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SHERRIFF’S SALE.
Will be sold before the Court House door
in Clinton Jones County, on the first
Tuesday in January next the following prop
erty to wit.
One acre lot more or les" in the Town of
Clin toil whereon William Douglas now lives
engining McGrath and Iverson levied on as
"he properLj' of William Douglas to satisfy an
execution in faVCr of Henry L.gon against
-aid Douglas.— , .
Also 242-’- acres of fcntl more or
less, with a valuable saw mil! on it, nC» in
the possession of McAll, levied on as ti.fi pro*
perty of William W. Dawson to satisfy an
Execution in favor of William Cabaness, and
others, against Charles Bullock surviving Ad
ministrator of William W. Dawson dcc’d.
Also 100 acres of land part of lot
No. 52 in the 9th District Jones County, in
the possession of Thomas Thiveatt levied on
as the property of Kinchen F. Tison to satis
fy an execution in favor of Daniel Rosser a-
Tainst Kinchen P. Tison and James Bunkley
security on injunction.
Also 52 acres of land more or less
whereon Hartwell Williford now lives ad
joining Candler and Paul levied on as the
property of Hartwell Williford to satisfy an
execution in favor of Roger Macarthy vs Na
than Brady senr. Nathan Bradyjunr. Hart
well Williford and George B. Lucas.
Also 50 acres of land more or less
whereon Nathan Brady senr. now lives, ad
joining Hawkins and others levied on as the
property of Nathan Brady to satisfy an execu
tion in favor of Roger Macarthy vs. Nathan
Brady senr. Nathan Brady junr. Hartwell
Williford and George B. Lucas.
Also 50 acres of land more or less
whereon James Pickett now lives, levied on
as the property of Nathan Brady Junr. to sa
tisfy an execution in favor of Roger Macar
thy, vs: Nathan Brady Senr. Nathan Brady
ianr. Hartwell Williford end George B. Lu
cas.
Also two negro fellows Demps 27
years old, Lewis IS years old, levied on as the
property of Jehu B. McGough to satisfy an
exeention in favor of Ichabod Cox, indorsee,
rs. Jehu B. McGough.
Also 1 negro boy named Sam, lev
ied on as the property of James A. McDon
ald to satisfy an execution in favor of O. St. G.
Clark, us. James A. McDonald.
Also one fourth of an acre of land
more or less in the Town of Clinton in the
possession of Janies Smith &. Michael M.
Healy, adjoining Smith Woolsey levied on
as tlie property of Jeremiah TV. Ray, to sat
isfy an execution in favor of Nicholas R. Deu
el, vs. said Ray.
Also, one sorrel horse 4 years old,
levied on as the property of Joseph Brantley,
to »atisfy an execution in favor of Allen &.
Powars, for the use of Lewis C. Allen, us.
Joseph Brantley.
Also, 607 acres of land, more or
less, whereon Solomon Groce now lives, in
cluding his three upper Saw-Mills, on Swift
Creek, levied on as his property, to satisfy
three executions in favor of Shadrach F. Slat
ter, us. Solomon Groce and John Carter, se
curity on appeal.
Also, 3 beds, 2 bed-steads, 1 chest,
4 chairs, 1 table, 1 pail; levied on as the
property of Samuel Clayton, to satisfy an ex
ecution in favor of John Malone fc Cos. vs.
said Clayton.
Also, 1 sorrel horse bridle and sad
dle; levied on as the property of James Tar
ver to satisfy an attachment in favor of Cone
and Bissell, vs. said Tarver, and sold by an
order of the Inferior Court.
Also, 50 acres ofiand more or less,
ivhcreon Stephen Rogers now lives, adjoii#'
ing VVoodfork, on Woolfcretk; part of lot
131 in 6th district Jones Connty, levid on as
f ke property of Burrel Myers, to satisfy sis
Executions in favor of Joel Reshin and oth
ers, Issuer! from a Justice Court and levided
on by a Constable and returned to me all a
gainst said Myers.
Also, 202] acres of land more or
less, lot 136, adjoining Jesse Cox, and John
MrSinzie, levied on as the property of Ju
deth Medling to satisfy an Execution in fa
*or of Jesse Duncan, Issued from a Justice
Court, levied on by a Constable and returned
to me, vs. said Judeth Medling.
