Vol. Vl.; . ..N0.,, - 0.---WhOlp . NO. - 311. fitiJ. Whittlers New Poem. ASTILEA AT THE OA.MOL. .ABOLITION OF SPAVENY IN aces, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 1862. , When first I saw our Thinner wave Aboie the nation's cOuncil-hall. I heard beneath its marble wall The clanking fetters of the slave In the vile market-p lane I stood,, And saw'the Christian mother sold, And .childhood with its looks of gold, Blueheyed and fair with Saxon .hlood. I shut my eyes, I held . my breath, • And, smothering down the wrath and shame That set my Northern, blood aflame, Stood silento—*here to speak- as death, Beside. me gloomed the' prison-eel Where , Wasted one in slow deolin .For utteting simple' words of mine, And loving freedom all too well. Theltig that' floated from the dome Flapped menace in the morning air; I stood. a ponied, stranger, where The human broker made hie home. Vicir crime 'was virtue: Gown and Sword g I And Law their threefold sanction gave, And to.the quarry of the slave Went hawking with our symbol-bird. . On the Oppressor's side was power ; -And yet I knew that every wrong, 'However, old,:however. strong, But waited God's eventing hour. I knew.that trial): would crush the lie, Soniehow'ionletitne,. the end liotild,be; Yet scarce' ly dared hope to see The triumph with. my mortal-eye.. But now I see it! In the Sun : lefiee-tagitkiittrfroneyonliti An& at the nation's hearth and home , jw3tice long delayed. in.done, Xit **Ave hoPed, in mint of prayer, The message of deliverance comes, But heralded by roll of (irons On waves of battle-troubled air I—. . 'Midst sounds that madden and.appall, The song that Bethleheues shepherds knew I The harp of David melting through The demonAgonles 'of Saul I • NO( as we hoped; but what are we? Above onr broken dreams and plans Ood'ins, with wiser hands than man's, .The corner stones of liberty. I cavil not with Rim : the voice That Freedom's blessed gospel tells, Is sweet to 1028- as , Oilver bells, , Bejoieing I—yeai I will rejoice I Dear friends etill toiling in the , ann— . Ye:dearer -ones who, gene . before, Are watching front the eternal shore , The slow work 'by your hands begin4,-- Rejoice With me The •chastening rod Blossoms with love ; the furnace heat Grows . cotil beneath his blessed feet Whom free& is as the Son of God! Bejoice I Our Marsh's bitter springs Arirsweetened; on our ground of grief R* day lily day in, strong relief ,The propheines of better things. Atejoice id -hope 1 The day and night Are one with God, and one with.thent Who see •by faith the cloudy hem Of Judgment fringed with Mercy's light. —Atlantic .Monthly.. PRESBYTERLLN SYNOD Of ENGLAND. LONDON, May 19, 1862. LAsT week, as was announced in .the. leading article of, your paper of May Ist, the Presbyterian Synod of England sat in Dr. Hamilton's church, Regent Square. The meetings commenced *on Monday evening, withAvsermon from the retiring moderator, the Rev. James Blythe, A. M., frorn the ap prOpriato test, "Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like minded one toward another, according to Christ Je sus,,"* find continued through the week, *losing on Friday evening. Several subjects et interest to your readers came up in the course of the proceedings, the most import ant being` the union of Presbyterians in Eng land. , The Rev. Mr. Ballantyne, of Islington, London, was unanimously chosen moderator, and deliVered an inaugural charge, which was beth powerful and'eloquant. The prin cipal part of-his address related to the St. Bartholomew commemoration. His princi ples on 'the much vexed question of the union of. Church and, State, which are also, I be lieve, the principles the great body of Free Chufehmen, were thus affirmed in the course of his address 'ft As the Presb3fterian Church in this land, ; we feel that we are linked on to that pious and noble ancestry which once made the English Presbyterian community as rich .in the graces of the Spirit, and in the gifts and the work of the ministry, as any church in Christendom. They held, as we hold, that the establishment of the Church by the State is not necessarily the contamination `of the Church, that it is not in itself the formation of a sinful relationship, that it 'does not-imply and require the usurpation of authority on the one side, and the compromise of principle and the abandonment of freedom on the other side, but-that, in, certain circumstances, and under certain conditions, made manifest by the Word did the Providence of God, it is a connection that may be lawfully formed and that may be reasonably expected - to prove' highly oncluthe to the interests of truth, and righteousness,, and peace.", It is probably this latter sentiment, which tends most strongly to keep apart the Free Church and United Presbyterians in this country. ± 'The • former are not such strict Nonconformiets'as to desire all separation' of affeira -ecelesiaitictal from matters political, and would still fain hope that`tinder a less rigid ehurehism they.may-beudmitted to the benefit Ql an establishment, ,while, as far as I can lean u t the latter are more antagonistic in their Nonconformity, a nd, would rend asunder - the ties between Government and church.' Itallarityne then' animadverted on the act of Uniformity, under theseheads: 1. It was incoOli AttC:' apse brought iate Rom. xv. , to the Church from withont;- imposed on the church by king and parliament. 2. it was impolitic It aimed at uniform ity; its Obvious effect was disunion. 