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nr -.-r7iih v ii it 5-' ri WZEZLY BY A C01IKITTZZ OF KI5I5TIES FOR THE JOLTEODIST EPIS COPAL CEXTECH, SOUTH--BTTTS T. HZTLXS, PUBLISHED ISTIAK A. D V r n .1 u Vol. IIT....To. (Drioinfil. For tl. N. C. Christian Adtofate. A Hemedy for Church Evils- The effects of a loose administration upon the fruits of a revival, are truly deplorable. It is a proverbial saying, that "one bad heen will spoil the whole flocl:." "What then rr:ust be the consequence turning in the young, converts among ! those who are in the habit of breaking over the restraint? of Discipline? Will the j not follow, like lamb, wherever the prevailing examples of the Church shall lead the way? Will they keep within bounds, when they ee others lfap'.T! over and er joying themselves without any ofT.ciat censure C lie not deceived, evil communications cor rupt good manner-i. As long a3 we neglect to reform or remove the disor derly, we may expect to see the fruits of our revivals mildewed and blighted. ; What minister among us ha3 not wit nessed this svl result to hi3 arduous and wasting toils, extorting from him ; the bitter lamentation, 44 1 have laW-; ed in vain ; I have spent my strength ; for naught ?" How mournful and lis-. heartening to pass, after the lapse r,f verirn. over the lie (13 ot our ear- ly triumphs. It is more Had than a- visit to the tombs of departed friends, j From the sacred memorial that guards j the place of the dead, hope wings away in rapid flight to their bright resting! place in heaven, and light from the ! world beyond phiy3 upon the tomb, and ; tinges it with joyful anticipations of; reunion in heaven. Uut tne name3 : Etruck fi om the Church record, or that ought to he, shame us for cherishing hopes and indulging joy? at their con version, and raise gloomy mists over the soul, darkening forever the scenes of our triumph. The history of revival, tor the last 1 ten or fifteen years, must tend, among the old, reflecting members and friends j of our Church, to diminish confidence in these extraordinary and short-lived excitements, and mu3t turn their hopes for the future of our Zion, more earn- j estly to the ordinary mean3 of grace, and the more carefuj cultivation of in- door and outdoor 'piety. That there will be special harvest seasons in the tield3 ot tne uospei, as wen as m uiuse j of husbandry: ia iiia-uiy tbp husbandman is careful to provide safe granaries for the fruits of his toil, and to separate the sound from the rot ten and mouldy. So let 4' judgment bein at the house of God ;" let the Church 44 withdraw from every brother that walketh disorderly," and close the gates against the world. Then let us come rejoicing with our sheaves, and our joy shall be everlasting. But this depending, for the increase and continuance of the Church, upon extraordinary, annual excitements, 13 more and more fruitful of injury to our We may think that the revival has restored to vitality and healed the ; cause backslidings of some incorrigible de- linquent, and we may even congratu late ourselves on having borne witn him until the revival; but the excite ment has only arrested and kept at bay, for a Khort season, the symptoms of the disease. No sooner are the extra ordinary influences abated, than the same old disease re-appears in all its yirulence. The right remedy was neg lected. He should have been expelled, when, after due admonition and for bearance, he refused to amend. Then being convinced of all, and judged of ail, and the secrets of his heart being made manifest, he would have fallen down on his face with the other peni tents, and confessing his backslidings or his hypocrisy, he would have been soundly converted and made a blessing to the Church, warning others of the dread consequences of violating the rules. But being permitted, under our present policy, especially if he be a man of wealth and influence, to remain in the Church unreproved and uncensur- ed, possibly even caressed, it nis crime is merely a violation of the rules and not a breach of worldly morality, his backslidings soon after the revival, spread like contagion in a camp ; (for one infected with a contagious disease will infect thousands piously healthy;) and behold ! the plague is again in the Church, and upon some of our bright est converts, and