al. VI, No. 23.—Whole No. 292.
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The Compass.
I'm storm was loud; before the blast
Our gallant barque was driven;
Their foaming crests the billows reared,
And not one friendly star appeared,
Through all, the vaults of heaven.
,
Yet, dauntless, still the steersman stood,
And gazed without a sigh,
Where poised on needle bright and slim,
And lighted by the lantern dim,
The Compass met, his eye.
Thelma taught his &irksome course to steer,
Iteitieathed no wish for day;
But 14114. ed the' whirlwind's headlong might,
Noi , onee throughout that dismal night
To fear or doubt gave way.
And what is oft the Christian's life
-lint storm as dark and drew.;
Through which, without one blithesome ray
Of worldly bliss to cheer his way,
Ile must his vessel steer.
Yot let him ne'er to sorrow yield,
For in the sacred page
A compass shines, divinely true,
And - self-illumined greets his' view,
Amidst the tempest's rage.
Then firmly let him grasp the helm,
Althongh the billows roar;
Anti "goon his toils and troubles past,
His anchor shall be safely east
On Oanann't3 happy shore.
UTTER FROM MT. LEBANON.
GEI'IERODS NATIVE CONVERT. -- OMNIBUS
- RIDE OVER MT, LERANON.-MAALAKA.-
THE GRAVE OF NOALL-THE VINEYARDS.
---ZAIILE irISITED.•
liry Dear Mr. Mears :—Missionaries in a
foreign land have many trial '
s; sometimes
peculiar trials which words cannot express
or pen describe, and which the dearest friends
far, away ilaver know. We have had a large
share of _trials, and, Oh we have had pecu
liar:joys, too, .and have found the Lord Jesus
Ohrist to us a most precious friend and
Saviour, able to succour and sustain, and
comfort, id the deepest vales of grief and
sorrow.
.WOhaVe on the hearts of the natives, of
these wild, half-civilized, half-savage moun
taineers, to a remarkable degree. The owner
of oily house is a sweet specimen of, the power
of the -Gospel; he is a tall fine-looking man,
rich in vineyards and mulberry trees, and in
all the good things of this world; he once hated
the Gospel, and was far from loving us, but
the Spirit touChed his heart and renewed and
sanctified it—he then wished us to 'come and
live in , his house. We removed -from very
uncomfortable quarters into the upper rooms
of this friend; he with his parents, wife and
children occupying the lower story. This
kind native brother has ever been the same,
ready to do all his duty when he, knew it,
Afew week's ago he put into - Mr. Benton's
hands 150 piasters, about six dollars, for a
poor widow, and 25 dollars for us-to use as
we pleased. NoW
,we weredesiring to visit
Zahie, and here the means were put intO our
hands ;we accordingly took few things for
cooking and housekeeping, and beds to sleep
upon, and loaded them upon two mules and
a donkey, ourselvekriding upon- two animals
to the Khan Ruassah, on the new carriage
road; where we were , to wait for the omni
bus to take us to Maalaka, a large village
adjoining Zahle, where we found shelter,
after toeing stoned- out of Zahle two years
ago.
THE OMNIBUS RIDE.
The omnibus soon appeared coming up the
mountala in fine style drawn by six horses;
a black Ethiopean, in loose white breeches,
acting as coachman, with an Arab eotilueter
at his side, who held the whips, blew the horn,
attended to passengers, - ete: The omnibus
was too full to take us all.: so myself, with
little Eddie and the. baby, took seats in it,
leaving the rest of our party to folloiv on the
horse and donkeys. This was my first ride
in a carriage, on the first road in Syria. My
fellow-passengers were all natives of the
country—one Emeer, several gentlemen from
Damascus, amtk 81ok man, whom they called
by way of honor, .Effendi. They were very
social and respectful, took notice of my chil
dren, and did not appear to lose any of their
respect when I answered their inquiries as to
what my husband did, and I told them he
was a preadher of the Gospel, a missionary.
Only think of taking a missionary tour over
Mt. Lebanon in an omnibus. At the end of
the line at Maalaka is a little- 'Frank 'hotel
here I sat down -to wait for the; est to come.
I was four hours in coining. Those who rode
the animalt • were nearly seven -hours. At
sunset theyetme on, and we all entered the
town and were most cordially received at the
house of one of the Protestant brethren.
Here we found five persons, Abu Asaad, and
his son and loon's wife, his daughter and her
husband, who; seem tritly*-born again. They
have suffered much persecution for the cause.
There are a . great many Nieodemusea in*
Maalaka who comekto us by night—but this
truly. Christian family have dared,to face all
the curses and excommunications of all the
churches, and the -bishops, and priests.. One
monk cams to us by night ;.he longed to get
loose frOrehis convent, to throw off Monk
ish robef ipia. enter society: said, "I will
dig; or ll**, x teach school or be a cook ; . 'l`,
am, ready for till the'vile language end insult
I know I shall suffer if I become a Protest.
ant, but I ain afkaid of imprisonthent and
death."
We visited several families with our friends,
and were received always with all courtesy
and kindness. Orte day we went• to a little
villuge. to see a funeral ; a yo.ung woman had
died,; she was brought out 'of thehouse and
laid on a bier, several priests stood around
with smoking .n.eIiPPT B and mumbled long
prayers spa read ix! old books, but not. one
word of intelligentfroyer Or one serious word
of exhortation was hear&
THEI T 01413 OF 'roast.;
This little village dos' nbted for contain
ing the grave 3f Noah; we went to see it.
