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Pittsburgh Presbyterian Banner (Newspaper) - November 2, 1861, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Stiim Iii we ibo a a a amp a i a. . Little d Kinney amp co. Editors and proprietors. Rms i n Advance. a. Il.50 a. 1.25 de in either Oaks club. 200 dollars we wilis Udby mail seventy number a Dollar thirty three number a. Quot ending us two qty subscribers and upwards will anti tied to a paper without charge. A should he prompt a Little before the year expires cents Safo hands or mail. I letters to David Kinnet a co., Pittsburgh a. Original the be Witkocy ter of tie following lines i Trust will ,.y sending Liera for publication. The thought clothed in such Sweet and language is the utterance of one who tender memories connected with the be of worship that she May live to see Church tilled with regular attendants of Pel is the Hearty prayer and confident f a was of leaving the old Church. U whose uncreated mind All the boundless realms of space e. distance not confined Ltd thy dwelling place lor 1 Earth s Corner Stone didst Lay in morning stars together Sung Earth triese heavens will pass away Power endures forever Young hat is Man frail child of dust i follows age like wave on wave to moment gives him life at first other brings him to the grave works of Art men proudly build Dure but a few fleeting years yes still Shorter sooner filled r Earth a Vale of sighs and tears. Mourn we dear departed friends o shouted As this Temple Rose works of Faith and love remain Hile they Are wrapped in Palm repose to these Walls impart a breath a hark what is the spirit sound be thou faithful unto death thou Shalt be in glory ored and consecrated spot i memory thou Wilt still be a dear it the tribute of the heart the parting sigh the falling a the heavenly Dove still rest "1th the first guardian of this fold. Be his Crown in regions Blest Ehly adorned with gems untold. Ther son and holy ghost Hou one in three and three in one a p thou the watchman of our Host i blow the Trump with certain sound irn May Grace most plenteous fall i he on Zion faithful Waits t crowds May at salvation Scall Ead Joyful the new Temple pates Mem Tes presbyterian Banner publication office Gazette buildings 84 Mirra st pit Boroh i. Philadelphia Booth West cob. Of.7th and Chestnut vol. X., no. 7. Pittsburgh saturday nov Ember 2, 1861. Whole no. 475. On Rev. D. E. Nevin from Rev. Ii 10. R. Els for the Proa Terian Banner. The Segar and Gunpowder. Board one of our packet ships the pro on one occasion went Down into the of the ship where there was a con Able Quantity of Gunpowder stowed of Only took a lantern but was at the a time smoking a Segar. It was an act liminal carelessness and it received the infant rebuke of the Captain of the ship to human heart is not unlike a Magar filled with combustible materials. We a a pursue in relation to it a Coursi As sumptuous and criminal As that pursued he Steward to the Gunpowder in the i Man May have a Quick and violent her. He is acquainted with the Cir Betances under which it is liable to be Ted and to overcome him. He has Jed this from experience. When he it airily places himself in those Ireum yes he is applying Quot Quot the match to the h he Man who has formed the habit of Perance loses All Power to resist temp a when the cup is set before him. If avoid the sight of it he May keep his Tiou to abstain. And men May keep resolutions to avoid other sins Ding All unnecessary exposures to. To prayed a a keep Back thy servant presumptuous a great his r sins Are presumptuous sins. We a Lead us not into temptation a and needlessly expose ourselves to temp a. Thus we nullify our prayer and into presumptuous sins e bravest and Best military command Ever expose their troops to Unne Ces angers. We Are to be Good soldiers us Christ but in order to do this it necessary that we should incur need perils. When it called our Captain get temptations let us do so boldly Sag upon his Promise a a As thy Day is All thy strength Belg no strength is ised to those who do not strive to d presumptuous sins. Caution. For the presbyterian Banner. Lies appointed Steubenville pm Butery. �7 sprint new Cumberland a pair of a or. Marquis for one year nire Unity or. Herron for one year. Iltz on or. Swaney for one year. Ill Fork or. Dalzell for six months. Entree or. Herron third Sabbath of Ember to administer the lords sup and take up a collection for the Board Mestie missions. Or. Price third the of March. 1 a Monde or. Swaney second Sabbath vember to administer the lords Jer and take up a collection for the a of Domestic missions. Or. Comingo it and Sabbath of december. Fast Springfield or. Parkinson Sec Sabbath of february to administer Flords supper and take up a collection a a the Board of education. Or. Scott Jet Sabbath of november. Or. Knox to Sabbath of december. Or. Marquis Sabbath of january. Or. Eaton Sabbath in March. Or. Brown first _ the in april. Each at 101 a. M., and noon at 21 at Bacon Ridge. Aton Ridge or. Campbell fourth Bath of november to administer the a is supper and take up a collection for Oard of Domestic missions. Or. A fourth Sabbath of december. Or. Ion third Sabbath of january. Or. Atterson third Sabbath of february. Knox third Sabbath of March. Each 01 a. M., and afternoon at 2j at East a Cwm Creek or. Brown first Sabbath january. Or. Reed first Sabbath of Brugh second Sab of january. Or. Brown second Sab of March. The balance of the time each of churches had leave to Supply them a. C. Beatty stated clerk new York observer and patterns Are Cut for myself or others out of your of u esteemed Sheet often cutting in two or. Weirs instructive letters or As occurred very lately severing perpendicularly a notice of the death of a dear but Long severed Friend. I have