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MORAL AND RELIGIOUS. j
Vr.- 9wirn-2^r.7 %r,t i. —2-o—.a u.—— .t. —'■ • ——
[f'nwi tlw Richmond Eru/uirer.]
A Voice iroui IZeaveu.
I sliine in the light of God,
His image stamps my brow;
Thro’ the valley of Death tuy feot have trod;
I reign in glory now.
No breaking heart is lierei
No keen and thrilling pain.
I No wasted eheaek, where the frequent tear
Hath lollod and left its stain.
i
I have found tlie joys of Heaven—
I am one of the angel band;
To my head a erown of gold is given,
And a harp is in my han 4.
I have learned tho song they sing
Whom Jostia luilh set free,
And the gloriyut* walls of Ileavon still ring
Wiw new-born melody.
No sigh—sogriuf—no pain;
Safe in my happy home;
My fears all gone—-iny doubts all sluin;
Jly hour of triumph come.
Oil! friends of my mortal years;
The trusted and the true—
Ye are walking still in the valley of Sears,
But 1 wait to welcome you.
Do I forget? Oh, no!—
For Memory's golden chain
8ha!l bind my heart to tho hearts below,
Till they meet and touch again.
I Duels link is strong and bright,
And Love's elective flame
■ Flows lrooly down like n river of light,
i Vo the world from which 1 cause.
i l>o you mount that another star
Shines out from tho glittering sky?
Do you weep, when the ragging voice of war, 1
And the storm oi conflict, die?
Then why should your tears run down,
And your hearts bo sorely rivun,
, For another gem in the Saviour’s crown,
j And another soul in Heaven?—
, [Fro* the American Messenger.
Elot Woary.
An aged oloogyrnan who wont seven
1 miles once a month to hold a meeting
|in a rstired village, found, as the busi
! ness season opened, that only one aged
man and a number of Women and ohil
! droit continued to attend. Still be
! perservvtd. As ho was on his way to
! this mooting a careless neighbor thus
■ accosted him:
j “Where now, my friend?”
I “To my little charge in R was
I tho unaffected reiilv.
j “1 can’t see, sir, why you should
1 pvrsist ia going there. It cannot ho
for pleasure, for it is u most uninviting
. place; nor for gain, for I know you
i have never received tho first com; and
an old man a few women and children
eou’.dnot add to your laurels.”
‘•My friend” said the aged servant of j
Cnrist, “that old man is over ninety. I
For threescore years he Inn been a dis- j
| cipleoftho Lord Jasus, and l feel it a ;
privilege to break to him the broad of
life. Nor is this all. I am sowing
| scad in those young beurts of which
none but God can foretell the harvest. •
if even one ol them should point to me
in the day of judgement as the inntru
-1 mentof her salvation, think you that 1 i
ska!! lose my reward?” Hat.
A Hxm World. —Many think
themselves to be God-fearing, when
they call the world a valley of tears.—
But I believe they would be more so,
if they called it a happy valley. God
is more pi cased with those wiio think
right in the world, than with those who
think nothing right. Wiih so rnuny
thousands joys, is it. not black ingrati
tude to cal! the world a place 61 sor
row and torment ? — Richter.
[From Charabor’s Journal.]
An Apologj for Rugbaads-
We do not use this word “apology”
in its legitimate sense, us a defence or
vindication ; we are satisfied witli the
common meaning assigned to it; that
is, an excuse or extenuation of un admit
ted oifenoo. Husbands as a general
rule are to blame ; there is no doubt of
that; only we think there are sotno
small out aside rations which might be
urged in their favor, net by way es ex
alting, hut merely of letting them down
easily.
The humane idea was long of occur
ring to ut; for one gels so thoroughly
accustomed to thocondition ot rdlairs in 1
society, that everything seems nutural 1
and necessary, and passer on without!
exciting a thought. But u week or two
ago, we had occasion to visit repeated
ly a rather largo and agreeable family
without once chancing to meet with the 1
offender; and this had tho effect of
bringing him before our cogitations.
