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ing as a delegate to the convention, as well as escape from the trammels of a bad world to
a clergyman. There are many that would do one day of sober reflection, or pious indul-
honor to the cause as such, whose abilities and gence, or of religious consolation! The mari-
integrity are no ways inferiar to those of any ner, who, after a week of storms and gloom,
minister that could be named. We think, happens to spend one day on the sunny
therefore, the convention ought to leave it op of the main, cannot feel more grateful for
shore of some verdent island that rises out
tional with each association to send whom they his good fortune, than he, who having
please as delegates, either ministers, or laymen, weathered the misgivings of the week, sits
or both. Another reason why we should pie-down in his own pew, in his own church,
fer having this left optional with the association, and joins in the service and praise of his
is, that the rule requiring associations to ap- great Maker.
point ministers only, as delegates, will have a
tendency, or at least it is possible that it should,
to excite jealousies in the minds of some of our
brethren, relative to the designs of the clergy
(although this convention of delegates would
have no power to interfere with the concerns
of individuals, or societies as such) and it is al-son
ways well to guard against all jealousies, as well
as against the possibility of an abuse of power.*

EVANGELICAL REPOSITORY. We have received Nos. 15 and 16, of this work, printed at Troy, N. Y. which, if we recollect right, are the only ones we have received since the meeting of the HudRiver Association, in September last.

ery; and if, as Mr. Balfour proposes, he
shows this scheme "to be without foundation
in the Bible," he will, at least, have one con-
vert to his doctrine. I hope he will confine
his answer to the main question at issue, as
Book, does not appear to be necessary.
to answer the other parts of Mr. Hudson's

;

3. I am pleased with the "Proposal," because I consider the author qualified to do good justice to the subjects in discussion so that, if his views are tenable, respecting no future punishment, the same will be made to appear without further controversy. Let both sides of the controversy be duly patronised, that each reader, having both Books, may be able to compare and judge candidly and correctly. These views are offered in mutual respect to the Authors of the respective works mentioned. R. STREETER.

POETRY.

DEATH.-By Mrs. Hemans.

From the Universalist Magazine. MR. BALFOUR'S PROPOSALS. We have suggested these things for the conMessrs. Editors,-Permit me, through the sideration of our brethren generally, and par- medium of your paper, to express my feel-Why should not he, whose touch dissolves our chain, ticularly for those, who are to detail more fully, ings and views in relation to Mr. Balfour's Put on his robes of beauty when he comes and complete the plan to be hereafter adopted." Proposals" for publishing the "THREE As deliverer? He hath many formsThough we assume no right to dictate in these ESSAYS," as contemplated in the prospec- They should not all be fearful. If his call matters, we think the considerations we have tus, which he has recently issued. I am Be but our gathering to that distant land. offered, ought, at least, to be properly weighed, pleased with the prospect of such a work, For whose sweet waters we have pined with thirst, Why should not its prophetic sense be borne even, if, when weighed in the balance, they for the following reasons, viz. Of summer's winds, a voice of melodyInto the heart's deep stillness, with a breath should be found wanting. Solemn, yet lovely?"

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Because all the topics which he proposes to discuss, are important and interestNEW ASSOCIATION.-At a quarterly con- ing, and several of them are of such a nature, ference holden at Central Falls, R. I. on as to require the labors of a man of talents, the 30th ult. it was proposed to organize a extensive reading, and of aptitude in collectnew Association of Universalists in the vi- ing and arranging what has been scattered cinity of Providence, on the plan recom-through more voluminous works, even mended by the General Convention, at its there be nothing strictly original to be of session, to be called "The Providence As- fered upon them. Such, for instance, as sociation of Universalists." The first meet-" the state of man between death and the ing is to be on Tuesday, the 16th inst.

resurrection"-" of Ghosts and their intercourse with this world after death"-" variCAYUGA ASSOCIATION.-The Cayuga As-ous opinions concerning the soul, its immorsociation of Universalists met in Venice, N. tality, &c. and how such opinions came to Y. on the 3d and 4th of Oct. ult. Nine be incorporated with Christianity." "The ministers and twelve delegates were present. ressurrection of man from the dead," and The association stands adjourned to meet" Remarks addressed to Christians, Jews, in Semphronius, on the 1st Wednesday and Thursday in Oct. 1828.

SUNDAY.

and Deists." These are subjects of superla-
tive importance, and, so far as my acquain-
tance extends, are those, of which the ma-
jority even of professed Christians, have at
best, very confused and unsettled opinions.
Any,true light which can be produced di-
rectly before the mind's eye, on these points,
will be useful.

