T A hint to wealthy Chriftians. HE following thoughts are not addreffed to cold, formal or hypocritical profeffors, but to those who love our Lord Jefus Chrift in fincerity, who have the fame mind which was in him, who have his Spirit dwelling in them, who know in a measure the terrors of the Lord, the worth of immortal fouls, who have tafted that the Lord is gracious and who have fome zeal for the advancement of the Redeemer's kingdom in the world. heralds of the everlasting gospel to new and diftant fettlements and among the favage tribes. The harveft truly is plenteous but the laborers are few. And what provifion is made to increase their number? Are there not pious youth of good genius, who long for an education that they may be prepared to go forth in the fervice? But alas, they want the means they have no ability to defray the expenfe. And to fend forth raw, undifciplined troops in this arduous fervice would tend to fink the estimation of the miniftry and injure the caufe. You cannot be infenfible, dear and refpected brethren, how highly you are favored. In connection with an abundance of the good things of the prefent life, you have also beftowed upon you the unfpeakably richer bleffings of the covenant of grace. Under an affecting fenfe of the manifold bleffings your heavenly Father hath conferred upon you, you have doubtless been led individu-priated to a more benevolent and ally to adopt the language of the important ufe? From the mind. Pfalmift and make the grateful which was in Chrift and the spirit enquiry, "What fhall I render of his gofpel, have you not reason to the Lord for all his benefits to to conclude that fuch an approme?" Difpofed alfo to reply in priation would meet his warmest the language of the fame devo-approbation? And would it not tion, "I will take the cup of falvation and call on the name of the Lord," it is hoped the hint fuggested in these lines will not be unacceptable to you. You, Chriftian gentlemen, are furnished with the means of nur-. turing these promifing youth for the noble purpose. And in the name of our adorable and benev olent Jefus who for you fakes became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich, can a portion of your property be appro Taking the cup of falvation yourfelves, furely you will wish to pledge your fellow creatures with the fame, and to this end, with a fervent importunity calling on the ame of the Lord, you will feel t incumbent upon you to make xertions according to the ability with which you are furnished by abountiful providence. Thro' the kind ordering of the great head of the church provifionis hade and making for fending forth entitle you to a reward in the great day, better than thousands of gold and filver? In this way how many friends may you make to yourselves of the mammon of unrighteoufnefs, that when ye fail they may receive you into everlafting habitations. Suppofing one of you should felect a youth and charge yourself with his education for the gofpel miniftry, and your inventory fhould in confequence be one thoufand dollars lefs, would you have any reafon to regret the expenditure when feveral thoufands yet remained for your heirs? Behold the dear youth the object of your turned from a miffion of 4 months to the northern parts of Vermont. The Rev. James W. Wood The Rev. John Willard, jun. has lately commenced a missionary tour to the new fettlements ou Comecticut River in the flates of Vermont and New-Hampshire ; and the Rev. Samuel Leonard to the northern counties of Vermont. benevolence through your inftru- | mentality rendered capable of doing service to mankind of more value than many thousands! Hearward, foon after his ordination, him exprefs his gratitude to you entered on a miffion to the fouthhis noble benefactor, and render ern counties in the western part of thanks and praise to that gracious New-York, and the northern God who put it into your heart. counties in Pennsylvania. If his labors be ftated, fee a church built up under his miniftry, or if itinerant, behold one congregation after another hanging upon his lips, numbers awakened to a fenfe of their perifhing condition, made acquainted with the glorious gofpel and led to put their truft in Jefus! Imagine thyfelf where indeed thou wilt fhortly be, in the prefence of thy glorious Redeemer above, furrounded with these happy fouls, accompanied by the honored and happy inftrument of their converfion, fostered and raised up by thy benevolent hand; muft it not afford thy pious heart the moft exquifite fatisfaction? Canft thou conceive of any way in which an appropriation of a portion of thy property with the divine blefling, may turn to better account? Ór if the expense be thought too heavy for thee as an individual, induce one or more of thy Chriftian brethren in fimilar circumstances, to unite with thee and fo jointly carry into effect the grand defign. As you fupremely love the Lord Jefus Chrift and would wifh to approve yourselves to him as faithful stewards, be intreated, dear brethren, to take the fubject into your ferious confideration, and let a word to the wife be fufficient. PHILO. MISSIONARIES. The other miffionaries now in the fervice of the Miffionary Society of Connecticut, are Rev. Meffrs. Badger and Chapman in New-Connecticut; Rev. S. Wa lifton in the western counties of New-York; Rev. 7. Bushnell either in New-York ftate or Vermont, and Rev. W. F. Miller in the northern part of NewYork west of Lake Champlain. 1. POETRY. COMMUNICATED AS ORIGINAL. ・W The Lord's-day Morning. 2. Triumphant thought, bleft Jefus rofe, TACITUS. Donation to the Miffionary Society of Connecticut. Obadiah Gore of Shefhequin, Pennsylvania, 3 Dolls 38 Cts. TH penalties, or the directions would be without effect, and especially after the apoftacy, would be held in contempt. Without a law with proper penalties men would be left entirely to their own inclinations, and in a state of perfect anarchy and confufion. All would purfue the gratification of their own propenfities and paffions, without attention to obligation, or regard to the general good. There was no creature who had authority to give law to the world, none able to carry one into exe On the divine government. HE government which God exercises over this world may be confidered as adminiftered in three great departments,-his moral law-the gofpel of his grace and his univerfal providence. It is true that the term univerfal providence, taken in its moft comprehenfive fignification, is expreffive of his whole government; but his law and gospel are fuch important parts of his government, that they demand a particular and feparate