Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-09-04

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every where to be observed among
them; in their yestments. their habi.
ta,ions, their persons and religion.
They are nonrished by the same
kind Of natural aliinent, and the same
gospel is their spiritual food; they
have the same bible for their guide,
they Look to the same spirit to en-.
Tighten them, they trust for saliva
ton in the same Redeemer, they be-
lieye in the same Jehovah, and among
them all is a redeemed people who
now constitute the church, the body
Of Christ, who will ere long arrive
to those happy realms where no DIFF
ference of denomination shall be
known. where no prejudice nor par
ty shall prevent the harmony and
fellowship Of the saints, where no
hard bearing interdiets, established
in mistake, and nourished by tradi
ton, shall thwart, or enfeeble. or de
stroy the tenderest sympathies of
Christian piety and brotherIy afiec.
ton among the members of the same
spiritual body, and the heirs OF the
same heavenly inheritance.
Such is the sameness among Chris
tians, that it is often difficult in pass
ing among them promiscuously, to
remember to what denomination they
belong; this is remarkably the case
with respect to the independents.
Presby Congregationalists, q
Babtists, and more especially among
the different classes of Presbyterians,
most of all, among those of Scottish
descent. And although we have to
lament the present divided state of
the Christian world; yet there is
more union of feeling aud interest;
more knowledge Of each others af-
fairs; more sympathy for each others
trials and affection; and mnre salts
faction in each others prosperity and
happiness, than is generally suppos-
ed, or than the author was aware Of,
till he went among different denomi.
nations, and learnt from actual OBJ
servation these interesting facts
While many, indeed, are narrow and
bigotted, and shut up in the she'll of
their own party. many others are o.
pen and liberal in their feelings, and
are willing to renounce the casts of
denomination as far as it can be con-
sistently done. And the more Chris
tians become acquainted with each
other, and the more they see Of the
world. the more this position prevails.
They find no difficulty in being es
tablished in their own principles,
and still maintaining friendly in
tercourse with others.
While the members Of some great
national churches and ecclesiastical
establishments, like naughty lords,
look down with UNCONVENTIONAL pride
and bigotted hauteaur upon smalI and
deSpised communities, others again
like the generous and noble hearted
among the rich and great, make
more account Of the small and scan
ty possessions Of their neighbors than
they themselves suppose. [ have Of
ten been surprised to hear Catholics
and Churchmen converse with SO
much knowledge on the concerns of
the minor sects, and manifest such an
interest in those small operations,
which the parties themselves sup.
posed were scarcely known beyond
the bounds of their own circumscrib-
ed communities.
Wondsrful ,sti1ity Of am Africam Tres.
In the kingdom of Congo there
grows naturally tree of such bulk,
that ten men cannot fathom it round.
The natives call it bondo, and as the
woad early rots, they do not build
their huts near il. lest its fall should
crush them to death, or its fruit,
which is of the size Of large gourd,
and easily broken from the tree,
should knock them down. The bark
Of this tree we'll beaten and macerat-
ed, yields a coarse thread, of which
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