fiMfcgtMia# —AMD— GENESEE EVANGELIST, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31,1861 JOHN W. HEARS, With the present Number, we send out a large number of bills to subscribers in Pennsyl vania, and west and north of it, except in the State of New York. We rely upon returns to these bills for means to carry on our paper; and as we are now doing a strictly cash business with printers, paper-makers, &c., we wish to do the same with our subscribers. THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE. We have already laid before our readers such an abstract of the lengthened and varied pro ceedings of the late meeting of this body in Geneva, as our space would allow. But we fear that in so doing, we very mueh come short of doing justice to the occasion. Upon rising from the perusal of the detailed account of the pro ceedings, filling over twenty closely printed pages of the News of the Churches, (and that an abbreviated and confessedly imperfect account), we feel that it was a convention worthy, so far as anything human can be, of the kingdom of Christ on earth in its present stage of progress. Earnest, elevated, comprehensive minds engaged in the discussion of the whole series of topics now commanding the attention, or deserving the regard of the Christian world. Protestant Ger many, Italy, Switzerland, and France, were re presented by some of the brightest of their living luminaries, including sneh names as Cor ner, Krummaeher, Tholuck, Herzog, Mazzarella, Geymonat f Revel, D'Aubigne, Malan, Gaussen, Fiseh, St. Hilaire, De Presaense, Grandpierre, Monod; while Sir Culling Eardley, Rev. Wm. Arthur, Baptist Noel, and Prof. Gibson worthily represented the British Islands; M. Tan de Velde, Holland; and Dr. Baird, perfectly at home among Evangelical Christians of all na tions Of Europe, was welcomed as the ambassador of the churches of Christ in onr own land. Rev Dr. Squler, too, of our own branch of the Church, rendered good service in setting our national difficulties in a proper light before tbe convention. Lot us imagine ourselves spending ten conse cutive days in the society of these and other like minds; meeting beneath the dome; that,'three centuries ago, reverberated with the voice pf the preacher Calvin, under the very shadow of his pulpit; with just enough of opposition on the part of the unevangelical In the community, to vivify the thronging reminiscences of perse cution in centuries past, which the place sug gested; listen to essay after essay discussing the great topios in which all Christendom is con cerned, with breadth of view, with floods of light poured forth, with rieh treasures of learn ing, of experience, and of observation; think that here, by no artificial bonds, but by a spon taneous union, the oneness of Protestant Christ endom is represented, its sympathies drawn toge ther in one electric centre, its Ecumenical Coun cil held, with hymns, and prayers, and praises, in all civilized tongues; and we begin to gain some idea of this great convocation. Call it not a beautiful abstraction; it has lived lopg enough and has proved itself tbe focal point of sufficient sanctified intellect, and sufficient interest on tbe part of crowned and uncrowned heads, and civi lized communities, to claim a place among the established agencies of the Evangelical Church; the best and brightest exemplification of Pro testant unity that the world can exhibit. Amid all, however, we must confess disap pointment at the small plaqe which the Great Awakening of ’57, ’6B, seemed to occupy in the discussions. Since the Convocation of's7, no event in the bounds of Protestant Christendom has been nearly so significant, or so hopeful. Yet it was left for discussion to the afternoon of the last day of the Session. This we regard as a great error, as calculated to make a false im pression as to the estimate placed by the Evan gelical Church on the Revival, and will so far have a harmful tendency. Had there been a fuller representation from America, or the north of Ireland, tbe case, we tbiuk, would have been otherwise. It is easy to see where the sympathies of all Evangelical Christians are, in our own troubles. The resolutions of sympathy passed by acclama tion, by this great body, are with the brethren of the “ United States of America;” they can see but one cause of the war-^-slavery; which they wish the Lord to prepare us wisely to suppress; and they join cordially in our Fast of the 26th ult. This is the handwriting on the wall for the Southern Church of our country. Identified by its own act with a political movement which re cognizes slavery as the chief corner-stone, it be holds the Council of the whole of Protestant Christendom pronouncing a virtual ban of exclu sion against it. That Council,| comprising the very flower of God’s elect upon earth, calmly, prayerfully, and with loud acclaim, calls for the suppression of that institution, which they are urging their people to maintain by all the coßts and hazards'"of internecine war. can doubt that in the decision of the Alliance is contained the verdict which impartial history shall place unalterably upon record ?' OUR LEADER. It is a delightful and encouraging thought that Christ does not call the Christian to any self-denial which he ‘has not shown himself ready to endure or to exceed. Herein he proves himself exactly suited to be our leader. The holy war is like other wars. The soldiers can best be brought to face danger when under the lead of one whom they know to be quite ready to share it with them. They execute orders with less alacrity when the officer is suspected of unwillingness to take a part, and to set the ex ample in the work he requires of them. For getfulness