GENESEE. EVANGELIST.—WhoIe No. 750. r ottreg, ' • For the American 'Presbyterian. FOR THE HIGHER LIFE.. Bound to God by holy ties, Kelp me from the earth•to rise, • • Leaving all its sin and dross— Clinging to a Saviour'S cross. , Aid me in the life beim, Aid me till my work is clone s For I feel the strength of lust, Feel the power of this dust.- ' Humble me,. 0 God! I ask, Tear away each blinding mask; May Ise° my heart, within, See and rescue it from sin; And temptation—l would flee, All the might that's lodged in thee, And would trample on thee still— 'Tie my Father's holy will. Do Z yet ke idols bow? - Conneenth , - - And remove thwtatntrthinki That to death Toyama would bring. Teach me all s,bn:finloit. gives; How the quoting servant Lodge the truth withia my. breast, That the Father !mowed' beat. And may I each day attain holler life than yet has been,. Drinking deeper of the love Christ is sending from ' above. THE GOLDEN YEAR. BY ALFRED TENNYSON. We sleep and wake and Sleep, but all thills mote; The sun flies forward to his brother-sun,; . . The dark earth follow', wheeled in her ellipse; And human things, returning on themielves, Move onward, leading up the gold e n year. Aid though the times when some new thotight mitt bid, Are but atv poet's seasons when they flower, ' Yet seas that daily gain upon the shore, • • Have ebb and flow conditioning their marithi And slow end sure conies up the golden year.. When wealth no more•shall rutin mPundedlinaPsi But, emit with freer light, shall slowly melt in many streams, to fatten 'fairer lands, And light shall spread, and man be liker man, Through all the seasons of the golden year, Shall eagles 'not be eagles? wrens ba'wkins? Wall the world were falcons, what of . that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle. Happy days, 801 l onwards leading up the golden part. Fly, happy, happy sails, and hearths Press, Fly, happy with the mission of the Crow; Knit land to land, and, hlowing lieeveam4rB,, With silks, and fruits, and apices„, clear of toil, "Enrich the markets of the gOldea year. But we grow old. Ah I when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the lead ' And like a lane of beams tithwfait fire~see r Vlsrdrigh all the circle df the golden ear -;, ovossgonitsnts. For the American Freebyterran. vtIMPLOTED.TAIANT INFIE *bit- MENUS. EDITORS.—For thirty years or more, I have been paying some attention to the wo'rking of most of the. Evangelical Churches, and among others the Preetyterian, and believe there is more edueated Christian mind, especially in the Elder ship of said church, but little used for the cause of Milk, than in any other. I btrve known sonic elders, very intelligent, upright men, who acted as though they thought all their duties consisted in iieeting the session, and handing the elements of the Lord's Supper; and, when everything suited, to go to Presbytery, bid, take no part, Cr - very little in what was done. They did nothing snore to cause any one to know they , held the office. Perhaps one cause of thiti.isoxrme of oar church do not look upon the eldership as an office of work, but of honor; and one member wants his friend placed in it, and another his; little considering the influences these appointments will have for good or evil. And perhaps another cause is the influence the above class of elders have exerted upon others elected after them. These last may feel they are not doing their duty, but they do not like to innovate upon the custom of the church and the practice of the older elders, who are esteemed as wise, prudent, and good men. Hence in many cases, like the arm that is not used, they become almost useless, and in turn become hinderances to others. • And in some cases, perhaps the duties' of the office have not been fully understood; when the person has been ordained. I think it would be well in most cases for the pastor to explain them fully, and require a clear promise that they will be performed—or attempted,—and look to- God for strength to' do so. Another, and' I think a very frequent cause is, a fear that we cannot pray or say a few words as well as others. I would have all men modest, and unassuming —but it is not presumption to attempt to dis charge a duty after we have used all the help we can to prepare ourselves for it. And it is one Of the kind arrangements of our Heerlen!, Father, that when we are in the path Of duty we are not forsaken, but strengthened for it. In general the church is not suffering for the want of ability in the eldership, but the want of a willingness to use and cultivate its talent.. Perhaps I may give ion 'an aceouht - of Vie:la bors of some faithful, humble, 'warm hearted elders. Mr. Uditor, if your ready pan would take this subject up in a few short articles in a number of your papers I think you would do ; good. • .; TRREE-84j9fiE! For the American Presbyterian. ARE THE WICKED ETERNALLY PN- By theiwielted wet mean the finally impenitent. It is conceded by all believers in future rewetds and punishments, that without regeneration no man's heart can become other then what it already, is—vile. And further, that vvithout , regeneration salvation is impossible, and regeneration impossi ble without repentance. What, ,weask, can rege nerate a lost soul? Can any amount or &ration of punishment effect it? If so, then4elvation, kr a future state of existence is= passible , without. the atonement" of Christ; and lost maw may,ineaftle,J finally, to elevate himself to tee right- hand of God the Father, irrespective and independent 4f the Son of God. But regeneration is the ad of thediolyGhost. - . " Except a man be born of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdoaref and." - Jelin iii. 5. The E J, H NISILE.D 1 Spirit alone can accomplish thiiwonderful change in the heart. The Holy Ghostfisnlwaysrequisite to salvation. "Except—a man be bornfrom above he cannot see the kingdom of God." It is clear, then, that no amount or duration of punishment can. change the heart or regenerate the lost soul of man. Is it anywhere asserted or intimated-in the Holy Scriptures, that Christ is or ever will be of, fered as a Saviour. to Jost o anis jn the eternal world? We answer etinfitletp, No I