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8 [From the Mountain Echo.] The SailoUs Grave. BT CHA3. TAYLOR. Suggested by “Bury M* in ih* St*“ Not in the churoh-yard shall he sleep, Ami«l t-lie silent gloom. His home was on the mighty deep, And there shall he his tomb. 1 Break not for-him the grassy turf, Nor turn the dewy sod. Hi* dust shall rest beneath th« surf, llis spirit—with its God. 1 Ho loved hi* own bright, deep, blue so*, \ P'er it ho loved to roam, j And now his winding sheet shall bo That namo bright ocean s foam. Though soa and sky fierce war would wago And threatening thunders roll, • , He heeded nottha tempest'* rag? — 'Twas musio to his soul. He acted well the sailor's part, So generous and brave, And boundless as his noble heart So wide shall be his grave. * No village bell shall toll for him Its mournful solemn dirge ; But winds shall chant a requiem To him beneath the surge. Tho Closing Days of the Apostle John. After the death of St. Paul, John chose Asia Minor as the scene of his labours. | Here his attention was naturally directed to the further extention of the cause of the Gospel. Ho went about establishing new churches, ordaining pastors over them, and exercising his apostolic authority tor the benefit of the brethren. Some of the chur ches mentioned in the Apocalypse as requi ring his superintending care, along with others not recorded, probably owed their origin to his missionary zeal, llis energies however, seemed chiefly to have been di rected towards confirming the communities already established in the knowledge and love of the truth. And his Gospel and Epistles remained an enduring monument of the wisdom of divine Providence, in di recting to this sphere of labour an individu al whose mental conformation, as well as the tenof of his Christian experience, rendered him peculiarly qualified for Opposing the speculative and practical errors which had begun to manifest themselves in the time of the Apostle Paul, and the farther develop ment of which he had clearly foretold, not so much by dialectic art, as by the earnest expression of his heartfelt and deep-reaching intuitions of divine truth. Upon [he rise of the persecution under Domitian, this apostle was carried to Home, and afterwards banished to Patinos, an island in the iEgean Sea, where the future destinies of the church and of the world were disclosed to him in those visions whose undefined and mysteri ous foreshadowings continue to exercise the faith and encourage the hopes of believers in the pages of the Apocalypse. Upon f lic death of Domitian, he obtained with other exiles, the remission of his sentence of ban ishment ; and the closing years of his life were spent at Ephesus, as the central point of his apostolical ministrations. One or two anecdotes have been recorded by the fathers of the church, which, as they correspond with the qualities exhibited by him, as made known to us in Sacred Histo ry, may be received as probable, though the external evidence is not conclusive. During one of his missionary journeys, he was struck with the appearance of a young man whom he observed in an assembly of the brethren, and warmly recommended him to the care of the newly-ordained min ister. Upon a subsequent visit, when in quiring of the pastor respecting his interest ing charge, he learnt that, after his baptism, the youth had been betrayed-into vicious habits by idle'companioos; and that throw ing aside all restraint, he had proceeded to every extremity of guilt, and had now taken up his abode on a neighboring mountain, where lie was infesting the country as a captain of bauditti. The apostle, in the ar dour of his love, proceeded at once, unarm ed, towards the haunt of the outlaws, and being soon laid hold of by.one of the band, he demanded to be brought to his leader. When the young Vbbber beheld the holy man approaching, he turned away in shame, to avoid his presence. Bui the apostle fol lowed sister him, and refused to leave him till, by his prayers, and tears, and expostu lations, he brought him hack to the true fold. Upon another occasion, in his zeal against error, lie manifested perhaps some remains af the natural temperament which, at an earlier period, had procured for him and his brother the appellation of the “ Soits of Thunderwhen in proceeding to bathe, lie perceived the heretic Cerinthus, and tur ning hastily away, exclaiued, “Lotus flee THE ARMY & NAVY HERALD. from this place, lest the bath should fall j while this enemy of the truth is within j • The prevailing sentiment, however of his ; declining years was love ; and we are tola by St. Jerome, that when he was too much oppressed with infirmity to permit him to i exercise his public ministry any longer, be I was accustomed to be carried into th# church and after stretching forth his feeble arm? and crying, Little children, love one anoth- j cr, to