GENESES : .'O:OI.O.FILIST-'t4r,lo6._'Np:,-.7:45 .~~~~~ ~~~x~ Selected for the American - PTA/Nth.' H an . SACRAMENTAL RUN. We come with joyful hearts to•day, For Christ, our Friend, is near; " * 44- We oast our griefs and fears away, . ' ll ' . For lot our :Help is here. Here, in Hie love end promise stored, Are comforts 'rieh arid' sweet;' Here, in his tluternintitit,imd l ivord, Our Saviour we blamed. Now, fear tudjeocitti to:joykive place, Now, are our sorrows o'pr--- Since Gdd'hittlimidtpus, histrocie, His obildrerreverniore.• • Oh I rich the,gifta . thou brrngest us, Thyself made poor and weak _;;. Oh I late beyond compare, that thus Oan - foce and sinners eekl We raise on high. s.iladsome vOloe For this, to Thee alone, • Apd evermake with thanks 'stole*) ; 'Bator° thy ghorious.thiope. :,l'oi . ;ttopotfottet. • 'tor' the Ameildatk'Preabkierittai. COLPORTEITE CONIAPITION. lIN -11 TIO41. Utica, October 1860. Moons. Enrrouis:-4 have handy attended `+►. series of meetbigs in this city * a brief account of which may be*Of - interest to patty readers. Ton muybenivarelliat ReV. Glen WoOd; triet Secretary of the 'Ainericati Tract 'Society` :tor the North-west, his been temporarily en ,gaged for that SoeletYAuriutthe present sea , }eons in western New:liiik. For the sake df ittiniiing'acghaintance WO the eolportenrs hbring in this statp, and kiso of instructing and - encouraging them in ,their self-denying work, at his suggestion, two colporteur conventions haie 'been held—one' in :Sugust, at Batavia, and one the past week in , this city. This lastlit was my, privilege to 'swede • , vital COLPORTNITREL The sessions wore held in the Chapel of the First :Presbyterian Church; which was , kindly furnished for their acoomthodation; and con tinued from'Friday &ion to Monday night. The convention. was coMposed of nlneteen..colpor-, tears, laborin'g the'eastern and central coun ties of the State, of two of the secretaries, and four. Other officers of the Ameriaan Tritat' So ciety. The colporteurs were a body of simple-. hearted, sincere, earnest, intelligent, Christian , men, of sound judgment and practical common 'sense, familiar with the Wile, strong in faith and 'prayer, and. with an :engrossing desire, to labor for Christ ~a nd the -salvation (A souls. They were Men Of mature years, their average age being otter'fifty years, And were also of ad 4rtinded Christian, experience,,the average time of their professio n of religion being about thirty years., .Anotber fact of interest, illustrating the benefit andipromised result s of religious' domes tievilyting, was; that seventeen aflhe nineteen #oldien etfr pions, preying - ma*. That h.men with such 4unlifications , animated by , ,snob; spirit, and with the facilities' offered them < ,by the American Tract Society for the circula tion of its publications, should be able to -se wouitittih mudh for the glory of Chtist, Might • -lhalte been expected. The results of their la , shore, di they were , referred to with humility but 'With gratitude, cheered and encouraged every heart. THEIII. WALD. They all felt that, even in .the heart of the Empire State, there was a wide field and press ing call for Jura such labor among multitudes of perishing sculs in the highways and hedges, who were reached by no other agency. One stated that when he commenced his labors, six teen years ago, one family in eight had not a whole copy of the 'Bible, and one six were destitute. of religious books; he ionad many fa milies with not 'a page cifprinted 'matter of any kind iu their houses. Others reported fa milies who had never heard of Christ, and were., I ignorant of prayer and religious duties; they bad found' multitudes of children Who first fleard OrtheSailoar from the colporteurs of the Tract I Society. Particularly was the fact brought oat of great and increasing neglect of the house AtfiGod. One experienced colporteur, who has long labored in one of the most favored coma .' ties, stated that it was his conviction that not :!,kue.-half of the families on his held habitually Attend the preaching of the gospel. Others re .-.ported that one-fourth constantly neglected the' sanctuary, while all stated that the figures given in their statifitics Tell' far below the true state of 'the ease. How shill this large class, wlu; are indifferent or opposed; to the claims of the gosh pel upon them, be reached; oaten they are vi sited at their 'houses, and. dill: piled' with reli gious truth which, by the blessing of Gad, will make theta wise anto;salitatioa? . Tlllll ' Et 14.110114 Nor I 'VAXN That their labors lit l d been effective for goed,- frequently appealed is the statemeitgiveu by each. Those who re-visited their flails' fOund a more cheerful welcomei: the people. having learned:to ,, appreetate their visite and. the books they ntientated. Many intitandee were 'given where indifference had been followed:by-Cordial friendship) and where bitter opposers and ene-. roles bad 'hart dimmed, and even Von to Christ. "One dolpottdur referred to seven infidels-who' bed beditl'horiefully converted by a. blessfng npon 'a single Coil of Neletni , e Cause and Cure`orfn andlre ziOW'metubers of the Church of Christ. Several spoke' of individual conver sions; the 'rein% under"42l,6a, of their faithful nonversationsAnd the reading of the books they bitd left, while-many bad . been 'encouraged by revivals of religion in'the places where they had labored, They gave to. God allihe glory, grate ful dttyjbat they were permitted 'to be used'as instruments in :the TroMotion of his Cause. The .grdat and prominent' hien of elf`these men was the love of souls and, the glory of Christ. Row to labor so as most effeetualir to, secure the salvation of sinners, was the 044 theme of all the meeting. In all the ,disens , stone not a word was spoken that betrayed the denominational, prefifenees these single hearted Christians; ',MLA when the direct goes.' tion was asked, at'the last meeting of the eon-, vention, all were surprlied to find that_there Were•present members of eight- differtentsdeno minations. But though of so many different names, we had enjoyed Me "unity of the 'Spirit in the bonds orlieane.l ALTDID3SES: OF 'PNOP.:OOENTNNIt AND