126 a, median retotugttriart AHD GENESEE EVANGELIST. THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1862. JOHN W. MEARS, PREMIUMS IN GOLD PENS. FOP. every new subscriber sending the year's subscription in advance, we will give one of Mor ton's 75 cent Gold Pens. To every one getting up a4lub of four new subscribers, and sending us $7 (in this city $9), we will give a $2 pen; for a club of six new subscribers, with $lO (in this city $l3), a $3 pen ; for a club of ten new subscribers, with $l5 (in this city $2O), ass pen. If preferred, the same amount will be given in smaller and less ex pensive pens. These pens we aro now using in our office, and can recommend them to our friends. Read the advertisement on the Fourth page before sending your orders. DEATH Or lAANBENOS PETERSON, ESQ. THIS gentleman died at midnight of Tuesday; April 1, -aged 46. He was buried on Friday morning, at 11 o'clock, from his late residence at Green Hill. A large company were present, and we have never seen one in which every indivi dual seemed so sad. After the reading of some very appropriate passages of Scripture, the Rey. Frank L, Robbins, the pastor of the church, and the Rev, Thomas Street, late pastor, now of York, Pa., addressed the Assembly in words that show ed their sincere attachment to Mr. Peterson,and their deep feeling of the loss sustained by his family, his friends, the community, and the Church. Rev. Dr. Wallace endeavored to lead the mournful assembly in prayer. Rev. H. Hast ings Weld, of the Episcopal Church, was also in attendance. At Laurel Hill, these four ministers, to testify their deep love for the remains of one Whose friendship has been among the greatest pleasures, as well as highest honors of their lives, themselves lowered his coffin into the place where it into rear under .. the eye of One 'who loves his sleeping dust better even than they, until the Resurrection. . This paper is under special obligation to Mr. Peterson, it having been, as were very many other objects, the recipient of his bounty. Not only was he a subscriber to it from the beginning of its existence, but in the hour of its need he came forward with a large extra subscription, thus aiding efficiently to prevent its failure. Mr. Peterson was singularly beloved. The language of eulogy over the dead is so often ex cessive, that the simple truth in regard to him seems exaggerated. The loving affection in his household was -never exceeded, even in the high est imagination of poet or novelist ; man cannot utter it. The affection of the circle next to this: his sisters, brothers, 'above all his still surviving mother, seemed even to be more than earthly, so tender was it and so enduring. And then his friends who olaimed no kin.dred in his blood, seemed to cherish such an affection for him as ordinarily belongs only within the charmed cir cle of a household. Our pen moves spontaneously trying to chron icle his rare, virtues. Never did human being obey more thoroughly the counsel of David to Solomon—" Show thyself a man." In very truth. Lawrence Peterson was a hero, and if he had been tried as general, statesman or martyr, he would not have been found wanting. The nearer any one stood to him the more he admired him; and the less will he deem this eulogy un true, or overdone. So wonderful a combination of strength, beauty and tenderness, it is not with in the purpose of Providence often to place with in one frail, clay tenement. Besides all that Mr. Peterson gave to the Church of time and pecuniary support, which was very great in amount, he was accustomed to give it much thought.. His indisposition to !Mb lie position in it, was owing partly to a singularly modest temperament, and partly to his feeling that he held his life by so frail a tenure that he owed it to his family to husband his strength for them, his business being so very large and en grossing. He was persuaded, partly through the urgency of private friendship, to serve upon the Church Extension Committee of the General Assembly. His interest in theological subjects was very keen, and when he came to die, with a mind that did not suffer an instant of unconscious ness, he lay desiring not to be disturbed, looking steadfastly into eternity, as if trying to solve its awful luestions. A month before, he had stated, with his usual positiveness, against the hopes of the entire neighborhood, and those which his physician tried to feel, that he would die. His worldly affairs were always perfectly ordered, but he arranged them to the minutest point, and then gave himself up steadily to the contemplation of the world with whostinffairs lie Li now mingling. We will take back the word hero from the name of Lawrence Peterson, if one man who knew him intimately thinks the expression exaggerated., For full analysis of the character of Mr. Pe terson, we refer to the Evening article of Thursday that, for which wi t have not space this week, but - will endeavor to insert in our next issue. LOTION OF TRH BOARD OF - TRUMER OF GREEN itxxx etrova. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Green Hill Presbyterian church, held on the 8d inst., the fAlowing Preamble and Resolutions were a dopted WHKRZAS, amid the uncertainties of life, we are called to mourn the lose of one of our num ber, Mr. Lawrence Peterson, an esteemed mem ber of this Board, one in whose integrity we could always rely, whose counsels we have sought with profit, and whose liberality knew no bounds: Resolved, That whilst submitting to the decree of an overruling Providerrce, who doeth all things well, we will ever cherish the memory of one so endeared to us by his many virtues. Resolved, That we mingle our regrets with the overwhelming sorrow of the family of the de ceased, and tender to them our sincere and warm est sympathies, in view of the irreparable loss they - have sustained. .Resolveci, That a copy of these proceedings, signed by the President and Secretary of the Board, be transmitted to the family. BONSALL, President. JAMES G. STONE, Secretary. Philadelphia, April 7, 1862. Bishop Made, of Virginia, is dead. DIVINE ART IN THE FOUR GOSPELS.