The daily occurrences of a week of business absorbs the mind so much, that were it not for the regular return of Sabbath the majority of human beings would nearly forget that any thing else was necessary in this 2. Because Mr Balfour proposes to anworld, but money when it is needed, provis-swer Mr. Hudson's Book in Defence of fuions when hungry, clothing to cover, and ture punishment, so far as relates to his luxuries to feed our pampered appetites. scriptural and analogical arguments in favor But christianity has consulted the wants of man, and the weakness of his nature, by the institution of one day in seven. How happy the virtuous man must feel to

Although we do not apprehend that any evil would result from the course recommended by the committee; yet we think it most prudent, notwithstanding, and would give the best satisfaction, to leave each association perfectly free to elect whom they please of their own mem bers, as delegates to the state convention; and the state convention to elect whom they please, of their own members, as delegates to the general convention Eds. of Olive Branch.

From the Providence Universalist Miscellany.
Why should the all-good, all-wise Supreme
Create one soul for endless pain?
Why should he raise a part to heaven,
And in despair let part remain ?

Sure earth is not man's final home-
The realm of strife and care and pain-.
There is another, higher dome,
Where he forever shall remain.

Not made with hands," there's no decay,
Not built on earth, there's no despair;
There is no clould to dark the day;
There is no pain nor sorrow there.

Why was man made if but too weep,
The prey of passion and of pride;
To pine in misery, long and deep,
Then sink in Time's oblivious tide?

Or, worse than all, when he has borne
Woes that no human tongue can tell,
And mourned while life was left to mourn
To sink to an eternal hell!

It cannot be God never made
A being for eternal pain;
His image on man's form he laid-
That semblance will he mar again?

"Tis his own seal-to man alone,
This everlasting pledge was given;
And he will raise it to his throne,
To shine eternally in Heaven!

MARRIED,

Mr. Kneeland, Mr. Philip Snedecor, to Miss
On the evening of the 2d instant, by the Rev.
Elizabeth N. Baker, all of this city.

HALKSGIVIG-DA!

or supposed to be in favor of that doctrine.
Though I was sorry to see a formal contro-
versy on the subject of punishment after
death, renewed or prosecuted between breth-
ren of a common fellowship and faith, still,
having repeatedly and candidly read Mr.
Hudson's Letters, I think they deserve a fair, Hêr wil bé prèčin in ne nù
respectful answer. He has, with much tal- Másénik Hol on he afturnon ev
ent and ingenuity collected, and exhibited
in a plausible form, to say the least, the most
Húrsdá next, (hanksgiviŋ-dà ;)
convincing arguments in favor of future mis-services to keménç at 3 'lex.

VOL. I.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE NEW-YORK UNIVERSALIST BOOK SOCIETY.

"C BEHOLD HOW GOOD AND HOW PLEASANT IT IS FOR BRETHREN TO DWELL TOGETHER IN UNIT.

NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1827.

Extracts from "A Letter written in the year 1760, concerning the question, whether the Logos, (Logos, WORD, John i. 1.) supplied the place of a human soul in the person of Jesus Christ, By Nathaniel Lardner, D. D.”

(Continued from page 235.) "There are some other texts needful to be taken notice of here. John xiii. 3. Jesus knowing that he was come from God, and went to God. hoti apo Theou exeelthe. xvi. 27. For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God; hoti ego para tou Theou exeelthon. ver. 28. I am come forth from the Father, and am come into the world. Again I leave the world, and go to the Father. Excelthon para tou Patros. This expression is explained in chap. viii. 42. Whence we perceive, that thereby is intended our Lord's divine commission. "Jesus said unto them: If God were your Father, ye would love me. For I proceeded forth, and came from God. Neither came I of myself, but he sent me Ego gar ek tou Theou exeelthon, kai ecko: k. l.

"The reproaches and contradictions, which our Lord met with, and the sufferings of his death, are often set before us. But if the Logos, that high and exalted spirit, in the Arian sense, was the soul of Christ; this part of his humiliation, in clothing himself with a human body, would have been frequently represented and described, in the clearest and most emphatical expressions." Here the Doctor goes into close reasoning on the subject; aud after considering many other passages which have been thought to have more or less bearing on the point in question, (which occupy about sixteen pages,) he adds:

"We must now be able to perceive the true character of our blessed Saviour, and the great propriety, with which the Apostles and evangelists speak of him.

the people of Israel, were gathered together,
chap. x. 38. how God anointed Jesus of Na-
zareth with the Holy Ghost, and with power.
Who went about doing good, and healing all
that were oppressed of the devil. For God
was with him. Nor does our Redeemer dis-
dain this title in his state of exaltation. For
when he called to Saul out of heaven, and
Saul answered, Who art thou, Lord, he said:
I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou perse-
cutest. Acts xxi. 6-8. Comp. ch. ix. 5.
See likewise ch. iii. 6. and xxvi. 9.