Long protested in private against such a misapplication and abuse of this useful and pleasant literature and now i want to do it publicly. For a Long time i preserved our religions pamphlets and papers hoarding them with jealous care until every Nook and cranny of our Over crowded Little parsonage cried a a hold then i fell upon another plan. Some i carried to Sabbath school and scattered there your paper is Laid aside each monday morning for a poor widow s family in which it is carefully read and highly prize another goes in packages of two or three to a a family in the country. Lately however i made a great and rather miscellaneous gathering and adding to a contribution from a Friend they a were sent to Grafton. The gratitude and a Joy with which they a were received the invalids there,.encourages me to make this Appeal to your readers. Preserve your religious papers and Send them to our soldiers in the Hospital or in the Field. I place a a higher estimate on a religious paper As an instrument of Good in this Case than on1 a tract. Many reject tracts who. Will gladly receive papers that contain As much and As pointed truth. In future do not let a Box go out without some packages of these and tracts All baptized with your prayers. Nameless. For the presbyterian Banner. A Benton Bah Hacks v a i ear st. Louis Missouri oct. 18,1861. /. Messes. Editors a i have very unexpectedly been chosen to command a company in col. J. W. Birgess regiment of Sharp shooters. We left Atlanta on monday 14th inst., on the2� of clock train for st. Louis. At Springfield Illinois several members of the Synod of Hli Nois which was in session at that place met us at the ears and we had some five minutes greeting and Farewell with expressions of Good wishes for our Prosperity and Success. We arrived in Camp at eleven o clock. This whole Encampment is at present under a the command of general Samuel r. Curtis., the Encampment is on the West and and join ining the fair ground and is about three and a half Miles from the Mississippi River at st. Louis and is perhaps not inferior to a any in the United states As a Camp of instruction for infantry and cavalry but Little is done Here in artillery training. But one Cannon is Here Camp Jackson is but a Short distance from this place. I have not yet met with any of the chaplains Here except Bro. Alexander the chaplain of this regiment. Col. Birge 11, organizing his regiment on a High moral basis and Bro. Alexander is very diligent and Mueh engaged in the work to which m the Providence of god it he has been c lied. On wednesday evening Bro a. Conducted the prayer meeting. We had a very pleasant time of it the meeting was addressed father Mcchord who is father inlaw to oar chaplain and some three or four others. Many of the officers and soldiers were deeply interested. I heard the remark made one of of or soldiers was the Best meeting that he Ever attended. On thursday night we attended the prayer meeting in the thirty ninth regi Merit called the Yates Phalanx. It was conducted .Captain Slaughter a methodist minister till he was called away some one on business. Of or chaplain conducted it during the remainder of the time. Remarks were made Bro. Alexander and others. After singing two verses of the hymn commencing 0 for a closer walk with god a the thought was presented of a father accompanied his Little child passing through a wilderness j in. The night surrounded of every Side dangers. The child draws near to his father and desires a Light amp a. So the child of god &c., when attacked the enemies that father through his son enables his child to beat off the enemies so that we May say u thanks be to god who Gwyeth is the Victory of May we not Osk the Reader of your paper to be Earnest in prayer to god. In behalf of us poor soldiers 1 of that he would give us the Victory Over the enemies of our government and the greater Victory still Oyer the enemies of our souls and of the government of god. A but it is hard to leave Home Aud wife and children and into the army but it worse Tobe banished forever a from god our father and our lord , and our iome in dear parents wives children you will not forget us will you ? you will Pray for us will you. Not ?. I am yours in the service of our country and in our lord . John c. Hanna. Intent on his and her own Pursuit and is not the City Trade reviving and the Public health reviving and those abominable betting men who used to haunt Fleet Street and Bell Lane All Day Long and obstruct and frighten not Only unprotected females but Meu of business Are they not fairly swept away the Strong hand of the Law ? and Are we not free from the crash that has come on the parisian a firse speculators ? is not Money to be had at 3� per cent., and not peace in our Borders and is not god giving to us wholesome meat and est Lents with the finest of the wheat Public health is Good also and save where the strike interferes a working men Are mostly All employed. Verily we have reason to be both thankful and Humble to be both merry and a a use at the same time. The lord mayor Cubitt has As you know already stood unsuccessfully for the a City on the retirement of Earl Russel a this week he has been put up his friends of different parties to dispute with his otherwise sure successor Alderman Muggeridge whose turn it was to take the chair a of the chief magistrate. People Point to the great exhibition of next year in London to which the Calm hearted president Lincoln has nominated some of the Cabinet itself As commissioners amp a Good Omen May the Olive Branch wave Goon and they say lord mayor Cubitt has plenty of Money has spent lots of it this year in civil Hospital ties is just the Man to entertain foreigners next year at the mansion House table while his Daugh ter now acting As lady Mayoress