county, whose name was before the people for political preferment, and who was depending on his indignant son, to redeem his name from uninerited infamy? Reader, is there the least semblance of similarity in the two casses? You will not pretend it.

No candid person can fail to perceive that the preacher, standing in the house of God, exalted himself above all that he called God, and showed that he was better than the God he professed to serve. He implied that he was able to redeem the character of God from infamy! Audacious pretension! for instead of removing the stains which attached to the character of the God of Calvinism, he gave them a hue of uncommon aggravation.

Mr. Burchard allnded to the profane use of the divine name, in this village. That people disgrace themselves by their profanity, is highly probable. But for one, I can say in truth, that in all the circles in which I have been, I have not heard the hundredth part of the profanity in this town, during five months residence here, that I heard from Mr. B's lips in the sacred desk. My very heart was pained within me, to hear the vollies of blasphemous expressions, as I should call them, which poured from the mouth of the wonder-working revivalist in Woodstock.

EXERCISES OF TUESDAY EVENING.

THE exercises of Tuesday Evening, gave tone and character to all the subsequent proceedings. The point was conceded that evening, in the minds of many, that Mr. Burchard was accompanied by the Holy Ghost, and of course, it would be dangerous to oppose him or reject his message. He managed with great dexterity to produce this convicton. He commenced by reading the 4th chapter of the 1st Epistile of Peter, interlarding it with 'awfully solemn' remarks. He applied all the "trials," "sufferings," and "reproaches" to himself, and expressed a very earnest [?] desire, to be counted worthy to suffer martyrdom.— "Some people," said he, "say they would not be reproached as I am and suffer as much as I do, for all the world. You, probably, are of the same opinion. Well, then, you differ exactly from me. All that I am affraid of, is that I don't suffer half enough. My enemies don't reproach and persecute me an hundredth part so much as I wish they would. I shall never attain to a martyr's glory, at this rate. Oh! my God! how

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few there are who are worthy to wear a martyr's crown. Oh! God Almighty! deny me not the privilege of sharing in the glory of martyrdom." Here, Mr. B. again introduced a comparison drawn from the grand battle of Napoleon, to show that those who did not fight and suffer, could not expect to be crowned with glory and honor. It was evident that many who had entertained suspicions of his sincerity, were now constrained to believe him honest!

They could not think that he would be so willing to suffer reproach, and even aspire to come to an untimely cruel death, unless he was a sincere christian! The dear credulous souls--females especially--did not perceive that all his asseverations were designed for effect, in gaining the confidence and sympathies of the audience. No discerning mind can admit for a moment, on due consideration, that Mr. B. wishes to die by violent hands, as a martyr. Not at all. That was all moonshine-mere pretension-and yet it answered the end for which it was designed.

SECOND SERMON.

THE sermon was, substantially, what I have many times heard. The difference was in the manner.

The TEXT was from St. John's Gospel, the 5th chapter, from the 1st to the 4th verse, inclusive.

After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now there is at Jerusalem, by the sheep-market, a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue, Pethesda, having five porches.

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water; whosoever then first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

The speaker proceeded to say, that "we know nothing about this "pool," except that the water was medicinal when moved or troubled by the angel of the Lord. That it was troubled at certain times, and then only was it medicinal." Hence he inferred, that the Holy Spirit did not cure sinners of their moral maladies, only at set times, when it was "troubled" like the water of Bethseda. He said, "God had always had set times, particular seasons, for favoring Zion, and no

man of sense could deny it. All who pretended to believe the Bible, must allow that the motion of the Holy Ghost, like that of the water, has been sometimes more and sometimes less powerful. And salvation can be obtained only when the Spirit moves; and comes at first ripple ripple, RIPPLE, and then rising higher and higher, comes rush, rush, RUSH; converting men of the first intellect and standing in society ;-as was the case at Windsor, Grafton, Chester, and Springfield." Mr Burchard remarked that some of his converts from those towns were present, and could testify to the truth of what he said. He continued-"They are persons of veracity, and the testimony of any two or three of them against a man charged with a crime involving life, or death, would be sufficient to convict him, and cause any impartial jury to bring him in guilty. Yes, their word would cost any man, woman, or child in this house, his, or her life.* They can testify that the Holy

* But the assumption that his converts are not "such fools" as to disqualify them from being received as witnesses, proves too much, because, upon the same principle, we can prove Salein witchcraft was the work of the Holy Ghost; for, the converts in that revival, were equal, in point of talents and veracity, to those to whom Mr. B. referred, and their testimony actually cost innocent people their lives! By the same reasoning, every religious system, however ridiculous, may be proved true.