GENESEE EVANGELIST.—WhoIe No. 78t otirg. THE AMERICAN FLAG. BY DRAKE AND lIALLECK. When Freedom from her mountainleight Unfurl'd her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stare of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous.dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white, With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She ettll'd her engle•bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land. Majestic monarch of the cloud, Who rear'st aloft thy regal form, To hear the tempest trumpmge loud, .And see the lightning lances driven, When strive the warriors of the storm, And rolls the thunder-drum of heaven,— Child of the sun! to thee 'tie given To guard the banner of the free, To hover in the sulphur smoke, To ward away the battle-stroke, And hid its biendings shine afar, 'Like rainbows on the cloud of war, The harbingers of victory I Flag of the brave! thy foes shall fly The sign of hope and triumph high,' When speaks the signal trumpet tone, And the long line comes gleaming on. Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet, Has dime d the glistening bayonet, Each soldier eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky-born glories burn; And as his springing steps advance, Catch war and vengeance from the glance; And when the oanon•monthings loud Heave ht wild wreaths the battle shroud, And gory sabres rise and fall, Like shoots of flame on midnight's pall; Then Shall thy meteor glances glow, And cowering foes shall sink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave; Whon death careering ou the gale, Swoops darkly round the bellied sail, And. frighted waves rush wildly back Befoto the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee b And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven, For ever float that standard sheet! Whore breathes the foe but falls before•ns, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet And Freedom's banner streaming o , er usl fostroisi'aufituct. HOW TO. ENJOY PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HYGIENE. ADDITIONAL 0/UTTERS --- CHAPTER X.-CONSE QUENCES OP A GOOD MINISTER'S LOSS OP lIPALTR. EY WM. M. CORNELL, M. D. Rev. Dr. My—lmportance of the Ministeria/ 0/- flee—The Minister Suffers in his own Person— in his Family—Failure of his Health, a loss to his People—Dissolution of the Pastoral Rela tion—Restless ones GratVed— Appealing to C Eesar Trials of the Parish—Loss of his Prayers, his Pen—Momentous Influence of the .Ministry— Why P—Health, a Christian Duty —Man's Responsibility—How easily God can Carry on. his Work without us. The writer has recently paid a visit to the Rev. Ezra Stiles Ely, D. D., of Philadelphia. Dr. Ely was for several years "Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the PresbyterianShureh." He was a man of sterling ability, of great energy, a preacher of more than ordinary power. The writer knew him, a quarter of a century , ago, when in his strength and vigor. From that time he had not seen him, till this recent visit. Dr. Ely is now the wreck of what be once was—a mere child. I said to him, "It is more than forty years since you came to Philadelphia." He replied ' : "Yes, more than a hundred and ninety years." He was led into the room by his wife, many years younger than himself—a most lovely woman, de voted to the tender care of this aged and enfeebled minister of Christ. The subject of this chapter has been suggested by this visit, and also by the failure of my own health while in the ministry. The good minister of Jesus Christ holds the most important office among men. His influence for weal or we, is vast, The health of every man is valuable, just in proportion as he is valuable. What, then, are some of the consequences of a . good minister's losing his health? 1. He infers in his own person. He has sor row and pain. He feels himself to be, not an "earthen vessel" only, but also "a broken ves sel." He cannot discharge the duties which he owedaito his family, in health.. He cannot preach. In the one grand object of his life, he is frustrated; and, in, a great degree, all his former studies are rendered useless. His sorrow and .disappointment can be appreciated by those only whose experi ence has been similar to his own. He may be submissive under the affliction. It is his duty to he so. But he can scarcely avoid exclaiming, in the language• of a holy, sufferer of old: "Oh, that I were, as in months past,. when the candle of the Lord shone around -mot" He calls to mind the happy days, when he enjoyed the privilege of being " the mouth of 'God unto the people)" when he "stood between the living and the dead;," when "he fed the sheep of God's pasture," and "led them to the mount of God;" when he pointed an inquiring sinner to "the Lamb of God;" and, though submissive, yet, if he clan feel disappointment, whose darling and chosen occupation has been taken away, then does the disabled clergyman realize, in the keen est sense, defeat in his chosen profession. So that, if the lose of health were limited to himself, in its consequences, the disaster would be great, and he must feel the full force of the inspired declaration: "Every heart knoweth its.own bitter ness." 2. lle is lost, in a great degree, as it respects the good which should, result to his /amity. This idea presents itself in several aspects. It is often conspicuous in his temporalities. He may be able to provide for their temporal necessities; though often he is unable to do even this. Then he comes under the iron grasp of want, and .the cold charities of the.world, or of the church, which are sometimes colder than those of the world, as they resemble more closely "the wounds received la the house" of professed 14 friends;" and to cope with these, he needs a double portion of divine grace. Christian friends aid for a time, perhaps, willingly; but how soon do they grow weary I He will be a' happy man, and his family a favored'one, if they do not realize the truth of the• declaration of Dr. Young, author of the " Night Thoughts:" "He needs no enemy, who is wholly at the mercy