then, no amount or duration of .punishment can change the, heart or regenetate to soul; and Christ is not offered as a Saviour to lost soulstin the eter nal world, lost man must remain forever lost, as he will be forever vile. This view of the case accords with the declara tion of the apostle John after- the vision of the judgment, and . the casting of . the wicked into-the lake of fire which is filthy lei him be:fillixr still.", Rev. Ami.ll. , rad puidehes_zierr' fortheir vileness, their filthiness; and as they remain forever vile, forever filthy, they will be, consequently, forever punished. "But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abomi nable, and murderers, and whoremon'trerq and sor cerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shalt have their part in, the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." Rev. xxi. 8. These are vile charactert, and for .theievile ness are Tarnished with the second doeth; -from which God has not given, in all. the •Scripture of divine truth s the remotest hint of -a resnrraction i or change of state and .condition. The only re surrection 'spoken of respecting the wicked is that found - in John's Gospel, r. 28, 29,-h The hour is coming in the -Which alt that ;are in their graves shall hear his voice, and dome forth,—they that have done evil unto the resurrection of daintiation." This &initiation is the 'second death, .and their final condition. it is evident: that they who ale cast into the lake of fire, bare altogether Limy from God, and: of such it is deelared impossible , to retteW them again unto' repentance. Now God also pinishes men for their iinpenitencY; and as it is' declared itopossible'to renew .thant, unto. repent -twee Oa have totally rejected Christ; they must neeessarilyever remain in =an unregenerate s'state ) fOr withetti repentance -regeneration is impassible, and must for.ever receive the due rewhrds of their evil deeds.- The moral agency -of 'man.in the eternal world remains unehauged.. Man left to' himaelf in this *mid -Weald , ever teutinne a depraved character% and the , inetay of Get. itithout pOwer or desire to ;change hi* heart ; or:regenerate his soul, with= Mit any natural relish: for 'divine thingsihe would ehioo evil Instead of good i and greatly prefer his own service to the Service- of tod;: rebellion , t.') ettlithissieti -E von' und e r the ;Gospel , ilispensation, the obstinacy of matt islrequently sneh, that the totabilzed power of the Faiher; Son and' Holy Ghost all fill to cifeet a change in /Us heart, to the salvation "of his soul. if, then, under such 'favor 's -bid cirotailitanoes, and , agebist -audi.peuterfal la qtte eileraal Nvorld :front - itirtkitign still not fearful progresalu!sib, when the infittentea of the "Father, Son and' Holy ghost are alt4ithdralin. 13116 if itlwere 'otherwise, ne greater-power could 'be -- brought to bear Upon Man in the eternal world than' in this, and as they resiat the whole-power of the Gbdhead here, so they would successfully ' , resist it in that world. "It is impossible'to renew there again - unto repentance." Reb. 6:- There is ficrother sactifiee in this world fit sins Than Christ, whom impenitent men reject ,-; and 'to sacrifice will ever- be 'offered the eternal world for` slit. i/ There reMaineth More Sacri fice for sins " " • ' i rci No amount or duration of pit , niShrilent 'in hell can regenerate the'"saul of -road. Without regeneration salvaiitin ia inipossible: The Holy Ghciat alone eau regdnerit6 the Simi Christ is not offered as a Saviour to lost spins in'the eter nal world: Where Christ`is not 'offered as a Se *four dui Holy Spirit is 'not cotiniunicated, hen& there is no regeneration to lost souls : Clod punishes men for'their riteneas. As lost souls ever remain is air'inre i generate state, they will be forever vile, and therefore fortver punished. God punishes men for their impenitency. The Scriptures assure us it IS ImPOsaille in renew their unto 'repentance who' and' tooally reject Christ as a Saviour. Lost souls do .this. The Gospel to thetrils ever a savor of death unto death. Therefore asibey ever remain in a state of in3pe nitency, they mtst; ever endure punishment. Man left to Itimielf vile', impenitent, unreconciled, lost The futall,y impenitent are-thus left to them selves, and therefore eternally Jost. B. PROGRESS OF OKRIST'S KINGDOM ABROAD. The space we 'usually devdelo'thitidepartinent, of news is altogether inadequaiii' to a proper rep resentation of the iuterestiii,g'aild iMportant'moie meats now taking place abroad. We desire to present' in this article such facts as have recently, come underour wide°, but which the constantly crowded state of our news colaten threatens to delay until their fre'sli - ess is quite worn off, or until others, of ,Ocitial; intereit :demand notice Commencing with Wet give an , abstract , of .the narrative of the State'df Religioh, presented- to' the last General Pte;ian Church, by , Y. ~It gives bout as .011:4r l and ...octopi:ohm/sive a sumniary, of the results of the re vival in that country as can be found. • - The great change wrought within the year was exhibited. kinder . .sortie direct and seine indirect 'aspects. The t neglect of 'family prayer had been ‘'nlivnis bewailed;•= now it is universal; one minis ter states, "that there is hardly to be' found throughout his congregation u single family - in Which:this sertrice is not daily and duly performed, add a Presbytery reports that over `its 'entire field family ':worship is the rule,, Whereas'it 'he'd been hitherto the eieeptiob." Social prayer was:rare; there , :vierefew to engageiti-iar fewer still Itirpray With warmth 'and faith. Now, "over extensive districts there are few: townlands in which a weekbe , prayer meeting is `niit held. , One Presby, 4ery. has, within . its boudds one 'hundred and itOority meetings for prayer every vteek.ln another Predictery , there is an average of six to each congregatipn; previously there had not been six in the whole I'resbytery. In a single Congre- , gatitin of andtbee Presbytery there are seventy p f ka l the spirit of prayer is nehly. Iniutit4b. PHILADELPIIIA, TIIUR, poured out on young and old, rnaleLaud female." The