THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1868 R•, MEARS, P.D., Editor, 'LEV. JOHN No. 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any person who takes a paper regularly the post-office—whether directed to his Tingle or then, or whether he has subscribed or not—is rc Bible for the pay. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinn must pay all arrenrages, or the publisher ma. tinue to send it until payment is made, and coli whole amount, whether it is taken from the o not. 3. The courts have decided that refusing netvspapers and periodicals from the post-9 removing and leaving them uncalled for, is fr , ' intentional fraud. evidence of York, as Publishers, and to the Lippincotts,b as the Philadelphia Agents.. War The 0. S. Presbytery of Chippewa votes against the Assemblies' Basis, and for that pro-, posed by the Pittsburgh Cifcular people. tar If we } ban g,ive the North-Western Pres byterian any information that it Wants on any subject, we shall ,be 41ad,to do 430.. ,But we do not understand its last question addressed to us. Stir Phillips Brooks is called to Trinity church, Boston. We hope he won't go. FROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT. OUR CHURCH. The Minutes of the General Assembly are published, and distributed after the usual style. That is to say, a package for. each Presbytery is sent by, Express to the Stated Clerk; but when and where the menahers of the Presbytery are to get their copies, it; quite anoth-: er thing. We have before called attention to this • to method of distributing the Min t oes not appear any more satis factory o further acquaintance with it. .1 Surely the true method is to mail a copy to each ministff, and let him 'have the benefit of a‘ perusal of its contents ire food season. As it is, some members do , not get their Minutes until along in the winter, and then they must, seem to many like a last year's almanac. They cannot be regarded in the same light as they would be if received a few months earlier. But we have been looking at the figlyes, and surely-we have reason to rejoice hi tliVkletity of our branch of Zion. Last year , we had 1,560 churches; this year I,s9o—gain 30; last. year 1€1,539 Communicants, this year'l6B,9327—in crease 7,303, in twelve Months. But we are particularly pleased with that part of the Minutes which relates to our own. State. Nowhere has the increase been more striking or interesting; nowhere are our churches stronger, or in a more healthful condition. The growth is steady, uniform, permanent. We wonder if it is generally known how large a portion of our Church belongs to the (‘ Empire,State." Of the 168,932 members, the churches of _this, State embrace 72,710, or three-sevenths of the whole ; and in Central and Western New York alone we have 43,597, or a little over bne-foiwth of our entire communion. We have a right, therefore, to be interested in its general policy, as we are deeply interested in its true welfare. No portion of the Church has more at stake in the question of Re-union with other branches. None.- was more directly affected or wronged by the separa tion ; none has a better right to look well to the terms of Re-union. Are they open, fair, bicker able ? Do they guard. well our liberties ? We thought so as they were reported in our General Assembly ; but plainly our General Assembly put a different interpretation upon them from that given by Drs. Musgrave and Shedd in the other body.; If,they are representative men, and justly reflect the sentiments of the Old School Assembly, surely they do •not well agree with our representative men, Drs. 'Adams an Hickok, in their interpretation of the Plan of Union. In Western New York we like the latter interpre tation better than the former. CHURCH EDIFICES. The Brick church is closed for the^month of A.uguit for a thOrough painting of the interior. The Central church is not elosed,-and is throng ed every Sabbath, but painters are at work on the outside, giving it a light straw color, which will be a great improvement to the external ap pearance of this tine edifice. The pastor, Dr. Campbell, is now taking his usual vacation at the sea side. • ". • . We are sorry;to learn that thi - enlar,geinent of the church fill - Minton, for Which near); *l9OO were recently subseri,bed,Aas:bee t n indefinitely postponed. Of course, ootigregatlciii know their own affairs best, and ppsitely.mayl'aay it