GENESEE EVANGELIST. Whole No. M. otivg, SCOTT AND THE VETERAN. BY DAYAIRD TAYLOR. An old and crippled veteran to the War Department came,' lie sought the thief who led him, on many a field of teme— nte Chief who showed " Forward IP vehere'er his banner rose, And bore its stars in triumph behind the flying Rtes. " Have you forgotten, General," the bettered soldier ctied, "The days ofeighteen hundred twelve, when Law at yourside? !lave you forgotten Johnson, that fought at Lundy's L a ne? . 'Tie true I'm old and pensioned, bat 1 Want, to tight again." s , Have I forgotten 1" said the Chief, mybrave old soldier, no ! And hero's the hood I gave you then, and let it tell you en. But you have done your share, my fritmd, you're crippled, old, and gray, And wo have need of younger arms and fresher blood to•day !" 44 But, General!" cried the veteran, a flush upon his brow, l'he very men who fought with us, they say ere traitors now, They've torn the fiat of Lundy's Lane, ow , old red, white and blue, Of And while a drop of blood is left, I'll allow that drop is true. I'm not so weak but I can strike, and rye a good old gun, To get the range of traitors' hearts, and prick them one by one. Your Minis Ales and ouch arms, it ain't worth while to try, I couldn't get the hang of them, but I'll keep my powder thy." sit:led bless you, comrade t'' said the Chief- 64 God bless your loyal heart! . , . But younger wen are in the field, and claim to have their part, They'll plant our sacred banner in.each rebellious town, And wo, henceforth, to any hand, that dares to pull it down!" " But General!" stilt persisting, the weeping veteran cried,— " I'm young enough to follow, FO long es you re my guide, And some, you know, must bite the dust, end that at least can I, Lao, give the young ones place to fight, but me a place to die. "If they should fire en Pickens, lot the colonel in command Put me upon the rampart, with the flag-stafiln my hand, No odds how hot the cannon•amoke, or hoW the shells may fly, hold the Stars and Stripes aloft, and hold them till 1 die! gg I'm ready, General, so you let a poet to me be given, Where W, aabington can see me, as he looks front highest belt- yen, And say to Putnam at bleu side, or maybe General Wayne, • There stands old Billy Johnson, that (ought at Lundy's Lane!' "And when the flight is hottest, before the traitors When shell and ball are screeching, and bursting.in Abe sky, If any shot should hit me, end lay me on my face, My soul would go to Washington, end not to A Mold'. place I" ovvsvonbones. For the Araerbitti;Piesliyterhui `OVA /Cr WZT. M. CORNELL. Mums. EDITORS:-Standing at the corner of Thirteenth and Chestnut Streets, near your office, and looking tip find down Chestnut Street, and seeing the perfect array of flags, decorating and bespangling tho whole 'length of 'this prominent thoroughfare of our old city of "brotherly '106;" I asked myself, What mean theie emblems? Non do not often aot without some motivi:i' or 'oh jeet, and what can be the motive or object of all this vast spreading of red, white, and blue, stel lated with thirty-four brilliant_ lights.? Medi tating upon this question, and going home and retiring to bed, either"waking . or sleeping, either in the body or out of it, I seemed to'have the fol lowing dream: I thought a friendly genius—it seemed my good genius—appeared •by my bedside and said: "You are anxious to know what this flag means, and why there are so many of them to be seen as you have just beheld. I will explain to you. It has been the custom from early ages for each nation to have some distinctive mark of their na tionality; thus, England, more than five hundred years ago, as the badge of her nationality, adopted a cross of red and white. The basis of that old cross and old flag, was taken for that of those which yon have just seen swaying from almost every house-top and window on Chestnut Street. The American colonies only took this emblem, because they were lineal descendants of England. But as time progressed, and as England began to manifest the attitude of an unnatural mother towards ,these daughter colonies, and as these colonies began to feel and to manifest that they had rihhts, and as good blood as they had drawn from their mother; and as they found they must set up for themselves, this old flag of a white and red cross underwent Some modifications; and as a man by the name of Washington had been raised up to take command of the armies of the colonies, about the year 1778, when these same colonies had declared themselves independent of the Bri tish government, all of a sudden this Washington unfurled a new flag, containing thiripen stripes of red and white in alternate positions, upon a field of blue. The blue was first used by one of the saints as early as the tenth century. By this, they meant*to indicate the union, or oneness of the thirteen Colonies. The next year, Congress took up the matter of flags, and voted ti that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red nod white, and that the union be thirteen stars in a blue field." In this flag, the thirteen stars were so arranged as to form a oink), intended to show that -there should beano end to the union, as there is none to a circle. The next modification of this flag was, to add a stripe for each additional State, both of red and white. But as new States were added, it was found that the flag would soon become too large; and, after the war of 'lBl2, which closed in 1815, a return was voted by Congress to the thirteen original alternate stripes, and one star for each . State, and instead of being placed in a circle, they were to be arranged separately. 