Vol. VII, No. 3.---Whole No. 315. Wu. (For the American Presbyterian.) Stop Finding Fault and Pray. BY FANNIE FLOILENCE " Mother," said a little prattler,Who had peen but five summers, "Are you sure Jesus is alive, and up in Heaven now ?" " Yes, my son." " Can stay in heaven and do great things on earth, just as he did when he lived'here ?" "Yea, dear. He has all pow er in heaven and on earth," " Does Deacon Jones know it " Yes,my child." " Then why don't he stop finding fault with Mr. Lincoln and the generals, and everybody,. and pray ?" " Alit good do you think prayer will do for the war, Charlie ?" "Jesus said in the })able If ye ask anything in my name I will do it' 3 'and in my Sabbath School verse yester day If two of you shall agree on earth, as touching anything that they shall ask it shall be done for them of my Father who is in heaven.' Are there not two people in all this country who want the Rebels to be whlpped,,and the Union and the old Flag saved ? " "es, my son ; a great many people want THAT, I hope.' , "Then, why don't they ask God for it when His promises are so plain? Don't they believe He meansiwhat He says, or do they think God is not strong enough to conquer the' rebels?" Wake I ye sous' of Pilgrim sires . Who of noble birth are proud; Tune your long neglected. lyres, Dissipate the threatening cloud— Make your Father's God your stay; Stop fault-ftuding—stop—aud pray. Thanks for mercies past express; Grateful for the favors shown In this hour of deep distress; Wake! and o'er your follies groan— Turn from hopes deferred, away, Cease from useless talk, and pray. Humbled in the dust, deplore All departures from the Lord; Haste I the good old paths restore, In obedience to His word. Make Jehovah's arm your stay— Stop your clamor—stop—and pray, Creatures ye, of time and sense, Nothing of the future know— Arming now for self-4efenes; Humbly to your Savior go . From transgression t urn away, Stop fault:finding—stop—and pray. From the prudent end the wise, He His deep designs conceals; Blinds the haughty sinners eyes; . To the meek, His will reveale; Then to Heaven your voices raise Learn of babes perfected praise. Will ye not rebuke, receive? Loud, your ElillB for vougeasce call, Wakel the cease of wrath perceive; Helpless at His foot-stool fa/1— " Now—is the accepted day," From trasegressioa tura---..tad pray. Taught by babes the promised grace, lived the infant preacher now; Seek your injured Savior's face, Prostrate in Hie presence bow. Make His promises your stay— /a this hoar of peril pray. He will rebel hosts defeat, • And the wrath of man restrain-- Hurl each traitor from his seat; Who His temple dares profane— Ile the threatened judgment stay, Whea in faith His people• pray. • Would . ye see your banner wave? Gloriously o'er land and sea?, Over Despotism's grave And your fettered country FREE Humbly ask the help you need; Jesus lives to intercede. Own your great inei? - nate King,. His right arm will victory give, Order front eonfusion bring, Bid our bleeding coantrlive, When ye make His arm your stay, For His intervention pray. Wisdom for your rulers seek, Guardian care for, marshalled hosts; He alone from ill can keep ; ALL ,without His aid is lost. Make His changeless love your stay, O'er yo,nr follies weep and pray. Erring sons of Pilgrim sires, Who of noble birth are proud, Fan your altar's smouldering fires, • Dissipate the threatening cloud. Make your Father's God your ,stay— For His , intervention pray. Contoponinta. OUR FOREIGN LETTER. Bout such sentiment as this—the world is just history repeating itself—passes as sterling coin in the literary currency of the present day; and many moderh utterances, with oracular pretensions, are neither more nor less'than ill-disguised plagiarisms from the past. • ADDRESS OF BISHOP HUGHES.. We have_ had a remarkable illustra- tion of the truth of the foregoing statement, in close connection with the scene of bold• and unblushing Sabbath deaecration in Dub lin, referred to in my last month's letter. Soon after the disgraceful Sabba,th scene, and just before he left the shores of the Emerald Isle, Bishop Hughes, of New York, whom the late "Kirwan " made notorious, was invited to address a Roman Catholic Young Men's Assodiatlon in the Metropolis. In the course of his speech which was highly seasoned with treason all through, Dr. - Hughes advocated the repeal of the U . pion, or Ireland fin. the Irish, a /a mode Q Connell; 'and laid down the doctrine --ringing the changes upon it —that rebellion is a crime, if it be not so planned and conducted, as to be successful; but is justifiable—in fact virtuous—if it gain its object ! The end justifies or condemns the means, according to the Theology of. Rome, even in this enlightened age.! The doctrine smells strongly of brimstone, but no matter. If the Italians succeed in their work and'ivar of independence, their cause is righteous, and they . are heroes, from Victor Emanuel down to, the hewer of wood and drawer of Water, having as good a right, two hundred years hence, to canonization, as the Japanese martyrs who must have been sur prised as much by the sensation they caused, as by the honors they received a few weeks ago, after many long years 9f neglect had passed over them. We were not quite pre ared for this teaching at the hands of a dig itary just arrived from Mime, Where the ebellious Italians awl all abettorar'of their ause were denounced in terms which only 'e Cardinals and Bishops of Rome can em ploy. Immorality in Italy morality in Ireland ! So says John Hughes of New York. Such is man; even in an infallible church !, —The fact that