Wiehliughausen, near Barmen. Various rea eons induced him soon afterward to resign his charge. He was subsequently superin tendent in Skenditz, (between Halle and Leipsig,) and latterly in Eisleben. He was twice married, (his first wife was a sister of Prof. Nitzsch,) and has left several children to mourn his loss. After a most laborious and eminently useful life, this faith ful servant has been called to his home ; but, his memory will live in the grateful hearts of thousands, and the influence of,his profound and spiritual expositions be felt and enjoyed by many Christian congregations on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a teacher to many, and, " being dead, yet speaketh."— Work of Christian Church. Alluvium Vrtobgttrian -AND GENESEE EVANGELIST. THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1883. JOHN' W. NEARS, THE UN/ON PRAYER-MEETING of our churches will be held on Tuesday next at 4 o'clock P M., in the German St. church, between Second and Third Streets. LIE DAILY UNION PRAYER-MEETING is held from 12 to 1 o'olook, in the ball, No. 611 Chest nut street, over the Commonwealth Insurance Company. EXTRA DAILY ISSUE OF THE AMERIOAD PRESBYTERIAN. During the approaching Sessions of the Gene ral Assembly in this city, we propose to issue from this office a daily paper containing PEIONO ORAPHIO REPORTS of all the proceedings, with the Acts, Reports, Sermons, and other Docu ments of the body, in as full and accurate a manner as possible. The DAILY AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN will be nearly half the size of the weekly ; it will be printed on smaller but legible type, and on good paper, furnishing a record valuable to every mtnister,'elder, and church-member, for imme diate use, or for preservation for the future. The price for a single copy will be FIvE CENTS; all the numbers will besent, post-paid, to any address for 60 cents. To be paid in ad vance. As it is very desirable that some approxima tion to the number which will be required, be reached at an early day, it is hoped that sub scriptions will be sent at once to our office. A limited space will be allotted to advertise ments, at fifty cents a line for the entire edition, or $37.50 per column of fifteen iqches; $2O for s, half column, $l2 for a quarter column. Address, AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, 1334 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. THE PRESIDENT'S EAST. Agreeably to the will of the United States Senate, expressed towards the close of the last Session of Congress, the President has issued a Proclamation calling upon the people to observe Thursday next, the 30th of the month, as a day of fasting humiliation and prayer. •The tone of the delcument is such as to command the univer sal approval of the Christian community, not ex cepting that small fragment—so exacting and so hard to please—the High-Churchmen. It not only recognizes the dependence of the nation on the overruling power of God, and their duty to confess their sins, but it acknowledges that pride and self-sufficiency, on account of the national prosperity graciously accorded to us, have hinder ed us from a proper sense of " the necessity of re deeming and preserving grace." Here is a to lerably clear assertion of important evangelical doctrine in a state paper, an event as rare as it is refreshing. Religious sentiments are frequent ly uttered in such documents, but specifically Christian sentiments are generally so carefully avoided that one wonders over and over again, whether our rulers really regard us as a Chris tian nation or not. Still more decided in the expression of thin sentiment is the language of the resolution of the Senate which we give in full. Resolved, That devoutly recognizing the su preme authority and just government of Al mighty God in all the'affairs of men and of no tient, and sincerely believing that no people, however great in numbers and resources, or how ever strong in the justice of their cause, can prosper without His favor, and at the same time deploring the national offences which have pro voked His righteous judgment, yet encouraged in this day of trouble, by the assurances of His . Word, to seek Him for succor according to His appointed way, through Jesus Christ, the Senate of the United States do hereby request the Pre sident of the United States, by his proclamation, to designate and set apart a day for national pray er and humiliation, requesting all the people of the land to suspend their secular pursuits and unite in keeping the day in solemn communion with the Lord of Hosts, supplicating Him to en lighten the counsels and direct the policy of the rulers of the nation, and to support all our soldiers, sailors, and marines, and the whole people, in the firm discharge f duty, until the existing rebellion shall be over-thrown and , the blessings of peace restored to our bleeding country. There is So' much that itrgratifying in the tone of these public utterances, and they are so far in advance of nearly all similar declarations in the specific Christian character of their con tents, that we are inclined to see in them already evidence that our troubles are acting wholesome ly upon the nation. Yet, neither the Senate nor President Lincoln seems to be clearly conscious of a disciplinary purpose in our troubles. They are regarded simply as punitive. The nation is called to humble itself pretty much as we should suppose the States in rebellion ought to be hum bled. The Senate, indeed, say but little on the point