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moral and relioiousT
No 2.
Come to Jssut
Why should I come? —V ou Are A
Sinner ; Come for Pardon.
Perhaps you do not feel that you ar(
a sinner. Ai least you think you are
no worse than others, but better than
many. You are no drunkard, thief,
-adulterer, but keep the Sabbath, read
the Bible, and attend the bouse of God.
But have you indeed obeyed all the
commandments ? JSever broken any of
them? Always been true, chaste, so
ber, honest, forgiving, kind? Arver j
indulged in pride, malice, anger, deceit,:
or lust ? God requires purity of heart .j
as well as of outward conduct, and ho j
knows all our thoughts. Have you;
then never cherished the thought of sin j
in your heart., though you have feared j
outwardly to commit it? Besides, the:
first and chief commandment is to love
the Lord our God with all our mind and .
strength. Have you always dene this; j
a ways been thoughtful for his mercies, j
always carefully read his word in or
der to obey P, always tried to please
him, loved to pray to him, taken delight
in his day, his people, his warship, al-
striven to be “holy as he is holy,”
to make known his truth, to induce’
others to love hint, and endeavored in j
all things to glorify him ? If you have |
always done this, you have still just on- j
ly done your duty, and have nothing to j
boast of. But you have not done it.
Conscience tells you so. You know j
you have sinned thousands of times. j
You know you have seught your ewn !
pleasure, and in your best actions j
you have not been prompt
ed by a desire to please God. You
have lived for yourself; you have
sought man’s approval, but God has
not been in all your thoughts. The
Bible tells us: “If a man say he hath
no sin, hedeceiveth himself. There is
none righteous, no, not one. All have
sinned,and come short of the glory of
God.” O, my fellow-sinner, is it not
true of thee : “The God in whose hand
thybieathis, and whose are all thy
ways, thou hast not glorified ?” You
are a sinner. Guilt, enormous guilt,
hangs upon you. In God’s hook all
yoursins are written down. Yfou can
not get rid of them. Were you to la
bor for thousands of years, you could
not atone for the least. All you could
do would only be your duty. Paying
to-day’s debt still leaves yesterday’s
where it was. And were you to give
all you possess, or stiff r torture and
death, it would not take away sin. The
past could not be recalled. But there is
forgiveness, tree, full, eternal, for the
guilty. Jesus has pardon for thee, sin
ner, purchased with his own blood.—
Come for it. Come to Jesus Christ for
it.
Note.—Read Ex. 20: 1. 18; Psalm
51. 139; Matt. 5; Rom. 3: 10. 20:
23; 1 John 1: 8-10.
GOD IS ANGRY—COME TO BE
a- RECONCILED.
The Bible tells us: “God is angry
with the wicked every day.” “I.lc ha-
teth all workers ofiniquity.” And has j
not God much cause to be angry with
thee, sinner ? lie gave and preserves |
your life and faculties, and bestows all
your comfoits. Yet you forget him. —
lie has told you his commands; and
those are all intended to do thee good,
yet you do not regard them. You do
not reverence God, but live almost as
if there was no such Being. What an
ungrateful son would you be if thus
you treated your parents —if you avoid
ed their company, disliked to think oi
them, and disregarded their wishes!—
“Hear, O heavens, and be astonished,
O, earth! I have nourished and brought
up children, and they have rebelled
against me.” lie is full of love to you,
as a tender Father; hut by your sins
you have grieved him. Besides, he is
your Creator, King, and righteous
Judge, and must and will punish all
sinners. He must act to those who re
bel, not as a kind parent, hut as an an
gry monarch. It is your own fault,
however, that he is angry. You make
him so. Your sins separate between
you and God. As long as you live
without repenting of sin, his anger must
ever he hot against you, sinner, and you
cannot escape or hide from him. Wher
ever you are, he is there, and he is an
gry. Fie “compasses your path and
your lying,” and he is angry. It de
pends upon him whether or not you
draw your very next breath, and he is
angry. O sinner, better for all the
world to be angry with you than God.