8. It was intolerant: The motives which promptedit were revenge and retaliation. Few would refuse to follow out the-rever end gentleman in, all, that he said, and said in a spirit of Christian love. On the subject of Presbyterian union, after showing that the work of Presbyterianism in England denominational, he continued : I apttrehrend 'that it belongs to our' work to make our !church a centre -around'which the scattered forces of Presbyterianism , in England may gaiter. Our very name is an hadication of that. Our action is a proof 'of that. To have long ago made, overtures to the Calvanistic Mothodists,of Wales, who, are Preshyterians in almost everything but the, name, and more recently revived in commit-. tee our intercourse` with them; to have main tained' for years a'.Committee on union with Presbyterians of other churches ; and to hafe last year sent a deputation to 'the United Presbyterian Church in Scotland to express our, wishes, should Providence: open the may to see a union effected between, our Synod and the members, of that church resident in England, is to have given a very distinct intimation our desire to lessen that divi sion which is weakness, to promote that union winch is strength, and to do all our work 'in the exercise of that charity which is the bond of perfectness." - It will rather amuse your good Presbyte rian readers to.be told that, in the course of the first day's proceedings, an animated dis cussion was raised by an application from.the church of Exeter for, leave to ,use' an. organ. Though the rejection, of the petition did not turn on that point, there were some etrong views expressed in opposition to such an in fringement of the ancient Presbyterian pro priety, and Dr. Muni() said that six churches which had already obtained leave to use or garirliathdone so in vialittion of the e,iiniti tution—that the permissions should 'at once be recalled!:: In the report on Foreign Missions Dr. Ha milton, referring to the mission at ,Amoy, gives this interesting testimony "Besides.the agents of the,London sionary ,ociety and our own brethren, : Messrs. Douglas and Swanion, there are t there stationed five representatives of the Dutch 'Reformed Chuich of America. These last in theology and eccfesiastical polity are almOst identical with ourselves, and from the outset the co-operation 'between them and our missionaries had .been so close and inti mate that in .the case of some of the stations it is difficult to give statistics which shall distinguish the separated agencies." THE REPORT ON UNION. On. Thursday the report of the committee on union with the United Presbyterian Church: was presented, by Dr. Hamilton, and did not exhibit such tangible, results as might have been anticipated, though it indicated a great increasenf union spirit and gave strong evidences of the common desire for unity among the members of the two communions. It was reported that several meetings of the office bearers of both 'churches had taken place during the year, and services had been held and the sacrament administered to the members of both, denominatiens. Dr. Ha .milton said that, "though the difficulties might be apparently 'insuperable, yet the rea son for union would be found irresistible and ,the interchange of pulpits and meetings of the congregations would do more than any thing else to further this most desirable ob ject. None of the meetings held were offi cial The committee was continued, after a few words in opposition to:-"union by a mem ' ber, and. the witty remark, of Mr. Robertson, an elder, that there, could be no objection to the appointment of a committee which had done nothing last year, and was not likely to do anything this I" n'fact, there is hardly, as Much_ anxiety manifested for this Union as T had expected to find. That there is a very general feeling in its favor on both sides is very plain, but no one takes up the matter with sufficient earnestness and seriousness to devise a:practical scheme of•unitY. At pre sent, there seems to be nothing but an ex pression of sentiment. Of this, there is plenty. Dr. Candlish, for, instance, one of the deputation from the Free Chnrch in Scot land to the Synod, spoke in favor of a union in England. Union among Presbyteriane out of Scotland was much easier than in Scotland, and had succeeded in Canada, and Australia. He thought it would be better for the , two churches to unite and thus plant Presbyterianism firmly on English ground, where at, present it was an exotic, than for either of them to:be aTendicie of the churches in Scotland. And again, the members of the, deputation from the United Presbyterian Church of. Scotland, gave utterance to similar senti ments. Dr. Lindsay, of Glasgow, said the churches were so much alike, that it would need a microscope to see the difference be tween them ; hut the attention of the world was more diree,ted to the points of difference than those of union. They were responsible before God for the obstacles which:these chi ferences presented to the progress of the Gospel. He thought Presbyterianism, was very necessary in England, as, amongst other reasons, was that of the numbers of Scottish youth who annually came southward. But was it necessary to perpetuate in England air the types that Presbyterianisni had as sumed in Scotland ? (Loud cheers 4 Rev. Dr. - The n, of. Edinburg, said that union, if practiiable, would be a very desirable thing, and it wouldhave an important prac tical effect on the religious world (cheers), as hitherto we had oftener seen, divisions than unions in religious bodies. It was not necessary for him to assign reasons for union, as the onus probiindi rested on them who were averse to it. (Loud applause.) There wasvery little- reported