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CHILD THEOLOGY.
“Suffer little children to come untome, and for
bid them not for of such is the kingdom of heav
en.*’— (nr Lord.
Theology in its comprehensive significa
tion, embraces many departments of reli
gious instruction, covering the whole
ground of the divine perfections and hn
min relations. The title which we have
fixed to this sketch, though singular, will
not, therefore, appear on reflection, either
incorrect or insignificant; for we propose
to present an outline of a practical dis
course on our relation to infants and little
children.
Tho “text is expressive of simple fi*ety
plain duties, encouraging motives, blessed
promises; it furnishes r.o ground for dog
matic controversy or speculative reason
ing.
It does not teach the sinlessnesa of in
fants and little children. Such a doctrine
is opposed to the whole current of scrip
tural truth.
It does not teach the propriety of infant
baptism. No mention is made of bap
tism. If such a baptism ever had the di
vine sanction, it was expressed before this
occasion, and if it had been before sanc
tioned, the Apostle’s conduct would have
been altogether different. But it had been
taught before tho occurrence ot this scene,
that faith is the qualification for baptism.
Objection. —Since children cannot be
lieve, are they then to be lost? I answer,
the gospel is addressed to those who ought
to believe and to no other class. If all in
fante and a large class of children are
without that class, let the fact remain by
itself. There is no necessity of embarrass
ing the gospel scheme for the pnrpose of
making out a theory.
Objection ll.—Bat tho depravity or
original sin of infants and little children,
is propitiated by the sacrifice of Christ. I
answer, this is a common sentiment but it
is no where taught in the Scriptures. Such
a belief has insurmountable difficulties,
whatever may be our system or views.
Rem auk I.—Without doubt, piovision
is made in tho infinite mercy of God for
all children who are too yoong to under
stand the plan of redemption. But that
provision contemplates a change of heart,
a character different from that which they
have here, or we have grossly misunder
stood the fundamental doctrines of the
gospel, and oar confessions and systems
are strangely at fault.
Remark II. —It is a just inference that
infants are the residents of heaven, and
this sentiment, so precious, may assist ns
in understanding the reference of John to
the redeemed throng which no man could
number, iu connection with the solemn
words of our Saviour : “Because straight
is the gate, and narrow is the way which
leadeth unto life, and few there he that
find it.”
Remark lll.—The aentiment, or if yon
please, the scriptural belief of the salva
tion of infants is one thing, and the at
tempt to fabricate a theory in agreement
with it, is another. The danger is in at
tempting to determine at what age chil
dren cease to belong to the irresponsible
state, if, indeed, there is such a 6tate.—
With this and similar questions we have
nothing to do. Many indolently indulge
in vague, undefined notions, which allow
them to regard children for years out of
tiie sphere of religious influence, and no
personal effort ig excused, and after be
reavement, giief is softened by views not
at all scriptural, not even reasonable.
What then is the doctrine of the text
and how can we improve it?
Was it not the design of onr Lord, in
opposit e i to the practical life of the age,
to teach tie univ, r>al a lopti< nos religion
and its independence of everything formal,
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or'arbitrary or philosophical. The Jews
had degenerated into the belief that a na
tional custom (cireoracision) aud the ritual
of the temple secured to their posterity
the favor of heaven. Ttie inquiring among
the Romans and Greeks made religion a
speculative morality. Both tendencies
failed, naturally, to embrace children.—
These are in kind, if not in de
gree, the tendencies of ti.e present period.
Formal and sacramental religion perverts
an ordinance, and applies it to infants as
sealing in some undefiuable manner their
right to heaven. With some, the efficacy
of the parents—with others it is attribu
ted to the apostolic authority of the priest.
Indifference and irreligion on the other
band, view children as snbject to every
one, save God, and as capable of progress
in everything save religion. Such is the
general truth. To be more particular—
the text teaches that all children are the
proper subjects of religions influence.
What are the sources of this influence?
1 answer, parental example, paternal in
struction, religion in the first books that
meet the eye. A gentle tone, word, may
find its way to the tender heart, and form
a nucleus for the early reception of sub
lime truths. If it is possible to teach a
child anything, cannot it be taught the re
lation which it sustains to the Savior. In
a majority of instances, in religions fami
lies, more complex relations and ideas are
taught by oral instruction long before this.
The wretched literature of the times is not
confined to the young men and women,
but commences its discipline in the toy
books of little children, in silly pictures
instead of striking illustrations of divine
truth.
