Vol. VI, No. ',2,7.—Wh01e No. 296. Nottrg. EXTRACT PROM A POEM, ENTITLED New Year's Offering... January 1, 1862. [Prom the 1111:1$07611: .Peptilican.] ANOTHER YEAR 1 Another, aro Of that great circle sped, That marries with its mystic ring, The living to the dead The ,living Present lushed, witb.: hope, Sublime ,with, sun-eyed youth; • The dead Past, with her perished.dreams Of the perfected Truth. Another year I another sweep , Of that great, tireless wing, That hears the world through gloom and, gleem, From flowery "Spring :.to Spring; Along her golden pathway, hung Amid, the glimmering spheres, ' When first the stars of morning sung The' birth-hymn of the years. Butler this Year, dead on his bier, What praises shalt be sung ? His lute of love lies broken, and His harp of Peace unstrung The threatening gleams of lurid war, That hang above his birth, Rave grown to storms of strife that burst And Swept the shuddering earth. To molly happy heart and hearth, Ile brought. a cureless pain That mingled in the woof of life, Will never fade again. The sacred hortdsof thiian-buret; Our. glorious,pride dis.4arownecl, ; Ana blood that warmed the veins otking's ,Pourea out on lioly ground I Woe for the loarrheads that bowed o.n. murdered ELLSWORTH'S breasb I Woe for the mother-heart that mourns The LYON of the West Woe for the trampled•lield that nears The livery of.lielt; The curse of fratricidal blood, Where glorious 13A - Kza fell! Woe for the war-cloud's awful red That flushed the evening gray, And fired: the.woods of Bethel, .where Our gallant WINTHROP lay I For him the laurel and the * palm In deathless marriage twine, And hang the , poet's wreath .upon The warriors blushing shrine. And yet, Old Year, dead on your bier, Some veins of virgin gold Run through the dark woof of your past Like sunshine through the wold. And so, we give iou vain regrets, As you have given us tears; And leave you in the burial place Of unforgotten,years. Another kingly year I . born to The Empire of the Earth But, woe I the •withering storm that• wraps The morning of-his birth Woe for the scarlet stain that dims, The glory of his reign For thosemho-count hm footsteps •bp The faces of-their slain I We pour not jit his thousand shrines The blood of grapes divine, For Io I Ifs robes are crimson with A darker, deadlier wine For him the brazen trump of Mars, The bugle's thrilling strains, Pour their wild tumult to the hills, And to the tented plains. And on his new-born vision, far The _Flag of Freedom, streams; l'he glorious thundering of guns Rolls through his kingly dreams; The diapason of the drum Its stonily music pours From broad Atlantic's swelling surge, To blue Pacific's shores. * * From gray Atlantic's tides that kiss Sweet Hudson's smiling mouth, To where the wide Palmettos guard The gate-ways of the South: - Where giant MOULTRIE'S Iron hail Beat down the walls of Truce, And haughty SUMTER'S hundred •throats -Of sulphurous tame let looise. Tho.mighty war-cry of the North, The scream of shot , and shell, Till thunder, jarring thunder, woke The echoing Vaults of Hell! And Peace, the angel, starting from ger dream of deathless calm, Put from her brow the blasted wreath Of woven oak and palm. The Northern oak—the Southern palm— Baptized with blood and lean ; And sanctified to Vreedom, through Au hundred happy.yehrs While shook our Union, with:the shook Of gun re-echoing gun, Our soaring EAoracswooped; Wand •oanght Her banner to the sun! Tbere through the azure fields of space, It floats serene and high; Each glorious star room glorious, for The night that veils its airy Its.meteor stripes Andinthod forjut), Their splendid lightiningif fling Wheie'er the rushing war.eloud sweeps The terrors of bis wing. * * * * GOD I Not forever! Stretch thine arm, And crush this deadly strife ! OAR from the grave of this dead year, -OutL 'UNION back to life I Bu rat all the ,gates of Heaven, and Bend h 7 .blest XVILNOZLES forth, Till, in a nobler peace t sit down The wedded South and North I St. Louis, Jan'y 1, 1862. .EDRATION. Vie education of, man, and , above all of a Qhristian,.is the education of duty, which is most forcibly taught by the business , aid con. ceins of life, of which, even for children, es pecially the children of the poor, book'learn mg is but a small - Ott. There is an officious diepoilitiort , on the pert of , the upper and mid die elacee, to precipitate thetendency of `the people towards iatelleotuul culture an a man ner eubyersive of their ovfn happiness, and dangerous to the peace of society.. It is mournful to observe of how little avail are lessons of piety taught seeichool,,if house hold attentions and obligations be: neglected, in consequence of the time taken up in school tuition,. audit! ,the head be stiffed with, vanity from the gentlemanliness of the employment of reading.