Vol. VII,' No. 8.---W hole No. 320. ;Nostti. 454,01tE, at midnight as he knelt, his.spirit was , awara Ur somewhat falling in between the silence anti the prayer; A bell's dull clangor, , that hath sped so far, it faints and dies So 'soon as it hath reifilled the ear whereto its or rand Hew; , And as he rose s iqr *owi his knees his spirit vas aware Of somewhat, forceful and unseen', that sought to h 914 1444, 4 4.9r9.; :$ As of to Firm that stood behind, and ott Is ahnulders Fest . • 'lfoth.lianas to sty rising,np, ,end Soninythet • breast, it : agents clearer far than words, spake, " Pray yet, longer,. prey, $ POr one that ever prayed for; thee this night hath pissed 'awayi' «r 1 sou f, that climbing hour by hour the silver shining stair That /sada to' God's ,great treasure house, grew °lveieheA , (40 there . " Waif: stOtreti no blessing and no boon, for thee the did not claim, (So lowly, yet importunate 1) and ever. with ,thy 1 :1140 • She Ilnled--tthattionein earth or heaven might himic't 'V stv--; 91;e, Other Naine,,so strong, that.thl,ne hath ;Lev * er missed its, way.' This very night 11 , 161// my: awns this ,graeions soul I bore Withiu r the Gatti, where many a prayer, of hers had gone before; And where she resteth •evermora , one oonstaut song they raise Of Holy, holy,' ge that now I know not if she • prays; " Bet ro the voice or prAse in naavaat a Taiga • of Prayer'hath gone From Earth; thy name upriseth now no more; pray o pray. on 1" torttopionitnict oryivi "OP mihom. the.ivhole family in hetivtin and•earth is nametV.• Y4 04%41 ; 16. iiikontatiort , his rendered this " every fam ily:" ''The• word-rendered heaven is 'in the original: heavens. , In the realm ofjekevah, there areannum bored worlds, ,and, perhaps, every world has its family dwelling oa iritekligent fam ily which )hymns thepraim of tho,ore*t Je hovah. And, wheyever there is a world throughoutlhe vast heavens of ',,heaVens,'its inhaVitifiti 'have the . same object of worship with us. 'Their God is our God. They as reverently•adore him as any of us. He is their Father as well as, our "Father. Hence the whole may said to,oonstitute, oneffratern, ity ; and therefore, there is a , degree of,ap r propriateness,in our #auslation, " whole fam, tly; and indeed tke.original may be trans lated either way. That of Middletonl have regarded as .'the • Settir. All worlds have a colonic:lU' Father, and therefore sustain a fra ternal relationship ; Whether JIM isegard them as of one, or as .different families • Indeed,'all seem- to have a common inter est =in our Jesus; though theirs is inot so close, so 1 iZ1T143(403 fts or,s. Through and by him, they stand, but by him we are saved, As being ; more inuneciistely pur,Saviour, he took not their nature, but 'ours; and' hence he is our Brother in a nearer sense than he is theirs. We can approach nearer to him than they. Jesus is the cm:meeting link of the universe, or more properly. the celestial chain "which binds all worlds together, And each holy in dividual to the throne of God: however we may translate the expression, we are to un derstand IfY it every intelligent unfallen be ing of the heavens or heavenly worlds, and every redeemed - being of earth. They all constitute the one great family, or the fami lies of the one, Giodf and. Father, and ,of > the one only Saviour.. With all these •holy intelligences of_ other worlds, Paul bowed before God—with them we bow. May they not be the sheep of our Father's fold, which went not astray ? But we went astray, and hence the good Shen= herd came to seek and save us. To me it is very interesting to contemplate those passa4 ges of loly Writ, which indicate to us the near relationship we sustain to . other worlds. An e dthough we seemed forever to have severed the bond of the heavenly brotherhood; yet we shall be restored again through Jesus. • •We will all be one again. But whose name is named on the' gent families of the , heavens ; !and what are we to understand ,by the , expression.? • Mr., Barnes says, ":This expression, of whom,'' may refer either to the, l Fathex or to th Lord., Jesus Christ. Commentators have been divided in opinion in regard to it. Bloonaeld, Chandler, Erasmus and some others refer it to the Father; Locke, poa dridge, 'Calvin and some others refer it to; he Lord Jesus. This is the more natural , There are very few references in the word of God to give us any light upon this point ;I hat-what we have, seem rather to indicate that Jpans is the one " of whom the whole family in. the ~heavens and the earth is named' —that the name of the .blessed Jesus, is named upon all the intelligent fam ilies of creatien. We learn from the first Chapter of this epistle (Ephesians) that there will be a time when all will have one community in him. That time will be when the grand restitution shall have ,been-effected. 