166 atztrian treslaterian 1: tante drnotiot. THVILIDAT, JUNZ 13, 1801. JOHN W. MEARS, EDITOR. ASSOCIATED WITS, ALWEHT BARNES, GEOROR DUFFIELD, JR. THOMAS BRAINERD, JOHN JENKINS, HENRY DARLING, THOMAS J. SHVHERD GOOD SOLDIERS. One wonders at the fulness and instructiveness of the parallel which may be run between the sol dier and the active Christian. The Scriptures themselves have set the example of making such a comparison. The times in which we live and the scenes occurring at our doors, give a new force and interest to these comparisons. Let us follow them out in two or three particulars, such as na turally suggest themselves at this time. What, then, are the marks of a good soldier as we have seen them exhibited already in the noble 'volun teer army 'which has sprung up, as if by magic, for the defence of the government? 1. Freely offering oneself. We have just wit nessed the sublime and unparalleled example of a nation's citizens offering themselves almost en masse and without a moment's delay, or hesitancy, at the call of the government, for the perilous and deadly work of battle. If the authorities of the nation bad asked a million of men to arm them selves and to risk their lives in its defence, who doubts for a moment that it would have bad them —that in fact it very nearly has them now in va rious stages of preparation? Instead of conscrip tion and impressment, the military authorities are compelled to reject myriads offering themselves in advance of the present exigency. Such zeal and Blearily will go far to constitute these men good soldiers. In full view of toil, hardship and extreme peril, they willingly en list in this service. Their whole souls are in the work. It is not a mere routine of business they are mechanically pursuing. It is not the mere beaten track of habit or custom they list lessly fall into. It is not doing so much work for the single object of getting so much pay. Pass able soldiers are made by such motives. But sol diers of the noblest type, like Philip Sidney in Holland, or Is Fayette in our Revolution, like our forefathers in that struggle, and like their•de seen dents, who have not degenerated in the struggle of to-day, are the self-sacrificing, devoted volun teers who need no other motive for imperilling their lives, but a sense of tbe supreme importance and eternal justice of the object for which they fight. Far above all mercenary motive, all mere -rou tine, all compulsion is the Christian soldier in his enlistment under the banner of the cross. He is made willing in the day of Christ's power. The struggles of his sinful heart once over, he cheer fully and unreservedly- devotes himself to the Redeemer's cause. Before, he bad been the hap less slave of sin and Satan, impressed into their service and receiving their wages, which is death. Ile never was free until grace emancipated him, and he walked at liberty only when he obeyed God's command and entered upon his service. To him be freely offered himself, - without a scruple Its wea , an. in uence, his all. Solemnly, yet with glad readiness, he takes his sacrament, he swears the oath of allegiance, he pledges his service to the Captain of his Salva tion in the cup which is the memorial of the great conflict of Gethsemane and Calvary; and from season to season he comes forward cheerfully to renew that pledge with but one regret, and that is, that he has so inadequately fulfilled its obliga tions and realized its privileges. 2. Good soldiers endure hardness. They leave comfortable homes, the pleasures of social life and the liberties of the civilian, to live in the open field, on coarse and uncertain fare, and under the strictest and most laborious discipline, and the sesol ute .control of superiors; they meat make lung marches, dig trenches and keep watch by night and by day. They are kept in ignorance of movements, which will jeopardize their lives, until the very moment of the struggle: They must spend intervals of days or weeks even, with out special excitement, to break the monotonous routine of camp-life, and without seeming a step nearer to the coveted object of their pursuit. All this, and much more, good soldiers will endure without a murmur. And, to a great extent, the officers must share in these privations and crosses of a soldier's life. It was Timothy whom the Apostle charged to endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. And ministers and Christian people must learn to endure hardness in the line of their Christian pro fession. They must learn to practise self-denial, and to bear the daily cross. They must learn to yield their owu preferences, to sacrifice their eke ribbed indulgences, to wean their affections from earthly objects, tc, crush violent tempers and to humble their pride. The good which the world I diered them for its service they must renounce, the ease which they might have enjoyed in suffer ing the sway of sin to continue undisturbed in their souls they must shun, the pleasant social ties formed among the unregenerate *they must sunder. By adhering to principles, by preferring to serve God rather than mammon, they will be brought into straits and hardships, they will be misunderstood, despised, hated and envied. De siring to serve God, in the ministry they will re nounce opportunity for emolument, and spend a life in humble and trying circumstances. Eager to plant the banner of the cross upon distant and la - stile territory, they turn their backs upon home and friends and submit to the camp life of the Home Missionary in the Far West, or bury them. selves amid the strange and "repulsive sur roundings of heathenism. And all, in their va rious spheres, must be content to labor faithfully iu the ordinary, every day, life of the Christian, day after day and week after week; not growing supine and restless because the din and stir of great movements are not incessantly going on around them; not requiring the excitement of an extraordinary revival 'to keep them at their posts; not depending solely on the stimulus of a brilliant success to keep up their spirits; but enduring hardship, in every form, as good soldiers. 