860. fmhgtmaa AND ©ciusrc €»anQeUat. THURSDAY, RBB. 83, 1800. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN AND GENESEE EVANGELIST, A "WEEKLY FAMILY NEWSPAPER, iblished every Thursday , at 1384 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. Devoted to the promotion of sound Christian tootrine and pure religion, especially as connected irith the Constitutional Presbyterian Church in jhe United States of America. To Mail Subscribers, two dollars per year, At ADVANCE. City Subscribers, receiving their paper through » carrier, will be charged fifty cents additional. Six copies will be sent to one address for a year hr TEN DOLLARS. Ten copies will be sent to one address for a year ir SEVENTEEN DOLLARS. Twenty copies will be sent to one address for ’HIRTY DOLLARS. 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To interest ail the friends of the American | Presbyterian and G-enes.eeEvangelist to do I® something to increase its circulation and conse quent usefulness, we offer to any person sending us three new names, with six dollars, the paper for a year, free of charge, for himself or any one I whom he will name. For four new subscribers, with eight dollars, we will send a copy of the Presbyterian Quar terly Beview for one year. Any person sending ten new subscribers and twenty dollars shall receive from the author a complete set of Barnes ’ Notes on the New Testa ment, eleven volumes. To encourage the circu lation of the paper, Mr. Barnes has generously made this liberal proffer to any extent that it may to accepted. PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION SOCIETY. Messrs. Editors : — As the annual concert of prayer for colleges, &c., will occur on Thurs day of this week, the subject of ministerial edu cation will also be generally brought under con sideration. Persons wishing to aid young men in their preparatory course of studies, have now nn opportanity of so doing by contributing to the Philadelphia Education Society, whose num ber of candidates for idle ministry is increased at every meeting of tho Board. Nearly sixty students" Save~receW@tr~Ksr am~ during the current year. We. especially invite the attention of the churches within the bounds of the Synod of Pennsylvania and West Penn sylvania to this notice, from whom we desire generous collections. Charles Brown, Corres. Sec., Presbyterian House, 1334 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, Feb. 30, 1860. THINGS IN UPPER DELAWARE. EDITORIAL NOTES. That this is one of the richest of agricultural re gions, can be seen even in the barren season now brooding over it. The well-trimmed, thick-set , hedges, the level fields, the fine residences with j commodious and substantial barns and out-houses i giving to the farmer’s home almost the appearance 1 of a village, the meek cattle, and noble horses 1 all point to a productive and skilfully managed soil, as the spurce from which alone such outward indications can flow. Nor are intellectual and spiritual wants unprovided for. The school-houses ' and academies are substantial buildings, and the churches have recently, in very many instances, ■ been rebuilt and enlarged, and parsonages provided for tbeir excellent pastors. Access is had to the region by railroads, canal and river navigation; few regions in our whole country being more fa vorably situated for trade. The people are diligent, ; and not afraid of labor; even the wealthiest fami t lies, from the father down, may be found taking a | personal interest in the management of the farm. pYet they are an intelligent people, well read and f posted on all matters of public interest, and liberal subscribers to journals, both secular and religious, and a more interesting field of labor for a minister of the Gospel could hardly be desired. Our churches in this section have enjoyed great prosperity under their present pastors. Within the past few years, Port Penn, Drawyers, and Middle ton have doubled their numbers, and St. George’s, t Delaware City, Poncador, and Christiana have re | eoived very large accessions. During the winter, ft a very neat church edifice has been dedicated at a I .place in Maryland, close to the borders of New I Castle County, and included in the Presbytery of, | Wilmington, Chesapeake City. The impression f made by the meeting of the last General Assembly ■ in Wilmington upon these churches, was very 1 much what it was felt to be in all other sections of our body—one of deep satisfaction and approval. Such Assemblies it would be impossible to regard with any other feeling, and they act as a true bond of union among the individual churches. Once through with a discussion which could not be avoided by any efforts of prudent and skilful men, but which the Great Head of the church himself suffered to come upon us, and which others will have to meet, we may go on our way of inward de velopment by Church Extension, Publication, Edu cation, and the like, in peace and quietness, draw ing together, more and more closely, in hoods of union, as those who more fully understand and agree with each other, than do the members of al most any of the larger denominations. - Use and, Abase of Words.— As you occasionally appropriate a corner to the discussion of the use and abuse of words, perhaps, through the same medium, attention may be effectually called to the erroneous employment of the phrase “ verbal message," when “oral" is the true Word indicated. It is very com monly said, "Don’t write, but send a verbal answer,” which sentence,is really nonsense, seeing that “ver bal” has reference to words written as well as spoken, and does not, therefore, convey the meaning intended. Aihmmm. TERMS. CLUBS. Utligteits |ut«pom. Societies vs. Individual Effort— Under this heading the-New York Evangelist copies a couple of paragraphs from an English journal, as evidence that there is a disposition in England, as well as in this country, carefully to revise the system of Voluntary Benevolent Societies, by which the last half century has been distinguished. The English journal thinks that giving to Societies takes the place of giving, to i the objects for which they exist, and says: “True charity neither is, nor can it ever become, purely mechanical. It has a moral element which it is of the first importance to preserve. The true giving of alms is a personal duty, to be done as pri vatoly as possible. The great law of practical cha rity is, ‘ Take heed that ye do not your alms before”' men, to be seen of them. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right " hand doeth/ We directly contradict this principle at the commencement of our charitable undertakings. We make benevolence as impersonal and public as pos siblC. The names of contributors are industriously paraded, but they are utter strangers to the objects of their charity. No doubt any large scheme of be nevolence must be, to a certain extent, vicarious in its operation. But in every case the machinery ought to be as simple and inexpensive as possible. The contributors ought not to be wholly severed from the objects of their sympathy. Where Societies of some sort are absolutely necessary, they should be as much localized as possible. District associations, worked by willing bands, should replace large cen tralized Societies. Then active charity might become as it ought to be, not.only a real boon to its objects, but a moral discipline of the highest value to its agents.” ’ ’ ‘—~ — r*r— —rr. Ordination at Boston— Mr. John E. Todd,-son of Rev. Dr. Todd, of Pittsfield, Mass, was ordained and installed pastor of the Central Church, Winter street, Boston,- Feb. 2d. Invocation by Rev. Joab Brace, D. D.; reading of Scripture by Rev. James H. Means; prayer by Rev. E. K. Alden ; sermon by Rev. John Todd, D. D., who preached from the text I Ghroni xii. 18; ordaining and installing prayer by Rev. Nebemiah Adams, D. D.; charge to pastor by Rev. E. N. Kirk, D. I>.; right hand of fellowship by Rev. A. L. Stone; charge to the people by Rev. A. C. Thompson; benediction by the pastor. The ser vices were in the presence of a congregation that com pletely filled the church. RfiV. B, C. Smith, long the respected pastor of the Presbyterian church in Prattsburgh, Steuben county, N. Y., we regret to notice, has felt it to be the part of prudence to return to the North without enjoying that protracted sojourn in a milder climate which his enfeebled health seemed to require. We certainly supposed that he was on the right gauge, when the following appeared in an exchange: “ The Rev. B. 0. Smith, of Prattsburgh, is sojourn ing temporarily in the “Old North State/’ having the double object in view of benefiting his health, and laboring in his calling with such ability as is left to him. He went out under the auspices of the Southern Aid Society, after having correspondence with a prominent public functionary of North Caro lina. At Washington he was warmly welcomed by Hon. John A. Gilmer, of that State, and furnished with kindly passports to the confidence of that gen tleman’s family and friends. He carries with him the earnest hopes of troops of friends that the mild Southern skies may be beneficial, to him, and that there, as here, he may ; have strength to proclaim those essential doctrines of Christianity which he so well understands, and which alone constitute ‘the' glorious Gospel of the blessed God.’” Before its publication, however, as now appears by the following from the Christian Advocate of Au burn, “he had returned from, the ‘Old North State,’ without‘having proclaimed ’ to its citizens ‘those essential doctrines’ of Christianity which he so well understands,' and without having materially bene fited hia Juylth. Notwithstanding he w»-‘ " ' unde" the Snspiw;!Forara-®<»<«>m>*w^' ler'thoTt. - Sooioty, and with ‘passports 7 from Hon. John A. Gilmer, the fact that he had breathed the air of freedom was an insu perable objection, and he was not allowed to enter a pulpit. Learning that a Methodist brother was in ‘durance vile’ across thorny, on suspicion of enter taining anti-slavery sentiments, the Rev. B. 0. Smith bade adien to ‘mild Southern skies,’ and returned.to his Northern home. Mr. Smith was regarded here by a portion of his congregation as ‘ pro-slavery,’ and would have been the last man in the world to give of fence to the advocates of the peculiar institution, hut he has returned the victim of it, if not a firm believer in the irrepressible conflict.’” Rev. John T. Coit, of Albion, N. Y., has received a call from the Park Presbyterian Society,'of Newark, New Jersey. We are not advised as to his accept ance. The church at Albion has been very much prospered under his ministrations, and the attach, ments of a first settlement are not easily sundered. On the Western Coast of Africa, missions are now established all along from Senegal to Gaboon, and over 100 Christian Churches are organized, into which more than 15,000 hopeful converts have been gathered. No less than.l6,ooo native youth are now receiving an education in the schools connected with these missions; and more than twenty different dia lects have been studied out and.reduced to writing. HartsviUe, Pa. —The Pastor of the Presbyterian Church writes us: “You will be happy to.learn, I am sure, that at our communion last Sabbath 21 per sons united with “Neshamony Church,” 19 by-pro fession of tlieir faith in Christ and 2by letter! Of the whole number 10 were heads of families; and of those, who for the first time celebrated the Saviour’s love at his table, one was thirteen years of age and one seventy-three. Of the others some were in youth and some in middle life. These are a part of the fruits of a recent work of grace, with which our Church has been blessed, and for which we owe devout thanksgiving to God. Others we trust, may unite with us at a future opportunity.” Bible Burning iia South America.