aintriran tirtoligterian ' ll to on rangelist. THURSDAY, NUMMI' 30. 1000. /011 N W. MEARS, EDITOR. ASSOCIATED WITH • ALBERT BARNES, GEORGE DDPFIELD,72. THOMAS BRAINERD" JOHN ANKINS, HENRY DARLING. THOMAS J. SHEPHERD, A NEW -VOLUME The present number of our paper is the first of a new volume. Pour years of the history of the American Presbyterian have trauspired, and we enter upon the fifth. During this pe riod we have passed through eventful scenes both in our church and in the world. The co lumns of our paper have been freighted with important chronicles. Our duty as journalists has not seldom been a serious and trying one. We have had our part to perform, and our re sponsibilities to discharge in a period of seces sion which has divided ns from personal friends tend esteemed brethren. While we loved them, adherenceto principle has compelled us to,con damn and repudiate their coarse. And we trust that we have somewhat assisted in staying the tide of defection, and in maintaining the in tegrity of the church, so dear to us, in this sec tion of the country. This was almost the first work we were called to perform. It was done to the best of our ability; how well and how wisely, we believe, may be seen in the general harmony and contentment of the churches in this whole section, in the present attitude of our body. We assured them at the time, that the action of 1857 was not that of extremists; that our church, though firm, was conservative; though anti-slavery, as were the father's, it was not abolitionist; and we are all here together this day, to rejoice in the truth of these asser tionsi as witnessed in the action of every Gene ral Assembly since the secession. The growth of the Synod of . Pennsylvania in these last four years, has been greater than that of any Synod east of the Alleghenies. It has been our privilege to live in the age of an unusually glorious revival, one of whose chief centres was the Jayne's Hall prayer meet ing in this city. The genuine exhibitions of the Holy Spirit in this revival, called forth the live liest sympathies of the editors of this paper, some of whom, in the providence of God, were among its most prominent instruments, not only in the way of making large accessions to their own churches, but in fostering those outside union movements for the rescue of.the firemen and the outcasts of every class. We point to these facts as the best answer to charges which have been absurdly made against this paper, of hostility to the revival. They show more clearly than words can convey it, the real animus of the editors, while anything which may have seemed to bear a contrary construction must, in all fairness, be construed as a truly Christian caution against those errors and excesses, and that danger of pride and exaggeration and newspaper puffery, which it was not at all won derful should attach itself to such a wide-spread popular movement, in this age of the rapid com munication of intelligence, and the correspond ing eagerness constantly to hear of some new and startling thing. • And now, as we write, we find ourselves still in the midst of grand and portentous move ments in the religious, ecclesiastical and poli tical world. The revival influence is still largely felt in various parts of Christendom. Every where, especially in Great Britain and America, its effects are seen in the increasing attention given to the organization of the church as a practical power among men, in the ingenious and yet simple devices, the product of the high est zeal and the highest knowledge united, for reaching the lowest and hitherto most hopeless strata of civilized society with the benign influ ences of the gospel, in the widely increased con sciousness of personal responsibility for the sal vation of souls among the membership of our churches, particularly among our young men. The German mind is rapidly shaking off the in cubus of a false and pretentious philosophy, and the evangelical church in that country is advancing, with rapid strides, to a position worthy of the original country of the great re formation. God has wonderfully raised up an instrument, in the present Napoleon, of break ing the chains of civil and ecclesiastical despo tism in the fairest and moat oppressed country of Europe. At least the origination isdue , to him of a chain of events, which it afterwards became practicable for Victor Emmanuel and Garibaldi to carry out, to such a remarkable and encouraging degree. The temporal supremacy of the Pope in Italy, and with it, the disastrous influence it has exercised upon the human mind everywhere, seems about drawing to a close. At home we find our own church on the eve of a peaceful but important revolution in its Home Missionary policy. We find it disen tangling itself from an alliance of long stand ing and of precious memories, and owing its origin to the noblest of Christian impulses, once a necessity and a source of mutual strength to the parties it embraced, but now, having had its day, a source of mistrust and mutual injury. Whatever work a church newspaper can do in diffusing light, and in leading the membership to wise, practical, harmonious, and truly Chris tian conclusions upon great questions, may and ought to be done now. Here, in this prosper ous and groWing section of the church, it is felt that there is need of a journal known to be thoroughly in sympathy with its spirit and movements, that these may be fairly argued and set forilb Oat they may be guarded against misrepresentations, that our leading enterprises may be kept prominently before our people amid the numerous and pressing claims made by other and really worthy causes, which, other wise, would prejudice and retard our own; in fine, that our church may be known for what it is, and intelligently accepted by still greater numbers in this middle section of the Atlantic slope. As to our field in central and western New York, it has some special sympathies with us in Philadelphia in these labors, and we con tinue to receive evidencd of the strong attach ment of our subscribers