Vol. VII, No. 32.---Whole No. 344. ottieg. (For the Ameriesn Presbyterian.r) The Traitors .Shield. The Persians attempted to make It dash , upon Athens befgre the Grecian troops, .flashed with victory, could march from, Piarathen. Th.f4y, were informed of the defenceless state of.the city by a ' shield hung up in the sun by a traitor.—" The A thenians impute the prosecution of this measure to one of the Alommonidm !who.they say held, up a shield to the Persians when they were under end," -BERODOTIIS B. VI., Oath'. 115. The Persian fleet is ploughing deep through the A g ean sea, And Persian swords are sharpening for the 'red blood of the free And the waves that bear are moaning deep- - Athens farewell to thee, Farewell, Farewell, through all the earth—Fare. well to Libertyl The Persian hosts are moving, like bees that swarm in June The Greeks before them form a line curved like the crescent moon ; • • A little band, awhile they stand' deftaneeintheir eye,, Then rush upon the Eastern hordes—for home —for libesly I The sands blush red at Marathon; the sails are filled again; The Persian " hosts are routed.:-'446 thousand thousand men ; Hurrah I hurrah ha* swells the heart through Adieu's chosen band, "Our swords have saved our wives apd honlPS,a'd freedom for our . But see, what gleanis so brilliantly o'er Atlien's walls af'ar; Why speed 0181'mm:tan's ships along; as guided by a Star A burnish'd shield is burnine , bright broad breasted to the anti, And treason gives the beaoort , sign-- 14 Run swift for Athens, run." • "Back l hack I "—the cry swells thronat the lines "a traitor lives to-day, And skulks within the city walls While we are in array; " . Beek 1 hack 1 ,to save the city, the traitor's heart to reach, , Whose crime in this our battle-day exceeds -all power of speech I Oh, blessed was that day for Greece ` cad blessed too,f or Wan. . • , When the Grecian Ooldiers marched as fast as the Persian vessels ran, And the traitor `knave whO' spread the shield • that glittered in the litte ' Found that the work: of Marapthon could not be thus na4ctuo, Oh, if a traitor hand to:day, Within our lines extends '' r A beacon to the enemy, to comeaud slay' his friends— _ If while the nation pants and bleeds,,,his Wald gleams in the sun,- : And he bide the iuthless rebel do what a traitor would have done Ills be a nameas much ablisred as > Athens' traitor then, His be a deed to bleak too Dame a - of men ; • t - While forth in Freadout's holy case , our , aritiies hold the field,, • . Palsied the arms that our, utidst ; lifts up, the traitor's shield March 25, 186fi. fortopg4 m masts OFS A X. L 80401 EL ,002 0 NEAR FALItOIIIII 1 ` V. tot *arch 24, 1863. TO the Editor gf else 4nierican Brea Arian WILL you: ermit me to give to the public, through your volumes, the following letter, which was received a few days ,since ttY Col.. McAllister of the 11th Volunteers and which he kindly permitted ,Me to copy. This letter should be read by every, 'one Vito is inclined togive up our gloriousetruggle for law and liberty. It speaks for itself., The gallant Colonel who has fought `many hard battles, and knows well tbe kipl, of metal required to stand the fire, remarked to me that be, knew tbe boy mentioned in that letter would fight, - although he was not personally acquainted-with him. If every mother who has a eon itv the army would write such letters, :there mwould :be little de moralization, in the camp. It sad fact that the strength is often taken out of the army by the frieusts,et home. J. C. B. "Ifmart - 14 . 1'T. J. 'March If 1863. "Honorable Sir : "I hope you wil pardon theliberty which I, a stranger, take in addressing you, al though you; sir, do not seem like, a stranger to me, as =yur name is identified with thei 11th Regt. N.J. Vols., and there is not a soldier in the'whole Union 4rmy that seems like a stranger to me. Whenever I see or meet them I feel as though I could take them by the hand• and call them brothers, and bid them " God speid' in the glorious' work of sustaining the Union. But enough of this. "The reason of mywritingl'Ai you is this. I wish to congratulate yonrielf and regt. on the noble stand you have publiclrtaken ,to sustain the government and put down this unholy rebellion. It made me happy to-:see that nice letter and those good resolutions in the Newark Daily Advertiser, and L ca n assure you, sir, such things cause the hearts of the Union people to rejoice, and it:gives a deeper joy to those' who have friends in the 11th. It shows to- the world that they have no sympathy with thoie traitors who meanly stay at home and barter sway their country for less than thirty pieces of silver. "I feel very deeply for themoraland spirit ual interests of the 11th, as well 4044 mili tary fame. You may ask, the reason why , It is this. My only son is in the rankel t und I a widow, but I give hiin freely to his court- try, and had I a dozen I would give 'them just as freely to so good a cause.- Bather° is one thing in his ow whir: 4 lo" es me much, that is, he is ,unprepared: die.. Oh how I wish that all, our officers and mu' w ere Christians. " There is at least, orie'bsvon who will fol low the regiment with her prayers. I hope that the noble resolutions you 411Y0 adopted may be carried out to the letter,- and that peace may soon return to milhlce.ding a n d distracted country. "Respectfully yourd,'' "A nut Lovse4r VON ' " STARS AND Oruro, TILE American, Methodist missionaries in India have recently, founded a Christian vil lage in the province ofPu.de,--in experiment the results of which will be looked for with great interest. The followingaccount of it, is given by the missionary of the station Hew Christian Comnsunity.