When should this influence commence?
At the beginning of life. Why should
not the day of the precious gift or the first
Sabbath of its existence witness its solemn
dedication to the Giver. Let the influ
ence be continued by the same efforts that
usually precede every kind of knowledge
and character. We cannot tell when the
tender son! will receive an influence as
deep as life, for the grand motive is found
in the promises of an omnipotent Father.
That he has blessed snch early influence,
the scriptures as well as religions biogra
phy unequivocally teach. —Southern Bap-
ANNE HUTCHINSON.
This object of persecution to Gov. Win
throp and the early colonists of Massachus
etts, whose character has been so nnjustly
maligned, is likely to have justice done
her at last. Through the politeness of 11.
B. Dawson, Esq., we have been permitted
to read, in anticipation of its delivery, an
intensely interesting paper on this subject,
pripired for the Baptist Historical Society
of this city. We shall not publish extracts
from the document to any great extent, as
we have the promise of it entire, and shall
give it to our readers in a series of articles,
the first of which will appear next week.
We cannot conceive ofanything more like
ly to entertain and instruct, to afford profit
and pleasure, in the reaping, than those
facts in reference to our colonial history
which are here collated with so much in
dustry, and sketched with a pencil so lu
minous, graphic, and powerful.
We do not speak extravagantly; the in
tense interest we felt in the perusal as
sures of this; and it is due to Mr. Dawson
to say, that he unites to a passion for in
vestigations in this line, great patience of
research, and much industry and liberality
in the accumulation of materials. Few
men are able to place their hands on a
greater number of rare books than he, and
he allows few opportunities for increasing
it to escape him.
The documents before us revolutionize
all onr previous impressions of the perse
cuted and banished Anne Hutchinson.—
We had Cf nceived an idea of her as a fan
atical, antinomian perfectionist, whose re
ligion was a tacit license to all manner of
indecencies, and whose banishment was a
necessary sacrifice to the security of public
morals. Whereas it turns out that she
was a simple believer in the doctrines of
evangelical religion, the Spirit’s work up
on the heart, the assurance of faith, the
covenant of grace, or our complete ac
ceptance through the blood and righteous
ness of Christ, without any deeds of merit
on onr part. She took strong gronnd
against what was then called “the cunven
ant works,” an incipient Arminianiem
which many of the first colonists brought
with them from England, and which was
probably the seeding of the modern Unita
rianism of Boston and of New England.—
The advocates of this theory, among whom
were Gov. Winthrop and a portion of the
clergy, became exceedingly embittered
against Mrs. Hutchinson, on account of
the freedom with which she expressed her
self in opposition to their views, and es
pecially became she presumed to hold
meetings at her own bouse. The conse
quence was, a course of persecution of her
and her family which wonld do houor to
! the Spanish Inquisition.
; Indeed, the colonists had no conception
jof religious liberty. They were Noncon
j formists but not Separatists before leaving
: England, believers in the Church of Eng
‘ land, but not the court or dominant party
1 in it, and they fled to this country because
I they could not exercise the absolute pow
’ er in that Church which they claimed as
Pcnfield, Georgia, *#sday, July 3, 1856.
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their right. Mrs. 11. was a Separatist, and
“ottSHadhing the colony immediately at
tracted attention to herself by acts and
offices of kindness, and was known as a
jvmian very fielpful in the times of child
birth, and other occasions < f bodily dis
ease, and well furnished with means fi r
those purposes. Such a woman in the
infant colony would necessarily become
widely known aud widely ht-loved; espe
cially when, as in her ease, it was done in
fwd-will, and without hope-of reward. —
or was that respect diminished by her
habit-ofipqujringk as elw .seems to Uye
wgmirnf done,into the spiritual state o<
her friends; and by warning them against
what she supposed to be the errors of the
times. She warned them against trusting
too much to gifts and graces, which were
bnt a legal way, and she urged them to
seek ‘the witness of the Spirit,’ and the
righteousness of Christ, instead of an out
side righteousness and the tokens of piety
set forth in de ds and virtues, which she
denounced as a covenant of worktq and
she had lovo from many, approval from
most, and credit from all.”
Such was the woman who was compell
ed to fly from Boston, first to Rhode Is
land, and then to the Dnch settlements on
the East River, where she was murdered
by a party of Indians, instigated, Mr.
