Vol. VII, No. 21.---Whole No. 333. Nottrg. Invocation to the Word, O Word of God! 0 sword of might! How keen thy edge, how sharp and bright, Invisible to mortal eye, It smites, it pierces, far and nigh. O Word of God 1.0 sword of might I At once our terror and our lighti Thy power diviue•all secrets knows, And around the world majestic goes. Now, like a temptest through the soul, Thy lightnings flash, thy thunders roll; Now o'er the heart, with.geritle play,. Thou breathest like the rind in May. 0 Word, so powerful and so true, Primeval Word, yet ever new, Let all thy ThUNDERS teach me this— To flee from hell, to rise to bliss I 0 Word, with gracious gentle play, Breathe o'er me like the wind in May.! Let all thy WHISPERS teach me this— To flee from sin, to soar to bliss ! Then all that seems mysterious here Will star-bright grow and heaven-clear; Then, though on earth, my life will lie Hidden with Jesus in the sky. —E. M. Arndt. entroputfute. THE VETERAN SOLDIER AND HIS GUIDE. Tnn old soldier advanced slowly, his hand leaning on the shoulder of a young man. His eyes were closed forever ; in the place of his right arm hung an empty sleeve, and he walked with a wooden leg, the sound of which on the pavement, made those who passed, turn to look at him. At the sight of this ancient wreck from our patriotic wars, many shook their heads in pity, - whila others breathed a sigh . or an imprecation. " See the worth of glory !" said a portly merchant, turning away his eyes. " What a deplorable use of human life I" rejoined a young min, with a volume of philosophy under his arm. "The trooper had better not have left his plough," added a countryman, with a know ing air. " Poor old man !" murmured a woman, al most crying. The veteran heard, and knit his brow. His guide—hardly answered the old man's questions, and his eyes seemed to be seeking for the. solution of some problem. There was a twitching in . the grey mustaches of the veteran; he Stopped abruptly, and held back his guide with his remaining arm. " They all pity me " said 'he, "because they do not .muterstand it; if I_Were to an swer tireiaLliwould say fine to `the , who weeps when she looks at me ; keep your tears for other misfortunes ; for each' of my wounds calls to mind some , struggle for my country. There is room for doubting how some men have done their duty; with me it is visible.. I carry the account of my , services, writtett with the enemy's steel and lead, on myself. To pity me for having done my duty, is to suppose 'I had better have been false to it.' And what would you say to the country man, father ?" "I would- tell him that to drive the plough in peace, etc., we must first secure the country itself ; and that as long as there are foreigners ready to eat our har vest, there must be, arms to defend it." But the young student, too, shook his head when he lamented such a use of life." " Because he doei not know what self-sacri fice and. suffering can teach. The books which he studies we have put in. practice, though we'never read them. The prznciples he applauds we have defended with powder and bayonet." " And at the price of your limbs and blood, the merchant said, when he, saw your maimed body, 'See the worth of glory 1 2 ' "Do not believe him, my son ; TRUE GLORY IS THE DREAD OP THE SOUL: it is which nourishes self-sacrifice, patience , and courage. The Master has bestowed it as a tie the more between men; True glory can never be too .dearly paid for 1 . That which we should deplore is not the infirmities which prove a generous self-sacrifice, but those which our vices or our imprudence have called forth. If I could speak to those who cast looks of pity upon me, I should say to the young man whose excesses have dimmed his sight before he is old, ' What have you done with your eyes P To the slothful man, who with difficulty drags along his .enervatei mass of What have you done with your feet P' To the old man, who is punish ed for his intemperance by, the gout, ' What have you done with your hands ?' To all, What have you done with the days God granted you, with the - facilities you should have employed for the good of your breth ren ? If you cannot answer, bestow no more of your pity upon the old soldier maimed in his country's cause ; for he, ,at least, can show his scars without shame I ATTIC PHILOSOPHER. cfctitriiono. REV. DE.' DE wrrrs MINISTRY I* IMBUE& THE Memorial sermon of Rev. W. R. De witt, D.D., of the First' Church, Harrisburg, preached on the anniversary .of his seventi eth birth-day, and the fortpfourth year 9f its cnarge, is a document of,unusual interest. patitorate so prolonged, honored, and use ful, is rare indeed t and deserves some per manent record. We have thought that some extracts from the sermon,, f a historical and personal character, might , prove , acceptable, especially to our numerous readers "in that part of the Synod.. Harrisburg-church was organized in. 1794. Dr. Dewitt was only its third pastor, and was called in the, year memorable to Presby terians, .1.81.8. , The, preceding pastors were Revs. N.,R. Snowden , and James Buchanan. Dr. Dewitt says: " M a y reception by the people of the con gregation was exceedingly= cordial and kind. After preaching two ;Sabbaths; and several times during the weeks I was hereil received not only a unanimous, but an urgent call to settle over the congregation as their pastor. The attendance then upon the services of the sanctuary was very respectable as to num bers, but the members in. communion