February 14th 1930 Sunday. This is my seventy sixth birth. day. Now let me reflect in what means ner I have passed the sundays, & other days & hours during a life of Seventysix years! How much of this time hasbeer. mispent, and how little of it has been devoted to God. How many mercies here have been overlooked; how mony Blessings dis regarded & forgotten? Father in heave wilt thou graciously pardon my maniI transgressions, and enable me to devot my remaining days to thy services. il glory & praise be rendered to god доб who hath been pleased to sustain me in and those I love, in life & the enjo enjoymen of health to this advanced period: Ail glory & praise be rendered to hi for the innumerable blessings erfavors which have flowed from his &ivine goodness towards me. It is from his great goodness that I have been raised from humble life to a standing of som. по enmity, nor indulge respectability in the world, & made in some degree instrumental of useful ness in my day & generation. O that my hear might be filled with prous gratitude to the Divine giver of all things for domestic peace & enjoyments, for family comforts & affectionate endearments, and for the kind est regards of an extensive circle of friend From memics I have nothing to appre hand for I hold envy save towards those who manifest "purity of heart & a pious deportment . But for myself the time seems rapidly approaching when this earthly taberacle shall be dissolved, this mortal shall but I put "on immortality. Oh! my soul what are thy hopes pertaining to the future ! They are to behold the one only living & true God in whom I put my trust enthroned in majesty & glory in heaven. to behold my gracious savior & redeemer the son of righteousness setting at the right hand of his father & my Lather; making intercession for a wicked face. In this Savior I profess to have faith, is able to save all that come unto God through him in trece faith & purity of heart Lord I behave; help thou mine unbilief. Lord wilt thou strengthen y faith of animate my hope my hope in the the dea Ver. I believe that pesus Christ is the lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world - God has seen fit fit to lay help on one who is mighty to save! He is able to save all that come unto God through him, & there is no other way by which we can be saved. I be lieve that Jesus thirst died to bring life & immortality to light. This I be lieve, yet I Lond help thou mine unbelief! "Increase & strengthen my faith warm & animate my pious affen "cons. Wilt thou & Lord rouse my Youl 1om coldness & lukewarmness, & yet e from superstitious & entree_ istic reptures. What I pray for дже myself most merciful father I, pray for my family is for all my firends & be latives to all future generations. Excellent sentiment of Sir Humphrey Davy. "I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius power, wit or fancy; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, & I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a Firm Religious Belief to every other Blessing? The following acknowledgement of Reed Mr Hildreth of Gloucester is honorable to the writer & ought to universally dissemi nated. is the age, I aver, is disgraced. by а spirit angry controversy & mutual ainsation among ministers; and I hereby enter my solemn protest against this enormous berging immorality. For my own sin in this matter, I desire to fed ashamed, & abased; and I call upon my quilly brethren to repent, of their sin; that. we may confess our faults one to another, that Mr.H. had much reason to complain of the conduct of some orthodox clergyment we may be healed." religion which makes That is a вад us hate the religion of other people That is a bad sect of Chistians which its members to think con encourages temptuously of all other sects of Christians!" From the Chinstian Register May 12, 1831 The following views of Christ's Character by Rei? • Jacob Norton appear's perfectly conSist and with truth, and are more mind than To my contemplated. Satisfactory any other which I have I regard Jesus Christ, as well a wonderful wonderful Counsellor " person, How great is the extent of his being, or the perfections and glories of his person, I know do I expect ever to know. Nor per mot; nor fection of any lief, It is be do I know what are the extent and other being. It however, that he is the greatest & most glorious of all created, or derived, or dependent beings, of whom we have any information! But that he is as truly he created, derived and dependent eing, as any other beings, is, I think, a unambiguos truth & revelation Lidar and |