3. We may add as a prime quality—disciplined bravery. The man who cannot expose himself fearlessly to death is not fit to be a soldier. Ho who will pause a moment before the most hazard ous undertaking from fear of personal risk, pea oesvo, not the stuff of which true soldiers are made. It is the soldier's business to imperil his life without dread. But not without consideration, or for some end worth a life, which can only be gained by such risk. The men of the British army who went to certain death in the several at- tempts to blow up the gate of Delhi, were truly brave; they saerificed, but did not throw away their lives; for the end in 'View was imperative; the gate must be 'Opened 'and no other way was practicable but one involving the risk which they underwent. The lamented young Ellsworth was equally brave, but alas! his valuable life was sac rificed in needlessly rousing the murderous passion of a single bad man against himself, by an act which any other could have done as,well as he. Our volunteer spirit is well exhibited in such cases as his and that of Col. Kelley. It is undis ciplined, impetuous but genuine, bravery. It Obafes under' restraint and needful delay. It talks of flinging itself, like an avalanch, upon the enemy. And, indeed, there is no prodigy of va lor to which it is unequal. The spirit of our ci tizen-soldiery will lead to deeds which will ring through the world and write deep marks on the pages of history. But discipline, subjection to a supreme will, regard to time and circumstance must come in to make this rough prowess avail able. So there is zeal without knowledge among Christians:" There is readiness to endure persecu tion, and to sacrifice life, if need be, f in adhering to one's Christian profession. There must be such a spirit to make a man a true Christian. That many true Christians, in these days of religious li berty, shrink at the thought of martyrdom, is no proof that theY would be found wanting if : the trial actually came upon them. The true Chris tian, as a true , soldier, is willing to suffer every thing, even death, for his Saviour's cause. But he must know how to make his life and services tell, and not throw them away needlessly, as did thousands of the victims of zeal without know ledge in the early days of Christianity, who pressed themselves upon heathen officials and eagerly sought a martyr's death at their hands. Such will-worship effects little for the cause it professes to iepresent. Christ was brave enough to drive out from the temple with . a whip of small cords the money changers and traffickers, who turned that house of prayer into a den of thieves, yet he slipped away from the crowd who thought to dash him headway from the precipice at Nazareth. Paul, who had courage, enough in him to furnish out half-a-dozen soldiers, was not ashamed to be let down in a basket from the wall in bis flight from Damascus; and though he boldly faced a Jewish mob, he was not willing to be foully as sassinated by 'a band of Jewish conspirators. Young conireits, like Volunteers, are apt to make a great flourish with their religion. In their en thusiasm for personal holiness and for the cause of Christ they discern no obstacles,, and they do, indeed, often perform wonders. 'But just as often they make great mistakes. . They would hasten, unequipped, to the pulpit, or to some high sphere of Christian duty. More experienced Christians seem slow• to them. Perfection is just within their grasp. They need the guidance of the well weighed word of God, the drill of daily, regular, religious exercises, the influence of experienced guides and teachers, and the discipline of the bat tlefield itself: the sight of the enemy and a taste of his power. Their bravery must be organized with that of thousands of others. Brave soldiers alone will not conquer, we want a disciplined army of brave soldiers. Possessing these and like characteristics, and moving forth under her great Captain to victory, the Church of God shall present a spectacle, at 'ehto n and ani and an& o els than ask with wonder and j . T, , 1 /0 LIIS bant - rm:nretif - rtnvfir - tr a the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible 'as an army with banners?" NIGHTY IN THE SCRIPTURES. This was high praise for Apolloa. It described an element of success with him, quite as import.. ant as his eloquence already mentioned. He was thoroughly acquainted with the Scriptures as then existing. He was familiar with them, as an old soldier with hia trusty weapons. He knew their stores of argument, illustration and appeal, and could draw them forth and wield them as the oc casion demanded. His mind was familiar with the whole range of Messianic prophecies, which had just found their remarkable verification in the person and work of Christ. The common argu ments and cavils of opposing "Jews and Gentiles were equally familiar to him, and from the same Scriptures he drew his skilful and effective refu tationa of them. With a.well-stored memory and a good judgment, supplying him with apt quota tions, and an insight into the relations of Scrip ture, enabling him to compare spiritual things with spiritual, and to give to single truths thegreat advantage of comparison with other truths, his discourse had the dignity, the weight, the autho rity, almost, of inspiration itself. He was mighty in the Scriptures. It is a distinction to be coveted by every minis ter of the Gospel. Too many of us are ambitious only of the first-named quality of ApoHos—elo quence. It is, indeed, a most important attribute of every one whose business is with the multitude. But it is quite as important, and far more worthy of a Christian minister's ambition, to be mighty in the Scriptures. One can scarcely be this, without being eloquent also. Familiatity_with the Divine WORD is familiarity with the very source of elo quence. He who seeks power in the pulpit chiefly by the development of his own oratorical gifts, by the culture of style and by the play of the imagina tion, even in the sphere of religious truth, com mits a professional blunder as well as a sin. He substitutes the enticing words of man's• wisdom for that method of preaching which is in de.mon stration of the Spirit and of power. That preacher is Most mighty who is mighty in the Scriptures. The faithful, close, scholarly, as well as prayer ful study of the Scriptures, should form a part of the every day life of every minister of the Gospel. He should not only read the _Bible As a matter of devotion, but he should study it in the spirit of an exegete. The investigations begun in his semi nary course should never be laid aside. With every auxiliary in his reach, he should endeavor to acquaint himself with the ~true mind of the Spi rit in his inspired word. Not its a mere narrow dogmatist, searching the Scriptures for single proof-texts 'on which, irrespective of their con nexions, to build his precise and artificial structure of opinion; but with comprehensive views, taking into consideration the times, the circumstances, the connexions; let him seek to acquaint 'himself with the Scriptures as such, with the writers and the books as such. • It is surprising and painful to notice how little attention, in handling Scripture, is paid to the connexion of passages.