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will forever be governed by despots. How On the occasion to which this story refers,

important is it, therefore, that the Bible should be sent to the uttermost parts of the earth. No party can oppose it, and be friendly to civil liberty. No religious sect can oppose it, and possess the attributes of the "Son of Man." It may justly and truly be asserted that the Bible was the spark that kindled up the fire of liberty. It has kept it blazing, and will continue to keep it blazing, until it consumes every vestige of despotism over the minds and consciences of men. A religious party, who opposes the spread of the Bible, should be regarded as the children of the Devil. A political party in this country cannot be found to do so. The people would cry out Treason!' The press would teem with the cry of 'Treason!' And although the spirit of our institutions would tolerate such a fiendish party, public sentiment would consign it to utter oblivion. The Bible is the great "Magna Charta” of civil and religious liberty. Speed it on, then, until every nook and corner of this vast terrestrial globe shall have it.

Then will the manacles fall from the hands, the necks and consciences of the people. And then will the world present an image of the Garden of Paradise, into which Adam and · Eve were placed. Speed it on, until the Son of Man shall come in "power and great glory" to deliver his creatures from the penalties of that law which we have all violated, and usher us into the presence of God.

CENTRE COLLEGE, Danville, Ky.

THE PASTOR OF RESOLIS:

OR, SEEDS SOWN BY THE WAYSIDE.

THE following is from a little tract, published in England. Its beautiful simplicity, redolent as it is of evangelical truth, must commend it to every Christian heart.

About a century ago, in one of the most remote districts of Scotland, there lived a pious clergyman, whose memory is still revered in the spot which witnessed his labors and retains his grave. Often, in the wild forests and glens of Badenoch, was the pastor of Resolis seen pursuing his solitary way to the sick and dying of his scattered flock—a shaggy white pony the only companion of his wanderings.

this faithful animal had a more arduous journey to perform than crossing the defiles and mountain passes of its native Ross. It was near the end of the month of May, when the good pastor was called to proceed to Edinburgh, to attend the General Assembly (the yearly meeting of the clergy of the Church of Scotland). And as in these days, both public conveyances and roads in the Highlands were few and bad, and the expense of traveling considerable, he selected his trusty little steed to convey him to the Scottish capital.

Traveling at the rate of from thirty to forty miles a-day, his journey would occupy a full week, and would frequently oblige him to pass the night in the then by no means comfortable inns upon the Highland road. It will not surprise any of my readers to be told that it was the invariable practice of that man of God to hold family worship in these houses, and to insist upon the attendance of every individual inmate. Resting one night at a little inn, amid the wild hills of Inverness-shire, he summoned, as usual, the family together for devotional purposes. When all had been seated, the Bible produced, and the group were waiting the commencement of the devotions, the pastor of Resolis looked around him, and asked whether every inmate of the house were present. The landlord replied in the affirmative.

"All?" again inquired the minister.

"Yes," answered the host, "we are all here; there is a little girl in the kitchen, but we never think of asking her in, for she is so dirty that she is not fit to be seen."

"Then call in the girl," said the good man, laying down the Bible which he had opened; we will wait till she comes."

The landlord apologized. The minister was peremptory. "The scullery-maid had a soul, and a very precious one,” he said; “if she was not in the habit of being summoned to family worship, all the greater was her need of joining them now. Not one word would he utter until she came. Let her, then, be called in."

The host at length consented; the kitchen girl was taken in to join the circle, and the evening worship proceeded.

After the devotions were concluded, the pastor called the little girl aside, and began to question her about her soul, and its eternal

interests. He found her in a state of the most deplorable ignorance.

"O! my good woman, let me see the girl immediately," exclaimed the minister, in

"Who made you?" he asked, putting the stantly suspecting the cause of her grief.

usual introductory question to a child.

The girl did not know.

"Do you know that you have a soul?"

"No; I never heard that I had one. What

is a soul?"