"From all that has been said, it appears,
that Jesus is a man, appointed, annointed,
beloved, honoured, and exalted by God,
above all other beings.

No. 31.

are entitled to many blessings and privileges: but Jesus, as the Messiah, is "the Son of God," by way of eminence and distinction.

And

"Exod. iv. 22, 23. And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, even my first born. And I say unto thee: Let my son go, that he may serve me. Is. xiiii. 6. Bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth. See likewise Is. xiv. 11, 12. Jer. xxxi. 9. For I am a father unto Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born. Ver. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? Hosea, xi. 1. When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. To which I must add Jer. Note. "Some now by the Son of God | xxxi. 1. At the same time saith the Lord, understood an intelligent being, or emana- I will be the God of all the families of Isration, begotten by the Father, or proceeding el. And they shall be my people. Comp. from him, in an ineffable manner, from all ver. 9. and 33. All which is expressed by eternity, and of the same essence or sub- St. Paul after this manner. 2 Cor. vi. 18. stance with the Father. Others thereby un- And I will be a father unto them. And derstand a mighty spirit or angel, begotten they shall be my sons and daughters, saith or formed by the will of the Father, in time, the Lord Almighty. See there also ver. 16, before the creation of the world, and of a 17. different substance from the Father. Which Son of God, according to them, became incarnate; that is, united himself, either to the human nature, consisting of soul and body, or to a human body, so as to supply the place of a human soul.

But those senses of this phrase, or title, are not to be found in any of the books of the New Testament. "The Jews had no notion, that their Messiah should be any thing more than mere man. See Whitby upon Rom. ix. 5.'-Dr. Jortin's Discourses concerning the Christian Religion, p. 17. Which indeed, is well shown in the passages of ancient authors, alleged by Whitby in the place referred to.

"Accordingly, in the New Testament, the Gentiles, who received Jesus as the Christ, being brought into God's family, and into the number of his people, are called, the sons of God. John i. 12. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. Comp. 1 John iii. 1. And see Rom. viii. 14-17. Gal. iv. 4-7. and Heb. ii. 10. and elsewhere.

All Good men and women, then, are God's sons and daughters. But Jesus, the Messiah, is the Son of God, by way of eminence and distinction, and has in all things the pre-eminence.

"Matt, xxvii. 54. Now when the Centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying: Truly, this was the son of God. Comp. Mark xv. 39. And says St. Luke, ch. xxiii. "This will lead us to the true meaning of 39. Now when the Centurion saw what the title," the Son of God," in the gospels. was done, he glorified God, saying: CertainFor there, many give our Lord that title,wholy, this was a righteous man. took him to be a man, especially tavored by "John i. 45. Philip findeth Nathaniel, God. This title is given to our Lord, not and saith unto him: We have found him, of only by Peter in his confession, Matt. xvi. whom Moses in the Law, and the Prophets 16. and the parallel places, and, John vi. 69, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of but also by John the Baptist, John i. 35. iii, Joseph. And see ver. 46-50. And Acts 35, 36. by Nathaniel, John i. 49. by Martha, "This, as seems to me, is the way of ii. 22. Ye men of Israel, hear these words. xi. 27. and by others, Matt. xiv. 33. Luke thinking, to which we are led, by comparing Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God iv. 41. Our blessed Lord likewise, often many texts of the Old and New Testament, among you, by miracles, and signs, and takes it to himself, either directly, or indi-where the title, or denomination, of " Son of wonders, which God did by him in the midst rectly, John, iii. 16, 17, 18, v. 25. ix. 35of you, as ye yourselves also know. See 37. x. 36. xi. 4. also ver. 36. ch. iv. 27 For of a truth, against thy holy child, [rather son or servant] Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and

"The case seems to be this :-In the Jewish style, and the language of Scripture, all good men, and all people, who are in a covenant relation to God, are his sons, and

God," is used.

"There is, therefore, no foundation for the interpretation mentioned at the beginning of this note. Which, nevertheless, have been received by many, and have produced intricate schemes and systems, by which

fore us.