What an awful life is yours! The
S “wrath of God abideth on you.” How
j dreadful to feel when going to bed,
| “God is angry”—to awake and know
i “God is angry”—wherever you go,
j and whatever you do, “God is angry.”
| And O ! to die knowing that “God is
| angry and to stand before his judg
ment-seat and see that he is angry. —
Sinner, he is angry only while you
make him so; lie is willing to be your
fiiend; he sent his son with this mes
sage: “Be yo reconciled to God.” If
you will give your heart to that Mes
senger, and trust in him, all this anger
will cease. O then, come to Jesus. —
Be no longer God’s foe, but accept the
olfor to bo his friend. But beware,
beware of rejecting Jesus ; for he says:
“He that believeth not,” that is, does
not come to “the Son, shall not see life,
hut the wrath of God abideth on him.”
Note.—Rend John 3: 3t>; Psalm, 7:
11: 5. 0; 21: 8. 9; Rom. I: 18; 2: 5.
9; 2 Cor. 5: 18, 21; Eph. 5: 6; 2 Thes.
1: 7, 9.
£ Selected for the Banner.
The Contrast.—l saw a vast mul
titude of the sick and dying, ali fast
hastening to death; and l heard a voice
say: “There is life for the asking,”
and there was but one or two of all the
great company raised their voice to beg
that boon. I saw a hand of weary
travelers in a sandy desert, parched
with thirst, and 1 heard a voice saying
jto them: “There is water for the seek
ling.” “Ho, every one that tbirstelb,
| come ye to the waters !” and directly
in sight appeared a coot and sparkling
fountain, gushing from a rock which
threw a deep shadow across the “wea
ry land,” and hut a few there were
who made the effort to reach the grate
ful shade of the rock, or to slake their
thirst in its waters.
“There is gold for the digging,” pro
claims another voice; and thousands of
eager questioners cry : “Where—
where!” Far, far away over the deep
waters, across the dangerous passes of
the mountain, danger and disease must
be braved—but vvliat of all that! there
is “gold for the digging,” at the end.
And how they throng, and press, and
crowd, to reach the far off land !
“What shall it profit a man, if he
gain the whole world and lose his own
soul; or what shall he give in exchange
for his soul?”
LADIES’ DEPARTMENT.
A Father’s Advice to his only
Daughter.
Written Immediately after her marriage.
From the pen of the late Bishop Madison,
of Virginia, to his daughter residing in
Richmond.
My Dear. —You have just entered
into to that state which is replete with
happiness or misery. The issue de
pends upon that prudent, amiable, uni
form conduct, which wisdom and vir
tue so strongly recommend, on the one
hand, or on that imprudence which a
want es reflection or passion may j
prompt, on the other.
You are allied to a man of honor, of
talents, and of an open, generous dis-j
position. You have, therefore, your!
power, all the essential ingredients of
domestic happiness; it cannot be marred, |
if you now reflect upon that system of!
conduct which you ought invariably to j
pursue —if you now see clearly the!
path from which you will resolve nev-!
er to deviate. Our conduct is often
the result of whint or caprice, often j
such as will give us many a pang, un-!
less we sec before hand, what is always!
PENFIELD, GA. MARCH 27, 1852.
the most praiseworthy, and the most es
sential to happiness.
The first maxim which you should
impress deeply upon your mind, is nev
er to attempt to control your husband
by oppposition, by displeasure, or any
other mark ofanger, A man of sense,
of prudence, of warm feelings, cannot,
and will not, bear an opposition ofany
kind, which is attended with an angry
look or expression. The current of
his affections is suddenly stopped; his
attachment is weakened; he begins to
fe! a mortification, the most pungent;
he is belittled even in his own eyes;
and be assured, the wife who once ex
cites those sentiments in the breast of a
husband, will never regain the high
ground which she might and ought
to have retained. When he marries
her, if he be a good man, ho expects
from her smiles, not frowns; he expects
to find in her one who is not to control
him—not to take from him the freedom
of acting as his own judgment shall di
rect; but one who will place such con
fidence in him as to believe that his pru
dence is his best guide. Little things,
what in realty are mere trifles in them
selves, often produce bickerings, and
even quarrels. Never permit them to
be a subject-of dispute; yield them with
pleasure, with a smile of affection. Be
assured that one difference out-weighs
them all a thousand, or ten thousand
times. A difference with your hus
band ought to bo considered as the
greatest calamity—as one that is to be
most studiously guarded against; it is
a demon which must never he permit
ted to enter a habitation, where all
should be peace, unimpaired confidence,
and heartfelt affection. Besides, what
can a woman gain by her opposition or
her ditferences ? Nothing. But she
loses every thing; she loses her hus
band’s respect for her virtue, she loses
his love, and with that, all prospect of
future happiness. Siie creates herown
misery, and then utters idle and silly
complaints, hut utters them in vain.
