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MORA i7 oijsr
The Power of Scrrov/.
Sanctifi'd sorrows, what power they
possess ; (J >d has oliosen his people in
the turnaces of util otion. Afflictions
sanctified lake ilie heart awuy from the
vanity of earth, and fix it oil the things
above.
If rich, s vanish, you tire more ready
to think of the treasures that are laid
up in Heaven. If honors fade, you will
think more highly of the honor that
conies from UoJonly. It your reputa
tion bo injured by calumny, it will
seem a small thing to he judged of man’s
judgment. If you make yourself, as
our blessed Saviour did, “of no reputa
tion,” you will look up to God and en
joy his approving smile.
If friends are removed by death, vonr
eyes follow them upwatd, us the proph
et’s did his ascending Master. If they
have gone to rest in the embrace of
their Saviour, you catch their falling
mantle, and are led to aspire to the
same glorious state. Tell us, young
mother, since God took your beautiful
babe and dressed it for the skies, and
made it an angel light, has not the
world seemed poorer, and Heaven more
replete with glorious realities ? Tell
us, aged parents, from whom God hath
taken a daughter in the pride and beau
ty of early womanhood, quenching the
light of her cultivated talents on earth,
and veiling all her acquired accomplish
ments from the eyes of mortals, what
think you now ol Heaven ? Does it
not seem more certain and more near,
more brinlit and more beautiful ?
I ask that aged mother who sits in
firm beside the death-bed of her son,
and watches the decay of his manly
farm till the stall’ of declining days is
broken, and she is left to sigh over the
remembrance of his infant years and
prattle, and his boyish actions and
youthful impulses, and the kind and
yearning spirit with which he always
returned to her after seasons of absence,
what thickest thou now of Heavenly
thiugs ? Is not Heaven nearer because
earth is drear?- Do not the many
mansions glitter more brilliantly be
fore thine ey>es ?
1 ask that widowed Christian, from
whom God has snatched away the hus
band of her youth, and the light of her
eyes, and who remembers to-day his
well-known step, and the accents of his
voice, accents that still ring in her ear
when she thinks of him, let thy bruised
spirit testify—how do Heavenly things
now appear, since the earth is bereft of
its chief joy ?
I make a similar appeal to that hus
band who has been cahed to lay a be
loved wife in the grave, and has just
now awakened to the fact that he did
not duly appreciate her when living.
She was so gentle that you was not
aware of the power of her womanly in
fluence over you, and so uncomplaining
that you did not appreciate her claim
upon your sympathies. Tou think
now of the brightness of her counte
nance on the duy of your espousals, oi
many little contrivances lnch she em
pJoTd for vour happiness. \ou knew
ohe was mortal, and yet you 1(1’ that
, she could not leave you, that she must
i iiot die. Cut the pale destroyer came; j
‘.lie bloom fled from her cheek; the!
light of her eye vvus quenched; and |
ihut face which had been so full of life
became cold in death. Have you, be
| reavrd husband, bowed to God’s dis-1
pensstion and kissed the rod ? How, 1
, then, do Heaven ivr and earth compare, af
| ter such a stroke as this ? Dots not]
| the world appear a “paltry, naked
! waste ?”
“A dreary vale of tears?”
; Does not Heaven seem more desirable
J and more near? Does it appear to
you more like the New Jerusalem com
i ing down from God out of Heaven ?
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[From Kitto’s History of Palestine.]
Taking o ’ Janmlem by Titus.
The condition of the country became
so deplorable, that a great number of
the well-disposed inhabitants sought in
foreign countries that p ace which was:
| denied them in their own. The land I
was distracted by tumult and overrun
by robbers, who, professing to be actu
ated by zeal for liberty and religion,
plundered, without mercy, the defence
less towns ind villages which refused
: to give in their adhesion to what was
I called the patriot cause. Meanwhile
jus!ice was sold by the Roman govern-
J or, and even the sacred office of the
j high-priesthood wus offered to the high
jest bidder. Hence, those who got that
! high dignity were often profligate
1 wretches, who, having obtained the of
i lice by bribes, used it for their own
! purposes, and maintained themselves
linit hy ihe darkest iniquities. Being
’ of different st cts and parlies, of which
! there was now a great .number, they
| and the leading men of the nation, acted j
i with all the animosity of sectarianism i
I against each other. With such exam-j
i pies in their superiors, the ordinary j
; priests and the scribes became, in the j
! highest degree, dissolute and unprinei- i
! pled; while the mass of the people
! abandoned themselves to all evil; and
seditions, extortions anu robberies were
matters of every day occurrence. The
bands of society were loosened; audit
became clear that the nation wus ripen
ing for destruction.
