Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-07-18

{, poet find who came after the Bible with
which to reveal it2 Nothing remains
1t Is all upon the secrated page.
The allegories of the Bible are finished
specimens of that kind Of writing: and
its metaphors are as Blair observes, what
metaphors should be- Painting from ma
ture and all its descriptive scenery sur
rounds US with the glowing reality
While we read, we behold the dark
clouds begird the mountain tops of Sinai;
and the lightnings blaze, and the thunders
speak, and the voice of the trumpet sounds
long and wakes loud When God came
from Teman and the holy one from Mount
Pdran, and his glory covered the heavens.
and the earth was full of his praise"
who does not behold the brightness Of
the light, and His majesty where he stood
and measured the earth, and his might,
when be beheld and drove asunder the
nations, and scattered the everlasting,
mountains: when the deep uttered Its
voice, and the sun and the moon stood
still in their habitation. What other poet
ever possessed an Imagination that would
set on fire the course of nature; or one
that could WELD the tremendous scenery
: Of the elements, the symbol of omnipo-
tence!
Who, after Job, can describe the war
horse-or the confused noise OF the bat
tie, of the warriors with garments rolled
in blood; after Isaiah, or after David,
the storm at sea, with the outcry of the
mariner tossed on the mountain wave,
reeling like the drunken man, and at his
wits end, or his glad forgetfulness when
arrived in port! And who can draw now
the harp notes Of more touching tendency
over fallen greatness and fallen friendship,
than those which attended the lamenta-
, tons of David over Saul and Jonathan
And where shall we find a pencil that
has portrayed, or can portray, the desola-
ton of captivity, of famine and of war,
} to be compared with those contained in
the Lamentations of Jeremiah-and those
t blrssed days which, wrapt 10 future time,
Isaiah saw2 Who that reads is not also
wrapt into future tjne-to behold that
glorious sun which in a cloudless day
arises and pours its glad efulgence on
t mountain top and >vaIley-hushing the
} voice of Manipulating the hands of ra-
: pine, and calling forth in kind alliance
the failing and the bear, the lion and the
r lamb-the leopard and the kid?
+ And as to the last day: it can scarcely
5 be more vivid to the eye when it comes
? than it is made now to the imagination by
bright and powerful imagery. The grea
. white throne, and Him that sits on it
; from whose face The earth and the heav.
: ems fled away, the elements in the mean
= time melting with fervent heat, and the
trump of God sounding, and the earth
and sea giving up the dead, to stand before
the Judgment seat of Christ.
From the Christian Watchman.
Profession OF Religion i'm Childhood.
: Many persons have been of opinion that
it is hazardous to the cause of Christ, for
those who indulge hopes in very early
l life, to make public profession of Reli-
gion. They think that children of eight,
ten, or twelve years of age, are incapable
of approaching the importance of the sub
ject; and therefore in greater danger OF
bringing reproach upon the hoI y name
: whereby they are called. But, upon
) thorough investigation, it doubtless would
l. be evident that as large a proportion of
; such hold out 10 the end; and as clearly
demonstrate the reality Of the change,
| which, when children, they hoped the
Holy Spirit wrought in their hearts, as
t do any other class of professors.
t The writer well recolIects hearing the
= late venerable Elder Caleb Blood, whose
5 praise was in all our churches relate
: some circumstances which are calculated
7 10 sustain US in the hope that many, tho
7 perhaps not all Of those who at the pres
S ent day, are coming out on the Lords side,
; while yet in their childhood, will prove
t to be sound in the faith, and useful in the
church, PARTICULAR to one another.
In a church, of which he was the faith
t full and successful pastor, eight of the
: members were children, two or three OF
. whom were his own. Between these
lambs of the flock, there subsisted de-
lightful union. They held prayer and
) conference meetings among themselves,
: and exercised Christian watch-care over
each other; kindly admonishing when it
: became needful, and rejoicing in the spir-
itual comforts that were afforded 10 any
of their number.
Things went on tremendously for a
5 considerable time. AT length, however,
. it was apparent that there was trouble in
, the little camp. Their countenances were
: down cast. and their friends could not hel p
D fearing that serious difficulties might en-
f sue. Still, as they evidently loved each
e other, and had hitherto managed with so
, much christian simplicity, it was not