- That tact in interpreta tion, which arises, in great part, from a conscien tious regard to every point in the context, or known circumstances of the writer, which can throw light upon the subject, is, we fear, a rare professirmal quality. Preachers seize upon a pas sage which, from some striking verbal quality, be comes a good'motto, and then go off into a ser- A, l n t ritait Txt e ollittrian and 07ventoct gitangtlit, mon which may be very eloquent and very grand, but which betrays an utter recklessness -of the sa cred writer's purpose in penning it, and which is mighty in anything but the Scriptures. A test, doubtless, may be made to serve as a motto, but care should be taken not to make it responsible for the preacher's independent utterances. The truth is, the preacher's utterances ought not to be inde pendent of Scripture at all. Our ambition, as preachers, should be to be increasingly Scriptural in the whole spirit of our instructions to our flocks. A skilful Scriptural preacher will be the most interesting preacher. Frequently nothing 'opens up a subject more richly for purposes of sermo nizing than the careful study of the context. The inspired plan of thought of which the text forms the central idea, is the very one around which the energies of the preacher and the interestof the people will most readily and profitably gather. And for effective illustrations of the truths handled in the pulpit, the Bible is unrivalled. Indeed, large portions of it were put on record for this very purpose. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples; and they are written for our admonition, upon whom ,the 'ends of the world ,are come. Even the best proofs of the divine authority of the Scriptures are found in the fulfilled pro phecy, the sublime precepts and the delineations of a perfect life they contain. The true offensive weapon of the Christian minister, as of the Chris: tiara soldier, is the sword of the Spirit, the Word of. God,—a weapon quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart Woe to the preacher who suffers it, to rest in its scabbard, while he flourishes his showy weapon, fabricated in the schools of men! For one more, and a very , serious reason, should the preacher of our'day be mighty in the Scrip tures. It is a time when men, speaking and writing in . the English tongue, have become mighty against the. Scripture& It once could be charged against infidel writers that they were densely ignorant of the object of their attack. They wrote from a blind and wicked prejudice. That day is, gone by. It has passed , long ago in Germany; and now, after some delay, it is passed with writers against miracles in the English tonoue. A school of infidels, has arisen within 47, • the pale of the Church of. England, who have ap plied themselves more earnestly to the study of, the originals of our Scriptures, perhaps, than any race of English theologians before them. We must be prepared for them. Our enemies must not know more of our cause - than we do ourselves. Duty to our : endangered flocks requires us to return from any mere quest after rhetorical power, and to ap ply ourselves to attaining a more expository style, —to hecoming, if possible, mighty in the Scrip tares. THE ATTITUDE OF ENGLAND. The government and the press, generally, of England have thus far exhibited a decided lean ing to the cause qf the rebellion. With extraor dinary promptness the right of the rebels to is sue letters of marque has been fully recognised. Advantage is taken of the fact that our govern ment refused to become a party to the international compact of Paris, in 1856, by which privateering was abolished. England, France, and other Eti --r.""n .owers• agreed to-its-a-tiee7-,- aDrm , , , • . nyva_wp Ruppese remains, and will ever remain, unaltered against the morality and legality of the practice. This being the rule for her own guidance, it is the more surprising that when she had an election in the matter, she has coolly chosen to treat men in rebellion against a friendly pper, 'according to a rule not her own, and which would work disas trously to the commerce of that power. The com parisons by which her course has been justified only make the unfriendly purpose more evident. The cases of Holland and Belgium, of Turkey and Greece, are out of date,—because at that time the right of privateering was universally acquiesced in,—and the insult of comparing the present re hellion to that of Greece against Turkey is mon strous. England has a perfect right to do all she has done, and she is right, in all, if she designs to sanc tion the cause of the rebels as just. She is giving, guardedly, and yet , truly, through the parliament and the Press, just such moral countenance to the rebellion as we should expect of those who sympa thized with its objects, and who regarded the Fede ral Government as intolerably oppressive and un just to the rebels. Whether this is to be the settled policy of England or not, we cannot fore see, though we should hope not. Irenmus, in the New York Observer, thinks it will be; and ex presses himself to that, effect in a sentence which sounds strangely in the colums of a patriotic journal. He says: "Instead of being surprised at this, [attitude of Englandj it is nothing more than we had reason to expect, and we shall see more of the same spirit as our troubles thicken and the possibility is made apparent of breaking up the Republic of the West." This - sounds very like a prediction of grave disaster to our cause, such as will put the Federal Government in a more unfavorable attitude in the eyes of the