represents him engaged in quarreling with one of his companions, as the wicked heart is full of hatred and strife. He is again seen driving the poor and needy from his presence, although abundantly able to supply their wants. He is also shown using violence and cruelty toward his fellow-man, and perhaps, in addition to other crimes and misdemeanors, has betrayed female innocence by his false promises, regardless of the misery which was to ensue. Man was originally formed in the image of his Maker, that Being whose nature is love. Though now in a fallen and depraved state, some traces of his original constitution still remain. By the Divine Constitution misery follows the commission of sin and transgression. However depraved man may become, or to what extent he may cast off the fear of God, yet if he commits wrongs against his fellow-men, so he feels, to a greater or less extent, miserable and unhappy. He has violated the great law of love. He may disbelieve in the existence of any God to take notice of the affairs of men, either to reward or punish human action, yet he can not escape misery. He may attempt to drown his thoughts in various ways, but in vain, for memory, in spite of all his exertions to prevent it, will present his crimes in dismal array before him. Even among heathens who never had a written revelation, we find the same law in existence as among enlightened nations. Every-where, among all nations and tribes, high and low, the learned and the ignorant, bond and free, the consciences of men approve of acts of beneficence and love, and detest those of oppression and wrong. Many accounts have reached us in history, where the wrong-doer has suffered misery and anguish on account of his transgressions. Although amenable to no human tribunal, yet conscience, reminded by the memory of past wickedness, has lashed them for their crimes. The celebrated Col. Gardner, when a young man, led what is falsely called a "life of pleasure." He appears to have cast off fear and restraint, and indulged himself in all the fashionable vices and follies of the times. Such then was his appearance of cheerfulness and buoyancy of spirit, that he received the appellation of "the Happy Rake." After his remarkable conversion to the Christian faith, he stated to his friends, that often I when those about him were ready to envy him for his apparent happiness, ho was in the most wretched and unhappy state of mind. Such was the memory of his immoralities, he says, that on one particular occasion, when in the full tide of his career, a dog coming into the room where he was, he actually wished, and inwardly exclaimed "I wish that I was that dog." "One of the most sensible men I ever knew (says one), but whose life as well as creed had been rather eccentric, returned me the following answer not many months before his death, when I asked him whether his former irregularities were not accompanied at the time and succeeded afterward by some senso of mental pain? Yes,' said he 'but I have scarce owned it till now. We (meaning we infidels and men of fashionable morals) do not tell you all that passes in our hearts.'" Such has been the power of the memory of wickedness committed, that it has rendered life insupportable, and many have laid violent hands on themselves and rushed unbidden into the presence of their Maker. Others, when human testimony has failed to convict them of the murders they have committed, have themselves voluntarily confessed their crime and suffered its penalty. During the last century, a jeweler of considerable wealth, while traveling at some distance from his abode, was mur dered by his servant, who, after rifling his master of his money and jewels, concealed his body in a stream of water. He then departed to a distant part of the country, where he had reason to believe that neither himself or master were known. There he began to trade in a small way at first, to escape observation, and in the course of many years seemed to rise up by the natural progress of business to wealth and consideration. He finally became the chief magistrate and judge in the town where he lived. While acting as judge, a prisoner was brought before him, charged with the murder of his master. The evidence was such, that the jury gave the verdict that the prisoner was guilty, and the whole assembly awaited the sentence of the judge. To their astonishment, they saw him come down from the bench and place himself by the side of the prisoner, and thus address his fellow-judges: "You see before you a striking instance of the awards of Heaven, which this day, after thirty years concealment, presents to you a greater criminal than the man just now found guilty." He then made an ample confession of his crime, with all its aggravations. Nor can I," continued he, "feel any relief from the agonies of an awakened conscience, but by requiring that justice be forthwith done against me in the most public and solemn manner." The amazed judges accordingly proceeded upon his confession to pass sentence upon him, and he died, it is hoped, a true penitent. The memory of wickedness will often