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NO. 2 9. VOL. VII. WEDNESDAY. MAY 31, 1837. _____ .______ish faith, they cut off his head, and the heads ministry, by bringing the wandering and the CONDUCTED BY But this peace was not ot long duration; in 1612 of the Confession of Augsburg, presented by an attempt was made by government to force the Protestant States of Germany to the Em­ of all associated with him. lost under the sound of the Gospel, arresting the AN ASSOCIATION OF CLERGYMEN. upon them the decrees of the Council of peror and the Diet of the Empire, in 1530; From that daj to this, not an effort of any tide of iniquity, aiding every benevolent design Trent; and in the bloody persecutions which agreeing substantially with the thirty-nine arti­ kind has been made to introduce Christianity in and promoting the spirituality of Christians and GEORGE W MYERS, PRINTER. followed it, the Brethren were dispersed into cles ot the Church of England and the Protes­ any form into Japan—a period of 120 years. the conversion of sinners. various parts of the world. A colony of them, tant Episcopal Church ot this country. 1 hey But sir, some indications of approaching light The audience then sung the following hymn, THE ACCEPTED SACRIFICE. who strictly retained their original principles have an ancient and simple liturgy used by them in that dark land are seen. Japan is included written for the occasion by Mr. Woodbridge; “ Give me thy heart.” and practice, migrated in 1722, under the spir­ on Sundays, and proper forms for Baptism, in that promise which gives to Christ “the hea­ O Lord on the wc call— What shall we offer thee, thou God of love ! itual superintendence of a Brother named Burial &c. though they are also accustomed to then for his inheritance.” Thousands of the Thy blood-bought children haer; Christian David, from Moravia into upper Lu- the use of extemporaneous prayer in their pub- people of God have plead the fulfillment of As prostrate at thy feet we fall, Thou who didst build the heavens and mould the earth ; that promise. Let me now, sir, state a few facts In mercy draw thou near. Thou, who didst hang the sparkling stars above, satia, in search of some sequestered corner of lie and private services. In the administration the earth where they might worship their God of the Sacraments, their Bishops and other showing that God is beginning to answer those Our sinful hearts inspire And call’dst from daikness light and beauty forth ! and Saviour in peace and purity. At the village ministers retain the beautiful and appropriate prayers for Japan. With thine own melting love,- From all the treasures of the earth and sea, Enkindle in our souls the fire of Berthelsdorff, belonging to the since well custom of antiquity: appearing always in a On the first Monday of January, 1828, a cir­ That warms the courts above, What shall we offer thee? known pious Count Zinzerdorjf, they received plain white surplice. They have also preserved cle of ladies were met for prayer in Brookline, the apostolic rite of Confirmation regarding it Mass. The inquiry was made, shall we not se­ Thus by thy grace entwined, Shall we present thee gold and glittering gems, from his steward a hospitable reception. The In everlasting bands, Such as might wreathe the brows of royalty; Count himself was absent at the Court of like our own Church as the proper mode of ad­ lect some one object for which we shall unite Our heart, our soul, our strength, our mind, Shall we pluck roses from their slender stems, Dresden, but on being informed of the arrival mission to the Lord's Supper. our prayers? - An elegent Japanese work bas­ We yield to thy commands. Such as in summer’s graceful bowers may be ; ot the emigrants, he gave orders to encourage Such is the Church of the United Brethren. ket, in possession of one of the circle, suggest­ them; they were assisted to build cottages for In the eloquent language of one not ofits com­ ed the thought, that the people who made that The Rev. Dr. McAuley, member of the Exe­ And shall we lay them at thy holy feet, cutive Committee, and in their behalf, presented An offering fair and meet? their families, andsome uncultivated lands were munion, and not of an Episcopalian, “Venerable beautiful article were destitute of the gospel. allotted to them, which their industry soon for its antiquity, connected with the early Eas­ They resolved to pray for Japan, as the per­ a view of the history,present state and prospects Or shall we deck thy temple with the spoil rendered productive. Others of the same fra­ tern Church by an orderly and unbroken suc­ manent and special object of prayer at this and of the Society: after which it was, On motion of Rev. Samuel B. Ho w, D. D., Of mighty cities, and rich palaces; ternity were induced to join the brethren, and cession: conformed in its organization by gen­ successive meetings, and also to contribute anew and flourishing village, speedily arose, eral consent, to the modei of the Primitive funds at each meeting, to be expended for this of the Reformed Dutch Church, New Brunswick Strew flowers, fling on the altar wine and oil, seconded by Heman Lincoln Esq., Treasurer And pour around thee mingling melodies called Herrnhut signifying the guard or ivatch Church: of holding a just medium between the object, whenever the way should be opened to of the Lord, which became the cradle of extreme ofhierarchal rigor and anarchial pros­ introduce the Gospel there. At that time, of the American Baptist Board of Foreign Mis­ Of lutes and voices and soft harmony, sions, Breathing up praise to thee ? the now reviving Church of the Moravians. tration of authority, of formal and pompous there was no book in the Japanese language to It appears that Commodius was their only ceremonies and meagre and vulgar plainness, be found any where out of Japan. Nor was it Resolved, That thanks be rendered to God for Or shall we bring thee treasures of the field, Bishop who survived the fierce persecution in of a literal and exclusive orthodoxy and a false known, that a single individual out of Japan, the impulse given to the foreign Christian press When the rich autumn fills her flowing horn ; Germany, just noticed; and by him steps had and boundless liberality; at peace among them­ could be found, who was acquainted with that through the grants of this Society and that the been taken to preserve the Episcopal office for selves, and extending the hand of fellowship to language. No medium of communicating a sum of $35,000 has been remitted for foreign The russet fruits the loaded branches yield— lands the past year; and the Society devoutly The clustering grapes, the golden waving corn— the dispersed Church of the Brethren so that those who deny it to each other; far removed in single ray of Christian light to that people could they might not want ministers of their own,reg­ principle and spirit from all participation in the recognize the obligation not to relax their ef­ The flowers of summer—the sweet buds of spring— then be found. There was no means of acquir­ forts until all, of every nation, to whom God Oh ! which, which shall we bring ? ularly ordained. At a synod held in 1662, strife of tongues and of pens;and the conflicts of ing even a knowledge of the language in the Nicholas Gertichius and Paul Jablonsky, (the rival sects and parties; keeping alive amidst the possession of the Christian world. About the shall give access, shall he supplied with tracts There is a voice which saith : “Oh, dearer far latter son-in-law to Commodius,) were conse­ smiles of general favor that devoted piety which time that this prayer meeting was established, anh brought to the knowledge of Christ. Than all the earthly treasures ye can give, crated Bishops; the former for the congregation it exhibited under the frowns of persecution, un­ Capt. Folger, from Nantucket, was cruising on Hon. Mr. Lincoln said, in seconding the re­ The pure aspirings of the spirit are, in Poland, the latter for the dispersed in and infected, to a great degree, with that spirit of the coast of Japan, and fell in with a Japanese solution expressing thanks to God for what had out of Bohemia and Moravia. Daniel Ernes- error, pride, ostentation and worldliness, which wreck. He saved the captain, who gave him a been done for foreign lands, he felt peculiar When in the light of Truth it loves to live:” emotions, as more than $7,000, appropriated Such be our offerings at thy holy shrine— tus Jablonsky, son of Paul, on the death of his has recently spread with such alarming rapidi­ Japanese Almanac in token of his gratitude the father in 1669, succeeded to the Episcopal ty among Christians; retaining in an artificial only article he saved from his vessel. I his Al­ the past year for missions in connection with the Our hearts, our hearts be Thine ! American Baptist Board had passed through Liverpool, England. M. A. B. charge; and by this venerable man, the episco­ age an air of patriarchal simplicity, their char­ manac was sent to Boston and shewn to these pate was^ transmitted in 1935 to the brethren acteristic ancestral virtue; and pursuing with ladies for their encouragement, as it afforded his hands as Treasurer of that institution. The who had fled From Moravia, and formed the singleness of aim, to the neglect of interior and some knowledge of the Japanese language.— intelligence from their respective stations was THE OBSERVER. settlement at Herrenhut; he having consecrat­ merely secular objects, those exalted ends for Soon after this, another fact still more encour­ full of encouragement; but the lateness of the hour forbade his dwelling on it fora moment. From the Protestant Episcopalian. ed at Berlin that year, in concurrence with his which the Church was instituted; such is the aging came to their knowledge. A Dutch colleague, Bishop Sitkovius, David Nitschman spectacle which the Brethren’s Unity presents merchant had been by the war in Europe, shut On motion of Rev. John Reynolds, of the THE MORAVIAN CHURCH. as their Bishop. A regular list of the Bish­ unobtrusively to the contemplation of her sister up in Nangasaki in Japan, the only place where Protestant Episcopal Church, Norristown, Pa., OR UNITED BRETHREN’S SOCIETY. ops containing the names of sixtv-seven, ex­ communions and of the surrounding world!" the Dutch are allowed to trade, and w'.iile there seconded by Rev. John S. Ebaugh, of Naw- The history of this venerable and interesting tending back from Nitschman in 1735 to Ste­ J. C. he employed his time in making a Dutch and York, the officers of the society for the preced­ body of Christians, affords one of the many phen Bishop ctf the Waldenses in 1467, is still Japanese Dictionary, When peace took place, ing year were re-elected, and the exercises were closed with the doxology, and the bene­ proofs we have, that the Lord has in no age left preserved. A From the New York Observer. he sailed for Holland. The ship was provi­ his truth without witnesses: that his Church, diction pronounced by Rev. Dr. Milnor. Count Zinzehd3rff, ]>eing a zealous member AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY. dentially thrown into Batavia, and detained even in her darkest and most degenerate days, f,the Lutheran church, which was also estab- there three months. While there the Rev. Mr. has produced those who have preserved thepu-’ sliftL- by Jaw, endeavoured to persuade the The Twelfth Anniversary was held in Broad­ Medhurst became acquainted with him, and From the LonclonJVisiter. rity of the faith amidst surrounding apostacy, Brethren ndm had settled on his domains, to way Tabernacle, Wednesday morning, May found he had in his possession the very hook he old Humphrey’s visit to a church and and contended earnestly for the true principles connect themselves therewith; but grateful as 10th, S. V. S. Wilder, Esq. President, in the had long been wishing toobtain. He imme­ CHURCH-YARD. and institutions delivered by Christ and his they must have felt to him for his kind protec­ chair. After prayer by liev. Joseph McCar- diately employed twelve Chinese to copy that Let me describe a visit that I lately made to apostles, however obscured and weakened they tion, •'nothing could induce them to recede from rell, D. D. of the Associate Reformed Church, Dictionary, and from that Dictionary he made a church and churchyard:— may have become in the too geneial progiess own ftytn of ecclesiastical government. Newburg, and a brief statement of the objects a Japanese Vocabulary^ error and corruption. If we except the Wal- The venerable pile, though standing in a sol­ While theyllVere willing to maintain the closest oLthe meeting by the President, Moses Allen And nowj sir, let iuG.give.you.lhe third event itary spot, had been the Burial-place of many a denscs (with whom their history is intimately spiritual communion with tlic Lutheran or any Eeq. read tho Trcasurci’» report and Rev. Wil­ in this series, still brighter for Japan. It is con­ connected,) the Church of the United Brethren liam A. Hallock, Corresponding Secretary, an noble family, and I passed its gothic portal with other body of evangelical Christians, they could tained in a letter from Rev. Mr. Gutzlafl’to the mingled thoughts of the present, the past, and commonly called Moravians, is the most an­ not consent to abandon that venerable consti­ abstract of the Annual Report, when the fol­ Tract Society, dated at Macao, one year ago the future. cient of all the denominations which may be lowing resolutions were offered and adopted, tution and discipline, for which their ancestors this month. In 1831, a Japanese vessel was The aisles felt damp and cold, for T get a lit­ styled Protestant', a name that is sometimes not through so many centuries had suffered, bled viz. wrecked on our coast, near the Columbia improperly used to designate all who, in any tle more susceptible than I used to be, and as I and died, and handed down to them as a most On mocionofRev. Prof. Goodrich of New- river. Three out of fourteen of the crew surviv­ paced along the broad, flat, grey stones, the age, have opposed the corruptions of the precious inheritance. The Count, on a more Haven, seconded by Rev. Seth Bliss, Secreta­ ed the wreck, and after many adventures, were Church of Rome. Such a Protestantism has sound of my foot-fall was echoed back by the minute inquiry into their ancient history and ry of the American Tract Society, Boston, thrown under Mr. Gutzlaff's care. lie found chandel-wall. The greyheaded sexton, who always existed in the Catholic Church, from distinguished tenets, not only desisted from his “Resolved, That the Report, an abstract of them well versed in the Japanese language and the first dawn of Papacy, and its kindred er­ had entered the Church with me, had turned to first purpose, but became himself a convert to which has now been read, be adopted, and pub­ immediately sat down with them to learn the the right, and the heavy damp of his hob-nailed rors. their faith and discipline, and was actually con­ lished under the direction of the Executive language. After months of patient toil, assist­ shoes, mounting the stairs to the singing loft, The Moravians were originally converted to secrated one of their Bishops in the same year Committee.” ed by Mr. Medhurst’s vocabulary, he gained sounded harshly in my ears. Christianity about the middle of the ninth cen­ with Nitschman. Rev. Mr. Bliss said, in seconding this resolu­ from these three shipwrecked sailors such a By the time that I had reached the monu­ tury, through the instrumentality of Methodi­ The zeal of their Brethren gradually diffus­ tion, he wished to take the audience to Japan, knowledge of the Japanese language, as to be ments with my hat in my hand, all was still; the us and Cyril, two Greek monks, whom the ed their system over various parts of Europe an interesting though remote country lying at able to write in that language a history of the the eastern extremity of Asia. chilly influence of the pavement gradually empress Theodora had sent thither as missiona­ and America. In the United States they have birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension of crept through my frame, and gathered round ries. Efforts had been made about a century now several settlements, the earliest and most In the 16th century, the Jesuits commenced our Saviour, with some parts of the Acts. I my heart, while the memorials of the dead aw­ before to plant the gospel among them, but flourishing of which is that of Bethlehem, in their mission in Japan. No opposition at first hold in my hand sir, this identical book, written, ed my spirit with a sense of deep solemnity.