Extracts from different Authors. II.. 'Mid Afric's wastes the pilgrim train, The palm-tre marks the long-sought well. 285 Which guides thee to the fount of God's own righteousness? III. Where o'er a parch'd and barren land The way-worn traveller seeks repose; T. M. T. EXTRACTS FROM DIFFERENT AUTHORS. WHAT business have we to hesitate when our duty has been once determined? If we would maintain and prove our integrity, we must put away, with abhorrence, the very first disposition to sin. Robinson. A man should seek to gain a right faith, as the only sure foundation of real and consistent good conduct. Anon. But still it should be remembered that godliness. consists not so much in a well-digested system of right notions, as in holy, and spiritual affections regulating the whole conduct. Robinson. There will be little likelihood of a man's actions being truly good, if he has not the right foundation of Christian faith; there may be difference of opinion among good men on certain points, but a true Christian must hold the foundation, he must be right in essential points. But a man may believe, he reads in Scripture, while yet these truths have not got hold of his heart so as to make him a holy and good man. There is a difference between an historical faith, and a saving faith. One is in the head, the other in the heart. The first worketh not at all, the other worketh by love. One is a dead faith, the devils have it, and they tremble; the other is a lively faith, it produces good works, and it leads the Christian to repentance, to holiness, to salvation. Anon. We have in Scripture one example of a late, but sincere and acceptable repentance, that none might despair; and but one, that none might pre sume. Bible Notes. Sin is the wound of the soul, which must be washed with the tears of repentance, cleansed by the blood of Christ, and healed by the Spirit of the Holy One. Bishop Horne. "Pride was not made for man." If we stand in the evil day of temptation, it is a humble fear of falling that must enable us to keep our ground. Notes on Scripture. It may be that all who own religion are not pious; but it is certain that he who scorns to own it must be less so. The Hon. Robert Boyle. There is no act of memory like a death-bed's review of one's life. Sickness, and a nearer prospect of death, often maké a man remember those actions, wherein youth and jollity make him forget his duty; and those frivolous arguments which, when he was in health, and free from danger, were able to excuse him to his own indulgent thoughts, be will himself not now think strong enough to excuse him before God. The Same. Extracts from the Public Newspapers. 287 EXTRACTS FROM THE PUBLIC NEWSPAPERS, &c. Royal Humane Society.-The 51st anniversary of this Society was celebrated at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgatestreet, when upwards of 250 Gentlemen sat down to an excellent dinner. In the absence of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, the President of the Society, who sent a donation of 1007. the Chair was ably filled by J. Gurney, Esq. King's Counsel, who was supported by Mr. Justice Gazelee, and several persons of distinction. A procession of nearly 40 persons, male and female, who had been rescued from death, took place. It was a melancholy but highly gratifying spectacle. The Chairman made an impressive speech on the occasion, and then presented honorary medals to Lieutenant Turnbull, R. N., the Reverend Henry Woolley, Mr. Henry Hughes, of Maidstone, a youth of 17, who rescued a companion in 15 feet water, and Mr. Baker, for Captain Cook, of the Cambria, who rescued the crew of the Kent East Indiaman, -London Paper. Canadian Chiefs.-These interesting individuals were conducted over Messrs. Barclay's Brewhouse, and also visited the Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind School, and évinced much interest in viewing the different departments of those establishments. At the Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, they were remarkably struck at being accosted in French by one of the assistants who had formerly been a pupil in the school.-London Paper. The Treaty between this Country and the United Provinces of La Plata has been solemnly ratified by the Government of the latter. By this treaty, reciprocal freedom of trade is agreed upon; perfect liberty of conscience is secured to Brifish subjects residing in the United Provinces, the Government of which is put on the same footing as our relations with the most favoured of foreign nations; and to the credit of the humanity of the British Government, and the liberality of that of La Plata, it is stipulated that the latter is to assist us in the abolition of the Slave Trade, and to prohibit all its subjects from engaging in the iniquitous traffic. Similar gratifying treaties have been formed with the States of Colombia and Mexico. Fire. A serious fire broke out on Thursday night at the house of Mr. Dignam, in Adam-strect, Adelphi. It appears that the maid-servant,in arranging the bed-clothes in an upper room, set fire to the curtains, and in her anxiety to extinguish the flames, communicated them to herself, and burnt her neck and arms in a shocking manner. In the mean time the fire communicated to the adjoining rooms, but by the exertions of the firemen it was ultimately got under. The cottage of J. A. Fullwood, Esq. of Hillington Grove, Middlesex, was lately consumed by fire, together with the greater part of the furniture, and a young man of the name of Greville, who slept over the laundry, where the fire broke out, was so much burnt, that he is not expected to survive. The fire was caused, as it was supposed, by some linen getting in flames.-London Paper. An alarming fire lately broke out at the chateau of C. W. Willoughby, Esq. Pratton Grove, in Hanwell parish, in the middle of the night, occasioned by a boy carelessly dropping a candle among some litter in the stable, when dressing his master's horse on his return from London. The stables were quickly demolished, and the house, which was near to them, soon also fell a prey to the flames. Death by Boxing-A Sawyer, of the name of Willoughby, was lately killed in fighting with a man of the name of Irving, on Stoke Common, near Bushy. They had quarrelied at a neighbouring public house, and the deceased was taken off the ground dead after a fight of more than one hour. A singular discovery was made last week at Kilrush; in removing a box of oranges from the ship called the Two Brothers, which lately put in there in distress, one large orange was observed to be completely hollow, and in it was found a nest of five young mice.—London Paper. Caution to Children.- A fine boy, about two years old, belonging to Mrs. Keane, of No. 12, Acorn-street, Spital-square, in the absence of his mother, got playing with the fire, and, as is supposed, was amusing himself by lighting pieces of paper, when the flames unfortunately communicated to his dress. 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THE Cottager's Monthly Visitor. JULY, 1825. REMARKS On the 25th Chapter of Genesis. FROM the 1st to the 4th verse of this chapter, we have the account of Abraham's family by Keturah, and in the 5th and 6th verses, we are told that he publicly, in his life time, constituted Isaac his heir, making over to him the greater part of his possessions; and, to prevent disputes, sending away to a distance, with portions, the children which he had by his concubines, or inferior wives, such as Hagar and Keturah were called. 1 Chron. i. 32. V. 7. Abraham was 175 years old when he died, having lived 35 years after the marriage of Isaac, and 15 after the birth of Esau and Jacob, who were not born till their parents had been united 20 years, for Isaac was 40 when he married (V. 20.) and 60 when Esau and Jacob were born. V. 26. V. 8. "Gathered unto his people." This expres. sion cannot refer to the body, for Abraham was not buried with his fathers but in the cave of Machphelah, where only the body of Sarah was deposited. It appears simply to signify, the passing of the soul out of this world into the invisible state, and being gathered to the dead of all generations. It is used indifferently both with respect to the good and bad characters of Scripture. |