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THE MISSION AR Y.
THE COMPLAINT OF THE DYING
YEAR.
AN ALLEGORY,
Supposed to be written by the Rev. Dr. Hen
derson, the well known Missionary, and
first inserted in the 1 Edinburgh Star.’’
Reclining on a couch of fallen leaves,
wrapped in a fleecy mantle, with withered
limbs, hoarse voice, and snowy beard, ap
pears a venerable old man. His pulse
beats feebly, his brealh becomes shorter;
he exhibits every mark 8f approaching dis
solution.
This is old Eighteen Hundred and Twen
ty-one ; and as every class of readers must
remember him a young man, as rosy and
blithesome as themselves, they will, per
haps, feel interested in hearing some of his
dying expressions, wilh a few particulars of
his past life. His existence is still likely to
be prolonged a few days by the presence of
his daughter December , the last ami sole
surviver of his twelve fair children ; but itj
is thought the father and daughter will ex
pire together. The following are some of
the expressions which have been taken
down as they fell from his dying lips;
“I am,” said he, “ the son of old father
Time, and the last of a numerous progeny;
for he has had no less’ than five thousand
eight hundred and twenty-one of us; hut it
has ever been bis fate to see one child ex
pire befoie another was born. It is the
opinion of some, that his own constitution is
beginning to break up, and that when he
has given birth to a hundred or two more
of us, his family will be complete, and then
he himself will be no more.”
Here the Old Year called for his account
book, and turned over the pages with a
sorrowful eye. He has kqpt, it appears,
an accurate account of the moments, min
utes, hours and months which he has issued,
and subjoined in some places, memoran
dums of the uses to which they have been
applied, ar.d of the losses he has sustained.
These particulars it would be tedious to
detail, and perhaps the recollection of the
reader may furnish them as.well or better:
but we must notice one circumstance; up
on turning to a certain page in his accounts,
the old min was much affected, and the
tears streamed down bis furrowed cheeks
as he examined it. This was the register
of the forty eight Sunday* which he bad is
sued; and which, of all the wealth he bad
to dispose of, has been, it appears, the most
scandalously wasted.
“These,” said he, “were my most pre
cions gifts. I had but fifty-two of them to
bestow. Alas! how lightly have they
been esteemed!” Here, upon referring
back to certain old memorandums, he found
a long list of vows and resolutions which
had a particular reference to these fifty
two Sundays. This, with a mingled emo
tion of grief and anger, tie tore into a hun
dred pieces, and threw them on the embers
by which he was endeavouring to warm his
shivering limbs.
“ I feel, however,” said be, “ more pity
than indignation toward* these offenders,
since )hey were far greater enemies to
themselves than to me. But there are a
few outrageous ones, by whom I have been
defrauded of so much of my substance, that
it is difficult to think of them with patience,
particularly that notorious thief,Procrastin
ation, of whom every body has heard, and
who is well known “to have wronged my
venerable father of much of his property.
There are also three noted ruffians, Sleep,
Sloth and Pleasure, from whom 1 have suf
fered much ; besides a certain busy body
called Dress, who under pretence of making
the most of me, and taking great care of
me, steals away more of my gifts than any
two of them.
“As forme, all must acknowledge that I
have performed my part towards mv
friends and foes. I have fulfilled my ut
most promise, and been more bountiful than
many of my predecessors. My twelve fair
children have, each in their turn, aided my
exertions; and (heir various tastes and dis
positions have ail conduced to the general
good. Mild February, who sprinkled the
naked boughs with delicate buds, and
brought her wonted offering of early flow
ers was not of more essential service than
that rude blustering hoy, March, who
though violent in his temper, wa- well-in
tentioned and useful. April, a ge.ntle ten
der hearted girl, wept for his loss, yet
cheered me with many a smile. June
came crowned with roses, and sparkling in
sunbeams, and laid up a store of costly or
naments lor her luxuriant successors: But
I canr.ot stop to enumerate the good quali
ties and graces of all my children. You,
my poor December, dark in your complex
ion, and cold in your temper, greatly re
semble my first-born January, with this dif
ference, that he was most prone to antici
pation, and you to reflection.
“ If there should be any,who, upon hear
ing my dying lamentation, may feel regret
that they have not treated me more kindly,
I would beg leave to hint, that it is yet in
their powpr to make compensation
for their past conduct, by rendering me, du
ring my few remaining days, as much ser
vice as is in their power; let them testify
the sincerity of (neir sorrow by an immedi
ate alteration in their behaviour. It would
give me particular pleasure to see my only
surviving child treated with respect; let
GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE. Jesus Christ.
