Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-07-19
RELIGIOUS.
BENEFITS OF AFFLlCIlON.

BENEFITS OF AFFLlC HON.
Numberess Christians have been con-
strained to declare that it was in THEN
Imprisonment, or place of exile--in their
lonely sick chamber, or in the day S when
they we're torsaken by men, and cast oul
by the world, that they entered really into
their own hears, and ascertaincd their true
spiritual state. The leaven Of the Phari-
sees was then put away from them, and
worship was no longer paid 10 an imagln-
airy Saviour. They began to long in
earnest for close communion with them;
and the wrestling prayer of Jacob, lasting
until day-break, which they had only
talked of before, now became matter OF
reality and experience, and event in their
own personal history. And hundred
other things pertaining to inward religion,
imagination appropriated hitherto, were
t!,vn individually realized. They were
then also first truly brough, into the num-
Der of those sheep who hear HIS voice,
and were never SO conscious that he really
lives and speaks to his children, and walks
and dwells with them: nor did they ever
experience his tender consolation and sup
port, or ever feel his love so strong y and
uncquivocaIly, as at that very time when
their path was so solitary and through the
wilderness; when they were obliged 10 be
with their Lord a,onc. Therefore be en-
couraged, yc who dwell by the brook OF
Gcri,h, in solitudcs, for Gods dew can
drop upon the dwellings, as David sings,
and the pastures in the wilderness do spring
with b!cssings.-EHjah the TiSh5i'e.-
Translated from the German otthe Rev.
+. w. krummachcr, d. D., Of EIbeffeld
il Prussia.)
Bat the look which was here youclIsaied
TO Gideon, under the oak, was one OF
kindness and grace: and he who gave it
directs him, saying, "Go in thy might! -
In what might! SIN the might which my
beholding thee communicates; which has
assured.hee ofmy gracious favor" Verify,
a power thus communicated, which gives
to its recipient consciousness of divine
grace and love is great indeed! The heart
which hitherto had been like the troubled
sea, is now changed into an abode OF heav-
cnly grace; and the soul which little be-
fore had sat down in sackcloth and in ashes,
suddenly rises in JOY and transport, as On
eagles wings, now that tic eye OF divine
compassion has beamed upon it. a per-
son, very simple, it may be in other res
poets, will then unfold himself like bios
som OF paradise, ditIusing around the most
delightful and salutary fragrance: and vii!
discover, all at once, such gifts and powers
as seem 10 have come Immediately from
above. Reserved and retiring persons seem
at such times to have bad their lips touched,
and their tongues unloosed, and will ex-
prcss themselves in such lovely manner
that one is never tired oi hearing them ;
YES, the most modest and timd will then
come forward and confess Christ and his
love. with such a holy boldness and sober
ioy.,hat one cannot but admire their courage
and liberty Of spirit. And what real sac
riGces do we then sec such persons make!
Yea. what self.denial! what patience! what
RESIGNATION! what fcrvent brolherlv love
they will evince! But whence does all
this proceed? We answer. from the power
OF one gracious look OF God; IRON The
consciousness that my Saviour ''loved me,
and gave himself for me-" Gal. ii. 20.