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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



PEBUUARY 8, 18:17, 



aaassaiSaa^sa'S'. 



* * * Report ascribes it ro a young lady of fashion, 

 whose irreligious parents, otfendtd with lier conversion 

 and unconquerable purpose of devoting herself to the 

 aervice of her Redeemer, disinherited and disowned her. 

 We are indebted for it to one of the volumes of the 

 Christian Lyre. — Banner. 



THE DISCIPLE. 



Jesus, I my cross have taken 



All to leave and follow thee, 

 Nakeo', poor, despis'd, forsaken. 



Thou, from hence, my all shall be. 

 Perish every fond anjbiiion, 



All I've hop'd or sought, or known ; 

 Yel how rich is rny condition ! 



God and heaven are still my own. 



Let the world despise and leave me ; 



They have left my Saviour too. 

 Human hearts have oft deceived me; 



Thou art not like them untrue. 

 And whilst thou shall smile upon me, 



God of wisdom, love and might ! 

 Foes may hate, and friends disown me ! 



Show thy face and all is briglit. 



Go, then, earthly fame and treasure; 



Come disaster, scorn and pain : 

 In thy service pain is pleasure ; 



With thy favor loss is gain. . 

 1 have call'd thee, Abba ! father ! 



I have set my heart on thcc ; 

 Storms may howl, and clouds jnay gather; 



All must work {•>t good to me. 



Man may trouble and distress me, 



'Twill but drive me to thy breast : 

 Life with trials hard m.".y press me ; 



Heaven shall bring nie sweeter rest. 

 O 'tis not in grief to harm me *> 



Wliile thy love is left lo me ; 

 O 'twere not in joy to charm me. 



Were that joy- unmi.ted with thee. 



Soul, then know thy full salvation. 



Rise o'er sin, and fear, and rare, 

 Joy to find, in every station. 



Something still to do or bear. 

 Think, whatspirit dwells within thee, 



Think, what Father's smiles are thine, 

 Thin'i, that Jesus died lo win thee ; 



Child of heaven, can 'si thou repine ' 



Has'te Ihee on from grace lo glory, 



Arm'd by faith, and winged by prayer ; 

 Heaven's eternal days before thee ; 



God's own hand shall guide tliee there. 

 Soon shall close thy earllily mission, 



Soon shall end thy pilgrim days ; 

 Hope shall cliange from glad fruition, 



Faith to sight, and prayer to praisei 



RVLES FOR COiVVERS-\TION. 



1. In stating prmli.'iitiiil rules for our govern- 

 ment ill sociijty, 1 must not omit the iniportatit 

 i»tic of never entering into (lij^putes or aigiimeiit 

 witli iinotlier. 



2 1 never saw an instance of one one of two 

 (lii|iulants convincing the other by argument.'*. 1 

 have seen many of them getting warm, bdcomii.g 

 rude and shooting one another. 



'3, Convincing is the eft'eet of onr own dispas- 



sionate reasoning, either in solitude, or weighing 

 within ourselves, dispassionately, what we hear 

 from others standing uncommitted in argument 

 ourselves. 



4. It was one of the rules, which ma,de Dr. 

 Franklin ahove all others, the most amiable man 

 in society, " never to contradict any body." If he 

 was urged to announce an opinion, he did it rather 

 by asking questions, as for information, or by sug- 

 gesting doubts. 



5. VVhen I hear another express an opinion 

 which is r,ot mine, I say to myself, he lias a right 

 to his opinion, as I have to mine, why should 1 

 question it? His error does me no injury, and 

 shall I become a Quixote, to bring all men by 

 force of argument to one opinion ? 



6. If a fact be iiis-stated, it is probable he is 

 gratified by a belief of it, and I have no right to 

 deprive him of that gratification. 



7. If he wants information, lie will ask it, and 

 then I will give it in measured terms. 



8. If he still believes his own story, and shows 

 a desire to dispute with me, 1 hear him, and say 

 notliiug. It is his afi'air, not mine, if he ])refers 

 error. 



9. There are two classes of disfiutants, most 

 frequently to be met with among us. The first 

 is of young students just entered the thresliold of 

 science, with the first views <if its outlines, not 

 yet filled up with the details and modifications, 

 which a further progress would bring to their 

 knowledge. 



