The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

Istria has withdrawn I but it was

from the union with England and Franc

NAPOLEON, if he has not yet followed the example

to do sc

and Eng

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years a
having

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Louis tension of the principles of the pure and reformed doctrim
of the Church of England. (Cheers.) He did not hesitate t

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was no just

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certain thirst for gold which
)ted many of their count _
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ind which t

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serve God, but had not th
re multitudes of young men

country well instructed, perliai
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I to induce th

It was a work of the purest Christian charity to furnish
these persons with the means of grace.. (Hear, hear.)
He was tempted, upon that point of the subject, to read
to them what had been stated by an American bishop in

3f a visitation in

with ti

upon my mina as thous

it had been yeatercfik

e said

hile in the discharge of my episcopal dut
stopped at a small town on the bank
sissippi to await the arrival of a steamboat,
moned to the bedside of a sick stranger, in the little
inn where I had found lodgings. I was ushered
into a small room, where lay upon a pallet of straw

rapidly -unc

the ravages of

disease. I can never fol
the condition of that young man inspired

s with which

had no friend to watch bi his 'bed of pain,and smooth his
passage to the tomb by the soothing attentions which af-
fection loves to bestow.- I will not detain you by a detail

of all that passed between us during the intervals of com-
posure and ease from pain through the hours of that long
and comfortless night. Suffice it to say, that I spoke to
him, as was my duty, of Jesus Christ, of His power and
willingness to save ; and then came the struggle of weak

faith and feeble hope, with the terrors of an accusing con-
science, as memory tailed up in review opportunities neg-
lected, warnings despised, mercies abused ; while dread
of the future spread its dark mantle over the vast and
cheerless field of an unprovided-for eternity. Yet he could
not forget the home of his childhood ; and the big tear ga-
thered in his restless eye when he told how his parents
used to take him to church, and how they sought to imbue

his tender mind with lessons of piety, and to possesS his
young and budding affections with the love of God. He
died, so far as I know, without 'the confidence of a certain
faith —without the comfort of a reasonable, religious, and
holy hone.' Who would not feel sick at heart at the 4-1,,,,04,4-

silencer And Is there a parent here, who feels perfectl,
secure that such a story may not some day be told of hi
offspring in some distant part of the British don'.

deavour to impress upon the maids of his friends the
absolute necessity of sowing, in tender years, the seeds of
religion. This young man had not forgotten the time
when he was taken to church ; he had not forgotten the
lessons of his youth ; they remained in him, and he trusted

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they gave him some hope, and more than hope, to prepare
for eternity. I appeal to you, and ask whether you will
allow such men as he to die in a distant land without a
friend to soothe the bed. of death, and lighten the dark