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pirfvATE LIFE Ot' THE EilPltEfeS JOSE.
i.Frorn the uemuirs oi aiauxiu -
. r - : i.'ii r . t - ;
lllion,
'nrincrpal km me de cha mbre ol the Empress J o:
peror, cr ''rather the Yl rsij Consul', for : it was" at
ih'P. time when L ! was '.attached; to lad'emoiSelle
when L ! was auiciHU iu .muutfinoisetic
ier. . ;7one tuorning, rery early, I ibund
use Jo him, When I least expected it.-
de.Tusch
fnvsei'f cJo
H, r;ime xiowii a 'little private staircase,- Avhich
led from her 'apartment, on the ground floor to
tffat 'of Madame Bonaparte above.: 'At this tjn?
exriected-oppeHranc. I remaiiied motionless as a
i : - i'l . . ... l. . ...i. J- i . k 4
statue, aiiu was so couiouuutu, inai viit,n ne asis-
etl me vv'ho.f was -jtef6 re I could telli liim I're-
neated twice or tnnce,
'Sir Gen era 1 Fi rst
Consul !'' 'My emotion did not surprise him, for
it was an eftectlie usually produced on those un
accustomed to se h.ini.;'. V soon became divested
x of -tins tiniidity. ! -;; ;
v 'Another day, I was witness to a scene which
I should b tempted to terni' ridiculous, "hut lor
- the: respect' I owe the memory of their Majesties.1
The Kiiipross was; slightly indisposed j one of
Ke rtxust' fiirncrns me-rciiaides'de modest of the 'day,
Mademoiselle Despatjx, came to offer, her servi
'.y oes tjher Majesty ; she waited in the blue room,
; ber'e.the bed chaiiibcr, till she was called in.
At:this molnent the rEtnptjror cameto; see the
Kmprtss, and wo s'hoiiid be the nrstiperson he
sa on catering the ante roem,. which he must
pass through; out j Miidemoiplle .Despau'x, with
her hand boxes ! ' 'Who areoii he exclaimed
-ntWrilY. 'When she, tremulant mentioned her
..:.. nane,-he entered the Empress's chamber like a
mnJan-.-J. Striding'' along arcl gesticulating! he
; caijeu ot;t, ' v lio sent for this wbman? , Who
'toid hcMo come- I will k'nojv.' Every one pro-
it'ssed to know nothiiisr oi the matter, which was
- true ;jcndtt?h, for she had come of her Own ac-
cokJ. Awjre.thal the .bni press Was indisposed,
?he hal suj'bstjd shq might be in want of some
, pretty undress reps.; All buj: dcnials,ii4ioweverv
. served to exasperate-,-! he Emperor's furyv
He (
roarudJike one but of his senses. T will ' know
who, is tJie otrender; I will send yon: all to prison.'-;
When this "'storm burstthe Empress was
iti'durance by head and foot, that is, her hair-
iiii.-ss.tj-i as fmpiuyen uputi ilf
-was liatlilng her feet. Hair dres
all t.Jok flight i nimediate V, and I
(iresstfr 'was employed upon iier hair, and she
resser and women
remained alone
Utile little cabinet adioining her Maiestv s cham
ijer, tne aooroi wnicn was opqn
I acknowledge
lier (.lite' alone;
Th
ie umperor saw me. but
spok.e not a
: -
went hastily away
Ak-vi momctitcTiiler, viilkut:thef Em press' being
abjeto calm him. She was in a complete tre
mor. - j ; .-' "; 'a .: ' - ' " '," " -"Such
was the scene I1 witnessed : these were
ihe results. AV soon jik hdentercid nil cabinet,
the Emneror-8eriit": fothe'Duik-e de Ttovigo im
"irietliatey, and , ordered him to have JMademoi
sclje Despaux arrested bv the genidarmerie! and
shutju'pj'o La Force. The Duke did alWn hu
Jnrf: power to' prevent t hcj Ethperor" frrim. com:
- niitting'such an act of injustice, butTiis represen
tatiyns and entreaties were' equally vain. The
Emperor persisted in his will and must be obey
ed.; Mademoiselle Desoanx was taken into cus-
tody asj she quitted the ptilace, and'was confined,!
