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PEACE IJT TEHSTING.
“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whoße mind
is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth, in Thee.”—
Isaiah xxvi. 8.
Oh, this is blessing, this is rest!
Into Thine arms, 0 Lord, I flee:
I hide me in Thy faithful breast,
And pouf out all my soul to Thee.
There is a host dissuading me;
But, all their voices far above,
I hear Thy words—” 0 taste and see
The comfort of a Saviour’s love.”
And, hushing every adverse sound,
Songs of defence my soul surround,
As if all saints encamped about
One trusting heart pursued by doubt.
Aud oh, how solemn, yet how sweet
Their one assured, persuasive strain!
“ The Lord of Hosts is thy retreat,
The man who bore thy sin, thy pain.
Still in His hand thy times remain,—
Still of His body thou art part;
And He will prove His right to reign
O’er all things that concern thy heart.”
0 tenderness —0 truth divine!
Lord, I am altogether Thine.
I have bowed down—l need not flee, —
Peace, peace is mine in trusting Thee.
And now I count supremely kind
The rule that once I thought severe 5
And precious to my altered mind,
At length, Thy least reproofs appear.
Now to the love that casts out fear,
Mercy and truth indeed are one;
Why should I hold my ease so dear?
The work of training must be done.
I must be taught what I would know:
I must be led where I would go;
And all the rest ordained for me,
Till that which is not seen I see,
Is to be found in trusting Thee.
Jteip JPhmmarj.
ENGLAND,
The work of reading the Bible aloud in the
open air, is earned on with great vigor in
London and the adjoining villages. The
English correspondent of the Wesleyan Jour
says that Bible carriages, light and ea
sily drawn, and laden with Bibles and Testa
ments, are taken into populous streets and
districts, and precious passages are read
aloud. Some are astonished, others mock
and scoff; some hear and hearken to the sal
vation of their souls. During the past sum
mer the Bible carriages have visited Leyton
and Woodford, in Essex, not only to bring
the truth before the villagers around, but for
the special benefit of the thousands of plea
sure-seekers who repair from London to Bp
ping Forest and its precincts. In wet
weather the poor are thus visited in their
dwellings, ana‘cottage meatfngsarc held in
the evenings, to which those who have heard
the Word read during the day are invited.
The Committee purpose* as soon as possible,
not only to add carriage to carriage, but also
to send out brethren with packs full of Bibles
and Testaments,*, for the same object of rea
ding the word, of God only, and selling the
Scriptures at half price, that they tnay go in
me narrow courts and alleys, which abound
in the city and east end of London.
Ecclesiastical tyranny is strikingly il
lustrated in the following story of Rev. Wil
liam McCann, perpetual curate of East Ken
sett, Salisbury, which is told by a correspon
dent of the London Times ;—“ Mr. McCann
i- seventy-one years of age ; has lost the
tight of one eye, and partially that of the
' ther; he has a wife and two children sur
■iving out of nine, and has fagged hard as a
' irate for forty-five years, at tne munificent
-ipend of £5B a year! He has just now
'ten compelled to come to a London hospi
tal to undergo a painful surgical operation,
and as it was not tb be supposed that he
could pay the expenses of nis journey, find
bread and water for his family, and pay a
substitute to dp duty for him in his absence,
he asked his spiritual superiors to do him so
much kindness as to provide a supply during
his absence. He came to town, and his cha
pel was shut up; hut while he lies on his
truckle bed in the hospital ward, with a wound
'till raw and suppurating, he receives a pe
remptory summons from the authorities, who
had turned a deaf ear to his petition, to re
turn instantly to his neglected duties.”—Me
■hodwt.
SCOTLAND.
The subject of unlicensed preaching is, still
'wising some discussion in Scotland. The
licentiates of the Established Church, Glas
gow, have recently held a meeting at which
they resolved to publish in the newspapers
fee names of all persons guilty of preaching
without authority, and also to furnish their
tames to the clerk of Presbytery or Synod
m whose bounds the preaching takes place,
feat “ they may be dealt with according to
4olaws of the Church.” It seems that the
practice complained of is followed to a great
•i' or less degree by all the dissenting deno
minations of Scotland, and is npt disagraea
ie to many, even in the Established Church,
feel that the students will not suffer from
®ring the opportunity of practical training
f’evious to their formal entrance' into the
ministry.
As effort is now being made to supply,
manses of Scotland with a set of the
" Puritan Divines,” aS a nucleus of a minis
terial library.
, A sew Mission Free Church hasreoentlv
“fen founded in Glasgow, to supply with
V'ffilic preaching the poor Highlanders resi
in the Northwestern section of that city,
there are at least 20,000 that use this
<ll riect. it w m furnish seats for 800 per
sons,
FRANCE.
