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WHETHER had we better, to save from the error of their way, treat as aliens all unbaptized persons, or acknowledge them as worshippers of the true God, and as a kind of half. way Christians? M. W. Jan. 1838.

Did the Lord never use things that had no real existence in his parables; or, in other words, had all the things mentioned in the parables a real existence?M. W. 1838.

What is a church to do when its Elders leave them on the Lord's day and go to other meetings among the sects?-Mrs. T.

Ought Christians to pray with any with whom they would not commune in all religious or Christian institutions?-Dr. J.

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VOLUME II.. -NUMBER IV.

BETHANY, VA. APRIL, 1838.

MORALITY OF CHRISTIANS-No. IV.

THE religious and moral education of children and servants has not yet sufficiently arrested the attention of those who would be righteous. Few Christian parents, and still fewer Christian masters, seem to know that the eternal destiny of all the infants given them is, in a great measure, in their hands. The language that a child shall speak, the associations of ideas which it may form on religion, morality, and politics, and the habits which it may acquire, are, in a general way, all committed to its parents and guardians. They must plant the seeds of truth or error, of righteousness or iniquity, of life or death in the hearts of those dear little creatures that God has lent them. If they wisely and faithfully use the moral instruments which he has given them in those tender years while every thing is soft-the mind unsophisticated by false reasonings, the memory unoccupied with tares, and the affections disengaged from unworthy objects; if they will then pour the fresh instruction from the books of Nature and of Grace over their opening faculties, and lead their souls to Him from whom all blessings flow: if they will talk to them often of sin and death by Adam, and of righteousness and life by Christ: if they will season all their communications with the unaffected breathings of a prayerful spirit, and let their fervent ejaculations to the heavenly Father intermingle with all their efforts; and above all, if they will constantly and consistently exemplify their lessons in their own practice, their children and wards will rise up and call them blessed, and they shall reap an eternal harvest of honor and bliss in participating with them the joys of immortality. What a felicity!

Yonder Patriarch, said Daniel to an angel in a dream, surrounded with such a group-who is he? The progenitor of that tribe, replied he, who smile so gratefully and transportingly in his presence. These are his descendants and their associates for many generations, saved by his Christian intelligence and numerous virtues, especially by his diligence in bringing up a large household for the Lord; by which he laid a foundation for many generations, and became a spiritual father and an eternal benefactor to all that multitude, who, while they sing the song of Moses and the Lamb, so often cast an approving, grateful, thankful, ecstatic look towards him, that, under the Lord, was their next and most immediate saviour. And while the venerable saint responds to them and to the Lord in such terms as, "Here am I and the children that God hath given me," a beam of brighter glory adorns his sacred person and throws a new lustre on the exulting circle that stand around him. What a contrast!

Who, continued Daniel, is that most miserable and peculiarly wretched form, so often reproached and lacerated by such crowds of fellow-sufferers? The angel replied, Their bitter and dolorous upbraidings tell his and their frightful history. They are his ill-fated and ruined offspring and their connexions for several generations. They remind him of the heritage he had from his righteous ancestors, and how he sold his birthright and beggared forever himself and his descendants; and though their own misdeeds and abuse of light and multiplied favors often torment them, still they cannot but reproach and execrate him for his having permitted them to choose the follies which plunged themselves and their families into such manifold and irremediable woes. They look upon him as an accessory in their eternal condemnation, and lash him with whips of scorpions for his neglect of duty and miscalled tendernerness, and unnatural affection, rather disguised hatred, displayed in helping them on to ruin.

Few estimate the consequences of moral and immoral actions. They see not the concatenation of causes and effects-that infinite series of links that bind in one bundle the fortunes of individuals and families, and link their present actions with events almost infinitely distant from them. Who could have traced the fortunes of all Israel in Egypt, with their exodus thence and their present destiny, to the chastity of Joseph and his fidelity to his master Potiphar; yet certain it is that Jacob's families had not gone down into Egypt if Joseph had not been governor of the land; and had not Joseph fallen in with Pharaoh's servants in prison, he would nover have stood before the king; and equally certain that if he had not been cast into prison he would not have been known to Pha raoh's servants; and if he had not provoked the wife of Potiphar by

his virtue, he would never have been cast into prison. Now we ask, if in the providential dispensations of heaven a single action may be a link in such a mysterious chain, reaching through many ages, may we not conclude that moral and immoral causes will, in their moral and immoral effect, as certainly be productive of similar series, reaching through all time and issuing in eternity itself?

