GENESEE EVANGELIST.—WhoIe No. 735- CONSOLATION. BY MAHY HOWITT. There is a land where beauty cannot Nor sorrow dim the eye; Where* free Tore shall not droop, nor tyft^amfayed, ' Ahdnone shall ererdie! ■ "Where is that land! Oh, where! For I would hasten there; “v Tell me—l fain would |6, For I am weary,with a heavy wot The beautiful hare left, me all alone; The true, the tender, front my path have gone! Oh I guide me with thy hand, If thou dost knowthat land, For lam burdened, with oppyeflalre oare, ?- . ; r And I am weak and fearftd wl|h despair. Where Is It? Tell me where! Friend, thou must trust in Him Who trod before • The desolate path* of life; ' Must bear in meekness, as he meekly bore," Sorrow, and pain, and strife 1, Think how the Son of Cfod * . These thorny paths has trod} ' Think how if longed to go, , , . „•«. , ' Yet tarried for thee, theappolnted wo,—. ik of Hie weariness in places dim, . r ; ire no man comforted or caredfor.Himl Think of the blood-like sweat, With whioh Hie brow was wet; it how he prayed, unaided and alone, that greet agony—“ Thy will be done!” •lend, da not,then despair} , irlst, from Ms heaven of heavens, will hear thy prayer. tfam-sjtott&ettce. For the American Presbyterian. A CRITICISM REVIEWED. In a late number of the American Rresby itlanwe noticed a criticism upon ourversian l it occurs in Heb. i. -esented under the caption!of Kat’Aeohas. 'e have no acquaintance with the author, but 'eaume that it-was made with a love for truth, evidently with a desire to obviate what, in the mind of the writer, appeared to be a diffi culty, from Geology. What those " unlettered readers,” of Whom he spoke, may gain by such an exposition, we cannot tell. But we can easily decide what value thoaewho are not “unlettered” would attach to such a criticism, by the consi deration of the following facts., , ~,, ( . . The critic says ‘fJ&k words, signifying “,?» lation of Heb. i. 10, should thus be read, and-he very summarily condemns the translators to the punishment and plagues written iriHev. xxii. 18, for attempting to add to God’s word, I sup pose the critic applied the wrong'veree in his application of the sentence of; condemnation, and should have quoted the 19th verse, ito, according to his showing, they took oioop.at ;ast several beginnings in removing one letter. But let us examine the facts. Does this critic know that the apostle was quoting the 102 d psalm, 25th verse, in this chapter of Hebrews? Certainly he does. Does he know, being a “lettered” man,, that the words in the Greek are word for word an exact quotation from the Septnagint, which was -the accepted translation in the apostle’s time ? Oertainlyi. and Wkndws that this Greek “Eat' Archas" was used to con vey the meaning of the corresponding Hebrew word in the 102 d psalm, 25th Verse, which the apostle quoted. Certainly. Well then, what was that word in the Hebrew psalm translated by j “KaV ArcKas,” and in TEngUsh “beginning ?’.’ Why, it is a word of a plural form, hot of a sin gular signification; a word never used otherwise than in a plarai form in all its uses as a common noun, and in the psalm signifying in “times before,” or “of old,” and it is translated, “Of old hast thou laid the foundation,” &e. What is the word in the original of that psalm thus quoted? It is, in English, letters, “le panim ;” the word in the singular would mean “ a face,” but it is used adverbially, and never in the singular, butmusi nevertheless be trans lated as singular, in the English. What’s the ■oof? Gen. xxxii. 30, “I have seen God face to face"— the Hebrew words are “panim el panim” The termination “im’f indicates the plural. Suppose we take the critic’s literal translation, “I have seen God faces to faces.” Again. Deut. xxxlv. 10, “Mdses, whom the >rd knew face to face.” Precisely the same .ebrew words. Would you render therii in the dural? Try it! Again; Job, i. 11. “Game bee to thy face," same plural word. Try the -oposed literal translation, curse tbde to “thy ices.” Is this conveying to the unlettered rea ier the meaning, or is “it calculated to deceive im ?” So in Job, xxi. 31, Isaiah, lxv. 8, arid many other passages. But how does this •d become translated “of old,” or “in the inning?” Why, this latter is a secondary ming, as is frequently, found in connection ,h some words in every language'. The “face,” hat which is before, and hence in regard to the word is need adverbially for tfcat yrhich ipfore all, or in advance; andvhence in the . psalm translated, “of old,” dr “in the be ning.” ' ' ;;r; v t is alluded td bnfc onoe in the New Tehta t, namely inAhe passage in question, and it is in a literal Greek translation of those :ew words “ le panlm,”'the adverbial phrase, :h is no more used in the eingtflar.tbwtir th«f scissor used as singular 1 of scissors, or. tong tongs. Turning to the Old Testament wd -e Amos, i. 1, “two years before the earth ike.” In Hebrew, the same plural word is :d precisely. Now supply our critic’s words, it reads, “ two years • in beginnings' of the •thquake.” Again. Is. xviii. 5. “Forafore harvest,” The critic’s translation Will read For ‘ in beginnings 1 of the harvest.” Again, xiii. 10. “Before the Lord destroyed om and Gomorrah.” The same word and iber: Pray how many >rbeofdngs ” did the rd make in that work? .So in Gen. xxx. 30, Before I came.” Jer. xxviil. 8. “Thepro mts that have been before.tae, and before those old prophesied.” How many “ beginnings ” i there to a man’s death? Yet this word, instated “ Kat’ Archas,” is used in h Moses’death. Deut. xxxiii. 