Y^ !tE Protestant Schools in the Haute
v l ' l||lle , have at last been re-opened, after
w'ri closed for a period of nine years. The
t/ ig Churches remarks: “There is
f "legal restriction in the authorization
the schools- are to receive none but
'"'ben of Protestant parents, whereas the
provides that a. child may he received in
10 °k of any religious persuasion, on the
condition of the parents declaring .that
" ilr wish is for their children to be taught
the religion of the school., The teachers
have, however, thought it right,-, to accept the
condition, which, being illegal, nigst be relat
ed some day. ' 1 ' '
Religious CoRPORATiONBare quite nume
rous in France, amounting, to the alarming
number 0f7802, authorized ans unauthorized
But their influence is by no means powerful
or beneficial. Some of the plans they adopt
to stem the tide of irreligion and vice, are
very ridiculous. For instance, a splendid
piece of plate, worth 12,000 francs, was pre
sented lately at Rennes, to the Virgin Mary,
to induce her to stop the plague of sin which
infects the masses of France. ,
A Protestant Chapel has; been built for
the use of the Protestant soldiers in camp at
Chalons. The Emperor inspected it before
he left. This is an indication- of. progress
and perhaps may prepare: the way for the
abolition of the military law, which makes it
abroach of discipline not to kneel to the
wafer.
MISSIONARY GLEANINGS.
, subject of Missions was discussed
in the Geneva Conference. The Rev. «L
llorrison, missionary from Lodiana, spoke of
the vast extent of the country neglected in
the region of the Himalayas. The mission
of Lodiana’ embraced an extent of 500 miles,
English. Thirty missionaries labored to an
nounce the gospel, translating it at the same
time into different dialects. The obstacles
were considerable; on the one side, on ac
count of the inconsistency of professed Chris
tians, which was a tremendous evil; on the
other, on account of the strength of Moham
medanism which was very great. The con
versions were increasing. • Many Europeans
who had arrived there unbelievers, returned
home earnest Christians. A rajah was in
close relation with the missionaries, and fa
vored their preaching of the gospel. This
rajah .often read and meditated on the Bible
alone. He asked, the, prayers forthis' mission
of the assembled Conference.
—Waring.
M. Arbousset, missionary in Africa, said
—“ That scarcely thirty years ago, three
missionaries, of whom he had been one, dis
covered the Basutos. ! The first station was
called Moriah; Moriah is a name of faith.
After six years the gospel was accepted by a
chief of the* tribe. Hei had come out'of cu
riosity to see the white men. He was struck
with fear the moment that he heard the gos
pel preached. ‘I am tormented,’ he. said,>
‘ with remorse, I have killed so many poor,
victims. ’ He came again. I spoke to him
of Christ, of his Cross, of the pardon offered
by Him to the greatest malefactors. This
chief, although so barbarous, gave to Him,
step by step, his heart, after two years of
persevering efforts, and of mueh prayers.
He and his first wife, whom alone he kept,
made ft public profession of faith. The three
villages under his power are all governed in
an entirely new spirit. He has taken the
name David, and his wife that of Rahab.
Oh, what an interesting country! How in-,
foresting is the work of missions everywhere!
Christ has done his work; He has done it for
us; let us do ours in proclaiming his word
without ceasing in the generous spirit of sa
crifice, and with earnest faith.”
The Power of the Gospel is beautifully
exhibited in the following incident taken from
the Missionary Advocate: —'
“As we were concluding breakfast this
morning, a very respectably dressed elderly
Chinaman entered, and addressed a few
words to Dr. Legge on business. As he de
parted the doctor remarked, “There is a spe
cimen of what the Gospel can do for a -Chi
naman. Twelve years ago tliat man was a
miserable, tattered, filthy opium-smoker, a
cook on small wages, to a colonial policeman.
In some way his attention was called to Chris
tianity, and he gradually broke off opium
smoking, became an attendant at the London
Missionary Chapel, and finally applied for
baptism. The probation was passed, and the
time set for the administration of the sacred
ordinance arrived; the church was crowded,
but the candidate did not make his appear
ance, and the services proceeded without him.
Near the end of the meeting he came in and
explained the cause of his delay. His brutal
master had compelled him to cook a late din
ner, and thus ensued his detention. His ex
cuse was accepted, and he was baptized.
Temperance and moderation, with the coun
tenance of Christian frieiids, at once put him
into prosperous circumstances, and he now
owns a flock of fifty or sixty goats, whose
milk is used by foreigners, in the colony for
want of cows milk, and whose flesh is sold to
the shipping in the harbor,; and” concluded
Dr, Legge, “ every now and then he brings
me ten dollars aa an offering to the Lord”
Infant Murder is Still Practised in
China. —The Children's Missionary Record
of the Free Church of Scotland thus speaks
in regard to it :■ —
“ Sometimes the infant is buried alive.
The death of three infants was really wit
nessed by an English captain, on the sea
shore near the city of Phng-shau. He suc
ceeded once in preventing the horrid deed,
but shortly afterwards, by m'eans of a teles
cope, observed its uninterrupted accomplish
ment at a distance from hiin.
“ Surely we, who know that in keeping
God’s commandments ‘ there is great re
ward,’ should do something to proclaim
amongst these benighted heathen, ‘Thou
shalt do no murder.’ Are we doing any
thing ? If we are, can we say that we are
doing all that it is in our power to do?
