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GENESEE EVANGELIST.
# IIIITRSDAY I ,' MARCH 20, 1862.
JO x W, MSS,
0118 PAPER,
We take pleasure in informing our friends
that for nearly aix months past the AMERICAN
PitrlOurltuiAN has paid its way on the reduced
Sisk* of expenses which we have adopted. The
new subscriptions we have received, and the old
ones renewed and paid during this period, have
greatly aided and encouraged us in this work.
The paper never had a fairer prospect of perma
nence as a selfAsupporting • concern than now,
although aix months ago it seemed impossible to
save it We are grateful to a kind Providence
for - this great and favorable change, and we thank
etre friends for their kind co-operation. But we
earnestly ask a continuance of these favors. The
moat, trying seasons of the year are yet before us.
Without a hither increase in our list, and a due
regard on the part of subscribers yet in arrears,
to their unfulfilled obligations, we cannot go on
in thebusiness path we have marked out for our
selves, and from which we are determined not to
sirerve—that of incurring no debts. - •
We call upon Pastors, Choral Sessions, agents
and friends on our field, and especially within
the haunch) of they Synod of Pennsylvania to
continue and complete the effort commenced on
beip:lf of our paper last fall. The present season
is,retderedl propitious for such efforts by the
favor of Providence to our armies, and the con
sequent- revival of business and commencing
return of prosperity.
TAB TIME TOR DEVOTION.
Inn larger portion of us are so occupied and
bilidened With cares, as to be strongly tempted
at tiles to neglect'or slight our devotion& We
spillable to fall under the impression that we
hsy t ttyggiv . ko time te, attend to them. Because
the beaming of prayer •upon our business and our
household cares is not direct nor palpable to the
senses, we are led to regard it in the light of an
interruption; only persons of leisure, we ima
gine, can take time for deliberate acts of wor
ship. We are greatly in error in this. Prayer
facilitatei business. It brings us in sympathy
with Him Who planned our busy lives, and puts
the linesnf events somewhat into our hands. It
refreshes and invigorates and restores elasticity
to the jaded spirit. It delivers us from mere
bondage to the world. It sweetans our tempers
and mixes us from peevishness and discontent.
lediguies an oil among the machinery of life,
causing it to, move easily, taking away the harsh-,
nese of friction, and lessening the expenditure of
vital force.
What would be thought of the engineer who
persisted in driving on the ponderous machinery
entrusted to his • care hour after hour, refusing
torirause and introduce among the joints and
axlea the necessary lubricating substance, for
imitt'Of time Would his'excuse' be regarded
as Valid or sincere ? Do not all conversant with
thit' business know that time ,would actually be
saves} by such, a judicious delay Will not a
greater amount of work be done in a given time,
and 'will not the machinery last longer, to say
nothing of the greater ease and pleasurableness
of the whole 'performance? Prayer saves time.
It Is a real economy. ' To neglect it is unwise,
ngthtifty, reckless.. 'We should pane and pray
deliberately, taking time enough for the exercise
tnleave its soothing and solemnixing influence
IMO ,10. But like the wise engineer, we should
the machinery while it is in motion too. As
ltd arias move to and fro, he snatches the oppor
tune moment and drops the oil upon joint and
slide and journal many times in the day. Thus
in the height of our cares, in the clatter of busi
ness, in our very bargaining and baking, our
counselling, pleading and prescribing, our plough
ing and sowing and reaping, we can and ought
to . introduce the mellowing influence of prayer,
So far from' leaving 'prayer just to such times =as
it 'maxi glean from the world's leaving's, we should
give - 411 e first hours of all, and should recur to
it•eiel bony of the day.
Lain SNAETEBBORY ON THE AMERICAN
QUESTION.`
Seine two months since there appeared in one
otthe Albany Journals, a letter from an English
correspondent, imputing to,the Earkof Shaftes.
bit?) , expreasiona of the bitterest hostility against
this cotintry. In what purported to be an au
thentic extract from a speech delivered by him,
he , is made, to say as follows :" I, in common
with - almost every statesman, sincely
desire the rupture of the American Union. It
Ills been the iolfey - of England to brook no rival
ry in the direction of her own greatness. We
justly fear the commercial; and political riveiry
of the United States. , If not eheoked they will
Bqcootterahltdyw G. Britain." , -
-,There-areillsw mutes-in England around which
there had gathered. an equal degree of interest
and respect; in the -minds of a large portion of
our people, as 'that of the Earl of Shaftesbury,
The high Christian character of this nobleman
hie ulTwearied 'efforts for the promotion of the'
physical and. Moral welfare of the poorer classes
-- T his upright , and independeet course in Parlia,
miernt , — r iand his uniform kindness towards Ameri
cans introduced to his acquaintanoe, apparently
will justified the estimation in which he was
held. Notwithstanding, thereforn, the positive
aisertiona of the truth of the statement, the ab
surditrupon its face gave it in the view of many
a'auflicient contradiction. The indignant denial
of the slanderous accusation in the following en.
tract of a letter from hia lordship to a gentle
man of this city, dated London, Feb. 19th,
leaves nothing further to be desired in its refu-
tation
" I express to you my sincere thanks for your
friendship and kindness in giving me an oppor
tunity to deny altogether that gross and'unptin
cipled statement made by one of your Ameri
can journals.. It is a fabrication from first to
last. I have been to no meeting, delivered no
speeches, and neither said or thought anything
so, supremely foolish and mischievous as the
contents of the extract from the Albany 'barn a&
"I am, dear air, your obedient servant,
"‘ SHAFTESBURY."