—A very inter esting experiment is now in progress in our mission, from which I hope to see much good realized.: The openings which our mission found some time since in the,villages west of Moradabad resulted in a .large number of people abandoning their priests and idols, and placing themselves under, Christian in struction: Most of them were very ignorant and degraded; and some of them very poor. Of course they had - to' suffer the usual annoy ances ,for - what preference they showed to Christianity, and a few of them were even pushed out of their humble employments as tillers of, the soil. They were,thus thrown . . upon our sYWllathPa exqYre,.aPeq) and we tried to do, what we •.could for, them. • A drliristian Village.—Providenee opened the way for founding a Christian village. The wioccumied land Dude Wag' *red in lots -of five 'thousand acres by the Govern ment to gentlemen who 7o> ld engage tp pyl tivate it. I' l put claim and was access ful, the grant assigned'ine being' central o the estates of sometwelve or fifteen Europe in'gentlemen, who have commenced opera tions in the neighborhood e.lf our Luckem; pore mission:; and then we went to work and collected these despised and illiterate people . under :brother and sister Parker's pastoral care. A village has been built, wells dug, farms laid off And cultivated, the foundations of a church and school laid. The, new Government road to Philibeet and Nynee Tal from Lucknow runs through`our grant and village ; other roads will open out to it from the surrounding estates ; and the prospectis that our little town will become a sort of market town for the whole region, as we, are already far in nilyance of them 01 in the way of people, tradesmen etc. Morals:of Me New Valage.—The Moral. aspects - Of, the, :place are ,no less, pleasing. Brother.and sifter Park.er have,good. reason to, be encouraged in the frMu. ef their toil. Most of our mission know well how much they had to discourage them in the commencement; the pedple Were so illiterate, so perverted fro - to truth and goodness, all that could be said in their'favor was that they were, Willing tote in structed; and thiS gave.tui hope to tabor with them. Well, one year :has gone, and the -results are, two =schools, containing forty ". )( 0 3 Ycia4g,'Pagn, .440 , fifty girls and-16r Christian and patient instruction _daily; a very, interesting ,congregation of `More than one . hundresi and twenty-five.per sons regularly assembling to worship the -Ohrietian's trod and Saviour a large and well-attended class meeting of •firty persons, who " have the form ;and are seeking the ,power .of .godlirress.7 , Spiritual,. religion is ,beginning to be understood, truth more:re-' f leeted, conscience more fully developed, and the voice of family devotion heard in many of those dwellings. , on thp )30118 S! Davt3DAlii-m No 140/B.—rit;iB prohahlythe.only spot in ,North India of,equal egctent,tand'haying ;the same number of ,inhabitants, where there is not an idokor idol temple, or Mohammedan masque to bel'fannd'; where the ten' com mandments are the,law of the'vonimunity, or *here "the Sabbath of our Gild. 'ls strictly hthiored, and "the" sound of. the' bhuroh going' , belt " responded , to by all`not 'de .tainedby illness or other lawful cause. Their Worship.—l was there not long "Since. It was the Sabbath; the 'aspect Of the congregation was'Verg'pleasiz c ig ; as They mark liintloo fashion upon.the matted floor, , their Bibles open .on their-laps, ready to read, their verses ,alternately with the minis ter as he Went - through` the 44 first' and - Second lessons," I could harpy recognize in Their Clean, tidy, and intelligent aspects the per sons whb two" _ years - ago Worked upon our `buildings in Bareilly as coolies, and not one Of whom tben kria.* ii-letter of their mother tongue. And thisiis the effect -under God,-of Christian instruction and .their own industry. No .one in that community but ,earns his ;oven; living.,: 'What they. had ; to borrow in order. to begin. to cultivate, their .farms they are now gratefully paging back again. 'Chris tianity, may here be . paid to be rooting itself in the soil. • A mighty influence for good ought to go out from such a centre within a few years all over that region; and from that community especially may we expect , to see coming forth the 'young men who will'Yet help to fill our training schools and Biblical institutes. fftlectioso. 'CHRISTIAN VI.LLARE IN Deed ; or the Lands.—l have deeded the land, to .brothers. Parker and •Ilicks in trust for our. Society. They will see the Govern ment conditions carried out till the land is paid for—about $1.25 per acre-:--when it is to become the property of our Conference; and then whatever revenue it yields, will remainforever as a home mission fund, to support schools and help to extend our, work in this country. We 'have named our Christian village ,"Wesleypore"—"pore" meaning place or home. RELIGION IN BUSINESS. It is the privilege of the Christian to over . come the world by the indwelling faith, of the Gospel. The Christian in business ought to magnify this power of the Gospel, and thereby honor God. It is an object *worthy of every earnest disciple, to show the leauty,of religion by,its fruits in business. The North. Bratiah 88111010 says: The pressing need of our faith is not sim plr faithful