GENESEE EVANGELIST.---Whole No. 763. /ottvg. A CHILD AT PLAY. BY REP. JAMES OILBORME, LIONS. A rosy child went forth to play, In the first flush of hope and, pride, Where sands in silver beauty lay, Made smooth by the retreating tide; And, kneeling on the trackless waste, Whence ebb'd the raters many a mile, iliffaised in hot and trembling haste, ' Arch, wall, and tower,—a goodly pile. But, when the shades of evening fell, Veiling the blue . and peaceful deep, The tolling of the vesper bell Call'd that boy builder home to sleep. He pasted a long and restless night, . Dreaming of etruclures tall and fair; He came, with the returning light, And lol—the faithless sands were bare. Less wise than that unthinking child, Are those deem'd great of mortal birth, Who grasp, with strivings warm and wild, The false and fading toys of Earth. Gold, learning, gloryl—What are they Without the faith that looks on high?— The sand forts of a child et play, Which are not when the wave goes by. 011, STEAL NOT THOU MY FAITH AWAY. BY REY. JANES OILBORNE LYONS Ohl steal not thou my faith away, Nor tempt to doubt a lowly mind; Make all that Earth can yield thy prey, But leave this heavenly gift behind; Our hope is but the aenboy's dream When loud winds rise in wrath and gloom: Our life—n faint and fitful beam That lights us to the cold dial tomb. Yet since, as ONE from heaven has said, There lies beyond that dreary bourne A region where the faithful dead Eternally forget to mourn, ' Welcome the scoff, the sword, the chain, The burning waste, the black abyss; I shrink not from the path of pain, Which leads me to that world of bliss. Then hush, thou troubled heart, be still ; Renounce thy vain philosophy; Seek thou to work thy Maker's will, And light from Heaven shall break on thee, To glad thee in the weary strife, Where strong men sink with failing breath, To oheer thee in the noon of life, And bless thee in the night of death. For the American Presbyterian. "HOW TO ENJOY LIFE:" OR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HYGIENE.* CHAPTER 2.---PUBLIC WORSHIP. CONCLUDED. BY 'BB. ffi. COBNBII M. D. rn the public worship of God, his power is seen in renewing the heart; in imparting to it his "saving health;" in transforming the soul into his divine image, and pouring into it the light of life and the joy of heaven. In the public worship of God, too, Christians are perfected in the divine life. The disciples of Christy,Kien first hem of the 'Spirit, are children. They are to be fed and nourished by spiritual food till they attain "the full stature of perfect men in Christ Jesus." It is as much a part of divine physiology, that the child of grace should grow by the preached word, and by the administered ordi- MONS of the gospel, as that the newly-born in fant should be nourished by its proper food. It is by the application of divine truth that the Spi rit carries on the work of sanctification. "Sanc tify them through thy truth; thy word is truth." "He takes of the things" of Christ "and shows them to" the Christian; but he usually does it through the instrumentality of human means. The gospel is a "treasure in earthen vessels," and it is God's appointment that these vessels should be used in sanctifying human hearts. It is in the public worship of God that Chris tians have an opportunity of openly professing their faith in the Saviour and their love to him. Here they surround the table of the Lord and commemorate his death. Here they proclaim to the world that they are not ashamed "of Christ crucified." Here they are seen "a peculiar peo ple," holding communion with one another, and with Christ their Head. Here their hearts, their object, their all are one. Here they are preparing for mansions of bliss at God's right hand. Their prayers, their praises, yea, all their services ascend before him, as sweet incense, when offered in faith through the sacrifice of his Son. Here they are formed into churches for the mutual edification of each other, and "for the furtherance of the gos pel," that they may send it abroad to all the na tions of the earth, till the sound shall be heard from pole to pole, "the kingdoms of this world," —its divided and jarring kingdoms—have become the united and peaceful "kingdom of our God and his Christ." Here the faithful minister of Jesus "Establishes the strong, restores the weak, Reclaims the wanderer, binds the broken heart, And, armed himself in panoply•complete Of heavenly temper, furnishes with arms, Bright as his own, and trains, by every rule Of holy discipline, to glorious war, The sacramental boat of God's elect," 'Such are some of the healthful effects of public worship. Many more might be named, but these are sufficient for our presentpurpose, to wit, that of spiritual hygiene. The gospel is a debtor to no man. No man can do without a preached gospel. People sometimes say, 44 We are not able to support the,' gospel;" and parishes, that are not wealthy, sap , " We are not able to support the gospel." Now, this language conveys the idea that the gospel is a tax, that it diminishes so much the wealth of the place, with out rendering an equivalent. But this is a most incorrect idea. The gospel more than supports itself wherever it-is faithfully preached. In a worldly point of view, merely, it saves more money in curtailing extravagance, in the suppression of crime, intemperance and vice of various kinds, than it costs to support it. Would you see this proved ? Compare those places that have a preached gospel with those that have it not. Are the people who enjoy it poorer than those who do not possess it? Are they more ignorant as it respects worldly knowledge? More illiterate? Stupid, indolent? Go into a town where the gospel is preached, where it is decently and honorably supported, and where the sanctuary is regularly and punctually visited; are there more marks of wretchedness, poverty and decay there, than where the gospel is not preached ? Are the houses more wanting in decency? Are there more brokeq panes of glass; more roofs which "through the idleness of the hands, drop through?" Are