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JOSEPH S. BAKER —Editor VOLUME XII. TERMS PER ANNUM. gar The Christian Index, published on Friday in each week, (except two in the year), will be furnished to eaeh subscriber at $2 50 cents, in advance; or #3 if not paid within the year. Post-Masters, where the Index is taken, are requested to forward remittances for subscribers at their respective offices, according to a decision of the Post-Master General as to their right to do so. All pa trons and agents are requested to notice this. Every Agent (and all Baptist Ministers are particularly solicited to become agents) who procure and pay for live copies of the Index, shall be entitled to a sixth, as a com pensation for his trouble. Letters on business, or communications, must be addressed to the Editor, post paid. Advertisements may be inserted on usual terms, at the discretion of the Editor. BOMB MISSION DEPARTMENT. For the Christian Index. The Voice of Western Michigan. Kalamazoo, Mich., Nov, 28, 1813. To the Sec. of .1. It. 11. Miss. Sue. At a meeting composed of ministers and laymen, assembled at Kalamazoo, JNov. Bth, 1813, to consider the ‘best means lor extending and strengthening tlie churches in this vicinity; Rev. William Taylor, of Schoolcraft, was chosen chairman, and bro ther .1. A. B. Slone Secretary. After pray er, consultation and free interchange of views and feelings, the following, among other resolutions, were unanimously pass ed: Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, the destitution of the means of grace, and the feeble stale of the churches in the western pan of this Slate are such, that the cause of God would lie greatly promoted by the labors of a pious and effi cient evangelist in eac h county. Resolved, That in the absence of the means of snppoit among ourselves, we wi i make an earnest appeal to the A. B. 11. M. Society, for both men and means to sup port them at least in part. Resolved, That the Secretary be directed to communicate these resolutions to the Secretary of the 11. M. Society, and also to the hoard of our own convention, entreat ing them to intersede with the 11. M. S., that the wants of this region may he con sidered. nl to communicate suen statistics anu ination, as may serve to make known to the hoard of the 11. M. S., the religious con dition, wants and claims ol this portion of the Lord’s vineyard. I'lie above will show the purport of this communication. We have here a lertile land—rather a sparse, but fast increasing population—generally one considerable village in each county, and oftentimes more. The rest of the population are far mers—ministers are few —churches small and feeble. In some counties there is not a single pieacher. Christians are poor, generally—and among some there is not as high a standard ot public effort as there should be, and none but Christians think of assisting in the support of the gospel.— This region is all missionary ground.— Your society has done something for our assistance, hut most of the labor and ex pense has been home by the ministers themselves, who have come here, and preached at their own cost. I have never seen any class of men who I thought were sacrificing so much for the gospel’s sake as the ministers in this region. In the Eastern States, they have churches to lean upon. I’he missionary in a for eign land looks to his society for support, but many of the preachers here can look only to God and themselves. Some have preached for years without compensation —one who was present at this meeting has preached in this way some six or eight vears, and built his own meet ing house in addition, working with his hands six days in the week to support his family and carry on his plans ol benevo lence. In Kalamazoo co. we have five preach ers—two of them being constantly employ ed as teachers —but three or four more could be most usefully employed. But in Van Buren and Barry, two adjoining coun ties, ldo not know that there is a single Baptist minister employed. In, the north ern counties, brother Jones, your missiona ry, has field enough for several men. We want evangelists. By this we do not mean technically, revivalists, but one who shall take his stand in a county and preach in as many places as he shall find practicable and profitable. Something could be collected on the ground for his support, but in some instances not very much, for a while at least. Western Michigan might have been Baptist ground, if as strong ef forts had been made by our own as by other denominations. ******** * Give us one man, give us two, give us ten. Wc want twenty, but would be thank ful for a much less number. We must look to the East mostly for men. SUCCESS OF A MISSIONARY - IN OHIO From the Rev. John O. Birdsall, Perrys burg, Ohio, Nov, 27. “As our Convention have resolved to re lieve the Home Mission Society of the ex pense of sustaining missionaries in this State, my relation to that Society, as such, THE CHRISTIAN INDEX. now ceases. I feel a degree of sadness in taking leave of my esteemed bretluen, composing the Executive Committee whose confidence and patronage have continued to me for six years in this place. “When I entered upon my labors here, there was but one church, just organized, consisting of thirteen members. It was the only Baptist Church in all the Maumee Valley, extending one hundred miles in length, and from fifty to one hundred in breadth. During the period of my resi dence here I have had the happiness to bap tize one hundred and thirteen persons; churches have been organized all around us, and an- Association has been formed com prising fourteen churches. Net we are still ill alt the weakness eiT infancy. 