world than it has ever yet been. Ire nmus may have some light, (or some darkness,) on the subject not possessed by men generally, which warrant him in such a discouraging view of the future, but we think the Observer_might be better engaged than in painting such shadows on the future of our gloriouil cause. They can, serve no possible good purpose. For ourselves, we have great hope that England dull not only find "no farther show of reason in the conduct of the Fede ral Government for coquetting with the rebels, but shall be more and more convinced of the grave error she has already committed,* and shall, with the whole civilized world, receive startling and salutary proof of the invincible nature of a reiub lican government, even when assailed by her own, hitherto invincible sons in rebellion against her. Already vigorous use has been made of such means as were . at band to disabuse the English mind of its false impression bn the subject. In ReV. Dr. M'Clintock, of the American Chapel- in Paris, our 'country has a most able and zealous representative. As early as the 29th of April, at the Annual ; esleyan Missionary Meeting in Lon don, he most successfully exhibited the true po sition of our .affairs, and replied to the misrepre sentations of the London Times. Since then, Cassius M. Clay, our Minister to Russia, and Dr. Motley, the Historian of the Dutch Republic, have both used-the ; columns of that paper for the same purpose. The argument of the historian is especially clear, full, convicting, and dignified. Secretary. Seward's explicit letter of instructions to Mr. Dayton, our' Minister . to France, has also appeared-in Europe, and though,the .Thnes still • The World calisit " England's mistake of a COnturY-" raves, we hope for a decided change in the public sentiment of England before long. The London Daily News, a paper of the highest character and of very extensive circulation, has always intelli gently upheld our cause, and we refer our readers to an extract in another column, from whichthey may gather the animus of that paper. Anffnow, since the seat of the rebel movement is' the city which has the-dishonotable distinction, in the eyes of all Englishmen, of "being. the only-place in the United States in which the. Prince of Wales was insulted, in his tour of last year, we may expect some other feelings to come into play besides an eager grasping after a, supply of cotton, anger at a protective tariff, and jealousy of the growth of a power founded on 'republican institutions. We look for sympathy from the loyal heart of Old England, which is inherently respectful to right ful authority, and which revolts from. all social disorder, except in righting the palpable and tremendous wrongs. Delightful are some of the outgushing and frank expressions of sympathy we have ; had from French Protestant sources. One of them - is alluded to in the last number of the Methodist from which we quote: But the noblest utterance, that has been Made on this side the water, wheAher in England or France, is that of the Comte de Gasparin, in his Tin Grand Peupie qua'Sc relive, (The uprising of a great people.) In his preface he tells us that t be ' has been told t wait for the results of the American strife he 4 comtaitting himself. He replies, with the,gran eur, of a noble soul: "I am not sorry to be able to give my:plaudit to duty be fore it has been crowned with success. When the success is achieved, there will, be no lack of voices to chant its praises. . - . it is our higher duty to support our friends when they, need our, support: to strengthen them with our moral power at a time when thOr battle, instead of being gained, is• hardly begun. , We cannot escape our share of responsibility in one of the gravest son fficts of our, age. We mil take -sides for the Slave States are losing no time. They have pro fitted well by the adiantages which the complicity of Presidentßuclidnatt's cabinet has afforded -r them. The very audacity of the South has giien it a certain iciat. Dvert among us, its partisans hold up their. heads. And are we to remain,mute, listening to the co i sels ofthat fatal wisdom which, for fear of sp‘ king too soon, allirays speaks too late? :' The body of the boar is devoted to a history of the Meta which pr ceded the election of Mr. Lincoln and - to an esimate of the relation of par ties, political and e&lesiastical, in the United States. These topi are treated with rare know ledge of the - subject" and with great sagacity: There are mistakes, Al' course,..andsoine..of them are very serious ones;, but nothing else could - be'ex; Emoted in the workof a foreigner, treating a subject i . . & . so full of intricacy, and bristling with facilites on every side. The w der is, not that there are some grave blunders but that there are not many in mere. 4 The concluding el Ater abounds in grand and noble sentiments. We owe the United States at least the support four sympathy. At this supreme moment intheir history,.they need, more than we might thin' to be cheered by words of encouragement. 't us not hastily declare that a. the Union is lost; t t there are now two confede racies in America, s ntiiiig before the world upon an equal footing; a that the United States of Slavery are to have eir great part to play on the stage of i lmtions, as ell as the United States of Freedom. - Let us t forget that the Union has often seemed to be list before. Those'who are frightened at pre se dangers, forget the perils that environed there tile. of the great republic : rebellious armies, riiv hies of ambitious chieftains, threats of separat,i4o . anarchy, and ruin.. Yet the great Re.publici then so weak, has become strong as the world4eceqt±ly believe& it, in spite • k own au ts.. - CNthen AfftiblidsiF, rciie - Kgainst England she_ had neither commerce : rt‘tanufactures, nor a navy. Yet such has been its oietsowering force, that, contemning all danger, it eas ‘ sen. quered all obstacles by the might of its natib* watchword—" Go> abead,"—and in spite of inter".. nal struggles, crises and backslidings, it has become a mighty nation. * , * * Let us not then imitate the enemies of America, who, have gone into mourning over the, defunct republic, who nickname it as the Disunited States, and find, in:its present struggles, a fit topic for criti cism. The generous struggle