(5 4e ) . <> . , .T; . . ~ ~.... .., i , „, ~...,-o\. ~..,,, : . , , . . .... . . • ter r - 4 - .. , I , . 1 " ' ' 4 : ' . , r ~ .., „, : : " 4",;....4',.1 ....) •.. • , •,, 1 ;':. :, . .. VOL VII, No. s.—Whole No. 317. atirg. Three Sonnets. I#Y TBld A.IITHOR OF TEM. " PATIENCE OF ROPE j" EACH A SERMON IR ITSELF, SATE WHITTIER. Ascending, ,THEY who from mountriinleaks have gazed upon The wide, illimitable heavens, have said, That, still receding as they climbed, outspread, 'J he blue vault deepens%ver them, an'ti, one By one drawn further back each starry sun Shoots down-it feebler splendor overhead. So, Saviour as our mounting spirits, led' Along Faith's living way to Thee, have won A nearer accee . p, upt;in the difrimat'traek Stilt pressing, outhat rarer atmosphere; When low beneath us flits• the cloudy rack, We. see Thee'drawn within a widening sphere Orslory l from us further, further baek,--. Yet is it then hedause we are more near. Life Tapestry. Too long have I, methought, with tearful eye Pored o'er this tangled work of mine,, and mused Above each stitch awry and thread confused; Now will I think on what in years gone by I heard of' them that weate rare tapestry At royal Mains, and how they et:instant use To work oaths rough side, and ,still peruse The picture pattern set above them high; So will i set tin- copy high above, And saze and gale till on my spirit grows Its gracious impress; till some line of love, Transferredupon my canvas, faintly glows.; Nor look too much on warp or woof, provide He whomi, work for sees their fairer side I hope. WARN I dIS think - ot thes,'sweet Rope, and. how !Thou followest on our steps, a coaxing child Oft chidden hence, yet quickly reconciled,: Still turning on us a glad, beaming brow, And red, ripe lips for kisses even IWO Thou mindest me of him, the Ruler mild, Who led God's ohbsen people through the wild, And bore with wayward murmurers, meek, as thou That bringest waters from the Rock; with •bread Of angels strewing Barth for us ! like him Thy force abates not, nor thine eye grows dim; But still with milk and honey-droppings fed, Thou leadost to the Promised Country fair, Though. thou, like Moses, may'st -not enter there I f,;;;Jeigv..iogf.tittrie.' KRATHENISK AT 11031,8 AND: ABROAD. XOLAPOOR I INDIA , July 24, 1862. My Dear Brother Mean : During our recent visit to our 'native land I occasionally discovered a disposition on the part of some Christians to urge the vice and degradittion of many in our large 'cities in America, as arLexottsfu for :doing no, more' to evangelize the Hindoos. "We have heathen enough here at home," were the terms in which this excuse sometimes took form. The fact, of course, I could never deny. You have " heathen, enough " and far too many ; but what a contrast between a hospital or suf fering patients, well supplied with doctors and nurses, and these teeming millions of wretched, diseased, dying sinners, with no one to care" for them The difference between your " home hea then " and the heathen around Us here in , Wis., is forbibly brought:to view in a recent pamphlet, byllev. T. G. Clark, now in Scot land, after spending many years in this land of idols. lie says " From early youth, at different periods, I have stood fpee to face with the vices of bur great cities; and quite latelyornder the gui dance of aft esteemed territorial minister, .1 sought the .closes and alleys of Dundee, be longing to one of the worst districts, for the purpose of familiarising myself *. with its as pects of low sin, poverty, and atirrow. Such spectacles, taken apart, and come to from the sweet grace and light of Christian soci ety, how do they shake the soul with com passion, and fill it with a bitter sense of the inequalities - of 'Unman advancement ! But I confess, friends,when I looked on all that came ;beforeme,. all 'the wretchedness and vice which stood forth in these lowest recep tacles of degradation, comparing it with what I knew of idolatry , and its abominations, I saw reason for thankfulness in everything ; especially as I thought of those thousands' of noblest women who issue from our congrega tions into the most debased quarters, conse crating themselves to deeds of Christian love, and assisted by laymen of the. same spirit. Asz there• will always be poor, in countries even where wealth is most generally diffused, so is it probable that the, time will never come when kiw-vice, , incarnated in sots and sensualists, shall not appear, in the most Christianized society, gradually forming, of course, its victims into ~a degraded class. But what relihes the heart, even while it stimulates Christian 03theavor, is the depth to which the, light, of the 'Gospel somehow pe netrates. It Is reflected in countless ways, where it strikes not directly. Das carried down by those more sinned against than sin ning, and by numbers 'cif both sexes really moving on the way Zionward, who axic.never thelessr through poverty, constrained to dwell in proximity with -the profligate. In the sit referred to, and I have fond it the same everywhere except in localities specially sold to sin, the poverty was far more apparent than the sin. Here was one little woman, her babe gnawing at a cabbage-leaf on the floor, while she strove to work up some coarse flax for a pittanee'in those cold and istraight ened days, who could say with evident since= rity, ' Poor is the house without a Bible 1 There lip a thin, old, bedridden dame alone oh a greasy couch, within a dirk cellar some steps down, whose lustreless eye gleamed for a moment with a light certainly not <of this earth, nor under it, as she exclaimed in an giver to a Word - of inquiry, 0 yes; Jesus is with me, and What company, with Him, do I need ' kis tine that the shadows of vice fell on na at, every angle; and it returns on the memory that we were , bidden. cave our pains, and not go up• a dertain top story.