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MISSIONARIES.

And Britain has her sons, both frank and brave,
Who noble triumphs win, but wear no glave !
Sons, who in heart as firm, in toil as free,
Have spread her glorious name from sea to sea!
Men, who have pushed their conquests wide and far,
And changed to pruning hooks the shafts of war;
Who bear no glittering arms-no banners wave-
Who strike no blow, are stricken but to save!
Yet still they conquer! and where they appear,
The painted savage breaks his poisoned spear:
A bloodless triumph follows in their train-
For those they vanquish feel no victor's chain!
They conquer! nor like other conquerors boast
A prostrate people and a plundered coast-
Nor pant to hear a nation's deafening peals,
With captive warriors at their chariot-wheels-
Nor hang, like relics, in our holiest fane,
The flags that blush with wars unhallow'd stain-
No-theirs are triumphs war can never bring!
Theirs are the pœans guardian seraphs sing!
Their noblest banner is the book of truth!
Their trophies-age, and infancy, and youth!
"Tis theirs to free-exalt-and not debase-
The painted brothers of our common race!
Nor stripe-nor tribute-nor oppressive sway
Degrade their labours, or obstruct their way!
Their watchword still-Let war and sorrow cease!
Their noblest epithet-The Men of Peace!

DR. WILLIAM BEATTIE.

The above is extracted from a poem entitled Polynesia, of which the author observes, "That it is intended to convey a concise, but vivid and faithful picture of the Missionary scheme, as it operates among the beautiful islands of the South Seas-islands on which the light of religion has now conferred a moral existence; and that, in selecting this subject, he was actuated by an oft-repeated domestic exhortation-Let each do something to recommend the noblest of all enterprises-The regeneration of Pagan nations, by the diffusion of Christian principles."" Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.-MARK XV. 15.

Spread the tidings of salvation,

Spread them far, from shore to shore ;
Unto every heathen nation

Tell of Him the cross who bore;

Spread the Gospel

Until darkness be no more.

Long, too long, this nation's glory
Hath on violence been built;
Sung in song, and told in story,
Are her many deeds of guilt;
Now the Gospel

Bids that blood no more be spilt.
Mighty empires we have founded,
Millions own our Sovereign's sway;
Loud let Zion's trump be sounded,
So that all may bless the day
When the Gospel

Bade the spoiler's hand to stay.
Send the pastor, and the teacher,
Build the church, the school erect;
And let every zealous preacher
All the glorious light reflect
Of the Gospel ;

So we hope, and so expect!
Scoffers by the great St. Lawrence,
Pagans by the Ganges' tide,-
Look not on them with abhorrence,
'Twas for such the Saviour died;
Spread the Gospel

Through Australia's regions wide. All the Christian Church may render Aid in this great work of good; Not alone by those who wander Forth, by wilderness and flood, Are the Gospel

Workers to be understood.

Each within his sphere, according
To his means, may smooth the way;

He shall meet a high rewarding
At the final reckoning day,
Who the Gospel

Precepts seeketh to obey :

What are these?-Love one another;
Give, as ye would have it given;
Strive to save a fallen brother;
Sinners teach the way to heaven!
As the Gospel

Teaches, have we wrought and striven?

H. G. ADAMS.

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PASSION, VIOLENCE, &c.

PASSION; violent commotion of the mind; anger; zeal; ardour; eagerness; love. JOHNSON.

The word passion signifies the receiving any action in a large philosophical sense; in a more limited philosophical sense, it signifies any of the affections of human nature, as love, fear, joy, sorrow; but the common people confine it only to anger. WATTS.

In the scriptures the word passion is sometimes put for the last sufferings of the Redeemer of the world.

See ACTS 1. 3; 1 PETER I. 11.

Our natural and sinful infirmities are also called pas-
See ACTS XIV. 15; JAMES V, 17, &c.

sions.
The word PASSION, like COMPASSION, comes from the
Latin verb Patior, I suffer; from this root we have
also PATIENT; PATIENCE; PASSIVE; the same words
with the prefix IM; PASSIONATE, DISPASSIONATE, &c. &c.