were Small. There were .a ~few pious, excellent men, and a much larger number of godly, praying women. In these last consisted the strength of the church as a spiritual body. The hope of its permanency and its increase rested, under God, with them. Encouraged by the promise of the cordial co-operation of this little church, and especially of these female members, who, it was easily seen, were devoted to- its spiritual interests, with, I can honestly say, much trembling and many fears, in view of the responsibility I was to assume, I accepted of the call, and soon after entered upon my labors. I found here a Union Sabbath School composed of children, and taught by teachers of all the denominations of Christians in the borough; and a weekly prayer-meeting, conducted by the female members of the church. ," After some persuasion, our elders and other lay members of the church were in duced to hold meetings for prayer, for their own spiritual improvement, which, ere long, were attended indiscriminately by all who wished to come. In those elders and laymen was soon developed, to a remarkable degree the gift of prayer. I never knew laymen more gifted. In a short time 'no private house could bold the number who wished to attend. At the foot of the capitol hill, then an open common, corner of Third and Wal nut streets, there stood a large, long school house, which was obtained and used for our Wednesday evening meetings. It soon be came exceedingly crowded, and in those meetings, we ere long had, as we believed, the evidence of the presence of God's Holy Spirit. I cannot now remember how long they were held in that school-house, 'but I do remember well, that whenever held, there was the spirit of earnest prayer and of most delightful Christian sytiipitthy and affection: We early introduced the use of Dobell's hymns in our social meetings, and it soon became' a great favorite with the church. 'The singing of some of the favorite hymns in that collection, especially "`How firm a foundation ye saints of the Lord," etc., "It was all of thy grace I was brought to obey," still lingers in my memory, and often wakes up the moat delightful recollections. But there was one we usually sang, the congre gation standing, at the close of oar meetings, that seemed to be indited by, and, to breathe the very spirit of heaven,: Our souls by love together knit, Cemented, mixed in one,! etc., etc. " Often in my musings the voices of loved ones, most of whom have, long since gone to the land of silence, seem to come finatiq down the years of the past, pouring forth, in sweetest strains, the words of , that hymn on my ears, while, bathed in tears, I ask myself, shall it be renewed in heaven ? ' On the first or second Sabbath after my ordination, which - had . been-delayad'inaeli longer thanls usual now, (for 'our - old ministers strictly obeyed the injunction of Paul, lay hands suddenly nn no man,') at a communion season twenty-one were added to.the church, all but two on the profession of faith. . . During the time I had the exclusive pastoral charge there have been at least five seasons of ape dal religious intererst, in 1824, 1827, 1830, 1833, and the close of 1842 and the com mencement of 1843. The last was by far the deepest and,most pervading. Since the united pastoral relation, there have been at least two seasons of more than ordinary interest. . . . There are, I apprehend, but few places in our country, of the population of this city, where the religious element is so thoroughly evangelical as here; where er rorists are so little tolerated, and where the churches of different denominations are so closely united in the bonds of Christian fel lowship. This church has largely contribu ted to the influences, that, under God, have secured these results. It has also done much for sustaining the institutions of religion at home, and sending the Gospel abroad. When I first settled here, the congregation worship ped in a very plain brick building, a little below where our present house of worship stands, on the opposite side of the street,und were then in , debt for a deep gallery that had been recently erected around three, sides of, the church.. /Sometime after my settlement, compelled, for want of room for Sabbath schools and the weekly meetings, the congre , gation put up an expensive addition to the old church. Some time after this they tore the old church to the ground, purchased and tore down the house adjoining, and built a large, commodious and elegant house of wor ship ; .and when that was burned down, built the one we now occupy. Every new building has been a great advance in size, in conve nience and"in beauty on the old. . . . Up to thin time this church has had but four pas tors, two of wham are now actively engaged in ministering to it. . . . Since my settle ment here, the Lutheran Church has enjoyed the labors of Ave excellent pastors ; the Ger man Reformed of eight, the Episcopal of thirteen, and the Methodists of about twenty. Beside them, several others, with whoin I am not so well acquainted, have labored in the Gospel ministry in this place. My pas torate here is more than twice as long as any pastorate over the same congregation in the . Presbytery of Harrisburg, longer than any in the Synod of Pennsylvania, and, with but few exceptions, in the State, of either branch sotthe Presbyterian. Church. Whatever may be the opinion of some of 'the expediency of such long settlements, it certainly speaks well for the stability and-permaneney of the congregation. It is not one given to new things. This church has passed through se vere trials:. The one of eighteen hundred and thirtyfeight was a severe trial, but the one . 