206 action Virtoirgitrian -A N 1)--. GENESEE EVANGELIST. THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1862 JOHN W. REARS. THE MASS/ RE IN MINNESOTA. THE reznarkable and truly awful outbreak among the Sioux or Dacotah Indians, who occu py a reservation of land, on the Minnesota river, is mentioned in another column. We recur to it again to express our fears lest our brethren of the Dacotah Presbytery, who are laboring among these Indians as Mialfonaries of the American Board; have been. the victims of the disaster. The imperfect accounts received before going to press, speak of " Rev. Dr. Williams, Rev. Mr. Briggs and ;two missionaries" as among the slain. Rev. Dr. Williamson, in all probability, is one of the persons intended. We sincerely hope that fuller accounts may relieve our fears ; but at present there is too much reason for believing that still another de voted servant of Christ has fallen a victim to his zeal for the conversion and civilization of perfid ious heathen races, and that the Board will have another name to add to its recently enlarged roll of honorable but painful deaths in the service. • It is believed that rebel Indians and 'Missouri secessionists are at the bottom of this sudden outbreak in which hundreds have already per ished. Fort Ridgely is closely , besieged and Ex• Gov. Sibley was, at last accounts marching rapidly to its relief. A SIGNIPIOANT PAUL On the morning of the Sabbath, the 17th of the present m6ntli, during the time of public worship, occurred the only casualty of the bath ing season now about concluded at Cape May. A. young girl went recklessly .beyondher depth in the surf; few persons were bathing at the'time ; the life-boat, as is usual on the day of rest, was turned bottom upward on the dry beach; help was not at hand until too late, and in twenty minutes a lifeless corpse came ashore on the spot, which, day after day, had resounded *with the shouts of joyous pleasure seekers. It scarcely admits of a doubt that on any Other day of the week, , the sad calamity would have been pre vented. And it has since been stated, on the authority of a respectable clergyman, formerly holding a pastoral relation on Cape Island, that all the accidents of the kind which have oe currerit this bathing place for the last fifteen years, have in like manner fallen upon the Sag bath Day. In all fairness, therefore,' we must construe these accidents as among the numerous providential enforcements of the fourth Cora mandment vouchsafed to men. In pleasure, in business, and in war, the poorest road , to safety or success, is by the violation of this ordinance of rest. The best policy and the: highest wisdom join with the divine command to remember the. Sabbath day to keep it holy. Ah 1 *hat bitter tears,. what sad disappointments, whit shameful defeats, - what irreparable disasters would have been spared to individuals and to nations had this day been respected and observed as its sacred character demands: LIBERALITY 01' OUR CITIZENS. Philadelphia has exceeded all the-great cities of our union, in the promptness and extent of her moneyed contributions to further the raising of volunteers under the last call. The sum sub aoribed by the city,authorities, railroad compa nies and other corporations, and by private in ilividuals is little short of a million of dollars, and will in all probability reach if not exceed that amount. This is most honorable to the liberality, and the patriotism of the city. We may well be proud to call ourselves Philadelphians. And may we not hope that habits of enlarged liberality are springing up in these times; that men are learn ing to hold their possessions more as stewards for, nobler uses than selfish gratification; and that covetousness is receiving some blows which will leave their effects for, a' considerable season. Our business men must at least see that the self ish policy which devotes all the time to money making, and which has led to the neglect, of civil duties in time past, is now the victim of its own criminality; the money which was accumulated by such a policy must now go in depreciated assets, in lost Southern - accounts, in bounties for soldiers, in war taxes, and in worrying through the dull times which accompany a state of war. They are receiving a lesson in a more liberal-ink a wiser policy. Man shall not live by bread alone. Money cannot be made by.money-making alone. Narrow and covetous schemes must be. abandoned. The time needed for performing' civil duties in selecting candidates; in securing . their eleition if worthy, and in serving in that oapaoity oneself, must not be grudged as time lost. This is a plain lesson. • But shall not, the kingdom of Christ also in its. various schemes of action, give evidence of a decided advance in the liberality of her members, many of whom are among the; most princely con tributors upon these patriotic lists ? Shall we not perceive that these christiau patriots have learned how easy ,how just is a ,course of true liberality towards all worthy causes ? Shall not theill'recent noble contributions to the sup port of a good government, be the means of open ing their eyes to the limited and even paltry Char acter of their best contributions, to a cause higher than that of the best earthly government ? We trust and pray that this may be among the compensations of our present sad state of war. MR. BIDWELL'S ECLECTIC MAGAZINE for August is rich in its usual variety of well chosen articles from the leading. English monthhes'and quarterlies, many of them being taken froin pe riodicals not easily accessible to the general reader. There is always, besides, an original contribution upon some character or topic of present or per manent interest, accompanied by a fine full page engraving, executed in the best style, especially for this magazine. A splendid portrait of the machinist and