GENESEE, EVANGELIST.—WhoIe No. 778. otivg. AN ODE TO SPRING. BY WALTER C. CLARENCE) VBQ. The dormouse bath waked from his winter Bleep, The squirrel is springing from bough 411 bough; And the mole is at work in his cavern deep, • Unhurt by the share of the shelving plough. The song of a bird Is now and then heard As the sunshine falls on the leaflees woods, And the boughs, though bare, Give here and there, A glorious promise of crimson buds. One by one, in the meadow green, The silver snowdrops their eyes unclose. From its icy bonds set free, between The sprouting alders, the streamlet flows. Singing a song The'whole day long, • To spread die glad tidings on every hand, That. Winter is gone, And Spring oometh on, And the song of the turtle is heard in the I 41:14. Every day and every hour New shapes or auty the eye beholds; As the sun shines forth with greater power, As the green blade springs, and the bndlunfolds, Down,—far down, 'Neath the soil so brawn. What a busy stir of life is lhere; Seed and root Expand and shoot, Making their way to the light and the air. No more slumber and no more rest, There's a work to do, and a race to run; Sluggards may sleep, if they like it best, But we must away to meet.the , 8111/. To dealt the hills, To shade the rifle, And to cover the vales with waviog groin; With leaves to shield, Ripe fruits to yield, To please the palate, and life,sustain. • No more slumber, and no more rest,— Such is the song all nature sings, 2111 the last autumn sun sinks down in.the West, And the birds sit mate with folded wings. For ever forth, To the icy North, A voice bath spoken, which saith "Arise Deok earth anew, With every hue, That she wore in her eastern• paradise!" Suable the sontall nature singe; Shall man be idle, shall man be mute 'When all flying, and swimming, . and creeping things,— .The coldest clod and the dullest ! brute Now straight.begin To delve and spin, To work the work that they have to .do, . And obey the gall Which commandeth• all, The pre-appointed path to. pursue? Thayer'a Honte:Atouilily. fotomettbonot. .' For the Arnertcan,Preebyterien. STItIAN TRVAPBTS. 140.. IV. Countrymen? we have certainly multiplied the' mention of 'Home in our letters; andovhat is, that, only because it is a.most lovely thing ,to the .ear of him who loves his country, and ! the- Most 'ornamental aativa Word,uport the,Aeck ;of the' Arabic. Now celebratel as the iland of Sherri," and "Arabistan," is our home, in the variety of its plains, and, precipices, and. valleys, and .mountains; and the inhabitants ; of Syria t in the variety of their , religious seetkand looks, and nationalities, and denominations, are our countrymen. And home resembles a :continuous chain of many links; of 'which the first end is. our- reed deuce or birth-place, with those who, are in. it;' and the other end is- our 'country, with- its popu- Wien. And the centre of both its ends, and their attraction, is our heart;, or, ,rather,,they are the centres of attraction for our hearts. It is the nature of -the powerful attraction which every country has for its citizens, to hold •them with 'a firm grasp within its circle, however bad it maybe, and to seize upon the chords of their beads, and.draw-them towards it with a. power ful attraction to return them to it when they are 'absent from it, although the land of their pilgrimage may be better than, it. It is a pre= veiling proverb, If borne was not a mighty at traction, bad countries: ere a•desolation. How true is the saying, "The seeret is in the dwellers, not in-the dwellings." And whoever goes abroad in the world, and exatines the countries and their inhabitants, ,it wilt appear to• him, as the sun at the fourth hour of the day, than , whatever beauties a country posseens, the wickedness of its inhabitants will destroy; and whatever deformities or evils are in it,,the virtues of its inhabitants will make it up. Countrymen, the inhabitants,of a country have elaims upon their country, as the country has duties for its inhabitants. In proportion as these rights are duly rendered, attachment to ..the country, as well as; zeal and pleasure in the per formance -of these duties;: will increase andthis is plainer than demonstration cattmake it. Now, , of the unties which a countryowes to its citi zens, is security in their most valuable and :im portant rights, natraarc, life, virtneAnd property; and also liberty le theireivil, moral, and reit-, gious interests, especially liberty of conscience in the pursuit of religion. And how many coun tries have given martyrs for' this last liberty? Now, of the things which increase in its citizens the love of their conntry, is . -%;. that they have tome :band in its administration,-and concern in its interests. And in proportion'as the respon sibility imposed upon them is greater, will,these feelings•bemore intense and powerful. Alld'ef the ditties which the citizens of a Wan try owe to their country, is love. , This is:ad duced in the Mohammedan tradition, "The. dove of country Is of the faith." How-many. have devoted their Ayes,' and all their possessitts, in love for their 'Country But those who barter the love of 'country for religious'prejudice, and sacrifice the good of their country for personal considerations, are notworthyto be regarded as countrymen, but as enemies to it; and,so , are those who will not.give their, diligence to pre vent the occurrence of reasonsmhich, in their nature, tend to injtire the country, or to,alle; viate them when they have occurred. •.; And how few of the inhabitants of this country manifested in these . painful days their love towards their country! Now, he who discharged the first gun, or removed the first stone from the month of the terrible volcano which was opened, and de stroyed the people, and desolated the, laud, and daikened the pages of history with the fero cious atrocities which• wilt remain as metatt choly record In the of Syria, as long as' Beiruti Oetaberl6, AB6O heaven continues heaven, and earth continues earth; and, in like manner, those who did not endeavor to shut up the,mouth of that gun, and the crater of that volcano, are all grotty., towards their country, and surely failed in performing their duty towards it. And now we seize upon this occasion, to declare the feelings of: thank fulness and gratitude towards our hrethren are upon the other side of our sea, and boyond the Atlantic, and towards their citizens who aie guests of par country, for what; they have mani fested, and do not cease tp manifest, ' of axd ex tended to our countrymen = IP FPI?