A quaint, queer old woman brought : the long
wooden key, kissedit: and. tie door most
voutly; slni is the servant of 'the . pidphet,
and she orned the door, and bowing,; bade
us enter. It was a harrow roini,-hun t ' *Aix
various frames and golden writings of this
strange people. In the midst of the room,
reaching from end to end; was the grave. Mr.
Benton measured it and found it was just
one hundred feet long; this pleased the old
woman, as she thoughtit must be with some
pious Intent, and hoped he would bring a
new cloth to,, cover the "Neby." The old
woman tried to be very knowing.: said, they
used in old times to be tall as trees, but every
generation grew smaller, and at the last end.
of time the human race would be about the
size of peas I .
She" did, not know how old the "Neby"
was, and was delighted when we ,told her his
age. Can all' the children who read' this tell
the age of Noah? 'look it out in the Bible if
you can't This poor woman was' a Matta
wala, one Of the most , singular people inthe =
world, yet they have the, story of the flood,
and call, Noah their " Neby" —prophet.
They have no dealings with. Christians—
would not allow a Christian to drink from
theii jars,' or eat from their plates.
TRW VINEYARDS.
One day we visited the almost intermina
ble vineyards which surround Zahle and
Maalaka. Theywere making raisins and dibs.
fibs is made by treading out the juice and
boiling down to thick molasses ; it is very
delicious with bread or hot cakes.
One would never" weary f these delight
ful vineyard& and the excellent grapes—so
many varieties, colors and kinds, and the
vines were differently trained from what
had ever seen them, before ; they were in
rows, and all propped on short sticks, and
kept' closelY trimmed. As they all bent
over . towards the east, they had the`appear
ance of little treeihowed over till the tops
touched the ground. The clusters are enor
mous, some of them weigh six or seven pounds.
Every now and then, on an elevated spot,
were seen the huts of the watchmen. After
a long,..long, long swayable, up, up, up, till
we were all nearly exhausted, we came to
the hut of . our friend, Abu A.zaad. There
we found the old kintleman, with his - pod
books, sitting at his door, all. alone. He
was delighted to see - us lip- in his vineyard
brought out his carpetspread it for us to
sit upon, and went and gathered a big basket
ful' of the most delicious grapes. I only wish
you could have been there to eat with us ,the
choice bunches.
On the Salba,th, at Maalaka,, about twenty
women came around me, after the sermon
was over, and Tread to them the account of
the woman at the 'well, They were inte
rested. Ohl hoW I did' long to stay and
teach them, and lead them 'to that true well
of water, Jesus the Saviour.
ZAHLE VISITED.
After eight days of delightful missionary
work and intercourse with the people at
Maidaka, we went up to Zahle. Here we
had been invited, and accepted the offer of a
room in the house of Naaman Maloof, one'of
the most influential men in' the place. The
Zahleans are &most bright, smart, enterpris
ing people, and it was perfectly astonishing
how 'much' they had done towards 'building
up their houses.,— The -poorlif Zahlware 'rely
poor, and our, hearts were made sad to see so
many widows and orphans sitting among the
ruins of their former pleasant homes with
very little to cover their nakedness.
Many ladle's came to see us wearing a pro
fusion of gold coins dangling about their
heads and necks. They asked about
the American ladies : I told them the Chris
tian ladies in America wore few ornaments,
but went about among the poor and taught
the children in the Sabbath schools, and
gave food to the suffering.. " Ah," said
they, "that is the true Christianity.; here we
are only such in name."
The Roman Catholida are building an en
ormous convent at Maalaka, to contain a
thousand-monks-and nuns. -a.
More *about Zahle at, another time.
Your affectionate, sister. in Christ,
LOANZA G. BBICIOlt:
THE IMPRECATORY PSALM.
The one sided critic is impatient of - the
Imprecatory Psalms, because they are shining
delineations of the justice that punishes the
heathen, and do not sketch; with equal bril
liancy, the grace that offers an Atonement to•
Gentiles as well ash Sews. They are like the
cartoons of Raphael, intimating,in a slender
sketch, one part of a vast scheme, all ,the
sections of which We are too puny to take in
at" , once glance, and a finished 'picture of
which no man can look upon and live. -
After the' spring time came the harvest.
The nature, spirit, and extent of the atone
ment • are now smore luminously revealed.
But there are critics on the gospel, who conk;
plain that it,favors the passive, gentle graces,
and fails to stimulate the active, bold virtues:
It lowers the aspiring mind intethat humility
,ihich is, ear the groun4; tones'down a bravo
soul into that meekness Which is akin to ,
sillanimity; lulls a resolute spirit into that
obsequiousness which will reward the' theft
of.a coat with the gift Of a cloak also; but
it forms n(LuLanl..y..charactovanfl=does •not
nerve the spirit for hazardous,. or noble
ploits. This is the one-sided- criticism, •of
men whelisten to the robust phrases, of the
Imprecatory Psalms, are. shocked. What
would satisfy them? we pipe unto them,
they will not dance ;::"ift.rfe :rneurn unto them,
'they will not lament. If the divine word be
mild, it isitoo mild ; if it be : steri, it is tore
Some professed friends of , the Bible;have
4onfined,theirview -to its unqualified eornmen
dationa of the
. gentla virtues and have been
thus allured into, an incomplete form of
ethics. ,They forbid all war, because we are
told to 'Volunteer our'escort of two miles for
a usurper who demanded only . , one mile.
'They disapprove - of capital punishment, be
cause we should turn 'the other,cheek to-him
who his already smitten- - utiP , on; one cheek.