— Recent ad vices from Bogota, hring us intelligence of a piece of gross intolerance on the part of the. priests there. For some .time_past_a.J3rftuch._ofi the-Xondo«*--Bible- Soclety has been established in that city, and quite a number of Bibles were sold among the people. By order of the Catholic clergy all these Bibles were re cently eolleeted, or a very large number of them, and burnt with great ceremony in the public square. The British Minister strongly protested against the pro ceedings, but we regret deeply to learn that the United States Minister, General Jones, countenanced the out rage by being present at the ceremony. Mr. Jones, we believe, is a Roman Catholic, and his bigotry on this occasion appears to hare led him to commit an act which should'cause his immediate recall. We learn that a full statement of this affair has been sent to Washington. Rev, W. C. Brownlee, D. D., for many years one of the ministers of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church of New York, died on the 10th inst., at the age of 77 years. Dr. B. was some years ago very prominent among the evangelical clergymen of New York, and was active in the promotion of its benevo lent organizations. In 1843 he was prostrated by an apoplectic stroke, and never recovered sufficiently to engage in active duties. Rev. T. W. Flint, recently of Auburn Theological Seminary, has engaged to become the stated supply of the Presbyterian Church at Silver Creek, N. Y. A Chicago paper says that at a recent meeting, the Third Presbyterian Society in the West Division whose pastorate was made vacant by the resignation of Rev. A. L. Brooks, voted unanimously to extend a call to Rev. Arthur Swazey, of Galena, to become their pastor. Prayer for Colleges.— To-day (Thursday, 23d,) will be generally observed as a day of special prayer for colleges. Services will be lield in this city by our denomination at Calvary church, in the morn ing, at eleven o’clock, and in Mr. Barnes’ church in the evening at half-past seven o’clock. The Button wood Street Church will also hold a service at 4 P. M. We gave the annual report as to the colleges of the West, last week; we add a brief summary in regard, to the religious condition of Eastern Col leges. Extracts from the reports sent to the Committee of the Society 0 f Inquiry in Andover Theological Se minary,: Amherst College, Amherst, Mass . “ There is nothing worthy of special notice in the religious condition of the college the past year, un less it be that we have made so poor a return for the rich spiritual blessings of former years.” Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. A most excellent spirit has pervaded all onr meetings, and we feel assured that the past year has been greatly characterized by religious growth among professed Christians.; More of a mission ary spirit has prevailed in the college than ever be fore.” Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H. “There has been a very good state of religious feeling among the students the past year, and some cases of hopeful conversion have occurred." University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt. “The general tone of religious feeling during the year compares , favorably with that of former years, The weekly and class prayer meetings have been un —usuallyjgeU attended, and were often seasons of deep interest/ "Religion ftpA-goßghafestudenta have-been respected, and their influence felfTnUe'bTder-and' quiet of college.” Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. “The religious life and consistency of former years have* been well sustained. The : class prayer-meet ings have been regularly kept up. The relative number of religious students has steadily increased for several years. A monthly conference in behalf of missions has been established within the year." Vale College, New Haven, Conn, “While the past year has witnessed no revival, yet there has been unusual interest in all the classes. The attendance at the various prayer-meetings, and the spirit that pervaded them, indicate this. The re ligious sentiment of the college is more correct than it has been, and also more controlling. An increase of interest is noticeable from the fact that several early prayer-meetings have 1 been recently estab lished.” Williams College, WilliamsUnon, Mass. “The past year has not been one of special reli gious interest. There havebeen cases of conversion, but no general awakening. Christians have shown a good degree of earnestness in attending upon the meetings and in religious exercises. We feel that there has been much Christian growth during the year. We desire remembrance in your prayers, Christian brethren, and with you will never cease to pray for the prosperity of Zion." Middlebury College. “The religious condition of the college is eminently hopeful. There has been a growing predominance qf religious character. Three-fourths of the Senior Class are professors of religion, and there seems to be much of a devotional spirit.” Union, at Letoisburg, Pd. “The state of religious feeling is, at the present time, encouraging. One has come to indulge a re ligious hope within a few days: others are more than usually serious. Last winter we enjoyed a most in teresting revival.” Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa. “The religions condition of the college is more I—--"lauur.t.han-lnjiAypriinnr1—--"lauur.t.han-lnjiAypriinnr -gpjira A AxUr-vm* w— meeting has been susWiioud Unuu o i. - , ml . iir . has been no revival, but a steady increase in the Christian virtues. We confidently expect a revival of religion. There are a few every session who find peace in Christ." University of North Carolina, Chapel ffiU. “ The past year has been dry—very dry. There is a weekly prayer-meeting and a weekly Bible read ing. Still, the attendance on the means of grace is unfrequent. The sheep do not fatten, nor does their number increase. Infidelity is below par. We need here for our students a gracious out-pouring of the Holy Ghost, that saints may be stimulated and sin ners converted. Brethren, pray for us; teachers and taught; for these precious youth, the future doctors, lawyers, teachers and preachers; and the law-makers and law-expounders, and law-obeyers of this fair South. May the same God in covenant bless us both.” Cqm. of Society of Inquirt. Andover Theol. Sem., Feb. 11, iB6O. Churches in Kansas.