Standard, Volume 4, Number 23, Madison, Jefferson County, 27 March 1835 — Page 4

THE STANDARD-

From the New-England Advocate. THE MOTHER'S IXJUXCTIOX On presenting her Son with a Bilk. Remember, love, who gave thee this, When ether days shall come, When she who had thy earliest kiss, Sleeps in her narrow home; Remember 'twas a mother gave The gin to one she'd die to save. That mother sought a pledge of love, The holiest for her son; And from the gins of God above She chose a coo lly one. She chose, for her beloved boy, The source of light, and life, and joy And bade him keep the gift, that, when The parting hour would come, They niizht have hope to meet again In an eternal home. She said his faith in that would be Sweet incense to her memory. And should the scoffer, in his prideLaugh that faith to scorn, And bid him cast the pledge aside That he from youth had born'; She bade him pause, and ask his breast. If he, or she, had loved liiai b-si. A parent's Uessinz on her son Goes with this holy thing; The heart that would retain the one Must to the other cl:g. Remember! 't:s r.o : toy rnother's stilt 1 emc-mber, boy!

gjlllDAY EVENING. by euiavkr. The v-ee!- ts past, tne sai-oa-Re rest in peace thy da ind standing, as thou stand Of a new scene of bein;, c; lawn comes on: to;! is done: , on the brink 'v think Of what is cone, is now, and soon shall be, As one that trembles on eternity. For sure as this now closmc week is past, So sure advancing time will ciose my last, JSure as to-morrow the awful li-rlit Of tht eternal morning hail my sige.t. Spirit of good! on this week's verg-e I stand, Tracing the cuidina: intiuence of thy hand; That hand which leads me gently, calmly still, Up life's dark, stonj, tiresome, thorny bill. Thou, thou, in every storm hast sheltered me, i'eneath the wing of thy benignity; A thousand crave? n;v footsteps circumvent, And I exist thy mercies' monument! A thousand writhe upon the t ed of rain: 1 live, and pleasure bows through every vein. Want o"er a thousand wretches wav es her wand; I circled by ten thousand mercies stand. How can I praise thee. Father! how express My debt ot reverence and of thankfulness! A debt that no intelligence can count, While every moment swells the vast amount; For the week's duties thou bast given me strength And brought me to its peaceful close at length; And here my grate ful bosom fain would raise Afresh memorial to thv glorious praise. From the Episcopal Recorder. Tilt! BELLE LETT RES. The B-lles Lett res arc of no inconsiderable utility. To ihe professional man. the student the man w hose I..! or is t hat of ti e n.ind 'Le v are of much scrv ce. To compose, not ody with strength nd pisriiv, bait with ihie-i.ee and grace, is of great con. toj"'ece to the Divint-, t he- Matt-small, the counsellor, and the physician. There no man, even though he possessed the genius of a Homer or a I) . nte. but mtiiiii be improved by an acquaintance n;f,'i px.iite literature. But iheie are others, whose lot it rnnv not be to nppear 1a fore the public, to w in m ilicse studies will be of titil'iy. The large part of the commutety thal is not f reed to spend their every hour in labor, will find an advantage in studvn cr ihe belles leticrs. Tiiey nfe e in socaety; and to them these pursuits subject matter of couvt is ,tion. This is will a (lord su an ae of refinement. Works are issuing from the pros th in Engl md and America, every month and iaiinisl :ery week. i 1, y are discourse iii ahnit every romp in v. llie subject ot j How imnortant then is it to he enabled to have a right judgment of the correct, the beautiful to form a proper estimate of what is tebgiotis and valuable, and what is not to be able to separate the wheat from the tares. The young man who has never improved ins talents by andyzing, by rellectin, by read ng, win n the subject ol bti rature is on the carptt, or a le'erence is made to the voluminous woiks ...!.. I 1 . i . 1 I 1 . r - ..: .. i ....,.vS.Mu,.mi,,s,m ,ir printing establ shments groan, w.,1 often have to blush for his j iiilc, a i.'t iu u.piwit nil. iiv 1:11: tit. e: ui ms nom s or ot study. Females should cherish a fondness for elegant literature. I; benefits them; it is their province. It holds an intermediate station between the severer duties of a profession, and the pleasures of the senses. It is not required of ladies that they should engage in the stormy conil cts of politics they are not to assume the sword of the gi uh iter, and exhibit tin ir prowess in the arena of public life. They are not called to preside over our collegiate establishments, . rid irm their midnight lamps over the p ges of a Plata or a Tolly. Th-y are not to plead be for.: the tnbuna', of justice, or to' penetrate the arcana of the healing an. Tin its are domestic