',. , That gallant and pious soldier, Commodore
Footf, Inui compelled the rebels to evacuate b
lind No. 10 in the -Mississippi.
A SOUTHERN FALSEHOOD' NAILED.
Sometime last--kay Or June, ,before the mail•
communications with Tennessee were cut off, we
received among our exchanges from Nashville,
an extra of the Christian Advocate of that place,
which we have preserved to this time. It seems
seasonable, while our forces are occupying Nash
ville, to bring it to light, and to consider some
of its statements. The document is a flaming
appeal to the already excited, but somewhat dila
tory Tennesseeans, issued jointly by the nine
editors of the religious and secular papers in that
city, and sent broadcast, we presume, over the
State in their several issues, with a view to pre
cipitate the State into the mad and ruinous ca
reer, in the midst of which she has just been in
terrupted by the army of the Union. The docu
ment opens in large type.
Editor.
" TO THE PEOPLE OF TENNESSEE
"Your Homes are in Pangeri -Rouse you to
the Great Conflict!"
It then proceeds to depict, in the most violent
language, the warlike preparations and the• plans
of
, conquest entertained by the North. Flying
rumors, editorials of excited New York papers,
in which the Rerdid is conspicuous, together
with the mad inferences of the writers themselves,
are skilfully cembined and paraded to play upon
Southern feelings: Every man, from sixteen to
sixty, is called upon to arm and drive back the
foe, every true woman to give up husband and
sons to the work I
But what chiefly-attracted our attention in this
appeal, to which three editors of religious jour
nals gave their endorsements, was the repeated
and confident assertion that people and soldiers
of the Union, were animated by a barbarous, nay
fiendish purpose to lay waste,raiage and destroy
wherever they should penetrate. Hear what these
blind guides of the people say!
"And what," they ask,' "is the spirit that
moves the vast North? Revenge and hate
stream through?' every column of, their journals:
* * The Southis to be overrun and crushed for 7
ever; her proud spirit broken, her property con 7
fiscated, her families scattered and slaughtered,
and then . to remain thictugh depent
dency on the free and sovereign North. Power
ful armies of fanaticiariaptunderers are to 'be
quartered in our quiet cities and towns in the
_
South, dictating, aws to us at
,the point of the
bayonet and the slaves to . be , turned loom with
more than savage atrocity 'on,helplesewomen and
children. * * The vast North staggers under its
load of wrath, waiting only for:orders from the
usurper Lincoln to overwhelm the South with
blood and chains. * * Will men of Tennessee
whose property - I AB in danger, whose right' to lib
erty itself is ignominiously denied, will yOu
sleep, will you be idle, will you wait till a bloody'
mob is at your door • ?"
Nine, menths have = rolled around, , and the•
"bloody mob" as they called-it, is. at their doors;
the army'of the Union is encamped in and around
Nashville; and what is the fact? From all' the
evidence we can gather, there seems' no room to
doubt that the arrival of our army in_ that city
: was; its deliverance from a most fearful reign of
terror, and the re-eitablishment of orderand se
etnity which; Under the rebel rule, and the pres
(lnce of the, rebel soldiery, had been utterly ban
ished. If Nashville is ruined, as indeed seems
to be, the fact, it is by the presence of the very
forces and agencies which this appeal helped
to summon into existence. The first telegraphic
inforreation of the condition of the city under
the forces of the Union, ran as followS :
"The city is entirely quiet and even' the bitter-.
est Secessionists acknowledge that pia' mAitary
authorities are treating them. cruelly. kind., All
admit the vast superiortyin arms and equipment
of our troops, and say that . so far there has been
the most admirable discipline displayed. They
admit also that' our troops have not `committed - a'
single outrage, while the conduct of their own troops :
was outrageous."
The Mayor'of the city, who seems to continue_
exercising his functions as previous to the occu
pation, issues his proclamationassuring the, peo
ple of safety to persons and property, galling upon
all •except dealers in intoxicating., driuks,
some their occupations,. informing the' citizens
that the county elections willtake'place as usual,
and urging country people to bring their market
ing to the city. Truly . this is a strange army of
"fanatice and plunderers," a curious sort of
"bloody mob," which hinders no business in tite ,
captured city, but the very one which., is i adaptet
to kindle violent feelingsund-pr j omotg, out!rages.
Dreadful is it;to be. occupiedby :an , army whose
only demonstrations are in the direction of total
abstinence! Ah I the stunning truth is that the
"bloody mob," the fanatics and plunders" eie
those wh9 had just turned their hacks upon'the
city, and, under ,the gloyd, had-bent
their hasty steps towards the remote borders of
State. They were the,,real vandals, fi,orn whom
alone property owners had cause M fear, and from
whom they suffered grievous damage,
The Louisville Journal publishes the state-.
menu of Mr Charles Matthews of Nashville, who
had called at the office of the paper on.the 28th
of February. Among_other things he said
"There was ;good 'reason Why 43 people of
Nashville the' presence of the Federal
troops. The outrages perpetrated there by 'the
rebels were fearful. Some, of. these outrages are
.
unfit for' publicatioti, and hanging would be too
gaal_for the authors. Last- Thursday; four citi
zens were shot before their shop-doors, because
they would mit open their shops for robbery_ and
pillage. One lady was run through with a sabre
before the eyes of Mr. Matthews, because she
would not sUbmit to sbame. Seizure of the 'con
tents of jewelry stores, clothing stores, and of
dwelling-houies, was general:"
And the Nashville correspondent of the St
Louis Republican givea,the, following deplorable
account of the condition to which rebel rule has
reduced the city. . , .