the walls and fences I (Entered according to /Lot of libnitiss, la the year 1860, by Wiir CORNILL, la the Clerk's Office of the Dlatrlat Court of the United Mates, for the Pader"' Dletrlat of Penneyleanht.] more dilapidated? Does the ground more resem ble the "sluggard's vineyard," covered with net ties and thorns? Are these marks of decay mere prevalent where the gospel is preached, even among a sparse population, than where it is not? Every man must answer these questions in the negative. Come with me to our beautiful .city of "Bro therly Love." Do you find the best population in those streets and lanes where public worship is neglected.? Are the most learned, elevated and refined people there? Where do you find the best houses;the finest stores, the most industrious and wealthy citizens? Not, surely, itt those little filthy, dirty streets and alleys, where every other dot opens to a grog-shop, atid where .the wretch ed inhabitants rarely or never go to church. Are youa merchant--in whiclittown would you prefer to open your stnie ip ,the , country, where the gospel is. preached; or Wherptirlictintr7 - 11r which street: in the city would you , prefer -to establish your son in business, where the.people are church going,-or !Olere they are not? , These are, plain matters of fact. Doctors have to deal with facts when they talk about health, and they ought to deal with facts when they speak of spiritual hy giene as, well as bodily. Setting all moral and religious considerations aside, and contemplating those only which refer to a lucrative employment, who would not prefer to dwell among a church-going pe?ple? ' But, I can safely go one step farther, and as leng sermons are seldom good or ' much liked, this remark shall end the present chapter. Mau needs the relaxation of the Sabbath. He re quires public worship, and he cannot " enjoy . life," and it is doubtful whether he could exist in a civilized state without these blessings. The eX periment has been tried. That infidel nation, France, at the period styled the "French Revolu tion," burned the Bible, blotted out the Sabbath, and' destroyed public worship. Were they then, better off?, No; they found they could not at tend to the common avocations of life. They needed a day of relaxation from labor, and the constant routine of dissipation. They would not have a seventh, day's rest,•because it had been ap pointed by God and sanctioned by Christianity, which hitter they wished to annibilath. But they appointed a tenth day's relaxation, a Decae as they 'called it. Here• learn the wisdom of God in the appointment of the Sabbath, and the institution of public worship, and the consummate folly of man when attempting to refine, upon, or annul divine institutions. ror thidimeriein Presbyterian. LETTER FROM IT.,I4BANON. DEAR EDITOR:— Your readers will be interested to learn-that Fuad Naha has returned from Damascus to `Beirut, and that the French troops, with thuexception of wteletsehmeeit-at Irtiddeerr; 'Near-Detre MYW,) have left the mountains and encamped about three hours' ride from us, at the east and west in Beirut, and Kob Elias in the Bukaa. As we anticipated, they found no occasion to fight the Dames in Mount Lebanon. The mixed Commiesion is in session at Beirut for the trial of the Druse Sheikhs. Said BeteTne blat, their Commander-in-Chief, and wealthiest prince, was or; trial before the Turkish tribunal, and it was evidently the design of that tribunal to find him guilty, irrespective of the evidence, and confiscate his property. Lord Dufferin, the English Commissioner., interfered, and introduced five representatives of himself and the other Euro pean Commissioners, in order to secure a fair and impartial trial. , Thirteen of these Sheikhs pre sented themselves in obedience to the.summons, a ij were apprehended and regarded as guilty un le7T9my can prove their innocence. The other Sheikhs who did not obey the summons, were pro nounced guilty and rebellious," and all their pro perky was confiscated. The trial is secret, and the most that we hear is, that there is no progress. Lord Dufferin remarked to me on Saturday last, "Only England and America, in such cases, regard all persons innocent until they are preyed guilty; and that such trials in Europe are usually secret." The Lord will overrule their counsels for His own glory. The decision of this Turkish tribunal will be re vised by the mixed Commission, upon the mem hers 'of which devolves the heavy responsibility of enacting what is right in resolving the Syrian question, and providing an efficient government for this ,unhappy country. The present position of affairs is remarkable as the events themselves, which have attracted the attention and awakened the sympathies of the civilized world. Indeed, all the world is interested, since all the races of men and all their religions have their origin and meet ing-place in this quarter of the globe: and it is consonant to my office and the aim of my life, un der all circumstances, amid all kinds of religion, in behalf of all races, or rather all divisions of our one race of men upon the earth, by all possible instrumentalities, to labor for an increased interest of all mankind, in the welfare of one another, and in the advancement of their common Redeemer's cause under the whole heavens. lam fully per suaded that the Lord is in all the past events and in the present attitude of affairs, with a provi dential concern for a brighter prospect in the future; and. in this persuasion I am content to await the issue; It is matter of thankful record that no Ameri can missionaries have been lost amid the massacres, and. that we have so many of us continued at our stations and at our work. Our Druse neighbors have said more than once, that a hundred men like your bumble correspondent in Mount Leba non, would have prevented all this war. And ought not the United States of America to have furnished that hundred missionaries for this goodly mountain many years ago, or now to send them hither? Of a hundred missionaries in Mount Lebanon, each would have a parish of half a