Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-04-06

forty years afterwards, on account Chiefly
of his having translated the Bible, his
bones we're committed to the flames as
herctical, and then cast into the water.
"The brook Swift did convey his ashes
into the Avon, the Avon into Severn, the
Severn into the narrow seas, they into the
main ocean" This striking remark Words
worth has finely c,nbalmed
Once more the Church is seized with sudden fear,
sud yet at her call IS Wirkli:ie disiuhumed;
va, his dry bones To ashrs arc consumed,
And Hung '1;u the p.Ook that travels near.
lurthvi the ancient voice which streams can hear,
Thus speaks that voic; which walks upon the wind,
Though seldom heard by busy human kindJ
As ;aou these ashcs. lIttle brook, VA; bear
Into the Avon, Avon {, the tide
of Severn Severn - tn. narrow Seas,
Into ,hr main Ocean they. that deed accurscd
An emblem yields to friends and enemies
How The Id teachers toc;r;ncs sauc.'fed
By truth, shall spread throughout the world dispersed
In ike manner were the ashes of JOHN
UUss and JEROME OF Prague scattered.
Ia that day, these "morning stars Of the
Reformation" shall shine bright in the
armament, while their traducers and muir
dcrers in outer darkness shall weep and
weep and never expiate their folly and
their guilt.
OF our own times, we recall. GEORGE
CooKMAN, Methodist preacher of rare
powers, and his last sermon as Chaplain
to Congress, in ISL. His theme invoi-
we'd the judgment; and never can We for
get the majestic sweep Of his arm, and the
piercing glance of his eye, as they en-
braced the large assembly before him, and
he exclaimed, "Tou irW Je there" and
then, pressing his heart and lifting his
eyes to heaven he added, "aad l., with 4
tone that assured every hearer that he
felt his individua! concern in the great
transaction be was portraying. In that
discourse, Mr. C.0kman alluded also with
much force to the ascension Of the dead
from the sea. A short time afterwards,
he embarked on the ill-fated President, to
visi. Enel-ud, his sea-girt, native land,
..to receive mothers kiss, and crave a
mothers prayers once more But that
| blessing was denied them. No man
probably knows its fate, but it seems GER
tain that somewhere on the broad bosom
of the Atlantic, per,hance beneath gilt
tering iceberg's pondcroas weight, ,the"Pre-
siient" was engulfed with all its precious
cargo of souls; and the eloquent CookiAan
I and his pious mother will no more see each
other till the s!eepers in both land and
water meet at the bar Of Jehovah.
Among the waters that beat upon Bur
mah's distant shore, afar from home and
wife and children, ADoNIRAM JUDsoN
found his appointed burial. And when
our earth renders up its treasured riches.
he will be but one Of the throng Of devot,
ed ambassadors Of Christ who from the
sea "entercd into the rest prepared for the
people Of God" But his work of faith
and labor Of love are not buried in the
mighty waters they, like the sea which i:
his liquid sepulchre, shall reach around
the globe, before the final restitution Of a!
tbin.s In that day, thousands of con
verted Burmans and karens shall for th'
first time behold the great American apostle
to India, face to face.
Still more recently, the City Of Glasgow
has doubtless been swallowed up by th'
devourins waves, and with it one of the mos
devoted Baptist ministers Of Virginia, j
s. REYNoLDsoS. A native Of old Eng
land, reared by maiden aunt, he had ent
cred the world as 4 navigator, and as sucl
was successful. About 1910, he ATTENDED
a revival meeting in one Of the American
Atlantic ports, and was convicted of sin
forsook his evil ways and his former pro
fessions, and became an Evangelist Of th'
primitive stamp In his new sphere h.
labored with all the ardor of whole heart
ed Christian, and few men were more use
full, for some three or four thousand per
sons ascribe TO him the instrumentaity o
) their conversion to God. He was favored
in his desire to pay visit to his esteemc'
friends in mother land, and on his return
was one Of the crowd who chose the ''Citl
ofGlasgow" to transport them to America
Of their last days we have no knowledge
but We may we'll suppose that the dauntles
Reynoldson, who had often expressed hi
preference that the ocean should be hi
tomb when God should call hence, was no
alarmed at meeting his Lord in the water!
} grave; and when he shall arise radian
with new life and new glory III the morn
irs of the resurrection, how will his happ.
spirit say, "iere am ], and those whom
thou hast given me y
But, Whether we depart sooner o
later, from the land or from the sea, IS o
,, little Importance, if VIC be hourly prepare
for the trump of final, just and irrevocabl
judgment
The Winter,
AND ITS EFFECTS ON VEGETATION.
The winter through which We have JUS