OTErtERS. Rev. Dr. Goertner, of gamilton formerly Secretary of therennsy va l a Aranch; was present at two•of the Sessions, and made a very earnest and inittudiveaddress,lgiving Phatically hiS views of the kreat'inip l ortifice 'of' collective ColPoriage, which, he said, when carried ontin the 'true spirit of, the. American 'Tract Society, filidd's place in the igreat ,work of eVangelizing . the world, not fills f iby Shy other apinoy or lustititoofitality. I.lso"addnded many interesting illustrations of the work, par ticidaily:frtim his: old field in' Feriri ` sJ~lvanla :: Rev. Mr. Rocks:obi:l, District Seeretary in I NOw' Engtaid; 44AS — orate "4,00;606. `in' that highly favored iniVordinatily ibttrid in i the bf oh' the Sabbath, who are not reached by eaistrne="means of grace, but Wlio could be - reachecl by. the col porteur., #9,,g4fd - if thOre Were :now a colpur , ;tear in each;of the sixty •counties of New Eng land; visiting 2,500 families ‘a•yeari he would Gilt teaelfthe'diatitute alone. ' - RisT,l6sl. Glen Woodgave manyifibtsrespecting the work in the ;!Torth-west, and stated that it had always, been his instruction An. the oolpor lenrs , onthat field; never toleave'a . fiiinilyvith- Vtip SO Cletirly and falfy, presenting tolhein the Plan of tialv:atiOn;iliat; they'cnild have no'ex ease if they-wilfully neglected it. All the:sesidone of the convOntioniverc - clia racterized with . great unity and'harmOny the brethren . enjoyed the opPorttinity for mutual .conference and.acquaintance, and left for their . fields strengthened and encuraged for their ar duous work. The pastors'and many'etthe ihemberiof the city churches, were in freguent attendanee• upon: the sessions of the convention,. .4)ne o£. the plea santest occasions eonnected with it was a social gathering at the hunse of Aev. Dr. 'FOWler, who cordially invited all the members to 'tea. hour - Or two was dze- delightfully spent, closed with singing and ,prayer, by Dr.; Lincoln, pas tor Of the 'Broad. Street Baptist Church. On Sabbath afternoon 'a public-meeting:was held inthe FirSt Preebyteriad Church'in behalf Of the' likteriCan 'tract Society *Whinli wits-ad 4ressed by Rev Dr. Stevenson, Rev. Messrs. Eastman and Wood, three of the •colporteurs, and Rev. Dr. Fowler, pastor of the chtirch.' Dr. Fowler said, that,though there had been recent occurrences connexion with the. S ociety which he disapproved,, but for; which-,its management Were :not at all responsible, and some acts of the management which he regretted, he still greatly loved 'end would co-operate with it. ge' loved It hecause of- .the, Chiistian literature it ritiblighed and circulated,—the loicest the r warld aOntanq z eagles, the, whole gospel, and:the pure gospel of the Old and New Testaments, with: excellent notes, and as It has beetrpreaehed by the holiest men that :ever lived.' If Baiter, and• Bunyan, and Flavel didnot - preadh' the: l- whole goe'Pel,'and the pure gospel, "I know not," said he, "Who did or can, and-they are the preachers , sent oat-by the So dety." c ga*e it 'his 'dOrditit CO-Operition, becinse of covers the, WhOle. We must not withhold from that, portion' .dffittur land where e-grievons evil .existsj the WhOlegoepel; and the Pure gospel" that thii:So-• e.iety carries every where, north, south„e,ait,' and Went. He leved"the.society,,and,would.cct-ope ' rate with it, because, 'of • the ',agency It employs. have sat, hoer after hour, the lait tWedaya," said:Dr.:l l 6*hr, "listeningte the.StateMenta'of twenty 'cOlpartiyars, 'and I could Wish that the ,whole: church in the landinpd,particularlyevery Christian. in UtiCa,- could have been in „the aka-. 'pet to 'stierino , hear Whatl haVe Seen end , heard. ' Not 'only haVe 'my expande in re gard to the Work In 'whin!): they are engage l ft, I 1 but this meeting has greatly cheered my hopes lin regard to it. I have felt I could *ash the feet of those dear 'brethren. *- There is no OlEce, however humble, Z would net' perform' for them ,45.. the, servants ,of , . I hope the gedety Way greatly extend its operations,. and 'happy influence, - and that GB4 - inay - ebiltinue .to bless it and r'ai'se up ihrif sit6Vwfie the irePreiiiiont; nindebiihis" Meet ing, ,not, only upon this excellent pastor, upon reaey,.9( - :tile men and . Women who - eujoyed the ,ptivileged attending Upon:its' Ileasinns. ; Wo-sitt4egether.in heavenly places, and there our love was strengthenedforthe Bo 'ciety-whith doing'se much for the 'benefit, not 'Only of innititlideaf4 our own State; britlor the ;pool , and otok our 'land .• . • AT,TI6.a. •-• . • Some items from the proceedings of this Synod at late electing why" of sitteient general- in terest to justify .placing them ; before the public This session of Synod was held at Red Whig, Commencing on= Thuridai, September" 27, 1860, 4ith much too . small a representatidn. , Perhaps this aught not to be a" Matter, of surprise, since the distance to be travelled. in some cases is : eo great •as.to ,render it , beyond the means of some Members to meet. the expense. One member was six days in doming, and"weeld - be as long in re. thrhiag, With' a 'good ; simn of 'Ursa's, and ;yet this is not an uninhabited country, One impressionleemed, to., pervade the minds of the brethren, to wit, That' a wide' and needy field4e,opeu , before us, and,-a great weir is to be done imi.t by .our branch of ,the Church; together with other evangelical Christian& "We - look ttpimi , thi&field and feel in4re deeply than ever the' fearful responaibility that 'rests upori us to go for ward and gather in the perishing harvest already "white; yea, falling ripgithered. We Mark with "deep Solicitude"—the narrative of the ; state rd . re ligion continues-" many places within our bounds, which are almost wholly destitute of evangelical preaching; and - some.inviting fields for minis* te laber , and, Christian effort, comprising , whole .monuties..in, which ttiptri,.are many, of our *pie soatteredvabroa4 its sheei having no fidiepheid, Atoiths OF its. FOWLER. : : olr, the`American Preabyteilan 1,110) t• . .. • . . . .... . . a . . • . .. . , • R • . . . ~ . , . . •: ••• .. . . _ •••• - . • • . . _ . . and yak net a single ,Presbyterian`. • r • t • Congrega tional 4**o ,gather t h em together and break unto ;them, the Igoe& of life.. . , aAmeng , the,phiceilgiently - in need Of ininiste 'Mentioned Belle Plain, Where we'have it t cithidh OrgatOation 'destitute of a pas ...ter,languishing for the preached word : and (*di , ' minces; of 433 , 1!0 house, At Helena, Only 12hiiles east of Belle Plain, there is a, nucleus of the friends. atioliid - o , e,i4eiciiiiti)uvwthoh: Might be gathered dhirekteChriat by a faithful and devoted-mi nister of ;Phec.go,spel.