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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-21
FEBRUARY 82.
aood frnit. from bitter seed.

The immortal Document we publish on
the first a will give a new impetus to the
,smnerance cause, and we believe will en-.
roll among it's friends hundreds who have
hsrstoeore stood aloof. Hitherto all the
ARGUMENTS for prohibition had to be brought
from other States, hut now we have something
tangible to base argument upon-a veritable
North Carolina document upon the liquor
,ro@c We have no douht il cost It's author
much patient study, together with the coun'
sells and suggestions Of friends, but its false
ro,iticns are so glaring and preposterou'
that. instead OF proving a deadly assassin to
.,oh the cause. as il was no doubt intended,
n will arouse a great people in a holy war
auainst the curse il sanctions. Freemen now
stand ON the defensive and, like Curtius'
thew are ready to plunge into the gull at once
10 save the morals Of a sinking State.
We have not been disappointed we were
confident such q report would be made-noth'
;ns more could be expected under the CIR
cumstanccs; for the rum influence IS power
full. in its way. And yet it is iamentahie
that those who slime their way into hlgh pia
COS should hold rule over thousands binuins
,hom n chains. that the interests OF a ie"
men NAV be enhanced. Because thus Is so
.holl action cease 2 As well might Pau
have closed his lips at the clamors oil the
Ephesian image makers, and left I'LL Ephesu'
- ,f haathenigm.
We neei scarcely remind our brethren TIA
IL i time 70 work for about all the tents thu
rattle Of the weapons Of warfare is heard al
ready. As the outside pressure increases IN
Division rooms begin to grow crowded anC
councils are held to lay plans for the uttel
on,;hilation of this great foe Of God and man
ooa universal sentiment Of indignation sweii
mn from the very depths Of the great soul Q
a. ,ornarnnee host. and q determined yea
tbr,bs from breast to breast. The grea
truth we have set forth for years has beer
solyeIhy this report that 10 haze WHOLESOME
I,vs rnre and hi.h minded men must tax
Tho legislative seats so long occupied 'y cow
ordIv. low.minded d~emagosues. 1t The ston'
il ever rolled away from the tomb OF drunE
cnness whore lie buried the hopes and Tor
,unea Of thousands upon thousands of gu
fellow beings, it must 10 by the hands o
men who have not sworn allegiance to I'll
demon Mt the shrine Of the rum cask. An
this will yet be-there is a star set IN IN
gloom Of the storm that tells Of hope. lher
il a low muttering among the masses hat l
daily gathering the elements OF u res'stles
storm, that shall purge our Legislative chan
beers Of corruption and consiGn ~demagogue
% the tomb Of the Capulets.
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FIRE COMPANIES.

TNHE citizens Of Raleigh are hereby invited to
enrol their names as members 81 the city Fire
Companies-two Of said companies te consist Of
forty men each. and the other of twenty nes-tbe
first two to be known as fire companies number l
and 2, and the other as the Hook and Ladder
company, in accordance with the provisions of an
sct Of Assembly, entitled can aet for the better
protection Of the city Of Raleigh from Losses by
FIRE." Persons disposed to volunteer as members
of the same will furnish either of the city Con-
stables with their names on or before Saturday. the
18th day of February, 1885, on which day, If The
prescribed number, Zone hundred) have not prs-
viously volunteered, a draft viii be made from the
whole number of citizens to supply the deficiency.
Members of the Fire Companies are exempt by
Act of Assembly from military duty during their
service, except the country should be ut war.
W. DALLAS HAYWOOD, Intcndast
Raleigh. February "a, 1855. 23-td.
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lust inside the Fence.