from her Long residence in pans�?will., talk French so beautifully and far. Better fill her part than would mrs. Muggeridge. A and to that lady a special disgust for the Prince of Wales coming of age next year the lord a mayor will get a Baron Etcy As Well As to the vexation of the Young Mug Geridge a. To Muggeridge senior is rejected and the livery of London elect Cubitt a second time As for me i do n t object he is Likely to give plenty of Money to ragged schools next year As he did this year which mugger de would not medical schools of London have been this week opened Public lectures from eminent physicians it is pleasing to observe How through the reports of Many of these admirable and Able addresses to a the it twelve Hundred Young Meu who constitute the body. Of medical students annually christianity runs like a thread of Gold. Thus at the University College Hospital professor. Harley defended the physicians of the Day from the charge of a Jerk Jill european correspondence. The Quot doll smus�?�-1tub imaginary conversation of distressed he porters Beal Gro Ciss for cheerfulness a another City contest the medical schools and opening lectures religion and morality among the doctors quacks at a discount higher Standard of education a revival retrospect London Awakening a its Bis and Progress new glasses sought out a wider View the Geneva conference a Rev Val Gath eking. For the presbyterian Bunner. Of How to use newspapers. Sri. Editors a has a kind Friend a goodness of his heart Ever brought r Sanctum a Basket of delicious fruit or own special delectation but alas Quot with one of your own banners / e you every made the bearer of a bulb or Root from a Flower Loving to your Flower Loving wife wrapped same Pree Loiis. Document in which Uick Eye discovered some of your pious and carefully elaborated leu had some such shocks myself Sidoly am i coining have the dressmaker sent Home garments in ignorance London oct. 4, 1861. Complaints Are made that this is the Dull. Season for newspaper writers As Well As a a in one sense it is so in other and More important senses it is not True. It is very droll in or. Punch to represent and a a report a gathering of reporters As recently held and convened to discuss the distressing Lack of sensation topics and to represent one after another suggesting expedients to raise the wind As Well As to give full employment to the profession the Climax being the blowing up of Tilbury fort on the thames the consequent blowing up of Gravesend right opposite with a a cinders and shrimps a fragments of men and children in the air and other no Abdia which will furnish pungent paragraphs and whole columns of matter for the daily papers. But we Are not so bad As that. After being Down in some of the country a a dead Lively a towns say Tamworth for exam pie where sir Robert Peel the great had his country residence or Rugeley where lived Palmer the poisoner and where i slept writing however for you up to 1 o clock p. M., and past a a the witching time of night when ghosts and evil spirits walk abroad a although i saw none next door to his old residence,.and right opposite the hotel where one of his victims perished coming Back i say to London has not one a right to say that it. Is full of liveliness and life. True London is a a out of town Quot As to the upper ten thousand but have we not a Nice Little company too Largo for a Tea party certainly and much More so for dinner of at least two and a half millions left behind ? and. Arc not Cheapside Ludgate Hill and London. Bridge with other great thoroughfares blocked up almost As much As Ever a Host of cabs omnibuses w icons Coste mongers carts and the sideways crowded with men and women materialism Aud infidelity occasionally hurls at them. A a were they irreligious because they Load the Book of nature and believed in astronomy which told them that the Sun did not move geography that the Earth was not four cornered geology that the world was not created in six Days ? surely not was a machine less perfect because they under stood its constructions ? was Man less the work of his greater because they con pie hended his Organ nation on the contrary. Far from destroying their feelings of veneration a knowledge of nature s Laws but rendered them More acute unfolding to them the immeasurable distance that separates the feeble works of Man from the mighty works of or. Harley concluded his lecture with some admirable advice to students pointing out to them the a necessity of cultivating a spirit of True religion. Their Success in after life would Quot Las Mueh upon their moral As of their mental qualifications and acquirement. A. Another professor told his class that a a they had a Noble calling and it was their Bounden duty to ask gods Blessing on their another sternly denounced the spirit of quackery. A medical knowledge was a sacred Trust placed in their hands to be used for1 the Benefit of Man kind and not a. Vile Means of obtaining wealth acting on the mind of a too often credulous Public. A the enjoined on the Young men who waited on the poor creatures from a alleys and courts who came to the London hospitals for Relief to treat them with the greatest sympathy and kindness do not Harden your feelings against this class of patients. With them kindness will go a great Way sympathy will soothe Many a wound a word of encouragement to those women and men who in narrow courts and filthy closets Are suffering and who borrow each others clothes to go tottering to the Hospital to Sec the another lecturer appealed to the memories of Home. A a around you Cluster the Hopes of parents the sympathies of friends if you defeat and blight their feelings you will produce disappointment in hearts that watch and Pray for your Aneth said a a you Are to. He All your lives