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" ' w 1 . 1 i J"'.-"?-.i-J! T 1 1 -s. a,- ; Jt J, J1HES, Editor. DEYOTED TO RELIGION MORAL J J. J HIES & CO., Trcprlctcrs VOLUME XXIV. NO. 36.1 RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1859. WHOLE NO. 1208 f- i f -I- ill i a. i r v i T . l i . f i I III THE BIBLICAL RECORDER, A RELIGIOUS XKD LITERARY PAPER t TaWUied weekly at IUlet?H, N, C, tX $3 00 per W aum paymbl m judtjlXck. - ; n , . , The Recorder U cndnet4 tricllT upoa tbe CASH f vstctn. AU paper we discontinued t the expiration of the time for which thtr have been paJd. Subscribers will be notifted FOUR VflSEKS before their time is ont by CR0S5-MARK" n their papers ; and unless the subscription U renewed the paper will be dueontinoed. This U ruKVfrom which there will be no- departure, Watch for the CROSS-MARK, and renew jour sub. Rcription. : , ' '; tefAil letters ahoutd be addressed to Rer. J. J. yixMHy or Editor of. Biblical Recorder.". . , . . ADVERTISEJIENTS, To be inserted for a few weeks or months, ehonld be aeompanied with the cnoneT, no as to insure their pub teation. . They will be inserted at the following rates, 14 lines to a square J- ; One sqaare, and less, first Insertion, 1 00 " every subsequent insertion, 25 "With those who advertise by the year, per cent. wIH be deducted from the above rates. JOB WORK, Executed with neatness and despatch in this office. Blanks Ot any description will be furnished at the shortest notice, and at reasonable prices.. Intemperance In Colleges. . "We extract the following from the Address delivered bj Rev. Win. Hooper, D. D. LL. D., at the late Commencement at Chspel Hill The use of intoxicating liquors is indeed " the gigan tic eril of colleges and Dr. Hooper's long experience and extended observation as an in structor, together with his varied and profound erudition, should entitle what he savs on this subject to great respect. After referring to the baneful effects produced on the character of stu dents by dissipation and idleness at the Ox ford and Cambridge Universities in Europe, an 1 of the pernicious influences of French Infidelity ia the South Carolina College, and the Uni versity of Va, and to the change produced by $he connection and introduction of religious in fluences at the two last-named institutions, and to the happy fact of the recognition and study of the christian religion at Chapel Hill, since the commencement of the administration of Dr. Caldwell, Dr. Hooper-says : But after all this public provision for the main tenance of religious inflnenceand of moral hab 1 its, it is a lamentable fact that colleges will nourish within their bosom, a large amount of vicious dissipation, idleness and profusion. The two great obstacles to government and incentives to disorder are the congregation of large nnm- bers of youth - into houses by themselves, and i r :.. . ,,- . -j:l irt,.u have not made a mistake in thus isolating the students from family society, and crowding them together in such nurobecs under one rootj may admit of painful doubt Judge O'Neal, whom I quoted a little while ago, gives it as his de cided conviction that dormitories ought to be done away with and the . students distributed among respectable families. Dr. James W. Al exander, of New York, one of the first men of this country, an alumnus of Princeton, and for a long time a professor there, in a letter receiv ed from him a few years sinee says : " Of all absurd things m the world, one of the most ab surd is to put a great number of boys together, in a large building, ! to keep house by them selves," This is the first difficulty, but whether the plan proposed as a remedy would succeed better has not, I believe, '"been put to the test. We cannot therefore say of the recipe: proba tion est The other difficulty, the use of intox cating liquors, is the gigantic evil of colleges, and leads all reflecting persons, as well as Mr. Griscom, sometimes to doubt. whether all the benefits of public education are not outweighed by this enormous mischief to the morals and happiness of our families. War is, while it lasts, perhaps the most terrific calamity with which our race is scourged. Pestilence too, now and then, poisons the common . element we all do breathe, and more than decimates our cities. These evils, however, are intermittent They leave long intervals of repose and healthful en joyment But intemperance, begun in youth and often continued and aggravated through tedious years of shame and sorrow, in so many families this, this, is the running ulcer of our social body; this is the perennial, fetid, stygian flood, that is circling round and round the land, tmd pouring its poisonous . tide into our sacred homes. This it is which causes more human hearts to ache and more human faces to blush than any iotber caused. In vain have ; been all your temperance societies. In vain your tem perance lecturers, have