to the CrerTe. where she passed thenight
"Me'antime, the Empress, . being informed of
this arrest, wcnt;to4hef emperor, who made no
difficulty-about revoking the order, and res'tor-;
mg jIademoiselle Despaux to' liberty. It was
time to do so, for 'this unlocked for act of rigolr
had pensioned the poor lady such a revulsion
that she became ill. ' The Empress sent to in
quire about and to console her. On such occa-
rswnsshe.'suflered;in silence, ,ahd? opposed the
-bmperor's impetuosity only with; an unaltered
t-iuit-ness
I
am bound to sav. that if the Em-
is, that if any of us in1 tbt A writtpn tn
r Mademoiselle Despaux to cbrne to .the Empress,
as we often did'byher order, the 'offender would
have been certainly sent to pj-json!; ; : V - !
' "This fpolis); affair made a great noise in Par
IS. Vvherf tli sfnrv- iv!i c irfntntfH r i-itVi m-..r
1 ' Variations and amplifications, r "r : , '
'Uhe Emneror, was not liberal towards the
. persons in his service. It is true he heaped fa
, vors on his generals, and divided large' sums a
nonst themxbutpeither at his twp coronations,
j. - nor on the occasion of marriages or births in his
A milyt nor on his birth-day, or that of tho Em
11?Sr ke make the most trifling presents
""ui are customary n opulent families. ? To
! yards Mddame de Montesquieu and the'Duchess
ontebello his munificence was prodigal.
tie gave to each, at once, 50,000 livres a year ;
andto the former, who was governess of the King
Rome, he presented, by the. hands of her lit.
, 'le pupil, a smalj box filled with unset diamonds
instead of sugar plums. , " - ,:;:;
. during our residence at Milan,1 M. Nitoi had
wVaol a considerable number of jewels, in
EDITED
'that if I had obeyed the first impulse, I should
vhavej decamped as quicjily as the rest, but recol
" ting the state of the Empress I would not leave
, u-as prompt to.be angry with any one, hel man, patriot and Christian, tor the philantnro- Zt ' V r
: - soonl recovererl h-i !fpjnr..r nrA 0tr0ShTi&A i ni.t K;u,nl, anA morilict nmnnmnlo tn tho t ot bsoston. and Dr.. Onanmngsartic
erunifr i :p..t.k ;i r M..jiJ Ik"k:J tui.AX k t.;au rr parte, as orations of a higher order
l fl'Vtwo days after he spoke of it jocularly, j Warren Hastings the' seven bishops, the iDean, OT.RorTie has bequeathed us. In the
and admitted rhTi,ll,r th.. l.m Tn;:i fc.Av, Jrn:; 9 -. a J"- nM,'f ,irN ra energetic eloquence of passion.
on to beialnnnpd I 01,.. - t? JoU (consider Patrick Henry or George
- i; , . . r . . v oyurit; vi it. uiuic acir uvyix v-uuuu . vtxil VJ cvtau ut ' i.vvujau uuauio j - . -r 1 - ?
1 - "l y 4U1i " purcaii en 01 ,ner alarm, i ne
v fact
NEWBERN,
csise theif 'Iais!t mi1.) -Lit v
? i r wcouc iu maice pres
ents on uie occasion ol theiif coronatidnr ' As M1
iuuuiuau iumSlta mem 'to me, to at theymio-ht
be always at; the i Emperor's rdisposaV wa?of
necessity uriamoned when they were wanted 'i
One day the Emperor desiring to present a small
nug io ivo maies ana. to Mademoiselle
sent to me to bring . the jewels; and selected for
each lady a ring of small value, but to which he
imparted an intrinsic value by presenting them
himself I I acknowledge I expected not to be for
gotten, but ,toxTi)y .Regret Vwas. I'heEfnpress
did not imitate this parsimony. ; On New Year's
day her chamejVas like a toy shop there were
toys ; whWh:edst 25 louis; she ' toofc; pleasure in
distributing them herself amongst the children of
the Court ladies. "';'V'li ' '.-:) r - '
f, "Another daythe Emperor having received
from a great, lord some magnificent . presents,
wished to distribute .them: All the articles were
deposited in a little saloon, and when the Era,
press had made: the. , selection, the Emperor de
ckreu that he would part with the rest j ,
-"lie. 'proceeded so methodically in the matter,
that one would ha ve thought he "was di viding, a
conquered kingdom among his allies, uHe be
gan with Madame Mere , then came his sisters
and' Queen Hortcnse,; then the ladies of the
cuuii ,-r iie pe awuy ay uie articles. , 1 o
void mistakes, the Emperor " wished a list made'
L t t s - 11 il - . I - n i
out, a net as he mentioned a shawl for such a per
i.i . i . i .. . . . . . f.