dozen villages, and a population of three thousand souls, of all religions except the true. Such a demon stration from the United States would k look as though we intended and expected to evangelize the Mountain. France has just sent 5000 soldiers to subdue the .Druse country, and found no occa sion .to fire a gun. All were afraid, and many fled. There is indeed a moral power in mere numbers; and how can the church of God achieve the moral conquest, of the world, without sending forth her choicest sons and.daughters, and consecrating,her accumulated trasureaand energies to this glorious and bloodless conflict? Omnipotence is pledged to crown every well directed effort with an endless PHILADELPHIA, ~-.TIIO income of joy. But, alas! notwithstanding tho clearest promises of God, all men seek their own, and not the things of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the predicted and promised renovation of the whole Oath. Now, permit me, sir;to transcribe the following "Petition'of all the Sheikh's and commons of the Druse nation of Mount Lebanon, addressed 'to her 'imperial authority, the Queen / of England. May God grant her continuance of royal power and its increase, in the name of God! Amen. ." Whereas, God has spared His peolij? and be stowed uponthem, your Imperial Higlinss and government filled with mercy and com Passion to all His creatures, whosoever they may be, and to whatever sect -they may'belong; more"espe cially towards those who may be judged without justice andwithoirt nvidenee; wherefore„, vie,your serviiqopproach : rair tliron'tcliegaTeng that the mercy oryour Imperial Highness may pro tect us; and praying Obi regarded by the eye of compassion,that justice maybe done to us We are : einbaldened to present this petition to thesogin- - meat of England, just and comPassionateCwards the worshippers of God; and we are emboldened to include a journal containing an explanation of the events which have happened between us and the Maronite nation of Mount Lebarren, in order that all'the occurrences which this journal contains from the commencement to the end, may be told, to your Imperial ears. We pray that your Impe rial compassion may cover us, and that your judg ment may be according to justice and impartial evidence. Now, we bend and fall down before the throne of your Imperial Highness, that you may be cornpassionate unto - us in doing justice and in concerting with our Ottoman government,' the Most high, and with other exalted pdivers, in order that we may not be treated according to the false am •sations of our enemies, or punished before we are tried or found 'guilty. God forbid that Imperial monarchs should - do any thing that is unjust, This is what we are emboldened to petition for at the throne of your Imperial Highness. May God preserve her! In the name of God. Amen. the humble servant, because this petition is in the name of the Druse nation, when it is not customary to affix the seals of all, have affixed my name and seal in testimony of its being theirs. "Aug. 17, 1860." The signer of this Oriental and royal petition, is the same Sheikh upon whom the Rev. J. WI,. and myself called. Re is one of the Chief Akkals. Praying that our favored countrymen will take a deeper interest in the Druses and other inhabi tants of Mount Lebanon, I remain, in Christian love, ever your brother, WILLIAM A. BENTON. For the American Presbyterian. DENOMINATIONAL, CAM - OLIO, ORTHO- If ,our Presbyterian Church is.true and worthy, I ask, why be ashamed of her? why blink the question of love for her, living for her, commend ing her, fighting for her, on principles uf Christian polemics and controversy apostolical? That there is much good, doing and, done, in other evangeli . cal bodies, we are, and should be, glad to recog nise and confess. We are not the representatives of a miserable hierarchical island, afloat, and taken in tow by the ship, "Royalty," and hence called an "Establishment;" though driven of the winds anti tossed into Puseyism, Rationalism, Broad- Churchism, Organic Comprehensionism, Plural- , ism, Short-sightedism, and so especially Exelu sionism—though, when an island excludes a con tinent, it only isolates, dissenterizes, excommuni cates itself! "Establishment"—indeed! "Con firmation"—remarkable ! The universe—in a nut shell I "I" said a harlequin in a circus, as we are told—" Please you, all people, and Ladies and, gentlemen, I—am human nature ! I am mankind ! I am the species—and let none of you dare to doubt or deny it, after this !" Perhaps, some extemporized monarch, or his prelatic chap lain, had lately "established" and " confirmed" him. No ! we are not insular; not afloat; not taken in tow;. and if we are not a continent, it is because we are=a world; we go for the world; preaching the gospel to every creature, as our Sa viour commands us; and showing every creature that salvation, in the infinitely catholic mediation and expiation of the Son of God, is made THE DIVINE BASIS of life eternal, offered to him, indi vidually; offered not by us—the mere echoes of his truth, but by God-himself; offered sincerely, with no catch, or equivoke, or ambiguity, or duplicity, or triangulation of inconsistency or hypothesis— es if God's immanent purpose were in conflict with his overt mercy, his benign manifestation and command to all men, everywhere, to repent and believe the gospel—tint is, in his own right and keg way to be saved, to go to heaven; as he AIN CERELY desires all of us promptly to do! We are truly generic Calvinists, all of us. We have a "basis," not new indeed; nor laid by,R. J. B. & Co. in 1837-8. It is as old as reason, common sense, universal conscience, and the ever-blessed book of God. On this account, it ever irks me to hear the nick-name of "New School" applied to us—who adhere to the old basis; when others— neophytes laid the new; who kept the CoNSTITU- TioN, actis et factis, when others vaunted them selves its prime propagators, expounder; defend ers, exemplars—and then terribly violated it; as it was never before known in all Presbyterian his tory; and since the