"Never did a city present more evidences of
rapid ruin than Nashville does. No money ex
cept worthless scrip, few luxuries,. no mail facili
ties, nor anything that makes life desirable in
loyal places. The merchants would have long
ago been bankrupt, had they attempted to ' pay
their debts. When the war broke out there were
large, amounts of silver and gold through' the
South. Now there is none. Those few that
could amass it did, and immediately buried or hid
their treasure, having no abiding faith in scrip,
which passed eta floated along the shallow chan
nel of trade, simply because there was nothing.
else, in the Mlle manner that early colonists used
to make beans a legal tender, although each had
already more than he could sell or give away.
" The greatest - blow to 'Nashville " says the
Same correspondent "has been - the destructioU of,
its two fine bridges across the Ouinberland!'
alitgri;t,an..,..ltr.#-.:0 , t1j.-4.. i !t .',.1,5(4 .. -." . 1 ... -. 1. tut o.tt..,(..ov#itltliot.
And by whom was this greatest blow levelled ?
By the North, whom these journalists denounced
as aiming at the property and material interests
of the. South? No! but as the Nashville Banner
itself is obliged to chronicle, (thus eating its own
Words of less than a year ago) by the rebel au
thorities themselves, in the panic caused by the
approach of General Mitchell's army. Says the
Banner : -
,'• Tuesday, night the wire and railroad bridges
across the Cumberland were destroyed, in spite of
the most earnest and persistent remonstrances of
our leading citizens. The•w - ire bridge cost about
$150,000, and a large portion of the stock was
owned by the lamented General Zollicoffer, and
was the chief reliance for the supped of his or
phaned daughter& The railroad bridge cost $250,-.
000, and was one of• the.finest drawbridges in the
country! _
The Banner does not tell us in what spirit
this, set was 'ordered by Governor Harris. The'
correspondent, above quoted; supplies the omis
sion. Re says Governor Harris' words, when
waited upon by the citizens and requested to re
frain from .such'.vandalisia, were: 'Has 'Nash: .
ville come to this—hesitating to sacrifice two
paltry pieces of timber for the cause. Go back
and, tell those who
,sent you - that icnof,her, word
and their own roofs will-be blazing above them.' "
- Here we might rest the case. The testimony
of one of the very agitators of last spring--for
we presume that the Banner is the same as the
Repnblican Banner, whose editor, H. K. Walker,
was the first to sign the incendiary'appeal to the
people—this testiinony, so flatly and conclusively
against his own cause upon the, most destructive
act of violenee, yerpetrated in that section, must
be regarded as conclusive. But we cannot pass
over the corroborative testimony, furnished
,by
another Louisville paper, the Democrat, as to the
doings of the same rebel government, - sustained
by the same army, While in the adjoining State
of Kentucky. Even the fearful anticipations;of
their own flaming appeals are excused ,bY tte
reality of their own *misdeeds. - Speaking of the,
rebel government'at Russellville, Kentucky, the
Democrat says
"If in one 'sense it was contemptible, in an
other it was terribly: serious. Wherever it Rut
its feet down, there was a desolation. Its lind'of
power is marked' by the 'ashes of farm 'honses,
and the debris of desecrated churches. It tra
ced its boundaries with a finger of fire, and
niarked its outposts by depopulated villages.
Its avant eouriers were, exiled women - and , chil
dren, fleeing for their lives. It laid its hand
upon populous villages, peaceful and happy
homes, and they Were cursed with the degolition
of Sodom: laws were the sword and the
bayonet--its preens ofllruinpli the Wailing - of
wrm; and the voice of Rachel crying for her
children. Every living 'thing was blasted by it.
Widefielde, spreading in beauty, were the,camps
for destroying armies-- fine buildings the bar--
racks for soldiers. A brutal soldiery had no law
but their own lusts; no God but their own pas
sions; Everything, 'valuable that they wished
was• seized, and what they could not carry - off
they destroyed,' Conimissions Of plunder- were ,
;silted, and armed bands Searched and stole'nder
the authority of law. No Place 'withrif the nar
. row circuit was safe :from' devastation Com- '
merce and trade were destroyed, for they had no
need of them. Everything they touched with--
ered. In their flight, they ditroyed, with
criminate;. outrage, whateverr-NHS most valuable.
Itmade no difference whether Wives the 'prop
erty of Union or Seeession, the fell spirit of or
ganized mob struck it. The mere fact of its be
ing property was enough to d eman its _estruction.
"It may be supposed 'that we exaggerate in
this picture of, desolation, but we do not From
accounts of those who suffered under its dreadful
reigfi it is impossible to exaggerate. The rebel
artily 'behaved as , if it was in a hostile country,
the people• of which could only be , crushed by the:
wildest deviltry of destruction and annihilation:
They Seemed to livein an ever present fear of the
people. 'No' arms were allowed them. Every
bowie knife, fey - ling piece, and pistol, was seized.
Thlis, while they shanielesely refused to protect
the citizens, they deprived them of the means
of protecting thernSelves against adebanched sol
diery. , ,ThiS plain, notorious fact is the key;to
their whole plan of operation. The Russellville
gOvernment; with shameless effrontery, while
claiming to represent Kentucky, countenaneed
and Promoted these thing& There was no taxa
tion,rl less otganiied robbery could be called such.