the Government took no no tice of the.monstrous procession and proceed ings in connection with the laying of the foundation stone of the Catholic University, which were a premeditated and defiant viola tion of the " Party Emblems Act," has roused the feelings of the loyal Protestants in the North, which will show the Executive that they are expected toadminister even handed justice to all vioiatorce of the law in time to come. At present in a part of Donegal rendered famoui by its poteen, it is said, there is a priest who is preaching the Gospel every Sabbath to his congregation— holding forth the sufficiency of Christ's atonement, regeneration by the Holy Ghost, the supremacy of the Scriptures, and some other leading doctrines of the Word of, God. It is said, moreover, that he is very popular, which demonstrates how ready many Roman- , ists would be to hear the truth, if they had confidence in the preachers of it. God speed this priest in his labors, and bring him to see all the errors of his Church, and all the truths of the Bible still more clearly till he shall come out from among the Babylou! THE IRISH ASSEMBLY. The General • Assembly of the Presbyte rian Church in Ireland held its last annual• meeting in July. The venerable Dr. Cooke - whose praise is in all the churches, as a champion of Orthodoxy . and Protestanism, occupied the moderator's chair for the sec ond time, since the union of the Synod of Ulster and the Secession Synod. The meet ing was a delightful one, because of the brotherly love which prevailed, the deputies who were present, and the reports which were submitted. The Home Mission, or Church Extension, report speaks of some stations fostered into strength, able and willing to take their places among older and established congregations in addition to 60 station's sus tained. The report also states the very grat ifying fact that two.new fields have been ad ded to those formerly occupied—one in the highlands of Donegal, and another in the province of Munster—the latter to be worked by three itinerant missionaries. In the Ro man Catholic Mission repoit, a regret is ex pressed that the attendance of Romanists on public worship is small. This is not very strange, since Protestants are "everywhere spoken against " by those in power—the priests. Yet a goodly number of. Romish children attend the Mission Schools, and are instructed in " the truth as it is in Jesus." There are now 15 congregations, with or dained, ministers, in the Presbytery Of Con naught, contributing to the funds of the church about £684 annually. Ten years ago there were only .6 congregations there,pay ing then about £93. Moreover of ie 15 congregations 9 have manses for their minis ters. GOOD .DONE IN ROMISIC IRELAND. It is not to be supposed that;, with this material progress they has been no corres ponding growth in gace. The report con tains the following very ch.aracteristic sen tences : No better evidence can be furnished of the invaluable good effected by the national schools, mission schools, and general mis sionary efforts, than the large numbers of religious periodicals now in circulation, even in the wildest, darkest districts of Romish Ireland. To hear Drummond, of Stirling, blowing his Oospel Trumpet'.round the• twelve pins of Connamara ' • and Hamilton Magee talking his " Plain Words," tos the echoes of Croagh-Patrick and Nephin, is enough to startle the ghost of Brian Borh _ of me. The Foreign Mission report gives an ac- count of the operations at the different sta tions in -India, which are extensive and en couraging. Some of the laborers in the field are well stricken in .years, h.nd cannot be expected to be long fit for the onerous to of their position. With a desire to give them assistance, and to occupy some new stations, the directors have been seeking men to go to India. Strange and Sad to say, all who have been invited have made excuse. Instead of regarding this as a proof that the missionary spirit is languishing in the Irish, Presbyterian church, I hope it is only an ev-• idence that ministers at. home are entertain ing higher notions of the Mission field's le gal claims to the highest' talents in the church, and just demands for them. 0. that the Lord of the harvest that •is ripening on the sunny plains of India may raise up, qualify, and send forth labors into that har vest. JEWISH MISSION. In connection with the Jewish Mission, there are new churches in Bonn and: Hata burih. In both these cities the Jtws are , reached rather indirectly. It is mentioned by one of the missionaries, Dr. Graham, as his opinion, 'that while little impression may be made on the older Jews, the rising: generation is being, gradually : absorbed into the visible church:" The two agents who' escaped, with' their life, from Damascus, at the time of the massacre, have been permit ted, to return to that city, in which they la bor, being,troubled on every side,—in perils in the city, and in perils by the may. One of them, Mr. Rob Son—a most devoted - man —has been invited. by a princein the coun try to become the tutor of his sorts. The directors have resolved that Mr. Robson should accept the invitation ; because in his new sphere he will have an opportunity of doing much in favor of Christianity among the upper classes. The report of the Ccilonial and COntinen tal Mission contains interesting information concerning the state and prospects, of the Presbyterian . chnich in all the colopies of * Britain, and concerning the condition and hopes of Protestanim on the Continent. OONTItIBUTIONS. While the contributions to the various schemes of the church are somewhat less