referred to: "deploring their national offences which have provoked his righteous judgment;" and they distinctly express the consciousness of the justice of our cause. Their aim seems rather to have been to summon the people to united prayer for success under a sense of entire dependence upon the divine favor. The President has turned the day into a service of fasting and humiliation, has written down a confession for the nation in sonibre char acters, and has allowed a reformatory purpose to our sufferings only as remote and subordinate to their punitive character. A jail or a treadmill may reform a criminal, but its first object is to punish him. To us, the leading object of the sufferings of the loyal people appears to be the same as that of the chastening of the good man—diseiplinary. Punishment is indeed connected with discipline, but only as promotive of the direct and more im portant object. The good man under the divine discipline, may and ought to have a widely differ cut, far more cheerful and comforting, experience than the criminal atoning for his offences. The callfor fasting, humiliation and prayer, under the former circumstances, might indeed be issued 4 but it would not he devoid of a certain animation and confidence, as of those who felt themselves in the hands of an infinitely wise and kind father, rather than an angry God. We agree with the language of Dr. Darling in his sermon, " The two Rebellions," published in the Presby terian Quarterly last October. He says : "The connection between our national sins and our present sorrow is not, we believe, one of judgment and retribution, but of discipline and purification. The passage of Holy Writ that we think most applies to this nation is, Every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit.' " And the Princeton Review for October says : "No American regards the trials of our revo lutionary war, divine judgments for the sins of the people. Neither does any enlightened man of this generation look upon the civil war in England as a judgment of God against the na tion. It was its salvation. To the perfidious Stuarts and their abettors, it may have been pu nitive, but to the people it was the price and means of their Protestant and national life. . . . Editor. This war may be, as other wars have been, a malk of Ged'efavOr. . . It may be the necessary process of developement of our national life, and be all meant in mercy and not in wrath." We regret that the President's proclamation was not written under the influence of this " healthful and elevated view of the subject." 'We regret, too, that in confessing the, sins of the nation, he .should have made no allusion to the very one which has been thrown into bold relief by the war—the sense less and' unchristian prejudice against an inferior race prevailing in the North. But we do not desire to find fault, or to show a cavilling spirit, where there is so-much to commend, and where the defects of the' proposal are so easily remedied by every one who accepts it. Let us heartily re spond to the President's recommendation and spend the day in solemn, though not despondent, national recognition of dependence on ,God, and in 'earnest prayer for the speedy and emu. plete 'salvation of the state. The widespread religious interest in our country will, we think, be peculiarly favorable to 'a proper observation of the day, which in turn, will doubtless act pro pitiously upon the quickened religious sensibili ties of the people. PUERILITY AND UNFAIRNESS OF 00- LEM'S ATTAOK, AS EXHIBITED IN PROF. GREEN'S REPLY. • In judging such a work as Colenso's attack on, the Pentateuch, the severe Scriptural canon:;" He that offendeth in one point is guilty of all," must be applied. No amount of seeming candor or honest search for truth can neutralize the dam aging effects of a single instance of unfairness or manifest trifling. By such an instance, well made out, the entire character of the book is-destroyed, and it must be remanded summarily to that class of books which are under the ban of prcrription as in spirit hostile to Christianity. It is only one of the many developements of the natural hostili ty of the corrupt heart to the truth. That Co lenso is both trivial and unfair in his treatment of the disputed points, Prof. Green has plainly shown, notwithstanding the assertion of the critic in the North British, Review, that he betrays no unbecoming levity of Spirit;" that his difficul ties cannot he fairly imputed in any considera ble degree to a paradoxical humor;" that he has recounted "with perfct frankness the efforts he made," etc. Suspicion of the man's character involuntarily seizes us, when for a single moment we remember what solemn vows of fidelity to Scripture and to the Church founded on it, rest upon his soul; how, traitor-like he seeks to un dermine what he is sworn to uphold ; how he clings to emoluments and dignities whieh only a 'seared conscience could make to sit easy upon him. Before we can accord any degree of fair ness to the assailant of the standards of Christian ity, we demand that he should abandon the con temptible device of disguising himself in her robes and persisting in reckoning himself among her friends. "We should' think better of his honesty;" says Prof. Green, " if the publication of this book had been preceded by a manly resig nation of his bishopric, seeing he can no longer fulfil the vows made in the assumption of the. office. With the best disposition to deal fairly and truly with him, we cannot allow the fairness and