“There is much to encourage us to labour
on behalf of China. A little Chinese -girl
was asked, ‘Were you sure of dying to-mor
row, what would you do to-day ? She was
one of a class; the first who replied said,
she wotdd.be getting her grave ready, which
is a very important business: among the
Chinese: but this dear child answered, with
a resolute countenance, ‘I would believe
strongly in Jesus!’ .. v ,. •,
“In the same school another girl asked for
some books to take home, naming one of the
short lives of the Saviour, and saying, ‘I
want to tell my mother about Jesus, for I
want her to believe in Jesus, 1 that she may
go to heaven with me.’
“ Shall not we be like minded with her, and
wish to be the means of taking numbers of
the Chinese ‘to heaven with’ us ?
Forbhjh Missions Promote the Piety
of - da&jSTiANS.— —The striking, manner in
which the missionary enterprise enlivened
the piety" and increased the happiness of
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY OCTOBER 31, 1861.
those who first espoused it, may he illustrated
by the following quotation :-
“ There was a period in my ministry,” said
the devoted Andrew Fuller to a friend,
“marked by the most pointed systematic
effort to comfort my serious people; but the
more I tried to comfort them, the more they
complained of doubts and; darkness. I knew
not what to do nor what to think, for I had
done my best to comfort the mourners in
Zion. At the same time it pleased Q-od to
direct my attention to claims of the perishing
heathen in India. I felt that we had been
Uving for ourselves, not caring for their souls.
I spoke as I felt. My serious people won
dered and wept Ove# their past inattention to
the subject.. They -began to talk about a
Baptist mission. The females especially be
gan to collect money for the spread of the
gospel. We met and prayed for the heathen;
met and considered what could be done
among ourselves for them; and met and did
what we could. And whilst all this was
B
joing on, the lamentation ceased, the sad
became cheerful, and the desponding calm.
No one complained of a want of comfort.
And I, instead of having to study how- to
comfort my flock, was myself comforted by
them. They were drawn out of themselves.
Sir, that was. the real secret. God blessed
them, whilfe they tried to be a blessing.”—
Foreign Missionary.
The First Foreign Missionary from
America.—-So far as we are at present in
formed, the individual who has the honor of
precedence in'point of time, in the long train
of American Missionaries to the heathen in
foreign lands, was a female. Miss Sarah
Farquhar, horn on Long Island, N. Y,, Sept.
23,1774, and for some time an assistant in
the school of Mrs. Isabella Graham, of New
York, went to India for her health in 1805,
and was married to the Rev. Mr. Loveless,
missionary of the London Missionary Socie
ty in Madras. For eighteen years she
adorned the high and important station to
which she. had been providentially called,
after which ill health constrained her to go
England with her husband, and’ there she
died in the sixty-third year of her age. Her
biographer says, “ Adorning the doctrine of
God her Saviour, this amiable, devoted, and
useful missionary closed her truly honorable
course.”
Mr. Loveless was the first English mission
ary to Madras, and his wife was the first
American missionary to any foreign land!
LITTER FROM CHINA.
THE REBEL MOVEMENT IN CHINA —ITS RE-
LIGIOUS ASPECT.
The rebel movement in its various phases
occupies a very large share of the attention
of all classes of foreigners resident in this
empire. Editors, travellers, representatives
of..wfistqyn missionaries, and
merchants seem about equallyinterested in:
ascertaining the real condition of things re
lating to the insurgents, whose head-quarters
are at Nanking. The favorable expectations,
which were excited last year at different
times and by different parties in regard to
them, do not seem to be just and correct.
The more they are known, the more-do they
appear at a . disadvantage. Those who, last
year, thought favorably, or, at least, gener
ously and charitably, about them, now do not
appear to have anything to say in their
favor.
‘“I do not happen to have any informa
tion to communicate derived from personal
observation and Acquaintance -with. them.
Fuhehau is at present quite remote from the
scene of their depredations. Long may it
remain ;unyisited by them. I, however, do
not propose to call upon my fancy for any
facts about them,, nor to dwell at too great
length on any phase of their condition.
What;l have.to say will be given on the very
best authority, viz.: of those who have been
eye-witnesses of what they say, or have
made personal observations, which have led
them to form their opinions, or it will be de
rived from articles which have recently ap
peared in the public prints of China, written
apparently by men who had paid considera
ble attention to the subject.
D. B. McCarter, of the 0. S. Presbyterian
I Mission of Ningpo, who, not long since, ac
companied, in the capacity of interpreter,
the American expedition, consisting of seve
ral vessels up the Yang Tsze Kiang under the
American commodore, in a private letter to
the writer, says: “Both imperialists and in
surgents seem pretty well to have exhausted
their resources, and the condition of the poor
people, in the neighborhoods where the fight
ing has been going on, is most pitiable.