* t0,13,- For 'the American Presbyterian. ' TWO ERRORS. • "With the heart, man ,believethunto righteous ness." - It does •not make Us Christiatutto hold the truth olChrist in our memories, nor to 4 have a clear 'understanding, and a - good. arrangement of it. To gain• the assent 4* onrminds 'to it, is "not enough; nor that it awaken in us great intellectual interest. 'No truth is seats/ in deed, to fill the soul-with the enthusiasm both of 'admiration and of hope. • Rut it , has -not made us Christians until it his -formed in ourminds a• rightgeverning prineiplit of Action; ,It 'must 'sink from . the- head inter the heart; from :this intellect into the ruling affections; changing mere Assent into a vitalising faith. very good creed and 'a very bad- life some -timeego together. There is a holding of thetruth -in unrighteousness. And another thing un *questienahlei namely; that a Very defective creed and, a verygood life are sometimes tound .united. How can •sve account for this except by saying ;that only what the heart adopts, and adopts heartily, makes the character, and so the life? Look at these two fined. The first is drawn as aniteeitritte `description' of one wliom we' knew, and.is giVen with no tench or: coloring Ofinvention. A yoringlady of refinernent, highly-edicated, with personal-grace and . attraCtions which. make her welcome among the most ottltivated; leaves a home ,WhielLoffers.her. every social enjoyment; and against Jibe remonstrances.of her friends, gives herself up - to ..a:life,with the .degraded _poet. of New York. Day after day, through months not only but years,. She, visits :them' in their crowded,' Miserable rooms, ~and filthyeellairs;. meeting in these_places, and in .111 e-habits. andlanguageof these who live.ln.thent, all,that ean,disguat, end wound her sensitive na -Aare. : She gathers ,their squalid and ignorant children_ieto schools, washes them, clothed.them, .and patiently teaches them, day, and evening, .. (net,* (4,y ;for laber and the ,evening for re creation ;) slowly_ wins their heart, and lifts them , tewards her own refinement, and gentleness, and pitrityp netsonorsylay thninstruction, she gives' purpesely, than by ,the shining of , her •own charac ter, a.nd. life, into their, long darkened souls. And this: christ-like werk is idone ;_under no romantic impulse,_ nor, from mere compassion and philan thropy. we knpw beyond ,all right to doubt she was, moved to it orieinally, and ; has been kept ,to it Mainly, ,by, her belief in .God. Drawn into it,reverent sympathy, with -Him, and I ,llsrairing.te,de the . york which be would ; have her to do in ; e yorld,,:ahe litte,given herself to . this self denying, uncongenial and,almost unobser.ved life. All, who know her well say.this —notes the mere , "jtulgtnent . „of charity," but as their irresistilde conviction; the judgment we all form pf A sincere, simple, consistent life, observed by :es for years. 'When a school has been fairly put under way, and ..has, .gr. Own, interesting," and the scholars have benome attached to her, and the pains taken begin to be .nouriterhalaneed , by, spine pleasures, then she ives hap, leaving it to, those who can.. now eon - duct iqmid she goea eat Unto•new quarters of : the city, and gathers- in Again the, neglected, brntalized,' and utterly ignorant children, to. go through with, them : also the distasteful dratigery , of making nti their stupid Minds, yeformieg their , habits,'reaching their hearts, revealing the God whom she loves, to.thena, and teachina them how to, pray to him, and praise him. Who can deny that this is a Christ-like life ? Yet the creed of this ' patient, self-forgetting, worker- Avery defective.. She has many doubts and questionings in regard to „truths, which we readily, admit, and count es sential to a _perfect • belief. • Take now another - case:: One of many whom all, know, a man of correct theology; belonging to e.ehnrch whose creed' is as nearly perfect as we can find; fluentinprayer ; reedy and strong in argu ment; and regular . ..in the performance of. the ordi nary devotional duties. But the - energy of his life is, given to his own affairs. He is living mainly for ;his own :personal interests; a character not of unusual selfishness, but .of 'the ordinary self-cett-, tering; doing for others .what is pleasant and con venient to do; giving where the gift does not in valve much. seltdenial; pleasing himself, his fa . , mily, and his personal friends, in most things,— in short, leading the life of at least a large minority of • professing Christians. Now which of these two is most pleasing to Christ? Both are defective we say;'Whose defects are the more serioni, the more essential? do not ask in regard to the tendency to good or ; ,evil ; . of their several •creeds Here we might, all be of one min/ But judging them by their fruits, as Christ tells us to judge, we ask Which of these - two indi vidual characters is probably most God? We deaire to, have ofcourse, both the right creed: and the right life., But we have some hope for. him whose creed is correct, living as we have de scribed him to live.„ Should our hope be weaker,_' . pr, stronger, for that.; unsellish, i patient,unwearying worker among the poor, and the sinful? , Now we are,justly anxious .about our creed: it is right we should be , jealous of error here, and I seek to have our`opinioneparetinth: But should we not guard with especial solicitude the truths which form the inward. life, the character, the, ruling disposition, the" heart?" The truths:which feed that flame which we are to let shine before men, that they may see our good worka , and glo ri-..1 .61 our Father who is in Heaven? The error in belief doubtless we are to expose, if we can. We will Condemn it, and with-stand it; and, if it be Possible, will drive it - out of every NICHOLAS URRAY. strenghold' it has, seized. The world belengs, of M ; right, to the truth. There is no place •of refuge Between thirty and forty years ago, an Irish tad for error. There is no sanctuary whereit may be was pursuing his studies at Williams college as- . . sisted by the 4 ' Brick Church" in this city. While sacred from attack; not in, the most venerable sys thfie engaged, he suddenly received a