attendance on public worship has been in creased beyond expectation „in .some cases doubled and trebled; the worshippers are reverent, eager, and susceptible. The Word of God has beconie -precious to very many, and its, eirculatior been unprecedented.. - Vhe sacraments hay( greatly blessed ) and within thl year so tn; 1,00, 180,150, 200, , 250, and even 800, been added to the ocuarnunicants in various gregations. Tersons who had been for without communiiiii? have come forward bah. Session, confessed their sin, and sought adml Sabbath-schools have been wonderfully enl; and the thin ranks of the teachers filled up. eldeistates that nine or ten members'of hit have given , evidentnof a reWange of -In some places the :children have Comm; fatuity worship. ;Itamorality in 'every fort gren, been . cultivalTa — with the 417:714 - iims Protestant Church. The missionary eon tions have hiereased above twenty-ftire per Snell 'ard Some' of the 'results' in July gathered, from. Synods; Presbyteries, and single congregations, and autharitadvely presented to the issemply. ENGLAND It is almost-impossible to keep pace with the activity, zeal, and ingenuity of the noble-Minded Christians of this country, and especially of the metropolis, in their multiplied labors for the salva tion of the neglected and semi-heathen part of the population. We hear of •the Bishop of London preaching in'the open air:in one of the Most un civilized portions of the outskirts otthe"mettopo lis. Female Bible-readers are visiting the fami lies of the same degraded class at their homes, and teaching the -women industry, cleanliness, and piety. Young WOmen's Asibeiiiticms - are formed to protect arid lead' in the way of wisdem the numerous exposed females of the metropolis. Midnight meetings .for the recovery .of the out coat and fallen, am 'ermined. with the Divine blessing, and with great success. Special efforts are made in behalf of classes under peenlir disacl vantages--respecially the ,Cabmen. And as to re vivals, in:the speeifie sense;of the word, the Lon don correspondent of the Scottish, Guardian states that at Upper Clagton the spirit, of realre 'iral his been largely:poured out in ebrinectinn with h' large Independent congregation, ribose pastor-recently returned from Dublin and Kinds town, Ireland, full of earnestness and zeal. Pro bably 'from five to six hundred persons remain for United prayer after the evening service on each Mid's day. Prayer iS'ollered:by any one who is moved thereto', and' the stipplidatilms afiree - inarked by brevity, definiteness, <and fervor. ;There are, moreover, cottage Prayer4neetings, aenduetedThy poorer 'brethren; who have direct ivies.; to their neighbors, and , also family prayer-meetings, whore members of different households, but who are con nected by: blodd,uneet together' to pray for the trho. are undecided, :There are. els() young men's Vinyer.anectings.: on Saturday dvenings, and - a pruyerimeeting of yduth, (originating with and managed by themselves) on : the morning of the Lord's day. Die evidences of conviction in, mime, ,and: of a. :real changer of leartin others, are mani fest. • The. state of -religion in this vast -country is `deeply interesting: The efforts of Evangelical ChristiMaS arriong the Romish population are meet ing-with an encoumging -degree of success. The Methodist Conference held, if we remember rightly, ,at iNismes, very recently, gave evidence of great -progress, particularly in religious ,esltteation. It was decided by the Conference, to, found .a theolo gical,school, at LauSanne,Switzerlandi to be under !the direction of Rev. J; &cart. A trial of vast importance to Protestantistn was finished recently, in the Court of Cessation, the highest French -judicial -tribunal. • It resulted from '4 l l 2 P1)9 0 . 1 ,, made by the.itinerant teachers of the Zltange,lic#l Aociety, whose, schools in 'Haute Vienne had been suppressed because they were Attended by Botuanists, butwho continued t,heir labors•by.teaching from house to house. N. Jus nel,.one of the teachers employed by the SocietY, ( whose school was in the number of those sup. pressed,) received at his own house the ehildren of several families in turn,, taking those of one family et one hour, and of another family at an. other, and so op, thus giving instructions without epening ,a school." Nevertheless, he was tried and convicted by the tribunal of Bellac, and' tlie. Imperial,Court of L4ftoges, successively, on charge of opening a school without the required authori zation. He was condemned to a fine, and ordered to stop teaching = appeal was Made to the Court _Cessation which reversed of ' the deeision of the ,inferior judicatories, , and declared that a 'teacher, who gives .lessons to children of the same family, whether in the house of their parents or in his own, gives private instruction, and there fore does not need, previous enthorization; This gives the, teachers of the. Evangelical Society . • security in : their, work which ; they had, not ously enjoyed. Indeed, the number 'of :children .now reached by their instrumentality is greater _ than when they were permitted to, gather them into schools. Itev,. John Bost, a Protestant minister, has. established institute in La Force, for the re ception of the deaf and dumb, the blind, incura ble sufferers, and idiots, whiph has LIM& a pro found' impression upon the community. It has secured fur him the first prize for "'virtue" of I s 3,000 francs, awarded by the French Institute. This, in_. a Itotuisli country; where the effort is diligently made to represent Protestantism as im moral in its tendencies, and the doctrine of justifi cation by faith as ignoring good works, is : one, of the signs of the times. The Romish Prefect of Dordrogne, the district in which the asylum is situated urgently petitioned for, this swami and M. Itenitisat, a liberal Roman &belie advocate • ~presented t it to him, in the presence, of the elite, df Parisian society. At a meeting held in Paris on the Bth of May, behalf of this, institution, presided over and addressed by Dl. Guizot Mr. Bost, stated that the s;va•no•elical Family which forms part Obis arrange- Monts was then training ninety orphan daughters of