candor of his arguments. He ha's again and again withheld data necessary to a solution of difficulties which he is magnifying, though he he adduces these very same data in some other connection to create a fresh contradiction, show ing thereby that it is not innocently or ignorantly done." Colenso's unfairness is manifested frorn the beginning, in.his holding the narrativelo such a literal and stringent account that nothing can be understood or supplied by the common sense of the reader. History is put under obligation to tell every thing, or the critic will be at perfect liberty to fill up the laeunse with' impossibilities and then convict the narrative of falsehood I " any body says that the Prince of Wales 'came to America, and does not at the same time express ly add that he crossed the ocean in a vessel, his story is absurdly false, according to the bishop, and .the narrator a dolt" A genealogy must give every link in the chain, or its inadequacy to cover the required period proves it St unhistorical." Moses and Aaron must have spoken, according to the literal construction of the narrative. directly to the whole conurecration of Israel ; the entire congregation must have been gathered literally about the moderate sized door of the tabernacle ; the priests must have borne with their own hands the entire debris of the numerous offerings of the host outside the camp, ete., ete.;—all these impos sibilities and absurdities must be ascribed to the narrative, because it is not expressly said that the elders of the congregation first received the word from Moses, and then communicated it to the people; or, that the priests hired servants to remove the offal of the tabernacle. He is not a truly honest man who discredits an important document for such puerile and empty pretences as these. Colenso professes to find a serious obstacle to the belief of the inspiration of the Pentateuch in its toleration of slavery. Others have honestly felt the same difficulty. But must we not hesiz tate to admit the sincerity of the Bishop's sera= pies when we remember that he tolerated poly gamy among the Zulu " converts," in his diocese, and publicly upheld the expediency of such a course in missionary operations? Is it possible that he has reached such ,a lofty pitch of morality that the received explanationiof Moses' hamanir Amtriritit getteollgttrialt and vsaittoe,e igrangtiiot and freedom-tending toleration of slavery are lost upon him ? Or have we not here a clear case of moral perversity, where whim, or preju dice, or love of notoriety, as the ease may be, is allowed to guide even in the most serious affairs ? Clear cases of unfairness are (1.) The repre sentation that the requirement of cleanliness in the camp, mentioned Dent. 13 :.- 12-14, referred to the encampment of the whole people, whereas it is expressly confined to the relatively smaller military expeditions (verse 9.), leaving no such difficulty as is devised by Colenso. (2.) The mere supposition without foundation in the, text, Exod. 14: 2, that the vast multitudes of the children of Israel moving out of Egypt, were but three days in marching fifty or sixty miles, from Rameses to the'Red Sea. This supposition is made, to bear against the credibility of the narrative, but it is a difficulty of the Bishop's, not of the narrator. In no place are we told how many days it took them. In this connec tion, Prof. Green accuses the Bishop of down right dishonesty towards 'Kurtz, a German au thor of great value and sound views on Sacred History, whom Colenso professes to quote in support of his views, omitting, however, the fol lowing sentence from what purports to be a con nected quotation : ,• " The following considerations also serve to show that the-Israelites must' necee sarily have spent more than three days on their march from Rameses to their encampment by the sea" (3.) The objection s ' that the terri tory actually occupied by the children ,of Israel in the era Of the Pentateuch was so small and so crowded with population, that the precau tion of preserving alive temporarily the heathen, lest the land should be overrun whir Wild 'animals, was utterly unnecessary; and is a Proof of the unhistorical character of the narrative. Whereas, the very next verse to those quoted by the Bishop, Exod. 23 : 31, definea the bounda ries of the promised land as far more extensive than those actually occupied by Israel in that era; and it was that greater territory, ex _ tending from the great sea to the sea of the philistines and from the desert to the river—to the possession of which Israel was constantly to aim, and which‘ - was actually acquired under David And Solomon—that should not prematurely be depopulated lest wild beasts overrun the land (4.) Receiving the opinion of Paul in Galatians as authority on the duration of the sojourn in Egypt, an opinion which in troduces embarrassing problems into the history, but rejecting the au thority of the writer of Chronicles in 'a case which would , remove a difficulty in regard to statements in the Pentateuch. (5.) " The climax of outrageous misrepresentation," where, in a closing paragraph of one of his chapters, Bishop Coigns° coolly ascribes to the Pentateuch half a dozen extravagant statements which would give the Sacred Record a mere Munchamseri charac ter, whereas the Pentateuch asserts none ,of them; they, are Colenso's own deductions imputed to the text. (6.) The assertion that all the Paschal lambs consumed in the wilderness, say 150,000 at a single season, were regarded by the