158 any special revival during the year, and yet have increased their numbers. Their orthodoxy . , he thought, might be relied on, for the Weitminster Assembly's Catechism is cordially accepted as a standard of faith. Sabbath-schools are flourish ing, and the Missionary Concert is observed, though not as fully as it should be. A good tem perance law, sometimes called the Maine law, is enforced. Concerning the state of the country, there is but one feeling In the Green Mountain State. lour young men from his own church aro in the s'arilitan of Fortress Monroe. The feelinr , extensively prevailing in Vermont is, that while in this War the men leading it on mean one thing, God means another and very different one. He proffered the kind regards of the Vermont brethren. This body and they may not agree in non-essential things, but there is but one heart and spirit among them. A delegate from this body will fled a warm and cordial reception at the meeting of the Vermont Convention, which will be held at Rutland, with the church of which the speaker is pastor. In closing, he wished the body grace, meroy and peace from God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Rev. S. J. Spaulding , the delegate from Massa chusetts, being obliged to leave, said a few words of farewell, 'expressing the delight he bad expe rienced in , being . with this body. He rejoiced in the liberty of tins body. Having heard the news from Philadelphia, he rejoiced to know that there is a Presbyterian body in this land that is not Bound. He should all his life be a better man li.r having heard the discussion of Monday, on the r , t xte of the Union, for while courteous to him, a stranger, the Assembly had . shown itself kindly- Ilbetioned one to another, not a word having been raid by any one to cause grief to another. This was the first General Assembly he bad ever at tunded. He would close with the hope that he mid all might join in the great General Assembly end Church of the first born in heaven. The Moderator responded warmly to the salute thus of these brethren from foreign bodies. Dr. Cox moved a resolution expressing the de light of the Assembly with the cordial fraternal teraneee of these brethren from corresponding bodies. Dr. 4. D. Smith seconded the resolution in a very earnest address, full of reminiscences of asso ciations binding himself and others in this body to New England men. Dr. Wisner opposed the adoption of the resolu tion, while fully sharing in the sentiments which provoked it, on the ground that it is contrary to the usages of the Assembly to record such expres sions of feeling. Dr. Cox asked if as the Millennium approaches no new precedents aro to be adopted. The livery of Heaven is love; and it is right to express that hive warmly on earth. The resolution was adopted unanimously. The REPORT ON HONIE MISSIONS was taken up again, and the fourth article of the proposed con stitution was read. Rev. Mr. Root moved to amend the article by omitting the words "as far as practicable," hoping it would secure s greater sense of responsibility for the character of the men who may be sent out as missionaries. Mr. Rhoades favored the amendment for the ta.me reason. He felt that a greater sense of re sponsibility is needed in the Presbyteries, and he hoped the work would, in the plan new to he adopted, be put as directly as possible. Rev. Dr. Henry Smith, of Lane Seminary, moved the commitment of the article to a special committee. He was opposed to the centralization contemplated in the article before the house. He and his constituents felt that to adopt it, would be to renew 'one of the worst features of the opera flung of the American Home Missionary Society. 'That Society could not act otherwise than through a central committee, for it had no local agencies to appeal to. But now there are Presbyteries over the whole land, and fealty to the Head of the Church does not permit them to shako it off. Aod the question is as well one of expediency-as of policy. The centralization contemplated, weak ens a sense of responsibility itt the churches, and tends to pauperize them. Let it be adopted as the plan of the Church, and many weak churches would, he believed, die the death and never re turn to life as Presbyterian churches. Rev. Mr. Sawyer opposed the commitment. Ile favored a centralizing system in Home Mis sionary operations. He did not believe it tended to pauperize the churches, The long weakness of some churches he thought due to other causes. A minister devoting himself to his work, should, In three years, bring it up to the self-sustaining point. Rev. Henry Fowler hoped Dr. Smith's resolu tion would be adopted, and proposed an amend- man t providing that each Presbytery, if it chooses, ti ay have its own Presbyterial missionary end treasury, and shall report its doings to the Cen tral Committee. Such a plan would secure strength both to the Central Committee and the Presbyteries. It would secure success in that most difficult and delicate department, the collec tion of funds, by bringing it near home to those interested. These views the speaker illustrated by reference to the experience of his own Presby tery, and that of the American Bible Society. The Committee on Church Extension here abled permission to report, feeling that it would ho of advantage to that body to have their report before them in connexion with the subject under discussion. The discussion was, therefore, post poned and the report read by Rcv. Dr. Nelson. After the reading of the report, Dr. Cox pre sented an invitation from Rev. De Witt Tallinage, to the Assembly, to be present at the raising of sit American flag on the Dutch Reformed Church. 'lite Assembly tendered their thanks for the cour t nay, leaving it to the members to attend as indi iduala. The hour for adjourning having arrived, prayer w•as offered by Rev. Mr. Hovey, and the Assem bly took a recess untii 3 P. M. SIXTH DAY-AFTERNOON SESSION The Assembly met at 3, P. M., and was opened with prayer. The report of the standing committee on Fo reign Missions was read by Rev. Dr. Jenkins. The report was accepted and adopted. The unfinished business of the morning was re- Hutted, namely: the proposed constitution of the Committee on Home Missions. The motion be t ore the hove concerning it, was to refer it to a t•pectial committee. Rev. Mr. Merwin favored the giving power to the Presbytery, He thought the adoption of the plan now proposed would be to renew, under ano ther name and form, tbe very evil which has been complained °tin the relations between the ..Alton Presbytery and the American name Missionary Society. -116 - Assembly had defended the Alton Presbytery, and yet it was now proposed to give to a Committee precisely the functions it would trot have that Society assume. He thought that western men are better acquainted