057 valley is fertile as lbe ancient Vale or Sod om ; oni commercial advantages, furnished by the opening of the Wabash and Eri ca nal, are unrivalled; but there is a great pau city of evangelical laborers. Allow me, dear brother, in taking leave of you, to stretch out my band, like the Macedonian in Paul’s vision, to my ministering breth ren in the East, and say, ‘come over and help us.’ Say not, dear brethren, ‘it is too unhealthy;’ a residence here of six years justifies me in speaking favorably of the increasing health fulness of our valley.— And if it were otherwise, it is not beyond the limits of the Saviour’s commission. If the pale horse, with his terilic rider, makes his visits here, is it not enough for us all, that we are not beyond the domain of Om nipotence—th.it we are here within the purview of that gracious promise, ‘ Lo, I am with you always.’ ” OREGON. From Rev. Thos. S. Malcom, Louisville, Ky., Dec. 7. “ I am pleased with the proposition to appoint another missionary lo Oregon, provided S3OO can be raised or pledged be fore the Ist of April. 1 will, cheerfully, give five dollars towards the sum proposed.’ We give tlie above extract because we had indulged the hope that some church or individual would have responded, ere this, to our suggestion, to transmit or pledge the who! csuin. One missionary, a western pioneer, will go: another is derirous ol ac companying him. Both are well qualified. Should not two lie aided to go together on so distantand difficult a mission? The Sa viour sent forth his disciples two and two. Should we not imitate him ? We will, if furbished with the means. Benj. M. Hill, Cor. Sec. ADDRESS TO THE CITIZENS 111’ UKUKtiIA. The Committee appointed by the Ealonton Convention, to Address the Citizens of the Slate on the subject of Temperance, submit the following: It is a fact beyond dispute, that morali ty is the very essence of civil liberty under free institutions. The reason is simply because, that under such institu tion all power proceeds either directly or indirectly from the people. If, therefore, llie people are generally moral, they will always exorcise the powers and priv ileges which they enjoy with a disinter estedness of patriotism only equal to the unhesitating promptitude of their obe dience to tlie laws. On the contrary, it is equally a fact, as fully verified by the history of tlie past, ns it is striking to tlie common sense of every reflecting mind, that a loose moral ity, by a law us unvarying and invariable as tlie law of gravitation, must result in the decline arid final destruction of repub lican institutions. If these facts are admitted, what, let us inquire, is the moral condition of our country? It is to us a matter of gravest import and deserving our most serious consideration. From one end of the country to the other, we have heard of nothing so much for the past few years as the mobs, the riots, the thefts, the mur ders, and every thing, in a word, which could indicate the general immorality and corruption of our people. 1 lie press has been so crowded with the shocking de tails of crime, that we can hardly take up a newspaper which does not contain an account of some new outbreak against law and good order, or some tale yet un told of theft or bloodshed. Never was there a period in the history of our gov ernment, say our statesmen, so fraught with corruption as is the present. Hence proceeds the gloom which settles and gathers thick and heavily over all their speculations concerning the future. In addition to these facts, are not the disorders consequent upon the recent monetary depression fresh in the recollec tion of us all? Was there ever a plainer demonstration than was then afforded, of the inefficiency of mere parchment re strictions when unsustained by the salu tary restraints of a sound morality? Re sistance to the peaceful administration of justice, was in many places openly dis cussed, and too often successfully carried out. There was hence a general fueling of insecurity, and a felt uneasiness arid anxietv among all law-abiding men, as to the course of those who seemed disposed to set aside the supremacy of the laws. Such is and has been the nforal condi tion of our country. We presume not to trace the causes which have combined to produce such a state of things; yet it may not be unimportant to notice among many others, one or two facts which most cer- FOR THE BAPTIST CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. PEYFIELD, GA„ JANUARY 12, 1844. tuinly exist, and which will operate as an aggravation of the present evils in liice to come. According then to the best estimates which have been made, our population doubles itself every 23$ years. We hare now a population of seventeen millions. If the “ immorality of the country is enough to excite the alarm of the patriot now, what may we expect in the next 5 3$ years, when our population will be 34 