duties. They aie not called to perform the labors of a Bacon, a Boyle, a Iljle, or a Sydmhue.. And how delightful to have some studies, such as chxjiierice. or rhetouc, or poetry, to while away the hours of solitude, or to fill up the vacant moments of the day. "The elegent studies are more immediately the department of women. They do not require so much lime, comprehensiveness or abstiaction of mind; thf-y bring no wrinkles, and they will give a poi t-h to their manners, and such a liberal expansion to their understanding, as every rational creature should endeavor to attain. While men, with solid judgment and a superior vigor, are to combine ideas, to d sctinrutite, and examine a subject to the lottom, women are to give it all its bitlliaucy and all its ch ums. Men piovide the furniture, women dispose it with propriety. Men build the houses; women are to fancy at.d oi ii .meitl the ceiling " The belies lettcta likewise h .ve the effect of alleviating the d stresses of bf.., and of superinducing a delightful oblivion of iu lriJIs umj c..rtS- Cicero, in Ins beautiful oral ion for - v p, vi Aichias, has a eulogy on polite literature, ,!lid, r,dein 'times, w.lhall its ho sted refinement, , , M m deavor lo sui piss. I hese studies?, (:J1.S Cicero)) "dfiord employment to ihe young, a,,, Som,.t.s , ; ple.snre to Ihe old; they are the oinatne,., 0t puis-l , nti j v vw,.,, 77 The tediotisness of exile, and the loneliness of im prisonment, have often been beguiled l,y ),e p,lr. su is of literature. It is recoided of ihe pious and Rev. John Fpnnett 's i r.

! learned Hooker, the autbT of Ecclesiastical Polity, I that be amused his sobcarv hours, while tending a 4 r

flock of sheep, by reading Horace. Polite learning o-'cup:es many hours that would otherwise run to v -ste. The profes:onal man, the man of business, the firmer, the mechanic, cannot nlwavs be engrossed with their severer studies, their flocks o-their utensils. There will be vacant moments, when the mind must s;gh for something to occupy it. These moments are dangerous in the extreme. If they have no taste ror letters, they will b: disposed to resort to low company, to the t ivc-n or to ihe gaming table, in order to employ lhir moments of ennui. They who hive a relish f."r the entertainments of taste, have always at hand an agreeable mode of spending their hours. There was a period when the style of our religious works was not as polished as it is at present. Now the Christian does not blush to put forth his I best energies to promote the religion of the Lord ! Jcsns Christ. We see a Mis. Moore, with a genius i masculine, correct, improved by study, able to pleare i the voting with her tracts, and convince the mdaI phvsician with the strength and cogency of her ari gismeuts. Wc see a Dick, uniting the learning ol ; the philosopher and the polite scholar, with the j most ex dted heights of piety. We see a Cow per, a j Montgomery, a lleher, and a Ilcmans, bringing the j aids of poetry to promote the knowledge of Christ j crucified. We see a Mrs. Sherwood combining all ihe beauty of description, the ingenuity of invention, and the delicacy of sentiment, with the most j ardent piety, in her endeavors to rend- r the young j enamored with the beauties of vital and cxperitnen- ' tal godliness. : And now the worldling can have no excuse to ! nrevent him from comiiti? to Christ, and devoting i himself to his service. Works of devotion are not j arrived in the nrb of rude and inharmonious phra- , i seolov. No works can be more polished more j ; flowering, more Graceful than those of the writers 1 i w'o have joined the ranks of the moat Captain of: ! their salvation. If any stay awav from Jesus, it i m i must be owinu to their love of sin, and the ciimiiial ! and deep-rooted depravity of their hearts Reader! every thin" invites you to accept .the rebioii of the Lord Jesus Christ. The ways ot rekijion the true "wisdom," are ways of pleasantness, i and all her paths are peace. 1 lie bavour says i "Come unto me all ve tint labor and arc heavy 1 1- ! den, and I w ill give you rest. My yoke is easy, Mid i inv burden is iiglit."' "Ho, every onethtit thiisteth, I come ye to the waters, and ho that hath no motley, I come ye, buy and eat; yea, conic, buy wine and j milk without money and without pric"."' ; In conclusion, let not the belles let! res be a prii mary study. Our main attention should he devo- ; ted to the Holy Scriptures, and our best energies to f the service of the .Most Il-gh. The belles leiteies I should be a handmaid, not a mistress; they sho dd occupy a subordinate and not a ptim iry place in '. our atiections. They should be used as a coi'.dimerit to give relish to tiio nioie serious duties and ; studies of life; they should m l be sewed up as our daily food. They