— Wordsworth. ABIONV . the qualities that:give to•the ." Pil grim's Progress - its singular charm for, young and old ; is the absorbing interest of the ste,ry. The interest is that which belongs to a woll tOld :tale of adventure ; Of mcistAimsttrous chatices Of moving accidents, by Rood and field,- Of hair-breadth 'seams., We follow Christian in- his journey from the City of DeitructiOn -to the Celestial City, With the same eager .cUriosity,and quickened sympathy with Which we follow` the wander ing hero of the Odyssey: - Indeed, the for tunes of 'the Pilgrim are Tiot.unlike-the for tunes of Ulysses. - The one comes in his' • travel to the land of , ,Benlah, the other to the° land of;the lotus-eaters. The one approaches the cave of the giants ' Pope and-Pagan ;: the, other, the cave of the 'cyclopean Polyphe mus. The one sits at, the table of the maid ens in Palace Beautiful; the other at the.table of Eolus. The one is affected by the air of the Endhanted Ground; the other the art, of the enchantress' Circe. - The one beholds the hobgeblins of the Pit ; the other the hor rid spectres of Hades: 'The one escapes , from the net of the-Flatterer; the other from the song of the Sirens. In both stories there is the same naturalness, the same uncommon air of truth and reality, the same exquisite ,grouping of pictures, painted'from life, the same rapidity and variety in the action and character. And when we •call to , mind the difficulties which the successful treatment-of allegory involves, and which Bunyan, - as none other, overcame, we cannot hesitate to say that as respects -invention the ;tinker is en titled to take rank with the blind old bard. Maintaining ever the proprieties of a figure of speech, and using as material an almost countless array of personifications, hopes, fears, virtues, vices, Banyan is never tedious, never.prosy. 'How superior in this-he-is to other allegorists,,, one has but to make compa risen to see. One of the most splendid, yet withal one of the dullest books in English, is, Spenser's Faerie 'Queen. For pure imagi nation, for pictures drenched with beauty,. , for harmonies fit for " the young-eyed eheru bums" to hear; for poetry, real, admirable, gloriouS'poetry, we can find passages in the Faerie Queen° to match the finest efforts of genius in any age or any tongue; but , we 4 cannot undertake to find the man who, on his= conscience, will affirm that ever, in continu ous reading, he has gone straight through the seventy-two cantos of the six completed books —through the legend of the Red-Crosse Knight,— Ycladd in mightie armes and Aver shielde, on, on, ON, to the legend, and through it, of " the doughty Callidore" who binds and leads through Faery land the blatant beast. Now Bunyan's success where Spenser met failure, is no slight proof of the tinker's power. Multitudes, with Dr.: Johnson, have wished the Pilgrim's Progress, longer; multi tudes, with Lord Macaulay, have not, regret ted the fire in Ireland ,which destroyed the first six bOoks of the Vaerie Queene.—LPres. Quarterly Review. THE DAILY BREAD . OF THE RICH. Givt, US TEIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD." It may be asked, and it has been repeated ly, asked by many, Can this prayer, so suita ble to the poor man, who has to toil for, his' breakfast before he 'is allowed to partake of it, be lifted up as suitably by the rich man, who has much goods laid up, for many years to come, whose barns are full, while all the, good things and the great things of this world are at his disposal ? This.prayer suited David, the shepherd son of Jesse ; and it suited no less .his own princely son of Solo mon. - Job, -when he was the richest' 'Emir of the East, needed to pray : thus ; Joseph with all the granaries or Egypt at his command, did also pray : "-Our Father, give us this day our daily bread:" One act of. indiscre tion, one - extravagant !speculation, on tha part of the rich, may sweep away all the' accumulations of a lifetime. And:therefore, the richest needs to pray that God would ,continue to him ,what in the past He has given him—daily bread. A upon our' harvest, a worm gnawing at the root, a pre : . mature or unexpected frost, an overwhelm ing deluge of wind, and-rain, an&lightning, and tempest, may leavens without bread:for next year; andlthe pocir in their hunger will. lay their hands upon the wealth of the :rieh:; and. the 'wealthy will feel amid the ,horrors- of such a convulsion that they too needed to pray," thaugh they believed it not, " Give us this day our daily bread." Rich and poor are more bound, and tied,, and' linked to gether than at ,frost 'sight appears. When the rich think they have only ground for pride or for praise, and none for prayer, they are more to be 'pitied than the pobrest man who,earns his daily'bread,.and lifts his daily litany, "Give : sta this day- our daily.- bread." But to show 411 at the rich, need to., pray this ass, well Ai tile poor, we must not,, forget the fact, that to have bread is not ne-` cessarily to have ' Nre 'need nOt merely bread, hut the 'Power of extracting nutriment from that bread after We'have eaten it. .The poor pine frequently for want of:bread; but the rich perish as frequently for want of appetite to eat it. I know not , which is most to, be, pitied—the poor ,man, who has an appetite, and no bread; or, ; ,;the rich man who baS plenty of bre a d, but and appetite, Or capacity cif being nourished and fed by it. Money can purgilige bread; but all the nu:May of England cannot purchase health. ~And: if it .needs two things, health". within, as well as bread without, that man may, live; then the richest and. the poorest must kneel upon' the same dead, low level, and cry with:the same, fervor, " 0 Lord, our Father, give us this day our' daily bread." We need also the blessing with the bread, or the bread will he poison •' and -'that blessing will make a crumb a banquet, Withheld it makes a banquet poison; " for man doth not live by bread. alone," 1 but by something needed to give that bread Its value, "by every word that proceedeth, out of the, mouth of Ount.ming. * * Persecution; of Baptists.