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THE DAY AFTER JUDGMENT.
The days and years of time are fled, p
Shin moon and stars have shone their last, t!
The earth and sea g ive up their dead, p
Then vanished at the archangel's blast.
All secret things have been revealed, ;
Juigmeot is past, the sentence sealed, | ^
And man, to all eternity,
What he is now henceforth must be.
From Adam to his youngest heir. i v
Not one escaped that muster-roll; ; li
Each, as if he alone were there, ; s
Stood up, and lost or won his soul; j ^
These from the Judge's presence go I |
Down to everlasting wo;
Vengeance hath barred the gates of hell,
The scenes within no tongue can tell. : ^
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But k>! far olFthe righteous pass . (
To glory from the King's right hand; j 1
In silence, on the sea of glass, <
Heaven's numbers without number stand;1,
While He who bore the cross lays down
His priestly robe and victor crown;
The mediatorial reign's complete,
All things are put beneath his feet. '1
i ?
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men every eye m mm f:ian cw , ,
(While thrones and powers before Ilim ,
fail) j ,
The fulness of the Deify, i
Where God himself is all in all.
O, how eternity shall ring,
While the first note the ransomed sing! i '
While in that strain all voices blend,
Which, once begun, shall never end.
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In tint unutterable song i
Shall I employ immortal breath ? I;
Or with the wicked borne along, ! j
Forever die "the second death?*'
Jesus, my light, my life thou art;
Thy word is in my mouth, my heart;
l/?rd, I believe,?my spirit save
From sinking lower than the grave.
Montgomery. !
I
LT OF MISSIONARY LABOR.
We : ?Tract the following from a letter ad- !
-s- .1 iw the Rev. Dwight Baldwin, in be- (
,<l the Missionaries of the Sandwich Isl- : ,
ode, to the " Society of Inquiry" in the Miami ?
University, Oxford, 0., and published in the ! j
Cincinnati Jo;irnal and Luminary. I
I Inlnsrv. in These Islands, was abolished 1
just htfore the first missionaries arrived, [
par ly, because they heard of its abolition, ,
1) i>l atids of trie southern Pacific. But
'I. -:iTl* its rites were done away, the dark- j
. ss .lad poliu:ion 6f the people still remain- '
1. Against these, tins mission has al-!r
**ays iiad to contend ; and an equally for- j *
nidable obs'acle has been found, in some,
iVo.rj chris; ian lands, whose avarice and j J
ius's have led ihcm to oppose the truth, and
to wish, that this people might still be kept jT
in J-irkuess and sin. But the hand of the :c
Lord ius evidently been with it, and often [
# p nr.:?l signally o remove opposition out 1
the way. The influence of the Gospel j*
has advanced steadily, and lightand knowl- | 1
o Ige have kept pace with it. The church |
as been established here, which now con- j1
tains about 809 members. This number ' f
includes most of the principal chiefs of the j ;
islands. The laws of the islands are found- 1
ed on die principles of the Bible, and, in F
general, are well enforced throughout the r
islands. There are now about 30 mis- j \
s;o:i families in the group. The novelty 1
of the christian religion has, in a great '
measure, worn off, so that the missionary j'
in his tour, now, does not, ordinarily, have ' *
so many crowd around him, as sometimes f
if
flocked to hear the word of God, in former j
days. S.ill our congregations are lar^e,: J
and is thought, that light, and christian j
knowledge, are now advancing more rap- 1
idly, among he people, than a: any former
period. We fondly an icipate the time, a: j'
i:o dis ant period, w'-en the great mass of, }
t lis population, now slaves to appetite and 1
sinful lusts, will become the servants and j J
freemen of the Lord.
T?ie missionaries of ihc islands probably j I
o?>mprise about half the number there are |1
at present in the Pacific Ocean. At die | j
Goorg an islands ; embracing Tahiti (0:eliaite)
a;id the islands adjacent, where the 1
London missionary Society established a 1
mission near 40 years ago, there arc now ! f
S missionaries among a population of 12,- ; 1
000. At the Society islands, one day's )1
sail to the west, with a population of 10 r r 1
12,000, are 3 or 4 mor^ At the Ilervey ;!
