126 'cutlet vangtliot. TRuttorrokr, APRIL 4, 1461. JOHN W. MEARS, EDITOR. ASIOCIATXD WITH ALBERT BARNES GEORGE DUFFIELD, JD THOMAS BRA/NERD. JOHN JENKINS, HENRY DARLING. THOMAS J. SHEPHERD. EVIL CURIOSITY, Our mother Eve was led into sin by a desire to know good and evil: a desire which was rather presumptuous than base in its character. To a very sad and lamentable degree, her progeny are curious to know evil only. It is one of the very consequences of the fall that our moral natures are unstrung, so that a far lower form of temptation is sufficient to beguile us into sin. 'Open up to man a view of the evil of his neighbor's character, make a "hole in the wall," and offer to show him the abominations of social life, and you have. reached a deplorably weak point in his fallen na ture; he will, in a vast multitude of instances, be tray a shameful greediness for ouch knowledge. Or is it not true that the staple of private con versation about one's neighbors relates to their faults? Or that the rumor of a fall from virtue will excite a flutter of curiosity, far exceeding that produced by news of a fresh development of good ness in individual character? Or that the budget of small scandal to be unfolded, is often the grand attraction of , the social gathering? Or that a life of goodness is expected to be dull, while the de tails of a life of violence and wrong-doing are an ticipated with an assurance that they will prove interesting? Or that the great poet was not giving vent to spleen, but uttering a great truth explained by the perversion of our tastes and intel lects, when he exclaimed, I , The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones." Alas for us! The times in which we live give ample proof of the prevalence of this evil curiosity, and of the respect paid to it, and the mercantile uses to which it is turned, by the class that fur nishes the daily supply of its demands. From the paradise of ignorance, we have fallen into the slough of the daily revelations of evil, which it has become the great business of a laige part of the press, to make broad enough, and deep enough, and black enough, and tenacious enough, to gra tify the most swinish propensities! Led on by this evil curiosity at first, the press now re-acts upon, and fearfully stimulates it to fresh eagerness, and to a readiness for deeper disclosures of human guilt. Too often the daily press has suffered itself to be come the very drain of social impurities; the channel to convey their pestiferous influences into the sacred precincts of home, and to spread blight and devastation among the precious plants of the household. What a fearful dereliction to its high calling and responsibility I What an inversion of 'the healthful functions it might, and in some no ble, exceptional instances does, fulfil. Its high charge is properly to resist the baser proclivities of our nature; to reform the swinish tastes of the multitude; to stimulate the healthful desires after a knowledge of the useful, the good, the true; to hold up the attractive aspects of virtue; and as for vice, if it cannot be painted of so hideous a mien as to ensure the horror and rejection of all who behold it, without leaving the trail of the serpent behind it in the reader's mind, then let its exhi bition form no part of the business of the journal. But as for those prints who fairly gloat over fresh developments of vice, and seem to take a worse than brutish delight in expatiating on their de tails; and who consider it a necessary mark of en terprise, and a feature of superiority to have every extraordinary case of delinquency promptly photo graphed in their columns, with a careful preserva tion of every picturesque feature; they have a tre mendous account to render to the Creator of those souls they are destroying, and to the author of that instrument of moral power which they are so fearfully perverting. We know not which to blame most; the unsparing disseminators of this knowledge of evil, who coolly make merchandise of the crimes and the base appetites of their fel lows; or the multitudes whose well-known greedi ness for such news, makes them sure of a remune rating return for the most liberal outlay in obtain ing it. Let us cheek this evil curiosity, worse than mo ther Eve's, which brought on our full; let us eat only that side of the apple—now that it is plucked —which brings knowledge of good. Let us culti vate pure tastes and an ennobling curiosity. Let us seek to know the wisdom of God in a mystery. Let us delve amid the uosearchable riches of Christ. PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this society, was held on Wednesday of last week. Prom the report of the Directors, we learn that increasing usefulness marked its progress through the last year; and that at no previous period in its history were the opportunities for doing good more favorable than at the present. From the number and character of the candi dates now under their care, there is reason to be lieve that there will be a future accession to the ministry, which will amply repay the churches for all they have contributed toward the education of the young men. / Sixth -one received assistance during the past year. The receipts of the society from all sources, were seven thousand and three dollars and pinery-three cents;—expenditures, six thousand five hundred and fifty nine dollars and ninety-eight cents. The annual report is soon to be published in full, when we may make further extracts from its pages. ale following officers were elected for the en suing year President—Ambrose White; Vice Presidente —John A. Brown, Hon. Wm. Darling. Corre 'fowling 'Secretary—Rev. Charles Brown. Trea. surer—William Purves. Audimr--Clem. Ting ley. Directurs.