REV. DAVID M'KINNEY, Editor and Proprietor. TENNIS IN ADVANCE. AlNirtai Sunsonnermes f 11.50 slurs 1.25 DELIVERED IN NITNEIt 1.1181 CITIES 2.00 rwo DouAus, we will send by matt seventy number url or 00e oohten, thirty-three utunbere. eeters sending tag TWENTY subscribers and upwards, will thereby entitled, to a paper without charge. 9. n mettle .‘hotild be prompt. a little before the year expires Bend payments by We hands. or by mail. Pirect all lottets to REV. DAVID MIUNNEY, • Pittsburgh, Pa. For the Preobyterlon DRUMM% Continuation of the Narrative of Dr. Marks. About two miles beyond the White Oak Swamp, toward J 1141106 River, is the field of battle or Monday. This is sometimes called the battle of Nelson's Farm. The enemy were defeated and driven from the field on Sunday evening ut Savage Station, and there was but little expectation of close pursuit on Monday—so little, indeed, that Paymasters had apppeared in some of the Regiments, and had commenced paying off the troops. The battle commenced with the enemy rushing on our lines about 2 o'clock. P. M. The struggle continued with unabating violence until 10 o'clock at Alight; when the, guns of the enemy were silenced, and our pickets held possession of the battle-ground until 2 o'clock in the morning. On this battleground, extending about two and a half miles, I found that every dwelling house, stable, barn, and out building, was converted into a hospital, and yet many of our men were lying under the shade of tree's, and under shelter of boughs, grass, and blankets. The battle was most severe in that portion of it where our Reserve Regiments and the 63d Penn'a were placed, in the defence of' batteries; ten graves are found in this portion of the line, where one is elsewhere seen. In the neighborhood of two small farm houses near to the crossing of the Richmond and White Oak Swamp Roads, the conflict was most deadly and long-continued. , These farms are enabosomed thick, dense pine forests, and from these the enemy rushed upon our lines and artillery. In one of these houses I found Adjutant Gaither, of the 10th Reserves. The hos pital was under the care of Dr. Donnelly, of the '3d Reserves, who had nobly volun teered to remain on the battle-field with our wounded men. When I entered the room where Adjutant. G. was lying, I was much struck by his appearance;- his face expressed fine culture and education, and purity and elevation of character. These impressions were confirmed by subsequent acquaintance. He was wounded in the right breast, the ball passing through the body. He had been left for dead, but was found alive by some of the Confederate . soldiers, and borne to this houie. He told me in my first interview that he had been praying to God - that some min ister of the Gospel might •be sent to his dying bed, to counsel, instruct, and pray for him, and now God had answered his prayer. He had been for years a mem ber of the Presbyterian Churoh i and-during his life in the army he bad not forsaken his Saviour. I have seldom witnessed a more impressive scene. The dying officer, fanned and upheld by enemies; the floor of the room covered with wounded men in every posture of interest, or distress—some listening with the greatest anxiety, and others too absorhed in their pains to hear anything. In the presence of them all, he bore his testimony, as a dying man, to the righteousness of 'our cause; that he had no regrets over his early death, for he died for his country. He likewise spoke of his hope as a sinner in the mercy of God, through Jesus• Christ ; of his painful sense of unworthiness, and that he had accom plished so little of any value, but that he was not withal afraid to die, for Christ his Redeerner i was mighty to save; and not by works of righteousness, but by his mercy and grace be saved us. At the same time he indited a letter to his parents, full of gratitude and thankfulness for the past and hope for the future, and of joyful expectation of an eternal union in heaven. This was ow Saturday, the sth of July. I returned. on Monday, and= found that while many whom I bad , seen on my first visit were gone, the. Adjutant had' revived and breathed with less painfulness; but he was not hopeful of' the end, but felt assured he must die. I bade him farewell, with no expectation of ever seeing him again. But when I reached Richmond, and at 11 o'clock at night was marched into Prison No. 1, I was greeted by many familiar voices; and as I turned the light which I bore in. my hand to the faces, I found many whom I had first seen on the field of dukth. To one of these officers, when I bad spoken to him and congratulated him on his safety in Richmond, I said, " And the Adjutant?' "He is there," said his friend, pointing to a camp bedstead, on which the wouned man was lying. I approached him ; he grasped my baud, and blessed God that he again saw me. He again assured me that he could not live;; that the conflict was all over, and he now lei:Ted to be in the bosom of his Saviour; that he felt no fear nor ap prehension of the future. Thisiwas-Sun day, the 13th of Jaily ; he did not mate rially change for the worse until Wednes day following, when it became plain he was passing from us. On Thursday morning, the 17th, he called me to himiand said the struggle was nearly over ; that,his faith in- Christ continued -unwavering. He asked me to pray with him, and commend his de parting spirit to his Redeemer. Nearly the last words he uttered were : u I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, and henceforth there is laid. up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord," &a., &a. As I repeated the first words of the 23d Psalm, he took up the words and repeated &oh of the Psalm, saying, with an eye brightened apparently by the, light of an. other world, cad a smiling