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« BLESSEDIS THE MaN WHOM ThOU CHAS ; NET
‘The following beautiful and instructive lines are from the
pen of the late Right Hon. Sir Robert Grant, late Governor
General of India, and brother to Lord Glenelg.
O, Saviour, whose mercy, severe in its kindness,”
i, Has chastened my wanderings, and guided my way,
‘Ador'd be the power which illumined my blindness, “))
; And weaned me from phantoms that smiled to betray.
~" Enchanted with all that was duzaling and fair,
Ttollowed the rainbow—I caught at the toy ;-—
‘And still in, displeasuves thy goodness was there,
Disappointing the hope, and defeutiog the joy. | ‘
© ° Phe blossom blushed bright, but a worm was below;
©) The moonlight shone fair, there was blight in the neam ; *
“Sweet whispered the breeze, but it whispered of wo 5
And bitterness flowed in the soft-flowing stream.
So, cured of my folly, yet cured but in part, ©
I turned to the refuge thy pity displayed ;
. And still did this eager and credujous heart, sc
Weave visions of promise that bloomed but to fade.
weak Fe t * rst ’ Nae ot é
_ Tthought that the course of the pilgrim to heaven,‘
“Would be bright as the summer, and glad a8 the morn;
Thou show'dst me the path—it was dark and uneven, -;)
\ “All rugged with rock, and all tangled with thora.:-
‘Y dreamed of celestial reward and renown;
~_ I grasped at the triumph which blesses the brave;
“J asked for the palm branch, the robe and the crown ;
I asked—anid thou show'det me a cross and agrave.
Subdued and instructed, at length, to thy will, :
My hopes and my longings I fain would resign;
oO give me the heart that can wait and be still, °°!"
Nor know of a wish ora pleasure but thine!
There are mansions exempted from sin and from wor j
* .'s But they stand in a region by mortals untrodj .*..
‘There are rivers of joy—but they roll not below ;
‘There js rest—but it dwells in the presence of God.
REUNION IN HEAVEN.
: ; oa By. WILLIAM LEGGETT.
If yon bright star3 which gem the night,
1 Be each a blissful dwelling sphere,
Where blissful spirits reunite,
>‘, Whom death has torn asunder here 5
Tfow sweet it were at once to die,
‘ < And leave this blighted orb afar,
Mixed soul and soul to cleave the sky, ) =", j
wy And soar away from star to star.
Bat oh, bow dark, how drear and lone, :
Would seem the brightest world of bliss,
‘If wandering throngh each radiant one, a
We fuiled to find the loved of this;
-". "If there no more theties shall twins,
That death’s cold hand alone could sever;
Ab! then these siars in mockery shine,
More hateful as they shine forever.
Tt cannot be—each hope, each fear,
That lights the eye, or clouds the brow,
Proclaims there isa happier sphere
‘Than this blank world that bolds us now;
There isa voice which sorrow hears,
pe “ When heaviest weighs life's galling chain, ,
may *Fis heaven that whispers—dry thy tears,
The pure in heart shail meet again.
From the Londun ‘Vablet. I ~
SPIRIT OF THE ANGLICAN. PRIESTHOOD.
We are always happy (where we can do. so consci-
entiously) to estimate the characters of the- clergy, of
the various, heretical and schismatieal, commusions
from dala furnished by themselves, . The fruits of our
own observations are, of course, set down {othe ac:
count of envy and hatred, and meet with no belief ex-
cept on the part of those who are disposed to believe
without any, assertions of aurs., On the other’ hand,
Smissi rom the enemy's camp must, toa certain
s} eXtent, command the assent. of reasonable. men of>all
parties,.who are then compelled to admit that the things
we proclaim are not the/ creations of our malice,.but
substantial and undeniable truths. pha “
Most of our readers may, or rather.must remember
the strong testimony. borne, by the Revs Sidney Smith,
of facetious notoriety, in a recent hot controversy be-
tween the Protestant Chapters and the Protestant Bi-
shops, to the ‘almost exclusive » Mammon-worship
which forms the ground-work of the vocation to a sa-
ered life of the great, bulk of the Anglican clergy.
