The Litchfield County post., 1828-07-24

l-[strOng emotion that when he had run his short career of pleasure, there would be nothing left for him but to lie down in ever lasting burnings. He 'hastened out of the nall Tn Inexpressble agony of mind, and de- termined to examine for himself He did so. On every page of the Divine Book, he seem ed to find 1t inscribed, that to him and such as he, God was consuming fire. Still he read on. For the first time in his life he knelt down and prayed, in bitterness of spirit-he eagerly sought for some ray ofconsolation in the midst of distress which had become in- supportable: and he found it. He found that. which in tprocess of time brought peace to hls distracted bosom which he had never before known. His eye rested on the rev- wing assurance, that God was in Christ recon citing tue ,corLd untO himseLf not imputing their trespGsses WrtO them !; and it calmed the tenn pest of his soul. Here the emotion of the speahersbecame so strong as to oblige him to pause, while half the audience were in tears. From that hour to the present.he has striver, amidst much weakness; and infirnity, to live the life of Christian, and to keep before his eyes the solemn account he must one day give at the bar of God and he desires to bear wit ness this day, before your lordship and this assembly, to the power of divine grace, in turning the heart of disobedient, blind. thoughtless. irreligious creature, to the WIS., dom of the just,and from the power of Satan unto God" The effect of this was beyond any thing ever. witnessed. Thes speaker was no orator, in the common meaning of the term; but he spoke from an overHowing heart, and carried the sympathies of every nearer along with him. His delivery was ire quently interrupted by the vehemence of his own feelings, and by the expression of those of the audience-his manner was ungraceful, hut there was an overAowing earnestness in it, which it was impossible to resist. thought ne' CT understood.i or rather, never felt SO strongly the force of that sublime mystery of godliness. ''that God was in Christ, reconc- ling the world unto himself," "a faithful say ing, and worthylofall acceptation."
 AWFUL WARNING TO THE VERTEBRATE
 AND PROFANE. M
 HalifaxtCo. Va. June 10, 1sq8.'
 Sometime in the month of March, MT. D. on old man, twas fonnd dead in the public road, a mile or two from his house. He had few minutes before, left the grog shop in state of deep into1ication and on his rernrn home, while his horse was in the act of drinking, he fell into a creek where his body was found, (as it is supposed a martyr to intemper- ance
 The other cases%is one of such horrid de pravity, that, for the honor of human nature, it is hoped it has but few parallels in the rec Ords of performances.
 MT, l.. M. who for years had been com mon drunkard. but who would sometimes S,CeGr out, as it is termed, for six or twelve months, had lately drunk to very great excess: indeed he was never sober when he could get the means of being otherwise. On Friday last, he was heard to say, that he thought the AL mighty had committed d grearsin in suffering two such men and he and - to live so long: your readers will not be surprised to learn that the being whom he had SO daringly in- suited, visited him with speedy and signal punishment. On Sunday morning this inn pious and deluded man left the house of a neighbOr. and in few minutes afterwards was found dead ia the road. The verdict of the jury ofinquest was, thGt he died by sud den viSitation of Providence. Thus perished L.SM. as many have miserably perished be- fore him, and his melancholy fate, while it adds another to the frequent warnings which the drunkard receives. affords striking ex- ample Ofthe destr uction which awaits the in- temperate, and of the folly and weakness oi a mortal man, provoking the Almighty to a contest with him. Let thei drunkard learn from the end of this man, that although he may s,oeqr out from.time to time, and abstain from tse use of ardent spirits for year, he is not safe unlesss his abstinence is perteet and perpetual.-"1'ouch not, taste not. handll not, tcf the accursed thing" should be his mot to.-Rich. Vis. & Iet.