- Mum of the difficulty experienced in consi dering the alleged discrepancies of the four Gos pels, disappears when we recognize the individu ality of thn writers. Inspiration has not des troyed this. It remains and it operates; and though restrained from working any damage to the accuracy of the combined testimony, it is yet suffered to appear in such varied forms of lan guage and conception, as to approach to discre• pan Cy. It could have no character of individu ality if it did not. These approaches to discre pancy are an evidence of life, of truth, of reality. If there had never been the suspicion of such a thing in the Gospels, they would .never have had such - verisimilitude. To those skeptics who have raised such a hue and cry Over 'the alleged dis crepancies, we may say as Professor Ellicott says on another point, " We may even profess our selves indebted to skepticism for having raised a question to which an answer may be given, at once so fair, so explicit, so-conclusive." Dr. Lange, in his Leben Jesu, quoted by Professor E., says very appositely of such skeptical critics, " The evangelist may certainly, nay, must appear to contradict himself; for the appearance of such contradiction is the mark of life, depth and fresh ness. Nature appears, a thousand times over, to' contradict herself. If a writer finds a difficulty in such an appearance of contradiction, and de: mends from the Gospels the precision of notaries, he clearly enough evinces his own incapability of forming a just estimate of them." The truth is, a divine art or providence has arranged to give us four consenting, but perfectly distinct, views of the person and work of the Sa viour; four stereoscopes, so to speak, of our Re deemer, so that his form might stand out before us in bold and striking relief, so that we _might catch new aspects of his character, and picture to ourselves more vividly the great events of his life, so that our Interest might be enchained and our affections made more lively towards their proper object. So that we all, with open face, beholding,'in this fourfold glass, the glory of the Lord, may be changed into the same image from glory to glory. As a simple matter of historical completeness, the fiitiTt Goiliels are all necessary to the story of the cross. It is only in Luke that the story of the incarnation is fully told, perhaps as it came from the mother's own lips, to the evangelist's ears. Only Matthew tells of the' wonderful visit of the Eastern Magi to the babe of Bethlehem. We depend for our knowledge of the early Ju dean ministry, upon John alone. Luke again is our sole authority for many of our Lord's - most interesting parables and exhortations, uttered in his last jonrneyings towards the scene of his crucifixion. The,story of the woman of Samaria,, the raising of Lazarus and other mighty works, not to mention many of the- sublime discourses of the Saviour, rare recorded only by the pen of the evangelist whose symbol was the soaring eagle. Even Mark, though supplying little in dependent matter, gives some additional valuable touches, and, throws in vigcrous strokes of the pencil wholly his own, in almost every event ,which he describes. Hence, the evangelists supply each other's deficiencies in matters of, fact. Editor But each also writes from a different point of view. Each perceives the great phenomenon of the incarnation in a different light. Each treats the facts in his own peculiar manner, selecting, grouping aid arranging them on different prin ciples. The glorious person of the Son of God, is thus lifted up to human view from.every side. Matthew, without aiming at exact chronolo &al sequence, narrates picturesquely, -the events and teachings of the Redeemer's history. His combinations and contrasts are doubtless the fruit of intentional, systematic arrangement, de signed to bring out the facts in the most impres sive manner. "In what striking antithesis do the opening chapters set before us the new-born King of Peace and the savage Herod ; the mys terious adoration of the Magi, and the hasty flight for life into a 'strange land ;•the baptism with the opened heavens and the descending Spi rit, and the temptation, with all its circumstances of Satanic trial.' Notice, too, his 'grouping of parables, - in all probability uttered at different tines, in the thirteenth chapter, where each one, by its juxtaposition, imparts additional force aad clearness to the other; observe - the garland of miracles woven into the eighth and ninth chap ters, and the grand pyramid of prophetic sayings and solemn discourses culminating in the vivid and awful delineation of the judgment-day, in the twenty-fifth chapter, and introducing the closing sinineS of the Saviour's life.