of. self and unreserved devotodness to the osusHn the officers, infuses like noble senti montt in the men. True leaders were those gal lant men yjhose loss the- bereaved nation so bit terly deplores,—Lyon and Baker. No prouder epitaph can.be written of them, or of any offi cer, than: They fell at the head of their column. Mindless .of themselves, they were setting their men the example in what they desired them to do. So we .way say of Christ. '“Our glorious Leader claims the praise For ms own pattern given.” He calls us to bear onr cross; but the com- mand is: Come, follow me, in so doing. Come, share with me a load of which I am bear ing a principal part. Come lay hold of the end of the cross, the weighty portion of which is on my shoulders. I call you to a cross, but it is one of whioh I know far more than you ever shall. In this world you shall have tribulation, but was there ever sorrow like unto ray sorrow ? I lead you a rough and thorny road, but is it as steep and painful as was my ascent to Calvary ? Oh, the burdens, the pains, the mysterious ago nies of that hour on the cross, when redemption was consummated. Did tortured martyr ever endure so great a pang? Need any Christian complain, or grow weary, under the self-denials of a service under Him, who resigned the su preme glories of heaven, and became a man, for his salvation ? Away with such unworthy thoughts of our vocation. Let us follow our leader who summons us onward, and goes before. Let ns look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of onr faith, who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For that sublime seat he toiled and suf fered, that we might be encouraged in toil and suffering for our reward. He became perfect, as the Captain of our salvation, through suffering. Onward then, fellow Christian, through perils and trials, through the toils and ambush of the enemy, in the track of our leader, to victory, to the joys and glories of the saints above. Editor. “They marked the footsteps that he trod, His zeal inspired their breast; And, Mowing their incarnate God, Possess the promised rest.” FUNERAL OP OOL. BAKER. The man of God who is called upon to inter pret the meaning of Providence in a calamity so great and so bitter to the nation as was the fall of Colonel Baker and the destruction of his com mand, and who is expected to relieve the dark ness of the disaster and wreathe it with words of consolation and of hope, has no ordinary task placed before him. Such was the duty of our friend and brother, Rev. Dr. Sunderland, Chap lain of the U. S. Senate, when the body of the late senator, patriot, Christian, and martyr to the cause of order and true liberty was brought into the National Capital for burial, on Thursday of last week. We give below tbe greater portion of his remarks, as reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer , not knowing whether they received his corrections or np. They are appropriate and weH-time'cl; they fully arise to the sorrowful grandeur of the occasion; they guage and guide the feelings of the nation; with mainly candour they lay open the lessons of policy which such disasters are teaching us; and they point out the bow of promise yet hanging on the cloud. Col. Baker is believed to have died a Christian. WQuid to God we could indulge the same hope of the scores of brave fellows who fell on the same field of slaughter! rev. dr. sunderi.and’s address. Our people are divided into two hosts, insur gents and loyalists. We the loyalists did not seek this war, tor we knew what it would cost. They the insurgents forced it upon ns. We had to accept it or stand supinely by and see the Go vernment of our fathers destroyed, and see free dom throttled by despotism. We are fighting for freedom—the. insurgents are fighting in mad ness and hatred for the recognition of human bondage as tbe chief corner-stone of civilization. That is their position in the world to-day. They may call it by what name they will, that is their principle when stripped of all disguise. Can such an enormity finally succeed ? Not if there is a God in heaven who governs the nations upon earth. Not till the distinctions of right and wrong have been wholly blotted from the face of the universe, and God’s divine law graven on the soul of man has been entirely obliterated. Were the whole army and all the munitions of the Go vernment to be consumed to-day—nay, were this generation to be wasted in this conflict, another would immediately rise from its ashes to continue the contest. When Christ says, “ Think not that I am come to send peace on earth, but a sword, and a man’s foes shall be they of his own house hold,” He forewarns us of the struggle between liberty and oppression, between light and dark ness. When Christianity reigns, light and liberty prevail; when Christianity wanes, or is lost in any country, there will be darkness and despo tism. In the South, it does really begin to seem that the light of a pure Christianity is beginning to wane. The whole nation has been involved in its guilt, and therefore the whole nation suffers in its punishment. It is said that the judgments of God are poured upon us for our sins. I acknowledge it. I be lieve it to be fearfully true. But I do not con fess that the punishment of this people, for our transgressions is the only, or even the chief ob ject of the divine purpose in this war. I believe the object is to purify the nation, and to give the death-blow to American Slavery on the Ameri can continent. I believe tbe object is to set more firmly and broadly than ever in this land the everlasting principles of truth and justice— of righteousness and peace—of law and order— of freedom and religion. And