face, " Though I. walk through the valley of the shadow of death,,l Will fear no evil; for thou art with me, and thy rod and staff comfort me." His end was peace. About 2 o'clock P. M. he passed from us, and went up, we hope, from the blood-stained germents, to be clothed in the spotless robes of the glorified. Thus died a young man of the greatest promise, whom to know was to love; who, if God had been pleased to continue him with us, would have been an honor to his fanagy and State. He lies amidst .a great thrnig of his countrymen, in the Potters Field of Richmond, and rom their graves go up an appeal to the God of justice, to remember and avenge. A. simple board, with his name and ad dress, marks the place where he lies., Dr. Hodge on the State of the Country. In the July number of the "Princeton Review," Dr. Hodge expresses himself on the State of the Country. The drift of his sentiments may be inferred from the fact that the last New-York Observer de clares, his position to be quite the same is theirs, and that his views, as expressed int the Review, are those which the o%er ver. has long and strenuously. advocated. Bow satisfactory- thisA•Will be to the , loyal and lo'or the Presbyterian Battnor .. . .i.-..,.. .._. t ........, . - -- i 4.i ~... ft‘ „, 1 wj, , .., , 11 4 ft, Ipi,. .. v ~i, ; ' .•,'?.., - a .e., t, ~ ten ite . t ei„ if ..,,, ....... .„..r.,.,,,.. / 41 ~ i . . VOL. X., NO. 48. 4 patriotic, may be guessed from the known position of the New-York Observer. In only one particular does the Observer dis sent from Dr. Hodge. It is in the opposi tion which Dr. Hodge makes to the paper of Dr. Breckinridge, which was so heartily adopted by the last Assembly. Dr. Bodge admits that the body had a perfect right to adopt the paper, but, that it, was inexpe dient so to do : and that " the wisest and best course would .have been entire silence on the disturbed state of the country." The New-York Observer, cannot quite agree with Dr. Hodge on this point. Nor can we. We never could - Understand how, if Dr. Hodge considered the Southern upris ing as a wicked rebellion, he could so steadfastly oppose the action of the Church in saying so. How he could so oppose the " Spring Resolutions," we could never un derstand—for they only. declared the sol emn judgment of the Church as regards the duty of loyalty, and allegiance to the powers to whom North and South were equally bound under oath. And to say that this question of allegiance was not one upon which the Church was competent to pronounce, was simply to declare that it was a purely political question and not a moral one, and that, therefore, men might, in this case, break their allegiance and not t•e chargeable with, sin such as the Church ought to warn against and to condemn. Where then is the crime of the Southern uprising in Dr. Hodge's view, if it be only such a misdoing as the Church may not speak of—nay if in such case, the action of the Church in declaring the duty of loyalty and allegiance, was unjust and to be pro tested against ? Suppose the Southern movement to be high-handed rebellion and treason, as men at the North commonly be lieve, is not the Church "to admonish and reprove her members of such a flagrant wrong?. Why is the Church set - up on earth if it be not as a witness-bearer against iniquity ? And has not the community a right to look to the Church Tor her solemn declaration at a time when good men are divided in opinion and action ? Can her deliverance be inexpedient r simply because there are differences of opinion among her ministers and members in the two sec tions ? Much more;\ can this fact make her faithful testimony wrong? What if she does speak in a way to bear, severely upon many of her ministers and members, must she be a dumb dog that will,not bark, as though she knew not on which side to bark? The Southern Church Courts did not deal so delicately and mincingly with the matter. No 1 they took the lead of the politicians, and their action was spread out before the General Assembly, in the Minutes of the Synod of South Carolina, showing that they had led' the way in ad vance o ri f the political bodies. And why must the highest Court of our Church for .bear to speak against the greatest crime of the age—if they regards:dit such—involv itg wholesale perjury, robbery, and blood shed, such as ages of Church service could not, repair? Why 3 Could <not the large membership in various quarters of the land, who were, at the moment, more or ess vacillating about right and duty, ex pect it.' of this highest Court of Jesus Christ to speak out and inform them of the true Scriptural doctrine in Romans viii, Sze., and of its application to the case on hand? Has the Church and the Scripture no teachings on this subject of loyalty ? The General Assembly did speak—kindly, but plainly and firmly—in few words— " acknowledging and declaring their obli gation" to be loyal and true to the Federal Government,,and "so far as in 'them lie" to sustain it in the exercise of its Constitu tional functions—for to this Government they were sworn as. American 'citizens. It was no 'dogma of the Vatican. It did not bar all right of private judgment. It'was not meant to set up in every. Presbyterian Church an inquisition. It was not at all " a teat of membership." And yet Dr. Hodge saw in such a simple declaration, only evil—and a wrong, as it would seem, second only to the wrong,of the rebellion itself. We never could reconcile this po sition of Dr. H. (in which the Southern and Border members agreed with him,) with any proper sense of the horrible wickedness of the political leaders of the South. Nor could we see how brethre_n who believed that the fresh blood of Sump ter was spilt by traitors, could think it un fair and unjust to our Southern members, that the Church should, at her first