Dawson seems to think, by the bigots who
had banished her from their colony. This
paper we commend to the earnest atten
tion of onr readers, as aftbid.ng a peculiar
insight into too parties and prejudices if
ou i’dgrim Fathers.— JV. Y. Chronicle .
AMUSEMENTS.
The Christian religion is not intended, as
some of its fashionable professors seem to
fancy, to operate as a charm, or incanta
tion, and produce its effects by our pro
nouncing mystical words, and performing
certain hallowed ceremonies; but it is an
active, vital principle, operating on the
heart, restraining the desires, affecting the
general conduct, and as much regulating
our commerce with the world, our busi
ness, pleasures and enjoyments as onr be
havionr in public worship or in private de
votion.
That the effects of such a principle are
visible in the lives of the generality of
those who give the not
peuLaps bo insisted Ifctfhule
present Ijfstem of ‘ de-’
strnctive of seriousness^^t^WH^Texcite
laughter were I to insist on the immortali
ty of passing one’s whole life in a crowd.
But those promiscuous myriads which
compo e the society of the gay world,
who are brought together without esteem,
remain without pleasure, ami part without
regret, who live in a round of diversions,
the possession of which is so joyless, tho’
the absence is so insupportable, these, by
the mere force of incessant and indiscrim
inate associations weaken, and in time
wear out the best feelings of the human
heart. And the mere spirit of dissipation
thus contracted from invariable habit, even
detached from all its concomitant evils, is
in itself as hostile to a religious spirit as
more positive and actual offenses. Far be
it from me to say it as criminal; I only in
sist that it is opposite to the heavenly
mindedness which is the essence of the
Christian temper.
We know that, in the mingled scenes of
dissipation, are many amiable persons
whom nothing but the tyranny of fashion
conld have driven thither. But let us
suppose an unprejudiced spectator, who
had been taught the theory of all the rtli
gions on the globe, brought hither from
the other hemisphere; set him down in the
politest part of onr capital and let him de
termine, if he can, except from wlmt he
shall see interwoven in the texture of onr
laws, and kept up in the service of onr
churches, to what particular religion we
belong.
How would the petrified inquirer be as
tonished if he were told that all these were
of a religion, meek, spiritual, self-denying:
of which poverty of spirit, a renewed
mild and nonconformity to the world
were the specific distinctions.
When he saw the sons of wealthy men,
scarcely old enough to be sent to school,
admitted to be spectators to the turbulent
and unnatural diversions, and almost infant
daughters carried with most unthrifty an
ticipations to the frequent and late pro
tracted ball, would he believe that we were
of a religion which has required from those
very parents a solemn vow that these
children should be trained up “in the nur
ture and admonition of the Lord?”
AVhen he beheld the nightly offerings
made to the demon of play, on whose
crncl altar the fortune and happiness of,
wives and children are offered np without
remorse, would he not conclude that we
were of some of those barbarous religions
which offer unnatural saciifices, and whose
horrid deities are appeased with nothing
i less, than human victim ? If anything
| could add to his astonishment, it must be
to observe in some private temples of this
demon, that the fair sacrifice is often a vol
untary one, self-offered, and at once both
priestess and victim.
“Be ye not conformed to this world,” is
a leading principle in the book they ac
knowledge as their guide. But after as
senting to this as a doctrinal truth at
church, how absurd would they think any
one who should expect them to adopt it
into their practice! Perhaps the whole
THE T e RUTi|IN LOVE.
®w of God does not exhibit a single pre
|i?>t more expressedly, more steadily, and
iiore uniformly rejected. If;it mean any
it can hardly be consistent with that
jfode of life which is distinguished by the
appellation of the fashionable. —Hannah
jsoore.
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IMPORTANCE OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES.
We often wonder at the magnitude of
tie evils consequent upon inattention to
general principles, or inappreciation of
&g|n.-
->r instance, many persons esteem it a
Tir%‘jliing to disereuifj dishonor arid -
the Bible. It is only a book, only one
among many bopks, and, like all other
hook*, may Be treated as its readers please!
Alas, how greatly such persons mistake
error for truth! How widely they open
the flood-gates of rn'n !