— with little success. Being united in communi­ Pennsylvania, an establishment which has.al­ was made to diffusing the Catholic religion.— as you see, in this beautiful manner, with a pen­ After buttoning my coat a little higher, and ty­ on with the Greek Church, with Methodius as ways been distinguished by the moral respecta­ Francis Xavier made Japan the great theatre of cil, and sent to this society to be lithographed, ing my pocket handkerchief round my neck,' I their first bishop, this became the occasion of bility, and philanthropic spirit of its members. his preaching. Several tributary kings or no­ printed, and sent back to him to be distributed began to look about me. much religious animosity and contention in al­ Wherever they may be settled, they appear to bles, with many of their subjects, embraced in Japan. This he hopes to accomplish, to some On the right hand and on the left, crosiers ter times, when the Roman Pontiff vainly en­ have only one wish at heart—the propagation the new faith. At length the rash acts of the extent; by sailing along their coast, and by the and mitres, banners, and spears, shields, hel­ deavored to reduce them under the discipline of the gospel and the good of mankind. Their Jesuits, and the jealousy of that despotic gov­ Japanese boats.which may be fallen in witli in mets, and habergeons, were profusely mingled: and jurisdiction of the Latin Church. The ef­ first appearance in England, was about the year ernment, brought on a general presecution.— their waters. A distinguishing antiquarian and here knelt, in his thick doublet and trunk-hose, fects of the persecutions raised against them 1728, where their numbers soon increased. They pursued this persecution with unrelent­ orientalistinforms me that this is probably the the ancient lord of the neighboring castle, and on this account, was to induce many of them to Among their earliest efforts was the formation ing severity, and it terminated not until every only book in the Japanese language, out of Ja­ his charitable dame, opposite each other: and unite themselves in 1170 to the Waldenses.— of a society in London for the promotion of Christian, native and foreigner,was either ex­ pan,or in it that contains a single sentiment of the there lay, at full length, the cross legged effigy They enjoy the honor of having given birth to Christianity in heathen lands, which is still it terminated or overawed, and every Portuguese Bible. Thus, sir, in the providence of God,this of the armed knight who fought in the holy those two illustrious martyrs, John Huss and active existence, and has long employed mis expelled or put to death. In 1637, the gov­ Society has the honor of publishing the first wars. Jerome of Prague. From the earliest period sionaries with great success, both in the Eastern ernment followed up this persecution with the Christian book in the Japanese language for that The lettered pavement on which I stood, was of their history they have been pre-eminently and Western Hemispheres. They were favor­ most cruel edicts. Allow me, sir, to give you interesting people, and that book sir, the his­ a floor of tombstones, scored and sculptured, distinguished by their zeal in the cause of mis­ ed with the patronage of several of the prelates a statement of these; “No ship or boat, nor any tory of the life and mission of that Almighty and inlaid with brass, and the equestrian figure sions, with very limited and feeble means, they of the Church of England, particularly Dr. native of Japan, shall presume to go out. These Redeemer who is the only hope of the nations. before me, in the attitude of cutting down a have perhaps done more than any other branch Potter, then Archbishop of Canterbury, who who act contrary to this shall die/’ “All Ja­ To be permitted to do this, sir, for the last and Turkish officer with his sabre, was admirably of the Christian Church to spread the Gospel, in a letter on the subject to Dr. Seeker, Bishop panese who return from abroad shall be put to the only people on earth from which every ray wrought. not only in Europe, but throughout the world. of Oxford expressed his conviction of the gen­ death.” “Whoever discovers a priest shall of Christian light has been hitherto for centuries The painted window, too, was excellent.— They have cheerfully sustained their labors in uineness oj^Uieigdoravian'Episcopal succession. have a -eward of 400 or 500 shuets, (about $2,- excluded by walls as high as heaven and strong Moses holding the tablets of stone and Aaron the icy regions of Greenland and Labrador; He also aa i n fen J nrff on his con­ 000,) and for every Christian in proportion.” as despotism can build, is an honor any institu­ with his budding rod and costly breast-plate, and in the glowing climate of the West Indies, secration as Bif ffnpffcangratulating him on that “All persons who propagate the doctrine of tion may well covet, and a work no cost should were finely drawn. Many of the colours were the inveterate prejudices of the Hindoos have event, promising. his’assjstance to their Church Christians, or bear the scandalous name, shall be accounted to great to accomplish. There bright even to intensity, and the streaming hues been softened by their preaching, and the bru­ and warmly commending Tt for. having main­ be imprisoned.” “The whole race of the Por­ is, sir, a pleasing coincidence between the of vivid green and blue, and glowing red and tish barbarism ot the Hottentot- has been tained the pure and primitive faith and disci- tuguese, with their mothers, nurses, and what­ meaning of the word Japan and the divine pre­ orange, fell upon many a sable hatchment and made to yield to the force of their» pious per- , pjiq^ in the midst of the most tedious and cruel ever belongs to them, shall be banished to Ma­ diction. In Japan it is pronounced Jiphin, and snowy slab of veinless marble. persecutions. On the recommendation of his cao.” “Whoever presumes to bring a letter its meaning is, the Rising Sun. And the pro­ But though here lay the illustrious dead, About the year 1466, in consequence of Grace, the j Parliament of Great ^Britain after from abroad, or to return after he has been ban­ mise, you know, sir, is that “From the rising of their deeds magnificently blazoned forth by the most, if not all of their bishops having submit­ mature ipvestf^Stion acknowledged the United ished, shall die, with all his family; and who­ the sun to the going down of the same, his gorgeous monuments erected to their memory, ted to the papal jurisdiction, three priests of Brethren to be aiYancient Protestant Episcopal ever presumes to intercede for them, shall be name shall be great among the Gentiles.” Ja­ in vain I looked for one single inscription set­ the Society of the United Brethren (one of Church, and in 1749 an act of recognition was put to death.” pan lies nearest the rising sun. This little tract ting forth a simple hope for everlasting life, whom had been ordained by the Bishop of passed in their favor. An order for their relief; In 1640 the Portuguese made a last attempt is, we trust, sir, the beginning of that series of grounded on the Saviour’s sacrifice. Rome himself,) were consecrated to the epis­ and ‘for preserving the remainder of the Episco­ by sending an embassy of 79 individuals to open efforts which will be consummated in the com­ Some of those whose dust was mouldering in copate by Stephen, Bishop of the Waldenses, pal Churches in Great Poland and Polish Rus­ a new commercial intercourse; 66 of whom plete and glorious fulfillment of this precious the vaults below, had filled important stations in Austria, he having previously satisfied them sia," nad been previously issued by the Privy were put to death. Thirteen of them were promise. , in the state; some had founded churches, of his episcopal succession in a lawful, uninter­ Council on the 10th of March 1715 upon a re­ sent back with the following message: “Go teU On motion of Rev. William Hague, of the schools, and alms-houses, and some had obtain­ rupted line from the apostles and the primitive presentation made to the King by Dr. William your countrymen that henceforth the citizens Baptist Church, Boston; seconded by Rev. S. ed great victories over England’s enemies; and, Christian Church. By these prelates, on their Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Dr. of Japan will receive neither money, merchan­ B. S. Bissell, Gen. Agent of Virginia Tract So­ judging by the honors they had attained, and return to their own country, ten other bishops John Robinson, Bishop of London. Nor was dize, nor presents from them.” “You see that ciety, the splendor of their costly tombs, “verily they were consecrated from among the rest of the this step taken by Archbishop Wake without we have burnt even the clothes of your dead “Resolved, That gratitude is due to God for had obtained their reward;” but again I say, presbyters. In 1522, the United Brethren hav­ due examination of their claims as an apostolic countrymen.” The bodies of those put to opening, through this Society, a channel by though many a gilded inscription spoke of a ing heard of the Reformation commenced in and Episcopal Church. lie wrote to the ven­ death were placed in a large chest, and on the which the best Christian writers of the present “future reward’ and a “life of immortal glory,’’ Germany opened a friendly correspondence, erable Daniel Ernestus Jablonsky, before men­ lidwas written the following inscrfption:“Hence- and of past ages may be made to concentrate yet these were rather to be enjoyed as the re­ first with Luther, and afterwards with Calvin tioned, the eldest Bishop of the United Breth­ forth, as long as the sun shines, let not any their moral and intellectual cnergiesin proclaim­ compense of human virtue than as the freo and other leaders among the reformers. To the ren, desiring an account of their Church. To Christian be so daring as to set his foot on Ja­ ing the Gospel by the press, in variors forms, gift of God through the pardoning grace of the former,deputies were sent, and an examination this letter he received a full and satisfactory an­ pan.” from the single leaf to the standard volume and Redeemer. of their doctrines and discipline satisfied him swer, proving their Episcopal succession, and Thus, sir, the first effort to introduce a false the Family Library, throughout the earth.” How little ot hope, of peace, and joy, is im­ that they contained nothing liable to censure. shewing the former flourishing and the present Christianity into Japan, resulted in effectually On motion of Rev. Janies W. Cooke, of the parted by the sculptured monuments ot depart­ A severe persecution which this drew upon depressed state of their churches. shutting out the true gospel from twenty-five or Protestant Episcopal Church, New York; se­ ed greatness I Whether slab or column, “sto­ t ('m, threatened their society’ for a while with As the ntzwts/ry of the Church of the United fifty millions for two hundred years, and now conded by Rev. S. Woodbridge, Agent of the ried urn, or animated bust,” all is “dull, cold ruin, but it ceased in 1575, and after a variety Brethren is Episcopal, always having preserved renders their condition more hopeless to Chris­ Society, marble.” The sculptors chisel, and the gilders of revolutions in their external circumstances, scrupulously the three orders of Bishops, Pres­ tian effort than that of any people on earth. “Resolved, 'Ybat personal Christian effort and tinsel, give not sound to silence, life to death, the churches obtained in 1609 an edict from byters and Deacons, so its doctrines are sound Jn 1717, an Italian Jesuit from Rome got con­ prayer, in connection with the circulation of the buoyant freshness to cheerless desolation. To the Emperor of Germany granting them a free and Evangelical. It has uniformly declared its veyance to Japan. As soon as they discover­ Society’s publications, through the blessing of commemorate what has been, and what cannot toleration and public exercise of their religion. adherence to the twenty-one doctrinel articles ed that he was making proselytes to the Rom­ the Holy Spirit, is an efficient auxiliary to the again be, is only mocking the heart, unless as- 114 GAMBIER OBSERVER. Mr. Wilson, at that time minister of the First sachusetts passed an order, to promote the dif­ MISSIONARY. were the cause of that. Y°u were formerly sociated with future hope. The goodliest sta­ under England, and you rebelled” tue that was ever carved into comeliness, only Church in Boston, was then absent, and Eliot, fusion of Christianity among the aboriginal in­ says this— immmediately on his arrival, was engaged to habitants. TURKEY. your independence, and now these other states “Cold, speechless, motionless, inanimate mat­ officiate in his vacant pulpit, and become, for “It was probably this proceeding, says the (Extracts from the Journal of the American Missiona have followed your example. You are the cause ter that I am, earth has no better resemblance the time, pastor of his shepherdless flock; a sta­ biographer, “which fixed the immediate atten­ ries at Constantinople, published in the Missionary Her­ of all these rebellions, and the fault is yours.” Phis he said in a tone of great pleasantry, and of the worth I commemorate ! tion which he continued to occupy until his re­ tion of Mr. Eliot on the project. He had how­ ald for May.) ever, long felt a deep concern for the moral con­ there can be no doubt that his notions on the But write underneath the statue of the de­ moval to Roxbury. Changes in Turkey. parted dead these words—“I know that my Re­ Before Eliot sailed from England, he had dition ofthe natives: a concern inspired by his subject were very nearly correct, though we deemer liveth, and though worms destroy this made an engagement with a numberofhis friends sanctified love of doing good, and increased, July 28, 1836. The means of communication were truly surprized to hear such declarations body, yet in my flesh shall I see God;” then you who thought of soon following him to America, probably, by his belief, that the Indians were have wonderfully increased in Turkey. Two come from the lips of a Turk. impart a living principle to the lifeless effigy, that if they arrived before he had formed a pas­ the descendants ofthe lost tribes of Israel. steamers now run regularly every week between you cast a sunbeam on the cold, statue, that toral connection with any church, he would be­ This theory, among numerous conjecture* on this and Smyrna; one between this and Galatz THE OBSERVER. "warms the heart of the Christian spectator, you come their minister. They came to Boston the the origin ofthe natives of America, has found on the Danube every fortnight and one also in quote, with holy exultation, the Saviour's de­ following year, and settled at Roxbury. He advocates not deficient in learning or talents, the same time between this and Trebizond. Mis­ GAMBIER, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1837. claration, “He that believeth in me, though therefore felt himself obligated to decline the however weak may he the foundation on which sionary efforts have also been greatly multiplied and extended in these parts within the last six he were dead, yet shall he live; and whoso­ invitation of the Boston church to become their their reasoning rests.” Our own Affairs—We request the local agents