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In his case that Scrip- importations was much greater,
than the proportional increase of
our population. But it ought,
according to the supposition, to
have been much less, because
it is certain, that during the
same period, the annual product
of our distilleries was prodi
giously increased.

ture has been literally fulfilled.
"Out of the mouth of babes and
sucklings thou hast perfected
praise.' In himself, he was by
nature a child of wrath, but the
Lord by his grace made him an
heir of life. This is the Lord's
work and it is marvellous in our
eyes. How encouraging are such
instances to believing parents
that their labor of love and
work of faith towards their off-
spring, shall not be in vain in
the Lord. And what a lesson
do they teach children! a lesson
both interesting and important.
Interesting, because it exhibits
the operations of the grace of
God upon the heart of a child,
and important, because without
the experience of that grace in
their hearts not one of them can
be saved. May every child that
reads this little narrative, be per-
suaded and enabled by the Holy
Spirit to embrace Jesus Christ,
and rest upon him alone for sal
vation.

For the Panoplist.

AN ALARMING FACT.

Mr. Editor,

THE multiplication and enlargement of distilleries, in this country, has been regarded with a favorable eye by some, on account of the saving of expense for imported spirits, which they are supposed to occasion. I be. lieve, Sir, that a simple recurrence to the impost, upon foreign distilled liquors, would be quite sufficient to confute this supposition. It would appear, 1 am pretty confident, that for a number of years previous to the first embargo, the annual increase of

Not, however, to enlarge at present, upon this general view of the subject, I beg leave to state a single well authenticated fact, which may stand in the place of a whole volume of reasoning to prove, that the consumption of foreign spirits is not very likely to be decreased, in the long run, by the daily and nightly labors of our own distillers.

ent.

Some few years ago, a respectable merchant removed from C into a distant part of New England and set up a store where he has continued in business from that time to the presBeing on a visit, not long since, at C and conversing with a friend, upon the mischiefs of intemperance, he made the following truly humiliating and alarming statement. That when he first commenced business where he now resides, there was little, or no ardent spirits of any kind manufactured in his neighborhood, and of course, little, or none consumed by the inhabitants, except what rum they purchased of him and other merchants: That distilleries have since been established, and the people have gone very generally and extensively, into the business of cultivating potatoes and selling them to be made into whiskey: that men, women and children, have gone exten sively, too, into the free use of

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the poisonous liquor. when the crop of potatoes comes in, the usual way is, for families to exchange their potatoes for whiskey, of which, they first reserve as much as they think will be necessary for the year, and then sell the remainder to the merchants: that after drinking what they had reserved, they begin to buy back what they had sold, and continue so to do, till about the next potatoe harvest, when it is all bought back and consumed: that the next resort, to carry the people through their harvest, is rum: that during the short time which it lasts, he has actually sold morc rum, than he used to sell, during the whole year, and that other merchants inform him they have done the same!

Thus, by making and drinking whiskey, is rum saved there till late in the year, and then, what used to serve for twelve months, is drunk in a few weeks!! This is one of the most alarming facts that I have any where met with, but I have no doubt, that many of a similar character, might be laid before the public. Would not your correspondents, Mr. Editor, render a very important service to the cause of religion and humanity, by turning their particular attention to the collection of such facts, and sending them to you for publication? Z. X. Y.

Subjects in the department of Sacred Literature, for discussion by the members of the Junior Class, at the last annual examination of the students in the Theological Seminary at Ando

ver.

1. What was the primitive language of man?

2. Were the Scriptures originally written in the Samaritan or Hebrew characters?

3. What is the proper translation and interpretation of Gen. iv, 7?

4. On the nature and value of the Samaritan Pentateuch.

5. Remarks on those classes

of words, which it is peculiarly difficult to translate.

6. Are the Hebrew vowelpoints very ancient, and of divine authority?

7. Translation of Ps. xix, vs. 1-9, with a brief commentary. 8. On the importance and use of the Septuagint Version.

9. Sketches of the history of the received text of the New Testament.

10. On the means of accomplishing the best critical edition of the New Testament.

11. When and in what language did Matthew write his Gospel?

12. At what time, and for what particular purpose did John write his Gospel?

13. What is meant by the phrase, βαπτίζειν εις το όνομα του πατρός,

και του υιου, και του αγίου πνεύματος?

14. What are the most effectual means of gaining a spiritual knowledge of the Scriptures?

The following are the theolog ical questions, assigned for discussion to the Senior Students in the Theological Seminary in Andover at the late Examination, Sept. 1813.

1. Can man be the subject of holiness without the renovating agency of the Holy Spirit?

2. What is the nature of saving faith, and how does it differ

from that, which unrenewed sinners may have?

3. What concern has the righteousness of Christ and the faith of believers in justification before God?

4. What proof does the Bible afford of the certain perseverance of all believers?

5. How may the principal objections against the doctrine of perseverance be answered?

6. Is the doctrine of perseverance calculated to promote inconstancy or sloth?

7. Is it proper that a pardoned sinner should continue to confess his sins and pray for forgiveness?

8. Is there any reason to think that the sins of believers will be made known at the Judgment day?

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9. Was the Covenant, which God made with Abraham, substantially the same with that, on which the Christian Church is founded?