students of gods works and benefactors of his noblest creature while yet another More distinctly said a a seek first the kingdom of god and his righteousness pot1 doubting that All these things shall be added unto a a the truth is that there is a great moral Elevation in the character of medical students and1 an Ever increasing number of them arecoming1 under the Power and teaching of the divine spirit and Are thus a prepared to Lead their to serious thou Glit As Well As a twice messed a in their no blk profession m after life. In a former communication i had the pleasure of furnishing particulars on this subject in connexion with the annual meeting of the medical students Christian association. Some of the Foremost London physicians Are eminent for then philanthropy and piety. Thus doctor be incr who is the Queens physician next m Honor and position to sir James Clark devotes a considerable portion of his time to the sick children a Hospital in great Queen Street Bloomsbury and was Mam its founder this institution is an admirable one. And to see the. Happiness and Comfort of the Little invalids and to Mark also the crowd of Little healthy children whom poor mothers going out a in the morning to work Are permitted to leave for the. Day. The Little ones tumbling on the floor m jubilant gladness and the bigger ones on the rocking chairs m great glee their laughter space sting the old rhyme ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross a All this does the heart Good to see. Morning he is brought up for manslaughter. But the great Benefit of the new. Regime is the necessity of a Superior education. A revival retrospect is. Very Suita ble at a time like this when labourers in gods work Are wont to rest a while in or j Der to gird up their loins to fresh toils and to resuscitate Anuw Ettsal energies for afresh ten . To a is it a is that i can look Back Over the months i ready gone of the present year and then enlarge the retrospect Over the years to the summer of 1858, when Good a tidings of extended Awakening came to us i from the United states animating the Faith Hope and prayer ulness who were cast Down. Next comes up to the View the Ulster Awakening and the a a year of Grace a in the North of Treland with All the quickening impulses flowing from it As. From a mighty heart and causing fresh astonishment and then As one Ope came Back m the autumn of 1859, and As. Fresh and authentic information was sup plied the press prayer was stimulated aggression was a waged on the kingdom of darkness and fresh fruits conversions remarkable for the previous misery and wickedness of the subjects of Mot of them. And for the labourers the raised up for the worst classes from among them selves. Loung men too began to realize. And to extend the Blessing. Ministers preached with anew life the old gospel which was As a fresh Spring to the people of god and to the anxious and thirsty souls there was a work also inaugurated among Young women which mightily grew and increased like other Good things be. Gan at and after the new years Lodi Ana concert for prayer in the second week of 1860.a a a a the work of revival m London has been very quiet. Hence Many professors who never a que know Little or nothing of it but that it has been real. Many pastors ragged school Church and Chapel preach erg teachers of sunday ragged schools masters and matrons of. Male and female refuges together with open air preachers and those who have taken special interest m the services in Halls and theatres can declare with thankfulness and Joy. ,. And did not god raise up -i3no.instr.u-ments and agencies his people to think of and pity new of and Unpi tied ? was it not thus that Brownlow North Captain Trotter and or Blackwood have in two successive years preached at Willis Ance righteousness and judgment to come to the Noli and fashionable. Thus too have not Regenald Radcliffe his influence after Ward radiating Over parisian protest-1 ants As Well As that of Marseilles a adj shul Liam Henry been equipped and see to Forth As the evangelists of the Middle and William Carter and Richard Weaver been called to blow the blast of alarm and with Success m the ears of the j most hardened of the lowest c ass so and a not in vain a so likewise new classes were morally excavated. Thus the Midnight meeting movement the Bible Street Reading move ment the Bible women Mission the cab ens club movement and the present fresh enterprises inaugurated for the. Lon a Don lamplighters and the London. Night a cab men the former numbering two thou Sand men the latter a degraded a lass Many of them old men and one thousand in number All these thing3 indicate the working and spirit taught Wisdom which Are emphatically of god and tokens of his mercy and Grace toward this great and mighty City. Further one Thmas How from London As a Centre influences for Good have radiated not Only Over the scout try but Over the world. Nearly All the movements just indicated find imitation and a Une vying Lomg rivalry elsewhere. Bible women Are thus sought out for watering places and country towns and Are sent up j to London and boarded and lodged for some weeks at Small expense and in Safe quarters to learn lessons from experience i in London districts. And so a la Yaat writes a your Elizabeth tells me that though she Felt vexed i waited so turn the Sun out of its course As to convince him that any thing is wrong which his party advocates. A and he wants every thing done in the Hureh according to Liis Way and he is perfectly sure that his Way is the Way things were dope in the purest and Best times of the reformation Bat lie knows nothing about the missions of the Church. He does where she has her a missions established among the Heathen. He could pot Tell you whether they have done any Good. He could not