--:—Some painful in stances of persecution,including imprisonment fine and expulsion, directed - against Baptists have recently transpired in Brunswick and Mecklenburg. The 'Grand Diiehee's of this . latter country is an English Princess, they Princess Augusta of Cambridge. BU YIN, •ROMER, SPENSER. ; WA TA -;iIJAY MARCH 6 1862 THE LONDON TIMES. T-1162• daily newspaper, beyond all ques tion, is one of-the great:wonders, not-only of liondon,,but of the age in which lye live.. -In the,whole history-of the political press, no thing at all comparable to it has ever been seen. Its very statistics are a wonder. Its compositors, land pressmen, and city. editors in its variou s -departments, and corps of par liamentary reporters, and staff of regnlar writers of -its masterly political leaders, and host -of correspondents abroad, to the 'very ends ,of the earth, all .commanded by an ; in or editor-in-chief,with his lieu tenant, the sub-editor, area grand brigade. ItS.daily expenses would ruin. the wealthiest merchant-wince on 'Change; Its daily in-, come would enrich half'a score. And how transcendent are its literary merits! For the amplitude Of its range and the accuracy of its knowledge, for sparkling brillianey, profound :research ; and sustained, calm, irre sistible power, its editor should be the giant that-mad.e.war with heaven . , every one of his fifty heads the seat .of a m,ajestic intellect, 'and, every intellect , putting forth, 'without ceasing, the fnlness and freshness of its 'strength, With's diversity so manifold and a unity so perfect, that the gigantic soul of Briareus's ,self—inspiring and directing each and all could , alone secure the result. - The presiding genius of the establishment is-,a, man.who.might fiavelgathered fresh lan ,rels,in :the highest walks <of public: life—in :college {halls, .the forum, ,the senate might have looked.on the dignity of judge and pre late and .made his election. Yet his very , name is unknown. He is as utterly. .dead and buried to 'the world as was the hooded monk Who dwelt, Many generations ago, in cloisters which occupied the site where the thunders of his steam-press are nightly heard. The spot where standsthe throne of this great high.priest of journalism is a, ,retired nook; hid among the dense mass of houses south of St. Paul's Cathedral, and malted Printing house Square. The authority of this great magician of the Times commands the services of the highest intellects in all England, and that after a fashion which an honest man would little suspect. The waving of the mighty magiCian's wand is always. followed by a shower of gold; and what will a man not sell for gold ? There is .a narrow court in ,Fleet street, leading to a dingy old brick dwelling of most uninviting aspect. Enter ing the open, door, you find yourself at : the foot of a flight of dusty stairs. When you, have ascended these, you will find another, and still another flight Having mounted the last, you stand before the door of a gar ret, and in that door you will perceive a'kind of pigeon -hole, or bog., fixed: Therebrhangs a -tale. Many < a time and oft, when the "Leading Journal" has required a very par ticular thing for its very particular ends—as a special plea for heretics and infidels, or a subtle caricature of the ancient faith; a brilliant eulogy of the latest political. Judas or a satire—as bitter as death—upon the, Abdiel of statesmen and ecclesiasticsi v aiin-, dication- - of some stark atrocity of Austrian despotism, or a libel upon the 'United States, of which even the malice and mendacity are put to shame by the ignorance and impu dence—a slip of paper has' found its way from Printing-house ,Square to the pigeon hole in ,Fleet street, and 10, at a time speci fied, the pigeon -hole -has brought forth, the very' thing demanded. And now, gentle ireader, , yon know'precisely as much of the writer as — does the " Thunderer" himself. Possibly he is the -most- brilliant speaker in the House ef conamonsi, or •he may be some lean Cassius, who writes with the point of a dagger, but "is ono orator as Brutus is." A thousand pounds sterling has ,passed,ammally thronah the same, pigeon-hole in the shape of a retaining fee. The dusty. attic and its pe culiar fittings 'are doubtless still there, as all things ald and dusty have w marvellous gift of continuance in London. Whether it 'is stillthepoint of commerce between the Times and it's mysterious contributor, we are unable to say. Do you inquire to what, party the. Times belongs? The answer is, to, none, either in Church or in,State. But what does the Times belieVe ? Nothing at all simply and abso-: lately, 'kiting, at all: What, :then, is the articulate voice' of its loud - thunder? What, particular'policy or principles does it advo cate ? To-day whatever it is under the strongest inducement to advecatete-day, and to-morrow whatever it .shall be under, the strongest:inducement to, advocate, to-morrow; —protection: or free trade, despotism . .or. ;li berty, ,slavery or emancipation,. government and-order:or rebellion and anarchy, truth.or falsehood, God or Nebuchadnezzar. It is no reSpeeter of persona or principles. You would greatly -wrong the Times if you sup posed it badthe-very smallest objection- to be on the : side of God, lino truth, provided the inducements were greater on that side than on, the side ,of Satan. hen Satan is poor, and pitiful; let hi ge hang, for,then, hp may : depend, the Times.willave nothing 