In entering upon this enterprise of pious be­ years. When Messrs. Smith and Dwight arrived ever liveth and believeth in me shall never assistant pastor; and fulfil his engagement with oi the Observer, in receiving payments from die.” his friends. Accordingly, on the 5th of Nov­ nevolence, how great must have been the diffi­ in Turkey, six years, ago, there were only two I suppose the sexton, too much accustomed ember, 1G32, he was ordained as the minister at culties, that met him at the very threshold of missionaries in Smyrna, and besides these not subscribers, and in giving receipts, strictly to to the monuments of the place to feel any in­ Roxbury, and continued to perform the duties his labors! He was now in the middle of life,the one was to be found in all the Turkish empire follow our printed terms. This is just and rea­ terest in gazing upon them, was weary of wait­ of that office through the whole of his long and strong impulses and fiery heat of youth had sub­ north of the Taurus. As they travelled east, sonable. If our subscribers prefer not to pay for they found not one in all Persia, unless we ex­ ing for me; for a clink of his keys within a very laborious life. “Even at that time,” says Mr. sided, and his days must have been engrossed in their paper in advance, they ought not to expect few yards of me told me that he was quite rea­ Francis, “When ecclesiastical labors were the his duties as minister at Roxbury, upon the per­ cept Bagdad,(which is in fact in Turkey though dy to lock the door. It would not be like Old first and the highest in the infant colony, and formance of which he depended for his support. often said to be in Persia,) where Mr. Grove any deduction to be made from the established price Humphrey to go away without exchanging a when the clergy by their office, were leading Amidst all these unpropitious circumstances he had recently established himself, and which of the paper. We confess that in most cases we word with the grey-headed man; but I soon men in the community, scarcely a name can be had not only to become familiar with the habits place he has since abandoned. But now there would prefer that our subscribers should pay $2 in are four American missionaries and one Eng­ found that he entertained very little doubt that mentioned, which stood before that of Mr. Eliot. and conciliate the good-will of a haughty and advance rather than $2 50 some six. months, ora the man must be in heaven who could cut Of his ministry in Roxbury, there is not much jealous race, but also to learn a language which lish missionary at Constantinople,two American down a Turk in the way in which the war­ to be told, that can be presented in a historical had never been reduced to rules, and of which missionaries in Broosa, two in Trebizond, two year, or two years afterwards. The losses from rior had done, whose monument was then be­ form; for the life of a clergyman, as such though he could obtain no mstructer,—a language too, in Oormiah, in Persia, one American and sev- delinquent subscribers for the last two years has fore me. full of toil is not full of events. We know that of wild and rude men, embodying no classic eralGerman missionaries in the south of Persia, proved almost destructive of the paper. And the It is a sorry sight to gaze on a gray-headed from first to last, he was a hard student and a treasures, to lure him onward, and furnishing no while in Smyrna, instead of two, there are now man who has no “golden hope" within him, hard worker: breaking the bread of life with elegant literature, to beguile his toil; in acquir­ six ordained missionaries and two printers.— expense of collecting arrearages amounts to no yearning after immortality, no heavenly affectionate fidelity, and administering divine ing which, the labors of philologists and the More are now on the way, and others expected more than the additional 50 cents. We would ex. home in prospect! I gave him some silver, truth with uncompromising sincerity; fearless in learning of the east could afford him no assis­ soon to follow. Surely the Lord is preparing to press our tfianks to those of our subscribers who with a few suitable tracts, and we parted.— rebuke and kind in council; meeting every claim tance. It was a work to which he could have do a great work in this country. May he has­ have paid us promptly in advance. The number of Having seen the monuments in the church, I of duty with unwearied patience, and bringing been urged by nothing but the promptings of ten it in his time! walked among the tombstones in the church­ his wisdom to bear on the most common things duly and benevolence; it was long, and weari­ Aug. 9. It is a striking event in the changes this class, we are happy to say, has considerably yard. proverbially charitable and ready to be spent some, and unrewarded,save by the inward peace here, that the sultan is placing his portrait iff all increased since the present volume commenced.— It was in a neglected corner of the church­ in every good work. The abilities and graces which the good man always feels, at the com­ the barracks. The portraits are carried with But there are still a large number who are indebted yard where no pathway crosses, and where the manifested in his professional duties naturally pletion of a pious labor. great pomp and ceremony, attended by all the for the last two volumes. Their bills were sent uncropped nettles grew abundantly, that I remind us of those delineations of clericaljex- But Eliot was not to be discouraged from his great officers, and saluted by a discharge of ar­ found a low stone bearing this inscription, un­ cellence, in which simplicity of heart,sanctified purpose by any prospect of toil, however ardu ­ tillery.It is well known that Mohammed and the sometime ago and they will be sent again, when we der the name of one who had fallen asleep at a learning and watchful fidelity are beautifully ous. The source of his perseverance and his doctors have forbidden images and representa­ hope they will receive immediate attention. In goodly old age: “If, thou, Lord, shouldst mark blended: strength was in the simple remark which he has tions of men to be exposed in public. In the pre­ places where we have no local agents we in future iniquities, 0 Lord, who shall stand ? But “Such priest as Chaucer sang in fervent lays, piously recorded at the end of his Indian gram­ sent instance on the part ofthe soldiery; and in­ shall in all cases expect payment in advance. Such as the heaven taught skill of Herbert drew.’” deed a conspiracy is said to have been discover­ there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest mar: “Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ We have reason to believe that in consequence be feared.’ And on another stone bearing the Established thus at a post in every way suit­ Jesus, will do any thing.” He found a young ed which terminated in the execution of several same name, and probably belonging to the same ed toliis talents and education, and among the Indian, whom he describes as a “pregnant wil­ dervishes and some others individuals. The of the removal of subscribers, several of the Ob­ family were graven the words, “This is a faith­ friends of his early days, we find him exerting ted young man,” with some smattering of Eng­ portraits are suspended in some one ofthe most servers have not been taken from the Post offices ful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that an important influence upon the affairs of the lish and a clear pronunciation of his own ton­ conspicuous places in the barracks; and many to which they are directed, for some months past, a devout Mussulman trembles lest the next Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners church and the state, in that eventful period of gue; and by tuking him into his family, and ev­ b ut retained by the Post Masters without giving of whom I am chief.” the colony. Through the discussions growing ery day attending to his conversation, he was at step should be to place them in the very mos­ Such texts as these are not wont to bestrown out of the I’equot treaty, and the protracted length able to understand so much of the words ques. They are painted by an Armenian artist us notice as the law directs. Every Post Master over the resting-places of worldly minded men and almost furious strifes occasioned by Airs. and construction of the Indian language, as to and are well executed. Several of the pachas knows that in such cases he is bound to pay for the and 1 hope that I was standing over the moul­ Hutchinson and her doctrines,the voice of Eliot translate the Lord’s prayer andseveral passages have recently had their portraits taken; and the the paper. We shall hold him responsible there­ of Scripture, besides several prayers and exhor­ sister of the sultan, following in the track of re­ dering bones of two of Zion’s pilgrims, who, was often raised,—modestly, yet firmly,—to vin­ fore in all cases of violation of law in this particu­ in journeying to the heavenly city, had borne dicate the principles he cherished. lie was al­ tations of his own composing. He also em­ form, is now having her own done by a young testimony of the hope that was in them. so one of the three, who, in consideration of ployed every opportunity to overcome the shy­ artist of our acqaintance from Switzerland. lar. Old Humphrey’s eyes might rest upon the their Hebrew scholarship, were appointed to ness and jealousy of the natives in his neighbor­ 31. Our girls’ school and our high school sod and the nettles, and the lowly gravestones, improve the psalmody of the churches, and who hood, to become acquainted with their charac­ have never been so prosperous, as during the Missionary Reports.—In our last number we but the thoughts of his heart were fixed on the edited the version long known as “The Bay ter, and commend himself to their regard. present season. And though in regard to mis­ published Reports from two of the Missionaries starry pavement of the skies, the glowing gates Psalm Book,” and now most commonly desig It was on the 28th of October, 1646, that sions generally in the Levant, it be “a day of under the direction of the Missionary and Educa­ Eliot, in company with three others, after hav­ rebuke and blasphemy,” and though we our­ of the holy city, the golden throne, and him nated as “The New-England Version of the tion Committee of this Diocese. These are the who sitteth thereon! the palm branches! the Psalms.” ing given notice of their intention,’made his first selves have no reason to expect exemption from white raiment! the new song ! and the glitter­ But we hasten over the intermediate passage visit to the wigwams of the Indians. The bless­ s~i..m...il.a..r. .t.r..i.a..l.s7, yet we wo___uld e______ncoura ge' o___urs el- only reports which have yet been received from the ing crown! and in spite of his predilection for of his life, and come to the period of this mis­ ing of Heaven was implored upon the enterprise ves, and wc would encourage our brethren als- ' -''lissionaries of the Committee, although by a crypts and cloisters, abbeys and cathedrals, re­ sionary labors, for it was as apostle to the Indians and the pious company set out to hold proba­ with the glorious truth, “that the hour is com standing regulation of the Board its Missionaries lics and carvings, gildings and painted glass, he bly the first meeting for Christian worship ever ing, and now is, when the dead shall hear the that he was most distinguished in his own times I are requested to make semi annual reports of their felt in his very soul, that a greater glo'y rests and it is in this character, that the name of witnessed among the wild haunts of the savages voice ofthe Son of God; and they that hear on the lowly grave of a true believer in Christ, John Eliot has become immortal. He was the of New England. The interview took place at shall live ” Thousands and tens of thousands labors to the Committee.” It is important that this than on the sculptured monument of a worldly- first, or at least one of the first, who devised and the wigwam of Waban, an influential Indian, around us, starting at his voice from the slum­ I regulation of the Committee should be strictly minded statesman,or the statue of a conquering carried into execution, any plan for instructing who had become known among the English, at bers of sin, shall awake to a new lift?, put on the complied with, as well in order that the contribu­ hero. the aborigines of the soil in the principles of a spot called Nonantum, a name “ wliioh bad garmonto of a&lvation,nnd^walk abroad justified, been given to the high grounds in the north-east sanctified, accepted, and beloved, as the sons tors to the Missionary fund may be made aequoint- civilization anti religion. And the wisdom with ! ed, through the Observer, in which the reports are BIOGRAPHY. which he planned, and the zeal with which he parts of Newton, and to the bounds of that town and daughters of the Lord God Almighty.— labored, for the improvement of this wild race, and Watertown.” The services of this meeiing “Even so, Amen. Let thy voice be heard I published, with the results of their contributions to consisted of prayers and a sermon from Eliot, quickly, Lord Jesus.” From the Christian Review. have embalmed his memory and almost canon­ j this noble charity, as that the Committee itself ized his name. in which he explained some ofthe leading truths LIFE OF JOHN ELIOT. of religion, repeated the ten commandments,and Progress of Knoxvledge among Turks and Arme­ ■ may possess the necessary materials from which The fate of the American Indians is often nians. to prepare their annual report to the Convention (The fifth volume of Sparks’ American Biography re­ pointed at as a stain upon our national escut­ impressed upon his hearers the high sanctions Sept. 8. We attended to-day, by special in­ cently published contains a life of John Eliot the Apostle cheon, which now can never he wiped away. with which they had been delivered to man.