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F O R G I V E N ESS.
3//-. Editor:?The obvious tendency
of the doctrines of the Gospel, is to establish
the reign of universal peacc on
earth. The prophet, in holy vision,
saw the glorious consumation of this sublime
result, upon the character ami condition
of'the human family: and the
christian now fervently prays for the
dawn of that milleniul day, when the
instruments of war and bloodshed, shall
be constructed into the implements of
peace. The principle embodied in the \
Scripture doctrine of forgiveness, is j
among the most eilectivo of those mor- j
al agencies, appointed to renovate the
entire structure of society. But this
principle, in order to produce its Icgitiimate
result, must be CORRECTLY
understood and appreciated. The usual
strain of remark from the pulpit and
press, we believe to b<' radically wrong-. I
and the practice impossible. Forgive- j
ness without u a .\x i:s f'uri- j
ously demanded <it us by these rampant^
declaimers, and ii* we demur, they attempt
to grasp, and hurl the thunderbolts
of eternal wrath, against the presumtuous
sinner, who has the effrontery
to neglect their demands. Such' forgiveness
as they require, finds no parallel
in the gracious proceedings of that
divine Being who so rejoices in mercy,
that the execution of his threatening:?, is
called his strange work. -That the
Most High forgives without atonement,
is not the doctrine of inspiration. Wo
are pardoned upon the ground that the
Mesiah, in his life, death and sufferings,
has'honored the broken law, and satisfied
the demands of the must rigorous justice.
But the divine procedure is the .best'
interpreter of the divine law. and if we
forgive as He forgive?, we have no reason
to dread the anathema qf those who
would be wiser and holier than Heaven.
Tc^^s exposition ol ihe'law of forgiveness,
the doctrine of offences contained
in the 14th chap, of LuIce, and 18th
chap. I\lath. is evidently opposed. In j
the first cited place, Christ denounces a
IOOS UllOll th(; :iml tonflicc
A_ _ - 1 VMVliVU UUU j
his repentance furnishes tiii: uuasox
why we should forgive; in the other!
place we are taught to regard the ofll-nder,
as a heathen man, and publican, ifj
lie jjols not repent. Now Scripture re-1
pentance, 1 ike Scripture faith and chari- j
ty, consists in something moiif. than1
mere words; includes restitution or j
atonement, or satisfaction. An inspired j
apostle also commands us to separate :
from those, who persevere in a disorder- i
ly walk. To require a satisfaction of j
those who offend and injure us, before j
we forgive, is not a requirement, which
docs violence to the Bible law of forgive
ness.
This theory of forgiveness against
which wew^ontend is not more repugnant
to the teachings of scripture, than
to the dictates of common sense. The
good order of every form of society, and
. ihe purity of the church can only be secured
by the punishment of those who
offend. Without law there can bo no
pffencc, and law that has no provision
for its enforcement is powerless; to call
such a thing law, would be unmeaning.
# While the RE ClUI RE MEN T of
satisfaction is not .wrong, yet we may
err in the KIND of satisfaction we demand,
and by claiming more to appease
than the nature of the offence warrants.
Against such a spirit we should carefully
guard; for w# arc evidently required
to be ready to be reconciled, and even to
seekjreconciliation. and while we. may,
"without sin, take less than our Hups vpt
, J J ?
pther circumstances may arise when we
> would sin against truth and virtue?sin
against morality and religion?sin
against God and man ii wo give back
one inch of the ground we occupy?yea
we must contend for it, even though that
contest should bring us to-the stake, or
the scaffold. But having obtained we
must forgive,?return the sword to its
scabbard and *>e at pence. Ts. V. Iv.
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T'ro/t ' " n/tifaih'/j>Uui 8alu filuy Courier
not Small Hamlin**.
It is :d in the Gentleman's Magazine.
chantry, (he eel el) rated sculptor,
that, when a boy, he was observed by a
gentleman in the neighborhood ui' Sheffield
very attentively engaged in cutting
a stick of wood with a j)enl<uife. Lie
asked the hid what he was doing : when,
with great simplicity of manner, but
with great c.ourtcsy, he replied, " 1 am
cutting old Fox's head." Fox was the I
schoolmaster of the village. On tllis. I
the gentleman asked to sec what he had j
d^he, and pronouncing it to be tin rx- j
-eellent likeness. ??ave the vciiili a siv- i
pence. And this may bo reckoned tin- 1
iirst money Chantry ever received for
the production of hi* art.
This anecdote is but one in a thousand
that might be cited of as many
difi-Tenl men who from small beginnings
rise to station and iullueneo; ami
shows the importance of not despising
the day ol small things, in any condition
or circumstance of life. All nature, in
fact, is full of instructive lessons nu this
point, which it would be well for us
more thoroughly to study and appreciate.
