202 .. f iMffygteiiiiftt ■ >t- ! v V smm (svat«jsM. *wnfi!BH! : s9B6lS'' mi, ISifir join t: HEARS, EDITOR. • w,**'. •.*■•..*«*.• .: AMOCUTM.WITB . . ... ... ALBERT BARNES , GEORGE UUFFIELD, Jn. THOMAS BRAINERD, / JOHN* JENKINS, HENRY DARLING. I THOMAS J. SHEPHERD. 1 PROCLAMATION BE THI PRESIDENT OP, THE UNITED STATES. Whereas, A joint committee of both Houses of Con gress, has waited On the President of the United States, aEd requested him to recommend a day of public hu miliation, prayer, and fasting, to be observed by the people of the United States with religious solemnities, and the offering of fervent supplications to'Almighty God for thd safety and welfare of these States, his blessing on their arms, and a speedy restoration to peace; and whereas, it is fit and becoming in all peo ple, at all times, to acknowledge and revere the su preme government of God—to bow in humble sub mission to His chastisements—to confess and deplore their eina and aggressions, in the full conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and to pray with all, fervency and, contrition, for the pardon- of their past Offences, and for a blessing upon, their present and prospective notions; and whereas, when our beloved country, once, by the blessing of God, united, prosperous, and happy, is now afflicted with factions and olvil war, it is peculiarly fit for us to recognise the hand of God in this visitation, and, in sorrowful remembrance of our own faults, and crimes, as a nation, and as individuals, to humble ourselves before Him, and to pray for Hie mercy; to pray that wo may be spared further punishment, though most justly deserved; that our arms may be blessed and made effeatual for re-establishment of law, order, and peace throughout our country, and that the inestimable boon of civil and religious li berty, earned under His guidance and blessing, by the labors and. sufferings of our fathers, may be re stored in all its original excellency; Therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do appoint the last Thursday in September next, as a day of humiliation, prayer, and fasting for all the people of the nation, and I do earnestly recom mend to the people, and especially to'all ministers and teachers uf religion, of all denominations, to all heads of families to observe and keep that day, ac cording to their several weeds," abd !> mbde& of wor ship, in all humility, and with all religious solemnity, to the end that the united prayer of the nation may ascend to the Throne of Grace, and bring down plen tiful blessings upon our country. , In testimony whereof, &o. Abraham Lincoln. By the President, "William H, Seward, Secretary of State. THE “BANKER” AND THE “QUARTER LY” ON THE STATE 01 THE COUNTRY. We are Borry to see the spirit manifested by the Pittsburgh Banner in its notice of the Article on the “State of the Country” in the Presby terian Quarterly Review. Th 6 Banner in its ex citement, mistakes the spirit and the object of the Article. The Presbyterian Review never was, and is not now, opposed to the reunion of the two branches of the Presbyterian Church. On the contrary, it has always bedn of the opinion that the division forced by the Exscinding Branch of our Church was unnecessary and very wicked, and it has always advocated and continues to ad vocate a reunion based on correct principles. It contends against all who- oreate a schism in the bo3/of~the Redeemer, and alf who perpetuate one, and it urges always the Union of all Presby terians who are sound in doctrine and order. The Article on the “ State of the Country,” merely shows the tendency ,of unsound principles when adopted by a great body, to work out their legitimate results. Our erring brethren began by unconstitutional violence, and went on compro mising more and more with slavery, and thereby encouraged violence, unconstitutional action, and oppression. They thus began a series of actions and advocated a set of principles the same in essence as the Southern secession, and which « * have been fully carried out by the South in the State, as the Exsoinders Carried them out in the Church. Thp parallel is fairly and candidly drawn. The Exscinding Church relied upon their sue* cobs as showing that they were right, and became exceedingly arrogant. The Reviewer shows that what has been constantly pointed out as certain to overtake the “ Old School Church 1 ' has hap pened. Their violence and arrogance*sre pun ished by a dreadful schism running almost through the centre of their body. It is the great lesson that violence, arrogance and the removal of old landmarks provoke the vengeance of Providence, Now what we regret to see, is that the Banner, instead of acknowledging the truth of these things, instead of confessing the faults of their Church, and being suitably humbled in view of its chas tisement, attempts to keep up the same arrogant spirit. “ Pride,” we have the best authority for Baying, “ goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." But surely, after the fall, when Presbytery after Presbytery is seceding, when the Church which has constantly pointed to its increasing numbers and has relied upon its jtrestige of sueeess, is about to lose something like 100,000 members at a blow, this haughty assump -1 ion is unbecoming. The Banner still takes the gronnd that the Exoision was right; that our Church in protesting SgßfttstTt; and refusing to be oouneeted ecclesiastically with those who per petrated it, were wrong, and thdt the only method of a reunion is in our coming back as prodigals who went foolishly and wickedly away from our father’s house. Is there not something insanely arrogant in maintaining such views in such circumstances? If snoh dreadful chastisement as they are receiving for trampling on .eur CJonstitution and joining hands with oppression, does not produce, a better temper,' what could do so? We are—and we know that we speak the sentiments of the Pres byterian Quarterly-* ‘Cordiallyandedrnestly for a bunion of the Presbyterian Church,: on right principles. If the Exscinding Acts were repealed; if this of subscription to our Standards, an ex animo adoption ofthe Calvinistio faith and Presbyterian 1 order, to be insisted upon in the case of