ly pressing upon you. But Oh! after all I can say or do, you will not love him. And now, alas! I must change my note! I must deliver a message to you, that I am loath to deliver; but my Lord and Master requires it of me, in order to deliver the whole counsel of God. It is that dreadful message in 1 Cor. xvi. 22-" If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema, Maranatha;" i. e. Let him be accursed of God, till Ged shall come and judge him: if any man, or any one, whether male or female, high or low, rich or poor, old or young-love not the Lord Jesus Christ, above every thing in the world;-let them-say the word and majesty of God-be Anathema, Maranatha-accursed of God until the Lord shall come and execute the fulness of his wrath upon them." Upon which the whole assembly was struck with a very great and visible consternation: some deeply affected for themselves, and some for their children. And, among the rest, a gentleman of wealth and figure, I think, if my memory does not fail me, he was a Knight Baronet, fell down as dead in his pew, though he revived in great distress of soul.

Doolittle.-The Rev. Mr. Doolittle preached a sermon from the same text, "If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha." "After the sermon," says Mr. D. in giving his own account of the occurrence," the psalm having been sung, all the people, as is usual, stood up: I kept my seat longer than ordinarily I was wont, which caused their eyes to be the more towards me. Then I stood up and said, 'Why stand ye gazing? Why are your eyes so intent upon me? What can I say more? What more do ye expect? The blessing? What! all of you? What! whether ye love Christ or no? Alas! if God curse, how can I bless? I have day after day set life and death, a blessing and a curse, before you; and must it not be with you according to your own choice? If ye will be blest indeed, ye must love Christ; if ye will not love Christ, the curse, and not a blessing, waiteth for you, though ye here wait for a blessing. If ye would not go without pronouncing the blessing from bence to your homes, love Christ-Oh! love Christ. Oh, at last be persuaded to love Christ, that ye might not go from Christ's bar to the flames of hell (without his blessing) for ever. I have done for this time and text, when I have said the words of my text, 'If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha;' and let all the people, that dare, (lest they should wish a curse upon themselves) say Amen. And, for you that have set your hearts on Christ above all, I beg from the Father of Mercies, that grace might be with all them that love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity, and let all the people say, Amen.” [London Eve. Magazine.

CRUELTIES OF CRUCIFIXION.

Crucifixion was not only the most ignominious, it was likewise the most cruel mode of punishment. So very much so, that Cicero, (in Verrem V. 64, et 66,) is justified in saying in respect to crucifixion, "Ab oculis, auribusque et omni cogitatione hominum removendum esse." The sufferings endured by a person, on whom this punishment is inflicted, are narrated by George Gottlieb Ritcher, a German physician, in a Dissertation on the Saviour's Crucifixion, at page 36 et seq.

1. The position of the body is unnatural, the arms being extended back and almost immoveable. In case of the least motion, an extreme

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ly painful sensation is experienced in the hands and feet, which are pierced with nails, and in the back, which is lacerated with stripes.

2. The nails, being driven through the parts of the hands and feet, which abound in nerves and tendons, create the most exquisite anguish. 3. The exposure of so many wounds to the open air brings on an inflammation, which every moment increases the poignancy of suffering. 4. In those parts of the body which are distended or pressed, more blood flows through the arteries, than can be carried back in the veins. The consequence is, that a greater quantity of blood finds its way from the aorta into the stomach, than would be carried there by a natural and undisturbed circulation. The blood vessels of the head become pressed and swollen, which of course causes pain, and a redness of the face. The circumstance of the blood being impelled in more than ordinary quantities into the stomach, is an unfavourable one also, because it is that part of the system, which not only admits of the blood being stationary, but is peculiarly exposed to mortification. The aorta, not being at liberty to empty, in the free and undisturbed way as formerly, the blood which it receives from the left ventricle of the heart, is unable to receive its usual quantity. The blood of the lungs, therefore, is unable to find a free circulation. The general obstruction extends its effects likewise to the right ventricle, and the consequence is an internal excitement, and exertion, and anxiety, which are more intolerable than the anguish of death itself. All the large vessels about the heart, and all the veins and arteries in that part of the system, on accumulation and pressure of blood, are the source of inexpressible misery.

5. The degree of anguish is gradual in its increase, and the person crucified is able to live under it, commonly till the third, and some times till the seventh day. Pilate, therefore, being surprised at the speedy termination of the Saviour's life, inquired in respect to the truth of it of the centurion himself, who commanded the soldiers. Mark 15, 44. In order to bring their life to a more speedy termination, so that they might be buried on the same day, the bones of the two thieves were broken with mallets; (John, 19, 31-37,) and in order to ascertain this point in respect to Jesus, viz. whether he was really dead, or whether he had merely fallen into a swoon, a soldier thrust his lance into his side, (undoubtedly his left side,) but no signs of life appeared. John 19, 13-37. If he had not been previously dead, a wound of this kind in his side would have put a period to his life, as has been shown both by the physician Eschenbach and by Gruner, the former in his Opuscul. Medic. de Servatore non aparenter, sed vere mortuo, and the latter in his Dissert. inaug. Medic. de Jesu Christi morte vero, non synoptica, 1800. The part pierced was the PERICARDIUM; hence lymph and blood flowed out.