of his friends;" or a greater than Young, who has said: "Go not into thy brother's house. in the day of thy . calamity." The education of his, ail : - dren, he must dispense with---that is, such an education as he would have 'rejoiced to have given them, and, as a minister and servant of the church, he had a right to expect to give them: Or, if he be among the favored ones, who have a competency of "this world's goods," and is thus placed above the pressure of want, still,, instead of "blessing his family" with his volce of health: and cheerfulness, and• • " Sound sleep by night," he is "terrified with dreams, and full of tossings, Until the dawning of the day." Like the royal sufferer of old; he cannot but ,exelaim : "My loids are filled with a loathsome dims*, and there isle soundness in my flesh ;" and he will be a favored one, indeed, if he is not compelled to add the next verse of the same royal sufferer: "All my lovers and my friends have forsaken me." It ought not so to be. But ought and is are often very dif ferent affairs in our world. Furthermore in'the eye of the church and of the' world, bis is no longer the minister's family. "Bus erat, dum res stetit Ilia regno." Grinding under the leaden hand of disease, like the remnants of the Trojans escaped from the sword of Achilles, or Samson shorn of his, strength, he is likely to. be driven around every "sea and land," or to be "made sport of by the Philistines;" and , his family share largely in his griefs. Is it any marvel, if he my out, in anguish , of spirit , : "Have, pity mpon me, Ohl my friends;" for the hand of God. hath touched me. I was eyes to the blind, and. feet was I-to the lame; but now they that are younger than,l, have me in de rision, whose fathers I would have disdained to; set with the dogs of my flock." 8. The consequences of a minister's ill health extend to Ms people. Just in proportion as he has been aloodminister, must. be the amount of their loss. They are deprived of his instruction. They go: to the sanctuary, bat they hear not his well-known, voice, and often: it it'd long time before "they. know , the voice of a stranger." ,With his lessons, ofitruth r and; mode of reasoning, they,lad become familiar. They, knew he `nevet entered-the ,pul pit with but' a 'straw in his , hand', or a single , thought in his head, or wanting the oil of divine grace in,histheart. But now they go up to Mount Zion, not 'knowing Whether it ,will be like Mount Gilboa,. or really, as heretofore, "the mountain of the. Lorcl,"—not • knowing whether:they, will , be "fed with the sinate Wilk e& - the word," - or' with hemlock and laurel. . , - • • , Then comes the- separation—the sundering of the tender ties between pastor and people. The ties of love and iliendship,. of duty and. of piety, which had been strengthening, it may be, for many years, perhaps, for a whole generation, at the joy ous heart of love, in the a house of mourning, at the baptismal : font; at the.. sacred altar', and in the humblest cottage at the domestic fire-side, must all be .sundered. Think• you, such an ar tery can be cut, and not derange the whole circula tion of the moral organism 7 not still, or cause an; intermitting pulse through the whole body or community? i s 'f I. tell you, nay," It -cannot be. • . Some few there are, in every : kingdom, every republic, every society, every church, who are counting upon the advantages of a change. They have found, as all bodies will, their proper level, (and it is level enough,) in the old'established or der of things; and, unless there can be a revolu tion, they must always remain at the. nadir, and chance may bring them to the zenith.. They are ge nerally of that class who have nothing to lose, and who hope to gain. Such; of course, will be gra tified. But all true lovers of Zion,.or of good or der and. harmonious movement in the church and society, will mourn and lament. The Presbytery, or a Council is called. The relation between the pastor and the church is se vered; and, in a case where health has failed, and a minister cannot perform the functions of a pas tor, the usual Resolution, accompanied by the re gret generally expressed on. such, occasions, that the "connexion ought to be, and is hereby. dis solved," is , passed without savoring so much of a solemn farce, as it generally does when a minister is dismissed, without fault of his, but merely to gratify the love of change among some of his pa rishioners; or to ease their pockets, or, what is• oftener the case, their consciences. The old pro verb is, "Out of sight, out of mind;" and there never was a people, or any,portion of a parish, who had injured and wronged, their minister, that did not wish to add to that injury his removal. from their vision. We have never considered it any thing more than a farce, (none the less, and none the better, for its being a, solemn one,) when, for such causes as just named, and others of a similar kind, a Presbytery or, an Ecclesiastical Council, dismisses a clergyman; and, though it is generally reprehensible for'" brother to gnto law with bro ther, and that before the unjust," yet there are times when. he can, and ought to "appeal unto Cone, The civil law in Maisachusetts, (and, I think, it is similar in several other States,) allows but three causes for which a minister can be legally dismissed—that is, against his own will. These are change of sentiments, forfeiture of ministerial character, and refusal to fulfil his clerical func tions. It is a question worthy of consideration, whether this law has not more gospel in it, than can be made to harmonize with the results of many ecclesiastical bodies. But the trials of the parish are not often ended when it has got rid of the minister, or when be has, got the meeting-house and the people off his shoulders. On the contrary, they are only begun. The nook is now. as "sheep without a shepherd.'' Often each wishes "to be the greatest," like the male members of a small church we once knew, who wished to be all chosen deacons. Some, pa rishes thus live years before they can unite upon a man who will