Vol. VII, No. 36:---Whole No. 348.
Tutu.
Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet.
BY REV. G. W. BETEUNE, D. D.
O blessed Jesus, when I see thee bending,
Girt as a servant, at thy servants' feet ;
Love, lowliness, and might, in zeal all blending,
To wash their dust away, and make thenr meet
To share thy feast—l know not to adore,
Whether thy humbleness M. glory more.
Conscious thou. art of that dread hour impend.
ing,
When thou must hang in anguish on the tree;
Yet, as in the beginning, to the ending
Of thy sad life, thine own are dear to thee;
And thou 'wilt prove to them ere thou dosk part,
The untold love which fills thy faithful heart.
The day, top, is at hand, when, far ascending,
Thy human brow the crown of God shall wear;
Ten thousand saints and radiant ones attending,
To do thy will and bow in homag e there ;
But thou dost pledge to guard thy. Church from
Or bless with good, thyself a servant still.
Meek Jesus I to my soul thy Spirit lending,
Teach me to live, like thee. is lowly love;
With humble service all thy saints befriending,
Until I serve before thy throne above ;
Yes, serving e'en my foes, for thou didst seek
The feet of Judas inArservice meek.
Daily, my pilgrimage as homeward wending,
My weary way, and sadly stained with sin,
Daily do thou, thy precious grace expending,
Wash me all clean without, and clean within,
And make me fit to have a part with thee
And thine, at last, in heaven's festivity.
O blessed name of EIRIVANT *comprehending
Man's highest honor in his humblest name,
Fur thou, God's Christ, that office recommend-
mg,
The throne of mighty power didst truly claim;
He who would rise like thee, like thee must owe
His highest 'glory to his atooping low.
N4itoviaL
ARMING THE NEGROES.
FEW things have seemed to us in every way
more incongruous at the present time, than
the proposal to enter seriously upon the work
of colonizing the colored population of our
country, It would be a most serious enter
prise, even in time of peace, worthy to en
gage all the attention of our statesmen, phi
anthropists, and financiers ; and when we
talready have a question of absorbing and
supreme interest on our hands, it is a piece
of e impertinenoe to attempt to thrust another
of similar character upon us. Besides this,
while war is wasting away our laboring pop
talation, in one section, and of one race, it
would be little less than suicidal to - accelerate
the destructive process by the voluntary de
portation of hundreds of thousands of labor
ers, because they happen to be of another
race and chiefly in another section. Nay,
more than all, it is these very Africans who
might long ago have been turned to the great
est account in carrying on the war, who would
have proved an element of peculiar , and ter
rible efficiency in military operations, and
who are more directly and deeply interested
in the war than any other separate class in
the community. To talk of sending them
out of the country while the war is raging,
instead of taking the most vigorous and deci
sive measures to enlist them in it, would be.
to ignore one of the chief elements in the
meaning of the struggle. The whole course
of events has cried out: Don't colonize,
but arm ! "
Congress has fully authorized such a poli
cy, and nothing has been wanting, to reap its
good effects, but the hearty and vigorous
consent of the Executive. At length, this
seems to have been given, and Adjutant-
General Thomas has been sent to the South
west to carry out all the necessary measures.
His address to the soldiers at. Lake Provi
dence, La., three weeks ago, is evidence of
the most satisfactory sort, that the President
has fully determined upon developing to the
utmost the resources to be found in the col
ored population of the revolted districts.
We quote from the address :
I came from Washington clothed with the fullest
power in this matter. With thispower, I can act
as if the President of the United States were him
self present. I am directed to refer nothing to
Washington, but to act promptly—what I have to
do, to do at once,---to strike down the unworthy and
to elevate , the deserving. . . . I know this whole
region well. I am a Southern man, and if you will,
born with Southern prejudices; but I am free to
say that the policy I an now to announce to you\l
indorse With my whole heart. You know full well
—for you have been over this country—that the
rebels have seat into the field all their available
fighting men ; every man capable of bearing arms,
and you know they have kept at 'home all their
slaves for the raising of subsistence for their armies
in the field.