should not become an idol to , steal away our hearts from the Author ot all g'Xid. i They should be studied, as the (irecian poets were ! by St. Paul, that the knowledge thence derived j might redound to the glory of Ciod, and contribute ' to the expansion of the kingdom of the Redeemer. , In edict, life is too short, and our duties are loo grave and too important, to devote an lmmodr.ate , and an exclusive attention to the studies of elegant : literature, lie who nas uomacu uuuseir to ijoci, and has acquired an interest in Jcsns Christ; he : who lias obtained the converting and sanctify. i.g i influences ot the Spirit of Cod, has more solid cnsolation th in il lie were master of all the literary treasures of an Aiislotie or a. QuintiMian. J. MAX LIBERALITY OF SENTIMENT. il - 1 . i . r 1 UIMI 1 I ICV..I ! I ri II I .1 I I M I I IV. I 1 'I I of conduct, if to entertain tow ards our fellow men unchristian feelings be sinful, and olfonsive in the sight of our everlasting Judoe, then it certainly bccomes us seriously to reflect upon our dispositions. to rvaoiion tnii-ivt t .mi- -, sntuelimnni o. what we honestly believe to be the truth. While we ought to be very careful how we give way to the influence of prejudice, and a nusguarded zeal, we tire to be quite as watchful that we do not, for the sake of appearing liberal minded become iiidill'erent to the cause of truth and virtue. True Christian charity, a genuine liberality of sentiment stands between a bigoted, malignant and intolerant spirit on the one huid, and an indiiierenco and union com for the spread if sound principles, on the othThe liberal deriscth liberal things, and by liberal t'uVg.t shall c stand. While Ins mind is entirely free from a contracted and persecuting spirit, bo has a fiim and honest regard for the honor of his Cod, and the prevalence of truth, and nothing has power to dissuade him from their defence. He opposes with plainness, doctrines which he cannot believe; still, he cherishes good will to those who bold them. While be has a love for the truth for her own stiko, and w hile he holds not the persons o f men in admiration because they may chance to agree with him, he will not hold in dignst the persons of those who differ from him in tleir sentiments. With dispositions like these, he stands before his God. He will receive a reward lor his zeal and boldness. in delence of the truth and he will , jy the mendaiion of his judge for ight feelings tow ards his lel!ow-mcn. From the Paleni Landmaik. "liNQLTRE AT AMOS GILES DISTILLERY." Some time ago the writer's notice was arrested by an advertisement in one of ihe newspap; rs, w hich closed with words similar to the following: "Inquire at Amos Gilts'' Distillery The readers of the Landmark may supjiose, if they choose, that the following story was a dream, suggested by that phrase : Deacon Giles was a man who loved money, and was never tumbled w ith tenderness of conscience. His fdher and his grandlYiher before him had been distillers, and the same occupation had come to him us an heir loom in the family. The still house was black with age, as well as with the smoke ol furnaces that never went out, and the fumes of tortured ingredients, ceaslessly converted into alcohol. It looked like one of the Vulctns Stithies translated from the infernal regions into this woil I. 1S stench filled the atmosphere, and il seemed as diops f poisonous alcoholic perspiration miuht be mailt; to ize out from any of its timbers or clapDtMrus on a smih pressure. Us owner was a Iicmsurcr to a Biole Society, and be bad a little counting n,OM, in one corner of the distillery where be sold Bibles. He thai i greed; of gain troubh th his own house. Any one of those Bibles would have told

Iiini this, but he chose to learn it from experience. It was said that the worm of the still by coded in the bosom of Ins f.nnily, and certain it is tint one of its members had drowned himself in the vat of hot liquor, in the bottom of which a skeleton was some

tune aflcr found, with heavy weights tied to the ancle bones. Moreover, Deacon (ides1 temper was none of the sweetest, naturally, and the liquor lie drank, and ihe lives and spirituous fumes among which he lived, did nothing to soften it. If bis workmen sometimes fell into his vats, lie himself oftencr fell out with his workmen. This was not to be wondered at. considering the nature of their wages, which according to no unfreqnent stipulation, would be as much raw rum ;is they couid drink. Dent Giles worked on the Sabbath. He would neither suffer the fires of the distillery to go out, nor to burn while be was idle; so he kept as ; j busy as they. One Saturday afternoon his work- j J men hud quarreled, and all went otV in anger, lie was in much perplexity for want of bands to do !

