Vol. VI, No. 39.—Whole No. 308. ottvg, The Hymn of Mc Robert, the Pions, of ranee. Com, Thou Holy Spirit! come; And, from Thine eternal home, Shed the ray of light divine; Come r Thou Father of the poor I Come, Thou source of all our store Come, witbin our bosom shine. Thou of Comforters the best I Thou , the soul's most welcome Guest I Sweet Refreshment here below I In our labor rest most sweet, Grateful shadow from the heat, Solace in the midst of woe I most blessed Light Divine I Shine within these hearts of Thine, And our inmost being If Thou iake Thy grace away, Nothing pure in man will stay, All our good is turned to ill. Heat oar wounds; our strength renew; On-our dryness pour Thy dew; Wash the stains of guilt away Bend the stubborn heart and will, Melt the-frozen warm the chill, Guide the steps that go astray. On the .fai Ifni, who adore And confess Thee, evermore In Thy sevetrfold gifts descend; Give them virtue's sure reward, Give them Thy salvation / Lord, Give them joys that never end. Amen. Hymns Ancient awl Modern. FRON'ODR . LONDON bORRESPONDENT. St. Barthokneeto's Day—The Nene-Conform- LONDON / May 3d, 1862. Two centuries ago, on the 24th of August the anniversary of a massacre awful . and sad'in, the memory of every Protestant —occurred that event which at once severed from the English church two thousand of beepurest and greatest divines, and placed between her and all other Christian churches a gap -which can never be filled up until the assumptions put forth at that time be either modified- 'or. .entirely withdrawn. It was a day mournfully to be remembered when the . Established Church: cast forth those holy men; assisted by•the strong arm of Go vernment endeavored -to impriion the con scienceslof free christians , within the :bounds of %AO ,liturgy--thus denying. to them that; free. thought and ,free worshi p which were unrestricted. by the open wor dof the Almighty himself.' There is no doubt that the events of that day, sad as they were, have been turned, in the good providence of God, to a result Unanticipated:by either the perpetrators or .the sufferers, and that En glish- Christianity owes much of its power and vitality, to. those. oeCurreniee., They. awakened a Christian energy before unde veloped—and, we doubt not, prevented the Episcopal Hierarchy, with its monstrous as sumptions, from eventually locking in-its ec clesiastical fetters the minds of the whole English people. From that day all who do not accept the doctrine and liturgy of the Church of England have been termed " Non- Conformists'; ' and they have gone on in creasing in spirit and strength, until in num bers and influence they have become formi dable to that church whose severity created them. We observe their influence not only without the church in their rapid extension, but within. the sacred enclosure itself; there is strange commotion, and men are calling for less rigid 'rigid and exclusive formal4m and a more catholic spirituality. It is most likely that presently Lord Ebury and his friends will be able to carry some measure for the modification of the Episcopal services and greater freedom in conducting them. But, to return to Bartholomew's day: The Non-Conformists are preparing for a grand celebration of the event which gave them birth. The Baptists, Independents and Presbyterians are chiefly engaged in the matter. The Methodists rather decline to take any part in it, as their sympathies are more with "the Church" and their doctrines more in harmony with its dicta. The Pres byterians have joined in the commemoration, and in London series. of lectures—one series in Dr. Hamilton's church—have been given by Dr. Hamilton, Dr. McCrie and others. Portions of Dr. Hamilton's lecture will, doubtless, appear in your columns, and it will be seen that, although he animadverts very strongly on the errors of the Church," he yet professes to "entertain for it a some what sincere and anxious affection." The Congregationalists, however, have expressed themselves more strongly, and in Manchester the mutual recriminations have been so severe as to widen moat lamentably the breach that rs between Non-Conformity and Anglicanism.' It was scarcely well= judged to revive, in this age, a controversy so fierce and now better forgotten. God's way of amalgamating sects is not by clash ing them together, but by drawing thorn gra dually towards each other till they feel the same influence, and at last unite in one feel ing. One good practical result, if it be carried out, of this celebration, will be the building by the Congregationalists of a great Memo rial ' and one hundred chapels. To wards this fourgenslomen have given £5,000 each, another XB,OOO, two others £2,000, others handsome subscriptions. MAY MEETINGS. The celebrated May meetings are to be held next week, at Exeter Hall, the Metho dists opening their meeting at nine on Mon day, to last the whole day. The societies which hold anniversaries in that week have, together, an income of half a million ster ling (02,500,000)! A printed list before me gives the names of seventy-three societies and associations whose anniversaries will be held from April to July. The number and diversity of the societies—moral, religious, charitable—is extraordinary, and is an evi denoe of the Christian and liberal spirit of the ago. THE WORLD OF . LONDON. • Some very singular and interesting statis tics regarding London were given the other night at a Meeting of