’ PIOWS-._HALL~s"«1>.e...i..... Plows’ . ,‘E‘_l.—1).i_J’—r.--_l3y'r—’th'é”lT)7aTd_c>i-" i."-.‘..“.:.1...,.._,,, .. I-'7 ' «gr ..»\/xtx/\r\z\/\/\/‘ ’ ‘W/\ ’\.*'\/‘\/\/\/-\/\/~.-'\r\./\/\/\/\./N/x/\/\_/\/\.'\./\/\ ’\/\4‘\/\ SERIES. NUMBER 393-—NEW Published Oliver-iy —Wedne.sday Morning, VV,ill doubtless be referred to in coming time as a year of -,UNUSU’AL BUSINESS ACTIVITY IN NORWALK, But more partieulai°ly at the NEW‘ Esrasms Mam- '.A.'E_ THE OLD STAND GI‘ BLAEKMAN &BETTS, fviAlN ST. \V I-IICH has already become so‘ no noted for REAL 1.\'oucE.ui:.\"rs proffered to, and ac- cepted by its nmiierous custoiners. It is with feelings akin to pride, but with more of gratitude, that the subscriber here ten- ders his thanks t:o those friends who have helped to sustain him in this enterprise, by their ‘lib- eral’ patornage and good will—(in the abscence of the first, the latter goes far.) for the short time he has been a candidate for their favors, modestly continuing his solicitations for their liberality in the future. It is perhaps a misfortune that this stand has not the advantages (I) of one of the many high sounding cognomons so much in vogue—“Heud Quarters,” &.c. yet “what virture is there in a name.” “'0 must needs be content with seeking a reputation for character. integrity, true merit, by which we ‘expect to stand or fall ; be judged by the people. New Spring "Goods are being almost weekly added to the already large stock on hand, so that purchasers may rely .upon finding atfair prices, nearly every thing t:o satisfy their wants in the line of DRY GOODS at waunis. April 1st, 18-17. For specifications of Goods see inside ucl-I:c2'l2'se7ncnts. For N ew York l - _ . TIIE sloop JULIA has coni- . ., mcnced her regular trips and will leave the Landing at Five Dllilcg River on Tuesday evening, 30t io iVIai"ch, and New York Ion §liitl.ll‘((iliIya t\P&‘llq’~’<g. and will continue to sai on ues ays an ._a - urdays of the season.‘ Freight and produce will be conveyed as usual on the most farorablc terms. For freight or passage apply to the captain on «board or at the store on the landing. \V. C. SAHMIS. Five Mile River, March 29th, 1847. For New York. REGULAR TRIPS FOR THE SEASON. ’TIIE Sloop MARY VVILLIS, Capt. \Villis J. Merritt, hav- ing commenced her regular trips ., for the Season, will leave Norwalk, East side the Bridge. every Tuesday Evening. and New York every Saturday. Any one having business with the Packet Office during the absence of the vessel, may apply at the Cabinet Shop of \Vaterbury & Quintard, on the Dock. \VILLIS J. MERRITT. Norwalk, l\’Iu.rch 29. 1847. " Sel1eck’s Line. \Vcst side he Bridge. .. , THE Sloop Mary . > _ A. Selleck,Capt.Gru- man, will commence ' V '‘T‘’'’ "’ her \Ve'ekly Trips for '1 . - New York on Tuesday the 16th of March, and the Domestic, Capt. Merrill, on the Saturday following N. SELLECK. ‘ Norwal_k, March 9. 1847. NEVV ci:ocru3nY. AT PECK’S BRANCII STORE. JUST Received a large and splendid assort- ment which will be sold cheap for Cash. Oct. 13. 1846. Wanleil Immediately , 5 More Shirt Hands. The highest 2 prices in CASH or trade will be paid on delivery of the work at i f . ~ A M. \V.»\Ki;M.iiv’s In the store formerly occupied by J. A. “feed. Norwulk. SPRING ARlIANGE1lIl3N'l‘, Co-mmencing Salurduy, .March 6th, 1847. roar CHESTER, ROCKY NECK, ,4 TAIVIF 01:!) AND NOR WALK. 13 ‘The New and Splendid Steamboat CATALINE, Capt. Curtis Peck, Jr. ’\Vill leave New York from the Pier east side Catharine Market Slip, as above every after- noon, at two o’clock, Sundays excepted. Re- turning will leave Norwalk at seven o'clo3k, Stamford at 8, Rocky Neck at half past 8, and Port Chester at qu.arter before 9. Stages will be in readiness at the Landing to convey passengers to \Vestport, South port, Fair- field, Bridgeport, Danbury, Ridgefield, New- Canaan and \Vilton. [f’All' persons are forbid trusting any indi- vidual on account of this. boat. or her owners. “New York, March cm, 134 7. and Castings for sale by L S. E. OLMS'l‘EAD' » Kill Ghfoes. A. fresh supply of those superior Kid Gloves rec'd, at W ARD’S. ' Alpaca. OTTON Wai'p Alpaca, from 28 to 62 cts. - ' pr. yd. Silk warp do. from 50 cts. to $100 at “ BISSELL & MOODY. . " Garden Seed. subscriber "has on hand a large quantity ' of fresh Garden Seeds, comprising assort- ments from all -the Seed Gardens in this part of ;.the country,_and warranted to bethe growth of last year. ' J. A. WEED. BLACIK IYIITIPS COAL at the ¢.