right to leave him orphaned, to his sorrow; and you, could not-no! you could not attempt his little life :" "What seest thou yonder, mother?" faltered the boy, whom her movement had disturbed, but who was now too weak to approach the soupirail for refreshment. "I see Heaven's mighty annshine, dear Eugene, bright as if it shone upon no human misery. I see the white city of Coblentz, backed by its green plantations, and sending up a thousand hearths. Beside them there is happiness, Engene,-smiles and food, child;--and with us, abideth nought, save trust in the mercy of God. Think upon it-think my beloved child, that we shall soon be free from pain and grief!" "I cannot think, mother; my head swims strangely. But there is still feeling in my heart,—and it is all for thee and for my father!” "Eugene, should we survive this peril,-and thou hast the strength of youth in thy favour-let this remembrance become a pledge for the tender mercies of thy future life; so that the poor and the hungry may not plead in vain." "Mother! thy words reach not my failing ears; draw nearer, mother, for I would die with my hand in thine." On that very day the destinies of the fortress were accomplished; and the sacrifice, which had been made, was made in vain:-the fiat of the congress of Rastadt, commanded the brave Faber to open its gates to the enemies of his country. The noble brother of Eveline D'Aubiguy, whose anxiety for her liberation had motived in a great measure the blockade of Ehrenbreitstein, was the first to rush in the chamber of the captive. No living thing stirred there! The boy had died first,—for his face was covered, and his limbs composed: and Eveline, (if the fair wasted thing which lay beside him might claim that name,) had perished in the effort of executing that last duty! The Treasurer of the Domestic Missionary Society of the Lutheran Church in the State of New-York, acknowledges the receipt of the following sums and subscriptions, from May 5th to Sept. 16th, 1829: Missionary Fund. Canajoharie-Collection in the church, at the anniversary meeting of the Society, Hartwick--Young Men's D. M. S. of Hartwick Seminary, Brunswick--Rev. Jacob Sanderling, $11 11 3 00 19 50 9 00 13 00 · 10 00 An Appeal to the Females of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, in be half of Education and Missionary Societies. I acknowledge it to be somewhat delicate to appeal to you in behalf of our benevolent institutions; but knowing that your hearts are open, and your hands willing to assist the destitute, to raise up the bowed down, to instruct the ignorant, and to have all come to, and be washed in that fountain which has been opened for sin and uncleanness;these considerations, together with the wants of our beloved church, are my only apology for asking you charities, your alms, your prayers, and your good wishes. The church, to which we belong, and in which we have been nurtured, has had the finger of God visibly displayed in her commencement, her extension and her prosperity. Her powerful energies in the glorious reformation, stemmed the torrent of vice and corruption that was deluging the civilized world. Her moral influence divided the foul waters of iniquity and lead the protestant nations into the promised land, and gave them those blessings and privileges, and the means of grace, which they so richly experience. The springs of water which she has opened, partake of the rivers of salvation. The bread which she breaks. partakes of that, which endureth throughout eternity. Her ordinances are those which the gospel teaches. Her ceremonies are few. Her doctrines are neither couched in metaphysical jargons, no mingled with polemic divinity, but they are as plain and as simple as the unerring word of God of which they are composed; they breathe no other spirit but the mild and gentle, and pure one of Jesus. Every man that can read, can understand them, and be made wise unto salvation. Had the corner stone of our church not been reared upon the rock, Christ Jesus, all her superstructures would long since have fallen into ruins, and no vestige of her greatness remained. But, nearly three centuries have attested to the validity of her foundation, the purity of her doctrines and the soundness of her faith. She has been assailed by persecutors, but like pure gold that is tried in a furnace, she has come out the more purified. She has withstood all the evils that the powers of darkness could devise against her. She has stood, and still stands, clad in the garments of religion. Her borders are widening, and her christian graces increasing on both sides the Atlantic. But, thousands of her children are scattered throughout our land, destitute of those heavenly gifts which she, in her ordinances, is calculated so richly to dispense. 