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. .• .
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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