— vitation an examination at the military school at of the Diocese. It is hoped therefore that no mis- to the Indians, By Converse Francis. From a review It is also said, not unfrequently by way pf dis­ At the close of these services, the natives pro­ Dolma Batehe. The pupils examined were , sior.ary of the Board will tail to forward a report of this work in the Christian Review for March, we copy paragement of the ancient purity of New Eng­ posed such questions as the occasion and his discourse had suggested to their minds. The from the school at Scutari, who had come over of his clerical labors at lefUt one month before the the following notices of that truly eminent, self-denying land virtue, that the measures by which this to-day for this purpose. We were received by I mceting of the next Convention. minister of the gospel. Ed. Gam. Obs.) fate has been consummated,are but the carrying associations connected with this scene are well our old friend Aziin Bey, the commandant, with remind the Mis­ out of the policy begun by the earliest settlers embodied in the following paragraph of the bio­ the greatest cordiality and politeness. The ex­ We here take the liberty to John Eliot was born at Nasing, Essex, Eng­ grapher: land, A. U. 1604. He was trained co habits of upon their shores. The guilt connected with amination was in geometry, arithmetic, and sionaries of the Board that the funds for this ob- regular industry and of religious reverence by these transactions, we have no disposition to “The scene presents itself to our imagination, as one of reading; specimens of drawing and writing were ject are not managed by a Society, for no missiona- pious and conscientious parents, who, as he palliate; but are there not circumstances in the deep interest. Here was a gifted scholar, educated amidst also exhibited, which were highly creditable ry society now exists in this Diocese; but by a history of the Puritans, which go very far to­ the classic shades of an English university, exiled from his himself has recorded, “seasoned his early times to their auth, ors. Wre -haiv-e no where .wiitnieissied ICommittee appoi• nt»e di byt. the nC onven.t■i on orf t.uhe with the fear of God, the word and with prayer,” ward rendering them guiltless of the blood of native land for conscience’s sake, a man of high distinc­ a greater degree of readiness on the black I 11 J lie was educated, as is supposed, at the Uni­ this ill-fated people? It is indeed melancholy tion in the churches of New-England, standing among the hoard than here among these Turkish cadets in ! Church, and responsible to that body. We men- versity of Cambridge, where lie gained an hon­ that a civilized people should have exterminat­ humble and rude huts of the forest, surrounded by a peace­ geometry. Their teacher, also a Turk, appear­ tion this, because in both the reports already re­ orable distinction as ascholar. He is said to ed a savage race;—that a band ol holy pilgrims ful group of savages, on whose countenances might be trac­ ed quite at home in his department. ceived reference is made more than once to the exiling themselves to God’s name, for the sake have discovered, while at the university, an un­ ed the varieties of surprise, belief, vacancy, and perhaps By the time the examination was finished the Missionary Society. The same error lias been usual talent for philological inquiries, and by of right and truth, should have seized the do­ half-suppressed scorn, seeking to find some points of in. hour of dinner was come, and we received so the studies he there pursued and the exercises main of these wil d wanderers, and allowed them pressing an invitation to dine with the officers committed in Sword’s Pocket Almanack for 1837, one, after another, to go down to a hea­ tercourse between his own cultivated mind and their gross he practiseu, he doubtless acquired much of conceptions, that spiritual tiuth might enter into their that we could not refuse. Two long tables although a glance at the last Journal of the Con­ that uncommon facility,which many years after­ then’s grave, with so little effort to instruct and were neatly spread on each side of the dining-! vention js sufficient to detect the mistake. guide them to heaven. Looking back, from the hearts and leave its light and blessing there. The commu­ wards, on a far distant shore, enabled him to re­ nication of Christian instruction in such a place and under hall,and capable ofseating two hundred or more j ------duce to order the chaos of the barbarous dia­ high moral eminences of our own age, upon the persons. At the farther extremity was the offi- : American Tract Society.—The receipts into enterprise of the Pilgrims, we perhaps should such circumstances has an affecting significance. To use lect, and render into their own tongue the word the beautiful illustration in the original narrative of this cers table, separated from the others by muslin {jie 'rreasury of the American Tract Society dur- of eternal life for the rude sons of the Ameri­ pronounce, that if successful they would confer curtains and here we partook of a plentiful re- . can forest. On leaving Cambridge he became incalculable blessings upon the Indian tribes, visit, it was breaking the alabaster box of precious ointment past. Every thing was neat and decorous, al­ ing the month ending April 15th, were $32,565,- associated, as usher, with Mr. Thomas Hooker, and in the lapse of time, not only change the in the dark and gloomy habitations of the unclean.”-—p/52. though Azim Bey seemed much mortified that 86: viz. Donations, $22,495,00, sales of Publi­ at that time master of a school at Little Baddow desert of America into a fruitful field, but trans­ This was succeeded, at intervals of various could not supply us with knives and forks, but cations, $10,070,86. The receipts into the Trea­ form its rude inhabitants into civilized and near Chelmsford, in Essex, and afterwards an lengths, by three other meetings, of a similar must leave us to use the implements of nature sury of the American Tract Society, Boston, Christian men, guided by the precepts ol truth character, and held at the same place. In this eminent divine in New-England. It was amidst alone. during the month ending April 10th, were, Dona- the delightful quiet of this good man’s family, and filled with the hopes of immortal life. But intercourse with the Indians, Mr. Eliot was suc­ We have rarely passed a more interesting day. that Eliot began to give attention to his own a recollection of the weakness and imperfection cessful in gaining their good-will, while at the Much, certainly, has been done by way of iin- tions, - 3o, Sales, $1171 51. lotal, spiritual interests, and to acknowledge the of human virtue, and more than all, an enlight­ same time he instructed them in the truths of the provements among the Turks, although much i $1983 87. claims that religion urged upon his affections ened survey of the condition of the country, and gospel, and impressed them with the superiori­ very much, that is desirable fo the Christian, re- , and his life. “When I came to this blessed the difficulties and perils that must have attend­ ty of civilized society. The following are spe­ mains to be done. We trust the Lord will ac- ; ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR. ed every step, of the settlers, are sufficient to family,” says he, “I then saw, and never before cimens ofthe questions, proposed on different accomplish it all in his own time. June 4. 2d Sunday after Trinity. the power of godliness, in its lively vigor and withdraw us from such an anticipation. occasions, after our evangelist’s instructions.— We were surprised at the readiness with efficacy.” And it is doubtless to be ascribed, The Pilgrims found themselves in the heart Some of them are interesting,only as they show whichAzimBey acknowledged their obligations 11. 3d Sunday after Trinity. St. Barnabas. in some degree, at least, to the pious counsels of a wilderness, amidst a race whose character the gropings of the human intellect amidst its to missionaries for their schools, etc. Two or 18. 4th Sunday after Trinity. and judicious influence of Hooker, that he, at was wholly unlike all that they had seen or first lessons of moral truth; while others con­ three times to-day he repeated, before a room 24. St. John Baptist. this period of his life, resolved to devote him­ known of men. The unreasoning and untamea- tain,shadowed forth in a rude form, the elements full of Turkish officers and others, that it is to self to the Christian ministry. ble beasts were scarcely wilder in their habits of some of the dark and difficult problems that us they are indebted for theiX^cbools, for their 25. 5th Sunday after Trinity. Eliot had arrived at manhood and begun to or fiercer in their spirit, than seemed the In­ have perplexed the inquirers of every age. Af­ school-cards, books, and apparatus: that we 29. St. Peter. form his plans of life, at that dark period of dians of New-England to our early fathers. If ter a lecture from Ephesians 2; 1, they ask, had done every thing for them, and even that England’s history, when the voice of the non- we remember, too, that for many years, the “What countryman was Christ, and where was he born? we had been the means of his going to England. For the Gambier Observer. conforming clergy was hushed by the frown of cares and dangers of the infant settlement must “How far off is that place from us here? Now, although this is W all strictly true, yet, DISTRIBUTION OF THE SCRIPTURES. the king, and liberty of religious opinion was have been all-engrossing,we shall cease to won­ “Where is Christ now? coming from a Turkish officer of high rank, and Extract from a report recently made to tke Knox trampeld under foot by a haughty and tyrannical der, that so little was attempted for the civili­ “How and where may we become acquainted with him, in that public way, it is an acknowledgement of County Bible Society. priesthood. Both he and his venerated friend zation of the Indians and their conversion to as he is now absent from us?” some value. An elderly Turk who is the gen­ were soon obliged to flee before that storm of Christianity. Much interest, however, had eral superintending teacher of this establish­ We cannot think of the union of effort among persecution which descended with such fury from the beginning, been felt and expressed in At another of their interviews, they inquire,— ment, and professor of Persian and of geogra­ Christians of every name in the Bible Cause but upon the devoted heads of the Puritans, and their welfare, by many persons of eminence in “If a man should he enclosed in iron, a foot thick, and phy, was very inquisitive in regard to our coun­ with unmingled satisfaction and delight. Rere drove from the shores of England some of the England. “Oh, that you had converted some, thrown into the fire, what would become of his soul?— try. He wished to know if we were from Va- we meet on common ground, here we meet as master spirits of her people. He arid many before you had killed any!” was the language Could his soul come forth thence or not? singtone as he pronounced it, (meaning Wash­ brethren of one happy family and dwell together in others of the victims of ecclesiastical tyranny of the good John Robinson, in a letter to the “Why did not God give all men good hearts, that they ington,) and if there are many Indians left in unity. Here is planted the germ of a principle in that age felt, that they had lost the home of governor of the Plymouth colony; and in the might be good? And why did he not kill the Devil, that our country. which will no doubt prove one great means under their fathers and of their best affections, and charter of Charles I. to Massachusetts, the ob­ madeall men so bad, God having all power? After satisfying his inquiries, which he had God in eventually bringing all Christians into the that now over the wide world, they had to ject of the settlement was stated to be, “To “How shall we know when our faith is good, and when made with an English map of the United States ‘unity of the spirit and the bond of peace.’ Chris­ choose a new spot whereon to plant their hope WYNN AND INCITE THE NATIVES OF THE COUN­ our prayers are good prayers?” open before him, he wished to know with regard tians of different names on meeting together and and build their fortunes. In circumstances like TRY TO THE KNOWLEDGE AND OBEDIENCE OF These four meetings are sufficient almost to to the extent and populousness of the Russian co-operating in this great and good cause, are as­ these, he directed his attention to the infant THE ONLIE TRUE GOD AND SAVIOUR OF MAN­ settlements of New-England. make Nonantum holy ground, for they were and English territories in America. He then tonished to find their hearts flowing together in de­ KIND.” Soon after Eliot’s settlement at Rox­ the beginnings of that enterprise, to which Eliot proceeded in his inquiries to Mexico, and thence lightful unison. They are agreeably surprised on It was on the 3d of November, 1631, that he bury, the attention of some of the principal devoted a large portion of his remaining days, arrived at Boston, in a company of about sixty to South America. When we told him that finding the partition wall which they had supposed men of the colony seems to have been specially and which shines in our history as the morning several of these states were once subject to insurmountable, composed of a slender web, easily persons among whom, says his biographer were directed to the character and condition of the star of American missions. the wife and children of Governor Winthrop.— Spain, but that they had made a revolution, and brushed away. They begin to perceive that it is Indians. In 1646, the General Court of Mas­ ( To be continued.) were now independent;—“Ah,” said he “you not a blessing as some have rashly supposed that G AM BIER OBSERVER. 115

feelings “of contempt for those who presume to Pennsylvania Convention.—The session of the Penn­ have communicated the following intelligence to the Nor­ at the same time to permit the individual to offi­ folk Beacon; the Church is split up into so many names, and differ from us.” We have a right tothe express- sylvania Convention commenced on Tuesday evening in the being brought together under one name so ciate as a Deacon in the Church of England on the Oseola and Philip, with about 200 warriors,- came sion of our opinions and we have an equal right to St. Andrew’s Church. The Rev. Dr. Ducaehet was elec­ into Fort Mellon a day or two previous to their depar­ as to move forward in one mighty phalanx, as condition of his procuring a testimonial from three beneficed clergymen of that Church who had known maintain them if we can; if we cannot maintain ted Secretary. On Wednesday morning the Convention ture. the soldiers of Christ, is no chimera, but that it assembled at 10 o’clock to attend divine service. Morn - There were between 2500 and 3o00 Indians encamped him for three years. The permission was not how­ them then they will fall to the ground by their own within the vicinity of Fort Mellon, and it is presumed that is indeed practicable. The happiness they expe­ weight or our inability to support them. Again ing prayer was read by the Rev. W. H. Rees, and the rience from a union of effort in the Bible cause in­ ever obtained,as the gentleman some time after re­ by this time they have arrived at lairipa Bay. The whole turned to the United States and is now engaged in you are bent on justifying the intemperate course sermon to the Convention delivered by the Rev. Samuel body of Indians would probably embark from Tampa duces them to pray that every stone of stum­ you have pursued: you are very anxious to enlist Bowman, from 2 Timothy, i. 13, “Hold fust the form of Bay about the last of this month for Arkansas; boats were bling and every root of prejudice may be remov­ the duties of the ministry in the Protestant Epis­ in readiness to convey them thence. ed, that all who love our Lord Jesus Christ may be copal Church; so much for your unfounded asser­ the feelings, it may be the prejudices, or even the sound words which thou hast hoard, &c. I he ante- Jacksonville, May 4.—We have no later intelligence from passions of your readers against us. A our lan­ communion service was read by the Right Rev. Bishop brought to see as well as feel alike, and especially tion that clergymen ordained by the Bishops of Gen. Jesup. By the latest accounts, coming, by the hv, guage is “surely no one can reasonably blame us indirectly, the Indians are still coming in. Although many that they may appear to the world, what they the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United McCoskry who was present during the session of the Con. for attempting to expose the absurdity of such pre­ do not place confidence in the peaceable professions ot the profess to be, i. e. all members of the same hap­ States are recognized simply as laymen by the Bi­ vention. The communiun was administered by Bishops tensions;” prove that our pretensions are absurd as enemy, the more general opinion is that the war is ended. py family, the family of Christ, who are expect­ shops of the Church of England. Whatever dif­ Onderdonk and McCoskry, assisted by Messrs. Bowman —Mercury. you are pleased to term them and we will congratu­ ing to dwell together in heaven forever. ficulty I may find in the course of this discussion and Rees. Fellow citizens, the enterprise which contem­ I think I have made a fair clearance and given a late you on your triumph and deck your brow with After divine service the Convention organized for busi­ FOREIGN. plates the supplying of the whole world with the complete refutation of your two declarations. I the wreath of victory. ButSir,you are not justified in ness. The annual addressof Bishop Onderdonk was read, From Liberia.