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Lot every mem ber of tbt» Synod, !ny ami derienl, ami every member of our respective congrcffntious apply himself to the diligent aeMrhing out and removal of these onuses; let the errors of the ' a pest be elmuited, and proper precun- tioii he taken for the fbture, ami we may yet hoj*> to see the sUlulity ami immanency of the ministry of our church once more restotvsl. -■ rrt T^tctz^fz. Fraw lb* Lutltrnp Otawnrer. Frequent Pastoral Changes. The following is the conilmuons .of the report to tlu: Allrglif'iiy Synml on the causes of fres|tu4t l>a>toi-»I changes: CAUSES AXO>*ti T11K t’LKKUV. 1. Then' arc pastor* who scruple not to obtain |HMUtions by means 1 which, to say the least, arp of doubt ful proprH>ty. d^ome have tlu iusclve* recomnftemksl ami tlu*ir clHiuis advo- cated hy iutiueutial trunuls, when really tlwy are not at all “the men for the place.*’ Others a lien preacli- iug “on trial” take sermons, in the jtreparation of, which they have sjwut months, raising thereby ei|ieeUitious which they can never . A few have been no r r what degree of truth w of having, when “on t themselves of the serin and abler men than them tering a pitstorul held b similar means, can not bi sihI, with knew not, l, n availed of otlier ilvq*. Ku- the.se and result in disappointment, ; h|is* ol confidence and *i»eedy dissolution of flic p;»st or al relation. 2. The amount of self-di ed of the ministry, frt adequate nab«ries, ami large and lutiorions fie favorably,afi'euted some o ters, so tliat they lieetmie anxious to j rate, of what are believed to be facts find fields requiring less whose burden* are lesa be Imrne.i Oh this I •- lial requir- , la<‘k of •ausc of has un- our iniuis- Creedlets Rsligion Impossible. L«4 us start fairly with an explicit understanding „of the terms em |doyed. By the word “creed*—from credo: “l believe*—we mom some exact .stntement of definite opinions. By the word “religion,” we meaii n lift* of oi>edienee and affection toward Got!, ami bene\T>leiice tow aid m n. So that the proposiHoii which we propose to argwe, is—that it is Im possible for any man to live n life reverted toward hi* Maker, and useful toward Iim followii, without holding, as the basis of that Ilfr, some fixed faith, which is but another method of enunciating the iiupnnai b»lity of a cried less religion. Religion, as we hare intimated, is a life. It is a life sluqied toward God according to the pattern of a child's life townrd a pnrent; ami toward men according to the pattern of a brother's life towanl brethren. It is a life of love. It is a lifi* of tine resficct. It is a life of obedianee where obedience is owed. It is a life of eb-operation, where eo-iq>cra tiou is demaniled by the efomcntal «lata on which It resta. That is, ft is a life which is sedulously and habitually mmle to be one thing and uot anotiier, by tlwee first principles which underlie, derekq*, ami eoutrol it.. To hive Gotl, it must be first comprehended and frit, (I) that he exists, and (2) that lie is worthy of love. Rut these are definite dogmas. This is a creed, as toward God. To live a Imother's life towanl brother aieii.it must be first cumpreliendeil and felt, (1) that such a course is possible, and (2) that it is right for us, and indeed imperative front ns. But these, again, are definite dog tuns, lien 1 , once more, is a <tcci1 ns toward men. 8o that, as rational life enn not exist without action, and rational action can not siteml itself excejtt aloug lines of choice, ami ra tional choice can not take place bnt as the result of the weighing of mo tives, and motives are atnqily the rational usage of facts, or, at any '■■c 1 -r.i , — . m < ’Hina. Aud a IftUe more I hare Knttchmro that Bt %’ i to tall yon,’ laid the misrionary j <1 | their own fhtr soil, are the had h» this letter a bank note for merits of Him who visited — -.r— i 1 — ■- 1 1 is calculated to excite tho Asking Love must love some being, and must firm know that be m, and that had In this letter a bank note for 1 meats of Him who visited teirfbly ha k lovable. Ho for forth there la ume him«ln*d dollars to aid the work.’ bis own people when they sinned dogma, and a owl. Worship mast j “Now said the oW Baptist Clergy- against him. reuogmar a being worthy of worship fman, «I waa truly commiaaiotied to The hundred timusaml Prasaiaus* —ami there again is a creed. The < preamt that request in behalf of who die la the same boor and act, head which fifrwpfi away tbs ereed, that mkarion. 