there are inexplicable breaks in their action. One would say at times that political Eng land alone remained, while Christian Eng land had disappeared. Did we not hear it said but the other day, and with a show of reason, that in the extreme East, in China, Prance had sustained' the moral and religi ous interests, whilst England represented there nothing but the interests of her cold rmerce ? If such things are thought, if : they appear plausible and are generally received, whose is the fault ? English o,hristians have succeeded in per suading themselves that slavery is °not in question in the United States. How? Truly, 1 cannot yet succeed in comprehending. The fact is certain, notwithstanding, and it alone explairis the attitude which has grieved us so deeply. By virtue of a marvellous transfer mationi.the same men whom English opinion formerly condemned with just severity, have become alinoSt . interesting since by treason and perjury, by pillaging public property, and repudiating private debts ; waking care, Inoreciver, to proclaim the sanctityof slavery, they have endeavored to overthrow their free constitution, and have supplicated foreign fOwers to aid in the destruction of their coun try.—De c:htsparin. fugcbginin GENESEE EVANGELIST. THURSDAY, ,SEPTEMBER 18, 1862. JOAN W. NEARS. PRESENT MISSION OP TEE OKOROH AND PULPIT IN 01711 COUNTILY. ,Tl#o extreme courses are open , and have been? pursued try the xninistry and people in view of: the present crisis. On the one hand, the whole onptfies of the church, the whole drift of the praying and preaching, the entire current of thoughtund feeling, may take the direction of patriotism, and the distinctive character ,of the ehurchanay almost disappear. This of course is tube eon lemned. On the other hand,. such a state of things may be studiously avoided, and the t interests of the country denied anything but the most cursory mentionln the pulpit or the pray ing circle. It is feared: in some quarteri, that the frecydmission of such a topic would" seei. nlarize " the church. The revival spirit, it is claimed, will die out, and coldness and barten mess will overspread the field. The true, work and the best work of the church.; and the one on which this class of persona would insist as espec- ially apptopriate in times of great worldly ex citement, is to hold close to the grand truths of religion and, the objects of faith, to check popular excitements _which do not seem to bear directly upon them, and to keep alive a due appreciation of them, when they are likely to be thrown into the shade. he church they think should throw it self in the way of the current, lest everything spiritutil ge down in its overwhelming rush. Without •irerging,to the extreme =first mention. ed , we wi..h to argue against the opposite error of extreme conservatism, and ...in favor of a large, full, and hearty exhibition of sympathy on the part of the Church, the Pulpit and the Religions Press in oar national affairs. Colmider; I. The extreme perils in which we 4 are. in volved. We are in danger of losing our chief earthly. blessing :good government. Success ful re 13,4 ion, especially when,grouralless or based in injustice, loosens the foundations of society, and destroys security in every department of life. Wo pray, preach, and fast, in view of such calamities as plague, drought, famine, flood, fire, shipwreck, commercial revulsions, railroad acci dents; but what are all combined, compared with the success of an enormous and desperate rebel lion which aims to destroy our nationality, to es tablish a political principle subversive of federal unity, to set up' a government upon the ruins of OUTS and which shall be the leading power on this continent, with slavery for its, corner stone ? What peril so great as that which threatens the overthrow of a government and a social system, which take it for all in all, is the most beneficent , to 'the greatest number, the freest, the most Chris dab, ih,e hest the world ever saw? What calam ity to us and to the human , race, we might add, so groat, as that Which would cut short the ca reer of this Christian and Protestant country, would of ipple its resources and paralyie its in finence by disintegration, would muzzle its pul pit and its press, would sap the strength of our chnreh organizations, and, in , the universal dis trust that followed the triumph *of rebellion, break up: our - spheres and plans of usefulness and Inca. paeitate the minds of men for a consideration of the truths of the gospel? - If the foundations be destroyed, what can the. righteous: do ? asked David, when the king of • Israel persecuted his innocent soul and droVe him Irtite his rightful. , home to the mountains. The piety of David vas not of the stupid kind which, requires to be ;4i:dated in its experiences from, *human interests as a condition of life and ,activ ity. Ills inspired pialms are frequently- based upon - his temporal circumstances, and the wick ed doings of his political and personal enemies` are inwoven with every line and image. We can put our finger upon some , which _were ev idently written , during his compulsory, and 'ha =Mating exile beyond, Jordan,. while Absalom .