Vol. :11, No. 22.--Whole No. 334. ottvg, AIRS. CAROLINE. aburucy,. rie,ttintsLL I farewell,, beloved , lkome I Haven of rest I a lon g farewell; Where'er my weary footsteps, roam, r With•thee shall faithful inenfry dwell. eft tali me other bowers will rise .A.s fair, in fancy's, fixture view— They little think what tender ties, bear home I attach my heart to you. Their happy, childhood has not play'd, Like mini3ibeireath thy sheltering roof; Thou bast upt foster'd, in thy shade, Their nfturlears of happier youth. They einnot`lrtiow ' they have tiot'proved The sympathies that , rnake thee dear; They have not hereTossess'd and loved— They have not lost and sorrowtd here. In till around, they cannot see Relies of holses, and joys o'ercast-- They have not learnt, to live, like me, On recollections of the past; To wadi (as misers watch their gold) Tree, shrub, or flower, (frail, prrious trust !) Plantediand rearq in days of old, By hinds now mduldenng in thief duet ; To dandify peculiar places, m mein s Associate Mery's glass, With circumstances, tithes, andi fades, That like a dream before me phes. These are the feelings—this the. band, Delad home that knits my heart to thee; No heart but mine can underitand lbw strong that'seeret sympathy. Therefore, of seenes more fair than thee, They kindly speak to soothe mine ear; Yes--- : fairer other scenes may be, DdlinevOr any half so dear. fortropnina. MY LAST SABBATH WITH THE SOL- DIEM .4 TIM three months' leave of absence gran tea meb. my church to labor among the Sohliera, having expired, on the 11th of lan., uary I passed my last Sabbath in minister ing the consolations or the Gospel to our. brave -men. This day, according to previous arrange. ment, I was to. spend with the men in " Con- Coalescent , Canip,'lt. situated about four miles southwest of ,Washington City„, over in 'Vir ginia, and ,containing, about ten thousand soldiers, afflicted with more or less infirmity, having beeksout there. principally from va rious Clovernmeril hospitals, with thnvi elv of inuring them to camp-life.exposures, piepa• ratory .:tti their rejoining ,aheirfrrespective regiments. This is a new encampment—the old one near Alexandria having been-broken up, in expectation of improvingthe condition of the men. The Old one was familiarly known as " Camp Misery,"—a name fairly won. The circumstances of the men in the new camp are , materially improved, and fur ther improvements are in progress. On Sabbath morning the driver of a gov ernment ambulance reported himself at nine o'clock .punctually. It had rained nearly the whole day before, and one of the institutions of Virginia—mud—was inprime Condition. We proceeded to " Long Bridge," but the " draw ' was open, being in process of repair, and would not be completed until 8-O'clock P.M. It must be repaired on Sab-- bath, the supposed " necessities of war," such as long government teams, Alexandria Rail Road transportation trains for Government, etc., admit of no impediment ; therefore re pairs must he done at such time as will least interfere. No passage, therefore 'for us at this time, over "Long Ik dge. Of gg Aqueduct bridge, . 1 three or four miles up the river, above 'Georgetown, was the - next best crossing. We drove to it.' This bridge was formerly the bed of =the large "Chesapeake and Ohio Canal," carried right over the Potomac river It is, 1446 feet in length, and 36 feet above the ordinary surface of the river. Cost of con atruction, $2,000,000, It has been condemn ed by Government as insecure and is now uied as a bridge for travel. We, therefore, arose 'right through the canal ! Over the bridge, wo soon met with picket-fences, for tifications, the toughest kind of brick-clay, of sny.desirable or undesirable amount and consistency, constituting a new military road. On we dragged, through fortifications, under the muzzles of big guns, over hills, by en campments, in front of the rebel Gen. Lee's well-known "'Arlington House," upon Ar lington Heights, , from the roof of which, on clear days, MOT be seen from Washihgton, floating the " Stars and Stripes," afid from which eminence, we gain a. splendid view of the capital cf the nation, On, through the beautiful " Fort Albany, from which, again, is one of the grandest views of Washington, the Potomac, and contiguous country, to be seen from any point. On 'Westwardly, through a valley,—at last, amidst a pine forest, romantically secluded, suddenly opens to view the tented city of the ten thousand convalescent mew. It is near 12 o'clock. We report at the tent of the Christian Commission," at pre sent oecupied by two young men of that nobleorganisation. One of them is in a little place of worship, composed of three small tents conabined,--" holding forth " to a band of men, mainly of, Christian sympathies,--, where we enter and listen until the termina tion of the service. Soon after, I started out through the en canipmeiit,' accompanied by one of the "Com raission.." ~,W e visited the excellent New Englatid lady---from Maine,—eniployed by the Sanitary Commission,; to minister to the sick. She soon spoke of " her hospital," —being three tents oomhined,,in , which ,7,ere lying a rdniber of men, suddenly taken too ill to be removed' the large' hospitals yin Washington,--sae - fs now done in the great majority of oases. These sick were mainly typhoid fever oases,—very , 4 ll . I inquired of the lady whether , any one ever conversed with the,-men about their souls, or prayed with them.? She replied,' that attention to their physioalU'Ocessities