Vol. VII, No. 33.--Whole No. 345.
Vottv4.
[For the American Preabylerian.l
A Hymn.
Be merciful unto - me, 0 God 1 Be merciful
to me 1 for my• soul trustoth in Thee. "—PsArm
lvii: 1.
Bi merciful to me, 0 Lord 1
In Thee my soul doth trust;
Be merciful , to me 1 Thy word
Is sure, for Thou art just.
Be merciful to , me, 0 Lord 1
Grace, pardon, peace I need;
Cancel my guilt, fulfil thy word,
" Break •not a bruised. reed 1"
Be merciful '0 Lord 1 In me,
Sins like high mountains rise :
Higher the Grace that dwells in .Thee;
It.reacheth t 6 the skies !
He-meroiful to-me I these tears
And sins o'erwhelm my soul :
I perish, Lord I Dispel, my fears I
I die I 0 make me whole I
" 0 God be merciful to do
A.einner 1" For His died
1'401411,0m great nom
qpray" to Thee,
And now am 41 justified."
" Be merciful I" is still my plea,
My soul still trusts thy word,
And evermore , will cry, "To me .
Be merciful 0, Lord)
',For the American Rresbyteri4n..l
To Die
To die and feel the kiss
Pressed in fervid love's embrace,
Growing cold and even colder,
In the death damp on my face.
To die and pass from earth;
Merge this restless woe in sleep,
Feel the bond of pain unloosen,
assts() to watch, to hope, to weep.
To die and cease to live,
To conquer sin and time and, care, .
Like a child in childish slumber,
Pass-0 doubting spirit where ?
To die and see the clouds
Gather o'er a soul in night
Breaking gently in the morning,
Crowned with everlasting light.
G. P. A.
ROYALTY, IN ENGLAND.
TE(I9 enthusiasm exhibition by the Eng
lish people on the occasion of the recent au
spicious marriage of
,the prince of. Wales to
Princess Alexandra, daughter 'of Prince
Christian, of Denmark, is worthy of notice.
The people of London especially made . the
most extravagant demonstrations of weloome,
but the day was honored by the inhabitants
of every village and hitmlet in the island.
From the time the:Prinoesa Alexandra came
in sight of the British coast, she was the ob
ject of ovetwhelming attentions on, land and
on water. Civic processions, addresses, dec
orations, endless crowds perpetually cheer
ing, attended the cortege ,to its journey's
end, and the wedding day was wound up by,
an illumination which, drew together such,
crowds as, in spite of their good will, proved
destructive of human life, and in some de
gyee frustrated the object of the display.
Within our limits, it would be in vain to at
tempt any adequate .description of the eventa•
of the day, or of the attitude in which our
cousin John appeared on the 040413i011.- His
rejoicings appear to have been quite as
awkard as they were earnest. From the
twelve or fourteen columns, mostly in fine
print, of the Tree* _Review, which are de=
voted to the day, we learn that the street
ornamentation of London was clumsy, the
civic procession a failure, and the arrange
ments, for managing the crowd, scandalously
defective. Even the concluding part.of the
profoundly solemn, marriage , ceremony was
marred by the Queen's band tuning their
instruments, and the organ giving some pre.
liminary spirts and whisiles, while the Arch
bishop was at prayer. The princess hers&
is represented as having been more thin
once startled by the immensity and close
proximity of the surging crowd during the
procession, and once " she was seen to re
move with her own hands the head 4f a youth,
who got entangled in the wheels and was in
evident danger of being . crushed." In one
place, it is said, " the Princess for a moment
seemed alarmed, for the people could have
touched her." An idea of the crowd can
best be conVeyed in the words of the Re
uiew : •
"Walking everibe heads of the people was:aot
only possible but 'was absolutely done bY. a gentle
man who lef t his seat, in a public stand, and instead
of reaching the pavement, aahe intended, to cross
the street, found it easier walking over the heads
of the spectators. Here carriages and vehicles,
brought to a dead lock before the hour fixed for the
stoppage of the traffic, were forcibly taken posses
sion of by the mob; and one carriage had its springs
broken, and was made a complete wreck, Occa
sionally it was inexpressibly pain - fill to witness how
women and boys were knocked about. The shrieks
of women—some of them with children in their
arms—were often heard above the prevailing hum
of the multitude. Some were dragged out in a
fainting condition ; others t were seen to fall, and in
that the danger lay, for they ran the risk of
being trodden to death ; but men would pick them
up and replace them on their feet, or bear them, in
their arms to the outskirts of the crowd. At one
time a baby was held up in the crowd, and it had
all the appearance of being dead or dying.' At
another a woman was seen to throw a child, about
a year and a half old, into , a passit!g carriage to save
its life r and she was then swept into the vortex of
the crowd herself. The poor child was afterwards
taken to a relieving-officer. The procession is de
scribed as having fought its way through the crowd
towardt the Mansion House. On arriving' in front
of the Mansion House the procession paused for
a few moments, to enable Mrs. Rose s the LadY
3lay oresB , who was attended by eight youn,g ladies,
to present her Royal Highness with
While this was being done the pressure upon the
royal carriage was alarming. An officer of the Life
Guards, who had been clearing the crowd awitY,from
the carriage, fell heavily 'with his horse, in conse
quence of the greasy state of the 'und. The Prin
cess sprang to her feet, awl gro
m a te sted considerable
but alarm, when both rose unhurt she evidently expe
rienced a feeling of relief. Some of hoc=, on the
other hand, took advantage to p ressupon, the
royal carriage, and for the moment the wildest excite
ra prevailed. Ston barrier& of ti mber 2 h ad
been ent
constructed, whi r eh g did their Work. very well
f ss or a time ; bat as'the Prince Wood, the,pressure
became so great that the nPnightfalMa anaPri Off
close to the ground, like so much matchicco
This demonstration tes t of
mere volatility of temper or love of pageant
ry. The masses of phlegmatic Englishmen
need far mbre to rouse them to such a
pitch than would be required by their neigh
bors over the channel. They are worship
pers of rank and,loyalty by instinct. They
were rendering it their sincere homage.
