Vol. VII, No. 1.--Whole No. 313.
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;Who are these, whence came they?
Not from Jerusalem alone
To heaven the path ascends ;
As near, as sure, as straight the way,
• , That leads to the celestial day,
From farthest realms extends;
Frigid or torrid zone.
Wliat matters how or whence we start ?
One is the crown of all;
One is the hard and glorious race
Whatever be our starting place ;
Ring round the earth the call
That says f Arise, depart I
From the balm-breathing, sun-loved isles
Of the bright Southern Sea,
From the dead North's cloud-shadowed pole,
We gather to our gladsome goal—
Our common home in thee,
City of sun and smiles 1
The cold, rough billows hinder none;
Nor helps the calm, fair main;
The brown rook of Norwegian gloom,
The verdure of Tahitian bloom,
The sands of Miaraim's plain,
Or peaks of Lebanon..
As from the green lands of the vine, .
We from the snow-wastes pale,
We find the ever open road
To the dear city of our God ;
From Russian steppe, or Burman vale,
Or terraced Palestine.
Not from swift Jordan's sacred stream
Alone we mount above
Indus or Danube, Thamesi or Rhone,
Rivers unsaiated and unknown;
From each the home of love
Deokons with heavenly beam.
Not from`gray Olivet alone
We see the gates of light;
From Morvan's heath', or Jungfran's snow,
We welcome the descending glow
Of pearl and chrysolite, •
•
Under the setting sun. .
Not from Jerusalem alone
The Church ascends to God; .
Strangers of every tongue and clime,
Pilgrims of every land and time,
Throng the well-trodden road
Tlttit leads-up to the throne.
—Christian, Treasury.
CONLESPONDENCE IN 3USSACHUSETTS.
LA slump enclosing the article from the
New York Observer, which we insert below,
accompanies it with . the following timely and
stirring note];—
I do not believe your readers need such an
admonition, yet I. do feel that the Church is
awfully at fault in this matter. of omitting
constant prayer for the nation. It wont do
to pass this matter by with a brief allusion
to the war—we must pray for men--Presi:
denteabinet,—afilaers—soldiers—sailors----
editors (I fear these last need more prayers
than all the others, for how tremendous for
good or evil is their power I)
This war has been the grandest commenta
ry for me on the Old Testament ! Oh, how
those pages, once so dim and, perplexing,
now glow with a divine radiance ! r rejoice
that I have lived in this day. How clearly
the Scripture histories show that God'a pre
sence a'nd help are absolutely essential to
success 1 Think how we boasted of Our thirty
millions of men, and our wealth, and mechan
ical skill,as sure to put down rebellion in
stanter. And yet here we are, one year and
four months, and *the endo is not yet. Is
" God on the side of the heaviest artillery'?"
Yes, when that, artillery is made, up of the
batteries of living faith, and the policy is
based on justice and righteousness ! Other
wise, vain is the help of man. Think how
God, has disappointed us in regard to a glo
rions leader in this struggle. l o Moses, nor
Joshua ; not a man upon whom the great
heart of this nation can repose with fond en
thusiasm ,or, lively hope. •Is He not saying
to us—" This is my battle—the glory shall be
mine"
Last Sunday evening, our Sabbath School
toneert was held in the presence of a large
audience in the' °hunt'. The superinten
dent took for his text these words : Be sure
your sin will find you out" (Numbers xxxii:
43). He first sketched Jonah, running away
from god, and the storm that brought himup
against His terrible presence.- Second : Josh
ua, the major-general commanding the "grand
army" of the Jordan, defeated in a Bull
Run disaster at the assault on the city of Ai,
and for no other cause' than that there was
an " accursed thing" in Israel Which God
meant should be removed.. He told Joshua
that He would not be with'lsrael any more,
nor would his "%rand army" be able to
stand against their enemies unless the .abo
minable sin was eiposed and punished. So
Joshua ferreted out Achanls sin, and then the
city of Ai was taken in short order I
Finally, the fifteen voyages of our ship of
state, the Constitution, were described, and
the present (sixteenth), a voyage of unexam
pled peril—the black waves of treason and
secession rushing madly by the timbers
creaking—the breakers roaring, and Captain
Lincoln, finding at last that he must take
his truinpot and stand on the quarter-deck,
to shout to the American people : " There'S a
Jonah- onboard—he must be thrown over
board or we are lost I "
With this decision, the good old ship feels
the helm, comes upto .the wind, the sails fill,
the reefs are cleared, the glad sailors gather
around the main-mast, and, cry aloud—
" lip,, with the Florictus ensies up
Long shall it wave. on high .I
And every heart'shall dance to see,
That banner in the sky I
Rain mast-head high, that hallowed flagl
Let FREEDOM fill the sail I
And GOD will bring her through the storm,
The lightning, and the gale I "
At the utterance of these hues--
" And every heart shall dance to see
That banner in the sky.'
a concealed. flag of immense size, and great
brilliancy, rose as if by unseen hands, imme
diately behind the pulpit, and crept tt . p the
wall as thaugh , it was alive, till• it reached
the ceiling, where it hung, covering the en
tire recess I The effect was sublime. There
vas a moment `of breathlessi `suspense, and
then the pent-up emotions burst forth like
the roaring' of a mountain torrent !
