tunas Vveolittriau
GENESEE EVANGELIST.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1862
TQRN W. MEARS.
A REVIVAL TO BE EXPECTED.
We last week spoke of the duty of the
Church in this time of national peril and distress.
To us nothing is clearer than the view then en
unciated, that providence ,t had laid open a wide
and straight path of duty, before us, which no
aniount of specifically. devotional acts would jus
tify us in *ming. Should the church edifice
it which We expected to worship, or the house
adji.ining it, be. found in flames as . we" went to
Sabbath' morning service, it would be clear be
yond a doubt in what way every able-bodied
thit juncture could best,perform his
duty'; and the man who insisted on going to
prayers and who declared himself afraid of the
" seoularising tendency" upon , Church members
of the work of putting out the fire, Would' be re
wiled as. insane. This rebellion' is a terrible
conihigration close beside all odP cites,
Proximity
Uottlegon.
All Christian institutions and 'prinCiples, the
charter of our civil liberties, the hopes of oppres
sed millions" may be consumed in its devOuring
flames.. Our first duty is to save then from
minent peril, and to trove the genuineness . of
our piety by our zeal , promptness and self-sacri
fice, even to, property •and life, in the attempt
Other' and lower impulses may, and do, lead men
to take part in these efforts; a trulrrevived state
in the Christian will lead him to Ask what he
individually can, do; and he will undergo the
peril and toil of the work, as one of the crosses of
Dies profession. He will 'follow Christ, rather
tliati any earthly leader, in devoting himself to
14:bonntry's Service.
eliurdits and Christian people .who are
thus in the dine of their highest present duty, ex
pect to be revived. They are bringing the tithes
into the storehouse; tithes of money, tithes of
tears and heart-breakings, tithes of blood and of
life, tithe§ of deep martyr consecration to the
Caine of righteousness and of God in the world,
tithes of importunate prayer, of earnest,waiting,
of submisssion and of thankful joy. They are
net wanting, riot' timorously holding hack, from
mistaken views, in ,this crisis in the history of
human progress.. Not in vain have they come
to4he kingdom at such a time .as 'this. They
weremen that had understanding of the times to
kno* what Israel ought to do.' TheY have been
able' to descry, in theSe great movements, the
signs of the coming of their Lord, and have lift:
ea . up their heads, knowing that in them the'
world's redemption is drawing nigh. They have
gone, forth to meet Him and to hasten on- his
coming in the way of personal sacrifice.
They have seen Hint in the watchfires ofa : hundred
circling camps ;
They haire buildeclAin an altar in the evening dews
and damps: .
Tliey can read his' righteous !sentence' by the dim
and flaring, lamps . ;
Hisday marching on.
no have read a. Rely, gospelwri't burnished
rows of steel
Ati ye deal with my' entemners, so with You itty
grace shall deal ;
Let the Here born of woman crush the serpent with
with his heel
Since God is marching cm."
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never
call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judg
• - went seat ;
Olf, be swift my soul to answer him, te jubilant my
Our Goa is =smiling on.
; We. cannot see how such excitement can bin
der, or in fact do any thing but promote a revival
of religion. Great gospel truths are illustrated
"with startling vividness in these times. No great
amount of dexterity is required in the preacher
to derive, from current events, effective illustra
tions of the iniquity of rebellion against God,
" the' necessity pf sustaining his moral government,
the majestrand utilitli;orlaw, the real mercy of
swift.and condign punishment, to incorrigible
offenders, and the marvellous grace, wisdom, fit
nes, and sufficiency of the plan' of salvation.
The public mind is alive and sensitive. And
though it is seemingly pre-occupied and absorbed;
we believe it is in a better state for receiving
a religious impulse than when it has been long
lying nerveless and inert, amid e the common plane
of more tranquil and more prosperous times. Li
fact the world, the thought of man, - is intensely
awake and, expectant. , The Ulm of the human
soul is'hot. Men recognize; God's hand in the
g•teat crises of the times •anththe big events
Nthich are looming upon the horizon., Now is the
time for God's ministers to strike and mould' the
yielding material to sacred ends and uses :The
oil.amities of the times, not, nilicient to interfere'
with ; `our " . regular methods' of activity, are, yet:
powerful enough to enforee the lesson
,of . then
uncertainty of the best of human things,,and of
the need of a healer, consoler, and Redeexner,
They are Ofich thues as• God has more than elide'
etnisloystrzirthe occa*lon of the signal outpour
ing of his*Spirit. We believe be is.ctually ree
dy tq pour it out: abundantly now. The ministry
have ample ground for encouragement to labour;
this is no tune for them to falter; a bold, vigor
one, comprehensive spirit is demanded of them I
by', the indications of Providence, such as will
put them at once in sympathy with their people
and with God's unfolding plans; a greater con- '
fidence.than ever in the divine promises and in:
the nearness of the triumph of Christ's King.
dotn, and a simple and. earnest presentation of
the great truths of the everlasting Gospel, as ex.'
se ly what is needed by suffering man for his
welfare and true progress here, and his salvation
hereafter. Labors in such a spirit will surely bet
crowned with success.
ACTION ON HOME
Presbytery 0. at its recent stated meeting passed
the following resolutions:
flesofued, 1, That it is the duty ofevery church,
when desirous of employing any minister fora
longer or shorter period of time, first to confer
with and ask the advice of Presbytery, through
the Presbyterial Home Missionary Committee.