is none of our business Otit,they dAtßut Clinton is growing ; their church is alread - y - full ;every seat rented; more wanted. - We- kw* that an puSBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1868. THE - t t h e capacitTe 'con of addition I ' d on e-third s 4untoer additi°n three years , .e','or church edifice, thlri less • greg ation t ,r l r , other Nudition. It is a mast g° be lost to us- . r Minim e. The where, an Iles in a sinni churches in th4r line or two other chore at least, if it 4b_ he m assy went to bet. Before leaving 110 t to enlarge D'ahr, lased a trial of Reap nne of the best are scale, by D. M. Os- But this was not all; I minded proprietors,, )resented to the Em ir best implements, se had witnessed. - & Co. also gave them with the " Kirby, of pi ~ .4. afterwardpresented the beauti ful instrument to the Embassy. And frOni the Tuttle Mannfacturing Company they 'received fine specimens of hoes, rakes, furl* s4thes, pota toe hooks, and other farming utensils. These things they will be permitted to carry or send back to their own country to illustrate, our im proved methods of cultivation; and from these, it is to be hoped; they may learn, 'mitch that will be of substantial practical benefit to them in their own land. Street Cleanse Drinks, ',enemy, le Run !pit, its We-met thernArgain onltheir way tiA,N,iagara- Falls, and had the' pleasure 'of - putting-som'e' words of Christian truth into theirhands, which we hope may be blest, to them; the gose by John in the Chinese, and Spin: Book prepared by the Missionaries, to one of the chief Mandarins; the New Testament in English to one who reads our language, (the other was already supplied ;) and parts of the Testament in Frencli'to each of the two who speak that language. These were all received with apparent interest, and were all at once in use by those-to whom they were given. OUR COUNTRY. is it ours? What part of it ? he Constitution guarantees to each one ,6 . us the Iliame liberties in every State 6f 'the Union; but can we enjorthem ? - One of Or citizens, a Christian gentleman, has recently returned from one of our Southern 'cities, where he' tried to live in peace with all men going quietly about his•birsiness, striving in every way to lead a Chris tiap •life, and do good as he had " opportunity." All who know him, know that he is one of the most peaceable men that ever lived. But even he was not permitted' to live in' peace and safety in' that city. f- It j was enough that he was from, the North. ,Of. course, then, he waa'a ".Y.ankic," an " Abolitionist,'" a "ga natic," " and they would show him that he was not going to come ,clown there ,to meildle with their affairs." One man swore he Would cowhide him, and drive him out of the town. For that purpose he was seen daily carrying.a big cowhide, and openly making his ,threats. And what is the redress ? Where •is protec-' tion ? To appeal to the Courts in that city would be a waste of time, and . provocation of spirit. And• so this peaceable ri !diced .to:dh what he never expected to be obliged to do in thiS' Christian land„to arm, himself with a revolver,, and - give out that he should , defei*l'thimselfito .the last. e office e open Letters r next hrough should ; of New Is that city reconstructed ? Is this our coun try ? May we go where we will in it, and be protected by its laws ? It is time it were so; and millions of lives have been sacrificed in vain unless it can be" Made so. diNESEE. Rochester, Aug. 15, 1868. We of the New School, by at.lea'st ten to one, have been cordial for reunion, on fair terms, with our Old School brethren, ever since negotiations were opened , St: - 110 . yirc.';: We are t q oxfOr unien On the' Pittsburgh" basis, we are equallY , ready for it on the Committee's basis. We in tend to trust our Old School brethren, and we expect them to trust us. We are just as sound in our allegiance to, the good old standards of faith m any brother at Princeton or Allegheny, and have no fears of "standing an examination" before even the veteran Presbytery of New Brp.nswick,.ic any of, us Jeceive a ,e4ll ; tn,lajior t among its peayhigebards have had . (outside of dhicago) . but littledebate in our ecclesiaaticarbodias,`l4l - t;l4s discus. sion in our papers j , a 4 nd the JoihtiGommittee's basis is likely to be adopted by our Presbyteries with entire unanimity. In short,,we are waiting, with open arms; to embraoe my brethren of the other branch in the one common faith " once de livered to the saints." Delays are not proposed on out.side.