there. Thus then we recommence our labors in this particular sphere for the cause of the Redeemer. We shall cordially rejoice to see evidences of the advancement of that cause wherever they appear. We shall be the foes of sectarianism and of exclusiviem as ever. We sh a ll h ave a friendly look and word for every tree servant of tits /taverner. But our heart belongs to our own noble Zion, the American Presbyterian Church, in which we thank God our lot has been cast, and we are permitted to be standard bearers. We thank God we have imbibed the spirit of 1729, of 1758, and of 1818. We thank God for the sublime system of doctrine under which we were reared, which, while it accepts the infinite mysteries of free grace, divine sove reignty, the decrees, and all things fairly and scripturally deducible from them, is not tied up to human and extravagant theories of inability, original sin, and the extent of the atonement. We thank God for the hatred of oppression, and the desire to see the golden rule nnitrer sally applied which our Presbyterianism has infused into us. We thank God that we - can have confidence in our brethren, that they will be, brought to coincide in all wise measures for the advancement of our Zion, without any undue pressure of personal influence or eeclesiastical authority; that while we proceed with no un seemly baste in serious changes in our polity, we yet, when Providence indicates the duty, can peacefully and harmoniously dispense with methods familiar and dear to us, which it cost us everything once to adhere to, and which it costs us now much to abandon. These are the principles we behold and ad mire in our church. For the defence of these we once more hang out our banners. WAR Our age is one in which the peaceful principles of the Christian religion are, to a considerable ex tent, disregarded and violated. The great mili tary nation of Europe, France, has found in Napo leon a competent and sympathizing head. Victory, supremacy, territorial extension, at the hazard or the actual cost of war, are the familiar ideas of that nation of soldiers, with its standing army of half.a-million of men, and its rapidly increasing , navy and system of sea-board fortifications. Hence, surrounding nations feel called upon in self defence to make similar preparations. 'Vo lunteers are undergoing drill, millions are voted for defence, journalists and reviewers are discuss ing military problems, and the minds, and ener gies of men are directed to warlike channels. True, there are phases in this military drama, as the expedition of Garibaldi, and the interven tion in Syria, which we cannot contemplate without having our feelings as republicans, or even as Christians, warmly enlisted. There are evils so deeply seated in the body politic, that a war of liberation with all- its horrors and abominations must be welcomed as a salutary relief. Humanity itself demands that the sword be drawn and held in terrar•em over the heads of brutal and outrageous tribes, or even used upon their person& 'But with all this, it must not be forgotten, that war in itself considered is utterly foreign to the spirit of the Gospel. The Christian cannot but deplore its existence, and pray earnestly for its utter cessation upon the earth. As one of the clearest and most melancholy results of the fall, he longs for its re moval. He wishes our earth to be purged of its enmities, its, inhumanities, its barbaric tendencies. He wishes 'man to be at peace with his fellow-man. For the culture of piety in the individual soul, for retirement and communion with God, the camp furnishes no suitable opportunity, and the warlike spirit is no congenial atmosphere. Such instances as Hcdley Vicars, Henry Havelock, and Col. Gar diner, are wonderful exception& The business of Christianity among men is one of peace. Build ing churches, carrying the word of life from house to house, sanctifying the Sabbath, sending the missionary band abroad to remote parts of the earth, are operations which call for peace, and which are intercepted and damaged by war, quite as much as any of the commercial interests of the world, while to the Christian they are far more precious. They belong to the civilization of the race, which thus is put in jeopardy and retarded. They form its high, essential, life-giving element, which is hence, emphatically opposed to war. There are, in fact, few expectations more de - ugh tful to the Christian, than that there shall be peace `on earth. Yes, from the midst of battle smoke, and confused noise of the warrior, he looks forward with joy and confidence to the prophetic era when swords shall be beaten into ploughshares, and spears into pruning hooks, when nation shall not lift up the sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. That time shall come to our convulsed and distracted world. The war trumpet's last note shall die away upon the air, the earth shall tremble for the last time beneath the rush of armed squadrons charging on the foe, the heavens shall be rent for the last time by the roar of cannon, and the' sea for the last time im purpled with the blood of her slain. For the last time the cold moon shall unveil her face and look down upon the horrors of yesterday's field of battle. Let us pray and labor for this happy consum mation.