The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-05-02
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en- which no being can resist the guidance OF his
wisdom which never ers and the comforts OF MS
free grace, which can never be exhausted lie mad
seen the Wickedness and decetuness of his own heart
he had been made acquainted with the srictness and
purity of Gods law and he thought not of preparing
meet his God in the uprghtness OF his own charac-
ter. But he looked with humble and believing eye
to the cross of Christ and on the atonement which
he has made, he placed all Lis hopes OF justification
and acceptance with God. Verify he put no trust In
an arm of flesh bu4 he took unto him the whole ar
NOR of God his lolns girt about with truth having
on the breasate of righteousness, the shield Of faith
the helmet of savatlon and the sword OF the spirit
While the Affections of this world thlckenlng a.
round him, and the terrors of death before his tace
he had the peace of God dwelling in his heart the
hope Of eternal life Frightening in heavenly visions
and he could sing, in prison, and in the loneliness of
midnight, the Lord is my side | will not fear
what man can do unto Yea, though | walk
through the valley of the shadow of death, will fear
evil; for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff,
they comfort me. He felt that, strong in the al-suf
cheney of God nothing could seduce him from his du-
ty none of the powers of wickedness could wound
his soul. Verify, the Christians weapons
"-from the armory of God
Are given him tempered 500
While Andrew engaged with such thoughts as
these his father and sister, the solitude of their cave,
deeply afflicted his account. The shepherd,
TO meet whom Andrew ndu lCIC Ln6Il, observed
apprehended, and carried the tidings to his father
Mary wept for her brother if he had been already
dead and Mr. Bruce feared the worst. He knew,
and he was proud the thought, that Andrew would
not renounce his religion. He well aware also,
that mercy from the prosecutors to be expect
ed for his SON. Those into whose hands he had falen
he could easily foresee would leave cruelty unex
ercised against the of one who hated by
them and whose life they had eagerly sought
The distressed father thus looked upon the death Of
his son as almost certain. And, if ever father had
to love son, be grieyed at the intimation
of his untimely death, that father was Mr. Bruce
Andrew was only son. From his childhood, till
the present tme when he was in his nineteenth year,
he had been his constant companion. He had watcls
ed with the tenderest the development of his fac
ues; turned their energies into the proper channel
and had his rewarded by the rapid progress
his son had made in the requirement Of knowledge.
His talents, the acquisitions he had already made, his
love of learning and his devoedness to religion, war;
raned the highest hopes of his future usefulness and
responsibility in the world.
This enough to render Andrew peculiarly dear
to his father. But he had more than this draw his
son nearer to his heart Andrew had been his
panion and the calm and unmurmuring manner in
which he had endured the hardshps, had not
only taught his mother and sister to bear their aflc
tons with PATIENCE but Mr. Bruce had frequent
y learnt courage and constancy from his Those