the charnel-house.

Not even the death of kindred can affect the gambler. He would play upon his brother's coffin; he would play upon his father's sepulchre.

The Preservation of the Church.-MASON.

THE long existence of the Christian Church would be pronounced, upon common principles of reasoning, impossible. She finds in every man a natural and inveterate enemy. To encounter and overcome the unanimous hostility of the world, she boasts no political stratagem, no disciplined legions, no outward coercion of any kind. Yet her expectation is that she will live forever. To mock this hope, and to blot out her memorial from under heaven, the most furious efforts of fanaticism, the most ingenious arts of statesmen, the concentrated strength of empires, have been frequently and perseveringly applied. The blood of her sons and her daughters has streamed like water; the smoke of the scaffold and the stake, where they wore the crown of martyrdom in the cause of Jesus, has ascended in thick volumes to the skies. The tribes of persecution have sported over her woes, and erected monuments, as they imagined, of her perpetual ruin. But where are her tyrants, and where their empires? The tyran's have long since gone to their own place; their names have descended upon the roll of infamy; their empires have passed, like shadows over the rock; they have successively disappeared, and left not a trace behind!

But what became of the Church? She rose from her ashes fresh in beauty and might; celestial glory beamed around her; she dashed down the monumental marble of her foes, and they who hated her fled before her She has celebrated the funeral of kings and kingdoms that plotted her destruction; and, with the inscriptions of their pride, has transmitted to posterity the records of their shame. How shall this phenomenon be explained? We are, at the present moment, witnesses of the fact; but who can unfold the mystery? The book of truth and life has made our wonder to cease. "THE LORD HER GOD IN THE

MIDST OF HER IS MIGHTY." His presence is a fountain
of health, and his protection a "wall of fire." He has
betrothed her, in eternal covenant, to himself. Her living
Head, in whom she lives, is above, and his quickening
Armed with divine vir-
spirit shall never depart from her.
tue, his Gospel, secret, silent, unobserved, enters the hearts
of men, and sets up an everlasting kingdom. It eludes all
the vigilance, and baffles all the power, of the adversary.
Bars, and bolts, and dungeons are no obstacles to its ap-
proach bonds, and tortures, and death cannot extinguish
its influence. Let no man's heart tremble, then, because
of fear. Let no man despair (in these days of rebuke and
The ark is launched,
blasphemy) of the Christian cause.
indeed, upon the floods; the tempest sweeps along the deep;
the billows break over her on every side. But Jehovah-
Jesus has promised to conduct her in safety to the haven
of peace. She cannot be lost unless the pilot perish.

Modern Facilities for evangelizing the World.--
BEECHER.

THE means of extending knowledge, and influencing the human mind by argument and moral power, are multiplied a thousand fold. The Lancasterian mode of instruction renders the instruction of the world cheap and easy. The improvements of the press have reduced immensely, and will reduce yet more, the price of books, bringing not only tracts and Bibles, but even libraries, within the reach of every man and every child. But in the primitive age, the light of science beamed only on a small portion of mankind. The mass of mankind were not, and could not be, instructed to read. Every thing was transient and fluctuating, because so little was made permanent in books and general knowledge, and so much depended on the character, the life, and energy, of the living teacher. The press, that lever of Archimedes, which now moves the world, was unknown.

It was the extinction of science by the invasion of the northern barbarians, which threw back the world ten cen

turies; and this it effected through the want of permanent instruction, and the omnipotent control of opinion which is exerted by the press. Could Paul have put in requisition the press, as it is now put in requisition by Christianity, and have availed himself of literary societies, and Bible societies, and Lancasterian schools to teach the entire population to read, and of Bibles, and libraries, and tracts, Mahomet had never opened the bottomless pit, and the pope had never set his foot upon the neck of kings, nor deluged Europe with the blood of the saints.