writer of the Pentateuch as slain in the court of the Tabernacle, which could hold but 5,000 people, in two hours, or 1,250 lambs a minute ! There ,is not a word of al this crowding. into the taber nacle to slay paschal lambs, in the entire Penta teuch. The people in Hezekiah's time;• com• paratively reduced in 'numbers, may, so far as they attended the festival, .have done it; but how glaringly unfair to make out a case from Chronicles, as the Bishop does, against an ea entirely different book, ,belonging to a different era and entirely silent on the subject I Exod. 12 : 1-28 contains injunctions on the ob- servance of the passover, which make no allusion to the court of the tabernacle. The quotation; Lev. 17 : 2-6, which. the Bishop relies on to show that all slaughtered animals must' first be brought to the tabernacle, refers to the tendency of the people to fall into heathenish practices by offering sczerifices in private places, as verse 7 (not quoted ,by, the Bishop) plainly shows : " And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto idols after whom they have gone a whoring". The passage has no reference to the: Passover, whatever. (7.) Insisting that the word rendered "harnessed," Exod. 13 : 18 must mean "armed," and raising objections tri!' the possibility of the Israelites so lately slaves, leav ing Egypt with weapons in their hands. Where. as the Bishop could not have been ignorant that quite different meanings are plausibly assigned to the word by all classes of Hebrew. scholars. Gesenius, the great lexibographer, who had no special wish to sustain the sacred character of the record, translates the Word; " fierce, active, brave in battle." We have not 'the space to dwell distinctively upon the puerile character of the mass of these objections. It is too little to say they leave the Pentateuch unharmed ; they have been the occa sion of triumphantly vindicating its entire truth fulness and historic character. They will re establish the popular faith in book&which have been so causelessly assaulted. " That the Bible," says,a writer- in the Work of the Christian Church," is the most intensely historical Of all books;' that no records are more siisceptible of a true historieal - treatment than those sacred records of .the Jewish nation, are conclusions .which few , will now venture to dis pute. As mere national chronicles, those of the Scriptures are unsurpassed in interest, in vivid ness, in material warmth, picturesqueness, and in rigid truthfulness they are like a wedge of light in the darkness and uncertainty of the early world's history, while all around there is only legend. Nowhere else can we trace so dis tinctly-the birth of a nation • nowhere else can we watch so closely the growth of a national life. It is a life, as' distinct and noticeable to the stu dent of history as that of Greece, or Rome or. England, even to him as important to estimate, as worthy of being banded up before the present, out of the materials of the past." HOME MISSIONS: Presbyterian Rooms, 1.50 Nassau St ON applications received from the churches they serve, the following ministers were commis sioned by the Presbyterian Committee, of Home Missions at their, last meeting. Eight of whom were in Commission last year.— Rev. s Alanson.Schofteld, Shiawassee, Mich. James R. Dunn, Bloomington, Ills. F. V. Warren, Wampsville, N.Y. " Lemuel Clark, Lawrence, Ills. P. G. BUchanan, Watsonville, Cal. " N. Leighton, Newfoundland, N.J. " E. W. Brown; West Dresden, N.Y. " H. B. Holmes, Dubuque, lowa. " E. Mien, Parma Centre, N.Y. " J. N. Coombs, Washington, D.C. L. H. Loss, Marshalltown; lowa. " Gr. 3. Raidt, Cincinnati, Ohio. " Z. N. P. Luther, Chazy, N.Y. " R. C. Allison, Tionesta, Pa. " L. W. Billington 'Barre Centre, N.Y. • Thomas Sherrard, COntralia, Ills. " Samuel Loomis, Vineland, N.J. A. J, Snyder;-Whits Marsh-, Pa. BEV. MATTHEW WBRIDE. ONE of the most estimable Christian men with whom it has been our lot to be acquainted, was pulmonary ill last Monday week removed to a better world. year of his age.' We refer to the Editor of the BANNER OP THE and meeting Hess, C As V so E cw kr i t.:..afseNdT, calledww i h t o ha , w a after ri t t d e t k a i e lingering33rd business, him, when well, severe times a week, we can tes tify to thosingular uprightness, modesty, purity, and amiability of his ;character. At his funeral on last Thursday, which was attended by a great concourse of frie,nds, Rev. Dr. Wylie, formerly his pastor, testified to the depth of his Christian experience and the great usefulness of his career, in spite of a frail and suffering body under which he continually struggled. He was a prominent member of the. Building Committee of the large and handsome edifiee occupied by Dr. Wylie's church on Broad' street: After pursuing his the ological studies, , he was ordained as a minister of the Reformed PreshYterian Church, and under took, with great acceptance, the d'uties of the pastoral office. But being compelled by the state of his health to give up, preaching became ow ner and editor of the organ oithe Erf. Presbyterian - Church, the BANNER. or THE COVENANT. This _positipn he filled - it : deeided ability, his labors e giving entire satis goil, to the' denomination; f until the symptoms of his disease became so deoi ded and threatening as to compel an entire sus pension of activity. - , Three editors, more or less closely connected with us, have been *Wen down by death in this city since the commencement of our own brief career Rev. Dr.. liouilitcgt. of the