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RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF THE COLOR
ED PEOPLE.
The following excellent essay on the Re
ligions Instruction of the Colored People,
was written by the Rev. John A. Broadus
chaplain tg the University of Virginia, and
read before the Albemarle Baptist Associ
ation, at its last Anniversary meeting held
with the Fork Baptist Church, August 12
and 14. The Association were so well
pleased with it, they desired that it should
he read from the pulpit of every congrega
tion connected with that Association. —
T/'tte (nwn.
There can hardly be any necessity now
for arguing that jt is onr doty to give the
colored people religious instruction. The
able reports Ot several years past, have
been sufficient to remove any remaining
doubt or excuse. Masters are bound by
this duty, with reference to their servants,
as a part of their families; Christians in
general are under obligation to provide re
ligious instruction tor those who form so
important and so sadlv neglected a portion
of the community. The question now is
purely practical, how this f|acknowledged
duty can he most easily and effectively
performed. Some persons, indeed, are so
much impressed with the difficulties at
tending the work, as to be almost ready to
pronounce it impracticable. The colored
people, they say, are so stupid, so devoted
to mere excitement, so easily deceived and
so ready to become .deceivers, so hard to
be bound by the restraints of morality,
that we can scarcely hope to do much in
the way of making them genuine Chris
tians. Snch persons appear to forget that
similar and often greater difficulties are
encountered, in every age and country, by
ail those who lab >r among the lowest class
of the population. Even within our own
limits there might be found districts whose
white inhabitants are in a scarcely more
manageable condition than the mass of our
servants. They appear stupidly careless
of religion, and of those who make profes
sion of conversion, a distressingly large
proportion soon fall into abandoned wick
edness. • Many of the heathen, among
whom our missionaries labor, are in a con
dition far inferior to that of our colored
people. With the most inveterate super
stitions, and habits of sinful indulgence,
and an entire absence, in some respects of
social restraints, the missionaries, in vari
ous countries find that bnt few of their pro
fessed converts are worthy of confidence,
and that some of those they receive are li
able to be detected in gross falsehood,,
theft and unchastitv. Or, to take a com
parison from the first years of Christian
missions. The church at Corinth was
founded by nearly two year’s labor of tjie
Apostle Paul. The people appear to have
been mainly ignorant, and their whole
training, and the habits ot themselves and
the community, were in conflict with the
moral requirements ot Christianity. In
five or six years—as we learn from the
Apostle’s first letter-—the church was in a
state of the most grievous inconsistency
and disorder, not only split into parties,
many of them holding false and foolish no
tions, but with the grossest forms of im
morality openly practised by 6ome ot the
members. They turned the Lord’s Supper
into an occasion for gluttony and drunken
ness, and long retained in their member
ship a man guilty of the revolting crime
of incest. W here is there a church whose
colored members present a more dishear
tening and disgusting scene? Yet Paul
did not despair. Nay, he gave them clear
instruction ua to their errors, and severe
rebukes along with the tender admonitions
and soon he had the satisfaction of hearing
that they sorrowed with godly sorrow, that
1 the incestuous person was exeLu4§iiv and
I himseif stricken with deep conviction of
I his guilt., and that thy various abuses w.ore.
’ mainly reformed. .Why then should bresb
| ren apd sisters shrink from laboring, or
j despond in the midst-of their labors for
j our colored people', because of difficulties
j such as we haye shown must always be
i met among the''ignorant and degraded ?
Surely the servants are immensely more
accessible to religions influences,than their
brethren who remain in ‘Congo and Dah
omey. Providence has brought millions
rffhmftreift to~oTir swr firfvhfy
great extent prepared them to our hand ;
let thank God that such advantages are af
forded us, and labor on in Faith and hope.
Your Gunmittec wish to make a few
suggestions with regard to the best meth
ods of instructing the colored people. As
to their public instruction,, they are gr . li
fted at being able to point to the practice of
some of our brethren already, and to urge
other churches to go and do likewise. In
quite a number of churches, special meet
ings are now frequently held for their ben
efit, and the Committee believe that this
is indispensable if we expect any great
success. When preaching.can not be had,
a committee of intelligent and zealous
members, appointed by the church, and ’
who ought regularly to attend the meet
ings, may themselves conduct devotional
exercises, calling on the colored brethren
to sing and pray under their direction;
and giving 6uch exhortations and explana
tions of Scripture as they may be able to
make. In all the speaking there ought to
be a judicious blending a practical instruc
tion, which appeals to- the feelings. If we
deal in the latter exclusively, it accom
plishes little permanent good; if in the for
mer exclusively, they will take no interest.