The river rolling onward i's accumulated
waters to the ocean, was in its
small beginning but an oozing rill, trickling
down some moss-covered rock, and
winding like a silver thread between'
the green banks to which it imparted
veraure. 1 nc tree that sweeps the air
with its hundred branches, and mucks
at the howling of the tempest, was in iuilrgBll
beginning but a little seed trodden
"lirfuer foot, unnoticed: then a sm:ill
shoot ih'ii't the leaping liare might have j
forever crushed.
Everything around us tells us not to t
despise small beginnings; lor they are
the lower rounds ofa ladder that reaches
to great results, and we must step'upon
these before,we can ascend higher.
F>espise not small beginnings of
wealth.
The Rothschilds, Girard, and most of |
the! Holiest men, began T witii small
! mean?. From cents they proceeded to
'dollars; from hundreds to thousands;
I and from thousands to millions'. Had i
| they neglected these iirat earnings, had ;
j thev said \{ ithin themselves, what is the. ;
| us:.* of these few cents ? they are not of}
| much value, and 1 will just spend them, 1
: an:l enjoy myself as I go?they would !
| never have risen to be the wealthiest ,
among their fellows. It is only by this
economical husbanding of means that
they increase to large sums. It is the |
hardest pai t of success to gain a little:
this Utile once gained, more will easily!
follow.
! Despise not small beginnings of edu|
cation. *
I Franklin had but little early eduea- \
lion ; yet look at what he became, find |
| how lie is reverenced. Furgusson, feei
ding his sheep on the hills of Scotland,
picked up merely the rudiments oflcarn!
ing, but subsequently rose lobe ono of I
j the first astronomers of .Europe. Her- '
I schell, the ^reut astronomer, was,,in his ,
i youth a drummer-boy to a marching' i
regiment, and received but a little more ;
than a drummer-boy's education; but
this name is'now associateed with the
! brightest, discoveries of science, and is
! borne by the planet that his zeal disco.
vered. A host of instances rise up to |
i lesuiy inai, Dy properly improving the ;
j small and perhaps imperfect beginnings {
i of knowledge, they may become asfoun-!
dation stones of a temple of learning,!
which the future shall gaze upon and j
admire.
A man can scarcely be too avaricious j
in the acquisition of learning ; he should j
hoard up his intellectual gain with the |
utmost assiduity and dilligence; but,
unlike the lucre-seekinc miser, must nut I
! out his knowledge at usury, by lending
! out his stock to others, increase by the
j commerce of his thoughts his capital,
until his talent shall have- become five,
and these five shall have gained to them
other five.
Despise not small beginnings of fame
and honor.
The fame which springs up on a sudden,
like a mushroom plant, is seldom,
lasting. True fame an.d hon?>i> are ol
slow growth, ascending l?3" degrees from
the lowest oifices to the highest stations
? from the regard of a few to the applause
of a nation. 13ut he,, who despises
the lower steps ef honor, because
they are low, will seUonv reach the
higher: and lie who :> tlm / "??.
% ~"w vw,ii
meiuhilion of his own circle, ys too small
a thing io seek alter, will never secure
the esteem and renown of a State or
kingdom.
Despise not small beginnirigs of error.
The walls ol a castle have been undermined
by the burrowings of small
and despised animals; and the beginning
of error, though at first unheeded,
will soon, if nut checked, sap the foundations
of truth, and build up its own
wretched dogmas 011 its ruin*. All first
errors are small; despise them not;
they will soon increase to great ones, j
ati'i. pi-rnaps. Mevnstate society.
Wars ami their Cunsrqtuitefs.
I;Y I:. ninuriT.
The newspaper press has long per- ,
petuated Ri miniscences of.War, seu-j
soned to the: most ardent fancy of youth,
with the gorgeous heroics of patriotism, ,
anil poetry, und romanco. I should be
exceedingly grateful to your courtesy,
and you might lay mankind under some
obligation to that bland quality of Christianity,
il you would occasionally admit
into your eolutns some of those Jicmhiiscences
of War calculated to inspire both
the young and the old. of this enlightened
age, with an indomitable abhorrence
o! all that savors of the spirit, or tends to
pripetuate the existence, of that .sail- I
jr iiii:iry monster. 1 iicsc uri poetical re- |
miniscences arc living, without any association
with romance, or the heroics
of the invagination, in llie sleepless misery
of millions of your fellow beings?
the turning inheritance of war. The
down-crushed poor of Christendom, with
the bleared vision of their\starved intollects,
arc groping,for the cause" of their
poverty and degradation, and grasping
it in its slow revelation.
They had disco verd ih^he monstrous
lineaments ol war, the partnered Gordon
which for ages has fed at the veins
of "Labor, and is now eating * out"
the substance and subsistence oi their
.,~.i i ?' ?
uu-ins mm ctjuia, uuu enslaving wicill 10 ;
Wanl, wretchedness, an J hopeIeslNi**oosance.
