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CONTENTS
VOL. XI.
No.
409.
Pages.
414.
415.
How
416.
417.
410.
411.
412.
413.
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to
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8
420.
A Narrative.
By Rev. Gardiner
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My Wife's
36
Spring, D. D.,
423.
Gold Ring,
...
ard Knill,
427.
The
428.
A
A
429.
Plea
for
Word
432.
The
The
....
glorious Gospel,
Sacred Music.
431.
Life-preserver,
By Rev.
E.
W.
Hooker,
D.,
.......
435.
436.
437.
438.
20
4
16
4
4
4
A Benevolent Husbandry,
"Why do we sit Still?"
The wrath to Come,
The New- Year,
The Weaver's Daughter.
24
32
4
4
4
4
Friendly
418. Will
419.
4
4
4
4
Narrative.
By
Layman,
16
CONTENTS.
4
No.
Pages.
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A
440.
443.
Tom
Dialogue,
445.
446.
447.
448.
449.
450.
ye here Idle
451. "
Ye
shall
Jay,
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453.
454.
A Convenient
Season,
4
4
4
4
4
4
*.
short
Sermon.
By Rev.
.......
458.
A Man
459.
'
Welcome
to
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...
.
The Mother
of St. Augustine,
t-i
465. Believest
466.
The
Thou?
Way
to
Heaven.
of Repentance.
Chalmers, D. D.,
471.
Memoir
of Samuel F. Bradbury,
473.
The aged
Sailor,
D.,
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...
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.
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470.
4
4
16
der, D. D.,
463.
4
4
4
4
4
4
Missionary's Father.
462. Sinners
overboard,
The
461.
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Lemuel Haynes,
452.
24
By Rev. William
Why
Why
Nautical Temperance
4
4
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4
4
4
4
8
By Rev. Thomas
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8
8
IVo.
409.
THE
CHRISTIAN ABROAD
A
There
is
SUMMER EXCURSION.
a charm about a
summer
trip
we
all like to
which
is
quite
all
ordinary occupations, and enjoy, at least once a year, a temper aiy change of scene.
Were
it
it
would be pleasant
We could remark
upon the renovated health and energy of body the expansion of mind and heart, growing out of new and diversified
1*
_ VOL. XI.
to inquire in
what
this
charm
consists.
and
and not
excite
readers to this
its
summer
who
with those
try "
not on
But
more
not to
it
does
particularly,
It
It intends
pilgrimage, though
the
least,
and customs
by
which
small,
sets
The
to
Probably there
to
be shunned.
to
he
travel,
is
This
prospects.
who have
who recently
is
tried
all
it.
bustle
which
an
filled his
hurry and
him
home
politics, all
combined
to
as rapidly as he came.
to
On
be well apprised
We
shall
of, lest
speak
first
as
it
to
he lose them.
dangers to be avoided,
upon the other branch of the
of the
to dwell
means of
One source
the best
1
of danger
is,
that, as
its
The
It
of a previous
spiritual
exercises
crown the
and, to
deceit,
may
new
it
will
come home
we
by a
little re-
again, to gird
much
be carried on with so
be at work in our
it
subtlety, that
it
to
doth already work " in the bare prospect of our journey, and
if
we bid
had not
If,
farewell to home,
anticipated.
then,
there are
or the trunk
confession
is
packed.
and prayer
to
First,
we
and
Then, with
we
me
not up hence."
"VYith
journeying mercies.
all
If
so, it
will probably
him
him
Or the prayer
in his place.
Father
*'
all
whole direction
upon that
to his
heavenly
and adhering
basis,
to it
Whether the
2.
is
starting out
cross be
we
wearisome
shall be
to us or not, there
made ashamed
of
This
it.
which the worldling allows in himwithout a thought, and which embarrasses the Christian
mean,
self
at all times,
we
home,
The reason is
and move among
we
live
and habits of
ions
ings as
when
is
are abroad.
life,
When we
plain.
who know
those
But
professed Christians.
in
are at
our opin-
travelling
among
or at church
favorably for
and
it.
if
The
never taken
it is
by the mere
for granted,
effect,
then,
if
there be one,
it.
num-
up
force of
piety,
respectability
fear,
who would
and morality.
to
on the score of
away from
his integrity
by the
to his faith
Is there
may
no fear that he
be
known
While the
all
adverse
conceal his
it
should not
rest are
Will there
down
sit
thanks
to
will
tests,
vation."
3.
Another danger
selfish
and fretful
to
be avoided
spirit.
The
is,
it
as
He would
whether politeness
in public conveyances
Be pleased
trips.
is
to note
whether there
is
self-
accommodation of
whether there
is
others, especially
faring
incidents,
for
Indeed,
we
many
sufficient.
THE CHRISTIAN ABRO.^.
6
4.
it,
disrelish
is,
incessant change of
to
company
remarkably mifitted
for devotion.
into
row
offered as
you
in
rise as if
they
knew no God.
society of those
travelling
who have
If ever
or perhaps
lie
down and
You
thrown
are
ivorld,
into the
about Sunday-
who
lodgers,
now.
it is
upon a nar-
lie
to see
You
fall
object
ramble in green
and
fields,
dissipation.
capable
of,
You
much
not so
is
them
to
not to
now
are
to witness
what men
are
And
are removed.
how much
it is
summer
the folly of
tourists,
wealth
Against
Let
me
all these
carnal influences
for
if it
be only
we must
would
for
a day.
brace ourselves.
my own
soul, to
the tinselled
"
God
forbid that
Christ."
We
have thus
indispensable
what
explaining
ofiered
let
are the
peculiar advantages
which the
Travelling
Christian
ailbrds
but there
others, into
still
peculiar benefits.
An
How
we have
often
regretted the
want
life.
How
we have just
often
of time to dwell
some
on the
at
shelf,
intending to take
shall
we must
it
were, to lay
it
it
it
That
leisure.
has come.
incident in
entered into an
to do
moment
which we
leisure
us, in
be thinking of soinetliing.
Let us not
suffer
time
for "
redeeming time."
a va-
this
spirits strength-
religion.
led us.
Let us
all
the
itual
our
want
way
in
whether
for
want
of heart.
own
boundless
pleasure
Communion with
us.
Thus,
the
of creation
forest,
of
when we behold
mountain,
the
^^we
the amazing
cataract,
shall
the
enjoy the
we
shall
and
Farther,
Christian.
tions
is
may occur
it
at a
soul that
we
we can
it
may
Once more,
recognize an acquaintance.
way
to heartfelt devo-
The
3.
we
shall
mention
is,
the
same that
resulted from the dispersion of the infant church, as record" They that were scatwent everywhere preaching the word." Brethren, when our hearts have been warmed, as we united at
the monthly concert, or listened to some parting words at a
farewell missionary meeting, have we not felt that it was
Have we
not,
and go
far
hence
been almost
to the Gentiles
sol-
See
God
as missionaries.
we come
mate
home
In plain terms,
if it
as invalids, let us go
feeling,
when
we
" s.upiDorted
most
shall be
We
C>
shall
And we
time
more
ness,
than
But
pose
under
security,
we may
field."
be ex-
shall
spiritual,
we went.
in
what
particular
this pur-
We
1.
Tracts
and
if it
They
volumes.
an excuse
for entering
some
and will
and of the
solid
hopes of the
made
are not
By
we
to
life
These
come.
and appreciated
where,
life,
little
in counif
they
all
means, then,
go,
let
Let us
or Universalist,
some "words
in
we
ing of fellow-Christians
2.
make
one.
to
Whenever we
it
for the
whom we
hope
to find out.
Sabbath,
It will
the
shall
season"
we
if
should
there be
scholars,
to see
and in proportion
to the rarity of
In
fact,
VOL.
XI.
10
is
may
count.
If there be no Sabbath-school, it will be well to consider
whether we may not be instrumental in establisldng one.
Certainly we could not better employ the leisure of a day
or
in
elling plans,
and taiTy
on purpose
Often
we may
to sup-
cause of a
in lively
And
mon.
should
it
a result not at
please
God
to
all
may
unlikely or uncom-
rolls
annals
The
for
visit will
;"
especially if
writer
lady
is
it
be
made
in a Christian
who made
its
3.
Such a
spirit.
him by a
beauteous
breezes,
warm
household duties.
It
woman
and forming
weather.
to
far
As her
from the
and surprise
at receiAring a visit
life.
made
this
she
at this place,
At the
remark
close of
"
an interesting conversation,
Madam,
my
door."
what
we have
object
in
making such
em-
It is to
visits.
and
make
to
it
a means of im-
vation.
was
We
we can
unite with
an hour's conversation,
too, in
in
collect
scanty opportunities.
After
all, it is
its
we can
prehensive subject.
The
offer
and means
mark
for
have only
ground assumed
blessing others.
:
first,
The
peculiarity
is
who
to
that
tourist
points
We
doing good.
to justify the
on
this
com-
is
his
many ways
add one
re-
the Christian
opportunity for
the other
that there
is
it
his policy to
may
send him.
go about seekmg
If the arch-
whom
he
may
wake,
to
undo
his
wicked work.
12
pany the writer thus far come now with me, and let us,
by a stretch of imagination, place ourselves upon some lofty
watch-tower, whence we can see our great cities, from
:
Boston to
New
them
let
among
Among
trip.
who perhaps
the thousands.
mark
They
the difference.
enjoyment
but
it
is
but
it is
for
health
they find
to scatter,
to bring
it
in forget-
They go
for relaxa-
They go
them
us
let
They go
Now
one back.
to
and
and shall
ing the precious seed
bringing our sheaves with us ?"
;
we
IVo.
410,
MEMOIR
OF
In this memoir of a beloved child, we aim not to eulogize her personal merits, closely as they entwined her in
our affections, but desire that her brief history may illustrate the unsatisfying- nature of earthly pursuits, the serious
importance of vital religion, and that it may open to the
VOL.
XI.
2*
"I think
I shall
heard
Avord.
She manifested much pleasure in listening to the reading of the holy Scriptures, the contents of wiiich aftbrded
consolation amidst the severity of suffering in which she
seemed involved and, indeed, she requested the perusal
of no other book, feeling that they alone contained the
precepts of a compassionate Redeemer for his erring children.
;
A
upon
relative,
her.
heaven, if
her physician called to see her, she said to him, "Thou
hast come too late," and solemnly exhorted him to prepare
to meet her in a future state of existence, and not defer
that preparation until laid on a bed of sickness, for then he
would find it sufficient to endure his bodily pains but
added with emphasis those beautiful lines,
;
Feel
While on
And
sofl as
breathe
my
life
are,
my
head,
out sweetly there."
when
over but can it be possible that I shall ever at?" and frequently was she engaged in ardent supplications, though her gracious Redeemer still in some degree veiled his countenance from her.
As night advanced, her suff'erings and conflicts continued and apprehending that her end was near, her father
it is
tain to
it
to have
to
com-
4
fort her
by an
heaven."
her condition.
" Yet, gracious God, amid these storms of nature,
Thine eyes behold a sweet and sacred calm
Reign through the realms of conscience all within
Lies peaceful, all composed. 'Tis wondrous grace
:
Keeps
from
this
humble bosom
Though
clothes, books,
At
evening, being
much
for strength
my
Christ
much
suffering
'
them
to restrain their grief, lest it should disturb her serenwhile her tranquil movements and tearless eye bespoke
her resignation to the divine will.
At another time she exclaimed with rapture, " Dear
;"
mother, I rejoice to tell thee that all is light and peace
adding, " I am ready to depart and be \vith Christ, and am
ity,
only waiting the Lord's time." I desired directions respecting her grave-clothes, to which she seemed quite indifferent.
Upon m}^ mentioning the probability of her having a choice,
she replied with a pleasant look, " Dear mother, it is no
matter about the poor body, but the precious soul that's
She only deall," repeating with emphasis, ''that's all."
sired her clothes made plain.
She took leave of us all in the most touching manner,
imparting excellent counsel to all about her her heart
seemed replete Avith universal love and she desired her
She
dying love remembered to all her absent friends.
;
believed
with Christ.
me
to thyself; thou
that bane of life which has been emphatically called " the
sting of death."
And though, for the trial of her faith and patience, her
Saviour saw fit to veil his face, and appear to her trembling
spirit as he did to ancient Israel in the thunderings of Sinai,
yet when he had sufficiently proved her constancy, he
whispered " peace " to the winds, and bade the waves of
sorrow cease.
It was then that her heart melted in pity
for those who are strenuously rejecting the offers of redeeming love, and are reposing their trust in the towers of
an empty profession, without considering that there is but
one " Door " by which they can have access to the Father,
and an admission into the gates of paradise. And it was
then that she so ardently desired that they might seek the
knowledge requisite to their eternal happiness, and secure
the approbation of heaven, ere the visitations from on high
had ceased, and the sun of their existence set in the darkShe spent her dying breath in exness of eternal night.
hortations to seek Him who never "said to the seed of
Jacob, seek ye me in vain."
Let us be consoled with the evidence that our loss is
her eternal gain, and that by a patient continuance in welldoing we shall, ere long, reap the reward, if we faint not,
and partake with her the joys of that rest into which she
has entered but a little before us and may we ascribe all
praise to whom it is due, even honor and glory to the Lord
God, and the Lamb for ever.
;
'lIRr.lSllKD
No. 411
THE
In S
IN
THE FAMILY.
heaviness was thus reflecting upon his sins, the text, " My
Can it be,
son, give me thine heart," occurred to him.
that God makes such a requisition as this ? He knows what
a heart I have, how hard, how polluted, how unfit for life,
or for death, and yet he says, " Give me thine heart."
What can he want of my heart? He wants it to make it
good, to create it anew, to wash it in the blood of Christ,
and make it a temple meet for the residence of his Spirit.
"I dropped m}^ flail," said he, *' and prostrating myself
Lord, if thou canst accept of such
upon the straw, I said,
I gi\e myself, just I am, a
a heart as mine, here it is.
poor, vile sinner."
So wonderful did the plan of salvation now appear to
him, so new, so suited to the condition of the /o.sY, that it
seemed to him he had spent all his life in the dark, and he
was affected to tears that nobody had ever explained to
him the way of salvation. But even after this, some days
passed before he informed his wife and children of any
chanore in his feelings.
pray
in his family.
had
be<'n
IN
THE FAMILY.
IN
THE FAmLY.
jo.
413,
THE
That such
to stand in the
judgment,
denied by few
is
if
they continue
sins,
in tlieir
everywhere teaches.
judgment." " Who
"
The ungodly
shall be
So the Bible
struction."
But
when
lished.
it
teaches more.
the judgment
Nor
is
it
is
It not
set
that of one
may
who
is
arraigned, awaiting
may
and
2
*'
Cursed
is
in
all
things
assumes
his guilt.
without forgiveness he
It tells
undone
is
tem
Christ Jesus,
the
indignation."
God's sysfrom the fearfulness of the
is
Whatever
is
true of those
you are
free
from condemnation
of
list
it
God
On
is
sinner's condition.
are in
fiery
unpardoned
who
and
officer of justice, to
is
execution.
You have
0, sinner, how appalling is your situation.
not even the poor alleviation of looking forward to the
close of a protracted
justice
is
place of
life,
When
violated,
trial
Christian communities,
some delay of
But
this
is
It is
da3's,
is
No
true, in
or weeks,
doomed
is
to death.
claim of justice
The crime
No
is
is
Yes, sinner,
The convicted
criminal
may be
full of life
when
lo,
the death-
Such
is
tion.
To
is
infinite gain,
whether he come
an early victory
escaping unexpectedly from his sins
granted him by his gracious Lord, before he could hope to
But how
find the notes of triumph breaking from his lips.
different
is it
indulgence.
to the
you
to death,
is
not irreversible.
which condemns you is holy, and just, and good. Yet you
God has
escape through the door of forgiveness.
provided a way by which the penitent and believing sinner
may be pardoned even by " the death of his Son." There
is forgiveness with God, " being justified freely by his grace,
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." He became a curse for men, that he might deliver them that were
may
To
the Gospel, he
bearance
is
is
Year
suffered to live.
The
allotted him.
if
you now
And what
is
to him, plead-
who
in sullen silence
and
suffers
hardened wretch,
of the
such infatuation
Would you
And what
less
than this
is
your own
Do
its
its
victim
No.
is,
There
is
by faith
Seek forgive-
bestir yourself.
So
remove,
Its blessings
on your head."
No. 413.
THE
RUSSIAN NURSE
BY REV. RICHARD KNILL.
Ill
4il><<<ji'MlLii|i1'IJiKihjiiigilii>
|ul
II
"Do
me
my
" No,"
soul, ma'am ?"
wish your soul to be saved
but your fasting, praying, and going to church will not save
your soul.
There must be something more than all this.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Saviour of sinners, and it is
by faith in him alone that sinners are saved." " Ah," said
she, "that is your religion, but I have been taught differently, and I must attend to my own religion."
Frequent conversations to the same effect took place,
until my wife said to me, "I think we shall be obliged to
part with Erena, she is so superstitious."
I said, "The
poor girl is ignorant.
Try to throw a little light into her
mind, and then the superstitions will drop off like the
leaves in autumn; there will be nothing to hold them."
The next day her mistress said to her, "Erena, I wish to
"0 yes,
teach you to read; would you like to learn?"
ma'am, I should be delighted to learn." So the work of education commenced and, in the course of a few weeks, she
Then she was
could make out an easy lesson very well.
supplied with a Russian Testament, which she studied diliShe has told us
gently whenever she had a little leisure.
since, that from the first day she came to live v^dth us, she
was very observant about our religion, and that she was
much struck with our family worship. She saw the propriety of it, and often felt it deeply, though she could not
then understand a word we said.
These things were all
plied,
you wish
to lose
it
new
experience.
ma'am, now
I see it
now
I see it
now
I see it
It
was
"Yes, many."
there many lodgers besides you?"
"Perhaps some of them can read." "I do not know. I
never saw a book among them." So he departed, and we
saw him no more until the winter commenced, when thousands of the laboring classes go back into the interior to
"Are
And now
their families.
again,
and said
to
the hawker
my wife,
themselves."
could help exclaiming, on hearing this, " Surely the
Lord hath done great things, whereof we are glad." Psa.
126 3. Here were vices forsaken; sinners relbrmed the
many copies of the holy book going
Scriptures circulated
Oh, what
to villages where it had never been seen before.
pleasure can be so great as that connected with doing good
ficial to
Who
to souls?
imitate her.
Her endeavor to do good to those in the same condiHer kind and winning manner had a happy
life.
They appeared
It was irresistible.
effect on young people.
as if held by a charm while she spoke to them about their
Take the following as a specimen.
souls.
A family near us had many domestics. One of them
came to my door on a Sabbath evening, when Erena was
1
tion in
"Come
porch reading the gospel of John.
" Be seated.
Would you like
devout reader.
"Oh yes, by all
to hear a portion of God's holy word?"
VOL. XI.
4
sitting in the
John
4.
"Pray
stop a
mo-
my
New
"The DairyCottager," in the Russian language, to send to her brother, who could read, and
who lived several hundred miles off. On receiving these
precious treasures, her heart seemed to swell with ecstasy.
She pressed them to her bosom, and kissed the hand from
which she received them. Had some cold-hearted professor,
some neglecter of his Bible, witnessed this scene, he would
have felt it as a dagger to his conscience. And could the
came
to
wife for a
"
Testament, and
The Young
We
We
We
THE RUSSIAN
jg
NUR:3E.
to
energ}\
The old woman arose and sat up in the bed, and
thanked God for putting it into the heart of the boy to send
her such strong consolation, and then, M^iile praying down
blessings on her daughter, she expired.
Erena was wonderfully supported, and tried to turn the
It is customary, as
death of her mother to good account.
soon as a Russian dies, for two or more persons, called " Readers for the dead," to be employed in reading over the corpse
night and day until the funeral. This is dreaiy work. The
reading is generally very monotonous, and, if it could be
Therefore Erena
understood, would be very unprofitable.
;"
gave the book of Psalms to the men, saying, "Read that
hoping that thereby her mother's death might be blessed to
them.
Not long after this excellent young woman had followed
her mother to the grave, she accompanied us to the steamer
and, as she stood gazing on us to take the last farewell, she
wiped away her tears with one hand and waved the other
in the air, as if to say, "We shall meet again in heaven!"
;
I%o.
414.
comforted
You
are
is
As the
vast
existence.
What
Whose
spirit was ever more keenly wounded by calumny, than his ? What could a pure mind endure from the spectacle of odious guilt, which his did not
endure ? How exhausting the trial of his patience and love,
while in contact with this guilty, hating, and hateful world
His tears moistened the earth of Gethsemane, and his blood,
the soil of Calvary but the deep agonies of his soul, " made
an offering for sin," must have been great beyond all our
comprehension.
agony of
his soul,
all
the
sin-
You
triumph,
also, in
ness to sympathize.
Nor
is
To the
frailties,
while his
give
infinite
worlds, qualifies
require.
first
that there
and
is
been
indifference to
it is
To be unaffected by it
But how great, also, has
a deep affront.
been
rapidly
when
unrequited.
by long provocation.
friendship
Its
What
character has
life
proclaim
in
Let the
in
what
Do
obedience
him
Is not
profound adoration
not
And when
Are not
own
rights
upon
you as upon angels ? Is not his redeeming love an appeal
more affecting than can be addressed to sinless beings ?
Say not your infinite Friend is not indignant, because he is
long-suffering.
Do not commit a fresh act of guilt by thus
lightly esteeming the moral glory of his character. I would
not ask for him your obedience and love, were he capable
and
Governor.
infinite
moment
is
LOST Friend
of guilt
is
tending to
YOUR BEST
FRIEND.
alienate
forbearance, and
you may
this
love,
may
that limit
of infinite
Our anguish
in proportion to
is
The
bestow.
such a friend,
loss
in
is
the present
What
life.
brightness his
friendship
What
Sun
of
righteousness
How
gloomy,
mind
and
ises
what
topics of thought, as
life's
and
his
unfolded
prom-
map
re-
shine in eternity.
is
Friend.
a lost
No. 413.
HOW
My dear
it
desecration.
for this
holy day
"Remember
it
not until
ple of holy
its
men
of the subject.
holy."
it,
Thus the
is
in accordance
He
Exodus 16
cannot
The exam-
with
manna
for
view
remem-
this
is
Avho remembers
a duty,
is
commandment,
it
on the
23.
HOW TO
who
make
fails to
all possible
arrangements
for
sleep, so
that
when
is,
to give the
body
sufficient rest
this holy
may
solemn
vmte
services.
letters, or
its
and then go
to the
till
Who
worship of God.
"remember the
Sabbath ?" He who would properly prepare for the Sabbathday, must also mould his heart into a becoming state by suitable meditation, conversation, and prayer.
I have lately visited an old friend.
Few men have had
more worldly business, or greater success. On Saturday afternoon,
for
the
fire.
and
all
Sabbath.
his week's
worship of God.
by
noticing, in a
for
the
exercises
the past week, some of which had been special and strildng.
He and
which
" Begone,
He
wards
first
line
my
of
after-
an appropriate prayer.
while longer.
consistent
was
is,
LORD'S DAY.
to
pleasure.
At an
early hour
freshment from
rest.
we
I
all retired,
when
re-
alone,
all
The
commenced.
The
reading a discourse.
" If
was closed at
was soon afterwards
school
It
was founded on
Isaiah 58
and
13, 14,
thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing
thy pleasure on
my holy day
and
Sabbath a delight,
and shalt honor him, not
call the
own
speaking thine
in the Lord,
oa\ti
and
words
I will
pleasure, nor
Jacob."
know you
The
was
me
Permit
an extract from it. The author says,
" We miay as easily and grossly profane the Sabbath, so
far as ourselves only are concerned, by thoughts which are
unsuited to its nature, as we can by any actions whatever.
If our minds are intent on our business or our pleasures
if
excellent.
me
discourse
itself also
very good.
to give
warm
with respect
them
if
we
we
if
are negli-
we
to our secular
we wish the
if
regard
if
institution
which
it
is
'
to
HOW TO
nation.
who
persons
with
"
The
We
tongue.
There
is
way
Such conversation
'
of the
we employ
own
speaking thine
the
in the
is,
words.'
no
insensibly,
in
Temptations to
this.
movements
among
God cannot away
it
The
trans-
jects, slide
about the
affairs of
at church, the
news, and
new
To
politics.
who were
mere worldly
affairs of
The next
step
is,
an habitual employment
ordinarily,
and
self-satisfied
conversations
and
all
losses.
It is
these lengths.
they often go
much
the joy, and the peace which they would otherwise attain.
HOW TO
"
The
conceded by
all
decent
is
seen and
consecrated by Grod to
modes of profaning the Sabbath
in this
walking or riding
for
amusement,
and
in reading books
day
The end
of this progress
is
posting
accounts,
transmitting
own
life.
This
is
what
is
called in
ivays.''
whom
now
of
it is
wants of animals,
bath.
We must
necessity or
who
spends
all his
Sab-
HOW TO
him
Besides,
guiltless.
we
them.
things of the
kmgdom
of Jesus Christ.
Nor may we
neglect
tation on the
lyrojitable,
to unite in
most cases our duty, and that of our famisome way in maintaining those nurseries of
piety, Sabbath-scltools.
wards we may
the
to
If
we
are not
fit
become learners
to
be teachers,
at first
and
let
after-
foolish.
It is also
the lunise of God, " with the voice of joy and praise, with a
Keligion and
its
public
and atheism.
And
if
everv
man
needs
lor
name
for
HOW TO
rfPEiND
Even
the
of God's
house
let
make a
"0
come,
stranger that
is
by the
Should you and your
family disregard
spirit
spiritually-minded
I
would
f^^rther
is
strict ob-
ent time.
facili-
nation of travellers,
Sabbath
is
HOW TO
hke a
flood.
must
be,
scriptural remon-
under God,
lifted
up
as a
standard.
was
in times of dreadful
apostacy that
See Malachi
be
vigilant.
It
3 :16, 17.
Finally, if you will sanctify the Lord's day, you shall
stilhiess,
and
seen,
and confessed by
all
who
felt,
a paltry consideration.
One
"
remembrance of time,
Remember
The
other
it
holy."
Let
Io.
416.
As
Christian
rest.
for this
emergency, by prepar-
From
warm
aft'ection.
the beginning, persons of all ages have been accustomed to attend it. Though there was seldom any direct
address to the small children, some well remember that
Next, their attention was turned to the study of a doccatechism each answer being given in the language
of the Scriptures, without note or comment.
This, with
devotional exercises, occupied one evening in the week.
Parents and their children united in it.
God honored the
study of hi^ word. While thus engaged one evening, " the
Spirit filled the room where they were sitting," and another
work of grace began and extended over the congregation.
Other seasons of refreshing have been from time to time
enjoyed.
Eternity only can make known the number of
souls that have been, and will be converted in answer to
the prayers ofiered in that school-house.
It is interesting and instructive to trace the history of
the families in that district for forty years.
Some whole
households, down to the second and third generations, give
evidence that they will be united in the great family above
and of habitual attendants, seldom has one continued long
trinal
in impenitence.
As
up
righteousness."
These families have also entered warmly into the benevolent enteritises of the age.
They have felt deeply, prayed
fervently, and contributed liberally for the conversion of
the world.
It is also a district proverbial for peace.
praying people cannot be a contentious people.
Those who
often meet together before the heart-searching Jehovah,
will not retain ill-will towards each other.
Such are a few
of the blessed results
but the whole amount of good effected by establishing and sustaining this little social meeting, Avill not be known till time shall end.
Christian reader, do not forget the prayer -meeting.
If
you have none in your neighborhood, be the first to propose one, and the last to forsake it, and the blessing of
many ready to perish may come on you. Does Mr.
noAv regret that he did not give up the prayer- meeting
His only
during the fourteen years of spiritual dearth ?
lamentation on his death-bed was, that he " had not done
more for the liOrd."
;
Should
this Tract fall into the hands of one still impendear reader, go to the prayer-meeting.
God may
there meet your soul in mercy.
If any ask additional reasons for attending a stated
prayer -meeting, they are such as the following
1. United prayer is p)leasing to God.
''Then they that
feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the Lord
hearkened, and heard it and a book of remembrance was
itent,
Avritten."
2.
two
of
you
shall agree
it
shall
to
united prayer.
" If
" If
given in a7iswer to prayer.
to give good gifts unto your
children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give
the Holy Spirit to them that ask him."
4. Almost every conversion and revival is in answer to
prayer.
When the Spirit came with such power on the day
of Pentecost, ''the disciples were with one accord in one
place."
5. Nothing more efifectually sustains a devoted minister
in his labors and trials, than a full attendance of his people
on the prayer-meeting.
3.
ye then, being
evil,
is
know how
TXo.
417.
We
We
often
public
Did you
We
ever
pray
to
please those
to please
please
2
there
God ? Must he
no God, or
that,
if
We
But
further,
brace the
whom we
And what
broken ? Do
men keep not his law? Ps. 119 136. But how do you
treat his law, his Bible, his Sabbath, his sanctuary, his worship, his ordinances, his people? Are you honoring and
glorifying God ? Is this your aim ? Is God honored and
glorified by your unholy, and prayerless, and irreligious
:
1.
Reader,
They have
injured no one they have done, they say, nothing very bad.
This is the amount of their righteousness.
On this they build their hopes of heaven. But such hopes
are vain. To he destitute of ffood fruits is damning. Matt.
25 41-43, and 14-30. "Ye have not the love of God in
you," is the description and condemnation of impenitent,
unregenerate men. John 5 42.
It is a sufficient crime to
be destitute of love to God. Of this crime you are guilty.
You do not love God. This has been proved. You, therefore, are not fit for heaven.
You know you are not, you
If you die as you are, you must be for
feel you are not.
Are you willing
ever excluded from the paradise of God.
thus to die, and sink down in endless despair ? I know you
are not. Then why not turn and live ? Why need so much
urging so much entreaty ?
2. Again I remark, you must he horn again, or perish.
There is no escape. To dream of going to heaven as you
are, without the love of God in you, w^ith a heart opposed
to God, and at enmity with him, Rom. 8 7, is folly and
madness. There must be a change, or you are lost. The
enmity of your heart must be subdued, and a principle of
You must be renewed
holy love be begotten within you.
23
become a new
in the spirit of your mind, Eph. 4
17
creature in Christ Jesus, 2 Cor. 5
experience the
washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost,
5
Titus 3
be born again, John 3
5-8 born of the
Spirit^ or you will perish in your sins and sink to hell.
Ask, that you may receive. Luke 11 1-13. And beware
how you resist and grieve the Spirit He will not always
If you grieve him away, you are for
Gen, 6:3.
strive.
;
evermore undone
Submit
God
to
JVo.
WILL
IT
418.
EVER BE KNOWN?
tress
guilty
is
WILL
IT
EVER BE KNOWN ?
to the wicked
What
WILL
IT
EVER BE KNOWN
being sympathizes,
you
to
when
his will.
Holy angels
will tell
of
it.
ing you.
listen to
them.
were tempt-
They could
have foiled the great adversary but for you. But you
would not be diverted from your purpose and now these
holy and angelic ones stand ready to attest your folly.
Men will tell of it. They know it too. Your accomplice knows it.
All your guilty companions know it. And
the oath of secrecy will be dissolved whenever selfishness
and pride shall become the gainers by the perjury.
There was another who was witness to it. His grim
form stalks unseen amid the frequented and the solitary
;
WILL
IT
EVER BE KNOWN
abodes of men.
secret,
he
and he
shall
known?
it
ever
No. 419.
THE
There
is
much by
not
so
I shall best
lip,
make my meaning
as
by
plain
the logic
of the
by a simple
my own
ac-
neighborhood,
services,
little
on.
It pleased Him " who leads the blind by a way that
they know not," to reach his conscience in this manner.
He became very uneasy, and in spite of his mean clothes,
began to attend church. For a time his anguish of mind
was greater than can be told. But at last that Saviour
who
died
XI.
after a
stormy night
Q^
is
not a greater
LIFE.
change than that which follo^yed in the hfe and lot of happy John. All things became new. His house was made
tidy, and one piece of furniture after another was purchased,
till the whole face of his cottage was changed.
His wife
and himself, decently dressed, were in their places at church
whenever the sabbath- speaking bell bade them to the house
of prayer, and ere long they were seen side by side at the
table of the Lord.
light thus
striking a
forth
change
much
He became
notice.
former
infidel
of weakness being
time, indeed,
The humble
confessor
was thus
a sheep in
the midst of wolves; but he' was not alone, for "the Lord
stood by him."
He was enabled to walk blamelessly and
unrebukably before them.
Sometimes he reasoned with
them, at other times he entreated them, but most commonly
he did as his Master had done when beset by his accusers,
His meekness was the more
*'he answered not a word."
lovely, because he had been aforetime a terror to his com-
panions, nor
to provoke
LIFE.
him.
The
fail
to be felt.
tongue.
His
life
shall
was harder
to
answer than
my
source
of
all
crime
His fellow-
narrative.
little
his
Christianity as
if
fairly tried
what
man, and
Come,
I like to
week
naked
This
the
is
'
There
is
what your
'
they
have made.
"
Now,
me ?
THE LOGIC OF THE
LIFE.
made me ?
religion
He
to you.
Thank
has helped
me
Am
burning
act.
If
There
artful infidel.
it
it
it is
is
the logic
of
the logic
life.
of the
IVo.
4^0.
THE
INQUIEING-MEETING.
During one of those seasons of religious attention with
which the churches in New England have been visited by
the Holy Spirit, I employed a few weeks in the interior of
the country. It was the month of August. The early harvest still waved in rich and brown luxuriance over hill and
vale, and formed a delightful and welcome contrast to
the heated walls, burning pavement, and arid atmosphere of a crowded city. Mountain and river, the vivid
verdure and refreshing breezes of a rural sky, the dense,
dark forest, with emphasis and sweetest harmony seemed to say, " Marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty, in wisdom hast thou made them all!"
