Akintvican X'regillgtevian tom 'Jtauteliot. rrivuRSDAY, JANUARY 10, mu, lOHN W. MEANS, EDITOR. ASSOCIATED WITH t ALBERT BARNES, GEORGE DUFFIELD, JR. THOMAS BRAINERD, JOHN JENKINS, "[WIRY DARLING. THOMAS J. SHEPHERD. A LIFE OF TRUST. Pew Christian men there are who have not encountered trying seasons and circumstances in life which, for the time being, have taught them the nature of trust, and led them to exer cise it in a marked and high degree. They have called upon God in the day of trouble, with an humble faith which they never knew be fore. But , if their trouble has passed away, their peculiar sense of , dependence has gone with it. If day after' day passes by, unmarked by any unusual trial, it is unmarked alike by any unusual conscious exercise of trust. Chris tians can exercise simple, unconditional trust; they can commit themselves unreservedly to God, and male that their all is in His hands ocoasionally,—when, as we might say, they are compelled to do it; but to live A urn or TRUST in a living present God, is, apparently, a rare and difficult attainment. Or, if some attain it in regard to spiritual matters, there still remains a difficulty in ex tending it to temporals. We may be able to realize every day, in regard to our souls, that it is not we that live, but Christ that liveth in us; we may have grace given us every day to tri umph over the ancient enemy, legality, and to exclude boasting as to our salvation and 'growth in grace, when we can realize no similar de pendence on God for our daily bread, for the support of our families, or for our success in Wo. Even in much of our labor for the kingdom of God,. °Specially for the secular side of it, we may walk very much by sight, and not by faith, depending upon effort more than upon fervent prayer, losing heart or growing unduly elated by .the fluctuating tokens which meet us from without, rather thin Strengthening ourselves in cram communion with and. dependence upon cur God. Nen have been discouraged from a practical carrying out of the principle of trust into their daily lives, and their efforts for the cause of Christ, from fear of running into the oppo site evils of presumption and fanaticism. To lake the promises of Scripture in reference to The hearing and answering of prayer, with any . grrat literalness, has seemed to them contrary to the dictates of common prudence and com mon sense. Hence there has grown up in con nection with the Lord's work, all the compli cated machinery of expedients for procuring the needful means, which the world employs, in carrying forward its objects. And we begin to believe that both in regard to the temporal wants of the Christian, and the means needful for carrying on the work of the Lord in the world, Christian people have espoused to a criminal degree the principles and policy of worldly wisdom. They have shrunk from an • xeess of pietism, and have become intangled in . naturalism. The Christian world of to-day, carried away with the active spirit of the age, is In danger of trusting in work, instead of work ing by trust. Nevertheless, the Church has not been with out bright examples of the life of trust. They . have been found in the humble and private 'walks of life; in unknown instances of the hope -1111 endurance of poverty, in which the necessary wants of the believer and hie family have been supplied in answer to prayer, and in the pa i:ent, happy temper of the confirmed invalid, and the life-long sufferer, where unwavering, submissive trust; has converted their sick cham bers into the banqueting house of the King, with the banner of his love spread over them, and all who drew near them, in the same spirit. Of instances known to the public, until recently, there has occurred nothing, illustrative of the life of trust, more remarkable than the case of A. H. Francke, and his experience in establish ing the Orphan Home, of Halle. It seemed to him a Christian duty to attempt something for the relief of orphans. Without means of his own, trusting in God, and praying for the ne cessary supplies, he set about the work. As the number of applicants increased, the sup plies increased in answer to fervent, unceasing prayer. This was about A. D., 1696. "Sim ply by trust in the living God, the institutions, resembling a large street, rather than a house, were erected, and about two thousand children instructed in them." When he died, thirty years afterward, the work went on, and it has continued to this day, providing education and support for thousands of the poor and destitute, having been, says President Wayland, "for a century and a half, one of the most honored of the charitable institutions of the continent of Europe." And we rejoice to know that in our own day, another equally remarkable and equally be i nefleent illmitzation of the Life of Trust 'has been given to the Christian world. We allude to GEORGE MUEL LER, of Bristol, England, who, for more than a quarter of a century, has been laboring as a preach er of the gospel, chiefly in that oily; has estab lished and carried on an institution for the diffu sion of Christian knowledge at home and abroad, by teachers, Bible and Tract distributors, and by Home and Foreign missionaries; and who has established Orphan Houses in that eitypontaining now eight hundred inmates, and expected to con tain eleven hundred and fifty this, year, and has procured the means _for his own support, and that of these institutions, amounting in that period to nearly.a million of dollars, without any regular thity or pew rents, without any machinery for operating ,on the liberality of Christians, issuing nothing, but a simple annual statement through the press, and praying'and trusting in God every day for the Means needful for the day. The ac count of this wonderful work is given by Muller himself, in the simple, uncolored, childlike narra tive which, in the form of a diary, he issued at dif ferent periods to the Rublie. It is a wonderful narrative of the struggles, trials, growth, triumph anti rich reward of a Life of Trust in the living .God. it ilzottais Muntigt " a German by birth and eflucation, who well ni roko his father's heart, first,* his unworthy, Mess and prodigal ha bits of life, and neat, by his entire change and consecration of himself to the work of tho Lord, for which his parent had seemingly little sympa thy. His conversion took place at Halle, and was the result of a movement which had already begun in