son.-tne name oiitne , inoividuat was-attache to
it.:-, r' III this. iTTavc assenihlv I had the .honor tn
; : " j
act as secretary, and to write at the dictation of
the Erbperpr ; but, as he dictated with extreme
rapidity, and my pen was-not so expeditious as
those of M. he Bourrienne and M. de Manne
yalle, I was obliged to claim his indulgence,
which made him ' .laugh heartily, i He could not
be more kind to me, except that I h
satisfaction of writing my ovn r.itie i
ad: not the
down 'at his
Taictation.
V MR. GlilMKE-S LAST Oft AT ION.
The folio wiag is a part of the rough sketch
of Mr. Grimke's last oration On earth, delivered
before the Literary Society of Oxford or Miami
University of the State of Ohio : 1 t
; ; Doubtless you will anticipate that I should
name, as first in power and-value, the Christian
Religion, with the Old and New Testaments as
text j books.' The: mountaineer enjoys firmer
licaun, aim more em.suc.pi, u.s man mc owmnu,
er: because he breathes a purer air. whilst all
the powers oi his physical system! are called to
. ... - i - j .,
ttp m! Ifid to 1
more' vigorous constant action Such is Chris
tianity compared to the mythology of Greece
Will it not be granted, that the more sublime,
comprehensive, and enduring a religion is, the
more it must be fitted to elevate, expand and in
vigorate the soul of the orator?, The more a
r ic.iiiun is uuie, iioiv, ucuuiuui, iciiuer, uiur uei-
ter it must be suited to draw out of the depths of
the heart, all the sweetness, love and pathos -which
inhabit there. The f more it challenges the
scrutiny of all our mental powers, audthe more
it leads, us on ward, from height to height, in end
less succession, the uiore rt must be , calculated
irpMthp mtn tip snnl a mnscn inn pnprov nt
thought a fearless love of independence ana a thnecklace; we be'hold the miraclcsof modern
spirit of investigation, never to be intimidated or effVnce) unrival!ed,:by the oratory of Athens or
subdued. : i low eminently , is the religion of tne ! R Thc influence of Demosthenes overihe
B.blenntehcctual, spiritual, Jovely, pathetic ! ! Athenian people has been extolled as the chief
How eloquent nvits views of life, deatii, and ; d'(Cuvre of eloquence. But when Mascaron con
eternity ! ,.JIow Jrancendently eloqiient, when rertej to the Catholid I Church twenty-eight out
U taf lf Ct?raCtr tr"tCf v" 1 of thirtv thousand protestants in his dWse, and
vah ; of the adorable and spotless lmh of God ; when the eider Pm, by an oratory unrivalled in
xf die rum and redemption of -man ; of the .spir, i 8miuity. not onl strdued and- dethroned Sir
its of just men made perfect ; of the innumera- Robert Walpole,but constrained the king to ac
ble company .of angels, and of a new heaven and j t. orator as Kis Ministerf we COntemplate
a new earth ! Whoill not acknowledge, that j ictore9 rivalled in the battle-fields of ancient
the institutes of.Moses contain more consum-, 0i vhn ;nMA .:jk;.
mate wism,. more admirable.