—We have before us a copy of the Libelia celebrating a triumph till you have gained a victo­ Herald for January. The following are extracts: bread of life is truly a glorious one. We have on will go on to your unwarrantable inferences of also the report of the Standing Commitee, &c., and sever­ Slave Trade__ We have learned that great calculations hand a sufficient number of Bibles and Testaments groundless assertions. I am not willing even to ry. You have no right to call our pretentions ab­ al resolutions, relating to the customary business of the are already making by slavers on the coast on the increased to supply the destitute in our own county, and are pass by your warning and your cautions; you say, surd till you have proved them so to be tothe judg­ Convention were passed. On motion of the Rev. Dr. demand, and advanced price for slaves, which it is confi­ now with the utmost propriety called upon to ex­ “Let him moderate his zeal a little in his arrogant ment and the reason of candid and impartial men. De Lancey, a committee was also appointed to draw up a dently anticipated will take place on the erection of Texas into an independent Government. It lias been rumoured tend our efforts, and to enlarge the sphere of our claim for the originality of his Church, based as it We rejoice in the efforts that are made to extend report expressive oi the feelings of the Convention in rela­ the blessed tidings of life and salvation, equally that offers'have been made by a commercial house in New benevolent operations so as to embrace at least a is upon an assumption as destitute of foundation as tion to their venerable diocesan deceased since the last ses­ Orleans, to a slaver on the coast, for a certain number of few of the millions that are still g'ropingin theap- is the authority from scripture for putting a lay­ with yourself, and we ardently desire that the time slaves, to be delivered io a specific period, and the only cir­ man at the Head of the Church or for narrowing may come when the knowledge of the Gospel shall sion of the Convention. cumstance which prevented the consummation of the bargain paling darkness of heathenism. We are able to On the afternoon of Wednesday, the Convention was do much—God has given us a goodly heritage, teni- down the commission to preach the Gospel to all be diffused over all the nations of the earth. We was, that the slaver refused to be responsible for the slaves chiefly occupied in hearing the parochial reports, which after they should he put on board. These facts, we think, poral blessings are showered down upon us in rich the world, so as to limit it to the land of Judea.” have no wish to widen the breach that now exists were resumed and concluded on the following day. are important to be known, as the Christian and philan­ profusion. There is not an individual, but can Where is the utility of this language, this shallow between the different religious denominations, the thropic world may learn from them what they are uphold­ On Thursday, morning prayer was read by the Rev. C. spare something, and most of us can give a hand­ empty declaration? If our positions are. false breach is already too wide, for the minds of inquir­ ing, when they are defending Texas. some sum to aid in directing the pure and health­ prove them so; if our arguments are unsound, meet ing Christians are distracted by it and it gives oc­ F. Cruse. After the calling of the roll and reading the Intelligence, lately received from the Captain of an ful streams of the water of life to those that are them like a man and expose their fallacy, but do casion to the infidel and the ungodly to raise ob­ minutes of the preceding session, a question arose on ad­ English merchantman, gives sixty-three slave vessels jections against the truth of Christianity itself.— mitting the Church of the Ascension in this city into con­ lying at one time, at Loango, waiting for cargoes'!!— famishing. It is wrong for Christians to say that not deceive yourself with the notion that you are Mercury. We are desirous to follow peace with all men, and nexion with the Convention, the Committee on charter they have already given to the extent of their abili­ serving the cause of God, of Holiness and of truth From the New Orleans Bee of May 5th. having recommended a resolution to that effect, and the ty in sending the gospel to the heathen. It is a by the use of terms of vulgar censure; your lan­ we more especially desire that all who profess to Highly Important. — Capture of a Mexican Frig of mistake, there is no truth in the assertion. As guage is too pompous and inflated, abounding in belong to the household of faith should live in uni­ Standing Committee and the Bishop having previously War by the Natchez.—The schooner Climax which arrived regards by far the greatest portion of those who misplaced epithets and in many instances which ty and godly love. We can however see no rea­ given their consent. Objections were made by several last evening, puts us in possession of the following impor­ might be mentioned it is as indecorous as it is un­ sonable objection to the discussion of a subject tant intelligence. bear the Christian name, they can certainly do ten gentlemen to some peculiarities in the charter ot the The U. S. Sloop of War Natches, on the 17th April, times as much as they have ever done, and may merited and unjust. The cause of truth is as dear which is calculated to bring the minds of individu­ Church, on account of which they thought it ought not off the Brassos St. Iago, made a formal demand upon the even then grow rich faster than is good for them to me as it is to you. The love of the Redeemer als to an examination into the claims of the Pro­ to be admitted. The question was discussed during the Mexican authorities to deliver up, and release the Ameri­ can vessels, Julius Caesar, Champion, Leonidas, and three or for their children. Their riches may be those is a flame which I trust burns not less brightly in testant Episcopal Church. We solicit investiga­ greater part of Thursday morning, and was finally decided tions— court enquiry—we entreat all others, whose names are not recollected, which had been of which Solomon speaks ‘laid up and kept to the my bosom than it does in yours. we one and by yeas and nays in favor of the admission, 24 ot the cler­ to take up the subject in a spirit of candour and illegally captured by the Mexican fleet, cruising off the hurt of the owners thereof.” There is at this mo­ You profess to have but one Lord, one faith, gy and 23 churches voting in the affirmative, and 11 clergy­ coast of the Republic of Texas. To this demand no an­ impartiality and the more they examine it with ment wealth enough in the hands of Christians, over one baptism. You are I hope guided by the light men and 8 churches in the negative. swer was returned. The Climax was in company with the this spirit, the greater reason they will have for be­ Natchez, and had been brought to by the Mexican fleet. and above a fair competency to give a copy of the of the divine spirit and expect through the riches The question respecting the next place ot meeting of Bible to every destitute family on the globe within Of divine grace to wear the crown of immortality. lieving that the Church, whose claims we shall en­ A firing was-commenced from the fort, and the Mexican deavor to advocate with all the power we possess the Convention was next taken up tor consideration.— brig Bravo upon the Natchez and the Climax, and an 18 a short period. Means are abundant, nothing is Fliis is a consummation of glory for which my spir­ There was some discussion relative to this, hut the deci­ pound hall struck the Climax, came through the port for­ wanting but the heart to come forward and cast and with all the light with which scripture history ward the forerigging, went through the deck into the lar­ it pants and my heart glows with the thought that sion was finally in favor of St. Andrew’s Chuich, Phila­ them into the Lord’s Treasury. when Christ who is our life shall appear then shall throws around our path,is the Churcb-of the living board bow, started a plank, and caused the schooner to Through the agency of the American Board we who belong to Christ appear with him in glory. God,the pillar and ground of the truth.” Wefear delphia. make three and a half feet of water in an hour. The Rev. Dr. De Lancey, from the committee on the The Natchez being informed of the situation of the there have been transmitted to us from different Why then these bold and fearless assertions which no disastrous consequences from this investigation. report relative to Bishop White, reported resolutions which Climax, sent the carpenter and several of her crew to the parts of the world most moving appeals to our are every where to be found in your letters? Why The foundations of Zion are well and deeply laid, assistance of that vessel. Having repaired the Climax, she Christian philanthropy, and benevolence. The this confident reliance in the supposed merits of her walls are strongly cemented, she is in fact were unanimously adopted. took her in convoy as far as off Matagorda. In the mean­ fields are already white unto the harvest. Multi­ your cause which can after all have no better foun­ “built upon the foundation of the Apostles and One or two other resolutions of minor importance were while the Mexican brig of war (formerly the Privilegio,) tudes who hitherto knew nothing of the Bible, dation than that on which we build and as we think prophets, Jesus Christ himself being- the chief adopted,when theConvention adjourned^to meet on Thurs­ hove in sight and was taken possession of by the Natchez.- cornerstone.” Truth comes boldly to the light, a prize crew were put on board, and she was ordered to who are but just emerging from the horrible dark­ not quite so good ? Whatever you may be doing day afternoon for the conclusion of its business.—Episco­ Pensacola. ness of pagan idolatry and superstition, are now to further the interests of the Methodist Society, error seeks concealment and the advocates of un­ pal Recorder. These are the imperfect particulars we have received.— stretching forth their hands, not for the meat that we have great reason to fear from the evidences af­ founded pretensions are generally striving to carry The taking of the vessel may be relied on; hut we regret perislieth, but for that which endureth unto ever­ forded in your writings, that your want of temper, forward their measures by an attempt to intimi­ Institution of the Rev. Mr. Dorr. — On Thursday that the circumstances that lead to this act are not more date the friends of truth. We refer as the conclu­ morning last the Rev. Benjamin Dorr was instituted Rec­ minutely detailed. Doubtless the aggravation was very lasting life. They.are imploring us to come over your uncharitable censures, your ill-natured epi­ great, and that the honor of the American flag com­ and help them, by sending them and their children thets, do not manifest that you are in the enjoy­ sion of the reply to the first letter of “ecclesia,” tor of Christ Church in this city, by the Right Rev. the pelled the commander of the Natchez to take the step he that precious volume we regard as dearer to our ment of the softening and subduing spirit of the that in the discussion of the claims of the Protes­ Bishop ot the Diocese. Morning prayer was read by Xlie did. hearts than thousands of gold and silver. And I Gospel, and we hope you will bear the remark and tant Episcopal Church her members have nothing Rev. Dr. De Lancey, and the sermon delivered by Bishop The fact is, that on the previous occasion of Mexican trust my brethren that these afFecting appeals will receive it in the spirit in which it is dictated, that to fear but every thing to animate and encourage Onderdonk from Ephes. iv. 12: “For the perfecting of the fully and audacity, when the Louisiana was so unjustifia­ them. Her ministry has come down in an uninter­ bly and illegally captured, a similar course would meet a hearty response from every member of this “if any man have not the spirit of Christ he is saints, for the work of the Ministry, for the edifying of the have been completely justified on the part of Capt, Mor- Society. I trust that we shall all regard it as a none of his.” One fact is certain and which you rupted succession. Her Liturgy is composed of body of Christ.” A large congregation was assembled on vine. glorious privilege to be permitted to co-operate in ■cannot with all your sophistry deny, that the Meth- the finest sentiments of piety and devotion, that this solemn and interesting ocea ion, including a large num_ N. B. Thesteamer Grampas reports that the Mexican brig is off’ the S. W. Pass in the custody of the U. Sloop carrying forward an enterprise which promises in­ • foists have in this country departed from the have ever flowed from mortal lips. Her members her of the clergy, who hade the rector “God speed!" in hig have every opportunity in her communion of learn­ of War Natches, bound for Pensacola. estimable blessings to both giver and receiver Church of.England, and there are many of the new and most important relation.—Epis. Recorder. through eternal ages. I humbly hope our sub­ connexion who manifest sentiments of decided hos­ ing the will of God, and the way of salvation, and From Mexico. — By the arrival of the brig Ariel, from scriptions and donations will be characterized by a tility against the Protestant Episcopal Church in upheld by the power and preserved by the goodness VeraCruz, we have received letters from that city tothe of her Divine Head she shall continue to be a bles­ GENERAL INTELLIGENCE 13th April, and papers to the 11th. The dates from the liberality in some degree proportioned to the im­ this country, which is a branch of the Church of city of Mexico, are also to the latter date. portance of the object. When placing our names sing to the nations of the earth till the final con­ England, and we are at a loss to know how these Extra Session of Congress.—By proclamation it will he The Censor of Vera Cruz contains the statement of San­ upon the list of subscribers, let us remember the sentiments of hostility can be reconciled by the summation of all things. Arid while she holds on seen that President Van Buren lias called a Special Ses- ta Anna, in relation to his campaign in Texas, with many words of the Lord Jesus, how that he said, “it her gjorinns rmirco, all who FUxfl ZIGT value will PV- sluu uf iiie Sdiii Cungiess iu commence on the 1st Monday documents in confirmation. He admits, that when at­ judgment of charity, or whu,t can be the motive tacked at San Jacinto, he himself was asleep. General is more blessed to give than to receive.” that induces many to rail against an institution claim, “this is the city of the Lord, the Zion of of Sept. next. It is to be regretted that an earlier day the Holy one of Israel.” could not have been chosen—thejchief objection to which Castrillon, who was killed and whose bravery he eulogises, The Bible cause also is one which commends it­ with which they were once connected, and whose we presume, is the fact that quite a number of the States, he says, was making his toilet and the others were amus­ Pro Ecclesia. self to the sound judgment and good sense of every very language is adopted and made use of in the including North Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, and Ten­ ing themselves. The dead are those whom he chiefly cen­ enlightened patriot as well as Christian. There Methodist communion. Whether this separation nessee, do not elect their members till August; which will sures. _ are few persons of candor and reflection, but will has been made in a formal or informal manner is barely’give them time to reach Washington before the The same paper also contains the protest of the Mexi­ RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. opening of the session.—Mercury. can government against the recognition of the Indepen­ readily admit that the Bible is the best and surest a question of very little consequence. The sepa­ dence of Texas. safeguard of our free institutions. Indeed there ration has been made, and we regret to say that Clerical Changes.