`'.4 let us keep our souls pure from the taint of wailike"tastes; let us reserve our military spirit for the service ofthe Prince of Peace ; let us rally around the standarctof, his kingdom, the ban ner of the cross; let us wield those weapons of warfare which are not carnal Ttirtiqghty through. God, to the pulling down of strongh4ls, casting down imaginations, and every high thior, that ex alteth itself against the knowledge of God, bringing into captivity every thought to the 'obediencwof Christ. Let us clothe ourselves in the complete armor of the Christian, let us in the service of our King, endure hardness as good soldiers, not en tangling ourselves with the affairs of this - life; let our ambition rise above the hero names of earth, to his, who, at the end could say "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of life which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day." THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN ALMA- NAC FOR 1861 This annual increases in value from year to year. it presents, in a portable and compen dious form, sufficient information upon the con dition and various operations of our church, to make it an important auxiliary in training the people to intelligent co-operation and sympathy as members of the same body. Besides, there are valuable ecclesiastical statistics of other bo dies and countries. Rendering good for evil, it presents a jester view of the American Tract Society, than their almanac does of us. Among the cuts are two of our churches, the First of Owego and the First of,Syracuse, in which the Assembly of 1.861 is to meet. We are glad also to see a place given to Tabor Chapel, one' of the most successsful city mission enterprises in our own or any church at the present time. We have no doubt of the success of the alma nac. Sessions should purchase it in quantities and distribute it among the people. For fifty copies oemore, the price is four emits each. A,uttritan grtolltterian and 6stntoet tgrangeliot, THE UTICA ORPHAN ASYLUM. PROFESSOR UPSON'S ADDRESS. We have been beeai deeply interested in the peru sal of this address, which, in very neat form, has been placed upon our table. The occasion which called,it forth was the laying of the cor ner-stone of the new structure for the 'Utica Asylum, May 30th, 1860. Professor Upson, who holds the chair of Rhetoric in Hamilton College, is not led astray, as one in his literary position might naturally be, into the generali ties of fine writing or lofty declamation, but consents to, perform the less distinguished part of "Old Mortality," in reviving the memories "especially of the excellent women who - were eon nected with the origin of the institution; and for the tenderness and affectionate diligence he has Shown in the work, he: deserved the best thanks of his hearers. It appears that, more than thirty years ago, three young children were left destitute orphans in what was then the village of Utica. Instead of turning them over to the existing institutions for the accommodation . of paupers, "a noble wo man," Mrs. Sophia Bagg, contrived to direct the industry of the ladies of the sewing-cirele to their support, following it up with the sugges tion of the founding of an asylum. This was the real beginning of the 'Utica Orphan Asylum. The proceeds of these ladies' industry with the needle and thimble,, accumulated in a fond, which reached the sum of $5,000, on the inte rest of which the Asylum was largely dependent for its relief'from embarrassment when other re sources were less abundant. Prof Upson ac cordingly proposes, that the coat of arms and seal of the Asylum be a thimble and needle. All this work was perform'ed, he says, in a most unobtrusive manner, the name of the charity not being found - in the most complete annals of the county published since its establishment Prof. Upson carefully brings to mind, a number of gifts from benevolent' men to the institution, including a legacy of MOSES BAGG, husband of the lady already named, a handsome present from a 'FIRE COXPANY in Utica, a legacy from Dr. SAMUEL HEAL, of,Syracuse,. of $2,500, and gifts from others whose names, from motives of _delicacy, are suppressed: Prof. Upson says: "Little children have, for this Asylum, made their first sacrifices. The,,teachers and scholars in the public- schools have more than once remembered this charity. And not children only, but the extremely old have here been blessed themselves in blessing other&" It Seems that Prof Upson himself performed a part in this work, which drew so many willing co-laborers, long before the date of his addres& He says: "Well do I remember, it used to be the custom for the boys, who belonged to the household where the so ciety,last met, to carry the huge basket which contained the work to the next place of meet ing. And if I may be allowed to speak froirt experience, the tug that one boy had in drag ging that basket, gives him, and gives all the boys who tagged with him, a right to `glorify' a little here to-day." But the immediate occasion of the ceremony of the day, was the princely bequest of ALFRED MUNSON, one of the self-made men of. Utica, left to the Asylum in. 1854,: amounting to $34,000, conditioned on the raising of $lO,OOO by the citi zens, the whole to be applied to the purchase of ground and the erection of a suitable build ing for the Asylum.. The _conditions were ful-t filled, and the work thus happily inaugurated on the day of the address. We have deemed it not inappropriate to introduce theie facts to the notice of our readers. They convey a lesson of great encourageinent to those who labor, as yet among the obscure beginnings of things.- They are a vindication of Ladies' Sewing Circles from the objections made against them by fault finding people. They illustrate the great re sults which, in the providence of God, may un expectedly grow from .husuble but pious endea vors. We would like to quote several para graphs of the closing portion of Prot Upson's address, but must content ourselves with the following: God be thanked that he has planted this Asy lum here—that so many of us,- in our'daily life, will be led past this spot. And what a splendid panorama sweeps around us here I Yonder is that valley with its river, mighty indeed- by its endless historic associations; just beyond the hills, so near that, in a tefracted light, they might almost be seen, are those we love to be lieve the most beautiful falls of water in the world; before us stands that grandest of the munificent charities of our State, which, by its position, we are permitted to call our own ; and moving to the left, yonder on the distant bills, rises a place of learning where, through one of its leadiag departments of education, your be , - neficence, on all public occasions, shall forever continue 'to speak; and just behind us here, more sacred than-'all, lies in quiet beauty the place of rest of those we love, the rest for all of us at last. And now,, here, we are about to place a memorial that shall be a pearl in this circlet df emeralds, a pearl less costly and more pure, less brilliant but more attractive, unob trusive, and therefore beautiful, and in the-spi rit which it inspires, like that "pearl of, great price," it shall be a fit Central glory of this matchless siene—a memorial of the past, a per petual incentive for the future. I must believe that ."ministering spirits" are here; that the noble-hearted woman who founded this charity in prayer and labor is at this mo ment here; that the generous benefactor whose name in his life was an earnest of the success of any thing he undertook, strengthens us today;. 