Where the imperialists have recovered pos
session for any length of time, things begin
to look encouragingly; hut as to the insur
gents, even Nanking* which has been their
stronghold fofc- so mapy jfears, looks: like" A?
desolation of many generations.’ Their king
is (I believe) a lunatic; their counsellors,
ignorant rustics; their pomp of show an ab
surb imitation of the stage; their religion a
monstrosity; and their morality, ‘ echo an
swers .where !’ You see I am no rebel; al
beit I was well entertained by them, and
they gave us a document in which missiona
ries, their property of whatever kind, and all
in their employment or under their protec
tion, are guarantied protection in any place
of which the Taipings obtain possession.”
The following; is the testimony of Rev. I.
J. Roberts, American missionary at present
at Nanking, in regard to the morality which
prevails there among the rebels, just publish
ed in the China Mail: —“As to prostitution
or concubinage, I presume that such is not
allowed in this city; I have never heard of
anything of the kind here, and suppose that
such a practice, openly known, would he the
most direct road to decapitation. In this
respects : and jts cognates, L e.. gambling,
opium-sm.oking, fortune-telling, and priest
craft, including idolatry, this city may justly
be .esteemed the wonder of the world, having
excluded and purged out the whole. There
may be secret exceptions, but the public and
general course of things runs in this uncom
monly pure and extraordinary channel, for
which Tien Wang (the Heavenly Kang)
should have due credit, whatever else may be
his faults and failings. And, however ob
jectionable polygamy may be,” (Mr. R. is re
ferring. to the polygamy of the chief and
.other high rebel officers), “it is certainly less
objectionable than the other course of un
tir'U : ■ ■
uncleanness, prostitution. snd concubinage,
practised by some oflmore
enlightened stations',"^flc- would fain take
many exceptions at ipf'] olygapiy of Teen
Wang and his people. ,
Mr. Roberts is the onl j Protestant mis
sionary in Nanking, nofwit istandihg the fact
that for nearly or quite a mar “free permis
sion has been accorded to missionaries to
preach the gospel in the insurgent’s camp.”
He calls himself the “Religions! teacher” of
Teen Wang, referring to hjs having been the
acknowledged teacher of I the Chief of the
Rebels a long while tmo at Canton, before
he aspired to anything nkfe his present . ppsi r
tion, and while he was' a kind of candidate
for baptism and employment. ' Sir. Roberts
is not a man of unexebpti|uable antecedents
as a missionary. At different times i he has
been a member of thtf Mwiotis of tHte Bap
tist Churches in Ameraea, jNorth and South]
established in this empire.],For quite a num
ber of years tq.pet year, when ihe
went to Nanking, he, sjaB„ jmcpnnected ydth
any missionary hqmself
principally, when in.!Gwn&”;by contributions
solicited and obtained 'frim fbe mercantile
foreign-community. He Mtes in the letter,
from which I hare alfeadyquoted, that when
he arrived at Nanking "last October Teen
Wang immediately feent I him word by the
prime minister, Kan Waijg, that he.was not .
only at liberty to preachjand. invite his own
brethren—the Baptists—jjto come-.ahd help
him, but that he himNfo. l to take
the superintendence .and rianagement of the
“propagation of the gosiel by foreign mis
sionaries;” “to which,” m adds, “I readily
consented.” , “Afterwai Is,” he proceeds to
say, “at my solicitation {with others), a writ
ten document was issued! from the throne by
the young prince, lis father’s seal, giv
ing free religious toleration to all, both Pro
testants and Catholics/’ . A ; ,translation of
this document has been .published in China
as well as in westem.lfnds. ; .
Refering to. this'free permission to preach
the gospel in the. insurgent camps, the editor
of one of the most. abl i.iChina journals per
tinently askS:—"Xs ids .permission, after
all, anything more tha i a name ? Is it not
a mere specious allusion ? We question
whether any missionary dare preach the gos
pel as it was preached by its first Apostles,
and must ever be to tie end of the world.
The first duty of any: preacher, who ad
dresses an audience iii the rebel camp, will
be to declare against] the arrogant preten
sions of those leaders who. affirm that they
have special interpouipe with Heaven. This
was the rock on'which Mahomet built, when
he overran the-world with his conquering
enthuisasts. There'(are good things in Ma
homet’s religion, • land there mar be good
' ■'’trs in Teen Wai
, 3k
• Ah<
o religion, may . g<
things in Teen Wsng= s; but neither of mem
is Christianity, f, 2jo teaeh the latter .without
exploding the .“Heavenly King’s” preten
sions is simply* impossible ; to inculcate
many of its gbundantly easy.”
An AmerrM, Ohma,.pre -:
the religious
creed of the''®drgehmjas
letter from Kan Wang, the prime minister of
the chief rebel, ,«ho (Kan Wang) was form
erly catechist hr the employment of the Lon
don Missionary Society at Hong Kong!