6f 1858 was much more severe. Yet they have been ` the occasions for good. .Like Jacob's flock, we have become two bands. We deeply felt the separation, as we have no doubt many of the other band did. But it has tended to the increase of the members and influence of the Presbyterian family in our city. Forty-four' years ago, with the 'prophet we might have lamented, Jacob is little, by whom shall Jacob arise ?' Well, Jacob has arisen. As' a denomination, we maintain fully: our relative position, number and social influence. We hope the ,division in the Presbyterian Church will not be,per petual. We think we can see the beginning of the end. In the meantime, let not Ephraim e nvy Judah, nor Judah vex Ephraim, but let us labor together for the advancement of the cause of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." • A, THURS',i,AY, JANITARY V, 1863. DEATH OF LYMAN BEECHES, D.D. ON Saturday afternoon, January 10th, at 5 o'clock, Lyman Beecher, at the advanced age. of eighty-seven years died at his, resi dence_in Brooklyn. He was born at New Haven, October 12, 1775, graduated at Yale College in 1797, and studied theology - under the direction. of President Dwight. In December, 1798, he was ordained pastor of a church at East Hampton ' L. 1.,, upon a salary of s3oo.per annum. In 1810 lie removed to the , care of the first church at Litchfield, Oonn. Here he remained about sixteen years, during which time his remarkable qualities as a preacher and as a zealous and active minis ter, brought him a great reputation and a remarkable influence throughout New Eng land. He was much consulted, and was- for ward• in most of the religious, undertakings of the time, such as the Connecticut Missionary Society, the Connecticut Education. Society, the American Bible Socieiy, and the like. In 1826, great defections had taken place in the churches in Boston - and the neighboring parts of New England ' into UnitariahiSm, following the lead of Dr. Charming and others in sympathy with him, and Dr. Beecher was chosen, out of all the clergy of New England, to uphold the standard of the ancient Puri tan faith against their desertion. He was installed over the newly-established Hanover street church, Boston, and, during his resi dence there, devoted 'himself with both zeal and ability in the urgent work committed to: his ,guidance. His ministry necessarily par took largely of a controversial character. He flung himself into the thickest of the bat tle, and was sustained by the confidence and fervent admiration of the religious body to which he belonged. The sincerity and spir ., ituality of his, preaching was generally ac knowledged, and it was attended by decisive results, in a revival of the spirit and increase in the- numbers of evangelical Christian.* •so as still to preserve to them the numerical superiority in that part of the country, at one time thought to be seriously in_danger. In this work . Dr. Beecher was looked up te as the most efficient champion and defender of the faith. Bat he was, not of a mind to rest while any thing remained to be done. The vital impor tance of communicating sound religious influ ences to the population of the great Missis -sippi valley became the paramount interest in "the- minds of many, reflecting as well as philanthropic people, for the highest social it political as well as religious considers. fris were concerned. Among many similar ingtitutions founded for this purpose the - Lane Theological Seminary was established at Cincinnati, and Dr. Beecher was-invited to take , the direction in 1832. He carried the 'same Strength and ardor into his new con nections, and electrified a considerable part of the country by - the publication, soon after his arrival, of a tract sounding the alarm of :Roman Qatholic supremacy at the West. The transplenting - Of a mind - of - 'siich vigor" into that impressible society could not . be of slight effect. Ms great character,,uniform principles, and fixed adherence to truth and his convictions, together with his boldness and fervent eloquence; worthily filled a, large sphere of-:duty:and produced a serviceable impression upon Western society. He re mained in Cincinnati about ten years, having, in addition to the care of the .Seminary," the pastoral charge of the Second Presbyterian church. Since leaving there he resided mostly in Boston, without fixed employment, but with undiminished intelligence and vigor, even at a very advanced age. During the more active portion:of his life, few or none of. his profession were better known to the people of the United States, and it is probable that the labors of no other have produced -a more immediate and appa rent effect. His fame as an orator was na turally the most prominent, and. as such he pas seasea. remarkable powers. His style was that of a man thoroughly in earnest, whose life was devoted to the inculcation of great truths and whose convictions were of a heat to melt all obstacles. Original turns of thought and expressions, and flashes of pic torial illustration, were frequent in his ora tory, and gave him an electrical influence over his audience. His position as a theolo gian will be judged with that of the body for which it may properly be said he combated, but it was sustained by sterling qualities which were universally recognized.' In