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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,
' • .
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4:;1 Rita
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