MISCELLANEOUS. From Davison's Poetical Rhapsody.

THE SOUliS ERRAND. Bo, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand, Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant; Co, since 1 needs must die, And give the world the lie.

Tell men of high condition, That rule affrirs of state, Their purpose is ambition,

, Their practice only hate; And if they once reply, Then give them all ihe lie.

Tell them that brave it most, They beg for more by spending, Who io their greatest cost, Seek nothing but commending; And if they make reply, TSien give them all the lie.

Tell zeal it lacks devotion, Tell love it is but lust, Tell time it is but motion, Tell flesh it is but dust; And wi.»h them not reply, For tbou must give the lie.

Tell age it daily wasteth, Tell honour how it ahers, Tell beauty how she blastetb, Tell favour how she falters; Ami as they shall reply, Give every one the lie.

Tell wit how it wrangles In treble poinds of niceness, "fcjll wisdom she entangles Herself in ovcrwiscness; And when they do reply,

- {Straight give t!»cm both the lie.

Tell pbywck of bor boldness, Tell .-kill it is pretention, Tell charity of coldness, Tell law it is contention. And as they da reply, f o give tbem itill '.he lie.

Tell fortune of her blindness, - Tell nature ofdecax.

Tell Frion.lship of nnkiodncss, Till justice oi'delay; And it"ihey will reply, Then give then all li.c lie.

Tell arts they have no soundness, TJut vary by esteeming, Tell sefcoukthey want profoundness, And stand too much on seeming; If arts and schools reply, Give arts and schools the lie.

Tell faith it's fled the city, Tell how the country crreth, Tell manhood shakes off pity, Tell virtue least prefcrreth ; Aod if they do reply, .Spare not to give the -he.

And when tliou hast, as I Commanded thee, done babbling, Although to give the lie, Deserves no Jc s than stabbing1, Tct stab at thee who will, .No stab the soul caa kill.

From the Ptiilaathroniat. CRITICIMri. No. II .

MR. EDITOR : Your prompt publication of my

first number demands my thanks and I am no less rejoiced to fmd coincidence in sentiment, which you ore pleased to avow.

In these latter days, when the Ikrht of reason ami revelation is diffusing itself through the habita­ble globe; and in this country so highly favoured with the benign influence of the gospel it is a most painful truth, that there exists an organized combination whose ef­forts are zealously directed to the subversion of all those salutary re­straints which the obligations of religion would fain impose upon publick depravity and immorality. Already the varwhoop is sounded, the yell of infidelity echoes through the bud, and the whole troop of disciplined apostates are let loose upon society, and as "their father the devil" are " going about seek­ing whom they may devour."

In the morning they have a u8cieriUfick lecture," for you may be assured they are the "scientif-icks" ot our city. Indeed they openly declare that no ignorant or illiterate men will come from un-fler the yoke of priestly domina­tion into the "liberty of nature," and of course the members of the " F r e e Press Association" will contain the "literary and scicntif-ick." In the afternoon, they have a "theological lecture ;" for you must-know they are "theologians,1

having learned " at the feet of Gamaliel," via Beneca, Volncy, Voltaire, Gibbon, Bolinbroke, and Paine, and last, though not least, from the author of that vile coni-pend of blasphemy " Ecce Homo;" the author of which, having been driven from his own free country by the tyranny of a "trial by jury," has found a refuge here from the rigour of English law, and being

church melody from thoee "bund- i red spires which pierce the* s k y * ] ^ in this " London of America." .

Thus far the laws of our city are inadequate to suppress this heav­en provoking conspiracy, and hitherto the wrath of God, the vengeance of heaven have delay­ed, but in the language of inspired prophecy the time is at hand when God "shall laugh at their calamity and mock when their lear cometh." " He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh, Jehovah shall hold them in derision."

Meanwhile it may be well ftr them to know that

44 A chi-eVsamons^thtm takiri notes, And faith he'll print them."

And I humbly trust that I shall be able to furnish you with an ab­stract of their proceedings which may prove a salutary lesson to our rising generation upon whom they seem to have a *:dark and deep de

out of the reach .of British officers sign." And I shall perhaps make ol justice, is vending his pestiier- j apparent the sympathetic!* con ous contagion in the character of IMglt Priest of this unti-pritsthj association in the city of New York; this monster being the principal lecturer, and chief of the club.

Already a periodical paper has been published called " T h e Cor­respondent," the few numbers of which already issued, are -filled with abuse of the Bible and its au­thor, & loaded with sacrilegious rid ic ule of our holy religion the most of which is but a collection of the vulgarity and obscenity which has been over and over castigated and refuted by Christian writers who were contemporary with the mis­guided authors; and these have long since gone to their last ac­count most of them by their own hand, "unaunointed, unannealed with all their sins upon their heads.