from the Committee on Friendly Relations -with .the Welsh Presbyterians:Church and nothing ap pears to have been accomplished during the year. Indeed,, I should judge, though there were the warmest expressions ,of .a desire for Union of all Presbyterians here that the de sirable object is as yet far from a consuma tion. But God. directs—and lie will bring it to pass. Believing as I do that there is no other Church which in doctrine and practice con forms so-strictly to scriptural principles , and usages—that no ptlter church exhibits ? within its ministry such a. conjunction of pious zeal with intellectual power—that no other com `PHILADELPHIA T muniOn is diSposed to be , so catholic while so tenacious of true and vital Scripture doctrine. I cannot but - think that Presbyterianism will eventually assume the triumphant: position of the leader of the sects of ChristendoM. And with this great end in view, it becomes every member of our: church to work and to pray, that a union of Presbyterian churches throughout the world may be 'consummated, and _that we may find in universal harmony and . coalition, universal prosperity, and power. , ADELPHOS. UTTER FROM.. mss.: ;BENTON. Lebanon 13.1IAMMIN, Mbunt Lebanon, f I Aptil; 9th, 1862. MY DEAR MIL MEARB::--1, have thought it; Might; interest the readers of your excel lAnt paper and the friends of missions, to know something of , thehistory of the "Leba non schools," .supported by the Free Church of Scotland,,of.which Mr. Benton is the act 7 ing superintendent. 'Ahont twelve years ago LoWthean, an aged English gentleman, caine'to Syria, and went to`BloWera, A little:ilage about' three miles smithwest of Bhinidun, and there built a little house and lived almest alone ; he was very pious, and. he wanted to do.good; he took an AA!) lad, Elijah,Soleby, one- of, his neighbor's boys, and began to teach him the English language. He became so, much in terested in and attached to the boy, that he took hini With him on a Visit to England. lie and the boy gavelectures, and'tilked about the goodly mountain,' and eollected eighty pounds sterling for schools in Lebanon,- which, on their return, they offered to the American. miisionaries'for their Schools. It was, declined by _the miseien, and - they were advised to open schools and expend the money as, they jndged best. They accord, ingly openedtwo or three schools, employing Solomon, a brother of Elijah; who was a gra duate of the ,mission school at Abeih, and one or two'nf‘their cousins as teachers ; and Elijah, who was now the' adopted son of Mr. Lowthean, was appointed 'superintendent of the school's. The eighty poundi were soon gone, but more,was sent, and the schools in creased,. and now Elijah has been for two years past in Scotland and England, lecturing and collecting fundi with the most pleasing succeSS. , Last year Dr. J. Boner of Glas gow,. the Convener.of the ~ :Free Church Mis sionary 5960 y, wrote to Mr., Benten, re- questing him to, visit all the Schools quarterly, and report , to the committee. , We from the first had taken a deep inte..: rest in these schools arid frequently visited - , them, as they were in this district mostly, and some of them quite near us. Now Solo mon has also gone to Scotland, and Mr. Ben ton takes the entire superintendence of- the schools ; eighteen are now open, all:taught by Pretestant teachers,: and the booki are obtained at the mission press at Beirut. In these schools are daily; gathered from' seven to, eight hundred children reading the Bible, learning the catechism, arithmetic; geogra phy, writing, etc., and singing " There is a happy land," " I want to be an angel," " Joyfully, joyfully, onward we move,' and many other of the songs 'of Zion. Already the. Druses are beginning to sing "Jerusa lem ,my happy home" at their funerals, in stead of the* wild cantations and hellish songs. Good old •Mr. Lowthean has gone to his, eternal rest, but the schools he was so much interested In, are rearing a Monument to'his memory, in many young minds being trained in them- for usefulness. We have ever re-' garded - these primary scipols as - the right arm for the missionary. -Every-place where there is a school is of course open "for the preaching of the gospel---every school-room a chapel, and the scholars, and many:we, their parents reliable hearers. In 1859 we had in connection with, this station tielve schools supported "by the Board; now none •• and most heartily do, we rejoice that English Christian* are' giving us in this time Of out missionary need, such a strong cord of as sistance. Oh, may English and American Christians ever stand shoulder to shoulder in the army of our Great Captain,, in these, Eastern lands of darkness and moral death. A school in Lebanon costs annually about twenty-four pounds sterling. Will not some who love, this good work, take up a village where there is no school, and send us the means to open. one, and we will regard' the school as belonging to those who support`iti and• often •write them about it. • • If you could be with us some= Wednesday afternoon,, we would take you to .Btullan, a. little village about three-quarters of a mile south of us, to attend a Bible class with the women. This is the village I told you about, where the Protestant bride was. threatened with death, if she did not reeant. 'Tow what a change.! Her, husband, who;then declared he would cut her throat, is now one of our most firm, active, humble, devoted Chris tians. His aged parents also now walk in! the path of ~ t ruth, an=d all that hamlet of about thirty families, are setting t6ir faCes Zionw' ard. The' mothers and daughters all meet me _at the Bible class, and some women from a little village Still' farther' on, 'come to meet with them, and they listen with an in= terest and eagerness truly grateful to our hearts. Truly, the,long night of. Syria 'seems passing away. 