Protestants; Bethesda, was affordinc, shelter to fifty eight` Mind, , , deaf and .dninh, and otherwise incurably affected girls. &roam receives boys.in a corresponding condition. X debt of almost 0,000 rested on these two departments. FRANCE OTHER EURO In Sweden, a. mare been ,wrought. - A con the Churches says:, di -- Lts;. Aare, by order of government; used by the Walde.n sian pastor, M. Ribef, r Protestant tiorship, had to be closed, permission lms bCen `given ;,not only for re-opening it, but f 'building a church, if the Waldensians desire it. I°PdrmisSion has also been granted, after long`" d ty; to an Eno-lish lady, to establish a Protestant khool for Italian aids in rlorenee. Otlidr items ntriews columns. TRICENTENARY 0, ON, TUE ,LEONINO "OF THE SCOT The Rer..Professor this topic. He said : 0 writings of the late D Lift' th - e mistakes and. nsh off the calumnies of Hume and other previ :aarithers, and might well have been thoughtiut eat to make a renewal of such Mistakes and calu Pies imposaible. But. we , see the old .tnisreprese teetiens , reproduced in our own time;: and it is -a .duty to, expose, and repel them by a fresh exhibidea of, historic truth. ~.lf it.were only romancers, tt ee —whether in, poetry or prose—that put foreard - such caricatures, we might allow their ilip 4 beiee to pass unnoticed without serious contra t tetiou; bet the case ia 'dif ferent when such in urions ,mierepresentations proceed from authors o claim the ehafactecand credit of annalists an literary intikaarians,.and Who would reserktit as an affrenethat their,bnaks of history should be ranked With works of romance. It is in the followings - )ethat.Mr-Robert Cham bers expresses his opinion of, our Reformers, in the introduction to his 1' Domestic Annals Of Scot land," recently published :-L-"The forty-six Men Who : met at the first General Agiembly, and drew from the'Seriptures,thefCenfession of Faith, which they handed down as ftereotyped _truth ,to after generations, were ever` • netotthem not more fully persuaded of the soun p.a . pi any one of the doe: 4 diet Confessi than trinestheyWere of the re 7 lift'of sorcery, and fe SkenneliCenot more truly called upon by the *hie to reprets idolatry thatt . . - Ateperniek.keitaik-__ nest, and, meaning I'i:e 11 ...J0 God and men : ,but they were Men of the" 17th century—ignorant and rough in many of theirtray's:" - "No one in ''those *days ha& any generaP-etkneeptions regarding the processes of nattire: They eaw7the-grass - grow arid their :liellocks feed, and; ;thought ; no, ; it." "The °cod plant of knowledge pot yet being,cul tivated, its weed-precursor, snperetition, largely prevailed: Bearded Men 'believed - that a TeW 'ant lered 'Words could 'take away and give` back the reilk , of their-cattle:" "we shall find them' (i. e., the Reformers) incapable of imagining s conscien -4,4ms dissent,.much leas of, allowine. for and rat. 'specting it. We must be ;prepared td see them, - while, reptuliatirig one set of 00i-it:Wong Merits titions upon the original- siniple Gaspe], working it out on their Ova partin crceds i covenants, and Church institutions,generally,,full of mere human loeic and device but yet assumed.to be as true as if a divine Voice.. had spoken And 'framed them, 'breathing war and' persecution tiniarde - all‘other systems, and, practically operating =as a' tyranny, only,somewhat less ferwidable: than that which .had been nut away." Such:accusation ' s ; are in the highest witrycbffe:psive,,when laid against Men, Who were amongst tie-most learned and , enlight 'ened of their age andmitiontind not only high : ly culture&and.civilized themselves in all things essential to true and Manly civility, but whp were the martyrs of, knowl dee the fountains of light to a whole nation, an the propa,gators of civilize lian ifithiebecilhig age . ' The tha which w sis whiae are i t ' prepared to maintain. lad substantiate in ' °prig , t d lima to Mr: Chembersun all who think with him is, that our Reformers were ; not a knot of ignorant I and superstitious zbali ts, but were rueu of learn ing as well as pietY-= en of edlightened views as iiwell as good inteutio s; and that their claim to be so regarded is 'no/ invalidated by any of the imperfections'which ere c'eunon f to. them with the whole of Europe n,that age, and. which Mr. Chambers has brought so .invidiously into view, to their specinl-disaff antage. tot; ,lee first mon :t. tion some facts in illitrition of iheir learning-- meaning by that ternt not the old scholastic learn ing which still kept its I - noting in, most of; the schools and universities of the kingdom,but whet was called in 'that day "the . new learnmg,'' in , chiding both elatsics and Biblical'erudition, the revived knowledge OthaliteratUre bf Greece and Rome, and of the eiriginal, languages cf.:the Holy ' SeriPw. Yge- both of atris and Louvain, !all , Alex ander Allan deseribe"O' an - a man of exiilleht learning, who'sies-fortkinishing.allSephistry from the schools; and rentah`rigiphilosophy to its sources, i. e., to the originallritings of Aristotle and Pla to, as distinguished tiore y eereept, achelasticised and barbarize& translations: 4 4.11 an hiniaelt was a man tedistinguished- atta merits . : Broughton in the, scholastic discipline uner_ ! Jahn Major, in St. , Andrew's, theiiarro and :' torny paths (if - Whiehl ' he' xchanged for tit open' fields of the 7i tei•ie lhu-• ' Maniores in the• ectiepls of.Witteniberg, where he studied,Greek .undetf Melftectlien i Ilehre,w, under Aurogallus, and the. dements , of medical, and other seienee.under other professore. In 1535 he was" made Dean - of the )F.cultY,of Arts ettWittembertg , In 1536 he was ,ma e King's .Solkolar;..by. tJeerY VIII., and Reader in Theology at Cambridge,, where, he gave the, t: example of reading expo sitery lectures upon, hcHethrew Bible., ,14 1541 ,hpkwas, made Prof.. 'pr of Theplegy in the, Re- formed `University t Frankforten-theOler,. and i:e 144 -3 ' lie *tittt en , tinted to , a similar chair in, the. University ef L , peke , . , lielwas,te eepioue. au-. 'n thor besides, and in ll his writings may be traeed, the same union ef so tol learning . with prowl thee limy,. of classical yi it ,So riptural z allusien, arid f it- Jpstratioe,,fer whipthe i worke,e,f . 