„•? , We have also .a little, church at , -...liepderson:`ikithont av pagtor. .arid the , stated' 'means of iraneiatid 'yet' there'll , Mr inerniaing po Ptilntidritherntia tliehniterint fiord'Whieh l itiength, : -Then7tliere rare OarHver andAntehinsonyith many interesting" points in M'Leod county, in which. , there'lisll3o ininistor The lathe 'Mai be said Of aseoa' acid Rice' eounties' i with their fir, interesting ettiemeuts and villages' conipoled ,part of our people, earnestly solicit ing , ou-rnyinpathieliand aid in'respect to their spi-j ritual destitution.' ' •-• : In he Solithern`part of our field, Geneva a`nd Sirininersat', injii:eeberri, county ; and:Blue, Earth . city, Garden city, Madeliar and Crystal Lake, in Blue Earth county, are all inviting fields, any two of Which' WoUld :be enough, to calf for the Whole ~labor ofany,,ene Minister.",,,, In.view.of_these des , - titutionsirWelwould: present our 'earneet4l2ppiica- : the harvest 'that Would send l z orth'Slieedily {Wore laborers into: the hari;est... ''',kereeord With gratitude the increasing_atien ,of people; generally. to -the preached 'word, and the growing desire in most-communities and *Meg for!the • i;iiite'd MOOS' :Never . be; lain' since the settlement Of the Condi& 'have the masses in:Ninnenpta-been more 'firiorable forthe introduction erthogospeliwith the institutions of . religion 'and' learning-'among - them.; alleantime we regret,thaf so many of the pro fessed 'kende of Christ, coining to this new 9un ttyrahoruld smitiolinecl to „east ;off the fear of the Lord and , restrain prayer,,and so to conform' to thewerlkaithattheirthriatianitilnenceis lost to 'the Chiirch,'Uhiil*bia work alineif as great as at~first, - they are brought ont .and restored to the fold hythe,great Shepherd :of the sheep. "We can hilt tremble in Vie* of the evideneei of. the increase of intemperance in the land, and the , fearftil havoc•of intoxioatedand maddened Lidians onenupon'anotifer ini the `iiiiigionary'fields of Our liidlfirei Williengett ' iindltß , gs 'itMetlie... the De letes. ' " • aWe vie* withh-grief the osneral'desecration of .the Sabbath ;throughout the land,- and feel that oar people have-Much yet todoin modifying pub lie sentiment on thiS'Subje t et, and setting it right by their ; eininple . in ;the proper aliseivence of the SabbatLas a day of sacred rest according; to the commandment. ' , : , ,; aindonelusietcwe!feel certitrainedivithreneWed. this gospel to and to call upon every Chi: aden; to censediate himself anew to. - -the , Lord, , S:rid .unitedly with the people of God, igive-theffselves to the Treat T'work of gathering har*est, of which 'the abundant season may serve as .fit With higher, holier and longer :Shoo • • ' : Grace,; grace unto it,' as it should' be wel- , toinedherne into' th& eternal - kingdinp!' During the devotional exercises of Friday Morn; • ihg,' pleasant reminiieeticei werngiven of the place ;where. SYnodni. et, extending hack ,near, a , quarter of a century.H Red Wing was then'a -foreign mis sionarrfield: The:people 'who Oen' dwelt therein the ignorance and vice of, heathenisni, : hava 'been supplanted `by anether race. remember, with sadness, that heathenism has ',pot been .here re-' , . . moved by the conversion.of 'epilaVed 'votaries, aiiil yet `!we 'cannot fail to tee WiadOte the4on-' derfel providence ' respeeting • this land.; The,heathen are still within onrhoundaries 'though' Crowded Westward. Twent the :members of Sy-. nod .missionaries of A.: B; C. F. -M. • Four others noW , rninister to :congregations of our own people on grOunewhhte , they once labored to teachlthe Indians ihe Way of life. • _ warioN ix ituaAfinrTo Ttik The following re,solutions.introduced by Rev. S. R. Riggs, were the , subject 'of- much interesting discussion, and were:-adopted with :entire' 'unani mity, and a deep feeling of'the truth expressed in Whereas -In 4,lre; good ..proildence et-God the, people of Ofinnesota, - have come into.possession-of the hunting•groundsand burial plaCeif4f the alto-; riginal inhabitants; and, whereas, portions iof the, ancient people stillremain within the botindaries. of our State; and, whereas, there seems -to exist' in• the , minds .of the people generally-much , prejin- 1 4lioe against.:the and! a,,desire to push= them away, therefore, Resolved, Ist, nate this 'Spod•-feels •a deep in- . terest in the temporal and . spiritual"welfare brthe, red men of Minnesota, and, earnestly desires that' they-may-be , ,brought ,toithe knoWledge dienen of the 'truth. 4 , '‘'. 2d, That thia:Synod , regards-the providencerof God in bringing us,into liroximity4dlhLs:pebple, .aa aa:erriression• of Ms will and . of our duty in giving,to , them the Ilessings oidilitations and Ohristianity:. , ' 53d, That the members Af this. Synod' feel that we and our people have hitherto done too= little and prayed too little, forthe civilization of the red men within oar hounds,.arat that God helping 'us, w e will pray and do more for this object m,time 4th, This Synod believei that • the interesti:of: the Indians gathered into reservations in the State of Minnesota do not require their removal, and that movements for th a t. object should be discoun tenanced and opposed by all Christian men end' citiiens sth, This Synod regards it as,absolutely neees- Ataxy for the welfare of these Indians that they, should. have the advantage of laws.properly , admi; nistered by the general.government of, the United Sptes, protecting, them in their persons,and pro perty from eacit.other ' and also from white men. 6th, That in the judgment of this Synod, the present, policy. of the gov,ernment, that of •lo cating the .Indians do reservations, giving, them