this: Surely there must be some cause ichy William Mitchell is called to Brandon on such an errand at the present time. The same thought still lingers. But to the'sermons. The morning service was commenced by reading the 20th chapter of Exodus, which contains the Ten Commandments. In his morning prayer he greatly ex alted the Law of God, and gave much prominence to the idea that this law, obey ed, would be quite sufficient to bind to gether, in love and harmony, angels and men, all intelligent beings. As his forenoon's sermon contained comparatively little that was objectionable, and as it was nothing extraordinary or doing great honor to so exalted a subject I shall only give my naked notes, tak en at the time, without amplification throwing in, perhaps, a few words of com ment of my own, in brackets. ncmore me iaw is noiv, and the c Jndu,ent ho,Jr and iU8f dgoo'd.' Romans Text : Wherefore the law Is holv. anrl tl. VU. Introduction. Every nreceDt contain ed in the Bible is the law of God. and m plies a penalty. No doubt God has penalties for the transgression of every and any part of his law. 'Vengeance is mine; I .vi II repay, saith the Lord.'J Two classes of laws in the Bible moral and ceremonial. From the latter we are freed it beinr done away in Christ. Christ hath also redeemed from the curse of the former H many as turn to God through him. If the speaker and myself were in dis cussion, it might be of some consequence between us to define precisely as to what the ceremonial law embraced.) Subject of Discourse: Consider the moral law, embraced in the Ten Com mandments. Summed up by our Savior in this: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neigh bor as thyself. This is emphatically and in substance the Laic of God, Salvation through Christ an ' expedient' of God, to rescue men from perdition re peated, an expedient' This, thought I, was labor to exalt the modern doctrine of expediency1 with a vengeance! Division of the-SubjecU Perfection Extent Immutability and Eternity of God's Law. I. Its Perfection. Holy, just, and good. Making no allowance for sin. Remains untouched by the redemption of Christi. e. the law remains the same in alt its attributes. , If we examine the requirements of this law we shall find them all originating in lot perfect love. . The second part of this law love thy neighbor as thyself forbids all injustice, cruelty, and wrong towards our neighbor. How disastrous would be the abrogation if E L EG RA PH. of this perfect law for the conduct of men towards their fellow men ! I here would only be left the law of man, which would be only the rush before the mighty tor rent! ' Important concession this, in favor of truth, as connected with the counter part of this great subject Human law but a slender rush, before the torrent of human depravity ! "Vell would it be for human interest, if more importance were attach ed to the law of God, which reaches the heart, and less to the law of man, which granting all it claims extends, at most, only to the outward conduct; and under takes to regulate this, not by the perfect standard of God's law, but by public opin ion i. e. by the views, the feelings, the t passions, the prejudices, the lusts of de- Pravtld men. ffLt. i This iaw of God obeyed sin would cease, and earth become the abode of peace and love. It requires perfect re fraining from all sin. II. The Extent of the Law of God. Exceeding broad in a double sense. Extends to every rational being in God's universe; and reaches the heart. Banish sin from the universe, and this law of God would be all that would be needed. I ask if this perfect law has adaptation only to the wants of a sinless universe? 1 ask if a perfect law is not good enough for the followers of Christ for the just,' who are to iive by faith' under all cir cumstances? If they cannot lean with saftty upon a support of such everlasting strength, what safety may they expect to find from trusting themselves upon a mis erable 4 rush'? He would illustrate the difference be- i ween me iaw ot Uod and the law of man: His illustration was none the worse for being a borrowed one nor were his ideas in general less valuable on the same account. During the reign of mob-law in a certain city, a law was made by the citizens, requiring every officer of justice to be at his post at night with his lantern in hand. Accordingly every offi cer appeared, as the iaw required, and vet 1 a walked the streets in darkness. It was then enacted that every lantern should have a candle in it. This was complied with and still all was darkness It was finally enacted that every candle shoulJ be lighted. Such is the short-sightedness and inef ficiency of human legislation. While the law of God strikes at the root the source of sin. Here is another important concession, to be borne in mind when we arrive at other points. HI. Immutability of God's Law. Not diminished in its requirements by the Gospel, which is a remedy for sin not an apology for it. Neither the depravity of man, nor salvation by grace, invalidates the claims of this unchangeable law. IV. Eternity of God's La nr. The subjects of it will eternally be under obli gation to render it perfect obedience. AFTERNOON. Subject : The government of Man. Remarks continued in brackets. Text: 'Let everv soul be subject unto the high er powers, tor there is no p,,wei but of Uod: the powers that be are ordained of God.' I at, eduction.