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Collectanea.
of general science have been shown in connexion ; so that , as in the case of language , the investigations of etymology exhibit a few words , or it may be only one , as the radix of universal speech , the inquiries of philosophy , tend more and more to point to a few , and very few , simple principles , as the source of all science—the root of the tree of universal knowledge . We may , therefore , approximate this general truth , which partakes at once of a moral and hilosophical discovery
p , that there is in the works of Deity at once infinite diversity and magnificence in their unfolding , and infinite simplicity in their element and origin . —Eclectic Review . THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PREACHERS . — "I have learned , " says Luther , " from the Hol y Scriptures that it is a perilous and a fearful thing to speak in the House of God ; to address those who will appear in judgement against us , when at the last day we shall be found in his
presence ; when the gaze of the angels shall be directed to us—when every creature shall behold the Divine Word , and shall listen till He speaks . Truly , when 1 think of this , I have no wish but to be silent , and to cancel all that I have written . It is a fearful thing to be called to render to God an account of every idle word . " Gaiety and a light heart , in all virtue and decorum , are the best medicines for the young , or rather for all . I , who have passed my life in dejection and gloomy thoughts , now catch at enjoyment , come from what quarter it may , and even seek for it . Criminal pleasureindeed
, , comes from Satan ; but that which we find in the society of good and pious men is approved by God . Ride , hunt with your friends , amuse yourself in their company . Solitude and melancholy are poison ; they are deadly to all , but above all to the young . —Luther . ST . PAUL AT ATHENS . —The house occupied by the American missionary as a School , stands on the site of the ancient Agora or marketplace , where St . Paul "disputed daily with the Athenians . " A few
columns still remain ; and near them is an inscription mentioning the price of oil . The school-house is built partly from the ruins of the Agora ; and to us it was an interesting circumstance , that a missionary from a newly-discovered world was teaching to the modern Greeks the same saving religion which , eighteen hundred years ago St . Paul , on the same spot , preached to their ancestors . Winding round the foot of the Acropolis , within the ancient and outside the modern wall , we came
to the Areopagus or Hill of Mars , where , in the early days of Athens , her judges sat in the open air , and , for many ages , decided with such wisdom and impartiality , that to this day the decisions of the Court of the Areopagites are regarded as models of judicial purity . We ascended this celebrated hill , and stood on the precise spot where St . Paul , pointing to the temples which rose from every section of the city , and towered proudly on the Acropolis , made his celebrated address : " Ye men of Athens , I see that in all things ye are too superstitious ! " The ruins of the very temples to which he pointed were before our eyes . — Stephens ' s Russian and Turkish Empires , Greece , c \ e .
A GEM FROM " TtlCHEMEU . " The pen is mightier than the sword . Behold The arch-enchanter ' s wand ! Itself a nothing!—But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse the Ctesars , and to strike The loud earth breathless . —Take away the sword , States can be saved without it .
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Collectanea.
of general science have been shown in connexion ; so that , as in the case of language , the investigations of etymology exhibit a few words , or it may be only one , as the radix of universal speech , the inquiries of philosophy , tend more and more to point to a few , and very few , simple principles , as the source of all science—the root of the tree of universal knowledge . We may , therefore , approximate this general truth , which partakes at once of a moral and hilosophical discovery
p , that there is in the works of Deity at once infinite diversity and magnificence in their unfolding , and infinite simplicity in their element and origin . —Eclectic Review . THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PREACHERS . — "I have learned , " says Luther , " from the Hol y Scriptures that it is a perilous and a fearful thing to speak in the House of God ; to address those who will appear in judgement against us , when at the last day we shall be found in his
presence ; when the gaze of the angels shall be directed to us—when every creature shall behold the Divine Word , and shall listen till He speaks . Truly , when 1 think of this , I have no wish but to be silent , and to cancel all that I have written . It is a fearful thing to be called to render to God an account of every idle word . " Gaiety and a light heart , in all virtue and decorum , are the best medicines for the young , or rather for all . I , who have passed my life in dejection and gloomy thoughts , now catch at enjoyment , come from what quarter it may , and even seek for it . Criminal pleasureindeed
, , comes from Satan ; but that which we find in the society of good and pious men is approved by God . Ride , hunt with your friends , amuse yourself in their company . Solitude and melancholy are poison ; they are deadly to all , but above all to the young . —Luther . ST . PAUL AT ATHENS . —The house occupied by the American missionary as a School , stands on the site of the ancient Agora or marketplace , where St . Paul "disputed daily with the Athenians . " A few
columns still remain ; and near them is an inscription mentioning the price of oil . The school-house is built partly from the ruins of the Agora ; and to us it was an interesting circumstance , that a missionary from a newly-discovered world was teaching to the modern Greeks the same saving religion which , eighteen hundred years ago St . Paul , on the same spot , preached to their ancestors . Winding round the foot of the Acropolis , within the ancient and outside the modern wall , we came
to the Areopagus or Hill of Mars , where , in the early days of Athens , her judges sat in the open air , and , for many ages , decided with such wisdom and impartiality , that to this day the decisions of the Court of the Areopagites are regarded as models of judicial purity . We ascended this celebrated hill , and stood on the precise spot where St . Paul , pointing to the temples which rose from every section of the city , and towered proudly on the Acropolis , made his celebrated address : " Ye men of Athens , I see that in all things ye are too superstitious ! " The ruins of the very temples to which he pointed were before our eyes . — Stephens ' s Russian and Turkish Empires , Greece , c \ e .
A GEM FROM " TtlCHEMEU . " The pen is mightier than the sword . Behold The arch-enchanter ' s wand ! Itself a nothing!—But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse the Ctesars , and to strike The loud earth breathless . —Take away the sword , States can be saved without it .