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THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1881.
JOH N W. NEARS, EDITOR.
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s 'IIIIIOOIIATZD WITU
ALBERT BARNES. GEORON DUPPIELD,JII.
THOMAS BRAINERD, I JOHN JENKINs,
IitNRT DARLING, THOMAS J. SHEPHERD.
WAS, BEGUN.
Incredible as it may have appeared but a short
time ago, it is only too true that a portion of our
fellow citizens have assumed the direful responsi
bility of inaugurating civil war in earnest. The
patience and forbearance of the government as
nifested iu its peace policy,—the ample evidence it
has been giving of the utter absence of hostility to
the peculiar sooial institutions of the Southern
States, and of its readiness to fulfil altits constitu
tional obligations—even the most odious—have
failed to make any impression , upon the minds of
the leaders of this rebellion, although showing to
them and to the world that their conduct is cause
less and criminal in the highest degree. We are glad.
that it is so plain where the responsibility of begin
ning this war rests. History cannot be at fault here.
The men who accused the North of intending to
invade their territory and set free their slaves by
violence, and who wrought the people up , to such
a panic on the subject that the peaceable bud con
stitutional election of Mr. Litwin was made the
successful instrument of precipitating secession,
have beheld the North patiently and calmly wait
ing, and pursuing its wonted occupations, while
the South has been converted into a vast encamp
ment) and its soldiers armed with weapons stolen
from the national armories; it his seen armed mobs
seize upon one after another of the military posts
of •the general government, without ipterfering;
it has seen hundreds of pieces of ordnance put in
a position of attack against those of its fortifica
tions which it was yet able peaceably to maintain;
and at length, when the Government simply in
sisted on supplying one of these beleaguered and
starving garrisons with provisions, it has been
insolently attacked and overpowered by one hun
dred times the force within it, its garrison made
prisoners, and the national flag replaced by an
ensign of rebellion! And as if to take away all
doubt as to where the aggressive and warlike
temper really belongs, the capital of the Govern
ment itself is threatened, and night and day tlid
consecrated halls of liberty have to be defended
against the minions of the slave-power of our
country. Yea! the monster is unveiled in all its
horrid deformity. It is the slave-power which is
treasonable, anarchical, breathing forth threaten
ing and slaughter; it is freedom that is for peace,
union, forbearance; but when she speaks they are
for war. It is the slave-power which hitherto has
wielded the bowie-knife and tossed the challenge
of , the duellist; it is the slave power now that is
defiant and aggressive, and that meditates tbe
subjugation of the continent Wits ends. It is
the slave-power that is willing to see the sun of
our republic go down in blood, if thereby the
chains may be riveted on the slave, and a: wider
opportunity for extending the curse of slavery
may be gained.
There is henceforth room for but one course of
action; our Government must be sustained;' ques
tions of party nr of private opinion *must be laid
aside i all paltylisnaroustlieohl;
questions are now reduced to this our 1
Government be sustained?. • Shall the power given
under the Constitution and laws , of the land,
'Which, under God, assure
. us a peaceable and
quiet life at home, and respect and immunity
abroad, be upheld in this emergency, or shall
civil and social order be broken up, and mob-law
or' military diotatorship, ye suffered to take its
place? Shall the majesty of law, in a land where
the restraints of law are fewest and lightest, and
therefore most needful to be maintained, be vin
dicated or be sae aced? We thank God for the
unanimous and mighty response our fellow citizens
of every shade of opinion are giving to these
questions. There is scarcely one, amid the hun
dreds of thousands around us, who does not feel a
load taken off his mind, who does not breathe
more freely, who is not more cheerful, to know
that we have a government which realizes' its
responsibility to itself, and to the highest interests
cif society on this continent, and which calls man
fully and confidently upon the myriade of its pros
perous and peace , loving people to pour out their
treasures and their blood in its defence.
Now ; treason, hide your diminished head, and
the God of our fathers be with the right!
THE REVISED PLAN OF EDIMATION
The following resolutions were adopted hy
the third Presbytery of Philadelphia, at the
late session, expressive of their views with re
ference to the proposed plan of the Permanent
Committee as revised.
1. Resolved, That this Presbytery heartily
approves of the purpose of the General A.ssem
bly, frequently expressed, to take the whole
work of the education of young men for the
gospel ministry under its own care and super
vision, and the appointment of the Permanent
Committee on Education for the ministry. It'
nevertheless dissents from the plan now pro
posed by the Permanent Committee for adop
tion by the General Asserably,,for the follow
ing reasons, viz.:
(1.) The plan is incomplete in thatit requires
a referehce to the- action of previous
,Assem
blies In order to ascertain how the Committee
is to be eleOted, organized, divided into classes,
&C.
(2.) The plan,.by repealing only such acts of
former Assemblies as are inconsistent with it,
necessarily opens the door for a dirersity of opi
nion as to the real meaning of the plan of the
Assembly. The organic structure of any great
charity of the church, or, in other words, its
constitution, should be presented in a single
d ocument
(3.) In Asiele V. the plan speaks of "Pres
byterial Treasuries," while in Article IV. it
provides for a Central Treasury only, which
shall XeCelve all contributions for the cause and
disburse the same. ,
(4.) The plan, in its proposition to work
through the Presbyteries, (Article V 11.,) lacks
distinctness.
'2. Resolved, further: While recognising the
above principle with regard to the prerogatives
and wisdom of the Assembly, this Presbytery
does at the same time express Its high appreci
ation of the important service rendered; by the
Philadelphia Education Society in raising - up a
ministry for our denotnination, and dvs ear
nestly tie Commend t'co_thie next Gettexabiesep4.-
bly to adopt some plan by which that Society
can work in harmony with the Assembly's Com
mittee as an orismicilart of the same.
COME BACK PROM ROME.
