214 Chinese Advertisement-Earthquakes. ness of man since the fall; the end of materials will be used. Of statuary, the world, when the earth and the granite, brass & copper, I have providworks that are therein, shall be burnted sufficient to complete orders to any up; and the new creation, or the new extent.-Perishable wood shall never heavens and the earth wherein dwell-disgrace a deity made by my hands. eth righteousness." Their descrip- Posterity may see the objects of their tions are connected with much that fathers' devotions unsullied by the inis grossly superstitious; but may nev-clemencies of the seasons, the embraertheless be a corruption of scriptural traditions. ib. CHINESE ADVERTISMENT. We submit the perusal of the following ad vertisement to our readers, not merely as a curiosity but as a practical comment on the rationality of idol worship-It is extracted from a periodical paper published in Canton China. "I, Acheu Tea Chincheu, a lineal descendant of Goup Boi Roche Chincheu, the celebrated sculptor and carver in wood, who through his unremitted studies to promote rational religious worship, by the classical touches of his knife and chisel, has been honored by Emperors, Kings and Rajahs of the East, and supplied them with superior idols for public and domestic worship, now humbly offer my services in the same theological line, having travelled from hence, at a considerable expense, to perfect myself in anatomy, and in copying the most graceful attitudes of the human figure, under those able masters, Nollekens and Bacon. Acheu Tea Chincheu is now in possession of casts from the most approved models and Elgin marbles; he is ready to execute to order, idols from twelve feet high, well porportioned, down to the size of a Marmoset monkey, or the most hideous monster that can be conceived to inspire awe or reverence for religion. My charges are moderate: for an Ourang Outang, three feet high, $700; ditto Rampant, 800; a Sphink, 400; a Bull, with hump and horns, 650; a Buffalo, 800; a Dog, 200; ditto Coucant, 150; and an Ass in a braying attitude, 850. The most durable ces of pious pilgrims, or their tears on the solemn prostrations before them. Small idols for domestic worship, or made into portable compass for pilgrims; the price will be appropriate to the size and weight.-Any order, post paid, accompanied by a drawing and description of the idol, will be promptly attended to, provided that one half the expense be first paid, and the remainder secured by any respectable house in Canton." EARTHQUAKES. "Some years ago, immediately after a shock of a tremendous earthquake had alarmed the inhabitants of Grenada, the conversation at the Governor's table turned upon the latent cause of such an awful phenomena. After every one of the company had assigned it to a different cause, an old domestic was asked her ideas upon the subject. She replied, that she thought the Great God was passing by, and that the earth made him obeisance! "This reply was striking, and discovered a bright spark of intellect in an untutored mind. It reminds us of that sublime passage in the Psalms, "He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; he toucheth the hills, and they smoke." Montgomery in his poem entitled the Thunder Storm, has a similar thought." "Hear ye not his chariot wheels, From the centre to the poles: "While earthquakes have doubtless some important use in the natural The Christian's Monitor-Singular Notion-Anecdote. world, they may also stand committed with the moral system of divine providence and mercy." "A merchant in Tennessee, observed during the earthquakes in 1811 and 1812, that before these took place, he used to sell ten packs of cards where he sold one Bible, he now sold ten Bibles where he sold one pack of cards!" THE CHRISTIAN'S MONITOR. 215 which I have found of great use to myself, and to which I may say, that the production of this work, and most of my other writings, is owing, viz. That the difference between rising at five and at seven o'clock in the morning for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is equivolent to the addition of ten years to a man's life, of which (supposing the two hours in question to be spent) eight hours in the day should be employed in study and Rise in the morning early:-in holy as pirations, heavenly contemplations, and devout thanksgivings rise! High-devotion. er and higher rise! SINGULAR NOTION. We have seen a letter from Saco, of the 8th inst. announcing the death of Thomas G. Thornton, U. S. Marshal for the District of Maine, who This letter states, died on the 4th. that Mr. Thornton had requested his friends to keep him as long as they could-then to put his body into a lead coffin, well sodered-over this a cof Engage in all the duties of the day with Scriptural sobriety, magnanimity and zeal: in the exercise of the closet be conscientious, devotional, and unwearied:-in domestic concerns be economical & methodical:-in worldly engagements and transactions be upright, prudent, and diligent:-in benevolent exertions be unostentatious and liberal:--in sanctuary servic-fin made of inch boards, then one of es be regular, attentive, and in earnest to obtain the blessing:-and in all manner of conversation be chaste, courteous, cheerful, and irreproacha ble. Retire from the ordinances of God's house,--from the business of the day, -and from all the cares of life, for examination, humiliation, and unreserved dedication to the Most High, of all you are, have, and owe for time and eternity. Phil. i. 2. AN OLD DISCIPLE, TIME LENGTHENED BY ITS IMPROVE MENT. two inches, one of four inches, and another, for the outside, of eight inches thick, all well bolted togetherand to bury him at night, between the hours of 10 and 12 o'clock.