The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1854, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO 6626, THE ARCTIC CALAMITY. “The Religions Services Yesterday in Anterasting Ceremonies at Yonkers, the ‘Seamous dy the Rev. Mr. Carter of Yoakers, Whe Intens ‘Blatemeat of James Degnon, the First Assi “Names of the Saved and Lost a3 far as THE COLLINS FAMILY. SERVICES AT YONKERS, THE RESIOTINCE | ‘Yorkers, the residence of Captain Luoe’s family, every ore Felt as if a dear friend had been swept from their emicet. Whatever hopes might have been entertained of | the eafety of eny one on board the ill-fated vesrel, even ‘tho most carguine never thought fcr an instant that her <cvmmaader would be rescued. Ic had been seen on the tock when she sank, and those who had been with him ‘Dat s few mixutes before, assertid it as thelr positive Rehef that be bad perished with her. The news when “rought to “his wife threw her into the most profound @: of; lutt-who-can express the intense joy which she felt | the Metropolis. TAMENSE CROWDS AT TRE CHURCHES, =vesidence of Captain Luce. the Rev, Dr. Osgeed, Dr, Hatfleld, the Rev. Hr. Bellows, Dr. Beecher, Dr, Cheever, Dr. Macaaley, and the Rev. Mr. Chapin. wa tive ot Capt. Luce, ant Engineer, Aseertained, THE VERY LATEST, &., &., &. OF CAPTAIN LUCE. ‘SERMON OF BEY. Mu. CARTER. “When the news of the loss of the Arctle resched | ely Interestiag Narra- | wi ela ing ceatry MOR NING EDITION—MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, “9. lot ; —————— PRICE TWO CENTS, ————_—. = and we thark Ged for the knowte¢ge, that there fe not » | Sing’e adverse circamstarce in Life but what is {tented bynes to make more abundant, as well as more sure, the sum of our eternal good. Fle send u, 6 af- foetions roNhiok and fest that under thelr semaeton down to the oscth, and feel thet resource but with the patci- ir yet whea the {a the’ witat of" the. fies p in the mids ro8 the exultant strain, Yea, let the oarth rx oige, aad the multitude of the ts'es ‘be glad the: "Aye, for heaven's bricht age will penstrete even to the Sepsanen ema a h aeecggh| to reas upon erecy eation of Providence, in characters ore can mistske—“Ged is love”? inti We have egain other reasovs for rajoteing in the cove- Teignty of God, because we know that our own weakaees 6nd infirmity wou'd be continua'ly leadiag us into those Cargers frcm which His almighty arm alone can save us. But, onder the protection of His good providence, we have vothing to feer ant nothiog to make ns afraid. Beneath Bis sheltering we ere safe from cvery Garger without and from every evil passion within. We sy welk through the valley and abato7 of d-eth, we mey bre-et the storm, though the evrth be moved, and though the mountains shale at the tempest of the me; we may walk amid tio deadly arrows that 4, and para cn our way amid the wacting sickness thet destroys sat night, Got {3 our God, forever e will be ourpulceucte death.” Well torus, too, is it, considarieg our weakeess, thet He is urering isdom end snot ess in pertection. Weil for us is it, considering the huching dangers which beset us, that he is slaizhty to seve, for though we not ony totter uzor the brink, but ecteally fall within the may lurking graves whiek encemrass us, we etill ere secure n Him tn: wing that if it be our latest song on earth, It will be the Grst strein we along ia heaven, “EAilelujah, the Lord.Goc omeipotent refg neth/"” Mp brethren, our thougtts have naturally taken this turn to-Cay, under the fearful dispensation which has just GUed 90 many hearts with mourni ad brougat Lutter dcsolstion fat» ro many once bright and boyy homes Though mercifully reileved froma part of oat own sMiction ty ths a'sured enfety of the hercic com: mince’, who—thouth deserted by all who could give bim eid in ‘he discharge of the duties of humsaite, which ley vearer his sovl than the preservation of hin own Lfe—stood firm to bis post vatil himsel’, drawa in with the vortex whieh swallowed hiseht> ia its over- —set even tals, cur thanefal jay, is temcered by itsown admizture of sorrow. That dew tor whem it had been bia purpose to carry with him irfo theeternat world, as clascodsn a dista grasp, thor sank togesher beneath the waves, but whom eta it Located God ee gracionely to afford the meapa of ue, Le woul} have restored to have made complate ti] tera of heypireas whish was thus suddenly to be inter- rupted by the sad rumors wh'ch wou'd reach his dl- tant Lome—that con, tender anc weil beloved, hai teen indeed taben, and left a volé in his parenge’ hearts which rover will be filled Bat the sorrow is too gene. ral smcng us to notice partioular instances whera its ravages are felt. Did wo not sce the hand of God in such ® judgment as this, alae! what ground would we hevefor even hope ‘o rest upon? While we depreeate most hearti- Jy the using these awful dispenzstions for mere effect from the sacred dcrk,yet to thom over without sone faith. ful at’cmopt to gather from them the lessons God means them toimprrt, would be dolog deapite to the sphit of grace. 7 water. ceom 101 come in an appalling sen+eeven unto cur souls, aud the dead . “on eeeising the glad inteligence that he whom every | ue belfercd to be dead was alive, and that in a day or éwo more eke would again welcome him to his home’. ‘Ths doe of his son and many of his friends will cast a sbuceover their meetibg; but still is there not great cwuse for rejoicing when itis remembered that in more thanong {instance nearly a whole family was lost? The prople of Yonkers appeared to bo beside themselves with ay on learning the nzexpested news, and some proposed thay the arrival of Captain Luce should be celebrated by “the ringing cf bells, the firing of guns, and other-marks ~of pohile rejoicing. This was discountenanced, however, »y the better judgment of others, and we zincerely trust the@ano such exbibition will take place, None would be mmoete opposed toit than Captofo Luse himself, for, al- though he has reason to be thankful to a kind Frovidence ice bis own safety, be has too much cause for grief in his om lose, end that of others, to ps" testion of the hind. jipate ic any cele- ‘Ube loss of tho Arctic was alluded to yesterday in the <ifterest churches at Yonkers, 624 it wan made the sab- ites -of @ dissonres by Rev. Mr. Carter, pastor of the « pisoopal- Church, of which Mra Luce is s communiéant. ‘The occasion was an impreastre one, and the charch was te z lamity. “ My brethren,’ seid ho, “4a asking you to unite sith mo ta devout thankegrving to