been sent through the length of the- land gifted with tragic powers to ; make the public weep brer -the , horrors of drunkenness, and with comic powers to make the drunkard the lamrhing stock of. the world In vain have been ill these schemes to abate the nuisance.? Intemperance has crown under . - iff xi i t ii - mi. mtzus aypuauces, iKe me uiuuer tspreauiug under the surgeon s knife, or the Hydra mulb plybg its heads under the club of Hercules." : Alas I Leviathan is not thus tamed; --t Laughed at he laughs again, and stricken bard, .Turns to the stroke his adamantine scales, ; That fear no discipline from humafa hands, t " ; Ajid ifthi3 disease" is so perp;cious in r its sporadic form, turning a home here and a home there into a habitation of wretchedness, what . must u oe wnen concentraiea ma puouc msti tution, a multitude countenancing and stimulat ' ing each other,' .' despising the shame," and by their united strength breaking down every "bar- rier I : A college thus - tainted is hke our great western riven with all 7 its , swollen affluents, w .-bursting all the embankments, and carrying ter . ffor, and devastation, and malaria over the fruit .. oaicy WQ1CU lb OugEl lO aUUril. iillU ItJJWiliB, iFor this smele vice:is at the root of all collegi , te disturbances and delinauencies. - Of every ,; drinking student may be said what was said of v uoas icanotr w ith the sop Satan entered into him." Hence" all the counsels of educators. s . all the ingenuity of physicians, all the discove- i y . Vi 1 ;." wisaom and power oi l. legislative bodies, Ehouli be put in -requisition ta contend with this portentous mischlefi J And ;J 4.-3 wno zhxd discover a cure or yea &a allcvia- - v. . i c . 'czrzz- cf hnsanity, will : deserve : .;-':r. v.zzr and more enduring than - ;yramiJ-; and becntitled .to a gratitude deepertnd I wider j than that accordedao Dtl Jenner, who has relieved the world of the ter rors of small pox. ( Premiums are oflered for all improvements in. the industrial and fconohi cal arts, and for the best essay on all moral subjects; but the richest premium will he de serve, who, by 8orae"chymio' art, shall make young collegians loathe intoxicating drinks, or by some happy improvement in political econo-; my, shall drive ardent spirits out of the land as an article of manufacture or of commerce. The might of man has failed ; may we not appeal to the softer ' but more potent influence of too man? Will not the ladies, themselves safe and superior to this infirmity, come to the rescue of our powerless sex? j Tie are called the stronger tex and they the weaker; but as to temptations to vice they are the stronger, and we trv the weaker sex.i I have the. same. opinion of them that Lord Chatham had of the English soldiers : "They can achieve - anything bat impossibiln ties." They are not good at makiug large bargains, I admit, as is proved by the price they have agreed to give for Mt! Vernon ; but even there, the bargain is to their credit, show ing that they estimate the ' value received," not in the v.orth of the land, but in the testi mony of national gratitude and jin sending au embassador , around the laud to teach in houied accents, the grandest lesson this family of mat rons can learn, namely : by loving their com mon father, to love and cherish the united re public which he lived and labored and, suffered to establish. Let those who have entered with so much teal into this national "labor of love" now join their hearts in another, touching more nearly the' happiness of their country and of the world. Let them proclaim with their sove reign voice, from one end ol the continent to the other, that their smilec and their hands are the prize of sobriety alone. From all their lips let there be heard the general chorus : . Young men, young men who love your drink, Your bark of hope and bliss must sink ; We'll never trust with you our life , You eannot, shall not have a wife. I venture with diffidence to make the follow ing suggestions. It seems hopeless to put a ftop to the use of all stimulating drinks. All nations have U3ed them, and God constituted wine with corn as a part of his special gifts to his people, inhe Holy Iand. Thus the inspir ed writer says: "He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle and herb for the service of man, and wine that maketh glad the - heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which 8trcngtheneth man's heart" Here you find wine mentioned like grass and herb, and oil, and bread, as gifts equally expressive of the kindnes? of Heaven. What God gives as a tonic and stimulant, along with the nutriment of man, cannot, if soberly and prudently used, be hurtful either to body or mind. In conform ity with these pro vidential bestow men ts of the old dispensation, we find the Saviour, in the New Testament, using wine at his meals, thongh it exposed him to the slander of being a wine-bibber