VoL VI, 10. 6.—Whole No. 275 i fiwtrg.. A PRAYER. Tnot; who dost dwell alone — Thou who doat know thine own— Thou to whom all are known, From the cradle to the grave— Save, 0 save 1 From the world’s temptations, From tribulations, - ■ From that fierce anguish Wherein we languish, From that torpor deep Wherein we lie asleep. Heavy os death, cold as the grave— Save, 0 save 1 Whea th« soul, growing clearer, Sees God no nearer; When the soul, mounting higher, To God comes no nigher, But the areh*fiend pnde Mounts at her side, Foiling her high emprise, Sealing her eagle eyes, And, when she fain would soar, Makes idols to adore; Changing the pure emotion Of her high devotion To a skin-deep sense Of her eloquence, Strong to deceive, strong to enslave— Save, 0 save I From the ingrained fashion Of this earthly nature That mars thy creature, From grief that is but passion, From mirth that is but feigning. From tears that bring no.healing, From wild and weak complaining, Thine own strength revealing, Save, 0 savel From doubt where all is double, Where wise men are not strong, Where comforts turn to trouble, Where just men suffer wrong, Where sorrow treads on joy, Where sweet things soonest cloy, Where faiths are built ou dust, Where love is half mistrust, Hungry, and barren, and sharp as the-sea, 0, set us free t 01 let the false dream fly Where our sick souls do lie Tossing continually, 0 i where thy voice doth Come, Let all doubts be dumb! Let all words be mild. All strifes be reconciled, All pains beguiled j Light brings no blindness, Love no unkindness, Knowledge np ruin, Fear no undoing; From the cradle to the grave, Save, 0 save! —Matthew Arnold. mi JOBS’S TABLE. “Plain John,” a very sensible corres pondent of the New York Observer, has been analysing a contribution to Foreign Missions, made in a certain church recently, and has made some rather remarkable discoveries. He assures us that the case is not an ima ginary one, and that the facts are as he states them, though the place and real names of the contributors!are very properly suppressed. The following is the table which he has pre pared, the names indicating the character or disposition of the contributors ild Prosperity ''Kristian Principle ». Stinginess - Busy Mary - Here Again, e!i ? - - Affliction - Xnte to pqy - - . Aickness .... ». Chips • Self Denial .... 0, What? Faith - How well we do ? • Straitened • Poor Rich ... Rich Poor .... Fears God ■ • Fears Poorhouse Struggling ... Breed .... Little Love . . . iiacli Love.... A Conscience . . Fo Conscience ‘. Hein Home first . . He Preach . . -itsrice .... A'essed Charity . . 'leavePoor . . . A. Lie. . , . , Abounding Grace . . Accumulation . , . Adversity . » . Cheerfulness . . Xot a Cent . . . Comfortable Christian . Uncomfortable Christian. If only Rich Widow’s Mite . . . Systematic Benevolence Systematic Selfishness Social Pride . . Meanness. , . , Don’t pass tra Reg, leg, Beg. bounty ,' . . , Dave a dollar once . Sorrow . Tears and Prayers too Odds and ends . We fear that there is more than one church, in our denomination, as well as others, where such an analysis would produce a similar result, and where the deductions which “Plain John” makes from it wopld be equally true. These deductions ate — 1. -That there are very few prosperous wen who honestly give to the e ause Of Christ in proportion to the. means given them. 2. —That affliction is beneficial, in that it tften makes the Christian worth more to God and to the world, even in moneyed offerings, than prosperity. 3—lt shows that the lord does not esteem property nearly as much as we* do, or he 5 ould not give so much of it into the hands r 'f selfish, penurious, grumbling professors. Df the $lOB, eight persons, representing less than $50,000, contribute $59; and twenty five more comes from poor families, whose economies will be affected for weeks by their contributions. The remaining $l9 comes from forty or fifty professedly Christian fam ilies, representing $860,000! Reader, is your church one of this sort ? a ttd are you one of the last class? If so, ie Pent, and bring all your tithes into the st Mehrmse of the Lord, and prove him there "hh. God deals very summarily, sometimes, pli those unjust stewards who withhold from " ls cause what justly belongs to it. , Sabbath Work. —The New York Tribune t , aH haen trying the experiment of breaking ""■ Sabbath for the last five months, by pub lsll «eg a Sabbath paper. It now says it wil f°*Pay, and abandons the practical It has opportunity to show how much conscience '! on the subject, and we do not regret le issue of the experiment. Methodism: Relaxing.