4 11 the ,great Protestant theolog . ns of the sixteenth c entury. eo ~.distMguis, t ed. kis fellow-exiles, , john kAlpine and Johni.,„Faith _o4,the Same merits. They were both . seholatly diyincej„andlhotli exer- . ,eised their gifts in posts-of t high dietincliebi—the _one as a Professor 0 the University of Cepeelia-,. gen, and the other, fisn Professor at Erankfortem-, the-Oder. The woks of t,lteee three,eminent ex , iles takeu ;? , tegelher. ould Amine; copelderable col; lection. Thane!' Jag.neglected , and n ' 1 y maireewn, tbe.,y,are till, to be Amid rseattered,he the great libraries a Denmark au & Germerhy,i ; and,: .W-bNug4tt together PO, r Crlb,ljeliejirre's'49/ I PY di AY, SEPTENIBER 27,1860. COUNTRIES. noes work of grace has s,pondent of the Hews of us gwecies it seems inju- other ance of rr Yet .•- CT!, iniitful e K 1 .- MEE 'ness of pauses, ne and of e the Re immade ly upon went' of gone to iltbe found in our inside THE .SCOTTISH. RE- Ttem.' • D ENLIGHTENED VIEWS REFORMERS.''''ST Miner, of London, fipoke on this subject the.adruir*able t'Crin did' much to'rec:- them deserve to. bq-7they would swell, to an' ho norable' balk the literainre'of the fathers of our Refermed Church. George Wishart 'was - the first' Seotehman- who taught Greek in any of the gram mar schools.of 'the kingdom, and :wits-long remem- . . bered with gratitude by the community which he . served in. that capacity as." The Schoolmaister Of John' WilloCk; eoadjntor of Kriox,_ was a man of' eminent gifts aritrattainirients. He - had been long in England.,-.-closely associated with the scholars and divines of King Edward's reign, arid.; had ;probably been Ottel instrneters7of the accomplished Lady JaneGyey; for lie was do mestic chaplain to her father, the pulte„of Suffolk. His knowledge of men and things must"have been much beyond the iequireintitte - of his own theokr: gieal 'prefessiorq for at one-tithe:we-find him . not ing,as:physioian to the:Du'ehess of East Friesland i . and at another servingas.her . enveynnd for with the Scottish Court on matters of interne-- i 'tiOnal trade. ThaillOtable Man, JOhn'tilleek . tia:Knex admiringly calls him, in equal .appreeial:, ..tiomaLldn.. , graee.and gifts and wealthy of know-, Tedge.pliseett was - John Jpho Row, the , first reformedrinOterof7fortkr! Man who had spent many yeareof his life in the schocili of Italy, had Mingled with the Most lished society of Rome, and had. added to the paratively slender stock of .knowledge which-,die had , been able to acquire ,in the.uniVersities of is Own country, an exact iteoiviedge of Latin ' Greek; llehrew, and the languagee of-.Frauee.arid "Perhaps some Of our literati,"; says M'Crie; "who entertain such a diminatiie idea of the,taste and 'learning of those times, might have been taken by. surprise had they been set doWn at' the table of one of our Scottish' Reformers, surrounded with a :eirele of his children, and plipils.When the conversation was carried on . In .. French, and the Chapter. of the Bible` at worship was read bythe boys in French, Latin, Greek, and IlehreW.. l'erhaps they might haveblushed if the book had been put into their bands, and they hid been re quired toperform a part of •, the exereiseS. Such, hoWever,, was the cominon practice in the house of jOhn.Row . ." . NOr Was .linex himself without a respectable Share of all the true learning of . hie time, though learning was not his most&6llspibliqu gift, .nor. the main Weapon which he employed tO fight and to win the greet battle of his life. Let, it be remenThered that he woi . applaudedd gent in,Fhilosophy in St. Andrew's, before hebel carnet preaeltere 7 that he learned Greek after he lid reached tuithirelife—that he .applied Inaiself to 4ehrew during his continental exile,'' and bad some entrance therein for which he had long had fervent. thirst,". though till then he had,lielted op portunity—that- it was . by the. - study 'of _Jerome and Al,lgOstini that, he got his:hist inkling of a i more excellent way than, that:n which'his early teaehers had instructed hit... Ee l -id that it was Occa sionally by an , appeal to the early Fathers of the Church—both Greek andhis fariode s. First Blast of the ; Trumpet against the Mon; straits Regiment of .Woraen sought to strengthen his positione and vindicate his opinions, It, is impossible also to read the, earliest documents pf the Church of Which he was.the Chief fotinder; partieularlyi the First Book of: Discipline, which Was mainly dr6in "up by his ow hiied ? witheni, perceiving : how high. was-the appreciation and ;Ira; lue Whith he had for all sound and wholeatime knowledge; both sacred , and profane; and how li beral agd ardent were his ,desirea that the interests Of learning should be .promoted side . by,sideWitlf those of truereligion, Finally,: need I you of the part which` . wits - tjtken and.. ltiiStorian-:-George- Buchanan, one. .of. the greatest wits of ~ege which was everywhere fruitful-in great, wits, the darling of scholars, tb !•fioetari/Si, steel:di prirtheps,'" "ortig S i edtled tantiow. oftnium. ;in.ysna gleatmOViniumjaditio'catistitutuni.":l3..tehanan' return Scotland, seen after the Refornaptio Was carried through, was an event, hailed Will jciy and delight by the yontig clinich,' which showed . hoW well :able Men Who had been aline niated.as ignorant and rOugh , in many: f their way •Nvete to appreciate: his -genius and enjoy ;a. elety. ",That notable man" (Mr. George Buck nan„),.Says Knox, remains alive to this day, i the'yeat Of G0.d'15 . 56. years, to - the!glery 'of . to the great hotter of this nation; and' to the 'eat' fort of them that' delight-in letters 'andvirtue., Is.it pot now surprising that of such men es thee . such language should be need as that uponwhie I. which`am now animadverting? men, and of an ag . Prodneed such men, and'inndrethi'lik theta; it should be Said 'that 'the. geed `plat t' 7knowledge,was;not , yet cultivated:? If that was a, age,dark whet.are . we to think, of the darkness . those ,that preceded ~it ?