inventor Ericsson, who ought to have a medal and a vote of thanks, from Congress, adorns the number for August. Trn RAPPAHANNOCK is now the dividing line between the two great .armies of rebels and pa triots, as once the Potomac was, and later the Chickahominy. Skirmishing has been going on upon, a heavy scale, but no great battle has come off, as by this time was expected. Shall •we have another period of delay 7 IEOREATION. Those who have gone :abroad for a summer • - jaunt and are now about returning, to their homes, have, no doubt, for the most part, had in view the refreshment of their wearied bodies and minds, and the recruiting of their exhausted energies. Iklaily have gone away weak and wea ry, exhausted with multiplied labor, overtask ed in brain, or fiend, or heart. They have placed themselves amid scenes :and circumstances as ' unlike and es remote from those of their toils and cares as possible. Rest is what they seemed to need. Yet it' is worthy'of note, how little this word is used in'speaking of our summer vaca tions, and how rarely anything like'absolute rest is sought or indulged in at this season. Or are those long and wearisome excursions on which. 1 we go, by rail and steamboat, over lake and river, • through rapids and mountain gorges, traversing thousands of miles,, to be ,called , rest? , Is our battling with the breakers, on the shores of the Atlantic, is the long 'tramp 'with. gun and, rod, begun before daylightand extended to night, or perchance our bivoutio of weeks in the wilder ness, to be called rest? Is it rest to plimhthe mountains, to., inspecel the rocks' geologically, or the flowers ~botanidally,: or the blackberry bushes aesthetically, to Sail, to row;ito drive,. to swim, to bowl nine. pins—to say noth ng of more questionable amusements -, to which ole nights t are some times given? -Is this re ting ? To weary ourselves' with unwonted pursuits until our sleep becomes sweet like that of the labouring man ? Do we go abroad With a purpose which our folly hinders our executing, or does not the 'refreshinerit we generally gain; andlhe invig,O ration generally experienced by eur systems wit ness to the success of our pnrsuii? l We do rest, notwithstanding. Ihe very ener- , gy which we exhibit in our t ,unw , ted pursuits and novel methods of recreation ise guarantee that we are truly resting. heed° or listless t i dawdling would go but a little ways t 'n restoring our wasted energies. They would rest none but the sick, the infant and the imbecile. ; By a sure instinct, we seek rest, not in a cessation, but in a change as entire as poisible of our Inethods of. activity: activity. There are indeed important accessories to our refreshment in the;pure air of Mountain or' sea shore, and in the absence of the daily zoned of care „which we can generally leave behind us; but the main element of rest is the shifting the sphere of our activity, and the bringing into playan entirely new set of powerS'ef mind and body. ln their very action the weartd powers seem to rest more , absolutely.,, Thei play k,cor rects the tendency to suffering and injury in the overworked faculties better far than the .7, inaction of the whole would. At any rate, what ever of absolute - inaction is required by Mind or body is provided for us in sleep. Sleep we ; ,a ave as animals, in common with the brutes. But, iat rest which we voluntarily take, as superior If e ings, under the promptings of our immortal , : - ture, is still action, its sphere only being chan,_- Editor. The idea of rest, figures in thateach ings of true religion and. the experience of evan gelical Christian& In' fact the whole Creation groans and sighs with - the psalmist as he ex claims .1 Oh that. I had-wings like a dove ; - then would I fly. away and be' at rest _.! One of the main institutions of the Christian as of thaJew-, ish religion is a day of rest—a Sabbath. ,;This is God's . appointed time of recreation for titan: And in .accordance-.with the principle just an nounced; and . upon •whieh we act in our annual seasons of vacation, h is not designed to be spent in idleness or inaction. It is no mere prolongation of our sldeping hours. It is a season *hose benevolent ends are to be gained by a high de gree of action. It is a day of rest and recreation from secular care, designed to restore our powers tasked and jaded by secular activity; and the very pursuits which it'requires of us,contribute essentially to this end. The: high occupation of public worship in which the devout and concert= ~ trated attention of our religions faculties is so, solemnly required, should 'not be regarded, as a wearisome task, superadded to the burdens- of the i i . week. On the contrary, this very activity is- part, and an essential part, of the rest. There would be. no true rest without it. He who refuses to worship on the Sabbath misses the object of the day, and is inadequately prepared by it for resuming the tasks of the week. The neglect of the spiritual uses of the day -is more than a vio lation of the sanctity of the Sabbath; it is a sin against the secular part of the week. If we re member not the Sabbath to keep it holy, we shall, not do all the work of the six days of labor. The order to worship on the Sabbath cmanated from that supremaand ever consistent wisdom which planned our spiritual and our secular . na- + tures alike, and made them in their nolal titik-' ings harmonize with each other. Public wor ship is the employment of a set of faculties, on tirely above, and diverse from, that usually in op eratien in the week , ' Vhile they are in elevat (id and delightful exercise, and while they tranti-f port us to a region of faith beyond the reach of earthly care, the jaded powers of body and:mind' ' enjoy true repose and receive a healthy stimulus " t which communicates itself to . the whole system..:. Only Only the worshipper truly rests on the Sabbath... lleaven is a place of rest. But the earthly, Sabbath already reveals to us of what sort this rest is. As some picture it, it would seem to bei a place of little else than quiet never-ending re- pose ; with no', employment but singing, inter-". spelled at intervals with ` pleasant walks by the river of the water of life, or upon the golden , pavements of the new Jerusalem. And the worn,' and*weary laborer going up from Christ's vine‘ yard, the martyr ascending from dungeons and from funeral piles, and the life-long sufferer!.