There was every thing in the scenery that invited to
Why, thought
heavenly contemplation.
I,
devoted children of
God
What
is
all
the
human nature
is
the
and country.
But the
pomps
THE
liM^UIKl.NCi-MEKTI.NG.
of those beautiful
"
Far from
"
the world,
God,
I flee,
"
"
still
"
"
For those
to
We
sant Sabbath.
pations,
we
one another
not a
little
to our antici-
our host was a pious man, and that there was a revival
of religion in the village of several months standing.
in
THE INQlTIRJiSG-MEETlNG.
knew it
As the
not
!"
first bell
was ringing
for church,
saw
the vil-
The
knew
"
well
how
Thoughts
employ the
that breathe,
How
and words
that burn,"
THE IISCiUmilVG-MEETlNG.
salvatio7i
his
affectionate
spirit
his
the honor of
in the
God
these, thought
I,
are characteristics
The
Allure
to brighter worlds,
it.
And when
Nor could
refrain
THE INQUIRING-BIEETING.
We
for
several
moments none
of us
could speak.
The
is to
who feel an interest in the subject of reliand who desire it, the opportunity of conversing
congregation,
gion,
me
But,'
will attend
and
in the exercises."
S.
went
to the prayer-meet-
was a large
hall,
filled.
should judge
of those
who were
who were
children.
VOL.
XI.
THE INQUIRING-MEETING.
my
mind, but
ment, in
my
was
reflections,
the thought
upon
"And
I felt
mo-
there
that
was
a rainbow round
God was
holy.
could
emblem
vile
I, is
"
Come, sacred
"
And
fill
Spirit,
from above,
And
let
" Speak,
*'
"
While
"
To
"
"
all their
now
they scorn.
WHiile this
hymn was
singing,
rest
sigh,
were requested
all
to
After
gentlemen, who, as
who were
present.
clusters of per-
whom
they conversed collectively. The conversation with individuals was sometimes continued two
or three minutes, and sometimes elicited no answer.
sons, with
Sometimes it consisted of a single inquiry and an appended observation or two. And sometimes it continued for eight or ten minutes. So that at the close of the
meeting there were none who had not the opportunity of
a personal interview with their pastor, or some one of
us who assisted him. The conversation was conducted
rather in a low tone of voice, and much as it would have
been had the parties been alone in a private parlor.
Very much of it I heard, and will now narrate with as
much accuracy as I can.
man who
Do you
feel, sir,"
sat
few weeks
important, and
know
that
to
me.
"
do not
is
it.
since.
But
am
for the
most part
very unconcerned. I am ignorant^ and wish you to instruct me, and to deal with me plainly and faithfully.'*
"Have you ever been sensible," continued the pastor,
*'
that
that notwithstanding
self,
all
Do you
are
still
the
"I
fear, sir,'
his kindness
do not
feel this,
though
know
THE INQUIRING-MEETING.
it is
true.
conscience
is right,
"Do you
think
"
pastor.
Would it be right for angels to feel thus
towards the ever-blessed God 1 Would it be right for
saints
'^
Is
know
it
right in
it is
you
1"
not right."
know
"
am wrong
do
Godi
who shed his blood for you the
Holy Spirit, who is now striving with you your owti
conscience, which now reproaches you all require you
The
blessed Saviour,
from contending with your Maker. These rebellious feelings show you what is in your heart. They
show you how unfit you are, with such a spirit, to enter
You must give them up.
into the kingdom of God.
Pray, pray for grace to give them up. They make you
miserable here, and if persevered in, must make you
to cease
To a young man who had overheard the previous conversation, the pastor said, " Can you give me some account of the exercises of your mind, my young friend ?"
The youth was for a moment too much affected to
speak ; when his pastor, with a tenderness that seemed
"
"When was
your attention
your own soul 1"
thing," replied the young man, " that af-
The
fected
first
my
mind, was
week
before
THE INQUIRING-MEETING.
last. I
saw
I
was a
that I
punishment.
religion.
When
"And
cometh
to
Him
Does
that
seem
saveV
it
perish."
"
me
a heart of flesh."
" Except a man
It is indeed so," replied his pastor.
horn again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.''^
" I know it, sir, I know it. Never can I enter into that
"
he
XI.
a heart."
"^*
THE INQUIR1NG-3IEETIXG.
10
"
J\'^o,
never /"
and
it
tenderness and solemnity with which a father would address a dying child. "And never, unless God give you
young man, " the thought crosshad rather go back to my former stupidity than remain as I am."
*'
my dear young friend," said his pastor, " strive and
pray against such thoughts as these. The adversary
would tempt you to such thoughts, and triumph over his
" Sometimes," said the
es
my mind
that
poor deluded victim, if he could thus stifle these convictions. He Kinows you would gain nothing by going
back, but become ten-fold more the child of hell than before.
victions
They
it
in ten-fold
power.
And
in a whisper,
moment we were
He wept.
Here
"balm
for
my
wounded,
THE INQUIRI.NG-MEETING.
"
sir," replied the agitated youth, " what shall I do 1
have felt nil this week as though I hated God, and
would fain flee out of his hands. I have been so long in
this wretched state of mind, while so many others have
been brought in rejoicing, that it seems to me as though
God meant to give me up. It does no good for me lo
read or pray, so long as God is against me."
" So long as you are against God," replied his minister, almost with an air of severity. " God will do you no
wrong. He sees you. He hears you. And yet he bears
with you." And then with subdued and tender accents
proceeded " His love is infinite. Nothing but his patience
and long-suffering have kept you out of hell so long.
Nor would he have showed you thus your guilt and danI
he were not willing you should come to repentHe wounds that he may heal. He waits that
he may be gracious. There is bread enough in your
Father's house, and to spare. O against what love are
you uttering these ungrateful complaints If you ever
ger,
if
ance.
become
his child,
you
will
wonder
that
whose coun-
and yet serious. It seemed as though the fountains of consolation were springing up in her mind, and
her very visage shone, I had almost said, like the face
of Moses when he came down from the mount
"I perceive, Mary," said her pastor, "that your mirid
is more tranquil than when I last saw you."
She looked up and smiled. " I have peace," said she,
" sweet peace
yet I know not what to think. I fear
joyful,
am growing
it is
stupid.
And
yet
am happy.
I am to feel
am
so
afraid
happy
"
'
THE INQUIRING-MEETING.
12
"
"
is
Not
that
My
gone.
know
fear is that
have
lost
praises, doing
"
Do you
wonders."
him
love
With
I think I do not
have been thinking of his character and
government, and love to think of them. They do not
distress me as they did once. You know, sir, they used
to distress me. But I can think of him now as a sinhating God, without desiring that he should be less holy."
"Mary," said her pastor, distinctly, "does God appear
g^lorious in your eyes for being a sin-hating, sin-avenging
hate
him now.
Godl"
"He
"
What do you
Mary V*
and yet
from God."
"And
her pastor,
"do you
think
of
all
\vhat,"
said
Christ 1"
sin.
GodV
THE INQUIRING-MEETING.
"
know
if I
"You know,
do not believe
too, that
in
him
God can
13
must perish."
am
sir, I
know
1"
do not think
a christian.
'
humility
when
not doubt
It
it
was the
And
there
could
Mary, who, as
was afterward
in-
whom
am now
Elizabeth, of
Elizabeth."
" Yes, sir,
sir,
THE INQUIRING-MEETING.
I't
"Pardon me
for inquiring, in
God.
sir,
but
especially
towards
scarcely ever
Godl"
am
"I
thing for
me
to be deceived.
him
]"
so
much
observed
who
sat
it
made
near us.
THE INQUIRLNG-3IEETING.
15
God performed
SO, until
bound
with
God ]"
"01
still.
know
tice 1"
that he
but here."
"But how
is this,"
said
I,
stand by it
" I do not
child in
know
that
can
tell
am
you,
sir.
It
a very precious
is
that he bore
my
judgment of God,
but a
sins,
is
and
count-
ed as mine."
"But do you suppose that Christ was a sinner 1"
"No but he bore my sins."
"And because his righteousness is imputed to you,
do you consider yourself less guilty and ill-deserving 1"
;
" In myself^
in him
but
de-
THE
16
"And how
I^QUIRL^G-MEETI^G.
your
"It
is
just
what
need
Christ
is
my
only Saviour.
He
is
searching truths
They
disturbed me.
them now."
"
Why 1"
"
in this place.
It is in
my
heart to bless
God
that
did
THE INQUIRING-MEETING.
17
"
came down."
And who
me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God.'
in me.
Jesus sought
'
as long as
it.
till
he led me.
him
\vithstood
could."
V"^
"And what
now
It
made
it
the weep-
hast
seemed
What, thought
I,
his
un-
can have
conversation
" I perceive you are growing old rapidly,
:
my
good
friend."
" Yes,
sir, I
am
man."
"Have you ever thought much about your soull"
"No, sir, I have not, I have never read the Bible
rant
VOL. XI.
THE INQUIRING-MEETING.
18
much.
"Have you
"No, sir."
God has done
"
you
to repentance.
He
has given you the Bible, and you say, you have
neglected it. He has given you his Sabbaths, and you
have neglected these. He has given you his Son, and
you have neglected him. He has given you time enough
to repent, and though he has long been grieved with
you, yet has he borne with you these sixty years.
What
excuse can you have to offer, when God calls you to his
bar, why you have not repented 1"
" I have no excuse, and yet I do not know how to
repent."
" Well,
THE INQUIRING-MEETING.
*'
Ah me !"
19
am!"
"Forsake your sins," exclaimed his minister. "Break
your iniquity by righteousness, and your transgressions by turning to God and go with an humble and contrite spirit to the cross of Christ, and confess all your
guilt there, and ask the God of mercy if there can be
any hope for you now in this eleventh hour."
" I wish I could do it. It seems to me I would give
the world if I knew how to go to Christ."
" I have no doubt you desire to be delivered from your
present burden, you are anxious to escape from the combut if you saw the plague and vileness of
ing wrath
your heart, you w^ould see that there is no good thing
in it, and that the sweet exercises of genuine repentance
you have never yet desired. Sure I am, that if you truly
wish to repent, there is nothing in the universe to keep
you from repenting."
off
While we were
than
liave
done."
THE INQUIRING-BIEETING.
20
"
bar of
could 1"
" What can
"And what
Maker
1"
"But,
sir,
cannot change
my own
heart.
So tho
it
remark
Do you make
to be true, or because
God
If
it
it
it because you
you want an excuse
is
that
condition."
"
sir," she exclaimed, "
am
existence
of tears.
There was no small emotion in the room. Every perit was to contend with God.
Numbers
seemed moved by sympathy but their ears were open
to instruction.
THE
resist that
21
IIsQUIRIING-MEETlxNG.
from despair.
moment an incident took place, the menwhich I may not suppress. The daughter of this
lady was present, and had herself, a few days before,
found peace and joy in believing. During the previous
conversation, unobserved, she had removed from a remote part of the room, and occupied a seat near her
mother. She was deeply affected by her mother's state
of mind, and with one arm thrown around her neck,
and in a low beseeching tone of voice, said. Dear mother I
Just at this
tion of
We
were
all
Come with us
in tears.
We
to this
literally
" O Mrs.
," said her pas"the blame is on your side, and not on God's. God
That ocean of mercy
is right and the sinner is wrong.
Will you not repair with your children to that ocean of
tor,
mercy
1"
ble voice.
One
What
of this
a group
little
THE INQUIRING-MEETING.
22
for ever."
"The
God
"Yes,
said she,
sir,"
mistake not,
"I see an
He
is
infinite fulness
and
a hiding-place from
"
" Lord,
"
'
Through
23
There was one person present, who, from his appearI judged moved in the higher walks of society, and
who, from iiis conversation, was a very intelligent man,
ance,
and not ignorant either of letters or the world. I afterwards learned that he was a counsellor at law, of very
respectable standing in his profession, and the father of a
numerous family. As we drew near him, he rose and extended his hand to his minister, and remarked
" Sir, this, I presume, is as unexpected to you, as to
me."
"
It
" to
affords
me
the
"
changed V
" I was once a confirmed universalist, as you \veU
know."
"And what has disturbed you in this belief?"
" Not long after the day of fasting and prayer, which
was set apart by the church about six weeks ago, I had
a conversation with
my
family physician,
who
is
a sen-
THE IKQUIRING-MEETING.
24
"
"
reflections
and as I
determined I would be on the safe side
knew I had no religion, resolved to attend to it, and to
1 cpent and believe on Jesus Christ as the Saviour of lost
;
sinners."
this
my
sentiments
concerning the salvation of all men should not prove
true, I should be safe. Accordingly I set about it, but in
a few days I relapsed into my old careless habits. This
alarmed me, and I resolved to enter on the business
again. Again I relapsed into carelessness, and again I
but to no better effect
resolved to become religious
;
if
"My
confidence in
been so much insisted on during this season of the outpouring of God's Spirit
"I contended with them, and even more than I was in
the habit of doing when I was a confirmed universalist.
The
human heart,
THE INQUIRING-MEETING.
I
25
about me.
you
find
it
1"
it
it
for
heart
me
see
"
should be saved
to hell, that
it
and know
Have you
but
if
evem"
family 1"
" No, I have not, but
"Will you do
"
God
was anxious
it
it is
helping me,
to
my
evening
this
purpose
to
God
your
in
do so."
will."
but a collection of
us, to
to
w^hom
address himself.
all
in
hear,
said,
"And which
of you,
my young
1
It is
friends, has
a time
any
when God
is
inte-
draw-
THE INQUmir^G-MEETING.
26
when
it is
awfully hazardous to
trifle
with
a better time.
we
If
At length one
reply.
We
shall
of
never have
away
"And
to believe
christian 1"
"My
1
am
distress
is
gone,
not a christian.
sir,"
feel w^illing
now
to
am
afraid
be in the
lost
lost
how
out of Christ
certainly
is
who is
you lost. And
the sinner
lost,
THE INQUIRING-MEETING.
27
damnation of hell.
what a view is it to look upon
such a collection of youth going down to endless, remediless ruin
Men and angels might weep over such a
!
scene as this."
As we turned from this interesting group, and approached a different part of the room, we passed a young
lady sobbing almost aloud. The pastor turned back.
"
sir," said she, " I am a poor sinner, going down
to hell."
"How
in
this state of
could."
"My
young
friend,
sir," replied
the
young man.
"As you
well know,
THE INQUIRING-MEETING.
28
that
God
is
al-
in earnest, that
am
a lost sinner,
and wholly
in the
away
the soul.
" I scarcely
dress you.
It
know,"
may be
power
you
how
to ad-
just as
say, that
in
How
Be ever
THE INQUIRING-MEETING.
29
grateful to
very
when
"
it is
"
Why
it is
"
It
now."
Toward
trance, sat a
man
and, as
friend
remarked
to
As
my
He moves
What
"
It is
is
it
seemed
here, just as
and dooms
me
to hell.
It
is
impossible for
me
ever to
be happy.
shall
hell."
VOL. XI,
THE
so
'
this
How
lNQUlKL\(i-JIEETI]\G.
unhappy
state of
my
mind
friend, "
in
now three days, and it seems to me I canheard to-day that my son is happy in the
hope of the Gospel, and this has greatly distressed me
on my own account."
"And can you not come and accept of mercy 1 All
things are ready.
The Son of man came to seek and
save that which was lost. Why should you not take the
water of life freely \ God makes no hard conditions."
" They are hard to me, I feel that I can never save
" Sir,
it is
not live.
myself.
If
and make
certain that
take
away my
obstinate heart,
am
am now
as
in this
house of prayer."
"I know
it is
"but
is
"There
is,"
is fled
there
when
"hope no
God may
you are
in
God's hands."
is
in
potter."
liope.
diator.
Tell
almighty grace.
God
THE
Let
him
take hold of
irs'CiUlKliMG-MEETllNG.
jiiy
"
31
"pray
me.''''
me."
and just as we were going, we
heard him say, " Him that cometh to we, / will in no wise
cast outy " Yes," answered I, " He is not a man that he
should lie, nor the son of man that he should repent. It is
a faithful sayings and worthy of all acceptation^ that
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.''''
" I have not a word to
I could perceive that he wept.
say," observed he, " if he casts me off." And he wept
sir," said he,
We rose
for
to leave him,
profusely.
was now
after 9 o'clock,
THE INQUIKING-MEETING.
32
bosom
when
the
camp
of
ness.
I felt no small degree of solicitude that so solemn a
meeting should leave a right impression on every mind
present.
And while this thought was passing through
my mind, my worthy brother rose and made in substance
the following appropriate and affecting remarks
My
meeting.
trust
we
shall all
THE IKQUIKING-i^lKETING
33
VOL.
XI.
9*
THE INQUIRING-MEETING.
3^
tell
when death
If
throw yourselves at his feet and cast yourselves upon his free and sovereign grace. Go from this
house humbled and repenting sinners. Go silently to
your closets. Look not, speak not to creatures, but to
He is the hiding-place. He will save you by
Christ.
himself alone, or leave you all to perish. He will have
all the glory, or you shall never join the song of his
redeemed.
fess
it all
we
all
hymn
laden,
"
to
before
with
God
"
were listened
bowed ourselves
You
"
THE I^^CiUlRmG-MEETING.
'*
"Nor
35
make you
linger,
Is to feel
"
"
Lo
"
"
"
None
Can do
but Jesus
The
last two lines were repeated with a sweet and subdued emphasis, and seemed to reach every heart
"
"
"
None
None
Can do
but Jesus,
but Jesus,
The next morning we awoke early, and pursued our journey with emotions we shall not easily for-
meeting.
We
hills just as
my
soul,
The
mountains, as
I .stop-
36
THE INQUIRING-MEETING.
ped to look back upon them, were delightfully resplendent with the goodness, wisdonn, and power of their
great Maker. The very light and atmosphere seemed
all full of God. My mind was as calm as the soft breezes
which fanned the forest, and buoyant as its bending foliage.
It
seemed
to
me
The
was never
distant horizon
was spread out far as the ej'^e could extend itself, like
bosom of a peaceful lake. Just hovering over its remote verge was a deep mild cloud, resembling a chain of
the
The above
tor,"
is
selected
from
"
Fragments from
the Study of a
Pas
JVo.
421.
SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATIONS
OF
mocked him
Elymas the
chief
Herod, who
set
him
at
naught and
who had
ent of the riches of his grace, like the proud Pharisee, who
trusted in himself that he was righteous, and despised others
or satisfied themselves with the form, without the power
of godliness, like the foolish virgins, who went out to meet
or sought
the bridegroom, but had no oil in their lamps
to escape from their conviction, like Felix, who deferred the
or
overtures of the Gospel to a more convenient season
manifested the indecision of Agrippa, who, though almost,
was not altogether persuaded to be a Christian or lightly
esteemed the blessings of the great salvation, like Gallio,
who cared for none of these things.
But, with regard to all who have come to the Saviour in the sincerity of their hearts, sensible of their burdens, their helplessness, and their misery, how different has
Just look at
been their experience, and how encouraging
a few of the cases recorded in the sacred volume, and mark
how cordial was the reception they met with, yet how
varied the attitudes in which they appear.
One
CPIRIST.
standing afar
and a burden
off, "with
pestuous sea.
Another
is
in
hem
of
garment.
Another
is
may
way by
at thy house."
THE ALL SUFFICIENCY OF CHRIST.
another
and apprehension
Mm
out.'"
is
]\o.
4S3.
REFORMATION OF DRUNKARDS.
Truly we
Under peculiar
live in an age of wonders.
hundreds and thousands of once hopeless drunkyet the work of reform has
ards are becoming sober men
It is computed that there are in the land
but commenced.
no less than five hundred thousand habitual inebriates. The
condition of each individual calls for sympathy and aid,
that he may become a sober man, and, through the blessing
of God, gain eternal life.
For drunkenness there is and can be no apology but
the condition of the drunkard is often pitiable in the extreme.
However gradual, or respectable, may have been his prog-
influences,
now
within him
the drunkard's appetite.
is formed
Wretched man
He feels what not faintly resembles the
gnawing of " the worm that never dies." He asks for help.
There are times when he would give worlds to be reformed.
Every drunkard's life, could it be written, would tell this in
!
tion.
Who
Our
thraldom of
sin
and Satan
it.
into eternity.
What would we
REFORMATION OF DRUNKARDS.
the
tenantless.
men,"
But above all, the salvation of the soul makes it indisTemperance is not religion. Outward reformapensable.
but by this reform a great obstacle is
tion is not religion
are sober
REFORMATION OF DRUNKARDS.
But what can we do ? How can we aid the poor unThis is the question.
fortunate drunkard?
Some can do much. Every man
All can do a httle.
can get out of the way of his reform cease setting him an
example which proves his ruin cease selling him an article
which is death to the soul discountenance the drinking
;
usages of society, and those licensed and unhcensed dramshops which darken the land. Every man can speak an
encouraging word to the Avretched inebriate tell him of
what is doing in the land, allure him and go with him to the
temperance-meeting, and urge him to sign the pledge and
when he has signed, comfort and strengthen him, give him
employment, give him clothing and if he falls, raise him
up, and if he falls seven times, raise him up and forgive
him.
Try it. Christian brother. I know your heart beats in
that he has raised
gratitude to God for what he has done
up a new instrumentality for rescuing thousands of our race
from the lowest degradation. It is a token of good for our
Enter into this field of labor.
country and the world.
"You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; that
though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that
we through his poverty might become rich." Go imitate
become poor, if need be, to save the lost.
his example
*'
Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them
;
to
come in."
Try it. Christian
smiles.
Try
it,
young men.
early
REFORMATION OF DRUNKARDS.
palsied, withered,
fires,
treading
Go after them
the verge of the drunkard's grave ?
Go, thanking God that you are not as
in their misery.
Go, beheving that you may save them that
they are.
they will receive you thankfully that they must have your
Go, and be strong in this work. The
help, or be lost.
movements of Providence call you to effort for the unfortunate and wretched, that you may pull them out of the
now on
What you do
0, if
in the blessed work, do quickly.
your power to save one young man, do it quickly.
Run and speak to that young man. He Avill thank you for
His mother will thank you.
His father will thank you.
it.
His immortal soul, rescued and
His sisters will thank you.
saved, will love you for ever.
fire.
it
be
in
My
Come
IVo.
433.
It
Zurich,
in
1'741,
read, every
to
One morning,
claimed, "
make
What
a treasure of morality
how
difficult to
After a few
When
he joined
his knees,
'
Give to
The proprietor
and not
words,
to refuse
if I
none, and
how much
have two
if
hungered and
desires
have food,
in
coats, I
want
this
me
so
question, that I
warmth
my
wife
made no
MY
to
my
bed with
starving
she said
sir,"
''
;
am truly ashamed,
am short six dollars
but
morrow, and
and
sickness,
my
my
rent
due
is
am
to-
poor child
could save,
have
nearly
is
laid aside
meet this demand, but six dollars yet are wanting, and
to-morrow is term-day." Here she opened a parcel which
she held in her hand, and said, " This is a book with a
silver clasp, which my late husband gave me the day we
to
were married.
is
It is
and sore
possess,
it
all
to part with
is
how
it.
am aware
I could ever
that
repay
it
but,
you,"
I said
dentally
and putting
my
felt
my
hand
into
my
pocket, I acci-
besides, even
if
two
dollars
from her
they could,
diffi-
have
need of
this
widow,
I said,
trifle
?"
is
no one.
to house, I
away."
MY
requires six
give her a
I'll
trifle in
go."
The good old widow Avas either too simple or too modest
what was going on, and was preparing to retire,
when my wife called to her to wait in the lobby. When
we were left alone, I asked my wife, "Are you in earnest
to notice
how
me
trifle
with charity
it
Oh,
" do you
my
dear friend,
let
'
I kissed
**
Thanks,
my
wife,
thousand
it
widow
at the
thought that
niscience of
thou
false
God
tongue
!"
me
down my cheek
had been so
all
darkened around
forgetful of the
om-
thou
false heart
If thou.
Lord, shouldest
MY
She
could
cried, "
"Keep your
book," said
I,
all I
possess
is
money
''and the
this
poor
too,
and
my wife
"Do not
yielded at my
returned to
you
alloAv yourself to
first
so
it
much
suggestion
to heart,
my
you
'
my
but promise
finger,
will
and
never
"
She
When
my
humble
To preach the whole moral law, and to
account in
part of
wait,
it,
and
is
diary, in order to
hypocrisy.
reflect,
my
fulfil
Merciful Father,
how
I shall
this
deceitful heart.
long must I
be able to rely
little
benefit,
and
felt
I had read in
more and more
How
I acted
profess
JVo.
424.
ETERNAL LIFE
OR
More than
way
three thousand
You
are
now
the
last
will
not return.
ent from
It leads to
worlds very
differ-
this.
at its close.
How
The golden
Or
awful view
how new
The righteous
when they aAvake in their Redeemer's likePsalm 1*7 15. The misery of hell is inconceivable.
The happiness
of heaven
is
unutterable.
will be satisfied,
ness.
faithful
Luke 16
24.
Eternal
life
or death
is
at hand,
Eternity is a duration
and one must certainly be yours.
beyond calculation and comprehension. Look at the ground
and the
eternity ?
compared with
And
eternity.
life
They
eous.
is
show
that eternal
is
life
theirs.
With equal
that eternity, though a wretched eternity, awaits the impen" He that believeth not the Son,
itent and unconverted.
shall not see life
John
glory
36.
then
"When
shall
the Son of
And
everlasting punishment."
Matt. 25
shall
be
left
fire,
hand. De-
prepared for
these shall go
away
into
"They
"The fearful,
and ever." Rev. 14 11
and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and
eth
up
for ever
kingdom
of
it
out
God
it is
it
and not only so, but in language more forcible and expressive than any single word, does the Lord Jesus repeatedly
assert, that the fire of hell shall
How
eternity.
Eternal
or eternal
woe
life,
of sin
;
or eternal death
the prospect of
eternal happiness,
;
eternal
eternal nearness to
eternal
is
;
him
never be quenched.
saints,
accursed
spirits.
is
before you
if
disposed to slight
trifle
with
its
Oh,
interests ?
its
when concerning
folly,
neglect eternal
you
pear,
when
life,
shall
of the last of
them you
shall exclaim, It
is
ten
perseverance,
steadfast
of peace
Heb. 4
glory."
Col. 3
"When
9.
Christ,
who
our
is
shall appear,
hfe,
of rest.
4.
*'
There
is
up
laid
me
for
in
a crown of
give
them
me
at that
day
and not
to
me
trifle is this
2 Tim.
world to
me
soul,
be steadfast, unmovable,
work
of the
Lord
4:8.
its
With
sorrows or
my
Therefore,
always abounding
the
in
Lord.
Cor.
you.
all
all
If
will
you
be well.
is
lost
if
]Vo.
433.
"/^
is
appointed unto
men once
to die^^^
^^
bar of the Sovereign Judge, there to receive the sentence which will be eternal. My question is " Can you
die Tranquil ?" If you should die to-day, this moment,
and appear as you are before God, are you sure that
you would be acquitted, and not condemned ]
Alas there are men who, under the delusion of the
!
no one will
condemned in the day of judgment. But I
ask how do they know this ? and especially how do they
great
he absolutely
to eternal misery.
God
is
of
man
judge in that of
higher and more impartial authority
VOL.
XI.
11
and where
shall
we
God
goodness
is
over
all
all
his works,"
Psa. 145
20 92 7.
Others persuade themselves that man can prepare himself for judgment after death ; and perhaps with greater
advantages than here below, since probably his mind
will have more light and fewer temptations when he
shall be freed from flesh and have escaped this world.
But who has come back from the abodes of the dead to
9,
tell
word never
be
taught us in the
tells
you of the
the present
as
its
Jesus Christ has gone, (John, 8 21,) to eternal happiness. It connects closely judgment with death, without
recognising any interval between them. '^ It is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment."
It declares in a passage referring directly to the question before us, that " according to the deeds done in the
:
judgment according
this
to their
it
any a
own
theories.
But what
is
lull
philosopher
in his study,
leisure of a
for, to say the least, they afford no cerhim who seeks refuge in them. Who of you,
in that terrible moment, v^hen struggling in the agonies
of death, could say with unshaken assurance, " I know
that no one will be condemned at the bar of God V No,
no these theories of an idle brain can never assure you
a death-bed
tainty to
we
find
them
in the
who have
a well-founded asu-
4-
was speaking
to
day,
is
honest
nearly as follows.
nrian
the year."
third
" Is not
my
they
who speak
life
all
God
merciful to those
and what is
These various answers
of his grace
agree
in
is
such
mistaken.
God
is
the
law of God.
things
have
kept from
my
youth up
Matt. 19:20.
If you answer in the affirmative, attend to a simple
account of a conversation I held one day with a man
who had this opinion of himself. I had put to him the
question, " Can you die tranquil
He replied without
hesitation that he could and on pressing him to explain the ground of his tranquillity, he told me, like
you, that eternal life is promised to those who obey the
commandments of God, which he had always done. I
then took, almost at random, one of the commandments
of the decalogue ; it was the fifth, " Honor thy father
VOL. XI
11*
is
guilty of
all.
For he that
said,
law." James, 2
to humiliation.
I then asked him to name in his turn one commandment which he had not transgressed. He chose the
second
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven
images, nor bow down before them." At first he believed himself entirely innocent
surely he had never
worshipped idols. But I represented to him that there
was an idolatry, of which a person was guilty every
''
time that he gave to the creature the homage and affections due only to the Creator ; so that the covetous
man is an idolater, because he makes a god of his gold ;
and the intemperate man is an idolater because he
makes one of
Paul, Eph. 5
God and
his
Col. 3
will, either
words of
5.
riches,
St.
to
or the pleasures of
him
to
With some
if
you would be
and
if
I
would
you have
led inevitably to
same
result.
If
tranquil.
feeble
of his
act
fulfilment of
perfect
the
his law."
What
sin.
God
"
Not from
with
in love
As many
as are of
for
is
it
written
Cursed
is
is
2:10;
Gal. 5:3.
What
shall
Gal. 3
say more
10
f
;
James,
It
is
his law, to
man
accommodate
"
this
it
weakness of
to the
still
those
who seek
It is
God
sinful
Are there
in a
consents to be?id
Son.
He no
it
first
was
last
1
subterfuge
strictly applied
but
if to this
redemption we add
my
feelings
may
land there
Here, here
where are we
'?
if in
cannot
a Christian
an
the language just recited
from which the doctrine of salvation by Jesus
an idea
Christ is as far removed as heaven is from hell
which only borrows some words from the Bible, the
better to cover the attack upon its most fundamental
the
idea contained in
idea
truths
which, not content to charge God with connivmakes Jesus Christ also an accomplice in this
ing at sin,
prevarication
is
Ah
no
rather must
it
what
makes
the sins
be said that,
if
of
his
Thus
law!
to shield
this
mitigated
CAN YOU DIE tranquil]
10
Judge
jects
a law
its
Away,
trine of a mitigated
procures for
God
man
law
then,
all their
offences against
away with
Away
changeable, absolute,
will
for
mitigated law
Is
formed
to
your conduct.
You cannot go
This
is
I asked you,
your conduct had been conformed to the law,
and you were constrained to reply: "No, it has not
been conformed to it." We then inquired if the law
could be accommodated to your conduct and reason,
the Bible, the cross of Christ answered, " No, it cannot be accommodated." Lastly, to complete the evidence we examined if, by rejecting reason, shutting the
Bible, taking away the cross, and attributing to God a
mitigated law, you can be sure that you have observed
even this law and reason obliged you to say '' No, we
cannot be sure." What hope then remains to you 1
first, if
How
will
j'-our
this
law which cannot be bent to your conduct ] How, unless by your condemnation 1 This condemnation alone
can restore order, settle the difficulty between your
conduct and the law, do justice to you and to God.
This condemnation is inevitable and if you should appear such as you are before the bar of God, if you
should die to day but stop. It is enough to prove ti
you, and I believe I have done it v.'ith almost mathematical evidence, that, to say the least, you can have
no certainty of not being condemned and so no tran;
quillity in dying.
But my friend, my dear friend, if you cannot die tranby what charm, by w^hal secret are you enabled to
quil,
\'2
laughing, singing, dancing, towards the bar of the sovereign Judge, with no
preacher
Ah!
more deplorable than
there
is
any thing
the world
in
judgment appointed
which you await it.
But no,
do you
injustice.
These
for you,
it
reflections,
in
is
the
am
your
13
has been put to the test, and has not deceived them on
a death-bed. Yes, we can die tranquil.
You ask, perhaps, " And why you more than we 1
You
first,
Do we
hope,
we dread
God cannot
but
of
VOL,
XI.
r2
l^
know
or the profound
wisdom there
displayed.
He established
" He sent his
is,
"
us, to
God with
us,"
be condemned
15
But
this
lost
him between
By
there
is
this faith
written:
"He
that believeth in
him
shall not be
condem-
"he
come
"There
is,
therefore,
in Christ
into
life ;"
condem(John, 8
now no
Jesus."
con-
Rom. 8:1.
CAN YOU DIE TRANQUIL
16
But you
have noi
ask
will
kept
how we
law
the
True,
law, and
if it
to
is
law
(1 Cor.
ness
30
" that
;)
God
of
in
we might be made
Him."
2 Cor. 5:21.
the righteousIt
he
is
who
"hath borne our sins in his own body on the tree ;" it
is he who was " wounded for our transgressions, and
bruised for our iniquities." Isaiah, 53
5.
written,
It is
John,
;)
'(.
having made
our hope is
all
heaven
(Mark, 16
us
;"
that he sat
19
;)
(Rom. 8 34
:
down at
God
;"
that
''
if
17
;)
What
then do
Do you
'^uillity 1
like that
you say
find
it
to the
ground of our
first
tran-
shock,
as
on so solid a foundation,
appear ;'
you
i[
tell
we
to
strange
it is
settled peace,
distress, "
Restore unto
Psalm 51
12.
