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- i A''ID) ; SdDTUTIHIEIHl N ' WA OT (D IIAI, IGVOT ED TPO RELIGION; MO R1LITY, UW3IIATUBE ilND OEXERAL HITElLicENCE, VOL. V.-r0 47. RALEIGH, SATURDAY, NOVEMDER 23. 1839. '"'' 1 ' ' . , ' ' ' ' '' .' r- -i'i . i il ii - . , - i - . . i i i - 11 i - - ', - r A T Meredith Editor., ! . j . Q - !; ' - . ' l- -, ' I..'- - .. . , - -- .. - . - . ' '' ' '' . p; , . TERMS The Recorder!& Watchman is puDnsned every faat- ' tirday, at $2 50 Fjer annum, if paid witum six inontns, or S3 it paid sabdeqaently to thai period. - Any persbn wfco will become responsible for six "copies, or who will forward the names of six subscri bers, shall be eatiUed to a seventh com gratis. No subscription will be received for less than one tear, unless paid in advance ; and no discontinuance will be allowed until arrearages are paid. Persons wishing to discontinue willj be expected to give notice to that effect prior to the commencement of a new year; otherwise they will be considered as re ponsible for the ensuing twelve months. All communications except those-of -agents who act gratuitously, to secure attention, must be post paid- AU remittances regularly made to our address; by MAit-.shall be at our risk. - - Ailvortisement3 not incompatible with the -objects of ihe Recorder, wi be inserted on tEe usual terms. GOD ETERNAL. From ihe new work of the Rev. Mr. Todd, enti tled Tiuth made simple ; being the first Vol ume of a system of theology for children. A little boy once stood by the side of a small , pond. He looked off over it, and thought it a great way across it. He looked into it, and lntrtt it- varxT- A oon nnH ho tVtrntrrht it ivne a - Tery great water. But when he grew up and became a man, and had passed over the great o- , cean several tunes, where he sailed many days and nights without coming to any land that pond seemed to be very small. ; ; Any thing seems great or small to us, accord ing to what we measure it by. If one of these children were to break his arm, ar:d it bed;me so bad that it must be cut off to save life, the surgeon must come to do it- As you saw him take out hi3 knives, and saws, and strings, andjcarefully go to work to take off the arm, it wouldseema long, long time, before he got through-plhcugh it might not be more than fifteen minutes. Fifteen miuntes seem a great while, when we have to measure them by . great and severe j pain. But when you mea sure them by a whole year, they seem very short. . ; Did you neve r lie down at night in health, and go to sleep, and when you awoke in the morning, have ll e night seem very short ? But if you were shi wrecked on the great" ocean, and had to hang ill night by a rope, wet and cold, and expecting that the very next wave would wash you into eternity, you would feel that one niijbt is a great while, and that the morning sun - Or if you lay 'Jpon your bed, sick, full of paio, - i " . . r w -m and sleepless, with friends treading softly around you, and hearing; nothing but the slow ticking of the clock; O, how long would the night seem. It would seem as if the day would never return. This is because you measure the night by the pangs of pain which you feel. A year seems a great while to a child j but to the old man it seems a very little time. We think the grey headed man who has lived seventy years, an old man; but if you measure life by the lives $f men who lived befored the flood, what are seventy years ? Measure seven ty years by the whole time since the world was made, and what are they ? How old is that little boy in that front pew? Tenf Well, go back tei years, and there was no such boy. Go back fifty years, and his parents were not, created. Gi back, over the graves of men for two thousandj years, and you come to Jesus Christ, Go back, four thousand years more, and you come tqthe time when this world was created. The hi Is, and valleys, and rivers, were not made. The nun, and moonV and stars, were not made. Light was not made. There was nothing. Out ofjthia nothing, the world must come: the sun. and moon, and heavens, must come. Now whit can make them come? Can they come themselves? . No. But some pretend to say, that there was ground and water, and wind to move the water and the dust. : I . I Suppose there was; could dost and water, and air, make themselves into birds and fish, and cat tle, into fields and trees, into an arm and a hand, an eye and a tongue and above all, into the mind which is within us ? . No I no ! There are too many marks of mind, and we say that mind must have been there a way off in that dark placef?which we call Eter nity before this world was made! That mind, so wise, so great, so contriving, so powerful we call God. This is what I mean when I say, that "God is eternal." "I am the first." A child can look into a great, deep gulf, and see as far into it a3 a man, but he cannot see the bottom. Let me tell you what I mean by . the gulf- ; ; - j"-:-- - . .