* and the rebellious faction held possession of the; capital. • A few days since - we received a letter from a subscriber in Missomi,.witioh reveals a state of things there utterly incompatible with any of the' regular operations of the church, and which are as proper to occupy tho attention of the church, as are any of the obsticles met with in convert ing the world to Christ. Truly the foundations are destroyed, and the righteous seermto have no work to do, there. " The times, " says the wri ter," are terribly out of joint in our State. Re union is almost forgotten. Society is about solved, sand God only knows where we are tending. • You in the East knoW very little of the straits' to which we are driven. - No man's rights are respected except by force of arms." Here is a sad picture of the results of only a partially suc cessful rebellion, against which eirery Christian man and minister cannot but labor, and preach, and pray, with the greatest earnestness. 2. The Gospel is the great friend of truth, righteousness, and virtue in the land. Such as have caught its pure, moral spirit, cannot remain dumb in the presence of vice and rampant ini. quity. Not content with preaching repentance and faith', the true Gospel ministry, like the old prophets, and like Paul, reason of righteousness and temperance 118 well. The vices and hypo crisioti of the Scribes and. Phariseesove know, ', were a freq eat t eme 'of unsparing denmiciaL tion from th lips f the Great Teacher. The Protestant ii nistr feel it no small part of , t heir . i, duty to p ce .im and enforce in the spirit of the Gospel, t . req irements of the Decalogue, and to keep u the iioral.to le . of the cwanunnity, no, less than seel ally to aim at the conversion of i l te the soul.. Wh n wrong and wickedness get rbroad in t la' ~ weos a matter of,course, ex pect to hear toir ,ice. They denounce Sabbath= breaking, Pkofet y, disobedien6, thdt, lying, oppression, 41 si on, and give warning of l the insidious aPpios'eh of the'eneudel:of sound mo . rids. It is' conii red a public misfortune far this function of th, ulpit to be obstructed, as , it sometimes is, by po ula.r an glamor and prejudice, from narrow views of expediency„, and other. causes. , -. .= .1, And , now, Shall t e pnipit or the, religious press, that has denim. ea athousand other trans gressions, vices; and runes, ov has again , and aets,min come to the rest . e of assailed virtue,oainid the applause of the go. , ,--shall i4e silent V.,.inid the dreadful indioation of it' crime that overtops all others with 119.inou tain heigh.t. ? Are edi tors and ministers and tliristian people expected , to be silent now ? pa . ordinance't f civil,%,ov e'rtinient is set at riaug t; a delibete and des perate blow , has bee •i.ea at the'. irest herit age of man on earth th plea, , of lib ty is used by deeply perjured m , n; i Seeking' t e destruc t\ tion of the only free 'govt lament iiexistence ; slave-masters are te'thre , theworld?back in its course, and to shatter th best hopes of an, white and black, in aprio : and- efinitely bleody attempt to, secure- and,prolo g, a ittle while, the existence of the unchristian and bominable re lation Of chattel slavery;. ----t t , dth Ministry and Church are to treat the sub Vet as of secondary; importance, as if not i ,germa..e to , sir chief ob. jest', and in dread pf becomin • seen rizekl Nay, how cart men irnatinethemse vex t be in a pro per 'frame, religiously, if they ate a all afla me with a most uncontrollable iedigna on acainst. these crimes which compete„with an *rt. history? How can they fail to see that .Gt,d's rovidenee. is most, signally indieating to -ihein e duty of bringing up and maintaining !the '-p pular con science on a proper level .of libstili towards :such a crime; and of wOrking that ho OAS* with. all the force of religion into the natio rleharac. ter ? Never had the teacher and g. rdiaus of public morals a. more brillia t. oppo turtity, of striking a blew effectively f , a ireat prkneiPle than now. It, will be crimival y ship d for them to suffer it, to pass by uniniproyed, on lea of the secular tendencies of the work: Whe men who do not, healtate to preach against intent ranee or even dancing, are heard to lAA sue ,a plea . now, when. disloyalty, red-handed' trea; ' and perjury are concerned, we mafbe t permi dto doubt their good sense, and the A 'depth of eir loyalty, either or both. The sated` of A ' ri can slavery too is revealing . its utter mak, y, as never before, and . May well and prip4ly co e in for a bold and unsparing treatment. 1 i 3. There is now. onef'high, clear arid par mount duty to be done by .the pedple of th land—it is it arly cost 'to save the 'country. h is unhesitatingly to bear flit burdens,' aid face the perils, and submit to the trials. neees ry in ' this work. While this remains to be den it .s idle for such as can.contribute in any way o itti accomplishment, to -retire to what, they oubn , fain regard as spiritual and higher . d ties. God's providence is pointing out to us the.Tian nel in whielthe would have duty-to be renddred We are shit up to it, as we not unfrequenqre, by indications no less *clear than those of the it ten. word. We have no election as citizens as patriots, as true men;, we must, plunge into Vie Red Sea before, us. .The unconverted , can of render acceptable service- to . God in this - r in` any work; but God's people, we .fir y ' believe, can render none while this plain and ni J mentous duty is' undone. Talk 'of. turning aside from these topics to seek a revival' Let- , - the minister rather probe his hearer hearts, to know whether they have that readiness to do all duty, : which is :a prime requisite for a revival. Let him inquire whether they.: are willing to, take up their. cross .in the performance of this duty, or whether they prefer ease, horne-comfort, money-making, or life, so much as -, to shtit their ears' to the cry of their imperilled country.' Let' hinfask 'whether they are not reiarding iniquity in their hearts so much ; that God will re: refuse to heir their prayer for a revival ? 'Whether he is accustomed to bestow revivals upon those who are out of the line of duty? Niyi ; we shall ever regard, it as a clear sign df reviving, , when people and minist.q.a:re filled with a devout "and holy fervor of spirit in consecrating themselves to' God through their }country; when' a =Martyr zeal fills all hearts, and y when each one obey erids; in response 'to` the evidenteall of God ; Here am 11 When this has been done, a revival may be hack' s ed for;indeed has idreadi begun; a revival in 4 “ a , - . , , church where this plain, commanding duty,is overlooked, we set dewlaps, suspicions- 7 -spurimis t Patriotic pastors and people; therefore;tif thei patriotism has been thus interfused with religionft. may take courage 'and expect God's- blessing. They are in the line of their dittY and :inay 'thtl-1 . poet to meet God there. And wt just; now thin' of two churches in our .Synod, WhielCarel nail • )' distinguished for their patriotism and their .spiv: itual prosperity ;.'° " did Pine Street?' which htti sent out ,fifty ,volunteers,' including-the pastor's: ,(Pr Brainerd's) son and ha.s had: wenty adds: 1 , 'dons by profession. in the last six.. months : and . the Central Church,Wilmit t igton, Rev. G. F. Wiall well, pAtor,i*hose patriotie zeal "is everywhere`- sokeii'of, and which has just completed; what is regarded as the most prosperous year, in a spirit:: ual Relit of view, of its remarkably prosperous; existence. Editor. - , We have. no , ,doubt , such examples could be" multiplied and...-largely sustain the position we. have just advaneed. f • • 01111DREN'S WORN FOR THE SION AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS. TITE pastor of the First Presbyteriap church, Kensington, acknoWledges the receipt, since auly 4th, ult., of, the followino• suns Lizzy Ristino, proceeds of a fair held by her, $3; Sallie Urwiler and Lida Bingham, d0.,548 ; led Petersen, Sarah Fisher, and Ida. Green, d 0,,, $15 5 ; Josephine McMullen, Emma Cramp, Re hem Rotan and Martha Miller, do., $35; Mary Ella Ifurtt,-do., $6 ; Fanny Cramp, Lizzy Meagh er, Kate Cramp, Mary Joimson, LiSzy Cramp, Kate Welsh and Maggie Cramp, d0.,144; Aman da &bath, Lydia James, Mary Rightly, and Clara James, do., $2O; Olivia S. Andrews, 'dO., $B7; to which add. proceeds ofcSabbath School4Excur siert, $3O; Making W &.all $257.