tlie work of the devil on the Lords day. in uie visible inscriptions named out on the cask-head to dns'; of the evening a gang of singular looking fel- I every beholder. "Consumption sol.! .'arc. DeUriLvs entered the door of ihe di.siilieiy. Their dress vm Tremens, Death, Damnation and Hell-fircP was wild and uncouth, their eyes glared, and their j The drunkards were terrified from the shops; the language h id a tone that was awful. They ofii red : bar-rooms were emptied of their customers; but in to work for the Deacon ; and he, on his part, was j their place a gaping crowd filled every slote that

oveijoved, for he thought within bimseil that as thev had probably been turned out ol employment t 1-hwIic re, hci ould innate them on b:s own terms. lie made them his accustomed oiler; as much nun i every day, when work was done, as tnev could Some of them i had enuii'di of: drink; but they would not take it. broke oi.t and tola him th.it they hot thinjs where they came fiom, without drinking ! damnation in the disiilierv. And when they said; that, it seemed to the Deacon as if their breath burned Line ; but he was not certain, and could not tell what to make of it. 1 hen lie oltered them ;t pittance of money; hut they set up such a laugh, that h, t.-iotight the roof of the building would f.dl Tivy tlemanded a sum, which the Deacon 1 hoceiild not give, and would not, !o the best I set of vorkinen that ever lived, much less to ssicii i piral ieil looking scape jails as they. Finally he said i.; won id give hail what they asked, if they j would take two thirds of that in Bibles When he mentioned the word oibles, they all looked towards the Joor, and made a step b tokwards, and the Deacon thought they trembled, but whether it was with anger or d lnium tremens, or seme'.h'ng else ho coi ild not tell. However, they winked ae made s:gns lo each other, and then one of them, w ho seemed to bo the head man, agreed with the D.iacon tint if he would let them work by night instead of day, they would stay with him awhile, a iid wot k on his own terms. To this he agreed, anil they immediately went to work. The Deacon h id a fresh cargo of molasses to be worked up, and a great many hogsheads then in fro in his country customers, to be filled with liquor. When he went home, be locked up the doors, leaving the tltstiileiy to his new workmen, as soon ash;: was gone, you would have thought one ol ihe chambers of hell had been transported to earth, with its inmates. The distillery glowed with fires that burned ever hotter than befoie, and the figures 'of t.'ie demons pissing to and fro, and leaping and clbng in the midst of their work, made it look like the entrance to the bottomless pit. Some of them Sat astride the rafters, ovi r the heads of ihe others, and amused themselves will) hUiwinU 11. urns uut ul' then ii.uul li.i. The work ol distilling seemed play to them, and they cairiedil on with supernatural rapidity. It was hot enough to have boiled the molasses in any part ef the distillery, but they did not seem to mind it at all. Some lifted the hogsheads as easily its you would raise a tea-cup, and turned their contents into the pruper receptacles; some scummed the boiling liquids; some with huge ladles dipped the smoking thud fiom the different vats, and raising it high in ihe air, seemed to take great delight iu watching the fiery stream; as they spouted it back again : some drafted the distilled liquor into empty casks and hogsheads; some stirred the1 fires; all were boisterous and horridly profane, and seemed to engage in their work with such familiar and malignant satisfaction, that I concluded the business of thsiilling was as natural as hell, and must have originated there. I gathered from their talk that ihey were going toplay a trick upon the Deacon, that should cure him of offering rum and Bibles to bis workmen : and 1 soon lound out fiom their conversation and movements, what it was. They wire going to wi.te eel tain inscriptions on all his rum casks, thai should remain invisible untill they were sold by the Deacon, but should llame out. in characters, of fire, as soon as they were bioachi d by Ins retailers or exposed for the use of the drunkards. When they had filled a few casks with liquor one of them took a great coal of lire, and hav ing quenched it in a mixture of ruin and molasses, proceeded lo write, apparently by way of experiment, upon the heads of the different vessels. Just as it was dawn, they left