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No. 13 Vol. Vl.] From, the National Gazette. THE UNFAITHFUL HUSBAND. Mr. Editor, —As I was strolling’ in the garden of an American hospital, about two years ago, my attention was suddenly ar rested by the aspect of a man who proceed ed towards one of the arbours, seemingly desirous of avoiding observation His ap pearance and manuer were such as would have excited curiosity, had he even been in a crowd of those unhappy lunaticks, to the class of whom he obviously belonged. Jlis person was tall and graceful, but ex tremely meagre ; his countenance haggard and wan; dishevelled grey locks were vis ible under his hat; still,on the whole,he had not the air of old age ; as he advanced to take his seat, he usd j-ome wild gesticula lions, frequently pressing his clenched hands against his forehead. I followed him from an irresistible impulse of curiosity, and stood some minutes near him in the arbour, while, unconscious of mv presence, he continued to give signs of the most afflict ed state of mind. The tears dropped from his eyes on the ground—he either pressed or shook his brows as if under the influence of a paroxysm of despair. In a short time, I placed myself next to him on the bench, when he started, and noticed me with a look of apprehension, yet did not move to depart ; but g (Zed despondently for an in slant, and then let fall his head on hi breast. These are not, indeed, unusual proceedings in cases of disordered imngin atioß—lhey made, however, a profound impression upon me, in connexion with hi pi'eons history Afler considerable pause, l drew him in to conversation, by the remark that he seemed to be unhappy, but that the good ness and power of God were infinite, and were often exercised for the sudden and la-ting relief even of the most miserable. At first be betrayed anew the liveliest ag itation; muttered something rendered the more unintelligible by audible sobs; then grew calmer, until his face settled in deep sadness, and his recollection and utterance became distinct and coherent. It happens at times that a display of interest in the fate of these stricken being-, and a gentle vi bration of the cord of their peculiar sorrows, will produce a sort of lucid interval, and restore to them the power of narrating re gularly what has caused their alienation. This effect was produced here. 1 asked what had brought him within the walls of the hospital, and he answered in heart rending tones, that it was folly and crime which he would tell—he would tell. His story I cannot repeat with the pathetick remembrances, and graphick visions, and manifestations of remorse and anguish with which he related it ; but I can give it in substance briefly, as a salutary lesson, though divested of that personal and dram stick effect with which it came from his mouth, and shook my bosom while it exci ted me to fervent moral resolutions. He set out in life with a liberal educa tion and respectable connexions, an excel lent character, a competent hn-iness, a warm heart and a vigorous frame. He married at twenty “ix, a young ladv of nine teen, the object of his choice, well trained (Tnd allied, and in all respects fi’led to en gage and retain esteem and love. Their union continued cordial and happy for th space of seventeen years—they were bles sed with seven children, three boys and four girls, of sound constitutions and under standings; their mutual attachment and de i votion were constantly evinced in health or [sickness, on every occasion of joy or dis tress, and in a manner which confirmed and lincreased the good will and consideration ■which possessed among their relative ■ind in general society. Tfyeir delights and Biopes centered in the steadiness & earnest ness of their mutual regard, and in the ■ondaess and prosperity of their child ■en. ■ 1 could wish to retrace the vivid pictures Which the awakened husband and father jirew of the domestick assemblage about Jpim at his evening fire-side,and in his sum Bier excursions, and particularly when in ‘dispositions confined him to his chamber, ,-flfr external mishaps and perplexities affect- Bl his spirits and temper. The recollec ■ion of the tenderness and assiduity which Be experienced from his wife and children, Barticularly the daughters when they had Biassed their childhood, and of the pure & happiness and endearments which Be created emotions which might Be said to amount to a double ecstacy of Bleasure and grief, than which no specta cle afforded by an individual,could be more iharrowiog for my feelings. Such families .are numerous in this country,and the scenes ,/which be passionately described are there ifore easily to be imagined, as well as to be ■deeply felt, by most of your readers. I One false step —one act of weakness—a Blind and infatuated sensuality—blighted ■bis manifold and expansive felicity. No ■nan was ever farther from supposing or Breaming than he, that he could prove