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POETRY. WHO MADE THE LHTLE FLOWERS. The Atheist in his garden stood, At twilight’s pensive hour. His little daughter by his side, Was gazing on a flower. . “ Oh pick that blosSom Pa, lor me,”‘ The little praller said; “ It is the fairest one that blooms Within the lowly bed.” The father plucked the chosen flower, And gave it to the child— . With parted lips and sprarkling eye, She seized the and smiled* « Oh, Pa—who made the pretty flower, This little violet blue ; Who gave it such a fragrant smell, ■ And such a lovely hue 1” A change came o’er the father’s brow; His eyes grew strangely wild ; New thoughts withih him had been stirr’d By that sweet, artless child. The truth flashed on her father^ mind— The truth in all its power; * There is a God, my child," he said; ‘ “ He made that little floifrer.” <■ MOTHER^ SING JERUSALEM.” The last wards of a beautiful boy who died a few yeats sine A child laid in a twilight room With pallid waxen face; A little child whose tide of life, Had nearly run its race. Most liSfly robes the angels brought, By holy spirits given, Ready to wrap the child in them, And carry him to heaven. And shining wings, with clasps oflight, Two shining wings they bore, To fasten on the seraph child, Soon as the strife was o’er. Perchance their beauty made him think Of some harmonious word, That often from his mother’s lips The dying one had heard. It might be, for he whispered low, 11 Sing, mother sing,” and smiled. The worn o*e knelt beside the couch “ What shall I sing my child ** Jerusalem, my happy home, The gasping boy replied, And sadly sweet the dear notes rang Upon the even-tide: “ Jerusalem, my happy home, Name ever dear to me 1 When shall my labors J In joy and peaceyana ETERNITY. Eternity, strictly taken, is the peculiar attri bute, of the Ppity. Creatures may be immortal and exist forever ; but it is God alone who knows no begining. la tfeje. »ew, however, it is in vain to attempt a distinct or accurate' idea. “ God is great, and we know him not.” The most acute philosophers dispute in vain of his existence, nor can the genius of an Aristotle or a Cicero, or a Bacon, a Newton, or a Locke, penetrate the clouds of mystery which surround his throne ; or even as j£JB*essed ^ « Stretch out a thought half way to God.” But, applying the term in its most restricted sense to creatures, we begin to apprehend it. We can conceive existence without end, because we cannot conceive an end to all existence. In this view, eternity gives perfection to happiness, and, extrbfttfty-te misery. With this attribute, the enjoyment of a worm should exceed the tem porary pleasures of a man ; and the sting of a fly become more intolerable by its perpetuity than the torture of the stone. Human ingenuity has been exhausted as the wisdom of an angel might be, in attempting to delineate existence without end. The-day a of eternity have been compared to ... forest, and to the blades of the meadow ; tn thr driiji* ftl I Ml .. ... upon its shores; to the stars of the sky, and to the beams of the sun ; but what are leaves and blades, drops and sands, and stars and sunbeams to eternity? Add the whole and multiply l,ltm br each other, subtract the mighty sum, it would iimiuisirnpthing from the ages of immortality ; rom the duration of a soul! / It is this'idea which gives importance to hu nan life. Considered in itself, “ What is our life ? X is a vapor.” But consider it in connection with l future state, and it is of infinite Importance. The U an^ Insp.s it self in the atmosphere ill, by and by, the'vHtotw Vinrrii’^ is covered, and lie heavens are clothed intthSckn®#*. Thus ime expands into eternity ; human life, vain ahif ransieot as it is, acquires the character of infinity. Characters for eternity are formed in time. The blossom is set, and the fruit must correspond. IdMtUjHijtnd hell are begun on earth. Here tbe affections choose their object, which eternity will not change. Tbe heart naturally embraces sinful pleasures, and while in a state ol unregeneracy, will seek no higher enjoyment; bul if renewed by grace, these things will becomt rather objects of aversion, and the affections, wil a&ttWKto purer and sublimer objects, that is t( the enjoyment of eternity. Here a taste is formed, which we shall carrj with the eternal stale. If this taste be spiritual, it will prepare us for the spiritual and divine enjoy ments, of the heavenly world ; for communion with the Lamb ; but if “ earthly, sensual, and is a$. awj&ji^eparationfor _the burn ing lake. In short, this subject, eternity, has a two-fold aspect, like that of the miraculous cloud in the wilderness, which, while it afforded light and gui dance to the chosen, race of Israel, exhibited tc the Egyptians nothing bdt gloom, horror and the blackness of darkness,” an awful type of that which is forever. God of eternity 1 open to our minds such a view of this infinitely important subject, as may, while it diminisbes all the little concerns of mortality, fix our attention and our hearts upon the sublime and celestial glories of the eternal world ! Religion is like the.Jirmament; the more ont starches it the more stArs are seen ; it is like the sea, the more one views it the moreboundless i appears. •* A great deal of talent is lost to the world fo the want of a little courage."<^ - ‘ Prom ihe Gospel Herald. Bro. Williamson : I am much pleased with the movements of our brethren in Ohio respecting Antioch College. I believe the time bks come that wo can, as a denomination, build an Institu tion of learning that will command the attention of an enlightened community. > * I do not regret that we made an effort some . years ago in Ohio, to establish “ Lafayette Uni versity. It is true, it was a source of great raor tifieniion to some of us, when we found it was go ing to be a failure—but the failure at that time should stimulate us to action in the enterprise now before us. The denomination at that time wa not prepared to more forward in a work of thal kind, but now we- are beginning to have some sense on the subject of education, and are brouglu to see, that if we do not arise and establish an in stitution of learning, that we shall lose all the ta lent and respectability of the rising generation, anc be regarded as an ignorant and slothful society and beoome extinct in a half century more. I am rejoiced that we are about to wipe of the blot that has so long clouded our prospects and prostrated our hopes. The world is now be ginning to look upon us as a denomination witl some degree of interest, and our influence is fell in every portion of our country. The sects plainly see, that after all their efforts , to keep us in the back ground, and destroy oui influence, that we are about to move forward ir our strength, and fill an important place in the history of the world. Ten years ago it would have been impossible to have got together eighty three ministers in a General Convention, as that which met in Marion last October. Look at the sacrifice of time and money. It speaks volumes and will tell to generations to come, that in the year 1850, we moved forward in an importanl work. If we could only get the people to see how easy it is to raise large amounts of money without oppressing any individual, I am sure they would come right up to the work. I believe the College is to be built and endowed with scholarships, but of this I am not informed. Ir fact, I know but little about the plan of raising funds to accomplish .the object. I will here make a* calculation, and show how easy Elder Phillips, and other Agents, could raise $600,000, We have 300,000 members and friends of our church, who are willing to'Support it. In this I am not mistaken ; for l am fully satisfied there are a great many more than this number, blow, if this number would pay $2 O^jach, the sum jvouldJje rased tu qaee. we have thousands tio cinnW pay $2^^Tlfcdily grant it—but, en, -\ye liare "thousands who can pay more than $2 08.7 ^ Let us divide our people into different classes I will assume that there is the following; num ber, who can pay the sums, supposed in the schedule : 500 each $100 amounting to 50,000 1,000 ' 2,000 4,000 10,000 20,000 30.000 40.000 50.000 60.000 40.000 42.000 60 40 20 10 5 3 1 50c.' 20 < 10 ' 5 ‘ 50.000 80.000 80,000 100,oop 100.000 90.000 40.000 25.000 12.000 40,000 2,125 $633,125 30,000 “ In the calculation, that I have made, the 300, 000, with the sums annexed, could raise $633, 125. I feel very certain that we have not a sin gle member but what can pay five cents. With this amount of money, what a great amount of good we could accomplish. I do not know how much ?rili be requin*4 to build Antioch college, but suppose it will take $200,000. We would then have $438,125 left. But suppose we throw away $33,125 for those among us who will not uav any thing. Let us what we could do with [thiVmm>—t We eouJd build 100 rnwj»,.i — hv^ $2000 each, We could send out 50 Ministers at 400 each, . We