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ihiE jUXl.-TKY AS A PR01 'ESSIOX.
Dear Pro. Heflin : I believe that
voungujeu, though positively ctdlnl by the
Spirit, are sometimes prevented irom en
tering the miuistry by the opposition of
friends I furtherbelieve that this oppose
tion is rhe consequence of those friends'
beinir ignorant of the nature of the cleri
cal proia-sion. The following thoughts are
presented for the benefit of those friendly
advisers with the hope that their views
way lie changed and their influence re
versed. Again, many friends of young
ministers have such incorrect notions of
their profession that they are out of reach
of the gKd influence that they might oth
erwise enjoy. For the benefit of these
also, these hasty sentences are designed.
Let us looked at the ministry as a voea-
1 !
tiou both urr sc and in
contrast with other
learned professions. Consider it in rela
tion to those motives which generally direct
or control one in the election ol a calling
for life. One of the first requisites, m any
business is " sum :h imj to do." I his is ot
considerable weight with all who are worthy
of a place in any respectable sphere
and I am not writing for those who are not
thus worthy. If the young votary use all
proper endeavors and after much waiting
aad wishing still find " nothing to do" he
becomes disheartened, he is offended in his
proud heart, his good name is scandalized,
he is pitied by some, despised by others
fir his littleness; he is a tenant of the
lonely halls of obscurity a "floundered"
hero of uuh mored ambition. Now a minis
ter's life is free from this difficulty, free
eveu from the risk of it. It is always
abounding iu present duties. It is forever
sounding with the grand arid thrilling ap
peal. "Come and help! tor the harvest
truly is plenteous but the laborers are few."
From every heart and home, on every hill,
in every vaiicy, are heard the soft, plain
tive and enchanting supplications of the
immortal breaking npon the soul with j
the strange eloquence of life and death of;
misery and glory. There is no time when j
he may iut find a duty bearing on it. the j
iuvK.-nj: words : "A'yr is the uciptfl t;ir" j
He cnu ahvavs ;id "somethiiiir to 'o." j
His soul is full of holy zcai and desire
fir
his friends if he offer up those desire in ,
'raver he is workiiiir in his vocation. Jlis
tonio'-e is on tire with - words that burn''
if he sM.:ik them to his eopipanion he is j
working in his vocation. II is pen often !
rdiiiost ijuivers. "liKe a tiling or iiie
-LiiiiiiLT to the ey of ids eager soul to
st arkie with thoughts fresh from Heaven
if he cviVf he is workinir in his vocation.
At home or abro;
brt iad.
m
social life or in the
Tett coi)'TeL':tt!on. m trratetui recreation
,t
or in more active toils, he is all the while
throusrh all the changes in the sphere of
actual prosecution of his calling in a ." -
tiro! sense. If he be ever uselessly idle it-
is not for the want of , irilf f . but of j
jiriit' t'pff and jo'tt. All this holds good j
from the beginning of his ministry. How
... 1 r r. I . l '
:s it witli other protessions: late trie
lawyers lor au illustration.
Of course we
all respect the law and I mean no unjust !
reflection by this contrast. JJut tell me. .
c t.MIU'.l wiMMiij'pils 111 lilts III J10H.-1H.- j
al ambition . how much idleness and tad
ure are caused by crowding young men
into vour darling, idol cause '. Go to our
oiirt-rooins. and count the clientlessmem- I
bcrs of the bar. You will count a great
many heads smooth heads and rough
heads, small heads and large heads, empty
heads and full heads but most of all
young and old dind-loud. They do now,
aud have long done much to secure busi
ness, but thev don't succeed. They look-plea-ing,then
dignified. they hxik wise, then
Wonderful, they speak wisdom, then flat
tery, they do all they can to get ''some
thing P do" and still they sit in the
very arena with " tied hands " like
"Bookfnl of l.!r,ek-!iacls iirnnrantly read.
With loads of learned lumber iu th, ir head."
Just the other dav I met a young
limb of the law brawny and stalwart itsal
Kentuckian. able to make "big splinters"
fly from 1 cavy timber, and he frankly said
to me: '-Sir, I confess to anybody that I
am just looking for business." There he
is. able to do as much as Caesar without
enough business to occupy ":a little boy in
arifch,'wi 'Uoistr nninrnihrigT-ry.'-1- r aiii
willing to grant that this is not always so
in a very great degree, but it is somewhat
so in nearly every case, and yet every
young man thinks he'll be an exception
and his "stuck up" aristocratical connec
tions often think s too. I'd rather be a
drayman than a drone. The like is true of
other professions. What a quantity of
medicine spoils for the want of patients to
take it. What a lazy, frivolous.
it. reit -a ;t7v h-ii-olou,: imsMti.
lying, newspaper life is led by professional j
politicians very frequently: From election I
to election if they are not candidates or are
not elected, they have to acknowledge the
exhaustion of their professional privileges
by seckingother employment. If they go
tooflice, over half are worse than dead-heads
there no matter whether that office be
State or National. In legislative halls
there is as much do-nothingness as can be
found in the same numbers anywhere.
I conclude then that the first motive is
better met in the ministry than any other
profession. I desire to present the relation
to other motives soon if I can find lei
sure. A. W. 31.
LlTTLETOX.'X. C.
RIDGEWAT LETTERS X0. 9.
PUBLIC HIGH-WAYS.
Though the subject of this letter may
seem, at first thought, puerile and unim
portant, I am convinced it is one, in
which the couifort of every community is
to no little extent involved. The man who
lives in a city, and whose traveling is con
fined to railroads and steamboats, may be
an unappreciative reader; but there are
others, and by far the larger number, who
are in a very differed condition.