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the minds of Christiaas have been greatly not excepted. In the Apocrypha evil spirits quiry. They believed that all the Gentiles were perplexed, and the world itself sometimes are frequently mentioned. What child, has not fuel for hell-fire. My opinion is, that this idea thrown into confusion and disturbance. been amused with the account of "Asmodeus originated among the Jews, from their hatred Obj. 1. It may be said: Admitting this the evil spirit" killing Sara's seven husbands? of the Gentiles, and the high opinion which notion of our Saviour's person, we shall lose Also, of Raphael curing Tobit's eyes, and bind-they entertained of themselves as the seed of that great instance of humiliation, and ing Asmodeus. And of the wonderful efficacy Abraham. See Matth. ch. S. No one we think, descension, which the Arian scheme sets be- leaped out of the Tigris the smoke of which from their Scriptures. Christians in time past, of the heart, liver, and gall of a fish, which will contend, that they learned such an opinion For according to that, the most ex- smelled by the evil spirit, he fled into the ut- have not only believed that few will be saved, alted spirit, next to God the Father, submits most parts of Egypt, where the angel bound but they express themselves pretty much in the to all the laws of infancy, and childhood, him. See Tobit, chaps. 3. 6. 8. 11. In Baruch, language of the Apocryphal writers on the and is greatly iscommoded by the body dur-iv. 7. 35. we read of devils, but the originai word subject. Of late, Dr. Woods, Mr. Emerson, ing its dwelling in this earth. and some other orthodox writers aver, that the greater part of the human race will be saved. The number, who shall suffer eternal punishment, will not be more in proportion to the tal punishment in any country, are to that of whole human race, than those who suffer capispise the day of small things. But this is a great thing, for not long ago, it was the orthodox We ought not to de-. faith, that but a very few of the human race would be saved.

"To which I answer, I would by no means rob you, or any one else, of any argument, that is really suited to engage to humility in particular, or to all virtue in general. But Papinian, if I am not mistaken, it appears from what was before said, that this instance of humiliation is an imaginary thing. It is impossible, that so exalted a spirit should be the soul of the human body, If it is not an absolote contradiction, it is incongruous to the nature of things, and in the highest degree improbable.

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is not diabolos but daimonion, the same which is rendered so in the New Testament. But as it is admitted on all hands, that demons, and the being Christians call the devil, are very the present investigation. I would only remark different, it requires no attention from me in in passing, that people's notions about satan, the whole community. the devil, evil spirits, witches and wizzards, must be from a heathen source, for none of them are admitted to be real beings in the Old Testament. On the contrary they are there condemned as superstitions, and the Jews commanded to give no heed to them. Where then phal writers concerning immediate punishment 4th. What were the opinions of the Apocrycould the Jews iearn such opinions, but from after death? That they believed the wicked their intercourse with the heathen? If the were punished after death is evident from 2 Esand that of the devil aad evil spirits at Babylon, ately after death seems also evident from verse Jews imbibed the idea of witches in Canaan, dras, vii. 47. And that it commenced immediand such beings are mentioned in the Apocry-56. Such persons were to "dwell in pain," pha, are these sufficient reasons for our believ-verse 12. Compare also Eccles. xviii. 22—25. "Whatever advantages may be fancied on such beings can be recognised as real in the ishment after death taught in our day. But I ing their existence? And is it possible that This is precisely the doctrine of immediate punthe Arian scheme, there are much greater in- New Testament? conveniences attending it. For, as before would ask, from what source did the Apocry2d. What are the opinions taught in the phal writers learn this doctrine? Not from hinted, it deprives us of the force of our Sa- Apocrypha about Hell? The Greek word Ha- the Old Testament scripures, for it is now conviour's example. We are common men. des, rendered hell, occurs Eccles. xxi. 10. and ceded by intelligent orthodox men that the Old But he is supposed to be the most perfect Tobit, xiii. 2. 2 Esq. iv. 8. viii. 53. and ii. 29. impossible they could learn it from the New, li. 5. 6. Song of the three children, verse 36. Testament does not teach this doctrine. It was spirit, next to God. How should any temp- It is the same word, which is frequently render- for when they wrote, it was not in existence. tation, from the things of this world, affected Hell in the New Testament, and is synoni-Not from Zoroaster's creed, for I do not find such a being? How should he be tempted, inous with Sheol, also rendered Hell in the Old. that his creed contained the doctrine of immein all respects, as we are? It could not be. The word Gehenna, also rendered Hell in the diate punishment after death. Where could It is altogether irrational.

"And if so great a being were to inhabit human body, it would entirely swallow it up. That spirit would still retain its own knowledge and power, and would raise the body above all pains, weaknesses and wants.

(To be concluded in our next.)

EXTRACTS FROM BALFOUR'S 2D INQUIRY,
ON THE TERM SATAN.
(Concluded from page 234.)

