Deaths in Carlisle-To-Morrow.

For the Religious Miscellany.

Messrs. Editors,

Will you please to publish the following bill of the mortality among the inhabitants of Carlisle from Jan. 1st 1823 to Dec. 31st 1823, both days inclusive. It has been obtained from the Register of one of our most respectable physicians. January,::::: 5 | July,::::::: 3 February,:::: 6 August,::::: 8 | March,::::::2 September,:: :13 April,: 6 October,: May,: :::: 8 November & June,:::: 5 December,

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For the Miscellany.

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"TO-MORROW" is the language of procrastination: how many presume on this fondly expected, but very uncertain day. The votaries of pleasure must indulge in sensual gratification, and give a loose to all their desires to-day; but to-morrow they intend to bid adieu to worldly pleasures, and seek that religion which will make them happy hereafter. The rich man is employed every moment of to-day, in accumulating wealth; but he tells you that to-morrow he means to lay up treasures in Heaven, where moth doth not corrupt, nor thieves break through nor steal. The honorable man is to-day seeking with avidity, honor from the world; but to-morrow he intends to seek that honor which ard must indulge in his cups to-day; cometh from God only. The drunkbut to-morrow he hopes to become sober and temperate. The thief is anxious to embrace one more opportunity of robbing his neighbor: but to-morrow he thinks he shall become honest and upright. The profane swearer lect of hell to-day; but to morrow he must be indulged with using the diaintends to serve God and fear an oath. The fraudulent man must now practice deceit and artifice; but to-morrow he is to become fair in his dealings.

Of the number of deaths in the two last months 17 were children which may be attributed chiefly to the circumstance of the whooping cough, having been prevalent during that period, no other disease having been endemic. Deducting the children's deaths during the months when this dreadful malady prevailed, from the total number of deaths in the year, it appears that the mortality during the last exceeded that of the previous year only by 5. The experience therefore of the last year, which in most places was one of almost unprecedented sickness, has proved that the character of this place for health remains unimpaired. Let no one attribute the uniform health of this borough to mere natural causes. However favorable its location may be thought 'tis easy for the God of judgment to scatter disease among us. Let the My dear young readers, this subinhabitants guard against the preva-ject particularly calls for your serious lence of moral disease and then they may calculate more safely & certainly upon exemption from physical disease.

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My dear friends, how many of our predecessors in sin, whose bodies are now in the grave, have waited for, yea, have expected a religious to-morrow: but, alas, they have waited in vain!

attention: Have you presumed on an uncertain to-morrow? Remember, "procrastination is the thief of time." Before to-morrow's dawn your sun may set forever, and leave you in that Religious Visiter.-A religious pa-dark abyss, where hope will never per under the above title, was com- come, and whence there is no delivermenced in Harrisburg, last week.ance. O then, why will ye die? Why Printed and published by Mr. M. W. will ye persist in your rebellion which M'Kinley.

will end in ruin?

My dear aged fathers and mothers, || at the upper factory; and the appearwhat can you have to do with a to- ances are increasingly encouraging." morrow? I sincerely desire that you

The Methodist church in Wilming

may see many future days filled with acts of piety and benevolence, but it|ton, (Del.) still continues to feel the is not in the power of angels or men refreshing showers of Divine grace, to insure you one. How then does numbers are continually adding to it behove both you and I to catch the them, of such as it is hoped will be efleeting moments as they pass; and ternally saved. employ them to the honor of that God from whom we have so deeply revolt

ed.

The Methodist Magazine for December, contains letters from the Rev. Alvin Torry and the Rev. Wm. Case, giving an interesting account of a revival of religion among the Mohawks on Grand river in Upper Canada. [The desert place and the wilderness shall be glad because of HIM.]