4t the fathers and the mothers, and the grand pe,,ents of some of us are looking down upon us dcWl, Let us consecrate this building to their memory I Let us. baptize it with their love! Let us, Christians all, of every name, unite in devoting it forever to the glory of Je sus Christ an 4 his cross , TRZVRIZE 330 °K. Letters have bef addressed to the Secretary of the Presbyterian }Wootton Committee, Phi ladelphia, asking whether i manuscripts sent in competition for the prize done hundred dollars, offered by a friend of tbeCommittee for a book for the Sabbath School, The returned, if un successful—and also whethop one book only-will be accepted? , To these inquiries we wornreply, that un successful manuscripts mill I considered the property of the writers, and heat their dis ii posal; and, should the Conwittee desire to publish more than one of the •',. i nscripts•(as it is probable they may) they will imrimnicate with the author, • , , THE SOUTHERN' PRESS ' c. RUN. Our discussion with this paper, invited by it self, and engaged in with no eagernetlibu our part, has recently elicited from it the'follO 'I +g remark: We wish our contemporary ilistine . to under stand we did not intend to sneer at.' e prayers of our New School brethren in our be.. lf. There is some inkling of , remorse e Elea , in these words, and we accept them as well-iutentioned. .., We may regard them as marking `a progress on the part of some of our Old School brethren, to wards a hearty. recognition of 'the worth of the prayers of the ¶'New School" in their behalf, which will be fully, developed. a considerable pe riod, we hope, before the ;millenium. We are happy to believe,linweier, that - Soine . of our bre thren have advancleA f further in that direction than the mere cold disisiowel of contempt alcove quoted. MR. DORMAN'S EXAMINATION We have certainly no desire to magnify, and .. take no pleasure indexhibiting the..evidences of the remissness of °dr Congregational - brethren, in ' guarding the ortho4 ox pulpits of New-England, i from the entrance 5 Lf gross and dangerous doctri nal errors. But askreliable chroniclers of grave movements in the eligions world, we feel bound iito lay before our rea ers such definite and uncon= tradicted statements of' marked instances of this remissness, as the folkiwing account of .111 - r. Dor man's Examinatione . frOta a participant; who communicates it to f.4e Boston Congregationalist. It is calculated to fill.ekery friend 'of truth, and I every lover of the triA welfare of the New England 1 Churches, with deep egret and anxiety. Surely the ancient standard4earers of orthodoxy in that region must be losi k their serises, - to consent to ordain a man to the ,igh office of the;ministry, upon the totally in, ,t • ate and empty pretexts - given below. The d - !Pi— saye l ..., ...... During the early I) rt of the 4gemination, Mr. Dorman appeared tole Ally Well; during the latter 'k t, part, far otherwise. le many of the leading ques tions, his answers v*e very equivocal, certainly "non-Committal." I remember distinctly the ques tions I put to him, ana his answers thereto, almost word for word.. I will give them in Substance, and nearly verbatim, iiithout the quotation marks. What is election?.•Anativer.—l suppose God's choosing some. Why. does God .choose some? Answer.---I cannot- tell. I sometimes lean to the opinion that God cheeses some for reasons best known to hiniself, and sometimes I lean to the opinion that God, chothes whom He does because He foresees that they will =repent and believe in Christ; and, therefore He elects, them. I read the article in the o . Confession of Faith" of the church in Manchester, on election, and asked the candidate hovi he would expound it in a sermon, should his people request him to preach on this doctrine. Answer.—t , don't knovr; lam study ing the Bible to find got.. With regard to proba tion,, . I asked him, do you, or do you 1104 believe . that the probation of, all men ends at death? Answer.—l cannot tell. God will giVe all men a fair chance. Faith in Christ is necessary to sal vatiUn. There may he some, I sometimes think, who, not hating a sufficient knowledge of .Christ in this world, will have - un offer of pardon after death: lam not' satisfied on this subject. About it I have my doubts. - Rdon't know that :any to whom I may ever preach- in this land, will be among the number of those who have another chance after- death... ',asked, On what texts do you ground the belief of,a probation,for any, after death? Answer. --"4 manner of sin and bias phemy shall' be forgiven unto men; but the bias phemy.against the Holy Ghost shall not be for given unto men," &c. The license to preach, given to him, by (I think) the Third Presbytery of New York, which specifies that he, in his examination by that body, assented to the "Confession of-Faith,' was read, when the Moderator asked him, Do you now believe as you did at the time this license was given to you? Answer.—l don't know but I do. Do you believe, in' the main, in the Assembly's Catechism? An swe.r.-1' don't know. I don't know much about the Catechism. With regarclto the " Perseverance of the Saints," thecandidate was equivocal, unde termined in his answers.' 