4,44., to, do with hire,—not it. ' IS it asked what the proprietors of the Times belieVe? ` The answer is e*plibit- r . they believe that it 'lea Capital' hives - finer& for their funds, • and that its "respectable"' policy is the best possible thing , to make it pay.' So thought 'lthat -London spinster, doubtless, who inherited, =denim. father's will, pue ,coluMn in , perpetuity of an adver tising pagein the Times , pewspaper,,and the , same was ,valued at thirty thousand, pounds sterling. So also,doubtless,. think high churchmen and low churchmen, and 'torY and radical, and Papist_ and 'Protestant,-and Pu ritan and Sadducee, and =many more beside, who are a special " happy family," as stock holders in this gigantic concern. Who, then is &believer in the Times ; ? ita transcendent genius, and sustained, : daz-, zling brilliancy, everyman.;ln, the truth of many of its utterances, -every man ; but its own truth and sincerity, in any one thing, no man: By every Man, of every sect and party, it is, at one time oranother ' branded, reprobated, execrated-7-withAlithophel, Ju-- das, Julian, Beelzebub. Yet all England is, confessedly, underthe fascination of its basalisk ; for an Eng land reads the Times newspaper-,---aye, is more anxious to read it, if the truth were spoken, than any or all other newsp4pers put together. ' You have not a distant approxi mation to a' true idea of the number of fami lies by whom this journal is daily read, when you know that forty thousand copies 4re'daily sent forth =from-Printing-house Square, con suming five tons of paper, and covering thirty acres with its cOmpactpreSs TheSW would hardly,sufficelfor London alone if each dopy s read: by only. a :shigfe family..: The London merchant-prince; inateacl:of ordering his paper from the .publishers for.his.own elusive use, has it sent, to g itis °omittinghouse in the morning by a,.news 7 Vender,,,af a Pen 4 an hOur, while the tradestriatildoeiVes it later: in the day, at a lower charge. Manya'newa- . vender will . ;tell you that- every one of . his_ copiesgoesto alinost as mlany honses its there late hours from eight•in the ;.-nteriting , te four or Stye- in the' afternoon,v aftddt then :posted: and sent, by the night mail, -iptotthel country,. ; at a reduced priee,Ahere . ,,on the following day, it is made to perfo*,a similar, circuit ; besides all - which;"the - siAle - cupy'ig read by scores in every ...-Itlienmutu r and. : reading-room throughout the land. On-the -moral inlluenee the Time's `in Londmiand ithroughoutlEnglarid i it is net, our-purpose to' ro 'strike the balance -between its good.and- -advocedi of truth and its; quallyabloindeloqiVz ettad :vocaey of lin downright, ineusaerrtivandliesT its patriotism and its treaSen :-.its, highls94o-. ing Philanthropy aucl; 4 4o : ,heartless :cruelty,; its eulogy of the most n4e/able tyranis 'and -- butchers of mankifid;and j its tears wept over, the wrongs of poor governesseS and starving needlewomen—this wouT be easy task;' though the prepoinierannp, itiainipossible'to dmibt, would be greatly C.fivtlie side sof wrong. As regards the-inibrals . oritSpolicy,.there can be no diversity of.judg4ent,:even. _as tested' by the better pagan standards. Fixe-d.prin ciples it has none. it,tritas,its sails' to the It does not even .attempt to correct and guide Tublic opinion ,It swears by the stronger party. It - serves and the devil with. 'equal -zeal. .Advo' oting,With consul-IF:- mate ability, one side `'?today, and on the , morrow; with:ability no less, ;the .very,reverse,: of agreat question in ..ohurch.er , State, it is. no more conscious otineonsisteney, than - is, the Wind, in blowing firs*freta the porth y ang then. from the south. A heavy, responsibilitrlies soMeiliere: Was there ever another pulalk ,journal with such vast and varied apPlieoapplianc -=-- es ?a host' of the most brilliant W ters'in all . England retained in its daily - s' vice; fan ettensiVe' staff of able corresp - onde ts abroad-- . -An Paris, in Italy, in Northern Germany, at. Vienna, at Lisbon, at Madrid--;iivith outfits and sala ries like ambassadors at fereign courts, be-, sides others on roving } commissions, attending, armies in the -field; jn,addition to all this, a regular organization tolurnish adviees in shortest time frointhe; ends' of the earth with the people of all England for its con stant readers. Yet it isnot animated by one truthful principle, or one lofty -sentiment. To be, pre-eminent is its single aim—the le viathan of the, daily press, . And- allfor.what? If there is any, more exalted, or, indeed _any other ultimate, end tha n gain ' the .eyidene,e, is yet to be ,supplied.. 'lt is the 1;'. T., I3arnuti of England, alWays on,the lookout for some-, thing that will payiftlephint or Monkey, Toni Thumb 'or •hippopitainus; 'peace or war, Gabriel or Lucifer;' at.lthadiimaiithui, but Mainmon,..shall decitia:Lwltst is law 4 and, Messrs. Mason and Slidell shells' be, either grand ambassadors. fink' a glorious nascent empire, or "no more than two negroes"—as the. showman said to r ibe .boys Who asked him which was the lion and which the' babeon, "Just as you please, my little 'dears, you pays your money, - and - you . -fakes 'your` choice. '---;Boston Monthly;` THE CHRISTIAN'S SENSE OF IF. you can 'carry the feeling With'Yon when you pray, that you ureTeally'aPproach ing a loving Father,•and approachirigHim as :sons and heirs,:. asking :the-pardon of sin, it will not =kite Tun: hate sin•bilis,.but