Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-08-25

to help them. Much depends The manner
in which advice is offered, and our embrac-
ing the right opportunity to epyey II.
should MOI Immediately have daiu'ary ehec''
we are not 10 be too much discouraged; we
ought to take heed that we be4me not imPa-
tient or discomposed, but repei our Efforts III
the spirit ofloye and forbeara1e Inc resu,!
Of this Christian concern for or ifiends, Is Oh
ten greater than is at the transparent
In the exercise of this diy, 1t becomes
those who have the earliest opportunity OF
knowing the faults of others sriously to consl-
der on all occasions whether hey ought not to
endeavorto reclaim them befre they disclose
the matter to another. Attf same time we
believeit has often happenedthat the iengthen-
ed concealment of the errss of our" friends
from those who were best q,a'lhed 10. aaSlse
them, has been productive Pi serious INJURY,
which might have been preynted by an early,
yet prudent disclosure, tc tfse OF greater eX'
pcrlence
And we recommend to sch OF our young
friends as know and approyswhat IS excellent,
and NAV have been strengthened In some small
degree to practise it, not to- shrink from mo-
desty vet faithfully counsehng their assoel-.
ates in early life. when thevmay be dewatins
from ths path of duty A tmder caution may
be received with peculiar advantage "hen
those to whom it given know that their coans
sellers are still alike subjectto the same tempt
atoms TO which they are exposed; and when, as
may sometimes happen, tht relative as wen as
the social tie, may call foritte extension OF
hand Of help,
There is a humility and sweetness, combined
with a noble irmness OF character, arising
ON the expansive iiilaeiite of Christian love,
which ought TO actuate all our endeavours for
the good Of others. Slri,t then dear friends,
that in your benevolent eSertions to promote
the temporal, the moral, Of the religious wei
fare ofyour tellow-men, sour whole conduct
may be marked by an unobtrusivc Christian
temper; that when associated with your friend
and neighbors on these occasions, it may br
manifest that your great concern IS to live un.
der the influence ofthat Wisdom which is from
above; which is pure, peaceabie, gentle and ca
sy to be enreated, without partially, and with
out hypocrisy, full Of mercy and full OF good
fruits The pure exercise of Christian kind
ness brings with it its own rewards; but to be
pure, it must, haze its origin in the love of God,
which produces love TO man; and the satistac-
ton is never so great, the efforts are never so
steady as when we continually bear IN mind that
we are to commit all our eXcrtions to the 5les-
sing of him whose proyidential eye is over all,
and WHO'S continually caring Tor The VI orkman,
ship Of his holy hand.
Our friends oflrcland, and ofeach ofthe Year
ly Meetings in America have been brought to
our remembrance, with feelings Of Christian
love, by the reading Of the Epistles which they
have respectively addressed 10 us. 1t has been
very acceptable to find that our brethren on
the other side of The Atlantic are in various
places alive to the enormities Of Slavery, and
ailieA.4 Ia eXpose The iniqul-
ty OF the Internal Sla~e trade, carried ON IN the
Southern and Southwestern States OF the Uni,
on. The desolating and widely extended eff,
fects of this dreadful traffic, whether we turn
our attention to Africa to America, and the
West India Islands to other parts of the
globe, are indeed enormous and mourntully dis
tressing Much remains to be done before
this foul disgrace is removed from the Chiis-
tan name; but we are comforted in believing
that, not only in this country but elsewhere,
the cause of the oppressed is gaming grounds
and as its advocates continue to labor with zeal
and perseverance, in the spirit Of the Gospel, we
entertain no doubt that they will have fresh
cause to rejoice; and that, ultimately, Slavery.
with the vices resulting from it, will be un-
known amongst the subjects of those govern
ments, where the pure and just precepts of
Christianity are protested.
The amount OF he suFtripgs Of our members
as reported 10 this NEE ing including he charges
Of distraint, is upwards of fourteen thousand
six hundred pounds.
We have no cause to believe that our ancient
testimony against all ecclesiastical demands are
losing ground amongst US; bat we think it right
to revive, In your remembrance, those consld-
erations which led to It's adoption, and which
induced our pious predecessors to undergo ma
ny and grevious hardships in its support. You
know, beloved friends, that it has been the uni
form belief of our society, that oui blessed lord
and Saviour, by his coming, put an end to that
priesthood, and TO the provision for its support
as well as to those ceremonial usages, which
were before ordained, and that He came to in
troduce dispensation pure and spiritual in its
nature. The present system of rithes; against
which our early friends, as well as ourselves,
have born testimony, was no institution of our
Holy head and High Priest, the great Christian
Lawgiver 1t had no existence in the purest
and earliest age Of his Church; but was gradu-
ally introduced, as superstition and apostacy