that vicinity, though in 'a very limited way, when Dr. Tholuck arrived at the University. Mr. Milner came to England with the intention of la boring under the London Missionary Society for the conversion of the Jews, but was led subse quently to change his purpose, and first labored in several places as an evangelist. Finally, he took charge of a congregation in Bristol, which became, and continues to be, the scene of his pe culiar labors. His NARRADIVII has been condensed by Rev. H. Lincoln Wayland, of Worcester, and is pub lished by Messrs. Gould & Lincoln, of Boston,* with an introduction by President Wayland, from which we have already quoted. We have no he sitation in pronouncing it the most remarkable religious book of the season. There is good rea son for believing that as published in England, it was Made the means, under God. by its encou raging exhibition of the power of believing prayer, of commencing the great awakening in Ireland of 1859 and 1860. And whatever may be thought by hesitating or worldlkminded professors, as to the principles it inculcates in regard to the prac tical value of prayer for personal wants, and for means to carry on the work of God from day to day, we are free to assert, that its tendency, so far as read and pondered, will be to raise the active Christian people of the present era, a long way upward toward that position :of personal commu nion and daily trust in the living:God; which, as individuals, as heads of families, as ministers and servants of God, in various branches of his work they greatly need to exercise. A GREAT MEETING. The degree of enthusiasm which exhibited it self at the meeting called in honor of Major An derson on Saturday evening last was extraordinary, and demands notice as we think, of religious journalists. The meeting was entirely the work of the people, was called and carried through by representative men of all the political divisions, and was, we believe, a. perfictly frank, fair, and conclusive exhibition of public sentiment among us. From twelve to fifteen thousand persons are represented to have been in attendance, and but one soul seemed to move the immense throngs and those who addressed them. We find on the list of officers some of the.most honored names in our own Church. Two sentiments we believe to have prompted this wonderfully enthusiastic gathering---narnely, a feeling of reaction and of hope at the change which has taken place in President Buchanan's policy, beginning with his acceptance of Secre tary Floyd's resignation; and secondly, a deep seated loyalty to this great government of ours, and a determination, so far as in us lay, to uphold and transmit it to posterity, as' the most precious legacy of the ages to the sops of men. There is no drop of blood in our veins that does not tingle at the thought of its overthrow for any cause that has been named. In the language of the vene rable Horace Biting, addressed to the meeting: our hearts are bound up in this Union more than in life; whether in clouds er sunshine, we hold to it more than to life and worldly prosperity. We begin to believe, that under God ,end in answer to prayer; a better prospect for the avert ing of threatened evils is appearing. We , seem to behold some glimpses of light which are very like answers to the earnest cries'of His people. And if tenGodleering men could have- saved Sodom; shall . it any wonder 'that the tree Christians of this country, whom we venture to suppose are at least in equal proportion with the needed decade in Bodoni, have at' iist been honored as the instruments of our political salva tion? The favorable appearances are such as these: First, and above all; The firm stand at. length taken by the chief Executive and his advisers, for the Constitution and laws, and the unanimous and powerful response given to it by the masses of the North. Next; the calm attitude maintained by the Border States,.who have successfully . resisted a tremendous pressure of agents of treason within and without. The Governor of Virginia does not recommend a State Convention. Governor Hicks, of Maryland, will not call an extra session of the Legislature; and little Delaware, as one of the first acts of her opening Legislature, heard the agent of treason who bad come all the way from Mis sissippi, and dismissed him with an emphatic dis approval of his recommendation. Even the'Gulf States may have sufficient of the salt, of patriotic men to save them. We have just laid down an evening paper, containing part of a speech of Mr. Cobb, of Alabama, in the House at Washington, in which be denies having joined in advising his State to secession. God knew, he said, that his prayers were for harmony. He was for. making another effort for adjustment. He called not only on the North, but on the South to do something to save us from our present troubles. These are but a portion of the indications for good, that by God's favor are shining-upon us. Let us be thank ful, take courage, and continue in prayer. DR. WADSWORTH vs. PRINCETON RE- VIEW The Southern Presbyterian, of Columbia, S. (1., in justifying secession, on the ground of the alienation of. the North from the South, quotes the Rev. Dr. Wadsworth's sermon, as authority against Dr. Hodge, in the Review: We will, however, only repeat the testimony we have before given from the Rev. Dr. Wads wo.rth, of Philadelphia. He affirmed, in refer ence to the election of Mr. L., in a public dis course, that "the whole rank'and file have kept step in the march to the same old border slogan —of war upon slavery," He spoke not of po litical leaders and demagogues, but of "the whole rank and file," ""the mass of the people of the North." knd his testimony is at least as good as that of the Princeton .Review. THE CHRISTIAN HERALD. Our excellent contemporary and fellow-labourer at Cincinnati, formerly bearing the name Central Christian Herald, now appears under the above heading, in new and handsome type, and in en larged size, exceeding our own sheet by about the width of the border. We heartily rejoice in these indications of prosperity, and this promise of the increased usefulness of a sheet which has borne part faithfully and well in the history of the church and the, movements of the age. Every good influence needs to be strengthened in the times in which we live. May the Herald enjoy a happy New Year, and may its shadow never grow less. STILL IN NEED. We would tender our