New Appointments. Rev. Urban Palmer, Ridgefield, Huron Co., O. Rev. Moses Ingalls, Oriskany, N. Y. Rev. Samuel Dady, Boredino, N. Y. Rev. Henry A. Merrill, Compton and vicinity, L. C. 30.00 30 00 7.93 212 84 5.00 Brookfiel, Aux. D. M. S., for Western Missions, 401 00 Cambridge, Miss. Sew. Circle, in Shep- Conway, coll., per Austin Rice, Lerminster, Individuals in the Calv. Malden, Trinitarian Cong. Soc., to const. Rev. A. W. McClure, L. M., Northbridge, Ladies, per Rev. S. H. Fletcher, Pepperell, Ladies' H. M. Soc., per Rev. J. Howe, West Newbury, per Mrs. Wright, Trea., Moriches, L. I., David Terry, per Rev. I. Pillsbury 30 00 2.00 180 23 52 58 1.00 20 00 5.00 15.00 Farmville, Va., J. W. Watkins, Treas., Greene Co., N. Y., Aux. D. M. S., Greenville, N. Y., Mrs. Sarah Reed, to 20 00 The Treasurer of the American Home Missionary Society acknowledges the receipt of the following sums, from Sept. 15th to Oct. 15th, 1833. Cambridge, N. Y., coll., per Rev. J. A. Murray, of which 30.00 from A. Crosby, L. M, Carmel, N. Y., A Friend, per J. Lockwood, Colchester, N. Y., Miss S. Downes, in full to const. Dr G. W. Page L. M., Connecticut Miss. Soc., viz: New-York, Bleeker-st. Ch., mon. con. coll., per M. Wilbur, Cedar-st. Ch., mon. con. coll., two paymeuts, per W. Walker, 29.22; J. W. Leavitt, 100.00; W. Gibson, 2.00, Laight-st. Ch., J. Shaw, 1.00; R. Boor. man, 200; A. M. L. Scott, 300, Rutgers-st. Fem Miss. Assoc., Miss M. A. Shourtt, Trea., Oswego, N. Y., Aux. H. M. Assoc., per D. Haiman, 10 95 131 22 6.00 65 87 36.50 13 78 const. Jonathan P. Hovey, of Governeur, N. Y., L. M., Hampshire Miss. Soc., E. Williams, Treas., 381.86; Hadley, Young Misses' Miss. Soc., 33.95; Northampton, do. do., 84.19, Jefferson, Schoharie Co, N. Y., Rachel Atwood, L. M., in part, 10 00; John W. Stephens, in part to const. Mr. Campbell L. M., 10.00; Mrs. Lydia Boise, L. M., in part, 10 00, Kinderhook, N. Y., Richard Graves, L. M., Maine Miss. Soc., viz: Winthrop, Fem. Miss. Assoc., Mrs. Lois Cole, Treas., Massachusetts Miss. Soc., B. Perkins, Tren., Boston, A Female Friend, avails of hard labour, Princeton, N. J., mon. con. coll., per Rev. 30 00 Dr. Rice, 50 00 Reading, Pa., Wm. Darling, Esq., semiannual payment, 50 00 16 18 Vermont D. M. S., viz: Bennington, Offering of a Widow, per Mrs. Hooker, 0 50; Mrs. Bearman, 0.22, Royalton, Gen. J. Francis, per Cor. Sec., Friend, per G. M. Tracy, A lover of the cause of Christ, per Rev. J. Leavitt, Home Missionary, AMERICAN PASTOR'S JOURNAE, OR, ORIGINAL SKETCHES OF REAL CHARACTERS, CONVERSATIONS, AND STRIKING FACTS, FURNISHED CHIEFLY BY CLERGYMEN. THE CONTRAST. [Furnished by a Clergyman in Missouri.] In the spring of 1832 there was a vival of religion in the village of sures; when she met them in the street, on her way to Church, she would take them by the arm, saying," you once atre-conduct you to a far better place.” tended me to the ball room, I'll now She even visited them for the express purpose of persuading them to attend vain. Afraid of none, she reproved public worship, and seldom went in the drunkard for his cups, the gambler for his cards, and the preacher for his unfaithfulness, as they all will testify. Meetings were conducted by an excellent brother, Rev. J. W. D. On one occasion, the congregation was large, solemn, attentive;-the preaching was powerful, searching, melting;-the tear of contrition furrowed many a cheek ;-the sigh of repentance heaved many a bosom;-the hardest heart was hum-To the poor of the neighbourhood, she bled to the dust, and the proudest spirit quailed for fear. she was an affectionate, judicious, inwas a mother indeed. To the sick, valuable nurse. As a neighbour, there were few her equals in kindness and generosity. Church. Among those present, who had lived "without God in the world," was the widow B. She was of the elite and a la mode, the devotee of fashion-the sine In July, 1833, the cholera appeared. She said to me, "I shall set my house qua non to every party of amusement. The ball room was hier glory. There in order, for I may die." Her principal she figured the "gayest of the gay." In- bequests were to the poor, and the dependent of the world, she looked In ten days she was attacked down upon those around her; and when with fever, which, in three days more, she there saw the "not a few who dan-terminated in cholera. She was im ced attendance in her train," she felt pressed, at once, with the probability herself above the "vulgar herd, her of her approaching dissolution, and met equals few, her superiors none. Like that approach with heroic fortitude. the multitude, she attended Church be- She was willing to