Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-12

There is no God, the fool in secret said
There is no God that rules earth or sky:
Tear off the band that folds the wretchs head,
That God may burst upon his faithless eye.
Is there no God?-the stars in myriad's spread,
Il he look up, the blasphemy deny,
Whilst his own features, in the mirror read,
Reflect the image of Divinity.
Is there no Godl-the stream that silver flows,
The air he breathes, the ground he treads the trees
TheGoDers, the grass, the sands each lgid that blows,
All speak of God throughout ONE agrees,
And eloquent His dread existence shows: nfsh-
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of seeing
CINE FIELD Is THE WORLD. "-Hd by thou
to be cultivated This question preyfound at
slf on our attention while listenirgd for tn
debate about measures in the meeting"
Philadelphia. We could but think, where
are the men, who are to carry out these or
any other measures for the worlds evange-
ization:
1t is fact which should startle the Church
from her indifference, that the number of can
didates for the ministry, in all our denomina-
tons, is about the same now that it was ten
years ago. With an increase in our popula-
ton of about six million of souls, there are
no more men preparing for the ministry now
than we had ten years ago. We ask the
Church to look at this fact. If this state of
things is to continue, we shall soon find
restitution among us which it will be almost
impossible to overtake And then, what are
we to do for the heather world in the mean
time-that world opening its doors on every
side for the entrance Of the gospel? Let
every Christian parent look well at this por-
tentious subject for from them must come the
answer.
There are in fourteen of the principal coll
leges Of the Eastern States only about TWEEN
ty five hundred students, less than one-haH
Of whom are professors ,; Of religinn- and only
little over one -toulth of whom are looking
| forward to the min stry.
Let it be borne in mind that these young
men are merely in College, and that it will be
three years before many of them will COM
mence their theological course, and three more
| before they will all be preaching the gospel
| Thus it will be seen that it will be five years,
and, in many cases, even six years, before we
shall get the full benefit of these five hun
| dred candidates for the ministry. Now, is
this all that twelve colleges ought to have i'll
preparation to supply the demands, ever in
creasing, of the SIX coming years Look at
the whole aggregate population which these
live hundred young men at college may be
said to represent. How many thousand fam
lilies would it embraced And are five hun
dred young men anything like an adequate
proportion for these many thousand families
to furnish for future ministry IN. Y. Re-
corder.
SELFIsHNEss, UNcHRIsTIAN.-Liye for some
purpose in the world. Fill up the measures of
duty to others. Conduct yourself so that you
shall be missed with sorrow when you are
gone. Multitudes of our species are living i'll
such selfish manner, that they are not like
ly to be remembered after their disappearance,
They leave behind them scarcely any traces
OF their existence, but are forgotten almost as
though they had never been. They are,
while they live, like one pebble among a mill
lion on the shore, and when they die, they are
like the same pebble thrown into the sea,
which just rufies the surface, sinks, and is
forgotten without being missed from the beach.
They are neither regretted by the rich, wanted
by the poor, nor celebrated by the learned
Who has been the better for their life Whose
tears have they dried ups Whose miseries
healed Whose wants supplieds Who would
unbar the gate of life, to re-admit them to ex-
istence; or what face would greet them back
again to our world with a smiles Wretched,
unproductive mode of existence! Selhshuess
is its own curse-it is a starving vice. This
man who does not good, gets none. He is
like the heath in the desert, neither yielding
fruit nor seeing when good eometh-a stunted,
dwarhsh, miserable shrub.
The HOLINESS OF GoD.-Believer let the
attribute of holiness be the superscriptlon writ
ten ON your heart and life. Astounding grace
can give no sanction to abound in sin. g His
mercy" says Bishop Reynolds, :" is holy
mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not
to protect it; it is sactuary for the peni-
tent not for the presumptuous' Ny soul,
art thou tempted to murmur under the deal
ings of thy Gods What are the sorest of thy
trials in comparison with what they might have
been, had this holy God left thee to know,
in all the stearness of its meaning, how "glor-
ious he is in holiness I" Rather marvel con-
sidering thy sins, that thy trial has been so
small, thy cross so light.
GENERAL RULE.-Whoever raises the child
wins him for life. If the faithful raise him.
he is Christs; but if the wicked he is Satan's.
1t Catholics or lnfidels get the first years of
your child, Christ will rarely get the last. Al
ways find business for your children at the
sanctuary and amongst Gods people. lest thew
take up with bad companions, and go with
them to the synagogue of Satan. If Pharoah's
daughter had raised Moses, he might have
been most naughty tyrant; but she raised
him in faith, who had hid him by faith, and
he became the meekest of all men.
CHANCE. Never let us saw of anvthing
whatsoever that it happeneth by chance: there
is nothing that hath not been concerted-no-
thing that hath not in its own particular de-
sign and end, by which it forms a link in the
chain OF appointed order. There is no such
thing as chance. 1t is only the blindness Of
ignorance that talketh of things being strange
and unaccountable, and unlucky.-St. Basil.
There is nothing on earth so beautiful as
the householder which Christian love forever
smiles, and religion walks, counsellor and a
friend. No cloud can darken it, for its twin
stars are centred in the soul. No storms can
make it tremble, for it has a heavenly support
and heavenly anchor.