the Metropolitan Cha pel Building• Fund. The number of streets in London is 2,600, and if they were placed in a straight line they would measure 3,000 miles, or twice the distance from Colas to Constantinople. Of course, a person walk ing ten miles a day on all the working days of the year, would be a whole year in walk ing through all the streets, and meanwhile would find a new London built and occupied by from 60,000 to 70,000 people. There are more Germans in London than in Leipsic, and twice as many as in Potsdam • as many Frenchmen as in Boulogne or li.avre ; as many Jews as would fill two-thirds of Jeru salem ; more Irish than in the , whole city of .Dublin 1 and more Romaniste than in the whole city of Rome. Here. is missionary work enough ! Five cities of five different nations at our very gates ! No wonder that churches and chapels are crowded, and that there are calls for more chapels and more laborers. SPAIN AND ITALY. Another act of Popish intolerance has oc-. curred in Spain. The Colonial Church and School Society have a chaplain in Seville, who was accustomed to hold services in the house of the English Consul, for the benefit of the British residents. The Cardinal Arch bishep, however, objected to them, and sent a peremptory order to the civil Governor to have them stopped. He seems to have con sidered the command unimpeachable, for, without referring to the Government, he transmitted the order to the Consul, and said that if it was disobeyed he should be com pelled to resort to forcible means to close the conventicle. At the same time he expressed his regret that his orders obliged him to ex ecute a duty so unpalatable and, as he thought, improper. I learn from a private source, as well as from Mr. Layard's expres sions in Parliament, that the English Go vernment has determined to take a decided attitude, and will demand from Spain a simi lar religious privilege for Englishmen there to that which Papists enjoy in the English dominions. Like David with Shimei, Popery will exercise its cruel and tyrannical spirit in the very death threes of its existence. Italy still remains - an unsolved problem. Men anxiously ask themselves what is to be the future of Italy?:..The present Govern ment is scarcely equal to its tremendous task. To reconcile such diverse nationalities and opposing elements—to unite in one compact mass those spirits which aspire after liberty, but regard it in such different lights, and propose its attainment by such various me thods, is indeed a vast work, requiring im mense sagacity and patience. And, in truth,_ looking at the Government of VICTOR Em- MANVEL and looking at the Italian people, we should tremble for their success were we not assured that a higher hand holds the reins and guides the chariot, and that, in spite of the errors of men, HE whose throne is over all will eventually vindicate the honor of his name and the liberty of man, and east over Italy a summer of sunshine and peace. The Government is taking a step in the right direction in the encouragement of education ; and not sootier than was cecessary, so com pletely Ind Popery debased, the people, norance, the nurse of superstition. From recent returns it appears that in. Lombardy only 30 to 40 in 100 know how to read; in. Piedmont 20 - to 30; in Tuscany 10 to 20 and in the environs of Rome, for ten miles round, where Romanism exerts its corn pletest influence, not even one person in a, hundred can read. This tells more power fully than a thousand theological-arguments on what basis Popery is founded and what are its, inevitable results. R"EvivAL AND'SPREAD OF MAHOMETANISM. It is an astounding fact, and one that should spur on our missionary zeal; that Ma hometanism is making great progress in Africa and-India. Indeed, its peaceful on set seems to outstrip the ' victories of the sword. Its doctrines are spreading towards the South in Africa, while in Bengal alone converts are numbered by thousands every year. The only way to stop this tide of evil would seem to be to increase the•facilities for the education of children, as an intelligent education and a good grounding in Scripture is a certain antidote to superstition and the Koran. But I must finish this medley. The Ex hibition was opened on the first inst., with ; great splendor. There were, two subjects of deep regret—the absence of the Prince who lent his energies to its preparation, and the reflection that while so many nations thus met to celebrate the victories of peace, one sister nation was wrapped in the tempest of war. ADELPROS. LETTER FROM MT. LEBANON. BRAMDUN 7 MOUNT LEBANON, • April 7, 1862. l r My DEAR EDITOR :-Our friends and the friends of our mission to Syria will be in terested to know that we have seen more demonstrations of government in Mount I Lebanon, during the past. few- months, than during the fifteen years of our previous resi dence in this Empire. In the administration and success of our Christian Governor we do and will rejoice. Of the twenty-two Pasha lies in Asia, under the Ottoman Govern ment, ours is the first Christian Pasha sent forth from Constantinople to govern the goodly mountain. His appointment is due to the friendly intervention of the European Powers for an amicable suppression of the barbarous insurrection of 1860 and the paci fication of Syria. He appears to, be the right man in the right place, and has taken off the heads of two criminals, deposed one 'Emir governing Zahleh and