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Perhaps it is not even desirable. Oar re*
(D'lining differences will give as an oppor
tunity to exercise forbearance and charity
towards each other, and thus call forth the
most generous and magnanimous feelings
of the Christian spirit.
Wba growl is that I hear from the dis
taot hedges? Who is it that snarls aod
gnashes so furiously at the project of fur
nishing the world with ministers and send
ing them to the heathen ? Is he a univer
salist, who sioceaely thinks be has bottom
ed his faith upon the Bible ? He would
have you think this. But if he believed
the Bible htffrvould not thus rave at seeing
it carried to the heatbeD, even by those
who differ from him in some respects. He
would see it calculated to do the heathen
infinite good, even if they should mistake
the exteot of its promises. No, he is ao
infidel, and fights under false colours. With
all his fears and tremblings about Christian
hypocrisy and the deceptions of priestcraft,
be is himself a hypocrite and a deceiver,
and knows himself to be such. With all
bis pity for oor poverty of spirit, he is him
self a coward, and dares not appear in his
own proper character. He professes an
attachment to, a religion which he hates,
only to destroy it, and Judas like betrays
bis Master with a kiss. Let those who
rave and gnash their teeth at the education
of ministers and at missions to the heathen,
come oui like men and write in broad and
burnished characters upon their foreheads,
infidel. —the determined enemy of Christ. —
resolved never to rest till he has driven the ha
ted JVazarene from the earth.
Let him beware. This world beloogs to
Christ. It was created by him, and he has
purchased it since and overpaid the price
in his blood. It has beeu made over to him
by covenant, and his charter covers it all.
It is preserved and governed for no other
eod than to be the seat of bis kingdom. It
js alt his own, and no other being has a
right to erect an interest on this ground
Hi* kingdom constitutes the grand interest
ot the world, and it will prevail and -wal
low up all other interests. It will advance
like a rolling world and crush every thing
tbit rises to oppose it. Its glorious* Head
will extend his sceptre over the throfles of
Europe and the temples of Asia. He will
match through prostrate nations and lay a
subjugated world at his feet. Superstition
and ignorance, pride and passion, bloodshed
and misery will yield before him. All that
pollutes and all that afflicts humanity shall
die on the point of his sword, and be shall
git down upon his throne the grand pacifica
tor and restorer of a world.
Had Ia voice that could reach the most
distants haunts of unbelief, I would say to
tho*e infatuated men who vilify the making
and sending forth of ministers, Drop those
weapons, fatal only to yourselves and to
the few that follow you, and come and join
us, before the dbor of mercy is.for ever
closed—VVhile yet the last invitation of
love lingers upon your ear, come, —I be
seech you, come aod let all hands at last be
united in this noblest effort of Christian be
nevolence.
From the New York Observer.
RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETIES.
The religious community are now ap
prised of the formation of the American
Tract Society itrthe city of New York,
aod that >he Tract Society io New England,
and the New York Religious Tract Society
have resolved to give it their Zealous and
spirited co-operation, and to depend on it
principally, if not entirely, for their sup
plies of Tracts. It is known, too, that this
Society has purchased the ground on which
a bouse is, in the progress of a few months,
to be erected for its accommodation; and
that the Society is commencing its opera
lions with a very fair prospect of being ex
tensively useful.
. But let not the Christian publick rest sat
isfied with merely knowing these facts.
The American Tract Society must have the
active co-operation of the followers of
Christ, io contributing to its funds for pub
lishing and circulating Tracts, or the de
lightful anticipations of good to be necotn
plished by the Society, which we have in
dulged, will never be realized. It is ex
pected that in this age of Christian enter
prise, not a single soldier of the Cros will
be idle. Christians must unite their efforts,
or those who have gooe foremost, compel
led to bear the burden and heat of the day,
will find themselves overpowered with
their labours, and will fail before the work
they have undertaken is accomplished. In
the cause of circulating divine truth through
our country by means of Tracts, we wish
the aid of every individual who is not
ashamed of the Captain of our salvation—
however humhle his station in life—howev
cr small his means of doing good. We ask
them not to accomplish great things, as in
dividuals , but to uuite with others in swel
ling an amount of good which in the aggre
gate, shall rejoice the heart of every friend
of Christ. Do not let us think that because
we cannot perform the work alone*, we have
nothing to accomplish. Christ demands us
to occupy the single talent , as well as the
many; and promises that if we do even so
much■ to give a “ cup of cold water in the
name of a disciple,” we shall not lose a
gracious reward.