- - Different from this stately symmetry is the condensed fervor of Mark. Graphic, circum stantial, letting in a flood of light by a - single epithet, we read his memoirs with a peculiar in terest. It is he who throws into the narrative of the forty days' temptation the startling feature that the Saviour was . " with the wild beasts ;" he, too, bring the Redeemer on the stormy lake before our very eyes, as he lay in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow;" and he adds a new stroke of tenderness to our Lord's welcome to the little children, when he tells us that he "took -up the young children in Ms arms, and put his hands on them and blessed-them." Mark does not deal in contrasts. He keeps steadily before us the picture of the incarnate Son of God. He shows us the awed and amazed disciples and multitude; over and over again, we read in his pages of the multitude that hung upon his lips, giving scarcely space to stand or time to eat, spreading his fame the more he seeks to conceal it, and laying their sick out before Ilia feet whithersoever he went. The brief page of the second, evangelist seems almost animated under his - graphio pen. In Luke, we have the breadth of view of the cultivated and converted Gentiie. He Is the historian ; deliberately, and in view of the many attempts of his time " to set forth in order a de claration of those things which are most surely believed among us," " having a perfect under standing of all things from the very first," he determines to write them in order, for the certain instruction of his excellent friend Theophilus. So, going back to Mary and Elizabeth, be traces the wonderful history from its origin; as he passes onward, he throws in thoughtful com -manta, and adduces reasons for the occurrence of events. He is careful to give us those features of Christ's ministry which present. him in the closest sympathy with man as his friend and Re deemer. The raising of the widow of Nain's son, the parables of the lost sheep, the lost coin, the prodigal son, the woman much forgiven " be cause the loved much," the prayer on the 'cross SECOND ARTICLE:k a mt a t att Vuoilttextan and. 6tittote 6rititotliot for his persecutors, and the pardon of the dying thief, found in this Gospel, set forth not so much the Messiah, or the miracle-worker, as " the God man, the friend and Redeemer of our fallen hu manity." It is ,part of this general fact that Luke brings before us, more frequently than the other evangelists, the ministry of pious women. But now when we turn to the fourth Gospel, wondering, perhaps, what room is left for another, we find the same Divine Saviour, in person and work, presented in an attitude so distinct and remarkable, that we are reminded of the Baying of John himself: " Of his fullness have we all received." Truly that character must be one of unsearchable richness, which can furnish such a wide diversity of development with no sacrifice of consistency. Having been already exhibited as the Messiah, as the victorious, miracle-work ing Son of God, as the world's great Redeemer, and thus having drawn forth our admiration, our trust, our supreme affection, we are yet to be ushered to a more intimate presence, and to have a more exalted view unveiled to us. We at length become sensible that in the first three Gospels we have beheld rather the outward ewer= eises—the visible forth-puttings of the Divine Omnipotence in the incarnate Son, while in the fourth Gospel-, the majestic truth of the pre existence, Divine equality and identity of the Weird who had become flesh, stands like a lofty and resplendent gateway in front of the palace, intimating the character of the structure beyond. Here we see the Saviour in conscious tranquil unity with the Father f here we catch'glimpses of. the inner life of our Lord. Here, above all, we listen to his divine discaurses, to the calm rap ture of his intercessory prayer, to his copious promises of the Paraclete ; here, as he tells the woman of Samaria of the living water, as he an nounces himself as the good. Shepherd, as he tenderly exhorts his disciples : " Let not your hearts be troubled ;" and tells them oflhe'many mansions in his father's house, de we not our selves, in the depths of our hearts, seem to feel the Son of God speaking to us as a man speaking with his friend; do we not spiritually behold the very Redeemer of the world—hear the reassuring voice,' and say with the-deep conviction of Tho mas, "My Lord and my God °?" This is truly the Gospel of the Word. In the other Gospels we see our Lord principally as' acting. Here, both himself and the characters accessory to the portraiture become known to us by what they say, rather than what they do. "In conclusion," says 'Ellicott, "I will only call your attention to the myitical completeness which this Gospel gives to the evangelical his tory . . to that everlasting wisdom by which it was foreordained that a Gospel should be vouchsafed to us, in which the loftiest ideal purities mid glories with which we might be able to invest the Son of David, the Son of God, and the Son of Man, might receive a yet loftier ma nifestation, and by which the more distinctly historical pictures disclosed to us by the synop tical evangelists might be made instinct with a quickening life Which assuredly they lack not, but which we might never have completely realized if we had not been endowed with the blessed heritage of the Gospel of Jelin : " Did space permit, we should like here to quote entire the note on page 46, as presenting a sum mary 'of the characteristics of the four evange lists. We can find room for a few sentences only. Prof. E. thinks we are warranted in saying that the point of view of the first Gospel is mainly Israelitie ; of the second, Gentile; of the third, Universal; of the fourth, Christian. In respebt of subject-matter and contents, we may say, perhaps, that in the first Gospel we have narrative; in the second, memoirs; in the third, history; in the fourth, dramatic portraiture: In respect of the portraiture of our Lord, the first Gospel presents him to us mainly as the Messiah; the second, mainly as the God man; the third, as the Redeemer; the fourth, as