Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-12-07
THE MoRALIsT.
From the Catakin Recorder.

From the Catsk5H Recorder.
In brilliancy of conception and originality Of
thought, DIR. Chalmers has few equals His late
"splendd march over the fields Of modern as
tronomy," has been traced with singular pleas
ure by numerous readers in Europe and Ameri-
Ca He has just published second volume of
Sermons, (which do not at all lower the high
estimate that had been formed of his talents, elo-
quence and religious attainments The following
is quotation from the close of the fifth sermon,
in which the preacher enarges in his own words,
"the testimony Of our eigovs will as little avait
as in the day Of judgment, as the help Of our
jellozvs zuiu avsI us in the hour Of DEATH
/" AID, have ;e:: never thought, when
called to the chamber Of the dying man,
when you saw the warning OF death upon
bis couutenance, and how its symptoms
gathered and grew, aud got the ascendan-
cy over all the minlstrations oil humai
care aud tenderness it every day
became more visible, that the patient was
drawing TO his close, and that nothing in
the whole compass Of art or any OF its
resources, could stay the advances Of the
sure and the last malady, have you ever
thought, on seeing the bed OF the sufferer
surrounded by other comforters than those
of the Patriarch, when, from morning TO
night, and from night to morning, the
watchiui family sat at his couch, and
guarded his broken SAUNDERS, aud inter
prettd all his signals, and tried TO hide
al, hsnA
tested him TO be the kindest Of parents
y hen the sad anticipation spread its gloomy
stiffness over the household, and even sent
forth an air of seriousness and concern
upon the men Of other families, when you
have witnessed the despair Of friends
who could only turn them to cry al the
spectacle Of his last sgonies, and had seen
how little it was that weeping children and
inqniring neighbours could do for him
when you have contrasted the unrelentine
necessity of the grave, with the feebleness
OF every surrounding endeayour TO award
it, has the thought never entered Within
you, How powerless is the desire of man!-
how sure and how resistless is the decree
Of God!
And on the day Of the second death,
will it be found, that il is not the magma
tion Of man, but the sentence Of God that
shall stand. When the sound Of the last
trumpet awakens US from the grave, aid
the ensigns Of the last day are seen OF.
the canopy of heaven, and the tremor OF
the dissolvipg elements is felt upon earth,
and the Son Of God with his mighty angels
are placed around the judgment seat, and
The men of all ages aud of all nations are
standing before it, and waiting the high
decree Of eternity, then will it be found,
that as nopower Of man can save his fell
low from going down to the grave OF NOR
tality SO no testimony Of man can save
his fellow from going down to the pit Of
condemnation. Each OH that day will
mourn apart. Each Of those on the left
hand engrossed by his own separate cot'-
temptation, and overwhelmed by the dark
and the lowering futuriiy Of his own ex-
istence. will not have thought or gym
pathy TO spare for those who are around
him. Each of those on the right hand
will see and acquiesce in the Righteousness
of God, and be made to acknowledge, that
those things which are highly esteemed
among men are in his sight an abomina.
ton. When the Judge and his attendants
shall come on the high errand of this
worlds destinies, they wiil come from God
land the pure principle they shall bring
along with them from the sanctuary Of
heaven, will be The entire subordination Of
the thing formed TO him who formed it."