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AlvaRl.l. kT.lZ D^P G,»yW CH?.iCU
ill’ o*.T»5«th»td.
culiar character from the tenet, so
generally diffused throughout the
East, respecting the trausrnigiatiou
of souje. Accortli 'g to this beliaf,
the spirit of mao, after death, is not
conveyed ini® a different slate ot ex
istence, but goes to animate some oth
er mortal body, or evou one belonging
to the brute creation. The recepta
cle into which it then enters is deci
ded by tbe course of action followed
during tbe present life. The virtu
ous man may rise from an bumble
caste to tbe rank of a prince or even
of a Bramin, while the depraved not
only sink iuto degradation us human
beings, hut oven have their soujs^en-
ClqStJ'liiij? tflb\v, l "tf)® Hindoo oracles
endeavor to establish a certain con
formity between tbo offences com
mit led and tbe condition uuder which
they are expiated. The thief is eon-
verted into some animal addicted to
steal the articles which were the
wonted objects of his own depreda-
J rid of all others, accordingly, that
moil determines our hopas or fears
of tte future fate of the young. To
leel no joy in such pursuits; to listen
carelessly to the voice which brings
s a china guide out instruction; to see
the 'oil raised which conceals the
counsels of tho deity, and lo show no
umolous at the discovery, ore symp
toms tf a ivoitk and torpid spirit—of
a mini unworthy «f the advantages it
tion. The pilferer of grain is meta
llic sum expended for the tea, cof
fee, wiue, spirits, and sugar which
were impoiUd during the sam** peri
od—loss than two months interest on
the sum thus expended! *The same,
doubtless, has been true of every one
ofjlui twenty years which have e-
Inpsud since foreign missions were
fi st uinloi laktin aid yet what un a-
moout of good have these triflint:
8unis produced/ Sue, (in tho m;s
-ions of the American B«»id nWe.)
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possesses, and which i* fitted only for
the huriilitv of sensual aud ignoble j 59,000 pupils unds*r instruction
pleasuu. Of those on the contrary I churrhcs omsibSinhfd, b:vb-«
who distinguish themselves by the ( 1809 tut-mb**
lovo of Lnoa;ledgc, who follow with j Bible and t
?.'« ®‘i e l apTfofortn thu most ‘ttmuwa-
«s. It is tho oharaetor
: 1 UOO.OUO
hie pressa
natural to
one gi-i'j'
their idtd g.»
rtuf.li, and which, there- church?*.
'dlUtiW
bail ’.
'I
fora, promtoa wull of their maturity’
We foifscoi’or them, at least, a Ido
of pure and Virtuous euj-ymeut, aud
wo arc williig to anticipate no com
mon share if future usefulness and
splendor.—Alisons Sermons.
S.8X.ZOXOU3<
THE BIBLE THE CODE OF LIB
ERTY.
Even the pel i ion I freedom Of
Greece and Remo tv. a far from be
ing founded »n a correct understand
ing of the rights ©f man. la goner-'.I.
it was merely the freedom of a proud
aristocracy t© trample upon the poor,
and hold foreigners in cruel bandage.
The civil libejty of pagan antiquity
was not inconsistent with tho most
m rciless oppressions of the lower or
ders of the «vLoo tins could
be ventured upon with iuipmity, nor
with the most revolting and brutal
izing forms of slavery. The pagan
appears t> bad no idea of tha rights
of men, as men hut only of the rights
•This own republic to prasurvu its
freedom and, if possible, lo bring all
others in subjection to itself. Bn*
the idea of tha light of even an in
dividual state to be free, was not in
considerable adv-Mice upou tbe abso
lute despotism vf the East; ami the
freedom of the classical ages, imper
fect it was. has not failed to exert
a very beneficial influence on ih<* gov
ernments of lb« western world —
T''©re is iu antiquity, however, uo
exoinrde of a free representative gov
ernment, founded on tbe principle of
(equal rights till the idea was suggest
ed by tbe institutions of Moses and
fully realized in tbo primitive organi
zation of tho Christian Church. E-
ven while the. Hebrews were under
the monarchy ol their no*;-.- sove
reigns, the limitations of the royal
power were such, (list (he meatiest
subjects enjoyed far more liberty,
tb^n m'ii '*.o : ,i tf‘ii' i l< d it. the boasted
ariftor’eatie republics of ancieut
Greece. ! t is wol! kuown, that the
spirit of Act'd cm, which is now diffu
sing itsolf through the old world, and
'renderingdespotism every where tn-
Seour*. owes its or gin to the foun
ders of out' own free insiituiious; and
it is equally well known, though not
proclaimed with equal loudness and
frequency, that our anegstors de
rived their ( «oti«»s of civil govern
ment and equal rights directly Lorn
the Bible. If, then, we would
teach our veung men to correct the
partial and unjust notions of civil
rights which prevailed in .pagan re
publics, or to understand the princi
ples on which our own institutions
rest, or to sympathize with all that is
really valuable in tho spirit of free
dom that is now abroad iu the world,
we must, in all our plans of,educa
tion^connect the thorough study of
the Biblo vritlnho sludy of the great
matters of antiquity.-P/"/. Stowe
--Bib. Repository *
morpbosted into a rat; while he who
i-stole roots of fruit became an apo.—.
