The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1847-03-30

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peopIe whose measure is overiowlng win
The bounties ef P good Providencc-whost
r-ona,;es are lull-whose tables are groar
mo with the choicest fruits ofthe earih-whc
are living nay rerelling in the very Tap oil
nIen,v And has not Heaven crowned tins
lind uuh abundance that il may have the
mesns Of answering that appeal ? May moi
tbs be the day Of our trial Who can iell
but that this appeal has been suffered TO be
made 10 America, that the bouniliulGiVer oil
all the blessings shOwered upon us, may Try
us-Io see whether we are worthy oil inc
benefits he con.ers upon us-to see whether
we do not, in forgetting the miseries oil our
fellow men and passing by UNDECIDED ms cry
for aid, ourselves forget God Ana Il We
for get him, in forgetting our poor ana s $50,
en- brethren Of other lands will he MOI wi 90
us2 Will not the pes;ience be sumo - 81 ~
walk among US, blowing disease anu uV 90 -,
from his swollen and polluted ups !" i"
moi the BLIGHT and mildew be sent 10 make
Jcsola,e o1r fruitful fields? Will not fam
inc with his ghaslly scowl, be suffered to
stare MS in the face? And Oh may we moi
soon hear our own children crying 10 US IN
those accents OF supplicalion, which rend,
with the sharpcSt agony the human heart
UtCB nc UTtuu ~ Ot IOi SOf'N''C
How awful the contemplation Disease,
famine. darkness, desolaiion, despair and
death, hover around the thought IL, then.
YOU would have the good Father of al! re-
member you with blessings and plenty. re-
men,6er nol1. his poor and furnishing children
III other lands, out iyour abundance.
You are asked to aid in mitig the lNr
rors of famine. But what Imagination can
conceive, or what pen portray. the dreadful
reality Of these horrors Death comes MOI
then ia any OF his usual forms. lie IS MOI
heraldcd by disease TO dry up suddenly The
fountains Of life, amid the cares and sympa-
tIies of friends 10 soften the dying pillow
he comes not in flood or fire or tempest al
earthquake to snatch the living to the dead
he comes not in the shout and crash ol bat
tie, when his haggard lineamenis have n"
fear fol the daring victim: but he presents
his spectral form before his chosen prey, and
lays his neshlcsS, icy hand upon them, and
wherever thew 90 and whatever they do.'hry
feel his cold grasp, and see his ghastly iea-
lures. Their strength slowly decays-ihclr
,ormcnis daily increase-the beud, snh"s
at their heart strings aud sucks the life blood
from their Gins and they struggle IN vaIn
10 escape from his skeleton embrace. They
cry for aid but there is none to help. MI
around them are. in the hands of the destroy
er. Age. mauhood, youth and infancy are
all sinking iuio the same tombless deai'I.
The parent hears the child cry 10 him fnr
food, but he has no bread 10 give-the child
sees the parent dying before his eyes and eau
bring no relief to him. who fed his infancy
aud oh ! with what srcochless. terrible as-
ony does The morher press her moaning babe
to that bosom hich can no longer yIelL any
sn7;rn.ncc to the tender, d, ing snliere'
Amidst the plenty and comfort OF your own
homes. forget not the furnishing. When
You gather around yonr full boards, think Of
iht sc VIM have no bread 10 appcase the
remorscless Cravings OF their hun gcr-when
,ousee your own children around YOU inll oI
lie and health and Joy. think ui the tbous
nnds of children in other lands. who with
hollow eyes. and suukcn checks. and emacl"-
ted little hands are implorng their iai5er~
ard ,uo'hcrs for o ID and impl"ring in VAN
think of these Ihires and remember that
every dollar YOU give may save those fathers
and nullers and children from Starvation
aud death. and then refuse to give If Won can
hut remember also. if you steel your hearts
aud cluse your hands aSains This claim up
ON your manhood. YOU srani registered III the
record Of IIslvcn's Chanccry as recreant 10
humanity, aud recrcani 10 God.
EDWARD d. BARBER.
HARVEY BELL,
CZIAS SEYMOUR.