letter from terns and customs; not the heart of our best the officers of the church, stating that, in view of friend. The tendencies of error are evil, and only certain reports prejudicial to his character, the as- evil, and believing the teachings of Christ to be of sistance of the church was thenceforth withdrawn..., Divine authority, we do especially feel ourselves' The poor fellow went to Professor Dewey, (now of formed to contendagainst at would the error that Rochester,) to say that he was compelled to leave college, but protesting that he wasignorant of any supplant Any truth Which he has 'made known, wrong be had done. The Professor, who had eon- or sanctioned. His mission to the earth was of ftdence in hitn, told him not to trouble:'hitteielf; such eternal and infinite, moment, that the truths and assumed the responsibility of his bills. essential to secure the objects of that mission are youth, studied on, and at the end of a Year reeeived a second letter from the church, stating that, the unspeakably sacred in our eyes. And in regard to charges were found to be false, and renewing their all things connected with . that great plan of re support. That youth was Dr. Nicholas Murray, demption, we do earnestly desire to ascertain the who has but just ceased from his labors. Now the exact truth; all error here we can. Lot oppose as .ehurch meant no 'lanai, but came near contmitting ' soon as we meetit; not rudely indeed, but deei an irreparable error. They were saved from the natural consequences of their rashness hy the ge- sively and earnestly. neroas interference of the Professor, an act'which BUt shall we not earnestly oppose the wrong could not have heen calculatad upon„, And cases lifer .We may not be able to'deteet, and hold out 'occur often, itis.to,be feared, where mslitesa, has for condemnation, the source of the selfish and un its nwsl way, with Mi one .to stop it. ' , ik N. Y. Ex arn iA r. _ e e. But should we not say demstselY, Oonntrymen, our country, distinguished As one of the most beautiful lands in climate,and water, and fertility, and sittuttiop, and oue of the most delightful to mention, OA flies greatest to honor, has indeed seen m.any, generations pass over it. It haa been'aubjeet to ruin from its.un civilised inhabitants; and'therefore you see it behind other,cpuntriee• and indeed it has be coMe more 4ePeleite Py tAit late insurrection.. But in the providence of, the Xost Uigh .OE9, tor—may Re be praised !—=and the card of our Supreme Government and the great ,Govern ments" in alliance with it, we hope that the pre sent calamity, of which the sound has reaehed to the ends:of the world, will be the beginning of great good, and the introduction of ,a new era for Syria. And therein is sufficient for the wise to contemplate. As .a poet said,— "gay Al those who sustain tare, that care will not stay; plesoure mill pew, so cares ,will pass lawsy." , Countrymen; we caution , you against four things, namely, discontentment exorbitance,, fa naticism, and falsehcod,-hecause they , have no thing good in - them. And we exhort you to the golden rule : "As ye would that men shall do .to you, do ye also to , them likewise." And we remind you of one thing, namely ; that man has no true conntry.in. thinworld. But his true, native country.is in the, world of spirits beyond the .grave, where he .will remain until the last Trumpet 'hall sound,: ,d ,be will be sigtmoned to the . Judgment. How many of our Country ' men, in this year, have gone to that changeless country!. The c.anses are Tarions, but. death is ; , the same. Wherefore, crir duty is. to make-Pre parations.for that'death, day,, and country. For the Aierioah,Preebyterian: IlarTß FROM[ *°o ll 9./C *94nt:Leban9n, jtilam.„4;m49, b.. 28th,. 1861. EDITOR.-AfOr the return of I.E. Fuad Pasha 'from the mountain to. Beirut the Druse. Sheikhs were more closely confined...No reasons for this course, ,of policy or punishment are published. ! .Put from Constantinople, it, is annoenced, that the T ur f tribunal have found althese; Sheikhs guilty of death; and the- Tnrk islr Pashas of 'perpetual banishment from Syria. Atid'the . European commissioners all aaree that no, greater punishment ought to be inflicted upon the Druse 5.1104. s tea, nPeOtte , T 4 144 111 Ri!sholit,. in -whosnhands,, and. by. whose .official responsibi lity., the recent insurxection was' allowed' to sre iail. <And to this view of the opiataissidneis ~all the Christians arid, foreignresidents in *lda say • • • I • • •• • amen. . It is: said 'hero that a convention .of. the Great Powers was to assemble in Paris from the 15th of February, for the determination of the Syrian ques tion. The commissioners at in lave recOm paeruled a Gavernor-general m the, name and. at the appointment of the. Sultan, assisted by a coun eil.of one political representative of each of the five Great Powers, with a native army raised from the different commUnities.under a proper Turkish commander-in-chief, for, the future, government of Syria. It is possible that I may'ave a more dis tinct result to communicate in the coming month. It is remarkable that no Drum has yet been exe entecl for that fearful massacre at.Deir el Korar,. or at, Basbelya, so far as we. have, heard; and the .Drimes are recovering from the' panic of the past winter,. and resuming their ordinary employment as well as the Christians. Of the former I have .received almost ,10,000 names of those .asking for relief. But very little relief has been, as yet, al lowed for them, as the Christians all feel and say that they still havenine-tenths, of allthe plunder' taken from the Christians in 1860. ;This, application of the Drum for relief , has a parallel, in.that- of good Christians of our village. The distribution of these generous charities of England, and AMerica, and the difficulty of:giving' satisfaction to all parties reminds us of that sacred record in the Acts, when the Apostles discovered, Ica murmuring of the ,Grecians against the He brews, and called the multitude of the disciples and said : It is not' reason that we should leave , the. Wind- of 4,0 d,, and, serve tables." My opi nion is, that our Christian and Prase neighbors, : , who have neither been plundered, nor burned nut of their homes, ought not to ask or npply for this relief. The A. A. Relief Committee , hive ,more than 20,000, names, npow their :rblls, who are in need of all