than last year,,owing, it is 'supposed .to the• depressed stafe , of trade, it is to be remem bered that a very large sum was raised for the erection of new churches in different pla ces, but principally in Belfast. The Lord• has indeed prospered the way of: the. Irish church; and, surveying the field before her, the work to be done by her, and the claims of God upon her, as an expression of her de vout gratitude she should say, 44 through God we shall do,valiantly," realizing thatit is not by might nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord of Hosts she can succeed. PITILAMLPTITA., , TITH.I . * : Ay,, SEPTEMBER 1362.. CARDROSS 'CASE. The notorious CardrosS case which 'as generally imagined to be settled by the de cisions of the. First. Division of the Court of Session, on, the 9th of July, has assumed a new, but not unexpected phase. Mr. Mc- Milian has raised an action, directed against the members of Assembly who voted for his suspension from the ministry. It is said some of the' Edingurghlawyers are furnish ing the prosecution with " the sinews of war" (law), which he hopes to strengthen by the response to an appeal he has :made to those of the public who may sympathize with him. There is in Ulster a proverb, more truthful than dignified, which I think is not inapplica ble to all who contribute to Mr. McMillan 's exchequer—" fools and their money are soon parted." Things are coming to a pretty pass, if non-established "churches cannot 'ex-, ercise discipline ,on their own own offending members without being liable to civil pains and penalties. - • THE 81-CENTENARY. As, the day for celebrating the Bicenten ary of the expulsion of 2,000 Evangelical ministers from the Established Church , of England draws on, the excitement for and against becomes still more intense. Many pamphlets on. both sides have appeared— some of them, I am. sorry to say, manifest ing much o the proud severity of party spirit. I believe neither side has anything whatever, .by right, to do with the - motives of the other; and it is the overlooking, of this which has caused a deplorable alienation between men who used to labor in harmony in such a sphere as the. Bible Society. I think all the branches of the. Presbyterian family, and the Congregationalists in Ireland have prepared for celebrating the.Bicentiary in some manner ; and the Irish. Non-conform ists are determined to show theii'sympathy with their English brethren in amore pal pable way, than by lectures, or sermons— they are determined to aid them with money 7, THE ESTABLISHED 'CHURCH OP ENGLAND The restoration of Puritan orthodoxy, agd candor, and conscientiousness to their lawful ascendancy in the Established Church would effect a wonderful reform—and in a very short time. The English church is lax When she should be stringent, and scrupulously exacting when she shoula tolerant, . Her gi- • gantic - proportions, her splendid revenues, and her proud claims, as, a national establish ment challenge the scrutiny, or at least in= rite the attention, of every thoughtfUl man who , likes to know the reason of things. Therefore she need not be surprised if, at a time like this, dissenters dig a little deeper into her creed and her clajms than they -have done for some years. In proof that she is lax when she , should be stringent, and tyrannical when she should be tolerant, it might be enough to say that it is almost as much as hisliving is worth for a clero b yman to read any collect or lesson, but the one for the day, while` he might - preach any ism_but -Bibleism- and summer all the• year round in Episcolia:l In farther confirmation of iny ntinion, as to her toleration and tyranny to those within her pale, I shall give a few «clerical adver tisements " taken at random from the col umns of the Times and Record; and these, as examples, will demonstrate that the Eng lish church is another Bahel in the creeds of her clergy. One advertiser writes his own certificate as follows, ," opinions evangelical ; but Moderate " another a possesses popular talents of a high order, sanctified by'Divine grace;and it is presumed - that' in any local ity where dissent is strong; his services would be of peculiar value ; " another, a beneficed. clergyman of no extreme views, monied, with one child, is willing to take du ty;" another, " a clergyinan in full orders wants a curacy in London—sentiments those of the Primate ; another whede " sentiments are those of the Record Newspaper" wishes for a change ; another , advertisement :runs thus---:" wanted immediately for a sole charge; or clergman in. full orders. Population about 840. Views—via Itiedia ;" and the list I shall quote reads as . follows-"wanted a gen tleman, neither Tractarian nor Calvinistic, disposed to work well in 'an agricultural par ish !F" These are all in and of the estab lishment. She has gathered them together, " even as a hen gathereth a"chicken under her wings." They have all subscrie'd the thirty nine articles, and they all believe the Pray er book. Yet the views of one stand in, deadly antagooisacto those of another; and, Cain lifts; up his hand; and slays his brother. According to the advertisements I have quo ted so heterogeneoult are the creeds of the English clergy that, the words of the Apostle -"'one faith "—cannot - possibly apply 'to them; and there is only 'one word knoWn •to me, which at all describes the nainistry of the establishment—and that word• is conglomer ate. I trust that the Bicentary celebration will . do much to aid the earnest_ evangelical part in the Established Church in their laudable 4) 'efforts to 'secui,e a revision of the