an Bdulterer —that he could lose for an in j|nt even his personal preferance for his ■haste and attractive and doting compan- Bin, much less the ruling and binding sense ■fhis various obligations to her and their ■flspring, of religion, duty, honour and grat THE MISSIONARY. ilude. Yet so it was—and let no man be sure of the force of ordinary ties, or neglect to guard himself from a similar fate by in cessant self-distrust and watchfulnesg. A young woman of a handsome exteriour and engaging manners was received into his family, as an assistant or companion for his daughters. After some time he suffered his attention to he attracted to her, and they became guilty—by what mutual arts and with what struggles and compunctious pangs on his part, 1 need not state in the detail, into which he was carried by the force of his affliction and the sort of extenuation that he found in them for his delinquency. The illicit commerce continued for several months, unsuspected by those who could not have believed it possible. The con sciousness ol his situation brought on fits of gloom and indications of secret chagrin, which produced new proofs of exquisite ten derness and unfailing sympathy from his wife and children ; and it was in these mo ments that he suffered most intensely, as a self condemned hypocrite and culprit, whose former source- of delights were converted thus into visitations of bitter shame and re gret. At times, he met by moody har-h ness what deserved thank- and caresses— he wrung anxious and ovetflowing hearts with anew and inexplicable injustice. Occasionally the resolution was formed to break with the paramour and disclose all to the wife ; hut there was a spell in his guilt, and lie shrunk from the im ige of the distress and horrour into which the latter would he plunged. If was too much that she should know him to he false am! degrad ed. Di-covery ensued, however, in -pile of all precautions for concealment; and us consequences were even more fatal than his fancy had traced. The amazed and in digoant wife was at first frantick with her wrongs and disappointment—she became ere long a maniack and speedily sank into the grave. His household was broken op —his connexions abandoned him with scorn —his affairs went to ruin—his children were received as objects of charity by those who shunned and detested him—be retained hi senses long enough, in poverty and di-tress, to comprehend the tidings that two of hi sweet girls, ivhom be had formed and wor -hipped as models of innocence and delica cy, lost their selfesteem and their honour in their dependent and mortified condition, and had completed the disgrace of the once flourishing and respected family. He said no more, hut I could understand that tin blow proved destructive to his reason, al ready impaired as it was by the previmj calamities. The wildering brain excited perhaps, compassion in some of his old ac quaintance, who placed him in the asylum where he lingered. Such is the outline of a melancholy tale, narrated in a way which showed that it formed, as it were, the whole sound thought of the relator, and which convinced me of its rnality in every particular. I can con vey no idea of the terrifick truth and ener gy of expression, with which he exhibited the progress of his contrition, and painted the angui-h of his wife when she delected his infidelity, and the dismay of their chil dren, when they saw the first discord ami tempestuous agitation of their parents. Af ter he ceased to -peak, exhaustion prevent ed him from moving for a short lime. A oon as he recovered a little he ejaculated -otne phrases indicating an entire relapse of the mind, and ha-tened from his spat, in the direction of the house, moaning, and throw mg his arm- about with more rapidity and vehemence than before. I could not leave the institution withoul making inquiry concerning him, of the su perintendent. The information I received confirmed ihe accuracy of the recital to which I had listened, and served to height en my commiseration for the poor wretch. He was harmless, docile, and even kind in his demeanour towards all the inmates—his age was conjectured to be about fifty—l could learn nothing of the fate of his other children. The example may be useful. A wreck is the best of beacons. Shun temptation— beware of implicit reliance on your own strength and ihe apparent security of your position. Calculate all possible consequen ces when you are drawn towards vice. Regard religion as your principal defence, THE RESURRECTION - . From Dr. Spring's Sermon on the Death of Rev P. M. Whclpley. What roust be the sensations of those, who in the distant and last ages of time, discover not merely here and there a pop ulous grave-yard, but behold this globe it self one mighty sepulchre. Over what an extended empire will Death then maintain hi undisturbed dominion. And will the period ever arrive when this long slumber of the tomb shall pass away ? Will that day ever dawn on the earth on which these graves will open— these tombs burst asunder—ibese cemetries be emptied—this universal charnel-house heave as by a tremendous earthquake, and give up its dead? Blessed be God, that problems of such interest are of no difficult solution. Wherever time has demolished, the resurrection shall revive. Wherever death has been the conqueror, death him self shall be swallowed up 11 victory. The ~, ... Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature Testis Christ Os all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.- Washington. MOUNT ZION, (HANCOCK COUNTV, GEORGIA,) MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1824. announcement made by our blessed Lord, on his way to the grave of Lazarus, has travelled down the descent of time in UDdi minished verity, and conveys its consola tions to us, as truly as to the weeping wo man, to whom Ihey were first addressed. The doctrine of the resurrection has not always been accredited by the wisdom and philosophy of this world. Among wise and learned pagans, some believed, and others considered it supremely fabulous. The Epicureans, the Stoicks, the Platonists, the Pythagoreans, and even the Sadducees among the Jews, all either rejected, or en tertained very confused ideas concerning it. And well they might, so long as they rested the evidence of such a fact upon the analo gies of nature, the suggestions of unaided reason, or the traditions of men. The analogies of nature are not indeed silent. When we see the morning gradu ally breaking from the tomb of midnight, and diffusing its cheering light over men; when we see nature emerging from her wintry grave of silence and desolation, into resuscitated life and beauty ; when we see the corrupted and putrescent grain bursting the clod (hat covers it, and lifting its prnlif 1 ’ k stalk above the ground; when we see the meanest reptile buryiog itself in unob served retirement, that it may come forth into existence with new life, awake with new powers, and fly through the heavens in new splendour: a contemplative mind i ready to n=k, 1-there no mighty voice that shall break the sileDce of the grave, and once more inspirit the mansions of the dead? Is there no breath of heaven that -ball brood over those dark abodes, and re new the life, and reetore the vigour of that moral crealion, whose infancy was barely awakened into existence, in the present world? Is mortal man the ooly being doom ed to be the perpetual tenant of the tomb? ‘1 he suggestions of unaided reason are not -dent. Since the body and the soul, at their original creation, constituted one en tire being, it is not unreasonable to suppose, that when the shock of dissolution is past, the period will arrive when this undiminish ed existence will live anew, and the endear ed companionship become unwasting and immortal. The idea of a future and ever lasting state ol retribution seems more nat urally to involve than dpny the future exis tence of the body as well as the soul. The traditions of men are not silent; for there are not wanting those whose dark ness was never illuminated by the direct rays of revelation, who have embodied in their creed some indistinct conceptions of the revivification of the body. But all these are rather the confused im ages of a gratified fancy, than the clear de ductions of sober reason. The resurrec tion of the dead stands confessed as one of thp distinguished peculiarities ol revealed religion. We repose our entire and unal terable confidence in this glorious truth, in the simple testimony of that God who “ can not lie.” “1 know that my Redeemer liv eth, and that he shall stand al the latter day upon the earth : And though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in uiy flesh shall I see God.” The Lord God “will swallow up death in victory.” “ I will ran som them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Oh death I I will be thy plague; Oh grave ! I will be ihy destruction.” “ Thy dead men shall live ; my dead body shall arise. Awake, am* -ing, ye that dwell in dust, for thy dew i- as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.” The force of the testimony in favour of the resurrection lies in that capital fact and that finished testimony of the Messiahship ot Jesus of Nazareth, —his own resurrection from the dead, on the third day after his crucifixion. “If Christ be preached, that he rose from the dead, how say some among yon, that there is no resurrection of the dead ? If there be no resurrection of the dead, then is not Christ risen. Bnt now i* Christ ri-en from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man also came the res urrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive.” Hence the apostles “ preached through Je sus, the resurrection from the dead.” “ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, eveo so them also, which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him.” “To