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So. 28 Vol. V.
(Communicated for the Missionary.
I A PIECE OF ANTIQUITY.
■THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRlST—said to have been written by a lady.
I I |JnW| versos tears
■come to thee : bow down ■ 0. |f. thine ears
■° * iear ® e J 8 w^ e *chj •?£ fe and let thine eyes, which sleep
H|d never close, behold igt a sinner weep.
B Dot > * * M ,feA..... y.... . m - Caqlts tho’ great,
■od numberless, bet eon thy mercy seat
Bod toy poor soul be t 4ji h jj%- rown, since we are taught,
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■ton, e£t th ne cIJ thou be || sought. I
■to II me | not. Lord, wit hP - any o II the l| r merit
Bhan | | at Ibymy S Jog viour || Ch || rist inherit.
Beth |fe B his wound s :Fmy halm : his s't II ri | pes my bliss;
By crowa his || th n orns; my dea J t ijfj hbe lo [I st |! in his. ’
Bid <h |°“ | my bles Jji I |f Redeemer, |l So tt viour, God,
■lit my ae §co A unts, with S h % o!d ihy |we )i ngeful rod.
EM* fr |me jl —my hopes S o r. I| Tfl hee are set;
■liooChri l| st fl forgive;—Tho canst, and pay ttth ff e debt.
*> |f g font, the lie, the w* |y || I know ;
■ri but Ito tbee, jg|o whither js |j bould Igo ?
■lu II ’ h er hopes a |r|.e vain; gi v |e ji thine tome,
Br by th tty l cross my sgl avinglvea jj l|| th must he.
■ hear BM • entowh l l with |j /j] aith implore!
Bets Jin I and death sin 0. k :jk. me forever jl II more.
■Lord, my (G tt od !my st e ipL ps direct j a jl ikl keep :
■ death jd jl efe 0 n-jjlsd that I from thee |n jj e’er slip.
■d at the do Jom jj let ebe raise |jd;j| then
Bo live with [j | thee,sw 0. el Je j] us, j| sav, amen.
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I N. B. In order to read the above Imes, you w ill commence at the left hand, and
Bad quite across 1o the right hand. Tho letters in the stem or shaft of each cross, form
■pa nr of a word in each line. Also, the Miters in the stem of each cross being read
Bmtt the top of each cross to the foot, form the sentences which were uttered by the
liersons crucified.
I The letters in the middle cross, being read by themselves, are the vords of wur Sav
iour when be was crucified.
I The lelters in the stern of the left hand cross, being read from top to bottom, are
Ik words of the penitent thief, of whom Christ said, “ Today shall thou be with me in
paradise.”
I The letters in the stem of the right hand cross compose the sentence which was ut-
Breil by the other thief who was crucified at the same time.
I Pulpit Eloquence.
B From Chalmers’ Astronomical Discourses.
■ “The world to v til on wt i;--, j
Ball of a determined magnitude, and occu
pies its own {dace in the firmament. But
■lien we explore the unlimited tracts of
■at space, which if every where around
fc, tve meet with other balls of equal or
(operiour magnitude, ar.d from which our
larth would either be invisible or appear as
■Mall as any of those twinkling stars which
Ire seen on the canopy of heaven. Why
(hen suppose that this little spot, little at
Last in the immensity which surrounds it,
fcould be the exclusive abode of life and of
Intelligence? What reason to think that
(hose mightier globes which roll in other
■arts of creation, and which we have uis
lovered to be worlds in magnitude, are not
(iso worlds in use and in dignity ? Why
Should we think that tho great Architect nf
■alure, supreme in wisdom as he is in pow-,
Lr, would call these stately mansions into
■existence, and leave them unoccupied?