It was plunder, Sweeping, organized , plunder,
only to Teed those who crushed - them to the
earth. . ' '
_ c‘lf any one thinks we have blackened • this
picture, let him take a. jaunt down to that
section ; let , him converse; - with those VrhO
suifered under thetiebel qbverninent, He will
find that not-the half has been
" How the ! Small is cursed—how it is kept in
subjection-:--can be known from - this. Disarmisd
down-trodden by a powerful despotism, it must
look to the coming of the army to its relief with
as anxious an eye as ever the downtrodden serf
EtrobellaS prayed for a Saviour to give him
freedom." • •
QUARTER CENTURY BER*ON OE DR.
• -BRAINERD
- ..We are pleased to be able to mini:Mum to our
readers , that -Dr. Brainerd's recent Quarter-
Century Sermon has just been - published. by Mr.
Win. F. Geddes, '320 . Chestnut street. The.
pamphlet also contains the report of the addresses
and doings at the• festival,, substantially as givea
in our columns.„. No member of Pine Street
Church, and, in fact no citizen of Philadelphia
of twenty-five years standing, can afford to do
without the valuable'reminiseences and historical
contributions which it contains. For Pine Street
Church it is especially a stone of remembrance:
leading enterprises of our . denomination in
this city within the garter century—in:which.
the practical and, yet ardent mind of Dr. B. has
justly Made him foremost—are traced to their
inception. The list of changes in the, Datattorate .
of the. Presbyterian Churches of this city, on
page 6, is startling and instructive. ,
We=congratulawold-: Pine Street" Church 'and`
its pastor at the showing they are permitted to
Make. One thoniand additions in twenty-fiVn
years; six hundred and, fifty members now,:
saven'hundred and ten Scholars in the Sabbath
SChools • 'never so numerous a membership of
pang persons in all its hundred years of history
as now; an average of charities for the twenty
five years.past of three to four thousand dollars
a year, and of twelve hundred garments each
Winter to the poor, and- a pastor, after twenty- -
five years of 'active'. service, "still in.
, 4o tons:
health!!
, , .
The Pamphlet, is for sale at the Presbyterian
Book Store, Chestnut skeet, opposite the Mint,
and by Mr. Geddes, the 'printer, 320 Chestnut
street, and by the Sexton of Pine-Street Church.
ROW ; .THE MESSAGE IS, RECEIVED.
TAE wise, cautious, and yet deeided`steiof the
President in proposing a nationeriwlicy'OPernan
cipation, has been hailed with :an almost : unani
mous burst. of approval from the loyal people.
Just as we seemed to be falling into hopeless die;
sensions, and as the old. pmslavery sentiment
was gathering courage to avail itself of the em
barrassed condition of the friends of liberty, the
President utters a word of counsel and of good'
cheer, puts himself fairlyat the he
ad of a reason
,
able and, constitutional movement towards eman
eipation,'and straightway the public .sentiment;
of the country is rallied and the noise of discord
is hushed. The House .of . Representativei
promptly passed the resolution suggested by the
President, Without `alteitai o n or amendment; by
a vote 'of nearly' three to one. Six : Southern
votes, were cast for it, ineluding that of , the,lsela
ware Representative, iii i . tiiher. It is chained
on: excellent antheriAhat the Tresident has'
not only receive 12
d:amf . 003 OT•oupport. in this
1 / 4 1 6a
policy from shivehoid In• the ',Border' States,
but that many among themost influential off this
class
, of persons in z MarYland and 'Belaware urged
it'on him, ' i _ ' v. ,,...,
And the press of theliorth of almost, every
shade of opinion on This subject , have United
with few and insignificentexceptions, in sustain
ing.and applauding the President's course. The
Tramps, the Independent, and ,
.even the Anti-
Slaverr Standard, of New York, express , their
gratification, while. On the other side the - Areth
York Observer "piolliihei,ith " most fervent prayers
and - most melons labera" for 'the success of the
proposed system of einincipation.::
The Anii,-4lavery 'Standard says 'of the Mes
sage :—" While the measure, recommend by
the President is, in our , judgment, far, short of
the requirements of justice and the dementia of
the hour, we nevertheless inclined to regard
it, in'a favorable light f ite proceeding "from good
motives ontiepart, ain6nded in good 'faith
to initiafe is:moveineri r the ultimate abolition
g o
of slavery. - It is, at any rate, an official
ledgment that slavery is dangerous= o the welfare
of the conntry and, that ' the Federal Govern
ment would find its highest interest'• , in a scheme
of emancipation, as 'one' of the:most efficient'
means of self-preservation.' No such declare.:
tion ever came beforel`iom a President of the'
United States, in his official capacity; and
eouple&as,ityis with the , signifteant intimation,
that if tile' rebellion Continues,' ‘`ii is . impossible
teforesee all-the incilnts which may attend end
alLthe ruin which , may follow it,' - and .!that such,
as 'may seem indiapeniable,* or 'may . ebirionsly
promise' 'great efficiency 'Vert/ads ending 'the
struggle,'ll.UST AND WILL COME,' we must
regard .-- it' s avery imp°rtant step `inthe, right`
direption, and an indication at least of the Presi
dent's desire to pro4ie in some way for the
iholitiOn of slavery." f : • -
We ' also quote
~frinn Mr. Greeley in : the
ectiumns,ok the inditifitt:—" ' But what does
this message • ainentit to ,'' testily ask a .few 'int=
. ta • t
~
patient Souls, who deem a decree of immediate
and absolute emancipation the only adequate
medicine for Our national ills. It ' kineunts at
least to this -,-‘a 'recognition of the truths' that
Slavery is the. Sation'sintilacabk and dankfrous
eneniy, and :that: its: abolitiOn would restore us
unity and:peace. , Fiven had these
~truths been
propounded as sheer, abstractions, the importance =
of their .emb o dime n t i. p ., a State paper emanating,
froni the White noire "could hardly he - over
estiniated: But whemthey are intertwined with
a proposal that CongreaS shall, as a- Measure:Of
t
National defence and
,kcurity,'extend pecuniary'
aid to any State which 'may see fit to banish
slavery from. her soil, their significance is :vastly
increased.