The person (bus lowered in tbo scale
of being must pass through a long
succession o degraded births eic In*
can resume the human form aud un-
doivments. This belief is so familisr
to the Hindoo, that his conversation
is filled with allusions to it If he
see any one sufforiug under ayils that
seem unmerited, lie at unca pronoun
ces them tho ponalty of sin commit
ted m a previous stage aud form of
existence. Even on seeing a cow o*
a dog receive a severe beating, he
infers that tbe soul which auimntw*
iiieiu must, uuder its human shape,
have committed some offence worthy
of such castigation. Wives who con
sider themselves injuriously treated
by rlieir husbands, or even servants
by their masters, indulge the earnest
hope, that m some futufe state of be-
iug, they shall exchange conditions,
aud obtain the'opportunity of a sig
nal retaliation. — Edinburg Cabinet
Library, JVo. VII, History of EritUk
India, Vol. 2.
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1\ intranet -
wkiskv-v fr«>«j
arc asms cl h*
of chai itv * fe'd
rtf® table ■ ^ m
1 V V11: i 1 Biyv \\* I
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aud
irdei s I
•<f thw»* < i
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Prom tho Ncw-Ywk Observer.
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COST OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. ; of tlwir valips, sad r
In the following (able, which has • otb#r laxnrles, tlw> iwx
been carefully prepared from tfiicul
documents, the first column sbuiis
iha amouut contrioutcd to the Amer
ican Board of Foreign Missions by
the Presbyteiiao churches in eavdi
state south of! N»\v-England, during
the year 1831,; the sc.coud colinun
shows tbe nunjuor of communicauls in
those ehurchflfe;& the tbird-, the sum
ontiibutcd bl r eacli communicant by
THE lM'PJUSON :f.D 2d!SSe • 0N A
R! E a
CauUude.1.
DEP.Vm M'Y
N'nvouibo-r 1
TRAN8MIGliATiON OF SOULS.
Thr Hind{0 crend derives its pe-
Youtk the Season oj Religious Im
provement.— Iu ©very period of life,
lilt-; acquisition of knowledge is one
of the most plcssin? enjoymeuts of
tho human mind But in youth there
are circumstances which make it
productive of higher enjoyment. It
is then that every thing has the
charms of uovclty, that curiosity and
fancy are .awake; and that the heart
swells with the anticipations of fu
ture eminence and utility. Even iu
tbi>*o lower branches of instruction
which we call mere accomplishments,
there is something always pleasing to
the young in their acquisition. They
seem to become voty wall educated
persons; they adorn if they do not dig
nify humanity; aud what is far more
while they give an elegant employ
ment te the hours of loisure am! re
laxation, they afford a means of con
tributing to tit© purity and innocence
of domestic life. But in the acqui
sition of knovvledge of a higher kiud in
tho hours when the young gradually
begin the study of (he laws of nature,
and. the facilities of tne human mind,
or of the magnificent revelations of
the Gospel, there is a pleesmo of a
sublime nature. The cloud which
in their infant years seemed to cover
nature from their view, begins grad
ually to revolve. Tbo world in
which they are placed, opens with
all its wonders upon (heir eye; their
powers of attention and .observation
seoiu to expaud with tho scene be
fore them; aud, while they see for
tho first liaiH, the immensity of lb©
universe of God, and mark the ma-
jitalic simplicity of those laws by
illicit its operations are conducted,
they feel as if they wero awakened
to a higher species of being, and ad
mitted into nearer intercourse with
the Author of Nature.' It is this pe-
1
Amo 1 !!!! I
conl’batorf
No. ofCotn.
Avctare am
States.
municantj,.
to
IttO'l
\n ISSI.
CtjJ.
m.
N. York*- g 1.1,462 21
76,178
44
3
N. Jersey j
Ponnsylv’ia,
4,0*46 60
14,!J02
27
2
4.2S0 as,
42,421
10
1
S. Caroliiic
i.b02 101
7,190
IS
0
Ohio
i ,l! l 0 09(
816 10
21,491
4
9
Virginia
Mieh. Ter.