acknowledgments to such subscribers and agents as have recently favored us with remittances. At this time such attentions are peculiarly opportune. We must express our earnest wish and expectation that subscribers who are still delinquent, and agents who are behind band in their collections, will at once hasten to discharge these duties. * For sale by Smith, English & Co., Philadelphia. Aintriratt Vrtoblterian and 6,entott granottiot, FREEDOX OP SPEECH. The tone of recent editorials and sermons, to say nothing of speeches and resolutions on public occasions, has called our attention to the above topic. In the last Christian Intelligencer, we find some noticeable remarks under the title "Free Speech," which are introduced by the following quotation• front Mr. Barnes: "What evil is` there-which may not" be origi nated or fomented by the tongue? What else is there that might with so much- ropriety be re presented as a little world of iniquity? With all the good which it does, who can estimate the amount of evil it causes? Who can measure the evils which arise from scandal, and slander, and profaneness, and perjury, and falsehood, and blas phemy, and obscenity, and the inculcation of er ror by the tongue? Who can gauge the amount of broils, and contentions, and strifes, and wars, and suspicions, and enmities, and alienations among friends and neighbors, which, it produces? Who can number the evils produced by the ho neyed words of the seducer, er by the tongue of the eloquent in the maintenance of error and the defence of wrong?" The editor then proceeds to speak of free speech as at present understood and, practised, using no little freedom himself in the description, as every one who reads may see: Thus free speech, according to the American vocabulary, is aptly and justly understood to mean the liberty of ,unrestricted lying against one's neighbors ox fellow-citizens; The tongue of the eloquent orator fails to charm, unless the poison of asps be under it; and the pen of the political journalist becomes valueless in the public regard, unless it can bite like a serpent, and sting like an adder. The privilege -of abuse, thus, is held to be.the climax of all civil rights; and readiness in philanthropic slander, the chief attainment in re ligion. The editor waxes warm, and even intemperate, as he proceeds with his topic. Out of free speech he conjures , up, a huge phantom; and from a just indignation against slander and falsehood, he runs to an extreme bordering upon the very evils he denounces Once this was a free country, but it is hardly' so now. Free speech has conquered; unlimited falsehood rules, and has , introduced a reign of ter ror which leaves scarcely any man's person, rights, or reputation safe, who will not submit to its law, and bow to its edicts. _ Turning aside, for a moment, to the present po sition of our country, he indulges himself in a style of expression which, if it be not positively irre verent, is at least more than free: A' furious family quarrerhas broken out, and every one clamors for the right of Arising - every other. One has seized a broom,",...anether a poker, another the tongs, another a chip from Plymouth. Rock, another a twig of the sappy Palmetto, and every tongue is voluble with rage. In the midst of the hubbub, the good old grandfather, who has' charge of the family, instead of chastising, with paternal zeal, the ringleaders in the noisy mischief, stands in dismal fright, exclaiming, a My eVildren, let us fast and pray!" Well, prayer is good at all times; but occasionally sprouts are useful 'also. Fasting is good, but it should not be for strife and debate. - if any one chose to pick it out, he would doubt less find much that is true in these and other paragraphs. We do not wish to be understood as defending those who have abused their preroga tives as citizens of a free country. But we are astonished that the author of such a paragraph should be found complaining of freedom of speech, as an evil and an oppression. We find in the reports of several discourses preached on the fast day of last week r allusions.to the same supposed evils'of free speech, and shall quote briefly from two of' these reports., , Of one of our most popular city preachers, it is said that, He discussed - the other sins of aid country, and argued that we talk too much about our own rights, and not enough about our duties. He thought free speech and a free press had their limits. Within these limits they were a good think The most distinguished pulpit orator of the other branch of the Chureh in this city, is reported as saying: We have borne false. witness against:our breth ren. Because this institution is liable to, abuse, we have denounced all slaveholders as abominable sinners. This malignant misrepresentation has scarcely .a parallel. For this privilege of abusint , men, we are now paying dearly at the cost of mil lions of dollars. We have thus abused our breth ren under the plea of freedom of . speech and of the press, as if personal liberty involved the li cense to utter in all times and places whatever may be inspired-by malignant passion—a lieense incompatible with all higher personal rights and all enlarged social welfare, and therefore no meter_ to be protected than the license, to. fling firebrands into our ,dwellings, or plunge daggers into our hearts. This license of evil speaking is a license which the word of God has emphatically dextouncd, declaring that "the tongue unrestrained," that is, licentious speaking, is one of the sorest social evils. Editors and preachers like these are evidently dissatisfied with the degree of liberty enjoyed or exercised by the freemen of this country, in the discussion of what they consider to be evils. They do not distinctly propose any abridgment of these liberties, yet " we do them no injustice when we assume from the vague intimations they give us, that some restriction would be agreeable to them; with this reservation, hoivever,that the restriction should be applied to such writers and speakers as differ' with them on the great questions of the day. For there are - few editors and few preachers upon whom a general limitation of the freedom of speech would fall more heavily, than those just quoted as complaining of it. They are men accustomed to speak their convictions unreserVedly, nor are they reputed to be very tender in the choice of terms to express their , opinions, or very sparing of an antagonist's