That grand old flag of freedoia was conse
crated with a new baptism on that evening,
and 'not a soul was ignorant of its thrilling
power.
Ever your freed, -
THE TWO MEETINGS,
IS THERE A GOD OF RATTLES?
Messrs. Editors :—A few weeks ago I was
visiting'one of the beautiful towns on the
Hudson river. While waking at twilight,
enjoying the view of hill and dale, of Cottage
and, mansion, which characterize the place,
I heard a church bell ringing. On inquiry,
I learned.that it was the call to the weekly
prayer meeting.
Although I knew I should be an entire
stranger to all who miglit be present, I re
solved to go. When traveling, I always make
it a rule to unite with my brethren in the
faith, wherever I can find them. lam often,
specially refreshed by their , new methods of
presenting old truths; or ,by the ferior of
heart-utterances in prayer from lips with
which lam not familiar. I entered the Yes.
try of the church, and sit 'down- among the
people with a freedom that every believer has
a right to exercise as a member of the church
universal. I joined in the 'prayers, and in
the singing, and listened to the exhortation
of the minister, but will you believe me, when
I say that from the beginning to the end of
that service, not a single allusion was made
to the condition of the country ! I could have
excused the omission in the address, but that
not a single prayer gave utterance to the
longing of any soul for God's blessing upon
our nation was absolutely painful to me.. I
was grieved, and wended my way, in a sor
rowful mood, to the house where I was visit
ing. Thought I, " When the • Son of Man
cometh, will he find faith on the earth ?"
Why, if there had been a Jewish syna
gogue in the town, and I had gone . there,
could I have failed of having my soul re
freshed with - the glorious promises of the
ancient scriptures ? Should. I not have heard
David saying, " I will cry unto God most
High, unto God, who perfornaeth all things
for me ?" "In the shadow of thy wings
will I make my refuge, until these calamities
be overpast !"
Would not some pious Isralite have recalled
that brav6 youth,(a man " after God's own
heart ") as he stood before Goliath, with the
armies of Israel at his back, .and the mighty
host of the Philistines in front, saying: All
this assembly shall know that the Lord sa
veth not with sword and spear, for the battle
is the Lord's and he will give you into our
hands!" •
Miht I not have heard Moses exclaim
"For the Lord thy God walketh in the
midst of thy camp to deliver thee, and to
give up thine enemies before thee ?" Per
haps, nay, surely,. some devout Jew would
have told , me of Jahaziel, who; when the
Spirit of the Lord come upon him, in the
midst of the congregation, shouted, " Heark
en ye, all Judalt, and ye inhabitants of Je
rusalem, and thou King Jehosephat I" Thus
saith the Lord unto you, " Be not afraid, nor
dismayed by reason of this great multitude,
for the battle is notvours,butGod's * *
Oh, if' I could have had these brethren
with me at a prayer meeting in: a country vil
lage on the. Friday evening previous ! It was
held in a small room, with low walls, in the
basement of a very plain meeting-house.
There is not a rich man in the church bit I
am 'convinced they are, rich in faith. There
were five prayers offered, and every one of
them bore an earnest entreaty to the Lord
for his mercy upon our stricken land 1 They
implore God'to give our Government success,
not for the sake of victory, but for` Jesus
sake,. that He might, have all the honor•anjl
glory. They prayed for the President of the
United States, that he might have divine
guidance ; for the Cabinet, that they might
have the wisdom that cometh 'from above;
fol. the • soldiers of the country, that , they
might become valiant soldiers of the cross;
for the officers that they might do and dare
all as servants of the King of Kings.
Such, lunderstand, has been the testimony
of their prayers since the war began. More
than this, their little Sabbath school his sent
soldiers into the field, and the school partic
ularly remembers them in their weekly as
semblings. That obscure church is a power
in this wicked world, depend upon it! May
not our reverses be given to us to teach our
church members that they have not carried
their ;troubles to ,God as they ought, nor
thrown their burdens upon Him. ,
A WORSHIPPER OF THE
GOD OF OUR FATHERS.
LESSONS OF WAR. • '
NO XVII.
Exchange of Prisonere.
DURING the tNloporinesian war,. the Lace
dremonians had thrown three hundred men
into the island of Sphacteria, where being
closely blockided by the Athenian fleet, they
were ready to perish for want of provisions.
The Laced%monian, afflicted on their account,
sent Ambassadors to Athens, asking that
people to permit them to fetch off, their -
countrymen, and offering to restore to them
three hundred Athenian prisoners of war,
who' happened at that to be in their hands.
This request, and these terms the Athenians
promptly rejected. Whereupon the Lacedm
monian ambassadors said, " It is plain you
set a higher estimate upon the. Spartans, than
upon your own countrymen, for you:refuse
to accept three hundred of the latter in the
place of an equal number of the former."