Some transactions at Carsaroa gave
occasion for the actual outbreak. That
place, the seat ot the Roman governor,
j was built by Herod, and had , mixed
1 population of Syrians and Jim ;. It
, was disputed between the so- “ j olass
-1 es, to which of (hem the coy really be
! longed. Tlie dispute had been re
ferred to the emperor, and about this
j time the decree was announced in fa
j vor of the Syrians, whose boundless ex-!
j citation greatly exasperated the Jews,
! who had felt a prodigious interest in ,
; the question. This, with insults on
| their religion, of which the governor re- j
j fused to take cognizance, fanned into a!
the smouldering embers of re- ’
! volt. Acting upon the impulse thus!
given, a party of hot-brained young men I
surprised a Romish garrison at Massa
da, near the Dead Sea, and put the sol- j
dters to the sword. The act was re- !
cognized at Jerusalem, where the lead-!
ers of the nation openly threw olftheir j
: allegiance, hy the refusal of the priests j
any longer to otfer up the usual sac- I
rifices for the prosperity of the Roman j
! empire. There, also, the popular par
! ty rose upon and slew the Roman gar- j
rison; and the palace and the public j
I offices were destroyed by fire. Inde- !
scribable barbarities were also com
: milted by the “pa'riot” party upon the i
quietly citizens. This example pro- 1
duced general insurrection, in which j
the Jews on the one side, and the Ro-1
mans and Syrians on the other, at
! tacked each other with greatest fury;
and in every city there wus war, mas
sacre and spoliation.
On the first news of this revolt, the
! President of Syria, Cestus Gallus,
marched a powerful army into Judea,
and advanced against Jerusalem.—
: Stiange to say, he was defeated by the
‘insurgents with great sluugh.er; and
1 the military engines which fell into the
hands of the victors were of great use
to them in the subsequent defence of
j the city. The honor of Rome was now
engaged to avenge this disgrace, and
no thinking man for a moment doubted
the result. Nero sent the able and ex
perienced Vespasian into Syria, (who
was accompanied by his son Titus,)
j with the quality of president, to take
ihe conduct of the war.
Vespasian commenced operations iu
the spring of A. D. 67, with an army
of 60,000 men. Instead of going at
once to Jerusalem, he employed him
self in reducing Galilee, and in recov
ering the fortresses which had been ta
ken by the insurgents. In this he met
with considerable resistence, and had I
many occasions of witnessing the des
perate valor of the insurgents. At 1
Jotapaia he was opposed by Josephus,
• ie historian of the war, to whom the;
provisional Jewish government had
confided the defence of Galilee. The
fortress fell, and Josephus was taken:
alive Ha was at first treated ‘atlterj
PENFIELD, GA. OCTOBER 2, 1852.
roughly, but afterwards with consider
ation and respect. A* the commence
ment of the campaign the Romans be
haved with great severity wherever
they came. No mercy *was shown to
age or sex, but cities, towns and villa
ges were cruelly ravaged and destroy
ed. Nor were these desolations con
fined to Judea; for in many foreign
cities in which Jews were settled, they
were slaughtered in multitudes bv the
Roman soldiers and the other inhabit
ants. Some idea of these dreadful
massacres may lie formed from the
facts, that above 20,000 Jews were slain
in one day at Caesarea, 13,000 in one
night at Scythopolls, 50,000 at Alexan-
dria, 8,000 at Joppa, and above 10,000
j at. Damascus. Nor need we wonder
|at such extent of destruction among a
people who were so infatuated as to
rush into a warfare in which, accor
ding to Josephus, the odds were so fear
fully against them.
