Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-02-18

A Synopsis OF an Address TO Parents
have listened to few sermons, in my short life,
that ought TO be engraven the walls of houses,
written upon our hearts and held in everlasting re-
membrance Among the number one delivered
BY Mr. Gurley, on last Monday evening, in the First
Presbyterian Church in this city. Few possess
his varied and usefot information and few watchmen
on the towers of Zion, labor more assiduously and
constantly for the welfare Of the iocks committed to
their His mighty intellect seems to range the
broad universe and press into his service all that is
beautiful magnificent and Impressive, illustrate his
subjects. Then, with a soemnty Of manner, depth /
of paihos and winning tenderness that speaks |
louder than the words he utters he endeavors i'm
press his deductions the minds of his audience in
SUCH a that they may never be forgotten. He
takes subject with which we had thought we were
perfectly familiar, il before in position
pours upon it the light Of his Illuminated INTEL
lect, and behold instead of the old edifce that
we had gazed upon until the mind was tired of It's
sameness new and beautiful fabric, perfect in all
Its proportions and adorned with gems of thought,
carefully collected in the far fields of learning
The subject, on last Monday evening, the duty
of parents to their children, which shall try TO
give few of his thoughts from memory, though
am concious, that in passing through my hands, they
will be shorn of half their beauty
80 Your children said he a. have souls Did you
ever sit down and seriously consider that the dear
little creatures that you dandle your knees and
press 10 your 5oscms have souls, immortal souls
God has stamped them the impress of eternity, and
when heaven and earth shall have passed away they
will be singing the songs of redemption in the realms
of eternal blessedness, lifting up their fruitless
wailings in the regions of eternal dispar Oh, what
4 fearful thought, what fearful responsibility;
Gabriel himself mig bt shrink from it, and well might
we exclaim, who is sufficient for these things!
sYour children, said he, are tender twigs, ready
to receive an inclination from your hand Shall not
rather say, they tender plants committed TO your
TO become beautiful trees in the garden of God.
bearing the fruits Of righteousness and praise, dry
and sapless branches, fit only for the furnace aud the
fire! Your children not your In the strict
est sense they loan God has said, these souls
are mine. | have committed them to your care at
the most interesting period of their whole existence
under circumstances in which you will naturally love
them and desire their happiness. | have given them
to you to train up for my glory, and shall require of
you account OF the In which you perform this
duty Here are two roads, said he one leading to
everlasting happiness. by the cross Of Christ; the
other, leading to everlasting Misery, IN the ways OF
sin. Here your little Ones grouped around you,
with their hearts and tender consciences, re-
posing all their confidence in you and ready to obey
the impulse you shall give them in either direction.
Fathers and mothers, you have already given an i'm
pulse, whittier | know not; but God knows, and 1t
may already be written, in the records of heaven,
that that impulse downward to the gates of
DEATH Oh there Will be mourning at the Judgment
in the broad light of eternity, and charge them with
their everlasting ruin when the awful agonies of
dspair, they shall exclaim father, mother, you
warned US of this day If you had been less careful
about our temporal wants, and more concerned for
our spiritual welfare, we might have been saved il
is your fault that we are lost; !ost lost forever.
what we do for the salvation of our children
said he, must do quickly, for we know not how
long they may remain with us. God has left us os
much the dark, that subject, he has in regard
L. g Il
g in such an hour We think not, the son of mar
cometh."
Speaking OF parental influence, he said. John
Newton asserted that the religious instruction his
y mother had given him, when he four years old
had been the of his conversion at thirty. One
. day, when Newton preaching In London, LITTLE
y ragged boy dropped into his church and heard SER
> mon, which the means of his conversion tina
little ragged boy was Claudus Buchanan, the grea
> apostle to India through whose insrumentality the
bible was translated into the Hindoo language, ant
who had done more to christanize British India than
: any other man. There another, he said, t.
u whom Newton was father in the gospel that othe
y was Thomas Scott, the author of the Commentaries
Now, think of all the good that Buchanans abors
India have done all the good that Scott has done b,
n his ministry; all the good that he has done and i
d still doing by his Commentaries See the waves tina
: those men have set In notion moving on, widening
a deepening and extending to eternity, and then trace
this mighty torrent back to its source, and you viii
e find it Newton's mother, giving religious instruction
% to a little boy four years DID,
"Now, dear friends, said he, when you 90 HON,
and take your little to your embraces, remembe
u that you are clasping to your bosoms infant seraph
ID or embryo 6ends, and oh, may this thought stimulate
you faithful discharge of your duty to you
d children; that they may one day be stars in you
e crown of rejoicing, and flat you may be able, on thu
great day of accounts, to say, here Lord we ant
: the children thou hast given u.s.
| have not attempted, with these few detached
thoughts, 10 give de6nite idea of Mr.. Gurey's sty
d or manner Of preachng but only to send out int
e the world the faint echo of Sermon that ought L
: have been heard by every father and mother in tn,
d land. st ass. - A MOTHER.
y Poles IN SGBERIA-The Paris Seicle has an article
the Poles in Siberia, taken mainly from the Jour
: nal of Piatrowsk, fugitive from that vast prison
r. house of Russia. Some of the instances of cruelty
in the treatment Of these unfortunate men, who mum
C Der upward of 50,000 are too horrible for belief
Attempts at escape punished with the greatest Sc
verify. The common punishment is a sort of running
the gauntlet between two files of soldiers armed with
: rods. We copy single case:
> According TO the Russian military code the sticks
&c used In the application of the basnado are to be OF
Is such thickness, that three of them may be put to-
e gether in the barrel of regulation muskf; but the
J. sticks used on the Able Sieracnsk and c.ers were
= thick that they could be but with cicu put in
q musket barrel. According to the regulation
the soldiers are to be in close columns, and not to
their elbows from their sides when in the act
= striking but this occasion there distance c
one step between each two and they were order
ed put their right feet forward and raise their right
: arm in order to strike with all their might. The
T. inficton commenced on those sentenced to 1000
. blows but the Able Sieracinski left to be the