Vol. VI, No. 20. -Whole No. 289. ~~~~~~~. "But we Preach Christ Crucified." BY B. Fi. D CUBIST crucified this only is our theme. The Lamb slain when the light's first gleam Broke on a new made world, was type of Him `Who ' when all hope of earthly help grew dim, With His own arm mighty and strong to save, Freed us from wrath we could not calm or brave. And we, not the shadows of a Jewish law— But looking up with mingled love and awe To Calvary, may ever praises give To Him in whom we move, and live, And have our being, for a Saviour given— A priceless gift, the Lord of earth and Heaven. And this shall be our theme, till mount and hill, Desert and valley, and each gliding al, Each wild flower and each forest tree,' And every island, of the dark, blue sea, Shall echo back the angels' glowing strain, Worthy, worthy the Lamb that was slain ; Until the voices of earth's sons shall ring The praises of our Prophet, Priest and King. —Banner of the Covenant. The Weary are at Rest. I=l BY E. U. D. AT rest, in our narrow chamber, As the child wearied with play, Is softly laid in its cradle bed, To sleep at the close of day. So when life's day is over, We are laid down to rest, With the earth our only eoverlid, Closely around us pressed. At rest, where we list no more To the varied sounds of life, Whether we sleep 'mid rural calm, Or oity's din and strife. At rest, where the daisies cover The lone. neglected moped; As well as where sculptured marble And rarest flowers are found. At rest, even where the billows Of noisy ocean sweep ; For when the storm is loudest, It cannot break death's sleep. At rest, where the snow as it falleth O'er valley and o'er hill, May spread us a glistening mantle, But never our pulses chill. At rest, oh sweetly the Words Fall on the wearied's ear ; At rest, where the darkened eyes No more are dimmed with tears. At rest, where the throbbing heart Shall ache no more with 'pain ; Where the feet shall never tread In sorrow's path again. At rest, aye, a glorious rest, If, when life's paths are trod, - With faith's smile we can sink to sleep, On the bosom of our God. -zoinTire•Flt tkeroiiitant: [Concluded from oar last No.] FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. SCOTLAND. So far as "sensation " political topics are concerned, the Scottish " reporters" must be hard .up, both before and since the meeting such functionaries, of which Pan h gave an account some weeks ago. The question of Education is attracting much attention in the different sections of the Church. The Free Church is agitating for a National Sys tem ,of Education—a fundamental principle of which shall be non-compulsion in the de partment of religion, if we may take Dr. Candlish as the exponent of the views of the Free Kirk. The celebrated Cardross case, still in the Courts somewhere, we cannot ex actly say where, is out of the newspapers. God has brought this good out of the appa rent evil, that non-established Protestant churches- in these lands have been roused to consider the paramount importance—the ne cessity, of defending and maintaining, at any cost„ their spiritual independence. The "Pro testant Institute," the foundation of which was laid last year,_ during the tricentenary celebration of the Reformation in Scotland, Was opened recently. Dr. Candlish preach ed an appropriate sermon. Dr. Wylie, so widely and favorably known, as an author, has been appointed professor. His lectures will be open to students of all Protestant de nominations who to 'be thoroughly in structed in the Romish controversy. Dr. Begg, who has given himself, with all his heart, to the erection of this Institute—the Scottish Reformers' only public monument in Edinburgh—had to appeal once more to the Protestant community for the balance_ £2090, of the amount expended on the build ing. The revival still goes on in Scotland. Itis not 80 mudh of a surface-current twit was at first. It is rather an uridercarrent now, the external excitement having: subsided. Churches well filled with earnest= hearers, testify to its authorship. The movement ap pears to have been very little marred by ex tifftvagances. t Tlfe most remarkable case of extravagance we have heard of,• is that of a' minister in Ayrshire. He says, "the proper posture for prayer is lying on the back ; he is able to see Christ look out of a believer's eyes; a man may be converted when he pleases ; the GORel should be preached only to believers ;," 'ea many such things. The most charitable construction one can put on the case is—the man is laboring under tem p r Nicholl bringinghe enterpris ftr°gaEdinnbsaOgi h publisher, T. out a suites: of the Works of the Turitais,.. fifty.: etrvolurnes—six volumes in the year at one g uinea*, It is believed this praisewortny ef fort, in which Mr. Nicholl is well sustained, will be productive of much and lasting good to the Protestant public generally, through out the three kingdoms. In his speech; at the opening of the Protestant Institute, Dr. Begg gave some very interesting statistics, pain fully interesting, regarding- the progress of Romanis= in Scotland, especially in Chapel extensien. They should show our neighbors across the channel, that it would be better to prevent the rooks from builgivnests than to let them build, and leave JO a - coming generation the task of pulling down the nests, for which !Mr 'any would have only the pleasarwief -seeing the baCklbuilders fly away. IRELAND Interesting, perhaps I should say exciting, episodes in the history of Irish affairs, are not like