al most all the Conspicuous moral enterprises of his time he bore a-prominent part, and , in particular his connection-may be mentioned with the temperance movement, :which -for thirty years has elicited and absorbed so much of the moral life of this country. gaily in its course he printed a famouS series of sermons 'on intemperance; which: attracted much attention to the cause. His numerous publications have been mostly accasional and miscellaneous, and hardly of a kind to per petuate his iniuence. From the fact .of his being so constantly engaged inAontroyersialwarfare, Dr. Beech er found no time to elaborate and ptepare sermons for reprint, and as the repertorial profession was in his days-unknown, we are without sketches even- of many - of his most , important efforts. Of Dr. Beecher's thirteen children not a few have attained to'eminence aslwriters and ministers. Miss Catherine Beecher, Dr. Ed ward Beecher Mrs. Harriet Beecher 'Stowe, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Revs. George, Charles, Thomas, 'William and James Beech er are all known in certain spheres of public usefulness,- and each in his'. speciality has done• service in his day and generation., Of his. son Henry, Dr. Beecher was pecu liarly fond and proud; and during the last ten, years of his life has been more or less with him. About five years since he, became a permanent resident of . Bropklyn, living within a stone's throw of his"son's house and church. At the latter place he was for some time 'an honored landmark of a former gene ration, and an object of universal esteem and affection. Latterly, however, during the past three years, his body, originally so erect and sinewy, has rapidly failed, and his mind has dimmed gradually in 'its case, until at length he became literally'a child, a weak and impotent.old , man. We have not space, nor is this the proper place for reference to the glories of his spi ritual vision at intervals of pristine vigor and brilliancy of imagination. We will but state that at such periods he felt the rock upon which he stood firm beneath• his feet—he saw the glory for which he waited bright before his vision hergrisped with unmistakable A. certainty the title t&his everlasting inheri tance,i and gave to ,"11 , about him abundant evidence ofundimin . lied faith and confidenee in the Redeemer, w iose servant for three scoreyears he had `ithfully been. A few days bef4. Christmas he had a slight fall, which segewhat weakened him / and gradually he slipt into lethargy, from which he never absolutely awoke until the hour when released ;front the confinement of infirmity and weak*, he stood before the o throne of his Fath t!- and Redeemer,'to be welcomed by the sw plegend, " Enter thou into the joy of thy Illird.' From the-reraarksi of son, Henry Ward, in Plymouth Char , 7 QD , , the Sabbath eve 7 ning after his dent , e extract the follow ing : " For about a car and a half his mental condition has beeniiixOedingly feeble and child-'like.lle has On like a traveler who had packed his tr s in , anticipation of 'a journey, and, expe4ithi every Moment' to start, could not utOck - ' it. 4 But new - the n e long-expected jour Y has been made. He has reached, the pla e where, all , his mental powers unlocked, n)1 as here n earth, but with every faculty, frightened, and every sense glorified, he c t employ,them as never before in -the servi e of his divine Master. He had long.' been r 'ady to depart. Almost the last sentient act f his' life occurred about two years ago, whe on his recovery;from a severe sickness, he 6 'lled for "thatpassage." After reading a nraltitnde of passages, for he was unable to designate the particular one he desired, the reader .opened, by the-good providence of God n : to these verses : "For I am now ready to he offered, and the time of my departure is, at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith ;I henceforth there is laid up for me a crownlof righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give unto me at that day ;t and not to Inc only -- They were proceeding to read farther, but my father cried ",Nop !.:that is not for me ! This is my testimony : write it down as mine." And I think he could, use .those words as fully and as justly as the man that wrote them. -1: One of the 'mast totiching characteristics , of his later years,.as his affectionate re membrance of his 'early associates in the Christian warfare. 'His heart clung with peculiar tenderness to the memory of Taylor, Evarts, Cornelius and Wisner. He loved them all, but especially Taylor. , And in his last years, and in his dying , hours, his heart turned not tP Boston, the scene of his bright est triumphs ; not to Brooklyn, where for so many years he has lived so near our beauti ful Greenwood, from Where shall rise so Many on the Last Day, when the trumpet Shall sound' which only they who are; called shall hear; not even to Litelifield, where lies buried the. wife of his youth, for; whom he cherished all the tender affection which his loying nature could, lavish upon an object ; but his last reqiesi ' was " Lay me by the side of brpthei + Tai- 4 " And there, in the ~, - clEgiaieyaid . -at , etrTaig:ii,' Shin - 434 aide by side the bodies of these two'Christian soldiers and heroes, until the day when they shall rise glorified and incorruptible, to dwell forever before the face of God in Heaven. • THE WORLD-WIDE' OFFER. THE full benefit of the atonement is offered to all men—to each and,all of the human -family. God