— The Congregational Re cord for January (published quarterly* at Lawrence under the auspices of the General Association of Kan sas) says: “We now have thirty-one Congregational churches in Kansas, and a prospect of several more before Spring. In fact, half a dozen more ought to be formed at once, and would be if there was any one to attend to it. A Congregational church was orga nized at Oskaloosa, Kansas, Jan. 8, and Mt. Wm. H. Ward on the same day was ordained as its pastor. Sermon by Rev. R. Cordley. : The number of mem bers is small, but a considerable increase is looked for soon.” Marriage of Mar Yohanan. —The visit of the Nestorian Bishop, Mar Yohanan, to this country se veral years since will be remembered by those inte rested in the cause of Missions. Mr. Cochrane writes to the Secretaries of the American Board, under date of September 30: “Mar Yohanan, an Evangelist Bishop who visited the United States a few years ago, pleading the ex ample of Luther and the Apostles, has abandoned his vows of celibacy, and was married a few weeks since. The step was one of his own choosing, and made in the face of many threats, as well as imputations of unworthy motives. But he bids fair to survive the shock—the excitement; in fact, being muchless.than • was approheiuledt—and we may hope that, in obe dience to natural and rere3led"lawi,T)e - will become a happier and more useful man. The Evangelicals almost universally approve of his course, and-regard his marriage as one of the heaviest blows the old hi erarchy here has received." American Chapel in Paris.— The friends of Rev Dr. Prentiss, says the Evangelist, late pastor of'the Mereer street Church In New York, will be pleased to learn that his health had become so far established by a year and a half’s residence in Switzerland, that he felt justified in the early winter in accepting the invitation of the American and Foreign Christian Union, to take the temporary charge of the chapel in Paris. He has accordingly been preaching in the chapel since the Ist of January, and will remain in charge until the arrival of Dr. M'Clintock, the suc cessor of Rev. Mr. Seeley. Missionaries for China.— The following mis sionaries sailed from Boston, February 13tb, in the bark Smyrniote, for. China. They are destined as follows: Rev; Mr. Thompson and wife, Miss Beach and. Miss Crawford, for the Nestorian Mission; Rev. Mr. Arms and wife, for the Northern Armenian Mis sion; Rev. Mr. Goss, and Dr. Goodale and wife, for the Southern Armenian Mission; Miss Mason, for the Syrian Mission, to be connected with the school on Mount Lebanon. They go out under the auspices of the American Board of Foreign Missions. The Mormons.— The Mormons now number 120, 000, including good, bad, and indifferent. The num ber in Utah is put,down at 38,000. Of these 4,617 men have 16,500 wives. 1 Conversions in Colleges. —We have received from the excellent Secretary of the Society for the Promotion of Collegiate Education, Ac., a little pam phlet with the above title, whose contents are well calculated to encourage the hearts of God's people assembled this day to pray for the youth of our Col leges and Institutions of learning. It is made up of brief accounts of eighty-five conversions of distin guished ministers of the Gospel, which took place during the collegiate course of each. ! These eighty five cases are . taken from the first I four volumes of Sprague’s Annals of the American pulpit, embracing Trinitarian, Congregational, and Presbyterian minis ters only, and of course does ndt-reffel the whole of the blessed truth. Among them we find such names as John Robinson, John Cotton, bdfh the Edwards, President Clapp, D. Hopkins, Dr. Ebenczer Porter, Gordon Hall, Elias Cornelius, President Marsh' Prof. Biske, B. B. Edwards, George Duffield, Dr. William Hill, Matthias Bruen, Sylvester Lamed, Secretary Armstrong, John Breokenridgo, Erskine Mason, Al bert B; Dod. Dr. Arch. Alexander was converted 1 while a student at Liberty Hall Academy, Tirgi-j FOREIGN. ThePrcssian Bible Society held its 45th anni versary in the Trinity Church, Berlin, on tho 19th of October, 1859. The attendance: was large. The •sermon was preached by the well known Professor of Theology, Dr.Nitzseh, on the wonderful things" of Scripture,, viz.; 1. Its origin, collection, preserva tion. 2. Its contents—most wondrous of all the God man. 3. Its results—one of the greatest of these is yet future—to unite the divided sections of the Church into one. - \ . The Parent Society,'Mtlr ltari|o auxiliaries,—l2 of whom were added last year, -yesr t -65,534 Bibles, and Since its foundation there have ! altogether, 1,574,028~8n)1e5, and GCSjOiaTrefethments—making a total of 2,237,098. * f • The oldest of the Tract Societies of Germany is that of the Wupperthal. It w|s founded through the instrumentality of Pinkerton, an agent of the London Tract and British and foreign Bible Socie ties on the 15th of July, 1814. ( The name of Pinker ton is still affectionately remembered among the Evangelical Christians of Germany. The career of the Society has been much obstructed by the jea lousy of the authorities, and only since 1848 has it had full opportunity for its peculiar labours. It has been largely aided, both by the English and the Ame rican Societies, and is in debt-,nevertheless. There eeipts last year were 5083 expenditures, 5606, 180,132 tracts were published In the years 1858-9. Original Germau tracts have been scarce, hence an arrangement has been entered into by eighteen dif ferent Tract organizations for an interehano-e of ori ginal issues. Pity that the divided condition of the German nation should operate Jo hinder the consoli dation of these societies, so weak, by themselves, into one great organization. . jt f . The Ecclesiastical deyelqfcineiit of the Evan gelical Church in Prussia is receiving the earnest at tention of the Government. Instructions have been issued to, the church authorities providing for the formation of circuit- Synods ‘ {Ereis-Synode) or Sy nods, simply, as wc should call thern. It appears .to be a carrying out of the Presbyterian polity to tho letter, at least so far as it goes.