§tcam Boat Landing SOUTH NORKVALK. , L. &. J. R. PECK will be discharging . this week a cargo of Superior Black- sinitli’s Coal; those in want of the above Coal will do well to call and examine the same. Ncur Goods. YE HE subscriber has just received large addi- tional supplies of HARD\VARE, CUT- LERY, HOLLOVV-VVARE, GUNS, IRON AND STEEL. FALMER’S UTENSILS, PAINTS, OILS. VVINDOXV-GLASS, &C. which are ofl‘ered.either wholesale or retail at the lowest New York prices. - \V. C. S'raI-:i-:'r.- Norwalk, March 30, 1847. Dry Goods ! V HE subscriber hasjust returiicd from New - York with an. ei.tii'e new stock ofseason- able goods suitable for the Spring trade, em- bracing as complete and desirable assortment as ever brought into Fairfield County. I am receiving daily from my agent in N. Y. the most desirable goods in the iiiarket, bought at auction and oflhe iniporters, which will be ‘sold on the most favorable terms for cash. for yourselves. VVM. J. FINCH. \Vestp_o:t: March 29th, 1847. Byers Pills. TII’E AMERICAN IMPROVED flygciun Vegetable Medicine. THESE Pills are one of the best Medical Coin- pouiids in use at the present day. As a_ common fainily pliysic, for adininistraton in all teniporarv complaints of the stomacli and bowels, head-ache. colds, &c. they may be fully depended upon, and a prompt use oftliein on the first appearaiice of indis- positioii will invariably save much sickness. Thev are peculiarly adapted to all cases inf weakness and general debility—auy dcraugeineut of the system, and e<pecial|y with feinalcs—and ii steady. uninter- rupted use of them, in strict conformity with the di- rections will very soon restore the organs of the stomach to their natural tone and action, and regu- late the bowols,anrl renovate the whole system There is no disposiitonto give extravagant com- mendatioiis of them. \Vhat is here stated, is the re- sult ofactual experience with them, and that through in period offiflcen years. It is not suppose'd.m-pre. te-nded,tliat they will raise the dead! neither are they designed to be Iised as we use our food! Such is not the true purpose of medicine. Its only op- propriate office is to assist nature in restoring the system to a proper tone and action, when unavoid- ably, or through carelessness or excess, it becomes d_erunged. Many are careless and hence need this aid. And the most careful areliable to irregularities ofihe system It is needless almost to say, that a prompt use of safe and effective remedies, on the first appearance of illness, is the part of wisdom. Such a Medicine the Proprietor knows these Pills to lie. And he is certain that in lortv nine ca. ses out offifty, where a fair trial is niadeacbordiiig to the direclions,they will be used again as a standard medicine. He has never known an instance, when, they have been thus used, in which they have no: met with unqualified approval! Numerous testimonials may be seen at the general Ofiire of sale, and references will be given to sub- stantialliving witnesses of their valuable curative properties. The Pills are purely vegetable, are of two kinds. stimulant and purgative, purifying the blood, and producjiiga healthy action through the entire sys- tem; are a valuable Anti Billious Medicine, and emineiilly useful in all lingering complaints—VVeuk- ness, General Debility, Dyspepsy. Pulmonary Af. factions, Liver Complaints, -Rheumatic and Spas- modic Affections. Female Coinplaints, Palpitations. Nofumz'l_1/, after a fair trial, will bewithoutthem. They are putup in FIFTY CENT & DOLLAR packages, each having a phamphlet embracing a valuable Treatise on Disease, with full directions for use. The Dollar packages are the cheapest to the purcliaser‘. , As you value l[ealth—Try Them! Sold Wholesale and Retail at No. 140 Fulton street, 2d floor, N. York, between Nassau and Broadway, N. Y. » . From a personal knowledge of, and use oftlie above Medicine in my fa.mily.for about 15 years I can commend it in the most unqualified mm" |'- P. PRICE. Sold by NOAH S. BAILEY, west side the Bridge. N0|'W«'|lk,: B. J. Daskam, Stamford, and J. Beach, VVall st. Bridgeport. 4 Please call and judge N N -, INGllAlIIS.