feelings, provided they firmly be neve him to be in the wrong. They would be speedily-shorn of their strength, if placed under the workings of a law of restriction: The free people of the. North, and indeed of our whole country, excepting, perhaps, the Gulf States, scorn all such suggestions, and tolerate them only because they are determined to carry out the principle of freedom , of speech towards its very, enemies. It is perfeetly e idle.for men to de claim against a right which is older than the Re volution. They will accomplish as little as Ca nute on the coast of England, opposing royal mandate to the influx of the boundless ocean. The Gulf States and their scattered allies in the pulpit and press of the North, rani nantes, would, indeed, be gratified, and peace would be made, if instead of extending African slavery all over the Union, the enslavement of the white race of the, „ North in . tongue ' and pen e ' i a could bcceinplished. The London Times, in an editorial on the recommendations of the President'L Message, argues that this is the great want of the South The mischief has been done by the liberty of speech and action in -the North. The remedy would seem, therefore, to be to prohibit speech and to fetter action. If the matrons of the South can never feel themselves safe so long as the North is allowed to talk and write, to quote the Declaration of Independence, and appeal to the - anti-slavery opinions of Washington and Jeffertion, the case will be very little mended by the remedies the President proposes. *- * What will all this avail, on Mr. Buchanan's own showing, if the North be still allowed the right of free . discussion i and nothing be done to check in the bosom of Demoeracy the propaga tion of vague notions offreedom? This is the point , to which these editors and preachers are tending. They . maynot be eon : . sdi4ll3 of it-- Tiley , kould, perhaps, repudiate it, when presented' in such plain terms. The ques. tion of yielding giek,rightof speech, is too pre posterous ever to oe put to the North. If it came np in any shape in the communities and sections where these editors and preachers live, it might be whether their' abuse of the North shall not be restricted; whether their charges of "unrestricted lying7and "malignant misrepre sentation," are to b' endured; whether teggnes principles of liberty and equaliptyublic mind, the which pe icha u r s e m un u d st er n th o be i t nig, p h u l t under the surveillance, announced in the Deciatation or Independence, and taught in the New Testament. If it 'were conceivable that any legislation should take place on the subject, and if intolerance in the expression of opinion were to be checked, then, iloribtless, the people would pause and consider whether they would check intolerance of liberty or into lerarice of slaVary.' ,If it were conceivable that the pulpits of the North should become amena ble to law 'for `their utterances on moral Sq jec4, we should " e afraid to trust to the intelligent voters 'I. law makers of the North, whether they - wouldrencourage the men who are striving to throiv around the system of American slavery all the supports and sanctions of religion, even while it is struggling to sub sidize this government to its purposes, or revo lutionizing the country in its disappointment. But we neither, in the slightest degree, wish nor expect such questions to arise. Editors and preachers at the North will be entirely free to profess their attachment to slavery, and to call those who differ with them what hard names they please.. All we aim at, in the pre. , . sent writing, is, to show clearly what they de sire, and to what pitiable extremes they are led, in their Mistaken defeice of a wrong cause. VIEWS. OF THE :: OTTl'vdt' BRANCH OF THE PRESBYTERIAN; CESURCH. Since the " elolnent secession sermon" -of Rev. br. Palmer,Atd the widely disseminated ,brarkure centiaititl advancedsheets of the Princeton .IlevieicA.9. the State of the Coun try," the "Old. School" branch of the church has become an object of peculiar interest to all , Presbyterians Few of, the weekly journals of that body have noticed the "advanced sheets." The Presbyterian of this city-has hept silence. A few of the. Sod ernjournals hive expressed themselves; the South Carolina Presbyterian, of course, in terms :of decided disapproval. It may be thought: more, significantthat the Cen tral Presbyterian. _Herald, published at Rich mond, Va., haixlven its opinion in language like the following We have" have no words to express the sadness and surprise with whichme have read this.pro &action., With much of it we can agree. But we are obliged to,-say that its argument is ex ceedingly tinfair, its misrepresentations many and injurious, 'ankirhat is worse, its spirit far from being such as "becometh the gospel of Christ." , . We,sat this with un'speakable•grief. At the feet `ar' b Of the Princeton .Review we sat, with a filial spirit, more than a linarter of a century ago.. There is no man not hound to us by the' ties of nature, oroisiverui, - .4 , o4iftwa. Atreater'=vdneration, we might say affectionate regard. ' We have tried hard to reconcile silence with fluty, but we can not. ,We must stand, as best, we can, in, our hutithle lot, protesting against the unholy spirit of this article, and . CiTntendingigainst its unrigh teous views; tending to"rend • our country and our church. • The Banner, of Pittsbtirgb;withont noticing the Bevieto r gives 'utterance to the following sentiments; Tei7 mncli inAhe same spirit: The cause of tliiilagitittion, then, is the belief, on the part of the ictors,.that slavery is doomed if the Union shall continue. • Thiy will break up the Union, because, in their view, the insti tution can be preserved in no other way. The North must gyaranty to. the South the perpe ttfilyof slavery. The North will a.' `'d do any such thing. ' The kooust#irtttki' desAot, require, this guarantee. ;• 1 1‘f.was'thit framed 115 r this - purpose. It was ar il:Wiled- and ehttiblished, not to perpetuate ' 4 filiivery, but to "tie the blessings of liberty." It leaves ski:very wt be States. If they choose Ito aboliilkit, they can fo so. If they choose to continue it, they•ohndo so, so far as the Con stitution is coneerned":"The North will • abide by the. Constitution. Sle - will respect the right of the South to thanagClier own domestic po licy. She will deliirer till, "persons held to ser iice or labor in