- The Young Men’s Christian Associations of America—How Regarded in Germany.— The new Evangelical Kirchenzeitimg, of Berlin, says, “Gratifying evidence of the great progress and high character of these associations was given on the 6th annual meeting of the Union, held at Troy, New York, from the 13th to the 17th of July last. Over one hundred different associations from widely diffe rent sections of .North. America, were represented by delegates *( ' " individual Associations to avoid everything which eould bring the members into conflict with their pe culiar Church duties. The Y. M. C. A. of Philadel phia has the greatest number of members—more than two thousand—so that It needs for its-meetings a new and more commodious building,—toward which a merchant has already subscribed two thou sand pounds." ' Incidents of the Irish Revival.— The following from our foreign files have not met our eye in any American Journal.— j Fearful Visitation.—Some young persons agreed to play “revival.” One was to fail down and pre tend to be seized by the Spirit, while the others should run and call some persons who were in the neighbourhood to pray over ihim. The unfortunate youth was bold enough to begin the blasphemous game—he fell down, hut never to rise again; on the spot gave up the ghost—a second Ananias, who not only sought to lie, but with the Holy Ghost! The Priests and the Re^val. —In several eases, the priests have been summoned to pray for stricken Roman Catholics, hut as soqn as they heard the cries of the convicted and the jtrayers of the converted, they fled without offering struggling soul a word of comfort. An eye-witness| who has made the cir cuit of all the more important localities of the Awakening, relates that, on one occasion, a young man prayed with such growing earnestness, with such an unusual tone of voice, and with a countenance al most shining, that he seeried like one entranced, and all trembled and wep% clergymen who previ ously regarded the revival Ss absurd, shed tears, and a Roman Catholic, who hamsought the meeting, de termined that nothing of fee revival should affect, him, at length fell to the grinnd and broke out with the woids—“ There is no Mediator but Christ,” and praised God with a loud voice that he had been de livered from the darkness ofjpopery. —~j— — Ecclesiastical ftttestM between the Mission aries of the American Jtoajd and the Armenian Bative Helpers. —The k&rclUn Zeitung, Berlin, Oofc. 8, speaks of a decided difference Here and there, but especially in Constantinople,,be tween the: founders aadjeaders of the their native helpers' which has been remediedby concessions made at the proper time on points not: essential (church polity, forms of worship, kircJdicki silte.) It adds“ The re ligious usages of the American Presbyterians and In dependents appear in many instances very 'singular even to such of the Armenians as are receiving the pure Gospel, and they adopt' them only with re luctance.” j Whence came this lng)jSy respectable journal by this remarkable piece of intelligence ? However, as it calls .the American Board;,the “ New- York Board of Missions," it is conceivable that it has been led into error in, this - instance also, VV e should very much like to know. The Turkish Minister, Fuad Pacha, has communi cated to Hie Greek Patriarch the will of the Sultan that measures must be tnken for the removal of the Greek Metropolitans from the eapitol. The Kirchm ZeipipS J> lTes him the praise of originality, inasmuch minister has ever before brought llristinn Fhstprs their neglected duties to tuple flocks. Fuad explained that it was . utterly in consistent with the duties of the Metropolitans that they should make their fi«me#in the- eapitol instead of among their own dioceses. So they were obliged for the first time in many years, to return to their dioceses, but only amid,earnest protestations against what they are pleased to term their “banishment.” A Polish Evangelical Journal. —“The True Evangelical Pile’-’ was commenced at Osterode, in East Prussia, on the Ist of August last. J It has a very encouraging list of subscribers. There are said to be three hundred and thirty thousand Poles who adhere to Evangelical confesssions. All over Germany there is a conscious want of more complete organization among Protestants, espe cially in view of the order and unity which character ize their great foe, the Papal Church. In the Grand Duchy of Hesse there has been a conference of the Evangelical churches to discuss the principles of Church Government and the means of realizing them in that country. The Presbyterian Constitution met with the most decided favor. But these Germans delight in theorizing, and move slowly, and when the question came as to bringing the matter before the proper authorities of the country, it was decided first to have another meeting for discussion. The Rhenish Provincial Synod, which is a sort of Triennial General Assembly, has agreed upon an Evangelical Catechism, which is to be published by its authority and which will form a long desired ba sis of doctrinal union between the Lutherans and the Reformed in the united church of that region. Ordination of a Missionary.