•
Rome—not the "Italian Rome," but the "Ame
rican Rome,"—is a borough in the State of New
York, containing now about six thousand inhabi
tants. The. otonsltfp,pf the same name, within
which the borough is situated, contains apopulation
of about nine thousand; but, like many other
townships in the State of New York, the populi
tine is rather diminishing than• increasing. , ,
Rome, to which the name Fort Stanwix .was
formerly given, derived its' early importance *ism
Ina% the carrying-place between the waters of the
Mohawk river on, the 'one hand, and the' waters
which flow• into Lake Ontario on, the.pther. .
the ally history of our country—in the.traffie in
furs and other articles with the Indians=-this-be.
came an important, point, and a fort, Called- Port
Stanwix, was here erected—the seene'.4 many
interesting and important events in the ,history sof
the , State of New. York. The incident which-;one
who was born there, find who was made
in his boyhood with the' eirents 'which occurred
there, will bemos t likelyX Collo'.
o recall t e
tion. when he returns, to, his early”houie, is the
familiar and touching story of 4 "The Faithful
Dog," or " Faithful Trai," the'snine of-which oc
curredthere., Ancgicer of the fart, having ven
tured beyond the "picket," was ,attaeked-litroo
vages,, tomahawked, and scalped, -and left', for
dead. His faithfdl dog=-Tracy stood'calmly-by
him, licked his wounds, and patiently waited
him, to recover and rise. Seeine at Lk th'at
,
there was no, hope of this, he ran, off to the rive;
where some men were fishing, an& bylis move,
meats, seemed to express a wish that they should
accompany him'. They suspected it was some da
vice of savages to lend them into anambush and
continued to pursue their employment.. The dog
went away, and again returned, und by his-man
ner—his distresa—his piteous cries -= at last'
diced them to go with . .. Mini The officer was
found aliie,Wai carried' into the fort, and survived
Around this fort, which was greeted. in; the time
of the American revolution, the town.ofiltotne has
grown up, and handsOMe dwellings now "occupy
the place which, half a century ago, attracted 'the
attention of the boys of the village, as a piece un
rious in itself—the deep trenches, the OA block
house, and the still standing remains of the pali
sades.
Rctme, as has-been sug g ested above; has +ether
diminished than increased in population,since the
last census. This has been owing partly to, causes
which have produced the same result in so , many
places in New England, and in the older parted
the State of New. York—migration to the Great
West; and partly to the embarrassments resulting
from a subscription math to construct a railroad
which was nefer completed. But a stranger visit
lug' Rome would learn the fact of this diminu 7
tion of the number of the inhabitants, and of the
temporary decline otthe prosperity 3f the town, ra
ther by the census-takers, and by conversation with
the people, than from any thing which would strike
his eye. If infermed of this, he would rather in
fer that the inhabitants of the place, in, the' leek
Of what is ordinarily termed "business, " had given
themselves to the employment of embellishing
their town, and %preparing it to meet a. returning
tide of prosperity. There - are no marks of decay'.
There are no signs Of dilapidatiMi - or neglect.
There are no gates elf tkehingm
_fin the contrary,
ne - innarntants of place would seem, to have
busied theniselvelin laying out wide and spacious
streets; in planting traes-- r the sugar...maple ,par
ticulaily—that most ; beautiful of forest trees—in
lavish abundance; in filling. their gardens and
grounds with beautiful shrubbery, and in re-paint,
ing their dwellings. Even in New York State;
there are few places that possess as much pietn.:
resque beauty, and - that evince as much good taste
as Rome will do when the, trees and shrubbery
shall be fully grown r and when: the, designs of, the
present inhabitants shall be carried fully out: Not a.
few'of the private dwellings are in`a style thatwouid
do honor to Walnut street or to the Fifth Menne,
and indicate that if the town itself is less Pros
_
perms than it once was, there are private indivi
duals there who possess ample wealthy and whose
taste corresponds With their wealth'.
. , .
There is one P -
resbyterian 'Church in Rorie;
there are two :Methodist Churchesi two ~Baptist
Churches; there is an, Episcopal Church, ,and- . a
Welsh Church,—and. there are tWo . small Roman
Catholic Churches. • ' '
The first pastor of the: Presbyterian 'Church—
the man wbo would be most distinctly .ealled • to
remembrance by one mho was born there; and who,
at the age of sixtY-two, revisits thelevin, was the
Rev. Moses `Gillett—a man who did more than
any other man to mould the manners and the ha
bits of the people of the town, and, whose influence
was always such as the 'influence of a Christian
pastor should be. He was installed pastor of the
church in'lBo7—an event not likely ever to fade
away from the memory of those ,who werebOya as
time, who then ? for the first time, saw an. "io
dination," and he held :the office for,thirty years
a man remarkably blessed in
. his labors; -man
whose memory is ‘iherished airevery Christian pas-_
tor would desire his own memory should be when
he himself is dead. In the cemetery recently
opened, and which in itself, is One proof of the:
taste of;the people of the.town, the inhabitants of
the town have ereeted, on a granite °base, a neat
marble'column to'hismeniory., On tb,e side of
the:eolumn fronting the entrance to the cemetery,
they have inscribed, "Hemember those who have
spoken to you the Word of God, whose faith fol
low." On another side they have made a record
which could be made on but few 'of the, anon&
meats erected to perpetuate the memory of minis
ters of the gospel: "Seven hundred and four per=,
sons were admitted, while he was pastor, to the cone- ' '
munion of the church, on profession Of faith;":
and they have placed beneath this the words—so
descriptive of his life, and so full of instruction as :
to the secret of his success,--,-" For he was a good
man, and full of the Holy Ghost; and of faith;
and much people was added unto the,,Lord."
During the ministry of Mr. Gillett, 'more than
one hundred and eighty persons were added,to the
church on one occasion, the fruit of a great revival
of religion. Among these were nearly all the
merchanta of the phce, and' all the,lawers. Since
the fall of man, was such a thing ever known be
fore, that all the lawyers in, any, place were, con,
verted to the faith of the Saviour? Among those
lawyers• there =was one, still living, who deserves a
more than passing notice. HeYas entering on'
his career with every prospect of the roost, brilliant
success, and with a moral certainty of reaching
the highest eminence in his profession. Had he
continued to devote himself to the law, long ere
thia time he would have been in the first rank, in
that proieisidn, and would, have lieenAtaw at ,the;
bar, what Judge Denio, eltoman hylirth,•a_ mark
4(
anterican littobgt,,Oair tittott COranpiiot4
•,.
of hOmble but icspectable origin, who now site in
the Court of *eels; the highest trihunal in the
'State, is, on the bench. But the heart of the yoUng
-lawyer was,changed by the grace of God, :and he
resolved at once to abandon his chosen profession.
ATSleeinflyo.ol.4o9-YeljentregY.L he
A
then conducted a religious pa er as editor in, Cin
cinnati; was associat&llwith' 11,13cechrsah 14+4
sistant minister of the Second Piesbyeeriab 'Church'
in. Cincinnati; :and,,for,,twontyzfixe Jeark-beJlne .4
been the Pastor of, the "Old Pine Street Church"
in this city.'" D4rink all that - thaw; thOugh Often
struggling with feeble health, .by,his unequalled
mastery of language; by his strength of logic; by
his striking and commanding :power of thought;
by his comprehensive iews; . bYhii tact ' arid, talent
iti . giaS r plitg his subjeet, and i 9 infusing the Warmth
..
of his ul and, his own enthusiaenthusiasmiito - the
~
hearts of his hearers; .by-his, unflinching !- - fidelity
to truth and to his own! denoMinatidir, and his
rebukes of bifott3r, injuitice;fin& wi-oti;: by his
influence over men of thonght anti'of wealth; by
his fir* opposition .to , all that was intended , to
alienate , er divide the ehurches;,by his' warm ad
vocacy of :the great- cantesof truth*ancr charity,
and bylis faithfulness as a preacher' and pastor,
lie' has, by thegiace of God, made` himself in
s. • LI , ,:1 ... • .
the mintspy,what he would have , been at the bar--
a • man felt ; to; be, needful in lour:city, a I man• - :. that 1
"Old Pine Street!? could' not spare, a Man-tiritthis
brethren could not spare 'frouilhe 'rniiiiitifliCre.