evcf^’<>ffi*|o r .of the Church, without the fiction of tjpsisstpta verb,a, were laid down.; if the past noble testimonies of . our Church on slavery ; were recognised as livln’gand vital, then We should to a common Church with .But what, a strangp it i% to. ffippmse-ithat it is possible for Its, for any motive or'for- hny reason, to sanction the violation of the very essence of our Constitution, and the upholding of slavery as right and Scriptural 1 , 1 . The Banner Is quite wrong and very unchari-, table in supposing that it was the wish of the Quarterly to “render" our brethren “odious" and “destroy"' their “ Church at the North.” Its EikO'ithdt of the Article published in 1852; wbilh placed the Exscinding Acts op t}ie same level with- the Act of Uniformity, fhe Acts establishing Episco pacy in cither high-handed acts of violence, its object was simply to hold up to all men the enormity of this great public sin, that The very effects which have been produced by the spirit of these’Exscinding Acts in the Secession of 1861, were then dwelt upon, nine years ago. • Ohe#of the aggiwvations of-the’- ; Exsomdtng*Acts was then said to be that this deed .was, perpetrated by an American Church, and after layingidown the characteristics of our American government as one of opinion and resting upon liberty-in-law, the Reviewer proceeded to show the natural and logical result of the unconstitutional violence,of a great American Church. “Let it become,” be said/ the; rule for every Protestant Church in America thus to laugh to scorn the benignant and noble efforts of the State to raise men up to a Heavenly condition of liberty under law, and how long can‘legislators and-judges, and the utmost power of the executive, combat the wild passions thus let loose ? Our government is one of opinion and bf rational common sense. By the might of carefully inculcated .principle, and tho considerate wisdom of grave men are the flood-gates of human madness restrained in our beloved Republic. And these flood-gates this Assembly strove to throw open by setting the example of unbridled license, breaking through-all .restraint of law, and fierce violence rendiDg asunder the cords of wise con stitutional environment.” ' >, Our brethren must drink their cup. Their an ger at us will not dash it from their lips. They are a Church of Christ, and in many respects, a noble one. But they have grievously sinned. They have committed foul wrong against liberty, against right, against law, against their brethren. When they are brought to acknowledge this, when they bow before the great Head of the Ohurch in sorrow for it, when they see that wehave been only standing up for constitutional right and freedom, then we will join hands and hearts with them in one holy, pure, free and glorious Church. But to stand sullenly aloof, still to claim superior ex cellence, to refuse to acknowledge the rod and Him who hath appointed it, this is'not the -way to ob tain favor with God or man. • How can a Union be formed in such a spirit? Ahd how can they expect us who have come through our tribulation by simply doing right, to acknowledge ourselves wrong in presence of a body broken and disor ganized for their continued and obstinate opposi tion to the right? The .Banner mistakes the spirit of our Church. We have longed to see the evidence in them bf sorrow for their grievous treatment of their bre thren. *We have longed to see the reestablish-, mcnt of true, staunch, liberal, free, godly, law abiding Presbyterianism, in the very spirit of our Confession of Faith, by a union of both branches and all sound branches of our Church. We have longed to see any thing like 7tcart in our;brethren towards those whom they haveinjured. We have not showed obstinacy or perverseness of spirit in this thing. When God gives them repentance, we will hot he slow to take our brethren to our hearts. But when the very thing we felt must be, if God were just, has come to pass; when the convulsion of a hemisphere Has brought about the punishment we knew must come, we should be recreant to truth and to Providence if we did not point it out as one of the mighty lessons that God means that mankind shall learn. PROGRESS OF OPINION: GENERAL BUTLER AND THE CONTRABANDS. It is One of the most hopeful signs of the times that a person of General Boiler’s political stand ing should have become the centre of the eman cipation movement, which, it was foreseen, would necessarily arise out of the present war. No one can accuse him of having been led into It by anti-slavery zeal. He was no secret disciple of John Brown, biding bis time impatiently, and lendings his aid to* increase and imbitter the sec tional feud, until it should be past conciliation— ready, when that crisis came, to welcome the arbitrament of war. .. . The peril of onr Consti tution and Union alone summoned him, with his thousand of true New England men; to the prompt offer of their assistance in April, and whatever he has.done to facilitate .the natural tendency of the.war towards emancipation, he has been led to.it step by step, nnder the gra dually increasing light of events transpiring around him. Gen. Butler began his present military ca reer by offering to aid Gov. Hicks of Maryland: in suppressing a slave insurrection. At the present stage of it, we are much mistaken if the Breckenridge leader of Massachusetts is not greatly in advance of onr exceedingly cautions Republican Congress and Executive. What ever may be the personal convictions of the lat ter parties, the former is far bolder in the schemes which he proposes, and in the views he advances. Witness the recent correspond ence between the General and Mr. Cameron on the whole question of the mode pf dealing with fugitive slaves in the enemy’s country. The' General’s letter refers to' his early declaration,, by which all able-bodied slaves, fit to work in the trenches; became pQUtiabftnd^fcwav^--Jpo this he still adheres, and regards himself as fully sustained in it by the’ government,. He now seeks a eolation of the question as it relates to other Classes of slaves, fugitives from, or aban doned by their masters. What civil condition should the women and children who cannot work in the trenches be regarded as holdings and what treatment shall they receive, when they take refuge in the'Hnited Stdtes lines? Es-; pecially in case of abandonment by‘rebel mas ter's, if’these negroes continue to be property,, are they not the property of those who receive; and rescue them from starvation ? “But,” says the General, “we, their salvors, do not need; and will not hold such pfpperiry. andlwili Msnmp no such ownership; hap not, therefore, all pro-, prietary relation ce&Bed? Have they not be-, come thereupon men, women and cbildren?