makes the offer ; and He makes it in sincerity and in good faith ; and He ex pects that His views' and feelings in this will be respected and honoired by all who pre sume to speak in His name. He has never commissioned any class of men to make a partial offer of salvation ; to limit the invita tion to any favoured class—few or many—of mankind; to show any special reipect in this matter to any rank, to any complexion, to any kindred or tongue. It is never to be forgotten that the offer of salvation is not made by man, but by God. The offer stands recorded in His own word.;,the business of the ambassador is .to go and proclaim that, and that, only. It is the risen Saviour's com mission—His solemn charge, when He was about to ascend to heaven—that the offer of salvation should be made to every creature. It is not the fault of His commission, or to be traced to any limitation in the merits of the atonement,, that all that dwell upon the earth have not heard it :.---Ahat every Hindoo, can, and Islander has not long since been told that he might be saved through a Sa viour's blood. I have no " right hand of fellowship" to extend to any scheme which does not teach that God sincerely offers all the bliss, of heaven to every child of Adam, be he a Caffrarian, Hindoo, a Laplander.; a. beggar, or a king ; a man of wealth, learn ing, and respectability, or an abandoned wretch ;—to the man that, by the .grace of God, will ultimately reach heaven,-;Land.to the man that by his own fault will wander for ever as an .outcast on the plains of , despair. This scheme of, salvation I regard as offer ed to the world; as freely as the light of hea ven, or the rains that burst on the Mountains, or the swellings oftroad rivers and streams, or the bubblings of fountains in the desert. And though millions to who mit is offered do not reaeive it, 'and are not savingly benefited by it, "though in regard-to them the provi sions of the plan may be said to be, in a cer tain sense, in vain,—yet this result ; 4oes not -stand alone in :the arxangements ,cof God. I see in this the hand of th? , same God that pours the beams of noonday on barren sands, that sends showers on desert rocks, and that gives bubbling springs where no man is—to ourpyes,.-hut,notsto vain., It, is the overflowing of benevolence, the richness of the Divine mercy, the profusion of the gifts of the Creator; the fulness of compassion, that, can afford thus to flow over all the earth -even on wastes and solitudes ; for, the ocean of love can never be eihausted or diminiehed. —Barnes's " Way of Salvation." IF THE consciousness of in in the heart, , or the intrusion of evil thoughts, create un easiness and a' desire to be rid. of them; if they be like the presence of an impertinent, intruding visitant, or that of a dun• to a. mo neyless' debtor; this is an-argument of sin cerity in repentance, faith andxegard to God in his.-Fill.—Scott. THE Richmond Dispatch, of ~the; 3d linst., says, "Rev. Dr. M. D. liege, of .I:tichmorid, has sailedfre' in a Confederate port for Eu rope, to procure Bibles. The Virginia Bible Society has authorized him 'to Trocure '35,000 Bibles and Testaments." " THE EPISCOPALIANS IN THE SAND - WICH ISLANDS. Sometime in the year 1860, says I. "Rh. W., in the Congregationalist, Mr. Ellis, then in England, author of "Polynesian Research es," who once labored for a time in connec tion with the missionaries at the Sandwich Islands, ,received letters from the Islands " stating the wishes of the King, and of a number of English and American residents at Honolulu, to obtain the services of an evangelical English clergyman," and. men= tinning the amount of provision which the Kink would make for his' support. Subsequently, it was found that a movement was in progress to secure not only a clergy 7 man, but also a.Bishop for the island. In this Mr. Ellis seems to have had lid part. The archbishop of Canterbury took notice of and :favored the movethent, but so patent and offensive was .its - sectarianism, that the Bish op of LontionoweilOpposed , , and :for a, long time hinderedithe; - appointment of a Bishop for the Islands. 4t , length, however, his opposition was overcome, and he, joined in the consecration of a Dr. T. N. Staley to the post. On the 11th of October, 1862, this dignitary, with two curates, reached Hono lulu, and has since been joined by a third curate. The Bishop of London has expressed his " trust " that the course of Bishop Staley will be such as to strengthen the hands of all (at the Islands) who have at, heart the ad vancement of Christ's kingdom ; and in like spirit, the late Archbishop cit Canterbury, on first learning that such a movement was in • contemplation, stated that he should be "truly sorry if any circumstances should occur calculated to create jealousy 'between parties who haie the same great end in view." However reluctantly . , the truth must be stated, that the first movements of the Bish op and his associates at, Honolulu, are not of the most promising character in this regard. The Bishop is stated to have announced in his first sermon, that he should take a mid dle ground between the Protestant mis sionaries and the Roman Catholics. He soon attended a feast and' hula (the native hea then dance, the recent reviving of which on Oahu has been a. source of so much grief to the missionaries) and " seemed much pleased, and said he thought the institution, should be Christianized." One of his curates declined attending a union monthly concert, frankly