Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-04-29

soul. | remember an anecdote TO TINS ef-
feet related by Dr. Mason, OF New York.
DIR. Mason was requested to visit a la 70
DIV in diving circumstances in that city, !
wbo with her husband openly avowed in. a
6del principles, though they attended on n
his ministry. On approaching her bed O
side, he asked her if she felt herself a SIN n
ner, and her need of Savior. She frank r
v told him she did not and that she be- a
lieved the doctrine Of Mediator 10 be h
farce! Then said the doctor, | have f
no consolation for you-not one word of =
comfort. There is not a single passage !
in the Bible that warrants me to speak :
peace to one who rejects the Mediator
I provided You must take the consequence :
of your infdelity' So saying, he was
about leaving the room, when some one I,
said Well, if you cannot speak conso-
lation 10 her, you can pray for her. He
assented; and kneeling down by her bed |,
side. prayed for her as guilty sinner just
sinking into he'll; and then left the house.
TO his utter astonishment day or two
after he received message from the la
, dy, earnestly desiring that he would visit |
her without delay. What was his amaze
! ment when, on entering the room, she !
held out her hand TO him. and with be-
/ nignant smile said-'It is all true-all
= that you said on Sunday is true. have
0 seen myself the wretched sinner you de-
. scribed me to be in PRAYER. | have seen
5 Christ to be that all-sufficient Savior you
i said he was-and God has mercfully
e snatched ne from the abyss Of in6delity
e in which was sunk, and placed me on
Is the rock of ages. There am secure
ID there ! shall remain-I know whom
lie have believed All was like dream TO
J. him. But she proceeded and displayed
r. as accurate knowledge of the method of
salvation revealed in the gospel, and as
n firm a reliance on it, as.if she had been a
e disciple of Christ for half century. Yet
or there was no boasling or mption-
ny all was humility, resignation and conf
St, dence. She called her husband and charg
. ed him to educate their daughter in the
ke fear of God and above all TO keep from
ly her those novels and books of in6del sen
IN. sualitv, by which she had been 50 nearly
he ruined and on the evening of the same
nt- day. expired in fulness of JOY, and peace
On, in believing.
r 1.-The account which the Doctor receiv
led ed from her attendants was this-that hi
ay prayer fastened upon her minG-that sool
ted after he had left her, she became alarme
ION respecting the state of her soul--that {
his one period such was her agony, that a
lin though on the Sunday her voice was S
ms. feeble that she could scarcely be heard, he
Eat cries were distinctly audible from the sec
ase ond story 10 the cellar of the house, an
- IL, l., Oh, f.,,oI LII;
his that al length she 1ound peace IN belle'
the ing in Christ as exhibited in the gospel
one RATES. Lectures 49,
" A VoIcE OF WISDOM Death is Ii
cen most certain, and yet the most uncerta
'ei'' of all events. That it will come, no or
Use can question but when, no one can
a'o eide. The yong behold it far in the f
y M"t ture the aged regard t still at di
! reY lance; but both are smitten suddenly
~, by bolt from cloud-a serpent fro
:' the brake-or a shaft from an unse
~ ~ culver. There is no safety, therefor
,'' save in that habiual preparations viii
luS3 nothing can deceive and nothing surpri:
ave;
ay," HUMAN FRAILTV.-I have seen re
9th. newly sprnging from the clefts of
Dlem hood, and at hrst 1t was TAR as the MOI
{ the ing, ana full with the dew OF heaven
neil a lambs fleece; but when a ruder brea
had forced open its virgin modesty, a
has dismantled its too youthful and unri
no. retlrment, it began to put on darkness, a
ming 10 decline TO sofness, and the sympto
of sickly age; it bowed the head, q
and broke its stalk; and at night, having
inter. some of its leaves, and all lis beauty
. the fell into the portion of weeds and wo
n the out faces The same is the portion
+, for every man and every woman ;. the he
from age of worms and serpents, roaenn,
and cold dishonor; and our beauty
rinci- changed, that our acquaintance knows
ich is not; and that change mingled with
infer much horror, or else meets so with
f the fears and weak oiscoursings, that Il
IRONS who six hours ago tended upon US, Ell.
in all with charitable or AMBITIOUS servi
ldeur, can not. without some regrel, stay IN
p,ure. room alone where the body lies strip
light of its life and honors.-Jersmy Tayto
'i% =, SPIRIT OF PRAYER-lt is distress
IL to hear long. desultory and cold pray
St ORR They evince that the sacrifice is from
and at II IL - 60 ~ H.. e r
ny of 49, WV" "ar oou, i,o snec;6c e wa
hear u" p'asJ's az I"o.' rd~;,si 30 h.
'aOe'" l, has begun. where it should begin, III
rearts of Christians. Each worship
Am comes to the meeting with an errand e
throne of grace; and he pleads it earne
being full of faith and Holy Ghost.
prays aloud. he supplicales for the Il
Y. he came for, and be entreats for it