Behold the general principles here in
volved! There are two worlds—one nat
ural, the other spiritual: one, every where
opt n to the senses; the other, nowhere
open to the senses. From the evidence of
the natural tvorld alone many men say
that they conclude there is a God and the
human sou! is immortal. Whether they
do so conclude, without the influence of
tradition or authority in any form or de
gree, we need not pause to dispute. It is
enough to say, that the natural world does
rtot reveal the God of the Bible, or the
Mftn ot the Bible. Nature says nothing
of Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Nature
says nothing of Sin, Atonement and Re
demption. Nature says Nothing of Re
pentance, Faith, Pardon, Peace and Holi
ness; nothing of the Resurrection, Judg
ment, Heaven and Eternal Life. Take
away the Bible, ami you take away all
these, instantly and for ever. The natural
world affords not the slightest hope of
finding them again. God, as we now re
gard him, becomes nothing; and we, as
we how regard ourselves, become nothing.
In a word, if the Bible be rejected, man
may as well be a knave, or fool, or brute,
or devil, as any thing else. lie is only an
accident on his way to nonentity, and the
sooner he reaches it the better! “ Behold ,
ye despisers, and perish /”
Turning to the spiritual world, we dis
cover only One Sensible Symbol of it:
One Authorized and Infallible Revelation
of
the vast
ness of holds infinitely
tpore than the universe, for all thatr* 4 —*
Within this circle, all that Nature wants
is found at once. Father, Son and Holy
Ghost are here. Christ is here. Man—
the sinner, the saint, the seraph—is here,
and nowhere else—so far as any revela
tion of them, in sensible form, is concern
ed.
We have a short way of treating all new
developments. Are they opposed to
Christ, to the Book of Christ, and to the
Church of Christ? If they are—that’s
enough; to ns, all snch disclosures are of
the devil.
WORDS OF CONSOLATION TO THE BE
HEAVED.
Dr. Judson once wrote to a friend in the
hour of trial thus : “So the light of your
dwelling has gone out my poor brother,
and it is all darkness there, only a* } r ou
drawdown, by faith, some faint gleams of
the light of heaven, and coldness lias gath
ered round your hearth-stone: your home
is probably desolate, yonr children scatter
ed, and you a homeless wanderer over the
face of tiie land. We have both ‘ oted of
those bitter cups once and again: we have
found them bitter and we have found them
sweet too. Every cup, stirred by the fin
ger of God, becomes sweet to the humble
believer. Doy< u remember how our late
wives and others used to cluster round the
well-curb in the mission premises, at the
close of the day? I can almost see them
sittiug there, with their smiling faces, as I
iook out of the window at which lam now
writing. Where are ours now? Cluster
ing around the well-curb of *the fountain
of living water, to which the lamb of
Heaven shows them the way; reposing in
the arms of infinite Love, who wipes away
all their tears with his own hand. Let ns
travel on and look up. We shall soon be
there. As sure as I write, and yon read
these lines, we shall soon be there. Many
a weary step we may yet have to take,
but we shall get there at last. And the
longer and more tedious the way, the
sweeter will be our repose.”
DEATH OFTHE* RIGHTEOUS.
There has always been a class of men
in Christendom who have labored assidu
ou-ly to prove the Bible a fable, and de
stroy our confidence in the Christian relig
ion. One has lately published a book iu
this city designed to tffect tills very pur
pose. An Editor of one of our daily pa
pers pertinently aeks, “If you suoceed in
desti oyinq our faith in Christianity what
are you going to give us in its place ?”
The religion of Christ is all— all that it
purports to be in this world, and to the
daet moment of our earthly existence ful
fills its office, and when it can do no more
for us here, it hands ns over to the realities
of a world known only to faith, and which
our consciousness has not yet tried. Still,
then when heart and flesh fails us, and
the soul departs from, religion dismisses
it, stirring with the instincts of immortali
ty, and buoyant with the hope of glory.
God has made the chamber where the
good man -meets his fate, redolent with
joyous experience, confirming the faith bl
the saint and awaking the longing desires
of the infidel. “Let me die the death i
the righteous, and let my last end bo like;
his.”
THE FATHER'S CHASTENING.
“Strange, that I am tnedthus!” you ex
claim, as the furnaGe flames up about you.
“I could bear anv other trial better than
this.”
Ah, yes indeed, afflicted Sbul, doubtless
thou could’st; some imaginary trial of tliy
wotifitf-*-$e no'trial aeVtfr. Bu?
wfien God tries thee, be the trouble ever
so mall, ’twill cut thy spirit to the quick.