as God taught our fathers, in the trials of the. revolution, the value and the cost of good government, so He is now teaching us and our children the same lesson on a grander scale, and upon a higher platform. He is teaching us this lesson in the storms and convulsions of our political heavens. He is writing it for us in our blood. He is spell ing it out letter by letter in our falling stars, j Tbe value and cost of good government, oh! what blood and treasure are demanded to pre-; serve it to the generations. What noble and dear lives must be sacrificed; and yet there is nothing more noble or more sacred, than to die in a just cause for one’s country. To die bravely is far better than to live ignobly. Death is not half. so dreadful to a generous and dauntless spirit as a life of dishonor and degradation. Let us imbue ourselves with this spirit, and may God, the Giver of all good, baptize the mind of the whole nation into the sentiment which has borne martyrs and heroes through fire and flood for the cause of humanity and truth. For once, I say, let us all he willing to die rather than abandon the principle on which we have accepied this war. We cannot draw back; the souls of our fallen heroes would cry out to us from the invi sible air in indignant protest against it, and human nature on the whole face of the earth would mourn over our pusillanimity. We, the loyalists, have met with many sad re verses since the war began. We have lost many of our most heroic and noble spirits. . They are our stars that have faded from the firmament, but they arc not lost nor dead to us. 'Their record gimme*™ ffusifogtm™ anfl (&txu#u #»angeHisit. and example remain, and their mantles will fall on others who succeed them, to bear aloft the standard of our holy cause. We have needed these reverses to steady and to discipline us. But I do not see in them any foreboding of our ulti mate defeat. On the contrary, I see that by them we are preparing for ultimate victory. It re quires the pressure of great calamities to fit thirty millions of people for genuine-success in a cause like that in which we are engaged. This was over the way of Divine Providence. In the early times, the chosen people of Jehovah were again and again repulsed, when they went forth to battle with their enemies, and yet God’s cove nant was with them always to give them the final victory. But whenever they were defeated , it was found that they were not prepared in a moral sense to engage in the contest. Their defeat al ways had the effect to supply this want, and then when they went forwdrd, nothing could stand be fore them . Let us remember in this direful struggle that the covenant of God for truth and righteousness, for civil and religious freedom to all men is with us, and that it will not, it cannot ultimately fail. Whatever temporary reverses may sadden our hearts and depress our spirits, let ns remember that it is from the experience of suffering that all great things are bom! God knows how deeply and how unfeignedly we have wept and do weep over the fall of our soldiers in this fearful battle with rebellion. We knew too, beforehand, that our hearts would come to this. We knew that it must.be so when the war was forced upon us. We knew that every now and then there must be scenes like that which we witness here to-day. We knew that there must he hours devoted to the fond weakness of human nature, when our souls must blend together in the holiest sympathies of ho nored friendship. How can we speak of Mm so lately in the ripeness of life, how lying in the shrouded si lence of a dreamless slumber—Colonel Edward D. Baker! the fond son, brother, husband, father, friend—faithful and gentle, gallant and brave, the successful lawyer, the eloquent orator, the distinguished Senator, the pure patriot, the dauntless soldier, who has now sealed in his death that devotion to his country, which, with the words that burn with the fervid eloquence of his tongue he professed so often in the forums of the people. His chronicle is already in the archives of the nation, and his memory and his form are/treasured in their heart. How bravely he fell, at the head of his colhinn —in the face of his own son—in the sight of his own men, who loved him as a father! borne down by numbers,* and pierced through and through—head, heart and vital members—by rebel balls, is a sad story, that has already flown on the wings of the wind, to fill the national heart with a bitter sorrow. And yetr—and yet, my countrymen, let us not despond. God’s hand is .in this dark dispensa tion, and this death will plead throughout the land for the noble and just cause for which he gave his life. Oh, as we look upon that bloody corpse, and those rent garments, we feel that he and they will plead for us before God and this people in terms more powerful than any speech of man. He will he in his fall more powerful to move the soul of the uation to more determined pur pose, and to greater energy in the struggle, than when, the lation of dead Csesar’s wounds! We shall meed no Marc Antony to speak for him, to hold up his gory vestments in the sight of Americans, and say in the spirit of the immortal language of the English dramatist:— “ You all do know this mantle. I remember The first time Caesar ever put it on. ’Twas on a summer’s evening in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii. Lookl in this place ran Cassius’ dagger through, See what a rent the envious Casca made! Through this, the well-beloved Brutus stabbed; And as he plucked the cursed steel away, ' Mark how the blood of Csesar followed it! “ And were I Bratus, and Brutus Antony, there were an Antony would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue in every wound of Csesar that should move the stones of Rome to rise.” No! no! no! we need nothing hut that divine arid solemn Providence which is to-day afflicting the American people, and that gracious Spirit of God, which we trust is chastening and sanctify ing them for their work, to raise them fully to the stupendous task which lies before them. We shall bury our hero, to-day, in sadness, but not as those who have been dishonored or disgraced in him—nor yet as those who cannot hope for his future happiness, because he was a full believer, and once a preacher, of the faith of that divine itevelation which shows ns the way to heaven. For the comfort, therefore, of these most deeply afflicted relatives, that scattered and smit ten family, and a mourning army and nation, let ns remember that though he has fallen, he has fallen as a Christian hero, patriot, statesman, and soldier; fallen in the face of the rebel foe; fallen for our noble cause—and, therefore, that no inan can die a death more honorable. Let us remem ber this, and then turn to onr stern great duties. The voice of the Almighty summons ns to bear this struggle, and to fight if out in the interests of the future millions on this continent, and of all mankind! May the strength of heaven rest upon us in this conflict! [During the delivery of the sermont here was at times hardly a dry eye in the house. Many an old soldier, who had stood at the cannon’s mouth without flinching, copiously shed tears at the recital of the many virtues of the deceased.] VISITATION OF CHURCHES IN WILMING TON PRESBYTERY, This work, which was contemplrted, and in fact arranged for, at the September meeting of this body, has commenced. Rev. George S. Wis well and Rev. Francis Hendricks, with Elders from the Wilmington and Odessa churches, are announced in the Peninsular News, of last week, as expecting to hold services in the church at Milford, on Wednesday, the 30th inst., by ap pointment of Presbytery. This is an excellent movement, and one in which the Divine blessing may be looked for. We should not be surprised to see the churches of this Presbytery leading the way in a precious revival of God’s word in our Synod, during the present season. May we all be in a spirit ofhumble, prayerful expectancy. It is expected that Rev. Win. W. Taylor, will be installed pastor of the Olivet Church, corner of Twenty-second and Mount Vernon streets, on Sabbath afternoon next, at 3* o’clock. OOEHEE-STOEB LAIJ) DJ TEOtIBLOIJS TIMES. The corner-stone of the B,eeseville Presbyte rian Church -was laid with appropriate ceremo nies, on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 22. The site upon whiclf tMs edifieefia to' be eredted is a very beautiful one, being the summit of a bill lying about two hundred yards south of the Central Pennsylvania Bailroad,'qiid near the Eeeseville station, seventeen mite from the city. The circumstances fading to the building of this house of worship jure simply these. In the latter part of Jhnej tex tile Rev. John M‘Leod, District Secretary I of* the American Board, re moved with his fsjmily to this place. Immedi ately a request was made by one of the farmers of the neighborhood, that he should conduct di divine worship on the Sabbath in his house, the farmer promising tjo give notice and invite the neighbors. The S rbbath evening came, and the house was crowded. These meetings were con tinued whenever ’Jr. M/s engagements would ig a Sabbath at home. Soon speak of the desirableness of rorship for the little village, ing-house within the distance laudable desire in the people allow of his spendi the people began t having a house of there being no mee of 1J miles. Thii was encouraged br ;Mr. M'Leod. About the middle of Septemb :r a meeting was held, to take the matter of built itig a "church into considera tion. It was resolved to set, about the work im mediately, and a board offtrusteos were appointed to take charge 1 of fund s^snd. arrange for the erec tion. The landmeeded for the building was pre sented by William Clark, Esq-, of the Pine St. Church. The peop eof the neighborhood, of all denominations, entered heartily into the work. Some pledged money; others pledged the labor .of their hands as mjasons, carpenters, laborers, and many farmers tlijeir teams to draw the stone from the Quarry. Enough was thus offered to authorize the trustees to go forward. On the 28th of September, tie ground was broken for the foundation, and, at has been stated, on Tues day afternoon, the services of laying the corner stone took place. 1 The day was overeat and threatened rain, hut in spite of this, about |fty gentlemen and ladies from the city, and a gcpdly attendance from the surrounding country ware present, to give their sympathy to the new enterprise. On the plat form we noticed Rev. Mesqtf- Barnes, Brainerd, Patton, Adams, Dulles, Davis, Pierce, and Hotehkin. j/-*K :j';. After singing, reading the*Scriptures by Rev. Mr. Dunlap, of the Baptist Church, and prayer by Rev. E. E. Adams, Mr. made a statement of facts leading to the ereition of the edifice. After which, he proceeded to the laying of the stone, which consisted of a long block of marble so placed as to enter and to tie together the Iwo walls at the corner, thuslforming a corner-stone not merely in name but to reality. In the box deposited were the Bible. Minutes of the last General Assembly, Presbyterian Almanac, the American Presbyterian, recent East Sermons, Motley’s Causes of the present Rebellion, the Philadelphia and New-York papers, the Ameri can Flag, &c. &c. As-the sttoe was put in the wall, Mr. M'Leod said: “Asia -symbol of the spirit and design of this edificei we lay this stone in the name of the Father, an