- Have they not assumed the condition Which we hold to be the normal one of those made in Cibd’s image,? I confess that my own mind is compelled by this reasoning to look, upon them; as men and women. The General then refers to the order, issued, in Gen. McDowell’s department just previous; to the.departure of the;unfortunate expedition, to Manassas; forbidding all fugitive slaves front coming into the lines or being harbored there; and. asks whether'that order is. to be enforced in' all, military departments? and, “Who are. to be considered fugitive slaves? Is one any mdre or * eas a liTe because he has labored upon the’ rebel Ibtt'enchmenta ? If he has so latiored,' if t understand it, he is to be harbored. By the re eeptioh of which are the rebels to be mopt distressed, by taking those who have wrought all their rebel masters desired, masked their battery, or those who have refused to labor and left the battery unmasked ?” He says he has very decided opinions upon ~theksnbjeet oftbe«ordeE:Teferred«tO"abovei'3-He plainly intimates that ;if on- his, field; he shall obey it only as a .soldier must, W ll 0, if left to his own discretibn, he should take a widely different cottfse: ’ The last paragraph of the letter is remark able. We quote it entire, emphasising some of the sentiments. ~.. , • .“ In a loyal State I would put down servile in surrection, In a State of rebellion I would con fiscate that which was nsed to oppose my arms, ahd take all that properly which constituted the wealth of that State and furnished the means by which the war is prosecuted; beside being the cause of the war ,■ and if, in so domg, it should be objected that human beings were brought to the f ree enjoyment of link, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, such objection might'not require much consideration ’■ i 1 To this ingenious and noble letter, whose .le gal tone is not more manifest than its sympathy with the anti-slavery tendencies of the .-war. Secretary Cameron replies, in :a carefully pre pared paper, in which he refers to' the recent acfcof Congress,* confiscating all slaves who have been employed in the rebel trenches, (about whom, in fact, there had been no difficulty in Gen.' Butler’s mind) and-in regard toother fngi-; tives throwing no obstacle in the way of har boring them, bnt leaving the final adjudica tion of the matter to the coming session of Con gress./; • ;_ / : Loftkjnow at the difference between the posi tion of this quondam Breckehridge leader, and that of the administration—Congress included. Gen. Butler is ready to confiscate all the pro-, petty which constitutes the wealth of a rebel State/ beside' being the cause of the war. The administration have concluded to go no farther than the confiscation of such property as is ac tively employed in the war. Gen; Butler has an eye to the deserts of the slave as well as the master, when he suggests that those fugitives who" have not worked on the trenches, may have' a higher claim to be harbored, than those who. have worked and done, us; injury thereby ; and. then, with; delicate- but effective satire, he dis-' misses the objection that through the operation of his views “human beings wiUbe brought to the free enjoyment of life, liberty and the pur-: suit of happiness.” Does the Breckenridge elector mean to insinuate, that that would be an objection with a Republican Congress and Ex ecutive ? However that may be, Congress and the Executive, in the treatment of this subject, have seemed to keep steadily and solely in view the relations of the rebel slave-owner to the go vernment. If he puts his slave in the trenches, then, so soon as we have the power, we punish, him by bestowing upon his chattel the inesti mable boon of freedom ; thus rewarding the ne gro for the very act which we have declared it a crime for the master to require of, him. The interests of the negro himself are ignored by the Republican Government, and regarded by the Democratic officer. * This is a surprising phenomenon. It indi cates, a great revolution .in public opinion on this whole subject of the character and destiny of slavery. The friends-of the institution, with, great arrogance, have attempted the desperate work of revolutionizing the government In its behalf. God will make their wicked endeavor the occasion of its humiliation and. perhaps, final overthrow. And he will, in this work, make prominent use 1 of those very men, in the North, upon whom the pro-slavery conspirators relied for. aid in carrying out their nefarious schemes. - It is erroneous arid short-sighted to say that this war is a nscless expenditure of blood and treasnre, and the victory of onr forces a barren one, if slavery is not finally abolished thereby. A constitutional government would be saved and re-established, which is work enough for a century, and slavery would bo crippled beyond recovery—wounded to the death. But we shouldbe ; on the alert,for providential:openings and indications, and prepared to strike a mor tal blow at this dragging remnant of barbarism, that would stay the wheels of progress and work the ruin of the Great Republic. OUR MINISTERS IN WASHINGTON. From a gentleman who has spent a week lately in the capitol, we learn that among the true, brave, patriotic, loyal men, none have stood in advance of the Rev. Drs. Smith and Sunderland. At an early period, months ago, they publicly announced their allegiance to their country, their Constitution and their flag, and though some secessionists grumbledpthey have never swerved from their ppsirion. The Rev. Dr. Smith daily visits the Infirma-; ry as voluntary chaplain to'the sick-and wound ed—opens his house to -the sick, and acts as a good Samaritan generally to onr soldiers. In; this patriotic and benevolent labor,. Mrs. Smith is a most cordial helpmeet. May God bless .them.! ! \ ■ rd IKE; HOME MISSIONARY COMMITTEE. Dear Brother* —Please state in the'"Ameri can Presbyterian th'at the following meats have been made by. our . Home Missionary. Committee since the meeting,of the Assembly: Rev. Judson Aspinwall, Prairie City and'Oiathe, KaMsas; Rev. Hiram Gregg, Presbyterial Mission ary, Presbytery of Dayton, Ohio; Rev. John F. Severance, Niagara City, N: Y.; Rev. J. II: Trowbridge, Dubuque, Iowa; Rev. It. B. Bull, Still wafer, Minnesota; Rev. Md Wald'enmyer, Nauvoo,' * Illinois; Rev. Samuel Sawyer, Marion, Indiana; Rev. William Lusk, Piqua, O.; Rev. L. F.