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to me, “ cheer up sister, v.c arc io fiave a par
ty ai the house ml’ Airs. 1. next week, which |
will he worth a dozen like this ; but, by-thti-by,
sister Adeline, 1 perceive nothing here so very j
contemptible as your long phiz woo Id try to i
make tis believe.” I made you no reply, but j
east my eves towards u distant graveyard,
whose white monuments were just discernible ;
you tun ed suddenly from tne and mingled
again n llie dance. Soon after l grew faint,
xrjy eyes were heavy and I sunk into your arms;
almost immediately I was carried to an adjoin
ing apartment aud placed in a very large arm |
chair before n mirror. I looked on myself, i
and oil! how Mack my countenance appeared !:
A physician was called in, who made an un-j
successful attempt to Meed me; my face still
grew blacker until at length i expired.”
“ And are you afraid yon arc really dead
then?” re-plied Mary laughing heartily. “I
do not marvel that you tire sorrowful, hut here
comes veinr satin dress, and it is nil completed
sure enough; come, try* it on,” “Oh, it
makes me shudder to look at it! Indeed I can
rot go to the party!” “ Pshaw, put it on.
Shall I tell them you bad a dream (dreadful
presneer!) and dare not come?” “ Tell them
unv thing, but pray excuse toe.”
Many words now succeeded, and the thought
less Mary ut length persuaded her sister to at
tend the party. The evening came and Ade
line went with a heavy heart to the scene of
mirlli mid hilarity; her singular dream was
Still deeply imprinted in her memory, and every
thing she saw seemed as it then did in her fan
cy. She grew more and more melancholy,
while ivery face a round her brightened,.ami
every heart seemed light with enjoyment. In
the midst of the merriment, her unthinking
sister who had forgotten the dream, came and
repeated the very words w hich Adeline dreamt
she had done; they gave her a dreadful shock,
lust she made no reply and endeavored to forget
her gloom by mingling in the midst of the
dance. Her heart grew light, for no one can
yield to the touch of vanity w I shout losing in a
deer e the faithful monitor of his soul. A short
time after, she passed an open window and
looking carelessly out upon the moonlit earth
phe plainly discovered !he while stones of a
diste u graveyard, but after having pointed it
Hint to a young friend, she turned again to the
6ii.hl of vanity and the event passed from her
mind. It was not long before o great tumult
was seen in the ball-room. Adeline had taint
ed and was removed to another apartment
win re she wes placed in a large arm chair ex
ticd’ a- she bad dreamed. Her sister who was
Tiupporiing bet bead saw her dying counten
ance reflected in a mirror which hung e#n the
Opposite side of the room nod nuddeidv shore
tnei. •en. ilmt disnml dream winch she felt
Was now fast coming to pass. Adeline became
more id more insensible. Her face black
en’d, ,n r respiration grew difficult and soon
titter, her unprepared spirit bade an eternal
adieu to tiie shores of tune and w ent to meet its
God !
Tims closed the dream and eartblv existence
of a gay and promising young fen ale! Her)
ear had often listened to the pad.otic and so
lemn appeals of the ministers of the sanctuary,
and to many instances of mortality, but none]
had broken the deep sleep of sin in ti c said,
none Into cut ihe cord tiiat binds to earthly
Vn>. ties. Still she sluudxfed cti, rocked in the
Cradle of youthful hopes, and lulled with the
tin’isic of youthful promises: but suddi ily nn
oK ■* was breathed into her heart by the voice
of the dr< idful—-'he mysterious dream, yet it
fadi and ivviiv like the beam of the meteor. Her
trod was unsettled between the choice Af
youthful hilarities am! the luly religion of the
cross. There was no time to he lost—her vis
ion told her so, but she listened to the voice of
temptation and rushed forward to the midst of
Tanity ‘'nil perished, with impending clouds of
dark ‘ -and sorrow, entering eternity from
the •il-room we the dream grew dim to her
fight.