• coming from the furnace fires of ' affliction, ~ Took chiefly for a place of rest in heaven;—which - . may indeed be natural "to persons of such ex- : -periences, but it; is unfortunate that a view so in. , adequate should be the one almost exclusively ' held Of heaven.' ''',.' The . • rest of heaven we may be . sure will be faPthest possible from inaction. That would be rust instead of rest—a frightful, almost pant4e lade, prospect. It• will be rest because of, and trough, its very action. It will be a complete rest of the tired and tasked powers, - *beeause un tired or little used - powers will be lirotwht into most exalted, vigorous, and ' : delightful : play. Faith and hope, long on the stretch in this ob scure.sphere of being, will rest, while charity' puts on fresh wings and explores new, fields of activity. The martial virtue, the intense watch fulness, the endurance, the boldness, the tried constancy of - the• Christian soldier, will be re placed by the peaceful 'but exalted duties of the recognized g and promoted victor having authority over many cities. The Rumble suppliant, the, im g4,intriritda .Vrtolltttrian and 6tutott ()vaitgtliot. portunate petitioner, the instant in prayer, whose voice the Lord heard in the morning,who morning and evening and at noon; cried unto him for help, shall have his prayers changed into thanks and his cries into melodious and joyful praisa4. There* they rest not day nor night, but their wakeful ness, under the stimulus of a glorified SaviouPs personal presence, is -their deePand real and all sufficient repose. ,Shall we enjoy .that blessed season of recre ation, reader ? Shall we , when our work, our conflict or our suffering'is done. on earth, wing our way to those balmy, rregions,,bathe our weary souls, in those life-giving.restful seas, enter upon ,those exalted employments, unfold those - new and unexpected powers Whose everlasting'play shall be one continual refreshment?= Let us not prize the poor pleaures of earth' so highly as to make the answer to this . question - in our case dnubtful. (For the Ametiefin,PrObyteFian.) THE AMERICAN SECESSION AT CONSTAN . • TINOPLE.' ITU:following communication" has bee" n , delayed by the, protracted absence of the Editoefroni the city.l , , , To' th# Editor of the AlneKcan Presbyterian; Knocummix lies before me signed by pr. Hamlin and Messrs. E. E. Bliss, and Washburn as; a " Committee ,of the. Station," or, body of American Missionaries Constantinople ; It is a full, xposition of the character of the secession of. OA, Pers. church' and its Pastor, and = the course:pursued by the missionaries towards them: I propose tooffn the material parte of it for your columns; but as many of your usual readers are now absent from their' homes; I prefer to retain it for a few weeks that it may come _under,the eye of those who at this season would te likely to fail of seeing it. • In the meantime, will yeu allow me space. for. some preliminary words, even if they are not few? - ' The pastor of the Pera church accompanied Dr. Dwight to the meeting of the Evangelical Alli ance in September, 1857, and, under Dr. Dwight's auspices, received much attention. ‘ , He went to Germany again in 1860, with a recommendation from the missionaries in Constantinople, to, raise funds for building a church edifice._ Some, do nations were promised, and, also arrangements for church collections. If I do, not mistake, the King of Prussia - subscribed ,a sum. Mr: Eutujian, or Pdator Simon as he is frequently called, came to England'and America en the same errand and was at the Jubilee meeting of the Board,, which he addressed through Dr. Hamlin, as an inter preter. The financial condition of this country and Europe became such. that, he failed to get the contributions ; which, he expected. He re turned ,to - Constantinople disappointed and soured. Soon after Dr. Goodell giving some items of intelligence in a brief private note, re, marked : " You will have heard that S , has sece ded. and joined the Pusyites, and moreover that ' an evil spirit from the Lord' doth exceedingly trouble Pastor Simon and his church session." The troubje increased. The unwearied ,efforti of the missionaries to settle it sometimes had amuse of success, but finally were defeated. In 'August, 1861, Pastor Simon carried a majority of the , Pera church and the church of Yeni Ka poo, which had 'sometime before been merged into it, into the adoption of a " Declaration of Independame," characterized by the - greatest folly, bad temper, and Misrepresentation of facts. But subsequently there was reason to hope that they k , would;abandon their schismatical course. , DDwight and W.,'had abundant ground for every girt of the representations which they made in yoitr issues of December, 19; 1861, and fanuary, 9 and. 16, 1862. But favorable ap; )ea.rances have passed away. The latest intelli ence which had reached me previous' to-seeing nr paper'ef the 24th ult., was the following m the pen`. of ,Referring. to Dr. , ;ht's lani , ente.d death;,he-added He wouldthave : found much to pain him on I eturn. The 'mystery of iniquity' mini it in the Pera church still works and will work. h been for some time verging t6Wards, Aug piscopacy,and have wondered rather at the n sof thepoveniot. At length the charc,h th 'wn offs mask, and