1. “He blessed children of Israel before his death. ” JRe \ber, these are only a few of many instances ie word (excepting in the proper name del) is never used in the singular —and yet it be translated as singular in English, tides, if the critic is so critical, by What un ity from heaven or earth, does he pat “be lings” to the word vie panim?” It;means rally “to face"— less literally it means iefore,”orleastof all “ of old,” or “ofancient tes.” There is nothing to perch his “begin-, qlngß ” upon, not even in the Greek translation; for that is not a particle more authoritative than the English; Now if onr critic wishes to pick a quarrel with any translators, don’t let him stop at good and learned English vergionists, bat go back to the Septuagint translators, even back of the Latin version of Jerome before 400 A. D., and' quote Rev;' xxii:"l ! 8, : as their 1 con- : !Z%^#eretheorigita : ators of “Kat 5 iArchas,’? Os the translation of ! “ ei jpom'h»i” Yl| fhfeh “ 'el outstart of all hoary-hairedantiquity, tbeliteral and primary signification of “beginnings;’* md jt* because Of the extreme ahSidty of Septuagiiit translators to 1 Dr. Moses Sthart says, they frequently sacrifice the sense to the literal translation. Therefore; "-Kaf Arches,” the pet of our good critic’s cri ticism; if he is a faithful interpreter, can never help the “rocks” a whit If thoae ’ < froofei” have ho better foundation to rest upon than this criticism of “Kat’Arcbaa,’’they’ll come down upon our ctitic’s head, as the rocks' did once upon ‘ Samson’s, which he pulled down atodhd his ears; and the last sound to the critic before the fall, will be, Rev. xxii. 18. It would not help the affrighted critic ‘at all, unless it was to a stone-bound sepulchre, and hence we Object to the criticism fof this, and other reasons which might at another time,- and in another place, be more appropriate and acceptable. ' , .F<» the American Presbyterian. “MODERN ANTIftiriTIES.’: v ; , Imastneeds takea text, or the reader, after looking at the above caption, willnofc believe that I am in sober earnest.Welfhere it is—Lev. xxi. 17-^24—-read it leisure:; it is -too ldiig-for me to,qiiote . < 1 ► I -have: read*' it trith surprise, Xi presume;, many have,, to see that God should have made. " a blemish,” as it is called, in man’s physical organi zation—a oause.for rejecting him from serving at the altar. “Aflat hose, a club foot, a hunchback; ' or- he that :hatb the Beurvy,’’-&c., should be ex oluded from the service ofthe.iLord! “He .might eat of the bread of: his God, both that,which is. the holy, duds that s which thei ! most; holy.;. but jbe must not come 'nigh to offerthat is,- he must not attempt to officiate'iaS a priest..; Ifa. aH ottter oases, I believe, in the Bible, moral “blemiahes,” and; these . alonei disqualifted their possessor, for serving, at the' altar of God; but here we have several, for which a man is neither praise norblame-worthy, anympreithanforthclength of his nosey.or thevoolor of they were a sufficient reason for thrusting out their .possessor, and closing against him the; house of ; And why ? uot.because any blame could be at tached to their but,for a yesydiffisent reason, SH*ely. Mm fire men, and while they “TO Btich, if they can find ?.h®T the* these ;be moral ~or those which - are purely will cause of. their depravity, but by reasoti. of fheii native preference for that which is perfect j for it is seldom, if ever, thatjthese; bleWshes/’.asfhey are called ,in the text,; awaken any. other emotions than those of pain, which would not he the case, were they rendered, agreeable fd us, by, reason, of our common depravity. There is a natural love of beauty implanted in every-human breast, whe ther of form or countenance, or what-not: a natu ral love of order, consistency, propriety, justice, benevolence, and the like. .Wo are.so made that we cannot help revolting or turning away with disgust from any spectacle of horror or deformity that we are left to contemplate. Hence ttie necessity for shutting out those per- had been thus marred “ in^theieqiMPS had they heeh-gufferdd-to: stand before the congregation of the Lord, and dfficiated'at his al tar, the hearer, the common worshipper, would not have been ablo tq take his mind off from them for a single moment. “A split nose'/ would be. the only thing the hearer could* see. - His inind and soul, which ought, of course, to be occupied with heavenly and eternal things, would be,look ing at “blemishes," and consequently would lose the instruction, or miss the improvement;, which otherwise he might hope to secure, and which were intended for him. Who ever yetsaw a crip ple, and could think of any thing but his defor mities; while looking at him? Who ever witnessed any remarkable deviation from the established modes'of dress, and could follow an argument, or listen to an exhortation, or ariy thing of the kind, while the object of his; ourioßity;was before him ? This being the ease;,all paintings on-the wails of bur churches, in the rear of the speaker espe cially, should be repudiated—whether they be de lineations of good iori evil, well ill executed. Before the hearer is aware of it, his mind is drawn to .them, and he loses the thread of the dis course." He may chide himself for it, as much as he will, and aeep#idni»Blf!of a want' pf interest in tbeidiscourse;: bhii lie :eahnot help tooks Steadily at‘.these" unimportant»thjh^, ! >while the ini’ tcrests of eternity are neglected. : = It was in obedience to this law of our nature, that the law of our. text was enacted. It was a faot Well Ichown to the' Creator, that while the hearer knew