Smual ,ot the thoughtless, who are wasting
the precious moments of their earthly prolm
fiim in idle amusemoiit, receive wan ing from
tills and from similar signals of their danger in
thus living ? They do not intend to die as they
live, and h ! how awfully fil.si.ru and sinful it
is to ! w as we wouitl not wish to die, since we
Are i -t I'itnin of a single hour, and Cod is an
gry w;'i. • n-v who trifle with his mercies? The
rai ■ sos die vnn would not choose to spend
♦ their :-i l im its in the ball-room, tier hear l
with ’ n ir dy iug curs the sound of the violin,
i hat i assigned other services and other
* thoughts > themselves in death ; hut oil, how
often arc they left in that trying hour to dark
c.'vs and agony of spirit, vvitb.no Saviour to
• ‘•glit'.hem over Jordan, no hope in the morn
lug of t *: ri sum-ebon { and death, 100, not
tJtiir-fjUen ;v does ins work wliwn he is least cx-
J";ei ii, <-■ and the heart that hunts warm with pas-
I'iio tind * irii.lv enjoyments, is suddenly cot oft’
the In Met of tin t ai.u assigned over to the
Cie'it day of accou its.
’ J.‘ki'.auelphia % Act. IBSI.
rt.nsi: rue achin'*?.
3<nne t.nie :u the summer <<f ISCO, Bishop j
ryi'Kei dree, then prt • iding elder of the district, I
Was preaching *•• May v.lle, (or I, tncs.onc, I
gr i is tisually called, bite finding place for most J
of toe eiiiigranis n upjier part of the State of!
Kci.tink v. I.'js-subj et ‘.nti ially led (nn: i„
C’.hii i; ,: ufciti:.:., it u;v that if-t-om;- 1
BORGIA CHRISTIAN RF.FFRTORY —BTVOTF.B T® KEtKITdIV;
grants were frequently exposed to impositions
i of various kinds from w ant of knowledge of llie i
prices of different commodities. With his usu
al ingenuity he pressed the subject Very closely. •
“Yes,” said he, “it frequently happens that
some take the advantage ot tin poor emigrant
100, thatJuis removed to your fine country, to b* •
vour neiShpur and fellow citizen; you sell hi®!
your corn - ”or other produce at a double Vfmfm
and for the corn, when it is only worthfffty
cents a bushel, you ask a dollar; ah! and re
ceive it too of the poor man who has to grapple
‘with misfortunes to support his family!” An
j aged gentleman sitting near the door was dis
: covered to become more and more uneasy; hi 6
{ hoary locks gave him a, venerable cast, but the
emotions of his mind were such as to operate
upon the muscular movements of his features.
As the subject was pressed, his agitation in
creased ; he could stand it no longer, lint ri
sing from his seat, thus addressed the preacher,
“If I did sell my corn for a dollar a bushel, I
gave them six months to pay it in.” “ Sit down,
my friend,” calmly replied the Bishop, “ sit
down, sir, if you please; we nre discussing a
subject and delineating a character; we nre not
iu the habit of making personal reflections!”—
V Pel. Rem.
rw LATTER DAY GLORY.
As the ligliv’!’ tiuth increases, the shncliiws
of suspicion will disappear; but when the (hin
of Rigteousness shall arise in Ins glory, all the
mists of prejudice will be chased away. Inen
the bow of promise shall be seen on the mirk
and retiring cloud of idolatry and superstition,
of ignorance and pollution. It will he thesyjn
hol of the spirit of love, union, peace, and good
will, pervading the Christian world, and presi
ding over sii their operations. Shade will melt
into shade, and color blend with color, in clear
distinction, but in perfect harmony. Its am
ple arch shall span the whole heavens, and
touch the horizon in both extremities at the
same moment.
Upon the summit of it? bright circumference
the sapphire throne of the Son of Mm shall be
planted, and the shouts of adoring nation's roll
upwards like thin < r —“ Hallelujah! the Lord
God omnipotent re gueth.”—2 he Pulpit,
fin.
Sm io a flood fbnt bus spread farther, contin
ued long! r, and left n ore vis Mr marks of its
desolating power than the flood of Noah One
generation only was swept nw v with that;hut
how ninny generations have been swept away
with this, eternity oily w *ll r< veal.— 1 hat flood
destroyed only the bodies ; thisthc souls ofmen.