confideration. They are often diftinctly confid-cution, and none who could proered in this way in the holy fcriptures, and they will be fo viewed in this paper. Let us first confider his moral government, adminiftered according to his holy law. When God had created rational, moral agents in this world, it became neceffary for their happiness, that they fhould have fome standard of rectitude, and instructions by which they might govern themfelves, fo as to live in union, and promote the general happinefs. It was allo neceffary that this fhould be given in a law of infinite obligation, and fupported by proper VOL. III. No. 6. vide any measures to unite and harmonize the interefts and affections of mankind, fo as to fecure their happiness. God's benevolence, his rights as creator, and the perfections of his nature forbad him to leave them in a condition fo deplorable. He therefore ordained a government over his creatures in which he confulted their good as well as his own glory. As it is written, "And now, Ifrael, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to love him, and to ferve the Lord thy God with Сс all thy heart, and with all thy foul, to keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ftatutes which I command thee this day for thy good "" The laws which God has given are founded on the fimple principle of impartial goodnefs. "Thou fhalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart,-and thy neighbor as thyself." It is the plain defign of this law to direct us to fuch an holy love, as would cement us together in union and harmony, as one heart and one foul, united under one great head, the creator and benefactor of the whole. It is often faid that God governs the world for his own glory. No doubt he does. He knows his fuperior excellency, and he demands a fupreme refpect. And the government which he exercifes reflects the highest glory on himself, and manifefts his goodness and excellency to his creatures. He is glorious in ruling for the happinefs of his fubjects. The difplays of his goodnefs are the principal fource of their happiness, and he thus enriches them with the knowledge of his perfections. But we are not to conceive that it is the pride of dominion that regulates his góvernment. Far otherwife: he delights to gratify his benevolence by enriching his creatures with the benefit of the beft laws, and of knowing and confiding in his own goodness and perfection. The love which this law requires, as our principle of action, is expected to fill the whole heart, and flow forth in every direction. It is to govern all our conduct, in every relation towards God and man. God, because he is infinitely great and good, is to be refpected with all our hearts, and our fellow creatures, who ftand on a level with ourselves, are to be loved as ourselves. Where this love has full poffeffion of the heart, there is no place left for any felfish or partial affections. It is a fpirit of pure good will. It is neceffary further to remark, that this divine law is fanctioned with penalties, equal to the evil of difobedience. Such as refift the authority of God, and reject his law, are to be cut off from his favor, and excluded from all the bleffings which arife from the fociety and fellowship of those who adopt the harmonizing fpirit, which the law requires.This difobedience, and the pernicious fpirit of felfishness, which is the oppofite of holy love, tends to infinite mischief. The disobedient are therefore fentenced to everlafting punishment. This fentence, duly executed, fupports the law, and fo benefits the obedient; manifefts God's regard to his people, and glorifies his juftice.Such is the moral government of God. The law is holy, and the commandment is holy, and juft, and good.' Let us now attend to God's kingdom of grace, revealed in the gofpel, which may be called the fecond great department of divine government.-The apoftacy from God, and our difobedience to his law, gave occafion for this dif penfation.-God beheld the world dead in trefpaffes and fins. The law of God, his juftice, and our guilt, demanded the execution of the penalty. God faw our cafe, that there was none to fave, none who could render an atonement, no creature who could render it juft that he should be the justifier of finners. And yet he faw, that this might be done; and his benevolence difpofed him to refolve it should be accomplished. Christ under took to render the atonement, enhanced by his rejection of the It is a melancholy confideration, that this difpenfation of grace is rejected by our world.All with one confent would be excufed from complying with its invitations. God therefore fends his Spirit, and renews whom he pleases, and thus brings them to repentance and faith in Chrift. He fulfils his engagements to Christ, and has mercy on whom he will have mercy. This is the kingdom of grace; in this God reigns. He has taken it upon him to fhow mercy, and work wonders of love, and fo raise to himself a glorious kingdom from the ruins of an apoftate world. By doing this, he greatly increafes the everlasting happiness of his dutiful fubjects in heaven, as well as on earth. They will forever rejoice the more exceedingly in him, on account of the difpenfations of his grace. In this difpenfation, the law is magnified and made honorable by the obe dience and fufferings of Christ, and is, if poffible, better established, than if it had never been difobeyed, or than if its curfe had been directly inflicted on every tranfgreffor. God has alfo more fully manifested to his creatures his wifdom, goodnefs, juftice, and mercy, than could otherwife have been done in our world. All his dutiful fubjects will have the everlasting benefit of thefe rich difcoveries of his glory.- The third great department of In providing this falvation, an divine government remains to be aftonishing facrifice was made, confidered. This is a univerfal which will forever remain the providence a direction of all wonder of heaven ;-God mani-worlds, things and events, fo that feft in the flesh-living-fuffering they may all anfwer their end, in -defpifed-dying, interceding for difplaying God, and promoting finners, and receiving them into the greatest bleffednefs of the unifavor!!! It should be noticed that the gofpel, as well as the law, has its threatnings and penalties. The unbeliever will not only be excluded from the benefit of grace, but his punishment will be unfpeakably verfe. Creatures need fuch a providence. The natural world needs to be managed for the production of food, raiment, health and comfort, which depend on innumerable things. The moral world |