The public high-ways iu the United
States are inferior to any other part of the
civilized world. ot only such countries
as Eugland, France, Ac, but even Sweden
arid Norway, notwithstanding the disad
vantages under which tliev have to labor.
j,.ve roads superior to ours. In the I nited
States, and especially in North Carolina
there seems to be complete indifference to
tJu, suujuct was a s; with the Phari-
sees, that they were careful about small at- .
. . . .
lairs, but neglected the weightier matters
ot t),e jaw t ,s a sm wltu us at tnls (jay
i and in this country, that while we are in-
i terested in, and attentive to great matters,
i we are very neg lectful of small ones. We
! move heaven and earth to build railroads.
I ut jiaj. no i-jluj ot- attention to county i
! - 1., fll,., tii.o.'.iiniifA ia tlj'it-. Ill-nil' nt" '
I 111 V 1 1 U I UI.IJI v.. 1 -I taiuu ....... . " -
tuciu are amioai tuipassuDie. iiieu 01 a
j ditch on both sides, the rain is permitted
j to wash a gully in the middle. Instead of
good substantial bridges, we nave notes or
fence rails laid on cross pieces of like material-
Instead of intelligible linger boards
at the forks and crosses, we have nothing.
There are many miles of road almost im
passable in summer, and quite so iu winter,
which, with a little work might be made
good. 1 consider the laws of the State
with regard to public high-ways almost
obsolete. A few bushes cut clcwn and
mud holes tilled up on Saturday before
court is sufficient for all hijol purposes.
I commenced this letter, however, with
the purpose, not so much of complaining
at the indifference shown to the condition
of the roads, as something else which 1
will now mention. Every man who lives
near a railroad, and can save a lew vards
j of fencing and i'eet of ground by the opera-
t tion. petitions the court and has granted
him the ritfht to cliautre the road and run
it immediately on the side of the railroad.
This is wrong. The Jives of the commun
ity are endangered and the property sub
jected to injury, and all. to save a dew
vards of fencing. It is a degree of selfish
ness which ouht not to be tolerated. It
is criminal in magistrates to grant permis
sion for such changes to be made. At the
pre-eut rate of progress in this direction,
a very few years will suffice to have the
public and railroads, running parallel
wherever it is at all practicable.
THE NH.ESMTY foK CuLPORTAGE.
This necessity is to be seen and felt
from the following figures gathered from
the recent annual report of the American
Tract Society : The 040 Colporteurs the
past vear made 020.052 family visits, in
which they found 43,478 families desti
tute of all religious books; 28.740 fami
lies without the Bible; 00.704 families
habitually n'g!ecting church; 47.502 lio
man Catholic families were visited with
much success; .)20.0U!J evangelical vol-
TMiit'S were .srcittord. m;;nily ami;i tlit
more destitute. This work was done in
States and territories. Ninety-four
Colporteurs labored among the (.Hermans.
Suedes. Norwegians. Danes. Hollanders. .
Welch.
French and Indians. 1 he Socle-
! tv is j uMishinir g s; cl truth iu 120 i iu
! guages an t dialects. In addition to ex- '
pending 70.0 !(. 20 in supplying our ;
j home wants, the Society gave S12.000 to '
! supply .Missionaries of different denomi
i nations in distant heathen lands with
! printed gospel truth in their native lan- '
I oitages. "A single tract was the genu of'
a whole mission in India." says Hev. Dr.
Scudder.
bUGOF.STlVE facts.
j'rom care
ireful investigation by min-'
jtnvs :mil others it, has been nscer-
tai j tha tvt.n in Xew England, where
th(,y are s( tlljL.k!v s(.tte(1 alu chUrch ad-
Ullages so numerous, that not more man
. i . i
lie-half of the people ever attend the ;
churches, not above one-third with any j
regularity, and only one-fourth constantly, j
If this be true of them, how great the j
neglect and destitution must be in the j
newer and more sparsely settled States and :
I territories . A minister m a prominent
town in our State, having charge of a
church numbering about 200 members,
recently told me that one-third of the
members habitually neglected public wor
ship. A careful investigation or two
prominent country churches in the same ,
county, shows still greater neglect, nei
ther of which have united religious inter- I
est enough to get up and carry on a Sab
bath school, the importance of which they
admit. They content themselves, gener-
ally, with going to church once or twice a ;
j month for publicly worshiping God an
hoar or two each Sabbath, then much ;
of those and the other Sabbaths are spent
by them, their children and servants in
visiting for feasting and amusement.
A LETTER.
.A Pwster.wj-jthijf
county where there is scarcely ever any
preaching, the bottle is the common com
panion. If I had time to have appoint
ments to preach among them they would
not come out to hear me, or any educated
minister. But by a pious, prudent col
porteur to make kind family visits among
them, and wisely distribute the gospel
books and tracts published by the Ameri
can Tract Society, they can and will be ,
cached successfully, as it is carried on in
t,le sP'rit of h""ble prayer and faith in
Christ, who also 'went about doing good.'
I have distributed all the tracts you sent
me. aud I am sure they will do much
good. I take great pleasure in visiting
the poor, and leaving a good tract to con
tinue talking to them of Jesus after I am
gone. I hope you will send me many
more to scatter, for next to the ministry 1
love this work, which is such a strong
;help' to the ministry. I will raise a lil
eral proportion in my churches to support
a colporteur in this county, as I believe it
to be the only means that can reach the
masses at their homes who will not come
to church."
THOUGHTS TOR CHRISTIAN PATRIOTS.
