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that an empire can rise without his aid :
We have been assured, sir, in The sacred
writings, that except the Lord build the
house, they labor in vain that build it. ]
firmly believe this; and also believe that
without his concuring aid, we shall sue
ceed in this political building, no better
than the builders Of Babel. We shall be
divided by our little partial local interest !;
our projects will be confounded and we
ourselves will become a reproach and a
by-word down to future ages" He then
moved, that prayers should be performed
in that assembly every morning before
they proceeded to business.


A LIVING DEATH --Intoxication is liv-
ing death How dead to all around him is
he whose whole soul is buried beneath the
black waters of intemperance What does
he know Of the good gifts Of an eternal
God He goes forth in the morning, but
takes no delight; the soft summer breeze
which comes sweetly scented, and laden
with health over the green fields and
through the sweet brier and wild roses to
salute, as with an angels wing, the tempe
rate and good, and which finds a glad and
happy response, to him of the Bottle, is but
mockery and why why is it so' Be-
cause he is dead, bis mind is impure; and
purity and heallhlulness, in his thoughts
find no sympathy. The varied flowers as
they open their tiny lips to bless God, and
receivesthe gentle dew ofmorning, conveyto
his mind no lesson, affordto his heart no plea
sure. He is indeed dead, dead in health, in
morals, in every thing. Cheerlulness is to
him stranger, he knows not. Excitement,
maddening, delirious excitement is the ele-
ment in which he moves and unless he is
constantly under the influence and sur
rounded by the atmosphere cf such excite
ment he doubly feels his degradation Is
he not then dead And is it not our duty
to plead with him, to petition him, to beg
of him TO come once more to life