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From the American Baptist. On llio death of Miss C. Gourj.ay, late sin ger in Rev. Mr. Brantley’s Church, Second street, and the Musican Fund Society, Phila delphia. INS<IUBE TO J. STOUT, JR. Daughter of son# ! thy days arc pass’d, And smiling hope has down; Thy tongue is mute —thy lips are fist— Thy place is sad and lone. Can xve forget the melting strain? t>jj- 1 I hugs —bow lin y gush’d ! But the reinembrancc gives us pain, Since thy sweet voice is hush’d. That voice, which did our spirit thrill, In utt’ring praises to (led, We trust in singing praises still, In a more Mess’d abode; Where angel-harps are tuned to praise, And not one jarring tone, Khalil move the symphonies they raise, Before the Eternal Throne. Throughout tlmt clime of endless bliss, Where sorrow has no part, Ah in this world of bitterness, To sting the tender heart. Daughter of song! go join the hymn Os that celestial clime, Its glorious scenes will never dim, Dike the vain joys of time. HI is <’ r: e, 1/ A N EOil S. Christ in ■■ experience. The Lord is leading you in the good old way, iu which you may perceive the foot steps oflii* Hoi k h ito have gone before you. They had in their day the .same difficulties, fears, and complaints, ns wc have, and through mercy we partake of the same con solation which supported and refreshed them; and the promises which they trust eed and found faithful, are equally sure to us. It is that they who believe shall ucu|^ “"selves, have built upon sand: but he has pnWdetl and revealed a sure foun dation removed, our natural prejudices n gainst it; and now, though rains, and floods, and storms assault our building, it cannot fall, for it is founded upon a rock. The suspicions and fears which arise in an awa kened mind, proceed, in a good measure, from remaining unbelief; hut not wholly so, for there is a jealousy and dillideuce of ourselves, a weariness owing to .1 sense ol'the d'ceilfulncss of our hearts, which is a grace Hud u gilt of the Lord. Koine people who iHllUlllhl’ ‘Mliil f (is jealous fear, 111 *” ship that SpfeadS a great hut is not properly ballasted, and is therefore in dan ger of being overset whenever a storm comes. A sincere person lias many rea sons for distrusting his own judgment; is .-sensible of the vast importance ol'the case, dkd afraid of too hastily concluding in lna and n .cl fii” not ■■ 11 'io < TT Tstied. Atarewfij, : . ‘;to”Ti- liu, e.sprciul- ■ ; ■ 111 not comfortable ; they who simply wait upon Jesus, are gradually frectl from it in proportion as their knowledge of him, and their experi ence of his goodness, increases. He has a time for settling nor! establishing them in himself, and his time is best. We are has ty, and would be satisfied at once, but his word is, Tarry thou the Lord’s leisure. The work of grate is not like Jonah’s gourd, which sprang bp and flourished in a night, and as quickly withered, bat rather like the oak, which from a little arornam! a tender plant, advances with an almost im perceptahle growdt from year to \ car, til! it becomes a broad spreading and ilccp-riiot ed tree, and then it stands for ages. The Christian oak shall grow and flourish foie rcr. When 1 see any soon after they ap pear to he awakened, making a speedy pro fession of great joy, before they have a due acquaintance with their own hearts, I am in pain for them. lam uot sorry to hear them afterwards complain that their joys ore gone, and they are almost at their w its end; for without some such cheek, to make them feel their weakness and dependence, 1 seldom find them tarn out well; either their fervor insensibly abates till they be come quite cold, and sink into the world n gain, (ol which 1 have seen many instan ces,) or il they do not give up all, their walk is uneven! and their spirit has not that savor of brokeness and true humility, which is u chief ornament of our holy pro fession. If they do not feel the plague of their hearts at first, they find it out after wards, and too often manifest it to others. Therefore though l know the Spirit ol'the Lord is tree, and will not 110 confined to our rules, and there may lie excepted ca ses ; yet in general, 1 believe the old pro verb, “ Soft and fair goes