The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-05-14
MORAL AZ RELIGIOUS.
APRECIOUS THOUGHT

| What can be SO consoling to the heart of fee
BILE man as the thought that his Maker cares for
him, and will save him from the cruel tyranny OF
his sins Hours of dependency and gloom Of
tell cast their shadows over the Christians mind;
but when the swee, impressions revisit his soul
that his Redeenier cares for him, it is sunshine
with his heart again. What pen can reveal the
seriousness of the thoughts Of Almighty love that
steal into the soul with all their balmy fragrance!
In the silent hours of night, when creation sum-
bers around, one Christian on his bed whose soul
is throbbing under the ineXpressible pulsation OF
heavenly love, feels more happiness than all Gre
ated worlds can bestow. He lies OH q bed
| of spices; images Of beauty and glory cluster
thickly into his entraced soul. Mis- thoughts
respond to the promptings of celestial ones
who for aught we know may be waving
their dewy wings around his pillow!
One hour spent thus, is worth n whole cease-
less unending eternity of bondage TO the pleas
ure of the sense. Memory will go back with
.a.lo..;eLl.s SUCH nour, and the
soul will yearn for it again with immortal desire.
To believe that the pure Interchangeable and om-
npoent Saviour thinks kindly of us-and that
the promptings of his spirit applies to us, not
withstanding our unworthiness, some precio us
promise of his wcrd; this is worth living for
For this may we gladly suffer and toll on thro'
the trials of poverty and mental anxiety. But
blessedness like this is ours. This precious
thought is our inheritance herea calm and per-
petual sunshine Of the soul which cheers the
inhabitants of the upper word-.N Y Mirror.
SHORT SERMoN.-lt was the custom wi III
that peaceable and. quiet sect, the quakers, to
hold their meeting two hours and retire in ST.
lence, il tho spirit moved not one to word of
eXhortation. Just as one Of their silent sessions
of two hours was about expiring and the assem-
bly,, about breaking up Il venerable friend rose
and said. Ifevery man would mind his own blu
sness there would be less rouble.n the world"
The audience retired with profitable meditations
on this comprehensive sermon.
nF@Be cause there are some religious hypo-
critics, many men arc weak enough to con-
slider all religion fable. They might with the
same propriety consider the whole human race
thieves, because few are confined in the Peni-
Tertiary. 1t was golden query of DR. Frank
lin in answer to one OF the importunate letters
of Tom Paine, that IF men were so wicked
with religion, what would they do withoutit?
The GREAT FIRST Cause Without a
God to whom he is related and accountable"
says DR. Hopkins, President of William College,
in mis- late excellent sermon delivered before the
Legislature of Massachusetts,, 'man has neither
dignity nor hope. Without God, the universe
has no cause, its contrvances indicate no intelli-
gence, its providence no goodness, its related
parts and processes no unity, its events no con-
vergence to one grand result, and the glorious
spectacle presented in the earth and the heavens
instead of calling forth admiration and songs,
is an enigma perplexing to the intellect and tor
turing to the heart. Seen in its conneXion with
God the universe Of matter is as the evening
cloud that lies in the sunlight radient and Skin
ted with glory, with him it is the same cloud cold
g. dark when the sunlight is gone. Without God
man is an orphan; lie has no protector here, and
no Fathers house in which he may hope for n
mansion hereafter.-Hs life is at his own dispo-
sal, and has no valne except in relation to his
personal and present employment
| SIcKNEss-Sickness and disease are in weak
minds the sources of melancholy; but that which
is painful to the body may be proftableto the
soul. Sickness, the mother of modesty, puts us
in mind of our mortality; and while we drive
on heedlessly, in the full career of worldly pomp
and jolIity, kindly pulls by the ear, and brings
us to a. proper sense of our duty.