one. State, under the laws there of, escaping into another." But let our South ern brethren and fellow-citizens know assuredly, that the people of 'the North will never gua ranty.the perpetuation 'of slavery. They will not interfere with it`where' it is, but they will . not guaranty its continuance. It is not nominated in'the bond, and no new bond will they receive. And the North could`not, guaranty the per petuity of slavery if she would..lt is beyond her power. She 'night as well undertake to guaranty a suspension of the law of gravita tion, as to, guaranty hn arrest of, the onward moving of Providence; by which, in his own good time, every'yoke, shall be broken, and the oppressed everyiv re go free. Slavery is doomed—doomed only in, the Union, but t , throughbut the w6`_ It - It mast perish. But let it do so under tke :good hand of God, per , vading by his gospel the mind of both master 1 and servant. Southern statesmen are in error, in thinking that slavery can be preserved by a separate con federacy:, In all probability" that would hasten its destruction. The South needs the constitn-: tional protection of the North, to prevent a, sudden destruction of slavery, an. event that would• be alike disaitrous to the master and the Wave. If that protection be scorned and cast away, ib will be by the pride which goeth be fore destruction.. Christians at the North are not aggressive on this subject. They are not propagandists by violence. The gospel is their weapon. All they ask of their slaveholdidg brethren is, that they regulate slauary by etriatianity. They will leave the tuattetwith them, simply desiring them to apply the principles of the gospel in all their treatment of the slaves. If the insti tution can standthw application of those prin ciples, let it stand forever; if it cannot stand the application of these principles, no wisdom of statesmen can prevent its fall. NEWSPAPER INTROVEMENTS. In our list of exchanges we observe that, be . side..the Christian ilerald, the Presbyter, of Cincinnati, is enlarged and *proved. The Western Christian Ade °eats, in the same, city, has enlarged and talfen the double sheet form, and the old Christian Advocate and Jo urnal of New York, has . ,felloWed the fashion, and changed. to the quarto form, without any ma terial enlargement. All these are newspapers of high character, and , every friend of Evangeli cal literature Will rejoice in their prosperity. * * NATIVE HELPERS AT FIITICHAU: IMPORTANCE OF MIL EDITOR:—Last Sabbath evening I attend ed the usual Chinese service, held in the church belonging to the mission of the American Board at this place. Three young men, members of the native church under care of that mission, two of whom are employed as -naive heifer's, addtessed the congregation, followed by closing remarks by, the missionary in charge of the meeting. The first speaker, aged 20, had a very , bashful appearance. His delivery was, rather monotonous. His remarks, however, indicated him to be, a so ber and earnest thinker. He took, as his subject, the closing part of the sth chapter of Matthew, and explained at considerable length the manner in which Jesus taught his disciples to treat their slanderers and enemies.' The way in which he handled this subject, as well as the, subject itself, conciliated and interested the audience. He al luded to several customs of the Chinese, and quoted some of their maxims, relating to their treatment of enemies, and exhibited in marked .and impres sive contrast the principles which the Saviour laid' down as rules for the guidance of his followers, in regard to those who "cursed,": who "hated," and whO "despitefully used and ,persecuted them." I could not but be.gratefuller such4ain -and ear nest remarks on this subject, so different from any thing which exists either., in theory or practice among the Chinese. , The second speaker, aged twenty-ftve, so far as concerned' his manner : of delivery, was much more pleasing and oratorical than the first. He announced as his 'theme, John xv. 25; "They hated me without a cause," and proceeded to show the unreasonableness of the common objections made by the Chinese against. Jesus. He declared that his text was. fulfilled in Fulichau, in that Je sus was hated without a cause. While he exposed, in .a masterly manner, the sophistry and the po pular excuses and objections against the phristian religion, he did not fail to notice the real reasons 'Why the Chinese do not believe in the Saviour. His words were simple, yet pointed, and his mean ing unmistakable. His appeals were bold and searching. I felt grateful when .he closed, that the truth had been spoken so earnestly, and at the same time so kindly. The third speaker, aged . ..2D, discoursed- from . Matt. x. 28. His voice was sharp and quick, yet i quite distinct. He explained and 'enforced, in a pleasing and direct manner, the duty of every one) to fear God more than man. He spoke of the na ture, the value, and the . immortality of the soul, in a way which rivetted the attention of the eon gregation. He denied the sentiment.whialy seems to be entertained, in theory at leait, by not, a few learned Chinese, that the soul •perishes when the body dies. The audience listened with .a kind of. wondering interest, while he urged theta in a bold and spirited manner to fear and obey that Beings "who is Able to destroy, both soul and body in hell," and not to fear man who can only kill the' body, but cannot kill the soul. What has been said,. as well as what has been left-unsaid, about the exercises of that evening,, illustrate two interesting facts, which ,I believe :tot be eminently true of the , native helpers at this port. ~.I have had ample opportunities of judging in, this matter ever-since any• converts.were. em , ployed as helpers in the ntissionary work at Bull chau. - • - PRfLOTICAL AND EMINENTLYT§TIA.N.- 1 The native helpers Select Nery-practical and important subjects when addressing_their country:. men. Thep do not loin to dwell on abstruse, me taphysical, or far-fetched themes, nor are they fond- of presenting exclusiVely doctrinal points. There is not much science, or philosophy, or his tory embodied in their public addraises, but there is a great deal of most important truth relating to *the most practical subjects, prescribed by them in' an earnest and kind manner. - 2. They are not ashamed to. Speak out' boldly for Jesus. They literally and emphatically "Stand up for Jesus" in all their. discourses. Indeed their preaching and their addresses are so full of 'Jesus, and contain so many allusions to Ile life: and fi; doctrines of the Saviour as the only proper example and standard for men of all ages and all nations, as, frequently, to irritate many of their hearers. It is `a very coMmowooethenee to hear some of those who have been listening to their ad dresses, imy in substance on leaving, that of every 10 sentences, 3 or 4 have Jesus in them, or are about Jesus. 