Sdgrefitly engrossed her time that he WAS Utiabreqo auything of consequence for them` spiritti*llyo- I .and no one else came to comfoit them with the Gos Rome. pel rfiraired with and for them and their dear ones at " home," and also exhorted them:to look to the Great Physician of soule,' who'wes willing' to hear the faintest cryler relief from those 'even who were expiringt amid circumstances of adversity. Theinter view was very affecting; and. , a plaintive ".farewell" reached me from the lips c of one ofthe. afflicted, as .I left them to preach the Gospel gut in the encampment. I proceeded to the quarters of the Pennsyl vania men, among whom were a number of my personal acquaintances. I took my position upon an elevation in one of their widest "streets," and began to' sing in a loud tone, "A charge 'to khep hive,' etc., assisted by the Collll3liBBjoll friend. A rush ensued, men coming in from every direction, up and down the streets, and from the quarters of various' other-States, as the notes swelled up from , many voices used to effort amid the noise of battle. I read out two; lines of the hymn at a time, and, a,general chorus was the result., " Happy Day ' rang gloriously over :the encampment. I preached to this great throng of most attentive listeners, with thrilling .in terest to myself; and `at` the conclusion the service I observed many moistened `eyee;' . and numerous were the hands extended' to me bTmen from Philadelphia and varions;- other -portions of the State. I then notified theinthat at 3 o'clook:,—twenty minutes from that tinie r -4 intended to hold another,ser: vice in a iifferent part of. the camp. Many soon started - ever to the designated place; and at the appointed time we had a similar 'preaching service, with a large attendance, and equally as great an interest. • After this, with much regret; I bade fare-I well to men for whose welfare I had• at dif ferent times labored; and then started for Washington. But soon I was.,,favored with a spectacle which for, the time dispelled all , sad thoughts and filled me with admiration. As I ascen ded to Fort Albany, the sun suddenly. beam ed out amidst heavy 'Western clouds, with a brilliancy and richness in depth of golden colors rarely witnessed. A distant fertifica tion intervened, and there, amid the largest, brightest lake of glory, floated the " Stars and Stripes," the flag-staff scarcely percep tible; but of sufficient elevation to make the illusion complete I My bosom swelled with patriotic,pride; and I felt that thus will that glorious, flag continue to float, elevated by, the hand of Him who appeared now to inter weave it amid the glories of His heaveriel„i; I passed through Fort Albany, and turns& to the right, with the view of crossing at. Long Bridge," expecting the repairs to be completecompleted.Ashort distance from the fort, another scene occurred, surpassing even the former. Heavy blonds passed overhead, ac companied by a slight shower of rain. But soon the setting sun beamed forth again ; and 10, the entire, City of Washington was illuminated ! The windows were dazzling with. the reflected rays; the marble of the buildings was of snowy whiteness, and emi nently prominent Was the new capitol build ing, with its lofty' dome. The city literally "stood.out" upon the canvass of the heaL vens, with the back-ground of dark clouds. And just as I took in this view of grandeur, behold a rainbow arose, the left base resting beyond the. President's hones, arching over the entire - city, and the right resting out be yond Elizabeth Asylum ! Emblem of Peace! I was overwhelmed with the glory of the scene, and mentally ejaculated, ' God grant the speedy realization ! " After a, little time the sun mildly withdrew his face, the rainbow melted away, haziness crept over the city, and the " dissolving view ' closed. I crossed at the " Long Bridge," and in the evening, at 6i o'clock, conducted the hospital service in the church building of Dr. Smith, where I addressed the sick _and wounded upon their bedS, reminding them'of their Gospel privileg , .s, as'daily dispensed to them in connection withkind nursing, as con- treated with the case of many of their less favored companions, whom I had seen 'and preached to that day. With a prayer for them and their friends far, away I closed my "Last Sabbath with the Soldiers," and often shall I look back to it with fond remem brance. A. C. Manapunk, 'Tan' 20, 1.863. LESSONS OF WAR. NUMBER ,XXVI. USEFULNESS TistE 'PROPER MEANS OF INFIX— ENO E'. IT is a subject of daily observation how the world adheres to the poswerful and the fortunate, and forsakes 'those who are help less, devold r'ofinfluence ' and sinking in re putation and estate. • Against this disposi tion every one thinks he :has a right , to complain, as an example • of servile respect for persons, and of'nnfeeling Selfishness , and hardness of: heart. This trait of society, however;, admits of a better apology than at first appears. The prineiple, 'upon . which political alli ances are accustomed to be formed, is the: interest and safety of the parties concerned. When iv State demonstrates that it possesses the power and Valor to defend itself against surrounding nations, ita neighbors begin to manifest a disposition to cultivate her friend ship. When, on the other hand, any power proves unequal to her own defence, or suffers a dangerous blow, by the loss of an impor tant battle, they sit once begin to seek a pre text for abandoning her alliance, as no lon ger without hazard to