And it is'to be observed that something
must be indulged to tbeir enthusiastic na
ture as well as their ignorance. As in
preaching to Indians we must be unusual
ly figurative, so in preaching to Africans,
we must'be unusually fervent. Let us be all
things to all men, that by all means we
may save some.
As to domestic instruction, it is difficult
and often quite impracticable to assemble
field hands at family worship. Persons
owning a very large number have been
known to employ a preacher to spoiui an
or a part of his Sabbaths iu preaching to
them. Those having smaller estates some
times have a preacher to come on some
afternoon of a week-day, several times a
month, a practice which is found to work
well. But the servants connected with the
household can, with a very little trouble,
be made to attend family worship at least
once a day. They must be treated, in some
measure, as we manage our children, and
where negligent, must be controlled by the
exercise of a mild but firm authority. And
then pains should be taken to render the
exercise interesting to the children and
servants. We fear that parents and mas
ters rarely give due attention to this. To
read a didactic passage of.whi.oh they un
derstand scarce anything, will not suffice.
Your Committee believe that it is best to
read much of the historical portions of j
Scripture,'selecting, for ex'ample, the most j
striking stories of the Old Testament, and j
scenes in the life of onr .Saviour. Each |
story ought to be continued, day after day, !
till it is completed; and some persons find |
it quite practicable ask questions every j
day on what was reaa the day before. A
few words of explanation or application,
will serve to keep up the interest, and the
questioning will cause each story or scene
to be remembered. Servants are fond of
Scripture stories, and are constantly repea
ting them, but most erroneously; and sure
ly a knowledge of the facts of the Scriptu re
history is highly important for all. Our
Lord’s parables too, would find in the no j
goes auditors not a little resembling those
to whom he himself first addressed them; j
and if read in a spirited way, stating be- ;
forehand what the parable is designed-to j
teach (language) they will rarely fail to ex- ‘
cite interest, and be profitably remomber- j
ed. Or if passages from the Epistles are
read, it should be with efforts to explain
and apply. The singing, also, at family
worship should be of such a character, both
as to the hyms and the tunes, that it may
interest the servants and children.
All this will require some sacrifice of
convenienco*and ot personal taste. As an
effect, parents may remember (what has
already been intimated) that the methods,
of conducting their family devotions which
suit the servants, are also appropriate,
and necesary for the younger children of
the family, who .commonly attend at those
devotions with some feeling of reverence it
is trne, but very little interest. And even
for ourselves, sacrifice and effort conscien-..
tiously made for other’s good, will hardly
diminish the benefit these exercises afford.
If the head of thefamily is not thoroughly
familiar with the Scriptures, he will find
it desirable to select and examine his pas
sage in advance, that he may be prepared
to read It with animation, and illustrate
and apply. This may usually be done
with comparatively little trouble, while-by
furnishing a special motive fixing the
mind every day upon soifie particular por
tion of Scripture, it must, in some meas
ure, correct thescatteringand listless fash
ion .of reading to which we are all so prone.
Thus shall he that watereth be watered al
so himself.
Your Committee hope that these sugges
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ti< ■iinay sit least induce brethren to re
st eel upoft tho best’ - methods of instructing
■the c*>larcd people, atpl especially to make
more vigorous and persevering efforts to
eeur<y the interested attendance of the
family servants at family worship.
PROBABILITIES~AGAINSI THE SINNER.
My impenitent friend,you hope and ex
pect to bo saved; but humanly speaking,
ydu have more reason to fear that you
will be lost. • yy.;:. -,- W
1. If is easier to He lost than to be sav
.
rent; so be lost,, yon have only to float
with it. To be saved, you must awake to
the greatest earnestness, -and use the pow
ers that you have;’ to be lost, you have on
ly to remain as you are, indifferent, quiet,
“The kingdom of heaven suffereth vjo :
ience, and the violent take it by forced’
„2. The number of believers is small in
comparison with tb© company to which
you belong, “Wide is the gate, and broad
is the way, that leadeth to. destruction,
and many there be that go in thereat; be
cause straight is the gate and narrow is
the way which leadeth unto life, and few
there be that findeth it.” Yet im
penitent, and you among’ them, gee c to
be expecting, salvation.
