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The Psalmist said, “ When thou with rebukes (lost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beaut} to consume away like a moth ; surely every man it vanity.” To reply against (rod, and to kick agains; his purposes, the saints learn by sore experience, is ti their discomfort, and the utter overthrow of theii vain hopes and expectations. What, shall worms oi the dust reply against their Creator? Shall dust and Vanity dispute with the Almighty ? 4 ‘ Shall the vile race of flesh and blood Contend with their Creator God! Shall mortal worms presume to be More holy, wise, or just than he? Behold he puts liis trust in none Os all the spirits round his throne ; Their natures when compared with his, Are neither holy, just, nor wise. But how much meaner things are they Who spring from dust and dwell in clay ; Touched by the finger of his wrath, We faint and perish like the moth. From night to day, from day to night, We die by thousands in his sight; Buried in dust whole nations lie, Like a forgotten vanity. Almighty power, to thee we bow; 9 How frail are we, how glorious thou ! No more the sons of earth shall dare, With an eternal God compare.” When the saints only have a supcificial view of things as they present themselves externally and out wardly relative to the salvation of sinners, and the prosperity of the Zion of God. and view the church of Christ surrounded by numerous enemies, they are often dishearteimd and dismayed like as the servant of Elisha was when lie saw the city surrounded by a .host of the enemy with horses and chariots, he ex claimed “ Alas, my master ! how shall we do ?” Elisha answered, Fear not, for they that be with us are more than thev that be with them.” When the •/ Lord opened the eyes of the young man agreeable to Elisha’s prayer, lie saw the mountain full of horses and chariots of lire round about Elisha. 2 Kings vi. 15—17. When the Lord’s dear children have a fait h’s view of the mountain of the Lord’s house, full of bur ies and chariots of fire, their disheartened and dis mayed feelings vanish* for now they see and feel that God is with his people, and a present help in time of trouble. The saints can unite and sing, “ The God we worship now, Will guide us till we die Will be our God while sere below, And ours above the skv.” P. FEET WASHING. * ----- - As the subject of the duty of observing the wash ing of ear'll other's feet has been brought before mu re tders, and some have expressed their views relative in it, we desire that it may be fully and freely dis cussed, if it can be done in the spirit of brotherly kindness. But if a hitter censorious spirit must con vert every discussion into a personal quarrel, it is beyond our comprehension how anv benefit can re sult from those who fear the Lord speaking often one to another. But iho New Testament is clear on tin’s point. While we are expressly told by our Lord that offences must come among his people, yet a woe is pronuneed against that man by whom the offense coroeth. Hence the Apostle might well warn his brethren at Corinth, who ha ! become carnal. “ Let him that thinkefh lie standeth, take lieed lest lie falll Cur. x. 12. 80UTH Elt N BAPTIST MESSENGER. IMG O El J/T S, For N 01. 10, No. G, from March 2. to March 20. GEORGIA - Jacob Young, $5 00; D. C. Jackson, 2 25; J. A. Maddox, 1 00; j. Herring, 1 00 ; C. D. Smith 1 ; J II White Esq., 1; J L Pickard 2 ; Elder Prior Lewis 1,50 ; Elder W W Carroll 1 ; Elder J W Walker 1 ; l)r N M Stamford 2 ; G 11 Hopkins 2; Mrs E Cox 2; I B Found 1,50: R Buckner 1,50; K G Grogan 1; G Barker 1,50; G W Bright i 50; f M McLeroy 3 ; Win Pattern 2; W Willingham 1; Eider A Belcher sls ; S I laymans 1 ; J McKenriey I ; W F E Ogburn 3,50; Joseph Beard 1; Elder G W Maleom 2: Thus V Miller 1,50: J M Ilaralson 1,20: Elder C Caldwell 2 : Elder I) W Patman 3 ; VVm A Henderson 2,50: B Piersons 1 ; J M Wil liams 1: Robert S Foster l ; W 11 Awtrey 1 : N Bussey Sr. 2 ; Elder James J Davis 2 ; J Young 2 79 45 ALA—James Slmnr.au 1,50; E F Daniel 1.30; W Coleman 1; G J Pruett 1 ; Elder W M McClendon 1,30; Samuel Smith 1; Mrs Sarah Buckner 1 : Elder W M Mitchell 1 ; Wm F 1 vary 1 ; Win J Ponneey 2: II J Hal le v 1; M MeGintv 2,50; N B Jenkins 2. 17 GO IND—D Burch 3 ; J Skeeters 20 cents, 3 20 FLA- -Mrs X Clanton (to Aug. 15, 18G0,) 3; J S Russell 3,25;,J Evers 1. G 25 A RK—M Hartley 1 ; Elder D B Almand2; II Williams 1. 4 00 MISS—W H Moody 4; G C Walters 1; S Canterbervy 1 ; M M Taukersley 2. $ 00 PA—.l P Shitz 1. * 100 l.<A—J W Norris 3 ; Jesse Sandlin (June 15, 1861.) 2,50. 2 50 MO—J Bridges 1 ; G W Peyton 1. 2 00 -TEXAS—M Bateman 1. 