Vol. VII, No. 28.---Whole No. 340. toJetv4. Lethe. A slim) and a forgetting" is this birth? Thou what is life but a forgetting too ? Where are our playmates of the, early earth, Our childhood's love, our faith in heaven's blue ? Year after year dark Lethe's wave Washes us onward to the grave. Thief of the Fiefdom Past, relentless stream, Thy rising mists ebsure the morning light, The cloud-banks of thy whelming currents seem To steal the stars of memory from the night. As Ono by oae they disappear, Like music , dyino , from the ear. If death, indeed, be a prefouncler sleep, A deeper plunge in thy effaeina. tide, What hope is there on yonder bank to, keep A recollection of the other side? If all things are made new, I weeny We cease to know that we have been. Give me another creed, and let me dream That the old faces will not pass away. 801 l back, dull Lethe, lot me see the gleam Of the returning dories of the day; Let the old loves, behind the veil, And the old fancies, never fail. It may be so : for, as with drowning men, Who strive with agonies of reviving sense, And, in a moment, live their lives again, So death may bring a vision more intense Of what we were and may attain Beyond the world•encireling main. It must be so : the form alone can change; Hidden beneath the crust of Lathe's foam, The heart awakens to a wider range, And brings the Past from echoing caverns home. Roll on, thou scornful river, roll, Thou must not wash away the soul. --Spectator. J. N. torropondAtzt. ESCAPING FROM SLAVERY. NUMBER FOUR. THE prevalent spirit of the nation is also to be compared with the spirit of the Bible. Much allowance is to be made for the fact that the nation has found itself obligated by a definite provision in its fundamental law, which could not be repudiated, though found in practice to work a degree of hardship and cruelty which cannot have been anticipated by the framers of that admirable instrument. But can we even claim that the people, as a whole, have felt that cruelty, or cared for it, as they should ? There has been a degree of earnestness, on the part of multitudes, In demandin the ex tremest rigor in executing the provisions -.of the Fugitive Slave law, which many of the same persons have not shown for the enforce ment of laws designed to preserve order, and protect virtue and good morals, in their own communities. The escape or rescue of a fugitive from servitude, has by many been accounted far worse than the escape or res cue of a criminal. Communities in which the execution of no other law ever meets serious resistance, in which life, and proper ty, and feeble innocence are more safe, with less police force, than anywhere else in the world, have been loudly denounced as law less and rebellious, because they have made it odious for any among them to accept the extraordinary offices established for the eye t' cutle of this law ; and have endeavored by 'the exercise of their local authority, to pro tect their own residents from seizure under false claims, which the ex parte procedure under this law rendered so probable. Worst of all, there has been extensive ac quiescence in the demand that fugitives from slavery shall be regarded, and treated, and delivered up, not simply, as the Constitution requires, as persons held to service or labor, under the laws of the state from which they have fled, but absolutely as property, like st'ray. animals 1. God be praised that the nation was not fully and irrecoverably committed to this wicked exaggeration of the constitutional provision ; and that there has been so much of kind and humane feeling towards the vic tims of oppression, even where that feeling has agenized> with the conviction that there was no lawful way to help them. Still, it must, we think, be admitted that, throughout all our communities, (the non-slaveholding as, well as the slaveholding,) there is, and has always been ' a great lack of that sym pathising regard for these unhappy persons, which would naturally arise from the full re cognition of their human brotherhood with us. In nci way is this more offensively shown, in nortliettatommunities, than in the insane horror, leettaeate of the people escaping from slavery, sitoal4 come ' and dwell among them, " in the place whichthey shall choose," ac cording to the Mosaic statute, "where it liketh [or suits] them best." How humili ting is it to see that, northern editors, and northern advocates of emancipation, and even the President, in his persuasive and paternal appeals to the people, feel them selves obliged to insist that there is no dan ger of the colored people migrating north ward 1 One would almost think that the northern people, though freely offering all their wealth and all their blood, for the pre servation of the National Union, would hesi tate to accept its salvation, by means of the enfranchisement of four million slaves, unless first they can have security that none of these freed people will exercise their liberty, in lawful competition with their labor, or by choosing peaceably to reside, in their neigh borhoods. Oan it be that this is the prevail ing disposition of the northern people ? I will not believe it. The violent haters of the colored people multiply their voices, in their noisy outcry.;The quiet men and gen tle women, who reflect that liberty is the same to colored people as to white, are more nu merous than the politicians think ; and God's fearful chaitisement, and His sublime provi dence are rapidly increasing their number. There is reason to hope that the national mind is feeling the beginning of repentance; that the national heart is chanaing. Si. Louis, Mo.