—Rev. Thos. Brainerd, D. D.; Rev. Ai Converse, D. D.; Rev. John Jenkins, D. D ' ~• Be,; David Malin, D. D.; Rev. Robert Adair; Rev. * Thos. J. Shepherd; Rev. John Pat ton, D. D.; .Rev- J. Helffenstein, D. D.; Rev. Ed. B. Bruen; Rev. E. E. Adams; S. H. Perkins, Esq.; Alexander Fullerton; Joseph H. Dulles; Benedict D. Stewart; Archibald M'Elroy; A. S. Naudain; Alexander Whilldin; John Sparhawk; J. S. Kneedler; 'Wm. E. Tenbrook; Henry J. Williams, Esq.; George W. Sio;ions; James S. Earle; J. C. Chance. Tun VENTILATING APPARATUS so favorably montioned. by Dr. Cornell on our first page, is the work of Mr. Joseph Leeds No. 505 Chestnut St. r GONE TO ROME. We hope our readers will not be astonished or grieved over-much, when wd tell them that a mi nister of high standing in our church has gone to Rome—as, indeed, was natural, since it was from Rome he came. The ties of old associations are powerful, and can never be wholly effaced by new ones. Years may pass by, yet late in life they will be found asserting their force, and leading the individuate retrace steps taken in early years, and to make long pilgrimages with the spirit of a devotee. We are speaking, not of the Italian, but of the American Rome—the New York village, to which Mr. Barnes turns with the deep interest and affec tion of a native, and whither he has recently bent his steps, to gain that refreshment to a study-wea ried mind and body, that flows so delightfully from scenes separated from the strife and turmoil of manhood, and interwoven with the lighter and sweeter associations of early life. While he is thus at a distance, and unsuspicious of any such purpose on our part, we may express the great de greo of ,interest with which we follow him, in thoUght, upon that visit. We cannot but call to mind what he was when he first left that village, an unknown, untried youth; all unconscious and, as we are strongly inclined to believe, unambitious of the distinguished, honorable, and useful posi tion before him. Unconscious, too, doubtless he was—or he might well have shrunk back from the prospect—of the conflicts,. trials,. and persecutions of which he was to be the object; and of the con spicuous part he was to perform in one of the most needful and righteous, but most painful, passages in the history of successful resistance to ecclesias tical usurpation and the intolerance of dogmatism; these things the youth of gentle spirit could not have ventured to imagine. Nor that long career of steady, quiet and courageous, persistence in the chosen path of right; nor that wide and scarcely paralleled success as a popular commentator and religious writer that awaited him, and that bids fair to embalm his memory in the minds of the Christian masses, when the nudes of his detrac tors are buried amid the cobwebs of e unvisited al coves, or are mentioned as the symbols of an in tolerance that thrust itself into the church long after its time had gone by. We do know, in a general way, how he felt, and what was his position, on going forth from his home to grapple with the world. He has given us, in a few sentences in his "Life at Three Score," some means of judging of the youth going forth from his father's roof. ne'says: "I began life 'with no wealth,.and with no pa tronage from powerful friends. I was blessed with i virtuous and industrious parents, and entered on my course with the advantage which was to be de rived from their counsels and example. I was dependent on my own efforts. . . I know, indeed, what it is for a young man to weep when be starts out alone to engage in the great struggle of life. . . I came here a younc , man, with but little experience, with no personal acquaint ance with the manners and habits of a great city, and with no such reputation as to make success certain." This was the manner of his setting out; other thoughts must occupy him on his return. The Rome of his boyhood has changed, we presume, but little; but the man of sixty who revisits it, comes back freighted with a store of no common experiences, trained by no common discipline, the centre of regard and affection of no common kind in the hearts of hundreds of thousands; and if of hostility too, a hostility amid which his character has but risen in true dignity, the possessor of an honorably acquired reputation, which is imbittered by no one's envy, the unaspiring, yet tacitly ad mitted leader of a denomination, among whose of teers, of older or later generations, there is not, we verily believe, a spark of jealousy or rivalry of his position. God grant him a safe return, and prolong his days of usefulness among us many years. EDITORIAL. JOTTINGS. THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE, a Baptist organ of this city, is very much exercised at the coldness shown to Mr. Guinness during his recent visit to Philadelphia, by the Pedo-Baptist "Union" men. Whatever be the case with others, the mere fact of Mr. G's. immersion, is not the cause of any, coldness felt in this quarter. It is because of his immersion by a Separatist, Lord Congleton, and his quasi connection with a body of men whose very unsectarianism has, like Quakerism, taken the form of antagonism to all church organization and church order. Did not the fact of submission to immersion at the hands of a "brother," and of union by marriage with a lady-preacher of that body, who, as his wife, conducts religious services, and has just issued an elaborate and earnest de fence of the brethren, make Mr. G. partaker of their destructive principles? We retort on the Chronicle the question whether the - mere fact of his immersion has not been suffered to atone'for the grievous wrong of his example and that of his wife—whether our Baptist brethren, in recog nising Mr. G., have not inflicted upon themselves, and upon all bodies who believe in the great im portance and Scriptural warrant of chtirch organi zation, a _serious woundmerely for the sake of the eclat which the immersion of Mr. Guinness would give to that rite? In the name of Scrip tural church-order, and of decency in the obser vance of the sacraments of the church, we protest against the recognition of thjs new-fangled Qua kerism by the evangelical churches of our. country. THE CHA MPIONS OF INDEPENDENCY have great reason to be annoyed at the developments pre sented by the chronic troubles, in the church of the Puritans. A week ago last Friday, these troubles, after a temporary period of quiet, broke out with all their old violence; 'and the tyranny of a majority from whom there is no appeal, was exhibited in the summary suspension of half a do zen members who had scarcely a chance to be heard in self-defence, and who, so far as we can learn, had been subjected to no preliminary forms of trial. Their offence was differing from their pastor on the question of ,slavery, and on the me thods he is now pursuing to raise funds for the support of the church. There is said to be a ske leton in every house. Perhaps there is one in al most every church organization. The church of the Puritana, - is the skeleton in