0. Then thexa-wil be a unity such as there has not been since the fall,—and it will be a unity in Christ. Jesus is :the only b c ing of the Adamic family , / Whom all worlds have an interest —an interest in a,higher, nearer %rid dearer sense than that which the Creature sustains to thir Creator. All haVe an interest in him, because' in him the Godhead is -united to hu manity—the Creator to the creature. But all h ave ei t interest in hint ~a higher sense than that. ThfiThav,e co en interest in him as a Saviour. ' I say a common, but I do not say an equal., As the Almighty,Savio'or —the Saviour of all worlds—We leArrt from the word of God, that all stand together with Gone Patience, of Rope. him. Had, it not been for the Almighty Good man Saviour, there would undoubtedly have been a universal falling of worlds. Had he failed in the .great work of man's redemption creation, would have fallen with him. Had he not undertaken the work, of man's redemption, the universal realm of Je hovah would long ere this, in all probability have',been destitute of one loyal subjdet— the universe would have had none to hymn his praise. I repeat it, I believe I am au thorized .by the Holy Volutne' ;to say, thitt had he not undertaken the work ufinan's . re r ilemption,-all,holy wort& would have fallen; and that hall it not been for his death on Calvary, there would not now be of 3 holy being to hymn the praiies"of the great jeho vah—ereation woUld.be worse than a blank. His name is named upon all, as their viour,—not in the same sense as his name is named upon; us as our SaViour, and' yet as really. He is as really their' Saviour, as he is our Saviour. He is their 'Saviour to keep them.froni falling ; and our Saviour to raise us from the ruins of .our fall i and to keep us from falling again. . Without him, they no more could, have stood, or would have stood, than without him, we can rise. Without him their ,sttmding wouldhave been as hopeless, as'' our rising. All worlds had an interest in Bethlshem,e.ethsemane and Calvary.. • They are named Sons of God, not merely becanse of their ' Creation by God and"their Obedience to him; but also because by our Je sus, they are kept sons of God. ' We behold in this, the office work of our Saviour. greatly magnified. .He is not mere, ly the Saviour of one little world, but, in a very important- sense,, of all worlds—of all who, hymn the praises of him who sits upon the throne and of the Lamb. As the sun is the centre of our solar Ysystem, so is'he the grand centre of the holy.) So he is the grand moral centre of the universe: He is the grand attraction of all holy hearts' in all worlds. JAMES. KBRR. GENERAL VIEW OF THE 31188IONVOF THE AMERICAN BOARD FOR 1862. . Commencing with Western Africa, we re port only two 'brethren and their-wives now on tlie .ground"; but they have .had encour agement to labor, :thore having been half T a score and more of hopeful conversions. The mission in AS'aukel:n Africa has .enjoyed the usual prosperity. Tiventy-two were 044 to the church, Others were hopefully conver ted; and Church members were_ quickened'and revived: The Churches arc making some pro=. Society towards self-support. A Missionary Society Was rforxried . 4 for' sustaining native home missionaries. The body, of converts, all so lately barbarous, contributed $750 for various purposes. But so great ;are .the in ducements to trade, growi4g, out of the in9o- ming civiliFation -that' only a .few of the con verts-have yet been; induced to give them selves to the ministry gthe" WO - rd. The only, missionary of . the IT , eara in Oreece, is Dr. Jonas King. Illness has pre vented'his making a report of the past.year. There' are , four missions in the Turkish, Enipire,—to Western, Central and Eastern Turkey, and to Syria. Apart Of ihe field occupied by.the Nestorian missien, is also within the domains, of the Grand Sultan. The missions to Western; Control Apd ,Rost ern Turkey ; may preperly, ,described 445 one large nussion.-There are 21 statiens ; 84 out-stations ; 40 missionaries ; 44 autho rized native preachers, (of Whonfil are pas tors,) and 125 other. native .co-laborers. Of churches there rare 48, with ~ 1 564 members:; almost two hundred of =whom were receivad the past year. One .hundred and seventeen commen rschools contain 300 ; and there are three high Schools for training. a native mi nistry.. That at Constantinople is to be re moved into the country, to insure a greater simplicitY of culture for the; young pastors aid preacher* and so alSo lathe one,for:fe males. Training, schools,,on.a Wall smile At grst, are to Jae. commenced among 4 )41,P -rians of,Enropean Turkey. The printing in Armenian,. A.rmeno-Turkish and. Bulgarian exceeded eight millions of pages. Dr. Good ell has nearly completed the revision of his Armend-Turkish version of the 'Bible: Dr. Riggs is translating the Bulgarian Scriptures. Dr.. Sehauflier has nearly finished an Arabs- Turkish translationof the New ':Testament ; for the use ,of the •Moslems. [Reference is here made to the number of sudden and , violent deaths among the imem here of the, mission ; -those .of, Dr. Welt , by a railroad accident ; IVlessrs. Coifing and