rayer book, and something like uniformit in the creed of themembers. I hope too that dis senters, blessed with a'revival of Puritan principles, shall give themselves, without di vision or distraction, to the work of the Lord in tifir respective spheres. , The Italian question, has assumed a new aspect. Garibaldi, suspecting the Ratazzi administration of a. ouble-dpaling, is eddeair oring to overthrow it; and have Ricasoli re, turned to power. If he succeed,'thecha,nge will bring Napoleon to a`point: If he do not succeed, it is highly probable the liberator will loose the knot in the way of his own. IRISH PRESBYTERIANS AND OUR WAR. As to the Atherican. War—intense anxiety prevails among the, friends of the ,Noith, since the news of the 'engagements before Richmond arrived. Oh that the. God of bat tles and of peace may bring this disastions war to a speedy termination. The true lovers of right and liberty here are as desirous as even to hean of the successes of the North, through a portion ,of the British press must unaccountably, still writes in favor of the South. The heart of Irish Presbyterians to a man, is in the right place—on the side of the North. I mention this because some of their journals have been blowing cold on the subject. Daily thousands of prayers as cend to God fropi Presbyterian altars, on . behalf of the defenders of justice and human ity.,in .America; and prayers are ,more pow erful than the press. - - Reader, are you fighting the battle'of life on the. Lord's side ? if not, you arefighting against your own 11'4 are. Advise and see what answer you ean'zive, in the presence of the Lord, to any,,imple, but momentous question, THE SCIENCE OF 4NOUAGB INDEBTED TO CHB ISTMITL .' THE Greeks never inought of applying the principal of classificatihn to the varieties of human speech. They'hnly, distinguiShed be tween Greek on one side, .and >all other lan guages on the other,*mprehended under the convenient name Pl' Barbarous t ." They succeeded, indeed, in I,ssifying four of their own dialects with tol able correctness, but they applied the ter i 'f',harbarous "so pro miscuously to the othe pore distant relatives of Greek, (the diale ir af the Pelasgians, Carians, Macedonians, l , , h'rticiani, 'and Illy- Hans), that, for the pur ' 's l ot scientific chit-' sification, it - is almost ' ossible to make any use of 'the statements o ancient writers about these so-called barbaro idioms. . Plato, indeed, in,, is Cratylus (c. 36), throws out a hint that th 4: Greeks might have 'received their own word from the barbari ans, the barbarians b ing older than the Greeks. But he was n , able to see the full bearing of this remark.'' 'He only, points out that some words, such 4,s' the names of fire, water and dog wgie the same in Phyrgian and Greek; and be suppeseS that the Greeks borrowed them 41;1m thtt Phrygians (c. 26). The idea that 4lie Greed : language and that' of the barbarians eouldNye had a common source never entered his:l)l4ld. It is strange that even so compreheraiie a mind as that of Aristotle should have Iled to -perceive in languages some of that 1 'w of order which he tried to discover in evt'ryalin of nature. As Aristotle, however!, ididTot attempt this, we need not wonder thaVit was not attempt ed by any one else fes - ithe next two thous and years. The Re)4ls, in all scientific matters, were merely the parrots of the Greeks. Having th em e ,elves been called barbarians, they Bowl learnt to apply the same name to all ethet. nations, except of course, to their masters ,the. Greeks. Now §arbarian is one'of t i `se lazy expressions which seem to say eve , thing but in reality say nothing. It was ap 'lied as recklessly as the word heretic during- ie Middle Ages. If the. Romans had not ree ived this convenient name of barbarian 4.4 „, made ,for them, they would have treate Aieir neighbors, the Celts and Germans, wi h more respect and sympathy : they woUld, fot all events, have looked at them with a ore discriminating eye. And, if they had One so, they would have discovered, in spit -Of outward differ ences, that these barbari ns were, after all, not very distant cousins. There was as much similarity between the la gunge of Cmsar and the barbarians against ,hom he fought in Gaul and Germany as t ere was between his language and that of - - tionl6l.. 'A man of Owsar's sagacity would littit'Seen 'this If he: had had not been blinded _by traditional phrase ology. ' I am not exaggerating. It surely required a certain amount of blindness, or rather of deafness, not to per ceive such similarity, and _thatblindness or deafness arose, I believe, entirely from the single ward barbarian. ' Not till ghat word barbarian was struck out of the dictionary of mankind, and replaced by brother, not till the right of all nations ".of the world to be classed as members of one genus-or kind was recognized, can we look even for the first be ginnings of our science.. This change was effected by Christianity. To the Hindu, every man not twiee-born was a Mlechha ; to the Greek, everyman not speaking Greek *as a barbarian; to the Jew every person not circumcised was a Gentile ; to the Mo hammedan, every man not believing in the prophet is a Giaour or Kaffir. It was. Chris- tianitY which first broke down the-barriers between Jew and Gentile, between Greek and barbarian, between the white and the black. Humanity is a word what, you look ,for in, vain in Plato or Aristotle.;'the idea of man kind as one family, as the -children of one God, is an idea of Christian growth; and the science of mankind, and ' l of the languages of mankind, is a science which, without Chris