3. You have beard truth enough, if this
wei;y ail, to save the world. Inhow many
instances in the days of our. Lord, in reply
to the briefest statements and instructions,
perhaps a declaration so simple as, “I am
he,” was the answer returned, “Lord I
believe.” But you. have had “line upon
line,-precept upon precept,” from yonr
youth up. Many of the heathen meet and
bow with vastly less jightaijd knowledge
than yon possess. / .
4. Iu how many ways and instances
have you been warned — by the expostu
lations of the pulpit, by pious friends, by
‘personal afflictions, public calamities, and
mysterious providences.’ Yon have seen
others fall on your right hand, and on yonr
left. Yon bane lost dear friends. You
i aye been brought down to deoth’s door
| yourself. But yon are yet in your sins. Is
it likely that there is any form of the ap
proach of death in reserve, or any kind of
trials or other warnings which will be like
ly to bring you to Christ, when all those
tharare past have not ?■No new Saviour
will be provided for you—no new gospel
pieacbed,
5. You have been wooed by the Spirit,
You have perhaps seen and felt the power
of the Spirit in what are called “revivals
of religion,” and’at such times particularly
have been almost persuaded to become a
Christian. But you said to the-Spirit, “De
part.” You suffered opportunities, more
favorable in thefflftelv.es than any you will
ever again enjoy, to pass unimproved.
• Added to this is the force of habit, which
has been, and is hourly riveting your
chains. Oh, what a hold has sin upon,
your heart! Sooner may’ the “Ethiopian
change his skin, or the leopard his spots,”
than you “do good, who.are accustomed to
do eviL”
7. Does not the indifference which yon
i now manifest with regard to your soul’s ’
j salvation, show that yon are one of those
! whom the god of this world had blinded,
| and that therols great danger you will be
j numbered with the lost?
| How critical, how fearful, is your situa
tion ! And yet there is hope ibr you in
Christ. You are not yet lost. Oh, avail
yourself of the help proffered in the gos
pel. Look to him, and live.
“Haste, O sinner, to be blest;
Stay not for the morrow’s sun,
Lest perdition thee arrest,
Ere the morrow is begun.”
QUARTETTES..
A correspondent of an Eastern pape.r,
writing on this subject, relates the follow
ing amiismg'incident,
A bright boy, bearing much constantly
said’about quartette choirs, remarked that
he thought tete-a-tete choirs would be the
most appropriate name for them, because
they whispered and tittered, and compar
ed notes all the time in the gallery, while
the .prayers were offered by the minister
and congregation. ,
There is great reason to fear that where
a few persons are hired to conduct the mu
sic of a clmrch, simply because of their ar
tistic abilities, and without reference to
their personal or Christian character, the
organ-loft often presents a strange and sad
•contrast to the church below. The great
body of worshippers assume at least the
appearance of devotiou, while they who
lead in what is the most direct act of praise
to the High aud Holy One, are “Tittering
and whispering.” Can there be more gla
ring indecency?
The same writer gives another illustra
tion of the, evil tendency, not, as he seems
think, of quartettes but of carelessness as
to-the character of those who compose
them. It is bad enoogh to have our praise
dono by proxy, but inexpressibly worse
■to have it done by such proxies as are
sometimes employed. They who are en
trusted with the matter cannot be too
careful.
A communicant who-had made one of a
quartette choir for some, months, told in#
she felt very glad to be released, for she
had had no quiet moment For devotional
feelings while in the choir; that invariably
when she would begin to withdraw her
thoughts from the scene before her, and
THE
‘f organ
•• .no- b>r them than
i wo,rMsay,sqmcthimrito attract
• attention, or ©sTmt,: Her ririnlw-(7Am.
! yjliE AfraiNG SUITED TO THE TIMES.
listened last • Sablnth morning to
thejirst ‘sermon of Dr. Williams on his re
tuflffbm Iris c mntf’y excursion, and it re-.
vet; fed !-.> n:> what his .-thinking had been,
■irilfew of passing events. His- text was
.
ye that lan'.r
will give you rest,” &e, He adopted a
Textual mode of treating the subject, con
sideringfounder the three heads of the in
vited—the invitation—arid the promise.