• and let us , say frankly that if the glorious project of reintegration fails, through delay er defelt, we shall have the least to lose, because we are practically a unit for reunion, and are not disturbed by many dissenting elements. Really neither side 'can:afford to hp.„yelket`preject.` defeated; for it would involve a common repripaili and , dishnnoi upon the Wliele Presbyterian naine, —Dr. Theo. L. Calyer in The Presbyterian. The method indiCated by `the Pittsburg Circa lar, is growing in favor everywhere, within our bounds; and we have strong reasons to believe, that when our New School brethren fully co4n prehend its real import, :they' will alinOst" Unani mously approve it.._ Former. opponents of Re union are ceasing their opposition. Those who were,once strongly in favor of specifications, finitions, and a strong array of defences in a ba sis of •Union, are convinced that they are mista ken. . . . . Even the Princeton Review, which has occupied several positions with regard to reunion, announces itself in favor of " a plan of union, having fur its doctrinal basis our cons-, mon Standards, pure and simple."-- TIM Presby terian Banner. We do not see, according to the above article, what we have gained by inserting in the Baths the condition that'the Confession ‘,‘'is to be re ceived in its proper historical, that is, in its Cal vinistic or Reformed, sense." For if J. Hodge's doetrine,of the Atonemenf-4hictt;i4.Ahe"qd School view-is urged aatlieliittitcar , doetime of Calvinism, Dr. Stith will •a,tiswer, " that is one of the historical phases of the doctrine." If the doctrine of ourstandards,that " a covenant was made with Adam,'not only, for himself,; but for all hia posterity," is insisted upon, the Ame rican Presbyterian will answer, if we understand it aright, that historically, this-doctrine' is not REUNION ITEMS. Calvinism at all, but Semi-Pelagianism, or some thing of that sort. We see no use, therefore, in having that clause in the Basis.— Western Pres byterian.. [From the above, we learn (1) that, our exclu sivist O. S. brethren are beginning to see that " the historical sense " is the last, thing in the world for them to talk about—that history is the last tribunal in the world for them to appeal to. Like all other sectarian exclusivists, they wil find that the shorter their traditions are, the safer and more rigid they will prove. (2) We learn that the Editor of the Western Presbyterian wishes no interpretation of the Standards, except the .Frinctonian' one, to be, allowed in the United Church. Let us by all means lay the Assemblies' Basis on the shelf and adopt one to suit him 0 I • This course [withdrawing from the 'Pres..' bytei•y] will save you trim beooming complicated in the criminations, strifes, and excisions which. wise 'men in halt Presbyterian bodies, predict will arise under, the cbming reunion. There are certainly imiortant and wide diflbrences between the Old and the Neti School thiolOay OAP of union can reconcile them, nor take away the di . SpOsition'frOm milli Minds, to contend earnestly in - regard te"them. It is a, fact •that the most strenuous, pOleakies;'arid • sticklers for the very words. of Orthodoxy, are the Old 'School men. They'are the real custodians of• the Piodrustean 'bedstead and Will far Seonet'iiseit than destroy it.' It, is a fact tiou, that they Will be' a powe'rtul majority in the eunion. Dr. Hodge,. of Prince= ton,=a leader atiOng thein, , says=" We go into it heartily, because ]it does not reqpire tato make any change whatever." They will give' the pre dominant color and character to the new body in its thhOlogY and :Messuiee; you''rehdy 'for this ? CertainlitEe feat is altogether rational, that the, freer . spirit which you cherish, and your just disregard of exacting punctilios_and red tape, will, after a brief perio4, subject you to suspi cions, to accusations, and to damaging trials, if not to summaryEUeetn•ient, after the manner of thirty years, ago.- IThe prudent man p foreseeth the evil and hideth himself"—"Letter' to 'a ,Congte gational church, cop„nected with a Presbytery" f7l the :zfclvance. We can but reg!trd the • [Hall-Humphrey] . re solutioq passed by the 0. 