evangelists to proclaim its doc trines, but' egions of men consecrating, their worldly vocations,witnessing,to that truthon which much skepticism prevails, that Chris tianity, so received as to become an integral part of .a man, is _omnipotent to. keep him from the evil, not by taking him out , of the world, but by making him victorious,over it. 110 is ,a most worthy disciple of Christ who, like Palissy, or Buxton, or Budged, or Perthes, exhibits religion as GO the right use o f a man's whole self "—as the one thing whichLgives dignity?and nobility;to what '''is in Waif sordid and , earthy—as the main- spring earnest and successful strivings , al- PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, -.APRIL 9, 1863. ter loftier ends and a purer life—as the pow er, outside of and within man, •which lifting up conduct in the individual, raises the com munity—and not as,a state of mind mystical and in active life unattainable, high up among things intangible, separated from contact with work-a-day life, appropriate, to Sabbath days and special hours, to leisure, old age, and death-beds. Every man who is " diligent in'business, serving the Lord," is a sermon brimful of the energies of life and truth, a witness to the comprehensive ness and adaptability of Christ's religion, a preacher of righteousness in scenes where none can preach- so effectively or so well. EXCITEMENT IN REVIVALS. -But.we have not our-ohoicein such mat, ters. We cannot change the laws of the hu man mind, and As long, as these remain, it may not in every, case be possible to prevent some degree of excitement by what so pow erfUlly appeals to every . feeling and affection in the sent of man.' GiVen only that the facts of Christianity are true regarding man's condition withenti Savidirr, and that Thas been done for him, and`must 'be done in him, before salvation - is possible; with the tremendous consequences >through out eternity attached to ,his faith and repen tancein time,—and excitement is very nat r , oral, and not altegether unbecoming, inhipa who sees and believes, and, as it generally happens where excitement exists, who Ada% these truths for the first 'time in his life: Would not calm • self-possession, in such circamstanees, if more reaionable, be more wonderful than excitement among those; -es pecially without culture? It is quite true also that excitement will muohless frequently occur among strong minded educatedpeople, who, are accustomed to, keep their, .emotions udder contrul,;,while many, with a, coMparl tively speaking, weak emetional nature, but with a sound' head .and sound sense,. and Wakeful conscience, seldom, in any case whatever, betray- much feeling. ViOlent excitements, as 'a rule, are ' found only among northern f nations, , among ignorant masses; or, those who have more feeling than judgment. • - But'why may-not.;a wide-spread rexcite . ment about religious truths, though in some pertions a mere physical ; condition of the nervous system, be the, very means, under God, of arresting their Mind or the minds of others, and disposing, them to consider and receive the truth itself ? What is it which we-have most to complain of is an obstacle -to the .gospel?:Not infidelity, nor active Oppoitien, nor ignoranee, but indiffennee, —cold, _heartless- indifference in those who may go to church, stand up at prayer, hear or sleep, ,read or dream, agree with every thing the minister says, yet .verily ,believe nothing; and are therefere neither roused by fear nor . gladdened by hope, but live day by day, - buying and selling, eating and drinkitg, respectable, it may be, , and- re epected; as good farmers, decent tradesmen, bonest,shopkeepers, but to spiritual things in their living reality and momentous im ,portance—indifferent I Could any one but read the thoughts, hear the conversation, or watch the effects on the great mass of the hearers, one day or one ,heur, after hearing - the most iinpressive and' earnest" sermbn; in -whielr -the minister before 'God sought to MVO their souls, what a fearful vision' ofthe mystery of indifference would be revealed . . ,Whatever then, breaks •this up.is a bless _ing.„ No excitement can be so ;dangerous, so ~:deadly, as, this indifference.- Better a :thousand times the wild hurricane than -the calm Miasma. Better the stream which -rushes, impetuously over its banks, carrying with it devastation for a time, -than the dead and 'foetid marsh. The one inai be turned into :anew -channel, and Made available as a .poiter for advancing , the interests 'Of , man, but the other is " evil, .and, only Oil contin ually." , Wtatever, therefore, we repeat it, tends in providence to .destroy indifference, and induces people to listen , with . earnest ness and attention to the truth,—be it the excitement of a storm or earthquake of a, great rcligious mvival, or of domestic be reaveinent and sorrow,—Whatever it be, yet 'is Ws blessing if it prepares' the soul to' re ceive the seed of .the gospel', inducing men even to =think seriously, 48 the firstoon dition for , their, ultimately , believing. :ea,rish, Papers:; THE "CHURCH IN THE WAR. We have learned this year , , if .we did: not know it before, that warfare, fierce and terri ble as,it is, does not of necessity expel the sense of sacredness, nor keep the soul away from God; that we can visithospitals give -bread to <the hungry, apply balm. to the sol dier's wounds, make clothing for> sufferers in the camp, listen to discourses on the sani tary commission, and in favor of good govern ment