• We would affectionately invite every one
who, io the whole course of life, has once
felt that it would be a* pleasure lo do any
thing in the vineyard of the Lord, to aid us.
Especially would we ask the co-operation
of Christian Females , to whom the American
Tract Society offers a blessed opportunity
to do much good. 1 We ask them not to be
come preachers—we ask them not to do
any thing assuming and unbecoming the
mild and retiring virtues which adorn the
female character —but we ask them to give
their aid in the noiseless and unassuming
work of diffusing a knowledge of the Saviour
by means of Religions Tracis. We ask the:
Females in every Evangelical church in
this city, and in this state, and in the United
States, of whatever denomination, to form
themselves into Associations, which shall
be connected with the American Tract So
ciely, or someone of its Branches or Auxil
iaries. Most joyfully will these larger So
cieties acknowledge the aid of such Associ
ations. A Constitution for an Auxiliary So
ciety or Association is now published by the
American Society, which is simple in its
character, and may be easily understood;
aod any one who loves the cause of the Re
deemer will find great pleasure in iotroduc
ing it to the attention ol the friends of reli
gion with whom he is associated, obtaining
their subscriptions, and distributing Tracts
among them. It is impossible to calculate
the amount of good which any individual can
accomplish in this way, if he is hut ready to
say, “ Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”
aod is resolved to be “ up and doing while
the day lasts ”
A LAYMAN OF NEW YORK
***AII communications for the American
Tract Society should be addressed to Mr.
William A. Hallock, Corresponding Secreta
ry. No 3, Cedar street , New York
THE MINISTERIAL CHARACTER.
an extract.
Dear brethren, our office is no ordinary
one. We are ambassadors from the King
of kings and Lord of lords to a revolted
world. Never had men committed Jo them
an embassy of such deep and everlasting
moment. No work ever undertaken by
mortals was so important, so solemn, or con
npeted with such amazing consequences.
Among all the thousands to whom we
preach, not one but will take an impression
from us that will never wear out. The
fate of millions through succeeding genera
tions depends on our faithfulness. Heaven
and bell will for ever ring with recited me
morials of our ministry. And O, our own .
responsibility. There is for us no middle
destiny. Our stake is for a higher throne
of glory or for a deeper hell. For to say
nothing of the souls committed to our care,
our work leads to the altar. Our home is
by the side of the Shekinah. We have dai
ly to go where Nadab and Abihu went, and
to transact with Him who darted his light
ning upon them. It is a solemn thing tn
stand so near that holy Lord God. Let us
beware how by unhallowed fervour we
bring false fire before the Lord. Let us not
fail to devote to our work our best powers,
our unceasing application, consecrated by
unremitting prayer. Any thing rather than
careless preparation for the pulpit aod a
sleepy performance in it. Forget your fa
ther, forget your mother, but forget not
this iofioite work of God.
Soon we shall appear with our respective
charges before the judgement seat of
Christ. What a scene will then open be
tween a pastor end bis dock; when all his
official conduct towards them shall be scru
tinized, and all their treatment of him and
his gospel shall be laid open; when it shall
appear that an omniscient eye followed him
into his study every time be sat down to
write a sermon, and traced every line upon
his paper and every motion of his heart;
and followed him into the pulpit, and watch
ed every kindling desire, every drowsy feel
ing, every wandering thought, every reach
after fame. Ah, my dear brethren, when
you hear on the right hand the songs of
bursting praise that you ever had existence,
aod oo the left behold a company of wretch
ed spirits sanding forth their loud lament
that you bad not warned them with a strong
er voice, will you not regret that all your
sermons were not more impassioned and all
your prayers more agonizing? But what is
that I see? A horrid shape more deeply
scarred with thunder than tbc rest, around
which a thousand dreadful beings, with fu
rious eyes and threatening gestures, are
venting their raging curses. It is an unfaith
ful pastor, who went down to hell with most
of his congregation; and those around him
are the wretched beings whom he decoyed
to death. My soul (urns away and cries.
Give me poverty, give me the curses of a
wicked world, give me the martyr's slake ;
but O my God, save me from unfaithfuluess
to thee aod to the soul 9 of men.
Petition of a Russian boy of twelve years
old for a Bible. —Most honoured members
of the Saevian Bible Society in the govern
ment of Orel—My father serves the Empe
rour. My grandfather with whom I live is
blind. My two grandmothers are both of
them old and infirm. My mother aloDe, by
the labour of her hands, supports us all:
she herself taught me to read. I have a
desire to read the word of God; but 1 bare.
no books, xcepTThTTsMteftarV *e tyW
tered state. My blind by
the ear alons acquired a greal^nfftvledge
of divine things, and likes very much that 1
should repeat something to him by heart.