—We learn from a friend that the Suspension of Specie Payments--- What we have been an­ The documents published here in relation to the claims are few individuals of intelligence "and worth who there are many whose interest leads them to do all Rev. Samuel Fuller Jr. of Litchfield has been chosen ticipating for a number of weeks, has ut length come to of our citizens on Mexico are also translated. They seem do not distinctly perceive that the Bible forms the Rector of the Church in Andover Mass., and has accepted pass,—the Ranks have suspended specie payments. The rea­ to have created little sensation, and are treated by- the that they can to make the breach wider and wider, sons for this step must be obvious to any one who has newspapers with ridicule. very basis of our civil government, and that the surely they must forget the language of the Savi­ the call. We also learn, from the same source, that ma­ watched the course of things for the last ten days, and it A sufficient number of returns had been received from common law of the land would be little better than our, “blessed are the peace makers for they shall ny of the most respectable inhabitants of that place have must be-equally obvious that the example will be generally the different provinces to render the election of General an idle tale without the solemn and awful sanctions be called the children of God,” The very hinge of conformed to the Episcopal Church. The Rev. Mr. Stone followed by the Banks in this State, and extensively by Bustamente to the Presidency certain. He was-to be in­ of the word of God. Remove the bible from a na­ those in other States. The thing is much to be regretted augurated on the 19th of April. Ilis cabinet it is be­ this controversy, if we may judge from your lan­ of Boston, has officiated there several times recently, and in itself, but cannot and ought not to be any longer defer­ lieved, will consist of the following individuals. tion and the very best laws that can be found are guage,turns upon the question what power andau- 1 when there, addressed one of the largest audiences in the red. It is better that the Banks should suspend while yet Pedrazza, Department of War. but a dead letter, because the morals of both mag­ thority had the Rev. John Wesley to ordain or place.— Chron. of the Church. they have a considerable amount of specie in their vaults, Lebrije, Department of Finance. istrates and subjects soon become so depraved they than wait till it is all drawn out, as it would be from most Canedo, now in Lima, or Santa Maria, now in Paris or consecrate the Rev. Dr. Coke to the office of a Bi­ The Rev. B. T. Babbit has been appointed a missionary will not be regarded. It is the sound morality and shop? We tell you in reply that in that act John of the Banks in the course of three days, perhaps in one. Madrid Department of Foreign Affairs. to Milwaukie, and in consequence resigned his parish at They will be the sooner prepared te resume specie pay- stern integritythe Bible fosters and promotes which Wesley presumed to exercise a power which he did The terms of the loan of two millions of dollars which Woodbury.—lb. merits, and the public will he in every respect as well oif, had been contracted with the house of Rubio (LiZardi) and under God imparts efficiency to the civil code, not possess, which he had never had committed to as if they had stripped the Banks of the last specie dollar others, had been rejected by the council of government, and is the true conservative, the chief hope of the him,and his ordinations are invalid as wanting the We learn that that the Rev. J. M. Bartlet of Brooklyn they possess. The bills of the city Banks will be the “cur­ and it was, in consequence, believed the expedition against nation. Every man therefore who values good or­ sanction of primitive and apostolic authority, and has been obliged to relinquish his charge on account of ill rent money” as before, and it will pay as many notes, or Texas would he given up and the Mexican squadron recall­ der in society and who desires to save our country health.—lb. buy as many goods, as before. They are in " fact worth ed from the Texan coast. in the language of an eminent jurist,the late Lord just as much as before; for the solvency of a Bank does not The French fleet is still lying at Vera Cruz, and the from anarchy and ruin, even if he has not one spark Mansfield, “ordination is separation.” We fur­ The Rev. James D. Nicholson, deacon, late of the depend upon the amount of specie in its vaults, hut upon Vice Admiral was at the city of Mexico.—Mercury. of piety in his bosom, must perceive that it is for ther reply that this act of ordination on the part of Diocese of New York, having removed, with a letter of the amount of its property generally, as compared with its The Mexican government has protested in the most sol­ indebtedness. his own temporal interest and that of his children the Rev. John Wesley, was not sanctioned either dismission, to that of Maryland, and been there re emn manner, “against the recognition of the Independence Tnere is another reason why we think the suspension of that he lends his aid in the more extensive diffusion of of the so called Republic of Texas, made by -the United by the authority of scripture, or by the practice ceivcd, has changed accordingly his canonical residence.— specie payments under existing circumstances, is wise and States, declaring that it cannot in any manner neither now efthe Scriptures throughout ourland, and through the primitive age, or by the Church of England Churchman. proper, viz. that it will save a great many houses who must or at any time hereafter, diminish or invalidate the least the world. from whom Wesley received his commission to inevitably have stopped, had the Banks continued to pay of the rights of the Mexican Republic over the territory It is painful to learn that the Rev. Wm. C. Russell, Let us then,my brethren, each one give, accord­ preach the Gospel, and whose laws and regulations specie a few weeks longer. The only way in which they of Texas, or of those which it unquestionably possesses, to of St. Andrew’s Church, Wilmington, Del., has been could have hoped to continue specie payments, while a ing to his ability,and never relax our efforts till we he had promised to obey. We lament this separa­ take all necessary measures in its power to recover it. ”— compelled by ill health, to resign the rectorship, and to disposition to “run” for specie so extensively prevails would Mercury. are satisfied that every family on the earth is fur­ tion deeply, we regret the unhappy schism which be by ceasing entirely to grant any new discounts, and by relinquish for the present, the duties of the ministry. — Chr. From the New Orleans Bee, May 6. nished with a copy of the inestimable treasure !— has been made, unhappy in its consequences and •calling in their circulation as fast as possible. Even this Witness. Latestf rom Mexico —The schooner Creole, Capt. Cor­ ‘Cast thy bread upon the waters and thou shalt find results, as, tending to separate from each other would not have prevented the present issue, unless they had mier arrived last evening in 7 days from Tampico; states it after many days.’ brethrei^of the same faith who ought to be united The Rev. William Warland who has officiated the past also declined receiving deposits. But in either case there that a revolution had broken out in St. Luis de Potosi, in would very soon be no current money afloat; and of favor of confederation. The coridueta had been stopped; Secretary of Knox Co. Bible Society. in the bonds of unity and love. The question of year at Bridgewater, has accepted a call to the Church in course no notes could be paid. The ordination of the Rev. John Wesley shall be and the schooner Leavin Jones, from this port, had in con­ Saybrook Conn, and has taken letters dimissory from this The effect of the suspension will be to relieve the com- j sequence postponed her voyage. munity from the intensity ot the pressure under which For the Gambier Observer, resumed when you thinji proper to take up the sub­ Diocese. — Ch r. Witness. ject, for the present we are content to follow you they groan; for although the Banks will, as they ought to Texas. — A correspondent of the National Intelligen­ ON THE CLAIMS OF THE PROTESTANT The Rev. Isaac Peck, late Rector of St. Paul’s Church, do, exercise a suitable caution in regard to the paper of­ cer, who dates from New Orleans, the 29th ult. savs: EPISCOPAL CHURCH.—NO. VT. to the conclusiorf of your-'first letter, first simply Troy, has been uuanimously called to be the assistant min­ fered for discount, they will be enabled to do more for the It is a fact which you may rely upon, that the Mexican asking the questionis there not a fallacy in the ister of Christ Church in this city, with the rectorship in community than they have done of late, and so save most army under Gen. Bravo, composed of six or eight brigades We now propose toattendto the inference which of the houses which remain. under as many Brigadier Generals, well appointed and well caption of your article “The original Church of reversion.— Churchman. you have drawn with respect to the clergy of the ChfistV’ Are you not claiming for yourself the Thedetermination to which the Banks have been brought provisioned, is in full march for Texas. On the 10th of Protestant Episcopal Church being recognize! by has not been forced upon them by any indiscretion on their this month they were advancing towards the Rio Grande, very subject in debate? You say that you are sor­ Episcopal Acts by the Bishop of this Diocese__ As­ part, but by a concurrence of circumstances beyond the ir having sent out reconnoitering parties which had returned the Church of England simply as laymen*. Tffisls ry to be compelled to speak or write on this sub­ cension Day, Thursday, May 4, in St. Luke’s Church in control, which have shaken public confidence in all our in­ without meeting the main body of the Texians, but hav­ not the fact, you have not given your readers a ject.”/ Why theiijlid y?>u ?ot maintain a respect­ this city, admitted Foster Thayer to the order of Deacons, stitutions, and caused demands for specie to be made to ing met small bodies of the fexian troops and Indians, just and correct view of the subjectdwe enter at such an extent which no hanks any where could sustain._ with whom skirmishes had taken place, in one of which ful silence? What then do you propose to gain and the Rev, Pierre T. Babbit, Deacon, Missionary, in once upon the task of setting you right;\ in the discussion? Xorf-P rofess that you feel some- I Until yesterday the demand for specie was confined chiefly ten prisoners were brought in and in another, Salofsky, a employ of the'Domestic Committee of the Board of Mis. to bill holders. For this the Banks were prepared, anil thing more than respect for the Protestant Episco­ Polish officer in the Mexican service, was killed. Speak, One fact is said to be worth fifty arguments, sions, to that of Priests. Morning Prayer was read by the their specie ample. Yesterday their deposits were called ing of him reminds me to say that there are said to be a we will give a real and unquestionable fact, for pal Church. for in specie toa very considerable extent, and for this they number of officers, some of them commanding brigades, in Rev. Ezra B. Kellogg, Missionary in charge of the Mis­ which we can furnish you with satisfactory proof. We are compelled to say that you have mani­ were not prepared, for their deposits were equal to more the Mexican army, who have served in the armies of Eu­ A clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, sion Church of the Holy Evangelists, and the sermon than half the amount of their aggregate capitals.—N. Y. rope, and are skilled in war. fested your regard in a very singular manner. We preached by the Bishop. The candidate for the Diaconate Observer. The number of the Mexican army, all told, marching in who had been ordained a Deacon in the Diocese of should infer that you are decidedly hostile to the bodies extending along a front of fifty or sixty miles, is was presented by the Rev. Mr. Kellogg, and the candidate One Good Effect of the Pressure—“It’s an ill wind that New York, was induced to go to England for the Protestant Episcopal Church, from the fact that at stated, upon information said to be derived from the offi­ for the priesthood by the Rev. John M. Forbes, the Rec­ blows nobody any good,” quoth the adage, and accordingly benefit of his health which had been much impair­ the very first sight of a few remarks on the minis­ cial returns, at between eight and nine thousand men; a tor of the Church. we find that the pecuniary distress prevailing in Mississippi more formidable force than I supposed until I had infor­ ed by study; when his health was restored he had try of the Church of Christ which you must know has caused, or is about to cause, the passage of a law pro­ Sunday after Ascension, May 7, confirmed fifteen in mation of the fact such as 1 cannot doubt. some idea of obtaining a situation in the Church must have their foundation in the Articles of the hibiting the introduction of slaves into that State from From the complexion of the news which has just reach­ of England. He accordingly made application Trinity Church, Brooklyn.— Churchman. other States. The ready demand for slaves in the South ed us from the seat of Government of Mexico, and the Church or they are without authority and there­ West, and the high price paid for them,—frequently $1200 tothe Bishop of Lincoln, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Kaye fore untenable, you break out into coarse invec­ determination evinced, so far from relaxing their measures The following clerical removals from and into this Dio­ per man—has had a powerful tendency of late, to cheek to prosecute the campaign in lexas with all the power of stating the facts in the case. The Bishop re­ tive against a member of that Church who lias as emancipation in Maryland, Virginia, &c. cese have recently been effected according to the canons: the nation, I should not be surprised to hear that by this plied to his communication and said that by much right to be heard in a country where tolera­ Extract of a letter dated time, or soon after this, the two armies, or at least their ad­ virtue of the act of parliament which authorized tion is practised as you have yourself. The claims There have removed from the Diocese, - Jackson, Miss. April 26. vance guards will have met. The result cannot hut he the giving of the Apostolic succession to the which have been advanced by me are not “unfound­ To the jurisdiction of the Missionary Bishop for Mis­ The bill to prohibit the introduction of slaves into this looked for with deep interest by the friends of the Texans: American Bishops no person ordained by those ed” you know they are not: the appeal which has souri and Indiana, the Rev. Augustus Fitch and the Rev. State as merchandize, or for hire,having passed the House, for, although their army is said to have no fear but that the Bishops could officiate in the Church of England Pierre T. Babbit. is now before the Committee of the Senate on the Judicia­ Mexicans will not come on, they may he over-sanguine._ ■ been made to the formularies of the Protestant ry. The bill will no doubt pass the Senate without any At all events I shall look with great anxiety for news from without the express permission of the Archbishop Episcopal Church proves that they are more than To Pennsylvania, the Rev. Thomas Breintnall. material amendments. Most of the members believe that that quarter, from this time, and during all the month of of the Province: this was in the province of Can­ the mere advances of private opinions. These To Kentucky, the Rev. William Jackson. the clause of our State Constitution, prescribing that May.”—New York Observer. terbury. The Archbishop was applied to, and There have removed into the Diocese, “The introduction of slaves into this State as merchan­ claims of which you speak in such abhorence have dize or for sale, shall be prohibited from and alter the Vienna, March 23c?.—This morning their Majesties ns language was to this effect “that the restriction been made by men whose integrity of character, The Rev. Amos B. Beach, Deacon, from Connecticut. 1st of May, 1833,’ compels them to vote for the bill__ the Lmperor and Empress of Austria presided over the was a question of expediency not affecting the va­ purity of motive, and piety of life will always en­ The Rev. John Morgan, from Maryland. Mercury. ceremony of the feet washing of 12 poor women and 12 lidity of the ordination made by the Bishops in the poor old men. The whole court and a great part of the title them to the gratitude of mankind. In anoth­ The Rev. Henry Tullidge Deacon, from Illinois__ Florida—Surrender of Oseola.—Two officers of the U. United States which was unquestionable,” offering nobility assisted at this ceremony in half-tnourning.—i er point you are clearly wrong—wo cherish no Churchman. States army, who left Black Creek on the 9th instant, .ilfercury. 116 GAMBIER OBSERVER.