!le is not aldne.Thechivehekliairh i othir 6iimei
for gratitude t'for What Home—''the;• village ; Rome
of, "New York "—has
~produced ...: -, The:venerable
San Barnard, IL:D., of. Lima ? - N::: 7 Y4—a . man
Most eiemplary, pile; upright; taeful==n6Wotak
idiancett iii y*s-:Lwas a "Ronlin: "Illitihre"6
niller :-- a man who, can never read Wbat is here
written-r-ihois,destined, as far as _man can anti
cipate•what is to occur in the heavenly world, to
occupy a: - place 'far more -- elevated , than , any' one
Whe has kbniblit'friiii that town ,c7totel'his part
on' the great theatre of human life. He ' little
known to fame. He has done little to attract the
attention'of ;the not a man who has .
Songbah& high 'pinedof the earth , ;or a niad who
has `e disapPointed,,ehaled, 'or envious that
wealth and,honors-, have not been lavished upon
kle,is-totally blind, and for. years.has been
unable•'to -make his way through the streets and
lanes of a city, except as a blind man can ;And
yet,'day and night, summer and Winter, he. 4:46
threaded the streets, andiknes of cineinnatii in all
weathers—storm, sunshine, sleet, tempest, visiting
the poor, the sick; the dying; preaching in alms
houses, asylums, tttttt t ttttttt ; proclaiming the gos : .-
pel every day, and ;performing an, amount , of labor
4:tat-would .seem to be absolutely impossible, even
for a man' of most vigorous;powers of body; :a min
always poor, and yet always 'Cheerful; a man blind,
and yet full of light; a man of no property, and
iki h." nothing,
yet m ng many ric , a man avingpo mg,
and, yet poss,essing all things.."
Nen peas off 'the 'stage. God' "changes their
countenance ' and sends theth aWay." • The sold
generation that ,lived and, moved in ROme sixty
years ago, as every, where , else on the face of the
earth, is gone. , But nature is the same, and what
was there then of earth and waters, of hills, and
stones, and'running streams,, is , there still. The
river—bright, clear, pure—on the banks of Which
the writer of"li Aiticle first breathed the. air,
and leoked,upOn the light of the sen,,is there
still, and fiews,ee as it did then.'; The ~ola log
heuse-,-then ready to fall—wherefife began, , Itas
lorti since been removed; btit theleldettrethPie;
and evert a few of the old trees Which: stodit
'fibytinocciiirCitieie — ettr."Yrte. one ,
story,' long, low, red.house; which was substituted
in theplace the more humble log tenement, is
there still.' .All-sthe have arrived' at a period of
life. When they can undeistand what it is
back after half acerittirY to the. scenes of child;
hood, can appreciate the emotions ; sith which a
man of gray liaira nnd of advancing years wanders
along on 'the banks of such a 'Hier; stands on
the 'spot Where hp was Vern'. walks over such
grounds; 'looks on such ancient , trees-- ; solitary,
livingmenioriala of thepast ;•or contemPlatesthe
old dWelling=--the first of all houses in his recol
lections :—Lthe"emotions' which, one feels es' he
panses in 'these solitary rambles; and s reflects on
what he did in liiihoyhood,,And 'strives. to recall
the ,friewe and 'anticipations of ,his'own,,,,early
years. Alas, he is alone. ,From: that oldthabitation
all who used to 'dwell there are gone . forevier'S
• - 1
Every living thing "that' he ever saw thpip has
gone. Father, mother, brothers; sisters, are all
in thegrave„ and the wanderer is alone.. No one
can understand, exeept,he who hasp experienced
it,' what ittis for a mart 'to 'feel that, all his otin
familydead the nttO 'deSedation L :of soul
that homes, 'over:: a' Man When he fedi . that-he
the-last ofltigt family 7 --that none now stand
between him and: the great :ocean of eternity: on
which he hiMself iss soon to embark;' and that of
his " own 'household' he now has no one to be 'his
companion an he moves on towards that boundleas:
ocean.,, To the recollection , of the writer of this
Article; no qtuch ,feeling of utter desolation his
ever'conteover the soul as was experienced vrlie4
be 'learned in a foreion land;* that the last of
the family' a beloved iirothei was also dead:
Then.how:littlewas there in ; a splendid whit' to'
soothe the leart;l how 'lonely and how desolate
was the -though Surrounded by-the gayety
and 'splendor of the' most splendid city ;61' the'
world
It is a privilege to , Stand' in •advancing' years
near such graves. ~They, are in a • lonely and re
tired spot how quiet and how calm! Standing
there Alone, it is pleasant to, think that with those
who; sleep _there the conflicts• ofilife are over; that
they'ard to experience nO"niore pain; that they are
to be hippy 'foreArei=v-for - of each and all of them
the hoPe'is cherished that theY were; prepared te
die A yrhole family, with,One only eAcePfion, in.
the grave; a whole:family, with. nneenly. exception,-
in heaven, aridlie cherishing' whose,'-through ,the
same Savionr, of 'Meeting them 'there. ' In' such,
scenes, standing near - sitch'graves, with what: con:.
• , .7.1?
relation there comes over the soul the mernory,,
of the words, ,
No mortal. 'woes
Can reach the'peacefasleepera • • ,
While angels watch the soft repose:
44 SO Sesus'ilapt; Cod's dying Son }
PasiNi tfirongh tbe gave . , andbl4ilthe bed`,';
Reit be're, Wised saints; till from hii
..The morning break, arid Inuit skaidet"?'''