themselves. , • • History ma kes.iis familiar with these ideas ; and,we are not accustomed to look upon this ,prac tice of nations,. as particularly unreasonable or unjust. ~Neither should ; we Isp look that whiqh somewhat resembles it, the intercourse of individuals and fainilies. The present life is' to every one a state`of War, in which a thousand Circumstances and liabiii ties, and' the selfishneis and injustice preva lent in society, are perpetually preying upon his happiness. In such: a state it is not base servility, but.necessity, and the pressure of threatening• evils, that lead men to prefer the friendship of those who are. able to afford protection to themselves, and others, amidst the dangers of an uncertain and hostile world. A man who, from his own inactivity, is una ble 'to bear up against the resistance of a busy and selfish world, has. little reason to expect that. bis •fellow men will sue for .the privilege,of hie friendship, in like manner.as State,qhat is the' prey of all his neighbors ravaged by perpetual inroads, and in constant danger of utter cledtruction,--has little ground . . . 147 Pa, tRe 31;; ,* , , . PH HIA ILADELP '''TH . URS' ,Apy,. 29 ,4863 • to, hope that other nations will be impatient, to,become her allies, to put themselves unctsr her protection, and make her,. the umpire in their diiputes.. - The . practice of mankind in this Mittbr, suggests 'that 'the only'rationil Moans to be e'mployed,in Making friends; is by" exerting every - energy of mita and'body,-andTracti sing every,art of diligence arid tprudence, of, truth, sobriety, a,nd,,religion, to render. ourselves .secure against the accidents time; and, then, for their own sakes, men will not fail to gather around' us, making us doubly great and secure, by the, just and ' willing tribute of their affection and: support. TheAfirst stroke of that consummate poll ey by which Rome attained ,her unrivalled greatness ; was when her founder to supply, her, fewness pf of. turned the city into an asylum, and opened her gates`to_the afflicted and homeless of every tribe 7.4 0 3 seeking protection within her walls, gradual , I incorporated with her - peOple; and thus became the beginning of her increase, and, the foundation of heeptiength.' This is the only direct road to. tine and lasting•great ness. It is a= poor' and fading dignity that is founded in a vicious and idle attendance on the favor of the great. That.is far nobler and surer, that is based upon the gratitude of the poor, to' ihom we have, theopportuni ty. to afford relief; and the" only h ' bnest . means` to advancement; that nature his 'left open to men, is by diligence and integrity, to 'make themselves benefactors to their race;_ pillars against whiCh the Weak :mar lean' for , support;' and sanctuaries where all who are. _pursued by misfortune, may ,find refugefrom their sorrows. S. P. H. THOUGHT'S ON THE WAL Some good has already . come out of 'the' war. It 'is showing tó Judaii'her sins and tolariel her transgressions. • - • Men ivith the, sword in. their hands have gone where without.the sword they could not have gone and told the people theirsins. Before this rebellion we were a happy;pros perous pepple; and the nation had but.two godi—Covetouenees and the love of political preferment . Thb ,road to wealth or to poll , . tical eminence lay open ,to every man and. there was,a general scramble to be.first in the race., • Now God has brought this dark cloud over; us and has., evoked ,the sentiment of Patriot ism and has turned the symphathies of ,this people in a differeni - chapneh And , for this we have reason to be thankful. Patriotisin still liVeS. There is then such a thing as' love of cotintry. — And,""aliVinany* a brave heart which,,' beating':with this sprang to arms now lies cold and still in an unknown grave. Many a mother, who. in spired -with itroffered her son ,uponl thw altar, of hey country now ,rnowns her -lostgh.oy. Andmany a victory has been-gained at rtimes• too when traitor leaders led our brave sob (tiers against, three times their own numher, for the very purpoie of having them :de stroyed. True Patriotism is heard_ lifting its voice to warn the nation against sins--but shall it therefore forsake her in the hour of peril? I may' see-my-boy running towards' a preci- - pice, and if I am his friend I will rebuke him sharply and.call loudly.on him to stop. , But when that boy has plunged over and is cling ing to the crags, shall I exult : over his ruin? Tell him I warned him, and staad by and see him perish ? ' ' But such is the conduct of those who', on , account of the sins Of the Republic would now stand by and seedier perish. True Patriot ism says : " Let the -Republic -/ive e and her errors be reformed. When there-is so much suffering there must be many things :that need to be reformed:" - Civil Government-is God's ordinance, and as he gave it to man he had a <right to make what restrictions he saw fit. Now.Gcd has said, with reference.to our rulers: " Choose out from among yourselves, men of truth, that fear God and hate cov etousness."' And Patriotisin seeks to effect a reform in this particular. God has said that every `knee should bow =to Jesus and' adore 'him <: as Lord. Messiah rules and should be recognized in civil as well as ecclesiastical, matters and Patriotism seeks to effect this. , . , , But4here is one other reform that Patriot-. ism - call&loudly for at, this time. I need not herestop to point out the wrongs, the crimes, the horrors of American slavery. Thisis not necessary