fair,” will hold good in Christian experience. Let us he thankful for the beginnings of grace and wait upon our Saviour patiently for the in crease. And as tve have chosen him for our physician, let us commit ourselves to his management, and not prescribe to him what he shall prescribe for us. He knows us and he loves us better than we do our selves, and will do all things we!!. \ou say, “It never came with power and life to my soul, that he died for me.” If you mean you never had any extraordi nary sudden manifestation, something like a vision or a voice from heaven, confirming it to you, I can say the same. But I know he died for sinners ; I know I am a sinner: I know lie invites them that are ready to perish ; I am such an one ; I know upon his own invitation, I have committed my self to him; and I know,-by the effects, that he has been with me hitherto, other wise I should have been an apostate long ago; and therefore know that lie died for me ; for had he been pleased to kill me (as he justly might have done,) he would not have shown me such things as these. If I must perish, would the Lord 1 lave taught my heart to love bis word ? Would be have given my eyes to see My danger and my remedy 1 Reveal'd bis name, and bid me pray, Had he resolved to say me nay T 1 know that I am a child, because he teaches me to say, Abba, Fattier. I know that I am his, because be hasenabled me to choose him for mine. For such a choice and desire could never have taken place in my heart, if lie bad not placed it there him self. By nature I was too blind so know him, too proud to trust him, too obstinate to serve him, too base-minded to love him; the enmity 1 was filled with against his go vernment, righteousness, and grace, was too strong to lie subdued by any power hut his own. The love I bear to him is but a faint and feeble spark, but it is an emana tion from himself. He kindled it, and he keeps it alive; and because it is his work, I trust many waters shall not quench it. .Newton. Ailiiuoftifictt among C'ln-istiaiiN. The observations of a late ingenius wri ter, which, it is to he feared, he was confirm ed in by his own experience, is too much founded in truth:—“ We have just religion enough to make us hate one another.” The spirit of party, prejudice,Land bigotry, and interest, g. zeal for systants, forms, modes and denominations, furnish men witli plau sible pretences for indulging their unsanc tified passions, and deceivo them into an o pinion, that while they are gratifying their prido und self-will, they are only laboring to promote the cause of God and truth. Hence, often the feuds which obtainammig religious people arc pursued with great vi olence, and to gfeater lengths, and are pro ductive of more mischievous consequences than the quarrels of drunkards. The lex ers of peace, who refuse to lake a part in these contentions, hilt rather weep over them in secret, tire censured and despised ’ Trn * . 1 L.. ,i. _ *’ ••<•>•*> •- batants on all sides, while the world despi ses and laughs'fit them all. It was not so in the bogi xx ill it be so alxvax s. The hour xx ben believers shall he united in love,l(|kll-agree in all that is e— scutial to jdßtoto-fatt h and holiness, and slr-ii live m the exercise of forbearance and tenderness towards each other, if in some points of small importance they can - not think exactly alike; which possibly may be tlm case in the best times, in the present imperfect state of human nature. “Ephraim shall then no more envy Judah, nor Judah vex Ephraim.” Isa. xi. 13. Newton. Choice Mil J ill its of Newton. My principal method of defeating here by, isby establishing the truth. One pro poses to fill a bushel xx ith taivs; now if I can fill it first with wheat I shall defy hi s attempts. M my have puzzled tln-mselves about the origin of evil; I observe there is exil, and that there is a way to escape it, and with (bis 1 begin and end. A polios met with two candid people in the ('hurt h: they neither ran away because he was legal, nor were carried axvay lie cause lie w as eloquent. 