stating, in a written communication, that in his opinion and that of the Bishop, " it would be inconsistent in, a clergyman of our (their) church, to attend a. prayer-meeting in a place of worship belonging to a denomination of Christians ,who do not regard Episcopacy - as of Divine appointment." It is also said, that in conversation with a Roman Catholic lady at Honolulu, the Bish op affirmed that he was a true Catholic— not, a Protestant, that he believed in the mass, transubstantiatnen,. r etc, .etc„ that he could receive the' Raman Catholic Bishop there to his pulPit, and unite with him in worship, but could have no fellowship with Protestants. In some •poetry published in one of the Hon plain papers, headed, " The English. Mis sionaries' Approach to the Sandwich Islands," and having the signature "G. M., (George Mason, one of the curates ?) we find these lines: " E'en now expectant stands Hawaii's king, As a kind nursing father to embrace The glorious system of restoring grace His Royal Spouse, with all a mother's joy, Leads to the Holy Font their Princely Boy, Where England's Bishop, sent with power to bless, Robes the young Chief with Christ's own right eousness." This young Prince, of whose baptism by the Bishop, a great occasion was to be made —who was, to be thus easily robed with •° Christ's own righteousness "—sick unto death before the Bishop arrived, was bap tized by Mr. Clark, one of the faithful mitt sionaries of the American Board, and a lady teacher attached to this gpiscopal mission, found occasion to regret "that the pgor. Prince should die a heathen." "A splendid cathedral," the plana'= . Of which Were taken out from England, is"'to be commenced soon. At a'meeting at 4hroll " Hawaiian Episcopal Church" was preposed as the name of the new organization, the Bishop remarked that unavoidable circum stances would perhaps make it necessarY4o take thatname hilt it was not the name which he prepared ; the "Hawaiian Chut*" or the " Church of Hawaii," was more,,pro per ! " A free use is made' of piciiires, Peter's keys, clerical vestments, etc., -etc." The English liturgy is being tranelata by the King and printed, and it is obvious that much effort will be made to draw the peo l ple into sympathy with the new organization. We can only hope and pray Oat under cir e,umstances which are likely to be often very trying, grace may be given to our missiona ries to be " wise as serpents and harmless as doves." AMERICAN NON-INTERVENTION The past is fixed in regard to our (treat ment of the nations of the old world, and fixed in a manner which we have little to re gret, and little that we might wish now to have changed. We have desired sincerely to be with all those nations,' at * peace.' We have been disposed to make equal and just treaties With them in regard to commerce. We have Sought (to take no improper advan tage of them. We have been willing to'visit with them every distant sea and every dis tant port, and to share with them in the fair avails' of commerce. We have impressed none `their seamen info' our service. We have made no war on their peaceful pursuits. We have never' intermeddled with , their af fairs, but•have aimedtb stand not merely professedly but really aloof:from:all the con flicts which they havelwaged among them selves ; to maintain not a holloW and hypo critical, but a real neutrality in regard to'the wars, right or wrong, which they have been engaged. We haVe4en them often waging What we regarded agniajUst wars. Wehave seen them invading.i:peaceful nations. We •have seen them attempt to suppress insurrec tion and rebellion in their own provinces.by means that, as a Christian and'civilized. peo ple, we could not font ~regard as barbarous and cruel—in a Manner, that, in the language of the Earl of Ch4tham, when describing a measure which hid been deliberately ed in the House, of Ludo to be' - 'pursued in reference to the revolted' colonies of America, " shocked us as lovers of honorable war; and as detesters of murderous barbarity." We have seen them binding men to the cannon's mouth, and sweeping them by scores into eternity. ; We have seen them, for the pur pose of compelling a foreign nation to admit as an article of commerce, and of consump tion, against their own just and humane laws a drug most deleterious to the bodies and the souls'of men—destructive to morals ; destruc tive to religion; destructive to domestic peace; destructive to national• progress—wa ging a fearful, a bloody, and a horrid 'war, until the object was accomplished , and the ports of the:greatest nation of the world were compelled to . be thrown open to admit that, in commerce, which would spread wo, and sorrow, and wretchedness every where. We have not interfered. We have not even taken part , with the oppressed lind the wronged. We have not,oin a public and national man uttered-thelanguageof remonstrance at such. barbarities and, atrocities.. We did in deed interpese when Selo was laid waste by fire and sword, and her beautiful villas and gardens were :smoking ruins ; when the olive yards of the Pe'loponnesus were cutdown, and' the Turk had laid all waste ; when Greece, once the land of beauty and the home of civilization and art, was suffering all the ills of famine from the desolation of a ruthless war—then we interfered by the noble resolu tion in Congress, and the noble speech of Mr. Webster, 'and by contributions, not of arms and implements of death, but of food for the famishing, from churches, and villages, and private