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I AM SET TOR THE DEFENCE OF THE GOSPEL."
by Orson s. muiuiay.
BRANDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE. 27, 1S38.
VOL. X. NO. 40.
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cnbere, are oatitltd to the seventh copy ptXxt.
No pap? tt be discontinued until ' arreara
ge are paid, xcept at the discretion of the pub
liahet. . , .
All letter, to secure attention, must come
pc$tai paid. ' , .' '
eirtnottt fyfrapS,
DAN90!...Satorday, Jcnc 23..1833J
J ; Four thing which I like
Mr.- Editor: I like to ace Baptist church em
ploy) ft miniatec. to labor with thetn loms fire or aix
j tar, tad pay bim only about two hundred dollar
lor the whole time, end excuaa the ruse Wes with the
pica tbai be o wot farm w hich be ha acquired
by-his own luduatry preriously to commencing his
clerical labors ( exhibit christian liberality!
I like to see an' organized Anti-Slavery Society,
of a goodly number of members, take only one
copy of an Anti-SIarery periodical, it ahows a
aeaioua aute of fselinj1 '
X Hke to see a Temperance Society, composed of
a great number of male and female members, not
takbjf a single copy of a, temperance newspaper, or
any temperance document whaterer, it displays a
IWely interest in the subject I J: : , ("
I like to see a man of public business, who pridas
himself ia beta; an abolitionist, and boart of being
the first who introduced the Subject of anti-slavery
before our legislator?, stop taking ths only anti
slavery paper published in tho St&ta, and uke no
otberv it sfiows freat consistency f
" muvs.
;ED.U.P:AT-10-N.
iroraucrioM ov iioTjjKictsBPEiis.
.The followta' i$ extracted from a vol
ume of 424 pages, yrutcn by the editor of
thU' jurn'it,&nj jjst published by G.-orje
W.Lghiofth5 city, entitled "The Young
II tusekvper, or Thoughts on FooJ and
0o!er." , Tuough intended principally
f r bajekocperi, it is, after all, in its bear
ing and tend 'ncy, little else than a work
on physical education. American An
nals of H litcation.
Wvj bojit of our lherary institutions
oir infant school, our common school?,
ojchig) sdhoolsr, our institutes, our col
ierfi, our universities. Bat what is the
ir& ince oCiher, cx;e!lent as it rnav bo,
co.npired wuhthatof tho kitchen encf pir
lor? Say svbat wo will, i: U here exact
ly her? that our characters, even in a lit
crarv Doint of view, are determined. I
and quiet, and edification. I would have. ev intn r h,n ,
h?r do so for the corafort also of her hua-l before him, without sufft
uauu auu cnuureu, wao are ccriaioiy, at
all times, the more happy for it, in body
and mind. But I would have Ler do so.
above all, that he may find time not only
to do her work alovly and instruct her
daughters yes, and her sons too in re
gard to the nature of her employments;
but to give them numerous lessons in phi
losophy, chemistry, natural history, phys
iology, health, &c.
Nor shculd 1 be satisfied till she had so
simplified her business as to find time, e
ren for set lessons in her family, both in
the forenoon and in the afternoon. The
education the Tight education of a fam
ily of children, seems to me, 1 must sjy a
gain, the more important part of the duty
of a housekeeper,- provided she is, at the
tame time, as I maintain she generally
should be, the wife and the mother.
But this subjoct of combining house
keeping with mental instruction, cannot
be pursued to its full extpnt in this vo'ume!
I will only repeat here a remark which
can never be too often repealed, that the
combination of elementary instruction with
household duties, is one of the best meth
ods perhaps the only successful method,
which can ever be dt-vised for rendering
the family what it was obviously intended
by Divine Providence it should be, the
most agreeable as well as most happy
place in the world, for the young of both
sexes.
It is almost unnecessary to add, that
should the time ever arrive, when the
sons and daughters of our citizens come to
prefer the kitchen, the parlor, the garden
and the chamber, and the company and
familiar conversation ol the moiher and of
each otherto all the pleasures and enjoy
ments to be found abroad, half th'etempta
tion, and hnlf the vice and crime in the
world, will be prevented.