1 can conceive a living man without an arm or u leg, hut not without a head or a heart: so there are some truths essential to vital religion, and which all awakened souls are taught. A Christian is like a young nobleman, xvho, on going to receive his estate, is at first enchanted by its prospects ; this in a course of time may xvearofi', but sense of the value of the estate grows daily. When we first enter into the divine life, wo propose to groxr rich; but God’s plan is to make us feel poor. A man’s present sentiments may not be accurate, but we make too much of senti ments. We pass a field with a few blades, xve call it a field of wheat; but there is no xx heat; no, not in perfection, but xvheat is soxvn, and full ears may be expected. Contrivers of systems on earth are like contrivers of systems in the heavens* where the sun and moon keep the same courSrvjn spile of the philosophers. We should take care that we do not make our profession of religion a receipt in full for all other obligations. A man truly illuminated will no more i despise others,than Bartimcus after bis own | eyes were opened, would take a stick and 1 beat every blind man he met. W e arc mistaken in supposing that the removal of a particular obstruction, would • | satisfy tiie objector. Suppose lam in bed, and want to knoxv w hether it be light, it is ■ not enough that I draw the curtain; for ■ i it there be light, 1 must have eyes to see it. MU Ctl&£&'£ZA.m EftlX>E‘£. Some preachers at Olney, dxvelt on the doctrine of predestination; an old woman said—“Ah! I that point; for if God had not chosen me before I xvas born, I am sure he would have seen nothing in me to have chosen me afterwards.” Doctor Taylor of Norwich, said to me, “ Sir, I have collated every word in the Hebrew Scriptures seventeen times; aud it is very strange, if the doctrine of atone ment you hold should not have been found by me.” I am net surprised at this; I once xvent to light my candle with the ex tinguisher on it. Now, prejudices front ed ucation, learning, <fcc. often form an extin guisher. It is not enough that you bring the candle, you must remove the extin guisher. I went one day to Mrs. G——,’s just af ter she laid lost all her fortune: I could uot be surprised to find'-her in tears; hut she said, “ I suppose you think I am cry ing for my loss: but that is not the case — 1 am noxv weeping to think I should feel so much uneasiness on tin* account.” After that 1 never heard her speak again on the subject as long as she lived.—Why, noxv, this is just as it should be.—Suppose a man xvas going to V urk to take possession of a large estate, and his chase should break doxvn :i mile before he got to the citv, which obliged him to walk the rest of the way ; xv 1 1 ;it a fool xve should think him if we saw him wringing his hands ami blubbering out all the remaining mile, “My clisise is bro ken! my chaise is broken!” fellows mi’ of God’s - people i.\ evil tim its ; And the duty importance of public worship. Malnchi iii. 16‘ 17—Then they that fear ed the Lord spoke often one to another; and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that loured (be Lord, and that thought upon hiss name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels, and 1 will spare them asu man spa ret It hisoxvn son lhat serveth him. We olten hear people complain of the limes and of the loxv state of religion: but good men xvill be good men in the worst of times, and that xxliich o'hcrs make an excuse xvill to them furnish a motive to speak often one to another. *ln llio Jew ish worship, all xvho were of Abraham’s seed mingled together ; jet even then the godly found one another out: “I am a companion of till those that (ear God.” 1 lie prophut Mulachi lived some timo after Nt hernial*, xvlrti the Jews were U LUIIIO r lUtuM* great degeneracy among the priests—s.irfi 1 did despisersol religion. The consequence xvas, as might be expected, they were des pised by llto people. Gicat degeneracy among the common people—profane to xx aids God, and treacherous towards one enolher —frequent divorces lot’ trivial cau ses, yet full of excuses. Even the profess ed worshippers of God had a great deal of hypocmcy. All these things put together proved a stumbling-block to people in gen eral. Wicked men xvero reckoned happy and promoted, and Providence seemed to kiYorthem, hence infidelity an 1 atheism abounded: vet even ‘‘Then t! oj hat li ar fil the Lord spoke often one inieother.” They nre descri!” das keepatg it; a close communion with one aim h r. The world xvas nlivenml thev were alive. The seed of the serp nt !cagu"f. and tie seed of the woman communed 1 -g- iher.