Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1816-02-27

AGAINST the foe ani ,Dakes sOe feeble exert,ons a.
bfeseai, ny acton a detection, (Which hard names
wdi otiiy extend. But It Is ali too late The kui
attenuoa, by which he might once have oouhd hi'
people To himself forever, has beea exhsDited oy a
stranger Who has sioen away their neaets, by an
irletrlevable deius0n. and nov hts little salary
presses bard upon the diminished noheF O. has Peo-
pie is poorly paid, aud operates as Constant iei-
tation to increased detection. Ills people complain
that he does not visit them, aud be that they do
not pro94de for hun comp teni 'upfort. Com
pailt be1eis complaint, aud elimination besets
cruiinatioh, until at length the crisis affives-his
people weakened by delect,ons, 10 longer raise
his little salary and he, by the most strenuous ex-
eftious, cam DO without it. vi course a council
is Called aud the pastoral relation is dssolssd.--
1he pastor with a large family, in The decline OF
life, goes exile 10 the wilderness, or settles IN
some other declining church.to repeat the same ex-
perinieat, anu unless death prevent 10 witness the
same result. The society, which by trlihng e.
fort might have commanded the whole time OF lieir
Iastc., aud become yearly stronger, have ny their
iniud,c parspony ,irttered away their strength
and brought themselves TO desolalion-have dug
their own grave, and lie down in it 70 wake no
more'
IN the subject Of supporting the Gospel. the
Preacher observes follows :--' IL is sad ans
take, too often countenanced by ministers them
selves that small congregations are unable 10 sup
pot the gospel, when the fact is, that eongre-
CATION is abb 10 do without the gospel; for the
tax OF lesolatlon, four times as expensive M The
tax which requisite u support the institutions OF
reiteion. his Bctou. Gro To those societies
which have judged themselves unable TO support
the gospel 500 u pareals aud semand the uens
squandered by their prodiga children, BESIDE break
ing their hearts by uadutIiui c ndaet 10 to the
tavern on the sabbath and on week days ATTEND
the arbfatIons, the courts the trainings, The horse
racinss and The nidnight Feyels witness the de-
cayed houses, fences aud tiliase ;--,le b.iiiDg
,choo-house aud tat,eFd children of Ds.sbdrous man
nefs. aud then return 10 your own h,tie paradise,
and decide, whether you vail exile the Gospel, as
too expensive To be supported. ifyou are TOO poor
to support the Gospel, yoh are, demonstrahiy TOO
poor 10 do without It. II the one would severely
press you, the other would srf,l you To powder. "A
few families may iatten IN waste places, tut II viii
be upon tie vices o the rest. Inc greater portion
Will be poor, aud ignorant, and vicious. DO you
deinand how poor people can support the COS
pei lie, them frs, appreciate The privilege aecord-
lag 10 It's imp 1rtance, aud let the father and The
mother and the son, aud The daughter, aud the SER
Want. lay, weekly, light lax upon their pride ,and
ano upon appetite needlessiy grati6ed, and add
to these savings another item, acquired by some
special eort tor the purpose and another, as tod
shall have prospered their lawful industry, and the
result OF the whole, would be an abundant supply.
Any ten families, OF ordinary property, could bet
ter afford 10 support the .ospcl than TO do with
out it. Wnen societies calculate VIVA, they Can
afford To sisc fsr ffe Support OF the gospel they
20 upon Tie srpposuon, Tho, hat ibry do give, IL
70 much ATTRACTED, annually, from the "nole a.
mount Of 81 r income superstition, when Is ut
tcry erroneous for, in tact, as II respects TIE a1-
.nnution of property, they give nothing. The
Gospel \ NJ, debtor to-e who support 1t, but
they are a ebior 10 the Gospel. Ii does not sub
tract from the properly OF Society but adds to II
more than il takes away. II is God himself who
hath SAID Honor the Lord With thy SUBSTANCE,
and with the first fruits of thy Increase, so shall
thy barns be filed with plenty, and Thy presses shall
burst our with wine."
These remarks, (says reviewer of this Sermon !
il " Ill b. seen bear the advantage scared IN
this fe how much worse then folly, then, Il II for
feeble societies refuse supporting an evangelical
teacher when souls, hose worth God beng Judge
Will weigh down worlds, are taken into the esti- !
mattel