GENESEE EVANGELIST.—WhoIe No. 757. ottvg. THE BLESSING AFTER SERVICE. t was Within a house of prayer, And many a wounded heart was there; And many an aching head was bowed, Humbly amidst the kneeling crowd ; ?jot-marvel—where earth's children press, There must be thought of bitterness. Oh.! in the change of human life— The anxious wish, the toil, the strife— Bow much we know of grief and pain, Ere one short week comes round again! Bend every knee, lift every heart; We need God's blessing ere,we part. Then sweetly through the .hallowed bound, Woke the calm voice of soletrin sound; And gladly many a listening ear Watched, thalpure tone-of love . to bear; And on each bumbled heart, and true, God's holy -blestinglell like dew. Like dew on sum:riot's thirsty Bowers; On the mown grass, like softest showers; On the parched earth like blessed rain. That nails the spring bloom back again. Ohl to Ifoiv many a varied sigh, Did that sweet benison reply I . 40 The stead) that God bestows, Through him who. died and rose" The peace the irtither giveth through the Son, Be known in every mimic The broken heart to bind; And bless ye, travellers, as )e journey on I tt e who have known to weep • Where your beloved sleep; Ye who have poured the deep, the bitter cry, God's blessing be as balm, The fevered soul to calm, And wondrous peace each troubled mind supply. "Young man, whose cheek is bright With nature's warmest light; Whilst youth and health thy veins with pure blood swell, Let the remembrance be Of thy God blest to thee, Peace passing understanding guard thee well. li g Versals, whose thoughts afar r Turn where your children are, In. their still graves, or beneath foreign skies; . This hour God's blessing come, ' `Cheer the deserted home,. And peace with dovelike wings around you rise 41 Ere this week's strife begin— The war with Out, within ; The Triune God, with spirit and with power, Now on each banded head His wondrous blessing shed, And keep you all, through every troubled hour." , And then within the holy plate Was silence' for a moment's space; Snob silence that you.saemeti to hoar The holy dove's wings hovering near; And the still blessing, far and wide, Fell like the dew at evening-tide. , And pre we left the house of prayer, We knew that recce descended there; And through the week of strife. and din, We bore its wondrous seal within. Scenes in our Palish For the American Presbyterian. Al NT JENNY. It was a dark and rainy night when, alone with' my little children, I heard a movement at my kitchen door, nud, as I opened it, was startled by the sight of two dark faces. As they entered, I discovered 'one to be a servant wo man of my brother's, who said : "This is Aunt Jenny, Mrs. P. I understood you wanted to hire a girl, and I did not know but you would like to take her and try her." I hesitated a little, as there was nothing pre possessing. in her appearance. She was large, eet.kward,r had as► anxious look,, and was mime what lame. I told-ber, however, that she could stay with me a few days, when I would let her know.' The children were shy of her at first, but soon became acquainte'd, and Tittle Georgy, who gazed at her with astonishment, was won to her arms by her caresses, and they became mutual favor ites. - When the bell rang for family worship, Jenny was called in and a seat assigned her. The stianger was remembered at the mercy-seat, and she went about her work with a lightened heart. She had a little boy, whom she brought with her, and, left at a neighboring farmer's house. She afterwards found a place for him still nearer, which seemed to comfort her much. After the labor of the morning was over, I made some inquiries concerning her past life. Her own account was, that she was born a slave, in Maryland, and was given away by her mis tress to a visitor when she was two years old. She bad never known any thing about her pa rentage. She lived with that master until she was a large girl, when he failed, and she was sold with the cattle at auction. After that, she went to live with a family in Pennsylvania, which removed to "York State," and she re mained with them until she came to live with The man with whom she had lived was a ta vern keeper. His wife was in feeble health, and they depended upon Jenny as cook. He came once to see her, and tried to persuade her to return home with him. But she refused de cidedly, saying that she "never could live as she bad lived with him," When he found his ef forts unavailing, he said', as he left: it" You will find her a hard case. She is fond of a dram. We used to have some high times; she broke one broom-stick over me, and I broke two over her I But she can do well if she tries." Jenny went on at her daily labors for a week or two, when Is said to her one day: "Well, Jenny, if you choose to stay with me, we will fix upon your wakes, and I wiil engage you 'for a year." She seemed much gratified with stay ing; and the idea of wages took her by surprise. It was a thing she had not been accustomed to. She always had "what people were a mind to give her,"- but was evidently pleased with the plan of having something of her own. I soon found that additional care and re sponsibility was devolving upon me. Jenny was very ignorant, and her heart not right with God. ,I found her much addicted to falsehood. She would often prevaricate when -truth would have answered , her purpose better. The first thing was to commence a course of instruction with her. She was now supposed to be past forty-five, and although quite anxious to learn to read, she never attained to more than read ing simple passages in the Bible. ' She knew but little other own heart, and when conversed with seemed satisfied with herself, saying she did, not mean to do any body any harm. But when taught that the Saviour came -to die for such as feel that they are sinners, and only such, she was more thoughtful and less confident. Personal conversation and Bible stories seemed the most hopeful way of doing her good, and she was evidently attentive during family worship, for she often inquired what. Mr. P. meant when she did not understand what was said. But Bible stories, of all things, interested her most. This duty devolved principally Upon the children, and as little Georgy greW older, and began to outstrip her in attainments, no thing would interest her more than to hear him, while sitting close by her side, tell his martial stories about Gideon,. and Samson, David and others. Nor was the instruction she received without effect; Jenny's mind became more en lightened, and her heart more tender. She was more desirous to attend religions services, and showed quite an inquiring , mind, - and at times was very thoughtful. About this time I visited Ithaca, where the Lord was pouring (kit his blessing' copiously upon the churches. Many cases of conviction and conversion were very striking. The church was praying/and sinners repenting, and the few that neglected the great salvation were con strained to acknowledge that this was the work of rGed'.