play to them that high and inestimable reward, that glory, honour, and perfection, which are laid up in store for the righteous.

adorn it with all the flowers of rhetoric.

Men are keen-sighted in observing improprieties, and can easily distinguish the warm effusions of passion from the unaffecting productions of labour and taste. Z Z.

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It was in this manner that St. Paul preached. But a minister can never affect the hearts of his audience, unless he feels himself the truths, which he delivers; and his usefulness will be abridg ed in proportion as his sincerity and piety are doubted. Persua- PROOFS OF A sion hangs only upon sincere lips. When a preacher exhorts us by the most solemn considerations to follow the light of truth, to repent and to believe, and exhorts us in a cold and inanimate manner, which gives us no conviction of his sincerity and earnestness; his words will be ineffectual; and the strange combination of interesting motives and cold presentation of them will leave upon the mind a confused impression of wonder, and a kind of incredulous belief, which can hardly force the mind to exertion.

But in order to true pulpit eloquence it is not necessary to display all the gesticulations of the theatre; nor will the powers of persuasion be increased in any proportion to careful attention to manner. Art can never affect us like nature; and would the preacher draw the bow with such energy as to impel the arrow to the heart, his own soul must first be impressed with the truths, which he delivers. Without the fervour of benevolence in his delivery even a truly eloquent discourse would lose its effect; and without warmth of feeling in the composition of his sermon, in vain would he introduce in it the most alarming considerations, and

No. 5.

IN Japan the priests and nobility have the title of Cami. The country is called the kingdom of Chamis. Chamis was Scin, or San, the sun, who was Cham, or Ham, the son of Noah, The laws of the empire are the laws of Chamis, and all their gods are styled Sin or Chami.* The founder of the empire is said to have been Tensio Dai Sin, or Tensio the god of light. Near his temple is a cavern visited for religious purposes, on account of his having been once hidden, when neither sun nor stars appeared. A common method of representing the time when Noah was shut up in the ark.

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One of their principal gods is Jakusi, similar to Tacchus of the west. He is the Apollo of Japan, and his character is like Orus in Egypt. a large scollop shell forms his canopy, and his head is surrounded with a crown of rays. He was Noah.§ Canon, another deity of the Japanese, is the reputed lord of the ocean, represented coming out of a fish, crowned with

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Noah. We add only one proof more. From the institutes of Menu, an ancient work on Hindoo jurisprudence, written in the Sanscrit language and translated by Sir W. Jones, it appears, not only that the Hindoo account of the creation confirms the relation of Moses, but that the Hindoo puranas contain the history of the deluge, and of Noah. They relate that he was preserved in an ark from a deluge which destroyed all mankind. The story which follows, respecting him and his sons, exactly corresponds with the history of the Hebrew Legislator.

If, not satisfied with the testi mony of every age and country, we dig into the bowels of the earth, there we behold traces of the deluge; if we appeal to the world itself, the world, the rocks, the hills, and mountains reply, there has been an universal deluge. In the Andes of South America, ten thousand feet above the level of the ocean, are found marine shells in abundance. In the Alleghany mountains of North America the stones are full of sea shells; not only those in the vallies, but those on the summits are marked with these marine substances.* In one place among the Alleghany mountains are forty thousand acres covered with oyster and (To be concluded in the next number.) cockle shells.

If from America we pass to the eastern continent, the mountains of Scotland, of Switzerland and Italy, Atlas and Ararat still exhibit on their summits, the spoils of the ocean; mountains of every region from Japan to Mexico proclaim the same fact, recorded in scripture, that the waters of the flood once over flowed their highest summits. The moose deer of America is found buried in Ireland; the Elephant of Asia and Africa is found in England and NorthAmerica. Crocodiles of the Nile are dug up in the heart of Germany. What is more, the ruins of plants, trees, and animals, now not known in the world, are discovered in various

countries.

These are facts which give all possible support to the history of Moses respecting the universal inundation in the time of

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IN describing his office as Mediator, the scriptures particu larly reveal him as the prophet of the highest, who came immediately from God. "Never man spake like this man." Friends and foes, the wise and unwise, were astonished at his wisdom. The Jewish rulers expressed their surprise thus: "How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?" His answer solved the difficulty, and is the only solution of it. "My doctrine is not mine, but his who sent me." It could not otherwise be, that a person of his obscure birth and education should excel, beyond comparison, every teacher who had gone before him-confound the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

The acutest foes used every art heavenly-mindedness and devotion. Every friend to mankind will wish that these things may prevail.

to entangle him; but were always entangled themselves. If they took counsel against him ever so privately, or even conceived a thought against him, he shewed that he perfectly knew their most secret counsel, and the thought of their heart.

The doctrine brought from heaven by him gave light to nations who sat in darkness, without God, and without hopeuncertain whether repentance would be accepted, and ignorant what true repentance means. He taught the worship of the Father in spirit and truth came to call sinners to repentance, and proclaim remission of sins through the blood of his cross. No man cometh unto the Father, but by him. Whatsoever we ask in his name, the Father will give. To whom shall we go for the words of eternal life, but to him who came from the bosom of the Father, to teach the way of God in truth, to open before us the gates of immortality?

Would we see a perfect system of morality, where shall we find it, but in the sermon he preached on the mount, which filled the multitudes who heard it with astonishment? The maxims themselves the principles upon which they are foundedthe motives to the observance of them, all concur to prove him a teacher infinitely superior to any that hath appeared in the world before or since. That distinguished sermon contains every precept of purity, temperance and moderation; of contentment, self-denial and meekness; of humility, charity and forgiveness; of resignation,

The example of this great teacher was a transcript of his precepts. His vigilant and implacable enemies could not convict him of a fault. He sought not his own glory or his own 'will, but the will and glory of him who sent him.

The works which he did in his Father's name witnessed that he was the Christ, that prophet of whom Moses and succeeding prophets spake. A voice from heaven, on one occasion and another, witnessed the same thing. Add to these proofs, the accomplishment in him, and in him only, of a succession of prophecies, from the beginning of the world until he appeared; together with the fulfilment of his own prophecies, particularly respecting his passion and resurrection, the desolation of Jerusalem, and state of the Jews. The evidence arising from his doctrine, precepts, example and works form a body of evidence, which completely evinces that Jesus was the Christ.

It was foretold that the Messiah should make atonement for sin. "The chastisement of our peace was upon him. The Lord laid upon him the iniquity of us all. He poured out his soul unto death, that he might make reconciliation for iniquity, and bring in everlasting righteousness. Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd, and against the man that is my FELLOW, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the Shepherd." The evangelical prophet has given a lively description of his passion, exactly correspond