If Christians could see through the long defiles of many ages the consequences of their domestic administrations, they would doubtless, on some occasions, see events a thousand years distant hanging upon particular actions. Ham's indignity to his father, Abraham's confidence in God, Hagar's insolence to Sarah, Rachel's partiality to Jacob, Esau's selling his birthright, Jacob's doting upon Joseph, Caleb's honesty and truth, David's iniquity in the case of Uriah, Solomon's complaisance to his Pagan wives, Jeroboam's idolatrous calves at Bethel and Dan, &c. &c. not only affected their immediate connexions and descendants, but some of these actions are seen extending their influences to the present hour, and yet giving color to the character and circumstances of whole nations. It would be a very grave and somewhat difficult question to the wisest among us, whether the American family owes more to our Washington or to his mother-as difficult to decide whether English Protestantism owes more to Henry or Elizabeth— and the German people to Luther or Wickliffe.

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We must awaken to the cause of domestic education. substitute for it. Public schools, private schools, Sunday schools, are all good and useful; but none of them, nor all of them, afford a substitute for the family school and parental education. Nor will reading a few chapters per day, singing a few hymns, nor making a few prayers, be a substitute for that study and catechetical analysis of what is read around the family hearth. The daily instruction, religious and moral, of the household, the whole household, must be regarded as the most essential business of the family, else it will never, never. never be what it ought to be. It must not be an unimportant item, a great duty; but it must be the chief concern, the great business of life to have intelligent, moral, religious households.

This is the most brilliant and indispensable element of Christian righteousness or morality; for he that has not a well-ordered house can hardly be regarded as a righteous man. Ungodly children and servants, especially when the head of a family was a Christian, while as yet his household was in its infancy, will, in the eye of Christian intelligence, ever be regarded as an evidence against his righteousness, however religious he may be. A moral or righteous man is one that is righteous to God, to himself, to his wife, to his children, to his servants,

to his Christian brethren, and to the world of mankind. A failure in any one class of these duties must deprive him of the character of a righteous man. A. C.

MR. LYND'S DISCOURSE ON SPIRITUAL INFLUENCE.

No. IV.

From the Cross & Baptist Journal.

THE INFLUENCES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.-REPLY TO MR. CAMPBELI.. [CONTINUED FROM Page 103, anD CONCLUDED.]

I REPEAT it, that Mr. Campbell's theory limits the omnipotence of Jehovah. I say more, it denies the power of God. God can do every thing which is an object of power.The conversion of a sinner is an object of power, and unless divine power be exerted, no sinner will be converted. Therefore God can convert sinners if it is his pleasure. He has done it. He has triumphed over the most violent enmity, the most confirmed depravity, and he has done it under circumstances the most unfavorable, and where only a few truths, and those but obscurely revealed have been the instrumentality. Now if God has renewed some sinners, he has power to renew others, unless there is something in them over which the power of God has no control. A parent has ten children. He has a desire for their salvation. But there may be some of those children whom the Spirit of God cannot renew, purify, and save. Has this parent a right to pray that his children may all be saved! He has or he has not. It is his duty or it is not. If he has the right, he must believe that God has power to fulfil his desires, or he could not pray rationally. If he has not the right to do shis, he has not the right, or it is not his duty, to pray that any sinner may be saved. But the word of God makes it his duty to pray for all men.

I maintain, in conclusion, that the argument drawn from the subject of prayer is unanswered. I consider Mr. Campbell's use of that argument as an admission of its force. Review my argument, "If all the influence of the Holy Spirit is in the words recorded in the Old and New Testament, and we have these in our possession, why pray for grace to help in time of need?" Now he says, in reply, “This is a dogma I never believed." Is not this a fair admission, that if all the influence of the Holy Spirit to communicate grace were in the words recorded in the Bible, it would be useless to pray for grace to help in time of need? But Mr. Campbell never believed that all his influence was there, and hence he prays for the exertion of some power beyond it. But how does he endeavor to escape from this obvious admission? By saying, that all the illuminating or sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit is in the word, &c. I beg leave to propose a question to him. Does he mean by these terms combined, all the influence by which the souls of men are fitted for heaven? If he does, why pray for those things which we already have in our possession in the written word? And what more than all the influence which fits men for heaven, do we need?

But Mr. Campbell thinks he has found an analogy in physical laws that will answer my argument from prayer. He says, "If all the vegetating and animalizing power of the Creator is now in the universe, operating in immutable laws, why pray to God for fruitful seasons? Mr. Lynd's answer to this question, will be my answer to his question." I think not. I think this language fairly falls into what may be called the generalizing class.— Mr. Campbell does not wait to have my answer, but supposes what it will be, i. e., that we pray to God so to direct and govern the whole machinery of the seasons, or operations of nature, as to insure seed to the sower, and bread to the eater. Why then do I pray to have seed insured to the sower? Simply because it is not insured by immutable laws.Where does the vegetating power of the Creator lie? In what part of the universe? Is it in the seed? Then, will seed vegetate and bring forth fruit where there is no soil? Is