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MADISON, Morgan, Mi'us Nesbit. LTNCOLNTON,LincoIn, Peter Lamar,Esq. PM. SPARTANBURGH, S.C. J.Brannon,Esq. PM. MILLEDGEVILLE, Leonard Perkins. ELBF.RTON, George Ins)ieep, Esq. I’ M. DUBLIN , Laurens, W. B. Coleman,Esq. PM. LOUISVILLE, Jeff'n, John Bostwick,Esq.PiYl. MALLORYSVILLE, Wilkes, Asa Hearing, Esq. P M. WAYNESBORO', Samuel Stnrges, Esq. PM. LAURENS, S. C. Archibald Toung, Esq. WRIGHTS BO BO', Q. L. O. Franklin, Esq. MONTICELLO, Greene I). Brantley, F.sq.P M. CARNESVILLE, Henry Freeman, Eq. P. M. SALEM, Clark, Raleigh Green, Esq. P. M, THE CRUSADES. Extracts from the History of the Crusades, for (he recovery and possession of the. Holy Land. By Charles Mill*. London, 1820. [Concluded from our last.] The fifth cru-ade was promoted by the preaching of Falk, of the town of Neuilly, in France, a worthy successor of St. Bern ard, and by the patronage of Innocent HI., who at the early age of 38 was seated in the papal chair. The French croises joined the Italian crusaders under the marquis of Mont for raf, and finally arrived at Venice. But instead of proceeding on their first-conceiv ed enterprise, they were induced to assist the Venetians, in the subjugation of Zara, off the Dalmatian coast, and afterwards, in company with the Genoese, in that cele brated attack of Constantinople, which led to its subjection to the Latin empire. A sixth crusade was set on foot by the Same pope, Innocent, which was embraced with ardour by Hungary and the Lower Germany; and under the conduct of Fred erick 11. the city of Jerusalem was again taken, and the Holy Sepulchre recovered a second time from the Moslems. But nine years after the emperour had left Palestine, the sultan of Egypt made head against the Christian force there, drove the Latins out of Jerusalem, and overthrew the tower of 3)avid, which until that time had always been regarded as sacred by ail classes o^re ligionists. This was the signal for anew crusade. While the Asiatick Christians were busied in intrigues of negotiation, the English barons met at Northampton; and in the spring of the ye ar 1240, Richard earl of Cornwall, William surnnmed Longsword, Theodore, the prior of the Hospitallers, and many others of the nobility, embarked at Dover. The earl of Cornwall, on his nriival in the Holy Land, marched to Jaffa ; but as the sultan of Egypt, then at war with Damascus, sent to offer him terms of peace, he prudently seized the benefits of negoti ation, accepted a renunciation of Jerusalem, Beritus, Nazareth, Bethlehem, and most of the Holy Land ; and after taking 1 active measures which led to the ratification of the treaty, having accomplished the great object of this crusade, he returned to Eu rope, and was hailed in every town as the deliverer of the Sepulchre. For two years Christianity was the only religion estab lished in Jerusalem, when anew enemy arose, more dreadful than the Moslems. The great Tartarian king, Jnnghis Khan, and his successors, had obliterated the vast empire of Khorasrn ; and the storm now rolled onward to Egypt and Palestine. The walls of Jerusalem were in too ruinous a stale to protect the inhabitants ; many’ of them, with the cavaliers, abandoned the city ; and when the KhOrasmiana entered it, they spared neither sex nor age. The successes of these barbarians gave birth to the eighth crusade. Pope Innocent IV. convoked a council at Lyons, 1245; and THE. MISSIONARY. Louis IX. of France, influenced by its de terminations, set sail three years after for Egypt, and captured JJamietta. They were there joined by 200 English knights, under William Loogsvvord, and took the road to Cairo. On their way they endeav oured to storm Massaura ; in the fury of the engagement, the count of Artois and the English leader were both slain. Fam ine and disease thinned the number of the survivers ; the king himself was made pris oner, and for his freedom he surrendered the city of Damietta; frequent disappoint ments exhausted the spring of hope, arid in 1254 he returned to France. In 1263 An tioch was taken by the Mamelukes; and Louis again spread his sails for the Holy Land, 60.000 soldiers accompanying him. On his voyage he made a diversion on the African coast, and took Carthage ; but in August he was smit, and cut off by a pesti lential disease. Before the news of this calamitous event reached England, Edward Plantagenet, with only a thousand men, had embarked for Palestine. All the Latin ba rons crowded around his banner, and at the head of 7000 troops he assaulted and took Nazareth. From Jaffa he marched to Acre. After he had been fourteen months in Acre, the sultan of Egypt offered peace. Edward seized this occasion of leaving the Holy Land ; for his force was too small for the achievement of any great action, and his