` .; After my4eittrit, as I was iniaged , One day with Jennrin the kitchen, and van telling her about, the Nvonderful work that was going on in Ithaca,.. she: listened with 'absorbed attention, and then said: '.'Mrs. P., why don't the people here'do as _they, do at Ithaca, and be good?" I said to her: mjenny, why don't you do so, and be, good? Your soul is worth as much as anybody's, and your happiness is of vast impor tance to you. You. know you are , a sinner, and if you will break off your sins, and come hum bly to the Saviour confessing them, you will find him ready to receive you. You may be sure of this, for he has said, 'Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out."' She drew ; her sun-bannet over her eyes and said, with great seriousness and agitation : "In deed, I feel a great sinner." [T9 be continued.] For the American Presbyterian., REVIVAL IN MISSOURI MESSRS. EDITORS :—Here, is the heart of Missouri, just on the eve of the great national election, while the political sky is black ,wlth evil portents, and the masses , are heaving with civil commotion, we are witnessing a scene of peaceful, religious enjoyment and Christian ac .tivity seldom experienced even in , more favor able seasons. I)uring the last two. weeks of October, a most interesting revival of religion has been in progress in Marion County, Mis souri,-in the New Providence congregation, of _which the. Rev. J. L. Jones, formerly of Riga, New York, is the acting. pastor. Encouraged by many favorable indications, the pastor ap pointed a protracted meeting, to commence on the 16th ult., and invited the co-operation of several of the, neighboring members of the Presbytery of. Northern. Missouri. In the mean time, an nnusual spirit of prayer pervaded the church, and all who had the interests of Zion at hearttlpoked forward to the time of the meet ing with unwonted interest, and with an appa rent assurance that God had great things in store for them. The result as tin a piosilifietitirAtnt sweet revival of religion. The hearts of all the members seemed to flow together in Christian love, and rise in concert to a lofty confidence in God.. Many who had grown old and remiss in the service of the Redeemer now returned, and with many tears bewailed their departure. Young men, nurtured in the bosom of the chuck but subsequently drawn , away in the mazes of infidelity and ungodliness, now, began to ask the prayers of the people of God, in quiring, with great earnestness, what they should do to.be saved. Children of the covenant gave their hearts to God, and pious parents wept for joy. A solemn stillness prevailed in all the meetings, interrupted only by the half-sup pressed weeping of those who were troubled in spirit on account of their sins, or deeply moved for the salvation of others. The writer was privileged to be present at most of the meetings, and he can truly testify that it was good to be there. Never, in a long experience, has he witnessed a more manifest and pleasing exhibition of divine, goodness. Human instrumentality was used. The gospel was preached with great plainness and simpli city for the space of about ten days. But throughout the whole work, the finger of God was distinctly visible, and all that were present were ready to exclaim, "This is the Lord's do ing, and it is marvellous in our eyes." The pastor, who left a more agreeable field in the State of New York, one year ago, and gave himself to the more arduous and less re munerative work in Missouri, feels greatly en couraged and richly compensated for the trials and privations consequent upon his removal from a pleasant field of laboi in the East, to the rougher scenes of Western life. 0. P. Q. Marion CO., Mo., October 31, 1860. For the Amerman Presbyterian. SOME RESULTS' OF AN ELDEICS LABORS. Mai Enaba.7.- , Tb.elast , yeare.ak my minority Were spent in a town containing 'several hundred inhabitants, in a thickly settled neighborhood not many miles from the city of Philadelphia. There was a large society of Friends, and this was the , only one within a number of miles, except a very small Presbyterian church. Sometimes there would be'prette,hiog in it for several Sabbaths in succession. I think none were added to it for many years. It was, as all churches in its state will be, getting , weaker constantly. No attempt had been made to have worship without a minister. When it was generally known there would be preaching, from silty uinetz would attend, five or six being members of . the Ihurch. -After being in this state for- many /ears, the elder, who was a good man, though quite infirm, determined to see if the people would attend, if the little place of worship was opened on the Sabbath, the service to be conducted by himself, except the reading of a sermon, which he would ask some one to do for him, as he was to feeble to do it himself. The notice was given and the house opeuea, the peo ple generally attended; perhaps novelty brought them.; no matter, they came, The elder conducted the devotional exercises, and called upon a gentleman to read a, sermon he had selected, and closed with prayer and singing. The people were pleased, and from that time we had the church opened , every Sabbath, and when we had no minister, the elder conducted the PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, NO - VEBER 15, 1860. service. But it was not long before steps were taken to• have a pastor. The Lord sent them a man, and the church soon became full, a large edifice was built, and for many years it has been one of the strong churches of the neighborhood. In a few years'Bpiscopal and Methodist churches were built and supplied with, pastors.