'Do pray for us, dear brethren and sisters. Our trials, our griefs are very great, but we have an almighty and precious Saviour, and Ile who his sustained us so many years, will keep, and aid us still. LOANZA G. BENTok. LESSONS OF WAIL A . & intelligent observer of human affairs cannot fail to discover, in the examples that are. ever . -passing before his eyes, that the wisdom of the wisest. men is small in its amount, andprecarious in its manifestations. Not only is prudence the gift of God, but it depends upon his will in what degrees it is continuallrexercised by those to whoni it has been bequeathed, and whether its exercise may not at any moment utterly cease. Men _act .wisely, not from <a certain conformation of mind that causes it ,to move uniformly in a safe direction, and Fenders it incapable of deviating from its accustomed functions, but from the constant guidance of the same Su preme Wisdom that confers whatever advan tages- of underatanding one man possesses over another- History adds its testithonr on this - point to that „ot Scripture. No, man can 'know at what moment his discernment and equanimity NO. XL may, forsake him,.. ! the most-obvious p A prudent general the dangers threat enemy, and at len,: identity . of his geni snares. ,The .hostile fleets of Athens , and 'Pelope nessus,were nude 13i.i kulidekftheii , respeetive shores; in the )nOO, , 'I - of . the ...aulf of iCris.sa,r watching each othe4;,,motions, :and/preparing 4 . for the conflict. ini;•.:„ . .elqpcurssia f n, because ; Superior in . the ,zium i: of Weir ships, lineuri -1 equal in naval, skill',, fight :Within the 'straits the Mb : 'Ai; - tor ' oppoiite ,Ati sons,, preferred to 6n , 9;g6'-11:toii - tlie' eiieir sea. Phormie, the Atheni commander; conlir not ' be induced" to :yield - o I *eat- in 'i advantage tilithe enemy?, And h thisitie.d.lhid , soldieib dm wonld not. expose t . 'ni to the dangers in ~.! volved in .bringing, , o, .nougagentent.;where they not- toOti4 ;footn,to s exert ter - .superior art, and t0,'! . .0: alheinselyeasgsmst. the , overtilaelming iri i, Ors' of their - atitagO=. Ili*. For seven di: S'hiattiteredin his` plan;, 1' and Wag'resolied ilia ::nothing' should' diiert: him &Omit. - 114 sit Only, at break of day; .the PelopOrieSsianS * i'e --seen- sailing toward 'Naupactus, a. eity.:.:b 'longing .to' the -Athe.; nians,- and situated; ithin ',the gulf,,. when ii. Phormio, though tlyn4roliability.,of. such ..a 334 feint heing made :t have occurred to him before; at once, as If ... 1 oiing 'his presence of mind, and as if soMe; grave and unforeseen danger had arisen, r .8 ; to its qirotection, and thus encountering I :enemies where they earnestly desired to, et him, sustains a par tialt defeat, .in which-1, e . almost incurred the loss of . his own. brig tr reputation, , and the annihilation of his ,g, lant . ,fleet. .. .. '.' '... . 'Thileiample - Of tite:deyiating and .. inicer-; twin operation 61 a - o949isedly Fitadent .i mitid,' is a manifest . ttroof'efilie essential imperfec tion of human . wiSd4;'And , leads -nsto *Ai-. elude in the' OStAbtfiltitelsensn these w.Ordi . I i t are capable of bear ; : "The Lord giveth wisdom." 'The'Ene - :..understanding, if God withhold his, infliieiiV.,. is As void of conduct and sagacitY - ,4 theApst, perfectly moulded. human form is of -;lifOOT.lireath. be ~departed, from it. No itiatti . j(Owever.'.many . proofs of superior acutenesahe:his'giveit ? is , *arranted in presuming upon XS judgment - and -ability; and in neglecting -OS'k couriselfrom , ahove in everything•he uti l fAtakee. Dne, Man irkay possess a-greater- iireaStre -of -cliscermient than another, yet-44, -ia not-for--this reason the less deriend6ol.44ft divineyistioni; nor :possessed of greater-; security -in himself AgoitiSt `:egregious-aifd•latal mistake. For ? 'hoWever- Clear liaiiitnral; judgment may be, and.hoWever'iti niayltelimproVed-Aly study, and , experience ; -it , willt.rtataiti this.:, capricious imperfection-to the : end, -,:(44 jt may at, any moment forsake . hinyw id *gyp. !him. destitute all . the. advantogoi..: it. had formerly be stoived. - ' —Poritier of the coixitalt.' . :. , ..:- :4,- , . - ..'}, .• , 7 =ENE "To THE , poit-the, , Gospel is, preached." This formed theagond part of that summary of evidence that lie was the Messiah which was sent by Christ to John Was it also true ?' Were the tidings brought by. Christ to the poor really-good? Were they worthy otheing touched With the - signet-ring of God by miracle; and was their excellence so dur able that vie may rejoice In them Still ? It will be necessary in answer to this ques tion; to state !briefly twhat seems to reveal itself to a candid' examination= as the heart of the message delivered by Christ to those who heard -Him. He re-proclaimed, first of all, inits inte grity, the, moral law as. communOted ti'a Bei ; connecting in one universally binding and exhaustive formula, of duty the two pre cepts of the Pentateuch;---Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, andiWith all thy might, and, 'Thou' shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. With radiant, clearness, 'with earnestness un spakable, with; simplicity divine, Ile preach ed the great; elementary, principles of moral ity,—justice, mercy, reverence, . and , truth: These He showed tb be the soul of religion, the most apt and