done just what it has saris -fly pretested it would never do. It has l iy, pose ; to Air Grihble to put itself under the tecti , n and to the communion of the An san t.O urch. tis weßperhaps."; 'I supfosed th , were now sailing under the Anglizan . flag. ut it seems that they have also, with true Oriente craft,it'arawn the wool over the eyes ",pf some of our`German friends. For . . myself, -I hive no fear that the Evangelical Christians of Gerniany will under a proper rep . reeentation of fac , pursue a course unfriendly twour missionariesnd their work. That a Ber lin .theorizer shoo think ithat the " future of victory "'to the E , ngelical s element in L Turkey requires. "the aid of well=organized, Vigorous churches 'fledr at hand, and not have a mere neb ula of congregations (to Wit; the Congregation alists and Dutch Reformed ! ) in remote Anterica , wits uncertain reliance," is not strauge; but whether ,a seri.r3 attempt is to •be made to intro duce German "Presbyterianism," with its churchly and sa.crameitarian idea, its discipline and festivals; end limits of admission to I the sac raments, we may wait in, all Serenity of mind, to see. ' In the meantiree, I have only to say that the specific measure:which you advocate so earn estly of uniting the American and Armenian elements in the same 'Presbyterial organization would widen thelpreach betweenthe Pera seced pra and the mission, unless the mission would put the expenditures of the Ameriean Board, vir tually if not'in form', under their .control."' This will be established beydrid contradiction here- , after. You cannot easily surpass' me in admiration of the real excelleneies of, the 'Germany character, but I. have yet to learn that Germans excel Americans in the power of organization, or in, that " marvelous union of common sense with • piety," which tord Shaftesbury eulogizes in our missionaries in Turkey. ' Certainly the. Germans, as you say, are not " fools; " they may( belriser than we; but - the judgment of the wisest &men becomes error when it is based on a wrong as sumption of fade . . Very; wise, and practical men too here at home, often betray a confusion of thoughts on practical fOreign missionary ques tions which‘makes missionarieg, smile. The ar ticle from the Berlin newspaper, for -the .most part, ignores' and confounds the clear and:vital distinction between a question.of vcclesiastioal an: rangements—that is; of organizing and governing ehurches,nnd a question as' to: ivhoM ishall be committed the disbursement of the funds which American Christians put into the treasury of the American Board. Let this distinction be kept in mind, and the whole grievance of the Pera church and pastor will be seen to be without foundation. Dr. Dwight- testified to you : " I am Prepared to show by thii strangest documen tary evidence that ili;' 'real and. sole cause of their dissatisfaction is,,that.they are not permit ted to have an official voters the administration of the missionary fUndi c"ollecti in America and England for the work among, the Armenians." And again, he wrote to the .News of the Churches.: 'What, is_that mission-poliey from ,which we have so persistently declined to move'' even' so much as--"a hair's breadth ?-' I answer in one word; time it 'is the principle of keeping - under our own control missionary 'funds contributed in America, and put into our hands, is the respon sible agents of the AmeriCa ' ehurelies;forpros canting the, missionary' w o in Turkey. The' pastor of the Pera church h persisted in claim-, ing that the native &wel l have a right to a voice in "the disposal of ithese, .funds. We have conceded,- even •beyo 'd ' our Own views of propriety, for •the sake of ace; that they'should take part with' us in - our eliberations on the various 'means and agencies e use' for the oven - gelization of Turkey ; but most Obviously we could not concede to them e right of }voting in the disposal of our funds- :s lo ie the whole Up shot of the matter." ~ .., - ' - . Now this testimony ranst be over:ruled, or;the whole ground of, your statement that the com plaints 'referred to "turned 10 - on the ecclesiastical aria4ements of the Board," and that they , tend ed to, show that the methlids of the, Board in this (ecclesiastical) respect,. were, radically de fective," slides from under;your ,feet; and.whole paragraphs of, the Berlin= article .and your coin. : ments thereon, 'becoming unmeaning. Does this mission -policy which'Dr: Dwikht deserib es, prove the'ecclesiastical methods of the AmeriCan Board radically defectivo thee4clesiastical methods of our Old School brethren'equally fective ; for their mission-policy, in this particu-, lar, ,is precisely the same, in India and plie where with that of the American Board in Turkey. I beg Jto hold your attention to this -The Berlin article speaks of the "repressive Imlicy" of the mission. The repressiveness consists only in the principle and .practice aboie spoken of by'Dr. Dwight In all ecclesiastical matters the policy of the missionaries in Con-. stantinople is the most unrepressive possible. The Pera church and pastor have' had the fullest recognition of ecclesiastical independence and. equality of rights which , can be conceived. "They:claini, the right of self-government----or, at /east, of a participation .in the councils and decisions of the Mission." What .confusion` of ideas is here l; The writer in the Ntue EVC171,9% rircheni,eitung may be a walking librarY, and a philosopher .of profounder depth than Hegel; but the„ densest atmosphere of a German study, Must have penetrated his brain •when. he put ,to gether a sentence like that, if he werenot de ceived as to the facts. "They claiM the' right of self-government"—which they have always bid in the 'discipline and government of church and disposal of their own , charitable funds,: without any interference on'thepart of the -iiiieSionaries • but it t 1 ,get.