- This world and these heavens have been made but a few thousand years ; but God was living be fore them. What was he doing ? Where was he during that long eternity, before he created anything which we see? Can 1 tell? No. Can an angel tell ? No. Was he making oth er worlds, and letting millions of creatures live, and go on to the judgment? and their was he burning up these worlds and making new ones, as he will one day burn up this world? Per haps he was. Perhaps he did this to millions of worlds, and for millions of ages. Perhaps mil lions of thinking beings passed into eternity. Yes yes but before this, before he even madej any thing for ages and ages before what was t-od doing ? : Ah! I do not know. "Who by searching can find out God V . Who can measure an ocean which has no bottom? Who can go back, and back, and backand say,- "Here eternity be gah?" - . ; - ; - -- 'l - Did you ever hear such a word used as mys tery? It is a bard word, but it means something which we believe, but which we do not under stand. Thus we believe that God is eternal, though we cannot explain what eternity is. . Some people talk as if they would not believe any thing which they cannot understand, and thus they say that they will have no mysteries in their religion ! I do not know what such people think. If there be a God who has lived for ev er, there must be about that God a greatness and an lawfulness beforewhich the angels in heaven cover their faces with their ivings, "Even from everlasting to everlasting, fie is God." We see things begin. We know when that great oak on the hill. was an acorn, and which perhaps, was carried up to the hill by a child ns his plaything. ;Ve know when the oldest . man was born. We know whenjthey began to build the great city. ; j j We know when.the great snn first shed his ri sing beams upon the earth, j But we cannot thus go back, and say. that ''here -God began to live." We go back till we get to the beginning of "all tntngs, and tnere we find God -in eternity a lone, unchanging, unsearchable, eternal ! Thus we know that God has lived for ever, be cause he made every thing at first; uj GOODNESS OF GOD. ! I will now tell you of two; things which shew God to be good. j J 1 His goodness is to. be seen in his crea- ting what he has. : . j t Suppose you! had a jewel, the brightest and the costliest evet worn by a king, would you not wish a suitable box to put it in ? Ought lfnot to have such a box? . : r . ? Suppose you ivere going t build a palace for a king, would you not wish to make one of great beauty and convenience? )' j; The soul is such a jewel, and God built the bo dy i in which to keep it ! And is it not a wonder ful and a beautiful cabinet ? j : i The soul is king over all creatures on earth, and is not the body the palace in which the king lives? And how good was God to make it just as he has I With just such servants as we need ed; such as feet to carry it; about - Does, the inhabitant within wish to communicate tho't ? The tongue is theservant to do it. Does it wish to receive information ? The ear is the servant to bring it. Dees j it wish to ex amine for itself? The eye will wait upon it, and shew it all it wishes to see. : And all this body so curiously made, was built of a little dust of the ground. Halfway between angels and animals, is like that of an angel, ana his body a taberna cle of clay. Wonderful goodness indeed ! But just go within the house! What an in habitant is there ! Ah ! there is aj spirit in the house of clay, that is able to govern, and manage, and give names to all the cattle; that can manage thjship, that can measure the heavens, that can build up or destroy cities and kingdoms, a spir it that can glance in an instant from here to In dia' or from here to the highest heavens. Oth er parts of God's works shew great goodness; but nowhere has he written it in jlines so clear and deeD as on the soul of man. M All things that we see around us will perish and be no more ; but God made the i soul of man in" his own image and likeness.stamping his image upon it as a seal vis stamped on war; and therefore the soul will live for ever. .. . This world was made for men. Angels do not live here, and have no inheritance here. What a wonderful inheritance has man! The grass and the flower of the field, the tree and the fruits, the tame cattle and the wild, are all his, and God has1 delivered them all into his hand. When he blessed Jacob for his piety, he blessed his cat tle for his sake; and when he spared the dwel lers! in Nineveh because they repented of their sins, he had pity on their cattle also. ; . What a joyous morning was that when all the beasts and ihe birds came round Adam, their master, to receive their names 1 The bird hears her'name, and claps her wings fbrjjoy, and has tens to the tree to pour out her song. The horse receives his name, and bounds away in his strength. The lion hears his, and away he bounds hot to howl out his anger, but to respect 'and 'obey Adam, his king. i ; j The earth is the home, the habitation of man ; and how curiously is the great , house furnished! The sun hangs up for ever, to give his light- Tho moon, to take her turn. The bright and spangled heavens, to look down in their glory and;beauty; the green carpet which is spread o Ver the earth, to be pleasant and delightful to the eye.)