They were expressing their unfeigned delight
at the prospect of 'the perpetuation of the
kingly race among them. They would think
themselves diminished and brought low if
tkey were without a king. The Review
s:
"Perhaps no nation was ever so deeply agitated,
by one universal impulse of sympathy, congratula
tion, and joy, as the British people hive been
within the last few days. Everything has given
place to:the indulgence of those transports, which
affected the millions of, our population with a. real,
though innocent and benignant intoxication. The
public imagination was fired with the spectacle of
the bridal pair, and with the thought of those feli
cities, rich and,varied, which seemed , to be wreath
ed into a coronal for their brow. Youth, health,
manly grace,. delicate female beauty, splendor of
fortune dignity of lineage, and the majestic ,halo,of
prospeCtive royalty, ancombined to make the
PRINCE and PRINCESS cif WALES objects of con
gratulation." •
There can be no question, either, that the
British people see in this marriage no mere
alliance of: expediency brought about by
diplomacy alone, but a true union of youth
ful hearts. It seems to have , the merit of
sincerity and the promise of domestic happi
ness ands. purity. Every family in Great
Britain has been rendered more secure, every
domestic tie has been consecrated by the
beautiful and unsullied eiatnple of Victoria's
household. The people see in this marriage
of, affection a promise of the continuance of
her virtuous and potent example. for a gen
eration to. come. We sincerely , trust the
bright expectation may be fully realized.
Many poets have celebrated the joyous
occasion. The poet Laureate, Tennyson has
written the following stirring welcome :
Sea-kings' daughter from over the sea, Alexandra 1
Saxon and. Norman and Dane are we.
But all of us Danes . in our welcome of thee,
Alexandra!
Welcome her, thunders of fort and of fleet I
Welcome her, thundering cheer of the street!
Welcome her.all things youthful and sweet I
Scatter the , blossom under her feet I
Break, happy land, into earlier flowers I
Make music, 0 bird, in the new-budded bowers I
Welcome her, welcome her, all - that is ours I
Warble
_, 0 bugle, and trumpet blare
Flags, flutter out upon turrets and towers I
Flames, on the windy headland flare
Utter your jubilee, steeple and spire !
Clash, ye bells, in the merry . March air I
Fla'sh, ye cities, in rivers of fire
Welcome her, welcome the, land's desire,
Alexandra!
Sea-king's daughter as happy as fair,
Blissful bride of a blissful heir;
Bride of the heir of the kings of the sea,
0 joy to the people and joy,to the throne,
Come to us, love us, and make us your own
For Swelter Dane or Norman we,
Tent i oll or Celt, or whatever we be,
We are each all Dane in our weleorep of thee,
Alexandra)
totritopouiturt.
THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY.
BY REV. E. E. ADAMS.
CHRIST arose bodily from the dead to die
no more. So shall the bodies of his people
be , raised literally for we shall be raised as
RE was raised. Objections, are, urged against
this view. It is maintained that the muta
tions of our material nature are so great,
—that' in the course of an ordinary life-time
we lose our identity or change it many times
—that therefore it will not be possible to
gather all the particles which have belonged
to us in the course of years, and bring them
together again, so as to form a single, inte
gral, identical, body. But the objector for
gets.that his being is now identical, in all
essential reSpects, with what it was in early
life; and if it can remain identical through
the changes . of twenty or fifty years, may it
not'also through the greater change of death
and resurrection ? Consciousness is the true
identity. We are conscious of ,being the
same creatures that;we were years ago.. But
the natural body is to be raised, a spiritud
body. All its materialism is to he so trans
forined, or so refined, as no longer to be
der the laws of its present existence.
lYloreover; all required for our complete
resurrection is, that we be raised with our
minions personality. But if Grod would
preserve every atom of all that has ever con
stituted our natural body ; if he would call
forth from the sum of materiality whatever
pertains to each being, and return it to its
owner,—will any one say that God cannot
do it.? Will any one aver that the Being,
who—at the close of every winter—summons
its material food to every blade of grass,
every tree and shrub and flower of all the
myriads which cover the fields and fill the
forests of all the continents, sending each
particle of salt, and alkali, and saccharine
matter through the air, and the earth' spores;
from the clouds, the rivers and the seas, to
its owner,—carbon into the pine, acid and
tannin into' the oak, oxide of iron into ,the
blushing rose, and .the blood of beast' and
bird—is not able to call each element to its
true proprietor in the resurrection life ?
Shall there be affinities which he cannot dis
solve ? combinations which he cannot sever ?
complexities which he cannot unravel ? Shall
any truant atom float or fly where His eye
does not penetrate, his hand does not reign ?
