American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1826-01-27
frday, by albert s. Henry Wilson, Market Street.
Volume ".

Is world OF wonders within ITSELF world of bouu-
y. and II rightly used, world of finest enioymenis,
MS also are the mysteries of The soul within-be
Judgment, which weighs 10 balance all contend.
ing thoughts, extracting wisdom out OF folly, and
enTicauns order from confusion; the memory,
RECORDER OF Inc Soul, IN whose books chroniced
the accidents of the changing world and The f1uc-
tuating moods of the mind itself; fancy the eve OF
the soul, which scales the heavens and circles round
he verge and circuits Of all possible existence
nope, the purYeyor OF happiness, which peoples
the hidden future with brighter forms and happier
accidents than ever possessed the present. Offering
70 the soul the ioretaste OF every joy affection, the
nurse OF Joy, whose full bosom cherish thou
sand objects without being impoverished but rather
replenished, stotehouse inexhaustibe towards the
brotherhood and sisterhood OF this earth, as the
stoIehouse OF God is inexhaustible to The universal
world and conscience, the arbitrator OF the soul
and the touchstone of the evil and the good whose
voice within our breas, is the echo of the voice Of
God. These, all these, whose va led action and
movement constitute the maze of thought, the
mystery of life, the continuous chain of being
God hath given US to know that we hold OF his hard,
and during his pleasure, and out Of the lullness of
his care.-Irrine.
Clerical Eccentricities.-Early in the last cen.
fury, the minister of hrbroath was MIR. Ferguson.
man remarkable for freedom of speech EVIL 10 the
pulpit, where he sometimes gave great offence by his
plain and opposite illustrations. Many of these are
remembe' ed and repeated in that quarter, among
which are the following.
Lecturing one Sunday upon Z.ccheus climbing
the tree TO Jesus, he said" This Zaccheus.
my friends, was ocee bodie, just such another az
our CARTE oil ganger sitting there pointing with
his finger to the quarter of the kirk where the ex-
ciseman was seated
One Sunday forenoon, hell was the subject of
his discourse, in which he INDUCED in much of,hat
of expression natural on all occasions
concluding thus: at now only remains to show the
situation of nell. and this shall be clearly pointed
out in our afternoons DISCOURSE Anxious to hear
the local situation of that place of punishment par
ticulafsed he had full attendance in the afternoon;
but to the disappointment oil his audience he had
new discourse, on the government of the passions;
but before concluding, he addressed his congrega-
CATION thus: g In the forenoon promised to show
you where hell is situate--Oh my friends it ia
much nearer than you imagine sit is at your very
door, and see some here who are on the very brink
of that dreadful pit. In short, my friends hell is
IN the very heart OF your town--do not start for
can prove that hell is in Homer's Wypd, "a lane
IN the toicn, for as coming to the kirk this
afternoon, heard sic bratzie in Tam Llndsey's
that looked in at the door, when saw Tam and
his wife fighting, both with tongue and hands he
had riven the mulch off her head, and the napkin
from her neck; she had given him blue eye and
he was bleeding at the like sheep Now,
sirs, where there is so much mischief, at Preside,
am sure you will agree with me, that i: must be
hell upon earth -