`that",, which they already have in utmost conoeiva ble .perfection, they ;will be satisfied: with .so Much as a share " in the councils: and-decisions of the Mission ".regarding the adMiniStratiori* of the funds-of the American' Beard!! AS to L the extent of the diSaffection and sym pathy with 'the Periot 'secession, which , the, reader of ' your two articles would infer to be general among the Armenian converts, gr.. Dwightwrote, after his tiMr. through Turkey and personal visitation of nearlYS.ll the churches:: "I am happy to say, that 'out; of the More than . fifty, native 'churches in Turkey, not one, as yet, has shown ,the _least:sympathy, with the Pera church and itspastor in their most demand.", lam not aware that Abe- case stands differently now. from what it did when, Dr. Dwight thus testified in your *lumns. The Berlin writer's acquvatance with our, missionary affairs in Turkeyoo about`equal to his knowledge of theconstituency of the Beard in America. His creneral IStattinents may be judged by, some of the particular ones • as for example respeoting.the extent of the disaf , fection, compared with Dr. Dwight's 'testimony : With uniniportant eiceptions. the societies in ConstantinoPle and Niconiedia openly arrange themselies with the 'Pere church; and all the `Evangelical Armenian congregations would' do so itionce if they could dispense with aid Mull /ndica." And the followingt. " The church in Constantan4le (Query, Pera church ?) with a thousand members, and per ;haps a thousand more adherents, is withont an edifice " . etc. In the last annual-report of ,the , American Board, the aggregate.members of the four churches in Constantinooe, including the Perachureh, are stated to be 187,1 ind the whole number from the beginning, 333.1 Berlin writers are nearer Constantinople than we, but it is well to reinember that very wide and dense forests Elie between. . You are strongly im pressed w4.*.the. fact that the Peru congregation worships in the chapel of the Prusaian Embassy, .and that an. ex-ambassa dor is at the head of the Berliw , :Continittee of `Aid.' But' hat Committee was foimed 1860, when fiastoi` Simon was there with 7 the efiderse. ment of the missionaries; and theZsachtireli has always worshipped in the chapeSilie'Werthe Prussian Dutch etabassy; that is, since, its ex : istence'itri distinct.church 4 formedlont what Was the general , Constantinople _Church. .;The. Yeni-Kapoo Church` has been reorganized; and and the other two churches in'Constantinople, are in syrniathy with- the mission. Whethet the Pera'Ohurch will with Germany on which will place .4re 3:#0" . zno# , 3rlq, diipa sal with the least restrictions clliemviiier, of its use. If some parE7.44 , 4rogikt44-;ivill, both, it perhaps can cartroffsilieltifed • liCr• A New York,. Aug. 2 r 1862. .! • Upon the above :6omrikuniektion4e would re— mark : • • (1) That it gives ne i i plessnre,to !Own 'that frank and fall eipliihatterr. of the :trotaihiiin the mission ehurlihes of Constantino pie, is Stiiut to be presented to the public. We haye . .bsen. astonished at the retteence pf , the Board, or at, the depreciating tone with:which no great a disaster to our cause has been treated, in ita iagoranees. : (*.She Kirchenztit'ung is undoubtadli wrong in some of its alleged facts ;—that, we werep pared to believe. 'Bute it re is not the organ of theorists or of saeramentatians,hlit of the truly evangelical sentiment and the, active piety of Germany, in sympathy with the Evangelical Alliance whose organ it is. No such insinuations upon its character as are - indulged in by " W." can avail to discredit its statements. The Pres byterianism it desires to see inaugurated among the Americin churches is just such as ".W." is. familiar with, in his own church relatiens. And the broad impression it, has received. that our missionariesin Turkey. have no .sympatiy , with this Presbyterianism, but are sowing Independent tendencies in the rising Christian' communities Of that country; and :are already suffering, the penalty of their course, slay well make us pause. It'may be an exag,gerateeimpression but it can . , not be baseless. " W." wishes to hold our attention to the point that the,e s policy of the Board which has given rise to thecession of the` Pera.church is I simply that of:retaining withiuits exclusive Con trol and disposition the funds committed to its' , care. :Pastor Simon and his' people are burning at the finger ends to handle the Board's money ; and the real cause of their strange behavior is vexation at their faibire—is disappointed* ambit ion and covetousness:. He also quotes the policy of the 0 S. - Eoard - in India, in certain cases, as precisely similarto that of, the Arnerican!oard. Let us grant it. And is there not another ele ment in_the missionary, policy of our• Old , School brethren, tending.tto : check the rise and the workings of such - - ambition and covetousness-- thatof carrying their (and . our) excellent eccle siastical organization with them into the mission ary geld, and setting it up complete at every new, station, like the tabernacle in the wilderness;6 a rallying point, a germ of order, and a - bond of union for all.? We do not:believe that such ob stinate' divisions and such wholesale disaster would have, attended a mere question of division of funds, if that element had been introduced at the beginning and followed up as it is in thomis sionary operations of our brethren of the other branch. Pastor Simon may spurn, such a prop osition now: He ought to have been taught better at a more docile age. , ' (For the American Presbyterian.) PRESENTATION TO A LOYAL CLERGYMAN. WaonsTom; MD., Aug: 9th, 1862: Editor of the .AntericarAPresbytericta.