Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-02-20

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CONFERENCE.-THE peaceful spirit ali the
while ready to wing its flight. Go, boast
ful science! 60. vain philosophy and
visit the deathbeds of your voraries =
mark well the doubts and fears betrayine
themselves under the mask of bold pro.
fesslon; mark the Impotence and yexa-
tlon-the present burden. and the misera-
bic toreboding. Go, and discover your
lnildel championships proud Goliaths Of
your kingdom, trembling and quailing
under the lifted stroke CT death, and de-
spalring under the load Of untorgven sin
under the terrors Of an insuted and
a,venglng God. Go to your despisers OF
The cracifed Jesus--to those who have
been too wise to seek or too busy to iud
I hin; see them, as have seen, stretching
out their hands in agony, and saying, {" Is
theie none to save leIlow-crealure from
destruction (" Then, when We are sick
ened with such scenes. repair to the bed
side o. departing saint, and see how a
Christian can die. Go, and study les
son more instructive and more precious
than all your pages of human lore and
learning; go, and learn from lovely ex-
ample, how to live and how to dix. ~
SHADES Sermon on the Death Of W. This
Hethvaite.
Death-Eed Repentance.
AS for that sorrow and regret which is
feit by the sick and dying, let it not be
mistaken for repentance. Il proves moth
ing. 1t is miserable hope that is built
upon it. No man has any assurance that
since the foundation OF the world, more
than one man repeating thus late, repent
ed savingly; for,the dying man has no
opportunity to bring forth fruits meet for
repentance" and only Shy their fruits
shall We know them"
Perhaps nothing would more striking
ly illustrate the deceilfulness of sin, that
the per7ersion thereby produced, in re-
gard to future repentance. 1t tells how
many excellent opportunities there will be
Tor repentance IN the progress of life, sea-
sons of Affections, periods of leisure, occa-
sions of sickness, and what golden time
the last, the sickness that shall be unto
death, will afford what glorious oppor-
tunty then, in the midst of medicine, and
IN the company ofnurses, and physicians,
and pastors, when there is necessity TO
constrain, or agony to urge on, and no
world to attract, no friend to oppose, no
formidable cross to take up, but death is in
near view and every thing favorable i
The poor sinner is made to think return
of Pentecost would hardly equal such
time In advantages of repentance He
torgets that the soil is not merely bound
with filaments- there are chains to be
broken. He forgets that in making peace
with God, that divince consent and con.
are as necessary as his He for
gets, too, that true repentance is not a
mere sorrow, and that there is sorrow for
sin. for which hell is peni!entiary.
There Is among the realities of this
world, what answers to that which in the
parable ofthe virgins is set forth in figure
A person, he may be, one of those who
have borne the lamp ofthe Christian pro-
tesslon, and gone forth to meet the bride
groom, makes in enc Of his last hours,
perhaps the very last, the painful diScov-
cry, that he has no grace in his beart.-
What shall he doc His mind is now
awake. But the approach of death has
already been announced; and the cry,
" he cometh, he cometb," has been reiter-
aled in his ears, and he hears the fatal
football at hand What shall be do -
He has no time to lose. He applies 10
those around him; but all the he p they
can afford is friendly counsel" go, buy -
and he hastily goes; and with tears and
signs he asks fer the holy oil; and he Of
fers the world upon which he has now no
claim; and he proposes to give his all,
which is now nothing; and he enlists as
many as he can in his behalf; but death,
memorable, uncourteous, instructive death,
supervenes, and draws his impervious cur
tain around the scene and he is gone!-
Friendship, thinking that importantly, that
prayer, and that warmth, and earnestness,
the effect OF loves enkindement in the
heart, calls these exercises religion, and
supposes that the flown spirit has found
easy and abundant entrance through an
ample, and wide, and open door. But it
is to be feared be found the door shut
He slept too long. He began too late
He was in earnest-he lost not moment
but it was too late when he began. All,
that noise and hustle, that the fearful soul
makes on the eve of its departure, about its
salvation, place little dependence upon.
Ii is thus that animal feelings, when high
ly excited, exhibit themselves All this
may occur, and the Holy Spirit be afar
of. Nerins.
From the Sunday School Journal.
On the Character of God, as Exhibited Il,
the Book of Genesis.
God is eternal He who made all
things must have existed before all things
Hewho existed before all things mus