Under the first bead, he expatiated on
the genera] state of unrest existing in hu
man society. None derive from their ea
ger pursuits, whether successful or unsuc
cessful, tHe rbpose which their spirits
crave. They forsake God, the fountain of
living waters, only to hew our. to fhem
sefaes broken cisterns that can hold ud wa
ter. In their country excursions, the gay
and the giddy grasp that'they do not find,
and return to their homes in estate of nn
rest, scprcelyfless.painful than that which
afflicts thqsicK, the sad, and the sorrowing
whom they had left behind. Men of learn
ing are but children, playing with the frin
ges of the garment in which the All wise
and All-knowing invests himself', and are
doomed to the torture of feeling the small
ness of their attainments'compared with
the boundless unknown. ‘-‘He that in
creaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow,”
“Much study is a weariness of the flesh :
and of making many books there is no
end.” Rest lieth’ not in the direction of
intellectual attainment. The ordinary state
of human feeling is one of tempest and
earthquake—of eioud and storm. How in
tense, then, must be the inward commo
tion, when the violated law speaks out its
thundersand when the extent of duty
and demerit is brought home with convin
cing power upon the conscience. No won
der that the agonizing exclamation of guilt
aud despair, “O wretched man that I am,
who shall 4eliver mo from the body of this
death?” should escape from him whom the
law convinces, of that he is, by showing
him what he ought to be!
This view of the general unrest of the
human mind prepared the speaker to urge
the invitation to come to Christ. This is
an invitation for all classes, in our own or
other lands, in times past, present, and to -
come. There is no rest, to the politician in
the success of his party, but only in the*
power of his faith taking hold on the Sen
of God. There is no ret t\> the moralist, in
the reformation of h : S life, bat ouly in
trusting in him who bore our griefs and
cabled our sorrows.. Pnt away anger, en-
W; sclfrighteousness, therefore; yea, .put
away everything aa begging blind dropped
liih tattered fobe, and come to Christ alone;
jnst as specifically, just as directly, as if
you felt th'at he was the only Saviour, and
you the only sinner.
| What encouragement is held out to the
coming sinner, the believing penitent !
Shall find rest. - The whole weight of di
vine authority consent rates itself upon this
word shall, to give it emphasis, to give it
power, to give absolute assurance to the gra
cfous promise. It is a promise whose ful
filment stoppeth with ho outward good,
nft prevention of external evil,, but it goetfl
to the depth of the soul, and is a fountain
n/ peace and joy within springing up to
everlasting life. It is rest in the midst of
sorrow,"strength in our weakness, life in
onr death. The sacrifice of Christ takes
away our sin, and his priesthood gives ns
access unto God.
This is an old. fashioned way of preach
ing, but can a better be invented ? We’
know that there are those ‘who think it a
dry story, quite thread bare and Worn out;
some because it does .not embody the more
specific information as to the state of the
dead, which the spiritualists of our times
profess to have received: others because it
is not more explicit in teaching the people
what party ticket to vote; amfothebs still,
because it has not a large infusion of mod
ern philosophy in its treatment of Gospel
themes. It is with some the humdrum of
“come, come, poor sinners,” and does not
kindle its censer at the shrine of the cur
rent literature, nor deal enough in thefaet
lately reported to the Association for the
Advancement of Science. But as fpr .us,
we say, let spiritualism have its place,-if
There is any place for it; let instruction a9
to the manner of voting, be given on pro
per occasions; let literature, science, and
philosophy, have free scope to do for us
all they can; bat when we go to the sanc
tuary, let it be to hear these theme* trea
ted of, which Jesus and his inspired apos
tles made the burden of their preaching.—
W Y. Chron,
CHRISTIAN HOPES, -t-*! SZ'A
How invaluable is the Christian hone ! j
To us it is like the anchor to vessel in a j
-storm. We are sailing glong the pathway j
of life. We are exposed to breakers and
tempests. ,Onr bark is liable to be tossed
about, or to be shipwrecked. In the agi
tations and troubles of life, how much we
need some anchor of the soul; something
that shall make us calm and serene ! Such
an gnchgr is found in the hope of the gos
pel. While that hope is firm, we need
• fear nothing. All is then safe, and we
may look calmly on, ussurdef’flpT Wo shall
rid© out t]i© storm, and come at last safely
into the haven at peace; happy they who
haw fled for refuge to thy faith of the gos
pel;’ whose hope, like a steady anchor, has
entered into heaven, and binds the son! to
throne of GodT; whose Confidence in the
Redeemer is unshaken In all the storms of
life, and who have the assurance .that When
the tempest shall have, beaten upon them
a little longer, they will be admitfed to a
heaven of rest, where •■storms.and tempests
arc forever Unknown., With such a scape;
Ivys tppoAWUt <*U3 OibWo’- IP
what are the longest trials here, compared
to that rc6t which remains for all who love
God, in a brighter world.”— Albert..Barns.
GOD’S BOOK FOR MAN’B INTELLECT.