It is a jin that Juts ruined more faniiliesthau
the burning of Moscow in 1312, of London in
1666, or of the cities of the plain in the time of
Ibruhum.
It is a famine in which more have perished
than in all the famines of ancient nr modern
date.
It is a tsar that ha? never ceased Mnce the
commencement of fertilities in the garden of
jr.rlen —a pestilence that walked) in darkness,
and vvasteth nt noon-day—a tempest —a whirl
j wind —a storm —an earthquake* and more fear
ful in its ravages than any that have visited ci
thcr earth or sea —it is a disease more infec
tious than the leprosy, and u plague more to he
dreaded than all the plagues of Egypt. Ailtlie
energies of men and angels cannot riverc .i <
this universal evil. Our only hope and la pi's
in “ Christ crucified.” Reader, if thou at
any danger of heiug destroyed by this enemy,
flee instantly to Christ, and by faith lay holdon
the hope set before thee.
Looking to Jesus. —Natural historians in
form us that the eagle forces its young ones to
look at the sun, which at first they are unwil
ling to do; hut their eyes hv use get strength,
and they view it w ithout difficulty. Tims it is
with the Christian. The sun of the spiritual
world is the Lord .lesiis Christ; weak believers
arc apt to take oil'their eyes from him, b#t by
the exercise of faith they see him more clearly;
and when they are perfect in heaven, theyshall
heboid his glory, and take their eyes frotn him
no more for ever.
PRAYER.
It affords no solid objection to this duty, that
God knows what we want, and that he could,
if he saw fit, supply all our wants, without our
asking, since it is certain that he has command
}ed us to prav, and it is not certain that lie will
j Ides t> us if we do not pray. We cannot doubt
j that ii were possible for him to sustain us with
: out food, even for years, if necessary; but it
I would be folly in the extreme, for us, out of
pretence of” living by faith” in this sensi, to
■ cease from eating, in order that wo might live
I without labor. Common prudence teaches-us
-.to labor for our daily bread, and though this i;
jentailed on us us a curse, yet, by the imp ray or
God, in connection with the result, it is ttifned
into a blessing. So prayer, though to mere
reason it may seem unnecessary, and to the
flesh a task, yet if performed in, obedience to
the word of God, in a right manner, and ia a
(right spirit, is neither unnecessary, nor unrea
sonable, and may prove to he the most profita
! hie employment of our lives. Our Lord has
I said, “ Ask, and ye shall receive we believe
j bin., and we therefore pray, and say toothers,
j” ’ .o and do likewise.” Secret proper, weans
1 us. tioni.thc world pncl sm.Bjitl brings us neat-
er to God. J'amily prayer unites the members
f the family together in peace and love. They
who regularly pray with, and for each other,
cannot well retain anger towards each other:
personal animosity destroys the spirit ot prayer,
and prayer in return overcomes this deadly and
destructive evil. So it is of social prayer, and
as in public we pray that God w ould forgive us
*s we forgive others, it is directly calculated to
promote a forgiving spirit, and procure for our
selves the forgiveness of^pis.
Procrastination. —The Pastor’s Journal re
lates an anecdote to the following effect:—-Mr.
A— who had been intemperate, and so op
posed to religion and religious institutions as
to refuse bis wife liberty to attend the preach
ing of the Gospel, was at length brought to lis
ten with interest to what a neighbour told him
of a revival of religion which was then prevail
ing. After much solicitation lie at length pro.
iniaed that after anotM r week he would join the
Sabbath School and begin la attend to the sal
vation of his soul. The next Sabbath came.
Tin Superintendent and others looked with so
licitude for A—, b tbe was not there. They
continued to expect hint t’ll the school closed,
but lie came, not. Soon the bell tolled a funeral
knell. It was for A—, the man who, one
week before, had promised to begin that day to
seek the salvation of his soul! On Saturday
he was arrested, and in a few hours died—with
out hope!
RASTER WITH HIS BIRLE.
It is a fact w orthy of consideration, that the
works of Custer, in which he has most skilful
ly blended the two characteristics—cloctrn id—
and practical are the only ones which art pas
sing down from generation to generation.