They appeal to you to indict
this horrid cannibal war, before the tribunal
of humhnity, and enter there tl?e
evidence ?fits savage atrocities perpetrated
on the human race, and written -in
lines of fire and rivers of blood around
the j^lobc.
Here, then, are a few of the Reminiscences
of War, entirely shorn of poetry.
They are bloody witnesses to the truth,
and let them testify. In the pefjodfcal
butcheries in the human family, the following
hecatombs have been ollered up
to that God of battles which both Christians
and Pagans have worshiped with
the same devotion :
IjO^s of life in the. Jewish
wars, 25,000,000
By wars in the time of Sc
sostris, '.15,000,000
By those of Semiramis,
Cyrus and Alexander, 30,000,000
By Alexander's successors, 20,000.000'
vv ar 01 tue twelve Caesars, 30,U0U,000
itoin'aft wars before Julius
Caesar, 60,000,000
Wars of ihe Roman Empire,
Turks ami Saracens,
4 " 180.000,009..
Wars of Reformation, 30,000^000
War<j of the-Middle Ages, \
and nine Crusades, 80,000,000
Tartar and African wars, 180,000,000
American Indians destroyed
by the Spaniards, 12,000,000
Wars of Napoleon, 6,000,000
+ l\CL& f\i\r% nr\r\
The above is a mere extract from the
bloody statistics of g-lorious War, one
chapter in the annals of violence, crime
and misery, that have followed in the
footprints of the Great Destroyer. The
loss of soul" is cnterpd where human
eyes may not read 4he list. Dr. Dick
estimates the number of those who have
perished directly and indirectly by war,
at fourteen thousand millions, or about
one-tenth of J.h(k human race. Edmund
Burke placed the number at thirty-jive
thoiisand millions Taking the estimate
of Dr. Dick, and assuming the average
quantity of blood in a common sized
person, the veins of fourteen thousand
millions would, fill a circular lake of
more than seventeen miles in circumference
?ten feel deep ! in which all the navies
of the world might float 1 Supposing
these slaughtered millions to average,
each, four feet in length, if placed in a
row, they would reach nearly four hundred
and forty-twojimes round the earth,
and lour limes around llie sun. Supposing
they average one hundred thirty
pounds eaeh, then they would weigh
1,8:20,000,000,000 lbs., lourteen times
more than all the human beings now
living on the glube.
Fkiouitul, linstlt <>r a Practical
Juki:.?A shocking occurrence lately
took place in the vicinity of Perth. 'l'ho
well known courage and dauntless temperament
of a young nobleman of that
country, hail stimulated some ol ios companions
to various ways of intimidating
him.- lie was himself aware of their
designs against his hardihood, ami readily
joined in the sport, so far as to give
the !r."i> in tool !? *
I mo mil' |imi^
1 ?y cither natural or supernatural moans.
Kv<m v sehem?- however, proved abortive,
?uJi'l the attempt was apparently, and as
the voting hero believed, really relinquished
as hopeless, lint alter the lapse
of some weeks, it unfortunately, again
became a subject of discussion, and one
of the thoughtless youths, his ingenuity
stimulated by a considerable wager, resolved
once more to subject his friend's
strength to new trial. Having bribed
his valet to rnhnit him into the bed chamber
of the wholly unsuspecting youth,
his lirst care was to withdraw the bullet
from a brace of pistols, suspended at the
head of the bed, under which he then
crept to await the arrival of his companion,
who. returning homn :?t liis iisiml
hour, went to bod and fell asleep. The
concealed plotter stole cautiously forth
wrapped himself in a white coverlet,
and standing at the loot of the couch,
began to jerk the sheet in which the
sleeper lay ; lie awoke, and saw the tall
white figure, ami calling out, "What
humbug are you about now?" turned
himself round again to sleep. The
sheet jerking was. however renewed and
'the youth, tormented out of his good
temper, exclaimed, "begone foolish fellow,
or I will shoot you!" Still the
white figure neither spoke or moved
away, but continued pulling at the bed
clothes as-before. .Either alarmed or
angry, the young nobleman got up,
seized one of his pistols, and fired right
at ^he motionless figure, and the bullet
was rolled back harmless upon the coverlet
! Amazed he discharged the other
pisioi; tue gnu at lig arc tossed the second
bullet towards him ? A horrible
conviction of an unearthly visitor before
him, probably seized his imagination,
and the line promis ng youth fell back
upon the couch, a corpse. A celebral
paralasys hud deprived him of life.
A Scene at the Gatk of Paradise.?