father had implored his return. Grego ry IX. made a last attempt for anew cru sade, but with his death terminated every preparation. In 1291 the Mameluke Tar tars of Egypt took Acre, the last strong hold of the Christians. Such as survived the carnage fled to Cyprus—and Palestine was forever lost to the Europeans. We have thus given a brief account of the most important events of the nine cru sades. We feel no sorrow at the final doom of the crusades, because in its origin the war was iniquitous an 1 unjust. L The blood of man should never be shed but to re deem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our kind. The rest is vanity, the rest is crime.” [Abridged from the London “ Investigator.” MR. WHITEFIELD. Account of the arrival , character and preach ing. of the celebrated Whitefield, by Doct. Franklin. in 1793, arrived among us, from Ireland, the Rev. Mr. Whitefield, who had made himself remarkable there -as an itinerant preacher. He was, at first, permitted to preach in some of our churches; but the clergy taking a dislike to him, soon refused him their pulpits, and he was obliged to preach iri the fields. The multitude of all sects and denominations that attended his sermons, were enormous, and it was a mat ter ot speculation to me, (who was one of of the number) to observe the extraordina ry influence of his oratory on his hearers, and how much they admired and respected him, notwithstanding his common abuse of them, by assuring them, they were natural ly half beasts and half devils. It was won derful to see the change soon made in the manners of our inhabitants. From being thoughtless or indifferent about religion, it seemed as if all the world were growing religious, so that one could not walk through the town in an evening, without hearing psalms sung in different families of every street. And it being found inconve nient to assemble in the open air, subject to its inclemencies, the building of a house to meet iu, was no sooner proposed, and per sons appointed to receive contributions, but sufficient sums were soon received to pro cure the ground, and erect the building, which was one hundred feet long, and sev enty broad; and the work was carried on with such spirit, as to be finished in a much shorter time than could have been expect ed. Both house and ground were vested in trustees, expressly for the use of any preacher , of any religious persuasion , who might desire to say something to the people at Philadelphia. The design in building not being to accommodate any particular sect, but the inhabitants in general; so that even if the Mufti of Constantinople, were to send a missionary to preach Mabomedan ism to us, he would find a pulpit at his service. Mr. VVhitefield, on leaving us, went preaching all the way through the colonies to Georgia. The settlement of that prov ince had lately been begun, but instead of being made with hardy, industrious hus bandmen, accu>*toined to labour, the only people fit for such au enterprise, it was with families of broken shop -keepers, and other insolvent debtors; many of indolent and idle habits, taken out of the jails, who, being set down in the woods, unqualified for clearing land, and unable to endure the hardships of anew settlement, perished in numbers, leaving many helpless children unprovided for. The sight of their miser able situation inspired the benevolent heart of Mr. Whitefield, with the idea of building an orphan-house there, in which they might he supported and educated. Returning northward, he preached up this charity, & made large collections: for his eloquence had a wonderful power over the hearts and i purses of his hearers, of which I myself was an instance. I did not disapprove of the i GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THL GOSPEL ‘TO EVERY CREATURE.—Jesus Curi3t. MOUNT ZION, (HANCOCK CO. GA,) MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1821. design, but as Georgia was then destitute of materials and workmen, and it was pro posed to send them from Philadelphia, at a great expense, I thought it would have been better to have built the house at Phil adelphia, and brought the children to it. This 1 advised, but he was resolute in bis first project, rejected my counsel, and I therefore refused to contribute. I happen ed soon after, to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which, I perceived he in tended to finish with a collection, and 1 si lently resolved he should get nothing from me : I bad, in my pocket a handful of cop per money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold; as he proceeded, 1 began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory, made me ashamed of lliat, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket whol ly, into the collector’s dish, gold and all! At this