2. That if any church, dependent upon mis
tionary•aid, stall employ the services of a minis
er without first consulting the Presbytery or its
Uome :Vlissionary Committee, such church shall
ÜB•iteemed worthy, of the eensive of .Presby
teky.
, . .
MEETINGS tf 11 , ODS AND Pit.EBBYTE
. WEI
AIRof - -
nual or se %an
may he'see in
hope our b thr
teaching eld Isla
1
meetings an li
The exciteni is
fered to call' ay
our church, which
perity as a *lle.
the true interests of
interests of Christi;
gives preciousness too
country cannot, proepl
fared, to languish. Al
the church call, loutill
must provide, if `possit
the streams of blneftee i
seek rather to secure 1
that marvellous . in3pull
displaying its fruits on
with the.war
Editor
. ,
We are sure that gnu
keep alive a . due degkee
Foreign Missions, ' du '
the like. We have hard
in the 'remote North es
meeting, came to th so
'that, 'without a great an]
their affairs in the current
be compelled to leave< the
take themselves to some ethel
a living. We do not - begin
pressure of the war isso set
to curtail our ordinary = 'open
The capacity of the people fo
now coming to light, being g
by a little testing process, rath , thie
There is nothing more neede • thai
church officer to, be at hispost :thei
and then, with the presence an Ilessl
Head of the church, we shall b sled t
ful measures in the emergency. 1 ,
,
Pastors mii3isters 'rulinc , eldeis tui
column of special notices, before you
this paper and make up dour minds tc
tt
in person to the calls titer mile upon
PODIOY OF THE GOV
Tail Washington Carrespond
gregatiOTialisii . aks the follow-i,
recent letter If our only po
certain`states to remain in poriiica un
a,-whom they hate—how leng, ti:l i
,Goi
the prosecution of such a war ? ". .3f thil
ry had been found 112,0 e &damn - 80411e Li
Times or of Blackwboti in seine viotheir
venomous and stupid 'assaults: upon our War
the National _Life and the Cot stitritio , it wo
not have surprised us. We think G a as j
tified warto put down malignant a ''d c usele,
rebellions as such. Or waa not David right in
reiliating the rebellion of Absalom and cempel
,
ling certain malcontents .
, I
contents.to remain subject to a
' Gpvernment *which they hated ? And is not
God justifiable, and does he not set us an am
,ple, in the:ceaseless war which he prosecute " to
compel , certain " classes of his subjects to re ain\
subject, to a Government which they hate 7 Be-
cause*Mir Governerent will not come out wi r . '•
declared alit-slavery' policy, Which we think ey
\
ought`to, and 'will do, and make that the p -
mount object 'of the war, which they lrave o
, ..
business to do, are they to be bitterly assail a
and maligned as without policy at all, and im -
cite,-;-on the verge of disgolution and ruin ? We .
deem all such representations 'es in a high'd
gree dangerous and' unjust. We know' of =°
function of civil. Government so legitimate, o
which God,' who' ordained government, wool
more unequivocally justify, than that , of compel,
ling, 'vt'eS arms, those who hate and wickedly
and causelessly rebel against it, to return to their
hated allegiance, and to learn the duty of law-abid=
ing-citizenship. Civil governments are notbenev-'
-olent societies; they have specific duties marked
out for theurby a Constitution. •,Our well-meaning
but crack-brained Northern Radicals forget this.
If emancipation' under the war-power is . clearly
'a potent weapon in the hands of government for
suppressing rebellion, which we most firmly be
lieve, then the government is blameworthy in the
highest degree,. or else lamentably imbecile not
to use it. We confess we have been grieved and
astonished at the delay of the governurent fully
to commit itself to this, inin war policy: The war
has in our judgment lieen protracted; deep` hu
miliatiens have fallen;upon us, and niore rivers
of patriot , blood have :been made to flow, in con
sequence of their delay. Gpd's hull is heavy
upon us and will ,be until we follow•the indica
tione of his providence . in this. direction; 1 But
we quarrel not with the ends 'of the Government;
nor would we so egregip'usly stultify ourselves ad
to declare it to have no ends at all; when the'
ends in onr view are so i illustrious, so glorioua t
and so just; that
. ..we would cheerfully give mii
life in their: 4 4'oPo mpliaimeni. '
_lt is, upon thf4.
question , of merles that we : regard the govern,-'
intent as deftcient in determination and,.„,prompt
i
ness, while we let confidently-exriect! them er
it lie quite too late to adopt, the'whole'polley
which Providence is leading theno. ' - -1
tfl
(What we have to do, then," says another writer
in the same paper, f‘is simply to prosecute the war
-in earnest , on military principles , .and not as if,;
it ,werean electioneering conflict; [or we may
'am, a chivalrous. •and philanthropic enterprisej-
Let the war be proaecuted as a war—just as if we'
were weging'war in 'Cuba;•and wnr will be eman..:
cipatiOh."
OUR MERINBURG CORRESPONDENT iTiv
hill quotes certain expressions recently used
by oursea efficient and patriotic gov
ernor, whom the • whole country honors for the
promptness with which he has thrown eighty
thouiand of the militia of our Commonwealth
across the path of the inviding zebel army. The
lips which uttered those expressions about the
Constitution as it, is, alidtlietitionas it was, are an
ample warrant for theirpatciotieinteutandmean
ing. They :'mean something very different when
heard in the mouths of Ramming politicians among
us who are traitors under a very thin di&
Says An exchange :—" To crush the -reb
ellion by military power, using all , military
means and , methods ; (emancipation of the slaves
of rebels notexcepted) is the only possible method
of saving the Vonstitution as it is, or of:restoring
the Union as it was."