— Dear Sir';'—'llle Congregation of the Granite (Presbyterian) Church assembled to-day for the purpose of presenting, to their pastor, Rev. Wil liam B. Evang ) a massive gold-headed cane. Upon it was 'engraved the American Sag, together with the following inscription : "Presented by the congregation of the Granite Church, Baltimore County, Maryland, to their pastor liev.•William R Evans, August 9th, 1862." Alsa the follow- . . " The Devoted Christian and True Patriot." Mr. Evans has been Moat persecuted in this vicinity on , account of his Union sentiments which he fearlessly proclaimed; hence the-above presentation,. • The presentation address was delivered hy James N. Burnham Esq., who reviewed the course which this patriotic minister had pursued since hp•hall'been, their pastOr, and, concluded With the assurance that the earnest prayer of his con , gregation was that When he should be called to his heavenly home, he, should find,engraved upon his eternal crown this same inscription .1-- " The Devoted Christian and True Patriot." . Mr. Evans replied in a very: eloquent and feel, ing manner, and assured his congregation - 4st whatever circumstinces might surronnd lint," he should- ever be. found -loyal to his God find - his country. The above Chureh,jeasoffeied a tee- days' since to the Government, to.be used as a hospital—free of.charge. • S. , . - THE' BRITISH GOVERNMENT. `,` renowned€s oll m .o . ll o lllls e 7of tile Britilth nation,- (thus spoken • of:ltyGen..l3rt9; Nimes' to have taterwefage;with.the gprgnment, after it had almost utterly *abandoned the : . people.- While we have had just ~.grOund ,Of complaint against the British 'government for its unseemly haste to recognize the - rebelias belligerents, arid ' the , extracrdinary eagerness it exhibited to make a 'diens Belli out "of the 'Trent affair, not to - speak of the ithmlting wish' of the premier, publicly expressed, that we would consent withont struggle to dismemberment and death—it must be admitted that it has , since OS hibited an immovable firmness in maintaining...an' attitude which both friend and foe. have long re garded as th initiation of a positively hostile course towards our nation, and Of active friend shir towards the rebels. he unprincipled ncla mour and malignant inv e ct iv es of t h e , • London reiterated-by nearly journal in the 'kingdom and justified, by • the more elaborate essays of all the leading. Reviews, joined with the presinin of the; cottoh famine and the ur gency of Southern sympathizers in parliament, have all beerrinsitifiaieut to move Lord Russell 'and his cabinet from their positions' in regard to breaking the blockade, recognition .of the rebel ',govern**, anadiation and intervention. Every :, . effort to brimithe government to either of these 1 measures bas, failed, the last one about as deoi aively as any'of the others,: Parliament has been prorogued, ; and the Queen, itrher closing speech, has declared herself as much as ever disinclined to interfere in:a conflict.; 'which. is the indirect Cause • of great suffering-info:nig her own people. .• . This is simply the one honorable course which 'nations claiming to be guided by justice are ; filainty, bound to puraum-, -, 5 4, t ia ;stature hare. a-4 'right to. expect, especially in an ..age which ~1. Ise introduced "non-intervention": among thi•o; matetwordirOf its. diplomacy. , 4k - that:ark to Eng=';' . Una"; but thanks. to God, for 'eriabling,.l3ritisli' statesmen to withstand a popular clamor thenMelves had hastily : iiVeii the signal,; and Maintain a position of justice and equity;'; ne . an in clined plane from the top of which they , ,had alr eady' begun perceptibly- ' to slide. • • We are confirmed by these last acts opinion which we had some time ago begun to • cherish; namely; that the British people are more Lionfriendly to us in our present troubles, than is .theii:goveitnnent--or rather, _that the Ihitiib government 'with true statesmanship . perceiVes'''. the titter folly of the people's wishes, and creases its proper. function of .firinii holding ,liepeorde - ,iii check. We have Jitthifear ,of any ;; , furthar .demonstrations: on the part of Great', -Britain. As to France, we surmise the. case • kV: . . . bei:nearly the reverse. The people, -the .clergy, and journals generally are friendly' Be tWpartn ,. ii,rnore American„,then the Americans is no journal of influence in France, which, like the Times, is engaged every day in the, diabolical task pervertingtrnth andinflaming prejudices .. and passions, against us. But the Emperorlsas uncertain as to-morrow, as dark as fate, - is nn sarnpulormaikambition itself:...What he Maydo, defies calculation. The usurper of the French , Ono : no, he 'made war against the tyrants ofi4ly: and atoppedtnidwayLto : shake hands with Franc* Joseph at Villa ,Franca. is now engaged in the ,efforttosconquer Mexico.;, And why should he-plot,an& : arm and keep Europe.- in- agitation view to a readjustment of the boundaries 1 of France i -, and - notreitehie at the same time the restoration it least of French influence iriTthoSe fair territories of the new World; . whose 'very nOnes are reminiscences of French-colonization and : F!reneh,ezepire in a former age. The FingliSh4)cople and the.Frenchl,tmperor therefOre may' be, classed together as more or: less dangerous tegether, shake the BritiihgoVernment from its .present statesian likUposition. It is great matter for thankfulness .and.enatitiragententthatior eighteen - months they have been' Utterly, "Unable to-'accOmplt.. this result.. " - • • • THE MONTHLIES AUDI. SEVERAL weeks ;,ago, we . felt.it our duty- to call attention to the - peculiar and-unfn . endly at titude -of our leading monthlies, (Atlantic, Con-' tifiental and (Knickerbocker) 'oriinatters of faith and practice regarded as essential by all Evangel ical Christian& We , spoke particularly - of Mr. Kimball's new starry in the " Continental, en titled : ." Was he ',successful ?" and expressed the fear that the very ablevriter was aboutr,to follow in the track of those who ;take pains to exhibit Evangelical religion solely by its carioca tares, and who are wilfully blind to :the exist mace of such a thing as _true religion among the followers of Christ. The number of the " Con tinental" for August—the best by far of these magazines for this month—contains a new in stalment of the story referred to, which, we are haPpy to say, demonstrates Mr. Kimball's at: quaintance with Evangelical religion, and his ability and readiness adequately to represent it upon• his pages. 