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From the Commission.
LETTER FROM SISTER SHUCK.
The following letter front sister Slmck
gives some insight into the manners ofChi
nese life. It also presents some of the diffi
culties and encouragements of the mission
ary, in prevailing on the heathen to give
up idols for the true Ged:—
March 29, 1850.
We went to-day to sec the family ot'Se
Seen Sang—one of our church members.
He had been wishing that I should tell them
what day I would come, for some time,
but I preferred to go when they did not ex
pect me. We were rather early, but they
seemed glad to see us. The mother and
some of the brothers havo a coal store.
Se himself is a teacher, but is not at present
employed. We passed through the store
to the hall beyond. Hero were the idols
and their sliriues.taking up one entire side
of the room; chairs, tables and tea stands
were arranged in pretty good order about
the room, though the dust had not been
disturbed upon them.* This room is under
the control ot the mother, who seemed a
zealous worshiper of idols, and hinnies bet
son much for following what she calls “the
foreigner’s religion.” We sat here a mo
ment, when the old lady came in and passed
the usual compliments, but turning round
she perceived a crowd collected about the
door and left us to desire, in quiet and
decided tones, that they should disperse.
They obeyed, much to my astonishment,
their curiosity usually overstepping the
bounds of politeness.
Presently £>c Seen Sang came down from
the upper jocym and invited mu Tnvr: to
see his wife, when I \was most agreeably
• . i ■ninrq-"'--' 1 seeingjust such*;
a woman as I usually meet with, out there
Was a milder saint: lilllC,£l more
culiivatcd look face than usual.—
She looked sad, too, and told me with a
sorrowful tone, that the A ma (mother,)
and she could not agree, a'xd that kemlMts—
baud and herself were anxious to have
another home, il possible. She said, we
stay almost entirety in our own room, for
they worship idols in the room below, and
do not like that we do not worship them
also. Se Sol Sing (her husband,) has iiad
employment as teaehef offered him, but the
people were not willing that he should close
his school on the Sabbath, or even teach
from Christian books on that day. He also
cannot engage in the business without work
ing on the Sabbath. I asked her if she
couldread? She replied, “I formerly could
not, but my husband is teaching me now.”
I encouraged her to persevere and learn,
that she m ght know how to read the Bible.
She said she would, but she found it diffi
cult, as she had her baby to attend to, and
also her little boy. She asked if the little
boy (about six or seven years ofage,) might
come to our school when we opened it and
learn Jesus’ doctrines. He is a bright little
fellow, and I wished we had a school for
his sake, but recommended that his father
begin to teach him at home.
The old lady carne upstairs to bring me
some tea, leaving immediately, however.—
Very soon came a large tray filled with a
variety of refreshments, which Se’s wife
begged me continually to use. Fortunate
ly among them were sonic dates and wal
nuts, of which I partook as heartily as I
could. The others I talked about, and look
two of the ornamented candies, saying, 1
would give them to my “Po po.” Oh! you
nuist take all to the children. I insisted
that two were quite enough,but 1 could not
be heard, and a handkerchief was brought
out and every thing from the tray swept in
itand tied up lor me to carry home.
I looked round the room, and seeing no
idols, asked her if there were any there?—
No, she replied, not one. Ever since Se
Sol Sing has been connected with you, he
has not worshipped any, nor does he tell
lies now. I asked what she thought about
the doctrine, if she worshipped idols. She
said no, that she had learned something
from her husband, and now she did not
worship idols; that on Sundays she did
nothing but take care of her baby, walk
about the room, or something of the kind.—
I tried to tell her that more was required;
that with the heart she must worship God,
and that she must go to the chapel. Sire
said siie would go, that heretofore her ba
by was too young to leave, and she herself
not able to go, she intended going.