10,004
8
3
203 14'
005
CO
0
Georgia
221 20
2,151
10
3
Indiana
40 09
2,927
1
3
Delaware
102 00
3,410
3
0
Maryland
'le.ncssoo
i 381 20
1,172
118
0
’ 96 12
8,090
i 1
»
Pis. ot Col.
101 00
1,146
»
6
N. Carolina
43 50
8,111
8
4
Kontucky
695 81
7,626
9
2
Mississippi
164 00' 128 , v
13
0
Alabama
29 20
. 2.091
l
4
Illinois
13 Ou
1,138
1
1
AI issonri
i
1,009
___
?;uins Total. 46,250 U7j217yXS4
UEMaIIKj.
LT
Sii, F have voceii
lathe Pro at, t; i ;■ -.r iv; '«i Of
America;) Boon! - •wowinmisouc.r*
! for Foreign Misv^s. turns muted in
! your letter of the 3 t iost , mid am in
strurted to iufurni von, tint having,
I on mature consideration sc.l.- jl.i him-
! self that the Legislature;. >■< the re-
! per-live states have povt«-:r to cxicnrl
! their laws over at) persons livin’ wit!)-
ployed to break down his power, antT
iheusands and hundreds of thousands
of gold aud silver would be looked
upon as tho dust in the balance, when
compared to the great object of lib-
Hinting our biethren from sutsh unjust
and Cruel slavery. And he who
would not aid in effecting ttie great
object, .n* rnnlter by what. Christian
ot mi; called, wi-uld justly subject
i'imicit to the indignation ot iiibulicd
humanity.
But o.ir despot is at hand. He'
btemhes with ns the air nfiich enr
Fathers in* ghi ns to br-licvc v ns tile
acj..uJa mdimUltca
v'.«s!f<nuig ; it. H. ivn. ore over within our reach,*- •a
, ; and at our disposal, and the liberation,
do-j ,v iiie rnistiunririeis is within onr power.
Ijim ! Nm m e we called upon to fii out nr-
-g! mami-n.s to cross seas, noi to batter
■ ; down th>’ c.:s lc of llic despot with
>.hs : P n rrioi iind hali, nor expend hundreds
! -*.;n snd tiionsand . to accomplish so great
- chiistis-c- on object; we nave ii n o«r power in
-.xurct, the.’ ,R tow weeks Irom tltis day, by going
th^ full spirii j t 1 ’ ? h© ballot box and voting agninet
>• /r above *|! I t» ; rr le-cleptir-n ot ?flndvcw Jaclcspn, to -
■ f '' r '0i'sh‘ the castlo of despuism
ovt ihrrn- w'.iu it hatP-been upwards of three
years in buiid.ng, drive the tyiantf
fium it into his original obscority v re«*'
csi.'b'isb the cmpiio of law, and M
the missionaries go Jrce.
Wo ask, where, where is thd
Christian, where the citizen, Where .
the man. whe will infuse to came
forward, and lend lus power, tha t\-
erciscol wiiic.h will not cost him
ubmin.singlexenl. to aid the country of iiie
L s .t|n*r who has shown himself to be
a despot; his ionscience to be irnper-
\ioustothe obligations ©( his oath,
and b : s heart sirelul against the t ries
of st-fi'ciing humanity?
‘A bore, no ask. is the man? Let
him who would refuse to unite in a
ouu>,<“ so holy, hold up his hand—let
nn suad out before augds and-men,
or V.’ar )
S
iu their boiinrlaries, *1 liiat w hen j and announce his insensibility to stick
thus exlGHiltd tbe vuinus acts o'” a call, that he may not bo mistaken
Congress providing a
ecedis-r in cas«s of Fndi
ol pro-
1, .varcnuise,
(before any
i tlif fulnre.
righteous corumunity in
Bat no, we will cot !>e-
luconsisleut with th**sv law-s, be- j licve that there lives one man, having
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(loiu© inonurative. hr has no autliori-
| ty to iutvi'erc, under tho oirenm-j
i stances slued iu the memorial.
1 havu tlie bouar Id be,
very r.ispectfully,
your ahadiaut serv’t, ,
LEWIS i \bb. j
William Reed, Esq. Clisumn of 1
A.