'Tis true, we ought to embrace all mankind in the arms of benevolence, but to supply only them with the bread of life, I ask your aid and co-operation. They are chiefly composed either of emigrants from the land of our fathers, or their descendants. They have been initiated into the pale of our church, and dedicated to God by the solemn rite of holy baptism, and many of them are confirmed, and are entitled to all the rights and privileges of church-membership. They are attached to our beloved Zion, and for her welfare, their prayers ascend to the throne of mercy. Their distance of location from the residence of our clergy, prevents their attendance at our sanctuaries and partaking of the memorials of a Saviour's love. The Lord's day comes and retires, but they receive no spiritual nourishment. The sound of the church-going bell, invites us to the courts of the Lord, but it salutes not their ears. Though churches of other communion are near them, they remain at home with their harps unstrung, saying, how can we sing the praises of the Lord in a strange house. They consider themselves forgotten, neglected and forsaken by us, their kinsmen.— They consider that command of our Saviour, "go unto all nations and preach the gospel," as but little regarded by us. They consider that charity which christianity breathes, and that debt of which Paul speaks, are not deeply felt in our hearts. In a word, they consider that zeal and spirit, which our church in Europe possesses for missionary and other benevolent institutions, not manifested here. True, something of late has been done. The cry, come over and help us, has been listened to, and sensibly felt. Some mites have been thrown in the treasury of the Lord, for benevolent purposes.A few missionaries have explored some parts of our wide extended land, and wherever they have come, they were welcomed with the warmest embrace. The rich blessings of Almighty God were invoked upon them from a thousand grateful hearts. They were received as angels of merey; and though their ministry among them was short, yet we have reason to hope that much good has been effected. Many a heart overwhelmed with sorrow has been cheered; many a down-cast and woo-be-gone look has been brightened into gladness; many a pale countenance has beamed with a heavenly joy; many a tottering frame has received strength from the Lord; and a number of souls lingering on the borders of eternity, yet unwilling to go, have, in the language of sinners, exclaimed, now, Lord, let thy servant depart in peace, for we have seen thy salvation. Great and glorious tidings! Whose heart does not feel deeply affected by such an interesting people? Who is not willing to have some laborers sent in such a vineyard of the Lord, to have it cultivated, in order to reap a great spiritual harvest? Where is the female that will not give her mite, in order that missionaries may go among them, to preach Christ, and him crucified? Where is the pious mother, that will not rear up her only son, in the nurture and admonition of the Lord-dedicate him to God, and invoke his rich blessing upon his head, to become qualified to preach the gospel of salvation to them? Where is the pious mother that will not tell her daughters, come and see with what heartfelt joy, those people receive the preached word? Let us do something for them; let us assemble our neighbors together; let us lay this interesting subject before them; and let us give something of the increase of our gain, and of the earnings of our hands, into the treasury of the Lord, to supply them with the bread of life, for which they hunger and starve, And where is the open-hearted daughter, that will not cheerfully engage in such a glorious cause, that will not at least, spend one, or a part of a day, in each week, in works of charity and benevolence, and give the avails of it, to our Education and Missionary Societies? NOEL. [To be continued.] MASSACRE OF FRENCH PROTESTANTS. The act of which we are to speak, is usually termed by historians the "Massacre of St. Bartholomew," because it commenced in the night of the day consecrated in the papal calendar to that papal saint. It appears certain that it was secretly planned, at the instigation of the Pope and his satellites, in the family of the French king, about the year 1570-the very year when that king, fearing the number and warlike attitude of his protestant subjects, made a treaty of peace with them, and by a solemn edict granted them the privilege of religious worship. Some authors are of opinion that it originated earlier. Among the unequivocal signs of the coming storm, was an unprovoked and cold-blooded attack by a party of Catholics under the duke of Guise, upon a congregation of unarmed Hugonots at Vassi, while performing divine worship in a barn. It appears that as the duke was hearing mass at this place, the Hugonots happened to be singing a psalm, which being