New Testament, does not occur in any of the the Jews then learn such a doctrine? I answer, books of the Apocrypha. By Hell in all the from the Greeks, from whom also they learned above texts, seems meant the same as Sheol, that Hades or Hell was the place where this the grave, or state of the dead. The idea of a punishnient was to be suffered. See Inquiry place of endless punishment, does not appear to into the words Sheol, Hades, &c. chap. i. sect. be meant in any one of them. Indeed, such as. The Old Testament writers, so far from Let ns consider 1st. What were their opin- the Jews, either from the ancient Magian re- after death, describe this state as a state of darkplace of punishment, could not be learned by teaching the doctrine of immediate punishment jons respecting evil beings or spirits? We ligion or from Zoroaster's improvements of it, ness, silence, insensibility, and that there the shall begin with their use of the term satan. It for not a word is said about Hell in either. I very best of men cannot praise God or give him occurs only in Eccles. xxi. 27. It is doubtful have shown, in my Inquiry into the words She- thanks. Nor is a single individual, ever reprewhat idea the writer attached to this word. ol, &c. that Hades or hell as a place of future sented as in pain or misery in this state. The word diabolus, occurs frequently in the punishment, was learned by the Jews from their the Greeks, from whom they learned this docBut original, but is rendered slanderer, accusation, intercourse with the Greeks. See chap. i. sect.trine, believed in immediate happiness as well &c. in the English version. See Eccles. xix. 8. 15. xxvi. 5. xxviii. 9. xxxviii. 19. and li. 2. 1 as misery after death, and the Apocryphal wriMacc. i. 36. 2 Macc. xiv. 27. The only place phal writers, concerning the number that should dras, xiv. 34. and vii. 28, 35. 2 Mac. vii. 14. 3d. What were the opinions of the Apocry-ters believed both. See Eccles. i. 13. 2 Eswhere it is rendered devil, and which has a con- be saved? Their opinion was, that all men Wisdom of Spl. chap. 2. nexion with our present subject is Wisd. of shall not be saved " See 2 Esdras, viii. 38-398, quoted above. See Jahn's Arch. p. Sol. ii. 24. "Nevertheless through envy of 42. on the contrary, the Most High-" made the devil came death into the world: and they this world for many, but the world to come for by the writers of the Apocrypha concerning 5th. What were the opinions entertained that hold of his side do find it." The allusion few." See 2 Esd. viii. 1. And in verse 3. it" the Day of Judgement ?" The phrase," the here is to Gen. 3. and from this passage, Chris- is said-" there be many created, but few shall day of judgment," only occurs once in the Old tians have derived the idea that it was the dev- be saved." And chap. ix. 15-" there be many Testament, Prov. vi. 34. where no one ever il that deceived Eve. If they can show a bet- more of them which perish, than of them which supposed it referred to a day of general judgeter source for this opinion, we hope it will be shall be saved." No sentiment like this is to be ment at the end of this world. But in this sense done. Paul says, death entered by sin, Rom. v. found in the Magian creed, or, in its improve the phrase, “the day of judgment" is used by 12. and it was shown, Sect. 2. that no Old Tes-ments by Zoroaster, so far as my knowledge of Zoroaster in his creed. And in this sense also tament writer intimates that death entered by them extends. Where the Apocryphal writers it is used by the Apocryphal writers, 2 Esdras, the devil. Where then did the Apocryphal learned it I am unable to say with certainty; xii. 34. Esther, i. 11. That they meant a day writers get this opinion? It must have been but Whitby, ou Rom. 2. shows, that the Jews of judgment after the resurrection of the dead from the heathen, and it is evident this idea our Lord's day, believed that none but Jews seems evident from the following passages. agrees to Zoroaster's angel of darkness, whol was the author and director of all evil, death See this quotation from Whitby in my first In- believed to be" fire and worms in their flesh; vere to be saved, and they were all to be saved. The torment of the wicked at this period they