I went down stairs, thinking 1 must not
go without a word to the old lady. In the
hall I found Mr. Shuck had also had a con
versation with the maio portion of the fami- I
ly, during which time he had endeavored:
to impress upon their minds as many facts of
the gospel as he could The old lady came in
and sat down; they brought me another cup
ofthe tea and the conversation went on, the
mother contending strongly for her idols,
She said that people that worshipped idols j
■ . , j •. -
did what we could fa prove to her that her
G-ods were false—of wood and.stone, and
could not possibly help her, and I hope that
she did have seme ideas of pur religion that
is one of interest, for bqftlg'-sh religiously in
clined, she would bedme more decided as a
Christian. May God truth to bear
upon her heart.
Fron the Watchmen MRelisctOr.
Tl-IE DEATH OF THfyCHRISTI AN.
“The righteous hath hope in his death,”
says an inspired writer! How cheering is
this announcement! Its effect should be to
reconcile surviving friends, to the dispensa
tion that removes the beloved pious from
all earthly intercourse with them, and from
their sight.
It is most natural, in the loss of dear
friends, to think of ourselves, —of the priva
tions which we are called to experience.—
Theselfish principle may operate too strong
ly on our minds, and fixing our thoughts
too much on ourselves, we may forget the
other hearings of the event which we de
plore. The benevolence ofthe gospel while
it sympathizes with the promptings of na
ture, and has nothing in il that does violence
to the heart’s keenest sensibilities, never
theless directs our thoughts to the present
state ofthe departed Christian, and bids us
rejoice with, and congratulate him, on ac
count ofthe happy leiminaiion ol'his earth
ly toils and conflicts. Jn this world, Chris
tians are soldiers in the great army of the
Captain of salvation; and when one dies,
lie is promoted to a higher and more exten
sive sphere of service and honor. And
though this promotion may take him from
his fellows for a time, yet, knowing as they
do, that such is to be the portion of each
of them, sooner or later, they should rejoice
that Christ has said to him,“Come up high
er,” rather than mourn the temporary loss
of itis society which they havo been called
to experience. 0, couid departed saints
speak to us, from their high eminences, they
would say to us, “Mourn not, hut rather
rejoice that wc are now permitted to wear
the ‘crowu-of righteousness’ which .lesus
has placed upon our heads/ Deplore not
so deeply your loss, for it is our unspeaka
ble gain. The event that causes you to
i mourn, inspires our hoar's wil Ismm tiHMpca ka*.
ble the utterance from our
hailelu jaty.”
Evidence is furnished us, wc think, in
abundance, both in the teachings ofthe Bi
ble, and the genius of Christianity, that
‘friends will recognize each other in the ee
lestial'world. The-lcnchitigs ofa cold phi
losophy are not to be regarded on this point
for it is the bitmap soul, with all its atfec
tions as they were here, only purified, that
is taken to heaven at death. The soul is
not reduced to an abstraction by dissolu
tion, and stripped of all its human peculiari
ties. To suppose so, would be to suppose
that its sources of felicity, many of them, at
least, arc cut off, and (hat the remembrance
of its past mundane history is obliterated
from the mind. If a saint in glory expe
rience a joy superior to that which angels
feel, it must be from a conscioqsnesstlsat he
is a ransomed sinner; and if so, his whole
existence, together with its guilt, its asso
c ations and its deeds, must come up vivid
ly to his recollection. And it were hardly
to be supposed that a remembrance of the
pious whom lie knew on earth could exist
without a desire to renew past intercourse
ilia more exalted sphere. And if such re
cognition and intercourse could be a source
of pleasure in heaven, assuredly it would
be enjoyed.
We have often endeavored to imagine
the feelings of the pious soul when released
from the body. The power of thought and
of feeling must remain as beloro, only in
creased. But as it is ushered into the spir
it-world, what a surprise must fill it! What
strange and unaccustomed melodies must
greet it! What glorious and unlhought-of
sights must appear to it! And, conscious of
its position, how strong must he its first im
pulse to gaze upon Jesus, its Redeemer and
King, “whom, not having- seen, it loved”
in the world of its probation.—
And it were not difficult io believe that this
desire absorbs every otliqr, until the soul
has found him, and gone and worshipped
before his throne. And how long-contin
ued must be its gaze on that “Chiefest
among ten thousands!” And had it in its
former state friends who had preceded it
to heaven, we can easily conceive of its stri
ving to find them, or of their coming for
ward to hail its advent, and welcome it to
their eternal associations and employments.