Tell you whether a descendant of Abraham has been converted these fifty years. He knows nothing about How other congregations in his Church Are getting along. So when one member rejoices with it and when another member suffers he cannot suffer with it. He casts a dime into the hat once or a year and when collections Are taken up and then wonders what the Church does with so much in Tel Gencer. A a dressmaker Cut Home garments m the sideways crowded with men and women i and accommodating folds of the j from almost every nation m the world each so likewise other physicians wait daily at appointed hospitals without fee. On those who suffer from Ophthalmia. From cancer and from club foot and other deformities. Many medical men also Are bed Side preachers to the is k and dying and have souls for their hire. Some of them. Are ready to speak publicly. As for example Winslow who addresses assemblies of working men bringing to them the living gospel with living earnestness and Power. Medical education is receiving a great impetus. Parliament has come to the Jelp of the profession m its desire to put Down quackery and to a prevent murder being done ignorant pretenders who write a a Over their doors and who Are vile empiric not that the act of parliament is As definite As it ought to be if a bad Man Only to have a medi Oal degree from a certain University or a col lege he Nyiry a till i 1 on until a some Fine Long for her services she would not have been without that week the Grosvenor Square District for any thing she Learnt there and found so to her own soul. She arrived among us,.�as you know at the end of january and began Hei work with an Energy of purpose that augured Well for her Success. And Success i she has had far beyond her expectations a a wider revival View one must take at such a time As this. Aud thus Dublin and. Kingstown with Many towns in the South of Ireland and its Midland counties Scot. Land islands of the West,.and. With Glasgow Edinburgh Perth Aberdeen. Montrose Dumfries Annan and other i scenes marvellous blessings present. Them. Selves and shall we forget that Sweden has had showers that religious life is deepening in Germany and that in the French protestant. Established Church As Well As in. The National. Church of Switzerland its pulsations Fuller and More frequent Are Felt ? Europe has begun to breathe even its extremities so cold before become warm. What was the Universal conference at Geneva whose memories Aie still so fragrant to myself but the Token of Mere ased Ife in Europe and the. World to that conference Russia contributed its representatives and there on the closing Day when a United meeting was held for prayer and when two places were required on each Side of Tolje Rhine to. Accommodate the worshippers a gentleman from Russia Rose up and pleaded earnestly for prayer on behalf of russian its Czar its Nobles and its people. That Appeal will surely be responded to the people of the United states who know Well the kindly feelings of Alexander ii. I toward them. The total number of members who re a i Cei Ved and presented tickets of admission at Geneva was l,88t>. Besides these Many persons attended without cards of Entrance. Thus As to numbers the conference was a great Success and As to spiritual issues i Hope and believe they will be Felt for years to come. Next year a similar conference will be gathered in London. The great exhibition building will then be the Tesoric of All nations. Ere May Day comes with its opening ceremonies May a a Meek eyed peace a return to your country Homes churches and hearths with Unity and brotherhood reestablished with the oppressed set free in the spirit of that Noble legislative actor i Pennsyl Vanias lately printed in your columns Quot with a a the peaceable fruits of righteousness to a nation chastened and so purified and made truly and conference find among it m Osic. Numerous members american christians ministers and citizen philanthropists a a. . There have been eminent Christian sol Dierst there Aie now. Colonel Gardiner whose valor was tested in Many a Battle gained his grandest victories in defending virtue against profligacy and the truth of god Agamet the Cavies of French scepticism and perhaps the greatest and most Sublime of All his godly life amid the dissipation and profane Ness of the Camp. He often declared his views of religion and duty at the. Head of his regiment and urged his captains and their subaltern to take the greatest care that they did. Not give the Sanction of their example to that which their office they were obliged to punish m others. He too despised danger. He was a Patriot of the deepest Devotion. He often expressed the desire a if it were the will of god a that he might have1 some Call to Sac fice his life m defence of religion and the liberties of 1ns country and when it appeared to him that the Opportunity was drawing mph he embraced it with the utmost readiness a a the enemy a said he a a Are advancing to Cross the Frith but a Trust a in the almighty god who doth whatsoever he pleases. In the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of the Earth i have but one life a to sacrifice to country , and i shall not spare nor did he spare it. The Day after this. Utterance he fell at the Battle of Preston pans beneath a Highland Broadsword. Captain Hedley vicars whose bravery Fillod Tho Allied armies with admiration and whose death shed glory on the crimean Vail was a Humble and devoted Christian. Amidst aft the labors and hardships of warfare he found time to visit hospitals daily to Pray with the sick and dying time to tread a the word of god even though his until after Midnight he a up Teitlus a to his sister a a be assured you far happier in this world even. making religion your chief Pursuit and study than All the