for humanity and country now going on in America deserves, not our scoffing, but our sympathy and respect." A MINISTER ILL-TREATED. We have received a communication from a mi ,. nistei of our connexion in one of the border slave States, which gives evidence of a- sad state of things among the pimple' to whom •he haaith fully ministered, giving them his services for ; several, years almost gratuitously, and distributing among them, books,and periodicals, to: a very con siderable amount, at his own expense. Below is a portion of his letter', dated June 3d. We sup press all names for obvious reasons:— J - REv. J. W. MEAns; Dear Brother :—I have just read "The Story of a-. Refugee" in your last, May 30; and it griees me to make public the t shameful conduct of ome of the members of my church and congregation towards me on last Sab bath. I'preached at .on last Sabbath, May 26th. After service, I dined at a certain house where secessionism runs - very high—where I have been long ohne set down as a "Black Republican," Sce., &c. I had not been long there when I was accused of having their postmaster removed— boxes detained on the R. R.,—men ar rested, and threatening letters sent to different parties along this route. A threatening epistle was handed me by one of the male members of the house. I read it, and found, to my astonish ment, that I had "done and said awful things," "acting as a spy for' Mr. Lincoln," and that I must not preach there any more. The parties who wrote the note being well known to me, I thought fit to keep itil therefore pocketed it, whereupon a certain iy&lividual caught me by the throat and swore by his Maker that if I • did not ' give up the document 'I must die on the spot. I told him, and all around me, that I was, in their hands, but they could not frighten that note out ' of me, and keep it ..I would, till- such times as I got a copy. I must say I was very roughly han dled, and the conduct of these Members of the Church of Christ caused me to weep bitterly. Now my brother this - transpired in and that on God's holy day. I cannot begin to tell - you of the insulting language made use of, also the threats, on thin painful occasion. Suffice it to say, my life was in danger: and for what ? Simply because I am discharging my duty to my country and my God. , I, too, "am _prepared to meet the responsibilities of the hour," and .I will nip treason in the bud wherever I see it in my travels. I know lam doing my duty, and I can look to the. God of nations and claim protection. WlCen, 0 God, wilt thou arise in thy might and espouse the cause of thy people who cry day and night unto thee? 0, make known thy mighty power in the destruction of thine enemies. Amen. I would state here that, this is my third year at this place. I preach 'every alternate Sabbath; missed four Sabbaths only ? during the above time"; have - travelled- 'More' than five thousand - miles; ' have given to the poor, and to the congregation of this place, in books,,clething; &e., upwa7ds of one hundred dollars; and do not be surprised when-I tell you that -all I have received -from this people, from:first to last, is two hundred and seven dollars. - . It is needless to state, despite all their efforts• to take the note from me, I did not give it up, till Bro. wrote me a copy. • There are noble exceptions to such a state of feeling, though few in„nuniber in the congre , gallon. They were knot aware of the indignity above described at the time. With them is ap. parently the wealth and respectability of the com munity,,while the fierce advocates of secession make up in violence and in numbers for what is wanting in other respects. It is very evident that there are extensive. sections of the country, in hailing,, distance of. the border, and far in the rear of -the Federal anny', that will need to be summarily dealt with, before loyal men can be secure from violence and assault. ORDINATION AND INSTALLATION OF MR. JOHN B. REEVE. This interesting ceremony took place on Tues day evening of last week, June 4th, in the Lom bard Street Central Church. The.• church is under the care of the Fourth Presbytery of Phi ladelphia, and wail the field . of that lamented and faithful laborer among the colored population of Philadelphia, Rev. Stephen H. Gloucester. Since his death, two other ministers have, for compara tively brief periods, occupied the pulpit; but for some time it has been vacant, and Mr. Reeve will be cordially welconied to the occupancy of a large and important field of labor in our city. . - The sermon was preached by Rev. Ahn 'Mc- Leod, fronst,the text, Matthew xiii. 39; "The har vest is the end of the world." The constitutional questions were put by the Moderator, Rev. Dr. Brainerd, Who made the following statement in reference to the candidate.: He was thirty years of age, it- 'native of New York, having been born on Long Island. After completing a very satisfactory course of literary studies, he bad entered the Union Theological Seminary of New York, from which he had gra duated with honor. Having been invited to preach for this congregation on trial, they sub sequently called him regularly to become their pastor. In the afternoon of yesterday the Pres bytery examined him thoroughly upon theology, ecclesiastical history and church government, and listened to an ppitema of _:a sermon by him, all of which resulted to the most entire satisfaction of that body. He was said to be a young man of high promise. 'lt had been his (Dr. B.'s) lot to attend the installation of -three former pastors of that church, and also to attend their three fune rals; and he felt that he;could congratulate the congre.ation upon the fact that, in none of his predecessors had they secured a more promising , addition to the, pulpit ,of Philadelphia than in their 'present selection/ 1 Dr. Brainerd-then;offered the ordaining prayer. The charge to the Rev. Mr. Reeve was given by Mr. Barnes, the candidate rising. His remarks respecting the duties he had assumed were solemn, affectionate, and, impressive. - He congratulated Mr. Reeve .upon his attainments and qualifica tions for the - office, and referred' especially 'to the 20,000 of his race in Philadelphia, before and among Whom he was in a position to wield a good and a great influence. As a Presbyter, he was now their equal. After another hymn ' the charge to.the congre gation' was delivered by the Rev. Mr. - Bruen ; after which -they were dismissed with a benedic . bon. Mr. Reeve (says the Press) is of pure African stock, has a fine, intelligent countenance, and physically, is a fine spebimen of a -man. EDITORIAL JOTTING. - HONOR TO WHOM HONOR.