'All through the exami nation, the candidate w&s, ittielmect to many lead ing, fundamental 'doctrThes, Thus indefinite in his statements; seldom answering a question definitely, distinctly. • • With the great dissatisfaction with Mt. Dor man's doctrinal views, it.was . believed that Mr. Dorman must be areal Qhfistian, and might be come sound, while a refusaUto - settle Mr. Dorman might be the occasion of a rupture among the peo ple, as, they would, most likely, either call another council, or get him into 'the ministry as their pas tor in some other way; and so it was considered expedient by a majority of the council to ordain and install him. The Moderator, (Rev. Dr. Hawes,) gave the Charge to the Pastor, after the Ordaining Prayer, in which, at the outset, he frankly told, Mr. Dor man that the council httd manydifficulties i 'and were not satisfied with his views on some points, while he was believed to ; be a goodonan; he then entreated him to be rooted in "the faith once de livered to the saints." I may say, that in the council that ordained Mr. Dorman, there were ineruof the New Maven and East Windsor Schools of Pivinity, and between them, there was no diversity Of opinion, touching the examination of Mr. tforman. „ THE LATE DR. HOUGHTON. Our deceased colleag* was a graduate of the University of Vermont, ,His name and facts con nected with his history, appear in the carefully prepared necrology of, that institution, for the year which .has closed. We copy from the report of the commencement Troceedings in the Virmont Chronicle. REV• DANIEL CLAY• HOUGHTON, •D. D., of the Class of 1840, died in Philadelphia, July Bth, in the 46th year of his age. Dr. Houghton was ,a native of Lyndon, in this State. During his mi nority he learned the printer's trade under, Dr. Luther. Jewett, of St. Johnsbury, and was fitted for college at Bradford, Vt. After he graduated he taught a few years in Western New York, and then entered the ministry in connection .with the Methodist Episcopal Clireh. If not the erigina ter, he was one of the earliest and most active in struments in founding 'and endowing Genesee College in 'Jima, N. Y., T iein g most of the funds by his own efforts. He wasoffered the Presidency in this College, but declined it and accepted the Professorship of Moral and Intellectual Philoso phy, at the same time acting as Financial Agent. He subsequently transferred his church relation ship from the. Methodist to the Presbyterian church, and was appointed Editor of the Genesee Evangelist. When this was united with the Ame rican Presbyterian at . Philadelphia, he became the responsible Editor - of the united papers. He was an excellent scholar, and a man of great energy and power. "OUR' QUARTERLY." Under this title the Central Christian Herald, the organ of our church id Cincinnati, cordially wel comes the late-admirable number of the Presbyte rian Quarterly Review. We cannot forbear quoting its appreciative and spontaneous notice, both of the Review and of our friendtr. Wallace, the editor. The Review is gaining rapidly in thp estimation of our own journals and of the exponents of opinion in•and out 'of the Church. ' - - OUR QUARTERLY Number Thirty-three of The Presbyterian Quar terly Review, is on our table. For eight years . our indefatigable brotber,Reir. B. J. Wallace, has per severed amid many discodragernents, and now, by patient continuance, hard work, and the blessink of dod, is enabled to enter upon the 'ninth volume of the works it is _time that his labors in this, de partment were• mere„ highly appreciated, tied the, cireulation of the RevieW made more general in our Church. Dr. Wallace has special qualifica tions for this deparment of labor. He is clear headed—can see through a sophism at a glance. He writes with a sharp pen, and uses no pale ink, so that the reader always knows what he means. He is independent, energetic, and warmly attached to his Church. Hence, what ho regards as right, for the good of theChurah and tlieglorYof God, he asserts and maintains, with great fearlessness and force, and , what he regards as wrong and in jurious, he handles- without gloves. His - Book Notices have been particularly candid and able. His own articles on the history, principles, and mission of our church, have been bold, vigorone, and just.. We do not agree with Dr. Wallace in all his views respecting Church Extension; 'hence we take the greater pleasure in expressing our mind freely as to the merits and claims of his Re 'view. It is the only publication of the kind which has any sympathy for us as a church, is aCredit to us, and ought to be more liberally sustained' by COMMENCEMENT AT. TALE ;COLLEGE. Newburg, N. Y., August 24, 1860. As the details of -this anniversary-have been given in various forms to the public, let me record, „ froth my recollections, simply the spirit of the occasion. Wednesday morning was severely warm, but by 9 o'clock, A. M., Alumni Hall - wascrowded with the sons of old Yale, the warmth within, though of a more invigorating charadter, corre sponding with the temperature without PeL ah P• t, Ea.., t' . ' : 1 ' =' 780 , called to the chair i .. s.taitlO-st_Atsta...l:o_Bln) ewey, the only unstirred T name of the class of 1787, graduating 73 yeais agol Our attention was first and justly occupied with some eulogistic notices, gracefully pronounced, on the late Professor Goodrich, which, we believe, were received with a serious and grateful impres SiOn. The class of 1810 was present, in strength; not indeed of numbers, but of character and expressed thought. With what interest we listened to every word that fell from old Governor Ellsworth! "The battle of life," he said with trembling voice and lip, "the battle of life had been fought by himself and his classmates, for weal or wo;" intimating that, even on the part of the survivors, the great result of their existence was already decided by "those who had advineed so far on, the journey of life." And how earnestly, but without ostentation, and with an utterance redolent of the unspeakable satisfaction with which, he rejoiced, did