Almighty God in be- Lalof there who havo beem rerousd from the perils of the 16a durirg tbat tryicg time when so many of our ieLow betags were hurried from their sinking vessel into < evpity, sileate through every heart, and induce us, one and all, “ unite in thor sscrip.ionsof praise which our beloved as In thy holy word that thou ‘or gvicve the children of men, look with pity, we th ¢, spon tho ecrrows of thy servant, for whom our « preyers ero ¢esired. In lest Feken ber bln 0 Lande in emem mercy: 2orrtction to kim, endue his na with + dis afiction, and with resignati + comfort bim with sconce of thy goodness, lift up cauntenozce ipon him, Se:un Christ our Lord. crowind. ‘Ate services commenced at helf past ten, there being ay Change [nm the order. Before prayer, Rev. Mr Carter ede & brie’ 6ud appropriate allusion to the terrible ca- 1 kaow that I shall touch a chord which will riesds deeire now to make in the precence of Mil His 4xople, te that merei‘ul Being whose arm atone saved ‘tim from impending death ’’, In the course of the pray- vert, the following thanksgiving was used, at the end of hich the congiegetion rosponded in one Jond and gene- al‘ ameni”” Most grecious Lord, whove mercy Is over all thy works; we sot thy holy name that thou hast been pleased to one this thy servant, who new desircth to return sm 6 thee, in thy holy church. vot ‘hy mezelfal Cy towal seas bis thankfulsees by a holy trust cence te thy lows; Anca. uct in ca‘ety through the perits of the it ret Sis thanks May he be duly sensible sehen " ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. ‘ibe Prayer for these persons in affliction was then seed, producing o profound impreseion upon the con- ecetion:~ ), meretful God, and bear Father, who has ib int eat eek Pati thy wisdom thou seen fit amercy: enuetity thy tath sly eae patioace ae jon to thy bles:ed Ke and give him peace; thre "amon." si “Lhe folowing besutifal and expressive pasim was sung with great effect by the excellent choir:~ Thy wordrons Almighty Lord, ‘TEat Tales the boisterous sea, “Che bold sdventurors record, Who tempt that dangerous way. And sqell While they i in gaping graves And tic Dlsmsy’d they olimb the watery hile, 4nd finds his courage vain. woundrous ways, Tils werdrous love record. “The axte communion rerries was next read, end the {> fow'ng bymin sung 4¢ the ocnclusiou of this hymn, Rev. Mr. Carter os- > exnced the pulpit and apnourced hts text:— ibe Lord reignoth, let the carth rejoice.—Psalns, uewd, 1. at! religion depended upon a _just appreciation of the of God, and the most dificult point of attainment was to realize in the unto- word clicumstences of life that {twas the hana of a merolfal royereign that disposed the event, he wont on ‘to provo-how necossary such realization was in times of ‘treud'e ond Ln seagons of distress. Were we not eertain @hat {¢ was the band of God directing all events, we must veeonsorily yield too despair which knows no bounds, Det now the mystorioas workings of Providence which the dm eye of sense cannot discern, are clearly ssen by the brighter eyo of faith to be appointed mesma of minis ‘tring to a future glory in the hoareas, We now knows they have so recertly ft in make therm veoal with instruction to us who fork ddwn toro their depths, our selves trembling and speseiices from mysterious awe. Never within our remembrance has there been acalami- ty which has diffused so general @ sorrow Shrougt our lend. Bearta, buoyant with the hope of scon spa lorg atsent ones in @ welcome em! » Were cultled by the certainty cf thoee down bevcath the cceau wave, or petrified by the more éestracting uncertainty banging overan avknown fate. “God hath sent forth hisvoice—yes, aua that e mighty veice,”’ and it comes to us‘ acroas the wa‘ers, [a tones ro. searobing and so loéd that al! must bear the warning it ennveys—'Prepare to meet thy God.’ “Jn such aa hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh ‘d ones beng ” cometh as now to unite with the scattered fragmen of that nodle vessel, which was a nation’s and beast, upen the surging billows of the mighty dap. Vain is the helpef man! and who now ean doudt Where now shall we Gnd Teenie, enough to dla. trust an simighty arm! ‘Homan ingeoulty aad skit bad Leen exhausted am ima against the dangers of the rea, ard that veecel rover left ber port cor speek wer to coatend with the Jeason was to be taught feeling’ cn the paxt of eli that Bece was a porn men of the ntroet of maw’ elements of God. Shirefor us that the Lord alone is King, ané tust bo Lolds the wird ond the waves in the hollow cf his hand We wore tote tavelt. acd Ged grant we may sow hove len-nt the lecscn well, that true wiadom cousisis in giving les beed to earthly security ageles t Serger, acd mero care vowards havirg a refuge alweys reacy shen the danger comes Aveat ft, we nover oan avoid it—ze never © hot on'y vpoa the fer off cosan Is the warnic given; the bomen tomb seme two years eince at our very doors, teaches us that the rame grave tawas everywhere for ibe victim, ard that it us always to “be still and know that Be is God "—teaches us that tt t¢ well for ue ever to have # confience wich witl sudicit al to hin, snd without a murmur or a big, be love inat * He Coeth all “ings well? Tt la a fearful thougut, that by this calamity hundreds sheu’d bore heen thes Lurtied into etermity—same perbsps withcut even the cberce to kay, “God be merciful tomes atcxer;’’ yet, with ¢ have nothing now to do bul to commit their bocies to the Ceep, until the time when the ces shall give up its accumulated dead, and their souls to thekeepirg of that Saviour whose bicod can wash out every gailly stain, But we have much, very much to do as regards the effect of this risitation upon ourselves. Beloved brethern, let not this utteriog of God's voice ‘Le in vain. - Never before have i 60 fearfully felt the weaning of the injunction to mysilf, “Preach the word --be instant in cearon end out of eeegon.’