the Congrega tional House. PROF. JOSIAH W. Gins, of the department of sacred literature in Yale Theological Seminary, is dead. He was a man of profound and varied learning, familiar with the great advances made in his department by continental scholars; and he freely admitted their value; yet, while candidly acknowledging the existence of difficulties not yet solved, he was never carried away by the false and pretentious assumptions of the rationalist school, whose rise, culmination, and decay, ho saw during the forty years of his career as a teacher in those branches. His calm blue eye was an index to the unpresnming modesty and gentleness.of his character. His students, among whom We are, mttitifl ttobgttrian and 14 entott grangriigit, thankful to have been, have impressed upon their memories an image of devotedness to science, of unwavering fidelity and impartiality in the inves tigation of, truth, of comprehensiveness of spirit, of magnanimity, candor, and the utter absence of prejudice, which we doubt whether we have seen equalled since we left the scene of his valued in struetions. He _just yassed the bound of three score and ten.- * 'His 'works' on the *Hebrew lan guage, jssued)ong ago, have been superseded; but their merit was freely acknowledged at the time of their isaue. Enrrons or RELIGIOUS. JOURNALS in the South, no doubt regard themselves as included in the general claim for superior refinement of man ners, and for high-toned and chivalrous behaviour so extensively made in behalf of the Southern people. • If so, undoubtedly, they should exhibit these qualities in their conduct towards such cotempora ry journals as they see fit to notice in their co lumns, especially when they undertake to contro vert or to deny their position& If instead of ar gument, or dignified, though severe, denial, they flout their self-chosen antagonist, and attempt to single one out of seven editor& and make him an object of personal reproach; as has been done once and again, we are sorry to say, by the North Ca rolina Presbyterian, in reference to ,this paper; we submit that in such a case, the chivalry, the refinement, the high-toned and gentlemanly spirit of th'e South have found a most unfortunate mode of expression. EASTER IN THE EAST. The festivities of Easter week, as celebrated by Oriental Christians, are of so interesting a cha racter, that a brief description of them may not be out of place; particularly since many religious denominations at home . are now observing this time-honored anniversary. All Eastern Christians religiously adhere to the old style, or Julian Calendar; and dogmati cally ignore the Gregorian computation as a po pish deride. Indeed, so strong a bold has this chronological prejudice on their minds, that an ciently the Maronites, and . more recently, some Bulgarian communities resolutely refused to .ae knowledge the supremacy of the Pope, unless an express dispensation was granted them to preserve inviolate their old dates. Hence let us on Saturday night, the 13th Inst., introduce the reader into the interior of the prin. cipal Greek Church of Constantinople. The studied gloom of a few flickering lights, barely al lows us to discern the tinselled ornaments,> and the legion of saints who decorate the walls; whose faces are painted in colors on wood, but whose garments and haloes of glory glitter with solid gold and silver. Over the, principal entrance,a wretched daub, teeming with spits and caldrons of sulphur, and which every tyro in the art would scorn to father, depicts the horrors of the Judgment Day, The church fills rapidly with worshippers, or spectators like ourselvesk the body, the aisles, the galleries, nay, even temporary platforms' are alive with a multitude of ladies and gentlemen in ball costume; or of the lower classes dressed out in their very best; each holding an unlighted taper. They tell their beads, Aiss the_well-worn feet of patron saints, mutter a prayer, discuss the last fashion, or make appointments for:the approach ing holidays, all at a breath. Precisely at mid night a priest, splendidly robed, draws aside the screen of : the sanctuary, and reveals a sepulchre purporting to be that of our Saviour. With re verential awe, he lifts the lid, but starts back ex clainiing in theatrical tones of surprise, " He'is not here." An interval of silence, intensified by the previous murmur of devotion, is broken only by the muffled sound of shuffling of feet, as the priests in precession pretend to search in every nook and corner for the body of our Lord. A mitred Bishop now ascends the pulpit, with a lighted taper, and, while every sound is hushed, screams out triumphantly "Christ is risen, He's risen indeed." The effect is electric; of the vast congregation, those in the immediate vicinity of the pulpit repeat the words; their neighbors eagerly catch up the re frain, until transmitted from lip to lip, the dome and vaulted roof echoes, and re-echoes with "Christ is risen. He is risen indeed." Some shout out the glad tidings with wild and frantic gestures; others repeat them mechanically, with tears of penitence trickling ' down their furrowed cheeks; but high above; the din may be distinguished the shrill voices of children, piping these magic words. Now convulsive surges of this living sea sway and fro; roll np 'in waves, and beat against the pulpit; each arm struggling to light its taper from direct contactwith the bishop's holy flame, , . before its virtue is diluted by transmission. The candles of distant deiotees are let down from the galleries by knotted handkerchiefs; • others reach out long poles, on the end of which are fastened their tapers. Lay-brothers, perched On ladders, apply the heaven-born flame to chandeliers, to os cillating lamps and torches, until the church is bathed in a noon-tide , of tallow; the floor seems sprinkled with luminous dots, the galleries a mo saic of scintillations. The explOsion of fire arms; the shrieks of wo men crushed in the oiultant press; the mutual embrace of acquaintances; the suffocating clouds of incense; filthy streams of tallow guttering - into impending stalactites, or dropping into stalagmites on the greasy pavement; the rude guards with fixed bayonets, jostling and hustling their infidel subjects; the sweltering heat and close attno ; sphere; the mingled shouts and screams; women fainting in every direction, and men dragged out