millions? Whatin tlie next half centu y, when we shall number 68 millions of n habitants. The causes which operate to demoralize our people now, besides bey.g vastly multiplied in number, willed much more puyver. The people w*iU nt* collected in greater masses throughout the country, and whatever is inflammato ry of passion and prejudice will be the .more easily enkindled and spread with the greater rapidity. ■4 The collection of large numbers of per sons together, has always been found to favor the growth and development of cur worst passions. The same man is al'.o gether a different creature under the lif ferent circumstances of solitude and so ciety. In the one case, lie is more apt to yield to the suggestions of his reason and the disinterested goodness of his he*it. Iri the other, lie is the creature of an un thinking, unreasoning impulse: And thus it is, that in the calmness of solitary re flection, we are often surprised, when we recur to our association with a crov.d, and recall the indiscreetness of our re marks, or the heedless impetuosity of our actions. Under these various circum stances, men are not unlike the electric fluid, which, in its general diffusion over the earth, gives calm and repose and sun sliino to the world, but concentrated it seems to loose the law of its being, ard to follow no other law but that of death and destruction to every thing within the sphere of its influence. The increased and increasing facilities of communication by means of the steam cur, are bringing the most distant parti of tlie country into the same neighborhood. The vices of the large cities will thus spread through tlie country, and the mor als of the people must certainly deteriorate. ht then appears, that we are grossly immoral now, with a certain prospect, from causes now in operation of becoming worse ir. time to come. Are these fact.-, or are they not ? If they are, it must b ’ o.lrrotf Off llial on - ony.nl,',. m-,.- I - ’ - - ‘ftfiitiiJi 1 jniwpf ft fi 1 /1. n. iii ■■ t— people we have a ioe . against us, more to be feared for its numbers, more insatiable in its hostility and more insidi ous in its attacks, than the whole army against which we battled for our indepen dence. Against the latter, though a gainst the most powerful odds, wo have fought victoriously. Who can say that we shall be equally victorious over the more formidable enemy, which is now si lently, yet not tlie less certainly, sopping the foundations of American liberty?— The noble oak which has been torn, and wrung, and riven by the lightnings of heaven, lias sometimes flourished on, green and unwitliered in its glory, as il in defiance of the thunders of tlie tem pest; yet, after all, it lias fallen beneath the attack of an unseen enemy at its heart. God grant that such may not be tlie type of our destiny; but victorious in arms, that we may also be able to con trol and to conquer our passions. Are you not prepared, then, fellow-citi zens, to aid in the moral reformation of your country? Are you not prepared to wage a war of extermination with the moral corruption of our people. Let us then attack the enemy in the very citadel of its strength. Let us rase that to its foundation, and the victory is ours. That citadel is Intemperance, Hence issue the legions of evils, which under different names are constantly sallying forth upon society, leaving nought but famine and universal desolation to mark the track of their invasion. We cannot present a more condensed view, or a more graphic description of tlie evils of intemperance than one which has been given by a writer in the State of Ohio. We gladly substitute it in the place of any thing from ourselves, and ask for it a careful arid thoughtful perusal. “And yet its march of ruin is onward still./ it reaches abroad to others, invades the family and social circle, and spreads wo and sorrow all around; it cuts down youth in its vigor, man hood in its strength, and age in its weakness; it breaks the father’s heart, bereaves the doting mother, extinguishes natural affection, erases conjugal love, blots out filial attachment, blights parental hope, and brings down mourn ing age With Borrow to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength; sickness, not health; death, not life. It makes wives widows; chil dren orphans; fathers fiends, and all of them paupers and beggars. It hails fevers, feeds rheumatism, nurses gout, welcomes epidemic, imparts pestilence, and embraces consumption. It covers tlie land witli idleness, poverty, dis ease and crime; it fills our jails, supplies our alms-houses, and demands our asylttmns; it en genders controversiss, fosters quarrels, and cherishes riots; it contemns law, spurns order, and loves molts; it crowds your penitentiaries, and furnishes victims for your scaffolds; it is the life-blood of the gambler, the aliment of tlie counterfeiter, the prop of the highwayman, and the support of the midnight incendiary; it countenances the liar, respects the thief, and esteems the blasphemer; it violates obligations, reverences fraud, and honors infamy; it de fames benevolence, hates love, scorns virtue and slanders innocence; it incites the father to butcher his offspring, helps the husband to massacre his wife, und aids the child to grind his parricidal axe; it burns up