angels' visits. We are not long at once without a stir. The newest out are the funeral of T. B. McManus, a young Irelander who " left his country for his country's good" —the "voyage of discovery" on dry land, Sir Robert Peel, present Chief Secretary, ha•s made—and another pastoral from Paul Cul len—a thing about as noisy and harmless, as a, discharge of blank cartridge. The funeral of M'Manus was a fearful failure. His re mains, after being transported across some three thousand miles of ocean, would not be permitted to enter any chapel—special orders having been given by the bishops to all priests in their dioceses, to keep the body of the il lustrious dead on the smooth side of their chapel doors. Only a single priest was found to fire off a speech of the real thing about English tyranny and repeal. A very re markable thing concerning priest Lavelle's speech is, that of the few of the canaille who heard it, none were set on fire. The attempts to applaud remind one of the dying efforts at noise made by the Irish gintleman who pays the rint—the pig—when that bloody man, the butcher, cuts his (the pig's) throat. _ Sir Robert Peel has been on a tour to ac quaint himself with the state and prospects of the country. This move, on his part, is regarded as, good policy ; for much is expect ed of him, as the son of a father who once held the same office. Everywhere he was re ceived with a read mille failte. Some of the lynx-eyed Popish bishops had discovered a famine looming in the distance, and sounded an alarm from the West, which rang through all the isle. It was a trick to get the Go vernment to put its hand into the nation's purse, and do something handsome by way of charity. When the Chief Secretary visited Sligo, which is in the centre of the district that, according to priestly prophecy, is to be famine-stricken, an address was presented to him. The people of Sligo took good care to tell their distinguished visitor that no fear of such a famine was entertained by them. At the same time, they confessed there would be nothing to spare when all got what would keep in life. A Liberal in politics, Sir Ro bert has shown himself liberal with his purse, in founding three scholarships of £4O each, for ten year?, in the Queen's Colleges of Bel fast, Cork and Galway. For speaking and acting, as the honest patron of liberal educa tion, he has been castigated, not in Donny brook, but in Billingsgate fashion by Dr. Cullen. The Ultramontane bigot is only doing over again, in his own way, what his Holiness did a few years ago against united education in Ireland, whose motto is the Bible free to all, forced on none. It is a matter for thankfulness that we have lived to see the time when Papal anathemas and archiepiscopal pastorals fall, like spent balls, neither alarming nor harming any one. The Lord has vouchsafed such a measure of suc cess to the Presbyterian mission to Roman Catholics in Dublin, that the missionary- is now obliged to hold his meetings in a large room in the Rotunda. Avery encouraging titter hig - tienti -received Trim - Mr. Hall, the first Presbyterian minister, who has gone to Vancouver's Island, where the Presbyterian settlers are more numerous than any other denomination. Mr. Hall appeals to the home churches to send him helpers. A rather painful separation has occurred be tween the Sabbath School Society and the Irish Presbyterians. Mr. Hall, minister of Mary's Abbey, Dublin, was made a member of the Sabbath School Society committee. Afterwards he was appointed a Commissioner of National Education. On receiving the latter appointment, his friends of the Sab bath School Society noticed him to quit, be cause he was the advocate" of the principle, the Bible free to all, forcedon none, in com mon schools. The conduct of the Sabbath' School Society in this case, will inost pro bably lead to the formation of another Sab bath School Society more liberal in its prin ciples and tolerant towards its members. Your readers will be delighted to learn that the Eastern Reformed Presbyterian congre gation in Londonderry has erected a very comfortable manse for its excellent minister, Mr. Patton. The good fruits of the revival of 1859 are abiding. Most of the prayer meetings then originated, still Continue. The attendance is not so large at these, but in general, it is 'larger on the sanctuary ser vices. Proselytiserimade - very little by their efforts at that time, and since. It is, in most cases, much easier for a minister to introduce the subject of religion at social',meetings than it used to be. The cause of Christ- is making headway still, though some seem to have left their first love. Meetings, - very' fruitful in good results, are held daily, I be lieve, in the Metropolitan Hall, Dublin. A recent speaker at 'one of them was a young man well known to the writer. He is the son of highly respectable parents, got a col. lege education, and lived a very dissolute life. With nothing to do, he was wandering up and down about Kingston, where daily religious meetings were held. He was led —who knows how ?