-. Mercies of God innum erable seed-time harvest ha!th civ ilization social intercourse. Should have liked, well enough, to know what he meant by civilization in this connection. But let it nass l i j A large proportion of human govern ment have been monstrously corrupt. Another important admission, to be re membered' Division of the subject. I. The gratitude we owe to God fur human government. II. The gratitude such a government as we live under. I. Gratitude for human government. Almost any government better than none even that of Nero, Domitian, and Caligula ! , That is: Creatures made in the image of God-but a little lower than the-nn-gels and thus crowned with glory and honor are so morally incapable of sub jection to the holy law of God the law of perfect love that it is an inestimable blessing for them to fall into the hands of these wholesale murderers, who seemed to lire only to torment and destroy their species! The setter fori h of such doc trines is the man who thinks that the rad ical advocates of Peace know not what they say or what they do ! God would hare anarchy nowhere. The bees' have their queens, and the beasts of, the field have their governments. . Because irrational brutes govern each other by violence, therefore rational men ! cannot be governed icilhout violence 1 Those who are capable of being blinded by such reasoning as this are greatly to be pitied. J There are those who would abolish all human governments. The Boston Peace Convention of 1838 published this doc trine. " This charge is utterly false. It has not a shadow of foundation in truth. It is, doubtless, attributable, however, in the present case, more to a failure of the head than to a fault of the heart. The man who reasons so lamely and absurdly, as just now seen, must not be expected al ways to apprehend correctly in matters of fact. And these remarks are peculiarly applicable to those who trust to others to reason and gather facts for them. The truth of the case is this: 'This sect, everywhere spoken against,' hold tbatjhe followers of Christ, the Prince of Peace, ought to have nothing to do with the law of violence but be governed by the perfect law of love, so magnified by friend Mitchell, in the morning. This is entirely a different thing from making a violent onset as the speaker elsewhere had it again&t all human governments. The misapprehension, or misrepresenta tion, here pointed out, has been a prolific source of the ob'oquy and abuse every where heaped upon the advocates of rad ical peace principles.) Primitive Christians absolved them selves from the governments around them. But the civil powers were then corrupt. Slavery was upheld by law. Idolatry was the religion of the land, established bylaw. How was Christianity to suc ceed against such opposition ? by a silent influence, like the running of the stream that undermines the wall not bv a vio lent onset against government. llf by a violent onset' he means phys ical violence, it ceitainly is not applicable to those who have nothing to do with such violence. If he means it, by implication, to be a reiteration of his previous charge, that this sect' undertake to overthrow and abolish all human government, it is the same untruth it was before. But if he means what is involved by the doctrines 1 have stated they hold to, then he has no right to use the language he employs. So that in any and every a3pect of it, the language he uses is altogether unwar rantable. Again; What does he mean by the silent influence' of Christianity ? and by its not making violent onset V Does he mean that Christianity is never to be ag gressive ? that it is to hide itself; and hae no open encounter with sin? And what becomes of his mornin? prayer intro ductory to his sermon on the Law of God in which he besouaht tlie Lord thatthp church might be tho Might of the world' ana be saved from luke-warmness?' But especially what does he do with the precepts and examples of the Savior and his apostles, which require christians to be bold for truth valiant for God 'war ring a good warfare !' And again : If the 'corruption' of the governments with which the nrimitive christians found themselves in contact their ho.ding slavery established by Jaw, &c, were a sufficient justification for their absolving allegiance to them, what is the reason the same 'corruption' may not be equal justification for christians doing the same thing now ? If lhere be anvfhmcr of corruption, lacking in the outward form of modern governments, it is made up in hypocrisy and intrigue. What. I ask. in the history of human governments, exhib its corruption equalling that nf th Wnment wWh. professing to be the most republican and christian on earth, at the same time holds and treats as goods and cnatteis, in the hands of lustful tyrants, every sixth person of its own population ? I challenge the production