man, consumes woman, detests life, curses God, and despises Heaven; it suborns witnesses, nurses perjury, defiles Use jury box, and stains tlie judicial er mine; it disqualifies voters, corrupts elections, pollutes our institutions, und endangers our government; it degrades the citizen, debases the legislator, dishonors the statesman, and dis arms the patriot; it brings shame, not honor; terror, not safety; despair, not hope; misery, not happiness. Arid now, as with the malevo lence of a fiend, it calmly surveys its frightful desolations, ami insatiate with havoc, it poisons felicity, kills peace, ruins morals, blights con fidence, slays reputation, and wipes out nation al honor, then curses the world and laughs at -its rum. It is stated, too, upon tlie highest and most unquestionable authority, that not less than u half a million of drunkards have existed at any one time in the United States for rtie last 20 years. That one million and a half have died since the acknowledgment of our independence; that at least a quarter of a mil lion in the same time have been put to death by murder arid manslaughter from drunkenness; another quarter of a million have beet: execu ted for murder arid sentenced to public prisons; making in all, the appalling number of two millions since we have been a free people.” If, therefore, the evils which have been enumerated in the foregoing extract, do naturally result from intemperance, is it surprising that we hear and read so much of the immorality and corruption of our people, when it is considered, too, that intemperance, the great cause of causes, numbers so many among its votaries?— Ought not, then, every patriot to engage in the effort which is now making to re move intemperance, this dreadful ene my of our peace, our happiness, and our liberties, from the land. Are we worthy of the noble heritage of our rights and our liberties, if we make no effort to pre serve them? Yet after all, it is to be leaf ed that there are hundreds amongst us , who—because we have not yet been de- ‘ stroyed by our vices—-either cannot or will not see any danger, unless they see the red coat of the British soldier or hear the booming of a British gun. They do not seem to consider that we can suffer harm except from the artillery, the infan try and the cavalry of some foreign foe. To such persons we would say, if you will give the ‘go-by’ to tlie teachings of reason, go and consult the history of the Republics which are now no more. You will find, if we mistake not, that in every instance, the insidious, the ever-active, the destructive enemy of their own vices im. Vv'-'-'Nlayeij them, long before they sumr yielded submission to any foreign power. That already conquered by their own ex cesses, an invading army had nothing to do but take possession of their territory. It is at once our glory and our danger, that all power emanates from the people. Our glory, because we arc the authors and preservers of our own rights. We do not take them as a boon from any man or set of men. And in tlie exercise of virtue directed by an enlightened view of our best interests, wc shall perpetuate a free government to the latest generation. Our danger, because the people may be come corrupted. They may cease lo ex ercise their powers in accordance with the dictates ofa virtuous and enlightened patriotism; until yielding only to the im pulsive madness of passion and the pre judices of ignorance, every measure that is corrupt, may find its sanction in law— every man who is ambitious may estab lish iiis honor by elevation. The legisla tion of the country necessarily partaking of the capricious passions which direct it, the rights of the people may become un stable and fluctuating; until passing from one stage to another, civil war may final ly ensue, and the people at last find them selves writhing under the yoke of the Unost galling despotism. A Among the evils of intemperance, we have barely noticed its tendency to cor rupt the purity of elections. We will here add, that in this respect it is a most dangerous engine in the hands of the demagogue. By the power which it gives him, the government is practically subverted; for the (towers of the peo ple are transferred from them to those who have a mind to impose upon them. The government no longer becomes the government of the many, but the gov ernment of the lew. The demagogue may thus, through the agency ot intem perance, carry whatever lie pleases. II he has any seffish object to attain, be it merely his own elevation, or, what is worse, to filch by legislative spoliation, the hard earnings of bis more honest and industrious neighbors, he may successful ly employ this engine in its attainment. — Who has not seen hundreds of our fel low-citizens the veriest slaves ol those who would treat at elections; thus igno bly parting with their rights of suffrage, the most glorious right of American free man. Whatever may have been our past offences upon this subject, whether they have been to treat or be treated, let us not perpetuate an evil which may be such a powerful instrument in tlto hands of bad rnen. Let us look with suspicion upon men who, wanting the courage to com mand our suffrages by their merits, would insidiously steal them by liquor. Let us watch all candidates, particularly on out days of election. If they offer to treat us then we are bound to suspect them, how ever plausible the pretexts of their kind ness. And so suspecting them, wc are bound to feel the deep, the stinging in- sult, which is implied in the attempt to control the dearest right of an American freeman by the bottle. From nothing let us turn so indignantly away. Nothing should so stir up the resentment of every man who rejoices iri his freedom. NVhat ever becomes corrupted, let us preserve the purity of the ballot-box. Whatever sacrifices we make, let us never sacrifice that right which makes us free, and which independently maintained will keep us so. If intemperance produces so much evil, temperance on the other hand will pro duce a corresponding amount of good.