portions,of land in. severalty, and refusing further to remove them, is both wise and humane. The Rev.'G. H. Pond, Moderator of 'the pre , ,vious:Synod, preached a sermon, embodying much important matter relative to the religion of the Indians, and the very .great 'obstacles in the `way of mission's among them. The views of the preacher differ from those of most, if not, all, tra. yellers, among the Indians,' concerning their • ob jects of worship.' It, is to be hopnd:theldisdourse ,nuty. be , published, aS itywould , correct' erioneous• views that exist even among Christian ma `6612-' . - &ening the - Indians,-and• the licesuccess of mis sions among them. A 'Missionary:- meeting was held on . Sabbath'evening,' 'of Cookiderable interest, in which addresses were made . b 1 S. R. Riggs, G. -H.t Pond, and H. W. Ballentineonloung man of f sterling'worth, who is under SP intment of the Ameridan Board - to. go to Bo ni i s mall the doings of'the Bession'there Was 4 liiinity'of sen timent and feeling, .and perlia in none more than An the: Vie* taken of th i destitutions of Minnegatit, 'end -the 'earnest legit t - .of the Church Eitensfon 'Coininittiilit; 'tliat - 'ths ':wottl`dirit"lesat supply this State' Wiilt - rimi,Vy'n: , 'lnel'inki4iiiiiy. . 0RA8,8.- 1 # Dug, . goo clerk. • , • , . ' i ficit '• iiiiiief l oiti * VI : F. 80'AD. - ... We I n g in i our parnisary.,4 ; ! .reign i Religious Intelligenermitli.the imettipPer ofiChtistendiim; 'Lorton*. " I ,llefe'theYe-is'a F e* ~ '. . nets`nn the; lOt oflie !nriasneiCto herkthe ! , .4, esp e ciallY as preacbdd In . s! openau, 4 ....-r,„ ~the -Times, says: " he:Topple are ,"".' in a 'religious - Mood." The News'of the. Cliis ~ es, says: ' n " .2k. few years ago it'wits aWo 4:sliecird tress: -linirint for any one to stand ' i' i n the 'London' highiviiyi and -by4raysto testify: r diiriee,Tarrit to •CilltnetitcPrepentance and ilenrn o . lffe: - Saffs, jittelic-ind .missiles might then 41 it' been thicoun tered.' It is very different noir. -'• ..pit4tir preach= log is:not only -a recognised hi utirini and :pia 'tected bylaw, but, it is also ' MO 'thryi 'tolerated. Not that Secularists and Romig 'teloitnt . occa sionally object, dispute , :ind i tlii 'iiiipt; but the great mass of the heardre ate - tie , kith t hem. ' . The Bishop of. Londow.hin? ' ore than once set an example to • kis'cleity bit 'ieabliing,.iiiihe' D open air,'and that 'xii the plan t . and . simplesi, style. -At Paddington Green, the hole of Monday, September lid; Whir devoted ' oo ' air prea'ching._ It is belieied that on this occasi ' 19,000 persons beard` the toSpel. The preacht t tias)sontinued every evening during the'vreek With marked' i.pi ritual* results. - The London Cabmen's LoroVs-Day Rest 'BO,l ciety is being attended with frAffiiiiiii,g usefulness and-PrOirierity. ' The rintOher : ONalilaiasters who take out licenses only for six.") l 4ats, and conse quentlylgive rest and oppcistvitieir,for...pghlic woiship to their men on the, ONfislfan Aifibatili, is steadily increasing. While in)4B4,there were only 570 cabs with six diys' licease, i n 1860 they humlier 1465. At a •reeent ineelliag" of the.so: viety the successful. writers of priteioß6l4B received 'I the sums appropriated for that-purpose..' The first prize essay was _written , by a calllfiver when seat- ed on his box at the respective4b-stands where , 'he Stopped. ' '''''/ ' • There are now two daily pAYir-ineetings in the-city. ' There is a goodly atterYltince, and much 1 .fervor as ,well as simplicity in, , p yer. , No one is formally,. or by name, called o to pray: short prayers, with hymns intervening, 'fill up the hour. The prbmoters of the . Midnig 1 Mission move ment are about 'to - renew their : Orations 'on the 3d October. The-results acihi since the "fuse meeting early i'n, the year arp, : ..large , and most cheering. , . , • Rev, . H...Spurgeon, says: •., "Aire good work going cifim London, and, ihii - activity of the.Christian;Churdli is everywhere 'uSt now the'Priftaive* Methodists seenrto be: the most 'aliVe, and brother of ; the `name of Richard . WeaVer, a con v prize-fighter; who wears On - . *l)iok r is draw- , inglarge congregations every evening at S. Mar tin s Hall. The service is exciting, the, preach ing far from Calvinistic, the congregation of 'peore..4t class, and the 'proceodinti altogether of a' singular character, but goodis dobe, the lowest of the population are reached;'andireall earnestness is very evident in all tbat•is undertaken. •Christ - is preached, and I therein rejoice', yea, - and will re• joice. • • - "It is my firm belief that the salvation of Lon -don will .- not 'C'ome from exit-Colleges - and 'seats of_ learning,.lmit from her dens and haunts of poverty. .I look for an army of converted sinners " from' St: . Giles and Whaecha.pel, men •:,w.hcitte'. fury i n sin will be , exchanged 'for energy iiti - .righteousiiess,' : whose gratitude ; for pardon wilt:endear - theta with heaits of fire; and whose - :aottiiiiiitatine With 'the' language cif the 'masses7 will: gm! thein fire. • Books may educate.:mitiniters'ftirthe polite; I only - experience. and - stadrdf men out* prepare a • niadto touchlbe heartlArtlie miatielW ? We 'need' -preaehers - who will Andynot'-theif , ithiilteen i . but the- streets' and lanes; not .papef andp f ititing Onus, but 'ham en ., nature in all :ita .: vaiied •The division bet Ween the .ministry add** people is ;far 'too wide,. they vitt nefekabeiniotred' 'Tit:o- • lessionat- skill) orator et. thri mass ~nid ^ af''be bone of their bone and. 110811'0'1-their flesh. ' 1 is not•attainable• by any:amount-of researelfainiibg . . :our. learned 'tomes." We. must walk the hospitals, if we would be surgeons, and we -must mingle l with. the !people. if me.would reack.their .bearte." The language of; the eleas,rpern is not the speech: 'of the ,people, w 9, mould understood, we iniiat'leais Mir bigh t stilts behind tili:,"*lnd walk on 'their thinking and iipCakiUg Ofthein - Do not ituagino:thotd.