efficiency. His able co-adjutors in the Fac-brance of all their kindness; and long as it continues to beat, will they be enshrined in its best affections. ulty were all among the choice friends of our former years; and to meet them here, and thus-to witness and very humbly to minister to their honor, was indeed most welcome. Honored and consecrated place! How many warm prayers are daily ascending, that as a school of the prophets, as well as a fountain of high literary eminence, it may not disappoint the elevated hopes which are now cherished! It has two extensive collegiate edifices, and a valuable farm ;-the mere beginnings of a library, some 120 students in all, and including the President, five able instructors. It is humiliating to know that at this very time they are distressed and almost crippled for the want of some 2,500 dollars to meet pressing demands. The cause certainly demands that this amount should be speedily furnished. And then, for the future, the perinanent endowment of at least a portion of the Professorships should not, must not be lost sight of. How many of our able brethren there are to whose stewardship the Master has committed an ample amount, some portion of which inight reasonably be employed for this purpose? Will they open their eyes, their hearts, their hands, to this duty? But we cannot find place here for what ought to be said in behalf of our three or four western colleges. We must speak of them again, ere long. There are two flourishing Baptist churches here; and with their efficient and devoted pastors, they seem to love and welcome those evangelical enterprizes and efforts which promise ere long to fill our world with the knowledge of the Lord. Long may those pastors and churches, holding on their way together, continue as at present to prove how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! A night ride over the beautiful and perfect national road, brought us again to Wheeling ; and as no boat offered for Pittsburg in course of the day, we were grateful for the opportunity of taking the mail boat for Steubenville. But we reached it after dark night had wrapped its mantle around every object, and left at two o'clock the following morning, not, however, without pleasing recollections of our worthy host at the Black Bear, and the Christian urbanity of his worthy family. Crossing the Ohio at this point, we took final leave of the State, where for two weeks we had found so much to interest our patriotism, our philanthropy, and our Christian love. The ride to Pittsburg by stage, led us through a country not inferior to that which we had left. Washington County in Pennsylvania, seemed to us the ne plus ultra of agricultural attractiveness, and the farmer who cannot be content with the advantages here enjoyed, ought to . . . . suffer the painful conviction of the grossest ingratitude. Zanesville was to be the last point of our Ohio visit; and if it had been arranged with direct reference to a grand climacteric, we could not have wished it otherwise. In the first place, we found a much larger and more beautiful place than we had expected,-show- Pittsburgh and Alleghennytown, vomiting ing, with the connected parts of Putnam and forth the dense smoke of their thousand coal East and South Zanesville, a population of fires, but still attractive, and leaving behind nearly 10,000, with public edifices, literary in- them remembrances of no equivocal characstitutions, and all that can dignify and foreto-ter, we reached in season for dinner. Our ken future eminence, entirely in advance of Baptist cause in these cities has not advanced what we anticipated. Most favorably located, in former periods as could be desired. at the point where the national road crosses trust a brighter day has now dawned on them. the Muskingum, and the Licking empties into and that a degree of mutual and kind co-oper"one Lord, one it, the amount of hydraulic power, and of fa. ation among those having cilities for manufactures is unsurpassed in the faith, one baptism," will soon show them arwhole western country. We may not too rayed in firm phalanx for the establishment freely lay open the sanctuary of private friend- and advance of our glorious cause. ship, to speak as we feel of those so warmly tily visited the places where these churches and justly loved, in the cherished associations worship, and spent an hour with one of them of former years, whom we here met. Suffice in the social prayer-meeting: glanced at the it to say, the heart leaps even at the remem- chief points of interest to a stranger, and left We We has 66 in unexpected haste, twenty hours after our | now destitute of a pastor ; but if their appliarrival, to meet the regular line of convey. cation for the man of their choice should ances from Wheeling to Baltimore. This led prove successful, we trust that the same reus to spend a night at Washington, and fa. sults for this State will be secured, which are vored us with the opportunity to form ac. now attempted for Maryland They have toquaintance with the recently settled pastor of gether been cursed and depressed with the the Baptist church. This place was the scene wretched spirit of anti-ism. May they together of the labors of