°H. A. N. TEE holy 4ift of assurance is the reward, as an. ohl divine e,xpressen. of " exact walking." CHURCH CHOIRS AM) SINGING Lam persuaded that to have appropriate and effective music in the sanctuary is one of the most difficult matters with which the church and ministry are called to contend. No one seems to doubt or deny tint to praise God in Zion, with the voice of melody, is a most solemn and delightful part of religious worship. It is specially emphasized in the history both of the Jewish and Christian Church. One of the most delightful portions of the Word, is made up of the " Psalms," once familiarized in the courts of the Lord, and. poured forth in strains of liquid melody by the thousands of the sweet singers of Israel. But while all are ready to confess the value and power of church music, there are many who are not so able to realize it in their particular churches. Good singing is an admirable part of re ligious worship, but how to secure it is, at least, a very difficult thing. Probably there is no part of the services of the sanctuary so uniformly defective and poorly rendered as praise to God in sacred song. Perhaps there is nu part about which so different opinions prevail as to the manner and style in which it should be performed. Complaint is often made that the pulpit is dull and prosy. But if it is dull it may still be in harmony with truth, which is far more than can always be said of the organ and the choir. The clergyman who has a grain of music or musical taste in his composition and Who can preach eloquently and effectively, against the influence of ill-timed, inharmonious screeching from the opposite extremity of the sanctuary, must be regarded as a very remarkable man. And he who, after preach ing the Gospel of Salvation with all the en ergy of his nature, sits down to hear the jar ring and discordant strains of the choir, as they well nigh neutralize the effect of his sermon, is, to say the least, a very patient man if he does not go home wishing the choir instituted abandoned. If J. were to specify any reasons why we hear so little really good church music, I should say the. radical one is that there is generally a very feeble and defective idea of what sacred music ought to and what place it is designed to fill. A very common and yet grossly wrong view is, that choir per formances are for. attractive exhibition, to bring the crowd, fill the pews, and. make the chur'ch service popular. Another and . :almost insuperable obstacle in the way of good church music is, that the church in general - have seemingly very little interest in the subject farther than to com plain if the singing is not to their taste. Singers are. proverbially sensitive, and hence to find fault with them is to derange or " break up " the choir. Parents have too little care that their chil dren be trained to sing, and hence the mate rial of which-to make a good choir, is not to be found. All this is surely an evil under the sun. lam often oppressed, as others doubtless are, with the thought that so im portant and delightful a part of the services of Zion is so greatly neglected throughout our church. It is an element of power that we fail to use. PASTOR. • 'dation, REV. EDWARD ROBINSON, D.D., LLD. ANY careful reader of our college cata logues and biographical dictionaries must be aware that according to the common order of nature, we are near a memorable term of our literary history, and that a large number of our notable scholars and statesmen are reach ing the threescore and ten years which are set forth as the allotted period of human life. Dr. Robinson was just upon the threshold of this term, and we are startled at the thought of how thany noted then, whose names are household words throughout the land, must ere long follow him. We w ill not darken our page by anticipating these obituaries, but will record, as simply and truthfully as we can, our tribute to his life, labors, and worth. Dr. Robinson was born at Southington, Conn., April 10, 1794, and left Hamilton College, New York, in 1816, to serve as tu tor there for a year after his graduation. He remained at Clinton, prosecuting his studies, till 1821, when he went to Andover, Mass., to publish an edition of the Iliad which he had edited. Whilst at Andover, he studied Hebrew, and corrected the proof-sheets of Prof. Stuart's Hebrew Grammar. He thus began the association with Prof. Stuart which had so much to do with his subsequent career ; joined him in translating some text-books from the German, took charge of his class in his absence, and was finally appointed assis tant instructor. He remained at Andover till 1826, when he sailed for Europe, and spent four years in travel and study—mainly in Germany. In 1830 he returned to Andover, and held until 1833 the office of professor ex traordinary of sacred literature and librarian, which he then resigned to reside in Boston. In 1837 he was appointed professor of Biblical literature in the Union Theological Seminary of the city of New York, and before entering upon this office, he made his memorable voy age to Palestine with Rev. Dr. Eli Smith, and began the survey Which has given him such fame. He was at his new post in New York in 1840, and continued there till his death, with a few interruptions from ill health, and from his second visit to Palestine in 1852. His works have been many, but far more marked by value than by number, and some of them have