—to attend one of these meetings, conducted by an Independent mi-; 'lister, and then and there he was awakened, to deep concern, about the salvation ,of ,11.4 Tost soul. Ile soon found peace, as the wounded Israelite found healing, by taking God's way, looking to the appointed Saviour. The dead soul being quickened, the dumb tongue was loosed to speak for Christ, and this yoimg man now, instead of wasting his time and talents in ruining himself and others, is devoting himself to the service of his great and gracious Redeemer, and "haling men and. women," in Gospel sense, lute the kingdom of heaven. He is specially power ful and pathetic in addressing young men who; like as he was once, are not careful about the things of Salvation. The' Lord heal the wounds of your lace rated country, and establish peace on a per manent basis—and that, if it be His will, ere 1861- , roll its, last, hour into the cloud ocean of the, past S. McC. Londonderry 3' Nov. 28 I' 1861. IF by the gift of prayer, we mean fluency and a great deal of earnestneis, and,affection ; these may be possessed in no common degree, yet the spirit of prayer be wanting„ THE true spirit of prayer is no other than God Own Spirit dwelling in the hearts of saints. • THINK right, talk right and act right. PHILADELPHIA, THITI*,AYJA NTJAItY. 16, 1862. CHRISTIANITY AND THE NEW YEAR. THERE are many things in the contempla tion of the New Year, which are calculated to beget - in the minds of the thoughtful, deep seriousness, and great solemnity, and to show the propriety of the Psalmist's injunction— " rejoice with trembling." The future is hid from our curious gaze, by a veil so thick that no mere human eye has, unaided, ever been able to penetrate beyond. Another scroll in the volume of unfulfilled prophecy is unrolling itself, but what is written thereon no one can tell. Another leaf in God's book of remem brance is filling up, but what will be record ed therein'He only knows. Another mile on the highway of life has been entered on, but what shall befal us in it, how far shall we be permitted to go, how many of those with whom we began it all accompany us to its close—of these and of everything else relating thereto we are utterly ignorant. We have been ushered forth iiito anew stage of exist ence, but of the part which we are to perform we are entirely unacquainted. We have launched forth upon an unknown sea, but where we shall land is known only to Him, whose path isin the great waters. . Wefe there no God, were chance or blind inevitable fate the regulator of events, how unpleasant would be such consideration& Man, were it possible would flee from such reflections, as the mu;derer from the image of his victim that haunts him day and night continually. Here it is that vain philosophy and boasted reason prove to be so blank, so disconsolate, so unsatisfactory. Here, on the other hand, the Gospel which has brought life and immortality to light, while it does not reveal the future, manifests its ability to bring peace and quietness to the minds of the most timid, and to drive away all harass ing cares about what is before us. It is Christianity which crowns the new-born year, and fills our hearts with gladness on its arri val. It is Christianity which teaches us to see in it a representation of ourselves : for ,just as from the deadness and cold of winter the new year springs into life, so from the silence and gloom of the grave shall our'glo rifled bodies arise, on the morning of the re surrection, to meet our Saviour in the air. It is Christianity which shews nus that all the ups and downs of life, capricious and change able as they seem to us, are working out some definite object, and that the issue will be certain and glorious. Hence we are ena bled to rejoice as we draw nearer and nearer to the great consummation, and to welcome with sincerest joy every fresh remembrancer of its rapid approach. But rob us of our Christianity, and what is there to give us any comfort, when we think of time speeding on with such inconceivable velocity ? We admit that so far as man's knowledge of what is to happen, or his power to control his ultimate .destiny, are concerned, in enter ing upon a new year, he is very much like a person sent adrift upon some wide ocean, tossed about at the mercy of the winds and waves, to be cast upon some distant coast he knows not where. Perhaps upon some beau tiful island in some bappy clime, where per vet*. summer reigits-„ , aud unfading -foliage ever rustles to the breeze. Perhaps on some rocky, bleaky shore, where there is . naught buttloom, and: clouds, and tempests, and where everything has the appearance of mi sery and desolation. Peradventure on some place where bright and happy days may have to yield to sad, unhappy nights ; where the sky, though for the most part clear, is some times dark ;where summer buds and blos sbms are often nipped by winter's joy hand. But, were this a true or a complete picture, who is there that would not rather remain where he now is, than commit himself to such an uncertain fate ? Who would not prefer to endure forever the miseries of his present condition, than. encounter evils which he knows not, of ? Would not the merchant who had closed the year.with even moderate gains, shrink from entering upon another, lest, be fore its termination, he should be deprived of them all ? Would not the'man, upon whose head had descended many a calamitous blow, trenible lest 'still heavier troubles awaited him? Would not the parent who at the be ginning of the year, looked with lovingeyes upon his happy children, recoil 'from contem plating its going out, lest he should find him self without .his dearest treasures ? In short, would not all thOughts of the future be repult sive and full of terror, and instead of hailing with hearty joyous welcome the into g` year, would we not desire, were it in our power, to crush it at its earliest existence; and - stop for -ever time's - nnward march ? Such are the- natural results of that Creed which would. banish God from His providen tial throne, and regard as unworthy of belief; any future,state of existence free from earth's changes. Far different are the effects .of the, religion of Christ. Under its influence, the Chris tian, while he knows not what a day or an hour may bring forth, while he is unable even to guess at what 'trials may be in store, 'while he cannot foresee whether the sun of prosper ity shall illumine "his path, or the clouds of adversienvelope it in deepest shade; is , ne:- vertheless enabled to look forward to the closo .. of - ; each:successive ,portion of time; smaller .or greater, -with perfect confidence, and a mind free from all anxiety.