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RELIGIOUS.

For the Standard. MR. EDITOR: - I lately visited some of the churches towards the northern part of Illinois; and I will tell you what I learned during my visit. The Home Missionary Society is steadily moving on in the work of supplying that section of the State with New School, alias New Haven preachers. In my travels, I found that many intelligent western country Presbyterians were dissatisfied with these ministers; and two reasons were given for this dissatisfaction. 1. They sometimes employ

language which, in their view, conveys ideas

contrary to the bible and the standards of our church. 2. They keep back much of what the Old School call the marrow of the gospel; so that

Christians complain ot not being tfd, and they fear that the church of Christ will not be built up under such preaching. Some such churches have acted with so much firmness and independence, as to let these New School ministers go and seek a home somewhere else. Those who, from a sense of duty, dare to act thus, are, as you may suppose, branded with ugly names. Another fact is this. The Ottawa Presbytery, at their meeting in October, adopted a new Confession of Faith, and ordered that 1500 copies be printed for the use of the churches under their care. I will not comment on this fact. Your readers can tell as well as I can why our old Confession was not sufficient for them. There were at least three Congregational churches reported to the Presbstery at that meeting, as having been recently formed. But it was agreed that they should not be enrolled on the list of churches, inasmuch as they had not requested to be taken under the

that a reform in that matter was called for; but it is certainly doing great injustice to charge the im-

perfections of a few upon a whole community. And now in their zeal to avoid the difficulties of the one extreme, they have involved themselves in difficulties fully as great as those they left, by

running into the other extreme of Plagiarism

and Arminianism; while they have left the true

Old School in the middle, between the extremes,

and clear of all the difficulties. I know that new divinity men are ready to propose difficulties. I'm these are imaginary, as I think: and we trust they will live to think so too. And it is for the want of correct views of Old School doctrines, that our hearts are pained, even in these backwoods, by being met with the same objections and argu-

deep, can never be exhausted. Water becomes vapor and rises. The salt, more fixed in its nature, remains behind. The cloud, as it ascends from the surface of the ocean, bears limpid, tasteless water. but there is this further advantage in the present constitution of the sea. The countless rivers which disembogue in it. bearing upon their bosom, from cities and forests, every form of distructible matter, but for some counteracting principles, would convert its waters into a mass of putrefaction, more pestilent than the Dead Sea, diffusing stench and disease throughout the whole extent of the atmosphere. Salt is this antiseptic. It resists the tendency to putrefaction, and preserves its waves pure and untainted. Thus the sea. perpetually the recipient of corruption, is perpetually giving back to the earth and the atmosphere, water free from taint or adulteration. The ocean would freeze but for the presence of

its sails, and thus commerce would L

c compelled

mentis against our precious doctrines; and that, to told her wings for half the yea;; the tcmpcratoo, by our brethren in our own church, with j ;ure of maritime countries would be greatly reduc-

which we have long been accustomed to be met by our Arminian brethren on the one hand, and by Barton W. Stone and others of Unitarian sentiments on the other. Put the Lord reigns; and he has suffered this new divinity to enter the church lor some important end. And I feel assured that

ed; the dominions of frost would be extended, and

sterility would gradually stretch its withering arms over what are now the fairest portions of the earth. Put its salts also confine the ocean to its bed. restrain its pioud waves, and appoint the limits beyond which thev mav not sro. If other

wise

throw his mind into tint frenzied slate in which he stance, the number .V The Bissts number about cin pei form these cruel rites. The system is evi- i PJo.OOO; and a mission among them lias a very dently going into disrepute. Many of the more in - ; promising prospect. tolligent native? look upon it as a foolish and need- jr- Flmv li;iS n( ,jir prjncjpai care 0f tl,e ms. less service, and deny that their best Shastcrs re- i sjon proper, v; and it was ibotmht best to invest it in quire such things. Dut much, very much, lias ; improving a'lot of fen acres, and hu-ldinrr a house Christianity In do, before the minds f the muss or ; .,t Millshiirali, f,r iho iss of the mission. The the people shall be elevated above the influence of, hm?0 SMtl js considered worth $-500, and has this dark superstition; and never will superstition j )0cn securcd to the Society bv a deed in trust, relax its grasp until it is dispelled bv the light and cheerful hope of the Gospel. " " iic" ir- IinRr7 wro,c to the Board under I have gone down to the Bethel Seamen's Chapel i (!a,e of July 27, he had no expectation of returning on the river nearly every Sabbath; ami have been i so,,n ,G ,lie United States; but, after further repiined to see tho'crowds that tlnong the river-side j II('fllon- 1,0 determined on that course. By a long as 1'ir as the eve can reach, to bathe" in and worship j ?cr,cs of perplexities, ho found his mind much in the Ganges. " We have literally to push our little ' I'-,l)N "'led """ apprehensions on various acboats through among the bod:"es of Bramins. wo- j counts; and, therefore, deemed it advisable to have men. and children, w ho wade in to their necks in ' a pc"! interview with the members of the Com-