+S_ome choice. styles of Scotch and French Ginhains are now of- fered to the Ladies of .Norwalk, also a beautiful article of Ginghams at 12 ’1-2 cts. the yd, 1 yard OLMS'_I‘ A_D—’_S. wide, by J. MALLORY 66 co. _. .:--, \/\_/\.I\/\/\/\./\/'\.. NORWALK,’ er. WEDNES‘DAY,'MAY~ 26, 1847. /\/\J\ POETRY- From the Chroutype. KEEP AT VVORK. Does a mountain on you frown ? ' Keep at work : G You may undermine it yet; Ifyou stand and thump _its base, Sorry bruises you may get. Keep at work. Does Miss Fortune's face look sour? Keep at work: She may smile again some day; ‘If you pull your hair and fret, Rest assured she'll have her way. Keep at work. Are you censured by your friends '1 Keep at work: \Vhether they are wrong or right, Hay be you must ’bide your time, If for victory you fight. Keep at work. If the Devil growls at you, Keep at work : That’s the best way to resist; If you hold an argument, . You may feel his iron fist. Keep at work. Are your talents vilified? -Keep at work; Greater men than you are hated ; If you’re right, then go ahead- Grit. will be appreciated. Keep at work. Everything is done by Labor : Keep at work. If you would improve your station : They have help from Providence \Vho,work out their own salvation. Keep at work. «i\t1seELLZ-CIiYT"’ ADDRESS Before the Board Fore igin lllissioias. The following isa sketch reported by the N. Y. Tribune, of an eloquent, and able ad- dress delivered before the Board of Foreign Missions atits Anniversary in the city of N. Y. on Friday the 14th, by Rev. H€II7‘]/ IV. Beecher, of Indianopolis, Iii. For vigor ofthought,terse- ness oflunguage, and forcible eloquence, it is said, (and we should think very safely too,) not to have been surpassed by any of the exercises ofanniversary week. \Ve take the llberty to copy the report and commend it to the attention of our readers. Isuppose that the ability of the Mis- sionary Society to effect its work depends to a very great extent on the operations and feeling of the Church and community at home. And \\’l]8l'8Vel‘ open or latent difficulties exist, the acceleration of that work requires that they should be renew- ed. I am apprehensive that difficulties have existed in a great many minds, and that thoughts have been clierised or per- m_i'ted waich haveled them to stand neu- tral with regard to it. In respect to this enterprise and to all religious enterprises,‘ there are two distinct classes of..persons. One class have such fu_ll and thorough faith in the declaration of the Bible that ivithoutza question they yield to every one of its precepts and dictates. They have no hesitation and no reserve. The other class depend on their understanding for guidance; they require to be convinced of the truth of all that comes before them, and cannot act on anything less than such a conviction. These men are, not valuable. VVhen their understandings are gained, their earnestness and force is commensu- rate to the magnitude and importance of the truth to le defended or lived out. When once they are jenlisted they are irresistible, for they do not move in vain. New among such_ men this question has often arisen with respect to the Missiona- ry enterprize. Is this work of Evangeliz- ing the world a divine work’! Is it the work which God now lays upon his ser- vants and which His providence never ceases to care for’! If so how shall we explain the vast hiatus between the in- junction and the time of its accomplish- met’! It is now 1800 years since God ex- piated the lives of man and ever since that. time there has been hanging over the world the commandment, “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.” And in the hands of the Apos- tles this injunction seemed to be obeyed. Amid and against all oppositioii they dis- charged their mission Before them old superstitions and institutions quaked and disappbared, men were stirred up tea new life, and the Gospel was borne abroad ra- diant and creative as the Summer air and light. But since then we see not these things, it is said. There is no longer that power and spirit and victorious energy, and the Church and her glory droops' as droops the declining sun. How is this’! ‘How is it that her might has departed’! How happens it that her servants now go like snails when before they seemed to go like lions’! 