Merriam, by the hands of Arab, highwaymen; Mrs. Meriam, in consequence of the death of her husband ; rand Mr. Dimmore in battle near Helena, Arkansas] '" The mission in 4ria, though suffering for a want of laborers, was never so promising of spiritual fruit as now. The light is spread ing. Petitions and deputations with urgent appeals for religious teachers, are constantly being received by the missiooaries. More persons have avowed themselves:Protestants in the last twelve months, than during the w,hole,previous forty years, and never were So many inquiring on the subject of religion. In Home; a city north of Damascus, two hundred and fifty persons'avowed themselves Protestants, and earnestly requested either a missionary or a nature .preacher. - Two hun dred and thirty-two Maronitea in B'teddiu declared their adhesion to- the, gospel, and. have remained steadfast for months, with a flonri§hing school among them. In Oana, the Protestant community has increased three-fold, and greatly needs more room for religio4 meetings ; and the same is true of Deir-Mimas. A new meeting house has been built Merj:-Ayun, costing $5OO, without aid from the Board. The Hasbeiya church was broken Up by the masnere,.but a new church of seventeen members has been form ed in the Merj-Ayun.distriet, most of them from that church. Six,were admitted to the church in Sidon. There were also additions t,13 the - churches in Beirut; and Abeih ; and nearly forty persens are reported as hopeful candidates for admission in connection with these three stations. Missionary associations have been formed, both of males and females, for weekly offerings to' support a national preacher in Hems, and. a city missionary in Beirut, and to supply preachers for several localities in the south. They also publish a small Missionary Herald • in Arabic, and have printed a.Coltection of sacred songs in Ara bic, for the Sabbath school children, which they are taught to sine.' An unusual nuraL bbr of adults are learning' to read, in order PHILADELPHIA, THU - EA - JAY., 00 study the Scriptuyes, and Bible-classes have been largely , increased. * * * A pock et edition of the New Testament of 5000 co pies, was speedily . exhausted. The mission earnestly calls for a strong reinforcement. The Nestorian mission has suffered much the past year. Mr. Breath died of cholera in November, and was an irreparable loss; and Mrs. Breath has since been obliged to return to this country with her children. The health of Mr. Ambrose has required him to relinquish the missionary work. The same is also 'true of Mrs. Thompson. The health of Mr. Coan demanding a cessation from la bor, he is new on ;a visit to this country with his family. 9n the other hand, Dr. Perkins, the founder of the mission, is on his way back to. Persia. The people havebeen ren dered.someWhat restless by oppression, and by the vain hope of a Russian intervention. Still'God has not forsaken his own work. The week of prayer in= anuary was observed by the missionaries and the ostive preachers and helpers throughout the fteld,.and awa kened great iPterest. Fehruary, there was 4 revival9f religi9n both the. male and female seminaries. The number of pep , sons admitted to, church fellowship in connec tion with e mission, was' t -two,a - afve were excluded. The whole niunber in this fellowship is about Ave hundred, and the cen tral points' are being multiplied. . . . `There theological class of fifteen, all of whom are pledged to become preachers of the gos pel. More than a million• of, pages have been printed, the past year ; and the number from the beginning, exceeds sixty . . There is more and more evidenee that a spi ritual work is gOing on among the Moham medans of PerSia, tho Ugh it is still in, its ear liest stage. In view of the propable embarrassments growing out of our'civil war, liberal donations have been made to the Makrattaniission, Our English and Scotch' brethren in India and elsewhere. , Even gentlemen, Pot ChridiziaPkmade .donations areouPting to .about $20,0. Hindeo merchant of Bombay, educated in the GOvernment schools sent 150, 'acCOmpanied by a letter, in which he says "Though I am not a believer in Christianity, still I admire and the disinterested:, zeal and exertions of the Christian missionaries in tieing good to the people of India ; 'and. I believe the Anierican mission has beep and'-'is still doing .much good, in the way' f the moral'and social ele- Vation.Of my countrytheit. • I'therefore deem it my -duty .to contribute according to •my ability* to the support of the oission, in their present embarrassing eirenmstances." The war has been the occasion 4erP 0 7 4 0 , well , p,s seypr4 ,0119 F missions, of . stirring up the native Christians to good works. The total amount givon and pledged by the 'native Ohriitiani ; within the bounds of this mission, exceeds $5OO ; and the total amount from all sources, is $7687. Four new-churches were grja,,p4e4 during. he year, „matlF.ing•the-mani , tier of Cluirche - s tienty-twd. The