than all legislators andpolitical wrers: .of
ancient J Greece aflord?, Who will not grant
.i -t i c r t 1 .1 . i,
thattin the book of Job alone, there is more of
r r, . . i. - , iV
the moraLand intellectual sublime, more of pun-
r i t , , ,
fying, elevating, sentiment, than m the whole
body of Grecian poetry ? And who will venture
to deny tha! in the single gospel of JdhnJ reli-
fcrion is exhibited with a nowerl denth. . beautv
and persuasiveness, such as the concentrated es-
sence oi an tne moral pnuosopnyoi ureecq ana
Rome can ever approach. . .. ;
What question of antiquity bears anyjwallel,
in 11,(101 nf tt nhlimp ' rnmnrplipncl
hathetic oatorv. toother Question of a Reiricide
Peace, so vigorously Und eloquently . discussed
by Mr; Burke ? OV what, to the question of
conciliation with America, as exhibited in the
nervous, bold and simple speeches of Chatham,
or in the profound and fervid pages of the great-.
oc f nM n,a T?Amn-iA. utV0 1 -Pari ,rn ffnH
throu.ah all antiouitv. anv Question for the states -
AirnJsh n-rar,lUl .in t'n imnnrfnnr.p nft nrin.
ciples; or the magnitude of interests, to the de
bates on the Declaration ot Independence and
the National Constitution ; or the repeal of the
Judiciary; Bill 'cf.'the;feMer dams,".' tho--war . of
1812, Foote's Resolutions, and the removal of
the deposites ? Why, then,' should the future
orators of America be trained to the study,, not
only of the ancient and foreign institutions, '.but
of states of society, and domestic antl foreign re
lations so totally different as to shed no light on
those of his own country ? ! Who does not feel
when he reads Erskihe, or Burke, or Pitt, that
he is listening to an' orator,, who is bone of his
bone, and flesh of his flesh, on a subject kindred
to his own soul? ; And "who does not realize:
when Teading Demosthenes or Cicero, that he
hears a foreigner one indeed,! of the mighty
dead,, but a stranger still, and that the harangue
is to hislmind and ;iieart,as.a, tale of fiction ?
How, an ..alrnost rniracutous power, ?
man have become a hermit; in the. wilderness of
I antiauityl , self-banished out of the glorious and
beautiful World ot Modern Europe, ana oi rii&
own country, if he does not realize these truths ?
N. 'C. AfEDNESDAY MARCH 11,
How, by a' mournlul. unnaturarfatajityi must he
have travelled backward in the inarch of society,
and the conquests of thi human mind; if the ora
iions ot the Athenian and uoman can stir his
soul, like the elonuence of Binke, Sheridan and
Macintosh, or of his own .Webster and Clay.'
i- Notwithstanding; the disadvantages' under
which English and American speakers have la
bored, 'when compared with-' ancient orators, we
nave seen instances' of men who nave risen : su
perior to the mental vassalage of the more than
feudal tyranny of anhient, foreign institutions and
Buuys Di -society. unainam anu xrsicme ana
Macintosh-are radiant with the light of English
liberty; tKvhilev Burke in the supremacy of -his
glory, is the very s,angel in the sunn of Britisli
institutions. - In' our own country Patrick Hen
ry 'was the personification of the revolutionary
spirit of American liberty : while,1 M"r. ? Webster
and Chief Justice Marshall in those profound
and comprehensive f views which contrast ko
strikingly Hvith the harrowt aiU shortsighted
vitua oi me Virginian, persomiy the very gem
us ot constitutional liberty ni American mstitu
tions. . I have instanced tlie Chief Justice of the
United States because''" his -.judgements in the
great cases of Fletcher and Peck, McCullouirl
and Maryland, Dartmouth College and Wood-
.wardGibbons and Ogden, &cv are orations' of
the highest order, if momentous subjects, noble
seniimenisimperisnablc -"truths, and a. grave,
Klignibed;.masculine style, constitute such. I am
.1 rin holiomfinflia eiinAvi.-rr Afrf'.lmu.
-s-.. iuvUuwLuiij, uuuii.aiiUHm-iia-.