< Dudley, Atalissa, Iowa; Rev. Jacob Patch; Superiov City .and;Qqeota, Wisconsin;;Rov. .Isaac W. Atkcrton, Gedar Rapids, lowa. • ;i - 3 - n ’ jWe’areyloing jirhaFwe dan. ‘ But the ChurcheS should knowthat our .brethren.are suffering.from the fail ure of appointments .that ought tohemade; Mtaaidwenty-fiv'e applications ate regularly before us,; but suspended for want.of-funds.; The wilf W fpii 11. tjtieso claims ,be met? 1 Shall these Rfqthrpq be‘. appointed l, Thq, Churches alone can : answer 3 this question.. s : r:,:; IThe Churehes will understand, at 1 -the 3 tome tilde,' that we ’have now nearly one' 'hundred mis sionaries for whose., support the Comhiittee is re sponsible...:, These must be .provided for before! new appointments sre makoj, Por Both these pur- s poses tbe contributions of the Churches afe wnmei' diately needed, to .prevent ‘syfferingi 1 ; :' r J£b,e :Cbmmit^~^ :t i^^y., t Subject of a Gcneral' lnerft^ry.snd'awilllaglibinh one so soon| as, they possibly pan,_ They are anxious to procure such a man as will be efficient in his workjtand acceptable to the Churches. 'Communications and donations are to" be sent for the present, to the undersigned. Benjamin. J. Wallace, ...Associate Secretary* Philadelphi THE re: , It is a remarkable fact, and one which never theless, we are inclined to think, has been nearly in.-treating :of' the -present condition and prospects of the Papal Church, that while outward changes threatening its overthrow have been gathering to.ajcrisis that cannot'be remote; inward influences havebeen at work silently modi fying, the character ofthe Churoh, and more or less preparing it to tneet, and perhaps survive the event when it conies. Our attention has been called th this fact,i by a*very%hle- article iri'lhe July number of the Edinburgh Review, on Church Reformation in Italy, which • furnishes - the basis of what'we design tj> say on-the subject. "It-will be ‘remembered; ’that Pope Pius the Ninth/aChis InßUgliratibn-in 1817; ’quite’ startled the world. witb’tHe liberal reforms which he under took in his' government. It can scarcely be doubted that these 'reforms aided to awaken the popular mind; and a measure prepared it to participate, in the revolutionary movements of the -next year, which "brightened the amiable, pontiff into a complete abandonment of his liberal posi tion, and threw him. into the ranks of the reaction, where he; has stubbornly remain ed/eyer' since. Not so the Romish Church itself. The reforma tory attitude of the Pope in that year, but repre sented a feeling which already largely prevailed in-tbe Church, and which still exists in its bosom in a very wide and influential measure. There is a class of sincere ahd .orthodox Romanists who seek to .sympathize with the great onward move ments of the age. Im Italy, there may; be found illustrious members of the priesthood who are actuated by a profound conviction, that the na tional movement is not necessarily incompatible with the principles of the. Church., They even go so far as to argue the possibility of a "genuine alliance of the Roman hierarchy with all thatis noble, great, and enlarged in modern' civilization. They present the Church in the high ecclesiastical sense, as advancing with an extended hand to meet it. Sincerely attached to the Church, they are struck with aiarm trt beholding It fall back into a fixed attitude ef'hQg|ility to the liberal tendencies of our times in govefnment.and polities generally They philosophized deeply and ardently on the subject, until they came to regard the papacy “as the mystic keystone of that theocratic constitution on which their imagination loved to dwell.” The three distinguished French philosophers } Lamennais, Lacordaire and Montalembert, fired with enthusiastic confidence in the great capaci ties of the Romish Church, undertook a pilgrimage to Rome to convert the last Pope, to modern ideas. Two Italian philosophers, Goberti, and Rosmini, wrote largely and-' acceptably on the reformation of the Church, and the latter threw his ideas into practical shape by the formation of a new religious order called tho Institute of Charity, which is a sort of liberalized' couhterpart of the Society of Jesus, and which has drawn upon it the most violent opposition from 1 the Jesuits. After ten years discussion, it received the approval of I?ope Gregory, and is4roi| slowly ejxtending itself, being most flourishing among the Papists of England. But not. only has a new order of. liberalists arisen, the old orders of monks are pervaded more or less with the same disposition to try the ex periment of harnessing the old-fashioned Church to the traces of modern progress. That honor able, and 'comparatively pure order, the , Bene dictines, whiolf,represents the intellectual element in the Church, has become an’ object of marked suspicion to the authorities, on account of- its lh beral opinions. At Monte Gassino its printing presses were seized, and ah eminent member of the order and distinguished, historian, Father Tosti, was driven into temporary exile. Houses of this order have been exempted from suppression under the recent decree of Victor Emanuel’s go vernment. It is also' asserted that the order of Capuchins,rwho .represent the popular element of the Romish hierarchy, and who furnish the most fervSnf: ands impretesive of their preachers, are openly disposed to'pV&test against the Pope’s tem poral authority, and to throw the whole weight of their sympathy with the national movement. Even