'Does God forget his promise, or is it that the Gospel‘is periodical in its efforts’! Has this longvlapse of time been only the time of waiting for‘ another flood ofthe tide? Has it been sleeping for these centuries and centuries once again to wake to new and Wider conquests, or its efficacy departed to leave it languish- ing? Has the past been a barren desert, fruitless and ever .to be fruitless, marked only by man's depravity and still destined to be so ; or are there marks of divinity in the history and progress of Christianity 8 which show that God has not left earth out of his keeping and will not let” it’! These are solemn questions. I know their difficulties. 1. have struggled with them myself, I have sought through their mazes with doubt and anxiety. But I believe there is an answer, and an answer which can leave’ neither anxiety, nor doubt." This answer I shall now en- i deavor ciirsorily and imperfuctly to give.. I shall seek to show that since the first dawn of tlie Christian dispensation tl.eE Gospel of Christ has not sluniberedintbe world, but has steadily" advanced toward its true supremacy, and is still so advan-_ cing. I shall aim also to t«lI0\V that the" times of the Apostles were not so wholly unlike the present in the povi er and effica-’ cy of Divine Truth as is generally sup-l posed. ' First. I will remark that when the Gos-' pel of Christ \va"s in its first period, when, Christianity was first set forth to the world it had a work to perform vihich scarcely, enters into the perception of most men.; That work was much more extensive than: the exercise of an immodiate influence; upon individuals. "The business of the’ Gospel was not only to convert men but. to convert the world so that all men’s laws, customs, governments, practices, institu- tions, social fabrics, should be transform- ed according tc its principles. W'lia'tevei'~ men had made was to be baptized into the, new splrlt; not only were men to be, transformed themselves as individuals, but- the whole structure of society and tliel whole current of thought was to be trans- formed. Such was the work of ilie Gus pel; a work not to be done in a day or an hour, but reacliing through ages. But because in its very nature it was and is a gradual, a progressive work, man fail to see it going forward at all times and all points. They lodk for it. to burst forth at once as if nounday could burst forth upon the dawn. Because it is not so active be- fore thcir eyes as to compel them to be- held it, they suppose at periods it is hardly active if active at all. Because it is like the leavcn put into three measures of meal, working persuasivly yet surely, they think it is asleep. But go and put the leaven into the three measures of meal, and you will not see a ,spontaneous combustion. So is the progress ofilie Kingdom of God. ‘lt was declared by him who certainly ought to know the genius of his own insti- tution to be like leaven. Let us then look at the preparations for the introduction of Christianity", and glance at the action of: this leaven of humanity. What was the condition of the world when Christ came into it’! The liumtin. in existence upon its bosom. In so long- a growth they had advanced from the lowest and rudcst forms of life to some- thing better. For this period their pro- gress, interrupted as at times it may seem to have been, was steadily upward. Little by little they had been developed. At the time of Christ they stood where the pro- gress of four thousand years had brouglit them. Savage habits were laid aside; ——from a feeble creature man gained 'sticngtli; unarmed before, he had nor.- arined himself with the implements of iii- dustry; from destitution he had created the means of physical comfort and of an outward life which might be called liuman.- All this had been done in four thousand years, and men uiere prepared for the Re- deemer! The fullness of time had conic. Suppose the Gospel had been sent out in- to the world at any early period of its liis- tory, ilo you think it could have been le- ceived and have taken root’! _\Vhat notion of men was prepared for it ’! Do you doubt thisl. IVell, let us have an illustration. Go into any dissipated village, or into the. worst part of this city, and select one from its inhabitants. Set before him the truth of the Gospel; convince him of it; convert him; let his heart be awakened to the utmost ‘ofits feeble capacity to re- ligious impulses———but leave him in that community. Let all the radically cor- rupting influences which had before work- ed upoii him continue to act. It may be that he will stand, but if