MOUNT ZION, (HANCOCK CO. GA.) MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1822.’
no one slight her offerings ; she has a con- i
siderable part of my property still to dis- i
pose of, which, if well employed, kill turn
to good account. Not to mention {he rest,
there is one precious Sunday yI in her
gift; it would cheer my last moments to
know that this bad been better priced lhan
the past.
“ It is very likely that, at least ifter my
decease, many may reflect upon IhJmselves
for their misconduct towards me: to such
I would leave it as my dying injunction, not
to waste time in unavailing regfet; all
their wishes and repentance will ipt recall
she to life. I shall never, never return ! 1
would rather earnestly recoinmejd to their
regard my youthful successor, (vhose ap
pearance is shortly expected. I cannot
hope to survive long enough (o introduce
him; but I would fain hope lhat he will
meet with a favourable reception; and
that, in addition to the flattiiring honours
which greeted my birth, and the fair prom
ises which deceived my hopes, more dili
gent exertion and more persevering effort
may be expected. Let it bi remembered,
that one honest endeavour is worth ten fair
promises.”
Having thus spoken, the Old Year fell
hack on his couch, nearly exhausted, and
trembling so violently as to shake the last
shower of yellow leaves from his canopy.
I.et us all hasten to testify cur gratitude,
for his services, and repentance for the
abuse of them, by improving the remaining
days of his existence, and by remembering
the solemn promises we made in his youth.
FROM THE BOSTON RECORDER.
PRESENT STATE OF THE JEWS.
[Continued from our last.]
11. Their Character.
The Jews remain a distinct people.—Oth
er nations of ancient (lays now live hut in
name. The Baby the Assyrians,
the Romans, the Goths and the Vandals,
long since mingled with other nations ; and
their descendants are now known by other
names. But here, a nation has survived its
political existence for eighteen centuries.
Even dispersion cannot blot it out. Those
rights and ceremonies, with which are as
sociated their ancient glory, their expect
ed greatness and their eternal hopes ; rites
too dear to he relinquished, too burdensome
to be adopted by other nations, constitute
the brazen wall by which this nation has
long been encircled. The precepts of
their religion discouraging all attempts to
gain proselyte?, and forbidding intermar
riages with other nations, preserve them a
distinct people. The contempt with which
all other people regard them, ensures obe
dience to these precepts. If Judaism he
not ihe separating wall, why, with its loss,
is thp very name of Jew forgotten ? Where
they have long been deprived of their law,
r few rites only point out their origin ; as
soon as these are relinquished they are no
longer recognized us Jews. Multitudes,
from age to age, embrace the religion of
Mahomet, and are heard of no more.
Education. This consists chiefly in learn
ing to pronounce a language of which few
know any thing more than the pronuncia
tion. Their advantages are limited ; pre
judice having generally excluded them
from publirk schools. Parents, too, ap
prehending that education interferes with
religion, have been guilty of criminal neg
lect. Female education is scarcely known.
It is unnecessary to add, that ts a people,
(hey are in extreme ignorance. To a great
extent, even in Christian countries, they
attribute diseases to malignant spirits, and
apply to exorcists to expel the demon by
incantation. Their most learned Rabbis re
gard the study of languages, history and the
sciences, as hurtful. They accordingly
prescribe and pursue a course which is but
poorly calculated to enlighten and liberal
ize the mind. The Talmud, consisting of
fourteen ponderous volumes, engrosses all
their powers, from early childhood, till pa
ternal duties, and the duties of the Syna
gogue, call them away. After all this pre
pi ration, they are, for the most part, de
plorably ignorant of that Law which they
attempt to expound.
Their manner of life. —Averse to labour,
the rich engage in commerce, banking or
loaning money : the poor in retailing tri
fling articles, dealing in old ebaths, and not
unfreqnenlly in beggary and theft. Nor
will honest gain satisfy their excessive ava
rice, save where it best subserves their sel
fish ends. Few indeed are honest from
principle. Overreaching nnd defrauding,
they regard as meritorious ; and by these
arts of circumvention, they incur universal
hatred. It is not fate, it is these detestable
arts of theirs, which doom them to perpetu
al persecution. Their choice of countries
exhibits clearly their excessive love of
gold. Why do they forsake free commer
cial countries, where the people are enter
prising ? Because they cannot engross the
trade, and secure unlawful gains. They
choose the country whose energies the
feudal system has paralyzed,or Mahomedan
regions where all are given up to sensuali
ty and sloth. Whence that attachment to
Spain, so strong that nothing but sanguina
ry laws could prevent her being overrun ;
The gold of the country, and the want of
energy in her sons, give the answer. Doos
that avarice, which prefers gold to free- t
dom, excite your indignation ?