ooh y" cried the children, "such sweet
fruits and pretty flowers and just inside
the ~neighbor's fence"
Thus the beginners in sin reasoned and
with stcalthy chances peeped through the
shrubbcry Mt the farm house, then the gate
was PIE rsCd open, the garden entered, the
fruits suatched from the limbs, the flowers
plucked, and with beating hearts and throb-
bing pulses the little cuIprits hasten away
Though the flowers smelled sweetly and the
ripe fruit melted on the lip, yet they we're
not happier for having culled them with steal
thy hand at the wayside of forbidden paths.
They had only gone just inside the fence
yet, 10 they had fallen into sin.
The fragrance Of the flowers and the sweet
ness Of the fruit could not still the harsh gra.
tings on the conscience and the sweetness OF
the fruits became as bitterness to the lips
1t was only just inside the fence they had
wandered, vet the stain Of sin had marked
the brow with shame.
Poor, little, tempted children are we all
my reader. Forbidden pleasures, like pleas
ant flowers and fruits, smile and beckon u
on within the forbidden pale, yet it is onl'
Just inside the fence and we pass into trans
erosion. Natures glances linger there on
feet stray thitherward no one sees us-w
forget the eye of the Infnite-we put fort
the hand as did our common mother, pluc,
the flowers and eat the fruit. The flower
prove to be thorns and the fruits a bitter POI
son. Their external beauty is a fatal snar
that ~entanglOs our feet and their seemin
brightness becomes a darkness like the Sun
mer clouds, with no sunlight to gid thei
hens with golden hues.
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In this City, of Dropsy, on Tuesday, I3th inst,
Mr.. A. '. Harding, son of Rev. ". II. Harding,
d. D., formerly Of Milton, n G., in the 25th year
of his age.
THNBERToN DIVISION, Sons OF TEMPERANCE.
WHEREAS, we have heard with deep regret of
the death of our friend and Brother, Moses Mear.,
who died the 22nd January, 1855.
Resolred, That in this dispensation Of Divine
Providence, our Division has lost a true and faith
full member, one who was not Only true to his obi
cation but who was faithful in the discharge Of all
his duties as a Son of Temperance, and in whose
conduct the virtues of love, Purity and Fidelity
were exemplifed in q high and noble adherence to
the principles Of our honored Order. ,Society has
been deprived of an honest, a useful and an enter
prisiRg citizen and his family of an amiable and
valued member.
Resolved, That we deeply sympathise with til,
afflicted family and friends of our deceased Bro.
and as q testimonial Of our grief we Wal wear tn,
usual badge of monrning for thirty days.
At regular meeting of Pleasant Grove Division
Sons of Temperance, No, 168, held February Sd
1856, the following preamble and resolution
we're adopted:
Whereas it has pleased an all-wise Providenc
to remove from time to eternity our friend an
brother, JOSEPH E. TATE. who departed this lif
tho last day of February, 1856, in the 23d year o
his age, therefore we bow with submission to th
ssuse, believing that our Divine Creator is to
wise to err. We do not sorrow as those who hav
no hope, believing that our brother has been re
moved from this world of affection to n world q
happiness, where sickness and sorrow, pain aL
death are felt and feared no more.
Resolved, That, in the death of brother Tat
our Division has lost a worthy member, and or
truly devoted to the Temperance cause.
Resoised, That, we tender our heartfelt cor
, dolence to the relatives of our Brother in this 81
. bereavement, and that the members of this Divisic
wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty day
DEATH OF Rev. Dr.. JOHN 5. REEsE.-Th
: distinguished minister of the Methodist Pr
J, testant Church died at his residence in Bal
e more county, yesterday afternoon, at e
I o'clock. He was the President Of the Mar
land Annual Conference. Few men ha
been more useful, or more generally below
by all who knew him.
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Va WHAT DO THE PHYSICIANS SAY?
Listen to the testimony of an eminent physician
in favor of M'Lane's Vermifuge, which Is now uni
versally acknowledged to be the best in use; even
members of the medical faculty (who are so often
opposed to the use of patent medicines,) cannst
| withhold their approval of this invaluable remedy /:
LIND. Stark Co., Ohio, Jan. 8, 1891 have
used DIR. MLane's Worm Specific in my private
practice, and am prepared to say that the unparal-
| ieled success with which I have prescribed its use,
both for children and adults, induces me to say the
most in its favor of any specific or patent medicine
ever before brought to my notice. The mode Of
administration, the smallness Of the dose, and the
certainty of its e1icacieus effects, give it, in my
opinion, a decided advantage over any other med
icine of the kind before the public.
Ar Purchasers viii be careful to ask for DR.. NJ
Lanes celebrated hermitage, and take none else,
All other Vermifuges, in comparison, are worthless
DR.. MLane's genuine Vermifuge, also his cele-
brated Liver Pills, can now be had at all respecta.
BILE Drug Stores in the United States and Canada
Fer salsby P. F. PRseCD, Druggist, Raleigh.
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MARRIED,