pleasures and your Young heart May now be a longing after. I Tell you candidly and be Rio ugly that i would willingly Pait with every earthly pleasure Jor Hje for one hours communion with Jesus every Day Twa find among other deep devout breathing in jigs journal which he wrote an near Sebastopol the following a Imph that the Loid among us with a High hand and with a stretched out Arm that he would his Power change Aud soften the hard hearts of those who despise the riches of his Grace and who make a mock of sin while standing on the verge of eternity that he would Plant the Rose of Sharon in All its freshness and fullness in the ground of every troubled sin Laden this was the Man who up his blankets Ito his soldiers and slept on leaves with a Stone for his Pillow the Warrior who said a a were i Ever As the Leader of a forlorn Hope allowed to select men it would be most certainly from among the soldiers of Christ for who should fight so fearlessly and bravely As those to whom death resents no alter terrors ? this is the Brave Soldier who when two thousand russians crept softly into the trenches m the darkness of the night and opened a fierce fire on his band of two Hundred roused them to meet the attack with a War shout like this a a now 97th, up charge a himself the conflict says the narrator he led on his men to vie tory a Bayonet wound in his breast Only red his courage the More and again his voice Rose High a a men of the 97th, follow me a As he leaped. The parapet he had so Well defended and charged the enemy Downs the Ravine one moment a Tuggl i g Moonbeam fell in his flashing sword As he waved it through the air. With his last cheer for his men this Way. 97th a the next the Strong Arm Hung powerless his Side and he fell amidst his enemies but fell in Vij Cory. And Long after the first deep agony of his regiment was Over did his last words ring in their souls As if from the world of glory a this Way 97th�?� a. A a his soul to him who gave it Rose god led it to its Long repose its glorious rest. And though the Warrior s Sun has set its Light shall linger round us yet bight re Radiant Rev. E. E. Adams. Endure the fatigue of Hunting hut when this violent stimulus is past he is too indolent even to roast the go me he has taken with so much toil. Again the oui of the sluggard Des Ireth and Listii nothing. Proverbs Xiii 4. Thus. Too. He is brother to him who is a great waster. Prov. Xviii 9, and he covet ctr greedily All Day Long and a hath nothing for his hands refuse to labor. Prov. Xxi 25. 26.j the. Way of the Slothful is As a hedge of thorns Proy. A a 19.,- it pnck3.lacerates, and entangles the miserable wretch. Sloth falness produces a sickly timidity and is Ever fruitful and expert in raising Idle objections and imaginary dangers. There is a lion without i shall be. Slain in. The streets prov. Xxii 13. He will not plow reason of the cold prov. Xxx 4, and As blowing and a sowing cannot he carried on until the Winter Rains commence he neglects altogether to sow his Fields therefore shall he beg m Harvest and have nothing i have often pitied the Farmer when blowing in the cold rams and pitiless winds and it requires More decision of character than belongs to a sluggard to a Bear up against them he therefore retreats into his hut kindles a Little fire and dozes away his time the Side of it enveloped m pungent smoke Noi will he roused a Little Moie sleep a Little More folding of the hands As the door on his hinge so. The sluggard on his bed Rolls Back and Forth with Miny a creak and weary groan. He will put Foith More ars Zuments for his. Base conduct than seven that can Render a reason there is a advertisements. I1km in a1 Vance. A. Square b urea or Lesa to insertion 60 Canta each a 40 cents. Of amp eur no beyond eight 6 it a Square per Quarter $4.00 each Itna and cution it cents a re auction made to adroit tors Tho year. lines or loss Sij 0 each additional line to cents. David Kitwe a amp co., proprietors and publishers. Men lion in the Street it is too cold or too hot t6o wet or too dry too Early 01 too late time plenty or the time is past the Opportunity lost and so on adm Mui m the sluggard hid eth his hand in his bosom ind it grief ech him to bring it age n to ins prov. Xxvi 13-lb. Our Arab anecdotes go Fai beyond Solomon. A favorite illustration of extreme laziness is the Case of a Man that would not turn his head Over on his Pillow though the Muddy water leaking Thiouf a a the roof fell plump into his Eye but that description in the Twenty Burth chapter of proverbs is the one which strikes me a most appropriate to poor Fellaheen a i went the Field of the Slothful and the Vineyard of the Man void Oft understanding and to it was All grown Over with thorns and Nettles had covered the face thereof and the was broken Aown. Yes. That is True to nature and to actual life m All its details. The Stone terraces and Garden Walls soon Tumble Down when neglected and this beyond any country i have seen is prolific in thorns and thistles. All your vineyards in this Region Are covered with them and so thousands of your valuable Olive Trees a re completely choked up with Briers and thorns and their owners Are too shiftless and indolent to Clear them w. Thomson d. D. Thous be religious. Be a Good Man. Nothing else will give you any Comfort when called upon to lie Reader was Walter Scott a weak tenth Toj Sias the hour is near when you too will be upon a dying bed will you not feel then As he did ? Are you prepared for this hour ? a thought prom complains , a that he it a caught the gods to live like men a no Grace teaches men to live like gods. It is lamentable that we should live so Long in the world and do so Little for god or that we should live so Short a time in the world and do so much for satan. Other creatures Are not More below a sinner than a Saint is above a sinner. Man is the excellency of the creature the Saint is the excellency1 of Man Grace is the excellency of the Saint and glory is the excellency of Grace. Time wears slippers of list and his tread in noiseless. The Days come softly dawning one after another they creep in at the windows their a Pming air is grateful to the lips that Pant for it their music is Sweet to the ear that listens to it until a before we know it a whole life of Days has Possession of the Eit Idel and time has taken us. For its now Rabbu Eliezer said a turn to god a one Day before your his disciples said a Jiow can a Man know the Day of his death a he answered them a then you should turn to god to Day perhaps you May die to Morrow thus every Day will be employed in Worth Rem ebkring.