AMERMAN PRESBYTERIAN; Rev. Dr. Wallace of the " Re view "; -and Rev. Mt Mcßride, of the " Banner of the Covenant." All 'of them were endowed with sensitive organikations with an inadequate physical snbstratuni. The work bore hay upon them and; to human view, shortened their career of- usefulness. We would humbly accept the admonitionconveyed by these instances of mor tality in our own profession, and would-also hope that they may call owl the sympathy and prayers of our readers that ; both, ourselves and all who fill the importint peßtion of editor of religions journals may have 'grace sufficient for their se vere and responsiblednties. COMMISSIONERS TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY, L•SYNOPT'OF r ALBANY. PRESERTERT. CLERICAL. Champlain, Z. M. P.. Luther.' Troy, SeldenHaines, D. D. , E. Baker,lll.D. A. DeWitt, C. 'F. Dowd. Albany, - ' Charles Doolittle, Hon.O. Allen. , Oswego, J. N. Hubbard', Utica, P. Ft. Rowler,'D.D., W. B. Paradee. • Geneva, S. Gridley, D.D., D. D. Dayton,lLD E.Woodwnsdßrown, Platt Crosby. dhemung, C. C. Carr, D. B. Westlake. F. S.,Howe, J. A. Redfield. W.—ONONDAGA. Onondaga, E. R. Davis, A. Ford, M.D. Cayuga, -Charles Anderson, Daniel Rawson, Amos Crocker . Daniel Bennett. Tioga, T. Dwight . Walker. V.---86NUERA - IsiNA Chenango, W. M. Hoyt, : D. Green. Delaware, George P. Everest. --GENESSEE, Buffalo, Walter Clarke, D.D., Silas Kingsley, Samuel W. Roe, S. IL Hungerford. Ontario, James R. Page, —-- Johnston. Rochester, Nathaniel Aunt. Gen. Valley, John E. Baker. VII.-NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY. N. Y. 3rd. Edward French. Brooklyn, S. T. Spear, D.D. W. W. Hurlbut. VIII. —PENNSYLVANIA, • Wilmington, George Foot, John B. Porter. Phil°da Brd, Henry Darling, D.D., B. D. Stewart, Charles Brown, W. E. Tenbrook. PhiPda. 4th, Albert Barnes, David Thomas, 'Robert Adair, Ambrose White. J. W. Kerr, M. D. Harrisburg, Meadville, John Meßeiter, James Clark, Pittsburg, Herrick Johnson, IL P. Bakewell. X.—ACE:MN. Marshall, C. S: ArmsiTong, Alvin Upson, Saginaw, E. J. Stews*, James Seymour "'a —WESTIRN RESERVE. Huron; J. E. WeedQ. • A. R. Marsh. Cleveland, J. B. Bittinger, . S.;H. Mather, T. H. Hawks, Hon. J. A. Foot. XII.-=-0824. Pataskala, A. Duncan, Franklin, Anson Smyth, Cinneinnati, Prof. G. E. pay, E. P. Starr, Joseph Chedler, L. H. Sargent. Dayton, S. G. Sides, D.D. 2En ,. ,.-iNDT A NA. Salem, Charles Hutchins9n, J. Loughranler. Ind'napolls, L. P. Webber,. P. H. Roots. X4.—WABASH Crawfordsville, S. B. King Logansport, , N. L. Lord. XVL--ILLINOIB. Alton, Jo seph,aord4n, XVIL—PEORIEL B. B. Paiiozw. X I nII.—"%qBCON§IN Columbtts, B. G. Riley, Xreo Des Moines, Thompson Bltti, W. D. 'Moore. loirn City, G.•D. A. Meliard, Saud. H. Rogers Xx.---mikNEBOTA.• • Daeotah, Janes ThoMpson. Minnesota, F. A. Noble D.W. Ingersoll. PHILADELPHIA FOURTH PRESBYTERY. Presbytery met in Philadelphia 3d. Church Dr. Brainerd's, on the evening of Tuesday 14th inst. and, was opened with an impressive sermon by Rev. Robert Adair, Moderator. During the services, 'which closed on Thursday afternoon 16th inst., there were present 24 ministers and 12 elders. The ' Rev. Charles F. Diver was elected Moderator, and the Revs. Messrs. Bogp and Mallery (R. A.) Temporary Clerks. The . principal, items of business besides dis cussions on denominational enterprises and statements respecting the religious condition 'of the churches were the foll Owing : L The reception orßib'v Henry" Budge froth Black •River Association..., 11. The striking from the Roll the name of Amass. Converse, D. D. • ILL The election of Commissioners to the General Assembly as follows : Ministers.: Revs. Messrs. Albert Barnes and Robert Adair, principals. Meisrs. Thomas J. Sheperd and Andrew Culver, alternate& El ders : Arubrose White and David` 7 honias, prin ciPals San4uel T. Bodine and John G Farr, alternate& IV. The fast day, 30th. April, recommended by the President :—W hereaa the 30th day of April has been by the. President of these,United,States set apart as a day of fasting, humiliation and praysi, :therefore, • " 1. Resolved that this Presbytery highly com mend this renewed national acknowledgement of God's government over nations, His special Providence, His • approbation of right, and His frown upon evil and wrong. 2. That our ministers and members be ex horted to observe the day aforesaid in serious meditation and by publicly appearing for prayer, confession and mutual exhortation Co seek to obtain forgiveness of national and personal sins through the grace of Christ, that God may vouchsafe success to our armies and confusion and defeat to the traitors who have risen up against our Country. V. The commendation of the Presbyterian Historical Society Resolved, That Presbytery approve the objects of the Presbyterian Historical Society, and com mend the effort to secure annual and life-mem berships to the favorable notice of our ministers, elders, and church-members. After a pleasant session, Presbytery adjourned to meet in the Presbyterian House, on the Se cond Monday in May next (11th), at 124 o'clock, P.M. . T. J. SHEPHERD, Stated Clerk. PROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT. Dear Editor—l spoke in my last of the Revi vat in Rodtestei., and of the labors of REV. B. P. HAsstmoNty The Evangelist. is my happy privilege this week to inferm you, that we are, apparently, in the midst of one of the most pow erful revivals of religion, with which even this highly favored place has ever been visited. Mr. Hammond has gone on preaching, day by day, with