retire from the assembly. So deeply was he imbued with the scraphi* love of the bosom on which lie leaned, that it remained : unimpared amidst the decays of nature and the eclipse of intellect. The precise year of his death is not known but it took place daring the peaceful inter val in which Trajan pursued the mild poli cy of his immediate predecessor, at a date whi#h is usually considered as correspond ing with the beginning of the second cen tury. — Dr. Welsh's Church History. A Historical Illustration. When South Carolina was overrun by i the British in our great revolutionary war j of the past century, among many others, Colonels Marion and Horry, of that State, j without any concert of action aud without i the knowledge of each other, mounted their j steeds and set out to the northward in search of safety and of troops with which to fight the battles of their country. They met to their mutual surprise and joy, in the solita ry forests of North Carolina. A graphic account of the incidents of this hegira of the two patriots is given in Horry’s Life of Marion. The two exiles halt in the shade by the road side to take some food, and good old Peter lion j gives the following as a part of their-conversation : “ I shall never forget an expression,” says he, “ which Marion let fall during our re past, and which, as things have turned out, clearly shows what an intimate acquaintance he [Marion] had with human nature. I happened to say that ouv happy days were all gone.” “ Pshaw Horry,” replied Marion, “don’t give way to such idle fears. Our happy days 'are not all gone.' On the contrary, the victory is still sure. The enemy it is true, have all the trumps in their hands, and if they had but the spirit to play a generous ; game, would certainly ruin us. But they ; have no idea of that game; but will treat, the people cru#lly. Aud that one thing j will ruin them, and save America. When thw.se incidents occurred, Georgia and Carolina had just been overrun by the British. Savannah, < Charleston and Augus ta had been recently captured. All the im portant towns and a vast proportion of the territory of the Thirteen Colonies were in the enemy’s hands, Reconstructionists, alias tories, abounded. At one country bouse, the two Continental •fibers were re fused lodgings because they wore the uni- j form which showed that they were opposed j to “.King Georg#.” At another, honest old Peter was jeered by a wise crowd of bomb-proofs and fireside generals, who were discussing the deprecia tion of the currency, and the folly of con tinuing the war at the public cross roads, j “The situation” for the rebel’s looked des- ; perate. Yet Marion did not despair. Un- j dcr the wise leadership of the immortal j "Washington, the desperate fortunes of the J Colonies were retrieved. Independence ; came years afterwards, through years ot strug i gle and blood. The soft shelled bomb-1 proofs and fire side generals became ardent j self-sacrafieing patriots so soon as they had j enjoyed the blessed cruelties of British su- ! prcmacy for a season. —Lynchburg 'Jlcp. \ o.. Beware of Fiction. — An agent em ployed by the Franklin county Bible Society, says, “ An aged man of ninety years, ‘ did nut want a Bible, but a story book ’ —that is. a novel. Let novel readers ponder this result of a depraved taste ; a pas»ion gen dered in youth, now clinging, to the very ex treme of age. How unspeakably sad the view ! —an aged man tottering a step or two more to his grave! From eternity’s en trance he turns back his sunken eye, reaches fourth his feeble, trembling baud, and calls for fiction , as one dying of delirium does for more of the fatal poison which has al ready destroyed him ! What will he do with his passion beyond thn grave ? Can be aside God’s truth and have, fiction in heaven ? Can he have it in hell ? Let the young, let parents beware of the poison which eats out all relish for the truth, and especially the truth of God, from the soul. ’ — Puritan. Man Unuknewed. —Easy, goodnatured, affable men, whose hearts are nevertheless unrenewed by divine grace, may hi- com pared to ripe plums and apricots, which how ever soft and smooth on the out side, yet have a hard stone within.