—A movement .is r f} n g on foot in England to have the rules »the Methodist Church in reference to Itin- Tlnc y wade less stringent. GENERAL VIEW OF THE MISSIONS OF THE AMERICAN BOARD. We begin, as usual, with Africa. In Western Africa, tbe older brethren, .though deeply sensible of the obstacles that have long stood in their way, still cling to their chosen field and work. The continuance of the mission is a good deal owing to this fact. Where the Lord is pleased to give such a spirit to his servants, it is reasonable to be lieve that he has a work there for them to do. It may yet appear the duty of the Board to sustain a mission on the West African coast, that shall be . composed wholly of colored persons. In Southern Africa, the mission is very differently situated. , The climate, people, government, Under the grace of God, give promise of a harvest in proportion to the degree and skill of cultivation. The twelve stations are all not very far from the sea, occupying somewhat more than a hun dred miles of the maritime district. Most of the brethren , are able to preach in the motive language. The ten small churches are gra dually gaining numbers and strength;— Twenty 7 six new members yyere added the past year, and several stations were blessed with a revived state of religion. At one, hope was entertained as to the conversion of nearly forty persons. A native has been set apart for the gospel ministry, who is to re ceive his support from the native community. The local government and’the best people of the colony are in very, friendly co-operation with tbe mission. The native Christians readily secure for themselves the,comforts of civilization, take an interest in the education of their children, and have made commend able exertions to secure convenient houses of Worship. Exigencies growing out of our civil war, have made it necessary for Mr. Bindley to delay returning mission. The Missions to Western, Central , and Eastern Turkey, may be spoken of as if they ►Wei*e one mission'. “-There arertwenty-three stations; eighty out-stations; forty-eight mis sionaries, including three unordained physi cians ; fifty-six authorized native preachers, of whom ten are pastors; and one hundred and thirty-nine other native co-laborers in different capacities, as catechists, teachers, and helpers. Of churches there are forty two, containing one thousand five hundred and forty-six members; of whom one hundred and ninety-eight were received the past year. One hundred and fourteen schools contain three thousand four hundred and eighteen pupils, of whom eighty are in three training schools for . preparing pastors and. helpers, and thirty are in two female boarding schools for educating wives for the native ministry. Nearly sixteen thousand dollars (two-thirds furnished by Bible and Tract Societies,) were expended in publications in tbe Arme nian, Armeno-Turkish, Bulgarian, and mo dem Greek languages, amounting to about 165,000 copies, and 13,000,000 pages. Dr. Goodell has revised: hip Amenp-Turkish ver sion of the Old Testament. . Dr. Sqhauffler Testament, for the use of the Moslems, and the government, after much hesitation, Has consented to its being printed at Constanti nople. Dr. Biggs, besides preparing and editing Bulgarian tracts, has been mainly occupied with revising the version of the Scripture in that language. The Armenian Bible, with marginal references, electrotyped and printed in New York by the American Bible Society, is highly prized; and that So ciety is also electrotyping the New. Testa ment in a similar form. The American Tract Society at New York has also electro typed and printed several works for the mis sion, which are admired for their beauty. Time does not permit much farther detail in respect to these highly interesting mis sions. Dr. Dwight, who explored the Arme nian field in 1830-31, with the Rev. Eli Smith, is now traveling over the same ground for a re-survey, and is filled with wondering gratitude in view of the changes since that time. Then, from the Mediterranean to the rorders of Persia, they nowhere met with any among the people, whose religious views and feelings were in unison with their own. Now, missionary stations are scattered over the land, • and scarcely a place is entered where at least some one does not greet the visitor with a joyful welcome as a herald of the Gospel. At Marash, in a house of wor ship erected chiefly by the people, Dr. Dwight saw forty persons admitted to tbe church at one time, and preached to a con- S’egation of nearly fifteen hundred people. nly six years had then passed since the church was organized; and but twelve years since there was not a Protestant there; and the people were then proverbially ignorant, barbarous and fanatical. The prospects in and around Kharput, are very encouraging, and so they are in other places. At the metropolis there are trials among the Protestant Christians, not wholly unlike those which the Apostle Paul experienced in Galatia, The Bulgarian mind is found to have a stronger resemblance to theJjrreek, than was supposed, in point of worwliness. That people are behind the Armenians in simplicity of character and in love for the Soriptures. This has probably arisen from their long connection with the Greek Church. Disappointments and trials have also attend ed the work among the Mohammedans. The number of baptisms among that people in Constantinople, is twenty-three.. Should the Gospel Propagation Society encourage the 1 present course of its agents, it may prove more dangerous to the spirituality and suc -1 cess of the work among the Moslems, than all that the Church of Rome is able to do. AMOUNT COHTRI’ $12,000 $lOO 10,000 10 00 40,000 46 1 00 12 1 60 100 1) 1 00 75 100 75 75 25 1 60 100 75 600 38 2 00 26 60 2 00 400 23 60 5 00 100 2 00 160 40 100 26 300 88 800 10,000 5,000 7,000 800 00,000 700 40,000 1,600 15,000 600 4,000 4,000 . a, 000 8,000 3,000 50,000 4,000 3.600 100 20,000 3,000 8.600 8,000 1,000 4,000 6,000 6,000 10,000 80 800 100 8 00 20,00 26 100 25 9,000 900 10,000 300 700 . 