’Tis so far fetch’d this morrow, that I fear little boy, just two years old, was,through the overlook the crime itself. This is not turning of her friends have heard of her, since she last POETRY. ’Twill be both very old and very dear. carelessness of his nurse, precipitated from a punishment to its highest use. Punishment is left Bellevue. To-morrow I will live, the fool does say . an outward sign of inward evil. It is meant to For the Gambier Observer. bed room window upon the pavement be­ On Sunday afternoon last, as Mr. Grossart fo-day itself’s too late; the wise liv’d yesterday. neath. I was at that time six years of age, reveal something more terrible than itself.— an officer of the 13th ward, was on duty in De*. THE CONSUMPTIVE. and happened to be walking on the very spot The greatness of punishment is a mode of em­ lancy street, his attention was attracted oy a Too old before his time! In early youth JUVENILE. when the distressing event occurred; I was, bodying, making visible: the magnitude of the parcel of children making game of a woman in He sought no mirthful sports, or pastimes rare, crime to which it is attached. The miseries of a ragged and filthy condition, and evidently From the Sabbath School Visiter. therefore the first to take up, and deliver into intemperance, its loathsomeness, ghastliness Nor laughter, loving was that boy, forsooth, our agonized mother’s arms, £he poor little helpless from disease and suffering. He went THE NEW YEAR’S PRESENT. and pains, are not seen aright, if they do not up to her, drove oft the children, and in reply For ever on his brow a shade of care sufferer. The head was fractured,and he only Sadden’d a front, in aspect else, most fair “I wish you a happy New Year, Papa,” said represent to us the more fearful desolation to his inquiries she stated that she had not survived the fall about thirty hours. I pre­ And beautifully chisell’d—but his eye George May, as he entered the breakfast room wrought by this sin in the soul.” where to lay her head; that she 6lept the night On the remedy:— Flashed keen and restlessly from out its lair ; on the bright and beautiful New Year’s morn­ serve still a very distinct and lively remem­ before in an open alley; that she had not eaten “The question now comes how shall wear- And he who gazed therein, might well espy ing of 1836. “And, I and I,” added his bro­ brance of the struggle between the natural a mouthful during the day, and knew not where A spirit far too strong for its frail tenancy. feelings of the mother, and the spiritual re­ rest, how suppress this great, evil? Such is to procure a particle of food; and that, withal, ther and sister, who followed him. our last enquiry, and to this I answer, there are “Aye, aye, and I suppose you expect a sub­ signation of the Christian. She passed the she was deadly sick, and felt that her end was His form was slight, as fragile as a girl’s, sad interval of suspense in almost continual two modes of action. To rescue men, we must nigh. Mr. Grossart helped her into a little And his voice somewhat sweet, but sad, and low, stantial token of my good wishes,” replied Mr. prayer, and found God a present help in acton them inwardly or outwardly. We must s.iop hard by, kept by a very humane and ex- Ilis hair too shaded with its matted curls May, as he gazed upon three happy faces, either give them strength within to withstand time of trouble. Frequently, during that day ce.,ent woman named Catharine Moore, who A broad high brow, as white as driven snow. “Well, we will see.” the temptations to intemperance, or we must cheerfully permitted the poor wretch to remain Old! prematurely old ! Who gazed, 1 trow, The children exchanged looks of triumph did she retire with me; and, as I knelt beside remove these temptations without. We must in her shop tdl the watch should be set, and ex­ Upon that boy would turn to gaze again, as they saw their father draw from his pocket her,she uttered the feelings and desires of her increase the power of resistance, or diminish tended to her food and drink: and every atten­ Perchance again, e’er he his gaze withdrew the purse which Anna had knit for him, and heart to God. I remember her saying,' ‘ If the pressure which is to he resisted. Both tion in her power. Mrs. Moore became perfect­ All wondering if the child knew aught of pain; press his finger upon the spring of its silver I cease praying for five minutes, I am ready modes of influence are useful, but the first in­ ly satisfied that the wretched object of her char­ Or why so fair a front, should shade so sad maintain. clasp. to sink under this unlooked for distress; but calculably the most important. No man is safe itable kindness was on the verge of the grave when I pray, God comforts and upholds me: against this foe, but he who is armed with mor­ and took the liberty' of asking her name. ‘Alas’’ lie grew in years, but years no mildness wrought “Oh, oh, a silver dollar for each; a bright, his will, not mine, be done.’ Once she said, al force, with strength in his own soul, with the replied the trembling creature, ‘that Jane Blos­ Upon his spirit all untam’d and wild— new, beautiful dollar,” said George, as he re­ might of principle, and a virtuous will. The som should have come to this!’ But ghastly grew his cheek, and his eye caught ceived his New Year’s present, and held it ‘Help me to pray, my child; Christ suffers lit­ tle children to come to him,.and forbids them great means, then of repressing intemperance Soon after night fall, Mr. Grossart and a A fiercer light than marked him as a child. high for his mother,'who had just entered the in those portions of society which are most ex­ watchman called for her, to assist her to the Nor woman’s smile (the bauble,) e’er beguiled room, to see. Mrs. May smiled upon the not,—say something.” ‘What shall I say, watch house at the Upper Police Office where mamma?—shall I fetch a book?’ ‘Not now,’ posed to it, is to communicate to them, or From bis dark soul its winding-sheet of gloom, cheerful group, expressed the warm wishes of awaken in them moral strength, the power of she could have been provided with every neces­ And if it moved him, ’twas but that ho smiled, a mother’s heart, and seated herself at the she replied: ‘speak from your heart; and ask self denial, a nobler and more vigorous action sary to render her comfortable; hut they had And such a smile ! a wreath as black as doom ! breakfast table. God that we may be reconciled to bis will, of conscience and religious principle. In other j not proceeded two blocks with her, before her Such as a corpse might wear, emerging from the tomb. “What are you going to buy, brother ?” and bear this trial with patience.’ words, to save the laboring and poor from in­ limbs failed her entirely, she dropped to the said little Mary, as she laid her shining sil­ “The day after the infant’s death, she took temperance, we nust set in action amongst pavement,and in an instant was a lifeless corpse. Much he read men—books much—nrid'nature less, me to the bed on which my little brother lay, them, the means of intellectual, moral, and She was brought down to the dead house Park Tho’ he despised not her mysterious lore— ver piece on the table before her. where the Coroner held a view of her body; “Buy! I guess 1 know. I’m going to buy a and kneeling down, she wept for a few mi­ religious improvement. We must strive to ele­ Deeming her less attractive in her dress nutes in silence; and then taking his cold hand vate them as rational and moral beings, to un­ and then all that remained of the once gay, Of fruits and flowers, no doubt, than when she woie little gun that will go—bang, and a pistol, in one of hers, and mine in the other she said, fold their highest nature. It is idle to think, fashionable, proud, and 'much courted Jane A crown of lightning, and her fierce winds boro and sword; and then I’m going to play fight, Blossom was consigned to that miscellaneous —‘Lord if it had not been tliy good pleasure; that whilst these classes remain the same in Tempests, and wrath, and ruin in their train ! along with the boys, and I guess they’ll ap­ other respects, they can he cured of intemper­ receptacle of all that makes up the refuse of For ’mid such scenes, bis spirit seem’d to soar point me captain.” it had not been thus. Thy will be done/—I our city’s dead—Potter’s Field. needed this heavy trial to shew me more of ance. Intemperance does not stand alone in Ftom out its narrow prison-house of pain, “And will that make your New Year hap­ their condition and character. It is a part or All mingling with the blast—shouting for joy—again. py, my boy?” asked Mr. May. myself, and to wean me from the world.— sign of general degradation. It can only be The sun, iu its course, awakens Christians to the duties Forgive my sins, O God! and let me not mur­ of prayer and praise. And thus the holy fire of the Men fear’d, and yet admir'd him—there was much “Yes, papa, I shall be happy enough to be effectually removed by exalting their whole Church’s devotion never expires. As weariness and sleep mur.” Then looking at the cherub counten­ steal over the worshippers of one quarter of the world oth- In his stern nature that demanded awe, called Captain May, and fight. What are character and condition. To heal a diseased ance of her babe, she added—‘Thou art not limb or organ, you must relieve and strengthen I era are rising refreshed totake up the heavenly exercise, For his mind grappled with herculean clutch you going to buy, sister?” and to join in their turn in the unceasing adoration of an­ “Why I’m going to buy a present for mama lost, but gone before!” She then put his the whole body. So it is with the mind. We gels, and of the spirits of the just made perfect Let the Matters abstruse, where others blanched, who saw ; hand into mine and said—‘If you live, my cannot, if we would, remove those vices from In reasoning he marked the slightest flaw. and a little book for me.” Christian who wastes the best hours of the day in his bed, the poor, which are annoying to ourselves, and reflect that while he is thus indolent, others are celebrating But oh ! how fierce and withering his frown “That’s a good girl,” said George: “Now, child, never forget this; and may I one day leave them, in other respects, as corrupt as be­ the praises of God, and pouring forth their prayers in be­ If contraven’d in aught he will’d as law ! brother Charles, what shall you buy with your meet you both in heaven/’ half of the church of Christ, and the whole family of “I have dwelt upon this part of my dear fore. Nothing but a general improvement of Yet to his intellect men bow’d them down— dollar? Some pretty story book, 1 guess, for their nature, can fortify them against the crimes mankind. Who, then, would be last in the heavenly It was so rare a gem—wise-heads, fool, sage, and clown. parent’s history with the more minuteness be­ work ? Who would indulge his laziness, by remaining late you don’t love to play.” which make them scourges alike to themselves in his bed, while his next-door neighbor, may be, is on The dark eyes of Charles glistened, and cause she has frequently told me, that not only lie launched his barque amid the strife of men, and to their race.” his knees in prayer; and the same Father who sees the the color mounted to his pale cheek as he re­ was it the grcatestshock which her feelings were sluggard's indolence, hears also the supplications of the And seized the helm with a determin’d hand, plied, “I shall buy a Bible.” ever called upon to sustain;but thatshewas per­ diligent. All reckless what the eye of fate might ken, suaded it was over-ruled by God for the most MIS CEL L A N Y. For by the breath of adulation fann’d, Charles May had always been a thoughtful The construction of this world appears more wonderful salutary purpose, as it concerned the spiritual From the Religious Magazine. He gaily rode high seas o’er rocks and sand— hoy. The current of his soul was deep and the more it is contemplated; and the same transcendent discipline of her own heart. To the end of ‘AN OVER TRUE TALE.’ and divine power which framed it, continues to preserve it Skimming the ocean in his slender craft. reflecting, far beyond bis years. To him, her life, she wore a little locket attached to If the following narrative from the New York Sun as it is; so firm, 'O unbroken, so un decay ing, and so beauti­ A voyager on life’s sea ! Nor zephyrs bland “life’s smiling rosebuds” bad been rife with should awaken in any of our readers a conviction of the ful as we every where discern it to he. The creating pow- Long filled his sails, but storms came booming aft ! thorns, for from his earliest years he had been her watch: it contained a lock of her poor folly of living in such a manner as to make no provision I ®r continues to act as the conserving power; a superintend- Still on ! men shook their heads—some deemed the helms­ a sufferer. He was now only eleven: and little Henry’s hair; and she often looked at it for a reverse of fortune, and especially >hpu Id it arouse ’nS Providence preserves what it has made, his power op- r wortlilCsRiess of nil that vrales continually, und is essential to the existence of crcat- man daft. and spoke of it as a remembrance of God’s heavy was his mother’s heart as each day she is most valued in the circles of gaiety and fashion, our cd things. Creation was 9 miracle. Its subsistence is watched the light die away from his eyes, and goodness to her at a most trying season.”— purpose in giving it a place in the MagazinW will have 'essso. “Marvelous arc thy works O Lord God A1 Still on ! still on ! Ambition was his star, the color from his cheek, and felt that the Ch. Intelligencer been answered- Such catastrophes as the one here dctavJn^ when we consider thy heavens even the works o f Nathless the winds, which roar around, and plough ed ought not to happen in vain and he forgbtten, hut should thy fingers, the moen and the stars which Thou hast or­ The ocean into wrath— for yet afar storm and darkness were gathering about their ring their dreadful notes of warningin the ears of theliv- dained!—Shakon Turner. He mark’d the boon of promise—shouting now happy domestic circle, and that the destroyer T EM PE RANCE. ing, until they fully realize the truth that ‘sin when it is was about to sever their united affections.— finished bringeth forth death.’ A living hope, living in death itself. The world dares Like spirit of the storm, he dashed his plow THE EVIL AND REMEDY OF INTEMPER­ For many month she had devoted herself with Eight years ago, there was not, in the large, say no more for its device than, .Dnm spiro apero, ( Whilst I All jewelled with the spray, o’er surf and wave! ANCE. breathe I hope:) but the children of God can add by virtue watchful care to her suffering child. Hom- gay and fashionable circle in whicli she moved of this living hope, Dumcxpiro spero, (Whilst I expire I lie grasped ! he won! And now upon his brow (For the fnllnwlnflr valuable oxtracts from the Itev. Dr. him h om the Dibie a prayer, more fashionable being, than was Jane hope.)