• By .
" his Massage of Freedom, President tin-,
coln takes his proper ipost at ,the head of the
nation•• -' The party of Progress, which has .l e u t -,
porarily keen dubionS . , if 'not divided, with
rega tflt rd lita aultita4ant-1;e so no longer- - .' ' lii
diViduais may still helitate, but the great - body
instinctively *andJ - 4061i ieci); , iiiie their chief..'
May doubt and diatraction be evermore banished,
and the Nationmoye on, compact and confident,
through the, dark, and' bloody ways
. of 441 and:
aff,fietion, to a future 'resplendent with the beame
of,Tustioe i Freedom and Peace!" :, .- , ...
And the editor of the independent:thus warmly
characteriies the proposal :-" Considered simply
as a stroke of home and Ihinign 'pericy, ibis is
masterly. Butthat lilts least merit: :It is ii
noble .moral' not. TolioaiAgi. the policy pi"
emanaip,ation in theAlnited States of America,
is of itself a claim endfitle to an undying fame.
Henceforth, President Lincoln's :nainer will be
associated with those of the Founders and Fathers
of theiCountrY and (kinatitutien." ' ' , , :
Our religious exchanges, in' fact with ecarcely,
an eiception, speak 'in sithilar terms; so that
the proposal will carry a *eight cifept,o A4i
timent.' tichiop..wifliolifft4i4t, to resist '' '''
WHAT DR. JAM .fl. LYON .OF ;LONDON
THINKS OF HIS J En. 'PAL 1 4 1 01miamet8;-/114
Sabbathlnorning lecture in-On Itegen t k-Kindiii
Ohtwoh,•the pinttni took oenindoii tO:iebirriillie
doctrine Of.46i4liiiti 1 Coessiod:ninf f in r aiiiWa
of some rather east' remarks' tiOlFe, somewhat
as follima : , . .
'Oen we meet these : ministers yfty fiy* t ii i „, p ,
learned gentlemanly acid Chriutimin.,t.beir:con-:
versation, and apparently full;.of the spirit of
brotherhood. But when they get on the rob.*
of convocation, they swell oat into Vrelatiotokti
sequence, and. lii r ok : Wilar hinghtrditidnite iiidn
those unfortunate bireihren, 4olni t in not 1140
blessed with that m st a episcopal, i:otiCOvitioli .
elevates them to be the t in . AnilPie B oP3 of Ch ' lisie
and then are so fora, csd s in %heir. ; pasttleboard
superiority,, that they 1:m
m,to have. lost'the very
spirit and grain of Cliristianity.
- WE have for some !kir intended tilittieidi of
our 'friend,`'.''H; e *ittniai'it - "Clatk4g etitab-
Rai:nen t, .ha 'we - presuineli *nig liii A:sirorjF of
supererogation, 'as hebrten no" irelliiitconised
i m
at,the neliatind NO. 8 Market streetias to be
unable to keep
,op his )c. of clothing.. Never
theless,. he mill be. fo d very prompt in 'filling
any orders: that Inay: . be entrusted to him, as we
ourselves have found. 1 ' '
C LARK' 0130i*tnirliiirkiiiis 7e7valliable
monthly sc:; oAr a islar day schools,.
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DEDIOATION AT ERIE,* PENNA.
MEM* EDITORS :—On Titesday, February
20, by invitation of our excellent brother, the
pastor, Rev. Geo. A. Lyon,.D. D., I visited this
city of 'your extreme northwest, to officiaterac
cording to a pledge of some standing, as I did,
in the dedicatory services of their new edifice of
worship., The:weather, though seasonably cold,
was otherwise . rather auspicious.; and a large,
respectable, intelligent and agreeable audience
from twelve to more hnndreds, so reported to
me by, some laymen who were present as their
estimate, filling aisles ? vestibules, and all Sur
.
rOundings,.were there- assembled, showing ; the
extensive, appreciation of the occasion and the
scene ; will& actuated their presence in:the new
Sanctuary of our God.
By an agreeable audience, I mean what every
experienced preacher will understand ; one whose ,
contour of expression. tends to. help, not hinder,
the performances • coinciding with the spirit of
the plaCeand the time, and se seeming to assist
and relieve the preacher, instead of, discourag
ing, and even obstrneting. hia duties by their,
levity,' their inattention and -their worldly but
not refined,. sometimes :their - ill-bred: and even.
infidel behaviour. They deserve this, compli
ment, all the more valuatle 'as spontaneous,
gular 'andsincere. Seldom have I addressed.an
audience in, this or any other country, more agree
able, more exemplary, more beautiful in appear
ance.and e.ffeet,..to_the. eye, an.dtbP thought and
the .feeling,of the preacher. Would to God that,
all our churelf-goers were as well educated, as
well seen, as Well infinenced in the earthly courts
where Jehovah manifests his own glory
- My teat was excellent enough—Ll only wish ,
the sermon had been,worthy of it: it was John
xvit: After diSeuSaing it, and, in part, the'
whole chapter of that wondions portion of the
word of God, it.w a s my purpose and aim ? to show,
the plan' of God, =the programme of eternity, as
there displayed for our instruction and,encour
agement ; these things. 1 speak in--the tharld, that
th4vaight have' my fog fulfilled in 'themselves:
13`j thence to infer that alonse woribip, and
that' all ecclesiastical architecture, should he so
wisely and well coincident with the revealed de
sign pfgod, as aptly and fully to subierve it; to
Wait:rate and ;honor it.:. 'Hence, alSo,'is it THE
CRITERION, both in judging and in building, a
house of God r --to coincide with the design -of
Him whose 'worship we profess — there to eele
brats' and perform: In one word, we are to con
sider' AnArrATIoN . as mainly and practically
everything in such a struSture; , as also in the
science of all its architecture, building ever to
please Ged, rather than pen; the caprice, the
fashion,, the pride, the state, the love of sen
srous'display and ornamentation, whichare ever
more ,in vegue,,as true piety and - sound intelli
.gence are -less considered, known, appreciated;!
