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Wh.n ho i. vrnrra. \'V When hr is at w°rk. V fi *. Wlii!h*ild. ( 12. W hon he is idle. (i V 3. When he is wet. / >.4. Before meals. JS ) 4. When he is dry. ) ‘f T eal< *: „ (, Q 6. When he is doll. t i:,. W hen he gets t p \ ej . When he is liter. f th. \V hen he g.> to bed. y r. 7. When he travels. I 17. Oil li ‘ih'hty.. v V 2 y When lie iott home. 1 IS. On i'uhlie occasions, n “Jr, 9 When lie isin c impan.v l 19. On any day. or N . ''’ MMM \ X Every friend to Temperance £ v should take the Temperance 3“ If Temperance men will not support \ Mthe Tempcranee Press, who will ?’ %'y.xyxsxyxyxyxyxyxyxy\y^‘’ , HM |||| | n —i—| T ani in ■■!■ mu in ii MQJtALISI) hells ho us. N. 0. Come to Jesus. Who it Jesus ? This is a most important inquiry, be cause no one can rightly comply with the invitation, “Come to Jesns,” with out a correct knowledge of who ho is. Much depends on the answer we give to the question, “What think ye of Christ?” JESUS IS GOD. , Before he appeared on earth; he had from eternily possessed all the perfec tions of Deity. As the Father is God, so also Jesus is (Jod. This is a great mystery, but it is a great truth. The Bible clearly declares it. lie is call ed “The Word;” and St. John tells us. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.” And, “The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” Speaking ofhinaself, Jesus said, “Before Abraham was, I am.” He referred to the “glory which he had, with the Father before the world be- j gan;” and declared, “I and the Father are one.” We are told that he is “the brightness of the Father’s glory,” “the image of the invisible God,” “God man ifest in the flesh,” that “he is the sane yesterday, to-day, and for ever;” and that “in him dweleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” Jesus, therefore, is God; and is per- j feet in power, and wisdom, and good- j ness. There is nothing he cannot do; j and as lie never can change, he will i never be unfaithful to his promises. l Now, poor sinner, this is just such a Saviour as you want. If you needed a protector from some great danger, yotf would go to someone who was mighty. Who so mighty as Jesus? All that God can do, he can do. There are rio difficulties, dangers, or foes he is unable to conquer tor you. What ever your weakness, iris strength must be all-sufficient. It is not some frail fellow.man, it is not even an angel you are to trust in. It is one infinitely higher than all created beings—even the great God, mighty to save We should have cause to fear, if any one inferior were our Saviour. But we may feel quite safe when he undertakes to save, who is the Lord ofheaven and earth. Who can harm us, if he pro mises to help us ? “If God be for us, who can be against us?” His power, wisdom holiness, and goodness are all employed on our behalf, as soon as we corne to Jesus. With such a Saviour we cannot perish. “II ■is able to s; i .u to the UTTERMOST.” See John 1 ; 1-3, 14; 8 : 58; 10 . 30; 17 -V5; Col. 1 ; 14-20; 3 : 0; 1 Tim. 3 : Heb. 1 : 33-28; 23 : “j. Jesus is Man. Imsis as true us that lie is God. 1 “God so loved the world, that he sent his only begotten Son.” And Jesus, though “equal with God,” “took upon him the form of a servunt, and was made in the likeness of ;nea, and was found fashion as a 7/iva.” He wns pfedic-’ ted as “a man of sorrows,” and frequent-) ly styled himself “the Son of man.” He became man in order to obey the law we had broken and to suffer the punishment we had merited. Because no one can see God, he lived among us as a man, that from his spirit arid con duct we might have a clearer idea of what God is. Thus he said, “lie that hath seen me, hath seen the Father.” And he became a man that, suffering what we suffer, might feel sure that lie can sympathize with us. Thus we read, “In that lie himself hath suffered, being tempted, he is able ‘o succor them that are tempted;*’ and, “We have not a j high priest which cannot bo touched ! with the feeling of our infirmities,’ hut 1 was in all points tempted like as we are.” Think, then, of Jesns as a man. Yonder is a funeral. It is a widow’s only son, and she follows the corpse v. hh a broken heart. Who is the man that sees her afar off', pities her, goes up to the dead body, restores it to life, ami di livers tite soil to his mother? That loviuij but man is Jesus. Who is this standing amid a crowd of little children-, and taking them so kindly in iiis arms to bless them? it is Jesus. Who is that mourner weeping at the i grave of Lazarus? It is Jesus. Who I is it that all the sick, and the poor, and