The love of a husband can be retained
only by the high opinion which he en
tertains of his wife’s goodness of heart,
of her amiable disposition, of the sweet
ness of her temper, of her prudence, and
of her devotion to him. Let nothing,
upon any occasion, ever lessen that
opinion. On the contrary it should
augment every day; lie should have
much more reason to admire her for
those excellent qualities, which will cast
a lustre over a virtuous woman, when
her personal attractions are no more.
Has your husband staid out longer
than you expected ? When he returns
receive him as the partner of your
heart. Flas he disappointed you in
something yon expected, whether of
ornament, or furniture,or of any con
veniency ? Never evince discontent;
receive his apology with cheerfulness.
Does he, when you are housekeeper,
invite company without informing you
ofit, or bring home with him a friend ?
Whatever maybe your repast, however
scanty it may be, however impossible it
may be to add to it, receive them with
a pleasing countenance, adorn your ta
ble with cheerfulness, give to your hus
band or to your company a hearty wel
come ; it will more than compensate
for every other deficiency; it will e
vince love for your husband, good sense
in yourself, and that politeness of man
ners, which acts as the most powerful
charm, it will give to the plainest fare
a zest superior to all that luxury can
boast. Never be discontented on any
of this nature.
In the next place, as your husband’s
success in his profession will depend
upon his popularity, and as the manners
of a wife have no little influence in ex
tending or lessening the respect and es
teem of others for her husband, you
should take care to be affable and polite
to the poorest as well as the richest.—
A reserved haughtiness is a sure indica
-1 tiou of a weak mind and an unfeeling
heart.
With respect to your servants, teach
them to respect and love you, while
| ycu expect from them a reasonable dis
charge of their respective duties. Nev
er tease yourself or them by scolding;
it has no other effect than to render
them discontented and impertinent.—
Admonish them with a calm firmness.
Cultivate your own mind by the pe
rusal of those books which instruct
while they amuse. Do not devote
much of your time to novels; there are
a few which may be useful in impiov
ing and in giving a higher tone to our
moral sensibility; but they tend to vi
date the taste, and to produce a disrel
ish for substantial intellectual food.—
Most plays are of the same cast; they
are friendly to delicacy, which is one
of the ornaments of the female charac
ter. History, Geography, Poetry, Mor.
al Essays, Biography, Travels, Ser
mons, and other well written religious
productions, will not fail to enlarge >
your understanding, to render you a
more agreeable companion, and to exalt
your virtue. A woman devoid of ra
tional ideas of religion, has no security
for her virtue; it is sactificed to her
passions, whose voice, not that of God,
is her only governing principle. Be
sides, in those hours of calamity to
which families must be exposed, where
will she find support, if it be not in her
just reflections upon that all-ruling
Providence which governs the uni
verse, whether animate or inanimate.
Mutual politeness between the most
intimate friends is essential to that har
mony which should never be once bro
ken or interrupted. How important
then is it between man and wife ! The
more warm the attachment, tho less will
either partner bear to be slighted or j
treated” with the smallest degree of j
rudeness or inattention. This polite-[
ness, then, if it be not in itself a virtue,
is at least the means of giving to real j
goodness anew lustre; it is the means .
of preventing discontent, and even |
quarrels; it is the oil of intercourse, it
removes asperities, and gives to every
ihing a smooth, and even, and a pleas
ing movement.