“The Old jfafbNew Testaments are in the
main corr/ct, bat there ape inaccuracies in
them; ard thed|elestial king considers his
own vi/aons and new revelations of higher
authority and importance than those. His
mission is to commence a new dispensation,
superceding the gospel, as the gospel su
percedes the law. This new revelation is
attested by miracles and a third sacred vo
lume is to be given to the world, to come
after the, Old Testament and the Hew, and
to be called the True Testament. God and
Christ have both come down in the likeness
of men. Christ is not equal to the Father,
or properly divine. Other Saviours are
coupled with hijo, and he has a wife and fa
mily in Heavenj. The Celestial King and his
son, along witl ’ God and Christ, forms a
quarternity in itimy'i 6o that God is worship
ped through tbLlEmpefor-. 'The presence of
God is, in a ipfccial manner, the Celestial
Bang’s present :;j and the kingdom of Heaven
is just what m peing set up at Nanking.”
What blaspher jg! What nonsense !
This Kan W uig, at the command of his
chief, the rebt king became a polygamist,
having at the resent time, according to the
admission of i tr.' Roberts, five wives. He
seems to have ,dopted many of the peculiar
notions prevah it at Nanking. According to
a recent valual [L article in the China Mail,
from which may of these facts have been
culled, he staM that they cannot permit
any one to preajh against the dogma (above
mentioned) as itjwould undermine the autho
rity of the chief, tnd damp the military ardor
of “his followe It is declared in as
plain language $ possible, that “the chief
Hung Sin-tsiuei -is the brother of the, Sa
viour and the St ■ of God, in that same sense
as Christ is, and only inferior to him as the
-i younger daiinferi e ta the,-elder. They repu
diate the idea tli; anything in their-revela
tions that may Icontrary to the Old and
may be correeted by them;
recent, is to be considered
ative.”
New Testaments
theirs as the mo:
the more author
60, when Mr. Boberts ar
, the chief addressed him a
cling him to the capital. In
various- points of doctrine,
; his own ascent to heaven,
uent descents of the Father
; the miraculous
In October, ]
rived at Nankii
long letter, weh
it, he reiterate!
among which ai
ip 1887, the fre
of Christ to ear
fee Father and Christ in his
Itself is, “ the way, the truth
tej the Father and Christ is
fete. “He tells Mr. Roberts
Iteve in these things without
as did the Israelites, who
. rejected Moses.” And he
i (tells Mr. fioberts that faith
is very important, and that
5a useful here, nor. happy
■ these facts go far to set-
interposition oi
behalf, i He h
and the life,”
each the way]
that he must a
reserve, or pei
disbelieved aa
again and ag*
in these thinl
without it he cm
hereafter; Dq
that Missionaries would not
V tolerated at Nanking, if
Mly preach against these
'.nlions ?
e (dees of the rebels are
tie one day out of every
nd this day is our Sa
of Saturday, for Sab
been done by mistake
ose. According to the
‘There is no worship" on
lish ; it -from any other
:—“ They buy and sell,
days." “On the night
tie the question
for a moment ;
they should fai
blasphemous pin
The religious
very few. They si
seven worship day,
turday. The fixinj
bath, seems to hai
rather than on pm
late Dr, Medhurst.
that day to distin
day.” Mr. John sa
and build as on ott
preceding; at 10 o’clock, two other guns are
fired, to signify that the hour of prayer has
come, and that the worshipping is soon to
commence. For an hour each household is
engaged in prayer sand praise,. The testi
mony of all those whohave been at Nanking,
is to the same effect, that there, where they
have been settled for more than seven years,
there is no public or private observance of
their worship-day, as a holy day, except by
Kan-Wang: that there are no churches, no
celebration of the Sacraments of the New
Testament, no preaching, ho explanation of
the Sacred Scriptures, and no exhortations
to holy, living. Their, worship at other times
consists in the repetition of the Doxology and
some, prayers, and the presentation of vari
ous offerings, as rice, and the bodies of slain
animals.”
Rev. S. W. Bonney, missionary of the
American Board, at Canton, called at Fuh
Ghau, a few days ago, and .related to the wri
ter the incidents of his visit to Nanking, and
his calling Cn Mr/ Roberts' a short time pre
vious. Mr.' RbbertS told ; Mhi that his plain
was, bo- pibachipdbMtfly‘iflithWstreets every
day, but I do not recollect: that Ire told Mr.
B. the subject-matter of his discourses. It
appears Mr. Roberts is the Foreign; Minister
of the insurgents in a political sense. He is
supported by the rebel Government, receiv
ing rations of food regularly, a,nd occasion
ally presents of money. Mr. Bonney corro
borated the statements of other travellers in
regard to the desolated appearaece of Nan
king and vicinity. The people are repre
sented as rarely ever smiling, but appear sad
and burdened witb present affliction and
gloomy anticipations. The Chinese people
do not take to their rebel conquerors, and
this seems to be a . great argument against
their ultimate success.
What to do with the long-haired, rebels is
the absorbing question among politicians.
They seem to stand in the way of commerce
and Christianity. Some seem to favor their
extirpation or destruction by the foreign
powers interested in Chinese' commerce.
Others say “ let them alone.” My only apo
logy for-sending this long letter, is the im
portance of the subjects. Let not Western
Christians omit to mention China, populous
and heathen, in their prayers to the Divine
author of temporal and spiritual blessings.