Also, 1 House and half acre lot in
toe Town of Clinton no. 21 whereon Robert
Beasley now lives, known by the name of the
Mansion House, levied on as the property of
yamuel H. Goldsmith to satisfy an Execution
in favor of Frederick Sims, Issued from a
ustice Court vs. said Samuel 11. Goldsmith
c 'y made by a Constable and returned to
tne.
„ HOPE H. SLATTF.R, Shff.
Nor. 25, 1626.
made to the honorable the imorior
«ourt of Henry county, when sitting for or
eianary purposes, for leave to sell the real
estate of Jacob Maddox, dee.
. V' ESLEY CAMP, Admr.
August 2st, 1826.
months after date, application wil
T be made, to Uic honorable the Inferior
ct Pulaski county, when situng for or
dinary purposes, for leave to sell th" leyroes
and reoi estate of 1 homes I>. Mitchell, late
or said county, deed.
ISAAC W. MITCHELL, \dmr.
May 1«. lW n » ,
ROjuTRIT.
ON HEARING ONE SAY HE WOULD
NOT ASK FORGIVNESS.
I would not meanly condescend
To ask the pardon caprice gives,
Nor prize the favor of a friend
Who on my humble homage lives;
But if from carlcssness or art,
I’d made a gentle spirit grieve.
It would not wound my haughty heart
To breathe that little word “forgive.”
Forgiveness! ’tis tiie sacred stream,
That murmurs through the injured breast,
Where lingers lore’s retiring beam,
That soothes contending thoughts to rest.
Forgiveness! ’tis tlie sweetest air
That trembles on the lyre of Heaven, '
For all who swell the pxan there,
Can sing of sins and faults forgiven.
HE HAS NO WIFE.
A Parody.
He has no wife—when breakfast comes,
He dreads no loud alarum drums;
But calm, serene, flows on the stream
Os life, as in the coffee flows the cream.
He has no wife—lie dreads no frown,
If bread should fall with butter down,
To stain the carpet’s crimson hue; —
He dreads no horrible hcllabclloo.
He has no wife—the breakfast o’er.
He fears no clamors at the door,
Os angry duns, no bills of lacc,
And petticoats stare in his face.
He has no wife—no little brat,
To fire his patience with his chat;
To tear his books, to pull his nose,
To spill his ink, and greu3e his clothes.
He has no wife—retired to bed,
jjo curtain lectures can he dread,
No ci'iW to kick the blanket off,
Or break his sleep with whooping cough.
I have no wife —thank Heaven’tis so;
For when my time comes—when I go,
No wife need feign 10 weep, and lie,
And say she grieves to s?c me die.
EPITAPH.
Inscribed npon the tombstone of Zan
tippie Thomas, wife of Andrew Tho
mas, who scolded herselj to death in
the early part of ike last century.
Here lies the wife of neighbor Thomas,
Whom death in mercy carried from us;
For, when alive, she was so old,
So ugly, sluttish, such a scold,
That round about her for a mile,
All things were in a constant hrtn';
I’ve known her storm at suen a rate
That even the chimney back would sweat;
Trammels through fear iorgot to hold,
And red hot coals of fire grew cold.
Her husband never dropp’d a tear
Till lie had placed her body here;
And then he blubbered like a lout,
For fear she’d scratch her passage out.
JEWS IN CHINA
In the last No. of the Asiatic
Journal, there is an interesting article
respecting the Jews in China. They
were settled in that country, as well
as in other parts of Asia, many cen
turies prior to the Christian era:
even as sariy as 1000 years before.
They migrated from Persia, by way
ofKhorason. They say themselves
that they came from the West, or
from Sivu.—They have a MS. copy
of the Pentateuch ; and they long
kept up an intercourse with other
Jews in Persia, and the more west-1
ern parts of Asia : It is said they re- j
ceived some additions soon after the j
destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, |
in 70. Some of them have become
Mahometans. They have a tradi
tion that Abraham, who they say
was the nineteenth trorn Adam, was
the author of their law, and that
Moses derived it Irons him. r I here
is a great similarity between the laws
of Abraham or Moses, and those of
the Chinese. This calculation makes
Abraham to have lived 2000 years
before our era ; whereas account
places him about 1850 before The
period between Abraham and Moses,
is not very different in the two ac
counts. In the ancient Chinese laws,
which originated with Abraham, as
they pretended, are traces of a holy
Sabbath. In their more ancient
writings, they say Adam was the
first man—that Abraham was the
real author of the law, which was
afterwards, published by Moses.