Islands, 7 or 800 miles S. W. of Tahiti,! J
with a population of 10,000, are 2 mission- j.
aries. A' the Marquesas, to the N. E. of i1
Tahiti, are two missionaries, lately from j
England, with no very fair prosp vf, how- 1
ever, of continuing their post. A son of .(
/.-L ?n_. ,:A , t
Wc have given vou this brief statement res*
i
octing missions, in the inlands of this ocean,
uit von may have an outline of what is at
resell* doing to propagate the Gospel, in
lis part of the globe. All the missionary
os s, enumerated above, may be considord
as bringing the Gospel, in some sense,
i i.hin the reach of about 200,000 people.
3ut when wc look at our own islands,
vbieli are probably as highly favored with
ight, as any group in the ocean, when we
ee how far distant lVom each other arc the |
itations of the several missionaries, and
low wide a field is generally assigned to
>no man, wc are cons'rained to feel, that a
cry large mass of the people are almost
is likely to continue unconverted, and go
>11 in the broad way to ruin, as they were,
>efore the Gospel was sent among them.
So that the number, connected with all the
>;a ions in this ocean, on whom the Gospel
s brought to bear very directly, is much
ess titan 200,000,?probably not more, on
in average, than 1000 to a single ni'ssiontry
; and all the population over and above
>nn nnn mn?t be ranked with the millions
N,V/V,V.V^W, ... . jf
Asia and Africa, who arc under the
hick cloud of heathen nigh*. They have
no means of knowing the wav of salvation,
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hv Jesus, and yet no part ofthe blame, for
tiieir destitution, can he charged on themselves.
Tne awful and cruel massacres,
whic.'j Imvc been committed, the past year or
wo, hv some of the inhabitants of these
slamls, on some American s'iips and vessels,
wili tell to the world, in loud and thrilling
tones, how much they need a Gospel
dI*peace and love.
From the Edinburgh Christian Magazine.
ON THE PECULIAR DUTIES OF CHURCH
MEMBERS.
Many excellent sermons have been preadied
and published, the sole design of which
was to explain and enforce the duties of
Christian ministers towards God, and towards
the people committed to their care;
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uio countless uiey nave ueeu uivsscu iui
orming pastors according to God's heart.
3nt the writer has seen little or nothing
written on the particular duties of churchnembers;
so far as he knows, it has nearly
)een taken for granted, that the part they
lad to act was so easily understood, that
here was no call to w rite on such a subject.
Experience, however, proves that churchn.mbers
Imve the same need to be instruct d
in their particular duties, as pastors have
n theirs, Uoth have the same corrupt naures
: Satan, the grand adversary, tempts
>oth ; and the miscarriages of either mar
lie success of the Gospel. It is the deep j
conviction of these truths on my own mind,
hat has induced me to offer, through the
medium of your valuable Magazine, a few
houghts on the peculiar duties of churchmembers.
I wish the readier to keep in mind, that I
im not to describe the various duties which
ire incumbent on saints while in this world;
iut I am confining my observations to what
s required by the Scriptures from those
o?v% ?r o o?wl in full r?nm.
ft'IX/lid WIIU UJIU U1 UgU) U1IU ill Avail vv?Mnunion
with a Christian congregation, in
irder to keep up a consistent character.?
STow, the first of these is, to pay a proper
espcct to the glorious Gospel. A church
s a society constituted for the open profession
of it; the pastor ought to be one who
>reaches this Gospel purely; and it is the
lu'y of the church-meniber to attend on the
irdmances of it, as far as in his power.?
The apostle says, in Heb. x. 25, 44 Forsake
lot the assembling of yourselves together."
Jut he is not to be satisfied with a bodily
ntendance only. He ought to avoid all lerity
when in the house of God, and strive
igainst sleeping when there; "for great
ear is due unto the Lord in the meeting of
lis saints." lie is to consider also the
iraiscs that are sung, and the prayers that
ire offered up, as a part of his own worship,
uid is to make conscience of joining with
n'c cnirif in thpsjn. And as the word will
lot profit except it be mixed with faith in
!i-j hearing, he is to aim at this faith habiually,
when the word is dispensed, hearing
t with reverence, self-application, and subnission.