citizens, to relieve those sufferers. And when the scourge of famine and pesti lence swept over Ireland, and England failed to supply the wants of the famishing, we did interfere—we hastened to, relieve them an act which Ireland has never forgotten, but which ...England has. Beyond things like these we have not ventured to interfere in the afFaiq Of nations, remote or near;'and in re gard to nations, we have at least the con sciousness that' in our treatment of them we have endeavored to carry out the great prin ciples which we have designed to lay at the foundation of our own prosperity, that jus. Lice, and truth, and honesty are the best foundation of a nations's progress, as they are of the welfare of an individual—that i g righteousness exalteth a nation." That we are innocent in regard to all men—to those within our own borders—the Indian, the African we can not indeed affirm ; to foreign nations our course has not been one of dis honos and• shame, and we are willing that it should be known and read by, all men.--Rev. A iicirns. `THINGS At the _Enthronization of the Archbishop Of Canterbury, nearly 500 clergyman were present, with a'number of the Bishops. Da ting—the past two hundred years all the Arabilhops of Canterbury have been 'en throned " by proxy "until the accession of Archbishop Sumner. The present ceremo ny:. was more imposing by far than any on record since the Reformation. Garroting is so rife in London that Sir George Coruewall. Lewis's footman was at tacked and robbed within 30 yards of his master's house. One cutlery firm in Lon don has already sold 5000 daggers and bow ie knives to anti-garotters ; and anti-garotte cravats, set with small sharp spikes, are ex ; posed for Bale in the shop'Windows. If that were the state of things in' Hew York, what would be said of it in England ? Christmas Carols in America. A corres pondent of the Church Journal, writing from Elizabeth, N. J., thus describes,a .Christmas Carol, sung in that. place at the opening hour of last Christmas Day : At a quarter before twelve o'clock, there was a general desertion of the church. Soon we were assenibled at a neighbor's house, and after a brief interchange of pleasantries, the striking of the midnight hour reminded us of another custom which has obtained in the parish,viz : of carol-singing, to " usher in this day of days," So off we started, a goodly representation of the parish, and pro ceeding in silence, to the rectory, gathered about, the door, and then there burst upon the stillness of the night that grand old hymn which ,angel voices taught to man— the Gloria in Excelsis. How beatiful it rang out upon the air from so many voices, to whom it was -like household words. Then followed in order the simple pretty carol of Dr. aillaudet, " The Day of days, " Jr's " ever-popular •_ ` Angels Chorus," and- last, ; the more strongly English carol, embalmed,by Washington Irving,— Rejoice 1 our Saviour he was born On Christmas Day in the morning. This carol-singing was voted long since to be one of the most plea.sing customs of Christmas-tide. It. has in its favor, antiqui ty, good taste, and romance enough to en sure its faithful observance. The right" kind of a Senator. Senator Wright of Indiana, in company with Sena tor Willey of Virginia, addressed the Sand Street M. E. Sunday School, on last Christ mas Day. A report in the Christian Advo-. cate says Mr. Wright "commended himself this hearers as a man deeply versed in the ilely Scriptures, penetrated with a love` of them and of his country, and as profoundly affected with a sense =of 'the importance of having them as the basis for family govern ment, the government of the school, the Church and the State. Upon the family relation, upon order, kindness and obedi ence, as ,fundamental virtws, the senator dwelt with`a, power and paAcs which will cause his name and tenching.on that day to bill parallel with the dife of those who heard. He was throughout • exquisitely tender and pathetic, while he stirred the, depth of the Moral feelings of his audience with the force with, iyhtich be • brought ,home, the: eachings of the word of God with respect to•all our rela tions in life." He equally commended him self to the . public - by the manly character of his address in the' Senate January 6th. Such Democrats as is Mr. *right and Gen. Butler, cannot be too. plenty in. Congress; the army or.the Cabinet. He argued that the ,principle on which the hitless ,corpus had beeri.suspended was an old and truly Demo cratic one, and that p a Democrat he would not'let the:ltepuitlic hive the credit of it. " The Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Pow- 'GENESEE - EVANGELIST.:? 