This was sound argument, and will apply
to every case of °a similar kind, whether in
public or private life. Every instance, in
which .national enemies refuse to exercise
toward each other those acts of couresy and
humanity which civilized warfare admits is
a confession of inferiority in the party that
is guilty of such refusal,
4 tyossibly an exception may sometimes ex
ist, arising from the peculiar character of the
war in which the case occurs ; where it might
be supposed that some principle would be
relinquished by treating the enemy upon
equal terms, as an honorable belligerent, and
where it is .deemed better to endure any ma
te4al loss and affliction whatever, than make
any concession that might bear a. dangerous
significancy. A scruple of this kind found
place in the mind of our government at the
commencement of the present straggle, when
PHILADELPITIA'• i TIII:4O": - sy,Pp.f.m . 4R -. 4:.....150
it rejected the proposition of the exchange of
prisoners with the enemy, not because it un
dervalued its own citizens, but lest, by con
senting to that proposition, it might be as
sisting to make rebellion appear respectable
in the eyes of the world. However, this
scruple has been at' length surmounted, and
the practice of the exchange of prisoners h
been adopted, without any loss of dignity on
the part of the government, and with the ap
probation of the Whole nation. Thus that
very important consideration which appeared
for a time to justify.the government in acting
as it did, and which would justify it still, if
anything could, in acting so, is found, in the
light which time, and 'experience, and the
deliberate- dictates of human nature, cast
upon the question, to be insufficient to set
aside the claims of kindness and of mercy.
From this example we learn, that no good
cause, and that neither national nor individ
ual self-respect can easily suffer , any damage,
even in the most delicate cases - that are likely
to occur; by the conceSsions of tenderness
and humanity.
This seeming exception being thus taken
out of the way, we return to the principle in
volved in our first example: that every un
generous action, towards another, *of which
we are guilty, is an , impeachment of: our own
worth..,. Every act of unkindness, of revenge,.
of unforgiving hostility, is a confession of
insignificance and inferiority. Insolence,
harshness, severity, and an exacting and im
placable disposition, are proofs ' and acknowl
edgements of hollowness and bankruptcy of
character ; On the other 'hand, - gentleness,
meekness, and a forgiving spirit, spring from
the consciousness of something valuable in
one's self, that needs no exactions to vindi
dicate its rank. It was justly said of the
Athenians, in the story related at the begin
ning, that they cast reproach upon their own
countrymen, bY-refusing to give up as many
Spartans for their release ; and so we re
proach ourselves in every act that is lacking'
in magnanimity and compassion. By with
holding from others the respect that is due
them, we 'betray disrespect for ourselves ;
whilst we effectually assert our own virtue'
and importance ' by every.
and,
tribute
we pay to the dignity and happifiess - of a,
fellow man. - S.
—Banner 'of the Covenant.
INDIVIDUALITY :PRESERVED: IN ZELL
- NON.
- It, is quite a possible thingthat Christiani
ty may have been pressed on your acceptance
in unjustifiably close, or too exclusive, cOn
nection with the actual specimens of Chris
tianity with which you come in contaet.
Agcl in these there may have been somewhat
to irritate and revolt you. There may have
been a narrowness; a want of symmetry,;'
want of fire or forCe, on the one hand, or of
calm and steady regulation, on the others! a
stuntedness or ill-proportion ; a, firmness .of:
principle ; passing over into sternness and
severity for want of an. element of geniality;
or a geniality degenerating into tame effe
minacy for want of an element of strength
and` vigour. And, in particular, in these
realized exhibitions of the religion urged upon
you, there may have'been to your -view no
scope, noindulgenee,—no quarter, one might
almostlay,—for the, very pursuits in which
you find your innocent and invigorating re
creation ; or to which perhaps you purpose
dedicating yourself as the leading business of
your life.
Now, doing you the justice, or exercising,
towards you the charity, to believe that in
this you are not seeking to cloak over and
conceal, to justify or excuse, an enmity to
the essential spirit of Christianity under the
guise of your dislike*-to•soine mere form of it ;
might it not help you to remember that there
is no obligation laid, on you whatever to em
hrace the particular form which you dislike ?
Christian,ity never proposes to force on you,
for instance, who are in the bud and bloom
of opening manhood,—it maybe, also, in the
conflict with sincere and earnest doulots,—it
may be, also, in the possession of individual
special gifts; with endowments that may
fascinate you towards ; the keen; severities of
science or the bold
,scopefulness of specula
tion:; with tastes that ,turn. you to the fine
arts ; or tendencies that prompt to energy and.
business :—Christianity. 'does not' propose to
force on you, and'uo wise pleader of its.claim
will urge upon you, a style Of piety, let us
say, suited to your godly aged grandmother.
And yet, young man, you may have been
deaf to her kind expostulations, merely , be
cause conscious that a form of piety like hers
would never do with you. You have your
individual character ; your individual career.
And while she, good soul, may all the day
long croon her quiet hymnbeside the hearth,
you have to face, with brave nplifted hand,
life's opening battle, or follow out, with trem
bling thought, inquiries and fears that never
cross her simple mind.
Be it so. .But there' is as little need for
you to follow the type or form of her piety as
there is room for you to despise the spirit
and substance of it. All honour to the spirit
that breathes in it : Youneed not be in bond
age to the form. I say, all honour to ''thO
spirit of her piety :--
She, for her humble sphere by nature fit,
Of little understanding and no wit
Just knows, and' knows no more, her Bible true,
A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew ;
And, in that charter, reads, with sparkling eyes,
Her title to a treasure in the skies,
Ah ! well might you lay all your tastes and
gifts and tendencies—all your sciences and
arts and speculations, with all your progress
and all your pleasure in them—at her feet.