of any moral deformity in the speak er, however eloquent or solemn bis discourse, how ever-well-argnUd or conclusive, he would be think ing bf nothing else while the speaker'was before, him. A man may have been, in the course of his life, , a very great sinner, and by repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, he may have be come* one of Hod VehmV yet he should the station of a minister of the church, for the above reason: all his gdod deeds will be forgotten, whilethose of infamy will be remembered. Application, by way of inference. No man should enter the sacred desk, to officiate at the altar of Hod, while bis fdce is in subh a Costume as to irresistibly) the - of bis hearers. A certain mancame to ’our peaeeful vil lage, a few days since, whose - reputation as a mi nister of Christ was very fair,—who also stood high asi a preacher of logician—-# an “ eloquent orator" —a man to whose name some excellent institution of learning had seen fit to add , a those isemi-lunar-fardels,” D. D., and onr. pulpit being vacant, he was invited to preach; No fault could be well found with his sermon; it was well well delivered, accompanied with every necessary degree: of action; but, alas, his, tamh it looked as if it bad sunk'back into retirement, affii#t a w|ld‘ profusion ofhkir.and beMd-rihns taobe and bristles! It was too much,'far.too 'much, for poor human nature. We could not look thereon* and hear "the discourse, so we turned ourselves about. 'The. gentleman thrSwdiis head back, with all bis might, to give his voice a pas sage through, tbs thicket which* had Withered round the natural ioutletfof soundj but it was of lit&e 'use—his words fbrth its 'if they 1 had been strained thrOugh-a'-hair sieve. No body seemed to ha veheardhis* sermon j or to be able'th gltei auy iaccount of it, thVnext day.* One man remarked that the Jews would probably start soon on their return, as the high-priest was evidently irrmotion; - Another expressed a wish that this fashion Of everyJotberia ppendage,amongmihisterB,’had beendeferredtill fe had gOt- through' with the present* worlds t must not-say what-some of the ottief sex Said "of it. Two or- thfee inquiredj With' a Very kigiriflcani twirl lof vthe dip, ijrhether the Dr. were a .married man or: not.' In short,evety Ohehad sOeto his givehny account Of hS eermon, at least,- none that' spoke of it. My'dear .Tender, will you jnsfcvbe kind enough to opew your Bible, and read the text? Read It all, from beginning to ehd^—seeif ‘yoxt can "dis cover whatus meant *by Antiquities or more important' still, see if you catl eonjecture why the lawof the text was written. t :Z- — —A. -For the; American Presbyterian. SKEPTICAL CHEISTIAHS. If 6ne could, With tears,' exclaim, from the depths of his paternal anxiety and, distress, to the Redeemer himself—‘‘Ldrd, I believe; help thou my unbelief, ” XMMkixf24,’) and was not rebuked, how should we Hesitate before looking with cold distrust and suspicion upon those about us now who are filled with doubts and unbelief, hotwitni standing tfieir severe internal struggleß, prayers, and supphcatibnbT,' 1 ~./, '.J, ‘ From 'thie 1 appearance. and’; manners of some | Christians, the journey to heaven would,seem but I a triumphal rnarohy resounding with paeans andre- I joicings.- Fof'them ; there would seem no foes to I face. Even thisjile world but appears *‘a frie'hc. to grace to help them on to God.” ’ Totheni there are ifd difficulties in religion. No doubts or ques- tions arise upon' the perusal of theßible, andfroni the’ peculiar structure of 'their minds, if one is presented to them, they will not entertain it’for a m'diheflt as a'matter' of meditation; or as an object of which it is desirable 'to possess 'a solution; but quickly dismiss it as a messenger of Satan sent to buffet'them,"dr in 1 eibalatioh'frbm the bottomless pit itself. To them it is unwise to employ reason 'and'' their owh faculties ; ih the interpretation of the : sacred as they do, 1 that hath said— x its trnth, which is more than, if hr itherbrethren often do, and he has many.oi, us en iq» •»%-. ijihe ,moral, integrity to, act in pursuance of the [’degree of evidence afforded him. He does not turn aside, Beeatfse not see the whole from eriibadfrassuients, there fore,' I will have nothing to it. He ra tter'eonneets'the light'which ® has upon the subject, with its acknowledged immrtahce, and acts as if he were thoroughly cobvi^d 'of it in dl its details—a subject of wbicTi* his iHrethren are real' Iy no more informed than te is,'Snd probably to more capable of. solving the diMeulties which ate to him so harassing and distressifig. * The doubt ing Christian considers that “ ! »is as teal an im perfection in the moral character not to be influ enced in practice by a lower d|pfee of evidence, when discerned, as it is in the understanding not to discern it.” [Butler’s imak#, part 11., chap. ... . ' . ■■£. . ‘ Lastly, while the happy Ch|stian should he tbankftdfor the degree of conif|irtwhich he en joys; hej should his doubting brStSerf - Be'jpatietff wi® withhim in-hismentad-drcublefep—for if that be true which we have said about h»v strict and in violable discharge of duties, theu|it becometh him to respect his brother; for “his Strict discharge of duty, with his less, sensible .evidence, does imply a better dtfiracter than thesaiucdiligenee in the discharge of it upon more sensib|e evidence.” SEE EDITORIAL EX<|jßSlOff. A correspbndent to whom the Baltimore and Ohio Bailsoad lies 'extended the courtesy of an: invitation rWi joiwinithe Editorial utf the df-a por tion of bis; trip. Drab' Editoiss :— After an rapid nth, I find thyself in this city of broad' streets, magnificent’ distances, 'handsome' 'public buildings, beautiful flower gardens and' residences: with a' smaller population, it m! larger church accommodations for its size thssfcany city iiPthe middle'StateS.