he declare his Christian hope, as undmibtedly well founded and vahiable beyond all price. And it thrilled Other hearts with impressions of new confidence in the Divine System, to hear the earnest and al most triumphant testimony of those who had ob served and experienced so much of what the world could do, whether to bestow satisfactory good, or blast the expectation of a better world. The eulogy he pronounced upon his classniates, deceased and living, was moving, by reason.of its evident truth fulness and the warm and affectionate spirit that gave it' life; whilst his sense of honor was evinced by his earnest hope that the'class of 1810 had not disgraced their Aline Mater. Prof. S. F. B. Morse, of the same class, was re ceived with applause, and his remarks, delivered with some timidity, were listened to with appre . dation. THE JUNG: : AND WHO SEtALI, COME A.FTER . HIM? • When the class of 1820 was named, President Woolsey was called forth, and'his appearance hailed with flattering applause; and we remarked, with gratification, that as often throughout-the exercises as the President's name was brought . before an audience, it' was greeted - with such prompt and warm welcome as indicated a strong and living popUlarity. In his brief remarks, he valiantly declared . that =he did not feel old and did not mean to, but expected, by a good Providence, to labor 'long in behalf of the valued interests committed to his care. Dr. Bacon, of the same class, pleaded to some confusion of thought when unexpectedly called for, an assertion that was met by a-friendly smile of unbelief. "And who," he said, "shall come after the king?" ;'He paid graceful compli ments to the king, and did not hesitate to declare that he did feel old, giving us the impression that he felt like a soldier somewhat wearied with the strife and battered by the blows; but if good wishes will effect it, for many years yet will he continue the warfare. .To the call upon youtiger classes, President Fisher and Rev. Dr. Butler responded. The latter let off in a lively, small-beer fashion; indeed the graphic description of the : bottle pop ping out its cork, and• sending ferth Much froth, and leaving but little sweet substantial sediment, formed his acknowledged basis Of remarks. He "revie"wed and recalled Freshman experience in a highly felicitous manner, dolefully regretting the lost taste of the molaises hogsheada rolled out in old.times upon Long Wharf, and bravely singing his pavans over Sophomore persecutions; whilst, for the triumphant effect of his sportive address,'we had the good-natured, laughing countenance of Rev.' Dr. E. T. F., as a sure index, directly oppo site. The representative of the classs of 1857, who this year take their A.. M.'s, though the youngest, crowed the loudest, and went off in * a patriarchal strain, upon wives and children, giving us hope that the patrons of old Yale were not in the way of dying out. . TELE ORATIONS OF DR. SPRAGUE. AND BUDGE T13.04A§. After this real flow- of soul, a procession was formed to the Centre Church, to hear the winding up address, delivered by Dr. Sprague- to the Alumni. The oration was an amiable, but doubt fess not an unju.stgloritcation'of Yale's Presidents and Instructors, given forth in "a full, broad, glow ing, genial style, that enlisted every ear, and se cured gratified attention to the close. • The oration of Judge Thomas before the Phi Beta Kappa, on Wednesday night; was certainly a masterpiece: It was delivered freshly and with out the appearance of manuscript; but the pleasing manner formed only the golden gates for a tri umphant procession of sturdy, substantial and timely thought, wonderfully enlivened and embel lished by natural, appropriate, playful, and effect ive figure. The topic of the oration, was "Reserved Forces," intellectual and moral, designed to work the-same effect upon the, human mind, in making moral and intellectual demonstrations, as the pre sence of-some reliable Imperial Gnard, as a body of reserve, would have'upon the mind of a general in time .of battle, whose ready strength he may detach to' every weakened point, and from whose assured prowess he gains that anticipation of vic tory, which enables him to - turn the last even balanced scale to final success. GRADUATING ORATIONS. Thursday was, of course, the high day, about which all the other exercises cluster, though, we think, the more matured productions of older ora tors and soholars.tend, unfairly to throw into the shade, even the most creditable performances of the, graduatino speakers. The exercises of Com. men cement Day were 'prosecuted without coofusion or delay of any kind, the various "ascendats" sue ceeding each other readily and gracefully, and, as fir as witnessed by the writer, At young orators relenting themselves and deliverrag with com-: Mendable self-possession and elocutio‘The sub jects chosen were substantial and seasonble, and were treated with an unusual amount of grave.; thought,ti the almost total absence, from the . writer's observation, of the playful and the lighter!' efforts of wit, raillery or satire: THE FATHERS OF GRADUATING SONS A pleasing feature of 'this Commencement, and one that enlisted the . friendhr sympathy of those acquainted with the fact, was the number of fa thers present to `witness: the gra( among whom we observedthe Rev of Nev. York, Rev. Dr. P. F , Rev,. J. M. Davis,' of Philadelpi .HoW . different to them was the e( 1860 from all others! 