10,000 $441,800 $lOB 00 The mission in Syria has not witnessed any new outbreaks qi fanaticism. The ter rible distress among the nominal Christians, and the bountiful contributions for their re lief in this country, and still more in Eng land, made it necessary for the brethren to act as almoners, at different times, to about 76,000 people. They had thus such oppor tunities, as never before, for a wide publica tion of the Gospel. The departure of the French troops in the summer was not fol lowed by the appprehended disorders; owing, probably, to Special efforts on the part of the Turkish government. The political aspects of the country are Better than they were a year ago. The religious prospects are also better. Immorality has indeed increased, al id doubtless the hatred between the races. But priestly and feudal power has been weakened. New civil rights have been se cured to the Protestants. The beneficent fruits of Protestant Christianity have dimi nished prejudice and awakened respect. Missionaries, by their instrumentality in re- PHILADELPHIA, THU lieving distress, have greatly agmented their own influence for good. The New version of the Arabic New Tes tament was published in two editions last year. Dr. Van Dyck is now engaged in translating and printing the Old Testament, and has completed' the book of Leviticus. He is also preparing a voweled edition of the New Testament for Mohammedans, in the style of the Koran. The sale of the Scriptures, the past year, has been unprece dented, Against four hundred and forty eight copies, sold in 1859, stands the sale, in the year under review, of 4,293, which is a tenfold increase. The state of the country has greatly interrupted the schools. .. ss: Sfc j|£ The reformation is gradually bringing the true people of God among this people into active fellowship with each other, and re formed churches may be said now virtually to exist in perhaps a score of villages, and several of them with Nestorian pastors. The number of these church members must exceed three hundred. The death of the Patriarch, Mar Shimon, is the removal of a formidable obstacles The remarkable out burst of benevolent feeling among the evan gelical Nestorians, a few months since,, with which the members of the Board are familiar, is a striking illustration of that, strongly im pulsive character, which led this people, in former ages, over so much of Central Asia as missionaries. The Ahmednugger district of the Mahratta mission has ’been blessed tbe past year with a continuance of that spiritual prosperity which it had enjoyed during the five: previous .years, One hundred and thirty-one new members have been added to the eighteen churches in the mission, increasing the whole number to five hundred and four ; and it is interesting to know that the baptized chil dren of the church number three hundred and fifty. The native Christians, under the auspices of the British Government, are gra dually coming inti) possession of their social and civil rights. •*'. * * * * C. E. Fraser Tytler, Esq., Collector and Magistrate at Ahmednugger, has generously contributed six hundred dollars for erecting meeting-houses in the villages. The same benevolent gentleman, moved by the death and burial of a beloved daughter at Pimplus, a, central village where the Gospel is taking root, is erecting a house and' chapel there, with other necessary buildings, at a cost of two thousand five hundred dollars, which he proposes to make over to the mission for a new station. * * * * * * In the Madras mission Dr. Winslow has dismissed his English and Vernacular school, under the appprehension of pecuniary embar rassments from the civil war. The Report bears testimony to the usefulness of this school. Dr. Winslow hopes to complete his Tamil and English Dictionary in the course of a year. The press, under the management of Nlr. Hunt, continues to do an important work for Southern India. aura aiStrict, and .territory, somewhat larger than the State of Massachu setts, is, by general consent, under the ex clusive care of the Madura mission. The one hundred and forty-five “ Christian con gregations” number seven thousand five hundred souls. Of these eight hundred are able to read. The twenty-eight churches received seventy-six new members the past year, and contain one thousand one hundred and nine. Six of the churches have native pastors. The contributions of the native Christians, during the year, amounted to five hundred and thirty-two dollars; besides the Jubilee offering to the Board, which in creased the sum to nine hundred and twenty two dollars. They have a Home Missionary Society to aid feeble churches in the support of their pastors. The schools contain twelve hundred pupils, one hundred and fifteen of whom, of both sexes, are in the higher train ing schools. * * * The wonderful work of God that has been in progress in Tinnevelly, south of the Ma dura District, has extended to the neighbor ing churches within the bounds of our mis sion, and even reached the seminary at Pasu malie; and the brethren haye great hopes in respect to all their churches. The Board is earnestly requested to remember this mis sion in their prayers. It is remarkable that the Oeylon mission should have suffered no more from its neces sary, but somewhat sudden, disruption from the means of secular advancement for native Christians in 1855. The good sense of the native community would seem to have appre ciated the reasonableness of the measure. This is shown,by their Jubilee