3 a -- avian fruibginin GENESEE EVANGELIST. Mtuitsiar, Novhmutit 6, 1862 FE= 'OUR VOLUATZER FUND. lON OE THE SYNOD OP PENNSYLVANIA. '',l,BolVed that the , proposal to supply . the vol e `rs from our churches and congregations 'Warty with the AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, yarded with great favor by the Synod, not I " kilidly and patriotic act,'hut as calm- "s .1 j to 'promote the spiritual interests of the • %bets and as forming a channel of sympa • a bond of union between them and the ,•Ites at home. 4 blved, that it be recommended to every ~.t h within our bounds to take up &collets • , I t' c or otherwise to contribute to the expenses ••' undertaking. 4,, repeat the remarks with which we intro . - 110 this subject a'few weeks ago. mid be one of the best and easiest Wayi itstt . ^'•le of proving your regard for an absent e lo send him a fresh newspaper every .. It would oheer his heart. It would do `ore good gen a tract; for it contains the r•ctt: of several tracts, and in a form far more -"ito win his attention. Its news columns will ,ce him that those-who remain at home are ng of him, planning and praying for his Afare, and providing abundantlyfor his,wound suffering companions in arms. Its loyal utterances will nerve his heart and his arm to ttriliplbolder blows at the rebellion. Its applause ,rill-reward him, fur his sufferings and his perils. It will prevent his lapsing 'into indifference or ignoralee of the Church or the kingdom of Christ in tbki World. A newspaper is no burden to him. Of all literary investments for the good of the soldieil, besides. Bibles and Testaments , the Re ligions Newspaper is the best. RECEIPTEL . . . . North Broad' street Church, ; . $5l. Rev. A. Barnes, • . . . 28. A City Church, • . . 20. 4.$ " in part, . 6. ROME MISSIONS, Nrigtn , at lf te orave irontier,s-men and pioneers of Norch and of Christ's cause in the ministry, w h i irto laying foundations under circumstances hard - ship and self-denial; cannot be sfaVen by the church. Her life is too closely yoifa up in their activity and success to allow At pass from her thoughts and her prayers. g a oment, perhaps, the rush of excitement lnd the a susiense of — our great`conflict have ab , . ;pd car attention—the missiettaritis themselves %ihve enlued largely into the noble impulses of ache hour. And some few feeble churches have . votteredriationaly by the transfer of their teem tters, office-bearers, and Sabbath Schoolteachers, 610 the more 'arduous and isore pressing spheres dutygreale4 by the , war.' It may_belhat the ewe cif Christ has seemed to suffer more ex- Tising ?try spirit to be drawn early and zealous. from tithe conflict. They are made up of enter ,. Whaturn, inured to hardship, and practised nat ch° l 4 the habitudes of a campaign. They cannot• Ar ty men of character, of pronounced opin john it' 50 believers in vigorous measures. And have 4, 4 'have been the ease, that they felt the an d o oty to their country to be so strong, and now priests at stake so vast, for the country and river, anause alike, that the' interests of the in will poia church could not in their minds, be ' 4 : F ‘'Vlto weigh against them. In the same "offrisupporters of the cause of Home lle ~ have had their liberalitY diverted bed lodimay think lii usual channels, into those created by brinrs {.cities' of the government and the wants rri 41diers. it is ano less just than natural would Aso hasten to save our country first, if " 01Qier interest 'must be left to suffer for have thicbeing. What field for Home missions , I *re , 'if 'there ceased to - be any home ? Let «W c ourselves of the :very - opportunity to itEl Borne - 4 - the future, even if in so doing we tem " I t " Letsgsßend or curtail those labors in the Willi. 441 d this all the more, if the field will was not ly ire - preserved, but vastly enlarged by Williatalant of an entire race, which, in the event for &Moms, will be thrown open for the first John'he free use of the Bible, and to even . reach. ftiffritig id its fullest import, and the war John. lime ' in a sense, a Home Missionary op- .. , "No, ,' - ; - John,4 B beware lest We alloW these consider. it was meonceal . from us -the fact, that, as yet, all the , °steno need that omtoperationsishould nature ed" or curtailed. We believe that our against, / yis`fully able to keep them up, and he caririn all the brethren who are laboring on Wid%. We can at the least hold every E ill John to t . ons Iv ,ae advances already made. Our giving • not suffering a diminu to do illt and S y nods, are that it7.eir, abilities-; the, times are not hard, pleaser4few classes of men. There is no news moron s , ,',ever that our Committee should be in A ' 0.0 Our Congregations and our active aliLI:l • ,la, a bit finding ' out what they really can Tull"! al -noble cause. A lady in one of the I toot' 1143:si' ° four,Sy nod has sent twelve boxes of sulks to take , bedding, and delicacies to the soldiers, to urhr 'own, dwelling, besides what she has Be,' "as he way of associated effort. Has not that ' th.V,, / , hated , not merely the ease, _ bat almost wet' 11 anifiesnice; of the act which often seems di . °Or lie the benevolence of a whole church— f itther a s i ng of a single box to a missionary's • , • . . , . . ' note.hd glad = to see that our Presbyteries and of 'istuttkt , their late meetings have taken action on tie sirject, in a hopeful, energetic, way; as flow Of hially expected and meant to do some= This eistantial. Let ns carry opt this action tisfactior at home. Let us wipe out this trifling ing the 4400 at once. Let us fill up the rather lean the rie of acknowledgements which have shamed Ixi rot vor pre piiit two or three months. Let us hear 4,41 i the columns of our