100 N. C—L P Wayne 30 cts. 30 TEXN—ElderWm S Doughety 5, 5 00 OHlO—David Gander 2. * 2 00 Total 133 30 M I SCELLANY. Patrick Henry. Three Baptist preachers were brought to trial in or about 1775, for preaching. The indictment brought against them was, “ For preaching the gos pel of the Sm of God,” contrary to the statute in that case provided, and therefore disturbers of the peace. The Clerk was reading the indictment, in a slow and formal manner, and ha pronounced the crime with emphasis, “ For preaching the gospel of the Son of God,” when a plain-dressed man dis mounted from his horse, entered the court house, and took his seat within the bar. lie was known to the court and lawyers, but a stranger to the mass of spec tators who had gathered on that occasion. This was Patrick Henry, who, on hearing of this prosecution, had rode some fifty or sixty miles from his residence in Il.anover county, to volunteer his services in the defence of the prisoners. He listened to the fur ther reading of the indictment with marked atten tion, the first sentence of which that had caught his car. was, “Fur preaching the gospel of the Son of God.” W hen the indictment had been read, and the pros ecuting attorney bad submitted a few remarks, Pat rick Henry arose,.stretched out his hand, and receiv ed the paper, and'then addressed the court: “ May it please your worships, I think I heard road by the prosecutor, as I entered this house, the paper I now hold in my hand. If I have rightly un derstood, the King’s attorney of this colony, has framed an indictment for the purpose of arraigning and punishing, by imprisonment, three inoffensive 1 the bar of this court, for a crime great magnitude—as disturbers of the peace. May it please the court wliat did I hear ? Did I hear il distinctly, or was it a mistake of my own ? Did I hear an expression, as if a crime, that these men whom your worships are about to try for a misde meanor are charged with—what ? and continuing in a 1 .w, solemn, heavy tone, “For preaching the gos pel of the Son of God !” Pausing, amidst the most profound silence, and breathless astonishment of hig hearers, he slowly waved the paper three times around his head, then lifting up his hands and eyes to heaven, with extraordinary and impressive energy, he exclaimed* “Great God!” The exclamation —th& action—the burst of feeling from the audience —were all overpowering. Mr. Henry resumed : “ May it please your worships: In a day like this, when truth is about to burst her fetters —when man kind is about to be raised to claim their natural and inalienable rights—when the yoke of oppression which has reached the wilderness of America, and the unnatural alliance of ecclesiastical and civil pow er is about to be dissevered—at such a period—when liberty—liberty of conscience, is about to awake from her slumbering*, and inquire into the reason of such charges as 1 find exhibited here in this indictment 1” Another fearful pause, while the speaker alternately cast his sharp, piercing eyes on the court and the prisoners, and resumed : “If I am hot deceived, according the contents cf this paper I now hold in my hand, these men are accused of ‘ preaching the gospel of the Son of God/ ‘Great God !’ ” Another long pause, during which he again waved the indictment over his head, when a deeper impression was made on the auditory, Re suming his speech : “ May it please your worships, There are period* in the history of man when corruption and depravity have so long debased the human character, that man sinks under the weight of the oppressor’s hand, and becomes his servile —his abject eiave; he licks the hand that smites him; he bows in passive obedience to the mandates #f the despot; and in this state of servility lie receives his fetters of perpetual bondage. But may it please your worships, such a day ha# passed away ! From the period w hen our fathers lefi the land of their nativity for settlement in ths American wilds, for Liberty —for civil and religious liberty—for liberty of conscience—to worship their Creator according to their conceptions of Heaven’s revealed will; from the moment they placed their feet on the American continent, and in the deepest embedded forests sought an asylum from persecution and tyranny —from that moment despotism was crushed ; her fetters of darkness were broken, and Heaven decreed that man should be free—free to worship God according to the Bible. Were it not f< r this in vain have been made the efforts and sacrifh es of the colonists ; in vain were all their sufferings and bloodshed to subjugate :his new world, if wo, their offspring, must still be oppressed and persecuted.— But, may it please your worships, permit me to in quire once more—for what are these men about to be tried ? This paper says* ‘ For preaching the g: .‘pel of the Son of God/ Great God ! For preaching it;o Savior to Adam’s fallen race!” After another pause, in ter.es of thunder, ho in* quired, “ What laws have they violated ?” Then for the third time, in a slow, dignified manner, he lifted his eyes to heaven, and waved the indictment around [ns head. The court and the audience were now wrought up to the most intense pitch of excitement. The face of the prosecuting attorney was pale and ghastly, and he appeared unconscious that 1 is whole frame was agitated with alarm ; and the judge, in a tre nub us voice, put an end tothe scene, now b corui) g extremely painful, by the authoritative c< lnmm o, “Sheriff, discharge those men!”— Belcher’s 75li j’ious Denominations , 47