With .this, Goy. Cartin - and all true patriots
heartily agree.
flz is no nian who needs no mending
hese bodies will hold their an
t meetings in a short time, as
inr advertising columns. We
both inihe ruling and the
~ will give due heed to these
for them--; by their aresence.,„
then'times must not be sui-
Lrt of the very organizatiOn4
inccesiary to its life' and pros-
A.A grand roof of regard to
ihe connt is weare for the
,'s-Itingdnin which, alone
[ anything on earth. Our
while the clinich hi sui
t thi , greakenterprizes of
for ,our attention. -We
L, against is; drying .up of
to in those 'channels, and
the'charch, a share of
to 'liberality whiihjs
'cry hand iii connection
T
,r
thing musebe done to
interest in ome and
ion, Publi tion Mid
if a Whole, , resbytery
whic its ti, a recent
\nsion nn t iniously,
in 43,e ,coßdition of
\all Aar, they would
iiiistly,,and to'be
is of procurink
s
key° 2 that the ,
:.to oblige us
Is a ohnrch.
lity is ;only
,
is it we re
,shattated
for every
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rntritait grrolitttrian and.(6,ettrott TYiraitteliot
OUR CORRESPONDENT "W;" AND THE
PERA CHURCH..
We remarked in a note to " W's" communica
tion in our last week's issue that we could not
find the expressions, he ascribed to us in our ar-,
tides of July 81. " Through more than a column"
says ' W,' . °you indulge in` a strain of objUrgation
against the ecciesiastioal power of the prudential
committee, the 'arch-Episcopal power' which
you: hold up as oppressing the • native churches'
by a denial of their proper ecclesiastical rights."
Now . our whole article, treating of the Pent dill
ficulty h various aspects, was but a column and
a half long, and the portion relating to the eccle
siastical power of the prudential committee was,
not a third part of it We also disavow any tem
pen in - this matter such as Would be implied in
a" strain of objurgation" indulged " through
more than a column." It is a great mistake to
characterize the whole or any part of our article
With . thaflanguage. Nor have we ever held up
the Prndential COmmittea as oppressing the,
native churches by a denial of their proper
ecclesiastical rights." " Oppression" is the term
which has been used by the. Pera Church and by
,
their:german friends, and we so reported it, but
we hare not Or endorsed the word or
the idea. We have, never espoused:the cause of
the Pere seceders against the Board. We think
it be fettrid that we have refrained from
thinand every, ether opprobrious term; towards
an Institution which we greatly honor, in this
discusion. We said in our article of
July :81, that the native' Churches would have
a sense, of dedetency in regard. to• those who re
view and judge, the decisions of their church
courts and who' do not and cannot claim to be' a
church themselvas. We have ascribed arch
Vpiseopal power to the Prudential Committee,
and we do net understand " W" to deny the cor
rectness of the
fr i*pcitation. Our Episcopal bre
thren theteselteal Wee it, and make, the use we
might expect them to, of such a phenomenon. is
a Congregational' and Presbyterian body. We
have an article by us, quoted from the Western
Epileopallan,into the celumns of the EpisCoital
Reeorder of this city, written by a correspondent
t of the former paPer'who had apparently been in
t attendanee on the previous meeting of the Amer
..ican'Board. It:is headed : Non-Episcopal Bi
shops!' Says the 'writer
eetingo,
g of the
all need-
to the ,
y dowa
respond
~
" Certainly this . theory of ,missions recognizes
the idea of the necessity of oversight in the for
mation of churches, and the ordination of minis
ters among the heathen, thus showing conclu
sively that howeVer it was with the churches in
*piston° times, which Congregationalists, and
Nea der as their defender, declare were essential
ly dmocratic, the'Ainerioin Board has to admit,
t
in, the creation of chArches, an element which is
not essentially democratic—but supervisory and
controlling on the outside nf the individual min
isters andehurches.. , Thui God, may, rby his pro
vide)+, - teach Congregationalists 'what is the
true s t adture of the'Church, ,
" d here it should be suggested that the
Ameri an Board has-not a pure. Congregational
Chure in-all -the heathen world' • - They have
ever een able to, create a, church, and leave it
•be veined as Congregational churches are
°Vern d at. 'hone. - They have alivays left 'their
4 iurech indexoversight . Thus we think ,God.
i decid the great question - respecting the
strketure the churches, and making them, to
begih with Episcopal in principle; Will they
not go dow to the &tare times as such ?", ~
The ' its of course ; did not know of the
churchei 'a e Sandwich islands which arein
fact the d y eception. The Episcopal %'Recorder
p
the
comments a above as followa:—:.
" The li
+llO on =
on• n a
compel
'n with
ustifp
qui
k,_don
he same
mint of
.r, yet the/
ereised s
mes comp'
ht Col
So ety. T, • :Miumittee. consisted of one or,
tw , aymen, . ho exercised . a sort _of arch-Epic-:
cop. power. 1n all non-Eplacepartiedies, 'some.
sum, autocra: ' exists. 1 If is . in constitutional?.
.Epis: , Pacies ' ,lorteL--Suali ''as " that; of orti r . Own,
come ' UWa-- thisjiiii'irli4ey .fg.)i.i:o44. bylaw."
~,
.. . , .
In r : rd. to the : whole disc we,remark :-:,
. ,
.1. - • have rece:ved : very • little information.
from ‘. l ' i "on i , e difficulties in thaPera :church.:
. _
app
In his . comma, cation which eared: 'in. our .
