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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange Gambier Observer 1841 6-5-1841 Western Episcopal Observer June 5, 1841 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/observer1841 Recommended Citation "Western Episcopal Observer June 5, 1841" (1841). Gambier Observer 1841. 24. https://digital.kenyon.edu/observer1841/24 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 Gambier Observer 1841 by an authorized administrator of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. BEING a CONTINUATION OF THE GAMBIER OBSERVER AND WESTERN CHURCH JOURNAL. CHAUNCEY COLTON, D. D., PROPRIETOR. ©prist anfc tfjc ©pur cp.... Crutp nnP 2.oVc. THOMAS R. RAYMOND, PUBLISHER. VOLUME XI. CINCINNATI AND-LOUISVILLE, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1841; NUMBER 23. ask thee,’ say the Jewish lawgiver. He knew through them the influences of the Spirit of on the West. The top of the ridge is flat, faction. I regarded it then, and do still re THE WESTERN EPISCOPAL OBSERVER. counsellor or friend who is as our own soul. By this means we are compelled as Noah’s that the son would ask, and he commands the God work for the production of a lively and descending rapidly towards the S. sometimes gard it, as an exceedingly unfair way of no EDITKD BY parent to aatisfy the curiosity of the child, active belief.’ This is a truth which every by offsets of rock; and the ground is tilled ticing the production of a Christian Bishop, BEV. CHAUNCEY COLTON, dove was, by the wide watery waste which “ WIEUIAia JACKSON, did not afford a single resting-place, to fly to when its opening mind is struck with facts Sunday-school teacher ought to remember and planted with olive and other fruit-trees. avowedly put forth in the service of the Re At the northern end, just at the S. E. corner “ JOHN T. BROOKE, the ark, and to take shelter there. Our gra and emblems which it desires more fully to and to apply.—London Sunday-school Ma deemer of men. If no more was intended by « HENRY V. O. JOHNS. gazine. of the «7t/-wall (not that of the ntosk,) the cious Father, with a loving jealousy over us understand. This inquisitiveness is apt to the Editor than in his explanation he avows, rvBLUHED WEEKLY, at CINCINNATI AND LOUISVILLE, thus secures oUr whole love to himself, and take an occasional flight into things which are surface is already 100 feet lower than the top why was not this distinctly stated in that ar MOUNTAINS ROUND ABOUT JERUSALEM. of the wall of the area of the niosk. From BY THOMAS R. RAYMOND, appears altogether glorious in our eyes; as ‘too difficult;’ but when it keeps its lawful ticle—or I would rather ask, was it fair to From Prof. Robinson’s Residences in Palestine.. this point I measured 1550 feet, or about 516 the fountain of living waters when the cisterns limits, it ought to be encouraged. write such an article, in such a style, on such ftmted at tb» Wuttrn Church Prut, Rogers’ Row, West Fourth-Street, Cincinnati. are broken which we were hewing out for Next. There is the power of association. Akra.—North of Zion is the hill of Akra. yards on a course S. 20 deg. IV. to the end a book in order to fix attention on a single r«<m»....Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per annum, payable in advance. ourselves. How often does the mention of a name, or It is the continuation or rather the termination of the ridge, a rocky point forty or fifty feet statement of the Preface? Would that man II. It pleases God to afflict very heavily those the fragrance of a flower stir a tide df feeling of the broad ridge or swell of land which lies above the Pool of Siloam in the mouth of the receive a light rebuke from Dr. Seabury <Ob^ctrict. who are his dear children by faith in Christ, within our hearts'. With what pleasure do North of the basin at the head of the Valley of Tyropoeon. The breadth of the ridge, as who should presume thus to ‘forestal the «—tsaxan-r - , ' " - ; ■ ■ ~~ that they may more value the choice they We pass by some scenes and places! with Hinnom, and extends down into the city, measured about the middle, I found to be 290 judgement of the Church in regard to some of WH1T-SUNDAY. have made. When they see the most inno What pain do we approach others! Why is forming its N. AV. part. Indeed the N. W. feet, or about 96 yards, from brow to brow. her wisest and holiest sons,’ better known as invocation to the holy