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.
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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
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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.