My Christian friends, where is the blessedness you once spoke of? not vanished, I would hope, "as the morning cloud and the early dew." Do we profess to belong to one family? to be engaged in one common cause? and heirs of the same inheritance? Then surely it equally becomes us to be zealous now for our Master's honor, for the enlargement of his kingdom, and the promotion of his cause in the world. Do we feel an anxious solicitude for poor Christless sinners? Do we tremble for them; do we feel exceedingly distressed for their immortal souls; and do our bow-Russ, by itself alone, unaccompanied els yearn over them with compassion? Do we plead with God for them with an importunity not to be denied? Ah! did we love our neighbors as ourselves, we should be equally solicitous for

their souls as for our own.

Then let us pray and never faint. "Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." If thou be wise, thou art wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

SUMMARY.
REVIVALS.

SENEX.

Extract of a letter from the Rev. Jothan Hor

ton, to the Editor of Zion's, Herald, dated

Rochester, N. H. December 15, 1823. "The work of reformation goes on gloriously; raising of 20. have been converted since my former communication. It has commenced in Dover,

lish Gentleman in St. Petersburg, Russian Bible Society-An Engwrites to his friend in New York, under date of August 31, 1823, informing him, that the Russian Bible dition, consisting of 10,000 copies of Society have now in press the first ethe New Testament in the native

by the ancient Slavonic, which version is said to be the only one in use in the Russian church for nine centuries. A second edition of 10,000, will shortly be commenced at St. Petersburg, and one of 5,000 at Moscow, making in all 25,000 copies of the New Testament, which will be published by the close of the year.

Hampshire Education Society.-This society held its annual Meeting at Northampton, Mass. on the 5th of November last. By the annual report of the Directions it appears, that the society was instituted in 1815; that it has assisted 15 beneficiaries, who placed themselves under its care, and contributed to the support of 11 others, who received a sum not exceeding 20 dollars each, annually; the whole sum contributed to these two classes amounted to $3,741, of which, $3,

475, 38 have been paid to beneficia- || pened to have been laboriously occuties. During the last year the socie- pied, the day of rest thus obtained ty had under its care 6 beneficiaries, had a beneficial effect, by restoring viz. 3 at Williams college, 2 at the energies of the people, and fitting Union, and one at Yale. The per- them for a renewal of their arduous manent fund of the institution now a-duties." mounts to $8,790, 78.

Is the term Christion as a general name applicable to those who do not believe in Je

sus Christ?

We reply that we think not. It is usual to distinguish by this name the inhabitants of christendom collective.

nomer, that a sneering infidel would
feel himself affronted were his right
to the appellation called in question,
while it is palpable that he
no more claim to the title than does
possesses
the Pagan or Mehomedan. Injury
has accrued to the cause of Religion
in consequence of this erroneous ap-
plication. It is well known that the

Captain Scoresby, an interesting and successful nautical commander, engaged in the Greenland whale fishery, mentions, in the journal of a late voyage, that public worship was regularly held on the Sabbath on boardly, and so accustomed are men to misthe vessels under his command. Whales frequently came near them, while thus engaged Captain S. would not suffer his men to pursue them. He adds, "notwithstanding this strict observance of the Sabbath, in no instance, when on fishing stations, was our refraining from the ordinary duties of our profession on the Sunday ever supposed to have been, eventu-Christian name as unjustly borne, and ally, a loss to us; for we in general dishonored by the generality of the found, that if others who were less whites, has acquired among the native regardful, or had not the same view African race an odium not easily to of the obligatory nature of the com- be effaced. Talk to him of the benemand respecting the Sabbath day, fits of civilization, of the blessings of succeeded in their endeavors to pro- the Christian Religion, and he will mote the object of the voyage, we point to his fetters, forged as he falseseldom failed to procure a decidedly believes by Christian hands. Enadvantage in the succeeding week.* Independently, indeed, of the Divine blessing on honoring the Sabbath day, I found that the restraint put upon the natural inclination of the men, for pursuing the fishery at all opportunities, acted with some advantage, by proving an extraordiary stimulus to their exertions when they were next sent out after whales. Moreover, when the preceding week hap