Menibets received 'were eighty l five. The number of `seitieg and villages represented in these churches, is one hundred And, (PIP showing the diffusion of Christianity among the peo-. Several. persons of high, caste were re ceived to the chutch. The social condition of the Christians itnproVing. .4 5 4,t .A.h, Med nngger, there is a training . school for pate chidts and teachers, and alio a theological class. In - short, the mission as a. whole, is blessed The six pastors are laborious and useful men. The nativelelp ers are subjected to:a course of study, with semi-annual examinations before the mission-, aries, which - is doing mill. to imProve them, and quicken in them a desire for higher men tal and spiritual attainments. The seminary at Pasumahe is, a most viluable institution, with thirty-nine students. The inipils in the female bearding-school are . forty-five. The People are increasingly disposed to read, and 250 Bibles and Testaments, over 500 por tions of Scripture, and 45000 tracts, were distributed among them. 'The readers of the Missionary Herald will remember : a remark -able development .of the benevolent spirit among the native Christians ,duriug the past The aeon mission will rejoice to, we.kome the return of Mr. Howland and Dr. Green, embarked with their wiies, on the 26th of May. Mr. Meigs, one of the founders of this mission, and 'who labored in connection with it more' than forty years, finished his earthly career in .the city of New York, on the 12th of May. The mission, though tried with the apprehension of diminished funds, has enjoyed the usual, prosperity. Fourteen village schools have been sustained by tuition fees and by native contributions, and thirty one by the funds of the Board. The pupils exceeded a thousand. . . In February, a new class of sixteen was received in the training and. theological institution, where there:_are now twenty-two : young men pursu ingtheir studies. ... There are ten church es, containing 439 members ; and the new members were forty-three. One ,new church was organized, and received. a native pastor, whe - has the prospect of much usefulness. The establishment of chnrches with native pastors, must be regarded as really the begin ning of the establishment of Christianity as the religion of the country. There are four , churches in the missio.A, with native pastors, all, as successful and pi,' perm as could have ~ been anticipated. In T alany, not only the pastor, but also a cater 'stand three school teachers, *are sustainedY iiiirely by the " Na tive Evangelical Socie '," which is the i mis sionary society- of t ' '' native' *Christians. The other three past *" are supported in part by their own churc Os. In ithii mission, also, there is , an encourieng development of benevolence among thaliative Christians. , The three Claw Mi4tions may ,be spoken of together.—At Can", little change has occurred during the ye . 4 ' * Mr : . Ben ney testifies to a great nd happy: e h' mge i n the feelings of`the people towarok foreigners, and especially in their thatMent or religiona teachers, during 'the seventeen years since he first went to Canten.L*AttFult-Chaii, the publication of the treaty. between England and China bOliaditgootO ff ect. The mission can now hold ilwelling-h,,,aud housofer worship within the city, . ell is in the. sub iirbs.', There is , a manitestjaerease of 4 8 1),0- !alike among the people to hear th e Ospel, especially in the village s. ' Here, ,'too, there is a favorable change in the feelings and con duct: of the'people towaida-forergners. 'The felnale members of theliniiisions have had un • un usual encouragement . to: idabor , r for their own . sex., Six members`were added to the church,' and the printing• amounted to -.nearly one million of pages. The eport l i ..on this, mis sion' closes with an earns A appeal, from one of the missionaries, fOr iivreasedeffert in the China mi ssions. -Nort h Chi2o,i's opening its broad fields for misionary . labor With great interest, though wif have now but a sin gle Missionary on the gro4od. Dr.lridgmfin, after thirty:two years of devoted service, died on. the 2d of November; and to the _very last, was engaged 'in his great work, the traPalat,i o 4 l of the Scriptures SeriPPires! • A4Ph a life as he. liv ed,- - so pure,devoted unexcep tionable laborious protaticted . and filled up" from - beginning to endhliiith useful' deeds, with nothing to detraiiafiopm the amount of iisefiilness,-places thie:departed brpther in the first rank of missionaries. Mrs. Bridg man remains at Shanghai, with her school; but it is not . eifpeeteA ,that the Board will any longer station ordained missionaries there. It will find "a mar dewable base for it's farther 'operations flu F. Mr. 1310'd,get i t Writes in a very encour rig' manner from Tientsin; except that li . 0 ealth was such as to endanger his not . 