Coming baek frontlet* eeenee, one rizight . to
a hetter - man s': :better by theigratefutrecolleetion
ot many years of mercy; -by the'ethinitehi which
gitided the early steps 4;104; brought
to the memory, bi-the;lmiiressiVe. iieyi,of the
shortness, :life, and.. the certainty death; by,
the cheering lightvihich religion- throws - around ,
the grave. From' such scenes he, of whom the
AstanxdArIFRESBYTEnIAN, in so kind and' enial:
a manner , inforfiied : its readers Atab he had .Iflg - 914
TO RosZT , r :Itapy..oo3lE 'BMX. -FROW Ro fE, per-:
chance tolitborra little longer; .perchance 13°0114'180
t o ....net4 oi n :t xta
EDITOILIAL JOTTINGS.
i ThIn,WEEK. AND NEXT. We tink our read
ers will" be, rewarded in the, sal ' per l a tif every part
of our paper this week: Tun Saitarox, on our
first page, is one which was preached in Spring
ankh.P&PaAliainsionere,flall, a.Lfewmaabbeth,eye;
nings.iipcl, and. has ,heert : qquested for.p i ublicil
tion. 'Neft 411 r rrangement44k
presenting a handsome wood-cut of the North
-..l3.read..Street.Glitirchs , -es.designed - foreahe , tuannt
this congregstidn, will, he completed. It will be
. =
accompanied' by, the architect's description.
Obit ATTENTION has been called to an article
in a recent number of the Christian
.Observer
containing the folloWing sentence, Whose meaning
'is tionihiiliat obseire civil war at the 'pre
/lent *te of parties might he more pardons tithe
government than s9.any section of the coantry.?
If we; understand the sentence, it intimates that
the North'is full treason, and thafr 4 - Would be
unsafeltd'atterribt to execute far 'is
;,:-
a ',sentiment se false gains credence, it has a direct
tendency to, palsy the hand of government,:and
to..encourage Southern - traitors. ,'Waslineh its de
sign? We ;hope not. -t` ,"
" C ''quOtes our ar
ticle entire : about, the refusal of Pedo-paptgits,
geaale Ir. iGnianose , to their pulpits, thernean
be Undouhtttbst it itefereto ourselves when Speak
ing Of oifr NeW-Seli4l'P', l •dab'ytekrat 'neighbor,"
•ited
' Nek'ScheOl watte
):l ', A A. ,
gaTtli it' I
48A, more, sl9Pll.l,lll4Pßliteret*d to call
a F paper, at <l4t , once in tan ..artiele,,,,brits own
chosen designation. • Thetehmnicleis still utterly
unable to , sewirlircitlier `denothinatiensietes they
do ihiviirdslthngentlemin qieition, and Valls
44 , §
their conduct unfeeling. It leaven out of view
entirely, , the question' Of church order which, in
our AMallis;ivrts —Fs f •
Ite ...1 8 9's •
"Mr. Guinness held the same general doctrinal
views a year. ago, that he does:now.", Of course
then; his, change of : view's , on the subject of it
mersioivirtust be a t trikTild matter:: Such a Change,
ahermding: to th'euChgAiiite `does' affect ' "the
i6iiwrar aWkifi t a i6;;64`i ik Man i This Cer
„ 2 _ , Id L
z _qin)Yqgk,4? , ,aPlePsa9P ,l 9l 4 : l leiaa libel:fai9;:in a
Bartiatt:jarirnal We:were of the 'opinion that fa
cdrisiderable change took place in reeeiving; for
the first Aline, hibject i
are ente4eined by,
avowed by Mr. gr„ in, his late tract upon-the suit
ject.. we, repeat What we• have already
asserted, thattthertier&fact of Mr; Ws immersion
is not the cause'o hny Coldnes'eteward 'hie 'felt
in thin . qUarter.itlnd he been:immersed' by. Mr."
Spurgeon, for.,iiifitance, we should not have had
one word.to saY,nrid. we doubt riot the pulpits and
friendly offices of nther than Bapiists, would bairn
been freely extended`th him.``'-We insist, thatly
himself with the Plymouth hrethreu, Mr.
Guinness endorsed views.of church Order, and par
ticularly)ofthnehristien minintry,,which our Bap
tistfriendis, as.w'ell 'ourselves; are ,competent to
recogniiie r c ie , nroWiriptriral; schismatic and perniL
'pious in no common degree and which. they, in
a* t Ad
e isc arge,o e simp es uties f o e ity to
the great
. evangelical principle of church oreter,---
whieh they hold as well aslwe-are. , bound , to 're
pudiate: -t, L
” Weirrblif; at any rate," sap' the . Chronic/a,
that Guinness! tenets are not• fel
lowship,ed .by ,taptist,,churches Anywhere." Nory
well, so far as le:goes.t But it.lails to meet the
exigencies of thee The T errell' of these."Pe
culiattenets' are .4orgriive'to be met in. any other
iay l thin by entire separation from them ! They
Eendergd-Saw a*.
such a ifisavowili4iw
-- • • •TICE;NEW-MIGEST.- -,, A.: ,
A *fekdeiiii&iiiiiirit in our` 'hranoli of the
.•-. - 3. le
church, and long'delayed the Neii Digest. We
are sure it
. will4ezwelcoined; now that it has ,at
last'made its appeirange. ". its: exterior is_ all that
couldtbeiwishediJand its contents are as'aimple as
posaible,:krefigetidii of the mind of the church as
ei,iiihited'in the VeriOu4 : 4CeisToti; and testimonies
of its highest eOurt f --4.4 cncral,Asisembly.'
accomplish cihis.,work.,has,tdoubtless3ibeen:a self
denying an& laboi4us-tiisk, not so likely to 'Con
fer notoriety'litidn . those'engiged in' it, 'as many
far lesi meritorious :nrideqekings; lint, its very,
valtie_lies the self-ahnegation of the compiler.
Says Rev. W. E. Moore, of West" Ohesteir, , ,Pa.,
upon: Whom ,the . dhief "respOnsibility thiiiioift
deVolved The: effort bas been - ' Mide 'CO dfgeit,
. r ; .
under thirteen
; general heads or chapters, every
thing bf i l 92°oBuS9ri°44%.4ts ,, cfl.the , Aesembly.