insensible; the oppressive smoke of candles, and the breath of devotees, redolent with the erlic of Lent, combine to urge our escape into the fresh air. Our exit is not the work of a moment; we have to stem the tide of the eager multitude; but by dint of adroit management of our elbows, necelera 7 ted by fears of premature explosions, or the bursting of fire-arms; we gain the main entrance ; glad once more to breathe heaven's pure air, free from the religious scent, and the abominable odor -of Eastern sanctity. Alas! for those degenerate churches: this is not an exaggerated description of the Roman Sa turnalia, but a faithful sketch of the manner. in which a great Christian Anniversary is celebrated in the nineteenth century. But we have not done yet._ Including -pabbath three days are devoted to one protracted feast, or, more properly speaking, revel. , Every Greek and Armenian lays aside his work day rags, and dresses for once in "a complete new suit; and the entire native population resort to the numerous cemeteries to dance on the sods of their ancestors. The absence of public squares necessitates this singular custom, not the laudable desire of inculcating a great moral lesson on the instability of life. Swings of every form and de scription, see-saws, panoramas, serpent-eaters, cir cuses, jugglers, dancing bears and monkeys, drinking and eating booths, gambling with stakes of eggs emblematically dyed red, afford'amusement to this religious community. Dancing is the order of the day; porters of giant girth of limb, with a ludicrous expression of so lemnity on their weather-beaten faces, lock arms and balance themselves on their elephantine toes to the sound of a hiss-drum and fife, the latter screeching out a universal tune, which, including variations, enibraces .the -rich' compass of three notes and an accidental. Their more lively neigh hors, the Greeks, crook little fingers and trip through the intricieiesl of the Romaika. Candor compels us to say, that this classic dance, celebra ted in song 'and story, mainly consists of a great exhibition of pocket-handkerchiefs, 'and of such unearthly yells as would suggest an inroad of Ca manches to the inhabitants of' our frontier settle ments. Thißulgarian bag-pipes accompany their national dance, the chief peculiarity of which lies in dashing its votaries skull-caps on the , ground, and catching them on the rebound. A`-universal rejuvenescence, a boisterous re turn to childhood become universal. Seniors rival the terpsichorean recklessness of their juniors. A reverend priest may, without scandal, take delight in the oscillations of a swing; whilst tin to one, a couple of monks are arctic and antarctic to one another on that see-saw. A time-honored custom of being weighed is: religiously observed; and half a cent to the owner of a steel-yard determines that important question.F- Prisoners, whose crimes are not very ilagrint,b,iprocuring bail for their re appearance, can . usnally obtain 'three days of li berty, provided 'the "teari of relatives melt .the plaintiff into a consent. ; Whilst on" the other hand, the tumults and "qtrarrels arising from drunken license" fill the station-houses with new victims. A full week elapses before the public settle down quietly to their former routine of business, and every one is glad atithe, termination of these festivities. Custom-houses have been , closed, for the simple reason, that not a porter can be, hired for love or money to touch an artiele of freight. For the same reason travellers must remain per' force or leave their - baggage' behind them; as for house moving, the idea is too preposteroui to be entertained. A New Yorker might as well attempt to transact that buifness on the 4th of July, which is usually limited to the first of May. Thus" do corrupt Eastern Churches celebrate the resurrection of our Saviour. Is it reasonable to expect that the MohaMmedan - will exchange the more solemn rites ,of his faith, for the puerile extravar , ancies of Carnival or the debaucheries of the Easter holidays? If our puritan forefathers witnessed a tithe of such religious mockeries, 'no wonder 'they set their faces sternly against every ecclesiastical anniversary, which could degenerato into drunken revels, or a gross theatrical farce. REV. CYRUS B. ROSENRRANS. We are SorrY to hear of the death of this faith ful and devoted servant of Christ .Without any personal knowledge of theleceaSed, we yet felt an interest in ;him at this office as a snbscriber prompt and faithful his payments.. He did. not die in . debt for his paper. Only a fey weeks before-his decease he wrote, renewing his subscription, en- Closing the pay, and admonishing us that this would be the last extract, a notice from the . . Presbyterian, Recorder: • "This sad event occurred at Columbus Wis., on the Bth of= February, 1861. His disease was consumption, aggravated, if not occasioned, by the exposure and; fatigue .endnred in . the prosecution of his missionary labors among the destitute: Brother Itosenkrans was pre-eminently a man of faith and prayer, rich in the confidence and love of all his brethren. 'He was a man of excellent judgment, of enlarged views and sympathies, deep ly attached to the faith and order of our own be loved church, yet ,eminently catholic in spirit and in effort. For about a score of years, he acted the part of a pioneer missionary in Wisconsin, and under his culturing hand the wilderness was sub dued, and the desert made to, blossom as the rose. Early in his ministerial life he turned away from inviting prospects at the East, and consecrated himself to the service of God in missionary la= bon; and from his chosen -path he never shrank nor turned aside. Churches were planted, Sab bath schools built up, and souls saved through the influence of his labors. He entered upon his. la bors at Columbus in 1848, organizing the first Evangelical Church_ in that region of. country. For a. period of ten years in that field he filled the position of pastor most; acceptably and usefully. When obliged by ill-health to relinquish this charge, he yet loD,ged to preach the. gospel, and taxed himself muck beyond his strength in efforts to supply destitute neighborhoods in the vicinitY, and only ceased from Ogee efforts a few months prior to his death, when ompelled by increasing weakness so to do." SYSTEM IN BENEVOLENCE. There is no one subject that, more