die-expressed an cause others did so, and to see what unwavering confidence in the Saviour, She met was going on. But an arrow from the and full hope of heaven. quiver of the Almighty pierced her soul; death with extraordinary composure— she felt the mighty strivings of the only wished to live, to do something Spirit. The awful danger of resisting for the Church-charged me to watch his influence was pressed home upon to build it up, and then was silent. over its interests, and use every exertion the heart. At once she yielded, im- The death-sweat gathered on her brow. mediately fled to the Saviour, and pro- She looked at her shrivelled handsfessed allegiance to her crucified Lord. the livid blueness of her skin, and said, "The world beheld the glorious change, "this is cholera! It is finished-it is finished. The trumpet, the trumpet is blowing-the trumpet is blowing to She laid aside her gay attire. In- receive me." In a few moments, stead of the ball room, she visited the Lord Jesus receive me;" and, after a sanctuary of her God. Her constant pause, · Christ will take me." The companions were those who loved senses, one by one, were soon locked the Saviour. Her address to all was,up, and she died without a struggle or "hear what the Lord has done for my a groan. soul." Her conversation was in heaven 66 On the same occasion, and in that But she did not forget her former same assembly, there sat beside her companions in vanity and fading plea-Mrs. L. The same Spirit touched each 66 heart-they wept together, and might || together have served the same Saviour; but they pursued different paths. While the widow B. submited at once, Mrs. L. resisted the strivings of the Spirit. Time after time she wept in the sanctuary; but as often as she wept in the house of God, she forgot him when she retired from his courts, until, on one Sabbath day, the text was read, "Quench not the Spirit." She perceived, at once, the danger of the course she had pursued, and retired to her home, the most beautiful residence in the village. After tea, she walked to the garden with a friend, and standing by the sweet briar," and gazing, by moonlight, on the broad surface of the turbid Missouri, said, "I have been quenching the Spirit, and tremble, lest he is gone for ever. But I am determined to seek religion. I shall go to preaching every Sabbath; at every concert, at every prayer meeting, whenever the doors are opened, I shall be there, and, if I die, I will die seeking the Saviour." These were good resolutions, but, like thousands of the same kind, they were forgotten. She turned back to the world, believed in fatalism, and maintained the doctrine of universal salvation. Thus she lived, occasionally attending preaching, until the appearance of the cholera. Fearful ness of death surprised her; she saw that she had been deceiving herself, and must seek the Saviour, or be lost. "But," said she to a friend, "I do not feel as I once did. I cannot weep for my sins, nor drop a single tear, at contemplating the sufferings of the Saviour. If I could experience the same feelings I did one year ago, all would be well; but they are no more. I have grieved away the Spirit. I believe he has taken his eternal flight. O for the impressions I had during the revival! What would I not give for their return? I would make any earthly sacrifice to recall them. I could almost say, I would be willing to purchase them by the death of one of my children." One week passed away, and a letter brought her the intelligence of the death of her eldest son; but even this did not produce the wished for feelings. In two weeks more, the cholera attacked her. The physician came, but remedies were vainly used. He said, "Madam, to be candid, you must die! If you have any thing to say to your friends, do it now." She remained silent. 66 Have you any thing to communicate?" "No, give me some medicine," she petulantly replied. "Can't you save my life?" And, with such sullen indifference, without even bidding her husband or weeping children around her farewell, she died, just one week before Mrs. B., a fearful monument of the dreadful danger of neglecting the solemn and momentous exhortation of the Apostle, "QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT." W. W. H. THE MAN OF PLEASURE. [Furnished by a Clergyman.] They spend their days in mirth, and, in a moment, go down to the grave. Job. xxi. 13. To him who ardently desires the salvation of his fellow men, there is nothing on which he looks with such painful emotions, nothing so harrows up his feelings, as to see them, even at this day, deluded with the vain expectation, that they