appointed another, ar rested the disturbers of the peace, and in spired men with fear for their evil deeds. His province extends the whole length and breadth of the mountain, containing, per haps, 300,000 souls. W continue at this high post of duty. In our separation from the A. B. C. F. M. I am sorry to say that we have no funds for our comfortable support, our schools and other missionary objects.. - But the Lord has opened the hearts of his people in Scotland to continue the support of the Lebanon Schools, under the auspices of the Free hurch of Scotland. During the absence of the young men, Messrs. S. and E. G. Salesby, natives of Syria, who have been chiefly in strumental in the origin and supervision of these schools, and who have gone to Great Britain the superintendence is committed to my hands. Their present number, is 18, con aining from 700 to 800 pupils. If we could also have funds sufficient for a dozen more, we should - feel, that a great and glorious work of the Lord on these sacred moun " A I •* A THURSDAY MAY 29, 1862. tains was near, even at our doors. The field is ample enough for a hundred schools, and the schoolmaster is second to no other aux iliary for teaching and preaching of Christ in. Syria, the Missionary alone excepted, and in many places, for the Missionary, the work of the schoolmaster much resembles that of John the Baptist for Christ. I am contemplating to leave Bhamdun, on the morrow, to visit, the schools in Maalika Zahleh, Biskinta, Shweir, Arsun and other places. At the shortest it will require four days time, and twenty hours or about sixty utiles travel upon the sides or across the deep vallies of the goodly Lebanon. A mule, with its owner for driver, may be engaged at fifteen piasters per day, and the, trip, of course, will cost sixty piasters---that is, about four cents per mile. Any little boy or girl in Philadelphia, or elsewhere in the States, who contributes four cents, can therefore help your Missionary on this mountain one mile in his humbler efforts to "go about doing good." The entire circuit for one visitation , of the schools now in ope ration is not far from one hundred miles and requires at least seven days, and we intend to visit them all monthly through the coming season. The condition and affairs of our beloved country are of the - -deepest'interest to us. The latest intelligence was the best, coming down to March 1, and-showing the capture of more than 20,000 Confederates in the few days or weeks previous. All our prayers and sympathies are for the utter eradication of this rebellion- and its causes, and the restoration of the peace and integrity of the United States of America. Heaven grant such peace and happiness, and sanctify the bloody ordeal of our fellow-countrymen in a more glorious union for the emancipation and moral conquest of the world; and if such things must needs be in a just and equitable Government (as in a green tree), what may be expected in the dry, unjust and oppressive' Governments of the Eastern Continents? In the people's war kings do well to fear and learn righteousness. The Mission to Syria is much reduced in means and men. Only six missionaries are in the field--three - at Beirut and one each at Sidon, Abeih and Suk-el-Ghurb. In this district alone we have twenty places where the gospel .mi,ght be preached every Sab bath. " The harvest truly is, plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest." With. Christian regards I am, as ever, Very truly yours, WILLIAM 1. BENTON. REFLEX - INFLUENCE OF THE MISSION ARY ENTERPRISE. ITS services to learning and science merit especial copamemoration in treating of the missionary enterprise. In philology and in descriptive .and_physical geography, more has heen effeeteil - within the - last half eerittiry by this agency than by all others, and in our own country the contributions of the missiona ries of the American Board to these branches of knowledge have borne to other researches and discoveries a proportion which it would be impassible to estimate, and which, could it be stated in figures, would seem almost mythical. The mere scholar may gratify his taste and win his desired weed of fame by manipulating pre-existing materials, by edit ing a new text of a well-known author, or propounding a new theory for familiar facts, or making a generalization which simplifies a science without adding to its contents ; while the missionary must lay the foundation .of his work, for the most part, by learning what civilized man had not learned before. The scene of his labors is, we will suppose, some previously unexplored region of Asia or Africa. He must first select a base line for his •spiritual triangulation. He must mea sure the whole field over which his operations are to extend. He must ascertain the 'posi tion of its mountain chains, the course of its rivers, the trend of its coast, the directions in which it is permeable. He must warily stretch his cordons of communication through its whole length and breadth. In the ab sence of great thoroughfares and established modes of intercourse, he must obtain all his bearings with scientific accuracy. A tho roughly constructed map is an almost inevi table result of his exploration. Then he must acquire the language of the natives. He has no grammar or vocabulary, probably no conventional written signs for. his guid ance. Slowly and tentatively he must ascer tain the names of familiar objects, then the inflections of wards, the particles, the syntax. In his careful and measured synthesis, he must embrace all that constitutes the con ventional grammar of the tongue, before he can utter his message or commence the labor of translation. Meanwhile, he has the yearning of a solitary man for communion ,with his kind, the profounder yearning of a Christian soul to utter the word of light• and life to the benighted and the dying. 