They disallow family punishment, and cor
poreal punishment,And=allpunishment. But
where are the Imprecatory i Tsqms? These
old - songs were written., with ,the design of
sug4psting certain conservative truths, to us.
Their, sentiment was arrayed in burning
words, in order to flask upon our
,eyes a
light which *c must look at, whether we will
or not. " They Were Uttered with a rousing
emphasisrwhich iVaS intended to arrest , our
progress toward a one-sided virtue, and to
make us consider, willing - or unwilling, that
the element, of justice is involved in a corn
plete love. If roc() disjoin the tenderer man-
dates; which are unqualified, and if we perse
vere in keeping hem discovered, and cling
lIILADELPH ' A,,: - . -,:,_ i!,,....,.0 . ..,,,,-;..j=ayz,y:: 71.:,..ituART - ,_Lpio. -;,,'-.
ing to the gentle while we recoil- from the
severe, we throw, away one half of the truth;
we lose our equilibrium ; we extend a reason
able clemency into anunscriptural effeminacy ;
what was intended to foster a principle of
benevolence, we pervertinto an excuse for an
easy good nature. This womanish kindness
may in still times be, a lovely instinct, but in
times of, peril it may ruin the commonwealth.
It has no moral, ground. It. is, an impulse
rather than a principle. Therefore let us
not, flatter ourselves that we have outgrown
the main Ilse of the Imprecatory`Psalms.
They are needed when the souls of men are
tried.* They prove the inpiration of that
volume which was designed as for all men, so
for those men who: are bleeding under inju
ries, and who can:; relieve themselves by ,
timely courage, and. who ought .;to come
straight up to their duty of self-defence. At
the present day, *ben it is possible for us to
astonish the advocates of a despotic govern
inent lay demonstrating the power of re,pribli- -
can institutions, and when it is also possible
for us to - exemplify the weakness of these in
stitutions, and to impair their credit through
out the ;world, -we need the stimulus of these
Psalms. Their voice comes to us like the
sound of a trumpet, calling us back from a
pusillanimous non-resistance ; an emasculated
love of :peace rather than of right; a °bra
passioirfor the criminal rather than for the
victims •of his crime; a gentleness toward
those :who do wrong, but an indifference to
ward those who su f fer wrong.- The. religion
of some men consists in a pity for all .except
the virtuous, trembling poor. '
The day will: come when, we shall learn
not to dislocate the Imprecatory Psalms from ,
their appropriate junctures. That will
.be
the day of the revelation of 'the righteous
judgment of God. Then we shall look upon
his purposes as the inspired Psalmists looked
upon them. ' ' •
On that day the 'oft-repeated Psalms will
strike up a blaze of light, illumining the Uni
tize and, the grace of God; that justice
to the few which, is... benevolence.- to the
many; those .retributions on: ten thousand
which are essential to the safety of ten
thousand times . ten thousand and thou
sands of thousand& The whole, 'genius of
these abused Psalms then be t 'Unfoldedby
the final event, and'-will''be recognized - as
compressed 'in the two words Which we use so
idly and vainly on earth: Amen, Allehniah.
That sound which the beloved apostle heard
in Patinos, was the resonance, of these, old
Psalms.
hearda great, voice, of much people in,
heaven, saying Allelniah:— for true and
righteous are his judgments, for he hath
avenged the blood of his- servants.—And
again they said, Alleluiah: And her smoke
rose up forever and ever. And the four and
twenty elders fell doWn and worshipped God
that'sat on the throne, saying Amen, Alleluiah.
And I heard as it were the voice of a ATeat
multitude, and as the voice of many waters,
and as the voice of mighty thunderings, say-
Alleluiah; for the Lord God omnipotent
reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice, and
-Ore. 'Thbre. "shitifb - 6 - ins joy'
in heaven at the Misery of the `rebels; no
joy at the necessity of penal woe. But there
shall be joythat the battle at length is fought ;
the :victory at length is won; the loyal citi
zens id 'the emp . ire. may :now have peace.
There shall be Joy, because Love, Mercy,
and Grace will now reign unmolested ; because
there will never be again one single act of
siiccessfil injustiCe; never , again one single
triumph of fraud, or envy, or malice, or re
venge ; and there shall he no more harm to
the good man ; neither `sin nor temptation.;
neither shall' 'there be any more peril to the
cause of truth and charity.—Prof.-Park,inthe
Bib. Sacra.
*While delivering a patriotic address. in Boston,-
on the 16th of October 1861, - 4on : Edward Everett
gave a startling narrative of the miseries Which have
been inflicted ort our land by eight or ten leaalers of ,
the Southern rebellion. When he had-quickened
his auditors into a befitting sympathy for the injured
people, he gave vent to thamords
: _ "Is thee not some hidden curie.
Soule chosen thunder in the stores,of heaven'
Red with unconinion math.
That seeks hii greatness in his dountiy's ruin?"