And in the midst of such companionship,
how insignificant must appear that world
which it has left! Instead of wishing itself
back to the low regions of sin and death,
where a pestilential atmosphere is breathed,
and misery abounds, it must rejoice and
praise God that he has taken it to celestial
abodes and uninterrupted joys. And though
very dear friends may be left behind, yet it
would a thousand times rather look for their
arrival to the same shores, than re-embark
for the country of its former residence.
Let those who have lost Christian friends
exercise a strong faith in the reality of
heaven. Let them think of the immeasu
rably higher felicity those friends now en
joy. Such thoughts will tend to check that
selfish spirit which begets an undue mourn
ing and causes us too much to lament their
absence. Let survivors rather look forward.
p*fhUfkl, Aupst 29, 1850.
rwflnoyfu!
a'rc-unioH wqlf bc J when, in’ a
j. world from which every evil-is scdiijotiaty-
I kepu mare exalted intercourse slnutbc cn
! joWed, and that forever. ,
THE CHURCH ANi) THE T^EUN.
BY I.AIVJJIE TODD.
In the yea'rsev'tmtfcen hundred and uinety-
Sixteenth was'be -
headed, and the French revolution was in
| full blast, I was a thorough-going radical,
j With seventeen more of our club, I was
marched, under a guard of tlusMtiug’s offi
cers, and lodged in Edinburgh jail. After
a summary hearing, I got liberty to banish
myself, and accordingly 1 took passage in
the good ship Providence, and landed at
New York in June, 1794. I was then ill
my twenty-second year. When the ship
east off from the wharf, in Scotland, and
swung round with the breeze, niy father
stood upon the shore. lie waved a last
j adieu, and exclaimed, “ Remember the
Sabbath day.” I arrived at New York on
; a Saturday, and, the next day being the
| Sabbath, at nine o’clock, A. M., three
1 voting men of our company called at my
| lodgings.
j “Where arc you going to-day ?” they in
! quired.
j “To the church,” I replied.
“We have been ten weeks at sea; our
health requires exercise. Let us walk out
to-day, and go to church next Sabbath,”
they replied.
“Said 1, “you cairgo where you please,
but I’ll go to church; the last words I heard
from my father were, “Remember the
bath day;” and, had I no respect lor tty
Fourth Commandment, I have not
gotten his last advice.”
They went to the fields; I went !/i the
church; they spent forty or fifty cents m the
tavern; 1 put a one penny bill in the plate,
at the morning,afternoon and night service:
total, threepence. They continued going
; into the country, and in process of time the
j landlady’s daughter, and the landlady’s
; niece, would join their company. Then
: each couple hired a gig, at two dollar: ;
| wine, cake and ice cream on the road, fifty
1 cents each; dine at Jamaica one dollar each,
j They got phonic at eight o’clock, P. M. A
f haTEdrmik, andj~l7avuig"bfflh”
j thunder shower, tficTUemts, hats, ataj ruaii-J
- ties, were damaged fifty per cent. ThuyA
! rose the next morning at nine o’clock, j
M., with sore heads, sore hearts, muddy
hoots, and an angry conscience, besides
twelve dollars lighter than whet Whey •sjitrl
ed. 1 went to church, rose at firlkp’clock,
A. M.; head sound, heart light, n\ns*i>A
freshed, conscience quiet, and corninpiiccd
the labors of the weak in peace and'pMuity.