By the Rev. ". W. Albea, on the sth of Feb
ruary, W.. Barrow. Esq, and Abigail NJ. Saunders,
both of Winston, Forsyth County, N. C.
In Wake county, on the 4th instant. by the Rev.
DR.. Maso', Mr.. John w. Lewis, Of Milton, N. c.,
to Miss Annie Hinton.
At Ridgeway, on Tuesday morning the 18th inse
by Rev. n. C. Harris, Mr.. James A. Cheatham to
Mss Lucy A. White.
By the sameJ on Thursday the 18th inst. Mr.. J.
G. Reid, Express Messe nger, to Miss Regina NJ
Fuller Of franklin county.
By the same, in Henderson, on Thursday eve
ming 18th inst, Mr.. VIM. B. Reid, to Miss Marths
A Crandal
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~ Welearn from our Salisbury exchanges,
that Maxwell Chambers, Esq, whose death
We chronicled last week, bequeathed the large
and handsome sum of near taco hundred ana
fifty thousand dollars to Davidson College
and about thirty Thousand dollars to the Pres
byterian Church in that Town, besides oiheI
smaller sums to his relatives.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l6.-The report that tb,
President will veto the French spoliation Bill i
eentradistsd.
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1856.
Fresh Fish.-Fresh Fish,

Wy II. PUTNEY wishes 10 inform the Public,
wv . that be has made arrangements to receive
FRESH SHAD three times every week during tbs
season. Other Fish of every kind caught st this
season win be received, such ne ROCK, SUR
GEoN, TROUT, &c.
ND~ He will be glad 10 furnish Hotel Keepers
and others West of Raleigh; and all orders in this
line viii be promptly attended to.
he keeps ON hand at bis Store on Wilmington
street, at all times, a good supply Of Salt Fish,
rings Of all kinds.
Bacon Ham, and all articles usually kept in .
Family Provision Store, may be found at his ea-
tablishment; ali of which he will dispose Of on
cheap terms for cash.
He hopes a liberal public win sustain him in bis
efforts to supply their wants.
WI. n. PUTEEY.
Haleigh. Feb. Is, 1855. 25-tf
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In describing the death and burial of a
lovely child, a correspondent of the Ohio
Cultivator gives this beautiful and touching
glimpse of real life "And now there came
a sadder moment than all; lettering with
feeble step. the grand mother, with her
weight of years, had come to offer consola.
ton to her stricken children. With wild emo.
ton, the bereaved mother leaned her head
on her parents breast, and sobbed out hel
grief. With holy words the old lady com
forted her, and then came and bowed hel
head to look into that calm infant face. 'Sh,
looks like an angel, does she not, mother !?
whispered the mourner. She is an angel. N,
child replied the grandmother, a solemn
lofty awe overspreading her face, she i
wiser than any of Us, for she has read tn
great mystery"
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Six Runs: c. Beard, ASHORE; I. Scott, Nutbush
S. Peed, KNAPP of Reeds; j. w. Hearp. Wake; ].
P. NOVEL;, Shelby J. K. Wallace, Duplin J. W.
McGowns, Fair Bluff 81 J. A. Jackson, Carthage
5 Rev. w. C. Patterson, LincolntOn 6 w S. Gun
ter, Pittsboro'; 4 Lumber River Lodge 4 w. S.
Rinaldi. Eliz. Town; Z S. Womble, Little Lick 8
N. Woodey, Had. Mills 3 John Cope, Ala; 81. II.
| Arlington, Skeenah; 4 w. ". Norman.
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ID EPORT CORRBcTED-In consequence Of
IL proposals made to me at the last Fair at Ra-
leigh, by DR.. Wm- r. Holt. of Lexington, a report
has been circulated that 1 will stand my horse,
SARPED0N, at that place the ensuing spring. i
wosld inform those interested that he viii remain
at my stable this seAseR. Those desiring further
information will please address me at Wilton, Gran
vile county, and a bill will be sent them giring
size, pedigree. dc. ". Z. WTCHE.
Feb. II. 1855. aA-Tk
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THE Cars FEAR BAR.-The Wilmington
Herald says tht u has been informed "that
the depth Of water on the bar is now fifteen
feet and our pilots say that they can easily
carry in or ont a vessel drawing lag feet. Ii
is believed that q constant deepening il going
on as the work Of improvement at the mosth
orthe River progresses. Vessels carrl ing from
A50 to 501 IONS dead iOeighf are now loading
ut our w%lIarves, and can proceed to sea with
cut the least dsluy."
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PRICES CURRENT.
RALEIGH MARKEr.-Wholesale Price