-[The gentleman to whom these particulars are communicated, was well acquainted with Mr. Thornton, and has no doubt, from his eccentric turn of minti that the above is correct. (Philadelphia paper. A young minister received a call from two different societies at once, and able to give him a large salary, to become their pastor. One was rich and was well united. The other was "Dr. Doddridge, who lived so much poor, and so divided that they had longer, that is to say, so much better driven away their minister. In this to the purpose, in fifty years than most condition he applied to his father for men do in a much greater space of advice. An aged servant who overtime, mentions his practice of rising heard what was said, he made this early as the means by which he was reply: "Massa, go where is the least enabled to produce his Family Ex-money,&most Devil." He took the adpositor and other publications. In a vice and was made the instrument of note on Rom. xiii. 13, he says, uniting a distracted church, and con"I will here record an observation"verting many souls to Christ. 216 Mariner's Church in Boston--Caution to Editors. MARINER'S CHURCH IN BOSTON. It was fit indeed that, in the proviA fund has been recently commenc-dence of God, such should be the ored in Boston for the erection of a igin of an enterprise, which aims at Mariner's Church. The following the welfare temporal and eternal of account of the origin of this fund is those who "ge down to the sea in given in the Report of the Boston So-ships," and which, it is hoped, a few ciety for the moral and religious in-years will behold completed. When struction of the poor. the fact was mentioned by the preach er to the seamen in the meeting hardbeen adverted to occasionally since. ly an eye was found tearless. It has And after divine service, not long ago William Bender, a common sailor, and a Norwegian by birth, had been a diligent attendant while on shore up on the Seamen's meeting at Central Wharf, and was strongly attached to a weather beaten sailor, of between it. He sailed in the Galatea, a ves-ister abruptly, in the frankness of 40 or 50 years of age, asked the minsel belonging to the Hon. Mr. Gray, his heart-"And why sir, can their and commanded by Capt. Oxford, On and when not far from the Cape of not be a subscription paper for the Good Hope, sickened and died. Seamen's Church? Some of us would his dying bed the thought of his be-give (added he) five dollars-others loved meeting was fresh in his mind, more, and others less, as they could and he requested his captain to be-afford it. It might grow into somestow on it his little property, consist- thing in time, and I wish it was done.” ing of the wages which were due him Four or five of his shipmates or acat the time of his death. "I have."quaintance stood listening around, said he, "no relation to claim the and appeared to feel an interest as money, and owe not a cent in the strong as his own in the object. There world." On the return of the captain, ed by some of our public spirited and is little doubt that, were it commencwealthy merchants would contribute their mite with cordiality and effect. the circumstances were mentioned to Mr. Gray, and he cheerfully paid the little amount to the Treasurer of the Society. It was somewhat short of fifty dollars; but it was the sailor's all The editor of New England Gaand freely given to a holy and be-laxy and Boston Courier, Mr. Bucknevolent purpose, which lay near his ingham, was tried at Boston for a heart in the hour of his utmost ex- third libel against the Russian Contremity. The Directors of the Soci- sl found guilty and sentenced to 30 ety received it with becoming emo-days imprisonment, in the common tions,and on deliberation voted: "That jail, and to pay the costs of prosecuthe legacy bequeathed to this Society tion. by William Bender, late seaman on board the Galatea, be appropriated as the commencement of a permanent fund for the support of the Seamen's Meeting and for the erection of achurch when ever it is deemed expedient. There is then a fund commenceda foundation in some sense laid-for a house of worship for mariners in Boston. And this has been done, most appropriately, by a poor seaman! that published the false statement reThis is the same person we believe, specting Mrs. Judson, the wife of the Missionary to Burmah. Eds. Mis. This removes an infinite burden from Revivals of Religion. REVIVALS OF RELIGION. bute to his praise. The work is still Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Wor-in powerful progress, and is extending itself into the adjoining towns of Thompson, Uxbridge, Northbridge, & Sutton. cester county, (Mass.) to the editors of the New-York Observer. Extract of a letter from Rev. R. K. Rogers to the editor of the Boston Recorder, dated Sandy Hill, N. Y. March, 17th, 1824. Dear Sir,-The sacrament of the I am happy to inform you that in the south part of this county, and particularly in the town of Douglass, there is a very general and powerful revival of religion at the present time. Between sixty and seventy have been Lord's Supper was administered last hopefully renewed. Though these are Sabbath. It was truly a solemn day. in general from among that class who There were added to the church sehave been moral in their habits, and venty-two.