They were all mechanics; some of Aem
could earn twelve dollars a \i'eckflHk|||
business, dint ofa wrought
poor; the eut-nail machines IrruTjusnßeß
into operation, which cut down my wages!
to a shaving. With close application", I
could only earn five dollars and fifty cents
per week. Never at the end of the
year, iny .Sabbath-riding-ship-mates, had
fine coats, fine hats, powdered heads, atid
ruffled shirts; but I had one hundred hard
dollars piled in the corner of my chest.—
Nearly forty winters are past, and forty
summers ended, since the last was laid in
the Potters, or some other field; while I,
having received from my maker a good
| constitution, (and common sense to take
i care of it,) I’m as sound in mind, body and
spirit, as 1 was on this day fifty-six years
ago, when first I set iny loot on shore at
Govcrneur’s wharf, New York. Besides,
it’s a fact, (for which my family can vouch,)
I have been only one day confined to the
house by sickness.during all that period.
Now, Mr. Printer, I dare say you think,
with trie, that the church on the Sabbath is
better than the tavern and fields for the la
boring man.
TEACH THE CHILDREN IIYMNS.
There is a chord in every human soul
which is touched by poetry: hence the
magical power of ballads, national songs,
and religious hymns. Listen to the snatches
of popular ditties which you hear in the
streets from passers-by, after you have gone
to bed, and you will, own that metro and
music have avenues to human souls, and
consequently that they should be largely em
ployed in religion. There is reason to be
lieve, that versified truth has peculiar force
upon the common mind; as it is certain
that it affords aid to the memory. Luther
and theother reformers felt this, and hence
arose the wonderfully rich collection of
hymns in the German language, to which
there is perhaps nothing comparable on
earth. To this stock Luther himself eon
j trihuted much. lie was aided by linns
, Sachs, the poetical shoe-maker. In a la
ter period came Paul Gerhardt, the great
est hymn-writer of Germany, if not of the
world. Wherever there are pious Ger
mans, yon find them with their beloved
byimi-books; and from frequent use, they
generally know great numbers of these
hymns by heart.
Itis an error to confine children
learning of becausJfcjS
they be-ome, <>lde™ these will jjll
much of th.br fitness Why slua| “*?vj
fill our children's rnimls J§ “ s -Y'tfl
ovauge.it a’ I /rims in the hu?i'£
-they will io member after ■
TRUTH INLOYE.
‘gdrAjJ Itey should not merely be learned
others, but repeated
■dfai#id again, and suns °ver, in ‘ojpT:\o
fix tl* hi the niemorv, and to laymV ‘
for !°st lasting associations. The old
the old tune, come back on us
tenderness. Let the
plpus.nmt'G wlion causing, her boy to
learn song v say to herself,—
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Prom lie Central Ohrisii n Herald.
A F. R.M l-jhl SAI.fi—JJIiJfUJHS WANTED.
“Il vc yob sold that farm vet?”
“B at i’ahn?”
“Y jfs, certainly.”
“i\ vtlo'you ask that? What am Ito
sell ri” Harm lor?”
“lb anise Christ commands you to do il?”
“1 < <1 not know that before.”
i it is strange, indeed. You ought to
have Blown it, surely. What did you tell
the msioiiary agent when Im called on von
a she time ago ?”
“1 [d him i had no money.”
‘ A I yon thought that a good reason for
not g ng, did you /”
“C I mily J dal. flow can I give when !
I ha\no money?”
“I II tell you that presently, but first
answ me another question. What did
you t 11 io agent you had done with vour
monil”
■ “I I him* I had paid it on the land 1
boug ”
“J so 1 thought. Now, brother, this is
°l story of yours, and I am going to
tu* with you, for the honor of my
it. 1 remember, two years
you in behalf of the Ameri
can iarcl7\it was a pressing time. There
was tiger that all our missionary opera
tions mdd In greatly crq pled for want of j
lands You h.id just conch.Jcd a bargain
lor aither piec* of land, and said it would
Uae f you could rake and scrape to pay
h r i„ J he ‘Fra g Society’s agent carne
alongtid made tin earnest appeal. You
still u|d a little on your land, and could
doTiolg for the cause of benevolence tin
id th;V v is paid. Then the Bible Society
claims—you had just bought a
i.
