ness, to the bright scene of glorious life beyond the tomb, where death can never come, and supplied me with two more powerful testimonies against the assertion, often unjustly and tauntingly made, that a belief in the doctrine of the Universal goodness and salvation of God, will not give support in a dying hour.

Those who make this assertion use their utmost endeavours, when occasion offers, to make the assertion Great exertions are often made to alarm and terrify the sick, who profess to believe that Christ will prove to be virtually, what the Father sent him to be, viz. "The Saviour of the world." But in all such cases with which I have been acquainted, as well as in the case you mention, these exertions have proved ineffectual. Though it has been said that the approach of death would cause them to give up their faith, yet death, together with all these pious exertions have not been able to destroy their confidence in the crucified and risen Saviour, who, they believed, is “the propitiation for their sins, and not for theirs only, but ALSO for the sins of the whole world."

A case of this kind lately occurred in Sidney. A young lady by the name of Lucinda Taylor, aged about 20, died a few weeks since, triumphant in the faith of the gospel, through which life and immortality are brought to light for the dying family of man. She found by happy experience that this faith was good to live by in time of prosperity, that it was good in days of great distress, and good in her dying moments.

A year ago she was brought to endure several months of extremely distressful sickness, during which it was sometimes thought, by herself and friends, that life would continue but a few hours longer. At such times, as well as during her whole sickness, professors of religion were trying, both by persuasion and by the most horrid denunciations, to induce her to renounce her faith. On one evening in particular, when it was not expected that she would continue until morning, one of her visiting neighbours told her that the probability was

that she had but a little while to live, and if she did not change her belief, she would sink to hell!! After I had heard of these things from several others, they were told me by Miss Taylor herself, who recovered her health so that she has since visited this town. "These anathemas of men," said she, "did not move me. I was confident that my Saviour was sufficient for me, and I knew that those who were constantly endeavouring to disturb my rest, knew nothing of my doctrine."

As winter again came on, consumption renewed its hold on this daughter of Zion, and, as though the greatest distress of body were not enough, several of her neighbours again renewed their efforts to distress her mind. I visited her during this, her last sickness; and though she viewed death near, her rest in the Lord was glorious. That heavenly calmness and serenity marked her conversation, which is rarely found.

I inquired whether any were yet exerting themselves, as they had done before, to shake her confidence in the impartial and never-failing Saviour of sinners. " Yes," she replied," many continue their endeavours: but their exertions to weaken, rather tend to strengthen my faith. The more they say, the more I am led to look to Jesus, and I behold more and more beauties in him. I feel that I am safe in my Saviour's arms."

In this rest she continued to the last, " being sealed with the spirit of promise," and joyfully expecting "the redemption of the [whole] purchased possession," of him "who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time." So I suppose that those who were her "miserable comforters," have, in their thoughts, sentenced her to ceaseless wo. Of this I judge from the assertions before mentioned. What must she have done to give them ground to hope for her future welfare? She must have assented to their creed. She must have expressed a conviction that there is an endless hell for the greater part of sinners, and a Saviour for but few, and that she, either according to what she had done for herself, or according to an eternal decree of God, was to

be of the happy few. Then they could have thought that "all is well." But not to make a Christ of experience, nor trust in assenting to a certain creed; but to trust implicitly in the Son of God, and believe that he is the unchanging and never-failing friend and Saviour of the whole human family was thought sufficient to cast one off forever-from the mercy of God. "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." S. COBB.

Waterville, Feb. 25, 1823.

FOR THE CHRISTIAN INTELLIGENCER.

MISTAKEN ZEALOTS.