tianity, would never have sprung into life: When.people had been taught to look upon -all men as brethren, then, and then only, did the variety of human' speech 'present itself as problem that called for a solution in the eyes of thoughtfel observers; and I, therfore, date the real beginning of the science of lan guage from the' first day rof Pentecost'. After that day of cloven tongues a new light is spreading over the 'world, and objects rise into view which had been hidden fromf the eyes of the nations of antiquity. Old words assume a new meaning, old pioblems a new interest, old sciences a new purpose. The common origin of mankind, the differences of race and language, the suSceptibility of all nations of the highest, mental culture, these become, in the new world in which we live, problents'of scientific ' -because of more- than scientific, interest. It is no valid objection ,13,, that, so many -centuries hcaild have elapsed before tie spirit which Christianity infused into everybranch of scien ific inquiryproduced visible results. We se _:Sin the', oaken _fleet which rides the ocean t e small acorn, which was buried in the gran hundreds of ye,ars ago, and we reeognize n the philosophy of Albertus Magnus, th ugh nearlv'twelve hundred years after t e death a Child, in the aspirations o Kepler,* and in the researches of the • greatest philos ophers of our own age, he,sound of that key note of thought which bad heen struck for the firs time by the ap • itle of the Gentiles : * These are the bast Wor`i ; - lepler's -4 .f , Harmony - of the World," " Thou- W o : by the light, of nature best kindled •in ne the Ion! 'lig after the light of Thy grace, in order to' raise'us ci the light of, Thy glory, thanks.to Thee, Preator4in..Lord, that Thou lettest me rejo s ice in Thy works. 0, I have , done the work of life' With that poWer of intellect- whiek Thou host given. hare recorde. ,to men. theglory of Thy works, as far as my mind,c.uld comprehend their in finite majesty. .Isly senses -were- awake to search as far as 'could with a ,unity and faithfulness. If I, ' a worm before , ' 1, • e eyes, : and born in the bonds of sin, • have • brought forth any thing that is - unworthy ofThy ~countiels,' inspire, me with Thy spirit, , that I may correct , it: If, by .the wonderful beanty of Thy works, have been leilinto boldness, if I have sought my own honor, among,men as I advanced in the work which was destined to Thine honor, pardon me in kindness and charity, and by Thy grace grant that my teaching may be to Thy glory, and, thewelfare of all men. Praise ye the Lord, ye heav enly.llaimenies, and yethat understand the new har monies, praise the, Lord.', Praise,God t 0, my sou.L.as long as I live. VrOin througitHim, and in Him is all, the material as will as the spiritual---all thatwe know and all that weknow. not yet=t6iihere is much to do that is yet undone." KOOS For the *visible 'things of Rim from the creation, of the world are clearly seen, being understood ky.the things that are made, even His eternal power and godhead." But we shall see shat the science of lan guage owes more than its first impulse to Christianity. The 'pioneers of our, science were those very.apostles who were commanded " to go into all the _world, and preach the Gospel to every creature," and their true successors, the missionaries of the whole Christian Church. Translations of the Lord's Prayer or of the BiblAnto every .dialect of the world, form even now the most valuable materials for' the comparative philologist. As long as the number of known languages was small, the idea' of classification hardly suggested itrelf. The mind -must be bewil dered by the ‘ 'multiplicity'of facts before it has,recourse to division.--Max Mueller. S M. .;:iittglitio*P4WlWltt:4lteMlilure. PERIL ARR.GLORY OF THE TABERNACLE. WAS it necessary in carrying out the Mo saical.system, that there should be either art or splendor in the form or services of the tabernacle or temple ? Was it necessary to the perfection of any one of their typidal offices, that should be that hanging of blue,,and purple, and scarlet ? those tactics of brass and sockets of silver ? that working in silver and overlaying with gold? One thing at least is evident : there was a deep and awful danger in it ; a danger that the God; whom they . so worshipped, might be associa ted in -the ,minds of the serfs of Egypt with the Gods to whom they had seen similar gifts offered, and similar honors paid: - The prob ability,. in our timeq, of fellowship with the feelings - of the idolatrous Romans is abso lutelys,s nothing -compared with:the danger to!the Israelite of a sympathy with the idol atrous Egyptian. ** * Yet against this mortal danger provision was not made in one way, (to 1 - part's thoughts the simplest, the most natural, - the most .eifective,),by with drawing from the, worship • of the Divine Be ing. whatever"could delight the seise, or shape the imagination, or limit the idea of Deity to place. This one way God refused, demanding for himself such honors, and ac cepting for himself such local dwelling as had been paid and dedicated to idol gods by heathen worshippers; and fore what reason ? Was the glory of the tabernacle necessary to set, forth or - image His divine glory to the minds of his people ? Whit !, purple and scarlet necessary to - the people who had seen the' great river of Egypt run scar let to the sea under his condemnation ? What! golden lamp and cherub necessary for those - who had seen the fires of heaven falling like a mantle on Mount Sinai,and its golden courts opened to receive theirlmortil lawgiver ? What! silver