7 -- - Nigiole No. 870. ell) had rejoiced over the recent elections, but these elections had been brought about by means not calculated to produce much joy. It, was by discouraging enliStments, by ma king Charges against the government, by op posing taxation'for the expenses of the war, by impressing the great West with the im portance of the Valley of the Mississippi." He argued in favor of an iron will and nerve and a 'determined policy on the part of the Executive to crush out the rebellion by every possible means, and he would take the pro perty of the rebels everywhere. He wanted to see the . Mississippi River opened by the brave boys and the supplies of rebellion cut off. He wanted to see a hundred thousand slave-holders running one way . and a million negroes the other way. [Applause in the galleries.] He wanted to"strike at the heart of the disease and< then we should see day light. There was nothing to despond about. He thanked God we had an army, a navy and a °wintry. He thanked God for ,another thing, that we had a general in the field who was not fishing for: the Presidency, 'who with his staff was to be found in the thickest of the Xtght, and his name was Roseerans. [Applause in the galleries.] A Great Telescope. The Cambridge Chronicle, Mass., states that Messrs. Clark & Sons, of that city, have succeeded in ma king a lens two and a half inches greater in diameter than that of the famous telescope in the Harvard University Observatory. That is about sixteen inches in diameter; this more than eighteen inches. It was made for a college in Mississippi, but the rebellion has annulled the contract. The contract price was about $lO,OOO. It is probably the largest object-glass in the world. An Electric Piano. The Paris correspon dent of the Journal du Havre says : "An experiment of an electric piano has been tried at the Palace of Compiegne. The invent or, who is a native of Treves, gives to the instrument great power, and the air played was repeated on another piano placed at the other extremity of the palace. He pretends that while playing a tune in Paris, he can have it repeated instantaneously at St. Petersburg, provided the electric wires are intact." THE WESLEYANS AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. The Bishop of London, expressed, in his late charge, a desire for reconciliation with the Wesleyan body, saying that it was a re sult worth praying and laboring for, if the wound could be healed. The Wesleyan organ, the Watchman, says ; " A self-infiicted wound it was by the Established Church; but does it in fact remain as a wound?'ls the Church Catholic injured by the progress of Methodism, or even the Church of Eregland as a branch of that Church ? What, in fact, would Dr. Tait do =with us If he could regain to-morrow that large community which Wes ley at first ,raised -up as a society, but of which Divine purpose, as we think, has made a Church ? What would he do with our ar my of local preachers; what position would he assign to our ordained pastors ; how would he subordinate to Anglicanism our Mission ary Society, so 'as - to make, for example, our minister in natal labor in due obedience to such a bishop as Dr. Colenso ? We can re main friends and allies of the English Church and of other communions, so long as we stand on an equal footing at their side ; but if we were to consent to absorption, and come un der canonical obedience, we should be false to our special mission, and should impover ish ourselves without greatly enriching others, unless indeed they would consider our weak ness and overthrow to be their own strength and advancement. Dr. Tait does not per ceive, at least does not notice, that, through out several sections of his charge, he is struggling against an accomplished fact— the spiritual parity of the Protestant church es. This is admitted by Nonconformists, so that Presbyterians, Independents, and Me thodists, often very sincerely profess to think it no honor to make a proselyte of a Church man, or to prey upon one another. Why should the Church endeavor to annex any of them ? - We grant there is some excuse for her, in the natural desire to make good her title of a national Church. Yet Dr. Tait re fuses to concede for this object the slightest change in the Prayer-book. ' REV. DR. GUTHRIE ON THE LANCASHIRE SUFFERERS. This distinguished Edinburgh divine de livered an address Dec. 17 in the Philhar monic Hall, Liverpool in aid of the fund for the relief of the distressed operatives in which he did full justice to the noble traits they have displayed. He says: " For the sake of those workmen, let him-say—and.he rejoiced to be able to say it here in England— that that charge of improvidence did not lie against many of those noble English workmen. 75,000 X had been drawn from a saving bank —75,000 X. the earnings of life:long hard work, noble economy, and Christian self denial. And that was not all either. Until the la,st shilling of that money- was drawn oht—until they had pawned their clothes, pawned their bed-clothes; and pulled the very bed out from beneath their children, and pawned it too—until ,the.plank they floated on had sunk beneath;theni—they never ask ed nor expected.. One shilling from the hand of charity. He had lived for nearly sixty years, was old enough to remember the bat tle. of Waterloo, -and the glories of the triumph ; but he had lived to. see , a ;far no hler spectacle. In the peaceful demeanour, in the abstinence from all violence of word or act, under trials that were enough to drive them to violence, the Lancashire workers had presented the finest Spectacle of the age. There was a talk about maintaining the dig nity of Great Britain,' noW'on the battle-field or the seas; now 'in .protocols, now in this thing, and' now in that ;'but it was in the dark and dreary homes -of Lancashire, where men were hattling with= want, that the dig nity dreat Britain_ had been mo§t nobly sustained. They. might talk of battles, and of men standing up to face the foe. lie not depieciate the courage of Our soldiers and our sailors, tliZugli*Wwished there were no wars. They might tell him, of men stand ing before the -bayonet or the cannon—he hoped he was not boasting' unnecessarily, but, if he could judge of his own feelings, he
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