4nother forms of expressiktgztbasatne idea, is that " one word out of every,pqs..Jesus." not a &IV leave the'ehapel or the ch*anger, uttering the abOve sentiment, with lou bit ter curses .on the native helpers. Prayer in behalf of fore_ign4missionaries, of - na tive converts to Christianityini foreigklandsi of Christian schools among thk4atheA?ainif of the heathen generally, is very.trion-amwicPbris dans in western countries::'BoV4Pilita?.4pe , . dal prayer for the natio..helptrei,-****labor ing for the conversion:of:their heathef'ol44‘yinett, is rarely offered. far as toi.:,iiiitertAfine-mid my recollection. sintvpsuch e.,*1: 1 / 4 a4 .treli/et; 15r very seldom presented befoiOkSigyiseit t ba family worship, fAhureh'oineiktitiOrb-Oiiitpia3ret meetings, or evenidthe nionthlFertAr.Anie rico. previous to aty sailing-for mat---liaallietie been a.great 'change for the bett(*at tegaidi as' subject? Would that I -knew a change had already extensively been made IV - . The subject of prayer for natii . .helpersis one Of great and generapimportanee, 'considered with reference to the'prokreSs of the Work in every mis sionary field. Btoll shall briefly present the sub ject, viewed from China, as my stand point. For I feel that there are some grave eonSiderations, some special reasons why frequent and fervent prayer in behalf of the native helpers in China should be offered by the Church. • -NATIVE PREACHERS THE MATH non - FOR CHINA. 1. China is so immense ' and,so populous, its dis tance so great from America and England, (the present centres of interest-in the missionary'cause,) and the necessary expense connected with the fo reign missionaries so large and constant, that it is idle to expect the evangelization of this empire' mainly by th,e.lahor of foreigners. And besides, the numbeA.Amissionaries, and; of candidates for the : missionary" work, is immensely inadequate. The Churili, at least, in the present state of her zeal in the cause; of missions, has neither the mo ney nor, tlip t lnen to spap s for the work in China. Can she send and anpfert., annually several scores or hundredp;not to say thousands, oP her, sons and daughters in this empire to labor for Jesus? No: China must be saved by the diviner,bleakiig resting principally on the labors Qf lier n own 4 cenvertecl SOW and daimhters. Natilleipttelgt:l. tinder God, are her main hope. 110 - *kti: then, that suit able persons should be raised the,right -time ; and place, and in sufficient numbers to meekthe • For the American Presbyterian• LETTER FROM CHINA• PRAYER FOR SUCH HELPERS. ADDRESSES OP NATIVE HELPERS growing demands of the work—to respond to the loud call of Providence for more laborers in this empire! Is it reasonable and consistent - to believe that the evangelization of China will be achieved without the importunate and effectual prayers of the Church, in behalf of the native agents or in struments in the work? Are' the . present or the future missionaries in this land, on whom will de volve the responsibility of selecting, training and superintending the native , helpers, sufficient for . such a responsibility, unaided by the sympathies and the prayers of western Christians, poured out before God in behalf of these helpers? PRECED.ENT IN CHINA 2. "As the twig is bent the tree is inclined," is an old adage, which has a moral application of peculiar significancy and force, in such an empire as China, where CUStO9II, and precedent are gene rally more powerful than law or than right. The founddions should be properly laid, if the super structure is to he firm and durable. A low stan dard of ,piety and devotion to the work, in those who are first, or among the first to be employed as native helpers or native preachers, would beta calamity to be peculiarly dreaded-and deprecated in this empire. Now maynot, should not a deep and powerful interest be taken in this matter by those at the West who are co-workers in the pro motion of the cause of missions in this laud? Ought they not, and will they not offer up special and frequent prayer in behalf of native helpers or native preachers in China, in view of the transcend .. ent importance of rightly beginning as well as .of rightly prosecuting the work by the instru mentality of converted Chinese? [To be continued.] For the American Presbyterian. THE SYRIAN SUFFERERS The advices which reach us weekly from the "Anglo-American Relief Committee" at Beirut, demonstrate as well the prudence with which the funds already remitted are dispensed to the pe rishing multitudes, as the appalling destitution that reigns in Syria. On the 4th of November they wrote to the Syrian Relief Committee at New York : " Our expenditure has been doubled, and we see no reason to believe that it will decrease!' In a village formerly numbering 512 souls, five were killed in, the war, and forty-two had died since its termination from want and exposure. One-sixth of the remainder were sick. This is but a sample of the villages in the Lebanon dis trict, even before the setting in of the wintry Sea son. Disease in its worst, forms is added to the faniine;' and there is much need of medicine and medical treatment The number of physicians employed has been increased to eleven, eight of whom give their services gratuitously. Under their assiduous labors, it is true, the number of Patients in the cities' rapidly diminishes.. "At the date of the establishment of our medical corps ; at Damascus, more than 2,500 were reported sick. Less than 300 are now (Nov. Bth) under treatment, and but very few deaths have occurred." The physicians report; "The number of patients is gradually decreasing, but disease in general is ae,- ; quiring a more serious character, in consequence I of the near approach of winter, dampness in the houses and streets, and from noxious exhalations, especially from the Christian quarter. In the lat ter place :a considerable quantity of human limbs are still lying exposed, and others are being daily exhumed by the street do g s." On account of the enormous expense that would necessarily attend the employment of European phYsicians in the moon tains, " the proposition to employ native doctors has received . ,much favor; they will of course be under the direction of the European and Ameri can physicians now in the field.'' But while the prospect ,for the alleviathm of "the sufferings a - "the sick is in some points, encouraging, the de mands on the charities of the West in behalf. of the famishing augment as the rigor of the season increases. 