'The great change wrought in Joel Burns—an excellenti man alreadj in the world's esteem—by the admonition of his dying wife is onewhich Could .only have been effected by the power of the Gospel, and the author wishes us so to: understand it The peculiar and elevating effect of piety upon a nature already, noble and beneficent, is drawn with disciimina tion and' with beauty. It is true preaching. It exonerates .Mr. Kimball from the suspicion that he wished , us to regard the hypocritical .charae-" tees already introduced, as true representatives of practical Christianity. ',Such hypocrites' there undoubtedly are, and all we ask "of Mr. Kimball,. or'any other writer is, that a just impression be made akregards the .essential tendency of even-. gelled religion, while they employ the conduct of mere pretenders to religion as an element and,.often prominent element—of their story. Branxwoonts MACiAZIpTy. for July (L. Scott. & CO., New York .111iladelPhia) : contains some remarkable statements, chiefly in. an article entitled "Across the channel," which all European tourists should read attentively. It is a. carefully drawn contrast between the Conti nent &slit appeared to the : English tourist twenty year,s ago "and is it appears new. " the-shrewd. observer and the sharp, unsparing critie appear on every *page; the criticism is however Mainly directed to the' faults of his own • countrymen. We rarely see a confession from an Englishman so frank and so edifying as the following, on the "haughty, hard, hostile antagonism to all the cherished usages and .favorite customs:of the peorile we.may be among." " The antagonism" he says, "=which is the Englishman's first in .stinct,..ii the creature of that intolerable .conceit which makes us count that ` all differences from ourselVes infer inferiority; and thus Whateverja °t . i"ise Out with, us is, of cortrSe;by as mnch, on a lower scale of merit.":. , • And what are, we, to, ;think of the following terribly diawn picture of life -at the ,Engli4h watering places ? • Is the Writer a_prude, or is he describing 4 fact of fearful moral significance M —, a scandal ' and an outrage to the Christian' name of his country ?' ";We have "he says, " a spe cial national custom by which, at a certain''pe riod of the year, portions of the margin of the sea, galled sea-bathing places are consecrated, like old heathen temples, to indecency. Those of our sons and daughters whose walk in life elsewhere--in their drawing-reems, for instance in public assemblages—on the streets of the city—is surrounded by an atmosphere of rum and purity—whoin the slightest indecorous word or act in, such places , would , suffuse with shame and. indignation—these. when they comae within the Consecrated arena at the proper time, are: instantaneously divested of all sense and de corunstrand exhibit a scene not to be",be matched elsewhere until we reach the Marquesas Islands or the Feejees. It is useless to argue or fight with this specialty it is a deeply foUnded na lonal. institution—almost stiperstition-ind one might as well left his voice in argument' against suttee or the'national inatitntion of Dahomey!' We have read these lines with a surprise' amounting .to incredulity. We feel tolerably certain that, es, stated, they are novel to the ma-, jority of American students of = English manners, and customs. And we .appeal to the frequenters , of American` watering places upon the 'question' whether such indecent behavior—here described as a',"deeply 'founded national institution "-- was C.cdoriiied - and transplanted to our own shores or has gained any foothold ; among us at such, placea of recreation,;- 12eing well nigh confident that their unanimous answer: will be in the nega-2 tive. Of one thing we are sure ;that none bul' a violent prude would discover indecency , in .the ample bathing robes and'the perfectly.harmless and 'Wholesome sporti of the intermingled seie:s' in'the surf at Oapillay. What are we to think of Ertgliehluieial life ? Its two extemes certainly are in a sad way. The' Jo79T: peasantry*_ are as degraded ,as the ; `.poor A whites!' of the; South; and the higher c,'.l4Befil ) y, their own confession rival the Feejeans and the Marquesan's'in the indecency of their recreations ! The'} subStantial midge °raises' 'of the''.! nation , must be the true depositort'elf Whit 'Virtue and' strength of character it'Posseisei. ' `'" - Maitcus N. PRESTON ate of Auburn Theolo ‘Sorainitri has accepted, a c aall 'fret& tlie CharOhliitSkineafgai;N:4l'. AUGUST 28, otx Cm* ft PASTORS Ihnuss,ED.—At an adjourned meet ing of Cincinnati Presbytery, .the 14th inst., the pastoral relation between,* Rev.. M• * Maxwell and ighth Church Cincinnati was dissolved. Mr. Maxwell has entered upowhis duties as Pre. sident. of the,Cincinnati Female Seminary. At the same meeting the pastoral relation be tween Rev. W. #J Essick and the Church at New Richmond was dissolved. Mr. Essick has received and accepted.ri call from the church at Wabash, Ind.—Chria_tiartiiiialci. THE DEGB:EV OF D' D., was conferred upon Henry M. Field, of . bl - ,.w York, one of the editors of the Evangelist, at the recent - commencement of Williams College. We have wondered that our excellent brother of the Evangelise has escaped this infliction o f doable . entinOnanis so: long, We know of none worthier. coll'ege has honored itself in enrolling among its honored 'names that of the modest, scholarly, and bloqu6nt senior editor of the Evangelist.