- This is the Christian's consolation, his happiness,. his joy. " Take therefore no thought for the morrow : for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself," is 'the language of his heavenly Father. Happy he who, with Child-like trust, acts upon the 'spirit of this injunction, and commits himself soul and body, for time and -for eternity, into the keeping of his Almighty—Creator. And what an inexhaustible source_ of comfort is there in the blessedassurances, " Fear not, for lam with thee "—lsaiah xliii : 5. i‘And we know that all things work - together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose."—Rom. viii: 28.. Hence the believer has no fears for the future. He. knows that not only has every event, from the smallest to the great est, been eternally decreed, but that these will be over-ruled for his present and ever lasting welfare. Fearlessly then, and joy fully does he launch forth upon every fresh portion of time, for he knows that hiq Father is at, the helm. Boldly ,does he set out upon his ew journey, although he cannot see what is before him, and does not know whither he is going, because he feels that God is uphold ing him with His right hand, and that " His angels have charge over him," lest at any time he "dash his foot against a stone."— Psalms xci : 11, 12.-3 ,as a person who is climbing up some hi' mountain, follows implicitly in the footste of his guide, so the t Christian who desires tg ;reach the New Je rusalem, the city of dip 'living God, walks after Him in that path Well lie sets before him. And althongh he lay - often feel discou raged because of the 47, he feels assured that he shall at length: alppear before God in Zion, that lie shall be adMitted into His apre - settee where there is f e.s,s 'of joy, and to His right hand where t re• are pleasures for evermore.—Psalms xvi, 11. As we enter, then, up n a new year, " not . knowing the things w ich shall befal us 1 therein," let us once age ourselves with these thoughts, let us r ' nice in the Lord al ways, and trust in Him , ith our whole heart. How sweet and how app . priate the following I I w passages in His hokr ord. " The Lord shall preserve thee fro* all evil He shall preserve thy soul. Thlord shall, preserve thy going out and th ming in from this 3, * ~..4i time forth, and even fo . irmore."stips : cxxi : 7, 8. " Thou slit tgUide Me with Thy counsel, and afterwards receive_me to glory. - Psalms lxxiii : 24. "t , he steps of a good man 'are ordered by the Lord, and- He de lighteth in his way. OThough he fall, lie shell not be utterly7cast down : for the Lord upholdeth him with His and.'' Ps. xxxvii : 23, 24. "In all thy waks,acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy,liaths." 7 -Prov. iii.: 6. (Froth the Banner?the Coyenattt.) - NORTHERN SLAVEHOLDERS. i WE shall spend no fine in •proving that slaveholding—depriving un,offending men of liberty, property, and amily i and reducing them to the condition , chattels, by law—is an outrage against the `e inalienable rights with which, as our Deelaro.tion of Indepen dence asserts, all Mei:Are endowed by their, Creator, and a highh*ded Violation of His law, which commands4us to love our neigh bor as4nurselges. ,--- A Tlo t raan‘who denies this,, 1 htwa.,-,eonscience,se is with a hot iron— . beyond hope of repen ce. To aid or help any Stale or nation ue to -tyrannize_ over' our fellow-creatures, i n national high area-, son against God-ant li erty. Of this crime the people of the Free pates and the Fede-, ral Government; are guilty before God, and the world. . , We are in danger of... Allowing our righteous . indignation to flame against the chief perpe trators of this wickedness, now that they dis play a disposition to trp.mplenpon our rights as insolently as they lotave long done upon these of their black .laves, and to forget that it Was by our help; and furtherance, these 200,000 slaveholiers have been enabled mi to oppress with imp ty' 4,000,000 of our fellow countrymen. shall not now enter upon the question, inn h disputed among the most talented expound rs of legal documents, ii, whether slavery is sa ioned by the Consti tution ? There is on : palpable fact, which to every plain man worth, cart-loads of such arguments na ely; that those who have long had the i ma agement of üblic af faim under-t • ert ; .!and :who, - there- fore, should have the best . right to know its bearing upon the system, are now in open and armed rebellion for tke purpose of de stroying it, and organizing a hostile goVern mertt avowedly to obtn powers which they deem essential to the preservation of slavery, but which they saw that, the Constitution of the 'United' States would not permit them to obtain.