'Under date of Novvember 14th, Rev Daniel M. Wilson, on his return from an explore qion of the region about 13aalbee, reports to the Committee that "the:Christians have lost much the greater part of their cattle, without which no ploughing can be done. Most of their ploughs are missing. Last autumn and this spring these twenty-nine villages sowed about eighty‘thousand, bushels of grain, and all they saved of this year's crop, together with the little received as food from the government, iS less Ahem one-fifth of the amount sown !" How are these multitudes, to. be fed; and whence shall they receive seed' to sow their fields for the ensuing year? "The'fund of the French Committee is to be devoted exclusively to repairing -villages, and to re-building the-par tially destroyed convents." To the .destitute Christians who must' be fed, are to ,be added a body of Metawali, (Moslems,) who have re ceived assistance from the Tripoli Auxiliary , Sub committee. No Jews have as yet asked for relief. Notwithstanding every attempt at retrenchment, to-supply food Rercly,tg.27,ooo daily recipients for the six months` to come, until hiirVest begins, will cost £20,000," and much additional will' be needed to clothe the naked, and shelter the house less. The Christians of England and AmeriCa have done nobly thus far. " Help must Come," says the Beirut Committee in concluding theirre- cent appeal, "promptly, steadily, and largely, Or. our distributions must cease in midwinter, and. then the destruction of the Christian communities of this land, commenced by Moslem fanaticism, Druze ferocity, and the treachery of Turkish Pashas, will.be completed by cold and nakedness disease and' amine: - SW" Mr. William A. Booth, No. 95 Front St., New York, is the Treasurer of the - Syrian Belief 'Committee. ik For the American Presbyterian. "ANNALS OP TEE POOR." The meetings' held in our 'mission room on Sabbath and Friday evenings, partake not only of a religious cliracter, but also, strongly of a ,sociable nature latter caused, we think, mostly by the former. In consequence of these, our meetings - ate largely attended, not only by the larger children of the school, hut also by a number of grown persons. Among the rest, has come one young lady, who took a class in our school, and who, night after night, has joined in our prayers, and we had'hoped, become - one of us; but she disap peared, her seat was vacant, and we must go and see why. Thus came our visit to a family in BEDFORD STREET. Our knock upon the front door, was soon an swered, from the side yard, by our young friend, and we were kindly asked . to walk in, which we did. The room was, not the nicely carpeted one we had expected to see, but the floor, though bare, was - well scrubbed. The walls were white and clean, and the' old cook-stove threw out sufficient heat to keep the frame house warm. The father was ,in the upper room working at shoes, while the mother occupied her ;time be tween her household cares and spooling;'yarn for one of the neighboring factories. To* vy -question,bovr they were affected by the "panic . ,," they told me it lad not stopped,their, work yet. TAere seemed ,to be ho disposition to beg, bqt my inquiries they returned prompt and faii"answers• During my brief stay, I learned .that when the mother was married, she had a good Ripply of clothing, and that as her family need ed; she would . take from her own wardrobe and clothe her children, thinking that as she herself would . want, .she_ could Purchase others. Their weekly - eirtongs, all along, have been enough to supply- thei.r - - - actual necessities only, and thus the tootherVielothes have never . been replaced by new ones, and for years she has not been able to attend churett. Would, it not be a good act, if some one 'or more Christian ladies would quietly become acquainted with, and, burst these "bonds" . which now fetter a sister, "and let the oppressed gotree?" EDITOR'S TABLE. THE CLOUD WITH A GOLDEN BORDER • By Her F N . Ffszt.r.rr, Author of "The Heights of Eidelberg." Phi ladelphia: T. _Elwood Zell. 12m0., pp. 412. A tale whose chief interest centres in a jewiA family, thrown by accident among Christians, and led, to the acceptance of the true Messiah by thei r lives and conversation. The inward struggles and divisions of sentiment produced among them, ar e drawn with power and pathos. Some of the seems cannot be read without the deepest emotion,, such as that•which passed between Lemuel and his father in reference to their uncle. Paul, and the death of Uncle Paul himself. But beside s this main object, and perhaps too much oversha dowing it, we have an interesting group of cha racters, whose lives illustrate some of the niot, prominent traits, virtuous and vicious, of domestic and social life. Radcliff and Cornelia meanly and selfishly aspire to position, and meet with over whelming disappointment; Howard and Marion manifest true Christian generosity and modesty, and are blessed with success. We cheerfully com mend the work as calculated to give sound views of life, and to set in a clear light the value of an interest in the true Messiah. The authoress, con cealed under a nom de plume is a Christian ady, whose great worth is acknowledged by all her ac quaintances, and whose character has undergone the refinement of years of affliction, not yet com plete. PICTURES FROM THE HISTORY OF SPAIN. By the author of Pictures from the History of the Swiss.. Boston: Brown & Taggard. 