Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-08-06

POWER OF A WoRD.->l was told story to-
day-a temperance story. A mother, on the
green hills of Vermont, stood at her garden
gate, holding by her right hand son of sixteen
years, mad with the love of the sea.
" Edward said she, 'Ethey tell me that the
great temptation of the seamen's life is drink.
fromise me, before you quit your mothers
hand, that you never will drinlS.''
Said hc,(tor he told me the story,) &c gave
| her the promise. | went the broad globe ovel
Calcutta, the Mediterranean, San Francisco
the Cape of good Hope-and for forty years
whenever l saw glass of sparkling liquor, m,
mothers form by the garden-gate on the hill
side of Vermont rose up before me, and to
day, at sixty, my lips are innocent of the TASTE
| of liquor.''
Was not that sweet evidence of the power
single word And yet it was but half TO
said he
"Yestcrday there came into my counting
room man of forty, and asked me-
sc Do you know me q
"No,' said I.
81 was brought once,' said he to my infor.
mant, drunk into yonr presence on shipboard
fou was passenger. The captain kicked me
aside. on took me into your berth, kert me
there till had slept OIL the intoxication, and
then you asked me if | had mother. | said,
never that / knew of; / never heard moth
er's voice. You told me of yours at the gar
den-gatc, and to day, twenty years later am
master of one the finest packets in New York,
and came to ask you to come and see me.''
How far back that little candle throws its
beam--tlat mothers word on the green hill
side Of Vermont God be thanked for the
almighty power OF single wCrd
MoMENToUs INoUIRIEs.- is Cod
He preserves and he can destroy you. DO you
daily think of hml
Hou havea soul. DO you care for it You
care for your body, but do you properly care
for your soul!
You are sinner. DO you know how sin
ner can be saved 4!
There is Saviour. Are you anxious that
he may save you
There is an awful hell. Are you seeking to
escape it
There is glorious heaven. Are you in the
way to it.
You must soon die. Are you prepared for
the solemn changer
You must appear at the judgment-seat of
Christ. Wh'- ill then be your lot
There is an eternal state after death. Is
yours likely to be an eternity of bliss or an
eternity of wol
You must be pardoned through the blood of
Christ and sanctifed by the Spirit of God, or
you cannot be saved. Are you daily seeking
these bessingsi
'' Without holiness no man shall see the
Lord" Are you living holy life
There is book able to inform you on these
subjects and to make you wise unto salvation.
DO you search the Scriptures7
THE JuDAs lscARIor CoIN.-Mr. A. Nicholas,
OF Wall Street, has struck off number of fac
simile coins of the Hebrew holy sbekel-the
piece OF silver money iu which Judas Iscariot
was paid for his services in betraying the Sa-
viour' The present coin is from drawing
procured last year in Rome. The drawing is
from piece s' which, says Dir. Raphael
g must have been coined during the time
the Jews were sojo1rning in the Holy
Land under their own kings, and contempora-
neOus with the first temple, which bru ps it to
period OF about 200 II. O." The Hebrew
characters upon it are much like the style of
our own American coin for, while tho legend
upon ours reads, '' United States of America. -
this, in the same position, ON the outer edge.
bears the inscription, g Jerusalem the Holy. d
While Que side the resemblance to Aaron's
rod, as mentioned in numbers xvii. 8, on the
other, which has tho imprint of the pot of in
censc, is incribed, in the Hebrew characters
the words, g Shekel OF Israel.''
The Mosr IMPORTANT KNowLEpGE.-I If
man by vast and imperious mind, and a hear
as large as the sand upon the seashore- ms i
said OF Solomon, could command all III,
knowledge of nature, and Of words and thing
could attain to mastery ofall languages, ant
sound the depths OF all arts and sciences
measure the earth and the heavens; tell tn,
stars, and declare their order and motions
could discourse of the interests OF all states
the intrigues Of all courts, and give an accon
OF the history of all ages could speak of tree
from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, ever
unto the hyssop that groweth out of the wall
and of beasts also, aud of fowls, and of creep
| ing things, and OF fishes and yet should bt
destitute of the knowledge of God and O
Christ, and OF his duty, all this would be bu
but an impertinent vanity, and more glitter.
ing kind Of ignorance and such a man (like
the philosopher who, while he was gazing on the
stars, fell into ditch, would be undone with
all his knowledge, and with a great deal Of
wisdom, go down unto hell.-9iilotson.