„ for that it led, only to a Louie of shame, visited at the very, time by riotous men, What ad ded to the _darkness of the fictive, indeed, by several 'Sad shades, was thoremark of our informant .-that;a mother had , eorne > into the tenement the same.dayi after it'.daughter who had just cast in' her lot with the .abandoned household. But it emote even tht400,3". wjth a ray of light to learn that she who bore the fallen one, came in bitter, bitter tears ; a sign that, at the worst, we were in a land of Christianity,' - where' vice does not follow'its own ways'without a sorrowful protest, and love ever hovers on the track of the lost sheep. • " All, all is different in heathen lands. In these, vice is not hidden away in dens, but enshrined in temples. In - connection with the accursed rites of Khandoba, who draws thousands yearly to his faas in the country of the Marathis, the daughters of the land, as wives of the god, are dedicated in infant years to his service, and are privileged by hundreds to enter , all houses in open day and perm:o their infamous avocations, alluring youth and wedded men to the license of the shrine. •But India riots in yet more flagrant and appalling iniquity. In the abominations of Cotytto, celebrated by the Athenians and other nations of the Greeks, deeds seen or done were forbidden to be disclosed, at, the hazard of life. In the orgies of Juggernath the infamies committed within the temple are emblazoned on the granite in "colosial reliefs outside, courting the gaze and gazed upon, of both sexes; while in alliance' with lascivivs ness, the frantic rites of blood are re joiced in bythe god, and beings formed in the divine image, although, the act is forbid den by government, still hurl themselves be fore the thirsty wheels of e his car, glutting foul appetite with"theii gore._ "It is vain, however, to attempt bringing into;comparison things so different as home and heathen populations, especially the hea then in India.' The thief, the murderer, as well as the voluptuous, call smiles of approv al into the visages of Krishnu and Kali, who stand sponsors for every horrible crime, and fold specially to -their bosoms those votaries who are most active in ghastly wickedness. At home, the very oaths of profanity, the tears which so often gush. intorrents down the cheeks of sad fallen ones, if a, kind word of commiseration and hope is addressed to them, the impassioned resolutions of amend ment made, if' alas ! made to be broken, all, and a thousand other tokens, declare that a sky of brighter kindling than the sun of In dia, when blazing in its, zenith, can inflame, hangs over the sin and misery of our cities." The "flagrant and appalling iniquity " of Hindooism is not overdrawn in the above pa ragraph, and if you would have a fresh illus- tration of its darker features, take the fact that'a human being has recently been sacri ficed to the cruel goddess Kam only a short distance froxii the capitol of iritish India. The victim was a lad of slime twenty years, and the man who killed and sacrificed him has just been acquitted by .a native jury, on the ground that such sacrifices are sanction ed in their sacred Shasters. Whether the Government will demand a new trial, and be fore a European, jury, we wait to see. Another sacrifice has just been attempted in a town a little to the -North Of us, under the following circumstances :-- J•A --- BrdirfitatiehattlYeeit - tumiti nnate-atild' fail 'of securing a suitable husband for his daughter till she had passed the: fatal, age of eleven years, Regarding : his caste rules in, exorable, and resolved on the sacrifice of his child, he built a little hut close by the river and placed his daughter in it to be swept away, by the rising flood. He made no secret of his purpose, and his Hindu neighbors -re garded it as 'highly meritorious, crowds of them• visiting the girl in herlut, as a pious and meritorious act, just before her expected sacrifice. In this instance, Government learned the cruel purpose of the father in time to rescue the child from death, but the attempt is a true illustration of Hinduism as it is., Pray, - let not the dear Christians of America limit the great commission, or Withhold supplies from this work of Goat in India, because of the vices which seek a hiding-place beneath the shadows of your churches in that Chris tina rand. , G. WILDER. p 1 aiikit3o3k,V. k s4iminobidomokial Mr. Editor :—I propose for your accept ance, some remarks upon the relation of the Christian minister to the Govermnent, both in general and under special exigencies, the former , however only intended as - a clue to the latter. The New Testament affords but few in structions concerning the relation of the Gospel minister to the Government, as dis tinguished from that of anY ether citizen. Those instructions are also very general. But this much is' the plain positive enactment of God—a duty ove. r- which-no cloud of obscu rity hangs,:., the Ministei• is to exhort the people to prayer for those in authority ; he is to preach to them to be- subject to princi palities aalipowers, and to obey magistrates ; be is to instruct -them in •-the, sacredness of human government as ordained of God ; and he is to teach them that resistance to it is resisting God. All this is a part of his opial duty, made such by sacred ordinance. To neglect it, is to ignore an unquestionable gation. To blink it by the intentional' use of ambiguous terms of supplication, is' to' make of it a solemn farce. Prayer, if right ly offered, is offered in view of existing ne cessities ; and one who is supposed to possess sufficient command of language, can never be regarded as praying .for the Government, when the points in which that Government is in most pressing need of Divine help, are either deliberately forgotten, or mentioned in terms which are purposely equivocal. The above-mentione,d duties being, in the New 'Testament, made 'official, the Presby tery should' hold. its members to the strict per formance of them. Churches should demand them of their pastors ; and when a pastor deliberately refuses to pray for the Govern ment, the church* is justified in closing the pulpit against him. iny constitutional man - - ner. Or if the directors of a Theolo g ical Seminary find a professor purposely unfaith ful in these things, they should instantly in- - terpose between the students and the oonta gion. But all -written enactments, when brought into ose, inevitably - throw out:their ramifies- - tions beyond the mere letter of the law. .In pursuing those natural branchings off, I know of no guide for the minister but his consci entious and prayerful judgment of the spiri t . of the written word, as applied either to gen eral duties or special exigencies. How far, those written specifications of his official duty above.tmentioned; ftheir :rightful ear rying out; require him te use the puipit,fpr, rebuking national sins, promoting national I I • A, tSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 186 reforms, stirring up patriotism, exhibiting the atrocity of rebellion, and urging men to fly to the defence of the country, is a ques tion. always more or less affected by the ex isting public need. The spirit of the revealed law of his relation to the Government, in, the character of a Gospel minister, requires it to be done as the state of the country and the providence of. God seem to demand. Aside from these provisions, I know of no fundamental difference between the relations of the minister tolthe Goverment, and those Of any other - citizen. "The general duties of the citizen to the Government are----' Obedience to its authority rightfully exer eised: Submission to its imposts. 'Strengthening it with his whole moral in fluence. , - - Bearing, official responsibilities when prop erly. . conferred, and When occasion arises, arming himself for its protection against enemies., The first three of these duties are absolute, except in eases which justify revolution: The last tWo admit of a margin where, in each indiVidual case, various proprieties May be brought into the account,. those proprieties having more or . less force according to .the exigencies of the occasion. Those duties of citizenship which are ab solute, are as truly so in the case of the min biter as in s thit of uthers., Concerning those which.may be weighed in, the balance of fit ness, if any modifying considerations exist in the nature of his calling, then, as, in the case of any other citizen, Athese considerations should have their full influence 4on the question of personal duty. Sometimes the proprieties of his vocation strengthen.the Claim Which certain duties have upon him. A. - t other times, :they may excuse him.frorn specific acts of service. With him also,. as with' others, specific requirements may re,' ceive their sanction, or otherwise, from the events ot the hour. These tifteri make things which were not. duty, before, to become such, or they make duties which were before fee ble, to become solemn and intense. On any question where modifying circumstances are ever admissible, .his , sacred 'profession is a circumstance to 'be well considered. The few passages from the New, Testa ment, which are often quoted in advocacy of the radical isolation of the ministry from the public cares of the State, bear no examina tion for the intended purpose. The command of Christ to Peter, to put up his. sword, with the 'reason assigned, that those who take the sword shall perish by it, is accompanied by no intimation 'that it was 'addressed:to him in his official capacity, or that it, had special application to any one class of 'teen. Interpretations are hastily given to it whfch, if true, would' make" it good in the handa of the non-resittants, but even then it would fail to make non-comba tants of the milliStar As. an .orderf edeclaration of ourLo that his mg dom is not of this world, in its specific in tent, spoke only to the adherents of existing political' authority, _that their sovereign had nothing of rivalry, usurpation, or rebellion to fear from him. As a more generaLtruth, it proclaims„ the spirituality of his kingdom, as distinguished from carnal empire,'and aloof from ordinary civil governments. _But it contains no law, requiring the members of his kingdom, in - virtue of their spiritual alle giance, to ignore the ordinary duties, of; ,civil government. And what is more to the pres ent purpose, there is,,neitherin the language used, nor in the surroundings of the oecasiort, one intiination that it contained any special rule for the ministry. Paul told the Corinthians that, in his per sonal preaching among them he determined hot to know anything save Jesus Christ and him crucified. The real sentim - ent which' he meant to , convey, is plain. frota the •state of things which incitedits utterance. The Co rinthian church was' distracted by men who were preaching themselves, and by factions which were following after mem. This fact disclosesthe animus of the passage, and re moves it irom the list of laws prescribing the bearing of ministers, toward the State. Even in other poits of.view, it would have to;be ex plained in the light of the Apostle's political status in Corinth,.as a' foreigner who had no business with their' civil affairs. But to:), my