the only begotten Son of God. Imperfect and hasty as our view of this sub ject has been, we are persuaded that the reader will conclude with us that there not only is a divine plan in the mutual rslations of the Gospels, but that it is clearly and beautifully apparent, and that the peculiarities of this relation,' which have given rise to the noisy and persistent objec tions of unbelievers, are the very ones which should call forth his admiration and gratitude, as a student of the life, the character, and the works of the Redeemer. T.P.APLETE roil THE THOUGHTFITE. OUR Publication Committee have issued a col lection of most choice extracts from the practical portion of Mr. Barnes' works under the above title. The selection was made by Miss Thalia S. Henderson, of Mortlake, England, and forms 24 two-page 16mo tracts, with such titles ass " But One Book" ; "What is Truth " ; " What is Man ?" ; r" Can God Show Mercy ?" ; "Eyil of Unbelief " ; "The World-Wide Offer " ; " Tear- less Eyes"; etc. They are eminently suited in stylnand spirit for general distribution. How theyeameinto the hands of the Committee, al: readtstereotyped, is . eurious and pleasant' to be told. The following note of Mr. Barnes, accom- pin3ring the Conimittee's issue, explains it " These Leaflets' were seleCted and arranged for publication by Miss T.- B. Henderson, of Mortlake; Surrey, - England, daughter of the late Rev. R Henderson, 8.D., author of ' Biblical Researches and Travels in Russia'; g_lceland, or the Journal of a Residence in that Island'; A Commentary on the Prophet, Jeremiah and the Lamentations'; 'A Commentary on the Books of the Twelve Minor Prophets,' etc.- The 'Leaflets' were published by Knight & Son, in London; with no knowledge on my part of their intention until I received a copy from the publisher& I have' been very much indebted to Dr. ffenderson for the interest which he has taken in my wri tings, and for his care and attention in editing some of them in England,; and it gives, me great pleasure to acknowledge my- obligation. lo Miss Henderson for the honor which she has don 3 me and for the taste and judgment which she has evinced in these selections. "A, duplicate of the plates has been kindly forwarded to me by Knight & Son, which I have placed at the disposal of the Publication Commit tee of the Church, for their use. " ALBERT BARNES. " Philadelphia, Feb. 5, 1862." ACKNOWLEDGMENT.—We have received at this office, from Rev. W. Jones, of lowa Falls, lowa, Fivz Domans, for Rev. R. G. „Wilder, of the. Kolapoor Mission. • Hope cheers us in the darkest hour. OUR WESTERN OORRESPONDENOE. CHlcecto, Ifah, April 2, 1862 Dear Presbyterian:—lt occurs to me that I will now converse with you for a few momenta on sundry topics lying about loose in my mind, and I will head the first ti MELLOWINW. The Presbyterian Quar , —may its shadow not be less—had a very.gil article about the old Baptist tinker, Bunyaao.ofiate. I had been, just reading his Pilgrims, and a thing occurred to me which the revievier,,does not notice, and that is, the marked difference between the first and second parts of the work. Christian has a hard time of it from first to last. It is a " dread ful sound in his ears" that drives him out, and then he has but a string of difficulties to en counter—the dreadful slaughter—the hill diffi culty—the lions—Apollyan—the valley of the shadow of death—the burning at Vanity Fair— the incarceration with Giaut Despair, and the like. His course is one of severe struggles. The way is rough, the clouds are heavy, and the whole picture is sombre. .The second part is quite a different picture. Christiana sets out, as if at leisure, with her family of children, has a Companion for the jour ney, obtains a -stalwart - guard and guide, who fights all the battles, aredes ler through, for the most part, in entire qtude: The accompanying chatacters are also differ ent - In the first cart there - are men who fail of salvation for all manner 4 reasons. We have Pliable and Legality, an ct the Man of the Evil Report, and Ignorance, and-Talkative, and Fair- Speech, and Bye-ends, ancl similar failures from first to last. .is But in the second part4the characters are such as go through, or at leasOelp on the pilgrim& We have Feeble-nand, and Ready-to-halt, and Honest, and Gains, and Dlspondency, and Much afraid, and when the pilgrims come to cross the river, Christian sinks- in the water, but Christiana goes over with only wet Avet. Did the first story seer to Bunyan to be too sombre, so-as to lead hirnito fear it would act to deter people from setting out on the pilgrimage ? 'Or had Bunyan got out his prison, and been permitted to taste few, Itrenities-of Chris tian life, to the softenin6 is views regarding it? - Or bad he become amuch older man, with a corresponding ripeness . and mellowing of ,cha racter, leading him to twell upon the gentle aspects of godliness, as 41011 as to the discovery that religion is for the weiik and the - unfortunate as well as the strong andkeroie ? Had his views and feelings both becomeaess leaal and had they. ? drank in more of the spit of the Gospel ? Per baps all these Causes hari. something to do-wilh the matter. SOALE REVERSES When " Abolitionistq: was eating into the vitals of the Old School Presbyterian Church in the Northwest four or. Vie years ago, yotrramem ber that a certain Boaniffges was sent-for, and baited with a . chance to :" do a great work ", in turning back the tide, and so came here, walking on a good pavement of &liars, laid down in the track of a reaping macgne. Obstacles yielded to the blows of the Son - ef Thunder most wonder fully, ' One — lidlegralltitiiiiiy took to rattling in the throat speedily, and another sprung up, like the goUrd which kept the sun from the preacher of Nineveh. 