"Do you ever pray?"

"I don't know what you mean."

He was conducted to a hole beneath the stairs, where the little creature lay upon a

straw bed, a picture of mental agony and spiritual distress.

"Well, my child," said the amiable man, affectionately addressing her, “here is the neckerchief I have brought you from Edin

"Well, I am going to Edinburgh, and willburgh. I hope you have done what you bring you a neckerchief if you promise to promised, and said the prayer that I taught say a prayer that I will teach you. It is very short: there are only four words in it —

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"O, no, sir, no; I can never take your present; a dear gift it has been to me! You taught me a prayer that God has answered in an awful way. He HAS shown me myself; and O, what a sight that is! Minister, minister, what shall I do? " *

Of course the conversation is to be understood as

having been carried on in Gaelic. This will account for the correctness of the language used by the little girl, for in Gaelic not even a child commits a gram

The little kitchen maid was delighted; a. new piece of dress was a thing she had rarely witnessed. The idea was enchanting; the condition was easy; the promise was given with all the energy of young hope; and thematical error. pious traveler, after explaining, no doubt, the meaning and force of the prayer, retired to rest, and the next morning resumed his journey.

CURE FOR SCANDAL.

"The north wind driveth away rain; so doth an an

We need not follow him in the rest of his gry countenance a backbiting tongue." Solomon. journey.

On reaching Edinburgh, his thoughts and time were fully occupied with the duties which had taken him there. Nevertheless, he did not forget the Highland inn and its little menial; but, relying upon the fulfilment of her promise, purchased the trifling present that was to make her happy.

Again, then, we accompany the devoted 'minister to the wild mountains of Badenoch, and at the close of a mild June evening, reached the lonely Highland inn. The white pony, now sleek and shining with better fare, and a whole fortnight's idleness, is safely housed, and the minister, ere he permits supper to touch his lips, summons the household to the worship of God. Again, however, the little kitchen maid is absent, and again he inquires the cause. But it is now a different reason that withholds her.

"Indeed, sir," replied the hostess to the pastor's inquiry, "she has been of little use since you were here; she has done nothing but sit and cry night and day, and now she is so weak and exhausted that she cannot rise from her bed."

"Whenever

MRS. CHALMERS, of Anstruther, mother. of the Doctor, had an extreme dislike to all petty scandal. She had one rule, which she made known among her acquaintances, and which she rigidly followed. told of anything that a neighbor had said or done amiss, she instantly put on her bonnet, and went at once to the person, and told what had been said, and who had said it, and asked if it was true." Those who follow this rule, we opine, will seldom have occasion to execute it. They who smile at scandal, or listen to it complacently, obey not the injunctions

of the wise man.

He who pours scandal into my ears gives me just occasion to be angry. He offends my good sense by presuming that I wish to make my head a lumber-room, instead of a storehouse of useful knowledge; he offends my good taste by presuming that I love gossip; he offends my piety by thinking that I will "rejoice in iniquity." I am justified, by the wisest of men, in "looking him out of countenance."-[N. Y. Observer.

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he were willing. He must be the depository of all the imagined wickedness around him. To him it all gravitates as to its centre. Every COULD an angel or a glorified saint sopurpose of lust, every deed of vengeance, journ a week in this world, where would you every piece of villainy flows thither, forming expect to find him? Not in the theatre or a fresh contribution to the already fearful ball-room, nor at the card-table; not emand fathomless mass of known wickedness ploying the few days of his stay on novels within him. This black and loathly mass he and romances, be they ever so ingenious, but carries about with him- he carries within cheering by his presence the abodes of sickhim. His bosom is a very sepulchre of rot-ness and sorrow, or recreating his mind with tenness and stench-a closet lock and key admiring the works and ways and Word of of villainous secrets.' Wherever he is, alone God. And do not you expect to be a glorior in society, or at the altar, he is chained to fied spirit soon? Are you not already a mema corpse. The rank effluvia of its putrescence ber of the family to which glorified spirits encompasses him like an atmosphere. Mis- belong?