We are irifortned- that at the recital of these verses;
the thrill of the assembly iias4ell nig h. unpleeeden
ted ; the " running ,fire of apPlause which had
been elicited by previoui Words 'Of tile orator, now
" burst into a iolcano of enthusiasm,"
'AN'ENGLISIMAN% orINNN;
The ' Watchman ; the organ of British' Me
thodism this refers to Matvy's recent letter
to Admiral Fitzroy in defense of secession
Capt. -Maury's defense of rebellion fails.
just* the point where he labors the longest
nd most earnestly. He, a Virginian,: se
cedes because Ili state has g,one, into seces
sion, and he recites the Act of thst,
.tate, in,
1788; adopting Federal Constitution, in
proof that she reserved to herself " the right,
for Cause, of witlidiawing at Will." - Vispii
sionately examining that- marriage contract,
we see- that 'certain beneficial -posseSsionsJ
were- settled upon. Virginia, but we do not
find ,one word about her. right , of ,divorce: in
case, Alp ,conditions of the Anion were liqt fa_
filled. - That ivhiCh id.stipulated is, that 'the'
powers granted under the Constitition; be-.
ing 'derived from the people, of,
_th,e United'
States," may whenever perverted IV their in
jury and' opprCssiCiri, "be resumed= by
‘f By them :" surely that is "the people;" the"
nation; one and inadivisible; " , of:the United
States ;"' not of the planting States; as a See
tion ; much less ,of Virginia,, as &member of
the -Union. The legal and ,constitutional
ground,: therefore; i :on which Virginia thinks
that, she stands, `breaks dovn beneath her
feet, 4 . caves under, to plagiarise an Anieri
can metaphOr, and-lowers - her into abyss of
rebellion. 'The Confederate States them
selves have been slicw and reluctant to sub
mite the question 'of secession toLtheir .own
people. , To "the people of the United
States". it has never been submitted.:
Captain Maury is not more happy in .. hie
attempts ,to .prove that such injury, and oE 7 ,
pression" have been inflicted upon the Sou
thern States as might have Warranted "the
people of the United States" in resuming the
powers conferred by the Cpraditution.
miserable reckoning' of -bounties and' pretie
tion to 'New England fisheries and rhanufac=
tnresi,lof light-houses and 'navy yards estab
lished on ;the coasts of the mercantile North,
while the harbors ,of the less - commercial
South were comparatively ne,glepted; 11 , Com
plaint that iinmigrants from •free Europe ,
- Were invited by the ten thousand, while the
Brazilian or Cuban master, if he came, might
not bring his slaves with him; and that into
territories beyond alline of" latitUde a,greed
upon by the South,' itself, the Southerners
could not carry theegrcrchattels,=—are, in
reality, all that Captains Maury has to allege.
This is his vindication of, rebellion, of civil
war, ,national: debt, and .dashing to watery
atoms, as if it wer e Out a bubble, of that
rainbow., vision wing 'Bishop, Berkeley be
held when he wrote -;",••--
Can. Capt. NaArylicipe to improve- on Aga,
prediction by making,, ,B9orpion,, br00 . ..
slave , confederates ,ike last, oir,qpring 61 Pe
West '? . •
OUR SYFFENt OF 'I 4 :tERIAL strOon_
7
_ .--4- a, .f-_,)„,_,..,,,:;..„.,
Our systerrri''Whi reqnires the Minister
to rely for his support:on the people to whom
he preaches, has haelthe following inevitable
results:-1. _ln ,our cities we have no church
es to which the pour eaii,freely go,
_and feel
themselves at home.:; No doubt, in triany of
our city congregation: 'tliere are places in the
galleries, in which 160 peer may find seats
free of charge„ but, As :a general thing, the
churches are private Property. - TheYbelong
to those who build thein, 'Or .who purchase or
rent the pews after they are %Mit. They are
intended and adapted :for 'the cultivated and
thriving classes -.of. t community. . There
may be, exceptions to,this remark, but:we are
speaking, of a generalfact. . Thednaas of the
poor in,. our cities aire excluded : from our
churches. The Prefibiterian church prac
tically; in such places, the church for the up
per classes (we do not mean the worldly and
the fashionable) of soCiety. .2: In large dis
tricts of the - Country- 1 -as in the pines of New
Jersey, for eiariiplwhere the people are
poor and widelyidi4icsed, wevan have no
churches.. SclfartaralTe ate concerned,.. such
districts are leftenti4elnilefferted: - 3.- - Efun-t-,
dreds of our best and most laborious minis
ters, settled over newurfeeble congregations,
are subjected to the greatest privations and
triils ; often unable to provide for the' sup
port of their &mill* or the education of
their chit:tin. 4. any such-ministers, un
able to Sustain thernieives, are constrained
to.engage in: secular irsuits, and to devote
more or less of their:Wee to making,money ;-
others give up in desp&ir, resign their charges,
and wait and look. Ar. some ._vacant church
able to • support them 7 hence, the . number of
applications for
,ever such vaPancy. 5.
Our present system interferes with the pro
gress and efficiency of the church. It can go
only where there are people' who are rich' and
good enough to support the. gospel -for them
selves. On thiarifla*if is almost impossible .
thit we should adeOxtelyffultil our . duty to
preach the gospel to,•s„iir„ery creature.
•On the other hand#theliktem Which se
cures an, adequate f Entypert '
arn the..ininister,
. .
iildepenclent.,,,eb -
ately serves, has Ptecisely. opposite leifects.
1. The, churches are it ,niffnukjiroperty.
They do not belatig4em.clividitals 'who build
or rent thenirlTheyTekitg to the. 'people.
The high artelOw, the riel and ps4 have &-
common and equal right to .them; .r as they
have to the come on highway. • Tbey resort
to the one with the.same.freedom with which
they walk*on the other. " 311he:consequence is
that, there are few or neelkss. churches, none
from which, by force of ciremnstances, th&
poor are excluded. Any one who has visited
EuroPe must have been struck with the fact.