We
me
make no
difficulty in
avowing
it
to
it
doctrine.
is
to ourselves,
we
VOL.
XI.
12*
is firm,
that
we
are
18
exposed
when
it is
weak and
is,
it
By
fluctuating.
on the contrary,
comes peace
faith
faith, little
perfect."
how
Deut. 32
precious this
4.
enemy unable
to hurt
me
God
of
With
Jesus,
formida-
in the
a conquered
but
I
traverse the
march trium-
phant " over the lion and the adder," (Psalm 91:
enemy
With
13,)
and
ascend
the highest heaven, and in my Judge I recognize my
Savior
Jesus, Jesus, is the only name that we oppose
to all anxieties and all fears
To the agonies of death,
over
all
Jesus,
to the suffer-
Jesus, Jesus
He
is
and to
all
life,
our
our refuge
God
that justifieth.
Who
he that condemneth
is
19
is
risen again
who
It is
is
even
us."
for
"
Who
shall separate
or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or
or
peril,
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us. For I am persuaded
sword
ties,
is in
nor powers,
And now
that
vindicated the
upon
we have repeated
1
it
not from
How
to seek the
same peace.
It is
is
for
over-
in
20
first
in
own
own
table
in-
He
conversation.
And
which held us
may we
to tell
not
we,
in
to boast to us the
bondage
come
goodness of thy
all
to you,
our lifetime,
who
are
still
(Heb. 2 15,)
bondage,
:
in this
to urge
may be
you
to believe
happy.
those
who can
servant
depart
die tranquil
in peace,
THE END.
!"
for
iVo.
426,
THE
YORKSHIRE WEAVER;
OR,
was
my
in
the beautiful
surrounding chapels.
various methods which
On one occasion,
God is pleased to
spoke of the
bless in bringing
and raising up missionaries and in parmentioned family prayer. This led the interesting
individual whose short history I am about to relate, to call
on me. He was a plain, sensible, kind-hearted man, and
sinners to himself,
ticular
when
dialect.
do not know
if
he
is
but
jects, at
my
2
"lie
prayer f
his wife
I consented.
and children
was no business
assure you,
fell
upon
of mine, sat
sir, I felt
mun
atop to family
still
very strangely
and looked
never
as
it
But
I,
on.
felt so before.
As soon
as
it
and walked
As
heart.
was
to
over, I left
my
father's house.
thought, This
hill, I
me
asked
left
I must pray
that
'
!'
called
upon
God.''
TFIE
YORKSHIRE WEAVER.
knees.
!"
There he
on his
is
moon
there,
Oh what
soul I"
he
for a witness,
first cried,
my
friend
It will
From
of
that
and
w^hen I
first
most
neighborhood.
in all the
which he
replied, "
that I
-great,
My
life.
To
to
do.
my
young men
plans,
and
but
habits,
about this world, and never rose higher but now all things
were become new. I was afraid to open my mind to and
mortal about it, but I could tell my Saviour yea, I could
;
tell
him
retreat.
the gate
all.
to the Father
sinners.
and
sick,
me
to speak a
my
to
lot
word
now,
in
to
my
heavy-laden
the
visits to
in
word
them
for
for I never
knowledge of the
and now, as I heard
the devices of Satan, and
Scriptures,
from
own
his
his
human
heart, I could
up men
every station of
in
life
God
in raising
who
says,
"
I w^ill
all
you
give
rest."
who
those
felt its
begin, relying
often inculcated
urging
on divine
aid,
it,
to
own domestic
''
at the altar of
God
devoutly join
in
worship
''
!
'Tis
heaven below."
We commended each other to God by prayer, and
shook hands, and parted, in the joyful expectation of meeta
like
little
Do you
prayer?
Are
you
not,
by
inviting
them
can
by
Io.
427,
My
IS
ROOM.Luke
14
22.
me by
an attentive perusal.
The
subject of
it
is
very
is
it
make you
able to
of heaven
them
light:'
my
for
an ''inheritance with
Col.
12.
Has
this
the
saints
in
Glorious Gospel,
VOL.
xr,
13
to
to
If
tliat it
have
be blessed by it?
be a partaker of its
felt
any desire
a pitiable one
out an interest
your situation
it,
your precious
for
after
is
soul, with-
in this
life call
behalf
You know
you
the uncertainty
may be
soul
j"
required of
Glorious
this
it,
ever.
Oh
moment on what
I say,
lift
concern.
" Haste, aged sinner^ to the
Lamb
of
God
is
room
for
'
you
while
"
Oh
"
seek at once,
While
friend, of
do not delay,
lest
hell
thus faithfully
your
lost
'tis
called to-day.'
and ruined
you,
my
aged
state, icithoiit
you
I entreat
ings
it
to
in this
Glorious Gospel,
remember,
that
Yes,
7iow,
" while
it is
called to-day
to
it
be
my
entreaties
do not
live
/'
" the
Do
contented
The
ivages of
si?i is
cast not
blessings*,
prospects
I
away
all
the
But what
light and the power of seeing would be to one
blind what health and ease would be to one
what liberty would be to
sick and suffering
the captive what deliverance would be to the
shipwrecked sailor and what life would be
ance, the Gospel
is
so
full
of them.
A GIFT FOR THE AGED.
after
to the
these,
and
would be
all
my
is
aged
friend,
by the devil at
his will." Isa. 1:6-, 2 Cor. 4:4; Ephes. 2 1
2 Tim. 2 26. Thus a need exists for a remedy to be provided and, blessed be God,
that remedy is contained in the Glorious Gospel.
Here life, light, health, liberty, and life
eternal, are treasured up
and all, all these
led captive
my
of
God
the fountain
a?iy
man
Con-
it is
made
himself:
you by the
''Come and take
to
thirst let
" If
A GIFT FOR THE AGED.
believeth
thirst
come
have everlasting
shall
7: 37
Matt. 11
Rev. 21
life.''
29
28,
John, 6
John,
35.
me
if all
Let
ther
shall never
you would
you would
them
think not.
and delay
I think
own
you
would inquire most anxiously where they were
to be obtained, and listen with the deepest
interest
to
do the same as
ivants
which
urges
you
it
the case
is far
more urgent the effects far more lastingIf the body were
the object more glorious.
relieved from pain, it would still be subject to
death, if sight were restored to the blind, yet
death would come at some time if liberty
were given to the prisoner, death could not at
last be avoided. But so far superior are the
,
XI.
if
is
A GIFT FOR THE AGED.
6
for ever
and death
your enjoyments,
itself,
will continue
them,
in
at a starving
man
if
he de-
assured by one
who had
that the
remedy was
others.
Oh
even
and knowledge
suitable and
and
yes,
devils, will
skill
saints
had cured
in
in
it
by God him-
his offers
*,
you are
entreated to accept of them, and not to " refuse him that speaketh."
Delay, in
common
result.
and, ere
things,
is
25.
dangerous
but
Heb. 12
who
invites
" will in
Oh
life,
strong reason
To
other hour.
is
short and
nearer
the
life
your
is
being so late
its
why you
young and
uncertain
last
*,
healthy, time
but
how much
hour likely to be
you
To-morrow
pleasure, tempt
to neglect
to say, "
I will
Let
When
it
is
to
your
soul, or
who
a very
not, then,
hope.
is
thus
awfully de-
be feared, without
am
poorly
I will
now
do
I shall soon
Alas
it."
be
better,
and then
j
the sea-
saved by
it.
folly lead
Holy
There
is
no
other
of
is offered,
you
Come
we can be
man lay
saved
j"
than that
is laid,
which
is
Jesus Christ
way
is
can no
He
:"
Cor. 3
You
11
John, 14
John, 3
36.
Neglecting
you
nity awaiting
this
and death
where there
will seal
gnashing of teeth.
your doom
weeping
is
(Heb. 10
sin,"
Yes,
for ever,
my
aged
friend, for
the wrath to
you endure
come, as the awful consequence
own
ever
for ever
of your
vation
^in
for ever
will
Gospel.
And
shall
it
be so with you
Will
and
for
think, I
what
is
Oh
stop
that
you
will lose
your soul?
What
you
are
by your neglect
Are you happy ? Do you
noio gaining
of the Savior 1
mistaken
if
his salvation
ivithoiit
you think so
You
it ?
for there is
are
no real
it,
happy.
Once again
accept
let
me warn you
not be given
you
sermon
of delaying to
another should
Savior
may
This
letter
may
testimony
danger
told
sermons
you were warned of your
that
of a
way
of escape
entreated
to seek for
mercy
rather than
life ,"
that
Christ, but
made
to
10
Lord may
add his blessing to this effort for the good of
your soul, and that, from this hour, you may
yield yourself to Christ as your hope and your
all, seeking to the Holy Spirit to renew and
sanctify you, and make you " a new creature
love,
in
and of
Oh
his glory.
that the
Christ Jesus."
The
tlie
Eleventh Hour.
My
Jesus
is
waiting to be gracious.
His blood
is
is
able to
in
come
life.
Oh
do
mind
,"
,"
to save
and cheer
good hope of
listen,
you
youi'
everlast-
A GIFT FOR THE AGED.
think of this gracious Friend
11
do pay
atten-
tion to
feeble or imperfect
no
it
may seem
salvation,
and he
is
will
breathing
promise
own
implanted by his
Spirit,
Do
to yourself.
18,)
fail
you
much
to do
it
too late
that
it is
name
it is
own
I readily
of " an
is
is
is
not closed
venth hour
-,
my
and such,
aged
friend, shall
be
for not
coming before
and upbraideth
Do
your
sins
?2o/."
you
James,
5.
for-
12
given,
look
to Jesus
" is exalted to
be a Prince
4,
vile.
sins,
and he
None
all
your
obtaining a
believe that he
all
is
willing to cleanse
unrighteousness
j"
you from
him
those
that those
who ask
who seek
Luke, 11:
11, 13,)
shall
shall receive
find,
that
(2 Peter, 3
sin-
These precious
promises were written for your encouragement, and be assured that you shall find them
true,
the
for
13
own
desire, although
self in a matter of so
much
importance,
am
Ah my
!
it
be
for
!
me
you will/<?e/ it for ever, if you die without a change of heart. I cannot describe to
vou what it is to be banished from the glory
to say,
VOL.
XI.
14
14
you
if you
will
it,
die
And
love.
can you,
my
strivings
you have
Awful indeed
danger, and
resisted.
is
your condition,
full
of
kind.
realities of
You
offers
of his
now, make
light of the
yet un-
bitter,
your neglect of
the golden opportunities which have passed
availing lamentations, confess
entreat
you
to give
while
my
it
aged
is
called to-day
for
repeated to you
Jesus
now, yes,
noiL\
is still
now
He
will not
A GIFT FOR THE AGED.
15
Do
ing
then
you
found
5"
let
55
(Isa.
6,
Holy
to
Spirit to teach
pray
for grace
that one,
Neither
laid.
other."
guilty
Oh
that
you are
you are
in
there
is
heart and
of the
salvation in
life
any
there
God
is
your
for
sins
or
of
make
atone-
to
if
satisfied
sinner
is
hath
made an atonement
for sin,
and
16
brought
God
of
God came
by the
into
and he
sacrifice of himself,
able and
is
To
this
My
Friend of sinners,
all
this gracious
now
come
to
be gracious."
come now,
to him, to
Isaiah,
30
for "
he waiteth
Do there-
18, 19.
mercy
it
invite
to
while
who
is
the
day of
calls you,
salvation, seek
seek,
Holy
Spirit, that, as
lost,
guilty, helpless,
sinner,
cleanseth from
all sin, (1
John,
7,) I
know
am
that I
invite the
to
through him.
to the
Do
come
you are come to
is uncertain
come
Lord Jesus
just as
sin,
A GIFT FOR THE AGED.
and wo.
who
and
is
not a pliysician,
do then go
17
once to
at
possesses power,
Your
skill
spiritual dis-
and tenderness,
up their wounds.
"
Deep
"
wounds
are the
Where
is
nature's aid
"
Do
then let
me
sin, bitten
pent
for as
Moses
in the wilderness,
VOL. XI.
lifted
forgive-
up the
ser-
14^
A GIFT FOR THE AGED.
18
of
Man
been
whosoever cometh
however aged who-
however
unto him'
vile,
have everlasting
life.
beware lest
you refuse him that speaketh beware lest
you stifle conviction, lest God in his anger
through the deceitfulness of sin
and ye refused
mity, I will
Prov.
I also will
fear cometh."
24, 26.
called
it
be
to
which offered
ful
life
and salvation
to
now
Matt.
fly to
you dread,
"Depart, ye cursed!"
my
to
Oh!
warningfl}^,
25
41.
there shall
you
find safety
mercy
there shall you be
19
A Word of Encouragement.
My
gives
It
me
know
real pleasure to
that
a Savior
-,
say
your
I feel
soul,
pleasure to
know
this,
feel
yourself to be a sinner, or
it is
but
true,
You were
was a
in that state
been miserable
my
it
for ever.
friend, that
at
peace
false peace,
and
you have
felt
your
it
is
freely
20
heaven and earth pass away, than a poor convinced believing sinner
tion through the
the
Lord Jesus
You may,
fears,
and be led
me
in
Christ.
now
doubt whether,
to
of obtaining salva-
fail
many
at the
will
be gracious
it is
no doubtful mat-
but
ter.
every
man
dying
thief,
a penny.
whose
You
ivhole life
in opposition to the
Lord
to him.
I refer to
these
and pre-
who
make aged
transgressors
is
25,)
become
as " brands
my
aged
friend,
that sucli
left
on
promises are
in the Bible,
be too
vile,
may
You cannot
on which you
life.
or feeble, or depraved
you are
A GIFT FOll THE AGED.
invited to
come
21
may find
accept-
and
feel that
the Gospel
lost,
is
accept^
into the
whom
sin
world to save
such he
still
receiveth,
and
"
who-
Call to
37.
mind the
Nor
lines
make you
linger,
him
Here, then,
my
aged
friend,
the
way
is
work
Holy
Holy
Spirit
it is
Spirit it is who, while he convinces you of
sin, of your guilt and danger, must also lead
you to the Savior, and help you to believe on
The very feelings of sorrow you now
him.
have on account of sin were wrought in you
may be enjoyed
by
this
it
the
is
of the
Divine Teacher
*,
22
for sin
your iron
no,
and
and the enemy of God and
the influence of the world, would all unite to
make sin appear desirable to you would aid
souls,
heart,
to blind
to
keep you
in
If,
therefore,
you have
felt
above
that " in
17: 9
all things,
rest alone
deceit-
Rom.
it is
calls
thing,"
( Jer.
on Christ
for salvation,
through the
very of indwelling
spirit,
may
yet you
you sorrow of
that the Lord hath
sin gives
trust
in
your heart,
it
when death
and that he
will
shall introduce
in the
you
heavenly world.
"
and,
al-
you shall
blessed are they who mourn
And
not only as
it
in tears,
be comforted."
all
THE AGED.
23
to journey
A GIFT FOR
way
the
that
Yes, the
all-sufficient
Holy
gracious and
this
you as a teacher,
much
his cheering
make them
to
Be
17.
all
known
difficulties,
to
God
Spirit
if
pray
feel
your
prayer
in
may
or sorrows,
you
instruct
you
if
you
feel
who
still
trust
in
pray, for he
him,
33
in
tempo-
hath said to
" I will
Isa.
you
all
16
Heb. 13
5.
down
dejected and
to yourself,
and
all, I
not do
this, for it
who has
in
shall
be forsaken
/'
do
but
sit
"Be
made
24
me
A GIFT
in the
and thou
day of trouble,
shalt glorify
let
me."
me
Thus
then,
my
exhort you to be
for
he
Psalm 50 15
1 Peter, 5:7-,)
he watched over you when
you were an enemy to him in your mind by
wicked works, and depend upon it he will not
leave you when by the Lord Jesus Christ
you are reconciled to him. No, the promise
of his word tells you that " down to old age
he will carry you, and even to hoary hairs he
Fear not,
will be with you." Isaiah, 46 4.
trust his word, and you shall ere long be with
him, where sorrow and sin can never enter.
There you shall see his face, and sing his
,"
(Phil. 4:6-,
praise.
Farewell.
:\o.
498.
FRIENDLY WORD
15
made
lars to
How
was going
to
market
to
buy or
sell
and
if,
under the
influ-
How
is it
now
Reflect
how
useless a
member
of society
you
are, yet
lost,
men
ed unto
judgment."
You know
to
other vices.
money
that
You know
a blasphemer also
that every
he
inevitably leads
man who
plays for
Novf
if
is
is
in-
strument
in
why
with.
I\.
439,
of
God
in its place, is
On
all.
apply
important.
Christians
to sacred music,
When we
we base our
plea in
a Christian assembly,
we
its
behalf.
common
use of
recitative,
duet, or of a chorus
in
Handel's Messiah, or
Haydn's Creation. With this explanation, then, in pleading for good sacred music, Ave shall be understood to speak
of that which is practicable for all well-trained singers, and
within the means of any congregation able to support the
Gospel.
found
pally
in
MUSIC.
already described.
of music.
some
of the
lofty conceptions of
and Peter and the solemn and glorious instructions of the Son of God, are versified in the simplicity,
force, and beauty of Watts, Newton, Cowper, Steele,
of Paul, John,
D wight,
They
work
Their appropriate
of music.
character
religion,
Irreligious persons
love, taste, elegant
affections,
or with
its
may much
it
martial
glory.
as associated with
sentiment, with
But
it
is
only
when
mercy
of
God
in Christ,
the
music demonstrates
most
irresistible
richest worth,
its
We
power.
and
sweetest
its
Prayer
ment.
Christian
perity, in
is
is
a privilege unspeakable.
may have rich enjoyment, and spiritual prosBut his heavenly Father
his way to heaven.
proved.
we
devo-
that they
described,
1.
in
the
him."
Scrij^tures.
2^(irt
glorious."
make
we
Sacred music, as a
"
a joyful
name, make
his praise
come,
let
noise
unto
the
Rock
let
us
of our salvation."
hymns and
means
spiritual songs," as
of acceptable worship.
these.
for devotional
Paul and
Israel at
Silas
tlie
sang praises to
Red
and
joy.
God
most
lively
Egyp-
songs of gratitude
the nation.
festivals of the
To read the
histories of
some
of the sacred
man who
fail
to
in his soul."
spirit
of
;"
David, when he said, " The Lord is in his holy temple
" Enter into his courts wdth thanksgiving, and into his gates
with praise."
2.
The
effects
in divine w^orship.
single song,
used
in France,
in bringing
If
such then be
The
some bereavement, or
with
beset
and
sacred
of
stormy
still !"
who
a Father
Christian
thus
is
sorrows
break
thus
"Awake and
tenderest,
said,
led to adore
in
his soul,
when he
sea,
ye that dwell
deepest
The
of
sometimes come
sonor will
" Peace, be
sense
sweetly the
It
spirit.
How
God.
before
guilt
influence
soothino-
oppressed with
temptations, or
unworthiness
over his
sing,
and from
sweetest
songs.
The weight under which the soul has been bowed down
The mourner is comforted the trembhng
is removed.
;
believer
heart sweetly
trite
age
established,
is
quickened, strengthened
drawn
to a reconciled
the con-
faith."
their experience of
testified
heaven."
and
soul
time in
was refreshed,
thought of the
I often
bliss of
used to
sit
sweet glory of
for continuance
God
appearance
of
in these things
first
My
much
my
" I felt
in the
mean time
contemplations of the
a thunder-storm
fix
myself
in
order to
view the clouds and see the lightnings play, and hear the
majestic and awful voice of God's thunder, which oftentimes was exceedingly entertaining, leading
contemplation of
it
my
glorious God.
me
me
to
sweet
my
meditations, or to put
my
singing voice."
The deepest
their
medium
described as the
of the
liveliest
The most
heaven.
exalted praises of
flow in music.
This ac-
fact, that in
is
inspiring songs of
New
praise
There
Jerusalem."
offered
is
worship to
man
God
employed harps,
'''
perfect
There perThere
know
God
and the Lamb." " The ransomed of the Lord shall return,
and come to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy shall be
upon their heads." " And they sung a new song, saying,
Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals
thereof; for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God
by thy blood,"
"And
I heard the voice of harpers harpand they sung as it were a new song
before the throne, and before the four beasts and the elders
and no man could learn that song save the hundred and
forty and four thousand which were redeemed from the
earth."
Now we
us our
faith,
from
we hope in heaven. We do
"sounds of glory" will help to swell
While the pious
the " amazing joys " of the redeemed.
soul takes wings from amid the scenes of earthly worship,
and dissolves in tenderness and joy under the power of
and
will
believe, that
is
monies of heaven?"
3.
and
We
2>^^'form<xnce are
given to
men
of
its
cultivation
God
all.
has
of late
till
those
who do
and
it
still
And
doubted by many.
is
But ex-
this point.
demonstrated
it.
he
made
Avill
make a
faithfully
singer as cer-
is
a reader.
talents.
There are
in
musical performances,
tive
heaven.
bury your
them
God
in his
talents, cultivate
sanctuary,
we
say, "
Un-
Many
a man, in
common
full,
woman,
in
but
is
"These
8
cultivate
there in
notes to
in his praise.
Scarce a bird
is
God, then the question is not, " how many performers are
needed ?" rather, " who can be excused from the duty of
any more than from joining in prayer?"
But we reply to the questions stated, as apparently
anticipating the danger of having too much power or quansinging,
tity in
many
much music
in
if
is
to four
hundred
The
w^riter
once listened
singers, sustained
all.
Old Hundred,
in
performed was
Two thou-
Yet such was their harmony, and so judiand admirably were the powers of the organ brought
out in accompaniment, that there was not one voice too
many, nor one breath of instrumental aid too much. We
have read of commemorations of Handel and other great
river of song.
ciously
musical
talent
festivals,
and
skill
of
for
all
No
let
if
as-
you
harmony blend
and although the sublimity and majesty of the performances may overwhelm an audience of
millions, still, of music there will not, cannot be too much.
and bind
John
of
all
together
listened to a voice
manv
"upon mount
PI>EA
he appears
4.
is
a loowerfid auxiliary
to
"judgment
to the
to
hell
then, in the
sermon,
grace
iour,
;"
melt and weep under the pathos of the " lovewhich speaks of mercy, hope, " the throne of
may
ly song,"
by the word
falls upon his
his
way
ear,
perhaps
" Return,
And
may
melt
like
The
in
shown
when music
backslider,
of grievous departure,
the words,
Avanderer, return,
efficacy of
preaching
Let a sermon, uniting the solemnity and richness of Baxter with the eloquence of Saurin or Massillon,
be preceded by psalmody from the bad effect of which the
psalmody.
them
offends,
VOL.
XI.
16
all
10
of these together;
benefit,
and there
a waste of the
is
of a
toils
a sacrifice of spiritual
week
might
sit
down
in
interest to a discourse
Whereby
It
was
in
on that de-
The
and weep.
in his pulpit
of study, and a
b}^
It
The
Speaks
But the
sinofinof
all
the promises."
attribute of
circle,
and
may
if
of the
whole ap-
responsibility rests
Ministers
their people.
own
duty on
their people,
their indifference to
it
as a part of di-
vine worship.
faithful dis-
and those of
soul,
preach well of
his hearers.
God and
If
should he be sohcitous
his truth, so
shall
own
he should be anxious to
God
of truth accept-
Zion."
5.
We
prayer
in
much
itself, it is looishij)
common
use,
embrace
of God.
all
as
invoca-
and
ing, praise,
fess devotional
to sacred
In performing them,
ascription.
approach
to
munion
of those in the
is
The
God
the Lord
it
of hosts."
had
who
is
reverence by
in
in
all
them that
practice,
which God
is
to
be
should be cultivated
and
Performed with
approached,
The
pro-
will
Avith
we
in
deportment, which
must be those
iuAvard part."
in
He must
12
tuary
is
prayer.
To the
How
And when
of song."
service
performers, as Christians,
throw their souls into this service, and when the attending
assembly join them in sincerity of heart, then will be
" ofi'ered up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God."
Then
will holy affections be increased in the hearts of Christians
and the sanctuary will be, to the assembled throng, " the
"the gate of heaven."
house of God"
The
Christian people
a matter on ivhich
must cease
theij
to regard sacred
music as
appointed of
is
God
If
it
and largely.
must cease to regard sacred, in the same
Many, probably, have so regardwith secular music.
Christians
light
ed
it,
because
it
has been
much
in the
have taken
of taste.
it
up and kept
it
it;
in existence as a
hands, consider
in the pulpit
provide for
13
educa-
in the
it
men
upon such
for the
conduct of
must cease
Christians
this
holy service.
heaven-born art
God
world w^here
to a
has so
is
much
sin,
it
The
first
is in
of the church so
it is
its
who
Its
We
is
gifts of a merciful
festiv-
Music
place.
sions.
and
or to the theatre
this side of
in the
inhabiteth eternity."
as an elegant
religious services.
It
may be made
in
so, it is triie,
by hiring
who
serve the
all
is
than prayer
than the
dis-
taste
for
music
Christians to
whom
it is
pleasant,
and "
for their
good
to
edification."
in so
XI.
blamed because
it
has
scale, the
14
benefits Ave
have ascribed to
then give
Many
it
a fair
music
is,
because
it
what
it
liberal
it
patronage and
It will assuredly
trial.
prove
its
worth.
assemblies
religious
By
it.
make
assiduous cultivation,
When
what they
it
and know,
it is
and useless service they have long
what a
too,
defective
who
power
is
art,
effects as a species of
and
and
but
its
in associ-
all
its
tivated
taste.
It
it
in its
which it is properly the medium. To cultivate and mainmusic in Sabbath services simply to gratify taste,
would be sin against God, as much as a minister's cultivating oratory, and his people supporting him for the purtain
The
God and
churches an example,
in
The
effect
may
who
lead in
be inestimably
happy.
The education of
of high importance.
the
young
in sacred music,
is
an object
15
and used
more
in
when
heaven, than
sacred song.
altar,
Such
services will
in those
the
way
who
affliction
in
the
Thoughtfulness, tenderness of
to heaven.
be
If there
salvation, will be
spirit,
promoted
such of the members as are without hope. The ques" Shall I never sing with these beloved ones in heav-
tion,
spirit of
the uncon-
may
Transfer this
pared to aid
efficiently in the
when
in holier
and
livelier
To
the tenderness of
this
And
if
purpose,
it
there be
it is
that
spirit,
Those
lines,
"
cannot be
felt
How
With
is
the place,
!"
10
Sac-
is
may
God.
On
awaken
we do not expect to
in some who may
music.
But we earnestly
desire to
respectmg
it
An
requisite
which
shall
be deep,
interwoven with
all
the
religious
and with
interest
affections,
is
which
thirst
and which,
as
are
the
growth of grace
aration to enter
upon the
A
W.
this Tract.
to
Rev. Edward
Xo. 430.
FATAL DELUSIONS.
Reason and
ions
which phice
men may
hold opin-
If this
him?
There
is
we
are
show us our relations to God, to teach us reverence for him or his government, or our need of conformity
to his holy character.
The only hope for the salvation of
sinners, to
FATAL DELUSIONS.
The next
we adduce,
fatal opinion
the rejection
is
of the
divinity of Christ.
And by this we mean, the rejection of
Unless
his supreme divinity as equal with the Father.
ther."
Word
Avas
crucified the
of teeth."
The divinity of Christ
is
not
among
2:1.
The next error we adduce, is the denial of future punishIf Christ, by his death, secured the salvation of
ment.
every man, there never was a fact more equivocally pub2 Peter,
the
lished
alarms.
If there
God
abideth on him."
"These
shall
go
FATAL DELUSIONS.
3
"
away
iour
;;
FATAL DELUSIONS
son.
This takes too many things for granted.
It takes for
granted, that repentance and faith may be better exercised
at some future time than now ; which is not the case. Whilst
without repentance towards God, Ave are every day going
from bad to worse. It takes for granted, that God will be
as ready to receive us at a future time as now
which may
not be the case.
There is such a thing as exhausting the
patience of God, and as his hearing our prayers Avithout
answering them, Prov. 1 26, 28.
It takes for granted,
that if we reach the time proposed in the future, we shall
then have our present desires to forsake sin which may
not be the case.
course of sin never deepens, but always
weakens religious impressions. The current of sinful desires is ever increasing in strength.
It takes for granted,
that 3"ou are as sure of time to come as of the present
which is not the case.
know not what a day may bring
forth.
Our continued earthly existence depends on so many
contingences beyond our control, that Ave are in jeopardy
every hour.
And then, hoAv feAV that procrastinate ever
embrace the SaA^our. It is a delusion of the devil, to gain
time so to rivet upon you the chains that bind jou to death,
as to make your damnation sure.
In theory, these delusions differ very Avidely but yet
they all lead to the same result.
do not assert that
the theoretical believer Avho postpones submission to Christ,
is as bad as those Avho openly deny him and his Gospel
or that the moral man is as bad as the infidel or atheist.
But they all agree not to have Christ to reign over them
here and in the Avorld to come, they must be alike excluded from the consolations of his presence, and the joys of
We
We
his salvation.
merciful to
me
a sinner.
No. 431
THE
LIFE-PRESERYER.
a long journey which was to take me
and rivers, I took the precaution to provide myself with a life-preserver of the best
construction.
My reasons for doing this were these. I had
always felt great confidence in these simple instruments.
Commencing
upon most
They
with the blessing of God, might preserve me in an emergency and this of itself amply repaid me for my purchase.
Soon after entering the Mississippi river, we were not a
The
little agitated by an accident which befell the boat.
night was dark and tempestuous, and the "Father of
The passengers sprung from
waters" angry and frightful.
their berths, and rushed together into the main saloon.
The accident proved to be of small consequence and the
alarm very soon subsided.
Returning to my state-room with this incident fresh in
mind, I fell into a sort of waking dream. I thought I was
Our vessel,
on one of our inland seas, in a violent tempest.
dismasted and disabled, was rapidly driving on a lee shore.
Death, in one of its most frightful forms, was staring us in
the face, for the captain was heard to say, "We are all
gone for this world." The passengers were evidently making
ready for the last struggle. And now I observed, for the
17
VOL. XI.
;
THE LIFE-PRESERVER.
He had
this.
when he proceeded
ex-
to adjust
it,
He
It ivas a counterfeit
To all
at the right place.
article.
appearance
it
THE LIFE-PRESERVER.
;\
gold?
It is *'set
Moreover, this hope may easily he obtained.
before you." It is pressed upon your acceptance. Because
For
of this, do not say that you can obtain it at any time.
There is no time to forge and bend an
this is not true.
anchor when the storm is raging. If you postpone repentance too long, disappointment and destruction will overtake
you
loithout remedy.
Do
THE LIFE-PRESERVER.
THE
much bound
to
whom
all
are as
We
We
We
The Pope comes to us with the claim of being the representative of Christ on the earth. Before we believe
that his claim is just, it becomes us to examine his credentials. What are the true grounds of this claim 1 For
if he cannot make it appear plain that such power has
been given to him, then we are bound to reject him as
an impostor and deceiver, and we have nothing to fear
from his threats or anathemas. He may utter the most
fearful curses against us, and threaten to send us all to
still he is a weak and feeble man like ourperdition
selves, and his threats are of no more weight than a breath
of wind.
Upon what then does he rest his claim 1 He says,
:
VOL.
XI.
17*
" Peter was constituted the head of the Apostles^ and universal Bishop of the Church ^ and tee, the Popes, are his
successors''
This declaration has two parts first, Peter ivas constituted head of the Apostles, and secondly, the Popes arcsuccessors of Peter. It is evident that tliese two proposi:
though
it
How
And
Matt. 16
and upon
18,
this
rock
I will
the Son of the living God." The question now is, did our
Savior intend to say that Peter is the rock on which the
church rests the foundation of the New Testament fabric ] No one can believe that Christ intended to say that
he (Peter) is the foundation of the church in any proper
sense; for Paul says, 1 Cor. 3
11, "Other foundation
can no man lay than that is laid, which is Christ Jesus.'"
Properly speaking, therefore, the church has only one
foundation, and that is Christ. In a secondary sense, however, there may be other foundations. Thus, Paul says,
Gal. 2
9, that " James, Cephas and John seemed to be
pillars'' And to the Ephesians he says, chap. 2
20,
**
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and
projyhets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone." In both these places most evidently the instructions or doctrines of the apostles are the foundalion spoken
of, and not, properly speaking, the apostles themselves.
It is the truth which they declared that supports the church
OF THE POPE.
as a foundation or pillar, and not any official rank or dignity of theirs and in like manner it was the truth declared
by Peter, " Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living
:
God," which Christ called the rock upon which his church
to be built, and not Peter himself In this manner
St, Augustine (one of the fathers acknowledged by the
was
active
make
OF THE POPE.
and loosing, are one and the same thing. But this power
was conferred ahke on all the Apostles, as we see from
Matt. 18 18, where Christ says to all the disciples together in the same words, " Whatsoever ye shall bind on
earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever ye shall
loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven ;" and also from
;
John, 20 23, when he said to all the disciples, " Whosesoever sins ye remit they are remitted, and whosesoever
sins ye retain, they are retained;" which means the same
as the binding and loosing. Now, whatever authority this
commission of our Savior conferred on Peter, it is plain
that precisely the same authority was conferred by the
same words on the twelve disciples, so that it is in vain to
quote this text in proof that Peter was endowed with a
:
who read
to all
to
Why
humble while he
fortified him.
readers of these pages may be surprised to learn
that the Papists have nothing further to offer from the
Bible in proof of what they so positively assert, that Peter was constituted by Christ as his representative on the
earth, and the head of all the Apostles. But so it is and
how poor and weak is the foundation they have for such
an assertion
Let us now examine some circumstances
that go to show that Peter could not have held the
office assigned to him.