own mind, 'the first view' stated is concluSive. It should however be - said in relation to both'the• list quoted: texts,-`that Views of the general nature of the Christian =service are involved, which apply with peculiar forte tu those who are - consecrated to the ministry of the Gospel: But these inferential admoni tions are not statutory. They are referable' to those unwritten, sacred proprieties whieh are never horizental, bet ever conforming to the ; circumstances of individuals, and the. course of events. There is no over-estima ting their value when the question of suita bleness is up. ` An examination of the ordination vows impOsed 14'eur chitrah; discloses the sante iroid'of positi4e:fille on: tlic - subjeCt. ''-Those' vows: involve:a , supreme' consecration to the work of ihe ministry, and it ',is a'fair impli cation that it should be,just as exclusive, and continue just as long as the providence of God allows. In this world,, no roles can be above the necessities of human affairs. The,minister has a domestic circle, around him, and thii relation alone throngs him with secular cares. - Within such botinds as a lively conscience will Prescribe, an attention to these cares does not Perjure him in his vow of supreme consecration tot*ork of the Gospel. Human society is aroundhim, and, in important respects, not strictly, within the line of his Gospel,labors, he may exert a, healthful influence upon social customs edu cational interests, 'arid the public comfort He may do it Without any weakening of his efficiency in his main - work, and ()hen to the increase of his usefulness as a preacher of Christ. He is also a citizen of the Govern ment; and by a parity of reasoning, why May, not opportunities offer for making hisinilu-_ ence felt'for the happiness, the purity, and t4e, general gOod the nation,,,thro.ugh ordinary channels of effort'in that direction? It is, granted that the Wider the field of cares„ outside of his chief-work, spreads out, and the more exposed it becomes to entangle ment with , angry public exeitements, the greater is the peril of its coming into collison —perhaps even. fatal collison—with his strictly Ministerial duties. But' 'this <is a danger ; that medifles the question :of :propri ety, whichcomes ! up after that .of ; statutory prohibition is 'determined. So far as the Di- r it! t vinechurch's law is s concerned, vases statutemay Which, a minister may ariseort he i 4 lawfully. become: a-Provider. for2his family, a mediator between cpatectding ucighbors, a. college Professor,a jadge, Coßcillor of S r, ECCiptain,,o tate, a private soldier, a Gen r , eral. The unwritten of sacr ed proprte zes, as bearing on the miniffier's ielatioritO the giov! 7 ernment, presents a' inord'entlihkraishig &ob ject. Those proprieties admit of .but few uniform rules, and:the :whole labor of decis ion comes baa at laet:Upen the.private judg= ment and the conscience ; , _ ry Is a general thing thosenproprieties forbid Ids becoming a prominqy participant in : public civil affairs. As a general: thing they en - t. ,:.--. ,1 .7'.. . tirely shut him out • or in.aCtive,participa tibn in War,. or..rec tinglot Var. - - Under i ordinary circumsta ' a his influd4e. and usefulness will deept *IR% jrreptidsitff6lttt. ing the politica: 'l4 ..aecepting of civildignities, dignities, pr putt/ Ar.t. ,the. .iinifoTm.l of a soldier. . Good. ,p9A e 8 0.A 1 P care. to ,hear constables or Goverori, corp. 7 sl4rAlp, or Gen erals preaah: They e)cpact;"anecin tftp main they receive much Atka edifteittton'fieni'the spiritual labors' of men iihein - WhOld public; labor consists in tire Aidministiatfoit of the Gospel. . z t 'fr) ' ; ,f But, great enter cies. intthe r life of 1 g government, often ' R rOlutionize those duties towards it which belong to the disoretionary class. Sacred prop ,ieties .would - g t : ll? most e, phatically forbid a , minister in this Icity'front bceoming a regular ember of i r iftre-engine company, and running with it 'to every fire: As a Philadelphian, 10-haaarittnquestienable legal right to become a fireman,:and:there is nothing in the lettert- of ;the .revealed<law of his duty, or in his ordination vows te, r ,forbid it. But-.as things i fre,,. the spirit of c both these last would condemn. such a and certainly 'the fitness ''''Of thnigs would be it!it placably hostile towardif: '• - • • ' '` 1' But if there4nrein piogress here 11, great conflagration wlio , ,had =already laid 'one third "of the city in I,aliMi,involving hundreds of human lives :in thAtdestraction, and 'which threatened to sweep ~ pver.the :whole,' and..if the ordinary; - love o ; )the fire department had become' thinne4 an exhausted, would the minister 'feel himsel, any less a minister of Christ for springing I,into. the breach like a man, working ' himtelf at - the 'brakei, or catching' the trumpet • of ' a fallen' engineer to rally others to the`work? Wonld ally' one listen to him'' the next 'Sabbath; with less do cility or reverence ;because,- on an occasion, which.revolutionized4 ordinary proprieties, he had exchanged the o`tosock for the fireman's coat ? So far otherc*, let, him, ' iu such a cri sis, refuse to bear a ,hand, because his com mission is, not to work' fire enkines,'but to preach the Gospel, ;and' who would` not dis dain to own.lim as spiritual "guide ? ' Under the principles already stated, I may venture to say, without further -illustration, thlitt taitLlco2y foi the inin ister,, in a sufficient; emergency, to "render to his government any, honest service' in his power,. ,Then corning into the field of exis ting exigency, it becomes as much with the minister, as with any other citizen,, the ques tion of the hour—to what an f I called ? How far, if at