Vol. VII, No. 32.---Whole No. 344.
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(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.
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,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.