When the disciples came to Christ, Matt. 18 1, and
asked him, " Who is gi-eatest in the kingdom of heaven
if our Savior had already constituted Peter his vicar upon
earth, as the papists assert, why did he not reply, " Did
The
I said to Peter,
Upon this
church,' and that he was to be chief
you, and the first iu my kingdom on the earth 1"
when James and John and their mother came to
rock will
among
And
I build
'
my
same
is
of heaven r
Rome
claims.
OF THE POPE.
Still more opposed to the papal notion of Peter's supremacy is the declaration of our Savior to his disciples,
called forth by the absurd request of James and John,
have
own
epistle
he
calls
says,
am
also
Pet.
an
5:1,"
elder.''^
himself simply an
How;
different this
mode
of address
"up
Gal.
went
Now,
to
18.
OF THE POPE.
religion
The same
11
5,
have expected, after having Christ's words to them already quoted, concerning their perfect equality in office.
See Matt. 20 25-27.
In Acts, 15, we have an account of the first christian
Council to settle a point of faith and practice. Nothing
is said of Peter's having been consulted as the infallible
but the apostles, and elders, and
oracle in such matters
18
VOL. XI.
:
10
We
OF THE VOPE.
Apostles were
made
11
sense.
2. That the keys, or the power to bind and to loose
was given equally to all the Apostles.
3. That Christ himself took special pains to eradicate
all ambitious notions from the minds of his disciples,
and taught them in the most explicit manner that no one
of them was to be greatest, but that there was to be
among them the most perfect equality.
4. Peter never claimed any authority over his breth-
ren, nor gave the least hint, either verbal or in his epistles, that he possessed such authority.
5. His brother apostles never acknowledged a supremacy in him, either by the use of titles addressed to him,
as in the electing
headqf the
Apostles.
12
was made but upon a mere floating rumor that, after the
lapse of more than two centuries, was recorded for the
;
first
The
We
We
OF THE POPE.
13
point us to a single verse that gives the slightest counteto such a claim. But he refers us to a vague and
nance
is
incredible.
VOL.
XI.
18*^
14
We
afterwards
And
satisfactory
it
even
certainly
if it
all other Bishops, and that he delegated his authority to the Roman Popes.
In point of fact, the title of Universal BisJiop was never
claimed by the Roman pontiff until the year 606, when
Boniface III. Bishop of Rome, prevailed upon the Emperor Phocas, who was a murderer and an usurper, to confer the title upon him. (Anastasius de Vitis Pontif ch.
67, and Gotfridus Viterbrensis Panth. Pass. 16.) The distinction among Bishops in the church of Christ, by which
one took the precedence of others, had a very gradual
rise.
In the second century there was a perfect equality,
so far as appears from authentic records.
In the third century the Bishops of Rome, Antioch and
Alexandria were regarded as having a sort of precedency
over all others, and of these three, that of Rome was considered by some as having the primacy, and by others not.
This peculiar honor conceded by some foreign Bishops to
Rome arose very naturally from the circumstance that the
city of Rome was the capital of the empire, and the Council of Calcedon so accounted for it.
No one of these,
however, claimed any power over the others and those
fathers of this century, such as Cyprian and others, who
allowed the Bishop of Rome a certain primacy, strenuously contended for the equality of all Bishops in dignity
;
OF THE POPE.
15
mony
it is
written,
'
16
During this century the first Council of Nice was assembled, which is considered as one of the most important councils of the church. At this council, Sylvester,
Bishop of Rome, was not present nor does it appear
that he had any thing to do with it, except that when
Constantine sent to him the decree of the council, confirmed by himself, Sylvester called a Council at Rome of
two hundred and sixty-seven bishops, who declared their
;
similar council,
readiness to conform to these decrees.
convened at Grenada in Spain, in like manner assented to
the doings of the Nicene Council.
Constantine himself was the president of the Council of
Nice, and he alone confirmed the decrees and acts of it,
and issued his imperial letter, enjoining upon all the
churches obedience to the decrees of that council. It
would seem clear from all this that the Bishop of Rome
had not at that time laid claim to universal and supreme
authority over the Catholic Church. Should any christian
emperor now assume power like that exercised by Constantine, he would speedily be stigmatized as a traitor
against the mother church as it is called, and as having
encroached largely upon the prerogatives of the Pope of
Rome.
One
OF THE POPE.
17
Epistle 30, Book 4, " that whoever calls himself Universal Bishop, or even wishes to be so called, is, in his
pride, the forerunner of Jlntichrist, since in his ambition
he sets himself before others."
"
do you imitate," wrote Gregory to the bishop,
**
but him (the
in assuming that arrogant title ]
devil) who, swelled with pride, exalting himself above so
many legions of angels, his equals, that he might be subject to none, and all might be subject to him ]" And
afterwards he says, " If none of the Apostles would be
called Universal, what will you answer on the last day to
you who, by
Christ, the head of the Church universal
arrogating that name, strive to subject all his members to
yourself?"
It will be seen from these extracts from Gregory's
own letters, that, instead of claiming to himself what the
Whom
Whom
18
*'
which
title
"
letter that I
your
in
I
know
brother,
OF THE POPE.
19
fact, that
We
We
20
See Acts, 2 38 3 19 17 30 20 21 26
Rev. 2:5; Acts, 8 37 13 39 16 31 Rom. 10
9 1 Cor. 1 21, &c. No one was instructed to yield obedience to the Bishop of Rome in order to be saved although, according to the papists, Peter himself was at
that time Bishop of Rome.
There is only one way of explaining the silence of the
Apostles on this subject, and that is by stating the simple
fact, that the papal power of Home ivas not then in existence.
The Apostles and their followers thought it was sufficient
to receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith, and yield obedience to him as the gi'eat Head of the church and they
were fully content with the title Christ gave them to heaven, on the condition of faith and repentance, without going to the Roman Bishop, or to any other power on earth,
spiritual or temporal, for a passport to the world above.
And I would direct my own heart, and earnestly exhort
all others to do the same.
Follow the directions of the Apostles on the subject,
and you cannot go \VTong. Comply with the simple terms
of faith and repentance, and you have Christ's word for it
who
that you shall be saved. " It is God that justifieth
It has been clearly showai that
is he that condemneth '?"
the claim of the Pope of Rome to be the Head of the
Church and the Universal Bishop is altogether unfounded
saved.
20
;
At
the judgment-seat
OF THE PUPE.
21
we
We
far as
farther.
But what
evi-
rity
at the sixth
22
tion, adultery and incest, and other crimes of incontinence." He is found guilty of incest with his brother's
wife. He is also declared by the same Council to have
been notoriously guilty of murder, of poisoning, and of
other enormous crimes, and also of simony and heresy.
most
filthy prostitutes
sees
OF THE POPE.
23
have been in times past, murderers, whoremongers, robbers and heretics, to learn the way of salvation 1 And will
any one persuade me that unless I do so, my salvation is
impossible 1 The names of several of these wicked popes
are still published by the papal church in their list of infallible popes, whom every man in this world is bound
to obey on pain of eternal death
Let them come out
honestly and disclaim all connection with such wicked
men let them declare, in other words, that popes are
fallible, both in doctrine and life, and therefore not to be
followed, and to be obeyed only so far as they follow
Christ, and a great step will at once be taken towards
settling the question as to the true standing and claims of
the Roman Church.
Nor can papacy find relief by saying that we are to refer to the decisions of Councils sanctioned hy the Pope.
for our infallible guide in matters of faith. For, in the first
place, the sanction of such popes as those whose character
is described above, would be not only of no value, but
would throw suspicion on the decision of any council to
which it might be attached. And in the second place, we
have repeated examples of councils reversing the decisions of councils, as well as of popes anathematizing
popes. For instance, the Council of Constance, a. d 1414,
already alluded to, decreed that the Pope himself ought
to submit to the decisions of a General Council of the
Church. Const. Cone. CEcum. Tom. 12, Less. 5, p. 22.
And Pope Martin 5th sanctioned the doings of this Council. Less. 45, p. 258. This decision was confirmed by the
General Council at Basil, a. d. 1431. Less. 2, p. 477 but
directly reversed by the General Council of Florence, a. d.
condemn and reject, and we de1438, which says, ''
clare condemned and rejected the above decree."
!
We
24
of opinion
among
Roman
Eugene
We
OF THE rOi'E.
25
de Caiidia sovereign pontiff, under the name of* Alexander 5th. Jac. Lenfant Hist. Cone. Pisa, and Franc.
popes, each one with his separate council, anathematizing and excommunicating the other Lenfant Hist. Cone.
Pisa, Tom. 1, p. 295. Which of these three popes was
the infallible head of the church, and which of them were
!
bound
the faithful
more than
fifty
to
years, there
so essential to the existence of a church ? The facts cannot be denied, and whatever explanations the papists
may see fit to give of them, still it will remain true that
the papal notion of an infallible church, with an infallible
visible head, must fall to the gi'ound.
The
papists
all
agree.
God from
the
common
26
ticular.
guage on the
own
lan-
subject.
Who
OF THE POPE.
27
God
living
An
prohibition.
illustration of this
we have
when-
ever the papal church puts forth in any book, in the vulgar
tongue, the ten commandments, as she does oftentimes in
catechisms, &c. the second commandment, against the
making and w^orshipping of images, is almost uniformly
suppressed, and the tenth is divided into two, in order to
28
OF THE POPE.
29
sanctified in
We
that
^0
We
OP THE POPE.
word of God.
An
inspired
31
penman commended
the Be-
The
Israelites v^ere
to see
commanded not
good works."
But if Timothy could
which
is
32
we
is it
how
is
'?
distinguish
between what
is false
and what
is
true.
The
it is
in Jesus.
433.
nro.
SCRIPTURE PROMISES
TO THE LIBERAL.
COMMANDS OR
PROMISES.
DUTIES.
covetousness
for
15, 31.
and thou
shalt
have treasure
Mark 10
in heaven.
21.
Do
great,
children
Luke
and
you
Give,
6
it
of
Highest.
the
35.
shall
be given unto
when
But
thou doest
alms, let not thy left hand
know what thy right hand
doeth that thine alms may
be in secret
But to do good, and to
communicate, forget not
shall
3, 4.
re-
Matt.
well pleased.
God
Hebrews
13:16.
Trust
do good
in
be
20
fed.
Psalm 37
3.
COMMANDS OR
There
The
He
PROMISES.
DUTIES.
that scattereth,
is
liberal soul
that watercth
made
fat.
substance,
first-fruits
of
all
with
thine
the
in-
thine
sufficient
for
which
that
his
he
need,
in
wanteth
Lord
7,
8, 10.
and
He
eye
shall
22
He
Proverbs
be blessed.
9.
poor
thou draw out thy soul
to the hungry, and satisfy
28
2*7.
If
....
;;
COMMANDS OR
PROMISES.
enemy be hun-
If thine
gry, give
DUTIES.
him bread
to eat
He
findeth
The
liberal deviseth
and by
have showed
you
liberal things
shall
he stand.
Isaiah 32:8.
for they shall obtain mercy.
Matt. 5:7.
it after
Eccles. 11:1.
days.
Hb-
favor,
Prov. 21:21.
many
eral things
righteousness,
life,
and honor.
all
how
that so laboring
ye ought to support the
weak, and to remember the
words of the Lord Jesus,
It is
how he
things,
said,
more blessed
ye
my
Matt. 25
brethren,
Wherefore, break
liver
it
unto me.
40.
if
of
it
may be a lengthening
thy tranquillity.
Dan.
4:27.
them
that are
drawn
knew
done
:
give
thy
oft"
by righteousness, and
thine iniquities by showing
mercy to the poor;
sins
If
have
to
it
not
He that pondereth
the heart consider it ? and
He that keepeth thy soul,
doth not he know it? and
shall
not
he render to
every man according to his
works? Prov. 24:11, 12.
doth not
C03IMANDS OR DUTIES.
Blessed
he that con-
is
The Lord
in
time
deliver
will
of
trouble.
him
The
communicate
.*
them-
in store for
a good foundation
against the time to come,
that they may lay hold on
selves
up
laying
eternal
Tim. G
life.
17,
18, 19.
He which
tifully,
for
God
loveth
a cheerful
9:6,
2 Cor.
giver.
7.
He
hath dispersed, he
hath given to the poor
;
his
endureth
horn shall be
righteousness
for ever
his
Psalm
112:9.
And
let
us not be weary
in well-doing
....
due season we
for in
reap,
if
we
shall
Gal.
faint not.
6:9.
Thy
prayers
and
thine
are
alms
come
morial
10:
Circulate
copies,
up
before
for
God.
meActs
4.
and
.
Isaiah 55
10, 11.
j. l. p.
IVo.
434.
BENEVOLENT HUSBANDRY.
The culture of the soil has often been the pleasure of
the most distinguished men, as it is commonly the business
of the peaceful and industrious.
The regularity in the labor required by the successive seasons of the year, produces systematic habits
and employment amid the ever- varying beauties of the earth, and beneath the gorgeous expanse
of heaven, is well adapted to foster a spirit of cheerfulness
and devotion.
In such circumstances a pious heart finds abundant
matter for relic/ioits meditation, and turning from the works
of God to his sacred word, is feasted with the many allusions to rural life.
Ploughing and sowing in hope, and
then, after patient waiting, gathering the sheaves into the
garner, he proves the faithfulness of the promise, " seedtime and harvest shall not fail."
Hence, the piety of an
individual or church engaged in agricultural pursuits, is
wont to be of a contemplative and stable character.
But with this advantage on the one hand, it must be
conceded, that on the other there is a strong tendency to
shrink from the active efforts, and to withhold the liberal
charities which are demanded by the first principles of the
Gospel and without which Christian character is evidently
defective, our light cannot shine, and multitudes of our
fellow-men, near and afar off, will sui-ely perish.
This tendenc)'', in many instances, has been happily counteracted,
and Christian farmers are acquainting themselves with the
moral condition of the world, and the wonderful facilities
for hastening on the triumphs of Immanuel.
Such will
welcome a few suggestions designed to enlarge the streams
;
of benevolence.
1.
The
permanence and
VOL.
XI.
fertility
of the
20*^
soil,
its
The
improvement by
your hands.
A BENEVOLENT HUSBANDRY.
nance of
it
the ground?"
But it is gratifying to believe, that not a few cordially
A BENEVOLENT HUSBANDRY.
love the objects of benevolence, and freely support them.
You are pleased to consider the variety and vastness of
you rejoice in their success, and sincerely
their claims
;
pray that their grand aim, the conversion of the world, may
be speedily accomplished.
Suffer, however, the remark,
that all this may be true, and yet your charities may be
destitute of sijstem ; or being systematic, they may be so
on erroneous j^rmciples ; and even those principles may be
partially observed.
business can be wisely and successfully prosecuted
without system.
Yet some of you, there is reason to fear,
have not carefully weighed this subject, and established a
system ior your contributions as you have for your business.
You have not adopted benevolent institutions as your children, for whom you will make constant and sufficient provis\>\\.t
No
ion.
fully,
and
cheeryouButhavetheredonehas been
no
it
A BENEVOLENT HUSBANDRY.
\vill
of
it
to a theological seminary.
Be
entreated, then, to review your accounts with benevolent objects, as seriousl}'- as with creditors or debtors. Do
it with accuracy, for no error can escape the detection of
The
Prov. 3
9.
shall thy barns be filled ivith plenty.''
Lord can easily bring the elements of destruction against
:
bandry.
It is not, indeed, to be denied, that temporal advantages
are bestowed or withheld by God on a great diversity of
principles, and in an endless variety of methods and deStill, the divine promises are many and strong to
grees.
encourage the expect-ation that a sjjecial blessing shall rest
A BENEVOLENT HUSBANDRY.
benefits.
Many
this view.
down
;:
;
A BENEVOLENT HUSBANDRY.
the
name
Every penny he
shall
ing
them
and saving
and
souls, shall
and
this
medium of
their return to
God
to imitate
A BENEVOLENT HUSBANDRY.
SO far as may be conducive to the same great end, the salvation of souls.
In the history of the church at different periods, the
hearts of the godly have been stirred within them to be
strildngly conformed, in this respect, to the glorious exam-
nificence of our
Gospel
;;
A BENEVOLENT HUSBANDRY.
An
extensive and generous effort, upon gospel princithe pious farmers of this land, would swell
the streams of benevolence beyond all that has been known
the enlarged plans of benevolence could be executed and
an ocean of love and salvation spread over the face of the
ples,
among
whole earth.
Such a husbandry would indeed be a prosperous husIn view of it, we might appropriately adopt the
bandry.
" Then shall the earth yield
language of the Q*li\\ Psalm
her increase and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
God shall bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear
him."
:
No. 435.
a
WHY
DO
WE
SIT STILL?"
This was the question which the Jews put to one another when on the eve of the invasion of Judea by the
"Danger is near," said they, "and we are
Chaldeans.
unprotected.
Here in the open country we have no walls
of defence, no rocks to which to flee, no hope of escape
the defenced cities invite us to their protection
why do
we
And WHY DO
mercy
cries,
What
if
"Spare a
little
longer."
How
Health
is
no
on the cheek bloom, and fade, and die in a week. The arrows of the destroyer, though unseen by the keenest vision,
are ever flying thick and swift around us.
When there is
not a sign of its approach, the wrath of God may drop upon
the sinner like a flash of lightning from a clear and cloudless
sky.
God
is
v*uth
many
false
"WHV DO WE
SIT STILL?"
web
Why,
then,
do they
sit still ?
You may
still, though you have serious conPharaoh, and Saul, and Judas, and Ananias, were the subjects of as powerful convictions as were
multitudes who have been saved but they resisted them,
and finally perished. And many of my readers are, no
be
sitting
victions of sin.
all
right preparation to
who
meet the
often
lift
The sum
of the matter
The danger
of sinners
the only hidingAnd whatever they do, or whatever they leave undone, ttnless they are jmrsuing Ihe course
as
we have
described.
place from that danger.
is
is this.
Christ Jesus
is
"WHY
DO
WE
SIT STILL?"
which leads to Christ, they are sitting still. They need not
be avowed unbelievers, nor opposers of religion, nor profane
swearers, nor yet cold-hearted assenters to the truth
on
the contrary, they may be theoretical believers, acd be
friendly to the extension of religion, and be moral and
amiable, and regular attendants on the sanctuary, and occasionally solicitous as to their salvation, and if they go no
farther, they are sitting still.
They may consider themselves busily engaged in the great work of preparation, but
they are only engaged as is the man who is piling up dry
stubble to check the conflagration, or who is building a wall
of chaft" to check the tornado.
Every man is sitting still,
who is not, ivith true sincerity, and in dependence upon the
Spirit of God for success, agonizing to enter in hy the strait
gate.
And let it be recollected, that the strait gate is
;
Christ.
The
for ever.
chief
If this
"WHY DO WE
SIT STILL?"
and
it is
And now let me ask, why will any sinner who reads
these pages sit still a moment longer?
Will your guilt
ever '^e less than now ?
Will you ever have a more suitaable time than now to work out your salvation ?
Or do
you expect a more suitable Saviour, or terms of life moi-e
easy ? To these questions you reply in the negative. Why,
then, sit still ?
The law is thundering, and why do you not
fear ? Mercy is inviting, and why not hearken ? The storm
is rising, and Jesus is inviting you to the ark
why not tiy
"Escape for thy life look not
to it as on dove's wings ?
behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain escape to
the mountain, lest thou be consumed."
Sit not still a mo;
ment
longer.
i\o.
436.
THE
WRATH
TO COME
is
try to disbelieve
it,
come ?
Does not Providence repeat the same lesson ? Why do
the wicked live, increase in riches, shine in honors, riot in
" Their eyes stand out with fatness, they have
luxury ?
m.ore than heart could wish;" while "his people return
hither, and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them."
God's own image, the loveliest exhibition of his renewing
grace, is insulted, trodden mider foot, and crushed by his
enemies.
Is
God
?
Has he not power to punish ?
there not be ivrath to come ?
0, then, listen not to the soothing delusion, that it will
be well with you, though you walk after the imagination
It is the suggestion of the devil, the
of your evil heart.
dren
Is
he not just
Must
father of
VOL.
lies,
XI.
2
mother, "
come.
Ye
sliall
Yes, there is
wrath
to
Every day,
It will soon be here.
It is coming rajyidly.
every hour, every moment brings it on with fearful haste
perhaps the next moment it may begin to descend upon some
wretched soul and when once it comes, all resistance will
Entreaties, tears, groans will not avail to ward
be A'^ain.
Stoic indifference will be
it ofi^, or mitigate its horrors.
equally vain for
It is the wrath which infinite
It is the tvrath of God.
Justice inflicts for the honor of his throne, and as a warning
Wrath which has been accumulating during
to all worlds.
all the years while benevolence endured with much longsuffering the sins of men not willing that any should per'sh,
The interests of
but that all should come to repentance.
holy angels approve, and the
the universe now require it
wretched victims themselves will ever find a witness in their
own bosoms, that they receive the just reward of their deeds.
But 0, how can they bear it ?
The wTath of man, a fellowIt is the wrath of God.
creature, a worm, may be resisted, overcome, or borne in
From the wrath of an angel there might be
sullen silence.
an appeal to a higher power, a refuge beneath the throne of
God. But Avho can resist the arm of Omnipotence, or bear
up under the pressure of infinite wrath ? " Who hath hard"Can thine
ened himself against him, and prospered ?"
heart endure, or will thine arm be strong in the day when
he shall deal with thee ?"
One of the ingredients of this bitter cup is the loss of
That world of light and glory, of beauty and hapheaven.
piness, the suitable and sutficient portion of the soul, which
God has provided for his children, and which was so often
All its sublime joys,
offered to the sinner, is gone for ever.
its sweet harmonies, its enduring friendships, its holy fellowships, its exalted employments, its enrapturing scenes, its
all, all are lost
exj)anding knowledge, its perfect holiness
and there is nothing left to supply their place, for the world
All that was cherished and loved on earth is
is also lost.
There are no riches, no friends, no honors, no
left behind.
pleasures in hell. Utter desolation and ruin have come over
all the hopes, and interests of the sinner.
Now what disappointment and grief, what shame and
;
Conscience, which has so long slumstings the soul with the recolNone
lection of its thousand thousands of transgressions.
In all
are forgotten, none can be excused or extenuated.
their magnitude and guilt they stand out before the mind,
and fill it with the keenest anguish.
Now the sinner is given up to the full dominion of unThe restraints
holy passions. The Spirit no longer strives.
of Providence are withdrawn, and all the fountains of
iniquity burst forth.
Envy, pride, malice, rage, blasphemy
tear the heart by their internal conflict, and leave no mo-
remorse
bered,
is
the soul.
fill
ment of peace.
At the same time the
ture of character,
how
dreadful
14:11.
"Their
worm
dieth
not,
and the
fire
is
not
Is the heart
quenched." Mark 9 44. Dreadful thought
never to be eased of its pain ? Will the worm never cease to
rage ? Will no ray of hope ever light up the darkness ? No,
Still, as eternity rolls on its unwasting ages, the
never.
deep wailing of the lost will be heard uttering the bitter
I
agonies of despair.
When
have
evil
ways
for
why
Take shelter in
0, fellow-sinner, listen to that voice.
those compassionate arms. What detains you ? Why do you
hesitate ?
Will you be so unwise as to part with the everheaven for the few fleeting joys of earth,
followed by endless pain ?
0, who can dwell with devouring flames wdth everlasting burnings ?
But you hope to escape. Yes, you mean to " flee from
So did thousands who now feel it and
the wrath to come."
" This nigJit
It is not safe to defer.
will feel it for ever.
thy soul may be required of thee."
lasting glories of
Wo. 437.
money
and reform.
its
verdict,
and
if
need
And
Have you
the eye.
It is
abusers.
It
seems
to
be obsequious
folly,
lending
its
hours to
of sensuality, of avarice,
But with
tire,
and
its
seeming imbecility,
all this
course
never backward.
is
its
wdngs never
With energy
irre-
destinies of eternity.
note of you.
flying
The
If
you
" take
no note of time,"
it
takes
on the plains
you are
improvement
is
priceless as
rehgious privileges.
mortality.
you
you if there were no God ^better for
you if the universe were a silent and hopeless desolation.
Jesus Christ, by subjecting his own body to the agonies
of the cross, has opened a blood-sprinkled way from earth to
heaven, " whose ever-during golden gates" he has unbarred
to lost wanderers.
The Holy Ghost has descended, to be the
Sanctifier, the pilot, and the guard of the weary pilgrim to
his home in the skies.
But if you improve no time religiously, you render ineffectual all these sublime and beneficent
is
for
if
your
own
a thousand
bid you
During the year you have enjoyed
Sabbaths
designed and adapted
awake
conscience
sentinels, to
flee
to -come.
to
all
But if
you have abused time, you have made a steady, unbroken
death-march of another year towards the unblest realms of
eternal despair.
There
is
cheek there
no eye
is
No
moistened
with a
Your
tear.
lips
THE NEW YEAR.
The appeal
is
now made to
lost.
your conscience.
Have
you,
ment, that every temporal blessing, every warning and invitation of the Gospel, and every thing holy and good in the
you in vain
universe, exists to
most
dition
is
lived,
and
perilous,
all is lost.
new year.
But here
is
Live as
a precious
moment
of pro-
for subjecting
your
heart to the Holy Spirit, and your will to the control of truth
and duty and, with a new year, you have opened before
you a new, a tranquil, a happy life, and a glorious immor;
taUty.
It
may
murder of the
soul.
It is
is
the
]\o.
438<
THE
WEAVER'S DAUGHTER.
A
NARRATIVE OF FACTS.
BY A LAYMAN.
man by
the
name
of
He was
a good husband, a
careful to give
By
XI.
until he
fifteen journej-men.
22
diligence,
his business,
had
in his
em-
much
with them
tations
for
was
led to
new
was doomed
linen
embark
America.
many
and
others.
but here he
to
'No
wearing
in
him employment
who gave
much
esteemed
where
and death.
not support his large family, he obtained situations in respectable families for his elder daughters, while his sons
went
to sea.
Being, active
among
He was
and
zealous,
spicuous
his
lived.
city
all
where he
all
morality
piety.
and those of
followed
him
of a vessel,
iu
Romish church.
his faith
abil-
them
after
a few years he
by a
fall
interested in
life,
and afterwards
in his
consumption.
The
my
family,
mentioned that the sick one was living wdth her mother,
my
which he
said
would
sumed
to cross
if
they pre-
He
was
at
any time
suffering,
but he doubted
lady
who was
immediately
tioning the
name
to the sick
chamber.
The account
Mary
mother
was
and on men-
readily admitted
in her person
unassuming
fully
aware of her
situation,
an unwavering
and
piety,
cheerful, submissive,
and happy.
On
want
received.
make
her
me
to
and on
my
inquiries concerning
if I
expressing a desire to do
would
so,
like to see
she introduced
such an interest in
her welfare.
Mary was
sitting in
her eyes were mild, but had the peculiar lustre which
who was
was
at-
tends consumption.
me
to
for
a stranger.
refinement.
She had
sister Betsey,
for
illness,
had
her
left
watch over and nurse her beloved sister, endeared to her not only by the ties of nature,
but also by being her sister in the Lord, as both were converts, and had together joined the same church.
Their mother gave me only time to ask a few questions
place,
to
and the death of her husband and four children since her
with
her,
ing her.
attempted
to
all his
dealings with
her were designed to call off her thoughts from this world,
and would,
for
if
she
made
to similar
fit
her
they had
On two
lost ones, if
could
lasting
withdrew.
murmurs
make no
was obliged
to listen
took
son had
grown up a
fine
murmur
solace
Without
that I needed
me with
a stroke
and
a horse,
my
made
there,
but suffered
which
ruption,
me
was
her to be a young
to converse
woman
was
inter-
found
nor do
now
any allusion
Her whole
were
which she
liioughts
for
and Tracts,
in reading
delight.
to
She
seemed
to
have had a
On my
expressing a desire to be
manner
Romanism, she
" I
was educated
Roman
faith.
in
my
fully believed to
was well
VOL.
XI.
22*
had
my confessions,
and
thus
was
by
called
a very pious
others,
whom
"
'
we
was named
ignorantly
the
'
Holy
But
my
was
religion
my
girl,
strict in
and
knew
outside, 1
my
'
with
all
that
or miderstand
I Avas
or understood that
it,
much
heaven unless
outward ;
all
born again
that
'
it demanded a
was a simier in
Spirit.
me,
to
my
precious Saviour's
way
atonmg
blood.
"
Where
I lived, after
leaving
but what
my
which
told
it
was
sometimes attended
my
mind, as
for Catholics,
they
girl
a term which
for telling
to me before.
woman was reading
her Bible
tears,
ailed her,
Mar}', I
calling
and never
am
for ever.'
was
and when
and apparently
me
in
much
Although
a wicked
girl,
it
she
I
was shedding
also wicked,
it,
distress.
fear
my
It
astonished
when
me
was,
'
beyond measure.
knew
what must
sinner,
I be, I
was, and
7
she
if
examined
passages
as,
came
Jesus
'
it
from day
this I continued
Ye must be born
'
world
into the
again,'
my room
John 3:7;
children, ye
little
my
sins,
not be saved.
tressed,
Christ
'
Tim. 1:15;
to save sinners,' 1
as others.'
Eph, 2:3.
of
and
was such a
asked myself.
to
my
this, I
repented
Christ, I could
was
greatly dis-
him
was
my
soul.
rigid
for the
me
salvation of
way
of
salvation.
"
The
deadly
me
priest
distress,
had nothing
to fear,
sins to confess,
was
sure of heaven.
only
Still, I
for relief,
he at
finding I
had no
and
told
but was
heavier, and as he
last told
me,
washed
if I
it,
could go into
was something
to
be done,
asked
my
holy sisters
of
my
soul
but
all
was
cold, formal,
and
heartless.
and return
Bible,
and
to
my
Neither
me any
former place.
and as there
now began
them
to search the
THE WEAVER'S DAUGHTER.
or counsel
for
a long time
saved'
"When
command,
this
threw myself
how
easy
was
it
at the feet of
to
my
obey
blessed
and
my
joy.
all his
have since
promises.
a blessed reality.
went
was
distress
once,
gone, and I
to return to
it.
after,
offered
myself
for
admission to his
We
went
accordingly, and
was, spoke
us there
for
us both.
was no
my
He
sister
tried to
alarm
Roman
us,
Catholic church.
should be damned,
if
we were
apostates.'
God
by assuring
He
told us
We
to all
assured
who
us,
'
we
him
truly re-
pented of their
right path,
'
heretics, I
would
him,
who had
Our
ly.
we waited
to
father
was
still
bitterly
when he
knew we were to be baptized, declaring he would raise a
body of men and rescue us, as he called it but his employer and others told him he would get himself into trouble,
;
for
if
he commit-
we were
still
his affectionate
kindly
we had
done, he treated us
attention,
strict
and wishing
this statement,
my
introduced
friend as one
answered, "
He
is
a minister."
"
Then he
my
priest
my priest,
we
retired.
request
he a priest ?"
when
oil
wish
and
if
to
she
Finding her
10
As no clergyman
me
she wished
to
long wished
it,
the favor."
Soon
know
She
that
said, "
yes, I
was proper
it
if
have
to ask
and found she had grown so feeble that she had scarcely
to sit up five minutes at a time during the week.
been able
still
such to say,
"
When my
if I
Him who
father and
me
was descending
my
all
Psalm 27
up."
She desired
into
has authorized
10.
it,
and
asked
I
I
com-
filled
door,
"Get out
of
my
house
it
shall hold
you have abandoned your religion, you have quitted the holy church, you have given up
your God, refused to see the priest, and my house shall
You wanted to be a nun, did you ?"
shelter you no longer.
are no daughter of mine, for
added, pointing at
she
bones will
lie
"Now
your
ground."
I
approached
her, " l{
tliis
furious
it
said to
should be with
me."
"
I
to
you ?"
"
always obeyed
me
in every thing."
And have
"
re-
ligion ?"
" Yes,"
was the
reply, " I
affectionate daughter
my
to see
you threaten
it
priest."
to turn
your dutiful,
ter?"
" Yes," she violently shouted
I
" she
is
an apostate, and
disown her."
" Is
it for
you
treat your
vile
own daughter
monster as
She
no longer.
And
"Go
she must
was the
vilest of the
my home
ter,
it, said,
to turn her
replied,
as if she
re-
ligion."
when
Abraham's bosom
and
it is
if
what you
call purgatory,"
have no
left
it
She assured
me
that
it
to turn
was.
then informed her, that three ladies in the country had that
very day sent
me
free
for
me
that
you will not speak harshly again to her, I will, early in the
coming week, make arrangements to get Mary to the hospital."
engage
I
remove
went back
to do so
no more,
if I
would
her.
to the
and
was
"
yes,"
was her
reply,
12
me go there
me so that
" do let
it
agitates
am
so
weak
when my mother
for
cannot bear
and now
it."
gets so excited,
all night,
it
answer.
"
it
Why,
then,"
"
before?"
me
And
She
is
ony
tiiother,'' Avas
the reply.
of her parent,
of
it
elo-
and
thus might have gone doAvn to her grave with the secret in
her owai breast,
aroused
all
if it
for the
occasion
which
Mary
When
lence to another.
ter,
Mas-
As
I left
week
much
that
it
two
was
I called previously, to
continued inflexible.
streets so
to cure persons,
and not as a
was intended
but on
my
who were
to die,
land,
must go
in this
In consideration of such
was
whom
may
13
It
relief.
a mere private
is
establishment for the relief and cure of the sick and wound-
ed,
For
who
As soon
was
ter
by Mrs.
sent
member
pious
is
are destitute.
my
of
P.,
with
family
levelled,
for
whom
was
car-
to attend her
and her
sis-
man
in
girl
She was
with
difficulty
or two, so tranquil
Her mother
scenes she
Mary
let
her
a few days.
way
and then
left
dying
moments.
saw her
occasionally,
that her
sweet peace.
life
One morning
was drawing
to
I called,
close, I
She continued
and perceiving
asked her
if
she
was
could
She
still
look to
said, " I
lay
last night,
of
my
and had
and condescension
precious Saviour."