4 church was strength ened, and built itself a e brick edifice, and the work of ten years was 4ne in three. The Old School Presbyterian 0 .611 . in the North West was delivered' from the"lutches of "Abolition isin," and a sign nailed inp at all cross-road ap proaches—Ho Abolitionts wanted here. .T. - To-day, how Stands the matter? Not a whit better than before the thing was begun ! Boa nerges is gone: The ke*ers of the - "'divine in stitution " have uncorked its vials and let out its ii odors all over this Uni• , and the mal.air. has gone into the very place, whence ' • it was with so much ado driven .. Th e, seminary remains, with two professors and thirtey students, an elephant difficult to keep, and as ififficult to dismiss. One of the professors, too, p ys for President Lin coln and the United ' - ....Government in the very pulpit dedicated 1 , Fir is conservatism Apart of the eongregati n rejoice, and to a part it is like vinegar upon af decutieulated surface. cl The question now is, 1 "alty or rebellion, and slavery underlies every i eh of rebellion, and-no body knows it any bet* than such as protest that it is not there. And so chniches, which are in part loyal, and in patt of such as would, in Kentucky.or Virginia, put themselves along with Beauregard and Jeff. Davis, find it difficult to get along, to pay off de+, keep the peace over Sabbath worship, and estieciallito settle ` minis- ters in vacant pulpits. , , In so far as religion sniffers, I ragret it; in so o far as good Christian pe ' le are tied in with and things irreconcilak either with comfort, christian progress, or lo'" ty, I pity them; but wherein a tremendous efuleavor to tie a noble branch of the'church of Christ to the car of chaos and old night fails,,l rejoice, yea, and will i *iota— :. , 1%---01 *"..' - Immix- cannot- b.-- wholly Virg,iniaized. 8- Ty did-not make the world, especially this part of it, and it will be an uphill business to get us to believe it. , PRISONERS* WAR.. _ The-first ever seen by these eyes went rolling by my door in a broad stteain, looking like the current of the Missouri { giver, some weeks ' ago, and are amphibi-icing in , e mud of Camp Dou glas,. Poor men ! they,, re clad in the linsey-, woolseys of their region' each with a piece of carpet in lieu of blanket d overcoat both, over their shoulders, and as noitwo pieces Were. of the same pattern or colors, you may imagine the general coup &cell was a little bizarre. Bat Clothes are not necessary to- °outage, and some of . the` fellows fought with spirit, though a man who -was through :.the whele Of the DonclsOn affair, t and saw much of the figh ng on both sides told me, that but few of their iv imenta " fought really well." ' ' ' . . . , . They were haggard;:- iand each one seemed - to cough as if their whole . lungs were at it; and death has been fearfully bUsy among them.- The necrological 'list numbeni , already one hundred f and fifty since here, and t ey still - die at an aver age of fromfour to five( , per day. Bat they brought their diseases with them, and have been carefully supplied with jhysicians, medicines, and all necessary treatment, in a style as. good, and perhaps better, than iour, own soldiers get when sick: There was a nuiversal sympathy for them in the city when theyOrst arrived; but they did not appreciate it, at least the greater nuniber of - them, but with the true feeling of slavehold ers, put on airs, as if the mid-sills were only do lag their duty in deferring to their superiors, and so the camp is now shit against all persons without special business among them. WHAT OF THE NIGHT ? I mean the night of the reign of this night mare, the war. Our side has gained upon the rebels somewhat, and the inference is, that the rebellion is subdued, and the politicians are quar relling as to the terms on which the thing is to• be settled I Not so fast, geUtlemen. The rebel lion is not put down yet, and the question has not come to the point where the end begins to be seen. This is the most critical point of the war. We are in more danger of defeat than since July 21, 1861. The danger is several fold. One source of it is over confidence; another, the des peration of the rebels; another, the scheming of our politicians of certain stripes, who are at work making Presidents and saving slavery; an other is the inactivity of some of our high military men, and their failure to take advantage of the tide of affairs; and another is the determination of some of our people, that, come what will, the black man is an animal, without rights, to be kept in slavery. If this war does not mean that God is moving for the black_man, it means nothing. We have one plague upon us to move us to do him justice. Are there nine more to come ? I be lieve there are, if his ease be not attended to be fore. The black Man is not four millions alone, tut two or three hundred 'millions, and -the fo millions with us are a sort of pivot, on which the interests and status of the whole rest. Seep your eyes open, and see if-the state of the war is not regulated somewhat by the status of the black man's interests. Do you notice how * fast we live in a state of war ? Thirty years are compressed in one: A man is tried, marked, and thrown away, or used, as the case may be, in a few months. And a few months of, good use last a man a lifetime there after. k year ago,"and Gen. Scott was pceaned as the savior of this nation: Simpletons) Did any body who had read history, and would take the trouble to think one -half hour, suppose he could last the year out ? Pages of