the water, put ihcir hands up before their eves, and I miltco aml Incnos ollhe mission in tins country:

pray to the dinga t he river, for themselves and their friends. The water in which a Bramin has washed his feel, however rillhv. is eonerallv drank

by the people, believing that "his having washed in ! s arrival, he lias been in weak h it .rives it a n,i-.ifvi.,,r , n,,.,v ff innal.'.l-.blo vmIho i cntly in much need of relaxation.

and, accordingly, embarked with Mr. Finley, in the

Louisiana, Captain illiams, August '21, and landed at Norfolk, October 2. We understand that, since

ilth, and apparBut his health

But I would never have done detailing what is nitia- 13 imProvmg, "d he hopes to be, m a short time,

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' v" " " I - .1 , . , , . . . . . . . ! nm.d,.,,. ,. r,,..t,,r, I I i i-ii.-I.' I I,., I . .-. .,,11

its waters must have penetrated and filled! 010 " ,iic'r condition and disgusting m their liab- j .....-...-.,.... n. . u.i

! every cavil v of the earth, pointed all our snrinsrs. Us. r rum these scenes ol nolulioii and idolatrous ! 00 leM IO r'uml " -A,1K";l ""'; "t iiihiks mat an-

whenever t.iat object is accomplished, he will put ! and. tar, as now when wisely restrained, from be- j delusion 1 look fir back to the circumstances of j

oth-:

?r, or others, may be induced logo wilhhim;

The church is built ujion a rock, and : ing a blessiaa;, hav

must stand, and truth is mighty and will prevail. If by these afflictions the church is humbled, they will prove a great blessing And if any instances have occurred, as no doubt all will be ready to admit, in which the truth has not been sufficiently

explained, or expressed in terms calculated lo

grown into a tnoni'Mttotis evil

SELF-TOPvTURE OF THE HINDUS. We have been favored with the perusal of a lot -tt r from Kev. James Wilson, missionary in India, to Rev. Samuel Swan, of Liwmier, Pa. and make

tli2 following extract, which contains an af;ctirii i

keep the mind from a leaning towards Fatality or ! d?cription of some of the horrible cruelties prac-

Auiinomiar.i.-m: or it sinners have not a w avs had . a.

uai v mtsuan, in viewing ine picuire present eu,

peace and cheerful hope in which the people in ! my dear native valley are permitted to pass the Sabbath. Blessed happy they who '-know the i joyful sour.d! They shall walk, O Lord, in 1 he light

ol tny countenance! Happy, happy people, who sit in the sanctuary when the preaching of '.he Gospel '-drops as the rain, and distills as the dew,"' upon the hearts of those who love its gladdening

set before them their responsibility to God, and the guilt and danger of neglecting or refusing an im-

must not yearn over them with bow els of compas

sion, and do whatever dutv rem i ires for their "de-

mo.li'iln eninnli nid tf ith nnll l' l.n . 1 Ti' l- C .1 - 1 1 1

...41., uiiaii ui nit- Liupri 11 , nverance irom tue power ot darUticss ami transla-

tton into the kingdom of God's dear Son?"' "Calcutta, April Hi, 1835. 1 have often almost

tins controversy shall be made the means of removing such imperfections in preaching the gospel, great good will result to the church and world,

rest assured that lie will "red

troubles."'

redeem Jsrael ot

Il.vcKwoons Preacher.