newspapers from the th e vity and from the missionaries themselves greatou, state, and prospects of our work. The rp A l ti,has no idea of faltering in this her first ~; ~,,, , F it essential work of establishing Christ's ik 4 in at= homed L Obe: will amply reePend, to . LIPS 'Reovidence laud the loadings of her ',J if this' matter. t o*o D-- Editor.. A TESTIMONIAL TO THE tetiOASHIRE OPEEATIYES. FROM the real suffsrers in England in tionse-, quence of our civil strife we have as yet heard no murmurs against our country, as the . Boyne of their troubles. There have been no Anti-Amer kali, pro-slavery demonstrations, among the cot ton operatives • no cries for inervention, for re cognition of the South, for, breaking the block ade. Unprincipled men who are at their ease in England, have used the sufferings of these opera tives as capital for their attacki upon us and their demands upon the Government to interfere, but the cotton-spinners are an intelligent class of workpeople, who probably are knot 'so easily de ceived as , are others of their countrymen,, upon the true issues of our struggle. They. probably dideern what bearing the cause of the North has upon the interests of the masses in all lands, and perceive that in our success their welfare is bound up. However it may be, their attitude has been marvellously' patient and kindly, and deserves recognition'at our hands: We go for an address or testimonial to the Lancashire weavers, ac knowledging on the part of our citizens their manly and courageous bearing nnder their severe oubles ; their resistance tq the manifold temp tations they must have met to upbraid us as the cause of them; and the marked and honorable contrast shown in their conduct to hat of multi: - tudes of their countrymen, who exhaust their vocabulary in misrepresentation and abuse, and in ceaseless efforts to embroil the two nations in,war and thus to multiply a hundied-fold the very evils they pretend to deplore. Let us reach a hand, of Christian sympathy to these patient Mori sufferers, who resemble our own sick and wound ed soldiers in their uncomplaining demeanor; let us invite them to our factories, now so ill-sup piled with' laborers, or let us .offer them a free man's home upon the broad prairies of 'the West. We have the authority of a 'Provincial Journal for saying that their native country, in stead of straining every nerve to provide for their wants, instead of seeking to shorten the war and restore their opportunity for employment by throwing the weight of her influence - cordially with the North, spent enough money ,in bullying us in the Trent affair " to' feed every starving subject of England for twenty years I" What can they expect under such a policy ? But whether they choose to come or not, they deserve, and they have, our respect, and we do not see why they should not in some way be made aware of it. . Since vrriting the above, we have meta recent confirmation of the view taken in regard to the disposition of the operatives towards the North: It is from Dr. Weir's last London letter to the Presbyterian Banner, and is as follows : A remarkable anti-Southern and pro-Northern demonstration has taken place in the very heart of the distressed districts: At Staleybridge, a public meeting was convened to address the Queen in favor of intervention, and attributirm the Lan cashire distress to the American war. This his *as met by an amendment to the effect .that thf cause of the war was" the rebellion of ern States against .the •Atneric institution," and that 04,%, was thespigra the distress in Lancashire. The; Wei - lament was carried by a majority of neally one hundred to.one! „ A ra - _ • _ _ This body held its recent Stated Meeting at West Nantmeal Church. At that meeting and its supplement at Wilmington, the following ac tion was had. 1. The Rev. Wm. Ottinger was received from the Presbytery of Des Moines, lowa, the. Rev. Samuel W. Crittenden, from the 3d Presbytery of New York, and the Rev. A. Henry Barne,!4, from the Philadelphia 4th Presbytery. 2, Standing Committees of Presbytery upon Foreign and Home Missions, Education and Pub lication were appointed for another year. 3. The next stated meeting was appointed to be held in the Western Presbyterian Church on the 2d Tuesday of April next, at 2 o'clock P. 4. An appropriate minute with reference to the death of the Rev. Benjamin J. Wallace was received, and placed on record. 5. The inquiry, directed by the General As sembly, concerning the use of the Church Psal mist was answered, and the churches of Presby tery using any other Book of Psalmody were re commended to adopt the Assembly's Book as soon as it Can be practicably introduced.., 6. A call presented by the 2d Darby- : Church, for the pastoral 'seriice of the Rev. S. W. Crit tenden was accepted and a Committee of instal lation appointed. . 7. Mr. Edward. Clarence Smith was received under the care of Presbytery, as a candidate for the ministry, and parts of trial assigned him with a view to licensure. 8. An adjourned meeting of Presbytery was ordered to be held on Tuesday Dec. 16th at II o'clock, A. M. - • It may be proper to add that this Presbytery has two of its members in the U. S. service, one the Rev. J. Hervey Beale chaplain of the Ist. Pennsylvania Civalry, Genf-Ulayard's Brigade, the other, the Rev. Anthony Simpson, chaplain to the U. S. Hospital at Fortress Monroe. J. G: BUTLZR, Stated Clerk. INSTALLATION OF REV. JAMES Y. • ELL:—On Sabbath evening, October 26th, ac cording to notice given, Rev. Mr. Mitchell was installed pastor of Coates' Street Church. Not withstanding the very violent storm, prevailing at the time, the congregation was good, and the services were of a deeply interesting character. The usual questions were propounded by the' moderator, Rev. Robert, Adair; Dr. Brainerd preached a very able and acceptable discourse ; Rev. I'. J. Shepherd's charge to the pastor, and Rev. E. E. Adams' charge to the people were .