In the evening
VOL. x[.
called again,
23
life
was
14
She desired
fast ebbing.
what
wished
petition she
glorify
God
in dying,
me
to
to
and not be
left to
Saviour
whom
"That
have presented.
complain of
asked
may
my great
commended her
to the
more
step
me
sent
pain.
from the
I called
on
her mother, to inform her of the event, and to ask her where
would
to
She
like to
my mind
Mary
have
it
;"
and
my
er's
said, "
cemetery at
my
her moth-
had then
told
and
presence.
this recalled
when
I
and
there will her remains repose until the morning of the resurrection.
On
Her
was
so
when
profound
I left her,
Mary
sister
fell asleep,
and
that his prayer at her bedside did not arouse, nor could she
awake her.
They thought
it
the
first
am
going, I
clear,
Why
should
What
Death
And
is
we
start,
timorous
and fear
to die ?
worms we mortals
yet
we
are
am
going;
sweet voice,
to
15
Feel
While on
And
And with
soft as
breathe
my
life
are
my
head,
released from
its frail
tenement, took
lips,
her
upward
its
spirit,
flight, to
and adore Him whom her soul loved, and who had
washed her in his own precious blood, to dwell for ever
where " the wicked cease from troubling, and the wear)' are
see
at rest."
when
was absent some hours. When she returned, she fell upon
her knees by Mary's bedside, and said, " Now, my child, I
have one last request to make of you, and do not deny your
mother's wishes.
fess to
Only consent
to see
my priest, and
my house. I
conwill
To
Mary
this
mother
said, "
know any
No
is
thing about
my religion
up my peace
" Mother,
is
not give
of
it."
beseech you,
make such
you shall go
ofi^as soon as
I,
make such
To this her
do you
and the
priest, shall
Mary, in a firm
dearer to
mind
why
impossible."
me
than
for worlds.
a request of
me
life,
would
Mother, never,
again."
tone, said,
and
my
common
"
Then
house."
feelings of
16
our nature, but to be led blindfold by a superior power acting out of sight, and dictating to her
how
to
proceed with
bosom
of her
mother church.
of Catholics
land, as
not
is
;
if possible,
uncommon
in our
to
for conscience'
sake.
mother,
oted,
who had
and driven
on, as
it
seemed, by her
was
led there
priest, it
then and
by the providence
church.
which,
bled,
of
was
foi-med,
was
Him
in
whom
this
frustrated,
was a
settled plan,
and grace
439.
JVo.
CONSECRATION TO CHRIST.
Let me suppose
have knelt
making an entire
have and are to his service.
You must soon stand in the immediate pre&ence of God.
You must soon meet him face to face, and see him eye to
eye.
Prepared or unprepared, you must meet him. Think
of the priceless worth of your soul.
Worlds cannot repay
its loss.
Can you measure eternity ? Soon you must enter
upon its endless joys or woes. Neglect not, then, the interly desirous of
ests of
your soul
for
one hour.
hardeneth his neck, shall suddenbe destroyed, and that without remedy."
Flee without
delay to Christ.
Hear his gracious invitation " Him that
cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out."
how melting that invitation.
Will you give up yourself to that Saviour who has given himself for you ? Will you live for him
who died for you ? Will you accept salvation upon the
" Be not deceived."
" God cannot be
terms of the Bible ?
mocked." Many, while standing before their final Judge,
will say, "Lord, Lord, open unto us;" but he will answer,
" I never knew you
depart from me, ye that work inily
quity."
Do you ask, how can I know whether I shall be accepted or rejected, when I stand before the bar of God ?
In
reply, permit me to ask you some questions, founded on the
word of God, that unfold the principles on which your eter
nal destiny will then be decided.
23*
VOL. XI.
CONSECRATION TO CHRIST.
all
known
sin, all
vain amuse-
ments,
all sinful
Do you
from
from unjust assaults
put your confidence in God, to be
and to miprove the event for your
to
his
wisdom
Do you
ways ?
upon the Holy Spirit
in all your
rely
to
renew and
sanctify
CONSECRATION TO CHRIST.
interests to the disposal of
goodness
is infinite
Him who
has done so
much
for
and
Do you
GOD.
THOU HEART-SEARcmNG Jehovah, permit thine unworthy servant to come before thee, through Jesus Christ, to
enter into a solemn covenant with thee to be thine for ever.
I am unworthy to take thy holy name upon my lips, for I
Thou Imst ever had a right to
have sinned against thee.
my perfect obedience, as my Creator and Preserver, much
But I have
more as havmg given thy Son to die for me.
My whole life has
sinned in thought, in word, and in deed.
1 have set at
been one continued course of transgression.
naught thine authority, rejected Christ, and resisted the
Lord, I deserve to be banished from thy
Holy Spirit.
But blessed be thy holy name, that parpresence for ever.
don and eternal life are offered to me through Christ. I
I desire to be cleansed by his blood, and
cling to his cross.
Blessed be the Holy Spirit,
clothed with his righteousness.
who has convinced me of sin, and inclined my perverse heart
thou gracious Comibrter, wilt thou
to come to Christ.
ever dAvell in my heart, to purify and sanctily me, and lead
me into all truth, and aid me in the discharge of every duty.
CONSECRATION TO CHRIST.
Amen.
my
property,
my
my
time,
have or hope
shall
be always ready
for
May
all
my powers of body
Had
benefits
thy praise
or
had
When
On which
Forbid
Save
it,
Lord, that
should boast,
my God
Were
them
me
most,
to his blood.
Demands my
soul,
my
life,
my
all.
IVo.
THE
440,
UNANSWERABLE ARGUMENT.
SCENE
I. THE
PASTOR'S STUDY.
Have you
friend Mr.
High
for
The house
was a cheerful
evening, and the astrals threw their mellow light over the
dense assembly. Now the song of praise resounds from
all parts of the room, and there is a heart in the utterance
which belongs not to other times. Now the voice of one
and another ascends in prayer, and such prayer is seldom
heard except
eternity.
It
The
in the
resist.
become.
" Time, on his noiseless wing, pursues his rapid flight."
Years have gone by, and the faithful old man has been
numbered with the dead. But the converted infidel still
lives, an earnest, honest, faithful, humble Christian.
Wo. 441
DANIEL MURRAY,
LATE LIEUTENANT
IN
hymns from
seemed
to give
dation," etc.
imperceptibly disappeared.
And now permit me to say something of hun who thus
died.
Upwards of thirty years ago he made profession of
religion.
From that time to his death, during a retired and
domestic life, he was kno^\Ti as a warm, consistent Christian.
All this you know.
But I knew him long before
this.
At eight or nine years of age, he being a year older,
we became intimate, and were brought up together almost
in the same family.
We contmued thus until he entered
the navy, I think in the year 1798 and ever since we have
been much together, and always on terms of the closest
;
friendship.
between the late John Randolph and Commodore Decatur, who had known Mr. Murray while in the
ject of religion
themselves as sinners.
He mentioned his own mother as an
and then turning to me, said, " There, too, is our
friend Murray you know w^hat a man he is who ever saw
any thing wrong in him ? Is it not absurd to think of such
a man as a sinner?
And yet he accounts himself such."
I shall never forget Mr. Randolph's reply to this.
He rose
from his sofa, walked towards Decatur, stood before him,
and in his emphatic manner said to this efiect " I well
know how dark and unintelligible this subject appears to
you, and why it is so.
But I trust a time will come when
you will know and feel it to be all true true of all, true of
yourself; when you wdll be self-arraigned and self-condemned found guilty of sin not of the sin of cowardice,
falsehood, or any mean and dishonorable act, but at least
instance
innumerable
favors,
when
was once
for
a short time in
command
of a small
we had
brig
one of the
first
word of it.
Here then I saw the true source of all that had so charmed
and surprised me in his life. What I had attributed to the
impulse of a gentle and noble nature, were the " fruits of
the Spirit," and the excellence that shone forth in his conduct and character was "the beauty of holiness."
This he
acknowledged with all thankfulness, and with the deepest
humility speaking of it as an infinite and undeserved mercy, which he had not improved as he ought.
It now seems
strange to me that I had never discovered this
but I was
walking in darkness, and therefore perceived not the light
by which he was directed.
Surely God has here shown us some of the doings of his
wonder-working hand. A pious mother teaches her child a
hymn. It makes no impression upon his heart, and is soon
eiiaced from his memory. But its work is done, and its fruits
;
THE
SLUMBERER AROUSED
Those who have read the
yaii
Avill
it
and
fell
They
asleep.
Avill
him, and said unto him, " Go to the ant, thou sluggard
consider her ways, and be wise."
Permit me to ask the reader who may be a professed
disciple of the Lord Jesus, if he is not in the condition of the
Your
pilgrim, when thus reclining asleep in the arbor ?
frame of spirit is it not a drowsy frame ? To inspired
truth, are not your ears heavy ?
Your prayers are they
And the precious interests of your
not cold and formal ?
own and others' souls, are you not strangely and criminally
neglecting ?
I would then touch you, and exhort you, for
various reasons, to awake and bestir yourself to the things
;
of religion.
1
There
VOL.
XI.
.24*
God
first
striv-
of humiliation,
bloom of
At your
conversion, however,
2. You should arouse, because to sleep at all is a violation of your covenant engagements.
That was a solemn
occasion when, in the presence of God and men, you consecrated yourself to him as his.
You by that act not only
avouched him to be your God, in contradistinction from those
who are " willing captives of the prince of the power of the
world,
eyelids," in
watching against
sin,
its
watch and
ties
and powers
you continue to sleep ? Embarked in an enterprise connected with immortal souls and a boundless eternity, to be
drowsy is to be infatuated. This language is not unmeanAre
ing, it is not hyperbole, it is "truth and soberness."
not imperishable interests, future years, a judgment, the
character of a long forever, depending on present diligence ?
Awake
is
And
the business
first
and
last
important icork
We
numbers are, are yet " but a handful to the tribes that slum" This globe is one mighty sepulchre."
ber in its bosom."
The dust \Ye now tread ujjon may once have been animated
dust
and soon, ah, soon these tabernacles will fall and
moulder, and become like what is beneath our feet.
" The time is short."
Yfhere are most of the playmates
Where many of your friends ?
Gone.
of your youth ?
Your Christian brethren, too almost every month bears
some of them away, through the gate of eternity, to their
You attend their funerals yours will soon be
account.
You follow them to their long home others will
attended.
You find their names on the register of
soon follow you.
The sun
death yours will soon swell that dark catalogue.
The wild
shines upon their graves, but they feel it not.
The
flower blooms there, but they inhale not its fragrance.
sighing wind sweeps over them, but they hear not its melEre long this Avill be the case with you, and
ancholy tones.
you know not how quickly. The charnel-house is " without
any order." You must be placed in it soon. You may be
placed in it next.
It much beIt ill, then, becometh such a one to sleep.
cometh him to awake. Watch watch for thine own and
" Whatever thy hand findeth
Bestir thyself.
others' souls.
to do," by which a sanctifying influence may be exerted
upon the world, " do it with thy might." There is much to
be done, and what is not done immediately, will not be done
;
at
all.
There
is
is
cries,
constantly nearing
Let
it
not be.
Let
it
not be.
If,
what you
profess to be,
To
much
is
There
to
is
and alaiTn.
Every professed Christian away from God, knows that
he is not where he ought to be knows that his feelings and
conduct ought to be changed, and intends to change them.
But still he thinks he is a real Christian, though a drowsy,
unworthy, and lukewarm one. Here may be his error. He
thinks that he is a Christian.
But where is the evidence
of his discipleship ?
In the ^:>as^, if anywhere for he admits that such evidence is not in him or about him now.
But he may die now. Present evidence, then, is indispensable.
And the idea that, pursuing his present course, he
is to obtain other and better evidence by and by, is delusive.
It is hard for a backslidden, alienated soul to come back,
and there is no evidence till it does come back. Temptations lure the heart from God, transgression becomes easier,
conscience is muffled or silenced, and sinful passions indulged
in this calculated to arouse
wither
not
its sensibilities.
what he
is
The
he readily
offender, in
flatters
THE SLUMBERER AROUSED.
is not
he may not be a genuine disciple the probabiHty
rather is, that he is mistaken ^Yith respect to his true character
and thus the voice of mercy becomes feebler and
feebler, and the tones of wrath sound louder and louder.
he
When
work of
Under
bears in some
THE SLUMBERER AROUSED.
There are
so
many
Christianity,
off,
eyes."
8.
to
awake, because
all else
are aivake.
The
them
You should awake, for the Almighty is awake, protecting his church, and rolling forward his purposes.
Angels
" The
are awake, looking into the mysteries of redemption.
spirits of just men made perfect " are awake, striking their
golden harps and " singing the song of Moses and the Lamb."
You should awake, for hell is awake hell is moved from
The grave is
beneath to receive its wretched victims.
;"
awake the ravenous, insatiable grave, crying, " Give, give
;
and damnation
is
awake,
damnation slumbereth
not."
And
enough
of sleep.
My
's
do,
half so dull.
crown
He
And
lie
so sluggish
still.
hill.
443.
]o.
TOM STARBOARD
AND
JACK HALYARD.
A NAUTICAL TEMPERANCE DIALOGUE.
Halloo,
cheer
shipmate
what
Mayhap, however,
;
to
remem-
'
you
if
Well,
Who
is
that
say, that
must
How
me
you're
would have supposed that this weathermy old messmate Jack Halyard, with
25
TOM STARBOARD AND JACK HALYARD.
whom
many
many
soaked
I've
now
so
Give
about at Barbadoes.
me how
you come
hearty,
and
Jack.
tell
me
another grip,
on.
bad enough.
merry,
and hearty.
so fat
as
used to crack
and looking
be
we
many jokes
my
to
it's
my
sleep sound
and
My
appetite
is
good,
have a shot in
to
little
sum
away
when
and
treats,
in the seamen's
all
And
comfortable of
Jack.
science
But
all
"VMiy yes,
Tom,
much
for a
mine now-a-days
of
most
can't brag
the
man
it
to have.
gives
me
Tom.
me
Ah,
that's bad.
years or so ago.
etc. ?
at
Jack
Yery bad.
Give
me
we
you used
to
how
in,
craft,
be a famous hand
Don't you remem-
let
some four
ber
But come,
parted,
when
made
yes,
And
Tom.
Tom,
remember
it all
very well
how we
but
used to
and Reeftackle,
with
until the
compliments
his
watch, and
messmate
me your flipper
you may be sure,
Give
as your old
Tom
again
for
a bowl of hot
Avast
Tom.
"
flip,
The burnt
and
now
my
am
I
I
flip
there,
or cold
Jack
or
flip,
so let us steer
avast,
my
it
Sailor's Home,"
;
with,
sight,
to
be
can
tell
you.
ill-fame, spied
who always
me
Broadbrim heaving in
and hard
but
I will
If
The
open, had
oi
me.
flip for
The
None
hearty.
was once
a wide berth.
old
and over
and
in
said
me
by Jack
you.
give
thank
"The
the sign of
your hot
and
Jack.
an honest
man
that as long
Halyard
less noise
Cheer up,
all
them,
I say,
don't be downhearted.
if
to hail,
would be desirable
ten
Luff had
to
ship.
graceless,
and
in,
so
up helm
hailed
him
of coining out
thee
in''
won't
Jack.
AVell, I don't
what
it's
half right.
cracked up to be.
The
am
Jolly
Tar"
when
I first
came
in,
not
is
in
me as they
my pocket.
Indeed, they have been pretty rough within the last few
and
days,
tell
me
my
want
know
Tom.
The poor
nothing
tar
is
it's
it's
poor Jack,
but
off,
them begin
let
to slacken off;
who was
last
ad-
am
but
Yes, Jack,
and
to lighten,
held up
as_
is
him run up a
folks.
as long as his
or
if,
may-
he
is
hastily shipped
is
grabbed by the
score,
who made
hard-hearted landlord,
Oh, Jack,
how my
heart
my
out of
my
troubles,
old messmate.
reckoning, grog
and long
faces,
and
is
at the
sighs,
But come,
If I
am
bottom of
and groans.
want
not greatly
all
your
Cheer up,
Jack.
low,
I will
Well,
Tom,
unbosom
tom
of
my
as I
myself.
when you
troubles.
know you to be a
You were never
said that grog
was
sincere
fel-
nearer your
at the bot-
up
happy
fellow,
was a
light-hearted,
not that
good-fellowship, as
seem odd
like to
it
was
called
and when
and moreover,
it
for
did not
soon be-
to lono- for
the sun to get above the fore-yard, and for the afternoon
we might
am
0,
that
Tom,
answer
ors
it
was
there I
first
for,
Tom.
rum
But
that
fixed
and
my
flint,
both
for
it,
still,
Jack,
themselves by blaming
Men who
do,
and
it
Sam
can
Oar
has a great
No, no
it.
for this
seamen
to drink
and think
that
be able to
resist
is
to
grog
excuse
a poor excuse.
such a temptation.
summons
our seducer.
to
to
of us poor sail-
wont do
ought
it is
way
its skirts.
the love of
Sure
all
hands before
of our drunkenness
and the
It Ayill
when
be a
the angel
comforting
with
coffee,
us,
and
and
tea,
and
cold, etc.,
stores, poi-
and
it
will be
But go
ernment.
Jack.
AVell,
were paid
off,
hell, to
on.
when
was
and
as
we
blow-out.
we had
Why,
style.
Chips, the
our great
danced away
Irish carpenter,
jacket,
a set-to in firstrate
frolic at
his
watch, and
you know,
CO
on
like
all-fours,
bower, wouldn't
morning
a half-drowned
made a
have
nose to
rather
nights, carriage-riding,
tre-going, etc.
us
when
with, "
all at
I'll
tell
you
my
it is,
my
ship
you're
Tom,
debt."
wages of a three
in
all
take to
my
wretch
my
house
was
word.
that
was.
must
My
frolic
Tom, what
I
not
I'll
a decent
sober in an instant.
In three days
years' cruise,
to.
is
I felt
house
money
felt
you what
must
m my
and
horrors,
next
AYell,
it.
was
a poor,
The two
over,
dollar left to
whom
had
and give
pitiful,
letters that I
all
sneaking
had
re-
TOM STARBOARD AND JACK HALYARD.
my
and
absence
God
so kind, so affectionate,
to
me
who ought
I,
tion until
vile.
Poor Jack,
my
my
I
gratifica-
to
best of mothers,
Tom.
to
to
had ministered
and
sailor,
rushed
my hard
of
all
earnings with
but cheer
Jack.
bundled,
when about
for
chest,
ter,
two
rors.
or three days,
thought
Tom,
although
whole of
I suffered
was already
my
and
in the hell to
Awake,
go.
was win-
it
advance
which the
asleep, at the
my
helpless infancy
for
me
outfit
to
of
my
ingratitude to
her
and childhood
her poor old eyes in watching for the loved form of her
Jack
for
of the Alert
two days
after
in vain
we
;
got
in.
his
best
himself.
was.
some-
times tried to read in the Bible that she had given me, but
it
seemed as
if
me
8
for
my crimes and
on board, and
after
As
ingratitude.
to
might
and
to
new
leaf in
become a
my log-book
my
coming up,
we were
I fairly gritted
had not
forgotten
how he
me
in so kind a
after
my
health,
me, that
life
to save
These
but you
came
was
the wind
rest
my
ashore,
light in the
treated
by old Hardheart.
me
before
and seemed
swallowed
liquor
saw him
to
had no
up
of
smoke when
As
vessel.
sailor boarding-houses,
"When
was,
in
after a
have a shot
turn over a
my money
bay
sailed
to feel
but he came
so affectionately
all his
last
be in the
city,
mayhap,
my
cruelty
my
old mother,
if,
and more-
Tom.
Dear Jack,
I trust
that resolution.
Jack.
ter's, I
You
woman and
again, as they
that
bowl
we
;
shall hear,
Tom.
made
The
out.
man, and he
said,
my
should celebrate
but Peter
When we
many
"
can't drink
old
woman
me
at once proposed
punch-
for
this,
him."
and
ob-
so did all
rest,
and
galled
it
"
of the
no
sailor
and
them
sealed
me
my doom
The men
at
was
just the
my
my soul,
weak head
and such-like
in
chap
to
having a dollar
was soon
to take
made
and wicked
my
to
my poor old
and here
got back
found
was
forced
My
vain heart
mother,
for the
talk.
Instead of
home
too good
was
foolish
SAvig
and that
and the
just
knew
my jib,
would
But,
good of
thought
that I
and no more.
for,
after the
they took
me
light
the past a
Tom.
enough.
who
was
But
don't despair,
my
Many
boy.
preserved us in so
we have
to do
is,
many
to
fear
us,
and
W^hat
mercy, repent of
it
up and saved.
for
hard
is
a poor fellow
all sin,
and
future.
and
up
to
him
And
trust,
I rejoice
that
have where-
TOiM
10
lift
towards
fitting
you
and head-
out,
Jack.
"
my mind
is
sailor,
your turn
Tom.
and
of Pennsylvania,
little
my
had
my old
father
and
to
among
When
the wit
is in,
down
Ti-uly, Jack,
to the
"her house
it
out," so
an ox
to the
is
The consequences
was robbed
of
all
was nearly
My
sunrise,
and
head swam,
my
my
was
sat
or whither I went,
down on a
came
when
When
as if
knoAving where
street.
there.
or more,
and* as
had got
it
is
was made
myself
soon found
chambers of death."
grog enough
I
the wine
comfort-
passed through
tier
going
left
I in-
and a sweet,
make them
slaughter."
So
left
Unfortunately, as
was
am
aboard to
Tom,
So heave ahead.
about you.
sailor-boy,
to so
all
Philadelphia,
and mourn-
where
sister,
most gratefully
my long
we had
dear
and which
have finished
the Alert
thousand thanks.
ful yarn, it is
a friend indeed."
Tom
thousand thanks,
friend in need
staggered
for half
flight of steps,
to
how
I felt
off,
not
an hour
and
fell
asleep.
rushed upon
only
short
fifteen miles
thought on
my
why
mouths
their
to
meet
face
my
and a
madness and
was
which
worm
of the
quenched.
those
their
It is the
and with a
poor,
It is
make
to
into
with a joyous
little sister
of money, with
full
enemy
Instead of going
their brains.
and a pocket
was. Jack.
it
away
to steal
journey
bitter
folly,
fire
that
is
never
reached
holy laws.
I
found
Well,
The sand
it.
py he looked
and
so
voyage of
eternity, or to stay
life,
on the great
God
He
pleased.
held
out his thin, white hand to me, and welcomed his boy, and
weeping on
were sealed
my
neck.
me
to
God
in death.
when my
poor
I
me
sister
then
be-
hung
felt, I felt
My
who had
my
stood by
him
in every
12
would
last
when
finally,
life,
him
to
the voyage of
was
life
we
over, that
right
name
He then
for ever.
her,
and be
God
bless you,
but
me
my
winged
father
my dear children,
weeping
flight to
mansions in the
sister,
God
;"
and
have
on
is
Come, Lord
must away.
my beloved
skies
was
to that
left
with
Three days
grief.
were
the great
his.
after,
my
and protect
May
the
his holy
her, cherish
Thomas,
and brother.
With
Jesus."
three
all
little
and
watch over
us, at
and praise
to bless
the
till
all in all to
and that
each other.
account
myself by
I told
am young
my needle
sins,
who
known and unknown,
her of
my vileness
I felt
all
that
we
troubles,
girl
my
my
easily support
own
accomit
to the great
Being
many dangers,
And promise me,
dear brother, that you will never touch another drop of liquor
it
will be the
first
Jack.
Poor dear
girl.
again
Tom.
I
kept
my
Of
I
course,
did promise
was
able to
Before
it.
was held
I left
there,
ered addresses, in
13
and conclu-
so clearly
liquors,
been given up as
many
Jack,
incorrigible.
if
who had
sots
beggared children
rmn
of the
leading
influence
its
it
of
and death,
And
upon
robbery, murder,
many
of the horrible
Jack.
don't doubt
it
at
And
Tom.
all,
moreover,
is
ever
known by the
rum
no,
Many
public.
suffering
cealed the history of their woes from the eye and ear of the
world, and buried their sorrows deep in their
\A"hose ear is
whose hand
always open
is
when tempted
feelings
am
to
would wilfully
a few weeks
after,
a pious milliner,
Jack, what a
xr.
to aid
them.
and
"Well, I signed
swerve
for
violate his
having fixed
what man
of honorable
my
sister
and
comfortably with
bosoms.
always ready
one
own
Tom.
for
26
was
to
me.
On
the
first
14
day
out, all
when
ter-deck,
in a
the captain,
it
aft to the
who was
was
his practice to
have "family-
hoped that
The
be
was
so smcere,
human
men would
all his
captain
and
so
we
of work,
all
So at sundown
wiUingly consented.
man
all
at the
helm, as the weather was mild and the ship under easy
sail
He
he explained to
we were
all to
think
and
us,
hymns
dismissed.
Jack.
world over
and
No, Jack
of that vessel.
there
every man
quietness,
his duty
the
I'll
all
like
9,
knew
peace, and
his place
father to us.
and did
He had
how
to
o^vvn
eye
and he taught us
And, Jack,
when we
Then
it
was. Jack,
when we had
oi"
lost
when
away
15
at one time to
keep
to cut
away
captain
and submissive
Christian
ment
when
the masts
He
collected.
to the will of
God, as
seemed
if
to
that
our
to be patient
to his
What
men.
sprit
to
my
story
and
we
To return
its fury,
rummaging
in port, in
little
my
two
seechuig
me
these
little
went
to
books,
my
lines
to look to
some
my
soul,
and never
my
extent,
and
began
come.
God.
Bible and
Jack, this
brought fresh to
I felt
to see
It
my
I fell
sinner I
Yes,
in
God
had been.
little
books,
and how
was uneasy
my
upon
ingratitude to
what a
;"
earnestly be-
my
sister,
my
found
Unconverted
to read
to forget
of
first
dear
and
Jack, I
from
my
flee
the bottom
Anxious Inquirer
and
I at
chest, I discovered at
after Salvation,"
to
to contain
my
two
in
my
to
two
mind, and
16,
me
called
I
him
to
me
Lamb
to " the
He
world."
my
all
trouble,
me
to
my
upon
have ever
walk
since tried to
and
I trust
that
my
and
soul,
make no pretensions
that
but
have seen
Tom.
So
dear fellow,
religion
I felt that
Jack, then
it
was
close in
that peace of
we
shall all
meet
in heaven.
Jack.
in others
he, in
your case
the
as I
Almighty God,
even me.
me
me.
give,
him
for
first
solicitude
that I
at once pointed
away
deep
an)'-
and he
he could do
to ask if
him
frankly told
is,
where
I can't
it
genuine, as I
am
sure
it is
in
much
another day.
may
This day
be your
But,
ofi^
my
seeking
last,
Jack.
who
God
much
many
But
years
thou hast
required of thee."
Thou
fool, this
you
may
You
surely
may
Joe Swifter,
ofi^
when we were
me
my
to
him
djdng hour.
to perish ?
17
And, Jack,
we
am
sure
it
haunt
will
all
thy sms upon thy head into the presence of an offended God.
Jack.
Poor Joe.
days
some queer
when we
it as if it had occurred
was an awful warning and I
;
To
after.
tell
and although
come up
It
remember
I tried
in spite of
hard
to
drown them
But
me.
I'll
tell
You
uninterrupted.
Tom.
will be quiet
him next
go with
my
sister
a snug
mate.
trip as
sum
little
and
made
expect to
to send
to
it
and
would
we
lately
in grog, they
and
you before
I told
heart
age.
Now,
Jack.
of
it,
much
Jack,
though
but
my
Why, Tom,
say that
I can't
I like it
Think of it
trustmg in
now
is
have
if it
at the
XI.
have ruminated
Don't you
am
sure of
?
it.
And
I think,
moreover, that
latterly 'practhed it
Tom.
who
its evils,
all
of temperance
service, insubordination
26^
and floggings
18
would be of
m the
lives lost
Jack.
And
had a
my
too,
spirit, if it
Jack.
liquor, I
am
my
have stood
was once
among
seems to
It
and
at the gratings,
heart outright.
show more
to
on
effect
me
it.
bad
of the
effects of
in Port-au-Prince, in the
when a
sickly season,
fear-
without a
up
remember that
left
and
vessels
it
were
triced
And, Tom,
island of St.
it
man
think
Jack.
lost
It sinks
is.
own and
Tom.
would be fewer
that if
there
me
man
all
were swept
off,
Tom.
stout
and noble-hearted
have
tar, in those
also seen
many a
yellow-fever countries,
what
it
is,
Jack,
when
the coppers
just like
Jack.
What
is
is
sure.
else,
The
indeed,
a teetotaler,
Tom.
and
is
only safe
man
there, as
the teetotaler.
Tom ?
what
teetotaler. Jack, is
it is
one
I
it
meant.
who
conscientiously
rum,
TOM STARBOARD AND JACK HALYARD.
whiskey, brandy, gin, cordials, wine, cider,
19
ale,
and even
beer.
Jack.
Tom, you
"V\Tiat,
Tom.
Don't you
do say
know
that
nothing
my
affect
coffee
and
seem
to
poisonous
drugs.
of Almighty God.
gift
my beverages.
Tom,
"Well,
per-
is
sailor for
Try them
once, Jack,
it,
to alcohol, or
Jack.
made
Adam's
tea, are
And what
hurtful ingredients
and
little
me
for
you give
it.
contains alcohol
it
but
many
No, no
is
to say that
Jack.
it.
mean
don't
think
The
I will.
fact
you
is,
so comfort-
able and respectable in worldly matters, and speak so cheeringly of another world
current of time
is
to
to
which
hurrying us both
make a
little
know
that
headway
I'll
follow in your
my-
in these things
self
Tom.
Well
of your honest
said,
fist.
my hearty.
Now I begin
Give
me
another shake
to recognize
my
old true-
when we swore
chest,
so
rig
come up with me
you out a
little
more shipshape
You
are the
man
more decently
and
to-night
we
for
me, Jack
Home, and
make you
look a
I'll
little
which
life,
20
Jack, as
cuit
I'll
aye,
I'll
wager a
warrant
me
mouldy
bis-
hand
in so good a cause.
Jack.
did think
of tapering off
and
That
Tom.
pering off
is
hazardous
liquor
is
what
not
it
cracked up to be.
is
It is
he who
first
Jack.
Surely I do,
Do you
Tom.
and such a
Tavery
for it
firstrate
upon a
suppose
could
Ben Hawser
for-
as fine
wheel
No, indeed.
You
Tom.
He was
always the
whether seaman
a noble fellow,
first
man
at his duty,
and ready
with a fellow-mortal in
or landsman.
Well,
Ben once
distress,
got into a
and the
us-
mands^ as
so
it,
that
Ben
felt
afterwards, didn't
pretty sheepish
advice, to
;
so
wind up
and, as he told us
his
head or
his
on the
and
so
a drop
for
it,
moderately
folks say,
-just
enough
to
is
for
is
more
But,
Tom, you
been run
ofi^
to
don't
mean
it is
true,
you
and sorry
and
ing at
many
Ben, like
all
am
it is
to
slipped his
was
that
Ben Hawser
He
when
fiend,
and he drags a
strongly,
in that style, do
Indeed, Jack,
first.
by the
Tom.
slippery-
reel has
0,
temperate drinker
Jack.
some
as
imps
active
or,
ground
so.
21
was
stronger,
was
but he
and that
him
God
a wide berth, or
it
for
would
menced
this
rum
time and
like
fact,
inter-
So
Give
I
it
for eternity.
your temperate
when he com-
;;
22
quite sufficient to
please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the
first,
year,
the
was then
insipidly small
title
but
and more
thhd
so in the
if,
is
to
a fear-
think upon
let liim
Jack, this
it
when
he
and
can abstain
if
for reflection
oft'
I'll
warrant he
is
drunkard
would
Ko, indeed
cating bowl, if he
him,
if
for it is
felt
would be the
he indulged.
And
it
may
was by
and thriving
man
is
as they think
worldsay a
and small
great
folks do
when
degrees.
a respectable
stand
intoxi-
result to
all better
men
remember
take heed
lest
he
fall ;"
and
am
sure, in
It is
so
down
to the
so sate,
means of misleading
others, either
many a man on
grave drunkards
like lead
his death-bed.
to certain
we have been
by example
ex-
the
or precept
my
motto
is.
TOM STARBOARD AND JACK HALYARD.
23
of Scripture
"
cup
at the last
it
it
when
is red,
biteth like
a serpent, and
giveth
it
said also,
what
But, Jack,
the soul
loss of
loss
are poverty
for
God
are, in
Think of that
the
nor di'iuikards, nor any thing that deiileth, shall enter heav-
And
en.
his angels
how awful
Jack.
and
am now
And what
teetotal pledge.
be a Christian
is
persuaded
fully
good example,
more,
that religion
I'll
iry to
the best
is
Tom.
I like that,
Jack
it is
truth itself
is
to the Bethel,
By
mariner
The
and
and
Homes
is
allowed
comfortable
;
and
will go
what
ex-
we
all
are there.
we
unite
we
word of God
of temptation,
drinlving
way
to-night
will
direction
and there
we
So
to the
on the
good of us poor
TOM STARBOAKD AND JACK HALYARD.