— Mr. Alvin B. Goodale was ordained by the third Presbytery of New York, as a Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. to the Southern Armenians, at the Fourteenth Street Pres byterian Church, on Sunday evening, Feb. sth. Bev. R. D. Ii itch cook, 1). IX, delivered the sermon from the text, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Rev., Asa I). Smith, D. D;, delivered the charge to the missionary, who made some brief but interesting re marks at the close. Mr. Goodale Bailed on Monday last from Boston. Eeligion in Italy. —An American lady to one of our papers from Florence, Italy, says:— “ There were two weeks since, no less than four places of worship open here where preaching was allowed itt-Xw l ■ aju, ro calling themselves Methodist Evangelical; they met almost every evc ning in the week; all took off their hats and remained standing during the prayers, ejaculating reverently the amen i£t the close with'one loud voice, and the meeting was crowded to overflowing. There was an other three times a week; and as I heard the clergy man was very eloquent, I asked an Italian'lady to take me with her some evening. She did not come, and afterward said if was so crowded that the air became oppressive, ladies had fainted, and it was al most impossible to get them out. At this point the archbishop made such a fuss that the preacher was advised to leave the city for the present, but no order was issued to close the meetings. His friends, how ever, persuaded him to go, fearing some personal at tack upon him. ptM si Hue iSfert. » A party of visitors have inspected the mode of ma nufacturing Sanders'Water Gas, at the Northern Li berties Gas Works. Should the claims for this be fully established by the numerous trials now in pro cess the people will gain by the invention, while gas companies will be mofe enriched from the increased consumption arising from a diminished taxation. The best judges of gas manufacture expressed them selves as prepared to see this new mode of manufac ture generally adopted. The people, of course, will welcome as a boon anything that will cut down the taxes for light. The N ew York Senate have ordered to a third read ing the bill to control the freight charges on rail roads. It refers to the Central and Erie roads. The Companies have been in the habit of charging more to the citizens of the State, proportionately, than to the citizens of other States, and this kind of partia lity is protested against as unfair and ungenerous, lienee the introduction of this bill. On the 22d of February it is proposed that there shalLbo an effort made throughout the United States to raise sufficient funds to carry on the work upon the Washington National Monument during the coming year. Citizens in every part of the country can contribute through the postmasters of their re boxes for the purpose placed in tEeiroffices, and have" raised within the past four months more than two thousand dollars. There are nearly twenty-eight thousand postmasters who have not been heard from, and it is to be hoped that they will co-bperate with the others. If they will consent to do so, and if the returns average only $1.50 per year, or twelve and a half cents per month, the work can be kept in pro gress. A very slight effort made in each place throughout the country would insure the completion of the monument in a few years. From Mexico some additional news has been re ceived by the way of Washington. Miramon expected to reach Yera Cruz about the Ist of March; but, as he had no artillery, and, as the city is well fortified, it was believed the campaign would be productive of no important advantage to the church party. Ac counts from Chihuahua represent a deplorable state of affairs in that State. The entire foreign popula tion had been forced to quit the country. The Ame ricans had left a million dollars worth of property. A desperate battle between forces of the church and libera! parties had been fought—in which the latter suffered a disastrous defeat. Along the Rio Grande affairs continued in a disturbed condition. Altoge ther, the accounts from Mexico exhibit a frightful picture of anarchy. By the arrival at New York of the steamship Ara bia, from Liverpool, we have some later news from Europe. The London Post (Lord Palmerston’s or gan) publishes a conspicuous and important editorial article, saying that the alliance of England and France, for the settlement of Italian affairs, draws closer everyday, and already begins to produce evi dent and tangible consequences, that it is now for mally determined that no intervention shall take place in Italy, that the people shall be left to then own desires, that it is agreed that Central Italy shall dispose of itself freely at the popular elections, by decreeing annexation to the Sardinian kingdom. There are also significant references to Naples, Ve nitia, and the Duchies. Interments in Philadelphia,last week, 204. Adults, 103 children, 101., Males, 106 —females, 98. Deaths by consumption, 39—still-born, 15, —ln Washington, the House Committee on Terri tories will report bills for separate governments of the Territories of Dacotah, Nevada, and Jefferson, — but none for Arizona, which, however, will have a Surveyor-General and a court of its own. The House Committee on Agriculture will report a homestead bill, and the Committee on Ways and Means one im posing specific duties on imports. On the abolition of thefranking privilege the House is said to be almost equally divided, with the chances against the mea sure. The Paraguayan Commissioner has been very handsomely received by the President and Cabinet. This week the ratifications of the treaty will be ex changed, and he will take up the subject of the in demnity. Professor Agassiz addressed a legislative educational meeting in the State Honse, Boston, Thursday eve ning, on “ The True Aims of the Study of Natural History,” He made a strong argument against the development-theory, showing that the animals of the different geologic epochs are radically different from each other, and connected by no intermediate forma tions, indicating successive creations rather than pro gressive development. , Mrs. Wood, one of the missionaries of the American Board at Patara, Asia Minor, died of cholera in No vember. Rev. B. D. Marshall, late of Loekport, N. Y., has entered upon the pastorate of the . Cedar street Baptist church of Buffalo, N, Y. Jayne’s Hall, where the noonday prayer meetings were so long held, and around which so many precious memories of those hallowed hours cluster, is now con verted into an immense Clothing establishment. Pro bably this, is the largest and most magnificent room in the world devoted to such a purpose/ Ten years ago, the college student at Yale, convicted Of “rolling ten pins” was punished by the Faculty} now the Faculty invite him to roll, and occasionally take a hand themselves, for the benefit of their health. The Buffalo Courier states that Gams B. Rich, Esq., of that city, has recently given $lOOO to the Young Men's Association, $lOOO to the Young Men’s Chris tian Union, and $lOOO to the Buffalo Orphan Asylum. The groat “Continental” Hotel, at Ninth and Chestnut Streets, opened last week. It is said to be the largest hotel in the world, and the most magni ficently furnished. — ln Novem ber, 1855, Mr. Robei t Le Roy, of this City left, at the telegraph of ;° r 10 Mr ‘ Dryburg, a flo rist in Philadelphia, a message which read as fol- Wednesday evening, two hand bou- landsome > —0110 of five, and one of ten, „“T ’T,? the messa g° reached Philadelphia the y ord bund was expanded into hundred, and Mr. Dryburg inquired of Mr. Le Rot, by telegraph ‘l lo .