offering to the Board of near five hundred and fifty dollars, which came principally from natives?who had been educated by the mission, and who had been disappointed in their hopes of an English education fpr their children from the same source. In this view, as well as in every other, the offering is highly gratifying. The mission schools contain fourteen hun dred and ten pupils, and are all now verna cular, the natives bearing the whole expense of their tEnglish schools ; and one of their ef fects is to displace the old hereditary village teachers. The Oodooville Female School has forty-seven pupils, and the Theological School at Batticotta has twenty. The inde pendent English high school, under native management, is a Christian school, and shared in the revival, which, at one time in the year, blessed the labors of the mission. It is encouraging that when there is little now connected with the mission to attract the people in the way of worldly motives, there is not only no open opposition, but the missionaries are welcomed to villages and dwellings, and have so favorable an opportu nity to sow the good seed. * * * The three China missions are all strug gling, in their respective fields, to gain the attention and awaken the interest of that great and singular people. The English and French wars, and still more the great rebel lion, which seems lately to have been roused into new life, must have distracted the gene ral mind. But, in point of. fact, the way for the Gospel has been sigifally prepared. Mr. Bonney, in company with three English gen tlemen, lately traveled from Canton to Shanghai, by way of the Tong Ting Lake and the great Yangtse river, about two thou sand miles, without any serious obstruction; Mr. Blodget occupies a station at only seventy-five miles from Pekin, and has visited the Chinese metropolis. The climate there approximates to that of New England and the Middle States. It is proposed to make Tientsin, rather than Shanghai, the centre of our northern CMna mission. Euh ohau is an excellent riba- mission next south, and the brethren "there haye in r creasing hopes of a yi ry encouraging; fieldfh that populous region. ; M The Sandwich Islands , liiave suffered : . a great loss in the death of J)r. Armstrong. Btit the past year one of special Re vival. The additions to the churches have ,been one thousand fcpr hundred Sifcty five, raising the whme present huinber: of church members to nineteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-Jix. Add the deceased church members from! the beginning, to the living, and the number, is thirty-seven thou sand four hundred*’ajnd fifty-four. More than twenty-one thousand ‘dollars were con tributed by the t'went^4hreeehufclifes, : during the year; for the su|ipt|rt and prOpgatioh Of the' Gospel. Ecclesiastical bodies have been formed on the four larger islands, more or less conformed r to the [Presbyterian or Con gregational models. . Yhe deerease.vQf »t|ie whaling' business, .apd and of -money, has petarded t the grpyth,.,ef gdod 'institutions of all Ends, and diminished the self-sustaining p•.=( A nepr station egmmenped anipng' the Dakotas, undeh favorable, .auspices., i A son of Dr. Williamsph, haying, completed, his: studies at Dane Sinuhary;'repaired 4 tb the' Sioux Agency last ifftiMn And upon his chosen work. Having •learned their lah guage when a childf’and ; having retained their confidence andbregaifib he has’peculiar advantages for good;;; Alehifrch has been at.. this; station; Imth eleven members. A, house of worship ,-is in process of expmisp jthe Board. ‘ “*' 4 * - -1 , ; The reports frSM; Yellow Medicine and jHazlfffVdbd : ar# hopeful than they were a year ago. There 'is more dispdsitioh td listen to the preadfang ’of IhO gospel;’And i the truth asbt isin-ffesus is not declared in vain. *■, ■ < n‘ * The labors of -theftyear .have not >been In vain among th e A spirit-pfj inquiry has sprung.up in sq|ne minds,; apdthe .-piggi* bers of tße church .evidence stability is 'the dispiples of Ohrish lEhongh fetr in tbbir 'iMiuehep is said' to" be great-; The boarding school is in succossful operation. ' ; Among these Inmans, also, there is a pro gress in material interests. They are doing more for the improvement of their land, and more for the comfort of their , homes than they have been accustomed tO ,, Indivi dual enterprise is 'increasing, consequently more independenceilrid thrift are developed. The past ye&"'l&&‘.lsq'el' phe of '■foiaTfor the Seneca missioi? Mr. G-le'asdh has en tered another’ field of labor, with the honfi dence and Committee, and his ptefio ytfe y •• y AyL 'bb , Upon the Alleghany Reservation, the mis sionary work may be- regarded as more en couraging than it has been. The educational interests of the Senecas are kindly and faith fully cared for by the State of Hew York. OUR LORD’S INDIDMTIOI. JOHN 11, 47. At the spectacle of all this grief, the sisters : weeping, and -even the more indif ferent visitors from Jerusalem 1 weeping like wise, the Lord also “ groaned in spirit and was trouble#.” The word which' we translate “groaned ,” does indeed far more express the feelings of indignation and displeasure than of grief, which, save as a measure of that is contained in all displeasure, it means not at all. But at what and with whom Jesus was thus indignant, has been very differently ex plained. The motion of some of the Greek