8. Assembly near the close, of its sessio ~and d,csigned to• be supple mentary to and e`lanatory of the vote that had been_telegraphed a_the_other branch, as a .seri ous misfortune ' cl u wholly . unnecessary in the circumstances. Itended to shake the confidence of N. S. men in t real desire for union of those who Could pass su' . a paper at that stage of pro 'ceedings. It wa construed as a reaffirmation of the old issues. I Had, it been sent on to the N. S. Assembly_ ilthe early part of the session, when there would have been time for thorough consideration, it w uld have been almost fatal to all hope of union hit' is worth the cost. But coming When man had left, and all were ready to,leave—the bug s essilaving been completed 'the members Ares t only expressed the hope, that it might not revent,what had been so fer vently desired, and ,i theusdjourned.— The Occi dent. ~ COLLEGE RECORD. OBERLIN COLLESE.—The commencement was preceded by a two preeks! Theological Institute, participated in by ofne' sixty or seventy of the Alumni, and devoled to discussions bearing upon the ministerial work. ,The address to the Alumni was delivered by. Ex-Gov. Cox. That to the Literary Societies by Prof. Seelyi of Amherst. The Baccaleaureate Sermon by Pres. Fairfield was followed by an address by Prof. Merriam. Res. J. Butler of Fairport, next delivered the Co ncio ad Clement. At the commencement twenty-four gentlemen and one lady took the degree of B.A. A- 'college vacation of three Weeks has been adopted. The new freshmen class, promises well in point of numbers. PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE, (Gettysburg, Pa.), Professor Valentine declines the Presidency of Pennsylvania College unanimously tendered him by the Board. The noinitiatiiiii:of .Rev. Reuben Hill by the Synod of Pennsylvania to the Frank lin Professorship will also have, to be acted on. P rofWilkenehas rthigned r GerniL Profes; sorshi.p. ,Da.V4l PetirSon, Elq.,`..sif Philadelphia, recently deceased. left the College 400 shares o f stock in the Brook Coal Coal Company, to estab lish a Professorship to be 'named the Pearson- Professorship. The par value is $20,000. (He also left :I)l..7Htftee' r ee7ihtireli, .300 shait's of stock in the same Company for the construc tion of a new church edifice, provided the con gregation shall raise a like amount for this pur- MADISON UNkVERSITY,•HAMILTDRI N. Y.— Dr. Hague of Boston addressed, the Society of Inquiry on " The Distinctive Ideas of New Testament ,Christ p ianityl ,B,,ey. W., Hoyt of Brooklyn addreesCd " the Literary SoCiety on Iconoclasm." ,-041 Tuesday, August. 4th, the commencement of Hamilton Theological Semin• 'ary w was Seven graduates _delivered ad dresses..oi ihe.ftliewingiday, thaeof UriiiersitA took place, eight graduates taking , part. The, honorary degrees were: D. _D.—Rev. Joseph Freemen, Cavendish, Vt. Rev. James Cooper; London, Canada. 4ev. William R. Webb, Cant* 111. A'. 31.—Re.i. F. F. Osborne, Belle- Ville, N. Y. Ref. J. Folviell, Ithaca; N. Y. Rev. E. M. Blanchard, Maris, N. Y. After com mencement Dr. E. Dodge., was inaugurated as, President of 3,ll4 l p,nitersiti 'The Alumni met, in the evening. THE' HOWARD UNIVERSITY of Washington, althouglvopen , to young people Of• both sexes, and of all eompleiions, was founded especially to give colored boys a liberal education. It is to this feat* two, owes ffie colq,u?iriends i hip of General 0: - OflibwarA, Whose name nears, the Rev. Dr. Sunderland, General. Balloch, and the other well known Washington gentlemen whore names appear in the list of trustees. Two large buildings are now nearly ready for students, and it is hoped that a freshman class may be organiz ed in the Fall. The tuition fees will be light, and board will be furnished at about three dollars a week. The Normal department has already been in operation for more than a year, and has given instruction 'to a class of more than one hundred. A primary .course in theology was also begun &it:' ye'tti. -The 'Medical 'department will be ready to receive students in October. Havinglgot''' thuil . the Trustees - mow ask for 0,41 books, specimens for the museum, and above all money to endow professorships and scholarships. THE UNIVERSITY AT LEWISBURG-, PA.-At eighteenth commencement, seven received the degree of B. A. The aggregate of graduates in those eighteen , years is 159 of whom 60 have entered the ministry. The theological department (which graduates there this year) is to be transferred to Crozer Seminary, Upland, Pa. The honorary degrees were : D. D. Rev. J. S. Dickerson of Pittsburg (for services ren dered in the immersion war,) L.L. D.