all, Shall I turn aside from my or dinary -routine of "duty; to help 'the . nation through this peril ' - I say little of his great duty to stand forth;. in his, ministerial, capacity, as the, preacher of loyalty and the denouncerof treason, and to pray for the success -of the g-overnment against rebellion : This duty is placed out of the range of debate by the positive law of the New Testament already 'cited—a law which would butalniolt a-faree, if the:exhoro Cations and Supplicationa whicit it, prescribes are not to be adapted to the necessities of the times. But with all,the urgency of this duty, en thusiasm must' not , usurp the : plan of calm judgment. In r like this, ,there is danger that men . Wilrikrairea religion of loy:: alty and patriotism. There is' a great dan ger that the- higher duties of 'repentance, faith and holy living, will be lost from' sight amid:the wild-rush of patrioti& excitements. Ministers should not only warn the people-of this in words, .=but they should do it,practi cally, by continuing to give the chief of their. Public labors; in or out of their pulpits, in i their pariihea_:or in "!the Anny,toward paring men to die. 'They can do this Without leaving the other undone. But am I-to' go >into 'the 'Array the question:around. Which. he 'lnCet paiIIM: solicitude gathers. g:How does therdalm'andf judicious patriot who,is:not .a : minister meet , it? . He assumes *L. point . as e the o inquiry.,-/ must go , forth ( a. t ; the ccgiof •the eauntry. if I can. Then pv i eTy . obstacle 0, hialeaving home, the c ond i tion of liis family,; his o ffi cial relations to society' the siifferitig*hreh'rnay accrue froth his 'ailkseriCe; l or "his physical disqu'alifications'ifor-iiiilititY service, is carefully weighed,' end dolif via of the 'preponderanzthe bh,laiiise,'he de - terminesi-whether, the 'country most, 'teed& Mat in:t4e Army, or at home, case: now differs with-ministers, tonly, as most of them have more .to be ts k keax,into the account. Churches are not to,belban, doned,in the enthusiasm ofll- g eneral, without most serious inquiry, A 044., the usefulness in prospect inOre l tlian counterbalanced by the 'evij left behind. Breaking pastoral ties the sink' to suffer and die. witholit ther , spiritual service most needed then, leiivieg also4inners to re=- main for months, without: the lnsual means of grace, and churchep to ,pbecome scattered as sheep without a skeßlierd o .aud all this at a time when the moral. ,so4dition of things is likely to call for!theiighest amount of min isterial faithfulness=theakt are considerationa of gravest weight in ' the' question - of dtity: Until the emergeney'beedines more pressing, they will, with- 'most ; Oliiistian pastors, bb' decisive against going to.the 'War: • But when. •a minister- yields:tir such obsta cles, or to mtg..: of the more , vimmonrEraffici clout impediments iut.slo- way of the3highest known -offerizz . V . try, a otiffcr ent thing ‘ frozc t A t ai ding behind his cloth and claimin g - aemption from service, upon groun4 Which 'slibj act the who)eelass to mortifying . imput.atiOns. It iiilekby. the community that the e. enflegitatiatlgriiTached a degree of piogresairhioli relicifei a pittiiotic minister from all feeling of itaptilirietiTin stepping: forwird . tof,-help 4nari; ...the:engines. 'ltiisrfelt:lthat, 7 B6- fat .as,efficiall proprietiem are , ioneerAt 3 d, , ,themPemeneyj Wm jilt ;34Iti,nr,liis offer of service .on the thuWff , war, unconditional as it respects the position of. aornbalarit or noii-combatant; if he is pre pared to makeit at all., - • ,‘ -It is a.most unfortunate conjunction, when conscientious. scruples and personal, danger rise above the horizon at the same instant. If our consciences are clear in rousing others to beoome combatantS, what preVents a censcientiousness in becoiniAg such - oiiikelves'? certainly — approve the ; Max im ihat-4 .man , is timself—the peiformer of . whatale does through: an agent. If ie can arm, others r without; reinorse,' Whit' is there remorseful;' in arming,ourselves? Andif, so far as home, obstacles , or. personalAisqualifi cations ire ,concerned, we can accept posts of Comparative . safety, such as chaplaincies, what prevents our taking the pOit'of. danger , • believe I have - said, with sufficiefinfittli flea; of his vocation forbid the minister of.rthe Gospel from prominerrVaet6ivin affairs',, gi,torl: much m . ore Srom4aking,any actim,,sharetin,ar. But there. is nothing; , either ix} the slibstaice of, his commission, or those , official propettles, which forbid him froth' Standing side by aide with any other hourof 'it 1 'd patriot, the ove e mmng ger.. And if, in such an hour, finds his' way clear. to' offer his services to'the war department, at all, it will be most fOr the honor of his order, and moat 'comely for himself, that he'should- offetr them unebnclitiopal/v.:` keiltrfficuo. .LABOULAI.E'SiIiAST WORIMOIT) T.HE S.OUTH Laboulaye has just added ,another to the Many obligations undes,which he has:laid the .A.Merican - people by his writingerin our favor, by an article of great breadth and pouter. oc cupying some ten ce:lU'innh of the Jourited des Debeits It stales-the ground and elude of the rebellion'in the clearestterits,.to be the propagation and perpetuation of slavery, and proves the. truth of the statement by the powerful logic of facts. After this follows a, vindication of the conduct of ,Mr. Lincoln'u government, and of the tongress which has dust closed its labers This part of the arti ole is most masterly, and demonstrates a thoroughkhoiledge, on the Part of LOboit leo; not merely of the principles of the e'en flict,:but of the currrent' facts' of -the lime. He gives the - rebels the