Assem bly, cry out against the wrong. It always seemed to us that such a position could be reconciled only with some very qualified view of the rebellion itself.. And yet, at this late hour, when the atrocities are so multiplied, and the brethren of the Border States need BO to be advised of truth and , ;duty in the • case, when Dr. Breckinridge, from their very midst, sub mits a paper expressive of the right, and exposing the wrong, Dr. Hodge again utters to the country his dissent. Isit not weak ening to the true position of loyal men and of a loyal Church to maintain, at this hour of our deepest agony, that "the wisest course of the Assembly would -have been, ENTIRE SILENCE on the subject of, the dis turbed state of the country ? " Dr. Hodge,.in his Protest against: , the action of the General Assembly of 1861, takes! the, ground that the Church is not competent to decide to what Govern ment a- man owes: his allegiance. >But is she not competent to decide .that he owes his allegiance to that Government to which he is solemnly sworn ? And the OATH of all State officers shows that, the citizens of the respective States are bound first of all to the General,Government; and only sec ondarily and subordinately to that of the particular State. This is the moral point to which the .Assembly speaks; and this is just the• point where the political question rises > into the sphere of morals and religion' In Dr. Hodge's own language elsewhere—so seemingly inconsistent with his action here we ask "Is Disunion morally •right ? Does it not involve a breach of faith, and a. vio lation of tire oaths by which that faith was confirmed?" And we say again, in• his own words "If a •crime at all, it is one the heinousness of which can only be imper fectly estimated." It would really seem that he must regard it as no crime, or as of doubtful importance, if he would have the Church debarred from speaking against. it. But this inference he disdains. And here is his inconsistency. The tendency of Dr. H.'s reasoning in his " PROTEST," is 'surely to acknowledge the right of Secession, or to regard it as an open question. To say, as he says, that it is treasonable :for, one member in. the seced edtStasesdoeaelenowbelge..dherFeelemb ernment is surely to concede all that the re bellion asks, in the way of open acknowl edgment. It cannot be treasonable both to disown the United States Government to which they are implicitly sworn, and to own the same United States Government to which their allegiance is due by all the forms of oath. Then which is treason.? Here Dr. H. staggers and breaks down I Dr. Hodge's position, if it had been taken by the Assembly, would have .made the Church waver on the whole question and give all the weight of its high judgment to strengthen .the hands of - the rebellion. Many of our luthern ministers and mem bers, doubtless judged with the Assembly that they were obligated so far as in them lay to promote and perpetuate the integ rity of the United States, and to strengthen, uphold and encourage the Federal Govern ment in the exercise of all its fuctions un der our noble Constitution. And they could have received this deliverance of the General Assembly without offence or harm, only holding that so far al, in them lay, they could - do nothing at the time, and must wait the openings of Providence.. This would; in our view, have been the , le gitimate operation of the Assembly's de liverance with loyal members at the. South; of whom, we have always hoped, there are many. We have the highest esteem for Dr. Hodge as a scholar. and as a Christian man; but we have seen him, in severalin stance taking.ground directly opposite to that of the Geheral Assembly ; and it is plain that his teachings on the subject of loyalty and of the duties we owe to the Government, must be of questionable bearing The Irish Presbyterians and the Reginm Donum. The financial condition of the Presbyte rian churches in Ireland ought to be inter esting to the public generally, if it be true, as the advocates of the voluntary system allege, that if the Regium Donum were withdrawn, the Maynooth grant would soon follow, and these two buttresses removed, the Establishment would tumble down. The number of endowed congregations connected with the General ~Assembly in 1854 was 462, and the income from con gregational contributions, commonly called " stipend," was $85,915. There was $21,620 from other sources of income, giving a total of $107,540. In 1861 the congregations had increased to 495,. and the stipend to $138.710, the other sources to $25,825, and the total to $164,535. In the former year this gave an' average of $230 per annum for each minister, and in the latter the av erage was ,$332.50. The total number of families in the Assembly is 82,155, giving an average of 166 families to each congre gation. The estimated annual value of manses is $15,000, and the salaries of chap lains tamount to $4,000. The congrega tional incomes are very unequal. More than 100 ministers receive less than £l5O a year from those to whom they minister. But for the $375 granted by Parliamentk they, would,not be able to remain, at their, posts, and the meeting houses must be closed. :Dien with the " Royal Boainty," it must be-hard enough for a minister with a family- to live in these times of> high prices. With -a free manse and a small farm, and perhaps some presents from the wealthier members of his congregation, the Presbyterian pastor manages to live on $525 a year. It, is not enough' to attract superior talent to the, ministry, with so many other fields open for aspiring youth, and accordingly there has been a com plaint for some years that the candidates for the Presbyterian ministry are not so numerous nor so eligible as to meet fully the exigencies of the Churchand of society. The -curates, of the Established Church, and many of the beneficed clergy, are no better off in point of income than the Pres byterians, and there is a general complaint of a similar dearth of talent and preaching power.