settle with them.. We knew one which bad candidates' seven years, before they could settle the question, ," who should be the greatest among" themselves. It is not so easy a matter to get a-good minister, when good ministers are scarce, and thee calls for them numerous. Making the best of their mis fortunes, (often, the: result of, their own folly,) and "being at peace among themselves," the task is by no means an ieasy one, when they have had "Elijah." to find. " his mantle rest upon Elisha.." "Happy is the people who are in such a case." 4. By the failure of the health of a good rai nister, the world is a loser. It loses, - to a` great extent, his prayers. "The effectUal, fervent prayer of a righteous inanlhvMl - touch:" Of course, we do not 'mean alto lutely. *cannot be the"leader of the prayers in the sanetuar3r and the ccinference, perhaps not_ even of >family devotien. His good'influence is curtailed among his 'bre,thren, as he Cannot go abroad; a,nd cheer - them; viith_his presenee and-his voice at their Meetings. He cannet bless 'the world with his* , pen. This, tb he sure, is not al- Ways the case—but -it often' Is. The' letters' of encouragement which le 'was accustomed to send to Abe ,brethren and Chriatian• 'friend's, 'thh 'books' and sermons which he ohce sent forth to the public, and- the aid *hick "he gavel() the risinegeneration, are all suspended. These fertilizing streams have ceased, because "the pitcher is broken at the fountain." -•-• • r Three remarks are to be made upon this sub feet. I. The momentous "influence of the minis try. It is. in the moral; what the great law of • r gravitation is 112 the natural`world—linking worlds to worlds, and systeuieto system S.--holding suns and: planets in their appropriate spheres and or bite-'-eflusing 'all to "te'nd' to one common:centre, and rendering thens subservient to one' COMIIiOII law of'order-;• and this centre, to 'Which: the mi nistry•of Christ'' tends to bring everynatural and - every moral power,. every' mind and every body, is "the throne.of God:" As introduced. by the great Heatiol..the Chureh r having. "all powtrin 'heaven and%on earth'," it ls!juit suclran influence' as reasonable men would' expect. As in the hug man body, Ile has made the aorta, the; one grand. artery, the' vehicle of the vital fluid' which rami-' flog and divides and sub-divides; so as to meet the. exigencies of any part, even the 'remotest fibre,—.' so He has ordained that clerical influence shall be felt and realized in every scene of domestic sor row or of joy, in every movement of intellectual or moral improvement, and through the: whole body politic!, in peace or wits.. Thus' the good minister of Christ "weeps with those who weep,' and. rejoices with, those. that rejoice." If this "saltloses its savor," or, this infitience becomes. diverted from its right, course r , great disorder en sues. Indeed, it would be contrary to all laws,. natural or spiritual, so far as -we know, if the dis ordered organ or function were not.aa deleterious as.its rightful influence would be valuable. • 2. We are reminded., of the importance of, mi -*a '4 1.3 . tik4.lgAar.a.a theirlinath tian duty.. It is one .4 the choicest talents coni mitted•to them, whiehthey are boundi to improve: till.their Aord emnes. Christ took care for the health-of ; men's bodies; : and when, he sent out his disciples to preach, one, part of their. commission was, "As ye go, heal the sick.". We -believe there. have been wrong sentiments, as •well as wrong practices uponthis-subject. Men, and_clergymen, full as much- as others, have con sidered their health something over .which they had very little control, and for which. they had! very little „responsibility, and would, finally i . have verylittle account , to ,render. Now, we do not, believe any such thing.: We entirely dissent from the , opinion which seems generally to prevail—:- that diseases, are the special • messengers of Provi-. aence, sent irrespective of human conduct or pru dence; and that often sudden deaths, as they are: often referred to, a mysterious Providence,. are in no such sense to be ascribed, to- an over-ruling Providence, as is generally imagined. They are not the work of Providence in any such sense is excuses the transgression of God's natural, or mo ral laws; or, as allows men to be gluttons or: drunkards, onto , labor on irrespective of the re sults which, follow ; from excess and. imprudence;; and, in our own view, it is little short of blasphemy to ascribe such siopess and such deaths• as are. evidently the result of the transgression of some laws, natural or moral, to ,a mysterious Providence. As well might the merchant who had embarked his whole fortune in a leaky ship, with an intem perate captain and a mutinous crew, a defective chart and a disabled compass, complain and mur mur against Providence, who sent the storm by which the ship was wrecked, and the cargo and crew lost. Providence to blame l His, own im pruaence and want of forethought, his disregard , of the natural laws which govern the atmosphere and the ocean, and-with which God- designed to curb the appetites and passions of men, were the causes of his ruin. By this is not meant that men of common pru deuce and care w ill: never be sick—never die— for these are a part of -the' consequences of sin. But it is believed that more than the one'half of the diseases and Sudden deaths among men, are the result of ignorance, carelessness, and violation of-the-natural laws of our being. If men Solve to "dier before their time," they bury their Lord's money, "and-come under the doom of the 'sloth ful servant!' 3 How little need God has' of us. 'The most active, talented, pious, devoted of his ministers may be,laid aside, and His work still go on with equal, or even greater, success. Moses, the learned, "the meekest," the general and deliverer of Israel, may die and be buried in the mount, and God raise up Joshua in his stead. Elijah, the man of God, may be translated, and Elisha receive his mantle, and perform his works. So of every other servant of God. How this should humble our pride I How it should lead us to adore God, and to exclaim "Of Him, and through Him, and to Him . are all things, 'to vibom be' glory forever. Amen." True LIFE.