POETRY.

FOR THE CHRISTIAN'S MAGAZINE.

To the Editors of the Christian's Magazine,

The favourable reception which the Poetry I sent you for your last number, met with, induces me to offer you the following from the same hand. It was addressed by the author to one of her female friends whose life had been marked with much affliction and continual trial, followed by a quick succession of bereavements of several of her dearest earthly friends.

A SUBSCRIBER

CHILD of adversity! But Child of GOD!
Why sinks thy heart beneath affliction's rod?
Methinks thy heaven-born spirit should not grieve,
The surest marks of Sonship to receive;
Or, with impatient mind and sullen look,
Resist a tender parent's chast'ning stroke.

Has death, unwearied scourge of human race,
Drawn his pale lines across a parent's face?
Written thee-Orphan, in a world of wo,
Expos'd to all the stormy winds that blow?
Hast thou receiv'd a brother's latest sigh,
Or clos'd a lovely sister's fading eye?
Or hath he, envious of parental pride,
Ravish'd a blooming infant from thy side?
(Perhaps, with ruthless hand and sterner power,
Torn from the parent stalk the full-blown flow'r,)
Or broke the tie by fond Affection twin'd,
And a dear partner to the tomb consign'd?
Hath Disappointment torn thy aching breast?
Have friends forsaken thee, and foes opprest?
Hath wanton Malice blasted thy fair fame,
Inflicting sorrows thou canst never name?
Does pale Disease, with her attendant woes,
Darken thy day, and steal thy night's repose?

Doth Poverty, with all her ills, assail,
And ev'ry earthly spring of comfort fail?
Shall not the JUDGE of this rebellious earth,
Whose mighty fiat call'd the world to birth,
Who gave thee all the blessings thou hast known,
Each comfort yet possest, each treasure flown,—
Shall not this righteous JUDGE, with wise decree,
Do right with all his own-do right by thee?

Then count not o'er the sorrows thou hast borne,
How oft and deeply thou art call'd to mourn.
Christian! not one had been thy lot to prove,
Had not the SOURCE OF WISDOM AND OF LOVE
Seen it were best for thee. Could one been spar'd,
Celestial Spirits, Zion's constant guard,
Had warded the sharp arrow from thy breast,
Nor Death, nor Hell been suffer'd to molest.
Is thy name graven on IMMANUEL's heart?
In his rich merits dost thou hope a part?
Dost thou remember what his death has done,
For whom he suffered, and the prize he won?
And wilt thou think it hard to taste the cup,
And share with him who freely drank it up?
Ah! think how few the drops thy lips have known!
The bitter, bitter dregs were all his own!

Child of the Promises! dry up thy tears;
Fly to his cross with all thy cares and fears;
Beneath the droppings of his precious blood,
Lay down at once thy murm'rings and thy load.

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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The New-England Patriot; being a candid comparison of the principles and conduct of the Washington and Jefferson administrations. The whole founded upon indisputable facts and public documents, to which reference is made in the text and notes. "Read, and disbelieve if you canBut read." Boston, Russell & Cutter.

Rosa, or American Genius and Education; a novel. New-York, I. Riley.

Kendall's Travels in the NewEngland States, 3 vols. 8vo. NewYork, I. Riley.

Henry's Travels in Canada, 8vo. New-York, I. Riley, $2 50 in boards.

Index to the Notes of Mr. Story's edition of Chitty on Bills. Prepared

by J. Story, Esq. To which are added a few recent cases. Boston, Farrand, Mallory & Co.

An Oration, delivered before the Washington Benevolent Society, in the city of New-York, on the 22d of February, 1810, by P. A. Jay, Esq. price 121-2cts. Van Winkle, printer. Reflections upon the late Correspondence between Mr. Secretary Smith and F. J. Jackson, Esq. Baltimore, published for the author.

Anthon's Analysis of Blackstone's Commentaries. New-York, Riley, printer.

The New Crisis, by an Old Whig. New-York, printed for the author. Fourth volume of Johnson's NewYork Reports, Riley, printer.

Scofield's, Practical Treatise on Cow Pox, with an elegant coloured engraving, 12mo. price $1. NewYork, Collins & Perkins."

Smith's Abridgment of John Bell's Surgery, 50 engravings, $ 550. New-York, Collins & Perkins.

New Editions.

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Shakspeare's Works, Vol. 1. NewYork, Ezra Sargeant. Price one Dollar a volume.

Fragments in Prose and Verse, by Miss Smith, lately deceased; with an account of her life and character, by H. M. Bowdler. Boston, S. H. Par ker, and E. Sargeant, New-York.