— \'U may be sure tlu ir e mver- -non xx as edifying, or it would net have l> en roe -rd ed. Th*'V might have occ.as on o rrpiovi , to ndmonisb, to eouus*'l, 1o exb"rt, to en gourage, to instruct. Kuchastateoflhings is necessary, especially in evil times. The more wicked the world, the more need of Christian fellowship- God’s interests lay near their hearts, they grieved for its dishonor, and concert ed plans for its promotion. If xve love Mis name it xx ill occupy our thought*. It seems they were retired from the no tice of the multitude; perhaps like the dis ciples, for fear ol’the Jetvs. They might be apprehensive lest any should hearken nuil hear them. One, however did so, and took doxvn their conversation too, not liter ally, lor God needs no book, but his oxvn mind. This xvill be brought out at the Judgement, Matt. 25. They that think of Him here will be remembered by Him there, and when they have forgotten it. “They shall be mine in that day.” Which of these characters is ours ? Will our con versation bear writing in a book 1 Public worship is not of less consequence. Bless ye God in the congregation, Psalm lxviii. 26, &c. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is. Ileb. x. 25. Were it not for public, private worship would soon be at an end. To this, under God, the church of Christ owes its being and continuance. Where there is no public worship there is no reli gion. It is bv this, God is acknowledged; aiftkas lie is the universal Being, and by his homily and providence all live, conse quentlv it is-the duty of every intelligent creature publicly to acknowledge him, and offer Him that worship xvhieh Himself has preserved in- His word. I’he ancient Jexvs have softie good max ims on this subject, which may be seen in Schoettgen. 1 shall quote one or txvo. In Berecoth, fol. 8, it isxvritten, “Rabbi Levi, said, lie xvho has a synagogue in his city, and does not go thither to pray, shall be esteemed a bad citizen,” or a bad neighbor. And to thislhey apply the words of Jeremiah xii. 14. Thus saith the Lord against all my evil neighbors—behold I 1 will pluck them out of their land. “Rab bi Eliezer the son of Jacob,” speaking as 1 from God, “Ifthou wilt come to my house I will go to thy house; but if thou wilt not come to my house, 1 will not enter thy house. The place that my heart loveth, to that shall my feet go.” We may safe ly add, that those wo do not frequent the house of God, can never expect Ilis pres ence or blessing in their own. The wisest and test of men have alxvays felt it their duty and their interest to xvor ship God in public. As there is nothing more necessary, so there is nothing more reasonable: he who acknoxvledges God in j all his ways, may expect all his steps to be directed. The public worship of God is one grand line of distinction betxveen the atheist and the believer. He xvho uses not public worship, has either no God, or has no right notion of his being: and such a person, is a bad neighbor; it is danger ous to live near him; for neither he nor his can be under the protection of God. No man should be forced to attend a par ticular place of worship, but every m.m should attend some place: and who lias any fear of God, will not find it difficult to get a place to bis mind.— A. Fuller — Dr. A. Clarice. From the Liu ray and Theological Review. RADICALISM. Radicalism alxxays decloses still greater destitution of moral than intellectual excel lencies. There is a class of graceful vir tues, which constitute a kind of codeofho nour, designed to regulate the demeanor of imperfect beings toxvards each other, and to soften the asperities to xxhich their soci ety is liable. To this class of virtues be long, modest diffidence in one’s own opin ion when opposed to that of all the world, candid indulgence of the prejudices of oth ers: charitable forbeurnnee of their faults, and a favourable construction of xvhat may appear against the due respect to the claims of’ prescriptive authority of whatever kind it may be; deference to age, office & other titles to regard. The exercise of these virtues, while it is not inconsistent xvith the higher moral virtues, is absolutely essen tia! to the decorum and happiness of hu man society.