'As thus arranged, the flag indicates the original thirteen States by its stripes, and the present thirtyfour States by its,stars. Hence, this flag as now seen, indicates the union of these States. The white designates the purity, the red the bloody defence which it opposes.to enemies and traitors, and the stars the brightness of the States, as shining forth with liberty, education, religion, and all the natural and moral privileges of our land. It is thus that the flag becomes of momentous significance, and hence, the emblem of hate and wrath to traitors. This shows us why the present traitors wish to destroy it. Its associations, its significance, its language, all soothe like lightning their guilty perfidy and - perjury. No wonder they prefer a rattlesnake to it: Such a snake better becomes their treachery and, deadly mortal :11)7 , 3 I W hat is the moral power. of this flag.? '"The Niers of the Revolution" formed it. Washing t',lls the father of the nation; Franklin, the im !florid philosopher and statesman; the Adamses, \Vi therspoon, Morris, in a word, the whole con s:"llittion of that shining galaxy of Revolutionary t i r ', stars of the first magnitude, all conspired i =et up this bannei" of our country, and in the name of .our God. Those Rappots loved it. In those trying times, they hollered it ;'and, under it they were borne on to glorious victory. How cheering and glorious are ttok• associations of our country clusteringaiound it 1 It was the magic talisman upon which victory perched at Saratoga, Monmouth, Yorktown, liundy's Lane. Later still, at New Orleans, under Old Hickory, once a most abused, but now universally renowned patriot of these United States, who, had he been our nation's President, at the commencement of the present crisis, would have soon shown South Carolina what'be did thirty years ago, under her nutifficu hint rebellion ; and, had he done the deed, which it is said, he regretted he did not do, en his death bed, to wit, hung John O. Calhoun as a. traitor, we should never have heard of the seeeasionzre hellion. Later still, upon this flag victory perched at numerous places among the old halls of the Xontezumas. Under its a stars and stripes" every country, has been visited front the poles to the equator, and every tribe nation have been compelled to respect it as the emblem of one of the most honored powers of the world; and to every part of the habitable globe wherever it has gone, it baa been the harhinger of, a better era. What, then, is to be thought of those, who, after having been cheriehed under its auspicious privi leges, till they have grown "fat at its ✓ bounteous board, have now turned round, aud, ,cursing; the mother from whose breast they have drawn their existence and their sustenance, trample this floe in the dust! A rattleLsnake, or a copper-head, is a fit emblem of such unnatural children. " But this flag is not deserted.. It will yet be unfurled over the whole-of this* broad land. It will not be without blood. 'lt has waved 'over . . k blood:bought privileges; even one or its colors holds out a bloody defianie to all its enemies; and, as more blood shall &win its defence, it will be still more glorious to sit under its sheltering wave and enjoy its liberty and independence. The reason of this present display which you have just seer,Arisei from,the fact that a mumber .of these stars, like Luoiferi'denominated the devil, once a son of the merning, - have, fallen from .their first estate;and trambled this' flag in the dust. Hence, everyloyallionleels called upon with a soul-stirring 'patriotism to throw to the breeze this glorious.flag. • TEE "AMERICAN 8133DA.Y.SCHQOL itY.5..1122 Chestnut Street, Philudelphie May 27,.1861. Vs. _EDITOR you please publish the ,enclosed letters? They: spy t ak for themselves; and am in hopes that, by !ringing them to the, notice ,of your readers, many may ,be , foond who witl, ,gladly embrace this -9PPorttnsk :of doini good. We are daily ;receiving appeale,,and cart oulTmeet them is funds.are provided. Permit we to relate the following: Last week an appeal was made to us .by the Chaplain of .a "reginieut ready,to 02971rd:0 - fa' Aymn .Books. A. l few minutes afterthe receipt of the letter, a lady tame in, to whom it was submitted. 'She Pis a member of the "Soeiety of Prillends.” Her response was, ",We ean!t give them powder, but we can give ; them Hymn Books." and was ,authorized by her to send two 'hundred. Are tbere not others ready, to aid in this good work too Contributions can be, sent to L. Knowles, Esq., Treasurer, 1122 Chestnut street. PROM NEW MEET. SECAZTARY. OF MISSION'S DEAD. Sra :—Our school is the first organize tion of the kind ever started in this place, and consists of three or four different denominations all agreed to unite in the work, as they have at last found it to be important for their children to attend sehool at least one day out of the se , ven. They, are deprived, of every day school, and it is therefore orgreat importance to draw them together on the Lord's day, to make them acquainted with the Holy Scriptures, to teach them that there is a day of judgment and ano ther life hereafter. But to teach the children we should bave :books,nnd hOw to obtain boas without money is a question which troubles Its, as -money is an article we seldom get hold of, as our.labor is paid for in provisions. FROM ILLINOIS. SECRETARY Or MIER-CRS: DRAB SIE wish, through you; to request a grant.of Sunday School books from thueom mittee of Missions of. the American S. S. Union. Before lea - ving home to attend the General Assembly,' brought, the matterbefore the peo ple. They raised $8: They are anxious to have as many more books, besides what that amount will•procure. I.out convinced That it' will be conducive to the interests of the Sunday School cause, to have a good librariin that re gion. The books will be , profitable not only to the young, but also to the-middle-aged and old. I hope the time is not far distant, when, in stead of Teething: grants, we shall be contri buting to your missionary department. FROM 01110 SECREVARY or MISSIONS DEAR SIR:—Two years ago we had a library from you, and we path for it, now the books are old and worn out, and' we come in a' kind of begging manner to you for a present, not of hymn books, question books, ite., but for some other good books. We know the times are hard, but if you will do good, give us 'some- • thing. - We are Germans here, and in a.new country, and, not able to get books, •and we would be satisfied' With * - a, small donation of English books. Signed, -, PASTOR. Nouns TO - HOLINESS. A man who has Weir redeemed by-the blood'of the Son of God should be pure. Ile who is an heir of life should-be holy. Ile who is attended by ce lestial beings - , antbrho is soon--hi knows not how soon—to be translated:to heaven shouldllsnholy. Are angels my attendatte Then I shmild walk werthy of their companionship. Am I mien to go and dwell with angels? Then I should.be pure. Are these feet soon to tread the court of heaven? Is this . tongue soon to unite with heavenly beings in praising God? Are these eyes of mine soon to look on the throne of eternal glory and on the as oonded- Redeemer? Then these feet and eyes and lips fthould be pure.and holy; and I should be dead to the,World and live ferbeliven. Albert Barnes. ^r•+•'F .1 f .