—We have placed on our last page a considerable part of the lively •and picturesque description of the march of the New York Seventh to the defence of National Capital, which is contained in the last Atlantic Monthly. And we take occasion here to express our sense of obligation to those noble volunteers who, in that darkest hour of our country's history, when our Capitol was surrounded on 'every side with open and concealed foes, and our prestige as a great power was receiving'a blow from which it is only beginning to recover, responded as one man to the ealrof the imperilled government, and fur. nislied one of the two or three bodies which started fully equippe'd'und armed, even to a battery of ar tillery, upon theirimportant errand. Considering the work which then connexion with the Mas sachusetts Eighth perfOrmed in opening the An napolis route to Washington, considering the im pression made by the unanimous action of a body, of their social standing upon all sections of the country, regarding the part they performed in the recent advance on Virginia, and, the present con nexion of large numbers of the officers and men with other regiments, we feel that too high an es timate can scarcely be paid upon their services; and that instead of receiving ungenerous criticisms, they emphatically deserve well of their country. Long jive the NEw. YORK , • • THREE CONDITIONS. OF SUCCESS The following is extracted from the remarks a Rev.. G. R. H. Shumway, of Newark, N. .T ~ at a union service, on Sabbath, May 12th, for the Newark and Sodas volunteers : And just here, let me name three things im portant to:be noticed as conditions of success in the conflict before us. I mention , first, the unqualified approval at the bands of our people, of the hostile position of the government towards the Southern rebellion. On this point there should be no misgiving-.:Lno half felt, half uttered endorsement of the govern ment, in doing the best possible to be dene, to .put down the rebellion and suppress the seces sion heresy forever. on, would be use less; concession would be suicidal. If, in putting down rebellion, war must come, let it come; if civil war, the worst of allwars, let income. The heart-sickening aggravation of the crime, now in the process of being perpetrated against property ; law, order, humanity, civilization, the Country and God, is the certainty, that a civil war would follow, in which father and son, bro ther and brother, members of the same family, disciples of the same faith, subjects of the same government, will meet in deadly strife. The plotters of that crime expected all. this. Be it so; it is- no fault of ours.—All the more firm must we be for the right of law and government; at whateVer sacrifice of feeling or life. So was Brutus, who after having put down tyranny, and established the Roman republic, sat upon the throne of judgment. His two sons were brought before him, and tried as conspirators. They were convicted. V hat will Brutus do ? loving father as he is. Does he waver? For a moment hp. covers his face, and then, looking down upon his sons, he says: "'Actors, do your work." Terrible as war is, there is 'something worse than war. The triumph of treason; the reign of anarchy, always a reign of terror, is worse than war. To lose self-respect, to put off man hoo4, and to confess urselves only,fit to be plun dered by lawless banditti by land, and merciless piratew by sea, is worse -than war. To surrender all personal, social and religious freedom, is worse than war. 0, think what it is, for which we rally now. is for OUT country, and at our country's but what is," our country?" Something more than party; something more than power; some thing more than our fertile fields, and broad acres, and mighty rivers, and thronging millions; something wore than our world-wide commerce, and-national affluence. • Our Country is our home; ourftre-side joys, the dear ones there—cur domestic peace, our 'house hold altars; freedom of speech, a free pen, a free s press, a free pulpit, free - schools, free locomotion, freedom tO worship God; laws of our own making, rulers of oui own choosing; these are our Coun try. But to these we must addi our noble.an cestry and national history; the tears, the. toils, the the treasure, the blood, e tnemorY of sires who ' fought andfell at Lexington, Bunker Ilill, Sara- . tega i Trenton, Brandywine and Yorktown; all this- . it oar Country. South Carohaa,Y where Marion and Sumtersleep, Virginia where our Washington is•entombed, Louisiana, where our Jackson fought, and „Tenuessee, where .he is buried, Kentupky„, wbeie+ reposes the ashes of patriot son, whose voice was always for the countryand union, and who, said among his last public ptterance,s, "If Ken tucky to-morrow unfolds the banner of resistance, will never fight,under that banner.: I-owe a paramount allegiance to the Union, a-subordinate one to my own State;" these are parts of our , Country. An inheritance,tMade up of richer immunities, and nobler institutions, and prouder memories, than have been the` possession of any other people. Shall we not cherish it, liVe for it, and, if need be, die for it? Dumb be the torignethat diaparages it I palsied be the hand that assails it ! infamous be the names-of those who seek to destroy it! If any people ever had a country in peril, a country worth living for, worth dying for; deny people ever had justice on their side, in battling for their country, we are that people, and ours is that country. As another condition of success in the struggle before us, we must repose unwavering confidence in the wisdom and energy of the government. It is entitled to all this; many and peculiar difficulties have been in its path from the first. The rebellion-had become gigantic, before the go vernment had leave or power to move for...its sup pression. .Traitors were everywhere. The North was disarmed, and by a process which armed the South. The Nerth was divided. The South was united. Hence that seeming tardiness in the movements, of our rulers, of which some have com plained, and of which they complained all the more, because they were uninformed of what was needful to be done, and of what was possible to be done. A great nation has stood for weeks, for months, all motionless, we have thought, in the presence of armed, rampant, rebellion I There has been caution; it was called for. There has been forbearance also, and all the more terrible will be retribution when it comes. If England, as 'Wellington said, " could not afford a Wile war," with more reason may that be said of this country; at this juncture. "The mill of the gods," said the ancients, "grinds slow but it grinds to powder." But, above all, our trust' for success m=ust be placed in. God. If he is with 118 and for us, all shall be-well.