And wisely might' you barter 'them all for a
portion of her spirit. Yes : wisely and well—
were it' needful.
But it is not. You may be baptized with
the same Spirit wherewith she has been bap
tized and you may keep all your ta,stes, and
gifts, and arts, and sciences, and speculations,
too ; and all the laurels of the schools that
you may have gained,--provideA `you can
wear them humbly. The Spirit of the Lord
can baptize you and all your individuality of
character besides. The Christ living. in you
can fill and sanctify: you wholly. There was
nothing cramped and stunted in his own
character when he dwelt among men, visible
in his own person. And there is no stunt
ing, cramping influence in his Presence and
indwelling in his visible Church which is his
body. „And he can dwell in you, " a mem
ber in particular;" filling all your heart and
all your soul with his Preienee ' and
ing - with. his own healing, hallowing power
RlMill
.
every endowment Jie may have assigned to
you. He is the anthor and giver ..of, every
good and perfeCt mental gift which you pos
sess. He knows and under Stands them all.
He knows Whit,education they are suscepti.
ble of. He knowS tihat . perfection they are
capable of reaching; what service in hia
kingdom they are. capable of :rendering. :He
will have a just regard, for thein. .1.19 will
respect them with a .tendernesa and care
which none like the,t t he veryauthor : of them
can feel. No repressive.action will he exert
upon them: very much the' inverse. Only
let him wholly pass is your inner man. And
will he not wholly sanctify yeu,'soul and body
and spirit ; giving lin Warrantable' scope;
and all free, healthful Movenierit';=` giving
;
firmer action and , ller fruit; and grander
prospect of future-fr :t/ andfuture-action ; to
every trait of indivi4ality..which, seeing the
end, from the beginnk, and contemplating
le
your history into. e Jnity,” he. himself from
the first beStowed pon yoli?-L--Bev. Hugh
Martin
HEBREW AND . . REEK SYMBOLISM.
Rv. 4.12--20.
Tars description of the glorified Lord,
.
which has now been ;brought to a conclusion ;
sublime as a - purely mental conception, but
intolerable, if we were to' give it an outward
form and. expression and picture Him .with
I L
this sword : proceedin from hiamouth, these
feet as burning bra s, this hair as white as
wool, and the, rest, ,
_ay suggest a few. mike-,
tions on the apooal tie, and generally- the
Hebrew symbolis - and the very
,signi
ficant relations of 'fference and opposition
in whickit stands' ' 'the. Greek. Religion
and art for the Gr k - ran , into one' another
with no very grea (preplinderance" of the
claims of th'e forme , over the latter. - Even
in his religious sym , lism the sense of beauty,
1
ofform, of preporti 'n, overrules every .other,
and must at all cos, find its satisfaction; so_
that the firct necess ty of the
,symbol is that
it shall not affront, t at it shall satisfy rather,
the msthetic sense. 'Rather than it should
offehd this,"it wouldfbe me-hided and modified
even to ihe serious injury of the idea of which
it was intended to '''be the exponent. But
with the Hebrew syMbolism it is altogether
different. The firs necessity:, there is that
thesYgibol'sh9u l 4 4 4t fort . h truly and, fully
the religious idea df which it is intended to
be the vehicle. iiiir , it would appear when
clothed itself in ah. outward form and shape,
whether, it would 6.14 favor and allowance at.
the bar of taste, thia was quite a secondary
consideration; may''be- Confidently affirmed
not to, have been a' consideration at all; for
indeed, with the one exception'of the cher
ubim there-was' no',intentiontthat it' should
embody itself there,'but rather that it should
remain ever and o. ' a purely mental con-`
oeptien,.thennembn ' igy 4. 49,n,idea. I
may observe, `by the ''firi,y, 11.4 ho--ekiil.....ef .
delineation can make the . cherubim other
than unsightly objects to the' eye. Thns in
this present deicription Of Chsist sublime'
and majestic as it is, it is only such solong
as we keep it 4F - holly apart-from any exter
nal embodiment. Produce it ,outwardly, the
sword going forth from the mouth; the, eyes
as a, flame of,fire, the hair white as wool, the,
feet as molten brass ; and each and all of
these images violate more or less eur sense
of beauty. Bengel, Missing this important
distinction, has' sought to give a picture of
the Lord Jesui according to this . description,
prefixing' it-to- his , . German Commentary on
the Apocalypse; a *Picture which_is almost'
degrading, and only- not deeply offensive to
every feeling of reverence and awe, because
we know that it was not so intended by this
admirable man.* , ,
The explanation of the difference does not
lie altogether in the fact,that the Greek cre
ated his symbol, and therefore could do what'
he *Cal with his '`own;'while'the Hebrew
received his from God,, and could not there
fore venture 40 touchiC It would have 'ex
isted more or, less without this .distinction be
twe,en the >given and the invented, the in
spired: and uninspired: The unsightliness,
often the repulsiveness, of the symbol, so. long
as it is judged merely by the laws of mthestic
beauty, is common to all the religions of the
East. 'What an, ugly sight the Artemis
xitultimmamia. of Ephesus; an Oriental deity,
it need not be said, and not a Greek. ; Whajt,
monstrous forms the Indian gods, with their
hundred arint, present.' At the same time,
we Altogether err if we accepted this as
mark of the inferiority of these nationsto
the areeks. Inferiority in one sense no
doubt it does indicate, a slighter perception
of beauty, but superiority in other and more
important matters, a Aeeper religious earnest
ness a .feeling upon their part that the es
seiice was above the form, a conVictionthat
'truth, such as they conceived it, was - better
than`beauty, and that everything else; as of
lesser moment, was to be sacrificed to'tb:is.--L-
Trench's Seven Chureites. • '
* Others have done the same, though with quite
a different object and aim. I can Perfectly, remem
ber seeing exposed in Carlisle's .shop-window a
blasphemous picture with the title, " The God of
the Bible, " constructed `aceording to - a similar
scheme. Two or three days after, a'erew was
brought before the magistrates, who in a righteous
indignation had dashed his - hand through the win
dow, seized and destroyed it ;.and:l do not think it
appeared again.