May there not be a' law for that great hour
whereby each particle shall be 'marshalled to
its just relations to reappear in its appointed
immortality, -as now each atom, true to gra
vitation and its affinities,
rushes to the em
brace of its kindred ? "Why should it be
thought a thing incredible with you that'GOD
should raise the dead ? " We are 'to be like
the Lord Jesus Christ, "who shall change
our vile body, that it may be fashioned like
unto his glorious body, according to the work
ing whereby he is able even to . ,subdue
all
things unto. himself." -
CHRISTIANITY' AND' MEM
BY, REV. Q. F. WISWELL.
LORD BACON wisely places religion as the
first of the four main pillars of government ;
the other three being : justice, counsel and
treasure. And very sure it is, that no gov
ernment can long flourish if the leaven of
Christianity does not enter into the substance
of its' legislation. Notwithstanding all the
tricky mouthings of politie,al ambition, there
PHIL A. ' 1 ETYMA, . ncuRsDAT - ,.',,,Apßm ,It -1.863.
is a higher laze than all human law, a consti
tution above all human constitutions—it is
the model law, the perfect constitution,
found
in the immutable and, eternal Word of God,
living and abiding forever. Christianity es..
tablishes the great doctrine of human liberty.
Here it meets, as it always has met, with the
most desperate and malign opposition—yea,
it provokes it. Power unchecked, is always
disposed to assert its wicked dominion over
weakness—" Might is right,"' has ever been
the tyrant's creed. Hence all the civil and
spiritual despotism that has taken its gory
way through the ranks of men. Chains and
fetters imposed upon the free, human, spirit,
cannot endure the presence of a pure Chris
tianity. It touches them . with its wand of
freedom, and they fall at the touch. The
Gospel approaches that dark sea of blood
which interposes between man and his right
to himself and his right to know and' worship
his God, and stretching forth:. its divine rod
over the dread surface, a path is opened be
fore the hapless sufferer and victim of op
pression, and he passes dry. shod., over the
heaven illumined way.
The clarion note of ; the Gospel is liberty;
liberty everywhere, liberty at all times—lib
erty in its largest and Most comprehensive
sense—if so be God is honored.. c 6 If there
fore 'the SOn shall make you free, ye shall be
free indeed'," is the true proclamation of uni
verbal emancipation, never to be recalled or
modified. Man, mailer. God, has a right to
the control of himself—his own person, as a
citizen of the State, as a candidate for the
royal honors of eternity.. And against all
despotic interferences with this right, Christ
in his Word protests with trumpet voice.
He opposes all .laws `designed to`; coerce the
spirit, or limit the :heaven-born prerogatives
of moral being. Hence a Christian nation
must always be ,a free nation just so far as
it is Christian. tyranny ai4despotism can
only have rule in the absence of all the safe
guards of divine truth.
The direct effect of the Gospel is to stir
up opposition to all the " laws and usages of
unrighteousness and provoke revolution in
all the departments of Satan's dark empire.
It keeps illy& ceaseless warfare against sin
and unrighteous practices in high places and
in low. Compromise is a word unknown to a
pure. Gospel. And it is ever, agitating, and
disturbing the minds of men withreference
to all great moral and spiritual enterprises,
that at length He whose right it is may come
and reign over a kingdom of universal
peace.
CHAPLAINS.
On a recent Sabbath evening, a meeting
was held in this city, under the auspices of
the Army Committee, auxiliary to the Chris
tian Commission, to promote the good work
of furnishing religious reading and religious.
and humane visitation to the army. A large
churclLandience room was crowded in pews
and aisles.' Major Gen. CurtiEi presided. Ad
dresses were made by Gen. 'Curtis, Gen.
Strong, Chaplain Chidlaw, Mr. K.-A. Burnell
and Mr. Jones, the Secretary and Ghairman
of the Army Committee.
In explaining the work of the Christian
Commission, with its .Army Committees in
different cities, the worthy chairman of the
army, committee stated. that, at a late meet
ing in an Eastern city, a Major General had
remarked that " the system of Chaplains in
the army.had proved a failure;" Not doubt
ing that the system thus censured had fallen
fir short or accomplishing what good men
desire, I still wondered whether so sweeping
a condemnation could be pronounced against
" the system of Chaplains" with much more
justice than against " the system of Major
Generals."
But as soon as there was oppertunity, the
dignified presiding officer rose and said that,
while he did not know which of his brother
Generals it was who had made the observa
tion just quoted, he could not, in justice to
his own sense of right, neglect to testifiy that
having seen some service, and having had
considerable observation of chaplains, in the
field, and in, camps and hospitals, he, regard
ed the chaplans under his command, as gene
rally,faithful, laborious, and exceedingly
useful men."
We soon listened to a thrilling address
from Chaplain Chidlaw, and while he neitber
vaunted his own achievements, nor decried
others, he gave such illustrations of the chap
lains' labors as show that such chaplains as
he, are doing a great work , for the country
and for the souls of her brave defenders.—
There are doubtless few possessing the pecu
liar gifts of Bro. Chidlaw, bUt there are not
a few animated by the same Christian devo
tioii, and working just as faithfully. Let
any who doubt, ask. Bro. Chidlaw whether
he feels ashamed of his associates in -chap
lancy, as a class, Bro. Chidlaw remarkedi
with evident pain, that he had seldom, or
never, heard chaplains specially prayed for,
at family altars, or elsewhere.