President Wheeler of “ Rec- rise from its lethargic embraces ! tor" College mentioned in our last ; and so Several topics of interest, growing out of called, we since learn, in honor of its principal this western tour, must be reserved for future patron. Washington, too, is the seat of a re- and separate exhibition. spectable college, and a flourishing ladies' seminary. One night in the stage carried us THE EDITORS OF THE MEMORIAL cannot alback again over the mountains to Cumber- low this last No. of the volume to go forth, land; but it was a night of storm. The snow fell thick around us, and the roaring, whist- without renewedly acknowledging their deep ling winds were piping their loud notes sense of obligation for the favor shown to through these grand forest scenes. Some the work in all parts of the country. With frightful stories also met our ears, of recent accidents in their mountain passes. But exceptions so slight as to reqnire no notice, through all their perils we were brought in the contemporary press, and private expressafety. We breakfasted at Cumberland, the sions of opinion, have indicated a degree of snow still falling thick around us; at 8 o'clock approbation as decided and cheering, as their we were seated in the cars, and just as even. most sanguine expectations had led them to ing closed in, we reached Baltimore with ease, a distance of 180 miles. Then when the next Tbe desirableness of such a anticipate. morning, the peaceful, blessed Sabbath dawn- work is thus conclusively proved ; and the ed, we found ourselves fully emancipated from full determination of its conducters is to renany approximations to winter. It was so mild der the ensuing volume more worthy of the and summer-like, that the transition of a day, increasing patronage which has been extendfrom the mountains, seemed like a dream. ed to it. Availing themselves of the improveBaltimore, the monumental city, is too well known to most of our readers to need descrip ments which experience has suggested, and tion here. The Baptist churches, some four of the assistance now promised them, they or five in number, are enjoying peace and have no hesitation in ensuring a much better prosperity. Their pastors love to labor for volume for the next year, than this, which the advancement of their interests ; and God they have completed. With thanks for past smiles propitiously upon their union. One of favors, they entreat a continuance and inthem has recently shared a precious revival, which brought some sixty or seventy souls increase of prompt subscribers, and promise to fellowship with them. A spirit of benevo- their best endeavors to give all reasonable lent energy is now aroused, to do something satisfaction to the great Baptist family, with efficient for the welfare of our cause in the all of whose interests they intend their monthcountry portions of the State, where for years ly sheet shall be fully identified, it has been stationary or retrograde. This New York, 15th Dec., 1842. enterprize is eminently worthy of the perse. vering endeavor of our brethren here; and, together with another and kindred object of For the Baptist Memorial. great importance, on which we cannot now OF A SERMON enter, will not, we trust, be lost sight of. Our brief stay in Wilmington, Delaware, Messrs. EDITORS-In the May number of just sufficed to inform us that the church the Memorial, I find a short sketch of the life there, much revived a few months past, are of the venerable and eccentric LELAND; and SYLLABUS BY ELDER JOHN LELAND. it is there observed that in December, 1813, he pursued, and they filed into a cave, whom he took a journey to Virginia, and was absent caused to be brought out, and all the men of from home five or six months. He returned Israel were commanded to put their feet upon through Philadelphia, the following spring, their necks, after which he slew them. And and in the evening of the 17th of April, he also, of the thirty and one kings which Joshua preached in the Baptist Meeting-house, in and the people of Israel smote on this Jordan Sanson-street. I arrived in the city that even- on the West. And the threescore and ten ing, in order to attend the First Baptist Mis- kings which Adonibezek had caused to have sionary Convention, which was to convene their thumbs and their great toes cat off, and the day following. Hearing that he was to gathered their meat ander his table. And preach there, I went to hear him; as I had while the nations of the earth had their kings heard much about him, I expected, of course, and nobles and mighty men of valor, the to hear something a little out of the common tribes of Israel thonght they must be like the track of preaching. There were a large as- nations around them; they wanted a king to semblage of people and a number of minister- rule over them, and although Şamuel exposing brethren, who had repaired to the city tulated with them, and described the manner for the same purpose with myself. of a king they might expect, yet they insisted After singing, he engaged in prayer, which upon having a king : very like the people nowwas devout, interspersed with some phrases, a-days, they form societies and they must that I had not been accustomed