j the sorrowful run after, and who heals and comforts them all, refusing none? It is Jesus. He is stiff the same; a lov j ing, tender, compassionate man. You need not be afraid of ii m; he is a man, your brother. Ii is he who says |tu you, “Conte unto me.” Listen to j IwiiT, sinner. He is the mighty God, and able to save you; but be is also I “the man of sorrows,” and full of sym pathy and love. He knows, feels, and i pi,h s all your weakness, frailties, and tears, lie bids you not bo afraid. As j a brother-man, tie stands with looks o! unutterable kindness, and says, “Come umo me; come unto me.” O treat not with indifference so loving a Friend. Listen to him. Let your heart be touched by his tenderness. Trust in his promises. Come to Jesus at once. Rely on him as your Saviour, and obey him ss your King, and he will be to you the “Friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” Read Isaiah 53; Matt. 26, 27; Luke 7: 11-15; John 3: 10.17, 9; Phil. 2: 5-11; lleb. 2: 17, 18. Nature. —ls there be a scene to stir in our souls all our thankfulness to God, and all our love for man, it is that of Na ture. When we behold the beautiful pgogresion of the Seasons—when we see how leaves and flowers burst forth and spread themselves over the earth by myriads in spring,—how summer and autumn fill the world with loveliness and fragrance, with corn and fruits, it is impossible not to feel our hearts‘breathe perpetual benediction’s to the great Founder and Provider of the world, and warm with sympathetic affection to wards onr own race, for whom he has thought fit to prepare all this happiness, j | There is no time in which i feel these | | sentiments more strongly than when 1 | | uehold the moon rising over a solitary ! J landscape. The repose of all creatures lon the earth makes more sensibly felt I the incessant care of him who thus | sends us ‘his great light to rule the . night,’ and to shine softly and silently Hoove millions of sleeping creatures, ‘.that take no thought for themselves.! Richard Howit. “Whose Sen is this Youth “ Last Sabbaih was a day fraught j with deeply solemn interest to the j Brothers of Bethel Division, Sons of i Temperance, and will doubtless long |be remembered by the surrounding j j community. It was the day upon | which the funeral sermon of twd of its I members was preached, under circum- 1 | stances that will rarely, if ever, again j | occur. The one was a young man full of hope and but just verging into man- I hood’s prime; the other an aged man j who had outlived the deceitful promises j of hope, and well nigh passed through man’s allotted time on earth. The one 1 died far from his native land, away ‘ : from the loved ottos of his heart, sur- I rounded hv st.angers, with no relative by to close his eyes in death and re ceive his dying messages. The other died in the bosom of his family at home attended by kind friends and sympathi zing neighbors, who vied with each ‘other in discharging ihe last offices of iin iiilship, and smoothing iiis pathway : to. I ho tomb. That day had been appointed by the’ Div ision some weeks helure the funeral , services of the young than, and a broth-; er from a distant Division invited to j preach tlie sermon. On the Saturday j before the “grim monster,’ who is ever busily engaged in cutting down the liv ing, entered the folds of the Order and summoned the old man to take up his journey to that ‘undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns.’ When the Sabbath crime, the Diyisionj in addition to the funeral services ap- ! PENFIELD, GA. APRIL 24, 1852. pointed previous to that time for the young man, had to perform the melan choly duty of committing to the dust the mortal regains of the old man. It was a striking coincidence, well calculated to lead the minds of the vast multitude assembled there to profitable meditation upon the ways of that in sc affable l’ro vidence which overrules and . governs all things. The preacher, the Rev. Mr. Root, of Tuskegee, selected as his text the inter, rogation at tne head of this article, and after an interesting exposition of th, circumstances under which the qmes. | j tion was asked, applied it to the young ( lii/an whose funeral sermon he was ‘preaching. Born on the other side of: the broad Atlantic, lie came to this! , ‘land of the free’ to seek a home among strangers. But little was known of liis natural parents or of his early life.— lie was a ‘Son of Temperance’—and consequently an heir of the blessings which pertain to the household of tem perance.