Star.
London, England, 1829-06-25 00:00:00

GAELIC SERMON.

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on Sunday lese.
At the Loctioth web.
bir..Campbelt. of Bow, Dorothea tonthire. preached*
sermon, aticb, for nearly two "sours. rivetted the anew.
tion of all
deittond it. The ground wok was the celebrated pas.
consideruhle Dandier) whit bend and sse.
sage—iiCha'n'uribh Bibb 'serbhaiis dbianisith do dhe
=banter." (Ye cannot serve two masters).
1 he Preache* intimated that be bad chosen the pas.
sag' as the most appropriate for the single discoar.
*lnch he had the opportunity of addressing to the Lao.
don Gaelicians, many of whom, he said, from ass
having the means of hearing the Gospel preached is
th. it mother tongue, aid from the extraordinary temp.
'anon: t.) which they were exposed, were but too aye
to slide into the service of a master, whose vain were
might be alluring for the moment, to the neglect eE
another mater whose wages were. ultimately, Inseam.
sure. He first expetined the difference in the envie%
.ad thew contrasted the wages, and followed up the
whole with a long peroration—evidently longer than
he had originally contemplated—observing iepeatedie,
in alhision to the earliest attention with sleds he was
Nov: I am confident that I am understood:*
and intimating that, for that reason, he felt bimielf
called upon to *dwell oa his subject at greater length
than he otherwise would have done. The conviction
that be was fully turdersteod, by a considerable portion,
.t least, of the assembly (for be seemed to have had his
doubts about the matter) animated the preacher, who
was manifestly master both of his language and minter,
and perfectly competent to adapt both to the occasion.
The preacher, it ought to be mentioned, made the eery
judicious distinction--tbat he did act intend to impart
the exertions of persons whit, by mans, cedes-
vatted to better their situations, peeper
master said.
of serve me in the morning," and another said, “ serve
'me in the afternoon," in that sense, if the services did
not interfere with each other, one might serve two
masters. But the danger, a danger which it required
the most sedulous and unremitting vigilance to guard
against, was, that the attention to temporal concerns
should lead to the neglect of the reasonable service;
for if it did, then" ye cannot serve two masters.'' The
style and the manner oration of Mr. C. were both well
calculated to attract the attention of the many, bat, at
the same time, without any thing that could give offence
to the most fastidious; a curiesefeticitar asid.altheegb
the language were, as birdieing subsequently said, fir
supposed it to be tfie oldest language isithe world,
cept that of the Bible; it may be doubted, .upposieg
Mr. C. to be a fair specimen of the Highland Preachers,
whether it ever was employed in public discourse with
se much elegance and purity as at this day.
Mr. being, at the conclusion of the service, stated a
'fact. which is, perhaps, not generally known—that a
sam of 3.0001. subscribed for the establishment of a
place of Disuse Worship in the Gaelic Language is
London, remains at present idle and unappropriated ;
and added. that if he were King of this country. he
would never nit till Divine Service was performed is
the metropolis in all the languages in the Island.

Tuesday night, as a party were gosog to Me Kett
Ball, at Woolwich, in a glass coach, m paming the
corner of Limekiln gate, Blackheath, the drives glossed
too near au excavation (the foundation of the Gear
public house. and the vehicle fell into it. The Lathes
were so numb injured that they were obliged to fetes*
to town. The coach was dashed to pieces.
During a storm of thunder and lightning, on Wed-
nesday last. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, of lte.gland. 'and Mr.
Young, of Cwm Careen, took sheker is the New Ine,
on the road to Ragland, about four idles from Mao.
month, and seated themselves in the ketches. Oa a
sadden two long and violent peals of thunder, that
seemed to shake the building to its foundation, were
heard. and immediately afterwards a globular mass .of
electric fluid, about the size of a cricket ball, and 'of a
glaring crimson red. more lurid than common Ire,
entered the house at an open back door. passed throegis
the kitchen, from thence along a pa.sage, and went oat
again at the front door. Happily neither the house nor
any of its inmates were injured.
The following singular instance of sleep walking
°waned of board of a ship' lately returned from a foreign wigs;
The Captain. betides taking in a general urge, forget set se awe
his cabin with a geed sea seek et essedent brandy, for the we of
himself and crew.. Now it so happened. that In whatever state the
case bottle was kit at Right. it was always winos an inch er tww
in the morning. The Captain ainsOalaed of this, telling the men
that if they were not satisfied with their daily allowance, se sate
it. and *hey would get more. The crew, however, to a man, desist
having touched the cabin bottle at all. No more nidne was taken
of the lids foe a day or two, till the Captain, convinced di wan
net right, filled the bottlequite fill before going to bed. and is the
morning kind kat least two sunders down ! Here was a mystery
differing 'lardy hem the story et tapping the Admiral. for them
some one was always drunk and no anti away; while here every
one was whet sad lets of grog missing! The crew finding thole
Wm, sod elserseter thus at sake. determined on watching.*
tippling invisible; and acwedingly, when the Captain " tumid id:
sem of them took their station sear •the cabin doer. Nothing sl-
eeked for the first two hews; the steersman was singing es
and the Captain snoring in the cabin, all else was slimes. At length,
abate the aildwatch. a noise was heard in the cabin—the wee
wised a light and entered, half in terree..-when. ! she Captain
was stalking through the cabin is his deep, steering fair. bowsaw.
to the haunted bowie, when. just as he was shout swallowiag
a
huge eawker. the men awakmed bine. to his se small amentesent
and wonder. The thief having been dlawnwed in the nalbetwaw
Captain. who professed total keenness of his seetersal dopilegAT
way of eyeing him item the habit. he piped ad heeds and made
them finish the bottle. declaring abet N he rose again he would lid
nothing but a dad marina (empty heath) ter Ms treabk.—iltelsews.