turning water into wiue for the use of the guests, at a marriage banquet, and appointing wine to be used at hli own sacred supper. Now I by no means intend it to be understood that because in that day and country the fermented juice of the grape ;was a native produce and a licensed beverage, therefore the adulterous and poisonous mixtures m use among us are lawful and expedient ; nor would I be understood as saying that the banishment of even pare tcine would be bejond the right and duty of college authorities, any more than it would be beyona tneir right to proniou a cer tain kind of food, if it was found that that kind of food led generally to gluttony and sickness. Besides, m modern times so man v other bever ages have been introduced, less dangerous and perhaps more nutritions, that we have less rea son to use the wine of the shops, Which is any thing else but the jutce of the grape. But.what i am now aiming at is uiis : la inquire wueuier we could not by introducing me ; vine amon- our agricultural products, make within ourselves a domestic beverage, safe and pleasant, and drive out the pestiferous liquors,! foreign and homemade, which are now the! bane of our land. An enlightened foreigner from Germany, js '. ' a Mr. fcschweinitz, who was honorea witn a seat in the board of trustees, and who used some times, to visit this place, declared that this lo cality where we now are, was the very country for the grape and the manufacture ot wine. Why should not bur enlightened and more wealthy farmers, who can afford to make the experiment, instead of forever moving round in the same circle of crops, (corn,! wheat, cot ton, tobacco,) venture upon the culture of the grape ana an experiment in wine,! at nrst on a small scale? , If our -country should be (bund capable of producing light wines, harmless as a common drink, it might have a greater effect at total abstinence. ; It is admitted that the people, of France j are in general temperate, though the use of wme is universal and that it is a rare thing to see a drunken man . in that country. . Mr. Hentz, - formerly professor of French in this college, who spent his early life in Paris, used to say that he never saw a drunk en man till he was seventeen years of age, and that he was at a loss to account for the singu larity of his behaviour, ascribing it to a derange ment This superior sobriety of that light, and giddy, and impetuous nation, cannot be attnbut ed to any. moral cause, and is probably due to the fact that a cheap and innocuous beverage is accessible to every body. In the absence of wineTrom our country, might not! some ( other innocent liquors, be ; brought into use beer, mead, cider, raspberry wine, &c? ! At Pnnce ton, when I was there in 1813, malt beer was a part of the couega dinner j and in Yale col lege, it was 'allowed as a perquisite to an indi gent student to sell liquors of that;; kind to the students: ; whether ! it was abandoned at both of those greatinstitutions, aa leading! to injurious consequences, I never heard. - I throw but these suggestions with some apprehension lest a bad use may be made of them,: but the disease is so desperate it warrants bold experiments. ; From long thought and experience and from the high authorities I have iqaotcd,! have , been, led to form the theory of. a college, of which i my audience will have patience .with, tne I will give them brief catUne. - It is impracticablaj tobe sure; in an old country; and where all the expen ditures of buildings havo been 'already,, in' currea. liut i caunci. ceip cenng to avail mysc!f of so large an audience to," present my tho-J"ht3 cn thi3 suViect for the vconsid?ratica Tho cencrous dona tfons by Congress of extensive lands for educa tional purposes in our new States, would have furnished, and in some may vet furnish moat favorable opportunities ana facilitiea for carry ing such a plan into execution : Let a tract of one or more square miles, heathy and beautiful in its aspect, and having an abundanco of fine water, be selected as the location. Let this ter ritory remain, in perpttuum, the property of the trustees ; let not a foot of it bo told. liet a village be laid out in convenient lots, and let respectable families be invited to lease them, for a term of years, and put up suitable houses, obligating themselves to take a certain number of boarders, and to keep no intoxicating drinka, uuder penalty of ejectment This would give the trustees, a control over the population, and enable them to excude all Improper inhabitant!. The only-public buildincrs then reauired would be houses for professors and public rooms for lectures, library and apparatus ; and tho large ums heretofore expended in providing dormi tories would be saved for endowing professor ships and scholarships,; and procuring library and apparatus. This plan would I promise to obviate the disturbances incident to a steward' Uble, the