the keepers of the keys of the Inquisition, the order' wnich furnishes the two superior officers to that Institution for the suppression of human thought, 'and.blocking the wheels of human pro gress—the Dominicans, are not unaffected by the powerful current of events and ideas shaping them selves around them. These of this order who oc cupy the ancient seat of that famous Protestant Dominican of the llth century, Savonarola, che rish, it is said, some lively reminiscenpes of their eloquent brother, in spite of the ignominious and fatal sentence passed upon him. Do minicans at San ' Marco are, .however,, not. alone in their order in entertaining liberal sentiments; even those of them"who are occupying confidential posts, are regarded as infected. The Oratorians of Naples also have been so conspicuous for liberal opinions, that theus. establishment has been spe cially exempted froinfsuppression by YictorEma nuel; : . •; '> "Turning again from ’ltaly, where, it might be paferreuces operated to vUiate the genuineness of the Catholicism of these ordfersjwe find'the' same' development'of opinioii in’'places "and .persons far removed from those special influences, and above all possible suspicion as to their, orthodoxy. Of the.se, JJr,;. Dollinger in«Munieh,i furnishes" tbe'most-: remarkable;in- -This r very ? emin’ent 'scholar and divine, has recently delivered a series of lectures, in which lie deliberately examines the Pope’e tem- P.P.ral; power from every point of view, and ends byprououncing its ? cessation tohe *tO ithe advan tage of' the Church. 1 Thisis a declaration of im importancc, atf coming from the man others,, may. claim to stand.at the head of : pathoilo theology' Beienee: the result of an arghment based on grounds most elaborately orthodox, And it .strengthens our belief of the general prevalence of those libera!! ideas among the or|iiodox,f to/be able to refer, as tbereviewor in ithe Edinburgh does,to Browns'oh’s GjUarterly Review; jfrthis country 'which, in its January; number,. t |o6k grounds almost precisely identical with thatpfDr/Dollinger. -This review, bears, the sanction of all the Romish Bishops, .of this oountry on its cover. • Similar views-are being’ urged in English Roman Oitholie periodicals,' iq the management of'.which the; most eminent inen of this persuasion are avowedly concerned. ..... ,f If we thus find in=the J’agalGtqrchjigrowiogij disposition.to- adapt;-itself - to- the peqnliar wants ?of the people in onr age, we also discover in 'the' Italian government, as it was represented by the Catholic ftlavour a readiness to intake such ar rangements as;Would secure to the Pope his spi- ■ ritual dignity ihtact. Astlic Pope ceased to be a temporal sovereign, the State would cease to claim any right of interference with him as a spiritual “*potentater-«fIn w ‘ , "Words*of»Cayourf ‘|lta|y| will? no’f sooner have pronounced the for feiture of the-temporal power, thad she will eman cipate the Church from the State, aud secure the This, if,we understand jit, is offering to; put* the Pope in Italy on the same footing with Archbishop Hughes in New York, or Cardinal, Wiseman in England,- Those in ( Italy; or elsewhere, who choose; may reepgnisehisauthority, and renderhim tribute; he may assume what state he can; the govern ment will not interfere to encourage, suppress; or regulate his proceedings, so far as they are dis connected, with temporal matters. There would be no concordats, and no voice in the nomination or (elections of bishops allowed to. the government, It Js known, that a certain Father Rassigßabrought positive offers to, this effect from Turin to the: Pa pal Court. This is certainly a most.interesting state of. things,. (Could,an.agreement have been brought abqut bet.ween the representatives of na tiorial progress In Italy, and the head of a Church which gives multiplied evidence: incite most or thodox portions, and orders of liberal tendencies, them the present crisis la its affairs; might yet he safely passed. But no man living probably; is farther removed from the view of Pope Pius of 1847;;thanis;Pope' Pins of,to-day. sTbe'-offbr was rejected; and the Catholic minister who offered it is; dead, ‘‘.Gould it ever be possible^ ’’ says the Pope in-a solemn Allocution; held on the 18th of March;?;“.that,to; a civilization of suck'a-nature' thesupreme • ’pontiff should stretch out the right han'd of friendship, stoop to conditions with it, and bind himself to; alliance therewith ?” ■ In all pro bability, the Reform movement is frustrated by the action of the Pope, and - the crisis of the Church stands oUt in all the nakedness of a con flict between the old hierarchical spirit, and. the civilization and.jprogress which ate ttie ‘offspring of Protestantism-. Ricasoli is probably less • dis posed to concede to the-Papacy, than Vras his pre decessor. The golden moment hasgon'e by. Should the present Popo die soon, and be suc ceeded; by.one resembling in spirit his earlier self, the opportunity-may' come again. - We-Relieve that the conflict'in any,ease is inevitable. Popery will not, cannot reform. ;Tt is doomed. ■ CHURCH THE HOUR AND THE DUTY. In spite of defeat, and the death of one, of our bravest Generals, our encouragements in the, pre sent state of the country are neither few nor small. Two facts, especially, must be reckoned of the highest importance : the complete Union victo ry at the late election in Kentucky, and the suc cessful negotiation of a loan of one hundred and fifty millions, by Secretary Chase; with, the banks of New York, Boston and Philadelphia. The significance of these events is wonderfully enhanced by the fact that they followed close upon the heels of the fearful disaster at Bull Ran. Wo agree with tbe N. Y. Yimes, which characterizes the action of the banks in negoti ating this loan the grand victory of the war. There is now no fear that the Government will be insufficiently provided with the sinews of war; it is done ; and in such a way as to sustain its cre,djt in, the most (honorable, manner.. ; - - Now ietrthc masses of the peopleenter most earnestly upon the work. Let us give ourselves, our sons, our husbands, our friends, our minis ters, if need be„ to the service of our