made an era in sacred literature. His translation of Buttmann's Greek Gram mar, his Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament, his Harmony of the Four Gospels, in. Greek and in English, his edition of Calmet's Biblical Dictionary, and his translation of Gesenius's Hebrew Lexicon, in addition to his noted Biblical Researches in Palestine and the adjacent countries, embody an amount of labor unsurpassed if equaled in the annals of American scholarship. f He did not allow his scholastic studies to glint him out of the world, but was in constant and active relations with the men and affairs of the age, as is full; shown in his connection with the American Oriental, Geographical, Ethnological, and Historical Societies, and his supervision of The Biblical Repository, the well-known theological quarterly, edited by him from 1831 to 1834 and afterwards united by him with The Radio - theca Sacra, and edited for a year in New York by him. PHILADELPHIA, THU We have given this brief and dry catalogue of his works rather in order to make our re cord truthful than to do justice to his literary life, which only a careful inspection of his labors can begin to do. For a man of scho lastic habits, his career was considerably diversified in the fields of his study and the breadth of his social experience. The recluse student went from his quiet home in a Con necticut village to the great centers of lite rary and historic interest, and in Palestine and Germany he carried out the studies which he began at Clinton, Andover, and Boston, and completed at New York. He was twice married, first at Clinton to a daughter of the missionary, Rev. S. Kirkland, who died in 1819, and the second time to Miss Theresa A. L. von Jacob of Halle, who has joined her own literary honors to her husband's. His recent visit to Germany, unavailing as it was, for the recovery of his health and the restoration of his eyesight, was fall of tributes to his fame and comfort to his affections. The great scholars of Germany were eagei to take him by the hand, and even the -vener able Lepsius departed from his fixed rnle of seclusion, and day after day sought the American scholar's society; whilst other re nowned Orientalists, such as Kiepert, Wet stein, and the like, seemed to revel in his presence. Charming evening hour of a life that was so soon to set in the night shadows ! Let us not say that the faithful scholar is without his reward, nor think that they only are sought and honored who have riches to leave or rank to bestow. Dr. Robinson was a marked and original man, yet he did not open readily the fullness , of his mind or heart either to strangers or to friends. He had a reserve in his manner that seemed more in his temperament than his purpose, and he seldom gave full flow to his, feelings or - even to his convictions. A man of work, lie was somewhat impatient of many words, and made no secret of his dis like of persons who are everlastingly talking, and expecting the public to hang upon their lips. Yet he had decided opinions upon all subjects, and in a few sentences he brought his massive common sense to bear upon the matter in question. He was undoubtedly the less communicative because he took little in terest in extreme opinions on any subject, and seemed to put almost out of his mind the ingenuities of fancy and subtleties of specu lation that fill so large.a place, in the popular literature, and even in the prevailing theology. Thus, in Biblical criticism, he had little to say of conflicting opinions, but went directly to the real meaning of the text, and was far -more pleased with commentators like De. Wette and Meyer, who try to show what the author really meant, than with such theo logians as Hengstenberg and Olthausen, who are bent upon showing what he ought to mean. As a philologian and lexicographer he be longed to the critical, realistic school of Ernesti and Gesenius, and he studied Greek and Hebrew, just as he would study French or German, to know what were the roots of the words, what their changes and ultimate meaning, and what their grammatical con nection. As a theologian, he was little given to speculating or even to philosophizing, and even on a subject so central and controverted as the nature of God, he preferred to stand upon the New Testament positivism to soar ing upon the wings. of the Athanasian theo suphy. He paid supreme worship to God in Christ, but, like Moses Stuart, he regarded Christ as Son of God from the incarnation of the Word or Logos in him, and not from any theory of the eternal generation of the Son. He employed the usual language of the pre vailing theology in speaking of the depravity of man and the need of divine grace, but -loved rather to rest in the words of the New Testament than to dispute in the arena of controversial divinity. lie treated the lands of the Bible very much as he treated its lan guage, and took a somber satisfaction in brushing away the rubbish of tradition from the Holy Land as he had brushed away the cobwebs of superstition and cant from the Holy Book. The monks and ecclesiologists owe him, a great grudge, therefore, for his geographical labors ; whilst the lovers of truth and honesty respect him as the great reformer of Scripture geography—the Luther of a new movement to rescue the country of Isaiah and David, our Lord and his diseiples, from priesteraft, and to bring the lands and the language of the Bible home to the heart of the Christian and the keeping of the univer sal church. There was a great deal of New