and they shall feel them, and weep forever."
See Judith, xvi. 17. Eccles. vii. 17. Comp.
2 Esdras, ii. 34. and vi. 9, 25. Suffer me now
to ask, where could the writers of the Apocry-
pha learn the doctrine of " the day of judgment"
but from the creed of Zoroaster, for this is both
the sentiment and the very phraseology which
he uses as has been seen above from Prideaux.
It cannot be questioned, that the phrase "the
day of judgment" does not once occur in the
Old Testament in this sense. If it is denied,
that they learned this sentiment and language
from the creed of Zoroaster, let the denier In the earliest ages, the Misletoe was held
show from what Divine source they could learn pre-eminent for such uses over every other
it? As Christians could not learn either this plant or tree. The Druids venerated it, for its
sentiment or the language in which it is express-mystical origin. Growing as it does upon Oak bulk, however, is a necessary condition of
ed from the Old Testament, we ask how came without resembling it, they deemed it a miracu- wholesome food: the capacity of our diges-
they by such sentiments and language, unless lous production, and believed it possessed of
they derived it from Zoroaster's creed or at sec- charms and defences against evil. It was cut tive organs sufficiently proves that nature
ond hand from the Apocrypha. It will not an- by them from the tree with great ceremony.- never intended them for the reception of
swer to say, Jesus Christ and his apostles used The Prince of the Druids ascended the Oak, highly-concentrated food. Isome years ago
the phrase "the day of judgment," and Chris- cut the Misletoe, with a golden sickle in the directed considerable attention, in conjunc-
tians have borrowed the language and senti- presence of all the people, and then presented tion with some well-known agriculturists, to
ment from them. No, this will never do, for it to the other Druids, who received it with the nutritive value of different crops, as the
first we have shown in our answer to Mr. Sa- great reverence, and distributed it as a sacred food of cattle, and I constructed a logomet-
bine, that in no text where this language is us- talisman and blessing for the new year. It was, ric scale for the solution of various problems
ed is such a sentiment conveyed by it. But however, at length bauished from the churches connected with the subject; but I soon found
second, if we were even to grant this, what because it was held sacred by the heathen, and that mere bulk produced a very important
would follow from it? It would follow, that Je- might therefore mislead christian worshippers.
sus Christ and his apostles adopted the sentito a profane respect for it, or to believe as the influence, and that, to render one species of
ments and language of the Apocryphal writers, Druidical rights had taught them, "that it had nutriment equivalent in its value to another,
or to speak all the truth, that both were indebt-power of proclaiming pardon and freedom to it was necessary to take into consideration
ed to the great imposter Zoroaster, for invent- all wickede people towardes the four quarteres the quantity of inert matter which furnished
ing both the sentiment and language for them of heavene."
some hundred years before. Yea, that all of The mince pie, and the Christmas pie, those
them were indebted to the ancient creed of the" favorite peculiars" of the Christmas festival;
Magians, for this doctrine and the language in had also their appropriate derivation. The for-
which it is expressed, for both are found there. mer being a compound of the choicest produc-
Let our brethren then, who contend for this tions of the East, represents the offerings made
doctrine consider its origin; for to build their by the wise men, who came from afar to wor-
faith on the New Testament as its source, is ship, bringing spices. The coffin shape of the
worse than the Old; for it makes the writers true old English Christmas pie" in imitation of
not revealers of a new doctrine, nor teaching the manger" where the infant Jesus was laid.
one before revealed in the Old Testament, but This pastry is a learned composition, being a
adopting a sentiment and language, which origi- mixture of meats, tongue, chickens, eggs, sugar,
nated in the Magian creed, was transmitted by raisins, lemon and orange peel, with wines and
the great imposter Zoroaster, and through the various kinds of spiceries."
Apocryphal writers to Jesus Christ and his
apostles, and from them to all Christians ever

and remain unhurt by the frosts and storms of animals; for in wet and gloomy seasons,
the chilling season. On the accession of chris- when the grass contains a diminished por
tianity, councils of the church forbade Christians tion of the nutritive matter, these animals
to decorate their houses with Bay or Holly, but are never satisfied-they are constantly in
afterwards permitted it, in order to accommo- the act of grazing; whereas, in hot and dry
date its ceremonies to the old mythology in weather, they consume the greater portion
such things as were not fundamental. An an-
cient writer says, that "Triniming of the Tein-of their time in that of ruminating, or chew-
ples with hangynges of flowers, boughes, and ing the cud. I apprehend that this is not to
garlondes was taken of the heathen people be explained, as M. Majendie believes, by
whiche decked their idoles and houses with the sensibility of the mucous membrane of
such arraye."
the stomach, but is to be solely referred to
the fact that the vital energy is only expen-
ded in decomposing such substances as are
capable of furnishing chyle. Volume or

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CHRISTMAS CEREMONIES. England was merry England when Oid Chistmas brought her sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; "Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft would cheer

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NEW PREPARATION OF TALLOW, &c. clor, of Great Gilford-street, Southwark, A patent has been granted to Mr. ManiEngland, for his invention of a new preparation of fatty substances, and the application thereof to the purposes of affording light.

This invention is a peculiar method of operating upon tallow, for the purpose of refiuing or purifying it, and which, when made into candles, affords a much more beautiful light than any other material hitherto used for that purpose.