country. Let our better classes, let the young men of Onr churches, promptly and nobly respond to the new call of our, government. - Let ns renew onr sense of the sacredness of onr cause, which is npthiog less than the preservation of the fair est structure of liberty from overthrow and ruin. The work which onr own forefathers freely of fered, their lives to achieve, shall we, their ehil dren, for a -moment hesitate to defend and - per petuate at a similar sacrifice ? Shall we suffer the glory- of their age to tarnish in the age and at the hands of descendants; .who bear their names, and who enjoy the fruits of their labor? Is this a time to boy and to sell, to marry and to give in marriage, to play at war and. pursue the avocations of peace, when the enemy is am bushed aronnd'the city which bears the name of Washington, agffwhenrour brethren are pouring out their blood like water or languishing in re bel dungeons?. Shame, on us stay-at-home patriots I Let ns shnt up our shops,-let ns arm onr clerks and employees, let the wives, mothers and sweethearts nerve themselves to part with those they love;.nay I let them quicken/the steps of the delaying, and set an example of fortitude and cheerfulness to the. faint-hearted and the effeminate. Let us cease idle regrets and vain speculations about the policy of selfish and ig norant governments abroad, and manfully and earnestly, and in the fear of God alone, apply ourselves to the „duty of the hour. , WANT OF SYMPATHY IN ENGLAND Ah article in Blackwood for July, discloses the secret of the cold, unsympathizing attitude at least of the aristocratic party in England, towards the constituted authorities of our country, in their ef fort to subdue 1 armed rebellion.' It amounts to this, that as a class,! this' party hates and “despises America, and has always regarded with aversion and disgust the grouting, and almost unquestioned power of our government, to maintain its rights, iuthefaee offoreign bfp&sitiOn. Not bavingfound it' convenient or practicable to humble mi'them selves, the-English tories-riejdicb^at a prospect of the same result’being reached by dissension among ourselves. Says Blackwood: “The Union will certainly be vitiated by secessio'n; whethe’r violent or peaceable. . '. The influence of the States thus partitioned will certainlj? be 1 diminished? They will no inore fetain their importance, than the halves of a split diamond- will beat its'Original valftei’ = But ! fn c tti6 ! Ikmont. Of " the Federalists- for tleif lost pfes£%C we can not ’ Join . "; We shall feel as we do towards a friend, whose loss of impure tiinCe c i’s to gaitt in tlib beneficial influ ence; trhieh^ltexerts oh his ch'araeier, and whom we may well Congratulate On exchanging a pernicious suitable" position. , We’’shall no'more ha Ve forced onus’ the ub plea shtit'llthrnhtive Ofacfmitting lrTiJo;aht i i prhtensiohl' or'engaging in a sensClehs quarrel: .""’Diplomacy immensely by a change wfiieli promises to reduce' Such statesmen’ as;’ Seward; and ’ suili' officers as Harney, to their proper leVel.” ' And flie c writer' dismisses this; part of the subject,"by claiming?’to see “in seoh|sidh’ho menace to"’the bebtdfatbrests ! 'of America; and’ to ourselves a'njy advantage.” s " ' ; '' s " If Hhb empire of Prance 'or of Russia ishbuld Be come the prey ; of internal' dissensions, * thredchihg to divide'it into two bf ! ifi!ifi‘ i j|alik, , alb V ", J 'y,. ' fir of invasion from the fine, or of interference iif' India from the other, would diaappearf from the calculations of British* Statesmen like;, "manner the division of our own country, intotwo rival States, would be a great gratification to those who have regarded us as an upstart people, and ,who.-hatferepuMeaninBtitutions. „. ,i To this exhibition of tory spleen, we »re,happy. to be able to furnish an offset tfroni the columns/ of the London News, which is one of the most popular, 'as woll as able papers of - the metropolis It is from the issue of July 25th.. i “No party, we affirm, no class,of,,society, no number of Englishmen worth reckoning has ever considered the .dismemberment fof the United States ‘a desirable event’'for English’interests/’or for* the common cause df’ -human freedom;; which is as dear, to the English as to the American peo ple. Flippant cynicism, .however loud-mouthed, cannot inflict such a calumny on England. Civil war is an immense calamity, but the/triumph of a righteous cause is not too dearly bought even by civil war. It is the misfortune of liberals in the Old World that they have been accustomed to associate the triumph of ‘ law and order’ oyer revo lution with defeat of liberty and the slaughter of a people. This American Wat will teach us that rebellion is not always just, nor revolution always in the right; : For the; present it is satisfactory to find that the promptitude of our Government in conceding the rights of belligerents to the rebels begins to be understood in the North as a conces sion to humanity, not an act of sympathy with the South.” OUR DENOMINATIONAL PRESS. The Boston Congregalionalist, a most ably con ducted and patriotic paper, in noticing the spirit of our denominational issues says; The Christian Observer, (New School) is rank pro-slavery, and while not daring to ; favor treason and secession fairly andsquarely, is yet* affording rebellion all the aid and. comfort in its, power. The American Presbyterian, takes high {patriotic ground, and deserves the hearty support of the de nomination. We would inform the Congregatioriatist, that the first named paper, several months ago bought out the organ of the “ United Synod,” the Southern Secession body, which left, our church in 1857. Since that purchase, the paper'has opened an office in Richmond, and has no Other con nexion with our body than arises ftoffi the name of its editor being upon the rolls of onr church, and certain obsolete endorsements, which have not been renewed for years, and never will be. It is repudiated by ministers and laymen, in this city and ! vicinity, •and-'as far as our church-member ship extends, Southward, Wcstward, 'and Eastern from this point, with fast decreasing and insigni ficant exceptions. It is, therefore, scarcely just to speak