24
sailoi-s, for
It
reminds
me
is
my
of the days of
boyhood,
tell
you.
when my
dear
God
and
happy time
also of the
my
And
then, Jack,
saw how
sisters.
and
when any
-just
illness,
and did
all
own
by the manager
pillow,
our
like
make
It
towards
Oh, Jack,
it is
fall in
his dying
way easy
his
treated
old salt
they could to
was
a worthy
of the poor
man
in Scripture
who
fell
among thieves, and had his wounds dressed and care taken
of
him by
Jack
Aye., aye,
and
know,
weather-beaten
tar,
who would
many
a poor neglected,
other\vise
who
have
fallen into
Jack.
won't
"Well,
flinch.
wives,
sisters,
let
Homes and
pity or remorse.
hearty
Bethels,
and sweethearts of
peace, and
my
And
him up without
heave ahead,
wants
who
to do his
all
and
for
Temperance
the mothers,
true-hearted seamen.
and domestic
windward
world, toe the plank, and sign the pledge right off the
reel.
fo.
444.
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS
BY REV. WILLIAM JAY,
ATH
ENGLAND.
il"!'iii^i,lli,ii^iii',i}fi^liihiiiiiiMi|ij^^^^^^
One of
we can
ever survey
where friendship
comes in to draw more closely the bonds of nature where
the individuals resemble the human body, and if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it, and if one member
be honored, all the members rejoice where every care is
divided, every sorrow diminished, every joy redoubled, by
where mutual
discovery, by sympathy, by communion
confidence prevails, and advice, consolation, and succor are
To such a sight God himreciprocally given and received.
voL. XI.
27
upon earth,
is
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.
our attention
self calls
" Behold,
it is for
things
not good.
pleasant
Some
I"
eiiect is fragrant
heaven.
is
that
of Zion
life for
for there
commanded the
the Lord
even
blessing,
evermore."
And first, we may consider it in reference to our avocaand cares ; these are numerous and diversified, and
tions,
demand
Who could
And
oh,
what
home
him
Does duty
it
cheers
which
a season to
diflficulties
it
;
him
makes him
quickens
it
home
and
his
it
journeys
hope
in
for
remembrance
him under
call
The image
endure perpetual
so refreshing, so sooth-
"
Thou
;
sin."
the
of absence.
Behold the
painfulness
of
man
He
of science.
research,
closes
his
volume,
smooths his
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.
To
enables
many
ease
to the toil
to
him
reconciles
him
in, to
What
of trade.
What
any toy
to
their welfare
he will be embosomed in
he will behold
whom
he resigns his
pense.
from his
and he
toil,
is
home
hastening
to enjoy repose.
are forgotten
the evening
garden
fatigue vanishes
man
he
eats,
and
is
satisfied
fair,
enters again,
a laboring
is
and
retires to rest,
"
Peace be
mock
little
or
who can
" rest of
much."
be
indif-
to this house."
thy useful
and the
toil.
destiny obscure
We may
afflictmns of
life.
It looks like
we
unavoidably
feel
while
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.
4
passing tlirough
How many
world of
this
How many
spirit."
little
" vanity
mind.
child dissipate
What
Who
her gentleness.
it
it fill
up.
and vexation of
What
a consolation
its
healing,
Is
mankind
Here your
you have
to do, cherish
Here a
and kindness with which you are surAre you repulsed by others ? Here you are rerounded.
Does the storm rage
ceived with open and welcome arms.
Here we realize
Behold an asylum within.
without ?
simplicity, openness,
weary are
3.
at rest."
We may
good things of
all will
be useless.
Your
Without
titles
be insipid,
own
dwelling.
prived of
all
adventitious appendages
of your happiness,
by
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.
which no splendor
fame
and in which
inspires,
all
which no
gilds,
abundance
to imbitter
even on a costly
sofa, "
every pleasure
to
to corrupt
make you
me
your
groan,
nothing."
bad
be wounded anywhere
to
No
is
sons from
frowns
visits,
moment
of attack
whom
whom
you
cannot live
home
a man's household
It is
and
to
and that
it
If our hap-
is unquestionable
it will necessarily follow, that it must be
most aflected by those to whom we are most seriously related, and with whom we most intimately blend
not those
;
VOL.
XI.
27*
DOMESTIC HAPPINES3.
whom we
reside
but those
4.
not those
who
who
whom we
daily-
Let us consider
it
From
and
is
no
The
more a man feels his welfare lodged in his own house, the
more will he prize and love it. The more he is attached to
his wife and children, the less will he risk their peace and
comfort by hazardous speculations and mad enterprises in
trade.
A life of innocency, regularity, and repose in the
affections of his family, will
follies
restless
of the pride of
life.
s].iringing fresh
enjoyments
of our rising charge, from our rural walks, from our social
evenings, from our reading and conversation, from our cheer-
mutual devotion.
cloy.
ledge only the dominion of nature, and follow only the bias
Here
of inclination.
Here
takes to dread.
have no weaknesses
my
no disgrace, no remorse.
hind.
fear
oning from
my
made
is
They
conscience
better.
exchange
no mis-
no reproach from
My
heart
to hide,
all this,
And can
be induced
to
DOMESTIC HAPPLNESS.
and expense
my
7
Shall
part with
forms, the
encumbrance of your
your crowds
Shall
of your slavery,
which
my
resign
so often
freedom
the privilege
for
compels you
to disguise
yawn under
your
folly,
Shall I sacrifice
my
inno-
is
which you
rest,
ence of
God
ble ?"
" Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
adored,
Who
home
for
But
enjoyments of
is.
never more
are.
The
and never
folly,
less domestic,
people were
than they
" keepers at
now
Wives
Even chilmade to
youth.
From
home."
mansions, and
shops,
mix with
it,
and
says, "
this throng,
this
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.
Q
Perhaps
we
We
comply.
we run
run, but
away from
drew us
folly
we
it.
The
in vain.
prize
shall find
it.
to noise,
to publicity
fine us to
God has
way
were
wisely rendered
it
placed, not in
But home
is
is
comes needful
what
it
be-
it
and examine on
What am
it
life
Hence,
depends.
It does not
man.
domestic
the servant
It is con-
may
enjoy
it
saying
What
says
common
opinion
Does
roof,
have
life,
whether
never advanced
to the
brow
Ask
those
who
cended, and looking down, sighed, " Ah, happy vale, from
sheltered while
was
in thee I"
There
DOMESTIC HAITLNESS.
ness of those
"
Nature
is
who have
ter is a dinner of
hatred therewith."
is
But
life.
" Bet-
is,
mention
this the
more
readily,
This
and
we
them no openings
of w^ealth.
while
many
are waiting
There
are, how^ever,
indis-
which
fall
cultivation.
and
fill
These
voice of rejoicing."
1.
house.
order
"
He
"God
is
not the
God
of confusion."
He
all
by
"
their
He
names
;"
He
loves
overlooks nothing.
appointeth the
his going
down."
There
is
no discord,
He
And
this
command
is
founded
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.
10
and
rules,
to
walk by them
upon you
It calls
;
to assign
to lay do^^-n
every thing
its
proper
to
From
expenses.
From
from confusion
Without
peace
flies
we
lose self-posses-
op-
Many
spirit
"
who
life,
common
life
of a
meek and
price."
quiet spirit
And Solomon
is,
ornament
" It
better to dwell
is
"
The
and
call
upon
)'ou,
it
invidious to
we would
of passion
say
when under
with your
heal.
" I
lips,
may
produce a
I not angry."
It is
ad-
ful abode, to
little
woman
own
irritation
Beware
turn aside
a noble suggestion.
Apply
it
were
in your
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.
drizzling rain driving all the day long.
IX
is
is
What
culable.
streams,
what
Who
The
ignorant,
who
how
and how
cannot comprehend
discover,
to
Good
and
likely
how much
it
we
acknowledge a
us to distinguish circumstances
we may
candidly survey
who
to
fault.
will lead
enough
they
his humility to
to
reflection
are to err
Who
for firmness.
liable
mistake obstinacy
They
unyielding
are the
them
in
frightful,
Good
open day.
The
tions
infiraiities I
versal excellence
thing.
unattainable
And who am I,
am
connec:
uni-
to
my
encompassed vdth
imperfec-
infirmities
myself."
Good
ties,
accommodations
what
to observe,
to
and what
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.
1J2
ble,
things roughly
Good
sense
for love
Avill
is
it ^^all
Good
God."
than
duties, rather
We
4.
you
it
be
any
man have
or of
any other
spirit,
Would
were
relation, if they
all
influenced by the
relatiA' e
Much
duties
and
calls in conscience,
and
most
and God,
heaA^en,
all Ave
God can
elevate
upon
command
or Avithhold
and flames
it
to
he can render all Ave have satisfyand them that honor him, he Avill honor.
devour us
ing or distasteful
"The
he can
smiles.
its
house of the
AA'icked shall
sliall flourish.
The
curse of the
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.
Lord
is
wicked
13
it
we sucwe suffer,
If
if
it
it
It
it
not
and immortality.
glory, honor,
arate
it is
useless to keep
truth.
sepIt
After so
it.
attachments, to separate
other assistance
fails
our friends
is
infinitely to their
that a time
advantage
come that
and hear their voices again.
Take two Christians who have been walking together,
like " Zechariah and Elizabeth, in all the commandments
tion
we
is
temporary
of remiion will
dissolved
He becomes an
ward, and
VOL. XT.
is
Is
waiting
to " receive
2S
him
he draws him
for-
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.
14
tations."
down
chilled
How
to the grave.
we
is
shall
Jesus,
tliis
mankind.
of that
which
to
come."
it
that
now
is,
and
Let us resolve
life
It secures
to
pursue
it
ourselves
us enforce
it
we
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.
X5
FAMILY WORSHIP.
The
clieerfu'
o'er,
ingle,
form a
circle
wide
is
laid aside.
Those
He
And
" let us
air.
rise,
Nae
The
Or other holy
is
the theme
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.
16
How
The
How
who
many
a land
Patmos banished,
Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand,
And
he,
lone in
command.
Then, kneeling down,
to heaven's eternal
King
Compared with
In
all
the
When men
how
this
pomp
of
method and of
art.
May
And
in his
book of
life
And
proffer
That He who
And
up
to
stills
heaven the
warm
request.
Burns.
lo.
445,
THE
principal of these
is
the Bible.
This
is
The " holy men of God " who wrote it, wrote " as they were
moved by the Holy Ghost." How then have you treated
the Bible
When
it
refused to yield ?
0, then, with what fixed and bold
determination have you resisted the Holy Ghost.
But the Holy Spirit comes yet nearer. He enters the
mind, arrests the attention, produces a deep and awd'ul conviction of the reality and importance of eternal things, arouses
the conscience, awakens a painful sense of guilt and fearful
apprehension of coming wrath, and impresses upon the soul
Such
the necessity of immediate efibrt to secure salvation.
an influence the reader has doubtless somictimes felt. How
still
is
resisted
The
by procrastination.
When
thee."
defer
Holy Ghost.
Does the
You cannot
resisting the
And WHAT
worm
IS
made and
by mere
You
resist
liest aspect,
God
171
engaged
work
in
and
love-
which he unfolds
his
and mercy.
black ingratitude
What
is
to deliver
but
'}wiv
from
thine
eyes''
How
often in later years has the Spirit striven, conscience been awakened, and the sinner trembled and cried,
" What shall I do to be saved ?" but his heart rose in oppo-
whom God
Nothing
has utterly withdrawn his Spirit.
awaken him nothing melt his obduNothing awaits him
rate heart, or bow his stubborn will.
" Except a man be
but the blackness of darlmess for ever,
born of water mid of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the
kingdom of God." Mercies, means, privileges, warnings, and
judgments only harden his heart, and prepare him for a deeper
damnation.
Such will be your case, if you continue to resist the Holy
And in the world of woe, how agonizing will be
Ghost.
the thought that your own folly and rashness brought you
The Spirit strove with you urged you with infinite
there.
held
pointed you to a Saviour's blood
tenderness to repent
warned you of coming wrath, bttt
out the promise of life
you would not hear. You resisted all his gracious influHe was willing, but yoic ivmdd not. While eternal
ences.
ages roll, this dreadful thought will still ring in your ears
and pierce your soul, that yoit destroyed yourself.
0, my friend, if you do not wish to be " tormented day
and night for ever and ever with such reflections, no longer
resist the Holy Ghost.
from
'
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No. 440.
THE
STRICKEN BRIDE.
was not the
Mary G
From childhood
be nurtured
was placed
almost beyond the reach of religious instruction, and the
hallowed associations of the Sabbath-day and the house of
God. Her father had early removed to the shores of Lake
Erie, secluded by location and choice from Christian society
It
privilege of
to
she
was
'
2
of death.
and thy
me thy rod
Christians speak of support
of victory over the grave
of desiring to
in a dying hour
'
find these
To her surprise there was kindness in the mesheld companionship with the wants of one sick
and dying, and was as a ministering angel along that untrodden ground over which disease was carrying her, and where
other friends were dumb, and other supports vanished.
"I am glad Mr. S
was invited up," she said; "if
he shall call again, I shall be willing to see him." The
truths presented had struck a chord in her sensitive and imploring bosom which had never been reached before.
My next visit was of greater length and freedom of instruction.
"Diseases," I remarked, " are from God, who does
not but for good reasons affhct us. They are his messengers,
sent often to draw us from the ways of sin, and make us
eternally happy
loving and serving huii.
"We find them
only mercies in disguise, calling us to reflection, to piety, and
consolation.
sage.
It
to
God.
it.
sins.
And
when I
"
is
'
'
The
attention of Mrs.
"
more
fixed as I proceeded,
on me, as
if
help.
With him
there
is
forgiveness.
'
'
'
in Christ.
my
my
soul," etc.
requesting another
visit.
and religion of the cross. She saw how utterly inwere all worldly helps to the pressing necessities of
her condition, and was " striving to enter in at the strait gate."
" The promise is, Seek, and ye shall find,' " I said. " God
his compassions
is nigh unto all them that call upon him
are ready and beforehand in behalf of the first emotions of
contrition, penitence, and love.
Your health," I reminded
her, " does not admit of great intellectual exertion now, nor
does the case require it.
Only give up sin, and yield to
truth, duty, obligation, and the constraining love of God.
Only sink in penitence at the foot of the cross, as one all unholy and mideserving, and look up in faith to Him who died
upon it. Pardon, and peace, and joy, and hope immortal,
spring up there."
I read from Psalm 51, and 2 Cor., chapters 4 and 5, and closed the interview with prayer.
doctrines
sufficient
'
fied conscience,
in its provisions,
in its embrace.
much
From
::
No. 447.
WHY SHOULD
Because
study of
it is
it
is
word of
the
enjoined by him.
WHY SHOULD
4:
14, 15.
5.
Because
commandment
it
will enlighten
and
ex'pand
mymind. "The
6.
shall a
Because
2yrserve
\t \;\[\
his
truth."
7.
John
Because
17^: IV.
will cheer
it
my
soul in affliction
and
death.
affliction."
Psalm 119 54, 92. "Yea, though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no
evil
for thou art with me
tliy rod and thy staflt" they comfort me."
Psalm 23 4.
8. Because it will contribute to my present and eternal
" Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the
welfare.
man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of
it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain
:
34, 35.
WHY
9.
Because
tiliuUl.D
the nerjlect
it
ivill
subject
me
to
God's
BIBLE
''
Prayerfully.
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law
yea, I shall observe it with
;
my
whole heart."
Constantly.
:8.
Meekly.
*'
pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words
Job 22 22. "Let the word of Christ
dwell in you richly in all wisdom."
Col. 3 16.
Practically.
"Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
For whoso looketh
into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he
being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this
man shall be blessed in his deed." James 1 22, 25.
I
in thine heart."
said,
BIBLE.
to meals without
some
WHY SHOULD
THE BIBLE?
rfTUDY
this I
you
own mind.
and comforting
Then you will
grow
"
Read and
Where
Which
Which
Youn?.
?io.
WHY
SIT
448.
YE HERE IDLE?
Fellow-citizen, fellow-sinner,
me,
if I
case so
admits of no delay.
Methinks I see ijoifr threatened with
war, famine, and pestilence a disastrous war with God, a
famine of the bread of life, and a pestilence that kills the
And I cannot refrain from asking, in all the urgency
soul.
of an affectionate solicitude for your eternal Avell-being, Why
sit you here idle ?
Do you say, I have nothing to do ? A sin^ier nothing to
do, who has a life of sin to repent of, a world of sin within
him to subdue, another world of sin about him to reclaim,
and a hell of endless sui and miser}' yaAvning before him to
escape
who has not yet entered upon the work of securing
the pardon of his sins and the salvation of his soul who has
yet to decide between death and life, between heaven and
hell
Surely you have enough to do you have a work assigned you as the business of life.
Life was given you for
no other purpose than to do it.
And it is a great and difhcult work. For a sinner to become a Christian, a child of hell an heir of heaven, is a work
of such unequalled magnitude, and such extreme difficulty,
that you are exhorted in the Scriptm*es to strive and agonize for its accomplishment, to take the kingdom of heaven
by violence and you are told, that, so far from being able
to do it at any moment without much effort, it is impossible
29*
VOL. XI.
ests,
WHY
2
for
you
to do
it
SIT
YE HERE IDLE
so that
if,
by
sit-
ting idle, you weary out the patience of God, and forfeit his
help, you will never be able to accomplish it, and will lose
then will you sit idle ?
your soul.
Why
because God interposes any obstacles to your salvaLook, I pray you, at what God hath sacrihced in the
tion.
person of the Father, and suffered in the person of the Son,
and done in the person of the Spirit, for your salvation. Look
at all the declarations of liis word, and the arrangements of
JSTot
idle
Not because
desires to
have
idle
WHY
SIT
YE HERE IDLE
Do this work, and you have done all that chiefly conNeglect it, and you have done nothing that is
cerns you.
You have wasted your time, perverted your
oi" any value.
hell.
talents,
And what
is
man
WHY
SIT
YE HERE IDLE
they never sit idle in hell, and they never will and
When they
is the keenest pang in their suflerings.
have groaned out a period longer than their utmost imagination of an eternity, it will be the bitterest ingredient in
the deep still lower than the lowest deep in
their cup
hell
that it is yet to be eternal.
Have you yet to choose between these two worlds ? for
in one or the other you must dwell, and must work for ever.
Why then, why sit idle ? How will you answer the question to your own understandmg, to your conscience, to your
Sit idle,
duty, to your interest, to the world, and to God ?
when property and reputation, and health and life are at
stake
sit unmoved before the lion's paw, at the cannon's
mouth, at the edge of the precipice, on the brink of the catBut I cannot keep silence
aract, and I will hold my peace.
and see you sit idle in a world of probation, in a Christian
land, on the eve of the judgment, on the brink of eternity,
on the dividing line between an eternal heaven and an eternal hell.
Iso
that
]\o.
449,
Who
would not
men.
The
desire
Happiness
is
is
instinctive.
could not
fill
my
of God.
He has made you to be happy. He has provided
the means, prescribed the method, furnished all the requisite
facilities for attaining and securing all the enjoyment which
your most enlarged capacities, your most expanded desires
can demand.
More than twenty years since, the \ATiter became acquamted, in the capital of Russia, with a man who had
devoted all the energies of a great mind, and all the sensiof a benevolent heart, to the mitigation of human
misery. He had been a merchant in extensive business, but
dissolved his secular connections, and gave himself to the
hallowed work of personally ministering to the temporal
and spiritual necessities of the most wretched of his race.
bilities
grace.
friends.
4
God and
him.
The
many
He
has traversed seas and continents, mingled with the inhabitants of many a clime, held communion with the honorable
and the abject, the savage and the sage and this is the
sum of all his experience that lie alone is truly happy, who
mourns for sin, relies on the grace and power of Christ, and
in the full light of inspired truth, can " read his title clear
to mansions in the skies."
Reader, the retrospections of a death-bed, of a judgmentday, will confirm this conclusion. Anticipate that confirmation, and BE WISE, that you may be happy.
Io.
450.
THE
HEART OPEIED.
Have you
if instinct
its
beauteous valves,
and
Just so
was
the heart of
Lydia opened.
had repaired
to
its
She was a
Philippi
to
dispose of that
Roman
to
God
of
He embraced
the
favorable
opportunity
of
V(JL. XI.
;}U
2
and as many
illustrations of this
One
her
volatility,
which
was compelled
yet, as
a junior
member
on the
morning of an ever-memorable Sabbath, and anticipatmg
the irksome engagements of the day, was doing what she
could to "kill the time," the sacredness and value of which
she had yet to learn.
But the lesson Avas soon to be acquired. She was far,
very far from being satisfied with her condition.
That
morning her mind was unaccountably diverted from its
usual course of frivolous and trifling thought, and, as she
of her family, she
to attend, arose
away
heroine
"
Entreat
me
for
I will
my God."
From
follower of Christ.
and
in
she
saw him
unspeakable and
full of glory."
life,"
On
unable to atone
guilty
polluted
condemned
from
avert the condemnation impending
to purify themselves
moral uncleanness to
them and having told them of the love of Christ, his
over
and willingness
to save, uttered
" Suffer
he
he
may have
hesitancywithout
implores you to
'
come
to
life.'
her soul."
still
and saved.
There,
month
after
They
are
still
the
fruits
around them
There
is
is
of the Spirit,
but
theirs
much
that
is
If,
way gives
how must that joy
joy to
the ministering
be en-
spirits
of heaven,
him
before
an embodied
not
0)1
we wish
my
relio-ion.
youthful reader,
to sec
"We wish you to live in the memory of others when you die,
have your noblest eulogivmri in the grateful remembrance
of surviving disciples of the Saviour, whom you shall instrumental ly have brought to his cross and to his throne.
We desire for you a record on high a memorial that shall
to
my
moment
nro.
431.
Happy were
That
We
all
was
Milton.
lost."
may attend to the clmrader of the preacher to the docinculcated to the hearer addressed to the medium or
instrume7it of the preaching.
I. As to the PREACHER, I would observe, he has many names
given him in the sacred writings : the most common is the Devil.
That it was he that disturbed the happiness of our first parents is
evident from 2 Cor. 11 13, and many otlicr passages of Scripture.
He was once an angel of light, and knew better than to preach
such doctrine he did violence to his own reason.
But, to be a little more particular, let it be observed,
1. He is an old preacher.
He lived about one thousand seven
hundred years before Abraiiam above two tliousand four hundred and thirty years before Moses four thousand and four years
before Christ.
It is now five thousand eight hundred and nine
years since he commenced preaching-.
By this time he must
have acquired great skill in the art.
When Ely mas the
2. He is a very ciuuiing, artful preacher.
sorcerer came to turn away people from the faitii, he is said to
be full of all suhlldy, and a child of tlie devil not only because
he was an enemy of all righteousness, but on account of his carnal
trine
cunning and
VOL. .\i.
craftiness.
'Si)*
DIE."
When
and fro
is far
state,
in the earth,
and extensive.
4. He is a hderogeneous preacher, if I may so express myself.
He makes use of a Bible when he holds forth, as in his sermon
He mixes truth with error, in order
to our Saviour, Matt. 4:6.
make
to
it
He
5.
is
say, "
Ye
He
is
!"
a very success/id preacher. He draws a great numNo preacher can command hearers like him.
He was successful with our first parents with the old world.
Noah once preached to those spirits that are now in the prison of
hell, and told them from God tliat tliey should surely die ; but
this preacher came along and declared the contrary
" Ye shall
not surely die." The greater part, it seems, believed him, and
6.
went
to destruction.
preached to them
So
it
was
witli
Lot
We
'
DIE."
his
own character.
The devil is an enemy
"
3.
triumphant treachery.
simple conquest in the foe
I"
Y'ocng.
service
where
4.
himself.
He
command
DIE."
INFERENCES.
The
and
is
able to preach
preaching. If they preach the true Gospel, they only in substance repeat Christ's sermons. If they preach, " Ye shall not
surely die," they only make use of the devil's old notes, that he
delivered almost six thousand years ago.
7. It is probable that the doctrine of Universal Salvation will
still prevail, since this preacher is yet alive, and not in the least
superannuated and every effort against him only enrages him
more and more, and excites him to new inventions and exertions
to build up his cause.
To close the subject. As the author of the foregoing discourse has confined himself wholly to the character of Satan, he
trusts no one will feel himself personally injured by tliis short
sermon. But should any imbibe a degree of friendship for this
aged deceiver, and think that I have not treated this Universal
preacher with that respect and veneration that he justly deserves,
let them be so kind as to point it out, and I will most cheerfully
retract for it has ever been a maxim with me, " Render unto all
;
their dues."
No. 452.
THE
and disobeying
his
sincere
sincerity
is
God
for his
it.
lavi^,
and by
his
is
"jealous"
now, under clear conviction and the mo.st pressing motives, while the heart is susceptible, you are unwilling to
repent, much more will you be when, by practice in sin,
convictions are stifled, motives impaired, and the heart has
grown hard. If you trust to your morality, its outward and
partial duties cannot answer the demands of a law which is
" exceeding broad " and spiritual nor can present obedience,
even if it were perfect, atone for sins that are past. If you
expect that at death some change will be produced in your
moral character, by which you may be saved, you are fearfully deceived
He that is then unjust, shall be unjust still;
and he that is filthy, shall be filthy still. Rev. 22 11.
You are then condemned, nor can you derive from yourself or your fellow-men the least hope of deliverance.
If
you are ever saved, it must be by the unmerited mercy of
God, so exercised that his justice, holiness, and truth, shall
remain unimpeached, the authority of his law be maintained,
and a thorough and radical change produced in your moral
for if
character.
devised.
And from
make you
3
1
clean.
John, 1:7.
1 Pet. 1
22.
Wait not
to
make
He
says, "
He
of compassio7i.
that cometh to me, I
is full
came
Him
v^ill
John 6
and
no wise cast out."
to save sinners,
in
37.
is full
He is full of
own in this
victory,
and
to reign as king
priest
He will be made wisdom for your ignorance, righteousness for your guilt, sanctification for your pollution, and redemption for your ruin. Will you accept him as your SavThen make and seal, with your heart and hand,
such an engagement as the following
" In view of my sins, most unreasonable and wicked, as
committed against God the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Spirit, I profess my sincere sorrow, and my firm determina-
iour?
tion to forsake
them
heartily
my
and
for ever.
Saviour.
now
Disclaiming
my
receive
all reli-
pardon.
There
is
Drawn from
Be
And
The dying
as he,
Then
I'll
its
power,
When
this
Io.
453.
THE
SINNER BELIEVING.
Towards the close of a summer Sabbath, my younger
came into my room, and with every expression of
brother
confidence and love, the tear trembling in his eye, said, " I
want you to pray for me." It was a moment of surpassing
interest, and emotions never to be expressed or forgotten
were awakened during the scene that folloAved.
request.
" Last evening," said he,
all
that
He
is
holy ?"
replied, " I
lest I
2
as a sense of
know
not
my sins
what
be saved from
they are so
to do or
my
where
many and so
What
to look.
shall I do to
sins ?"
"There
great, that I
why
you ought
to feel
He tried
the hour of his extremity he might find mercy.
pray and, out of the depths of his distress, cried unto
God. But his cry seemed to be miheard. He did not believe.
I then said to him,
" My dear brother, I have been striving to set before you
those sins which now fill your soul with so much distress,
and I doubt not that the Holy Spirit has opened your eyes
But you
to see your guilt and just desert of punishment.
must not despair. Have you forgotten that the blessed Saviour, who came into the world and died for the chief of sinIf you still
ners, now waits to be gracious even to you ?
doubt the willingness of God to have mercy on sinners, come
with me to the cross on Calvary. Why does the Son of God
If he died to save the sinthere hang, and bleed, and die ?
Here
ner, is he not willing to do that for which he died ?
is the crowning evidence that God can save and longs to
And then listen to the
save those who deserve to perish.
how many, how
invitations and promises of the Gospel
precious, how strong.
They breathe the sweetness of dying
love.
They come from the heart that bled on the cross
Come unto me, all ye
and how can you refuse to believe ?
ill
to
'
I will
If
give you
drink.'
'
rest.'
Whoso
The Gospel is
they are made to sinners they are
made to you. Were you the only sinner on earth, the promises of Christ could not be more clearly addressed to you than
they now are. And can you doubt will you despair ? You
see the plan of salvation revealed for just such siimers as you
are
and now will you not, under the power of the Holy
Spirit, that has awakened you to a sense of your condition,
commit your immortal interests to Him who gave himself
for you?"
The solemnity of etermty seemed to rest on his
soul, as he poured out his heart in prayer and yielded himFrom
self into the hands of Him Avho is mighty to save.
that blessed hour my brother has found the Saviour precious
full of
such promises
to his soul.
would
There was
He came
d,
Lord
He
were forgiven.
These are simple steps, but they lead to heaven. " Repent, and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt bo
You maybe a desperate, abandoned profligate an
saved."
a child of infamy
outcast, forsaken and forgotten of men
and crime, lost to yourself and friends, and lost to Iwpe ; but
" it is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that
the chief
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"
his sins
of sinners
to save you.
is
No. 434,
CONVENIENT SEASON
" Go THY WAY FOR THIS TIME
WHEN I HAVE A CONVENSo spake Felix to
IENT SEASON, I WILL CALL FOR THEE."
the apostle Paul, " as he reasoned of righteousness, temperThe haughty Roman govance, and judgment to come."
ernor, conscience-smitten, trembled before his prisoner, yet
bade him depart till he could find a better time to attend to
That season never came. Though Felix sent
his message.
often for the apostle and communed with him, he never so
called for him as to receive and obey his message, but died
a rebel against God.
Many still adopt in heart and practice the language of
Felix many still look forward to their convenient season.
Few have any clear idea of what they mean, further than
that it is not the present time they are always intending
Thus they live and die with
to repent, and never are ready.
the work not done, and the soul is lost.
Dear reader, now unprepared, what do yoti intend by a
The present time, it seems, is not such
convenient season ?
There must then be something in the future to
for you.
which you look that does not belong to the present. What
" Noiv" he says,
God's convenient season is now.
is it ?
" is the accepted time behold, now is the day of salvation."
The grand inquiry is. Will you liave a more convenient sea;
son
You
how
far
A CONVENIENT SEASON.
time you only wait till this be over, and then you will be
ready nothing-shall prevent you. Death may prevent you.
The loss of reason may prevent you. Your very business,
too, may bring results in its train which you cannot foresee.
The resolution of to-day will soon be forgotten, as many
others have been.
You liave put off the period longer and
longer still, and as yet have done nothing to make your,
peace with God.
Think, will it not be so again ?
But you wait till more iiowcrfid means are used with
you.
What means have not been used Mdth you ? Have
you not had the Bible to tell you that you are a sinner against
God that you must be born again ? Have you not heard
of a Saviour, and rejected him ?
Have you not been prayed
for, and warned, and entreated ?
Has not the Holy Spirit
of God sought you and strove with your heart ?
Has not
conscience urged on you your danger ?
Have not the providences of God spoken to you ?
Have not friends died, perhaps with warnings to you on their last breath ? You too,
perhaps, have yourself been nigh to death, and in agony of
soul promised to live to God
but you have broken that
promise, and torn yourself away from his arms of everlasting
love.
How then can you look for more powerful means ?
Do you wait till you feel the influences of God's Spirit on
your heart ? Have they not been given you ? Even now
they may be gently drawing and urging you.
Yes, the still
small voice of the Holy Spirit in loving entreaty whispers to
tlioughtless, or
to be his
to live to
him
Is
not
A CONVENIENT SEASON.
lead
them
such
steps of Christ,
cannot be his
deny
yourself,
cross, or
you
The terms
keep them
ing you have, that God regards in his call to you to repent.
You know what repentance means, what faith means, and
what it is to withhold your heart from God. He requires
you to give your heart to him now. Will you wait till you
are better ? But how ? In impenitence, with a heart unwillAnd will this ever make you better, or
ing to obey God ?
render it more probable that you will be saved ?
A CONVENIENT SEASON.
But you have already put it off so long you cannot hope
Are you sincere in this plea ? What mean you
for
mercy.
by
it ?
did,
You know not how soon life may close. You know not but
God may take from you reason, withhold his gracious Spirit,
and bid the messengers of mercy " let you alone." When,
poor sinner, ichen will you be more ready ?
Will you be so
on the sick bed, on the death-bed, racked with pain, trembling, it may be, in despair, on the verge of the grave ? Are
you young ? Will manhood with its cares, the M^orld corroding and hardening the heart, find you so ?
Are you in
middle life ? Will age with infirmity, and a long life wasted
in rebellion against
God
Ask
those
who have
lived on
I also will
No. 4o5.
THE
(lEKMAN CEIPPLE
who, from
others.
THE GERMAN
CRIPPLE.
much
many years he retained
for
gaining a livelihood
but in his
him
fifty-sixth year,
a very
in
when
it
pleased
God
to
this
matured by the heat of afflicand without tasting the bitOn the day
terness of death, gently fell asleep in Jesus.
which immediately preceded her dissolution, she had gone
to the village, leaning on her staff, to pay a last visit to a
pious farmer's widow, from whom she had received many a
short ilhiess.
tion,
charitable
all
Like
fruit fully
gift.
tinuance on earth
was
likely to
now felt
be very short.
On
the even-
the parting words of old " Lizzy," sent her maid to inquire
at the cottage
James was
left
ant of the cottage, and must have perished in his forlorn state,
upon him.
of Rottenstein,
when informed
what he
of his
afflicted parishioner
Httle,
said
was
so appropriate,
and
aflection.
though
fire
might be sent
Upon entermg
for.
a venerable old
man
sitting
All
was
felt.
him
dressed
"My
life,
but
for that
pared."
" I
am
"But how
is
it,
life
"
my life
is
or speedily take
with an
in the Lord's
me
clergyman
hand
to himself,
"do you
not from your inmost soul long for the redemption of your
body
Can you
really think,
which to you must have been one continued scene of pain and suffering ?"
prolongation of a
life
"It is true, for many years I have been longing for the
day and hour in which the shattered tabernacle of this body
of sin and death shall be taken down, and another more beautiful
but
my
life,
my
by my
with sincere
immortal
would
spirit,
declare,
amidst
gloomy and
and happy
all its
one."
