Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-08-15
VOL. X. NO, Al.

it's and feelings of your heart should be
greater even than your desire 20 improve
the head You would End in this an al
vantage which would sweeten all your
toll, and brighten all the path before you
with a ray of hope and give to your hands
an luvincible strength, and secure to you
a joy and crown OF success which shall
never fade away. | would have you wise
In all literary requirements, | would have
you gather all the knowledge you can
collect; but entreat you, by all that
presses on your own interests and those
OF the children, that you do not enter on
your Sabbath labors, or any other depart
ment, without zeallus and constant care
that your heart is in that state in WIKI b
YOU would wish to dice. s oreL, az
/ London Euuday- Schoo! Union.
POINTED PREAcH1NG.--The con-
science is not likely to be touched by gen.
erai declamations on the evil of sin and
I,Ee beauty of holiness without detinea-c
tions of character: they may alarm at
first but after while, if they be often as
serted mere y as general truths which in
voIve the whole human race, they will
supply no materials for self-examination
or painful retrospect. They wilt in pro-
cess of time be regarded as doctrinal points,
and pass from the consciences into the
creed. He must know little Of human
nature who perceives not the callousness
of the human heart, and the perfect in-
) difference with which it can contemplate
, the most alarming truths when they are
presented in general abstract form.
r 1t is not in this way that religious in
, structon can be made permanently inter-
estlng. 1t Is when particular vices are
t displayed as they appear in real lite, when
the arts of sef-deception are detected. and
, the vain excuses by which the sinner pail
tiates his guilt, evades the conviction OF
conscience and secures a delusive tran.
} quiIity-in a word, it is WREN the heart
| is forced to see in itself the original Of
what is described by the apostle, and per-
ceiving that ":he secrets of his heart are
made manifest, he tails down and confess.
cs that God is among US of truth" The
reproof which awakened David from his
guilty Slumber and made him weep and
trembIe, turned, not on the general evil Of
sin, but on the peculiar circumstances of
aggravation attending that which he had
y committed. The sermon Of Peter on the
+ day of Pentecost, which produced such
y decisive effects, was not general decIa-
s nation, on the evil Of sin, but contained
/ a specific charge against his hearers of
:, having ejected and cruci6ed their Messi-
q ah.
$ When Paul was called before Felix,
being well acquainted with his character,
q he adapted his discourse accordingly, and
e reasoned Of righteousness, Temperance,
7 and judgment to come" until Felix
y trembed" Delineations of character and
the injunctlons of scripture on practical
points are not couched in general terms
they are diversified and particular; nor
can it just y be doubted that the more of
individuality, if | may be allowed the ex-
? preston, our pictures of human nature
possess, the more impressive will they be-
come. 1t is in this apartment of public
obstruction there is a scope for endless va
rety-for the highest exertions of intel
Iect and the richest stores of knowledge.
Robert Hall.
We lose more than we gain in the
minds Of our hearers when we would
concliate their esteem by the sacrifice of
our duty-MassiIlon.