- The slaveholders' rebellion is their testimony to the antis very tendency of the Constitution. -: ;-:=' Let us not, how' ever, - soppose that our con nection with the system is dissolved, if we can show that the -letter and spirit of the Constitution are antislavery. By our actions, as well as by our stipulations„ by our works rather than by-our words :we are judged by other nations, and shall be judged by the God of nations.. Unhappily we have no room to appeal against the general verdict of man kind—that our Federal Government, actively supported b the - people - of the North, has uniformly proved itself the patronand 'sup porter of slavery. Tom. Charge -is a charge of aigrievous crime, Wirneeds to be pioired; God calls for a full -and penitent confession of-the sin, if, we-are to hope for, pardon, and escapep,unishment. - Let us, then, • delibe rately read the of this indictment, as they stand' in God's judgment book of his tory, clamoring for retribution'. Almost the first act of the Federal , Con gress, after they had 'secured theieown erty, was to pass an act . to prevent' 'their black countrymen from obtaining theirt the Fugitive Slave Aerof„l7:93 by which i in defiance of the Constitution,-which secures trial, by jury in every case of $2O value, the right of a man to his ,liberty was to be de cided by any justice Of the peace, 'upon the oath of the claimant, and if he swore the man was his slave, COI - gross consigned him to bondage. So far from repenting of this wickedness of our fathers, we, in -1850; pasted a still more atrocious bill for the same pur pose ; making our; Federal Government itself the slave-catcher, and commanding all citi zens, if called, to give personal ; aid to return, the fugitive, in direct,tiontradic,tion` to the tali' of *God, whiCh ceninfaifds Thou shalt not deliver to his mated- the servant tliat is escaped from his master unto thee: 9 Dent: xxiii: 15. - , r-- Not satisfied withits OWn• zealous efforts to: return the poor bondman _striving for free-'c dam, our Government has made itself_noto rious among the nations by persistent efforts_ to negotiate treaties ,with pther powers for the rendition of fugitives. Articles to thak effect form part of our treaties with the Tn dian tribeS, and with Mexico.. Britain re jected with scorn oir repeated solicitations to enter the slave-catching business; though after more than ,fortyletters from our' Gov ernment ,:and, repeated, threats of war,' she referred to the.. arbitration of Russia our claims for the, value of ;fugitives received on board British ships of war, during the war of 1812, and paid us, and we paid their mas ters, $1,204,060. • Our Federal Governmenthas absolute con trol of the District of Columbia, in which stands the Capitol of our free country, and is the resort of the ambusadore of other tions. , If any -spot inrifhe land .could be sacred to freedom, and asidefiled by oppr4 sion, one would think this, Capitol should be a, model of liberty to-the nations. But here 'did, our representatives locate the chief slave market, licensing the traders for $4OO each; and while the Declaration Of Independence was read in one street on the 4th of July, gangs of bondsmen, chained one hundred and fifty together, IMMed through another. street, andlistened to our shouts for liberty. By the la* of the District, every colored man found without a pass is apprehended, ,and confined in jail as a slave; and unless he can speedily prove his freedom he is sold into slavery to pay Ms jail fees. Many free men Are thus sold into slavery. The law has by no means become obsolete : one hundred and seventy-nine persons having been imprisoned under it 'in three years. We thus bear the brand of slavery on the' forehead of our country's Capitol, as well as in the right hand of our national policy. The territories are Under the sovereign control of Congress ; which, if under a mis taken sense of obligation to preserve slavery where it found it already existing, could plead no obligation to inflict its curses on countries free from its blighting influence. The first, territory which we acquired was thus sacred to freedom for the French Con _ enf 6iiifilin of 'All the slaves in the ,French dominio'na; and -when we purchased Louisiana 'from the French nation - in 1803, we expressly stipu lated to respect the' liberty and private pro perty of the people._ But in defiance of jus tice and-of truth, we allowed the slavehold ers still to keep these French colored citizens in bondage ; and their descendants to this hour are prevented from rising to claim their liberty by the terror of our arms. To in 'crease the political influence of slavery, the new States of Tennessee and Kentucky, and the others which since,have been formed out of the Louisiana territory, have been admit ted to the:Union, and their Senators and Re presentatives to the management:of our na tional, affairs, though it iyas.well known that their slaveholding governments were the worst kind of aristocracies, while the' Consti tution expressly secures to the people of each of the States a republican form of govern ment. For the further extension of slavery, Flo rid:4 wp,s purchased from Spain, and the Se minoles and free negroes were expelled at a cost of $40,000,000 to the nation, whose last fortress on its soil—Fort Pickens—is now beiCaiuered by those slavehoiders for whom we purchased the country at such a cost The annexation of Texas, which-was con summated- by the vote of our Illinois Sena tors, with the acceptance of its inhuman Con- Stitution, forbidding the slaveholder to eman cipate • even his own colored children, and - forbidding