'Under this, mighty impulse, the seemingly hopeless work grows and. glows. The barbarous jar gon is mastered. Its sounds, which he learned to articulate only by painful torture of the vocal organs, are reduced to alphabetic expression. The Saviour's, words are com naitted in their strange garb to the mission press. A voCalbulary. follows. A new lan guage is given to the learned world, to be analyzed, classified, traced to its analogues in other tongues, and fused into the still fluent' and Protean science of linguistics. At the same time, our missionary must enter on a still more intricate department of research,—the human, moral, spiritual geo graphy of the province which he is to annex to Christendom. He must ascertain the past and present of the race, if lie would shape its future. Custom, trailition, faith, ritual, government, domestic life,—in all these are instrumentalities which he must use, or ob.: stades which he must surmount, or vices which he must cure, He can afford to re main ignorant of nothing that can be known. His are not the cursory observations, the sweeping inductions, the gratuitous infei ences of the mere traveler, nor yet the par tial, one-idea investigations of the scientific explorer. Ho associates himself with the home-life of those who will give him entrance. He is with the suffering and the dying. His superior knowledge and skill are resorted to in emergencies of peril. As soon as he can win a convert to his religion, he has gained an avenue through whiciv he can penetrate into, mysteries elsesealed ; and, as his band of believers graws, he is brought into fami- liar conversance with- a 4 phase of huma nity. His materials- aregmbo,died in his pe riodical reports, or thpyr accumulate in his hands till he can. furnish lis ,volum or vo lumes of descriptions' and - ..x il eraeli ; and, in either form they beeonie 'a - riCharePertory of authentic facts in ethnology, available equally for the purposeS"of science, enter prise and philanthrOpy. , •••1 ' -- ' • . . Still farther, there are iarinus departments' of expressly theological' science to Which the. missionaries of our agelgve, brought°..large accessions. Their labors are nought, - in great part, among those nations of the,East whose manners, habits, Land: cristonis rhaVe been stereotyped from time .immemorial, and , among those features 0 Oriental scenery which are the same new as in the days of Abraham, Isaiah, and aria: 'Much of the imagery of the Scriliturei, needs for its illus tration precisely such knOwledge as lies on their daily walks. i Mi - trangictions-re corded in Holy Writ are explainedveri fied only' by - such observ4ions as are forced upon their regard. bl,- a*niodefi of theught and turns of expression fie'intide clearly-in telligible only by t4e• sttrviving ideas and idioms of the Eastern niatioris which fall within the- scope - 4- thiir .researches. An intelligent and christiarAziatic once said to us: '".A great deal,of'ihe material of your commentaries on the-Blik is wholly Worth less to me. Things often seem perfectly na tural to me which a Coiranentator will waste pages in endeaVoring - to•reconeile With pro bability." Such being 'the case, who • can estimate the services rendered in the depart ment of Biblical- criticism alone by a band of educated men who love the Bible, and whose dirties lie among seenes;lobjects; and people identical with, or Closely resembling those commemorated inthe saered,record ?- As regards geograPhy, in every region that has been opened tokthe curiosity of the present generation,ifiWo exeept.tlan region of the Amoor, missionaries have been the pioneer explorers. - They have penetrated Africa in every direction and, their carefully written and ably illuatoted volumes, filled 1 with what they. haye, sAu , and experienced, and vivified by the -humane isentlitienti which.' pervades them throughoitt, stand, in strong contrast_ with the jejune) spiritless sketches i of some 'secular tourist and the exciting myths and exaggerationl of.others. But we have not yet e ered upon the most arduous and 'reconditc terary labors 'per formed by these soldie*..of the cross. In philology they have accomplished more than all, the learned worldlpside. The publica tionsnf the Amerioarißiard in and concern ing foreigrilat pages; *ber already nearly two thousand titles, in nearlyforty different tongues. Many of tireif'are translations of the entire Bible. 'Many are- vocabularies and grammars of latignsges previously un knownto civilized mail; and in not a few in stances Of languages .:prcylously unwritten. Who can estimate the,amount, of patient, in tricate, haffiing., toil 40:olied in these issues of 'the . missionary prgsT-:• - -How-- completely does it distance and throw into the shade the labors of retired'scholars; t in the shelter of well-stocked libraries, surrounded by refer ence-books, cheered by the sympathy of.men of kindred tastes, and wed on by the anti cipated plaudits of the erudite public in all lands ! The missionary has no :thought of fame ; his only impulse 7 ,-. the noblest, indeed, and the mightiest of all:—is the desire to save his fellow-men from spiritual death, and to enlarge the empire. of Him whose are all souls, and to whom is deatined " the king dom and the dominion under •the whole hea ven."