On.a subsequent occasion, listening to our
earnest and useful brother Burnell, (a lay
man,) giving an account of his labors in the
hospitals at Memphis, and in the army be
fore Vicksburg, I. observed that when con:
versing with the soldiers, •and giving them
religious counsel, with much success in in
teresting them, they were apt to call him
" Parson," or " Chaplain," mistaking him for
a minister. It seems, after all, to be such
earnest Christian laymen whom the soldiers
mistake for chaplain&
Reflection& -
1. Doubtless many men have obtained pos
itions as chaplains of regiments, who sadly
lack both the intellectual and the spiritual
qualifications which would make them fit for
it. From the mode of appointment, depend
ing so much on the will of regimental officers,
this was to be expected. Certainly the offi
cers of some regiments would hardly be con
sidered capable of making a good selection of
a pastor for any Church. Is it quite, proba
ble that, in every case, they have 'desired to
obtain a really godly man' for theii chap
lain ? •
2. There are many regiments whose offi
cers do appreciate the moral and spiritual
benefits of the Gospel, faithfully preached to
the regiment, and exemplified in the life of a
pious and faithful chaplain, and they have,
in many instances,,found such chaplains.
3. Such chaplains, countenanced and sup
ported by such officers, find most abundant
and most Trecious opportunities' for useful
labor, and are generally honored 'and loved
by the men of their charge.
4. Besides all that ehaplains can do, there
is abundant occasion for tb4 layois of the
Christian Comthission, with aftibiii de'teiates,
and all their army committees. None appre
ciate these labors more highly, or irelcoine
them. more cordially than the; faithful chap
lains.
5. It is a mistake for speakM.ces.t • pLriv
meetings, or elsewhere, to aim to,,give effect
to their addresses by decryingchapiains as
a class. ' It will be more just and more use
ful, to represent the Christian Commission
work as a needed and welcome,' indeed an
indispensable, auxiliary or supplement to the
chaplaincy. This more just and' , considerate'
course will not prevent .suitable , efforts, by
those who can furnish ,well-attested, facts, to
relieve the service of incompetentund. unfaith- •
ful chaplain ,y and ; it certainl will increase.
I
the probab.,of obtaining - tier- men in
their placei. ,
6. We ought to pray fort ;• t
' Ciiiplairts.
Ministers at home know, thati*ithe of'-the
best members of our PrestilyteridifOonferen-.
ces and Associations, are 'Ohlaringlin:ithe'
army, sharing the privations a df:expOdures
and toils of the , soldiers,' and ' id-,great (lif'=,
ficultics and trials and lempta 'ons,ranxions
ly watching for .souls. Let-; ,not,forget
f l
them in our. Pulpit,prayers.
Beme churches have releasej
tors for teMporary service in'tl,
surely they, will not, forget" , , ,
church prayer-meetings. ' ' '
Thousands of Christian ho seliolds lave
sons or fathers where, in te ' ptatien.they
need a,Chaplain's adinonition4l here in des
pondency they need „a chapl in's . encour
agement; where on A sick bed, or, in dying,
they need a chaplain's ministr
, ' Who of us
v
all has not. some. dear friend [thus; circum
stanceV. Who of us all does ot l ynoW that
our country's salvation depends greatly' On'
saving our army from demorm ' ation? Let
)1
us constantly pray for God's'i, lessing' upon
all agencies for the evangel lition of our
armies; not forgetting as prom neat, if not
chief, among these, the Chap, , cy.
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St. Louis, March. E3lst, 186
A PLEA FOR TOE DO
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1
In some of our Churches doxology,tnxl the
most beautiful part of our worship is entirely
omitted, or the concluding. Stanza of the
last hymn sung in .its: place 3 :;,AS,' lio*ever,
many hymns are not addreseed,l6 God, biit
t
to the soul, the world, or , fel 7 . -christians;
it is possible for a church omitting the dOx-,
ology to conduct an entire sit - tide , without
one expression of direct prise to God.
i.
After being by a kind PreVide' ce porn - lifted
to assemble' for public worship having heard
the word and united in prayer . -and spiritu
al songs: is it not proper' thatithe,Congrega
tion, with hearts full of gratitude -.rise and
join in ascribing praise unto God the Father,'
Christ the Saviour and they Holy ,Spirit thp
sanctifier, one OA - the preitt.'r•Oftlsreseiyeil
of all, who of his' mercy heareth us. The
Psalmist says " Let the people praise thee
0 God! " and in various portions of the
holy Scriptures are the people called upon
to unite in praise. All church worship
should be congregational, each - individual
feeling himself a.. participant, not an idle
spectator. •
It is 'believed that no congregation has
consented to the' omissron of the doxology,
but that the choirs have dispensed with it
considering it old-fashioned. For eighteen
hundred years many ha,ve believed and wor
shipped much as we do. Shall we now give
up our worship because old-fashioned, or our
faith because holy men have held the same
in past time ?. The doxology carries us back
to the days of our , forefathers; and from the
mountains which offered them shelter from
their persecutors, we shear their songs of
praise, wee them stand before rulers and
kings for Christ's sake, and remember that
by the grace of God they were made more
than conquerors ; and our souls mounting
upon the wings of .their faith, unite with the
redeemed on earth and in > heaven in ascri
bing blessing and honor and glory and pow
er unto Him that sitteth upon the throne
and unto the Lamb forever. M.
fftlltictionc
ANCIENT PERU.