'With who from those of ordinary spectators the young, manly'forms of their . and: took their places Olt the stage, .Igin career of life, and with hearts strung to different emotions, thry listened to the first words and :watched each gesture of the body and outbreak of the soul: Not that these sons were better or more preeionsi intrinsically, than others, but they were their sons, whilst the tie of nature and association bound them-together, and;gave tut one_pAsation_ of that crowning and eventful day; and as each well performed his part we feltcongratulating, not so much the pal pable performers, as those who looked upon them with such absorbing interest. Nor is such partial concern a form of selfishness; it only prepares the generous hearted parent to extend a warm appre ciation towards every youth, as be measures, the value of others by the large love he gives to, those within the reach and demonstration of his own peculiar fondness We cannot but reflect how in calculable would be the loss to society and the world; were those who minister in holy.things not first taught hy the l'arge weights and measures of 'household experience, to understand and value the sacredness of family affections , that from their own parental life, they might 'transfer their esteem and love to others, and labor to save souls that Must be as precious to some others as their sons and daughters are to themselves. Yea, from such reflections we may gather fresh impressions of the love of 'God to man; of His special fondness to wards His people; who, as a father pitieth his children, pities them that fear him who spares them as'a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Of all the commencement exercises, not, the least engaging and enjoyable are found in those little intervals outside the halls, as the-proces sion is being formed, or the dinner waited for, when friends gather in little groups, or walk thtough the mass, to meet here and there the friendly face and the ready hand; the whole crowd, as by constant turning and greeting, it is kept in motion, presenting a continuous dis solving view, till, as the last exercise is finished, and, the last hOur of the social evening is struck, each one goes forth again his own way, but with his mind changed and his heart happily bur dened; to persevere in, each duty of life, in pre paration of.a meeting that shall know no end 1. „W. W. F. EDITOR'S TABLE. A 6 AND PAMPHLETS: THE DEATH THREATENED TO ADAM, with its bearings on the annihilation'of the wicked. By'l. Newton Brown, D. I?. Philadelphia , Smith, English & Co. 16mo. 29 pp. This is a seasonable and very able, discussion: of a question which of Late has acquired great fill portance. We would wish for the more extensive usefulness of the missive that it had been couched in a less formal, and more popular style; other wise little is left to be wished for, in the thorough 13CM and ability _with which this part of the sub ject is handled. THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY'S ALMANAC. Boston, 1861. This is a. creditable production, differing but little from the similar Work of the New York. Society; one or two - artiCles on Slavery and a hideous picture of the crowded deck of a slave-ship being the new features. - At least we find the Boston statement (dour benevolent oper ations a facsimile, in error and defect, of the New York exhibit. If our members feel any interest_ in knowing what our own' church is doing, even in the most general way, let them 'patronize the issue of our Publication Committee. LADIES' HOME MAGazrwE.—Edited, by. T. S. Arthur. and . Virginia F. Townsend. Phials., T. S. Arthur - & Co., 323Wainut st. Vol 13,N0. 3. September, 1860. The LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. CC.K. V . July, 1660. American Edition. No. LW. No. I. Contents: Art. I. The - Missing Link and the London Poor. 2. , Joseph Sealiger. 8. Work men's Earnings and Savings. 4. The Cape and South Africa. 5. Ary Seheffer. 6. Stonehenge. 7., Darwin's. Origin of Species. 8. The Conser vative Reaction. 1 The foreaving concise enumeration of the con tents of the present number is more convincing thAn any labored commentary we. might write, of the value of review literature. It is a fair specimen of the variety , which characterizes every number of the series of re-publication of which this forms a part. Questions in Politics, Sopial and Political Economy, Theology, The Pine Arts, and Education, which can only be superficially touched upon in the newspaper press, here under go that calm consideration and, discussion best calculated to ensure the formation of as.correct judgment, and to elicit the truth. Reflecting faithfully the impress of passing events upon the minds of the thinking men of the day, these Reviews form an invaluable' Companion to the Newspaper. The newspaper has barely , time, to record the transactions of the day; the review notes the principles at work, and holds aloft the lamp of reason, and experience. .In the present, disturbed, state of the world, these publications are deserving of eminent attention; and the dif ferent principles represented by each Review afford the seeder an invaluable means of comparison. Each number is complete and consistent withit ; to self. and is, therefore, far preferable any cow _ pilation -from various sources which unites letero geneous articles and, combines inconsistent views. The present number we obserie commences :a volume, as also does Blackwood' s M agaz i ne , for July, and we believe one or .two of the others, thus rendering the present a desirable moment to commence subscriptions., Price of one Review,,s3 a3nar. Price of the four Revivra, $B. -"Blackwood? and ,the four Reviews, SUL - • CASSELLIS POPULAR - NiaIIRAL HISTORY.-- Part, 7. Hares and- Rabbit's, London and• New York. Published. by Cassell, Niter - and•Galpiti Park Buildings, -81 yark Row,.N. 13, LACK:WOOD: I S EDINEURG MAGAZINE.—No. DX August, 1860:-American Edition. Vol.-II No. 2:. New Yorki`Pnblished by Leonard Scott & Co., for sale in-Philada. by W. P. Zieber. Contents: National Defences, ind Volunteers.-- Lord Macaulay and z Dundee. The Pursuit of Venda Tepee. The great Earthquake at Lisbon. Norman gyp. ficlair,/ Tait i 7 Wycliffe and the lauguenoW'VerninVOtto Vadis. The Transition State of aarJnAlian,Alllgre• THE EDINBURG - R.rnEW. — No. CCXXVII. July, 1860. American edition Vol. LIIL, No. I. New York.! 'Leonard Scott & Co., 79 Fulton W. B. Zieber,Thils4,, Contents of No. krt. 1, Cheiplierian :the probable fall in the A' Gold.- 2. Diaries and-Pmespondenee •ge Rose. ' D'HausSonville's Union of and Lorraine. 