Though the war was steadily pros
ecuted, Vespasian evinced no haste
to march against Jerusalem; and when
urged by his i ipatient officers, he told
them that it was better to let the Jews
destroy one another. In fact, he knew
well how destructively the factions
were raging against each other in Jeru
salem. There were three of these fac
tious afterwards reduced to two, holding
possession of different parts of the city.
They wasted their strength in cruel
conflicts with each other, in which they
even destroyed the store-house of corn
and provisions, which formed the only
resources against the famine in the
threatened siege. In one thing, how.
ever, they all agreed, in harassing,
plundering and destroying the citizens
and nobles wno did not enter into their
views. Thus they obtained little real
benefit from the respite which arose
from the attention of the Roman army
being diverted for a while from them
by the revolution which at this time
happened in imperial Rome, in conse
quence of the death of Nero. Galba,
Otlio, Vitellius, were invested with the
purple in quick succession; at length,
with grneral approbation, Vespasian
himself was declared emperor hy the
army in Judea. He then departed for
Rome, leaving the conduct of the war
to his son Titus.
At the feast of the Passover, in the
j ensuing year when the city of Jerusa
! !em was, as usual at that time, crowded
! with people from all quarters, the Ro
j man appeared before the walls. It
j was probably his anxiety to save the
! city and the ‘Temple that induced Titus
| to commence the siege ut this season;
;as it might have been expected, that
1 where such multitudes were shut up in
j an ill-provisioned city, famine alone
! would soon make a surrender inevit
able. The besieged were very earn
j estly invited to open their gates to the
Romans, and were with all sincerity
assured of- their liberty and safety.
Josephus was also commissioned to’ har
angue them, and to point cut to them
tiie folly of supposing that they could
hold out against, or successfully resist,
the might ot Rome. But all warning
and counsel were treated with insult
and scorn; and the factions expressed
the resolution of defending the place
to the very last, in the confidence that
God would not permit his Temple and
the city to fall before the heathen.
Such repeated refusals of mercy und
compassion, and the very desperate de
fence made by the besieged, compelled
Titus, much against his own will, to
become the unconscious instrument
of accomplishing that doom of the city
and the Temple which Christ had near
ly forty years before denounced. Their
folly of resistence was so clear to Titus,
that he hecama exasperuted at the un
pleasant task which their obstinacy im
posed upon him. Resolved that none
of them should escape, but such assur
reudered to hint, he raised around the
oily a strong wall of circumvallation,
strengthened with towers. This great
work was accomplished in the short
space of three days.
The city was very strong, being en
closed by three walls, one within an
other; and then there was the Temple,
which itself was an exceedingly strong
fortress. All these defenses were sue
cessively carried by the Romans, a!,
though every step was desperately con
tested by the besieged, who for fifteen
weeks prevented their enemies from
reaching the Temple. During that
time, the most horrible famine was ex
perieneed within the city. At length,
no table spread or regular meal eaten
in Jerusalem; people bartered their
wealth for a measure of corn, and often
ate it unground and unbaked or snatched
it half baked from the coals; things
were eaten which men abhor, and
v ’ ‘eh the Jews of all men, deemed most
abominable. Many perished of mere
want, especially the old and very young,
for to the latter the mother’s breast no
longer afforded nourishment; and there ‘
were instances of dead infants being
eaten by rheirown parents; thus being,
fulfilled that ancient prophecy in which’
Moses had described the punishments!
oftheir unbelief.'”
Nor was famine the only scourge;
the factions still raged within the city;
agreeing only in resisting the enemy
without, then turning with unabated
fury upon each other. They agreed
also in continuing their shameful mal
treatment of such oflhe inhabitants as
tliev suspected to bo in favor of sur
rendering the city, or inclined to do
sort to the Romans. To incur suspi
cion of this, was instant death; and ma
ny persons were charged with the of.
fence, and slain for the sake of their
wealth.
The lower city was taken !>v the
Romans early in the month of May;
but the Temple did not fall until the
beginning of August. Titus was most
anxious to save this glorious fabric, as
one of the noblest ornaments of the Ro
man Empire. But the Jewish Histo
rian observes, that the “holy um) beau
tiful house” wus doomed to destruction;
and he attributes to “Divine impulse”
the act of a soldier who seized u horn
ing brand, and east it in at the golden
window, whereby the whole fabric was
soon in flames. ‘Titus hastened to the
spot, and finding uil attempts to save
the builing hopeless, he with some of
his officers entered the sanctuary, and
directed the removal of the saertd uten
sils of the gold, some of which after
wards graced his triumphal procession,
and were sculptured upon the arch
which commemorated his victory.