—Disregarding them would soon introduce the most shameless barbar ities, in place of all those pleasant charities by which the social state of depraved being is sweetened and adorned. Let the reader now present before his mind any one of the leading spirits of Ra dical reform xx bom he may happen to know, he will find that bis prominent char acteristics groxv out ofthe absence of iWsr comely and excell’ nt virtues. It teloi\- 1 to the very idea of a Radical to be self-coijM ui m lays no claim to the virtues which have been mentioned, and even despises and condemns them. Modesty and solf-dilfi. di nee be regards ns efleminacy and inde cision; charity and tolerance toxvards the biii'ts of others, as coxvardly compromise with sin; and every kind of deference to authority or station, as base servility - , Stern ness. rigor and rudeness of demeanor to xvards even the slightest delinquency, he ennsuh rs ns the indices of moral courage, and the distinctive graces ofthe hon-henrt ed reformer. In folloxving out his crude •''.nt ep'ions of xx bat should be, he never al lows Inmseli to be in the least incumbered j bx “lint bast been, and proceeds in all re spects, “As it the world xvore noxv but to begin, | Antiquity forgot, custom not known, The rutifiors and props of every xvord.” The de'bimity of tllis sel'-'.'Oilfid nee. ‘ and d.'i. .ard o received opinions and cus toms, car no! be tetter shown, than in con- tt'tst xxiilt some ol'the beautiful exhibitions ofthe modest waving of individual judo- ! meat on llte part oftruly great men, out of I respect to the general voice. Bishop Hall thus xx rites to iiis brother.* “Lot 1110 ad vise you to walk ever in the beaten road of llio church, not to run out into single para doxes. And if you meet at any time with private conceits; that seem more probable, suspect them and yourself; and if they can xx in you to assent, yet smother them in your breast, and do not dare to vent them out, either by your hand or tongue, to j trouble a common peace. It is a miscra -1 ble praise to he a willy disturber.” It is recorded of Mr. Male, by the great Claren don, that he xvould often say, “That his, opinions, lie xvtis sure did him no harm, but he xvas far from being confident that thev might not do others harm xvho entertained them, and might entertain other results from them than he did; and therefore he xxms very reserved in communicating xvhat he thought himself, on those points in which he differed from xvhat xvas received.’f The want of religious sentiment is ano ther part of that deficiency of in ward struc ture from which Radicalism proceeds.—! Religion, while it inspires the mind with * unmingled abhorrence of evil, at the same ! time renders it tranquil in the view ofthe j existing disorders ofthe world. It teaches I that consol itorv lesson, by xvhieh the entire aspect of the world is changed, that evils nre xviselv permitted by God, and xvill be overruled by him for the promotion of his benevolent purposes. It docs not diminish the motive to human effort, hut only quells every disquieting feeling, aud induces over the mind ofthe truly pious philanthropist a calm and peaceful resignation. I loxv opposite to this is the frame and temper of the turbulent reformer. He is ! not less agitated himself than the agitator j * Bishop Hall’s works, vol. 1. p. 315. j Life of Edxvard, Earl of Clarendon, vol. 1. I p. 50. of others. Were God dethroned, and the world abandoned to the powers of evil he could scarcely be more anxious and purtur bed. It never occurs to him to think, in 1 view of the towering forms of wickedness, that they exist under the permission of the Being xvho doeth all his pleasure, not only . in heaven above, but on earth beneath, and that however they may be regarded when separately viexved, they arc to be esteemed right as belonging to that great system, in xvhieh partial evil is made the instrument of universal good. ■ There is no more common or offensive tealure in the character of those men xve are attempting to describe, than their assu