force itself upon the mind in an unexpected manner. In one of our oldest States, a man of pious parentage, being an adept in political movements, rose to offices of distinction. During the earlier part of his career, he was of licentious habits. Though of skeptical or infidel opinions, yet the remembrance of the wrongs he had committed, the female innocence he had destroyed, caused him many pangs of remorse. Some common occurrence would bring to his memory his former transgressions. On one occasion it is related of him, that when journey. ing on horseback, he dismounted and rolled on the earth in keen anguish of mind. Of all the distresses of mind that human beings can feel, perhaps none are equal to those of a guilty conscience. It embitters every comfort, dashes every pleasure with sorrow, fills the mind with despair, and produces wretchedness in the greatest degree. "To live under such disquietude," says a says a celebrated writer, is already to undergo one of the most severe punishments that human nature can suffer." Dr. Young, who attended the last moments of Altamont, a licentious young nobleman of infidel principles, gives a harrowing description of the scene. Addressing himself to one of his infidel companions, he said: How madly thou hast listened and believed! but look on my present state as a full answer to thee and myself. This body is all weakness and pain; bu my soul, as if strung up by torment to greater strength and spirit, is full power. ful to reason, full mighty to suffer. And that which thus triumphs within the jaws of immortality, is doubtless immortal. And as for a Deity, nothing less than an Almighty could inflict what I feel. * * Remorse for the past throws my thought on the future. Worse dread of the future strikes it back on the past; I turn and turn and find no ray. Didst thou fee! half the mountain that is on me, thou wouldst struggle with the martyr for his stake, and bless Heaven for its flames! That is not an everlasting flame; that is not an unquenchable fire! * * * My principles have poisoned my friend, my extravagance has beggared my boy, and my unkindness has murdered my wife! And is there another hell? Oh thou blasphemed yet indulgent LORD GOD! hell itself is a refuge, if it hide me from thy frown!" The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. BEHOLD the sacrifice of human blood, Amid the waves her helpless infant throws; The engraving shows heathenism.. a calf of Egypt and the Persian fire, both variety of forms. One of the most prom- objects of worship, also appear. In one inent is a priest sacrificing a human vic-section the gods of ancient Greece and tim to appease or gain the favor of some Rome are represented, before which worimaginary deity, who delights in the shipers are prostrated. shedding of human blood. In front are the crocodile, the ibex, and some creeping things, all of which have been worshiped as deities by nations of antiquity. In the back-ground the Hindoo mother is casting her infant into the river, the sacred Ganges; the golden In remote antiquity we find that heathen nations lived in fear of some great malignant spirit or spirits, who ruled over the countries where they dwelt. To obtain the favor of these infernal deities, they often sacrificed what they esteemed the most valuable, and on great occasions human victims were of fered. On one of these we are informed that Xerxes, the Persian, buried alive nine young men and nine young women, belonging to the country he was traversing, to obtain the favor of the gods. In this he followed the example of his wife, for she commanded fourteen Persian children of illustrous birth to be offered !'in that manner to the deity who reigns beneath the earth. When Æneas was to perform the last kind office for his friend Pallas, he sacrificed (besides numerous oxen, sheep, and swine) eight captives to the infernal gods. Achilles, also, caused twelve Trojans of high birth to bleed by the sacerdotal knife, over the ashes of his friend Patroclus. "A hundred feet in length, a hundred wide, The glowing structure spreads on every side; High on the top the manly corse they lay, And well-fed sleep and stable oxen slay; The last of all, and horrible to tell, The practice of shedding human blood before the altars of their gods was not peculiar to the Trojans and the Greeks. The Romans, in the first ages of their republic, sacrificed children to the goddess Mania. In later periods, numerous gladiators bled at the tombs of the patricians or nobles, to appease the manes or ghosts of the deceased. And it is particularly noticed, that after the taking of Perusia, there were sacrificed on the ides of March, three hundred senators and knights to the divinity of Julius Cæsar. The Carthagenians defeated by Agathocles, tyrant of Sicily, attributed their disgrace to the anger of their god, and offered two hundred children, taken from the most distinguished families in Carthage. The mode of sacrificing these children was horrid in the extreme; for they were cast into the arms of a brazen statue, and from thence dropped into a furnace. It was probably in