—Let us not trust in our wealth, in our numbers, in our rulers, in our army. May our rulers, may our people, may our soldiers trust in God. What Washington was for worth, for courage, for great ability, his simple trust in God made him. The prayer"of his at Valley Forge, by, the river side, when the tears rolled down his face, was a pledge of his country's triumph.—The soldiers of Croinivell's army, were the invincible soldiers, because, they were such men of faith, and men of prayer. Such too,was Havelock. May 'our volunteers pattern,after these examples-- Guns and Bibles should. 'go together. We want bayonets that can think not only, but bayonets that can believe and pray. . • CHICAGO -CORRESPONDENCE. Chicago, Tune 4, 1861. DEAR PRESBYTERIAN :—Senator Douglas died yesterday, at the Tremont House in this city, at 9 'o'clock, A. M. He is "lying in state, " to-q ay, at Bryan Hall, preparatory , to his removal to Wighington for burial. A move is on foot at Springfield to secure his interment there; but it will probably fail, for the reason that his wife -desires to have him hild at Wishington, having reasons of her own in that direction. TO city is now draped along the principal streets; and there is a sincere sorrow for his death, wider -than the range of his personal and late political friends. He possessed the power of attaching persons to hiin, in a remarkable degree. Per haps no public; man, since Henry Clay, excelled him in this; and had - he liVed, I regard it as no improbable thing that he would yet havl been President of the United States. His lasrpuh lic Movements gave him' a renewed strength with the people; and he possessed great skill in turning incidents to his account. His death has taken place at .a good time for his reputa tion—better than at any, since his great politi cal blunder of the repeal of the Missouri Com promise. His removal now, will afford the op portunity for parties to form themselves, accord to their choices, when this war is so far over as to give place for them again. But were he to be alive, his old friends would follow him; and his future position would be'quite uncer tain Senator Douglas died in the arms of the Tki man Catholic Church, Bishop Duggan being his spiritual adviser land"conholer. This answers the question, so'Often asked during the presi dential campaign, Is Mr. DonglasA Catholic ?" I have no means of knowing what was the depth of his religions convictions; but have supposed that he did not give a great amount of thOught or feel a very decided interest in religious mat, ters. He was a politician, and little more than a politician. He began the study of politics when a boy, and never intermitted that study till the last. He had read law, but was not a lawyer; had taught epool, but was not a teach er ; had been on the_ bench, but was not a judge; and had he been elected to - tbe first magistracy of the nation, would not have =been 'President, other than as the. President is the politician. I became acquainted with Mr. Douglas in the summer of 1842, having then some business with him. which opened him up tome; I formed my opinion of him then, and have never seen any cause to change it. He was a very sharp-sighted man, of things whtch were, near to him Per haps the nation never furnisbed a sharper mind. But he did not see far. His mind waenot com prehensive. He looked at particulars, and was a;man bf amazing tact; but his views were par tial and ill-balanced. He was doubtless won to the Catholic Church by, his wife, who is of that communion; and perhaps by political mo tives also. In his early stays in this city, he was an at tendant at the Second Presbyterian Church. But he became soured towards the clergy of that order, on account of their public rebuke of his Missouri Compromise' proceedings. His on slaught upon them in the Senate will, perhaps, be remembered. Afterwards he became thick with the Bap t tists, giving them a ten acre tract for a literary institution near this city, and at tended worship somewhat with them. He did not seem to care to be known here as a Catho lic; and perhaps was not very earnest in that faith, as he certainly was not in any other, His health has been bad for some years: havingnever recovered, in fact, from the severe trial' it got in his , campaign in the summer ,of 1858, with Mr. Lincoln, Prom that time it has steadily declined, and his Q personal habits long before that and since have not conduced r6-' store him. His political efforts, ever since the repeal of the Missouri Compronlise, have em barrassed-him in pecuniary affairs, and wrought upon his mind in such a way . as to unsettle his personal habits, and to derange his health; and he has sunk, at the age of. 48, into the grave, without attaining the ends of his life-long anibi tion. NEWS PAPERS Mr. C. H. McCormick has-finally retired from the , newspaper business, His success in the 'matter for which he got Dr. Rice to remov e here, was such, that he sought' to clinch it by shapin&public opinion,-through- the press. B e therefore este.blished the ..Expositor, a religious paperiw4.lsr. Riceeditor; and a daily paper called the Times, with a Virginia ex-Lieutenant 43-overnor-to conduct it. But the removal of Dr. Rice, and the we,Virginia-istic turn of a t. fairs have suspended- the first, and drove hit, into the sale of the last. So that we shall be forced to go on, in' our stupid Yankee wars, without the Virginia illumination, hereafter, The Times, it is trite, has tried to seem to b e loyal organ since the.war began; but the skin of Esau wrought no effect on the Jacob voice, and the public were a good deal more sharp sighted than was old Isaac. Mr. McCormi c k _ will probably be more fortunate in reaping in the,physical, than sowing in the moral field. Speaking of newspaperiT, reminds me that the war has given an immense impetus - to their cit. &dation.