pressingly demands attention' in our churches, than that of , BYETEM IN BENEVOLENCE. As a stimulus to the consideration of this topic, we give an article from our Chicago neighbor, The Presbyterian Recorder. We might suggest some modifieatiens of the plan, and may do so hereafter; but, for the present, con tent ourselves with the thouc , hts of the Recorder. A. plan of some kind we ought all to have to go upon. - , Noiv that our churches are likely to enjoy rest from the agitations of past years, the ques tion of uniformity and concert of action in our benevolent =operations is-of great ,practical irate rest: ~ Some uniform system is. desirable, and the ob jects for which we• wish mainly - to labor are now so well defined, that we venture to suggest for consideration till tbe meeting of. the General As setnblyi the: following objects and order, in the hope' that something like a schedule of collection may be agreed upon. Ordinarily,.Six general collections are enough to 'be taken in the year. -- So far as we are able to judge frOm our stand-point,' the nearest approxi mation, to a uniform system which might perhaps be quite generally'adopted, and give satisfaction and prove'efficient, would embrace, AatratoAN'BrßLE SOCIETY. On the Bible work vre are a unit,, and look to both Home and Foreign supply. Give it January and Feb ruary._ 2'..EurrcAmorr. .For the Education of candi dates-for the ministry we look mainly to our Com mittee under the general arrangement. or to our local organizations; and in either case funds must be raised. Funds for libraries, endowments, &c., should come under this head. Say MarCh and April for Education. 3. PUBLICATION CAUSE. `` In this departnient we 'h . ave need to look to theproper support of our Assembly's Committee, and to purchase their issues for local use. , And then We have the Tract work`and Missionary Col portage to promote at home and abroad, through-the old 'rand efficient agency of the American Tract Society, in which we have as large aninterest as anyone denomination. For this give May and June. 4. SABBATH SOHOOLS.' Ia this • work our churches have large local expenses to meet, and then find abundant occasion' to aid in the Mission Work of the American*Sunday School Union. We suggest for that object July and August. 5. Domvsno,Mrssione. On this question we are fast becoming of one mind, and with a will to work we need the help of united action and gene ral sympathy. Concert,of 'action. would tend to pro mote both these. September and October. S. FOREIGN MISSIONS. We have but one chan nel of co-operation in this werk, and the American Board requires all the churches can poesibly do for it in November and December. This presents a prominent object for each two months of the year, and they are so arranged as to give the objects manding the largest amounts the most favorable Part of the busiinss seison. Adopt some order - and system for the whole Church, such as is now in successful use in many separate churches, and each object may then be pressed upon the attention of all the churches by those in special charge, through the pastors, and the best, the fullest and most intelligent develop ment of our benevolence be secured. It seems to us the matter of adjustment is not so diffi.cult that it cannot be reached soon, and we make these suggestions in the hope that by the time of the meeting of the Assembly at Syra cuse, there may be a sufficient comparison of .thought, and of the requirements in different pans of the church, to , warrant a definite recommenda tion by the Assembly. ARISING TO BUILD., We thankfully record the fact that conclusive measures have, during the last week, ,been taken for the erection of another city church edifice, of the first class, by one, of the new orga.nizations of OUT body. THE NORTH BROAD STREET Gannett, at a full meeting of the congregation held on Fri day evening last, the proceedings of which were characterized by a delightful spirit of harmony and hopeful energy, found itself in a position to in struct the Building Committee 'to close the con tract, l and proceed at once with the erection of the proposed 'church. 'edifice, 'on the N. E. corner. of Broad and Green streets. This is the most im portant and, hopeful movement which has been made by our church in 'this city for nearly ten years; say, since the erection of Calvary Church: The location is . admirable, and, with the divine blessing, cannot : fail to become the centre of a large and important church organization. The elements•already gathered around its able, active, and successful pastor, Rev. , E. E—Adams, are of the most promising character. , The erection of a building has become , a necessity for the . audiences who throng : . the Commissioners' Hall, Thirteenth and Spring Garden streets, which was but lately exchangedfor an apartment, then found too strait for the people; and we mayconfinently expect a similar enlargement when the increased accommo dations to be, furnished by the now . building are enjoyed: Simple justice requires us to give a ,large part of the credit of this enterprise to that firm and liberal friend of our church, Mr. M. W. Baldwin, whose large heart has been shown in,nothing more clearly, than in the substantial encouragement he has given to North Broad Street Church, from its very commencement to the present time. It is due also to the devoted and laborious pastor, who undertook this matter while a comparative stranger to the, brethren; to say that both his pulpit minis trations and'his pastoral activity are regarded with increased satisfaction by the people among whom he 'ahem. . •.• „ In our next, or as soon after as the arrange ments can be made, we propose to give a- view of the building, with a sermon ,by the pastor. CITY CHURCHES The ingathering in KENSINGTON Ormactr, lest Sabbath, 'is even greater than was anticipated Seventy-eight were admitted on professien, and nine by certificate, making eighty-seven in all: These were -of 'all:- ages; chiefly from fifteen to thirty years, orthereaboutS. Twenty-six of theni were baptized. - Rev. J: IWLeod assisted in the Services. We rejoice 'with the pastor, Rev. W. T. Eva, and the brethren of this flourishing chureh. The revival- spirit which characterized old:Kensington , during the pastorate of the be loved Chandler, findsa careful and zealous nou: risher in his successor. The mantle of Elijah has fallen on Elisha. The God of Elijah be with him and his people! THE UNITED PRAYEIL MEETING of our churches will not be held next' week, on account of the meeting; of Presbyteries taking place on Tuesday. On Tuesday of the week following, it will be held in Pine. Street Church. THE - 221:$ OF FEBRUARY AT TURK'S 'ELAND.