From the occounts we have of their nnu-cr T do
not see that the Capuchine; Jerome .de Narmi,
"who surjuisscd all preachers for'lOOycars after, !
and for many ages be fore him j" that Savonasola'
whoswayed at pleasure, the public assemblies
of Florence, ajnd were eminent for genius and
learning: that Bernardino Ochino, avho by his
masterly eloquence, governed every thing ; were
at all inferior to the most celebrated "Greek and
Roman orators. Cicero obtaining from "Caesar
the . pardon of Marcellus, has been an object of
the highest applause. But when by the tran
scendent magic of his elo(juence, Whitfield com
pelled Franklin, against his judgement and, de
termination, to contribute to the Orphan House
of Ceorgia : and when Sheridan f ont-trained Lo
gan, the talented and eloquent admirer of War
ren Hastings, to confess that he was the grctttefct
monster that ever lived, who does not see how
the modern surpassed the ancient orator ? When
we listened to the applause which ihe speech of
lei. j . r-l V r 1 ,
oi fi iiiim i ri'v inn n mm r-STiru-r iitr nnn ! nv
i i t i i . . . .
when we hear Ranoolph pouring out his elo
quent eulogiuni' on Ames's speech on the Brit
ish Treaty,- and when Catharine Macaulay gives
to Patrick Henry the 'palm of superiority over
the great and eloquent of her own countrymen ;
when Whitfield constrained those who Had pre
pared to stone him to ask forgiveness with tears,
and .ran their knees, when Alexander- Hamilton
(called for the dead to! arise, and the crowded cn-
trance "opened ihe way for his Coming; when,:dg
Massillon described the Last Day, the congrega
tion leaped on their feet, terror-smitten, as by a
prophet's voice; andrwhen the dean of Killala
rfTTinplld bis linarfTRtn A'il1 tin in K;irit-i rrifte.
. i . i ' . i - -i - i J .
by Wal pole and Pulteney. the
eider and the youngef Pitt, Mansfield. i Burke,
isuj'!-Wv -e.il u ii r e u
- . wuvtiuuu, . J- mail u v ell l iliu Uki.
tctnrirrttn r a-i, vvuj - .
; ten orators ot Athens & - VV ho di es not
, i,rtl a -tln o 1 , r 4, t,
j ledge Uie truth and beauty of the poet s
4r!.i.?. i;ki- b:i L .u.
Sheridan, and . Fox, than by all the fame of the
ack new
s' line3 as
far more applicable to Pitt and Fox than to De
mosthenes and Esf hiries ? : j : r .
" Like fabled gods, their mighty war
; Shook realms and nations in its jar. 1 ;
f Beneath each banner proud to stand,
" r Looked up the noblest of the land."
For ourselves I regard the speech of Roger
f KJlli OIU On me JUdlC
Griswold on the Judiciarv Bilk that of Chief
Justice MarshaH ohllib question of delivering
("F Jonathan Kibbms.nd that of Mrba noun
; un the sf the deposjtes. as unrivalled m
the power and eloquence of logic, by aught in
:A.th!"!an PJ 6infn oratonv In the eloquence
I J a S androfound philosophy, equally
I comprehensive and practical, I regard Mr. V eb-
j jmd that of Mr: Galhoun
! sterns address at the Plymouth celebration, Mr.
les on Bona-
than Greece
bold, natu
I cannot
McDuffie as
4 IO LfeUlOSlIlCneg,
THE FATE OF THE IMPENITENT.
If the 'righteous scarcely be saved, (Oh, this
1 ... ..... , "V 11 i . t
fawfuV" w;ord!) where shall the ungodly and the)
sinner appear ? If the righteous, m consequence
.of : the obstructions to thejr salvation, (which is
the apostle's idea,) are saved with duheulty, where
shall the ungodly and j'the. sinner appear ? : If
the holy man of . God scarcely be saved, where
shalhthe drunkard, the whorembnger, the Sabbath-breaker,
the extortioner appear ? Ah where?