BRAVE SUFFERERS. ` '
The 'excitement in reference to the battle
of Cedar - Mountain is nearly over here,
though for two or, three days it was deep and
strong. A thousand wounded men have al-,
ready been sent up from Culpepper from the
field of battle. It is astonishing to see how.
cheerful, the wounded men are. Almost
without exeeiition they are lively ; and, garru-,-
lous over the incidentsof the battle. The'
'most of these gallant fellows are in the Alex
andria hospitals, though, some`are out at Falls
Church: One roan in an Alexandria hospi
tal, who had lost an arm,:wa.s one'of the haß
piest fellows the very night he was brought'
in that I ever• saw. ' You are in good spirits
for a wounded man V' 'said,a, stranger to him.
He looken up from Ms coi, with a smiling,
happy face, and replied, " Yes. Why
shouldn't Ibe happy ? rhave saved my life,
and now I have soniething to show to- my
,family as long as 'I live. My children won't
,be ashamed . to have it knoWn 'that I lost that
,arm fighting for my country l N,o, sir I I
'doubt if now I would' have that arm put-on
JAY eindfather losts, Twin the 14-
volationary War. Our family...has bOasted of
that for ; ileara hundredl yeani .It WaS alidut
time that somebody. else::did: sogkething for
the. credit of the family. Thi3.old:story was
ge,t,tiAg to be a little too, old; end ilow 4 .siry
you see that I am to be the hero,of t.,he
!" . 'There was patriotism, pride of _char
act.Or" 'and philosophy, froin a' commoit sol
dier.—Waskington Corr. IndepVntilint.
RELIGIOUS WORLD ABROAD.
SoomOD. •
PP.eit. l 4 l -* Meetings, ir.: in . the -.beginning, of
July, the .gunily gathe.ring-Aookaplace; in the
beautiful. park of 'the buelnui, of, Gordon.
This, noble, lady has,;yeesly given the use
,of
her fine . PO* fo,t thiSmirpose during the last
thith'esignineri;' and by . for countenance and
hospitality on'each` ocoluii6'n 'his greatlyen- •
couraged-the movement:The :Weather; toit'
timately, was fiilrOttfable, 'and the services
were cOnduOted with'-comfort tiothl to
kers and heaters..:An - average of about 7000
or 8000 persons were present on each of the•
two days f of the golenizOty; and there was Ike
sides*a large meeting Of..cjilidr,,en, w ho-were
addressed separateli. .4.l:tout.the sau4titne,
open-air Meetings . preaching ; the gospel,
and for- prayer; held Boildam, in
Aberdeenshire, 'nide: anipiOes or the
NOrth-East Coast Mission. This was a most'
interesting meeting: The spot Selected for'
the gathering, was the-roolty island onawhich
the lighthouse stands; and which :is 4onnect
ed with the mainland by.'a wooden a bridge.
-Attheno the ' wheather was gloomy and cold,
a goodly number assembled i f:t:pm.P.iialdeort, •
Peterhead;' and The neighbouring cli . etridis,
'many coming a long distance' 14
Colonel Kirby.oecupied the ehair in the ear
ly part of the,day, and- the evening meeting
was presided :over :'by; Lord Aberdeen, who
delivered a brief but, impressive.. address..on
practical „go!ilince,s,, In.,Kirkcaldy ; similar;
.;
meetings have, .beenpheld; , and, on this ; side
of the kiiith, of 'Forth, / the ,departtire. of. the.
Neitiliaimili3herinen for the "herring
at Dunbar Wai signalized by a lige **-
meeting, at which about 140 . 0 were present.
The Cardross Case.—On the 9th of July,
the Court of Session ,dismissed the,actionr of
McMillan against the Free . Church Assenkbly
on the grounds .Ist: that :the Assembly of , tii
1858, which' di d th e enege 4 'wron g , `being di,
~
dissolved in the same year, has' ot now, if it ?
ever had, any corporate Oxistence,L-cannot
therefore be called into Court in its corpcv
rate capacity, and cannot be reached by .any :
sentence giving damages against them.. In
th 9 second place, if an action for, damages
would not lie
,against, the Free .Church;As-
Sembly, then therelwas no ground for reduc
ing her spiritual sentence, -L---a kind of sen
tence with which the civil emit had nothipg
1
to do, unless it could be shownthat it stoic)
in theway of-4qitigant gettinireparatio
i
for njuly to his material intereats. .( Lord'
Carriehill concurred- in this view - 0f, , ? e law
of; the ,case as j laid down,j:ty the:l, rd Presi
dent,
~and added that the,Tolerati Acts ex
tended. protection. .to churches s well as,
ether vobintary associations,,' far aS,they
ae ! ted in, ,bonct fide, according 9 the rules
agreed upon by their 'member . No mem
ber of such an association, 'he eld, was en
titled to complain of its adjUd . sting upon.a
matter which the members hathagreed , should
be ,committed to it,, unless he, alleged that
the - adjudication was propapted y malice
which, in this case, was not alleg . It, wa
not even enough to say, that,' the ssoCiatio
or its office-bearers had acted
, yond the'
competency, if their so acting w `merely
error of judgroe'nt. ' .