followingcomfort, ,as to their ex:peetationS 3 .from Europe.",-• ';' : s". Let flot: the South dedeive Its , itself. ' soldiers are brave, its politicians skilful ; it holds hack the cotton, which Europe so,iin periously needs ; itfiattera certain European jealousies and feareSby holding out, the coming dianaemberthent of the Uni' d States;' but in I t, spite of all these favorable sines, the South' will decbiyed in: its atii tion. The- new itoingireirifiiie - ivhiclf *as to extend as faf - as - Mexico . that new ciiilization, based on slave ry, which-lhey have promised us, is but a vanishing dream, a bubble which the, wind will burst. , To succeed, the South will require the aid ,of Europe ; this aid it shall never have. *hatover may be the sufferings of commeice, whatever may`be the calculations of diplomatists, there is one fact which over- ' weighs all;:and that is slaverg The Victory Of the Northii - the redemption of . four mil lions, of men; the triumph of the South is the perpetuation; the extension of slavery, with allits miseries and all ,its crimes., it is this consideration which causes more; than one, government to .pause... The masses,-, whom great politicians •despise, but whom they dare not brave ; those, fanatics who believe in the Gospel ;"those narrow minds who Understand nothing but liberty ; those simpletons who are moved at the sufferings' of an unknown negro ; - that; sentimental Mob . *hich thraws into the scales its' loVe of righfand of humani ty,--Alwa, ys carry the day at, last. The world belongs tb these` simple ones,ivh-4;Yefusing'to , ' listeli to the cunning'combinatieniof politics, consider' justice and above their' own - interests.' - Public conscience is the rock-on which the South will be wrecked. . ,_ _ : " Among us in France can, the cause of slavery ; ever become populax?,F ,Our fathers Went to. America with Lafayette . ..and .1091 x, timbeau to npheld,libeity... .one of our national ; it is for this service rendered to the 'l3,nited. States tnat.we are there 4011; Eildnied is brethren and friends. Shall; libit4itii this gloriosisspast the name' ,of Tranan be associated witlethe triumph of thtiiSouth,.that is to say; with'the perpetuity's. cit.slatety This. aannotebe., - Francs r it..is;- sazid,. ; pever fights for filt.erestflot for , ideasti AA4I4 tkeyfoud isk,lhat iden, shoio 71.0 I ?,..fighOlg .for,,in 4404* Sonthr' • • '"theigia ;article on the recognition of 'ilk" South : a r ani t t °lithe ordinary principles of. in .ternaltiortallaw, amlaccordinrtii ordinary usi - Slie r .Fr mace .recognian the new Don, :federacy ; but that it flumsti,and will. not,, do AO, becanae,to;ehellon was got:np, .and the war is carried on by the Southern leader's, to establish.a alayeholding power at one of the new nitibini 'of the earth.—Dr. ' lifc'o7;iiitock sn the • • -; ,4•••••• • , 44. • JERUSALEM:INDY& GROUND. account, of Signoryijirotti';€ .discove •• . , Ines umsunterrinean topography of jeru salew has beez!,publiiished,. Employed by:the Paola' as ad an engineer, tie' has discovered that the modern city orZerTiutem stands on Bei , era 4Yers . of itiiiieorMadmity, the'undeilMost of 'which; •coMpOied 'of.cdeeply bevelled and inordiond steneS, helattributes to . the'afge of Solomon, the nexturthat of Zerubbabeli the! next to that of Herod, the next , :to that of Jusiinian i ,and so.on . .till the times ,ofthe Sa racens and Crusaders. He has traced ,a se-, ries of conduits, and sewers leadilig from the "dome of - the . rocg" a mosque standing on the very site'pf!'the altar of sacrifice in the Temple, to"tiffi'Viiillei ' of Jehoshaphit, by means ofwfiiCh thiPtitide sts were enabled to flush the whole tetnple area with water, and thus to carry off -the -.blood-:and offal of the sacrifices te.the bilSokatedron. The manner of his exploration's suss very Interesting. He got an Arab -to welk up through these im mense sewers, ringing ,„a bell-and browing a tinnapet, while he hinhelf by following thft, soup 'was _ able to`trace exact . courso theyi took. ,About two Years ago he accidentally, discovered a fouutain,at the pool of lietllta A . da, and on opening it, a copious streata water-:immediately began to tlowi andjitts flowed everlsince; no one knows from whore it comes or whither it goes. This'eaused*rthe greatest 'excitement among 'the Jews, who floCked in crowds *to drink and bathe them , - selves ih it. They fancied that ifiltsOnenf the signs ofMessiah's comitg, andiiportended the speedyseitoration of their commonwealth. This:fountain ; •which has=a peculiar= _.taste; like that of milk,and water, kidentifiedJby ;Signor. Pierotti Fith,the fountuirohat gem ; kiali bujit) and which is 410E41114 bAr,4B - The measurenaentS and e rposition. : of most orthese:remains accordexactly with the Jeivieh historian's descrip'tiOnS.. Some of the Signor's emiclusions are disPuted,?blit-no one his succeededin so disinterring the Ray 1 11 O$L~J A IIIIO LD. ,-GREAT , =The of :Rev. Dr.- Cu . 7?lnzing an London. - I =-The,-congreiation of the. Scotch • National under the inmiStry,Of'the"Eex.;Dr. CunnOing, is situated" in ardeaelYpeptilated neighborhoOd. Drury Lane' Theatre-Aands On the south side,-.and Nvent Garden' The atie On the west. =The congregation is drawn from the west rend of - London, , there'. being scarcelyfifty persons ',from, the , locality. The church, bolds47oo pere9he..l The,,morn in& congregation, , consists of. at least.two thirds Scctolnnen and ane-third ; English. The iiicomefrom seat-rents- amounts to about X1306' a year. • - A'eCrisiclerable:number both 'of the'Sedtch and ."English'nobility and gentr;) , 'attend.. The .Congregation supports an ordained mis sionary of-the , Chtirch.of Scotland,•who 're ceives- £2OO a yeah- Ile preached :,every Sunday in' the .Ragged:Church i which , was opened, in a very, debased neighborhood a quarter of a mile, east of the churph. also superintends with great etfiCienc,) , :the various schools. `There is, first, the ragged, ighool, - With its Varrioue agencies,'costing a - bent:X/300 aryear. The day-sehools, -with upwards Of , 600- dew - many of there, children. of dews, Roman Catholics, sand ' heathens, supported by the: congregation. Also, and costing about £7oo' a year. „The congregation built the Xt#:gg6cl Church at au' expense of ~,,X12,00,,and the day- schools, attached ,to the Church for X4OOO. The Sabbath deseeratedin ,Scotland.'