continues to spread, until the ways of Zion mourn, and her solemn assemblies are deserted for the amusements, fashions, speculations or excitements of the world ! Effectually would this sad result have been avoid ed, had the noxious examples been carefully weeded out and eradicated from the Church ; had the rules been elevated to their true places in the Church of God, inspiring respect and awe for its authorities; and had the violations been promptly met with the treatment provided in the Discipline for such cases. Thus the plague would have been stayed. But no : this treatment i3 too cruel and destructive ! Discipline is design ed to save, and not to destroy ! is the rebuking exclamation. Therefore, those who would go for the execution of the law as it stands on our statute book, must be held back with bit and bridle. 44 Should such ultraists take their course, our Church would be emptied 80. 1 cf its wealth j, influential men, and i other churches would be fdlei up." iThe Discipline, then, the concentrated wisdom of our fathers, must not be car iriedoct in its plain, honest, common gense import. The Discipline execu i ted would ruin the Church ! Tie ruk-3 ; endorsed and consecrated at each qui Jrennial session of the General Cor.ftr 'er ce, must be held to the restraints cf a discreet, that is, loose administration, lest we should lose gome desirable rcein- f r8 Thcn the rules are wise in the abstract, but highly impolitic in appli- ; cation. e are willing to parade and I eulogize them a3 the bet rules a church 'ever had; but we are not willing to i observe and execute them. We have a Discipline, a wonderful production of hoary wisdom, renewing itself every four i ears, anl adjiiijjli-j toll win;r ' to the storms of the times, bat it will not do for the government of the Church! " J. TILLETT. Ridgeway, July 19th, 1858. f drrtioiis. From the New York OLserver. Jem, the Sailor Boy. " What makes you so sad, Jem ? you are a dull companion when you fjiirrht to be merriest. Here we are. close in shore." rpj,e two 0g were standing on the 0f tie "Saratoga," a3 she swept gaiy ;nt0 t ;e p0rt 0f ;ew york, 14 j haye nQ rea30n to be merry," Eaj,j jem " It ha3 been a sad voyage to rae' ' Sad ! why we have had some plea- Rant t:mcg together." 44 And yet I have not been happy a moment since I left New York." " Well, what is it, Jem ? Tell me now." 44 A guilty conscience, Will, that is all ; and that is enough too, everybody knows. Bad comDanionshiD has led to aii mv troubles, and I have cried mySelf asleep many a night in my ham- mok. Come now, Jem, and confess your B;n3 ag jf p a priest." And Will tr;e(p t0 laUgh away his sadness, but in va;n . ve still gazed thoughtfully at the sunset over the water, and continued silent. 44 Jem, we have always been rjood friends ever since we met on ship- boar( and iriends should always ten eacn other their troubles.71 44 It is of no use, Will. You are go ing home to meet your father and mo ther ; and I " 44 Well, if you have no home, that i3 no reason for a guilty conscience." 44 But, Will, I ran away from it, and I have never been really happy since." The boys stood leaning over the railing, and looking down into the wa ter ; as it parted before the prow, and broke into myriads of foam-crested waves, the silenc grew deeper and peeper. At length it was broken by Jem, and in the hope of relieving his mind, he related to Will the circum- stances of his childhood. His mother had died in his infancy, and his grand mother had the charge of his early training. His father, a poor but hon est man, had endeavored to instil good principles into the mind of his son ; but as he grew up he became wayward and passionate ; a bad companion in the neighborhood had counteracted all home influences, and made hira restless and impatient of restraint. They urged him to go to the Sunday-school ; Jem rebelled, because his companion told him that it was 4'pleas antest to go out into the fields on Sun day afternoons ; it was bad enough to study on week-days." Time rolled on, and even a removal from the neighbor hood did not separate them. The boy followed Jem wherever he went, and finally, in an evil hour, induced him to run away with hira, and ship as an ap prentice on board a sloop of war. He was then fourteen years eld. The vessel was to sail