‘The perfect candor with which the omnipotence of the
money-and-setilement-in-life motives—a§ inducements
to submit to that ‘call of the Holy Ghost’, which
must precede ordination—was admitted, or rather zeal-
ously enforced; and the fire of sarcasm and ‘* common
sense argumentation”. which :was poured: forth from
that goodly (rather than godly) fountain of Jaughter in-
extinguishable, against all those who pretended to seek
}in the love of God, or any. higher motive than pelf, for
an adequate inducement to English Protestants to swell
the ranks of the Anglican church, must be present to
the’ minds of. most of,our, readers. . **’You cannot
serve God antl Mammon,’’ say the lips of the Divini-
ty. ‘* You cannot serve God by. serving. Mammon,”
quoth the Protestant divine. ‘*'I'he love of money is
the root of all evil,” writes the Apostle of the Gentes.
“ The love of money is the,root of all good—that pro-
ceeds from the Anglican ordinations,” quoth -the! holy
canon. - ** Flee covetousness,”’ says the Protestant rule
of faith. . ** Flee poverty,” is the comment of the Pro-
testant pamphleteering theologian. © ** God has chosen
the weak things of the world to confound the, lofty,”
says St. Paul. , ** God will never allow gentlemen to
be rescued from’ perdition except by the preaching: of
_| gentlemen in suits of superfine cloth, keeping up a re-
spectable menage, ard waited upon by lively servants,
quoth Smith. And thus, through all possibleichanges
and variations of phrase, do we find the parallel run
.{ between the maxims of Christianity and the practice
of the. modern creed; the: one, in words of majestic:
and heavenly wisdom, exalting and crowning.what the
‘| other, in words of extraordinary: wit, much worldly
wisdom, and everlasting folly, takes upon it to ridicule
and condition. ss ee i
But, perhaps, after all, it is hardly. fair to take Sidney
Smith as a representative of even: Protestant, opinion.
Nominally a clergyman, he-has been all his life long
little better, than a .buecaneering political’ partisan ;
slanging his ‘way ,to favor by jokes, pans .and witti-
cisms 5 and, so far as he econdescends to touch. upon
theology, prescribing a Whig or: juste mi/icu: road to
salvation, the main precept for travelling along which
is,,‘* Be not righteous overfmuch,”? "Thus, therefore,
though -his reverence is a. Protestant divine, and is,
moreover, the type of an inconsiderable: number . of
Protestant divines,—who resemble him, indeed, in the
corpulent zest wherewith he rejoices in the good things
of this life, but do not abound in that Attic salt where-
with he seasons the unctuous fatness of his. worldly
career,—all this, notwithstanding, we are content not
to take him as a fair sample even of Protestants. . We
prefer taking grave and reverend prelates as our.ther-
mometers, by which to guage the temperature of Pro-
testant zeal. And of prelates, ean we do better than
to take colonial prelates, who, being employed on a
sort of missionary service, have been, of course,. se.
lected for their more than ordinary missionary and un-
worldly zeal? If spiritual motives operate in any por-
tion of the Establishment, we must look for them in
the men who consent to leave home, and the comforts
of their native Jand, for an unsettled, and comparative.
ly, unsocial and uncomfortable existence.
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'Hear, then, the language of one of these modern
apostles; one, too, of whom we have ‘no reason to
suspect that he is anything but an amiable, estimable,
and even: zealous: person; . Hear the words of. the
Right Reverend. Dr. Hart, Bishop of Barbadoes and
the Leeward Islands, in a charge addressed to the An-
glican clergy in British Guiana, on the 18th July, 1839;
and now published, for the ‘edification’ of the. British
public, in a volume. of despatches, but just laid’ before
both Houses of Parliament.’ He is talking of the im-
portance of.**securing the services of a body of mew
devoted to their “ work’? by means of—a ‘liberal
marntenance ;’*- and he thus proceeds :—? \ ') +.