- appropriate and impressive, and the whole ser vice passed off in a manner to give general satis= faction. Mr. Mitchell has our- best wishes for • success in his arduous - and interesting field of 'la..' bor, in which he has - had somewbre predecessors: Rev, George Duffield Jr., Rev; jamesT. Wilson D.D., and Rev. Anson Rood. The current of population has set rather to the westward in the later history of the church, and has borne'awat some of the material which otherwise would nat urally- fall to this congregation. Still, there would seem to be no lack of opportunity for an earnest and devoted minister to train himself in the work of saving and caring for souls, and to build up the kingdom of- Christ in that church and neighborhood. 'Moderation in war is imbecility. `,Two great issues are involved in our struggle; , • . one, thaomational life of the greatest free people of the world'; the other, the amelioration of an enzkved,riiee by emaneipation. Either of these_ issues is sufficient to wlirraut } , a great struggle, both of thent,oonibinedainply ezplain:and digni fy ourzonilict of tvlay, . Naturally enough they, are both upon us at,once ; we who claimed to be the great free power of the`world, the champion, of,himan rights, who had won the title to that position by wager of battle and by award of Prov idenee,—we carried in , our political structure vast organized- negation of those rights, in the enslavement of four millions of human beings. Could it be imagined that such‘ political oppo sites—such deadlyhostilities of principle—would look tolerate each other's presence, seeking n dominant - position - uporo the same soil ? Is it strange'thatientithents and aspirations, born of• the slave system of Amnriea, should develope into open rebellionagainst`a free Government, or that the doctrines of equal rights nurtUredhy our in stitutions; shoUld gradually assume a ferm Odious to slave-masters and, even in - their perfectly con-, stitational,aemonstrations, shonhk at last provoke; the slave-power to open resistance ? We are more and more persuaded that the very root of this` rebellion is a perversion of , the.. Southern mind froth the great principles of= human liberty for which their and our fathers foughtin the Re volation„brOught 'Abut Under the influence of slavery ; - that the very life ofOhr nation is inex tricahlyhoind up in the . .question; of the emend , pation of the slaves; and that without emanei patiOn, we shall never have a practical conquest of the South; or a national existence worth pre serving. or -~,nt . More than three centuries and 'a half ago,-be fere America was discevered, the... Russian peas ant *as firbidilen to - leave the lands he Was-till ing,, save " sixteen days of the year. One 'hun , , dred years later, this sixteen days of free locemo . tion were arbitrarily taken away from him, and he was bound immovably to the - soil ; fugitive serfs were legislated against, and free peasants were enslaved. • Still another hundred years la ter, Peter the Great, who was se:reckless of the lives of the masses as to throw away nwhole army in order to learn his opponents game, and, Pharoah..like, to sacrifice a hundred thousand men in' a year, in' erecting monuments to hii,own pride and anibition,—Peter the Great, forced serfs from the soil into his new manufactories, and thus practically converted them into slaves. Under this' great, cold, man, it was, - that the idea of a serf . in Russia merged into that of a slave.. And under the empress Anne, the nobles were - allowed by express statute to sell their serfs apart from the soil. .Still another century 'after Peter—for these tidal movements of wrong flowed over the misses of Russia by centuries—the wicked Catherine, after vacillating in .such a manner es to raise a faint flickering of hope in the friends of man, prepared an edict which was secretly shown to court favorites, and its provi eiona succesefiilljuvailed of by them, condemning the peasants of Little Russia to remain; forever on the estates where the day, of -publication should find- them. Hosts of peasants, unawares. enticed to the estates of the courtiers, were 'inn& slaves by 'the promulgation of this act in' an hem Bit at last, the nineteenth century Saw a new light of freedom faintly beam through this long thickening night of Russian Slavery. Under Alexander .1, Bessarabia was admitted to , the Empire under a pioiiso lharexcluded serfage forever.. Afterivards, , Athenia 'Livonia, and Courland, under the workings of a gradual omen cipationsystem, became free. The great Nicho las, whom it took three nations to whip at Sebes topol and they barely, 'did it, was`. too much of a despot and was rendered too timorous - by the re volutions. of 1848 to accomplish ' much for the serfs; yet even his imperial nature was enlisted for this degraded class, and he plainly indicated his wish fbr their freedom. But it was , left for the new Emperor, Alexander 11, really toy_ grapple Emperor, Alexander with this ancient social enormity,---and to come face to face with ♦ the slave masters, the nebles of his empire. And even now, he is taking the guage of that fearful power of selfishness in the heart, which cleives so tightly .to its prey when it is in the of flesh and blood; which sooner than lease its absolute hold upon those bearing the same divine image with itself, breaks solemn oaths of fealty, throws , sacred covenants to the winds, perverts and stifles public opinion and corrupts , religion, convulses kingdoms, drenches a continent