dermine the pillar which sustains the entire superstructure, and bury yourself and your country in the ruins of its mighty fall? You would not steal nor rob for gain, nor send out pestilence upon the land, nor led out wild beasts and reptiles to poison and rend. You would plead no liberty of conscience to do this, and no children's bread, earned by such an enterprise. Why then will you persist so deliberately, so eagerly, so inflexibly, in the violation of the Sabbath, which is but a comprehensive mode of wresting from us all our blessings, and letting out upon the land all manner of evil?

To the labouring poor, particularly, we would say, it was for you especially, that the Sabbath was made; and will you sell your birthright? In all countries where the Sabbath is not kept, the poor are pressed down beneath a hopeless bondage. The Sabbath duly observed, will raise your families to intelligence, and competence, and all civil honours, as the wheel of Providence rolls; while the violation of it will raise up over you a monied aristocracy, thriving by your vices, and rising by your depression, and dooming you and your posterity to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for ever. If you continue to violate the Sabbath, you may wear the livery of freemen, but it will be in the house of bondage-you may go through the mockery of voting for your rulers, but it will be done under the powerful dictation of masters.

To the Ministers of the sanctuary, we look for abstinence from the very appearance of evil," for vision eye to eye, and the lifting up together of the voice as a trumpet, to declare to this nation its sin, and to warn the wicked from their evil way. Jealousy can have no place here; we are all sinking together; no denomination can survive the obliteration of the Sabbath.

To the Churches of our Lord,

of every name, redeemed by his blood, and associated to maintain his ordinances and extend his cause, we look for a careful example, a thorough discipline, and a cheerful concentration of their influence, to form an efficient public sentiment which shall rescue the

Sabbath from profanation and oblivion. If professors of religion violate the Sabbath, who will observe it? If they do not stand forth united for its preservation, who will defend it? And if, for its violation, "judgment shall begin at the house of God, what shall the end be of them that know not God, and obey not the Gospel?"

To the Great Cities of our land, nurtured by the industry of the nation, and able, by the concentration of their social power and wealth, to send back upon the country purity or pollution, moral life or death, we look for a contemporaneous and decisive movement in behalf of the Sabbath. Oh, brethren! cease, we beseech you, to send out upon us, on the Sabbath-day, the besom of destruction. Rest on the Sabbath, and allow the land to rest; for till the mainspring of evil within you ceases, the land cannot rest. Volcanoes will ye be, until ye cease to violate the Sabbath, pouring out your burning lava over the land. And fountains of righteousness will ye be, when all within your gates shall keep the Sabbath holy, pouring through the land streams to make glad the city of our God.

We commit our enterprise to the God of the Sabbath, whose mediatorial government for our redemption is made affectual only by his word and spirit, associated indissolubly with the Sabbath-day; beseeching him to guide us by wisdom from above, to inspire us with humility in prosperity, with meekness under provocation, with courage in times of peril, with fortitude in circumstances of discouragement, with la single eye to his glory, with

unshaken confidence in his promises, and untiring enterprise in his blessed cause, until the necessity of this Union shall be done away in the voluntary observance of the Sabbath by the entire population of this great Republic."

I was much struck with its complete resemblance to the spirit which actuates the Inquisition; and thence I conjectured that possibly the Apocalyptick number 666 might, in conformity with the usual mode of computation by the Roman alphabet, be applicable to some word designating and falsely called the Holy Office. Trying it by this rule I was much surprised and gratified to find that the Latin word Inquisitori corresponded in every part with it, according to the following

Should this powerful Address fall under, the eye of the unblushing violator of this sacred day, notwithstanding his hardened conscience, he would in a good measure feel the weight of his aggravated offence against the laws of his God, of his country, and of society; and it must in-mode, viz, deed, require a great effort of the mind, for him to resist those convictions which generally lead to reformation. Believing this, we trust that these Appeals will not be made in vain; and, to give the Address an universal circulation over our land, it ought to be inserted in every periedical in our country.

[From the London Evangelical Magazine.]

ON THE APOCALYPTICK NUMBER OF
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The last number of your S Magazine contains what is termed, "An Extraordinary Elucidation of Prophecy," relative to the Apocalyptick number of the beast, Rev. Chap. xiii. v. 18. This, however, appears to me neither perfect in all its parts (the final s in Ludovicus bearing no signification as a numeral), nor does it apply to the French monarchy as giving the whole of the secular power to the beast first mentioned. Neither does it appear as characteristick of any single individual or dynasty; but of a power emanating from a succession of individuals, compelling the world to worship the first beast by means of the sword and fires of persecution. With this view, I was led to examine more closely the description of the beast who gave his authority to the first beast, and

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This power alone has assumed the lamb-like attribute of holy and merciful; whilst with the voice of a dragon, it has condemned to the flames, and the most horrid cruelties, those who had not the mark of the first beast by worshipping its power and supremacy. I have not met with any solution which is less objectionable: and I therefore wish merely to throw out the above hypothesis as a suggestion, to which, at present, I do not perceive any discrepancy in its application to the persecuting lamb-horned dragon. I shall be much obliged by the opinions of any of your Correspondents to this attempted solution of this remarkable prophecy, and am, Sir, yours, &c. R. GILL

RELIGIOUS DEPARTMENT.