oil" work and all vanished together. In the morning the Deacon was puzzled to know how the workmen got out of the distillery, which he found fast locked as ho had left it. Ho was still more amazed to find they had thine more work in one night, than could have been accomplished, in the ordinary way, in three weeks, lie pondered I lie thing not a 1 1 1 lie, and almost concluded that it was the work of supernatural agents. At any rate, they hail done so much that he thought he could afford to attend meeting llial day, as it was the L-ial)-bath. Accordingly he went to church, and heard his minister say that God could pardon sin without an atonement, lint the words hell ami devils were mere figures of speech, and tint all men would certainly be saved. He was much pleased, and inwardly resolved be would send his minister a hdf cask of wine, and as it h ippened to be communion Sabbath, ho attended meeting all day. Iu the evening the men came again, and again the Deacon locked them in lo themselves, and ihey went to work. They finished all his molasses, and filled all his rum barrels, and kegs and hogsheads, with liquor, and marked them all, as on the preceding night, with invisible insciiplions. Most of ihe titles lain thus: "Consumption sold here. Inquire at Deacon Giics1 Distillery.1' Convulsion and epilepsies. Inquire at Amos Giles, Distil lei. '' "Insanity and murder. Inquire at Deacon (ides' 1). sullen'." "Dropsy and rheumatism.''' "Putrid ferer and cholera in the collapse. Inquire at Deacon (ides1 IiEStilli'ry ." "Delirium Tnmeus. Inquire at Deacon (ides1 Distilleiy. Many of the casks had on them inscriptions like the following: Distilled death ami liquid damnation. The Klixcr of Hell for ihe bodies of those whose souls are coining there. Some of the demons had even taken sentences from the Scriptures, ami maikcd the hogsheads thus: "IVm hath noes? Inquire at Deacon Giles1 Distillery .' ' IFAo hath redness oj'eyesl Inquire at Deacon Giles1 Distillery."! Otheis had written sentences like the. following: !

"A potion from the lake of fire and brimstone. Inquire at Deacon Giles' Distillery!" All these inscriptions burned, when visible, "a still and aw ful red."' One of the most terrible in its appear. nice was as foil )'as; "Weeping and ;cailinr ad gnash

ing oj talk. Inquire at Deacon Giles' Distillery."" j In the morning the workmen vanished as before, just as it was dawn; but in the dusk of the evening they came again, and told the Deacon it was against their principles to take any wages for work done between Saturday night and Monday morning, and as they could not stay with him any longer, be was welcome to what they had dene. The Deacon was very urgent to have them remain, and offered to hire them for the season at an v wages, but thty would not. So he th anked them, and they went away, and he saw them no more. In the course of the week most of the casks w ere sent into the country, and duly hoisted on their stotips, in conspicuous situations, in the taverns and groceries, and rum-shops. But no sooner had the first glass been drawn from any of them, than the iupossessed a cask of the Deacon's devil-distilled lion or, to wonder and be alliighted at the spectacle. For no art could efface the inscriptions. And evt-n when the liquor wa.s drawn into a new casks, tin s ;;nc deadly letters broke out in bhie and red flame, all over tliO snifiee. 'I hi" rum-sellers, and grocOIS. and t-ivcm-keepers were "nil of ftiry. Thev loaded their teams Wi the acemseti lupior, nni (Siove it back to the dislinerv. All annnid and before the door of the Deacon's establishment the 'eturmd casks were iiiled one upon anoilier, and it seemed us if the inscriptions burned brighter than ever. Consumption. Damnation, Dentil, and I It'll, minrded together in , frightful confusion, and in eqiml iroii)inence. in evj cry case ll uned out the direction, Hqi;i..j: at Dk.vj cox (itits' Distillkrv." )ne would have thought that the bare s;ght would have been enough to terrify every drunkard from his cups, and every trader from the dreadful traffic in ardent spirits. Indeed, it had some effect for a time, but it w s not lasting, and the demons knew it would not he, when they played the trick; for ihey knew th" Do icon would continue to make rum, an I that as loeij as he continued to make it, there would be people to buy and drink it. And so il proved. The; Deacon had to turn a vasl quantify of liquor into the street, and burn up the hogsheads mid his (bs!i lory bets stneiied of brimstone ever since; but he would not give up the tnttle. He c u ries it on still, and everv time I see his advertisement, "In- .., ... it ; t:i i I ,i I 1 1, ,ii 1 . . . il ill 1,111111.111011,1.010 i.o ne; piopuimi. i i i ...i i . ... ..