this end, he both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living.” As (he constituted King and Lord of all worlds, the Mediator himself an nouuces, “ l am he that liveth and was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and have the keys of death and the grave.” By virtue of this exaltation, already has he raised multitudes from the dead, as the evi dence both of his power and his purpose; and we know be will continue to reign “ till all enemies shall be put under his feet,” and that the “last enemy that shall be des troyed is death.” It is atfecting to see when the bodies of men are committed to the dust, what dis honour is cast upon these tabernacles of clay. Once they were cherished and beloved; once they sparkled in the circles of gaiety and splendour; once thpy commanded res pect and admiration. But now, their lustre is passed away. Their liveliness is led. All that is due them i9 to give them a place where “the worm shall feed sweetly on them.” O! this is a most humiliating re flection. When you visit the grave yard, and behold one after another with cold and unmeaning ceremony consigned to its bo som ; or when you see the heedless hearse bearing away its daily load; or when, per haps away from the decencies of Christian lands, you see the bodies of men launched from Ihe common cart in heaps into the earlh, or thrown into the publick sewer, or cast upoo the funeral pile ; how deeply you feel the thought, “It is sown in dishon our !” But, “ though sown is dishonour, it is raised in glory.” All its ignominy and re proach are wiped away in the grave, from that abyss ol infamy it rises in beauty, brightness, and splendour, and is fashioned —what shall I 9ay ?—“like unto Christ’s glorious body.” “There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star dif fereth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead ” It is affecting when you stand at the mouth of the sepulchre to witness the weakliest, the death, the clod-like inertness of the body, when it slumbers with the dead. Once it was life, motion, sprighlli npss, and activity ; but what is it now? A corpse, a skull, a ske.leton, a mere collec tion of motionless dust. But, what “is sown in weakness, is raised in power.” That primitive and youthful vigour, that ac tivity and animation shall all be revived, and continue undiminished and unwasteil to interminable ages. Then, and not till then shall that proud label be imprinted on the human form, which the doating affect ion and lying imaginations of men have prema turely impressed oo it, “always new, and ever young ” THE POPE AND BIBLE SOCIETY. It appears by the following extracts from a let ter lately sent by the pope to some of the catho liek clergy, that the spirit of popery is the same now it was two or three centuries ago. What shall 1 say more ? The iniquity of our enemies lias so increased, that beside the deluge of pernicious book-, conirary to the faith, it even goes so far as to con vert to the detriment of religion the holy scriptures, which have been given us from above for the general edification. You are not ignorant my venerable broth ren, that a society commonly called a Bible Society, is audaciously spreading through the earlh, and that in contempt of ihe tra ditiocs of the holy father-, and again-t the celebrated decree of the council of Trent, it endeavors with all its powe.r, and by eve ry means, to translate or rather corrupt the holy scriptures into the vulgar tongues of all nations. Many of our predecessors have made laws to turn this scourge. In these law are found passages taken as well from the holy scriptures as from tradition, and col laled with care and judgement to show how injurious this subtle invention is to faith and morality. And we, in the discharge of our apoto lick duty, exhort you to remove your flocks with care and earnestness from this fatal pasture. Reprove, intreat, insist on all occasions, with doctrine and patience, in order that the faithful may be persuaded, ibat if they let the holy scriptures he indie criminately translated into the vulgar tongues, there will result, in consequence of the rashness of men, more evil than good. There have been formed heresies and perverse dogmas, which involve the soul of men in their snares, and drag them down the abyss only because the holy scriptures have not been well understood, and, be cause having ill understood them, men have -npported their false interpretations with rashness and audacity ! Such, venerable brethren, is the tenden cy of this society, which, besides, omit nothiog for the accomplishment of its pious wishes; for it boasts not only of priming the translations, but of disseminating them by going through the towns; and even to se duce the simplp by a perfidious liberal ity, choose to distribute them gratuitous 'y- We exhort you not to let your courage be cast down. You will have for you, and for this we rely with confidence on the Lord, the