clasp and fillet nec essary, when they had seen the silver waves of the Red Sea clasp in their arched hollows, , • the 'corpses of Jheorte. Ana ddp. r , ? liay, , not io. There was but one reason, av i dothatt an eternal one ; that, as the Covens t that Heonade with men was accon3pani with some external sign of its continuan and of His remembrance Of it, so the ace tance of that covenant might be marked an signified by use,• in some external sign of heir love and obedience, and surrender of hemselves and theirs to his will ; and that their grat itude to him, and continual rem mbrance of him,,lnight itave at once their expreslion and their enduring testimony in the pres ntation to him not only of the firstlings of he herd and fold, not only of the fruits of e earth / and the tithe of time, but of ill tr sures Of wisdom andbeauty; of the though that in vents, and the hand that labors:; o wialth of wood and weight of stone ;of the ength o iron, and of the light of gold. ~ THE PRINCIPLE NOT AB °GATED. 1 i - It has been said it ought' always to e said, for it istrue—trar a better rid a'a honorable offering is madeltb ou Masts i ministry to the poor, in eitendin the k n ledge of his name, in the practi' of the ix tues by which that name is hallo ed, tk i material presents to his tempi_ Assur d' it is so; woe to all who think x t any hi kind or g manner of offerin Ana in any i • take - the place of these ! Do . ti • people 4ee place to pray, and calls to be his ; f ord Then it' is no time for .smootbi g . pillars o carving pulpits ; 'let us have e due first of walls and roofs. Do the peop e need teach ing from house to house, and b earl from day to day ?.• Then they are dem ns and minis ters we want, not architect . i I insist 0n.., this. ,I plead for this ; but et us examine ourselves, and see if this be deed the rea son for our Vickwardness in r.e lesserwork. The question is not between e+d's house and. his gospel. It is between id's house and ours. Have we no tesselate colors on our ~ floors? no frescoed fancies 1 1 our roofs ? no niched statuary in our corridors? no gilded furnitun in our eliambefil no costly stones in our cabinets Has even the tithe of 'these been offer d ? They are, or they ought to be, the sign that enough has been devo ted to 'the gre t purposes of human steward : - ship, and that. there remains to us what we can spend in laxury ; but theie is a greater and prouder luxury than this selfish on el--. that of bringing a portion of" subh things as these into sacred serviee, `'ands presenting them for a memorial that our pleasure as well as our toil has been hallowed by the remem brances of Him who 'gave both the strength and the reward. And until this has. been I done, Ido no see how, such posessions , can ' be retained i happiness . Ido not, under stand the feeling which would arch our own gates and pav our ownthre,sholds, and leave the charch w h its narrow door and foot worn sill; the 4 eeling which enriches our own chambers with all manner of costliness, and endures the bare wall .and mean compass of the temple. * * * It will be seen, . ; .in the course of the following chapters,. tltat I am no advocate for in e , a nnceB 4 4 private habita tion. I would fain introduce into it all mag nificence, care, and beauty, where they are possible ; but I 'would not have that useless expense in unnoticed fineries and: formal.' iti es , * * * things which cause half.the ex pense of life, and destroy more than half its comfort, manliness, respectability, freshness, and facility, * * * the tenth part of which *;r. * would, if collectively offered and wise ly- employed, build a.marble church" for every town in England;.such a church as it would bring thelight into the eyes to see frOm afar, • lifting its fair height above the.purple crowd of humble roofs. 1 GOD'S lIBAD TO DR, )10 ORED. • But whatever ornaments 1 • admit ought clearly to be of a chaste, g , , :ve, and noble kind ; and what furniture s employ, evi dently more for the honorin of God's word than;for the ease of the prea , , hr. • For there are 'two ways of regarding sermon, either asn7human composition;' or Divine message. if we look upon it entire]; as the first, and require our clergymen .to Wish it with their •utmost care and learning, or our better 4e :light whether our better ()light whether of ear or intellect, we shall , cessarily be led to expect much formality d stateliness in its delivery, and to think tit all is not well, if the pulpit, have not ago en fringe round`it, and, a goodly r cushion i, front of it, and if the sermon b not fair] written in a black it book, to be moothed on the cushion in a majestic ma - Or baler, beginning; all this we shall du :,come >to expect; :but weAutll4. at the s* ' Ine - lion ;er :.:the AltlW prepared-a omet o ; to which it is our clu ,ty to listen with nt pstlesness for half an hour or three qu er but which, when that duty has been d oil -ly performed, we may dismiss from au mit , s in happy confidence of being provid ct v h another when next it shall be necessa y. :ut if we once begin to regard the pre her t whatever his faults, as a man sent vti a Message to . us, which it is ..matter of lif or e ach whether we hear or refuse;` if ,we ok pon him as set in charge over many sp its in danger-of ruin, and hav ing allewed t hint but, an hour or two ,in the seven days ,speak to them ; if we make some endear ',to conceive hew precious these lours - ought 6 be to him, asmall vaatage on he :aide - -of od after his flock have - been ex nosed for, si days together to-the full weight of the worl a temptation,• and he has been orced to tch the thorn