—Dublin Cor. London Times. A Magic Fountain. The old mythology •tells , of a person who met, "in his wanderings, with a fountain of peculiar qualities, and, going down into it, found himself endowed with immortality. In the Scriptures this fiction is realized in all the beauty and solidity of truth. By Jesus Christ :a fountain has been opened, which imparts, to those who, wash in its waters, the beauty and vigor of immortal youth. No sin is of so deep .a stain that here it will not be erased,. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though , they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." (Isa. i : 18.) Here the blind wash, and, like the matt.from Si loam's pool, return seeing. Here the lep rous soul comes, like Naaman, to the vraters of Jordan, and finds himself whiter than snow. Here the waters, unlike those. of Bethesda's pool, are always effidacious -from the overshadowing of the angel of God's presence; and the lame, the halt—whoso ever will—may take their healing power as a gift. Here Saul of Tarsus, groping in blindness, washed, and found the scales fall from his eyes,. and saw, things which it is not. possible for man to utter. Here David came, and found his soul cleansed from its blood-guiltiness-and made whiter than-snow. The, water gushing from athe , rock smitten by Moses pointed to those,spiritual streams * springing from the Rock of Ages. No bar rier's fence around this consecrated spring. The wall of partition has been broken down by Jesus. " And the Spirit and the Bridesay, Come. And let him that hear— eth.-say, Come... And let him that, is, athirst, Come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." (Rev. xxii : 37.)—Episcopal Recorder. The Life" of the Soul. It is a law as fixed and unvarying as that which regulates the revolution of the sea sons, thit he will be found the , most estab lished and steadfast .believer, who most abounds in prayer. All who are taught by the Spirit know that what the air of heav en is to the body—what sunshine is to the eye—what Spring is to flowers, and herbs,- and trees—prayer is to the. believing soul. Without it, that soul would sicken and:die. As a means of increasing faith, of draw. ing forth affection, of purifying Me heart, apart.from all that is obtained in answer to prayer, this privilege ranks among the foremost in the estimate of a child of God. Every new visit to the throne becomes a means of augmenting the believer's sta bility; and as each season that revolves adds a new layer' to the oak, which, in the end,,asaists -in ~d irterminitigith4-4tge..of tli., PITTSBURGH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1862. tree, each new petition sent up -from the heart-to the Hearer• of 'prayer, brings in crease of strength, and the soul gradually reaches its appointed stature—the stature of a perfect man in Christ. Is the heart fixed in prayer? Is it , speaking in all• earnestness to God ? Does it feel its wants, and wait on him for a supply ?—its weakness, and wait on him for strength ?--its utter helplessness, and wait on him for all that the soul requires? Then its strength will grow; its graces will' multiply ; it will shoot up like wil lows by the water-courses. The promise is : "It shall grow as the, lily, and cast forth its roots like Lebanon."—Pathways of Many Pilgrims. A Startling Rumor—Mediation Discussed and Re sisted—Canada and Invasionl—Doctora Cook and, Montgomery—Ministerial Support—More Remi niscences of Edinburgh—The Dean- Cemetery— illustrious-Dead—Jeffrey, his Tomb—Light and Truth in his La.rt Days—Rutherford and Cal burn—Professor Wilson with Persona/ Memories. —Havelock's Daughter—The Grange Cemetery .ReoisitedThe City MissionarY's Monument— Chalmers and phis Lazst Honors—Musselburgh-- " Jupiter ,Carlyle" "Delta" Monument— Blackwood's Portrait. MUCH EXCITEMENT *as caused in Lou- don and over the,country yesterday,,by a ru mor, based on a telegram. said to have ar rived in New-York from Baltimore, inti mating that Gen. McClellan was well nigh surrounded, and had' proposed a condition al surrender to the Confederate Generals. This telegram, professing to. come 'from Baltimore on the 3d of July, and we hav ing news direct from. New-York up to the 7th, the rumor was not credited; never theless it suspended business at Manches ter. where it was least of all .believed. Last night an attempt was made.by -Mr. Lyndsay, M. P., backed by Tory members, resisted by Mr. Foster, Member for Brad ford, and by Lord Palmerston himself, to urge the Government to recognise the in dependence of the Southern (rebel) Con federacy. The pros and, cons were earnest ly urged by irresponsible speakers, -but the Premier was firm and cairn, and the House warmly supported his revest 'that thatters should be left , to the Government, sappos ing that auy opening- might appear for, friendly communications.. In In the House of Lords there was an in cidental discussion about Canada, and the probable invasion of it, whatever way the war in the States might end. The Cana dians are severely, blamed for rejecting ,a really efficient Military. Bill, and Lord,El lenborough .ridiculed the idea of popular enthusiasia resisting a disciplined army, quoting the -words of the celebrated Sir Charles Napier, " Enthusiasm ! it- runs away !" The high tariff.against, English , goods, imposed by the Canadian Parlia ment, is doubtless like that of the 'United States, the result of State and popular ne cessities ; both are naturally disliked here. English trade, save, in the manufacturing districts, is improving, and increasing ; fields of cotton are opening lip, and