Frrhfigs of a man, to say nothing
ni CluisMr.ns who woulil, tinder such
ctrcunwlanofs, (eel indifferent So (ho
'■•■it ii. tho heralds oi the gospel, or
w uhh, iii ins cfitMis to release 11icni
Item a bondage su lawless, so rtucl,
and so erjiist
hen itome was freo, the declar-
-<• * '* one of her sons—no mattei*
tv *rsib!o lii® condiite.n, 'Icm a lio-
1. It seems then that i!17,000 |
Christians, iu this favored laud, h*v<; (
contributed during one year $46.000, J
or cents each, lor tho couveisign j
of tii®4ie.ttneruw®ihl! Aud yet lueiu j
are inoa who talk «f'foreign missions ’ho Prudential ( umraUtt v
drauung tbo couutry of silver.’ Lot B. C. F. M. Boston ”
such men examine the following si .lc- j A stale, in Picsidsnt Jackson r: man ciltzen, mud© th« <iesp»t r** jc
inent, derived also from official uoc-1 v ’iew of tho subject, in. > thei oio. u ! ins hold in the certain prospect ii he
uateuts. of tho sums expended for ou i nullify “act* ot ‘fougruss’ !!! —and he j «>d not, that sll Rome would rise to
uk s upu.i himself, to • xercise the
iithgly pierogat. v a tu decide iiic qiu^*
tion, though l.ii« Suprein-* Couu nas
rendered against hisdocistu.—wincli,
liomwcr, lie ruspocts as intiw as be
ly five articles of luxury, imported
trom foreign countrius, during tho
twelve monlbs coding September
30th of tho spine year.
Value.
, Teas,
Cotl'ce,
Wines,
Spirits,
Sugar,
$1,418, 037
6,317.G6G
1,673,058
1,037,737
4,937.824,}
gll
r.8,822
•2• Tho population of the United
States in 1831 was but a tilth* umre
than 13,000,000. The sum sent to
furcign countries for the five luxuries
(tea, coffee, n me, spirits, &■ sugar,)
amouuted, therefore, to more than
onu dollar, olyan average, for every
man, woman, .nul child, m Ihecoun
try, white and hWk, bond and free!
All was expeAidciffor self-grnlijicalion,
and was, tlierofove, rational] but
when a few Christians expend twen
ty cents each for tho luxury of doing
good to the souls and bodies of mill
ions of their fellow creatures, it is
extravagance and fanaticism !’
3. The whole sum uonlnbutod for
ilia support of foreign and Indian
missions, during'the year 1831, by
the Presbyterians, Reformed Dutch,
Congregationalists , Episcopations ,
Baptist, and Methodists, in this coun
try, was less than one per etij>. of
defend the victim and avenge the ia-
sailed honor of the Republic.
Bur here, in An, eric a, Ijotv have
o ■. lie.:i’iS jclt anil our energies heert
inplovcd during iho many mouths that
iloas liiw “nets of Congress,'" tf.e tea- j the von oi ol two of our citizens have
sun is- be is "‘independent oj both," j been mournfully nttorir.g “the corn-
was “born to comiaami,” and the peo-; plaint, -wc, who are .American citizens,
pie to obey!
i are here incarcerated m this Icallueme
Liu: wo leave tins branch of tho jprisoit-our crime being the preaching of
discussion to ilia judgment of un en- the everlasting gorptl to the aborigines
lightened public, tuni proceed. j (j the country?
Yos, Feilow-Cilizsiis, it h lie. w ho i Will wc stand still any longer?—
ought to both© President of tbo peo
ple, tho guardian of our rights, me
supporter of tho constitution,;tuo t*x
editor of llto law, hut who has told
us he is abeve I a tv, or ulial is the
of bulb Congress and tbe Supreme
Will we permit tbo opportunity to
pass which is now to bo brought to
ourrrry doors, lo lib»*rnle our broth
ers? Will any man consider tin* toil
lor the accomplishment ol so great ail
same thiug, that lie is ^ludepe-nJeat'* ukjeot too great, which requires only
ill At ©ach pursow shall vote asruinst the
Court;” and that he shall execute ‘ reflection qf Andrew Jackstni
iho laws, and administer the Consti
tution according to his interpretation
of lliuiu; it is this usurper, who, with
more than kingly daring, lutdts on
composedly aud sees a stale axeicis-
ing usurped power, to stl)ict aud dis
grace mentor preachingthu gospel to
a remnant of the original owners of
our csunlrj!.
1 f a Fagan despot were to act
(lies, though ten tliuusuud miles dis
tant, and did oceans roll between us
and the victims of his malico, all the
energies of our souls would bu cm-
Ou. Fathers pledged llicmstdvei,
each to tlie other, in their property,
aad their sacred tumor, eye, and. in
their lives, to win the boon of ft ecdom
—to lay Hie fouhdatian of equal and
just laws in this VVest«rn world—lo
secure lo everu man his lights, and
cunlirr upou all the blessings of frefi
gaverument. Nobly did Ihejr resolve)
and nobly did tliay achiete. Trass*
ura aud blood, aud life, were freely
<lvad, and the eye of the dying pat-
dot, catching a glimpse of the glori
ous future, would impart to his heat fe
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