— Anon. The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste. Among the martyrs who suffered in the persecutions that the Roman emperors rais ed against the early Christians, th*re were forty who endured martydom at the same time, in the city of Sebaste, in, Armenia, a country of the East. They all belonged to the Roman army, and were in the strength and vigour of their age. They had receiv ed many rewards for their volour, and had been advanced to places of trust. But these earthly honours were not what most occu pied their minds—they had become Chris tians, and were leading Christian liv*s. The general of the army was a Heathen, devo ted to the service of idols ; and he thought that in order to conqner the enemy, lie must sacrifice these Christians to the honour of his false gods. JThese faithful soldiers of Christ did not deny their profession'; they refused to offer sacrifice to the idols, and were brought publicly before the judgment seat on their refusal. When they received the emperor’s order to •bey, they answered boldly that they were Christians, and that no tortures wi th which they could be threat ened should force them to forsake their re ligion. Upon this they were cruelly tortu red, and then put in prison, and confined there for a week, being fastened together by chains. It was the the winter, which is very cold in Armenia; and an east wind, which blw at that time, increas ed the severity of'cold. The judge ordered t hese holy men to be stripped of their cloth ing, and exposed to the frost during the coldest part of the night, till the violence of it should cause their death. They went cheerfully to the place of their punishment which Was close to the public baths, that they might see relief at hand, if they were overcome with pain, aud ready to deny their faith. Among the various words with whieh they encouraged each other, they all prayed together to God that he would preserve their number complete. This was fulfilled, but in a different sense from that in which they intended it. and may remind us of the fall of Judas, and the election of St. Mat thias. Oue of these forty follow sufferers yielded and was carried into the baths to be resto red by tlie warmth of the lire ; but ho. did not save his temporal life, for he died as as soon as he was brought in there. His place was supplied with a soldier who had charge of the baths, and who had been watching the martyrs; he hastened to join them, crying out that he was a,-Chris tian. He was bound with chains, and placed among them. At last they all ex pired from the cold; and their dead bodies were heaped together and carried away to be consumed by fire. The youngest of all these martyrs, whose name was Aleliton, was still living after all the rest were dead; the executioners brought his mother to him, ho ping that she wouid persuade him to deny his faith, and live. She was a poor woman, and a widow ; but she had brought up her son in the knowledge of true wisdom. She now came to him, and found his limbs fro zen, his breath short, and his speech gone ; . he could only look at her, and mad* signs to endeavour to console lier. She exerted him to persevere unto the end ; and then with her own hands laid him on the chariot where the dead bodies of his companions had been placed, and followed him rejoicing in his victory. This is said to have happen ed in the month of March. The Gourd and the Palm Tree.—A gmrd wound itself around a lofty palm, and in a few weeks climed to its very top. “ How old mayst thou be '! ” asked the the new comer. “ About a hundred years,” was the an swer. “ A hundred years ! and no taller ! Only look, I have grown as tall as you in a fewer days than you can count years.” “ I know that well,” replied the palm, “ Every summer of my life a gourd has climed up around me, as proud as thou art. and as short-lived as thou wilt be.” ♦ Christian Liberality. —There are cer tain great principals laid down in Scripture in relation to giving, and the use of proper ty generally, respecting which there is much practical scepticism. They are as follows: 1. That'which we have, we hold as stew ards that must give account. 2. The way to increase is to distribute. Some are rich because they are liberal. 3. That which is given to the poor is lent to the Lord. 4- That which is done to Christ’s little ones is done to himself. A hundred to one is the rate of interest God allows now ; and life everlasting in the world to come. (Mark x. 29.) — JYevins. - ■ Earthly riches are full of poverty. Survey of Jerusalem.— While the survey of the city is proceeding, Captain Wilson has been exploring under ground, and has made some important discoveries to elucidate its ancient topography, the mast important of which is the discovery of “one of the arches of the causeway which led from the city to the Temple, in a very good state of preservation, the span of which is between forty and fifty feet, and composed of large stones like thos* seen in the Jewish wailing place.” He has also discovered another cistern in the Harem or Temple area, and says the whole area is perfectly honey-combed with pas sages and cisterns; and he had himself lowered eighty-two feet down a well, which is in what was formerly the valley of the cheesemongers, and followed the stream for a considerable distance till he came to the spring with some steps down into it, which were cut in the solid rock. —London Times. Humility Courting Observation.— That hu mility which courts notice is not first-rate. 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