MERCIFUL PROVISION OF PROVIDENCE. The follow ing beautiful description of some of the ijiialities of water, extracted horn an essay by L. T. Randall, which we find in the last number

Creator. W hat an adaptation here, of means 10 the

e n ( 1 ! (" -. . ! alch ma n . The specific sravitv of water is precisely that

ous offices it must pertitution of things. As

the re.-ults of it. it floats the seeds of vegetables to

care of Fresbvterv. There are also several other

Oosgregational churches within the bounds of the

Synod of Illinois. And I should love those minis- ; 01 Scientific. Tracts, are admiraldy fitted to enters more, if thev were reallv 111 name what tbev !rcc a COiiyic,ion 01 lhe existence of the Supreme

are in principle. I love their zeal and industry, and all that s right. And I am sorry that they

aivt t CM.Kot agree as it respects the best wav tojVN'"C11 it tor tiic numerous offices it must per promote the interests ofChrist's kingdom " form, in the present constitution of things. A

-uw 1 wid state another laet m relation to!a, .rtt.,.,;C! ;7. . I

I -.uui. it t i wi'jun.; ti iu,j n inuiL LUiliilU ill.? tllHl

t;ie meeiir.': 01 toe vnod ol lilmo:.-. wliicn com- is arids. extioul innr ;,,, tto nnnni.ms 1;,..

snenced its sessions 0:1 the third Thursday of Oc-j '"S world. The ocean too is whitened with the tober. A the- opening of this nun-t, party fr,' of coimnoree, human enterprise and the light r , lot science are extended to every quarter ol the ings seemed to run higher than I had ever wit- U0be, and civilization and the arts are spread as nessc i any where. The meeting was held in a ! iai as there m e winds to waft or waves to roll them. New School churcli; and the last Moderate-, who j O-m of the most admirable laws of water is, was a New School man, was absent. On this ac- i ,ha1t lVe.c'Z0- 'fter Sivcs out ,hoat i:' freezin? . r ,, , , ,. , and tiras tn the co.dest ouarters ot t!ie ir!obe,as it is vnur.t, it fell to the lot of a iormer Moderator, an congealorl 1,, )r0st, it is liberating vast volumes of

J:d ciiool man, to open ttie meeting witfi a ser- caloric, and lhe process of congelation is in this

Alter ascending the pulpit, for the pur-j way counteracted, and at last arrested by the heat

wnicii itseli sets tree, rreezmais a warmina; pro-

10011, iVc

-ose of dischar

;itir his dutv accor.ling to the con-;

fuitmion of our church.

gregation did not wis'a to bear Mr. S , and if he red hot

did arise to preach, some would leave the house!'. At this period, a.? might be supposed, some cf us rxperienced painful and sorrowful feelings. And though we knew that the Old School had as good claim 10 seats in that house as any others, yet we were almost forced to the conclusion that all such TV .ere unwelcome intruders amongst the New NchcM majority; and it seems to us. that this punishment i.s iniheted on them, for the crime of en

deavoring to discharge the duty of maintaining' the doctrines of the bible, as summed up in our standard, according to their ordination vows. Thse are some of the men who crv peace, while they trcuse Old School men with disturbing the elm rch, by sounding an unnecessary alarm. One more fact, with which I have become acquainted is, that new divinity men. who have been

trained Congregationaii-ts, do not understand the

felt myself in l!i3 midst of you, as in years past,

The Lord can bring sood out of evil, and we mav ' w,icn suddenly the coarse din of the tomtom,

... i'.inimi inviting io me worship in me umuoo a" "lfi i . 1 i. .1 1.. r .1 11 1

iei!int, 01 1 ue; imeaiimy cry 01 i 'ie .i iissuimaii, as he breaks the slillness of midnight with rclirccching, ritiicr than crying, '-All 1 ! Alia !"' reminds me that I am in the midst of lhe heathen, or a people who know not, or abhor, the name of Jesus. On Saturday last, was the Sim l'onjnh, or festival of the god Sira the Ih .lroycr, according to the Hindoo Mythology. And well is he so named; for he destroys the reason and happiness d" many thousands of families. Five or six miles South of this eiiy, there is a large temp! 0 of the god, at which lhey assemble by thousands, early fn the momirg,

to witness or to feel the self-torture which mvos ee- I lebrity to the festival. 1 went not to the temph ! 11 ... .....1

oecause I Knew I could see ;:s much 111 tne streets as my hcr.rt could endure. I will only speak of what my eyes saw, as they passed by the house where we sat. Around the temple, and on the extensive common between tiic city and Fort William, were assembled many times ten thousand, to gratify their curosily. Far as the eye could extend both ways, the s'reet was completely tilled from side to side with the immense crowds who

pressed to follow, or at least to see the self-tortured devotees; who were decked wish flowers, wreathed and hum over their heads and round their necks, in till fantastic forms All had their bodies painted, or rather daubed, in a great variety of forms. They went in companies of from lour to shirty or forty each, accompanied with drums, tainborins, and other harshly-sounding instruments. They seemed to graduate their merit, by the singularity and severity of their self-torture. Some had iron toiimies,