From the Sketches of Naval Life.

ROMAN CATHOLIC SUPERSTITION.

The festival of Good Friday is in Mahon celebrated by the follow ing procession. After a long ceremony in the church of the Francis. can Convent, there issues from its door a line of boys, masked and disguised as Jews. Each one carries some symbol of the crucifixion; a wooden nail, a ladder, a hammer, a small cross, a heart pierced with darts, dice, (lots for the vesture,) a wooden hand, a sword, with an ear

attached to it, and other objects like these. Next to these come a Roman standard-bearer, and a trumpeter, also in Roman armour; and to these succeed a centurion with about twenty soldiers, dressed like the former, and bearing ensigns and other implements of war. They are followed by three men, well guarded, the two outer representing the thieves crucified with our Saviour. All these are bound and loaded with chains, and the middle one bears in addition a crown of thorns. He represents the Saviour himself. He is bound by a rope, one end of which is held by a person on each side. These are followed by soldiers, Jews, and monks, to whom succeed the principal citizens. Just without the church, they stop at a spot where a painting is suspended, and here a sermon is preached, one of twelve that make up the whole course. After the sermon, a large crucifix is brought out, and laid on the shoulder of the central man. He is a priest, and the hair from a wig falls down so as to conceal his features. The procession now moves on to the sound of the trumpet. At the third sermon, the priest feigns fatigue, and a person (Simon the Cyrenian) comes out to assist him in bearing the cross. Soon after, he sinks down with pretended exhaustion, and the crowd, gathering round, spit upon him, and, treating him with all kinds of indignity, compel him to rise and proceed. When the twelfth sermon is preached, they enter the Cathedral, and the ceremonies are concluded for the day. On Saturday and Sunday of that week, they have others, scarcely less blasphemous; but this will suffice.

I was standing one day near the square of St. Peter's, when I saw a pilgrim approach. He had the staff in his hand, a long cane, with a little cross at one end, and the scallop, not only in the front of his hat, but sewed all over the cape of his coat. You will recollect the lines of Parnell's beautiful allegory,

"He quits his cell; the pilgrim's staff he bore,

And fix'd the scallop in his hat before."

The church was just opening on him, when I saw him first: he looked way-worn, but passed through the street with a rapid step, and gazed forward with all his might. I met one, some days since, in the porch of St. Peter's, just preparing to return. He had come four hundred miles, he said, and had spent all his money, four dollars, on the way: he had been here two weeks, and had at last been admitted to the presence of Il Papa, at his morning's repast: he had now a general passport through Italy, signed by one of the Pope's secretaries. I met one at Florence from Germany, then returning, as he told me, from his second pilgrimage.

AFFECTING ANECDOTE.

An English officer requested me to visit his wife, a very beautiful woman, to whom he was much attached, not only for her own excellent qualities, but as the mother of three beautiful children, all in a state of infancy. On going to his quarters I found her in the last stage of an intermittent fever-a disease which was very prevalent and fatal among our troops. I need not harrass your feelings by depicting one of those scenes which one of my profession is so often called on to witIt was the tenth day of the fever. Her soul was on the wing, and by the same evening she had breathed her last.

ness.

Her unfortunate husband, while he felt her loss as the greatest calamity that could have befallen him, strove to stifle his sufferings as he caressed his liping babes, who demanded when their mamma would

return.

With three helpless infants, in the midst of a foreign country, he was under orders to march with his regiment to Spain. Divided be tween a sense of public and private duty, what could he do? He was advised to apply to Sir John Moore for leave to carry his children to England. His wishes could not be complied with. "Never mind, my dear friend," said the generous Portuguese noble in whose house he was billetted, "cease to grieve, unfortunate Englishman: leave your infants with me; behold my three daughters, they shall each discharge the duties of a mother to one of your infants, and I will be a father to the whole." "So we will, my dear father," cried the daughters. This was too much for Capt. and he hastened out of the room.-[Neal's Letters from Portugal and Spain.