times of the Culdees, the Waldenses, the Paulicians, and the A.postles of Christ: or, in more modern times, and since John Knox inaugurated the General Assembly of Scot land, with an old-basis sermon; just now, Decem ber 20, three hundred years ago—glory to God! Esto perpetua, ecclesia presbyteriana ! - If earnest in this, .I am consciously not at all rancorous or implacable, hating no man; only saying, for our cause, and in reference to the deep injuries we have and yet in part sustain, what righteousness requires. In this last respect, to touch the least, rather than the greatest of our account under the head of INJURIES RECEIVED, I name something material in two senses; which ought to "lie heavy" on their consciences, who did the sin or who now profit of it; as the murdered Duncan on the souls of Macbeth and his wife :—THEY are. NOPOLIZED ALL OUR COMMON PROPERTY; and they hold it ever since; worth about one-third to one half of a million of dollars! This indeed they had exactly as much right to do, as has the bur glar at , midnight, after murdering the good man of the house, to take his money, too ! Oh, no 64 11ADIDAN BELMINI OAY, DECE3II3ER 27, 1860. i , It was not right, xi yrak done now toward one-fourth of a qintury go—yet, hovt old ought the felony to be,4 lose.* nature; to make no obligation of repe*tance ; to be transformed—at the resurrection, ofie just even, or even after, into the righteousness tif,q 9 a, ir any part thereof ? . I regard thatoncrete abstraction :: as symbolical of the moral whole Of the transaction; the perfidy, the rampant, ickedness, of that' deplorable °coa ct sion—too me ora le, too horrible, to be often re peated or ever fo .. ton. - • , In my nestpa , r, I intend to remind the tw it nest men of te oher, •the NEw basis branch, arid; all others of them„too v of what, the people at large think of it; what the secular press said of it; what editors thought ef the measure , in its peon niary aspects, at ' Anne, and after it, years,agt) Some potions pr T ,_,,,,, ,, f5y , 4acrbid-pasee f •are,nc 11 so bitter, idt thOir Mar' ~ SAMUEL HANSON COX. Leroy, Dee. 150,,E1860. - or the . American Presbyterian. r i t PRAYS i FOIL REVIVALS. ITS NATUIt ' TNoirtTrirEs TO IT. In all genuine yer for revivals, the believer * l recognises,great .p • ciPles. The holiness of the divine government,)the -eternal ill desert of sin, I the all-sufficient a ' efficacious atonement; the free offer of mercy ' all, on condition of faith in Christ, the native and total depravity ,of the 1 human heart, the , essity of a• radical change of heart, in order, to i bre salvation, and the .power.! and. willingness. of ' , noly Spirit to regederate and sanctify in sue 4 manner and, to such an ex tent ,as the natuire end highest interest of the divine government eqUire--these are the great truths implied in r ival prayer. It,: moreover, implies sense of. , , ; rldetice on God—submission o his hay-favilll4 -;'. - : -forhis glory, and willing ness to oc4;iieratlq:‘....:le workefor which we pray.. It implies intellAiit and strong confidence in God. , . \, ~ t . Such are the -pri fides involved. The enno rtit, bling nature of - sue 'Prayer will be seen at' once. It enlarges the hea ' * .and'elevates the soul to the sublimest heights of . 'ora.l experience. For a soul to be in such a prey,frful state is to have sweet fellowship with the , rest, noblest and greatest ; truths, objects an • *finds, 'which the universe contains: It is to e ter into the very life and spi rit of the gospel ;Is to consecrate one's self to the accomplishment las benevolent designs, and thus to make the :l dam of God our meat and drink, our'joy and lie: Revival prayin . 1 ; m any Church implies-unity of desire and petit 9:::It implies that a few, or ‘ many, or all, shall beinoved by the same impulse . of God's Spirit, to , unite in'their requests for this one rglorions Object. kin :each praying .soul,, God beholds 9 1 /...,e o Yfficgk. ~ . •It , M..tgaght , WlLZigi , . ?MO and in whose heart' e himself has kindled the holy fires which thns seek vent in supplication. The more there are to unite, the greater will the descending blessing be. As the spirit of prayer is also the spirit of self-denying labor, it gives evidence of a more iextensive preparation for the outpouring of the Spirit. Faith is an element 4 prayer. tine revival The kind of faith requirdd is that, which embracing the grace of general confidence in God, and ardent love to his cause, add moreover, a certain con genial yearning for so m e immediate and visible add, moreover, of God's saving power. In pre paring the way of the Lord, the , Holy Spirit often employs some common providence, to impress the hearts of several persons to. pray especially for a particular individual. , ;As , the sovereign Spirit moves to the selected i dwelling, he takes along with him, by the sweep of the providential agency, the spirit of special prayer., Thus circle after circleiswfortnetakinnut . several individuals, and the sour 1 R risint , intOtiofty intit, often feels beyond all doubt, thatGod' is corning to bring ~. salvation. : Revival prayer must be importainate. It may well be so. It involves such an amount of reli gious truth, that the 14nger it lasts the more the soul grows; It so enla g,its'the heart and enkindles the whole man, that tie . longer it continues the better. Its .persevering exercise causes us to know how much mot- important are the things prayed for, than at fi `t we thought them to be. God is honored by oft importunity, much in the same manner as he is bur faith. A vast result is sought, and it well' ' eserves long and faithful pleading. No one kn4ws how ,great—how tran scendent' the bleisieg ' y be. When we consider the infinite important ' of such prayer in the churche4, we shall fee that it is high time for them to arise and call upon their God. He is willing to hear and b ess. " He looks' from his throne upon his 'plea bag -. Church with 'tender love. He knowalfet . than we Can ever know the infinite worth of thif'greatebjeceto'be secured in a deep, thorOughPaajoyful revival. Look