sermon, there was also one of our club, who, being of my sentiments respec ting the building in Georgia, and suspecting a collection might be intended, had, by pre caution, emptied his pockets before he came from home; towards the conclusion of the discourse, however, he felt a strong inclination to give, and applied to a neigh bour, who stood uear him, to lend him some money for the purpose. The request was fortunately made to perhaps the only man in the company, who had the firmness not to be affected by the preacher. His an swer was, “ At any other lime, friend Hop kinson, I would lend to thee freely ; but not now, for thee seems to me to be out of thy right senses.” Some of Mr. Wbitefield’s enemies affec ted to suppose, that he would apply these collections to his own private emolument; but I, who was intimately acquainted with him, (being employed in printing his ser mons, journals, Stc.) never had the least suspicion of his integrity; but am, to this day, decidedly of opinion, that he was, in all his conduct a perfectly honest man ; and rnethinks, my testimony in his favour, ought to have the more weight, as we had no re ligious connexion. He used indeed some times to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard. Onrs was a mere civ il friendship, sincere on both sides, amTlast ed to his death. The following instance will show the terms on which we stood.— Upon one of his arrivals from England, at Boston, he wrote to me that he should come soon to Philadelphia, but knew not where he could lodge when there, as he understood his old friend and host, Mr. Ben ezet, was removed to Germantown. My answer was, you know my house ; if you can make shift with its scanty accommo dations, you will be most heartily welcome. He replied, that if 1 made that kind offer for Christ's sake, I should not miss of a re ward. And I returned, “ don’t Jet me be mistaken; it was not for Christ's sake, hut for your sake.” One of our common ac quaintance jocosely remarked, that know ing it to be the custom of the saints, when they received any favour, to shift the bur then of the obligation from off their own shoulders, and place it in heaven ; I had contrived to fix it on earth. The last time I saw Mr. Whitefield, was in London, when he consulted me about his orphan-house concern, and his purpose of appropriating it to the establishment of a college. He had a loud and clear voice, and ar ticulated his words so perfectly, that he might be heard and understood at a great distance ; especially, as his auditories ob served the most perfect silence. He preached, one evening, from the top of the Court-House steps, which are-in the middle of Market street and on the west side of Second street, which crosses it at right an gles. Both streets were filled with hi 9 hearers to a considerable distance : being among the hindmost in Market street, I had the curiosity to learn how far it could be heard, by retiring backwards down the street towards the river, and I found his voice distinct till 1 came near Front-street, when some noise in that street obscured it. Imagining then a semicircle, of which ray distance should be the radius, and that it was filled with auditors, to each of whom I al lowed two square feet; 1 computed that he might well be heard by more than 30,000. This reconciled me to the newspaper ac counts of his having preached to 35,000 people in the fields, and to the histories of generals haranguing whole armies, of which I had sometimes doubled. By hearing him often, I came to distin guish easily between sermons newly com posed, and those which he had often preach ed in the course of his travels. His deliv ery of the latter was so improved by fre quent repetition, that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well-turned and well-placed, that without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of musick. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are station ary, as the latter cannot weil improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehears als, His writing and printing, from limp to time, gave great advantage to his ene? mies; unguarded expressions, and even er roneous opinions delivered in preaching, ■ might have been afterwards explained or qualified, by supposing others that might have accompanied them ; or they might have been denied; but litcrascripta manet; criticks attacked his writings most violent ly, and with so much appearance of reason, as to diminish the number of his votaries, and prevent their increase. So that I am satisfied, that if he had never written any thing, he would have left behind him, a much more numerous and important sect; and his reputation might, in thr\t case, have been still growing, even after his death ; as there being nothing of his writing on which to found a censure, and