--and . how .vastly mor• brilliant than any thing. we ever imagined ,befer• Must' he the illinnitiatien brit'oWn,' when in ` , coinpatison with-it the a g e' hich predated Era. wus, and Melancthon, and Calvin, and Buthana rand all. innumerable disciples anti admirer;, was an age of blindness and auperstition, of roughs rand i. 4 noranti3? - , The learned Professor then •went on to show the enlightened and liberal views of the 'Reformers on the important topics of the day—government education, litcrature- 7 -and concluded with hoping that something would be don 6 by the meeting in reference to .the republication "of some of the most interesting works of the fathers of our church." , IN EVERY THING GIVE THANKS. Grateful love is the vital element of true piety. Conscious of utter moral weakness and unworthi ness we flee to• Christ. In his wonderful conde 'scen'sion and 'his great atoning work, he is to us 4 . the chiefest aauoug tea thousand, the one alto iether lovely." We-cast:ourselves into hisearms .with a thankfulness which no weds can. express. 0, . our hoyeisin Eyerymtment, and. for 'everi 144811 . 1g\ we are dependent Upon him "tie redeemeth our life from destiliction, Ile crOwneth ns *with "ioving-kiiidneas and, tender mercies." Not a breath we \ breathe; mat a .beating of the pulse, but testifies anew to the fulnessand . the freeness of ,his grace, -Hence every utterance of thelips, eyeiy i thotight of the heart, should i go hearibg beivenirard the incense gratitude. Failing to give. thanks Continually; tve !become aliens and apostates. Said a -man who had—been saved by another from a cruel death,—s" Sir, I shall remember you :with .gratitude" 6 , 14'4 mobile& thittliiie, for I.oiye all nay moments no.wlto you. Every drop of blood ic my, body thanks you: Should not the Chris tian have this, feeling in a still higher sense to wards Mira" 'NVYthoiet him we would' be prison ers of despair.''' By o'er sins'we had forfeited life and all its blessings:. , We hathu6more claim upon God than the murderer inthe condemned, cell has upon the Govertißent whose laws he, has violated. To that Murderer a : pardon is as life from the dehil. 'Lei' him go out and breathe agaiiitheifirand hi& again in the , sunshine, and be Owes a debt of gra ztitude,which, can, nexerbe repaid. . But if, after beiug\instly,:cmidemutd-and freely forgiven, be should complain of the Government because,it did not confer on him wealth or ;honor, should envy hie. neighbor's, and spend his time in murmuring, he•uokmetit theconiemPt;of.itilinaen Suchis-theitasetf Gliristian who is ever dis satisfied "and ,compiaicjag.,' .14. e lies received a pearl of great. price,--a pearl i lvhich makes him 'Atli:note eve,riadting life; ailil instead of priiing it atid'reloicink irrit; he' envies"every poor earth worm around bim. -"lenge for every bascand worthless pehble.. lie, thinks that' God,*who has given him so much, might to tumor ; him in regard. to every whim—ouaht to •arapel. all Lis wind, lusts--ought to treat him aaa foolish parent treats an only child. - This spirit of ingratitude, Whether in the form of coMplaining, or of restless longings, is a sad defect, we bad 'almost said a fatal defect, in much of the piety of our day. The age, -with its fever ish activity, has invaded the church, and God's children—his heirs—have, ceased to be content with such things as they have,. believing that he will never' leaVe them nor 'foriake them. They haVe become "careful and troubled, about many things," they have lost their enthusiastic love for .the Saviour, and that ecstatic hope and joy in him which gave to primitive piety. its peculiar and. re sistless charm. We must dome back to the spirit of the apostle, who could glory in afflictions, and rejoice in dis tresses,and persecutions; who could sing, the praise of,God in dungeons, and "in .every thing give thanks" Then will the men of this generation, sin-sick and sad, be'attracted by our lives and con versation to Christ then will 'He—manifested as "the desire of: nations"—the rest for the weary all wen unto him. RULING ELDER IN MERcErt. sTREET CIIIIRCIt, N. T. There are mew among us who die, and, with the exception, of the few who are, nearest to them, none notice that they are gone. 'There are others, whose death is Mourned ostentatiously, of whom the imPeis'ate full of obituary praise, and funeral orations. are 'crowded • with • eulogy, but whose absence in reality leaves no vofilin the world. But there are again others, sometimes men of public position, more often men of inconspicuous influence; whose death is a clear lois to the world, Who are cloitig servicesto the public that no other one can do, or who are ;representing , great princi ples or who are living such:lives of purity and well-doing and, truth, that society seems poorer and, more ignoble when they are gone. When such Men die,' the whole community feel it, even if they do not 'speak of it. Seats are vacant which are not easily filled; duties have to be undertaken by unaccustomed hands; words of wisdom are wanting in deliberations which could not easily o'without them, and afire of faith seems quenched, from which' many lit their feeble flames. The truestaimuiners for such are riot perhaps the crowds: of, friends who follow the. funeral, or the clerical orator who pronounces the honest enlogy, but they are some poor, heart-broken widow, who was gladdened by the voice of pity which is now hushed to her, or some deserted orphan child sup ported and guided - by the hand now cold; they are the:poor and the houseleis arid the abandoned, whom the departed invited to his feast, and who recompense him with gushing tears now. LOnely poverty. is more lonesome, DOW he is gone; the burdens of the unfortunate heavier, the pang of the forsaken keener, that one friend• is called away, Perchance there are many in miserable tenement-houses ' .in, cellars and, garrets, whose wretched lives have been glorified by the. Chris tian faith they - learned of him, and who now look forward with unshaken confidence to meeting him beyond. Such deaths; in one aspect• are indeed: of dead loss out, of the world. i;-• Such aloss, _we ‘ couraelyes have had the pain of Knowing, ,ita.that thp late Judge Mason ;. and ihnald. - not venture now to add to the many fe4line: itotice.i'atfliaelith, but that: we have had especial• opfoorturrityief - knowing him intimately for • eight years, in his relations to the .poorer a34 . the s tit yar s tA r- ta . aw.e-firfatsa-sWi3kr4lt";4 l3 . himlhe foundingof the Avenue-I) Boys' Meetirigf and scion after he; with 'several other gentlemen, crganized-thn Children's Aid Society, of which he has been the President ,till his. death:: The • ; The peculiar and marked thing • about his efforts in this direction was the amount of time and pa tie.nt attention he beatevied upon them. It is well. known that there in plenty of prominent gentlemen who are ready to give their names to the trusteeship, of-benevolent societies, but, who are resolute to do no work; and there are others who, confiding' in their executive officers, look into mattere.occasionally, but seldom make a con scientious duty of thoroughly examining the affairs' of• the society, and still less bring them selves into personal contact with the poor objects who ,are their beneficiaries. - With Judge ,Masort, it was 'a matter of con scienee its put his name to nothing Which he did not know thoroughly about, and, above all, it was a. *pleasure to shim to have. to do with the poor. His Sundays, with the exception, of the morning service, were frequently given up front nine `n'clOck in the morning till'five and sometimes till nine o'clock in the evening, to religious instruc tion of poor children. In the week, his legal practice---especially the hearing of referee cases —occupied' most of his days, but his evenings' again were in large part devoted to matters con nected with the.benevolent society of.which lie; was' President. •He 'visited the schools; under its 'charge; 'examined' the letters constantly coming in from the hundreds of children over the coun try; held his faruiliarmeetings for the street-boys; called himself on the poor er met them in the . office and searched closely into all the buds and accountiof the Association, never letting aeything piss which he did not clearly understand. There was something in his manner or tone of thought, -when :we.first knew him, which led us to fear that, he would- be too conservative in opi nion and too hard for this labor among the, poor, - but When we saw his eyes overflowing at the tales of sorrow from Some of our wretched boys; When we found how uniformly his feelings leanectni the side of pity, and ;generosity, and .bow- broad and liberal his Christian practice was, we felt we bad done him great injustice. Ye rs had brotight in "theirtrue harvest with h rn, n t of bigotry or lirdneas, but of broader charity, =More compre hensive thought,‘and riper wisdom. There never seemed tows a clearer illnstratiou than, in him of the object i inthe quistian ppint of. vieve,of the most thoreugh busineset' and legal training. It was all laid by him, with the 'most devout bawl lity, at the feet of 'the lowest and poorest of his fellow -creatures In the benevolent wed ;religious enterprises—for the two in this instance were one —in which he had part, he did m,:hat.no other coUld'einctly do;' he contribirted to them 'and to thP , poor the fruiis of hislife-long discipline—his -acuteness,- his caution, his .self-control, 'hisreli sions principle—in a word, his ratactrms. . There is something so admirable in true Wisdom—that Weight of years, that habit of looking at many "aide:d, that care,. that • experience, that calmness, that-freedom - from frothy enthusiasm, and their that solid force of a Man i deep.gettled in his con . . , How, vastly it looms up over the nervous exci tability, and cheap sensationism of the day! "The Spur and• prompter of all Mr. Mason's ;labors for hntuanity, was the religions principle. He felt—not uttered--butacen that inasmuch as Christ had died for him, he had. died that hence forth he should not live unto himself, 'but for &hers: All that he did was nothing to him'; he - himself Would' . he 'Most Of 'all 'ashamed at - this simple notice of his unpretending, .service; he thought only, of ,Christ and his love. tehim.a.nd his sacrifice for - him. We do not pretend to give in these few words tefull or keurate estimate of Judge Wason..;Y, We' speak only here - for those. we do kbosvi-Who Pat riot speak—the poor, the bereaVeda the orphan, ,the tempted, the liouseless,whohave known him, ,who have been kindled in Christian 'hope by him • and who love him still. ' kethharice, in that mysterions life,' his 'eye. looks'down on the feeble ancl %find efforts of•love ..done here for humanity's .sake and in C4rist's dear name, and he is perMitted to 'see the fir-off CenTrirelinstilifirewd. THE LATE JUDGE iIASON. VOL. s.—Whole No. 222. glorious conclusion, through all the clouds and gloom and darkness of earth. May his spirit be with those Who remain! Charles 1.. Brace in the Independent. "I never"—said an eminent living preacher to us once in conversation--"I never allow my self to think of a sermon as an end. It is a mere toot. What's the use of a man's grinding and. polishing his axe all day long, without once ren3ern-' bering, that it was made to cut? Then spreading the palm of one hand, and tracing lines upon it with the forefinger of the other, he continued-- "When an engraver is at work on 'a steel plate— though he reaches out his hand now after a tool for a fine line, then after a tool for a coarse one —he keeps his eye alWays on the work; What does he care..for the .tools? When I came to B-.