things; and, Dr. Thomson -informed me, that in Beirut alone, Is is distributing some. good garments every week during the' present month, to suffering Syrians Commending the Syrian trumpets to the care ful considerition of my `beloved. countrymen, and the ".perpetual ,union" of the, United States, to thu,providenee and guardianship of „Heaven, I remain, Yours in, Christian love, A PATRIOT. WILLIAM A. BENTON PHILADELT'ITIA, T =IUtMM something 'is vita4ittong: t ere is some essen tial defect " The tii:Liiiiitible," Chtiatikti 'eha 'factet is Mit'fiittned irt.that Mali.' Hid' belief-is - rieit; tui 'Ms Wievin4ls'?o3;o4ilt is not the right kind of belie iini:' Whit4irMi iniy hailtelyaen wrought in that sourbY iastinedinn, `Aid - bcniletion; clearly that work of the lila not beer done which sets the beard 'illaule, , ina. - :inakeilit a source of illutninatiOnt atnidst the dariness ofl,his :Odra Welnow there is blit onelSaviour,landbut one plan of salvation, and We,lieve,inaly been •inquiring about those who are to: ke'saved by, these; whether the felloWship with. Go tli anclOe filth: in < Christ that iaorki by love, which' haire germinated • and ',been nourished under the influence of afe.w truths Cordially received,---the heart , sineerely won by them,and the-life governed bythein,do not •fotm 'a :better- gronnd'of hoie, than a perfectureed; so hold, as..to permit' one Id leada , selfisli , life. How many there are of differ ',detierninitions, to whose creed we could notenbas e, whose_ -,- , , "o.o'. V 4 ,- cept without hesitation. re ' ar evidences thetthey are follawern of Ohrist; , ll (Inlay there not be some, in whosenvowed rbeliec there ;are, grave defects, upon - nhose minds the ;ilia' truths of Chrislianity 1 fining," in. Childhbod, iiMyriad drops, and quietly distilling upon them itillours . Of greater silence . Mid' thoughtfulness fronfunnoticedinfluenceS, have percolated down into; the heart, and made a foun -tain of livit4 waters, that well up, and flow, out into this 'self-denying, christ , like life? Are not they, who thus subscribe to the essen tial irticles of otir faith, hal more hopeful 'State than those, who, 'haviriTbeen edneated Missend to them, profess to believevtkem, and to be governed by them; but . do viitnalbr ever lel& them, as stag- Mint surfice-water on their minds? , . . CHURCH MUSIC IN THE HANDS OF .THE REFORMERS.. ' • Exclusive choir-singing was one of the abuses which crept into the.,ll,9wsh church, in connexion with; its gradually decligto . g piety, in the centuries succeeding the third. ' The change from the pri mitive method Was irallual. It commenced in the fourth century,• at.which - time -the ,choir-was not expected ti, monopolize the singing, but only to lead it. This, .however, •gave them the.oppor tunity of, introducing a:style of music, not only unfit for the church' on account of its theatrical as- Sockations, bit unfit for the use of the Congregation on 'account of its'intricacy. , The "introduction of tunes too difficult for any but, trained- singers to execute, was the firsts,tip towards debarring the people, from their , ancient, privilege of praise.— They might Still unite - iii skittle simple `chorus or response, but this wa.erlither by privilege than by right. Even this privilege was at length denied them, and they were i tacght that the singing of. God's praise MS too.paged 'a.duty for, the r 'lips of the laity, and belonged,to the clergy alone. And the'elergy, - to 'makotheir'ninnopoly of the singing still more exclusive, santorily in Latin. By the 'sixth or seventh eenturAthe voices of the people were effectually silenced ,and for nearly a thou sand years God was in) onger praised as at the first. But, this long .ii" fof darkness and ``-si lenceAc "slowly 11511eraiis' „ lid-ilirfight,‘ of 'j•etnin ing day in Germany was ushered in with song. Its approach had been _heralded by song, a century before this, in Boheicia,,in the time of John... Huss and Jeromei and even in the`fourteenth century, while " ' The 11 , 1Orning :Star 'of the Reformation" was still visible; praise broke the silence 'of the waning watches in Englaod. As in the mornings of the long days in summer, a few woodland notes may be heard here, and . there in, the groves in ad vance of the general chorus which hails the day, so there Were voices before Luther . both in Eng, land and on the continent; which anticipated the melodies of his time.' ',But when the empire of the night was fairly, broken, and thia?great chorister ot the Reformation arose, he awoke the whole fo rest tinto harmony. ' One of the first efforts of Luther in fulfilment of the ,great mission of his life, was to publish a psalm-book. Both hymns and tunes were com posed mainly by, himself. About sixty hymns were written by him, at a time when the history I of fifteen 'centuries could,, not furnish more than two hundred hymns that had been used in Chris- I tiara congregations.• In,t i bisTreat undertaking he I had a two-fold object: fet, to restore to the peo- ' ple, their ancient and long-lost. New. Testament right to, the use of psalms in public worship in their. own tongue; and secondly, by the graces of verse, and the charms' of melody, to lodge the word of God effectually in their menaory. Retook - care to embody in his verse the great, foundation i truths of the Bible s that, being sung over and over by the, people, they might never be forgot- I ten. This object he announced in 'a letter to Spa latiri, written iri 1524, in`which he says': "It is , my purpose, after the example of the ancient Fa.: there of the church r to make psalms or spiritual songs ; for ,the COll2OlOll people, that the word of, God may .'dwell among them in psalms, if not I otherwise: 'We are reeking 'around' every Where for poets. I- entreat you. -to help ;us. would'l that new and,courtly woords , might be avoided, and that' the language ,be all suited to, the• capacity of the people, as simple as. possible." So successful was Luther in this `endeavor, that , prieStlY in fluence might in vain have atteMpted to' check the progress of the Reformation 'by destroying, - the Bible. Its doeltines *ere the soul' of his songs, and the songs were.embalmed in the people'e ,me . , They were sung everywhete.:, The singing ha bits of the early dayi-cifAhrislianity werelairly revived. , "The :hymns -spree& among_all classes of people, and were sung cot:orilyin:'the-churches