How such criterion appliestaPany specimens
in our Olin country - and more in EttrOpe,:i for
.
bear to say; bit may record my"conviction' in
fa7vor'ef the edifice at Erie, now
,a Sacred strue
ture,sOlemnly dedicated to ,
Ood. By a vicious
metonomy of the container for thecontained, the
house where they met, for the true worshippers
ctEsdo4, that 4 Wl llll ble the edifice the
church—incorrigible impropriety The original
word in the Neir Testainent means the edifice---
NEVER. .It means the people; and this uniform
ly, ivithnet -one exceptipn. In the Old Testa
ment it is 'hind not at all, King James having
expressly interthetea it there, as well as the word
mystery. and some others in (ult.' present version,
nowmore.then two .bundred,and fifty years old.
: 1 1:1e, word ecclesia, Jlte- original of. ,church ;
occurs in -the :New Testidnentlls times; in- the
Gospels only, twice, Matt. -16 : 18. ;18 - : 17.; in
ACts; 24. times ; Romans 5, all >in chap. 16 ; 1
Col.: 22; 2 Con' 9 ; Gal. 1: 2; 13,22; 1 . 511.- 9;
Philip. 3: 6. 4: 16; Coloss. 4; I' . Theis: 2'; 2
These 2"; 1 Tim. 3 Phil. 1; Ifeb. 2i'l2: 12`23;
James, 5: 14 • 3 John, 6,9, 10. Rev. '2O times,
all in the &A, three chapters, 'except 22' 16; I
.
have some reasons for suspecting that this state
ment may he, iTt some, relations, of real ;use.,and
service !;, „
• Of.hat order is the building; or what it may
by critics be called, I really do not know; tokl.
think, loeic, -Detio,•llOthic, Coin Po -,
site, Ethiepic, Nixii:lrreitSi,AKiptiltri„pritylic, or
• •
ancient Saxon; but:a Wise, considerate,
specimen, or independent AAtiptx94,l demonstra
tion; of its , own. sort, sui gimoii,gricl, as such,
well al/aped to its sacred uses. t . 4 is large, sym
metrical, pleasant and useful; ,as - Well as simple
and ornate all its arrangements: Its lecture
room, 72x44,feet, Sabbath school,,.session room,
are all ihlthi; but ;011 and;pleasantly
sitnab4 with every convenience.. Tn the great
or cart' ot worsh3P; 'the • organ and the
fixed ; behind" and aho.ye ind,7
pit, irlkile the only gallery is directly opposite, at
the end, and a - realri f deiliiialSlicTOCality at that.
The pews are ranged , iii - gentle;ciiiiilineus, giv
ing a show of compaetneas, and also a beauty . of
aniphitheatticarrelation to a common centre, in
nnity, ordet; .l ol useful economy of space. But
'another a'Aivainttoe—the knoW how
to`,,estsmate 013priAT:ireof the sort, w t hoa@ lwp4
ties'are, Fled or rlrrPugt.:lTheTt.6.lo;sound ev er
comPs.*lc 4 1 .0 1 4;00o. TePeatinglithatever. ; he
saysimid.a torturingmetition, inevitable, in his
ear; 'of . ishateverhe utters for the. ears :and the
heartsiuf lithers, On :the other hand; nutde.*ai
itiklioda , te—mitimii at Erie is, the 'iicirdieleirie
'deist44er, "seam `to` with thi i464 0 a.
nii dial of apeeci or utterance
isVim* ea'Sy
aid t) and wirl°:#eglTk44.9l/11LIF4'
' aeAgifeeg: 5 ), )ifjP.1 1 14 ,tio,prg4tOetaßC Peg*
118 8 proper ligkuNe f 4 Ol, the vionikiPAt;
God.‘ ~.; : ;,.!, •
The corner-stoniti wan had; They tellnisi ,
21, 1859 ;in all, :two Years and' eight . :'ntoriiikeiri
the process of building% ' This is 'nOtkliasth; but
economy, perhaps; and the 'resit*: the ' pile
maybe more durable, strong, safe s ; and .in other
rOpects .advantaged . . :Mae . dimensions of . the
whole,buttresses not included, are 10 . 1x70 feet
the diameter of its main tower 28 feet; its smaller
one 11 "feet ; entire height of the former, 186
feet; sixtallerrs feet. The entire pile from the
sidewalk, 64 feet high;_ audience room, or' place
of publiC 'worship, 444eetihigh, from thirfleorto
the entliiief :intersecting arches ; 88x
72=6336,square feet It is finished *tate
oak, and seems , neat and chaste in su per
ficies, as well as solid , massive , firm in , its entire
fabric. M ithout; its aspect is that,of
. strength,
largeness, majesty, as if-, intending, : to speak ,to
posterity for several centuries; within, its style
is all in keeping, as if 'otility, service; worship
wik,e its' Original ; its criterion adcip
agogio die ' , Oatteini ihotori ati'inilie' mount, and
.. ,
altegnther, an achievement worthy' ? r otir'grati
tude, its Well,"as more intensely of 'thews srho
enjoy, it. Its windows long, with stained glass,
'diamond in shape; its pews an -cushioned - with:-
dark green material, and carpets all similar
One excellence may be claimed for it, I think
—it will not be obnoxious to the saying :
afea to God and mortgaged to the devil "'Pew
are so taken, so desired, so paid for, that wean-,
tieipate no standing debt on the premises. More
pews-are - wanted, - and net more purchasers, is
am. informed ; and as I exhorted them in the
sermon, I will repeat it here: " Give it, and
keep it free from debt, as the Lord's house ; not
grudgingly, as a pious donation to HiM, who
gives us all things. Be an example, every way,
Of what a on.uncu oF CHRIST ought to he ! Love
Your pastor, as also you do: Be scriptural, well
informed, united Qiiristians, " endeavoring; to
keep the unity of the Spirit in , the bond of
peaee" (Eph. 3) ; so shall God condescend to
dwell in the house which yon have built; and if
He dwell not in a cathedral' or other structure
of magnificence and cost, it is all worse than
, -
vanity—it is sin 'delusion, the second death!