There was; however, an earlier civilisation
in Peru than that which isf supposed to have
been introduced by -the Incas. Near Lake
Titicaca ; and 12,930 feet abo.ve the level of
the sea, are still to be seen the ruins of,vast
edifices which must have belonged to ~a
people considerably , advanced in the arts, of
life. These consist of immense monolithic
doOrways and masses of hewn stone, on
which the Incas themselves are'said to have
gazed with astonishment _Colbseal Male and'
feniale figures, crownedwithturbans, indicate
a people : very-different -from •the-population
of Peru under the Incas, and` the very curious
sculpture -togetherwith its minutes detail and
high ;finish, points to anotherphase of civili
sation if not to a separate race.' It *re-,
markable that this very ancient'civilisation
should have had its seat in a region so ele
vated as not to be very propitious either to
the respiration of man or to cereal produc
tion, being a plain, almOst constantly frozen,
135 feet above the lake. • Some subsequent
upheaval of the country has probably,
changed. its climatic condition. The remains
of the great temple . , and the,city of Pacaca
mac, near Lima afford additional evidence of
the remote edvilisation of Peru. On a conical
hill, 458 feet shove' the level of the sea, are
the ruins of a temple ' which, if the stories of
the Spaniard are -to be believed, must have
even surpassed in splendour the More cele
brated Temple of the Sun at'Ousco. Itwas
built of sun-dried bricks, but all the riches of
the country must have been; lavialied upon ills
interior decoration. The ma.ssive,doors were
plated with gold- and stalled with precious
stones. It was dedicated to Pachacamic,
and, as it contained no image or representa
tion of the Deity, 'a pure and - simple Theism
is supposed to have been the primitive re
ligion of Peru which was afterwards cor
tlipted by the.lncas into an. idolatrous :wor
ship of the sun. They are said not to have
ventured at first to demolish this greats
temple, or to Pollute it ,by the introduction,
of any visible. symbol of the Godhead, but to
have built by its side another temple dedi
cated to the Sun; to whose worship they
hoped gradually to convert the ennquered
.race.
The , ancient empire of Peru contained a
population of .30,000,000 souls, .and the
country was cultivated in amanner.of which
China now, affords the_only example, Sandy
plains were rendered fertile by irrigation, and
,mountain-steeps.from , which. therliama could
'have scarcely 'picked , its scanty food; , were
shaped into terraces, and tilled with elaborate
care: The widener* as they Were termed
by the' Spaniards,' rose one above another,
'tier overt tier, , up the' steepest acclivities of
the hills. No ground was neglected , on which
a blade of - cern would .grow'; and harvests
waved on, heights now visited only ; by the
candor and the eagle. When subsistence
, was secured, taste was gratified. The hang. ;
inggai4tis of the Andes were.thedelight of
a people who, by, fixing their habitatiOns in
the most picturesque situatiens, eVidentlyap=
preciated the scenic grandeur Of their coim
lry. The palacei of an ancient nobility are - 1.3 t
14scoveredbytheirfertiinblingtiiallb in
Arb
places now rarely: trod . y thCfoop.< of
inicgr) . 4o:,*,*rP4he ijungle has. for. age§
.effaced every trace of. former:, cultivation.
;Boundary stones indicating a very minute
subdivision ofthe - raja are - still to be met
with in every part of Tern ; and innumerable
buanas, or Vast: burial-rtiounds,atteSt.the for:
.tner populousness of the country. The
western coast, once 'one'of the most popu
lotisnandTroductiVe districts of the en:Air - 6,4i
no*, with the exeeption of a few valleys, a:
'desert ; l and these valleys, which open upon
the Papific, do r n o t now contain a tentkpart
of their former, population. The valley of
:Santa, for instance, once maintained 700;000
inhabitants ; the number does not. now, ex-.
ce,ed 12,000. There were once in the'valley
of Aticullama, in - the' Province of Chancay,
30,009 individuals who, paid tribute ; there
are now :only 42.. P people, of whom. 320 are
`negroes. The city of Cuzco, which
num
bered 200,000 inhabitants at the time of the
Spanish Conqiest, now contains only 20,000.
A vast territory, extending from the Amazon
to the Andes, and from: the shore of the
Pacific, to :the sources - of the P.araguayAis
now almost as depopulated as if it had been
smitten. bra destroying angel, or had fallen
under the, scourge ,of a Genghis ,Khan:.
The representations of the conquerors of
Peru must of course be received with con
siderable re.serve. They were thrown into a
'state of temporary delirium by the wonderful
wealth that' met their eyes on every side. In
a country which possessed no external Corn
mem,- and. wher emoney was unknown, gold
and silver could::have been valued only as
ministering to luxury, or as applicable to
.ornament and to the arts. , It is.quitecredi
ble, therefore, that the royal garden at Cuzco
possessed fountains of solid gold,, and imita
tions in gold and silver of flowers, friiits, in
sects, animalS, and birds. Vases and statues
of gold on every side presented themselves
to the excited Spaniards`; bit when they pre
tend to describe funeral piles constructed •of
gelden- faggots, and YksVgranaries bursting
'with a plethora of gold-dust, we may be cer
tain that they have wandered into the re
gions of romance. No object so much ex
cited their cupidity .as the magnficent gol
den plate which symbolized the Peruvian
Deity in the ereat temple at 'Cuzco, and
which, sparkling with the finest emeralds,
was placed to catch the first rays of the sun
as it 'rose above the mountains and to fill the
edifice with dazzling 'light. This sacred
emblem, before which millions had bowed in
adoration, fell by, lot to one of the adveutu
rers, by whom it was afterwards lost in play.