They inculcate adoration of heaven;
by which is probably meant the In
visible One who inhabits the heav
ens and all words.—Hence, in time,
mankind, who worshipped the Cod
of heaven, were led to fix their
thoughts upon and to adore heaven
ly bodies, as the Sun, Moon, and
Stars ; and tire, as the emblem of
these. Abraham, they say, worship
ped Heaven, but not under any fig
ure or image. These Jews are said
to be honest and industrious, and are
esteemed by the Chinese. They
have a synagogue 350 feet long and
150 wide, and dedicated to “ the Cre
ator and Preserver of all things.
There is this inscription also on a ta
ble in the synagogue, —“Ilear.O Is
rael, Jehovah, our God, is the only
Jehovah.
Whenthe people enter the temple,
they take ofl their shoes, and when
they pray, they turn tow ards the west
The person who reads the law cov
ers his face with a thin .veil. They
believe in a judgment, in a paradise
and place of punishment. The Sab
Hec tibierunt artes, pz risque imponere morem, parcere subjectia et dcbel'.are supertax.—Virgil,
MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER, 5 1326.
bath is Lebt strictly by them. But
they do not attempt to make prose
lytes, nor even go iato the temple
where an idol is worshipped. Be
sides the Pentateuch, they have al
so parts of Isaiah, Daniel and Jere
miah.
[Boston Com. Gaz.
'1 ’ria :ig tJarlßelh, —ThojNew-Lon
don (Con.) Gazette conlains a cer
tificate from four men, who at the
distance of nine miles, heard a bell
of this description, lately placed in
the steeple of the Baptist church in
that town. It is made of steel, at
half the price of other bells, may be
rung by a child, and is so light as not
to shake the building.
_____
Paper. —The Materials on which !
mankind have contrived to write
their sentiments in different countries,
have been extremely various. The
most ancient, perhaps were stone and
metal Tablets of wood, particular
ly of the cedar wood, were afterwards
used ; and these were again follow
ed by tablets covered with wax,
which were written on according to
the fashion of the time, either with
iron bodkins, the bones of birds, or
reeds cut into the form of pens. "i
At length the papyrus of Eeyjit
was invented, which not o»*y gave a
great facility to the art of writing,
but was a portable material. It was
formed of thin coats stripped from
the reed which grows upon the banks
of the Nile. The date of its discov
ery, and the date of its disuse, have
been equally disputed. Nor is it yet
completely ascertained whether its
first application may be ascribed to
an eariicr or iator date than the con
quest of Egypt by the Macedonians.
Parchment was the next inven
tion ; originating in a country where
no such material as the papyrus reed
could be discovered ; apd it has been
found at once so durable and useful
that it is still employed upon impor
tant occasions in every European
country.
The art of making paper, such as
we now see it, was a late discovery ;
and its first material was cotton.
The linen paper which is now in use
is supposed to have followed the dis
covery. They are both dated by
the generality of writers at the elev
enth or twelfth century, though the
honor of the discovery is claimed not
only by different but distant nations.
The first book which was printed
on paper, manufactured in England,
came out without a date, about 1495
or 1496 ; though for a long while af
terwards it was principally brought
from abroad.
The first paper-mill in England
was established about 1590 at Dart
ford in Kent, by one Spihncn, who
died in 1607.
JVeze-York Election. —The city re
turns are yet incomplete - Enough
is known to say that Mr. Clinton
will have a majority of from 5 to 700
in the city. Mr. Allen as Senator,
and the Tammany Hall Congress and
Assembly Ticket are undoubtedly
elected. We have no return from
neighboring counties.
iYapolcan’s Widow.—The last Black
wood’s Magazine has a strange ru
mour in it, that Washington Irving is
in a fair way of marrying Her High
ness the Archdchcss of Parma, the
widow of Napoleon !
Anecdote of his present Majesty.