*'™ hundred bouquets intended lor’pyra hand?” ArC * he hT ® a “ d ten dullar for the table or Mr. Le Roy answered the same evening— tw? han< 3’bouquets, and not two hundred. I want two bouquet, for the hand—one at five, and the other at ten dollars ” But before this dispatch reached Philadelphia Mr Dryburg had cut and procured flowers for a large number of bouquets. Some time ago a suit brought against th Telegraph Company to recover damages for this blunder, was decided in his favour, but the Company appealed, and now the case is again on trial at Philadelphiaßefore a higher Court. The Fulness of Glory. —Seeker, in the Non-Such Professor, says, “ The good things of that life are so great, as not to be measured—so many, as not to mateT™ erated ~ and st) P r eoi°ua, as not to be esti- An Objection Silenced.—— T ‘Fifty Years Amrmgfhe Baptists ’ has this anecdote: “An eccentric minister once said to a member— ‘“We want to make a deacon of you.’ O, no,’ said the man, ’l am not good enough ’ “ ‘ Well, we wish to make a better man of you.’ ’’ A French Mayor on Juvenile Smoking,—The Mayor of Douai, France, in a circular to the commu nal schoolmasters, expresses his determination to put down the precocious habit of smoking, which be learns, by the reports of the police, prevails to a de plorable extent among the boys of that city. lie therefore desires the schoolmasters not only to mark down for punishment all children whom they may see smoking in the streets, hut to search the pockets and portfolios of the scholars from time to time, and to take away all cigars, cigarettes, pipes and tobacco which may be found. He authorizes the most severe punishments, and will sanction any measure which the schoolmaster may devise to check the growing evil. “ ° Erysipelas, a disease often coming without pre monition, and ending fatally in three or four days is sometimes promptly cured by applying a poultice of raw cranberries, pounded and placed on the part over night. ■ 1 Insects’ Bites, and even those of a rattlesnake, have passed harmless by stirring enough of common salt in the yolk of a good egg to make' it sufficiently thin for a plaster, to be kept on the bitten part. We once saved the life of an infant, which had been inadvertently drugged with laudanum, and was fast sinking into the sleep from which was no waking by giving it strong coffee, cleared with the white of an egg—a teaspoonful every 5 minutes, till it ceased to be drowsy,—flag’s Jour. Health, How to Preserve ladles’ Pars.— Fine furs .should be kept in a cold place, An experienced dealer will tell the moment he puts his hand on a piece of fur, if it has been lying in a warm, dry at mosphere: it renders the fur harsh, dry and shabby entirely destroying the rich, smooth softness which it will have if kept in a cold room. Sunshine and Cloud.— Some real lives do—for certain days or years—actually anticipate the hap piness of heaven; and I believe if such perfect hap piness is once felt by good people (to the wicked it never comes) its sweet effect is never wholly lost. Whatever trials follow, whatever pains of sickness or shades of death, the glory precedent still shines guided from a soft cradle to a calm and late grave, that no exeessivo suffering penetrates their journey. And often these are not pampered, selfish, beings— liut Nature’s elect, harmonious and benign, men and women mild with charity, kind agents of God’s kind attributes. . But it is not so for sill. What then? His. will be done, as done it surely will be, whether we humble ourselves to resignation or not.—Char lotte Bkoste. Chur eh Accommodations. —A correspondent of the Sunday School Times, writing from Detroit, Mich., Feb. 9, says:— Last Sabbath, the Rev. W. Hogarth, pastor of the Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian church in this city, took occasion to preach upon the influence of cities, in their hearing upon commercial life, intellectual development, literature, the arts, the customs of the country, the morals of the people, and especially their influence upon young men who are drawn into them for business. To show the necessity of endeavoring to make this city what it should be, he referred to a few facts. He said there were 35 places of worship, counting alf denominations, with a capacity to hold on an average, 500 people—less than 18,000 in all. Calling the population 72,000, and deducting one-third for the aged, invalids, and children, there would be left 48,000 able-bodied persons, or 30,000 more than can be accommodated if every- place of worship were filled to its utmost capacity. This estimate includes theßomanists, whose places of worship accommodate nearly one-fourth of the above number. . Marine Losses.