s'# lime before,and had none by you.—
Nolbiotlicr, these excuses of buying and
be;to* ’debt will not do. You can’t es
(•ajl’ilo claims of the Lord Jesus by any
sncPinnceuvreing. He has been before
l|nf£Ml yju, and put a text in the Bible
onnpose to meet the plea ot those who
saley have no money. . You will find it
Liilxii. 33—.-‘Sell that thou hast, and give
Tilnj Have no money! Then sell a few
aejand get some. Sell a horse—a cow
—some merchandize. What
■K to be speculating mi G
PPp'4.. have it pledged to mammon be-
Wth ,flnt you protest every order
T Jesus sends you, and feci easy as
jT'ty.f/ou can in debt,’ or, 4 1 am
ffi'Hl /living It is a framulent
wUfttfkfcJo-a-vflW a just claim. ‘Flic Lord
cnibafy on Ins purposes without your
moL.lCertainly lie can, lor the silver
and ownre all Ids. But be has a morl
gag j!your property, and if it is not. can
cellt ( : of two things you may expect. —
Eitl r e will send an execution by the
hanAo me of Ids strong sheriffs, viz : fire,
flooAl sting, or mildew; or else il will re
main’ y to be a curse to you and your
child? Your gold and silver will be can
kered and the rust of them will he ns a wit
ness ri list you, and shall eat your flesh as
it vvei ire. The Lord Jesus allows you,
as a r< tuned sinner, the privilege of bring
ing ar Vering as a testimonial of your gra
titude
<-Q| this ever buying for self, and nev
er sell g for Christ! My brother, reverse
the or :r. Bogin to sell for Christ. The
world . (retting too much of your heart.”
T. S. M.
- -O- *--• E-
Ttf| DIAL-PI-ATE OF ETERNITY.
Tin dial-pinto of time measures off the
flight, t than A days, months, and years with
ceaseh ss diligence, “till all arc lied.”
But here is no dial-plate ol eternity.
How ; demti and fearful the thought that
when Jie wheels of time have rolled each
man It the end ol his journey in tins world,
his unr ensured dur limi begins. In refer
ence t( the flight of tune. Dr. Spring once
closed a discourse in the following graphic:
language:
1 shall never address this audience again.
I shall never again meet them, but at the
bar oi God. That interview seems indeed
far cßStant. But it will be as soon as time,
with iiis eagle wings, shall have finished
the little remnant ot his short career. At
ter death, the judgment.” \Y e die ; but in
tervening ages pass rapidly over those wi.o
sleet, in “the dust. There is no dial-plate
there on which to count die hours ol time.
No longer is it told bv days, or months, or
VuarF; for the planets winch mark these pc
kiodsVo hidden from tl.e:r sight. Its flight
noted by events perceived by
; fur the ear is deal ami tIuMA o
■Kd. The busy world ol Inc,, winch
■K at each morning ami ceases every
HHgoes on above them, but to lliem all
aud unseen. The
■m*. “* 4ft.v. MM'Vf, the revolutions >n
PpMßP in the lapse of ages, •oiMi , iio*,-ymid
WithiKihat rfhpfow cell. Generation after
are brought and laid by their
side: ‘ the inscription upon monumental
rMjfcUe tells the centuries that have passed
to the sleeping dead the long,
intetyal i? unobserved. Like a dream of
when, with the quickness of
di®?gbt ‘he mind ranges time and space al-
a limit, there is but a momeht
THE ANXIOUS BUKSIAN.
You remember the case of the anxious
Barman. “What must Ido to expiate tn.y
guilt?” he cried. “VY'aflc lour hundred
miles, with the point of a spike piercing
through- each of your sandals?” was the
reply of his priestly teacher. We shudder
at the cruelty. But the untaught man knew
no other way, and the guilt was urgent.—
It was pressing upon him like an armed
man; and guilt is hard to bear—harder
than bodily pain, lie began the journey.
He traveled over many a mile. Each step
was marked with blood, and forced agroan.