Not, only in Clitheß.h:tarso in ProteStant
.
countries, the places of worship are seen
crewded with a promiscuous throng—the pea
sant, ^ the student, the professor, the mer
chant,the noble, unite in>one •worshiping as
sembly. This. is, a right of which the:poor
avail themselves freely f and the gospel, or at
least,the benefits of public worship, are as
open to them as to any class in the communi
ty. 2 Ministers can be sent and .sustained.
among people unWillingsr unable to support,
a religious teacher f. --- ~4:i :resolves. 8: "kis
rare where this system preVails to see minus='
* ; tern engaged! in any secular piirsuits.
- The proposition toprovide an adequate sup
port=for the clergy, independent of their con
. gregations,, righteous and= Scriptural as it' ap
pears.to us, met the mestStrenuous apposition,
not only on the ground:Of ;; the expense which it
would involve • but on theasrPumption that if
ministers, are secure of, -4, sopport indepen
dent of their peeple,_they will neglect their
wOrk. To this we answer, I. :Thot it sup 7.
poses that ministers have no higher motive of
action than' the desire to get'inl , ey out of
their'peoild. '' If the love of Este eY gpverni
theministry of our church,4l . . 7 are a Very
silly set Of .men. There is . no cne in ten of
them who , could not _secure, that object in
some ' other. way more :effectually than, by
preaching thezespel.. 2. It is not fonnd that,
the teachers of our free ' ..academies and
Schools, - whose' salaries are not (dependent i:!.. 1 -
:thefavor of the „parents'eftheir pupils,;neg
-feet their'Work: Theei.:tdialierii, are not con
"Ora,inedl;l4,.liigher. metiVeiythin Ministers;
it e
ior are held to a ster , fesporisibility. '
3. "Our foreign missionaries hale a.support
,independent of thepeople among whomJhey
,lahor. And yet, as a bodytheyareos faith
ful, diligent, and succesktil, to spy the least, ,
as any other equal - mmiber of our elergy..A.
This is, no new plan, it has been acted on for
centuriei. Whatever maibe"sell of the or
thodoxy or spirituality of the Ptipendiary
clergy of Prussia l for example, they are' as
harthworking .a class , of men asany to be
found in this country. They not ;only eon
:duct public worship.c&f , Sundays _ and.- festi
vals, but they must - attend Ito the sick, and
to the burial of the dead ; and devote certain
hours every week to the religious instruction
of the Young in the publieschools. AveTY,
child in the Prussia, male. or feniale; passes
through a course,of religionu training by the
clergy; and'you ciiiiiint firßabarefooted boy
in the streets of Berlin ' whorcannot read 'and
Write, and giVe an - inteligible account of the
'historical facts of the Sibley atid,.if approach
ing the, age of fourteen, who cannot repeat
,the ,ereed,.the lierd'li.peyer, and
_Luther's
oatenhiamr Tki:eS,O,,resnNnipnPlY an amount,
*faithful-and systematie litber,. which the
plan of making the'clergy dependent on their
own people'has never yet sanred.-Princeten
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to 'blast the man
07AffirMme bllt,lighrof the cc,seq_uPnges
of them' crimes at tile time when tkey commit
them.
Westward the Star of Ipirelake'S its way.
The fourfirst, aettkalreally:past,
The next shall elo4elthe drama with the day.
• Time's noblest offspriiii)is'his, last. , '
MO ll=
DEATH OF DE MORNAY.
When the pastor :of the congregation of
which he was a member announced to him,
somewhat bluntly, that his recovery was hope
leas---" Is it so?" said he, - "'welk 011131•C4311-
tent." Not long afterwards he:addA, "
have an account, to rentler, hip.Q, , 10%.1
much and have profitodlittle." . The, paitor
rejoined, that during, a lon* lifehe had hap
pily and faithfully used his taTentStrndthe
service of Christ an his church: De Mornay
instantly 'exclaimed,"ay not I have • done
'it—not I, but the grace of God in me."
The pastor asked 'him, "Monsieur, do you
attribute no merits!to' your works?" -"Me
rita! merits .I' replied De Mornay, "away
with; merits from •me,,.and r from every other
man, he he. who he may. . No, I ask onlyfor
mercy, ;unmerited mercy." Then with 'a firm
and grave voice he blessed his, daughters and
their husbands; , praying them -,to maintain
among theinselves peace f'Vrlnch, added he,
"I bequeath to you Ilion he pronounced
:his blessing upon their children present and
absent; beseeching God toratify it with his
own holy benediction. The same,was. done
to, his, nephew and niece, and to all his do
mestics. Lastly, and with deep solemnity,
he gave a blessing to the pastor present ; .and
to the church of Saurour,.with whieh he was
accustomed to worship, and -in. the spiritual
welfare of which he had, long taken the deep
est interest. "During my;life," said he, to the
company in his chamber, " I have had no
other aim but the glory - Of , my God. Those
who have knevni me, are well aware that if
I had chosen other ends, it would have been
for me to attain great riches and high honors.
Pray to the Lord that he will dispose of me
as he please's.: am not disgusted with life,
, ,
but I see before'me' one far• better 'than , the
present. ` I withdraw fronilife, but I do not
fly =from it." As his children and grandchil
dren,:for the last timebefore_ he <became in
sensible, gathered round , his-bed, he-took-the
hands of each and. pressedthenrto his' .lips
and said "I- commend peace and, fraternal
love to you.,all,_ so that you may possess in
peace the*inheritance and the name I leave
you." On the:llth of NoVeniber, 1623, he
calmly fell asleep.