If the man 'who is working out his salvation with
fear andtrembling; scarcely be saved, where shall
the paari appear' wlib Vejects 1 with . disdain the
gospel of Jesus Christ? , If the man who weeps
in secret over- secret faults, scarcely . be saved,
where shall the ungodly man appear who glories
in his shame ? - If the venerable father in Christ
who has borne th'e heat and the burthen of a long
profession- who has stobbt nobly in a degenerate
age. displayjng allthat' is great in moral principle,
in,, connection witH all that'js grand; in intellect,
scarcely be saved, where shall the apostate youth,
who has added every snecies of crimel to the
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black;' catalogue of- vicej till he has become ti
moral monster, tearing wliere he cannot devour,
at last, appear? If . the j man who believes in
Jesus, and who expects salvation, as a free un
purchased gift, scarcely b(j saved,' where shall the
man appear who rejects' the offered salvation as
a libel on his reason, and disdains to ask1 for that
ing:
mercy that God has condescended to proclaim?
,"If the righteous scarcely "be sayed, where shall
the ungodly-and the sinner appear?" '.If I could
now . part asunder the clouds of the unseen world,
anu renaer aisti..cuy visioie tnc carKness oi nen,
i couiu men point out me piace oi meir oesuna
tion: but even, then I I should not be able to
describe their mental agony this is impossible
I am fully aware that mental agony is sometimes
visible, and sometimes audible. It is visible in
the contraction of the brow; it is visible in the
pallid hue of the eountenance'; it: is visible in the
convulsive movement of the muscles and the lips.
Mental agony is sometimes audible."- It is audible
in the deep sepulchral eroahs" of the wounded
spirit, in his cries, in his heart-rending soliloquy
of Woe. But. after all that is seen after all that
is heard, we can form but a faint conception of
'mental agony,' There is something in the sense
of mental agony, whicn eyp hatlv not 'seen j
thercis something in the accents of mental agony,
which ear hath not heard ; ihere is something
m the presentiments of mental agoiry- which it
hath not entered intcfthe heart of man to conceive.
But who has felt any thing jike this? ! Whose
mind has been tortured -into a state like this?
The question betrays your ignorance. ! Who ?
Many a man has been jas gay as yourselves.
Yes,- many a man has retired from his place
wiih the smile of contentment! playing upon his
countenance, ' has, ere he If ft this world, been
involuntarily compelled io pay. not the homage
of the heart, but the homage cf a culprit; Who
has felt agony like this?! Who? Many a man
who seemed as composed under the preaching
of the Gospel as yourselves. Many months have
not elapsed since 1 vtns sent for to' receive the
dying injunctions of a mar., v. ho had heard me
preach the Gospel for mre than ten years. 1
saw, him but a few hours before his departure to
the judgement seat of Christ; and, when his
spirit was sufficiently cor
i posed to speak, he said
Continue to be faithful.
It is true, your Iiceniv
has answered no other purpose with regard to
rnyself, than' to fit me fop destruction I heard
you, but I heard you .ith indiirerence ; and noy
the remembrance of what I heard, is like fire in
ity bones, the remembrahce cf wri;t I beard,' is
like the angel of destruction to my soul, thc-rv
nicmbrance of what I heard, is1 even now sinking
uie to hell.". These wctc nearly his own words.
Who lias felt agony likehis? Who ! Many,
many, many a man, who has ,sat for years as
composed and as indilierent to the solemn appeals
of the pulpit, as you have sat this Sabbath,, or
this evening. Who has felt mortal agony iike
this? Many a man, who has resohed as often
as you, to repent andTtlirn dnto God, jwhen a
convenient season arrived, but who died before
the time on which he ca
This may be your casrv
culated ever arrived.
The celebrated Dr.
Jbhuson is reported to hat e said ' the way to hell
is paved with good intentions J
Very few indeed
resolve to be damned, the
greater part resolve to
have resolved to seek
laginary time! arrives.
be saved, tnough "many
salvation, when some n
biitO! this time comes not, for the man who
neglects the morning, the", noon, and the early !
part 01 tne evenmgoi tne cay 01 grace, is gene
rally permitted to have the hight,.the tempesitious
night of eternal darlaiess. Ere the spirit leaves
the tabernacle in which if has been' confined, it
feels something of . that misery which it must
endure throughout eternity. If the righteous
scarcely be saved, where jshall the ungodly and
the sinner appear ?" My! dearly beloved breth
ren, we; must await the awful (disclosure of the
final day of retribution, yhcn the last sentence
shall be pronounced upon the, last sinner to be
judged and tried, ere we clin form a faint concep
tion of the terrors of that world, Which has never
been illumined by the feeblest ray of mercy, and
w here those who enter, are doomed to sutler the
vengeance of eternal fire,
forget it: and all I can
liutalas! alas! you
say to you will pass
across your mind, and leave a less powerfal im-
pression than a tale mat is told, in wnicn 3-ou
have no interestv whether i: be true or false. ;
S Sarmonby Rec. T. East, of 'JJirMingham.
j "Froiu the New York Observer, j
"."':.-' .' FIVE IsEGAfiyES. , ."
