Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1808-01-01

pointment Of SOME darling o5fset while.
perhaps some fraii FAIR has 20 regret the.
iil-placed confidence She rrposed in some
faithlea p loyer. All! chanseful mortal.
y! for where i the man who has not
seen during the few days which eonsti.
suted the departed yeaf) the blossoms of
infancy, the sPrightEness of youth, The
hardihood Of strength, the bloom Of
beauty, the vigout Of manhood, and the
imbecilisy Of age, wither and fade, de.
cline and sink, ia undistinsuished ruin.
before that awful voice which cries to ali
the children Of men, Dust thou ART.
and h. dust shalt thou return?" The
CHRIS nAN, As on 4 rock, alone
stands hrm and composed, amidst the
mighty changes which have taken place
through the year which IL for ever gone.
He rtJ"iess IN his course, through all
the shifting SCENES of life, because, he
Justly considers himsel If only q soiourner
here, andthat this rransitory world is
not his final abode. He knows that no
thing is certain, perfect, or lasting, while
the way which he bends his course
viii, ere long, introduce him 10 ano-
Their aud a better worid,' where trouble
cannot enter, and where bliss - as ON
mensarate and durable as the author who
eonfrrs it,, The Important question ,hen,
is,-how does the account of rkc last
year stand between ourselves and our
God?-Are there no d DEFICIENCIES on our
part, to remind US OF the gross misem.
Ployment Of our time, and the necessity
Of redeemipgit! -
The conviction Of having lost 4 valua-.
bic article will naturally awaken in tn.
rational man the desire ofrecoverinc i.,
and stimulate him to enquire out the
means by which this may Be- Erected
Now the only mode Of redeemine the.
TIME we have lost, is BY diligently i'm.
proving the portion that remains, for Al
to the past, that is no longer in our now.
er, It Is i~rrecoverably. gone, and. like
the dead, will return 70 US no more
What this Improvement consists in, and
how it is to be effected, we shall be At 10
loss to determine, it we consult the
volume which contains the directions Of
CHI us E aud his Apostles. We shall
there find, thar this duty Of redesminR
our tims Is compounded If several arti.
cies ] the promotionso of Gods glory the
Of our fellow.sreasures' hap
Piness; and the care Of otir W souls:
slnssre repentance for former neglect.
and earnest resolutions of amendment,
s~ubstantiated aud manifested in subse-,
gent reformation We shall there Ead,
mat lr includes aretinquishme N, ofthose
sins which have heretofore beset, sdIu.
ded, aad led US as,ray from our duty to
our MAKER a Remuneration of those
petty emotions, vanity, pride, and self.
lshnsss /; and those turbulent ones, an.
ger, hatred, and m ,ligai.y;' which have
our charity and xeaned our at.
teeuons from our brethren ia the world.
This, mt. Fellow Citizens, Is an out
line OF the duties Comprised in a chris
uan's1eommsnciug the new year .andhe
WHO does not perform the 70 may assure
hlmself, thu, his re naming DAYS. whe-
tn r they be few or many, will glide on
as, disPieasinglv to the AL MIGHTY
and Assdesrructi~ety to his y eternal
Interests, az those Of the years which are
already rolled away. Al