with blood, and invites universal anarchy on the stage. Such we find the slave-power in America; such there is reason to fear, Alexander is finding, it . in' Russia. Ilave we not here a eine to his eYmpathy with us i unique among the 'nations` of Europe ? But - the new Emperor is' in earnest, as we believe our republican Ruler is. Alexander, has a problem ten times zs 'large as we have to deal with, but he is a- despot, and that well nigh balances the account with Mr. Lincoln. Some of the Emperor's nobles own, each, one hundred thousand serfs or more; one, three hun dred thousand;_ four thousand of them own more than . a thousand each. There :are but fifty odd , thousand ,owners in all. A ; ver e rfew of—these lords, sympathize with the noble' Emperor. The rest have delayed to act.as the Border• Stains are now But the Eniperor, 'exercising Amtritan Vrtolgttrtait and '!'tttrott (6rangthot, EXANOIPATIONEAST AND WEST. 'ln our 'contest with England, we secured for. hinnahity. a certain degiee of advancement in the line'of political liberty; our contest with the advancement innow is for another degree of advancement in the same line; as well as to prevent the prac . tical nullification of this progress by the triumph of the slave-power over ,the government which best represents it.. The assertion of human rikhts was incomplete .at the Revolution.; •the unsettled part of the'question now comes Up for solution, and this generation, this people; must settle it or die. How remarkable, that while we are struggling over , this qaestion here,---thus early called. to face our nation's sphinx, and offer hecatombs cf precious sacrifices, in, solving -her riddle,- r the oldest of Christian nations—despotic Russia,— who this year celebrates the thousandth anniver sary-of her national existence, is engaged ink precisely similar work, and contribates her share, to=the advancement of mankind, likewise at the peril of her very existence, _Serfdom in Raisia met its death blow from the Emperor . Alexander on the day after the inauguration of PresidMit Lincoln.``,. And the serf owners, the nables, still kick against thuoiree;ee and threaten the gravest disturbantds'in its execution.- A GLANCE 'AT THE HISTORY OF RDSSIAN SERFDOM., PALL OF SERFDOM. ATTITUDE OF ENGLAND. prerne power, uttered the most positive decrees, giving the owners 12 years in ilia to consum mate his humane plan. The Metropolitan of'Mos cow, Philarefie, in the bathe or the Christian re ligion, comes to the rescue anstrtpholds emancipa tion with all the weight - of his position and his eloquence. Alexander •proves. his, own earnest ness by freeing all the serfs on the imperial es tates;, while-he waits calmly:for- the nobles to complete their arrangements. So has Mr. Lin- Cola iiaitcd . on • the Border States and on the South; arid the historian who hereafter. ; shall see all fFom his elevated . point .of_ view,. and to whom aSew months will be as nothing in the great forward • movements of the race which he shall 'chronicle, will probably wonder that • any class of 'Men was ' impatient at the slowneas of either of these 'Rulers.* , , Mr. 4incoln has' eiperienced the calumny, niisiepreientation and, bitter hostility, of, the Bri tish nation, so far, as its public opinion .goes, in his work of emancipation. So did Alexander. The : : writer who so ably handles .this subject in. the last . Atlantic Maithly,-and from -whom we hive drawn the facts of thiwartiele says': " gust as in the French `Revolution 0f1.789; while yet that . Revolutionotai noble and geed, while yet Le Fayette and held it, leaders in 'English: thought who hid .queckened the opinions which bad caused-the Revoliition ' sent malignant prophecies and - prompted foutblows, just, as. in our own struggle, leaders , in: English thought who_ have helped create the opinion which has brought on, this stru gle< now deal treacherously with us,—so in this battle of Alex ander against a foul wrong, they seized this time of all times. to show, all the wrongs and absurdi tiee of which Russia ever had been, or ever might:he guiltyr.-,criticfzed, carped, - sent plena= fully haughty advice, depressing sympathy, ma lignant prophecy . . All this argument out side the enipire., helped the foes'of emancipation inside the empire." - Atlength the humane. Emperor, wearied out with delays and despairing ; ;_ of any good - result from the conciliatory and gradual nature of his previous arrangenients,-on the sth of March 1861, issued a positive, unconditional, and im ,. mediate - decree of Emancipation. If arrange ments can be made afterward; very well ; but EmanCipation lcingeOe dependent on •a continency, or wait the cenfirniencti of reluctant lords,' who.really wish nnarrangement at ill, but one which shall postpone and nulify Emancipation itself: " Thus," says writer afready quoted, " wae,the result . of the great struggle decided; but to this day,• the afor arrangement remains undecided. The Czar offers, indeninity; the no bles seem to prefer fire and blood. ':Alexander stands firm';; the last declaration brought across the water was that he would' persist in reforms. But whatever the after process, TILE REEFS ARE, FREE." . - ALEXANDER 11. AND..pRE§IDENT LINCOLN-THE : PARALLEL CARRIED OUT. - President_Lincoln teo r wher, - as a military lea der,- has supreme power over the- destiny of con quered rebels, at length hurts theholfof absolute Emancipation'which he had held in reserve, al-, lowing but ninety days for rebellious slave States ] to return their allegiancei`iaidl so escape the ef fecterof this act of militarrartd- absolute Tower. He : too udyao4a, bohibr to Ithit - li34l.ition of the problem, confuteutly V.zppetais. evitts:toll,,ryange themselvesias tinder4l4least of!Providenee