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the corruption that adheres to him.
forts to fly from it are vain.

"Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell.'

To his mind, we say, this mass of evil must be ever present, mingling with all his feelings, polluting all his duties, and tainting at their spring all his sympathies. How ghastly and foul must society appear to his eye! for to him all its secret wickedness is naked and open. His fellow men are lepers foul and loathsome, and he snuffs their horrid effluvia as he passes them. An angel could scarce discharge such an office, without contamination; but it is altogether inconceivable how a man can discharge such an office and escape being a demon. The lake of Sodom, daily fed by the foul and saline springs of the neighborhood, and giving back these contributions in the shape of black and sulphurous exhalations, which scathe and desolate afresh the surrounding region, is but a faint emblem of the action and reaction of the confessional on society. It is a moral malaria —a cauldron

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EDITOR'S TABLE.

SERMONS. -We have several on hand, of such great length, that we are at a loss about publishing them. If we publish, we shall certainly abbreviate. We cannot fill up ten or twelve pages of The Casket with a single sermon, unless it be a sermon upon a subject of more than ordinary interest. A sermon of average length can be printed in four, five, or, at the farthest, six pages of The Casket. We solicit from our ministerial brethren, original sermons on important and useful subjects for insertion in The Casket; but, if they wish to be read, and to do good through the press, they must condense their thoughts into as few words as possible.

Many of our readers, doubtless, will participate in the disappointment which we feel in not being able to give them a sermon, promised some time since, from the pen of Dr. McGill. Perhaps it is due to them to state the reason of this disappointment in Dr. McGill's own words, in a communication which we received from him a few days since. He says-"I must crave your indulgence awhile longer, owing to very many engagements, feeble health, and a great aversion to the task of writing out a sermon at full length. I have promised to furnish a blind brother, Rev. E. Wilson, with a copy of a sermon for a forthcoming book, which is to buy bread for him and his children. This will occupy scraps of time at present. The sermon I was preparing for you, I think it my duty to send to him; hoping that I shall be able soon to carve out a little leisure for your service also." Dr. M. will excuse us for copying this portion of his letter, seeing that by public announcement we had led our readers to expect a sermon from him. Gladly would we copy, also, the portion of his letter which follows, containing a compliment to The Casket, which we highly appreciate; but it might seem selfish in us to do so.

the best possible manner, for her important vocations, among which are the care of her own health, the physical well-being of her chil dren, and tendance on the sick, suffering and helpless; and finding, also, that the Bible recognizes and approves only woman in the sacred office of midwife, therefore, we who give our names to this benevolent object, agree to unite in the following purposes:

FEMALE MEDICAL COLLEGE, PA.-We have received the Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class in this institution, and also "An Appeal to American Christians on behalf of the Ladies' Medical Missionary Society, by Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, Secretary. The latter document is a very able one. As the existence and the object of the institution may be unknown to many readers of The Casket, we copy for their information, from the rules of the Society, the following:

"Believing that God, in committing the care of the young especially to woman, imposes on her the duty of preparing herself, in

"1. To co-operate with the efforts now being made in this city of Philadelphia, to qualify women to become physicians for their own sex and for children.

"2. To give kindly encouragement to those females who are engaged in medical studies.

"3. To give aid and sympathy to any among them who may desire to become missionaries, and go in the spirit of love, to carry to the poor suffering women of heathendom, not only the blessings of the healing art, which Christian men can rarely, if ever, bear to females in those lands, but also the higher and holier knowledge of the true God, and of salvation through his Son Jesus Christ."