—The: Edinb,urg. Correspondent of the..last New of the :citurch.es writes :--There i iS now; really little 'difference between the habits of the, masses'of our e populatien in'the largo towns, on S'abliath and whit maybe seen in l i entton on that 'day,' with the exception, :that railway 'companies' have not 'yet. get , :the f length of tempting people 'away frdmi relig-. ions ordinances by, cheaper fares on Sundays, and, in some cases-- , -to their honor be l t,said: -,--,, T run,no,passenger .all • Thapub-. lic-houses are also shut during the 7'hole,daY, i in virtue of the Forbes Mackenzie Act. But, in AlthoileVery Other respeCt, English johin alisti might as Well picture ScotehMen the kilt' for the national dress, as represent=' them en masse in the character of 'rigid batarians. We have very much. nhanged4.ill that now. If we have, not excursion. , trains,. , . we . . have excursion 'steamers on;the Clyde and the Tay : and the public pariks,in, Lan don are not more . chronged l in proportion, to the population, than are the Green and. West end Park in Glasgow, and the Queen'iPark, , , Meadows, and 'Caftan Hill in Edinburgh.' Where Sunday morning trains are 'run they are always ' crowded ; others walk =or drive into the country, and on the. Sunday evening , the suburbs of Edinburgh and Glasgow , are. crowded ,witlt Dleastme-walkers, of whom' a very ;considerable_ proportion, are regular, church-goers. In Glasgow, there r are up wards .of 2000 shops open on Suraay, and thoigh the evil does not exist to the same ex tent in Edinburgh, plindee, and oilier places, °Wing to' the greater ortlie limes; trates, it has been ascertainedthat 'some of the" shops- openin Edinburgh haie as <much traffic on Sunday.as on allBthe , other days, of the week. , , Open Air 'Predching.--'-ni:Ei ) ftlittiod sp truly evangelical in its. Chirgiter, arirtb well adapted, to-the necessities of the 'half heathen maksesiotour towns, .tliat one would think an enlitlitened government would. seek to encourageAkby every means in its ,power, has been ser;:sgisly obstructed, by, legal 4eoi sions lately,in_Scot t land. In AdiOurgl; , ,lii the.ease of' 4fe Oarubber'S Oh ' - mission, decision hair b'sen iendered in laver of 'the practice: The of` Inverness hive fined-a pikiacher'f6Fobstructincr the• streetS. The , sheriff of lianarkshire, in which Glasgow . is situated, has,decided•against the practice; and-the famous.,stone ;_pulpit on the :.outside of Bri4gegateMission Pburch has not ; been used ;; since tht,„Rom an. Catholic rict, : ty,q . .yfarti ago. In Breeliie, and Aberdeen,_ there has .late ly been open air service. Dr. Guthrie ioolliart in the service at Bre- Chin. ' The ,Carsyhyrs' , c lose **on doing great.work in - gdinburgh.„ and In .adarge &- tint of SoOttand: In Edinburgh. there. is a nightly" meeting `Whitfieldthe:. hedequaitioi o f the 'mission.' Miry Sah!" - bath etieningjihkire' it a meetingliraie Assembly Hall, attended , usually' by about 2000 persons. -Other.eighteen•meetings are held every i Sabbath evening, in t".ll3ilburg and its vieunity;lideliiilifig five'lci'pen4Ar - services. ftr.s, meetings on *Tidily, six ?ft Tuoadq„ _one on WednesdaY,, anit numerous hoisercila ' meetings ;" tevilor, lhursday, seven Friday , • and four on' Saturday, There i'dralais inedicarinission, 446 a peniairtfor the poor open dilly i"-tud• cense& e'vangelhity the Iter. ':Mr Paterson, itinerates through the country, ,and ii has al-, readysyisAted thirty of the towns in,,Scutlaqi Some of them : more than onco p ,holdjng .eyan 7 , gelistic meetiigs v ivhich are stalk, bl(iel) win t grealy Wessel,. , ••actdroas: Ca.ce.+-The Free•glitrreb,Com miesion of Assembly met. op Abe 4341...- A report, was , given. in ,on :the, OaxdFoss, oa4et and the, members expressed their satisfaction at the ,happy' terriunation ttis tA4lesoin , Tiipre' was no :anxiety on the part of the spaikeri favorable of th&new'cline threatened' by MeV/Ellin.. •It was held 'that; , :even , the new . 3aCtion iti proceeded with, the--prinpiples-laid-down Okek;Lord*Pkin.t4e. rP9e.O, dectig.9ll4r wguld iiivA,t P l , lohArq4. frPßAM*Eppivl o sof 3 Ag• spiritual domain. GEX4SEEEVANWAL T . W hole „Ne„Bs4;, 1: • • 1, 4 v • .:. -4 - : zt- "- The City of /Wiz, for the first time, - has given ground and r firn4 for.-the building of a Proteatint'Reforined Oink l eli in ihe The 'chapel of the Rue St; "liazare, usedLfor theiliat few years, is comin.abkieleof buildings-to-be demolished4or4he-_--widening and imoicyjng„ of the streets= 4lnkthe city has offered another site, and 100,600 francs, to coverall! . expenses. This is, a great boon and an ..important precedent. Ilitheitct ; the Government only given old Catholic' ehurchei for the use of the Protestant natinn al 'Churches: The • Th -R ' et A( f e carried', extensively.s ParistEpeivS4llldi' ers ;°f 4 aeites,,of an page„, Lets, have ppeared 4{6 "Mach ;la - theig .4l 'four are fibitaa'of t i `eiltifrta:- tions, and have been sold to the ninif of 150,000. - The-revival-aymn-book, contain ing ten hymns, : published alsß c iu March, has gone through tivii“efiiitons of 5000. copies each. , = The .eagerness with ; which tracts are received, and invariably read b Lire Paris Pepolation,., increases rather than - otherwise, and reveils a bidden work, going; and vast field for the sower: - • Hindrgrige,tock,f Gospei.