�?. A Sabbath Well spent. Brings a week of Content and health for the toils of to Morrow but a Sabbath profaned whatever is gained is a certain forerunner of sorrow. There is an apostolic admonition which is Worth whole volumes of heroic bravado. It is this a a let your moderation be known a a and again a if thine if he thirst this is the morality of the gospel. It is treason in the philosophy of War. A a for the presbyterian Baalaer. Presbytery of fort Wayne. Presbytery installed Rev. David Kingery pastor of the Hureh of Wabash. Rev. C. Forbes presided Rev. W. Donaldson delivered the charge to the pastor arid or. Lowrick to the people. 1 arrangements were made for the ordination of or. R. H. Jackson the pastor elect of the churches of Bluffton Aud new Lancaster and for his installation there. Presbytery approved the action of its commissioners to the Iasi Assembly and especially their vote u taming the resold turns of. Or Spring. A resolved that this pie Butery express its cordial approbation of the Assembly s action on the state of the country and its entire satisfaction with tie answer Given to the protests against it. And further that this affliction of our beloved country is such As still claims the sympathy effective Aid and ardent prayers off All Christian patriots. A presbytery appointed or. Lowrie a committee to draw up a memorial to the next Assembly to change the Day from the first to the. Third Sabbath in each of the months specified for simultaneous collections and appointed a agent for each object of benevolent Effort presented the Assem Bly with a View to secure the cooperation of All our churches in this work. W. Donaldson stated clerk. Unto All enemy a hunger give him drink. Words Are Little things hut they strike hard. We Wield them so easily that we Areat to forget their hidden Power. Fitly spoken fall like the Sunshine the Dew and drizzling rain but when a fitly like the Frost the Hail and the Deso lating tempest. A Selim to be is so file a principle that it will not Only constrain a Man to avoid his duty but Mil often push him upon most inhuman practices and make him sacrifice his friends or his country1 to his own ease and safety. To have the great god on our Side in Battle is not always to the Strong nor the race to the Swift. There Are a thousand things that May defeat the Best Laid plans. But if god he for us who can be against is ? in a certain War with Israel it is said a a the children of Judah prevailed because they relied on the lord god of their so said Joshua a the cities were great and fenced if so be the lord will be with me then we shall be Able to drive them would you have the Victory then see a to i that you have god on your Side. Then a a no weapon that is formed against thee shall drive not god from you your sins. Do not Pride and self Confidence tempt him to leave you to yourself. Make him your Confidence and your Leader and obey is Soldier s Friend. How to make live the a sell aug Pul Futh no blossoms in summer there will be no Beauty and in autumn no fruit. So if youth he trifled away Riper years will be miserable. Why people read to think these Are rare some to write these Are common and some read to talk and a these form the great majority. The first Page of an author not infrequently suffices All the purposes of this latter class. Of whom it has been said they treat books As. Some do lords they inform themselves of their titles and then boast of an intimate acquaintance. He takes to religious paper. Who takes paper a member of the Church and quite a leading Man in the congregation to which he belongs. 1 he a poor Man. No he carries on a Large business and makes a Money faster than most of his Brethren. If he were poor there would be some excuse for him. Is he a intelligent Man ? Well ryes he takes one or two or perhaps More , an is Well posted up in Politi cel matters. You might As yell think to Oriental. Sluggard. Laziness Soems to have been a very Prev Alent vice country from Days of old giving Rise to a multitude of popular proverbs,.which the Wise Man has preserved in his collection indeed there is scarcely any other subject so often mentioned or so richly and scornfully illustrated Solomon As this. His rebuke of the sluggard drawn from the habits of the ant is very appropriate.,and suggestive. Proverbs i 6-j1- we need not now a consider her ways a 111 general for All the world is or May be familiar with them there arc some circumstances however mentioned in this passage which must have been suggested. actual life in this country. Thus the fact that the ant will faithfully and per seven gov Voru without guide or overseer or ruler is very striking when 1 began to employ workmen in this country nothing annoyed me More than the necessity to hire also an overseer or to fulfil this office myself v but i soon found that this was Universal and strictly necessary without an overseer very Little work would be done and nothing As. It should be. The a Workman every Way unlike the ant will not