The imagination of man will find its ali
ment. If high things arid pure things are
not within its reach, it will condescend to
thin'is oflow estate; if it is not restrained,
it will not run rrot; if it is not elected by
what is holy, it.will be corrupted and de
bauched by what is base.
Here, as in everything else that is ra
tional and right, God’s transcendent word
comes in with its ministrations toman’s
necessities. It feeds the imagination with
the loftiest sublimities—with the purest
and noblest conceptions of the beautiful.
Let him who would expand, and elevate,
and invigorate his imagination to the high
est go nyt to the creations of hu
man fancy, to the drama of Greece, to the
oratoiyof Rome, or to the romances of ge
•nius. Let him turn away from the Iliad and
the from King Lear and Othello.
Let him nurture his soul where John Mil
ton fed before h© gave existence to the im
mortal poem of Paradise. ■‘ > Let him con
template those scenes which inspired a
Bunyan to his matchless allegory, and
taught Jeremy Taylor his hearselike mel
odies. Let him listen to the lyre of David
and the rapt sublimities of Isaiah. Let
him give ear to the mystic utterances of
Habakknk, arid gaze on the gorgeouspano
ramas of the Apocalypse. Let him open
his soul to that “oldest choral melody, the
book of Job, so like the summer midnight
with its seas and stars.”
Here is enough t.o .stimulate the most
torpid 80:;1; enough to task the most as
piring intellect ; enough to gratify tho
most fastidious taste; enough to satisfy the
cravings of all created mind,, whether hu
man or angelic. Go to the Bible !ye who
yearn sot the beautiful and the ennobling
unmingled with the degrading and the poi
sonous. Spend your nightly studies on
the word of God, man of taste and lover
of the lovely. Nowhere else will your in
tellectual be so fully satisfied.
“While the King sitteth at his table, his
spikenard sendoth forth the smell thereof.
His plants are an orchard of pomegranates
with pleasant fruits; a fountain of gardens,
a well of living waters, and streams out of
Lebanon.”
SPIRIT OF PRAYER.
The spirit of-prayer .is a habitual sense
of dependence upon God, followed by a
habitual longing after God, and a habitual
rising of the desires to God. Os a person
thus exercised it may truthfully be said
God is in all his thoughts. He lives unto
God. He dwells under the shadow of tlie
Almighty. In the hour of prosperity, the
heart rises in thankfulness to the Giver of
a]l good; in the hour of adversity, it bows
under the chastening rod; in the hour of
perplexity, it is ready to implore the di
vine guidance; and in the hour of danger
and peril, to .seek the divine protection.—
God is in all the .thoughts, and in the midst
of business, which may for the time require
the undivided attention, the soul finds in
tervals to.send up its silent aspirations to
Heaven, and in answer receives the ansur
, ances of the divine favor. While the mind
is thus exercised with this habitual spirit
of prayer, the first thoughts in the morn
ing go up to God, and the last thoughts at
night; and if we make but a moment “in
the night watches,” our thoughts sponta
neously rise to heaven. There is in the
heart thus.exercised a habitual sense that
“thou God seost me.” How careful it
causes ns to be of our words and actions,
how watchful over our thoughts and tem
pers! Reader, have yon this spirit of
prayer ? Do you enjoy the consciousness
of the divine favor which it is sure to bring?
It is infinitely more precious “than much
fine gold;” Does God see that you desire
it more than yon desire gold? Do you
think about it more than you think about
.gold? Do you talk about it more than
you talk about gold ? Does- God see that
your affections are on “things above ?”•<—
Where is your treasure ? If it is in heav
en, there will your heart be also. If your
heart is not there, if yonr affections are not
there, it is because your treasure is not
there; and if you have no treasure there,
| you are poor indeed !
j But how shall we obtain, in larger meas
| ure, this spirit of prayer? By watching k
| unto prayer. By cultivating this sense of
j dependence. By imploring the aid of the
i Holy Spirit. By “ lookiug unto Jesus.”
By resolving in the strength of grace, to do
these things, and commencing the work
this moment. Remember, this moment.
Many of our pious resolutions remain a
“dead letter,” simply because w©- do not
enter upon their performance no\v. “IP
we “know these things, happy are” we
“if’ we “do them.”— Western Advocate.
. J. T. BLAIN, Printer.
Number 44.