power of secular princes, who as reason and experience show, defend their own cause in defending that of the authori ty of the church. JEWS IN PRUSSIA. At Koenigsbnrg, the good seed of the word sown by the Missionary Hofl, has tak en root in the heart of many Israelites, some of whom have made an open profes sion of faith in Christ, notwithstanding the severest trials. In the same city the Gos pel is faithfully preached from many pul pits. Os forty deans in Prussia and Lithua nia, five are cordially united in the object of the restoration of Israel. The plan of a school for Jewish children, formed in 1822, had been relinquished as impracticable, and the funds of the Koenigsbnrg Committee, raised for this object, have been devoted to the general objects of the Barlta Jews So ciety. [Price $3 50 per ann. RELIGIOtS. Georgia Education Society. Athens. 28th August, 1824. To the Editors of Ike Missionary Gentlemen —The Georgia Education So ciety held its annual meeting on the sth iost. at which a Report of the Directors was read, and the Officers of the Society elected for the ensuing year. The Consti tution was altered so far as relates to the number of Vice Presidents and Directors, making the former nine, and the latter sev enteen. Maj. Abraham Walker was re elected President, and all the other officers of the last year. Society adjourned to meet in Augusta, on the 20th of November next. Alter the meeting of the Society, the Directors met and attended to such busi ness as the Constitution makes their par ticular duty. The standing Committees, according to the 13th Article of the Constitution, were appointed. For Athens, Rev. Dr. Watldel, Rev. T. Stanley, Maj. A. Walker. John Nesbit,Esq. Jas. Nisbel,E-q A. Hull, E-q. & A.Church. For Augusta, Rev. Win. T. Brantly, Rev. Wm. Moderwell, T. Cummings, Esq. and S. Dowse, Esq. For Savannah, Rev. M. Howe, Rev. A. Carter, and Joseph Cummings. E-q. For Medway, Rev. Wm. MrWhirr. Rev. J. O. Scriven, Rev. R. Quarter man, Rev. Ripley, Col. J. Law and James Ne phew, E-q. For Darien, Rev. J. Joyce, E Reese, Esq and John Kell, E-q. For Mount Zion, Rev. Dr. Brown, Rev. B. Gihiersleeve, and J Bryan, Esq. For Washington, (Wilkes) Rev. A. H. Webster, A. G. Seme, Esq and Adam Alex ander, Esq. Ivitonton, Rev. C. P. Beman, T. Cooper, E-q. and Dr. T. Hoxey. Madison, (Morgan) Rev. R. Chamber lain, Dr. J. Wingfield, Augustus Alden Esq. and Ernst Wiiucb, E-q. Appropriations were made for those Ben eficiaries which are under the care of the Directors, and resolutions instructing the Clerk to notify members of the Committees of their appointment, as also a resolution reqoe-ting the particular aistance of Drs. VVaddel and Brown in corre-p.aiding with the friends of the Society. Dr. Waddel was appointed to preach a Sermon before the Education Society, which stands adjourned to meet in Augusta ou the 20ih ol Novem ber next, and Mr. Church bin substitute. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS op THE GEORGIA EDUCA'J ION SOCI ETY, Read before the Society, at its Annual Meet ing on the sth instant No institution which has had for its nb ject the good of men and the glory ol God, has been permitted to proceed without dif ficulties. For though the Great Hoad of the Church carry on his work- of benevo lence and of mercy by secondary causes— though he use men as instruments of ad vancing his glory and of promoting the good of the world, yet he generally orders all events in such a manner, hs to convince them that his blessing is necessarv for the success of any cause. Hence the efforts and the exertions of pious and godly men are often without immediate eff ct, without an immediate blessing from God. But while he often refuses at once to answer the prayers of his people, and for a season permits their exertions to promote his glory in the advancement of the interests of the Church, to remain without apparent effect, he has every where encouraged his friends to use the proper exertions, with the assur ance that in due time be will grant such blessing as in his infinite wisdom he may see best calculated for the honour of his own name and for the good of the world. The truth of these observation* is fully demonstrated in the history of Bible, Mis sionary and Education Societies. From small and almost imperceptible beginnings, have many of these arisen to be the means of diffusing light, and life, and love to mil lions of the human family. And had not their first founders and supporters been men whose trust was in the God of the universe, and who were conscious that all the exertioos of be futile and vain without the blessing of Heaven, des pondency aud despair would soon have ter minated their existence ; they would soon have fainted. The Bible would not now havp been in the hands of many who enjoy its blessed influence; millions who have already been directed to the Redeemer of men, would never have heard of ihe name •i ad many a failhfal herald f the