•in this region,—l mean such as are re lied on for the news. The Daily Tribune, of this city, which is by all odds the ablest of our political joniffis,'has reached a daily issue or thirty thousand, and that on a field where the New York City press pours its issues almost as thickly as abhut its own doors .The arrivals from the South continue to be numerous; and the colored part of them seem to darken the very streets. Whether they are free or fugitives, is more than I can say, since the African:cunning does not allow of much communicativeness on this head, until fully as sured of perfect safety in it; and they have been so long accustomed to be shy, that the habit is not laid aside. Great as have been the numerous trials of this North-western region, ever since it began to be settled, perhaps it has never passed through one - more severe than that of this season, on account of the stuff it has been amusing itself with, in thorendeavor to be persuaded that it was money. One , State had afloat thirteen millions of bills two months ago, not a dollar of which would draw a dollar in specie, but all of which were founded oh„State stocks. The whole system is exploded, and we have gone back to specie; having a desire to astonish our pockets once more with something which the rest of the world is accustomed to call cash. But the transition is severe, and for a time keeps business in sus• pense, although our crops are immense, and now is the time to send them to the;: seaboard. The effect on our religious enterprises is highly disastrous. That — there will be, of ne cessity, much of eurtailment,in t 4 weaker por tions of the religiouumachinery, is evident. A man without a body,is out of this world. So is an undertaking, religious or, otherwise, which has no financial existence. When the monetary body dies,,the thing itself is dead. • Our pulpits continue to speak of the war, and to draw upon it as plentifully as Paul did, for illustrationd; and not always : with quite as good taste as the Apostle used. The action of our Assembly gives great satisfaction here. Law Deo. Yours, • - WEST. EDITOR'S. TABLE. Messrs. Bnowiy & TAGGARD, of Boston, are steadily persisting in their highly commendable _design of reprodueing, in elegant.and substantial, and yet not ..costly style, the recent very complete English Edition of the WORKS OP LORD BACON. The volume before us, although the sixth issued, is the first of the set, and - Contains much prelimi nary matter explanatory of the plan of the editors, a life of Lord Bacon published in 1670, a general preface to the philosophical works, a preface to the Novuut Organum, and kpart of that immortal work itself—in the original Latin. An interest _ ing feature of the book, is the antique character of the illustrations: Lord Bacon's portrait, from an old original, and ;afac-simile, of a curious en graved title page to the I:nstattratio Magna, with the date 1620. We sajoin the publishers' circular, by which we are glad to find they receive such substantial encouragement in their enterprise: "The present issue of our edition of the Com plete Works - of `FRANots BACON, *bile it forms the Sizthivolume in the order of publication, is Vol. L of the-entire series, and also the First vo lume of tb'e Philosophical Works. 4 f The remaining volumes will be published in regular ordor from T03..1. to X. inclusive. In the First volume issued, Vol. XI, was given a Portrait of FRANCIS BACON when a youth. The present volnthe, as the first of the series, properly contains his Portrait at that period of life when these Works- were chiefly composed. "In, this connexion we are pleased to inform our subsorihers and ,those who have manifested so much interest in onr undertaking especially our friends of the Press, that our list of subscribers numbers nearly one thens:and. The increase has been progressive, and up to the present time shows no diminution." Walnut sale‘atS. 31 4 Henry's Book Rooms ) No. 406 Walnut St. Da. W. W..llarz, of New York, has done good service for our soldiers in his little work on SOL- Dira - 11EALTA, which is full of direct, intelligible and forcible -hints to soldiers, by an experienced writer on such topics. It will, be found greatly serviceable both in preventing and remedying dis ease, -accident and dissipation, in this ClEss of men, and it is 'written in a style which will ,not fail to command their attention. The book •is indeed quite'a uadc mecum containing religious reading, hymns, prayers, Soyer's Army Receipts, and se lected information on military add 'other matters which soldiers especially would be interested in knowing.. In paper covers square, pp. 27. New York: R. B. Price, 884 Broadway. PAMMETS, THE NATION'S CRISIS AND THE CHRISTIAN'S DUTY.-A Sermon preached in the Mercer Street Church, New York, by the Pastor, ROBERT IL Boom. New York: A. D. F. RANDOLPH. THE CHR ISTIANSOLDTER. A Sermon delivered in the Arch Street - Presbyterian Church, by CUAS. NI T AnswoRTH. Published by request. Philadel phia: ~LINDSAY .&, ELAM-81'0N. THE PEWRECT Law LIBERTY.—An address delivered in Rehoboth Church, lowa, July 4th, 1860, by M'DONALD. Philadelphia: Wm. S. YOUNG ) Printer. THE . DUTY OF TITS CHRISTIAN CITIZEN. — A Discourse preached in 'Lane' Seminary Churcl, I VlarchlOtb,lB6l, by L.:j. EyANs. Cincinnati: MOORE WILSTAbIi KEYS & CO Sunday School books,_ both for the Library and for the purposes of teaching : and books of Chris tian Experience,- are_ specialities with REMIT HOYT, the Boston .publisher. We have received from this publisher, through the EPISCOPAL BOON STORE, 1224 Ohistritie 4 St., QUESTIONS ON VIE ACTS OE. THE APOSTLES, .by H. Hamlin, which appear, well calculated to rouse a spirit of inquiry in the mind of the student, without being too Minute. Also, SANCTIFICATION, OR GROWTH IN dnAbh-4 Sermon, by Rev. J. Q. Adams, past"' of 4ntioc.h , liaptist Chtirchjim — nirig towards the extreme of the perfectionists on this subject. June 13, ARRPirAIa omntENcr
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