—Rev. Wm. Roberts of Wales. The orators of the occasion were Drs. Armitage of New York and Young of Pittsburg, with Pres. Robinson of Rochester University. CHICAGO THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (Cong.) graduate& twelve of forty-six students. The Trustees are trying to secure the endowment of a chair cf 'Ecclesiastical History, and of an lowa Professorship and have chosen Rev. W. H. Daniels their agent to effect these and the like results. A Witcher of elocution has been ap pointed'; and new scholarships established. lOWA COLLEGE graduated six young ladies this year. An exchange misled US into saying " no graduates." *in d fur eintttlx. THE LARGEST CHURCHES reported on our mi , 'nutes for the current year have the following membership • . , Lafayette Av. church, Brooklyn, 1141; Madi son sq. church, New York, 1111 ; Brick church, Rochester, 1086 ; Kensington church, Phila., 934; Seventh church, New York, 916; Thir teenth St. church, New "fink, 866 ; Fourth church, Albany, 825 ; West church, New York, 715; Allen St. church, New York, 750; Fourth Av. church, New York, 726; Spring St. church, New York, 715 ; South Church, Brooklyn, 695; First church, Troy, 686 ; Binghampton, N. Y., 1672; Third church, Pittsburg, 650; Central church, Rochester, 648 ; Mercer St. church, New York, 629 ; Eleventh church, New York, 604 ; Third church, Philadelphia, 603 ; First church, Brooklyn, soq; First church, Auburn, 593 First' church, Cleveland,, 584; North church, New York, 572.; Central church, New :York, 572; First church, Utica, 546 ; Lafayette street church, Buffalo, 543; Fourteenth St. church, New, yo'rk, 532 ; First church, Syracuse, 527 ; Bloomfield,, N. 1., 509; First church, .Chicago, 508; Second church, Cleveland, 504; Second. 'church, Newark, 501; Ypsilanti, Mich., 500: THE LARGEST ACCESSIONS on examination re ported in our last minutes are : Kensinoton church, Philadelphia, 100; Cen tral church, Rochester, l 88 • 'Easton I . f Mo 88 • ,Lebanon, 111., (Germanchurch) 80; Fourth Av. ,church, New Y0rk,.77 ; Spring St church, New York, 72; Thirteenth St. church, New, York;7l; .Madison Sq. church, New• York, 68.; Ridgebury, 'N. Y., 66; Trenton, 111.. (German church) 65; Eleventh, church: New York, 65; First church, ,Brooklyn, 64;- Tabor church, Philadelphia, 62; ' Port Jervis, N. Y.,59; Lyons., 57; Third,ehureli, Philadelphia, 54 ; Brockport, N. Y., 55 ; Delphi, -Ind,, 54; Belvidere 2d, .New Jersey,. 53.; Vic tor, N. Y, 51.. This makes an aggregate of 1432 acoesions to. 18 churches. CHURCHES.--The Seventh church of Chicago, on the evening of July 29th, extended a unani mous and cordial invitation to Rev. John Mc- Leish, late of of Laeon, to become its pas tor. The voting was so hearty and general and unanimous, that its, effects, on both people and pas tor-elect, must be for a long time to come inspir iting.—A correspondent o the _Herald says : " We , have in Winton, Donglas Co-, Kansas, a Presbyterian church , (N. S.) organized; a com fortable house to worship in; a nourishing Sab bath-schOol ; preaching every Sabbath by the Rev. A. &Out, licentiate of the Chilicothe Pres bytery, Ohio. - We also have a good country for agriculture or ,stock-raising• purposes; a good, rich soil; abundance of timber and rock for or dinary improTements, .and good ..water."—The church edifice just built at Mendocino, •Cal., was. dedicated to the Lord on Sundayi,July sth. Sermon by, the Rev. L. Hamilton, of Oakland The building is 'said to be a beautiful one. The funds were largely contributed :by-Captain Ford. —Dr.,David Tnomas, of , Catasauqua, Penn., has presented the-church Of 'that place with, a bind , some organ. The instrument was given a public trial recently; and gave great satisfaction.:---The Independent church at Evanston, 111., the-beau , tifut suburban • fowl'• north of Chicago, 'have peacefully divided, the Presbyterian membership buying the old house, and 'the Congregational forming •a new organization, which has already secured' a lot, and is taking measures toward a' . house forthwith; , MINISTERIAL.