REVIVALS
From the Pioneer.
Recital in Bloomington, 111 Protract
ed Meeting and Ciurch Constituted in
Washington, Illinois.
Deat Brother Peck : We have been of
ten cheered with inteligence of revivals in
other places, through the Pionc r, and
therefore conclude that a more particular
account of God's dealings with us, in
Bloomington, might bt interesting to those
who read your papjr. In the account
which you gave of the revival, I think
twenty-five had then been added to the
church in this place since its constitution.
The good work continued till recently,
and some mo're have been added to our
churcbbestds numbers which have joined
the Presbyterian and Methodist churches.
The Bapiist church wasconstituted with
22 members. Since then, 44 have been
I at ii I
we cannot courrt
usincr our cheeks
with crimson? money too, which we must
pay to merchants and their clerks, while
we stand by and see it examined, with a
full knowledge oi its exposed and denuded
embellishments. I
Must we then receive our change, in
the same polluted currency, and pocket
this outrage upon all our feelings without
apparent notice?
Where, permit me to iuquire, is the
high moral principle, where is the gal
lantry of your sex, that thus compels us to
become the venders of indecent pictures
or else to relinquish the privilege of i'rans
arting that business, whicit most of us can
best accomplish, and many must attend to
for ourselves ?
Where is the delicacy, or the moral
principle of those who control this mat
ter ? Is there no need of the action of
' Moral Reform" in this thing ?
I forbear to press upon your notice its
injurious tendency on the minds of young
men this topic, full of i.iterost as it is, I
leave with the friends of virtue among
your sex. But I beseech you in the name
and in behalf of thousands of my coun
try-women, to hold up to public reproba
tion an evil from which we shrink, in
stinctively, as impure contaminating
polluting.
And to the authors of it, in behalf of
our sej:, we would say If that of which
we complain is the result of thoughtless
ness, we bg you reflect upon and correct
it: as you value our comforts-, cease we
pray you, to trample on woman's best
feelings as the offence is without temp
tation, let your abandonment be prompt
ar.d enduring and as you would not bvi
found at last, to have "scattered firebrands,
arrows and death," even though in 'sport,'
?ee to it that your skirts are clear of this
sin. A Wife and a Mother.
On the topic of Tracts the Committee
acknowledge the appropriation of 70,000
pages from the Baptist General Tract So
ciety for the Upper Canada Mission, and
a grant of 5,000 pages to each of the
missionaries from the American Tract So
ciety, a similar grant having been made
the year previous by our own Tract Soci
ety. As to the usefulness of tracts, the
ieport states that there is no dissent on
this subject "even in those parts where a
few years ago they would not have been
received. Those who live in cities and
towns, where the question is hot, what can
we get to read, but what shall we select
from the mass, cannot well conceive the
pcceptableness of a tract left by an itiner
ant in the cabm of the lone emigrant.
Nav, if our best pastors deem it essential
to ministerial faithfulness and success, al
ways to have with them a printed col
league, ready to put into the hands of him
who has been addressed on the concerns
of his soul, to prolong and deepen the im
pression, or to leave upon the table of the
visitedTamiiv to recal their instructions in
the hour of leisure, how infinitely more
important this unobtrusive mode of ag
gress to the heart where these ministerial
attentions must necessarily be, in one re
spect at least, like angels' visits 'few
and far between.' "
hv h-intistn nndfinr hv Ipttfir. Two
would not say jormea; ior oi una, - -v - r y - -
I
not 14 sure. . But I have never yet known,
penooally others may have known such
instances of a lover of knowledge or.
moral progress, who was not initiated in
to this love by those who had the control
of his early infancy and his childhood.