-Such 'was the peaceful end of the great and
good' - Duplessis , Mornar--one of the &rest
spirits and brightest ornainents of his times.
"You will search in - 'vain," says La Xassor,
"history, ancient and modern; fora character -
superior. to his. _Equally
,at he,sme in science.'
and the affairs Of, the world, he, defended.,.re
ligion discussed the most. thorny questions
of theology;,. he sustained tie Reformed
churches by his prudence; he gave counsel
to •• ministers Of state arid to• princes; 'and
even kings listened to him - with respect"---
Princeton Review. ' - „
RELIGIOUS WORLD `ABROAD
GREAT BRITAriT; '• '
The'Peath of . Prince Albeit has made, a,
pr, I in," , the-religfotui public
of n ins is 4.ue to the' high, moral
charal4 - jp Prince, and to the: example'
of doniest,iet pturity and peace presented to
the British public by the family of which he
was -the head. It is due, also,.to the evi
dences he gave of both appreciating and:pro- .
fessing the quality of true piety. The sup
position is that he experienced a change
about the time his eldest daughter gave signs,
of an, avinkened spiritual life, just previous
to her marriage.
The _Prospect of a War with this country
has also been a sore trial to the religious
people of Great Britain, though there is ob
servable a reticence in the notices of "the
,prayer meeting in Exeter Hall, in behalf of
peace, which - savors of
_sympathy
,with the
Earl of Shaftesbury's - refusal 'to attend the
meeting. "The News of the Churehes says:
" A very large meeting was held upon Thurs
day, December 12th, in Exeter-Nall; to join
in prayer for the prevention of.,.war between
this country ,and the .VrkiteiL,States, Sir.
Culling E Eardley oacipied. the c iair, and
about 4000 were; present. '
- The meeting which was held siMultine
onsly in Edinburgh fir the same objeot," is
more' fully 'treated 'df by the correspondent
in that deity; who' says : "'Another'special"
`meeting for .united prayer was held •the
,12th, in the New. Assembly Hall, for the pur
pose of,,petitioning ,that God:in-His mercy
would, avert the :threatened War between
America and Britain. The ineeting,'was at ;; ,
tended; and the ileictionit exercises con
duCted. by ministers of all the leading reli
gions* denorninations. 'There was not the
,slightest approach to - anyexpression of
'Mon in' regard 40 the conduct of the two
Governmenti or peoples in connection` with
the present ,dispute,< but simply-earnest sup
plipation that a warJdokedt upouby the peo.7
pie opthis- country as almest aer itorTible-38 .
;civil warshould be graciously prevented, and
that the - , two greatest 'Preteptant, nations of,.
the sworld might:proioke each Othei not: to
strife and vainglory, but to love and good.
works.' We may add, that' there.was a strong
feeling' ofc disappdintinent4 hereV*ltere Lord
ShaftesbUryfhas many • admirers,..when it *as
learned:that-his:lordship: lead- declined =to •at=
'tend a similar meeting-:in ;Exeter
London : The ther&lig
ditiom'ofthe•lower classes of the mettopolit,i
the Report of the Wesleyan Home IMissioir
and:;Contingent Fund:makes! the , folloveing
appalling statement,r-:
:41W religious ,dca*ntio4 metro
liolle use Occupied the anxious • attention of
,the committee. It, is .a.faet known to the.
poi 6% `aiud to every than who ties;had`an op
porthaiiii:Of 'obierving the' ifitii'lrit6 which
the masses are falling, that there never Was
-e; time when the temper of the 'lower • orders
in this country .was less sitisfaCtory than it
is now. There -are whole.. streets within an
'easy. walk .
. ; of Cressthero, a re
Miles and Axtil,s..of lanes :and alleys on either
side of ifondOn'lkidge, Whe`T the people live
utterly: without, God in the ' l world,—*here
there Eseeina ta' be 'nil knowledge - of thi differ
ence between right wrong,-no . 'bOlief
whatever in a future stato; or of their respmi.
< l sibility' to 'any other authority than that of
the law, if it can reackthem. There are mil
'tire quarters in whiclit seems- to boa custom
that men.and womenthould live- in, pronnw.
°nous concubinuge, where. the most:frightful
debauchery
,goes .911. night and dE.V.:P.,:the
, io*est puhlicAoluises,—where -thojeTy r ehopl
keepers mak4A a. ,p} ,of Attie
.am,.
encourage 'theii - poor customers ' to 'do th 4
same."
It, is such degration that Mrs. Ranyard's
now very extensive, and, successful Bible-wo-
Men's movement isj designed and fitted to
reach. In a recent' letter of acknowledge
ment of aid; to the Bible Society, Mrs. R.,
states that in the last 104 months, nearly
9009 copies of the' scriptures were sold by
these women. During the last four years a
- total of .27,000 copies have been sold. The'
first year ; but 6 women were employed, the
last 160; The income, for the year 1861,
from donations of friends and payments by
the.poor, the latter, being about one third of
of the whole, was over sixteen thousand
pounds ($90,000.) .Mrs. R. says : "Al
though fficse 27,000,copies• for London are
but as a small milt When counted in the
midst of .yotir millions of SeriptUres now
scattered over the world, yet they stand by
themselves very distinctly, inasmuch as they
have, been followed to their destination, and
traced in the results of their perusal. They
were not,issued to the purchasers from any
depot or general:place ..,of sale, whence no
eye but God's could follow the.volumes home,
and sum` up their effect on the readers heart;
nor have they been received from lady-visi
tors, who, even if they had gladly beheld the
secret treasure deposited In the dwelling,
could, seldom find a reason for their continued
calls. No; they have been received through
the humble,, pitying ; friendly woman who
loves the Bible herself, and who lives near
the purchasers '
or in I their street; so that at
the least wish they :may express she can
still in,' as theyfrequently beg she will,
and read the new book to them, or with them,
praying over its message of merby, and
watching day by day how its precepts are
laying the foimdation of a new and improved
family life."