From reliable statistics, there are
from eight to ten millions of souls in
this our christian land, who are not reach
ed by the ordinary means of grace. Ev
ery christian and every patriot should be
moved to prompt action in reaching this
one-third of our entire population with
light and truth, that both mind and heart
may be projicrly taught, for sin aud igno
rance are the .sure and deadly enemies to
the safety, success and happiness of stale,
nation and soul. Let each one labor un
ceasing to build up aud make strong our
two sure pillars as a nation religion and
intelligence. 3Iothers who are properly
taught these will teach them to their chil
dren, and the children who properly learn
aud receive these now will be the reliable
christians, patriots, and officers iu church
and State in the succeeding generation.
- llighteousness exalteth a nation." The
father, the mother, the child, make the
nation; therefore, we must teach them
this '-righteousness" as the only sure
foundation for temporal and spiritual ac
tion iu wnatevcr we do, and this must be
taught them, not only at the church and
on the Sabbath, but at their homes, the
homes of rich and poor, through the
week, and it must be taught, and ielt, and
practiced every day, aud every week, and
c-verysmmiL, ar.d ove:y ysaf, v I.i.'o if. is
God's will that we be a nation; aud thus
ar.tihj. wc will be a ftvppy. chris-
timi notion. An Ex-Governor of our
State uttered a wise sentiment when he
said, " that if we educate our children iu
the sciences alone, and not in the Bible,
thirl cannot le. (rutted," llanicl Webster
said '-that nothing could be more promo
tive of the union of our country than the
circulation of religious evangelical publi
cations." UOW COLPOKTAOE HELPS.
To help do this important work in the
family, we see the adaptation of colpor
tage by which we are now carrying gos
pel truth to more than 2l.U00 families or
over lOO.OoO souls in this our State an
nually. As God has raised up this active
system to help meet the increasing wants
of this rapid age. it is proper that the
friends of the American Tract Society
should know it greatly needs funds to car
ry on its benevolent work. During the
first quarter of the present year, ending
June 1st. the grants to the poor and needy
have been 0.028, and the expenditure
for coiportage has been upwards of
318,000. Calls for gospel truth for per
ishing souls are coining to us from every
quarter. These truths are being read and
God is daily owning them as His instru
ments in the salvation of souls. I saw a
lady a few days ago who was hopefully
converted by the Spirit's blessing upon
the tract -To the AiHicted." I trust
soon to hear from friends, and receive
their donations to this work, all of which
are acknowledged in the "American Mes
senger." The salary of a colporteur is
810.' ; Life Director Soil ; Life Member
820 ; and every dollar will print 1.500
pages.
REV. PR. R. FULLER.
As the Key. Dr. Kichard Fuller
of Baltimore, said in his recent address at
our anniversary "If we deserve to be
American citizens, this Society will en
gage our warmest interest because it is su
perior to all sectional feeling, because it
recognizes no North, no South, no Last,
no West; but is, in its entire character,
in all its objects, wholly American, em
bracing with the same tender solicitude
everv portion of the land. It is the cause
of Him in whose hands are the resources
of the universe. Let us but have faith."
Yours truly.
W. J. W. CilOWDEIL
Gen. Ag't. Am. Tr. Soc.
Baleigh. August. 1-N) !.
THE DROUGHT.
Mr. Editoii: For several weeks past
the drought has been the subject of fre
qiteut conversations with many and reflec
ted upon, without doubt, by all. That
rain was much needeu, spe
tking after the
manner of men. w as not only acknowledged
by ad. but looked for, longed for, and
praved for. Tongues, comparatively mute
in general, become fluent irpon the subject
of the needed blessing-rain. When ra;n
was made the subject of prayer, lips utilised
lo responses were heard to respond the
heart seemed to praj-. Temporally speak
ing, rain was the :one thing needful.'
Kain. the farmers wanted merchants, de
pendent on the farmers, wanted rain me
chanics standing in the same relation to
farmers, wanted rain. The pleasure taking
public desired rain, for it would make
traveling more pleasant. Farmers crops
were dying their gardens burui g up
merchants and mechanics began to look
long faced, pleasure seekers were almost in
censed at having to fulfil a command made
to another, " Dust shalt thou eat." Time,
however, rolled on, and many were the
predictions that were made and many the
signs pointed out that had, in more rainy
weather, proved good. Before this drought
there was a spiritual one which still con
tinues, widening in extent, killing in its
nature, affecting the good seed of the king
dom and the harvest of the world. But
few have any thing to say of this drought
one was a physical necessity, the other
a moral one the one touching and affect
ing an infinitesimal of time the other the
far off future and forever the one per
taining to what is mortal. the other
touching in its claims and consequences
u..ii iirvu m .sjjtii.u.n atiu eternal. vi lio
prays for a rain of righteousness, or la
ments that pure religion is on the wane ?
not burning up, but freezing out. How
few make this a subject of serious conver
sation yet who with even a grain of moral
sense am! a moment of reflection hut fee's we
need "showers of blessing." What is the
prediction in this direction? What the
signs? Ministers of Jesus, men of God.
and ye Deborahs and Annas look around
you, what a withering moral drought pre
vails,! "It is time to seek the Lord till
he come and rain, righteousness upon you."
This is the great need of the church now.
But we seek the Lord by prayer. This is
the means to collect the spiritual vapors,
form them into clouds of mercy that shall
break forth, in torrents of refreshing bless
ings upon the moral wastes around, and
make spiritual nature revive. Prayer,
prayer by preachers and people powerful
prayer. Heart felt prayer. Importunate
prayer prayer to God, in the name of
Christ and in the Holy Ghost then the
Lord will come and ram righteousness upon
us. Amen. C.
Raleigh, Jidy 24, 18G0.
THE DEACON'S GUESS.
A certain divine who was more eminent
in his day for the brilliancy of his imagina
tion than the force of his logic, was preach
ing on the "ministry of angels," and in
the peroration he suddenly observed i4I
hear a whisper!" The change of tone
started the deacon, who sat below, from a
drowsy mood, and springing to his feet, he
spake " I guess it's the boys in the gal
lery !"