.
column August 7 Bth, he spoke of ai l , document .
lying h , ". ore him ' coritaNing "a---full exposition
of - , the . ,., erecter of the i'eo - easion 'Of. the:'Pera
chitrch 7 .4 etc. , of ' hi& kb P•XoPoSed*te offer 4, die
materiall
,Po. lops for our columns :".. We have
~... . .
publishedev rym :rdsentUahy"' V," arrounting
in„all to 44.. c klara s.* . Besides. the plan 0f.....c0,,
)
operation .pro Pose, by the 'seceders, given in:full,
.andthehare stag, era that the ,missionaries pro;
posed i,connter pl n 'Nviiick is said to haVa dift:
fared from 1t -0 the't eceders " Only in . not'
i
placing ihe f as the - 4.lboritativadispOial of
the council," ' 3 ha • e almost - n , o; , new fti:ets.t The.'
spice -yielded : :/to " 1 " has beenl mainly ,occii- -
pied , with dischsaion, of .points ! heretofore raised
and ,quotation 'of . op", , ions of ''the missionaries.
We .do not mean to tpleation the Value - of, 'either
of thesewe..are glad to, have ' m.. ,. .. Yet we
should haire ;prefericdi 1 What certai oi:Wi''" i hal
not giirents; :and what' we weroato expect.
a simple narrative of the 'facts in4the r Oise, as
they occurred.. This, in oar jridc4ment • was
dematiaed':byjhe pointed and circumstantial
statements::: of European religiqus „journals of
high character, and the great adolley . are making
over the ; matter .• , . \ ' - :
- 2. We admit that, so fares.gi4n, • the testi
mony some What corroborates the oh ge 'd covet=:
. .
oneness and laiitbition against Pas r . .BUtugiazi`
and the seceding Armenians. Atz' C. leave it
~
to any, impartial judge, whether, wi the whole
,
case before him, `as stated- 7 in the Ea punt jour
nals on the hind, and by ". W," oa he other,-,
we are shut up to the conclusion tha. there were
absolutely no other, and
,especially no :• ecclesias-,
tical, causes for :the. movement; tir that from.
aught that appears, a more thorough eoelesiasti-.
testioal , arrangement introAtieed and sustained,
among the Armenians from 4ie beginriing !eight ,
not, to a great extent, hive ob 'ated the difficulty
8. Neither the American card ;, the t4'oderi- .
~:
~
tial Oonunittee, - nor the " 1 1 ,1 i inn ". is a church,
.nor, .strictly speaking, : . the r presentative: of a
ckureh .or churches. Yet the'. two latter.exer.
else 011. 7 4e:functions...of a church ~ a niong the
heathen. , They organize individual , churehes
* " has since loans a few lines iwre.gar&te
one article of July 31;, .upon which we will only say,
that a more careful reading shoirs that he has cor
rectly copied:some of the expressions refeired but
that the tvhole%case ;stands as stated in the
Paragraph of thisarticle.
of the'Rev. 'Angell James ehows
No one was a more sturdy op:
holm than this Aistingnished minis=
have been few Bishops who have
positive a 'sway. But even Mr.
I.ins that there was a Bishop above
.4qe of the London 3!tUoionary.
and ordain officers over them. At first certainly
they exercise over these organizations and offt
cers 'an Epitiioopal supervision. They never ad
mit them to a position , of personal influence in
the mission organization. ' And' when they lib
erate them' from Epigeopal`supervision, they
forth:no ecclealtieti* relations with , theM; hat
seek to'create^of tkein t''''native . church organi-'
salon entire and''Separate in itself. We Say
"seek, to :s create;." for,. as yet the 'result, has not
been achieved,. eithei)from :want of materials,
from the state of.-dependence in Which the pov
erty ofmost of the . c urches leaves them upon
-the' mission, or from 'lt another reason ; ' made'
ly :...-the mingling o Episcopal with Indepen
dent tendencies - in' d ecclesiastical policy of
the Beard.. and it,nl ente, ' "disqualifies 'there for
iettiog a proper thra . .le of church unity bpfore .
the natives, fOr cult 'acing among them a proper.
.ecclesiastical feelin 1 or for training them, by
contact 'with:theme ves.. in. church relations . for.
assuming the. full easure. of ' - these responsibili-.
I 'ties, when the time arrives for the withdrawal of
the foreign missionai'y. . .:','
1 'The imPreasionliaqtthen made upon respeet
able religious bourn : abroad, that theAirierican,
Board is nnt:iithil . ; etller'the Work of laying the
l la
foundations, of a, 44,:atid permanent church
• , .
~,ccxganiza*n.",r34oria6Vhe converts, - 010. arethc•
fruits of ,its ; :eriergitie snd'.praiseworthy labors.
That impresaion Itheibeeni derived from the se-,
cession - of a large boy of intelligent 'converts. in
Constantinople 'the centre `cif the Board's opera
tions in the Orfent,q not inthe : heathen world.,
. . ,
That secesSion.doubt- -s has been exaggerated,
,
dietorted `and' Miaow erstOod. The , i"oliression
'made,, we fear is aid :too correct, foithe .reason
given above. *- ' - . ' , -,,'' . •
(For the Axe,
THE TRUE
~ MEAS 4
NOPLE 2
THE yepresentation that the struagle of the
Pen, church has been for the righ,t of sellgov : -
ernment in eeclesiaselfeal affairs, has been sulk.
ciently met by 'shoWing that the church' has
possessed and exerciSed, that'right to the fullest
extent during theiliWliole period of its existence,
_the despotism of government by the milsionaries,
of which the New Evaug. ifiraenieitung speaki;
consisting ii: aoOSPinte non-inteferenee with its
,
government ; and giving the remarkable doe
ument in which its desire .and claim are set fOrth
as pertaining whollyto the, administration ,of for
eign funds contributed for the missionary work
among the Armenians.