—Leighton. All fresh and green, Earth’s choicest laurels wave ! after hour she had read to Channing’s Address on Temperance, recently delivered at But ah ! how like gay flowers, blossoming on a grave ! and those books which described the love of Blossom', and many readers of this sad chroni­ the Odeon, in Boston, and just published, we are indebted cle of her horrible end, will bear us witness, Paver Veneering.—We yesterday examined an ele­ Jesus and the joys of heaven, and when at gant piece of furniture, veneered with marble paper, in “ And is this all ?” He paused, and gazing back to the Christian Watchman.—Ed. Gam. Obs. that at the time when she was just fully budded evening she had smoothed his pillow and hush­ “I begin with asking, what is the great, es­ into w omanhood, surrounded by prosperity, and hnitatiou of rose wood. The imitation was so perfect and Upon the past, he sickened, as the whole ed his feverish spirit, she would kneel beside the veneering so exact that an experienced painter was un­ Passed in review before him. “ Do we rack sential evil of intemperance? The reply is giv­ friends, and luxury, she was one of the most able to discover that it was not grained with paint, though Our brain—die peace-mcal—immolate the soul— his bed and pray for him—O how earnestly en, when 1 say, that intemperance is-the volun­ beautiful that mixed in the fashionable society he considered it almost impossible to shade and blend col­ and she had been cheered and comforted by tary extinction of reason. The great evil is in of our city. On Sunday evening last she died ors in such a beautiful manner. The paper was from the Quench conscience—hush remorse—-for thia poor dole? manufactory of Messrs. S. C. & E. Mann, of this town. Is it for this we live tortured with care, the assurance that her prayers and efforts were ward or spiritual. The intemperate man divests in the street a miserable, houseless, friendless They have brought, the manufactory of colored paper to a That we may blacken our own judgment scroll! not in vain. Charles was still able to join himself, for a time, of his rational and moral diseased outcast, whilst a watchman was sustain­ higher state of perfection than any other establishment in the United States. The plan of veneering furniture we Scoop our own grave, and die without a prayer? the family each day in the parlor, and many nature casts from himself self-consciousness ing her tottering steps toward the watch house, think will prove a vt'ry useful improvement. It combines Father forgive! forgive! Oil! God! forgive! and spare!” hopes had mingled with the painful appre­ and self-command, brings on phrenzy, and for a night’s shelter. by repetition of this insanity, prostrates She was the widow of the gifted and well three very desirable qualities—elegance durability, and »♦*»«*• hensions of his parents. It was with unming­ cheapness. A common pine table can he covered in imita­ led joy that they heard his reply to George, more and more his rational and moral pow­ known----- Blossom, long a clerk with the late tion of rose-wood for $1 50, in a style that would defy tho ’Tis summer! glorious summer ! and the beams ers. lie sins immediately and directly i Ilenry Eckford: and subsequently principal most skilful! painter iu the world to equal. It is the opin- when he asked him what he should buy with against the rational nature, that divine princi­ clerkinthe memorable Life and Fire Insur-jion of Cabinet Makers that it will wear much longer than O1 the declining sun their radiance dart his new dollar. ple, which distinguishes between truth and rance Company, in which Mr. Eckford and Ja- , common vencenng.-Dtffiiaw Pat. Athwart the aisles of an old church, which seemed “My dear children,” said Mrs. May, “ do falsehood, between right and wrong action, cob Barker were largely concerned. Blossom To breathe with human souls. But why that start? not forget this day. If youi’ heavenly Father which distinguishes man from the brute. This died soon after the bursting ot that bubble; and Bleeding at the Nose—Bleeding at the nose, if it he That breathless hush—that gaze with lips apart? ever so violent and protracted,may be permanently stopped should spare your lives one year longer, you is the essence of the vice, what constitutes its by the individual using some salted beef, which has been Ah! there he stood, with arm to heaven upraised, as lie lived even beyond his income, lie left her j peculiar guilt and wo, and what should particu­ without any other means of support than she grated fine with a grater, in the same way that he would His shrunk cheek geir.cied by the despoiler's art, will tell menext New Year’sday, whether your deal- father’s present has been a source of com­ larly impress and awaken those who are laboring derived from the sale of her jewelry, dresses, take snuff. Two or three pinches are said to be sufficient While in his eye the fatal death-fires blazed! for its suppression. All the other evils of in- and other expensive articles purchased in her to stop any fit of bleeding.—N. Y. Observer. No wonder that men glared, and shuddered as they gazed. fort and joy to you; and I shall then know which has been made the happiest through temperance are light compared with this, and days of prosperity. Penury by degrees crept He spake of human crime—-judgment, and hell! the whole year, George with iiis gun, pistol almost all flow from this; and it is right, it is to upon her, and she shrunk and fell beneath its Job Work.—Advertisements. be desired, that all other evils should he joined And as he poured his burning thoughts along, and sword; Mary with her little book and pre­ withering grasp. She had long been in the Nearly all kinds of Job work and the printing of Books A hush as deep upon the concourse fell with and follow this: It is to be desired, when habit of using opium; and as distress and mise­ and Pamphlets will he done at this office withmeatness and sent for mama, or Charles with his Bible. a man lifts a suicidal arm against his highest despatch. As erst came down upon Belshazzar’s throng, ry grew upon her, she indulged more freely Advertisements not inconsistent with the character and When the strange hand came forth, and shout and song life, when he quenches reason and conscience, in the use of that drug, as an antidote to the design of the Observer, will beinserted on the usual terms. Sunk and expired; or, os the hot simoom P A R E N T A L . that he and all others should receive solemn, mortification and chagrin her proud but ill di­ Had breathed upon them with its vengeance strong! startling warning of the greatness of his guilt; rected spirit sustained by her fallen estate. THE OBSERVER And when he sh?ated with glazed eye :—“doom ! doom !” LEGII RICHMOND’S MOTHER. that terrible outward calamities should hear wit­ Gradually by yielding to the weakness of IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. OH THE INFLUENCE OF A PIOUS PARENT. ness to the inward ruin which he is working: mind betrayed by her indulgence in opium she Men gasped,as tho’ a voice had issued from the tomb. that the. hand writing of judgment and wo on his In the interesting Memoirs of the Rev. sunk from one stage of poverty and wretched­ TERMS.— Two Dollars and fifty cents per annum. If He spake of heaven—of its perennial bloom, countenance, form, and whole condition, should ness to another, tiil she entered the .precincts paid in advance, fifty cents will be deducted. No sub- Legh Richmond,the following passage occurs The never-dying verdure of the soul declare what, a fearful thing it is for a man, of vice; and when her means for procuring her ' seriptions received for a less term than one year. No papei> discontinued until all arrearages are paid, ex­ In fields elysian far beyond the tomb, strikinglydescriptiveof thebeneficial effect pro­ God’s rational offspring, to renounce his reason favorite and baneful opiate failed her, she^e*.. duced upon his mind by the instructions and and become a brute.. It is common for those cept at the option of the publishers. Where pain comes not, or care. Where no control sorted to the use of the -pcftsonqjjs and loathsome Those who may wish to have their papers discontinued Save God and happiness pervades the whole, admonitions of a beloved parent. “I well re­ who argue aginst intemperance, to describe the intoxicating liquors thatfirei’so easy of access ^re requested to give notice thereof, at least thirty days And as he touched it with exquisite hand, member, in the early dawn of mv expanding bloated countenance of the drunkard; now flush­ in the low haunts, to wlrTdif^aiiiongst blacks and pi’tiyious to the expiration of the term of their subscrip- A thrill of joy upon their spirits stole— reason,with what care she labored to instil in­ ed and now deadly pale. They describe his whites, she finally hot^tk licrlfell. Rags and aerwise it will be considered anew engagement. They seem’d to listen to the breezes bland to my mind a sense of the being of God, and trembling, palsied limbs. They describe his filth soon became the raimenttijf Wie heautitul communications relative to this paper, must be Fanning eternal groves, which shade the spirit land! of the reverence which is due to him: of the waning prosperity, his poverty, his despair.— form that was once wont to ba chid in finery, and' ! directed t—o the Rev. M. T. C. Wing, Gambier, Knox character of a Saviour, and his infinite merits lhey describe his desolate, cheerless home, his to attract universal admir’afeon, arid the lowistI , Co" Ohl° A change is there. With thrilling eloquence, LIST OF AGENTS. of the duty of prayer, and the manner in which cold hearth, his scanty hoard, his heart-broken sinks in the city’ became her only places of nbr lie spoke of man’s redemption—of the still wife, the squalidness of his children; and we sort. T • Rev JOHN L. BRYAN,...... Windsor, Ohio it ought to be offered up at the throne of Cot Hubbard,...... Ashtabula, Small voice—of Jesus, and the recompense groan in spirit over the sad recital. But it is Vv hilst in this situatiorTjshe was seen and re »«v. AcVAH SANFORD...... Portsmouth, Pour’d from his bleeding veins—of stubborn will. grace. Her way of enforcing these subjects right, that all this should he. It is right, that Re?\ WM. PRESTON, ...... Columbus, And as he spake in accents wild and shrill was like one who felt their importance, and he, who, forewarned, puts out the light of un­ Which glanced like lightning thro’ that guilty crowd, wished her child to do so likewise. First in­ derstanding and conscience within him, who .1. W. SCHUCKERS...... Woosh These words:—“ ’Tis finished!”—“ finished !” Oh ! the structed by her to read, I have not forgotten abandons his rank among God’s rational crea­ itahle lady gave her clean apparel, and then DOBSON EDWARDS,...... Daybm. tures, and takes his place among brutes, should Dr. ASA COLEMAN...... Troy, MmmiCo. thrill in my Bible lessons, with what simplicity and took her to the alms house. At that institu­ Rev. E. W. PEEP...... Chillieothc. Which stung with conscious guilt those mortals proud! propriety she used to explain and comment on stand a monument of wrath among his fellows, tion Mrs. Blossom rerrthined some months, con­ ROWLAND CLAP,... ' ’ Cuyahoga Falls, WILLIAM HUNT,...... Urbana, Some prayed with quivering lip! whilst others wept aloud! the word of God, its precepts and examples. should he a teacher wherever he is seen, a ducting herself with sobriety and propriety ; JOHN HANFORD,...... Jiiddlehury, teacher, in every look and motion, of the aw­ and she was there visited by the Good Samari­ F. E. KIRTLAND,...... Maumee, These infantine catechetical exercises still vi­ Rev. II. S. SMITH...... Liverpool. „ He paused—he lysts—his work is done—his tones ful guilt of destroying reason. Were we so tan, who had snatched her from the kennel of REV. WM. GRANVILLE, ...... Medina, brate in my recollections, and confirms to my constitited, that reason could be extinguished Rev. ERASTUS BURR...... Worthington, Have died into an echo—and his name own mind the great advantage attendant upon depravity, and also by many others who had JOSEPH BASSETT...... Canfield,TrumbullLo. „ A worthier meed perchance, than hollow groans and the countenance retain its freshness, the known her in better days. They never came Rev. WM. A. SMALLWOOD, ..... Zanesville, .< the earliest possible endeavors to win the at­ Rev, A. GUION, ...... Piqua. .« And sycophantic sighs and tears, may claim ! form its grace, the body its vigor the outward without bringing her presents of articles of food, BENJAMIN JOHNS,...... Mansfield. „ « tention, and store the memory with religious WILLIAM A KRUG ...... Hamilton, Butler Co. „ He sleeps—that gifted one, of wasting frame. condition its piosperity, and no striking change &c. not to be obtained nt the alms house; and F.BEN BOULT,...... Norwalk, And tho’ in sadness we may pen this stave, knowledge. Her natural abilities, which were he seen in one’s home, so far from being gain­ always treated her with the utmost respect and Rev. J. P. BAUSMAN,...... Circleville ■> Rev. E. BOYDEN, ...... Cleveland, « We murmur not—he goes from whence he came! of a superior character, enabled her to con­ ers, we should lose some testimonies of God’s kindness. Rev. SETH DaVIS,...... Ohio City, parental care. Ilis care and goodness, as well S. S. FULLER...... Massillon, u Ah ! well lie sleeps within his narrow grave. verse with a very little child with much effect She finally left that institution, and was not REV. ANSON CLARK, ...... Grafton, His spirit disenthralled, hath gone to God, who gave. and there was a tenderness of affection, unit­ as his justice, aremanifested iu the fearful mark again heard of by her friends till she was a REV. J. I.. HARRISON...... Warren « REV. JAMES McELllOY,...... Delaware, „ Cincinnati, 1837. jj -yy -p. ed to a firmness of manner, which greatly he basset on the drunkard, in the blight which second time found in the situation from which REV. S. A, BRONSON, ...... Granville- ,< REV. T. BARROW...... Akron, promoted the best interests of a nursery edu­ falls on all the drunkard’s joys. These out­ she was previously rescued. A second time Rev. JOHN O’BRIEN...... Monroe, Michigan, ward evils, dreadful as they seem, are but faint C. C. TROWBRIDGE, Esq...... Detroit, TOMORROW. cation. did her fair friends provide for her suitably Rev. N. LYSTER,...... Tecumseh, f From Martial, by Cowley. J types of the ruin within. We should see in and got her back again to the alms house.— MONTGOMERY SCHUYLER,.... Marshall “ “My mother had six children, three of them God’s respect to his own image in the Iiev. WM. SUDDARDS,...... Philadelphia,Penn To-morrow you will live, you always cry : whom died in infancy. A very affecting cir­ I here she remained, however, but a short time, HENRY L. BOLI.MAN...... Pittsburgh, “ soul, his parental warnings against the crime leaving very suddenly, and without notice to Rev Wm. ARMSTRONG...... Wheeling, Va, In what far country does this morrow lie, cumstance accompanied the death of one of CHAS. WILTBERGER,,...... Washington,D. C. of quenching the intellectual and moral life. any body. No one know whither she had gone R. M. WHITE...... New Y'ork. '1 hat ’tis so mighty long ere it arrive ! them, and was a severe trial to her maternal “We are too apt to fix our thoughts on the ROBERT JONES ...... Crawfordsville, Indiana. Beyond the Indies does this morrow live ? and the melancholy intelligence of her death JOSEPH MITCHELL...... Natchez, Miss. feelings. Her then youngest child, a sweet consequences or punishments of crime and to Rev. P. R. MIN ARD,...... St. Louis.Missouri. given above, is most probably the first that any NICHOLAS TORODE ...... 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