14' able to awaitthe arrival of his !fellow-laborers whom he was encouraged to expect: , fllle.has formed a church: of six membeTs, and the :character of . the members is such SP gges promise far..the NtuTe. Tientsin is only seventy miles from Peking, where the Lend' n ;MOsionary So ciety appears alread y el haye ' obtained ' a t hold, through Dr. Lockii rdt. The Country to be reached is imme nse *r. .proqget had be& to - the Pen meant in, . on- - the north ; into Shensi, on .the„ no west, ; AP 'far .at least as Peking ;. and to Shantung, on the soutli. The Bev. Charles A. , Stanley and'wife sailed'for thisleklin July, and two Othernaissienaries are under appointment to follow :Min ; and there is.perhaps• no other part, of the,great missionary - field more worthy of attention. The great reballion seems to have , renewed its, energy; bl 4 there is mach dOubt hanging,over its futnre, both as regards its ultimate success, and its bearing on the Missionary efforts of the 'Christian world. Perhaps there is more that should attract the attention of the Christian Church in the statement, that as many as thirteen colonies are , said to exist in different parts .of China, all gaining.in numbers, and in mercantile .and political importance. < Hawaii, if ~.the ~ .STlOwich _ Ts/q4da, has suffered a great loss. in the death of Mr. Shipman, which occured in Deeem her. The venerable Mr. ThUrston, one of the' founders of the mission, iksuffeling under the weight of` ears. The co mmon eChOOll5 of the relands are sustained by the Govermnint;' , as is, also, the high school,, or native college, at Lahain , aluna ; whichlhas lately-suffered the loss of of its •liaildings.by fire. , The law_requires the clill4cel? betwe e n the 'Ms .9i * si.x , and Sixteen years to attend - the schools, where ,they give attention to reading ? writing, arithnietic,,geog raphy, and vocal musk. The whole people is'thus being brought under the influence of the press: They read:the Word of Gedi they read.the newspapers ; thought`is .atimulated' .; inquiry is awakened ; , and it is not- - Strainge that papists, infidels, and other enemies . of , righteousness, should. - combine to overtbrow this school system. The high school at La hainahma was nevermore highly valued in its relations both to the state and the church. The nureber' of its stUdents is one hundred and fiye. The number in ' the Qatu, College is fiftytwo ; and the institution oan. tinges to prosper imderthe excellent manage 7 zneutor .President Mills. , It is Well knewo that this institution is independent of the Board.. The number of members reported in-the churches, at the oisse , -,of 1861, was exactly .20,090: The number of deceased members is nearly the same, or 20,051. As„ithe., whole . number of church n k ninhors frora tbe 'beginning, is 47,556, it ' appears , that between six and seven -thousand have been cut off'by discipline,Fer lbecotaelobt , by removals.- The amount of contributions by the'native churches; for the support and pro Pagation of the =Gospel, besides the perSonal labor bestowed on' their' meeting 7 henses, is about $18,900. Thejtepert.speaks of eccle siastical! hodies, formed in the different Is- Lands as .nurseries in the , infant Churches. The hrethren, writing from the Islands at 1 their last General Meeting, say of these bo dies, that " although some take the name of Presbytery, and others that of Congregational Associations, none of them are either strictly Presbyterian or strictly Congregatioeal.' "Another fe ature to be noticed' is,'-that these bodies are in no woya connected with sithilar ecclesiastical bodies in the United .Statee, or elsewhere. They grow out, of the' exigen 7 cies of the werk here, and it is not .yetaeen to be desirable or feasibletnhave them , con nected with bodies One kundred were attacked before midsummer ; though ,only six. deaths had occurred. Th history. tf the disease since that time is not knovn.. Some minds ,have seemed to be .unusually._thought.- ful On Cornplantir's Reservation there is new el:tennis, 6ment both for the preacher and the teacher. One has joined the `church; and other's, apparently, are almost persuaded to be Christians. • kelintiouto. THE PULPIT , ENO SOCIETY. From advance sheets of Rev. E. A. Adams' . late 't‘ddresii 'at the Timworth celebration we made a•eonple of 'extract's: THE PULPIT A OTMIZER. Commerce is a civilizer, but " it never goes on a mission to save men." Art civilizes, but art is aristocratic ; it is not for the world. Philosophy civiliieS, but philbSophy is ex clusive. 