Abroad; theti;' all'ye who love your Sa viour's honor,: and the everlasting welfare of your fellow-men,, and reflect how glorious will be another genuine and geiteral revival. God is able to move the laud. His ,Spirit is omnipresent. He waits to be graeionS. Oar country .can be saved only;by an everlwhere spreading work of true regeneration. The,cause of missions through out the world must-be *Stained by revivals, or it will languish - and die. ' ' If this consideration;shall awaken the spirit of prayer in the mind, we further and finally suggest that there •is great.encouragement to pray. It is an age of revivals and will be so more and more. We live on the confines`.of> great moral changes, for which revivals only can prepare the world. God has announced his adoption of the system of revivals, and his intention to make brighter and brighter displays of his-glory in-his manner, until the world shall be filled-with the knowledge of God. We may Weed appioadh him in faith. We repeat -itrhe- , doei not forbid- us to plead with him. We may urge' oar great requests, may be long at his feet, may pirtur"o4t all our hearts; may get as many of his people to-unite with•ns as we can, and may even resolve to give him no rest un til he shall appear ,in his glory. Then let the churches awake and 'arise. Begin this day, Qye who feel an impulse of life, as you value the souls of dying men, as you prize the cause of religion in your own country;and in the whole world, go be fore the throne of grace, in the spirit of persevering prayer, crying,- " 0 Lord, revive thy work. In the midst of the years make known; in wrath remem ber mercy v=-:-and. in rthis day. of mercy, let salva tion become a mighty flood. THE 'WESTMINSTER REVIEW AND THE BROAD CHURCH Under the title of "Neo.Christianity J., this Quar terly of the "extreme left" of the party of reli gious progress, takes in hand the recent volume of ,several leading clergymen, (one—a layman) of the liberal.wing of, the English Church, called "Essays and Reviews." While welcoming these able allies of its own work in an elaborate analySis of each of these essays, it reads them quite a lecture for not carrying out their principles of free interpretation to their legitimate results, which omission this re viewer proceeds to supply with<Orracteristio bold ness; and utterly denies the pOSility of their 'professed attempt to re-construdt a, scriptural and opular Christianity upon 0. snorly laid founds ticin. These learned gent • • e distinctly told that by their theory of " Idet • ,;," theyhave turned the historic truth of the Bible from Genesis, to grmadi,..o • ;Tokinto ftibia,6l- - the gravest doubts, obscuring•nlike thli'pairiaraalibistories, and the nativity, acts, resurrection and ascension of Christ. Moreover, that under ,their treatment, have also ditiappefied from the - Gospels,lothe cardinal doc trines of the Protestant churches, from the apostacy of man to the final and endless punishment of the wicked. With respect to this last tenet of Ortho doxy, the reviewer explicitly affirms that it is taught in many. Seripturettexts, and that it runs through the entire spirit of the sacred canon. All this work of 'demolition,:the Westminster is very glad to have done to iti-hand almost; as well as it self has done it, many scores of times, But it cannot repress its astonishment that,the doers of it should come from the ranks of those who wear a surplice in Episcopal Pulpits, and have signed the thirty-nine articles. Another stricture is made upon the effort of these essayists to erect a basis of a true Christian life in' a religious sentiment of spiritual fervor, as distinguished from a *triad platform of belief. On this subject some very truthful • sentences are set down, which should have even more impressive ness as coming from such an outside source. The reviewer says: "Every religion which ever flourished, did so by the strength of a body of doctrine and a system of definite axioms. Nothing else could give unity and permanence to its teaching. No collection of maxims Or rule oflife can last long when-deprived of dogmatic basis, and common intellectual-assent. The whole teaching and influence of every religion has rested ultimately and entirely on cardinal pro positions universally received as true. Nothing but such a basis can satisfy the mind of ail inquirer or give coherence to the social body. Moral prin ciples have been found to lead to strife when made the foundations of communities. Endless attempts have been made towards union in an ideal of life. They have ended invariably in chimera and con ' fusion. The moment one cardinal dogma is sur rendered as uncertain, or even provisional, the whole intellectual frame-workgives way. All the repose, the unity, all the permanence which rest upon undoubted truths are gone. The unguided feelings, the variety and fluctuation of moral con ceptions, take their place in endless agitation and discord. Such a work indeed undoes the labor of St. Paul, brought to perfection by the Church. He taught faith, hope and charity, insisting indeed chiefly on tbe moral truth, but resting it on , a sys tem of immutable doctrine. He zreached a life of rightentariesia 111 This worla= we d fry certain- glory, in the next. He preached Christ and him-crucified. Once doubt the, certainty of the story or the of the sacrifice, and to what will the preacher appeal? He will be left to the +truism- 4 to be good, for it is good to be good.' * *lt is not this which can bring order out of the intellectual anarchy around us, control the whole moral energy of the present, and heal the deep dis Pases in societies and states." We almost forget in this reading, what pages we have opened: The paragraphs have a decidedly Orthodox taste; some even of our evangelieal peo ple may think rather strongly so. But the drift of the quotation shows us, where the alert leaders of the other side, are marking out the battle field on which they know that the final issues must be tried. A doctrinal and not a sentimental religion, or no-religion, must hold the ground in dispute be