the supply is better than expected. MR. PEABODY, the American Banker, has received the freedom of the City of London, for his munificent gift of £150,- 000 for the London poor, and also a ban quet from-the Lord Mayor. Doctors Cooke and Montgomery, are the respective Mod erators of the Irish General Assembly, and the Remonstrant Synod. The Irish As semblTmeeting was peaceful. It- devoted, special attention to the incmase of minis terial support, which• was grown to the .ex= tent of £BOOO within a comparatively brief period. MEDITATIONS among the >graves of the dead, in the beautiful Cemeteries of Edin burgh—the Grange on, the South side,- and the Man Cemetery on the North—have had, somehow, a speoial fascination over me during my recent sojourn in the Scot tish metropolis. Having given you-some notices and reminiscences in my last com munication, of the former (to which 'I have to add something ere I close this week,) let me now conduct your readers to the Dean Cemetery. It is. beautifully situated on the banks of the titter of Leith, and hangs over it as it were. on Shelving hanks' and cliffs. It has been much longer in use than the -Grange Cemetery, and there fore the number of interments has been greater, and _the foliage and flowers. are more abundant. To this let me add, that this is ,a Cemetery largely used for the biax ial of the wealthiest classes, and - that it is distinguished also for having received into, its bosom the ashes of men illustrious for eminent ability and for lofty genius. One of these was Lord Jeffrey, long the, editor of the Edin4urgh, Review, who died a liord of the Court of- 'Session, the Supreme Court of Law-• in Scotland. There was , a noble simplicity as .welLas- transparency of mind and character about Jeffrey ; his con versational powers were marvellous, his vi vircity, and also his musical, clear, ringing voice, were charming (once Ilistened to its cadences;) while as a Judge.he was unpar tial,'honest, and -able. In stature he .vas small, but both in figure and features, hand some, and almost spirituelle. . Harvest Hymn. BY W. D. GALLAGHER Great God I Our heartfelt 'thanks to thee I We feel thy presenmeverywhere I And pray that we may ever be Thus objects of thy kliardian care. We sow'dl by thee our Work was-seen, And.blessed; and instantly went forth Thy mandate; and the, living green Soon smiled the fair and fruitful earth We toiled! and thou didst note our toil, And gar'st the sunshine and the rain ; Till ripen'd on the teeming soil The fragrant grass and golden grain. And : now we reap! and oh! our God! From this, the'unbounded floor, We send our song of Thanks abroad,. And pray thee, bless our hoarded store 1 EUROPEiiI CUKKESPONDENGB LONDON, July 19, 1862 " The mind, the music, breathing from the face," were emphatically his own. He lived long years; proba,bly, a stranger to vital, per sonal religion. His literary associates had , no sympathy with the doctrines , of , :the Goss, and in the pages of, the ," Edin burgh," Christian missions to the heathen were treated as fanatical enterprises—at least in its early dtys. But if `Jeffrey ever was a skeptic, , or a „latitudinarian there is reason to believe that ; be was a -lover of Christ in his, closing -days. When at Ed inburgh, I had a statement made to me, the authenticity' Of which; from the source :" hence it-carne;-treeini undolibtiar. PrOte- ably it has not appeared in print before. It was to the following effect, namely, that Lord Jeffrey, in his last days, in relating to an.intimate friend how he ,nightly had a warm bath in his own house, which he found very soothing and salutary, added': ".That is to me a time of the greatest en joyment; for some one, I know not who he is, sends me, every week, or month, beau tiful little publications, and when alone in the city bath, at night, I read them with the greatest profit and pleasure." I be lieve it to be,more than probable that the publications referred to were those of the " Monthly Tract Society" of London, which sends by post to persons of the up per and middle classes, both at home and on the 'Continent, little hooks with colored paper covers; and bearing evident traces of talent and taste, as well as rich in evangel ical truth. So then when I stand, on this fine, warm July t day, in the Dean Coale tory, at the grave of Jeffrey, I see with the mind's eye the soft sunlight of Christian faithand hope, diffused over his graire, and circling also around the following simple inscription engraven on a plain marble monument, within the railed encinsure : 66 FRANCIS JEFFREY : BORN OCTOBER 23n, 1778. 'DIED JANVARY , 26TH, 1850. -ERECTED BY BIS,FRIENDS:" There is not the same comfort in look , ing at the neighboring tomb, a Lord noble of Sessions, Cockburn, who was specially identified, as his publiahecl Reminiscences show, with a scoffing,. worldly-minded, wealth-pursuing, place-hunting race of law yeti as well as with literary men, to whom the doctrine of the cross was foolishness. Neither is it so pleasant to gaze on that vast and strangely-shaped, and ambitious sepulchre of. Peterhead (polished and red granite,) by a former Solicitor General for Scotland, intended not only to honor his wife who diedobefore him, but, as the words ed sibi indicate to receive (as it--has done,) his own remains. "TIXOBI DIESSII2ERATISEIMIE, CONTRA TOTEM SUPERSTES, ICERENS PEEWIT ANDREAS 'LUTHER FORA), ET 5181, DOCall." But on the principle of "nit de mortals," let me add, that , the prime motive of the erection of this costly monument,, must have been the sense of sore bereavement, and of irreparable deprivation ofa" planet's uxer," by wringing the heart of a fondly affectionate husband, whose ashes now min gle with hers. Ia the Dean Cemetery sleep, old Indian officers, who saw much service. Over the dust of one General of this class, who commenced his career as an Ensign at 14 years of age, and who died in his 65th year, we, read what is very suggestive'hs to the number of officers who have been (and who are always increasingly so,) led to Christ : "By the prayerful study of God's Word, and the teaching of his Holy Spir it, he was led tol.est on- the' finished work of Christ . ;.his end was peace." Next, let us pause before the pillars of granite erected in memory of 369 Scottish officers and soldiers who perished either by the sword or disease during the Russian War. Alas,. •for - war 'and its victims When ; shall the time come, when it shall be said, sung, exultingly proclaimed by earth's millions gathered in holy brother hood beneath the shadow of the Cross, " How have the weapons of war perished!" 