Emancipation and Transportation has applied to be admitted into the of Slaves.-The Society of Friends in North Carolina have sent to Hayti, to Africa, and other places, at different times, several hundred slaves, of those placed in their charge by persons in different parts of the State; as the laws do not permit their emancipation while in the country. By donations for this object received from New England, New-York, and Great Britain, the yearly meeting of Ohio, and that of Virginia and Maryland, (the latter of which has lately given $500) their funds have been so far increased, that they will be able to free and transport about 1000 slaves.-Daily Adv. Removal of Emancipated Slaves to Hayti.-The Editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation advertises, that he is "authorised to transport to that island all such emancipated slaves as shall be delivered to him for that purpose, without any expense to the people of this country, except that of their removal from the place of their residence to that of their embarkation." He adds, "that they will be well provided for on their arrival in Hayti, and until they can raise their own provi sions, and supply their own wants in general."--N. Y. Jour. Com. are Ecclesiastical Establishment in Canada.-It appears from a letter of Arch-Deacon Strachan, published in the Quebec Gazette, that there are in Upper Canada, 30 Clergymen of the established church, and one Lutherian, 58 places where there is regular or occasional service, 45 churches, 31 regular parishes, and 27 places where occasional services are performed. There are also "six ministers of the Independent, or Presbyterian order, assuming the appellation of the Presbytery of the two Canadas, but bearing no connection with the kirk of Scotland;" two ministers and two vacant parishes in communion with the kirk of Scotland, and from twenty to thirty Methodist ministers. One of the ministers of the church in communion with the kirk of Scotland, established church.--Boston D. Adv. Patrick Henry left in his will the following testimony in favour of the Christian Religion; "I have now disposed of all my property to my family; there is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian Religion. If they had that, and I had given them nothing, they would be rich; and without it, if I had given them all the world, they would be poor." Literary & Philosophical. We are happy to announce that Mr. Strong, Professor of Mathematics and Natural philosophy, in Hamilton College, (N. Y) has been unanimously elected to the professorship of the same branches in Rutgers College at New-Brunswick. Dr. Adrain has gone to the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Strong has commenced his operations in his new station His name, as a scholar and a teacher, stands among the foremost in our country, in the estimation of the literati. It is understood that the Medical school of this city, called the Rutgers medical falculty, has now no longer any connection with our College at New-Brunswick. The university of Marburg, Holland, celebrated in July, the secular festival of its foundation, on which occasion, the learned Madame Johanna Wyttenback, relict of the celebrated Daniel Wyttenback, received from the Philosophical Faculty of the Academy, the degree of Doctor of the Mathematics, and Master of Arts. Lutheran Theological Seminary.We are happy to learn that the Rev. B. Kurtz, who has been on an agency to Europe in behalf of this Institution, has succeeded in obtaining for it about $12,000 in cash, and more than 5,000 volumes of books, many of them scarce and valuable.The Library at present consists of about 1000 volumes. With the addition of those from Europe, and the valuable collection of the Rev. Mr. Storch of N. C. which has been presented to the Institution, but not yet received, it will be one of the largest Theological Libraries in the United States. The Catalogue dated Sept. 1827, presents the names of 3 students in the Senior class, 11 in the Middle, and 9 in the Freshmen. The 3 Seniors have received calls for settlement.-Rev. S. S. Schmucker is Professor of Christian Theology, and, pro tempore Instructor in the other branches. M. D. Jacobs is teacher in the Classical Department; which is under the direction of the Board, but receives no aid from the funds of the Seminary. Poetry. The following much admired Hymn was com posed by the late lamented BISHOP HEBER, who lately died in the prime of life, and in the midst of usefulness in the East Indies. From Greenland's icy mountains, Their land from error's chain! What though the spicy breezes Shall we, The gifts of God are strown; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood, and stone. whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high, Shall we, to men benighted, The lamp oflight deny? Salvation! oh salvation! The joyful sound proclaim, "ill each remotest nation Has learned MESSIAH's name. Waft, Waft, ye winds his story, It spreads from pole to pole. Go where the heart all desolate Has mourned the sev'ring stroke of fate- And life confess a joyless mecd