—Dr. Peabody in ,:the N. Am. Review. SANCTIFICATION THROUGH SUFFERING• lk " ALL sorrow ought to be hom I -sickness, says a German poet. It Aught to fill Christ's pilgrim band with longings after rest in His likeness and bosom. And does it not ? Should we desire-to find--an eniinent example of piety, would we not say, with the 'devout McCheyne, "Commend me to a burised broth er, a broken reed, a man of sorrow ?" "Is it not upon those jewels that Christ especially esteems, and means to make , most _resplen dent, that He path His tools oftenest ?" The celebrated 'master of Rugby, Dr. Ar nold, had a sister who was a confirmed inva lid for twenty years. Upon her death, he thus portrayed her character, in a letter to Archbishop Whately " I never saw a more perfect instance of the spirit of power and of love and of a sound mind.; intense love, almost, to the annihilation of selfishness,. a daily martyrdoin for twenty years, during which she adhered to her early-formed reso lution of never talking about herself; . . . enjoying every thing lovely, graceful, beau tiful, high-minded, whether in God's works , or man's, with the keenest relish; inheriting the earth to the very fulness of - ,the promise, though never leaving her, crib nor changing her posture; and presowed thiough the very valley of the shadow iikdeath from all fear or impatience, or from every cloud of impair ed reason which mighv mar the beauty of Christ's Spirit's glorious work. May God grant that I might - come but within one hun dred degrees.of her place , in glory !" But how is this great -work of;the believer's sanctification 'advanced by earthly trials ? In the same` way, we reply, that all life is made vigorbus:—by being measured against competition;_ by resistance ; by standing up against a power that `was seeking to destroy it; by wrestling with ;3ome antagonistic- force. How full of illustrations of this truth is eve ry' thing around us I Behold that tree, be neath whose fartreaching shade the flocks repose It was a law of its' being, impres sed on the seed, that if left to itself it would steadily unfold its leaves and. stretch out its branches. But such. sturdiness and size it never could have attained in the enjoyment of a quiet and a peaceful Culture. It was the fury of storms that gave its present gigantic proportions and strength. 'Every blast of the tempest swaying its:boughs loosened the soil in which it stood, and thus suffered its roots to thrust themselves deeper into the earth'; while for every new tendril that clasped its tiny fibres around the broken soil, it lifted higher into the air its branches. The human frame also, when free from disease, will grow to a certain fulness and stature. The child of- luxury, doomed to-a slothful life, may yet have a manly form, but in each muscle and limb there is a migh tier energy, which labor alone can develop. When compared with the husbandman. long inured to toil, or the wrestler who has tough ris weak ed his sinews. by their most vigorous use, , . e and. helpleiti. And.thus is it, °ven. with national life. - - T ni o becoe strong and vigoions, the - diAipline of-occasional adiersity Nerds to.be esSpitial. A people who, like'. Moab of old, are. f 5 at ease from their youth, remain settled on their lees,. and are not emptied from vessel to vessel,"—that is,- enjoy unbroken pros perity And areldhaken by no great overturn ings,—will, like Moab, retaining its old idol- , atryiand .barbarity, make no ,advancement in ; moral purity . and excellence. China, for so many centuries a stranger to internal changes and convulsions, going on in the unbroken enjoyment of a certain kind ens tional prosperity, has now an effete civiliza tion; and is absolutely hopeless as regard 4 the promise of a regenerated future ; "'while .England,. four times Conquered and three times deluged, with civil _war,- converted, re formed, and re-reformed, has finally,: from all these seeming disasters;•emerged, in law, liberty, intelligence, religion, one of the first. and mightiest nationsof the world."—Rv. Dr. ffarlin9. . The Wandering - Churchmaw or,' What is the Church? , - MESSRS. EDITORS :-I observe in your pa per of to-day an article entitled, "The Wan dering Ohurchman." It gives a statement, froth a book lately published by the Aripiseo pal Sunday School Union, where the natuye of the Church is treated of in -'a manner pe,- 'culla'. to Puseyism. You say that the views therein contained have never been so boldly announced. But have you never seen'a little book called " The Young Churchman Cate chisedr It is from the pen of Bishop Oden heinzer, of New Jersey; and the edition from which I quote was printed in 1859, the year in which Dr. Odenheimer was elevated to the. Episcopate, chiefiy through the instrumen tality ormen who were ignorant ,of his real views. Let me quote a few questions and answers from this book for "Young'Church men :!' Q. To what Church do you belong? I am a member of the Holy Catholic Church. Q. . What do you mean by the word Church ? A. I mean a society of faithful men, called out from the wicked world, and holding to the Doetriites and Ministry delivered by Christ and his Apostles. ' [Compare