Should any be still disposed to insist, that our advan tages for evangelizing the world are not to be compared with those of the apostolic age, let them reverse the scene, and roll back the wheels of time, and obliterate the improvements of science, and commerce, and arts, which now facil itate the spread of the Gospel. Let them throw into darkness all the known portions of the earth, which were then unknown. Let them throw into distance the propinquity of nations; and exchange their rapid intercourse for cheer. less, insulated existence. Let the magnetic power be for. gotten, and the timid navigator creep along the coasts of the Mediterranean, and tremble and cling to the shore when he looks out upon the broad waves of the Atlantic. Inspire idolatry with the vigour of meridian manhood, and arm in its defence, and against Christianity, all the civili zation, and science, and mental power of the world. Give back to the implacable Jew his inveterate unbelief, and his vantage-ground, and his disposition to oppose Christianity in every place of his dispersion, from Jerusalem to every extremity of the Roman empire. Blot out the means of extending knowledge and exerting influence upon the human mind. Destroy the Lancasterian system of instruction, and throw back the mass of men into a state of unreading, unreflecting ignorance. Blot out libraries and tracts; abolish Bible, and education, and tract, and missionary societies; and send the nations for knowledge parchment, and the slow and limited productions of the pen. Let all the improvements in civil government be obliterated, and the world be driven from the happy arts of self-gov. ernment to the guardianship of dungeons and chains. Let liberty of conscience expire, and the Church, now emanci

pated, and walking forth in her unsullied loveliness, return to the guidance of secular policy, and the perversions and corruptions of an unholy priesthood. And now reduce the 200,000,000 nominal, and the 10,000,000 of řeal Chris tians, spread over the earth, to 500 disciples, and to twelve apostles, assembled, for fear of the Jews, in an upper chamber, to enjoy the blessings of a secret prayer-meeting. And give them the power of miracles, and the gift of tongues, and send them out into all the earth to preach the Gospel to every creature.

Is this the apostolic advantage for propagating Christianity, which throws into discouragement and hopeless imbecility all our present means of enlightening and disenthralling the world? They, comparatively, had nothing to begin with, and every thing to oppose them; and yet, in three hundred years, the whole civilized, and much of the barbarous, world was brought under the dominion of Christianity. And shall we, with the advantage of their labours, and of our numbers, and a thousand fold increase of opportunity, and moral power, stand halting in unbelief, while the Lord Jesus is still repeating the injunction, Go ye out into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature; and repeating the assurance, Lo I am with you alway, even to the end of the world? Shame on our sloth! Shame upon our unbelief!

Speech of the Chief SA-GU-YU-WHAT-HAH, called by the white People RED JACKET.

FRIEND AND BROTHER-It was the will of the Great Spirit that we should meet together this day. He orders all things, and has given us a fine day for our council. He has taken his garment from before the sun, and caused it

* Delivered in answer to the offer and request of an American missionary, to teach among the Indians the principles of Christianity Some of their speeches have exhibited more of energy and pathos on occasions specially adapted to excite these qualities; but we have seen none which better illustrates the peculiar sagacity and eloquence of this anfortunate people, than the one before us.-ED.

to shine with brightness upon us. Our eyes are opened that we see clearly; our ears are unstopped, that we have been able to hear distinctly the words you have spoken For all these favours we thank the Great Spirit and him only.

Brother-Listen to what we say. There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians. He had created the buffalo, deer, and other animals for food. He had made the bear and the beaver. Their skins served us for clothing. He had scattered them over the earth, and taught us how to take them. He had caused the earth to produce corn for bread. All this he had done for his red children, because he loved them. But an evil day came upon us. Your forefathers crossed the great water, and landed on this island. Their numbers were small. They found friends, and not enemies. They told us they had fled from their own country for fear of wicked men, and had come here to enjoy their religion. They asked for a small seat. We took pity on them, and granted their request; and they sat down among us. We gave them corn and meat; they gave us poison in return.

The white people had now found our country. Tidings were carried back, and more came among us. Yet we did not fear them. We took them to be friends. They called us brothers. We believed them, and gave them a larger seat. At length their numbers had greatly increased. They wanted more land. They wanted our country. Our eyes were opened, and our minds became uneasy. Wars took place. Indians were hired to fight against Indians, and many of our people were destroyed. They also brought strong liquor among us. It was strong, and powerful, and has slain thousands.

Brother Our seats were once large, and yours were small. You have now become a great people, and we have scarcely a place left to spread our blankets You have got our country, but are not satisfied; you want to force your religion among us.

Brother-Continue to listen. You say that you are sent to instruct us how to worship the Great Spirit agreeably to