Fuh Chau, Aug. 6,1861. , Sinim.
AN IRISH CLERGYMAN’S VIEW OF THE
WAR.
The following article is the production of
an Irish-d Presbyterian clergyman, who mani
fests the deepest interest in our American
troubles. 'lt'originally appeared as a com
munication to the editor of the Belfast News
Letter, an influential paper in Ireland’s
Northern capital. We learn from the brother,
who sends it for insertion,' that the writer,
with, his congregation, strictly observed bur
day of National fasting and prayer* It is a
matter of rejoicing that there are at least
' -ho clearly.perceive
<er side who clearl;,
the great principles involvecTm our present
struggle, and' who are ready, like this
brother, to extend to us their hearty sym
pathy and generous encouragement. After
referring to the fact of secession and show
ing that the South has taken up anus, in the
language of a Southern divine, to “conserve
and perpetuate the institution of domestic
slavery as now existing,” the article thus
discusses the origin and object of the South
ern rebellion:—
5 “President Lincoln’s policy is not to libe
rate the slaves, be it remembered, nor to in
terfere with vested rights or the property of
any man, but merely to restrict slavery within
its present limits, and to adopt such mea
sures as will render the extension of it into
new territories unnecessary and impossible.
This policy will certainly lead to the gradual
suppression of the diabolical system, as the
founders of the Republic intended; and this
the South avows its determination rather to
die than to permit. The rebels do not pre
tend to take up' arms in defence of their li
berties, or of their rights of any kind, ex
cept to enslave a still greater number of then
species, and to oblige the North to help them
to enslave more of the human race. The
issue forced upon the North, therefore, sim
ply is, either to go to war or to succumb to a
bullying minority, and be coerced into mea
sures which they regard as most atrocious,
and which will be sure, sooner or later, to
destroy their country. What does secession
mean, then? It means, first, violating the
national compact. It means, second, retir
ing, carrying off like robbers all the proper
ty they can get hold of belonging to those
with whom they hate broken faith. And
third, it means rebelling against constituted
authority for the pure and avowed purpose
of extending slavery, and compelling the
authorities to aid them in their wicked designs.
The Southern writer already referred to gives
the follotri'ng quotations with the; ; greatest
indignation:—“There can be no doubt what
ever in the mind of any man that Mr. Lin
coln regards slavery as a moral, social, and
political evil, and that it should be dealt with
as such by the Federal Government; in every
instance where it is called upon to deal with
it at all. On this point there is no room for
question—and there need be no misgivings
as to his ! official action. The whole influence
of the Executive department of the Govern
ment, while in his hands, will be thrown
against the extension of slavery (this is the
sore point, excessively excruciating,) into the
new territories of the Union, and the re
opening of the African slave trade. On
these points he (Lincoln) will make no com
promise, nor yield one hair’s breadth to co
ercion from any quarter or in any-shape.”
“He will do all in his power, personally and
officially, by the direct exercise of the pow
ers of his office, and-the indirect influence in
separable from it, to arrest the tendency to
make slavery national and perpetual, and to
place it in precisely the same position which
it held in the earlydays of the] Republic,
and in the view of the founders of the Go
vernment.” These quotations, given by the
Southern statesman with such intense indig
nation, serve to show what the North fights
for, and what will be the issue, in case the
North win, as it certainly will, sooner or
later—as soon, indeed, as it shall have been
sufficiently chastised and humbled for having
so‘ long connived at the national guilt, just
as the tribes of Israel were repeatedly de
feated and thoroughly humbled prior to their
being divinely enabled to chastise, almost
annihilate, the Benjamites for their support
ing the cause of the wicked inhabitants of
Gibeah. The following eloquent peroration
of the above-mentioned Southern writer must
not'be withheld, italicising exactly as he
does himself:—“ This argument,” says he,
“ establishing the nature and solemnity Of
our trusty to preserve and transmit
our existing system of domestic servitude with
the right , unchallenged by man, to go and
root itself wherever Providence and nature
may carry it. This trust,” he. continues,
“we will discharge in the face of the worst
possible peril—though war be the aggrega
tion of all evils”—(just as slavery is the
sum of all Villainies)—-“yet, should the mad
ness of the hour appeal to the arbitration of
the sword, we will not shrink even from the
baptism of fire.: If modern crusaders stand
in seried ranks upon some plain of Esdrae
lon, there shall we be in defence of our trust.
Npt till the last, man has fallen behind the
last rampart shall it drop from our hands,
and then only in surrender to the Clod who
gave ii.” “The God who gave” what?
Why, the right to make slaves of as many as
possible of .the. human race, to. increase, the
wealth of their masters!
Such is the fbject'bf ihe great rebellion
in America, such the origin of it, and such
the issues of success oh one side or other.