with the wants ti Missionary ground than eastern men could be, and that a committee cannot possibly be as well iefor,med and efficient as the Presbyteries. RA% Mr. Palmer agreed with the previous ppeaker. The adoption of this article would de feat much of the end for which many have been long looking. He hoped the plan would involve the faithful Potion of Presbyteries so that pastors should become the agents for collecting funds. Ile thought agents would not be needed if a Pres byterial system of action should be adopted, but be churches would be thoroughly interested in the work. Rev. Dr. Mills, in behalf of the committee which reported the proposed constitution, made some explanatory remarks, by permission of the Assembly, not being a member of the body. He e.ild the committee had. corresponded extensively nd conferred fully, and endeavored to guard on the vile hand against a centralization which should take away responsibility from the Presbyteries, and on the other band secure such a supervision of the expenditure of money as will retain the full eon ildence of donors. He described the difficulties in the way of accomplishing these ends in the de vising .of a plan, and alluded to the evil which had already been encountered in the educational plan as throwing some light on the course desirable in the cause of Home Dlissions. Rev. Henry Fowler thought the remarks of the last speaker clearly, revealed . the necessity for re 'Visitig the article before the Assembly. In the endeavor to secure at once the centralization and the rights of the Presbyteries, the latter bad been clearly sacrificed. Rev. Mr. Craighead thought it would be dis courteous to the committee which had matured the plan with so much care and labor, to refer it to another committee, and that no committee could harmonize the views of the Assembly till the subject should be thoroughly discussed. He desired the largest possible liberty for Presbyte rial action, consisteut with the views of those who are to furnish the money and the practical work ing of the plan through the church. The proposed plan is spoken of as . the same thing with the Home Missionary Society, but he could not see any ana logy between them. He illustrated the entire difference between the working of the two vet tans, and pointed out the difficulties that must' embarrass a plan without a Central Committee. Dr. Jenkins hoped the motion to refer would not prevail. The principle of centralization is vital to the plan. It bad been the principle in all the great benevolent operations which have so signally blessed this day. A plan which would allow one Presbytery to declare its independence, would allow every one to do so, and what would result? Every Presbytery would be 'confined to the funds raised on its own Presbyterial field: What then, would Western Presbyteries do in times of severe pressure and great scarcity? He said, in adopting this plan, the experience of five years in the Church Exteusion Committee has been used. The plan is not a new one: That committee have never had any jarring with a Presbytery or Missionary. He 'warned against marring the integrity of the plan proposed, lest having torn down the roof over them, the body should find itself without shelter. Rev. Mr, bloodale spoke in favor of commit meht. He said Western men wished the appoint ment of missionaries and the fixing of their sala ries. He suggested that a definite sum might be put at the disposal of each Presbytery, and they allowed to make the best use of it. The Assembly now adjourned, with prayer, to 9, A. M. SEVENTH DAY-THIIRSDAY---MORNING SESSION The Assembly met at 9 this morning, and passed the usual half hour in devotional exer cises. , On taking up business, the report of the Stand ing Committee on Church Extension, so far as relating to the Church Erection Fund, was read, and the motion being made to accept and adopt it, some discussion followed. Rev. Mr. bolt, of Minnesota, spoke in favor of amending the plan on which the fund is used, and instanced facts to show that its present work in., is burdensome to the churches in his section. r• Dr. M'Lane, Secretary of the Board of Trus tees, explained that no change could be made in the rules but by vote of two-thirds dell the mem bers on the Roll of the Assembly. The subject was now postponeTto'hear the Re port of the Committee to whom was referred the Plan of Education. The report was read by Rev. 11. Smith, D. D., was accepted, and ordered print ed. It was as follows: DEVOUT OE TUE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION. The Standing Committee on Education, to whom was referred the report of the Assembly's Permanent Committee on the subject, beg leave respectfully to submit the following report : The Assembly is aware that the chief subject which was designed to occupy the attention of the Standing Committee, is the revised plan of educa tion, drawn up in December last, and submitted to the Presbyteries for their approval. To this subject the committee have given the most patient consideration. They have carefully examined the answers of the, various Presbyteries, so far as re ceived; they have listened to oral statements from members of the Permanent Committee and from representatives of existing local organizations at present prosecuting this work. The Committee have found the subject envi roned with peculiar and with somewhat formidable difficulties. From the facts presented to them, they have no reason to suppose that any plan which could be devised would command• the in stant approval of all sections of the church. Yet the evidence before them compels the conclusion that a large majority of the Presbyteries will cor dially accept the plan, especially as modified by this committee, in accordance with suggestions contained in the communications of several of the Presbyteries. The committee, therefore, recom mend to the Gencrpl Assembly to pass the follow ing resolution: Resolved, That the Plan of Education herewith communicated, be adopted by the General Assem bly of the Presbyterian Church, and that the Presbyteries be requested as far as circumstances will permit, to conform their action to its provi sions. PLAN OF EDUCATION Whereas, The General Assembly has heretofore established the Permanent Committee on Educa tion, by the adoption, on the 27th day of May, 1856, of the following resolutions: [The resolution and Act of Incorporation, are omitted.] Now, therefore, in order that the objects for which the said committee was established and in corporated may be fully accomplished, the Gene ral Assembly hereby adopts the following Rules for the guidance hereafter of the said committee, and the churches, Presbyteries and Synods under the care of the Assembly; and repeals all former acts of the Assembly establishing a plan of educa tion. [The amendments proposed