Had fie boon present in tho room, he
would have pussed as a natural and
useful piece of furniture, and so have
eleaped ail special survey, but being
obstinately absent, we of course turned
tiia bull’s-eye of our mind upon him,
and had him up.
\\ ith regard to thejfamily present, it
consisted of a wife, ouo or two children,
one or two growing up, and a couple of
grown-up daughters. All these were
busy, from dolls and A 13 C’s to dress
making and house keeping. One of,
lie- daughters sung and played delight-,
• f,/ v : another was an artist of consi-i
PENFLELD, GA. APRIL 23, {853.
erable merit for an amateur; and both j
were adepts at needle-work. Tiny I
boasted of making all bsst their host j
bonnets, and all but their ball-dresses, j
Tho n other was an excellent manager.
IJtsder her charge the business of the
house went on like olouk-work ; every
thing wascomiorlable, everything tsgroe
able, everything genteel. The boys
were at school studying hard and suc
cessfully ; one intending to be a mer
chant-prince. another to sit sonde day
on the Woolsack, and tho third to be
Archbishop of Canterbury. Indeed,
they wore an exemplary family ; and
one day whoa we met thu lady in the
street, with her two grown-up daugh
ters by her side, and th - younger girls
walking tripping behind, all nicely
dressed nuj hupp)-looking, it struck us
that there was an expression of pride
as well us pleasure in her face, and that
she was inwardly assuming to herself
the merit of having made her own posi
tion. We did not grudge her the feel
ing, for her self satisfaction had been
earned ; if some snob inward reward
did not attend good conduct, it would
bo all tho worse for us in this world.
Wo had visited this happy family
sevoral times when wo began toinquiro
while walking homeward in our usual
meditative mood, whut it was that held
them together in so enviable a position.
Their labors were all for themselves,
for their own comfort, amusement, gen
j tility, advancement. They purchased
| nothing else with all this outlay of time
I and money. Thoro they were with
no object but that of passing the day, of
enjoying life, of rising to some oondi
tion of still higher distinction of con
j tontment. How did they find this pos
| sible ? By what power were they sus
j tained immoveable in the shocks of so
\ cial life, surrounded by all the cares
and anxieties, und competitions and
heart-burnings, and teur and wear, and
burry und scurry of tho world ? Here
we euught with our mind’s eye the ab
sentee and immediately suspected that
he was at the bottom of it! But it was
curious to think that lie should be the
I sun of this social system —that so many
i individuals should loan supinely upon
• one without the slightest idea of mutual
support. Yetso it was—and is. So
oioty is composed throughout almost its
whole consistence of such circles, each
wheeling with more or loss harmony,
but still wheeling round a centre; and
that centre is the offender we have now
U P;
This individual, let us say, is uncon
scious of his own predicament. Ho
1 knows ho Ims a wife and children, a
1 house and servants to provide for and
|he does provide. That is all. He
; takes no merit to himself, and none is
due. In supporting this Atiantean bur
den, ho only does what ethers do. Anil
so he bends bis shoulders, and on he
j goes ; sometimes stepping out like a gi
j ant, sometimes tottering, sometimes
j standing still to bemoan his fortune—
l not in having the load to boar, but in
| being unable to bear it well. If thing*
|go smoothly—if hie children are well
taught, if his dinner and his daughter
are well dressed, if his house is tidy and
genteel--why, then, if lie is a praise-
J worthy person, he thanks God and his
* wifo. If things otherwise he grum
bles at his hard fate, and makes himself
as disagreeable as possible, or else trun
dies his canister like a stoic; but all
lliia time, be it observed, iri utter uncon
sciousness of his true position. He
I does not think that he is travelling
in his round otlife, with a tail after him
like a comet. He does not think about
it all. He only knows that the thing
exists, and must be borne. If he is able
j of his own strength to bear it bandsorne
j ly, so much the belter ; but if not, he
! never speculates on the possibility of
I deriving comfort and support from what
is naturally n burden, any more than
the wife and children imagine that they
are anything elv: than, with nothing in
the world to think of, or to do, hut to j
stick fast to the body which they ohane”
to be attach ‘d, and malic themselves as,
comfortable r.s possible.