and freedom: for all who are in bprids, and at the same, time keep a-going the sacred machinery of the church, meet for prayer, labor for all good institutions, and invite the presence and the grace of the Divine. Spirit: And here we take occasion to give back the charge to those who in their disloyalty have often made it, that churches and ministers who interest themselves in the condition of the ceuntry, who speak and pray Ifor. the Government, for the war and for the African against, whoin such monstrous, and sinful pre judice exists, are cold and jejune and with out life in the loftier service of God. We know that the reverse is true. The annals of revivals during the past year will demon strate to those who read them, that churches have ;been most blest wherein the spirit of freedom, of a whole nationality, and of loyalty to the Government has been wane, constant and unrestrained. The work ofgrage going on now in-a. neighboring church is , proof of What I say, and a revival in Wilmington the Most powerful almost ever known, Was in a church distinguished for its out-spoken at tachment to the great cause for which the free states are at war. The same is true of churches in New England, Ohio, andin.sta,tes farther westward. We are sure that the Spirit of God does not desert men for loyalty to the, powers that be. _He does not depart from those who love the poor, and labor with a right spirit for the liberties'of man. De votion to the Government is an element of religion. The spirit df liberty is the spirit of the gospel.—Bett. Adante . third Anniversary 'Sermon. • • ANECDOTES ,01 + RMS. Magdeburg is memoiable in the story of hymns, ftn. it was at the 'cruel • sacking of it by Tilly thatc the schisol=children marched across the market-placof singing, and so en raged him that lie bid the all be slain ; and from that day; saythechreniclers, the fortune departed from him, norAd he smile again. Other hymns were mere fortunate, for we, read of a certain rough captain who would not bate a crown of the : -thirty thousand he levied of a captured Ovn, 'till at last `the archdeacon summoned the people together, Saying ; " Come, my children, we, have .no more either audience .or race with• Men ; let us plead with God ;" arif.'when they had en tered the church, and, to t ing a hymn, the fine, was renaittedtpa thousapd. The same hymn played as merciful a p a t , in in another, town which was to 'be - bur ' for contumacy.; l i When mercy had beenfi.S,ked in ; vain,, the clergyman parched out 'Withh - tielve heyslo the general's tent, and - sang there' before him`;' when; to their amazement; he fell upon the pastor's neck and embraced -him. _-,He -had discovered in him an old student friend, and spared : the place, and still the afternoon ser vice -at I'egan is commenced with ithp.nlemo. 7 l NO hymn that saved it. Of another, it i t s said°:that a famousrobber.haVingSeen chang ed"hiniself, sang it among hiemelf, BO that many ,of them were change - d - aleo. *ugh hearts, indeed, seem Oftenthe most suacepti- Mc.' 'A'inajor in comniand of thirty-dra goons entered a quiet viCarage, and 'demand ed within three • hours more than the vicar could give iu a year.,a'o cheer her father, one of his Alaughters took hey guitar 2 and sang Wit one of Gerhardt's 1711112 a, Presently the door stiffly opened,- the oißder stood at it, and motioned her tocontinue, and when the hyinn :Was sung, thanked her for the lesaMi, ordered out the dragoons, grid rode oii. ' - And another 'story of the'sarne hymn •I make'n6 apology for gioting ititire. "`ln a Village near-Warsaw there Hued a ,:pious peasant of . German extraction, -by"name Dobry. With out his fault he had fallen : into , arrear with his rent, an.d the landluid determined to, evict him, and it was winter, ' He went to him three times in vain. It :was evening, and pie next day he was to he turned out with all his fern; ily, when, as they sat 'therein. sorrow, the church bell pealed for "evening praYer- and Dairy kneeled down in their midst, andthey sang— . • ,: ‘Counnit thou all thy gtief And ways 'lido His hands. And as tbey caine to - the last verse " 'When Thou wouldstall 4:pr nepd supply . Who, who shall stay`Thy there vas, a knock at the window. It was an old. friend ? a raven, that Dobry's grandfather had taken out of the nest and tamed, and then set at liberty. , Dobry open:the window, the raven tioppeirn,.. and in his hill 'there. was`rine set witVfireoioui Vol:;ry, thought, he would sell the ring; but he thought again that he would bring it to his minister, and he, who.eaw at once by the . crest that it belonged to,King Stanislaus, took it to -him, and, related. the story. And the' king. sent for Dobry, and rewarded him, so that Lie was no more in need, and the next year buiß him a new house, and gave' him cattle from his own etall, and over the housedoorithere is an iron tablet, whereon is carved a raven with a ring in his beak, and underneath - this verse-- Thou everywhere bast sway, nd xll thin,gs;setVe Thy might; Thy - every aot pure blessing is, Thy path unsulliecl Hymnshavesomethries been curiously:used in stirring times, cspeciall,y, about the *for mation period. More than oncetbe .Romish preachers have been compelled to. abandon the pulpit by the vigorous singing of one of Luther's. They have played their' part in battle. At the 'faineus' battle of t Leuthen, one of Heerrnann's hymns was raised by regi nrent,before going into the fight, and one after another took ittip, the-colimns were singing it >as '1 they