It was ultimately broken up by the„Military
ruffians, who plundered indiscriminately tem
ples, palaces, and tombs.—Loidon Quarterl,y.
- beloved pas-
Cliaplaincy
era at their
'OLOGY
SIMPLICITY AND SUFFICIENCY OF SAV
ING FAITH..
The road to heaven, my brethren, iS BY
FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS. It is not by well
doing that you can be saved, though it is by
ill-doing that you will be damned if you put
not trust in Christ. Nothing that you. can.
'do can save you. Albeit that after you are
saved it will be your delightful -privilege to
walk in the ways of God and to keep his. com
mandments, yet all your own.. attempts ,
keep the commandments previous to faith
but sink you, deeper into the mire, and will
by no means contribute to your salvation.'
The one road - to heaven is • BY FAITH IN
'CHRIST. ' Or, to make it plainer still, as ihe
countryman'said, there aretrit two' steps to
heaven—out of self into Christ; and then,.
out Of Christ-into heaien. Faith is simply
explained aslrusting in' Christ. I find that
Christ commands me to believe in him, or to
trust him. I feel that there is no reason in
.
myself why I should be allowed to trust him.
But he commands me to do so. Therefore,
altogether apart from my character or from.
any preparation lhatli feel-in myself, I obey
the command, and sink or swita—l trust
Christ. Now,,that is faith; when, with the
eye Shut as to all evidence of hope in our- -
selves, we take a leap in the dark, right into
the arms of an Omnipotent Redeemer.
Faith is sometimes spoken of in Scripture
,as being a leaning upon. Christ—a casting of
one's self upon him ; or, as the old Puritans
used to putit'(using a Somewhat hard word),
it is recumbency on Christ—the, leaning of
the whole weight upon his cross; ceasing to
stand by the strength .one's, own power,
and resting wholly upon 'the, rock of ages.
The leaving of the soul in the hands of Jesus
is the very essence of faith. Faith is receiv
ing Christ into our • emptiness. There 'is
Christ like the conduit in the market place.
As the water flows from the-pipesso does
grace continually flow from him. By. faith
I bring my empty pitcher, and hold it where
the water flows, and receive of its fulness,
grace for grace. It is.not the beauty of my
pitcher, it is not even its cleanness' that
;quenches my thirst it is simply holding that
pitcher to the place inhere water flows. -.Even
so I am' but the vessel, and my faith is the
hand which presents the empty vessel to the
flowing, stream. It is the grace, and not the
qualification of the receiver, which saves the
soul. And though I hold that pitcher with
a trembling hand, and that which I
seek may be l'o'st throUgh my weakness, -yet
if the soul be but held-to the' fountain, and
so much, as a single drop trickle into it, my
soul is saved. Faith is receiving Chrisfwith
the understanding, and with the will, submitt
ing everything to him, taking him to, be, my
all in all,. and agreeing' tobe henceforth noth
ing at all. Faith is ceasing from the creature
and coming to the Creator. It is looking
out ofself to Christ, turning the eye entirely
:from any good thing that is here within me,
and'looking for every blessing to those open
veins; to that poor bleeding heart, to that
thorn-crowned headx of him whom : God,hath
set forth " to, be the propitiation for our sins,
and not for,our sins only, but for theAins of
the whole world."
Sinner. I tell thee that• all thy 'sins be
they never so many, cannot destroy,. thee, if
then dust
,believe on the ,Lord Jesus Christ:
If now then castest thyself 'simply .on - the!
merits ofJesus, " ThOugh thy sins be as sear
let,' they shall be as wool." Only believe.
Dare to believe that Christ is able to save
them to the uttermost that come . unto God
by him. Takehim at, his word , and trust him.
And thou hast a warrant for' doing it ; for
remember is written, " The:blood ofJesus
Christ, his Son, cleinsethus Trpm all sin."
Thou art commanded to believe; therefore,
be thou never so black a sinner, the command
is thy Warrant—oh, May God ' help thee to'
obey the command ! Noii y jibtiabithottidrt;;
cast thyself -er•OhriSt.. , •lt is .net the great
ness of the Sinner.that the Idifficulty ;
the,harduessofthe sinner's heart. It now
thou art conscious of the most awful. guilt
thy guilt becomes as nothing in the , eye of
God,, when once he sees the, blood of Christ
sprinkled upon thee I 'tell thee more : if,
thy' sins were ten thousand'imes as many as
they be, yet the bloOd ' Christ is' able to
atone -for them all. Only dare to believe
that. Now, by a, venturesome faith, trust
thyself in Christ. If thou art.the most• sick
of all •the wretches •that ever this divine iphy
sician essayed to; cure, so ,much ; the more
glory to him. When :a ; physician cures a
man of some little disease;what credit doth
he get? But when he heals a man who is
all over' diseased i who has become but a
putrid mass, then there is glory to the
sician. And so will there be to Christ when
he. saveththee. - •
But to' put this block out of the way once
for all. Remember, sinner, that all the while
thou ddst not believe in Christ, thou .art •ad
ding- to thy sin this great sin of not believing,
which is the ; greatest:sin, in the world. But if
thou obey God. in this matter of putting thy
trust in Christ, God's own Word is_guaranteed
that thv faith, shall' rewarded, and thou
shalt find'' that thy sins, which are many, are
all forgiven thee. - BY theside' of Saul of
Tarps, and Of her out'' of whom' was cast
seven devils, shalt, thou one day stand. With
the thief Shalt thoU,sing of:love' divine, and
with Manasseh shalt thou rejoice in hiruwho
can mash away the ,foulest, crimes. Oh, I
pray; God there maybe some one in this great
!crewd te-day, who may he saying in his
heart, " Sir, you have described me. I do
feel that, I am the blackest sinner anywhere,
: but I will risk it, ;twill put My trustiiii Christ
and Christ` alone.” :Ah,soul, God bless thee ;
thou art an accepted one:: If thou canst do
'this this morning; 1. Will be Gods hostage
that 11., :will he true to thee and true , to. his
Son, fornever shiner perished, yet that dared,
'to :trust the''precious bl4d of Christ-1-4w-
MIRACLES NECESSARY.