There are many books Written no doubt w ith
the grave intention, and the very sanguine ex
pectation, that posterity will read mid admire
them ; but which may never reach the Minds of
posterity, for the plain reason that they are not
composed of sufficiently rich and durable ma
terials. Especially is this true of vast multi
tudes of books ol unnecessary controversy and
speculation, and of wrangling metaphysics. A
enlist of thankfulness it >s truly, that tin great
propotion of sunn works nre floated into the ed
dies, or cast up dry as their contents, on the
shores of the river l ime, and forbidden by a
merciful Providence to float down, and perplex
or disturb posterity ; especially a posterity sufli
ceintly fruitful in such productions. Tins is
becoming the case with many of the writings
of Baxter.
Baxter's honest coviction and confession,
bearing on this subject, deserves the serious
eonsideratioh ol ministers of the gospel. “To
tell the truth, while I busily read what other
men said in these controversies, toy mind was
so prepossessed with their notions, that I could
not possibly see the truth in its own native and
naked evidence; and when I entered into pub
lic disputations concerning it, though I was tru
ly willing to know the ttuth, my mind was so
forestalled with borrow ed notions, that I chiefly
studied how to make good the opinions which
! had received, and ran farther from the truth.
Yea, when I read the truth in Hr. Preston’s
and other men’s writings, I did not consider and
understand it; andwhen 1 heard it from them
whom I opposed m wrangling disputations,
or'read it in hooks of controversy, I discerned it
east of all. T iti ai last, being in iny sickness
cast far frotn home, where J had no book btit
my Jlible, I studied the truth frotn thence, and
y tiie blessing of God, discovered more in one
week, than I had done before in seventeen years’
reudmg, hearing aid wrangling.”— Qt. Reg.
Christianity. —A gloomy mind cannot keep
company with a religious spirit—Christianity
is cheerful. Christ invites to rest ; rest is an
exile from the breast w here melancholy dwells.
Could the Saviour of the world himself movi
highly recommend the blessedness of a diet ful
heart, limn when he said “ Be of good cheer.”
“Let not your hearts be troubled,” “ My peace
I leave with your,” and“ My Father will send
you another comforter.” V hen, therefore,you
see a professor of Christianity dejected, and
refusing to be comforted, pity him and pray
for him; but do not believe that depression of
spirit can be the natural result of Christianity.
The cheerful and pious Rishop Horne, whose
writings have soothed many an afflicted soul,
delights us with the following brilliant remarks.
A celebrated writer on the side of scepticism
and irriligion, in a book published since Ins
death, to produce atheism in the world, has
been pleased to say ‘that all devout persons lu
had ever seen were melancholy.’ ‘This might
■ very possidly be,’ said the Bishop, ‘ for in the
first place it is likely he saw very few, Lis friends
it'nl/jcquaiitanccs peing of another sort; and
Secondly, the sight of him would make a devout
person melancholy at any time.— liushfidd.
SWEARING.
Use no oaths; lot kup your word without swaqring.
This is vvliat the Scythians said to Alexander
the Great. We learn from that maxim, that
tre should never swear, but when we are neces
sarily obliged to it. When I hear any body
swear without any necessity, 1 am apt to beiiov
that he does it because his conscience tells him,
that he does not deserve to he believed upon
his mere word. lam never imposed upon hv
swearing men , I look upon them as men, who,
having got the. liu'oit of sweat: g, do not <u->u
sidcr the ill consequences of it, or care so httlo
4„r it, that it is indifferent to them whether they
be sincere in their oaths, or not ; for habits arc
commonly attended with indifierency and want
of attention. Do not we see some men, wlioj ,
having got such a habit, never speak without,
swearing, and w ithout mixing the most sacred,
things with their oaths; who swear otu of anger
and debauchery, to pass away the time, without
any reason, without any attention, aitn, or de
sign in it, and without being able to show what
advantage they get by it ? Their oaths serve
them instead of transitions, in their d!icour?es
to swear and speak is the same thing to them ;
but it is not so with those that henr them ; for it’
they were contented to speak without swearing,
they would not he so much abhorred ly wiso
men. Their oaths stain the good tilings they
fay, and raise the indignation of honest meir
against them. I take every swearer to boa
passionate or a inconsiderate, or a loose man,
or one whose education has been very mucfi
neglected; every one of these things is odious
to an honest man.