he should, it would be a wonder such as no traveler ever saw. Men cannot be converted alone. The gospel of Christ, to have its true ef- .fect, must work on numbers together; it lmust influence society, in which each dis- 'ciple can strengthen and carry forward the other. . IfGod,in this mattcr,\vorl.'s by miracles, it would have been easy for him to obvi- ,=ate all necessity of this long march of pre- ,paratory progress. He might have made man in their mature condition at the very first stage of their existence. - But he acts .not by miracles, but by natural causes. lBy the universal law of Nature, from which nothing in this world is exempt, to which nothing forms an exception. The change of the whole world, by means of the gospel, is a work of time. If any one still doubts this I should like to have him go down to the most debauched neighborhood of New York.. Let him find there a boy, say of sixteen years old, one born in iniquity and brought up in at- ter’evil andidebasement, trained to vice ‘till it has become a second nature. Let us suppose our doubter to be the head of a family of standing and wealth. Let him take this boy and wash him and clothe him. Let him take him to his home and make him, to all appearance, one of the circle of that house, and let the boy prom- ise to forsake his habits, and say “I will be your son.” is the boy changed by this ? ls he not still under the influence of the habits he has acquired! Does he not still need to be taught religion, veracity, deli- cacy, propriety! Must not.“ the whole sphere of his life be changed’! And Eaii his, friend bring about such _a change by giving him a lecture at nine o'clock at night? Would notthe man look more "and bring him into a adv state, where ‘to shove forward his progress, what time ‘may seem to do nothing, but the fact is the ,ilzaLion and Clli‘ISll8Illt_V. family had been for four thousand years i‘ by’JAllI‘ES REED, at Two'l)oIl:nis.Pc:' Aunuiin in Advance. /\/\ /\/\./\r\r'\/ \./ y/'\ /\r‘\.*\ - \ »\'/ \_/~.r\/ ..rx_«‘-_/\/\.f\./~_/N/\/\/\ '\/\/\/-,,r\,‘4~/\./\z\_, \,-\,\,\ A .\,\,.\,\,.\,.\,\I. AAA, VOLUME 30—1\lU1\lBER 21.‘ wisely for such a change to -appear after years of care’! lf he can scbur out the sewers of his mind by the time he is 21, would he not have reason to bless God that the work was done quicklyl And if it would be so difficult to take such a boy there is nothing to binder, and everything must be required for the change, not of a boy, but of the world ’! Such was the mission which Christ gave the Gospel. He put the leaven into the measure; let us ivat for it to have time to work. Sometimes destruction is the truest part of reform: Tliere are old buildings which may be amended, which can be made new by alterations and additions. But thire are other structures so old, so badly made, so moiildy, so full of vermin, that all at- tempts to repair them are worse tliau-use- less. They are so bad that the only way of reforming them is to pull them down, to sweep away their foundations and then we may put tlre,_i_ij stories into the new and shining temple "of God. But they only camber tli-- earth as they are. You might as well go.ancl preach the Gospel to the front face of Astoi-’s Hotel with the expec- tation ihat it will drop tears of penitence, as expect that the world will or can be- come a Christian world at one:-. You. may bombard it and bombard it, and your as- saults may seem to have no effect. . You may think you are niaking no headway. But the Gospel .is li e a river ecldying round the sharp edge of a bluff rock. lt other way. Tlieugh the waters gurgle like music on the surface, and play peace- fully with the jutting crags, still they are working under and under, and soon stone by stone that solid mass shall be driven out ofplace. So in the Providence of God, the work oftlie Gospel has been done and is in its way yet to be done. For eighteen hun- dred years Europe has been rolling back- ward and rolling f()l.t".1l’(.l -like the waves, but only to carry out the purposes of civ- I remember in College a man who got Mo_slicim’s histo- ry of the Church and saw in it what Chris- tendom had gone through, tl e wars, the persecution, the crimes. ‘Said lie, “I am a Cliristian no longer.” But suppose a man should go into afield ofwheat waving in the sunlight, with the golden lern ls- full of the promise of good to man. Sup- pose