The Berlin newspapei admits that the dissen;
tients were wrong in demanding a voice in the
appropriation of funchic4tributed by Americans
They demanded - that, and nothing the; The
whole yoke of missionary oppression was in the
refusal of that claim. There was nothing else
which the dissentients desired to.see changed
in the relations of - the native converts to the
Mission. I speak with emphasis, knowing whereof
I affirm, and that 'there is no foundation whatever
for the, assertion contained in the last Clause of
the quotation whiCh il' shall make in the next
paragraph. There is 'also, I am assured, no
ground for„ the staqutent, that" as their more
prominent members g 1 ridnally became acqual•nt
ed with the worship Aunt ordei of Other denimi
nations, the bald forms of -the. Americans (that
is, such as preVail in, Presbyterian and Congre
gational ehnrches,) could no longer satisfy theni,.
and therefore they attached themselves, one by
one to the .Prussian embassy." This is a pure
fiction or imagination. ,
While the New Emptg. Ifirellenzeigung admits
that the dissentients 'are wrong in making the
claim, which is, in lh i ct, their wholn demand, if
also sympathizingly / 01th their case in the follow
ing manner :--" Theclaim the right of
atself
government, or, at le t - ', - of. a participation in the
councils and decisionsiof the : Mission"—as if the
latter <was a part of , the former, and ;further :
"-The others retorted that the work of evangeli
zation would proceed more effectually if a proper
participation in it wasallowed to their nativepas
toys, and complained that the new church was
denied its necessary aid rightful independence,
and that an attempt wai:made to force upon it a
new form and. charaeler, which might be well
enough in America, but. would : not, suit in Tur
key?' As this .last;_ presentation is based en.
tirely on the fail : tare to:get the participation which
they sought in the work of evangelization; and
as many persons do not at once apprehend the
reasons for the denial cf such participation,it is
Protetc present here the remarks of the tnis.
slow:tries ' on the plan of the dissentients which I
. ,
gave last 'week, , and - the continued refusal of
which is the sole occasion of> the schism:---
" Any one who will examine it will be struck ,
first of all with the extreme modesty of the plain I
The. mixed council is to be composed of. equal
numbers of-native bret!ren and 'anissionarieli.
• .•
'c The native element, may be either lay or aleri
cal ; so bat fitynry case its equal *unbars shall .
never fail; apdit, was a rare modesty whieh did
net dernami-, st, tpajority: As there was to be no
casting vote, howeverd , the effect of a majority
was secured. A lay bnither who has just opened - ,
or half opened, his eyeitto the truth, who is still
surrounded by the,spiriinal darkness of centuries, '
w t ho own language, and
can haireno genera!' 109wledge and experience
in the inisaionarY* l i i and who cannot give his
time to it, is to mum an entire equality; with;
the educated, experienpea missionary of thirty,
years' labor in the 'field/ If he differs.from
in judgment, which 'would be inevitable, he
blocks- Wheels by disagreement, und.the:
cote: nst fend 7,000 miles to get the . Prid
eiitiattommittee to start them -
" Another feature of this plan is that it es
, ,
sumes the rights , and au l thority of the .American,
Board, the British and loreign
,and the Ameri,
can Bible Societies, the Tract Societies, and the-
Turkish. Missions' Aid ,Society,eto. Many o f
these Societies, indeed of them, more or less'
indicate how their funds:aiti to be used. •
"This is greatly disrel444 'the leaderof this
movement who intends io *re all the funds of
all societies under his; control, and to sit in
judgment upon allbooks,Len, & Tracts, and upo n .
translations from tan
, es; which he knows
nothing. If opinions, differ, we are to go to the
Prudential Committee in Boston. In the actual
working'of the plan it must often occur that the
learned and benevolent societies of Europe and
America must wait tin brOther Mahar, or brother
Zahar has decided what, whets, whee, and at
what price, and by whom, they may
,print,. for
Armenians.Thais'is, what is mean tthat
' official, relation,' without which thi,
Church will net eondesdend to receive ; a4om.
any. quarter or co-operate with missionaries::
'O4 PreO*riat4. ,
G. OF ,THE OONSTMI
-I):ETIOULTIEEL. : - :
"Another most objectionable feature of this
plan is, that, in most eases, the native brethren
would vote their : own salaries, and define their
own sphere and duties, and those of their per.
sonal relatives and friends. We • know of no so
ciety that has entrusted this power to its most
tried and trusted missionaries.
" Few Christian men would wish to be in such
a position,'and it certainly cannot be regarded
as unreasonable caution and, suspicion on our
part, if in a land where bribery, falsehood, cor
ruption, and dishonesty. are hardly regarded as
vices, and in a land where " justice standeth afar
off, and truth•has fallen in the streets" we can
not suppose that the native brethren who are
. engaged in this movement, -have Suddenly risen
to such` sublime heights of ,unselfiShness, that
they can be entrusted with the irresponsible use of
such funds.
_ ," For they, who are so anxious to take upon
themselves most' of the duties of the American
Board• and All other societies, andvote their own'
salaries for doing it, give no part of those funds
themselves, and Ucknewledge no responsibility to
those who aive, but are respensible only to those
who receive—that is ' to the native churches.