they generally,do, to the help Of e one who bold- off ly does the riga, deed of his time. Emancipa . tion first ; territorial} government, colonization, apprenticeship, or whatever May appear best af terward. Difficulty in the after-arrangements shall not thwart the:thing itself. • . The parallel is, still more' - ._complete if ,we oh serve in Russia ", the , many words and acts of the. Emperor," leading to ". the hope that, ere many years, Russia will become a Constitutional monarchy." ' America :struggles to save conititu tional government, and .finds it necessary, in so doing, to strike down 'slavery,. which has risen against it, Russia, iuthe hoar that she frees her serfs, finds herself sliding towards a-constitution al government: - - - Join now with thesi.greaVmoiaments the ad tion. of the Dutch Government ,forbidding the further importatiOn of slavei into Java, so that, the system of gradual Emancipation now,at work on that island.may reach , its`- coniummation, and' absolutely abolishing slavery in the Duchameri: can possessieris- from the'firsi, of July 1.863, - and` what do we see I Evidently, the hand'of Ice videnee leading. forward the oppreeeed masses of mankind towards freedom ;.digrand siinultaneons . and almost universal impulse from .the working of the leaven qf Christianity in - Society; a world movement `towards the• fuller realization of-the doctrine of human rights and Of political equali ty; a fresh-baptism of honor upon labor, and'a new uckne*ledgeMent of its dignity wrung from those who haveinurtured their dainty pride,have flaunted in purple and fine linen, and have passed theii. days in luxurious .idlenees:ihe fruits of unrequited toil. And who shall , hinder this, great moveuent; what mort4, what'puny organ-. ization of partici; or‘ofarmishall block - the =- rolling lefty wheel - - tif prOgr lis urged. on by the e great forces of humanity au 6 guided by PrOVl deuce ? i grliAilizill Ulla'? or tarn baeli'llie• march of a - Git:EAT laii inhuman affairs t Let him first triti;neutralize the, law ofsravitation, And to'stop the planets in their - spheres. Let . .him stay -the:morning star in his course, or.bind the sweet influences'of the Pleiade& Let the pots-, herds, of the earth , strive with potsherds, 'but wo to him striveth ,withhis Maker. ' • - , - A fittinw'COnclusien to this : attiOle' is taYard Taylor's recent poem`on Russia, written on the on- Caooll of the . thousandth Anniversary of the Em.. pire, celebrated at the ancient city of Novgorod, Sept. 20th.:, A TROUSAND'IRARS. A THOUSAND years ! tnrough storm an& fire, With varying fate, the work has grown, 'Till Alexander crowns the aspire • Wheraßurik laid the coiner-stone. The chieftain's sword, that could not. rust But bright in constant battle grew, Raised to= the world a throno - august,' A=nation grander: han . ire 'knew., Norhe butlhogo'lM have, Thrau:h faith or'deed i , a equal part—. The subttle brain of Yarostiv, Vladimir's arm, and Nikon's heart: - The laser hand's that builiao well' The work sublime which:these began, And up froni base to piniiaele Wrought out the Empire's mighty plan: All these to , day, are crowned anew, , And "rule, in splendor, where they trod, While Russia's children throng to view Her . holy cradle, Novgorod. From Volga's backs,. from .Pwina's sido;, From pine-clad Ural, daik and long; Or *here' the - feciming Teffili's tide' Leaps doviri from Kasbefc,'bright'ciithiioigi From Altai's chain of mountain-cones; Mongolian deserts, far and free, And lands that bind, through changing zones, The Eastern and the Western sea. To every race she gives a home, And creeds and laws enjoy her shade; Tilrfar beyond the'dreams of Rome, Her Otesar's mandate is obeyed: - She blends the virtues they impart, = And holds; within -her-life combined , , - - The patient, faith of Asia's heart, The force of Europn's restless mind., She bids the nomad's wandering cease;: She binds the wild marauder fast i Her plow-shares turn to homes of peace - The battle-field of ages past. And, nobler far, she dares to know Her future's task—nor knows in vain, But strikes at once the generous blow That- makes her millions men again So, firmer - based, her power expands, Nor yet has seen its crowning hour, Still teaching to the struggling lands - That Peace the offspring:is of Power._ - Build up the storied bronze, to. ten The steps whereby this height she trod- 7 - The thousand years that chronicle . - • The toil , of Maia, the help of God l • And may the, thousand years to come- ~The future ages, wise- and free r .= - Still see her flag, and hear her drum, 'Across the world, from, sea to sea I Still, find, a mnbold stern and grand; - Her ancient eagle's strength unshorn, , One head to watch the western land, And one to guard the land of morn ! BAYARD TATO:I,. ' Nove.orod Russia Sept. 261.802. (For the American Presbyterian.) • THE EFFEOTS OP 'THE WAR UPON RELI GION IN THE SOUTH. I do not know how it has been with others . . who hive traveled in the Southern States since the war began; but I have often been struck - with the, solemn fact that ,wherever I have been,. religion, and all the essentials, towards its pro motion are for the , time being laid aside. Reli gious services on the Sabbath, weekly prayer meetings, schools, and all the bpnevolentTinsti tutions associated_ with thwchureh, are neglected, or, absorbed in. he one grand idea of "breaking 's .the Un ' During'the nine months I have been connected with the army, and in which time I have been in the most thickly popidated dis trict of " Fair , Virginia," was lopated near some of its largest, cities,-and in smite- of its most . pleasant villages, f, have heard of only one Sabbath-school, one prayer meeting, and found only