? Never be- fore bas ee ae of watohing for your souls come upon me with au — force as when I feared ibat a single one committed to my epiritual care bed teen thus suddenly burried to tho bar of God, to bear witneseto wy faithfclaess or , in rey known the message entrusted to my charge. And ob ny toul, what coulds’t thou have said had an unwsarned sinrer thns gore down to Bis ocean grave to witness egainst thee at the great assize? There is, thoref: mutual obligation — us: upon mo to faithful in sounding g you the note of waraing; end upon you breth:en more carefully to hear, snd me: earnestly to heed this voice from the watery grate of msny you heave brown end loved—* Be yo also ‘Lhe mesrenger of death may not indeed come to you while strugglirg with the ohcabing waves, but God employs other, and sa speedy minister todo flis witl—and as sud- Conly —and as iearfwlly may you be hurried from viaccs of supposed security, into eternity’s a were those whore requiem none but unseen spirits rang, and whore dirge was the wild ocoan’s dtful Yes; there where no man shall visit; iu tombs over which ro tear can en sball they seep cxtil the Arebengel’s trump p’ ith its suma- mening rote to even the deopest caverns of tho sea, shall wake from their repoo. There must they tlecp, for mow their work is donc—their ac sount made upandclored. Dabnotro with us 0 ifeny man have ‘ears to hear, him the voice of God, thus ven Yea, bret! now, rer, will we it the strain. iow ner anguinh sball ot sagazate us from the love of God; aad even as the Holy ieit has woone a penh ‘the fear of pen shall but who have gone, {he God'wito hee taken them gr Moots an Lamb stall ascend.” She 0 for the geueral end it is cftertines hovgh im an i ‘owor sense thin whi segs othe that single individuals should sniffer the most fearful deaths toseve whole mations from their impending fate. If, then, this \isitation of Goi’s Provi- deroo eha'l be the means of inducing s natis, far too fast helc in bonds, to Irox up to the *‘overiast ing hills from whence cometh omr aif, under the nighty’s biersing, this voice from the’ deop shall be heard and heeced by those who hare bad no cars bat of pleasure, or the ried calls of gain—if, warned by tho calamity whi. bas calle] eo many ested La ae eee ailty, those who are tha’! now earzeetness theis Ged—if, beloved, to nerve amon: yea ‘ havo been fa part rolio See pere yt Oe eee, one ry te pone wheteet THE SRA. Os@00D OF THE CHURCI THE MESSIAH. The congregation worshipping in the Church ef the Moesiah, Broadway, under the pastoral charze of the Yay. Dr. Semuel Osgood, was specially stricken by the calamity, and consequently assembled in the sanctuary 1826, most setive in laying the foundation of the socio. ty, and afterwards building up the sacred odifies in which the body meets, two were visited by death, and four worthy communicants buried in a watery grave. Mr. Gecrge Bond Pear.on, Mr. Asaph Stone, Mrs. Jano Stone (his wife), and Misa Jane Stone (thelr deagh’er), were on board the ill-fated steamer Arotle, and have not yet been heard from;s0 that, in all human probability, they now lie Leneath the same oa which @9 saddealy submerged the steamer. As each remaining mem der of tho congregation enter ed the chnreh yesterday, sorrowing eyos wero turned towards the veoant coats which wore, ® fo wooke prince, filled in £0 edifying » mannor; end when the charch was filed, it ceemed as if an earthly pall of grief wore thrown tor the minds of tho people, which the burning slo. quence and sonsoling worls a’ their m'sister would fail to remove. Immediately after the morning lessons were read, Drv O: good recited the 60dth hymo, Qrhich was afterwards aang by the choir, in elegant style. Dooter Cagood them read the gosp | from the appro- Priate chap'er in St. Matthew, whieh na ‘rates the event of Christ walking on the waters, to the Setror but aud- ecquert Joy of his disciples. ‘When the congregation had joined in prayer, the rere. rend divine preached the followiag SERMON. > And Poter answered bim, and said, Lord, if 1¢ de thon, water, bid me come unto thee on the And be ssid, come. Matthew xiv, 98 and 29. ‘The voice of Divine Providence has called us to ge out Upen the water tince wo last met together here, and for Gayo and nights our thoughts have been upon the sey with the ateent friends who may ever meet with us here eny more. we come to the sanctuary to Jay ene subject is cpon our minds. However various our personal experiense—bowevtr particular or general our relation to the victins of the wreck may be, the disaster is near tous eli. It has checked the mighty ecrrent of business, ewptied the haunts of amusement, sobered tho giddy heart of this restless city, aud doubtlers turas many & man with coricus thought towards the houte of Prajcr to-day, who had before o woridlizg’s indifference i arte cceptio’s prive, To pressh upon apy other sub- J<t would be out of piace, and any abstract topic, Loweser ably treate!, would be acre to dismiss the hear ‘ttention to his own mauszings cpon a tect which @ d bimeel? bas chosen. My audject ts the veice of God upon the sea; what it «aya to us of man and of God, aud of the gedly iumanity which is man’s true relatica to God, as weil as to his neighbor. I. The voice epoaks upom the waters, and eatls us out to cee the mingled pride and Littleness, the power end the feeblenees of man. The most impetuous, and, per- hepa, the most rugged of the dlseiples, undertook to go upon the sea to the Master, and the boisterous wind robbed bim of bis courage, ao that, beginning to siak, he cried “Tord, eave me;? and he was satehed from death bya mighty haad. Whata contrast between the boldness of the preposition, ‘Lord, if tt be thon, bid me eome unito thee upon the water,’ and the timidity of the cry for succor when the angry waters were rolling at bis feot! Contrast, ever revewing Itrelf among mon, and carrying ite dark shadow into tho brightest annuals of our progress! Tf we were obliged to choose deliberately any work of man’s bands es the espectal trophy of his triumphs over pature, or as the crowning embod! mont of his art and science, what work coull we choose more suitable than that noble reasel which the cccan has swallowed up? N if you ena, any improvement in scientific hnowledge, mathematics! ealeuiation, or mechanical in- vention, from the dayy of Thales or Archimedes to the present time, ead you are sure to And something of the results of thgt improvement in the epleedid atrns- tere that by one fetal blow became a helpless wreok. Tet un mot scorn such an embodiment of tuman power, even in the day of ead discater; but now, as before, lot ua thack God for his becaty im endowing man #0 largely with tho gifts of reason and force. Honor to the neble ship whore last voyage is over, and who has been for (ruer to Ler trust, far worthier to the public apirit of her builders, than the many czevoa hearts who have ‘been sheltered by her bulwarks. Sho was true.to hor miacion to the last, and fell by # stroke that no more impeaches bor ses-worthy virtues than the fatal atad of on artassin’s dogger impeaches @ horo's bravery. Tcanzot but feel mysaif religiously Impressed, as be- fore some sublime natural scene, whon in presence of one of these mejestio crentions of art. Who will aay thet Mires these upon a acble ateame: do aot deft the wantusry quite as muck as ahyma of the mountsina or the wae: olling waves, Aa crashigg o'er their created Leads ke bowa ber sucly alsves | With tosm before. and dre behiad, the rende the clinging aca, Thst flies before the rocrisg ‘wind, Beneath ber hissing leo. Now, like s wild nymyb, far apart Sue vells ter chadowy form, The beating of her restless haart Stal sounding though the sterm; Now auawers, like a courtly dame, The reddening eurgea o'er, Wita Syicg rearf of spangled damo ‘Tho Phato: of the shore To-night {lot shall net sleep Who tele bis narrow gail; To night yor frigate acarce shall kocp Her broad breast to the cate. Yet root, ye wanderer of the deep! Nor wind nor wave shall tio Thoce feshless arms, whore pu'ses leap With floods of Iving fire. Megnificent plotare, by one af our own posts, of ama- jestic steamer like that which ha so often outridden tht storm and the darkness! Who could believe that au fate was in store for her; and that, {n mid day, in a calm, not far from land, with to many of the appliances of safety at hand, the ship vas to be wrecked, and most of her people were to be lost? What a text upon the com. Mard greatness and Littleness of msn! Wi hi all our sel ence and our art, we are mot sccnre ogalcst dissster and destruction. Never has the pride of our haughty ambition received a sterner check than in this oasu- alty, ard our godless materisiiem, like the ancient king who claimed to be God is wounded to the heat upon the throne of fis own yresumption. What hamen thonght could heve foreseen the Cleaster in the form in which it came? Grast that duc care was not used as to epecd and watchfulness, yst what calewletion, however cautions, would Lave reckoned upon the mest remote probability of any such coliiston upon waters go broad? What underwriter beat verted in the laws of marine risk, would not, even in ease of collision, have predicted the seenrity of the stont and masstre steamer egainat acy craft that might fall inher way? ‘Teo provd in her own strength, too careless of making victims cf amaller ves- tela, the great ehip was the victim to her own haughty power, and her wreck repeats the familiar doom of boman pride. Would that this were all that wo wore obliged to ray of the littleness of man in this oon- nection, and there hed been no cowsré!ce and no treech ery to Coeyen Siraster by basences. It becomes us hors officers of the ill-fsted steamer. If they bad lUstensd to the livine Voice that; jks more or less clearly iu overy amen breart, and bids us all strive bravely and feith = has our honor and thanks : F A i i z i HH i f i Ht - Lj it z 8 E fi 2. 38 3 ef 5 3 & . & ‘mitted te do sets of mankind. jt We most of course bent Lag to aot ; fcongeet rounds ot wecalug cul exhortation ta fue ape est js of warn'n; ox ap: to our comestences In the madaoes of tue rich anc powerful, we overs'op the | mits of ent we openly or tecitiy conn’enanes « wild and superficial Giapiay, direotly in tne faoo of coder Every day there Is soms vic'lm to the gener st ¢ innocsot end ths a gee user reel lebnoes of a8. that law of social Habilay chan; ere sia. God's mora gor done away, 4 i ; metual ead who 2 fmithful to hia trust, whatever be. | made no wreok of ber doa: ® bandred VO} could not give ‘welcome to forget not lees conspicuous names tat were eqi fui; forgot not the nodle youth who Stood to the lest by tlie wignal gun, oallicg, by its mighty veloe, for that ke evcld expect only for others, not fortimeelf. above the dack sbyvain which the noble * ee, Maivanee ton, to tb wee bida | sovereignty ir, to LJ a, - us all cee the (hes cf a Severed that bind man ts psa by t Livine Voioe, that caitsus | which Got seers “@ Dave kept to himself. Womay | to the Jaws of nature; but suddenly thery Ire gure for que own | travel over the wor'd « land, but ttere {fs one t. ove man and Lnchangea%le—that gre *t 40d wide sea, whose moun- | your Judgment Im our | the path along witich men trare +Whose horrors arc uvtal intorost and obligation, and | power, how oft dces Bis! mercy emooth i to the uses “4 at another moment, the treacheroue element | ralyss our mightimt covtrivances of power Eo od ich wun, #7! 80d destroys, and dashes the happy pros- | turn @ screw, touch @ spring, let lute a Griiem pects of those *°* locked to it aa the means of bringing | hopper, and you are as belpiocs ax if he hed thrown them to their fr, “22% There ts one partof this earth | a mountainomyou You think you Lave col aPsafe es pons Nad conquer ond subdue the dry | faw in adapting your arrangemeats, or everytiiag ls “ing that remuns unchanged | defeated becauso your own passions run away with Your rushing impetvosity, your sate tains rol jest as bizh now as “hey did on the morning of | to consume jess time in crossing the Atlantic by = few creation—whese mists and clou @# still rise andalroud | hours than a rival vessel, defeats ali your calcwiatioms, nd leaves you with the mortifyiag conviction that, &» what you will with nature abroad, your owm nature oen- qners you, and takes God's revenye upon you for youg presumption and pride. Tho very clemect of bumen selfshneas in others @m whom you are to rely for faithfulness, may turn your best opportunities to destruction, and render unchanged, and Whps: winds «weep . Wer ite surface with thetr old resiatleas wary. One thing Go. Beeps to himself— (the see is"His apd He made it.’ It is tLe image of Go's majesty. Itiathe image of His wonde Tut and awfel But though it vindicstes , Va wrath and end mlones, do wwe cross it azain wal agein; | @verything horelecs wheres @ common disinfe- freghtnnctty. sures, aball Sere ore Se haar coun ne en committed to iti Weeend | restedness ond devotion to duty would have seericnt Fer. That word pray opens to nga | ous sbips to the most dustamt shores, and they goad re- | saved all. This is the most dreadful acgeavadien SE iaith axa peace beyond the domata of natural | turs in security; aad that whieh would wem to seyarats | in this dreadful catastrophe—humanly speaking fo the peace of Coc tanks acct eer cual goa 0 S28 | cations has proved the gredfest bobd to anite them | this fighifc! suerte: of life was no needless, 60 abr Whew bod? atrangth falls, and tee elements of untesy together, ‘Thus the sas is the souree ef our comfort and } clovs. Noonday, four hours notice, a calm sea, boats pm th epeera Et tim true sock does not | wealth—thus the am Wike the Providence of Goa, is th | exough to held huadreds, and time enough for oonsteaat eway, but tr: - js r Prager rises to tho merey peat above the Lack Cater nek | source of our greateut:a 08 and anxiety, as it is of oar | lng upd provisioning s gcod strong raft, and yot hum the sweiling storm:— Oat of the ceaps luave T erted unto choe,.0 Lord; Lord rnd Volce, be attentive to the volee of mp eup- Strive and pray, we asy, an ture lcck to the kirgdom of grace, uncer whos» ber Jarteetion we are a by Christ to live orto die. divine word that c@cit in him, in the with Cod, apd to the end re When ths ceep waters aro swelling acound ua, are seedy to Ccapsir of all rljsical halp, ths eben s2N¢ me,’ hall not bo unsuswered € esenta God te our souls, er, fi Tho getes of wel work open thameet:oa to the trusting aoal, tends ever ready to repeat his #ossish’s gra- ctour work when he etrec*hed forth his tand snd rea- ened the disciple from destruction. This faith comes fr the gospel that {s ovr birth right, and ia confirmed by. the beet experience ct men Tengu? by tt, we cen hear Go iapeskirg (o ua in the laws of oatare, and, higher snd moge bl-eied rovolstion, we coxa bear Lim spesking to us by his omulsclent Word and Lis omnipresent Spieit byery “ay of our Hives, some trisis come to v4 and some tronkled waters ewell around cs Loarn to hear new, cay by car the : ivine Voice that wo may bear it clearly end peroofully whea the derk hour comes 11. Should uot outro eapecia! (esson be impressed upen. us by this tearful visitation? shovuki not tne voieothat [3 ated thus to us of man’s groatneg and Litdences, and ace, cay acmetbing to us of oor own Gosly humenity that becomes us? or three passing observations canbe mado now to urge the truth upon oar hes :ta Weare criled noe to ton¢er Chrictien aympathy— Christian sympathy, we eay, to wrk: ite quelity from. that of the merely impulsive sensibi'ity thet lives on ex- citement, and starts, with tho asme ersnescens emotions, slike at pathetio fiction or at wifaifach a terri- ble grief hes fallen upos tals commucity, and we, as a gene ‘tion, are sorsiy stricken by it.’ It ts vain to try to force the emotions, and no highly wrought rheto. ric or aweeping Ceseription of the horror? of the coene can codify us now, or go beyond our frat impresalons of theevevt. The simplest truth that comes to us hero fa our places to ey, is tho mightiest eloquence It ea us lers to be told thit a thousand mea foli in battle then to see one wounded soldier hop, Pag pain, or cae poor heart (ading herself widowed ant her Children fatuerl-as by the tidings of the battle. Naturo and Provicones are specific in (hele tea hings, and we copy their wisdom in shuoping vaguo genoruiitios. Of the Cvo families that had remained or survived of the few families that began this coegieystion ia the year 1626, two ore siricken by this dissater, moat constert sad active friends of our cause from the vory beghnirg, mourns the probable lose of his enly coz, (George Boad Pesrson,) sasiched away fom tho very threshold of usaly . I learn that when last seen upoa the ve be had the little citi of his end ncighbor in bie arms, and so died, we wust believe. os 8 true maa might wiah to die—the guardian of innocence, obedient to the voles of the Good Shecherd, #bo calied tittle chil- don to bimalf acd dleseod their triecds as bir own filends. Anvtuer family (4oaph aud Jane stone, with their cavghter Jaxo,) beem moro dorely af- ficted. ‘The fiber, the mother sai the deagater, just retuicing, offer @ youc's sbsev God atrovionste circle of kizdtod sui frients, wero probatiy swept ewes, and a great woid is left be- coure are RO mor. wie feces are very fe wiliar to ve hore. How vivid to not a few of us is thst pleesant marriage scene, in which the daugutor stood in the group cf blooming maidens arouad the brile, end tbe blessing of God wes craved upon the excrod bond ard erful compary! snatched away from ex- iatence when life bad shown ¢o her little but its joy aud hope, ehe heard, ve trust, tho voice caliag to her that of old sald to the believing Leact, “Mery,'’ and won from her lips the devout reply ‘“sabbori,’’ ‘my master ’’ For many years, bow frequent the precence of the father tad mother jm our worebip Lerei it is mot my putpose to enter iato eulogy upon them now. It is enough to ray that (ley were noted ior stroog aud tooder family affec- tors, acd buew Low to grace home lite by refined testes ecd bewutifal arte, aw I write these words a touching memorfal of them looka down upon me from tho walls of my liwary, a copy of Allore’s picture of the child Jesus esleep upon across by the margin of a rippling brook, with the motte osrsed upon +he cross, “bor meum vigi: Int,” “my beart keeps wa Herdly lens the contrast Ddetween that sleepin; between the cheerful affes'ion of that Lindly fauil en the eve of thetr departure aud the sadness of their probablo fa'o. Jt let thst motio # jock, as perhaps it did, virtually in the atormy presentiment that made the mother shrink from ths ro turn veyage: atill lov it speak to us of a grave. for which tie soul can be wakofal when the body sleeps im death. “ Bor meum vigilat’’—my heart Leeps watch for Him whore voice res above the ehirlelad and th» storm:— Leep caileth unto deep at the noise of thy wa'er-epoats; all thy waves and thy billows are gone over ma: Yet the Lord will command his loving kindness tn the caytine, And in the night bis cong shal! be with mo, And my hw od unto the God of my life Whe of us can Lelp feeling to-day the feerfal solemnity of this Mfe that we ere Ilving, and ite tremendous expo tures toevil? Meke no attewpt to gloss the ewful truth ever ix any sksliow worldly complacency or theological optinizm. Life is seolomn thing, and tie constant fact of death makes buts pert of its solemnity. Stead io imagination wi : cue of our Jost friends vpon the deck of that vessel, en1 enter into the feedcgs which swelled tcone few elort hours into years of remembrances, bopes and fears —feel for onrselves all those yearninge for be me end trierds—seo for yourta!vos all those cherishe! visions of warm welcomes and happy yeers here, that roae above the dark waters wilh their bow of promise. Follow the victims to their last st: ogglo, commend their #on's to God’s peace; then look to the oiler side of the picture, and oe homes co bereaved, the family robbed of part of its own babitaal beleg as if’ part of ite own heart wore torn away; then aay that