MISSION TO WESTERN AFRICA. It wis announced in our last, that Rev. J.Jin . P-niu ij, our missionn try to Western Africa, had returned to the United States. From his c immunications to the Executive Committee and from odie. sources, the fedlowing information respecting his efforts and the prospects of the African Mission Ir.ts

been derived.

exercising self-denial, enduring privations and af

flictions in the cause of Christ, for the "inrv of his name in the deliverance of lhe forlorn sons and daughters of Africa from the direful bondige of sin and Satan. Tiie men (if this world visit every country, reside in the most insalubrious climes, and encounter the most nppdimg dangers, for the purpose of amissing earthly treasures; and shall Christian ministers, and Christian professors, do less for the honor of God and the salvation of perishing sinners, when they are assured that 'Hhey that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars for ever and ever? Is it. or is it not, true, that "the children of this world" are more powerfully constrained by love of gain to seek, at till hazards, the accumulation of wealth, than "the children of litrhl" tire constrained by love to God, and love to their

fellow-men, and the assured hope of glory, '-to spend

Mr. Pinnev mentions with gratitude bis release I and be spent" in lhe incomparably superior work of

from the Colonial Agency as a leercv from God I building up the kingdom or Christ in every land? After his release, he looked forward to "the mission- j Let Christian ministers, let Christian people, in the aiy work with delight, and I101.0 that a wide door S vigor of life, in view of the obligations of redeemed" entrance 0,1 all sides would lead him to future 1 i"g love and the relations of eternity, consider and

usefulness in scattering the seeds of truth. lie felt that the work w.:s his; the field was ready for the reaper; his vows am! his desires were for Africa. lie did not consider the time already p :sse;l ns spent in vain; as hi- had more experience id" man

ners in A fric

1 cess

v --n - t i'i r t-ii.i- 1,.,. An ... r. ,1

New Schoo, minister ' 1.,. 1.., ., ' ....

I i'J'.u .. 11 JIM t lit til I J lilt dlllKJ.-JMllMtr, I II (I II UlIIU ated to an Old School one, that a part of the con-1 be afforded by lhe same nuantitv of pulverized

Put

evaporation is a cooiing pro-

Extended oceans spread their bosoms to

Old School doctrines. And I believe that this van' of understanding arises from the want of an impaMial. thorough investigation of them. This is the most charitable construction that I am able to put upon this matter: for if they do understand them, they must designedly misrepresent; which I will not lav to their charge. This misunder

standing is thus exhibited. When Old School men represent the atonement as sufficient for all the world w hich has always been done on the ground of a limited atonement, and in perfect consistency with it, they are charged by these new divinity men with preaching New School doctrine. Again, when we ted sinners, that when the Sa

viour declares, " no man can come to me except ihe Father which hath sent me draw him," it is not intended to teach us that there is some physical power compelling (hem to stay away from Christ, contrary to their will; but that such is their blindness and opposition of heart to God, voluntarily cherished, that they will, if Almighty grace do not arrest them, continue to choose the road that lads to death, until they make ti-.cir own destruction sure. If we preach 'bus, we. are charped

with preaching New School doctrine; and that, too, while it stands in p- many plain words, ia 0ur 'onfession of Faith, that "violence is not offered to the will of the creature." And thus, as far as 1

bave been able lo ascertain, by free and friendly conversations with them, lhey misunderstand, and conse.jtiently misrepresent lhe Old yc,ool views in every important point of difference. For nuu'ht we know, they laay have fou.i 1 a few o:;gregniorialists, and perhaps Preshyicrians, who leaned so far towards Fatality or Antinomianism.