two, churches open, one of which was-at tended exclusively by our soldiers. When we remember that to keep alive the spark of Christian hope, and the flame of Chris tian love in the human heart, all the means which God. has ordained must be used Often and regularly, we are, appalled at the thought, and tremble at, the sight, of whole communities living without the appointed means of grace—no And-, ly altar, no sacraments, no preaching; no praying. What'must theinevitable fate of a people 'who voluntarily put themselves in such a position; and madly strive to maintain it ? Their Minds are distracted` ity:' the niateVet; arridee . :arenitd them their feelings are embittered at the ddiolation which they everywhere behold, and their 'pride is crushed at the thought that all their plane for a separation are being thwarted. How therefore -do the most unholy, passions gain the ascendency in their souls, and the most revengeful feelings fill their hearts I There seems to be -a supension of• everything that does not •tend to the support of the damnable sin of tearing the 'sacred edifice . of this Christian Government to prices. And if they glory in anything if anything 'causes a demoniaco grin, or look of satisfaction, it, is that " the Union has ceased to be—is one of the things that were." Whatever may be the pecuniary losses of our Southern brethren in this terrible war, who can estimate their losses in a spiritual sense? The re- Sreshing presence of God in the sanctuary; the check of religious influence upon the rising gen eration; 'in the Sabbath-schools; the hallowed influenee of family worship, 'and' the frequent access to - the throne of grace inthe PraYerineet ingS,—all I 'wherever our army has marched have been voluntarily abandoned—sold for • a visionary fabric of an indeppgdent kitivrnment. Aye 1- - lost, lost to; succeeding posteritY for eon tunes to- come.. • - Thesb are my sad iinpressions as I ride through the beautiful vallies, and along, the meandering rivers of the once proud and aristocratic Virgi• - nia. And sadder-yet are. my feelings, as I-min gle in the circles of Christian families, enter their churches now filled with hundreds of stran gers from ; the North, arid walk their streets on on the Sabbath day crowded with soldient who have come to maintain the, authority of a right. eons Government. Ah, my reader the chastening hand of God is laid 'heavily upon Ile South, the scourge leaves long furrows that time cannot heal: While you pray for ourarmy, and immediate circle do not, oh I :do not:fail to struggle earnestly also with God 'to withhold aiot iii„merey from the South. The Almighty only, ,ean break- the, chains with which their political leaders drag them along to utter ruin. I s f. He will only bestow His 'grace, and infuse His Spirit, their delusions shall give way., Pray for them that the Spirit of God may come down, and they be convinced !of their• dreadful sin, and before it'is toe late .repeni'of it, and , re turn to that allegiance. CHAPLAIN 11th PA. CiTALRIr. Sufotk, Va. Oct. . 27,1863. BEV. A. CULVER. WE are informed that Rev. A. Culver, pastor of the Manayunk church, has received an ap pointment from the American Tract Society of New York, to labor in the array as 'a Superinten dent of diatiibution. His people have `given him leave of `absence for this purpose for three . Months. This is a field labor for which Mi , Culver is very well adapted!, and he has entered, upon it with great seal, and promise of wide use-, fulness. We are pleased to learn that the:church, in Manaynnk, although 80 .of the congregation - have voluntebred in various branches of 'the - vice, is still well attended, and while suffering sonieivliat, has experienced no such injury from the war as to imperil its- existence, or seriously to cripple its poier for good in the community. FRANK'S FRIEND, or tile:• Ramparts of Stras burg, is a little volume: from the Get - man of K. H. Caepari, just published by the Lutheran Board of Publication. It is a:very high-wrought , story of soldier-life, desertion and death, but the, lessons seem to be wholesome .and evangelical:" Where frontispiece picked ow and pm. TII WESTMINSTER Cnuncn-at Yonkerk N. says the New York Observer, have transferred t4eirAelatiari from, the New to the Old_Sehixil,. And have given a call to Mr. Samuel T„Carter, son of Robert Carter, Esq., of this city, a late STAIVAP 9.1,.P4/0 Theological SelniPary, who will be ordained and installed Nov. 13th. [This church, according to unr minutes, has 137 members, ' and gain last year over a thousand dollars to Domestic Minions.] SYNOD OF Itini.kwA.— The New York , Obser ver contains a communication which embodies some additional facts of great interest in regard to the character, and work of the Synod. The writer says "On Friday there, was a discussion of Home Missions, and on Saturday,of Foreign Midaions, Education,. and.the pradtical results oflast year's labor. Some of these men are veterans in'years, and inostof them are such in' Westernexperience. I do not remember ever to have heard practical men talking ibout the wants of the West, the Obstacles in the way of their work, andtbeir personal relitiOns to that in a More. cheer ful and edifying manner than did these brethren at Evansville. That they have had hard work and have endured hardness -manfully must be admitted: One of them said, in a 'tone of, en thusiasm which rang like a clarion, I love to preach' the Gospel, I cannot live if Ido not preach it, and.l have, like the Apostle, litied of thedospikand thonah it has cost me three thou sand"dollarS to preach the Gospel in' the Wabash Valley, yet I glory in it I'. We heard the veter 7 an Home Missionary Agent, Rev. Henry Little, both in these discussions and