Confer on me, I pray you, a holy book.
I hear you have it, and that you distribute
to those who have money, for money; and
to the poor for ootbing. 1 will read it, and
I will pray to God for you.
* i IVAN,
The grandson of Blind Stephen.
Electioneering. —Mr. John Polls, jr. ol
Schuylkill county, has announced hunsdl
as a candidate for the office ol Sheriff—ln
the latter part of his advertisement he says,
“In making this application 1 wish it to be
understood that it is not my intention to
take the rounds of the county —to go from,
house lo house with a view to corrupt your
morals by what may be termed a liberal
course of bribery,—shaking those hands l
never shook belore and which I do not in
tend ngaiD to shake after the election, —by
handing round a capacious snuff’ box well
filled with scented snuff, carrying with me
a pair of saddlebags stuffed with chewing
tobacco cut lo convenient lengths to dis
tribute in all directions —treating to whis
key on all occasions, of sweariug white is
black and black is white, aod making pro
mises I never intend to perform ; and by
some fabricated story to excite your sym
pathy and extort promises of voles and la
vour which you would be base to fulfil. I
leave, this course to oiher candidates. II
you think me worthy your support and con
fidence, elect me.”
Extract from the Oration of Mr. Webster, deliv
ered at the Banker Hill Celebration.
We know, indeed, that the record of tl
lustrious actions is most safely deposited in
•he universal remembrance of mankind.
We know, that if we could cause this struc
ture lo ascend, not only till it reached the
skies, but till it pierced them, its broad sur
faces could still contain but part of that,
which, in an age of knowledge, hath already
been spread over the earth, and which his
tory charges itself with making known to all
future times. We know, that no inscrip
lion on entablatures less broad than the
earth itself, can carry information of the
events we commemorate, where it has not
already gone ; and that no structure, which
shall not outlive the duration of letters and
knowledge among men, can prolong the
memorial But our object is, by this edi
fice to 9how our own deep 9euse of the val
ue and importance of the achievements of
our ancestors; and, by presenting this work
of gratitude to the eye, to keep alive smn
lar sentiments, and to foster a constant re
gard for the principles of the Revolution.
Human beings are composed not of reason
only, but of the imagination also, and senti
men!; and that is neither wasted nor misap
plied which is appropriated lo the purpose
of giving right direction to sentiments, and
opening proper springs of feeling io the
heart. Let it not he supposed that our ob
ject is to perpetuate* national hostility, or
even to cherish a mere military spirit It
is higher, purer, nobler. We consecrate
our work to the spirit of national Indepen
dence ; and we wish that the light of peace
may rest upon it forever We rear a roe
tnorial of our conviction of that unmeasured
benefit, which has been conferred on our
own land, and of the happy influences,
which have been produced, by the same
events, on the general interest of mankind.
We come, as Americans, to mark a spot,
which must forever be dear to us and our
posterity. We wish, that whosoever, in all
coming time, shall turn his eye hither, may
behold that Ihe place is not undistinguished,
where the first great battle of the Revolu
tion was fought. We wish, that this struc
ture may proclaim the magnitude and im
portance of that event, to every class and
every age. We wish, that infancy may
learn the purpose of its erection from ma
ternal lips, and that weary and withered age
may behold it, and be solaced by the recol
lections which it suggests. We wish, that
labour may look up here, and be proud, in
the midst of its toil. We wish, that, in
those days of disaster, which, as they come
on all nations, must be expecled to come
on us algo, desponding patriotism may turn
its eyes hitherward, and be assured that
the foundations of our national power still
stand strong. We wish, that this column,
rising towards heaven among the pointed
spires of so many temples dedicated to God,
may contribute also lo produce, in all
minds, a pious feeling of dependence and
gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last
object on the sight of him who leaves his
native shore, and the first to gladden his
who revisits it, may be something which
shall remind him of the liberty and the glo
ry of his country. Let it rise till it meet
the sun in his coming; let the.earliest light
of the morning gild it, and parting day lin
ger and play on its summit.
