POETRY. Hymn for a Day of Humiliation. WHEN o'er our guilty nation, LORD, Thy plagues impatient to devour. Where shall the helpless seek relief, Father of mercy, at thy feet, Thus o'er devoted Sodom stood, "Will God, the righteous and the vile, And could a patriarch's fervent pray'r, Are not thy children and their LORD, Great are our sins, but greater far So shall thy name thro' all our coast, The Christian Warrior. ADDRESSED TO DR. DODDRIDGE ON A VERY TRYING OCCASION, BY A FEMALE FRIEND, (MISS ELIZABETH SCOTT.) HAPPY the man of ample mind, Thrice happy if his Master's cause, Upheld by an Almighty arm, Firm as a rock unmov'd he stands, And in JEHOVAH's name defies, Earth, sin, and hell's confederate bands: His faith (impenetrable shield) Celestial legions bent around, Their champion's triumph to behold, Their glorious chief shall bind the crown Life and Character of Rev. Jona- | which qualify the possessors for than Edwards. N the lives of men celebrated filling high stations in life, and performing useful offices to men: but in the history of pious and good men, Instruction communicated in the pare ourselves, and assist others most impressive and alluring in preparing for that future manner. We see how their state which is to be the everminds were formed from occur-lasting portion of all, the imrences which reach back almost portance of which can by no to their birth. The mind has means be compared to the trifling often been compared to a sheet concerns of states and empires, of clean paper, on which any or even of the whole world. characters may be written, at The Rev. Jonathan Edwards, the will of the preceptor. In President of theCollege at Princethe study of biography then we ton in New-Jersey, of whose life a are not merely amusing our- short sketch will be attempted, selves, or gratifying a curiosity was endowed with powers of mind to know the particular events in that are rarely exceeded; but his the lives of men, but we are learn- greatest praise was, that he eming how and by what means were ployed these talents to the noformed and cultivated those who blest purpose, that of doing good. have been distinguished by unu-| He was born at East-Windsor sual attainments, who have been in Connecticut, on the 5th day of eminently great, useful and good. October, 1703. His father was The history of great men teach- the Rev. Timothy Edwards, es to acquire those qualities pastor of the congregational which command the respect church in that town; his mother, and admiration of the world, Mrs. Esther Edwards, was VOL. 1 NO. 5. W |