The•task assigned , the committee ; was .not to pre
pare , a• f DIGEST of such Acts of the
ae - interinlA the ConstitntiL of the
Church,express' her sieves upon. Inestions of
morafs ,and. doctrines, .pr e eim to.inerease and di
rect .her -power- for good; o the 'world?'• , The
thitteen•leads are :—The ehilrehi officers of the
ciedidateil; the sacraments;'
courts; ; moral questions, deliverance
on doctrines; modes of evengelization;,..the,per
manent committed.; correspondence ' , with other
bOdieir; :plan of uniehinnd the diiikion;
hindcnie. The apgidis.`containg; Opinion of edge
Gibson in Bane- York church case- Ltine
nary, case. We•think it will be found-admirably
adapted fortbe.purpiise.of furnishing oiir church
officers with itineans promptly diseoVering the
authoritative views ,of the church on all topics of
general conceriiinentand #l l _ thoroughness ,and
accuracy t ,retlecti %mat ; credit lon ; the committee,
and respeciallylod tlicindistiiona, careful :and
sebOlailtennipifer7 . " = Moore.
aand contains 60 ',Pages"
Royal<octavo. : : ..Wi37renew - our offerito:supplrthe
volUnie gratis, - andlfreif of iipense, to any 'cin who
will send us thren;neW tio - xeve sub'
scriliere r - withtli t i' : payinent in advan0.11::;:..;;';',?;
THIRD PRESBITERY iOP r PICIEIikDRIi• -, ;'
.:, ~ .f ',.•., 7:-: , 4 , ,,--,,, pii4v, •,.,:,7'. _,,;i71 , ;. , ,:' ,, ,,1 ,-_, ;,
Ojil'lrPl4l46 - 1104'ite st44s3eetim at the
ManEna Presbyterian Arirch; An Timaday
Welles4aY ,of,tli r Trepty- seen of
its..thtity Ministers were in attendance, and . thir
rein of ith were re - pr4ented il
The Rev . Choligltroffn Was chain
tor, and the and. kW %
temporary derby: Di ;
• There was littielrislaiiis a . general ingelit4
before the body.- The my itein'quit
4040 a.. was ills ifevia
th e m i nistry, submittei gOuaideration.Of
Presbytery by ,the.Peiiillaqmit•OOtariattee of tie
.gasafnbly. The .
O t iktdbad was: iiilitaii?iaiii ! '„'!%`l•o4llialseivheQ
the par • .. '
The reports : on ; ,the Atate • of = religion • in the
ohurchea .were generally - cheering and lopefnl. - '
•As Commiirsioiaetit thiiireitlAniebd Aq.s#3o:
b 4, were Jobn
y;:Ro'*4o l ') Biii)jan*!
04 1 i4i00): mid 1 46,, v.: Nut.: Zoltoordjaili
labstes.-: httr e;sktuoirl. ,:iyiKti3 :10
Of Ruling Elders, Mr. A. o.,Enkfeldt andlfon.
Jos. Allison, principals; and .Mr. Alex. Wltilldin
and Me Anson Jewell as alteiiiatcs.
PHILADELPHIA FOURTH PRESBYTERY.
--1,-Philadelphia-FoartlrPresbyterrnitt;paren
aitt to-llostrrenf,linflptutington, Ist Church,
Tpe(day evening, 9th inst., the Rev. C.
B. Conkling, Moderator, preaching the open-
The, Rev. Brainerd• was ,:elected , Ifodera
tor and the .Rev....ldessrs. Howell and„Bliss
temporary clerks. , • . .
The principal items. of business were the fol
lowing:. • • - • • .
149)jselisetki of Rev., Goedloe 13413e1l :to the
VTeshytery of Rcrkaway, andol, Atr,Getorge J.
Mitigins,:licentiate,-, to the illitellytexp ofi Phila.
delphitt Secon(Ln
2. Reeeptior =of -Messrit William.lifeGlathery
and Albert .Erdman as. Candidates for the gos
,pel -Ministry; , ..; L 's- -
3 , Examinations and_ licensure:of Messrs. Eril
,man' and Aloniolß 'Johnson, Candidates.
4. -Eleetion of Commissioners to Assembly
• PRINOEPALS.—Minaters:',T: J .- :Shepherd-and
.1;t: 11!irner: Eiders: Sabi 11 , Perkins and
J., C.- .Viirr2: El 0 7 4
AiirraPt4TF.3lfiniStei!.B :,Dr.•;Converse and
R. Walker. Elders Xolire-Vleuds anolS.• P.
,-` '
..E=: 5. 4Next tltatedaneetingin Nedtimipy:Ohureb,
last l'itkeiday;or, fttelistiet }rat
3•03e10ck0R. , -.IIE • ;
i:6. A..towel:meta; to aneetifillioinbaid•Street
Mondayl, pink
- ,F, J. :SHEPHER.V. 'Stated , ti
, ;.. t 637 BOMPAtrP9t. , g#PAPrill, 18 6 1 ; A. , 1,
'e,ti ;.:':" j - 1 "I' :-':' 1;",'""•'•' '4: . - - '-' '' • ''' ''' "'• ' •
• • - THE- BITTAILWANS.
e'e ip from the aQtern pdire4Otaent'oithe
, the :following Recount of 'the position of
this r internstihg peoiie; in reference t 0 the omtsh
has been reiirite'd; they a'otend
-302 r`, 3
• .
'The gartan conve t tot e Cathoho, hurch,
floWtoroved:to Dena*l4o in titiniber; are slnii
ing themselves very:restive` undekthe Papal yoke.
The .Brief from hie .4fallibility,,Pio, Nino, ?and
the Tater from NIB ;Eminence, ,Mansignor Has_
soon, an American Cat o by no means save
Wei( °the 'pleasure or satisfaCtion thaWas expected
by~the -- Romanistss:Orr this Being read them,
theyarnngly nbjected, to Abeione because it-was
written in Latin,
,and..to n the other; ecause it was
in Artnenian;tn e ith'er of Whichtlanguages. could
they understand a single Word: They
,further
more' protested' against addreased'hy . the
-Pope " Catlmilies;'! - -steutly declaring- them:,
selves g.f.prthodox," and in. their rage. they tore
up thecards which certified that .they were true
members of the Ranieri Church : During the 4)
bizh4hioh theiablei which the Cabo:
lie( refect and , Arthirdandrite , Iwere' 'Seated, -Were
overthrown, and these dignitaries with 'them.: :It
is•needless to add,that the meeting was:broken .up
in confusion.,
virulent' old Artheiiian paper, the New York
Herezid- of the East, Says ;that "the iieeessiiiti -of 'the
Bulgarians from the Greek' to-the Papal Church;
is only the,"dillerence:of being poured from one
tenjere or, sanee-pan proverb
that answers to 'Mir 'djiirepini ft fidoa the frying pan
inin the fire." - The game .paper speOci of the
PrtiteStait and 'Cabello sects "two 'leligions
thieves who, are=evermore on the alert to to entice
away believers; ; Rm the,.trl?eiomr9 l 4! and warns
the Armenians to:
; beware, ef Especially
must"they beware of i!iin6,'DialOt, Who has been
verylaCtiirw for:years Protestant-cause, and
who clad t. started; on a !toir- - throrigh'lArine nie
tt uht-for
emits." ;i-,
poi the Americanresbytertan.