16mo. pp. 296. Illus trated. A very attractive volume, traversing nntrodden ground in the domain of juvenile literature. His tory, manners, lard cu:stoms; and choice anecdotes are combined in a delightful melange, instructive and entertaining to the youthful reader. The persecutions of the Moors and Jews are graphical ly described. For sale by W. S. &A. Martieu. NELLIE AND HER BOAT. By JOSEPHINE Enswas. Boston: Brown & niggard. IBmo. pp. 150. One of a series of brief and interesting volumes, designed to illustrate the progress which can be made from a very low and degraded condition of life to a more refined and elevated one, by the pro per use of kindness, love, and gentle teaching. For sale as above. HISTORY OF LATIN CHRISTIANITY, including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of -Nicholas V. By HENRY BART linatert, D. D., Dean of St. Paul's. In eight vols. Vol. 111. New York: Sheldon & Co. Large 12nto. pp. 625. This third volume of Milman's Latin Christia nity, promptly issued by the American publishers, carries the narrative down to the year 1095, the period of the- excommunication of Philip I. of France. For sale by S. al'llenry, 406 Walnut Street. COINS, MEDALS, AND SEALS, Ancient - and Modern. Illustrated and described. Edited by W. C. Faint, author of Boat-Life in Egypt and Nubia. New York: Harper & Brothers, Square fivo. pp. 229, with one hundred and fourteen plates, and two indexes. This is a rare sort of a book, in the American trade, being designed to meet the wants of a special and limited class of connoisseurs. 'But it meets these wants in such a way as to be attractive al most to any intelligent! reader. The subject is, indeed, one that touches the public interest on more sides' than one,. being intimately connected with the history of man, and of his commercial transactions. The illustrations are as various and extensive as civilization itself, and Mr. Prime has done his part' in an.instructive and agreeable man ner. For sale by Lindsay ida Blakiston. LIFE IN THE OLD WORLD; or, Two Years in Salt zerland and Italy. By Facrounta. BREMER. Translated by Maar Howirr. Copyrighted. American edition, from the Translator's manuscript. In two vols. Phi- Iladelphia: T. B. Peterson & Bros. 12m0., pp. 488, 474. The gifted authoress of these volumes throws new attractions around .the familiar scenes of her travels. Site, sees what others have not seen, she groups •familiar objects -in new connections, she interweaves ,with, skill the products of her own genius. 'But she aims to do more than entertain the reader Fith.slretches of travel, She professes to seek out evidences of the progress of the divine. kingdom among men, and utters ,vague longings an this. subject. She has an ideal •of a church greater than Protestantism. She communicates no definite ideas of it; only it shall be wide enough to include "Fenelon and °banning, Francis de Sales and Herman - Franeke, Hildebrand and Lu ther, Washington and Vinet, Elizabeth Fry and St. Brigitte.' 'She shows her acquaintance with the facts inyolied„ by declaring that the age of Calvinisin is gone; and further reveals her own spirit, hy thanking God forit! Yet she scarcely seems `to understand'herself; for we find her again speaking of "a too latitudinarian rationalism" creeping into- the Waldensiin churches, and she manifests `a very intelligent and appreciative in terest in the movements of the Evangelical Church in France, Switzerland,, and Geneva:': The books will be read, and they contain. very much that will repay, reading. But we are sorry we cannot commend them unreservedly` to Our friends. REMINISCENCES OF SCOTTISH LIFE AND CHA RACTER. By B. B. RAMSAY Dean of Edinburgh. From the . Seventh Edinburgh Edition. Boston: Tick nor &Fields. 16m0., pp. 297, with anAndex. The many Scotchmen, and descendents of Scotch men,, in - this country, will welcome thie edition of a- volume in which , so much of the flavour of Scot tish life - and- conversation' is preserved. The to pics are: Religious Feelings, and Observances; Scottish Conviviality . ; the Old,Scottish Domestic Servant; Hunteur. proceedin g from the Language, including Scottish Proverbs. - Readers of all na tionalities will , find in the volume innocent and rational entertainment, some' of it of the most ir resistible, side-splitting,-,characte r , combined with much instruction upon- the lees known aspects of the subject The author, Dean Ramsay, gives a preface to the Ainerican Edition, in which he ex presses himself as much gratified at this indication of interest, by our countrymen, in his work. It is gotten ,up in antique type, and in the usual ex cellent style of the publishers. For sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co. BONNIE SCOTLAND. Tales of her History, Heroes, and. Poets. By GRACE GREENWOOD. With Illustra tions. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 181 no., pp. 273. Above, we noticed Scotland for the old folks. Here we have Scotland for the children, served up by a competent hand and a great favourite. The selection of characterdand incidents is judi demi. The story:of the Covenanters is told from the Protestant side,,and the nmetyrdonl of the two Margarets in the .rising tide of the sea, is affect ingly reproduced. Sir William Wallace, Rob Roy, Robert Bruce, Mary Queen of Scots, Robert Burns, and-'Sir Waiter Scott figure in' the inte resting miscellany.. For sale by J; B. Lippincott BRUIN: THE GRAND BEAR' BUNT. By Captain MAYNE Ry.pa. Boston: Tieknekr.& Fields. 1.8m0.., pp. 371. This is a book of stirring incident, and will in fallibly fix'the attention of every youthful reader. How farit will'prove instructive;'or communicate healthful excitement, may well be doubted; as it exhibits the, habits of 'the animal, who forms the central figure in the exhibition, chiefly as' he ap pears when purstied'with deadly intent by the su perior animal,*man.; and there is not a little of wantonness- both-in the spirit of the professional huntsman,.and in making the excitement of the chase the staple of a story for the For sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co. The..CONGRECIATIONAL QUARTERLY, VoL 111, N 9 . 11: The noticeable articles in this number are : New England - in the West, by Rev. Jos. S. Clark, D. D., and Cong,regationalisin and Revivals, by Rev. Henry M. Dexter. The annual Statistics of the Denomination have been incorporated in this Quarterly, an are given in this number for the year 1860. oath are:,260,889 members, against 257,634 rtrd last year. Ministers, 2706 against 269 ported last year. Churches, 2734 against 2676 reported last year. This in cludes some few figures which, on the plan of uniotl, are Also reported in the minutes of our own church. WILE 'WORLD oftener rewards the appearance . of merit than merit - 4 Jan. 10,
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