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Brandon Hill.

The following heads were introduced ;

1. The fountain, Christ.

2. The time it was opened,-1800 years ago.

3. The place where it was opened,-Jerusalem.

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4. For whom it was opened,-for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

5. For what it was opened,-for sin and uncleanness, and

6. The great necessity of its being opened,- for, if this fountain had not been opened, all the human race would have perished in hell.

It is not the design of the writer to follow the preacher under each particular head, but to record some of the excellent remarks made by this Whitfield-like man of God in zeal if not in talents: for of all men that he ever heard, he never heard any who displayed a more deep concern for the salvation of the poor of this world, and sailors in particular, than this plain and faithful servant of Christ.

One of his first general remarks ;- I once did look for an earthly paradise; but since, my erroneous imagination has been corrected. We often hear persons speaking much about the innocence of childhood; but ah! did you never observe sin in children? Likewise about the innocence of the cottager and villager, for poets have often celebrated them in that light. But ah! were you to live with them, you would find them as sinful as the rest of mankind! Sir Francis Drake, Captain Cooke, and other circumnavigators of the globe, ask them if they ever found a place or people without sin; they will readily tell you, that wherever they saw the print of a man's foot, they saw the print of a sinner! Go and tell any man that he is a sinner, and he will confess it; go and tell an adulterous woman that she is a sinner, and she will answer she knows it well. Tell them that they are in danger of hell, and they will reply they know it! All this has been taught them in the school of nature. But I have a better story to tell you than this; although you are sinners, there is a fountain opened for sin and uncleanness. If this fountain was not opened, it would be an idle and useless thing for me to preach to you this afternoon, and tell you of your sins, without informing you and pointing out the remedy to you. I know a young woman who came to me being much distressed about her sins, and said, what, if the sun, and the moon, and stars were mine, what would they be to me if my soul were lost? I then preached to her about this fountain, and told her that I was glad that she was distressed about her sins; and wished that all the world were the same. There is more hope for people in this condition, than for those who do not feel the dreadful malady which sin has made in their souls.

"I was once travelling, and on the road side I saw a fountain, and there was written over it, 'The inhabitants of this place, that come here to fetch water, are requested to pay one farthing a year chief rent, as an acknowledgment that this fountain belongs to me;' and there was the owner's name inscribed. I thought this was a very reasonable and moderate price; but I can tell you of a fountain still cheaper than this, that will not cost you one single farthing, without money and without price,' that is the precious blood of Christ; this is that fountain spoken of in my text," &c. &c.

The various topics he discussed on the several heads of his dis course, were highly interesting; and the many anecdotes he introduced were very appropriate and much in point; so that the mode and manner of his preaching made the writer to draw a strong comparison between him and his excellent predecessors, Mr. Whitfield and Mr. Wills, the great champions in the cause and Gospel of the Lord Jesus.

In the evening, at six o'clock, this good man preached on board the floating chapel to a crowded audience. The writer attended the place and could have wished to enter, but it was so thronged that a stranger found it difficult of access, until he addressed one of the gentlemen committee, (who was on the deck speaking to the people on shore,) that he was recently from the city of New-York, and desirous of entering the chapel, but found it much crowded; from which remark he immediately spoke to another gentleman, who with all possible promptness and politeness led him through the vast crowd, and placed him by the side of the pulpit in one of the best places on board, to hear. This statement the writer begs leave to give, to show the marked respect manifested by that excellent committee to a citizen from the United States.

The preacher lodged in the same house with the writer, and was pleased to promise a sketch of this discourse, to insert which he left a blank in his journal; but owing, as he supposed, to the multiplicity of engagements, Mr. Smith was not able to fulfil his promise; but I send you a short paragraph of his introductory remarks, which was all I sketched down.

"There were three sailors that were eminent preachers of the Gospel, viz. Peter, James and John. With respect to the first sailor, he was the author of two of the most essential epistles in the New Testament."

Notices and Acknowledgments.

ON Monday evening the 13th inst. the Presbytery of New-York installed the Rev. JAMES G. OGILVIE as pastor of the 14th Presbyterian Church, in the new chapel erected for their use, in Provost-street. The Rev. E. W. BALDWIN, preached the sermon, from 2. Cor. iv. 7. The Rev. Dr. T. M'AULEY delivered the charge to the minister, and the Rev SAMUEL NOTT the charge to the people. This church has been gathered by its present pastor during the last summer, and the chapel has been built since the 12th of September. We most heartily bid the pastor and the church God speed; and pray that they may be made a blessing to that district of the city which is their field of labour.

We cannot close this number, without calling the attention of our readers to the melancholy report, on the present state of the New-York Sunday Schools. We do hope that this expose of the truth will excite an alarm. The good work must not languish; least of all ought it to languish at the time of our merciful return to our homes, and when each one of us is particularly bound to pay the vows, which we made when we were in trouble.

Martyn's Sermons. A handsome octavo volume, containing 20 sermons, by the late HENRY MARTYN, has recently been published, for the benefit of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and is for sale at this office. Jews' Society. The Rev. Mr. FREY, the agent, is prosecuting his agency with great success.

Charleston Bethel Union. We have received the report of the Charleston Bethel and shall give it an early notice.

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PRACTICAL EDUCATION.-No. V.*

First letter from SENEX to his Daughter.

MY DEAR DAUGHTER-It affords me great pleasure to learn that you are so far recovered from your late sickness, as to ride out, and, in some measure, superintend the concerns of your household. I hope you will bless God and yet live to do much good.