‘ l ”There'are no’w 26 churches herb; itteludißg 2<6f diir own denomination: * The rkpidity of the growth has been certainly wonderful. Nine-years ago it had 9000 inhabitants. Now it has 28,000; It is one of the greatest railroad centres ;in the country; eight railroads branch out. towards all Ijofate the compass, and an average of .-3000 pcople-ar riye and depart from, its, spacious depot every day.. It is really bewildering lif stand ferf a few moments in the depot, and watch the trains from all qnartersj.come and go, bearing their precious loads, of humanity, each individual eager in press ing onvrard in his own direction, and upon his own-errand. : ■ ‘ - I can scarcely realize that with: so little trouble or weariness I hav® come over the 800 miles that lie between us to-day. T left. Philadelphia at 11 o’clock, ;P. M., by sleeping. cars-'on the Wilming ton and J^ltimorerailroa^-s^WTOke^gray __ ... . ty X JCIU VJ liu‘6 Baltimore and Ohio railroad, an& wis Boon wind ing my way along the beautiful where .new and: charming scenery meets die eye,at every turn'. At lllidott's Mills, the-, faonntriins arid rocks show symptoms of violent 'throes of'nature, in a primeval age, forming very bold and striking scenery. The numerous mills all built; solidly of stone, the pretty river, the high perpendicular crags, all combineto makeittheveryspot for a stereoscopic artist-to visit, and ~ to catch half-a-dozen views'such as no one else has. The deep cut through the overhanging ; rock above,the town, would make a very striking picture. ‘ Soou we were upon the banks of the Potomac, and aSuddtb turh Of the road, and a rrish; through a dark bridge brings us to Harper's Jerry. Is there a grander scene upon earth than the piling np of those mighty crags on the Nortbside of the river, and their opposite abutment below the junc tion of the Shenandoah ? Thomas-Jeffersbn truly said, .that .the.sight ,was. wel£,’Hy)rtb a voyage across the Atlantic to behold. The impressionfdfees it-* self Upon the mind that the Blue Ridge has at one time been continuous across the stream —forming another NiagSrij'with a lafge expanse of lakes the rocky harrier thas since hrien cut throughj leaving tiie: hold, precisions rocks piled on each - side, full 1000 feet bighi (Had we pasSeS hefe in the night, I should have half expected to see olcl Brown’s ghost flitting-about the engine house. . ;i: , >: - - i' How it. came about that 15 men. took so large a place, my visit made no blearer, than it has al ways been, to my mind. -• At Martinsburg, we dined most sumptuously. It is certainly verycredi table to the-railroad com pany that this feature is so satisfactory. They gave us not only ample’time to eat, but' an abun dance of the very best fare, sSrved up in the most pleanly and inviting .mapner..- always, in travelling, wish for Martiusburg tp.be thedining station. With the byer-ehanging views of a ka leidoscope, we wbuhd- f aiqDg the beart#tuhPotomac ,jor many miles, and before lopg.eame-to the old |moky town of Cumberland, among the hills. Formerly this was the end of all .Western railroad travel, the passengers; here -taking, stages; and the goods being transferred to’ Conestoga team wagons. This was then a Very active place, crowded with teamsters, and stage drivers and the like, but those days are passed forever, and seem really to be sunk in the oblivion of a? hundred bygone years. Can it be that only eight short years ago the iron.horse ran the Conestoga clean off the track ? , What may we not see in eight years-more? ■ .•.■ ...... We are soon atPiPdmont,where webegan in good' bat nest to climb > the 'Allegheny s. ' A-fe n whfeel locomotive of great power .is here attached,' and we mount for 17 miles a grade of 117 feet to the mile. No pen can describe, the wonderful beauty and grandeur of the scenes here presented: We wind around corners of the mountains, dart through dark tunnels, and deep cuts through solid rock 100 feet high on each side of.us., Then,.loop feet.belpw usi dark and deep in the valley, yee catch occasional glimpses of a. -little. streamthat g6es tfhnbling and roaring over thei rocky Bed? Beyond the stream rises the mojjmtaiif again’TSOO fpet at fleast above it, addin some few. places cul tivated almost to the summit, but mainly ah un broken wilderness. In some of thp side-hill cut tings, strata of poal were laid bare, showing what rich seres', of wealth a kind Providence has laid up in this wilderness for. the wealth and comfort of future, generations. At Oakland,l27oo.