It was fully expected that s judgro 1
of , tbe Court would have terminated the e e ;
but Mr. M‘Millan has since raised , a e
action, directed against the indi iduals 13
posing the,majorityef the Gene al Ass b
which suspended him, The, ans fo pr
&denting the new action have lread be(
partly furnished to the Prose utor b su
seriptions,among, some of the F
inbur la
yers, and more is , eXpected in espons 'to
; appeal Mr. M‘Millau 'is ma ng to t ose
the public whwsympathize -V h him.
y a
•••
FRANCE AND MHZ TAND.
Mr:' Bade Mlle's Ministry
authorities: The Paris .corri
Nein of the - Churches `say ,
July 19th
We werepromised anotl: r. visit from Mr.
Radcliffe, Nhem the 'Lord s so abundantly
blessing in. Switzerland. Count Persigny,
Minister or the Interior, ngaged that he
should have the use of the ablic halls ; and
a telegraphic message co veyed the joyful
news to our. brother, whos heart's desire is
to 'reach our masses "wit the 'story of our
Saviour's love. lie tame, leaving Cheerfully
his work at Geneva. , The Minister renewed
his permission? answering for the consent of
the Prefect oc Police ; the Prefect of Police
consented most politely, and promised, an
immediate Ivitten permission. The permis
sion came, tb the Reverend B. _Radcliffe, Me
thodist preacher (I), to speak in English, in
the Salle Barthelenti,— Translation is rohi
bitedV .0 Every step was taken to obtain a
relaxation of the absurd- conation'to speak
in English only, but in vain ; and after three
small meetings in a chapel, Mr. Radcliffe
returned to Geneva, where he can prosecute
his work of evangelizatien in freedom.
On the other hand the church at Fou
queure (Charente), belenging to the Evange;
heal Sock* or Ffance; and so lone closed by
the authorifes,haS been opened. The chnrch
for Protestant soldiers At the camp of Chal
ons, was also consecrated:on the 11th instant,
in presence of. , about 700 soldiers, twenty
officers, and three generals. It holds a, thou
sand hearers.
The Wesleyan, Effort—The fegular meet
ing of the Methodist Conference was held at
Nismes,,-in June.' Three candidates were
o r d a i n ed to the work of the ministry. The
statistics of the interesting Wesleyan mission
in France stand -as follows": places of wor
ship; 218 (ten newly opened), 27 pastors, 14
eolporteurs and schoolmasters, 77 lay preach
ers, 1586 members 7 schools, 39 Sunday-
Schools, with`2ooo pupils. - • •
Xncouraging incident. -- An evitNelist,
was passing through a village, in 'the- east, of
France, whose whole population was in a n
uproar, the agents 'of the public authority
were taking to prison the priest guilty of un
nameable ,crimes; and loaded.withi universal
abuse. A. short time after
an urgent appeal to the e
and give' a religion to the!
consideration would be perk
another priest. or contin
faith ! The appeal was
the gospelis being preaej
'The Rag-Pickers.--4
courageous attempt, has
the chiffonniers (rag-ga
granting, success to„the
man vlo has taken the
several hour's i.e the
lected: children and' he
the elementary stei n t
pinees, while the Sn
voted to-reading' e
Geneva —The Mis
va'ha:s n field of o
its contr ,: but ' , col
them .be ten other
of Basle and. Ari
t i
amounted to 641,
has not been Tiac
ant - Society, of the
' Infidelity i Z rick-4n no part of the
Continent ha• modern infidelity taken a bold
er position t, an in . Zurich. Its chief organ
is the Zlitst, men (Voices of the ~Times),
Which ( asset., the most extreme positions of
the Infidel . A4ording' to'this paper the al
leged appe, ances - of the 'risen Saviour were
no more.lll, i.rndre:visions; or `rather, indeed,
hallucinati nd, the most empty, sensuous illu
sions. . 'I, s infidel party has succeeded in
Zurich an some other cantons, in getting into
their, han : the functions of the religious, in
structor i the Gymnasia, and in„ the teach
er s semi I , ries, and, in gaining over to their
cause,. bo i the civil and the educational au
thorities. They know how to, make a good
use of thf:. favorable pesition, and while. they
claim an, enjoy' the uttnoit fr eed - om as teach
ersa r heir oln . views, they endeavor, by
all m aillble ' ns, to restrict the liberty of
ot,he l, s
as learn s, Wherever it may happen
te.beineouveni . nt to them. A strong Teac
tion is N ting in, and much evangelical life
is revivi among the people. The able pa
per of rofessor Iliggenbach, read at the
Geneva Ortference, which exposed and at-
tempts to refute this party and
. its organ,
has ex ted. attention and done much good.
m!ofe or .Riggenbach Was himself' at one
me - .this extreme s'chool, So that he can
ea Sr; understand the basis and attractions
i system,..and the, method and force of
,ssauhs uponlehristianity.