- I knew this place from my infancy, and believe if the elder had started his meeting years before he did, he would have, had quite as kind a, recep tion, and all, things would have been asfayorable. Let no elder who may read this say, " This must have been in a very, plain, homely town and neighborhood; my neighbors would tkot come to such a meeting" I think it was as difficult as manyi, we hadeix. lawyers and two or three &eters, and a num : , ber of educated ladies and gentlemen. The elder was 'a, man of plain, good sense, esteemed for his kindly deportment and - consistent piety. These gave him an influence, which in his latter days, he used - beneficially for the church and the glory of God. How many of our churches have died Out' for the want of one faithf4l elder:' ciniseqiience cif 'theniattenape r ine to iiisChMit duties they promised ;before' the 'clitirch and in the special preience of Grid they would try to do. Dear brethren, you hive. placed yourselves in 'icily responsible •eircumstinces, the Vows of God are upon you, and fa, if any of you, can avoid being instriunental in the salvation or destruction of softie Of your people. 'Not only 'ministers of the chnrch, but the elders haVe a solemn account to render of their stewardship, for -they alike were made overseers by the Holy Ghost. Nora—" Daring the time the elder was conduOting the services, a minister of the * Presbytery of . Philadelphia, (for there was but one then,) was to preach one Sabbath for us; from some cause he did not come, but sent a young man who was preparing for the ministry, in his place. The elder thought this quite out of the way, and doubted the propriety of a man who had not been licensed, being permitted to conduct a. religions service upon the Sabbath, especially to offer remarks upon a portion of scripture, as the student told him he thought ,:of doing._ The young man conducted, the, services in the afternoon. The elder spoke to me about them; he said he was pleased with the services, the manner and mat ter were good, but doubted the propriety of the thing, was :fearful it would lead to disorder in the-church; and thought it had better not be. 11,1 am not greatly:mis taken, it was the opposite that was for many years an error in our church—we acted, wisely in trying : to fill our young men's heads with truth, and their hearts with Christian zeal, but neglected .to give them oppor tunities to evince them, until they were called to be regular preaohers. Even at this day do we not more frequently see our young men fail in the pulpit, not for -the want of knowledge, but of ekill to bring it forth? LETTER PROM REV. C. H. SPURGEON. God save Garibaldi! A thousand benedictions upon his noble head! One spell man redeems the age from the shame of littleness! There is greatness enough in that one man to ennoble the century which begat him. 'We do not live, after -all, in the age of diluted virtue and departing manhood. Never Roman: toga hung about a hero mare glorious than he who, wears the red frock. • • - • • • • * • - valli the inteirrity of Fahricitis the Vat • • .• •.s of . Regulus with the self-forgetfulness of Clittius, the valor of Scipio with the pain-defying heroism of &Loyola. If all the marvels of patriotism were forgotten, they might be re-written from the life of this one Italian. ills portrait differs from that of any other living mortal, and seems to be the exact ideal of a patriot warrior's face, yet is there a gentleness gleaming from it which must mean more than swords and guns can ever help him to reveal. 0 that the God who raised up Cyrus and surnamed him, though he knew it not, may also give the enemies of freedom as driven Stubble to the sword of Garibaldi, and give to the.warrior himself, a name and a place among the soldiers of the cross. News of a great victory has just arrived. The battle was well fought, that is to say, the'troops of Francis 11. did more than .Neapolitans were ever expected to perform, and Garibaldi, with half their, number of men, beat them most thoroughly. It-is hoped that this will well-nigh end the contest with the Bomb-loving Bourbon, and bring the patriot chief face to face with the remaining despot. Many grave questions now await their answer, and no politician can guess what will come to pais, although every man has his own pet scheme of what should be done. What will Garibaldi do with Carom, Victor Em manuel and Napoleon? Row will he conduct himself in the midst of their diplomatic strata gems ? I believe that if he be, what I think he is, he will go right on, careless of all cautious, and prudent cowardice, and cut the knot,with his sword which crafty politicians cannot untie with their dexterous fingers. There is an old English picture of Turpin's ride to York. The• *toll-gate keeper has shut his spiked gate across the road, and an old man has turned his-donkey cart:right into the way, but the highwayman is not' to be stopped in his career, and at a flying leap clears every impediment, and leaves his enemies to wonder at his daring.. The Pope may supply the asinine part of the picture, and the constituted authorities of• France and Sardinia may keep the gates between them, but they may yet And the glorious fury of Garibaldi too high and strong a thing to be checked by their policy and, state craft. I see that Gavazzi is preaching constantly, in Naples, and I should imagine that there - i's povier in his ministry, for some of our newspapers call road s unfrockecLpriest. Greater commen dation, than • the condempation of some of our newspapers, no man need desire. • With Roman infidel Catholic reporters, and editors, the state ments of several of our daily papers upon =any matter which has to do with religion, need - always to be:reversed before you arrive at the real truth. The Times, with all its political twistings with the times, has nevertheless of late years usually dealt with fairness upon religious questions, and if not always right, it is not intentionally or spite fair wrong. While upon this subject, I must beg that neither you nor your readers will regard any newspaper as the organ of the English Bap tists. We have,no organ, welave no paper which represents the Calvinistic Baptist Churches of England: The Freeman, with its perverse ten dency towards the modern negative theology, has deceived the hopes of very many of us, and we look upon it rather with loathing than with love. Truly Baptists are not and cannot be negative theologians; the men who sway our literature may be never so unsafe, but they are exceptions to the rule. We are not a literary denomination in England, and it seems to be our fate that what little literature is attached to us should be a mere appendix, and not an index of our sentiments. There is an evil leaven in the literature of both the Baptist and Independent denominations which if not purged out will speedily leaven the whole lump.: The Soeinian notion of the Universal 'Fatherhood of God 'as opposed to his rectoral and judicial character is upheld and maintained in se veral a the Independent pulpits, and the Free man dares to quote extracts of a sermon as proof of the orthodoxy of its favored preacher,—ex tracts brimful of heresy, and averring the hetero dox dogma in the clearest terms. A controversy v commenced two or three YeptAgo,, hid caused , , much noise; it has.been for a*hile suspended, in the hope of better things, bikiritust be renewed with greater vigor, for othervr the stagnant air may nurture this doctrinal pes fence, and we May see Universalism becoming by; slow degrees ram pant among, us. Let the ranks of battle elose, and let victory be with the riht, 'be it where it oi, may. Abuse, misrepresentat on, slander await any man who shall thrust ft arm into this hornet's nest, but it must b.: done, and - happy shall he be who shall be called ; to 'do it. Breth ren, abide in the faith, and pay that we may,do the same. 1 ' ' - Boston Vi r atchtnan;and Reflector: The facts seert, in table-t4rning, are credible enough. It is a mistake to'..suppese that our doubts fall on' them; our dotibts fall on the facts not seen, but, inferred; becaitSe it is these, 'and these:alone, which' make spirit-rapping'and table turning niystelious.. What sa' - honest man tells me he saw, I will ,h o 4e 4 e: ire saw, if it comes within the possibilities of vi in;, my ,skepticism begins When he ceases to narrate what he actually saw, and Substitute's his i I , 4ryretation . Thus the,table moves, and ; obtarditwitholit any agenq 4,6'' - t.4‘ lirr - Trlnt , rtibt 6 by.no means 'aere:are many .phene pens., witnessed, pf which °apses are coin- pletelyhidden froth us, aqihttle as we may be - able to explain how a table' can rock,' or run about the room, when we •cannot' dbtect'the agency by which it is, moved;this is Up - 4round for denying the fact. But spiritualists make an enormous mistake; they suppose th'fit because they can de tect, no person'present *AI% - the %hie, or pro ducing the raps,, it is therela proved that. no per son did these things; because they are Wholly un able to explain how the things;Were prOditeed, "it is evident that no physical. pauses could have' prn dined there." This childiSh logic is paraded by men of talent and eulture r who appeal to the re spectability of the witnesses they, call to testify to the facts They do nut, understand that, the facts which they have witnessed:tie very simple very credible, and.would be intelligible to a if other facts which are not concealed were once made visible. Nothing,* more inexplicable than a good conjuring trick ; - Eloping is more intelligi ble when the trick is explained. There is some one detail which we do 'IA observe, either be cause the' conjurer has,. , v l ...ssfully diverted our attention, or because he IN been quick enough• to baffle us; and this one detail makes the. whole mysterious. If we are to, seeept, the narratives of respectable witnesses as giitrantees of the truth of Spiritualism—or if we are% trust the evidence's of our own senses as irresistible proofs of the truth of any inferenees me may tuaake- respecting. them, there will be no limit to credulity; Robert Hou din and Bosco will-be high. priests, with superna , timid power. Not long ,ago the follovting marvellous Pheno mena were witnessed by Iftindreds of respectable people. In the centre ota public garden there was a large boat with globular silken sails. Into this boat. Ibur persons we* invited. At a given signal' this boat, with the four sitters, rose, from the ground, nobody hoiStitt it, nobody touching it; nprards - it rose, attire the ,honse-tops, and finally sailed through the air'towards the coast of France. Beside this, thil ;narratives of rocking tables are trifles. Yet this was seen in open day light by hundreds'of spectators. If the spiritual ist logic is to be folliiwecWWe may prove that - this boat was raised :in the - - arriby spiritual agency, because "no physical to s could have raised it, I_no. one ta!,hed.the boat, one could have touch -Er-tr-ro long - i'itkar' r f wArl'lleyou'ur reach, it eontbineh A' 6 ,s,:higher and higher. To those who are acqiiV..W with, balloons, this.phe nomenon is no marvel; to those who understand why the lighter gas, contained within the silken sails, must be pushed upwards by the heavier air, and in,pushing upwards must drag f the.boat after it, the phenomenon is intelligible. But sup posing the spectators all ignorant of these things, they would of course omit all mention of them in their narrative, 'and thereby the narrative would assume a marvellous air. They would narrate truly all that they saw; but they would not truly all that was to be seen. TREE-iscon. - E. We may thus understand how in honest witness may narrate truly all the facts which 'came under his observation in a 'spiritual science, and"'ay omit other facts, which, had' he observed them, would explain the whole, mystery. When we hear marvels narrated which contradict universal experience, and physical Taws, we may be certain that the, narrator - mita something. 