subliine homage which man can render to - his ,God. It, was theie that gaire significance to type and -importance to Ceremonial. -Without these . the -purest pro- Mahlon of faith:was to daiwhypocrisy, and the li:fest gorgeous , ritualpaint_upon atomb. External observances, except as signs ,of an inner dominion of godliness, were -worse thak nothing. . He inculcated a pervasive and unbounded reverence for - God;.a -dedication of the life to Hill . ; a - preference of MS approval to, all earthly things; - a fear of 'His displeasure as the worst poSsible calamity. God himself was to- be man's -model of virtue: "Be ye perfect, even, as your Father which is in-hea ven is perfect." -- 4111100-gt • Deliberate, inflexible subnusidan to God's will. in all thingsie r and „confidence that in all 'things that will must, be best, were.. to regu ate man's feeling& in reference to his earthly condition. The just temper of soul Christ declared to be the calm -of and trist,'everysense; every faculty, opening like a lily to receive God's light of love, but fold ing up in peacefill resignation, _neverin fret fulness, never, in despair, when:the silver lin ing of the cloud ceased to be visible. , He hurled Pride forever, from that seat of honor which- it occupied in the ethical sys tem of antiquity ; and he put in its place the figure, of humility,' kneeling with clasped hands and hendect broW, saying, "Speak, Lord,' for thy servant heareth.' He marked it as worthiest of a man not to conquer the striker by returninglis blow, but first to con quer the fierce impulse which. burns to return it, and. then to conquer him. by the look of compassion and the smile of forgiveness. Both by precept and example,,_He enjoined an orderly and loyal procedure in every civic capacity, rendering, unto Caesar the things that are Cmsar's, bidding the* people listen deferentially to. , their -teachers, and paying trihnte rather , tin* create dispute. At the same time; His.: whole life as- a man i was an infinitely imprqssive "recta:oldd= _of the esseh tial equality of = maid: on the basis of a comnion immortality and, a,npnimon respon sibility. The doctrine of caste in its every modification, whether as pride of, birth; or of rank, or of wealth, or of .culture, Re tore up by the roots ; not - by " reducing_ humanity, either at once or prospectively, to a. dead leVel,- hilt hypiercing heneathevery artificial distinction of class end costume, and recalling human relationships to the divinely ordained - :st)A7f , -,:j . lTN ., fla J9:-,:7,-1.552..: heave: b. +1 'of In %PTV to lte—oee an a'u-' versa y . ~_ ay watch Inng • a—ainst n 6 bythe ado Of an he had'lost the _:al sudder4ly:irito his -• scale of worth and:capaorty. - The example of Christ," it has:been truly said, "stands in marked contrast with,the habits of all : classes of,'Men Il in His time. , e does not seem to haVe thmightof inen'as they stand ingOblety grouped in classes, separated, or .united by various , dustonis, nor even as they *ere sepa rated and elassed'hy the'result of their Moral conduit: Ho -SeeinsisimplY and quietly;ibUt always, to have beheld them•in their eriginal and, spiritual' relations, tefeach other, to,God, and to eternity." . Neaxider,,who drank, per ; haps, more deeply, into the inner spirit ,of, Christianity than any Other man since the Apostolic , age, dfellijariely on the, all-im portant—fact 'that :Christianity annili late what he calls the "ariatocratism" of anti9ni ty.-.That arigtobrifisin was displayedcmanitY 'in twomays , :;:firstifinithe division ofimeninto esoteric and : ,exoteric,circles,—the few ova hit Pf, rqflEKPle l 4,,end the :InanYf AMOPP(ktqu , P.Mfit.' 9 4ignaße - i separa tion 44 politics 907!Tn!intie4 Into erfi ingandj c Clage d q i n e e teener - ' a slaves.' "It was not tilt the - Ford, fhat'Went forth froth` the carpenter's' 'lowly -roof had been ,published by fishermen and tentmakeils,- that these aristocratic notions of the ancient world could be overthrown." All • that has ever been said in eloquence er in. song of the majesty of man, as such, dwindles into insig nificance when placed in-comparison with its spectacle practical proelamatiOn. in, the spectacle ofJe- SUS Christ Choosing as His 4Eo44Boefish erman. and, the publican, wandering homelegs among the'green hills or haft, and having as His' audience 'the`' - multitude. The one occasion' on which Christ 'marked'Hik senge - - of the fact that he was an herior;-= was when he *eat to break bread with a rich man;; the one - man, of whom. He spoke in' terms of slightest contempt was, a king, Nor did the people of Judea, it is worthy, of remark; show themselves altogether unwor thy of the - honer done them by the Saviour. It 'is 'a fact, historically beyond' doubt, that the coininonalty were his friends 'and defend ers.- " The;common,people heard Him' glad " Not on the feast daY,,leat there , lie an uproar among the people." - "They sought.:. to-take -Him, but they feared the multitude.'! Let this fict not be disguised...Letithe:men tioned to the everlasting honor of the mi.dti tide ; to the silencing foreier, in all Christian cinintries, of those "Sadducees who find`in the raiment of oultureraore than in•the soul and: spirit of alitan ; the refutation of. those ~ Pagan theorists who would say to the.ivave of Moral, of social, of intellectfial,;of political advane,ement, Hitherto shalt:thou come and no further. The people did not desert Christ. A venal rabble, the offscourings of Jerusalem, ;were sent by the rulers and priest's -to arrest, Jesus under cloud of night, 'when the peo 7 plc" wholiad . cried hail to Rijn that cometli in the name of the Lord Were silent in their chaMbers after eating `the iiassoier. In the light of day they dared not :have done it. A body-guard of poor men surrounded the Poor Man ,of Galilee. True, the people did not understand Him." -1 1 rucoaeitherthey.