pa be -contrary,.! couw mi nan mis vol
ume with anecdotes of those in whom the
of lhatlove of literature and science
which tbey subsequently manifested, was
sown , in ealy Jnfan:y by that tmalernal
teacher whose jrflunce js,;'afier all, most
a wakeningf rnosthn fjressive, (. and most
pcrmaneDt.T ! v ;
Were it VU to my choice to say which
of two things the world should hard the
riht sort of household 'management aud
rtfu ntion. with. .ho school instruction
whatever, or the bejt sort of school educa-
tbn of every grade, bat witnoui any-ining
done in the household "beyond what is now
done by ntne-tenth3 U not. nineteen-twen-iieths
of. mankind 1 would rtot.hesitate n
moment tp decide on, th former -Such is
the value I atiach to tha domestic institu
tion And the family school; and auch. are
my conceptions, of, the f native dignity oil
housekeeping-.. , :, V"
ldo not mean by all this, $hat the house
keeper is to have, necessarily, her set hours
and set lessons of instruction, . though I
wish her to have iimt for even these. Bui
I mean that she should so manage in all
concerns of t&e,householdr and these it is
which, as I shall never cease to repeat, go
far to form characterise great object and
end of education that, the results, along
with the aid of those who co-operate with
her. shall do more for the children which
form a part oC'it,; than H else which is
done for them, directly or. indirectly, in
the whole process of their forming stage
of progress. , But is not tnai me iruesi,
nhlt literarv institution in the world
nay, is it not more than all others -which:
ecureaall this as its inevitable results t ;
Let me not be understood as saying, that
to the present statp of things, every house
wife who had leisure to do things as she
ouirni. ana 10 comroi iuiok as sue utuS
would da iheni riAf.' There would be
still, as there now is. both 'good and bad
education. But even .as the general
knowledge of housew ives now.is; the com
mon belief that the family is more impor
taut, because. more influential on-character
thm all other schools, would be in fa
vor of human happiness, provided they
would adopt, aj speediljas may be, those
prUlCJUiCS, Bus IUIII I unu vjaiviu ,wi
housekeeping, which it is the object of this
work to recommend and inculcate. V
I ' would have the young housekeeper
form and pursue a meditated plan or svs
tem for her own comfort and health, bu
much more for the sake of her own beace,
of April, and more are expected soon.
The Lord has done great things lor us,
and we hope we shall not forget practical
ly to acknowledge .the obligations which
he has laid us under to do somethtng for
Him and for his cause.
I attended also a protracted meeting at
Washington, at a very unlavorable tune,
and which closed earlier than it would, but
for the improbability ot many attending
on account of the walking. A church
was constituted March 13th, of twenty
From the Jour, of Commerce.
I3I.UOXJEST VISXSTTES.
Messrs. Editors. Under this title you
have this morning an excellent article by
4 1 Wife and a Mother" from the Cleve
land Observer.
It is not the first time thit wnmm has
been compelled to resist the depredations
of those who should be her protectors.
If there is any class in the community
who should demand specie, it is our wives
and daughter?, until we give them a de
cent paper currency.
Our Presidents, Cashiers, and Direct
ors of Banks have wives and daughters,
whose delicacy they would not trifle with.
It may be that they have sons of firmer
texture than the sons of other citizens;
but where is the youth who does not need
every shield possible for his virtue?
Whether the Bank gentlemen or the
Artists are most at fault in this matter, I
will not decide.
I am aware that an Artist long accus
tomed to drawing after naked statues,
J may with plausibility affirm that he is not
conscious ot impure leclings in viewing
forms entirely exposed. So it may be
with the Anatomist and Physician, whose
professions often bring them where the
common eye must not obtrude. But be
cause these scenes to professional Artists j Baptist Record.
and others need not De injurious, u uoes
not follow that such forms, even without
the least wanton air, could safely be pre
sented to the public gaze.
The Old World has tried the expeii
ment. and is corrupted. Our Bank Note
Rhode Island Baptist State Con
vention. The thirteenth annual report
of this missionary body contains many
interesting statements, showing that the
most gratifying results have been witness
ed, 'l'o the churches assisted during the
year, more than 120 have been added
principally by baptism. To churches
aided in former years, a much larger ac
cession has been made. At New Shore
haven, on Block Island, where Brother
Macombers, one of the missionaries has
lately settled as pastor of the church, it is
thought that as many as 300 have been
recently converted to the Lord. This
number is indeed large, considering the
population cf the island, which is estimat
ed at 1250. " Should revivals," says the
report, " equally extensive and general
pervade the Slate, the nation, how glo
rious would be the results! how delight
ful the transformation I"
express a resolution to perform them.