it mill marke t You admire: the: Saviour more, and love our Father al.so,yet more. There is no r real, deep; poigna nt, sense O f f sin until you have a deep Joyqus . Sense . !3f,,G.ed As : your fathsr. When 'the joyous,. law didoloses T . our sins, you feel' and see theik; 11i t 'there is a rising and , rebelliotirfeelitig "bl"inir ininost, heart that impels you te.ihitlt the lairtoo'severe,- the legislator: too .eiaiiting: Ikt:when . ..yen , 4air near toi:God; siuk.seeliour.sinti utile light ,of . p,,Fathei's ".face, yutt• feel that •your inns huye-been ingratitude, Futt . httt) , :ou have smitten, unt,a king, a sovereign, a lezisistor,. but "a parent And hence, when , the prodi-, gar felt where he was, and Whece fie had fallen; add' whit the , deepest spring • of penit'ettai) in 'hiti-heartyqes'in that bright - reeollectiow ini •r"Father." - And . hence 'he , taidp, , q - .. will *arise ?Aid go to my father !'• holding fast hiblpaterniFind filial relationship; ~e.nd seeing,fhis.; only,--the' more heinona. , because ,they.twerer , sino -not : against a master, but agaiiist-a father. The Christian will ever have ,Ihe deepest . sorrow foi din; the deepest sense of its:hpinotn!ness, while his' deepeseimpreasiMis, s tif .thit iiin are pregnant witli ' hole ';' iihereia 'the' . natural min's , deepest ., oidivintion'iot . Mll'llllol him neareet .to `deepair.f. sense of sin carriesaiii:u7td..i - AtiWathet ;, au - unregene- Plae,47Benso. %df,rain , ..'earries. hisrfuStray• from our ..Fatlipr. 7 -7 r. OstinwOuy. .• . ,~t r GODS PROVIDENOIF • INJOtiEJMOILDSi' Aliow.,obsurd. for believe that , Gtod.notes the fall of :4 spagow,:andyet i4keti o noTtrti.44- oorAestwlAch phakeathelsorld, the m40:1441 - **est: Of ,C4rh i ttiil,n,titissr.. tion ! Int the Ciilefinor." the Streed is his, `aid' inteliAekt - to 'Werke his ends. •Thit , Niniklieliptd4 - the proper free= dom of the htunaro*entsi nor-the . reality !of the: human P 441898 Otis merely asserting that above.,Al). ~ ,,Aeftie,..l: runnlrq 4 14 0 .ug4- these, is,a..yrovvential cause art agencYcP w4iPliltkeY subordinate , ilia . ; .NO is. the tine 14 of the iiikiiil u sittiatioilf thee simple eauhia of Oligicus endeavoi tb . pitentieeieto . other are .Ilornideritit iii2tlkithek . iif mattes conjeetuimand worldly calm:daftly or tcissed , to , andiro in the whirlpool:of excited: popw. lax, opinion, let. us, stand.-firmlyo)pon: this Rock of 4 408 1 lifting. lip - our i ljeada ,in the strength of, fill +plata and , . prayer. ..It ; j#, Ways folly to tiy.l9 ***, through this world by sight only; it is madness If we would'. not be confounded 'not . put to shame ; if flock future in the face Without diSmay, - we'ininiVlearn to keep• step to'the Musk of PrOvidencre, :and say °Ct.: tinwillY our heaits ":4Allelnial for. the Lord; God . 4:)mnipotent.reigneth„. , 7 l/stn,a. L. Prentiss D. D. I WILIT we - feel God is_to be.comes- very muchthedetermining_tone bf 'Character to ethers, ina,t ip g rs m a- iwtto 104 e a to, God will look ' - ver exacting, will look forth upon his fello en in r the same ,spirit,,, ever exacting , d never *Tut he who, is taught t ak. up ip - ;God as' 'tergiving and giving, ' t centinually,. 'faith- the export the 'same -holy -and' beautiful•spirit;:forgtv- . ing-une- another: , even as , --Godr for -Christ's sake has' forgiven- us. -,l.Jet 'me explain, how- : 'ever, that ,this, : fovginness,of your brother, this: forgiveness of, injury,- is not a mere, sti-, fling ,of -temper: • There are men, eonstitu tionally of a, proud, haughty spirit, who may, have receiveda great injury, their spirit is chafed; they'are irritated, vexed, but'sndh is 'theirr pride that , they donot 'show it. y They d-tivellypon the offence—they:cherish there*: image in ',their hearts ;, andrwmild not, 'hazalaviat , •44 , , , 4olY-ail-XeftPhafe4 let,an elppression, escape their,lips that ;they are so, • .This is- not forgiving one .another ;. forgiveness.f one another is iiilthe heart, it, the is'ilbduedriess of ;the heart, the 'Warming of 'the affections, the sanctifying Of all ithe leelings: It is .not'silenoewithout, but inner- kindness. it is-not `management for thersakeof appearance, hut it is-love in the inmost;recesses of the human-heart. 'And this, feeling, is happiness. it not, new, flie striking incidental , Proofs of the ;divine origin of this blessed, nook,, that everything itrecommends so far contributes : o the pre , Sent happiness ,of man, , and everything it dissuadesfrom so far dis Courages what would do man linjuty'li as our 'nature is, it feels 'that all ;the 'malignant .passions _are -- springs of , Wretcheditess. ,Revenge, , envy, hatred; -, uneharitableness; 'are stings that - enter to the very quick,- 'able and miserable., And, on the other hand, fallen as, we are, difficult as it may be, love, charity', peaee, .fOrgiVingnne another, think , ing the best of everybody, WiShing well to every human being, are emotions so far ,fraaight ivith kArkl if there be 'one happy emotion upon earth, it is first :the sensetjaat:weare-forgiven,, a,nd only second, our of fox:givenes - towards all our bre thren of mankind.' - Theigieaf-POeflas re flected' thesame sentiment - when he said,— The quality of mercy is not.strain'd ; .It:dioppeth, Ithe gentle . .rain trout - heaven Upon the place beneath : , itis twice ; • - .I.lt4ileseth him that gives, and-him that takes:: 'Tis mightiest in- the mightiest;., it bpeopes The throned monarch better than his crown!? So true is it, i'lllessed are, or. happy are, the merciful.". 