1 will only add, that matrimonial hap- j
piness does not depend upon wealth; no
it is not to be found in wealth, hut in
minds properly tempered and united to
our respective situation. Competency
is necessary, all beyond that point is
ideal. Do not suppose, however, that l
would not advise your husband to aug
ment his property by all honest and
commendable means. I would wish to
see him actively engaged in such a
pursuit, because engagement, a sedu
lous employment, in obtaining some
laudable end, is essential to happiness.
In the attainment of a fortune by hon
orable means, and particularly by pro
fessional exertions, a man derives par
ticular satisfaction, in self-applause, as
well as from die increasing estimation
in which he is held by those around
him.
In the management ot your domestic
concerns, let prudence and wise econo
’ my prevail. Let neatness, order, and
judgment be seen in all your different
departments. Unite liberality ..with a
just frugality; always reserve some
thing for the hand of charity; never let
your door he closed to the voice of suf
fering humanity. Your servants, in
particular, will have the strongest claim
upon your charity, let them he well
fed, well clothed, nursed in sickness,
and never unjustly treated.
F*rthe Temperance Banner.
The character of those engaged in f the
liquor traffic,'and the nature of their
business, and the effect of moral sua
sion upon them.
Where the conduct of men is gener
ally good, and they happen to do a
wrong, charity requires that we should
place the most favorable construction
upon their errors. But when they de
liberately pursue a course of conduct,
ora kind of business, which they know
tends to the injury of other people, all
have a right to speak es them and their
conduct or business, as it is ; for they
exhibit themselves in it, as a daily em
ployment, regardless of the welfare of
all others, it is the right of all, and
their duty too, to speak freely of the in
jurious tendencies of injurious conduct
and business, carried on in such disre
gard of the welfare of all, and also of
the character of him, who is capable of
knowing by thus employing himself.—
A different course would be placing the
conduct and business of bad men upon
a level with the good. This would be
iniquitous.
The difference between good men and
had men, is, that the former does what j
good he can, and is careful to do no ]
| act which may have tho effect of inju- [
ring others; while the latter pursues!
j what he supposes to he his own interest, ■
j regardless of the welfare of others. In (
mercy to society, the character of bad !
men should he treated as odious, for the j
purpose ofdetering others from adopt- |
ing their practices.
Christianity dispenses men to be
lieve, love and obey their Creator, and
to practice love and good will towards
each other, and to he careful to do n >
act, or to follow any business, which
may work injury to arty one. This
careful practice of love, is what was
meant by our Saviour in the 34th of
the Bth ch. of Mark, where it is said :
“And when he hud called tho people
unto him with his disciples also, he j
said unto them, whosoever will corne j
after me, let him deny himself, and take j
up his cross, and follow me.”—And in i
the 39th v. of the 10th chap, of Math
ew he said: “And he that taketh not his
cross and followeth after me, is not wor-!
thy of me 1 ”
This denying ourselves, and taking i j
up of our cross, &e., means that we i I
should deny ourselves all enjoyments
and gratifications, which may have the
effect of causing injury toothers; and j i
that we should cross our desires for all; ‘
such pleasures. The doctrine of these ;
passages runs through the whole of t he ‘
New Testament; read them in their i
connection. , i
It is not enough for a man when he ; t
proposes to do an act, or to follow a| v
business, that he may see or suppose , ‘
he sees other men, with care, may avoid 1 1
being injured by it No man has a i
right to impose upon his neighbors the j 1
necessity of guarding against evils, <
which his actions cr business may pro- ’
duce. It is enough for a man to exor- (
cise a constant care over his own ac- i
tions, without having to contend with <
the evils of his neighbors. Ho who 1
follows a business, or does acts impo- I
sing such a necessity, is a bad neighbor, i
Man was formed tor society, and cannot I
live without it. He is therefore hound
by the fundamental laws of our nature,
to he careful in all ho does, not to
cause injury to any of its members.—
The weak and unweary are as much
the objects of this care as any other, it j
not more so. All who refuse obedience •
to the doctrines of self-denial and the
cross, as declared by Christ in our quo
tations, he declares to be “ unworthy of
him .”