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Fr1ceS.
Reported expressly for the Spirit of the Age, by
JORDAN W0MBLE, Grocer and Commission Mer-
chant, Target Street, Raleigh. Flour 81 SO to So
q bbl. Corn So to 80 p bushel. Meal 80 to 81 90.
Bacon, hog round, 103 to III. Hams l24 to A.
Butter 90 @ %. Stock peas, IS TO Sc, white do
so to 90. Pork Sc so to ST.
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300 REWARD.

ID ANYWAY from the subscriber, about the 18th
III Of December, 1853, a negro man named
DENNIS. Said negro is about 5 feet 8 inches
high, dark complexioned, quite stout, and has very
full jaws he has q scar on one Ofhis thighs. caused
by q snag, when young his age is about 81 years
and he weighs some 40 or $50 pounds. 1 have
heard recently that this boy is working about in
Chatham county.
1t is also said that he is lurking about Or moi
actually employed) below Smithfeld, in the tar
pentine country.
The above named reward will be given foF hi
confinement in any Jail in the country.
W. G.. STRICKLAND.
Wake co., Feb. 10, 1855. 24-2m
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GoLDsBoao FEMALE CoLLEeE.-This pro-
perty has changed hands. We understand
the Stockholders sold il for the purpose of
erecting new brick buildings more commo-
dious, convenient and retired. No suspen-
sion of the School Will take place ; as the
new buildings will be up before possession
of these is given.
AZ Mayor Yoltz, Of Pittsburgh; has de.
termined to enforce to the fullest extent the
laws prohibiting the sale of liquors and the
performance of worldly employment on the
Sabbath.
SUPREME CotRT.-The following are the
decisions delivered in the Supreme Court,
since our last notice:
By NASH, CO.. In Otey Y. Hoyt, from
Pitt. reversing The judgment. Also. in State v.
! 1IoSSAWsN -.Llanl.... :. 4ho ildr-
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UNION COACH mANUFACTORY.
-