(When we cast our eye over the broad sea,
Bind look at the country qn the other side,
lire see nothing but the blue land stretching
liibsctirely over the distant horizon. We
■are too far a way to perceive the richness
lofits ycenery, or to hear the sound of its
Ipopnlltion. Why not extend this princi-
Ipic tojthe still more distant parts of the
luniveiW? What though, from this remote
I point of observation, we cm see nothing
Kilty naked roundness of yon planetary
(xjps? (Are we therefore to say, that they
lare so bany vast and unpeopled solitudes ;
Ithat delolation reigns in every part of the
luniver4 but ours; that (he whole Energy
■of the (Ivine attributes is expended on one
liusignifilant comer of these mighty works:
land thatito this earth alone belongs the
iMoom olvegetation, or the blessedness of
I life, or t!je dignity of rational and immortal
lexistencej? * * * *
| “It fPnls a delightful confirmation to the
I argnmenljwheo.from the growing perfection
lof our insruments, we can discover anew
l.point of lesemblaDce between our Earth
and the oiler bodies of the planetary sys
tem. It jl now ascertained not merely that
pH of then) have their day and night, and
bat ail ofthem have their vici c situdes of
seasons, anj that some of them have their
Boons to ri|e tbeir night and alleviate the
darkness ofu. Wfe can see of one, that its
surface risdg into inequalities, that it swells
mto mountains and stretches into valleys;
of another, tjiat it is surrounded by an at
mosphere which may support the respira
tion of animals ; of a third, that clouds are
torroed and suspended over it, which may
minister lo it in all the bloom and luxuri
ance of vegetation ; aud of a fourth, that a
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white colour spreads over its northern re
gions, as its winter advances, and that on
the approach of summer this whiteness is
element o? w ater aliound* fa 1
by evaporation iutojts atmosphere, that it
freezes upon the application of cold, that it
is precipitated in the form of snow, that it
covers the ground with a fleecy mantle,
which melts away from the heat of a more
vertical sun ; and that other worlds bear a
resemblance to our own, in the same year
ly round of beneficent and interesting
changes.
“ Who shall assign a limit to the discove
ries of future ages? Who can prescribe to
scicnqe her boundaries, or restrain the ac
tive and insatiaide curiosily of man withia
the circle of his present acquirements?
We-may guess with plausibility what we
cannot anticipate with confidence. The
day may yet be coming, when our instru
ments of observation shall he inconceivably
more powerful. They may ascertain still
more decisive points of resemblance. They
may resolve the same question by the evi
dence of sense, which is now so abundantly
convincing by ihe evidence of analogy.
They nAy lay open to us the unquestiona
ble vestiges of art, and industry, and intel
ligence. We may see summer throwing its
green mantle over these mighty tracts, and
we may see them left naked and colourless
after the flush of vegetation has disappear
ed.- la the progress of years, or of centu
ries, we may trace the hand of cultivation
spreading anew aspect over some portion
of a planetary surface. Perhaps some
large city, the metropolis of a mighty em
pire, may expaud into a visible spot by the
powers of some future telescope. Perhaps
the glass of some observer, in a distant age,
may enable him to construct a map of anoth
er world, and lo lay down the surface of it
in all its minute and tropical varieties. But
there is no end of conjecture, and to the
men of other times we leave the full assu
rance of what we can assert with the high
est probability, that yon planetary orbs are
so many’ worlds, that they teem with life,
and that the mighty Being who presides in
high anthority over this scene of grandeur
aud astonishment, has there planted the
worshippers of his glory. *
“ The first thing which strikes ascientif
ick observer of the fixed stars, is \heir im
measurable distance. If the whole plane
, tary system were lighted up into a globe of
fire, it would exceed, by many millions of
times, the magnitude of this world, and yet
only appear a small lucid poiDt, from the
nearest of (hem. If a body were projected
from the sun with the velocity of a cannon
ball, it would take hundreds of thousands of
years before it described that mighty inter
val separates the nearest of the fixed
stars from our sun and from our system. If
this ea(th, which moves at more than the
inconceivable velocity of a million and a
half miles a day, were to be harried from its
orbit, and take its same rapid flight over
this immense? tract, is would not have arriv
ed at 0e termination of its journey, after
taking all'tbe time which has elapsed since
the creation’ of the world. These are
greht numbers, and great calculations, and
the mind feels its own impotency in attemp
ting to grasp them. Wa can state them in
words. We can exhibit them in figures.
We can demonstrate I hem by the powers
of a most rigid and infallible geometry.