• ...WILLI44.m.T. EVA cAintrican Vtrobtteriatt and Gettrott (6raitgaiot VICTORY ATIAST.I THANK God I the struggling and almost pros- Nov yet, we are constrained to;believe, has the trate , cause of our country is again'on its feet, war exertedu hardening influence upouthe pop- 1 . arid sternly faces and rebukes the last audacious' ular mind : On the contrary, new channels' of 1 and desperate movement of the rebellion. That bertefic , ence have, been opened and a stream of cautious leader McClellan, With his "Quaker ar-icliar!tis set flowing, which widens and deepens my," having been constrained lat . last' by the ' with Ow necessities of ,tie - hoar, until: we are I I most provoking and humiliating, not to say amazed at its vast unceasing current. Here we_: threatening circumstances, to give battle upon a are, a year and a half frdm the commencement of I grand scale, has been decisively weal gloriousli the war, plunged into 'discOuragements which' successful 'in his attack lipon the r enemy. The' make its end seem.farthe'r off than ever, with a battle. Was fought on that fatal _day in war --the prosp ec t of greatlyinereased public burdens, and. Sabbath, between GeneA). Hooker, Reno, Frank- ' yet there never was so Much done in the'may 'of 'link and others under* the personal command of private . bounties of every kind, as now.' The General McClellan, against the farces of the ieb- 'Volunteer Refreshment Saloon at the Toot of Zee, Hill, . , this ' el Generals l e ee, Hill, and ,liongstreet, for the Washington street, in city, m supplyirigreg posess-aan of South NoUtitaina , ridge lying I anent after regiment df the , new levy'with a; North and South across the roada,from the. East- hearty meal as they pass 'through the city, some ern to the Western:portions of 'Maryland, and times n 8 many as ten ,regiments in, forty-eight between Frederick City and Hagerstown. The hours. The good ,people engaged in the work ridge'wacgained by 'iiiir forces.- .. Major Generall are not weary, though pretty much the same per- Reno was killed-=another ' distinguished victim I sons have been _engaged'• in it, from the begin to" the iniquitous an d bloody demon of :rebellion - 1 ning of the war. Nor 'are:others weary of 'con and of slavery , ' . ' I trihutipg the needful 'fiinds. Few sights are Doubtless this is one of the most important I more interelatm,,, than those`to be seen now al victorles of the war. . it as the first of any conse- i most every eVening . at this 4Saloon. The plain, quenee for;months,, and it stays klong and strong but sweet and substantial viandsi-with the hearty I tide of reverses for our cause. It gives back to i welcome : 'accompanying, are keenly relished'by 1 the national heart some of its thrills of last spring, t the men, as they testify liiy,their, loud cheers, and so frequenit 'then ; a naelty now: !It'ilds our by their gratified ; eioorsioria . one to, another. State of the'fear of invasion, which, was so ini- I•They goon their twayiliefre,slied and cheered'at minent that the thunder of the battle was heard I the attentions thus heit;wed upon them. These / all alone- t' its border. It is the commenement, we men have, or . - Would have if' necessary, their hop4, -c e,of a aeries of decisive,movements;in ;which , cooked Grivernment rations for. thejourney to we, trust, ofir Generals and government by the i the'Seat of war, so thatiA is no work of necessity, energy of their methods , and - mevements, will 'I nor scarcely of mercy's ins to, supply them, but mire themselves, awake, to the greatness.of the I rather, an out-go.§4in4 'of peculiar friendliness causecthey defend; abreastiof the.people in their I toyiardathose who arelperilinctheir lives in de policy, and worthy of the brave citizen soldiers' fence of, what is so dear : us us all. And toward 'whose lives they risk in battle.. '‘ ' ' - the sick and wounded as thy lie, on the field;. or 4 . -.4?- I '. ' ' ,-:-. when inmates of our In ita', win sled . , '. ' ' ' SH4.IIfONS AND WORSHIP...