tween Christ and a skeptical Anti-Christ. It is possible- that the Reviewer may have put constructions upon some parts of the volume in question which its authors would repudiate But this can be only a very partial plea in abatement of their great offence against Christian truth and salvation. .Meanwhile, (says the Quarterly,) not a - whisper of condemnation or censure has been heard from any accredited functionary of "The Church. THE END OF INFIDELITY The following incident was related at a recent noon-day prayer meeting in this city, as reported by the S. S. Times. One old man, living in a small town, bad made himself conspicuous by his open infidel opinions. He was infidel in thought,ln feeling, in views, in everything. He kept a Bible, and on the margin with a pencil made annotations of the most fear fully blasphemous character; so that the Book was talked about in the town as—'s Bible. He be came a most loathsome being. He was dreaded and shunned by the town people, and could hardly be endured in their midst. No notice was taken of him. He became desperate. Finding none to befriend or even to molest him, and goaded by most terrible thoughts, he made way with himself. For a whole week his house was noticed to be shut. People ,wondered what had become of the old man. And, it, was not until the offensive stench of his _ dean bOdy attracted, the attention of the dwellers in the, vicinity, that his door was broken open and the fearful end of this wretched being was revealed. Three months afterwards the house was offered for sale. Not a man in all the county would bid a dime for it. It was also declared that not a man would have it as a gift, A short time after this fruit less attempt to sell it, an alarm of fire was sounded in the village, and the house was consumed. A year or two afterwards, remarked the , speaker, I saw the ruins crumbling, mouldering, brick by brick. Not a man would remove its rubbish. This is only infidelity g-ne to seed, infidelity developed. WALKING IN THE SPIRIT. " Uwe live in the Spirit; let us also walk in the Spirit." —Galatians v. 25. The Spirit of God lives in us, as the source of our sanctification ; and we are to live in the Spirit, as if he were the atmosphere we breathed, the tem ple in which he is worshipped, or the habitation in which we dwelt. To live in the Spirit, is to live under his influence, according to his word, recog nising his presence with us always. So, to walk in the Spirit, is to walk as influenced, directed, and assisted by him; looking to him for wisdom to guide us, grace to help us, and power to pre serve us. To walk in the Spirit, is to live as a man delivered from the law, rescued from the pre sent evil world, freed from the dominion or sin, and set apart for God's glory and praise. The Spi rit is our teacher, leader, and comforter. We yield ourselves to him, and seek to please and - honour him. We are careful not to grieve him, or resist him, or quench his holy influences. To walk in the Spirit, is to breathe the spirit of Christ, and exhibit the temper and disposition of Christ in the midst of opposition, persecution, irritation, and many self-mortifying duties. =lt is to walk as Je sus walked, taking him for our pattern, ancheeking grace from the Comforter, to think, feeli and act as Jesus thought, felt, and acted: Blessed Com forter! teach us to live in the Spirit in thelibkent day, and to walk in the Spirit as we walk thron,gb the wilderness of this world. Oh to walk as Jesus walked, to live as Jesus lived, constantly present ing ourselves to God, for his service and praise! May we render our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service; and not be eonfortued to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Oh to be unearthly! Oh to be deeply spiritual! When Ethelred, the Saxon, king of Northum berland, invaded Wales, and was about to give battle to the Britons, be observed near the enemy a host of unarmed men. Be inquired who they were, and what they were doing. He was told. they were monks of Bangor,, praying for tho., success of their (Countrymen. “Then," said the heatkon.prixce; ‘4 . ..,kOrthspra:chegantht Tght`agiiimtit Vth us,, . attae em So any unperverted mind will conceive of the scriptural idea of prayer, as that of one of the most downright, sturdy realities in the universe. Right in the heart of God's plan of government it is lodged.as a power. Amidst the conflicts which are going on in the evolution of that plan it stands as a, power. Into all the intricacies of Divine working and the mysteries of Divine decree, it reaches out silently as a power. In the mind of God we may be assured, the conception of prayer is no fiction, whatever man may think of it. It has, and God has determined that it should have, a. positive and appreciable influence in di recting the course of human life. It is, and God has purposed . that it should be, a link of connec tion between human mind and Divine mind, by which through His infinite condescension, we may actually move Hiswill. It is, and God has decreed that it should be, a power in the universe, as dis tinct, as real, as natural, and as uniform, as the power of gravitation, or of light, or of electricity. A man may use it, as trustingly and as soberly as he would use either of these- It is as truly the dictate of good sense, that a man should expect to achieve something by praying, as it is that he should expect to achieve something by a telescope, or the mariner's compass, or the electric tele graph. This intense practicalness characterizes the scriptural idea of prayer. TA Scriptures make it a reality, and not a reverie. They never bury it in the notion of a poetic or philosophic contem plation of God. They do not merge it in the mental fiction of prayer by action iii any other or all other duties of life. They have not, concealed the fact of prayer beneath the mystery of prayer. The scriptural utterances on the subject of prayer admit of no such reduction of tone, and confusion of sense, as men often put forth in imitating them. Up, on the • level of inspired thought, prayer is