- . . . ' -1 I ? - ' - ' - Does man want wood or water ? They are all ready for him. Does he want tools? Let him'go to the mountain and take the iron and make themi Does he want silver or gold ? Let him; go to the mine, and he shall find it safely laid up in the bowels of the earth. Does he want food ? The valleys will give him grain, the air willjgive him birds, and the great waters are all his jnshing-places. Does he want clothing? The; sheep bears it on her back, or the cotton plant will raise it, or the little -silk-worm is all ready to spin it for him. Does he want music ? The! sweet birds will sing for him: Does he want sweet smells? The flowers; shall open their sweets for him. Does he want beauty? The! rose shall blush for him. Sweets does he want? The little bee shall toil for him from the dawn to the evening. Warmth does he w'ant ? The beaver rmd the seal will yield up their lives to supply him Light does he need ? The great whales in the far-off ocean will lay down their lives for his service. Luxuries does he want? The ocean and the tides and the winds shall all wait'on him, and the ship shall go and return in safety. Say, can you think of any thing yhich this great house, the world, not furnished with? - - T : X ' 2.1 The goodness of God is seen in his redeem ing VS. - J : ' - . j; ; J . ' ' . Wheq God told the grass to grow, and the wa ters to hasten away, that the dry land might ap pear, these did not feel unwilling to obey. But when he. speaks to us, and tells us to be good, we feel unwilling, and his word dqe3 not make us obey. He can speak and call to the liht, and it will cbme to him; but it cost the blood ofJiis own dear Son . to make any man come to him. .V: . . 'r ' :' - " ' ' " . :tv ' Suppose you knew that a physician lived on the top ofa Very high and very steep mountain who can cute 'almost any sickness. ,You have aiaher wh6 is sick, feeble, lame, deaf, and blind, and you have nobody to-help ou, could you ever get hioi up the mountain to the physician 1 No, never. And suppose the physician hears that you have such a sick father, and he himself comes down, and in his own arms. carries him up carefully and there takes care of him and cures him. Does he not shew great kindness and goodness 1 -1: - - y just so? Uhrist knew that we never should return to God, and would never want to, and so he came down into this world, and was here put to death, that he might buy us from being punished as-we deserved j -;.H . -: r .! - i If all the angels that lire in heaven were to come down to this world, there is not one of them who could sayj that God has shewn him such goodness as he hat shewn to the poorest saint Christ ne ver died jfor acgels, and so they never crv, ,:thoa hast redeemed us." Could all the wicked spirits in hell, nw lift up their voices and tell their hopes; there is not one of them who could hope that fhis soul Will lever be saved. Christ' never ' died-for them, -j They were the first-born creatures of Jod, aod;we the younger ; yet God sent his Son to save us, ! Why did he not save them ? They had more strength than we," and could serve him better. They had stronger voices, and could praise him louder.; They had greater minds than ours, and could see,and feel the greatness of salvation mote than we can. .They were more beautiful thn we were, and yet they were not saved. " What good ness in God was this towards us ! Ah ! God pun ished the first sinners, who were onsofligbt,.and who stood near his throne, most awfully ; but for us, he said, "let him not go down to the pil, I have found a ransom." "Behold the lion of the tride of Judah hath prevailed to loose the sealsand to open the book" the book that sealed our ruin for ever, without Christ. Suppose a man wished to buy the life of a poor prisoner who was condemned to death, and should offer a piece of solid gold as large as a great church, would you not think he pitied the poor prison er? . j , : :. ; But if God had given a piece of gold. as large as this woild,'and a million of such worlds, it would have been: nothing to what he did give, to save us. .It iieh2fl senLlh.fi. brvv. and.liitvnp(xo.i - eanij, ana vuey iiau an come, dua an iwett.ptii lo death, it woulJ havebeen nothing to what he did give ; for Christ, his Son, is the creator of angels, and could have made millions more.