It 'is known that two'negatives in English are
equivalent to an affirmative!- They destroy each
other.. But it is not so in Gjreek. They strength
en the negation; and a thirjcl negative makes it
stronger still, and so a fourth, and a fifth.; How
strong five negatives must make a negation!
But do five ever occur"? Whether they ever oc
cur in the Greek classics I do not know;, but in
the Greek of the New Testament there is an in
siahce: of the land. -And 'what ,is that? Are
the five negatives used to strengthen any threat
ening? No. They are connected ; with a pro
mise, one of the 'exceeding great and precious
promises,' which are giveri unto us. The case
occurs in Heb. xiii. 5, "for jllc hath said; I will
npvpr lpaw thp nor forsake thee." There five
negatircs are employed. , We translate but two
see who looks into his Greet Tcstiment. Now,
they need not all have been there. They are
ui Liieiii : uui iiieio iurv an un- v...., .
not all necessary to express the; simple idea that
dnA will npvpr fnrKike his tieooleJ There must
have been design in multiplying negatives so.
I do not believe the phraseology was accidental,
nnd T think it not difficult to gucs3 the design.
God meant to, be -believed in that thing, .He
wanted to gain the confidence of his children in
that particularly He knew how prone they were
to doubt his constancy how strong inclined to
unbelief and how liable to!be harrassed by the
dread of being forsaken by him ; and he Would
therefore make assurance more than doubly sure.
So, i instead of saying, pimply, "I will not leave
thee,1' which alone would have been enough,; he
adds, "nor forsake thee:" and instead of Jeaving
it thus, "I will not leave theej I will j not 4 forsake
valent to the follow-
wivv, -a e i . . .
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"I willTJOt," I wiUnot leave thee, I will
vol i;
never, never-never lorsote tnee. j nerr w u
stan2a which very faithfully, as well as-.bcauu-
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iuiijrcprC5SeS II k, ., j
"The soul that on Jesus hath lean'd'fon repose;
I will not, I i will not desert to his foes y
That soul, tho' all hell should endeavorto shake.
1 11 never no never no never torsak
. How earnest God appears to be in thfe matter ! .
How unworthy it is in his children, after such
an assurance as this, to suspect that he will for
sake them I. He cannot , It is imjiossible for
God to lie. Hero one who was'never known t
break his word, assures his people, each of them
ihdividuallyt and five times over . in a single sen
tence, of his continued presence withthern. Un
der similar circumstances w hat man of reputed
veracity, would be "discredited ? And fhpU not
the God of truth be believed in a likecajse ?
But what do you think, christians, bt this five
fold promise being confirmed by an ouih ? I sup
pose you think that quite superfluous. ''Yet, for
thcstiil stronger consolation of those who have
fled for refuge, to lay hold oa tbc hope set betoTc
tbeni it hps been clone. God, williing more
abundantly to show unto the heirs of thej brornise,
the immutability cf his counsel, confirmed it by
an oath." A fivefold promise andari Cath, that
his counsel shall stand, and that he will,r.ot Ieavr
thee 1 'and no proviso, neither ! . We often tak-.'
the liberty oT putting in nrovisosjbut nhat busi
ness have we to interlard the promises of God ,
with our provisos? . We are apt to say, "True.
He will net leave us, if wc do not leavt Him
but it, is true without 'that' condition, jit is true j
though we leave him. . lie will not even then
leave lis, but will heal cur backslidings and re-- '
storq our souls. He loves with an evj?rlaMing
love. "The gifts and callings of Cod ar without
repentance.' j .. '
"G race will complete what grace begins, 1
To savei"rom sorrows and from sins;
'I'lw wnrlr 1 hfif tviftnni iirrhrnl.-f
Eternal mercy ne'er forsakes." ' - M.