to hear. One have a president and two or three vice-presiwas-while adoring Jehovah for his divine dents, to be like their neighbors around them. perfections, and admiring his condescension Samuel was directed to anoint Saul, the son to sinful, mortal worms, in bowing his ear to of Cis, to be their king, who was head and their supplications, he spake of the privilege, shoulders higher than any of the people. Afimportance and efficacy of fervent, humble ter him, the stripling David, who was a man prayer, and added, “ It is a long prayer that after God's own heart : then bis son Solomon, reaches heaven, and a long sermon that reuches renowned for wisdom, who was succeeded by the heart of the sinner, and all prayers are too his son Rehoboam, and in whose reign ten short which do not reach heaven, and all sermons tribes revolted and the kingdom was divided, are too short which do not reach the heart of the and Judah had twenty kings, and Israel sinner." eighteen, until they were carried captives to He named his text, Isaiah x., 27, last clause, Babylon, under Nebuchadnezzar. The whole " And the yoke shall be destroyed, because of period from Saul down, being about 500 years, the anointing.” He then proceeded as fol- during which time there were two and forty lows: kings, besides an interregnum of ten or elever Without any introduction, I shall attempt years, and Queen Athaliah, who reigned six to shew what we are to understand by the years. The period of their captivity was seyoke-by whom it was imposed-upon whom venty years, according to Jeremiah's prediclaid, and lastly, how it was destroyed. After tion; so that the Jews were put under the which I will put an evangelical culture upon it. yoke to Nebuchadnezzar and other kings of By the yoke, several things in scripture are Babylon and Chaldea. represented—the yoke of legal ceremonies-- We come now to show how the yoke was the yoke of afflictions—the yoke of chastise destroyed, because of the anointing. Cyrus ment for sin-the yoke of profession, but that was foretold by this same prophet, upwards of which is particularly intended in the text, is an hundred years before he was born, that he the yoke of bondage or slavery. In every should be the deliverer of the Jews out of age the tragedy is upon record, that the for- their captivity, and at the time specified, he tune of war, has laid one party tributary to opened the two leaved gates and entered the the other ; the weaker to the stronger. As city, the same night in which Belshazzar was the world advanced in age, it advanced in feasting with his princes, his wives and his pride and wickedness, and men were disposed concubines, where the hand appeared writing to assume power and authority over man. upon the wall, “Mene, Mene, Tekel, UpharEver since the days of Nimrod, the mighty sin," and in that same night was Belshazzar hunter, who is supposed to be the first to set slain, and the deliverance of the Jews was up a separate kingdom, there have been kings effected and the yoke destroyed. on the earth, ruling with a rod of iron, and I proceed now to put an evangelical cultnre swaying their sceptres over an enslaved peo- upon it. Man, though made upright, was deple, and putting the yoke on their necks.ceived by the subtle serpent, and enslaved, Kings multiplied, and soon became very nu- and brought under the yoke, and is in bondage merous ; for we read of the five kings of to sin, Satan and the law, and consequently Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim and Bella, left in a wretched, forlorn condition, and defending themselves against the encroach without any power to deliver himself from ments of the four kings, Amraphel, Arioch, that state of thraldrom, but must forever lie Cheorlærmer and Tidal, as early as the days under the curse of God's righteous law which of Abraham. These were the five kings who he had violated, had not God of his mercy confederated against Gibeon, whom Joshua and grace provided a deliverer, which is de scribed in the text, “the anointing," "and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing." The Lord Jesus Christ is God's anointed one, and whose coming was foretold, hundreds of years before his nativity, as that of Cyrus was told many years before he was born. Cyrus's father was Cambyses, king of Persia; and his mother was Astyages, king of Media, so that he was a Medio-Persian, partaking part of both. So Christ possessed a divine nature, and partook also of the human nature. In Cyrus the kingdoms of Media and Persia became united in one, so by Christ the middle wall of partition was broken down between Jew and Gentile; and believers of all nations are united in one kingdom and under one head, even Jesus. Many marvellous things are said to have been foretold concerning Cyrus, whether true or fabulous, I leave; but many very wonderful things were foretold concerning Jesus Christ, which really came to pass. It is said that Cyrus was much exposed in his infancy-so Christ was much exposed in his infancy. Cyrus was foretold as God's anointed-so Christ was emphatically the Lord's anointed. Cyrus was called by his name by the prophet -so Christ, the true Messiah, was designated by many glorious names and titles