heshould wish to follow the process by which -they are converted into food. He beliolds the fields reaped, he sees the grain put into sacks, and at ,,last. turned into the hopper of the mill. At last, to his great sorrow, it comes forth a white powder, vvh-ich has neither beauty nor "fla- vor: it seems to him good for nothing; it is:uot what he wants. So some men look upon the forms and elements of societv and the changes they snlTer. To them it is a question how those changes are to be taken. But they are the increlattrition which prepares for bet- ter things,just as in the waters of a lzrook the pebbles are rolled hither and thither. and are made smooth. VVar. pestilence, famine, may be agents of God,‘ terrible though they are. They are attriiions which the world must undergo; the de- structive forces whicl. sweep away what is too rotten to be reformed. Althou,r_rh men speak ofpolitical changes and social rev.o lutions, do you suppose God does not know what they portend and lead to? The natural mind may be slow to perceive it, but through change, darkness and desola- tion they lead to peace, to joy, to Christi- oiillyr, triumphant through the world. If we come down to our own times and propose the question, Has the -time fol‘ evangelizing the world ». arrived» 3m] W “hat extent has that taken place? we _\v a v . must look well for the answer. When the Apostles began to preach the Gospel the world was much in superstition andl in paganism, and all the influences of heatlienism. But ahundred years after-= ward see what advances ha_ve been made in the arts, in knowledge, in civilization,; among the disciples ofChristianit_v. VVliat, nnion, what. moral po\ver—so that ‘even, the hardened heathen look on in admira-Z tion. Christ is seen no longer, the, cross, is empty, but he is beheld in the world, he: is manifested in the new growth of‘ man. And new when the Go<pel has been .- preached 1800 years, cast your eyes upon, the world and see where humanity is‘ most rich and povverful. Is it not In Christendom’! Where has been the noon -of art and where are civil order and social institutions most beneficefi? And whence comes this power of commerce, and these stores of knowledge! VVhence are these fleets whose sails vvliiten the seas’! What influence has given to Europe these arts and ingentions! Whenre come these schools and these monuments of benevo- lene’e’! In Christian hands Progress is accelerated more than can be told. And now what is the attitude of Chris- tianity in our day’! Vllbicli way do the times face’! To me theyseem as though they were going up to Jerusalem. Ibelieve that they are in their degree doing Heav- en’s work on Earth. But what have , we done’! Why, Sir, we have raised al_mo_st every question which can be -raised In civilized society. Nothing that relates!“ the rights of man, to liberty, to 50613! forms and duties. but has been called up for discussion. Man_v.of these ‘are per- plexing questions doubtless, but it IS nec- essaryithat they should be settled before the gospel can get full swing at m;m.— . 000 may be recovered on the There must be a, downfall of all that is opposed to the gospel, no matter what it 113% . -_. . is. Governments,‘communities, customs must come up to that standard; Good re- quires this. Establislied errors must be removed, and by-and-by the mind will begin to see Truth in all its lustre, with- out lens or distracting medium. , ’l'liere is some alarm abroad at this uni- versal inquiry and agitation, but for one I bless God for it. It is said that the Church and,societ.y were never so much disturbed. The community is divided; all kinds of sects are springing up; new thoughts, new theories, new-fangled notions of every kind are as abundant "as leaves in the Spring. What. will be the end of all this’! I think there-is no danger. Thereis one" thing in the character of all the constant eruptions of the New Movement which to my mind removes all four. It points di- rectly to the good of humanity. It has no other object; or pretence. VVas any thing like this everknown before’! Does any history record a period when every new theory was in favor of the improve- ment of the human family’! \Vhy, we can’! find an Infidel who isn’t obliged to take this gi'oLiiiLl. VYhy, this is the very spirit of the Bible and of Christ! we condemn the age in‘ which that spirit is so universal! For a long time it was not known what to preach. fAt last that has been found out, and the Christianity of to day has begun to teach the rights of man, and that the improvement of man is the aim of all action. Shall we fear the results of such an epoch? No sirl A31 is right, if there are agitations and distur- b:i.ur:es. These gtl.