Bet no human fancy cen summon up a lively
or an adequate conception—can roam in its
ideal flight over this immeasurable large
ness—and take in this mighty space in all
its grandeur, and in all its immensity—can
sweep ihe outer boundaries of such a crea
tion—or lift itself up to the majesty of that
great and invisible Arm, on which all is sus
pended. * * *
“ Shall we say, then, of these vast lumi
naries, that they are created in vain?
Were they called into existence for no oth
er purpose than to throw a tide of useless
splendour over the solitudes of immensity ?
Our sun is only one of these luminaries, and
we know that be has worlds in his train.
Why should we strip the rest of this prince
ly attendance ? Why may not each of
them be the centre of his own system, and
give light to his own world? it is true that
we see them not, but could the eye of man
take its flight into those distant regions, it
should lose sight of our little world, before
it reached the outer limits of our sytem—
the greater planets should disappear in
their turn—before it had described a small
portion of that abyss which separates us
from the fixed stars, the sun decline into a
little spol, and all its splendid retinue of
worlds be lost in the obscurity of distance—
he should, at last, shrink into a small indi
visible atom, and all that could be seen of
(his magnificent system, should be reduced
to the glimmering of a little star. Why
resist any longer the grand and interesting
conclusion? Each of these stars may be
the token of a system as vast and as splen
did as the one which we inhabit. Worlds
roll in these distant regions; and these
worlds must be the mansions of life and in
telligence. In yon gilded canopy of heaven
where enctf 9fiinlog''ponU ptA4ftiS ,n ise.vsa.
a sun, and each sun with a sytem of worlds
—where the Divinity reigns in all the
grandeur of bis attributes—where be peo
ples immensity with his wonders; and trav
els in the greatness of his strength through
the dotninibuß of one vast and unlimited
mcnltrch.
“ The God who sritteth above, and pre
sides in high authority over all worlds, is
mindful of man; and, though at thin mo
ment his energy is felt in the remotest pro
vinces of creation, we may feel the same
security in his providence, as if we were
the objects of bis undivided care. It is not
for us to bring otrr minds up to this myste
rious agency. But, such is the incompre
hensible fact, that the same Being, whose
eye is abroad over the whole universe,
gives vegetation to every blade of grass,
and motion to every particle of blood
which circulates through the veins of the
minutest aDimal; that, (hough his mind
takes into its comprehensive grasp, immen
sity and all its wonders, I am as much
known to him as if I were the single object
of his attention ; that he marks all my
thoughts; that he gives birth to every
feeling and every movement within me ;
and that, with an exercise of power which
I can neither describe nor comprehend, the
same God who sits in the highest heaven,
and reigns over the glories of the firma
ment, is at my right hand, to give me eve
ry breath which I draw, and every comfort
which 1 enjoy.”
PALESTINE.
LETTER FROM MR. WAY.
The London Jewish Expositor, for Oct. con
tains a letter from the Rev. Lewis Way, dated off
Sidon in Syria, June 10, 1823. Mr. Way, who
took mch a deep interest in the cause of the Jews,
while he remained !■ Great Britain, has taken up
his residence m Palestine, as the most effectual
method of accomplishing the objects he has in
view. The following are extracts from this letter.
Tyre.
“ By a mistake of the Captain of the He
be, we found ourselves in the harbour of
Tyre instead of that of Sidon, aDd there
we first set foot on holy ground Thus we
saw the literal fulfilment of prophecy in the
minute and accurate forecast of Ezekiel
xxvi., which at ihis moment, affords a cor
rect delineation of the spot on which I cast
my eager and inquiring eye. * They shall
destroy the walls of Tyros, and break down
the towers. I will also scrape her dust
from her, and make ber like the top of a
rock. It shall be a place for ppreadiog of
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nets in the midst of the sea.’ And ngain,
xxvi. 14, ‘ I will maketbee like the lop o
a rock:.thou shalt be a place to spread
nets upon; thon shalt be built no more.’ So
true is this, that though this (own is the seat
of an archbishop, no attempt is made to re
pair, much less to rebuild it; two or three
miserable, most miserable broken barks,
occupy the place of the ivory galleys and
purple sails of the mart of nations.—Where
the peacocks, and the gold ofDphrr were
landed; where the temple timber from.