in this age of fight. I shall simply call your attention to the fact, that to all its other crimes mist now be added this—that it has lighted the torch' of civil war. It stands chargable to-day with the guilt of all the blood that has been shed during this rebellion. It is this accursed system that has alienated the minds •of eight millions of the citizens or this Renublic, and taught them toliate that flag which' was', first unfurled:over the Declaration -of Inde pendence, representing all the principles that were contained in it. Slavery is the open antagonist of Republicanism. They cannot live together on the same continent. This has been tried to our sorrow—tried in"vain. They never did live together in. peace. Com promise has done its best and failed, as corn promise with wickedness will always fail. Slavery now depends upon the stage an open foe to contest the victory at the point of the bayonet. And in this struggle one or the other must die. When the war is ended either this Republic will lie a, bleeding, mangled corpse, or slavery must be annihil ated. Let the cry of every Patriot be : "Down with - Slavery ! Let it be forever annihilated ! Long live civil and religious Liberty. Long live our Republic !" Rev. J. C. TODD: DR. BURNS ,THomsorr, one of the most valued agents of the Edinburg Medical Mis sion, who was sent out 'to Madagascar IfY the London Missionary Society, his written home that helm been-appointed Court Physician to4he King. He has six young men - under medical and religious. training, - and his dis pensary is conducted on the same principle as in the Medical Mission in the Cowgate of Edinburg ; religious exercises and instruction forming a regular part of his daily work among his patients. . • IN everything let us give thanks. 1040 •f , 140. E4ESIASTICA DNHor 'ENO:00..1" .It'has been'aiSerted-thatlCongregational : ists and Presbyterians; that '4),:lngregational ists and=pßaptists,, andindOctthat all three denominations were moving,towards-Eeele-, siastieal Union •in. -.England.t„This, we think is.altogether too fast for the,faets. Presby i terians are tending to unio . among there selves; lint it is doubtful • ether, they Will soon unite with the dongrek4ortilists: _the latter''limy unite with the ,B4itists, Who are far more liberal in thelandlo Bilityan and of Robert,Hall than in ttha,tlitif Roger Wil liams. :At o; soiree sueeeed* thoinStalla tion of Rev.,iLsr; Edmon Alis i • stor of, one of thnnew ChurehExtension e ; • prises of the U. P. Church in London, It :- ventiAllen: of the Congregational Ch4pel, Islington Lane, delivered ari address ) *, hieh perhaps reveals the true feeling amore men of liberal minds in - the:4e three denominations. ' We * some.' ' t ' * ' * 4 * a. — th give extracts from it ,as ileporte in e Weeklylipino . . •• . ) 4 , _ . "ram 'not .afraid of doctiinal questions which arise from time to time .We'shew lit tle wisdom or faith when we .10ew suchlues tions,, whether in the form ,g ~..gssitys , and Reviews on of disquisitions on 9 Pentateuch,4. at all to affect our equaniMio . , Theonly . thing I regretls that men Of,pupYing . SuCh prominent positions in 'any)iran i ch .1 - 016' Churchshould 'pit forth sueiverude and ir': religious. speculations; and. tfeel more for" them . than I , do of alarm for thertruth: ‘ Moses haS:surrivedrmhily such, anOorse =attacks and I think, •he will ,not be greatly affected by the attack ,now made upon r him. Dr. Ed mond will stand by us, foot tilfo and. ot, anand to hand, in the maintenance of these 'great truthS which thelonger I live the more deep ly I feel to be the life 4:4 , , soul --(Ap plause.) y'' "Ecclesiastically, we differ , Arid,' do not know that this is much - to beilegretted. 'I hope he'ivill, in - every-fair anti manly way, assert his own distinctive principles; I intend; to :.do: so with .mine.;'.and I don't think Rither will be the -worse!, foriliferences - on these points. .1 am not 0,99 of;those ;vidio think it possible or desirable that the Clwrch of Christ. should' be gathered ,into "one gre,at' uniform d Ecelesiasticsystere. ' If I. ha,Ve read history aright, it teaches that, When such' union 'has been Succesifill - to any extent/ precisely to that extent-the ;Church has!: bisiiome narrow,. intblerant r inefficient, and eveir&krupti ".We shall all be better, -therefore ; forvthese 'diver sities of, opinion. It is a capital thing for Nonconformity that we , have an Established Church, although I f think it, wrong inprinci plc ; and it is . good for. the religious life_ of the EStabliShmerit that 'there is a vigorous Nonconformity isy the side of it : There is a remarkable article in the Timeithis - mbrning, in which therefaretwo or thr adinissions thttb-mre-intrio - zpirptoitiatie':;lVltrithything that has appeared lately. • It is .admitted that Dissent is not heretical, that its tendency is to-confirm and not to disturb the truth, and that it has.grown to such a magnitude that the Establishment exists only on sufferance. Things of this sort may well encourage us. For my own part, I seldom make ecclesias ticalallusion. , „ sin the pulpit. Not more than once or twice haVe I alluded to Congregation al principles as such in my own church. If I want to extend them—and I do, I do it , best by laying hold of men's spiritual sympathies >; and if Dr. Edmond wants to extend Presbyte rianism which he ought to do, he will do it precisely in his way. (Hear, hear.) I never call, our own Church a Congregational Church r even.. When I transfer members to this Church, which of course I shall have'to do, the form used will simply be, "From the Church of Jesua Christ worshipping in Union Chapel, Islington." (Applause.) • - Still these differences do exist. The three great principles of the ecclesiastical govern ment which have-obtained the. United Kingdomare—Episcopacy, as manifested by, the established Church; Voluntaryism, as manifeated by the Congregationalists; and Presbyterianism, which, hitherto, has hid its chief Manifestation in .Scotland; We haVe Episcopa,cy arid - Voluntaryism well re.