S E LECTIONS,
KEY. V. 310MA1I0X VS. REV. P. CARTWRIUJ1T.
llev. W. McMahon, ot the Memphis
Conference, has written some recollections
of early life and manhood, which recol-
j lections appear in the Memphis Christian
Advocate. In a lately puplished number,
he alludes to the Eev. P. Cartwright. and
his opposition to the late II. B- Bascom,
whom 3IcMahon thinks Cartwright and
others attempted to eruwh for no good
! cause, and after this allusion he adds:
1 have seen, in a late paper, that this
same Peter Cartwright has lately been
speaking very disparagingly of me in New
York, iu one of his public lectures in that
place, where he lays the scene at Nash-
ville, and puts words into the mouth of
vjeneiai ejacKsou anu uuyseii, mat j. aui
very certain neither of us ever thought or
spoke. The fact is, at the Conference to
which he alludes, I felt it my duty to
charge hiin, before that body, with un
ministerial conduct, specified in Uoing
vular language in ptivate lamilies. in low
flung and fool-born jesting, and other im
prudences, by which he lowered the min
isterial character. To this course I was
advised by Thomas L. Douglass, 1 think,
Bishop McKendree, and many of the
most pious aud aged ministers in the Con
ference. For this and my friendship to
Bascom, Cartwright has never forgiven
me; hence he tells the people of New
l'ork, that at Nashville he found a local
preacher, by the name of MeMahon, who
was more of a time server and cringer
than a christian; that he presided over an
aristocratic congiegatiou, flattered their
vices ; and that, being called on to preach,
McMahon pulled his coat and told him to
be careful; that General Jackson was in
the house ; that he answered, in a loud
voice, "Who cares for General Jackson?"
that God would as soon damn him as any
Guinea nigger; and that General Jackson
met him on the street the next clay, and
told him he was a man after his own
heart; that that fellow. McMahon, had
been to his room, to make an apology for
him, and he had liked to have kicked him
out of the Jiousc. I do not recollect to
have seen so many falsehoods grouped to
gether in so small a compass as in the
foregoing statement of this reekless man.
L. t's see how a plain, unvarnished tale
will put him down. 1 was Presiding El
der of the Nashville District at the time I
he finds me a time-serving, bringing local
preacher. Henry B. Bascom dM myself, i
with some other preachers, were holding a j
tirotraeteu meeting at Nashvihe. on the
Saturday aiiu Sunday preceding the ton- ,
fere nee. Cartwright came in on Sunday
night. I think, and I asked him to preach.
There was a very large congregation ; and,
seeing General Jackson iu the house, I
said to Cartwright that he would have
General Jackson for one of his hearers
that night; he made some rude remark,
perhaps, '-Who cares for General Jack
son?" but none heard it except those who
were iu the pulpit. Now this is every
word of truth that I find in this wonder
ful story about Peter Cartwrignt and Gen
eral Jackson, that is going the rounds in
the papers. 1 do not believe he ever
spoke to General Jackson in his life. '
And as for the General's cursing and
threatening to kick me, there never w-as a
more unqualified falsehood uttered by
man. I never had a more honest and sin
cere friend on earth than General Jack
son. But I hope, after ail, that the news
papers have misrepresented this poor old
man. arid that he is not uttering and pub
lishing deliberate falsehoods, that scores
and hundreds of living witnesses can re
fute. But here I will leave him to his
God and his own conscience for the pres
ent; for I feel certain that, whatever he
may be now, he has been a useful man in
the church in former years. I have
known him for fifty-two years, and hope
and pray to God that he may be saved.
THE RICH AND THE POOR.
The rich man's son inherits lands, I
And piles of brick, and stone, and gold, j
And ho inherits soft white hands,
And tender flesh that fnars the cold, j
Xor dares to wear a garment old:
A heritage. iseeais to me,
One scarce would wish to hold in fee.
The rich man's son inherits cares
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst his bubble shares ;
And .soft w hite hands could hardly earn
A living that would serve his turn ;
A heritage, it seems to me.
One scarce would wish to hold in fee.
What doth the poor man's son inherit ?
Stout muscles and a sinewey heart,
A hardy frame, a hardier spirit ;
King of two hands he does his part
In every useful toil and art:
A heritage, it seems to me,
A king might wish to hold iu fee.
What doth the poor man's son inhrrit ?
A patience learn'd of being poor.
Courage, if sorrow comes to bear it,
A fellow-feeling that is sure
To make tii3 outcast bless his door
A heritage, it seems to me,
A king might wish to hold iu fee.
Oh, rich man's son! there is a toil
That with all others level stands,
Large charity doth never soil,
But only whiten soft white hands ;
This is the best crop from thy lands
A heritage, it seems to me,
Worth being rich to bold in fee.
Oh, poor man's son! scorn not thy state,
There is worse weariness than thine
In merely being rich and great;
Toil only gives the soul to shine,
And makes rest fragant and benign
A heritage, it seems to me,
Worth being poor to hold in fee.
Both heirs to some six feet of sod,
Are equal in the earth at last,
Both, children of the same dear God,
Prove tide to your heirship vast,
By records of a well filled past
A heritage, it seems to me,
Well worth a life to hold in fee.
It is as difficult to preserve fame, as
was at first to acquire it.
HAVEI.OCK'S RELIGIOUS IMPRESSIONS.