-ings pass away, but Wlll‘. God, who woiiks on a pattern which no man l~illO\\’S, they do not [ass in vain. The Gospel is getting ready to accom- plish its -.vor'*<. I hope your faith is strong. You might as well stand on the banks of the Mississippi and be afraid it was going to run up stream as suppose the current of Cliristciiclom can more than one _ Virlllll. would think of a man who Sl10’.'.lLl stand ruoonstrucl: over an ed- dy and because that didn't go right for- ward, declare lhat the whole flood had got its course’! So in the stream of time. The things that appear in our day all have a bearing on the crowning triumph of the Gospel and the reign of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. That triumph is sure to happen. In ten years, in fifty years, the fl00d_,Wlll have borne us far on toward it. lt is no longer a question VVhether, but simply l.Vhen, it will come. II-re send mis;.~ion:1ries with the Bible to the tiller- most part of the earth and a vast echo replies to the voice of the Gospel which they carry forth. Now all things preach the truth QfGod. Society pceacbes, the Cliiircli preaches, schools preach, and so- cial institutions are called to stand up as embodiments of Christianity. God is making up nuture_a_new.on_ the model of religion. All the eleineiit-s of society and of the church must now" be the elements of practical -Cliristiariity. You go with whole lands beliind.yoii.to support your work. \Ne may seem to strike puny b.'ows, but a higher hand than ours directs them‘. And when tliework is done all the nations will be Cliristian nations. Vlfhen it begins toappreach its end it will go fast. It is a universal law that things move slowly at the beginning. (.-Iod’s Revelation needed to take a great while to commence its operations But that seems to be over. Changes of great magnitude are gone through with great rapidity, such as was never irnagiaed liefore. \Ve have come to the day in which a nation may be shifted offihe ground of selfishness into the ground of humanity in twenty-five or thirty years. I may not live to see the day, and there are many laborers in the field who will not‘ live tosee it, who need none of my com- passion. , You, Mr. President, on whose forehead honorable gray hairs denote that a good pait of your work is done, may not live to see it. the consumalion or not,-we know that our Red‘cemer livetli; we know that Christ haili tasted the. first fruits, and that hav- ing met the enemy he will not. stop from following up his victory. Whether we see it on earth or not is quite immaterial: we shall see it, and “that is enough and more. To this work every young man and every Christian heart should be baptized. Ye parents who bring up your children to love dress, to delight in empty (rifles, to seek pleasure in worldly cnjoyments, do ye remember the great day of the Lord. God ’! And are you entirely ignorant what is the true path to lionor'! To VVORK. Tliat’s honorable, that’s to live as the pat- tern of Christ. 0' give yourselves, soul and body, to this object. Remember it. is only thus that God can be served. You will find peace onlyjin obedience to the maxim “liive not for yourselves but for otliers.” And it is only as this maxim is put into action that Christ can breathe his spirit on his U_niverSal Cllllrcll. Dreadful C’rz'mes.——Mrs.. F-airweatber, a woman of much beauty, and formerly a member of the M. E. Church who ab- seonded from her husband, a member of the same church, and her two children, in Bridgeport, was found by the distressed husband in a house in the lower part. of Hudson st. N. Y. in the arms of a male friend. The N. Y. Express says the eclaiicisemeiit was lieart-reading, that a divorce will follow. l’i‘’'‘£’l‘‘ ) , £55?‘ ' .' A book keeper of the l\’Ierelian‘,ts,.’.-Bal,il‘K-,', Eng Association has permitted ';:_an._,..,:o_¥'g:i draft of $38,000 by :1 Street Brokeg. .—, boolckeeper, This, says the Alb‘ willprevent n disidend. ,,,,,,,,‘ Shall “ But wlietlier we behold ' mi
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