"My
me
which many
to
upon you by the goodness of God. Permore ease and comfort, the very remembrance of which may prove grateful to
your reflecting mind but as for your later years, you have
had to endure a far heavier load of pain and suffering than
has fallen to the lot of any one within the circle of my ac-
blessings bestowed
quaintance."
to
my
had
"With regard
my
for at the
My
time of
father
my
birth
was a soldier
he was with
my
birth
in the Rhine.
My poor
his
after-
my
mother died
father,
and
her heart.
off",
for
her kindly
her
own
son
was
who
widow had
Often,
me with
carry
little
me
fresh
'
God may
him and
bless
his house
with piety
occupied with her daily work, she delighted in prayer, speaking to herself
'
in psalms,
spiritual songs,
made
rapid progress
the Bible, I
felt
such delight in
in
my
me of this most kind and inWhen she felt her end approach,
defatigable nursuig-mother.
take
it
me
please
him
to allot
comforts, that he
me
God
himself would
and guardianship
and should
would enrich
me
of spiritual blessings.
whose mercy
my
fre-
had
and
quently
said,
'
my life while
of
its
bor,
all
still
vol.. xr,
bear
even
had
inmates cared
whom
I will
I will carry,
for
often,
me
but the
which imbittered
my relatives. None
little
son of a neigh-
32
me
and
daily,
stories
and shared
his bread
me, where
till
with me.
Thus
this pain-
have found
shelter
and
support."
you
'OLord, hoAvlong?'"
"After
all," said
James, "
me
never was
I left quite
and never have I been forsaken. During the first two years,
an old invalid soldier was with me, who had had both legs
shot away in the seven years' war.
He was an honest,
well-disposed man, often joined me in singing a spiritual
hymn, and rendered me many a kind service. It was then
my
joy.
own hands
port of
my
could procure
life.
all
that
was
my
could even,
My
for
whom
saken orphans.
These
little
same
his
for-
it
must be con-
for old
me
a good
Margaret frequently
her charge for hours and days entirely to me, and deeply
left
grieve me to hear them cry without being able to renthem the needful assistance.
"About twenty-two years ago, the parish placed with
me the widow of the late shepherd, the aged Elizabeth. At
did
it
der
first
place, so that
we
THE GERMAN
were enabled
to live in
me
CRIPPLE.
many and
f
;
and
in-
'
shield,
in
'
refreshed
my
THE GERMAN
and
When,
bliss.
I beheld,
my own
thought of
cies, I
CRIPPLE.
numberless mer-
worm
when
my weakness,
ing to
and loading
with
benefits, I
was
so
shall be re-
the waves of
worthy
to be
vealed
hereafter
'
my
me
Him who
this
harm me.
once came
At
down
and woe
Thus
may
many
me
with
its
fruitful
refreshing fruits
cessive seasons,
was
for
no sooner did
come on
in their suc-
of
Indeed, there
me
from their
stores."
before witnessed.
this,
life
revived,
and continued
for
During this interval, he was often visited by his paswho, at each return, himself carried away more consolation and strength than he was enabled to impart.
With
pain.
tor,
came
Once more
and a look up
who
felt
With a nod
and gratitude.
mility, love,
to heaven,
He
friend,
as if a near
from him.
of thankfulness,
sent a
young
whom was
"Surely, this
exclaim,
blessed above."
these words
my
"All
On
is
is
now
accomplished
which
now my
eyes have
have so long believed and hoped for." With a cheerful smile, he then fixed
his look upwards, as if he were catching a view of the glories
seen,
heart has
felt
the things
of heaven.
Then turning to the two friends, he called them
by name, and exhorted them, as well as the young man, to
be faithful to the Lord Jesus in word and deed, to abstain
from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, and to keep
themselves unspotted from the world. After pronouncing a
blessing on all, he requested his friends to read to him the
103d Psalm, which they began and as they reached the
closing words of the fourth verse, " Wlio crowneth thee with
;
voL.
The
XI.
bright morning-star
32*
was
fell
asleep in
THE GERMAN
10
CRIPPLE.
ber as one of the friends closed his eyes, exclaiming, " Surely,
here
is
'
may grant
he
The
salvation."
let
;'
God
us pray to
that
an edifying conversation
man
not
tell
left
you,
sir,
This was
sad.
me
how
my
to-day
I feel
first visit to
a blessing such
and yet
so cheerful,
so
fully to
It
"
who
accompany you
you ? It was not
to the
will
tear for
to
will shed a
purchase the
you
and have not a single relative left in
But, though no one else should shed a tear for
for I know what you have been to me, and
the village.
how much
power
owe
to
you."
to join
it,
in the
men with
uncovered
it
passed.
emotion evidently
he,
more
all,
Still
of
poor
who
my
in your
grave
Ah,
men
shed tears, as
I will give
thee a crown of
Be thou
life."
faithful
Rev. 2:10.
people
the churchyard
left
still
lingered
Among
them he noticed a venerable old man whom he had previously met by his bedside, and the two men who had cheered
his last hours by their Christian sympathy and support.
Almost all of them were to outward appearance persons, in
very humble life.
Several did not belong to the parish, but
had come from some remote part of the forest,
" There is no kinsman here," said the clergyman, " who
can
offer to
May
I,
there to partake of
my
homely
fare."
many
nessed the
I confess, I
death,
me
who
have
was almost
day wit-
this
much
said, " It
Addressing them, he
sincere pleasure to
and
yet,
honored in
and
affection
joy, rather
men,
How
we
could
and that
his soul is
shed on
joys purchased
we
do otherwise than
by the Redeemer's
by
sir,
to say, that
by the
blood.
ted, did
very
much.
Margaret
to
buy
me
milk and
flour,
and
to supply
me with
12
linen
warm
and a
deaf to
my
Whilst
bed.
my
nurse
he had
my
was
fast asleep,
crib placed
much
near
inconven-
my
ience on
As
behalf.
me
to read, sent
to school,
James
him a
as
my
little
money, or some refreshments, but he would never acLet me alone, dear Frederick,' he often said,
cept them.
*
am
As
me.
'
used to
for
my oatmeal
who
is
it
when
answer was,
am
it for
your children
surely
to poor
bread.'
attend
'
in a decline,
I frequently offered to
his usual
diet
him by day
or
by night, but
when
alone
side."
"Just
so did
have been a
what
so
real pleasure to
was ready
much
but
taking with
all
me
me,
to present to
my
entreaties
a variety of
if
" It
would
owe
when
he made me
were in vain.
little
comforts,
Once,
all
the
all
you
for
your
offer
my pears,
is
13
for
my
me.
good
can do
to
and should
have
for I
my
Thus,
my dear
Cath-
I,
my blessed
in-
Saviour
come
happiness
brought by
my
where
At only
for in
seek
my mother to
was
father
all
that
hope
was
this village
on her
way to
Dantzic,
cold,
fell ill,
met
previously
to the blessed
ment.
Oh,
He was
to
me
how
difierent
he always appeared to
child,
my
me
to
gained
my
whole confidence
for
disciples.
he dressed
me
He
life
little
soon
little dolls,
and made me a present of a small bell, with which he himhad played when he lived with his grandmother. Al-
self
most
all
day long
I sat
on a
little stool
14
after I
used to
tell
me
my
he
and young as
was,
circumstances, had
also used to sing
think
childish play,
we
He
some
spiritual
hymns
so sweetly, that I
to us a portion of Scripture, or
Even when
as if I
in
dwell."
Of the aged
whom
friend
it
that you
?"
became
so
met
intimately acquainted
James
occasioned
proved
him
so
much more
much
trouble
troublesome in
my
"V\Tiilst
On my
later years.
abroad,
my
When
lodgings of
my
sister,
my
am
unhappily
return home,
not
and
intoxicated,
and there
away my
drunken fit. On becoming sober, I received friendly admonitions from James, and severe scoldings from my sister but
neither the one nor the other made any lasting impression.
When, however, my sister, softened by the example of meek,
;
and
pensity
it
me
in a gentle
and
at
of Lydia, so that
my heart,
like that
my
by
sister
son
and by James.
me
he received
From
my heavenly Father,
returned to
has granted
me
graciously,
15
that hour,
arose
and
and loved
grace steadily to
me
freely,
Thus,
persevere.
and
'
sir,
added the reclaimed old man, " not we only, but all who
surround your table, have, in one way or another, reason to
to us
by the instrumen-
name.
of his holy
And now,
Amen."'
reader,
it
liis
an elevation of
to
apostle, " I
is
feel
am
the power of
eth."
how
See
it
supported a
Ob-
soul,
warm
you not
all his
God unto
for it
Rom. 1:16.
God is no respecter of
The Lord maketh poor, and makHe raiseth up
eth rich he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the
dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them
inherit the throne of glor}\" 1 Sam. 2 7, 8.
And is not this narrative of poor James an eminent illusapostle, "
Of a truth
persons."
Acts 10
perceive that
34.
"
16
may become
in yourself,
come
boldly to Jesus.
He
water."
And
John 7
thou,
my
" If
any
remember what
let him come
man thirst,
37, 38.
suffering fellow-Christian, amidst all thy
suffer,
even
far
life.
Rev. 2
10.
THE
BLACKSMITH'S WIFE.
A NARRATIVE OF FACTS.
Among
these
features,
tentive
at-
She uniformly took her seat near the stand in the large
room in which I officiated, and became a steady hearer one
part or more of every Sabbath.
Every effort, however, was
unavailing to find an opportunity to speak to her.
This she
seemed most sedulously to avoid and for reasons needless to
mention, neither I nor the members of the church could
pay her a visit at home. She continued thus the apparently
attentive, and, as we hoped, the profited hearer of the word,
for nearly a year, when we noticed that her well-known
place was unoccupied.
Some months passed away, when one morning her husband waited on me, and with many apologies for the liberty
he had taken, informed me that his wife was drawing near
her end that no persuasions could induce her to give up
her wish to see me, and yield to his desire to send for another
minister, and that to gratify her dying request he wished me
to pay her a visit.
I assented, but my mind was filled with dread lest she
had sent for me to confirm a delusive hope, or do what man
I resolved to be
could not do in preparing her for death.
faithful to her soul as God should give me grace, and thus
She was alone.
how altered that
entered her room.
Emaciating disease had claimed her
lovely countenance.
for its prey, and had nearly finished its destructive work.
But her eye beamed with intelligence, and on her whole
aspect seemed to rest an unearthly calmness, a heavenly
and serene smile, such as before I had never seen. "I re;
OL. XI,
33
2
gret,
Mrs.
was the
,"
reply, " I
said
I,
am
" to find
you
so ill."
God
love of
"
How
in Christ."
him, and I long for the moment which shall bring a sinner
like me, saved by his grace, into the presence of Him who
died for me, to praise him for ever."
"But how was it," said I, "that such being your feelings before your sickness, you attended so seldom the public
worship 'of God ?"
To this she replied, " It was only, sir, at such times as I
could persuade my husband to take care of my child and
attend to some other matters, that I could be present, which
I generally could once a day, sometimes twice."
" I Avill ask you," said I, " one question more.
How was
it, that after such an experience of the grace and love of the
Saviour, you did not feel it your duty and .your privilege to
make a public profession of rehgion, and come to the Lord's
supper, or ever speak to me or any of the members of the
church on religious subjects ?"
" Sir," she replied, "I felt so unworthy I was afraid to
speak I did not know there was a being on earth who had
had such joys and sorrows I had never heard of an expression of such views from any one
but when I read the
Bible and prayed, I saw that such must be the character of
real Christians.
I M'as, as it were, in a new world.
Every
thing was new my hopes, my joys, my sorrows, my tastes
and pursuits were new, and even nature itself seemed to
wear a new and cheerful aspect. I saw and owned the
hand of God in every thing. ] found a divine reality in
rehgion a peaceful, joyous, and purifying reality, of which
I had never conceived an idea."
After further conversation we bowed before the mercyseat in prayer and praise, and I retired, charmed, delighted,
and edified. My soul burst forth in almost involuntary exclamations of thanldulness and love to God for his rich grace
so eminently displayed.
Her life was protracted a few weeks. During the former
O
part of that period my visits were frequently repeated.
every occasion I found her in the same peaceful and joy^
Loathing herself on account of sin with the deepesi
state.
patient under suffering
humility
admiring the love of
God extolling the riches of divine grace, and almost rapturously longing for the happy moment, as she termed it,
which would release her from the remains of sin, and introduce her to the presence of her Saviour. Duty now called
:
me
see
father."
lo.
4o7.
THE
BIBLE THE
WORD
OF GOD,
is
him
to
publish
it.
It does
all parts of
it.
The rebukes
it
administers,
emas
it
edly
fire
of God.
VOL.
XI.
It is
as
not, if
much
33*
God
means
is comprehended in that
word.
No man living knows, nor can any mere man form
a rational conjecture, with the least evidence that he is
" Created"
right.
What is it to create? Who can inform us how God created the heaven and the earth ? AVe
are willing to meet those who assert that the Bible Avas
''got t(p " by u-icked men, at this first verse in the book
and hear from their lips how the ideas expressed in that
verse ever entered the mind of the man who, as they suppose, gave it birth.
TJiat verse alone is infinitely above
the thoughts of any luicked man.
3. Good men did not originate the Bible.
They ivoidd
not have composed it of their own accord, if they could have
done it. Good men are honest ; but if the Bible is a mere
human production, the Avriters of it were dishonest. They
present it to us as the word of the Lord.
Now, if it is not
the word of the Lord, the Avriters have deceived us.
But
good men will not deceive.
If, then, good men wrote the
Bible, they did not write it as a composition of their own.
They were the penmen of the Lord, for they assert it to be
his word.
But more even good men are incapable of producing such a work as the Bible. The thoughts are not the
thoughts of men.
We are in possession of a variet)^ of writings of good men
many excellent works have been produced
by them but there is nothing in these \\Titings which will
compare with the Scriptures. The best productions of the
of the
of
ablest
men
fall
THE BIBLE THE WORD OF
4.
Holy angeU
GOt).
and ignorance.
The
come
before us without
ment
THE BIBLE THE WORD OF GOD.
all
A "Thus
it
in'oved to be the word of God by evidence internal and external by facts, institutions, and a
great number of the most competent witnesses among whom
The testimony of the
are Jesus Christ and his apostles.
Saviour is explicit concerning the Old Testament, and he
gave assurance, that his apostles should be infallibly guided
in the composition of the New.
That they were thus
guided, is a fact supported by the strongest evidence.
Again, the church of G od has received the Scriptures as
his infallible truth ever smce they were published
nor has
she ever had reason to doubt that they are all which they
claim to be.
Just so far as individuals and communities conform to
the teachings of the divine word, they are prosperous and
happy. Let the Bible be adopted as the only rule of faith
let its principles be acted upon by all men, mider all circumstances
then wars will cease, iamily feuds be known no
more, fanaticism fail, the race of impostors become extinct,
true piety prevail, and the millennium be ushered in. Then
will the morning stars again sing, and the sons of God again
shout for joy over the earth, as they did when she rolled
from the hands of her Maker, and man went forth formed
in the divine image.
No. 4o8.
(
MAN OVERBOARD.
'^
'A
MAN Overboard."
the night settle down upon the ocean, envelopmg its waters
in still deeper gloom.
It Avas a fearful addition to the fallen sailor's peril, that
he had nothing to support him. The unfathomable sea
was beneath him, and neither oar nor plank aided him in
And what have you to rest
his struggle with the waves.
upon, dear reader, while living without hope and without
God in the world ? The everlasting arms are not beneath
You have not for
you, for you have rejected their support.
a foundation the Rock of ages, for you have refused to place
your feet upon it. There is nothing to keep you from sulking your sins, like a mill-stone, are carrying you down.
The raging waves of lawless passions, the darkness of your
erring mind, and the absence of all divine support, constitute
an array of dangers most terrific in their bearuig on your
What emotions of anxiety they ought
everlasting welfare.
;
awaken.
Look again at the ship. Every heart beat quick at the
alarm that a man was overboard. It needed not an order
They were already
the boat, imto raise a boat's crew.
pelled by a sailor's generous love for his shipmate, and ready
and eager to brave any peril to save him.
So, dear friend, there has been the most tender anxiety
Wliat compassion
that you should not perish in your sins.
How ignominious
filled the bosom of the mfinite Saviour.
and agonizing was his atoning death. And what tenderness
moved the HolyGhost as he drew nigh so often to so polAnd the
luted a heart as yours, to save it from perdition.
to
might know,
if
the
"
A MAN OVERBOARD."
Saviour's voice, are safe on board, and 'with songs of exultation are borne towards the haven of eternal rest.
Their
HE
"HE
]o.
459.
THE
EYES OPENED
" Lord, open his eyes, that he
may
see,"
solicitude
repents, hastening to
communicate
VOL.
XI.
34
down
to the chains
and darkness
God everywhere
You would
all-controlling.
see
Angels, and
all
less pit.
You would
see
He
may
him
share with
grave, where
death, where is thy sting ?
the paean, "
is thy victory ?" and straightway receives at the hand of his
Saviour a crown of everlasting life.
You would have a near view oi judgment and eter'nity.
Look forward but a little space, and what do you see ? The
The Judge has
heavens and the earth have fled away.
come invested with infinite majesty and glory, and attended
by a countless host of angels. He has taken his seat on the
and overwhelming
terrors.
Xo. 460.
DESTRUCTION
officer
under Napoleon,
an eye-witness
which he was
my attention was
Catholic Inquisition in the neighborNapoleon had previously issued a decree
hood of that
Roman
city.
INaUISITION AT MADRID.
by the father
of their rooms as
we were making
our
way
came out
of the Inquisition, and with long faces and their arms crossed
over their breasts, as though they had been deaf to all the
noise of the attack
own
soldiers, saying,
"Why
the French?"
joint,
maUISITION AT MADRID.
bility."
when
emn
From
this
room we
IXaUISITION AT MADRID.
4
plied,
to the
light, as
doors of those
who
We
No. 461.
THE
MISSIONARY'S FATHER.
A LETTER FROM
My
letter
the sum. total, or about the sum total of his library, was the
family Bible, one copy of Watts' Psalms and Hymns, Doddridge's Rise and Progress, Pike's Cases of Conscience, the
second volume of Fox's Book of Martyrs, and the Assembly's Catechism.
But though his means of grace were thus limited, yet,
meditating day and night on God's law, his roots struck
deep and he was like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
;
whose leaf
dant.
is
in prayer.
harvest,
hill,
am
where, as
told,
Rochester,
my
" God,
My
And
memory, though, as
months old, you remember
there she lived a life of poverty, patience, meekThere she used to sit and card her wool
ness, and faith.
by the light of the pine knot, and sing to us those sweet
there, too, our mother, of precious
she died
her not
six
words',
" Hov'ring
And
early one
morning in her
was
able to address to
little
bed-room
was
we
to see
assembled
her
die.
Her
she
full of
THE MISSIONARY'S FATHER.
she had actually crossed over into shallow water withhi one
minute of the opposite banks of the Jordan heaven and all
Precious woman, " Were ^ny chilits glorie?, full in view.
dren hut pious,'' thou didst often say in thy last long sickness, " hoiv cheerfully could Heave them, and go aivayT
But what thine eyes were not permitted to behold, have not
that the eight children thou
the angels long since told thee
didst leave behind, with all, or all but one of their partners,
were partakers of that blessed Gospel "which was all thy
salvation, and all thy desire ;" and that three of thy sons
were engaged in proclaiming it to others ? Yes, God hath
heard thy prayers, and "hath remembered his holy covenant," as we are all witnesses this day.
But before I close, I must say something more of the
The
early habits and character of our venerable father.
little farm he once possessed, if it were not all 'ploughed
over, was, I am confident, almost every foot of it prayed
over.
And some dried apples from it, which a subsequent
owner sent me a few years since, were to me " as the smell
He was full of the
of a field which the Lord hath blessed."
millennium and of the missionary spirit, long before the expraying daily for
istence of the present missionary societies
both Jews and Gentiles saying with the Psalmist, " Let
God let the people praise thee,
the people praise thee,
all of them"
and like his uncle Solomon Goodell, was
ready and desirous to contribute something for the spread
of the glorious Gospel long before he had an opportunity
for so doing.
He
war
and
was
And
heritance.
they have
now
gone to
sit
down with
was
them."
them happy
for ever.
And
is
ever, let us
patience, are
now
;;
:
No. 46^.
SINNEKS \YELCOME
TO
ALEXAIS-DER,
A.
D. D.
it
sinners
if
and has
left
is
and there-
on record
this
his sins.
Where
abound.
If your guilt
Redeemer
to
come
to Christ
pardonable
VOL.
XI.
if
and even
the sinner
who
that sin
is
35
alNNERS WELCOME TO
Spirit of God to IiIg own malignity, and therefore never does nor can desire to believe on Christ,
Christ will not cast you off because you have long con-
t]ie
suffering
and forbearance.
Long
life is
not eventually a
benefit to those
eth unto
me
who
die unreconciled to
I wdll in
no wdse
cast out."
the aged no
He
unnumbered sins.
Aged sinner, you are
as of
mercy by any
in the
God
to
come.
Enter
None
can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the
time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot al-
ready in the
gi'ave.
Your
may even
He
a boun-
is
when
dary which,
relinquished.
see
surance that
if
is
held out.
This affords
it
you
full as-
shall live.
made
but tliey
SINNERS WELCOME TO
when we
came
If he
for
tliey
VN
ash yourselves in a
muddy
COME TO JESUS
clearly,
my
and
heart
if I
contrition
is
could get
if I
so
if I
CIIUIST.
5
I
do see
to
Le
this
into
on account of my sins, my case would not appear so hopeBut how can I come to Christ with this blind and
less.
Now, my
friend,
beg you
the very core of your iniand to be convinced that you are thus blind and
stupid is true conviction of sin. If you had those feel-
quity
is
" Nor of
make you
fitness fondly
dream
linger,
;
"Is
to feel
I sinned
and done
mightest be justified
when thou
judgest."
when thou
thou
ment of your
VOL.
XI.
sins as just.
SINNERS WELCOxME TO
6
in the sea, "
Lord, save
perish."
Or with
the blind
man,
"
God be
merciful to
mc
"
am condemned,
"
Some
recently,
And
he inquires with the most earnest solicitude, wheis any ground of hope for such a backslider,
ther there
who
has sinned
since he
Buch an one
I feel
made
Now
come and be
saved.
1 find
a
to
He
no
lie is
Him
me
cometh unto
that
made
I will in
in Scripture of
no
some
who
be renewed
Christ, and never tiiily desire to com.3. For them nothing
remains " but a fearful looking for of judgment and fiery
indignation to devour the adversaries."
:
But we read
in
his
them
fi'eely." Hos. 14
4.
This !. a most gracious and
encouraging promise, and we fmd, in fact, that God has
received great backsliders upon their r^epentance, and
:
nas freely
ihe
pardoned
I believe that
pardon and restoration, were left on. record, that convinced backsliders might not despair of mercy. And our
Lord intimates that Peter, when recovered from his
shameful fall, should make it his business " to strensfthen
Some
his brethren."
number of the
Israel of
common
is
cases
true; but
it is
we
find
he true.
it
very
difficult to credit
When Jacob's
it.
It
when some
brought to us,
seems too good to
is
SINNERS WELCOME TO
up
his eyes
sent to convey
him
hoiTible
and sets his feet on a rock, establishes his goings, and puts a new song into his mouth,
even praise unto God.
pit
clay,
it
will not
be a superfluous labor
to
**
everlasting love.
**
We love
him, because he
first
loved
COME TO JESUS CHRIST.
And
US."
whom
the
ascribe
it
come,
Again, Christ
hlood,
like
sent
this
SINNERS WELCOME TO
10
willing to
bow
But
tlie
neck
his
to the easy
yoke of Christ,
will
Impossible.
in this matter.
We may
by
tions,
but by
him.
Ills
when he
was confined
to the peo-
the
flood of tears
have washed
on
from God, or he would have known the infamous character of this woman. Jesus knowing his thoughts, uttered
the beautiful parable of the two debtors, and then making
the application to the case of the penitent woman, said,
*'
Wherefore
are forgiven."
When
was applied
liim.
with
me
in paradise."
Who
riches."
Paul may with propriety be here introduced. Accordown acknowledgment he was a murderer and
a blasphemer, but he obtained mercy, and was made an
apostle, a chief instrument in propagating that Gospel
which he once attempted to destroy, among the Gentiles.
Many of the first converts from among the heathen were
notorious for the foulest and vilest crimes, for the apostle
ing to his
the
you
justified in the
But perhaps no example of the extent of divine merand its sovereign freedom, can equal the pardon extended to the very persons who had imbrued their hands
cy,
SINNERS WELCOME TO
12
in Christ's
own
blood.
spe-
And
ners were that very day received into the church, and
name.
Innumerable instances since that day have occurred
of the repentance of the greatest sinners, and no true
penitent has ever been rejected. If one instance could be
produced of any sinner being rejected who ever came to
Christ, this might create some doubt in the soul agonized
with a sense of guilt. But as there is no such example,
the trembling sinner, feeling that he is justly exposed to
the wrath of God, need not hesitate nor delay to come al
once to Christ, with the assurance that however vile and
guilty he may be, he shall meet a welcome reception. O
sinner, you are welcome to come to Jesus Christ.
fession of his
All difficulty as to Clirist's willingness to receive reit is hoped, removed, the only
13
what
is,
is
to be
Many
thing intended.
bound him,
nailed him to the
The coming
good.
to Christ,
that
smote him,
cross
that;
of which
we
have been
of the anxious mwA which seeks salvation fr 0711 the burden of siii, and apprehending that Christ
Christ is exhibited
is fhe only Redee?ner, trusts in him.
in the Gospel as the only Mediator by whom we can be
reconciled to God, and offers to do for the sinner whatever is requisite to save him from the curse of the law,
and from the blindness and pollution of sin itself; and
coming to him is the same as receiving him in that chatreating, is
act
tlie
racter, or as
relate to
salvation.
who knows
nothing of Christ as he
Scriptures, cannot
come
until
he
is
is
revealed in the
instructed in regard to
come
until
VOL.
XI.
he
is
soul perverted
That man
SINNERS WELCOiME TO
11
who
but
is
of divine perfections.
The
soul convinced of
of
sin,
wants
is
High
were, his
and
made without
Christ,
up himself
as a priest
he
the pardon
as the great
kle, as
its
That which
an atoning Priest.
is
as an
he has entered
life-srivins:
all who come unto him. When in this character he is ajDprehended by the seeking sinner, confidence in him is
produced. It is seen now how God can be just and yet
the justifier of the ungodly who believes in Christ. It is
that
is
depraved mind.
He
is
itself to
from
all
be a burden,
it
looks
Let
it
be remembered that
it
in the right
this
by
way.
some
will
is
no cominsr
blamed
for not
we
are drawn,
and
15
why
then are
we
coming]"
This
for
others
an evil heart.
If
you
is
feel that
in-
'
:
is,
16
ing but
come
to
stacle
is
was willing
would come
own
owm
to
The only
door.
enemies
ye
ob-
Christ
if
will not
they
come
me
unto
o.
God pledged
salvation.
7.
the
poured
We
8.
this Spirit
may be
of gi'ace to be
converted.
when
is
conversions
when
the
THE END.
]\o.
463.
THE
MOTHER OF
The
AUGUSTINE,
ST.
human
nature, as
no aid of imagination
our being.
romantic character
Avill
thrilling interest as to
not
need
sympathies of
The habit
pleasures,
moral powers,
and
to create discontent
And it is
which
this is designed as
a preparation.
the means employed by the unseen One, in forming characters distinguished for usefulness,
inci-
hundred and
in the
ter the
VOL.
36*
but
for
that
MOTHER OF
AUGUSTINE.
ST.
and trials of life, and distinguished her from the millwhose memor}^ has perished, she was chiefly indebted
duties
ions
In accordance with the customs of the country, and probably without any reference to her wishes, she was, at a very
early age, given in marriage to Patricius, a
during the
first
by neglect and
the influence
of infidel
united,
most severely
life
and
tried
man
Though thus
Master
for
was instrumental
and dark
infidelity, to
in turning
him from
truth.
Augustine in
the Christian religion, and win his tender heart to the Saviour.
From
prayer
he was accustomed
to
engage in
to daily
with
intelli-
it
saw much
was much
Still,
in his childhood to
and alarm.
She saw him gradually forming such habits as are often the
ruin of the most intelligent youth.
As he advanced towards
to excite apprehension
and
too
and
les-
honor even
sense of the
untiring resolution
utterly
MOTHER OF
powerless, she the
Him who
On
ST.
AUGUSTINE.
his case to
him
much
Be
patient in duty
crannot rest
when
she
She per-
at stake.
is
bishop,
replied,
pressed her, as
if it
humble perseverance
Thus,
was
rise,
yet
persisted in prayer,
still
sinking deeper
to
hope."
At the age
if possible, to
could not do
accompany him.
artifice,
this,
to
detain
him
By
Rome.
or, if
she
falsehood and
She spent
But the
almost in despair.
thage were
fast receding
feared
might be averted.
light of
its sleepless
much
MOTHER OF
AUGUSTINE.
ST.
He
strand.
my
mother,
bitterness of
painful
of all
loved son.
Still,
to
per-
made her
be-
the
In a few months he
left
Rome
for
Under
his
of Augustine yielded
dawn on
He now
mother arrived
of his
mind
He
at Milan.
and just
sought the
at this period
it
of her devotion
still
more ardent
God
to thee
and
and with
Him who
up
Her pray-
lighted
the flame
full
confidence
Abraham,
Aushe should see him a
said to
life
true believer.
St.
to
And
the truth as
it
is
in Jesus,
cordially
and bringing
had
all his
embracing
praise.
Thus, through persevering prayer, and the clear exhibitions of sacred truth,
Spirit, this
man
MOTHER OF
tion
and supreme
God
He now
and
felt
He was
joy,
him from
the dominion of
he exclaimed, "
bonds
Lord,
who
Lord,
am
thy servant, I
unto thee
like
de-
sin.
thine handmaid
is
with
filled
was
loss for
peace in believing
in the dust
knowledge of Christ.
selfishness,
of humiliation before
AUGUSTINE.
ST.
am
thy
ser-
my
I will offer to
thee
he resolved
to
tracted impenitence, might witness the sincerity of his conversion and the omnipotent
and recruit
of eternity.
They endeavored
to
subUme
abstract their
enjoyments, and
to conceive themselves
ledge
and
if,
whole soul
like
what
is
meant
MOTHER OF
"
moment,"
saj's he,
know
longer here I
hope
AUGUSTINE.
to pass
ST.
not
and she
affections,
desire to live
;
what
And
this blessed
ever expected
At that
Son, I
replied,
should do any
for I
for.
all this
pleasures seemed
all its
of
life
wish or
to
it
was
to
here ?"
I linger
was
seized
with a
fever.
joy
and
as a
welcome messenger,
affliction to
Her
so rapidly as
who
disease
this illness,
upward
flight.
in her
difficulty
and
sus-
was enough
and
to fur-
is
And
that
and there
having turned
many
is
to righteousness,
now
first
magnitude
in the
firmament of glory.
happy,
who
MOTHER OF
must not
of duty
feel
What
AUGUSTINE.
ST.
and eminent
can
fail to
And what
affection
child of sensibility
how
utterly
These
plauding world.
may
all
them
upward
lowship of angels
to desolation
effort
made
look
perfect
to the fel-
heavens
Such
is
ful.
usefulness.
0,
how many,
in that hour,
of worlds for a seat with Monica and her son, and the shin-
right
It
privilege
may be
yours.
Do
Christ,
;;
MOTHER OF
he saved.
ST.
AUGUSTINE.
and
eternity,
and be aroused
off sloth,
Do you
to escape
Do you
Grod.
by
Behold,
One
say, there
7ioiv
is
is
time enough
is
choice
enmity with
for religion
by and
The omniscient
hold, noio
is
Do you
have
too, is at
it
Be.
say, then,
known ?
you
This,
may see your good works. "Whome and of my words, of him also shall
is
ashamed
the Son of
man
of
Do you
be ashamed.
feel the
overwhelm-
own
your
reaching
strength
Take hold
down from
rise in
mercy
of that
an arm of everlasting
The same kind arm that
It is
and
mouth.
upon a
rock,
horrible pit
and miry
clay,
into his
now
set before
too, like
tine,
you
and you
Him
own
come
off conqueror,
blood.
nro.
464.
good
it
as a transgressor.
2
1
and
Carry ymir
spread before
Your
case to God.
Pour
guilt to him.
him
all
all
committed against
sin
is
ieties to yourself, or
yourself.
matter.
am
:"
through grace.
You have the answer then, and you see the
" This do, and thou shalt live.''
issue.
465.
lo.
BELIEVEST THOU?
BY REV. TIMOTHY DWIGHT.
D. D.
Men, though born in a Christian land, sometimes volunbecome heathen. They do not, indeed, worship Jupiand Apollo nor prostrate themselves before stocks and
tarily
ter
for usually
true.
which a case
address
"
him
AYho
in
so
would
'
VOL.
XI.
37*
BELIEVEST THOU
assignment of so many and so various causes for the origination of all things, thou declarest thy absolute ignorance of
any cause ? If the true cause were known to thee, thou
if
it
out,
If fate
for
a retreat,
is
is
What
Nothing.
is
fate
own
Search thy
any meaning
eternal series.
But
Thou
in
an
Of atoms.
AYhat
them
and
eternal.
BELIEVEST THOU?
"
and character.
"
grateful, impious,
the volcano.
dust,
in blood.
man
With these
to the
terrible
it be possible for
thee to comprehend, or to measure his future vengeance
against iniquity ?
" Thou art a sinner.