national life so utterly new, demand men new as themselves. Who then had heard 'of Halleck, Buell, Grant, Foote, or Dupont? Who had heard of McClel lan ? Yet he Hi been to the top of the ladder, and it is widely suspected, in these parts, that his day is about over. Certain it if he do net; bestir himself, he will be with the old fogies in three months from this. And yet it is a pity. But Governments, especially ours, do not seem to recognize the fact that there are two sets of generals, as of other Meg; that one sort are the men to get ready, and the other to operate. A man may be an admirable provider of and for an army, an admirable disciplinarian, in short, quali fied to get up, equip, appoint, and train an army, yet when this is done he is done. It is to be proved if one young man on the Potomac is not this, man. Another sort of general is the man for the field. He may be impatient in providing, but can handle troops as a skillful rider handles his horse. Siegel is such a man. If he has any'su perior yet brought to light in this war, let him be shown. But it were a pity that each sort of officer could not get his exact place, and serve his try to the I:oest advantage. It would save truich disappointment and some mortification. But we are living fast in the war. Yes, and what a tide of life is being paid out as the cost of it ? And who is responsible for all this, and who is to settle the score ? Had slavery anything to do with it? And, shall we not raise that serpent to give it . another chance? Yours, PRESBYTERY OF WILMINGTON. A DEIsiGHTEUL meeting of this Presbytery was held in St. George's Church last week. Be sidei the discussion of, important practical ques tions by - the members, a peculiar interest was given to the exercises by the presence of Rev. A. Bueknell, of the Gaboon River Mission of the American Board, 'who addressed the Presbytery by request, communicating valuable information, and stimulating the missionary spirit of the 1)re:- - thren and the -a - Sseinbled congregation. A kesp lotion was adopted expressive of the gratifica tion of the Presbytery, and of:their wish to see .a Presbytery organized on the Gaboon river as soon as it shall appear practicable to . the, brethren there,. Rev. Wm. Aikman and Elder trohn C. Clark were'appointed commissioners to the General As sembly. A carefully prepared circular letter to the ses sions of the churches,admonishing them of their duty to be represented in the meetings of Pres bytery, was adopted, and enjoined to be solemnly read by the , pastors to the sessions. The special influences of the spirit have been vouchsafed to -several of thechurches, and con siderable accessions have been made to - their ranks, especially in the Central Church, Wil mington, and in Milford. Not since the trenbles of 1857 has the Presbytery been so united,- so prosperous, or its churches so generally and ac ceptably supplied with, laborers. OENTRAL ORUROR, WILILINGTON. To THE truly remarkable and prosperous his tory of this church hitherto,- another leaf, per,. haps exceeding in importance an,d interest, any of the rest, must now be added. A work of grace, more effective and more rich in its . results, than any. it has' hitherto enjoyed, has just been wrought in the congregation, and pastor and peo ple are rejoicing in the . ingathering of the fast fruits. On the Sabbath before last, forty persons were received into communion, thirty-six on pro fession of their faith. About one-third were men; several, heads of families; and - those who should know pronounce these accessions to - be of a character more likely to strengthen the church and promote its general welfore, than any hith erto received. Those who know the church will feel that this is saying a great deal. itqs he. lieved that some sixty decided cases of conver sion have occurred, and the Work still goes hope fully forward. - Many more. are 'expected to join at a future season. In six years no less than one , hundred and se venty-four persons have.. been admitted to this church on profession, an average of between 29 and 80 per annum. Few churches in-the deno mination can show a larger increase. - "The Sab bath Schdol, the three highly flourishing Mission Schools, the regular and full attendance of the people on the stated services of the Church, the devotedness, the practical mind and executive talent, the pastoral fidelity, and the boldness evangelical earnestness and simplicity in preach- ing of the pastor—Mr. Wimpll, make this body of Christians as a city set von a hill; as Paul said of his dear Philippians we may say of them, that in the midst of a crooked and perverse na tion they shine as light inthe world, holding forth the word of life. - May the character so happily stamped upon them in the early years of their history, by the blessing of God, characterize them for uncounted generations to come. WE are sorry to learn that the connection be. tween this brother and the American Board has been dissolved. Mr. Benton is the well known faithful missionary of Bhamdun, Mt. Lebanon, who maintained his positron in the midst of the storm of civil war and carnage that raged around the mountain, and swept almost by his very door. It is believed that his presence saved the village from destruction. His own letters and those of his accomplished lady have frequently appeared in our columns. Mr. Benton speaks in high terms of the Pru dential Commi4e of the Board. He remains as before, at Bhamdun, engaged hi the missionary work, and supported, at least we presume in part, by the - natives. It will be remembered that Mrs.. Benton spoke of residing in the house of a rich uative convert, anci,of.having,received from