work at All unless kept to it and directed in it a overseer who a a himself specimen of laziness. He does also i lately nothing but. Smoke his pipe order this scold that one Yand discuss the How and the Why with the men themselves or with Idle passers who Are strangely prone to enter earnestly into everybody a business but their own. This overseeing often costs More than the work overseen. It is curious, How intensely Solomon hated this vice and How. Inane ways he gave expressions to his. Abhorrence and contempt of the sluggard. A thus the a Slothful Man past eth not that which he a Tonkin Hunting. Xii 27 the most. Good for nothing. Fellow May to roused the excitement Rof the Chase to select Reading. Why Christ left Meu who loved Christ with a love stronger than death wrote his life but left no hint of his height complexion features or any Point that could help the mind to a personal a Mage others wrote Iona epistles of which he was the Alpha and Omega but h s form r n Ich kept out of View a the body of Moses hidden the almighty m an undiscovered grave. The Christian tombs and relies of the first centuries show no attempt to make an image of Christ. Too deep a sense of the divine rested upon the Early Church to permit any attempt to paint the human As it appeared in . Win. Arthur keeping the farm out. A Many christians seem never to overcome the sin of covetousness. They Are All their lives held in bondage and know Little of the luxury of giving to the lord. This sin when once rooted in the heart goeth not out but prayer and fasting. Or. Spragues a annals of the Baptist pulpit Lias a capital illustration of this in the sketch of Rev. Clark Kendrick. His Church had occasion to exclude for covetousness a member who refused to pay his Church dues. A few Days after the excluded member met his pastor and As in former times said a How do you do brother Kendrick a but brother Kendrick declined the recognition saying As be alone could say it you need not Call me brother. I belong to a brotherhood who hold All for god As his stewards. You do not belong to that brotherhood you must not Call me _ _ the countenance of the Man fell he went away in grief but at the next meeting he came to the Church and Saida a Brethren i wish you would take me Hack and try me. When i first joined the Church 1 made a mistake i kept farm out. This time i wish to put in All i was readmitted into the Church and the pastor again sailed him brother. Dying testimony of sir Walter Quot Scott Many persons i youth and vigor deem it fanatical for to be anxious to be prepared foivdeath.,solicitude.,for1 t he salvation of a the soul they regard As irrational Twenty years ago sir Walter Scott who had charmed the world with Liis Genius was on a dying bed. He had passed the night in delirious the a morning Sun shone in his. Chamber he Awoki but to die. Every Trace of delirium had. Passed away and hip. Intellect was unclouded. Raising his dying Eye and fixing a it upon his son in Law Lockhart who. Sat his bedside he said a a a dear son i May have but a moment a to speak to you.,. Be a Good Man Eivir the wrong signal. A a what has happened a said or. Hamilton to his son who entered the room in haste and with the air of one who had some interesting news to communicate. A a freight train has run off the track and killed a Man a said Joseph. A a How did that happen a said or. H. A a the watchman gave the wrong signal. The Engineer said that if he had Given the right signal the Accident would not have. making the wrong signal Cost a Man his life. There is another sense in which wrong signals sometimes occasion the loss of life of life spiritual. The preacher who fails to a declare the Way of salvation As it is Laid Down in gods word who teaches that All men shall he saved or who teaches that men May obtain salvation their own works gives the wrong signal. In consequence men take the wrong track and go on to perdition. A the private Christian whose reputable standing in the Church and in society give influence to his example pursues a course of conduct utterly inconsistent with the injunction. A a be not conformed to this the Young. Christian is led to practice a similar course degrees he loses his spirituality and becomes one of those who have a name to live hut Are dead. The holding. Out. Of the wrong signal led to the disaster. A professing Christian exposes himself to temptation. He has Power to resist the temptation and escapes unharmed. One of less Power is led to follow his example and Falls into so. To him his predecessor had Given the signal that there was no danger there. He was the wrong signal. We Are constantly giving signals to our fellow men signals which will direct their course in their journey to eternity. How careful should we be at All times to avoid giving the wrong signal a examiner. Promptness in duties. There is always a Joy in duties performed and promptness in the execution heightens that Joy. To wait and look on a business we ought to do at once enervated and dishearten to Anse Tond do it immediately strengthens and enlarges the heart. Delay a begets hesitancy Andna mint Ltd a direct Spei Foi Nanee brings Ideal . They that wait upon the Jsmrd renew their strength Buff they that postpone till to Morrow pres a ent duties Are weaker for them to Morrow than to aay. Promptness in. Duties then gives greater a strength lor new duties. In during hardness As a Good Soldier in one Campaign qualifies the Christian for More Manly feats in the next. We grow on Bod and exercise morally the same As we do physically. Christian fortitude helps develop that Moble full stature of character and life which the gospel enjoins gives Grace to disciple amp hip and Energy -e1 a a a a Ogency to the. ?.-rmorning Star

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