could educate 200 young men for the Ministry, at $150, . . . We could distribute 200,000 Bibles at 20 cents each, We could have books and periodicals to send out, For superanuated ministers, widows, and orphans ,. For agencies to accomplish the work, ~$Trro,»o£L 20,000 30,000 40,000 10,000 90.000 10.000 , $400,000 By taking a view of the above, we see what we could accomplish by symematic action. Other denominations have pursued a similar course— and just see wbat they have brought about. Look now at the funds they Lave on hand! What great Book and Periodical Establishments they have I What institutions of learning they now have _and what an influence they are exerting in the world! And we as a denomination, with the best system of government in the world, are so far be hind. Brethren, let ns arise, and build. We bare the wealth, if it were only brought into active opera tion. We have an abundance of wealth, which we owe to the Lord, and which have never been called for. It is now time that we should pay what we owe. We have thousands amongst usrthfit must pay and pay largely into the treasury of the Lord, or never get to Heaven. I do not believe that there is a churl, or a penurious, stingy, close-fisted, misery, niggardly man or woman, in Heaven, God will not have them there—and if they ar<j not permitted to dwell in the church above, they have no business in the church below. But, says one, we must deal tenderly with some, or we shall drive them to other churches. If we deal kindly and tenderly with this class, they will give ua nothing, and will he of no bse to- us, but ra ther a hindrance—therefore, the sooner we get rid of them the better. I believe we have some amongst us who have, come for no other purpose than to get clear of paying any tiling to support the cause of God. If I am spared to returu to Ohio, I shall do yote all my energies to the cause of education and the interest of our church- I have heard ac one say1 where the contemplated College is to bt located. I say, by all means let us have it in Ohio, or farther west. The Yellow Springs is a beaatiful location, easy of aoces from all parts of the world. Surrounded with a rich, productive country, and a healthy situation, suppose we have it located at this place. ' What »«y ye my breth- j j "feivusrf the Buckeye State ? ISAAC N. WALTER. Faucett’s Store, N. C. ) Jan. 10, 1851. J PROTESTANTISM IN FRANCE. ‘ f"' BT na. BERG. “ Go to France. * * * * Travellers tell us that the temples there represent but a mockery of a memory of a departed creed ; that they are chill, and dark,” <fcc. Say, ye slaughtered Hugu ■ enots! Who quenched tlbe fire that once burned ■ upon your altars? Who made your temples “ chill ?” Who drove your myriads of devout worshipers from their loved sanctuaries, and made them “dark?” Oh I Archbishop Hughes! How ' dare you point to France ? Have you never heard of the night of St. Bartholomew, in the year 1572 ? Did you not know that there are Hugu enots in America, to remind you of it ? Yes, he knew it well—but he speaks with the sheer reck lessness of arrogance! He points to France, whose population was formerly almost equally di vided between the Roman Catholic and the Pro-, testant elements, and he tells you, those Protest ant temples “are chill and dark!” Think of thousands upon thousands of Protestants massa cred in Paris alone! Roused from their slumbers by the tolling of the tocsin, they are met in the streets by armed assassins, wenring the symbol of a white cross upon their shoulder; unarmed and defenceless, suspeoling no evil, they are lured like sheep to the shambles, and murdered by Popish ruffians. The tragedy was repeated in other ci ties, until France was dripping in Protestant blood ! And when at last, worn out by the perfidity and ruthless cruelty of their oppressors, who violated the most sacred treaties, robbing thenaof their dearest rights, so soon as their armies were dis banded, and their sword laid ;by in the scabbard ; when at last, after surrendering advantages gained in the open field,- and time and again bowing in, loyal submission to ‘-.their, King, aiutagain and again seeing the most solemn stipuftttidtfs violated, as though oaths and covenants wire ordained to b^Jbroken; afjter wars were parried on through, successive generations; uhfit they were reduced -to * mere" remnarfV-Louis set about the work of converting them to the cb“reh Of Rome.. And who were the missiiM*rt^®s ? His brutal soldiery. He termed±l»«se expeditions “ dragonades.” The poonflOguenot had his choice between conformi ty to the creed and the worship of-Reum, nr.jhe prison and the gibbet. By these means Louis boasted that he c'ould succeed, to admiration, in taming the refractory. Thousands left their coun try, seeking an asylum in Holland, in the Palati>. nate, in England. I admit. Archbishop-Hughes never said a word more strictly true, than when he told the wonder sfiickep orowd in St, P;itrick’s Cathedral, that Protestantism had declined in Franc® Now, in -the brazen assurance with which he glories in its • deoliiie, he. is entirely consistent. Is he tot awod of an infallible Church ? Is he not a mos^jj erend Archbishop ? And did not, thefl Kome order a solemn A e A/eum, ana » gs tificai Mass, in honor o f Ufff Bartbolotr^ ere, when the tidings came to the “ Etti Is not the medal stilljextant. which the Papal mint, bearing the bloody] “ Hugonotorum Strages,”—the Slaughtj Huguenots! Rejoice, Archbishop! I* find pleasure in the thought that Prq has declined in France, ' that for all these things, God will cursed Papacy to judgment! This all the rest.- In the Netherlands, in,| Ireland, in Spain, aye, even in Italy,j ism declined; in some instances it was the same infernal agencies. And not any wonder? Is not, the ..gtarj^_ exists at all? Is it not almost aj Aaapite of all the horrible ordt Protestantism -lias passed in still holds its own, and is as the aggregate, this day, as it the Reformation? If it, would long since havj^ heaven-born as it is, it c cline, but it will revive! Moses beheld—it may consumed, for God is iS Falling of the He agora Falls Iris says i Horse Shoe Fall, on tremendous crash a wee I part which fell was about 1 rods wide. It-carried had been lodged upon it? Iris says, it seems, “ prov this season of the year; for it^ where so many continually waters of the cataract ruse their heads, that is now filled ses of rock which have fallen, of the falls is said to be not in th The Censvs Complete. Tbe whole State of North Carolina has certained, with tbe exception of th< Mecklenburg, and assuming, the nurtf County to be 14,000, ;the total po North Carolina is 870,687,, of whi'cl slaves. The increase of slaves ii nuum •*«, 1840. Tbe increase of tbe entire population si is 117,268. A Link of Sieambrs to New York. We « from the Norfolk Argus that a project is on foW in that city to establish a line Of Steam packet^ between Norfolk and New York. One person alone has subscribed twenty-five thousand .dollars of the amount required, and the bal ance, the Argus is sure, will readily be taken by the business men of that city. A pair of com passes, said to be undoubtedly Roman, but resembling in every respect the mod ern instrument, have been found among the Ro man remains, lately discovered at Cirencester, England. ' ** v SUDDEN DEATH OF AN ACTRESS. A few days since an actress in this ciHr^repre sonted as being beautiful, and talented, had wor golden opinions among the pleasure-Wing patrons of the theatre. She had consecrated to the stage youth and native loveliness, with ability, that might have fitted her to adorn a very different station. But in this, her chosen pursuit, she were content to be admired. Hero, as we may sup pose, were centred her affections and her hopes. Aipid the mirth, revelry and worldliness with which she was surrounded, the thought of death was banished, and her daily avocations gave her little time or opportunity to solve the great prob lem, “ Where shall I spend my eternity ?” Her part in the stage scene she was well prepared to act, but her appropriate part in the solemn drama just behind the scenes of Time, she had not stu died. Poor missguided youth 1 Had she kown the time when the curtain of life would fall, and her soul stand undressed before the great White Throne, probably her. last evening at the Theatre had been spent elsewhere. But like others) she knew not what should be on the morrow, aij\l realized not that her life was “even as a vapor tnSu appeareth for a little sea son and then vanisheth away.” She repaired to the theatre, attired in the usual costume of the stage, and during the performances of the evening 1 her clothes accidently brushed against a lighted lamp, and in a moment she was enveloped in flames. Her fortitude arid-presence of mind are represented ns being truly heroic. Every possi ble effort was made to save her, but, after lin gering in great agony a fe w brief hours, she ex pired. «• ^ Here waa a scene and a finale, fulf of stern re ality. I|f was fearful to see a young female con tending with the king of terrors, in guise so ter rible. Sad to see her become its hapless victim —a countenance once so animated, changed to the hue of death—and then we know that this is not the end. i “ For, oli! tbe soui, that never dies, • 1 At once it leaves the clay, Ye thoughts pprsue it where it flies, And track _/ts wondrous way.’’