in the pulpit, and it was no ordinaxiprivilege to hear the Presby terian minister who has a Wider and pleasanter acquaintance at the West th,an any other man of Or denomination. He has eollected a great deal of meney, but his greatest and most enduring work has been in his personal Jabot's among the churches in times of revival and other times also. He is deservedly much loTed and revered ; among our churches in Indiana. !, " Araong ,many' other statements. made, none were:more pleasant than those which show that the preaching oldie Word has riot been fruitless. Several very interesting revivals were-reported.' lesiemedto be the feeling of the brethren that' l:Oil • , . Ores war is so quiekening the public mind, and so touchiug large circles with grief, as to make,it hopeful that, ihe interests of religion will be advanced thereby. ." Mr. Solomon rendes, of Indianapolis, sent word to the Synod that belied transferred to it five theusand dollars of railroad bonds, which' draw seven per-eent, proinpily, which annual wincome he desired'the Synod to apply to the cause of Home Missions within its ,own bounds, -partieu larlY,for the support of a Synodical missfollaiy. The. Synod acknowleged the gift by a suitable resolution, anti appointed; Mr. Jaekson, of In dianapolis, their.treastirer. "It is.also a pleasing custom in this Synod for each ineinber to give"a dollar uyear to constitute a fund to relieve the'ividovie and 'children of-its deeeesed members, , should they need help. The brethren attended to this duty 'with a. hearty good will,und Rev. Henry Little. is their well ent :relief agent." ' ' , • THE SYNOD OP WABASH met at La Porte, October 20th. A porrespondent of the Etrunge list says " In 'the whole Synod of Waba,sh thereare only five pcfstor.s. In the Synod of Indiana there are only nine:pastors. That is, out of seventy-six ministers, caring for one hundred and seventeen chniches, there are - in the two Synod fourteen pastors. - . "The Cense of Education was discussed and the Synod instructed its churches to take up collections for the Cause , and pay them to Prof. Day of Lane Seminary • -who is a sort of Assis tent Treasurer of the Assembly's Committee on Education." . bincismaas -AND eltußclus. Rev. Lewis .Kellogg:was reinstated Pastor of the Church and cOnfregation in Whitehall, N. Y., Oct. 13th. 1837, Mr. liellogk was ordained and installed pastor of the society in Whitehall; in Jutie 1854 the pastoral relation was dissolved; when after an absenee of eight years, he is rein= stalled over the people to whom he gave his first affections in the work of the ininistry.—Rev. Her rick Johnson, co-Pastor with the Rev. Dr. Be maa of the First Church, Troy, has been dismis sed,, with a view to accepting a call from the Third Church, in Pittsburgh, late under the care of Rev. Dr. Kendall.—Mr. J. Herschel Nor roy, a recent graduate of - Princeton Seminary, has received and accepted a 'call to the First Church Pompey, New York.—Rev. Samuel L. Tattle, a member of the Synod of New York and New Jersey, is about to enter the service of the American Bible Society, as its Agent for. Wear tern New Tork;ivith RUchester as the centre of his operations.-=-The,,Sfecond Church. in Conners ville have unanimously called Rev: A. A. Jime son of Greenville, Ohio, to become theit pastor. Re-accep& and will enter Ippon his work the se cond Sabbath of November.—Rev. E. G. Moore, late of Chillicothe, has accepted an invitation to supply the pulpit of the church in Wilmington, 111. Rev. N. G. Mackie was ordained and installed. Oct. Ist, Pastor of the Church of Adams, Jeffer son Co., N. Y., by the Presbytery.of Watertown. The - sermon was preached by Rev. Samuel W. Fisher, DJ)., President of Hamilton College;. Rev. /gamut W. Boardman, recently of West boro, Mass., was installed, Pastor of the Second Church of Auburn, N. Y., thel4th ult. The ser mon was preached by Rev. David Greene, former ly one of the secretaries of the A. B. C. F. M., from 2 Cor., iv. 5-13. Prof E. A. Huntington, D.p., of the Auburn Theological Seminary, gave the charge to, the Pastor, and-Rev. Dr.. Hawley of the First Church, gave the charge to the peo ple. Rev. W. 11. McGriffori, has been released from the pastoral charge of the Church in Boon- Y. The church in Itamittun College, formed, during the past year, and consisting- of some 40 members, has been received under cA of Utica Presbytery. m lublitationc , Tux BIBLICAL REPERTORY AND PRINCE- ToN REVIEW for October, contains : The Mat ter of Prophecy; The Presbyterian Historical Society; The Church and the Poor ; Plea' for Education and Presbyter ' Colleges; Chriitian Eeterprise African Leiteifrani Prof. 'Lewis. Walker. '1 • `, MEM= M. CHARLERACREBNER has issued in a lux , uriousstyle, which the high price of paper will -hereafter in all iprobabilitrourtail, the lectures of the Hon. George' Marsh on the Origin and History of the English ' , Language. It is a great and- practical-subject, and-yet - one , which - receives too little attention at the hands of scholars. Mr. Marsh has 'gene into r hisnustifen 'With gteat ear neatness andwbrings:vastarrarof—learning to his aid as he'traces the growth of our noble na tive tongue from its remote beginnings down to the golden age of Queen 'Elisabeth. Sped. mens of each perin4L , are introduced, and discus sed; authors skilfully criticised, and the deep sources of national movements and - characteristics in literature and; anguage divined and set forth. All who. now study their-own.tongue *ill ac knowledge their obligations toile-scholarly re search and comptehensi*e' views`of Mr. Marsh, while the work Will prove an, incentive to that study where it is now,,negleeted. • For sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co; MRS. OLIPILINT'S