Powga—a distinct, unique, elemental power in the spiritual universe, as pervasive, and as constant as the great occult powers of nature. Our conviction on this point must be as definite and is fixed - as our trust in the evidence of our senses. It must become as natural to us to obey one as the other. If we suffer our faith to drop down from the lofty conception of prayer as having a lodgment in the very counsels of God, by which the universe is swayed; the plain practicalness of prayer as the Scriptures teach it, and as prophets and apostles and: our Lord himself, performed it, niPs , 4lnWticalatein , maCia.Oatpropert*,zur motive - to prayer dwindles. Of necessity, then, our devotions become spiritless. Our Supplica tions cannot, under the , impulse of such a faith, go, as one has expressed it, " is the right line to to God." It was once noised through Europe as a won drous fact, that the monarch of a mighty empire had laid aside his sceptre, and in the attire of a simple traveller was journeying from land to land, investigating the arts and • industry of each ; that through this lowly quest, he might enlighten and eleiate his beloved people. Well might the world wonder at such a kingly condescension. But how much greater was the love displayed, when He who was in the bosom of the Father, stripped himself of the glories of the Godhead, de scended from his exalted throne, and came down through the starry worlds to this revolted eartb, taking upon him the form of man; by such con descension making Ah l friends, can we conceive of the humiliation •of the God incarnate, who dwelt with men, became the friend , of sinners, and the benefactor of the world 2 Congregationalist What riches of love were manifested in that life of the Son of God, in such a nature, and in such a world I Look into that work-shop in the vale of Nazareth, at the well of Sycbar, into that dwelling place in Bethany, and of the grace and tenderness which brings the world's Creator into such relations of obedience, guidance, and af fection, what can you say more fitly than the Apostle's words : " Herein is love ?" But when you think that God sent his Son to die a willing sacrifice for human guilt, how does this love expand to an infinite and overflowing magnitude! The death of Christ for human sin, by which innocence bleeds for guilt; in which the beloved Son falls stricken by the 'Father's hand; in which every bursting sigh, every blood-drop, and every pang, are -pleas for the redemption of those who hung Him to the tree; oh ! if we ac knowledge that , this has been, must we not also feel that on, this transaction the force and wealth of an infinite love has been expended,'and God has offered unto man the very- fulness of his heart. 1. Is it because I am afraid of ridicule, and of what others may say of me ? " Whosoever shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, of him shall the Soo of man be ashamed." 2. Is it because of the inconsistencies of pro fessing Christians "Every man shall give an account of himself to God." 3. Is it because I am not willing to give up all for Christ? "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ? 4. Is it because I am afraid that I shall not be accepted? • "Him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out."_ 5. Is'it because I fear I am too great a sinner? "The blood of Jesus Christ eleanseth from all sin." 6. Is it because I am afraid that I shall not hold out.' - He that hath begun a good work in you, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.' 7. Is it because I am thinking that I will do as well as I can, and that God ought to be satisfied with that? " Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.' 8. Is it because I am postponing the matter without any ,definite reason? "Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou know eat not what a day may bring forth." 9. Is it because I am trying to save myself by morality, or any other way of my owaY " There is , none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved." 10. Is it because I do not clearly see the way to be saved? • "Repent ye, and believe the Gospel." "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten PRAYER A POWER THE MANIFESTATION OF LOVE. " Our vexed, accursed humanity, as worn by him, Begin to be a blessed, yea, a sacred thing For awe and love, and ministering!" • WHY.AII I NOT A CHRISTIAN? VOL. V.—NO. 18.—Whole No. 235. Rev. James Smith The Still flour. Rev. Robert R. Booth. Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John iii. 16.) THE WAR OF DEATH Even the bloody Druses of Lebanon usually spared the women and female children. The war, that rushed like a tornado through Italy last year, prostrating tens of thousands in its terrible sweep, destroyed but a small part of the people. And the war that is now surging through the length of that fair land is overwhelming but one man among thousands of its inhabitants.—But even here, in our quiet villages, in, our dear homes, there is ano ther kind of war, alrogether more . dittily There is a cordon drawn around every houM t '.,.ere is a deadly array, set'before every ma ' Y . a fatal aim levelled every human /tea *, • every step of your foot, with ever, 'beat of the "muffled drum within your breast, you .are ap proaching that point where you will receive not a discharge from the war, but a fatal.charge from an enemy who will pierce you through and through. The young, the old, the rich, the poor, the sick, the well, the sober, the reckless, the gay, the gloomy,all are hastening, in one never-halting pro cession, with the tramp of manhood's heavy tread, and the patter of childhood's lightest footsteps, to the very point of death's fatal ambush, and against his myriad forms of doom. There is no discharge in this war. The victims fall thick and fast as the leaves of the forest when the cloud, full of thunder, spreads over the earth like night, and the hail mangles and ruins the beauty of every tree. You cannot escape. Strength will not save you. Beauty will not save you. Youth will not save you. Wisdom will not save you. The hoary head of honor will not save you. The anguish of fond pai eats will not save you. Asi•ter . s love, or a more passionate affection that swells another's heart, will not save you. All the affection of the most glow ing human soul will not save you. Nothing of the kind, nothing at all, can give you a discharge in this war. THE PRINCE OF WALES IN AMERICA. We extract from the North American's late Lon don letter, the following accountof Lord Palmer ston's speech in which be nobly recognises the courtesy shown by our people to the heir of the Bri tish Crown. It was a strange circumstance that, about the time the Himalaya first sighted the Hero, and the latter was making the coast of England, Lord Pal merston, an invited guest of the Salters' Company, at a brilliant banquet, was upon his feet, addressing the distinguished company assembled upon the visit of the Prince of Wales to the United States. "Lt was to be expected," exclaimed his lordship, frequently interrupted by great and enthusiastic cheering, "that when the future hope of England visited the subjects of her Majesty in our North American provinces, he would be received with that enthusiastic affection which becomes a loyal and an attached people. Our anticipations have not been disapointed. The reception of the Prince has been worthy of the people who gave it, and honorable to the family of which be is so distin guished a member, and we may hope that that visit will cement wore closely those ties which I trust atelcin g destined to bind together that p. don of the Queen's dominions and the mother country. But we had not an equal right to expect that when his Royal Highness visited the United states he would be received with anything more than the courtesy which civilized nations accord to distin guished members of the reigning family of an other country. But I must say it has been most gratifying to witness the cordiality, the heart felt kindness, the generous hospitality, and 1 may say the enthusiastic delight with which that illus trious Prince was welcomed by our cousins in the United States. They have shown them selves, indeed, to be a noble and a generous people. They have shown that they have not forgotten the common stock from which they and we have sprung; and in spite of events which, if not buried in oblivion, might have produced some slight alien ation -between us, they received our future sove reign—and I trust that future day may be long distant—they received the oldest son of our gracious sovereign, not as if he were a stranger belonging to another land, but as if he had been born in their own country, and had been a citizen of their own republic. I trust, gentlemen, that the remem brance of the generous kindness thus exhibited by the people of the United States will ever be cherished by the people of these kingdoms. I believe the memory of the Prince's visit will long survive in the.breasts of the American nation, and that their mutual recollection will tend more closely than ever to knit together tnose two great people.' The burst of cheering that followed these well conceived observations of Lord Palmerston, woke up the echoes of the roof of the noble hall of the Salters' Company. Nothing could have passed off more harmoniously from th outset to the close than the visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States, and may all the good anti cipated from it come to pass. ABIDETH FOR EVER A late number of the North. British Review eon tains the following very truthful statement regard ing the preservation of the original writings of the Holy Scriptures. " It is a matter of congratulation that the Bible has passed triumphantly through the ordeal of ver bal criticism. English infidels of the last century raised a premature pman over the discovery and publication of so many various readings. They imagined that the popular mind would be rudely and thoroughly shaken, that Christianity would be placed in imminent peril of extinction, and that the church would be dispirited, and ashamed at the sight of the tattered shreds of its Magna Charta. But the result has blasted all their hopes, and the Oracles of God are found to have been preserved iu immaculate integrity. " The storm which shakes the oak only loosens the earth around its root 3, and its violence enables the tree to strike its roots deeper in the soil. So it is that Scripture has gloriously surmounted every trial. There gather around it a dense 'cloud of witnesses' from the ruins of Nineveh and the val leys of the Nile; from the slabs and bas•relicfa Sennaeherib and the tombs and monuments of Pha raoh, from the rolls of Chaldee paraphrast and Syrian versiouists; from the cells and libraries or monastic scribes, and the dry and dusty labors of scholars and antiquarians. "Our present Bibles are undiluted by the lapse of ages. These Oracles, written amid such strange diversity of time, place, and condition—among the sands and cliffs of Arabia, the fields and hills of Palestine, in the palaces of Babylon, and in the dangeons of Rome—have come down to us in such unimpaired fulness and accuracy, that we are placed as advantageously toward thew as the genera tion which hung on the lips of J esus, as he recited a parable on the shores of the Galileau lake, or those churches which received from Paul or Peter one of their epistles of warning exposition. " Yes, the river of life, which issues out from beneath the throne of God and of the Lamb, may, as it flows through so many countries, sometimes bear with it the earthly evidences of its chequered progress; but the great volume of its waters has neither been dimmed in its transparency, nor be reft of its healing virtues." The Revival in Wales.—Rev. Mr. Venn, of the English Episcopal Church, estimates the clear in. crease to the various orthodox religious bodies in the Principality, during the recent revival, at not less than 100,000, or about one twentieth of the whole population, while the defections from profession aro not greater than in ordinary times. Rev. Eph. Whitaker.
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