any, free 'negro to reside in the State, was another national crime for the ex tension of oppression t , The consequent war with Mexico, supported bY the great mass of the people of the North, shouting, " Our country right or wrong," by which we plun dered a weak neighbor of a, vast territory and threw it open to slavery, has been vividly recalled to our memory by the just retribu tion of the Almighty, in causing the loss. of that'State by the treacherous surrender of our army and fortresses there, our expulsion by the people for whose sake we so provoked heaven, and the disgraceful defeat of the ve teran general who conducted that invasion, when called 'br &fend- our' own - soiland Ca- - pitol from the, like unprovoked aggression. Indeed, of all these territories thrown open to slavery, we possess none to-day, unless an armed occupation of Kentucky and Missouri be regarded as possession while it fasts. Sel dom has the just retribution of heaven fallen so swiftly and so extensively upon the gain of *oppression. But it was absolutely neces sary to stop the manifest destiny which seemed to invite, by the hope of success, the annexation of the whole American continent as a sacrifice to slavery—a policy unblush ingly advocated by, a statesman whom the people elected as their chief magistrate ; thus making the proposed rapine their own. Thus we see that the whole course of our national policy, domestic or foreign, whether in peace -or in war; has uniformly been directed to the support and extension of slavery. [To be continued.] ADDISON AND OUR TINES. AnmsoN, who had.not only observed then sad effects of, rebellions and revolutions in his own time, but by the study of =history had become conversant with all that had taken, place in every age of the world, and with the construction and working of every form of government, has in his essays many valuable suggeStions that, have an immediate applica tion to our rebellion and our-government. call attention here to two or three things that have been rendered peculiarly interesting-toi me by applying them-to onr:urfn.times, and to what is said of thcm. Onewriter 3 referring to the sermon, an extract of which you copy "this week, says Dr , ;Bushnell, in his 'sermon: upon the Bull Run - disaster, has made prominent the fact-that, 'from the beginning,' we have shown ;our s ungodliness: as: nattion, by ignoring the` name arii altihoriV:of God,in -the framework of our political institutions. Neither the name of God nor any reference to his law, goierrnient or his ,Providence ' can be found. in the Constitution of the United States. Even the oath of fidelity adminis itered to the President has no recognition of Gad for . the sanctions, ofxeliaion." , Addison, in No. 29 - of the "Freeholder," ifurnishes uS:a.:short'letter on this subject'; Common sense, as well asthe experience of all ages, teaches us that ,no government' ,can flourish which- dOth not encourage and propagate religion and morality among all itarticular members.. It was an observa,„ tin of the ancient Romans, that their Em pire-had-not more increased bythe strength" of their arms, than by-the sanctity of their manners; and Cicero, who seems to haVe been better Versed than 'any of them, both in 'the theory and practice of politics, 9nakes'it a doubt whether it were pOssible for a comma n-ity to exist that had not,a prevailing mixture ; of piety in its constitution. Justice, -taupe xance, humility and almost every other" moral virtue, do not only desire the blessing of Providence upon those who exercise them, but on the natural Means for acquiring the public prosperity. Besides, religious motives and instincts' are so busy inthe heart of evei7 reasonable creature, that a man who would hope to govern a, society without any regard to these principles, is as much , to, be C 0,13.- temneiffor. his folly, as to be detested for his impiety."— Vermont' Chreniele., • BLESSED Is he that' giveth to the poor, fOr he lendeth to the Lord. SOME REASONS FOR NOT GIVING UP A RELIGIOUS PAPER. Dthill3ODY is retrenching ; many have to, and many more make "the times" an excuse for meanness. We are sorry to say it ; but it has come under our notice so often, that we know it is so. "We must economize ; we must cut down the wages of our servants and work-people; we, must dispute school bills ; we-must give up our monthly magazine and our religious newspaper. As for the dailies, we cannot get along without them; we take an evening paper now, in addition to our morning paper, and we-have the Sunday is sue ; the news is so exciting, we cannot wait. We would not take a regular Sunday paper for the world, but in war times the thing is different." So we plead to ourselves; and though a sore conscience makes the news of the day indigestible, we goon reading it, till the very church bell rings, to carry flying rumors, and their' -effect upon'the money-market into* , God's house with us. Habit is a strict master. The habit of _ readince ° a newspaper 'every day is confirmed among American people. Here is where the religious newspaper comes in appropriately on Sabbath. A mind filled with exciting bu siness cares until Saturday's twilight, cannot be satisfied all day with devotional volumes, though ever so useful and admirable. Take a business man in the prime of life, turn his feet suddenly into the good way; he is desi rous to do right, to reverence the Sabbath ; but he cannot at once find all his pleasure in what is to a mind uninformed on religious sub jects, even though taught "by the