The religious impressions induced by
his mother's early instructions, and dee
ened in the Charter-house cloister, in which
he and his piously-disposed schoolmates
assembled for devotional exercises, had
been weakened during eight years of mili
tary life in England. The influence of the
new associations into which he was thrown
had tended to deaden his spiritual feel
ings, and religion had lost much of its
power on his mind aud his spirits. He
never yielded to the temptations which
surrounded him. He was not only strictiy
moral in his conduct, but eminently pure
lu his principles. lie was too highminded
to give countenance to those who scoffed
at religion and ridiculed its consistent pro
fessors; but his religion, bereft of vitality
beeause of a formal routine of duty, from
which the warmth ot holy anecticn was
. tircly absent At one time he appears
to have been led by the recklesness of
speculation to the verge of L mtarianisni,
and began to admit doubts of the divinity
of the Saviour. But he was not satisfied
with himself; he felt a longing for some
substantial foundatian on which to rest his
religious views and hopes some solid prin
ciples to regulate his conduct and animate
his soul ; and it was during his voyage to
India that he happily found the object of
his search.
Through the instrumentality of a fellow-passenger,
he was drawn to more ear
nest perusal of the Holy Scriptures, and
led to an exclusive and quicken reliance
on the merits of the atonement. This hap
py change, which brought his soul under
the omnipotent influence of divine truth
and love, and diffused joy and peace
through his mind, is thus described by
himself:
It was while the writer was sailing
across the wide Atlantic towards Bengal,
that the spirit of God came to him with
its offer of peace and mandate of love,
which, though for some time resisted, at
length prevailed. Then was wrought that
great change iu his soul which has been
productive of unspeakable advantage to
him in time ; and he trusts has secured
him happiness in eternity. The Gtr,i--ml
Kjdd, in which he was embarked, con
veyed to India Major Side, destined there
after to defend Jellalabad; but she also
carried out a humble, unpretending man,
James Gardner, then a lieuteuant in the
loth Foot, now a retired captain, engaged
in home missionary work and other objects
of Christian benevolence at Bath. This
excellent person was most, influential in
leading llavelock lo make public avowal
by his works, of Christianity in earnest."
Lieutenant, now Col. Gardner, on dis
covering the state of Ilavclock's mind.
entered into religious conversation with
him, and endeavored to lead his thought
.i inquiries into a right channel. Have-
iocs norroweu, in me nrst instance, the
lilo of Henry Martyn, and read it with
great interest. He then perused Scott's
Force of Truth," diligently comparing
the extracts from the Scriptures with the
text and context.
Thus did Lieutenant Gardner become
his evangelical instructor, resolving his
doubts as they aro.-e, and leading him
gradually to embrace Christian truth in all
its breadth with simplicity and a flection.
Before, the voyage terminated, llavelock
had added to the qualities of the man and
the soldier the noble spirit of the Christ
tiau; and thus w;:s he accoutred for that
career of usefulness and eminence which
has endeared him to his fellow-countrymen.
Vital religion became the anima
ting principle of 'j11 his actions, and a pa
ramount feeling of his duty to God recti
fied and invigorated the sense of his duty
towards man. M m. of Sir IT. Iluvdodc.
t il i. i
GOOD NEWS IROM GREECE.
The Bev. Dr. King writes from Athens:
The bishop that purchased of me last year
400 Testaments, for distribution in his
diocese, has applied to Mr. Kalopothakes
for 500 more. Two or three days ago, he
sent to inquire at what time 1 could see
him, as he wished to call on me. I ap
pointed the day aud hour, but when the
time came his heart failed him, and I was
asked to have an interview with him at the
house of 3Ir. Kalopothakes. At first, I
felt inclined to say, that if he was afraid
to call on me I would not call on him. I
went, however, and had a long conversa
tion with him on the subject of religion.
During the conversation, and almost at
the commencement of it. he said it was
well-known and acknowledged by all, that
those of my denomination are the most up
right and moral people in the world; that
here (in Greece) they have a form of re
ligion that has little or no influence on the
heart or the life of those who profess it. I
told him that if he would put the Yv'ord of
God into the hands of the priests under
him, and enjoin on them to read and study
it attentively, and to go about and read it
to the people, instructing them to walk ac
i cording to the Word, he would be a good'
j shepherd. This, he gave me to under
I stand, he endeavored to do. On the whole.
1 was very glad I went to see him. The
priest, or deacon, who was with him. nod
ded assent to all I said, and seemed very
much interested in the conversation.
TALKING.
The Agriculturist, alluding to certain
chatter-boxes, saj-s:
I don't believe what some folks say, that
little girls should be seen and nut heard. I
wouldn't have them dumb for anything;
but I want them to kn w how to talk, and
when to be silent. I wish I could invent
something to put in people's mouths, like
what I saw fastened on to a water-pipe the
other day. They call it a filter. The wa
ter was quite muddy, but when it passed
through the. filter, it came out as clear as
crystal. O ! if we could only strain out all
the naiighty passionate, careless, silly,
nonsensical and unkind words from con
versation, what a pleasure it would be to
listen! I'm afraid some people would not
have much to say. and I'm sure the filter
would want cleansing.
THE BIBLE.
Out of the Bible have come all pure
moralities. From it have sprung all sweet
charities. It has been the motive power of
regeneration and reformation to millions of
men. It has comforted the humble, con
soled the mourning, sustained the suffer
ing, and given trust and triumph to the
dying. The wise old man has fallen asleep
with it folded to his breast,' The simple
cottager has used it for his dying pillow;
and even the innocent child has breathed
his last happy sigh with finger between its
promise-freighted leaves.
THE BIBLE AND THE FIRST CONGRESS.
As early as the beginning of the last
century, laws existed in some of the colon
ies requiring every family to be furnished
with a Bible. This supply continued to be
kept up by individual exertion until the
meeting of the first Congress in 1777, one
year after the Declaration of Independence.