him 150 piastres for benevolent objects. Mr. Benton, in a letter dated Dec. 12th, 1861, says : Our Sabbath audiences and the Women's Bible class have been - sustained with much inter est and promise during the year past. I have baptized seven children, and Admitted seven adults since ; Tannery last on profession of their faith to Christian communion." Ti irop-clad " Merrimac" is reported to be in readiness to come out of Norfolk. At last ac counts her coal'and new armament, had been put aboard, and the channel had been buoyed out to Sewall's Point. , • Fort Macon, at Beaufort, N.C., was still in the possession of the rebels at last accounts. Fort Pulaski was about being bombarded as the vessel with the latest news was leaving the vie. . General McClellan's command now: covers the peninsula between the James and York rivers. He retains command of three of the corps d'atmee lately belonging to the army of the Potomac. The gun-boat " Carondelet," ran the blockade of the batteries .at Island No. 10, and went to the assistance of General Pope, below. A fleet of iron-clad gun-boats is said to be coming up from New Orleans. Itis believed that the vote in Western Virgin ia is four to one in favor of gradual emancipa tion. The secession rector of Trinity church, Wash-. ington, still persists in disobeying the order of his. Bishop, to read the prayer for the success of the National arms.- The number of new offices created by the pro f posed Tax-bill is less than three thousand. McClellan's army appeared before Yorktown, on Saturday, and drove the enemy from their outworks. General Banks has rebuilt and crossed Stony Creek. Bridge. • General Pope having been aided by gun-boats and transports, which had evaded the batteries of Island No. 10, has sent a large force across the Mississippi, in the fear of the rebel position. The a 01.140 of Representatives on Monday, ap pointed a committee to report some practical plan of Emancipation. Aminosi The Southern. Sishops.—The 4iscopar Re corder thus speaks of the Bishop of South Carolina —" Bishop Davis, -as we learn through an impor tant report, has at last declared his assent to the ec clesiastical severance of the Diocese of South Caro lina, from the Church -in the United States. He stated to the Convention, at its session three vreeks since, that this course seemed imposed . on him by the existing govennnent of South Carolina, and by the action of the Southern , Convention, in which his diocese was represented., But his Opinion, if we can judge from the report before us, is baierd solely on the necessity of recognizing a government de facto." Finn CHURCH KtastslNGToN.—Sabbath week was Communion day in this church, 28 perions were received into fellowship 9 by certificate and 19 on profession of faith—the fruits of a gracious work which for two or three weeks past, has been quietly going en. A good proportion are heads of families. The pastor and church an much encouraged. 011131tCHES BURNED.—The church at Bing 41.ampton, N. Y:, had just completed a new house of worship on a lot adjacent to the old one, and were about to proceed with the dedication of the former on 'Sabbath, March 23d, when, on the night of the proceeding \ Monday,ihe 17th, the old,building took fire, communicating the flame's to the new, and both were destroyed. The new building and furniture were worth $31,000; the furniture was saved. Insurance $lB,OOO. The congregation at once resolved to rebuild. Tau REVIVAL IN GUILFORD GSM; N. Y., already mentioned, is thus spoken of in a private letter : " We have received nearly forty to the church, and - expect several more. The conversions have been mostly among the young people and _chil dren._ I think of only one man of about 45. Se veral young men are brought in who promise to be useful and active members of the ,church: Several family altars have been erected, and some that had fallen have been built up again. In the meeting of the young converts, questions are regularly- proposed for remark such as How shall we keep - the Sabbath ? Row live through the week X etc. " During the special services there was deep solemnity, but no Unhealthy excitement The power of God was manifest in every meeting. None Could, doubt that something More was moving on the hearts of the people than human power. " The fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the church will be held about the middle of July, an event which will be duly celebrated, when former members will be present to recount the divine mercies to this branch of Zion during half a century." CALL DEctarrED.—The Newark Daily Adger _ tiser says :—Rev. Mr. Mandell, having .tendered his declination of the call, to the park Presbyte rian church, the congregation have accepted it, but recinested him to remain with them as sup ply fnr the present. REV. W, BERTON. LATEST NEWS. Ittb Church ftwo. APRIL 10, DENOMINATION OE CHAPLAINS.—We clip from the Independent the following tabular view of the proportionate force furnished by each of the leading denominations to the Chaplaincy of the, army. If it is correct, it places our denomi nation in a very honorable position. With a ministry probably numbering less than one tenth of the total of Northern ministers, it is set down as furnishing one fifth of the chaplains. Every other denomination on the list is therefore pro portionably below` it; some of them exceedingly "The attire number of chaplains in the army stands in the following proportion of religious denominations : " Methodist - one-third, " New-Sehool Presbyterians ' one-fifth, " Congregationalists - one-seventh " Episcopalians one-seventh, " Baptists - - one-eleventh. " Old-School Presbyterians one-twentieth, " Unitarians - - one-twentieth, "Roman Catholic less than one-twentieth." DsnicAmoN.