In this way they can bring to bear against us all
the strength of their so called Confederate States,
while we at the North can only send a portion of
our fighting force, being compelled to leave behind
another portion to cultivate oar fields and supply
the wants of an immense army. The Administra
tion has determined to take from the rebels this
source of supply—to take their negroes and compel
them to send back a portion of their whites to cul•
tivate their deserted plantations, and. very poor
persons they would be to fill the-place of the dark
hued laborer. They must do this, or their armies
will starve. . . . You know that vast numbers of
these slaves are within your borders, inside the lines
of this army. They come into your camps and you
cannot but receive them. The authorities in Wash
ington are very much pained to hear,
and I Tear
with truth in many oases, that some of these poor
unfortunates have, on different occasions, been
turned away from us e and their applications for ad
mission within our lines, have been refused by our
officers and soldiers. This is not the way to use
freemen. . . . They are to be encouraged to come
to us, They are , to be received with open arms;
they are to be fed and clothed; they are to be armed.
This is the policy that has been fully determined
upon, I am here to sav that I am authorized to
raise as many regiments of blacks as I can. I am
authorized to give commissious, from the, highest to
the lowest and 'I desire those persons who are ear
nest in this work, to take hold of it. I desire only
those whose hearts are in it, and to them alone will
I give commissions. . . . While I am authorized
thus, in the nettle of the Secretary of War, I have
the fullest authority to dismiss from the army any
man, be his rank what it may, whom I find mal
treating the freedmen.' This part of my duty I will
most assuredly perform, if any case comes before
me. . . . I would like to raise on this river twenty
regiments, at - least, before I go back. I shall take
all the women and children, and all the men unfit
for our military organizations' and place them on
these plantations ; then take these regiments and
put them in the rear.
They will guard the rear effectively. Knowing
the country well i and familiar with all the roads and
swamps, they will be able to track out the accursed
guerrillas hnd ran them from :the land. When I
regiments raised you may sweep oat into the interi
or with impunity. Recollect, for every regiment
of blacks I raise, I raise a regiment of whites to
face the foe in the field. This, fellow-soldiers, is
the determined policy of the Administration. You
all know full well, when the President of the United
States, though said to be slow in coming to a deter
mination, when he once puts his foot down it is
there, and he is not going to take it up. He has put
his foot down : I am here to assure you that my
official influence shall be given that he shall not
raise it.
ovrtoponietta,
THE AFRICAN RACE IN THE LIGUT OF
HISTORY.
BY REV. E. E. ADAMS
The nations of the East which, ages ago,
were in the enjoyment of a high civilization
are now degenerate,—The Hebrews, Egyp
tians, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, and among
them also the Ethiopians. All departed from
God and lost their best life. We have to do
now with Africa, and the cruel prejudice,
existing as a national sin, against the color
ed race. This prejudice is not primarily
against color but against condition. Were
the condition reversed the feeling would be
reversed. Such is human nature that the
Caucasian would bow to the Ethiopian to-day,
were the latter, I will not say more intelli
gent but the more wealthy and powerful.
It is often stated that the African has not
had a history. This is a mistake. Those who
would divest him of his humanity, and rank
him with things and brutes, are not only un
christian but ignorant. Every scholar knows
that Africa has not presented from the be
ginning only a dead levet.of barbarism, We
give you the' testimony of historians and
scholars:fro* tl4time of the Greek, Heroda-.
tus, the it sties Tacitus and Pliny, downvto
the present time, embracing that of Hereen,
Champollion, Lander,, Hornemann;,
~Lyou,
Mingo Park, Burkhardt, Moffatt, and Liv
ingstone. Accordingidthese men, and other.
Physiologists, some of the Negro tribe are
white, some yellow, others reddish brown,
and others still intensest black. They in
habit what was Ethiopia extending through
Central Africa from the coast of Congo to the
marts of Ophir; where the ships of Solomon
traded for gold.
This region (especially the oases) is inha
bited by the Tuaricks of whom Lyon says,
" they are the finest race I ever saw, tall
straight and handsome with a certain air of
ipdependence and pride which is very im
pbeing." Father east between the Sahara and
the Lybian deserts is a nation called Tib
boas. Their color is of , the darkest black.
They have aquiline noses, fine teeth, and
lips forthed like those of Europans. Along
the upper valleys of the Nile are the people
of Nubia, once hardy and independent, and
able' to cope with Egypt. Burkhardt says
they " were a handsome race" their features
noble and , their-faces Grecian: These-negroes -
all speak_ the ..same language, a dialect of
original African.
Homer speaks of these Ethiopians. In
the first Book of the Iliad is this allusion.:
"Achilles implores his mother, a goddess, to
intercede for him. She consents, but adds
that the intercession must be delayed twelve
days, for. Yesterday Jupiter went to the
feast among the blameless'Ethiopians, away
upon the limits of the ocean, and all the
gods followed him.'