disorders generated by having large numbers in one house, and would if settlers of the right sort could bo obtained, promoto gen tility of manners by intercourse with private families, and in case of sickness secure requisite quiet comfort and attendance. The Christian Race. u So run that ye may obtain' so said the great Apo3tle. Tliat is, run in such a way, with such a spirit that ye may be victorious. There is implied in this great truth tho fact 1. Thai the whole soul be enlisted in the race. This race claims all the power of the soul, all the affections of the heart all the actiou and energy of the will ; and any thing short of this is a sure precursor of disappointment and defeat. If the Grecian had attempted to solve some if ficult problem in Mathematics, or lay some plan for a future speculation in landed estate, such presumption would have insured his failure while he was engaged in the race. Such thought and application would hare distracted the mind to such an extent a3 to unnerve him for the contest His energy would have been weak ened, his mind would be wandering, nnd, as a result his eye would b removed from, and consequently lose sight oi the prize, and all would be lost. How beautifully does this illustrate the importance of steady devotion in the Chris tian soul to the object of.ita pursuit I While Peter kept his eye fixed on his Lord there wa ao danger, he was able to walk on the boisterou sea ; but as soon as h lost sight or him, and began to look about him from side to side, his faith then began to fail, and he to sink. Thus is it if the Christian suffers his eye for a brief moment to be removed from tho prize of his tigh calling, and, allows the"crs to become obscure and dim by the mists of earthliness, he h thrown back in bis course, and is consequent ly placed in extreme danger of being overcome finally by the great adversary. The soul must not otdy be wholly enlisted in the race, but 2. Jt must be ever prepared to meet opposition. nnd overcome every hindrance. This opposition comes in a thousand varied forma and those hindrances present themselves from every quar ter of the com pas, with the exception of the pit; and downward in that direction all those hindrances and forms of opposition drive' the soul with an earnestness and tenacity of purpose that can belong only to the great spirit of evil. Among the many forms ot hindrances and opposition notice two. And, Firstsfrom an impendent world. Hera the soul meets influ ences subtile and most insinuating; all with fair external appearance, but steadily alluring to certain disgrace and irremediless ruin. Wick- e !, unprincipled men invite the Christian com petitor, under a show of friendship, while en gaged m the race for heavenly honors, to sit with them at their banquets or to join them in their scenes of pleasure. They meanwhile drug the cup of their indulgence with an opiate that lulls the Christian soul to a sleep ot moral insen sibility ; and they clothe their scenes of guilty pleasure in a garo wnicu may appear to me in toxicated soul as the first scene in the joys of Elysium. The soul is ensnared, u The world has made a conquest In its triumph it places its heel on the very neck of Christianity. It has plunged a dagger into the heart of the Chris tian faith. And whde the deluded Christian soul is wallowing in unholy pleasures, forgetful of his vows and his destiny, theyvm ! their iro pious delight celebrate his downfall with ec stasy and infernal rapture. Devils then rejoice while angels weep. " A thousand foes are pressing hard, To draw thee from the skies." . i . The Christian competitor, thenVmust be pre pared by faith, by patient supplication , at the throne, to meet all such opposing influences and vanquish them all through the mighty power of God working through him, making him in his weakness strong in the Lord and in the power Of his might 13ut the gecond source of oppo sition and hindrance is from the church of Christ And doe,) this sound strange to polite ears that have been wont to regard the church as above reproach ? A Christian in hi9 course opposed by thei church I ; Monstrous I . Tia nono the less sal That brother who is at ease in Zion, and has1' all his past life elided smobthlv down the stream, is. by his inactivity and sloth, daily placing a stumbling block in the path of his t .i t ir1: -j. lit i j-1 - ii uruuier oy . nis siae, w men vxoa cans ou mm, by all the interests be possesses in a future im mortality, to remove with all haste, t How many such stumblinz .blocks must be I moved out of the way before the car of salvation and the ve hicie ot God spirit can move on through the churches, redeeming and of guilty, men 1 ; : sanctifying, the souls V This Opposition, as you will observe, arises no so much from, a commission as from an omission of duty, But.the same spirit which ' led tho dis cip.es in me nine oi vinrist to seex ior pre-eminence in