The Arkansas advocate., 1830-11-03
THE VISION oF GOD IN IN GGeRRTi '

l i9ION OE 0OD IN
 From Dr. Pdgson's Se1mons.
 You see, indeed, no form or shape and yet your whole soul perceiVes, with intuitive elearness and certainty, the immediate, awe-inspiring presence of Johov;sht. IYouseeno counteHaneees. | | yet you feel as if d countenance of zaw- iul majesty, in which all the. perfections of Divinity shone forth, were beamine upon you whereveryou turn. You see no eye; andyet piercing, heaFtesearch- ing eye, an eye of Omniscient purity, every glance of which goes through your souls like a Hash oflightning, seems to look upon you from every point of surrounding space. You feel as if en- seioped ia an atmosphere or plunged iR an ocean of existence, intelligence, per lection and glory; an ocean, of which your laboring minds can take in only q drop; an ocean, the depth of which you cannot fathom, and the breadth'of which you can never explore. But while you feel utterly unable to comprehend this Infinite Being, your views of Him so far as they extend, are perfectly clear and distinct. You have the most vivid per ceptions, the most deeply graveh impress sions, of an infinite, eternal, spotless mind in which the images of all things, past, present andto come are most har- moniously seen, arranged in the most perfect order, and defined with the nicestsaccuracy: of amind, which wills with infinite ease, but whose yoltions are attended by a power omnipotent and irresistible. and which sows worlds. suns and systems through the fields of space with far more facility, than the husbandman scatters his seed upon the earth--of a mind, whence have flowed all the streams which ever watered any part of the universe with life, intelli- gence, holiness or happiness, and which is still full. overhowing and inexhaust- ible. You perceive also, with equal clearness and certainty, that this infinite, eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, ,alLwise, all-ereating mind is perfectly and essen tIally holy,a pure flame of holiness, and that, as such, he regards sin with unut- terabie, irrecenciiable detestaton and abhorrenoe. With a voice, which re- verberates through the wide expanse of lis dominions, you hear him saying, as the Sovereign and Legislator of the uni verse-Be yc holy; forI the Lord your God am holy. And you sec this throne surrounded, you see heaven filled by those only who perfectly obey this com mand. You see thousands of thousands. and ten thousand times ten thousand of angels and archangels, pure, exalted, glorious inteiiisences, wilo reflect his perfect image, burn like flames of fire with zeal for his glory, and seem 10 be somany concentration ofwisdom, knowl- edge, holiness, and love;a fit retinue for the thrice hely Lord of Hosts. whose iio- liness and all-6lliag glory they unceas- ingly proclaim.
 ESscsseratle Presslsci q BB,,,ssser, EEsH lsal.
 here M P ,.:sis..a!t T, T, sl.e recent ceremonies at BUNKER HILI that has stuck us more forcibly than the follow ing, related by the Boston Courier of Monday last:
 sWhcn the vcnerable Thaxter came forward to offer up his prayer, the null tltude wasain an instant hushed to the proiounalest silence. A more interest ing object eau hardly be imagined, than a man Ut the age oi ssi;sessst ssi;ssg having g out lived his generation--ib1ii silver jocks flowing down his shoulders-i1is .ace exhibiting the furresvs et yet glow Eing with animation and apparent health
 *his voice, though a little trcmulous, get strong, and susceptible of considcra- ,bles modulation-llis articulation per fact aud distinct. Such a man was go-