Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-10-18
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BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.
The Parses, the Jew. and the Christianity
Dr. F. A. KRUMMAcHER.
A Jew entered a Parsee temple, and beheld the
sacred fire; what. said he to the priest, do We
worship the fire. Not the FIRE, answered the
priest; ii is to Us an emblem of the sun, and Of
his genial heat Do We then worship the sun as
your god? asked the Jew. Know We not this lus
minary, also, is but work OF that Almighty
Creator.
We know it, replied the priest; but the un-
cultivated man requires sensible sign, in order
to form conception of the Most High. And Is
not the sun, the incomprehensible source of light,
an image of that invisible Being, who blesses
and preserves all thingss
The IsraeIite thereupon rejuined:-Do your
people. then. distinguish the type from the origi.
nals They call the sun their God. and descend
ing from this even to baser object, they kneel
before an earthly flame: Ye amuse the outward
but blind the inward eye, and while We hold to
them the earthly We withdraw from them the hea-
venly light! Thou shalt not max unto thee any
image Or any likeness.
How then do yc designate TIE Supreme Being
asked the Parsee.
We call him Jehovah Adonia, that is, the Lord
who is, who was, and who will be, answered the
| Jew.
Your appellation is grand and sublime, said the
Parsee. but it is awful too
A Christian then drew nigh and said-We call
him FATHER.
The Pagan and the Jew looked at each other
and said-Hear is at once all image and reality;
! it is a word of the heart. said they.
i Therefore they raised their eyes to heaven, and
said with reverence and love-Our FATKER.-
And they took each other by the hand, and al!
three called one another brothers.
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THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD.
In the following anecdote HoGe tells mon
strous big story, with an honest simplicity that
makes one Taught
It's good sign Of dog when his face grows
like his masters. It's proof he's aye glowerln'
up in his masters cen, to discover what he's
thinking on; and then, without the word. or
wave o command, 20 be ali to execute the wull
o his silent thocht, whether it be to wear sheep,
or run doom deer. Hector got so like me afore
he deed, that remember wnen was owre la
~ to gang to the kirk, | used to send him to
take my place in the pew; and the minister ne
yer kent the difference. Indeed he anCe asked
me next day, what thocht of the sermon; for he
saw me wonnerfu' attentive amang a rather
sleepy congregation.
Hector and ME gied ane anither sic look and
was feared Mr.. Patton wud hae observed it;
but he was simple, primitive, unsuspectin' auld
man-a very Nathaniel without guile, and he
jeaoused nothing, though both Hector and me
was like to split; and the dog. after laughing in
his sleeve for mair than hundred yards, could
stand't nae longer, but was obliged to louP ava
awre a hedge into potato field, pretending to
hae scented partridses."
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The strongest objection that has been urged by
the Heroites against MIR. Clay as candidate for
the Presidency is that he will eat like common
folks-a habit which, if countenanced in our
Chief Magistrates, will ere long prove the RUN of
our Republic. So our worthy President and his
Cabinet, when they evacuated the Capitol
months since. constituted themselves an anti-eat-
ing society, and resolved to oppose the election
Of any man to the Presidency who could not sub
due that carnal propensity. But MIR. Clay, no.
thing daunted. dimes with his friends when they
invite him. and general discovers himself to be
as social and companonable guest as we often
hear of q. In spite Of the maxim adopted by
Messrs. Jackson, Van Buren, and company, the
great "nou- committa's" love for the good things
of this life got the better of him IN New York,
and he actually partook Of dinner at the .1lnns
House.
(Which proves. thu mt believed by one in ten,
That kings have GPpetiies ike common men -
Ne'o Hampshire Post.
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Spaia.--The report brought by passenger in
the ship Manchester, from Cadiz. arrived at Phi
ladel phia, about an insurrecton in Galicia. will
probably prove TO be incorrect, at least in part
1t states that the black flag has been raised there.
which would be signal of more extreme and Vi
oleut measures than the liberal Spaniards are
likely to engage in. We ought also to state that
the story of Gen, Minas passing the frontier,
which we received some tine since from the En-
glish papers, is undoubtedly false. Private let
tiers received in thus city, agree in representing
that plan had beca concerted for revolt IN the
Peninsula before the late French Revolution had
commenced: and that, after lis contamination,
the leading Spaniards went TO France, whence
they have probably ere this proceeded to their
assigned districts 20 act in concert against the |
oppressive government Of Ferdinand. Torrijos, |
it is presumed. will be the Chief and will act in !
Catalonia: Nina, Ciiroga. &c. in their appro- I
pria 70 nrnyinceS Tho pratandod fayorahlp forms /