by the Standing Committee to the Permanent ComMittee's plan (for which see preceding page,) are these: Art. L Omit the last sentence. Art. 11. Omit from the first sentence the last four words; omit the second sentence. Art. IV. Add: At their discretion, this officer may receive a reasonable compensation, and be re quired to give adequate bonds. Art. V. Substitute for the sentence from "Pro vided" to "Assembly," the followings Although it is recommended to churches, and to donors, not to give a specific direction to their contributions, yet in individual ,cases, and for suf ficient reasons, any designation may'be given to contributions not inconsistent with the rules of the General Assembly. VI. Instead, of "It shall be the duty," &e., read: "Each church will be expected," 4c. In stead of "at least annually," read: "ail annual!' VIII. First sentence to read-- Each Presbytery whose churches contribute to the Treasury of the General Assembly, without giving a specific direction to their contributions.] The Permanent Committee having submitted for the approval of the Assembly an addition to the first rule for aiding young men, the Standing Committee recommend the insertion of the fol lowing clause after the words "at least one year," in that rule, viz.:—"That he has been recom mended by the Pastors and Elders of the Church to which he belongs as a suitable person to be aid ed in preparing for the Ministay. The term of office of one class of the members of the Permanent Committee having expired, the following persons are hereby nominated to fill the vacancy: Rev. James P. Wilson, D. D., of New ark, N. J.; Rev. John Jenkins, D. D., Philadel phia; Rev. Robert R. Booth, New ork; Rev. Charles S. Robinson, Brooklyn; James 33. Pinneo, Esq., Newark, N. J. RULES FOR AIDING YOUNG MEN 1. Each applicant for assistance shill present a certificate from a Presbytery, (or its Standing Committee on Education,) dating that he has been in the communion'of the Church at least one year, and that he has been carefully examined as to his experimental piety, his motives in desiring the sa cred office, his attachment to the doctrines of the Presbyterian Church, his general lubits, his pru dence, his talents, his studies, his gifts for public speaking, - his disposition to do all „in . his power to sustain, himself, his need of , assistance, and his willingness to observe the rulei of the Committee. Such certificate must, also, state whether the can- Anteriran littoiltteriait and &cutoff Orangttiot, didate is in his Academic, Collegiate, or Theolo gical course, and the amount requisite to carry him through the first year. 2. While it is highly desirable that all who re ceive assistance should be under the supervision of the Presbyteries to which they would naturally be long, and should be recommended by them, yet, if, owing to the present position of the Education cause, or other important reasons, a Presbyterial certificate cannot be obtained, it may, at the op tion of the Permanent Committee, be substituted by a certificate of the same import, from any Ex amining Committee appointed for such purposes at any educational institution where the student is pursuing his course. 3. The amount granted to any applicant shall not, unless in very peculiar circumstances, exceed eighty doll s for the Academic, one hundred dol lars for i llegiate, and one hundred and twenty fo e Theological course, per annum, to be, paid in . quarterly instalments upon the return of schedules to be filled up by the student and his instructors; and the approbation of the same by the Permanent Committee. 4. Each applicant shall give a receipt or ac knowledgment to the Treasurer for the amount 1 which, from time to time, he may receive, pro mising to repay the same, with interest, if he fail to enter upon the work of the ministry within a reasonable time, or turn aside to any secular pur:- suit, unless the Presbytery to which he belongs, certify that there are good reasons for his re linquishing 'the active duties of the office,.and re commend the cancelling of the obligation. 5. Individuals receiving aid shall be under' he pastoral supervision of the Presbyteries recom mending them, and also of the General Secretary of the Permanent Committee, and will be expected jo undergo renewed examinations on passing 'from It ne grade of their general course to anether. fit' No payment shall be made in advance. 7. As the appropriations of the committee are made on the principle of helping those who help themselves, andareinsufficientfor the entire support of a "student, it is expected, that the student and his frie.ndi will make all proper exertions to assist in liefraying the expenses of his education. 8. Each student aided is required to pursue a thorough course of study preparatory to a three years' course of .Theological studies, unless - the Permanent Committee and Presbytery, under whose care he is, in the exercise of a wise dis cretion, shall decide that his circumstances require that his studies shall be abbreviated. 9. When any student shall find it necessary to relinquish study for a time to teach or otherwise increase his means of support, he shall first ob tain the consent of the Permanent Committee; and if he shall not be absent from study more than three months, his appropriations will be con tinued—but if longer, they will be discontinued, or continued in part according to circumstances. 10. When a student has ceased, for a period longer than a year, to receive assistance from the Committee, he shall bt required to produce new testimonials before his name can be restored to the roll. 11. 'When the official relation between a stu dent and the Committee ceases, or is about to cease, he is required to notify the General Secre tary of the fact, stating the reason. 12. The'reception of an appropriation by a stu dent, shall be considered as expressing'a promise to comply with all the rules and regulations of the Committee. 13. If at any time there be discovered in any student such defect in capacity, diligence pru dence and especially in piety, as would render his introduction into the ministry a doubtful measure, it shall be considered the sacred duty of the Com mittee to withdraw their appropriations. Students shall, also, cease to receive assistance when their health shall become such as to unfit them for study, or the work of the ministry; when they are manifestly improvident, and contract debts without reasonable prospects of payment; when they marry; when they receive the assistance of any other Educational Committee; when they fail to make the regular returns, or cease, by change of circumstances; to need -aid. 14. As all intellectual acquisitions-are of com paratively little value without the cultivation of piety, it is expected and required of every candi date to pay special attention to the practical du ties of religion: such as reading the Scriptures, secret prayer, and meditation; attendance on re ligious meetings on the Sabbath, 'and durina• the week; endeavors to promote the salvation of others; and the exhibition, at all times, of a pions and consistent example. 