The mention of the "Christmas log" will kindle the feelings of every New Englander, as another well known feature of this joyous The patentee proposes to take raw fat, festival. It was in Old England the great in- say about four hundred weight, and to boil dispensible, to have a "hugh heaped up, over-it, with about fifteen gallons of water, in a heaped-up, all-attracting fire," and the larger close vessel. A valve opening outwards is the log, the merrier the defiance which was to be inserted in the top of the boiler, and given to the cold without. All the demons of loaded, so as to resist an internal force of frost and the spirits of the storm, were laid by about fourteen pounds upon every square the potent spell. A charm this in these north-inch, that is, a pressure of one atmosphere. ern climes which needed not the aid of super- The tallow, having been boiled in this vessel stition to enforce it. Then comes the feast, for the space of about six hours, is then to and dance, and song-and then the grave re-be poured off and cooled to about 90 deg. In default of recent news, it may be interest-flect on the glorious occasion; and the rejoice! ing to the reader to trace the origin of customs, with mirth and gladness, and gifts, on the sol-Fahrenheit, when it is to be spread out in where the primary motive has ceased to operate. emn festival which commemorates "The day layers, not exceeding half an inch in thickThe practice of decorating churches and apart-that gaveness, upon woollen cloths of close texture, or inents with evergreens at Christmas,is supposed "To man a Saviour-freedom to the slave."upon felts, all of the same size.

A poor man's heart through half the year.

Scott.

by many to allude to the people's strewing branches in the way of the Saviour when he entered Jerusalem; by others to the taste of the monastics, in the early period of the church, who hung their altars with ivy and laurel, em

blems of devotion and triumph, to enhance the grandeur and solemnity of their rites.

But the practice of ornamenting places of worship with evergreens, springs from an earlier date. The Druids decked their houses and places of worship with evergreens in December, that the Sylvan spirits might repair to them

Portsmouth Journal.

On the tallow becoming hard, each layer is to be folded up, by turning over the cor

QUANTITY OF GRASS CONSUMED BY RUMINA-ners of its cloth or felt. These parcels are

TING ANIMALS.

then to be piled one upon another, and presThe subsidence of appetite, or the feeling sed by a weight equal to about half a ton, of satiety, is not produced by the quantity, placed upon the top of the pile. At the exbut by the quality of food-the very reverse piration of about one hour, an additional of what would happen, were the mere volume weight is to be applied, making the pressure of the aliment alone necessary to pacify the now about one ton; and in two hours time cravings of the stomach. This is remark- his weight is to be augmented to a ton and ably displayed in the habits of ruminating a half, in which state it is to remain for at

least four hours, in a temperature of about 80 deg.

The turpentine expressed by this last pel Advocate, caps the climax. He raises his mode of operating, may be recovered from" man of straw," and then goes at it, as it were The packets may now be removed, and the oily matters by distillation, and the resi- with hammer and tongs, as though he was ravthe edges of the tallow pared round, in order due of oil will be suitable for any of the or-ing mad! And although we have come in for to take off those parts which have been im-dinary purposes, of burning in lamps, maka share of his ire, yet we feel disposed, on our perfectly pressed; the cuttings from the ing soup, or any other use to which animal part, to leave him without an opponent; only edges are then to be placed on the middles oil has been commonly approp red. saying enough to let him know in what light we of the cakes, and the whole packed up in the view his style of writing. cloths or felts as before, and piled upon each other under an hydraulic press, which is to be progressively increased in force, so as to express all the remaining oily matter gradually out of the tallow.

The cakes are not to be removed from their envelope, and having become extremely brittle by the pressure, are to be broken up and re-melted in a vessel heated by steam, and to be incorporated with bees' wax or prepared linseed oil; the proportional quan

tities of these materials are to be about one

He says,

IMPORTANT FROM GREECE. "It (the "New York State ConThe packet Ship Wm. Thompson, Captain vention,") has excited alarm, because it was Maxwell, arrived at this port on Sunday morn- and is yet thought to be, a measure fraught with ing last, has furnished the American Republic mischief," &c. We ask, What mischief has it with the interesting particulars of the annihila- done; or what mischief has it the power to do? tion of the Turco Egyptian Fleet, by the com-He says, " it was calculated to place the conbined English, French and Russian squadrons trolling or governing power into the hands of Although the effusion of blood was terrible, yet ministers exclusively." We ask, Who should we feel confident it was a momentary sacrifice, control ministers, in regard to discipline, (and that, in its consequences, must produce a per- this is all the power that the Convention has,) manent good: nothing less than the emanci- unless it be a body constituted from among are to be chosen by the Associations, two thirds

labored under.

hundred weight of fat to twenty pounds of wax, which must be of the purest fine white pation of the suffering Greeks from the tyranny themselves; especially when those ministers quality; if linseed-oil be preferred, it must of the Ottoman Porte, which they have so long have been previously concentrated by boiling, and brought to the consistency of turpentine, and then mixed in the proportion of ten pounds of the prepared oil, to one hundred weight of the fat, but these proportions will depend upon the quality of the fat

and of the oil.