Arid this last is the curious part of!
thes'.ory ; the amiable family we have j
described, talk f the individual we!
have laid hold of, with the perfect !
knowledge the: o was their centre hut;
without the faintest oonsciousnenr that!
there was anything hut the mechanical ;
tie between them. They humored him I
when he waa in good humor; called
him a dear, good, old papa, got tiis slip
pers ready, and drew in his chair to the
hearth, for that made the room more the
cheerful for theme and ves; but when in
bad humor they avoided or crossed him,
wondering how anybody could look
sulky ut such a bright firesido and sus-!
petting him to be a man incapable of
feeling interest in anything but liis husi
- ness, or his clerks, or his banker’* book.
Was not his wife to bo piled, after ali !
I she ha J done to make him happy and ‘
, respectable ? And was not tins a eirry j
’ return to his daughters, for saving him !
a mint of money by making their own !
! dresses? These excellent ladies half
‘nothing to do with the stability of their!
centre. The house might be on fir
but they wore only lodgui s. They had
no interest in the oilerider when ho was
out of tboir sight. They knew nothing
of his crosses and loss vs, of his disap
pointments and vexations, of his fainti
ness and weariness ; they saw nothing
but discontent oil his wrinkling brow,
nothing but approaching age in his
whiteniug hair, nothing Imt ill humor
in his querulous voice, nothing hut self
ish apathy in his spiritless eyo und
sinking heart. They loved the husban I
and the fathor when he was agreeable
enough to be loved ; but they had no
sympathy with the struggling matt.
This is the ground of our apology, j
That tho husband is a had fellow is on
ly too clear, but we would suggest that,
there are extenuating circumstances.
Th*. wont! is a hard task-muster, and j
ho who strives with it must submit;
sometimes to the hard word and hard!
blow. His blow cannot always be 1
dear or his mind present. He cannot j
always he ill the mood to feel the ocfiii- !
fort lie sees; and he will sometimes sit i
down oven at a bright tiro-side, with i
bright faces around him and feel as if j
ho wore in a desert. L sympathy,
dear ladies only for tho happy/ Is
not his business yours? Is it politic as
well as kind to protect from feeling the
rubs of the world that intelligent and
suseeptiblo machine to which you owe
your all? In low life, in middle life,
in high life however the same curious
arrangement prevails hither to so far as
we know, undescribod or misunder
stood.
A similarity of taste ia doubtless, de
sirable, if on one side, unobslrusive
or undemonstrative; but what is really
wanted is sympathy with the man—con
siderulion tor the Allas who carries the
household on his shoulders. Wo roud.
ily pardon the fYotfulness of the sick;
we consent without hesitation to tread
lightly bv the couch of pain, but who
can toll what sickness of tho heart, what
torture of the head, may be indicated
in that troubled look, that gloomy eye,
that rigid lip, that thoughtful brow?
Is it more than womanly to boar with
a harsh word—to stoal round the offen
der with the noiseless step —to soothe
him with a soft word or a loviug look,
to remember that to him his family owe
their comfort and tranquillity—that ho
is like a rook, in tho lee of which they
reelina safety, while on its bald uud
whitened head break the thunder und
the storm.
Yes, in his ease there aro extonu
atirig circumstances. But lot him be
ware that ho does not plume himself
upon them, instead of regarding them
as merely something that would justify
a humane judge in recommending him
to mercy. Sympathy cannot long exist
1 unanswered; and the action and res
! pouse cannot take place but between
! minds that are in a state rapport. We
will take you, sir as your own witness.
Do you tuke care to place yourself
habitually in this state with your fam
ily? 1 f you do not enter into their feel
ings, do you expoot them to enter yours?