—Here the preacher expatia ted upon the blessings of this household in a manner which riviied tho attention! | of iiis congregation for some time, and a j strong appeal to all present so to con-i ! duct themselves, that when this ques-1 lion should he asked concerning their! children, the answer should not he] I ‘they arc the children of tliaTuntbriu- j mate man who, a for bringing them to: poverty and wretchedness, and entail ing upon them an inheritance of infa my, tilled the drunkard’s grave and the drunkard's hell.’ Oh! the great ; responsibility resting upon parents! How many scores and hundreds disre gard it altogether.’ This young man, like thousands of others, was induced by the hope of bet tering liiscondition pecuniarily to try liis fortune in California—hut unlike thou sands of others who go there, lie did not leave liis fledge behind him. He car ried it with him and kept it inviolate. And when upon the crowded vessel, surrounded by strangers, the fatal dis ease seized upon him and laid the strong man low, a brother of the ‘mys tic tie’—though a stranger, yet a broth er—ministered to his wants, closed his eyes in death, and returned his car l and Church letters to his brethren, with the assurance that he died in peace and great tranquility. But he was also a Son of God through Christ, and an heir of the Kingdom. 4’he preacher . dilated at large upon the blessings in reserve for those who through faith in Ciirist Jesus became ncirs of the king dom, and earnestly entreated his con gregation to seek an interest in that kingdom while it could be secured. it was a peculiarly interesting ser mon and cannot fail to be productive of much good. The funeral Ceremony of our Order is beautiful and impres sive. The lust salutation ‘Brother!! Farewell !’ falls solemnly upon the ear and impresses a melancholy lesson up on the heart of each brother reminding j him of the time soon to come when his biethren, after having discharged the! | last sacred duties due the dead from the ! j living, shall pass in slow, solemn tread i by his grave and say, ‘Brother farewell. RICHARD H. POWELL. Chronic Bronchitis. We conceive the an (Kneed remarks, of Dr. Cooper of sufficient weight to recommend them to the consideration 1 jof those who labor under this direful’ ’ disease; They are taken from the New.York Advertiser. The lute lamented death of L)r. Rush ! from that form ol consumption known j as chronic bronchitis, painfully reminds I | of ii duty the subscriber owes to liis pro , Cession- and to society, of making known ] ja simple form of treatment that has] never failed him in curing this form of, ! consumption, so destructive to the cleri cal and literary professions; thistrcat-l • mam is nearly of equal efficacy in ca- j j tarrhal phthisic, and as a valuable reme-1 Iffy lor consumption in all its for fas ] ■ when in its chronic slages, and free! from any fall iminatory symptoms.— . liiis treatment is based on the patfiolo- \ ! ly of consumption, us the generic name lor diseases. Under the natue of consumption are included that vat'iety of'disease of tiio lungs attended with expectoration of | purulent matter from the breathing sur face of ihe Lungs, connected with ema ciation, hectic fever, and as concomi tants, night sweats, colliquative diar rhoea, &c. All the forms of consump tion act on the general health from one I common cuuse, the presence of matter acting on absorbing surfaces, and thus producing those symptoms known as iiectic (ever. It is the presence and violence of this sympton of consump tion, that prostrates tiie patient, until it more or less slowly ends in death. It is the consequence of this hectic fever, and not the immediate disease of the lungs causing it, that forms the source of fatality from consumption. The treatment 1 now with reluctant diffidence submit, 1 have successfully | used for mare than twelve years,. and ! during that period of medical practice, | I am no: awareof having lost more th <n I four or five patients from all the vttri aus forms of consumption, and these were mostly passed to that stage of dis ease where the structure of the lungs had become so extensively diseased as to preclude the use of more than pallia tive treatment. Cases ofchronic bron chitis were in every instance cured by it; even when tire purulent expectora tion amounted to pints daily, with hec tic fever, diarrhcoa. and entire physical prostration. The treatment isUhe administration of | sulphate of copper, nauseating doses, j j combined with gum ammoniac, given ! iso as to nauseate, but not ordinarily to j produce full vomiting; the usual dose’ ! for this purpose is about half a grain of i sulphate; of copper, anil five grains of i gum