A short time ago, the widow of the
celebrated Charles Fox, happening
to be in the neighbourhood of Wind
sor, was anxious to survey the royal
residence there : and with this view
she addressed a note to the steward
or some other officer of the royal
household, begging to know if stran
gers were admitted at that season to
inspect the castle To this note,
which bore the name and address of
the writer, an answer was instantly
returned, intimating that the intend
ed visit of Mrs. Fox would be most
agreeable at the castle. The lady
accordingly set out, and on her arri
val was received with the utmost
courtesy by the household servants,
who conducted her through the vari
ous apartments of the royal residence
and omitted nothing which would
gratify the curiosity, or excite the in
terest of the visitor. Having finish
ed her inspection, Mrs. Fox was a
bout to take her departure, when she
was requested by the attendant to
step aside into one of the private
rooms for a lew moments. After
waiting a short time, the King enter
ed, and walking up to Mrs. Fox,
with an air of the most condescending
affability, took her by the hand and
expressed the high satisfaction he
fait in having this opportunity of
pxymg his respects to the widow of
a late intimate and highly valued
friend. Mrs. Fox was overcome at
the monarch's condescension , but
the frank and| easy manner of his
Majesty, quickly restored her to her
wanted composure. Ho inquired
minutely into her present situation
and circumstances, and though in
formed by Mrs. Fox, that she had
not been left altogether desiitute by
her late husband, his Majesty kindly
pressed upon her the acceptance of
an annuity from his private purse
lb oo per annum, which we believe
the lady now enjoys.
[Edinburg Star.
A WIFE.
No sensible man ever thought a
beautiful wife was worth as much as
one who could make a good pudding.
I wish the girls all knew this, for Ifecl
a great interest in their welfare.
[Trenton Emporium.
Indian Academy in Kentucky —Tho
second Examination and Exhibition
at this Institution took place on the
4th ult. in the presence of 500 peo
ple. The Choctaw students, the
native sons of the forest, displayed
extraordinary aptness in spelling,
reading, writing, geography, and
drawing of maps. The Academy
commenced operations about eleven
months ago, under the patronage of
,]he Baptist General Convention, at
„jjie request of tho Choctaw nation.
The principal fund out of which this
institution is supported arises from
stipulations in treaties between the
United States and the Choctaws in
which they reserved an Education
Fund for the benefit of their chil
dren.
There are at this time fifty-three
Choctaw students, and about twenty
white students at this school.
Quicksilver. —The most productive
quicksilver mine in the world is at
Idria, in Carniola, in the dominions
of the emperor of Austria. This
mine has been worked 400 years, and
is seven hundred feet deep. The
good ores contain from 70 to 75 per
cent, of pure quicksilver; and the
mercury is sometimes found in a
pure state issuing in a slender stream
from some fissure in the rocks. —
The ore,’ after being pounded and
washed, is placed over a furnace in
the roasting oven, where the action
of the fire separates the quicksilver
from the other substance; it rises
sublimated along with the smoke >
and passes through winding flues un.
til it cools and descends into hollows
made to receive it. The quicksliver
is then packed in sheep or goat skin
bags.—The mine now employs 400
hands, (in its flourishing state it gave
bread to 1,200 men,) produces annu
ally 336,000 pounds of quicksilver,
and yields a profit to the govrnmoct
of $90,000.
In 1803 a fire originated in the
wood work of the mine, and for five
weeks the flames raged in the bow
els of the earth with the greatest
fury; when the shafts were opened,
the smoke, filled-vrth mercurial and
sulphureous exhalations, rolled forth
and struck down every one that came
w ithin its reach. Asa last resource,
the director turned in a stream of
water and allowed it to flow two days;
in the course of the second day, in
consequence of the production of
steam, or the kindling of inflamahle
air, an explosion took piaco which
shook the mountain, rent the huts of
the miners, started houses farther off
trom their foundations, and mad
the panic struck inhabitants fly in
dismay; it was a splendid artificial
earthquake. The fire was extin
guished, but it required two years
to pump out the water. It was car
ried off into the river Idria, and con
tained so much vitriol and iron that
every fish disappeared from the river,
except the eel, which bids defiance
to every thing but actual broiling or
roasting.
Mr. Russell, from whose “tour”
the foregoing facts have been col
lected, dosceuded into the mine by
one of the inclined shafts, where
there are successive flights of steps
all the way, as regular as in a prival)
dwelling. Ke says it is necessary
for the visiter to leave behind
watches, rings, snuff-boxes, &c.
which would infallibly be effected by
the quicksilver, Two fashionable
ladies, who went down during the
congress in the neighboring Laybach,
returned, the one with her gold
watch conversed into a tin trinket,
and the fair cheeks and neck of the
other were made black by the sul
phur. Some of the mining operati
ons produce trembling fits and con
vulsions, and the mercury generally
discolors and destroys the teeth
The wages of the miners are very
small; they are always in a state of
destitution, and thoir livesarc short.