immediately, so that Jem had no timor reflection or repentance, lhey had been at sea but one week, when his companion fell from the mast-head upon the deck,and was killed. Then it was that Jem, ter rified and conscience stricken, as he looked upon the mangled and bleeding body of him who had acquired such an ascendency over him, awoke to a sense of his own guilt. The chaplain, observing his distress, obtained from him a confession of the circumstances, and availed himself of the opportunity to influence him to a right course, and to fill his mind with better thoughts and new resolutions. Convinced of his penitence, he comfort ed him with the promise of pardon which the Bible offers to the penitent sinner ; and Jem was changed. Day and night the thought was on his mind of the distress which he had caused to those who had loved him through all his waywardness. How could he atone for it ? Would they forgive ; would God forgive him ? Oh ! could he only see his father and grandmother once aain! Could he only get back to that poor little homely dwelling ! It was too late. Jem must bear his pun ishment ; it was to be greater than he anticipated. They touched at a foreign port for supplies, and from thence he wrote a letter to his father, and told him all. The pages were blotted with his tears. RALEIGH, land for the time h was relieved ; but she was nertT to tee that father again ; he toll him where to allrtss his next i letter, and in due time he received or e, , in the trembling ban 1 oi bis poor heart- broken grand-mother. He broke the seal in Laste, and through all its had ' spelling, and crooked lines, he discov ered the fact that his father had been I ill ever since he left ; "that anxiety on i his account had increased his malady, and that his penitential letter had ar ; rived only a few days before his death. His most earnest earthly wish had been ! for tidings of his son, and when they I arrived, and showed h:rn penitent and i resolved to amend his life, and to atone I for his sins, he fervently thanked God j 44 for his mercies to his unworthy ser- j rant." Then a deep serenity had ta. 1 ken the place of hi r-yJesr.-s, and ; he left his blessing for his prodigal but 'repentant son Hi.a ..Vri ssur.1 bin . r. l f-y fr rmfonoa , n A r r- a A t V- f f V. C : would come to her as soon as the ves-!to the young man, bit that word was ! sel returned; she would try to keep the; enough 'o hop. Gods spint hir1 r.lr! Kp tUl tl,..n. l.nt hnr mMr.s i strove Wit3i that ieae er s soul, until he j were very small. i t. r, otui s sorrow aa lii'jeeu imier i'ji I,. r , , . . , , . , ni3 lamer o ueutii, ana ius puui uiauu- , , , , .' rr u ,i -i . t time, that his punisnment was greater .11 ii , , , r man ne couiu oear ; anu ue weni lur consolation once more to the good chap ll. -.1 J ...ItU ., ,1 Cr l.:, r.rt i ' i t- K ,i .v. a.. ' offered hira ail the soothing influences ! cf religion. He felt that he deserved , . , , ., .... p . a i him, and m daily petitions tor strength ,' i-7 r , i r! ! and guidance, he awaited the end of i I , , c Vu .i i i the voyage. The months passed slow-1 S- I , " i : timinii ri n sn to hid TiPW rpsri vm. i At cnother port, Will Fowler had joined the vessel, and his ceaseless wit and merriment had won Jem, in some degree, from his sorrow : but his gaiety was only the ripple on the surface ; t click b tugi u tiao ii uiiuivuiitib vi feeling we have already seen. i On his arrival, he hastened to the j old home. It had twice changed hands. j Strangers inhabited it. They knew i , b n . t I nothing of its former occupants. Bro- j ken-hearted he turned away. What i u - v i- - - ? . o ivi ,.i, i ving even now ? Where was she in this ; wide world ? homeless perhaps, and ! friendless. sfc He On the steps of the Custom House in t WTall street, sat an old woman with a little stand before her, covered with a ' snowy white cloth. On it were piled j pyramids of rosy apples, polished like a j mirror, j candies, The sale of these, with some made her whole revenue knittins kitting. !t.nctnnn fn rlrnn gnm- nonnlPQ intft S her hand, in exchange for what her neat little table otlered them, fche tried to be submissive to God's will ; but, sometimes a tear would trickle down over her furrowed cheek and awa ken sympathy for her age and appa rent sorrows. Then a larger token of benevolence, in. the shape of a half dollar, or two shilling piece, would fall mm ner u e treasury, omeiiiuea in into her little treasury. Sometimes in j her human longings for the one being, j for whose sake she yet clung to life, she would become abstracted, and then the money would touch her hand to re call her to consciousness. 