advanced. " Shall I silence them ?"'the general asked, as he rodeup.to stern, tobacco-loving, heroic King Fritz. "No, ; with such soldiers God" will give me the victory," and leaping down among the ranks and crying, "1•1 - ow, children,in God's' name," he led theminto battle. hen the battle was Won, the field was strewn with dead:and weunded,- itwas night, and the Sol diers•were weary. Then• one' 'began to 'sing a hymn of, thanksgiving, the;hands joined.in, and,presently it rose from, the army in a full and,mi,ghtrchorus that, reached and greatly moved .the king, who turned round, exclaim ing, "What. a. power there is ,in religion !" It was at the great battle of - Leipzig that Gustavus Adolphus sang, with his army, Lu ther s Carmen, fferozcum, and after it, that, kneeling on the field; he thanked God for the victory in a Stanza.of- the same hymn. The Te Deum Won the fight at Liegnitz ;it was a " poor sinner's song" of Luther's that the peasant raised before the battle of Frardrenhausen, and hraye Earl Oldenburg triumphed at Drakenburg by the song of `Simeon. A single hymn has conferred immortality. Wearing but this one decoration, a man goes down to posterity and outlives the most famous of his time. The Dies irae has been oftener translated than any book except the Bible. The precentor 'of a. country church is remem bered in more hearts than the poet of a nation. The biography of a hymn will often reverse and confoundthe judgments of Letters. It is not the great poet, but the obscure paitor who writes these "heavenly lays." In no coun try which possesses a hymnology have the , great poets sharedin its'construction. Three of our greatest poets, Spenser, Milton' 'and Wordsworth, are essentially •religious poets. You cannot read a page of their writings; without 'being struck:by thedeep, pervading, , religious feeling. Yet all the service Milton rendered that way (for the,magnificent " Ode on the Nativity" is scarcely a hymn) was' veriifying, poorly enough, a few of the Psalms, while Wordsworth wrote some agreea ble stanzas, which he called " The Laborer's; Noon-day ymn." It is not by its Schiller or Goethe that the •gre.at hymns<of-Germany have been sung, but by monks and' country pastors, schoolmasters and humble men; whose names, if they were ever known, have long since been forgotten. Audit' we turn to the Bible, we find indeed the' highest poetry in , Job and the Prophets, the men who ;were poets and prophets* by their nallinz ; but we do not find in their writings a single lyric. It was David the warrior and king, Mary the yoning virgin-111'06'er, Simeon the aged man, who waited in the temple ; it was by them th&t'those glorious hymns were written which haie been sung these thousands of Tears, which will yet be "chanted, with holy joy in every 'land which the sun visits, from its ris ing till its:setting.--Good. Words. REVOLUTION' IN, PUBLIC SENIDIENT ON t • SLAVERY-AT 'MR SOUTH. FROM DR. DARLING'S PAMPHLET ";oN SLAVERY AND TDB WAR."' By many 'the whole problem is supposed to be solved,by the Siniple fact of:theintem - - perate, and oftentimes, uncharitable discus sion of this subject At the North.i , Prep the:; opponents of slavery, the whole South . be come its friends, We are told,,because.men, who:had no personal contact with,"or inter est in' his indeed; WhOlividhairt dieds miles - kin Tit, violently 'CM:Men:cried it wrote unkindly and hastilyiabout it ; titioned Congress , either to abolish it, or to prevent ita'extension;*sought to bring odium upon all who were engagPdiTi it; and finally endeavored even to excite to A , bloody insurrection those who were in bond age. Had these• men attended to their own, concerns, had the 'Northern press and' pilpit been silent en' this Subject, or had theirut terances been. More kind and considerate, we are assured that we 'would never have witnessed that strange revolitionAit senti ment to which we have just referred. But is, this so ? this - cause 'sufficient to produce suchaneffeet 7 We saynothing in reply of the, admitted.fact that r the men who thus spoke and wrote, constituted but a small minority of the whole people of the North, ==, we willigly waive this important gonsidera= ti9nHnor would, we yet . again, here' express any 'opinion as to their conduct, whether it was in itself right or wrong, for its influence might tin either - case, betheSame. , ' We '.would rather: Accept. the most -exaggerated state- ' went that on this subject can be.made and unite in the severest condemnation oisuch conduct, while we yet assert that,aa ta, cause, it, is altogether inadequate to the effect. What nine millions of people, radically changed in sentiment upon h great moral questiely conierted 'to the most obstinate det: fence' of slavery, brought to the'phint of re garding that.institution as divine,- and:a bles sing to both of the parties between whom-it sabsists, because number of men,-as large.as themselves, and certainlytheir peers in intern- genie and piety, regarded it as wicked, said so, and" were unceasing, and, we will add, nnsc i rnPnlous in their efforts to destroy it Can an candid' . man belieVe that - such`` a thing is ,possible ? That 'the feelings of the Sodth have been deeply wounded by what they regarded= as the meddlesomeness of the North with theirpeculiar -institution, that they,have been chafed and irritated ,by that they have regarded themselves as na ligned,.and thatthis conviction of injured in- nocence has, in some eases, led theca to de fend what, in other circumstances, they would