and schools, but alio in the houses and in the work-sheps,, in the streets and in 'the market places', in the barns and in 'the fields!' Wherever the principles of -the Reforniation were"rebeived, whether in Germany:France, or Britain, psalmL. singing was an' almost universal practice. - This was the blossom which-the root, of the new doe trineß invariably 'produced. , So contagious was 'this practice, and so Wonderful the power ofLu ther's psalms in propagating his doctrines, 'that his enemies were obliged , to adopt the same prac tice in self-defence. "The Papists, finding that the people wottld sing them, and were almost run ning wild with. delight in so doing; published hymn-books of their own, in which, with slight alterations, they incOrporated almost all of the Re former's pieces..' The .hymns found their way even into the French court;, but, they contained seeds of, truth',which it was not for the interest of the Romish church to have planted, and about the Middle of the sixteentYtentury all Papists were prohibited from Singing them. Fro m "that time, the' name " psalmodist," or - , " psalm-singer " was .applied to the Protestantale derision. , It became sysoeymous with Reformer Iluguenet I Calvinist Heretic. "Next to theology," said Luther, " it is. to mu sic that I give the highest place and the greatest . honor." He had reason to say- this, for it . was music next to theology, and sometimes more than theology, that gaVe success to his Cause. "In the City of flanover, the Reformation was introduced, not by preachers, nor by religious tracts; but by the hymns of Dither, which the people sang:with delight." A. Protestant contemporary of Luther says:—"l doubt not that the one little hymn, 'Now rejoice, dear Christians, fill,' (the first one that Luther riblishecl,) has ,brought many bun died Christiana to the faith. '. lrhti noble, sweet , \,s, My, , '.....-r -:-..,7„, , -7-- . __ _ iv. ...,f, , ,rcr.... , ..1..w.,...; , . t .--,:trn--; G. A. H. ' - ' l, APRlL : ,:itilsof , ,.• „ . language' of that one little song has won 'their bases ; that - they could not resist the truth; and, in my opinion, the spirituel songs hsve,contribtxted not a little to the, spread , of the gospel.” But all the ,refarmerS,, German, Swiss, English, and `Sedtoli, were ' equally 'zealous that - the Teeple should consider praise; Is' appropriately an&pecu liarly.their part :in the services , of the sanctuary. , With great•offort, did they,achie.ve for tho people this f , freedOw to worship God.',' And now, the advbcates of exclusive choir-singing in Amerlea are surrendering Aain, to PoPeryr, thw very tern 'tory wakacquired in the battlesz of, the Re formation.' They. willingly relinquish: to. the Man of Sin a stronghold captured by the sturdy, valor of such men aslutherand-Calvin,andjOhn and are content . that the praise of, God should be sung in Protestant churchis'in te' - , Popish man ner., • • . • A GARDEN OF SPICES. _ BY:REV: THEODORE la - 01111-11 ER. `ZicitteiAtVeTtiSecitlitiiihnoie in . . SOU' front' the *decks' of the Cithard /steamers as 'they Pass into Liverpool—lies "the parish , of An- Worth. ~Ine this ancient parish there was standing not many years since—and perhaps is standing to thi& ancient, and rustic church: The 'swallows, during Many a built their eieats in the crannies of its roof.: The crumbling 'walls were garnitured with 'moss, and festooned with ereepingyines. - In the new College ef Edinburgh, its rusty-key still hangs as a precious relic of the Ma of the "Solemn League and Covenant." The old.tialten pulpit is still preserved.' -And well ;it may be. ' For in 'that pulpironee stood a man of whom it used to lie said that he was always pray ing, always, preaching, always visiting the sick, al ways catechising, and always studying the Word of God. He it *as who uttered that memorable saying to his beloved people, " My witness is above, 'that your heaven would be two heavens to me, and the salvation of you all as twp salvations unto me." That was the, pulpit of Samuel Rutherford --glory of all devout Scotchmen. , The savory 'Bible-saturated discourses once preached in that hallowed place to weeping and `melted auditers have; for the most part, perished long ago. . 'l3ut still that pastor is remembered, and will be while there are loving Christian hearts on earth. His world-known " Letters" will be Rutherford's enduring memorial. More than two Centuries ago they were written-L-in the dark troublous days of obstinate Kin°. Charles the Ist --yet the smell of the myrrh and the cassia has never departed from this GARDEN OF SPICES. The delicious aroma of devotion breathes from every'line. Without any special interest as de- Scriptive or historical letters--devoid of all literary ambitions and all theological dissertations, they live, and:will ever live, from the perennial Christ liness that pervades them; they are 'the artless love-letters of a holy heart on fire with the love of Jesus. The sainted MoCheyne was wont to make his Rutherford a companion for the closet. Cecil styled it . "one of my-classics." Richard Baxter said; "Hold off the Bible, and such a book the world 'lever saw." ..This sounds extravagant to `thee° who have never gone' into this g•grden of spices for themselves, and plucked the purple clusters from laden trellises, and inhaled the hea venly perfumes that linger on the air. • Thee copy of Rutherford's Letters which stands in our beekcage—att excellent reprint by the Car terl—is too thoraughly pencil-marked for anyone elves' ownership. It is hard to keepyour pencil from making note of such a passage as.this: "Wel come, welcome, Jesus, in what wayseever thou earnest, if we can but get a sight of thee. And sure I am that it is better to be sick, providing that Christ come to the bedside, and draw aside the curtains and say, Courage, lam thy salvation, than to enjoy lusty health, and never to be visited of God?' Or such a terse, epigrammatic sentence as the following: "His loved ones are most tried; the lintel-stone& and pillars of his new Jerusalem suffer more knocks Of . God's hatiamer than the common side-wall stones." Sometimes his soul is rapt into a sort of delirium of heavenly love, as when in writing to Lady Kenmore, he eays: "Honorable Lady, keep your first love. Hold the first match With that soul-delighting Bride- I groom, our sweet, sweet Jesus, the Rose of Sharon, and the