increasing acceptability andpower. The Brick Church, the largest in the place, is thronged, night , after night, with an attentive and, solemn auditory. Indeed, we may literally say, the house is packed. It is seated for an audience of twelve hundred ; and after the pews are all filled, benches and chairs are brought in to all the aisles, and all the area around the pulpit, until there is hardly room for another person to sit or stand. So is this city stirred by the manifest.presence of the Holy Spirit in the heartwf men, bringing them together to hear the 'Ertel'. And they do not hear in vain. Mr. Hammond has now been laboring here for two weeks only. We trust that the revival has but just . commenced. And'we would not be greedy to count the gains. But to give you some idea 'of the power of the work we think we have reason to suppose that some two hundred have already found the Sa viour. At the inquiry meetings, after" sermon every night some four hundred at a time have remained for special conversation and prayer. Indeed, some put the number much higher; and it is thought that as many as four hundred have kneeled together in the front part of the church and joined in the closing prayer of consecration to Jesus, many of them already indulging hope. It has been one of the most solemn and delight. ful spectacles that mortal eye ever beheld. We think also that angels have seen and rejoiced with us. S.W. Brewster. The Union prayer meeting, held for an hour every morning in the first' Presbyterian church, continues to be thronged i and is truly a Union meeting;. Methodists, Congregationalists, -and Presbyterians of both brandies, being assembled and praying and talking together of the interest of Christ's kinctdom and the salvation of souls, as though they were all members of the same church. "Behold how good, and how pleasant it is, fore breren to dwell together in unity." We can report great good of this place also; a beautiful village twenty-two miles east of Roches ter—(not west, as the types made me say of Fairport, in a former letter, which also is east.) Rev. Horace Eaton, the faithful and able pastor of the Presbyterian Church, has been laboring on with all diligence, and the Master has come down with a great reward for his labors. He has indeed had some help; Rev. Chas. Hawley, D. D. of auburn having recently been with him some eight or ten days, preaching constantly. It is thought that fifty or sixty conversions have occurred, to cheer the hearts of pastor and peo ple; and. still the work is moving forward. It needed no more time to observe various un mistakable signs of growth and prosperity. New buildings, blocks and single dwellings, were-go ing up. The streets were thronged; the shops crowded;' the faces of men bright and cheerful;. and the sun shone strong and clear, as upon a happy and peaceful city. We called upon some of the Pastors, and they looked and talked as though they thought the Lord was on their side; The Theological Seminary sits as a presiding genius on the hill. Of course, its goodness brings many : a blessing to the town. And even the State Prison, filled though it is with scoun drels, is one great source of prosperity to the place. And beside all this, Auburn has a consi derable manufacturing interest Its woolen mills are running night and day, partly to 'furnish clothing for the great army of freedom and law. Agricultural implements—reapers'especially,— are also made here in considerable numbers. But Auburn is not the only place in this re giou presenting evidences of thrift and prosperi ty. Indeed, we hardly know of a large town in Western and Central New York, that does not now present such evidences; and passing around among them, one, would not dream that they were constituent portions of a nation, now taxed and drained to support the most gigantic war ever waged by man against man. They plant, they build, they mairy and are given in marriage, in all this part of the country, almost as though they had never heard of a war. Samuel H. Lee. Hon. 0.. N. Olds. A. S. Jores Yerk4i. C. W. Baldwin We were much interested in looking into the chapel of the Central Presbyterian Church of Auburn. This is, the .new enterprise, under the pastoral care of Rey. Henry Fowler;; who was for a time pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church. The old church, which now has an excellent pastor in the Rev. Mr. Boardman, seems not .to have suffered any serious loss by the starting of this, and, yet this seal= to be eminently successful. A large, substantial church edifice has been commenced; the walla are car ried up about eleven feet, in the clear, and then roofed o,ver. This room is finished off neatly, furnished with comfortable, cushioned settees, and has sittings for an audience of five hundred, which are all rented. This room is intended for the future base ment" and Sabbath-school morn, when the chnrch edifice is carried up above it. But already it is seen that the church edifice must be somewhat larger, and ste_ps are being taken to make it so. When the 'basement was completed itwas ,sup. raid • that it would be , all :that would be, tuxes. Revival in Palmyra A few Hours 2 . 