Are you content to bo defined as mere
ly “tho gentleman who draws cheques?”
j *sr do you loach thorn that you are u
little community of individuals, sifted
together by God ar v d nature for mutual
soluce anil support, with one moral be
ing, one int*-rest, one love, one hope?
!Do not answer in a hurry. Think of
j it, dream of it, ponder over it. There
!—that will do. Stand down sir.
[From the Southern I’atriot.]
Spirit Rapping.
What is Spirit Rapping ? Is it reali
ty, or is it humbuggery l 1 confess my
doubts. Yet, if Mediums possess the
power they profess to have, they are in
finitely dangerous—to those only, how
ever, 1 imagine, who patroniz t, cncour
age or foster them—at least, in a Chris
tian point of view, i shall, wilh your
permission, Messrs. Hditors, trespass
somewhat upon your columns, in order
to present what I oonosive to he true
Sciipture doctrine on the subject; for
this is no new tiling under the sun—it
is at least three thousand throe hundred
and forty years old. H what it pre
tends bo, there was a lime when min
isters, or servants, of the Most High
made it t.ho subject of more especial de
nunciation than it lias received from
that honoruble class of men of the nine
teenth century. If a humbug, it is at
least worthy of condemnation. But to
the Bible :
Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel
had lamented him, and buried him in
Kamak, even in his own city. And
Saul bad put away those that had va
miliar srmiTs, and the wizards, out of
the land.
And the Philistines gathered them
solves together, and came and pitched
in Bhmnen : and daul gathered all Is
rael together, and they pitched in fei
boa. And when tssu! saw the host of
the Philistines, he was afraid, and his
heart greatly trembled. And when
Saul inquired of the Horu. the Houn
answered him not, neither by dreams,
nor bv Urim, nor In prophets.
Then su'd 3-iul” unto hi- s.-rv nits,
Seek me a woman that hath a familiar |
spirit, that l may go to her, and inquire
of tier. And his servants said to him,
Behold, there is a woman that hath u
familiar spirit ut Lanlor. And Saul dis
gusted himself, und put on other raiment,
and lie went, und two men with him,
and they cumo to the woman by night:
and lit; said, l pray thee, divine unto me
by the familiar spirit, and bring me
him up whom l shall namo unto theo.
And the woman sain unto him, Behold,
thou knowost whut Saul hath done, how
he hath cut off those that have familiar
spirits, and the wi/.urds, out of the land:
wherefore, then, layout thou u snare for
my life, to cause me to die ? And
Saul aware to her l>y tho Lord saying,
/Is the Lord livotli, there shall no pun
ishment happen to luce tor this thing.
Then said tho woman, Whom shall 1
bring up unto thee? And lie said,
Bring mo up Samuel. And when tho
woman saw Samuel, she cried with a
loud voioo ; and the woman spake to
Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived
mo ? for thou art Saul. And the king
said unto her, Be not afraid ; fur what
sawest thou ? And tho woman said
unto Saul, 1 saw gods ascending ou t of
tho earth. And ho said unto her,
Whut form is he of? And she said,
An old man corneth up; and ho t's cov
ered with u mantle. And Saul per
ceived that it was Samuel, and he
stooped with his face to thu ground, anil
bowed himself.
And Samuel said to Saul, Why bust
thou disquieted me, to bring mo up/
And Saul answered, 1 uni sore dis
tressed; lor the Philistines make war
against mo, und God ia departed from
me, und unswercth nte no more, neither
by prophets, nor by dreams ; therefore
l have cullod ttiee, that thou muyest
make known unto me what I shall do.