NM 49,
HAVING united under the Firm of "G0RMAN,
SPARKS 4 CO" for the purpose Of carrying on the
Coach Making Business, at the old Clark stand,
in Raleigh, We beg leave to solicit a share Of Pub
lie Patronage.
We intend that our work shall compare faEera-
bly, with any thing in our line Of business made
North or Snsth, in point of finish, durability snd
substantially. Every member of the Firm 10 4
practical, good Mechanic, and all work viii be ex-
eeuted by ourselves.
All who wish to encourage Home Industry and
Southern Mechanics are requested 20 give us a call,
as we feel assured we can satisfy them in every
respect in our branch of trade.
We shall be puuctual and prompt In Che perfor-
nance of promises for work and every thing on
our part will be done to secure the son6dence and
patronage of the public.
At our Establishment viii be built fine Carriages,
Coaches, Cbairotees, RochaEays, Baggies, &C., Of
every description.
Give us a call at Clark's old stand, a few han
d~redyards west of Capitol sqnare.
Orders from a distance viii be promptly atten-
ded TO, if addressed to
6oRMAN, SPARKS 4 CO.,
Raleigh, N @.
Eg- One Of the members ofthe Firm, Mr.. Roht.
Steele, will attend to all Silver or Brass Plating
sent him to do.
E8- We have several elegant Vehicles on hand,
and we respectfully invite the Public to eah and
examine the same.
~ Repairing and Painting done On The short
est notice. G., s., d Co.
Raleigh. Feb. 20, 1855. Is
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NRms Of the Dim.

HALIFAx. Feb. 1.-THE British mail stea-
mer Asia has arrived with Liverpool dates
to the Ord inst. Her news, so far as we can
gather here, is not 81 much Importance.
The Ministry FssEssigned, and the Earl
of Derby has failed to establish . new Cabi-
net. Much anxiety prevails on his account.
Lord Derby, 1t was said on the third, had
rendered an invitation to a new ministry.
which proved unsuccessful.
Palmerston, Russell, and Lansdowne, were
all spoken of in Connection with the new
ministry.
No fighting of Importance had occurred at
SebastopoI. Supplies were rapidly arriving,
and the troops were. in a much better condi-
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BOARDING AT COLERAIN.-The uDdersign-
ID ed can accommodate same few male boarders
with comfortable rooms with fire places. his rooms
are also pleasant summer rooms, and convenient 20
the Male Academy. Ny terms are 81 per msnth
including washing, lights and fuel-payable at the
end of the session. HENRY i. WARD.
Colerain, BERTHE. Feb. 8. 1855. 24-3m
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WILMINGTON MARKET.

GEO. Ii. KELLEY, Grocer and Com. Merchant.
Turpentine steady at So So for soft, 2 60 for
virgin, | IS for hard spirits turpentine, the may
ket has ruled quiet, advanced to 40c.; rosin dull
and declining, no. l, 81 to l 05 tar firm and
brisk, has again advanced to l so; cotton is in
fair enquiry, sales of 145 bales 8 to 81 cora, ayri-
rival of l0,5l9 bushels; 2,44a to ORDER best sold at
S5c; corn meal, supply equal to.demand, to I e5;
bacon, q fair supply, Toe hog round, l21 hams,
sides and shoulders 81; Iasd, a fair supply in store,
sales at Ice butter, goshen 80 to see, advanced,
mountain Is to % mOlasses, no alteration in pri-
ees, q cargo of $50 hhds arrived, no sale salt. sack
a full supply in store, l 80 to l so potatoes, irish,
arrival of 500 bbls, sales 81 to 80; peas, a fair
supply, So to 90c -four, semewhat better supply,
sales 81 from wharf; limey q cargo arrived, sold
on private terms, Ii FROM wharf; pork, northern
mess 152 to Ice; rice, clean, Al p Id by cask, I 05
% bash. rough river lursaer dull, very timber
arrives slowly, sales 81 to u so lays coffee in
fair supply III to lie from store; adamantine can.
dies q to Csc, tallow Is to- Zee; n. o. sugar 81 to
&c, porto rico 6! to Z and stiff Feb. II.
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talk, your brutal schemes resulting in the
loss Of eys-sight-ye gambling. knavish tenn
perance merchants. why will you persist in
your stubborn ways! Only let those indus
trinus, very brave, far sighted gentry those
highly precious, heaven-born benefactors
of men-those order-loving, pious and most
merciful of all creatures, the rummies, nave
full sway, then Henderson will get character
every body will flock here to buy goods, it
1T will break down those foolish country tenn
perance merchants, who str lngely have de-
monstratad that n merchant can make his
bread without turning his store into y DEVILS
kitchen. Then town property will rise, the
schools of Henderson will hourish<and NOR
atty and religion will prosper ahundantly.
C~oRRoLARIEs. Down with the liquor traf-
fc, then Henderson will thrive. Let not
Henderson countenance the man who coun-
tenances the traffic. CT. H.
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Spring stvle of Hats for 1856.