4. Sir R. Murchison's reological Discoveries. Z. The' Patrimony Peter. "6. 1)r. Vaughan's Revolutions in History.- .7. Mrs. Grotes; Memoir of Sheffer. , 8. Prince Dolgormilcow on Russia and Serf Emancipation.. 9.- Correspondence of Humboldt, and Varnhagen- von Ense. IQ. M. Thiers' Seventeenth Volume. 11. Cardinal Mai's Edition of. the Vatican Codes_-:12. Secret Voting and Parliarnmitary ReforM; - - THE AMEILIC4H THEOLOGrA.L 4EVIEW.- August, 1860. New York. iind• Boston; New York : J. N. Sherwood. Beston: Moore, Munroe & Co:- Contents of No:. , vit.': T.:Essays and Reviews. Art. L President - Willard's Body of Divinity. By Rev. J. P. Stestps,, P.. .Newark, N. J. 11. Jansenism and the Jansenists. ,By Rev. Lyman Providence,. , jut. 'En g lish Lexi cography. By Prof. Francis. A.; Marsh, Easton, Pa. IV. Moses and 'the 'Geologists. By Rev. W. Barrows, Beading, :Mass. ~V; :The . Spiritual in Man the proper 'Object iof*".Ptilpit Address. By Rev. N G. Clark, profesier - in'OM :University of Vermont VI. Natural History. By Pro fessor Chester' Y. VII. Kurtz's Church. History:— 4ty, Jtev. Henry Baird, Prof. in New York-University. t 11. Theo logical and Literary Intelligeace. Literary and Critical notice& of Book& , IV. Newu of the Churches and of-Mission& THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.---DeVoted to - Lite rature, Art, and Polities.- Septetriber,l.Sfto. Bos ton : Ticknor & thiiiiember is "Something about iristory. The writer re garde Motley as the 'head" f his : profession. .-Hume and Gibben c receivelia just censure, though Prescott, Macaulay, Bancroft, come in for their share of depreciation. also. "A Day, with the Dead," is an unseemly interweaving ofianir i t hful with solemn topics, to say' nothing orikilings at orthodox views' of the - Scriptures. Indeed, this number of •the Atlantic iSmore than usually cha racterized -bilhielt: hbatility. Dr. Holmes in the __ProfessWs ' story,- exhibits his chronic aversion to ,the doctrine of total'depravity, while the book critic 'goei out of his way in his notice of the Autotiography of -Lediein order to take the part; not in Uitiolli'af nien"Of genius who, like tirns haie been, uilty of gross errors and vices, as of the errors and vices themselves. He is 'very much annoyedhtttthe stirplikririg°:revelations of the moral delinquencied of great' men brought to 'light in diaries, remains, 'end correspondence, published „by indiSererit friends: - tines not want his hero-worship - disturbed: v."Ahin is some :times 'but a thwarted and misdirented Virtue." It is spity, and indeed, iniltitr judgment; we have nolbusiness to Intaw the vile . habits-rif Burns, and the opium eating habits of Coleridge; and De Quineey, and its ,pretty plainly intimated that their'genius makes amends for their delinquencies, and that theystand well-before - God, notivithstand =ing them. All this a notice of a character 'remarkably free Of Such= faults; • "Culture" is a noticeable article. Written by H.W. Emerson for the pages of =the:Bostori Monthly, it -is to be re garded as thelast, - and most per:feet resift of spe crtlation -on the great humanitairianhobby. Many admirable remarks - are made,hut what a dead fly iii_theuintmentis thisi.said of-balls, wine-parties _and -billiards, "a free - admission.% to, them on an equal ifooting, if it were possible - (to a poor boy) only once or twice, would be worth ten times its cost, bpundeceiving him." Emerson does not think it enough that our ~ f irst parents ate of the tree of knowledge of good and ,evil;--we must be ,encouraged, to do- it, for=our own personal satis faction and" inlightennient Againit the shallow wisdom of all the Solaris of the ancient, or the medern 4theiy, we would put, the _challenge of Solomon: " Can a man take, live coals in his bosom and not be burnt?" This journal, we are pained to - believe, is in the hands of a clique who cannot : possibly restrain their profound hostiliky to evangelical truth from frequent expression. _ We warn our readers against introducing it into their families. MENEM SELMA:ION & Co., New York, design issuing in eight crown Bvo. - volumes, successively, at'the rate-of-one a month, the valuable work of Dean Mihnatylatin Christianity; 'lt- is to• be at -the establishment stereotyped s well-known of Houghton & Co., Riveri3ide Press, Cam bridge, a sufficienquarantewof the artistie beauty of the Work. - It will be commended October Ist. NORTH BROAD STREET ORITROH. The services 'of this church will..hereafter be held in the Commissioners' Hall coiner of 13th and Spring Garden Streets, commencing next Sabbath. The hours of service are 10i in the morning, arid 71 in the eyenincr. DAREAgetii.-4 cormspon eta ote Lo ndon Mmes' under date'Cfic es, 'o follows The Christians who remained in the city were still in a most 'critical position', and dttrst not, at the peril of their lives,.evea for•Mximment quit, the shelter they bad obtained. • The greater number were either in the Rritish Consolate,or int , Abd-el-Kader's house. At the latter place there are said to be several hundreds of persons,. who were with, great difficulty obtaining the means of subsistenCe, to such degree, indeed, as to be under idifinnent riak of itethal starvation. `'Mt Brant the Consul,' haiin his own house, and tVith'ldin s ,'among otliefs, - a 'Missionary, Mr. Robson, And his wife, - the.Anstrian,CoAul, and a large number of native Christians. • .• - There had been over fottr hundred arrests at Da mascus of persons ; implicated in ,the late horrible massacres. Immediate trial was . had of all culprits, , lmmediate trial • and those found 'guilty were speedily executed. The city was tranquil, _and the`authority of the Sultan un der the effect of rigorous measures, was again return Collections itt Now York.--A. little over five thousand one hatnlreildollars havebeen collected for the relief of our' unfortunatebrethren in Syria• It will tiefoiwarded' by the Adriaiii: - , •. G0DE1 4 13,,..15 2 --.-Ecitttd_by _Mrs. a . iiale. a. LXI. September,-1860. LATEST PROM 'bulA Aug. 34'0,
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