^, <>Upto tfiO&mrts where-c1*^8 Iive i. It mounts triu»>cr“a,“t'ier®l „ Dr devils 11 llown to dweU ,-unntte despair.” wnere has the soul gone ? What are now its occupations and enjoyments? For what society bad It become the fitting companion, while so journing in the clay tenement? These are quer ies involved in doubt and painful uncertainty. We know that God is merciful as well as just, and that mercy and salvation may have met her case, even lire in life’s last hours. But who wpuld ruu the fear ful hazard of defering attention tft the concerns of the soul till the last day of life ? Who woulej choose to spend their last evening on fh a theatrical eateriair ye wbo when visiting the i to the theatre—will " forth before mojj prayerfully^ ye^eat IS I pect yield the1 five that 1 _ oiton; then, young; diligent m bu*io«*». mind, and you will find “ the wel , „ joyment in your own souls," and secure the con fidence and respect of nil whose tegpect is worth an effort to obtain. PROSPECTUS OF Tift; EIGHTH volume OF THE €>lirl9ltan 9nir, ■ions and Miscellaneous Family Newspaper, pub in the City of (tqleigb, North Carolina, by A It ti HEYRY B. HAYES, Publishing Aobnt, Edited V W. R. Wki.i.ons, J. R. Holt, * H. B. Hates I Although the Christian Sun lost much of its lustre by I the lamented death of its late able and excellent publish i er—Elder D. W. Kerr, and may not now appear full ' orbed in its whole round of rays complete under the di rection of it; present publisher, yet, he trusts, it will still shine on gruftyingly to its patrons and friends, as the Organ of the Christian Denomination in the South, and so commend itelf to all the lovers of truth, as to find*a hearty welcome in every family where religion and vir tue have a horm And while it will steadily reflect the ‘ light of those geat New Testafnent principles upon «M ' ‘" . which the ChurcM* founded, and emlejivor to show that th$y are identical with those upon Which the General Church was at the beginning founded by Christ and his Apostles, and, whatthe whole Church militant must again become, if the iillenium is ever to bless the world; in a word, upon the Rhie alone, to the utter rejection of all.hiiman made ism* names and creeds, which have served to divide the boL 0f Christ. And of course, we shall call Bible thingsfcy Bible names; yet, we shall treat all the Lord’s peojjf as Brethren, of right, of one here tremfffer in sentiment, and respect. r contained in the Sun, there ellany, a synopsis of pass T as news, heralded from a ' ral information and use l, besides advertising in common household—am still treat them with ft Besides the religious mi will be much int£ esting ing events at home and abi busy world; valuable Agi ful lessons in domestic ct yielUgCnce. . . > N# pains will be spared to sheet, published with regular^ treats for the mind-and heart. - v ._... The present volume Will be pifclished semi-monthly, at one dollar per annum, payable1!# advance, but u not paid in six months. $1 25. If circumstances will ju»u fy it, the paper will be publishedweekly after the close of the present volume. . , Newspapers generally, and especially Utoaem our Own Denomination, are respectfully requested to give two or three insertions of this Prospectus, and tne will be cheerfully reciprocated. _ . • ITIerry >§ m. BY o V. Goodrich, esq. DISTINGUISH® tCtHOB OF PETER PARLEY’S TALES, Sue. Stay This popular monthly-is now in the tenth year of its publication, and its merits are too well known torequlre extended notice. Being the or.DESTyit is intended it shall ever be the best work of the kind. As evideafee of ap proval from a discerning public, moreAhan 13,0w co] are riowissued. Each number contains at least thirty two pages of choice reading, and numerous Engravings. The design of this work is to aid in the formation of character; establish good principles; cultivate right feel ings; promote correct habits; and store the mind with useful knowledge. Some of the leading f Geography, pky, etc.; acco Tale $, Sic ble Occurs Mae ville and Also, a January 29th, II
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