England pluck in the idea and the execution of his work on Palestine, dad no Yankee adventurer every ventured a bolder deed in a manlier spirit. To go in search of the North Pole was a commonplace enterprise in comparison with the daring of the reserved American scholar who set his face toward Jerusalem to let daylight, in upon its hallow ed places, and to put to flight the specters that had so long haunted the sacred walks, vales, and hills, frightened mailed knights out of their senses, and learned professors out of, their wits. How much is thought of Dr. Robinson's researches in Palestine is, obvious enough from the fact that all subsequent wri ters quote him ; 'and they who assail him the most bitterly, honor him more by their feal.s of his power than they could possibly do by admiration of his service. Dr. Robinson was .an incessant student; he burned no midnight oil, but studied by the morning lamp, unwilling to wait for the tardy sun to rise, and firm in the faith that the early hours of the day bring the scholar his best strength, and the thinker his freest inspirations. He has' studied his tasks not for himself alone, but for us all, and the whole church of Christ. When least they think it, coming students and devotees will use his labors, as they who worship in a tem ple use, though they may know it not, the foundation-stones that long ago were hidden under ground out of sight of the painted window and the carved screen that'so fasci nate the gaze. Edward Robinson has placed a solid rock under the temple of sacred learn ing that shall stand through all time. He was a plain man in speech and hear ing, and not fond of grand generalizations, nor given to ambitious vision, yet his unos tentatious labors have connected him with the drama of ages, and written his name on the pathway of civilization - in its Western career from Asia through Europe to us. Mo dern - history is the record of the union be tween Shen) and Japhet, or the, piety of the Shemitic race with the science and vigor of the Indo-Germanic race. Perhalis Cyrus pre pared the way When he stormed the gates of Babylon with his Aryan or Indo-Q-ermanie scimitar; and the handwriting on the wall of Belshazzar forebodia not only that despot's doom, but the emt(ncipation of the Jewish mind by contact With the Europe which Alexander, the follower of Cyrus, under God's providence, and the great Indo-Ger manic conqueror, was soon to throw open. to Asia and Egypt. Paul the, apostle comple ted the alliance, and his Gospel has mated the Greek and the Hebrew languages togeth er forever, and made Japhet to d.well in the tents of Shem, thefaith of Asia to quicken and exalt the intellect of Europe. Shall we not ascribe to our" great Orientalist some share in carrying ott in our New World this great design of Providence, and innurturing the rising mind of Ameriea upon. the riches of Hebrew piety affirl Greek n science, by ope ing the treasures of the lands and the lan guages of the Bible to us all ? He has helped on the alliance bet enthe Oriental and He brew mind in Ame ca ; nor has he scorned the hope, now so stiong in many . ,,o . us, that. slighted Africa mm have ve her"- fit` in' ifie good work and its reward, by adding to our temper the, heart of love, the ready charity, without which all =faith and knoWledge are vanity. Habitually conservative in his thought and speech, averse to popular agitation, the Oriental scholar started to his feet with the people when the nation was assailed by a banded despotism, and he crowned the oath olicity of his devout thoughts and ethnologi cal studies by advocating the abolition of slavery as the only safeguard of our liberty and our law. When. Asia, Europe, and Af rica combine to bless and strengthen Ameri ca, and make her the Old World's queenly heir, his name should not be forgotten.--4n dephn.clent. . • THE PRINCETON REVIEW ON THE PROCLAIIIATION. From the article on the war in the last number of the Princeton Review we extract the most, of what 4,i* said on the Emancipa tion F'roclamationt--premising thatwe go far ther than the writer, inasmuch as we be lieve it to' be both immoral and absurd to restrict the President's military or civil au thority to the districts only in which it is aeknowlegeil. That authority extends, in the sight of God, over the whole country of which he is the rightful ruler. Mr. Lincoln and he alone is the rightful President of the unsub clued parts of South Carolina, as well as of Pennsylvania; as,well as of the conquered portions of Arkansas ' North and South Car olina and Georgia, Florida and Louisiana. Hence we 'regard his edicts as equally valid in one as in another of these , sections of the country, whatever. •difficulties there may be in carrying them into effect; or even though the possible success of the rebellion may render them utterly unavailing in the un conquered section. With these qualifications, we must ' express our gratification at the fa vorable atitucle of this impoytaht organ of opinion towards tli PFoclamation. We give place to the extract. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. The above principles apply to the emanci pation of slaves. If the President, as comman der-in-chief, or his subordinates, may, in time of war, and in case of pressing necessity, ap propriate the property of the enemies of the country, why not their property in slaves ? They claim slaves as property; they have a recognised and legal title to their labour ; on the proceeds of that labour, they live ; by it they are enabled to carry on this war for the overthrow of the government. There seems to be no reason why this peculiar kind of property should be exempt from the opera tion of the laws of war. If the rebels con fiscate or sequstrate, without any pretence of military necessity, not only hundreds of millions of mercantile debts due to northern men, but the immense amount owned by them in southern banks and railroads, they at least should not complain of the applica tion of strictly war principles to themselves. As, however, this emancipation of the slaves is declared to be a war measure, founded on " military necessity," it must, as before said, be limited by that necessity, and by the na ture of the President's authority as comman der-in-chief.. Both of these, limitations are essential. The, President has no authority to liberate a single slave, except on the ground of military necessity. If that neces sity exists, the right exists, and to tie ex tent and no further, that the exigency de mantis. This is conceded. Men may differ as to what "military necessity," in this mat ter, at the present moment does require, but they must admit that nothing can be rightfully done which the present emergency does not demand. The right to emancipate slaves can not extend beyond the military necessity for such emancipation. This we understand to be the 'President's doctrine. The other lim itation is no less important. The President's power to emancipate is a military power. It belongs to him ,as the head of the army. But the authority of a general is executive, and not legislative. Ile cannot make : laws, to be permanently. binding. He acts for the pre sent, and for pressing emergencies. The President does not pretend to be a dictator. He does not 'assume the right to enact new laws, or to 'overturn the institutions of the country. He speaks in his character of mil itary officer, and assumes to do only what lies legitimately 'within his military authori ty. * * * He may, as commander-in chief, issue an order to his subordinates in the navy and army to regard and treat as freemen all the slaves within their respective commands, or who may seek refuge within their lines. What is more than this, must be legally void, and practically inoperative. The .President's authoritiy, at the present time, is no more regarded in South Carolina than that of the governor of New Jersey. Until that State is occupied by our armies, a proclamation of emancipation from the for mer can have no more effect than one issued by the latter. * * * We have no idea that ono intelligent man in ten, ..or the Pro sident himself, believes that he can legally ordain the permanent abolition of slavery - throughout the United States.. His procla ,mation can only operate as instructions to his subordinates to regard and treat all slaves who come within their power as free men. This is a vast deal, and may produce a radical change in the state of the country. With this, conscientious men loyal to the Constitution, ought to be contented. The right, in the long run, is always the most ef fective. Iv we' ould have anything good or useful, we must earn, it. tz- A.Y:'. AT:0;M: A,. 1863. MUS . Music is undoubtedly' one the symbols of thought ; an art-symbol, possessing a power peculiar to itself. Its sphere is over the emotions. It is the natural vehicle of senti ment, and therefore of poetical ideas. Its scope is wide and free, though always within the rigid limitations of law. It is generally thought to be the most spiritual of all the arts, as entering, more than any other, into the purest spirit of worship. A good author ity has pronounced it "the most sensuous of all the arts." We conceive it to be both sensuous and, spiritual. Its power over the tender, gentle, superficial feelings is greater than that of statuary or painting. Its im pressions are probably as lasting ; for sensa tion through the ear is more a unity than that produced through the eye. Music has also the advantage of utterance in words, and thus connects l itself permanently, with the thoughts-atidvassithis. It ling thOthie of domestic love, kindles patriotic ardors; weaves together, by the mysterious threads of association, memory, consciousness, affection, hope; bears the soul to high devotion, sof tens or enraptures the heart-- "Knit with the threads of life forever, " • By those dread powers that weave the woof; Whose art the singer's spell can sever? Whose breast has mail to music proof? So to die bard a wand of wonder The herald of the gods has given— He sinks the soul the death-realm under, Or lifts it breathless up to heaven— Half sport, half earnest, rocking , its devotion Upon the tremulous ladder of emotion ! " But it is for sculpture and painting, in their highest excellence, to speak most pro foundly to the soul. We know there is mu sic deeper than what we . bear. It has its ideal, like the other arts. But its dominion is over the livelier emotions. Like paint ,ing, it may be comic as well as tragical. Sculpture deals best, we may say, only with the serious, calm, "grand. It is, therefore, better fitted for ..memorials. Its material, like the past, is changeless. The hymn sung at the funeral of a child, will ever and anon recur to the family, causing' the bosom to swell and the eyes to brim ; but the marble bust of a little hand—offering the form of , life with the hue of Eleath—has a voice, si lent, deep, mighty. The tender and the aw ful are blended, there. We feel like touch ing the symbol of departed but are checked by the thought—" Thou art so near, and yet so far."