Painting. —l pity those unfortu
nate Misses who fancy they have a
taste for painting, when, in fact, they
are nothing but mere daubers. Yet
it is a fashionable accomplishment,
and must be obtained even at the
risk of doing violence to the fair face
of nature. Young ladies will paint
roses, though they do look like red
cabbages, and raw little cupids and
turtle-doves, if they should be mis
taken for devils, imps, and scare
crows. I have seen mourning pieces,
(and truly they were pieces to be
mourned for,) done at female board
ing schools, that would draw tears
from the eyes of the most insensible;
and watch-papers frightful enough to
stop a chronometer of moderate cour
age.
REPORT
CF JASPER COUNTY, SISLE SOCI2TT.
The Directors of “the Auxiliary
Bible Society of Jasper County ”* in
presenting their first annual report,
are sensible that tho limited opera
tions of the past year furnish but
few facts in exemplification of the
importance and rcsnlts of the exer
tions of the friends of the Bible cause.
—But the facts which have been
disclosed establish beyond all dis
pute that a lamentable deficiency of
Bibles does exist within the sphere
of this Society. That so little has
been accomplished during the past
year, is to he attributed to the ineffi
ciency of the Board, arising in part
from the novelty of the subject, and
the prejudices of community against
such institutions, hoth*on account of
the source from which they originate,
and the prevailing impression that
such societies were not needed.
How many, and who were destitute
of the Bible, was, with us a novel
question.—The managers acted up
on the presumption, that there was
a deficiency ; and in this respect they
have not been disappointed. At an
early period, the Board solicited the
tax receiver, while engaged in the
discharge of the duties of his office,
to take a Bible census of the coun
ty, who kindly acceeded to their
wishes. But he had traversed the
county once in the discharge of the
duties of his office before the Board
made of him this request. On this
account the statement furnished by
his report is imperfect. The Board
anticipated the most happy result
from his labors. But other causes
operated to prevent him from obtain
ing an accurate statement of the
wants of those sections of the county
embraced in his report. Notwith
standing the benevolence of the plan
adopted by your Board, so richly
fraught with all the blessings which
the word of God bestows, and preg
nant with immortal happiness to the
present and all succeeding genera
tion we regret to say, that the agent
was often treated with derision and
contempt; until at length he deemed
it advisable to abandon the work.
To this agent your Board are great
ly indebted for his cordial and disin
terested co-operation.
This report embraces a portion of
the county not exceeding one fourth
part of the white population ; but it
furnishes materials for an effectual
refutation of the clamours cf a cold
and merciless infidelity which dares
to raise her cautious voice with Her
culean strength against Bible socie
ties and to assert that they are not
needed.
That report formed under all the
disadvantages already mentioned in
cludes two hundred families, and in
dividuals who have no families, who
are destitute of the word of God. j
Assuming this statement as the basis
of our calculation and admitting that
the remaining sections of the county
arc equally destitute, we have with
in the county not less than BCO fam
ilies, and individuals who have no
families, who do not possess the rev
elation of God. When we reflect
that this is one of the most worthy
and important counties on the map
of Georgia, that the opportunities
and means of its citizens to supply
thdmselves with Bibles, arc not infe
rior to those of any other, the con
viction that there is an equal deficien
cy throughout the Stale forces itselt
upon our minds with irresistible en
ergy —Admitting this statement as a
fair estimate, the deficiency is as one
to twelve.
The resources of the society are
still small. No associations have yet
been received as auxiliary to the
county society. The board have trans
mitted g 50 to the parent society in
New York, for the purchase of Bibles,
which have been forwarded to us.
The American Bible Society with its
accustomed liberality, has presented
this society with 50 Bibles and 100
Testaments, and formally received
and acknowledged it as one of its
auxiliaries. We cannot withhold the
expression of our gratitude in behalf
of the society, to the Parent Institu
tion for this liberal «S’ timely aid; nor
can we fail to notice how powerful an
argumentshe is thus putting into the
hands of the friends of the Bible
cause, to be urged against its ene
mies. According to the statements
contained tn the 10th report, the pa-
[OR $4 IF NOT PAID IN SIX MONTHS.