Then he preached a short sermon to them,
exceedingly plain on some suitable scrip
ture, with all possible ingenuity and ear
nestness, in order to excite their attentive
regard. After this he singled out a num
ber of scholars, perhaps eight or ten, and
bid each of them turn to a certain scrip
ture, which he made them read to the
whole school; it giving them to see, by
his brief remarks upon it, that it contained
something which it particularly concern
ed children to take notice of; then he con
cluded with a short prayer for a blessing
on the school and on the tutors. Cot
ton Mather.
One thing certain. Death is
theme of universal interest. The lightest
heart, the least ihoughtfal mind, has no
disbelief of death. The distance of the
dark cloud in which he comes, sailing
through the bosom of futurity, may be
miscalculated, but the world unhesitating
ly owns that he is coming, and will at last
be here. In almost every other particular
of existence, the iortunes of men differ:
but to die is common to all. The stream
of iife runs in a thousand various channels ;
bw, run where it will brightly or dark
ly, smoothly or languidly it is stopped by
death. The trees drop their leaves at the
approach of the winter's frost; man falls
at the presence of death, livery succes
sive generation he claims for his own, and
his claim is never denied. To die is the
condition on which we hold life: rebellion
sickens with hopelessness at the thought
of resisting death : the very hope of the
most desperate is not that death may be
escaped, but that he is eternal ; and all the
young, the careless, and the dissipated at
tempt, is to think of him as seldom as they
can. No man, therefoie, will deny, that
whatever can be said of death is applica
ble to himself. The bell that he hears
tolled may never toll for him: there may
be no friend or children left to lament him :
he may have to live through lonp; and
merxbers, and there' were a few conver
sion?, vThe day after the meeting closed,! Engravers are men of respectability, and
five related their experience, and were re
ceived by the church as candidates for
baptism. A church has also been consti
tuted at S'oui's Grove, to which I preach
ed last Lord's day, which now numbers
thirteen members.
' The field in this part of the state is large
and the laborers a re few. May the Lord of
the harvest abundantly bless and sustain j Act, that the Comptroller of the State, the
Baptists in the Island of Jamai
ca. We have received from our esteem
ed friend and brother, Joshua Tinson, of
Kingston, Jamaica, a tabular view of the
churches, stations, &c, in connexion with
the Baptist Mission in that Island, for the
year 1837. Jb mm the 1 able it appears
that the number of ministers is 16
Churches 28 whole number of mem
bers 18,720. The number added by bap
tism during the year is 2120 by letter
382 restored 161 Died 160 Dismiss
ed 320 Excluded 207 Withdrawn 34
Net increase 1882. The whole num
ber of Inquirers is 17,781. The number
of Day Scholars 2347 The number of
Evening Scholars 992 The number of
Sunday Scholars 7464.
Such results as the above are most en
couraging and cheering to the friends of
missions, especially when it is remember
ed that the first Baptist Church in the
Island was formed at Kingston in 1816
The Cherokees. Jess.e Bushyhead,
a natice Cherokee, in view of shortly be
ing put under the necessity of leaving the
country for the West, requests us to dis
continue his paper. We have for several
From the Baptist Record.
SCRAPS.
If you wish to gain affection ; btstou
it. Seneca.
The way to be beloved ; is to be iWjr.
Odd. ' ' , .
When God laughs, it is time for wlct
ed men to weep. Anon.
Those that would affect others with the
word of God, should see to it that they
themselves, are affected by it -Matt.
Henry.
Those that are themselves affected with
the terrors cf the Lord, should endeavor
to affect others with them. Idett:
Deep security commonly ends in deep
despair, whereas those that keep up aho-
y fear at all times; have a hope to Sup
port them, in the worst times. Idem.