This faith should be habitual;
md as it is the gift of CioJ, it is still to be
.ought from him in humble and importunate
iruyer, before we come up to hear. The
Jospel is the power of God unto salvation,
t reveals the way of salvation thro' Christ,
md the testimony it gives is not only to be
istened unto, but Christ himself is to be revived
in'o the heart, and habitually to be
rusted in for the blessings of sulvaion.?
livery church-member deceives himself,
vho r -sts short of this life of faith on the
">on of God, by means of the Gospel; and
is it is the Spirit of grace who begins and
tarries it on, he is daily to apply to him for
toinmunieating this blessing.
A second duty of the church-member is
i kind and respectful carriage towards his
ninisjer. If he preach not sound doctrine,
t is his sin to own him in this character;
or the apostle John says, '*If any come un0
you, and bring not the doctrine of Christ,
hd him no: God-speed, for lie that biddeth
jim God-speed is partaker of his evil deeds."
1 John iv. 10, 11. And it is equally his
tin to own the minister who is habitually
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careless ol Hie <iu:ies 01 ms sumon, or who
s immoral in private life. Paul directs, in
2 Thcss. iii. G, " Tliat there sliould be a
vithdr.iwing from every brother that walkMh
disorderlyand he commands every
diurch-mcmber to do this in the name of
Jiirist. Hut if a minister's doctrine be pure,
f lie is circumspect in his walk, and atlenive
to the state of the flock over which he
s overseer, though he lias his infirmities,
le is not to be despised. The faithful milister
in every age will be opposed and haed,
and frequently ridiculed and persecuted
jy the erroneous and the profane; it is
hereto re the duty of the church-member to
stand by his minister in every trial. He
jught to allbrd him all the countenance, assistance,
and encouragement in bis power,
ind carefully to avoid every thing which
vould weaken his hands, and be a hindrance
ind discouragement to him in the discharge
if his duty. 1 Thess. v. 1*2, l:h "And
,ve beseech you, brethren, to know tiicra
A'b'eji Irti >? "ivo:i? VOM. a",'! af ov v '!
0116 01 me iUIIKIUII lllissiuuaiivs iuu imvit
gone as a missionary to the Narrators'!J
islands, which are in the vicini y of the !!
Friendly, ate1 have a population of perhaps '
50,000. Nine missionaries were sent to j1
the Friendly group, al t!,e time a mission c
was established at Tahiti, three of whom v
w. re killed, and the rest made their escape.
New Zealand has some missionaries, most- . t
ly VVesljyaus, from England. The Pan. i
mntu islands, east of Tahiti, with a popula.< i
tion of 10,000 or more, have only a few 1
native teachers, from Tahiti, to acquaint , t
tiie.n with the way of lite. A small group I
in the eastern part of these, the I'ambia, is I
entirely in the hands of the-Catholics, who *
L - 1? in flw* vi'Ov^_ s
n:ive a:so some cs.uuiiaiuircii.o ??? v.o ern
part of this ocean. The above are all <
be missionaries on the islands of this i
o :enn, which commonly go un Jer the name 1
of Polynesia. Of the prospect of all these 1
missions for success, our limits will not a!- . <
low us to g:ve you a" very particular ac- (
cotftt. At the Ilcrvcy Islands where a.(
mission has been cs.ablislied but 3 years, i
there seems to be a fair prospect for 5a ' t
gpcedy and thorough triumph of the word i
of God, over the former habits and ignor- 1
ance of the people. One of our number i
has lately visited the Georgian and Society t
Islands. Ardent spiri.s, imperial and of 1
domestic manufacture, has made woful ha- 11
voc there, for several years past. But all ;
is now quiet. At all the islands, exceptI (
one, in the Society group, the manufacture,1 *
use, and sale of intoxicating drink is now ';
prohibited by law ; a glorious triumph (if it 1 '
continues permanent) to the Temperance (
cause, and one, which promises fair, that <
t :e institutions of the Gospel will beperpetu. i
*1 among thom. .1
in the Lord, anil admonish you, and to esteem
them very highly in love for their
work's sake." From this Scripture the
church-mcmbcr may learn, that his minister
is to be owned in his official character as
die servant of Chris', and obeyed and submitred
unto. And if he be reproached and
reviled on account of his faithfulness, these
reproaches are not to be has'ily listened to,
but the rule set down in 1 Tim. v. 19, is to
be attended to by him : " Against an elder
receive not an accusation, hut before two or
throe witnesses."