sweetest-smelled• rose in all his Father's I I garden. I would not exchange one smile of his lovely face: for kingdoms. Let others take their silly feckless heaven in this life. Put up' your I heart. ...Shout for joy. Your - King is coming to fetch you to his Father's 'house?' In writing of the indestructibility of the church, he says: "That bush has been burning these four thousand years, but no man has yet seen the ashes of that fire." For that church he underwent sore and harass . mg persecution& He was confined for twoyears 'at Aberdeen, but "found Jesus sweet to him in that, place.". He :used to date his letters "from Christ's palace in Aherdeen;" and the very stones in the walls of his dreary apartment "glittered in his eyes like rubies." On his way from home thither, he spent a night with Dickson, the author of -the:incomparable hytnn i "Oh! mother dear, Jerusalem." They had a night like that which Great Heart and Old Bonest spent with the hos pitable Gains in Bunyan's allegory; for they were both pilgrims halting for a few hours on their marcleto the Celestial City. As soon 'as' the' Con finement at . Aberdeen ended, Rutherford hastened back to his •hungry took oPshepherds and fisher men in the parish of Anworth. From thence be was' called to a Professor's chair at St. Andrew's', but 'was soon' deposed by Governtnent,•and-his workis were burned in Edin burgh by the hands of the common hangman.' He was also summoned before. Parliament on a false charge of treason. 'But the summons came too late. He was on his dying bed, and calinly remarked that beliktigot another Sultimons' before a superior 'Judge, and sent - this message, "I. behoove to an swer my first sutnmons; , and ere your day,. I will be where :;too few kings and great folks 'ever. come." , . On his dying bed` he cried out—Oh I for arms, to embrace Min! eh for'a weil-tuned harp! Like sortie other departing Saints, he seemed. to brie a • preinonitionnf the very tjme when he should pass over the unbridged river; and on the last after noon of his. life he said, "This night will close the door, and 'fasten my anchor within the Vail, and 'I shall go'away in a sleep by tie o'cloCk in the morning. `=There is nothing now between me and thetresurrection, but 'this day thou shalt be with me in Paradise!" As the enrapturing vi sions of the open gate broke upon his failing eyes, he exciainied—"Glory, glory dwelleth Imma nuel's land." With this chant of triumph on his lips, he passed through the gate into the city. When the , news reached Parliament that he was dying, it was voted that he should, not, die in the college as a Professor. Lord l3urleigh arose and said, "You cannot vote him out of heaven." Nor •could they vote him out of the hearts of tens of thousands who have found in that orchard of spi ritual delights which- his fervid .piety, planted for them, soma of the sweetest satisfactions their souls shall feed on this side of the New Jerusalem. The nearer we come to our home, the nearer some books grow to us: And upon that shelf of our inner 'sanctum, on which we lay. our Pilgrim's Progress• the. Saint's , Rest, and Thomas alcempie, ,we should• have a place, too, for Samuel Rutherford's _Leg ters. Dr. George Moore of the Royal College of phy. sicians, London, has lately published a Work on the Lost Tribes of ririel, sustaining the theory that j they aro identified with the Affghans of Asia.' Hymns and Choirs- Independent. GOD'S WORK AMONG CHILDRRN. An exceedingly interesting-feature of:.the work -of God's -grace as it is in progress et,the,,present time, in this and ot,her lands, is its influence upon the' hearts of children. We are well aware that in the case of persons of tender years, it,is much mere difficult to distinguish between true religious emotion;ind mere - natural arnypathy.than in other persons, and that children are far more likely to be influenced by imitation; but with all the ,evi dence that we have 'befOre us, we. cannot 'doubt that God is carrying on - a - great work .among this dais of persons, and that He who said "Suffer little Children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for such is the kingdom of heaven,'.' ,is now gathering many of thesc.lambs into his fold. We.bave published but a small part of the in telligence that hai •reacheit us in regard to the spirit of inquiry and the lopeful conversions' that have,occured in churches and Sabbath schools and other institutions. We, have refrained,irom their publication, because we preferred to understate rather than to overrate the extent and importance of *the work., Bat we cannot ferbear to express - -oak conViction , that this religious movement among ehildren.is one of the striking features' of God's work at the present day, and one, which should arrest and engage the attention of the. Church, and especially of patents and pastors. It is a feature of Gini's work which calls for careful study, wise counsel and judicions action, as well as warm sym , The,genuineriess of this movement as the result of the iefluence of the divine Spirit, is proved from its characteristics and from its great extent, with out 'any concert in regard to means for its com mencement and promotion.. We have intelligence from various parts ,of the country, that a spirit of deep religions anxiety prevails in Sabbath schools, and in other places where children are under re ligious instruction. We also publish a letter fro'in Germany, giving a most remarkable account of what has transpired in the Orphan Asylum at Elberfeld. While there , may be much in the:state of things described that is not genuine re&ious influence there is still much that shows that the Spirit of God is there working with mighty power upon the hearts of the young, lead ing them by sincere .conviction to repentance and to Christ. . • We are constrained to ask in this connection, whether God is not in this thing turning the hearts of the parents to the children, calling them to feel a deeper interest in and a stronger expec tation of the 'conversion of their children, while they are children and while they are alive. We were deeply impressed by a remark made by a speaker at a lath Sabbath school meeting in this city, to the effect that parents who expect 'their children to be Christians if they die, as all appear to, ought to expect them to be: Christians if they live, and to labor to this end. Many mothers who will think