'which wolild remove the. contradiction. His mistake lies in suppoaing4hat because , be could see no, more than he relates, there was no more to be seen. Every science at a juggler's Would warn hini agtrinst such a mistake. ." _ We find in one of our Presbyterian exchangei of Cincinnati, the following outline of remarks in the Noon-day Prayer•' meeting, by. Dr. Thompson, formerly of. Buffalo and Philadelphia, now pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church Of Cincin nati:--- Rev. Pr: 'l`hetnpsonovlto has just returned from a trip to Europe, rose, during the meeting,. and made some • very -interesting. remarks-on the sub jeotof „God's providence and his .word, which, are Worth recording: - would reniiitymi, brethren, that when-I-last' met with you, some three months age, we entered into. .a sort of noVe pant. that you would,reniember,me,io your prayers during my absence, and 1 0.14 would remember . . you I have , no doubt the, covenant has been ffilfilled on your• part; and' I have in sOme'feeble way fulfilled it on my part. Arid-Vain right glad to meet with._ you agatia m play -gratitude for this privilege : iatinattorable,„ s.r jr have ,no doubt that it was YOUtprayerajiiid Mine, that the providence of . diid has and brought me back again-4or that proifitierice has scarcely ever been. so remarkable: toviards. me:is -during this absence,- I do not mean that .1 have been; snatched from any partieular-perii--frona shipwreck, frona an earthquake; or froth any violent disease. There has been nothing of that sort. Dut on the 'contrary, 'during- all my .absence, I-have not-been -for a single moment in-any:peril known 'Wine. I crossed the ocean both ways, I have been among the mountains of Switzerland, , l stood in places where others have fillen=4 . .aseended perilous heights, I stood' on . a spot' 'Whence a fellBW-mortal tad-fallen four hundred feet-.into the chasm be aeath,--,-and yet ,at notime was I in any personal danger that I know 0f... This I consider as a welt more remarkable providence, and for which I Ought' to be profoundly thankful, than if . I had been permitted to' full into, danger, and 'then been rescued froth it. And nowthati am here, breth ren, he added, I feel like going to work Heartily. I feel hungry to preach. There is power. in the gospel. We are not as efficient, I think, as we. might be, because our faith has respect too ex clusivelY to God 'PersonalsY--it ought to extend to everything .thaw . belongs to God. God's word is just as true, aOod. is,t7.and me -ought to. have. confidence in it. It is . the sword of the Spirit— an instrument and a power which every one min use. It has -beetileft- too much 'in the hands of the ministry. It; is: the privilege of every brother .and every sister ,here to use On a former . visit to, . Europe , l.had conversation on this sub ject with Dr. Chalmers. Re.said, " Rro. Thomp-, 'son,' a sermon consists properly of but two parts,,, the exposition - and: the application. : 'The Word' of I TABLE-TURFII , I4. Blackwood's Magazine GOOD THOUGHTS. God is "the 'sword)ofrthe Spirit, , whiCh mnit-be drawn from the scabbard—that's exposition.; and it must be wielded - with the hand r —that's appli cation." Exposition draws out the truth and gives it visibility—then it is ready to be wielded with efficacy as an instrument for 'good. THE 'PRESBYTERIAN MINISTRY OP' THE OLDEN TIME. We have descriptions in English literature, of the lives of beneficed clergymen. The affection ate veneration of •Goldsmith,' touching' his sweet and 'golden : genius, has made the 'country vicar classic, wherever our language is known. The whole structure of English society, lei happily; so penetrated by the Established Church, that every book of country life contains its rector or its cu rate. Presbyterian ministers have hardly been so: fortunate in. their chroniclers. Sir Walter Scott was not prepared to do them justice, and while Professor Wilson has written far more truly of them, yet, usually, they stand out upon the page of general` history and literature, rather at those salient times when the stern virtues, for which they are remarkable, were needed.. The world understands thak,theydo not blench when tie storm, is wildest. . !_zyt,.Ui.....its.crtilaVieither 'the Thicite l til%s o , , e battle field, or the roar offthe populace; or the , slciw"tortures of the dungeon., or the sharp pains of martyrdom, has been able to, subdue their un quenchable spirit ; „ It has„fallen to their lot,, too, to encourage revolfitien, because they have always Stood by popular rights; when other men . have gained the reputation of Christian mildness; by shrinking from them. They, too, have keen called, in . the world's, history, to maintain those sterner forms of 'Christian doctrine, which the world else would hive allowed - to . die, In a word, &amuse other men would dot` do the wolh, the I Presbyterian ministry have been' the forlorn hope; the volunteer , storming party; the - defenders of lone towers; the besieged in famine-stricken cities; ',the leaders of the persecuted hill-folk; the guides of colonie,s of outlawed men; the apostles of liberty *hen liberty was most unpopu lar--they have been everything except flatterers in courts and enconragers,of despotism. Jut, it is not so well known, at least by the wo'rld at large, whit their manner of life has been in milder times, and in the quiet society of their families and their fleas. Thoroughly educated, usually having attended an ac,adeniy where sound instruction was given, then graduated at college and at the theological seminary, they accept a call in• some . obscnre place, where they expect to'be quiet, do some good, and by the mercy of. God, reach 'heaven at last. The detestable tabit of diainissing a minister every few years,:has scarcely reached those secluded retreats, and 'a pastorate extended to from twenty to fifty years, was not uncommon. Thus they lived in the same parson age all this time; they baptized and married almost two generations, and very many whom they loved they had laid in the grave. With each suc cessive year they took deeper hold upon the hearts of their people; their children grew up, known and hived by, the whole neighborhood. Here they studied quietly and undisturbed the Word of God, old tomes of sound divinity and standard litera, titre; the works they read had the advantage of being worth reading; the world, often manygene rations of it, had sifted-out the Chaff for them, and they gave their time and thoughts only to books "thakitaxtheen stamped as stendard, by man - - kind. Some of them taught small classical schools; a dozen or, Apore boys or young men, preparing for college, received a thorough training in Greek and :Lido especially in 'Homer and Horace. They bed ociunir — L7MSCOgrW , amr gradually wrought into