War is forced upon the North because it will
not adopt the pro-slavery views of the South
—because, in the words of the Southern re
presentative' man, already quoted, “ the
whole influence of the Executive department
of the Government, while in his hands, will
be thrown against the extension of slavery
into the new territories of the Union, and
the re-opening of the African slave trade”
—because “he will do all in his power, per
sonally and officially, by the direct exercise
of the powers of his office, and the indirect
influence inseparable from it, to arrest the
tendency to make slavery national and per
petual, and to place it in precisely the same
position which it, held in the early days of
the Republic, and in the view of the found
ers of the Government.” Upon the North
has come the sad alternative of either fight
ing or being coerced by a bullying minority
to adopt most atrocious and Wicked measures.
Why should not the press, the pulpit, and
the prayers of British Christians be on their
behalf? The war is begun. The South
avows its determination to shed the last drop
of its blood for upholding and extending
slavery. The North goes to war rather than;
be coerced to aid them in their avowed ob
ject. God defend the right.”— Rev. Gr. H.
Shanks.
IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE.
The shadows are lengthening eastward
now; the suriimer day will Soon be gone.
And looking about on' this beautiful world, I
think of a poem by' Bryant, in which he tells
iis how, gazing on the Sky and the mountains
in June, he; wished that when his time come,
the green turf of summer might be broken
to make, grave. He could not bear, he
tells us, the idea of being borne ta his rest
iag-pla.cn .throngh Rlcflty winds, and , covered
with icy clods. Of course, poets glve"ujT
fanciful views, gained by looking at one side
of a- picture ; and De‘Quincy some where
states the opposite opinion, that death seems
sadder in summer, because there is a feeling
that in quitting this World our friends are
losing more. It will not matter much, friend
ly reader, to you and me, What kind of
weather there may be on the day of our re
spective funerals ; though one would wish
for a pleasant, sunshiny time. And let us
humbly trust that when we go we may find
admission to a place so beautiful that we shall
not miss the green fields and trees, the roses
and honeysuckles of June. You may think,
perhaps, of another reason besides Bryant’s
for preferring to die in the summer time;
you remember the quaint old Scotch lady
dying on a night of rain and hurricane, who
said (in entire simplicity, and with nothing
of irreverence,) to the circle of relations
round her bed, “Ech, what a fearfu’ nicht
for me to 'be fleein’ through : the airl” And
perhaps it is natural to think that it would
be pleasant for the parted spirit, passing
away from human ken and edmfort, to mount
upward, angel-guided, through the soft sun
set of June, toward the country where sun
never set, and where all the days are sum
mer days. But all this is no better than a
wayward fancy; it founds on forgetfulness
of the nature of the immaterial soul to think
that there heed be any lengthened journey,
or any flight through skies either stormy or
calm. The old lady need not have looked
with any apprehension to going out from the
warm, chamber info the stormy Winter night,
and flying far away. Not but that millions
of miles may intervene; not but that the two
worlds may be parted by a still, breathless
ocean, a fathomless abyss of cold, dead
space; yet, swift as never light went flies
the just man’s spirit across the profound.
One moment the sick-room, the scaffold, the
stake ;' the next the paradisal glory. One
moment the sob of parting anguish; the next
the great, deep: swell of the angel’s song.
Neyer think, reader that the dear ones you
have seen die had far to go to meet God after
they parted from you. Never think, parents
who have seen your children die, ; that after
they left you they had to traverse a darky so
litary way, along which you would have liked
(had it been possible) to lead them by the
hand, and bear them company till they came
into the; presence of God. You did so, if
you stood by them till the last breath was
- drawn. You 'did bear them company into
God’s very .presence, if you only;-stayed be
side them till they died. The moment they
left you they were with Him. The slight
pressure of the cold fingers lingered with you
yet, but the little child was with his-Saviour.
—Recreations of a Country Parson.
<! And Paul, as his manner was.’— A.cts xvii. 2.
We may say apb regards .Paul, to all; who
have read their Bibles, *Ye know the man
and his communicationand it mav Be pro
fitable just to contemplate the mail and his
manner.
Paul was a pardoned man, and he went
about the world singing the pardon which ; he
had received; praising Him who procured it
at such an amazing price, and proclaiming
the same blessedness to.all who came within
the sound of his voice. For ,thjs he became
& persecuted man; but God preserved him
though the greatest trials
and dangers; and mhde Mm a pattern to the
saints m all generations.
THE MAI AND HIS MANNER
GENESEE EVANGELIST.—WhoIe No. 806,
Such whs the man; and what was his
manner ? It was-tor preseht tbe -gospel first
to the Jews. He always, on entering a
town or city,, inquired for the Jews’ syna
gogrie, and. went first to that; If persecuted
by the Jews in one city, still he went first to
the Jbws in the next city: ‘lt is needful (he
said at Antioch) that'the word of God should
first be spoken unto you.’ He always bore
in mind the: spirit pf the Lord’s words, ‘be
ginning at Jerusalem,’ even when far away
from that beloved ;city. Surely we should
learn from him. to care for Israel. His man
ner, was to preach the Gospel freely tot the-
Gentiles. • Pirst, to the Jews, but as fulfef>
and freely to the Gentiles. r His triumphant
words are, ‘There is no difference; the same.