ammoniac, in a teaspoon ful of.wa iter, to be taken at first twice, and in, . the convalescent stages once a day. ’ j In cases of chronic bronchitis, a gar-! gle the sulphate of copper alone is su-l peraddod. lu-liiis latter form of con- \ ! sumption this treatment almost invaria bly suspends the hectic symptoms in a | few days, and the disease rapidly ad: vancqs to its final cure, i In cases of the more proper forms of | consumption, the treatment must ho in termitted frequently and again returp jed to; and whenever soreness of the j chest er other symptoms ofinflamma | tory action exist, the treatment should, be suspended, as it is ir. the chronic state alone that the remedy is indicated ! or useful ; that state in which the gen-1 era!’system, as sympathetically involv-j ed, becomes the more prominent symp tom, and the success of the treatment depends chiefly on the breaking up tne! sympathetic action of the diseased lung on the more healthy tone of the stdm ach, and increasing its digestive power, and likewise causing, during nauseate! action, a more active and healthy eir-; culatioipof blood through the lungs. Its curative powers are more immediately Rtrributable to these effects of its action. But theory apart, the treatment is based on more than ten years’ experience of its curative advantages, in the proper: treatment of mucupuruleat and puru lent expectoration. Having left a profession that more nearly than any other approaches the pure duties of humanity, but which has, nearly ceased in this country to be hon- i orable or profitable, I have little motive in exposing myself to that certain ridi cule that follows the annunciation that j consumption may be cured, but the as jsurance of practical experience, and the desire of making public a means of saving life in one of its most frequent and unwelcome exits. Ed. C. Cooper, M. D. Electro-Phygiolo^y. Electic Shocks produced by Cats and { Cotes. The fact that certain species of | fishes possess tho power of producing; | benumbing sensations and shocks was! j noticed very early, as appears by the writings of Pliny and Aristotle. Ttiis j power has been found by modern sci ! ence to bn identical with that of elec ! tricity. Several different species of ! fishes are known in our time, as produ | cing electricity at will; among them ! tbe Silurns, tho Gymnotus anil the ! Torpedo are pre-eminent. Humbolt, ! traveling in South America, had the op-! ! port unity of seeing horses knocked ] down by the Gytnuotus, and experien ced severe pain in his knees during the | whole day. from having unconsciously ; trodden on one just drawn out of the wit ! ter. The source of this magnetic pow !er has been traced by learned men to ; vesicular organs, filled with a Ynucous , substance, subserving tiie purpose” of j | a galvanic Battery. In one organ Mr. | I Hunter counted 1,182 different cells,! i all connected by nerves. In studying these facts, Prof, Becjceinsteiner, olj Lyons, was struck by the analogy of tiie cells ofelectric fishes with certain | minute vessels, united by nerves and moistened by mucous, which exist’in’ neurlj all kinds of animals, and are] found most dev'el >ped in man at the pe riod of the greatest strength, but col-’ lapsed and up in old age. lie began a series of experiments, and alter three’ years’ investigation has lately publish- ! ed the following result: When the j temperature is below 32deg. the wind I north and the sky clear, expose a oat’ to the cold until his fur hos close to the 1 skin and appears greasy; expose your bands to make them equally cold; then take the animal on your knees, apply j the fingers of your left hand on its; breast, and pass your right hand down its buck, pressing moderately; at the j fifth or sixth pavs, yon will receive u slight electric “hock. At. first the cat appears pleased, but as soon as it seres! the shock it jumps away, and will not stand a repetition of the experiment du ring the san>e day. After the experi ment, the animal looks tired, some!’ days afterward it loses its appetite,’ seeks solitude, drinks water at rare in tervitls and dies in a fori night. The : ’ same experiment has st; ‘deeded wlfli: rabbits; they die the sum ■ day, It o ‘ with* dogs, opec only it’ 1 has been made on a cow, she was tied! to an Iron ring; the ‘ground was froxeii; j one Band was placed on the breasTand j the other passed down the back, when j sucdi an electric shock oecured that Mr. B. was thrown to the ground. The cow appeared very much irritated, but it. Was impossible to “know it she suf tere i from it, since she was killed by a butcher three days afterward. A