THE 6TATE 04 THE 4. NOB.AL ATA9-, 3
SPHEBE
••
„:• , . •
711f..N ' -SOCOITIC ro, 1 0 11,0MOTIEJG ..NATI(MAL
• , 17i . i d_...-ItP4;lls l: MtutiO -)s.l
*Ft lipmAo l lidt attelApted to nnend i toethe top of
endepx. t;4ey, wended, the air at length
Became• •"'" no t t
to 19;faPI: pressure
4e1 44!•091 / :jp il m si M e ß3 . l , :, 4 keg a P to oo z e
oat from the } r lips, eyes , and gnws ,Inspiration
Wai'dilfoeult p3 , , Oome fainted, ati4 , all felt weak and
debilitted";:and oonld.plecrednoturtber. Some
thing like AO loAstp,,at pi : ewl' i in / the f smdition of
the moratfifififetiTheielf iitigecktflry. "Thtre is just
now an extreme _rarity init. -...zits:preasitre is very
slight. Causes, which have, for a whole generation,
been - it Work; haveriit
tennated stop in the public/teltit?nptofAlie ern
i•4l 4"4.10'04g9.14,!Pa, in many curses,-
.at year, not
to littOrpre.ssure otent4o ;preventycbti,
racterifroth loosening it wvirjhjoint, amilallin'g to
pioces..l)Within'theliatt fhw otitha walui've.Seen
tlia" -- at'ho' of
God;iifoo ss iXlieil .4 °,_ (3 44;f ll ,4;:tiefigiag;t l 4 ol l;4o:Ai .
a rope of sand. 'Kakint_istn, once poll:am:amend,
big virtue, in this:land,. is-today At, a-terrible 7. dis
%Mut int.many An*Ciin - hbsoine. `• Posiiintie.j4cen
by our fatheri,:iiirbeliiried by, tli«Ktl faifa
upon eternal truth and 'righteousness, are
. s4asias
as false; and sentiments, which they. 'interlYsig
floral as repugnant to the law of berievolence; and
at warltrith all the 'Moral element's' them ; are
not iuii'ditmeritar, and as sanctioned
by aprod..
Gd
• .
There is nothing new indeed in ;all this, how
ever painful nr unlooked for. it•mayibe. In every
stormin the. political ox moraLworld t the co mln o
tionis sure tobring to thtreurfatsesoniething which
inottpersfinentlealst
Oar
,ineserit'Vational
tlioughti,ieelit4s and purposes, which very
;year ago, could have, believed tole**.
American • mind:oalvery day, 4 lioir:
eirer,lt•to View, and *tiefni:OiieEritiiii *NA
aisnyin tgis land have feared lsline, camel:4i
tigeti, is a * fetqfpi degeneracy in the public mor ality ,
of.the country ~ —a ' luoseness in sen Limon tan d feeling,
which should alarm alike the patriot.and the ehrisi
tient There' is 'at least such a lessening of the moral
p'reSiiure; that *iii.ii:his:s4lotikilkeii:l4" . i,:doipa fly
it, is no, lonse* 444.re : 0 12 40j aPd.1k1 1 4 ,0 1 141 .04ig
positions and advocating sentiments,f which: they
once would not :have dared. to dO. • .14widoliss.bets 2
said in explanation of Chi national - *Ales; and
great retorts - have been put 041111
ofrall tke:AlflPYlltilPrt!kiP;ll.9P4P)l4o .held,
inani_oo.lB4 , ..ktpersons.lit •the Wart4-O;:,Th P4 e
current
otremarklias all beenin thisfditrention.. The at
tempt has been - to
,sliT3vi that thli'
e'ehsion reoieinentia owing
tationki the Free States. , ilence:ge 4 yan o,ila 'ef
forts to compromise matters—to put down-tbisagil
tattikon—to prove •thnt !the Islorth baslntl:hin• the
eiViLeompa et—and that the framera
tutin dikuot i regard,slitvery as, a CiAliaWkimiild
iFong,eTeVei. eipeotedthat it wo uld cease in this
land, .ands that' all. that the: South 'Wanted was. the
Constitation as it is, and' the governuidni ' , conducted
ofinr the principles upon` whichit' was conducted by
Washington; AdtiOs' Yefferson and Madisid:
Among the most.receoxpov,ements of .thi hind,a
lathe formation, in the city of.:Nersi Yorksof (g.an
American, sobietyltriprotnbthiPtlititad
At goodly name I a noble °bleu6' sorely I But how,
d'O the founders of this society pOpose secure,
thitrObject? Is it by uttering woran of healing"
mercy, by gathering up and tying togethir the
sundered thread of national feeling, or by hushing
4o silence, the minds,of.rnen-on-alltbewdistur bin g ,
tOpies of the day? No, not at all. - .4S.ccorling,t o „,
their published Progrardine," their "main tiipio
at present will be slavery" This strikes us
"straogelY. - Eitherto the class of men, represented '
AP this pew soorotb.baNT been utterly opposed to all
aiscnssion of this disturbing element, They have
tried to keep it out ' Of national an : clpcOlosinstical
councils, out, of Methodist Conferences, and, Pres
.byterian Assemblies, and 'Episcopal Conventions,
have tried to exclude it alike from the Press and
the Pulpit. , S'ed temporq tatitan,iitret Ras ?Tact-
Plum in illi4and this hithertpignored theme is to
be "the main topie," the greatpeacernalier," of
the new society, and the'Cointry be,inade one
again by
The fimple truth of the matter is-that this new
engine of power is nothing more, nbr:less thin. a
" National Tract Society for the publication, of pro-
IlaVerY tracts." The programme'gives us, the ani
mus of ' the concern. In thiallinYleli us that the
assertion; in our DeclaratiOu of Independence, that
"all men' are created equal," was "intended` to
embody' the sentiment Of, our ancestors reapeeting
the doctrine of the Ditine right of kings and'Ro
bles," Which is far:from . the tohote "truck. on this..
Poitt, and that the assertion "May be ienaerstood
indicate both a'sublime" truth and PeinielOPS,
error." Their own faith is set forth in these wok&
"Men are created equally tree to do' the will of
God, and equally rewarded by ldim .44coia
ingto their deeds. But ihey are rot created equal
irt„ personal en dOwnients . tier .. in their relation to
,:: g ym",.,
:Not in intimation
'fi l th - ere in all that the system
of American slavery; 'which has its .- "foot on Ged's
law, and'does not allow the Milliona ar'e' in
its bonda t
ge, read'` o s wor vrong
`in any
partieular. Tell' it not in death, publish it not in
the 'streets of 4Slikelon; kit the daughters . of ills
Philistines rejoice, lesi'ilie''dati,, , h i terti,. of the t -ii „
circumcised triumph?