will attend to "future repentance," that there is time enough to prevent the loss of the soul. It is with a bleeding heart, that the Christian perceives myriads of his fellow men, still comforting themselves with this delusion, though instances reiterated without number, have been, and constantly are, presented to their consideration, evincing its futility, and the danger of resting upon it. lusion of the grand adversary of our salvation, is more successful than this; none leads greater numbers down to the unspeakable horrors of the second death. No de It falls to my lot, to present to the consideration of my fellow men a mournful example of this kind. It is a case, on which I do most earnestly en treat the impenitent to ponder; for the subject of these remarks was one, who himself had heard of the sudden deaths of many; who had seriously thought on the subject of securing the salvation of his soul before it was too late; who fully intended to do so, at some future period of his life; but who, like thousunds before him, "Resolved, and re-resolved, and died the same." 66 On the evening of June 14th, an ap- || tle and take a frolic." It appeared to pointment was made for me to preach him to savour too much of the apat the dwelling-house of a gentleman,||pearance of puritanism," to abstain enwhose residence was within a quarter tirely from taking an occasional glass of a mile of my own. When the peoor two with his friends, or once in a ple were almost all assembled, and I while spending the Sabbath day in a was on the point of commencing the party of pleasure! And as he possessexercises, a young female, in great ed an excellent constitution, he imaginhaste, and with much trepidation, en- ed that his life must of necessity be tered the room, and requested me to proportionably long. "But do not miscall and see Mr. George S, if I understand him;" he never intended possibly could, before I commenced the "to spend all his life in this way;" far religious exercises of the evening: from it, such a thought never entered also stating that he had been, a few his mind." "He knew" that religion hours before, suddenly seized with an was of vital importance; and " after a alarming fit of illness; that the physician short time, a few more years spent in pronounced him to be in extreme dan-pleasure," he did intend,—yea, “he ger, and that he desired me to come had fully made up his mind to give the immediately, if I could stay but five salvation of his soul all that attention minutes. After stating the circum-which so momentous a subject demandstance to the assembled congregation, ed." This was the character, and these and assuring them that they should the prospects, of poor Mr. S. But alas! not be kept in waiting but a very short How soon were these plans frustrated, time, I accompanied the messenger to and these prospects blighted, by the the residence of Mr. S. The physician withering hand of death! How soon had just left, with a promise, however,|| did his candle go out in darkness, as to return as soon as he possibly could. he was called "to go down to the In a short conversation with Mr. S., I grave!" ascertained that he was grossly ignorant of the word of God; and that, || consequently, he possessed but a very vague idea of the religion of Christ. I then knelt down, and attempted to pray with him; but had scarce commenced, when he was seized with a fit of violent vomiting, which lasted till duty required my attendance at the meeting. He begged me, in the most pathetic manner, not to leave him. His entreaties went to my very soul; and I was entirely at a loss how to act. But I stated why it was necessary that I should leave; and I went away, promising to return to him immediately after the meeting was closed. The religious exercises which I left Mr. S. to attend, I made very short; for in less than thirty-five minutes I was again at his side. Upon my entering the room, his first words to me were, "Oh, sir! pray for me! they tell me they have but faint hopes of my recovery!" I immediately knelt down by his bedside, but the sobbings of his distressed wife prevented his uniting with me in my prayer, as he could not possibly have heard it. About this time the physician returned; and, after examining his symptoms, he faithfuly, but very affectionately, warned Mr. S. to PREPARE FOR DEATH: telling him that he was "beyond the possibility of recovery," and that his symptoms indicated "speady dissolution!" This Mr. S. was a young man of about twenty-five years of age. He was gay, thoughtless, and giddy; and lived as though he believed that true plea- My pen refuses the attempt to desure