Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-09

The following address and resolutions were
presented to the meeting of the Worcester
Central Association of ministers, which was
held in this city on Wednesday; and they
were adopted. They will be read with inter
est =
cit is the nature of man that names, by asso-
citation, create attachments The wisdom OF
this mysterious power is witnessed by con
| slant effects on the character and condition of
man.
The name of Syria is classic to the ear of
Pagan, Mosem, Jew, and Christian. The
name of Lebanon, rising from the sea- and
towering to the sky, its cliffs and SHOWS, its
cedars and vines, its towns and cities, its arts
and commerce, were hallUwed III our early
memories. The history of men who lived
there, AMI of deeds that were done on the
nights and IN the depths Of that ragged land
has moved the Joy and sorrow of our hearts,
and hearts like ours, wherever the scriptures
of either Testament have been read or heard
Such memories, given as moral power,
call up sentiments and emotions which have
become sure and sautary part Of our being,
so that we, as if by nature, take livelier in
terest in such land, even when no tdings
come from it OF Few JOY Or grief to make glad
or aiilict our hearts.
y
ready deep chronicled in the annals of S7ria,
have moved the heart OF christendOm, and
called aloud Oh nations, far and near, to open
wide their outstrctched hands for the rescue
and relief of hundred thousand widows, or
pllans, and other tugiiYes, made such by the
most atrocious massacre OF husbands and faith
ers, and by the impacable purpose to battle in
blood the christian race and name thr0ugho ut
all Syria!
The grief, the suffering, the desoIation, and
the dread prospect Of that blood-Soaked land,
no tongue can tell All that has been depicted
or imagined, away from the havoc, the grief,
and the thick-coming fears of Syria, shocking
as has been the minds image OF relentless
barbarity, is but the shadow OF real horrors
1t is the nature OF tragedies sd enormous, TO
be incomprehensibe out Of the terrible scene
and the experience itself. This mercy is WOW
Ell into the constitution of man, to save him
from the fatal power of his own thoughts,
while yet enough is given to commiserate and
relieve the distress he is saved from compre.
hending in lis dread reality,
There is also another demonstration of Di,
vine wisdom and goodness, which it is profit
able to notice and keep i'll mind. The most
| appalling scenes with which human pustions
shade the world, sometimes, nay, often, reveal
hope which Stems as if bred by the dark
| HISS tlseu' III me Hllusl Vi Tic tillck SlOoln
mat hangs over SYRIA ike nations death
STROUD, there SHINES 4 light on the future OF
that woe. stricken land. The good deeds al
ready done, and still doing there, by lhe mis-.
sionary disciples of HIM who came to seek
and save, without respect OF person, tribe,
sect, nation, or period of the world, the heroic
deeds of charity, and not less heroic sacrifices
oil ihese missionaries OF truth ana grace,
WINE they are even no" lght SHINING IN
dark place, loretokeh 10 tue eye OF hope tn-
lure anu UriShter glory las not GOu set
tllat DO" on tlle uafhheSS OF inc storm cloud,
as Inc assurance OF an opening SKY, bright
win the DUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS :!
But the missionaries ana their co-laborers IN
the gospel OF Christ by the same good provl
dence, nave mad other helps Tor which bleeding
SYRIA ana aillcted humanity should be grateful
10 the glVer OF every good gut. The ready,
earnest ana Dehehcent labors OF both resident
ana transient tnhctlonarles OF foreign govern
mentS have been halled by despalrmg Syria
with nope ana Joy, ana ur own hearts have
gone out to them Tor their cares, sacrifices,
ana successful EFFORTS at beirut, Sldoh, Inpoll,
Da,lascus' anu other places alohS the coast
ana among the mountains OF Syria. And i'll
particular, without in the least detracting from
| thc r,o,itor;o,s eerv;cos of o,lor. ,,,lo+I,a. =;
| ~ :I: - S' iN''Ni Al
CNll, hlillItry Ut naval service, OF Whatever
| European power, 1t becomes us as americans
| to acknowledge with grateful honor the g,ner
| o,,s MI oai,;,,t s,,,,,;1, ~ I A,,.e Ir
0u' anu enl0i'iiI sci ioTS Vi o. augustus Oo"u-
son, Esq, consul OF the united States for Syria,
| rendered to the missionary corDs of the Amer.
| iran hoard in tl,eir vori1us Sto,inns ord ,Ja
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paItlhents vi iaooI Ill tIIe Bospel OF thirst, at
| Beirut, Irlpoli, SidOn, DER ell k0mer, Suk ell
| Garb and elsewhere His waketul enternrise
| and discreet energv in nrntectinr Iifo LaoIth
""1 ui'OieV' 0"0i ~ III Pi"'ee'rHS ulV, He"'tl'
| ana property. III the MIDST OF fears ana perlis,
| while it commanded grateful confidence and