The Jewish literature, and Scriptures allude
often to this people as among "the best, of
men," as "men, of strength," as "bearing the
shield," as "having vast armies and many
chariots." Isa. xlv. Jer. xlvi. I Chron.
xiv ; xvi. Josephus also says they overran
Egypt, and, conquered all her cities. Hero
dotus testifies that the inhabitants of Ethio
pia " are remarkable for their size, their
beauty and , long life." He relates that when
Cambyses, the Persian King, had made war
upon Egypt and subdued it, his ambition
urged him to invade Ethiopia. But before
entering it, he sent spies under the friendly
guise of ambassadors, who carried costly pre
sents to the black prince. They arrive at
the court, the prince sees their designs, and
takes down a bow of such enormous size that
no Persian could bend it. " Give your king
this bow in my name," saline, " and speak
to him thus from me : The . King of Ethiopia
sends his counsel 'to the King of Persia.
When his subjects shall be able to bend thi:
bow with the same ease that I do, then le
him venture to attack the long-lived Ethio
piens. Meanwhile, let him thank. the gods
that we are not inspired with the same love
of conquest as himself." The Macrobians
were once a 'powerful tribe. Travelers as
cending the Nile,, have discovered obelisks,
columns, statues, and paintings, which repre
sent the color and the curled hair of that
race; and ruins of temples so vast and abun
dant, that the region has received the name
of the " Church-yard of Pyramids." Thebes
was an Ethiopian city, and Meroe, which the
Egyptians regarded as the cradle of their arts
and refinement. Thus we find that Egypt
derived some of its elements of civilization
frozn_Ethiopia ; Greece some of its refine
ment and .art from `Egypt; ; and Rome the
same from Greece ; and modern Europe the
same from Rome. Some not all. Pliny tells
us that Meroe was the capital of a kingdom
which. in the time of the Trojan war, had
250,000 soldiers, and 400,000 artificers !
One delightful feature of the purely Afri
can races is their song. At evening time,
all the land from Congo to Ophir, is vocal
with music. It is rude but often rapturous,
a perfect out-break •of passion; sometimes
tender and plantive expressing filial affec
tion, and, in the language of Mungo Park,
"bursting sensibilities.' One of their songs
is about the white man.—
"The poor white man,
Faint and weary,
Came and sat under our tree."
This song melts the travellers heart.•
The Caucasian race is distinguished above
the negro for clear cold intellect, but the latter
excels in sentiment, in emotion; and often
rises to the type of the European in eloquence
and in power of thought. Even to this day
in portions of Africa, the ancient glory of
the race reappears.
We ask if the Anglo-Saxon, the Chrjstian
whit man may scorn the African? We ask if
there is room for any boasting of our ances
try, who in the days of Tacitus and Omar
dvyielt in the German forests, drank the blood
of their captives from human skulls and
poured offerings to their "grim and gory
idols." Let the negro rise if he will. Let
hhn trust God and believe in his destiny.
Let us measure men by their hearts, as well
9
• P SPAY, MAY 7, 1863.
as. heads and pockets.! We are safe when we
judge - by the standard of Heaven. Give
every man the place for which he is fitted, in
trade, in position, in the cars, and in the
Church of God. The distance between me
and the lowest on the footstool is nothing to
the distance between my LORD and me!
gtitttiono.
11 Rll al) 13 al ill, lila 3fi 01 Cil 3ko) A
WE may theorize and, philosophize upon
revivals for years; but a minister will learn
more on the subject in one week, when the
Gospel is-taking effect upon sinners, produ
cing its distinct and positive results in their
conversion, than he could by many years of
mere theorizing.
We may say of a certain kind of revival
speculations, what a writer remarked re
specting a review when compared with the
actual scenes peculiar to the real battle -field :
"It has been truly said that nothing is so
unlike a battle as a review." " The art of
war," says another, "is one of those sci
ences which no theory or application of fixed
and established rules can possibly teach ; it
is one thinglto write from experience oPthe
past, and another to acquire a facility for
directing, operations by a servile adherence
to the maxims of others,"
I have known \places, however, where
they had no revival ; but on account of a
revival at a distance; given by an intelligent
observer, who was engaged in it himself; hat'
there produced the most salutary effects.
Indeed;.. this may in part account for-the
prevalence of revivals. Popular periodicals
have what they term the " Revival Depart
ment." These papers circulate , through all
the cities, towns, and villages of the nation,
•
It is seldom any of them appear without a
accriat of six, seven; or a dozen revivals { ,
the . instruMentaliy which God has "been
pleased to acknowledge and honor, with
most of the remarkable peculiarities of each.;
are there stated, and read by many hundreds
of thousands. The.population of the CQUII
try is ' thn,s made familiar with, revivals,
Such descriptions fan the revival, flame in
the hearts of ministers and people. A re
vival which has occurred, or is going for
ward, in such a place, becomes the •theme of
general conversation. Often the effects are
thrilling and powerful beyond description.
