Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-03-03

books cease to interest the mind after re-
peated perusals; thas can be read by the
christian every day of long life and new.
er fail to interest and instruct. If we would
be useful and happy in this world; IT we
would be blessed il eternity, let US read,
love and obey the bible.
THE MILLENNIUM. "Oh blessed Saw
ior, what a strange variety of conceits do
/ find concerning thy thousand years
riegnl What riddles are there in that
prophecy which no human tongue can
read Where to fix that marvellous mil
lennary, and where the end and what man-
ner of reign shall be-whether temporal
OF spiritual, on earth or in heaven, under
goes as many constructions as there are
pens that have undertaken it; and yet,
when all is done, I see thine apostle
speaks only of the souls of martyrs
reigning so long with thee, not of thy
reigning so long on earth with those mar
jtyrs oh my Savior! while others wea-
ry themselves with the disquisitioa of thy
personal reign here upon earth for thou
sand years, let it be the whole bent and
study of my soul to make sure of my per-
sonal reign with thee in heaven TO all
eternily.-Bashop Hall.
From the Oberlin Evangelist
LETTERS TO PARENTs.-No. Z.
Dear Brethren and Sisters:-I now OBJ
serve:
V. That if the condition be fulfilled,
that is, if child be trained Up in the
way he should 60. it is certain, that when
he is old, he will not depart from it.
/. Because God has said it.
2. He has laid the foundation of this
certainty in the very nature of human be-
ings. 1t is fact we'll known to every
body, that humane beings form habits, by
the repetition fany given course of con-
duct, or feeling, until the habits become
too confirmed to be counteracted, and put
down by any thing but Almighty Power.
It is the law of habit that lies at the foun-
da:ion of the difficulty of bringing SINNERS
to abandon their sins. A long INDUCED
and confirmed habit is, in the Bible, com
pared to the strength and stability of ma
ture itself. God says "Can the Ethiopian
change his skin, or the leopard his spots
then can We, who are ACCUSTOMED to dc
evil learn to do we'll" Here the law O
habit is compared to the strength and per.
manency of nature itself: Now if child
be trained up in the way he should 60
the rectitude of his future conduct is secu.
red, not only by the promise and grace o.
God, but by this law of habit, which is
laid deep in the foundation of his constitu
Ition.
8. Thus God has put the destiny ofthe
IchId into the hand of the parent, who nat.
urally loves it more than any other hu
man being.
4. But again, God has established the
law of parental affection, for the benefit Of
the child, and so far as may be, to secure
the training it. up in the way it should
60. l might quote great many passages
of Scripture, in confirmation of this doc
trine, but il the text itself does not satisfy
your mind, no multiplication oftexts would
!, do so.
( Here | must notice an objection to tn
view ofthe subject have taken. Their
7 is one common and grand difficulty, whicI
has seemed to stumble Christians, in re
'. spect to their lying hold on the promise:
= in regard to their children. and calculatin
; with any think like certainty upon thei
4 being converted, sancti6ed, and saved. ]
. is this: many good men have, in all ages
, had abandoned and reprobate children
= To this answer:
! a. Good men are not always perfet
q in judgment, and therefore may be, an
y sometimes doubtless have been guilty {
lsome capital error, in training their child
rem.
(2.) A great many good men have bee
!. SO occupied with the concerns ofthe churc
u and the world, as to pay comparatively littI
:, attention TO the training oftheir own chile
: Th L;ld.oo hovo baan nacrlao.o