ming in their oxvn strength, and by means o£ their own, to effect the most signal revo lutions in the state of the world, and their attributing to themselves, the wisdom, pow er, and glory when such revolutions have teen accomplished. How often do they speak of xvhat they have done, are doing, or are about to do; to change the state of society, without any reference, expressed or remotely implied, to that poxver by xvhieh alone any change for the better ever ! has been or can be xvroughi. It has been j said of some modern infidel philosophers,! that they xvere accustomed to speak as con fident about the nature of things, and to : seem to know as much about the laws of j being, as if they had assisted in making the xvorld. And .t may be said xvith equal j truth of some of our modern reformers', j thtit they are wont to carry themselves as i loftily xvith respect to the existing state and coming destiny ofthe world, as though they assisted in governing it, and had en throned themselves beside the .Monarch of the universe. Deeming their allotted sphere of the duty too private incon siderable Ibr tHeir superior poxHft they seek a larger stage, where xx li'vuitn g cither lor .. :■, ■), eaIIjHHHH indications ofthe ! 1 line xx ill, tjfl ■ .r ftf-kgMiiaWkaMMMBIMBH ite., l 'r ir ." i "”, 1 ‘■ml!® JSd ‘L e " gth ftnc F ‘hemsolvc, in ( Jr ed ‘|' llh P°' ver commensurate xvith the /atms they suppose made upon them -ml f ho res PoDsit.ditieg thev have 5 /assumed. Ratling on’,he airs® ” St v * f>n the moral kingdom thev H,, and ‘'"°, rs plenitude of their imu .l *.? r< ' e ’ ln ,he downfall listing systems I'"',’ ■ ‘ h ° i new state ol things. ‘ len,s * a "d ordain a j rjrr- — I tr y j niw~ ‘ j r N tu iiiiii|/ ‘v (he .CiiuisTiAN Index, after January Ist. ISJt), ilnis ibi merpamphlet form—on die folloxving Terms. To single subscribers —lt shall be fur nished for $3 a year; or >2 50 paid in ad vance. 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There are no subjects more intensely interesting to the student of the Bible than those connected with the History, Manners, and Customs, both ancient and modern, of that once happy and distinguished, but noxv scat tered and despised race, the descendants of Is rael. The History of the Jexx'p, from the time of ! their final dispersion, and their present situa- J lion, scattered among all people, “where,” j with one happy exception, “they find no ease, j neither does the sole of their foot rest,” affords j the student of prophecy one ofthe most poxver | ful evidences of divine inspiration ofthe sacred | Scriptures, while a knowledge of the antiqni ! ties of the Jexvs, and, perhaps also, of their ! modern customs and opinions, is absolutely es -1 seutial to the understanding of many impor j taut passages ofthe Bible. Besides these con | sideratiuns, a knowledge of the efforts which | have been made in x'arious parts of the world, for the evangelization ofthe Jews, and of the ■ success xvith which tiiese efforts have been .crowned, is necessary to encourage the Chris tian Church in their exertions to spread the Gospel throughout the xvorld; and to increaso their confident expectations of the speedy ap proach of that happy period, when the glory of ! the Izird shall be rex'ealed, and ail flesh see it ! together; when the Jexvs shall be gathered in ! to the Gospel fold xvith the fulness of the Gen tiles, and they shall seek the Lord, and David their King in the latter days. There is no individual, perhaps, who is bet ter qualified to give information on these sub’ jects. than our beloved brother Frey. For these reasons xve have gieat pleasure in recommending this xx’ork to tiie patronagj of the whole Christian community, without dis tinction of sects or parties, convinced tiiatthe proposed xvork xvill prove a poxx’erful iad use ful auxiliary to the Minister, the Sabbath School Teacher, andtotlio active privatechria tian- Rev. JOHN DOW UNO, Pastor of the N Baptist Church Newport, R. I. Oct. 12th, 1835. We heartily cotxcur xvith brother Dowling in the above remarks. Rev. JOHN C. WELCH, Warrer.R. 1. “ H. A. WICOX. Willington, Conn. “ N. 1). BENEDICT. Woodstock, “ “ NICHOLAS BRANCH, Ponfret “ “ JOHN H. BAKER, Lebanon, “ “ SAM'LS. MALLERY. Norwich city Ct.