the kingdom of God, is in the church at this very hour, and it has taken such a hold on the minds of a certain class, that for the sake of pre-eminence and superiority in the J church they will sacrifice every particle of religious principle wpicu ioey possess 11 perc nance mey ever possessed any jland, , tb Mcrqwn their act with infernal hate, they; will placo their heel on the neck of their brether as the stepping atone to the teal cf ulcr-i;in:at? rawer. Jt wii enc 6T an enlightened public. of the requisitions made of those ' who 'entered the, list as competitors for the crown in the Gre cian games as well as their friends, that under heir solemn oath, they would not by any sinister or unlawful means endeavor to stop the fair and ust proceedings of the games. So when the soul enters into solemn covenant with the church, it takes oath before tho great God that it will labor and prar for tho prosperity; and peaco of that church : and hence, if through evil speaking, or from malice and revenge, it runs counter to all those solemn obligations which such an oath imposes, Is not such a soul in the exercise of such a spirit and in tho perform ance of such acts, whether he thinks so or not whether he says he thinks so or not is he not knowingly guilty, with his eyes wide open, of pursuing a most determined course of opposition to all Christian progress ? , The Christian soul, then, surrounded and at tacked by so many opposing influences both within and without tho church, must by so much the more, gird up anew the loins of his mind, and with humble dependence on , the arm of the Lord of hosts, go on his way rejoicing, resolving ; To watch, and fight, and pray ; i The battle ne'er give o'er, To renew it boldly every day, : And help divine implore. Notice now briefly in closing; two of the mo tives urging the soul to enter upon and prose cute this race. And t r 1. Tte absolute assurance that the soul Ouit en dures unto tin end will be crowned . by the hand of heaven s Atng. i he victor in tho Grecian contests was crown ed by a judge of like passions with himself: but the Christian hero receives his crown from the Lord, tho righteous Judge. It was a day long to be remembered when the youthful Grecian received tho palm of victory at the goal : but that day with all its paltry honors will be for gotten they will all be swept into the grave of eternal oblivion. But the day on which the Christian soul is crowned by the Judge of all the earth will be had in everlasting rememb rance when time shall be no more. And he lias the absolute assurance, in the language of us Divine Lord, that "to him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me on my throne, even as I alio cvercame, and am set down with my Father on his throne. But 2. 77 oOter motive is that ve strive for an incor- ruptibU crown, which comprises ini"4 bestow ment on the soul the full fruition of hope in heaven. The wreath of the Grecian victor . . . i .a i a ' .a withered almost witn tne loucn, ana, UKe tne honors which it conferred, was transient frail decaying. They strove for a corruptible crown, but we for an incorruptible, not subject to decay, destruction or change. A crown highly valued, because purchased by my Saviour s blood, and conferred bv mv Father's hand. A crown which, when it shall first press my brow, will open upon a sea of joy, the rich, lusciou fruits of that hope which was nurtured here below by faith and trial. A crown, whose eems , shall ne'er crow dim, but with the years of heaven. grow brighter aud more resplendent I O hap py he on whose brow this crown shall rest T thrice happy he who, as earth grows dim with in his mental vision, can look back and exclaim with ex ul tent rapture : " I have foueht the eood fiirht I have finished my course, I have kept the faith : henceforth there is laid up for me a crown which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day. Eminent Piety. S BT THE BEv! W. 8. PLUMMER, P. D. Professors of religion may be divided into three classes. First There are those of whom even charity does not hope that they have passed from death unto life. They are carnal, contentious, covet ous, or careless. They are manifestly just such men as they always were. No change of life appears to prove a change of heart ; they are just like their worldly neighbors, except that they go to the Lord s table. 