Address on Card Playing. in the future world. I shewed to them Malachi i. 8. and Mat. viii. 11. Friday, March 29. Rabbi Mendel continued to say, "I have confessed before Jews, and I tell likewise freely to you, that there shall be a happy time for the Jews, when the Messiah shall arrive, for the poor Jews will no longer tear their clothes for sorrow, and the walls of Jerusalem shall be built again, but I confess sincerely that these promises would not induce me to pray so ardently that the Messiah may come, for it is well that the poor Jews should serve the Lord even in affliction, but one promise is given to us, and on account of that promise, Israel ought to pray, and on account of which I pray that the Messiah may soon come, and that promise is, that the glory of the Lord shall be revealed!” Joseph the son of Sachariah, (Joseph Smaria) one of the principal Rabbies of the Spanish Jews, Rabbi Abraham Ben Reuben, and Rabbi Mose Secot, entered my room. I can make nothing of Rab. Abra. Ben Reuben, for the answer he gives me is this, "My own soul and the souls of all the Jews, stood upon Mount Sinai on the day that God gave the law by Moses, I cannot, therefore, deviate from that law." Rabbi Joseph Ben Sachariah read the NewTestament whilst he was in my room. March 30, 1822. Called on Rabbi Joseph Ben Wolff, a gentleman 80 years of age. He tried to weaken my faith by reading with me in More Nebuhim, composed by Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon. The concluding part of Dr. Nott's Address on Card Playing. The finished Gambler has no heart. The club with which he herds, would meet, though the place of rendezvou were the chamber of the dying; they would meet, though it were an apart 99 ment in the charnel house. Not even the death of kindred can effect the gambler. He would play upon his brother's coffin; he would play upon his father's sepulchre. Yonder see that wretch, prematurely old in infirmity, as well as sin.. He is the father of a family. The mother of his children, lovely in her tears, strives with the tenderest assiduities, to restore his health, and with it, to restore his temperence, his love of home, and the long lost charms of domestic life. She pursues him with her kindness and her entreaties, to his haunts of vice; she reminds him of his children; she tells him of their virtues; of their orrows; of their wants; and she adjures him, by the love of them, and by the love of God to repent and return. Vain attempt! she might as well adjure the whirldwind; she might as well entreat the tiger. The brute has no feeling left. He turns upon her in the spirit of the demons with which he is possessed. He curses his children, and her who bare them; & as he prosecutes his game, he fills the intervals with imprecations on himself, with imprecations on his Maker: imprecations borrowed from the dialect of devils, and uttered with a tone that befits only the organs of the damned! and yet in this monster there once dwelt the spirit of a man. He had talent, he had honor, he had even faith. He might have adorned the senate, the bar, the altar. But alas! his was a faith that saveth not. The gaming table has robbed him of it, and of all things else that are worth possessing. What a frightful change of character! God has forsaken him-nor will good angels weep or watch over him any lon ger. Better is it to go with a few to heaven, than with a multitude to hell and be damned for the sake of company. Pare are now close upon 100 students in Dickinson College; the greater portion of whom are from a distance. Surely their parents and friends, must feel anxious to know what is the character of this place for health. For several years past there has been an unusual degree of sickness in some parts of this valley, from which we have been happily exempted, and yet I have heard this whole region-Carlisle not excepted, spoken of by stran among us from year to year. I know not that there is any public record or bill of mortality either kept or author-gers as being a most sickly part of ised to be kept. Would it not be an the country, and surprise expressed easy thing for the Council to require, why parents would send their chilor recommend it to the Physicians to dren for education to a place where make a report of all the deaths that their health would be endangered. I occur among their patients, and of think that if we had a correct bill of their ages and diseases, to some one mortality it would be seen that acwho should be authorised to have it cording to the population of Carlisle, printed-say at the close of every its inhabitants enjoy a very great demonth? By this means we should be gree of health. A very respectable able to judge of the comparative Physician of this place kept for his health of our borough more satisfacown satisfaction, an accurate list of torily, than it is possible for us to do all the deaths that occurred from at present. We are disposed to conJan. 1st, 1822 to Jan. 1st, 1823. He gratulate ourselves upon the health of our place, and I think not without reason. But it is possible we may be deceived. How shall we discover whether we judge rightly, unless we have some official document on the subject, as data for our opinions? And especially, how shall persons inhabiting other and distant places be able to form any judgment at all in the case, if no such document can be had? It appears to me that it is a matter of some importance to our borough, that the means of forming a correct judgment with regard to the health of its inhabitants should be had. There has politely favored me with a con densed view of it, which I take the liberty of submitting to the inspection January,::::::::::::3 | July,:::::::::::::::2 24 39 Total,::::::::::63 From the above list it will we seen Communications. that in the months of March and Oc tober there occured the fewest deaths, and these are months in which in other places, especially in sickly countries mortality is apt to be greatest. By a comparison of the mortality in the different seasons, it will be seen that the general health of the place has varied but little during the year. In the winter months the number of deaths amounting to 10; in the spring months to 17; in the summer months to 15; and in the fall months to 18; thus making the number of deaths during the spring and summer months, to exceed that during the fall and winter months only by 4. S. 101 Look much to the Lord for wisdom dren. Begin very early. Suit your to enable you to train up your chilinstructions to their capacities, and do not expect that they are to cease to be children. While you endeavor to inspire them with abhorrence of sin in every shape-while teach you them in all their ways to acknowledge God-do not make instruction a task. Endeavor to lead them to seek happiness in God.-Tell them that wisand that all her paths are peace.