= presented here ; and 1. not the slightest objection to a representation of Presbyter ianism. The churches ; of England are, eccle siastically, the .endowed and the free ; and this classification brings us together in a much closer ;way. Let ,each be but free to choose its own government; and I do not care what government it chooses so long . as it has connected with 'its "own`" discipline a: truly religious life. We have simply to - re-' cognise 'one another as alike -voluntary , churches of Jesus Christ, -depending-on;the power of truth for our existence and exten sion, net asking, to be protected by the civil. magistrate, but asking simply for liberty ,to tell,:-the.people what we have •to say, and to us J• tify if we can the ecclesiastical forms in ; ovhich, we utter and embody it.. 7his we are trying to do. We shall be all the better as Congregationalists for seeing your Presby terian mode of life. There is. sonic extent to which 1 would contend for , . unity. .Dr. Guthrieillintlis address as Moderator',= says of the Free Churchthat thetime has - come when the Free Church and the United Presbyterian, Church ought to be one. (Cheers.) He says, theoretically, he is still an Establishment man, but, practically, he delights in his liber ty so Much that he has no wish to return to, his bondage: I, for one; see no reason why the branches of the Presbyterian Church should not be united into one (cheers), why the different sections in Scotland should not be reunited. into one powerful Free, United Presbyterian Church, and why'the like law should not obtain in England. On the other hand, I see no reason why the Congregation alists and Baptists should not be one. We agree in all theoretical doctrinea, eccle siastical. principles ; we differ simply in' one point of ritual. I never think'of these two great sections of the V,hurch of Christ and of their separation without 'sorrow. So-far I would .contend for union; .1 think it should be effected. But. I do not think Congregationalists and Presbyterians could be one. There must be if compromise of some ecclesiastical principle before they could be one organisation. Either you must 'give up your principle of Presby tery, or we 'our principle .of Congregational independence. lam not prepared to ask you to give up your:principle of Presbytery ; and you are not prepared to ask me to =give up our principle of Congregational liberty. I , ~_.l__ 'think Iliete May be excellencies im botb/sys., 'was, ,aol:that, it will ba necessaq shota: meiPttOli dliotiocti•To to,T4io of c r i nrch „goverp-Er* ply : hick 1011,promote a higher and more., 11;4,11440 unity,; * for we can maintain e ,sliliVtiiii'foinie and yet be one in. heart and sofilin all eViiikelical iffart; live 'together adthriatian biitlikon! • That' 'my ides' of tnie niity in - :the Church. Uniformity never hdpe to see"; Laliould deprecate its true, spiritual,•brotherly unity Ido yearh for, strive for, day-by - da y, and . I thank God it is„ :PTiglz.soi mach ecclesiastical con troversy, there bilges bitterness than : yre hava, seen. heretofore. , , Lbelieve the time will 80011,. 65111e:Wheil shall uArstan d how:to live:: togitlier''as Chriitian brethren,' each maint: - taining his inclividUal cativictihn aid 'his form of' lite; 'bit fecognising otherrasoloassessing they equal: right to.enjoy equal and all ilnfitinepinitiziblinnorretiliritidy: (Loud POLITM3 AND THE ;PULPIT: . . , Tatra religion.should Reryade e yriole of man's being., The Sabbath; ito .o*it, the church, are not its exclusive ,s phere his business and hiapdlities , By politica we underitOid hilftelitiois' to the state: It cannot beladinitted that these arid other :decular interests; as;' they? are 'called,' are:too common; and uncleanfonnontaot With religion, since the broad requirement 'of.the Sciliptute is ,that.whether 3ve eat or drink, or whatever,we 40, we shonld.do all to thezlory of God ; and if political duties and relations are not'to`be - p.ervaded by" the spirit of relig ion, then 'ate 'we invOlvea :in. the practical solecism; that~ there 'is a'large part-of our egisteneewhich is ifebesSarily irreligiotis.;'and still the neeessity is entailed of -a Sufficient numberheing detached, even;in the millennium, to rig and work, the ship of state, arrnugodly..creir, beyond the inspieio.n of all sanctity and,piety, „Mi.!! common . distipption between the secular th i s . religieue is a efiliveiiienee oflipebeh: for cer tain purposes, but it conveys since'in the better genefillizatiOn..cif the lie wTe's tatikerit, i gion coVers-the oWlitiiii; extent of our *being; the countless Varieer of our Intereits and rela tions ; just;as the:sea fills all the bays and inlets and' creeks with its in-flowing waters. PARITSAIF ANTIPATRY:IN"THE PULPAL. It itoill'birremenilleilen'yini4 of our rea ders -that , On "a • Certain yeti' iii•-iidfihy gentle man in Massachusetts, after Qbeifig it :oatidi date,ofthe.Democra ticparwfor ; Governor for twent7 years, was finally:, to. theroffice by a.majoirity of one.votes . ..It will also be re,collected by all,whose early life Tut passed in tliat ',State, ..that the custom whenever the Governor isened his annual pre p aination for thanksgiving, of Fending by the'sheriff of the county a copy of `the 'same, on &large larid-bill; to be read from every Pulpikwhichdocument invariably closed, af ter.the:eigikatAte.:44lle,riogerPori.