MR. EDITOR-In the discharge of my professional duties, I frequently fall in company with various denominations of christians, and am made acquainted with the means which they severally use, to promote their respective systems. After witnessing the management and stratagems of the friends of modern Calvinism, a system of decrees and cruelties, ingeniously saturated and sophisticated with pretended benevolence and pity, I feel it my duty, as a sincere well-wisher to the inhabitants of Maine, and of the world, to expose a delusion, so detrimental to human happiness and dishonorable to the character of Jehovah. I allude, Sir, to the exertions which are now making to introduce Calvinism in disguise, by a pretention to creaturely benevolence, as having the power of salvation. Knowing it is morally impossible to convince an enlightened public of the impartial goodness of God, in view of the partial doctrine of election and reprobation, the crafty and designing and mercenary leaders of the present mighty movements in the churches, have adopted a plan, flattering to human pride, by calling on professors to exhibit their own benevolence, and secure to themselves the glory. They are indirectly told of their omnipotence to save from perdition, millions and millions of immortal souls!! These are their words: "There is a claim-nay, a

command, as mighty as omnipotence upon every man, woman, and child. Millions! millions! of immortal souls, may perish if we withhold our aid." And yet this shameless pretention that human aid, which is money, can be granted by every man, woman and child, and become omnipotent in the salvation of immortal souls, is thoughtlessly swallowed by the multitude of professors, because it is honied over with creature-benevolence. But the many are innocently erroneous in their judgment, and would, if undeceived, spurn the thought of so nefarious an imposition. I have waited with impatience to see some article in the Intelligencer, calculated to remove that mask of deception, and relieve thousands of their enormous burthens. The introduction of Notes and comments from Calvinist pens into the same page with the Sacred Text, is also a most mischievous and reprehensible plan, unquestionably designed to divert the attention of the reader from that investigation and arrangement of scripture favorable to the doctrine of equal grace. Instead of searching the scriptures, thinking they have in them eternal life, most people, I believe, search the Notes at the bottom, and find for thousands, for whom Christ died, eternal death. Pride and vanity are again enlisted, and those who are destitute of Scott's or some other man's "family bible," are stigmatized by their neighbors. Zealous and imprudently liberal as many are, in these things, I am convinced from careful observation they are really mistaken. It is the duty of those who are not deceived, to bear the infirmities of others, and calmly endeavor to remove the veil from before them. Those people do not mean to encourage Calvinism; but it is so beautifully gilded over with captivating terms, such as "conversion of the world," " evangelization of Jews and Heathens," and "the universal spread of the gospel," that its "bones and uncleanness" are not discovered. For myself, I am fully convinced, that nine out of ten, in the wide circle of my acquaintance, are, at heart, anti-calvinistic, and would be glad to believe that God is the Saviour of the whole human family. OBSERVATOR.

FOR THE CHRISTIAN INTELLIGENCER.

CALVINISM NOT GOSPEL.

Elm-Trees, December 10, 1822. SIR-A day or two past I was siting by the window, and saw my honest Calvinist neighbor coming towards the house, in a slow step, reading a paper which he held in his hand My first thoughts were that he would call and take another lecture on the subject of the final happiness of the whole family of Adam, as I supposed it to be indicated in the scriptures; and what I had promised him in a former conversation. But I was a little surprised, for he came in reading the paper, with great attention; and when I gave him the usual salutation of the morning, and observed that I presumed he had found some very interesting intelligence—he replied― "yes" and his whole mind, soul and feelings were absorbed in the account, he was reading, of the deplorable state of the poor, ignorant creatures in India ; and he hoped I would hear him read a short letter from a Missionary; and which, he had no doubt, would be the means of changing my opinion on the subject of sending the Gospel into that benighted part of the globe. For to his real grief, he had heard it often reported, that I had expressed a decided disapprobation of sending Missionaries to India'-and then proceeded to read,

"There is a tribe of Hindoos who put to death its female offspring; and a few only was saved by the benevolent efforts of Col. Walker, when in India; but since his return, the very families, among whom the horrible practice had ceased, have again returned to the work of murder-not one survived. In and around Benairees, infanticide is practised to a horrible extent. Many mothers, in fulfilling a vow entered into for the purpose of procuring a blessing of children, drowned their first born. When the child is two or three years old, the mother takes it to the river, encourages it to enter, as though about to bathe it, but suffers it to pass into the middle of the current, when she abandons it, and stands an inactive spectator, beholding the struggles, and hearing the screams of her perishing infant !" "At Sanger Island, formerly, mothers were seen casting their living offspring