looked upon by those around him as an act of contempt for the papal faith, his lacqueys and pages grossly insulted them, and his men-at-arms and harquebuziers broke into the barn-fired at the minister in the midst of his sermon, and murdered and mangled all they could find. It is true, attempts were made by the friends of the duke to acquit him of all blame for this murderous assault, and to convey the impression that it was altogether accidental; but how is this to be reconciled with the vindictive exclamation which escaped him immediately after, that "with his sword he would cut in two the edict of Toleration?" He was unquestionably pleased with it, and the story of his apologists rests upon no better foundation than that in which, describing it as an affray" brought on by "the religionists themselves," they enumerate only the sixty slain, without making any mention of more than two hundred wounded, or of the women and children who were among the sufferers. The chief, or, as he is called in history, the leader of the Hugonots at this period, was Admiral de Coligny, a brave and accomplished ca valier and a sincere christian, worthy to be held in remembrance by every descendant of the race in whose veins there runs a drop of the blood. Born to an affluent fortune, and gifted with a mind of the highest order, his ardent temper, nurtured upon the ocean, led him at an early period to embark in the cause of the Protestants, and to use his best exertions for its success. Like a generous sailor, "free as the air," no obstacles however appalling-no threats however ferocious— and no indignities however cruel, could for a moment damp the ardor of his zeal; and he went on step by step, "conquering and to conquer," till popery "shivered in the wind," and the tyrant of France trembled on his throne! It was at this critical period, when de Coligny almost swayed the empire, that king Charles issued the memorable edict of Nantz-not as we now know from a sincere desire to tolerate the religion of the Hugonots, but to lull them into a false security that they might afterwards be the easier ensnared. But though Admiral de Coligny had thus by a series of skilful measures placed his followers upon commanding ground, and almost sealed the fate of the papal religion in Europe, it was done at the sacrifice of his own personal comfort and his own ample fortune. He exhausted that fortune in the service of the Hugonots, and died loaded with debt. And did they, as in modern instances, suffer their great benefactor to repine in want, or curtail him in the least of his wonted authority? By no means. Let it be recorded to their eternal honor, that from the common fund raised by assessment, with the assent of the King, on all the members of the party, collected by regular officers, and paid into a general treasury, the Admiral received a monthly pension suitable to his exalted rank. He was treated as usual with the highest veneration and respect. A guard was furnished for his person, and lists of his adherents throughout France, with the Chiefs appointed to govern and direct them in every province, as well as a muster-roll of Hugonot officers and soldiers, were regularly returned to him. Such was Admiral de Coligny, and such the estimation in which his countrymen held them. The more effectually to cover its nefarious design, the court of France, completely under the sinister influence of the Pope, projected a marriage in 1570 between Margaret, the King's sister, and Henry, Prince of Bearn, (at that time favorable to the Hugunots;) and believing that this stroke of policy would be sufficient to blind the eyes of the Admiral, he was, in September 1571, warmly invited to visit Blois, where the court then resided. Unluckily for him, and the good cause which seemed wholly to depend upon the strength of his single arm, he in an evil hour, contrary to the remonstrances of his aged friends, accepted of the invitation; and was, of course, received with great respect and apparent cordiality. He was "restored to all his honors and dignities, and loaded with benefits and marks of confidence. When absent from court, the king maintained a correspondence with him by letters; and in their private conversations, he affected to unbosom himself without reserve to his new friend, cautioned him against his mother and her Italian favorites, spoke disparagingly of his brother, and, in giving the characters of his Marshals, freely described their faults and censured their vices." Even the deputies of the Hugunots, who, before this, had ventured to court on the affairs of their party, "met with marked favor from the king, and some of them were admitted into his intimacy."-E. Review, vol. 44, p. 129. But the destruction of one victim, conspicuous as he might be, did not, in the opinion of the conspirators, appear to be sufficient to crush |