-....-.....- THK FAITHFUL MIMSTFR. While the heart of a minister ie" right with God, while he maintains constant communion with the Father of spirits, and can appeal to I Inn for the S!!'olieily of his intentions, while he lives by filth on the Son of (mkI, and reheson him implicitly for pardon, and grace, and strength he has within him a source of comfort which can never fad, and "has im-nt to cit that the world knows not of."1 Amid ah the discouragements which he has to encounter in the exe.cise of his otiiee, and amid till that uninenied reproach with which an unthinking and misjudging win Id so often h masses the servants of Jesus, lit; li is w ithin himself ;ui antidote to every trouble, a sanctuary to which he can always retreat, and when; he meets with peace, and comfuit, and joy. From the scene around he can lift his eve to a Father in heaven, who knows and loves him; and whatever misconstruction may be put upon his iloetiiue or his conduct, ho can look to htm and say,"1 Beheld, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.' This s nit sustains and enlivens him amid t lie unseen labors of ollice, cheers and gl iddens his studious hours, and sheds on all his engagements and pursuits the stiver of hie and immortal jov. It guides him in every inquiry, and often prevents him fn in being seduced from truth by tiie attractions of novelty or the charms of genius. When he ascends his place in the s incluaiy it imparls a serenity to his aspect, and cast a sacred unction over all his minis trations, wli.eh even the careless are compelled to laverenee, and by which the faithful are eddied and comforted. Amid these sad visitations with which the providence of his Master so often afflicts and proves him even in the hour when his dearest comforts tire removed, ami when the strongest attachments are dissolved and broken, be is cnal led in p itienee to possess bis soul, and experience a tranquility which the world can neither give nor take away. And when tin: hist lion r arrives thai hour in which the veil is taken from every mortal joy, and when every sublunary object stands forth iu its native character when the honors of science, and the attractions of fame, and ihe charms of wealth shrink to insignificance, and seem hastening to oblivion it is then that the pious and futhful servant of Jesus experiences the full anil final value of that better part which he has chosen. lb looks h ick on a life devoted to the service of his (bid ami S iv ioiir, forward to an eternity of holiness and joy. Beatific visions burst upon his soul, while the voice of his Master seems to fall on his enraptured ear, ''Well done, thou good and faithful servant ; enter thou into Ihe joy of thy Lord.11 "Allien!1" is the reply thai hangs upon Hie lust puh-o of Ins heart "A men 1 even so come, Lord Jesus.11 "Mirk the per foci man, and behold the upright, for the latter end of that man is peace. 11 John-tons Sermons. More Illoodshcd. in Cleorgift. The Washington (lobe of Feb. l'Jth, siys: We understand that inform a I ion has reached ihe War Department, stating that several rencounters have taken place between the citizens of (ieoigia and parties of Creek Indians who h ive crossed from Alabama into that stale, and committed many deprcd itious. Persons have been killed .and wounded on both sides, and the inhabitants seem much alarmed at the conduct and threats of the Indians, and have c dled upon the (ov'criiorof (leorgia for a militia force to protect them and the (iovernor has requested the interpos'.ion of the President lo relieve the citizens of (icorgi.i from this stale of things. Chinese Printing. It is a curious fact, lb-1 I" "'" ling in China remains now just as it was originally invented there. No advancement vh a'Vr has been nude in thr art. Kngraving n nlocus ol wood vvs known and practised in (Viina prior to ihe invention of printing iu ( .'ei i-mov, but. movable types have never yet been ii (todiiced or substituted for their wooden blocks. .Science and the aits seem to remain s.'.il ioiitny in the celestial empire, and it is the peculiar characteristic, of ibis people to forego all innovations anil continue iu the same path they trod centuries ago.