--This life I—what is it? =The vi sion of a day—the pleasure of• an hour; then gone, and gone forever No, not gone forever.; for man will live in rapture or in.wo, as the re sult of a. few. years of life—a few days spent in time. How fearful the thought! What eter nal interests hang upon life's fleeting moments Joys eternal, or pangs interminable, and all de= pending .on the course we, take—the way we live. PHILADELPHIA, ' : TERSPAY,;..; ni.;-...,:.4'-I:so,t. For the American f'resbyteriaM • SYRIAN TRUNEPET.,` Nbc, V. mr:at,,November Ist, 1860. COUNTRYMEN: warafre the greatest evitunder , the firmament of heaven. ' And the worst, most shameful, most atrocious wars, are those eivilOnt= breaks, waged among lieinhabitinti . of the same country; ,which arise Otierally from t alightcauses; and for insignificanedhjeCts. teaanse'SUCh'Wars j , , are not only in oppoirtiiit to the rights of justice, and in violation of thiidaPonaibilities of those in whose hands is the a+ ministration affairs, but they are in direct antaganiiM*the most bonda ble, deli Cate, exalted i and ennobling rights, 'and hureine,feelings of oil nature ; Suelt,as the rights of neighbors, 'and brolliga,' and - ia ' friet 'and be nefactors, and friends;, which are implanted' by na ture, in him who is endowed with. generous and humane principles, .tofard, his neighbors and., countrymen. , , -,.. , . . • , 4 145 i tii „ : - _ ; .- 1 -; '1- '...,, _ ` And of the worst oi -N. s,a,slt at war whose fire was kindledpand whose were discharged" this year, and destroYetf So much of 'civil, Moral, and religious airafra and interests, and,haVe cost : the country and the whale World 'so many burdens, losses; expenses, and da:Sker.' Countrymen, what apology can we offer for our countrymen, before strangers, but folly, ond want Of civilization, and, tritiMpli c of Selfish "prinelples _ over the "powers of roe Sen . ,, Perhaps 'the fact, that we were in peculiiir and extraordinarieir cumstances, will be regarded as- an apology by charitable men. And what can be expected of a country whose' inhabitants-are composed of differ ent - tribes, diverse in habits, tempers, interests, and it bje octs; Most of them 'iliout _ i any concern in. its 4 ' welfare, and many of them who do not - feel that it is, their country? And of a„trtith, it is situa ted in• a central position, between .two countries,. which have often attracted and inclined it, now to' the right; and, then to the left; so' :that it has not continued in one ; dire4iiin. for 'a - single century'. And.it is its misfortune(' to be found in both con ditions on the border'of those countries; far dis tant from the centre bf government, that is; the capital of the empire;' audits supervision left to the mercy of parties, -wh , o, as history informs us, and our predecessors.,,Surelr have informed us, have so often, and lamentably abused the right of their administration, and brought corruption and desolation upon the country. It;is; moreover, the birth-place and theatre "of civil and reiigious irate- rests, in direct contlat•with one another; and under laws and regalations _contradicting "one another, which - are either - fai behind. it, or far ahead of it Nor do weanow of any other coun try,' whieh time' has cast. into such viciseitudes and still perpetnated in its prosperity, like this. ' And its inhabitants, aSimsee in most Of its na dons, also have retained *much of what is vir tuousinoble, generouSibitelligent, and manly in character and other qualities; and characteristics, all of which tend to, then. ,the hope of their Adiraneleinentatia"Tel tation;asibei come Under a systems which , correspond- to the times and con ditions, and are adapted to 'promote the welfare of the country, aturthe tranquillity of its inhabitants. Countrymen, ,we have .frequently heard you say: "This is. the third - civil war in less' than twenty years." And behold, you have repeatedly tried civil wars, and estimated their gain and loss. Now, what have you gained? Has any one of you• become a king, or Mushir, or Wazir, or risen in dignity and office, or increased in influence and wealth? What; has resulted but widowhood, or phanage, deg,radation, poverty,. and' ruin, in a re ligious and worldly view? andznortification and insignificance in - the eyes of sober men, and fo reigners?- and,-diminishing ' the number of the hands, upon „whose toil and. diligence depended the prosperity of the , country, and the comfort of , its inhabitants, as well as' 'of' depriving the coun try' of the Most intelligent, influential, rich and talented classes of men;?.. And now, is it not ' best for your welfare, to cherish instead of policy; which is only a 'more genteel name for selfishness, patriotism, and ohs rity, and friendship, and union, upon which the prosperity of the country depends; and spread the carpet of generositY, and remember the an °lent friendship, and, make bare the arm of atten tion to alleviate these inisfortunes, and make up for this desolation, and become as a hand for the good of the-country, and know - that ye are friends and protectors for one another, and not enemies.. Ought not this voice to be the voice of your wise men, and the advice of 'every one who desires your good, and not leave the calculation for the future consequences of affairs ? Therefore it is incumbent upon your gailty men, to render what is demanded from the& with cheerfulness; and willingness, and obedience, as it is the' duty of the injured, to seek their rights in the spirit of kind ness moderation, and:meekness: and that, through . . the magistrates, whose authority is from God. Nor do they bear the award in vain. ,Countrytnen, that is best for you. Conntrymen, it - often occurred to us, before the events which have transpired, to publish this trumpet among you, and caution you against the evil consequences of civil wars. But on ob serving the circumstances; and recognising the fact, that the people had a song in their head, which they must sing, we said; and beside us wise men said, that the gentle sound of a patriot's trumpet, will be drowned by the rough sounds of policy's drums, and by selfishness. So we gave it •up, but now since we havnseen 'the conflagration of po licy with our eyes, we said: "No Matter if we un dertake what we regret to have omitted, since ,it will be trifling service for, the country,- to which, notwithstanding its deficiencies and imperfections, we hope that it will be acceptable!". Our duty, therefore, is to write and suggest, and your duty is to read and reflect, and it is for God to bring about the results, and direct the issue. And may God the Most High,grant you continuance. A Patron Pulling Down a Church.