15. It is recommended that the young men, aided by the Assembly's Committee, be ordinarily placed, as soon as possible, under the care of Presbyteries, and that in all ordinary cases they be licensed, if convenient, by those Presbyteries to which they naturally belong. 15. The Assembly recommend, as a general principle, that candidates for the ministry, espe cially those who are connected with churches un der the care of our newer and smaller Presbyte ries, retain their church and Presbyterial relations unchanged during the progress of their studies. Dr. S. W. Fisher, President of Hamilton Col lege, was heard in behalf of that institution. Rev. Dr. Aiken, the delegate from. Vermont, took leave of the Assembly in a few feeling re marks, to which the Moderator responded cordially. The Committee on Mileage reported that they had received funds sufficient to pay the bills ren dered them, in full, and recommended that this be done. The report was rocommited for revision. The. Committee on Delegates to Foreign bodies, reported a-list of delegates for the ensuing year. The Committee on Bills and'Overtures reported several overtures with their action on them. - The report was accepted and placed on the docket. The judicial Committee reported, through Dr. A. D. Smith, that the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace, had been so far preserved this year as that no ease calling, for judicial action had come before them, and asked to be discharged. Dr. Wisner said this had been the ease for se veral years, and he feared the Assembly would forget how to do judicial business. The committee were discharged. The hour for adjournment having arrived, the Assembly adjourned - to 9, 4. M., on Friday, the afternoon being, by previous appointment, as si.med for communion service. HISTORICAL DISCOURSE AT THE FIRST PRESET - MAN COUROff. ,The Rev. Dr. B. J. Wallace, of Philadelphia, de livered an Historical Discourse'in the First Pres byterian Church, on Thursday evening, at 71 o'clock, on The Ter- Contencry, of the 'fleeting of the first Genera/ Assenibty - in, .1501. .A. - &i; the delivery of the discourse, the follow; 0 incr'hytun was. sung. • - Alum HYMN. BY OLIVER WENDELL BOLMES. "Old Hundred." 0-Lord of Hosts! Almighty King! Behold the sacrifice we brieml , To every arm thy strehgth impart, Thy spirit shed through every heart! Wake in our breasts the living fires, The holy faith that warmed our sires; Thy hand hath made our nation'free. To die for her is serving Thee. Be Thou a pillared flame to show The midnight snare, the silent foe; And wheb the battle thunders loud, Still guide as in its moving cloud. God of all Nations! Sovereign Lord! In Thy dread name we draw thoi sword, We lift the starry flag on high That fills with light our stormy sky. From treason's rent, from murder's•stain, Guard Thou its folds till Peace shall rcign,— Till fort and field, till shore and sea, Join our loud anthem, kaersig ro•TUEEI FRIDAY MORNING. The Assembly met at nine, and passed half an hour in religious exercises. On resuming business, the subject of Home Missions was taken up, the motion being to, re commit the fourth article of the proposed Consti tution. • Rev. Mr. Gregg, opposed the commitment. He liked the plan as it is. lie thought it gave all needful pOwer to Presbyteries, and that :a Gene- ral Central Treasury is needed for the sake of the feeble churches. . . . . Dr. Nelson, of St. Louis, said that the impres sion prevails that there are Eastern and Western views of this subject. He did not think it so, but if it is, his own views were formed while a mem ber _of.Cayuga. There are two different, views held here. Some desire a Central Committee in direct relation with individual Churches" and Mis sionaries all through the - clurch. Others desire a Central Committee in relation with Presbyteries, and through them'aiding Churches and Missiona ries: The latter plan *Abe one he favored. He did not think a dozen 'men, however well chosen, could sit clown in a single city and order the work of Home Missions ; in all, its details through the whole land. He offered an article which he thought, if adopted, embodied both the ideas of securing to Presbyteries their right, if they desire it, to.take the work into their own hands, and if they do not, shall provide•a Central COmmittee to undertake the work, for the Church at large. ' . Rev. H. Smith, D. D., offered an article simi lar in design with Dr. Nelson's, but differing in some of its details. Rev. A. D. Smith, 114 D., , said circumstances had entirely converted the AsSembly since 1852, when, without' one dimming vote, it desired con tinued co-operation, and mow, with equal unani mity, it declared for separate action.- The new path opened by Providence be believed would ‘. prove one of advantage. He said it would be re garded in a friendly spirt ,byfunctionaries in New York who have controlled missionary operations in the past. It, had' been said that the Home Missionary Society, and this plan were similar, but he, thought there is be analogy between 'the two. The Society was ()imposed of individuals, and was irresponsiblel,elia,,plan proposes the ac tion of the 'AssenahyfitaV„,tbrough its own com mittee. He ,then -defended the plan proposed to the Assembly as both consistent with the:consti tution of the church andf i adepted to work well in . practice. ;14 ' Hon. Joseph Allison s oke in faint; of the, plan as.reported, and said fro the experience he had i f as a member of the Chut Extension Committee, he helieied it would be, and in actual practice to work as those' ho fe r !amendments of it de sire. f , , Rev. Mr. Fowler desire the commitment of the plan in order to have ern died in lt,provision for the appointment of Missi taxies by the Presbyte ries rather than by a dent 01„eommittee. The hour of 12 had tiq -arrived, and the As sembly was adjourned to , P. M., Rev. Mr. kax well offering prayer. This is all that we have received by mail up to noon of Tuesday. By legrams we learn that the 28th of June was set part as a day of prayer for the nation; and that t • NEW PLAN , OF HOMO MISSIONS was d,dopted on Monday, by "a' nearly unanimous vote. The loo4ion of the Committee had-not been deeided- REV. DR. ADAMS Q THE WAR,. . . .. . . . . • On. Sunday morning, the eV, . Dr. Adams„pas tor of ,the Madison Square ' resbyterian Church, delivered a diseourse npon th. 