rglO SIXGERS. A new Music Hook, stereotyped in palda. "tit notes, arranged and composed by Lowell ?.Iason of B-w'om ; and lv Timothy I?. Masua, Profes-or in the Eclectic ., :i,innV l M . , (;,.-:, man. MAMl.NS' s.-U'UE.I) HARP Is adapted lo the warns of all rlfiiiMiiiiiaiinn. The arieiy of metier is mu' h greater than in any O'her eulieelion of music. Hut verv few hvinns are contained in the hymn books of tne eiffereut denominations of christians, for whicn a tone may not he found in the Saried Harp.

I It contains a real variety of very heautiful Psalm and Hymn .tones; a collection of interesting Anthems, Set Pieces, Sacred Song-, Sentences and Chants, which are short, easy of perforniS ance without instrumental aid, appropriate to the various occa- ' sions of ehristiau worship, the wants of JMting Schools, .MusiJ cal Soc ietics, and pleasing and useful to singers, for their own private piaclice n tot impiovement. Tiie 1 1. o p contains much valuable music, which has heen diawn fiom ihe highest souices of musical tasie and science in Kurope, e-pi cially in Cern.auy. It al-o abounds with the suh'nne and l-auulul arrangements and compositions of die Masons, of which the following are specimens, viz. Missionary llynin, jvge 13. lliste, O Sinner, O! praise (ni l in his li . mess, -J J l. Watclnnan! tell us of the night, lsS. lnvenn ss, )",. Norwich, 1 1'J. ( '01 inth, a", felnnn and Ward, b). t'xhri.lge , 43. Epphig, tlj. f'aidow, 133. S.ibhath. I-t. Oaiey'Jti. Maddam, 1 U. Sa.rdis, 1 bX -Rowley, 1C. (Vip''.aut, . Oliver, I IT. Hrown, 174, &c. Frain Vie SI. Louis Observer. W c Tare examined the Sacred Harp with care, and do not I'.esit lie lo give the style an I harmony t:f the tunes our unqualified appiohation. The music combines in an erai.icnt degree, iluu cin.-leness, siinpliciiy ami facilily- of express. on; "Inch ounht (,ir to characti'i ize devoiional tunes. 'Ihe pieces aie in extp i ne b innouy and taste. eie we to name all the tunes of pre-eminent excellence, we should select a large piopoitiou of all contained m tin; volume. It is just ihe kind of music which, it seems to us, the angels would lore to sing. We are confident thai the Harp needs only lo be known, to be iurro iuced at once into vnircrsal fav or. fvt Uir Standard, lint ten by Prufcssnr .V.7?.t, Prnidmt of Vic MnHnd Sm-h-ty in Smtk Hanover Vutlegg, Indiana- ; The stvle .f music contained in ihe Sacred Harp; r? chasie. sublime ami beautiful. Tin; hai mimics tlirout;liout an in f! e hiLi' est s:ylc of scit-iititic n. curacv an-i sol. W ate coi.Ijdent that tii name of Mason will secure for it the wide ciicualI'.en it deserves. From t':r. Cini innali Journal. The 'Sarrcil Harp lias been . ci y m".!i neeilf d. The senior fititor, I'lofe-sor LoacII Ma-un, of tin' Bo-tou Academy of Musi,., Innj b.'i-n c-u-. uici, doth in Europe ami America, on.- ol" tilt alilest in.isici.ius ol ll.e ae. lie bus bi en for nianv ve il-, pn'si Vm of tnc P.o-e n llau'lel aid Ilavhi Sucit'ly; is author of "Handel and Ibivdu Cnl'.ci linn of Church Miific;' a work, 'aid tlie London I lanuoniciu, seveial years since, 'which is not suip.i-ied by any publication of the kind in tin world ; it is highly honoiabhi to Aini-iiean talent, and sho'A s clt-atly, the ia,nd progress of Americans, in musical science.' Me has since uiiauiu'd H'hoial I lai uiouy,1 a collection of Anthems, fcc. published by ihe Ilaiulel and Haydn Society: 'Hosiou I 'oliecuon of Anthems,' published by the Handel and Hay In Society: 'Lvia acra,' a I 'oliecuon of original selected Anthems, Chants, &c. Tin' Choir, ot Union Colleenon of Sacred .Music,' and scleral other valuable musical iwuks. Iofe.