We highly approve of the objects set forth. in the above specifications:-1. Because it seems highly fit and proper that females should be trained to minister specially in the diseases of their own sex. 2. Because it will open a door for useful and lucrative employment to a large class of females who would otherwise be destitute of the means of subsistence. 3. Females are the natural nurses, especially of children and females in sickness, and, therefore, to give them a medical education will only be to restore to them an office which seems naturally to belong to them. There are two female medical colleges in the United States. Last year there were, in the one at Philadelphia, some sixty students. We have no doubt of their final success. We thank Mrs. Hale, the able Secretary, for the obliging note which accom. panied her appeal.

ANNUAL CATALOGUE OF THE WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. - At the close of the last session, there were in this institution fifty students, viz: In the senior class, fourteen; in the middle class, twenty-one; and in the junior class, fifteen. Its Board of Professors is equal to any in the United States, and the total expenses of a student, including board, fuel, &c., are only one and a half to two and a half dollars per week. Let young men go there who wish to learn how to preach- not to read sermons.

FATHER GAVAZZI. Father Gavazzi has announced his intention to some friends in Dublin to visit the Irish metropolis in the month of April next, for the purpose of delivering a series of orations on the errors of the Papacy.

NEW ZEALAND. - The native converts in this island amounted, in 1846, to the number of 2,893. They are dreadfully persecuted, and many have been put to death for their religion.

A PIOUS EFFUSION.-The Shepherd of the Valley, the Catholic organ published in this city, says- "England has found an enemy at last; and we who write these words, may live to see her crushed. With her, falls Protestantism. God hasten the day."

JENNY LIND MARRIED. A Boston paper says Mr. Otto Goldschmidt, pianist, of Hamburg, was on Thursday last married in this city, to Miss Jenny Maria Lind, of Stockholm. They were married under the Protestant Episcopal form. The application for the marriage certificate states that Miss Lind is 31 years of age, and Goldschmidt 24."

THE BIBLE IN CALIFORNIA. -There is a great demand for the Bible in California, in foreign languages. The Society sent to China for copies in the Chinese language, and Chinese residents have received them gladly, and are sometimes seen in groups reading the Word of God. Rev. D. Boring has six Chinese under his special instruction, and one of them, he thinks, is a true convert.

THE MARRIAGE OF LOUIS NAPOLEON. Rumor has it that the "Prince President," Louis Napoleon, is about to take to wife the Princess Charlotte Augusta, of Sweden, daughter of the reigning King, Francis Joseph Oscar, son of Bernadotte, one of Napoleon's Marshals. Their relationship is an item for the curious. Josephine, the first wife of Bonaparte, was the widow Beauharnois --two daughters by her former husband were married- Hortense to Louis Napoleon, the father of the "Prince President," and Euand Charlotte is their daughter, now twentygene to Augusta Oscar, now King of Sweden; two years old. The “ Prince," therefore, is the grandson, and the "Princess" the greatgranddaughter of Josephine, Napoleon's first wife. This marriage, if it takes place, will unite the families of Bonaparte and of Josephine, his divorced wife!

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BAD STATE OF HUNGARY. - The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun KOSSUTH IN ST. LOUIS. The great Mag-says-"Private letters from Hungary give yar has been in our city. He addressed our most frightful accounts of the increasing povcitizens on the 12th inst., and we suppose that erty and crime. One-third of the population not less than twelve or fifteen thousand lis- are starving, and the rest unwilling to work, tened to him, although it rained all the time. with the benefit of their labors merely acHe sustained the high reputation which he cruing to a foreign tyrannical government." had previously acquired; and, in our opinion, he has not his superior among living men. We cannot but think that he will yet be the instrument in God's hand to revolutionize the Continent of Europe.

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IN the 23,000,000 of the United States ually read and write, than can be found in population there are more persons who habit150,000,000 in Europe in one area, marked off in any shape you please.

THE Missionary Advocate, for January, 1852, says that in San Francisco there are strong indications of an interesting work among the Chinese of that city, many of whom are studying the Gospels and the Acts, which have been distributed among them. Some of them attend church, and one is a bold and earnest convert.

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