7e. see in these truths the true extinction of War, national, social,,uni versaa., It is not - a Peace Society, or Peace Societyprescriptions, that will ever arrest the,' ravages of war. It is the sinner, not, the soldier, that makes war. It - is *human pas sion, not that gives the cannon.; its dread mission. It is man's eviLheart,- not the; firebrand .or- the match, that ignites the :gunpowder , And the, reform that, is to end r ja Universal,peaceqs.the regeneration of "eirellteTit; an r clay when every heart regenerated, and not till then, will war cease. Terrible 'as wails, terrible as itie in our pre sent experience, yet it is, and will be, and more;untif man personally becomes mant,forgiven,,and.through the force of that forgiveness ; Jearns to forgive' as he -is' ;for given. I do not -say that every war is the result, of passions upon, our part. No doubt there are. sinfulness and imperfection in it. The only war thatAhis blessed Gospel adMits is' a defensive one';* and even such war is ex-- ceptiortal, it' provides for it as a thing that will be, it does tint insist upon it as a thing that Must -be. • When on their thrones, when cabinet ministers in their cabinets, when fathers - in their families, when masters in their.place,s of ; business ' shall all,pray from the very depths of the :heart, Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debton, then and only then—then and only then, when Christ'shall'conte, and' the kingdom shall be His, and His glory shall lighten every laud, the'sword ibe-teiten'intoqthe _plough : share' andthe spear - drqn theTpruning-hook, and: thE dations shall learn lwar no .more: , CWITIM.,I7Ig. ' TAE . I vONANISAP PIRATER#. Tits; Bible abonadtiii giettt 'hi ifori 'faatte, which strikingly illiatritte.the nature and the' power of Inver, •whei addressed. in strong : faith .t.toGod, ,, *hoge 'mkt wields; gat *ill, the . reSol47Po.4*o.lArtiversfri ;to4oo:ol.lPlielbilisf! designs, PRI 3 TiTir Ott! Te 4 l l ?e* ef 1 0 0 EPPP 7. * s efollowifl~g:eminent,. writer, richly suggestiVe enetilifor twenty' disaiiiiel; -and'ankle' foodlof priiste *Christian: meaitatitalentiaby. hours " Abrahleiesliervautlprays- - --Rebekah ap pears. .I.Taeob pktestied,-; end i ptays, rand pre- • vails ;with Okiist; r sses!s: rnind.. is -wonder fully tspied Ire% the; t re;kengeful prpose had hirbeiiio9x.pfe l OY.63triltr, AtiC. ) 4 3 ,ea , - to God --tbeec44lmaes.. mosesAtrikyl- 7 Alnii;f: le k is iliseotatitekl. - Tosiiktit 'pray AChah ) Dit*Dit heifer imifel `:r Asa prays--a, , VietoryLsittiaired;' , Jeh aphat • cries tollodz--iovituathirawaryhisifees:lisaiely: and, Hezekiah' prAye4lBs,ooo Assyrians are i dead in, >twelve . . Daeiel prss_ys-r-the: drPaSialevia4e.dr:P*OP47 B -7# 1 0i.9 1 ,4 8 are itgeplett: Ds.niel l pray t s = thepeyerkty,,weeks are rivealed, -.lTordoca,i and :EitYte,? fast— Haman • I.^ *. ged - ' is han ontas own gamows in twee days. Ezra grays at Ahava,--God answer§.. Nehemiah Zat:ti i.yer-41161iiiieheart is softened -iii cthitute,. Elijdo pra34-74 5 1 drought ofthreeloara, ipaccieds. Elijah-prays desceridsitipader.,: 3 Elishal.prays,-ATut da,n: is 'divided. -.7 Elishagrays;---a 801/10: comes bXtetk " SOT :pr&y.er • reache s , The, .Ohn.rohnpLy* ardently .goLter.,is hiered . in-angel::'-:—Tlie—ProieiLareeting Corinpuinn: Gsasts. , 4-1164/Aes of darlifper4ontion , are recalled iii is - by the iteitereisentenoesinOis passed on :theipoor;; Spanish psiisoneriforyno other ' Tetiabn. Ihstr th9iY.:ses.diug of:the RtoriptUrm. VIC) enademagion of seven. ; years in the galleys is,- to,men• of their ; team, a .sent,enc i e ,of painful. death. . Thetroy,rial ifes",Velvsts, and other,,rerich j0in5:414,6-4 thiti I,geition . ' t now.Ong - forth 14i Morocco; I teach , thepeepte* of 'a 'Christianity which its se iiittoThiant horde. 'We are glad 44 know that this subject is occupyink the: clomp: atteh-. tion. Of thea Evangelibat Allianee f Conlmittee in this country. RELIGIOUS - WORLD ABROAD 'Prom France and Germany, we have news of an encouraging character. It is special cause of rejoicing, that the 'Protestantism i which ,is aCknowledged by Tapists to be making great progress in the former country, is,showing itself able to master 'the radical elements whichseek to affiliate with and even 'to control it. So in Germany, as the Pa pacy retires ignominionsly from the scene of its:F6cent triumphs, 6," genuine evangelical feelineis found t'o'-be' "in . operation, and the prospect of permanent Ovaliftiges to the cause Of 'true religion may be cherished. `The denzooracy, which is overthrowin,g,, more or less rapidly,,the-ciiril and ecclesiastical despotisms of:Europe, is vindicate& from the accusations of suckmen as Guizot and Ileng stenb gardi erg, who join with the Papists in, re ng it as anti-christ. It: is expected that Pekin will soon be open to . 'ProteStant,. missionaries; - as the terms of the lateitreaty manifestly-allow. ;',- GREAT' BRITAIN. " Replies to the Essays and Reviews.