When people ireat vou ill, and show
their spite, and slander vou. enter into
their little souls, gotd the. bottom of them,
search their understandings;" and you will
soon see, that nothing that they may think
or say ot you, need give you one trouble
some thought.- Marc. Anton. "
That is the best thing tor a man which.
God sends bim : apd that is the best timt.
when he sends it. Idem.
It is sometimes a hard matter to be cer
tain whether you have received ill usage
or not ; for men s actions olten look worse
than they are; and orie must be thorough
ly informed of a great many things be
fore he can rightly judge. Idem.
If yon would enjoy a peaceful con
science on the score of your charities;
make God, the auditor of your account.
Anon.
Whithersoever thou turnest thyself,
thou .vilt see God meeting thee, Seneca.
The servant of Zeno the Stoic Philos
opher, being caught in an act of theft, ei
ther with a design to ridicule his roaster!
doctrine, or to avail himself of it in order
to escape punishment; said, it was my
anxious days, looking for the coming of the to be a thief: And to be punished
lor it replied the philosopher.
In looking back through many by-gone
days to the time of my boyhood, said an
Englishman, Then we had oaken tables.
and oaken plates, and oaken seats, and
willow baskets, and we had also oaken
men. Now, wp have mahogany tables,
and mahogany seats, and silken cushions,
and silver vases ; and now we have wil
low men, and silken men. Then the
doors had latches ; Now, they have locks,
and bars. Then the men defended the
houses, Now the houses defend the meri. -
Pure selfishness consists in the weak
ness of the social affections and the strength
of private desires. Sir James Mackin
tosh. A small deviation from the simple -instruction
of the Bible ma v be fraurht witK
i
years sent it to mm gratis. Of it, he thus
it cannot be supposed that they have in- j writes : " I have read your valuable pa-
tAvA m nrnmnt 1 ir entiousness. but thev i ner with great pleasure. I think every
u(aw"'w-w. - j j 1 . .
have carried the matter quite too far.
It is indeed high time for a reform ;
and I rejoice that a great responsibility is
sjoing to rest upon one man at this mo
ment in relation to this question.
It appears by the late General Banking
" . . r- I
Christian iamily ought to have a reli
gious paper. Indeed, every family ought
jieedily
those who are in this field, and
send others to join them.
Isaac D. Newell
Bloomington, III., April 17, 1838.
MORAL REFORM.
From tho CleYeland'Obaerve r .
12IMODE8T VIG 5ETTE3.
Sir: I wish to lav befjre you, the
complain: of wife and a mother. Were
my case singular did I not, in stating
mv own grievance, express that of multi
tudes, 1 might be silent. ,
But I can no lono-er fnrbear. It the
D -. - - - -
Hon. Mr. Flagg, has it in his power to
decide what shall be the form of Notes
for Banks under the new Act; and I
! trust,' as the protecior of virtue, that he
will veto all immodest vignettes.
A Husband and a Father.
The Advocate of Moral Reform.
The average number of papers printed
semi-monthly, during the last year, has
been 19,000. Of this number, 16,500
have been sent to regular subscribers, and
about 2,000 distributed gratuitously semi
monthly. Whole number published dur
ing the year, 468,000; 5,000 copies of
the appeal to wives, mothers and daugh-
and 5000 copies of the tract entitled the
Guardian. .
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.
virtuous of your sex neglect to guard us j haye been circuiate(j during the year,
irom tne insults ot the unpnncipieu, uhiwj
we first protest then, however painful to
our feelings, some one must do it.
I would charitably hope, that nothing
s needed, but a knowledge of our feel-
ngs, to rouse you to proper action in the
case. I auude to immodest piciurt vn
bank notes. ' ....