These doctrines decide the character
of liquor sellers. They do more injury
to society than any other.class of men
in it. There are two classes of them.
The wholesale and the retail dealers.
The retailer for the love of money sells
drams, and the wholesale seller for the
same love, sells barrets of drams. The
retailer erects his doggery, (a name
very significant of its use,) from
which he drams out the means of cor
rupting the morals and producing vice,
crime, miseiy, and death in the neigh
borhood, all around him. The whole
sale dealer sells his liquor by the bar
rel, loading carts, wagons and boats,
often to be carried to a distance, to be
drained out in many neighborhoods, ov
er a large tract of country, corrupting
the morals of the people, deranging the
minds of many, prompting thousands to
the practice of evefy vice and crime,
and producing ali the forms and de
grees of misery and death, that etfects
suffering humanity.
Among all the out-pourings of hu
man depravity,, through the vices and
crimes of bad men, there is none which
has so much corrupted the morals of
the people, or has so much moved their
peace and happiness, as tho vice of
selling them intoxicating drinks. No
class of men, in any land, have less hu
manity of feeling, or less moral sensi
bility, than the liquor-sellers. The
heaving sighs of broken-hearted wives
—the weeping of mothers over fallen
sons, and daughters, ruined by drunken
husbands—the crying of cold and hun
gry children—the groans of suffering
men, some dying in drunkness, and oth
ers bleeding in death, from wounds in
flicted by drunken and maddened as
sailants, —none of these, nor all of
them put tog( ther, though caused by the
liquor they have sold, can resch tiie
hearts of these destroyers of our race!
No patriotic influence warms in their
selfish and unfeeling bosom 1 No Chris
tian sympathy stirs in their flinty souls;
nor does any hoiy impulse move in
their hardened and frozen affections.
Like Nero, playing on his flute, in the
light of the fires which he himself had
kindled in the city of Rome, they look j
with unfeeling composure on the mis
eries they cause, divide their spoils, I
count their gains, and then, many of
them, put on airsofhauty dignity and
self-importance!
Yet, when laboring to support the
temperance cause —that cause of relig-l
ion and morals, teaching man to love
his fellow-man, and to abstain from the
great cause of evil to his health and
usefulness; and when speaking of the
j injurious course of liquor-sellers, we
j are sometimes told that it would be
best not to hurt their feelings! That
I it is best to employ nothing more than |
j moral suasion to induce them to become
good citizens!— Moral suasion with liq
j nor sellers, indeed!—Now think ol
! that! As tho adamantine cliffs on j
ocean’s shores, receives at their base,
[the rolling waves of her troubled wa-j
i ters, —so do liquor sellers receive with-;.
out effect, all the pursuasive appeals of
moral suasion.
They, as such do nothing for the ben
efit of society. They add nothing to
the common stock of property, or the
conveniences of mankind. Not an ear
of corn or apotatoe is produced by them.
They perform no sort of mental or bodi
ly labor for the benefit of any one ; nor
do they carry on any of the necessary
j exchages of property or produce.— J
j Their whole business is to draw togeth. [
!er property, produced by the labor ol
others, by giving them a false and de-|
i eeptive consideration for it, which they
know can do them no good, but likely
i injure and ruin them. Comparatively
‘ happy would it be for society, if all the
; propertv ever given for liquor, hud been |
forced from its owners by theft and
robbery.
The thief leaves a man his health,
habits, character, friends, and ability to
work. The liquor seller takes a man’s
property for a deceptive consideration,
which he knows is always dangerous,
and frebuently destroys all that he has,
is, or could otherwise be. It is true
that the robber sometimes murders his
victim, and it is equally as true, that the
-filers of liquors, cause the death of
I more men in a few months, than all the
j robbers in the Union do in forty years.
I no use of intoxicating drinks, furnish*
od by liquor sellers, causes helpless
wives to be murdered by drunken and
deranged husbands, (as we believe,)
more in number, than all the murders
committed by all the robbers in this
land. Still this is but a drop in the
bucket.compared with all the murders,
and deaths caused by liquor, furnished
by these traders. It is time that tho
business of these men should be exam
ined and understood.