Turn then to a portion of that unhappy i
people, whose condition cannot but excite |
your pity. Think of the thousands, at the I
age of thirteen, —when the parents protec- i
tion and support ceases, —abandoned to the i
mercy of a pitiless world. These are now :
roaming (be streets of most of the cities of i
the eastern hemisphere, begging from door
to door, and pilfering wherever opportuni
ty presents. At night, some shed with
which they chance to meet, furnishes their
place of repose. The degradation of the
female outcasts, is beyond description
Hundreds in London alone, are constrained
to purchase their bread with the wages of
their shame.
Their attachment to the land of their Fa
thers. —Such attachments, with all other
people have proved transitory—theirs, 18
centuries have scarcely weakened.—When
cruel laws forbid their re-visiting the city
of their hopes, behold them parting wish
their gold for the mournful privilege of sit
ting down to weep amid the desolations of
Jerusalem; and when so dear a privilege
cannot he purchased, see them so favouring
the “stones and the dust ihereof,” as to
i procure them at any price, and treasure
them up a* a most sacred relick. Witness
their funeral ceremonies, in all the nations
whither the Lord their God has led them.
Why do they sprinkle the coffin of a de
-1 parted brother with this precious dust ; or
deposite it under his sealed eyelids? It is
that his dust may mingle with the du*t of
his beloved city. Witness too, that confi
dent expeclation in the mind of every Jew,
that the dispersed are soon to be gathered
into the city of their hopes;—could that
city be purchased with gold, and could they
there enjoy a government of their own,
soon would they be seen bending their way
i thither, from every nation. However we
, may interpret those prophecies which seem
, to point to such an event, when we look at
I the character of that people, we cannot but
• believe that when the time of their being
i trodden under font by the Gentiies shall be
fulfilled, multitudes will return, and Jeru
• salem will again arise in its ancient magni
. ficence.
Their national pride. —The Jews, still
claiming to be God’s peculiar people, look
upon other nations with feelings similar to
those with which the Jews of ancient times
regarded the Gentile world. They trust
that their long expected Messiah will soon
appear—deliver them from every oppras
sor—establish a temporal kingdom—restore
more than ancient privileges—and bring
all nations to bow to his sceptre. Conse
quently, they regard all other religions
with contempt; but the Christian religion
is the peculiar object of their hatred;
against its founder, they still retain the bit
terest enmily : that divine honours should
he paid him, excites their highest indigna
tion. Their notions of Christianity, they
have derived chiefly from the Catholicks;
by whom they have been perpetually per
secuted. The Jew cannot but regard as
an abomination, the worship of saints and
angels, and the no less idolatrous worship
of the cross ; an act which casts upon his
nation the keenest reproach. Pride for
bids their reception of such a religion. It
would abolish those ceremonies in which
they glory; it would prostrate all their
fond hopes of future greatness; it would
he acknowledging themselvps children of
those who slew the Prince of life.
Their precautions to prevent Jews from
embracing Christianity —Their creed teach
es the apostate to expect nothing but eter
nal death. Parents and teachers use eve
ry art to inspire the child with an inveter
ate hatred of the very name of Jesus.
Whenever it is mentioned, they manifest
tnf.ir contempt by spitting. They stile
him the hanged one. Their whole course
of education is calculated to deepen their
early prejudices. They are brought up
so ignorant of their own scripture, as to
know little respecting them, except what
they hear at the synagogue; and there
those parts which refer particularly to the
Saviour are entirely omitted. The New
Testament has been kept out of sight as a
pernicious book. But should a Jew, in
spite of all these precautions, embrace
Christianity, he is subjected to the most
cruel persecution, and iri this, his nearest
relatives unite as the only means of saving
themselves from infamy and ruin. Is he a
son? he is banished forever from his pater
nal roof. Is he a husband and a father?
“ Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold,
Nor friends, nor sacred home.”
His relations assemble, perform his fu
neral riles, bemoan hint as descended to the
tomb, and ever after speak of him as de
ceased. If he writes to them, he can ex
pect no answer. But a difficulty still more
appalling remains; want stares him in Ihe
face. Does he apply to Christians, the on
ly source from which he can hope for re
lief—it is regarded as the artifice of some
Jewish beggar. This is not speculation ;
Jewish converts are thus actually reduced
to extreme and long protracted suffering.
Who but must feel for those who arc bound
down to Judaism with chains like these.