44 Oh ! if I only kner where poor Jem is ! If these old eyes could only see him once more! But, it isn't like- ly it isn t likely. 1 could not keep the old house any longer: a little room m an attic, must do lor me now; and he wont know where to find me. 1 T'rinro ehp ant. i, i .i t " l i: drefs, white apron, and close cap, with ! Thefn 1 fer that though you may at a sun-bonnet drawn over it; and the j lef freac.h fe New, Jerusalem, you officials as they passed in and out, of- 11 .tread tho,sll Zolden V Such thoughts were continually in her i miles off? and how came you to wan- j j r .ji!t , , . T . mind, and prayer for him, was daily and hourly m her heart and on her lips. 44 Well, good mother, can you spare some of your red apples to day ?" and some pennies fell upon her little table. She started at the voice, and looked up ; but she drooped her head again, in disappointment. The young sailor who addressed her, wore the uniform of a ship-of-war. The white pants, and blue jacket, the large blue shirt collar with stripes, and the broad-brimmed straw hat, and black ribbon with long ends, like streamers, she had never seen before. He had grown taller, too, during his two years absence. 44 May be you have been to foreign parts, young man." 44 Yes ma'am, I have." 44 Did you ever see a sailor, called Jem Bogart, in your travels ?" 44 Jem Bogart? Let me look under that big sun-bonnet of yours, if you please ma'am," and suiting the action to his words, he stooped down sudden ly, and gazed at her. Another moment and she was clasped in the young sail or's arms, and held to hi3 heart. 44 So grandmother, you don't know poor Jem, in all this 4 toggery. .' " 44 Praise God! praise God! dear Jem ! now I can depart in peace.'" "No, no, grandmother, all my earn ings I have saved for you, and I have found you at last ; after looking three days, all over this great city. I am tired of the sea ; and now I am going to live wdth yon, and work for you." ITJLv SDAY, JU ! "G-1 lies jOTVVH ! and vol will nut leave iae .ay icore r 41 So. "grandsjoth.-i". nothing but death shall separate as. lea have for- given me, i tnow. 44 Ye, my lor, ai I hope that God will forgive rx.e." The punishment -of Jem had been severe, tut it had j 44 wrought a good wrk in him," an! by a new life he proved his ccLtri;ii for the sins of The Saihr Boy. . E.W. B. One "ford. Harlan Page on'e went through his Sabbath Fchool u take its spiritual census. Coming to one of the teach ers he said : 4 Stall I pet you down jas tav,ng a hope r. Cr.r 5' Tt I inc teacn- I "VllLJ"'tf 4 Then, down as havin-r pe. lie closed llklit- memoranuiij- ooon, una tui i i! i , j rand fa on to the next class He said no more itoun'l a none at the -ros3 oi Jesus. ' Make one honn effort for vour i, i .- i , , ,r 'souls salvation, sal a professor ot t. T- . it .7, , Brown Lntversity U young JJalcoM, i then a student in ta- i , , . . , student went to hs ltistitution. lne room, and shut jllillilL'll UJJ Willi JQil , , . ,r . , , The expression, i lU ihia ears. He obevri He struggled. j lie cast himself on Christ He came I from that room an altered man In after vears the pmching of our dear r . , ,l , 0,. , friend Malcom ha3 been blessed with . . . a x . , , . revival influencTr,rrrtr have brought 4 t, f n now in the Bresbvtenan ministry ...... - J- A word fitly spoken, islike apples of gold in baskets of silver; 4 1 never can forget that word, which was once whispered to me in an inquiry meeting,' said a Christian to his friend. ' What word V ' I: wa3 the word eter- . mt A 70UI1S PlJU3 companion who was yearning for tie salvation of my TU.U ame up to m; pew, and simply pered eten.1t, in my ear with solemn tenderness-, and left me. But that word did rot leave me ; it drove me to the cross of salvation.' It 13 said thai Jlenrv 31artyn -sva3 ' hrst drawn .to the Imissionary work by i. leuiirs.yi me nev. lane 1 1. f A . T "! l. in India. His rnrnd berran to stir un- ucr uQ nev iiivir.v , ... aie Uj