this, what follows Q. What do you mean by the word Catho lic _ . "the Doctrines," &c., with A. The word Catholic means universal. Q. low is.this word applied to the Church? A. It signifies that the divine society or Church contains all divine truth; that it is to be spread throughout the - whole world that it is to exist to all time ; and that it is one everywhere. [Note this.] Q. What is the Holy Catholic Church in England? QfEngland. and France What .in Italy, Spain Portugal and France ? A, The Church of Rome. (!) (page 13.) [Note the inevitable conclusion from the above. The HOly Catholic Church being "one everywhere ' " Is "one" in _England and Italy - and holds indifferently in England and Rome " the :Doctrines delivered by Christi" - This was written by a man who professedly held to the Articles of our Church (See Articles, 14,•19, 22, 24, 25, 28, 30, 31). Q. What is the Holy Catholic Church in Greece, Asia Minor, &c. ? A. The Greek or Oriental Church. - Q. What in Syria and Mesopotamia ? A. The Syrian Church. Q. What in Egypt ? A. The COptic Church. Q. What in the United States ? A. The Protestant Episcopal Church (pp. 13, 14.) [Here is a Happy Family, indeed ! The Greek, Romish, Syrian, Coptic, English and Protestant Episcopal Churches, " one," being all of the "society of faithful men, holding to the Doctrines and Ministry delivered by Christ and his Apostles." Therefore, the Papacy was delivered by Christ or his Apos tles. See, also, some other conclusions:] Q. Is it sinful to separate from the Holy Catholic Church? A. Yes. Q. What do you call this separation? A. Schism. Q. Then schism is a sin, is it not ? A. Yes, a grievous one. Q. When you are tempted, by those not of the Church, to forsake the Holy. Catholic Church, what answer will you make ? - A. I will say, in the,words of the Patriarch Joseph, "How can Ida this great wickedness and sin against God" (pp. 29, 32). [The inevitable conclusion from the above is, that no man living in "Italy, Spain, Por tugal or France" has any riXht to separate from "the Church of Rome." Nay, if he does so, he commits -" a grievous sin ;" and, if he is tempted to do so, he must not do so " great wickedness'." If a man removes to any of the above countries, he sins if he does not give in his adheSion to " the Church of Rome." If Bishop Odenheimer had been born in France, instead of the United States, it would be " sinful" for him not to be a, Ro manist. This is Protestantism, so called:]-- Bpi& Recorder. ~ELIJAH'S PATRIOTISM FOUNDED ON FAITH. His patriotism, too, was grounded in his faith. He might have been a patriot, in a sense, without faith. A man may love his country from motives of interest or pride. He may glory in her conquests; in her ma terial'prosperity ; in the tokens of her ad vancing `civilization; her educational insti tutions ; her hospitals and asylums. Yes, he may love his country for his family's sake; he may love the truths on which the gevernment is based : he may admire the progress - of those truths as they have pene trated farther and farther into the nation's life such may be a patriotism based on these considerations, that the possesaor is willing to take up arms in defence of his country's honor. - But there is a love of country higher and purer than this. Like Elijah's, it springs from a faith in truth and right for God's sake. Faith looks back to the foundation of 11 governments in the creative 'act of Jeho vah. It looks upon society, from the neces sities of whiCh there springs the necessity of gbirernment, as the handiwork of God. Faith looks into the , Scriptures and learns that all law derives its sanctity, its dignity, from ,the great King on high ; that the powers . that be are ordained of God, and with reve:, renee it meets them, and with conscience it serves them. Ay, more than this, faith like that of Elijah's• with loving step retraces the way of Providence, as he brought out the people from bondage; as. he raised up -a Moses or a Washington to lead them ; as he gracionsly smiled upon the nation from its youth up to manhood ; as he worked his won ders therein; fighting its battles, ennobling its peace. Faith sees this ; the soul bows and worships, and there arises a love of countr3rlike that which the angels feel for the kingdom above. God is in the history, in the law-; God is in the country's past and present and future. Faith sees him every where, and . on this, .as adamant, patriotism may stand and work and fight until the vic tory; cometh. Would that all patriots were Elijahs as -to. the kiild axiii ground of their devotion.—=rev: F. W. Flint. RELIGIOUS WORLD ABROAD. ENGLAND. Propagandism of Infidels.—A city mis sionary in London reports that the Infidels are very active in laboring among the work ingmen. They have opened a new hall, which has cost £2500. Its reading-room and library is supplied with all the current infidel literature. Lectures are delivered, and powerful efforts made to advance infidel opinions. Mission to Public Mouses.