A trembling cup-a broken reed! But high o'er mountain mists 'tis said, That none can weep who enter thore. Her sins forgiven, poor Frailty rests No moon shall there her darkling beam No hymning bird Shall wander there, But angel voices Charm the air; And God shall be the first, and last, The dearest thought that fills the breast. AMANDA. OF THE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH. VOL. II. } JANUARY, 1828. But this I say, Brethren,-In this beautifully abrupt manner does the Apostle Paul introduce some very important sentiments. This I say, Brethren. I do solemnly pronounce it as a momentous truth, though, alas! but slightly regarded; and which, therefore, it becomes me, repeatedly to urge upon your attention: This I do declare with all the authority of an Apostle, a messenger from heaven, and I demand, in heaven's name, your most serious consideration of what I am going to declaro--The time is short,* I had almost said, what occasion for this formality in introducing a matter so commonly known, and so generally acknowledged as this? But I check myself. The notoriety of the subject is the very reason, why it is overlooked. So that it requires all the address of an inspired Apostle to fix the attention of a thoughtless world, on a truth so obvious, and withal so important. Shame on me! What pains have I taken to avoid this friendly admonition! Though it has forced itself on me, with an evidence which I could not resist, yet I have seldom suffered it to have a suitable influence on my * 1 Cor. vii. 29. [NO. 10. temper and practice; but have lived as if I believed my continuance upon this earth to be long, and even everlasting! Blush, O my soul! at such unbecoming conduct; and endeavour to think, and act in future, as one who believes this uncontroverted declaration, that the time of thy continuance in this world is short. How much of that time is already gone! How little remains-Ah! who can say, "My breath is in my nostrils, and wherein am I to be accounted of?" I dare not "boast myself even of to-morrow, for I know not what a day may bring forth." This is all I know with certainty, That it is appointed unto me once to die; and after death comes the judgment. Alarming consideration! And do I sincerely believe it? Let me then no longer think of delay, nor contrive fatal artifices, to put off the grand work of my everlasting salvation May I work while it is called to day. The night cometh wherein no man can work.* Whatever my hand findeth to do, may I do it with all my might:† And give all imaginable diligence to make my calling and election sure. The time-the time of life is abso lutely short. "A span is all that we can boast, An inch or two of time;" To three score years and ten."-WATTS. How short the space between the cradle and the grave! How short the journey between infancy and old age through all the intermediate stages! The first breath we draw is the harbinger of our last. And every beating pulse we tell-leaves but the *John ix. 4. † Eccles. ix. 10. 2 Peter i. 10. number less." From the most accurate calculation, it appears that one half of the species leaves the world under the age of seven years. Probably one fourth arrives at manhood. And few, very few are permitted to arrive at old age! TIME, how short! ETERNITY, how long! is a motto that meets our eyes, and arrests our attention, in almost every burial ground we enter. Conversing, now and then, on this serious subject with some of my friends, who carry the marks of old age in their grey hairs, wrinkles, weaknesses, and pains, I am surprised when they assure me (shaking their hoary locks,) that when they look back on their tiresome pilgrimage, it appears to them as though they commenced to be men and women but yesterday;as though but yesterday they exchanged their childish sports, for more manly, and rational employments. But there are very few, let me recollect, that drag out their lives to so late a period. It is the remark of a writer, who was no superficial observer of what passed around him,~~ "that old men can hardly find contemporaries. A new race has started up, and they are become almost strangers in their own neighbourhoods." But looking forward into another, that is, an everlasting state of being, in this comparison, even the long life of Methusaleh, and the other antidiluvians, shrivel down into a mere point-a nothing! And, Oh! may never be unmindful, that the extreme brevity of this life, is a cogent proof of the certainty of another. "It would not be worth while, it would not be consistent," says a writer of the first talents, "with the wisdom and goodness of the Deity, to send so many infant millions of reasonable creatures into this world, to live the low lite of a vegetable, or an animal, for a few moments, days, or years, if there were no other world for these young immortals to remove to, in which their powers might open, enlarge, and ripen. Certainly men are not such insects of a day. Certainly this is not the last state of human nature. Certainly there is a heaven, and a hell. Otherwise we might expostulate with our Maker, as David once did upon that supposition- Wherefore hast THOU made all men in vain?" Psalm lxxxix. 