expositors, that he was indignant with him self at these risings of pity, these human tears,—that the word'' expresses the smuggle to repress, as'something weak and unworthy, rising utterances of grief, is not to be accepted for an instant. Chris tianity knows of up such dead Stoicism; it knows of a regulating, Aut of no such repress ing, of the natural affections; on the .con trary, it bids us to weep with them that weep; and, in the beautiful words of Leigh ton, that we “ seek- not altogether to dry the stream of sorrow; but to bound it, and. keep if within its banks.” Some, as Theodore of MOpsiiestia and Lampe, suppose that he was indignant in spirit at the hostile dispositions which he already traced and detected among the Jews that were present, the unbelief on their part with which he foresaw that great work of his would be received. Others; that his. indignation was excited by the unbelief of Martha and Mary and the others, which they. manifested in their weeping, whereby they showed clearly that they did not believe that he would raise their dead. But he him self wept presently, and there was nothing in these their natural -tears to have roused a feeling of the kind. * ; ’ Much better is it to take this- as the indig nation which the Lord of life felt at all which sinhadwrought: he bfeheld.death in all its fearfulness, as the wages of sin ; and all the world’s woes, of which this was but a little sample, rose up before his eye,—all the mourners and all the graves were present to him. For that he was about to wipe away the tears of those present, did not truly alter the case. Lazarus did but rise again, to taste a second time the bitterness of death: these mourners he might comfort, but only for a little whilethese tears he might stanch, only again hereafter to flow; ■ and how many had flowed and must flow with no such Com forter to wipe them, even for a season, away! Contemplating all this, a mighty indignation at the author of all this woe possessed his heart. And now he will delay no 'longer, but will do battle with him, and show, in a present, though as yet an incomplete, tri umph over him, some preludes of his future victory. With this feeling he demands, “Wherehave ye laid Mm? And they said wpto Mm, Lord, eome and see: Jesus wept; ” himself borne along with, and not seeking to resist, this great tide of sorrow.— Trench. MIITIN6 OF THrE|AIGILIOAL ALLF- LETTER OP REV. DR. BAIRD. Geneva, Switzerland; Sept: 5,;1861. . Messrs. Editors :—-In my last I gave you some notices of my journey to this place. Qoe of the objects, which, f hyd in view ip coming hither was to attend the Conferences which com menced ;on Monday, the 2d inst., and are npw going on from day .to day. The pre liminary prayer meeting,-to invoke, the. Di vine favor upon the proceedings of the body, wab held in one of the chapels of the Free Church ‘ Sabbath afternoon preceding. It Was “a large and interesting meeting. % number of prayers—as many as six or eight —were offered up by brethren from various parts of the Protestant: woxld} in French, English, and German, and three addresses were made, one in each of these three lan guages, It was a good preparation for what was to follow. Pastor Barde, one of the ministers of the Established Church,'pre sided, aid made ioihe excellent remarks on fthe s importance of a spirit of charity—of love to. God and each other—inbufeh meetings. •Most of the prayers were spontaneous,.as in the- Fulton Street prayer meeting,! and: all _ r ,liaye # hepn.heldi-mpinly l in ..Me great 1 church of St,-Peter,rwhichtis by far fhe jargest place‘of .worship in Geneva. -It Was in fact a caithedral, or. rather the cathe ‘ dralpbefoi'e thA city' becMifie in theisixteerith'centttfy, 5 fhrough'dhe’TAbofs ’Of Froment (who commenced the Work as an humbles. and f cainefiWelß nigh being ;thr own. into ithe Rhone several times,) s^W!?ering J .preachery the Luther of these parts,) and Qaiyin, the; theologian, in wh<|m,the]je was,the.,union of .the. intelii 'gencS' sjpiri^ and,character’ of’’both Zwihgle and Melancthon.i t: ' '* ' The church of St. Peter will hold 5,000 people, if ndt‘ more. ; FrOm 2jooo to 3,000 have - Attended ! the 'Moriuhg- sessions, it'him •been estimated—but the lower- figure is nearer the truth thafi the higher* in Any Opinion. . Amjf f(this' number: have founds dfilfex tr^fly^j^cnlt,Jtpl hear all that- has, been said, ~ s .MbpdayTorenoon; was devotedi to the open .ing pxgrcises.jof .the Conference.An adnii ruhlp addrpss yas. delivered;,by Mr; bfayille, in‘Which me principles., of the Evangelical Alliance were expounded, and .a cordial wel come was given to the foreign brethren from the various countries, to which responses were made in brief terms by Sir Culling Eard ley,_ Dr. Krummacher, Rev.’ G/ Monod, of Paris,., and ■ others, including myself, to whoni was;assigned the .dutyhof speakihg for rthe XJnited States., . The-afternoon was devoted to the .Sc^hqi^h n and most certainly I have never heard subject , handled so abljy on any other occasion. There was a mdsfhappy union of sound: Scriptural views, and clear and able philosophical appreciation of devoting s one day in seven : to rest- ; and to exercises of reiigion. The Report of Pro-" M idmirablp,. and so were the speeches of the Key. Pastors Coulen and Deinole, of this city, Thompson, of Edinburgh, and Panehard, of Brussels. The subject of consideration for Tuesday forenoon was on “ The Means which Wisdom and Experience indicate as the best for Ap plying the only Efficacious Remedy to me Evils which Result' from the Want of Reii gious Life; and the State of Immorality in which a Considerable Portion of our Popula tion is Found.” . This important topic* was ably discussed in the French language;- in the Church of St. Peter, from five o’cloek till noon, by Professor St. .Hilaire of the Sor bonne (Paris,), Pastors Bonhoir of .Geneva, and John Dost of France. M., St, Hilaire read a report or essay on the subject, of two hours in length. The subject was discussed in a large meeting in the Oratoire, in Eng lish, by ifier. Doctor Guthrie of Edinburgh, Rev. Baptist Noel of London, and others. In the afternoon the subject of Foreign Mis sions was considered. This was a most inte resting day -in, all. respects. -- s -« .. . ■ , ■ The subject of Skepticism 'was ably dis cussed yesterday by Mr. Ernest Nayille and others in the morning, In the afternoon there was a good meeting in behalf of the Israelites. Dr. Cappaddee of the Hague, made the report, and Mr. William Petavel, of Neuchatel, made what must be considered the most eloquent speeeh thus far delivered. To-daytherewasno meeting of the Con ference in the forenoon, but theTewas a good one of the English-speaking members on the subject of Missions. In the forenoon there Was ap important meeting in behalf of Italy mid, the Italians. An excellent ; report, was made by'Pastor Meille of Turin, and speeches Were made by several persons, the most dis tinguished of whom was Professor Mazza rella, of Bologna, a man scarcely inferior to Gavazzi in- eloquence. What remarkable orators Italy is already producing!—the fruit of civil and religious l liberty and the spread of tho Gospel. ; , I t have said, enough to give you a correct idea, of the mode in which these meetings are conducted. They, will continue to be con-1 ducted thus til! the end, which will not be till Thursday night of next week. Every night meetings for preaching in French, German, and English are held. There have been-several''meetings' in the open;air, in the beautiful gardens of several of the wealthy Christian; Genevese,;; chiefly in the immediate environs. Mr. Denham Smith, of Dublin, and others of the same spirit, are laboring for the salyation of souls day and night, and I rejoice to say that their labors are not in vain the Lord.— New York Evangelist. THE LATE DR. MORISON. Db. Morison never,forgot himself.in his travels, His religion., was unaffected by change of scene or of society. It so per vaded His whole being as to form a second and a better nature. Traveling from Bath to London on one occasion he found himself inside the coach in company with two young ladies, the daughters—as he understood be fore the journey’s; end—of a clergyman in the, neighborhood of London, The young ladies had just been visiting, a religious rela tive at Bath, and seemed like birds escaped frony imprisonment. Their, conversation we® full pf life and merriment. “I could hot stand it much longer,” said one of them significantly. “It was ndthing but Methodism.’- - ! “Do you know what Meth.odisih is?” said Dr*-Mormon quietly; •; I■>« -» .',,“l : tMftte itiis just? telupg-rabiduf religion all day long, and nothing else.” [Ol7 Tin “Now I don’t think that was ever intend ed,” was his. quiet answer. The door was now fairly opened, andi Dr. Morison pursued the conversation, we . may well suppose, with .that genial .earnestness and consummate tact,, which'' distinguished him. One of the ‘young' ladies, however, stood out vety resolutely against his views of religion, and when the coach stopped at the cross-road, where friends were waiting to re ceive, them, Dr. Mdrison said to her : “'Well,,my young friend, let, -me request that h>efoye you gp to bed to-night you will read ,a chapter of your Bible, and, pray to God that lie will enlighten you upon these subjects.”, -’ ' " , . ? ' “ Well;” shfe replied, am much obliged to you, at ail events?’ St : all obliged,” Said he, “for lam always obliged to defend the truth", whenever lThear.itjcallBd.iniqtiestloh.” : 1 ; • i :ii -Masy. taEdvtheJciremii i Stance]liadu;lmost ; vanished'froin hilhmemory, a .dinner ,by :Spxne of f who, had spCiit an'evening in knptter'part of London, ; and f ha9: mpt f wim ,'clergyman ,and his wife, 'who* "spOke 1 yhuChvbf ) Dfc?Mofisoiij and' were 'vhry* ifeiiful 1 '%*' y e ! ; 'bini: 1 The 1 obj ect of -W 'Mjip'l^ 2 the* Ojipbrtunity. During, dmneitithei'cdnversiitlonfloWed freely, and the clergyman’s«wife;young and inte resting, 'vgas^freq i wardsT)r. Sforisgndpifilencc, but with tears, in her eyes.' After dinner the party went into the; garden, and walking with Dr. Mori- .ftlope,; the, .clergyman, said.. to.Tnm,v ; C I cannot tell- you,, sir,' ho,w much-1 ■ am. indebted .-rfV-:"- /--’-r:: -T/.-.-f ... ■ 1 ! “I was not at all, aware.. that you are in r ‘deßted'tb me,'” was the natural reply. , ; “ You haive observed my wife,” said the clergyman:' !T “ s She itf the hest 'Of ‘ wives, and the best of mothers. 5 ! Christianity has matde her iso, and it as through your words that she became a Christian.”, The circumstances were then recalled, and their sequel related. The young lady, Who had stood out so boldly in the Bath poach against her ,fellqw f travel- views 'bf r reiigipn,, despis€s|; i his .parting counsel, an.cf wentfo bed’ thatnight wit£,out reading the Scriptures, or 'bending her knee ihojrfayer. Biit she had no sooiier gone to Bed "thaUi conscience began to 'work, and would not let-iher sleep;. 