—The London City Mission Magazine, of April, is filled with an account of the most extraordinary mission which has yet been introduced, viz., to the public houses. The sole, duty of the missionaries engaged in this work is to visit public houses, where, strange to say, they have generally been well received, at least after the first few visits, though often ex posed to attacks. One of these missionaries thus describes the nature of the opposition he encounters :--- "I meet with almost all sorts of characters in these houses,-and some of: them are very civil. Those most uncivil are, first, the Ro man Catholics. They, as a rule, are very abusive and insulting; and, if they cannot have their way with me by any other means, they will make a noise, and so try to make it appear that lam the cause of a disturb ance, and I know very well, as they are cus tomers, I am the more likely to be ordered out by the landlord than they are. Under these 'circumstances, I often find myself in such a position that I am, compelled to retire and leave the field to my antagonist." The News of the Oh/arches says:—" We know of no mission, either at home or abroad, that needs se much faith and fortitude as this. The idea seems to be far fetched, but, like many other experiments that are doubt ful till tried, experience has-ehown that the wfmkii-attendelt With inuoll-blettingt— hers are reached - who could be got at by no other means, and many have been turned from evil ways in these haunts of. vice." PRANCE. The Annual Meeting of the Universal Israelite Alliance was held in Paris April 10. It numbers 1112 members. The object is not to Christianize, by any means, as the organ ization is mainly Jewish, but to ameliorate the condition and enlighten the minds of the Jewish people everywhere. What leaning to Christianity it fosters may be described as a kind of Jewish latitudinarianism. " Let us hasten the day," said the President, "when the different creeds will form but one, wor shipping the one God proclaimed by oses from Sinai. Let us be grateful that we live at a time when there can be cordial union between us and our Christian brethren, and, without losing an atom of our invincible hope, clung to by our fathers at the stake, let us regard the Christian creeds as sisters, for they undoubtedly have a Jewish origin." An ' effort is being made by the. Alliance to`pro mote schools among the Jews in the East; it has interfered in several painful cases of abduction and persecution. It has also ex tended its influence to Lithuania, where a massacre and wholesale expulsion had taken place on. the stale and horrible calumny that Christian blood had been used in the Pascal rites. The Pope's Position Defined by Himself:— The Pope lately paid a visit to th - e church of Santa Maria della, Minerva, and in the sacristy he made a discourse in which he re ferred to, the subject, and endeavored to set at rest the fears of the remonstrant clergy, by a solemn declaration " that the temporal power is not, and never can be, a dogma of the Church; but that it is a necessity for the Church in the actual arrangements of Provi dence." It remains to be seen whether this will satisfy the petitioning clergy, or disarin the distrust of the secular powers. Persecations.—A Protestant preacher, M. Ribetti, who had been sentenced, in Legorn, to imprisonment, for circulating a pamphlet in reply to the scurrilous attacks of the monks, and who appealed, has had the sentence re versed. Gregori's trial, at Lucca, was un righteously postponed, April 21st, when, at great expense and pains, he had gathered his witnesses. On the 22d, the same court con demned Peccenini, Evangelist at Elba, for publishing a pamphlet " against the religion of the State,' to a month's imprisonment and a fine of MO francs, with the costs. He has appealed to Florence. Peccenini is under the direction of Rev. E. E. Hall, of the .Am. and F. Christian Union. TURKEY AND THE EAST. Persecution of a Mahometan Convert.— During the Rama,.zan, out-breaks of Mah.ome tan bigotry are expected. The correspond ent of the News of the Churches, writing from, Constantinople, April 9th, says that all had been quiet there ; but from-Angora we hear of an outbreak of fanaticism, which must be chronicled as indicative of the fierce persecuting spirit which still, it is to be fear ed, actuates a large part of the Turkish po pulation, as well as of the indisposition in their rulers to check that spirit with any thing like promptness or decision. Early in the month a young Turk, named Hassan, who for the last half year has been so far convinced of the truth of Christianity, and of its claims upon him, that he has been in the habit of regularly closing his‘'shop on the Sabbath, and of meeting for worship with GEI\TESEE EVANGELLST:---Witoie No. 836 ITALY. the little company of Protestant Armenians in Angora, wag -seized bya Ttirkish-moband thrown into prison. - After being kept there and treated as- a felon four days, he was brought before the- council of the city and questioned in regard' to his religion. His answer was, "I hold to. the Gospel, and not to Mahomet." Upon this he was remanded to prison. On his way thither the officers haiing him in charge treated him with the greatest violence, and nearly strangled him. Arriving at the prison his feet were put in , stocks and a. chain of nearly two hundred pounds weight was .faitened to his neck. Thus he was kept for days,' with but the most scanty supplyof food, till his friends, who in - vain endeavored to get access to him, were apprehensive that lie:lyould • die with hunger: After about: a week .he was again. examined in regard to . his .faith, and gave the .same answer as before. Upon this a heaVier chain was, put upon him, handcuffs were addea,'and - he`was most unmercifully beaten: During Ramiazan it is quite the habit of the Mohammedans .to make amends - for fasting during