Then said Samuel, Wherefore, then,
dost thou usk of me, seeing the Lord
is departed from iftue, an I is become
thy enemy ? Ami tho Louu hath done
to him as ho spake by me: for the
Lord bath rent the kingdom out of
thy hand, and given it to thy neighbor,
•ee/t to David : because thou oboyedst
not the voice of the Lord, nor oxocu
todst his tiorce wrath upon Amalek,
therefore hath tho Loud do.io this thing
unto t ioe this day. M„roover, tlit-Lohu
will ulso deliver Israel with thee into
the hand of the Philistines; und to-mor
row shall thou and thy sous he with me:
tho Loro ulso shall deliver the host of
Isruel into the hand of tho Philistines.
Thou Saul fell straightway all along
ou the earth, and was soro afraid, be
cause of the words of Samuel: und
there wa3 no strength in him; for he
hud eaten no bread all llte day, uor all
the night.
And the woman Cutile unto Saul, and
saw that he wus sore troubled, uud said
unto him, Behold thy handmaid hath
obeyed thy voice, uud i liuve put iny
life in my hand, und have hearkened j
unto thy words which thou spakest tin- j
tome. Now, therefore, 1 pray thoe,|
hearken thou also unto the voice of thy j
handmaid, uud let me set a morsel ol j
bread before thee; and eat, tliut thou
mayest have strength, when thou goest ■
on thy way.—l. Sam. xxviu. 3—iiU j
ItegarJ not them that have familiar j
spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be 1
defiled by them ; 1 am tho Lotto your;
God.— £eu. a six. 31.
The soul tliut turneth after such os j
tiave familiar spirits, und after wizards,
to go u whoring after them, I will even!
sot my face against that soul, and wilL
cut him off from among his pooplo.—!
Lev xx i.O.
A mult also or u woman that hath a’
familiar spirit, or that ia a wizard, shull J
surely be put to death : they shall stone;
them with stones: their blood shall be !
upon them.— Lev. xx. 31.
Wiien thou art come into the land
which the Loan thy God giveth thoe,
thou shall not leant to do afior tho
abominations of those nutious. There
shall not be found among you any une
that iriaketh his son or his daughter to
puss through the fire, or that uselh di
vinutiou, or an observer of times, or
an enchanter, or a witch, or a oliurmer,
or u cousulter w ith fumiliur spirits, or
u wizard, or a necromancer.— Lieut,
xoiii. 9-11
And he [Munasselij made his son
puss through the fire, and obsorvod
times, and used enchantments, and
dealt with familiar spirits and wizards:
he wrought much wickedness in the
sight of the Loro to provoke him to an
ger Kings xxi.. 0. f>e also U.
Chroa. xxxiu. 0,
Moreover, the workers with familiar
spirits, and the wizards, and the ima
ges, und the idol q and all the abomina
tions that were spied in the land of Ju
dah and in Jerusalem, did Josiult put
away, that he might perform the words
of the law which were written in the
book tliut flilkiah tho priest found in
the house of the Loro.-//. Kings, xxin.
■H.
And when they *fiali say unto you,
So* k unto thorn that have fjmiliur .-pir
it, uud unto wizards tliut peep, ami that
mtnter: should not u people seek unto
(heir God ? for the living to the doad ?
Is. vHi. 19.
And the sjiirit of Egypt shall fail iu
the midst ifiereef: and I will destroy
the counsel thereof; und tlioy shall
seek to the idols, und to the char mors,’
and to them tliut have fumiliur
and to tho wizards.— ls. six. 3.
t
Anu thou shall be brought down, atid
shall speak out of the ground, and thv
s pooch shull bu low out of the dust, and
thy voice shall be as of one that hath
a familiar spirit, out of tho ground, and
t Ly speech shall whisper out of the
dust.— is. xxix. 4.
I he above texts will aid in throwing
light on u subject which threatens tuba
a formidable onotuy of the ohuroh.—
Mure anon.
BEKHAN PREACHER.
For the Temperance Bauucr,
Stauhsvillb, Git., March 31, ’53,
Dear Banner .-—Our usually quiet
humic* was thrown into a stuto of up
run lions excitement yesterday bv tho
|>< eseneo among us ofS. M. Hewlett,
the renowned lomporanoe lecturer.—
When 1 suy a state of excitement, I
mean wliut f soy. Ilro. Hewlett had
never been here before in person,—but
whoro is it tliut his name has not been *
l lie very expectation of his coming
was, for days previous, tho ull-absorb.
ing theme of our rural gossip.