- But when God sent his Son, he sent one who was as old as himself, who was as gieat as himself, who can do all that he himself can do, and who is as dear as himself, jit was God's giving himself to be mock ed of men, and cursed by men, and then hung up to die like! a guilty slave. Who mourns like him who has lost an only son ? Who would not give his property, his character, every thing he had on earth, to save the life of his sons ? But God tar ed his Son more than all things besides, and yet he was so good, that he sent the blessed Redeem er into this world to save it by shedding his own blood ! j ; : . - And how easy now to find the way of life. The mere child, only a little raoie than four years old, has been known to love the Saviour, to rely on him, and to die in peace and joy." I hare such case now in my mind. She was a sweet child ; and for some time before she was taken sick, she felt that she was a'sinner, and that she needed ths Saviour for her friend. Day after day, would she go to her little room, and kneel down and pray with tears that God would forgive her sios, an not take her out of the world "before her new heart had comei to her." When she was taken sick, she was soon told that she must die.; She begged her fatherj not to weep, for she Was going to her dear Saviour. She heard the Scriptures read, she heard herfalher pray, and with a sweet smile, stretched out her liltlo hands to bid her father and mother farewell, and closed her bright eyes in death while repeating that beautiful hymn, - - - "Jesus can make a dying bed, As soft as downy pillows are !" Her poor, pale body was left, but ber glorious spir it went uplo God ! Ah ! is not God very good, who has given U3 the Gospel so plain, that such a babe could thus be ripened for-heaven 7 Rev. John Todd. . s . 1 CAUTIONS CONCERNING ENTHU- " p. siasm. . . So many and so melancholy are the effects of mistaken and excessive enthusiasm, record ed in the annals of mankind, that wise men are justly alarmed at every appearance of it, and little inclined to give it indulgence. Whatever there has been of savage cruelty; whatever of public violence, and tumult, and confusion, the utmost extremes of all these evils, in all their consequences, have been equalled by the frantic extravagance of false enthusiasm. It has exhibited, in some tempers, all the symptoms of a malignant disease, and terminated, at least, in real and most deplorable insanity. ; If then it be wisdom to obviate the approach es of di3tempert those men have evinced them selves wise, and have labored to discourage, by all the, arts of ridicule and .argument, the earliest tendencies among the people to religious frenzy. There are incocent follies, and there is a madness, which is only the object of compassion; but the folly and madness ofthe bigot are detes table, because they are destructive as a pestilence. Against such an enemy to human happiness, philosophy has urged her best reason,-justice has unsheathed her sword, and the stage to com plete the triumph, has played ail the batteries of derision, ''-.:.' .--; ? . But argumentation, coercive force, and even ridicule, have been found ineffectual.--. All these are classed, by the bigot, under the term perse- cution, and persecution, like a current "of air, adds violence to fire.- The gentler, the kinder, the more Christian mode of expostulation and rational concession, wherever- concession can be made, may, like a balsamic vulnerary, heal the sore which opposition 'would cause to ran kle. ' . ;f -" J -. : V" I therefore do not deny the justice of the en thusiasi's pretensions who professes himself ac tuated by a belief that the Holy Spirit condes cends to assist him in virtuous endeavors, by a sacred influence from heaven. iBnt I caution him against entertaining for a moment, the pre sumptuous idea, that the same Spirit which as sists him, does not, with equal readiness and effi cacy, assist his pious neighbor also, and all sin cere believers, throughout Christendom.however distinguished by sect, church, or persuasion. I urge him to try his Spirit by the infallible toushstone of Scripture. Is it pure, is it peace able.' is it gentle, easy to be entreated, full 1 of merijy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypo:risy ?' , If it should be deficient in any of these amiable qualities, let him be cautious of indulging it; lest the Spirit should be of a diabolical, and not of a heavenly nature.