When I was last at your house, I felt a deep concern for you; not so immediately for your immortal interest, as I hoped that, to a saving purpose, you had remembered your Creator in your youth; but for the recovery of your health, on account of your rising family.

You cannot doubt that I saw much in your children to give me pleasure. The improvement they had made in various branches of useful knowledge, and their general correct deportment, were by no means overlooked. Still I feared that some of them were taking advantage of your debilitated state, and contracting improper and dangerous habits. Sometimes I thought you were rather mortified at their conduct, particularly on account of my presence.

Not long after my return home, I wrote a letter to your oldest daughter, with a particular view to correct some things I thought amiss in her, and of guarding her against others, to which I thought her exposed;-but, more especially, to urge upon her the importance of early piety. She has, probably, shown you the letter: if she has and you approve its sentiments, you will endeavour to enforce them upon her mind, and, upon the minds of your other children, in such a manner as will be most for their good.

As you are now restored to a comfortable measure of health, and have a prospect of living to be farther useful in your family, I propose writing you a few letters, upon the education of children, to refresh your mind with some of the ideas you have often heard me express. If you think proper, you may let your children read them. The perusal may lead them to feel that I take a deep interest in their welfare; and, should they be followed by the blessing of God, they may render them brighter ornaments to your family, more useful to the world, and help to guide them to eternal life. The inspired Psalmist says, "Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord!" In the preSee vol. VIII. p. 739.

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sent letter, I will only make a few observations upon the word "heritage."

"A heritage," is something received from another, and to be enjoyed for a season. The Lord directed Moses to say unto the children of Israel, when in Egypt: "I will bring you into the land concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob: and I will give it you for an heritage I am the Lord." In due time, the Lord brought them to the promised land, not, just to see it, but, to enjoy it for a season.

A" heritage," is not, barely, to be enjoyed for a season, but ordinarily, to be improved: that is, actually to be rendered more valuable. This we should readily suppose from the parable of the talents. He that had received five talents, and he that had received two, were both rewarded for their increase; while he that had received one, which he hid in the earth, was reproved as a wicked and slothful servant.

You likewise know, that the land of Canaan, though it flowed with “milk and honey," when the children of Israel first entered it, became vastly more productive under their cultivation.

King Solomon, in his day, very greatly exceeded in wealth and glory all who had lived before him. He says; "I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards; I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also, I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me."

The better any field or country is cultivated, the more valuable it becomes. It will feed more people, and afford a larger revenue. In like manner, the more the minds of children are cultivated, especially if they are sanctified by divine grace, the more they are to be esteemed. Their talents will then be wisely directed: "The righteous are the salt of the earth.”

"A heritage" is not only to be enjoyed for a season, and to be rendered more productive, but to be accounted for.

This we are very clearly taught in the parable of the vineyard "A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the wine-fat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard."

It may, with great propriety, be said to every person, old or young, "what hast thou, that thou didst not receive?" Whatever has been received, in strict justice we ought to account for. Soon it will be said to each one of us, "give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward."

"O may I stand before the Lamb,
When earth and seas are fled,

And hear the judge pronounce my name,
With blessings on my head.

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The Edwardses.

"May I with those for ever dwell,

Who here were my delight,

While sinners banished down to hell,

No more offend my sight."

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I am, my dear daughter, with much love to your husband and children, Your affectionate parent.

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THE EDWARDSES.*

IF in making out a catalogue of the most distinguished American Divines, we were required to arrange them according to our best judgment, we should certainly assign the first and highest place to JONATHAN EDWARDS the elder: and then, leaving a blank space, as is sometimes done in the English Universities, to indicate the comparative standing of candidates for academical honours, we should not know what name to insert next, in preference to that of Jonathan Edwards the young"Few and far between," in any part of the world, have such centinels appeared upon Zion's watchtowers. Rarely, indeed, has the church been blessed with champions, so highly gifted by nature, so well furnished with the "whole armour of God," so skilful in wielding the "sword of the Spirit," and so triumphant in every quarter. It is but seldom that a son has such a father; and it is still more rare, that such a father leaves behind him a son so worthy of his lineage.

A parallel drawn by the hand of a master, between these two great men, would not fail of being highly interesting and instructive. For such a parallel as might be furnished, from the ample materials which they have left behind them, we have not room in the present article, even if we possessed the ability of doing full justice to the subject. But we cannot let the opportunity pass, without inviting the attention of our readers to the following brief and imperfect sketch. Of the father, we had occasion to speak at considerable length, in our review of his theological works. We shall therefore say less of him here, than might otherwise have been reasonably expected, in a comparison between him and the author of the present discourse,

In the leading and governing incidents of their lives, the parallel is very close and remarkable. They both graduated early-the father at seventeen and the son at twenty. Both of them spent two years as Tutors in their respective colleges. Both were early and very eligibly settled in the ministry-the father at Northampton, Mass. and the son at New-Haven, Ct. Both were dismissed on account of their religious opinions :-the former in the twenth-fourth, and the latter in the twenty-seventh year of his ministry. Both were afterwards resettled in retired situations, where they had leisure to pursue their favourite theological studies; and to give the finishing touch to their most valuable treatises, on various important and controverted sub

This article is extracted from a review, in the Christian Spectator for January, 1823, of a sermon preached many years ago by Edwards the younger, on the subject of slavery, a second edition of which has lately been printed at Boston. + Christian Spectator for 1821.

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