—Synzbals of thought by Rev. E .E Adams. WONDERFUL SELF-CONTROL. THE Church. Journal says of the Episco pal denomination, that " with three trifling exceptions, there has'been a total abstinence from the passing of political resolutions of any sort during the whole terrible fermentation since the fall of Fort Sumter—an indomita ble degree of self-control, the like of it would he hard to find anywhere, and im possible to find in any other body of Chris tians as large and influential as [Protestant Episcopal] Church in this country." Self control, indeed !- The country has been passing through the severest trial it could suffer, has been struggling for its life, has contended against the most formidable conspiracy the world has ever seen, has load ed itself down with an enormous , debt, has shed the blood of hundreds and thousands of its, best and bravest sons, has made sacrifices which two families out of three will feel for a generation . ; and yet in all this,conflict of truth, right ; order; law, honor, freedom, and civilization against treason, rebellion, perju ry, fraud,_slavery, and barbarism, a conside rable body of Christians has been neutral, has shown no sympathy with the Govern ment, has expressed no opinion on the sub ject, but stood as far off as the priest and Levite did from the robbed and beaten Jew; and the world is called .to admire this as "self-control." It-looks tows more like dis loyalty, or poltroonery, or a cold and selfish disregard of the sacred. duties which men in all capacities owe to a rightful government. —Christian intelligencer. REVIVAL IN FALL RIVER, RHODE ISLAND. A morning prayer-meeting has been sus- tabled uninterruptedly for five years in. Fall River, thought the state of religion there has been low, but now the city is blessed with a great refreshing from the Lord. The inter est commenced with the "week of prayer," early in January. The meetings were con tinued, and the second and third weeks in the month witnessed a large number of con versions. Sunday, Feb. Ist, is spoken cf as a day long to be remembered. A Corres pondent of the Independent, under date of Feb. sth, writes: The friends of Christ stand amazed in view of this r wonderful work of God. God is in our midst. In six or seven of the, churches, the Lord appears in his glory, by the power of his Spirit, and the glorious work is spreadiria ° from heart to heart, fret°. church to church, and to neighboring towns. Religious interest seems tciprevacle the whole city, in shops, places of business, factories ; and whenever people meet, this work of the Lord is the theme, and deep solemnity seems to prevail. The work is attended with remarkable *3- monstrations as the work of God—showing what his almighty power can do for the most hopeless. Strong men bow themselves, "the tall oaks are prostrated," men far gone in sin, error, and infidelity awake to spiritual life, and declare what - God hath done for their souls—putting the weakness of Chris tian faith to shame. The glorious work is still advancing.A correspondent of the'Providence Journal writes : "It is the most quiet, orderly, and unobtrusive, and at the same time the most deep, thorough and aggressive in its opera tions, of any religious interest . with whose history I have ever been acquainted. A very large proportion of the converts are males. AR the male members of the high school, except eleven., are among those who give evidence of a change of - heart, and of this latter number several are irignirers. In one of the . churches the entire choir are num bered among the converts." tc WIIATEVA ,71 says Sir James Stephen, "may haveibeen the faUlts, or whatever the motives of the Protector, theie can be no doubt that under his sway. England witnessed a diffusion, till then unknown, of the purest influence f genuine religious principles." THE BLIND CITY MISSIONARY IN CIN- CINNATI. From the twentieth Annual Report of Rev. Horace Bushnell, the blind city missionary, sustained:by the ladies of the Second Church, (Dr. Thompson's) the Herald and Recorder extracts the, following incidents : Leaving the omnibus one day, and feeling for the side-walk with my staff, a woman's Voice inquired, " Are you blind, sir ?" "Quite blind." Well here's the side-walk; but can you guess where you are ?" ""Yes; at the corner of and streets." "Well, you .are good at -guessing ; but can you tell me why God has deprived you, a, holy man, of sight, and left me, a drunken sinner, with my eyes ?" " Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Thy sight." " Yes, He may be your Father, but he is not mine.' " Have we not all one Father ? Hath not one God created us all ?" " One God created nebtitl am -fiow an-enemy and not a -child." It may be so, yet; through the blood of Jesus they who were sometime alienated, and enemies through wicked works, become recon piled to God."' It may be you would be of fended if I offered to lead you over this rough place ?" Now Simon, the Pharisee, said silently in my heart, if this man were of God, he would know what manner of woman that is that toucheth him, for she is a sinner ; but the seene of Bethany was present, and I said, I will not be offended ; take my arm.' ;She did so, saying, Thank God ! thank God !' 