The upper city, into which the be
sieged had retreated, soon after all fell;
and this completed the conquest
of Jerusalem. in all these oper
ations the carnage wus horrible, for
with the Romans the time for mercy
was past; and in their exasperation at
the useless obstinacy of the defence,
they burnt and destroyed without re
morse, and massacred the people with
out distinction of age or sex. Streams
of blood ran through all the streets, and
the alleys were filled with bodies wel
tering in gore. The number that
perished during ihe fourth month of the |
siege is computed at 1,100,000, a num
ber which would seem incredible, ifj
we did not recollect that a nation wus,
as it were, shut up in that city, having
assembled to celebrate the Passover; so
that, as Josephus observes, this exceed
ed all the destructions that hud hitheito
been brought upon the world. Besides,
more than nn equal number perished
elsewhere in the sixyearsof war; and
97,000 were made prisoners. Ol
these, great numbers were sold to the j
Greek slave merchants; and when,!
from their great numbers, tlio slave I
markets became glutted with them,
and “no man would buy them,” the:
large residue were sent to toil in the!
Egyptian mines or to various cities, j
far and near, as presents, to bo con- 1
sumed by the sword and by wild beasts
in the amphitheatres.
Thus did Israel cease to be a nation,
and become outcast and desolate; thus
were their famous city and its glorious
Temple utterly cast down; und thus
was inflicted the doom which was im
piously invoked, when the inhabitants
of Jerusalem cried out, “His blood be,
on us and on our children.”
* “ The t*>rider and delicate woman n
! inong yon, which would not adventure to
1 set the sole of her foot upon the ground for
’ delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall
j be evil toward the husband of her bosom,
j and toward her daughter, and toward her
: children which she shall bear; for she shall
eat them for want of all tilings, secretly, in
the siege and straitness wherewith thine
i enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.”—
| Deut. 2R: 56, 57.
Tha Pleasant Acquaintance
AN AMERICAN STORY.
[Concluded. J
i It was curious to notice how much he
i was missed in the house. Some missed
j his kindness; some quaint humorness>
! some his punctuality, by which they sol
their watches; and Mrs. Howard seem
| ed actually to feel the want of that sar
castic tone which made the sause pi
\quante, of her dainty food. Where lie
! actually went no one knew, but in
’ fcur days he returned, looking more:
: billious and acting more cnrotchetty
‘than ever; but with an exhilaration o!
spirits that showed the marvellous es-j
l feet of country air.
The day alter his return, two men, j
| wrapped in cloaks and wearing slouch
ed hats, entered the butcher’s shop in
Street. Giving a nod in passing j
to the man at the counter, the two pro- 1
needed upstairs, and took a seat atone
of the back windows. The blinds
were carefully drawn down, and they
seated themselves as if to note all that
passed in the low, one-storey building, j
which opened upon a narrow paved al- j
ley directly beneath the window.
“Do you know that we shall have a 1
fearful settlement to make il ’his turns t
out to be all humbug ?” said trie young
er man, as they took their staffer!,
“Any satisfaction which'you are
willing to claim, lam ready to make
in case I am mistaken; but —lodk there.”
As he spoke, a female wearring a
huge black cloak and thick veil an.
tered the opposite house. Instantly aj
shout ot joy burst from the children,
and as the old Woman rose to drop the
blind at the window, they caught sight
of the two merry littlo ones pulling at
1 ‘he veil und cloak of the mysterious
lady.
- “Did you see her face ?” asked the
! old man.
“No, it was turned away from the
’ window.”
••'Then have patience for awhile.”
Nearly an hour elapsed, und then
the door again opened to admit the
: egress ol a person apparently less of
I stature than the woman who hud so so
-1 contly entered, more drooping in figure,
■ and clad m rusty and shabby mourn
j "g
----| “One more kiss, mamma, and don’t
; forget the sugar-plums when you come
buck,” cried one of the children.