- We learn from the United State.s Consul, Rev. A. G-. Carothers, that Washington's Birthday was dilly celebrated at the Consulate, and that due no tiee was paid it by the Governor of the island and other representatives of foreign powers. RECENT REVIEWS AND NAGAZINES. The BOSTON itEvmw, published every two months in that city, is the organ of the strongly conservative branch of the orthodox Congregational churches in New England.. Among its published list of Writers, we find the names of Rev. Jos. Tracy, D. D., S. M. Worcester, D. D., Prof.'Pond, Rev: N. Adams, D. D., Ac., &c. Its principal object; as set forth in the prospectus, is to respond to "in extensive and increasing demand for. a New Eng land organ of the Puritan Theology." Calvin, the Westminster divines, and Edwards, are properly held up as furnishing the best human symbols of Christian doctrine. There certainly have occurred some startling doctrinal developments among the so-called ()Abe l . dox churches of New England in very recent times, pointing possibly to such an extensive defection from the truth as calls for vigorous measures from its friends in that'quarter. There can be no no, bler, purpose than that which seems to animate these brethren. But our stiff and unbending con servatives in doctrine; our high orthodox men, to whose minds almost every feature in the scheme of doctrine is projected to the foreground; to whom all truths occupy nearly the same place of impor tance; who, by their tenacious adherence to tra ditional modes of explanation,. and human expedi ents for filling up the lacunas of revelation, leave us often, in painful uncertainty as to their relative estimates of the traditiens of men and the inspired word;--these men, and we say it with the pro foundest respect for their motives and their lities, do quite as ranch harm by repelling and prejudicing one class of minds as they do.good in confirming the faith of others. • So far as we have examined this periodical, we find much in it, and expect to find _much in it, commanding our entire sympathy. But its avowed purpose in so many words of "heresy-hunting," its desire "to express grief, anxiety and alarm," and the general tone of its articles which seem to endorse all -the extreme views of the older teach ers of Calvinism, repel our sympathies and create the ; fear lest it should prove mischievous in render ing Calvinism still more of a stumbling-block to many of;the best minds of New Enaland in turn ing them unbelievingly from the Scriptures, in which, indeed; all the essential features ?f Calvin ism are plainly written, or in perverti_ng them to the different forms of Arminianistn, Methodist and Episcopal, ,which are invading New England like a flood. " The first article in the lumber for March is, Theology, Old and New. The re-action of the mind from the stern and one-sided presentation of truth among the New England ministry of earlier times leading to Arminian and Unitarian develop ments, to us appears quite natural, and we throw part of the blame for it upon the inconsiderate and intellictual methods of those teachers. But with the writer it is nothing but =the native heretical tendencies of the unregenerated or partially sanc tified mind, and he knows no better cure or pre ventive for it than a return to those high ground's of doctrine. Among "the present signs of a, new and divisive Theology," the writer enumerates "unwillingness to make or allow of faithful exami nation" into the present supposed doctrinal de fection; the testimony of men like T. Start King to the spread of "liberal" opinions in the." sacri ficial" churches; the promotion of a minister to a Theological professorship straightway after - he has boldly assaulted, and claimed to have overthrown, the positions of Edwards on the Will; two new Congregational papers forced into being at vast expense and sacrifice; a general relaxing of the tone of teaching from the Professor's chair, the pulpit and the press followed .by ignor•ance among the people of the fundamental doctrines, and ridi cule east upon the themes of the Shorter Cate chism by "Young America:" In regard to this entire Jeremiad, we may say that while there is doubtless room for. complaint of laxity in doctrine in New England, much of what is complained of is comparatively insignificant, and much of what would be significant if true, is, in our opinion, un founded. As to the Shorter Catechism, it is only last week that we noticed the immense sale of Rev. Mr. Baker's work on the Catechism, ..which is claimed to have reached two hundred and ten thousand copies, of which, doubtless, the publish er could tell us New England took her full share. The truth is, New England seems to need . the kind, of preaching of which there is still a great 'deal in her pulpits—the preaching of such Theo legy, as that of Dwight, combined with the, best features, in that of Edwards; a true, though; libe ral and Scriptural Calvinism, together with a closer approximation to the Presbyterian form of govern ment; in short, American Presbyterianism--which was formed from a combination of the best features of the Scottish and New England systems, and which is now most, nearly represented by the body to which we belong. We designed to say more on the other articles. The one on Future Pun ishment, summons us to retain all the ,peculiar tone of the views of Edwards and Cal , yin on that subject. ' That. on the Theology of the Plymouth Pulpit, subjects the doctrinal character of Mr. Beecher's published sermons to a searching analysis, which we confess they are ill . calculated to bear. That on Fear as a Christian Motive, objects, wisely enough, to the attempt to make all the world right by a system of general coaxing, and pleads for an "outspoken deliverance of -the alarming dbetrines of our faith." The Christian character of Mrs. Browning's poetry is fully and gladly recognised in an article chiefly made up of extracts from her Drama of E xile. . Messrs. Mar den of this city, are agents for the Review. THE CHURCH MONTHLY is the new organ of the High Churchmen, of