this manner the Ammonites offered up their children to Moloch. The Pelasgi at one time sacrificed a tenth part of all their children in obedience to an oracle. The Egyptians in Heliopolis daily sacrificed three men to Juno. The Spartans and Arcadians scourged to death young women-the latter to appease the wrath of Bacchus, the former to gratify Diana. The Gauls, equally cruel in their worship, sacrificed men to their ancient deities, and at a later period to Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Minerva, etc. Cæsar informs us that whenever they thought themselves in danger, whether from sickness or any considerable defeat in war, being persuaded that unless life be given for life the anger of the gods could never be appeased, they constructed wicker images of enormous bulk, which they filled with men, who were first suffocated with smoke, and then consumed with fire. In Sweden the altars of Woden smoked incessantly with blood. This flowed most abundantly at their solemn festivals. every ninth year at Upsal. When the king, attended by the senate and his courtiers, entered the temple, which glittered with gold, and conducted to the altar nine slaves, or in time of war, nine captives. These first received the caresses of the multitude, as being about to avert from them the displeasure of their gods. In times of distress more noble victims bled, and it stands upon record (says Dr. Clarke) that when Aune, their king, was ill, he offered up to Woden his nine sons to prolong his life. The Danes had the same heathenish and abominable customs. Hacon, King of Norway, offered his own son to obtain from Woden the victory over Harrold, bled. naut and two other images, said to be his brother and sister, are brought out and set upon huge cars. Six cables are attached to the car of Juggernaut, three hundred feet in length, by means of which the people draw it from place to place. Devotees, for the purpose of gaining in a future life, health, riches and honor, cast themselves under the wheels of the car to be crushed to death. "Here rolls the hated car, brains Grinding and crashing bones, and hearts and with whom he was at war. In Russia the Sclavi worshiped many gods. Peroun, their thunderer, was supreme, and before his image many of their prisoners Suetovid, the god of war, was their favorite, and they annually presented as a burnt offering three hundred prisoners, each on his horse, and when the whole was consumed by fire, the priests and people sat down to eat and drink until they were drunk. The ancient Peruvians, on this western continent sacrificed their children to the sun. In more modern times, thousands have voluntarily perished in India, under the wheels of their god Juggernaut. The ancient Egyptians, though consid-Sunk in the wounded earth. The sigh, the breath, erably advanced in civilization, debased themselves by their heathenish system of religion. Their principal gods were Osiris and Isis, which are supposed to be the sun and moon. Beside this they worshiped the ox, the dog, the cat, the crocodile, the ibis or stork, and even creeping things. The bull Apis had a splendid temple erected to him; great honors were paid to him when living, and still greater after his death. The golden calf was set up by the Israelites near Mount Sinai, and worshiped. The blood, and life, and soul, with spurting rush, * # Upwards of a week is sometimes spent in dragging the car about two miles. Every time it stops, one of the priests steps forward on the platform, and rehearses the deeds and extols the character of the idol in a manner the most obscene. One of the most prominent forms of Should the speaker quote from the Shasheathenism in modern times, is the wor-ters, (their sacred books,) or invent an ship of the idol Juggernaut in India. This huge misshapen image is kept in a temple, of which the principal part rises to an elevation of two hundred feet. Numerous festivals are held in honor of the idol, the most important of which are the bathing and car festivals. For a long period, pilgrims have assembled in vast numbers, from various parts of India, to attend the ceremonies. Great sufferings are experienced, in consequence of excessive fatigue, among those who come from a distance. Many die from exposure and want of food. The plains in many places are whitened with the bones of the pilgrims, while dogs and vultures are continually devouring the dead. expression more than usually lascivious, the multitude give a shout or sensual yell. The abominations practiced on these occasions, both in language and manner, can not be named among a Christian people. From time immemorial Hindoo mothers have thrown their infant children into the Ganges, to be devoured by alligators, to propitiate some offended deity. For merly thousands of widows were burnt on the funeral pile of their deceased husbands. They thus escaped the disgrace of being widows, and became, as they believed, entitled to a residence with their husbands and relatives in heaven. Such is the religion of the most pcpuAt one of the annual festivals, Jugger-lous of heathen countries, in modern |