give him a low character, his proselytes would bp left at liberty to attribute to him as great a va riety of excellencies, as their entbusiastick admiration might wish him to have pos sessed. from the western Carolinian. Salisbury, (JV. C.) October 2. NARRATIVE OF THE STATE OF RELIGION WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF THE SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA. The Synod of the Presbyterian Church of the Carolinas closed their session yesterday morning, as did also the Presbyterian Missionary Society of North-Carolina During their session many ex cellent and pathetick sermons were delivered to crowded and solemn audiences. We have reason to believe that many lasting impress-ions were made, and that numbers will baie occasion to remember this meeting, when “ this globe, and all who it inhabit, shall be dissolved.” In a free conversation on the subject of moral and benevolent societies, and on the state of religion generally, the Synod of North-Carolina are happy to receive from the different churches such interesting and heartcheering intelligence. Allhough there is much to lament within our bounds—ir some places vice and immorality, ia many churches coldness and lukewarmness, and in a few congregations an inattention to pious and benevolent institutions, yet, upon the whole, we regard the state of religion during the past year as more than encour aging ; and may safely say that there nev er was a period when there was such a general attention to the concerns of piety, and when such signal success has accom panied pious exertions. It is with pleasure that we learn, that almost universal attention is paid to the re ligious instruction of the rising generation. Sabbath schools seem every where to pre vail. Bible classes have been generally established, and are well attended. In struction iu the catechisms of our church is not neglected. The Synod view with en couraging delight the establishment and progress of such institutions; they believe them Vo be among the most effectual means of securing the salvation of the young, and promoting the general cause of religion. Many who are now “ rejoicing in hope,” and who are pillars in the church of Chiist, can look back agd date their first serious impressions from such ieligious instruction. The monthly concert for prayer lias been generally established, and is well attended. It is pleasing to discover so general a dis position to encourage this meeting ; to see, throughout our churches, so great an anxi ety to unite with the thousands of Israel on the same evening, in praying for the pros perity of the Redeemer's kingdom. May the united supplications of God’s children, bring down upon his Zion the blessings which they desire. In some congregations, Bible, Tract, Missionary, Moral and Peace Societies have been instituted, and attended with success. In three or four congregations, societies auxiliary to the American Colonization Society, have been established. We are happy to learn, from the report of our congregations, that the people of colour have not been neglected. An at tention to their religious interests is evi dently increasing throughout our bounds. Many additions, among this class of people, have been made to our churches during the past year; many sabbath schools have been established for their religious instruc tion, and many private exertions are mak ing in families for their salvation. Some of our congregations have felt for the situation of the western Indians, and have done something for their civilization and spiritual improvement, by assisting the children at Brainerd and FJliot. Such commendable conduct we cannot too high ly applaud ; and would recommend to our congregations to follow such henevoleut examples. Surely, as far as we. have op portunity', we should assit our brethren at these missionary stations, and use our ut most exertions for the savages of the de sert. Thus, while other parts of Christendom, in this age of Philanthropy, are engaged in promoting the cause of the Saviour by means of pious and benevolent institutions, the churches within our hounds have not been deficient; they too have engaged in the glorious work, ami have established societies which God has honoured and made extensively useful. But while we are thankful for the estab lishment and success of such institutions, we would peculiarly bless God for the out pouring of lh,espirit with which ha has vis- Prire 5 s 3 i so P r - ann - or i I ’ l $3,00 in advance. > ited many of or ctrurches. Since our last meeting, he has been gracious to many of our congregations ; reviving the drooping spirits of bis children, and displaying his power and grace in the salvation of sinners. In the town of Hillsborough , considerable seriousness bus prevailed ; many have