Lebanon was embarked, all I could find to
purchase was a water-pitcher of the rudest
form. The Arabs stared at a merchant
vessel and a few Europeans, as the savages
of Oiaheite gaped after Captain Cook, and
the Endeavour, at its first appearance.
The whole place and promontory look as
if a trifling swell from the north would
finally accomplish the whole prediction as
recorded, Ezekiel, xxviii. 19.”
Sidon.
“ Better is the hope of Sidon, see xxviii.
23.—That city is yet a town of some com
merce ; there is yet a synagogue and some
respectable Jews there. I sat on a Sab
bath evening with sixteen in the Rabbi’s
house, speaking of the things pertaining to
the kiogdoui of God. There was a Jeru
salem Jew present, who said I was right, as
lo the fu'ture glory of Jerusalem, and prom
ised, when 1 came to the Holy City, to
make me known to many Jews who are
waiting the consolation of Israel.
“ In the fifteen days in which 1 have oc
casionally visited the shore, I hear of no
thing but (he Hakem, and the Incardi, and
the Messiah, by which names Ottomans and
Maronites, and descendants of Abraham,
mean what we call the “ The King of Glo
ry,” whom they expect this year to appear,
at least to the wise and wailing, and are
preparing for his triumphant entry into his
own land. They expect more earthquakes
and much famine to purge it, and many ad
versaries from the north ; hut I already
have reason to think there is as much ex
pectation of a Great Deliverer, as there
was when the Magi came from the east of
old. They are wondering who Ihose can
be who are come in a met chant ship with
out merchandise, and they looked with in
quiring wonder at the boxes of many sizes
now sefely deposited in the Khan, littls
thinking that they contain that merchan
dise which is better than silver or perish*
insr.eold.”
the house of Lady Hester Stanhope, well
known as a neice of a departed premier in
England; a land of no ordinary taleut, re
search, and enterprise, who has lived teg
years in the country, and means never to
quit it. Mr. Way says,
“ She bag opened her bouse to me, and
I am going to repose under her roof, till l
can occupy a place she has taken for me on
the lop of Lebanou, where we shall employ
the summer in preparing for the future, by
the study of language, and formation of
habits necessary to an Arab life. The
place is eminently suited to the reception
of missionaries on their arrival, to learn
Arabick, Syriac, and other things equally
necessary for a regular plan of Christian
enterprise in this unknown and interesting
region.
>My beard is growing fast, literally my
beard. I wear the dress I bought in the
Crimea four years since ; and on my Arab
mare, a perfect and safe creature, Lady H.
has give me, I already traverse the craggy
rocks with as much ease as I used to de
scend the Devon hills; and the sight of a
Bedouin troop of the family bf Hagar, is to
me more cheering than the train of the jav
elin men, who ushered the judges into the
circuit towns. I read the truth of God’s
word in all around me; I See the record of
the past and the promise of the future, and
in all behold the blessing struggling to
overcome the curse, as at last it will. . But
Satan is keeping bis hold, and raging for a
known season.
“It is remarkable, that the phenomena
of demoniacal possession and influence, are
as much the subject of observation in these
parts now as at the first advent. False
Christs are appearing and deceiving many.”
INTERESTING STORY.
Showing the Usefulness of Religious Tracts.
The W a vessel upwards of4oo
tons, was freighted from Liverpool for a
trading voyage up the Mediterranean sea.
I was intimately acquainted with the cap
tain’s nephew, an accomplished young man,
of handsome person, but alas! a willing vic
tim at the shrine of pleasure. He bad
shipped himself for the voyage as steward.
When leaving Liverpool I put into his hands
a small bundle of Tracts, and, in proof of
bis esteem for me, he promised to read
them at his leisure, and likewise to distri
bute some among the ship’s company. Not
an individual, from the captain to the cab
in-boy, bad the least sene of religion, not
do I believe thev had a Bible or Testament