The Litchfield County post., 1828-09-25

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as he grew up and went out from his faith
| er's family, he apostatized from his early
education and from morality became a
companion Of he vile and a terror to those
who would do well. AT this period he en-
tered into an engagement with brother
by which they were mutually bound, that
the first called from this world, should re-
turn if permitted. The brother not long
after was drowned ia the Connecticut, and
as soon as this survivor received the intel
ligence, he hastened to the spot where the
deep and dark wave still rolled over the
iifeless body of his brother, and there in na
hour ofretirement he called aloud, & the
voice echoed from bank to bank for that de-
parted brother to fulfil his engagement, but
! there was no voice, nor any that answered.
And he relates that he repeated the same,
! over his brothers grave, after the dead bo-
| dy was found and inferred in churchyard.
! But he remained mistaken in his infdelity
and the Sayior'S Divinity was his favor
tie theme for sarcasm and blasphemy. Be-
ing popular advocate in his profession,
he accumulated large estate, but he had no
bowels OF compassion, no breathings of be-
neVolence. About eighteen months ago,
his father desired him to carry his annual
, contribution of fifty dollars to the Treasu-
rer of the board of Foreign Missions, which
you fifty dollars from my father to aid the
objects of this Board, but had rather cast
it into the sea- Il however, pleased God
the last season TO take from him beloved
child by death, and for the first time in his
life did he realize that this world is shado-
wy and evanescent. The impression grew
upon him, land he soon felt that ere long all
would be taken from him, and nothing re-
main to him but the ghosts and penalties
of million ofsins sins of the most aggra-
| waited kind. He strove to conceal his dis
tress, but strove i'll vain. He at length
confessed his condition, and he sought
the prayers of those whom he had
so lately despised. For some weeks he
bowed like the rush without mire, and his
mourning was like the mourning of Hadra-
drimmon in the valley of Megiddon. But
the hour of release came, for he was cho-
sen vessel unto God, and On, he was like
those that dream. He bowed to Prince
Emmanuel /; he became even SIS child,
and openly and fearlessly espoused
the cause of him he had prosecuted. Like
Zaccheus, he gave public declaration, that.
if he had defrauded any man in the course
of his business, he would make amends to
| the amount Of fourfold, if it was required.
At this time he recalled his saying to the
Treasurer of the Board of Foreign Mis-
! sion, that she would rather throw the fifty
dollars into the sea than pay it to them
He could not rest until he had made a
written confession to the Treasurer, land in
that letter the Treasurer found hundred
dollar bank note. A reformation succeed
ed this conversion, and spread through the
town, and many have been added to the
cause of Christ.
TIE BOOK OF JoB.--The Reverend
E. Davies has recently read a paper to the
Royal Society on the subject of this por-
ton of the holy scriptures. He contends
that it is "no parable but true history
and examines and refutes the hypothesis
maintained by Warburton and Orion. that
it is poem of the dramatic form composed
by one of the prophets during the pc
riod ofehe captivity. Having adduced his
reasons for receiving the Book of Job as
an authentic narrative, relating to real
historical character, he proceeds to estab
lish the following points THAT Uz, the
country of oh, was in the eastern part of
Idumea, and contiguous to the southern
border of Judea; that the particular city
of the patriarch's residence was Bozrah;
and that Job, whom we are led to seek a.
mong the Idumean princes, was the same
as Jobab, mentioned as one of the kings
of that country in the sOth chapter of Ge-
nesls. This supposiion being admitted.
the era OF the patrarch's affection must be
placed about 1928 years before Christi
! The instruments of those Affections were
4 armies of ChaldeanS and Sabeans, whose
Eruption is identified with he expedition
OF the four kings relat d in the 18th chap
Ter of Genesis. F,om these various coi,-
cidences Mr.. Davies infers, tina. Job was
that Righteous King and priest of the true
God, to whom Abraham, after rescuing his
brother Lot from the hands OF those
four kings, is stated to lave paid
tithes of all. The name, Melchizedeck,
King of Righteousness, given to this per-
son by Moses, or King of Salem, which
ST paul iDternrH4S mo of Peace was not