grace of God," dry reading. But in the religious newspaper what variety presents itself—the pithy essay; the eloquent sermon ; the , thoughtful editorial ; the bio graphical sketch of some earnest worker ; a story to" kather the children of the house around your knee, with earnest little eyes looking up to yours, Ad hearts softened to recive °the good-seed thus dropped into them, and for which you shall have your reward ; and above all, -the news of the philanthropic and religious enterprises of the day ! Such a man does not believe in missions ; " they, are expensive in machinery, and bring nothing to pass." But how shall they believe in that of which they have not heard ? and how shall they hear without a preacher—an actual report of what has already been accom plished, of what is now being done? Their lack of faith is oftentimes only ignorance of results. Theg cannot believe the multitude will be fed, because they have not seen it done, but accepted vague rumors that it is a failure. But the interest comes with knowledge of the efforts that are put forth; and seeing what others have done ' their own duty is set before them. Thus the reliffious newspapers edocate to earnest effort, and spread before us tidings of the advance of the kingdom for whose coming we daily pray, without a thought that it is to be brought about by the God blessed efforts of such as we are—men of like passions and conditions and infirmities.— Protestant CAureltirtan. CHANGED TO MARL Yes, friend of Jesus, your most magnificent imaginings are far from reaching the whole of the glorious truth. " Changed into the same image," the likeness of Jesus as he is now in glory. As Moses while dwelling in the mount with God was so far changed into the glorious image of Him with whomhe there abode, that when he came down the people could not gaze on the splendor of his counte nance ; so the believer, while now dwelling in the mount of myrrh and hill of frankin cense, the .place of prayer, where Jesus has appointed to meet us till the day-break and the shadows flee away,—while making his home there at the mercy seat with his soul under the shadow of that glory of which the bright'cloud in the Transfiguration was the symbol,—is changed into the same image ; affd even as Moses and Elijah on the mount appeared with Jesus in glory, so "when Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory." As, passing onward to glory in heaven, the soul is taking fire as it flies, and fading into the splendor to which it must soon be assimilated and in which it wiltth.us disappear. Like the arrow of Acestes mentioned by Virgil, when, Swift through'the,watery clouds the arrow flew, Arid turned to flaine l and tracked'its path with fire, And vanished into air ;-- Thus the soul has its Aim fixed on heaven on Jesus the glory of the Lord, and is taking fire as it flies, so - to vanish in a blaze of love and glory in which every trace of its former hard, cold, and earth-born nature will forever diaappear. not the redeemed soul "a po lished slMft,"' made such by the Spirit of Je sus, And " hid - in his quiver ?"—lsaiah xlix : And jlist as in the case of this fable the miracle of the bla,zin,g arrow was the, more reMarkable because it took place "amid' iv" a tery clouds;" when the surrounding air was damp and gloomy; so the fact-that this poor sluggish, earthly soul in its passage onward to glory changes . into these flames of living love and, hlazing affection in the midst of ele ments of so uncongenial and opposite a cha racter now surroundins it on earth, is a proof that the whole thing is more than human, a miracle of divine power and redeeming grace; that nothing could thus change us from glory to _glory but the power of God the Holy Spirit.;:and, this Holy Spirit does make us more and more partakers of the divine na ture -as, shooting onward, like fallen stars re turning to their native spheres, to be lost for . ever in that light full of glory in which with Jesus We shall forever dwell, Pacific Expo •sitor. CIRCULATION OF THE SCRIPTURES. DURING the last eight months the Ameri . - can Bible Society has issued 803,000= Bibles and Testaments, being 321,000 more thart the issue of the like period the preVious year. The average is, about 4000 yolumes each working day, or, seven volumes each working minute. This increase is owing to the •grant demand for the Scriptures for the use of Vo lunteers, over half a million having gone for this object since the commencement of the war. Their receipts so far are over $60,000 behind last year. - - The Pennsylvania Bible Society which c'ar yies on n t,he _operations in this State, has di= redly or through its ;numerous branches, furnished over 60,000 testaments gratuitously GFrA _SEE .EVANGELIBI I .--*hole N 0 ..