1 hey are spots in Christian feasts They add no strength to the church. The church has their names, but the world has their hearts. Their number is large. Secondly, There are those who sometimes seem quite changed. They appear to have hu mihty. love, and real, but their course is not uniform. They have great defects and fall in to some excesses. The best Christians stand in doubt of them not because they love to indulge in suspicion, but because they can not neip iu xney nope anaiear. tney aisirust and confide, and are' afraid all the time that they are doing wrong. This class of professors at one time seem quite penitent : and again un der the power of evil. There is not much very decidedly against them, but there is nothing very strongly in their tavor. Their number is considerable. "Some of them will be saved, perhaps more of them than is commonly" sup posed ; but many of them will perish. God knows who arolhis, and can find a crain o wheat in a bushel of chaff: but he will 1 never take a bushel of chaff for a grain of wheat Thosb of them who are saved will suffer i creat extent, wood,, hay and stubble and will be burned up. - 1 v. . The third class consists pi those t whoso pro fession is attended bv fervent love, deen humili ty, constancy, a well-tempered teal, attachment to the: whole law; of God, and a renunciation j, of the world, to which they do not acem inclined to return. They have trials, days of darkness, uouois, wmcn iea mem to cry mignuiy to uoa, perhaps at times In keen anguish. - But no char itable person, . who know them, ever doubts where their hearts are." They never turn back - iney never iook pacic a ney are enureiy reua ble, , It is supposed that they maintain regular. secret' devotion, because they exhibit a uniform behavior. Their brethren trust thfem, and are i ' "-a - m - 1 . w. never i disappointed, jsven wicked i men soon cease to lay anarea for them, for they see that their minds are made upj and " they feel how awful goodness is. They loose little time in debat'ing quesU6ns which trouble others. Their rule is to get as far as possible from all sin.- They seldom dally with 'temptation. v If they fall, it is only to me aa Antaeus in wrestling with Hercules, with new strength. - The re is a sweet savor of piety about them. : Their maaners are various, some being polished and bland, others be in' awkward and t-.-Llrs, ethers cuict uncouth j some tcict free and than with prcaclun I 7 Ccmctuncs tbs c:i-1 : Prcr-re fcr In. Vi 2 div cf lzzZ1ji zzl . - lt.1 rgti. Cut tsifcra. J ist or chorister selects the.j:rn::3 fi il p--it, j f;r eld reb t-jciilt -p - : j - ....... j they show a tender conscience and upright in tentions, zeal for God. and love for his people. They use the world as not abusing it Their uusmeas is 10 uve unto uoa ana aie unto ue world. Nor do they I over-act their part They are tealoua, but not ofScious ; prudent, but not cowardly; decided, but not obstinate. rPL-... a.m. .-..41. ' Ti .t.! But they do not make a man' an offender for a word. They are' modest, but not ; mean ; cast down, but v not in despair. Their humility is one of the loveliest traits in their characters. They say but little to their own praise, because they do not think well of themselves. They put themselves am one tho least of all saints.' With pleasure they acknowledge the irifttT and graces of their! brethren, and ieel reproved by meir aupenor aiiainmcnia, ana press; iorwara to learn ana to do more and better than they ever have. They hate the vain thoughts which trouble them, and aie ashamed of their many auures. inaeea, numuuy, hko a cioatc oi am le folds, is cast over and around them. They grow but they first cast" their roots down ward, and then bear fruit upward. They not only commenced but they continue to live by tho doctrine ot salvation by grace. They, be gan in the spirit and they end in the' spirit tl e i .t ueir iruii. rcmawein iu uiem oecause - mey abide in Christ He is their life arid all their salvation. Tbey glory in the cross of Christ hey glory in nothing else. Who imy Neighbor? In the Bible the word neighbor not only means " one who lives near another," but it al so means one who stands in need cf help ; it in- ciuues every one to wuom we nave an oppor- tunity ol doing good. a - - - . It is m this extended sense that our blessed Saviour made use of the term, when he said to the Jewish lawyer who asked him about the commandments, that the first and great com mandment is to love God with all the heart ; and the second is. to love our neighbor as our selves. Matt 22 ; 3540. On another occasion, when one said to him. 44 Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" and when Jesus had referred him to this law of ove, and the man, willing to justify himself said unto Jesus, "And vlio is my neighbor T" Jesus told him a beautiful parable, which you can nna m tne tenth chapter ot ot Luke s gos- pel, about a man who was traveling from Je rusalem to Jericho. The road was through a mountainous and barren region, and on bis burney the man was attacked by robbers, and eft by them forsaken, wounded, naked and un ablo to help himself While the poor man was lying there, a priest passed by, and then a Le vite ; but tbey did not aid him. And then mere came a Samaritan, who bad compassion on him. He bound np his wounds: he carried him to a place of safety : and he promised" to pay the man into whose care he had committed him. When our Saviour had related the