was to be found only in the enjoy-scribe the scene which followed this ments afforded by this world. He look- annunciation. Poor S. appeared to be ed upon religion as "well enough in just awakened out of a delusive dream. its place;" but thought that as he was For the first time in his life, he appearyoung, there was "time enough yet" ed to have a correct view of his real to pay every necessary attention to it. situation, the importance of eternal He was what some persons calla fine, things, and the vanity of those false social, jolly young fellow," and thought pleasures, for the enjoyment of which it "no harm now and then to drink a lit- he had neglected his best, his immortal interests. But here I must pause. For || several weeks previous, I myself had been quite unwell, and the anxiety and anguish of soul occasioned by this scene were greater than my debilitated frame could endure. * * I was hurried out of the room. * * * In a few minutes the physician and myself returned. Poor Mr. S. once more requested us to pray for him; but his pains were so intense that he could not unite with us. His dreadful groans so interrupted us, that it was impossible for us to proceed. The poor fellow observed this, and requested us to spend the time in secret prayer for him. The natural warmth was fast leaving the extremities of his body, and the cold chills of death were rapidly approaching his vitals, when on a sudden he inquired, "what distance above my feet is my body cold?" and was answered, that it was making rapid advances to his vitals. I shall never forget the piteous and disconsolate look with which he received this intelligence, and, turning to me, he said, " dear sir, what shall I do! I am dying!-Oh! I am dying! O my poor neglerted soul!" then raising his eyes to heaven, "God of mercy! if there is mercy in store for the chief of sinners, extend it to my poor departing spirit?" He called his young and interesting, but distracted and heart-broken wife, to his bedside; and after he had, in the most solemn manner, exhorted her to take warning from his mournful example, and seek the salvation of her soul immediately, and not to rest until she had obtained a realizing sense of an interest in the blood of Christ, he affectionately kissed her, and requested that she would withdraw from the room. He had observed that nature could not support her to witness so distressing a scene. After lying a few moments in silence, and a comparative freedom from pain, he suddenly started up in an agony of horror, and (speaking to Dr. M. and myself) said, "gentlemen?-Oh, gentlemen, what shall I do? I AM LOSING MY REASON? I am unable to pray-l cannot exert the least influence over my thoughts!" While he yet spoke, his mind began to wander, and seven mi Over the subsequent part of his bistory let the dark mantle of oblivion rest for ever. I would that it were erased entirely from my remembrance! * If the terrific horrors of perditionif the dreadful tortures of the damned, resemble the agonies of poor S. and his fearful and terrible deathbed scene in its conclusion, rather than neglect the salvation of my soul, let me, while in this world, endure all that is dreadful that has ever fallen to the lot of humanity! Dr. M. and myself remained with him till the sad conclusion of the heartsickening scene! Not quite eight hours from the time he was seized, his terrified spirit entered upon the untried realities of the eternal world. THE LAYMAN IN THE WEST. Ꭱ. [From a Missionary in Illinois.] There is a Sabbath School in this settlement, got up about two years ago, and sustained ever since, almost entirely by the indefatigable labours of a layman and his faithful wife, from Massachusetts. During this period, this dear brother has, by unwearied exertions, maintained a reading meeting, two services on each Sabbath-and thus, by his prayers and faithful labours, has been instrumental in preparing the way for the favourable introduction of the preached Gospel. The good that will result from his labours will be known only in the light of eternity.He left his native state, and affectionate kindred, impressed with the idea that he might render more important services to the cause of his Divine Master, to whose service he had consecrated his life, in this new and uncultivated land. If there were but only one such family in each of the settlements throughout this growing country, they might each render great and lasting benefits to the cause of God.-It may be said emphatically of this interesting portion of our country, the fields are white already to harvest ?" Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. |