gHost. cent, nay, the most laudable satisfactions they this? Because ideas are associated with ob corner of the city wall is directly on this the Oxford Divined? I. could possibly propose to themselves lrom jects or names. The name of a friend re ridge; from which spot the wall descends iiq- Communication^. Again: is there not an evident aim to di Spirit! pour’d on Pentecost, any creature comfort, all shivered in pieces, minds us of kindness and affection; the fra rpediately towards the N. E. and also though rect attention from the proper subject of com Parxclete, or Holy Ghost; as it were, in a moment, and water of gall grance of a flower brings back to memory less rapidly towards the S. E. To the whole To the Editors or the Western Episcopal Ob plaint iri the Bishop’s letters to the Editor of Whatsoe’er thy mystic name, spring up from that very person or thing from those in whose society we first saw or pluck ridge, both without and within the city, a server. the Churchman, when the latter strives to Shed in quivering tongues of flame, which they promised themselves abundance ed that flower. The power of association is comparatively modern tradition has given the Gentlemen:—I have watched with pain make it appear that the Bishop is grieved on Brooding over chaos deep, of joy; in such a situation how infinitely de strong even in youth; and how important is name of Mount Gihon; though there is no ful interest, the origin and progress of the con account of the freedom used by a Presbyter Garnishing the heavenly steep, sirable a connection with Jehovah, never to it that those who are engaged in Sunday- trace of any hill so named in Scripture ot troversy, still pending between the editor of with the work of a Bishop? The Editor’s Or by Jordon’s sacred side, have an end; a union with him, which is as school instruction, should keep this in view, other ancient history. Within the walls, this the N. Y. Churchman, aided by his vigilant reference to the delicate handling of a lily When the heavens were open’d wide, far above all the changes of his mortal life, and turh this power of the opening mind to hill or ridge is separated from Zion, as we correspondents, and the Bishop of Ohio. may look very well as a pretty allusion, but In the emblem of a dove, as heaven is higher than the earth. This the best account, by Connecting with the have seen, by the upper part of the Tvropo- There is so much personality and vitupera it certainly is nothing to the purpose. He Full of peace and full of love, must be apprehended as the chief of all bles place, the teacher, arid the Sunday-school eon; which commences as a shallow depres tion exhibited towards Bishop Mcllvaine in knows very well that Bishop Mcllvaine holds Resting on the Eternal Son, sings, a portion of itself sufficient. Then agreeable associations. As much as possi sion near the Yafa Gate. the columns of the Chuichman. that I think no such doctrine as infallibility in the hierar Holy, uncreated One! the souls of the faithful are taught experi ble, should kindness, and pleasure, and affec When one enters the Yafa Gate and takes it high time, for the friends of the Church in chy of the Church; nor entertains any such ab II. mentally to say, ‘Vanity of vanities, all is tion, be associated with the Sunday-school, the first street leading North immediately the West, to step forward arid enter their pro surdity as that Pfesbyters have no right freely Quickened that dost toubo the dead, vanity,’ but Christ and his love. ‘Lord, to if we expect that, under God’s blessing, the from the adjacent open place, he has before test against this style of conducting what to express their opinions on any production At the gates of hell misled; whom shall we go?’ From whence expect effects of this kind of instructiofi are to be of him at first a considerable ascent; though there is of argument, involved in the whole of any Bishop. Ilad Bishop Mcllvaine been Breath of Lifel thine aid impart— refreshment and consolation, but from thy & permanent character. afterwards the way is more level quite to the controversy. As now carried on, I am sure still merely the honored and bhloved Rector Waken every slumbering heart; self alone? ‘All my fresh springs shall be in And lastly. There is the power of imita Latin convent in the N. W. part of the city. every friend of truth, especially all truth as it of St. Ann’s, he would have been justified in Every groveling soul refine Thee.’ tion.