have condemned, we, cheerfully admit. The result of persecition, either real or stippdsed, is, perhaps,'alWays to endear to inert that for Which they are persecuted, and to lead-them to stand up more stoutly in its defense. But one entire section of a great country revolu- • tionized in sentiment upon a moral question, led to believe that, a domestie institution was right ,that previously they had regarded ,as wrong, because the other section-condemned it, and labored and prayed for its abolition, is not the very idea preposterous Suppose the case to be reversed; suppose the whole South to have' arraigned itself, in thamost violent oppositiOn, to the manufac ture and sale of intoxicating drinks at the North, can we .conceive that we here would have all become the chimpionsef this traffic, and boldly affirmed it to bp morally. right ? It is time that the idea we are considering should be exploded. It has dwelt long enough in the bosoms of good as a siifficient, apo logy, for one' of 'the 'moat Marvelous changes of sentitneht that the world' has ever witnes sed . I We must .look further, and deeper ; for the real cause, of this sad effect. In:the case of a single individual,. we are All aware of,the influence, thatis exerted np on the moral judgment, by a „long continu ance in any line ef.conduct,_9r mode of life, that is once felt to be either pesitively wrong, or of' doubtful propriety'. As men live in the ikactiee'ef sin, they lose'both the - Censci: ousnees;andahe belief of its'sirifulness, 'Self - conditions'faith. The power that preceiveB a wicked act, partakes of the general injury that that act, when performed, inflicts on the soul. As character deteriorates, so does the, standard by which we judge of it. A man's own_moral state and life is very much the measure of his moral convictions. Let any One have bis conscienceio enlightened, as to perceive that a certain pursuitin which he is, engaged is wrong, but, despite that, lei him still - continue in it, and in time he-will be very prone, not only to lose all convic tions of its wickedness, but really' to marvel how he could have ever , cherished, with re ga,rd 'to it, such opinion. It is by Allis principle alone, that we can the fact, that those ~most.; pt in this world to Justiy themselves, and in conscious innocence to Say, "we have no sin," are ordinarily the most depraved. They have gene on so far in sin that it has become a " hidden thing" to them. Their moral sense is paralyzed. "In the lowered' temperature of the inward consciousness, they have reached that point, where the growing toldness, hardness, s and selfishness of a. anan's nature can no longer be noted ; the mechanism by which moral variations are indicated having becomeltself insensible and motionless." The principle is applicable to the case be tore us, and in it may be found one potent cause for the effect which we have described. -There was &time, in the history of this coin When-the conscience of the South was's° enlightened, as to, see that slavery was a ,great moral evil. Her divines saw it, and did not draw back, in the deliverances of the church, from uniting with others in condemning it. But, alas, to these convictions, expressed in speeches, and' church deliverances, there was no corresponding action: Slavery, seen to be -an evil, was not immediately abolished, nor were any plans devised by which it might ultimately be destroyed. On the contrary, the institution was, retained. Southern 'society, instead of . flecking to cast off this net-work of evil, or to loosen the coils in which it was inwrapping it,' suffered it to remain,-'and every day tntighten its grasp.: The difficulties in the way of the emancipa- tion of the enslaved were so exaggerated, as to - be regarded as forever insurmountable. The behests of conscience were destroyed. The•monitions" of the moral sense were dis regarded. Men went on doing what they knew`to be wrong. They wilfully continued in.sin. And, 'frein such conduct, is it any marvel that, in time, just such results follow ed as we have described ? Refusing to do anything for the freedom of the < enslaved, when conscious that duty demanded it, is it strange that that bondage should finally come itself to be regarded as right ? W are well aware of the seriousness of the charge that we thus bring against the South. what we have said, we aver noth ing:lesS, on this point, than their demorali zation. We affirm that they are now the' de fenders of African slavery, because of , a pa-. ralysis of their, conscience, produced by the long continuance of this institnticn, after its true character was known.• But can any can did' mind doubt that this position is true ?. Is rt not a conclusion logically irresistible ? Do' w 8 not see the same principle repeatin. itaelf:in the Moral judgment of individuals all around us ? : , To work a radical Change, in the Opinion of • a man, upon the moral character of any action, is 'there anything: more efficient,thanits habitual performance, after, his conscience has once been enlight ened tolcuow, that it is wrong ? OOLERSO INN 'THE CHURCH OF 'ENO; 'IAN% begins "to- 'be pretty well understood that Colenso's book on Pentateuch has little significance. except in its, bearing upon the question of discipline in the Church of Eng land And uponthe relation of that, Church to the State. So uncertain is the prespect of ever" - bringing this' rank infidel in the guise of 'a Bishop to a trial, `or of excluding him from the 'bench, that the remaining Bishops have addressed