The woman stooped to give the re
quired kiss, lifting her veil as she did
so, und revealing the whole of her
countenance. A groan burst from the
lips of one of the watchers, which wus
I answered by u low chuckle from his
companion; fur both the captain and
Harry Maurice had recognised in the
mysterious lady the features of tho be
witching Mrs. Howard.
There is little more to tell. The
question of ‘who is she?’ now needed
no reply. Mis. Howard, Mrs. Hurley,
and some dozen other uliasses were the
names of an exceedingly genteel ad
venturess, who is yet vividly remem
bered by the ehurituble whom she vic
timized a few yeurs since. She hud
resided in several large cities, and was
drawing a very handsome income from
her ingenuity. Her love of pleasure
being us great as her taste for mone>
making, she devised a plan for living
(wo lives ut once, and her extreme mo
bility of feature, anil exquisite adroit
ness, enabled her to carry out her
schemes. How far sho would have
carried the urtuir with her young lover,
it is impossible to say, but tho probu
bilily is, ihut tho “face affair” was only
an agreeable episode of pastime; und
that whatever might have been the gen
tleman’s intentions, the lady was guilt
less of ulterior views.
The captain managed tho allair in
his own w'ny. He did not wish to in
jure tiie credit ot the house, wnioh he
designed to call his home for the rest
ot his life, unit therefore Mrs. Howard
received a quiet intimation to quit,
which she obeyed with her usual un
ruffled sweetness. Harry Maurice paid
a visit to his mother and sister iu the
country, and on his return found it de
sirable to change tiis lodgings. ‘The
cuptain kept the story to himself for
several yeurs; but after Munrice was
married and settled in his domestic
habitudes, ho felt himself privileged to
use it us a warning to all gullible
young men, against bewitching wid
ows, and mysterious fellow-boarders.
Indeed it has become ‘lie captain's pel
story, and whenever fie is particularly
good humored with anew corner, (for
he still holds his old place at the head
of the table,) he invariably tells it, and
as invariably adds:—“Such things j
never happened in my young days ; j
there was no mistaking u real lady in
old limes ; but now a bit of French
frippery oan deceive almost anybody.”!
Savannah, Sept. 14th, 18.^2.
Dear Brantly :—As in duty bound,
it was my intention to givu yo i some
account of our late Temperance tour,
Inn pressure of business up to the pres
! eut moment has prevented. 1 am sat
i islied, however, that the people of Geor
gia—ut least, if the feeling exhibited
in the places we visited, be any indica
; tion ot generul public sentiment—are
much further advanced on the subject
I of the traffic, and of the necessity there
j seems tc be, in this crisis, for legislative
prohibition, than the Iriends of temper
; ance have dared to hope, [ have long
been of th3 opinion, and our recent tour
j has served but to deepen the conviction,
that were the question, even now, and
| without any elaborate preparation, sub.
! mi tied to the people : shall any license
I to sell intoxicating beverages, be gran
! ted in Georgia ? tne answer, by a large
! majority, would be a loud, a long und
an emphatic, No !
I know that the advocates of legisla
tive action are not unfriqiiently
denounced as disturbers if the public
peace, and that it is said, that even the
agitation of this question will be ruin
ous to the temperance cause. Now,
though I love our glorious cause almost
as my own life—for il has indeed im
parted new life to me—yet I am willing
to make the venture for, by no reason
ing which presents itself to my mind
can I be brought to believe that it would
suffer any posihle harm.
I he cry, ‘■ it is best to let well enough,
alone'’ has been heard long enough,
and our ear sickens at the very sound;
It is not well enough, so long as the
few are privileged by legislative sanc
tion, to prey upon the many.—it is not ’
well enough; so'fortg as the heartlessj
rumsellor is sulfered to batter with im
puntiy, upon the sighs and tears of bro
ken-hearted wives, and tho wailing ol
tho hungry children for bread. It is
not well enough so long as our prisons—
our lunatic asylums, ur.d our poor-hou
ses, are crowded with the victims oi
this nefarious traflio ; —it is not well
enough, so long as so many half-starv
ing and naked children ure left to grow
up in ignorance and poverty, surround*
ed with the vilest associations, and with
scarcely a single morul or religious
principle ever breathed into their ears;
it is not well enough, so long as the
church udunts into liersaored purtuls—
even electing them to minister in holv
tilings—men, who are engaged in a
truffle destructive to the bodies, and ru
inous to the souls of their fellow-men.
