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can rest with more serene and sweet assurance none
which is fuller of sterner admonisons for the guilty.
who are still unrepentant. Consider it!--that not
an act is done, but God perceiyes it nay that not
purpose rises within the heart but God is cognizant
Of its whole history that thus His supervision ex-
tends to every human being as truly as to U.S. that
it has been as universal now through all the ages
OF the Past that it will be universal until the
| end of Timel that no one human being has ever
lived. or ever will live whose every thought and pur-
pose hath not been, will not be known entirely and
instantly to God; that upon every one He looks at
every moment, however occupied, bordering every
act and seeing the swiftest secret wish of every
one and holding them all before his view for ever
Not breeze ruies the sea, and drives the ship up-
on its appointed track, but God has made the wines
his chariot, and is reading the thoughts Of every
mariner that treads the deck. Not cabin is reared
in the untrodden forest but there is resident, that
one Divine invisible being, who day by DAY, ana
hour by hour, is tracing upon the eternal tablets
the words of every lip, the thoughts of every heart
Not mansion Of wealth is filled for the bridal, not
mart of trade is crowded with its competitors not
church has gathered its silent worshippers not
sick room has received its suffering form and Its
| anxious attendant; not a convocation OF men has
anywhere assembled; not a lonely and desperate
wanderer has plunged into the desert. but God is
present with all and each to see the desire Of every
heart, to read and to record the history OF each
hour!
He does not come in visible magnifcence. There
is no lowing Of the heavens; audible rushing OF
cherubc wings; yet God is there in the plenitude OF
His wisdom, in the glory of His holiness! And aga
inst his inqusition there is disguise, and from it
there can be no escape!
How grand and impressive thong int is this! AS
we struggle up upon the weary aud fatering wing
OF our poor powers to gain possible some view OF
its greatness how does it still transcend and overtoP
our highest imagination, till We can only say with
me! 1t is high I cannot attain it !'' "There is no
searching of His understanding" :. Whittier shall
60 from Thy spirit; and whittier shall l flee from
LILY presence? " Great is the Lord, and greatly to
be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable!"
How iearfully perfect, too, is the government OF
such Being mot only righteous and equitable in
its principles, pure and wise in all its presents, and
terribly vast and august in its sanctions, but in its
administration guarded at every step by an absolute
knowledge, so that there can be no error and no
oversight in the execution of its DEGREES. No wit
nesses will be needed at its great assze, to aid with
their partial and faible knowledge the rendition of
the verdict God shall be there Himself the witness,
untalling and unerring: whose vision no act how
ever secret, can passibly have escaped, and from
whom no circumstance attribute of the act can
possibly have been hidden. The crime that was
most carefully concealed is known to him. and shall
receive its perfect recompense The sinful purpose
that simply fitted through the heart and was held
there tor moment but that never expressed itself
IN outward act, is held and fixed in wall OF gram
lite, before His eternal view. 1t stands immoveably
passed for ages from the remembrance of the soul.
And SO there is act of charity matter how OBJ
scure; no pious resolution, however unable to EN-
body itself in visible conduct that shall not meet at
that Tribunal its just desert, being all known to the
Sovereign, and coming with acceptance before His
throne.
Here, in clouded world, the criminal may
sometimes rid himself of the witness Here, the I'M
just and the extortoner may buy for his cause the
oath of the perured. Even history hcrselFthe calm
nnHr az hryA Harry
may sometimes be cheated into wrong decision
But all mistake and all deception become alike i'm
possible before the throne of the Omniscient! The
martyred saint shall stand there with his Jqdge.
The victim with his opposer. The penitent with the
mocker. The believing with the skeptic. And
there shall be unfolded before the men once power
full for wrong now powerful no longer, the history
of the life The secret act which no man saw the
well concealed and careful dishonesty, which never
was confessed the evil passion which was ailently
cherished the words of sin that were only wh's-
pered with the soul the thoughts OF sin that were
never before acknowledged; the wicked desire, that
lay COUGHING beneath the kindly glance and the |
friendly embrace; how shall these all flash forth in
insufferable brightness, as one by one they stand
revealed to every guilty conscience before the glance
of intelligence from whose unerring vision since
their commission, they have never passed How |
many mysteries of sin, that never before were fully
traced, shall then be brought to view Oh how
many boastful moralists how many austere ascetcs,
now many graceful anu gay uece'oo OLA" NV"
many formal professors of religion they never
loved shall stand condemned and terrified together,
beneath that impershable record, of their crime!
And on the other hand, how many an act OF self
denial which its now sainted author had long for.
gotten how many patient endurances; how many
sweet words of cheering to instruction; now many
glad filial movements of the soul toward God; how
many unutterable prayers shall be revived within |
| the memory of the just! No act, once done for
Christ; cup of water, wen to his disciple
no word of love, heartily spoken; shall fail to lind
before the bar of God its full remembrance The
giver and the receiver may both alike have ceased
to remember it. But God has never ceased? Gar
nered within His infinite knowledge, lies every
thought of purity, and every act OF Love, and all
shall meet the SOUL be the jewels in its crown, the
servitors to its triumph!
As being ourselves then the subjects Of Gods gov
ernment living beneath his gaze, and fastening on
to his Tribunal, shall we not guard our hearts, and
watch our life! Shall we not feel the vanity OF all
hypocrisy! Shall not pray and strive against
every temptation! In the hustle Of business in the
gaety of life amid all companies, in the secret
places shall we not remember that unclosing eye
is for ever tracing our life that unfailing
hand records it in lines which shall outlast the uni
verse of worlds! Shall not come to Christ and
trust in him that at the last may be found in
him. clothed in his robes washed in his blood sane
tilted through his Spirit; rescued from the doom that
was otherwise certain, and saved by him for an in.
heritance of glory? |
SLAVE INsURREcTIoN IN ARKANsAs-By private
letter to gentleman in Memphis the Enquirer ofthat
city learns that there is great excitement in Union
county, Arkansas, account OF the discovery of
plot among the negroes to rise in rebellion on the
18th of this month. Fortunately, the plot was dis
covered in time to prevent one of the most bloody
massacres in the whole annals of Instructions The
plot was very extensive and negroes who were taken
nm and made to confess implicated others twenty