— Some idea may be formed of the immense perils and losses of the sea from the fol lowing carefully compiled statistics in the New York Cornier and Inquirer: —Of vessels abandoned at sea, missing, burned, stranded, dismasted, condemned, exploded, etc., there were 89 steamers, 300 Bhips, 189 barks, 173 brigs, 286 schooners, a total of all 1037, at a loss in value of vessels, cargoes, freights, etc., of about $12,000,000, Jewish have been made since the war broke out between Spain and Morocco, on be half of the Jews who have been compelled for various causes, to seek refuge from the latter country at Gib raltar, and other places. A few days since, the Jews of the Green Street Synagogue, New York, sub scribed over $3OOO to aid in relieving their suffering brethren at Gibraltar. The Jews, like the Quakers, take care of their poor. An Israelite or a broad-brim is never seen in the poor-house. At the annual meeting of the Hebrew Benevolent Society held last winter, $lO,OOO were contributed for the relief, of their sick and needy. ' Mrs, Esther Slater of Pawtucket, R. 1., lately do-, ceased, bequeathed to the Domestic and Foreign Mis sionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the. United States $5OOO for Domestic Missions, and $5OOO for Foreign Missions. Church Sights vs. Political Meetings.—Great excitement has been occasioned at Geneva, N. Y., by the attempt of two men, named Long and Hosmer, to procure the Methodist Church for a political meeting, at which the Slavery question was to be discussed. The congregation engaged counsel, and carried the case into court. Judge Knox held that the plaintiffs were entitled to relief, and granted an injunction against the use of the church for any po litical purposes whatever, ruling as follows: “That the edifice should not be used for the purpose of dis cussing politics or other improper subjects, topics, nr for any other purpose whatever, except for reli gious instruction, and to preach and expound there in God’s holy Word, according to the terms and con slitions contained in the deed of conveyance by which they hold said edifice and property, and the rules and discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, until this Court shall have made further order there upon. The Canandaigua Repository states that the affair was carried to court because the use of the church, for the purpose indicated, was ‘persistently insisted upon by the turbulent spirits who had entered upon the undertaking, notwithstanding the wishes and earnest remonstrances of a large number of peaceful, well-disposed and influential members: and notwith standing the offer of one of the members to provide at his own expense, for the sake of peace, a spaeious and commodious hall for the purpose of the meet ing.’ The Harper’s Ferry Trials— A. D. Stevens and A. Ilazlett, the only two remaining prisoners of those engaged in the Harper's. Ferry difficulty have been tried and convicted. After brief speeches from each of-them, on the 14th inst,, they were sentenced by Judge Kinney to be hung onFriday, the sixteenth day of March. THE ELQHIM REVEALED! The First Adam and the Second. LINDSAY & BLAKISTON, Philadelphia. Have .fust published THE ELOHIM REVEALED in the Creation and Redemption of Man. Bv the Rev. Samiiel Baird. D. D., Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, At oodbnry, N. J. Large Bvo., 668 pp. Price $2.50. CONTENTS. Introduction. Historical Sketch of the Doctrine of Original Sin. Chatter T. The Trinne Cod. “ 11. The Eternal Plan. “ 111. The Providential Administration. .. “ IV. Adam, the Likeness of God. or “ V. The Law of God. Jes " 1C Principle of the Law. ...... own * YU. The Nature of Sin. ungs so born, so reared, so 1 « Head oi the l! Tricks of tie Wine-Trade.—The United States are represented to be the largest consumers of cham- \ h ° ‘r” G6U ®Pi‘oa per annum is estimated ' a ~1 0. j baskets. The whole champagne district, acres «L I lt nnSy^ lranian, is about twenty thousand norff ■ » am °M?- t of winc manufactured f or es . dred Hrnnf If, m, , 11,0n s, " ttles - 0r about eight liun d,, wl X 0f this, Russia consumes hit i! d - d d 81 f? thousand, Great Britain and FrLce SS onp°r T " )rid, ; ed . and «sty-five thousand! i ranee one hundred and sixty-two thousand Ger many one hundred and forty-six thousand, and the The P S / ates I7 t ' r 0 hundred and twenty thousand he Custom House m New York, through which passes a large amount of the champagn/imported fill /i co “ ntr y> reports one hundred and seventy fne thousand one hundred and tweniw-eight baskets per annum. Therefore, seven hundred W righty thousand baskets of the wine drank, in this country, J'uported champagne, is counterfeit, an amount equal to then-hole supply of the champagne district for the world. We have no doubt of the fact that a large amount of spurious, villanous stuff, called champagne, ’ is annually consumed by our people, but it should not be forgotten that a good deal of genuine, sparkling Catawba is made and sold here, A large Work. An Encyclopedia has just been completed in Germany, in two hundred and forty-two volumes. The first volume saw the light at Berlin, r S i!j i°k as 1e Year 1773, and the last was pub lished last season; so that the work has been extended eighty-six years without interruption. A Free College.— The Trustees of Columbia College are said to be considering the expediency of throwing it open, without restriction, to the free ad mission of students from every part of the United States. Columbia College possesses means suffi ciently ample to carryout this liberal project.—TV T Journal of Commerce. During- the conflagration of Canton, caused bv the bombardment of the British, the extensive medical ware house of our counlryman, Da. J. c. Ay eh, of Dowel, (the depot of his Cherry Pectoral and Cathartic Pills, for Cnina,) was totally destroyed. He now makes a demand on our government for indemnity for the loss 0 " Ms property, and hence will grow another nut to crack ;f om"rv, C ‘ er bro f her Johnny. Stick to it Doctor, and if our Government maintains our rights wherever your pills are sold, we shall only be unprotected on tracts that are very barren.— Reformer, Trenton, N. J. ADV-EKTISEMEJffS. . WINER’S IDIOHS. A Grammar of the New Testament Diction-, intended “ an introil notion to the Critical Study of the Greek- New Testament. By Dr. Geo. B. Winer. Translated by Edward Masson, M. A. Svo. £ Morocco. 3SO “ Q» ,te indispensable in the critical study of the New Testament, and a wonderful Thesaurus of Grammatical interpretation.”— Her. M. W. Jacobus, D. U. “ Of the value of Winer’s Gram mar of the New Testa ment idioms, there can be no doubt. 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