-snr T. H. Mason, of ihe Lclectic Academy of music, Ciucincaii, is a very able musician. We are familiar with ail Mason's uiuical productions, hat e carefully examined every n'l .) i i if l.in tSu I I I .1 t . i it- i li-lt l I in .lu! ..rrt iir-tlflu ami d 1 I.I i . ,hik j, , U),, ,ll(.h n c,Uaius ih. cr-am of all the other works. It may be juMly entitled ih beaitt(s f music? It contains a (ileal uumlier of pie iposed by M isoe., of i a; most unrouaie i exeeaeuce. i he Anthems anil Sel 1 leces i a' e rcru hcanixt id. 1 no music u the tiara is nei 1 eauidid, of a style -' ' il n. in, melodious and tasielut in its eerfecilv sirniile and ir.tellp'uile, so as rcararti rto be easii v fuu. From the Pitt.ihu.-g Christian Herald. The Sarfil Harp will pro.e a highly useful woik. It tindoubiedty forms tiie best manual I r I huich music eter issued hum the iucss. It has been piepare.l expressly for the west a. it! s ..'.!!'', an I should be pn-srts;e,i by every individual w ;, de-ires, the piojr o m.ific in our country. Extracts from :m'irts of Jlas'iii's musirul irorks. 1 he I lanuoiuean, published at Loii'ton, Lowland, savs of Mason's II. & 11. Col., 'It is or e of ihe most complete collections ot Psalmody ever published. The tunes are well arranged, the h ninoiiies are faultless, and the devotional character of both words and music has been attended to most siret'y.' I inn iho Christian Spectator. The lone? have been prepared witn coiisiant reli n nee to tie t;rand object of Sacred .Music, the excitement of devotional icehng. It :s emphatically, 'religious harmony.' 1" mill the .Missionary Herald. The current testimony of Son. I judges, is that the melodies are singularly judicious ami complete. From tae Christian Aden -ale. We corg'-atulate the public on itit! appr.irance of music ananged and h 'unionized with aeci i,i y. judgment, and elegance. We hope :t may become the si in. laid ol Sacred Music. I'ioiii the Hudson (( l.iio) Olis.. i er. The authors of the Sacred 11. up are well knovt u as ouisieal composer? of hiedi merit, whose sonys of praise are heard in all ihe churches. Mason's vniious Collections of Psalm and llyino luups, Anthem, Chi ruses, Jvc. have all been pie-emiru u'.lv popular and us- ful, In ihe estimation of men of science anil taste, both in Iv.irofe and America. The Harp is the author's last production, mi l II contains the "beauties' of all the former pub licatiuns. Teach t'.n s of siNa.ivr:, ci.Kr.nviiF.x, and others, who are desirous of impiot ini; Sacred Mi-isic, can employ no means so effectual, as the circulation ol this admirable collection. (gjr .Mason's Sacred Harp is stereotyped, and can be furiisied to o.dei, iu any tpiautit ies, by 'Pit u mas & Smith, publisher-, and bookseileis, l.")IJ .Main Street, Cincinnati. Also lor sale by the principal PuioUsellers tlnoue.hout the I "ii i lo I Stales. Sold hy (ieore Hollou, Si. Louis, Missouri; the llonl-scllers at Pillsbui-h ; Fisher & Co., Wheeling; A. P. Skillm in, Le.iugi,m ; Wilcox it Ihckeriuan, ami James Uice, Louist riie. Ft bruarv 11, IH,'1.". ACKNTS VOll Till. STAN PAUL). 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