perusal of Braitiird's Life, and Mar tyn's soul was coisecrated to his apos tolic toils. Hot, many missionaries Martyn's biogrrphy has made, the judgment day alaje can determine. Beader ! have fou never yet spoken one word for Chrt ? Have you never invited one sinne to the Saviour? """"S a varies CTOWU. Single sentence may sa e a soul fromperdi- i v,l..l.u.f,u,uw,l. A Toucfcig Incident. Some gentlcme beautifnl village t passing through the Kenton, in the vale of Leven, Dunbactonshire, about nice i o'clock at night-.'iid, -their attention j directed t0 a dark otject in the church- . i r . ... . i L yaru. jn going in to ascertain wnai it was, they found a Joy of tender years lying flat on his face, and apparently sound asleep, over a recently-made grave. 1 tanking ths wa3 not a very safe bed for him, they shook him up, and asked him how became tc be there ? He said he was afrad to go home, as his sister, with whoiXi he resided, had j threatened to beat htn. 4 And where i does your sister livj?' asked one of the party. 4 In Duabarton, was the i answer. 4 In Dumbcrton nearly four der so tar away iron home i 4 1 just cam, sobbed the poo: little fellow, be cause my mither's'rave was here. Hi3 mother had be fa Tred there a short time before, seeking a refuge at her grave :u ms sorrow was a beautiful touch of iature in a child who could scarcely hzre yet learned to realize the true character of that sep aration which knows of no reunion on earth. Thither had he instinctively wandered to sob out li!s sorrow, and to moisten with tears the grave of one who had hitherto been his natural pro tector, for he had evidently cried him self to sleep. Talents no Protection. Were they so, Bacon, would never have taken a bribe, nor Dodd have committed forgery ; Voltaire might have been another Luther; David Hume another Matthew, Hale; and Satan himself might 'yet be in the can opy of heaven, an orb of the first mag nitude. Indeed, high talent, unless early cultivated,, as wa3 that of Moses, and Milton, and Baxter, and Wesley, and Robert Hall, i3 the most restive under moral restraints ; is the most fearless in exposing itself to temptation; is the most ready to lay itself on the lap of Delilah, trusting in the rock of its strength. And alas ! like Sampson, how olten is it found blind and grind ing in the prison house, when it might be wielding the highest political power, or civilizing and evangelizing the na tions ! Dr. Murray. LY -29, 1S5 -J R&ii'.e-Ssike. T vr. JILV07.r 5IJM. Unitid States Mag- A writer in ?h ar.ne, pronosnc snce-s tr.e de- sorption of f a young p:rl, charmed by a ra llesnake, one of the most remark- a&ie nl oeaat:ial aecnct:on3 ever ' penned : 'Before the maiden res a little j clurapof bt ;rii ht tangled leaves een, with vmts tra;iscg over tnem th:ck!y oecs ed with blue and crims-jn Sowers. Her V. ' eye commune 1 vacantly vith thesc ; fastened by a star-1 iKe snimng g'ance, a eubtie rav that shot out from thecir- cle of green leaves, seeming to be their mouth and curving neck, would it dart, very eye, and sending out a Said luv . forth its long form to warn her it tre that , seemed to stream or the f?.a1.t.---ik-riCr''d!rg cn either side cf space between an-itnl its way into iter i... -r4 ,lve;ng t n herj eyes; very piercing and beautiful was -with instant -.neous death, while its pow that su! lie brightness of the sweetest, (rful eye shot forth glances ofthat fa strongest power. And now the leaves tal fascination, malignantly bright, quivered and seemed to float away on- which bv paraliz'ng with a moved form ly to return, and the vines waved and cf terror and of beauty, may rei lily swung away in fantastic mazes, unfold- account for the spell which it poa?eises ing ever charming varieties of form f.f Undlnr the feet of the timid, and ; and color to her gaze ; but the star- j like eye was ever steaufast, bright and I gorgeous, in their midt. and still fas- I tened with strange fund ness upon her I own. How beautiful, with wondrous (intensity, did it gleam and dilate, ! growing larger and more lustrous with : every beam it sent forth. And her , own glance became intense, fixed, also: but with a dreaming sense which con- jured up the wildest fancies, terribly ' beautiful, that took her soul away from ' her and wrapt about as with a spell. I She would