'state of - the country, designed 'especially to Mee the ingniry,,. How ought:a Christian to feel a cl,, to act, in view : of the Condition of our country, and of the war which his been forced upon us` by , e action of. the Con federate .States of the Soup I" The Church . of whiCh Di. Adams is. pastor hav e a deep:interest in the subject at the present time. Si xt een of . , . .. the young,men of the . eongreiation are members of the Seventh Regiment, which left, for Washington (*the previous,Fridity. ' IN. Adams made special Mention of them in prayer, imPloring god's bless ing . upon "those who . go :Ott from our own:com munion table' aski ng that .if eilled' to defend their country with arms,. the` shield of God might be - over them in the day of.'hattlei A number more' from this'chttreh,..iiiOne of . :the numberlt son of Dr. Adains,leave ihi: - resent week in other a t : regiments. The first portion - of the- amine was occupied in describing the terrible.Calernity; which has come uPOrt Out land, as one calling. the deepest, grief. _He depicted in striking language fhe, evils- which have come upon-us and :which are likely to enure, from the sedition already inangureted, to ourselves and : to the world at large,,ivho are looking. to, this fair land as the asylum of,'COnstitutional liberty. : "Civil 'government, he laid, is ' ordained of God for the peace and stability - of society, and any government is better than anarchy. To, vindicate the right-of revolution, two : things must be made evident. First, that the evils complained of 'are not imaginary but real : that all measures of relief and redress under the existinigovernment arc :ex - - hansted, and that the' evils . oiiesistance and revo lution would be fewer than these which are -en dured by continued submiSsioi. Second, That as the good of society is the end of .all government, it must be made probable and ai, nigh certain as .may be, that the good to 'beecomplished ,hy the change will be greater-than c hat secured by, the continuance the old order's tlin e ,o , s. ,These are the principles in Chriatian Alen which alone can justify revolution: No amou#t .of: personate feel, ing, no individual prefermatts, nvt Subordinate evils, no circumstances in thei bee` tlie williustify the act of revolntion,,..l,t , iimsiibe . icalm, rational, Christian assertion , of a higherigood , and a greater happiness." Until the government has. Tend to answer its ends, Dr. Adams said, every geed citizenis bound for his own .good and for the good of society, to maintain it at any and every sacrifice. He said the question which is forced upon us to,day, is whether society is to be dissolved into its orivi.. 1 nal parts, breaking off here.and there until the whole fabric is dissolved - ; - whether we are to have a constitutional government, .pi N 3 one under which 1 we have lived so long and so happily, or ANARCHY. l Deprecating All angry, revengeful feelings in the prosecution of the war which has been forced upon us by an assault upon our goyeriuent, that threatens to tear away the very -foundations of soCiety; he . , concluded as follows: '; ' , - l .. "But a few days ago questmes were-debatable, opinions were divided in regard -matters which threatened our peace. In an instant, as it were, events, have occurred, which startled the most in credulous, and, forced - convicticf . i, upon the most e i reluctant. By no choice of ou , Own ; by a neces sity' X .o whieh,we cannot evide,pou face We.are forced to join issue air thison ueglee,Aball we divide into anarchy, and let the gurgling waters undermine • our foundation stonos,:.and let down the stately, edifice into :ruin, or 'shall. we in the name of humanity and religion, for the sake of order and security and peace, in, the spirit of prayer, in the spirit of snleuni, duty, shall we stand by the constituted:government, which under God 'alone can save us from the .flood? . Before this question all. past differences disappear,' and debate must cease. The quick instinct of self preservation has naught , the import ofAllte crisis, and, in the name of God will we set up our banner. God is the patron, of all that is riOtt and true and just'and good. He is, the.last refuge and confi dence of our souls. God bles4 there United States of America! God bless our. whole land, our common country I- May God give us ,wisdom and strength and righteousness ;as the, stability of our times I May God ,he "our arm - every morn ing, and our salvation in the time of trouble. Bless edbe the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth, wondrous things, and blessed be his glorious name forever; and let • the whole 4 earth , be' filled with his glory."', : • i lti. Y. Observer. DO NOT PonoEte That the Amarticarot,BoAan requires two hun dred thousand dollars in the monthi of May, June, July and August, in order to close thh year free from debt. Their work is growing in ?interest every where. The Herald for June contains evidepees of this fact which will abundantly repay any man's reading. , The newly-awakened zeal of the Ebon Islanders for learning, is something extraordinary. Nine candidates for church memherahip among them are also reported. AltltTintlX Nttfillgterian TIVITRSAILY. NAY 30, 1861. JOHN W. MEARS, EDITOR. ASSOCIATED WITH ALBERT BARNES GEORGE DIIEFIELD,JB. .THOMAS BRAINERD, I JOHN. JENKINS, HENRY DARLING, THOMAS J. SHEPHERD: ERRORS OP THE 'SOUTH Our Southern religious exchanges overflow with evidence of the most extraordinary misconception of the motives and spirit of the North in this con test. Ignorant, as it would seem, of the openly avowed plans of their leaders, into whose hands they have suffered the supreme authority to fall, they insist that the purposes of the South mere, and are peaceful. Says the New Orleans Witness and'Bentinel : The South has never exercised a thought, much less an act of aggression on the North. . . Says the Nashville Banner of Peace: We want no Northern blood on our hands, nor to invade their territory: It is melancholy to think that , a nation of Chriatians cannot separate in peace. The South is'Willing to do sd—wants to do so. Certainly the, people .of the North cannot so construe the innumerable insults offered to the national flag, from the very'beginning of this se- cession, movement, any one of which was enough to try the ferbearance of Christian people, who stood, by that flag, to the utmost. The North does not and• cannot, so interpret the threats and beasts of the pseudo Vice President, and the sham Secretary of War, which have beeri echoed and re-echoed all over the South, that by the first of May, or before very long, the Confederate flag would wave at thedome of the Capitol." , It cannot, and does not so interpret the•military preparations which have been in progress in the South, ever since the first capture of arsenals crowded with munitions of 'war, and culminating_ in the bom,- bardment -of a fart by a hundred• times stronger 1 force, merely on a queition of supplying a starving I garrison with