A third duty of the church-mcmbcr is,
to maintain the doctrine of the church with
which he is connected. This is contained
in her subordinate standards, for in these
she declares the sense in which she holds
the Scriptures. All Christian societies must
have such standards in this imperfect state.
The greatest opposers of them have them
by a tacit agreement among themselves
about the doctrines they are to profess, and
the order they are to keep up. Nearly every
church in the Christian world, has published
h^r subordinate standards, and they
are the immediate bond of union among her
members. Now, as the pastor is ordained
to maintain this doctrine, it is the duty of
t t ^ ^
the members to unite with mm in ;nc same
[ work. 1 Cor. i. 10. "Now, I beseech
j you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that ye all speak the same thing,
and that there be no divisions among you,
but that ye be perfectly joined together in
the same mind, and in the same judgment."
In order to be able to do this, they should
avoid false teachers on the one hand, and
! diligently search the Scriptures on the oth!
er. They should compare their own subordinate
standards daily with the word of
Cod, and maintain the doctrines contained
in them, because they are convinced they
are revealed in the sacred record, and are
in danger of being forgotten bv the errors
of the present times. This is one scriptural
way of contending for that faith once
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UUIIVCTUU IU II1U S.llIllS , UUU uuauu.jr u i?uiv
nearly connected with the salvation of their
souls, than most church-members arc aware
of. But the observation* of this duty requires
diligence and prayer in the pursuit
of spiritual knowledge all our days; we will
need to cry after it, and lift up our voice
for it; we must seel; for it as for silver, and
search for it as for hid treasures. But let
not the church.member be discouraged from
attempting this constant eager pursuit after
spiritual knowledge; it is accompanied with
advantages which can only be known by
those who attend to it. You will find it a
means for strengthening your faith, of preserving
you from bigotry on the one hand,
and of keeping you from being tossed to
and fro, like children, with every new wind
of doctrine.
From the S. C. Herald.
A MASTER^ DUTY TO HIS SERVANT.
Christian Brethren :?Among the many
i important and agitating subjects which present
themselves to the Christian Church,
especially in these United States, that of
Mm stnr sustains to his
llll> l&iniiUII n hivii " , - ? - -
servant or slave, is very conspicuous. We,
that have property in human beings called
slaves, have the following question to answer
to our country, conscience, and God,
u W hat is my duly to my servant A
question of very grave importance. But
he that pretends to be a follower of Christ,
has the disposition which the Apostle Paul
had when he cried, " Lord what icilt thou
have me to do ?" Lord how am I to do that
which is just and equal to my servants ?
And though the Lord may give an unswer
to this question involving a very dijficuU duty,
yet the Christian aims at perfection in
duty, and therefore dare not stand back because
of dijiculties. True religion in the
heart will provide righteousness in the life,
and this righteousness will extend itself to
I every relation in life.
All things are God's?all creatures, of
course, are God's?we are not our own,
but bought with a price?not set in this
world to manage for ourselves so as to
please ourselves, but to manage all things
so as to stand approved to our Heavenly
Master. He orders us " to occupy till I
come, so that I may receive mine own with
usury." A Christian, therefore, who un/WctnmL
bi< dntv. will not suffer the ener
offences will come, be mild as possible in I
administering discipline, &c., is all well and
necessary ; but we but now saw that all
i these things are necessary to be done for our
I beast, and that our servant has higher dci
mands on us than our beast. This higher
| demand then does not relate to the servant's
I body, but to the mind, or soul. Now permit
I a question, Does the servant's mind, or
| soul have the same demands upon you or
: me, who are masters, for the supply of its
| wants, that the body has for the supply of
| its wants ? You will admit that the soul is
| the more excellent part, and the-more exj
celleht deserves, from somebody, the more
1 special attention. But you may ask "am
j I, the master, bound to see to the wants of
I the soul, and supply them ?" Answer this
J yourself. Would you be willing that your
| neighbor, or your country should have con|
trol over as much of your servant's time, as
i would be actually necessary for the purpose
| ol forming his religious character ? Probably
all masters would object to this, and say,
my servant must obey me, and not another,
for the Bible savs. every servant must stand
i or fail to his own master?who art thou
that judgcst another man's servant ? The
whole matter then conies to this conclusion
?you have entire claim over the whole of
your servant's time, which continues as
long as he lives, and with this claim you
! will permit no man to intermeddle. If your
1 servant has a parent with whom lie lives,
i you will only allow your servant to obey
his parent so far as suits your orders and
I plans, and his maxim must always be to
I obey you rather than them. He is then reI
sponsible to you in a sense in which he is
j responsible to no one else; and of course,
l acting consistently, if you release him from
i his obligations to parents, society, &c.,
; and take his direction absolutely into your
I own hand, you must of course release his
i parents and society from the performance
! of what would have been their duty to him,
and take the responsibility on vourself.
W. F.
I (To be continued.)
44 LET THERE BE LIGHT."
The London Quarterly Review lor April,
j contains an interesting article on the state
of Ireland. We refer to it for some facts
showing that religious agitation within, prevails
as much as political agitation, without.
The Roman Catholic Priests feel the in fluence
of the same light which is breaking
in upon their flocks. Some have intimated
that they saw no harm in reading the Bible;
and others have gone so far as to tell their
people from the pulpit, that they expected
to find in each house a New Testament at
their next visitation. The doubts and divisions
which have arisen among the clergy
of that communion are so remarkable
that they have attracted no ordinary share
of public attention. Thus the Rev. Dr.
Croly says, in his Essay on Ecclesiastical
Finance.
44 The differences as to the exact nature
of the Sacrament, or its invisible contents,
turn principally on metaphysical questions
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relating 10 cerium uuxiuiues ui mauui, wm<
ed substance and accident. The dispute
i concerning Papa] jurisdiction is more a
| question of Church discipline than of faith,
j The common notion people entertain of infallibility
is, that whatever is taught and
; presented by the Church is conformable to
i lruth and divine revelation. This notion
cannot be correct, for the people are taught
through the medium of individuals, who
may and do inculcate many errors and su.
perstitions. This infallibility should be supposed
to extend to whatever is embodied
in religion by Church authority. Yet this
is not the case. To prove which, it is sufficient
to refer to the Roman Breviary, the
Office Book of the Secular Clergy, which
contains old womon's tales in abundance."
?pp. 14?18.
It seems that the doctrine of the realprcs.
cncc in the Eucharist, begins to be considered
nothing more than a.metaphysical ques.
| lion relating to certain attributes of matter
! ?that the Papal jurisdiction is not absoluteI
ly a matter of faith?and that the infallibility
of the Church is questioned upon the
very same grounds with which Protestants
assail it. Such heresy as this has scarcely
been known in that Church since a certain
monk, by the name of Martin Luther, first
inveighed against Popish indulgences.
This, however, is but a trifle compared
with the letter which tbe Rev. Michael Crotty
addressed to Dr. Murray, titular Archbishop
of Dublin. The letter bears date,
d:_? lftsfv from whioh wo codv the
of enquiry abroad ;?another light is bursting
upon the land ; the march of intellect is
progressive. The Priests are beginning
to see the errors of Popery, and are heartily
sick and tired of the workings of the svs- [
tem. Let the Church of Rome abandon
the errors and superstitions she has ingrafted
upon pure and genuine Christianity ;?
let her cast away from her with a generous
scorn and holy indignation all those idolatrous
trinkets which are the pledges of her
alienation from Christ and his Gospel, and
the monuments of her shame. Then, and
not till then, will she return once more into
the bosom of the Catholic Church, and to
the original purity and simplicity of faith
which she preached when Paul addressed
his epistle to her."
In reference to Maynooth College, the
grand nursery from which many of the
Roman Catholic Priests are transplanted
into this country, he bears the following testimony.
" You have charged me with having opposed,
when a student in Maynooth, the
authorities of that house. Yes; I denounced
in terms of honest indignation the vicious,
narrow, and ruinous system of edu|
cation pursued in that house, which is the
hot bed of bigotry, intolerance, and superstition,
where hypocrisy is religion, and
knavery morality. Yes; I joined issue
with the 4 Courier' newspaper, and publicly
and openly declared that the College of
Maynooth has never yet produced a gentle- i
man or a scholar, and that there never was \
an establishment that stands more in need j
of a speedy reformation than that house,
where 400 Popish priests are fed and educa-j
ted by the liberality ot a frotestant uovcrnment,
and who are let loose upon the world
to disseminate the unchristian and anti-social
doctrines of bigotry and intolerance
which they are taught, in that house. To
these Priests who are the busy and active
agents of Mr. O'Connell, may be imputed
the pernicious system of agitation, and the
other numberless calamities that now distract
and afflict our unfortunate country.
To these bigots may be ascribed the cal- j
umnies that are every day heaped upon the i
Protestant establishment, and to whose violent
and inflamatory language from their
altars may be attributed the hatred and the
murder of the Protestant Clergy of Ireland."
Mr. O'Bcirne and Mr. Inglis bear similar
testimony respecting the College of Maynooth.
The reviewer says of Mr. Inglis,
that he is " a witness above all suspicion ;
for the whole cast of his opinion affords
sufficient security that he has set down
nothing against the College, but what a regard
to truth compelled him to mention."
And Mr. O'Beirne challenges inquiry into
the averments which he has made.
It would thus appear that light is spreading
in the Roman Catholic Church; and i
may it continue to spread till all that Mr.
Crotty says has been accomplished in Birr,
may be true of every Roman Catholic communion
under heaven.?Charleston Obser
r cr.
THE POLISH OFFICER IN A NEW FIELD.
Cincinnati, Oct. 13.
On Sabbath last, there came info tlie
Sunday school of the Emigrant's Friend
Society, in this city, a colonel of Napoleon's
wars, bv birth a Polander. He rose before
the school, and gazed upon it with exceedI
ing interest, as was evident from the muscular
workings of his hardy face. His
whole appearance was commanding?being
about six feet high, broad shoulders, strong
frame, and venerable from marks of age.
Upon his cheek was left a heavy scar,
which showed that a sabre had laid open
the whole side of his face, and somewhat
1" ^ ^ ? * tuna nni/*lr |ito
disngurea nirrij uui ui2> nuo i^uivny mo
head large, and altogether he wore the air
of a military commander. Twenty yeurs,
he said, he had been a warrior?and he is
under enlistment still. But for many years
past he has not been following the bloody
footsteps of an aspiring earthly chief, but
is fighting against sin without and sin
within, under the waving banner of the
Great Captain of our salvation. 0 what
a change! to see this rugged, iron-looking
old soldier l>ecome a meek and lowly follower
of the ever blessed Jesus!
While in Russia, his father died, and left
him an estate and a title, as the oldest son. ;
But he generously deeded all his property
to his mother for the education of the
younger children, and, when Napoleon fell,
he emigrated to America, and settled in
Washington City. His mother was a
pious woman, and when he came to be engaged
in a life of peace, her pious counsels
/.nmo nn trt his remembrance. He resolv
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1 ed to devote the remnant of his days to the j
service of the Saviour, and soon made i
himself instrumental in erecting a church
for the German Lutheran people there, and
assisted to organize a church and congregation
among them. General Lafayette
found him there, on his last visit to this
country, an humble justice of the peace,
but enjoying the respect and afFection of all
good people. He received, as a present
from Lafayette, a little farm in Pennsyl|
vania, valued at fifteen hundred dollars,
and thither he repaired and settled in
Lancaster county.
Poland was blotted out from the list of
nations. The property lie left was confiscated,
his mother's family scattered, and
one of his brothers was thrown into slavery
~
J among the Kussians. mis generous x oic
j lieard it, and at once disposed of his
farm, and sent the last dollar to his friend
Lafayette for the ransom of his captive
brother. Thus did he twice reduce himself
from competence and ease to poverty,
for the benefit of his family.
I This brother, and himself and family,
j are now living upon a little farm of forty
acres, in the state of Indiana, and are i
! clearing it with their own hands. They I
' are expecting their mother and other broth- j
j ers to join them here in this fair land; j
| and with them, we are told, there will be
: thousands, and tens of thousands, and per- j
; haps, in the course of a few years, hundreds
of thousands, flocking into our:
' eoun'rw cverv year. also!
gies even of good land to go to waste;
although in a legal sense it is his own, yet
he feels accountable to God for the manner
in which he uses his good creatures. He
must "guide all his affairs with discretion."
Does God commit a beast of burden,
such as an ox, or ass, to the Christian, he
will use this beast so that while he serves
himself with him, yet still he will remember
God's law, which bids him to show mercy
I to his beast, and to regard the life of his
beast. Now a question, How can you
shew mercy to your boas', and yet serve
yourself with ti ? especially as you will
i sometimes be compelled to resort to severe
measures, and compel your beast to serve
! you ? The answer may be, I must only re!
quire reasonable labor of mv beast?proportion
rest with labor?carefully feed, protect
from weather, from enemies, &c.;
when I am compelled to use force in order
to secure obedience, I must be reasonable
ir? this, and only carry tins to a necessary
extent, guarding against gratifying a revengeful
feeling, &c.; something like this
may be your duty to your beas*. Now
what light does this shed on my duty to my
servant? Surely you must be as merciful
to your servant as to your beast. But may
we not assume that our servant has higher
claims on us than our beast ? Now we have
just seen that both Scripture and common
sense require us to be reasonable in out
demand of labor from a beast?to feed,protect,
mingle rest with labor, &c.?although
his "spirit at death goeth downward:'
What then, think you, is our duty to our
servant, wiio is an immortal being, and
whose spirit at death goeth upward ? No
reflecting Christian, we take it, will deny
; but we must do more for our servant, than
I for our beast. What then does that word
I " more" include ? To feed, clothe, protect.
' !?" !. 5-' 'VMV a gains* e?inro:cs. soeinTthat
| Uil I J 1/WV# A WVJ w? ? J ^
| following extract, containing sentiments
eminently heretical in the view of every
; staunch Catholic, bred up under the olden
time system.
| "My cousin and I have resisted and withstood
the encroachments of prerogative.
We have combated in support of the peo|
pie's rights ; we have battled in the cause
of pure and genuine Christianity; we have
struggled against the inroads of opulent oppression,
and opposed the exercise ofPo1
pish tyranny and despotism. We have
| abolished the worship of saints and images,
: and the abominable superstitions of the scapI
ular. We have put an end to the antichnstian
system of the clay morey, which
u'.is a cross imposition on the credulity and
j " ? D t
1 simplicity of the multitude?an absurd per|
version of religion and common sense ; we
| have exploded a most nefarious custom,
! generated by clerical avarice, and perpetu[
ated by the tyranny and despotism of tiie
j priests. We have scourged the clerical
: abominations of the diocese of Killaloe upon
j the vicarious back of a drivelling and inca|
pablo administration. We have kept our
i ground in Birr during the ten years of the
j most unrelenting persecution recorded in
j the annals of either ancient and modern
times, against the power and influence of
I the Papal hierarchy?against the persecution
of the Whig government. We have
! enlarged the views, liberalized the minds,
I expanded the ideas and elevated the char!
acters of the Roman Catholics of the town
1 and parish of Birr, and rescued them from
! the dregs of Popery and superstition. The
! times in which we live, my Lord, are big
' v. j'h t>Mr'rf?'{ ]< events. There is a sinn*
The name of ihis generous Polander is
Lehmanousky. A little while since, lie
was ordained a minister among the German
Lutherans, and maintains a consistent, 4
pious, godly walk and conversation. I am t
sure you would have been moved to bear
him speak with so much earnestness and
zeal to the Sunday .school?first in German,
and then in English. The scholars were
still, the teachers were solemn, and all were
interested and impressed with his exhortalions;
and the tears of more than one
showed that feeling was excited, and good
was done.
Lehmanousky has just engaged to become
the agent of the Emigrants' Friend
Society, and is expected to form day.
ophrtnla anrt ninht.coliAnla gnrl SlinHftV.
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schools, among the children of foreigners,
in this city, in Mobile, New Orleans,
Louisville, Sr. Louts, Wheeling, and Pitts*
burgh; and we are hopiug that he wiH
accomplish a great deal.
And indeed there is need of it. Who
can see the rising millions of this great
Valley, of this and the coming generation,
without hope, as fur as we can see, that
more than an eighth or a quarter of them
will ever leant to read?who can see this
and not tremble for the probable fate of
liberty, learning, and religion in our country?
S. S. Journal.
From Zion's Watchman.
THE SHARK A>*D PILOT FISH.
All the readers of the Watchman have
probably heard of those ferocious monsters
of the deep called sharks. They may
have heard, also, of the notions which the
cnilnrs entertain of them, how thev alwavs
follow a ship when any one on board is
sick and likely to die.
But your readers, Mr. Editor, I suspect,
all of them, have not heard of that never
absent companion of the shark, called the
pilot fish. He has this name, because he
always goes before the shark, especially
when the latter is in search of food. The
following is an account of one among
many sights of the kind which I have seen
in the great deep.
On a homeward-bound passage from
Liverpool, a few years since, in the mouth
of August, we were becalmed. The
weather was fine, and having a number
of passengers on board, all of whom seemed
anxious to be relieved from the same,
ness of the scene, we made an attempt to
take a very large shark, which had been
seen playing about the ship for a number
of days. A shark-hook was accordingly
baited and thrown out to him, and though
he had before devoured every thing eatablo
which had been thrown over to him, he
now refused the bait upon the hook.?
And yet lie manifested the greatest anxiety
to seize ; he would swim round and round
it, dart up 10 it, and then fly off again.
After some hours, we threw over other
pieces of meat like that upon the hook, and
these were instantly seized and devoured
hv fhe shark, while he refused tlie bait UDOQ
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the hook.
The cause of this was soon explained.
The hook was let down into the water just
under the stern of the ship, and immediately
a little fish, somewhat resembling a
mackerel, was seen swimming ahead of
the shark, perhaps two or three inches
from his head. Now, this little fish would
ever and anon dart up to the baited hook,
and as quickly dart off again, followed still
by the shark, while the shark would often
in being led away from the bait, thrash himself
about in the water, and seem to manifest
the greatest paroxysms of rage. Finally,
the little fish yielded, though with seeming
reluctance, to the will of tlie monster; and
darting up he passed directly under tbc
baiteJ hook, which was seized at the same
time by the shark; and in a second or two,
he was upon the deck of the vessel.
The pilot fish now manifested the most
evident signs of grief and confusion, (or
whatever else you please to call it.) He
darted about in the water in every direction,
sometimes leaping out of the water, as if
anxious to follow his companion.
The next morning, that san^ little fish
was seen a few inches ahead of the vessel,
and when any thing eatable was thrown
overboard, he was seen to dart off toward
it as if to draw the attention of the shark
to his food, as before; and it was a number
of days before he left the ship.
Happy Sailor.
New York, Nov. 30,1836.
Anecdote of the Spider.?A gentleman
in this city, not long since observed, one
morning, a spider's web in the corner of a
room, and by means of a stick removed it.
It was exceedingly thick and strong, and
seemed t? contain almost as much weight
of substance as ihe spider itself. The next
morning he was surprised to find another
similar web in its place; the work of the
same spider. He destroyed it a second
time, and a third ; and so on, till he had re.
moved it fourteen successive mornings, and
it had been as many times replaced by tho
persevering spider. The gentleman then
gave it up.
We have made the same experiment,
/vnweoltroe ftlP Q fou/ cn/?/v>cc!irA rtn v? hi it
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never half as long; always, however, with
similar results, as far as we went.
Is it not truly wonderful that this little
animal has it in his power to spin from his
body such a mass of web in so short a time,
and this, too, without becoming veiy much
emaciated ??Parley's Magazine.
Rule for Business Men.?Call on bust,
uess men, in business hours, only on business?do
your business, and go about your
business.
Mirabeau said, that to succeed in the
world, it is necessary to submit to be taught
many things which you undersland, by persons
who know nothing about them.
There is now published in the Sandwich
Islands a newspaper in the language of these
islands which has three thousand subscribers.
Of a Hymn Book published by the Missionaries
in the same language f-0'000 h?vc been called