LIFE OF EI:4AM) Um°, has just been republished in this conntry by Messrs. Harper & Brothers: It is the work of a zealous adruirer and Partisan, who regards the necessary repndiUtion of the brilliant errorist by `the Scotch Presbytery, as an act of persecution and who therefore cannot be trusted-implicitly by the reader seeking for the truth. Nor do we feel ready to believe that the brilliant, but erratic, and, on the : whole unsuccessful man, has a claim to our regard as great as this bulky octavo would imply. Those who are curio= to become ac quainted with unique specimens of humanity, and who like to study the mind and spirit of a gifted and intensely active nature, as laid bare by a pene trating and protracted self-anatomy, will find an excellent speCimen for their examination in the work before us, especiallY in the private journal of Mr. Irving written for his wife during a period of separation from her. - The whole history of the man and his surroundings is extraordinary and will command the- interest of religious peo ple, perhaps ati long as there are any. For sale by J. B. LipPincott & Co:',Bvo. 626 pages with portrait. SYSTEM of Louie, by P. McGregor, is a new treatise, by an author new .to us, who takes no special pains,to introduce himself, but gives us, at once, a very simple,; easily-written treatise, with a practical purpose ..revealed in it, reminding us of " Watts-on the Mind." We preeeive that his theory of the origin of language is what Man Mueller would term, a combination of "the how wow them' , " (onomatopoeia} and "the pooh-pooh theory" .(interjectional) and we think must be discarded ::as unsatisfactory. Harper & Bros., N. Y.; For Sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co. Mr. Wrr.surr, the successful author of a series of Beading Aohool Books, has issued a MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION IN OBJECT LESSONS, which those who use the charts forming an important part of the aystem, will find indispensable. The object system is - good-, and will result in remedy ing many errors and 'abuses, yet it must not hope to succeed by driving out the more purely abstract studies, of arithmetic and grammar. Harper & Bro. -Plilladplphia. For sale by. J. B. Lippincott &, Co. ' THE IMPS OP NICIIOLAg IittILBAY D.D., is an exCellent' little ' , Minim, by S. Irenaeus Prime. Di. Murray was a man ,of piety, ability, en ergy, pith, and directness; a true worker in the pastoral and rilpit departments of the profession, a successful ininister,.and a popular, effective and useful, writer. Dr. M. is allowed to speak for himself to g a large ..eztent in the volume. There can be no doubt that he was' fully worthy of such a memorial -and % that it -Will do good wherever distributed.' With a good-portrait. New York : liaricir '4 Bros. ;- Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co. - • ' MAGAZINES, PAMPHLETS, ETC TWA two opening papers, of the November Altirrno - by Thoreau and Winthrop, are tri fling • so is the heaiy hexameter describing an ordinary,penveisien et a Methodist Camp Meet ing L The, 'l,)ev4ment and Overthrow of the Russian Serf System 1 y one who has been be hind,theiseenes in. : that :Empire, ia full of inci dent and is of truly great interest and value on the great theme of the time which is convulsing at Once the oldest and' the newest of Christian nations, einthe Miami:fund the Western Conti nents—the liberation of the oppressed.—Mr. Axtell is a very areaMy weird kind of story— Prof. Aguas& enters the demain of embryology in this number, and handles the subject with his usual'ability.:--,Blind TOm describes the musi cal prodigy from the field-hands of Georgia.— From the article on the New Atlantic Cable, a multitude of valuable facts'may be learned. They are 'credited-" to the very clear and able address delivered by Mr. Cyrus W. Field before the Amerigan Geographical and Statistical Society " New Yorks in Mai .last.—Conversational Opin iOns of the Leaders of Secession gives scraps of conversation with the rebel leaders, held with them while theywere plotting their dire conspi racy in the open ilay, December 1860 and Janua ry 1861 in Washin`gt, en, (if there was such a thing as open day inthateity at that time.) The Hour and the Nan, and the President's Proclamation are written in excellent spirit and in full sympa thy with the great measures recently proelaimed by the President.. They are however in no way remarkable---might have been - gathered from the editorial columns of almost any of our leading loyal journals - . The Poetry ot this number is not such as to command very high encomiums. Boston. Ticknor & THZ ItnretaituocKzu f we aregrteved to say, gives evidence of havingheen purchased by the Seymour and , Fernindo_ Wood Deinocracy of New York, .as 'a literary-Polities) organ of that party- We suspect, 'tno;that Ned Bitntline has been en gaged, under a=new alias, to write sensation sto ries for its lience.the yellow covers which now Olathe it , and wbiSh give a hint of its con tents. Certainly, it is no longer the Knicker bocker of . former It without one spark of Manliness, cries up the military power of the rebels, Whines for peace like a whipped spaniel, denounies the suspension of the habeas corpus set as if it had a gui!ty expectation of becoming a vic tim of the military p6wer exaggerates the cur rency panier--in short draws its , inspiration from Southern' aspects of things and. has for its editor a Cornwallis I May he soon . find his literary Yorktown. The Kaickcybociser and Blackwood are beyond the claim of.recognition by loyal pres- ses. , Changes, of condition 'are but exchanges of Ilierortokal*Rituisoul. NOV. 6,
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