, * WATCH UNTO PRAYER
The nil me rone instances of fatal back
sUflingand ap'ostacy, furnished in our day,
admonish evrry Christian disciple to watch
and play, lpst he enter into temptation.—
“Tho strongest are weak, aud the wisest
are fools, whan left to be sifted in Satan’s
sieve.” No dm* is secure- All are expos
ed to attack*, and are liable to fall.—
The. Parish Visitor suggests an addition
al warning, from the fact that the worst
declensions from the Christian life often
odcurjn old age, after a long and rich
QhiiHJtan
* Wis eV<?\ { “that Christians
Were more apt to backslide and fall into
open sin in che latter ©art of their reli
gious course, than in its earlier stages? —
It i3 a startling announcement, butlthink
you will find it. true. Look at all the cases
of backsliding recorded in the Bible. Did
they not, every one oft hem, occur late in
life? There was David. In ‘the days of
his youth and early manhood, a pattern of
faith and devotion. In advanced life guil
ty of murder and adultery, and still later
of pride and self-conceit, iu numbering the
people. Look at Mose*. The great sin
of his life committed when just about to
enter the promised land. Look at Hezeki
ak, —the “good king Hezekiah.” In bis
early days zealous and devout. The laßt
fifteen years of ids life (a special gift from
his God, and therefore one would think to
be speeiall3 r consecrated to him) bringing
“wrath upon himself and upon Jerusalem.”
So too with Josiah. So too with Jehoslia
phat. And look around at the cases of
grievous backsliding within your own ob
servation. Have they not almost every
one of them occurred late in life ? I mean,
after many years of Christian profession.
This fact, (is it not a fact,) seems to me to
teach several lessons of deep and solemn
importance.
1. It accounts for another fact which haa
of late forced Itself upon my attention,
viz., That in case of very many of God’s
people, their heaviest and most numerous
trials come late in life. God, in his ten
der mercy, sends the trials to save
from falling away from their steadfast
ness and bringing reproach upon his cause.
2. These eases, recorded in the Bible
and confirmed by observation, ought to
mako Christians, as they advance in life,
more and more watchful and distrustful of
thcrnslv*.
“THE FIEL? IS THE WORLD.”
The New York Observer has the follow
ing remarks on the opening of the “field,”
which ‘‘is the world” to Christian enter
prise aud influence, under the disposition
manifested on the part of Christians to
obey the Saviour’s command, “Go ye into
all the world.”
No sooner is a breach made in the walls
of the kingdom of Satan, than the soldier
of the cross mounts it. India opens, and
missionaries from almost every Christian
land are there. Africa opens, and the gos
pel is permanently planted in the south
and on the western coast. China yields,
and the Bible and the living minister are
there. The islands of the sea have not
waited for the law in vain. Turkey is in
progress. Japan is preparing, and the
church is preparing for it. And the Rus
sian empire, in its vast extent, will now,
doubtless, iu accordance with the pacific
spirit exhibited by the be again the
field of Christian enterprise. In that wide
field, there will be found ample scope for
Christian effort, free from any direct in
terference with the establishments of the
Greek church. The gospel may be preach
ed in the wilds of Siberia, while the Bible
and tract, and soon the preacher, too, will
be sowing the seed of the word in St. Pe
tersburg and Moscow.
COLOSSAL* FOUNTAINS.
The fountains of the Crystal Palace at
Sydenham, Eaglaud, are among the great
est wonders of the world. The huge foun
tains throw vast jets of water to ft height
of 280 feet. Two towers are erected on
the highest part of the grounds, each 270
feet high; powerful engines take water
from artesian wells 575 feet deep, and
throw it to the top of these towers, whence
it descends and feeds the fountains. The
total weight of each tower, when the foun
tains are playing, is over three thousand
tons.
Besides the two colossal fountains, there
are ten lesser ones, that throw jets one
hundred feet high, as well as almost count
less smaller Fountains, in addition to wa
ter-temples, cascades, &c., and several
thousand small jets, requiring 120,000 gal
lons of water per minute to supply them.
Ten miles of iron pipes are required to
conduct the water that feeds these Works.
The sight, when they are all in sullen play
is said to magnificent. The spectators sees
before him a group of basins, arranged on
terraces that rise above each other, the
Crystal Palace building crowning the sum
mit; and each of these basin* seem alive
with jets flashing in the sunshine, and
crossing and re-crossing each other, while
cascades diversify tho scenes, and tho two
celossal fountains shoot to a dizzy height.
The parent who would train up a
child in the way it should go, should go in
the way in which he would train up the
child.
Bad words, like bad shillings, are often
brought home to the persona who has utter
ed them.