- feet .above the sea : level,' we got a supper. Such temptingly white bread;’and'rich golden Indianapolis! May 23J, 1860. batter from the Glades, are rarely met with any- Now came on dark, Bight, and the magnificent Glades,, those level steppes,,on 'the:sops sPf'tbe mountains, wqre all shut, out from view. At Grafton, the cheerful gas light invited us to. stop and- lodge for the night in the company’s spacious hotel. , At.day da.wn we took-the train again and commenced, such a run as travellers do not always enjoy. We made 80 miles an, hour, including -, stoppages, for 12 hoars straight ahead; landing ns, by 4 o’clock in the afternoon, far away in western Ohio. The mist and rain prevented our seeing much after leaving .Grafton* save some fine iron, bridges, and the passing ; through of many Ipng and immensely expensive tunnels; all arched overhead with cut stone masonry. By 8 o’clock we were quietly taking our. breakfast.on hoard the “Brown Diclr,” the ferry steamer on'the Ohio river, and were soop in the splendid wide cars'of t&e~psgti3L.Ohio* road, on-.onr way to Columbus, A thriving-looking country here opens upon us, with abundance of coal underground, and, easy cultivation on an undulatiifg surface. At Zanes ville, which has grown to he quite a city, there is great manufacturing activity apparent. They build cars and locomotives, roll iron, and make machinery generally. '-' Beside steani, the immense water power of the Muskingum is used in-driving some of the most extensive flouring - mills in the land. At Golnmbns, we dined, and only got a glimpse of the city and its splendid capitol of white marble, saoh as our 'own State should have* a building that would stand as a monument of the skill and taste of this era for ages to come. ’ The country now became surpassingly beauti ful. Rich waving fields arid beautiful farm houses. No waste land, all blooming and .refreshing to look upon* Now comes Dayton. What a city of pretty residences,- active business marts, thriving manu facturing establishments, and endless entangle ments of railroad' tracks. At Xenia, our light ning speed little,.and we are takinga ra ther slow pace, to Indianapolis, where we arrived at 8 o’clock' in the evening, passing .through a rich, well-tilled country all the way from-Columbus. The National Road, , which has -been n«ir'to us nearly all the time, has opened this country early, and made a belt of rich cultivation all through Ohio arid Indiana, far in advance of other parts of the State. , I came 7, here with but three changes of cars all the way from Philadelphia, viz.: at at Ben "Wood, (Ohio river,) and at Columbus, and if I .had chosen to leave Baltimore in the night train, and not lay over, could have made the trip in 82 hours frpm Philadelphia. f My father tells me that, when I was a lad, he often performed the journey in 25, days on horse back. r . , , ... . G. W. M. ’ THE CHURCH AND THE COLLEGE. ; It is a fact too well authenticated' to bb denied, that almosteverygreatimpulEegiveo-toeducatioi^ Of all the great schoqis .and universities in the world, by far the gredter parf were founded by re-' ligioris 'jnen, arid for religions purposes. The World at large* are not insensible of the value of learning, and worldly men are ofterf ready enough to avail themselves of their opportunities to give their sons so valuable a benefit. , It has often happened that men of this class have given liberally to the endowment of colleges. ■ But few among them have had the forethought, or the be nevolence, or the faith to encounter the discou ragements, of raising' frpm its;infant feebleness an institution of the higher order. Corrupt or de fective Christianity has had vitality enough to dri it; but infidelity or * religious indifference almost never.y > 1 And did the disposition exist, theChurehwould be exceedingly, unwise to leave tp such bands the founding and direction of colleges. The ,edueatipn which she requires for her purposes'is, Ohruiidh education, an education : based and constructed throughout on religious principles, one whose cul ture shalljbe moral;apd religious: norless’ than ipf tellectual, and whose learning, ir in .sili its;,depart ments, shall not fall short of those first principles which are to be found only in the'attributes and purposes of God. The college -which ignores Christianity; will bey to - all practical purposes, an infidel institutipn. And as are the colleges sueh are likely to be the common schools of the country. As are the,colleges', such will be, sooner or later, the pulpits, such tlie prevailing character of the press; such all :the other- great fountains of -poplar opinion. ■; Whoever controls, these - institutions, holds the ,|ey to the religious character of the surrounding region. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, thhse formed, in the carl£ days, opr northern quadrilateral.- It was hard for infidelity or heresy to get- much foothold while these re mained faithful. What was it that made eastern Massachusetts to so great an extent Unitarian? The religious defection of Harvard. What led the way in the recovery? - The advancement of Williams and the rise of Autherst. - Yale college has, for years, given tone to the theology of Cbnnepticuu And.the strong Presbyterianism of New Jersey is -to be traced, not more direetiy to Princeton Theological Seminary than td Princeton college, Over its own graduates, the religious in fluence of a college is hardly less than of a ; mother’s early lessons. Even tbd worldly-among them feei its force, ft abides ,throqgh'4ife, and ; |tsdlf;dfftb Si their habits ofi thinking, The opportunity thus offdi-ed of impressing Chris tian trutfoupon the minds of those; who shall here after occupy posts of influence in' the State and the secular professions, is one which must repay tenfold all the expense which the Church; must incur in taking these institutions under her patron age.’ "And'then, there is the education of her own ministers. Will she" trust to the State, in fected as all its agencies are,'and must be, with the corrupt atmosphere,of politics, will sheljrust • to any agency not specifically and emphatically Christian, to give them the most controlling ele inehts of all their thinking? Will she trust to ; her ability to give that thinking a new direction afterward, in the-theological seminary? It is the marvellous out|pjringsof God’s Spirit, in con ; nexion with the lessons of holy wisdom given in Christian colleges, that is bringing so many young men into the classes of these seminaries. Ana were it otherwise, it might then be quite too late' to give their minds a new bias, especially if the chairs of sacred science were all filled, ;as they would be likoly to be, by ambitious men trained themselves'in the same manner. No. If the Church would' have at her service, and- as-the leaders of-progressin her noble, enterprise, men of the right stamp, she must .educate them herself. She must have, colleges her owp, . indeed, in every aspect of the case, it is an essential requi site of success that she possess the colleges of the land and imbue them with her influence; and if so, then, she.must found them. She must in cur. the qipense of sustaining them; she must en dow them., The motto, “Christo et eeclesise,” -find that still earlier device on.the seal of the first collego ever founded in our land, ah open Bible with Yebhjas written across its sacred leaves, must be the stamp of their character god the; 'guide of. their destiny. ' \ . the Ohurch in -thiscountryhas riot, ihus unmindful of ber privilege inithis particular Our fathers showed a pious alacrity to anticipate all others in the founding of college's. 11 Scarcely bad the band of Puritans in Massachu setts Bay reared their houses and their.cburehes before; they wore at work breaking ground for such an, institution. Nor was it a casual- oc currence tbat the theology of Calvin, transplanted j to this unknown wilderness, began thus, and has gone on multiplying and improving institutions of the same character at every step of its progress. . It was a necessity growing out of its own nature. The tree was in the seed germ, and time and cir cumstances did but give it development. • The faith of the Gospel is a vigorously intellectual, as well as "emotional and sesthetie faith. ,f - This strong form of the Christian faith, this faith which more than all others grapples with roots and, days, its foundations among the primitive formations of mental and ontological' science,.requires learning, requires libraries as the food of learning, requires colleges as the trainers of the mind to vigorous and penetrative thiuking.' ; Harvard College was emphatically the child, the ‘ Church, and the pliurch nurtured it. Yale was founded a few years ater' ‘‘from a sincere regard and 2eM’]for the holding of the ProteMami rijligion •by a* sSSeesstoSl of learned: and' orthodox 5 men:” Princeton -bad I itS;birth in a?gr6at religitfus revival,: and-its chief motive was to .provide men who should perpetuate the influence of the revival. And what shall we I say of bttr young and yet struggling colleges of j the West ? A touching incident, related' in one j of the reports of this Society, respecting one of them, may serve as a specimen The en terprise j was resolved upon at the dose, of a meeting for con- I saltation aricE prayer held by several almost penniless Home Missionaries, and continued through three days. This J little company of praying. men then proceeded in .a- body to the intended location in | the primeval forest,; and there,., kneeling on. .thej snow, dedicated the. site to the Father, the Son, and. the / Holy Ghost, for a Christian college.” There is something to me inimitably beautiful and subiitnein that simple incident. When the valley ‘pf : the Mississippi, shall become the centre of an empire second to none that the,world ever saw for numbers and power, and from its now infant in stitutions' shall go forth an influence to be felt roAid the world, this little story of the founding of Wabash College will, I doubt not, take rank in r.espeet-b) interest with tbe.^tory:of the Pilgrim Fathers, or, the oath of Grutli in. the land of Tell ‘ *' Eev.-Jona.JP'.StearnsjD.D. LETTER FROM METTEBNICH TO Him:- OhMs oven early preference for (he Natural Sci ences —the relation of modern science to true religion, &c My Deak'Baron * * T I know how to designate the place which belongs to;.; me ins-the avenue of scienee, and which to t my- regret is-far from the sanctuary. , ' . . . • What I Wave 1 told you, my dear Baron, is nei ther- gasconade, nor an excess 'of'inodesty; it is the unvarnished history-of tny life. You do' not know this history, and I will relate it to you in a few; words. At the age at which life takes its directions, I contracted an inclination for the exact and na tural sciences, which: I would permit- niyself to describe as irresistible, and a disgust for practical life, which I would call unconquerable, if I had i not overcome both this disgast . and this inclina j tion. * ' * * - Fate has separated me from the iiny ; We'ppdri tWh ri&ad’l should not Wave chosen. 'Once started, I submitted without losing sight of the goal of my .wishds,and the. result was that what-I should have wislilif to regard f»- tWaim u oF my life has become only the solace of it'. The King has set the mark of a learned man upon hie; I know to whoni this is.to be-attributed. If it is a question of the-heart, the King is not mistaken. : What, you tell me of the forthcoming second volume of the Cosmos, makes me look forward to the study of it with impatience; you are not to be read; you must be studied, and the: place of a pupil .suits me exactly. No one is more, called ,uppn;than.l am to do justice to your remark.rela tive; to the. influence exercised by Christianity on tlie natural sciences,* as upon mankind in general, : and hence nponallscienee, for tbatremark has long since dawned upon my mind. It is correct in all respects, aud its.generating cause is simple as are all other truths, those: which are, as well as thoto which are not understood, for the latter circumstance has no’ effect on the substance of a truth.’ Error leads' to error, as truth is the guide to rtruth. • As long as the mind remained in error, in tlie-,sphere of thought which is the most elevated of all those attainable, by the human mind, this deplorable state of things cduld hot fail lo rfe-act upon every quarter of the nioral compass, upon all intellectual and social questions, and"to appear to their: deve lopment in the right direction, an insurmount able The good news once told, the position could not but change. It was not by bestowing divine honor on effects, that they could be traced to the-fountain head of truth; the investigation continued to be confined to the abstract speculations of the philosophers, and to the rhapsodies of the poets. The cause once laid’bare the hearts of men were comforted, and their minds opened to conviction. Never theless; the latter still-remained for a long time shrouded in the? mists of pagan skepticism until at last scholastic philosophy was unhorsed by experimental science. Do you admit the force of my reasoning? If yop do, I have no doubt you will share my fears that true scientific pro gress is in danger of being checked by too am bitious spirits, who desire to rise from the effects to the cause, and who finding the approach cut off by the impassable barriers which. God has set upon human intelligence, and finding them selves unable to advance; roll back upon them selves, and relapse into paganism,' in seeking the cause in the effect. The world, my dear Baron, is in a dangerous position. The social body is in fermentation. You would do me a great favor if you could teach me the nature of this fermentation, whether it is spirituous, acid Or putrid ? I greatly fear that the verdict will he for the last named of these kinds, and it is not I who could teach you that these products are hfcrdly beneficial. Be pleased to accept * * * the assu rance of the continuance of my old attachment. /MeTTEBNICH. - : Correspondence of Humboldt. , : * Note by Hcmboidt. Iliadspoken of the intensity of the love of nature-. 1 had compared .St. Basil with Ber nardin de St. Pierre. PRESBYTERIAHISM Iff EUROPE. , The following, from the English correspondence of the Christian Intelligencer j contains a summary of interesting facts, most of which have appeared in a distinct form in our columns, but which make a better impression collected in a single paragraph. The cause .of Presbyterianism is beginning to revive in many different countries; 1 ' This' revival is proportiohal to the increase of vitality in diffe rent churches.. -- The present awakening in Sweden is marked by a desire for the reqniring.o'f Synodical power. The, King of Prussia, who, notwithstanding many unwarranted calumuies, has long been, a steadfast and 'earnest Christian, was anxious,' for. many ■years, to establish a Presbyterian government, based chiefly on the Scottish model, but was de ferred only by the dead state of' the community,- ;who, he feared, would appoint rationalistic elders and representatives; And the Prince of Prussia has, within ; the last few weeks; taken the bold step, of; proclaiming a Presbyterian, Organization for the Church of the eastern provinces, where no VOL IV— NO. 42.—Whole No. 207. BOLDT. Vienna, May 10,'1846. such organization befoTe existed. In the Rhine provinces, Presbyteries and Sy nodshaye long been held. In Hungary, the Church is Struggling for the action of her Synods, .and the mainten&fl,cie,.Qf .her old Scriptural forms of government. In France, the desire for independent Presbyterial and Syno dical aetion is strongf ;The more earnest minis ters of the National Church wait impatiently for such liberty. All the signs of the times connected with the great revival of religion, advancing contempora neously in so many different countries; grove that there is a tendency,,as vitality increases, to have genuine Ghurch government; and tbat the form of government Universally aimed at. is Presbyte rian. '' ' " THE-STORY OF THE CROSS; Every attentive reader of missionary journals Las noticed bowtoften the simple story of r the cross has touched,the hearts of inquiring , heathen, and awakened their wonder and admiration, , The. case the Greenlander, BLayatriak; has Been often peated. He had'shown no interest in any truth, till,; one day,; the missionary read to him, from Lube’s , Gospel, the account of Christ’s qgpny in | the garden, when he up to the tajble, I with an air of I was that? Tell me that once hiorß, fori} CBB; desire to be saved.” - ’• • ; ■ An affecting-instance of 'this ; kind is recorded in the London Juvenile Missionary. Magazine Sot March last' It occurred in a school,for girls in China. These girls had learned to read, and every morning tlieyread a chapter ini the Bible, which was explained tb them by the missionary. They were very attentive,. and remembered a great deal that they heard, so as to.- repeat, it afterwards- When a chapter containing ah account, of pur Sa viour’s crucifixion was rea'd for the first time by these Chinese girls, themissionarysaw tears start inthe eyes of some of: them. '- -Presently'thenß was a low, suppressed , sob, and then they .all burstinto loud weeping. ' It wasiropossible to .proceed with the lesson, so difficult was it for the girls to sup press their emotion, or rebover their self-boutrol so as to study or converse. After this they always heard the story :of Christ’s- death in* deeply se rious atid feeling manner. ; , : Why is it; that in thisrChristian Jand, the same narrative is read or heard, without apparently the least feeling or concern ? ? Is it possible that; from long repetition end familiarity, that:story has lost its power with ns,-and.