parable. he said, Which now of these three thinkest tnou, was neignoor unto mm tnat fell among theivea V .1 I t a . as I think all the children who read this will be able to tell what the man said. But if not you can find out, and you can also find what Jesus said to him, by reading Luke 10:3. aqci now ii you uunK, witn me man, . mai the Samaritan acted the part of a neighbor, and that the Saviour approved his conduct, then let it be your rule, ( according to your ability, to help all who are in want Children can do good as well as older people. And it is a great deal better to learn to do good when you are young, t It is easier to do eood all your life, if you make a beginning in child hood. I I want every boy and girl to pray to God for heavenly wisdom ; and to resolve, iu the name, and for the sake of Jesus Christ henceforth to live as Christian boys and girls. I want you to pray that you may love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself Amer- can Messenger. ! Singing. Rev. Nicholas Murray, D. D., tells some plain truths in the New-York Observer about singing. Let all the people hear what he says : Singing, as a part of public worship, has been greaty corrupted. ti In this respect it has shared very much the same fate as public prayer. As the church became corrupt, prayer and praise,' irom acts ot solemn worship, , dwindled down into ritual performances. It was so in the Jewish churchx! It is now in ' the Romish Church, where the pantomime of the Mass has supplanted the preaching of the gospel, and where music, as a science, has entirely supplant- ea aevouonai singing. x ne "great masters" of painting, of the chisel of music, have done more, for Romanism than all the fathers, all the Popes, all the fabulous martyrs ot'AIban But ler, put together. Takeaway the paintings, statuary and music from the churches of. Rome, and there is nothing left I " Nor are Protestant churches sinless1 of this subject This part of the public worship of God has been very much surrendered to 'organists, proiessiouai siagfsrs ana cuoirs, wnose aim is w make it scientific and not devotional pleasing i . i .i : i io tne . euueatea ear, ana not elevating to The affections oi the devout worshiper. . Indeed, it is mainly transferred from the people to a com mittee in the organ loft, which' feels that it has a riRUk vjkiusivcir w- wuutrut it, ; ana wmcn wiu not orooK tne singing oi tne people, lest it suouia maita uiscorai vna thus, often, tne precious right of a- Christian congregation is saennca to tne lasucuous taste of a few pe sons, not : one - of whom may be U professing Christian; and whose only object may be to display their fine and well tramed voices? . We scarcely have words to characterize this dese cration of a divinely, instituted part' of; God's worship I It : cannot be ' long , endured, ' save when public worship has become a mere ritual service v. l . - - f - ;-.. " And the arrosrance which leaders and choirs often assume, is noteworthy. ( In one case they stipulate to sing one- tune in which, tho people may join, if the people .will refrain from sing ing, save that tune I This is qu:te liberal when it is known in many other cases the people are if told that they have no more to do, with, singing . : oatw ' : - - and sends them to the'pastorl A' pastor 're quested the organ to be stopper .when, in a. voluntary, it ' was continued five, mrsntes be-- yond the time : to begin public worship. ; Th organist locked np the organ and walked oat of M.- church, aaying he would not suffer inca imper -tinence 1 y A- mmister. requested; hachonstef " to select simple tunes; he was told to take caro of his own end of the church, and not to inter- ftre with what did not belong to him ! A pas tor, not able lb stand it any longer, rebuked th levity of the d:oir. . .They rose in a body and left the house A' minister once pleached " kindly on the singing proper for the house f God, in which lie flattered the choirup to theif deserts; he Wit told by an excellent elder, wbr . i " t.i "t wu memoer oi it, tau u ne preacoea sjjou- -er sermon like that, he. would have no choir at: all 1 - And thus in every variety of way some of the best pastors in the land are annoyed by" organistsv choristers and ehoira'wbile -theiwo-. pie of God are deprived of one of their dearest rights, and the praise of God t reduced to . '. musical performance f This, all thi, is a grievf . ous desecration of a divine ordinance, against . which the entire church of God should protest . Why should singing, more than preaching or praying, be given over to mere performersfor TheN ringing should be congregaUonal-Thle- cannot be secured by singing schools, whose teachers, like other traveling artists, are but lit tle worth. They neglect the old tnnrt, and introduce new ones ; and when they retnr, their scholars can sing neither. Nor 'can it .b cured by choirs. Aa the cboirrises in arUstie skill, the singing sinks as to its devotional char- . acter. It dwindles into ft performance "AU persons should be taught in our schools to fane. as in Germany.' Singing should be a branch of public instruction. 