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tire sun, 1:1 equatorial ngions, and the vapors which they send up, tempers the fervor of his vertical rays. It is borne alon to the north bv the upper current in the air. ami decending i:i the form ot sleet or snow, sets at liberty the heat which it absorded in the south. Tims by the same splendid operations which cool ihe temples of the children of the sun, are the horrors of the polar winter softened and made supportable. The aurora borea'is, in the northern climates, is also an effect of

the same arrangement. The electricity which is

transferred thither in combination with the vapor, descending with the caloric and accumulating upon the ice at the poles, at last breaks through the atmosphere into the vacuum above, and wi hastening back towards the tropics, gives out light to cheer the long winter nigbts of those regions. Most bodies grow smaller as loie as they continue to grow colder, contracting w'.u-ii thev

freeze. Water is of a smaller class which obey another law a law fruitful in most beneflcient consequences. It expands in freezing; by which

handles,

't, ami of his own weakness and de

fects; and had been led more fully to realize the irnpuieijce of human wisdom and zeal, without die mighty power of Gud. During his labors in the Agency, his I health !i ad boon much impiired; hut after their e leso, frr thre c mouths, ho enjoyed better !:c.:l;h than at any time since his arrival in Liberia. He purposed to visit lhe coast as liar as Cape Palmas, to examine it, and recruit his own strength; atid, early in May, proceeded r.s far as G. li-.ssa ; but anivod t.fter the vessel had sailed for Palmas; and by the ropres. "illations of several Colonists, was induced to -i l i t ohlcc, a native town, about !!; miles up ihe Xm;h Branch of tiie St. John's, called Mechlin River, in a canoe, with four natives to

paddle it, assistant.

suit;

answer this solemn ipieslion; and determine, indi

vidually for themselves, what the Lord will have them to do.

d.

m inierp.ck r. and a promising colonist as I

he proceeded to view the place as to 1 1 r

ness fur a missionary

shaped bko those of a blacksmith, with the

one on each side, run through the- flesh under their nrrns. On the front pari was some incense burning. Others had ropes drawn through ihe flesh of th.ir sides; and one man held each end of his rope, and kept it constantly moving in tiie s(-re. Others had iron rods, at b-ast half an inch in diameter, and five or six feet in length, run through their tongues. These rods lhey held in their hands, and kept constantly in motion, the blood dripping over their breasts. Oilier hail knives ol dill'-'ient sizes and shapes run through their tongues, and hanging there. 1 observed one who had 1 knife, about Pi inches in length and one inch in bread:!), run down thro.tgh his lip. and thus suspended. Many, many other forms of torture 1 might h ive witnessed, had not my sou!, sickened at the sight, turned away. Sufl'erings in all thes:; forms had been borne for

we see bottles holding it broken, tubes conduc-i manv hours; the knives, iron rods. .Vc hm-hm hen-.i

ting it bursted. and the strongest metals confining 1 annlied f,,r these cruel numoses at the trmtJP. b-n

or six m. Ics Irom the city, early in the morning.

cation. It stirp asseu

h:s anticipations. 1 1:0 oreiile were friend y. but

11 somewhat suspicious of his intuition: the land, elevated, being near tiie mountains behind P. 1) i-sa ; the air, cool an 1 pleasant. ILs d. -sires were so decidedly in ftvor of it, that he sent Mr. UlteriJge to the Cape, to p-cure some articles slates, books, and bi-ddii.e;. with lhe view of beginnini; lhe labor at once. ! l"re his return, however, the tragedy at Eas-a Cow had occurred, and. united with the news lle.it lei 'a is brought bv the Ikig Ruth were

waiting h's return, hastened him down to the set

tlement at I .it ih; R:ss

Tor. Fall and tiik Ri-touatio. In the town of C. in one of the ue.-tern counties of this State, a young man from '-the land of steady habits," so, ,ed and engaged in business. He possessed good talents, was well educated, and very respectably connected. He wa- sober, industrious, enterprising and frugal. As a matter of course ho acquired property and established a good reputation. He married a lovely girl of good family and more than common powe rs of mind; and better than all, over who-e character. Piety shed her sweetest, and most blessed inlbience. In the midst of his prosperity and happim ss, G. (his modesty will not permit in to give his name) suddenly became the victim of disease. Long and painful was the struggle. At length the disease gave way, and he gradually recovered. During his convalescence, be was advised to take wine, the more rapidly to restore that bodily strength which he bad lost by disease. This well meant, but fatal, advice, was but too faithfully followed. Whether the wine which he drank as an auxiliary to nature, produced the desired effect or not, one thing is certain . lie soon acquired an appetite for the stimulus of strong drink, which could not easily be resisted, or overcome. The wine was set a-ide, and brandy took its place. The demands