We understand says a Boston Paper, that the
first edition of Webster’s Oration, of 3000
baa been all sold, in this town and vicinity—that
the second edition of 1000 copies has been sent
abroad, in answer to orders,—and that the third
edition will be ready for delivery this morning.
|P (be
course of the debate on Ihe war and marine
budgets, the minister of marine stated that
every effort was made by the French go?*
ernment to prevent the continuance of the
slave trade. All suspected vessels were
watched strictly; aod whenever any of
them entered French harbours, their car l
goes were closely examined, and if any
thing was detected by which it could be id
ferred that they were intended to transport
negroes, they were detained, audtbeif cap
tains and proprietors prosecuted. The
governour ol Senegal bad received particu
lar this respect. And at the
present time, the number of vessels which
were an object of Judicial inquiry amounted
to 375—0 t which 68 bad been acquitted,6i
condemned, and 161 were waiting for judge
ment. We are gud to find the Freucn min
istry alive lo the pei jury and lufamy of fur
ther connivance at tins base traffick
MOUNT 2IOJS, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1325.
THE SABBATH.
“ Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy
is an injunction sanctioned by all the authority
of Heaven. But with many there is an argument
much stronger than a “ Thus saith the Lord,’*
for the discharge of any duty. If it will promote
their interest, add to the respectability of their
families, or even prove a source of national utili
ty, these are considered objects of sufficient im
portance lo call into exercise all the ‘energie-jTof
tiie body and mind, and to keep themiu constant
pursuit of the wished for good. Were it however
remembered that God has wisely and inseparably
connected our best interest will) the discharge of
our duty, it would save much of that time which
is spent in useless speculation. Our own iulerest,
toe interest and re.-pectahility of our families, and
the best interest of the community at large, de
pend upon the observance of the sabbath accor
ding to the institutions of Heaven. He who has
been an attentive of soceity— marked its
different gradations, aftd traced the causer which
have led to the ruin of individuals, will find a
great deal of truth in the following illustration.
“ When Hogarth, that great master of human
nature, wished to exhibit the progress of the Idle
Apprentice, from the first commencement of his
evil courses, to the final close of his carter upon
the scaffold, he lays the opening scene on a wast
ed Sunday, and his hero, stretched upon a tomb
stone in a church-yard, engaged in play, regard
less of the crowds which are passing by to church,
and insensible to all the monumeuts of mortality
that surround him.”
To remedy this evil as far as possible, Sabbath
Schools w'ere originally instituted, and we are hap
py iu having it in our power to say, that there is
an increasing attention, which is very visible to
this invaluable Institution, throughout many parts
of this State.
A Sabbath School was opened in this place oa
the 17th inct. under very encouraging circumstan
ces.
We have several original articles on file, which
we shall take the earliest opportunity to publith.
The Columbian Star contains the Constitution
of anew Society for Indian Reform, constituted
the present year in Wilkinson county. A portion
of its funds are to be appropriated to Domestick
Missions.
The distinguished parliamentary orator, Mr.
Brougham, was installed Lord Rector of the
Glasgow University on the sth April. The
following is the concluding paragraph of his ad
dress on that occasion.
For those tyrants who have shed the blood of
mankind to extend their empire, and who instinc
tively hate the light, let them tremble. Let ma
then indulge in the hope that, among the illustri
ous youth who adorn this ancient College, famed
for its useful learning, there may be found some
one—l ask no more—willing to give a bright ex
ample to his nation, by taking the lead of his fel
lows—not in frivolous amusement, not in irifling
studifes—but in the truly noble task of enlighten
ing the great mass of his countrymen ; and of
having his own name encircled with honours
most worthy of our rational nature, and fironounc
ed with rapture by millions whom ills beneficence;
has raised from ignorance and vice. This is
true mark of all who prize Ihe enjoy ment of
ing happiness, or set a value on a high and un
sullied renown. And if the benefactors of man
kind, when they rest from their pious labours,
shall be permitted hereafter to enjoy as a rewnrd,
the privilege of looking down on the blessings
with which their toils and sufferings have clothed
the scenes of their former existence, do not vain
ly imagine that in a state of purity and wisdom
it will be the founders of mighty dynasties, or
the mean followers of tyrants, who have sacrific
ed to their own aggrandizement, the good of
countless multitudes, that will be thus gratified.
Theirs will be the praise and the triumph, who
can trace the effects of their beneficence iu ihe
improved condition of their species, and exult
in the reflection, that by their deeds joy beamed
from the eyes of the sorrowful. The lovers of
truth and virtue, trampling under foot tyranny
and driving ignorance from the world, shall reap
the precious though costly fruit of their labours,
a recompense for long enduring all the hardships \
and hazards they encountered here below.
The Fourth of July was celebrated in the city
of New York (with unusual splendour. General
Lafayette was present, and was received in the
morning by the Senate of New York, then in ses
sion as a Court of Appeals. The address of Lieut.
Governour Talmadge to the venerable guest, is.
one of the most admirable which we have seen.
Alluding to (he uniform devotion of the General