• ••• NEW "YORK''ANNIVERSARIES. AMERICAN, liaktiik 1 01 , ' ookinskotriis FOR; F - - 14NEGX 14tISIONS. The Rev.' Secretary Wood s made the - following statement.of the affairs of .the :A. 8..0. F. M. for the past year.. In India, the transfer of the government from the Eastindia Company-to the Crown,' 'opens =a new era. By a decision 'since obtained, the Queen's Government declares that Christian con verts shall, in respect to all civil rights, stand on the same level with the highest Hindoo castes. MissionaryjabOr was never attended 'before with equal results. - The adreissions to the "churches upder the care of the Mahratta Mission,including Bombay and ,the interior stagons, during the last four years,: exceed those of the whole, previous period, of its existence, dating from the year , . Our .three missions in China are . prosperous, though weak; if the .new treaty Stipulations are maintained, a boundless field invites our energies. According to Mr, Blodget, of Shangliiie4he capi tal itself is open to-day tor : the preachers of the gospel. • - In the Hawaiian Islands a revival has , taken place, not inferior to that of 1838—'9. ,The Ha waiian Missionary SOciety carries'on an indepen dent and an effiatent mission among the cannibal inhabitants of the Marquesas 'lslands and -assists the Micronesian Mission of the Board. The Nestorian Mission in Persia,,bas had some peculiar trials, but is making steady progress. Former suceesseeamong the Armenians of Tur key are eclipsed by the greater ones which now come in the accumulated -momentum of the 'Re formation among , that.people. At the late Jubilee meeting of the ' Board, the prospect before us was bright and jeyous. The heavy -debt -of $85,000 'was taken off. -Five thou sand of !the friends of. Christ around the table of the Lord =pledged . themselves, and those Whom they-represented, to= sustain this cause; and we hoped that homeiiiport was to be omen:lett surate with the rovidences and grace that ore ated. the demand upon it. But a.cloud . now hangs over us, in whose thick darkness lightnings flash, and the a - Milder peals from whicli shake the earth and fill all hearts with trembling. What shall be the fate of our _Missions,? The appropriation for the . year, being not what the Missions need, but theamallestsum that could be given was $370 000. Of :this amount only $179,860 has keen received in the 6rst nine months ending Airil 30th. The Prudential Committee have taken measures to save expenditure wherever practicable, and to prepare the Missions for whatever experience may be in store for them. It depends upon the action of their supporters whether a -great disaster shall come upon-them. THE'• AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIFEY.-- THIRTY,EIETIE ANNIVERSARY. , . - RECEIPTS.—SIB3,76I.BO. EXPENDITUIMS.— slB3,762.7o—leavipg $13,766,24 still due_to mis sionaries for labor - performed; toward - cancelling which, and-meeting claims on commissions daily becoming due, amounting in all to 177,966.63; - the balance in the treasury but $20.53. The total of receipts is less by •only $1,454.37 than that of the year preceding. The contribu tions of the living, indeed, are greater by;55,177.- .44__the.arnount of legacies, $33;226.97, being '57;131.71 less. In consequence chiefly of a ba lance in - the Treasury at the beginning of the previous year, the expenditures of the past =year have been $3,774.99 less than in the year before, and the number ef missionaries is * less_ 45_ But the dimlniition in the number of is mainly in the Eastern and Middle States, occa sioned by the , discontinuance of * short missions, and the assumption by the people of the, support of their ministry; whiluin, several of the newer States the number of missionaries hat been /- pressed, and the aggregate in the whole'of the Western States and Territories, and ,od thg Paci fic coast, is but eight less than the namber re ported at the last Anniversary./ The slumber. of ministers pf the. Gospel in the service of the Society, in ,twenty-three different States and Territories was 1,062. Of the whole number 571 had been the pastors or stated supplies of single congregations; 341 'have ministered ,in two or three congregations each; and 150 had extended their labors over still wider fields. Ten missionaries had preached to congregations of colored people; and 50 in foreign languages-25 to 'Welsh, 22 to German, 3 .to korwegian, French and Swe dish:, The number of congregations . and missionary stations' supplied, in whole or in part, was 2,025. The aggregate ministerial labor .performed was 83,5 years. , Yupils in Sabbath-402015, 70,000; 37 churches had been organized, and 32 become self-supporting.. - Forty-two houses of worship have . beert.conipleted, 51 - repaired, and 31 others are- in process -of erection. Ninety-one young men, in connexion with the missionary churches, are in preparation for the gospel tninistry. Fifty. one missionaries report revivals in their churehes, and 378 missionaries 2,507 hopeful conversions. The additions to the churches, as nearly , as can be ascertained, have been. 5,600—viz.: 3,127 on pro fession, and 2,473 by letter. AMERICAN SEAMEN'S FRIEND EOCIETT.