The Baptist Memorial and Monthly Record (Volume 8) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849. Excerpt: ... O, there are tones that chill The life-fount in our hearts; Sad as the wailing of the breeze, When eve from daylight parts. And tears there are, that burn The light from out the eye; Such tones, such tears were those that gushV Wilh the whisper'd word "Good-bye." We watch'd our dreams of Love, As they plum'd their pinions bright, Forgetting in this world of ours, All dreams will take their flight. But 'tis belter far to tinge Life's canvass dark with light; Better the eye should be sun-dimmed, Than closed in hopeless night. Before a mystic vail Is Fancy's allar set; Though man hath often been deceiv'd, The phantom cheats him yet; Pale Sorrow sadly smiles At the eager gaze of youth, And drawing back the vail, reveals The graver brow of Truth. Then doth the magic glow From her altar fade away, As the glare of festal lamps grows dim, Mid the dawning light of day. Earth's tender nurs'ling? fade, But one shall never die; 'Tis but a bud in our chill clime, And blossoms in the sky. We mortals call it Hope, This plant that buds below, Its blossom is that spirit-joy No earth-born child can know. Thtn we'll gently guard the prize, To us in mercy given; Nor let a single rose-ting'd leaf, From its parent-stem be riven; And we'll twine the buds of Hope, With the fragrant blooms of Love, And the crown of mingl'd flowers shall be Immortal iz'd above. 1.i. n. MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE. France.--Bro. Willard writes lhat the mission is prosperous. At Atanicamp several were baptized in October, and others waiting to be admitted as candidates. Some females go more than twenty miles to hear the Gospel. There is a general revival in that region. Bro. Lepoix had baptized twenty-three during last year up to October 1st. Bro. W. thinks there must be many in America praying for Pran...