The proposed method of preparing the oil is by heating it in an open vessel until it gives out an inflamable vapour. The gas evolved is then to be burnt as it rises, until the quantity of the oil becomes reduced to two-thirds of its original volume: it is then to be exposed to the action of the air for one month previous to using, and may be employed as above, instead of bees' wax.

These materials, having been melted together by the heat of steam, as above directed, are then to be submitted for three or four days to the action of chlorine gas, for the purpose of bleaching, and to be frequently stirred up during the operation; this is to be performed in a close vessel, having glass windows for the admission of light into the interior.

The marine force of the allied powers, compared with that of the Turks was small, being composed of all classes of ships of war, of but twenty-six sail. The Turks seventy sail of vessels, of various armaments were moored in the harbour of Navarino under the protection of strong batteries.

"There were besides, about forty transports and other vessels formed behind the Turkish fleet. The result is: one Turkish line of batthe ships burned; two driven on shore, wrecks -one double frigate sunk; one on shore, a wreck; two burned-fifteen frigates burnt and sunk; three on shore, wrecks; one on shore, masts standing-fifteen corvettes burned and sunk; four on shore, wrecks-nine brigs burnt and sunk; one on shore, masts standing-six fire ships destroyed, and three transports.

So that it appears that of the whole seventy vessels of war. only eight of the smaller classes were afloat, which is probably to be accounted for from their small draft of water, enabling them to haul in close under the batteries ashore, and which appear to have been very formidahle."

of whom, generally, are lay members? Is it so that the Associations can appoint no ministers in whom they can place confidence? If so,

shame on the ministers, and the Association

both! He says "it was anti-christian, aud hostile to the spirit of Universalism." We ask, Wherein? He has not been able, with all his spleen, to make this appear. He says "its friends continued to adhere to it against the feelings and will of the majority." "We ask, The majority of whom? Not of its own members, certainly. And the Convention has asked no one to come under its wing and jurisdiction, unless it should be thought advisable. If the Editor of the Advocate means that repelling

falsehood and mistepresentation, is opposing "with virulence;" then, perhaps, the Editor of the Utica Magizine must come in for a good share of the guilt; though it cannot be denied but that he has done it in a very modest as well as manly style.

When the Editor of the G. A. first made the assertion that the Convention had “dictated in The tallow thus prepared is now to be It is stated by Admiral Codington, that this matters of conscience," we have reason to beboiled in pure water, for the purpose of redecisive, although sanguinary battle, was lieve that he thought that such was the fact; moving all odour that it might have retained, and a quantity of newly prepared animal brought on by the perfidy and bad faith of Ibra- but when we see in his paper-" we know that charcoal introduced, in the proportion of ham Pacha, who violated an arinistice solemn-it (the Convention) has "dictated in matters of about one-tenth the weight of the fatty mat- ly entered into by the allies with the Ottoman conscience," and the public now know it;" after. These are to be boiled, together for Porte. ter the Editor of the Utica Magazine had provthe space of six hours, and afterwards filtered incontestibly that such was not the fact, we ed through woollen cloths, at a temperacannot but express our utmost astonishment. ture of about 150 o, when the process of preparation may be considered to be complete, and the material fit to be moulded into candles, which should be done at the lowest temperature that the fat will flow.

"SUCH THINGS OUGHT NOT SO TO BE." We have been sorry to perceive the spirit that has been manifested, of late, by some of our brother Editors; a spirit calculated to disgrace any cause, however good: and which, as we The patentee proposes, under some cir- conceive, is altogether incompatible with the cumstances, instead of preparing the fat by spirit of Christ, or of the gospel. It is always boiing it in water, in the manner above de- with regret, when we see a spirit of acrimony scribed, to melt it in the ordinary way em- and severe invectives used against our avowed ployed at present by tallow-melters, and then opponents and determined enemies; but it is to mix one part of oil of turpentine with with greater grief and sorrow that we behold seven of tallow, after which the cakes are language which savors of such a spirit used toto be submitted to pressure as above direct- wards our professed friends. But of all that we have seen of this nature, the Editor of the Gos

ed.

Brother" these things ought not so to be."
But when he cautions the friends of the Con-

vention to "keep the bantling out of our way,"
meaning by the "bantling" the New York
State Convention of Universalists," and by “our
way," the way of the Editor of the Gospel Ad-
vocate, we can only look upon this man, with
our inind's eye, whom we have never other-
wise seen, with a smile of pity!

In the practice of piety is satisfaction on earth, and its reward is on high in regions of bliss and immortality.

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