in the city met on his case twice a day. On Monday, a letter arrived from his brother and sister in Goshen, (Conn.) which he desired me to read to him, and said he understood it, but I doubt whether he did. His exertions to escape were so frequent, that beisdes the nurse, we were obliged to have two men watch him day and night. On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning we thought him dying, but it was not till Wednesday evening July 12th at a quarter past 6 o'clock, he calmly breathed his last, and entered I doubt not into that rest which remaineth for the people of God. "He was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost," and through his instrumentality, "much people was added to the Lord."

C. S.

Why is the intemperate gratification of appetite allowed? Does interest plead? Does the experience had of the effects which follow, induce? Does the law of God approve? Nay: all unite to frown their opposition. Every interest is laid upon the altar; the effects which follow form an assemblage of the most painful things of life, and God unites his veto with his curse. It is the government of feeling which impels; and its influence in this single case seems sufficient to induce the most wakeful distrust of its tendency.

Present feeling hurries the angry man into deeds, the effects of which no regret can retrieve. Against the gust of human passion God has spread the protection of his authority over the brute tribes. But what outrages, notwithstanding this, does the government of

OF CONDUCT.

So far as men do not respect principle, and refer their conduct to some rule, they y.eld, of course, to the government of feeling. To expose the danger of what is so common, is the object of this paper.

While mere feeling impels the child, the strength of a parental arm is necessary to keep him from self-destruction; and until childhood is past, he needs parental instruction, counsel and government. These he must have, or the government of feeling will ruin him.

Present feeling often bears away the youth in a course that leads to a life of regret. His spirits are buoyant; scenes in prospect that are gilded by imagination, invite; experience has not taught him that appearances may not accord with facts; hence he is betrayed into danger; the precious advantages of early life are lost, and age follows, to be afflicted with regret for the consequences which the government of feeling has occasioned.

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tention is withheld. The subject of all these means goes on as though there were no other state than this, and no higher or more worthy objects than those which now engross his mind and heart.

Another example is found in the Christian. Why does not Christian hope prepare all who enjoy its consolations to profess religion, to follow Christ in his ordinances, and thus to cast the weight of their influence into the scale of godliness? Not, indeed, because the propriety and the duty of these things are not apprehended, but because feeling dissuades. Why does not every Christian pray in his family, and instruct his children? Not because the duty is doubtful in his view, but because his feelings disincline him. Why does not every professor of religion hold the interests of the body of Christ with which he is connected, as supreme, watching for these, making sacrifices for the promotion of these, thinking less of his own wounds than of those which the church receives, and thinking less of any slight when cast upon himself, than when cast upon Christ? A state of feeling has intervened which prepares its subject to seek his own things, to the neglect of Christ's. No Christian will vindicate these things; there is no Christian that is not constrained to condemn them; but they are allowed through the mere influence of feeling. Thus secret prayer and the devotional reading of God's word are neglected. Inattention to these duties is, perhaps, the last thing into which the Christian once thought himself liable to fall, and into which he never would fall were it not for the government of feeling. There is not unfrequent occasion to inquire why the seasons in which the church may agree to unite in prayer, and especially why the monthly concert, is not more generally attended? All unite to approve of the consecration of this monthly season. They read of it

and they speak of it, as one of the things which auspiciously signalize the day in which we live. The thought of having the church retrograde to the point at which she was when this concert commenced. or of having it given up, would afflict them. It is a season which they greatly value, both on their own account, and on account of the gen. eral interests of Zion. Nothing could tempt them to subscribe the relinquishment of its privileges; and yet the precious season often passes by neglected. Why? They did not feel like attending. Perhaps they thought they should attend but one half hour before the question was to be decided; but their feelings changed.

Fixed principles of conduct, therefore, are of supreme impor tance. With such as are safe, and of universal application and obligation, we are furnished by the Scriptures; and God has endowed us with intellect, to enable us to refer our actions to them. The most important province of intellect, is to regulate the conduct of rational agents. So far as we forego the use of this, we loose our dignity, though not our accountability, as rational creatures, and decline towards the rank of the irrational tribes.

No more important is it that the Voyager on a tempestuous ocean respect his chart, and give not himself up to the influence of winds, and waves, and currents, than that the voyager of life respect the great principles of conduct which are prescribed in the word of God. The reason why so many make shipwreck of their interests for time and eternity, is their neglect to do this. The reason why so many Christians pursue but an indirect and unsteady course, is this neglect. The obviousness of the fact is such as to supersede the necessity of further confirmation; and the consequences induced are so apparent, as well as dire, that I may well be

excused from the address of exhortation to those that shall notice these hints. To the law and to the

testimony. As many as walk according to this rule, peace_be_on them. B. J.

SACRED CHAPEL OF LORETTO.

SOMETHING is known among us of the absurdities of the Catholic religion, but it is only when we are in a Catholic country, and actually witness the mental bondage of its subjects, that we are fully aware of the corruptions of that religion, or can fully appreciate the blessedness of our own. A capital instance of Romish imposture is the fiction of the Holy House, or Sacred Chapel of Loretto, one of the most celebrated places in the Catholic world. An American gentleman who visited this chapel purchased a tract which contains its marvellous history, and is constantly offered to strangers at Loretto; and from this tract a contribu

tor to the Christian Spectator has been at the pains to translate so much

as is contained in the extracts which follow.

Historical Abridgement of the Miraculous Removals of the SACRED HOUSE of Nazareth, by Signor Murri, Curate of Lo retto; Translated into French by Philip Pages, Apostolic Peni tentiary, &c. &c.

Preface of the French Translator.

It is with the most lively interest that I translate from the Italian into my own language the history of the Sacred House written by M. the Curate Murri. The French, who are naturally the friends of the beautiful and the true, will feel some degree of obligation to me for having given them in their own

language a history as interesting as it is marvellous. Profane historians glory in transmitting to future ages, facts infinitely less important than the admirable removal of the Sacred House.

If in any corner of the universe a spot were pointed out which had served as an asylum to a celestial spirit, the most indifferent and frigid of mankind would undertake long voyages to visit such an asylum; and those of the least literary curiosity, would, at least once in their lives, run over a book which furnished them details the most sincere, and the most true. With what eagerness, with what holy enthusiasm, should we not then desire to read the expose, at once ingenuous, simple, sincere, and elegant, which M. Murri has given

us of this humble house which served for a retreat to the Sovereign of the world?

This divine and almighty Architect could doubtless have created for himself a second heaven and

have used it as his domicil; but as

he became man to teach men bu

mility, till then unknown, he chose to be born in a spot the most abject and vile, the better to condemn the pride, vanity, and false grandeur of mankind. But I mistake; this place is neither vile nor abject; on the contrary it has been almost rendered divine by the habitation and the presence of a God concealed in an human form; and for five centuries it has justly become the object of the veneration of the Catholic world. As the learned ecclesiastic who gives the historio