their children little saints if they die, will not think of looking for their conversion during their tenderyears. There is too much un • belief in regard to the willingness of Christ to re ceive little children; to much unbelief in regard to the possibility of their becoming Christians un til they grow up. God is rebuking our unbelief by showing mercy to children'. We know that this whole matter is one which calls for great wisdom on the part of Christian parents and children. There is nothing in which more prudence, is necessary. We would write with caution, and we would urge caution upon all who. have - the charge of ehildren, but not that caution. .Whielfpracticallyr treats them as.if they could not be saved while young. The Saviour seems now' to he saying, "Suffer little children to come unto -me." Let us not forbid them lest we incur his, displeasure, as did the disciples of old. PRAY FOR YOUR PASTOR. Ministers are but men;'subject to infirmities; liable to error; in• danger of faltering in their Christian course by reason of temptations. There fore, pray for your pastor. Pray to-day. Pray that the Spirit of the Lord may descend upon him as he sits , in his study pre parinir. that portion ' of truth which he is to deliv er to his people on the coming Sabbath. Per haps as he ponders on the sacred words, some weakness of body, or despondency of spirit, causes him to grow weary, and faint in his work. Could you look in upon - him, you might see how heavily the wheels drag. Pray for him. The Holy Spirit can bestow on him such a baptism that his soul shall be all aglow with zeal, and courage, and love, and that glow shall , reach even. the tired frame, and lend vigor to the' nervelesi arm; and the result shall be an earnest and living appeal that shall reach to save some immortal spirit. Perhaps as he studies the theme before him, some unholy and selfish ambition is taking pos session of him. He is fired with a desire to be eloquent; to have his name taken up and sounded abroad on the breath of fame, and he is writing that sermon, not to advance the cause of Christ— not' with a single eye to his Master's glory, but to exalt himself. Pray for him. •Pray fervently. The Holy Spirit, in answer to your petition, can strike instant conviction to his heart, and bring him to his knees before God, and cast out the demon, and he shall .enter the house of God, on the holy day, humble and penitent; an instrument which the. Lord -can use, and will not reject, on account of pride or self , seeking. Perhaps, ere he his aviare, some subtle error is creeping into your pastor's mind. Perhaps some prejudice or partiality is likely tb destroy the en tireness and completeness• of truth in his hands. Pray for, him. The. Holy Spirit can dissipate the mists; can cause the scales to fall from his eyes; can give him large, and liberal, and noble views, and' he shall be growing in knowledge of the wide scope and far-reaching , relations of the Gospel which is committed to him. Pray for your pastor on your•• own account, as well as his. Perhaps you have fallen, into indiffer once and inattention to the truth as it comes weekly from his lips, and therefore are not reap ing in your soul, the full benefit of his instructions. Pray daily that the, word which he shall deliver on the coining Sabbath may be made effectual to you.; as the dew to the herb; as water to the parched ground; as the fire and the hammer, if need' be; to flint; your leart being stony; or as, the mirror wherein you can, see your .deficiencies and mark your urowth. • Pray for your pastor on account of your children. Only second to your own salvation, do . you hold theirs. You are constantly watching, and hoping, and Waiting, for 'sante evidences of thoughtfulness and seeking the Lord in them. You instruct them; you strive to set them a holy example; and pray for them often with an aching heart. Yon cannot rest until they are numbered 'among the redeemed. Feeling this, every Sabbath is to you a precious day--a day of hope. The preaching of that day may be God's appointed means of answer to your prayers. Some message from Him may reach and awaken your child sent by his ministering servant. Piay that it may be so. Pray constantly for your pastor, that he may be a faithful guide to, your children. Perhaps—auch things have been—you may, for various reasons, have Come to set • lightly by your pastor. Perhaps in your family, and among 'your neighbors, disaffeotion toward him may have crept in. Perhaps a spirit of fault-finding, ; and unkind criticism ; may have gradually and alinost insensibly taken the place of, praise, and satisfac . tion and cordial love. If this be:so, by all means betake yourself to prayer for him whom you do not wholly approve. Earnest , persevering prayer will exorcise the evil - spirit. Praying on bonded knees, (in humility And penitence • for your, own sins and short comings), for your deficient guide` and teacher; you will soon learn look on his ..-:y{}.L.::'"V,---NO,-. 33:=L1V1i416'..:1176:-'250. N; Y. Observer. short-cotnings more leniently than before. Taught by the Holy Spirit in your. hours of communion with heaven, you will learn that He can make the, feeblest instrumentality effectual for your spiritual good, if you are only.yourself in a.proper state to receive' that good, and you will shortly blame only yourself if you .are 'not fed and nourished in the sanctuary; and love and kindness towards hint who is spending his life in ministering to your soul's wants, .will soon make all his efforts sacred in your eyes' and, beyond and above all severity of remark or criticism. God' give you grace to pray for your pastor, and the due reward for such prayer. ' ' , Pray for your pastor. Not fitfully and at long intervals; not, as ft matter of duty; not with half a heart. Pray daily., Esteem it a great privi lege that you can, thus aid one who has' arduous labors to perform and crushing responsibilities to bear,,and so be a co-Worker with 'him. Pray with oil your .heart. It shall not be in: vain. OVA SITHDAY LAWS. The followin,gis the report of the eloquent speech of Rev. Dr. Hitchcock, at the recent German de monetration in behalf of the Sabbath, in• New York city: He said that Dr. Tholuck, of Halle, once in quired: "Canyon tell me why God made so many Chinese, and so few Prussians?" If Dr. Tholuck were here to-night, be would see that that God has made