—The two volumes. of Replies, winch will be ac cepted 'as the grand pronunciamento of the opposing parties in the Church of England, have at.length made their appearance. One (Replies to _gawks and Reviews) comes' from the High Churchinen under the leadership of the :Bishop of Oxford, :and amongst the wri ters are Dr. Gouldburn Dr. Irons, and. Dr. Wordsworth; another (Aids to Faith) under the editorship of Dr., Thomson the new Bis hop of Gleucester and. Bristol, begins with an essay by Professor Mansel, and ends with one by Dean Ellicott. The 11 . fethodist speaks of these works, es pecially ,the latter as of a yel7 high charac ter,. and-as marked by a careful appreciation of the real difficulties to be encountered. The trial of one of the Essayists, Dr. llama, was ztilr proceeding at last accounts and 'attracting great interest. Rev. 11. B. Wilson„ author of the Essay on the National chureh, has also been proceeded against in the :.same court: The position of the celebrated -Dr. Pusey:is one of pronounced antagonism to the Essayists, I:ndications of Religious interest.—A mid night 'meeting; of cab and omnibus drivers, was held-at the close of the old year by the' friendi of the religious movement among this class', of persons. The•meeting assembled in a large coachshed, fitted up with seats, and decorated with holly and suitable mottoes. About six hundred ,of the employes of the Lo ndon General Omnibus Company (including the wives of many of the men)were . present. There is a chaplain regularly employed, and Sir Horace St Paul, Bart, is the chief pro moter of the effort. The week of united prayer was well Ob served in Edinburgh -and other towns in Scotland. _The services in ' Queen Street Hall here were followed. in the Same place, on the Tuesday, with• a. solemn service of, I4eacq. America. Another special thanksgiving ser vice was held. on the 22d in the New Assem bly Hall, for the purpose of rendering thankS to-the Lord; and of'imploring - His further blessing on both countries. Missionary Lectures.—Following up one, of the suggestions made at the recent Con ferenee,the Foreign 'Mission Cominittee of the Free Church have arranged for a series of lectures on the subject of Missions, to be delivered to - the students at the Free Church Colleges of Edinburgh, Glasgow; and Aber deen, by. the "Rev. Thomas Smith, formerly of Calcutta, the Rev. Mr. Mackintosh from. Madras, and Mr. Clark from Bombay. Romish YOulzg Men's Associations. Young Men'S Associations are .spreacling rapidly among the Romish population 'of Ireland. They are skillfully and- popularly organized; well nfficered ; furnish attractive lectures; and'are-intensely Rotnish in their tone. No doubt says the correspondent of the News of t4e Chwho, thesqmunerous societies-4hat at Dublin has many hundrelmembers, and a ibrary ,of four thousand volumes—will, be diligently used to instil the half-political, half-sentimental Romanian into the minds of the , young. Queen. Viciory, as a inark of 'respect to the United, States, and to one of its most worthy, citizens, r ecently specially entertained Bishop MOllvaine, of Ohio, at breakfast FB.ANCE. triteni phant.—The elections-for the , renewal of half the Presbyterial Council have' been most satisfactory. The 'orthodoi Candidates have -been re-elected.-.by a thou- sand votes ,against four. hundred..-' This re sult. is throwing-hopeful vigourt into the true rePresentatives:of the Church of our fathel,'s all-over Prance, and dashing ,the ardour of those, who, whije. staying Zia its niAs, for •th6ii origin; and would, -under the, name' of:liberty, even. - lead their brethren to deny the Lord that bought them. It will interest ourtreaders to knoW that M. Mettetal, one ,of• i the c!rthodox candidates whom the itationalist,s would,:h.ave displaced, -is the chief ,Of the first divison of police, and unites to gedliness Many talents, both :Official and persOnal, whielereader him an instrument of, blessing, to the .dhurch. COr. News of the Churches.' ' The I,4•pgres,s of Protestantism is =denied Wild undeniable; the 9Fgans of the Ultramon-, tanists are vehement in their imprecations aAainst ,it, and their deprecations of the lukeivarraness of their party in the matter. Theyhring forward figures to startle their adherents into action. 5155 children are educated (in Protestant establishments) in Paris"! ' According, .say they, to the pro portion of population, out-to': Aese 5000 children, , , must, be of 9401ic pa rents! The week of prayer ITasltell...attended in Paris. All denominations united ." and," sip : l)le 'Correspondent airetidY quoted, "the blessing promised .to united brethren was vouchsafed. , Similar accounts are coming in from various parts -of the ' ' Empire.' Nimes . in`partfdatar, Strl-Sauv'aiit; Anduze etc.,' seem to have received much blessing, and now we rejoice in hope - of - the glory of god. There is - certainly 'ail , increasing 'preparation , of hehrt among the people:. . They are more and more willing to listen to the gospel- when clearly and boldly put to them.'' GENESEE EVANGELIST. , WhoIe No. 824. GERMANY. Rome ,on . the retreat.—The advantages which the Church ,of Rome seemed, after years of hard struggling, to have nearly se cured in Germany, have all been swept away. The Papal Concolattrivith - Austria, has be come a dead letter.' 'The Protatants in that empire have obtained privileges greater than they ever :had before, -if :they would only make a right use of them. The Church of Rome and the Bishops may still have great power over the members of their own com blit; none over the Protestants. In Wurtemburg Aid Baden, 'ate Concordat has been completely thrown overboard, and a powerful, reaction hasi‘ taken place, so that the wiles of,the Chureh of Rome have tend ed to open the' eyes of many Protestants to see a, little :of the nature of that Church. The Protestants all over Germany have made con siderable progress in developing the idea of a universal priesthood, and the theory of a Church of Christ is gradually brought-into practice in the popular election' of ministers and offidetbeirefit---4 . . Promising Indications.