of a parallel 1 But I have not done with my friend on this point. He taught, in other parts of his sermon, that .'human government, however corrupt, are ordained of God,' and must therefore be received as bless' ings and obeyed. What right, then, had primitive christians to absolve themselves from allegiance to these corivpl ordinanc es of God? Civil government, however corrupt, is an institution of God. 'Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake.' Let every soul be sub ject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God : the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, tesisteth the ordinance of God: and they that'resist shall receive to themselves damnation.' , No matter then how corrupt the gov ernment from the corrupt,. hypocritical republic "that establishes by law and holds vol. xri. no. in existence a most abhorrent and a.v , ical system of robbery, and lust,nd ttu " der, down through all the grades of J tocracy and monarchy, originating ja originating as a large proportion ie do poperyr Mahomedanism, and try, in all their degrading, dehurnau;zjD' man-destroying, God-dishonoring rQtaJ all, all these corrupt and cvmpti stitutiont are the workmanship tf an wise, and holy, and just God! ft rl' consummate absurdity not to say tDe ic volved shocking impiety and bla?pheaif ot deliberately and intelligently h0jj ing to such sentiments, lies out on face cf the declaration. To expose itec; il needs no argument or comment. would not be understood as der.ouncir, outright, friend Mitchell, as a blaspheQ' I am altogether willing to attribute tL monstrous heresy to blindness of raic the habit of taking upon trust lonrr6. ceived opinions rather than to pervert, ness of heart. But, notwithstanding there is saEclfI!, absurdity lying on the face of the mtJ mere is still anmher, not so plains! first view, which it may not be amiss to expose. Look at two of these com, institutions which God has UeSsd tht world with, making war upon each o:her, and working mutual and selfdeructios To have the absurdity and mons;roshj complete, let the warring powers f professedly christian not only 'ordait ed of God into institutions of violin: and blood, and murder, but expected loU looking to him for inr.ant guidance ztt aid, in their bloody and murderous work Suppose the hostile armies t be coa posed entirely of professing christ ians. Now will christians lay their bands to any work upon which they n i l cct ask the blessing of God ? Certainly not What then are these warring chriitiacs to be expected to pray for? Why, for the Lord to help them in the enttrprin in which they are about to engage, cer tainly. The time of batt'e has come. Now behold them all kneeling down, and listen toihem while thev all nrav to tb same God for success in batt!' i. clot the God of love and mercy to aid ibem ia murdering each other ! J f ! I ask, is there anything unfair or i!!e. gitimatein what I have here exhibited! Is it not fairly and legitimately drawn from the doctrines advan t d? If not, k it be shown, and I will confess mr cb'i- quity of mental vision. Once more: Proceeding noon th lir. eral construction which the speaker must Put upon the passages cited, in crdma sustain his doctrine by them, he sinks, io another view of tho suVject, s:i!l deeper in the quagmire, into which he' has al ready dropped full twice his lenmh. Tie doctrine is, that all governments aretbe ordinances of God, and they that nsist these ordinances shall receive' to ttn selves damnation. Wha't then is to be come of those who resist and oter'lhrcv any of these governments. Take a fc familiar facts, as connected with this doc trine, and, put them together. God estab lishes the government-of Great Britain, and ordains that whosoever resis.s her power shall receive- damnation. In pro cess of time, 13 of hei colonies rse in re bellion, resist her power, and censequrnt ly arc darnned and y tat the same tiai and by the same God are ordained another government ! If any one of the enormous absurdist exhibited under 'this head, can be said :o have the pre-eminence over the ctU this is probably entitled to crown thJ cli max. Notwithstanding the cons'.rucw which the speaker has already been to put upon the passage Submit your selves to every ordinance of man frr & Lord's sake arguing from it the ordination of all human gorernrr.fc' however corrupt, still he justified and the primitive christians in refuiio;15 obey such mandates of man as invoto violation of the law of God. I ask L then, how christians are to ccrJucifc" ards ihose governments which in very constitutions, aud in all their f8ri involve an utter violation of Gad's la ? Take the scores and hundreds of gr.tff ments in the heathen world, establish and administered expressly for the prctff' tion of idolatry. Are christians tr themselves in allegiance to these govern ments? All that the obnoxious ralfr1' peace men claim for themselves is, fiiend Mitchell allows to Daniel acd lbf primitive christians the rigb: to'o. God rather than men.'J Human governments necessary W P' ent bloodshed. Rather have they not abed more ! ft thousand times told tf.ao fc