Finally, brethren, - farewell. "Be perfect,
Of good comfort, be of one mind, live in, peace;
and the God of love and peace shall be with
,
you. Amen. (2 Cor. 13 : 11.)•
• . • , SAmtrya,..„RAisoN Cox.
Leroy, - N. Y, March 6,,.1862.
*Erie is a regularly chartered city of twelve or
fourteen thouiand inhabitantS, delightfully situated,
and its future is full promise for all kinds of pros
perity and excellence ; for commerce, wealth, intel
ligence, good manners—a: commodity not too plenty
anywhere ; and; we truit i the 'means of sound edu
cation and scriptural religion. Its scenery is pic-
Wrest* varioni, grand. Its relations to 'Lake
Erie, and by rail to New York, to Ohio '
to the , great
West," and by Sunburn to Philadelphia ,• and every
other State of 'our .Union, = indicate prospective
greatness, importance, influence, honor I May the
salt of .God's covenant be east copiously into all
their fountains, that so all the streams that flow
from' them shall be only pure and salutary to the
nation and the world !
BEV.
• This enterprising and persevering laborer in
the missionary field reached the scene Of his for
mer labors in Kolapoor, towards the close of the
Ifist year r. Hi with his'family reached the har
borof Bombay, October 28th, just two months
from 'the day they embarked in the Persia r at
New York. He writes from. Bombay Nov. , sth,
to the Committee of the Kolapoor Mission in this
country as . follows :
." As the day dawned brightly upon us in the
harbor, revealing the Apollo Bander, the old
Fort and the scenes of this great heathen city,
so.familiar in other days, Twill not attempt to
describe the mingled feeling that swelled our
hearts. Was it strange, considering the events
of the last four years—was it strange if we felt
anxious and lonely?. But it was only for a little.
A pleasant,surprise awaited.us. Several dear
old friends soon came on board'to welcome us
back to India, and - takeus to their pleasant homes
--friends whom we did not suppose 'to have been
aware of out-coming; and so 'kind and' earnest
as their weleeme that we have to divide the time
of: our stay here among thern.
"At is a week yesterday since we landed, and
I helieve there is not a Protestant missionary in
Bombay who has not: warmly,welcomed ns hack
to India and Our work here, while many kind let
tars of welcome have come to us • from:brethren
_ and friends at stations inland."
Mr. Wilder quotes from a letter from it67."T
M Mitchell" M. P. Missionary at Pdapa," the
lowing ' ;
"I doubt not most of your-American. brethren
can, with all other missionaries in westein India,
heartily rejoice that a willing. add : -energetic 'la
borer has been added to the small band of mis
sionaries, and that they, with US, will heartily
pray for your sucCess." --
Mr. Wilder also writes ' to its soon after from
KolapOor • ' '
"We are quietly established in our dear old
miss'i'on and home, have received a Most'corclial
welcole from our native friends and the people
generallY, have a good number of young persons
alrekdY:uuder instrUotion, and find each day
too short for. the work we desire to do,"
Mr. Wilder - earnestly .asks an interest in
our: prayers- He - says in a letter from Born
bay
“Alt will be in vain 'unless the Spirit 'of God
comes down and seals the truth with convincing
and saving power. In going baCk to s our`
cult" work alone at Kolapoor, we deeply feel the
need of this help'from.God, and hope the prayers
of dear friends in America may not be wantincr
Our hearts have been comforted and encouraged
by the manylprayers that have been , offered for
us here ibyEirropeen and native brethren and
wetrtist they will net be in`vain."
The - book ." Mission . Schools in India' ," has
reached a third edition The proceeds are ex.L
peCtid,tO laPpliedin building a chapel in Kok.
poor, of :which the'mission is in great need.
Receipts for: theKolapoorlfasion.
Previst y-neknowled o eed, (See N. Y. • "
I.Evcingdist; Aug.'B,) . . $218304
MIORWAN. • •
Monroe—Prof. E. J Eoya, $5O 00
Kalamazoo•---Jo - B2Verliell, -- 5 04- 3 •-• 55 00
Oaxo. .
pniurnbue—Rev. E . D. Morris, 500
Benj.Talbott, Esq. ` 5:00
Rev. L.' Kelsey . ; 104:)0---- 20-00
Nsw .TERSZY.