Rurly then, on yesterday’s morn, “all
sorts of pooplo” might be seen wending
their way ab omni parte to tho place of
rendezvous, lit cue lime tho expected
speaker made his appearanco; und at
the appointed hour lie rose to uddross a
respectable and intelligent audioac*.
Some ol us hud hoard him before and
were, consequently, prepared for what
wus to follow. But tho uudiouce geu*
orally, had never heard him, and—aa
a mutter of course—ore ho hud spokeu
ten minutes, found themselves dumb
founded uud spell hound. Who cun
describe Bro. Hewlett's inunnor of
speaking ? At one time you could at.
most fancy that you’ hoard the fairy
tones ‘dial the wandering breezes have
awakened Irom tho quivering strings of
the Loleunharp. Anon tho broa** had
swelled into the stonu, und now yen
fancied that yon heard’ thu roaring tor.
rent, the bursting thunder, and thu deaf,
being melee of tho sweeping larreuta 1
At one lime ho would have us sad uud
ready to weep, as he painted, on tkn
spirit ounvita within us, a vivid piolura
of thu squalled, uud the rugs, uud thu
vA>e, and tho ruin', that follow iu thu
wake of the demon alcohol, us lie tramps
with his iron heel oh tko bleeding hearty
of hi* million victims.
Aguin, our cuoliimulions could not
ho quelled as iu his inimitable mimicry
he fairly beat the opposing vulgus iu
thoir own slung. Tho ttusal twang of
tho poor drunkard, the rich broguo of
green Erin’* rod nosed son, the blus
tering braggardiam of the fop, and tba
lisping monotone of tho flirt, all spaUe
out iu their native simplicity, calling
for thoir tribute due—a spasmodic con
traction ol the visible muscles, uud a
gctiiul expansion of tho os humunum.
But thi.i was not all. Mr. Hewlett’
not only spake to please the fancy aud
to affect the feelings—ho spoke *.o con
vince the, judgment. Perhaps ut no
| former ported bus the temperance ouusc
been one of vuslor moment to tho pot*,
j plo of Georgia titan now. Perhaps the
tomperunoe lecturer never bot'uru had
! a more solemn responsibility resting
[Upon him than now. Mr. Hewlett felt
> tins, and he did his duty. He nobly
land boldly stood forth in defence of the
now dawning, but ull ugituting inovb
meni, on the purl of the friends of'tem
poranco in our beloved Georgia. Ha
boldly und convincingly defended the
right of legislation on this woful ourae
that tills and floods our land. Anil af
ter the voice of the speaker was hushed,
and ho hud passed uway, 1 heard many
a one say, (alluding to the time when
we shall ho Called upon to say ut tho
ballot-box, license or no license,) Pit l>e
there l” And 1 heard this from those
who were not “temperance men,” and
who liuve hitherto taken but liltlo, if
any, interest in tho cause. I hoard of
but one man’s objecting to Mr. How.
lett’s speech, and that man was a “Son
oj Temperance !”
Bro. Hewlett left us early, for be had
other appointments to attend. His is a
high and glorious missi m, aud right
well anti worthy dees lie fill it. The
prayers of the widow and the orphan
are borne on the snow wing of faith to
the fieuven of heavens of blessings upon
him in his labor of love. May prosper,
ous gales attend him till the stormy
voyage of life is over, and then w*ft
his bark, laden with years and honor,
to a haven of rest in the bright and tho
beautiful clime of eternal peace !
HO RATIO".
To bo ashamed to practice the pre.
Copts which the heart approves, marks
a feeble und imperfect cbaractor.
To ingratiate ourseln .-, with some,
by traducing others, shows a base and
despicable niiu 1 v ,-
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