Only a few months has the ex­istence of this association been known, and wifh the zeal of a M Tract Society" they have issued from tiie press and circulated two coitions ol the "Age of Reason," having prefaced it with short no­tices of** distinguished deists," a-whom are reckoned "Iknjamin Franhihi, Thomas Jefferson, and Ell­as flicks;" the two former no

ncxion existing between this sub­ject and "intemperance and its kindred vices.,"

For he who would rob me of the support while living, and the con­solations when dying, which the gospel inspires, without affording me a substitute equally effectual, whether that gospel be true or false, he is worse than an assassin. And he who removes the salutary restraints upon human depravity, which the obligations of religion successfully impose, turns loose upon Bociety a population of "rav­ening wolves" less mischievous than the tiger, because endued with less power of doing mis­chief. K.

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T H E C I U T A I Q U E MISSION­ARY.

5N offering a work of this kind to the friends of Zion we truat we are

influenced by no selfish consideratons; but bij a desire to promote the best in­terests of our fellow men, and the glo­ry of our Redeemer.

We arc aware that in this county doubt introduced with a view of so recently redeemed from nature's courting Witional and political ad-1 rudeness by the enterprising and in-illation, and the latter is honoured] dustrious, there are fine meekly pa-by this notice to ensure the ai'ivc-lpcr* diffusing their intelligence and tions of the misguided and uuwa-i influence ; but we. find, however re ry youth of the Society of fricntte. I 'Potable they may be, as poRticn A great number of small books\Jomnmk, neither is devoted to the and tracts containing even worse \i,,tercsts °fthnt kingdom which is not blasphemy are also in circulation \¥ this world; And we do ardently no doubt from the same s o u r c e — ' * » Und j ^ r f « t f / y *r&«w lA/rc • One of these is entitled, bv a! a b i U t * " J rT&J"?"* '? '*/

. -i .r ' ,.*•«,. cause of Christ in Lhantauque to at most sacrilegious artifice, " T / i c : ^ , , ! ; . , , , , . . , . . , ^ , , J J : ± . . , , . , , , , • ford her intelligent and reading pop Gr^M^th^mime,^^^^^ one * of a reli£0

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of Jars and cnntiians, embeUtshedlr/mraf/,r. So confident are we of willt a mtk a eorrcd hkmmeV Huv-j this that we lay our design boldly be mg only had a passing glance ofj / o re the publick, depending for sue this vilest of the vile, 1 am unable j cess upon the blessings of Heaven if my pen would consent, to copy j and the enlightened and pious Zeal of exactly the horrid atheism with i our brethren. which it abounds. My heart shud-J Feeling diffident of our abilities, ders wh$n 1 record that it says 4>i'W€ dare make no very flatierip prow-the Great Jehovah, " H e is^&w', j *** tn elicit s^pport: but wc cheer-a thief, a murderer, a goiyji»3wife \fuU9 *a!ftha* »» humble reliance up-a bcijffar, a butcher, a juggler, a!'"1 Di"ine aid> we uia *f l0 make •' witch; fee. fee. &C.» numbering-r o r t A * the patronage of all who over a hundred or uiore epithets equally blasphemous .and profane, and referring Jo the ciiapter and verse in the Old Testament on which the accusations they thus bring against their Maker, are founded. Proposals are issued for an edition of " Ecce Homo," the infamous book before men­tioned and also for a new Bible! ! / to which last, I understand, 250 subscribers have been obtained.

The meetings of this club r.. are ee for all, and are accordingly attended by a mixed multitude, and the hearts of your readers will shudder when they learn, that 50 or CO ladies have so far divest­ed themselves of the fear of God,

In the city of of New-York, it t n e respect of their characters, and would seem that a systematick ef- ! t n a t jewel which alone ornaments fort is to be made to brave t h e t n e i r sex, as to attend these l e c - j « r ^ « & ' ^ ^ S ^ ^ o wr*"o7e"*I publick opinion, and hurl defiance | t u r e s where they are taught from at the laws of God and man. A \tllis m o c k P^P^»» order to ridi-club, called by a misnom/jr, "Thelcm*e the Bible, that "they may Free Press Association," has been | l c a r n chastity from Lot's dnugh-formed, which, among other "la-« t e r s • • '" an(* a u 8UCft v"e obsceni-boured deeds of hard earned infa-! ty 5 t o t n e utterance of which the my," meet every Sunday morning {" scientifick". and " theological" and afternoon for the avowed pur-pole of profaning the Sabbath of the Lord by profane songs, Which they call "odes to nature;" by re­tailing Voltaire and Paine's vulgar ribaldry in the form of lectures de­livered from a mock pulpit; over which is suspended a portrait of Tom Paine, their prophet and Deity, together with a painting of Indians, women, and children « a state of "nature.*

members of this club respond by a clap of the hands, stamping with their feet, and a loud laugh, such as may be heard at a theatre, and learned at the scenes of drunken profanity and midnight reveling, to which infidelity ultimately leads its votaries. All this may be seen on the Holy Sabbath in the city of New-York, within a few yards of the temple of justice & within; the sound of the bells which ring'their

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