Give us all the money,, but hold us, to no responsi
&iffy• ---
.
" Another feature - of the plan is its taking ; the
Gdvernment and oversight of the Seminaries out
of the hands in whiCh the Board, by official ac
tion, has placed them,and sibjecting the -whole,
system of education, as to its plan, objects, course
ofstudy, textbooks, teachers, expenditnres, ete., to
the control of those whose most nogceable
fications might be their , confidence in their, own
judgment. ~: I t thus coolly proposes to entirely
revolutignize the system of the Board, notwith
standing its protest of non-interferenee. In this,
as in the whole plan generally it leaves the Board
nothing to do, and no power to do anything, ex
cept to collect funds, arid hand them over for
their SuperiOr, wisdom to use
Another objection is, that under this plan no
native church would ever become self-support.
It would. , be born simply to the use of a
foreign inheritance, for wtich no responsi
bility. It is true no such experiment has ever
been made, in this, world; and there is no 'proba
bility that it ever will be made. One can pre
dict the result in the basis of the most common
and powerful principles of human nature.
"It is ,a most destructive thing thus to•denation.
ease the infant and inexperienced churches, as this
plan would do, and turn them into an American
Board, without its *labor of collecting funds and
without its 'responsibility in using them."
One or two other points claim a brief attention
You seem tothink that all which the New Evang.
Kirchenzeitung looks at in talking about " chuich
feeling," and theneed of help from " a compact,
vigorous church" near Turkey instead ofleiving.
the Armenian Reformed church to depeirdenee
on a " nebula of (Congregational and Dutch Re
forined) congregations in remote America," is
the introduction into Turkey of such a Presby
terianism as is ours in thii country. The inter
course which I have hairwith German evangelil
; :sal Christians, and my general acquaintaince with
their style Of thought leads me to a diNrent
"conclusion. Theßerliii writer means more, as I
cannot doubt, than a Presbyterianism from "re
mote America" can supply. He has in his eye
a church nearer in locality, compact and "vigorous
in connection with the State and wielding politi
cal influence, with forms " not ig bald" like
ours, andmages unlike ".the religious practicces
of American Presbyterians," 'which he says,
"appear strange to ; numbers even of the Armenians
who are turning to the pure Gospel, and they
adopt them with - reluctance." (American Pres
byterian, Nervember 14th, 1861.)
The reluctance 'thus spoken of, exists only in
the -imagination.. The Armenians who turn to
the pure gospel, like our siniple forms, and read
ily adopt our religions practices. They want
our fellonship and help; but they are .not will
ing, in general, to have their church made a for
eign one in its seeming, or brought under foreign
rule. Hence the mingling of the American and
Armenian elements in the same Presbyterial or
ganizations is antagonistic to their feelings, and
deemed inexpedient, by the Presbyterian mission
aries in, Turkey. • I have no design, or desire, to
controvert your views in regard to 'the desirable
ness of criltivating a feeling of church unity, or
the adaptation of our Presbyterianism to the
heathen. My object is simply to secure a corredt
presentation- of facts. Perhaps a Presbytery . ,
with the missionaries and Pastor Simon in it,
would hive made Pastor S— so " doeile " that
he would not have gone off in a tangent so
trifling a matter " a mere question of -division of
funds "—seeing that money never divides Pres
byterians ; but Presbyterians in Turkey, who
have some familiar advantages for judging, do
not - agree with you in this conviction. lam -re
minded, in this connection, of a conversation be-,
tween an eminent divine of:the preaChurch
of Scotland and Dr. Sobatdfier, at cionstaniinople.
"I. bave coMe;', said pr.l3:, 4 , to look at things
here with my SCotCh eyes" If yon look at things
with merely Scotch eyes," replied, Dr: S., " you
will go away, and have seen nothing" Ameri
can eyes are as good as Scotch; bt#, - "there is
danger that they may see no better when looking
from afar at things in Turkey, than Scotch and
English eyes often do when turned toward
Ainerica.
..I,69king at Oriental ideas , and, character, we
have .'feared violent agitations, b.nd possible se
(masking; on several questions—such as terms of
communion, limitation' in the , baptism of chil
dren, and particularly the modes aVpreitediting
the Miseionary wit* Thus 'far,' ' the LorPh:as
wonderfully w atched over the, interests of the
work, and averted dangers.'i What may occur in
the future, we do. not •know. Turkey is a pecu
liar, field. It is not, likelndia. ; The people dif-'
for widely many of,• theirw characteristics.
Much depends aloe on the influences thrown in
from abroad= to affect the feelings of the native
converts, and disturb or strengthen theiirreW
tions 'with our missions: Our trust is in the seine
care guarded the past. The
brethren ;are grieved, but not tilarmed, by
the defection of the Peru church. That move
ment has much less significance and importanCe
in their eyes than it appears to have in your's.
They regret it; but they do not regard` it as a
"great disaster."
I think that most of the missionaries in Tur
key fully accord with yon respecting the value of
"the idea of unity and mutual responsibility and
dependence," as one to be impressed on " The;
Evangelical Armenian church!' The views which
you express relative to, what the, missionarieti
should do, I hope will have their serious consid-
eration. They have considered the same views
in the past; and they have pursued the course
which they honestly have thought most wise in
its adaptation to the end sought. They are the
persons to address on this subject. I can assure
you; concerning those of Constantinople at lealk
that they are little chargeable with a "silly pride
in being indifferent to ecclesiastical matters;"
for they have given muCh-earnestattention to such
matters in connection with more important ones.