-dorirniiiiiin a regu lar.edneaticin, on the other hand, I . own - , its -utility, bnpfor the i yast uppp, nomething else is. needed, and Iliasie Aiiea_toltidiontit it.' The 'etirreepondent of ihe PreikOterian Banner, , *aye of this country: The revival of religion in Waleilltirlng the last twelve:or eighteen 'wontile,dliebebomiiery)ie warkable. •It came suddenly , 'ainizwith3poiter. Even the wicked were awed by, itB.,PrePonoef.oo4 " . fear 'fell ; upon every ; 'WNleeltiovnyer, wany o these .have returned' to . their besetting sins, and are serving Sitt'utefbr,e, that is a large - number Who have been'gzitukted onto the •wolid ;and, into the.,.Churoh.of Aire Thus at Carearvon I was., toldt4at t t,lie-aocession to the corninnition of ',die 44 .. i f i 'MP t z s E9NreglOtP,P B was abinit. tour *htindied This as but a ape . - aimed of'What is -gerieral-=4fie 'ride" tifid 'wit the eiceptiort over-both North and'South -Wales. The ministers, in •large proportion, are gifted men —some : of them have extraordinary •power over the people's hearts in their,publie addresses. The Calvinistic Methodists or, Welsh Presby terians arethe most - numerous body of Christians. As to Romanism, • its .power! is almost nil in 'Wales. .'Only.two chapels have, been erected in the whole of North Wales, one it Holyhead,' which , has proved an entire failure,: and the other at Holywell, Bangor. This last has very few/adhe rents. Its priest is an apostate Wesleyan minis ter, expelled by the ConfeTnee for immorality. Isla cut swim There .has been a isly4olit.teligiiSis interest io the town of Ryde,litidif Wciehiya . , *ethodiets. , The._seryioes-: Tore ; god dact.ed:s3' tor. and krs. Palovir,..tw?;dialligniebed revivaliete of that denoniination•beloiigiiiito this oon ntiy. - • • The crowds draft 1 4 glabbagi day, have 'been unable to find .acConainaditticiti, aid. immense au diences have gathered• together every weeknight, Saturday excepted. A'mid-day meetineor, prayer, for, the copious effusion of the Spirit of God, has also been encouragingly attended. Such,an asto nishing,•Work of God•lligtinOyee, been known in the Isle of Wight. theighort O iatoe of three weeks, 'noliiss than one litinditid'antd-nikety i)n4iiiis hive sought foitUd iedenalitioti in thehlood l'ehrist,"eien thi'forgiVennasti of sins. The e'er • . . vice of Tbnisday, Augtust 3d, was signalized, by an extraordinary manifestation of ,the power of Christ 'to save. T irz OthiliNENT. Passing over to tit l e Uristinent, ; the first point of - • - interest is - If/J:4.: AA ' toga to - know what de . r. l a i gree of religiouiliberty owed in• connection with the wondeitul enlargement of political rights now taking !di* and to what extent, in the dis turbed. state of thee gospel is sought country, by the people. The follciwitit„, from the corses potident.`of 'the Nein ofilse.qhurcAis, is encou raging: Mr. Graydon, late 'agent for the British and "Foreign Bible'Seciety, has bosh it'Pideiine•for sottie time, and .he writes to ioint'of-filrfriends that' his: success in selling Bibles is • very great, ;there being a great demand.; for them.. - .• :Captain Sorzano, a Christian ,soldier in the ser vice of t ,earibaldi, writes from Messina under the i date of ;August 2.3 d; ,',. • •-., "All Oicib; is fr", 400....„ • O gi ty„ t b stirs ,,-:- 477 ivliers es 'tow* word,,g.p...', Ds+ 1 believp. a leihicab the befit . Oici,.gisensiie. it is the most 'civiMed poinloi]s, containing SWIM' 200,000-Aiihabitants, and , :the •lowerbrdetsVtrundeistand tolerably whet isisaid. The field •inost.open and-most dispixiied:4,receive the seed of , the ,word, the miktaty. •of them 'wish to a .. tre anytliin . 4ldre do . with.the priests, who :on their aide iieverici . to sol diers because they know there inno:nioney to -be had." . .90 •ei Mr. Brine -the .new, agent Ar . ,the . British and Foreign. i ble glooieti t .m.takiog time by the fore- Oak, and l ui iboit to start :tor Naples with a sup lily of 'Bibles and= a' colperteer fribm the Edin `bu'rgh Bible SoeietY i belt* d espitto hed •thither also.- The.4mlporte)irs in Tuscany, notwithstand ing:their. nupber,.find a. good sale both for Bibles and **iota.. tliem attended a fair at the small ',ioira . of.i‘Oiiiedera about it fortnight ago, and 'set :up a stall stall on the market:place. 'Holding up . a. Bible in; his hand,. he 'began. to 4317, Whc•lt.,bny.,the word of,,God T.,. Here,is the whole word for ,three fours! pere.is,the word 'of God trhich all were' &bidden to' tread' a. few months ago, but it:Cid be' safely bought 'noWl' The 'people pricked up 'their ears and hastened. to buy the forbidden book; 'fifty copies were sold. in a very short tinie:! . . "_. :2 - • •:• GERMANT.--THE KIRCRENTAG • The original-design •of this amembly, which met -this year at. Barmen, on. the 11. th of September, ivart6 tiling about a union :of the different recog nisid German churches: • Failing•in this, its grand benefit is• in bringing tegithef large numbers• of earhest men 'of diverse views for an interchange of sentiments, and in furnishing them a stimulus in their various fields of labor. The-correspond ent of the News of the Churches thus, speaks-of the persons comprising the assemblage: "On casting the eye over the great assembly, -one : sees many of the well-known friends of the -Kircher) tag gathering round. There are the Noel's, 'Daniels, and Jobs, the men ,of prayer; here are ilidDavids, with the stone and 'sling ever ready to meet the foe. The Nestor 'of the Eviegelkal "Ohurch of Germany, in the person of Provost Dr. Nitsseh, takes' .14 seat to, ,witness once Ecer,e for the unity ankharineny•of God's work , in 'the 'Church, and against: the fleshly; lusts usts that mar titioe• of Goirenyin 'Zion. Beside hint sits - down iblirstately-figure - Nhielr comes nearerto 'ea, idea of him that leaned on Jesus' breast at supper, than any other living : it is the Cie nenl-Superintendent, Dr. Hoffmann ,of Berlin. Not'far'reuioved sits the author of Elijah, ready, as in the 'days of old, to 'thunder forth the dan gers that beset the ltureb - ,..and/if need •be, , :to hew tlaepriests of Baal asunder.. Beside him sit a Ball and a Zahn, st.Langefrom Bonn, a Carus from Posen, and a Goebel; and sits, alas! silently, tho great Juliis Miller of Halle, who 'Veld testify by, his presenee!what, by the provi dence of God, the tongue can no more tell till it is once more loosed in yonder .higher sphere. Privy-Coutioillor, Dr. von. Mulder has taken his ;seat; and, lo!, whit commotion It is his Hicelleney the Minister Mr. von ileditnann-lloll *Cg; who enters to spend a feW.houra of his pre cinct§ time in this meeting, ihich he called into existence,_ osier ; ihich he" so . Drs. otahl.: and Hengs tenberg were absent. Papers of a high value on the study. Of the Old Testament and the Infitteneaof Profane Literature • were read and discussed: • . , A resolution warmly cpmmendatory of " Prayer was adopted, .n ot. withouLopposition • 'the part of some, including the excellent Dr. ilgiummaeher, • Stiperintendent,'Dr; Hoffman said: cr long 'to have my own onogregation formed into small circles for prayer and reading the word.' ,The fourth and last paperywhich was read by Dr. Wichern,referre.d to Female Education among the Laboring Classes, , with , special reference to the Manufacturing Districts.' Varique jimniveisary and other meetings were held in (*enaction with the Kirchontag, making ft an oceition.otleep interest to the friends , of evalfgelical religion. Wiohern.iiported the doinitt of the Inner :the. two : Years previous:.:.They,*ad been 644 . 4 to *mote harmony ip'tfie te*ti.,,of ~the Bible as. pUbliShed. by various soobitiek . aad had apparently gained their end. ,Sabbith ob- Aerv,ance has occupied their Oprie ,spondmne hadbeen,h4ipt.tip,itiib'eferma*fie nel, aritti.fund,established slApf:i.alinuu ! to enaourage.4meripan studeitS of theology to viiit ' , The , anncial meeting of. the Ruenish )(union .ary Soeigt,- Irani:lod ,on the afternoon of the se cend,day.: The services lasted, according to cus tom.intthe valley, about three hours in the , church, and afterwards uearly.as- long 'in the hall; where coffee was served to - about 1200 people. In the church % there ~must have. been; 3000 present, so densely was the ; place filled. This is 'Abel Society. whosfy;Missionaries were tinteher'ed in the island of Borneo not Many months Another interesting meeting, was the anniver sary of the Wupperthal Tract Society, and the Annual Conference of deputies from the principal Tract Societies of Germany. The Anniversary of the Rhen ish. Young Men's SQciety was also held. The 'Rhenish Westphalian League contains ninety-eight societies, averaging from fifty to, sixty members in each. Most,,of them, are conducted ,on earnest Christian princi ples; and the grand object of anion is to seek eternal life in Christ. Above 1000 young ,men, most, of them members , of different 'young, men's societies, sat down to coffee, and, spent, nearly six hours in prayer and conversation and , singing the ,praise of GQCI.. The necessity of keeping the Sab bath, of , being separate from the world, of dis charging the duties owed to parente and superiors, and of loving one another, above.all, the necessity of personal conversion, and living'for Christ, were the subjects chiefly insisted on. There were also special conferences on the education of idiots, book societies and colportage, Jewish mission; temperance,'&c.; and the friends specially interested' in each of , hose departments had an opportunity ,of urging the claims , of their ' work, and stirring , up an interest • , Special services. were, ,held . every gegint,in crowded churches; and while the discussions during' the day we'reoften above the comprehension of or dinary hitirere,tlieee evening - serVides, by the'most popular' ministers who could .be obtained; left, we may .trust, a'permanent impression. - So ended this remarkable convocation, to :as semble again only after two years. It is one of the imppiestAndleations of the evangelical leaven now powerfully working- in - ,that country, and daily bringing forth new fruits to-the glory of God and the advancement of the interests of evangelicalae ligion. And sotfids_our summary of the-kingdom of Christ abroad forthe-,presebt. It is a 6pectacle' delightful to 'contemplate, "and . cheerink td-every one who asks," Watehnian, what of the-night? , REPUTED TRACES OP PRIMEVAL MAN. Some stir has recently . been made by the die-. covery, at Abbeville and. Amiens, France, of flint implements resembling the heads , of spears andhrOkets, in a geological stratum, associated th . , Jronea ~extinet ,speeies .of animals. -Writer . 111 the last .number of Blackwood, having vialted the locality and examined the specimens, gives- us ,his views on their antiquity, in a Carefully prepared easay, worthythe atten-. tion of all who are interested in geological questions..,He acknowledges himself fully ~convinced of • the human origin of these . flints, - and then.....argues the questions that T risp regard to their antiquity. First, as to , their supposed contemporaneousness, with the bones of the -eXtinct quadrupeds,, with which they arefound in juxtaposition, he says: TheTeadi3r will have noticed in the account already given of the deposit enclosing Vie worked flints and the bones, that the materials are described -as presenting all the'sio , es of having been irregularly strewn and rudely de posited; _indeed, all the usually admitted indi cations of turbulent diluvial action. The up per Peds;of the, chalk formation on, which they rest, have been torn tp and broken into a frag trientary mass or 'rabble,' . a mixture of rolled lumps' of chalk and unabraded , nodules of chalk flint. :;:The surface of the chalk is uneven, with ..shallewtrorighs and basins hollowed, in •it, as by a passing erosive flood, moving with a strong eddying . current. The diluvial deposit itself consists of . coarse and fine gravel' and sand, rolled flints,- and subangular fragments of all sites compatible with the,material, and in well . laminated parallel beds, not sorted, as it inevi tably, would be had the watery current been a steady or equable one of moderate fOrce and - prolonged duration, hut promiscuously inter- - -. in - imperfectly discernible, Short, taper— ing, andabruptly truncated oblique'layers,- dip ping and abutting at high angles among them selves, and inclining towards nearly all points of the compass, and at angles as steep to the horizon as thirty or even - forty degrees—fea tures-all of them plainly implying a violent and transient surge. As if to offer us