-nor-his 'disciples couldwatch for Him one hour. True, when the conspirators were hurrying through His mock-trial, they were asleep. True, their - hopes may have died in the shadow that veil ed the sun over His cross, and they could not tell why He whom they would so gladly have forced to be a king should hang _upon a tree. So it has ever been. The people, in all ages are weak, liable to be misled, swayed by im pulse ; but for deliberate wickedness, for pur poseful malice, you must look beneath the hood of the •priest, the robe of the rich man, or the academic stole of the Sadduceei ; the multitude always means nobly, and its heart, well struck, responds to the true and the right. Christ spoke to the people plainly, glowingly, kindly, popularly ; and all the wiles of Scribe or Pharisee could not blind them to the fact that God. was with Him._ When the resurrection morn had dispelled the gloom of Cavalry, and. the Spirit of. Christ, descen ded at Pentecost, there were thousands of poor men ready to form the Christian Church of Jerusalem. With a literalness and an em phasis of meaning which we habitually . fail to recognize, phrist could Say of His teaching ' Unto the - ipoer the GOspel prea,ched."--- Bayne: - THE VARIETY OF THE APOSTOLIC TEACHING., THE - varied fulness of Christian truth is seen from, the., first in the constitution, of the Church. - The first circleof itehtman'teich ers represents, in, characteristic distinctness; the.different aspects Under which itmay be viewed, developing in harmonious complete ness the outlines which the ,prophets had drawn befole. It seems, indeed, at first` sight, when we picture - the apostolic age as a living scene, as if all unity of doctrine were lost in the diversities of the Apostles, as they appropriated and embodied each in a finite form the in f inite principles of their common` Master. With.some the mysterious glories_ of the Ancient creed were, mingled with , the purer light of Christianity ; and, they trans-. ferred the majesty of the Mosaic law, which they had obseried with reverent or even as: cetic dovotion, to the new'and spiritual Taith. St. ! Tames sets befOre `us this form of Chris tianity. 'He Contemplates it' from the side 'of Judaism, as `the final-crid and aim of the.ear lies. training. Standing, as we may-believe, in a close' natural relation...with tthe_Saviour, he puts aside all remembrance .of_ that_ con nection, and even , of the personal' presence of the Lord, that he may dwell with the freedom and vigor of a prophet on the principles which He-had established. His view of Christian _ ity, to use a popular- word, is objective. In this aspect "faith " 'is - an intellectual belief in a fact, while "works" are the only out proof of 'spiritual vitality. The. Gospel is contemplated as a Law, though it-is a "royal Law," and "a Law of freedom." The essense of external religion which : the ancient ritual regarded, is ; laid open in the practice .of Christian virtue.. Christianity is, thus dike a flower, which is fuller indeed and more 'perfect than the 'bud from which it opens, 'While' it still `rests Upon-the same midis Confine& within the same circle. The antithesis to this &view iifound- in that of 'one who wawcalleLto believe in a glorified Lord, and not to follow a suffering,Teacher. St. Paul was se'parated from the ether apos tles by the widest difference of habit and and the change which attended his acceptance of the Gospel was as violenfas it was sudden With him Christianity was not so much a:prepared as anew` Creation; :axii , wlien'the Church elroose- his Converaion• for special commemoration,- it can hardly GkigiSEE EVAgiiiiST..-- 7 -Thoje Hp. ,839 have been without the-instinctive feeling that this was to him what death was to - the other saints,the entrance into-a higher life. "Old things hid passed away ;" and, only "faith" —the willing surren.der of the whole being to a supreme power-was felt to furnish the en:- dirt& into' the heavenl, kingdem.'. , In such a connection " Works,' works which Might proceed froth the spirit of servile obedience, slink into the rank of a mere symptom, in stead' of being ;the central fact. - 'Yet these antithetical views of, : "faith" and "works"— the.outer and the iimer 7 —are not contradic 7 tory, but supplementary : . ~They can be . no. mare -set in eppositionthan he convexity and canciVity , of a curve. The'common terms mint' be interpreted in aceordance with the poilition'ef the writers before they are com pared:And at' list the teaching of , the Apes . - ties' must,be Combined and novidentifiediler woi l lose%the fulneWof the truth if we attelapt to make out their litexal accordance. They , wroi#4I (I 4,RWIOY--for. F 14 1 14014 tlPf the unristian society, and they wrote differ, ently to direct its future development Antthere' was, yet another side of Chris tianity. was exhibited in the apostolic teaching: It was not only a Systeia of prao; tical religion 'and. a form 'of spiritual growth, but it was alsci a fresh - element -in the social world. St. Peter exhibited. this. organizing poyer, -of . the new , faith. According to the significant promise - which was expressed, in his name, he laid the foundations of the. Jew ish and the heathen churches, - while the task of fixing or Completing their future structure was left; to others. His activity was,not di recied by a review