71 Auburn A Neu Church in Auburn. nary to accommodate the congregation for some years to come; but it is already,fall, and the church proper will be erected much sooner than was at first intended. The location selected , for this church is central and convenient. Much of the improvement in buildings which we noticed seems to cluster around this locality, thus plainly indicating that the site is well chosen. The singing is congregational, and 8110- cessfulwe were told. For want of a book of our own of hymns and tunes together, the Plymouih Collection is used'and is much liked. Albion Thriving. This place is also highly prosperous. Indeed, the demand for dwellings is so, great that people are actually driven from the village in order to find houses to live in. The Presbyterian Church, under the faithful labors of Rev. H. E. Niles, is growing rapidly, the congregation is so large that the present house of worship is not;adequate to its wants. A larger church edifice is much needed. The congregation manifested another evidence of decided prosperity, on .a recent evening, by unceremoniously, but courteously, invading: the house of the beloved pastor. In they came, men, women, and •Chiltiren; just as though they in tended a mass meeting. They packed The par lors, the hall, the library, the dining-room; and still'they kept coiiing. "At last they hustled the. Pastor, very gently, somewhere into the middle of the room, and one of the gentlemen made a speech, right at him—" personal." But still., he was not very hard on the good man ; only told him how much they loved him, , how much they valued his faithful ministrations, especially at this time his zeal and deVotion for his country and for the - government (Mr. Niles is not a large man, but he has a good deal of the spirit of seventy-six in him), and then the speaker did something better than talk, he thrust, a bag of money right into the pastor's hand ($175), and told Ahem "to take that as a:pledge of their good will, and their determination to stand by him like a loving, faithful people. And then Mr. Niles had to make a reply, and thank the good people for their kindness, as well as his full heart would lei him. And so they recent ly passed a pleasant evening in that prosperous parish. We dare. say, there are many other congregations that might give just as admirable indications of thrift, if they should only happen to think ef it. And after they had passed such a pleasant evening as. that was at Albion, they would thank me for the suggestion. Rochester. April 17th, 1863. GENESI/. LETTERS from London and from our Correa pondent in the North-west will appear in our next. • stir The _ arrangements for Fast Day will be found on the 3rd. Page. (.IJ - ii.ii ..000fttro.->- THE Rev. Henry Budge of the Black River Association, N.Y., was received into the Fourth Presbytery of Philadelphia, at its recent meeting. REVIVALS--We open no paper in . the inter est of our denomination but we have cause to rejoice over indications of spiritual-life 4 l in its columns, as prevailing in Various parts of our Zion. From the last Evangelist we learn that Spring St, Church, N. York, one ofthe down town churches, under the pastoral care of Rev. J. D. Wilson, has been visited with a precious- out pout:ing of the Spirit., and over twentyfive have been brought into the fold of the Good Shepherd, mostly from among the youth of the Church. Rev. M. H. Dysart, who has been for several years faithfullY laboring at Troy, Thwa. and Shnnem, and fora few months back preach ing at West Grove also, writes of an interesting airakening in ihe bounds of these churches. About sixty have professed hope in- Christ in Troy and vicinity. Eighteen of, these have -al ready united with the- Presbyterian Church of Troy. Others have joined the Methodists and Old School Presbyterians. Between thirty and forty have professed a hope, in the Shrtneut neighborhood, and six united with the Shiment Presbyterian Church, and at an interesting com munion season at West Grove, a short time since, nine professed .hope in Christ Rev. Joel Wakeman writes of a glorious work of grace now for nine weeks in progresi in our church in Almond N F., and now extending over the whole township and among all -slenoin inations.—ln North East, Penna., '24 persons recently united with our church; and a Cosidera ble number are proposing to unite at the next opportunity. - The interest,dates from the week of prayer. MINISTERS AND CRIIRCRES.--The Rev. D. F. Judson has resigned his charge . in Addison, N. - . Y., and removed to the old homestead in Pratts burgh, N. Y., in quest of health. Rev. W. W. Collins, having accepted an invitation from the Churches of Maine and:Union Centre, Broome county, N. Y., requests that his correspondence be directed to the former place (Maine), his pre sent residence. ' The First 0 hurcli in Water loo, N. Y, so lone and acceptably 'ministered to by Dr. Gridley, has paid off its debt'amounting to about $4000; and . the Church in Ovid, 'in the sense Presbytery, has also cancelled its oblige tion. The following members of the mid dle class in Lane Seminary were received under the care of the Presbytery of Cincinnati as can didates for Licensure, and were, examined as to their personal piety and motives for 'seeking thA l ministry; Elias Benaieg, Peter S. Davis,ever ett S. Griggs; Wm. R. Higgins, Henry . Hitch cock, Lewis E. Jones, Andrew J. McKim and A. Yount , . The 2nd Presbyterian Church of Columbus, organized as au Independent Presby terian Church, has been at its own request, re ceived under the care of Franklin Presbytery. Rev. G. H. Poole, formerly of the Methodist Protestant Church, has also been received as- a member, of this Presbytery. - COMMISSIONERS.--Rev. A. Smyth' and Hon. C. N. Olds, of Columbus, Ohio, bave been chosen by Franklin Presbytery Commission ers to the General Assembly; and Rev. Wal ter Mitchell, of. Marysville, and, Hon. W. W. Bierce, of Circleville, alternates. REV. E. R. laAmmown.