---:160. CHANGE,OP RzLATION.--The Congregational Church` of Raton under `the pastoral care of Rev. Joiiiti Leonard, has, recently becom e Preshyterian. A corfespondent pf the .revange list writing from the place, represents the change .as having come to pass providentially without any interference on thelpart of the pastor, (a - .Presby. terian) although frequent opPortunities of accom plishing this.„.resnit were previously presented. It is prohably a result.of our improved arrange ments in Home Missions. The writer says Circumstances have occurred, as the writer is informed, which rendered it t , necessary that they ,should become Presbyterian in order to obtain further aid in supporting , their pastor. They have felt that ne i cesSits - , and have now acted ac cordingly. Ais xtheihad lost of their church property, they disbanded -their organization, and with the sane elements organized the " Second Presbyterian Church of. Fulton," calling it Se cond because a very' feeble Old School Presby terian chnich Was already in existence. After theTew church had been organized, they turn ed to the late pastor of the - now defunct Congre gational church, and called him to become their „• pastor. Brother Leonard' accepts the call, and his people are ,now making application to the Presbyterian _ome Missionary Committee for aid in giving him support. They have also in structed their Sessinn to seek their early recog nition by the`PrwhYtery of Galena, with which their pastor-elect is Connected. It is understood that all this'action has been taken with great unanimity on the part of the congregation. It is now believed that in the peculiar circum stances there 'existing, these changes will much facilitate the building up of a good self-support ing church in that little city, and it is.even said that they now:have encouraging prospects of be ing able to purchaie and pay for - the:Church edi fice which they still occupy; , - -pastors of tie church at Fulton, N. Y., has received and accepted the ap pointment; of chi Plain to the new regiment just - forniedin'OSWego County: Mr. tord leaves a pleasant: position,la large and Sinfluential Church, for the camp life and 93 .ft Jailers of the battle -field. The Church has dene well iu letting their ~ yed pastor go, and he has ; done even better in consenting.- .We want, no stronger, . :evidence than. this of the hold whichlthe great:name maintains in- the hearto of the 'patriotic and thoughtfrd: The new regiment ebuld•'fiave _Made no better choice. Sound of head and boat' of plea:sing address, 'and large of heart, Bro Lord will doubtless rank with the beat of 'chaplains, that is, according to the estimate of some care ful obseriers, bees•sood as. an addition , of fifty men to the efreetive foreeiof the. regbnent. order "to, this,. however;-' be ;must have the cordial ea-operation. , ef the regimerital officers. Lord's pulpit will be supplied airing his a*noe. —Evak,getisi. Amon:mit MrstsTmes. Sons. The4.7hoa/o Advocate says :—We hays previouslyn t itt l ed.,that a-son of the Rev. Dr. Chesteri - -ef this t ~than enlisted as a private -in` -Col. Root's reiincient=. 94t1i. Dr. Chester has iniother'son in the serilee, holding the commission of. Captain. STITT 'on, SERMONS -The:, .Evangelist tells the following story of two manuscript sermons, written and lost:by the Rev.J.• R. Page, ofPerry, New York.':—" These -discourses were last-by the - writer, in Jtii4, 1859, on his waY to Presby tery. His. efforts to recover them were unaiail ing, until a year thereafter he learned they : were in the possession. of Rev. J. 13. Wentworth,, then of Perry. On, his refusal to deliver therAto Mr. Page's Agent, who made, a demand for:them in hi s name,-he commenced a suit for their recovery in the Snpreme:Oonrt, =which was .referied to E. G. Lapham, Esq., of Canandaigua, 'by - whom the case 'was tried. He decided against the defen dant, and, to determine the.question of costs, that, from personal examination, the sermons were worth to the writer at ivst " fifty dollars. An appeal was taken from, this decision to the General. Terin of the Eighth District;:and at the last - February -Term, held in Buffalo,; the referee's decision was sustained." - - The ' , Bannon'' are pit : blished lit the current numbers of the National Preaaker - - _ll.EiCanotr.--The subject of the re-Anion. of the and' New-schol Presbyterian Churches still engages the attention of some of the Presbyteries of both ChurChes. - The Pres bytery Of Chippewa (O. S.) is•i'yettng, but vig orous Presbytery, oedupyinea field situated part ly in Wiscorisin;and partly 3 in Minnesota. The minute of the Presbytery is as follows : " The follo;ring action of the Presbytery of Winuna‘(:,Nuw 7 uChl) was'received, through the Rev, E. Holt Stated Clerk : • Real& a a committee be- appointed to eonfer,witlf the Presbyteries of uwatonna and Chipiewa, in regard to some basis upon which theyanny unite in building uP. the kingdom of God ;.bilso, bow we may best put forth our, united er,,epneerted action in favor of the re-union of the Presbyterian Church the United States of ;America. , • a, In response to which the Presbytery took the following action • "Resolved, That the Presbytery of' Chippewa TecittroCate the sentiments of the Presbytery of Winona, and that we are ready to unite in any „feasible plan of bringing the Presb3rteries of the 'different branches of the Presbyterian Church, covigingAhis region, into closer connection, and more perfect harmony- "Posoltzed, That -it committee Of taro be ap . pointett -to confer !`with the committee of the TrOkytery of Win4it'a! on tins subjeeL"
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