John & Charles Bell's Anatomy, four volumes, bound in two. 125 engravings, price $11. New-York, Collins & Perkins.

Works Proposed, and in Press. Ezra Sargeant has in the press, and will publish on the first of April, the Edinburgh Review, No. 29.

Farrand, Mallory & Co. of Boston, are preparing for the press, to be published in one volume, 8vo. Mo dern Paris; or a Journey from London to Paris, through Holland; and a survey of the Arts, Sciences, and

Literature of the French metropolis, in 1807-8. With Remarks on the education, habits, and religion of the French people. By F. Hall, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in Middlebury College, Vermont; in Letters to a gentleman in New-England.

Munroe & Francis, Boston, have in the press, Celebs in Search of a Wife, 2 vols. 18mo.

T. & J. Swords, New-York, have in the press, Celebs in Search of a Wife.

I. Riley has also an edition of the same work in press.

the press, Newcome's Observations S. Etheridge, Charlestown, has in on the conduct of our Lord as a Divine Instructor, and on the excellence of his Moral Character, 1 vol. 8vo. 550 pages.

Coale & Thomas, Baltimore, propose to publish by subscription, Poems, by the late John Shaw, M. D. price on Dollar.

John Tiebout, is preparing to put Butterworth's Concordance to press, in one large volume, 8vo.

York, have an elegant edition of OsD. & G. Bruce, printers, New sian's Poems in press, with woodcuts, by Dr. Anderson, 2 vols. 12mo.

Thomas Dobson, Philadelphia, proposes to publish a course of Lectures on the Prophecies that remain to be fulfilled; by Elijah Winchester, in two large volumes, 8vo. price four Dollars.

press, Treatise on Soap Making, Collins & Perkins have in the

12mo. 50 cents in boards.

ready for publication, Murray's EngCollins & Perkins, have nearly lish Grammar, 2 vols. 8vo. bound in one. Price $3.

press, a Treatise on COVENANTWilliams & Whiting, have in the ING WITH GOD, by the Rev. Benjamin Trumbull, D. D. To which will be added, à Sermon on GODLY FEAR, by the late Rev. Charles Backus, D. D.

Also, Scott's Force of Truth, &c. connexion with Samuel Wood, a Also, preparing for the press, in Treatise on the Use of the Globes, &e. by Thomas Keith.

The State of the Reformed Church; as also of the different Religious denominations in Holland, previous to the late Revolution.

(Continued from p. 161.)

THE principal dissenting denominations of Chris

tians in the United Provinces, are the Roman Catholics, the Lutherans, the Remonstrants, or followers of James Arminius, the Anabaptists, the Collegiants, or Rhynsburgers, and Quakers, or Friends.

The Roman Catholics are allowed liberty of conscience. They have in the cities, as well as the country, many churches and chapels, which being built in the form of ordinary houses, are also dwellings of their priests. In these chapels they perform their worship according to their peculiarities. They may not, however, build any chapel without the permission of the government. Nor is it lawful for them to form processions in public, with the consecrated host; and the priests may not appear in the VOL. III.-No. V. 2 I

streets any where in the dress of their order, or any formal dress. In some places of Dutch Flanders, the host may be publicly carried in procession, once a year. In the year 1720, the Roman Catholics of Zevenbergen, a city in Holland, on the borders of Brabant, ventured, not only to bury their dead with drums and colours, but the priest had begun to build a stone church in place of the wooden barn, where they had before worshipped. But the supreme magistracy being informed of this, obliged the priest to demolish the building at his own expense, and erect a new wooden barn like the former. The Jesuits, according to repeated decrees, may not live in these provinces; yet they are suffered to remain here and there, by connivance. In the year 1730, the States of Holland passed an act consisting of several articles, of which the principal were the following, viz. That no Romish priest should officiate without permission from the burgomasters in the cities, and from bailiffs in the country -that no priests should be suffered thus to officiate, but those who were native born subjects of the state -that priests belonging to a religious order, monks and jesuits, should not officiate-that priests must declare to the government, upon their word as priests, and confirm such a declaration by their signature, that they reject the sentiment that the Pope may discharge subjects from the duty of obeying their magistrates-that they must teach the contrary of this sentiment to their people, and promise that they will not employ themselves, for money or the value of money, in any foreign cloisters, seminaries of learning, or churches-that no papal bulls, or any other ecclesiastical decrees of their church, shall be made known and published, before they have In the shown them to the proper civil officers. states of Brabant and Flanders, the members of this