4 , 0 for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumors of successful or unsuccessful war Should never reaoh me more." Here is a grave of melancholy interest, bearing the inscription : " IN MEmonT ov jouN7WILSON, THE SCOTTISH. VOCALIST, BY HIS FRIENDS.ANp ADMIRERS." Cholera had broken out in Canada.; the vocalist, whose thrilling, almost matchless singing of Scotia'•s ,sweetest or most rousing strains still linger on my ear and heart, was seized suddenly, and .carried. away.: The same ship ,which brought tidings of,his death, carried a letter to his wife, written the day before the ship'sailed. What a shock and bereavement were hers! A- mausoleum with lofty columns over towering all other• monuments, commemo rates the name and fame of James; Buchanan, of a great Charitable Institute at Glasgow; and as your eye, after examining the storied structure, rests at'last on the ground, you see the bouquet of fresh flowers—brought daily to its.base; , and by a widow's instruc tions, by the gardener of the Cemetery. Two Professors of eminence—one of them a genius soaringaloft on eagle pinion—sleep in the Dean-. The first is- - Dr. Fleming, Pro. fessor of Natural - Scielace in the Free Church College---very-eminent in his department; some people said Dr. ,James Hamilton, of Regent Squve, is the man ,to succeed him, for he to 'is a Naturalist and a Fellow of the Linnean Society, as - well as a D.D. but the Chair of Natural Science has been, by the >Free Church, abolished. The second, let the few words on his tomb tell us. who lies here : " JOHN WILSON, PnoFessoa OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY; BORN 18TH MAY, 1785, DIED 3n APRIL, '1854." That is literally all, but-it-is , enough, ; like the sim ple words on the-slab-that is inserted in the Grange ' , wall, wverethe ashes, of 'Scot !greatestlpreachen,;" Thomas +Chal mers "so " John Wilson is enough; for. Scotland and the world. Foet, literateur, wit, ,philosopher, ,in One; a son of Anak, mighty in curling; leaping, and all athletic exercises; a lover of the Isaac Walton pastime brriver or,out on the Scottish lake ruffled by .the;gentie-breeze that comes so softly from the .embosoming, and ever lasting hills—glorious and majestic in their very silence—such was Wilson, editor of Blackwood.' Who of the grown-up genera tion of the readers. of , literature , has mot revelled in his " Notes ,Ambrosianm," where Tickler, and the Ettrick Shepherd, Arid all the rest of that rare band over the Scotch 'haggis, and its sequences, poured forth (Wilson-the sole author after all,) n:ion,th after ,, month *a flow , of eloquence,. critical analysis, humor, pathos,. poetry, and (forgive the word, but it .has a meaning,) glorious nonsense, unparalleled either in, ancient or modern tithes. The imaginary SympoSion of the gods of Olympus, nectar and , was—Homer hiniself being re porter,—not to be compared with one 'night out of many at " Ambrose's," amid the fire, fervor, fun, and wisdom too, of the .far-famed " Noctee If any 'literary reader has not perused the "Nodes Am brosianreils <let lira get the volume and judge for himself,, and then, I have no doubt; be will-join-in my verdict., But Wilson's other works, how excellent! his "'lsle of' Palms," and better still, his minor pieces, in which true lyrical poetry com'es out so richly; his meditations— Virien B rather among the : Scottish Lakes, as they appeared inAk,e4ooo F 4 .; hi s n otes e.e whew arid illustrated-wiiik,'d The Land WHOLE NO. 516. of Burns," and on their chief scenes of action; his " Elder's Death-bed," and oth er Tales, so full of tenderness and so stim ulative to tears—all these are known to many who will read these lines. Possibly, too, some reader may, like myself, have seen the warm, living man, have felt the pressure of his hand, and received the kindly salutation of his lips and eyes to gether ; and then, like me, have followed him into his class-room in the_ - Edinburgh University, and heed him, with flashing looks, with tangled locks often tossed back from his great forehead, with no cut and dry lecture, but with scattered, loose leaves before him,' and 'passing too " from grave to gay," have heard him deliver a lecture, such as must have shocked the proprieties of all who came with stereotyped associa tions, and such too as an Ethical Professor never gave voice to before! ' Professor Wilson left but one child be hind him, whom he had dearly cherished— all the more after she lost a mother and he a spouse, dearly loved, That." sole daugh ter of his house and heart," still keeps green and fresh in her heart of hearts the image and memory of her dead 'father. Look I here is the token of her lasting love : a bead-work basket—an immortelle wrought by her own hands, (enduring enough to bear uninjured Winter's frosts and rains, as well as Summer's sunshine,) and along the white grouod 'of the basket's rim run the words, in dark bead-work tracery, " A Hon, Pere." The sun is high in the heavens ; the birds sing cheerily; nature is