'For what ?' That I may, guide the feet of one of his servants, for I am not fit to touch the hem, of his garment. I had a brother once, and he was a minister of God, like you.' She was weeping. The hearse passed before us. She said, You can't see that ?' ' No, what is it ?' That is the pauper's carriage. Even we drunken pau pers ride home in that, when life ends.' To what home ?' The grave.' Is the grave a sinner's home'?' Would to God it were; then I would have hope of rest, at least.' Have you no hope ?' No hope Their worm dieth not, and their fire is not quench ed.' But you should hope.' Why should • I hope ? God is go(id 1' But I have abused His goodness. God is merciful !' have despised his mercy.' But God is love For a short time she was silent, and then resumed : ' How can such a sinner as I have hope ?' It is a faithful saying that Jesus Christ came to, save sinners.' But I am, a great sinner.' His blood cleanseth from all sin.' I'm a lost sinner 1' 'Rat he 'can save to the uttermost all that come to God by Him. Now, go and put this tremb ling hand into the hand of Jesus. At his feet confess your sins and ask for mercy, and you shall obtain it: She wept aloud, and with a voice of agony exclaimed, Oh 1 that. I. knew where I could find Him. I would kneel at his feet and wash them with my tears, and never leave the place till the pau pers' carriage came to bear me to the grave." Here I parted with the despairing stran ger, whom I had never met before • but re cently, when passing an unfrequented street, that same voice called, ' God bless you! sir. God bless you! Let me help you over this broken way, for I have found Him.' Found whom ?' 4 He that can save to the uttermost ; and blessed be his holy name, for his blood eleanseth us from all sin.' One day while addressing a class of, small girls on the condescension of Jesus, the whole group seemed affected. The smallest of the number led me to the door. Her lit tle hand trembled, and her whole frame' shook with emotion. At partingl inquired, M—, do you love the Lord Jesus ?" Bursting into tears she cried 'No I No ! My heart is so wicked, it won't love him at all. Do pray for me.' A few kind words were, addressed to the grieving child; and on my next visit she again guided me to the door. She was calm now, and I inquired, ' Well, have you found Jesus yet ' I guess Jesus has found me,' was the reply, 'for it is easy to love }Tim now.' Incidents occur, not less interesting than the above, but less fraught with hope.— Duty had called me a'few miles from town; and-returning I met an aged acquaintance, long known as a confirmed infidel, when the following conversation ensued : Well, my old friend, how are you ?' Oh, bad enough; poor, old and almost blind ; no one loves me, everybody tries to rob me, and soon I shall die, and that Will be the end. How do you find yourself?' Oh, poor and old and quite -blind, but if everybodydon't love me, 1 am quite certain that I love everybody. I shall soon die and then really begin to live. This makes me happy.' 'But you have property.' ' Not so much as you have.' Wellyou have kind friends.' No better friends than you possess.' friends ! Not one ! This world Is a miserable place.' ' You are mis taken ; God is your friend, Christ is your friend, and you dare not look me in the face, and. call to mind the past, and say that I am not your friend.' 4 Yes, youhave been hon est, truthful; and kind to me.' Well, hon estly, truthfully, and kindly, I tell you now that God loves you and gave his only Son to die for your salvation. Your misery is ,the result of your sin. God has smiled upon you in childhood, youth, and even- now in agd he entreats you to be happy. You are not an infidel,-after all you know there is a 'God.' ' Perhaps there is.' You know there is a heaven, for you can remem ber when in faith and love you clasped your parent's neck and were happy. You know there is. a hell you feel it, in your own bosom. You feel the pain of hun ger and God has provided food ; you feel the need of pardon, and of grace to help you, and God has provided both, in Jesus Christ. At the end of your journey your soul needs rest, and God has provided it in heaven:, The old man wept like • a ,child, and said, 'Will: you pray for me ?' 'On one condition will pray for you.', ,'What is the condi: That you shall now'-confess your sins to God and pray for yourself.' , The old man promised and, we parted perhaps to Meet 'next on the other side - of 'the dark river. IT is evident not only that God is faithful though he afflict his people, but that he afflicts them in faithfulness and energy; such loving corrections are promised in his covenant, and., without them we should be ruined.--lbid. - , , . . To THE reproach of our fallen nature, pros perity commonly produces ungodliness;'and adversity is the frequent means of exciting men to the consideration of religious subjects. —Dr. T. Scott. GENESEE EVIANGELIST.--MThok No. 877. THE EVANGELIST ON RH. BMW CONDITIONS_ OF PEACE." =SU [THE EvangelisChis recently contained two careful articles upon :Rev: Mr. Barnes' late Thanksgiving Sermon, expressing, as we ex pected, decided dissent from, many: of its po -sitions. The following paragraphs express our own views of the points mooted.] . We regret also the impression '.which : this sermon is liable to make in regard tp the President's Proclamation of Emancipation. Mr. Barnes does• not say positively= what he thinks of the measurei-.