--.TEIRTY.. TaIRD ANNUAL REPORT. The foreign stations of the society ,are on the Labrador coast, in Norway, Denmark, Sweden; France, China, Sandwich Islands, Chili and Peru. The stations Or branches and auxiliaries are in . San Francisco, New Orleans, Galveston, Mobile, Richmond, Philadelphia, -Providence Boston, Portland, Buffalo, Oswego,• Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, Sandusky, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh, with seVeral itinerant missionaries on the variouseanals and rivers of the West. In •these various stations -are nearly fifty ordained ministers and lay missionaries. In addition to these operation's, over two hun dred converted sailors have been 'supplied with well-selected libraries for the forecastle during the past two years, and are abroad in as many ships on' the ocean. ,The Sailor's Home, in New York, under .the direction of the society, has received during the year 2,711 boarders; total -since it was opened, nineteen years, 68,905. Destitute men and boys relieved 187, at an expense of $717.89. Amount deposited in bank or •sent to relatives, $12,188. The temperance and social prayer-meetings have often, been crowded, and of unusual interest -and power. - The receipts of the:society, branches and aux iliaries, last year were $72;997.69. The receipts of the -parent society have been $23,698.05; last year it was $40,711.26. This diminution has been chiefly on the Southern field —indeed, there has been a small increase in the central agency.. Owing toihe state of the times and the resignation of the Southern secretary, comparatively little has been collected at the South. Operations in the Southern ports, how ever, have not been abandoned, though in some of them, for the want of means, suspended in part for a time; in others there has been considerable prosperity. The expenditures-of the pare.nt so ciety have been $23,942.54. The floating debt at the close of list year was about $5,000 ; now it is $7,000: • AMERICAN TEMPERANCE 'ONION, ..24111 ANNI BART.' The Rev. Dr. John Marsh, Corresponding Se cretary, read the Annual Report., which represent ed the income and expenditures of the year past at a little lesss than 86,000, alluded touchingly to the death ,of ~the late Dr. Humphreg, reported New England .6ft for prohibition, while New' York and the Middle'States.gaqe licenses, and.in 'the Western States,'lliohigan and lOWA, an in creased stringency had been manifested.' Banda of hope were greatly on the ibcrease. -TheVern perance press was but poorly Sustained, while tracts were needed and called for. In England and Scotland the cause 'had greatly advanced, particularly among the eleig, and the - Periniisi.*.e bill was gaining continually in favor. qti'ltelind, revivals had affectdd tempetana fatliratily In Russia, the people : were for 'temperance,-but the Government was opposed to it as reducing reve nue. AmilitcAN vt'tza wervii.l Pfintect during the year 867;004 9,507,904 publications, A 256,348,464 pages. Total in `thirty-six' Years 16;653;583' Volumes, 236,090,209 publications, or 5,852,630,598 pages. Gratuitous Distribution for the .year, in 3,764 distinct granta, 1 5 . ,1288;95 . 1 pitgba,. and 15,137,850 pages .to life me mbers and,74 : ireet.ors ' value up 'wards 0f040,000. InCludrig 145 students froin 40 colleges and thecplogicil seminaries ;. 5,76 'col pottaturelaboredin theViiitod'§tates and Canada . ; 203 j being stationedin *th. celhern: and- }fiddle States, 220 in the'Soutg: ind eet4e 'SW* and 184' '.the' Western:, And' Weithateetein &atm . . . . 'The 'donations and legfeted 'received 'by t p American Trait Society,':7fOr the year.ending' April 1, were $93,926.88-'l6 expenditure for nolportage, gratuitous dillibu'tion,- and foreign . cash grants absorbed, the' 'whole - of ' this sum, and about $5,000 more. ' The Executive Com mittee were able to remit bpp, $7;000'. for foreign lauds, instead of $12,000' the previcins year. '- • Foreign Cash 4 . pproprfiOods.—Foithe S a nd . wich Islands, $550 i' Ohintlj Episcopal: HabiliQo, Shanghai, $300; •SOuthernitiiptist •naissiciiitr,;Ottit ton, $lOO ; . Shanghai,4l.oo :Assam - , '000; .. Bor-. Mali and ICarens, $? . ,00114" theta India,.sloo9,; 1 Orissa, $lOO, Turkey, .At - Diens, etO„.,N4itgena mission, $1000;‘ Central 'tie ston_,.ssoo - ; Seittgetn mission, $500; Ithly; $lOOO ',GerniapY,,Atnerieip . I Baptist mission, aoo ; ' 'Se .sGtatuidit;iireibyte rian mission, $350. _ Total t 7000,.• The - srim Of $lOOO has also been trinif and ficup' tkvoission. of - tbe Prebbyterian Boprd i "tein.46.o•-their.tPitt eicin . in' China. .' .. "..''` .. .. . At•their meeting just h d,p:Unanbar . of :new applications Vern abroad 'Ca elle, making it in dispensable iinmediatelyAl'ife : o .at least three• hundted:dellaie-4;ecli*-Firy*,_Greeee and Ma-. din; tiohundred etio4l.6ositions in:Germany, t Sivilign rind . Brirnth; . indjOne hnndred each 'to 'Bel Mm, thol;iihuailians,:itleylon, FUghtati and 'il - apaw—makingl2,ooo.. 'aie4c &ulna the Com mittee appropriated, to be ` l remitted as soon as .funds for this purpose shalliee.received. In view of these facts't secretary asks: Are there not Christian: „lends, interested in supplying these waits - Ofi .. ' n and nominally countries, whii• un . Obeerfully and 'with out delay send in .some pa , 'or The whole of thein sums to O. 1L llingibury, Aesjetent 'Treasurer, 150 Nassau Street, New Y 9 k? . ~ , i • ). At its recent, anniversar his `shall resOlVed to uappropriate, as mean shall be furnish`ed, ino,ooo, or whatever ihal e necessary to pro vide such'books, tracts, an - ersonal aencies, us are specially suited to those ho have been sum moned-1;y patriotism and 41 . y . to thepariln, temp iv tations and su ff erings of th iiinip.'i' In responding to the . vo' of the Society;the Committee have already co a:ibuted hundredi of dollars' worth of books and Mots beyond all quit has been received for this p ose, „ _The.e,. • 51b.--.;!1_- ; -..-.. .. 4 ) res. preparation hers' _libraries; consistang o just such • attractive, 'earnest, condensed, and scriptefal teachings as are needed by men _in cavdp, or on the march. One of these compact vo -James, with flexible covers, can be carried in the pocket of 'the soldier, and be no burden, and by supplying each company with' the library, every man may, by exchange, have the _perusal of the whole number. One of these Libraries of twenty-five volumes, at the low price of 13, will be ready in a few days. Five dollars will supply a company, fifty dollars a regiment, with a large amount of most in valuable truth. AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY Sixty:five new auxi l iar i es have been recognised —most of them at.the Sonth.and West._ The receipts of the year from all sources were $389,651.62, of which $221 742%88 were for books sold. Boobs .printed the Bible House, 829,000. Boolv k jessued„72l.,B7B. lialcing an aggregate sincelite formation' of the Society of 15;000,759. arriutuitous issuei have amounted` to 01;967 - • lafiEßlCLik AND FORZIG 5111815T73N-13NION. SI6 R B e , eipterfor the year; f_6o,s69—an advance of During the -year, the •Society sustained mis sionaries in ten of the large "cities, and many smaller places, in twelve of the 'States ,of our Union, and also aided the ,work of the Is:01p Italy, France, Belgium, Sweden, Turkey .Aud South America. Last winter the Society, brconnexion with the Americas Seamen's Friend Socielyiscpt tbe Rev. Mr.