— Seven teen years ago Baron de Matzen, who, in right of hie wife, was patron of the perpetual curacy of Mynever, in. Wales, and proprietor'of the parish, pulled down the old church, with the alleged intention of building a new, one. The new- one has- never. been built, and the Bishop of St. Davis brought: the Baron before the Court of Arches on Tuesday on the charge of de secretion. The court, ordered the matter to stand over until the Bishop explained why matters had ' not been taken earlier—so, - although= the •court, would' oider the church to be restored,itovould give no costs to the Bishop ufiliss the delay.was then properly ex plained. THE RELIGIOUS WORLD ABROAD While the:.manifestations 'of progress in the Church of CfiixsG, Which we hate to report for the present month, are less decisive than heretofore, there remains, nevertheless, ,Very much to encore- rage the Christian in the prospect.' The activity' of the foes of truth: in the churches of England and France is draWing the linea clearly, and con . straining all to declare themielves one way or the other. The determined check to the revival at Elberfeld, attempted by the . authorities of the town, will direct attention to theiwhole sUbject„of evangelical' religion inGermany. Italy and Swe dbirdre still bright spots in the field of our vision, tliaugh in each of these'countries the'worldiy and popish'spirit is rousing itself in Opposition'te the ' ' • Ph,e, E , s,s,ays and Reviews., 'There ; van -,be no doubt, sa ys ` the e - Petcs of die aurches, that t: the Essayists enjoy the sympathy of many orthe most influential organs or pi:OW - a - pinion, The Satur day Review i. as might be expected, : espouses their cause openly, as far as possible. The Ti!ntes also slips in favourable `paragraphs, expreSslY directed against die popular outcry. This may arise, to' some, e-stent i from a wish to defend the assailed. But. it will probably:be foutid,,that the views of the Essayists have spread, to no small extent,, among Our literary and scientific men. * * * We learn that /I Voliune, entitled Aids to Faith, will soon appearirto which the Rev. Dr. Thomp son, Provost, of, Queen's College, Oxford, Profes-, sm. Ellicott and.klansel, and Colonel Bawlinson,. will 'contribute. 11.1. r. Isaac Taylor is also similarly. employed. We are grieved to learn that the Archbishop of Canterbury has (inn it as his, judgment, that iri censequence of '' the, defective and unsatisfac tory state of Church discipline, there was little ground to hope for a proper and a speedy decision in the Law Courts in relation .to this dangerous book. He even stated that, it would probably be three years before the question Could be Tipsily de cided by those Cmirts." 'Surely. the whole disci= pline,of a church Which Can be so fearfully assailed by her own members, without prompt redress,. needs not revision but reformation., Or is the archbishop timorous and falling behind the true measure of his responsibility in such a crisis? The Revivals.--Comparatively Hale is said now in the newspapers about the Revival Movement in Scotland; but this must not be regarded as an unfavorable sign. The contrary is rather the case. The, marked progress of true religion in many places has happily become for some time past the' normal state. Mr. 'Hammond, the American evangelist, whose labors were so much blessed in Durnfriee and theßouth of Scotland, came' hence to Glasgow. He hassince been laboring in that city with zeal and with encouraging tokens of sub-" cess, addressing large congregations every night, and sometimes two or three times a day. Mr. Hammond has• latterly been aided by the co-ope ration of a young'.man from Dumfries who had,' till recently, lived:in. open infidelity. One of :Richard Weaver's London collabora teurs, ,and a nutuker of the city,ministers i are'also Eking part in tim services. A. powerfuT impres sion has been produced; there are many inquirers among fashionable circles, as well as among the, common people, and, in some instances, there has been a repetition of the solemnizing scenes of the early times of the Revival—men and women con strained to cry aloud for mercy on their souls.— Hews of •'the Churches. Honze Mission's in, Eclinburgh. —At the last meet-, ing of =the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, a depu tation appeared on behalf `of the Trustees of the late MiSs Barclay, offering the sum of £lO,OOO for the erection and equipment of a mission church near Fountainbridge, a poor district in the south west part of the city. In Edinburgh, home-mis sion churches have been so multiplied within the last fourteen or fifteen years, that one is almost ready to' conclude that the means of grace are, at last, more than keeping pace with the increase of a not very rapidly increasing population. In Glas gow, in the west of Scotland, the case is other- Struggle of the Jesuits.