Union among Preabyterians.—Au impor
tant-meting of the iEnglish Presbyterians
and United Presbyterians in London was re
cently held, to promote the cause of union.
united communion is to be celebrated •in
Regent. Square Preabyterian Church (Dr.
Hamilton's,) on Sattirday.evening, January
I.lth. It is thought that these bodies will
soon unite, and thus give to Presbyter
ianism a more prominent position in Eng
and.
-Education of the children of Ministers.—
At meeting of the Society of the Sons and
Daughters of United Presbyterian Ministers,
held the other day, it:was stated that there
were now 220 members in connection with the
Society, and a sum of 1,1450 invested. The
Society had been enabled, to a large extent to
carry out= its purpose of granting aid towards
the educating and upbringing of the families
of ministers.
FRANCE.
War depmeatect—The Paris correspondent
'of the News of the Churehis, thus 'expresses
himself in regard to the prospect of' a war
between our oviltbountry and Great Britian:
"May our almighty God avert
~it! All but
the Idtramontanists strongly reprobate the im
pendingwar. Where isthe Bible-party in Eng
;, •, ••• Ens dis the land,
w s ere t e religious id , a has still the greatest
power and iniluencell surely the successors
of Wilberforce `will :now arise, with all their
past ardour and vigilance, to keep back the
English Government from a deplorable alli
ance with slavery! t
" Prayer is arising here from the Lord's
people daily, publiq and in private, that so
great a:calamity, so great a crime, may be
spared our .sin-stricken and weary world.
We know that wars mitst be even to the end,
till'the Lord come, but woe to those by whom
the offence cotneth. In this ease we look to
England alone; will she nobly pass by the
blow as the Master she acknowledges com
mands, or will she fiercely resent it ? Her no
ble Queen is a widow; her honored and beloved
princes are fatherless ; she stop, and think,
and have mercy? or will-she deal our blows
that shall fill the worl4 'with widows and or
phans ?
The same correspohdent refers with ap
plause to Count Gasparin's lettefsi‘to the
" Debats" already qinted columns.
French as well as American Christians are
surprised at the attitude of -England in our
troubles:,
" The Liberal!Protestant Union" is an at=
tempt to organize the rationalist elements' in
the Reformed Church Of France, in .a strug
gleto prevent the power from- passing to the
hands of the orthodox - .and to save them
selves from diseipline., The last circular is
se violent in its accusations against the. Coun
cil and Consistory, that RIB , likely to injure
its own cause, and,` at the same time, to
draw aown umte from 'those bodies. In it,
it ra stated that, during the last twenty-one
years, out of nineteen pastors nominated in
Paris, nnly two were ncit,orthodox ; that out,
of twelve lay-members, ithe Council has only
one liberal. .Of this itinaturally complains,
and in no measured language..
sw]DEN.
Preciow Beaults of the RetrivaL—A young
Minister writes as follo4s, sin , a private letter
to a 'friend in Scotlanid : "I' have; in the
cour-selof the , summer been on an evangelis
tic tour sthrough a large l district ef our coun
try; Puring this journey, I. was able to see
With. my.own eyes, how_ glorious a work of
grace the Lord is at this time carrying on
even in 'Our dear fatherland. Among the
people . there is `the grealeit desire to hear
the 'liking' Word of Giod. • Extraordinary
crowd's assemble on every new occasion of
its, being preached . and , in every town-or
parish,whictu I visited, I found a larger , or
smaller congregation of, as I hope, really,
converted, living children of
_God. ,Thi
This has
rkot long.been the case inswe en. Dming
the last ten. .or twenty years, God has been
very merdifill to, our people. Nevertheless,
there.is still opposition and enmity amongst
the mass of the peopleybiit yet the truth will
gain. the victory."' ' It , is feared, however;
that the Governmentyill reverse the sentence
of deposition pronounced on a Rationalist
minister, and so compel the retention of this
destructive leaven : in the,. ptate. Chunk.
Baron Bicasais'plan for Solving the ques
titi
on Of the Papacy and eill - nited Kingdom
Of all Italy'wits never shown to the Pope ;
and the correspondent ,, of the Naos of the
Churches regards fertnnate that it never ,
*as', because ":tirota the concessions;, can-,
tained,dt,would have been more ruinous, fur
the moral, spiritua4md,lnateTial walfaTe of
italy,, than. the perpetual a i handmiment
it,O - me as its capital couht.ever he. Judging
from the articles h the Italian newspapers,
GENESEE iEVAAGELIST.--Witole No. 82Q?
A Protestant Press in Florenee.—After
the removal .of. the Waldensian Theological
Seminary to this' city, we need - wonder that a
Press : in the same interest should foilow :
"`An arrangemeni has been entered into with
M.Meille of Turin, to have .the Craudia,na
Printing Press, which belongs to the Wel
densian • Churoh removed to Florence and
set up in the 'Palazzo, lately bought for the
Wildendian Theological College, that this
important work - maybe carried on with more
rapidity and .economy: than has hitherto been
possible while Tuscan printers had.tp be em
ployed. ~This change will be effected next
month, and the first number of Dr. De
Sanctis' Dialogues will be issued in the be
ginning of February."