-817 to the troops, which includes 21,000 supplied by their auxiliary, the Philadelphia Bible Society, to those going from this city:, The Bible Societies of Europe,-Aida and America, since the organization , oothe - - first one, in 1804, have.; issued over aiitty.:Zeven millions of copies in one hundred= ind sixty languages, and comprising one hundred and ninety versions •of these, one hundred and forty are translations never before printed. The number of versions now in real use, and. more or less circulating„ is one hundred and forty-seven. It is impossible to arrive at a correct estimate of the millions upon millions issued from other sources; but when it is re membered that the Bible is and always has been the leading book with the publisher and tradesman, the aggregate number must be enormous; and it is incomprehensible that there should be one person whose curiosity, if nothing better, would not prompt him to examine with care a book that enlists such remarkable zeal for its circulation, in the midst of the most enlightened codtmithities of the world-. Over thirty-four millions of dollars have been disbursed by the two Bible Societies of England and the United States, a..large pro portion of which was paid for translations in other languages, and in countries where there was no written language, the laborious and tedious work of making one was performed solely that they might know the contents of this one great book. The Pennsylvania Bible Society has a sys tem of local auxiliaries, extended through the State, by which they distribute Bibles judiciously, and to the extent of means fur nished them. About thirty years ago they gave $lO,OOO to send Bibles to the Sandwich Islands ' and continue to give large sums for aiding distribution in foreign lands. The Bible House, at Seventh and Walnut streets, waa built for them seven years ago by some citizens of Philadelphia, snd here, different Bible Associations meet, and all matters con nected with Bible operations are attended to; whilst the Depository attached, is•the distri buting reservoir for the State. The Philadelphia Bible Society its operations to the city, and supplies all our Public Institutions, hotels and shipping with Bibles or Testaments. The U. States vessels before leaving port are visited by their Colporteur, and all that is wanted VI that way is.furnished. .After supplying the home de mand, they give what they can to the State Society for destitute parts of this and other countries.—Phila. Pub. Ledger. A GROUP of girls were looking over some drawings, which lay on the teacher's desk. They were all members of the drawing-class, and they were very impartial in their criti cisms. Miss Stanly, the instructress, would have been surprised, had she heard, how near right some of the girls' comments were. "Here," cried Fannie Lee, holding np a small crayon sketch of a child asleep.;_ . "here is Cornelia Ames' performance. It is sure to be well done, for she is never in a hurry." The sketch was, triaCed," well - Me, and it subsequently took the prize. The lights and shadows were managed with wonderful ef fect, and the curls upon the pure.brow were of the most beautiful golden hue. Oh ! Cor nelia Ames ! All this, because you were "never in a hurry." Dear little school girl ! Don't hurry over those tiresome boundaries, and puzzling map questions. Don't hurry over that hateful composition, whose. title, " Perseverance," stares at you', like a cyclops, from the top of the page ! Don't hurry over that Ancient History, where Thebes and Tadmor and Re gulus, and Coriolanus, mingle themselves in such confusion. Never be in a.hurry it is only the careful, sober, earnest, pains taking pupil, who - will reap by and by the pupil's reward, and earn a fair title to that higher name, " scholar." Never in a hurry, Sabbath School teacher, don't hurry the weekly study of the lesson, in whicb you are to show Christ to your eager class. Mother, let no worldly pressure make you hurry `your children away from your hallowing influence too soon to the street or the school. Pastor, hasten not from that sick-room, where a soul waits to hear of Him who came to save. Redeem the time, but, by no means, be in a hurry. —Banner of the Covenant. WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST ?—What are our views of his person, his priesthood, his atonement, his intercession, his power, truth and love ? Is he altogether glorious in our eyes, and precious to our hearts ? Do we trust in him as the incarnate Son of God, and submit to him as anointed King of Israel ? Do we apply to him in all his characters and offices ? Do we desire that all his enemies should be put under his feet, without except ing any of our own sinful passions ? Do we daem him entitlet;to all the service - and ho nor which we can possibly render him, and far more ? According to a man's practical judgment in these matters, will his state, cha racter, and condtot be-Dr. T. Seott. • REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE —A WELL— :CHOSEN TEXT.—A new, church edifice has recently been erected.at Khyam, one of the stations of the Syrian mission of the Ame rican Board. It takes the, place- of the one burned in Hasbeya during the Druse war. The dedication sermon was preached by . the Rev. Mr. Calhoun, missionary at Abeih, from Matt. xvi. 18 : "Upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." It was a • deeply inte resting earcurnstince that the hill upon which this new church stands, overlooks the plain of Huleh, the very " coasts of Canna Phi lippi," where our, Saviour uttered the memo rable words ,of the text. And surely that day was this Scripture fulfilled. PRA Rs. FOR AMERICA- BY-KIK.DOO Cox VE 4 has been one among the pleasant lings,to oveihear our servants, catechists and'teaehers, praying for Ameriea ; and this without any suggestion on our part. They use, in pleadinir the best of all reasons— " That they may still spread Thy name ationg the heathen nations." -Thus we have ;been raising allies when we thought not of itr, - ,xind. they are perhaps . none the less : mighty; lbecause the weapons of their warfare are spiritual. [The North may with fairness claim these allies as her own.] NEVER IN A HURRY. tonigit ciala aVg.
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