“If—and T feel assured that the freedom with which
I speak will not be mistaken—if, through any’ mis
placed economy, the salaries of the clergy be reduced:
below the level of that personal respectability which
they should, on every account, maintain in the com-
munity 5 or, ifany uncertainty be allowed to hang
over their stated emoluments, it will be impossible’ to’
obtain men of character, and. trust,’ either ‘from «the
mother land, or from any other quarter, to meet the in-
creasing demand. © Individuals of worth ean hardly"
be expected to Jeave their healthier homes for a climate,
trying, to say the least of it, to the ‘constitution, with’
he prospect of pecuniary embarrassment on their arri~
Val. . :
We hardly know how to convey to our Protestant’
readers a notion of,: what seems to us, the inexpressi-*
ble comicality of the above passage.’ » The gravity and:
earnestness of its tone are undeniable. .The hopeless”
perversity of its matter is equally incapable of contra-’
diction. 4 PoP SG
It may be taken, we suppose, for granted, that St.
Paul was’ a man of character and trust: and mores =
over, an individual of worth.” ‘Now-let'the Protes-
tant reader just substitute the name of: St. Paul for the
abstraction of the sentence as it stands.) “St. Paul
can hardly be expected to' leave his healthy home, to’
preach the gospel in a trying climate, with. the’ pros-
pect of pecuniary embarrassment!" » *¢ It will be im=
possible to obtain the teni-maker of ‘Tarsus to save’
souls, if his salary be reduced below the level of a per-’
sonal responsibility ; or if any uncertainty be. allowed:
to hangover his stated’ emoluments.” ‘What never:
ending laughter, ¢r rather, what horror at the profana-:
tion of the name of the great apostle,’would not such ™
phrases as these provoke and justify! ‘In the same
way, take any other person in‘the Catholic: Church’
who has been honored by the title of Saint—take St.
Francis of Assissium, St. Austin, the’Apostle of Eng-
land, St. Boniface of Germany, St; Dominic, St. Fran-?
cis Xavier ;.the feeling. of the. absurdity: of the sen-:
tence, as applicable to them, is felt just as strongly by:
all those who are acquainted with their'lives.> ‘These’
holy men could not have enough of ‘poverty.’ ‘They’
hungered and thirsted after suffering and ‘all kinds of!
personal humiliation.: ‘They’ waged a: deadly ‘war?
against the ** personal respectability’” of fine linen and?
elegant equipments, . They were, for’ the most part, |
like the Master. whose gospel ‘they : preached ; “they °
had not where to lay thei heads.) ssn yo
Nay, to come dawn to our own times, and to hum=:
bler individuals. : ‘I'ake any one of these Catholic mis-*
sionaries.who have. left their ‘healthy: homes’’’ and!
warm quarters in Europe for the prairies of America, [
the savage islands of the South Seas, the civilized fe-
rocity of China, or for the toil and hardships even of’
our own colonial missions... Can it be said otherwise
than as a foul slander which every Catholic: would !
treat with contempt and abhorrence, that they could {
brook no “uncertainty as to their stated emoluments?”’ *
—that they were to be had only on the terms of fate?
tening them up with * personal respectability ?’—that'’
they were unwilling to front an unhealthy’ climate for ’
the love of Christ, unless relieved from all fear of '
“*pecuniary embarrassment?’ The thing may not’
sound quite as ludicrous when asseried of a great va-
riety of men of different degrees of zeal, and with all
their merit, tinged, we doubt noty with many human
weaknesses and imperfections. But on all hands, it
would be distinetly recognized, that so far ‘as these con-
siderations weighed with them to drag them back from
the service of the cross, so far they’ were unfaithful to
their trust and unworthy of the name of Missioner,
led ,