have fled, she would have j flown, but she had no power to move. j The will was wanting to her flight. She j felt that she could have bent forward , to pluck the gem like thing from the j bosom of the leaf in which it seemed to jglow, and which irradiated with its j bright, white gleam; but ever, as fdie j stretched forth her hand, and bent for- ward, she heard a rush of wings and a shrill scream from the tree above her I such a scream as the mocking bird ; makes, v?hen angrily it raises its dusky chesK and flaps its wings furiously -blood in her veins, against its slender sides. Such a scream: 'The terrified dan sel, her full con like a warning, and though yet unawa- sciousnes.3 restored but not her strength, kened to a full consciousness, it star-! feels all her danger. She seen th'it the. i tied and forbade her effort. sport of the t err ill e reptile is at an 'More than once in her survey of end. She cannot now mi it aie. the hor ; ill Is strange ouject had she heard thatjrzYl t flirtation rf hi fte,. Mie tries to i shrill note of warning, and to her mind : scream but her voice died away to a fee the same vague consciousness of an evil , blegurgling in her throat. Her tongue is presence. But the star-like eye was ! paralized her Ji-ps sealed ; once more still upon her own a small bright eye, she strives for flight, but her limbs re-1 quick like that of a bird ; now steady fuse their ofSce. She bas nothing left; in it3 place, and observing Eeemingly ' of life but it3 fea-rfa cwisciousncs. It i j only her3 ; now darting forward with is in her despair, that, at a last effort I jail the clustering leaves about it, and she succeeds to scream a 6mgle wild' shooting up toward, as if wooing her to cry, forced from her by this accumtila I seize. At another moment riveted to ted agony : she sinks down upon the j the vino which lay around it, it would gras.3 before her enemy her eyes,how- i whirl round and round, dazzling bright ever, still open, and still looking upon jand beautiful, even as a torch, waving; those which directs forever upon them. ' j hurriedly by night in the hands of some She sees him approach, now advancing, I ; playful boy; but in all this time the ; now receding ; now swelling in every! glance was never taken from her own : part with something like anger, while there it grew fixed a very principle of light and with a bright, subtle, burning, piercing, fascinatinsr trleam. i such as gathers in vapors above the old grave, and binds us as we look shoot- growing larger, and becoming corn ing directly into her eye, dazzling her ipletely bowed as if to strike the huge gaze, defeating its sense of discrirnina- jaw unclosing directly above her: the tion, and contusing strangely its sense of perception. She felt dizzy, for as she looked, a cloud of colors, bright, gay, various colors, floated and hung use bu inuca urapery arounu tne single object that had so secured her atten- tion, and spell-bound her ieet. Her limbs felt momently more and more in - secure, her blood grew cold, and ehe j vividly described than this scene. At seemed to feel the gradual freeze of; this moment, when we feel that the vein by vein, throughout her person. j summer air is unchanged with this evil At that moment a rustling was heard j presence, and nature aghast in hersol in the branches of the tree beside her, itude3 under these human pangs, the and the bird which had repeatedly ut-j arrow of a young savage transfixes the tered a single cry above her, as it were neck of the reptile,and thus turns aside of warning, flew away from his station I the deadly fang. The accessories are with a scream more piercing than ever, j all in" keeping the snake-like vine ; This movement had the effect for which the golden and crimson bloom3, the it seemed intended of bringing back to j shadow s of the old wood.?, the cry of the her a portion of that consciousness she i bird; all enhance the sense of the beau had been nearly deprived of before. jtiful and remote, the touches which we She strove to move from the beautiful j have italicised heighten the effect, till but terrible presence, but for a while! we feel the glittering eye of the bea3t, she strove in vain. The rich star-like ; and it3 terrible undulations rise iraage gance still riveted her own, and the! like to the mind, and we