the minds and hearts-of their,people„ the very truth of God's Book: The World roared through great cities, and poured its waves along great highways; it disturbed them but jittle; they abode under the shadow of the Almighty. High. thoughts, indeed, were theirs, but they were mainly thoughts of God's purposes, conceived in eternity, and an process of execution here, and their profoundest delight was in seeing the seeds of divine truth blossoming from the heartsi of the young immortals 'committed to their charge. To them ; the meeting of the Presbytery and the Synod, were events, and some three or four times in their lives, they were interested, but rather quiet members, of the General Assembly in Philadelphia. Stern only in defence of the principles of-their faith, and in their judgments of themselves, there bloomed all along their lives the gentleness of Christ i and around no men gathered a body of people more reliable for every thing which sustains and elevates a State. From such flocks came forth, at need, patriots to defend their- country, and honest men in every depart ment of life. The religion of these churches was nevera.trade or a mere sentiment • it was sacred as the ark of the covenant, and deep as the sun less caverns of the immortal spirit. We say not that a different race might not have been trained to excellence by different methods,, but if Presby terianism is a. synonyin for great and good results, it is owing to the patient labor, the undying ener gy, and the faithful piety of these men. NEW MOVEMENT AGAINST THE SLAVE TRADE. The notable increase of the African slave trade in recent years, has attracted as much attention in Great Britain' as in this country. Made the sub ject of discusaion in the leading journals and the Parliament, it has stimulated the philanthropic people of England , to a new effort for the moral and material welfare of the African race. The characteristic trait,of the new plan is its direct application of the forces whieh it proposes to employ; to the' material interests of life. It com mences its reform With reference not to a' faiture, but to the present existence, and aims to make the Africans , their .own ,protectors by civiiiiino theni. , The name of the new`association the African Aid Society. The Chairtnan 'of its Executive Committee is Loicl Alfred Churchill; and among the members pf its council are the lion. William Ashley, Lord Calthorpe, the Rev. Mr. ta,Trobe, whose name is, so ,well known in ,connection with the lldravian Missions. Denby Seymour, M.' P., and Dr: Norton , ShaW, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society— The object of the society is thee developeinent of the material resources of Africa., Madagascar and the adjacent islands, and the piomotion of the Christian civilization of the African races. 'The' means which it proposes to employ are the: encouragement of the production of cetton, silk, indigo, And,sugar by the introduc tion of skilled labor, both African and European, into those parts of the earth which are inhabited by the Aftican race.' This involves, of course, the supply of mechanical and agricultural imple. meats, and the assistance, by loans and otherwise, of free Africans, willing'to emigrate; from Canada and "other parte," meaning the United States, to Africa, and even to the British West Indies. The society proposes also to aid in the formatioh of industrial missions, in harmony, if possible, with those already established for the extension of Christianity in Africa, and to encourage and assist exploring expeditions into the unknown interior of Africa, arid' to the still more hidden recesses of Madagascar. The plan is certainly a vast one, but it is not impracticable, because it can be put in action at almost any time, and in one place or another, or in seieral, according to circumstances. It has the one great clement of success, as far as regards its operation upon those whom it is intended to benefit, in that it proposes to make it more for their interest to live a civilized than an uncivilized Prea. Oiarterly Review life. . And, although it may be difficult to make African savages comprehend, what is their true interest, still it is not absolutely impossible, and the difficulty Will diminish every year. The efforts of missionaries have not been very effectual in Africa, owing to the extreme moral and intel lectual degradation of the people upon whom they have been called to expend their labors. We are not without hope that the new agency (although we see in its plan an eye to British as well as to African interest) may prove a useful pioneer to those' whose office is the simple diffusion of Christi , anity, and even an efficient co-laborer with them. WRITING FOR THE NEWSPAPERS Some very true and common sense , remarks on this subject are found in a recent number of, the Presbyterian,llerald, which will prove interesting to our readers, and we trust.profitable both to such as are, and such as ought to be . correspondents of this Journal: - This brings us to the second Cause of the lack of interest in our papers, which is the fact that our strongest men, awe general thing neglect to write for them, and under-rate,that mode of moving the public mind. " Newspaper scribbling," as it fis veil * often contemptuously termed, is a thing '*that Is entirely b&leatit their node& To;'Write a book, or an article for a Quarterly Review, in which they can display their learnimr and logic, calls forth their uttermost powers, and stimulates their highest ambition; but to pen an article a column or a column and-a half long, fora news paper, which would be read , hyfay people where the Review or the book would be read by one, is entirely beneath their dignity.. They forget that newspapers furnish the staple of the reading of the masses of the people of this country. Fifty people, read newspapers wherefive read hooks. You cannot take up .a Methodist newspaper which does not contain articles from their Bishops and, the Presidents of their Colleges and Seminaries of learning and their most popular preachers; but 'it is not so in Presbyterian newspapers. Our Presidents and Professors of Colleges and Semi naries, and popular preachers, ignore, to a great extent, this mode of usefulness. The Presbyte rian editor must either fill his columns with ex