Had the framers of this society ffna, others„,who
have ,undertaken to : fix all the, blame of our na
tional troubles upon the action of wait
edtheNorth
a little 'longer, they, wonla have had, all 'OO
win &taken out of their sails The,lion. AleAan
der Steibeni, thetee President of the, Confederate
States, has let the cat out of 'the bag and ,spoilea
all the #ne argnments, that have been pnt forth
on this stibjeet Jae has swept awaytlr,
tions from under Palmer; and Thoririell;andiVati
Dyke, and Stiles and left them with nothing on
Which to stand. He has
• utteredwhat we have
long believed and hive often asserted, that die
real cause of the secession": movement was, in the
dug/tut/ea. The result of the Presidentiarelee
.
tioa„ the agitation on the subject of ala y ery
_at the
North; Was' merely the occasion of tile
Abolitionism had about as much to do with it as
its caitse,"'air.the snorting of a horse' has to do With
the beginning of a tornado. 'The cause` is
tlonstitution. Mr. S. admits what every student
history knows, that the prevailing ' opinion of the
framers of the Constitution' was thaf "the `en '
slave~
Mont of the African was in violation' of the - kiwi
Of.nature; thatitias"Wrong in principle, social
Morally, and pOlitiCally, and that somehoi or otlia,
in the order of Providence, the. institution Would
be- iiiiiieseeit and .pasi ftway!t 'This Was the
Miatake - ilint_ fathers ;Made': The" idea; tliergfike 2 ;
upon •ifildh..t he' Constitution 'was liashd 'fat=
&Mentally 'Wkiing.' Hence he clainiS"that;
flew-goveinnientis Toriiided-nion 'exictlY - the
.144 foundations - ire laid its ` coins=
stone - rests upon the great 'truth:- that-''`thi;
is not equal the *bite ;Min, that;daibrY, Sub
ordination' to' the' , suberior race, Ilia natbral'ind
MortiLebndition2"
The -old rAnfnititutieit - was
and,henceiit beenllhrewn aWak...:l "'National
unity' can lie-Secured•only; by ilio'citiiig'thelDi!.
of th e slavehelder;lincr if the "neir
.- ofety - 'cannot corne up'ttr posithiri,lhet
oeetipi' gone:" PilrE,a 4 r - tra. ri
. ,
CHICAtti CORRISit'ORDESCE.'"` '
DEAR - Pitt SairrißL:-4t is usual to begin
a conversation - sheet the weather, but of that
nothing - to say,' and the weather - 'con=
ducts us to the season as a whole. The winter
a'nd so r tiilg_TiMiaigiiiiO
pear ;Indeed; at Philadelphia; Tiliiiiiela'ilatibt;
'appealed. a good ` -while age:
The iinter here has 'been;' i On 'the whole ' s ,
cold one, and we shonld - commonlY; - ezupett to
hear' of a - geod Of - differing'. and Yet'l can
retnember no seaion - of - the kind, airing; alt_tte
eighieeit, years I have' been , In ejtY,' Wheti
thei4 been` A so little' so few
Pali& appeals to charity: 'Solar as the' n ' or'th'
west is - 'eencerned, 'the , fancy of'' sec'easien, that
it he "Bloed• Or BreadYi hag riot been re=
allied. •
• Provisione : have' been` extra plenty and.
Very`cheap,:and great turnbere orthe 'laboring .
People haie-had employ, in ene way'or- another;
either in Cr-eat of the'eity.
There is still much derangement ` of our oar
repcy,and exchange on the tieaboard has been
maintained at about"five per pent., at :the,'WinL
ter,,and is still,'atp.lo per cent.; :butive:have
4:Adt :tiding 10
. .Eioott go into opefaiion,
and a'hetter' state of things,iiholi‘d for
There is =a very pleasing 7 state thiniei in
many parts of thCcity in this regard: Tito:af
our churches witness some conversions, and-ail
are more or lesscheered:by the gentle -presence
of, thwSpirit ~ There is alsola work somewhat
remarkable' in. at ; eakt, 84 half dozen; or our mis
ilion.:,schoOlsil where Ambers, of the •the> older chit;
dren, including great ninny rough boys, are
indulging.tho hope , of-having found the Saviour.
Nor there any . iniinution of interest - Large
numbers :of :the. Children'. in ;these schools: are
from, Soman,,Catholic , families:, and • the same
children -go to t mass tattle morning and , to Sabi
bath; School in the afternoon, nor:daltlireans
oriCajoling servc to keep ithem away., " There
is surely ; agreat deal, of hope imthis•work.
CATHOLIC
The Catholieshayaheen enjoying a great
vival here. ; Some #fqempt9rfst or Pasio . 7/..;
is/priest:shave: held protracted meetings throgg'' h
all the ali . iii4es and chapels of the de min e ,_
don, arid Certainly made ne,iii'donSßeLliiel
iMpreeefon among theii - ieoPU.'
ave n r o
donbt that their preaching h4dOli'S some goad ,
for it has of y
to keep up, in a manner
with
,the general
.n
effort f th '
tei4pttliaiehe * aH at feast to keep ivithhi : :
Ou r certain dietaries
people demand Preach=
,•
they'ing if re to titire - ns"
y`~7terte cone Ilion as regards it.
td , : -I ril I_
. _ 4 , -p
.7 ',5,..(t I
,- •
4
Of course,mork- or Jeur:trtith is intermingled
„ii
salutary to i tliose who . hea yy it;-al s t : h th o e ug p h r o o f t
a very
poor quality when 3tid rm
vstandird. And yet thew preaches are not with
out eloquence in some, cases.,-'Now it must be
,rocsatud,,„„thar , ,tP,,,,..PM0.4,1144at in accord,
ante With the genius of the Catholic Church.
,
spariliti - hind ,itillan!prie:Sts d o not preach—at
least very often. Xam very glad to see preach
i,Dgliecoming.more common in that church here
' abouts, and it will stip be necessary to improve
ii penile will surely rise in
its quality, for tli
their demands.
Some of our Protestant peßlehave dropped
in to hear, ihrilWitit r uilf6thhicies, what kind
, •
of instruction iheir mod' help were receiving.
The audiericetwete d vided, at one time con
sisting of married "Viimeni - atr another of the
maidens, and.so
..§OP9,-TPIT curious teach
ings are:reported - tome as, litiving been gi ven
to the married women When the audience
was assembled, the priest locked the door and
put the key in his pocket,,traiellfd about a lit
tle, loothpe'andierieeicritie4Mhtheir faces,
to see, apparently, if there wereJinterlopers.
He then harangued i tbern„ among Ober things,
as to their duties in.Tegard -to obtaining posses
sion of this 'eiintritibf - the Chtliiilic : Church.