— lemperance is the mother of industry. Industry is itself the parent of a host of virtues. Temperance strengthens the bonds of society; it loves order and res pects the laws; it promotes education; it cherishes the social feelings, and thus al leviates the burdens and the sorrows of li*’e by the charm which it diffuses over all its various relations* It keeps men alive to tli£ V rights, and confers the abil ity to maintain them. It weakens the motives to do wrong and strengthens the motives to do right. It makes men good citizens, good husbands, and good lathers. It helps tlie poor man to wealth and se cures the possessions of the rich. It re gards obligation and speeds us forward in the discharge of duty. In a word, it preserves the due subordination of the passions and the supremacy of reason; evolving all that is good and which will make us happy, suppressing all that is bad and which will make us unhappy. It is our duty, then, fellow citizens, to promote the cause of Temperance. We owe it to ourselves, to our families, und to society. We owe il,above every thing, to the government under which we live, and which can only be sustained l>v the virtue arid morality of its citizens, k Up to the time of the origin of the Temperance reform, America had been called a nation of drunkards by some of the States ot Europe. Ihe charge could not then be denied, for the drinking class of our citizens constituted no small part of our whole population. Since that time, the cause of Temperance has pro gressed with a rapidity far beyond the culculution of its warmest friends. Hun dreds arid thousands and millions have en listed under its banners. America, once taunted with the drunkenness of her pop ulation, has been the first to set about the correction of the evil; and Europe, ani mated by a noble emulation of her suc cess, now acknowledges by her reformed millions, the worthy example of once drunken America. How should the thought swell the bosom of every Amer ican patriot, when he reflects, that if we were first to be called a nation of drunk ards, we were also first to set the example of sobriety. There is something about this which we may fairly trace to the good old blood of the revolution. It savors much of the spirit of those great men, who, convinced of their errors, always deemed it nobler to retrieve them, than persist obstinately in their defence. To America belongs the honor of giv ing the example of a lree people and free institutions to the world. Her example was felt in the honest but ill lilted attempt of France, to establish similar institutions upon the ruins of her fallen throne. Il spread thence throughout the nations ol Europe. And although none of them have as yet adopted her form of Govern ment, yet, the spirit of liberty is still in creasing among their people to such an extent, us to leave very little doubt that there is a gradual and an irresistible ten dency of all the governments of Europe to the equal rights and privileges of out own glorious republic. But it America had stopt here, if she hud been content with tlie achievements ol her illustrious founders, her work, though confessedly great, had been but half done; Greece and Rome had flourished and with the decline of virtue they had fallen. France, infuri ated under a sense of the most galling op pression, had thrown olf the chains ol feu dal vassalage, and upon the ruins of her ancient institutions had founded a Gov ernment which was to confer equal rights upon all; yet, unprepared for tlie transi tion, and maddened with the enjoyment ofa liberty which before had existed only in the dreams of her Foetry or in the wild abstractions of her Philosophy, her pas sions had risen into the storm, under the violence of which, her liberties had been prostrated. Such too had been the fate of our South American neighbors. The conclusion, therefore, ot the friends of the institutions of Europe, Lad been that such too must und will be tlie fate of Republican America. But thanks to the enlightened patriotism of those who could see in immortality and vice, the deadliest enemies to our institutions, our country has been aroused to a sense of its danger, and not content with the mere possession of free institutions, we are now showing to the world that we know how to (ire serve them. In our Temperance Societies we have the guaranty of an enlighled and a virtu ous population for generations to come. Thus shall our liberties bo preserved; for, with such a population, our laws will lie planned in wisdom, administered with