to' him' a remonstrance against his doctrines,'lwith a request that he voluntarily resign his. position: To this Co lens° has given an insolent refusal, claiming to be more correct, scriptural and wholesome in his, teachings than they, and asking them to join him _in his, important and timely in vestigations The London Weekly Aeview, ,which has ever Maintained an:attitude of honorable 're gard abd'friendship for' the Church of Eng land, and which , recently brought together in a :satisfactory manner a number ,of facts to preve .the substantial orthodoxy of the Church in spite of numerous defections, dis cusses, in its issue of March 18th, the ques tion of discipline in the Church as suggested. by this remarkable correspendence. We quote the concluding, aragraphs': We know not what to call the Episcopal Establishment ; hut this we know, that, whether, it is. a Ohurch of Christ or a State department, the position in. which this epi sode in' the Colenso busines shows it to be is deplorable. Whether to secure purity of of morals in ,a Church or effi ciency in a 'State department, one thing is indispensable—discipline. This :is no theo logical or ecclesiastical proposition. It rests Upon the primary conditiona, exigencies, and defects` of mankind. No body of men, call them what , you will, can act well together unless' upon , some principle of order, under some practical laws, and with an executive capable ofgoverning. , The Church of Eng land has no clear and intelligible code of laws, and the machinery bYwhich such laws she has put in operation iepracticallY so, useless that it requires an expenditUre of one or two thousand pounds to remove from -the pulpit a man of scandalous immorality. As for doctrinal purity, it is known to all the world that the penalty inflicted on men who deny theinspiration,of the scriptures is sus pension. forgone year,,after which, without a word of retraction, they may resume their duties The eases of simony; constantly oc curring, are so gross as to scandalize the most worldly. And now it appears that a Bishop can deliberately avow his inability to use the'OrdinatiOn and Baptismal' Services, and, when hia.-brethreri - entreat him to re sign his episcopal charge, can turn on them with supercilious disdain and bid them 'rise to time „same elevation of critical knowledge and spiritual enlightenment as is occupied by hiinself. The spectacle of such anarchy is hideous and alarming,4--alarming not only to chUrchmen 'but ~te all who are ready to la that the truth of "God, *Moll iS shrilled in anillionk of hearts within the Church of England,: is thusibrought into contempt. 4 The,qtestion of remedy is precisely that from.t which, all men seem to shrink. The difficulty of getting,rid,of Dr. Colenso, con siderable-as it may be, jS slight in compari son 'With that of providing for the Church an adequate system of discipline. if the Bench of Bishops• have 'no law to put in force against Dr. Colenso, they ought to apply for an enactment to the legislative court of the Church, the Parliament oflhese realms. It will not he necessary for them to enter upon: any criticism of Dr. Colenso's books, onto moot thequestion of his general °pin ions. He, has said "thathe cannot ordain or baptize in, ,accordance with the formularies of the Church: of England. Let the Bishops ask the Lordito'send down a measure to the Commons decreeing that, when a Bishop of the Establishment cannot,use the Prayer Book, he shall be required rto. resign his charge. - Unless the Legislature is., deter mined :that ' the Church shall be reduced to a state - of •total and piteous ihefficiency, such a bill could bed passe . "But; he must be a very sanguine friend of the Church or his conception of her wants must be singularly limited, who can' place much confidence in the capacity`of Parlia ment to apply to her that reform which she so' glaringly needs. Having drawn upon ourselves,the distrust and dislike atifot • a few Dissenters,. by professing our wish, to see the Church. reformed rather than, de stroyed, the light on her altars purified and brightened, not extinguished, we may be supposed to give an impartial, nay, a friend ly, opinion on het position; and it is our solemn' conviction that she must not only ob tain an - effective "'system' of discipline, but that, in Obtaining-it, she ought to look bold ly in the face of the question, if not of serv ing, at least of readjusting, her alliancewith the State. ,Every informed and intelligent churchman must be aware that the theory of the constitution of the Church has Jong since boort practically abandoAed. that the,ery ivas that every member pf'Parliament was in communion with the"Cluireh;' and that the GENESEE EY.OGELIST.L-nole No. 881. estates of Ole realm constituted, therefore, to use Mr. Disraeli's words, 'by virtue of this junction of Church and State, a lay synod.' This is not now the case. Large numbers of - members of Parliament are . not in com munion with the Church. Many of them are Jews. ' You have no longer,'—again we quote from Mr. Disraeli—' your boasted union of Church and State.' We cannot be lieve that there must be something in- congrous to the ideas of devout churchmen,: in the conception of such an assembly as the House of Commons, so secular in its tone, so varied in its religious opinions, numbering in its members such bright examples 'of do mestic "virtire , as Mr. Ilume,.M.P. for Wick loW, legislating fora - Christian Church. Is, `it impossible that the Church, practically , disassociating