and . the thistle springing i their hearts, and to see what „ heat, had been scattered there snatched” rom t e yside y this wild bird and the 1 ither, an at . lit, when breathless • and weary wit the 1 ek's labor they give hi i . his in real of irn erfect and languid hearing e has ut thirty nutes to get at the separate earts of 'at i ousa d men, to convince them - of heir weak ( .sses, l e shanie them for their sins, o warnth m of all their dangers, to try by his way d that' to stir the. hard fastenings •f those i ors - where the Master himself has -,tood au' , Hocked, yet none opened, and to call at t, • ;openings of these streets where - wisdom : erself hath stretched forth *hands and n , •ii an regarcied;—ihirty minutes to raise , ,e dead - in -let us but once -under , stall. A rt! •feel ..this and we shall look with chat ,ed eyeis upon that flippery of - gay,fur, nit • about the place from which the -mes s% of judgment must- be 'delivered, which eir er breathes upon the drybones that they i , live, or if ineffectual, remains recorded c I demnation, perhaps .'against the utterer i d listener alike, but assuredly against, one I I the i. We shall not so easily bear With . he sil and gold upon the seat of judgement, nor . * ornament ,of- oratory m the mouth of .ith ..i:messefiger. •;.- iwe ~ s hall. . wish-.= hia i t w ids . xnay be simple, - .even when. they. are sl ntelat, and the place from which he speaks, li e a marble rock in the desert, , . about which tl people have gathered in their thirst. TERESTING . FACTS ABOUT IRELAND. Ireland has of late years been undergoing !rester economic changes than any other onion of the kingdom. When I tell you ,hat, within the short period of nineteen years —since the period of the Disruption-480, 000,000 worth of land have changed hands in the. Ecumbered and Landed Estates, Court; involving a change of property,, and intro ducing an immense amount'of capital, energy, and agricultural skill, that are telling con fessedly upon the aspect of the country—as similating Ireland more to Scotland and Eng land than in former times ; and that' these changes like those which Dr. Begg brought out so admirably the other evening in his '.' Report on _Houses for the Working Classes, ';' will naturally tell upon the people- 74 you will easily see that they give us facilities of a peculiar character for the introduction of the Gospel concurrent with these economic chang es. Changes as great in the population have been, going on no less extensive. Two tides d have been.streataing over Ireland—one in the ? direction of Australia and America, to some extent ergo to Scotland and England, going out of Irelands; and another, chiefly coming into Ireland from Scotland ; and I trust in its character and consequences, like the gulf streame; which bring fertility and health. Generally speaking, the outgoing eiemeiat has been a Roman Catholic element, the in coming a Protestant element, and especially a Presbyterian'element from Scotland. We have no doubt that these two changes togetli ert the outgoing and the incoming, will tend to make the. South and West of Ireland soine 171aat like Ulster, and• like the changes which took place some years ago in our own belov- ediland. In 1848, the population of Ireland was in :round numbers eight millions and a quarter ; in 1861, it was five and . ..three-fourth millions, Making a decrease on the gross po pulation of two and a half millions,nr nearly the entire population of Scotland, if you ex cept Edinburg and Glasgow. You may thus have an idea, from -the decrease of the pOpu -lation on the one, hall, and the -introduction of capital on the other, of the economic changes that are, going on in Ireland. ` Tbe great mass'of the population who have left home consisted, as I have said, of the Romish element; while of those who have come 0 llreland, there ha,ve been hundreds from Scot land, tending to change still . more the rela tive proportions of Roman Catholic and Pro testant, giving accessions that constitute centres of light and inflnence to the Protest ant Churehes in 'that dark land. I havehere a map drawn .up by Mr. Miller, Prince , s _Street, Edinburgh, with red dots shoWing upon it the places where Scotehmen had set led ; and I put it into the hands of the Mod erator for his information. Thii. map is in dicative at once of the migratory' and also the' gregarious character of our Scottish country men. You will observe *that a large number have Clime froth Scotland, and thet wherever a Scotchmark has fixed himeelf others have come and settled .down beside him.—Rev. ,lifr. 4c.ffaughtoilB Adams& Fon GOD.-_- , 'Live, live for God, And to'lla world to save.! • :Live live for Pod, Nor heel the coming grave ! SEA EVANGELIBT.—WhoIe No. 852. SOCLII MISSION OF CHRISTIANS. How often for some, time have.l. heard the complaint " .A.h !if there were `a-Christian party, what mission would it now fulfil ?". God does not twice in an age lend hisser vants striking occasions to manifest by social benefits the excellence of the Gospel, Chris tians might have seconded in America the greatest progress of the times, and they did not do it ; Christains might have arrested at. its beginning the insurrection for slaverN and..theyi did not do it; Christians might, perhaps, have prevented civil war, and they did not do it ;. Christians:might have conjur ed down.the • chances of a horrible war be tween England. and America,' and .they did not do it. It is, because we have, not sullicientlysom , prehended the social mission -Of the Gospel. The gbapet I wtAmfrison it is its elgtero, An'd: in some Sur its specialty. We too