provision& Only upon t ! hat act did the, tardy North, begin to make ready for war. And now since war has come, the motives and spirit, as well as the -character of our volunteers, , of the government, are as grossly misunderstood, by the Southern rebels. ` . We utterly repudiate the feelings ascribedto us itithe Nashville Banner of Peace, which says: • - The blood of the 'North is up. Revenge and hate stream' through every eolumn of their journals. Revenge and hate are the last - feelings that ani . mate our swarming volunteers. Nor bould Mr. Stephens have believed his own words, when he asserted at Atlanta: "We fight for our homes—they for money' The hirelings and mercenaries of the North are all hand to hand against you." Mr. Stephens knows better of the New York Seventh, which represents thirty millions of capi tal; he knows better of the sons - and heirs'of the wealthiest families of this city, than to believe that they have enlisted for twenty dollars a month, and a soldier's `'rations! Probably he merely wished to , console his own men, who are not likely to have, much money to fight.for.: The Nashville Christian Advocate!, assigns four causes for the enthusiasm of ' our people for the government. First, a feeble sentiment of pa triotism ; second, fear of iniasion, which of course, will, disappear.. when the very . pacific intentions of the South-are manifest, (from Memphis parti cularly;) thirdly, jealousy. at the advantage of a free trade poliey„ and- a determination, for com mercial reasons, to ruin=the South .r and finally, hatred to slavery, and a wish= to inaugurate a John Brown raid on a national scale.- It winds up_its sapient article as follows:: (the Italics are its own.) The long-pent•up feeling that'sympathized with the exploit at Harper's Ferry is not defensive only, but invading and relentless. And this, in con nexion with the last-named element; [envy at the superior commercial position of the South,] is the main. inspiration of the' present Northern move ment. Let the Christian Advocate just reverse the order of reasons given: let it reckon the sympathy with lawless invasions, as the feeblest of all the mo tives animating the country; and put the attach ment felt to a trampled, insulted' flag,—the- em blem of all that is dear to us in the present, and all that is holy in the past history of our country,—as first, as supreme, in-explanation of the movement which animates alike the highest and the lowest ranks of Society,—tbe conservative divines of -Mur ray -Hill, New York, and Essex St.,:Boston, with the bold declaimer of Plymoutb Church, Brooklyn; the Aspinwalls of New York, City, with the ma nufacturers of Lowell, and the iron masters of the Alleghenies;—let it regard us as a people unani mous in' the determination to resist the anarchical and pestilent heresy of secession, and to uphold the authority of the national goverament, and make it respected at home, as it has always been abroad; in short, let it understand that we regard this whole secession movement as an'unjustifiable rebellion, preceded by . no appeal to the constitu tional methods of redressing wrongs, and, the to leration of, which, would unsettle forever the foundations of all free government; -and that we are resolved, with divine aid, to put it-down, for the benefit of the whole country, without regard to sections ;—let it understand these things, and the whole ease, so far as weare concerned, will -be before. them. And as to those most pious presses, wbo with out committing themselves, go so far in their sym. patly with rebellion, as to express a holy amaze ment at, the tone of the loyal religious press in the crisis, and likethePresby' terianofour Union(?) at St. Louis, call their -editors -Sauls—breathing out threatening' s and slaugbter;—or, like the Louisville, Ky., Presbyterian . Haug coolly re gard the whole country as gone mad; (they them selves, of course - being the only ones left sober:) why don't they find fault with David for having carried on military operations, to drive the usurper Absalom -from the throne of Israel? Why do they not turn the edge of their criticism upon those inspired expressions, in which he invokes the divine judgments unsparingly upon the heads of the conspirators and traitors, who sought to overthrow his government? Destroy, 0 Lord! and divide their tongues. Let death seise upon them. Let them go down quick into hell. Afterthey have sufficiently exhibited, the irreligious temper of these divine. denunciations of treason, let them turn to the less significant representations of the same spirit in our day. THE LIPS or riEDLEY VICARS, price ,20 cents, is for sale at the Presbyterian House, ITEMS COLONEL, formerly MAJOR, ANDERSON' has de-„ lighted and encouraged all the people,by hishutn hie acknowledgment of Provideace, in his whole remarkable career. In this city be said, that in taking the steps which he did in.-Charleston; bar:. bor, be felt he was only carrying out "the .thought that God'had put into his heart." If war ?makes; prominent, and gives influence to, men of this cha viler, it will be, so far, an incomparably , greater. Passing than those times of peace which nurture .a godless and unscrupulous , race of politicians, in fluenced by greed .of office and mere partisan am bition. In this connexion we may , state, that a copy of the AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN containing a poem on FORT SUMTER was handed to the Colonel, to which be politely responded by sending his auto graph with compliments to the writer, Mrs. E. B. FEAR OF SERVILE INSIIIiRECTION. — Louisiana and the far South, for a century past have been the Botany Bay of slavery. Slaves convicted of high crimes, or in any way unmanageable, or filo , intelligent, or with too great an infusion of white blood for trustworthiness in their degraded posi tion, have been sold "away down' South," and the accumulation of :this "ferocious and intelligent population in the South-west is now a source of profound apprehension. Slaves confidently ex pected -their emancipation upon the election of Mr. Lincoln. We learn these facts from unques tionable private sources in the far' Sbuth. In New Orleans there are constant rumours of vio lence and incendiarism upon the plantations; and the people five in sickening s.ppreliension of some horrible catastrophe, yet to wine. PRAYER. FOE GEN'. SCOTT.