--Nrith-44) pious exclamatlon, ",God save the Common wealth of .MaseachusetM !" On the. year referred .to the.,newly-electyd magistrate is sueihis 'proclainiiion in the usual form. It isieafir that a'venerable clergyman, of the old paify, laid' the broad sheet over his reading board,' and afterperforthing the professional duty of reciting it, with an ill-disguised 'aver sion, actually announced- the -official signa ture with this' eigiiificafit.:intoni,tiith " Mar cus Morton, Governor T. God eau the Com nionwealth l!ititiaChinsettet PRAYING POLITICS. Rev. Dr. David Ely, of,Huntington, Con necticut, is described as one of the most pru dent, faithful, spiritual pastors of his times. In a season of great political excitement, it Was reported by persons hostile to him that he had preached on political subjects in a neighboring parish. It was thought proper to trace the report to its source. "The neigh boring parish was visited and the inquiry made : " Did Dr. Ely, preach politics when , here ? Yes. What, did , he sa,y,? Well sir, if he did not preach politics, he prayed politi Ps. What did he say ? Say ? he said, 4 Though hand joinin hand, ,yet the wicked shall nob go unpunished'."—Dr. Adanis inthe Ameri can Theological Review. THE LONG PARLIAMENT. THE English nation had been hard to' rouse,: but the day of their•wrath was come. The pent-up indignation of eleven years. rushed on with the ntightpf an Atlantic tide,; and. Thorough went down before it like : a, house built by children in, the sand of the shOre. Yet it is not so much the fervor of righteous vengeance in the statesmen of the Long Parliament which strikes upon the agination, as the wisdcoin and calm intrepidi ty with which iheY directed it "against its objects. They had" formidable enemies to deal with., In reading of the French Revo lution, we are constantlyimpressed with the . feeblonpss of the opposition with which the chiefs of the popular party had, to contend, LOnis XVI. Marie Antoinette, Calonne. Maurepas, Ilenienie de Brienne, were;poor 'creatures, and the triumph of the revolition ists (wirer them shews like a reassatre'of the innocents. But our fathers fought Withraen. Laud, Charles, above all Wentwerth, were no despicable adversaries.. It was a - perilous task to, cope with these. Can anything be more.terribly magnificent than the arrest of Strafford? As we recall the day when Pym made his accusing Speech, and the Commons sat hour after hour until the dread bisiness was accomplished, we 'seem to see a royal eagle poised high in the heavens, and mark an eagle-slayer, planting his foot on a dizzy crag, bending his bow with giant force, taking calm and steady aim, and sendingthe shaft hurtling through the sky. The arrow mounts r strikes,- and in a moment thn.poised wings flutter, and Wentworth sinks like a stone into the abyss. What was the thought which struck along Strafford's brain when his - "proud `glooming countenance" darken ed at the tidings that he' was impeached for high treason ? Was it art the thought that, great as he was, the men against whom, he had measured himself, -11ym, Hampden; and their compatriots were gbler , men thanhe:?— Peter Bayne in thi Weekly Review. DAYS M YEAns.—u swiftly gliding time ! how soon wilt thou be done ? 0 wing ed days and years 1 hOw guickly will you all be run out l. Then the judgment, and the sentence, and the reeompense,.andthe unend ing eternity. 0 mail make 'haste to live while thou livest, lest thou die for ever. THE RELIGIOUS WORLD ABROAD. OTIR January advices bring us . . little of Marked nature in regard to the general pro gress of Christ's Kingdom. Bishop Colenso's Book is still attracting much attention. We believe all the weekly organs of the gpis,co- Church.in ;this country and in England, High Church and Low, agree in repudiating its broad and open infidelity. The faetthat altthe recent changes in the English Bish oprics caused by the death of Sumner, Arch bishop .of Canterbury, have resulted' in 'ele vating men and Biblical scholars of tried and undoubted, fidelity to the .truth, is encoura ging to Christians everywhere. Madagascar continues to be the acknowl edged centre of attention and congratuiation in the whole field 'of foreign missions. Mr. Ellis r aipeal'•for ,$50.000 to build: Memorial, churches ter - the martyrs et 11 - adagescat, made. to the English public - in December, had been responded to by the first of the year, to half that amount. GREAT BRITAIN. THE • LANCASHIRE DISTRESS.