A poor tailor, being released from this
world and a scolding wife, appeared at
the gate of Paradise. Peter asked him
if he had ever been in Purgatory.
" No," said the tailor, " but I have
been married."
il Oh!" said Peter, " that is all the
same."
The tailor had scarcely got in, before
a turtle-eating alderman came puffing
and blowing.
"Hallo! you fellow, said he, open
the door."
<{,Not so fast,' said Peter, have you
ejrer been in Purgatory?"
/ " No,' said the alderman, 1 but what
is that to the purpose! You let that
poor half starved tailor in, and he has no
more in Purgatory than myself."
" But he has been married,' said Peter.1
" Married !' exclaimed the alderman,
{ why I've been married twice."
" Then please go back again' said
Peter, Paradise is not the place for fools."
Read Tins.?A B never lent and
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for table in the eye dear of may king
his neigli bores and as O she cats joy
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Iris all my tea make her, and just ice 2
his fell low more tails, that he bees toes
a few pen eyes up on those who D
serve a nee pea Q, nigh hairy ass easi
ants, or claim our come pass I on and
pea tea,
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A \vj;lt, guarded Safe.?Tiie Rothchilds,
oi Franco, have invented a woniler'ul
piece of mechanism to prevent
any removal of their deposites. If a
person attempts the lock, or tampers with
it in the slightest degree, an iton hand
and arm is thrust out from the door,
clenches the offender and holds him motionless
in its iron embrace, while at the
same instant a bell is struck in a room
over head, occupied by a watchman,
giving him notice that his presence is
required in the room below. Should this
i a A . - .t * -
tvniuiiiiiuu nui ?iri uown 10 me assistence
and release of the wretch held by the
arm in .fifteen minutes time, then a
blunderbuss is discharged into the body
of the trespasser. Thus he is mercifully
allowed fifteen minutes grace to reflect
upon the enormity of his offence.
It is told that a few years since a man
was caught by the iron nippers, and the
watchman came to his release only two
minutes before the blunderbuss would
have been discharged.
Four Lawyers practised in the same
Court in North Carolina?their names
were Hillman, Swain, Dews, and
Dodge. While the last named was maIcing
a speech, in a cause, the three first
wrote on a strip of paper an Epitaph,
and cast it directly before Mr. Dodge,
where he must necessarily see it, as follows
:?:
Here lies a Dodge who dodg\l all good.
And dodged a deal of evil;
But after dodging all he could,
l ift rnillfl nnf Hnrlnrn flit* Tkwnil
He raised the paper?read it, and
immediately composed the following
bone cutter:
" Mere lies a IUllman and a Swai/ir
9 Whose lot let no man choose ;
They liv'd in sin and died in pain,
And the devil got his Dews (dues.")
j Greensboro' Patriot.
One of the soldiers of the army of occupation
in Texas, set his- boots by the
side of his- sleeping place, ready to be
slipped on in the morning, but, at dawn,
in drawing them on, a small snake with
eleven rattles, having taken peaceable
possession during the night, contested
the place with the foot.
Gen. Jackson's Epitaph.-?The
Union, (Nashville Tenn.,) says the fol-'
I lowing- will be the epitaph on General
Jackson's tombstone:?" Andrew Jackson,
was bom on the 15th of March,
1767?died on the 8th of June 1845.
To Cuius a Burn.?A lady a preacher
of the Society of Friends, in N. York,
was so successful in curing burns, that
many of the lower class supposed her
possessed of the power of working miracles.
The following is the receipe for
the medicine: Take one ounce of beeswax,
with four ounces burgundy pirch,
simmered in an earthen vessel together,
with as much sweet oil as will soften,
them into the consistency of salve when
cool?stir the liquid after taken from the
fire till quite cool. Keep it from the air
in a tight box or jar. When used,
spreajfejt thinly on a cloth and apply it
to tro^part injured. Open the burn
with a needle and let out the water till
it heels.?Ex. paper.
Hon. Sajvt Houston.?Gen. Hou,
ston, twice President of the Republic
of Texas, has taken his seat in
the Senate of the United States as
one'of the Senators of the State of
Texas. The history of this personage,
says the Baltimore American,
is full of remarkable events ;
of these his appearance at Washington,
at this time, under the
| circumstances of the case, is not
the least remarkable. Twelve
' years ago Samuel Houston stood
, at the bar of the House of Representatives
of the United States to
be reprimanded by the Speaker,
Since* that he has dismembered a
nation, achieved a revolution, organised
an independent sovereignty
and now crowned with the glory
of a conqueror and a statesman,
he returns with his trophies to the
| Capitol having brought to this
\ Republic a teVrifory large enough
!i v . 111 i ?
i to lorra wnat wouia De considered
: in Europe an Empire. Fortunate
1 in acquisition, he has been not iess
so in surrender; vicit cedendo,"