—The Delaware State Journal contains the following excellent suggestion on this point, which we hope will be generally heeded : • 'Prayers were offered in several New - York city churches on Sabbath, for the health, life,und hap piness of Lieut. Gen. Scott. Every Christian ,pulpit in the land should invoke the blessings of - Heaven upon the head of the'noble veteran. and patriot who, at the age of three score years and ten, is still serving his country with such dis tinguished skill and success in this the most try ing hour of the nation's existence. "AN _OPPOSER OF CALVINISM," says Scott, in his Commentary en Philip ii. 13, "has quoted-- ol*:ratur in-nobis velle," as one' f Calvin's dread doginas, 'when it is exactly the vulgate trans lation of Paul's words which we render, 'Works In AS to Will , LET IT. BE READ IN THE PITLPIT. The explicit and patriotic , action of our General Assembly on the STATE OF THE COUNTRY, ought to be spread before the people. As the action of the highest judiciary body of the Church, it will confirm them in the views they themselves prompt ly took; and it will give to the world our unani- M01.1t3 testimony as a church upon the great ques tion of the times. We are informed that the re solutions were read .on last Sabbath from both the pulpits of the Wilmington churches. `• THE LOVE OP COUNTRY." At the request of a large number of the pro minent members of his congregation, including Messrs. S. H: Perkins, Fullerton, Dr. Tohu Neill, Bayard, Henry Perkins, and others, Rev. Mr. Barnes . bas given to the, public his sermon on the abeve topic. It will be read with the deepest in terest, and the crowded state of our columns alone compels us to defer to a future occasion, a fuller notice of the discourse, with extracts. DELINQUENTS OF LONG STANDING who have paid no attention to our recent admonitions, are notified that this is the last number of' our paper which they will receive. • If any one who has paid us or our agents, in-Whole or in part, is cut off in carrying our:this arrangement, he will please,no tify us, and the mistake will at once be, remedied. RECENT -REVIEWS. The STUDIEN UND KRITTICEN, Second. Heft, gives evidence, to our minds, of a degree, of re invigoration under its present somewhat altered management. There is an eye, to the questions of practical importancesow agitating the church, no less than a disposition to indulge-in scholarly disquisitions interesting mainly to the recluse of the University. - The first article is extracted from MSS. lectures of the celebrated Bonn Pro fessor, Bleak, upon Isaiah. At his death, he left a volume of these lectures, but in a condi tion forbidding any attempt at publication: His son has placed before the public that portion which relates to the Messianic predictions in the lii. and liii; chapters. Bleek• regards the "servant of Jehovah" in the passage, as the same with the character already so frequently mentioned under that designation in the pro pheey,and explains, it as referring, in the first place, to the pious and `suffer`ing portion of the people' in exile; but as combined, in the pro phet's mind, with the exalted idea of a servant of God surpassing any real representations, and impossible to be realized except in Him who was without / sin and the true Son of God. This thaposition of the better portion of German interpreters of the passage. While accepting it in part,'we would prefer to regard the prophet as himself rising from the basis of the perse cuted' "servant of jehovah" whom, in prophetic vision, he already saw in. -exile, to the concep tion' of the suffering and - finally triumphant Mes siah, to whom all the imperfect typical' reprer mutations of the servant of Jehovah were not only 'fulfilled in fact, but also superseded. We do notthelieve that in this passage his own coun trymen or contemporaries were in his mind, even as types. The great reality suggested by the types bad completely taken possession of his mind. A lengthy but valuable and candid dia• eussion of the Nature and propriety of Infant Baptism follows. Singularly enough, while abandoning the:position that the rite is required by a. fair construction of Scripture, or was prac tised in the apostolic age, the writer still con tends for its observance. The efficacy of the rite does•not consist in regeneration, but in the imputation (Zueignung) of forgiveness to the subject e whoafterwards appropriates (aneignet) it by repentance and faith. It is:also regarded as attended by. an influence of the Spirit, which henceforth dwells and works in the individual. :The writer's efforts to distinguish this state from regeneration are ingenious. He is driven to the use of the well-tried "objective" and "sub jective" , to,help him out. Baptismal regenera tion is objective; ;that of the conscious respon sible agent, and:which is needful for the 'baptized child when be attains responsibilitY, is suidect ive. Anew Investigation of the Use of the Word Execvos in Classic Authors and in Jolin'S Gospel, by G. E. Steitz, is given for' the pur pose of aiding in the interpretation of John ix. 37 and xix. 35. J. P.- K.. Gnrlitt, Pastor at Billwerder, furnishes brief contributions to the Interpretation of .Passages in Matthew, vii. 13- 14, xvi. 18, x. 28. Dr. 'Ullmann, thee leading editor of the journal, furnishes a Review of the recently published Life and Writings Am brose.:B/aurer, or Blaer, the Swabian Re former. He was born in 1492,- of a distinguished family of Constance, converted by the instru- mentality of Luther's writings, and appeared a s a preacher Of the reformed doctrines in his ea . tire city in 1524. He took a prominent posi tion as mediator in the "strife between Luther 'and Zwingle. After tilt Reformation was fully established by the authorities of Swabia, b e per. formed an imipertant part in organizing and gnidrng the movement in the' chief cities. Ile was also called to re -organize the University of Tiibingen, and summoned: the Basle Professor, Grynmus, to his aid in the work; but the thin. culty _thrown in the way /7 the - Sacramentari an controversy, and Blaurer's own want of decision at length defeated his designs, caused the early departure of Grynteus, and, finally, his own re. moral from the, post. He died in 1564. The concluding, article is a discussion of the merits of four Catechisms brought out by the Union Novements in the German Church since 1854. Tbe BOSTON REview for May, opens with an article on Doctrinal Preaching, in which a pre eminence is earnestly claimed for this style of preaching, which is no, more than, its due. W e rejoice in every effort, judiciously put forth, t o rescue our American pulpit from the influence of some pernicious examples of what is loosely termed "sensation" preaching. : Speaking of Paul's preaching, the writer quotes from Robert South: "Nothing here of the fringes of the North Star, nothing of the doWn of angel's :wings, 'or the beiutiful locks of cherubims and clouds rolling in airy mansions. No, these were similitudes above the Apostolic spirit. For they, poor mortala,-were content to take lower steps, and to tell the world in:plain terms, that he who believed not should be damned." It is quite in,vainte.attempt to rear a race of intel ligent, vigorous Christians, ready to seal their faith with the