been negligent in watching your heart, and expense of time, exercises of devotion, performance of good works, resistance of temptations, good use of good examples; and compare your present estate with your past. Look jealously, whether your soul bath gained or lost; lost aught of the heat of her love, tenderness of conscience, fear to offend God, strength of virtue-gained more increase of grace, more assurance of glory. And when you find (alas! who can but find?) holiness decayed, or evil done, or good omitted-cast down your eyes, humble your soul, and sigh to him whom you have offended. Sue for pardon, as for life-heartily, yearningly; enjoin yourself more watchfulness; renew your holy resolu tions; and strike hands with God in a new covenant, so shall your soul dwell in safety. Much of this good counsel came from an unknown author at Antwerp. It contented me, and thus I have made it my own for form, yours for use. Our practice shall both commend it, and make us happy.-Bishop Hall. BENJAMIN RATHBUN. There are probably few of our readers who have not read the statements respecting the failure and forgeries of this individual at Buffalo. The following view of the subject, from the New York Express, conveys a profitable lesson. "They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition." Every day seems to develope something new and strange connected with this new and strange man. We doubt whether our own country or any other ever exhibited such a character. The times, exciting and spirited as they are, the love of speculation, which to a greater or less extent, predominates with every business man, even the very advancement of the age seems to have been far in the rear of his notions of the people with whom he lived. His sleeping and waking hours were filled up with business. It was his day dream and night dream, the subject of his morning and evening meditations, his meat and drink-in a word, his every thing. He not only loved to toil and sweat, but the very excitement it created was his very life. Without it, like the chained spirit of an active and busy mind, he would have given up the ghost. His notions of every thing were unlike the notions of those around him. The ultima thule of others were but the beginnings in the conceptions of his own mind. He needed but the glimmerings of light which to others must have been as plain as the noonday sun. In all things he was ambitious to excel, to outstrip the greatest deeds of others. What man had done was forgotten for what man might do. A partial failure in one thing stimulated him to greater exertions in another. "Attempt great things-expect great things," was written upon all he designed to do, and upon all he accomplished. One thing only was wanting to make him the greatest and best business man of the age-that one thing was moral honesty, without which he could no more guide his ship with safety, than the mariner could his without chart or compass. Look for a moment into the history of this wonderful speculator. He had been almost a beggar in boyhood, and for a time was in manhood. From this low condition, with no money, no friends, and no influence, he became, almost in the twinkling of an eye, a man of wealth and unbounded influence. His labours and taste for the last few years have been witnessed in a thousand forms. The artist, the mechanic, the merchant, the manufacturer, and the labourer have each been the better for his existence. The house of God and the house of feasting have each gone up at his bidding. Theatres and workshops, ships and ship canals, steamboats and canal boats, have all, from the growing timber on the woodland to the last touch of the painter, been conceived and finished as he designed them. His lands and his cattle, his houses and his horses were as those of Job before disease and misfortune made him a beggar.* A Buffalo correspondent of the Albany Argus, in writing of Mr. Rathbun, says, "He had, indeed, provided for making ten millions of bricks this season. He owned some forty or fifty post coaches, and five or six hundred horses of a good kind. He had, as I understand, about fifty miles of the western end of the stage route between this place and Albany, entirely to himself; and it certainly was the best part of the whole line; having better horses and carriages, better attendance, and exhibiting a greater desire to accommodate the public. His range of stables, coachhouses, and workshops were all substantial and convenient buildings, and well appointed. Such also were his stores and warehouses: well built and well filled." been negligent in watching your Much of this good counsel Co author at Antwerp. It contente made it my own for form, yours shall both commend it, and make BENJAMIN RATHE There are probably few of our reade statements respecting the failure and for at Buffalo. The following view of the York Express, conveys a profitable less be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and hurtful lusts, which drown men in dition." Every day seems to connected with this new our own country or any seems to have b with whom he up with subi develope somethin rever exhibited meditation5: He not oF tement it created EXTRACT e only sure way you can take to avoid proceed in religion like a heavy body begins to fall the very moment in which oddridge. CHRISTIAN MOURNER. racles of love oy to me impart; no tender passions move: n, Lord, to thee I turn, hen I my sins recall, carce one bewailing tear will fall, I scarce can heave one sigh! Thy promises I lay Close to my panting breast; Fain would I hope-hope flees away! Thus must I walk below, And shall my bosom never glow Unclose, unclose these eyes! THE DRUNKARD. Ho sips, and sips the flaming cup; 1 Sinai's thunders roll along, 7 been negligent in watching your heart, and expense of time, exercises of devotion, performance of good works, resistance of temptations, good use of good examples; and compare your present estate with your past. Look jealously, whether your soul bath gained or lost; lost aught of the heat of her love, tenderness of conscience, fear to offend God, strength of virtue-gained more increase of grace, more assurance of glory. And when you find (alas! who can but find?) holiness decayed, or evil done, or good omitted-cast down your eyes, humble your soul, and sigh to him whom you have offended. Sue for pardon, as for life-heartily, yearningly; enjoin yourself more watchfulness; renew your holy resolu tions; and strike hands with God in a new covenant, so shall your soul dwell in safety. Much of this good counsel came from an unknown author at Antwerp. It contented me, and thus I have made it my own for form, yours for use. Our practice shall both commend it, and make us happy.—Bishop Hall. BENJAMIN RATHBUN. There are probably few of our readers who have not read the statements respecting the failure and forgeries of this individual at Buffalo. The following view of the subject, from the New York Express, conveys a profitable lesson. "They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition." Every day seems to develope something new and strange connected with this new and strange man. We doubt whether our own country or any other ever exhibited such a character. The times, exciting and spirited as they are, the love of speculation, which to a greater or less extent, predominates with every business man, even the very advancement of the age seems to have been far in the rear of his notions of the people with whom he lived. His sleeping and waking hours were filled up with business. It was his day dream and night dream, the subject of his morning and evening meditations, his meat and drink-in a word, his every thing. He not only loved to toil and sweat, but the very excitement it created was his very life. |