—The pa tience and excellent, behiitiour of the slit ferei* Lancaehire .are truly marvelouS. it is conduct quite as unexpected, as IS the sntinissiVe iferaeanor of the slaVes in the SoUth, during ;the agitatiting of civil war and the prospects of their` liberation The Lan pashire operatives know-what is the 'meaning of our mar' and what is its bearing on the fu ture of the , working-classes all over the world. Some of them are reported to have said :-,-- We don't mind ,suffering a bit' if it helps to free the slaves." Marc wonderful perhaps than the steady, and;peaceable "demeanor of these men; iethe vastness the Contributions made in the British'Einp . ire for'their relief. On Satur day, Dec. -27th, Mr. Gladstone declared `that the pnblic and general subscriPtions -had amounted Ito= X 1.200.000, nearly six mil lions.of bur . money ; and that an additional amount of X 300,000, might .confidently-be expected. , Less ..than than half the amount actu ally raised had as yet been expended, and Mr. GladstOne said they might look foriard' with; cheerfulneii,'in the abseiace of any hew and fgreat calamity, to the remainder ofthe winter. How much More befitting a great Christian nation is this Method of meeting a Providential difficulty, than it would have been forcibly to interfere in the troubles of our nation, engage in = a war for a cause which would have estranged her own work ing classes from her, and expend forty times as much money with a very uncertain pros pect of ~'reaping any, practical benefit. The belligerent demonstrations indulged in, for the salA of Mason and Slidell, cost far' more than has , yet been raised for the Lancashire sufferers by subscription. 1 1 1; revival niaovement has been again m`i kiniremarkable . progress in Buckle, and in - zanyttrier*lrilingesi in 'Banffshire; North— Of Scotland. The excitement and the' prostra tions have been as marked and as extensive as when the movement commenced three years ago. The meetings are chiefly held by,a few young lads belonging to the place, but have also been addressed by two of the lo cal clergymen, who are prudentlydesirous of pfirging the movement of all pernicious ex cesses. Still further north, in several parts of the Shetland'lsles, a religious movement of a remarkable and hopeful charieter is &till in 'progress. Or. Adler, the chief Jewish Rabbi in Lon don, has written a letter of considerable weight in the Athen,eum,to digprove some of the deduotions of Bishop Coleus°. Protesting Msions in Ireland have been , conducted as zealously as ever during'. the past year, and the mission forces - are even More 'concentrated, Colportage hai been greatly extended, and will soon cover 'the entire of the south and west:;.an agency pe auliarlysuited Co spread-the truth in Ireland. There-has been much church extension; among all bodies of Christians, perhaps most among the Presbyterians. There have been im portant changes in the Episcopate, and the new bishops haie been cordially hailed by all Christian men. Altogether, the Protes tant Church is in a healthy and vigorous state. The Romish Church has shown quite as, much vitality in its own direction., 131- tramontane views are more common, and bitter, and rooted. The relation between, priest and people is stronger ; the dominion of Dr. Cullen more imperious. Yet there are whisper.s . of dissensions from his rule, of jealousies, 'and possibly independent opposi tion. Dr:*Cullen pursues his plan of isola ting,the Irish Romanists from the Protestant people of England. The last result of this policy*, to.. hinder contributions going from Ireland to the tancashire operatives. Sev eral riots have taken place where subscrip tions were 'attempted to be opened, and the liberal Bishop Moriarty of Kerry, was ac tually hooted from the stand in Tralee by his , own people for proposing a contribution to this object. FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND. 'An Anti—Popish Literature of great di mensions and circulation is growing up in Paris. The correspondent of the News of the Churches says, Dec. 29th, 1862. " Thousands of the Illonita Seereta Societatis Jesu, translated, have been sold daily in Paris, and are permeating the readi.ng public all over. France, creating nausea and disgust against the. Society, which creep,s into houses and leads captive silly women laden with gold and Sins, ad majo2.enz Woriant Dei. The hies, aims, and diplomatic deeds of the Popes are displayed with the minutest.bear able detail, and in the boldest possiblelorm, in journal and pamphlet. < The misdeeds of monks, priests, and cloistered and,other com munities, in rapacity and vow-breaking, are set in full glare of publicity. Supersti tions and shameful relics are dragged into daylight" " Government Interference. 7 —For a year past there has been an interesting prayer-meeting among poor working-people in a rural district of Paris; it never:exceeded twenty, and was much prized by'the humble attendants. It was denounced to the police as a clandestine society for politics; the cure mentioned it as such in the pulpit, and the ~tradesman in whose room it was field was summoned by the coramilaary, who advisedbina to,close it immediately. The: street was, filled:by police agents, and tbe:rnodestdittle prayer-meeting thus came to an end. GENESEE EVANGELIST.---Whole No; 871. Proteettp*A,fo, the Siouth of France, as in Geneva, has included not a few radical semi-infidel elementk, calling theinseltes "liberal," in its organisation. A. separation has xecently taken place, in the pastoral conference of Gard, on account of the out spoken tone recently taken by tlte " liberals," and the orthodox members have already ,or ganized a Society for evangelization.: . This event , will no doubt result in' goad - in cause. of truth< which will hencefdith",be of very einbarfassingassociationi. • Signs' of Progr4s.—Regular services hive recently been establialted by the Proiestants at Albr(wheitce the - Albigenses), a new pas tor's appointment has been established by the Government at :Crest, in Drome, where there is an evangelical preacher, at dangnac anew: church,has been dedicated, Also orke Veircnks (Isere..)