Siltarlan Winter The traveler in Siberia, during the I winter, is enveloped in furs that he can ■ ;scarcely inov n , and under the. thick i fur hood, which is fastened to tho bear ; .skin collar, and covers the whole.faq<\ i one can only, draw in, as it w, re by stealth, a linlc of tbo external air, i whioh is so keen that it causes a very ; peculiar feeling to the throat and lungs. I’lic distance From one halting place to j another takes about ten hours, during which time tite traveler must always remain on horseback, as the fcumbrous j dress makes it unsuportublo to wade through tiie snow. The poor horses suffer at least us much as their fillers, for besides ihe general effect of the cold, they art’ tormented by ice firming in their nostrils, and sloping their breath ing. VVhen they intimate this.by a dis tressed snort and convulsive shake of head, tho drivers relieve them by ta king out the pieces of ice, to save them j from being suffocated. When the icy : ground is not covered with snow, their hoofs often burst from tiie effects of the odd. The caravan is. always sur rounded Dy a thick cloud, of vapour; ]it is no"t Duly living bodies which pro. jduee this effect, but even snow smokes. ! These evaporations are instantly ! changed into millions of ice, which till i (the air, and cause a constant slight] I noise, resembling the sound of torn sa- ■ ! tin or thick silk. Evert the reindeer! ; setks the forest to protect himself from ‘ - ihe intensity of the cold. In the tundras] where there is no shelter to he found, the whole herd crowd together as close as possible to get a .little wanning from each other, and may lie seen standing i this way, quite motionless, - only the dark bird of winter, the raven, still cleaves the icy air with a slow and heavy wing, leaving behind him a long Ihtn line of vapour, making the track j of his solitary flight. The influence of tho extends to inan ] inflate, natilre. The thickest trunks of trees are rent asunder with a loud sound, winch, in these deserts, foils on the ear like a signal shot at sea: large-i masses ol rocks are torn from their an cient cites, the ground in tundras and in the rocky valleys crack, forming! wide yawning fissures from which the j waters which wore beneath tiie sur face rise, giving off” a cloud of vapor; ! and becoming immediately changed in- 1 to ice. The effect of tins degree of; cold extends even beyond the earth. | The beauty of the deep polar mar, ho ! often and justly praised, disappears in 1 the denge atmosphere which tho inten-! sity of the cold produces. The stars i will glisten in tiie firmament, hut their brilliancy is dimmed.— Travels in the. Nerlh. Height and Weight of Men. —The average height of Europeans at birth i generally 16 inches; female children ! being of less size in the proportion of j 480 to 460. In. each of the twelve: years after birth, one-twelfth is added i to the statutre each year; between tlu-j ages of 12 artd 20, the growth of thej body-proceeds milch more slowly, and ! | between the ages of 20 and 25, when ; the height of the body usually attains; ; its maximum, it is still further dimin-j foiled. This point being reached, it is; j found'that tiie increase is about three; ; and one quarter times greater than at i ! the period of birth. In old age, the! i height of the old body decreases on the ; average about three inches. In gener al ihe heigut varies less, in’ women ol ! different countries than men. i There is difference in the weight of s xi-s both at biriii and mfancy. The j average weight ol a male child at blrlhl i is about 7 lbs, and of a female child on ;ly about 6 1-2 lbs. The weight of u ! new born infant decreases for the first throe or four days after birth, aud it! |.does not xensibiy commence to gain : vveiglit-untilpt is a week old. At the ;end ol the first your, the child is near-! |ly 3 times as heavy as when it was born. At the age ot’ seven years it is i vvice as heavy us at the end of the first! year, ‘ and at fourteen years old its a eight is quadrupled. The average weight ol each sex is nearly the sane'! at me age ot 12, but nftor that period, ‘■ taking individuals of the same age, the loinale will lie found to weigh less! n • r than males, U lieu tiie weight of the; boy lias reached is average maximum, it is aOout utr.et mi times heavier than at the time ot birth. The aveiuge’ weight of men is about 139 pounds,’ and of women about tl2 pound , of’ aduiis, without distinction ot sex,about’ 129 pounds. In case of individuals pt; bom sexes who are under the ueieht o! O l 4 loot 4 iucims, females are ,oiticwi*at l heavier tliun men; but it’ above tiltsi l | height men Weigh more than women, j Men attain their maximum weight a ] bout the age of fol ly, and women at or nearly the age ot fit’y. At tho age off sixty both the one and the other usual, ly comment e losing tin ir weight ard the average weight of old persons of either sex is nearly tho same as at nitte to-n years of age. Great Results from Small Begin nings.