Lord over all, is rich in mercy to all.’ Hp
manner was to be full of zeal, faith, love, add'
hope. His zeal’for truth; faith in God, love '
to saints, and hope of success and reward,
are all worthy pf admiration and imitation.'
His character and history show us two
things: What great things Godcan do- for a;
vile sinner. He was ‘the chief of sinners,’
the moat undeserving, of all; yet he was
•£# qf jpeaee apd joy, and led into the
.richest experience of communion with God.
What wonderful things God can accomplish
by an unlikely and apparently feeble instru
ment. His influence has been most exten
sive and blessed, and' the result of his labors
of incalculable value. Well might he ex
claim at the review, ‘Not I, but the grace of
God which was in me.’—Christian Treasury.
It is needless to say, that John AngeL
James was a great worker. He enjoyed in
cessant activity. Says his son“He dili
gently redeemed his time. Meals were dis
patched in his house in less time than I ever
saw them got through elsewhere. Though a
stout man, all his movements were quick ; he
walked and wrote fast, and he dressed with
unusual rapidity. My stepmother was as ac
tive as he was, and never kept him waiting
for her at a meal, or when going out with
hjp, and she remarked with great pleasure,
thAt Bonaparte gave the same praise to Jo
sephine. He was generally in his study soon
after 1 seven, and, I .believe, spent in devotion
the hour before breakfast (which in winter
and summer he took at Sight). He never sat
more thati half an hour after dinner (at two
or half-past), and not a minute after break
fast or tea, After supper (at nine) he usually
read an amusing bqqk,; and I think he did so
also at the end of the morning. He wrote
his letters generally in an afternoon, and
grumbled if he had to take up his pen after
supper. Though he disliked the occupation,
his letters were generally very full, and al
most every one who wrote to him oh a matter
of personal religion Was sure oft being an
swered at considerable length. His chief
relaxation was to spend half a day in the
country* and he could generally make time
for that, if allowed to fix the day;
ir NothiSg seemed ever to incapacitate him
from working on up to supper-time, or to dis
sipate his mind.. He could breakfast out,
and when he returned fall to work as usual.
When he reached; home in ah afternoon, after
travelling all day, he had* tea as quickly as
it could, be got; and then Went to his study,
and generally on such occasions was later
than, usual at supper. .He never gave up
working nrdess physteafljr unable to sit np,
and mad.e nothing; of a.headache or other ail
ment which would have laid aside most men.
Till the last years of His life he wrote stand
ing, and to this" he’ attributed his health/’
Of Ins personal habits and benevplence we
have these notices:—“ He was very neat in
his person and dress, and was Very particular
not to appear in the phlpit with M s haif ih
disorder, which cost him- some care, as he. al
always wore it combed straight up from 5 Ms
forehead. He lik.ed everything about him
kept an.gpoi ordqr, qxceptTthht the books
and papers he had in, hand always lay about
m confusion. He did not seem to have order
and system, but he must have had it, for he
kept going thegreat maeKineryofhis church
and congregation; with ease and comfort to
everybody, and withoiit the' need of any pain
ful or convulsive-efforts, '
“His almpgiying was very great, when
viewed m reference! either to Mis income or
expenditure. No relation or old friend, and
scarcely aay minister,.applied to him in vain,
and he gave even. to. his enemies. To do this
he was very economical, especially in his per
sonal expenses. But he showed it only by
not spending money, and hot when he spent
it; tor he was very easy in every transac
tion, whether: lie-paid or received. He lived
as plainly as he could with propriety, and he
gavp away the remainder of His income. He
held it a sfin for a minister to hoard, and at
least an equal sin for him to indulge in dis
play. I never knew hun so short with me as
when I suggested it would be merer, to put
two horses to his carriage, which he kept as
a matter of necessity.”— Methodist.
Six months ago, the gj-eat donspiraey of
the southern slave-aristocracy bloomed put
intp open rebellion. iLet us review the months
which have passed since the day of Sumter,
.and see. what we have done. Six months
ago, we had not spven hundred soldiers with
in reach of a defenceless capital. To-day,
have proihably'two hundred thousand arm
ed men'on the line of the Potomac, and an
other hundred thousand in the West. Six
months ago, we had hot arms to put into the
hands of seventy-five thousand volunteers;
to-day, we have muskets, cannon, every sup
ply in abundance for four times the number.
Six months ago, we could neither feed nor
move an army of five thousand men; to-day,
every department of ojir military organiza
tion; is completed, and we can make war
across the- continent. Six months ago, we
had not a dozen ships of war at hand; to
;day, we number our navy by the hundred,
l ahd are guarding a coast line of more than
two thousand miles.
Six months ago, the government could
scarcely borrow a few hundred thousand at
twelve per cent.; to-day, twelve millions of
people lend it fifty millions of dollars at par.
Six morithsago, the question was whether
the people would'support the government;
to-day, the’ only question-is, whether the go
vernment will support the people.—j Evening
Post
JOHN ANGELL JAMES.
PERSONAL HABITS, AC.
SIX MONTHS;