—An occasional corres pondent in Rochester writes under date of April 18th : Rev Mr. Ilimmond the Evangelist has been with us for about a week and doing (under God) a wonderful work. He addressed'yester day, P• M., about 1800 Sabbath-school childreh and last evening preached to an audience of 1500 adults. He is, in his way, a powerful preacher. His style is his own—hot particularly ministerial, but ,effective. He has no slant , — no irreverence of expression and, is preeminently Biblical. , lie thoroughly orthodox. 'I should call him Scotch. Calvintsm: on fire. Hundreds among us (i. e. in the various ehurches and Sabbath•sehools) are inquiring or converted. He came hither from Utica where hts been witnessed a work of equal or greater power. Pray fer'us. Say to the churches that suspicion, of Mr. Hammond is ill-fouhded. The spirit of the Lord is with him. • APRIL 23, pew fuldiationo, LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH CHURCH, by A. P. Stanley, D.D. Prof. Stanley is too well and favorably known to the religiou s public to require any elaborate introduction in - this his Most ;recent appearance. The same libe ral and scholarly tone, the same beauty and fresh ness of style, the same skill in grouping facts and combining .tro.ths, -the 'same accuracy and fairness which dharacterize his previous works appear in the "'History of the Jews." The aim of the volume is to consider and present the facts of the Old Testament narrative as historical facts —" freely handling them in a becoming spirit," such as " May be seew ilk Dr. Robinson's Bibli cal Researches." At the same time, it is the history of, the Jewish Church of which Dr. Stan ley desires to speak. ...While rebuking an exces sive allegorizing spirit,he holds to, and constantly exhibits' the continuity' of character running through ' the career of the Chosen People. Throughout, lie has sought to recognize the identity of purpose—the constant gravitation towards the greatest of all events—which under any hypothesis must furnish the Blain interest of the histery Israel." It is however, well under stood that Prof. Stanley is disposed to sympa ,. thise with the so-called liberal Christianity of the time: ` - He'reg'rds it as impossible to accept " all parts of the Old Teatament as of equal au thority, equal value and equal accuracy;" and he seems disposed to elevate the substance and spirit of the inspired volume above such portions as in his own or any private judgement - may be reckoned to its non-essentials. Hence, we look in vain through the volume for any traces of a jealous concern kir &C . honor of the Old Testa ment record , in those points which are now so boldly impugned. It is in fact just here that Prof. Stanley ceases to be the clear, frank per son 'Which we everywhere else admire. He hes. hates to take a stand, yet makes it clear that the historical exactness of the Pentateuch is a mat ter of small moment to him. See note at the close of the volume. Mn.. SCRUM= the publisher, has done his part well. The:paper And Vpography—the lat ter being from Houghton's famous "Riverside Press,"—border upon the luxurious. Valuable maps and plans accompany the volume, and the account of the Prince of Wales' visit and admix. sion to the Cave of Machpelah, in which Prof. Stanley took a part, form an interesting appen. dix. Svo. 572 pp. For sale 43. B. Lippincott &Co. ON 141 BERTY.-By John Stuart Mill. This is a treatise for thinkers on the grand -anoving idea which, as ever before, is now so widely dis turbing the peace: and order of-mankind. We cannot endorse the views of this eminent social philosopher; they are extravagant and inconsis tent with the supreme reverence which every Christian believes due to his religion as the fore. most civilizing and elevsting influence of the world. .Yet no one can consider himself well-in formed, much less master, of such a . subject, without giving heed to the perspicuous common mu t e auggasOons of Mill._ Both this. and - the preceding vanineatifeiffeardnately digitated to the memory .of deParted wives' who' cheered and co-operated in the labor of their production. Mr.Mill'Ouilent eulogy of his. wife concedes to her a far superior position . in thought and in feeling to 'what he claims for himself. Boston, Ticknor &,Pields. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippin cott & CO..' "THE EVERY DAT PiniosoPnEß" is the title of a new .series of papers by Rev.. A, B. H. 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It is well worth- the regard of our juvenile friends. Illustrated. Harper Bros. New York, Philadelphia; Lippincott& Co. Messrs. Carters have added to their handsome, well written and sound series called the Fire side-Library., The Robbers' Cave, - by A. L. O. E. Christian Love-and Loyalty, or the Rebel Re claimed, by the -Same. The Rival Kings. For sal&at the Presbyterian Book Store, 1334 Chestnut Street. PAMPHLETS MAGAZINES, ETC. THE iqtINCETON REVIEW for April contains artieles on The Manner of Preachinc , • Life of Fl;Vard Irving—exposing effectually the false charity of his recent biographer, Mrs. Oliphant; Recent Explorations in Africa—a very full and entertaining summary of the recent explorations of Barth, Burton, and do Chailln, in the heart of the Continent; The Fathers of Ross-shire; Mer cer's Co. Teacher's institute; True Place of man in, Zoology. Philadelphia, Peter Walker. 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