And the thorough (0.. S.) Presbyterian, Dr.
Riggs, has told the public that the plan of church
organization recommended to the evangelical
Armenians was "not a compromise between Con
gregationalists and Presbyterians," but one which
the Presbyterian missionaries preferred on its
merits. How shall the Board or the Prudential
Committee in the eiereise of their ",arch-episco
pal
power," over-rule them in this matter ? I can
not think you mean that there, ought to be an
active interference;by the Prudential Committee,
when. in one your articles you express the
opinion that they.(not the missionaries) have " re
ceived a valuable lesion of experience on the
subject such as' in all probability, tastenon
the formation of more Scriptural organizations."
Allow me, in closing what
_;I hope is the last
communication that I shall have occasion to
make on this Pera church difficulty, to .say, that
the, missionary brethren in Turkey, and. from
Turkey, cannot: comprehend the ecclesiastical
aithority which you see in the hands of the
Prudential Committee; and that - it is certain
that if there were a Presbytery, embracing
Ameiican missionaries and native pastors,* every
station, the "arch-episcopal . power" of the Com
rnittee would not be affected in the slightest de
grem There, is but just one way to get rid of the
only authority which they exercise.; and that is,
to conduet missions without an Executive OM'
mittee, and'give the. native ministry and repre
sentatives of the people a share in the adminis
tration of the funds sent from this country.
* What a cool way "W has of, ignoring the
very fact in dim* ussionl ' .
LETTER MAI HARRISBURG.
ITOB,
It, is worth a threatened invasion -of 'our noble
old Commonwealth, to witness'the outburst of
active, self-sacrificing patriotism of its Citizens,
called forth by the recent proclamation of our
patriotic Governor. They , have Come from the
mountains and the valleys, from the shores of
Lake Erie to the Detaware, from the Iron, to
your own; beautiful city of brotherly love ;,from
every hamlet, and village, and town, and city in
the interior. And still they come 1 and still
they come The grounds in front of our State
capital . are "filled with tents, and. the tents are:
filled with soldiers. All our public buildings,
our school-houses, our churches—have - been
thrown - open to 'welcome the weary citizen sol
.
dier to a night's repose. Our houses, our beds,
Our tables, are at their disposal and thousand's
though strangers, are welcomed, as brothers and
defenders, to .ottr :homes. Presbyterians, -Meth.
odists, Baptipts,.EpiscoPalians, Lutherans—even
,
the Cornish 'and the Mennonists, distinguished
for their •peiceful doctrines and peaceful Hies ,
hive left their well cultivated farms, and. their
peaceful homes, and are marching shoulder to
shoulder, to protect the sacred soil- of their old
beloved.commonwealth, from the foot of the-hos
tile invader. , Many pastors have left, for a time,
their spiritual flecks; and are either leading their
companies, or marching in the ranks with knap
sack and rifle. Republicans and demoerats of
all names and all descriptions, Congressmen
and Senatora--Judges and Lawyers, Doctors and
Divines,.l'resicients of Colleges, and professor° of
the learned Sciences, all mingle in the Odious
frateinity, and are united,. as one man; in the
common cause of their country. Thousands have
left for the scene of eonflict—ind,
,as fast as
transportation can be procured, they go, Willing
ly, joyfully the battle-field, readY, if necessary,
to'shed the last drop of blood in defence of their
homes. The heart of our good Governor is
filled often with unutterable' emotion& and the
big tears chase each other, as rain drops, down
his cheek& while he addresses the -regiments
about to leave, in strains of patriotic fervor, .and
bids them " God speed, " on their mareh of peril,
though he doubts not of victory. 0, sir, it would.
make your heart beat elifick..a., and send a thrill
of joy through every fibre . .of your being, to see
hiS noble form like that of Saul's, a head ,and
shoulders aboye thousands'. of Israel,:and
hear . him exclaim, "When I leave thi chain of
State, and surrender the responsible office with
which my countrymen have invested me, may
it be with the Conatitution of the, 'United States
as it is, and the 'Union as it was.
Without boasting, we have a great State in:
habited by a noble," Ate, intelligent people, and
no foe will ever invade us. with impunity.
x. Cry's.
Harrisburc , Spitember Ifith, 1862.
TKPOItiAIVT riOOMIATION.
•
SLAVES o REBELS P i B4OOLAINEEI) FRYT
By the Preaidentb of the United States of Anzoica.
A PROCLAMATION.
VABILAIIAM..LINCOLN; President ofthe.United
States of America, Pommauder-in-Chief of
the Arkny and ,Navy gi4reof t 4lo hereby proclaiin
and declve.that hereaf*,, as heretofere,-the war
will be prosecuted for the object of practically
restoring the Constitutional relations between the
United Statesrand each of the ,States and the
people thereof, in which States that relation is or
may be suspexiiied or disturbed.:
That it'is my purpose, upon; the next meeting
of Congress to again recommend ' the adoption of
a practice& measure tendering pecuniary aid, sub
ject,to the free aceeptmige or rejection of all the
Slave States, so palled; Ahe people whereof may
not then be in Rebellion against the Unite 4
States, and which States may then have r . volun
tarily adopted, or thereafter may volnutarily adopt
the immediate or gradual abolishment of slavely
within their respective limits, and Oat "the effort
to colonize persons of African descent; with:their
consent, upon this continent or elsewhere, with.
the previously obMined consent of the „Govern
ments existing therb, will be continued
That on the lit day ofjanoary, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eightlundred and sixty
three, all persons.held as Slaves within any State
or designated part of a State, the people whereof
shall then be in, rehellion •agabist the United„
States, shall be thee; theiteefor* and forever tree,,
and the Executive Government ofY the Milted
States, including Ahe Thllitary andtnaialanthovi.7
111111111119
ties thereof will recognize and maintain the free
dom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to
repreaS such persons or any of Mein in any efforts
they may make for their actual freedom.