iife is m sotemn thing and sorrow is en awfal reeNity Answful reality ! Yot not tho aovereign power, not the eupreme reality, for God is levo, and he wifi nave to the utiermost them thet pat thei. trast io him ® L will i't up mine eses unto the hills, From wheres cometh m; beip; M> be’p ecmeth from tho Lord, ‘Which made hearin ecd esrth; He wil not euffer thy foot to be moved, Fe that keepoth thee will not slumber— ‘The Lerd is thy meeper. Life is more solemn thac cesth for it is our lifo thet givee Geeta ite balm oriteating. No es eee comriaint, no indolent broodicg over correw, can At ae to accept the true lesson of this disaster. ‘Ihe voice that speaks t. us from the wate: bids us work wiilet it is 1 cailed to: daz, Lnewisg thet ore long the night msccon werk. Befaithfulto our post, and whea the Qppeinted hour comes to as, we hear of {t upon Our tranqull pu'ow or amid the sungicgs of tre great coeas, it will find us reacy at thecal of our Lord Heer the lesren, great city of our heme, so full of perils end privileges, and eee in this awift and stal veeael an emblem of yourown baste and danger Covia' trong the cities, mart of tro continents, hume-of all Dations, centre of ell faiths and foltiva, werd which G spoke to the Corinth of r) and put felth, mot {nthe wisdom of men, batin whe cuce in your career of reetiesr graspi:g, more careful ereatier of true life than of fay what eid works that there ‘is « faith that ovarco the world, aud tekes from death its sting. sttentive sexton of the church, for his attention {a pro- curizg him an eligible seat near the pulpit. power of God. Hear tho lesson, 0 our country, and vend prove Cur reporter ta indebted to Mr. John Cumming, che THE TRIALS OF LIFE. @RLMON BY THE BEV. H. W. BELLOWS, OF THE | allusion to the late dreadful calamity to the Arctic, CHURCH OF THE DIVINE UNITY. ‘The Rev. H. W. Bellows proached yesterday morning | ruf,a member of this congregatiea, with whom h: above the-stern laws of na | He coels with us ae w end Wel Win t chiid and that fearful cross thaa | igoorsnt of the very end for which we were made, th whea no | Tet also is gore. A brother of this soedety is att'l on Dope and joy. rno—is it not e universal law— | dreds of people, and they almost exclusively the passen- thet eisai Teebkinn | spring from the greatest bene- | gets, engulphed im the ehip with s se as smooth as 0 Isctlons? Ie it not thas @"at God deals with the world® } chalcedony. In all the tragio history of sorrow on the ith tq 40 whom he has made strong | 8, a more creadful instance hes hardly over occurred to Lear as well ae Gender tof, o—to struggle and wrestle | of the eaczifice of pactoegers and desertion of a mete with the elements of nature, the powerful passions of | commanier by the erew in the hour of peril. Every in- ths mimd, and the lecocated {eellaga of the heart, | dividual might have been saved, if the bands hed been He stretches out big baad ia wrath, fez three hours obedient to the captain, and had workes {# as much as to say you are mute for gros fox ethere.ae well as themseives. things and’ must know Ged in the grandour of | In thedotails of this almost unparalleled shipwreek his sovereignty end bis majes ~ We are apt ¢ what 6 contrast between the beroiem gad seif-devetion think that we ere living in a ex + aud sliken woi of the commander and the cowardice and cruelty of the weareapt to forget that we ars mace to suffer; we Gremea ondtbecrew! Captata Luce will be received by would wrap ours+lveu in the robtsofe mfortandiurury; | the whole community with open hearts, os one alive but God wrings these ralments from , 03—deals with us from the dead, because he was faithful to the imetecnuous earnest, and makes co fem that life is lofty | Inst, resolved mot to quit tho ship while ant grand. Adveralty is not our food fy ‘tour medicine | Dersenger remained to be cared for, thoughttet Now aml then, God turna bis fece mus Ho lifts | for others, not himself, and determined to go down at Ms hi awful band'and strides through our 4 Omed and our | Pest of duty, The insubordination and selfishness of the hearts in all hia majesty. Suel » geene+ we bave been | erew ceom to have taken him by surprise, at great aip- called on to see with the eye of our imy ‘stion. We and once broken out they could not be ar- have almost heard with our ears the gx 214 aad tho reports are true, there were a ferocity, brutall- sbricks of our follow-crestarea, We havo , Sluiost won | t¥ end treachery thet ceil for legal investigation amd the pertiogs of wives, busbands, and Little ones Wo | Ponishment. Men might as weil put themselves in the are beheld stzeng men easting thelr eyes al oUt toue | oH of pirates on the Atle trust to those, who, mu what Lelp was vigh Webhave toon, I hose, the ma. | imminent danger, will eut away the boate for themselves jerty of come calm, strong spirite, who dist Sined to | Aad leave the passengers to sirk, without 0 much an teck their own safety at tho expense of tho | *!log even in the construction of s raft for their posal- Lives of others, Oh, brethren! ic that scons, | be ralvation. though the image maj never be obliterated fra ‘aon: | There fsa lesron here in regard to the importanes of thoughts—in that scone there was muck that was i having our common laborets of soeisty, engineers, fixe Lic it not prove the advaateges of culture sad Chri men, and sermen educated m the fear of ( educations Did it not show that moral and spin their responsibility to Him, and where to 4 t a ut thetr training was of some avail ia the hour of efile, ‘0 Busnce, sryeyoe Aa that ny of this dees gat ‘haat When the rude ond unetacnted sought only their ¢ wa | Syonee, It 4 anfety, there wore others who Lee atbon aogre t& var | S@ucation from the public seRools; so that tf the Bite Ea scp sng stele i Sly en eu & | eh lol me vay i tes, ay ie tino” Frem what i kaow of hucaanity, f believe firmly that we shall set bear of muca that wi I | {hat if you excludge: or enffer to be excluded, tho Biole and religious trut! ‘the public schools, you edug this elaes in nothing Yat an earthly and sofa, ‘visto, and immorality) and consequently they must bs ex- pected ® disappaint and anerifice i {a critical emer gencies ‘as you haverown #0 fi) you reap '? EM ppleesetapte ype ney or lives, will from ime be'ent a each nda, ané-you oan it; ond tere will be eritigal jonctusse whore I death depends, in which they wi I cecide ples of thitr ducati. 