NO. 48.. ..V0L. I.
rent institufipn has made a donation
®f 150 copies of the Scriptures to
each of tho ten societies in this stato
which have been recognized as aux
iliaries. A letter from the Agent of
the American Bible Society to your
corresponding secretary, states that
a similar donation has since been
made to three other societies, malt
ing a total of 1950 copies of tho
scriptures granted “ without money
and without price” to her auxiliaries
in Georgia within the last year. Let
Infidelity blush at facts like these,
and whenever she attempts to brand
the managers of that noble institu
tion with a peculation of its funds,
and using them for purpose# of cler
ical aggrandizement, vve need only
refer to tho history of her munifi
cence to her auxiliaries for a refuta
tion of every objection. It is a fact
which cannot be doubted, that the
amount of donations to her auxilia
ries far exceeds the amount of mo
ney which they have paid into her
treasury, and the full amount of
money has been returned in Bible3
at 5 per cent below cost.—The un
expected deficiency of Bibles in this
county clearly demonstrates the ne
cessity of more vigorous exertions
than have hithorto been made to as
certain the precise extent of the de
ficiency, and to supply it. It is no
longer problematical whether Bible
Societies arc needed. Nor can the
utility of such Institutions be doubt
ed for a moment, when we reflect
that the Bible, and it alone” is the
power of god unto salvation to ev
ery one that believelh.” "Without
faith, it is impossible to please God;
Faith cometh by hearing and hear
ing by the word cf God.” There
fore, the dcstitue must Perish; for so
intimate is the connection between
a knowledge of the word of God and
salvation that the one cannot be rea
sonably expected without the other.
Who are the fprofane and sabbath
breakers of our country? Who arc
the drunkards and the inmates of our
prisons? They are those who neg*
lcct the Bible. Where is pure reli
gion and undefiled before God tho
Father, most felt and regarded? A
mong those who arc destitute of tho
Bible, or among those who daily read
its sacred pages? Among heathens
or among those who have been
taught to read the Scripture from
their childhood? The answer « ob
vious, your Board indulge the liopo
that at no distant period the Bib'o
will be found in every family within
the sphere ot its operation, carrying
light and life to every benighted
soul.
By order of the Board,
GEORGE FOOT,
Cor. Sec. J. C. A. B. S.
Matcrnal Influence. —The mental
fountain is unsealed to the eye of a
mother, ere it has chosen a channel,
or breathed a murmur. She may
tinge with sweetness or bitterness,
tlicwbolestreamoffuturelife. Others
have to contend with unhappy com
binations of ideas. Os her, we may
say, she hath entered into the maga
zine of snow, and seen the treasures
of the hail. In the moral field, she
is a privileged labourer.—Ere the
dews of morning begin to exhale, she
is there. She breaks up a soil which
the root of error, and the thorns of
prejudice, have not pre-occupied.
She plants germs w hose fruits is for
eternity. While she feels that she
is required to educate not merely a
virtuous member of society, but a
Christian, an angel, a servant of the
Most High, how does so holy a charge
quicken piety, by teaching the heart
its own insufficiency!
“ The soul of her infant is uncov
ered before hor. She knows that the
images which she enshriues in that
unoccupied sanctuary, must rise be
fore her at the bar of doom. Tremb
ling at such tremenduous responsi
bility, she teaches the little being,
whose life is ier dearest care, of the
God who made him : and who can
measure the extent of a mother’s
lessons of piety, unless his hand
might remove the veil which divides
terrestrial things !
“ When I was a little child," said a
good man, “ my mother used to bid
me kneel beside her, and placed her
hand upon my head while she pray
ed. Ere I was old enough to know
her worth, she died, and I was lefc
much to my own guidance. —Like
others, I was inclined to evil pas
sions, but often felt myself checked,
and, as it were, drawn back by tho
soft hand upon my head. When t
was a young man I travelled in for
eign lands, and was closed to many
temptations. But I would have
yieldod, that sawc hand was upon my
head, and I was saved. I seemed to
feel its pressure as in days ot my
happy infancy and sometimes, there
carue with it a voice in my heart, a
voice that must be obeyed : “ Oh! do
not this wickedness, my son, nor sin
I again: t thy God