Truits of the June Couneil.—The eorres
\dent of the Hews' of
~the Ch;
foudent ol— . , ;um' es wren
from Tuscany, - July - 16th, as fellows
f • g '
L l' The Connell of .be Popish Church held
at Rome last month is beginning already to
bee'. its fruits: ' These appear, in Rome it
self in'-the bolder' attitude assumed by the
Pop and .A.ntonelli since'the tempered power
'1 as ,been, declared necessary for the indepen
dence ' if not 'for the very existence, of the
Papal, system. Both his 'Holiness; , and his
Cardinal, Secretary have spoken to Lavelette
' in This sense in answer to another proposition
he had been charged to make for a final ar
rangement, viz., We ref Used to listen to any
compromise before;liut it is doubly impossi
ble now'Wheri we'are{strengthened and sup-
ported by the voice' of the, universal Church,
as made known-through its . 'most 'influential
dignitaries. , , . .
"There is'no doubt that these bishops are
to be regarded :as so many generals of divi.:
sion, gathered round their .commander-in
chief to.. receive their ordcrs, and to have,
their places assigned them in the coming con
filet, and that their orders are to agitate, to
keep up a perpetual fever among' the parti
zans of Rome, in their respective countries,
to work upon - the Governments of Europe
through this and all other chaanels, so as to
awaken their fears and enlist them on the
side of the Pope's temporal power, There is
no doubt.that this assemblage in Rome has
greatly,moiedthe zeal of airsincere, not to
say the fanaticism of all bigoted, Roman Ca
tholics so that they are ready to accept the
decision embodied' in the prelates' address to
I the Pope' as true gospel,` and to do battle for
the temporal poWer; while the whole race of
ieactionists, - { anti=progressists,- and finality
men,--eall_them Legitimists, Carlists, Bouv
bonists, or whatever their distinctive appella
tions may be,---have seized on
.its dictum as
a new rallying point for their, fading hopes."
Th,e Wesleyanilave established a mission
station in ;Parma,' have' bought{ an old Catho
lic church, and appointed , Signor del Mondo
their missionary. , The working classes are
coming in crowds to hear him.
estrieteci by tile
poOdent of the
hider *date of
Persecutions in TUsedny Ceased.—Rev.
R 'McDougall , writes to the New York
Observer , from Florence, July 22, 1861:
"It, affords me. the greatest pleasure to
inform you that the whole system of Tuscan
persecutions has happily terminated. That,
against Gavazzi was illoWed to fall to the,
gronnd. After a preliminary hearing, in
whiCh Christian courage and steadfastness'
were displayed by the eloquent Padre Peace
nini,•the Elba eN'angelist was condemned at
Lucca, fora simple eNiangelical tract eireula
tea. in thedsland. Just, as an appeal against .
the unrightemis zentence, was being taken. to
the Xigher, Court, of Florence, the King pro
claiMed, at Naples, the removal of all, sen
tences prbnounced in connection with offences
against the laws of the press, whereupon Pee
cenini was immediately ibsolved. Last week
the - Waldensian. student, Gregori, and his
right-hand man,.Del Buono, in the`Elba Mis
sion were acquitted, by a majority of nine
to threein &Jury of twelve, at Lucca, of all
blame in circulating, ;tracts in of
evangelical truth?
Discussions of the, boldest character are
carried on, by the native press, Says the
same writer :
The press has thrown wide open, its, col
uhins to contributions which a year ago would
have been* designated Piotestant hyperbole
and 'propagandism. Threats of Batista, ex
pressions,of impatience., and revelations of
Antonellian trickery follow each other fat
and furious. Offending bishops and priests
are handled without scruple by the law offi
cers. The liresence of ,ecelesiasties is .not
Coveted at the national festival& Banter,and
ridicule hive broken loose in the comic jour
nals; on pseudo-religious
_politicians of the
•Vatican. such '"excitement go onta
longer, and no sirpriee need be felt' should"
:ihe mayor wrote
,
ngelist to come
ople, - Who on .no
uaded to receive
in 'the Romish
ruplied with; and
ed there.
SEE VANGELISI I .---liihole No. 850,
Paris,- a quiet and
been made toireach
herersy and God is
simple Christian xvo
irst step, and spends
Lek teaching the 'neg.
jien Mothers some of
civilization and hap
lay afternoons are
criptnies:
lions' Society of Gene
eration directly under
c - ts =funds and divides
rocietiesOeipeciellythose
Its receipts last 'year
0 francs,:a figure which
ed by any other. Protest-
Continent.
ITALY.
the questions, publicly debated Is the
papacy really the religion of the Bible.? '
Can the Pope possibly-be the Vicar of Jo
sue Christ "
Mtguo i Ait l t.