1? you without relidous trate, withont Word and thotr responsioility te kim, your «shoo! teaché ing is to ‘ teke care of numberome;” ‘aud thet is ‘tee teachirg they will cot upon, in saven where your whois safety Gepends upem their seting ftom religions privel- ple” If sca rulvovertie common education of thy com hold up our confidence in thé greatest of virtues. ‘Tha ancultivated during that awfal scens only mauilested hele native humanity, and it does not beeoce us to condemn them. But tBis is far betier than if songers had eéized ths boats, aad left the o: ew and ¢! officers to ruin I would rather have been one of those novle men or women who resigaed their place in th» bosts, than smovg those who woro saved in thom. It is @ satisfaction to feel that they acted as their proper ane rotler huwanity prompted. Tho conduct of Abe men was to be expecte!, @spocially on an American ship, in which, under our conetitution, it is difficult to preserve the ttrictest disctpline. waa something eutiime In that English eip, which, while conroying & regiscent of trco a to the t, mel with sillir mist fertune. She passengers—women children —wore al- " “* place ju the boots, ve men stood in their reeks, aud, | ™C” pecple, Tulecut of tim -education the Bite! Withéut Clsarray, went down, down, down to their wate: | Cid religous truti-aa@prayer, you will do it to the tm» ry graves. re woa the subllznity Of discipline | Meararadio injury of your = here Hfeer by tae have edocsted: th teaohlig them God's 5 fe : Weula that we could have teen something of oa board | O77 se tacgnt bg yeu os bona ertee Ae yertic, tae our ship ‘ 2 My Lrerbren, I ¥oow not wast to any im Lohalfot thoww | Mth he ina! agementet your intareste and the cere as? wko have boex bereaved by this Leary salomty. MS | tthe tekboeomet man ru'eih over bave the ry mpxihy of the who's ccmmunity. e fs ‘And st in eplte ‘of allt pan the Fot a cave to whileh this acrrew hea not come howe: | aetyity sta ouleonrtiethat coef eae the harrowing there is havdly a meme that is not connected either by | OF'focd to inralnatee aaa oe tere gn L-seacehip or by nearer ard cearer tles with those wko | BAjet) the iaraianelé blessing of OF Pepe, bave been thu: euddenly hurried lato eteraity. But re. | SPtonccd we have om ott. clement taught trees. ae 4 é ” - - f ty agnicst the Bible, and re- member, that — Ged was amiting ” thle Tglous truth oud prayer as a sectarian deep hucéreda, yo xatllions, ints the light of lua bicss: by wieeaee ne \peristendent of lle rohan ’ Wille this cre rote of wailing was terne to aa iu Wisconela deolaces that all religious rfeetbom mnet* envd thousand notes of ‘hankeciziag and | %¢ baniehed by tay, aad thet prayer ia the presence of whee walted tot Fortune ari | Sete must not be permitte , because it-ts neonssentiigns y and blles! 7 are all meant for | *eterian. God grant there nay Prove to be aemagt clorita et act beccue ss to | Shctghof public freedom, {f not of respoasivitity to Geom, we homen ecrrow that c.ista-in the werid, | [0 Dol denn toch treliglods tysonny an ie-thus rogome - worth nothicg without theso dark shades on the tapestry | Gat eommunity tue perils of the covan are gfent.. But: to give it streagth end charseter. What are wo witi out trisks and dissppointmenta’ Nothing but children | thete is no securtty (om-ceath anywhere; it is -omly e+ . question of time and of the Divine Providence, and eur only wisdom end heppiness are tn being prepared. Theres were those thus prepared when death set them in thies appalling vbipwrick; }ond what biessedness in nach em. hour in the habit cf treating in Christ, the hablt bt prayer, the assurance of taita that Christ is with yout ‘This, too, is the only consolation for bereaved £ snd be unto Cod that we are permitted to Re in this care of our own Lersavoment in the deathof ome. of the most valued members of this con; ition— Mir. . Samvel M, Wocdruff. Le was one of those remained ¢ by the ship to the last, one of thore who succooied reaching the paddlebox with Capt Luee. But, afror as night end part of another day, ‘Thue is & proper occasion to take lato consideration whet rocens may be aeeeseary to render ourselecs more securd from similar mis‘ortines in the future God Les made it our duty to defend ourselves as woll 68 we con—to protect our lives, surrendering them woys withont s murmur wht the hour of b bas arrived. The evil which wo pow mourn might Lave been averted if more skill and experience had besa used. Ihave of en beard it remarked that tuore can be ro enfoty for veesels until they are built with water.ticht ecmpartments, and this ie now estublstod berond 2 doubt. Our lest versel, too, was rot provided with a sufficient number of beats. Let yourcarntst attention, then, be given to thers two points. Inthe events of the last year | Oo4 ,czhamticn, | mature yictied, and ho peas Fons see that Ged & eproving the hacto with wai wo | S4,,$°, hours of ¢zeattal gleom and trial, he was call do everythirg. How many commercial projects hat ing vpan God like ‘the ¢ ing Btey , aad ‘saying, “Lente been upmt—bow many horrid slipwrecks have the 's wo teen whieh bave corereh the socks along our eoust wits, | vests, reoelve my epirit.”” is Cisie, o8 omeme chor fo the oul, bore Lim up, and Christ.was with him). humen blood—bow many dread vgrations—how 4 meny faking buildings as well as falliog characters | 1noueh the thot mit tet Gola heen rae eed faliisg shirs, eaused by that naticzal precii'aa. | filed tm with anruieh, yet sould he say, \ Thy willy cy and wont of prudence which belo enc our tace! Would it not Re s good God who inter posed to tell uewe were gelog to ruln—to scourge ord correct ua as loog 6 wo contiaued thought @our county | no Coubt that be wae aman of prayor. Le had not to the last hour EO metre: for the Jast po Hwy wasa most estimadle man, of a very lovely character: naturally, o firm and affectionate friend, a.lover of the truth, « lover of freedom, a man of sincority and tity; prudent, kind, juaicions, and, though or steadf. prinetple, yet retiritg, urostoatatious, and of Chriatiea umiltty. The loss of such@ man asa ande merber of cociety in very great. ken o' Jers and bent eclely ou worloly trlamphe? Aad what eome does it to im the end? What do xt God should (ell us and make us fore high and holy ead, ané that copares to meet him by lives of reli abd al _— ; f stamp gion and pes 1 k from the bottom of an experi- 4 Saved be ety oy waah more tnegulaiy, ore | Sf,20.e comma iat ns can aor hazy te sbstinence from things that Lerm, and more m tio0 1 And ean husband and a father, who can tell the bitter- {a my desiree. We do not