tracts from books and his exchanges, or with the productions of such writers as he Can enlist in the service; and when one of the great men of the Church does write for him, instead of popularizing his thoughts, and adapting them to the masses, in nine eases out of ten he spins them out so long that nobody reads them, and the peor editor is be rated roundly for waking such a dull and lifeless paper, in consequence of inserting them. Take our own paper as an illustration. It is taken by more than three hundred ministers of the Gos pel—many-of them the ablest men in the. Church --and yet of this number, not over fifty, or one in six, has ever permed a line for it, though solicited to, do so again and again. These three hundred ministers do not preach to an average of more than from one hundred and fifty to two hundred peo ple, from 'week to week, whilst through our co lumns they might reach from twelve to fifteen thousand every week. And yet they entirely neg lect the one mode of doing good and spend, all their strength upon the other. We beseech our brethren, who have hitherto neglected this mode of doing good, to think of these things, and to come to our aid in reaching this mass of ,minds to which we speak every week. No one man can make an interesting and useful paper, no matter what may be his resources. It is the joint pro duct of many minds, lo,olr,ing at subjects from a variety of stand-points and presenting the facts are daily occurring around them in their setiiVrai iocanuel7 thoughts and facts is what as needed in a news paper. As a-consequence of this under-estimate of fhe power of religious periodicals among the Presby terian ministry, but few efforts are made by them to extend their circulation among the people, com pared with those which are put forth by the mi nistry in other Churches. Every Methodist mi nister, for example, considers himself an agent for the extension of the newspapers, of his Church. It is a part of his official business to see that his flock are supplied with the proper kind of reading, both books and periodicals. The consequence is, that their papers have a far wider circulation than ours can possibly have, although our people are far more a reading, people, as a mass, than theirs are. A few of our ministers and elders make ef- forts to supply the people with books and periodi cals, but the general rule is to leave the people to supply theyaselves. The consequence is, the papers have a limited circulation, and that fact re acts upon the papers themselves. AND THEN Many years ago there was a good man who lived at one of the Italian Universities. One day a young Man ran up to him with a face beaming with joy, and said that his greatest wish was now fulfilled, his parents having just given him per mission to study the law. "So now lam come," he added, "to the law-school of this University on account of its great fame; and I mean to spare no pains to get through my studies as well and as quickly as possible." In this way he went on talking for a long time. When at last be came to a stop, the good man, who had been listening to him with great patience, said, "Well, and when you have got through your course of studies, what do you mean to do then?" "Then I shall take my Doctor's degree," said the young man. "And then?" asked St. Filippo Neri again. "And then," continued the youth, "I shall have auumber of difficult cases to manage; and I shall catch people's notice by my eloquence, my zeal, my learning, my acuteness, and gain a great reputation." " - And then?" repeated they holy Oman. "And then," replied the youth—" why, then there cannot be a question, I shall be promoted to some high office or other; besides. I shall make money and grow rich." "And then?" repeated the old man.. 'ft And then," added the young lawyer,—" then I shall live comfortably and honorably in health and dignity, and shall be able to look forward to a happy old age." "Oh! was not all this to look at things un seen ?" Bat the holy man had not done. Again he asked, ",And then ?" "And then," said the youth, with a faltering voice,—" and then,—and then,--then I shall die." • Here St. Filippo again lifted up his voice and solemnly said, " And then?" This last "and then ?" was brought home by God's Spirit to the young man's heart. From that time he ceased to look at things seen. He began to feel the power of things unseen. OUR ACCUSERS All the elements accuse me. The heaven says, I have given the light for thy comfort. The air says, I have given every sort of winged creatures for thy pleasure. The water says, I have supplied thy table with my countless luxuries. The earth says, I have furnished thee bread and wine; but yet thou hast abused all these blessings and per verted =them to a contempt of their Creator. Therefore all our benefits cry -out against me. The fire says, Let him be burned in me.. The water says, Let him be drowned in me. The air says, Let him be shaken by a tempest. The earth cries; Let him be buried in me. The holy angels, whom God has sent for ministers of love, and who .are given to be our joyful companions in future, VOL. V.—NO. 12. -Whole No. 229. accuse me. By my BM I hare deprived myself of their holy ministries in this life, and the hope of their fellowship in the future. The voice of God, which is the divine law, accuses me. The law must be fulfilled, or I perish; but to fulfil the law is, for me, impossible, and to perish in eternity is intolerable. God, the most severe Judge, the powerful executor of his eternal law, accuses me. I cannot deceiv a g,him, for be is omniscience itself. I cannot escap4Mim, for his omnipotence every where.reigns. THE JUBILEE - IN CONSTANTINOPLE. The traveller, who for the first time crosses the Alleghenies by, the way of the national turnpike, is apt to feel much disappointment. The road rises so gradually that he can hardly realize that he is ascending the far famed moun tains. Only When the road winds around some bold headland'where he can look down and out upon the low lands through which he had be fore passed, can he measure satisfactorily his upward progress. So it is in the missionary work. Little by little does the church rise up to mountain heights. A single day's journey, a single lifetime's achievement seems so small that impatient spirits think sometimes