1 did not know that i are none the less a proof that God annihilates all basis both of wurektp j the missionan*, about to utnke hit*, is a jealoos God; for they, too, have ami of love. TV rrtigiooa sentiment' a|»pcat to Uie churches, was In the wantonly cast off all tear and re —aud we are quite willing to allow meeting. TV) my surprise I learned ! strained’ all prayer, avowed them he was there, and sat unoltaerved, and heard aH that trauiqdfMil. “l>o yon accept this as an answer to pmyer t (appealing to the meet <lay af life open owr souls to social reMgiecm istfoenee if we would apeak or prey with profit it art times and occasions.—Christian Cmivn. Tbs Msaey-Tsst of Flsty. It it is sdvra skeptics, ami indulged in every sort of horrid mibetlof. He makes a sinning nation punish a sinning riinreh. lritssians and hYeorlimen are leoraing, hi this soon, that Ond the Ixwd will not allow his naase to be taken in vain. lie wilt be revered as the that there is in the soul a tendency toward worship—deprived of its natural fomulatioai in trutli, rates and dies. I . It is astoulidiiug bow insanely ! mg.) • Is this not sufficient to nui eager a certain class of religioaists mate iwr foftli and confidence in j terrilde at tile present tin*e is to expel any-1 <bal t Is this imi aniaet t I accept It thing like fixed opinions frout re- ns such. 1 beltevr God mo veil the hguui; and laar the very name of a jhfibrt of this fathiT to give his sou only and eternal God of oar Hex iour. creed sets the si to foaming at the and hi* money to the muse of nils , Mighty France lb crashed as an mouth. Tliey regard the religioas skms in t hina. In answer to oor | egg alrelL Her boosted strength in roasciuuMness—•which, to a degree, prayers yesterday. And as sneh an instant is utter weakness; luw is ihmbtiess inlnwvnt in every man— ' I accr|* it.—rkrisfisa 1 otclligmcrr. | powerful reler a feeble fugitive, ner us religion itself; sml that vague, "tFi <W<U "* hrr ca|iiul dreamy, arnauan* sensibility to goo»l i _ ^i^mnsiiiij. ^ Aicaost in jiower of the enemy, words and kind deeds, which mark* \ Once ujsai a time there waa a j Who is the wise, and will con tho difference bet sera a man and an orang-outang, us all the piety which ia neoessury. Ltogma, they say, is just u buiauu, unuuUioriscit iucrwstu tiou uromtd the wirk of this ernsi- bility, clogging and glooutiug its pure fiuuie. But cun u mere fueling, so vague, insuUetuatial, and form less, that it can not l«e nslaet-d to ex pression aud imprisoned iu a form of words, be euough to meet the highest wants of a humanity which iusists upon laH* of the *tubbi>rnewl quality us the food of its lowest f Aa a lute w riter bus sunl, “The very lights an«l wliudows that come and go over the Lmdsoiqic, und leave im» trace bidiiud on the earth they darken iuto gloom or |mint with ten Ihotisuud hue* of beauty, have a substance aud a lifr and u ouuse. A religion* enioiiou devoid of dogma, but begiiuiing uimI ending as an emotion, is more unreal cveu tltsu they. It is ub»olutrl> unsubsUintia) —a thing eau*rk-a* ami not only without a form, but even without a name, indistiuguishulde us the HjHi-tr.d idiadow of d«*utli con ceived by the genius of Milton— he railed, that «kapr great day at the chief commercial , shier these throe things I efty of Judea. A man had made j Out of these barters will Christ himself popular hy twrloin flavors : come forth triumphant. French and he hod given the people, and ou i Germaa shall awre than ever war his visit thither they had made a . ship God ami his Christ. The tide holiday In his honor. He put on I of infallibility and inftdeltty Is stgyed. his robe of parade and yellow, velvet J God has crushed the haaghty as mid satin, fitted a crown to his head, snaiptiou ol his avowed represents set on a seat high and lifted up. aud made a speech to the 'multitude The dignitaries of state, wikfims f*better firiests, ami cmwds of peofds fried oat, “It Is the voice of a God aud m*t of a man.’