—Bert hold Shwartz, according to common report, having in some of liis in aloherny, put into a common mortar a mixture of saltpetre | ami other combustible materials ucci : dentally dropped in a spark, when ho j was astonished to soe the pestle fly oil” ! iiitotho air. Tins incident furnished two | ideas—that of the increased power of jguup >wder. where confined, and that of i its a; piicabi iiy to the propulsion of j heavy bodies. These two simple ideas, ! carried out into practice, produced guns,, large and small, and revolutioned tho entire system of war. The vibrations of the lid of an iron tea kettle gave the first hint of the ex pansive of steam. The hint, fol. lowed out through innumerable experi menls, finally ended in the modern steam engine, which is fast revolution izing the mode of both land and water carriage. The first idea of our modern rail ways—am! it is a very simple idea— came fram a mine near Newcastle, England. The plan occurred to some one of “laying rails of timber exactly straight, and parallel;; and bulky earta were made with tour rollers fitting those rails, whereby the carriage was made | so easy that one horse would draw four | or live chaldrons of coal.” Thus coal was conveyed from the i mines to the bunk of the river Tyne. This mode was in practice in 1676 ; j how much earlier, is not known to us, probably to no one ; for, though a gieal ! idea, it was like most other great ideas, ! thought of little account at the time of its rcioin. Like Columbus’s method of making an egg stand on the big end By jarring it so as to break the yolk, it was thought to he too simple to deservo any praise. Nevertheless out of this siinple iden sprang one hundred and fifty years afterward the modern rail way. It had been noticed by chemists, that flame cannot he made to pass through a tube of small tiiinater. In the hand* jof.'ir Humphrey Davy, this fact grew 1 into the miner’s safety lamp, which ha ’ saved the lives of thousands. The magnet had been for centuries a i plaything in Europe. At last its prop ; ertv, when freely.suspended, ol taking ’ a North and South position was noticed, 1 and applied to navigation. This resul ted in the discovery of America, i The power of the sun s rays to dis | color certain substances, had long boen ‘known. In the hands of Daguerre, ibis great fact grew into a most beauti ! ful and perfect method of taking minia tures. From Volta’s simple pile, to Morse’s ; magnetic telegraph, what a stride, yet | this stride is only the carrying out into ! practice of certain-vqry simple proper ’ ties of gal variism an ! megneiisnrp. j So we might go on to enumerate the ! instances in which a very simple idea ! bus ended in mighty results.— Ohio. , Observer. ’ Water. Melon Butter. —A Corres pondent of tlm Praric Farmer, presents the following ,m2l had of using water melons; . “ I endeavor every year to raiso a good wiit -r-mellon patch. Filey are ! a healthy and delightful fruit, 1 think, I cultivate tiie ice rind variety; j lant early in May, and again towards tho close of the month, so that they may ] come in succession. When they com mence eating, and use them freely du ring th- hot weather. When the weath er becomes cool in September, wc haul a quantity of tlicm open with a spoon, scrape'out pulps into a cullender, and strain the water info vessels. We boil it in an iron vessel down to syrup, then put in apples or peaches, like malting j apple butter, boil slowly, until the fruit ; is well cooked then spice to taste, and ; you have something that most ol people i will prefer to apple butter, or any kind !of preserves. Ortho syrup may bA boiled without fruit down to molasses which will he found to lie as line as tho best sugar house molasses. Wo have iruuluof a fall us much us ten gallons of the apple butter, if l may so call it, and molasses, whiehdius kept until May in a fine condition.” A witness in a court of justice, be ing asked what find of oar-marks the hug in question had, replied that “ha had no par icnlar ear-triarks, except a very short tail.” “Hans, w here is yoijr father?” “I lev’s gone olios!to ffer street across dor blacksmidst shoo, mil the sorrel wagon and the green horse ” “When do you expect him hack?” “Yaw.” NO. 17.