Authorized version of the Scriptures.
We have repeatedly referred says the Chris
tian World, to the cheering intelligence that
the Emperor of Russia had been induced to
encourage the translation of the Scriptures
into the Modern Russ, the vernacular of the
many millions of Russians who belong to the
National Church, and of the two or three
millions of " Dissenters " such as the Molo
kani and others. We liave lately received a
letter from a Russian lady of the hightest
rank, who holds a position near the throne,
that confirms all we have said. The transla
tion of the entire New Testament has been
finished, the publication of all the 008 . 13e18
and of the Acts of the Apostles has been
made, and many thousands of copies have
already been put in circulation! The publi
cation of the Epistles and. Book of Revela
tion will soon fdllow. A few months ago we
could scarcely hope to hear such good news
from that great Empire. The Lord be
praised for it, for after all, it is a part of
"His ; doings," who, is King in Zion, and in
whose hands is the government of the earth,
with its many rulers and its nations. , We
should give, the interesting letter to which
we have referred, if we were not quite sure
that the writer of it did. not intend it for the
public eye.
Liberality to Protestants„—The young Em
peror seems to be in, earnest in his liberal
policy towards the Protestants of his realm.
The Government has resolved to found a
Protestant Theological Faculty in Vienna,
and' has called Dr. B. A. Lepsuz, of Leipsic,
and Dr. Vogel, of Jena, to be Professors- in
it. The former, on, the 229th Anniversary
of, the death of Gustavus Adolphus (Nov.
gth), delivered-an , address, in- which, elmsid
ering the place in which it was . spoken, are
some extraordinary statementia "In Vienna
itself," he asserted " whence the decree once
emanated whereby death and ,annibilation
threateped the Saith of the Gospel in allGer.:,-
many, a company of Christian men are suet:.
to-day to celebrate, with joyful hearts„Lhe re
storation of a freo - faith—in Vienna, erice
Ferdinand IL, sent forth his plundering,
murdering hosts to bring back apostates to
Holy Church, even from theieastern to the
northern sea. But now Protestant Germans
can meet in the same city under the,,prbtee.
tion of a successor of the same Ferdinand,
free and without fear, for the extension .of
their faith.—ln Vienna, where, the name of
the Swedish King, who crossed the sea to
make war on an Emperor of the House of
Hapsburg, was only used with hate and exe
cration, a union' has been formed, called
after the same enemy and heretic, under the
shelter•of Hapsburg law.—ln Vienna, where
the death. of Gustavus Adolphus. was-.cele
brated as the happiest thinB for the Im
perial house and of the • • atholic faith,
which alone it,
tolerated, we celebrate the
'same death as the sacrifice of our'faith's
hero And restorer, from whose blooda.s
sprung` Austrian - freedom of faith and an
science." Well may we, as well as the Pro
fessor= exclaim 4ith grateful hearts: "0,
the depth of the riches and of the knowledge
'of God ! His ways are past finding out." -Tr.
•
CHRIST BEFORE PILATE. —The whole pro
cess more resembled the examination of a
sacrifice that it might be evinced to be with
nut blemish, than the trial of a criminal for
condemnation ; and it is unprecedented in
the annals of mankind for a person con
demned. to so dreadful a death, to have been
at the very time pronounced innocent and
rigliteou4, by the persons who conducted those
that apprehended him, and the judge who
passed sentence on him, and the officer who
superintendedhis execution ; whilst they who
clamorously' demanded his death could allege
no reason.for their conduct. No doubt God
providentially ordered allthese circumstances,
to make it evident that Jesus suffered for no
fault of his nwn, but merely,for the sins of
his people. 2 ---lii: T. Scott.
REMEMBERING ORRIST.--A Christian man,
now eighty years old, states that for many
pears he*as acquainted with a devotedly
pious woman, On the frontiers of New }lamp
"shire; :who trained up her family for God, and
'was accnstomed= to ride' four miles on horse
back for public - Worship. After - an absence of
,several Tears, he visited the then aged and
woman - in her arm-chair, and tried to
reeall - former days but she, did not ,know
him: He mentioned the name 'of her, minis
ter, and several mutual friends, hut she had
no recollection of them. " I sat and reflected
a while," he writes, and then 'said, 'Mrs.
.Q--, do you recollept beer hearing of Jesus?'
She looked at meNtrali stenisliment; ekdlaim
-ing, 'Do you think have forgotten • my
Saviour ?'
ENBILGir.L-211e Idnr„er I live, the more I
e i nt- certain: that, the , great difference betwaen
teen—between...the feeble 11,nd-the poyerful,
the (great and-theiheignifteemt, 7 7-iepner:gyin-
Itlincible determioation, purpose nAtielmed,
and then, "„Death or trioOry!" That quality'
I
will do e ; nything that, can be done in this
I *did. and no talents no eircumitauces no
oppo.rtunitieS, will make a two-legged crea
ture a man without it—Sir Powell Buxton,.
and from the remarks of some of the depu
ties in the Niliament house at Turin, Bach
favorable terms of compromise will never be
offered again, because the Italians - are be
ginning to understand that in order to carry
out the bargain implied in Cavour's abstain,
Mesa Libera, in State Liberoi;both con
tracting parties must act in good .faith, re
solved not to over-reach one another; a con
dition not to be hoped for on'the part of the
Curia R:omana."
RUSSIA.
AUSTRIA.