been added to the church, and between twenty and thirty are still under deep convictions. In the congregations of JEuo and Little River , still greater solemnity is visible ; fourteen have lately joined the church, and the number of souls in both congregations that are still inquiring, is about one hun dred. In the congregation of Cross Roads, the same glorious work has commenced, and is extending. Besides the great num ber that have lately united themselves with the church, many are still seeking the Lord sorrowing. About sixty persoi.3 have become the subjects of this revival. The congregation of Third Creek , Back. Creek and Unity, have been specially visited with the influences of divine grace ; fifty have lately pubiickly professed religion, twenty more are hopefully pious, and about thirty are still anxiously seeking. In these con gregations, the far greater part of those who were called were in the early period of life, and among these many promising voting men. ilow cheering to see youth rising up to become useful members of ths church, when the heads cf their fathers are laid in the dust. There is one circurr.- stance connected with this revival which is worthy ot attention: It is remarkab'o that most of those who, at the commeme ment, opposed and ridiculed the work, were themselves deeply humbled under a sense of their sins, and brought low at the footstool of mercy. Great attention to re ligion and universal seriousness have pre vailed in the congregations of Bethany and Concord ; many persons, particularly among ihe young, have become the subjects oi divine grace. Forty persons have late'y been admitted into the church, and a con siderable number are still serious. |n the I congregations of Bvffahe and Allemunce , there is unusual solemnity ; eight at (he ast communion season were admitted into the church, and fifteen since that period have been hopefully converted. There is one circumstance connected with the con version of these persons which should he deeply impressed unpin ministers and npou the hearts of the young: Almost all those who were here brought to a saving knowl edge of the truth, were members of Bible Classes. These revivalsjwere carried on without noise or tumult during puhlick worship. Every thing like enthusiasm was discour aged. The work was deep, and often ex tensive ; but yet a still solemnity seemed to prevail. In reviewing such scenes, our hearts swell with the warmest gratitude to Gcd, for the interest ar.d tender care which he manifests for his Zion. We feel grateful that he has not withdrawn Ins presence from us, but that he lias visited some of our churches with the copious showers of di vine grace, and oihers with the gentle droppings of his blessed spirit. “It is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes.” Let us be encouraged to still great er exertions in ibis holy work ; let every nerve be strained to action ; every power of the seul exerted to urge forward the cause of the Redeemer. Let what the Lord has already done increase our exer tions ; let us strive more ardently to ad vance the kingdom of our Saviour; and let us not relax our exertions till every church within our bounds be visited with the out pouring of the spirit; till ” the whole earth be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover (he great deep.’’ In consequence of the cheering intelli gence contained in the above report, the Synod adopted the following resolution. Resolved , That the Synod appoint the first Monday in December nexf, as a day of Puhlick Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the special blessings with which he has fa voured several congregations under our care, in reviving religion, and in giving us in general the blessings of health, and ia favouring us with fruitful seasons. And the Sy nod also recommend, that the churches under our care, on the day above named, offer up their prayers to Almighty God, fora general revival of religion with in our bounds, aud throughout the world. We learn that the American Board of Commissioners for Foieign Missions, at their late annual meeting, not being able immediately to fix their eye? upon a Cler gyman to succeed the lamented and emi nent Dr. Worcester, ns Corresponding Se cretary, appointed the Treasurer, J. Evarts, Esq* as Secretary for the present year, with authority to procure such assis tance as he might need. The publick may rest assured liial the duties of the office will be ably discharged. Bos. Rec. We mentioned last week the election of the Rev. Martin Ruter, of the Methodist Church, to the Professor of Oriental Lite rature in the Cincinnati College. A few years -ince he wasan apprentice to a farmer in Concord, N. H, He is now a profound, though self-taught scholar, and well as. uuaintod with several languages, JCy, fyjjj