Communications: For The Signal Of Liberty: Supervision

" Thai ye stvdy to he quiel, and to do your own business," I have not chosen this etfnctly as a te1, and so 1 de not name chapter and verse. If I could write a sorc of "lay sermoir' from it, 1 think I would. At any rate the iext is a good one. Two sortsjof. people live in the word, the supervisors, and the supervlscd. The supervisors, toke the oversight of mattere, - the s'ipervisid, of comse vndergo their inspection. 1 do not say submil, for this impües that the supervisión is proper and legitímate. Two things are necessary to make a good supervisor. - , 1. That he ouueretand well the subject and duüos appertaíning to his particular departijient of supervisión . 2. That he confine himself to inspecting those, and thoee only, whose duty it is to submit to it. Those properly qnalified are so'metimes magistrates. Their duty is to see the laws properly administered. Sometitnes a schoolmasier. Ilis is too sce that his scholars, are properly instructcd and governed. Sometimes a minister. His duty is to take the bvcrsiglit of the "flock of Godr"r+-(o "exhort," and Fotnelimes "to rebuke with all authority," while at other times in "meekness" he instrucls tliose that oppose themselvee. Every parent is the constituted Bupevisor of his children. By living "quiel" I do not understand that a man should be idle, or limid - hut that he makes no needless disturbance in society, or church. But 1 thought of speaking of another class of supervisors. These are the volunteers: - thpBe who are so chariiable as to neglect their own business, (o superintend that of their neighbors, or of the public. For example, one takes it upon himself to know of all the bargains his neighbors make. This costs him time and trouble to learn, but then it is so useful. To keep them to himself would be to lose his labor. He therefore publicly decides upon the merits of each one. He isjudge and procluirner of bargains. Again, suppose, (perhaps.I wrong the women even ío suppose,) a woman, who, instead of mending her husbaiid'á coat, or darning her children stockings, or keeping her house neat, takes the supervisión of her neighbors uffairs. She knows just .how many younjf people ure likely to bc rnarried, and which party will havo the best of the bargain: - just who are good, and who are poor housekeepers: how many are öo prudent as lo do as she advises, ancl how mnny mistake by neglecting to follow her directions. lf any difficuliy arises l.etween her and others, it is because people difterfrom her opinions, and she would live in peace with all, if they would but do right, i. e. ns she demands.Ilere arebar-room.pohticians. Only give tliem the control, and our National and State nfluirs would be straitened forthwith. Wliat a pity they were not members of Congress. - As it is, 'Hots1' of Unie and whisïcey are coneumed, andstül the world wage on as bad as ever. jjjjAgain you find a member of the church, a volunteer supervisor. Inslead of taking careful oversight of hiinself, lie generously takes upon him, tlmt of minister and church. The minister would p.reach better, and commit fewer mistakes, and the church members, who now from the top to the bottom of the aK phabet have some great failings, would be jusl righl, if they would only be directed by jhim. What a pity such talents should be overlooked, and be doomed still to remain a private member. Another is 6eized with a fervent zeal to set other denominations right, if the church u-ould only believe and act right- if their doctrines and discipline could only be set right, what a glorious thing it would be. Whenever he comes in contact with one of them, with the spirit of a trae proselyter, he endeavors to convert him to his own belief. - Poor man! The more ho urges, the more they won't be convinced. A minister is exceedingly anxious to show the world what terrible doctrines other denominations hold. In hiö sermons, therefore, he not only preaches his own sentiments, but he langs up the "raw head and bloody bones" of other mens views, (not colored or distorted ofcourse) to keep the "simple ones" from running after them. WclJ, the result is, the more he preaches against others, and the more he tries to pull tbem down, the firmer they stand. These volunteers, instead of tbeir own business" mcddle with tlmt Of their neighbors.Here is an Abolitionist. He feels deeply fortheslave. He lectures, he converses, he unites vvith an anti-slavery society. An interest is being feit. in the wrongs of the slave. Tlie society come together and agree to print and Jecture upon the subject. In dójngr this, jn bringing every one into tlie anti-slavery ranks, he is "doing kis oivn busiHis ambition rises. He becomes a volununteer. Novv says he, if I can make ministers and churches "walk straight'1 on this subject, and they ovght to do so, we will make a fflorious inrond upon the domains of slavery. "Come,'' says he to the whole church, "you tapt take right hold, and we will finish up slavery soon." Baptjsts, take your stand here - pass a rule throughout your churches, cutling offall intercourse with slaveholders - see that your Associations do the same - Presbyterie?, see that every church points her guns to the Sonth- Presbytérios and Synods, do your duty- General Assembly sunder your conneclion with the South- marchP Congregationalists, though you have no slnveliolders in your churches, go through with the same manoevre, in order to swell onr ranks. And so on to the end of the chapter. The churches, and ecclèsiastical bodics, like raw tnüi'in men, euquire, 'By whal avlhorihf re we told how, and tvhen, and whttt we must tlo? VVe oxpect to do uil these things tvhen. i'.nd as we tlunk best.' 'Ah!' says the Abolitiouist, Mliese are (pro-slavcry; chutches, these ministers, (dumb dogs that will not bark.' - 'Down with them.' Thr American Churches ARR TUF. BÜLVVARK OK AmEIüCAN fcsL AVERV ! !' Nr w I opine that this man will learn, by and bji'bai; heis 'exercisieg himself in great natters' - in things too high for him, and that :o be successful lie must 'do hs oivn business,' uitliet churches and ecclesiasiical boilies, do