-74Tctwithstand ing recent r 'decisions.in ,the - interest of relig ious liberty, in Tialy;' many hindrances .can be put in.the or the evangelist and ea= perteur by the subordinate authorities who are te r a great extent under the influence`' of, the prieSts. This is' especially the 'case in the provinee , of Tuscany .where' a large pro portion `of the judicial. functionaries in >the province are the , " " who .were cm= ployed by: the Grand Pilke,, who hate the new, ponatitutional 7:egime,and who are un der the power of the priests, so that when ,a complaint is made to one of hese gentlemen by% priest against'a colportear, nothing is , more common than to Arrest, iippri,son,'seize thelooks,•orlbanisit from a town or , a district, the accused; without any fOrmiof trial what ever.f d.ozen. cases at least:have hap pened during last winter and this spring, atl4o the pooT ,e,olporteur :knows little of the fewdays, during which it is lawful :to make a reclamation to, a superior author ity have 'generally elapsed before they "ra ceme aware'of 'their priVilege;; and thus the injustice is beyond reclaim Things are not so bad elsewhere as in Tuscany; though both iirthe' north and , the south of Italy, instances ioccur. in, which : the authorities instead •of :protecting colPnitcurs,against the threaten ,ing attitude of priests, and pegple, send them. away with the assurance that if they remain they will" not boArtSwerable'for their lives. Two eases` of sequestration of colporteure pielisories'seentaining only bibles,the other bibles and religioits_ books—occurred in Tus cany:diring the Past month. eggals Mobbed in lifilan.—At a little Ai:nth Gentilino - outside the .Ticino'gate, One'of the monks' of San Vittore lhaw,been - preaching in the, open-air on Sun ;days. r The littlesquare,in the front of the church had, a pulpit. erected on and seats were placed for, the hearers. OE the 20th of last tliuly ;: , the monk „announced that his sermon next Sundiy, (27th) would be on "The Morals' Protestantism " - and many of the gvatigelici; anxious' to hear what he had tocr say, attended. While waiting for the 'preacher to make his appearance, they be came conscious that they were being marked land pointed.out iby some of those who were present,butithey took ,these for marks of contempt; . and feared, .no evil. No sooner had the preacher annomiced-his sub ject, than cries of " help, help." ; mere heard from a, pOor'man asSailed bYfour or five fel- WhoFWere beating! and kicking him, and breaking a chair Over his heath ITwo priests stood in the middle of the piazza; shouting out, "Give. it-to the Protestant! .give it to the. Protestant!" The attack upon the Evangelici then became general, and the monk in te pulpit, stooping _down caught hold of a chair,, and hurled it against, one of them .with his own hands! - The account of this outrage is; finblished in the Per severanza Of the 29th 'Ray. As soon as the authorities heard CIA they 'came to the sint, made some arreitsvancr the case is now under judicial investigation =!,'.;. Ads' Hanover.—We hive. af4edy,'.`inentioned theile disturbances whielFhive" resulted in actual collisions, at leieit in one locality, between' the people and the , police. We are enabled to lay further particulars'before our:repo:Lem ;with some ex planation of the • tr4:-?ublea.„..„Theleorrespon.d ent of the News. ofßee,Ohurches writes from . • Hamburg :. : . , . - • • In thelingdOM Hanover no excite ment Preirails at present in Voniequence of • the pinpOSed introdfiction Of inew eatechisin into the I The betechiinn art present • iri'nee bears' the impresti .of the time' whins it was Composed,- when: Rationalism reigned in high quarters'. The tide havinginrned, and, at.least .4 1 tw:fax as: Piej*V.ef the e4r gy concerned, , haying reached • the highest pitch 4 orthodox 11:igh , Chtirchism which could Well : be attained , 44l , :i.ee,teelilePl was considered (I'6l4'6:hie. The" lecleiiigtical en thiiiities of thek - iiiigdoni - haireirW prepared ote; and given orders haitritintroduced into the- schools 4ithontidelai: • 'I "'The catechisra is inSiiitelitettelr than could liave been-expeeteditt-::pretentAn Hanover. 'she. doctrine of the litter. 'depravity. of the' hu inagrnatr.re .tli,e,faltof Adam; the divinity of 0414 ; jueti4449,444 411 ;1gq/ctificatien by„tlite,HlVApirkti the.reeFrection of the boles both of . pie, hghteonktßit the wicked,; a final judgme nt ; the eternal happiness, of beheyers on the Son of - God; and the eternal condenmation of the *4OE6d, are mesidistinct ly taught. The Chtirelt is statedqo be "the assembly. of all that are calledtoielvation in Christ; that' are builtaip in :faith unto salva tion by the world and.o!sk,,raments." " Out of this true Church nuoialutiort." "The Lutheran Churckla not ,the exchisive repnsi. 7 tory ,of salvation, 10 is ,one of ihose.whieh is built . 011 , the apostlesisiafirc.oo l ti s :. of which Jean, Ohriat is tte °ch.:ler-ft:6le • • clearly teaohei the . Old Lutheran, pot 6 811 Y, 'Popish, doctrine of - the, priestly effiCaicY•of the. clergy - in' tlte' foigiveness of 'This totild scarcely:have been' regarded ICS & teililllittlitVaMOSt wholly Lutheran as .that'iott %mister is,there being 6n6standla half ! milliape alutherana in a Topa - :1. 4 116,0 a494itiPixiotgAre. WritiTgAdiAg•and the Whole capital, indeed the whole icingdom, ' • . giBEI 4:;1 Rita },..r....,; r~~.~ :rf~t
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