He who vend immodest prints . for
gain, has at least the poor apology that he
profits by injuring others;. and may jusjlv
cbimthat he only sells to those.who seek
mem; uuuaai sober business nr
without prospect of-pecuniary advantage,
deliberately conspire to obtrude upon com-
?. t . . i .
muniiy.iuco pictures as outrage uivucovv,
in furnishing a currency for the transac
tion of -businesses an insult to the virtu
ous, so flagrant in its character, that I
know not whether to be most astonished
at such conduct, or at the apathy of the
community m suffering it to pass w
severe reouke; .ci
-What I .must neither my daughters por
myself go out to make purchases,- bat a
father end husband is obliged to put men-
American Baptist Home Mission
Society. From the report it appears
that the Managers have had under their
commission one hundred and sixteen mis
sionaries, scattered through seventeen
States Territories and Provinces, and
have supplied with the word of life,4 two
hundred and thirty-seven churches or con
gregations. Their missionaries naic as
sisted in the ordination of thirteen minis
ters, and in the constitution of .twenty
nine churches. They'hare received to
the fellowship of the churches, two thou":
sand one hundred and thirty-nine persons,
hv bantisrh.' one thousand sfour hun
dred and thirtv-one. and seven liondred
and eiffhtbr letter.- : Many hundreds have
Wn converted, if is "believed, -who "have
nnt vet nubliclr professed. Christ, or who
hsvfl been. baDtiied Ibvnhe-. associates of
the "missionaries.
to have sometrnng di tne Kinu to neip
them to add to their faith, knowledge."
He further adds, " I trust our Christian
friends will not forget to pray for us. In
the furnace of affliction, the Lord I trust
is sustaining us. The Gospel flourishes
in the midst of all our troubles. I have
just returned from a route by Coosewatta
and along the Etawa River ; in the course
of which, bro. Wickliffe and myself had
some very precious and interesting meet
ings; and 1 had the unspeakable joy to
bury in Baptism, forty-seven of my na
tion 19 males and 28 females. May
the glorious time soon come, when a Na
tion shall be born in a day. Amen."
Chr. Index of May 24.
Preach to!Schools. Pastors, up
hold and cherish good schools in your
towns; -and be prevailed upon occasional
ly to visit the schools. That holy man,
Mr. Thomas While, expressed a desire,
"that able and zealous ministers would
sometimes preach at the schools ; because
preaching is the converting ordinance;
and the children will be obliged to hear
with more at:ention in the school than in
the public congregation; and the minis
ters might here condescend to such expres
sions as might work most upon them, and
yet not so ht for a public congregation.
I have read the following account of one
who was awakened by this advice to act
accordingly : "At certain times he succes- j
sively visited the schools. When he went
to a. school, he- first offered a prayer for
the children, as much adapted to their
condition as he could make it. "Then he
wentihfough the catechism, or as much
of it as he thought necessary, making the
children repeat the several answers: but
he .divided the questions, that every article
in the "answers might be understood by
them; expecting therar to answer yes or
no,' to each of these divisions. He also put
to them such qaenions as wouid make
them see and own their duties, and often
expected terror : but he knows that he
must die ; he knows that, in whatever
quarter ol the world he abides whatever
be his circumstance however strong his
present hold of life however unlike the
prey of death he looks that it is his
doom beyond reverse to die. Slclbins1
Discourse on Death.
A Word in Season. The late ex
cellent Rowland Hill, at the conclusion of
a sermon m which he had been exhorting
his hearers not to be conformed to the
world, related the feilowing interesting
circumstance:
" It is now many years since a young
man, who had been conformed to this world,
and who had lived a very wicked life, made
up his mind to come to this chapel to hear
the man preach, who, in his estimation,
vas beside himself. He came ; and He,
who by the foolishness of preaching can
make many wise, put words into my
mouth to suit his case. He went away
sorrowful, with an arrow in his lpeart.
"Now he had a brother who had pur
sued the same thoughtless and ungodly
course as himself, and he told him where
he had been, and how he felt. 'Brother,'
said he, we have lived very wicked
lives; I wish you would come with me;
for 1 think if you were to hear the same
man preach, you would feel the same as I
do.' His bro her consented, and they both
came and sat, as you are now sitting, to
hear the woid of God preached by bis un
worthy servant. I had this account from
the young man who first came; and he
told me, that if ever he had enjoved a hap
py moment in the course of his life, it was
then, turning round to his brother, he
saw the repentant tear trickling down his
cheek.