In the early formation of our government,
those who looked upon the experiment
with jealous eyes anticipated a speedy dis
solution, from the fact that it made no pro
vision for the establishment of religion.
Although the legislative power-of our
country is prohibited from making laws
prescribing and enforcing the observance
of any particular faith or form of worship,
yet it is equally powerless in prohibiting
the free exercise thereof; while, at the
same time, it extends its protecting aegis
over the rights of conscience. The govern
ment has never been unmindful of the
interests oY religion, but' has hum tL-i be'
giuuing adhered to aud carried out the
language of Washington, that '"religion and
morality are indispensable supports of po
litical existence and prosperity."
The Congress of 1777 answered a mem
orial on the subject of Bible distribution
iu this country, by appointing a committee
to devise as to the printing an edition of
thirty thousand Bibles. The population of
the country then was only about three mil
lions, aud all the Bibles in the entire
world at that period did not exceed four
millions. Thus it will be seen that its cir
culation in this and all other countries at
that time was exceedingly limited.
The report of the committee appointed
by Congress forms one of the brightest
epochs in the history of our country, and
sheds a clear and steady light over every
subsequent eventful period. The public
recognition of God in that act was of in
finitely greater importance in giving sta
bility to the times, and securing the per
manency of our institutions, than all the
imposing and formidable array of legal en
actments ever made for the establishment
of religion. .
The committee finding it difficult to pro
cure the necessary material, such as paper
and types, recommended Congress "the
use of the Bible being so universal. and its
importance so great to direct the Com
mittee on Commerce to import, at the ex
pense of Congress, twenty thousand Eng
lish Bibles from Holland, Scotland, or else
where, into the different ports of the States
ot the Lilian. lhe report was adopted,
and the importation ordered.
In 1781, when from the existence of the
war no English Bible could be imported,
and no opinion could be formed how long
the obstruction might continue, the subjec
of printing the Bible was again presented
to Congress, and it was, on motion, refer
red to a committee of three.
The committee, after giving the subject
a careful investigation, recommended to
Congress an edi ion printed by llobert
Aitken, of Philadelphia; whereupon it
was
"AVWW, That the United States, in
Congress assembled, highly approve the
pious ami laudable undertaking yf Mr.
Aitken, as subservient to the interests of
religion; and being satisfied of the care
and accuracy of the execution of the work.
recommend this edition to the inhabitants
of the United States."
How interesting is such a history of the
early circulation of the Bible in this coun
try! What moral sublimity in the fact, as
it stands iinperishably recorded and filed
in the national archives! Who. in view of
this fact, will call in question the assertion
that this is a BiLlc nation? Who will
charge the government with indifference
to religion when the first Congress of the
States assumed all the rights and perform
ed all the duties of a Bible society long
before such an institution had ail exis
tence? liihle X'-f.iVy Rfxord.
51 Y or EST.
I have a wondrous guest,
Who speeds my feet, who movi'S my hands.
Who .strengthens, comforts, guides, com mauds,
Whose presence gives me ivst.
He dwells within my soul ;
He swept away the guilt and gloom,
He garnished fair the empty room,
And now pervades the wliola.
For aye by day and night,
He keeps the portal, suffers naught
Defile the temple I:e has bought,
And tilled with joy and light.
Once 'twas a cavern dim ;
The home of evil thoughts, desires,
Enkindled hy infernal lires,
Without one thought of Him.
Regenerate by his grace,
Still 'tis a ait.-ager tun at best,
For heaven's King to make his rest,
And sho-.v his glorious face.
Yet, K.tviur. ne'er depart
From (his poor eanhly cottage home,
Pntil the Cntin.-r bid me come,
Yv'hisp'riitg within my heart.
" I sh;i?,o llipso cottage walls;
Fear not : at mv t-nmmand they bow ;
My heavenly mansions open now,"
As this poor dwelling falls.
sr.li: ONE MUST PRAY.
The social life of heathen nations is
penetrated through and through by their
religion, and the commonest duties in the
family, in busines-.? and in travel, are iden
tified wttii religious observances. It were
well if christian nations were equally
scrupulous. We give an illustration from
the S'. V Timrx :
A man of learning and talent, but an
unbeliever, was traveling in Manilla on a
scientific expedition, lie was escorted by
a native of rank, and, as they were about
to start, the native, with the refined po
liteness w hich characterizes the Orientals,
requested the white stranger to pray to
his God.
This was probably the only thing he
could have been asked to do without being
able to comply; and on his declining, the
native said,
"Well some God must be prayed to, so
you will excuse me if I pray to mine."
" Full many a shaft at random sent,
Finds mark the archer never meant."
So it was in this case. The unbeliever
was rebuked by a heathen, and the man
of science who had gone there in quest of
natural curiosities, returned, having found
the " pearl of great price." Ilia next
visit is to le as a missionary to preach
Christ. ,
THE UNKNOWN A liliKlGINES OF CENTRAL
EI HOPE.
A i:io.-t remarkable and interesting dis
covery has been made, wiiiiin a few mouths
near the margins of several lakes iu Swit
zerland and France, of the remains of a
people of an unknown racr, and of some
period previous to history. The first dis
coveries were made in 154. near Concise,
in the Canton tie Yaud. Traces of an
cient habitations, of a somewhat similar
kind, have been observed in Ireland.
In txca various made on a railroad line,
on the margin of a lake, implements and
weapons of stone, and vessels of earthen
ware, were found, with fragments of
planks, piles, bones of animals, birds and
fi. lies, which attracted the attention of
scientific men, and led to a careful inspec
tion of the works as they proceeded. Ex
plorations were afterwards made on the
borders of several other lakes in Switzer
land und Fcuneo. pud irj pioro than a hun
dred places attended with similar discov
eries; and many of the collections of an
tiquaries and antiquarian societies, are
supplied with hundreds of specimens of
such curious remains, with we'd authenti
cated accounts of the lucidities, positions
and circumstances in which they were dis
covered. We shall content ourselves with
a very brief notice of the most important
results to w hich the learned have arrived
from their careful observations and deduc
tions made on the spot, at the time, and
under the most favorable advantages.