- And..what, is-the.most gratifying circumstance in,the inauguration, of this new place of worship is, that the con gregation which will there assemble hence fOrth to hear the preaching of the gospel, his been almost entirely brought over from Catholicism—thanks to the faithful and per severing labors of the paitor of Grenoble, assisted by an evangelist, who is, supported by. the Evangelical. Society at Geneva. • The new Constitution of Geneva has been defeated; the :Papistst voting with the Radi cals against , the - Protestants to secure that end. The proposed Constitution would have put an end to the shameful, system under which Geneva has sixteen years been. bowed ; it Would ? above all things, have absolutely 'destroyed the dictatorial power of M. Fazy, and have necessitated the closing of his gambling-house, on which he' insists even more, on account of the profits which he draws from it, than he does on 'the political authority. ' - ALL Paesaglia forbidde to preach in Milan.— The government of Italy may have done exactly the right and - wise thing in dis couraging Garibaldi's revoliltionary move ment, but its treatment of Passaglia, as below recited, is simply contemptable. " Those individual members of the Romish eleygy who have ta,ken the side of the Italian government, and contended for the abolition of the Tope's temporal dominion, have met no'hearty support from the Ministry, amid the troubles into 'which their patriotism has 'brought them. Passaglia's treatment the other day at Milan is an instance of this. The Provost of 'San Carlo al Corso, one of the largest parishes in. Milan, having ascer tained that there ;was no disability in the way of Passaglia's preaching, engaged him to preach the ceurse of sermons for the pre sent a,avent. The first was attended by a crowd.that filled the large church to suffoca tion, though his presence in Milan was not known until-he appeared in the pulpit. Mon signor Caccia, the ,Vicar-General, acting as .Bishop i ,interdicted- =his , preaching in: San Carlo, the Provost insisted that he had the right, and applied to the Prefect to main tain his rights against the Bishop ; but instead of doing so, the Prefect telegraphed to Turin for orders from the Ministry, and the Ministry sent an agent of police to en deavor to dissuade Passaglia from appear ing again at-Milan. As he declined obeying anything but a positive order, however, he was at last forbidden by the authorities to fulfil hi's preaching engagement." Protestant; Institutions. —The Institute began more than a year ago under the auspices of Dr. Di Sanctis and Professor Mazzarella, at Genoa, for training evange lists from among those who have had no college education, had been already closed. The college at La Tour has received from an English lady, who will not let her name be known, the splendid gift of £2OOO, the interest of which is to be expended on small bursaries of £5 each, to aid poor scholars, thus: supplimenting what Dr. Gilly and Gen. Beckwith did in this way. GERMANY Dr: F. Srummacher writes an inter esting letter to the last News of the Churches, giving a summary view of the religious state of Germany during the year. We give some extracts: "A most decided spirit of anti-Christianity on the one hand, a most perfect indifference to, religion on the other, are now, alas ! of such dimensions in our people, as to make us fear greatly for the. results. But fortunately there is no lack of a strenuous, and, as we doubt not, a victo rious reaction against the negative theories of the time, while the banner of faith is held up from far the greatest number of the pul pits of our church and chairs of our universi ties, and a better spirit strives to force its way, in well-managed seminaries and even in elementary schools. . . The Gustav- Adolf Union has,, for about ten years, been of very important and still continuing in fluence, not although, but because it tests on no settled confessional base. It is an un questionable fact that there lives in the Ger- . man people an ardent zeal for all that furthers the common, good, and this union affords those who have separated themselves from positive Christianity an opportunity to bear a part in the intellectual and moral elevation and ennobling of the people. Thousands support this union, only because the object -Which it' has in view, consisting, as it does, in giving assistance to those isolated members of the evangelical church whoulive in the thick of a Roman Catholic population, finds an echo' in their hearts in their antipathy to , Romanism. The faithful, who at first stood 4istrustfully aloof from the union, have thought, the more it progressed in its work, that they _would not be justified in withdrawing from it their active sympathy, since they perceived that the building of chuithes and schools was its sole obj'ect, and that all influence on the teaching and general culture flowed from another quarter. In point of fact, the pure' and unencumbered gospel is preached in these so-called Gustav- Adolf churches ; and =in the meetings, of the union too, many testimonies of belief have already been, mentioned, which far outweigh those that <:, of the old or new Rational firm" ' ' The King of Hanover rescinded his order- to introduce the new catechism, and generally leaves the question to the option of every congregation t The strife now-a dAya is far more violent against the pure evangelical views contained in these new hooks, 'than in' former times _Against the neologies' views.
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