Dr. Lockhart, the eminent medical
-mis
sionary of' the London Society, writes from
Peking, on March. 26th
My, work,proceeds steadily and: prosper
ously and as the cold weather has
,gone, I
lifn beginning:to orierate for cataract, and
removed three `the other day, and have many
more to do. When people see a friend , who
has long been
_blind. coming, among. =them .
with'restored 3iglit, they : do not fail to ap
preciate the benefit received.' Much pain'
and: much distress are relieved. day by day, ,
and many that i come in, agony .and,suffering,
go away rejoicing. May 'God give one wis-.
dein and latikiildge to keel) from mititakes`
and errorsiq lest l'shoultildot evil 'rather than
good, for I-feel deeply the sense of responsi
bility in the 'position I. occupy in this city.
With all humility I would ever look in him
for strength and , guidance—in all I do, lest
from self ,condfience I fall into error .that
would spoil all the future.
A Presbytery or' elassil was formed at
Amoy April 2d, including missionaries of
the English,:Presbyterian and American
formed Dutch-societies, now laboring in that
field. There were five 'elders included in the,
organization from churches organized by the
latter named missionaries. Two students,
were examined in part with a view to the
ministry.
Rev. Wm. TV. Meriant missionary of the
American. Board at Philippopolis Western
Turkey, was murdered July 8d by a band of
robbers, When returning from the annual
meeting of the mission at Constantinople.
Mr'. Coifing of Central Turkey it will be re
membered was murdered in a similar manner
in March last.
The Bulyarians.—:-The American mission
aries at Philippopolis say in'the last Mis
sionary Herald:—Two years and a half of
trial have convinced us that the desire of the
American Board, and indeed of all intelli
gent Christians, for the evangelization of the
Bulgarians, may not be speedily realized.
So deep is the, spiritual and mental darkness,
and so universal and persistent is the super
stitiou,s _reverence for old church forms and
ceremonies, everywhere shown by the Pul
&liana, and, withal, such are the difficulties
under which the nation is struggling from a
rapacious Government, and a corrupt, insa
tiable priesthood, that'we can have little
hope of anything more than a gradual refer.
mation among this , people.
Attaining independence.—Araong the most
encouraging indications presented by the
missionary work is the attainment of finan
cial independeuce; or . t . the•approximation
_to
wards that point which is to be seen in vari
ous parts of the field._ Dr. 04:if•--Con
statitinople-givall as the result of his
servations on a recent tour in Central Turkey,
that missionaries are in danger of staying too
long at samtpoints. He says
`" At some the missionary stations, the
g3spel has taken such root that it now seems
to be groiving in its own native soil ; and it
is, already bringing forth its appropriate fruit,.
The work of the missionary., if it be not al
ready accomplished, seems on the very point
of being so ; and there is evidently more
danger, that he will, in some instances, stay
too long, than he will go too soon. At Ain
tab, for example, the ' , church , supports its
own pastor, its own common schools, (of
which, with those abroad, there are nine,)
and takes upon itself the supply of all the
out-stations except one. The missionaries
of that place ask for no appropriation except
for the theological ckss, the female boarding
school, and for one out-station. For all the
rest the church at Ainta,b provides. At Mar
ash and Oorfa, the churches have nearly or
quite grain up to the ordinary stature of
perfect men; in Christ , Jesits ; and like the
church at Aintaly, they are taking upon them
selves the expense off the entire supply of
their. own .field, unless it may be' wo or three
out-stations."
Tn Western Turkey, Mr. Farnsworth Of :
Cesarea reports the g etermination ef the
church, if possible, to. secure a pastor, for
which - purpose they have now made subscrip
tions, and pledge themselves to pay - two
hundred. piasters . (about 18,00 a _month.)
The reluctance of the„peopie to undertake
the support of their own institutions had long
been a source of triatat Cesarea, and this
new movement is ther'efore 'specially grab-
fying. The man selected as the pastor,--
educated at Bebek, end considered as very
promising,—was supposed to..be on his way
to Cessna.
At the annual meeting of the mission of
the American Board in Eastern Turkey, it
was " evident that the financial embarrass
ments. of the Board have not proved an un
mitigated evil, but in many - bases have been
even productive of much good, in promoting
among the people a-better understanding of
their own resources and their duty, and a far
greater degree of self-reliance. The feeling
of the meeting was that this, spirit should be
as much' as possible developed and encour
aged' at cur several stations ; not 'merely
that *e may'comply with the wishes and in
struction of the Prudential Committee in this
respect, but that we may secure, at an earlier
day, in this lank the healthful,",life-giving
fluence of Alf-sustaining Christian churches
and congregations." .
The Free mission church' at CaTcutta, the
fruit of the labors, of, Rev. Dr. Duff and his
,
Scotch brethien having a native paitor elders
and deacons, pays more .than half ,of the sal
ary Of its pastor with only 50 subscribers.
'DR. WOLINTOCK, in the Methodist says
The only other thing in Strasbourg which
one need care much to see is the monument
of Guttenburg, ; the inventor cif printing; and
it, is a pleasant ;suprise to an American to
find that one side of the block which supports
the statue is taken up with a bas relief, in
bronie, representing the signing of the De
claration. of Independence. All the figures
are there, and those of Franklin, Hancock,
jeffersory and the other great chiefs of the
Revolution, are distinctly recognizable.
IT is better to consider our own failings
before V) censure &OBS of others.