Liquor sellers hate the temperance
cause with all their strength, and with
all their soul too, if they have anv, be-,-
| caU9e operates against tho success of
their swindling. They know that they
cannot injure it by opposing it.
Some of them, therefore, pretend to be
lathet in its favor, holding out the idea
that they would be willing to give tup
tho profits of their trade, provided men
would bo willing to live without liquor.
Under the cover of this deceptive pre
tense, they carry on a work of intimi
dation against its friends, expressing a
mighty horror of legislation upon tha
subject, and declaring mighty evils,
which they say would come upon tha
cause, it legislators should legislate up*
on it, or if speakers should speak harsh
ly of any one, ou account of the coursa
they may pursue, in relation to the sub
ject. All this is intended to deter leg
islators, public speakers and others
from calling attention to them, and tha
tiue character ol their business, and to
intimidate the friends of temperance
generally, from using any influence to
have the protection afforded by law to
their nefarious work of ruin withdrawn.
They are delighted with the idea of
leaving the whole work of tempersno®
to the energy of moral suasion. Vfn
heard of one of these friends coming to a
speaker, who had delivered a temper,
ance lecture, in the spirit of moral sua
sion, and saying to him: “ Sir you are
in the right tract, if ever your cause it
successful, it must be made so by the ust
of moral suasion. That can offend no
one or provoke their opposition.”
- Moral suasion has done a good work
upon thousands of honest men, we hop®
there is in many places much more for
it yet to do ; yet, there always has been
men engaged in every evil work, who
arc never reached by moral suasion,
and none are farther beyond its influ
ence than liquor sellers.
Use moral suasion with men, who ar
resolved to make money by any means,
for the employment of which thelawsof
the county will not punish them! (Iso
moral suasion with men who have no
hearts to feel for the thousands of help,
less women and children, besides others,
whom they know have been destroyed
by their base allurements—use moratl
suasion with men, who will tempt ruined
fathers to give for liquor, the last dime
they have, which ought to bo given for
bread to feed a hungry family. Moral
suasion has been tried with these sellers
; for many years, bat with them it has
J been, as the drifty chair in the path
|of the tempest. Something stronger
[ should bo employed to reach their latont
sensibilities; for they are destroying
our neighbors, kindred, friends; and as
long as they can make the friends of
temperance believe, that it will be dan
gerous to investigate their character
and business, they will carry it on'.--
Wo should, therefore, place them and
their trade in the light of truth—simple
truth, without coloring, will be enough.
Some of these traders, sometimes tell
us, that “they are not their brother’s
keeper,” and that every tub must stand
upon its “own bottom.” This holy
argument was first used by (Jain, and
has never been seriously urged by any
better man! If they are not their
brother’s keepers, they should not be
their brother’s destroyers, ffthey think
that every tub ought to stand upon its
own bottom, they ought not to draw off
the hoops of any, nor tempt the tubs
themselves, to give up their heading
and hoops for liquor, and thereby cause
themselves to fall in ruined and broken
staves upon I he ground.
But they go farther. They tell us
I that they have a right to make money
! by any means which the laws of the
! country allow. They do not compel
| men to buy and drink their liquor, they
I sa y> nor to get drunk and do the wrongs
which drunkards commit. They only
offer their liquor, they say, to men as
freemen, and if they destroy them
selves, the fault and responsibility rests
on them, and not upon the sellers.
This argument admits the evils of
drinking, but insists that the drinkers
are freemen, and that as the sellers are
allowed by law to sell, that tho drink
ers alone are responsible for all the ev
ils they cause. To this it may be re
plied : That tho sellers are as much
freemen as tho drinkers; and that the
laws as much allow the drinkers to
drink, as they do the sollers to sell.—
1 he principles of this poor argument,
would, if carried out, lead to the con
clusion, that in this business there is
no resposibility any where; for it would
he ridiculous to say that it is right for’
NO. 13.