*' lie Hxtmed, aad accepted the homage. The sou of a Jew, the King of the Jews, made a ruler solHx ns the representative of a jealous God, this jriine aeee|gnl the :mriumut)on that placid hiiu by the side <»f tin* Ism! Go»l, tin- <‘reat»ir of tlie universe. Gml liiiuw-tf imua distety makes Id* sppearanci-. Jle instantly nemts bis angel, smites j tbi* a|mstntc son, nnd he is c«mi " by is it that when ehriafians get Tf shape it mitflit had !*•»»«• Dkitiftniitlulilr in ne-mljrr. joint, nr limb, Or sultstanre misht be rsflnl tlrnt s1hu!i>s arras-d, Kof earh weBM*I either/ *» r lT»e reasoning which these men atlopt on this sutqeef is so atteriy unlike that which they a;q»ly to every otlier subject nrnlrr heavni, that it is impossible to believe them suite if ’honest, or honest if sane. There are several causes which of ifice and —it follows that there can bo no forsake fields pro v id wit mily possessed j of ambition, and more liouorab^e ami position*. Thi s way be iu partiefdar-to l>e many of the young men try at. this day, 3. There is a class of are afflicted with pit i to whicl eulU-d. an undue abandon the ,evous to mt many they are . few are degree (rf mble for lucrative tid perhaps ease with the iniuis- >rs wbo iruble rest lessness and Akoouteut.* They are every v: .’Where, of their inovi are ut field, >y s;>end iu look- packing g and re cuses. ;gestions to offer in for never at ho tba greater i uig about for aud unpacking, moving. They We have no reference to 4. Many of pur pastor* know not how to ‘deal with oougjregatioual troubles. Their passionsget the bet ter of them, when confronted by evil disposed person*, and to (tersoiuil abuse aud nations, by which they fieftder their give way crimi- stay either very Utterly impossible, remove, by im ate trouble* or even iut|>osfiible to irmutr and! fil ghgnge* W fh# error* of such fUeiv iliv want, of chure^ j# also A most «f eviL W« have alwi vacancies, jgoiue more inviting., Theue present kh strong to resist, to ^positions. Let the n h^r«y tbs li «rvertto sew) forth his harvest," dediea •°*» to the ministry ^furnish the in cm Ben. ' ~ These are not aH, but % wore prom incut to bring al* so fre<juent at tble or ere they t, em it difficult a sue a number of paator- in quick, succession, corrected UfftSiS.] iu our source scores of some foss of restless awake of the laborers her pious al, y some which g about*: the pastor- time hi • j. such thing as religiou (which i* lifr) except as the ultimate result of the w orking of human nature upon cer tain real or assumed fuels. And m those facts are it* creed, there ia no e*ca]K3 from tlie conclusion that a crecdless religion is possible. Approach the subject from another side. We find oil twelves here in this world. We have mind* that cun think. We have wills that enn chooec-. We have hearts that can love. . Our mind* irresistibly tend to reason outward towanl a creator; to aay wo did not make ourselves, that were impossible. Homebody with power greater than we run conceive, and with aa much of skill as power, aud with as much of good ness as skill, most have made ns. That somebody must keep making us—that ia, must be sustaining us. Aad so we feel onr way np towards the supreme Being. Until, putting this and that aad all that we know tegather, we come to entertain no doubt that he exists. Then, accept ing him aud reasoning ou that corner-stone premise, we, with this conception of God, unlock tho uni verse. It is lbs, for he made it He governs it. It unfolds his character. It tells us he is wise and good. And so, step by step, we creep onward and upward, until we beliovo in God, his attributes, and tbcucu bis word and its unfolding*. And along the trellis of these facts the tendrils of our faith stretch aud son themselves, until they bear fruit unto holiness, and the end everlaatiug life. This fruit is religion. And those facta arc our creed. We make bohl to aay that the very attempt to ©cmeeive of a creod- leas religiou, implies an utter want of knowledge of the fundamental constitution of a human aool. We con uot have anything that the moat adventurous innovator would call religion without feeling. ‘But we can not fed without something to call forth the feeling. That is, we can net feel without first coming to the knowledge of some fact which rained with wortna, and give* up the together for a prayer-meeting, they «*4l '-rented, t b,wt - , *° <**••» make a dead foilure f Where th another set day, a body ol \ UM-n prnlrsmng to rr|>re*rttt the most Cxalted of alt earthly rriatam*, tl»c tniui«trv of Jesus Chrid the Hon of ‘ God, and pmfemdng to s|teak for the moMt exalt t*l id earthly instil a- Ron*, the Uburrh of Jesaa <‘hri*t, were gathereil in a temple erected to His worship, nod out the iqiot H-patcd to bo the septtlelrre of the tn«*u promimnit of Ills apuntlew, and errtntnly the srptilrhre of thoumands of wiartyrs to His faith aad reuse. Above tile** n*t an «>M man, rlad in royal satin and velvet, in gold and „ . . ... gram- He asks tlnin whether ft f w .vep other tliMn (M hr *»ll br dr rrove for thrm-rlvr. «nd Mhrr*. „ H . , nhlNllU . ^ thr facta, definite ojHniou*; that i*, dogma and a creed. They have a J creed for tlieir geology, their astron tony, their t-ln-mintry, their sgritTil- tore j why not have one for their religion! * ‘ No reason can hr gixeu. For the thing sought to lie defended iaeaaen tially agaiiiKt reason. It is not ueccssary to settle it what is the .. . . ... earth, lie atnitew the horrible ays may cars, but that the maney-teat ia the best erite rkm of a mini’* religion. Hornetimes, indeed, we may find a man who ia willing to contribute liberally to s muse for which be ia unwilling to makh any other sacrifice. We some times—perhaps frequentlj —find men who seem to think that if they will only pay handsomely into the tree* nry of the chareh, they need not trouble themselves about living ac cording to her reqntrementii. But while we concede that there are oners hka these, we still the general rale, that the best are the heat Christiana. Of there are ia every ekctrrfc eery good mimt Iwnw iv rasgiif I flare I# n il Vvlflil Ww l!il!Ui"L aad whom much eookl not be Bat ft they he earnest will prove it by their liberality, arm though tber be pour. Far it is than the amount, which the spirit Every car who has any In business, knows that mb who pay largely who to bo called good ey pay only when they sen not help it, and then with •aril a show of rriertenre that it is evident they hsd uiot-h rather not da ash Ho, there are men who eon tribute to the church largely who are not to be classified a* liberal giver*. They show too plainly that other motives than the cause of Chrirt urge them to yield of their aiilMtanre. Sometimes the oflforrs who liave it in charge to moke col lect too*, have to ojicrirte on the lamer feetiag of their as tore iu order •to get from them the amounts which their means warrant them to give. . , ... Now a maa who torn a genuine real thin to hffawed tot ^ tkc wHfare aml of hm f 11 "’ chun k, will ueud «ta> attaiHlating to creak like ra ohl, wretherfefed, un him to ak! ^ «re*l forming wagon I [m{] ^ J ~ tire, who sita in a amt of his own i re*turn. * He will uplift France in a life, and Home also. Her ministers shall yrt hr elothod with salvation; not, aa now, with hiss pbeuiy. Her aaiuta shall shoot stood with joy. France and Germany, Home, Paris aud Berlin, shall yet unite In aarribing infallibility aad salvation alone to Iltm that sitteth on the throne, an*I to the Iamb forever. If the Lurd .. .. . , has Messed him with abundance, he hr. *™l ,o .mA, «W »«*ni <|Ui< ^ aUll ^ uor ~ ^ v . ■iwiits **■«- h tw| ht>-rt ^ tai<Md purer, philosophy of tin* their unsoundne**. Thu great fact which it concern* the world to know, ami of which it gets ever fresh illustrations from their antagonism, ia thul ereedieas religiou is a thing impossible.— Comfrepmtion- did. -4 * ■ , 1 Remarkable Answer to Prayer. A venerable Baptist clergyman arose [in a Into noon day prayer meeting In New York city), saying he had a message to tho praying people in behalf af the missions of the Reformed Church at A'moy, Hi China. . 1 An appeal ia abnnt to be made to the ehUn hiw for uhi, and one of the miaaionuriea behotgtag to that mission, now here, is about to return, and wishes to take back with him a missionary phyatotou. He wishes the man and the means. He spoke bat a few wards, bat tbey were vary earnest, as coining from a warm heart, a heart deeply moved with the importance of the subject. Then lie led in prayer, very appro priate, very short, sot more than two or three minutes; vary earnest, sod it seemed os if it must be answered. | The next day be took the floor at an reriy lmmieto) to aay, “You know yesterday I brought China and the Amoy Mission before yon, and I stated the object for which ws were asked to pray—lor a missionary physical! and help. I met that re turning missionary within iui hour after the meeting. ‘Here is a letter,* said he, ‘and jour prayer to an swered. This letter says that the writer has a son just gradoatiag from a medical college, whom he consecrates to the causa of mission* t knrch, aud five hundred grave and reverend voires ie)4y, “itaref f “it |dense*.* Ha bows anlimmaivc to the decree, and oces|its the pre rogative of G od. That God who smote the Jew for his assumption of political cqnality with his f'reator, arises ou this declaration to shuke terribly the fr-ui that l*renl* sucli profanity, with ftonaoi Tho ngtrl Masphrtner lias not yet fiap|tml the rlirnnx of Ms inqdety, and I* tlierefbre left for the present untouched. Tlie Met day is coming, when with his triple crown and bes|tangled robe, be to to be lifted upon the rear wall af the great cathedral of Rome, almost half up its height. Into a chair, called the uhair of 8k l*Kcr, there to receive of cardinal, arvh- . That ex* of warsMp ns God may bring to Mm the touch to hta body that ernne to Herod Agnppu, nnd flby too, way be physi roily consumed of worm*, and give up the ghost. Bet his realms have ti lt the touch of God. It has struck hint hi his two most mortal spot*, his private patrimony, his chief national support, llis owe wqq«ort to taken away. Tho soldiers that have de fended him march oat of Die oity almost as soon aa the infallibility to flfbfilflkMyL. The great (tower that Uat been the solo military and Eu ropean protection, to trodden umlor foot of the vary net ton that bred the men who cat bto domain in t warn three hundred years ago. Lather's sons smite the followers of Fins, as Luther smote Leo for declaring that forgiveness of sin waa Ms preroga tire, aud eoakl be sold for money, to be consumed an hto own Intta. ; The overthrow of France to of God, nnd that because God to a jealous Gad, and would not allow bto glory to be ghresi to another. The great fields of Haguensn, MeU ami Hedaa, are God’s reply’ to to fallilnlitr. The hundred thousand One to the ignsriug of the pnnripfr of apoatani riy. Ws haw heard clergymen seohl ekurrii membera for not attending and for not ’’taking part,* without regard to their roosriooa sfdrHaaJ needs. We have witnessed a system sf Mack mailing among Christian* by which those who did uot attend were hrumled as iudiften-nt to the rense of t*l>rist. We have sat in many a storting composed of reluctant ami |Mwj»U>xed apirits wbo were prwwut only bees use titry had been brought to belirve that they were to rreeive lieoefit friun Its awkward ami an- meaning ram ark* and silence*. The entirely free acceptance of an invi tation, ami an acceptance fonndetl on a renl desire for such a privilege, ia an alMolute pre requisite for a sue- oraatui reiighwa eonfrfetKv. Another rouse of dtoapiwsHtox’Qt aad failure to the neglect of social religiou* culture at other times and pi aero. It to tmtoh tbe lisbft of ehrto- ttons to talk on every possible sub jeet of eonin*on intereHt except re ligiou. An unnatural n-tioem-e to etiltivateil, and, once groan into strength, It is imjMmsitile to break it sure a week hi tlie formality of the lecture room. If we Have learned nothing nt home, or at other (duces of tho views, feriisg* and UbC /%nt> fie^a flw it*ii M«|i] t sun we spook to edit- cm tiou there. Oun drooon Blank, who keeps bis mouth shut from Fri day sight to Friday night, open ft to purpose and all at once break out In remarks or prayer which shall worm ail hearts and touch all coo sciences I He will be for mure likely Iu give far the hundredth time a pressing to to binuMlf. Aud Brother Green offers a prayer full of regret* and selMeepiaiog, and Weep, after a toug panes, tbe stagnant condition of the church and wonders wbea there will be a revival! We ail roar like bears and mourn More like doves. Why to it that soak to the history of many a prayer-meeting f la it not likely be cause they who love the Lord do not apeak often one to another, making religion tlie home porter of the aool f la it not because as ebrtetiaas we hold ourselves in constraint to each other’s presence like bashful children who are afraid of “society *” Lotos remember tbet not only the answer of the tofttu but also tbe prepare tiou of the heart to from the Lord, and that we mast to every horn* and r •’ ■ V , to he to ever looking oat to see where money may be profitaldy invested for tbe Mas ter's service. If be lie poor, there to •till no togging. Tho mite that he is able to contribute, to paid to with promptness aad with phmre. He does not wait to be sited, nor expose dcueoua to the on(ilrsssnt duty of eekiug for hto quota time ami again, lie knows that sorb dehu<|ueucy would make them feel aa unpleas antly aa it would him, aud though pride to not hto ruling motive, lie does have too much (aide to wait to be poshed into doing his duty. The inau who gives to hia chareh aa largely as bis means will allow, will, as a general thing, enjoy hia chuvvh privileges. ^ He will feel that it ia hia church; that be has an inf enrol in all that she baa and to. He will not be pnUcd half-rrluetantly into her enterprises, nor fret like a stranger a lien he enters within her walls. His pastor nml his Iwrthren will aU be the dearer to him when be frets that be and they are all engaged in one common work, sad that he has aided its frirthernnce as for as hto ability s ill allow.—.fader sad liaptitt. [Extract from a Utter.] Experience hat demonstrated that a Professional school—whether tegs), medical or theological—ought to be in a great centre, where the ripest and choicest influences of social, literary and religions maturity cau be felt, aad from whence influences can go forth. Ia a great city theo logical students are educated to what they must need a knowledge of auut—* knowledge sf which they generally have wry tittle. Man, aa tbe creature of God; man no the sinner, aud aa the object «f grace, to one groat subject with which the minister to to be* acquainted. Tbe divinity student wbo has hud very tittle intercourse with hia soul, to like the medical student who knows the human system only by picture*. The city furnishes more perfectly than to possible elsewhere the clinic which both need. The cross-road policy, which bn been so total to onr church, mnst be the delusion that we are to not what to good, but what to aa if failure or Utfertor results could bo cheap. The. very strongest men of the church should be put into the theological professorships at finy cost. The disciple is not g^Tn- to be above hto Master; and if the church provides inferior totehefa,, the popffa they send out will ho wretched. We moat not haw mere pot iuto her theological chairs ■rea who hare approved aa practical workers. 8be never make a professor of wbo has foiled aa a partor. eh ukl hare men whose JUMfite* is vitalised by a great (mrpore aud a holy enthusiasm. The Seminary to the great maia-spHagof the church’s power; it makes and moves what moves everything else. Whatever the Bemiusry to the church wUJ be. If you can establish the beat Semi-; nary iu the chareh, you will have the beat ministry aad tbe greatest future within the church. X Thao- tegtoal Heminary of the highest order [ is a pearl of great price, iu order V. secure which the church weuid be wire to aell all she baa, if Bred ha. The Seminan aud the College react ou each other, and are each other's beat aad meat aafcasary friend. Give us aa intelligent ministry, and we shall see our colleges sustained. 1 Bat it to the Seminary, or tbe rrttg teas impulses toward ft, which begets aad begins the colleges, aa it to the college which then become* a great feeder ami sustainerof the Seminary. May the church be truly more ia regard to both, avoiding above all things the penny-wise, which is the hopeless folly which ia sore to fofl. [Osr. Lutheran & MUfiooorg. H is one of the things which distinguish the wicked man, that “God is not in all hi* thoughts." It to one of the thiuga, cortWatively, which indicate that a man to good, that be does think of God; that ho love* to think about him; that hto mind tends naturally to thought of him; that he remembers him upon his bed, and meditates on him in the uight watches; that he has rasped unto him, aud unto hi* statutes continually. It to a law of oar human nature that tbe mind, when the (treasure of its daily tasks is lifted, and tho strain and flexure of its habitual drudgeries is eased, by instinct re veris to its dearest objects. The lover, when ius task is douc^ iu the twilight shadows turns to the dear unage of hia beloved one, and next to the joy of being with her to that ef thinking of her. The absent husband aud father improves every momeut of respite from those labors, for them more than himself which engross him, to call up before the eye of hia miud the faithful focus of his sweet wife and children, and to listen, with the ear of the soul absorbed, to the remembered music of their happy voices. How many a camp through the strife* of tho rebrlliou was kept pure hy this reversion of thought to distant homes and kindred. By this law it cau not but be that if a human soul really doe* love God, it shall love to think of him, and its meditation of him total! be sweet. Sweet iu that it to fixed upon the grandest aud most glorious object of thought ia the universe; who Is from crertasthig, eternal, immortal, invis ible, who covereth liimself with light, whose greatness is unsearchable, and yet who him told us to call him “Our Father which art in heaven !* ’ x ‘\ ^ Sweet hi that ft to fixed upon The infinitely Holy One—glorious in ho- Mness, fearfol iu praises, doing won ders ; who to of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, and yrt wbo encour ages the moot sinful and miserable creature to como unto him in pen itonce, in the parable of tbe prodigal wnt , ? " r Sweet especially in that it Is fixed i lather ef our Lord Jesus upon the F Christ, who so loved tho world that he gave bis only ksgitteu Sou, that whosoever betirvrth is him should not perish, bat bare everlasting Rfo; and that it oan take hold of aH those prfeioas aud Massing promises which re-assure the fainting, and embolden the weak, and cheer aU believing ones as they are walking and work iug on from the city of destruction to the city of life—where their eye* shad see the King m hto beauty, while tbey behold the land that is very for off. 8wert it is to meditate upon such a God, when all to light and bright ; sweeter yet when ail to dartt, and it i« very tempestuous round about: * - fiwaet on hh foithfntora* ts tea*, Whom tore cau sorer end ; L ?CSi7i V KSitinthc'conftth.mw ol faith TO trmut hi* firm deem; - Awret to lie pawuve in hu hands, And knew no will Imt his 1 [ Congrcgetionalut-