-Seventy by profession, & regular in their attendance on the two by certificate from other churches. The ordinance of baptism was means of grace, yet God has been pleased, in some instances, to display administered to thirty-eight. It was his infinite power and mercy, in arindeed an interesting sight to behold resting such as have been flagrantly Parents with their children, presenthardened and wicked. One of the ing themselves before the Lord, and hopeful subjects of the work, who is a devoting themselves to his service. man I think somewhat advanced in Within the bounds of the Congregalife, has been an avowed infidel and tion (which includes the two villages blasphemer. In his hatred and con- of Sandy Hill, and Glen's Falls,) there tempt of the Holy Bible, he has in are about one hundred and twenty, former years literally stamped it under who are indulging the hope of their inhis feet, and spit upon it!! During The Lord hath done great things for terest in Christ: well may we say the first week in March, there was a very signal display of divine us, whereof we are glad," and while power and grace. The week previous, ten we thus say, we trust we are ready young men, who it will appear from and willing to exclaim, "Not unto us, the sequel were peculiarly hardened not unto us, but to thy name, oh God, in sin, came from Uxbridge, an ad- be all the glory." The work is yet joining town, and took lodgings in going on.-There is as much engagedDouglass, for the express purpose of ness on the part of professing Chrisattending the meetings, making dis- tians, so far as I can discover, at this turbance, and if possible, putting a time, as there has been at any period stop to the revival. They commencof the revival. The good work of ed their operations accordingly-at-grace yet goes on in Moreau and Nortended meetings-made a disturbance thumberland, and is extending itself. -and proceeded so far, it is said, as into the Dutch Reformed Congregaeven to make a mock of administer- tion in the town of Saratoga, under ing the Lord's supper at a public the pastoral care of the Rev. Mr. house! They tarried in Douglass less Duryea, and oh that it might continue than a week; but tarried till a number and extend, until all the towns and countries in our beloved land are visof their own company were awakened; and at the last intelligence eight out ited with the special influences of Diof the ten had been hopefully plucked vine Grace! Yours, &c. as brands from the burning, and become the monuments of sovereign mercy! Thus is our God able to meet R. K. ROGERS. Levity is generally the product of his enemies when they least expect it,vice or folly: cheerfulness is the naand cause the wrath of man to contri-tural offspring of religion. tion to either of us as private citizens, through any political Gazette. The Saviour would have taught our censor, that he should have called upon his offending brother and spoken to him in private. This would have been christian. For this we would have thanked able to explain the matter to him, in such way as to have shown him that we did not deserve the castigation he has sought to inflict. But we cannot believe that our cen ty, not only because he has failed to discharge his duty as the Saviour enjoined in such cases it should be done; but because he has endeavored to hold up the private character of one of us to public censure; impeaching his motives; insinuating falsehood, and ridiculing his youth, while at the same time he seeks to leave the impression CARLISLE, APRIL 23. A writer with the signature of "A Citizen," has seen fit in a late number of the Volunteer to assail in a very harsh and censorious manner one of the editors of this Miscellany. We are at a loss to know why he has di-him, and we might possibly have been rected all his censure against but one of us. The alledged cause of offence was our having published a short extract from the Christian Gazette, with a query on the subject of bad music in churches. If there has been any thingsor lays any claim to true christianireprehensible in this we are both to blame; and yet more so is the Editor of the Christian Gazette, to whose query we merely gave currency, as we deemed it but an act of courtesy to a brother Editor so to do. The query was not our own, nor did we make a single remark upon it, but introduced it into our columns in hopes that some of our correspondents (as it actually on the minds of his readers, that it is has happened,) might furnish a dis-only our public character as editors passionate and satisfactory answer. that he condemns. Can he be a chrisYet does the writer attempt to casti-tian who makes the press the vehicle gate "Mr. Fleming." He professes of his slanderous insinuations and acthat he felt it to be his duty so to do. cusations against a private individual? We deny not but that either or both and can any calling themselves chrisof us may and do in many respects de- tians approbate such conduct?--But serve the admonition of our christian we forbear. If our conduct as Editors friends. But was it fitting in one who is blame-worthy let us be told of it would fain discharge a christian duty with the utmost publicity. But we to do it through the medium of a public hope that a discerning public will paper, and that too one of a very dif- know how to appreciate the slanders ferent character from our own. We that may be circulated against our prido not mean to intimate the least thing vate character: and our readers in this against the Volunteer, the Editors of borough may perhaps be able to refer which we highly respect; but we do to the circumstance which has excitobject to any man's attempting to dis-ed the spleen of "A Citizen." It is charge his acknowledged duty in rela- not the mere publication of the query |