He reached at length a spreading tree, be
neath whoso shade a Christian missionary
was telling of the cross. lie paused. He
listened. They were strange words, most
wonderful words; but guilt helped him to
understand them. “Ah!” he cried, that is
just what 1 want!” and throwing, from him
the instruments of torture, lie became a dis
ciple. It was not a mere impulse. Jt was
no transient gushof sympathy. It was rath
era strung and abiding conviction. The
glorious truth Hashed upon his reason, as
well as beamed upon his heart, that the
cross could meet the appalling exigences of
guilt!— liev. IV. Lord, 1). U.
BUN Y A N’S 1N FL UE NCE.
Banyan was buried in Bnnhill Fields,
whore his tomb is often visited. Not long
ago a funeral took place there, which was
attended among others by the celebrated
Doctor Maginn, for a long time one ofthe
most brilliant writersof Black wood’s Mljga
zinc. As soon as the ceremony was over,
the Doctor said to the sextons “Grave-dig
ger, show me the tomb of John Banyan!”;
Tty grave-digger led the way, and was J
followed by Magimi; who seemed deeply
‘STMT. ..WujWlMa 1
thp shoulder, said : “Tread lightly.” Ma
ginn bent over the grave for some lime in ■
melancholy mood, deeply affected, and ex
claimed,in solemn tones,as he turned away:
“Sleep on! thou prince of dreamers!”—
The “dreamer” had lain there one hundred
and fifty years, but no lapsed!'time has de
stroyed the spell which he still holds over
the strongest minds.
LYING FOR CLIENTS.
“Within a short time past, the press of
London has taken in hand a barrister of
England, Mr. Philips, very justly, for his
course in the defence of Curvoiser, tried for
the murder ol’ Sir Wiiiinm Russell. lie
knowing that Curvoiser was the murderer,
conducted his argument before the jury,
with a view to induce the belief that a
maid servant in the family was the culprit,
and supported his argument by the most
solemn appeals to the Deity with respect
to the innocence of his client. The jury,
however, found that client guilty; and be
fore his execution lie confessed the deed.—
And it also became known that Philips was
fully informed on that point at the time of
trial. The maid servant was so much af
fected under the insinuations wrapped
around her by the unscrupulous advocate,
that she soon after became a maniac, and
recently died in a mad-house. This event
brought the subject afresh to the public
mind, and Mr. Philips was soscverely han
dled by the press that he retreated to the
Bench for protection, and came out with a
card signed by the judges who presided on
the occasion, in vindication of his course.—
But the judges fared no better than the bar
rister, and the press turned its battery with
out reserve upon them; an enlightened pub
lic opinion concurred with the press, and
this infamous system of juridical dissimula
tion has received a shock from which it will
never recover.
The idea that a man may do anything
for his client, although lie knows him to be
a great lascal unhung, can never be com
monly carried into practice without cor
rupting the public morals. A lie is as much
a lie in the lawyer, as it is in the merchant;
ycl the merchant who would practice the
same duplicity and resort to the same sort
of expedients to cheat a customer as those
too commonly used at the bar to defraud
public justice, would be turned loose to en
counter the contempt of society. That ma
ny in every class and calling do resort to
guile and cunning, wc know very well:
but in no profession are these regarded as
commendable attributes of character oilier
than that of the law; and these, will soon
j belong to, and be claimed only by the petti
j foggrr.
A lie is a lie, whether expressed in plain
words, by inuendo.sign or look. Every
attempt to produce a belief in the mind of
another, whether he is in the street or cm
! punncled in the jury box, contrary to facts
i known to the party by whom the attempt is
j made, is a lie. And every lawyer who
I does this, however human systems and
common custom may warrant the practice
J. T. BLAIN. Printer.
and acquit the practirion.er, is morally re
sponsible for the falsehood it'involves.—
Baltimore Sun.
XIIE ANGLO-SAXON
Britain has frequently, beetj denominated
the mother of nations. ,Whatever may be
her title to this appellation, nothing is more
evident and true, than tHS*TuTI, that her
island has been the laboratory of a most
Ulema liable race, in which yearly all the
races Roman
to the Norman conquest, were combined.