T/mir religions character presents a pic
ture gloomy indeed to the eye of Christian
hope. Judaism, though divine in its origin,
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now assumes a form, which scarcely ele
vates it above Paganism. The morality it
inculcates is indeed at a great remove from
that of the pagan world: it does present a
barrier to those grosser abominations; it
operates powerfully upon the external con
duct, but no facts justify the conclusion that
it ever reaches the heart, and leads to that
sense of sin which inspires true godly sor
row. It rejects the only name given under
heaven whereby man can be saved; it
tramples under foot the blood of God's
eterual Son. Nothing of its ancient spiri
tuality—nothing but useless rites and cere
monies remain. No! indeed the sanguinary
rites and ceremonies of pagan nations, but
those little better calculated to fit the soul
for heaven. To these it points, as a com
plete atonement for sin. But should Ibis
atonement be neglected, it threatens at the
farthest, but a twelve-monib punishment,
and then promises the rewards of the (dos
sed. The worship of the modern syna
gogue corresponds with the religion.—
While the Rabbi mutters over pro vers, m
a tongue unknown to most of his hearers,
and often to himself, the mulirtude are ma
king bargains, an,l the children are ai (beic
sports. 0t that worship of the heart which
God requires, neither priest nor people
seem to have any conception. Thrice
each day must they offer up {heir prayers
—but how ? Read, or recite them in He
brew; and where the pronunciation is un
known, lay their hands upon a prayer,
printed upon a card, and appended to the
closet door. The R ihbis conclude that the
female, previous to marriage, has no soul;
consequently ol he r no worship is required.
Many of the Jews are Deists in theory; as
a nation, they are Deists in practice.
But these are our fellow immortals, des
i lined soon to stand with u, before God's
awful bar. What are their eternal pros
-1 pects? Dark, dismal, even when compared
i with pagan nations. On these the true
t light lias never shone—those wilfully ex
t tinguished it. Where are the people who
f have higher claims upon the sympathies,
! prayers and exertions of the’ Christian
- world ?
(To Lc Continued .)
- REVIVAL OF RELIGION.
From.the If ihnington, Del. Repository, 23 d ult.
As many of our subscribers feel a deep
inierorest in Ihe revival which has lately
commenced n Wilmington and New-Cas
tle, we would merely observe ; that Ihe
awakening still continues and furnishes in
creasing evidence that it is a work of the
Holy Spirit of God. Publick assemblies
are not quite so numerous, or o thronged
as they were at first, neither is there
as much animal feeling manifested as at
the first shock. Yet meetings are fre
quent, almost every evening in the week,
the assemblies unusually large, and at
times considerable feeling and great so
lemnity prevails. A large proportion of
tho°e who were convicted at an early stage
of this work are now rejoicing in the Lord.
A few have quenched the spirit, anil re
lapsed into carelessness and sin ; hut their
place has been more than supplied by
olhers coming forward to take their place.
Those who first manifested their convic
tions were principally young; (perhaps
from tbpir being less accustomed to veil
their feelings,) but now older, and stout
er sinners begin to confess thpir anxiely,
and inquire after the Lord. With regard
to the other Churches and Societies in
Wilmington, we have no definite informa
tion ; hut in the Second Presbyterian
Church the work is progressing; 101 per
sons lately came before the session for ex
amination, 73 of whom were re
ceived to membership, and 23 on account
of their youth, or shortness of experience,
or other causes, received on trial as candi
dates for future communion. On the last
Sabbath the Lord’s Supper was administer
ed in the Second Presbyterian Church, in
presence of an overflowing congregation,
when Ihe new candidates entered into cov
enant to serve the Lord, and twenty re
ceived the ordinance of Baptism.
In New Castle, at tlie last accounts
about 24 were rejoicing and double that
number anxious ; meetings solemn and
well attended.
7’ho’ God our Saviour is manifestly the
Author and Finisher,the Beginning and end
ing of this work, vet here, ns in other
places, he has wrought by means, and by
means adapted to the end.
In the first place he has ponred out a
spirit of agonizing Prayer for the salvation
of sinners. In the family and in the clos
et, —in little social circles, —in general con
cert, morning, noon and night, there has
been a spirit of wrestling anxiety poured
out which is always an earnest coming of
blessings.
In the second place, the earnest exhor
tations addressed by Christians to their
dying friends and neighljpurs, the iriaup
pressible anxiety, and even agony of
some of the young converts for their dear
relatives whom they’ beheld stand
ding on the brink of hell ; their
strong crying and tears, and ardent re
monstrances, and warnings, and entreaties
to come to a Saviour so willing to save, so
ready to bless—have ulso been blessed io