—The ne.vrPresbyterian church at Dryden, N. Y., we learn from the Evangelist, was dedicated March 26th. After the sermon by Rev. 0. H. Seymour, the pastor, Rev. A. McDougall, invited the Riders and Trustees to take their places in front of the pulpit. He read to theni the dedicatory formula laid down in the Presbyterian Manual; to which they all respond ed. He then 'followed with the prayer of dedi cation. The dimensions of the building are 40x 75 feet; the style is Romanesque. A number of the pews are reserved as free. KNOX PRESBYTERY, ILL., has appointed the Rev. W. MeKaig and Elder E. V. Robbins, Commissioners to the General Assembly. len! lublicationo. The First and Second Heft of the Studien and Kritiken for 1862,. have been received. In the first, Dr, K. Bwlr argues exegetically to show that the idea of the universal priesthood is not the foundation of the principle of lay representa tion in the reformed churches. Calvin says no thing of it in the account he gives of his own system, or in his commentary on the celebrated passage 1 Peter 2 :`5, 9. It is rather the idea of the Church as the Body of Christ, - which fur nishes the ground for the evangelical church order. But B.Thr goes even further than this, denying that the universal priesthood has any thing whatever to do with this order. Ullman, one of the leading editors of the journal, follows in an article on the same subject, agreeing with Baehr in every point except the last, which he combats vigorously. As the evangelical (United) Chutch of Germany is going through extensive agitations on the subject of church government, pending the adoption very generally of the Pres byterian form, the discussion between two such able men is peculiarly interesting. Along article is given to the Remarkable C7toractcristics [Roethsel] of the Raising of Lazarus, the pecu liar words, acts -.and experiences of the Saviour on thatoceasion. Explanations of the Scriptures from the Classics, by F. Koster, author of a. work on the subject, follow. Some remarkable coin cidences in language and matter are pointed out. The True ;Subject in Romans Seventh is argued to be the converted man. Among the Reviews is one of a couple of volumes of correspondence between three Christian friends, one a Protestant physician, Johann C. Passavant, the others Ca tholic..officials, Bishop Sailer, of Regensburg, and Cardinal Diepenbrock. This remarkable friend ship between men faithful to their different reli gions convictions, is regarded by the critic'as an augury of the future unity of the two great branches of the church—a sort of anticipation of the Christianity of the future, which, according to Schelling, will be of the Johannean type, the Christianity, of love. Alexander Buttman re views the Leyden edition of, the recently pub lished Vatican manuscript of the New Testament. The great edition of this Codex, prepared by Cardinal Mai, and published only after his death, is not only very expensive, btit really deformed With typographical errors and inaccuracies—as are nearly all Greek Works issued. at Rome. The London edition, since issued, is represented by Buttman as a slavish copy of Cardinal Mai's ori ginal—errors and all. A second Italian edition, that of Cardinal Vercellone, is an improvement on the first, though still inaccurate; the third is severely criticised as the hasty work of men who are only the more to - blame because competent to do so much better. Hence it appears that the Vatican Codex • is, after all, but inadequately made known to the public. THE AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION has issued a book of instruction, designed chiefly for adults, called "'The Bible Reader, or Scripture Reading Made Eay." A plan for rapidly im parting sufficient knowledge of our language to read the Bible, is lucidly laid down. In this plan; Spelling-is dispensed with, and words are taught as single symbols, to be recognized from their general appearance. The plan is not new, having been used by the late Dr. Thomas H. •Gallaudet, and more recently.by the compiler of 'the Normal School series of Readers, now used in many of. our public schools. Sagacious mo thers and teachers have employed the system in part, probably, __from time immemorial. The book is accompanied with a series of cards or tablets in large type, and is an ingenious and Most praise Worthy attempt to facilitate the acqui sition of Bible knowledge. For sale_ at 1122 Chestnut street. We have received. from the AMERICAN TRACT Soorrry two 32m0 packages of premium enve lope Tracts for Soldiers, one containing ten, price 5 cents, another containing sixteen, price 8 cents. They are brief, pithy, evangelical; the names of the writers are given, embracing those of not a few females. For sale by H. N. This sell, agent, No. 9292 Chestnnt street. TIIB NORTH BRITISH REvIEW for February, (L. Scott & Co s reprint; Philadelphia, W. B. Lieber} contains articles on John Ruskin—The House of Savoy- - Ctur Single Women—Sir Wil liam Lockhart of Lee—Peasants and. Poets of Austria and ScotlandL-Guizot and the Papacy— Sani‘y Improvement in the Array—Photogra phic Art—Mr. Martin's Catullus—The Ameri can Republic : Resurrection through Dissolution. `The latter article written before the fall of Fort Donelson. LITTELL'ES LIVING AGE for this week, con. *ins The Constable Bourbon, from the New Monthly,; The' Sorrows of Childhood, from Fra ser; The Life of an English Nun, from the Eclec tic; Governor Winthrop's Wife, from the Eug lishwoman's Journal, ete. Boston, Littell, Son & do:
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