--D'Aubigne, in a letter to the News of the Churches, quotes from a French pastor settled in Poitou, whose district includes a palish where John Calvin himself founded a 'Pro testant church in the 16th century. The pastor says that the Jesuits, in endeavoring to undermine his lab - ors, founded a school where they receive Protestant children gratis, even as boarders. Abduction of Jezoessess. There is a convent in Paris called Notre dame de Sion, established by Abbe Ratisbonne for the conversion of Jewesses. By means of the facilities afforded through this establishment, four or five Jewesses were entrapped and conveyed away from convent to convent, until their distracted, parents and friends appealed to the government for assistance in effecting their recovery, which was granted. It was found that they had been shamefully treated—their character and, in one instance, we believe, reason itself overthrown. The canon of the cathedral of Mal let, who was convicted of the crime of their ab duction was sentenced to six years' imprisonment. Rationalism-in the Reformed Church.—ln the bosom of the Reformed Chrtreh F the conflict about Rationalism still rages. Compromise is'declared to be out of the question; one side or the other must give way. But no one expects a speedy`so laden 'of' the diffictdty; in the absence of synodi cal authority there can be no decision reached ex cept 'through the action of individual Churches and consistories, and then the decision can only be a moral one.—Dr. McClintock in the Christian World. The Grandniece of a Romish Bishop,. in Bel gium, has become a convert to Protestantism. Says the, Ch,ristian World:—She has withdrawn her children from the ktomish schools, and entirely broken off connexion with her former church. Iler -husband, who was quite indifferent to the sub ject of religion, did not interfere with her. Phe Case of Matamoros and. Alhanza the Spanish Protestants, has twice been brought lfore the House of Commons by Sir 'Robert Peel. It solhappened that Sir Robert Peel travelled to Gra nada, in the beginning of this year, in the same diligence with Matamoros, who was then on his way from Barcelona, and beino- 6 interested in his ease, afterwards visited him andAlhama in prison. It is said that through his generous 'intervention Matamoros was removed from a miserable and loathsome cell to abetter place of confinement. A protestant named Bonhomme has been in prison in Seville for some months on account of his religion, and Still remains there. > One of the Spanish authorities at Granada told Matamoros that he pitied his sad case; but that it would have been better for him if he, had committed robbery or murder! A _PATRIOT A letter from Alhama, dated "Prison, G-mnada, January 19, says: Ten years of preaching would not have advanced our labor so much as our im prisonment and trial are doing. All are asking, "What is this new Protestant doctrine ?' and they seek after our books from simple curiosity; and when they'have read them they cannot but condemn.the dimity of the clergy, and confess:that ENGLAND - SCOTLAND FRANCE we teach the true religion of the Sen of God.— Netos of the. Churches: On a small scale, the cause of toleration suffers under similar disadvantages in this country with those experienaed' in Turkey. A liberal-minded governinent is impeded and misrepresented by bi goted officials, and sometimes, perhaps, the vio lence of a popish mob is regarded as beyond any prudent means of control at this early stage. In Pisa, particularly, th 6 preaehers have succeeded in' arousing a fanaticism which manifests itself not only by breaking. the• windows of .the Waldensian place of worship.and school, but by hoodoo., yell ing at, and stoning in the streets, those who are knowni to attend, and to their shame be, it record ed; the students at the Univeisity take a- protni nent part in these disgraceful proceedings. .The school has., been •sb.ut up in : consequence. Ite Delegate of Police at.PisasUmmoned. Salomon, on a Saturday,, and begged hintm to shut up his chlitch on the folloWing 'day as ihere'would be a disturbance, and he had...not a force sufficient to M keep the peace. This . Salomon refused to do, andieftAhe reonnsibility *at:the - Delegate, who sent four geadarmespand , all passed nff quietly- In Leghorn, also, the Waldeusian church has beewlosetijiy. order of the Delegate of Police, and all the supciiors of friars having refused to in terfere, the ease Must be carried to Turin. Literary Labors—Opposition of thae Priests.— For several years, past, an Evangelical Almanac has been printed, in Italian, : under the title of .L'Amico di Casa, at the expense of the Geneva Sobiety, under the able editorship of. Dr. De Sanctis. The demand for it has increased each year, so that an edition of 40 . 000 was printed for 1861..= ; The entire , edition was exhausted before the year began, but up to the date at which I write, the demand for, the Almallfte continues so urgent, that there is not a doubt 40,000 more could have been disposed of had they been printed in time.. In opposition to it, the priests in Leg horn issued another Almanac called /1 Irero Amt co, and the priests-in Naples have published ano ther entitled: Col7futa,z' ione del Antic° di Casa. —IV - ews of the Churches. Schools in Place'of Convents.—The Government has already 'decreed, the suppression of convents both male and female- and the appli cation of the property, when , realised by sale,, to ecclesiastical purposes, both in the Romagna and 'Umbria, and in the Neapolitan provinces. The ecclesiastical' purposes expressly include edu cation, Cavour and Mamiaiii being both thoroughly convinced that : ltaly can •never maintain its place as a nation, nor its constitutional liberties, unless education be thoroughly diffused among the peo ple. The first of the sclimils, founded by Victor Emmanuel's gift on entering Naples, was opened in that city. by Prince Carignano, early in March, amid great demonstrations of joy.--Pid. Supp - ort of the. Pope.