'Governments civilize; but govern ments%never have miisions for the purpose of spreading the, blessings of :civilization. Greece rose to a high stage of civil culture by constant study to embody , " the beauti fur.und " the divine" her temples and statues. Atilep vreq, p , ;pantheon of divini ties but her multitudes of soldiers and la borers felt not the glory. There are portions of our own country in which, by the Chief families, sentiment has been 'greatly culiivated, and some of the ele ments of civilization have been nurtured to a high degree of perfection; but the masses have grOped beneath, in ignorance, baseness, and fear. -That:is not truacivilization. It is not ditreeeil. The gospel, ; 'the of a living ministry, whoseuentral action is in the, pulpit, and who§e instrumentalities are the pep, the sacial,life and character, diffu- Sas civilizatio n throughout the World. Thence does'the true light glanCe, and touch on eve ry , If Stern law could advance Roman civili zation to such a height ; if a sense of the beautiful 'and divine in art crowned Greece as the mistress of ancient culture ; if , com- , merei lifted 'Venice „to such an ,altitude .of social and artistic ,glory ; with these, agencies now, ; ifit. under the guidance of Christianity; with •' fair, with thpffivine, in its f and _perfect glory , in the character and person of Christ," as the theme 'of the heart, the wonder of reason, the goal higher than ideals—what may - we not expect` for the future of Man if, indeed, he shall, be permit tecl, to li e and hepe, - and prompted to labor and aspLe ? under such an influence, with such in him, of love and power beam ing on him, and leading him up to •the goal ? It was 'well said by Dr. Chalmers, in view of the schols, the:hospitals, the general social order, the Subjection of pagan isles and con t . tinents to t e laws: of regular ,life,, all ,effect ed, by the p Ipit in,its comprehensive action, "Many of the resnits of preaching, which, the world, affects, to dispise, ,would be received with universal adMiration, and would render immortal the ''iname of the man"who should i u be instruments in achieving them, if they were only the it of a discovery in.science, or an experime t in philosophy.? -. We might add nor. is it a new thought— that had 'the goo, el, through thepulpit, by the voice of the ftreacher, - accomplished all that, science;. and philosophy, : all that com merce, and art, and human governments ROE have accomplished, and nothing more, it would net haVe , attamed its object. It would have.been a; failure. It has 'added what all these agencies have not attempted, namely, the_regeneration, of man. The end for',which thp, gospel is-preached, and therefore for which the pulpit exists, is 'more than human. it .is to produce a change in the morals, the hopes, the'liveS, the eternal destinies of Inert that, civilization, art, commerce, social in fluence and government never yet achieved. It is to the gospel alone that the world owes the fraise ofhaving propounded this' super natural result. It has gainecl,-this result, , not universally yet, but to an.exteiit that, warrants our belief in its.competency. Stand ing out to the world as the divine ideal for the race, aiming at a superhuman result, and, achieving that result, it, must iealize for man the loftiest I:reach Of civilization; it moat egva p. entually elevate hiro to coinplete, citizen; THE PULPIT IN THE NORTH AND 'ItT THE SOUTH. We ask - With no little concern in the light of 'this. subject, why our nation is now at war'? Why Christianity has not restrained the passions' and subdued the sin of the peo ple ? We reply, because the people would - hot- listen te Christianity ; because the pulpit has either uttered its voice in vain—as we know. it has done in some quarters—or spo ken not at all—as we are sure it has not, in . others. We, in the North, were, at first, dragged into' he war, against our sentiments; against many of our' Christian convictions against our love of ease, and our high ideas of Moral.power. But' now we enter into it; we gife our brothers, our sons,- fathers to the sacrifice, because;we love ,our country; be cause we would have her free;, because we believe in, government in the Union. We are on the defensive. We fight'to save, not to destroy. We give millions in gold, that we may preserve and extend liberty. The War has been civied on by us;under the con flicting influences of justice, on the one hand; and mercy on the other. We would not have entered into it, but for;the lofty sentiments and stern necessities of civilization; and the way in which we have condneted it evinces the extent to .which the community has been educated in the habits and arts of peace. We have indulged in no excited display ; we have Cherished no hatred; we have`yielded to sen liments of humaneness ; we have surrendered wealth, for which we have a proverbial love; we have, borne with traitors.; we haVe suffer ed ,defeats, without decapitating our gene rals ; we have waited for maturing, of i plans ; we 'have not violently assailed those among us who, by their, imbecility or #eachery, ltelped on the rebellion in the outset ; we have. borne; as a necessity, the anspension of an im portant legal rule ; we have gathered an ar my and navy that give us rank among the hi - ghat powers Of the earth; we have Piirsned our industry, preserved our schools and our worship, and even now are we forbearing beyOnd the patience of Europe, whose inter est in our condition is, -of conrse, only se- Condary and subordinate, We are not whol ly . .thvilized, but all the 'noble elements of civilization