arthe conditions of man's outward piety, or 'the requirements of his spiritual instincts, but sprung- from his lively hope in a sovereign'Lord. ...yob of- the great aspects of human, life, outward and inward, in the individual and in • sopety, are thus represented in the forms of apostolic teaching. The external pervice of God ty works of charity, the internal sancti fication of man's powers by faith, and the perpetnal maintenance of the 'rights and bles sings of a - Church, conabine to complete the, idea. of Christianity as.exhibited by the first circle of the Apostles ; and we are naturally inclined to look for,some analogous variety in the form - of. the inspired records of life from whence the apostolic wisdom came. Tresteott: WHAT I'HE CHURCH NEEDS. The Cburch needs an increase of ministers., " The.harvest is plenteous, but the laborers 'are few." Any religious body," however, ,as= Isaac Taylor says,'" within which there Is vita/ity, will supply itself with an adequate prepartion ofministers." In such an inter nal:condition, it will need no external pres sure to induce its sons to devote themselves tothe work of preaching Christ. The .min istry, is the natural outgrowth of the life of the Church, and it cannot wane save as that life declines. Even should the sacred office be hedged about on every. -side with trialS, and its occupants be ifi'great peril of termin ating their days by martyrdom, yet with a vigorous and healthy life in the Church many a mother would take her infant son, as - did Nonni, the mother of Gregory Nazianzen, and joyfully dedicate him to this work; and many a young Juan,- averting his gaze- from all the tempting empleynients of secular life, would rejoice en the privilege of becoming a herald of the Cross. The Church is greatly in need of a larger and more liberal charity to all her benevo lent institutions. " Lying now like Lazarus at the gate of Opulence, where Christians fare, sumptuously every day, or like mendi cants wandering among the churches and re ceiving only the shreds and parings of liber al incomes, these institutions need to be re ceived at the tabie 'of God's people, and to be sustained and' enlarged by their self-deny ing contributions. The clenched hand. of avarice needs to be opened ; and, instead of that poor pittance that men now dole out in Charity to the Ohurch,- every man is to , learn to give "as the Lord hath prospered him." Indeed, the whole theory of Christian steward ship needs.to be put into practice.. Men are to live out in their lives that truth " consi dered by 'all as so true that it has lost all the power of truth and lies bedridden in the dor mitory of the soul." But what can ever accomplish this but a debp and thorough work of grace upon the heart? What influence short of the contin ual indwelling of the Holy Spirit can uproot covetousness? Of the Macedonian Chris tians Paul says,, "They gave their very selves to the Lord first." No wonder, then, that the riches of their liberality abounded in deep poverty. Their personal dedication to God solves the riddle of-their noble charity. , The Church in Pour day pre-eminently needs powerful and wide-spread revivals of religion.' Sueh seasons have been promised her. Pentecost was the earnest of their coming. Such seasons are seemingly abso lutely-essential to her, final success. At the present,rate -of the Church's progress, the world would never be converted to Christ. We must wait the fulfilment of, the promise ;that" a nation shall be born at once,' ;before we can hope that Christ'i kingdom will speedily come. But of the advent' of that day can we cherish any well-groUnded texpectation until we .:see a deepening piety and a sturdier vigor of principle among God's own people ? Though Jehovah. is a Sovereign, can.we hope 'that> He will ever abundantly pour out His Spirit upon the ungodly world while His. Chureh is cold and worldly 't Here, then, we repeat it, is the great ne cessity of the Church in this day, a deeper work' of grace in the hearts of her individual members. "A sickly and bedwarfed Chris tianity" will not furnish the re4nisite labor ers or the needful funds for the world's con version; nor with. such a type of piety dare;we hope for great outpourings of the Spirit. What now womost need in the Church, is holy men; then just as absorbed in winning‘ souls to Christ - as; yorldlings are in gathering, gold ; :men whOon th,e touchingly beautiful lang uage-of one of the old Covenanters, "will all day:long find nothing but Christ to rest in, and whose very -sleep is a pursuing after Him in dreama, and who intensely - desire -to awake in Hislikeness." We need, as Chris tians, to make that motto adopted.- by 'that corp of young Romish priests, the Rekle m p. Aorists, who are seeking to revive the rapid ly, waning' power of the P . appey, our, own: "All for thee, 0 Lord; '0 thy Jebus, all for thee!" In: this age which halivritien ih;o gress" on its banners, and whose very watch- word is ." OpYoml," it will not do for Chris tianity to he the only thing that is not ad vanoing.—Dartiiig: • _ r S4IIILITII PROFANATION IN LONDON AND PARIS. 'To Foreign correspondent' cif the. Chris tiattlntillig - . ncer, thus portrays the violation of dotes day-in the two greatest' capitals of EurOp'el t :LONDON: ." London, the great Monster city of Chris tendoin is.. at once-the centre•of = magnificent e,harities, and stupendous: evils. . It is the heart of .European ,benevolonee,, and ,from it goes - forth in noble currents into all . parts of the world the life-giving power of the Gos pel. Well doing, is organiied, asgressive, arid eltective. ttitough. Voridop on a : fristfaVerible.sniiilydayi ;.