Is Christianity its own witness through its
individuality as, arevelation, or:its constitn
've: elernents ? "Evidences of -Christiani
ty-I', says Coleridge, " I amp
.weary of the
Word,"-. "The truth. revealed through Christ
has its evidence
,in_itself. , ",Let, us patiently
inprire to the fiAt concerning this : Has
Chriltianity, its evidences in itself P We have,
distinguished, in Christianity, between what
it hisin common natural religion,' and
:what
is distinctively its own. The pre
sent question.hisnoreferencelto the former ;
so far as that is- concerned, the evidence is
in, itself ; but it is .no part of the evidence of
Christianity, as such, being no part, distinc
, tively, of Christanity itself. - It is in respect
to the latter that we ask, does it apart from
miracles,, or, byinere SeUteeidenee; assert its
Pin truth? The 'things . ' concerning which
we inqiiire;:whethei they are selfevident or
not, are of the class including the following: -
That the,EternarWor& Was. made flesh in
the , perioneof Jesus; that-the death . of - Jesus
was theredemption of; he world; that Jesus
is .the Almighty ,Ruler, and Judge of the
'world; that the dead. will be raised by him
:at the last day::
.are theke things, indepen
dently of testimony, true to the reason of
mankind ? -The question gives its own ans
wer. .Nothing' says Dr. Hodge, "in the
,apprehension 4- df ratiOnalists; can be more Ab
surd than that the blood of the cross can re
moVe.siesi''''"'We preach Christ crucified".
said Paul; ";to the Jews a stumbling-block,
andite: thelGreeks ifoolishness". The
certainly nevermade its way by recommend
ing. itself. to the intuitive consciousness, or
the natural . reason,. of man, apart from ex
ternal evidences of its. truth. No more pal
pably untrue assertion could be made than .
that Christianity, in - its supernatural pecii
lKties; has its' evidence in itself, meaning
therebythat it has. no need of external proof.
"There is 'nothing", says ; Calvin, "that is
more. at :variance with human reason than
this-article , of our faith (the resurrection of
the body.)._. For who but God alone could
persuade us that bodies which are now liable
to corruption, having, rotted away,
or after they haie been consumed by fire, or
torn in - pieces' by wild beasts, not only bere-'
stored entire, but in a greatly better condi
tion ?- Do not all'our apprehensions 'of things
reject this as &thing fabulousolay, the grea
test absurdity in the world ?" Truly, only
Ged himself, bearing witness directly to. the
trUth`Ot, Christianity, could justify or war
rant.beliefiri it. Reason nature. itself, de
mandeqhat n God him Self, by supernatural
workS; Pr' 'seine 'equivalent means; attest a
supernattral:revelatien, such as Christianity
elaimate be.: They are its natural and pro
per proofs; " I should not be a Christian",
said St.- Airgustine, "but for miracles.". Ex-,
cept for: miracles, there. would not lave been
sin in not,"believeing . on Jesus. Christ. "If
hadl . not done w i no") them theworkswhich
n
none other Min did, they had not had sin."
Claiming to lib the Messiah, it behooved our
Lord te . atithenticate his clinm by miracles—
preannounced.noteS of Messiahship,--which,
if ho had: not !wrought, the Jews,.• in rever-.
elm° of. the. prophetic Scriptures, . ought, to
have rejected, him.. : Let inquire; then, of.
thes,e who Say. Christianity has its evidence
in itself; what they mean by this language:;'
likhig' Christianity, with its 4;
n concretedete
titholnial miracles, it .has' its6tidoitre6
in its 'a - Wit:behalf; ati'the
doce , .';.fori himself,..hy the light and:'the
heatwhich he sheds through the world ;hut
OAHE "EVANGELIST.-='=—Whiile NO. 882.
apart '
from. thi.evidence of miracles, ought it
mot to be discredited ?—Rev. Dr. Skinner in
the Amer. Theololiettr Review:,
Dr. VIGLIERN ON FAWIRES,IN
pmniuti RELIGIOUSLY.
A Winter course of popular lectures has
been held during the past season in_Berlin;
the Iccturcrs choosing their own, ,themes.