are, at this hour, living and ope rative among, us, because, we have been , taught ; the pulpit has spoken to us, and we have listened. It speaks still. In this dark hour it has become doubly g.reat. It echoes the voice 'of Providence. It sounds out the resolVes of the people. It repeats the, notes .of justice and judgment. It _urges to'duty.' It breathes prayer for us, and sympathy with us. It warns us of solemn possibilities. It bids - us bow, before God ;. to rush, with penitent sorrow and faith, into his arms. To believe that he will, save: s, though it be by trying discipline. That he would bring back our lost manhood, by casting us into the bil lows that by his strength we may struggle ashore 1 "The Lord reigneth ; let the earth rejoice 1 The Lord reigneth ; let the people tremble !" He may yet strike a vital centre of our national life. We must tremble be We canntter hosannas We are amazed: that, among those with whom we are at war, the gospel and the pul pit should have wrought So little of truehu manity ; that there is so much ignorance, wild hate, and actual barbarism: But we need not wonder. -There is mingled with the best civilization yet knoin alarge- amount of the barbaric element_ And when the minis try reaches only a small portion of the peo ple—when the pulpit is limited by caste, and controlled iin its sentiments and •utterances thereby, it is, a light in a dimgeon ;..a vestal fire which the world does not , see. A man is, not warmed by the sun, if he shut himself in' an iCe-hause. A mighty passiOn has seized the Southern mind. The forces of barbar ism and sin have gotten the start of 'Chris tianity, and are concentrated to sweep Bode; ty= away, before the moral power has fairly come to its relief. It Mild wait, now, until the passion shall be spent, the delusion dissi pated,, and the moral nature have a breath ing-time. Avarice, pride, luxury, ease,fannly prestige, chattelism, sustained,. by Northern legislation, have made the pulpit dumb, have expurgated the gospel. Civilization there is only.i, sentiment, a memory of the past, ga thered,into a focus here and there—pot to 13: 1 ?Tie-irk.Upon the masses, 'and awaken theni to moral gJory, but 'to burn and wither their 11.ppes and aspirations. But even there the gospel is not a failure, .for it has gained a seed that shall grow when the broken up and-watered by the storms- of jUdgment and by the showers of mercy. bit the gospel ministry and the pulpit are poi'ers , still. They are fitted for the mind, the:mind is fitted for them. If they do not save us, we ,shall be unsaved.- They offer the,noblest message 2 and in the way best suit ed to pig nature. No other , system ever en dured such resistances. No other is great and'pure enough to risk its progress and, suc cess to such an instrumentility. "It is the only'syStem that can be, successfully preadt ed;' offered freely to reason, and -the heart left to a spontaneous utterance and welcome. The fact that it can ,be preached and live, proves its divinity. PAUL---BARNABAs—MARK.—.Barnabas seems. to, bayebeen too partial to his, nephew, and perhaps Paul was too, severe with hiin. Doubtless . they were both 'betrayed into un due warmth and pertinacity; which shows tbe remains' of human depravity ... in the' hearts of the'best of men and the imparti ality of the inspired historian in recording it,' is worthy of notice.—Seb. T. scottf.D..D. A FIXED inflexible will is a great assist- Race a'holy GENESES SIN REBUKED BY ; THE SOLEMNITIES WAS. Rev.• .of St. Louis, •recently; preached a Sermon, on« Dent. xxiii.. 9. "When• the host goeth ..against thine enemies, then keep thee-from eyery wicked i thing the whole of which we would like to transfer le our 'columns. We nutSt however content ourselves with the following extract Said. I not truly that war is the, most-sol emn work. to which a nation can be called And is not 'this true, with peculiar ethphasis, of this War ? ' A government dm:Wing the' sword against its Om- citizens—marshaling armies of Suchniagnitude,)ag no foreign in-. vision could Call for, to .iiklidue' :a: revolting portion of its ownpeople; blookading its own wags with, its own navy ;I obliged to batter. downfertresses which it had : built for the, protection. of its , people ; to ravage ,With its, armies, the territOry of their habitation, and to flood it with the_mingled blood of perjured traitors, Misgiiided. rebels, .and faithful 'sol diers. Waaever a nation called-6%1d ever a nation be called=to a more fearfully sob' emn work ?::The text teaches the special importance to ,a people thus solemnly engag ed, of putting away from them whatever,, is sinful. r Every nesophisticated mind readily feels the force of this. Whatever is sinful ought indeed to be put away, at any tie,, and in any circumstances; " but• we feel this' obligation to be enehinced by circumstances of peculiar solemnity. Flagrant sins com-' raitted saLteci places, as the house of God; or in solemn circumstances, ,as in the vicinity of a deathded ; oramidthe