A most ridiculous singularity has crept into our language in the signification of the word passion. One would suppose by its general appropriation to the passion of anger, that this was the strongest of all passions, and that therefore it was so called by way of eminence. It is true, the effects of anger are like the rest of the passions of an active nature; but the cause of it, like that of the rest, is an impression made on the mind by some object which occasions a kind of suffering. If you were to tell a Frenchman that such a man were in a passion, he would ask, "Quel le passion, Monsieur?"" What passion, Sir?" And if you were to explain it further, he would say, "Eh! vous vondriez dire qu'il est en colere.' "Ah! you mean to say that he is angry." In consequence of this common application of the word, a passionate man means an angry man; while the most awful and important fact in Christianity, the " Passion of our Saviour," is in direct opposition to such a sense.

See WALKER'S English Grammar.

VIOLENCE; outrage; unjust force; eagerness; vehe

mence; injury; infringement.

JOHNSON.

Grieved at his heart, when looking down he saw
The whole earth filled with violence; and all flesh
Corrupting each their way.

MILTON.

Violentus is the Latin for FORCIBLE, coming, it is said from Vis, FORCE; and hence we derive our words V10LENCE; VIOLENT; VIOLATE; INVIOLATE; VIOLATION; INVIOLABLE, &c.

PASSION, in the active sense in which we commonly understand the word, very frequently leads to VIOLENCE, and this is a sufficient reason for their being placed together. In the scriptures occur many allusions to the latter mode of action, as the following examples will show. The scriptural references to PASSION, will be found more at large under the head of ANGER.

And God said unto Noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. GENESIS VI. 13.

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He (our Saviour) had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. ISAIAH LIII. 9.

Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood. JEREMIAH XXII. 3.

John the Baptist said to the Roman soldiers-do violence to no man. LUKE III. 14.

Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. PSALM CXL. 11.

The passions and desires, like the two twists of a rope, mutually mix one with the other, and twine inextricably round the heart; producing good, if moderately indulged; but certain destruction, if suffered to become inordinate. BURTON.

PASSION is not an energy but a sufferance. It is-to be deprived of the possession of ourselves-the mind is overborne by the force of circumstances; yet it is no uncommon error to consider a passionate temper as the manifestation of strength, precisely because it is an annoyance. But, in truth, passion is not the less on that account, essentially weakness. The passionate man is himself

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under a perpetual state of annoyance; and at best, is as little to be relied on by himself, as by others. The transports of a passionate man are the expressions of his internal sufferings; and his conduct is as much disconcerted by them, as are his powers of thinking.

There is plenty of room for a peaceable man in the most thronged assembly. But a quarrelsome spirit is straightened in the open field.

TUPPER'S PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY. He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a passion. LAVATER.

Every human being is sensible of the propensities of some infirmity of temper, which it should be his care to correct and subdue, particularly in the early period of life; else, when arrived at a state of maturity, he may relapse into those faults which were originally in his nature, and which will require to be diligently watched and kept under through the whole course of life, since nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper. Easily, from the smallest chink, are the bitter waters of strife let forth; but their course cannot be foreseen, and he seldom fails of suffering most from their poisonous effect, who first allowed them to flow. BLAIR.

It is told by Prior, in a panegyric on the Earl of Dorset, that his servants used to put themselves in his way when he was angry, because he was sure to recompense them for any indignities he made them suffer. This is the round of a passionate man's life; he contracts debts when he is furious, which his virtue, if he has virtue, obliges him to discharge at the return of reason. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation. Or if there be any one who hardens himself in oppression, and justifies the wrong because he has done it, his insensibility can make but small part of his praise or his happiness: he only adds deliberate to hasty folly, aggravates petulance by contumacy, and destroys the only plea that he can offer for the tenderness and patience of mankind.

Yet even this degree of depravity we may be content to pity, because it seldom wants a punishment equal to

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