10. The other consists of ill-tempiued and rude 

 men in society, wlio have taken up a passion for 

 polities. 



11. Good huninrand politeness never introduce 

 int3 mixed society a question u[>on which they 

 foresee there will be a difference of opini; n. — 

 Thomas Jefferson. 



Aurora Borealis. — The grand celestial dis- 

 play witnessed here on Wednesday (January 25,) 

 evening, is thus noticed in tlje New York Ex- 

 press : — 



Bnllicint Uluminnlion. — The whole Heavens 

 presented a most singular plienomena last even- 

 ing, from sunset to midniglit, unsurpassed in bril- 

 liancy, beauty and e'l'ect. The night was more 

 like that of a late or an early autumn than an 

 evening in winter. From the e.ttreme northern 

 horizon to a distance far in the south, the heav- 

 ens presented a jiirture of more beauty and va- 

 riety than we ever remember to have seen before. 

 A thousand raiiibows with all their original col- 

 ors and the freshness of tljo rainbow after the 

 storm were woven in a body of light, from which, 

 as frotn the radi of a circh', a thousand corusca- 

 tions sparkled with as many .hues of light. Now 

 a deep crimson body of light, like the blaze from 

 a burning monument — now flashes alternately 

 as variable and as bright as those of lightning, 

 and anon changed into the hues of the sun, and 

 soon again into the paleness of the moon — all ap- 

 peared in qui<'k succession, changing their rays 

 and colors, brightness and form, in the twinkling 

 of an eye. The meteoric showers could h.irdly 

 have been more beautiful, aiul the Aurora Bore- 

 alis was never in our recollection so magnificent. 

 About S o'clock the arc'i, to use a military phrase, 

 broke into open colmnns or s(piadrons, moving 

 slowly and regularly towards the zenith, whereat 

 20 minutes past 8 o'clock it perfected its radiation 



round the Pleiades, the centre of the halo being 

 a short distance to the eastward of that constella- 

 tion. The changes, hues and variety of forms ex- 

 hibited dining this |ihenomeiiou was awfully 

 grand — far excelling in splendour any thing be-- 

 fore witnessed in this region — atone moment' 

 the whole firmament appeared to be in a blaze, 

 casting a pink or yellow glare upon the city and 

 surrounding country with the must magnificent 

 elTect. 'J'he rays of light varied from a deep red 

 to a faint yellow, with here and there an occasion- 

 al streak of white and light blue. 



Lorenzo Dow wasa« oddity of the oddest kind. 

 The best anecdote of him is, that being one even- 

 ing at a hotel kept by one Bush, in D -Ihi, N. Y., 

 the residence of tiie celebrated General Root — 

 he was importuned by the latter gentleman, in 

 presence of the landlord, to describe Heaven. — 

 " You say a great deal about that place," said 

 the General, " tell ns how it looks." Lorenzo 

 turned liis grave lace, and long, v.aviiig heard, 

 towards Messrs Root and I'ush, and then rejilied 

 with imperturbable gravity, •' Heaven, friends, 

 is a vast c.\tent of smooth and rich territory ; — 

 there is not a root nor hush in it, and there never 

 will be." 



Pi'.NcruALiTy. — A punctual man is very rarely 

 a poor man, and never a man of doubtful credit. 

 His small accourits are frequently settleil, and he 

 nfcver meeis with difiiculty in raising money to 

 pay large demands. Small debts negleeteil, ruin 

 credit, and when a man has lost that, he will finil 

 himself at the bottom of a hill, up which he can- 

 not ascend. 



A GOOD o,\E A gentleman a.'^ked a wag the 



other day,the reason why so many of the tall gen. 

 tlemen were bachelors ? The reply was lliat 

 " they were obliged to lie in corner-wise in the 

 bed to keep their feet in, and a wifi; would he in 

 the way." 



Good fortune and bad are <'i|ually necessary to 

 man, to fit him to meet the exigencies of life. 

 Few men, who have not experienced th > vicissi- 

 tudes of fortune, know how to bear them with 

 firiimess — are tit to meet them. 



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