• Gilbert to labor as a missionary at Callao, in Peru. Mr. Gilbert has arrived at Callao, and commenced with good prospects his work at that place, among the English, Americans, Spaniards, Germans and Italians. • • Last March the Board sent the Rev. Ra mon Monsalvatge to Panama, to make .known the:Gos pel among the Spanish and French-speaking po pulation. He has arrived at his posit .and com menced his labors. On the 27th ultimo, the Rev. Mr. "fait Sailed in the. Fulton for his post of labor k. Florence, . where we hope that, in connexion with expellent native brethren on the ground, he .tniyiestoblish important plans of missionary effort is ,that inte resting land. 1 • : r• -- In the course:oVa few weeks the -Board hope . . to be able to, lend a missionary to Brazil, and another in the 'autumn. They greatly desire to meet the'demands; made on them for missionaries for other countries in South America, as well as in Mexico and Central. America. RECEIPTS OF BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES.' The following table will show the total receipts in dollars from allsourees of the principal bene volent societies, for the year 1861 and 1860. _ 186 L 1880: American Tract Society, Neer York. • . $307,348... . -; $244,000. American Tract Society, Boston.. - 81,139. .b;::03. American and Foreign Christian Union; " 121,069: • ' 62,b2A American Congregational Union. - 8,967. ..• .8,872. American . Board for nine months. „,,t 170,386. 214,872. American Rome filitaionarySoilaty. • . 183,781. 186.218: American Seamen's Friend Society. 23,808. 40,711. American Bible Society. • 389,551. 436,958. It will be seen that the American Tract Society at. Boston, and the American and Foreign Chris tian Union, are the only Societies in the above list, which received more than they did in 1860„ and that the whole amount of.receipts of the eights Societies, are 8119,56,1.'1cm than it was the. pre-, vions year. A large proportion of the receipts Of the Bible and Tract Societies are from the sale of books. GETTING MOAN aERIOUI3.--It will be • remem bered that President Lincoln's proclamation, or dering the rebels to disperse, and calling out 75,000 men, was received by the Montgomery gentry, •while playing Congress, with "bursts of laughter." Those same gentlemen have united in requesting . Mr. Jefferson Davis to-appoint "Aday of Opting and prayer." . - This verities the olt i tipt feilY - "" He laughO "best ivho laughs "1:" . 1 . 3 '41 i .t• .-'" .• 0 , •;;; , ..} •0 ,1 • 1..1 7 • THE "NORTH BRITISH" ON THE -AA- Isaac Taylor is always interesting, ,vigorods . 10;:atyle, and ittilant fnr. the truth; th . ougli'd?iiformly candid and fair 10 his treatnient of its adversaries. A ppnracteilat l ie article' from his pen, in 'tbe last the 11torth'Briiish Repiew, upon tie tarnOin! E.ssegis :and Review's, Will'he iyelaitoed by iiireTjuit . licaj Christians, and comiand the resiii?gt even of the party 'against whom it is r diitiet94. It hrings various charges against the Essayists and iheir syrapathizers, sucli:ai: Levity; . 4 r va. aivensist, Shallow ;Pliilcinnjag, a misdirected MethOd of Biblical Criticism. We _make an extraeCfroni . the last named section .of : the Re view infler ihe slightly altered .heading'of their It ja. a Itoftigire •pripcdpinhthatutii 0, material :universe, iao-creation,-4* 1.136! Prixi n'Oflf "intelligence—of a Mind fitting the Means to the end, throughout its parts and functions. 'the Inman mind,^ unless debased .and vitiated; 'ad deFits this doctride as manifestly true. :Never theless, when the purpose has been formed: to destroy this belief, and when by putting.,Ann topiapt upon the doctrine of 'final onuses, and by otherwise explaining . •m, e this, a that, 'and anothefimagined instatee.of design, prd gress enough may be made, and often has•been pade, to .build up a stnndinAplacefor atheism. practiceA nand sophisticated by a . of this kind continued, becomes a ctually _ incapable of apprehending-the theistic doctrine: it is lostin the darkness itself has courted. Wliat is the .remody ?, There is no remedy for the, miserable The remedy for those who are not .thus lost this— Circumspicel • It is in a still more-decisive manner that this same misdirected excep4ve criticism. has shown its quality in the region of the moral , sentimentivand ofrthe warm and powerful so= *.cisk &pal domestiealfections. 'Put yonrselfshOw under the,guidance, on.the,one hand, of philo sophers, such is the author,,Of. the "Analyiis of lihenoinepti of the Humin Mind" (Jades Mill;) . and,'On-the other hand, liaten . to the Maximei-et 'Reflections :Morales"'of Roche foucal4; said hetween the turothe man .of e.b stractious,and, the, man who:4o* . s the world, male and faniale—you shall Demo convince yourself that all the fine talk of moralists and romance 'writers about gehnine and generous emotions, and about self-devotion, and disinte restedneas, and generosityland pity,ind grati tude, and love,all is an illusion, Nothing is there in all these fair .sembiances of virtue—no thing better than so many phases, or masks, of simple, intelligible selfishness • or call it egotism. The philosopher•for his -part,und. the duke for ,his part, give nUtheir word of tiOnor for it, and they say--We have carefully analyzed' the 'en -tire contents of oar own hearts; and we find -nothing there—no; not a fragment in - a corner -that may not, if analyzed, be shown to be pure sel6sm. Quite true. „Then what is the remedy; there is none as to writers and . thinkers of this 'class. Arguinent will not help them. Logic will not put into them that which' Nature ; has not pnt into them. Cold sophisms to-the end, must be the portion of cold sophists, The ip . ' • '-2 LAnindnlwilt.l9.4t.p.p l, their - e criticisms to every PhinoMenon. in turn earth have been ,dispersed, or reduced to ashes or a dry powder,-and they then go on to try their hands upon the things of an upper world; and by a fatal necessity, which, in certain eases, converts a.depraved tendency into an engine of • awful re tribution, the man advances. until, in his own miserable conceit, lie has driven God from His universe. Other instances, strictly analogous to these, might easily be named, if it were needful 130 to do, or if space permitted. In stopping the course of this exceptive criticism, when it applies itself to the work of dissipating whatever it is which has been.held sacred in Holy Scripture, or of dis persing the authoritative element therein; it should be well understood (so that time and vexatious controversy may be saved) that, as to the leaders of this criticism, there is no remedy;-:--there -arc no means available for givinc , a counter-direction to a tendency of mind which has already become an inveterate . habit. What is it, in fact, but a bent which deprives the mind of its power of prehending at all what is great and real ,in the worlds of nature or of feeling? So it is that the material universe is looked` at, until is can no longer be seen, or seen only as a vast confusion. A figure forces itself here upon our notice—The spider is a first-rate workman in spinning, and weaving, and patching, and . darning cobwebs; but he can think of nothing except the catching of flieS; and when he has well emptied out the abdo men of a fly, he hangs the torn wings and the legs upon, his curtains, in front of his tabernacle, and looks upon them as, proud trophies of his skill' in fly-catching! Yet in those sparkling diamond• eyes of his, upward turned as they are, there is no speculation for this bright and large world, beau tiful as we think it. There is no remedy—it is grievous and afflictive to think so—there is none for this ill-habit of mind in the instance of those who have surrendered themselves to the infatua tion; there is no stepping back on this road—it is a steep decline; it must seem so if we look at the instances. ..In respect of the mass of Christian people, the sound-minded, the right-hearted, the well-inten tioned, the thousand to one of well-informed and professedly Christian men, there is a remedy;• there are means available for staying •the deluge of disbelief at this time. It is no preliminary to, the, use of this - resource, or to the putting oneself Under this 'course of treatment, to shun, or stop the ear against, whatever it is which a well-learned and rightly-directed criticism has to say concern ing the books of Scripture in any sense whatever. To the" easa7ists, one and all, we say, We are, as list of learing as yourselves in the class of bibli cal tatieisat; but our biblical studies we_reserve for;:times thereto devoted. • If now it were our part to advise'any who had become perplexed on this ground (and if only such persons will be true to themselves) our advice would be, of • this sort—Take at once the bold course, and this is the humble course too, if we know what we are, and' what we need: Draw near to Him who is the brightness of the-Father's glory; converse in heart, by help of the word of truth—converse with him in daily and hourly me ditation, who is. God andman. Become familiar with His blessed style, with HiS manner, His words; think of Him, not in 'the earthly modei, of a sensuous fancy, but think of :Him as Saviour of the world, Propitiation, Mediator, Judge,-Re deemer. Be not afraid to take Scripture as -sit stands, and to accept it in its. own bright anipli tude of. meaning.. _Fear not to read' your Bible as God Almitliky has given it-yo'u.- - -Helptiie it pin —not:bileibilOultstray, not to mock - you, not to bewilder, sfiet to destroy. youi Holy Scripture, truqtodtoy:will:lead -you, np- to the world:whereof it_npenlis, goy . ,80;ipture daily read, and used in ingenUotisly ided upon, will toia you to Christlud when you are near"hiktr,- and are filled with a consciousness of his' craw majesty, love, and power, yoz i fill be safe in_ ; the deluge.. In what - manner no o these inanities of this cx coptive criticism affect you truest iinPulsei of the moral nature renovated si)iritUiniOnseious nem, give you confidence in rejeoting them-ta-iffP • _ $1,22,393. $1,841,934 Cong. Journal • FORD ESSAYS. • • insialPo l 7 l ) xXozr•riyz ojemans. MEE MEE We argue the value of children from the place GoChas given them in the history of our rage. A gteat part' have they borne in the annals of the world, as accessories indeed, and yet sons to show that God bas bound up their destiny with that of adult mankipd. Three kinds of footprints have been left upon the sands of, time; the print, of man's heavier foot; - the print of woman's foot deeper beCalise ofthe'bibe she bore in ber arms; the print Of childhood's 'keit, lightest and least, yet distinct. Earth saw no children in her-pri meval estate. Paradise: restored shall be full of therni Paradise lost had none. And if we were allowed to, reason from hntnan affections aetheynow :kindle, we might alinoit say, had children been there that Paradise hid pot been lest, - The mo ,ther of mankind for 'love of her children _might have shrunk from that awful gulf into which she' .plunged herself. — ln the Paradise of home bow often. have children broken the spell of the ser pent. ' Many a- man and woman has been saved -by them from the pathway of ruin; many are now in- hpaven,who but for their, children, would: have beenio4P fore'rff- - , Through all tbetrialenp.d wanderings of the pee 'ple of 6od, in their joys and in their perils, in "their •CaptiVity, and in their rettirn,-' children were with them: When the redemption: for which all history had been preparinghegan its consum nation, it-began in_ the form of. a child. All prophets had sPoken f of that holy child. The -first Adarri was 'formed a man; the second Adam ; the Lord- from heaven, came as a babe. The Sovereign of the:universe took on him our nature, passed ,through childheod, laying:in it the foun dation! of His work. When, He was breathing his earliest breath, the innocents of Bethlehem, the unConscious proth-inartyrs, of the 710 w dis pensation,, shed their blood for Him who 'came to die for- them, _van of- the noble-:army of the martyrs of Christ„types, of His innecent suffering and guiltless death. Dying in His place, shadow mab as 'it were His vicarious sacrifice,' they were the first messengers from earth to tell in heaven, that the great battle of the lord, •which is to be won by -yielding life, not by taking