An entire . church will be, thrown into a state
of sanctified excitement after reading or
hearing the account of a revival in some
city or town with which they are acquainted.
" The revival in " " is talked of in the
counting-house, work-shop, parlor and kitch
en ; and why should it not be ? Is it not a
•mighty and glorious event, before which the
interests of science, commerce and politics
should disappear, as stars sun_before the SU
arising iri - glory-I - If is. then that the
inquiry goes forth with emphatic meaning :
Why may not we have a' revival, as well as
the people of such a place ? Why may not
we use the means which they used ? Is God
any more a respecter' of places than of per
sons ?
Frequently such revival news prodiices
great " searchmgs of heart, both among
pastor and people. It is impossible now
to persuade each other that they are doing
as well as they might, or equally well with
other parts of the church.. They now know
to the contrary, and facts cannot be put
down, nor conversation hushed. Fine prea
ching, learned and eloquent preaching, will
not satisfy the church. The people of God
ask for effects; they inquire after results.
There is deep humiliation in certain quar
ters; and a provoking to love and good
works ; nor will they rest satisfied Mill their
ministry and town are blessed with a similar
outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In the course
of a few months their prayers are, answered;
their ministers preach as they never did
before ; sinners are broken down and 'are
turning to God on every hand ; so that their
town appears, in its turn, in the Revival
Department, with all the circumstances of a
gracious visitation; and similar effects are
produced upon other declining churches.
ROW TO CURB DOUBT.
We counsel the &Ater not to think- so
muchas to work—to act on the basis of
Scripture doctrine, even if it appear illogi
cal so to do,before the premises of his belief
are settled. In a condition of intellectual
uncertainty that can find no present relief,
logical fairness will sorely admit, as well as
common sense dictate, the adoption of that
question which secures the greatest, in this
case, only positive practical benefit. One
who has been no unmoved or incurious spec
tator of the mental struggles of others, says
Of moral, what - we may here also apply to in
telleetual perplexity : " Let him who gropes
painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and
prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen
into day, lay this precept well to heart,
which to me was of invaluable service : Do
the duty which lies nearest thee which thou
knowest to be a duty. Thy second duty
will already have become clearer."
By the unvarying direction of the mind to
some special interest, either temporal or
spiritual, it becomes incapable of rightly esti
mating and measuring other equally impor
tant, though, perhaps, less imperative claims;
as the eye, long adjusted to a close focus, be
holds in the distance only undefined forms.
It is a uniform law, that all our physical and
moral powed must find their proportionate
action, else imperfect development will en
sue. If contemplation is made the chief busi
ness of life, its power will become impaired,
or, we might say, destroyed, so far as any
resulting usefulness is concerned. "Every
study," says a writer who was as accomplish
ed in hie scholarship as he was earnest and
successful in his more active life work, " re
quires to be tempered and balanced with
something out of itself, if it be only to pre
vent the mind from becoming one-sided or
pedantic '
• and ascending higher still, all in
tellectual study, however comprehensive, re
quires spiritual study to be joined with it,
lest our nature itself become one-sided,---the
intellect governing the higher reason, the'
moral and'spiritual wisdom stunted and de-,
saying." If, then, there is a morbid undue
action of mind in relation to objects of reli
gious apprehension, the dictate no less of
philosophy than a common sense is to restore
a healthful condition by rest as to
,one set, of
agencies and exercise as to another.
Study, then, the Scripture, you who are
in a state of religious doubt, less to ascertain
precisely what you are to believe and how
you are to hold doctrines susceptible of vari-
OUS• interpretations, than to find in .what
manner, supposing the authority of its teach
ings undisputed, you are to conduct yourself
in reference to them'. From the continual
watching, of your mind, the observation of
its capability on the one side and inability
on the other, turn your attention to the world
around you, of which you form but, a frac
tional portion. Put it'to yourself if, what
ever you believe, or however those great
questions are to be settled, you 'Will ever
stand gazing at what You cannot see; `unero.=
ployed and useless where there is so much
actual and urgent demand for your exertions.