He inforineUthem that the reliance was not
alone on immigration;Nlitit 4tpon•mereese, and
declared that - i(the 440 4rhn fiueto, its duty,
they would .be = in f.possession , inr , some' twenty
years.lm,y r ejo„erigcia:m r ,to , ..offer; , ,lrmerely
report the Jain._ .
I think, :however,
, that the Roniale-Chitiolies
hereabouts arebecoining more'aiid`mOre intel
ligent, and are adopting; , without knowing it,
Protestant modes of thought lino. 1 , 1 1 4. 'of pro
cedure in a inriltitude of things, and I:suspect
that the peculiarities, of, their church will, in
spite 0f,t416444ti0ns from Ireland; be gra
dually undermined.-much' , sooner , tthan-is ex
pected.
During the past week our sable POpulition
has been thrown into an immense consternation.
The new Republican marshal, by way of sig
nalizing his administratinniAgitAfahoTing to
our Border neighbors.:tbat the. partris true to
the Constitution, pounce& trrien'ari - African fa
mily, fagi,tives_frop Virginia, and resident here
some years, and look them awayttuslavery. I
believe thislii niiffabiplutelY:tbeffeet i . ,,iOokos of
this kind attained 'in this city, but it is nearly
so, though,,the attempts bavo 4 een,, egzon for
twenty' years. allevents, our city thasleen
considered the•most AD pi(iiiislikg ground for sa
ble fishing in, the whole ;13rdon: ; :But thu terri
ble success's& this attempt falainle+F-the whole
exposed PoPulatiOn, and lyeitelidaY '(Sabbath)
ninety-ong Colored persons r some of them resi
dents forlanilif five years„tdhy . p'e*:Airfii the
cars for the *Aeon
. oao4n, l in,,,the X..ikuoe of
Wales' dominions.. Ther are :doubbleks safe
now. But the distance,was4reat,„„an_d i any body
who thinks. sliv,very.tubc,a, good ithinglor the
black marifilnlacti just what he :tioarniade for,
had better try life power's of Persuasion on
Sambo himself. I willpromise#to hold‘ myself
ready for conversion, wheullfo4oo,;with a
free chance to. decide, havdeelarud.for,the "in
stifittibn." If God did make him for slavery,
he ought, It would shar, - to" hive - planted the
sentikkent,e 3 , 44ln,his,sonl, : And the more light
he e yeas sty d the,higher 4,radt e he lonld
he'faiSnl*Loye,ultnre,,nilklikto r ltringAnt ana af
firm the abliethit'et and'ltifeas,ol — hitn, for the
WI far
as I can see, the nore Y fight Sambo gets the
more he nins'incizy, and The rit t olelivotedly he
refutiteaUrriliii4k. isTotiliatlie - cednplains of
hirSoutherit master us=it geneiiVilittie; for pro
hably'AtiVek ne4er. got' liettheintilit&s than the
SeintriffordsAild neverwill `'but deelara
-
li • onitctliat . :frted4m l is better 'thin slavery,"
even fora nian 'irdne Up - in skin.
An& irtY' on" the°`*hole=idt that the
world come '"gradually td' that conclusion.
AturdirifiLatir amilible'friendrivh6 haii taken
the" rattreaftnke as their'a nblem, will 'get` round
to the same result - braid by.
EMI
• ,C HUR CHES, ETU.
3114 M.
Sa The Nirestiiiiiiiter, Murcia is y still without a
•
pastor, -th otigh„.l do not kneyr r hp!, that some
one
:: flteit:'e.ye.2 Hmphrey, of
J. • “J 44, •
the First Pre sb y t e r ian, has been spending some
weeks at Pittsfield , Mass, } in attendance upon
lie dying bed of his fathqr, Rey. ,Ffeman Rum
y.pst,. He was
82 to 84: - i , ears of age, and 'had preseired his
inenlnl !acuities r9ninrkitlpy... ; The newspapers
have bat recently published
,his articles, as fall
Of iced sense and spirit a s gang .. Sttch a death
is pleasant to - 4
think the.shoek of corn
fiiil~p ripe , gatheyed to the garner
Rev Vr Rici leaves thikeity for New York
abopt tiie first of • lfay; Leticia informed if a
successor is at present sectired; prpitched upon.
s Yourii, WE Y.
LARN4S, OP THE ; POOR:
A...P.. 1 T011.:71--These int * r.ts have
iloW r bpou published occasionally, dniog,isseven teen
Tenths, and ,have answered the do:Ole:purpose for
which, they ? ,wpre 4ntended, namely; first b , to bring
the Arne condition.of the poor. heforeitheminds of
Ohristian, peopleiund secondly, to curli forth their
sYntPAtkiek? 4 1 1 , 1 4,1004a1iPPJ in , ceArYiaglifrg thO,Oliv.e
Mission.. It is yet our desire, to drawttbe attention
of Christian people, to the actual; condition of the
poor, to ~point out the bonds wbiohAnd l them to
their afflictions, and, so. far.;as.„lGudy gives us
ability to, show how their,misfor tnnes may be alle
yiated, or perhaps, eVeutpOly„iMuoyed, and the
gospel be effectually Rie 6 l9 l 4q.to them thus, our
Ant ohject, is to , he carried on, ith the, assistance
of the religionspress.
'Our senor:l . aim, of Arniving,lielp for the Olive
Nission. - from. tho•pablie,_may,.,nay, must be aban
doned, for -in 49°9X4lnplvith our desire, puhlished
iu, i 2g j oylmber, l we s haVe
thehal itl4 l , l ;44l,l / 4 13 * 11 aXYAsso
~ !;14;,,' passed our effort into
ciationof Calvary
Onurel, who Will carry on_ our Mission, as their
ifisly3lant.3. experience may best direct.
- Way we then through,' you offerour heart-felt
tlfanks, to thoie : livbe bti.4 iOriiiidiy befriended
tke 4 '24.n i nfi,' - iirkd risk_ frPM"fluini a continuance
of attention to 6,4 Qocasional `revelation of
faces - iiqedtitany, 13.
t °ABSEIL'S TOPPLAR ' , NATIONAL HISTORY has
reached.. ,its. twenty-fourth,,part; completing the
second volume of, the first, half of the work. It
Conkaiiis - sitniffeti;ltangaroos,Vihales; &e., with a
SdieritificiTithie,4ndex; 'tend Title-Pagii. The text
volumenwilltrelate
, Tlft.E 1 14 u.423liisp FAMILY BIBLE has reached
the 14th cimpter,.of, Proverbs. Both of these
works are well. piiiitea, and the engravings eqe•
Otgreat value and beauty.
At Ines* (Tuts number.thieir cheapness is es
tyttAtilinaus‘ii..gort44le, lat f ßassell, Petter, Galpia
.13t . "C0.; 87 Nil Row, New York.
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