1 be hymn, and the tune to which it is sung, should be printed on opposite pages ; and without deviation the hymn should be sung to the same tune, , Thus, soon, the one would suggest the other to all minds. - Who invented sitdng m Ringing and praying, we know not ; but we hesitate not to pro- nounce it irreverent as a posture, and.unsuited tor. the service. A precentor rises when hesingtt' So does a choir. And why should not the congregation ? ; Whilst the posture is but little when compared with the spirituality, yet it is something. When we .su we are httle ? less than spectators ; when we rise, we take part in the service, and sing the better, if we sing at alL ; ' -, . '.- As we would have all pray in the house of God, so would we have all sing. -"Nothing" is so adapted to excite devotional feelings. .There never has been a revival of rdigionv which has not been attended by a great fondness for: sing ing. . Luther, and the Wealeys, knew the pow er of singing, and made great use of it" It is the most - social part of robBc worsHpu Ta praying and preaching, 'one speaks, the jrest silently unite ; bat here all concur and " stimu late each other. ' . Singing will be the employ ment of heavea. When faith is lost in fruition, and hope in the possession of the things hoped for, then will our harps and tongues be vocal with the praises of God. Hence all that hope to sing the praises of God in heaven, should sing his praises upon eartlt't teaching and ad monishing one another in. psalms iandT hymns. and spiritual songs, singing with grace in "their bearts to the Ijord." Wlthont Holiness no Blan saiII see Goi. - If there be those in the Church,", who deem their baptism and their Christian profession suf- . bcient to Bave them, without that holiness, which alone can qualify them to -" see the Lord, let them learn how fearful is their delusion. The Jews, who had among them'' the temple of the L-ord," supposed this a sumaent safeguaruVK any one threatened them with a righteous ret ribution they were ready with the answer, that God would never allow His own holy place . to be defiled, or his holy mountain to be made a desolation. - They, pointed to the great stones, and the towering pinnacles of the Home of God, and said, " the temple of the Lord, - are these." And this was true: and 1 " if ye thoronehlv amend your ways, and your doings,1 wud - the ixrd, "men will I cause you to dweE in this - place, in the land that I gave to "your t.fathers forever and ever. . But on the other hand, said the Lord suppose not that this will save you, if ye go on in sin, and pretend that yoa cannot help it My Holy ark and My .Taber nacle were once in Shiloh, as they are now on Mount Z.ion ; yet for the sms of u and his sons, and for the wickedness of the people, " the Philistines were allowed to' destroy forever that . tabernacle, and to take captive the ark itself. Remember this, and be sure that thbngh' tho temple of the Lord be among you, it shall - not save you except ye repent Such was the warn ing ; but they regarded. it not And judgment came ; and the temple was destroyed ; and from " the streets of Jerusalem ceased the voice . of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom,' and the . Mb. Sptjeoeok. -A correspondent of the (flir.y Chronicle) gives " Ae :,ibUowing jBxtiact from me letter of a PresbyUrian; lady now in Europe,, concermng, this .distinguished preach er ; . -,j rvckt h - V;t. . On Sabbath last we went to hear the Eer. , '"; Mr. Spurgebn, the great Baptist preacher. ' Such a crowded place I never . was in before," The nouae was mronged, ana - me - crowa in irons reached to the curb stone. In the moniing ho preaches in Surrey Garden : Hall with only s congregation often thousand persons I ' What thrak vou of that? . I had made up ray taind before I went that he was 0ver-rated---bttt iio such thing.- ?I heard a plaint unadorned, '"spiiv1. itual sermon, one that reached the heart' "Ha text, was from ' these x beautiful words, fThe Son i ofMan.;'His subject The Humanity of Christ ' 'He preaches extempore.' His lo auence" exceeded anything I ever listened to, . iie words flowing out of his' mouth like living water from a never failing fountain.'' l lTis pray -" ers are praying prayers, 3 you Tonderstand what ' that means.. The singing was worship indeed; the tune being raised by a Solitary; Jclerk,"sa4 the whole immense congregation joining in thsj song of praise. How much- you would enjoy -his preaching. - i His voice is so loud, and dear . v that you can hear sUjr eyery wora test t
The Biblical Recorder (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Sept. 1, 1859, edition 1
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