One of the"course was delivered'by the cel
ebrated Dr. Wibbern, of which: the follow.
ing interesting account is, given in an ,En
glish periodical:
Dr. Wiohern stated in `the opening of his
- address, that:a deep-rooted and all pervading
struggle. was going on at the present time;
in fact, evil and good were_ measuring their
strength, '..Everything is questioned. , Noth
;ing: exists against fivhich opposition and eon
tradietion ' hapuot , IYeen heard. ,Countiess
multitudes have 'thrown off all fear and >all
'faith ; they - believe, in fact, nothing--noth
ing is holy to them, nothing they 'revere - or
fear ;.the fundamental truths of our faith..-.
st 6 Ilible,'and'everitlitiig which men gener
ally love and:respect, they hate, revile,. and
mock 'it. Connected with this is their con
stant 'cry. for. liberty—personal, individual,
unrestrainedliberty to act as 'they like, as
every one personally likes,without the slight
est respect to his ,neighbor or to the whole.
Obedience, piety, respect, and esteem,' are
'thrown off entirely. Parents consequently.
ask, What guarantee have we for the future
`with regard to the education and training of
our children? Public life is a sea raging
wildly—the waves' . in the fiercest uontlict
threatening-to swallow 'up everything; what
are we to do, that our;children, about. to be
thrown into this raging sea, 'play - not be
'drowned ? Everyone who has had to do
with educatien, knoirs what a powerful effect
on the thing generation the ideas of 1830
and 1848 have exercised, and how they have
gained ground. Dr. • Wich - gave his own
* I,
experience, and advised the rents how to
act. The, parents have to exercise their roy
al priesthoOd in the honse in the midst of
their family ; the more effectually they 'do
this, the greater will be the influence they
exercise for good on the minds oftheir chil
dren. However, it is a- fact that, out of , a
`great number of families, "called Christian
families in reality and truth, children have
gone forth who have-brokenthrough all -re
straints, and.taken their standpoint just op
posite to that of their, ,parents, joining the
enimies of 'Christ. What may the cause be
of this aPparerit anomaly ? Have the pions
~
parenti educated their childreii.more by the
la than by grace—: more exercised the rig
our of the: Old. than the love of the New Tes
-lament"; or haVe they given thernmore spir
itualfood than .the children could digest
'Can yon 'scold a child--a boy—that - he does
not pray ? :diet he does not love Christ Je
sus, and punish him for not doing it ? How
.cap..you expect' to gain by violence what
'ought to be the spontaneous and genuine
production of free,affection ? A great fault
it is, when the Christian life is' considered
as quite a distinct and seperateSphere apart
from and beyond the daily' life and 'conver
sation, insteadef considering it as the leaven
which ought to penetrate every deed, 'word,
and thought—as the sun, which enlightens
and enlivens every `thing. Nothing, is so
dangerous as the uver-feeding and over-load
tug the mind, with religious instruction ;
nothing so dangerous as cant Christian
wards' without power.' It was indeed a net
ural and healthy reaction in a lad of fifteen
years of-age, when he said`to those who perk
scented him with their endeavours to convert
him, and make him a Christian ; 'I will do
everything you tell me, obey you in every-
thing ; but one thing I will not, cannot do—
I will not be a Christian and will never be
come. ,
one.' This boy was considered to be
quite loft; but he was made a Christian;
and in after life, when this youth was re
moved from those who had, by their false
love and care for his soul, created in him a
disgust against - the very name of a Christian,
and was placed under, other circumstances,
among those who never talked of Christian
ity, but acted Christianity; when he saw , the
simplicity, truth, innocence, grandeur, and
majesty of Christianity, he became a Chris
tian, and thanked God on his kneei that he
had learned the value of the unspeakable
gift of the Bible of Christ. Oh, that all pa
rents might learn what a lovely and tender
thing faith is—how delicate the spontaneous
rise of it in the soul of man.
AN ENDLESS READER.—Bishop Morris,
in a communication to the Chicago Advocate,
tells this incident : " The late Rev. 'James
B. Finley and his family, came home from
camp meeting, worn down with fatigue and
loss of sleep, and brought with them a young
preacher as a guest, who was a slow, imper:-
feet reader. As the family was late arri
ving, supper was late, the night short, and
all anxious for repose, but none could, think
of sleeping without worship. The young
preacher was invited to lead therein. He
selected for the evening lesson a chapter in
Luke, containing over seventy verses, and.
blundered. on till he reached the last end,
and then prayed through the bill. After all
was over, Rev. Robert Finley, father of
James, who was a learned. oldinan, remarked
he never before saw so clearly the advan
tage of'having the sacred. Scriptures divided
into chapters, for if the young preacher had
not reached the end of the chapter, he would
have read all night."
FrArY.--The correspondent of the London
Times says the Pope is dying. The failing
Pontiff is sorry to die without blessing Italy,
but don't see how he can help it, He
cannot betray God, and the Church. Ire is
not severe upon' Victor Emmanuel, compar
ing the pressure that has urged on the King
to that which the'Pope himself found to be
irresistible in 1848. At the mention of the
Emperor of Fronde he is gravely silent, but
the name of Prince Napoleon makes him.
redden with ' anger. Intrigues for the suc
cession are already lively among - the Cardi
nals.
BALAAM suve the vision of the Almighty,
and beheld the star arising out _of Jacob, but
'the Day-star, :as- Ediviidsobserve's, never
arese=in. his ti-.-=-1
heare‘ had an. outward Rev
elatiorybut no spiritual discovery of C:uist.