--- I had three hundred sermons, not one of which : I could preach over; they were so full of local allusions to thasins and wants of my people in I—, where.l preached them'first." — Metre' areprehably fejelitstoraWlio have closed the first decade of their ministry without coming to something like the same conclusion. But, to every new graduate from the theological semina ry, for two or three years this "labor tlmm"-- this, incessant trimming and furbishing of every sermon—seems as unavoidable a disease as the measles to every child. We met with a pale, ca daverous looking young pastor the other day whom this very disease—arravated by the midnight larnp—is bringing swiftly to his grave. - The evils of all this are legion. It consumes in, mere literary labor time that might be more profitably spent in pastoral labor from house to house. It absorbs so mach of physical and mental strength in shaping the instrument, that little is left with which to wield it afterward. It tempts to the selection of general themes, rather than those specially adapted to the local wants of the people to be addressetl. The young pastor is in his first parish, and has before' him constantly the possibility of removal to some new field. It becomes 'a matter of interest with him not . to accu mulate three hundred sermons which he can never use again. The danger is therefore (and we have known it to pass from a danger into a fact) that he will mould his discourse with an eye to the second use of it, which will inevitably half or quite spoil it for both. But what then? Where is the remedy? Must one abandon all, intellectual toil or a.spira tion, furnish no beaten oil for the sanctuary, anti lose the respect of his hearers? By no means. But we believe the remedy lies largely in elabe rating the thoughts rather than the style. Of one thing every young preacher may rest assured, viz.: that if he be a growing man intel• lectually, he cannot write a sermon the style of which will:satisfy him a few years hence. As he expects to carry forward his body into the future, though the fashion of his ,raiment will be ever changing, so: he [mist be Apntent to preserve the body—the, substance—or his sermon, while the Mere drapery of the style shall vary with his varyine' t' and improving taste. Let him then ponder well his plan, accumu lating and organizing a mass of thought and vivid illustration which will well bear the process of re writing. This accomplished, let him write-some what rapidly 'arid without tedious elaboration. The amount of matter thus previously prepared, will save his discourse from feebleness, the ardor of .rapid composition will redeem his style from languor, and the whole work will, at the end of tfiree or four years;, _be found "or ihatimparibly greater value than if his ehief toil hi - d been given to'tlie mere Construction of the sentences: Boston Congregationalist. DODDREDOE'S LETTER. TO *TRADESMAN SEEKING You urge me to send you some directions upon the management of your studies. "Let us remember, my dear friend, that we are to place our point of life, not in an attempt to know or doevery thing, which' will certainly be as unsuccessful as it is extravagant, but in a care 'to do:that well Which Providence has asaigned us in our peculiar sphere. .As I am a minister, I could not answer it to dod or my own conscience, if I were to spend a great deal of time in studying the deptiaS of the law, or in the more entertaining though'` less useful pursuit- of 'a nice criticism of classical writers. . I would not be entirely a stran ger; to thesuthings. and there are twenty others I would just look into, although each of them alone, or . indeed any single branch of either, might be the employment of a muel loner life'than I•ean in'iaa ts ine Providence has assigned to me, - Should I antrer my few sheep in the wilderness to go ,astray,,in an ignorance of their . Bible and in a ,stupid neglect of their eternal Salvation, while I was too busy to reclaim them, Gee wouldnall it but laborious idleness, and I must give up my ac .count'with shame and.cotifusion. "-The thought, ,myfrieed„may be applied, with a very little variation,, Wyatt. It is in the capa city of a tradesman that yon are to serve your fa `ntily.and eonntry, and, in -them, your God; and therefore, although I would not have so finn'a ge nius discouraged froth entertaining itself with the refined pleasures of, a student, yet it; would, be imprudence towards yourself and an injury to the world to spend so much time in your closet as to neglect yOur warpouse, and te'be so much taken up with volumes of philosephy, history; poetry, or 'divinity, as to :forget to leak ;into your ledger. But - above all, sir, let it be your . constant concern that study ,may not interfere with devotion, nor engross that valuable time'which should be con ' sentated to the immediate service of your - God. God is the Father of our spirits, and it is upon - this sacred influence that they depend for an im provement in Inewledge as well as in holiness. are-abandoned by Him, our gerthis will flag, and all our thonghts 'Weenie languid and confused, ; and it Will be in vain that we seek the assiatance of - books : 'for when He ceases to act by their, the theist sprightly writers; will appear dull, the most perspicuous obscure, and the most judi cious trilling; whereas, if we entertain a continu al-regard to Him in the constant excise of lively 'devotion; we' shall engeore bis assistance and bless ing in our studies, and-then our success will quickly, appear , to ourselves and to others;• the most difficult task will be easy, and we shall de spatch more in an heur than we could otherwise have done in 'a day. "But, what is still more desirable,. when we are conversing With God we are pteparing for that world ;of light where put capacity will be most gloriously improved; where we. shall be surrounded by the wisest, and best Society, Who will be open ing daily -- new 'scenes of knowledge, and where God will reveal fresh objects by a more directin fluence upon our spirits than any which we have hitherto known in our brightest or serenest mo ments.'-`,714,48 :be diligent and zealous in the ser vice of our God, and we shall be excellent scholars a thousand gears hence; while those who have made the greatest improvement in human know ledge, living in the neglect of God, are forgotten, or rather,'are consigned to the gloom of everlast ing darkness. Aet us remember that by every hour which we unduly take from God to give to our hooks, we forfeit some degree of future pinesS, whiefrlnight have been the reward of that hour .had we spent it aright. And when we con sider that knowledge is a•part of the happiness of heaven, we shall certainly find that, in the long run, we lose _a great deal more than we gain by such sa•Crileoious encroachinents, even though our stiudreS 'should succeed much more prosperously than *e ihave:reason to'expect." ' THE USE OF A SERMON. THE WISE STUDENT ADVICE AS TO THE TRAINING OF. HIS MIND.
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