gladsome, for Summer at last has come, and the shel tered Dean Cemetery is almost first to own and confess its presence and its smile. Life, even here, triumphs over death, and the soft turf urnishes -me with a daisy from Wilson's `grave. I trim away, and-my last looks are arrested by the word, " Have lock." But in what connexion ? I know that Havelock,-the General, the Hero, and the good soldier of Christ in one, who led through smoke and flame those gallant 73d Highlanders—with whom, bronzed and weather-beaten, and their breasts lazing with medals, L conversed but a week before —I know that he sleeps in an Indian grave. But his name at least is here; yes, and his image, his great, services, his grand Puri tan courage to own and ,preach Christ wherever he went—all are before me in a moment. Look with me, and learn the reason why. Here is erected a fair pillar of purest Italian marble, while a younc , rose branch is, - as•it were, inserted (by the chisel of the sculptor,) near the top, and then you read the following: " In Memory Of HONORIA, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF THE LATE SIR HENRY HAVELOCK, Knight Commander of the Bath, and Grand daughter of the late Rev. Joshua Marsh man, D.D., of Serampore, Bengal; Born at Serampore, 14th December, 1840 ; Died . at Edmonston House, Lanarkshire; 15th August, 1861. I love them that love me, and they that seek me early shall -find me. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.' " Beautiful flowers,includitig pansies and the "forget me not," grow freshly.around the grave of this. fair young maiden,. who was early in Christ, and early with him in heaven. There she has been reunited with the father not long gone before, as well as brought into fellowship doubtless with the heroic spirit of Marshman, who, with Carey, led the van of that great Mission army in India of which the Baptists of England, to their everlasting honor, were the daring and hardy pioneers. It is my last day in Edinburgh ; my cx cellennt host lives hard by the Grange Cem etery. I was there two mornings ago, (as I recorded•in my last letter.) !walk :across the meadows and pleasaince of the Old Town ,and press on, rather foot-sore and weary, to rest an hour with my friends, and then to say, "Farewell" to my host and his wife, who have lived in -India skies, and haveLknown, both trials and mercies under its burning sky, and to their radiant, loving children— leaving Edinburgh by night train for Lon dog. But I find myself within sight . of the open gate of the Grange4 l emetery, and I am constrained to enter it once again. The soft "gleaming." is not far away, but the sun has not yet.gone down, and his evening smile makes this place oisepulture beautiful I cannot but go once more to the grave of Principal Cunningham;*' pinching aleaf from a little plant.which min gles with ,the turf that covers him ; ; the Suc cessful Student," too, must be recalled; Sir Andrew Agnew's tomb must again re mind me of the Sabbath and its champion, and • but stay : here is a tomb--=--a head stone ,Aich , my readers have :notl heard • of before :" In memory-of Robert Flock hart, born 4th February, 1778: in early life a chief of sinners, he was—while serving his Sovereign in-India—by sovereign grace delivered from the power of darkness, and translated into the kingdom of: God's .dear Son After having, preached, the Gospel in the streets of Edinburgh for 40 years, he fell asleep in Jesus, Bth September, 1857." Immediately after these words is 'a stone carved open Bible. It is then added : "As a tribute to his Christian work, this monu ment was erected by his : fellow-citizens and friends:— My flesh shall slumber in the ground Till the last trumpet's joyful 'sound, Then burst the chains in sweet surprise,' And in my Saviour's image rise*.'" Of Hugh Miller's grave I have ,already spoken, as well as that of Thomas Chal mers. Butt having ere now grasped the hands of both, and 'especially having rev erenced the latter with more than common,. veneration—along with thousands abroad and at home—l cannot but, as it were, re people and re-prOduce in imagination' the processidn and the multitudinous speetatora of his funeral day, when to this very spot he was borne amid the tears of a nation. Wonder not if, since mor return to Lon don, I have read with fresh and deep emo tion Dr. Hanna's inimitable account of the last days of Chalmers. Thus have I mused over his noble witness-bearing Wore a Parliamentary Committee, and in the face' of the cunning Sir James ; Graham,, who was the man that precipitated the Disruption, and who before the Committee sought to entangle Chalmers, but in vain. I have read the account of his visit—as - he tray elled. homeward---to a loved sister and ,her household in Gloucestershire, and his last prayer for them at the family altar,- that one and all of them might be shielded under the ample canopy of the Redeemer's r ighteousness : that every hour thatetrtick, - *Next to Cunningham's grave is that of his mother, with , a head.stione memory of Mr's: .CunnixighamAage4flyearss.:eree(ed.6l3.y.t her, sons, William, Andrew, and Chalmers." ThE PRESBYTERIAN BANNER► Publication Oflice: GAZNIVB BUILDINGS, 84 Frimra er n rivroatracia, PUILLDILMITA, Sourn-Wwr COB. OP 9TH AND Onzsvms ADVERTISEMENTS. TERMS IN ADVANCE _ . 