it, the battle in, which death is not loss but_victory had begun. They were the earliest to help ; infilling up the full Measure of the euffering of the Saviourovho is to suffer in his loved oyes as - well as in 'His own person; tbe,y were the earliest to,share in the con summation of the Saviour's glory, who:As -to be glorified-in His redeemed-ones as well as in him self. When Jesus came to Jerusalem on his last journey, children 'shouted hosanna. And the song of children to their. Saviour then begun never Ceased, In the catacombs, those lone. ° mines beneath, Rome, the city of Boe, in which are hidden treasures, more ,preciops than gold, jewels which the resurrection' morn shill bring forth to shine forever;inthose catacombs are inscriptions, which tell that the' ashes hidden in somee3f .their crypts are . those . - of children, who died - because they would, ot, deny Jesus. Their little bones yet re main to Witness to the early years in which they passed through martyrdom to heaven. - Christ hasuiver moved through out world with out-"-being followed; by children. The pilgrim fathers of mu churches bore with them their children on the mighty.deep, and the 'blood of their - young feet was shed on the thorns of the pathway through the wilderness. Whatever these pioneers of the faith through all ages succeeded in-making their children, determined the failure or success of their most deeply laid plans. No matter, hoW vigor. _; v • - e iieriart; 41 gleaners; the harvest,'Was lost. Bit the harvest of- divinely directed' plane was not lost; for the ehildren of the saints proved equal:to the portion of responsibility their God gave them. Inimitably appropriate was our Saviour's quota tion of the eighth psalm: it seems as if the Holy . Spirit had.left the words there fore the occasion on which he qnoMd , them. " When the chief priest - 8 and scribes saw the children crying in the temple, - and saying, Hosanna to the Son , of Da vid, they were sore displeased and.said unto-Him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto, them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou bast perfected * praiser' - Yes, God has done it through all time. What the children of earth are, earth will be. We are to recognize this grght fact. We are not as a mere-common-place of declamation to accept the proposition, that the children- of this fair land are 'to 'decide its future. It _must be 'to us- a solemn fact: we -must bow before the awful re sponsibility it involves; we must meet it. The wickedness of the adult part, of our nation cannot destroy it if generations of holy children are to succeed them; and no virtues of an adult generation can save our land, if godless children are to follow that generation and undo all its vidrk. Our' cry must be, (Give God the - children,' give them to us for Him and He-will train. them, and, we .will co-work with Him in training them intp a glorious army,,before which His foes and those .of our land shall be' swept away, and righteousness and peace, and joy shall fill it from sea to sea. ' . The Lutheran. WISDOM, PATIENCE AND FIRMNESS. It is matter of devout gratitude to God, in this hour of our country's- . peril, that we have at the, head of our armies, a chief in whose great skill, long experience and tried patriotism, we can place unbounded confidence. :Yor half a century Gene ral Scott has been.- engaged the service of his country. He has risen from one-grade to another, till he now oecapies .the highest tnilitary rank eVer , given to an 'officer—that of lieutenant gene ral—a rank created for him, and filled by no other since Washington. He has been often engaged in war, has foughtin hard battles, and conducted great campaigns. with masterly skill. and suecess; and yet he has been as ; ranch Aisl,inguished for humanity as for judgment:and sagacity in the great: movements Of war. - General Scott is' not an old 7man (seventy-six years,) andis suffering physically , from the infir- ; mities ef age. Yet me are assured by these who. have been with him, lately and have seen him in timately, that his mind is ai*clear es e.ver. And though he may not yet be able in person to take the fiel4he may xender a .far greater service in presiding at=the centre, with his .cleareye looking out as on a.map over the whole theatre of war, or dering Ahe'combinations and directing the ihole pa.taiotistn, too, is undoubted. 'Though a: native of ::Virginia, Virginia he acknowledges no allegiance but that 0.14 s whole country. A few weeks ago, when Virginia seceded, and many of his officers, including even his own aids, fell away froin their day 'there were those who treitibled lest everilis j 3 iron 'firmness might' be shaken. Such Was , the' sanguine,hope of many at the South; It was even reported ,thakte had resigned, anti i so.conficlently, was it believed, that a commissioner ,camn . from Richmond; o offer Rini the coinni t ati'd Of the ainiiei of - Virginia I Brut the Man who dared `to name the proposalreceived ureply which silenced and sent him backlumbled and ashamedi -11ei has just rcnowesi for. the,tbit4 time-his solemn oath 0f,a1 7 legiaoce to the United .States,and is evidently "determined to give hia last days andl islest strength to the service of his country. the man who is now afthe headAdourarmiei. In'this we recognise - the sarce Providennembich raised:lv Washington to, be,eur leader in . the,war pf pendence, and which boa now preseivad In Us, the. greateiecaptain . nf the age h to e the'tieeAedek verer'of his Country'. The prOntinent traits in The charaeter , ofiGeneral Scott, as-shown in all military l career, .are: great cantiim and wisdom 4 layieghis plans, a sagacity which though it may seem sloW, renders . Success inevitable; and hninanity. The old L••• - LIME CHILDREN IN HISTORY. . VOL! No. 259. hero is as gentle' aig be is brave; and never for the mere glory of a.dashing feat of anus has he been known tb sacrifice a single life. He is sometimes accused by amateur - soldiers or flippant martinets of being dow,and:soTin - one ,sense he is. In his whole. history no .one thing has been more often proved than that 'General Scott cannot and will not be hurried. "' He will take ample time to make all his preparations complete before lie will hazard a step.on vvbieh limy - depend the fate of an army. But if his Advance is deliberate, how firm and sure His 'step is slow, but it• is the tread of a giant, and when he Moves, every thing is swept before: his irresistible march. • ne Christian' . Advocate and Journal holds that . 