I'rom the London Hahinlist llagT.isiCi
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Continental India.—At a village near Ncgr
patam, all the Romanists in the place, except
one family, have publicly and decidedly re
nounced the errors ol Ponerv. Nearly 100 art>
under the special care ot the Missionaries, and
about.ten heathens arc now Ait the date of tbo
letter,) candidates for baptism.
New Zealand. —From this place the Mis
sionary writes: “ Since I wrote to you last, ov.r
prospects have assumed a much more cheering
aspect, and wo arc not without hope that wt>
shall ere long have to report to you the convcr*’
sion of sonic of the very interesting young men.
who live with us. The number of native*
living with us is thirty-four; of these, twenty
eight are Young men and boys, and six aro
young women. At present we can only devoto
about two hours each day to their instruction iu
reading and writing; and I name it as a very
pleasing indication of some good, that most of
them are anxious to acquire a knowledge of
letters, and on some of their minds good im
pressions are made and gracious desires created.
They are catechised generally three evenings
every week* and as often addressed on some im-’
portant Christian doctrine, in addition to thi>
services of the Sabbath.
Tongatahoo. —(South Se& mission.) —At thi
place, on Sabbath, (June 07, 1830,) the mis
sionaries baptized sixty-eight adults and th
king’s little son, and on the Kune day married
thirty Couples. At Tonga they have a chapel
70 feet by SO. In this chapel they have held a
! ovefeast, at which about one hundred ryok**
anil many of them much to the point. At thf>
dedication of the chapel, about two thousand
persons were present. The attention was very
great and the singing uncommonly good. Sev
eral of the native women were attired in Euro
pean habit, their desire for which is Very great*
Ilahai Jslandf, (South Sea mission.) —“ Ou
the seventh of this month, (Nov. 1830,) twelve
adults were baptised in the name of the Holy
Trinity ; at which time they publicly renounced
heathenism and took the Lord Jehovah for their
God, About seventy persons meet in class, om
of whom is the king. About one hundred and
seventy males are entered upon the school book,
eighteen of whom are teachers* The king and
principal chiefs are among the’ eatechumen%
and stand up in the ring with the people every
morning. The female school contains one hun
dred and fifty, ten of whom act as teachers. I
have (says the missionary) been under the ne
cessity of actingas preacher, class leader, school
r aster, doctor and visiter. I have six classes
to meet, to preach three native sermons every
week, and to write school books, besides many
other dntic#.*
ijovtlum Africa.—At Lilly fountain, J.iltli
Namacqttaland the missionaries and native*
have held a missionary meeting, at which seve
ral converted Hottentots were among the speak
ers, and spoke with great simplicity and fervor*.
One of them remarked, “ God is Almighty, anil
J sus the Son of Mary shall yetdo greater things-
I love Jesus : yes,, as sure us I am standing
. here, I know I love him. We see great thing*
to-day. Who among us eVcr thought of seeing
such a ohurch at Lilly Fountain ? Who ever
thought of seeing so many teachers here ? Yet
all our teachers preach the same Gospel; yes,
though there arc many teachers, the word is the
same, the prayer is the same, the school is tli£>
samr.
The Mauritius. —A mission has been planted’
here. Catholics have consented to have their
, children taught l y the Protestants, and a cor*
. grcgalion from two. to three hundred has been
gathered. The children has been taught ths..
first rudiments of pure Christianity, and ha,a
already begun to sing the high praises of
and the Lamb.
OK-ADAM CI. ABXE*
Extract of a letter from the Rev. Dr. Adaz%
Clarke, to the senior publisher of the Christian
Advocate and Journal, dated Ileydon Hall,
Pinner, Middlesex, Oct. 3, 1831
“ I‘ev. and Dear Sir:— -You ioguire about
nv going ov- r to America, and ask, ‘ls it vet
too late?’ That depends on that quantum oF
hfi that God may have allotted me. I have
long wishi ii to visit America. I shall have thfe.
! eciji; HuA though VarV.g file Egd c( i.qorq tha