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And I appear to hearken to his last conversations, when he - said, " In the offer of the Gospel, we must make no limitation whatever: I compare the world to a multitude of iron filings in a vessel, and the Gospel to a magnet. The minister must bringtbe Gospel in contact with them all ; the secret agency of God must/pro duce the attraction." Then comes the Sabbath evening—his last on earth, the prelude of an eternal one —when be says: " Disquietudes lie light on a man who can fix his heart on heaven. I'm fond •yf the Sabbath. ' Hail, sacred Sabbath morn Do you like Grahame's Sabbath? Dr. Johnson was very wrong in saying that there can be no true poetry that is religious."' Then of. Howe, he says : I think she is the first of Puritan Divines. I have been lately reading his 4 Delighting in God,' and admire it much." And next, to his* friend, the Rev. Mr. Gemmel, he 'says : " You will give worship to-night, and I expect to give worship to-morrow morning;''and then to all he waves his hand, adding, " a general good night," and they see him alive no more. Last of all, with his faithful servant and housekeeper, who in the morning has " knocked at his door, and received no answer," I enter his chamber. There be sits, stiff and cold, " half erect, reclining gently on the pillow; the expression of his countenance that of fixed and majestic repose—his face undis turbed by a single trace of suffering, the position of the body so easy, that the least trace of suffering would have disturbed it; the very posture of ,arms and hands and fingers known to his family as that into which they fell, naturally in the moments of entire repose—conspired to show, that, saved of all strife with the last enemy, his spirit had passed to its place of blessedness and glory in the heavens." And so in a few days Chalmers is borne to his grave. " Never before," wrote Hugh Miller, "did we witness such a funeral; nay, never before, in at least the memory of man, did Scotland witness such a funer al. It was a solemn tribute, spontaneously paid to departed goodness and greatness by the public mind. In the Cemetery the procession was at once seen for the first time, and the appearance was that of an army. The figures dwindled in the dis tance, in receding toward the open grave :along the long, winding walks, as in those magnificent pictures of Martin, in which even the littleness of men is- made to en hance.the greatness of their works, and the array of their : aggregated numbers. And still the open gateway continued to give in gress to the dingy, living tide, that seemed to flow unceasingly inwards, like some per ennial' stream -that disembogues its waters into a lake. " The party-colored thousands on the eminence above, all in silence, and many of them in tears—the far-stretching lines of the mourners belo - w—the effect, amid the general black, of the scarlet cloaks of the Magistracy of - Edinburgh, who had come, ,with much good taste and feeling, in their robes of office and-attended by its officials and insignia, to manifest their- spontaneous respect for the memory of the greatest of their countrymen— the slow, measured tramp, that, -with • the_rustle of the breeze, formed the only sounds audible in so vast an assemblage—all conspired to compose a scene solemn and impressive in the highest degree. ".There. was a moral sublimity in the spectacle. spoke: more emphatically than ky - words, of the, dignity of intrinsic excel lence, and of the height to which a. true man may attain. IT WAS THE DUST OF A PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER WHICH THE COFFIN CONTAINEV; AND YET THEY WERE BURYING IHFM, AMID •THE TEARS OF A - NA TION, WITH MORE THAN II OKINGLY, HONORS." The Parish Churchyard •of Inveresk, four miles,of Edinburgh—situated almost in the very centre of what was the battle field of Penkie, so fatal to Mary, Queen of Scotts, and commanding splendid views by sea and land—contains the ashes of some eminent persons, including Lords of Ses sion„ parochial incumbents, and especially of Doctor Moir, the " Delta" of Black wood's Magazine, and the author of that famous piece of wit and strong Scotch sense—rich in the. vernacular strength -t)f its language—" The Life of Mansie Wench, Tailor in Dalkeitk; written by himself." As to the parish ministers, one.f)f them was the eoteinporary of Robertion--be longed to.- the " Moderate" party in the Establishment, was known iv his day under the scmbrequet ,of "-Jupiter Carlyle," be cause his noble, head and bust were the models to, the Sculptore of Edinburgh of " Jupiter Tonans " Carlyle'g autobiography, throws wonderful, and I may add, melan choly light upon the state- of -religion and morals •in thehigher circles of Scottish society in the last. century. As . to Dr. Moir, - he was - a practicing physician and surgeon in the town' of Mus selburgh, which forms a part' of the parish of r nveresk. His inernory , an , a benevolent, energetic and able medical man, and as an. accomplished literateur and eminent poet,, , is still fragrant there. A,,very elegant monument, presenting his figure as.a youth-. ful bard, with a manuscript in one hand, and the pe,ncil'in the other; "The poeCa eye ituftne frenzy and the. afflatus . upon. him —naititest,the tourist on the bank of the-beautifuLEsk,, near' to that fine specimen of an, " auld brig,' over which' the Medina host marched victory'uoder Oliiirleg Edward, to the battle-field ofTreston fans. Vivid ly did I recall my literary reminiscences of "Delta," as .I looked ~at that monument withthe Greek letter which was his "non `de plunie," sculptured deeply in the stehe. , any were ith i rig ui ri es tide' ab mit mit who mingle° sweetly,.' • Who.was•isei lovinigila husband, so tender a faller, (mihiebtanti-. ful piece, " Casa after-the„ death of a child,ltimilcates,) so true a Christian, dying in the faith and hope of the Gospel. And my satisfaction .was complete, when. I" visited- his daughter—the liVing image. of his wife, physician in Musselburgh—and when she showed tne.her father's ;portrait by a first-class artist, and then with.gpe and ceurtegy not to be'forgotten, presented. me Avith4aJ.noble , .stel.--env ° vaiing''of. g lg.cur, from the famouninpiatair Raeburn. J.W.
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