` — Considerable , interest is, just now felt among ihoughtful ChriStians,' in regard. to 'the promi-. flume ofthe deVotienal or, litur(Acal element in pußlic Worship. Many Presbyterians,are prepared to admit that, ameng ourstives, too great promi nence is,Aivenfto the sermon, and that,worship as Such is wrongly assigned to a secondary place in our churches. ''While_.disposed - to. , cleave. to that principleof Pthtestariiisur which-magnifies the well& of God, while' insisting on a high standard of pulpit excellence and thorough train ing "in candidates' for the ministry, .and, While convinced of the utter t padtquacy of the 20 minute" pulpit es,say amid ; an hoar or more of ,haats, genuflections, responses and formal repeti tions, .rnany have felt ,that we need at least to conform more closely;to our aim standards, which conte,mplate a much 'Puller service than is gene rally found in our' public'worahip. Some desire the introduction offornial liturgical elements and ~ , ,point t 4,4 the undisputed ,practiOe Of some of the founders' of the church themselVes as examples of,th i e practice. What, is our astonishment then to learn that Episcopalians themselves —some ,of them—are not sttisfied with the present ,preponderance of liturgy over preaching in their public service, but wish to exalt it still higher, 'and even to dis psise with the sermon altogether. Blackwood's laga hie we know 'represents a very " high" lasso people in chui.cli'and state, but-we were nil pre ed for an assult upon'preaching, even from tha quarter, so sweepinc , and violenl as appeared ' the Angla, number of the Tory morithl . Nile, the writer,glorifiP.ci worship and expatias omit most religiously,-there is no of 8 earfirlaint that it can only be perform- Id' Toyed in conneetion with the generally 1 an tedious duty of hearing , a sermon. anion` :oaring" he says, ' o is` the hard duty, 1 ho ers by the celestial right. We must its t. 1 to the church for. the priviiegeof ip, ju tas one pays .taxes in this favored, is is a n dful balance too:, the privileges of li-:' I not - this complaint remarkable froml , . 'holiheit probably: the "twilit= amount of Icing co biped with the'' maximum' of prey- 1 ,:\ id prais in any protestant`denomination 7 , km' and complainincr under a sermon twen- 1 n sites ,loag, and calling for a,revolutioit tol aay f.withs.uch. ali..eitormous inflictiOn alto-,, it e • eda hard Se wide • air orsh - W 1 a do ;N. canoe regard Blackwood, , unsupported ).1 , of .r testi onyi acornpetent authority on such a soint. . orroborative testimony _however, i's ,`'not wanting to the effect that much-ef ' the Ertglis i preach 'g fsiexceedinglyi defective a.n.d unsatis' etory, li elyenebgh ,to give'rise to, com plaints, ;rid to a 'ord opportunity for ' semi-Ro mAnists ; ilf:gt the 'titer itollael i wool, to cry out for the,vtrial c , lusion of, the sermon ; from the services. ur ondon correspondent, in 1 his letter publis dio our issue', of July 12th,testi cle flea very•strongly to the-defectiveness of " the common .ruit, of i onion preaching."' Having heard many Of ti e diitingnialied ministers, he says that 'hewas in very few bases satisfied. biaki g a There is'spiriteal 'to, in the ' Manner 1 and in thelan uag,e. He declares,that-you shall rarely bear, ighat niostropolin of the British ,Em-, pre .a.O of the';' wbrf,d , such ;sermons as those: of , Barnes, , Skinner, Hawkes and others,ff who , are, enabled to preach with a freslincit vivacity andi holy force which are only. to be met•witiChere, in . rare alid 4 peculiar instanees." The troth in, the &Ural 'orilaglaild, by assictu-' inter' the sermon such a low place as it`holds in, her se , gl r has prepared ilie yt way te break i`t. down nawether. t,And those who wonldseriously ' alter therelative positions or preachiqg and wor,.-zi ship in our own- chureb,, ningt look at the risk thereby run . of, so delyrediatili g , ithe 'work of the , preacher, that the ministry as a' class shall lose , their sense of its importanee,•• shall relax the' strenuousziesi of their'preparation for its duties and shall briiigif into disreinite and 'create l a, feeling among the / people that it cOube (lisped : : sed with withetit detr t iinent to , e , service,:_ Arnong the. thoroughly Prptestant deporainatio n s , of ,our country, not the slightest 4ccasion has, beeu -given I f,or„sneh a feeling. The article in. Blackwood and similar ortes, which,-=it, is said, have appeared in the Times, could not` `be Writ- ' ten or find currency herd. MEETING FOR : SOLDIERS. } A crowded meet ing M behalf of tYp Ladies' id ;Association of Olivet church was held in the c ureb., corner of 22 and Mount Vernon streets, on a recent Sabbath evening.: Addresses were delivered by .Ohap lains Neill, Thelma, and Long, and by Rev. J. S!'Willis of the 'Methodist Episcopal chapel in Mdunt Vernon street, WhieliciMited in the ser. vi:tes,' and Rev W. 'W. Taylor,-Pastor of Olivet eliurdltl., - The meeting was in every respeel,grat ifying. = Over fifty 'dollars