often draw a difference between the sacred and the profane. Now, one of the great benefits of the Gospel has consisted precise ly in abolishing this distinction, in. re-esta blishing unity between the' human soul and life. To upraise everything, to sanctify everything, to-preserve .everything, to put the sacred everywhere and leave the profane nowhere, such is the marvellous work which it accomplishes, Great things and small, affections and interests, duties as fathers of families and citizens- 1 --we have the right to declare nothing profane ; that is, to abstract nothing from our God. Have we two principles of life, as well as two kinds of morality, the one for the church and the other for the world; the one for pri vate relations and the other for politics? Ah! I would weep my eyes dry, should the ene mies of the Gospel deem themselves authoriz edhy our fa - ult to dispute its social mission. —" See these renowned Christians !" they murmur alieady in our ears, they know very well how to compound with vices, pro fits, or national prejudices. Opium has im posed silence on them; now they will be hush ed by the presence of cotton." Our Christianity has the air sometimes of having gone outside the age. All that is not the direct work of preaching or of charity seems to awaken its scruples. As if any thing human could remain a stranger to us, as if the Gospel, which surrounded the earth and sky, did not comprehend political com munities; as if it proceeded by mutilations instead of transformations; as if, like false religions and'pettyr morals, it sanctified man by diminishing him, taking away the affec tions, taking away tie external duties, taking away the arts, taking away literature, taking away, in fine, always and everywhere, and making the world believe that one loves God, only on condition of loving nothing else. The world is but too much disposed to ad mit 'this doctrine. Every Christian, in its eyes, is a man who has entered a convent, an incomplete man, who will pray, but will no longer act„, who glories henceforth in in teresting:himself in _nothing here below, in calling the affections idols, in having nt, heart either for creatures, (as it is said,) or' civilization, or liberty.—De Gasparin. ATTITUDE OF CHRISTIANS IN ENGLAND. Estrum- this glorious crisis, which they are passing through in the name of the gos pel, and for the holy cause ofjustice, the United States counted on the support of England, above all Christian England. England is their mother, she has furnished them almost all their original population she has absor bed, into the Anglo-Saxon nationality the la ter immigrations. They are bone of her bone, and flesh of her flesh. 'Furthermore, a religious tie, stronger than that of blood, unites the two nations which show themselves devoted above all others to the propagation of the gospel on earth. We know to what point the frigid attitude of English Cnristiarts has for- long months disappointed the hopes founded upon them. I speak of it more 'freely, inasmuch as this fault is already 'almost a thing of the past— and sympathy is on the way to, awaken. Yes, for long months, EngliSh Christians have not had, as it were, a single word of en couragement to place at the service Of those who were combating (as I hati proved) and suffering for a noble cause. Not a meet ing, not an address ; the Journals which serve •as organs to the principal churches have almost all made it their study to dis credit the, movement, to point Out with an ac cent of triumph the mortifications of the re public, to exaggerate the successes of the South, and depreciate those of the North, to, deny that slivery was in question, to legiti matize the separation, to present-as a desir able - ideal the definitive maintenance of a Southern Confederacy. This was sad, very sad. Christian' Eng land has not forgotton the moment when the eloquent cry of betrayed affection crossed the seas, Oh, Englishmen, Englishmen, could you not have watched with us one hour?"'lt will be remembered that the Mira beau once proposedthe resolution in the Na tional Assembly : " The silence of Sieyes is a public .misfortune." With stronger-rea son, the resolution might be adopted by all of us, continental Christians, dismayed by the attitude of , England: "The silence of English Christians is a'universal calamity." Theylaave sent us invitations to prayer, bnt among the subjects pointed out, we have never perceived that width preoccupied all our thoughts. The great moral and religi ouduinterest of our age was systematically omitted ;-the word • slavery seemed to have become On suSpicious in England as it had been in America. One,would have said that, desirous of justifying the prejudices-of their enemies, they >wished to prove to the whole world that English, interests passed with them before everything, that their abolition zeal was extinct, that questions of principle were incapable of moving them. During this time, blood was flowing ;",tha,t - blood, the ef fusion of which would ha* been prevented or promptly checked by the'energeticirtierven tion of European sysmpathies, that blood of which We are guilty r ull who have been unwil ling to discourage 'the monstrous ,insurrec tion of the South. One of the problems that has most tor mented my mind has been to explain'the con duct of English Christians in certain affairs, and' at certain moments.. I knew'of ne.men more energetic or 'devoted; at ;the present time, a very large portion of the , good Which is accomplished on`our.oglobe is , accOmplists; ed through their powerful initiative; yet
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