Shrink not from thy Father’s hand, child
of God. As Ill's love for thee is Infinite,
so Ilis care and discipline will be minute
and constant. “Nota sparrow falls with
out your Father,” “even the very hairs of
your head are numbered.”
“Consider in thine heart, that, as a man
chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God
chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shaft
keep the commandments of the Lord thy
God, to walk in his.ways and to fear Him.”
“Behold, happy is the man whom God
correcteth; therefore despise not fhoti the
chastening of the Almighty; for He mak
eth sore and bindeth up; He woundeth and
His bands make whole.” “Neither be
weary of his correction; for whom the Lord
lovetli he correcteth, even as a father the
son in whom he deftghteth.” “Nor font
when thou art rebuked of him; for \vh mi
the Lord lovetli be chasteneth, and scon g
eth every sem whom he receiveth.” “Now,
no chastening for the preseiit seemeth to be
joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, after
ward it yieldetli the peaceable fruit of
righteousness uuto them which are exercis
ed thereby.”
Submit, then, afflicted one, to the disci
pline of thy All wise Father. As thou re
vieweat it in heaven, thou wilt clearly see
that thy trials were perfectly suited to thy
need, and were not too many. They
wiought out endless good for thee, and
glory to the Giver, and thou wilt sing,
“lie led me in the paths of righteousuess
for his name’s sake.”
“Think it not strange exclaims fervent
Peter, “concerning the fiery trial which is
to try you, as though some strange thinq
.happened unto you, but rejoice, inasmuch.
iff Gfrrfst’s
that when His glory shall be revealed ye
may be glad also with exceeding joy.”
THE DEATH OF THE CHRISTIAN.
I have believed and taught that a con
sistent, dutiful Christian life is the only
preparation for a peaceful and happy
death. To professions and appearances
on a death bed, I have attached very little
importance, where they have not been pre
ceded by a religious life. Every year of
my ministry has more and more confirmed
me in the belief, which I have often de
clared in your hearing, that for those who
put off religion till the sick and dying
hour, there is very little hope of salvation.
I have always observed that persons die
very much as they have lived. If they
have lived in sin, they usually die in sin.
If they have lived near to GoJ, they usual
ly die near to him, and afford comfortable
eviden?e that they go to dwell in his pres
ence. And it is among the most grateful
recollections of my ministry, that so many
of those to whom i have broken the bread
of life, have closed their eyes on this world
in peaceful hope of a glorious immortali
ty. I watched them as they pursued their
pilgrimage on earth; it was bright with
duty and hope. I saw them as they drew
near the close of their course; they were
established and calm. I heard them sing,
as they entered the dark valley, “The Lord
is my Shepherd, I shall not want;” and
pressing the parting hand in token that
all was well, I beheld them take their up
ward flight to enter into the joy of their
Lord. Never have I felt religion to be so
precious; never have I felt the toils and
anxieties of the ministry to be so light, or
its rewards so glorious as when I have
passed the people of my charge, the friends
of Jesus, one after another, into the hands
of their Redeemer, and taking leave of
them in the d> ing room, have gone away
comforted by the blessed hope of meeting
them again in the world of light, tny j >y
and crown of rejoicing in the day of the
Lord Jesus.
NOT AN ENTHUSIAST.
The energy of the manner of the late
R nvland Hill, and the power of his voice,
are said t< have been at times overwhelm
ing. While once preaching at Wot ton
under-Edge, bis country residence, he was
carried away by the impetuous rush of his
feelings, and raising himself to bis full
height, exclaimed, “Baware I am in earn
est; men call trie an enthusiast, but I am
not; mine are words of truth and sober
ness. When I first came into this part of
the country, I was walkingon yonder hill;
I saw a gravel-pit fall in and bury three
human beings alive. I lifted up my voice
for help so loud, that I was heard to the
town below, a distance of a mile. llolp
came and rescued twfl of the poor suffer
ers. No one called nie an enthusiast then
—and when I see eternal destruction ready
to fall upon poor sinners, and about to en
tomb them irrecoverably in an eternal
mass of woe, and ca l on them to escape
by repeating and fleeing to Christ, shall I
J. T. MAIN, Printer.
be called an enthusiast i N. sinner, lam
not an enthusiast in so doing.”
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COUNT THEM.
Count wliatj Why count the mercies
which have been-q'lh-tly falling in y<*ur
>ath through every period “f your history.