deavor to draw the Indian of our frontiers from his depth of ingnorance and wretchedness,-paint to his fancy the superior refinements of education and social life, attempts to convey to his benighted mind something of the light of Christianity, and he will tell you, that to the Christian trader he is indebted for accumulated misery; in exchange for his land he has received from Christian civilization the intox*Were it not out of place here, I could re-ignorance for initiation in brutality & icating dram, and parted with blissful late several instances in which, after our refraining to fish on the Sabbath, while others were thus successfully employed, our subsequent labors succeeded, under circumstances so striking, that there was not, I believe, a man in the ship who did not consider it the effect of the Divine blessing.

knavery. We repeat, it is an injury to the followers of Christ that lis name is assumed by those who are christians neither by profession or practice. Yet strip them of this and

Poetry-Marriages--&c.

INDEX.

Support of Missions--Dr. Chalmer's Farewell Ser mon,

On preparation for Death, 25 Harrisburg Bible Society, 26 Reading,

Religious Miscellany.

No. 3.

"Say ye to the daughter of Zion, behold, thy salvation cometh."
CARLISLE, FEBRUARY 6, 1824.

SKETCH OF THE MISSIONS OF THE

UNITED BRETHREN.

Written by the Poet Montgomery.

(Continued from p. 21.)

Vol. III.

den. Upon this, the Lord opened the heart of one of the company, whose name was Kayarnak, who, stepping up to the table, in an earnest manner exclaimed, "How was that? Tell me that once more; for I too desire to be saved." These words, which were such as had never before been uttered by a Greenlander, so penetrated the soul of brother Beck, that with great emotion and enlargement of heart, he

Here also the desire for the gospel is spreading among the heathen still remaining on the southern shores; and it is the earnest wish of the Brethren to be permitted to establish a fourth settlement among them. It is remark-gave them a general account of the able that a similar thirst for the word life and death of our Saviour, and the of life is at the same time manifested scheme of salvation through him. by the Esquimaux, on the opposite Some of the Pagans laid their hands though distant shores of Labrador, on their mouths, which is their usual where a new establishment of Mis-custom when struck with amazement. sionaries, in another part of the coast, is most earnestly sought for by the Natives, and as anxiously desired by the Brethren, but from the state of the funds, it cannot be effected.

The account of the conversion of the first Greenlander deserves a particular recital." On the 2d of June, 1738," write the Missionaries, "many Southlanders visited us. Brother Beck, at the time, was copying a translation of a portion of the gospels. The heathen being very curious to know the contents of the book, he read a few sentences, and after some conversation with them, he gave them an account of the creation of the world, the fall of man, and his recovery by Christ. In speaking on the redemption of man, the Spirit of God enabled him to enlarge with more than usual energy, on the sufferings and death of our Saviour, and in the most pathetic manner to exhort his hearers seriously to consider the vast expense at which Jesus had ransomed the souls of his people. He then read to them, out of the New Testament, the history of our Saviour's agony in the gar

On Kayarnak an impression was made that was not transient, but had taken deep root in his heart. By means of his conversion, his family (or those who lived in the same tent with him) before the end of the month, three were brought under conviction; and large families came with all their prodwelling of our Brethren, ‘in order,' perty, and pitched their tents near the of man's redemption.' Kayarnak beas they said, to hear the joyful news Missions, as a teacher of his countrycame eminently serviceable to the fession till his death. men, and adorned his Christian pro

A great change took place from this time in the mode adopted by the brethren, in their endeavors to instruct the natives. The method hitherto pursued by them, consisted principally in speaking to the heathen of the existence, the attributes, and perfections of God, and enforcing obedience to the divine law; hoping by this means gradually to prepare their minds for the reception of the sublimer and more mysterious truths of the gospel. And it must be allowed, that, abstract