-At a meeting of the Fourth New York Presbytery, held August 3d, the pas toral relation between - Rev.: Erskine N. White and the church at Neiv Rochelle was dissolved. His pastorate has been eminently a happy and successful one ; but being called to enter a wider field, providentially opening before him in Buffa- - 10, he felt constrained to go—Rev. Jeremiah Woodruff; a prominent minister of the Presbyte rian church at Lansing, lowa, died -of dropsy on the 25th ult. His remains were taken to Chen ango,- =N..Y.; for interment.—The Occident pub lishe& a list of the Presbyterian clergymen on the Pacific .coast. The , whole number is sixty-nine; of whom thirty-seven are designated as Old School'; twenty-six as News Sch000l; one-as a United Presbyterian—leaving five whose ecclesi astical position is not given. , Of the 69, eleven are in Oregon; 'two in Washington Territory; - wo in Nevada; and the remainder California eighteen are in. San Francisco; eight in Oakland, connected with the; College and Female Semin ary there ; leaving• twenty-eight as pastors and stated supplies for all - the 'other tewns and cities in that great and growing . State.--By a unani mous vote, the O.S. 'church in SiocktonyCal., recently gave a call to the Rev, L. Hamilton to become its pastor. Mr. ilamiltoir is now .the pastor of our church in o.Akland, and it is •not probable that he will leave.—Rev. Isaac .Riley,of, the Park church, of Newark, has accepted a call from the Thirty-fourth St. Reformed church, N.Y., and will enter upon his new field of labor on the Ist of September.—Rev, Fred S. Jewell, D.D., has resigned the professorship of English Lan guage and Literature in the State Normal School, and accepted the principalship of the Delaware Literary Institute at Franklin, Delaware county, N. Y.—T. L. C. "nails down" the following cur rent falsehood : "Rev. Theo. L. Culyer of Brook lyn is much censured for having had his photo graph taken, for sale, with hands and face up lifted in an attitude of prayer." He says : "As I never was photographed in any such ridiculous attitude, the aforesaid 'censure' has been needless ly wasted." Xtliginitz tittritigturt. THE REFORMED CHURCHES. City.—The Second church has purchased a lot on the north-west corner of Twenty-first and Wal nut streets, where it is proposed to erects hand some church building. The price was fifty-one thousand dollarsiand the first payment has already been made. They are to erect .a lecture-room, and hope to worship in it by the first of January,lB69. Dr. Beadle, has returned to the city, and is preach:: ing to large congregations in the Hall, at the cor ner of Broad and Walnut streets.—The Ninth church (Rev.' Dr. BlackwUbd's,) has been refitted in the interior so completely as to-give it the aspect of a new church. Th,ework has,been done chiefly through the exertions of the, ladies, and at a cost of several thousand dollars. New carpets in the aisles and pulpit, new c.ashions, in. the, pews, and the painting and frescoiUg of the walls make itone of the most pleasant and Convenient churches in the city. The congregations -az* large, and the church is coming up froinits embarrassed condition, resulting from financial and legal difficulties, into a condition of ease and . presperity. liinisteriaL7—Theforthern Christian Advocate, published at Auburn, N. Y., says: "Rev. Dr. Gur ley, pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Washington,D. C.; and Lincoln's former pastor,is at Clifton, and is, hopefully recovering."-14v. Geo. P. Hays, of Baltimore, has accepted the Finan cial Agency for Wooster (O.) University.—Rev A. G. Chambers, formerly of College Hill, 0., has ac cepted the position of Principal of Freehold (N. J.) Institute.—The venerable Dr. Macdill, of the U. P. Church, writes to the Christian. Instructor: " I have entirely lost my sight, and am in feeble health."— Rev. Henry Connelly, of the U. P. church in New burg, N. Y., died on the morning of August 10th. —Rev. Maurice C. Sutphen,. formerly of Spring Garden church, Philadelphia, now of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, New York, has taken a trip to the Rocky Mountains; during-his summer vaca tion. He is on the correspondence, staff of The Preshyterian.—Rev. A. C. Stewart, from the protest ing portion of the Associate Synod, has been re ceived into the U. P. Church, and connected himself with the Frankfort Presbytery.—The Rev. Dr. R. D. Harper proffered to the Presbytery of Xenia some• time since his resignation of the pastoral charge of the First church in Xenia, Ohio, in order to accept an appointment in the Freedmen's Bureau; but the Presbytery, at its meeting, on the 30th of June, declined to accept of it. Churches.