of it; under present auspices ‘as a ‘/New School” paper. There is no denomination in the country, from which the tone and spirit of thatpaper are more foreign than ours. For the American Presbyterian. SYNOD OF GENESEE. Bro. Mears:—Will you allow me to use the columns qf the PresJiyterian, to remind members of the Synod of Genesee, that at the stated meet ing in 1860, Synod adopted the following orders of the day, for the stated meeting which will convene at Batavia, on Tuesday, Sept. 10th, 1861. On Wednesday, from 11 to 12 o’clock, the hour be devoted to the snbjeot of Church Extension, the discussion to be opened by Rev. F. F. Elliowood. In the afternoon of the same day, the hour Rom 4 to 5 o’clock will be devoted to the subject,? of Education for the. Ministry, the ‘by Rev. CKas. F. Mussy. Wedram evening, at 7£ o’clock, sermon by Rev. GeoT^SJ Folsom; subject: —Full assurance of Faith. ) On Thursday at 11 o’clock, A. M-, Rev. Dr. Cox' will speak on the elements and.perma nent effects of the later revivals. In the afternoon, the Lord’s supper. Sermon by Rev. J. B. Shaw, Rev. W. L. Hyde alternate. In the evening, the hour from 7i to 8J o’clock, will, be devoted to home missions, the discussion opened by Rev. W. C. Wisner, and from 8i to 9J o’clock, foreign missions, Rev. E. Whittlesey, leading the disu'ssion. ' I take pleasure in adding that members, who come to Synod by the Buffalo and N. Y. and E. R. R., and .pay fuU fare, will be furnishe,d";with return tickets free, on application to the stated clerk. ,-, , . .* i- Timothy STrEDMAN, Stated Clerk. For'the American Presbyterian. MISSION SCHOOLS. My Dear Editor, I am interested in the “ com pardtive statistics of mission schools, *’ as given by your contributor “ W.,” in a recent number of your paper. Allow me to ask you, or your com tributor, in behalf of many warm friends of the American Board, if you will kindly inform iis on tbe following points. / ;, - , .^n* 1. Are not the statistics of the other Societies mentioned, confessedly iinperfeet ? And are not a large ‘ proportion ■ of; the scholars ‘ they : report, in their higher, institutions? 2. What Is the' number of scholars in -the schools of the London Missionary. Society, the Churchj the- Wesleyan, and ether'European mis sionary Societies? Comparative statistics of this kind, to be of much value; should all be equally complete) and should show us the practice of all the more important missionary societies. 8. How does this (10,615) present number of scholars;: in the schools of the American , Board, compare* with the'numbQr in the-'schools ‘of this same Board in past years? • The history of the Board- shows that there have- sometimes: been 6,43Binthe schools of ■ the Ceylon mission alone, andiiinh allihermisMoris'the number has been as high as .50,000, and even 60,000. Now why this groat reduction to 10,615? Are the officers of the Board convinced that they misappropriated the funds-of the churches, in supporting so many schools heretofore fc’jlf so, .why are they not frank enough to confess jt? Or if:the late deputation made a mistake in breaking up so many schools) and the Officers f of thedßbard are now gradually returning to their formeripolicy, then why. not be fmnfoenbugh tosadmit? this,'too? 'Were schools : with -.60,000- scholars'supported a: few years ago; ; because those:-in r the -Sandwich Islands cost--the Board-but-dittle? Then why did- the deputation r interdict all* the’ schools' of a whole mission' in India,*which never cost- the Board' anything?!,. - 4. Your -allusion to a recent-tract;- entitled “Missionaryschools,"published by the Board'for gratuitous suggests the ; fnquirypftls ' itcrigh t-to -use-thetfunds '-ofi the Board- fats simfi PJ? r P° ses ?' 3 Jf such]pamphlets are needed) Why not let* their 'expanses be met- by, rtlieir fundscbntributed-ejrprcSslyforthewo'rk'among the: heathen;?!*: ,*:* i:-; } ;:Ifhavolirecetitly{perused a.'Vbliime which -give's more ofrftluw details', and.workingsof the Mission tbana score of such pamphlets, 5 and:* which*-'is"published, dike other-ibooksp ontpri vatesiespbbsibility. I allude. tff4heSwdrM|astqmßash^d«^t&hd<>lpteof^:aY^ entitled, “ Mission schools of the A. B. C. p missjbn, India.’’ - Tbe autbbr; Rev. R. G. Wilder, draws largely from bis own experience, having been fifteen years under direction of the American Board, as a foreign missionary. If any person has ever doubted the great value of these mission intsasednterest and bright promise of the missionary work, I commend him to this ,book. | It; has! already elicited the warmest ap. proval in kind notices from some scores' of our flblest-paators as well as from the public press, and needs no commendation from me. But no person f rushing to understand the character and results of the mission schools, and the di§astrpus by our late deputa tion, should fail to read, this volume.* A FRIES®' OF THE AMERICAN BOARD, EDITOR’S TABLE. Messrs. Muhn and Co., of the SqfEN’niTC Ame rican, have been held up by one of the Southern Journals, as a Northern firm, already making preparations to open a.separate place of business in the South, under the soon to be recognised Southern ' Confederacy. A letter purporting to emanate from the firm is published, which would go' to, substantiate the charge. It turns out to be a forgery, and, the whole charge is repelled by the excellent editors'of the Scientific American, as a tissue of falsehood. So we believed when we first saw the story. It isanother instance well brought home to these traitors, of the unscrupulousness which has characterized the management of the whole secession movement. ; 5 RECENT REVIEWS AND MAGAZINES. 