-: " ;: : ;"."'; ' " I l y ' I .And in what manner is he to form a judg ment of himself, since the heart is deceitful, and to know oneself is the most difficult, of sci ences? ,If his high protensions are accompa nied with a bad life ; if he be disposed to con tend with rancor and violence in support of his pretensions if he be disposed to involve all who think differently from him in perdition ; if he decry good works, and if, with every appear ance of sanctity, and many; external "acts of piety and benevolence, he reserves to himself some secret and favorite vice,' he may rest as sured, that the Spirit which actuates him is not from above. ' -' -'; ; : ' ' j If he be inclined to neglect, despise, and re vile decent and useful Ordinances, such as are countenanced by Scripture, and have a direct tendency to preserve i peace, benevolence, and fuety; if he prefers himself to all regular and earned ministers, whether in the establishment or out of it, and preaches to ignorant and de luded multitudes in the fields, with the air and voice of frenzy, he may have just reason j to fear, though he should have ten" thousand in his train, that he has carried his pretensions to the Spirit beyond that wisdom, moderation, and love of order, which the author, of our religion vV-Jp Kir nrpf pri r,t and ramri!o language to himself, and assumes the authority oi a primitive apcstie; n, at the same time, rhe expresses his ideas in such a manner as to ex cite the laughter and contempt of men of sense and approved goodness, he may infer that his spiritual pride has ; hurried him to the verge of juaauiiy , uu, us ue vaiues nis neaun ana nap piness, should exert himself to remove the Je bnle symptoms which are at once contagious and fatal. When mechanics, of confined; education, an'd not remarkable for natural discernment, or pe culiar virtue and goodness, think themselves better able to instruct the people, than a nume rous class of their fellow-citizens, who have been separatedfrom their youth, for S2cred of fices, instructed in, learning of various kinds, versed in the original languages of Scripture, the very idea implies so great a degree cf pride and self conceit that it cannot come from the gentle, unassuming Spirit of him who. was him- tself meek and lovly,and who everywhere taught his disciples the lesson of humility.. . r -If such persons urge, in defence of their ex travagant behaviour, their dereliction of their trades and daily labors, and their assumption ofthe priest s office, a particular call, from Hea ven itself, louder than reaches the ears of others : let them, before they believe themselves, or per suade others,' produce, as a credential: of their commission, a miracle. If they find themselves utterly unable to do this, let them return to the workshop and warehouse, renounce the deceitful spirit, and evince their attainment ofthe true, by humility, charity, modesty, and obedience to lawful superiors; by a study to be quiet, and an attention to their own business. From such practices, and such persons as ; l havo'alludedto, has arisen much of tho disgrace which has fallen on true .and laudable enthu siasm, or that wisdom which is infused into the pure, gentle, and charitable heart from above.- False enthusiasm should be discouraged, that true reliirion may crrow and floonsh ; as the. weed should be plucked up, to give room for the wholesome plant to strike root, and expana .it self in foliage and blossoms, and produce good fruit in abundance. j 1 ' James' iii. 17. Knox's Christian Philosophy, j ON SJELF-DECEPTION AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE. Search me, O, God, and know my heart ; try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm exxxir, 23, 24. :. It is appainted unto tnen once to die, and after that cometh the judgment. What an awful mo ment that will bo when I stand before my Judge ! I owed him supremo uffection, unbounded grati tude, and devoted service: all my time, faculties, property. and influence, were his: and allought to have been used to his glory. I ought to have r t . i i i i .j.: i.t .i vinaicatea nis nonor, maiauimeu ine numoruy oi his law, and promoted his cause throughout my life. And he has seen how I have withheld from him his due. He can mistake nothing, for he knows my. thoughts land motives; and he can forr iret nothincr. . lie will cnll my whole life into iiiflo-mpnl with the state of mv heart throu'rbout it. ' f r.m ertneeal nothing, modif' nothing. All mww . 0 , . , I : -r-' " must be then brought out and jiidged. according to truth. Na fancies of mine ill be the ruled judgment; nor sha I bejudgeki by ihe maxims ofthe world; but the word of God will try all And by. that word I am condemned, "Cursed : is every one that continueth not in all things writ-' ten m the book of the law to do them-- As manv. as are of the law are under the! Scurse. By thtf deeds ofthe law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight" None, therefore' but believers in Christ are saved; 'He that believelh in the Son hath life ; and he that believethmk the Son, hali not see life, but the wrath of . God abideth on him.' But, I do believe? A mere ecknowledg'ement ot the truth of Christianity is no influential know- ledge of Christian doctrine. A conviction of the fact thai Jesus Christ-came fctothe world, is no reception of Christ as a Saviour. To believe in him: to the saving of the soul.l operates such a change as makes man a new i creature, i And therefore Jesus Christ said, tVerily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be bord ;ef the Spirit, her can not enter into the kingdom ftfjGcd." Have I experienced this change, withkiut which I am under the curse, and must remain under it fore ver? Dreadful possibility! 