see how all subtle fascination kept her bound. The mental energies, however, in the mo ment of thier greatest trial, now gath ered suddenly to her aid, and with a desperate effort, but with a feeling of most annoying uncertainty and dread, she succeeded partially in the attempt, and threw her arras backwards, her hands grasping the neighboring tree, feeble, tottering and depending upon it for that support which her own limbs almost entirely denied her. With her movement came, however, the full de velopment of the powerful spell and dreadful mystery before her. 4 As her teet receded, tnougn out a single pace, to the tree which she now rested, audibly articulated ring,U that ef the watch then woan I up with the verge broken, announced the na ture of the splendid yet dangerou3 pre sence, in the form of a monster rattle snake, now but a few step3 before her, lying coiled at the bottom of a beautiful shrub, with which to her dreaming eye many of its own glorious hues had been associated. She was at length con scious enough to perceive and feel t bl. 50 a a iliser; lat terror h-1 dfpr.Tel her: of the strength neceurj to ij item ', her drf-alful er.eaj. Th? re, ti 1 glar ed the eye beautifully bright and p.ere- , ir.g fixed Epc-ti her own ; ar-i semsnj;- j jn the spirit of fpert, the insidious rer-tiie siowit Briw ni h rr?e.f trcn v co I, tat onlr to w;r..l hitr.-eil cn aam j-jto his museu'ar ring, hi jreil r? it he.id ntm i in t he mi ut ar. lssow- Iv nodding as it were toward her, the eye tiill iftrxnq into her orn,th( rat- tie th'iltl ripoirt.j at intfrrxl. and giving forth that paralyj-rg scun L wn;en once heard ;s remembere J f :rev- er. The reptile all this while seemir.g ec-r.cious of, and to sport while seekir.g to excite her terror. Now. with its fiat heal, distended denying even to fear the privi! n cge of flight. Could Kit have fled ;bc r,.n it u the neressitv, but the power was gone; and there still it lay, coiling and un- coiling, its arehed neck glittering like a ring of bronzed copper, bright and lurid, and the dreadful beauty of it eye still fastened, eagerly contempla- ting the victim whik" the yenduKut rattle still rung thi J''i -oie, as if to prepare th conscious v vol fur the fate w hich is momently approaching the blow. Mcanichil? thr tiUne li-cnme death-like with all surrounding oji cts. The bird had gone with its scream and, . rush. The breeze was silent. Thevines- ceased to wave, The leaves faintly quivered on their stem?. The serpent once more lay still, but the eye wa never turned away from the victim. Its corded muscles are all in a coil. They have but to unclasp suddcnly.and , the dreadful foil3 will be upon her in 1 ; full length, and the fatal teeth will 'strike, and the deadly venom which they secrete will mingle with the life , his neck arched beautifully, bke that; ' of a wild horse uinkr the curb, until at ; ' lpncrth- tired as it were of nlavdike the ' cat with her victim, she sees the neck long tribuhted fang, charged with ve-! nom, protruding from the cavernous! mouth and she sees no more! In-j ! sensibility came to her aid, and ehe lay , i almost iiteies3 unuer tne icius oi tne j very monster.' Nothing in ancient or modern liter- Jature i3 more strikingly conceived, or i benignities of nature are at war with the spirit of the reptile. The Eappy Family. A friendof oura met hi3 neighbor's coachman looking remarkably face tious, on a Monday morning. As the the man touched his Lat, he said to him : 4Well, what baa happened to make you look so pleasant to-day ? 4V,hy, sir,' wa3 the reply, 'what do you think ? We are a pretty lot at our house ' that we are. I started with fire of us j in the old carriage yesterday morning, i First of all I drove the young lady to ! the Episcopal church, and her father to the Wesleyan3 : next I took young master Augustus to the Spiritualists ; my wife went to the Ranters; and when I had put the horse' up, 1 took a turn myself with the Calviniots.' Mortaxitt. During June tfcere were 32 deaths in Wilmington, X. C, including 18 children. veav, in advance. A Bleised Tract. A :rrjin hiving Vken of the con version Terl cf hr reliti, w akel mhxi were th ' r-.er. the Lir I crrp'oye l; ar.d th:a w her rep'.y : 4 Or.e of the New Y rk City Tne So ctv V;"t "r gave rr.5 a Tnct entitled, "The S rl of the Sp ri:.' I thotU it a rjuofr title; s after th Victor h 1 g:n?