. . ; '
. . 110W THE SOUL IS CHEATED.
1 1' rovi Fosters Ksfavs
It is'a cause for wonder and sorrow, to s-"
millions cf rational cnturcs gibwing into their
permanent habits, under the conforming tcfiica
cy of every thing which they ought torcsit, and
receiving iio part of thesu habits from, iippres-.
sions of the Supreme Object. They are content .
that a yarrow scene of a' diminutive yorid.
with its atoms and evils, should usulp ar.l de
praro and finish their education for immorjaiity.
w hiiean InfiniteSpiritis here.whosetransfcrtning
conipanionship would exalt them into his son?,
and ni' defiance of"a thousand ma 1j gllulat forces
attemptingito stamp cn them an opposite iaiage, .
lead them into eternity in his likeness. Ohj why
is'it so possible that this greatest inhabitant cjf eve
ry place w here men arc living, should It tls 5
last whose society they seek, or of whese ;eing
constantly ,near them they feel; the impor
tance? . Why is it possible to-be surrodnded
with the intelligent Reality, which exists wierr
ever we are, with atliibutes tliat arc infinite, and
not ft el respecting all other things which may ho
attempting to' press on our minds and affect khcir
character, as 'if they retained .with difficulty iheir'
shadows of existence, and were centinuailj- on .
the point cf vanishing uAo nothing ? Why h
this stupendous Intelligence so retired and silent
while present, "over all the scenes of the cartn.
and in all the paths and abodes' of rien V
Why docs he keep, his glory invisible, be'
hind the' shades and visions of the, material .
world ?; -.Why does , net this latent glory
sometimes beam forth "with such a manifesta
tion as neyer ' could , be forgotten, nor ever If
remembered. ;wiiho.it air emotion of religious
fear ? And why, in contempt, of all that he hm
displayed to excite citherJ'ear Or. love, is it still
possible fo,r a rational creature So to live that it
must finally come to an interview w ith himlin a'
1 character completed by the full assemblage vf
those acquisitions, whica nave separately been
disapproved by him through every stage ofj ihe
accumulation 1 Why is ; it possible for fepb!- ;
creatures to maintain their little dependant brings :
forfeited and invincible in sin, amidst the lres
er.ee of divine purity ? Why does notthethough1.
of such a Being.strike through the mind with
such. intense antipathy to evil, as to blast with
death every active principle that is beginning tn '
pervert it, and fender gradual additions of deprav
ity.'growing into the solidity of habit, as -impossible
as forperishable'materials to be raised fin
to structures amidst the fires of the" last day?
How is it possible to forget the solicitude winch -should
accompany the consciousness that such n
Being is continually darting upon us the beams
of observant thought (if wc may apply suci a.
term to Omniscience ;) that we were exposed to
the piercing inspection, compared to Which he.
concentrated attention i of a 11 beings in the universe
besides would be but as the powerless gaze of, an
infant ? . Why is faith, that faculty of spirittial
apprehension so absent, or so incomparably mbn
slow and reluctant to receive a:, just perception
of the grandest of its objects, than the senses lire
adapted to receive tho impressionsi of theirs?
-While there is a spirit pervading .the unhse
with an infinite energy of being, why have the
few particles of dust which enclosn oar spirits the
power to intercept all sensible common ieation ..
with it, and to nlace them as in vacuitv where
the sacred Essence had been precluded or extin-
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;;" A cilAXGS; INDEED. ..''
We have it intimated from a variety of direc
tions, that the public mind is generally settled on -sgvcral
important points connected with the tern-
perance cause, .1 . ; - I-
Vlst That ardent spirit is a poison, and that ;n
one can drink it without infliclihg a deep jnjqry
on the constitution. . . ;" ! - i . '
- !5d.. That the making aud yenajng of it, br j'n
any w-ay "encouraging its use, is an ifnmortality,
: These principles are now so univcrsall), ad
mitted, that we do not hear a voice to disavow .
them. We understand from many.of our friend?,
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