THE INCREASE OF

GEORGIA.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER

THE CHURCH IN
FROM THE REV. IVESON L. BROOKS.

We have great reason to be thankful that God continues to pour out his spirit in a wonderful manner upon different parts of our State; and we fondly hope that he will not permit the good work to cease until all our churches shall participate in its gracious influences, and multitudes of perishing souls shall be brought to exercise comfortable hopes of eternal life through Christ Jesus the sinner's friend. But as yet the same sovereignty has been manifest in those showers of grace which have been dispensed to the churches in Georgia, as has been exhibited in the showers of rain sent upon our farms. For while some neighbourhoods have been blessed with good seasons and have promising prospects of a plentiful harvest, others have been left to languish under the effects of distressing drought. So among some of our churches, God has been pleased to exhibit the displays of his conquering grace, and the souls of his children have been abundantly revived by the showers of mercy poured upon them in such times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, while churches in adjacent vicinities have to lament the wintry state of religion among christians, and the abounding of iniquity among sinners and carnal professors.

The glorious work which commenced at Bethesda, (Green,) in the spring, still continues in that church, and seems to be spreading among the churches in adjoining counties since the May meeting, at which upward of sixty were baptized; proportionable additions have been regularly made to the Bethesda church; in June fifty-hine were baptized, and the week preceding their July meeting (from which we have not heard,) nearly thirty were standing in readiness. and fair prospects for the number to be more than doubled, as the approaching meeting was for three days continuance, and was looked to with prayerful anticipations,

The churches at County-line (Oglethorpe,) Sardis, Clarke Station, and Philip's Mills, (Wilkes,) Shiloh (Green,) Powelton, Mount Zion, and Island Creek (Hancock,) and other churches in the bounds of the || Georgia association, are partaking in the || revival, and are securing constant additions. I had the pleasure to attend a meeting at County-line, on Wednesday last, and was surprised that the house should be nearly full of attentive hearers, though in the middle of the week and no special occasion. I mention this as a common specimen of the state of religious excitement among those churches. After attending to preaching about three hours without intermission, a respite was given with notice that after a short space the church would open a door for the reception of members. When the church came together for that purpose, nearly all the congregation re-assembled and remained, till about nine persons had stated satisfactory evidences of God's work of salvation upon their souls. Among that number was an elderly woman, who stated that she had exercised hope in Christ for nearly twenty years, but being not entirely satisfied, she had tried to obtain a better hope, and had staid from the church till she had grown so old without obtaining better evidence, that she was ashamed to go forward to make known her case to the church, until a pressing sense of duty seemed now to urge her to come with her same old hope. Another of the nine, was a little girl of about 10 or 11 years old, who gave as clear and as forcible evidence of deep conviction of sin as I have ever heard. She with overflowing eyes stated in her relation, that although her parents had never suffered her to use bad words, (by which she meant she was free from gross sins ;) yet she found her heart to be so bad that she thought old hardened sinners were better in heart than herself, and would stand a better chance to be

saved. But was finally enabled to see that Christ was able to save the greatest sinners. At the last monthly meeting they had nineteen baptized.

flocks in a backslidden condition, and biting and devouring one another in contentious bickerings; those ministers on the other hand, who are actively en

stir up their churches to pity and assist the perishing heathen, are enjoying the life of religion, and are comforted in seeing the work of the Lord prosper in their hands.

Our beloved brother Sherwood, has

erant preaching-and has been voluntarily labouring day and night, during the greater part of this year through the bounds of the revival.

The churches of the Ocmulgee associa-gaged in works of benevolence, and who tion, which was so signally blest last year, continue to receive additions, and late and new works are occurring in churches and vicinities heretofore in a lukewarm state. At Crooked Creek Church, (Putnam,) 17 were baptized on second Sabbath, and at the high shoals of Murder Creek, (in Put-given himself wholly to a course of itinnam,) on the 14th inst. forty-two persons were buried in baptism. Among that number was an old woman rendered helpless through the infirmities of age; nine husbands with their wives, and a widow lady and all her household, consisting of perhaps five persons, (but none were infants.) This work is the more remarkable as there was no church in the vicinity, and no means had been employed among them which could constitute an ostensive cause, to which such an effect might be ascribed. In Monroe County, at their July meetings, I learn the following members were added by baptism-at Blocky Creek

church, 42; at Paron 26; at Hunting Shoals, 25. To many other churches at different places, smaller numbers have been lately added, which would be to

tedious to mention.

The Methodist preachers are coming more fully into the practice of immersion; and even the Presbyterian divines are compelled to lead their members down into the water, and I am apprehensive do not even then at all times fully "relieve their labouring consciences."