47. Hence, I, and all my fellow mortals, now existing, must assuredly in a short time, be hurried into an awful eternity! Yes, in a few years, at farthest, we must be, every one of us, in some apartment of that unknown, untried world! The man of profane merriment, the unthinking, the irreligious multitude in the doleful mansions of hell!-even those- "Regions of sorrow, doleful shades! where peace And the pious, the penitent, the believing of all ages and climes, the noble worthies of all nations-of whom the world was not worthy, shall be in the blissful mansions of Heaven! O surely, then, a creature treading every moment on the brink of the grave, and just ready, every moment, to shoot the gulph of eternity, and to launch away into some unknown coast, should be constantly in a posture of serious expectation; should be every day, in his own mind, constantly taking leaving of this world; heart from it; and preparing for that breaking off the connexions of his state, where he must reside, not for a last, that all important remove into a few months, or years, as in the present, but throughout a boundless, everlasting duration ! And canst thou, O my soul! be in a situation like this, and not endeavour to exercise thyself in habitual, constant thoughtfulness, in abstraction from this vain and foolish world, and serious preparation for death and eternity? And when ought my mind *Milton's Parad. Lost B. i, line 65, &c. to be peculiarly solemnized, if not when I am brought to the close of the year, and to the commencement of another new year; and when, with all my sagacity, I cannot ascertain what events may befall me in the progress of that upon which, at present, I am about to enter? Oh! that I may be helped to improve every such period as a MEMENTO MORI,-that I may be roused from that supine and inactive disposition, which I feel myself so prone to indulge; and that I may arise and trim my lamp.* While like a faithful monitor, laying his hand on my breast, it gives me the signal of the approach of the last enemy, may it constrain me to let go my grasp of this unsatisfying world, and set me upon looking out, and preparing for another! One great reason, I am inclined to suppose, of the excessive attachment of man kind to the present state, and their stupid neglect of the concerns of a future, is their forming too high an estimate of the affairs of time, in comparison of the affairs of Eternity. For the Magazine of the Reformed MR. EDITOR--You have often been pleased to flatter me with the assurance that I was a great favourite with your readers. I understand you, Mr. Editor, just as well as if you had told me in plain Dutch. It was allenarly with a view to get me to write something or other for your-pardon me ---I mean for our Magazine. Well, resolved I was to get something up. But after swinging half an hour in my high-backed rocking chair, which has, by the way, come down to me as a kind of heir-loom from the first of our family, who emigrated from Guelderland; and after putting myself into a frame like any poor poet, who "beats his pate, and fancies wit will come," and putting my wife into some degree of serious concern about the honour of the family, lest I might have been breaking the laws of the Temperate Society, God bless them--or about the credit of my intellects, lest I might be getting crazy, I actually abandoned the idea of being able to get any thing, at this time, that would soul, and I wish it to be very power-be to the credit of the house. In my fully impressed on the minds of every agitation, I proceeded to the old worm eaten oak book press, which stands in stuffed with Dutch books, scientific, the sanctum sanctorum, and which is theoretic, practical, and casuistic. i shall find something here, thought 1, that will be exactly the thing. For I remember me, the Editor charged me to make it Dutch, ay, as Dutch as possible. Here, thought I, is a book of this very stamp. 'For,' I could not But this I say-I say it to my own one around me-THE TIME IS SHORT! The time, in which we have any thing to do with terrestrial concerns, is a poor, short, contracted span. It remains, therefore, that I endeavour, without a moment's delay, to set my house in order, that I may use the world as not abusing it. For the fashion, the pomp, the parade, the pageantry of this world are passing away! And away let it pass, provid-help saying it aloud to myself, "the ed, at last, I may but obtain a better country, that is a heavenly.† O LORD JESUS, Omy Divine MASTER, fill my soul with thy love! SPIRIT DIVINE, seal me-Oh! seal me "unto the day of redemption!"-L. Evan. Mag. 1794. * Matt. xxv. 7. Heb. xi. 16. Dutch ne'er failed me." It was an antique, curious, puritannical looking but in English! at London, in A.D. book, pri ted-Lo!--not in Dutch! 1624. This must be by an old puriwould Dieterick Van Benschooten tan, thought I, for on no other terms have allowed it a place in his library. It must even be puritan; and that means as Dutch as any book on these |