01 apprtite became stronger ami stronger, and before his friends could muster courage enough to remonstrate, he was a drunkard. His business went to ruin, and a considerable portion of his property was sacrificed. The admonition of friends, which, in earlier time, perhaps mirht

lie had the pleasure of j have been effectual, now came too late: and for

hear

T!i.

from American friends bv Mr. Il inkir.son.

country being

:t;!ed, and the vessel about

it riven asunder. Mark, then, the operation of this law. The earth, after receiving the rains of autumn, is congealed by the winter's frost. The water in it being expanded, the soil is pulverized, and made light, and prepared for the roots of the

tender, growing vegetables in spring. Rut more, ice, as a consequence of it, forms first on the surfac of our rivers and streams. The intestine motion which goes on in water when subjected to a change of temperature, ceases at a particular point. Cooled dow n to 40 deg. of Fab. it attains its max

imum density; and as the cooling proceeds, those ! particles which are reduced hi low this point; float ' upon the surface, being lighter, and finally ar

riving at sz deg. are frozen. In the mean time, the warmer water below beinsr heavier, remains

at rest; its heat being in some degree kept in by the covering of ice above. Did water conCnue to grow heavier, as it became colder, until it arrived at the freezing point, a cake of ice would form first at the bottoms of our rivers; the whole of their waters would be reduced lo the point of freezing before the congelation began; and their fish, by affording a nucleus, would be among the first objects to be incarcerated by the hardening ice The cold of a few nights would congeal deep rivers, and the ice lying far below, would not be sof

tened by the returning suns of summer. The inhabitants of water would perish. Coasts would cease to afford, as now, the most genial climate and luxurious home. . 1 - 1 1' .

as a urinii lor animais ami man, and for most common purposes, it was necessary that water should be free from active foreign ingredients. but the ocean abounds in salts, and for lhe wisest

of ends, o-te of t hem the ordinary condinarv of

man, is indispensable to the comfort and the very

ex .-timee of a large class of animals, deprived of

wnicn 1. if ar bodily powers decline, and they droop and t: ii'ly die of loathsomo diseases. The im-

im j;.,,- Mure-housc provided ia the bosom of the

Yesterday. (Sabbath) was the Chiintck Vonjtth,

or swinging festival; en which occasion, they erect a post, :)0 or :;." fret in height. On the top is fixed a cess piece of timber, like the sweep of a well. Attached to one end of tins is a rope with two iron hooks, w hich are made fast in the flesh of the back of tho devotee, and by these he is raised to the height of '23 or ot) feet; the pole is turned round six. seven or more limes, ns be is able to bear it, and his merit is according to lhe number of times he is swung round. One of these poles was set up and

several persons sw ung on it within a few steps of

the Baptist church where we wois'iipped in t ho

evening. With wnat clearness and precision the liible c.li ir cteii.es ''lhe dark places of the earth a.s full of the habitations of cruelty In all these scenes of varied cruelty, I observed a large proportion of those crjwded and wreathed with (lowers, to endure torture, were beys, of whom many were quite young, and very few who have ar

rived at the years of maturity. Indeed, 1 am assur

ed by many, bolh missionanies and intelligent na

tives, that iherc are lew who undergo these tortures of th ir own choice, but very frequently in obedi

ence to the vows ard wishes of their tuiprrxtHion.t

motiicr.i. A mother, in some season ofdistress has a . 1. - . ,...1 .11 1

vo-,ve.-ei, inn :u cut iter own tongue, 01 nave tin: hooks

fixeil in her own bat k, but that her .son should do

this, lie is perhaps unwilling. She excites his

fears by her ominous foreboding, that, if he does not

tulfil her vow, Cali, or some other imaginary god

(less, will be offended will visit the family with

pestilence, or destroy them by failure of crops, am

consequent starvation, or inmv direful things will

be visited upon the family. The poor affrighted boy goes away, eats drugs tf various kinds, which

to visit lhe Maryland Settlement, he embarked and sailed thither. lie found Rev. Mr. Wilson and

lady in betler health than lhey had been since their first, attack id' fever six months he litre; that their faith had not failed, and they manifested a degree of cheerfulness amidst their trials, lie had much pleasure in uniting with them in the monthly concert of prayer in July, and fell his spiritual shength inerettsed. He found ihe colony thriving, but not free from the evils sometimes incident to republican states. The continuance of tho war at Bassa, and 0. desire to arrange every thing relative to the property of the mission with Mr. Finley before his departure for the United States, combined to keep Mr. Pinney at Millsburgh; were also resided Mr. and Mrs. Ilaiikiivon, in feeble health, after their deliverance