-. I p-tit i b my work and m: d wr. t rev! it. It wm in If ed wrd, an ! rv'thtng ever pu reed me deeply. When my hubr.d came home. I r?d it t" bin. At fir: he nvJ light of i: ; but ns I revl an 1 wept over it, I ?iw thit he felt it t although be tried to hide h:3 feeling. The next day I went t-- a minister who gve ac P00; alvic", nr. 1 invited no to attend h; church. I and ray husband did o, and rvn nf?r both of u became church . .. mem?; or. That husband ha 1 hoen a wicked and intemperate man ; but reading that Tract was ble3e I n-n only to hira, but also f other members cf hii family. Ten hopeful conversi'r:i may already be trace ! to that instrumentality ; nine of the converts have been received into the f..dbjwihijf.f tvang-lical Churches, an! the woman t h r.n the Tract was given h n w a Tract Uitor. h The Awakccicg b"..utifil Trsf u;fn the t' c (f all t 'ic r.r.' intr.: in t' th r-e 't le f thi ii-'.i.m wo fifi'l in the oi!nn f M rri and Wi'.li' lhn,f Jvurr.al. r written b our frion l ant c rr-rileit Jnmr O. Cl.irk. Sci thorn f r'.h like the &.-! t the ocean. (.i!heriii inig'it fn tn oich wjOuUio n j g'.n. Vi.1or arvi iWper ti e ii.lc I -un K!! up t'j (joJ fr. tn i!i( l-..)in -f men : Ilf ir ;h gre it mu'ti'ii J.-, min'inj; in rh ru, r an hi t!i-T fr 'in tlie o ir!;i 1 1 tiif skj. " r.itl.cr, the uii.hiiit ' f iloath jptl.oM o or in, Wl,Ti uiil th d.ifro of rc'h-ror ti'n lraw ' I.-i.k ori u, w r!lrT, fcii.ful ar.'l lowlr, iru;lin with jjrirf and toinf Utiotii be h.w TKiri" the ; .'ir.ru fnr OTOrjthin I. Ay TLine U tli tiiorcv t- jiy our -; Tb'mn ii tlio jwwer to cl-ane Mid rot'ro u. Spoil.-- arid pure nn tli fuit'U on bijrh ; Father, tf.r midnight of dr-nth gather o'rr u. W'licri will th dawn if redemption draw fih?" tirnj hr.ir nnd golden vmiIi, rnnfron and iiimJcu, f.iWTM , iiiarnm firi 1 follower of famr. Ail with th s.-'.nm solemn bur')fri ar lr'li, I. if: iri liieirouli t- th.it oo! mighty Nnr:ie; " Wil-l U thr; pathway th.it utg htfor us, On tlie l,p)id wi?r th Llnr-k hadow Im, Father, th mi ltiifj.t of death uihem or u. When will the diwn of redemption draw I ! the va-t depth" of Fot.irity'n ocean Ilo.'ive with JehoTah'n rny'Tiou brenth ; Mortal, pre on while th- deep j in motion, Jrtiii tiinKUn-j tfi U'lttrtof tli'tth; Ari?;! ar nunlifi wiih m.-ti, in the chori I Ci -in i5 like ineewte fj'xa earth to the kj, ' Father, tl; hilkiw grow hnhtcr bffor u, Jlcavftn, with in iii.uni o eternal, draw r,iKh." Invisible Hannoaie. We are apt to 'limit the Holy One of Israc J,' and to gay, 'Some things have worked together for our good.' God says, 4All things!' Joys, Borrows, cros ses, losses, prosperity, a'Jversity,health, sickneH3 ; the gourd bestowed, and the gourd withered; the cup full, and tho cup emptied; the lingering tick bed, the early grave ! Often, indeed would sight and sense lead us to doubt the reality of the pro mise. We can 3ee, in many thini, scarce a dim reflection of love. Useful live3takeri,blos30ins prematurely pluck ed, spiritual props removed, benevolent Echernes blown upon. But the apostle doc-3 not say, 4We see,' but 4We know.' It is tho province of faith to trust God in the dark. The uninitiated and un discernirig cannot understand or ex plain the revolution and dependencies of the varied wheels in a complicated machine ; but they have confidence in the wisdom of the artificer, that all i designed to 4work out' some great and useful end. I3e it ours to write over every mysterious dealing. 4This also cotneth from the Lord of llosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working.' Iiev. Ji. Macduff. The Mourner's Prayer A Chanat. BV WM- COa&OLL. God, in mercy, ruling ever, At thy footstool while we bow, Kindred hearts here doom'd Ut sever, Humbly we approach Thee now. Wanderers, journeying bitber, iLither, Often weary, oft atray ; While our expectations wither, God, our Father ! bear us pray. While we look to Thee, the only Real solace for our care ; Suffer not our sorrows lonely, Here tocrah uj in detpair. Ever skioz Christ who toagbt H-jw He his aflietions bore ; How upon the cross he bought us, There redeemed us evermore. Teaeh us to regard the blessing; Grant the mourner's tears may dry ; And while here oar sins confessing, Teach us, Father I Low to die.