still more une quivocal proof of , the energy of the transporting current, this wildly-tossed gravel contains scat tered boulders, or masses of a pondereusak _co -rfact sandstone, sup'pete - ctio'he cif 'Eocene age,: of dithensions. varying - from• a foot in diameter to a superficies of three feet breadth, with the same thickness; the larger ones,weighing about' half a ton. These blocks of sandstone are, moreover; all more'or less abraded: and rounded at their'edges and corners, evincing-110 W rough ly they have been bouldered.' In these-condi-. tions they are numerous around Amiens, espe -• cially at :St. Achenl,,St. Roque, and Moniter. The upper sUrface of the gravel is still more undulating than the 'lower, even to the extent -of -exposing in profile some singularly sharp grooves and ridges,- ' and what is of especial sig nificance, the rude layers within the deposit fol low- imperfectly these. undulations of the upper boundary. To all these marks of dilnvial ac tion'must be added •those presented by the fos sil bone ' s and teeth, and by the flint implements, very few of which latter are destitute of traces, more or less obvious, of attrition with the-gra vel, •while many of them have been observled by de Perthes to be so much rubbed down, as to retain but faintly the features of works of human art. , • The argument which we would 'erect upon all these manifest indications of turbulent action in the waters which left this very promiscuous de posit, is, that by pointing to an agency—in in eursion, we'mean, of the by no means distant 'oceanperfeetly capable of invading the dry land within historic time, and mixing up -its , more recent, surface objects ,_with previously buried relics of an earlier or prehistoric epoch, we are debarred from assuming that the two classes of monuments were coeval, 'and that from the imputed age'of 'the one we can infer the antiquity of the other. This is' what these do who view all the surfacedrifts as but ,one formation, pointing to but one date, calling it the ' pray the reader to observe, that it is - 'far 'from 'our' meaning here, that we Catt , disprove the contemporaneousness of the flint-shaping men and ;the great antediluvian quadrupeds,. ,We only assert—but assert con fidently—that the phenomena utterly fail to prove it. The burden of the case is with those who, treating the Diluvinin as one and indivisi ble in mode of formation and'in date, accept the mere 'fact otpresent association in it as evidence ofeo-existence in time.: If, therefore, it can be sho - in on, an iniefiretation of the,geology, in 46040k:tee' with Sound physical principles, that a redressing 'of the deposit 'May' have taken. place, the verdict inustibe thatthis'co-exiatence, , in ;time, is not established,• and the antediluvian antiquity, f man must be cast out of the : high court of science, with a verdict of Not Proven. Then as to the ag4;of the bbies therUselvas• us -"admit that the *fought tints are - truly contemporary , With the animals whoie ...,benes lie side by side with them, and that the deposit embedding both,,is the,general Diluvinra Or mammalian drift; do these facts, of them selves, determine the flints to have been fa shioned in an age_ preceding the usually' a's'sig ned date.of the birth of man'? mast be conceded they do not; for, independent of, the absence or presence of these or other vestiges of man in the Diluvium, 'its antiquity or relation to hiatoric time, is obviously not ascertainable. Apart from human -relics in, or over,' or under, the drift, how can we link it on to human time at all ?, Before the discovery of the flint imple ments in this superficial formation, or so long as the traces , of, man were known only in depo sits later than the Diluvidm, it was deemed, to • ' belong to an age anteeedent to the creation of man, and'had, therefore a'relatively high anti , quity•assigned to it; lint ,now, granting that t'elics of men have been, authenticated as buried in it, is it sound , reasoning, we would ask, to' infer for ithese relics the very antiquity which was only attributable to the, Dilavium, becaise 'it'Was believed deititute of all such human Yes tiges,? r The Diluvium of geologists has, since the days of the. illustrious envier, been aliays looked upon ,a 8 something veryancient, simply because he and his successors' finding it replete with the remains of huge land. mathreals no longer living, never succeededin*detecting in - it a.solitary• bone. or tooth-of a human being, nor,' indeed, anything indicative.of.gian's existence; t hUfni , lvi that thingeinclicattmof,man have been famed, it is sureiy..illogical,.and abegging of the:Very criestioiritselt I to impute-an age incompa- tible with the fact of his then existing. - VOL. Y.--NO. .I . o.—Mhole No. 227. As matters now stand, Is it not as ration al,tc infer the relative reeitioy of - the extinct . .Elephas prinitenius and the other Mammals of the DilavinM, from the co-eXistence of the works of:men with them ' oh 'the-ground that the human , is a living , and, modern race, .as it is to dednee the. antiquity.Of man from ,the once erroneously .assumed greater age of those ani- Male ? *wild repeat s ihen; that a specially remote age nit attributable to the flint carving men of the Diluviem,•simply because it 2"s the Diluvium or Mammoth-embedding gravel which;Contains them. If their association with these 'extinet MiEIIII34S dois intimate a long Pre-historic antiquity, theavidences of - this are to 'be sought in some of the other attendant phe nomena.. , THE' PRINOVS VISIT TO MOUNT VERNON A correspondent of the Boston Courier furnishes the following impresario description of the visit of the Prince of Wales to the Tomb of Washington. ‘On Friday, the Prince and-suite, with the Pre memb-ers of the cabinet, Miss Lane, and t few invited guests, embarked on board the U. fi steamer itartia lanc,And Proceeded to the Tem b of 'Washington at Mount Vernon. The voyage 'oedupied aboutiin hbur and a.'half. An order that the distinguishetlvisitors :might not, be intruded upon by the prying curiosity of a throng of visit ors, orders had been issued :that the grounds should be dosed' to the Upon arriving`at Mount Vernon, the' visitors were