Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1821-01-09
l.HE CLOSE OF THE YEAR.

THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR.
There is a peculiar solemuity, (says the
editor Of the Morning Chronicle,) that
attends the close Of the year. We look
around ou the white banks OF December,
and they seem associated with hoary
hairs. with loss oil memory, and OF sight,
and all those harbingers OF swift ap'
preaching eternity. We turn ioT conso-
iat;on to our friends aud relations, 10 the
companions Of our earliest years, and we
are again reminded by the rising mounds
that cluster around our feet, that they
also have departed TO that ''bourne from
whence no traveller returns" Finally,
The heart, oppressed and disconsolate, IS
compelled at last for support gu the stay
furnished by gospel hope. We are com
pelled 10 confron. the visage OF Inc KING
Of terrors, and to look upon ourselves,
warned as we are, by the pervadins NOR
tality around us as candidates Tor me
tomb. This obnoxious fact Is optrnded
on our notice in such a variety oil forms,
that there is DO escape, no resting place
from such CONCENTRATIONS. But while we
dwell. CO Ibis melancholy spectacle Win
humble hearts and confidence 10 the di-
vine mercy, the shadows Of death begin
TO kindle with purple light. We leei
that we are not to remain for ever the sub
iects of the king of terrors--tiiat thefe IS
state Of existence beyond this trans'lory
lile--we are admonished OF this TACT by
the resurrection of the howrets, Dy me
revolving course Of tie seasons, by the
re.appearance Of the sun, and by all the
apaloaies furnished by external nature.
Vague and unsatisfactory as these anal
ogies are to the cravings OF 40 immortal
soul, they at least preach to man that there
is another state Of being-another world
10 inhabit. Here philosophy trembles
and retires; her taper can afford no more
Iight--it seems rather species OF lurld
darkness than of Summation. The
proudest philosophers Of antiquity were
here compelled TO forego their inquiries
With all the gigantic graspings OF their
mighty minds, they could penetrate no
further, and they were at last coerced TO
submit to death with sort Of gloomy ac-
quiescence, as thing inevitable, as q DIS
pensation imposed Oh humanity not % De
avoided. Those heart-cheering, those
animating hopes were reserved ion reve-
lation TO inspire, and they could only
have been afforded by revelation. since
that blessed period the shadows OF death
have been illuminated by divine light
Angels have drawn up the curtains, and
we behold realms Of joy and sorrow, re-
sions Of delight, and mansions OF woe: we
behold this existence connected WIN an
;oterminable state hereafter. Death is
now viewed 10 more awfully Interesting
l;sht: ii is that link that connects the lille
Of man with that Of angels, or of demons
hereafter; he is told of the reward, aud
of the punishment. The good man now
looks around with different views---to him
the SHOWS Of December and the hoary
hairs. the loss of friends, their graves
gathering around his footsteps, the gradu-
Al departure Of his own senses, produce
new and soothing associations-he beholds
10 the rayages OF winter, the return Of the
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his friends, and the decay oil his own con-
s,itution. that the time is near at hand
when he shall meet those beloved Com
rades Of his heart in the regions OF ligh'
and glory: he drops the body to soar az
immortal spirit from the grave--he sees
on the gathering tempest Of death the DOW
Of mercy expanded in all its lustre.
IMITATION COFFEE OF RED BEET ROOT
The following recipe for Imitation cor
fee Of red beet root is given by III. "
Neufchateau.
Take red beet roots raw WASH tnen
well. and scrape them little, then GU
them into small square pieces, about tn
size Of nuts; place them on pieces 9
board, and dry them in an oven. aite
taking out the bread, repeating 'nis oPe
ration twice or thrice, at diiieren. times
when these pieces are we'll dried, win
out being roasted or burnt, they are Pu
into cylinder to roast, or in q Try lng par
used for the same purpose. The cyhnlde
il however preferable. They are roas'e'