Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-06-27

exceedingly plain on some suitable scrip
ture. with all possible ingenuity and ear.
nestness, in order TO excite their attentive /
regard. After this he singled out num-
Der of scholars, perhaps eight or ten, and
Iture, which he made them read to the |
whole school 1T giving them to see, by
his brief remarks upon 1t, that it contained
something which it particularly concern
ed children to take notice Of; then he con-
cluded with a short prayer for blessing
on the school and on the tutors. Got
ton Mather.
ONE THING CERTA1N.--Death is p
! theme of universal interest. The lightest
heart, the least Thoughtful mind, has no
disbelief of death. The distance of the
dark cloud in which he comes, sailing
through the bosom of futurity, may be
miscacuIated, but the world unhesitating-
Iy owns that he is coming, and will at las.
be here In almost every other particular
of existence, the fortunes Of men differ:
but to die is common to all. The stream
ofllfe runs in a thousand various channels;
but, run where it wiII-brightly or dark
ly, smoothly or languidly-it is stopped by
death. The trees drop their leaves at the
approach of the winters frost; uan falls
at the presence of death. Every success
sive generation he claims for his own, and
his claim is never denied. To die is the
condition on which we hold life: rebellion
sckens with hopelessness at the thought
of resisting death: the very hope of the
most desperate is not that death may be
escaped, but that he is eternal and all the
young, the careless, and the dissipatcd at
tempt, is to think of him as seldom as they
can. No man, therefore, will deny, that
whatever can be said of death is sppica-
bic to himself The bell that he hears
toIed may never toll for him: there may
be no friend or children left to lament him
he may have to live through long and
anxious days, looking for the coming of the
expected terror but he knows that he
must die he knows that, in whatever
quarter Of the world he abides-Whatever
present hold of life-hoWever unlike the
prey of death he Iooks-that it is his
doom beyond reverse to die.-SIeJba~s
E Discourse on Death.
2 A WORD IN SEAsoN-The late ex.
! cellent Rowland Hill, at the conclusion oil
2 a sermon in which he had been exhorting
S his 1hearers not to be conformed to the
= world, related the following interesting
= circumstance
= " 1t is now many years since young
r man, who had been confor ned to this world
= and who had lived very wicked life, made
4 up his mind to come to this chapel TO hear
= he man preach, who, in his estimation
r was beside himself. He came and He
f who by the foo)ishness of preaching car
mouth to suit his case He went away
: sorrowful, with an arrow in his heart
f "Now he had a brother who had pur
> sued the same thoughtIess and ungodly
e course as himself, and he told him where
= he had been, and how he felt Brother,
said he, we have lived very wicked
lives II wish you would come with me
; for | think if you were to hear the same
: man preach, you would feel the same as
do His brother consented, and they both
: came and sat, as you are now sitting, tc
! hear the wo of God preach he'd by bis I'm
) worthy servant. had this account from
: the young man who first came; and he
J told me, that if ever he had enjoved hap
!, py moment in the course of his life, it was
II then, round to his brother, he
+ saw the repentant tear trickIing down hi
cheek.
=" ! "These two young men became servants
IL of God and though one of them is dead
y yet they are servants of God still.--Th'
: one worships God at his throne, and tn,
t other at his footstool" -Cauada Baptis
a Magazine.
d BAPTIsMs IN PHILADELPH1A.-Se
t. persons, one about seventy years of age
o were added to the Eleventh Baptist Church
l. by baptism, on the last Lords day in May
v and on the following Sabbath, seven wer
l. added to the 9Th Church, SAMSON street
- by baptism and two by letter. On tn
same day four were added to the l0t
Church. and three TO the Central ChurcI
j. by baptism. Last Lords day three wer
If received to the fellowship of the Spruc
l. street Church by Baptism.-Bapt;st Rec
H. 0rd
4 For THE YOUNG CHRIsTIAN.-In de
20 pemdence on the promised grace Of myc
enant God and Sa0i0r, through continue
r. prayer for the presence and aid Of the E
n ternal Spirit, 1 ociU carry into Eject til
s. following resolres.
:. Isl. l will value my soul more than IN
ID body, consecra:ing both to the service an
y glory Of Almighty God.
,e End. | will improve my mind in tn
ct knowledge of the doctrines and the dutie
- of the gospel.
Mt Sd. | will supplGnt the evil propensitit
,r and affections Of my heart, and cuItiva
-. hinh attain nonts In nnnrcnn.L l. q :a.As