-L-The Pope's treasury having run very low, an institution called the Arch-Confraternity has been established to raise funds- for, all 'good, Catholics by all the means which, in the hands of a Tetzel, roused Luther and started the great Reformation. A Papal brief of 4th November, 1860, confers on this organization the power to form Branch Confraternities among all the nations of the earth, for the purpose of supporting, by donation's, the Pope's temporal dominion, and also to communi cate to such Branch Societies all the privileges, indulgences, and remissions of penalty which the Pope has conferred' on-it. -- The- Pope -ar Ronte. , "-;- Of late the Romans have been manifesting, in various ways, their ancient hatred of the Papal goirernment, and their strong leanings to be absorbed in the unity of their na tion. The students in the Roman 'University, the Popes of the next generation, have been the boldest in their demonstrations; and the Cardinal President, though dying, to make an example, finds it impossible, because where all are implica ted, expulsion would be.tantamount to shutting up the University;—/raws of the Churches. SWEDEN Christian Peasant in the central district of Sweden says, that "the increasing spiritual earnestness which prevails at present= among the common people there, is such as to strike even occasional visitors. n some places, the awakening has. been so wide-spread, that op position, has, for a time, almost wholly disappeared. In one village, all the inhabitants without a single - exception, appear to be seeking after salvation, "In some of. the poorest and most miserable places, the people, .in .their temporal poverty, have got Christ as their riches; and there prevails in them a singular joyfulness, or living hunger and thirst after thO Divine word."—libid. Sabbath Observance.—Great efforts are being made by evangelical people to-secure a better ob servance of the Sabbath in this country; the ten dency of .the established (Lutheran) church being towards great laxity, particularly on the continent of Euiope. They meet with"great difficulty in their praiseworthy efforts. Bat, says, the autho rity already .quoted, what need - to fonder at this in a country where the standard of religious teaching,is so low that : it is not uncommon to see bishops of the Lutheran church playing cards on the Sabbith afternoon! The :Elberfield Revived suppressed As great: an excitement arose in Elberfield when the news of the revival at the orphan house spread abroad as in Jerusalem. on the day of Pentecost. The Town-council was summoned. The house-father, Mr. Kiug, was dismissed as the cause 'of all*the tumult. Two of his assistants were dismissed as , alders and abetters. The house physician was summarily ordered away from the establishment. The committee who had the charge of inspection were distnissed. New office-bearers were appoint ed, with strict comniands 'to have order re-esta blished in .the house without delay. Directions were given on ,no account to tolerate screaming in the house, er to allow any child to remain out of bed for any purpose whatever after the appointed hour. No child should be allowed to engage in prayer at any other than the time appointe for that purpose. In the meantime the.whole press of Germany belched out one,. sulphureous flame of invective against the movement. The blackest lies were told of children having received terrible floggings to make them pray; how those who screamed the loudest received better food, and others were obliged to fast, with similar. inventions, bearing on their face the stamp of their origin. The in fidel papers were scarcely less bitter than those that profess, to stand on the side of. High Church truth, and a scream of horror was raised through the. length and breadth of the land against the evangelical pastors of the place for, sympathizing with the movement. After the new officials entered on their office, some cases of prostration occurred, and these gen tlemen are said to have experimented rather cruelly on the stricken ones. It is reported, on credible authority, that the power of the lash was tried to restore there to their senses. For the sake of proving the whole matter to be a trick, a fork was held pp: to try whether :a lad, under vio lent excitement, would strike against it, and it was only when the hind was repeatedly and violently wounded that these gentlemen, the apostles of peace and order and humanity, desisted. Theehildren that are converted are holding on steadily, and encouraging each, other to be constant in prayer, even though not allowed to bend the knee except at the appointed times. Concordat Defeated at War teniburg.--rn addi tion to the many defeate the Romish Church has sustained, it has experienced a. fresh and empha tic reverse. On ,the lath of 'March the Concor dat wAs rejected by .a majority of 67 against. 27 votes in the Chambers. As the onvernment is in VOL. : :V,---_-10.'....36:.:L . :Wh01e i .No.' • .253. rrALY favor of the measure, it.remains to be seen what course it will pursue. It is a heavy blow at Rowe in its present declining condition. TURKEY The Bulgarians and the. Greek Patriarch. About a hundred years ago the Bulgarians, led away by an intrigningsultan, renounced their origi nal independence in a religious point of view and became subject to the Patriarch at Constantinople. They are now very anxious to renounce his juris diction and resumetheir independence, but the Sultan does not grant it, and the Patriarch shows no disposition to yield, as the following account shows:— On Friday, March Bth, the Greek Patriarch assembled his council of bishops and other ecclesi astics, and summoned the Bulgarian bishops to arr. pear and answer for themselves before it. The bi shops were thrice summoned, and thrice refused to appear, or to recognise in any waythe authority of the council. Whereupon that body proceeded to pronounce upon therwthe great 'sentence. of ex communication; and to condemn them to exile, one to Mount Sinat, otlicrs.to.other places. News.of this haiing come to :the Protestant ambassadors, such representation's were made to the Porte as elicited an assurance that the bishops should not be sent into exile, although it is believed that contrary assurances had previously been given to the Patriarch. It was thought that an attempt would be made on Sabbath to read the sentence of excommunication, on the part of the Patriarch, in the Bulgarian Church of Constantinople. None, however, was made, and the day passed off quietly.