1 ’She was compelled tpjgefjrp, and dress; and.then she read the word of as, she had pe,yer read, Jt;hpfore, and prayed ad she ha,d.never prayed,(before; and ||ife 1 of was Bey conversion- to God! When the aintifet party Had re-assembled, in the drawing-room, the clergyman said tb his l“have 1 told hiin all;” and she, rose'iandirusKhd to* Dr. :i Morisoh,' as 'a cMldsWOuldtOia father,land fell on.his beck and said, withijan* emotion’ which ncannpt l he described,, “ Yes,, if: I ever get to , heaven, i will own,.,you for my. spiritual, father.” Blessed are they, we add, that sow beside all watery, fdr lh'KCayeh isuchsurprises and jqe cdgnitidnsas these will he numerous and i common.— ‘Service md Suffering, by Ken ned)/. ' '--tt - It is possible'.that here and there a minis ter may be found:wiio has the.powerof com pressing, his ideas .and ,words:within so nar row a, compass apJo be able to do justice to, one of the great themes of the gospel in, thirty, minutes or less. But we hear of such per formances with feelings not unlike, those that ake excited by reports l of : Bl6nSih’s success m walking on a wet and slippery rope across Niagara. The feats are wonderful, hut we see no reason for commending them as wor thy of general imitation.. . . ' . But that a preacher should grapple with the mighty mysteries of our faith, and reach the height of the great argument in thirty minutes; that, a discourse crowded into these narrow: limits, should have the breadth and sweep, before which congregations are borne away as on a flood-tide toward heaven, seems to us ihcre dibleiAnd ; the*riew we- take- of this%ubje‘et is confirmed by the fact, that the best pub lic speakers almost invariably require con siderably. more than half an hour for the de livery of a, satisfactory address. on any. im portant subject. , Not. one of our popular ly ceum lecturers limits, himself by, any such restrictions as many seem desirous of placing upon the' pulpit., Nor is there one of them who could do -it, and sustain the place he has gained before the public. ; Who, that has an important case in court, Would think of : charging his lawyer not to occupy more than twenty,-five or, thirty minutes in'his address to the jury? (Where would the influence of our secular orators be, or what would be come of the reputation of John B. Gough, if subjected to this stringent and senseless rule? We believe that the clamor for shovt ser mons comes mainly from those whohavelittle real -interest In, preaching. * In all our Sab bath congregations- persons may be found who; are, so jaded and wearied by the cares of this world, qr.the . deoeitfulness of riches,-as to,’be almost incapacitated for the services of the sanctuary. During: the week they hardly read anything more substantial than the daily papefs. They come to the bouse of the Lord under a kind of compulsion, and while there “snuff at his ordinances; ” iand feel, if they do not say, that they are a “weari- I Such persons almost invariably pre fer short sermons, and such as may be lis tened to with /little or no mental /effort., Our, readers probably remember the story of the good sister who sought to, comfort her pastor when a part of his congregation had been drawn from his phurch to listen,to his more eloquent colleague. She had no thought of going with the multitude to hear brother H. : /“True;” said she, “he has the reputa tion of being a efeep preacher; but for my part I like-.preaching;- : Thehaste for short sermons and shallow preaching seems to be on the increase; it is no port of our duty to encourage it. If we refer to the noble men of blessed memory, who in their generation made the pulpit a throne of power, how few- of them : gave countenance to these dwarfed and alienated sermons. As we write we lift our eve£ to the shelves of our library, and there stand th'e volumes 1 of Edwards, arid Davies, and: Chalmers —to go no Which of these men of might thought of con cluding his .discourse before the hour-glass has fairly emptied. , And Olin, the grandest man by far it was ever our privilege to. see ih 'a puljiit, preached sermons, that requires from an hour and a half to two hours for their delivery,'- : 'H IThere'is iof Its-:direct bearing =. upbn the question under consideration. From the pul .QBiISJID No 80S SHORT SERMONS. pits , of one denomination in oxir country we seldom or never hear other than short ser mons. Ritual ceremonies engross so much of the ' time devoted to public worship that thg ; prdachef is' feoinpelled to be brief And as a, consequence that denomination has, per haps, in general 5 the' most inefficient minis itry in the we mean, in the great, wttrk to which Cvery Christian minister is called, that of preaching the gospel. We need not go beyond the pulpits of the deno mination referred f o for the. proof that .short sermons are not necessarily pointed or prac tical. Having ,said so much, perhaps we ought to add that' wpwould not encourage ;any • to : Cultivate the habit 1 of preaching lopg A.disedurse that is long, dry, add lean, is intolerable, and no congregation can be blamed for rejoicing when they escape frpni sfleh aptiinflietion- A feeble, indefinite, .if. imty.thiriy .MM# IPSpftßditfP tiff# wm> if.it drag its, weary length through a whole hour. If we felt competent to offer a word of advice on this'subject,Vdwould; say 'to brethren in 'the ministry Never preach 'without having your feeMngs' thßrOnghly‘interested in your subject. ■ Having secured this preparation, spend little-time in; introductory remarks, but get at thei substance of your, discourse with.ys,litße-delaryt as possible’.; Then speak what is in your heart without fear or favor; and, above all, stop wsen you have done.