Another fact in connexion with these revivals, which may be considered worthy of remark is, that they are almost exclusively confined to those associations and churches which are the avowed friends of missions, and among which are those ministers and members who have been most active in promoting the cause of benevolence. While most of those ministers who have opposed the cause of missions, and induced their churches to set their faces against all efforts for the promotion of public benevolence, are themselves left in a worse than cold state, and are doom ed to the mortification of seeing their

Another remark worthy of observation, is, that throughout this revival there is but little noise tending to confusion. Congregations are large and solemn as death, and the silent tear frequently flows, and often the whole multitude are seen in humble prostration when propositions of prayer are made. I remain yours truly, I. L. BROOKES. [Col. Star.

RESOLVES ON INTEMPERANCE.

At the Annual Meeting of the President and Fellows of the Connecticut Medical Society, held at New-Haven, on the 4th and 15th of May 1828, the following Resolutions were passed.

1st. Resolved, That in the opinion of this Convention, the use of ardent spirits is unnecessary in health-that the habitual use of the same is destructive of private health and publick morality; and their excessive use is one of the most frequent causes of incurable disease.

2d. Resolved, That in the opinion of this Convention, although the moderate use of wine, cider, and malt liquors, is not injurious, the immoderate use of the same articles, is like ardent spirits, injurious to health and good morals.

3d. Resolved, That in the opinion of this Convention, ardent spirits have no tendency to protect the system from disease; that on the other hand, they render the system more susceptible of contagion and other causes of disease; consequently, that it is the duty of physicians to abstain

entirely from the use of ardent spirits in their intercourse with the sick, and to recommend the same rigid abstinence to nurses and attendants.

4th. Resolved, That in the opinion of this Convention, the habitual use of ardent spirits not only renders the human system more susceptible of diseases, but increases their violence and renders them more fatal.

5th. Resolved, That in the opinion of this Convention, the use of ardent spirits, by puerperal and nursing women, has an injurious effect upon their offspring, and is frequently the cause of disease and intemperance in both the mother and child. S. B. WOODWARD, Sec'ry. [Nat. Phil.

TRACTS FOR BURMAH.

heathen in the East Indies and elsewhere. The Burmans are a reading and inquisitive people. By circulating Tracts among them, thousands may be led to examine the truths of the gospel to whom no other method of instruction can possibly be extended. One of Dr. Judson's first efforts after learning the language, was to compose a Tract, and translate portions of Scripture, which are the best Tracts for publication. These were printed at the mission press, and were instrumental of leading several of those who were afterwards baptized, to inquire concerning the way of life. In one instance an individual first heard through the Tract published by the missionaries at Rangoon, that there was a Saviour from sin, and that too at a considerable distance from the place. He went to Rangoon, and inquired for the persons who prepared it; he found them, and afterwards became a believer in Christ. The Board of Missions have always been impressed with the obvious duty and necessity of using the press as one instrument of enlightening Burmah. A printer was early sent out, and good was done in this way. At their late meeting in New-York, the Board took measures to obtain an iron press of the most approved construction, to be sent to Burmah immediately, the old one, which was of wood, having gone to decay. A fount of new type has been ordered in Calcutta, and is supposed to be ready for use. Another printer is to be provided, and in the course of a year or two we trust that Dr.

It gives us great pleasure to state that there has been formed in Philadelphia a Society called the Youth's Burman Tract Society of the First Baptist Church and Congregation. It is composed of youth of both sexes, who pay not less than a cent a week each into the treasury. Their object is to raise funds, which are to be put into the treasury of the Baptist General Tract Society; the whole of which, except the amount necessary to pay for a few Tracts for themselves, is to be applied by the General Society to the publication of Tracts in the Burman language, under the direction of our Missionaries in that kingdom. If our brother Boardman had a supply of such Tracts, exhibit-Judson's translation of the New Testaing the way of salvation through Christ, much of his present deficiency from not knowing how to speak the language would be remedied. By placing Tracts in the hands of those who pass by, they might be led to seek the deliverance the gospel purposes. It has long impressed our minds that Baptists in this country should provide means to publish millions of Tracts in Burmah, because they have a mission there where they can be composed and printed, and they possess the means to do this, without deducing from the amount necessary to support these labourers in the gospel field. Tracts have proved eminently suited to the state of things among the SEPT. 1828.

ment, and thousands of Scriptural Tracts will be given to the Burmans, who are now sitting in the region and shadow of death. As the ordinary receipts of the Board are scarcely sufficient to meet the necessary expenses of their missionaries, they must seek for additional aid to perform this extra but most important work. They therefore at their meeting on the first of May last, appointed a committee, whom they "charged with the services of soliciting from the Baptist General Tract Society, and the American Tract Society, aid in the publication and distribution of Tracts in Burmah and Africa." This committee have not as yet made a formal 36