Gambier Observer, February 01, 1837

Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange 1837 2-1-1837 Gambier Observer, February 01, 1837 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/observer1837 Recommended Citation "Gambier Observer, February 01, 1837" (1837). 1837. 38. https://digital.kenyon.edu/observer1837/38 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1837 by an authorized administrator of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. l,A1lllli:i! OBSERVER -“THAT THY WAY MAY BE KNOWN UPON EARTH, TIIY SAVING HEALTH AMONG ALL NATIONS.’ VOL. VII. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1? 1837. NO. 12. ________ _ ___ ffiaxK7grMaavah«iiiii iii mw^ CONDUCTED BY ing as this. The line of demarcation between whole conduct is marked with levity—a mere as Fox beautifully says, “Quick of understand being, as well as the greatest cruelty to AN ASSOCIATION OF CLERGYMEN. flippant coxcomb—who appears to be in his the people of God, and those who are in an un ing in the Lord’s matters.” Oh, the wisdom ourselves. To fail of such an object, to defeat proper element only when in the midst of fash converted state, should always be drawn, that is from above how independent, how su t ie end of our existence, and in consequence GEORGE \V MYERS, PRINTER. ion and gayety, and has no relish for the socie and drawn with such breadth and distinctness, perior is it to all outward aids. Quiet, patient of neglecting the great salvation, to sink at last ty of the serious and the grave—to see such a that every one will be constrained to see on humble and industrious, there she sat at the under the frown of the Almighty, is a calamity THE PREACHERS. young man stretching out his hands to bear the which side he stands, and therefore, to un spinning-wheel, day after day, and year after which words were not invented to express, nor vessels of the sanctuary, is shocking beyond de derstand what part of the sermon belongs to year—expecting nothing on earth, but with a Amid my garden’s hroider'd paths I trod finite minds formed to grasp. Eternity, it is gree? And yet young men of this very stamp him.’’ heart set upon the things above; the poorest of surely not necessaf-y to remind you, invests eve And there my mind soon caught her favorite clue ; do find their way into the ministry. This conversation continued, and as it pro that poor family, yet the first to be called to ry state, whether of bliss or of suffering with a I seem’d to stand amid the Church of God, “Some seem to view the sacred office merely ceeded, the speakers seemed to gather fresh in- her inheritance; the lowest in her father’s house mysterious and awful importance entirely its And flowers were preachers, and (still strangers) drew as a post of honour, conferring distinction upon spirition from the lovely night-scene around the foremost to take her place in those man own, and is the only property in the creation From their own life and course the man who holds it, and opening the way of them. But I must hasten to tell you of a con sions, of which eye has not seen, nor ear heard which gives that weight and moment to what The lore'they would enforce; agreeable access to the most respectable por versation in relation to parochial visiting. Oft the glory. Sh« was suddenly attacked by ever it attaches,compared to which, all sublun And sound their doctrine was, and every precept true. tion of community. Others seem to enter the en, after having spent a few hours with Mr. some complaint in her head, so violent, that she ary joys and sorrows; all interests which know a And first the Sunflower spake. Behold, he said, ministry because they are fond of literary pur H----- , and witnessed the easy, natural, and feared she should lose her senses. “I pray.” period, fade into the most contemptible insigni suits, and wish to enjoy a life of literary ease, delightful manner in which he engaged every said she—and it was one of her last reasonable How I unwearily from dawn to night ficance. In appreciating every other object, it released from all care in relation to the means individual about him in conversation upon per Turn to the wheeling sun my golden head, sentences—“I pray that if the Lord sees fit to is easy to exceed the proper estimate; but what' of their subsistence. Others again seem hon sonal religion, I have asked myself, Why is it take my senses, he will take my speech too, And drink into my disk fresh draughts of light. if it be lawful to indulge such a thought, what estly to desire to do all the good they can in that Christian people, and Christian ministers, that I may not say words to grieve his Holy would be the funeral obsequies of a lost soul?— O mortal 1 look and learn ; the world, and though they have no clear views so seldom converse upon a subject so noble, so Spirit.” Her prayer was heard. On Thurs Where shall we find the tears fit to be wept at So, with obedient turn, of the doctrines of the cross; or of the worth glorious, so infinitely interesting? day her senses forsook her, and, about the same such a spectacle? or, could we realize the ca From womb to grave pursue the Sun of life and might. of the undying soul, aspire to the sacred time, she ceased to speak. On Sunday, her lamity in all its extent what tokens of commis And next I heard the lowly Camomile, office from a sort of undefined philanthropic From the British Magazine. sister, standing by, thought she heard her ar eration and concern would be deemed equal to Who, as I trod on him with reckless feet, feeling. A CHRISTIAN FAMILY. ticulate the words—“Lord, now let thy ser the occasion? Would it suffice for the sun to “When we think how many enter the minis vant depart in peace;” and so she reached her veil his light, and the moon her brightness? to And wrung his perfume out, cried, List awhile— “Still to the lowly soul home. E’en thus with charity the proud one greet. try from these and similar views—and how ma He doth himself impart, cover the ocean with mourning and the heavens ny that put on the sacerdotal robes deceive But I must not forget the old man—the very with sackcloth? or were the whole fabric of na And, as insulters press, And for his cradle and his throne themselves, and have never been in truth ‘mov Chooseth the pure in heart.” picture of an English cottager—a little bent ture to become animated and vocal would it be E'en turn thou thus and bless, ed by the Holy Ghost’ to enter upon this high Keble. and toil-worn, yet still retaining proof in his hale possible for her to utter a groan too deep, or a And yield from each heart’s-bruise a redolence more sweet. and sacred embassy, it is not at all wonderful It was on a gloomy afternoon in February figure, clear eyes, and healthy complexion, cry too piercing, to express the magnitude and Then from his rocky pulpit 1 heard cry that we see around us in so many instances such that we went to visit old Isaac’s dying wife. It that if labour is “the primal curse," it is yet extent of such a catastrophe?”—Rev. Robert The Stonecrop. See how loose to earth I grow. sad failure of ministerial success. O that our was the first walk we had taken together for “softened into mercy.” He has feared God Hall. And draw my juicy' nurture from the sky. young men would think how awful a matter it is many months. The breath of the fresh air, and from his youth up; and his happy countenance So drive not thou, fond man, thy root too low; to stand before God and perjure themselves in the feeling of returning strength to enjoy it, assures you, at the first glance, that his heart “The principal method which the Spirit But loosely clinging here, the very act of receiving their external com will give pleasure at all times, and we enjoyed realizes the promise, “Even to old age I am adopts in subduing the heart of a sinner is a spi From God’s supernal sphere mission—that they would consider that without the walk, though yet there was scarcely an He; even to hoary hairs I will carry you.” I ritual discovery of Christ. There is an attrac "Draw life’s uncaithly food, catch heaven’s undying glow. they are ‘moved by the Holy Ghost to take up half-opened daisy along the bank, or a bird in was sometime ago much struck by the remark tive force in the Saviour, when beheld by faith on them this office,’ they cannot but be a blight the hedge. The thrush (slorm cock, as the peo of a clergyman, made in familiar conversation which commands. Christ crucified possesses a Then preach’d the humble Strawberry. Behold and mildew, laying waste the fair heritage of ple call him because he sings in such boisterous “If a Christian is but a shoe-black, he ought to drawing power; ‘When the Son of man is lifted The lowliest and least adorn’d of flowers the Lord wherever they are cast, that they weather) shunned this chill and cloudy after be the best in the parish;” and, as far as my ob up, he will draw all men unto him.’ (John xxi.

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