The subject has excited so much interest,
that many fictitious relics have beeu made,
and palmed oft" as genuine ; but compe
tent judges have beeu able to secuto the
genuine, and to detect and expose the im
postures. We derive the following facts
from au article on the subject in the Paris
li'rrue ArdKiolo'iq'ti, conducted by "Les
Principaux Arch;c!ogiics l'rancais et Et
raiigers," written by Frederic Troyon.
The people w hose remains have been
thus unexpectedly and accidentally dis
covered, occupied small buildings of wood,
constructed upon platform, built from the
shores of lakes, and extending a consider
able distance from the margin. The re
mains of the piles or posts which support
ed the platforms, and of the planks of
which the platforms and hou.-es o huts
were constructed, are so lar preserved,
and in such positions, as to prove that this
custom existed. These have been kept
from decay by being covered with the
sediment of the lake, aud by the water
above it; and thus also have beeu pre
served the handles and appendages of
many of the stone implements found
among or near them, as well as the bones
of various animals, which served the peo
ple fir food aud certain objects of other
kinds, as earthen vessels, ornaments, itc.
Some of the animals have never been
known iu that part of Europe, from the
earliest times of which we have any his
tory; and the people must have be a in
habitants anterior to the Gauls and Celt.,
because they were ignorant of metals.
From the discovery of a few articles of
iron among the most recent remains, it
has been conjectured that those people
were conquered, and, perhaps, extermina
ted by the Celts.
It will be easily seen that these discov
eries must throw new interest on some of
the ancient relics of our country, as well
as "finally others, ; different parts of the
world. We find tiuineroti-i remains of
wrought stone in our soil, but the impor
tant part of the implements are entirely
wanting, because made of perishable ma
terials. Every arrow and sp.-ar-hcad once
had its shaft, anil every axe-head, hoe,
hammer, ite., its handle, which, if entire,
might have enabled us to form more defi
nite ideas of its use. Besides, any people
who would take the pains to shape stones
into so many forms as we find, probably
would employ shells, wood, and bones for
many other purposes; so that we have to
regret that only a very small share of the
implements, utensils, tools, and ornaments
of our American aborigines can have come
down to our time, and that most of those
we find are destitute of some important
part. Their habitations, the remains of
the animals on which they fed, except the
shells of oysters and clams, have all been
destroyed by time. But perhaps some
discovery may yet be made, in some part
of our country, resembling those iu the
Swiss lakes, which may in part supply
facts wanting to the archaeologist. Such
are the resemblances between some of
those stone relies and certain kinds found
in the United States, that interesting light
is thrown on several of the latter, by the
descriptions and drawings in the publica
tion before-mentioned. The World.
Til K GKOWLERY.
While speaking of the arrangements of
his house, a gentleman of our acquaintance
said that on the first floor there were the
dining-room, the sitting-room, and the
growlery. We never before had heard of
such an institution, but it instantly occur
red to us that here was a bright and pro
ductive idea. A growlery! Why, we all
ol us nave the thing, the potent entity ;
and would it itot be well to segregate it
from the common uses of the domicil, and
endow it, so to speak, as a peculiar instil -u-tion
of its own? Why should it be mixed
up with everything, jarring on the domes
tic svmiihoiiy. and setting the tune to
something other than a minor key? Why
not withdraw it to a special room, and clear
kitchen, dining-room, sitting-room, parlor,
nursery, library, bed-chamber, attic, cellar,
and closet, of its un welcome presence?
We foresee the growlery, therefore, rapidly
growing in favor. It will be the confes
sional of the house a thingthe Protestants
have always ached to have, and sadly
needed. Only it will be a sort of sclf-con-fessioiial.
and self-exainiiiarory and self
explosive private closet. It will be the fun
room of the house, too; for give grumb
ling one turn more of the handle, and it
makes it drollery right off. To the grow
lery, then, with the whole race of grumb
lers, croakers, scolders, worriers, forcbod-.
crs. Let them do penance, there, and
swallow their medicine, the necessary
dt'iijrt -ill-run, and infelicities, and contre
temps of life, without agitating the whole
household with their wry faces and un
comfortable remarks. To the growlery
with crying children, and sour youths, and
scowling maidens, and pettish tempers, and
cross dispositions, and the whole brood of
the miniature family devils! Put them
together, and perhaps they would look so
unhandsome, that they would shame one
another into good manners. But au even
better plan was to send the whole tribe of
growls, grumbles, croaks, spites, and bites,
a-bulging, and burn so strong and fragrant
tile of good-will and Christian love iu
i tin
home sanctuary, that the whole dismal
pany would take to their heels. ( 'iri-
tiuu Inquirer.