-Tet the- allusions which naturally, suggest- this question imply doubts, or at least some degree of hesitation. The enemies of the Government spare - no pains in exciting public prejudice against the war on the, ground of the Proclamation. - In the current slang of the day, they say that the war has become an AhOlitiOn war„ a war to put down slavery, a war for the nekrO, and not fOrtherllui t ° thivis'utferly false they have the amplest means of -knowing. The Government has not changed its ground as to the object of the war. It has adopted the principle of Emancipation in application to the rebellious States on the same theory and for the same purposes that it has raised an army and built a navy. The object is to conquer the rebellion ; and emancipation is used simply as a war measure. So the Presi dent expressly 'says. His judgment, too, as " Commander-in-Chief," upon a war measure, is final. It is justified, also,• by the usages of civilized warfare. Now the sermon of Mr. Barnes, not so much by what it says as by what it suggests, is, as we think, calculated to make an incorrect impression on this point. It is not true, as one might infer from the sermon, that the plower of emancipation is absolutely, in all possible circumstance, limi ted to the action of the States where slavery exists. Whether the, slaves be regarded as persons or .property, the President, in con ducting.a war with slave States in rebellion, has the same right to seize their slaves that he would have to seize their horses, or do any thi,ng else necessary to victory. This is the sole theory of the President's Proclamation ; and we think it a great mistake so to empha size the doctrine of State rights, as to suggest, by even the remotest implication, that States in rebellion have any rights incompatible with the duties of the Government in their con quest. They cannot thus ignore the Con stitution, and yet claim the protection of peaceful citizens. They are either belliger ents, or traitors, or both; and under neither category can they claim any exemption from any. necessary -war measure. Not asking Mr. Barnes to adopt or reject this theory,we simply state it as the logical, and we thiuk sufficient reply, as well to those who doubt, as to -those who are now making not a little clainor against the Proclamation. Let the point be , fairly put before the people; and we are- content to abide the issue. . . . As to the sixth condition of peace, namely, "The ultimate entire removal of slavery from our land," we heartily agree with Mr. Barnes. We believe this necessary to any thing like permanent harmony. We accept, too, his doctrine of compensated emancipa tion, and equally what he says in regard to the question of expatriation. We sin cerely hope that the removal may not be !.too "ultimately,",or so gradual that the evil will increase- rather than lesson. As to the power of emancipation, we admit that this belongs to the State themselves in the time of peace, qualifying the admis sion, as Mr. Barnes does not, with the bel ligerent rights of the 'General Government to blast slavery or anything else in the re bel States, so far as this may be necessary to the conquest of this wicked rebellion. •We do not believe in any State-rights, or any State institutions against the life of the nation in such a war as the Government is now compelled to wage. As to the evils likely to result from immediate emancipa tion, we do not at all sympathize with Mr. Barnes in the fears which he expresses. So great a change cannot, of course, be ef fected without some evils, greater or less, according to the course taken by the slave holding class ; yet, as a matter of fact proved by history, the giving of freedom to the op pressed is by no means so great a bugbear as some people think. . . . Mr. Barnes, we desire to say in conclusion, has by no means backed down from his anti-slavery position ; -yet we think that he has fallen into some errors in discussing the question of peace, and that his sermon, as to its whole impression, is not precisely what the public heart most needs in times like.these. While it may be preverted and abused by sympa thizers with the rebellion, it is liable to create some confusion in the thoughts of strictly loyal people. DR. CANDLISH ON DELIVERY OF SER MONS. In the recent debate in Edinburgh Free Presbytery, on training theological students to preach without notes, Dr. Candlish was quite prepared to say that every minister ought to be able to deliver a sermon without reading it. He, of course, was one of those unfortunate stigmatised. individuals who used paper • but he had this apology to make, that he could speak when the occasion required it without writing, and very energetically, too. The first charge he was in, the people had no objections to writing ; but in the second charge it was not ,tolerated,, so that he had been trained to both ways. He might men tion that in his second charge the popular reason against writing was this, thatit left no room for the " blast," though for 'his part he thought there was as much room for what was'ealled the "blast " in the one way as the other. He had no hesitation in thinking that it was a great drawback in the case of any man who was so tied down to delivery from paper, that he could not deliver effectively without the manuscript before him. He did not, however, take the strong view which Dr. Bcgg took; and he would like the over ture a great deal better if it took the gene ral form' that sermons should be effectively delivered,' no matter whether'they were read I : !RESBYTERIANISAII Ivitlient the Intimating life is a poor shrunken thing; it never lies iii state when it is dead ; for it has no body of fine, forms, or trapping of imposing cere monies, to give it bulk or adornment : with 'out the vitality of eva.ngelism it is nothing. —lrugh 311,11er.
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