herself from the State, Should originate some form of self-government - either on the lagis of Convocation, or on the model 'of theot-Spiscopal , Church of ~t he United ; States'? We• - know the 'fearful difficulty of: any each movement, and, there is no trace within the Establishment of the command ing talent which would be necessary to carry it through. But to this—resuseitation of the spiritual, poWers of the Church and the abo lition of the ecclesiastical functions of Par liament—or the utter disrediting'and pro bable break-up of the establishment, it must come. We - discover indications that -the evangelical ministers within her pale are, beginning to wince under a consciousness of such abuses as those brought into public view by the cases of Dr. Colenso and the Essayists. We respectfully submit that it is the 'duty of the Church Evangelicals to take steps,to render their position intelligible to the religious, mind of England. Whit is their policy ? How far are they prepared to go ? What are they prepared to endure ? A Bishop calls upon• his brethren to join with, him in %clearing the Bible of Mosaic. fables, and the Church has no.power to divest :him of Episcopal authority. If the Evan gelicals can stand this, is there anything which they can not stand ?" THE SAVAGE SOLDIER. WHILE the armies of the first Napoleon were marching through Germany, one- of 'the regiments was quartered on the inhabi tants-of a village. Among the soldiers was one of a fierce aspect, his face covered by his long black beard, who seemed in his whole demeanor to personify the savage. The farmer upon whom he happened to be "billeted," was terrified at the sight of him, and proposed to the commanding officer that he would take two men in the place of one of ~ s uch ferocious appearance. The offer was accepted; and the soldier taken to other houses ; but the officer perceiving that every body was afraidto take the frightful-looking man toldhim to find a lodging for himself. Having 'been reftised admittance every where,' he arrived at the house of one of the, few members of the Moravian Society who resided in the village. This occurred on the evening of; ;their 'prayer-meeting. The leader of this pious little band was standing in - his door as the soldier, passed more than once. At length he asked him on whom he was quartered. The soldier replied that no one would take'him in. The brother, though sottiewhat alarmed by his fierce looks, showed him into.his house. At the appointed time the company assembled, a hymn was sung, a portion of Scripture- read, and prayer offered. The- poor man was so deeply affect ed that he exclaimed : "You are a happy people ; would God I Nyotelike yen ; but I hear none of, these things. I am a - poor wretelt and may be, shot down, in the next battle." The brethren.spoke kindly to him, and directed him to that Saviour who will cast none out, not even the wbrst. By the kindness of 'his host, he was' well eared for during the evening and night. In the morning early he went to the farmer who first refused to receive him, and told him how and where he had found comfortable quarters. The, farmer laughed at him ; and, on hearing the soldier's account of the meet ing, said he was," very, welcome to join those wretched pietists " but as for hiingelf he would never enter that house. "But you shall though," said the rough soldier, feeling hurt by hearing bis hospit able friend abused ; " yon shall attend this very - evening , --at their worship, and I> will come and fetch- yOu." He was as good as his word. ,At the proper time he- appeared at the farmer's door, who, terrified by his determined manner, accompanied him, and to-the surprise „of all present, was found seated next to his conductor, who fairly mounted guard over And now the Lord's time had come. The wrath and fright of the poor farmer vanished. and touched' by divine power, the gospel of a crucified Saviour entered his heart. On arriving, again at his home he sought and found forgiveness of sin through the atoning blood of Christ ; and by his testimony his wife was awakened to a sense of her los; state by nature, and with prayer sought and. obtained mercy. The, change in this man and his wife created a great sensation in the village, and proved the means, under the in fluence of the Holy Spirit, of the conversion of many souls.--Latrobe'S Letters. AMBITION. AMBITION is smoother of the agencies which are likely, unless God prevent, to hasten the downfall of our republic. Ambition like av arice, brooks no rival. It will sacrifice tho most tender ties, the most solemn obligations. Alexander grasped the world, then cried for another ! Julius Cmsar cast a MILLION or MEN into the fires of mar, - that he might - reach , the Roman thronel 'lnd the modern .Caesar wadedto empire through the blood of -MORE =AN THREE MILLIONS . When once the hunger of ambition fast ens on the apul, , its rage is insatiate. It, would convert , the world into a sepulchre, and drive` God out of his universe ! It is not mere intrigue for place. Not only does it go about for < suffrage, holding you by the button, swelling into greatness in the caucus, and hanging about cabinets for an appointment, but iti seeks: power. It would ride over the prostrate people. It •would make all men slaves. It would edu cate the nation to subserviency. It seeks to build up a, privileged order. It is hostile to liberty---to 'a republic. It claims a native right to supremacy.—.E. E. Aciams.
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