-become as an .idle tale?. ■ The first convert to Christianity. in Nprthern India, was Krjshnoo,and he .was baptized, by lir. Carey. One day a man said to Krishnoo, “ Well, you have left off all the customs of your i ancestors; what is the Tcason,?’’ - . , - He replied, “ Have patience with me, and I will tell you., , I am a great sinner,.! tried Hindoo worship, but got no gbocb After a while I heard of Christ, and how he labored muchyandlaid down His life ftm sinners. I thought—what love is this? And-here-1 made my resting place.: Now-say; if any thing, like-this love was. ever shown by.your gods? Did Hoorga, pr or Krishna, die for Sinners? You know that they only sought them own ease; and have nolovefor-any' one:” ' ; : ’ t A North American Indian, who had been con verted to Christ, was one day assailed ,by who tried to persuade him. -the.mißsioppries were not true teachers. . To. this theaged and honest Indian replied: ‘‘Tbey-nmyb 6 -what-sr«*y wiil; but I knbW"wliitfc they have told me; and what has been wroughtia me. .Look at imy poor: countrymen there; lying drunk faefore. ybur door;, why don't ypu.sayh if you cap? . hour years ago 1 nlso lived like a beast, and. hot one of you troubled yourself-about mo; but when the missionaries came, they jfrebpheil the cross of ,Christ, and I have experienced the power of His blood, and am free from the domi nion of sin.” ... What shall we sqy to these things, we who have from Childhood,' bhen instructed in the th ings of Christ and-His:cross ? . Shall we see'the children of China, and Hindooidolaterfii and savage Indi ans, and crowds from, all the dark places of earth, bowing and .weeping at the cross,'and confessing its grace ; and power, while we pass by, ah if Christ were ho more than Doorga or Kaiee, to ns? • It were, better, a thousand times, never fc.have known the way of life,, than to-live and perish tbps.. - Watchman and Reflector. GOD ITT THE STORM. Wo find the. following interesting account of ■ ibe tornado in Portsmouth, Ohio, in a recent number of the Central Christian Herald.. It is from the pen of Rev. Dr. E. P. Pratt, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in that city. "" The Violent storm of wind and hail that passed oyer. 1 your city (6ipein i na|i)‘s[ast Monday, 2lst of May, inflPbrtembißth with great'keVerityl It cbmmetieed hfefe at five minutes past 4 o’clbckj P. M., and lasted-for about ten minutes, in; its greatest fury. T,he damage done to, property Was great. A large number of business houses in difr fetoht localities Were unroofed, and parts of the tipper stories were blown off in some cases. Shade trees suffered, and fruit trees were, rooted up or blown doynj and worse than all, three lives were lost —one a little child of some six years, and two hien, Mr. Price and Mr. M'Callister. The tall steeple of our church was blown down, and about one-third'of the roof torn off. In the steeple was a fine bell, weighing some 2,000 lbs*, and a city clock, which is greatly missed, as it had come to be a necessity to pur citizens. The bell was un injured, save the breaking of the cast iron globe and clapper, With the steel springs inside the bell. The clock was bhdlyismasbed. Tip'and: neatly ru ined. , Tbe-sfeeple was lifted up, as aman said who saw it fall from the corner of the street, and carried towards the North, some fifteen feet, and then fell due east, smiting down in a narrow alley between two' houses, Where there was- barely room enough' for it to pass. ’lf it had fallen a few feet on either side, the. destruction of human life must haye been inevitable. One ofthe buildings, a small frame, on Which it would have fallen but for being carried ho the North, was full of persons who had run in as a-protection from the storm. It was a meat shop,,and a gentleman told me : there were at least a dozen meu*in it, and four of them were bracing against the door to keep it from blowing open. God's hand just seemed to guide the fall, as he guides the fall of the little sparrow. ,It was won derful, in a city of ten thousand, that the loss of human life was so small. . Another-wonder was that all those who were killed, were prepared, as we hope, for a better world,."where no storms ride the troubled ait.” God’ spares sinners—why is it, but that they, may repent and devote their lives to his blessed service ? One of the men killed, Mr. M'Gallister,.: had recently been converted, as we trust, in the precious meetings we have been holding in our church for the last four weeks. On the Sabbath night previous, the very night befoto, he was killed, he rose for prayer, aiid to show that he was determined to be on the Lord s side. He told me that night that; he felt happy in trusting in the Saviour. He was a man, I should tbink, over fifty, years of age, a hard-work ing, industrious mechanic. He lost a son a few months since, and a brother only three weeks ago. These afflictions seemed to be blessll to his own soul. About , forty , have attended the meeting for inquiry, or come forward or risen for prayers during" ourmeetiings. Our Union Prayer-meetings are well attended now, every evening, at 8 o’clock, and a general seriousness pervades our community. . -jTruly youra, - E. P. Pratt. , A great many drop a tear at the door oi poverty, when they should rather drop a sixpence.