*urveYingits vast; ; smoky; • dingyi and '-forbidding pressing through iti - thoroughfares ; Calling; to. mind its numerous. charitable institutions, philanthropic societies, and benevolent organ izations; and.running;over its well-filled col umns of contributions, we have been astonish ed at se much Christian life. And yet, what is it in London—London so full of heaps of poverty, misery, And abject wretchedness— Louden so noted for impositions, human sharks, imposfired, and cool, calculating, sel fish worldliness ?';'• - Ripples on - -the. bosom of a corrupting, seething, pond.' . The Sabbath dawns. The chitrch. bells ring out deafeningly on all shies the-hour of wor ship. Few hearts, comparatively; hail the joyous sound. Few, indeed, feel and acknow ledge a beautiful custom in the Black Forest. There, whenever a bell rings, the peasants pause in their work, and engage in prayer. Not so in London. Not so, even on the Sab bath morning. A goodly number, it is true, gather themselves up, and go forth to the temple of God. But what is this formal ar ray of Sabbath-keeping, to the imposing hosts of Sabbath-breakers—the thousands who stay at home, and the tens and hundreds of thou sands, singly or in families, that leave the lanes, and alley's, and gloomy workshops, into some of which the sunbeam' never enters, and hasten to the country, to breathe its pure air, see its rural'sights, snuff as in childhood the sweet breath of flowery fields, and feel that they have room, and light, and liberty again? Alas, that the Church of England has slept, and now wakes to find that she has on her hands a harvest of death ! PARIS. The gay metropolis of fashion, taste, and folly presents a striking contrast event° Lon don. Sabbath-breaking inEngland is a sin. It violates the acknowledged. law of God, and the Christia,n character of the nation; In France, there is, strictly ipeaking, ne such law or character, to be violated.. Sabbath breaking is a civilly-authorited form .of gay life and the most absolute self-abandon. The Sabbath is as-tiny other day of the week,only a - little -more so: - -The-same -cries meet the ear; the same .sighte arrest the eye, Shops are open. Loungers occupy the, chairs and fixed benches along the sidewalks.. The cafes are full, and. men sip their wine,: or smoke 'their cigars, or discuss questionaof business, politics and pleasure, under shady awnings, and leave the duty of attending on the mats, and visiting the magnificent churches, to some women, children; and an occasional man. Bu siness is - the ordnary care of the morning, but the afternoon is devoted to pleasure as Parisians only can devote _ it. " Eat, drink, and be merry,-".. for. to-morrow we die, is a po littOsentiment„ The people are nearly all idolaters of a refined worldliness.- and those who go to mass, and worship at ;he altar of Mary, are only half in earnest. God is not adored. I have seen no Catholic worshipper before the cross. The Immaculate Concep tion has done its work, and in France, as in Ireland, Jesus, as Mediator, -has given place to our "flowery lady." The court acts right royally in the bad work, and, as a matter of worldly policy, provides a rich -banquet of dissipating pleasures for the people. Military displays and races are authorized. The Em peror, Empress, and the proud ones of the land are present. ' I quote here, from a-alb:g narl/Cs Ifessenlger, a part Of the " Stranger's Diary," as an'illustration of what is officially done to" encourage Sabbath-breaking : " To-Morrow, Sunday." " Parade for relieving guard at the Palace of the Tuileries at 11 o'clock. "The Grand Waterworks at Versailles. " Races in the Bois de Boulogne at 2. "At the Louvre Galleries, Paintings, Sculpture, 10 to 4 o'clock. At the Luxem burg.: all the- Galleries. of Paintings, 12 to 4 --141usee Napoleon 111. (Campana Collection) Patois de rindustrie, 10 to 4—Palais de 'ln dustrie, exhibition of the rich productions of the French colonies, 12 to s—Cabinet of Na tura' History, Zoology, and Mineralogy, at the Garden of Plants, 1 to s—Hotel Cluny, Palais des Thermes, and Garden, 11 to 4 Conservatoire des Arts" et Metiers ' 10 to 5 Historical Galleries and Palace of Versailles, and Grand and Petit Trianon, 10 `to 4." DIVINE GENEROSITY.--O friends and breth ren in Christ? Be Generous! Li your thinkings, your actings, your givings, be ge nerous. The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. Give as the. Son of God has given you. All in the Bible is generous ; yet we are not ge nerous All in God ingenerous ; yet we are not generous ! All in Christ is generous ; yet we are not generous I We give little to God, and we grudge the little that 'we give. We spend our money, on dress or luxuries, or vanities; till we have none left for God. We love our apparel, our comforts, our meat, and our dri k, better than we love our Lord! The drunkards of this land spend their mil lions on strong' drink; the Christians only their thousands. The . drtinkard: loves his glass better than the Christian loves his Lord ! 0, shame, shame ! Is this Christian ity ? Is this religion ? Are these the follow ers of Min Who, though He' was - rich, for our sakes_ became poor ?—Christian :Treasury • , • • GOD will eithor.keep his saint s , from temp! titian by hii preventing mercy, or in temp tations by his supporting mercy, or find a . way of escape by his, delivering mercy.— Joitielifasb2r. - " Pit4TE.B.doth not consist in gifted expres ;ions and volainlity of irteerh, but bro kenness of heart. —/bid. -
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