received by Mrs. Riggs, vice regent of the Mount Vernon Association, and escorted to the home of 'Washington. This they examined minutely, entering every apartment, indinsPeotiog with much interest'the relied which were 'there de Posited. The'" key of the Bastile, presented by Lafayette to Washington, attracted much attention from the royal party. A .special despatch to a -.TcwYork cootemporary, says: "The day was all that could fie desired, the finest that the Indian summer could give. Having cat:eft/1y inspected' the House, the Prittee stdnd reverently, uncovered In the room in which-Wash ington died. The party, expressed, their gratifica tion at the taste and ,neatness displayed in the ar rangement of the'place,,and then proceeded to the Tinbb bf 'Washington. ' ' "The" marine band . had arrived before them, And, concealed by a teighboriim thicket, began 'FilaYing a dirge composed by the ,leader. The scene was most, impressive. The . party, with un covered ,heads, ranged themselves ; in front of the tomb, so'siMple, yet so grind in its associations, and. looked in through the iron grated 'doorat the sarcophagus which contains the remains.of the Fa ttier of our oountry. Then retiring a few paces, the Prince, the president, and the royal party, grouped' in front, silently contertiPlated the Tomb of Whsfiingtoo. - ' "The Occasion Ibeen - mie " A sad cloud softened the sunlight; the sweet - , - , solemn strainaof the beautiful dirge floated around, bring ing unconscious tears to eyes unused to weep. Witliont ,roYal 'itaie, Royalty , Contemplated the lairabode of one -who; thOughierice pronounced a rebel And a traitor by the very ancestors , of. the Prince, now ranks above all kings—the father.of a conntry second to none. "Around - Nive . re'the" representatives of that focricy-ihielConce proclaimed every republiean a traitor, hotnagetto the great depresen -tative republican., ..N'ext to the Prince stood. the President of the United , States,,reverently bowing before the leitink, Plied or "the first of .rulers. Beilde him Were - those"Who,lit the l led 'battle te ••tWeefi-England'Und this enuntry,lntit - takeVrii&tt unprominent part, while helituself hied once borne anus Against -the very:country whose future ruler was now his honored guest. What lawns . nil must have learned from this visitwhat thoughts nitist'have occurred to - eaelhow all must 'have feWthat, above all, Over alb:God reigns supreny*, ordering events for ;his . own wise ,purposes, and working miracles pot at once , by his instantaneoi s *Ord,' but by the'ilewer - processof time. "At the reqUest` of the Mount Vernon Associa .tion,'the'Pritice planted,:with but little formality, a young herse.chestnut tree, to commemorate his visit to the place, the tree was planted upon, a beautiful little mound, not far from the tomb. ziThe"ceremony`: tieing Over, the party again stood: fora few monients before the-tomb, and then turning away in thoughtfuF silence, slowly and silently retraced their way." - - RESULTS OE THE. PRINpE'S The Duke of .Newcastle, speaking upon this subject to a gentleman in Philadelphia,. said: " wish it could be stated, upon` my authority, that the visit of the Prince of Wales to the United. States cannot' have other than the very best re sults. .E'very*here; he has ,perceived with what kindness—l might almost say with what affection —his mother, the Queen, is regared here by all classes, and he has been deeply touched 'by the cOnsideration extended' to 'him' upon her account. ;He. has been able to compare the Canadas with the United States,. and mark how different insti tutions have created different results. Above all, he carries back with him a sense of strong perso nal obligation for the ivermth and kindness of his reception here, and—for the English are not un grateful--tbis will be shared by all classes at home, Who feel a kindness rendered to their Prince as s if it Were rendered to theMselves. To • be frank with you this visit will decidedly make England and America better and warmer friends than ever. Should the queitiOn of a. difference ever arise, de pend upon .the Prince . will franlily .protw.t against it,' alleing,. suppoo of his views, his .personal familiprio,.irich the :91mocter and inex haustible resources . t a . country which rivals Eop land in the'ait's and can summon three Million of veluutser„Weiklisciplined. soldiers 'to fight ferhei ale rn'i4fortinUot war should arise." The Press. It is usually supposed ,that Ivhen a professedly Christian Chureli is opened for .public services on the 'Sabbath, the worship there offered is, to be addressed, to God. Our Episcopal friends, .par ticalarly those of the High ; Church, are: specially ;strenuous on.this point. "A consecrated °hutch, (meaning thereby the church edifice) say they, ," must never be devoted to any ether object than 'the vrorship , of Almighty God; '=no seeular per formance, no public addreises, no ?popular assem blages Twist ever desecrate its sacred wells!' This is all very well; but .whst Are we to think, when the oldest and most prominent church of that denomination ite the country, is on the SA luith twined into's show-house for the exhibition of the Prince of Wales? What sort of worship:of God is that, when tickets are issued, and man) 0: then subsequently sold at five dollars a piece, to admit persons into "Trinity Church" to see the Prince of Wales attend Divine Service? What are We to think of the character of the worship, when .the prayer-books, got np, one of them by the corporation of Trinity Church, and the other by the ministers of that church, in velvet and solid gold, at a heavy expense, are exhibited to an ad miring crowd on the,Sabbath? What are we to think when the worship, in which four Bishops and thirty-four clergymen participated, was addressed far more .to 'Victoria's son than to the Sou of God? 'Henceforth, we trust, for decency's sake, 'our Epis'cop'al contemporaries will have nothing more to say Of secularizing the house of God. No - house 'of worship in the city of New York was ever more shamefully secularized than Triukty dhureh was on a late Sabbath THE PRINCE AT TRINITY. Exai finer;
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