HUME

The infidel, Hume, received a religious education from his pious mother, and in early life was 'the subject of strong and hopeful religious impressions; but as he approached manhood they were effaced, and filial love and reverence were absorbed in the pride of philosophi cal skepticisin. He now applied himself with unwearied efforts to sap the foundation of his mother's faith; and having succeeded in his impious work, he went abroad into foreign countries. When on his return an express met him at London, informing him that his mother could not long survive; that she now found herself without any sup port in her distress; that as he had taken away that source of coinfort, on which, in all cases of affliction, she used to rely, and her mind was now sinking in despair, she entreated him to give her some substitute for her religion, and to hasten to her with such consolations as philosophy can afford to a dying mortal. Hume was overwhelmed with anguish on receiving this letter, and hastened to Scotland, travelling day and night; but before he arrived his mother expired; no permanent impression was made on his mind, and he soon relapsed into his foriner obduracy of heart.-Sill. Jour. Eng.

From the Evangelical Lutheran Intelligencer.

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD OF N. CAROLINA. The minutes of the Synod of North Carolina have just come to hand. They furnish us with evidences, that our beloved Church, to the South, is extending her borders, and that amid numerous conflicting circumstances, the truth is advancing, whilst our doctrines are gladly received by many, who had heretofore been indifferent as to religion.

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The Synod convened on the 1st Sunday in May, at St. John's church, Wythe county, Va., and continued in close session during the 4th, and 6th of the month.

After discourses by the Rev. D. Scherer, Rev. S. A. Mealy, (a delegate from the Synod of South Carolina,) and the Rev. G. Shober, the Lord's Supper was administered, to a considerable number of persons.

In the afternoon, Rev. Mr. Cline, Rev. John Reck, and Rev. A. Seechrist preached, and at candlelight Rev. Mr. Mealy delivered another discourse.

On Saturday preceding, Rev. Mr. Graeber and Rev. John Reck, performed the services preparatory to the administration of the Lord's Supper.

It appears, that during all the exercises, the audience evinced a deep interest in the sacred truths that were delivered.

On Monday morning the Synod was constituted, according to usage, by singing a hymn, and an address to the Throne of Grace.

The names of the Ministers attached to this Synod, are viz: Rev. C. G. Storch; Rev. G. Shober, President; Rev. J. Scherer; Rev. M. Walther; Rev. D. Scherer; Rev. J. Miller; Rev. J. Reck, Secretary; Rev. H. Graeber; Rev. W. Jenkins; Rev. J. C. A. Schoenberg; Rev. J. P. Cline; Rev. D. J. Hauer; Rev. A. Seechrist; Rev. J. Grieson; Rev. A. Grimes; Rev. J. Reicherd; Rev. Artz; Rev. D. P. Posenmiller; Rev. Kaempfer. There were present nineteen Lay Delegates.

The Parochial Reports are very imperfect. We are happy, however, that the Synod has taken such an order upon this interesting subject, as will enable us, thereafter, to obtain correct information upon it. As it is, it is calculated to cheer us, for eight Ministers report, that they have under their care, thirty-eight organized churches-that they baptized during the past year, 487 children, 36 adults, coufirmed 351, and administered the Lord's Supper to 1794 persons.

Rev. J. Reck and Rev. J. P. Cline, Michael Miller and Thomas J. Myers, Esqs. were elected delegates to represent this Synod, at the next session of the General Synod.

Numerous petitions for Ministers, were received, and the most expedient and feasible means were adopted, to meet the exigencies of the present time.

Sunday schools are becoming general, and every effort is made, that they be organized in all their churches. The aged Father Shober appears to be very zealous in the cause of Sunday Schools and Tract Sucieties, and the younger brethren seem to have imbibed the same spirit. Though his infirmities prevent him from performing the arduous labours of a Preacher, he is nevertheless labouring for the cause of Christ, by encouraging such institutions as are calculated to defeat Satan's operations. The Synod with regret, accepted of his resignation, with the request, that he preach occasionally, to the people in his vicinity, and if necessary, administer the Lord's Supper.

To show our readers, what the views and feelings of our aged and beloved Shober are, we extract from the minutes the following, viz:

A large assembly having collected, the Rev. Mr. Mealy preached in the English language, from John's Gospel, 9 ch. 4 v. The Rev. President followed immediately, and preached from the Parable of the Labourers, recorded in the Gospel of St. Matt. 20 ch. with a direct reference to the Gospel Ministry, in which he delineated in a very pathetic and nervous manner, that the gospel provides for men daily and laborious employment, the difficulties, and variety of temptations to which a faithful and zealous minister is exposed, from the world, Satan, and our own depraved nature; that a very important era in the history of our world has arrived, in which the Lord is calling and sending forth ministers to preach the everlasting gospel to Gentile and Jew; and that the auspicious day will soon dawn, when the Isles of the sea shall be converted, and a nation born to God in a day. He also stated the great necessity of renewed efforts, and redoubled diligence,