All that is vigorous in the Celt, the Saxon,
the Scandinavian, and the Norman, arc all
absorbed into what we call the Anglo-Sax
on race; and when the combination was
completed on the island of Great Britain, a
new world was discovered, as if it were on
purpose for the irresistible expansion of that
mighty race. As an illustration of one of its
physical qualities, it is estimated that il3
population doubles itself in thirty-five years,
while that of Germany doubles itself in
seventy-six; of Holland, in one hundred; of
Spain, in one hundred and six; of Italy, in
one hundred and thirty-five; of France, in
one hundred and thirty-eight; of Portugal,
in two hundred and thirty-eight; and that
of Turkey in five hundred and fifty-five
years.
When one or two vessels crossed thd
ocean, and planted here and there along
the coast of North America a few germs of
that race, its whole population in the Old •
World did not exceed six millions. Eng
land, Wales, and Scotland numbered fewer
inhabitants at that time, than New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio do now. Hardly
two centuries and a half have elapsed since
that epoch, and now there are at least
twenty-five millions of that race in North
America and its adjacent islands, or a utim
bercxcecdingthe whole population of Great ‘
Britain.
In Ifi2o, the Anglo-Saxon race numbered
about 0,000.000, and was confined to Eng
land, Wales, and Scotland; and the combi
nation, of which it is the result, was not
then more than half perfected—for neither
C&mv/iOO o f buiriajffpaMy. planted upon
aft flic isiamMftpH of the earth,
tense
tllSpbu mu
ba rous t lilies” offtten Uiiubave occupied, tho"*
continents of*Ainerica, Africa, Asia, and
the islands of the ocean. See it girdling
them from year to year, with its vigorous
plantations. If nogreat physical revolution
supervene to check its propagation, it will
number 500,000,000 of human beings, in
loss than 150 years from the present time;
all speaking the same language, centred to
the same litetature and religion, and ex
hibiting all its inherent and inalienable char
acteristics.
Thus (he population of the earth is fast
becoming Anglo-Saxonized by blood. But
the English language is more self-ex pa nsivo
and aggressive than the blood of the race.
When a community begins to speak and
read the English language, it is half Saxon
ized, even if not a drop of Anglo-Saxon
blood runs in its veins. Ireland was never
colonized from England, like North Ameri
ca or Australia; hut nearly the whole ofita
seven or eight millions already speak the
English language; which is the preparatory
state to being entirely absorbed into the’
Anglo-Saxon race, as one of its most vig
orous and useful eleniems. Everywhere’
the English language is gaining upon the
languages of the earth, and preparing those
who speak it for this absorption. The
young generation of the East Indies is learn
ing it—and it is probable that within fifty
year 5,25,000,000 ofhumnn beings,of Asiat
ic race, will speak the language on that
continent. So it is in the United
About 50,000 immigrants from Germany
and other countries of continental Europe,
are arriving in this country every year.
Perhaps they cannot speak a word of Eng
lish, when they first laud on our shores; hut
in the course of a few years they master the
language to some extent. Their children
sit upon the same benches in our common
schools with those of our native Americans,
and become, as they grow up and diffuse
themselves among the rest of the population,
completely Anglo-Saxonized.
Tints the race, by its wonderful self-ex-’
pansive power of language and blood, is
fast occupying arid subduing to its genius,
till the Continents and islands of the earth.
‘Fite grandson of many a young man who
reads these lines, will probably live to see
the day when that race will number its
800,0000,000 of human beings. Perhaps
they may comprise a hundred nations, or
distinct governments. Perhaps they may
become a grand constellation and common,
wealth of republics, pervaded by the same
laws, literature, and religion. Their unity,
harmony, and brotherhood, must be deter
mined by the relations between Great Bri
tain and the United States. Their union
will he the union of the two worlds. If
they discharge their duty to each other, and
to mankind, they must become the united
heart of the mighty race they represent,
ieeding its myriad veins with the blood of
moral and political life. Upon the slate of
their fellowship, then, more than upon the
union of any two nations on earth, depend
the well-being of humanity, the peace and
progress of the world.— Jßurritt’s Chris
tian Citizen.
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