—A separation be-. tween, the. Church . and the world is in many parts of Germany hecoming more marked. The.world is assUinbig a " much . more threa tening position, and the children of God are becoming more faithful. spirit of prayer appears to be growing. In many districts family worship is more regular. Young men's societies are acknowledging - united prayer to be one, of the most powerful means of ad vancing the cause near their hearts. 'Many are seeing more clearly, that merely intellec tual perception of the truth, or slavish bow ing • to a; 'prescribed ritual, gives little strength in life Or comfort in death. At the greatlairs of Leipig, 'Frankfurt, and else where, one will find godly merchants meet ing in the eveningfor prayer and reading the Scriptures. Those who were most active in opposing the work of God in the Elberfeld orphan-house last year, have publicly expres sed sorrow for the steps they then took. Meetings on the Sunday evenings for prayer and conference, arc becoming much more Common, and, though the clergy generally discountenance such proceedings, still the meetings areheld,-and-.the prayers are much more spiritual and earnest. Persecution of Protestants in Tuscany.— While the - commission appointed to revise the laWs of Tuscany are at work arid the old per secuting laws are still in force, the priests are doing all they can to molest and hinder the Protestants in this state. Ga.vazzi is under trial for denouncing confession to the priesthood: Gregori, one of the students in the Waldensian college at Florence, is wait ing his trial at Lucca, 'for in a pamphlet. ex posing the errors of Romanism ; and, if he is found guilty, he will assurdly be sentenced to fiveyears imprLsonment. A colporteur in Florence was imprisoned for 'five days, in January, for offering an evangelical almanac for sale, in the streets of that city., and on January 23d, the Waldensian-pastor at Leg horn, M. Ribetti, was condemned to five days' imprisonment and. costs for, having circulated a_printed reply-to the scurrilous attacks of sundry monks. - An appeal in behalf of these individuals is - to be made to the ministry and. Parlia ment. Temporal Power of the Pope.—The Me thodist in a recent number gives the substance of an article from Hengstenberg's lfirehen zeituny presenting the. views of Doellinger, Guikot and Hengstenberg on the subject aboVe named. Doellinger has been claimed by both sides in the argument and, as it would see* with some justice, though he vehemently declared himself in full sympathy with the Catholic Assembly at Munich, which called on all good Catholics to rally for the deferipe of the temporal power. He has no sympathy with the elements which seem likely tosucceed soon in the overthrow of the Pope's temporal sovereignty. He regards the latter as necessary while-the present po litical order of Europe exists, and demands its 'forcible restoration, at any price, if it should be overthrown. He repeats in his work the declaration that the temporal power is' not indispensable, and he emphatically as serts that another political condition of Eu rope may be imagined in which it might not only be' dispensed with, but even become a troublesome inconvenience. Gtdzot has been all his life an eager ad vocate of a constitutional monarchy and of a State church ) and a decided, opponent of the fundamental principles of democracy. He deplores the dOwnfall of the temporal power of the Pope, because, in his eyes, the Papal power appeara to him as a powerful ally for breaking the power ' of-the democracy. Hengstenberg, in his review of Guizot, in dorses all these Opinions. Ile only regrets that-Guizottas not seen yet the dangerous character of a constitutional monarchy, which, in the view of Ilengstenberg, is itself only a stepping-stone to the ,abominable heresy of democracy. He insists that noth ing, save a dose alliance between the abso lute monarchy and the Christian. State Church, can save the civilizaticn of the nine teenth century from utter--ruin. Neither Hengsteriberg nor Guizot has a heart for ihe progress of Protestantism in Italy. Guizot says :---" There is nothing, absolutely nothing, religions in, what is now going min Italy," and Hengstenberg adds : --"Ne have no great hope_for,that celebrat ed evangelization of Italy. As matters look -now,-la. general destruction of Christianity is much sooner to be feared thanits,purification hoped, as the next consequence of this terri. ble -Chaos," Cemmenting on these views the 116thodist says:—The European democraey i .ai far as its legislation is concerned, has done nothing to elicit the condemnation : of ,the .Christian. The . progress of religibicias been more mar ked since 1848, than during any previous period of equal length. Europe is certainly passing through k . great `ordeal - at Present, but therm are iio indications - that anything is doomed to'deStruetion except, absolute mon archies; the privileges of:aristocracy, and the fatal delusion of Roman Catholic and Pro testant state. churches. So far from sharing the gloomy forebodings of Guizot and lleng stenberg, we never considered , the prospects of eVangelical Protestantism brighterthan at . • present,. Praise the Lord in the beauty of holines3
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