Thy own conscience has a thousand times declared this tremendous truth. Should he summon thee to account for thy sins hereafter, what wilt thou
answer ? From his eye where wilt thou hide ? From his
hand how wilt thou escape ? With what agonies wilt thou
then wish that thou hadst acknowledged, believed, and obeyed
With what sighs will thy bosom heave, with
liis word.
what throes will thy heart wring for an interest in that
"
BELIEVEST THOU
to thee.
" Accompany
see
'
men.'
]o.
406.
THE
WAY
HEAVEN
TO
BY PRESIDENT EDWARDS.
How poor
You
what
you are
if
this world.
worth
If
money than
others,
others
if
you have a
or if
little
and
to
make more
pleas-
higher
among
little
men than some others are, what a poor portion is this, and
how miserable are you who have no better happiness that
you can call your own How happy do these things make
you ? What great satisfaction do they yield you ? Are such
!
things as these the " rivers of pleasure " that you choose for
your portion
how miserable
ed you must go
to the grave
and
into eternity,
may
6
when
pass-
are
it
Luke
24.
Do you
ask.
What
is
i^rusT I
do in order to go
to
this world.
heaven
WAY
THE
2
1.
You must
heaven by any
TO HEAVEN.
hope of obtaining
tiling
to bring themselves to
accept of
him
a Saviour
for
selves to a compliance
must be brought
and you must
off
also
they are
hopmg
to bring
them-
You
own strength
renomice your own right-
from
all confiding in
be brought to
your
heaven.
rely
and the
as the fruit of
and
him
to
in the
is
way
to him,
above your
delight
own
must be
you must
it
free
assur-
by him, by
his blood
and excellent
Your
way of salvation.
the God of heaven for your
in this holy
3.
tion.
and
to
way.
the
must acquiesce
Him
life."
ivith
all
and there
is
I desire
besides thee."
is
far better
It
than
must be
so
all
if
you could
THE
have your choice of
all
WAY
TO HEAVEiV.
heaven.
in
4.
far prefer.
employments of
idle,
ments
contemplating God,
the
Lamb
Rev. 22
shall be in
it
and
in
And
you go
If ever
3.
"
him."
must be
employments
relish of
You must
5.
The pure
be
They that
5:8.
shall ascend into God's holy hill, are those that are of pure
abhor
to
all sin,
You must
light
and
strive against
from
it
striving
it,
6.
and
You must
Heaven must be
to
more
it
manner
the
way
holy,
for heaven.
as your
all
If
more conformed
to the
Christian.
Matt. 13
whole portion
it,
and
it
must be your
sell
your worldly
in
If
you
profit,
and
or
and
it,
sell all
to
life.
to
4.
THE
4
your
credit,
WAY
TO HEAVEN.
Many
your way.
heaven without
flatter
this,
to this
to
heaven
than a
strait
and narroiu
icay.
to go to
Some expect
walking
ofi^
in, is
way
of self-denial,
and
broad way, a
way wherein
toil,
and laboriousness
to get to
and of
It is
may, and
it
way
are
shifting
not the
But such
heav-
cross.
strait,
in a broad
If
you can
strait
first
way
but
find out
it is
inventor
of.
ly
and follow
it
will be a
you
to
is
too
flock.
to
If
Christ,
way
to take
is
not
must go
go there in the
heaven
to contrive this.
you would go
narrow
heaven that
way
sufferings,
in vain for
and
in the
way
to heaven,
of self-denial
up the
cross dai-
IVo.
467.
LOST CONYICTIONS.
BY PRESIDENT EDWARDS.
If you have the strivings of God's Spirit, God has met
with you, led you to reflect upon your sins, made you sensible that you are in danger of hell, awakened your concern
for your soul, and inclined you to seek salvation. Take heed
that you do not lose your convictions, and grow senseless of
eternal things
that you do not return to your former careless way of living, and your former sins.
Consider,
1
There is dangefi- of this. Not all who are concerned
for their souls, and who, by the strivings of God's Spirit, are
seeking and striving for salvation, hold out to the end.
Many things intervene between the beginning and the end
of the race, which divert, and stop, and turn back those who
commenced well. There are many who seem to be under
strong convictions, and to be very earnest in seeking, whose
convictions are but short-lived.
And some who seem, to be
much concerned about salvation for a considerable time, it
may be for years together, yet by degrees grow careless and
;
negligent.
you.
is
It is
LOST CONVICTIONS.
you have had after dehverance, and w^hatever earnest prayers you have made, all will be in vain.
What you have
suffered of fear and concern w^ill turn to no good account,
and Avhat you have done, the pains you have taken, v^^ill he
utterly lost. When you have striven against sin, and labored
in duty, have stemmed the stream, and have proceeded a
considerable way up the hill, and made some progress towards the kingdom of heaven, if once you lose your convictions, you will be as far from salvation as you ever were
you will lose all the ground you have gained you will go
quite down to the bottom of the hill the stream will immediately cany you back.
All will be lost you may as well
never have had those convictions, as to have had them and
then lost them.
3. You do not know that you will ever liave such an
oppm-tunity again. God is now striving with you by his
Spirit.
If you should lose the strivings of his Spirit, it may
be that God's Spirit would never return to you again. If
you are under convictions, you have a precious opportunity,
which, if you knew the worth of it, you would esteem better
than any temporal advantages. You have a price m your
hands to get wisdom, which is more valuable than gold or
silver.
It is a great privilege to live under means of grace,
to enjoy the word and ordinances of God, and to know the
way of salvation. It is a greater thing to live imder the
powerful dispensation of the means of grace by an instructive, convincing ministry.
But it is a much greater privi;
LOST CONVICTIONS.
It
may
son wliich God appoints for them, Avhich is, above all otliers,
a day of grace, when they have a very fair opportunity of
securing eternal salvation, if they did but know it and had
hearts for it.
If the Spirit of God is now striving with you, it may be
it is your time, and it may be your only time.
Be wdse,
therefore, and understand the things which belong to your
peace before they are hid from j^our eyes.
You have not
the influences of the Spirit of God in your own power. God
is sovereign as to the bestowment of them.
If you are
ready to flatter yourself, that although you neglect now
when you are young, yet you shall be awakened again, that
is a vain and groundless presumption.
4. If you lose your convictions, and return again to a
way of allowed simiing, there will be less j^t'obability of
your salvation than there was before you had any convictions.
Stifling or losing convictions is a very dangerous and
pernicious thing to men's souls, and is often spoken of as
such in God's word which was signified in the awful dispensation of God in turning Lot's wife into a pillar of salt,
to be a standing emblem of the danger of looking back after
one has set out in a way of religion.
The ill to which they are subject who lose their convictions, is not merely the loss of their convictions.
Their convictions are not only a means of no good to them, but they
turn to much ill.
It would have been better for them that
they had never had them, for they are now farther from
salvation than they were before.
Having risen towards
heaven, and falling back, they sink lower and farther down
toAvards hell than ever they were.
The way to heaven is
now blocked up with greater difficulties than ever it was.
Their hearts have now become harder for light and convictions being once conquered, they evermore are an occasion
of greater hardness of heart than there was before.
Yea, there is no one thing whatsoever which has so
great a tendency to it.
Man's heart is hardened by losing
convictions, as iron is hardened by being heated and cooled.
If you are awakened, and afterwards lose your convictions, it
;
LOST CONVICTIONS.
awaken you
again.
If
you were
over
them
They become
carelessness
perish.
And what
or
what
wilt thou do
thee
Xo. 468.
FRIENDLY SUGGESTIONS
TO
AN EMIGRANT.
BY AN EMIGRANT.
Home
has
its
You have
and that
left
its
difficulties.
well-recollected spot in
associations,
encircled
and
after
You heard
land.
that America
was a land
of plenty, and
to
make
It is
of disappointment.
tales
disappointments
dence
may have
many have
acquaintances in America
self
first
may
if
their
own impru-
prosper also.
This
and imitated.
that
when
It
at first
would be
was disapproved
is
admired
insti-
tutions and obey the laws that have been framed by a people
38*
VOL. XI.
they find
this,
ommend
fault,
alterations,
make
but
if,
instead of
and
invidious comparisons,
rec-
wound
the
try to
no doubt the case, that many who come to this counimprove their circumstances, might have been success-
fid at
home but
It is
some vice
or impropri-
It
and
they do
if
not,
for
maritime
ment
city in the
for all
remain
who
is
no
emigrate to
in the city at
it.
They should
not therefore
until they
have ex-
little
may
If accustom-
may
purchase land
for less
This
is
unjust,
and
if
is
in con-
it
Nor,
when many
be thought unreasonable
hold their
full
if
it
and privileges
if
you attempt
but to those
who
iden-
themselves with American interests, and otherwise conduct themselves with propriety, they are a generous people,
tify
is
labor
to the
is
adequately rewarded
life
enterprise
is
fertil-
encouraged,
The government
are cheap.
is
Liberty
liistory.
governed with
is
no aristocracy
the stable-boy
expense or more
less
to
enjoyed to
is
Here there
efficiency.
may by
the land.
is
and no nation
is
made
for
the
are respected
is
recognized, that
man
ought to study the Bible, serve God, benefit mankind, maintain rehgious worship, and aid the diffiision of
every
Christianity, he
is
is
he compelled
to aid in supporting
any
peculiar
law, nor
religious service
Yet where
is the Gospel
preached with more purity, or by a more talented ministry,
or
Here, then,
is
may
be happy.
evils to
fermented and
distilled liquors,
ly.
Ardent
almost as soon as
nicious
distilled,
yet, as in this
here sold
sisted, or health,
and by
to abstain
faithfully
from
adhermg
But look
through the
streets,
at that poor
clothed in rags
he
is
man that
is
reject-
a foreigner.
But you are resolved that you Avill observe due moderaand never become a drunkard. Are you aware that
tion,
same
resolution
ally go
hand
in hand,
A man who
is
persuaded by some
what he calls " a pleasant excurThey get weary, and must sit down
fellow-countr}^man to take
sion "
on the Sabbath.
for their
It is
for another,
and that
for
another
before he
is
aware he
is
He
lon-
friends.
to greater excesses,
and
To drown
reflection
he proceeds
upon
downward
will his
many
steps be
and dishonest
before he has
some hovel
ness,
nor
become the
leaving
by hunger, naked-
and misery, the wife and children who were once objects
Thus many a
would you
heart,
the sad
it
life.
1
so plainly, that
it
affords
all
that
man
a wayfaring
is
necessary to salvation
your children.
gave
It gives
make
to
and
same path, you
prosperous
human
and plunges
into ruin,
It is
you.
it is
it
God
theirs, for
it.
unto
39,
known
make him wise unto
it is
which is in Christ
citizen or a Christian
Jesus.
who
He
No man
neglects the
then
who
his
ledge of the
way to heaven
and
this,
that he
may promote
study
it
Yes,
who
will urge
upon
name
spirit,
holiness,
3:3-8; 2
you
Cor.
man,
in
Tim. 2
mediator between
5,
sin,
John
will direct
God and
you may
with your
spirit.
Christian,
this,,
sumptuous
Rom.
16.
0,
and dehght
to practise
many persons
it.
God
if
bearing ivitness
tilings,
religion
may find
and with them you may hold
of kindred spirit,
holy communion.
Become identified
members recognize in
its
you the image of Christ, their hearts will become one with
yours, they will mingle in your joys, sympathize in your sor-
Do
spirituality of
mind
this
not, as
many unhap-
lost
your
for
them with
are
still
unconverted
never having
who must
be
lost for
for Christ's
in righteousness,
Lord
make you
truly
first
Is this
attention.
happy without
No
religion
your case
If
so, it
in-
;:
more
terrible
doom
rah.
be short
but whether
safely conduct
you
it
to the
shall be bright
realms of never-ending
bliss, or
dark
and rough, and wreck your hopes, and you be cast into a gulf
of tumultuous flame without a bottom and without a shore,
depends upon the question whether you consecrate or do not
consecrate your heart and
Redeemer.
to Christ as
life
God
determine
it
determme
with eternity
is
of heaven." Matt. 18
ever true
is
Jesus
is
a friend indeed.
faithful,
is
He
3.
Ever
"
Except ye be converted, ye
dom
it
in
his
charms to-day:
ever true,
is
Lord
their guide,
And
When
breathe in tainted
air.
The
storm
is
laid
to hear,
The
At thy command
In midst of danger,
Thy
fear,
and death.
We'll praise
tliee for
command.
is still.
life,
more.
life,
our
lot,
T%o.
469,
If he felt
ren.
more needful
necessary to
it
for ministers
for us."
Paul
to
Timothy,
is it
pray
to
m this
particular
Is
he delivers
VOL. XI,
39
PRAYER FOR MINISTERS.
been performed
his labors.
Were
those churclies
which become
dissatisfied
PRAYER FUR
MlxMSTER.-^.
him
But a people who pray not for their pastor, cannot be concerned for the outpourmg of the Spirit, nor for the success of
Yet its success is what every Christian should
the Gospel.
desire, and what every genuine child of "God who is awake
to his duties and responsibilities, must desire. On its success
depends the prosperity of the church and the salvation of
souls.
responsibility here,
his slumbers
"
Which
470.
IVo.
THE
REPENTANCE.
BY REV. THOMAS CHALMERS,
D. D.
pentance.
With regard
to
the
first,
arisen
to Grod.
When
in
common language
such an action," he
for having done it."
is
man
am
sorry
VOL.
XI.
lan.oi'uor
39*
past
is
How
whose
feelings
it,
How
often
is it
man who
it
were
him
if
we
But there are other places where the same term is emto denote that which is urged upon us as a duty
that
that which is preached for the remission of sins
ployed
which
is
Now, though
we have
it,
repentance, in
we
all
expressed by the same term in our translation as the repentance of mere regret, it is expressed
by a different term in the original record of our faith.
This surely might lead us to suspect a difference of
meaning, and should caution us against taking up with
these cases,
is
which
There may
e.
Ol'
KErENTANCE.
be an
up
to the
larly
succeeding
it.
act of
sorrow may darken every interval of sinful indulgence and sorrow may give an unutterable anguish
sin
to
Couple
this
common currency
that repentance
is
all
in the
ceptance with
that
God
and
it
to indistinct
not to conceive
difficult
is
which
We
is
implied in
it.
is
Where
shall
we
to life than in
been employed
averting
in
it.
by which the
sin-
ner
is
liis
from
it
unto
God
used, this
common meaning
is
that
wherever it
itself, and
apt to intrude
ing:
word
it over
and thus it
the obedience of the Gos-
sin^jle
carries
that, for a
pel,
many
steady progress in
two
different things,
one
lias
New
why
and regret
to regret,
spoken of
principle
quate.
common
because, in the
is
equivalent
in
common
is
outward
habits,
man would
man upon the mere
language, a
it
New
We think that,
change of
it,
in the
we
is
use of
Let the drunkard give up his excesses let the backup his evil-speakings let the extortioner give
up his unfair charges and we would apply to one and
all of them, upon the mere change of their external doings, the character of reformed men. Now, it is evident
that the drunkard may give up his drunkenness, because
it.
biter give
OF REPENTANCE.
for a
happy
thing than
it
eternity
really
is
is.
a far
It is
means
it
of
little
to
be told
superficial
importance
new and
itself,
ten applied to a
man upon
the
mere change of
liis
con-
in principle
which
it
can be no change
has undergone.
conduct without some change in the inward prinA reformed drunkard, before careless about health
or fortune, may be so far changed as to become impressed
with these considerations but this change is evidently
short of that which the Bible calls repentance towards
God. It is a change that may, and has taken place in
in the
ciple.
of the
before
us.
may
Reformation
unto him.
signify nothing
prieties,
however
duties, which,
civil
and prudential
man's accept-
to secure a
fitted
more than
the
all
but
it
heaven
of
is
;
nor
when he
is
it,
says,
for
in its import,
**
I tell
There
is
no single word
in the
awkward
a phrase this
expressive of
it.
may
Certain
be,
it
is
is,
that
is
is
brought about.
OF REPE\TAi\CE.
We
minds, of the renewing of the Holy Ghost, of being renewed in the sj^irit of our minds. Scriptural repentance,
turns
from
the idols
it.
But
all his
"Except
as little children,
mind
is
ye
" If any
is
shall not
man have
The car-
none of his." **
enmity against God and if ye live
man be born
"Except ye
after the
ye shall die but if ye, through the Spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." " Be not then
conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the
flesh
;;
THE NATURE
AxN'D
SEASON
every
man
to the
now, or the alternative of repentance never. We should like to flash it upon your convictions, that by putting the call away from you now, you
put your eternity away from you. We should like to expose the whole amount of that accursed infatuation which
feeling of repentance
We
lies in delay.
of
its
lethargies,
ways getting
smaller.
He knew
verted.
ner's return
is
place in
man
way
it
that a
of the sin-
God
and of
in-
rtoic.
We
OF REPENTAPyiCE.
we
perish.
we
Now,
shall think
mediately.
we
it
We
we
repent,
work
is
in
our conception,
shall look
upon
it
as a
work
that
it
im-
may be
common
is
the
we
may
is
This dilatory
way
of
it
is
very
much
favored by the
we have attempted
to expose.
We
have somehow or
is nothing but
deep enough and painful enough there with rewith terror mustering up its
all its bitterness
images of despair, and dwelling upon them in all the
gloom of an affrighted imagination and this is mistaken
not merely for the drapery of repentance, but for the
very substance of it. We look forward, and we count
VOL. XI.
40
bility
gret in
10
upon
this
that
tlie
be expunged by
it.
We
This
We
is
off to that
it
things,
tlie
2.
in
them
is
infatuation.
man
It
may be
it
the saddest
we would
Lf/
'
OF RErENTANCE.
11
and borne down by the pressure of a sore and overwhelmSurely the greater the work of repentance
1
is, the more ease, the more time, the more freedom from
suffering is necessary for carrying it on
and therefore
addressing you as voluntary beings, as beings who will
and who do, we call upon you to seek God early that you
may find him to haste, and make no delay in keeping
ing calamity
commandments.
The other view is, that repentance is not a self-originating work in man, but the ivorh of the Holy Spirit in him
his
as the subject of
influences.
its
site to the
former.
every step
in the business
It is true
God works
This view
that
man
wills
of his salvation
is
in
you would like them best % when you are done with the
world, and are looking forward to eternity because you
cannot help
it ]
God
says, "
My
THE NATURE AND SEASON
12
man." A good and a free Spirit he undoubtas a proof of it, he is now saying, " Let whosoever will, come and take the water of life freely." He
says so now, but we do not promise that he will say so
with effect upon your death-beds, if you refuse him now.
You look forward then for a powerful work of conversion
being done upon you, and yet you employ yourselves all
your life long in raising and multiplying obstacles against
it.
You count upon a miracle of grace before you die,
and the w^ay you take to make yourselves sure of it, is to
grieve and offend Him while you live who alone can perform the miracle. O what cruel deceits will sin land us
in
and how artfully it pleads for a " little more sleep,
and a little more slumber; a little more folding of the
hands to sleep." We should hold out no longer, nor make
Strive with
edly
and
is,
God
genuine
let
not
of his goodness
effect
upon us be
ways of sin.
its effect
selves in the
to
is to lead us to repentance
harden and encourage our;
We
should cry
and such
to.
we put
if
till
we
then, the
now
is
shall
for the
the exceed-
be listened
mock
for
OF REPENTANCE.
yet
it
is
13
so emphatically said of
it
that
you should
to him and
riot in the
We
he would reclaim unto himself, yet if you j^ut all his expostulations away from you, and will not be reclaimed,
these thunders will be let loose upon you, and they will
fall on your guilty heads, armed with tenfold energy, because you have not only defied his threats, but turned
have
now
we
can
make
to
bear
40*
i^
resistance a
we
ward
OF UEPEiXTANCE.
15
now
susceptible
into a substance
is
hammer
of the word of
God.
The metal
of the
material substances.
human
upon
it
some
do nol
IG
TJiE
ofier that
miliarity of a
learned
how
to dispose of,
which,
offer
power of
its
gracious invitations
an
if
moment, may come back upon you, but which will have
to maintain a more unequal contest than before, with an
impenitency ever strengthening, and ever gathering new
hardness from each successive act of resistance. And
thus it is that the point for which we are contending is
not to carry you at some future period of your lives, but
to carry you at this moment. It is to work in you the instantaneous purpose of a firm and a vigorously sustained
it is to put into you all the freshness of an
immediate resolution, and to stir you up to all the readiness of an immediate accomplishment it is to give direction to the very first footstep you are now to take, and
repentance
it
reer in which
become new
all
it is
as the
prove
how
suffer the
to press
all
ca-
things
state of
it is
to
fearful the
call
sciences, and
careless,
OF REPENTANCE.
17
his wiles
all
the
of the Father,
every
is
affection.
And
what,
we would
now purposing
ask,
it
over your
what
to contest
is
it,
the
with
this
in raising
in
which
THE NATURE
18
SEASON
Ai\D
is
to
Spirit
against
Satan, to
whom
life
who
h-e
has
will not
in
greater force
rational
way can
it
a precept or
OF REPENTANCE.
injunction'?
change
change
his skin
his
19
it.
Now
that
the Savior.
THE NATURE AND SEASOJV OF REPENTANCE.
20
But
recollect
now
is your time, and now is your opporon the road of preparation that leads
charge you to enter this road at this mo-
heaven.
We
by
is
all
its
horrors
that
is
by
all
that
is
alluring in
condemning
in the severity
its
God
rewards
by
all
that
IVo.
471.
MEMOIR
OF
SAMUEL
F.
BRADBURY
Samuel F. Bradbury was born in Hollis, New HampDecember 25, 1806. He early lost his father, and
though blessed in childhood with the instructions of a pious
mother, yet upon being exposed to the temptations of the
world, he laid aside his Bible, turned his back upon the ordinances of the sanctuary, and soon learned to treat the law
Having chosen that path of conduct
of God with contempt.
which the holy morality of the Scriptures condemns, his next
step was to reason himself into the belief that the Bible is
He even
not the word of God, but an ingenious imposture.
tried to believe that there is no God, and no hereafter.
In November, 1830, he wrote to his sister, "For two
years past my life has been a scene of trials and misfortunes
But I have affected
not incident to young men generally.
to be as happy as the happiest, and have so far succeeded in
shire,
VOL. XI.
41
MEMOIR OF SAMUEL
F.
BRADBURY.
doubt.''''
The
were nimibered.
his days
him
me
hell.
'
My
good
sense,'
he added,
has taught
better than to
'
'
'
'
to
me
am
again, as I
world,
if
there
The
weak
it
life
my
four
of the other
was spent
God has
was spared
when about
my
for
Mr. Bradburj^'s
vear 1842.
I retired to
any.'
is
till
passed
in
My
him by."
weeks before
his
death the
MEMOIR OF SAMUEL
F.
BRADBURY.
saw him for the first time. It had for some days
been evident to his friends that he was afraid of his own
thoughts, and anxious to have his attention distracted from
the sad reflections upon the past, and the gloomy foreboding
writer
a rebellious will
still
he strove to maintain his consistency as an unbeand verify his confident prediction that he should die
as he had lived.
sive effort
liever,
Upon being
positively declined
when
first
and
and perish
he
added, "
that I had become a Christian when I was young
I think that I should have been a much happier man.
Even
if there is no hereafter, it would be wiser, in order to make
the most of this life."
Towards evening he expressed the wish to see me again,
remarking, " I desire to have my understanding convinced
I do not wish to believe through weakness."
I passed the
hour of twilight by his bedside, listening to and endeavoring
to meet the objections to the Christian faith with which he
had stored his mind. There was no view of the evidences
of Christianity which seemed to impress him so deeply as
like the brute ?"
shall die,
in the negative,
the exhibition of
convictio7is
its
and
it
as his
He seemed
side,
As
so great
It
was
MEMOIR OF SAMUEL
wash away
cient to
all sins;"
BRADBURY.
F.
come
him and
to
sin, dw^elling
seek forgiveness?"
his soul
to
continually
upon
his past
who
back
to
He
when he
life,
when
My
sea-
" I
give me."
am
for-
must
die
without hav-
" I
have lived thirty-five years," he said, addressing a relative, " and though I
have been surrounded with the beauty and perfection of nature, I have been constantly saying, There is no God."
" Strange," he often exclaimed, " strange that I should ever
have thought there is no God." "I have lived like a fool
like a fool " he would add, with peculiar emphasis.
On Thursday he remarked, " I find no peace yet it is
an awful thing to put off repentance until a death-bed."
ing been of any service to the world."
I shall
which
this
sick
man
when
the
From
matter
to
it
seemed
for
difficult
MEMOIR OF SAMUEL
BRADBURY.
and his relation to the sinner. The characand sufferings of Jesus, and the great purpose of these
sufferings, seemed in a measure to have faded from his mem" What a poor sinner I am," he once observed
ory.
"I
offices of Christ
ter
wish
me
knew how
come
to
He was
him
give
that he must
Can you
to the Saviour.
come
to Christ just
to
He
him
He
me
yes, sir, I
all
have him
the night."
And
re-
have
through
the tedious watches of that night, being racked with torturing pains, he would frequently exclaim, "
more than
On
My Saviour suffered
I"
is
the Lord's
first
behind me."
himself by
spared, than
said he,
by a whole
life
of Christian obedience.
assisting
41*
me,
I will
"
Then,"
be faithful
MEMOIR OF .SAMUEL
The
he manifested
soul,
moment he began
solicitude
own
for his
BRAUBLRV.
F.
to care
to exhort
came
in contact, to
like,"
he
make
warn them
with
with whom he
with God. " I would
tears, all
their peace
In
who he
God
grace of
is
for death,
them
sufficient for
I will resign
his hands."
On
could see
my
them
them
all
he seemed at
"
The
them
into
"Would
"VVlien
that
might warn
shall I meet
sins I"
to save
such a sinner as
if
when
his
isfactory
was
after
he began
to
hope that
were
his sins
views of the Saviour became indistinct and unsatbut as he attained a clearer knowledge of the
way
and
fears
his death, he
was heard
to say, "
My
Frifaith
strong to-night
clouds."
So
far
MEMOIR OF SAMUEL
he seemed rather inclined
F.
BRADBURY.
upon
to look
'
Your
went
to his bedside,
and
indeed.
responded, "
I feel
that
God has
forgiven all
my sins
and
He
iniquities."
took
its flight to
into the
away
the
mazes of
man from
error
and
infidelity.
not be happy.
said he,
"and
happy.
" I look
I see
How much
"
had taken
my
if I
my former associates,"
they
possessed religion."
been,
around among
How much
little
are not
live if
happier should
they
have
MEMOIR OF SAMLEL
God
those pleasant
F.
BRADBURY.
idling
away
declare
Though he
left
weakened and
felt
re-
that at last
a poor time,
It
distracted, to enter
Avith pain,
it
This narrative further teaches us the power of a Christian hope to produce peace and resignation of mind under
the most appalling outward circumstances.
When
our de-
first
was while
sinful pleasures.
Remember
made when
was no
there
this confession
all its
confession
summoned
to the
]o.
473.
ESAU
THE RUINOUS BARGAIN
The
By
useful.
warned.
their crimes
we
is
know how
that afterward,
12:
it
for
inherited
he found no place of
re-
Heb.
16, 17.
his sin,
1.
was no
trifling prerogative.
God, and the gate of heaven." In this family Jehovah revealed himself; here he was adored and served, while idolatry prevailed over all the nations of the globe.
family
Esau
To the
In this
birthright
To the
inheritance
and
to the birthright
mouth
of
tion,
prophecy,
spirit of
was never
pronounced in vain.
and the true Hght now shineth." Perhaps pious parand solemnly dedicated you in faith to God the
Father, Son, and Spirit, that you might be wholly his. You
have the Bible, the word of God, "which is able to make
you wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ
past,
ents early
springs of salvation
to
and instruction
a throne of grace,
blessings.
ordinances, as well-
whence
to seek
tem-
compassionate Saviour
him and
promises;
heaven"
a primogeniture
whose
privileges
commandeth
for those
sell
treasure.
They may be
2.
who,
like the
sacrificed
sel
life for
evermore."
who
willing to
all
even
his blessing,
Compare your
away
sin ^\^TH
Esau's
sin.
No
one
it
And
surely
Where was
reason
Was
the
man
compelled
to sacrifice
you live in a world full of enticing objects that the dominion of sense is strong ^that it is not easy to resist the
But is it impossible to resist ?
impulse of the moment ?
Have not many overcome, though placed in the same circumstances and possessed of the same nature with you ?
What is goodness untried ? Have you not reason as well
as appetite
blessing,
and
sufficient for
And
is
you ?
strong a motive to
in God's
to
force
you
to will
will be "speechless."
Yes, here
is
ruin:
"Ye
will not
a
;;:
Is it
human
pride
No
it is
but a despicable
The
trifle,
one morsel
that
honor
false point of
an imaginary
prophet
"Ye have
for
what
with
to be a child of
die in peace
tality
is
little
of this
proportion
Here
interest
is
The unsearchable
riches of Christ
heavenly places
glory, honor,
and immor-
and what do
you gain ? One has told you, " vanity and vexation of spirit."
Worldly things of any and every kind are less than the soul
its desires.
only to poison
in the using.
nothing.
man
away your
everlasting portion.
"What
profited, if
Avorld,
Beware
with tears."
When
esis.
Read
it
carefully
me, even
me
bitter cry,
also,
raiy
Nothing
father."
discovery that he
"was
him who
is
Weep
thus guilty?
left,
his.
if"
loss is
But you will be destitute of all reEvery spring of comfort will be withdrawn, and
XT.
Avith grief at
42
me
even
my
also,
at seeing others,
doomed
to perish
bitter cry,
your
serve, then,
What a
and
the
their end.
It is this
profitable,
but
its
Sin
is
never
"Stolen
is pleasant
but
and that her guests
"Though wickedness be sweet
are in the depths of hell."
though
in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue
there,
he spare
mouth
it,
and forsake
yet his
meat
it
not,
in his
bowels
"What
but keep
fruit
for
is
it
still
turned,
within his
it is
the gall
death."
2.
lamentation
correct thee,
therefore,
and
him
to repentance,
additional pain
life,
how
and
if
and every
sin
bitter will
be the
self-
day.
" lamentation,
with
hanged himself.
The eye which sin closes, eternity will
open and the bold transgressor, who defied the Almighty
in the day of health, will tremble with remorse and grief
when death points his fatal dart. But then grief comes too
late
blessings once lost cannot be recalled.
Death closes
the day of grace.
;
"
There are no
which we haste;
But darkness, death, and long despair
Reign in eternal silence there."
Tn the cold grave to
3.
pei'wris, life
more
as he never
No
had
wilfully strove to do
doubt,
before,
away
the impression.
with alarm
Have you
for the
But he
And have
not
time
you
filled
a nobler good
may
pass
away
summer
Let
is
me
ended, and
am
fruit.
you
If
to
past, the
not saved."
afiectionately caution
and
By
repeated
dispositions rendered
accustomed
may
Remember,
to do evil."
too,
repentance
is
not
duty to be performed, whose difficulties are rrlultiby delay, but a blessing to be imparted by the Lord.
only a
plied
in seeking
may
tations scorned,
what wonder
renders
it,
it
less
probable
it.
if
it
and
after so
God become
deserve
many
invi-
grieved at your
God
and happmess
to
To be
be lulled into a
to the
dreadful judgment
world of
spirits,
life
and to be
with no gen-
fatal slumber,
sin,
to implore the
is
mov-
awakening serious impressions of duty, disturbing your conscience by the remembrance of past transgressions, conveying to your mind awful forebodings of future woe, and
Treat
urging you to flee for refuge to the sinner's Friend.
with tenderness the heavenly visitant cherish his influence, and quickly follow his guidance, for it is the voice of
God.
PUBLISH F.D
BY'
Io.
473,
THE
AGED SAILOR.
and
self-willed
truant
roam the
VOL.
XI.
42*
He
an abandoned,
profligate character.
When
borhood.
When he was
his companions,
if D
bum them,
but
got hold of
H
This so much vexed him that he determined
annoy them in every possible way. Nor was he satisfied
with this. He determined to waylay the young woman who
lent the Tracts, and for that purpose stayed at home all one
Sabbath afternoon but she did not pass that way, and he
D
to
was
disappointed.
to
came
his
Maker.
The
from a
following
is
letter written
his
own
his
death.
"About a year and a half ago, a young person commenced lending Tracts in the neighborhood in which I resided.
In a short time
many
disorderly Sabbath-breakers
These
my
vent to
'
'
ened a gleam of hope. The following week she came almost every day to see me. Being much alone at that time,
she frequently invited me to her house to read to her while
she was at work this, I think I may say, proved to be of
In a short time the Lord
great spiritual advantage to me.
was pleased in his infinite mercy to show me that Christ
was just such a Saviour as I needed, and that though my sins
were as scarlet, they should be white as snow and though
they were red like crimson, they should be as wool."
The aged sailor having his time at command, and being
an early riser, and his faculties being good, spent several
hours daily in reading the Bible, private prayer, and meditation.
He was fond of religious poetry, and committed several
hymns to memory. He now began to be as zealous in the
service of God as he had formerly been in the service of sin
and Satan. He was very anxious for the conversion of his
former companions, and would frequently go to different
public-houses with Tracts suitable for drunkards and swearers, which he would give to all who could be induced to receive them.
In this way most of his Saturday evenings
;
were spent for eight or nine months, and he never was known
to take any strong drink from the time of his conversion to
his death.
'
;"
;;
?"
On
On
take
He then
" Salvation,
the joyful sound,
'Tis pleasure to our ears," etc.
In the last hour of his life he had little pain, mortificahaving taken place. At about half-past three he took
an aflectionate farewell of those of his neighbors that were
He lay for a few minutes apparently in deep
present.
though we have
thought, and then said, "Tell Miss
;"
not seen one another on earth, we shall meet in heaven
"
What
added,
a
and his countenance beaming with joy, he
happy meeting will that be there we shall meet to part no
more for ever." He then said to his friend, " I am going to
but you must
glory, and in due time you shall come too
tion
faculties.
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