" These two vounjr men bpcame servants
of God ; and though one of them is dead,
yet they are servants of God still. The
one worships God at his throne, and the
other at his footstool." Canada Baptist
Magazine.
Baptisms in Philadelphia. Seven
persons, one about seventy years of age,
wereadded to the Eleventh Baptist Chuich.
by baptism, on the last Lord's day in May ;
and on the following Sabbath, seven were
added to the 5th Church, Sansom street,
by baptism ; and two by letter. On the
same day four were added to the 10th
Church, and three to the Central Church
by baptism. List Lard's day three were
received to the fellowship of the Spruce
street Church by Baptism. Baptist Record.
immense danger to the church. Porfen
God often takes them soonest whom he
loves best; and the time which they lose
on earth, is gained in heaven to their un
speakable advantage. Matt. Henry.
The day is coming when carnal hypo
crites would gladly be found in the condi
tion of true Christians. Idem.
An honest man has the frequent satis
faction of seeing knaves betrayed by their
own maxims. Hume.
Whoso causeth the righteous to. go';
astray in an evil way, he shall fall hitfli"
self into his own pit Solomon.
He made a pit and digged it, and is fall
en into the ditch which he made. David.
From the labors of ministers that are1
dead and gone, much good fruit may be
reaped by the people that survive them,"
and the ministers w ho succeed them. -Matt.
Henry.
Eternity is a depth which no Geometry
can measure, no Arithmetic calculate, no
Imagination conceive, no Rhetoric de
scribe. H. More.
The love of fame seeks the sympathy
of unborn generations, and stretches the
chain which binds the race of man togeth
er, to an extent, to which hope sets no
bounds. Sir James Mackintosh.
The wise, and prudent conquer difficulties,
By daring to attempt them. Sloth and Follr
Shiver, and shrink at the eight of toil and daiffar
And make the impossibility they kajRowc.
Every spirit is a being that thinks, reflects,
reasons, deliberates, acts freely, and in one
word that lives: whereas body has no oth
er qualities but that of being extended,
susceptible of motion, and impenetrable.
Euier.
Revival in New Haven, Ct. Tha
Christian Watchman of the 25th ult, con
tains an interesting account of a revival
For the young Christian. In de
pendence on the promised grace of mycov- I
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emm vru unu otc n.mS ivn tnuw a Nfiw Haven for brolher J. SeWflj, a
- J K. -' ton. I hf writer saw fin m vr arrival
in the city about eight weeks since, (hav
the
ternal spirit, I will carry into eject
following resolves.
1st. I will value my soul more than my
body, consecra'.ing both to the service and
glory of Almighty God.
2nd. I will improve my mind in the
knowledge of the doctrines and ths duties
of the gospel.
3d. L will supplant the evil propensities
and affections of my heart, and cultivate
high attainments in personal holiness.
4th. In my conversation I will intro
duce subjects of a relig-jous nature, seek-
lngtoThakethem experimental and search
ing. I will not allow myself to spend
time in idle and frivolous talking.
5lo. I will avoid conformity to the ex
travagancies, fashions, and follies of the
world.
v- Morality, is the practice , of reason.-
Loco man. . , i .- -
ing been invited to supply the church dur
ing our vacation at Newion,) I had the
happiness to meet bro. I. Ri bards. Iate of
New York city, whose labors have been
very successful in many places as an Evan
gelist, and Meetings were commenced
and held each evening in the week, but it
was soon found necessary to comiuue thetn
through the day. So deep and all-absorbing
was the interest manifested by those
who were awakened to a sense of their
lost condition. Never have I witnessed
such powerful displays of sovreign grace
never have I beheld such evident mani
festations of divine power in the salvation
of men. .
. Concerning the number that have, al
ready indulged hope, it is difficulty speak
with. much certainty Probably fron
250 to 300, have given evidence of a sav
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