Down they coine every morning a if. I even
ing, as angd messengers from the Falter
•ot lights, to tell ot your best Frieu I in
heaven. Hive you live I these” years,
wasting mercies, treading them beneath
your feet, anil consuming them every day,
, fttd U£vy£ v,£t realized from whence they
came? If yon have; iVedven pity yon?
You have murmured un ler afflict i m—
out who has heard y.,u n joice over bles
-mig-i ? D > you ask what are these mer
cies ? A>k the sun'beam, the raindrop,
the star or the queen of night. What is
life but a mercy ? ~\\ hat is lieafth,
strength, friendship, social ] f•, the gospel
of Christ, divine Worship? Had these iho
power of speech, each wouiu 0(v , “I atn
1 mercy.” Perhaps you never regarded
them as such. It not, you have been a
lull student of nature or revelation.
, What is the propriety of stopping to
play with a thorn bush, when you may
just as Well pluck sweet flowers and cat
pleasant fruits?
\et we have seen, enough of men to
kno w that they have a morbid appetite for
thorns. It they have lost a irioiid, they
will murmur at the loss, it G >d has given
■hem a score of new on. s. And. some
how, everything assumes a. value when it
is gone which man would not acknowl
edge when lie had it in h:s p ‘ssessiou, un
less, indeed, someone who wishes to pur
chase it.
How many love to prh k themselves
with the thorns of theology, and live in
mourning over the knots and mysteries of
the Divine economy which men have nev
er been able to solve, tor tho simple rea
son that God is wiser than they. IM-vying
with thorns ? llow childlike! Leaving
the plain path ot duty and of blessing also,
to wander in the maze of doubt or the
sloii ‘li ot despond.
Happy is he who looks at the bright
side ot life, of providence, and of revala
tion; who avoids thorns, and thickets, and
sloughs, until his Christian growth is such
that it lie cannot improve them, he may
among them without injury. Count
before you “com |7lafnofafffctibus.
YOUNG MEN.
There is no moral object so beautiful to
me as a conscientious young man. I
watch him as I do a star in heaven; clouds
may be before him, but we know that his
light is behind them and will beam forth
again: the blaze of others’ popularity out
shine him, but we know that, though un
seen, illuminates his own true sphere. He
resists temptation, not without a struggle;
for that is not virtue, hut he resists and
conquers, he bears the sarcasm of the
profligate, and it stings him, for that is a
trait of virtue, but heals with his own pure
touch. lie heeds not the watchword of
tashion, it it leads to sin; the Atheist who
says, not only in his heart, but with his
lips, “there is no God !” controls him not;
lie sees the hand of a creating God and re
joices in it.
Woman is sheltered by fond arms and
loving council; old age is protected by its
experience, and manhood by its strength;
hut tiie young man stands amid the temp
tations of the world like a self balanced
tower. Happy he who seeks ami gains
the prop of morality.
Onward then, conscientious youth—
raise thy standard; and nerve thyself f. r
goodness. If God has given thee intellec
tual power, awake in that cause; never Itt
it be said of thee “he helped t< swell the
river of sin by pouring bis influence into
its channels.” If thou art feeble in men
tal strength, throw not that drop into a
polluted current. Awake, arise, young
men ! assume that beautiful garb of vir
tue ! it is diffi .alt to be pure and Indy.
Futon tliy strung h then. Let trulh be
the Jady of thy love—defend her.-— J/iss
Caroline Gilman.
§3ir“The Christian may behold clouds
and darkness. He may not bi. vw why
sin and misery are suffered to exist in tho
universe of God; lie may weep often, and
be compelled to see the wicked triumph,
while tiie good are crushed in the dust,
lie may not know how far the providen
tial dealings of God reach into this or other
worlds. Yet, notwithstanding all this, he
confides in the Almighty power above; lays
hold on salvation, and is elevated to re
gions of light and glory, while his unbe
lieving companions perish.
Berlin eye of the renewed man be
holds beauties before unknown; the trees
wave with gladness, and tho floods clap
their hands; the light of the moon is as
the light of the-snu, and the light of the
6un.isßeven fold. Over the whole scene,
the morning stars sing together, and the
sons of God shout for joy.
blessed Redeemer establishes
his cross on the earth as the rallying point
for all hearts; that being softened by divine
love, they might be united to God; and
that being divested there of all selfish
ness, they might be united together in the
bone’s of a holy, loving brotherhood.
Miinbcr 27.