study enongh of that repose | hese cf anch a berevoment’ But the gloomy voyage end thst devotion which should constitute our prepsra- tion for heaven. While wo continue thus we must ¢; jet that God w'il lay Lis heavy band upon us. Take this ston tohesrt. Come to Jesus Christ, aud he will «(9 the tumult In your eouls. Read the Blessed book, and for kim has ended in Leaven, and froma the mi that shipwreck he entered into the glory and the lis Lord. What is it aot worth to bo so pre; What is {t not worth to have a friend 8 savior to are Sal ren oe fer on Meh os haga He | aon im at te meet at fn sao an Rete tomutt of the people. Oh! that he would give pence te | That shall Tt profit emanif he gain tha wnole wees doing 60 he chose to desolate us—shoull we not | ¢evangefor his coal f” bave cecasion to praice Tilia? I learnt atvce I THE: VICISSITUDES OF THR SRA. caine here of the lone of a mother and her little ohfli—s Kite laine bey who wes secustomed to come here to lock upon a face he loved, an@ host him apesk Tha pa- A SHKMON BY THE REY. DR. E. ¥. MATPIELD, ran TOR OF THE SEVENTH VRESBYTVRIAN CBURCE. ‘The above named reverend gentleman, pastor of the. the wen thas brave main who, if be hed decal (t tn the | Seveuth Presby'erian Chareh, corzer of Dewome out y verted me por a ss is oath ectama iy, Ons, (hanks Fe to God,) one whom | Ridge streets, yesterday morning delivered an impreselve— a ee Welhnget hg Rg Giscouree upon the receat erence. calanuity. . ovr sympathy to the severers. Oh, dreth:on, ‘The chareh was densely thronged, and much feeling wae a8 of the of these departed Inapds of corm, "We an claon bear the cresting of | ebited by mary ammng the congrocation dazing thee Progress cf the reverend gentleman's remarks. After. the cordage ond the straining of the gallant ship—we can almost eee the mista and the ciouds gathering | iy ysual preliminary exercies, the text was announced: arcandber. Let us invoke God’s blessing on those who cr have been raved Tet us know and feel thet out of ail | #9 follows: — this weeping avd sorrow there will come good, for God ia Tho ca is His, and he made it. Whatscever the Lint tove—uachargeable love, and Chriat {s peace. Lecan | pleascs, that docs lie inthe ses And there is sorrow on’ still (he we: of the mont troubled rea. sen And the rea cavo up the dead which were in it, —- anc there was no more ree sai 6: pela THERE 18 SORROW ON THE SEA. adeno rercre ee o1 5 ea2MON bf Lip e's tthe or THE All natare, ob 4 the her, in all ber ‘ m ‘The Rey Doctor Cheever preached an eloquent sermon | “epartwents and cperations, proclaims that God is wise... yesterday morning, at the Church of the Puritans, Uaion | ‘at Ged is great, that God is good. Thas apeak the. Fifteenth etreet, made beavens and the earth, and thun speaks the seas. ‘The. ee sn paoene sal bet a pessio€ | yea ie iis. and ho made tt,” -and cone bat s God could. bave made it; none but a God can contre! it toy rah \ hlheratened tie aeons Tt is of the sea that I now propose to speak—of the som, . in the Chapel of the University, and took his text, Pestm | Doctor Cheever, had bad @ pleasing conversation gee- of which afl the millions of o4: !snd have so earnestly - KOV,, verse 6 The eee ls His and He mace it” The vious to bis depur.uze for Kurope, whieh he now looked spoken, and so intensely thought during the few pas® following ts the aubstance of his eioquent aad touching | beck te with unspeakable gratification. discourse upom tho recent calemity:— Gays. Of what else could I now apeak more propertp-= ‘Tho Rev. speaker, however, in his evening sormon | More profitably? ‘The greatest part by far of the earth te During the past woek, he said, we have been allatand- | spoke specially and feclingly upon this ali absorbing covered by watcr. The vastaces of these watery regions ing, as it were, upon the chore of a great ocean, looking out upon that mighty deep which has eagulfod such | words:— cuschers of our fellow creatures, tho objects of so many hopes asd fears. There is nothing perhaps that o com | the cea.—Jervm ah, 49th chap., Zed verse Pletely shapes out the attributes of the Deity as tho ses. itis the mature! image of immensity, and, with all tte | tho speciel provid no: of God, and teschos that there is fills the bebolder with amizement: away tople, taking for bis text the following sppropriate pth ~ pos hp pnd ; there ts sorrow on | from pole to pole, one immense and mighty sea. The continents thems stves are but is'ands in the greet ocammy This dreadfu' ealemity, said Doctor Cheever, ia under | projecting above the vast expanse of tho waters. Whenep same this mystestous flaid in quantities so inconceivable? For they have beard evil stories, speaks tell. The m of the unsearchsble ways of God, aod | no cefety ‘or us, even in the most perfost !mowledge and | Bow deep those awfal chasms aro, Bo man cam Of thet Pooviddann by whie Io rales the enlvvess. Tt }| euccesstal application of the ‘aws of nature, but in | capacity of the ocean has mover beem fully estimated: fs tho imoge of that Almighty Power which nothing ha- men cen withstand—of that arm which smites—of that | nature—not ctherw GY aon a infinite instability, which, belonging to the government | « seriee—tho main t' unen & careloss 5 It is tho image, too, | community tack to Limeelt. We had become heedless, Unoertainty which ts the portion of | presumptaons, oetfonfid-nt in our prosp rity and of God, knowoth no rest. of that human Ife. “The sea is Bis and Be made it.’ ‘the es, like the Omoipotent Ruler 0° the Univorss, isat | wheels whor-w» were dc ving to destruction, so that ‘once the soures of the greatest sorrow and the greatest | we dily biles. That which is the means of bringing together teusting {n+ im. Tf Cod is our :u'de, 6o are the laws of | All the sivexs run Into the e¢a, yot the son is not full: @ me ‘This dreadfa! ca'amity is one of thousand years wou'd not suffice to fill the bosom of great deep, wit) it once made dry, even wore all rivers to con! opour thelr ceascless currents Its bed. And yet of this vast—this immeasurable sen, the Rebrow ,rophet im describing the Almighty cays, “Who ba@h messurel the waters in the holiow of hie- heavily. He has @ thousand canses, appa | bands’ - rently tril'ng, by wher he can prostrate our | Jobovah, the God of Iereel has done: ‘The son ts Hix, weelth, ani God interposes, takes cf our chariot parted friende—that sometimes emooth and plensaat rend ' grandest exterpzicea, look cp opr whetls, ond pa ' and He medeit.” The ova apenks of iy meker—Ges eee