terrors of a storm, or the rumbling of an earthquake, would, specially shock us. Still more revolting is the thought ofinanlging in wickedness, while engaged' in solemn duties, as conducting pub lic worship ; or administering ' ordinances of religion ; or. executing' the sentence of death upon a, condemned crindnal. What can be more shocking to a pure mind, or more hate ful. to God, than profane cursing, vulgar ob scenity, or beastly drunkenness, desecrating such a scene ? Yet what act of worship, what ordinance of religion, or what dread admin istration of justice to an individual criminal, can equal, in solemnity, a' battle-field, on - which the outraged majesty of a great people, avenges itself upon the hosts of rebellion, and accepts the outpouring of loyal blood from many thousand fitiful bosoms, a free-will offering, a holy sacrament of patriotism ? Where else, of all places hi which a serious minded. man .can ever find it his duty to be, shotild he be. more desirous to have God with him, with His favoring presence ? Must it be so, that our patriots , dying for our country, . die with profane oaths on their, lips.? Shall the commissioned executioners of the divine wrath against anarchists, in the very act of fulfilling their solemn commission, insult and provoke Him whoSe ordinance of government, they , are defending, and who has said, as plainly and solemnly as Ile has said anything, that He will riot hold him guiltless. that taketh His name in vain ?" Does it seem to any one,. that, these thoughts should be expressed to. soldiers rather than to this, assemblYl - I did express them, or at least similar thoughts, to the 33d Missouri regiment, , on last Sabbath, and had the unspeakable satisfaction of seeing the entire regiment rise to their feet as one man, pledging them selves that no profane oath shalt be heard from them until their christian Colonel shall set, them the example. If God will-give them %race to keep that vow, I have little fear, but that their moral conduct will in other respects cor,resiaondent; and I have no doubt that the Lord will be with the regiment whitherso ever. it Shall go, and will make it terrible to' its' foes. But think hot, my hearers, that you have no responsibility in this thing. This-army is emphatically an army of the people. It •is scarcely a. hyperbole to say that.the army is the people- armed. and array ed for war. The conscience of the people,, the entire people, needs to be roused to the enormity of this prevalent sin—the mind of the people needs to be brought to the resolu tion that it Shall be put' away. TWo days ago, I received through the Post Office, a written request that I would call upon 'a Christian brother, • (personally a stranger to me,) a regimental officer, left be hind his regiment which has gone to the field by reason of sickness.: I went immediately to him, and had a pleasant, though serious interview. He is a husband, and the father of two children ; his wife having visited him on account of his sickness, had just left him, to return, to their family, and he, (I presume)" hopes ere long to-resume his duties. He is an elder in our branch of the church, he is warmly devetedto the cause of our Union, he feels, like a humane and Christian man, his own personal sacrifices, and the fearful wide- . spread suffering which-this struggle is costing. But that which moistened and reddened, his eyes, and brought a look of the keenest an guish into his honest, manly face, was the thought of the prevalent corruption, and dis honesty, which had come to his knowledge, and against which it was his difficult duty to struggle, in the responsible office of quarter master. The struggle had apparently been too much for his bodily strength, and had helped to prostrate him. I know that den- - unciations, on this subject, are apt to be quite. too sweeping. lam sure that our country has many honest m Malplaces, Wien in places'. Let them 'devote themselves, and die, (if need be,) under the crushing labor, and wearing an guish. Theis martyrdom is as holy, and in God's sight as precious as that of those who bleed on fields &battle.' But how shall we, the people, help such men? And how shall we put away, and suppress the vile corruption, which not merely wastes the nation's resour ces, but averts the • countenance of God in angry horror ? 04, we must have our own minds; iinpressed with the wickedness of fraud—we must everywhere frown upon every species of corruption—We musteease to flatter with congratulations, or with envy, those 'who enrich themselves out of their country's dis tresses. Remember Achan's wedge of gold, and Babylonish garment, and know that God will ;frown upon a people who do not frown' upon the covetousness that can ply its im piolla trade, , unawed by thepresenee,4 Je i hovah's judgments, and un p dismai n ed: m by tha a je nation's agonies, ro coolly and fit y - merchandise of them. , As ever you would have your souls justi; fled by grace, : take care to have -your sins judged by the law.