Death Not A Painful Process

It has been obscrved, that many commit sucide fn-m a notion that death from natural :auses is attended with considerable agony. - Phie is the generally received notion, but is m erroneoud one. Those v)Uo have oficn vitnessed the act of dyingnllow that il i not í painful procese. In some delicate and irri nble persons a kind of strüg-glc is indeed ometimes excited when respirntion becomes lifficult; but more frcquently the dying obioiifily snffiT hdthinjj, and express no iincaneFg. Thosc? wlio die of chronic diuenses the rnd.-i'.ion is slow and distinct. Consumptive atient6 are Fomctimes in a dying condition br several days; they nppoarnt such times lo ufler little, but to languieh for complete disolution; nay we have known them to exrens grrat uneasiness when they have been ecalled from the commencemenl of insensiility by the cries of their friends, or the efbrts of the atiéndante to alleviate pain. ín ibserving pereons in this situation, we have lways been impressed with an idea, that the ipproach of natural death produces a sensation imilar to that of falling asleep. The disurbance of respiration is the only apparent ource of uneasiness n the dying; and sensii!ity seems to be impaired just in proportion o the decreasc of that function. Besides, oth the imp-eseinns of present objects and ho-e recalled by memorj are influenced by he extreme debility of tho patiënt, wliose viíh is for absolute rept. We could never ee the close of life under these circuinstanccs vithout recollecting these] beautiful lines of Spencer: 'Sleep nfter teil, port after etormy seHB, Case aftcr war. death after life, doth greatly pleasc."Hownrd was a man of grett decisión of inractcr. Fosler, in his excellent work on, lis subject, 6peaking of this distinguished I lilantliropist 6ays, his determination was so ' rcat, that if, instead of being habitual, il had : ;en shown only for a ehort time on pnr cular occasions, it would liave appeared a eheinent impetuosity; but by being I utted it bad an cquality of manner, wbich carcely oppeared to cxceed the tone of a calm on6tancy, it wbb so totall y the reverse ofl ny thing like turbulence or agitation. ït vas the calntness of an inteneity kept uniform )y the nature of the human mind forbidding it o be moro, and by the character of the indifiduul, forbidding it tobe léss. The habitu il passion of liis mind was a nieasure of feelng almost eqiul to the temporary extremes md paroxisms of common minds, as a great iver in its ciistomary state is equal to a smsll ir moderate ónè when swollW to a torrent.An Air Gun. - A gentleman of Philaielphia has shown usan air gun, of liis I nvention, in the form of a walking stick, which is of most ingenious and admirable workmanship. We cannot spare room to describe it, but nothtng of the kind has been invented to compare with it. He charges it by a véry simple process, in less than one minute, when it will I fire, without a rechsrge of air, üoenly times, lie flred it repeatedly in our presence, putting a ball each time through a board, with a wafer upon it, at the distance of three or four rods, and generally within an inch of the wafer. He has another with a small spy-glass upon it, through which he takes sight; and, when out shooting crows, he is able to see the very eye of the crow, and has often put a ball directly through it. No onc can detect this gun from a common walking stick. The price of them is, of course, comparatively high, but we understand that very many have been made and sold by the inventor. - N. Y. News.Slavery and Church Fellowship. - A writer in the Christian Freeman is laboring to prove that slaveholding is not a scriptural bar to communion. He assumes that the Scriptures nowhere make it a test of communion. Do the Scriptures make Sabbath breaking a test of communion? Do they make polygamy a test of communion? If so, in what texts is the test found? It is not found in express terms, yet it isclearly implied, and tbe wne is Irue of slaveholding. - Takeonetexl: Malt. xviii. 15, 17. - Let the slave take a labor against the master according to this text, andseeif it will not lead to non-fellowship. - True Wesleyan. The order of Odd Fellows is not in iavor with churches. At the late Genesee (N. Y.) Conference of the Methodist church resolutions were intnxlueed setting forth that thcre was much otijection among tlie members of the Methodist church to ministers belonging to secret sock'ties,nnd requesting thosc who did so belong, to withdraw themselves. In South Carolina the Bishop andclergy of tho Episcopal church have announced that they 'will not officiate at a funeral nt which any subsequent religious services sliall be contemplated," referring to tho Odd Fellows. The Baptist church in the State of New York appear to have taken similar ground. Very recently six members of the Caltskill Baptist church, in that State, were cut off from all connection with that church, because they declined to sever their connection with the Odd Fellows. Never decide that a man's not an ass till a fortune is left him. Nothing brings the earsout quicker, than for a man of small calibre lo come suddenly into the possession of unexpected wealtb. Ii's an ordeal that a donkey óouH not pass thro' without braying, if it were to save Us