That the Executive will, on, the Ist ' day of
ffantrary aforesaid, by proclamation, designate
the, Statsti,or Parts of States, if any, in which the
peoPle thereof respectively shall then be in Reb
-ellion againstthe United States, and the fact that
any State, or the people thereof, shall, on that
day, be in good faith represented in the Congress
of the United States, by members chosen thereto
at elections wherein a majority, of the qualified
voters of such State shall have participated, shall,
in the absence of strong countervailing testimony,
be deemed conclusive evidence that such State
and the people thereof are not then in Rebellion
against the - United States.
That attention is hereby called to an act of
Congress entitled " An act to make an additional
article of war," approved March 13th, 1862, and
which act ikinthe words and figure followi4
[The President hertr recite the article of war
forbidding the military and naval forces return
ing fugitive slaves; also: - the act of Congress
Jelly 17th 1862; freeing the escaped or abandon
ed slaves of rebels and requiring proof of the past
and present loyalty of all masters claiming the
rendition of fugitives.]
No perion engaged in the military or naval
service of the United States shall, under any pre
tence whatsoever,' assume to decide on the valid -
ity of the claim of an" , person to the service or
labor of any other person or surrender up any
such person to the claimant, on pain of being dis
missed from the service. And I do hereby en
join upon and order all persons engaged in the
military and naval service of the 'United States
to observe, obey - and enforce within their res
peetiveSphertx of service the acts and sections
above recited..
And the Executive will, in due time, recom
mend that all citizens of the United States who
shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the
Rebellion, shall, upon the restoration of the Con
stitutional relation between the United States
and the - petiple, if that relation shall have been
suspended-or disturbed, be,compensated for all
losses by. acts of the Unite& States, including the
loss of slaves.
In wittiess whereof rhave Iteremito set my
hand, and caused thkseal of the 'United States
to be affixed.,
Done at the city of Washington, this, the 22d
day of Septernber„.in the year of our Lord one
thotumnd 'eight hundred and sixty-two, and of
the independence of the United States the eigh
ty-seventh: • ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
'By the President, '
4 WM. H. BEWARE!, Secretary of State.
,• J-..,:#lt4,urat.,.iltutti.
NORTE .BROAR STREET OIIIIRCH.--On
Fri
day: of last week, September the 19th.,
three new Elders recently elected, were duly
installed over this church by the pastor, Rev.
E. E. Adains, assisted by Rev. W. W. Tay
lor, of ColiTet church. The elders were :
Hon. - Wm. Darling, father of Rev. Henry Dar
ling D.D., 'Benedict D. Stewart, (both of whom
had already been Ordained to the office in other
church relations) and Ohs. S. Godfrey who was
both ordained and installed. The sermon was
preached by. Air. Taylor and the installing ser
vices, including the ordaining prayer, were duly
performed by the pastor. The people rose to
. .
signify their renewed acceptance 'of the brethren
41mit they had previously elected. The whole
service was solemn and interesting, and was so
perfonned as to illustrate in an imprestiive man
ner the simplicity, and beauty of our Scriptural
order. On the following Sabbath, the Lord's
Supper was dispensed to a crowded congregation,
and eleven persons Were received into,oharch
fellowship, one by profession and ten by letter,
all but . two of the latter being from other locali
ties or from different Church conneetioni from
our. ant.
Abont forty of the young men of the Congre
4tion have enlisted for Notional and State bde
fence.
OITA CHIIICCEI IN lawA.-•—"11. L. S." in the
Evangelist of the 18th, gives the following rather
gloomy account of our church 'in the NorthweCt.
We have no doubt the statement is as true as it
is glooiny.
" Our Church needs, vigorous efforts to sustain
it,in, lowa, or :it must, go down. There are not
more than one or two self-sustaining churches in
the whole State: Churches that have formerly
been comParatively strong are ,now weak. The
war has carried off the men. The revulsion of
1857 PrOstniled the commerical interests of the
country, andmany who once supposed themselves
wealthy;can scarcely provide for the next meal.
All this.will tell severely, upon the ministers of
our Church.
•.
good brother, whose ;: ; age and services
entitle him to, much ,respect,, declared that he
had received but three dollars in money from his
field during-4 , 6e pig. year! He received pro
visioni and, clothing, and his own children minis
tered to his.ivants. Another, whose praise is in
all our chiiches as an exploring misktmary, said
he hird reason to congratulate himself,, for he had
received four dollars from his field. Another
had not 'received more than twenty dollars.
Thus you see the straits of, our brethren.
," Do you ask why thesubrethren do not seek
more lucratiie fields ? What, then, willbecome
of the lost sheep in tbe Vrildernessi and the foun
dations of many, generations irlitch. are now being
laid ? They have giirmir . tod much labor to these
fields, to abandon them new. Why should they
be lost to our 'Church and to the cause of Christ
A few year's hence May see them strong and self
sustaining, churches. Will not our Eastern
brethren help us to holdlthese posts of toil and
self-denialuntilpeace and prosperityshall be again
restored to our land ? Brethren, help us prompt
ly, and the 'hearts of some abnost ready to fail,
will bless you."
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