10. What is the relation which the children of believers sustain to the church?

11. What are the advantages of Infant Baptism?

12. What are the principal difficulties, which ministers of the Gospel must expect to encounter?

18. What is the Scripture. doctrine of the Millennium?

14. Have we reason to expect that Christ will make his personal appearance on earth in the Millennium.

15. What reasons are there for attempting to Christianize the pagans?

The following theological questions were assigned to the Middle Class.

1. Does the Bible contain any doctrines which are contrary to reason?

2. What is the great end of the divine administration?

3. Is there any philosophical objection against the doctrine of Christ's incarnation, or the union of the human and divine natures in the person of the Redeemer?

4. What is the unity of God; and is the Scripture doctrine of the Trinity inconsistent with it? 5. What is meant by the Sonship of Christ?

6. What is the death which the divine law denounces against transgressors?

7. What is the connexion between Adam and his posterity?

8. What are the discriminating marks of physical and moral ability, and inability, or of the things usually, denoted by those terms?

9. What is the proper ground of religious faith?

10. In what sense were the sufferings of Christ vicarious?

11. Does God exercise absolute sovereignty to God in the salvation of sinners?

12. Is regeneration a gradual or instantaneous change?

13. How does the affection of the regenerate differ from that of the unregenerate?

14. Is it consistent with Scripture and reason to suppose that any prophecies have a double

sense.

15. Is Universalism a necessary result of the Scripture doctrine of atonement?

16. Is there any solid objection against the use of creeds?

17. What furnishes the grand encouragement to ministers to preach the Gospel?

Subjects assigned to the Senjor Class, in the department of Sacred Rhetoric.

What is the end of sacred eloquence? and what are some of its chief properties?

What is the law of language? What advantages or disadvantages attend the eloquence of the pulpit, compared with that of the bar and senate?

What style is best adapted to promote the ends of preaching? How are the composition and the delivery of a sermon related to each other?

What properties render a sermon easy to be remembered?

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What are the different kinds of evidence to be employed in reasoning; and how should ments be conducted in sermons? For what purpose, and in what manner, should a preacher address the passions of his hearers?

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What is good taste; and why should it be cultivated by a preacher?

What are the most common faults in the structure of sermons?

What qualities constitute a good delivery?

Why is piety an indispensable qualification of a Christian preacher?

From the Christian Observer. THE Ode of Habakkuk, says a Hebrew critic,* is a truly sublime one; in which Jehovah is described as coming forth in

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judgment against Judea, and all the neighboring countries; whose measure of iniquity being full, Nebuchadnezzar is raised up as the rod in the hand of God, and Jehovah comes forth in power and great glory, as in war against them. All nature trembles before him: the mountains shake, and with their altars upon them, bow themselves at his feet: the rivers, their symbolical divinities, are dried up; the sun and moon, so long the rivals of God, stand abashed at his presence, stop in their career, and then flee before him: the nations, their worshippers, are scattered like chaff; and nothing can abide the majesty of his presence, whose brightness eclipsed the heavens, and filled the earth with his glory.

It appears to me, Mr. Editor, that much admired chapter, called the Prayer of Habakkuk, stood originally in lines, or hemistichs, as some other parts of the Divine poetry are arranged in the Hebrew copies at this time. I have attempted a translation of this prophetic ode from the original Hebrew, in exactly seventy lines, according to the years of the Babylonish Captivity; and have endeavored to exhibit the whole of it in language more descriptive, and I flatter myself conformable to the sacred original, than you will find in the common version. I am, &c.

ODE OF HABUKKUK.

O LORD, I have heard of thy fame:
O LORD, I was afraid at thy work:

* Mr. Julius Bate, author of a Hebrew Lexicon.

T. Y.

In the drawing nigh of the years, revive it;

In the drawing nigh of the years, make it known;
In wrath remember mercy.

GOD came from Teman,*

And the HOLY ONE from Mount Paran:†

His glory covered the heavens,

And the earth was full of his praise.
His brightness shone as the light,
Bright beams issued forth from his place.
And there was the pavilion of his strength.
Before him went a fiery stream,

And thunder-bolts went forth at his feet;
He stood, and measured the earth;

He beheld, and gave bounds to the nations:
The eternal mountains were scattered.
The perpetual hills did bow themselves.
His ways are everlasting!

I saw the tents of Cushant under affliction,
The curtains of the land of Midian§ did tremble:
Was the LORD displeased against the rivers?
Was thine anger, O LORD, against the floods?
Was thy wrath, O LORD, against the sea,
That thou rodest through with thine horses,
And with thy chariots for victory?

Thou didst openly display thy bow;

The bows charged at thy word,

Thou didst cleave them as the earth with rivers!

The mountains saw thee, and shook;

The inundation of waters passed through:

The deep gave his voice,

And lift up his hands on high:

The sun stood still

The moon stayed in her course!

At the light of thine arrows, they went forward,

At the shining of thy glittering spear.

Thou didst march through the land in indignation,
Thou didst thresh the heathen in anger:

Thou wentest forth for the victory of thy people,

For victory with thine Anointed;

Thou woundedst the head of the house of the wicked,
Thou didst rase it even to the foundation thereof.

Thou didst strike through with his bows,

With his bows, the head of his villages.

They came out as a whirlwind to scatter me,
Their triumph was to devour the poor,

To devour the poor secretly.

* A country in Arabia.

† Heb. The Mount of Glory: because there God appeared to Moses and glorified it

with his Divine presence:

+ Ethiopia.

§ A country bordering on the Red Sea.

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