we are going backward ratb4 than l'Orward, sliciit down ward rather than reaching upward toward the summit. Those who are accustomed to ridicule Exeter Hall philanthropy and Tabernacle ora tory, forgetting the Saviour's parables in illus tration of the nature of his kingdom's progress, are apt to say, What have your missions done ? Now and then, however, we come to some turn where our missionary path enables ELS to glance backward and measure our upward pro gress. Such an occasion is that of the Jubilee held by American missionaries, in Turkey, in commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the American Board of Commissioners for Fo reign Missions. In Constantinople, in the chief seat of Mohammedanism, in the chapel of the King of Holland, a large assembly came to gether to thank God for the wonderful works he has wrought through the instrumentality of the American Board. Individuals were there from fourteen different countries, representing almost every branch of Protestantism. All the accounts which we have seen speak of the meet ing as most interesting. Dr. Goodell presided, a man who had wit nessed the ordination of the first four missiona ries of this now great world-wide organization. Dr. Schauffier, who was a boy twelve years of age when the Board was formed, told how he bad been converted and sent to Ainerica to be sent back as a missionary to Austria, Russia, and Turkey. 'He 'said he "would rather be a door-keeper .in connexion with the Atherican Board than to rule in the royal palace of Con stantinople." Dr. Dwight told how he had seen some of the first missionaries to the Sandwich Islands sent out on their-long and doubtful journey, and how, when he first went to Turkey, he tra velled nearly eighteen months in Asia without finding one man who gave good evidence of true piety, while now you may meet such in every city, and almost every village. Dr. Riggs had an equally interesting narra tive as one who had been present at the Fiftieth Anniversary, of the, Mills Missionary Society, that used to meet secretly under cover of the hay-stack at Williamstown, Massachusetts. He also mentioned the remarkable fact that the present King of the Sandwich Islands never saw an idol until he saw one in the museum, in aware that the fatherßiff i kurg T io r la i --- ter. ' Is there no progress revealed in such state ments ? Slowly yet really has the work ad vanced. If we have not ascended so rapidly as we could have desired, if our slowness has made some faint hearts turn back, we can still with propriety exclahn, " God bath done great things, whereof we are glad!" True, dark, terrific moun tains of error and superstition tower above us, and frown down upon as, bat when we cast a look at the plain far below, and the intermedi ate ranges already surmounted, we feel the in vigorating power of a new and stronger hope. "Who art thou, Oh, great mountain? Be fore Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain, and he shall bring forth the head-stone thereof with shootings, crying, GRACE, GRACE UNTO IT!" THE GREAT DELUSION OF INFIDELITY I understand that as the most dangerous because most attractive form of modern infidelity, which, pretending to exalt the beneficence, of the Deity, degrades it into a reckless infinitude of mercy, and blind obliteration of the work of sin; and which does this chiefly by dwelling on the manifold ap pearances of God's kindness on the face of creation. Such kindness is, indeed, everywhere and always visible, but not alone. Wrath and threatening are invariably mingled with the love; and in the utmost solitudes of na ture the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as of heaven. It is well for us to dwell with thankful ness on the unfolding of the flower and the falling of the dew, and the sleep of the green fields in the sunshine; but the blasted trunk, the barren rock, the moaning of the bleak winds, the roar of the black, perilous whirlpools of the mountain streams, the solemn solitudes of moors and seas, the con tinual fading of all beauty into darkness and of all strength into dust, have these no language for us? We may seek to escape their teachings by reason inoa touching the good which is wrought out of all evil; but it is vain sophistry. The good suc ceeds to the evil as day succeeds the night, but so also the evil to the good. Gerizim and Ebal, birth and death, light and - darkness" ' heaven and hell, divide the existence of man and his Futurity. —.kuskin. WITATHA.S BEEN DONE ?—Modern Missionary effort has given to 20,000,000 of people in Asia, Africa, and America, the inestimable benefit of a Written' languav n e, and this, as it has been their gift, has also been consecrated and used by mis sionaries as the means of diffusing a knowledge of Christ and, His revelation Twenty dialects of Africa have thus been enlisted in the cause or truth. In one of these, the language of three Million's of men, a newspaperis published, printed by the natives temselves, and circulating among 3,000 readers. Thus, then, the word of God has been translated and a Christian literature com menced for five-sixths of the heathen inhabitanti of the world. In this department of effort most of the difficulties have been overcome. May we not regard this as a promise of still greater suc cess? In benighted Africa about one hundred churches have been organized in different parts cf the coast and interior, and more than ten thousand converts have been gathered into them. In India 1,170 missionaries, native preachers, and cate chists, are employed; 75,000 scholars are taught in the mission schools, of whom 15,000 are fliu du girls; and 125,000 converts have been gained not including those who have finished their course. In China about ninety missionaries an! laboring at fourteen different stations. Through out the whole of the mission-field, nearly 3,000 Europeans, and American missionaries, and their assistants, and more than 6,000 native agents of all kinds, are engaged, havinc , around them about 500,000 persons brought under n the influence of the truth. The' churches thus gathered are ger minal churches, generally dispersed over a wide field of labor, and at the same time occupying po sitions of great influence. Gerhard's Meditations.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers