1862. 47 1, trig n VertAlbgiitirm -A N D GENESEE EVANGELIST. JOHN W. MEARS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 80, 1862. THE A:REBHAN PRESBYTERIAN, A. WEEKLY RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, IN THE INTEREST or THE Constitutional Presbyterian Church, PUBLISHED BYBEE TxturomAY, No. 1384 Chestnut St, rhllade4phia. TERUS—(in adYance). *2 00 per annum, 250 4' By mail • - By carriers, is the city, PREMIUMS. Any clergyman procuring us two new subscribers, with the pay is ad*ance, is entitled to a third copy one year, free., . . Any person procuring three new aubscribera, with the pay in advance, can have a fourth' copy free, for one year. For Five Dollars we will send 'two copies of Abe paper and a copy of the Quarterly Review, for cue year, to new subscribers. Any one procuring new subscribers is entitled to Fifty cents for each one seemed and prepaid. 341igiono Nuttnitturit_ Presbyterlitn., Dr. Breckenridge:---The e Mayinfille"Ea7gle sayej Dr. B. J. Breckenridge is safe, on ,his farm in Fay ette county, Kentacky. As.soon as Kirby Smitli reached Lexington, he sent a letter of protection to Dr. 8., and not a grain of corn had, at lastaccounts, been taken from him. We had also had hgelligefice frota Dr. 8., con firming his safety, to within one. week ago.--Presl;y -ter, October 23d. Presbyterian Newspapers.—The Presbyterian Banner says : "'The times ate severe oicthe !las paper press. Abouteighteen months ago theTresby terian Expositor, at Chicago, and the St. Louis Pres terian went doivn for the want of patronage. Now the True Presbyterian, successor to the Herald, at-Lottis villa, is suspended. Also the commencing of the Presbyterian Guardian is deferred. This leaves the Presbyter, of Cincinnati, and the Banner, of Pitts burg, the sole occupants of the great ATorth-west." Valuable Accession. Rea. Dr. C. B. Ditvid son, who is reported, in another column, as having been received from the Methodist Episcopal Church, by the Presbytery of New. Albany, is a eon of the late Rev. Andrew B. Davidson, of Lexingtop, Vir ginia, an honored and useful minister of ;kr Church. Dr. D. has been for many years a popular and sue, cessful preacher in the M. E. Church, having oe.cu pied some of the best pulpits in that denoinination: Be has recently filled the pulpit ofthe Union. lifeth odist Chapel in this city. We have known him , for twenty years, and we are glad to give him the right hand of ArmY. The Bible on the Battleflel4:—A etaplairrtold us the other day the following touching lioident Among the dead of one of the battlefields 'before Richmond was a rebel soldier, who lay unburied several days after the conflict. Already the flesh had been eaten by the worms from his fingers; but underneath the skeleton hand !qv an Open copy of the Bible, and, the fingers ,pressed, upon those prec ious words of the twenty-third Psalm, " 2hy rod and thy stuff they comfort me."—Bible Record. Episcopal. The Closing Scenes 'of the Triennial o:inven tion were curious and exciting. An attempt was made by Judge Chambers to nullify the quali‘ed utterance of the body, by protest which' in someway was regarded as a piece of strategy. The report of the Independent says: " He read his paper in 'a low tone of voice, so that some one would call for the Secretary to repeat it. This was done. Then a resolution was surreptitious ly put upon the Secretary's desk _ ; ; others had their protests ready, and " everything looked lovely," until the Hon. Luther Bradish pointed out the un parliamentary course of the gentleman from Mary land, and Dr. Memo exposed the stratagem, The protest and resolution were crushed under an almost unanimous vote of opposition." We did not know that a protest was regarded as unparlimentery in any deliberative- body, provided it was couched in respeetii4l language, and wethere. fore do not understand the , " strategy " of it or the necessity for " crushing it" out. The Tote by di ,eeses was, for Mr. Winthrop's tesolutions : clerical l; lay 11 ; againat, clerical 7, lay 4. The Pastoral letter of the Bishops is an excellent and manly doe umeet, worthy of sulth staunch loyalists aS Bishops Mcllvaine Whittingbern i and Lee.. It speaks with out reserve of -the " stupendous rebellion ;against the organic law and the constitutional government . of the country, for the dismemberment of our national . Union, under which, confessedly, all parts of Wieland have been signally prospered'and blessed. A rebel lion which is already too' well known to , you, Breth ren, in the vast armies that it has compelled our Government to maintain, and in the fearful expense of life and treasure, of suffering and sorrow, which it had cost on both sides, to need any further de scription here. We are deeply grieved to think how many of our brethren, clergy and laity, of the regions over which that' dark tide has spread, have been carried away by its flood. Not only yielding to it, so as to place r thentaelves, safer as in them lay, in severance of our ecciekdastioal union, which has so long and so happily ioined us tegether in one com munion and fellowship ; ;INA to a sad extent, sympa thizing with the, movement, and the giving their active co-operation." Referring to Bishop Polk„ they say; "When the ordained ministers of titegospel of Christ, whose mission is so emphatically one , of peace and goodwill, of tenderness and conitilation, do so depart from their saered . ealling as to' take the sword, and engage in the fierce and bloody conflicts of war—when in so doing they are fighting sob* the authorities which, as the powers that be, the Scriptures declare are ordained of God, sq that in resisting them they are resisting the ordinance of God—when especially one wines out from the sited spiritual duties of an overseer of the flock of Christ, to exercise high cowhand in such'awful work, we cannot—as onrseivei overseers of the same flock—consistently with duty to his Church, minis try and people, m, refrain from placing on , such exam. ples our strong aenderaeatiOn. Weremember those words of our blessed Lord—uttered among his last words—and for the special, admonition of his minis ters—' they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.' " The address' continued by alluding to the mighty force arrayed against the country, to effect itadis memberment, the'irmles ,in the field, the , perils of battles, the military baspitat,'and all 'the sad con comitants of war, and: the z duty of the Church in such a momentous crisis, which was, to proollum, in the words of Scripture, that the powers that be are ordained of God, and that whosoever resisted them liable to damtistion. The States Who had sew dc'd were as bound to remain underithe ooVernment 48 others whiOh • • 4 1 4, not ; that filbliiinoe , rs_ •du, rightfully to that Government ; refutalottleir, , . allegiance to such authority was' sin, and when it assumed rebellion it was a great crime against the laws of God and, man. When States left a common Government without cause, and even with wrongs Which could he rightly redressed ,by the provisiohs of the Government, under which they lived, they were guilty of all the horrors of the war which fol lowed. Editor :Missionary Intelligence: India.—Socinianism' among educated Natives. —What mere Nuropean• education will ; "do for . Hindoo, may been seen in the case of the monster Nene Sahib, who is said to have acquired many of refinements of modern cultuie; The natives edUcdt ed in Missionary Schools, when unconverted, are ready material.for false teachers to work upon. A writer in the Calcutta Christian Observer, complains that all sectious of the Church appear,to Ipae,sight of these educated natives; moving in spheres in Temptations abound, 4 and 'nnfavoured with the counsel and friendihip`Of pions EtiroPearis, they are left to take their own course, to' resign thein selves to the influence of good or evil, and, consti tuted as human' nature is; one can readily imagine Which Wineries, predominates, A few have .mane a profession of the, gospel, and 'adorn it by a Chris tian life ; Others have'proceeded only so far as to abnegate their ancestral' faith, and have now no re ligion, at all ; many are convinced of the truth of the Bible; and: zead ltd sacred Pdges in sebret, ;Yet, not having courage' to follow - the dictates of conscience; conform in public to the requirements or tuganismi I was grieved to learn that strenuous efforts are made to disseminate among educated gindus and Mahonietans' the cold negations of Socinus, which forma system '4:lrreligion—or irreligion, as the rea der may perhaps choose to call it—which dispenses with the services of the Saviour, with the glorious work of, redemption, and as a native friend naively ex .pressed it, " Thus empties Christianity, and makes it nothing : for, we all feel," he said, " the need of a Sayiour men.have felt it in every age and coun try ; and if you take away Jesus Christ, there will not be ailytithigileft rtin the Bible to supply this need." These wordi were uttered by a Kulin Brah min, whom I have - known many years, who is fami liar with the Hindu and Christian Scriptures, and who has read the, works of Dr.' Manning. Missionary and State Echication. -- The fOl lowing-figures, says Allen's Indian Mail, show at a glance how many children are educated by the State at a cost of £250,000, and how many by Missions, at a cost to the State, of only £16,500. There are in all 30,000;000 of children in Ititia who should be at School. Of these missionaries' Oucate 100,000, and the atite only 127,513. - Convert of . High: Standin.—A convert is thus spoken of by the Baptist Missionaries