Boston, and has, perhaps, a closer connection, by the "logic of events," with the Review just mentioned, than appears on the surface. We have no hesitation in classing it, and the movement it represents, as, in part, a re-action from just such teachings as are insisted _upon in the Review. Its editors are Rev. Geo. M. Ran dall, D. D., and F. D. Huntington D. D., the let ter well known'as, until recently, a leading 'Unita rian divine and Professor in _Harvard University, bUt now rector of Emanuel Church, a new and flourishing organization which was gathered around him, soon after he entered the Episcopal body. In such competent hands, it would be impossi ble for the Church Monthly to hold a second-rate position in its own church literature, or in deno minational literature generally. The number for March gives ample, evidence of the ability of its conductors. Its tone is respectfully but decidedly High Church, and the assumptions of that party are not wanting; even from the first article on the Church, and the People. There is a very comfort able,-ostrich-like oblivion to the discords in the Episcopal denomination, and to the monstrous in fidel developments now coming to light , in the Church of the mother country, while the writer discusses the elements of dissolution, the laxities and discontents which have their origin in Inde pendency, Voluntaryism and Dissent, and compla cently asserts that order and.health can be restored only, through his own form of Church-worship and Church-life. Now we take no delight in detecting, in bodies of Christians whom we cheerfully .recognise as such, those evidences of imperfection presented by a wide and seemingly irreconcilable diversity of views on points of almost. the highest importance; and we will allow no one to be, before us ,in deep and heartfelt sorrow and alarm at the entrance of the views of Strauss and Baur into the high seats of learning, the rectories and the. schools of the Church of England, and the halting manner in which rampant and destructive heresy is treated by the authorities of that church; but when its re presentative in_ this country, or rather when a party in the Episcopal Church of this country pro poses_ its own organization as the sovereign cure for our disorders, we who see the would-be physi cians suffering under as great, if not greater, ma ladies than ourselves, find a certain proverbial form of •rejection of the proposed remedies rising to our lips, which we need not_now repeat. There is in this article an attempt at liberality in connexion. with a pretty decided. avolval, of exclusive "Church principles." These principles are spoken of .as necessary to the salvatien of the world. They are " the entire body of Christian truths which the church'holds and teaches,—itt eluding the essentials of h'er doctrines, her disci pline and her worship. We mean • her creeds, sacraments, ministry, Prayers." Yet there is an intima.tien that enough 'of these principles are held by "various Christian associations,! possibly to save individual souls. But the salvation of the world, and the establishment of the kingdom of Christ, are objects to be brought about by the church. "There is no sort of reason to believe the world, would' be under the sway of Christian ideas to day, but for those distinctive church principles." ~ This is a very cool ignoring of the services of. Luther, Calvin, and John Knox, and the Puritans in bringing the world "under the sway of Christian ideas." It is adreitted, indeed, that there is some trace of haughtiness and exclu siveness in the Episcopal Church.. "Probably a sweeping denial (of it)would not be true. There is no assumption Nee the assumption of assuming men in the true church." Not that the claims made by the Church Monthly, as first quoted, are: admitted to be assuming. No doubt it classes itself with that large; body, which• it makes, bold to affirm is larger in the ipiscopal Church, pro portionally, than in any other " body of .Christians in this land," who "are posseSsed of a_kindly, genial, reSpeetful feeling towards those that are without." Nevertheless, it claims for "the church," that it " has had the shaping and disci plining of the. Saxon mind for centuries: (Puri tanism again a mere cipher,) that in its principal distinctive features, it is older in the world, than any kind of Congregationalism by some fourteen or fifteen hundred years." We do not know but that this singularly gentle and respectful manner of barring 'out the• sects may be.good policy—may have great weight with those who are to •be reached in New England— may be a worldly-wise feature in the scheme of Church comprehensiveness so highly cherished in many minds of the better caste in the Episcopal Church now-a-days. It is at least worth bringing to the notice of our readers. Another significant article is on Christian laity. We think it is in the very vein that Episcopal pens were intended to work, and indicates what, perhaps, after all is the true mission of that branch of Christ's Church among men; to be a witness to the importance of unity among the people of Christ; to be a living protest against the rampant indivi dualism of our day. We admire the tone of this article greatly, the more snbecause no latitudina rian basis, no virtual rejection,of creeds is advo cated, but the contrary. "It is submitted," says the writer ; "that the full realizatien Of the mind of Jesus supposes unanimity in acknowledging the same articles of faith. We are required to admit the practicability of unanimity' in belief, as we would not make of nature and of revelation, each a dark riddle, mocking earnest efforts tog et. at the solution." As to the great essentials of the evan gelical system, ,we say amen to these sentiments. And we welcome all laborers in the direction of church comprehensiveness and Christian unity, who refuse to sacrifice these, truths in their efforts. The consequences of a schismatic spirit and of sec tarian jealousy 'are indeed deplorable. The fol lowing is a tniggestive inquiry: "What wonder, if the success of missionaries in the foreign field is so limited as to ,tempt the query, whether th e greatest profit of the undertaking may not be fou n d in the aids afforded to learn the weak points o f the religion, which thus attempts to make itself universal 7" Among the other articles is the conclusion of a criticism of Mansell's Limits of