1 The Edinburgh for Judy, contains articles on Popular Education in England; Literary Re mains of Albert, DiirerjCarthage; the Novels of Fernan Cabellero; Watson’s Life'of Porson; the Countess of Albany, the last Stuarts and Alficri Buekle’s Civilization in Spain and Scotland; Da Chailla’s Adventures- in Equatorial Africa; Church Reformation in Italy; Count Cavour. -... Mr. Buckle’s new Volume on the History of Civilization in England; which is' made up of two disquisitions oh Spain* and Scotland, receives very severe treatment at the hand’s of the reviewer: He says: “The truths which he announces to mankind as the discoveries of genius are in reality mere fanciful conceits, when; they are not plagia rized from the French Encyclopedists of the last century; and if his book retain hereafter any place at'all in the literature of this country, it will be remembered chiefly for its misapplied ingenuity and its logical perversity.” The attempts of Mr. Buckle to explain the order of the world by re ducing the moral government of Providence to a system of averages based On necessity, and bis de sign to trace the growth of modern civilization ir respective of, or rather in opposition to the in fluences of Christianity, his aversion to the doc trines and institutions of Christianity, in fine his epicurean-like- treatment of religion, as if it was only superstition, and as such, the source of the chief evils of society, are properly denounced. Mr. Buckle thinks Spain and Scotland to be very much alike !. He says: “The most striking simi larity betweew those countries is in regard to su perstition.. Both nations have allowed their clergy to exercise an immense, sway, and both have submitted their actions, as well as their con sciences, to- the authority of the Church.” The review.stateß what Mr. Buckle’s.understanding of superstition is : *“ He applies it in fact, to every form of-faith; he even, extends it to the faith of the Deist, because he denies the doctrine of its Moral Government of the, world.” Mr. Buckle, therefore, in effect refuses to discriminate between the dark delusions of heathenism, and the temper of an earnest, God-fearing people, which walk ae . cording to its light in ihe faith of the. Gospel. Mr., Buckle has taken great pains to accummulate evidence from//old records';and .sermons of the peculiar and extraordinary bigotry of the Scotch people. The reviewer justly answers,, that with similar pains-taking, such evidence'ASy*be ga thered from the history of almost every other na ttion; it belongs to'the history'of religious enthu stahm. He. refers . .to. the; disgusting excesses of Mprmpnism and the Agapemone, unhappily link ingl%th them, J“the frantic excitement of an AinenEau revival and the practices of a considera- J>le portion of -English society” in Exeter Hall. ■lt is well; replied to Mr.:Buckle’s assertion of the assumption and gross abuse of power by the clergy oyer the people, that he has probably never “ taken the trouble to inform himself what the constitu tion of 1 the ’ Church of Scotland really is. Its es sential' condition is, that from the very first it laid aside, the notion of priestly {exclusiveness.’’ The faet that of the forty-one. members composing the first General Assembly, only six mere ministers, is adduced to show how thoroughly the idea of s sacerdotal caste was ignored. The reviewer even goes ‘so'far 3s'te assert, that contrary to Mr, Bnck le’-s theory, it is the clergy who are over-riden by the people;., and,makes the surprising statement, (to which he adds a more surprising note,) that “every, thing conspired to place the ministers at the mercy of the prejudices and even of the vices of their flocks.” - Here, and in what follows of the ar ticle, the pecular High , or Broad Church prejudices of the writer make the mass of Christians, an unacceptable champion of . the cause of truth againsit. the diseipie of the atheistic cause. He takes refuge from the sweeping charges against the Scottish people, in the distinction (overlooked by Mrdßuckle and regarded by us as too insignifi cant to weigh much in,, this .discussion) between the “ Moderate” and the “Popular” party in the Scotch church and people. Nevertheless, he well exposes the err Ore of Mr. Buckle’s plan and state ments-'itf the'pretentious undertaking of general izing all history, and that, too,.without the aid of Christianity, or, ,a belief-in. an , overruling Provi dence. , It is a monstrous and God-defying at tempt, such,as should bring upon the vain-glorious author the reprobation of his fellow men. Eng land seems threatened to be overrun with a resur rected German Rationalism on the one hand, and a philosophical French Atheism* on ,the other. And “ Moderate” reviewers, deprecating discipli nary action on the part of the Church, and quoting Tennyson.'canuot stay the'tidfi of these influences. The reviewer of Du Chaillu’s look leaves the question of the genuineness of the discoveries in natural, history, claimed to have, been made by the traveller, to the savans for solution, and ran racks the book for internal evidence of incredi bility. Some of tbe inconsistencies pointed out are very startling to such as desire to believe the captivating narrative of tbs French-Ameri can. explorer.He, exhibits ( the chronology of the volume in a ye.ry.mnsatisfaetory light; he reveals seeming discrepancies, in descriptions of the simplest scenes; he finds the loads to be altogether dispr’oportioned to the number of the bearersjstth.e illustrations ; contradict .the de scriptions, the 'extreme facility with which the traveller hdida intercourse, with the various tribes is most extrabrditiaty/ The book is cer tainly full.of. maryels. yet we believe discussion fn England if leading to an acquiesence in it* geniFSl'trdthfulheds.' ®he contl|iding article—Church Reformation Mprejfullyf.treated of in another co»* nection., .. . We are afraid Scott and (Vs., reprint;: tM Ehglialr-Reviews, will soon .uopopular in this'<miihtxy,tif with*each batch of fine essays, are to bb with- a tirade upon our country, and our catSenwhieh would not read amiss in the Rwhpwnd jpnquirer, or Charleston MercV!!- The Loniitm Qttarteriy Review, besides a number of articles bh' i such'li3ring''themes as De Quincor, Mohtalemhert'on; Western monaehism, the Engte® translators of character, ltussia o# the Amoor, and has a concluding entitled,,, Trial, which might « have) emanated from a .hireling pen, in tlieewpW of the rebel .eibinlt. :. Onr ,Eevicwer is so hastf*? to decliire that the trial of Democracy is condo* e ( and th'eihubhle of-* a--free government has b® B ' If MMenlfcst.-that.the-wishof this royalist who* • .*.*•: • . f M Westjjpihaleribr.’Juty,.is able anti in‘ ul t*.-*: , Aug. 22,
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