TNTIE Subscribers have this day received by the
L Adams Express Company, Beebe & Co. spriHg
style Of Tbats-sss their bea soy and hghtnezs pleaSs
to examine them. Also, Warburton's style with
Corrugated Brims. Something new.
W. ii. & r.. S. TUCKER.
Rale gh, Feb. 5, 1855. rs
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Do NOT PRocRAsTTNATE.-Attend 10 that Cough
or Sore Throat in time. By so Doing, You may a.
void much suffering This advice is applicable to
hRndreds, who talks cold, and coagh for weeks, and
sometimes months, thereby SO weakening the deli
cate organs of respiration, that, even should they
succeed ia obtaining relief, they are rendered much
more susceptible to colds thereafter. All this might
be prevented by the NAL outlay of so cents, in
the purchase of a bottle of Stabler's Anodyne
Cherry Extectorant, which almost invariably cures
OF gives relief in diseases of the Lungs and Throat.
The same may be said Of diseases of the Bowels.
We believe that hundfeds aRnually die, from neg
leet Of a slight tendency to Diarrhoa, whose lives
might be saved by the outlay of so cents for a
bottle Of Stablers D1arrhea Cordial, which is Sc
efficient in the cure Of diseases of the bowels
See descriptive pamphlets, to be had gratis of the
agenes. Price of each, only so eeats per bottle,
or six Bottles for 81 50. 2E2t
For sale in Raleigh, by P: p. PEsCUD, and by
| Merchants generally.
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Zg- A YOUNG LADY of some experience in
teaching. desires a situation either in n private
family, or as an associate in a Female Academy
Address A.. H., Oaks, Orange county, n. C..
REFERENcEs.-Rev Solomon Lea, Leasburg, N
c.; w. J. Bingham, Esq, Oaks, y. 9.
Feb. /. 1855. &3-gtpd
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NEWBERN MARKET.

Corrected weekly for the Spirit Q Me age, By
SAML. OLIVER d. son, General Com
mission Merchants and dealers IN Agricul.
tura1 Implements.
Turpentine has advanced, sales have been made
at So for dip b to 2 10 scrape; corn, a lot now
in market is held at 81 90, bat purchasers are will
ling to take only small quantities at that; meal
sells ready at 81 bacon, q small lot vans sold at
1O4; no other in market; pork, very little in mar
ket, is worth 6 to 81 lard, sells at Zoe pr quantity;
| salt is relating at Csc: Feb. ".
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MARK

WHVdt uPWdIU jug I ,ooEH HUHIHdIy Wy POEN
and beef unchanged, with q limited demand; lard
upward and firm.
stufs. Howard street IS 81 wheat, red is held
at 81 90 a 81; white 81 95 @ 81 %; white corn
Sc "a So; yellow 80 d
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DEATHS.

In this City, of Dropsy, on Tuesday, 13sh inst,
Mr. A. V. Harding, son of Rev. ". II. Harding,
D.. D., formerly Of Milton, n G., in the 25th year
of his age.
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without the steady faith of piety. Beauty,
intellect, wealth they are like pitfalls, dark
in the brightest day. unless the divine light.
unless religion throw her soft beams around
them, to purify and exalt, making twice
glorious that which seemed all loveliness
before.
Religion is very beautiful in health OF
sickness, in wealth or poverty. We can
never enter the sick-chamber of the good,
but soft music seems to foat on the air, and
the burden of their song is-'Lo! peace ii
here.'