Religious Thought, which 'handles the erroneous concessions and r e , gations of that work with great force and clearnes s. We have dwelt longer on -these new visitants to our Wile, than was our purpose; hence we cann ot devote much space to other, claimants. BLACK WOOD FOR MARCH contains an enthusiastic and laudatory article on Maury's great work, the Illy_ sical Geography of the Sea. This attempt to po pularize this branch of physical science is described as peculiarly elevating , to the .character o f t h,, sailors, wbo are enlisted as co-laborators, and minds are opened as never before to the sublim e wonders of nature amidst which they dwell. A ti ,. ). tiler article announces Lee's History of the Chii, of Scotland as destined to become the statol ar i work on the internal Riritory of the Church. The, author, now deceased, was Principal of the l: n i_ versity of Edinburgh, and the book is his Leet,,,„ , published by his son since the decease of the fe. ther. Such is the critic's opinion of the erudition and accuracy of the author, that he says his "own assertion is of itself an authority," dispensing with she necessity of citation. The critic eulogizei John Knox, as,-" more consistent than Luther, more honest than Crammer, more courageous than Calvin." The exertions of Knox fur a period of more than twenty years, were eminently instru mental in preventing Scotland from becoming th e tool by Which France hoped to weaken and under. mine the power of England." The reviewer de fends Presbyterianism against the stale charge of ascetism and gloom. Re incidentally gives it as his opinion that Laud was the first of the eminent English Churchmen who showed a decided leaning to Arminianisrn, his predecessor in the See of Can • terbury, Abbott, having been a decided Calvinist. He enters into the question of the right and expe diency of the covenants; the first or national co venant may be excused by the plea of necessity, but the policy of unions for a political purpose bound by oath is condemned. The Solemn Leacue and Covenant was open to the serious addition a l objection of endeavoring to force upon England the Presbyterian form of government, in opposi tion to the wishes- of the majority. The Cove nanters themselves ' however, are respectfully and even eulogistically described. We do not under stand the reviewer to be here presenting Prof. Lee's opinions. Another paper on this branch of the subject is promised. An article on Recent Natural History Books presents, in a very entertaining manner, the va rious facts and departments in this branch of science which are just now of special interest. The functions of, the antennw of insects; the shape of the honey bee's cells; the "mental manifestations" of bees and other animals, which the author pre fers not to call matters of instinct, and of which he quotes some admirable ~examples; the sea-ser. pent, in the existence of which he, with Mr. Gosse, is disposed to believe; the ornithorhyneus of Au stralia, of which no specimens have as yet been brought away from the" former country, though they have been caught, and, to some extent, do mesticated there. - Mr. Littell, in the LIVING AGE for this week, answers complaints which have been made against him for publishing secession poetry in his journal, by disavowing any sympathy for such literature, which he publishes, he says, "as a part of the living .age,. not considering them as poetry, but as curiosities, we may say, monstrosities of litera ture." EBITOR'S' TABLE. LEIHIPPON PUBLICATIONS.—An association of individuals connected with the Episcopal church, propose to publish, under the above title, a series of Theological Works not hitherto readily accessi ble in, this country. There are now ready, two volumes of SERMONS BY REV. RALPH ERSKINE, selected from the British., editions of 1777 and 1821, with a - preface by the Rev. Stephen 11. Tyng, D. D., and two volumes of Owmv's WORKS, the person and glory of Christ;—and a volume of Practical. works, containing the Mortification of Sin; Temptation , ; Indwelling sin in believers, and the Exposition of Psalm exxx.; being reprints from the last Edinburgh edition. These two works have been laid on our table and are reserved for such notice as their extraordinary value deserves. They are to be followed in due course by six or seven additional volumes of Owen's Works, and perhaps bp' hia Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews;" arid also the WORKS or limner Ezr- KIEL HOPKINS. The works of Archbishop Leigh ton, which will properly form a part of the series will be deferred for the present, as they have al ready been rePublished in this country. It is intended to publialitwo volumes or more annually in octavo'form, at about $1 25 per volume. And in order to make them the more accessible to cler gymeb, they' Will be furnished to them at the of fice of publication at $1 00 per volume, and either volume separately. Published at the office of the Proteitatt Episcbpal Book Society, 1224. Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 1860. Messrs. J. E." Tilton & Co., of Boston, whose list of hooks for children and young people; em bracing Thayer's BOBBIN Boy and PRINTER BOY; STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS, FOR THANKSGIVING, &0., is among the choicest, freshest, most enlivening and profitable that we know of, have just increased it by the real addition of. FRABIRIEIS BOOK OP BIBLE KEN. Frankie's mother repeats to him in an artless and yet very entertaining and instruc tive manner, the incidenta in the lives of leading, Bible charadters. The filling out of the narratives is always skilfully and reverently done; the sacred record is not overloaded or concealed, and its great and powerful lessons are brought home effectively to the heart of the interested reader. The au thor is already known from Sabbath Talks abut Jesus; Susan and Frankie, &c. The exterior is tasteful, as is invariably the case with Tilton'. books for'children. For sale by Smith, English Co., Philadelphia. MAGAZINES AND PAMPHLETS. SUNDAY Scum. WORLD. This is a monthly issued by the American Sunday School Union, in place of the Weekly Sunday School Times, which has ceased to have any connexion with the Union. It is a handiome quarto sheet of 16.. pages, and promises adequately to serve the interests of the tinion. Terms: 50 cents Per annum. To be had at 1122 Chestnut St. THE