— N. Y. Adv. and Joyrmat- [cpMJfxraiCAiED.].. • . THOUGHTS P»B THE PBAYKR »miXG. SBE aCOHEBR’S EAR. f *);• asmßE» iOIIB, ' I'HkvlE bbdri suiprised at thfe sdnsifivehess of a mother’s eaw i ; Tief e 'is : Something -Which no: cultivation could %ecohaplisk itf the abil ity to detect,, among many other sounds, the •sound which; proceeds from a suffering in-. fant> moan,, and to which the mother of that infant alone is,so sensitive. , I was sit ting in a circle of friends in a parlor, and between a mother and the door of that par lor. Suddenly, while almost every, one in the* rOom-was conversing,'!'noticed a change in the maMner of a young mother. No one hehrd a sound hut that which proceeded from the happy company, exee'pt that young mo ther who had left .her only child up stairs. She thought she heard were a call from the cj-adlp.i . -lwas . spre she was nepdlesply restless, and. would have joined others in saying so, had T Been asked my opinion. But nothing could persuade the. mother to remain,- and she passed 1 away through that door, 5 ‘and ' was 1 s'oori By her infant’s side. She was correct in'her judgment. It was her infant's almost inaudible moan. A few days; afterway*! 6 Was’dangerously ill;; and in a few more it was; sleeping its last; sleep: • How sepsitjye. wawthat mother’srear to her, aorrow! it. disenminated r he tween the hoisps f ar6una' s and'‘|iiaf soiind from the lowly erhdie; although those were louder aMmore confident’, courtesy^ • atl<| friendship, Wajd-pfc’atoegadtt liriellectted enjoyment found a form and utterance in’ those sounds, yet nothing epuld di-own that one, feehle s plaiihtive groah of the offspring, though, from afar off. - , Now there is a passage which possesses; great force By the side of this as its illustra tion. It is in Isaiah xlix. 15, “ Can. a wo-, manTbrget her suekirig child' iMt sHe should: not have compassion on the son pfr her womb ? 1 Yeai, 4hey may forget, yet will f hot forget thee.’’ We are God’s offspring, and amid the temptations; the sorrows; 'the,' kink, thb 1 struggles, and the desires of a rebel world;: the gentlest voice of a; child,of God shaßrhei iheard, heard above thejtriumphs; apd shouts, and . energies of earth., God’s ear is more sensitive than any ear in the universe ! Ah ! what 'enconragement to all, even.'to the sad and sofrowfril in his'feebleness, u who is only able to say, “ God Be merciful to me a sin- '£ ■(!■.? 5 •'! ■’ -■■■:: . 'H. & Belviperb,- HeJ.,.. i,. f. . ' , ' WOESEI’S' REPENTANCE. '* I& T “N. & Q.” appears an historical paral lel, between two luckless statesmen, Cardmel, Wolsey (1530) and Sir James Hamilton (1540), who, at their last hour, regretted “ that the had not served 'their GW aswell ■as they hMsemod their Ung." Perhaps the latter iriay have unconsciously borrowed from and copied the former. But may not the expression be derived from the East ? Sol many oriental tales, / pro Verbs, and -maxims, were, wafted from oriental marts in Venetian galleys to Italy, and thence dispersed over, Europe, that they became household words, and the ground-work, in, many instances, as well of amusement as" of thought. I enclose - a tale from the Gulistan of, Saadi (a. d. 1258,) which expresses the same idea in words so ; similar, that one can : hardly suppose the- re ; semblance to be accidental; but of this your readers will i : “ One of the Viziers went before Zun’ Zun, ®SyP t; >:Apd His opijaioTi, saying: ‘ I am engaged day and night in the service of the Sulfan, .toping good from Mm and fearing punishment.’’ ' Zun’ Zun wept, and saicL: ‘lf I feared God as you do the king, I should he One oftheebmpany-df the saints.’ ” “If*aDurwaish hoped not ease; and (feared not) pain, He would-jaount to the heavenly dpine ; And if a Vizier feared God as much as the king, He would be an angel.” ;; ' GLORIOUS WORDS. “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; hut that the world through him might be saved.”—John iii. 14 to 17. ; .Glorious/ words these, to which I heard a dying woman respond, not long ago, with a suddemburst of praise: . ,: ...... “,Is ho not. so great and good, and willing to save all us poor sin ners:” r . ", Shd was .lying.■’biff a hard bed, in a dreary infirihary ward in a London Union Work house, andAhfe power of faith and love to create ’a happiness independent of circum stances, came out with startling force in her answer to the inquiry, “You know him, then, and love him?” “Yes, Ido know him, and love him. . His presence makes a heaven of this room.” “If you heaped up niy bed with gold and silver,” she added, “if you could give me the queen’s carriage and horses, and her palace, and her garden, and all her beautiful flowers, and health and strength io enjoy it all, I would 'not take them if they would hinder me from going home to my Saviour, They talk bf -the phiris of dying; vfliat will they be to me? They will but hurry me to heaven and to Jesus.”