extremest testimony, on such preaching as is here denounced. "The doc trines of Christianity are as the bone and skele ton of the human body." Yet our reviewer cannot be regarded as having presented his case happily or judiciously. In order to assure you that I am presenting a real man to your notice, must. I lay open his bones ? Or may I not equally assure you by the symmetry of his per son, the fineness of his tread, the weight of his arm ? So, while a well studied and thoroughly mastered system of Scriptural theology should undoubtedly be at the basis of every minister's pulpit efforts, it (hies not follow that the bones should show through at every corner of his di s . course; nor dees it follow, as the reviewer would even intimate, that because the preacher rejects the formal nomenclature of the old osteology, the bones themselves are wanting. The re viewer, in his anxiety concerning the pulpit of this country, has seemingly forgotten that the moat popular preacher of the age, and for whom the largest Protestant house of worship built in modern times has just been erected, is among the most thoroughly and fearlessly doctrinal preachers of the age. Or does the reviewer consicler t the ,very fact of Mr. Spurgeon's popu larity as tending to cast a suspicion upon the quality of his preaching, and is the doctrine of the cross to be considered as only preached, when men get so, offended as to cease crowding upon the preacher? The reviewer is not at all pleased With the fruits of the Great A wakening, There was not enough "law work." in it. Surely, he has, quite overleoked the character of the work, as developed in' Scotland and Ireland; and as to this fiction of the necessity of a pro tracted law work to a. reliable conversion, we think, it, ought to have- been considered as ex ploded as early as the morning hour when young Samuel responded to the call of Jehovah; to say nothing of such cases as James and John leaving their nets and their father, Levi rising from the, receipt, of custom, ,Lydia, whose heart the. Lord: opened, and the Jailer of Philippi, who, the same hour of the night, was baptized, he and all his straightway. It is an inadequate, nnjust, pay, a false view of the Great Awaken ing, to say, as our reviewer does: "Men skilled to play-on the feelings, have succeeeded in raising pew, to . an unwonted height, and on their flood tide persons have been carried over into the kingdom." 'We are grieved to see, in these deliberate statements, such conclusive evi dence of a want of sympathy in the late blessed work- of. God, on the part of our high-orthodox Congregational brethren. Certainly, they must .be the representatives of a very small clique of that New England, which entered so heartily into the work and received such an extraordi naryblessing. The other i articles are an appre ciative criticism ofAry. Schefer's great picture of tbeTemptatiort; the concluding instalment of the criticism of Beechees sermons, as published in the Independent; a recognition of the ap proximate orthodoxy of the Old. Unitarianism of the North American Review, (exhibited in a recent criticism ofthe Oxford Essays,) as con trasted with the newer and holder developments taking:place in the denernination • the Repose of Faith, tedious and soporific,;, Historic Anni nianiim,, being an, attack, upon certain articles in the Congregationalist newspaper of two or three years ago; which reminds US how much we, of the AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN owe to the columns of that newspaper, and gives us an op ,portunity, which we have long desired, of ex pressing our appreciation of the great merit of the Congregationalist as a religions journal. We have long regarded it as among the three or four-of our exchanges which will repay tho rough:examination before throwing it aside. Whatever may have been its mode, of stating the peculiarities of ,the Arminian theology several years ago, we have seen nothing but pure doc trine, attractively (not oeteologically) presented to young and to. old, since our, attention has been drawn to its columns..:. Professor C. D. CLEVELAND'S COMPENDIUM OF. _CLASSICAL LITERATORE, is a Volume whose elegant exterior and tistefirr mechanical execution comport well with the taste and elegance displayed in its contents. The choicest literary treasures of antiquity are brought within the reach of the English reader, so far as it can be done by the medium of the most snecessful translators--soine of them the"lights of _English literature itself. Here are Pope and . Cowper forming with Homer an immortal "triad; TOM Moore and Cowley flag tering on ambrosial wings around Anacreon; Bul wer and" Mrs. Browning fathoming the depths of liEschYlus; Ldrd Brougham ;yielding the thunder bolts o - f' DeMosthenes; Dryden's facie pen render ing the numbers'of Lueretitta and Virgil, Ovid and juverial; while COwley,Lei'gh Hunt, Swift, aifford, and even.the great versifier of David's Psalms„ Dr. ;Watts, are - included in the., plan. At the same time it Was no doubi realized by the compiler, that these distinguished writers can rarely he regarded as faithful and reliable translators, however by genius qualified to sythPathize with the spirit of the dis linguished on i'iials Hence, in a great many instances, be has furnished us"with the transla tions of more faithful, if' lesihrilliant workers in this sphere, making Up, as we imagine, the lack of service on the part of others by - his own modest but scholarly labours. < A brief sketch of the rife, literary character and wurks of the author pre cudes each set of extracts and the principal edi tions of his works are briefly named in foot notes, altogether constituting:it a work of great value to both the classical and the English strident. With a complete small fivo. pp. 622. Published by B. C."'& J. BIDDLE & 508 Minor St., C 0.,• 6) Philadelphia. UASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED FAMILY BIBLE has reached parts 29 "and 80'—.-Isaiah° 17th chapter. 'While the engravings as a rule are admirably de •sio.nod and executed, and the whole work exceed ingly valuable, the vain and very unsuccessful attempt is. made sometimes ,to depict scones from - Which the greatest masters of art might well turn reverently, and timorously 'away. Such is the picture of the seraph flying'to liaiah, which abso lutely degrades that sublime transaction. The POPULAR NATURAL HISTORY is open to no such, objections.. No. 25, in - which we are in troduced to the BIRD kingaom, is all that could be desired in a . work designed - to be popular. The engravings are proftise' and highly beautiful, and the instruction communicated is rborough, begin ping with the egg itself. Price for each work, 15 .. centatti..fintnben ' , New York CASSELL, PESTER & GALPIN. May 30
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