* Let dom's ways are ways of pleasantness, them see that you think so, by having your conversation in heaven. Let it be evident that you account yourselves strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Take care lest your family worship degenerate into a form, else it will do them more harm than good. When engaged in prayer, let it appear that you are in earnest, and expect to be heard, and that you are not going through a task. Be not harsh to your children, although they discover no love for the truth. The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Much may be done by love and gentleness, nothing by harshness. When you correct them, do it with mildness; do it with prayer, as one of the means of God's appointment for their good. Mothers in particular should use all diligence in the instruction of their little ones. While your children are very young, they are principally in your company; and although both parents ought to join in the important duty, your assiduity is peculiarly necessary. Fathers are more engaged in the business of the world. children look to you with peculiar affection, and even while attending to the management of your families you have many opportunities of instructing them to advantage. It is of much importance, too, that you should daily redeem time, to read and * Prov. iii. 17. Your converse with them. It may be done in such a manner as not to weary them. A mother in easy circumstances ought to dedicate a large portion of her time to the education of her children. Much may be done by way of amusement. When your children do wrong, do not appear angry with them, tell them you love them, and are grieved that they should commit sin. Endeavor to persuade them that by disobeying you, they sin against God. Do not forget that they are children; them in every harmless amusement; but give them no time to yawn. Teach them to fill up every minute either with play, walking, or instruction of some kind or other; it is a mistake to think that a vacant mind will fit them for devotion. encourage It is of great importance that you lay down a plan for the education of your children, which will make things go on more regularly. You ought likewise to make those who are about them give you an account at night of their conversation through the day, when at their amusements: this puts it in your power to correct what is amiss. It will also turn to account, that a mother should lay down a plan for her children's reading as well as for their education in general. Promiscuous reading will tend greatly to hurt their minds, and will prevent their acquiring a taste for useful knowledge. At three years old you may put into their hands Scripture prints, which will amuse them, and will excellent preparation for reading the Scriptures. Keep a list of every book your children read; do not omit the most trifling; this will show wheyou ther their time has been properly employed. prove an Although many mothers may be too much engaged with the temporal concerns of their families, or may be pre/vented by other circumstances from adopting the plan here recommended, these hints may still be useful. It cannot be too much impressed on the minds of all Christians, that this is not the time to rest, but to labor It is the seed time, and a glorious harvest shall richly repay the Christian's toil. This little tract may possibly fall into the hands of some who account themselves Christians, who are respected as such by the world, and yet are strangers to the power of religion. The religion of such persons consists in merely attending to outward de cency. They admit that in many things they fall short, but suppose that the of God will lead him to overmercy look their faults! Ah! my friends, you know not the God wit' whom we have to do. He is a consuming fire, and his mercy can never interfere with the strict execution of justice. He is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity. Let the blood and dying groans of Christ upon Mount Calvary convince you that sin can never go unpunished. You may be offended that your religion should be called in question. You pray, it may be, morning and evening. You attend public worship, and sit down at the Lord's table. Take care lest these very things should prove your destruction; lest you think yourselves rich and increased with goods, having need of nothing, and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. Rev. iii. 17. With all your duties, your decency, your alms-giving, you are under the curse of Almighty God, on account of sin. The question does not wait It the decision of the day of God. is already noted in the scriptures of truth, for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.-Gal. iii 10 You are under this curse, for you have sinned. But yet there is hope; there is one who is able to deliver New York Bethel Union. from this awful condition; for it is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ came. into the world to save sinners. 1 Tim. i. 15. If you believe that as sinners you are altogether abominable in the sight of God; if you renounce every duty as a ground of confidence; if you come to Christ on the same footing with the thief on the cross, he will in no wise cast you out; but if you expect any favor on account of your decency or freedom from gross sin, he will spurn you from his presence. You admit that a great change must take place on those who are grossly immoral before they can enter heaven; be assured, the like change must also take place on you. You have read of those that had a zeal of God, yet being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness did not submit to the righteousness of God. Rom. x. 3. Some parents, who profess greater regard to religion than many around them, have opposed religion in their children under the name of enthusiasm. They have no objection to that kind of religion which is compatible with the friendship of the world; but if their children seem disposed to take up their cross, & follow Jesus, they do all they can to drive such thoughts from their minds. You may succeed, you may allure them back to the world, you may rejoice in your success, but know assuredly that except ye repent-except that doctrine, which now appears a stumbling-block and foolishness, becomes to you the wisdom and power of God, you shall perish with the blood of the children upon your heads, whom you have neglected or perverted from the truth. An Episcopal Church has been built in the village of Pendleton, S. C. by the liberality of Col. Thomas Pinckney, jun. CARLISLE, FEBRUARY 28. NEW-YORK BETHEL UNION. 103 The second report of this institution has been received at this office. We are happy to find, that the society have experienced, during the last year, favorable tokens of divine acceptance. To those who have not been strict observers of the "signs of the times," and the exertions which are making to Christianize every class of the human family, it will be surprising to be informed, what is doing in this extensive field. In Philadelphia, a Mariner's church has been opened for a considerable time. A Mariners' Church has also been opened for worship, during the last year, in Charleston. In Richmond, Vir. the meetings have been very encouraging; and it is thought an organized society will soon be established, in order to act with more zeal in this quarter. In Boston, a meeting is opened for seamen, by the Rev. Mr. Jenks every sabbath morning. The first Bethel meeting was held in that city on the 6th of last June. In many other parts of our country the christian community are no less active on this subject. And we observe that in Europe, Bethel Unions are in operation to the great spiritual advantage of seamen. Thus we see measures entered into for the purpose of evangelizing a class of men, which appeared to have no |