4 nothing is- more clearlj , predicted in the oracles of God, than the final subjugation of all nations to the'kingdon of Christ," and gives the followino• statistics of the world's population, with the appended remarks. ChrislianS, 335,000,000, or, 25.77 per cent. Jews;..: . 5;000,000, or, 0.38 per cent. Asiatic religions, 600,000,000, or, 46.15 per cent. Mahammedan, 166,000,000, or, 12.31 per cent. Paeans; ' =0,000,000, or, 15.39 per ceat. Thus for one nominal Christian we have three who' are not so, while of this small - proportion of Christians, the 'following statistics show that the case is scarcely. .better . with them than with the rest of mankind: Roman:Catholics, (50.7 per cent) 170,000,000. Protestants, (26.6 per cent) 89,000,000. Greek Catolics, (22.7 per cent) 76,000,000. . . . To encourap,ourselves, let us now turn to inquire what progress the Church has already made?'lt was promised by the Saviour'that his Gospel should fill the earth; not, however, by fire and sword, nor suddenly, but like the great forces of nature—gradually, invisibly, steadily, surely. Since that time it has made a popular progress, whieh, according to Sharon Turner, may be stated thus: First 'century 500 000. Second century 9,000,000. Thtrd, century 5,000,000. Fourth century ' ..10,000,000. Fifth. century 15,000,000. Sixth century .20,000,000. Seventh century . _25,000,000. Eighth century 30,000,000. Ninth 'century 40,000,000. Tenth century 50,000,000. Eleventh century 70,000,000. Twelfth century • 80,000,000. Thirteenth century. 75,000,000. Fourteenth century 80,000,000. Fifteenth century' 100,000,000. Sixteenth century 125,000,000. Seventeenth century 155,000,000. Eighteenth century ` ) 00,000,000. We add, nineteenth. century 400,000,000. With the exception of a small loss in the thir teenth century, the progress has been uninter ruptid, and latterly in au increasing ratio. Ac cordrng to the rate of increase of the last fifty years, Christianity may overspread the WO rld in less than a center • a re. _._ time of our Saviour it had not a square inch over which it influenced political authority. For three centuries after there was not an island or province on the map of the world that it could call its own. Now it tontrols three continents—Arnerica, Eu rope and Australia, with Asiatic Russia, Hindoo stan and Ceylen,. Malaysia and many isles of the sea, embracing, with Turkey, three-fifths of the land surface of the earth, containing about forty - six sixtieths of the population of the world—more than two-thirds of mankind controlled by Chris tian sceptres. Mark the material advance of Christianity. The Christian nations are the nations of wealth. In the commencement of our era the wealth of the world was in the East; Europe and the isles of the Gentiles were inhabited by scattered and wandering tribes of rude and poor barbarians— Scythiarv, Gauls and painted Britons. Austral asia and America were unknown, and probabl, unoccupied, save by the beasts of the forest. Since the spread of Christianity westward, Europe has been steadily advancing in property, and since the introduction of the true faith into America and Australia,-their accumulations have been al most incredibly rapid so that the sum of property now possessedby Christian nations is well-nigh in calculable. An efficient Missionary Association is said to have adopted, not long since, a device, found on an ancient medal, which represents a bullock standing , between a, plough and an altar, with the inscription f(Ready - for either,—ready for toil or for-sacrifice." The whole history of Christianity has proved that its great objects cannot be secured without both the toil and the sacrifice. Says the Apostle. "I fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in`my flesh for his body's sake, which is the °lurch. In the agony of the atoning sacri flea, Jesus had no sharers. Of the people there were none with him. But he has left, unex hausted, enough, of the bitter cup of his previous toils and trials "to remind his followers, amid their great work, what their salvation cost him. A readiness for hard "work :on the one hand, and for sacrifices on the other, can alone evince, not only our attachment to, his cause, but -also our love to kiln. 0, Christian, - let , the love of Christ con strain you 'to' fidelity in his service. Bring all your talents, your acquisitions, your energies, and, binding yourself 'to the horns of the altar, there stand, -ready either for work or for sacrifice. This is the spirit whfcb, under God, will conquer the 'world. This is the consecration at which heaven rejoiees, and trenibles. 'Whatever it be, la bor-or suffering, doing or giving, living or dying, to• which .you are summoned, be ever able to say, "ready fort ither." - :The Cionstantinople correspondent of the World says, iiir a recent letter: • • • If the. Turkish Bible, now about to be printed hero by permission of. the govprnment, comes into general,eirculation, it will have, an immense influ ence npon the: minds of the people, in a literary as well as religious peint of View, and (io much to render-practical the.' education which the Turks receive in childhood, , T understand .that the Bible is to be published by the4merioun and British Bible Societies to gether, and thai the New Testament will be issued dulling.' the 'Present summer. This new edition is Rev. Dr. Goodell's translation, revised and adapt ed to tpie Ostnanlis by Rev. Dr.:Schauffier; and it wilLbe un immense improiement upon any trans lation now in existence--the present version by Redhouse being_ very unacceptablebei to the Turks. Rev. S. W. - Liwis, who left this country some time since, as a minister and missionary, with a aorarkayi.of : emigrants to Hayti, writes back en couragingly,of his reception, and of the country as.a geld for, missionary, labor, and a home for the , colored'people . "of the Upited States. IRMO "Li 5. THE KINGDOM OE CHRIST. 1,300,000,000 100.00 per cent Total, (100.0 per cent) 350,000.000 "READY FOR EITHER." NEW - TURKISH „BIBLE. X. Y. Evangelist Tract Journal.
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