0i forbid that I should be deceived in this mailt x I . Should I find out now that I am no christian, tainful as the discovery might be, ther3 wpuld be time to seek, for pardon and salvation; through jJesus Christ , but should I die in false purify, and find myself to be no christian. just ufcen the sentence is about to be pronounced whichjill fix ay irre vocable doom, what time will there h$ then for prayer or what hope then for jery? jNow, now is the time to know my stale, whatever it may be. Scripture is the only' rills of judgment, because the only revelation of thj4 will of God. If I judge myself now by it, I may not be judged hereafter.1 By Godf3 help I will end out the whole truth. ; ;Am I a Christian t Am I pardon ed? Am I safe? Am I a chil.dlef God ? 'Am I an heir, of heaven ?:I will settle! these question?, if it be possible. -'Away fronj line, all Caitery, whether of books or friend, .fi'here is poison in the honey. I do no: want -t bo lulled; by a syren song into hell. I roust khut' the truth.- ' Welcome the books which mpqt penetrate the conscience, and which cicst disemminate between -true and. fabe religion. VVelcome the friends (best worthy that name) who wilj most faith ful to me. : Is there pain in the5 Examination of my sinfulness? Is thpre hurailjktton in the ac knowledgment -of it t Welccrib both the ha- ' j.m.iliationandthe paic,if they may lead to solid wilt diligently compare my cUit with The decla rations ofthe Scripture.- I wiil; search or the marks of genuine piety laid dowhahere, and see whether I can find them iu myself. I will ask the most experienced. and niousmersons amnno- my friends, to assist me to judgi Search me, KQ.Gcd.- and know ray heart: tr4 me and know 1 mylhoughts.? Sho w me my stat?. Make .me to kdow wnetner i am a Uhnstiah or not. -j Any pain, any depression; any raeniajjeonflict, is bet ter than to bs deceived. Make fse to know my true state. If I am a Christian Qfv make it more clear and certain; that t may bav4 the comfort of faith and hope. But if not, then $f me know it, that with humiliation and contrition of heart I may, through grace, come to thed m simple reli ance on the Lord Jesus, to be pardoned, renewed and saved by thy mercy. . . .. i f ; . Grant it, for the sake cf Jesus Christ, my only Lord and Saviour. -Bap. WsNail. V" - ; T ; -From the Vermont Telegraph; i -.H. . "THE RIOHTEOTS AUr BLESSED IU THEIR V' 1 ' -' deaths 'X:X:U, ' i j ". ' - Among the earliest recolleclids.oi' my boy . hood, one scene is most vividly wh'tten upon my memory. was at that ag-e. when hoisv snorts are the theme of youthful thoughts, and nothing seems important but the pleasureipf the moment. My aunt, who had endeared heiself to me bv her peculiar familiarity; and sweetness of manner, was lying upon her death-bed, waiting with pa tience the hour of her release. I approached her bed-side to receive - her fa re well blessing : j she feebly clasped my.hand in her cold, pale finders. and looked earnestly in my face, j She could not speak. ' Warm emotion was burning within the etheral spirit, but the angel of death had laid his chilling finsrer upon her lins. . Hut that fixed searchingearnest! look,- it was jfull of soul it conveyed unutterable thiDgs. : Noi words can ex press the deep thoughts pictured frk that eye; no eloquence could have excited ,'suich emotion in. my own' heart. It was a look of Ibve, of 'sympathy,'- of tender expostulation. It;! was the lan guage of the soul speaking Out from the eye of a dying saint, on the verge of the spirit-land, alrea dy filled with the spirit of heaven.j 1 1 As she drop ped my hand and turned hereyes Upwards, I saw, her lips tremble with the breathing 'forth f a prayer, and I felt that she was spending hef last : breath in intercession for me. .Efom that-time y the impression made by the dyiogilook and pray" er of that departing saint, has "neyer left me. It was one ofthe most deep and fearly of those influences which, I trust, finally sapdued. me. '. I shall ever have occasion to blesij God for thaf unutterable prayeri Truly, nbejjfighteous are blessed in their death." . u ' EXTRACT FROM A LETTER, OF MR. H ONCKEN.;, . !f j'' . . Mr. Onckeu writes under dale itf-May 31, Our bible and tract operations arje" extending, and are carried forward with spirit and zeaL Our connections, in different parts of the country, are increasing1, and we are thui 'privileged to scatter the good seed far and wide We thank God and , take courage, for.lhe wide dope he Is opening for his word,, and not less for his faithful internal ' instructions, by which we are made tnore and more to see and to feel, that we shall efoct nothing,i'.a- is
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