a good:many Germans. As such I sa lute you. Some of you are Saxons. We are Anglo-Saxons. We are of the same stock, only we. came here a little before you. You came straight over, and we came by the way of England; and we think we gained something by it. The Saxon loves freedom as the eagle loves the cliff. But it is poor matter for a man to have learned his rights, unless he has learned also his duties. With liberty there must be restraining law. There is the centrifugal force of law; and when these bear upon us, then we move in a bright and be neficent circle. These men who clamor for liberty, without having learned respect for law, have not learned Anglo-Saxon freedom, which is freedom regulated, by law. [Great, applause.] We under take to impose no such ideas on the men who come to this land. We use with them only moral sua sion. We say, the liberty to do evil, is no liberty; it is slavery. This is our American idea of free dom: freedom to do right, not freedom to do Wrong. But we do not impose these ideas upon any man; we only recommend it. We are here as republi cans; we have entrusted to us this land and these free institutions, and we are determined that our freedom shall be maintained. History tells us, that of all, governments, republics have been short est lived; tyrannies are long-lived; despotisms are ancient and hoary, but free institutions are hard to get ai.d easy to lose, and we are detertuined, God, helping us, that our rights shall not be stripped.from us. We do not say that this holy day -=God's Sabbath—decently kept, will preserve to us our freedom; but we do say, that this Sabbath, trampled on, will strip us of our freedom. A good God gives us .a holy day; the devil would be glad ,to give us holidays in abundance, if we would only abuse them by riot, vulgar pleasures, lust, and re velry. We say that this holy day, drenched with lager-bier, and ringing with theatrical music, will bring down our liberties into their grave. We remember right well ,who they are that give peo ple their holidays,-who gave them the amusement ,of the, ring; they are the.Neros, and would surfeit their slaves - with pleasures, that they may keep them slaves: 'Such tyrants as Nero and Caligula cannot bear right, true, pure men; they want be ' sotted men, that they may make them slaves, and so, they drug them with holidays. People sneer at our pious republicans, sneer at Puritans. So sneered the Cavaliers at the Puritans in England, two hundred years ago; but when these Cavaliers met those. praying Puritans on Marston Moor, they bit the dust before them. [Applause.] Only a few days, ago, when our modern hero moved his little handful of troops from Moultrie to Sumter, and run up the stars and stripes, he kneeled with bis whole command and prayed to God. It thrilled the continent, it thrilled the world. Men said, here is a man to be afraid of. These terrible. Pu ritans that pray first, will fight tigers. [Applause.] We have run up our flag above our heads—we have done it in prayer to God; we have taken pos session of this continent as God-fearing men; we will not lay our hands heavily upon any other men, to push them down upon their knees. They pray or not, as they please; but for ourselves, we demand the right to pray; and for ourselves, we demand, moreover, that our right shall not he interfered with by rioters on God's holy day. Our Sabbath shall be ~a decent, orderly Sabbath. We will have our sanctuaries undisturbed, our streets shall be peace ful. You may pray or not, as you will, though we advise you to pray; but the question is simply this: Shall we who wish to pray, be permitted to pray .undisturbed, as we will ever pray, God save the commonwealth l—[Applause.] USES OF TROUBLE. There is'a little plant,' small and stunted, grow ing under the shade df a broad-spreading oak; and this little plant values the.shada which covers it, and greatly does it esteem the quiet rest which its nable, friend affords . But a blessing is de signed for this little plant. 'Once upon a time there comes along the wood man, and with his sharp -axe he fells the oak. The plant weeps, and cries--" My shelter is de parted; every rough wind will blow upon me, and every storm will seek , to uproot me l" "No, no," saith the angelof that 'flower; "now - will the sun get at thee; now will the shower fall ontbee niora copious eabyridance than before; now thy, stunted form shall spring up into loveli ness, and.thy flower, which could never have ex panded itself to perfection, shall now laugh in the sunshine, and men shall say, How greatly bath that •plant increased! how glorious bath become its beauty, through the removal of that which was its shade and its delight!'" See you not, then, that God may take away your comforts and your privileges, to make yon the, better Christians Why, the Lord always trains his soldiers, not by letting them lie on fea ther beds, but by turning them out, and using them to forced marches and bard service. He makes them ford through streams, and swim through rivers, and climb mountains, and walk many, a long march with heavy knapsacks of .sor ,row on their backs. This is the way in which he makes them soldiers; not by dressing them up in fine uniforms, to swagger at the barrack-gates, and to be Vale gentlemen in the eyes , of the loungers in the park. God knows that soldiers are only to be made in battle; they are not to he grown in peaceful times. We may grow the stuff of which soldiers are made, but warriors are really educated by the smell of powder, in the midst of whizzing bullets and roaring cannonades—not hr soft and peaceful times. Well, Christian, may not this ac count for it all? Is not thy Lord bringing out thy graces and making them grow? This is the reason why he is contending with you.—Spur geon.. LITERATURE AMONG THE TRIBES OF INDIA.. The first tract ever printed in the language of the Red Karens has been issued by the American missionaries. The Red Karens are the most sa vage of the tribes, and have not yet allowed the establishment of schools among them. Christianity has won its triumphs chiefly among the Bghai, Sgau, and Pgho tribes. These three tribes alone, savages who ten years ago had no written eharac ters,have used 12,000 separate printed tracts or books, issued by the Maulmain mission press, during the past twelve months. Congregationalist.
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