I

rom great danger tit Bassa Cove, enjoying the hos

pitably d the Mission house, and preparing to return to America. Mr. Pinnev pm posed to return

to Buhl co P. Bassa ns soon as peace should be

restored, and commence the business of instruction.

lb: intended to take with him Mr. Utteridge, ti very

pious young man of lhe M. I). Church, very trust !

worthy, and able to i.ssist him in acquiring toe l.m- j gn age. lie hoped to find the situation so healthy

is to be aide to recommend it to the missionaries ol

America, as a suitable place f.,r t.cclimating; and

expressed it as his highest wish, with lhe assistance of a band of pious helpers, to spend his days in e f

forts to instruct ami elevate lhe natives. Duimg a residence of three weeks at Bob'u e. his efforts were

directed toward obtainm" some insight into the structure of lhe language. The result was eneonr-

aging, ami has been transmitted bv Mr. Finley.

The number who understand a little Kuglish, be deemed .sufficient to open a field for instruction, while he and his co-woi kers wen- acquiring the native language; so that no tim-; would be lost. Ol those whom he attempted to leach the alphabet, one actually learned lo make on the sand ami name all the letters to M, at one lesson; and, a week af

terward, he could be seen making them.

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strueting others! But Mr. P. asks, 'Vh,t resort must be had to form charactars for the vowel sounds? Shall we use figures ever them, or in- ent new characters, or leave il t" experience as in the Lnglish language? There are some sounds winch no combination of o:ir letlers will expi.ss; for in

two or three years past, he had been wallowing

in the very depths of inebriation. Put in all this dreary, dreadful time, and heart sickening, and heart rending condition, his amiable wife, borne up by a power whose origin is not of earth, ceased not in her attention- and kindness to him. It seemed even, that she tried to make herself a stranger to evils which she had in vain endeavored, with lears and prayers, to prevent. I need not el veil a moment in eulogy on her conduct, her reward is in heaven. There was such meekness and gentleness and affection, in nil her deportment towards him whose fond idol she had been such an exhibition of christian fortitude in bearing up under the withering and dying of her hopes, as could not but bave a po wertul influence, in establishing bis resolution to reform.

G. bad a particular friend. ":i Vied ;;.'(cftZ," w ho felt as if he could not see him die a drunkard. Jlavingin vain exhausted all his powers of persuasion and remonstrance of entreaty and admonition on the man himself, he betook boo to those venders of the poison, who, reckless of happiness and of life, were hastening on his utter ruin, lie plead with them as if the well-being of his own soul were at hazard. Thev sacredly promise. 1 the desired inhebition, .'ml they fu'fiiied their promise. 1 n a sober moment, C. was refused li s accustomed glas. and the rea-ons were iivt'n in words that suing. They came upon him in an unexpected 'tare and I. me and mmn t. and awoke him lo a new sense of his condition. Although his mad indulgence had made sad havoc in his moral sensibilities, yet bis piiib of character was net wholly go:n ; and ihe residue of bis whole moral system seemed to n Ceive a new and powerful shock. He uttered no complaint he solicited no further indulgence; but retired to relit it

on what be W been, w hat he jd-yfMiave been, and what be then was. The result was happy. It was a resolution of total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks. From such a sudden change in his habits, bis health suffered a little, a a necessary consequence. A short lime only, however, passed away, when this man came a.ain into society, a low and renovated being, spreading joy among his friends, and receiving a welcome greeting from all his acquaintances, and is now, bolh by precept and example, a firm advocate for lhe doctrine o.'Tot.m. AhsTINKxck. And now be wishes- to say. esp.-cj illy to those who advocate -'e o'-e ef wine, Touch pot, tastn not, handle noi." '-book net upon the wine, when it i- red, when it, meveih itself aright." (10 i-o, near it for !' '('-' i'- ' bore.

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WILCOX.