Communications have reached us from two of our readers, calling our attention to the fact that some of the newspapers have called in question the truth of the report with respect to the man who was struck dead for mocking the work of God. We have only to say that we received the information, originally, from respectable witnesses, whose veracity we had no reason to doubt; we have, however, made further inquiry with respect to the case in question, and it has been fully confirmed. We have also heard, within the last fortnight, of a man who was blaspheming this blessed work at a market in the county of Londonderry, and, ere the day closed, he was a corpse. This information we had from a person connected with the medical profession, who was present at the postmortem examination.
Now, some may seek to divest such cases of their deep and awful solemnity, by saying that such an one died of heart disease, such an one of congestion of the brain, such an one from apoplexy. But to us the second cause is of no importance, comparatively. We see the hand of God: we think of the appalling fact of mockers and scoffers summoned into the presence of Infinite Holiness; and we call upon men to take heed to their words and their ways. Why is there such a strong desire, in certain quarters, to disparage this glorious work? If men do not understand it, had they not better refrain from it, and let it alone. No doubt it is quite right to search out the truth or falsehood of every report which may reach us; but, let us remember, there are two ways of doing this, and two objects therein likewise. Let us look to our ways and our objects.