---ACtos of the Churches. PALESTINE Stanley—the most picturesque writer on the Holy Land—gives an idea of the very remarkable scenery of Palestine. It is most peculiar, differ ent in many respects from our fancy of it, yet not less wonderful for this very reason. From almost every point in the country its whole breadth is visible, from the long wall of the Moab hills on the East, to the Mediterranean Sea on the West. Two voices are there—one is of the sea, One of the mountains,— and the close proximity of each—the deep purple shade of the one, and the glitteria , " waters of the other—makes it always possible for one or other of those two voices to be heard now, as they were by the Psalmist of old. "The strength of the hills is His, also; the sea is His, and He made it." "I have set Jerusalem in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her." Pales tine was then the vanguard of the eastern, and, therefore, of the civilized world, and stood mid way between the two great seats of ancient empire, Babylon and Egypt. It was on the high road from one to the other of these mighty powers, the prize for which they contended, the battle-field on which they fought, the high-bridge over which they ascended and descended respectively into the deep basins of the Nile and Euphrates. The bat tle in which the latest hero of the Jewish monar chy perished, was to check the advance of an Egyptian King on his way to contest the empire of -the then known world with the King of As syria, at Carchemish. 'The whole history of Pales tine, between the return from the captivity and the Christian era, is a contest between "the Kings of the North and the Kings of the South" descendants nf Seleucus, and the descendants of Ptolemy—for the possession of the country. And when at last the West begins to rise as a new power in the horizon, Palestine, as the nearest point of contact between the two worlds, becomes the scene of the chief conflicts of Rome with Asia. There is n* other country in the world which could exhibit the same confluence of associations, as that which is awakened by the rocks which overhang the crystal stream of the Dog River, where it rushes through the ravines of Lebanon into the Mediterranean Sea; where side by side are to be seen the hieroglyphics of the great Ra mesas, the cuneiform characters of Sennacherib, and the Latin inscriptions of the Emperor Antoninus. We have in the sacred history the life of a Be douin tribe, of an agricultural people, of sea-faring cities; the extremes of barbarism and of civiliza tion; the aspects of plain and of mountain; of a tropical, of an eastdtn, and almost of a northern climate. In Egypt there is a continual contact of desert and cultivated land; in Greece there is a constant intermixture of the views of sea and land; in the ascent and descent i of the great moun tains of South America, there is an interchange of the torrid and the arctic zones ; in England tHere is an alternation of wild hills and valleys, with rich fields and plains. But in Palestine all these are combined. The patriarchs could here gradually exchange the nomadic life for the pas toral, and then for the agricultural, passing almost insensibly from one to the other, as the desert melts imperceptibly into the hills of Palestine. Ishmael and Esau could again wander back into the. sandy waste which lay at their very door. The scape-goat could still be sent from the temple courts into the uninhabited wilderness. John, and a greater than John, could return in a day's jour ney-from the busiest haunts of men into the soli tude beyond the Jordan. The sacred poetry which was to be the - delight and support of the human mind and the human ,soul in all regions of the world, embraced within its range the natural features of almost every country. The venerable poet of our oWn mountain regions used to dwell with genuine emotion on the pleasure he felt in the reflection that the psalmists and prophets dwelt in a moun tainous country; the devotions of our great mari time.empire find 'a natural expression in the nu merous allusions, which no inland situation could have permitted, to the roar of the Mediterranean Sea, breaking over the rocks of Acre and of Tyre. There was the earthquake and, possibly, the vol cano. There was the hurricane with its thick darkness, and the long continuous roll of the ori ental thunder storm. Palestine is not merely a mountainous country, but amass of mountains. The approach to Palestine (from the desert,)— nothing can be more gradual. There is an inte rest in that solemn and peaceful melting away of one into the other, which I cannot describe. It was like the striking passage in Thalaba describing the descent of• the mountains, with the successive beginnings of vegetation and warmth. Most striking anywhere would have been this protracted approach to land, after that wide desert-sea these seeds and plants, as it were drifting to meet us. Rounded hills chiefly of gray color—gray partly from the limestone of which they are formed, partly from the tufts of gray shrub with which their sides are thinly dotted, and from the prevalence of the olive, their sides formed into concentric rings of rock; valleys, or rather the meetings of these gray slopes, with' the beds of dry water courses at their feet—long streets of bare rock laid like flagstones, side by side, along the soil —theSe are the chief features of the greater part of the scenery of the historical parts of Palestine. In the spring the hills and valleys are covered with their grass and aromatic shrubs. But they' also glow with what is peculiar to Palestine, a profusion of wild flowers, daisies, the white flower called the star of Bethlehem, but especially with a blaze of scarlet flowers of all kinds, chiefly ane- mones, wild turnips, and poppies. Of all the ordinary aspects of the country, this blaze of scarlet color is perhaps the most peculiar; and to those who first enter the Holy Land, it is no wonder that it has suggested the touching and siguficant name :o he Saviour's blood-drops. BE careful how thou sayest any thing of the absent, which you would be unwilling they should bear if present.
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