—The Free Christian Commonwealth says: "A friend of ours [Rev. P. V. Nasby?] who has re cently visited portions• of the State of Ohio, gives us, a most startling account of the effect of the abolition gospel in utterly obliterating churches, whiCh before the war were large and flourishing, especially those connected with the Methodist, Lu theran, and United Presbyterian ChurChes. . . . He informs us that several of the United Presby terian. churches 'are closed by the folly of radical. preachers and .ers, suspending from the church those who v. r.l Vallandigham for Governor of = Ohio. Some . .ese.church OS, he says, r are of fered for sale, and can be purchased for sums much below their actual value. Would not these portions of Ohio be good missionary ground ?"—The Chris tian Intelligencer says that the Rev. James Huyseon, who has been for three years at Eastmansville, Mich.; has accepted a call from the First Holism,' church at Paterson, N. J. This church was gath ered by him, and he was its pastor for six years. .Of late this church has been in a declining condi tidn, and he has consented to become its pastor for the second time, in the hope that he may be able to. restore it to its former state. The Largest Accessions on profession of faith reported in the Minutes of the other Branch are: German church, Madison street, New York, 327; Coburg First church, Wisconsin, 188; German church, Williamsburg, N. Y., 138; Bethany, In diana 196; church on John's Island, S. C , 124; church of Sea and Land, New York, 103; Second church St. Louis, Missouri, 102; First Seminole church, Indian Territory, 98 Plaingrove, Pa., 90; Cohocksink church, Philadelphia, 89; First church. Elizabethtown, N. J., 84; Leesburg, Pa., 82; Rochelle, 111.,76; .P' on Creek, 75; Seneca, N. Y., 72; Cnc9rll,o., 70; Lycoming, Pa., 70. Over-Sea Items.—The Belfast Northern Whig states that, in the face of the Burials Bill, and in the very crisis of the Irish Establishment, a clergy man belonging to thatbody,-the Rev. Henry Stew art, of Derriagliy, has itistittitedwleaal proceedings against a Presbyterianltninister,the7Rev. Dr. Knox, .for having conducted'a religious service in the parish graveyard on the lst of July last, without having sought and obtained permission .to do so.--The Marylebone church, 'London, having loht their pas tor, Dr. Chalmers, by his election to a chair in the English Presbyterian College, called Rev. Donald Frazer, Free Church minister of Inverness. At the recent meeting of his Presbytery he declined the call.—Rev. J. H. Wilson • of Barclay Free r church Edinburgh 7 .is possibly.not to go to Regent's Si. church London afters:if. spite of Presbytery's resolve to translate. 'him, the matter is in suspense. —A few weeks ago the death of Rey. Wm. Hender son, of Armagh, was announced: - He was an emi nent minister and an enthusiasticfriend of the tem ' perance cause. Now' his uncle; Rev. Alexander Henderson, of Lisburn, folio's's% him to "the land o' the leaf," dying at Warley, in Essex, where he was attending to his duties as chaplain to the forces. The Town Council of Edinburg,. a majority of which ,are members of anti-patronage ,churches, have the presentation to the Old Grey-Friars' church, vacant 'by the death of - Dr. Robert Lee:' 'The congrea e atio'h ;sent in'the name of a Rev. Mr. Wallace as the man /of 'their choice, , bUt the Council poised him by and appointed a Rev. Dr. Gloag, of Dresden. Mr. Wal lace is too much of D r . Lee's way.of thinking to please the Council, and . is likely to -be callt4l to Park church, Glasgow. If the Grey Friars' people ,desire the <freedom of election let,them (it is said) 'buy out the-presentation which they can have for one year's purchase, .f.4oo.—The R. P. - Divinity Hall closed its annual session, Edinburgh, June 24th. Seventeen regular students and three from ; other bodies had been in attendance. Congregationalist —The statistics of the Rhode Island churches for , the past year show 24 churches with 8,835 members, a gain of 243. Charitable contributions,to the amount of U 2,561 are reported from 18 churches. Only 10 have regularly installed pastors:—lii accordance with tin ihvitation from the church in Homer, N. Y , a meeting was held in that plac:e, of ministers and churches, for consul tatiow as' toi,the , expediency of forming a new Con
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