.11oiristOwn . =MissN. E. Byrain, 500
Cianeville—By Rev. .11. - Read, 63 00
...-Newark—MissMaryTownsend, 75'00
• • - Jos N. Tuttle Ssq 10 00
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J..L..73aklwiti,
• ' W. A. 'Myers, 10 00
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J. W. Poinier, 5 00
• • , N. Hedges, . 400
01119., Rockwood, 5,00.
Mrs. J. Mills, 50
Miss C. B.,Lathrop, 1.00
Ait'sl.`C:,(s4s 21,`58 ,
above) , 37 21 221 71
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..e. 86 1 ,6 7an) 7 18 , 50
Nnw Yont. ' -
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_ Fadden, $2 00
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Esq . : 25,00
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Meth. M. 0., 2 55--35 55
iftratokaSprings,—lrene,l 00.
•' • Mrs - Burdsall 250
M. Farrar, Mg% 4 7-50 •
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betrian Church, 16'84-- • 63'89
R. G. Wilder '
•.* _ 414 dis of-kele, tares. 4. 60 f) 00
Contributions in -
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and on passage; 328 .19'
CAPT. ATAXANDE4 MaRAE---Was i a native
of lit e? He was a. 9 0 : 11 0 13, •Pf the;. Xtex,,Jsunes
H. McNeill, late, Secretary of the Ain. Aible So
ciety,; and now editor of the N. C. Piesbyterian.
He was a nephew'of Judge Ruffin, and of the late
Hon: J C. Dolabin,' Secretary of the Navy. The
debeased graduated at Delaware College and at.
West Point. ' ' ' ' '
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Revival at Knowlesville, N. Y.—Rev. R. S.
Egleston writes to the Evangelist under date of
Mar 2 1;' :
An interesting -work if grace is, now in pro
gress in the Presbyterian_ Church in this place.
'After the &Seem:lice of"the Week of Prayer in
December, there werein,dications of the special
I I
presence of the Spirit'among us. Christians be
gan to feel that it had been too-long said of them
" Their strength is to sifiatilL"; They mourned
over their backsliding and the continued impen
itence of their friends-ata neighbors.
God heard their'prayers and, heM.ed their back
sliding, and arrested the impenitent, on. way
to death.
Parents arelnow.rejoicing vim; the conversion
of children, wives over the conversion of hus
bands, hUsbands over the conversion of wives,
and - husbands and wives over the conversion of
each other. - -
It hai been=-more than twenty years since such
a refreshing'shower froinffie presence of the Lord
as we are' now enjoying haa descended upon this
people. There have been already nearly one
hundred hopeful conver,sians; 'Among the num
ber are , some fifteen or twenty heads of families.
But this work did not begin nor has it been
carried on' without the use or special means.
For three months we have held meetings nearly
every evening. Christians have visited from
house to house and made special efforts 'to lead
sinners to Ohrist. Rev. 0. Parker has just closed
a series of meetings here; rand we all thank God
for such: help= in this harveit season. His labors
have been greatly' blest: To Goi be all the
praise. •
We ask Christians- under whose eye this no
tice may come to pray that this good work may
continue. = R. S. EGLESTON.
Presbytery of Marshall, Mick—From the re
port of the recentnieeting of this Presbytery in
the Evangelist we extract, the, following
The general - question of, interest in -Presby
tery was this one of our Domestic Missions.
With one accord our brethren were with our
Assembly, and desired , to be true and loyal, but
then arose the iiractial question of caring for
our hrethrenl7 , -We la - hared - too .'iong and
earnestly to cast away no* the fruits which the
Master has sent ns. We cannot permit our bre
thren to be driven from their fields for the lack
of support, nor our churches - to go over to other
denominations where they may :be aided. We
must; take care of them. *lf our :Committee can
not take care of these brethren andelnrches for
want of funds, We :must 'raise and appropriate
them.- We desire to give our entire strength in
aid of our committee; btre'we tnust, " if driven to
the 'wall," take care of our own churches.- As a
final result of the deliberatiens, Presbytery re
solved `to raise a 'Commission. to each of our de
pendent.fields, to make a vigorous effort to secure
the support of our brethren on the ground where
they.are preaching, and send our collections to
the , Caritmitten , , This Commission is not yet
executed, but, as, in , some measure begun, it ap
years hopeful, not that - we shall secure all we
desire, namely, the entire support of our brethren
on the fields which they occupy, but at least a
great reduction of the amount required from our
Committee to keep us moving. Daring the sit
tings a commission was received.by mail, for one
of our valued missionary brethren, which greatly
encouraged us. All felt the importance of the
crisis that is on us, in this transaction, but we
have confidence "in the ultimate result
Presbytery appointed as Commissioners to the
nest` Assembly , Reir. Win. A. McCorkin of Mar
shall and Rev. Benj. Wells Of Concord alternate,
and Elder L.. Keeler of Concord and Elder A.
Upeon'of Lansing as alternate.
Presbytery of Trey. : ---Rev. Dr. Beaten and
Rev. J. H. Nohle, withibe Elders Giles , B. ,
Kel
logg, Esq, and . Lyman'Wilder, Esq, were chosen
Com Missioners M - the General Assembly; Rev.
S. Haines and Rev. A. Dewitt, with the Elders
Jas. H. Howe, Esq., and W. R. Swift, Esq., as
Alternates.
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tains teu..long'and a: number of short articles.
The first: is le tribute to -the` memory of 'a brave
Pennsylvania-born :soldier, Captain Jonathan
Slayinaker; son of Samuel 'F. Slaymaker,
of tork . 'who enlisted ft-0M DaVenport, lowa, in
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Peace to his Memory!
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