A BIBLE-READER IX JIEXHU '
.!i agent of the American Bible Socio
rives the following very interesting
s respecting a reader of the Bible in
xi co :
think I have found one true christian
in LUexico. lie is a .Mexican, cignty y rs
obi. He is very poor, and teaches a little
scl hud in the suburbs of Matamoras for a
suil port. While distributing Bibles, I
called accidentally at his jacol, or house,
unii offered to sell him a Bible. He said
he
1:
had one already, and (showed it to inc.
ked if he read it. He answered, " It
tod's book why should I not read it?''
then showed me a New Testament,
ich he had obtained in New Orleans,
is
H4
w
irs ago. It was printed ly the Alucri-
Bible Society in lifli), and its appear
i testified that it has been long and
11 used. Between the leaves, marking
favorite texts and passages, were pieces of
coin husks or shucks. It is very connuou
w
th
th
th
h the Mexicans to have corn shucks in
'.r pockets or hats, of hu h to make
r cigarritos; but this old man used
in lbr a double purpose. My old friend
or so 1 came to regard him in a little
vl
i!e seemed to prize his old book as a
1
il of great price. I thought he looked
ul
hi
u it with reverence ami delight, and
dim eyes sparkled as he spoke of its
bl
ssetl truths and precious promises. I
a
d him if he prayed to the saints? He
"No." If he worshipped the Virgin?
sa
J'o; he-worshipped God only the Holy
Tifuity, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit."
Iti
ok up the testament, and turned to tho
d chapter of the gospel according t'
John, and read the dialogue between
blessed Master and the Jewish ruler.
tl
St
out
I
iien asked lorn what lie thought ot I lie
lie
Lv birth or regeneration. lie said lie he
lit
ed it was necessary to be born again.
in
th
order to enter the kingdom ul'God. lie
ri tola me of his own deep repentance
an
I sorrow of heart, and how at last lie
fo
nd pardon, and peace, and joy, through
faith in Christ.
I cannot tell you how it cheered my
nt to find even one true christian in
xico. May not the Bibles which 1 mil
nJv circulating bring more to the kuowl-
ed
Le of the truth as it is in Jesus? God
gr
tut it! May the old school teacher s mil
si
no so brightly, as it declines, that otli-
er
may see the true path that leads up to
evk
Hasting lights !
THE VOICE CE THE IK'EAN.
Was it the sound of the distant surf that
s iii mine cars, or the low moan of tin)
. i . i i i
tnecze, as it crept through tin; neighbor-
iL' wood? O, that hoarse voice of ocean,
never silent since time first began where
it not been uttered? There is slilhic-s
lid the calm of the arid and rainlcs 1 -
stji t, where no spring rises, and no strcam-
1 flow; tind the long caravan plies it
ary march amid the blinding glare f
sand, ami the red, unshaded rays of
e fierce sun. But once ami again, mid
t again, has the roar of the ocean Ik'cii
kcre. It is his sands that the wind hc.ipt
; ami it is the skeleton remains of hi
ssals shells ami fish, ami the stony coral
that the rocks underneath inclose
Tliere is silence on the tall mountain f'-uk,
th its glittering mantle ol snow, ttl.cre
u panting lungs labor to inhale the ihiil
.ik air where no insect murmurs and
bird flic, and whero the aye wanders
it multitudinous lull-tops that lie l.ir
bJnealh, and vast dark fords that sweep
to the distant horizon, and along long
billow valleys where the great rivers bc
gili. And vet once anil again, anu yet a-
in, has the roar of the ocean been there.
T te clligies ol' bis more ancient denizens
w ; find sculptured, on the crags, where
tl ey jut I rum beneath the ice into the
mists-wreuth ; and his later beaches, stage
buy on I stage, terrace the descending slo
esj. Where has the irrcate destroxt-r not
btjoii the devoiirer of continents the
b !ue foaming dragon, whose vocation is So
c; t up the land? His he fiocs have nlil.e
fi .-rowed the flat-steppes of Siberia, and
tie rocky flanks of Schchallian ; an i his
ii Humilities and fish lie imbedded in i-rct
stones of the pyramids, hewn in the timet
o 'the Pharoahs, and in rocky folds of
b. haiion, still untouched by the tool. So
h ng as ocean exists, there must be disin'
tt ration, dilapidation, change; and should
tl e time ever arrive when the elevatory
agencies, motionless and chill, shall sleep
within their profound depths, to awaken
ii more and should the sea still continue
ti impel its currents, and to roll its waves
-every continent and island would at
length disappear, and again, as of old,
vhen the fountains of t lie great deep were
'oken up,'
'A sliorelvKM oct'ttu tumMu round the glolir.
,'as it with reference to this principle, so
recently recognized, that we are expressly
Id in the Apocalypse respecting the rcn-
olyated earth, iu which the state of things
si i all be fixed and eternal, that 'there shall
lie no more sea ?' or are we to regard th
relation asthe inert' hieroglyphic
nicturod shajte ot some analogous moral
qrutur ' Iteasoning Ironi what we know
and from what else remains to us mi
irth without a sea-would be an earth wil li
nt ram, without vegetation, without lile
4-a dead and doleful planet of waste
rllaces, such as the telescope reveals to us
the moon. And yet the ocean doc
ein peculiarly a creature of time d all
ic great agents of vicissitudes und chrrigc.
the most intliientinr and untiring; and lo
I... t't.1 in. ...
al state in wnicu mere snail tie no vicissi
tudes and no change in which the earth-
lakes shall not heave from beneath, nor
ic mountains wear down, and the con
tinents melt away it seems inevitably
ossary that there should
be
1 no more
1. llil'lli Miller.
WW f !
SUNDAY MORNING BELLS.
From the near city comes the clung of bell ;
their liiiiniriMj jarring diverse touM com.
bine
In one faint misty harmony, as fine
As one Mjft note yon wiiAer robin swells.
What if to Thee in thine Intiiiilr
These multiform and many color d crf-Hj
Seem but the robe man wraps as maimer's
weeds
Round the one living truth Thou givest him
i inre i
What if these varied forms that worship
prove.
Being heart-worship, reach thy perfect car
IStitas a inonoionc, complete ami clear.
Of which the music is t'irough Chist's iioiae,
Love ?
Forever rising in sublime increase
To "Glory iu the Ilighe-jt on cartb,
peace V'
I a !
V
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