the daytime by spending the night in revelry. Many a night this poor prisoner was made the whole night long the sport of his cruel guards. Sometimes they would draw their pistols or their long knives and rush,upon him as if about to kill him. At other times they would strip him naked, and perpetrate upon him such, out rages as it would be a .shame even to men tion. His Protestant brethren did all they could for him, and two 'or three times suc ceeded in getting an opportunity of speaking an encouraging word to him; but in the end desisted from going near him, finding that it only provoked his tormentors to. add to his sufferings. They appealed to the authorities . in his behalf, but the truth of their repre sentations'was denied with the most unblush ing effrontery. It is reported that, wearied out with this inhuman treatment, the prisoner has recanted his profession of Christianity. The last. time that a messenger from his' Christian friends got access to him, he asked the.miessenger not to come near him again, and repeated in his hearing a form of the Mahometan creed. But it is obvious that the Turks themselves do not believe in the sincerity of the recantation, whatever he may have said or done, for they do not release hith nor abate their injurious treatment of him. At the last dates from Angora he was still in prison. The attention of the Porte had been called to the case, but there was no evidence that he had taken it into consideration. If these deeds done at Angora are not rebuked, we may look tor their being repeated upon every Turkish convert and inquirer in the land. Rev. Mr. Coifing, Missionary of the Ame rican Board in Turkey, was attacked, March 21.1,- by a party of robbers, while passing round the head of the Gulf of - Scanderon, from Adana to Aleppo, and so seriously wounded• that he died of loss of blood the next day, He had what was regarded as a sufficient guard On the journey; though he had been warned of danger a few hours pre viously. On reaching a point about an hour from Alexandretta, the robbers, who were concealed among the high bushes, without ordering them to stop or throw down their arms, fired upon Mr. Coffing. He was .struck by two balls, whether from one or two guns it is impossible to say. They both entered the arm above the elbow, shattering the bone and. making a comminuted fracture, the upper ball from the .arm entering the breast. The horse of the guard (as he says), on hearing the guns,,xan away, and Mr: Coffing, to escape, put his horse into a gallop for a short distance, but soon, probably from pain, was obliged to dismount. His muleteer as sisted him to remount, and he rode on for - some distance. They were soon met by some soldiers from a neighboring guard house, who had heard the firing and. came out to learn the cause. The soldiers assisted • Mr. Coffing, as this hiemorrhage from the wounds had quite exhausted him. He came on with great perseverance, occasionally dis mounting, - till within twenty-five minutes of Alexandretta, when he could - get no further and dismounted for the last time, and lay down upon the sand of the beach. One of the guards remained -with him, while the other, at Mr. Coffing's request, galloped to Alexandretta to give notice to Mr. Raby, the English Vice-Consul, who immediately in- • formed the Governor of the occurrence, and without delay called the medical officer of the quarantine, Dr. G-rabschied, an educated Europeanphysiciao, and having procured a litter to convey tlie wounded man, went to the spot where Mr. Coffing had laid down. He found him lying clasping the wounded arm, as if to stop the Row of blood, his head resting on the knee of the soldier. It was evident that he was most dangerously, wounded, and had lost a great quantity of blood. He was carried to the house of the American Vice-Consul, where everything 'possible was done for his comfort. It was evident that aniputation would have been necessary, but his strength was so much ,re duced that he was unable to bear the opera tion. He conversed little, only giving • an swers in a broken, feeble voice, sometimes replying to a.Turkish question in English, or vice versa. About half-past four next morn ing he seemed easier, so that some who had been constantly by his side left him to get a little rest. Soon after he said that -his pain was all gone, and. expressed. his thanks to God for the rest he had given him. He then lifted up his right - hand, his left lying shat tered, and prayed aloud in English, and a :few minutes after expired, on the morning of March 26th. A SERMON BY GEN. MITCHELL. General Mitchell, at the conclusion of a sermon preached to the Ninth Ohio Brigade, near Shelbyville, Tenn., took a huge rock pulpit and occupied half an hour in deliver ing.one of the finest religious discourses ever heard. He commenced by saying "that he did not come there as the general command ing, but as man to man, and aiming for the same state - '' of eternal happiness." He in sisted that the highest duty of a soldier was to boa Clgistian; religion heightened every enjoyment, and better prepared him to dis charge his duty. A chaplain who was pre sent says : "It was a sublime scene; he left an impression on the minds of his auditors never to be_ forgotten." The effect of the sermon was added to by the fact- that the services were held on the mountain top, amid the rugged grandeur of East Teauessbe,
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