which meet in no other person. Cyrus was a great commander-so Christ is given to be a leader and commander of the people; he is wise in his counsels, and commands with authority. Cyrus, it is said, knew all his soldiers by name-so Christ knows all his people, and calleth them by name. Cyrus is called God's shepherd-Christ is God's shepherd, and is called the great shepherd and bishop of souls. It is said that Cyrus rode on a white horse— so Christ rides on the white horse of the Gospel. Cyrus effected a miraculous deliverance for the captives in Baylon. The Lord Jesus Christ effected a much greater deliverance for his people, and in the most wonderful manner, "He, through death, conquered him that had the power of death," &c. Cyrus made proclamation to the Jews, that deliverance was wrought, and they were at liberty to return to their own land and rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple, &c. Christ was anointed to proclaim liberty to the captives, and invites the laboring and heavy laden to come to him and find rest for their souls. Some of the Jews were contented in Chaldea, and did not choose to regard the proclamation to return. So many poor sinners are contented in their bondage, and disregard the proclamation of the Gospel, &c. I come now to show more particularly how the yoke is destroyed, "because of the anointing." Christ delivers by power as well as by price. There is no intrinsic power in the Gospel, in and of itself, to convert sinners, but by the power of the Spirit accompanying the word. Men sometimes profess to have great power; they will make laws to fine and imprison people if they will not have their children christened, or if they will not pay towards building meeting-houses. or the support of the ministry, or if they refuse attending a place of worship. If they possess so much power, would to God they would employ it to a purpose. That if a man would not repent, he should pay five pounds-if he would not believe the Gospel, he should pay ten-if he would not love the Lord Jesus Christ, with all his heart, might, soul and strength, he should pay fifteen-and if he would not deny himself, take up his cross and follow the Saviour, he should be put into States prison for life. The power of the Gospel consists in the authority with which its author is invested, who said, “All power is given unto me in heaven and on earth." Christ promised to be with his faithful servants unto the end of the world. When he sent out his disciples by two and two, he sent them into the towns, cities and villages, whither he himself would come. So he sends his Holy Spirit with his word to convince of sin, to discover the glories and fulness of Christ, to apply the blood of sprinkling to the wounded conscience, to lead the soul to Christ and to his precious promises. He is also a spirit of prayer and of supplication, as well as a spirit of grace to sanctify and prepare his people for glory. God is always as good as his word, and his promises never fail: his word that goeth forth out of his mouth, shall prosper in the thing whereto it is sent. So when the Gospel is preached in its purity, these sinners are converted and turn to the Lord. Great things have been achieved by the Gospel, through the power of Christ. Witness its effect on the day of Pentecost, and during the apostolic age, and in subsequent periods down to the present time. There is still the same promise and the same power, and Christ is riding forth majestically in the Gospel chariot, from conquering to conquer. I have been endeavouring to recommend this Gospel for nearly forty years, and have not grown weary in the service, and I have witnessed the truth of God's word in the conversion of many precious souls to the obedience of faith, to God be all the glory, amen. The foregoing is but a sketch of the discourse which occupied nearly an hour in the delivery, in a few places I have employed words to fill up the skeleton that the thread may not be broken, but by far the greater part, the language is verbatim as delivered, and the sentiments and train are Leland's, particularly in the history of the kings. JOSEPH MATHIAS. REVIVAL. More than 450 persons have been haptized at Mystic, Conn., within a few weeks past. Some of these converts have gone to spend the winter at Key West, and through their instrumentality the Lord has already begun to revive his work there. MISCELLANY. For the Memorial. HEAVEN'S OWN. BY REY. CHARLES DENISON. The Rev. John Allen, of Sterling, Mass , in a recent letter, mentions the death of a promising son, at the age of nine years. He was named after Boardman, and had been consecrated by his parents to the missionary work. In the account of the dying scene, his father says: " On the morning previous to his death, he seemed to have a premonition that his departure was at hand. He repeatedly expressed to his parents bis desire to depart then, that he might be with Christ. With a countenance beaming with heavenly glory he gave to all around the farewell kiss, the parting hand, the last good-bye. Soon after, his dying struggles commenced, and he sweetly fell asleep in Jesus.” Oh! why, dear boy! this longing to depart? Oh! who would grope from the immortal light, |