impartiality, and carried most faithfully into execution. • May we not. contemplate with proud satisfaction, the contrast between Atueri- Publisher— BENJ. BRANTLY NUMBER 2. ca and all of the Republics of the past. I hey perished from theexcesses of a loose morality. Such cannot be her fate if we succeed, as we confidently believe we will, in the efforts which we are now making lor our moral improvement. But if such reflections may inspire ns with we not feel prouder when we reflect that we are fast shutting the mouths of our transatlantic enemies when they poitit to “drunken America,” and argue from her excesses that her days will soon be num bered arid that she too, will perisb os have the Republics which have gone be fore her. M hut an impulse shall we give the. cause of freedom throughout the civilized world. Wow triumphantly shall the friends ol libei ty appeal to -ear example i.n all time lo come. It was a great work to plant our Institutions. It is no less a work to preserve them. The former was the work of our lather—the latter is ours. Let us see to it that we have equal sue.- ecss. Posterity shall then award us equal honor. W e therefore invite you, Fellow citi zens to enlist with us in the great work of moral improvement which is now* going, on. Let us advance the Temperance Re form. A broad held is here opened for your patriotism and your philanthropy. Y ou are ealled on to make no sacrifice of principle either in religion or politics.— Our cause stands by itself. It will suc ceed upon its own merits. The evils which it is designed to remove need only to be brought before the attention of the people to insure its most distinguished success. It therefore needs no alliance with any tiling else. We claim it as our own peculiar privilege that we unite all parlies and all churches in the common cause of removing the ills of Intemper ance. M e neither ask you to make any sacrifice ofheatlh, of’ reputation, or honor, or indeed any sacrifice or privation which would be even as dust in the balance com pared with the real service which you may render your country. We only ask you not to drink ardent spirits. That is easily enough done. You make no sacrifice iri that which will not benefit you, whilst at the same time you are doing great service to your country. You are neither called on to set your selves up in tlie opposition of distance and I coldness and reserve to old friends be cause they drink. On the contrary, in ac cordance with the dictates of humanity and our own glorious principles, we would expect your friendship to catch a warmer glow from the pity excited by the infirm ities of your friends and your anxiety to reform them. We regard the drunkard with pity, not with scorn. We have no other than feel ings of the kindest sympathy for him.— Instead of lowering him in his own or the public estimation, we would rather go to him, and in tlie spirit of the greatest be nevolence and terms of the greatest per suasion urge him to the abandonment ofa set ofhabits which must result in his de gradation. We believe too, that persuasive means are most effectual in reclaiming the ine briate. We deem id! others unnecessary, and therefore we use no others. No possible objection can be opposed to onr cause or the means which are used in iis advancement. It proposes to re move a great evil. How ? Simply by persuading men to abandon ir. However determined a man may lie in his opposi tion to the temperance reform, he cannot be honest with himself if he objects either to the cause or the means hv which it ia advanced. Will a man hate you when you give him tlie best of reasons to be lieve that you love him ? It cannot be. Ca'led on, therefore, to make no sacri fice whatever—to do nothing which can create bad feelings between yon and your neighbors, yet still enabled to co-operate in one of the greatest revolutions since the days of Luther—a revolution rich with blessings and happinc s to our common country and to mankind, we urge you, fellow citizens, to lay hold without delay upon your privilege and your duty. The success of our cause is now past all dispute. Nobody can siiv aught against it. Every body can say something for ir. The young men throughout the whole country are coming up to its aid. Go in to any of our villages and it will be found that with very lew exceptions, nine tenths of the young men are on the side of tem perance. The bottle is no longer used to stimulate their mirth in the meetings of their clubs. Go where you will and you will scarcely find a tavern where spirits are kept. Their manufacture and impor tation are annually diminishing. Ihe voice of the whole country is getting to be against their use ns a beverage, Tho day, we believe, is not very far distant when they will cense to be used in that way. What a glorious day for our be loved country ! When harmony and peace and love shall rule the domestic circle,-** When the tears of early disappointment and care shall cease to bedim the oheek at the too confiding* wife, and the silence of midnight shall no more be broken with her groans, When Intemperance shall no more consurriethe bread of helplessand unprotected orphanage. When the ou tage of the poor man vo longer the squalid abode of (titling and want, shall assume the neatness find the comfort ol thrifty no-