To-day, administering the cup which
is the savor of life unto life—to-mor
row, that wltioli is tho saviour of death’
unto damnation.
Nor will it be well enough, until the
church arouses from her slumber, and
| shakes off this deadly incubus, which
has checked tho glorious und aggressive
career, that, but for this, she might
have run. Nor will it be well enough,
until the people—tho only true and le
gitimate sovereigns in this our happy
country, und front whom ulono etna
nates all power—have risen’ in their
might, and demanded oftheir represen.
tatives, tliut the foul stain of licensing
men to murder in general, (for the as
sassin’s knife is not more certain in its
aim, than that the license system is an
nually increasing tho death of thou
sands in our State) —bo wiped from the
statute-books.
‘Then, and not until then, will the
words: well enough alone,” have
some signification. ‘Then will they
Lave been Set to a more musical key)
and from our own .hearts we will re.
spond to the then inspiriting sentiments,
under the ussurunce, that the great
loading causo of nearly all the orime
and suffering with which our Stato has
so long been cursed, is forever and of.
f dually removed. ‘Then will loud
peans of rejoicing ascend from the
liearts of many —who, this cause of
temptation out of their way, havo not
only been rescued from the drunkard’s
dreudful doom, but huvo been made to
“oiiine us stars in the firmament.”
Cune then, pure minded patriot!—
(Joino then, disinterested philanthropist!.
Como then, sincere chrislinn ! you who
are anxiously looking for tho time when
all shall yield a reudy obedience to the
law—when want, and misery, and
crime shall cease—when the* once des
olate places of our earth shall be made
glud, and the desert shall bud and blos
som as the rose. Come, and help us
to remove an evil, which you all ao
knowledge, byt which you iiuvo hither
to failed to attack, because you appre
hended public opinion was against you,
and that, even if you should succeed iri
getting ulaw passed suppressive of the
j traffic, it would remain a dead letter on
the statute-book; and by this false reas
j oiling, you have suffered yourselves to
be lulled into listless inactivity, and
you have to forget that every moral
i movement is ever in advance of public
opinion, and the law inbatemont of any
! evil, comes as u sort of a school master,
to leud us in tho Way of our duty.—
| Come, and let us try it, for it is ignoble
| —it is base—it is cbwardlv, to say
nothing can be done, when we have not
i made a single effort. Try it, and if de
feated, let us, at least, be defeated as
brave men should be— trying, and with
arms in our hands. —Try it, and if af
ter a faithful experiment, it shall not be
j found to work well—if, as predicated
j by many to prove productive of more
evil than the present plan, wo, the peo-
S pie, can then safely go to our legisla.
i tors, and say to them, we have tried
j both systems and find,that the old one*
! works best; but’ uiitil something of
! this kind be dam—until the legislature
j bus either prohibited the traffic over the
I entire State, or submitted it to the peo
l p!e in the several counties, to express
by their votes, whether they will longer
submit to it or not—my voice, at least,
shall not be hushed—my pon, with ail
its feebleness, shall know no respite.
I feel that I owe you and your read
ers an apology for having beerrsodit’
fuse, but lam so anxious that the peo.
pie should be set to thinking, and think
ing rightly upon the subject which has
occupied so much of this communica
tion, that 1 have almost forgotten the
object for which I commenced address
ing you:
Right thinking is sure to lead to right action.
But to resume :—We filled all the
appointments named in the Banner ex.
cept Newnan- and notwiihstandingtha
unfavorable weather, they were more
than ready to receive us. The result*
of our efforts, of course, cannot be told;
but to give you an instance of the man.
ner in which this now mode (new at
least to some in Georgia,) of conduct
ing the temperance cause was received:
a few days after Mr. King had deliver
ed an elaborate and well digested ad
dress in Macon, on ‘he traffic, and not
oniy of the wisdom and justice to sup*
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