Say, not you cannot find an object adequate
to engage or,worthy toixetain. lour attentinn
and interest. There i tae 'conceivable con
dition in which you can l be utterly bereft Of
the power of benefiting iothers. The mode
may be indirect, the 'result postponed or un
certain, the work itself 'very small,—the cup
of cold water only ; but this scantiness of
tangible result is nothing, so far as the inward
principle is concerned,, and is everything,
reckoned by that balance in which the widow's
mite outweighed the largest unloving, easily
spared offering of the proud and self-righte
ous. It is to carry yon,out of self and con
duct you to Him, that 'those commandments
were given which refer it , 6 God. It is no less
to carry. you out of *selfP as well as to secure
the general good, that those commandments
were given which refer I to man. Then are
yp#, ! spiritually most secure, then ;are you
most heavenly-minded, most like the,Sayiour
whom you seek to iinitge, when, 'directing
Eng efforts primarily to the obedienee of his
urecepti, and' not to the direct conflict with:
nbelieving thoughtS, you, "feed Ms flock,"
and " follow him whithysoever he goeth ;"
whigterso,ever,—iir, ;vqh.ittn;vei. - condition and
duty,—h,e !teachings, Ms , Spirit,
may you conduct', You m'a,y not 'be able,
like Howard or Elizal)eth Fry, or like ano
ther, in 'our own, time and country, not, per
haps, surpassed by then) in self-denying labor
aid constraining_ love for the souls` of the
sinful and suffering;,, to visit the prisoner; or
relieve in person the wets of the hungry,
the naked, and the sick., But in yoUr own
home, in your neighborhood, as you walk
the street or travel for business or pleasure,
as you enter the humble habitation of the
poor or the surely more destitute mansion of
the rich, if among its treasures and adorn
ings it lack the "pearl of great price," there
must be some occasion for deeds of love,
some, burden you can bear, some claim upon
your head' or appeal to yOur beart.--.Forrna,-
tion, of Be/ief.
THE PROTESTANTS AV_
_ROWE TO
TDElErljtitliafiN ENGLAND,
We have been amazed days The Evaugelist
at the course of the British Protestants towards
this country since the beginning of our civil
war. They, who were the most vehement in
their denunciations of American Slavery,
who could hardly suffer a clergyraan from
the United States to pass through England
without reproaching him for the existence of
such a blot upon the fair name of his coun
try, have now turned against us ; and , since
the commencement of this great struggle,
have been cold and indifferent to those who
were fighting the battle of human liberty,
and have given their sympathies io those
who were impiously seeking to found an em
pire having slavery as its chief corner stone.
On such a spectacle we forbear to :comment.
Any free-souled Englishman must think of it
only with sorrow and shame.
In ,noble contrast with this base desertion
of principle has been the. course of the Pro
testants of France. , Ourb6st defenders have
been Frenchmen. Gasparin, Cochin—a Ro
man Catholic, but a true >liberal—and Pas
tors Frederic Monod and Fisch, who have
been in this country, have steadily upheld
our cause. Their last proof of friendship
was to address .a Letter to the Protestants of
Great Britain, gently expostulating with
them as to their unfraternal attitude towards
America. This letter is so kind in spirit,
and yet so decided in tone, that we cannot
forbear to quote it entire. The Protestants
of France are divided into theological sects,
but all join in this letter. The venerable
Frederic Monod signs the same document
with the eloquent •but Rationalistic. Coquerel ;
memb(rs of the. National Church, both. Or
thodox and Liberal,; Lutherans, lethodists
and Baptists, all join in this appeal for Free
dom and for America. May their voices not
be unheeded !
PARIS March 12th, 1863.
Honored and Beloved Brethren in the
Lord:—lt is the glory of. England to hive
given to the world the example of abolishing
first the slave trade and then slavery. It 'is
her glory to have continued for the last sixty
years the work of supressing universally the
the slave trade and slavery, at the cost, it is
asserted, of fifty millions of pounds sterling,
and, it is under God chiefly to, her religious
men, to her Clarksons, her Wilberforces, her
Buxtons, to her missionary sooieties, that
England owes this glory.
Will not the sons and successors of these
great Christians complete their work by urg
ing their country to declare itself openly for
the holy cause of the liberation of the slaves
in the terrible struggle which is at present
convulsing the United States of America?
No more revolting spectacle has ever been
before the civilized world than a Confedeiacy
consisting mainly of Protestants, forming
itself, and demanding independence in' the
nineteenth century of the Christian era, with
a professed design of maintaining and pro
pagating shivery; .a Confederacy which lays
,down as thern
coer-Sw
aa Constitution,
the system of slavery as it exists at present
in the Southern States; a system which may
be defined briefly as the_right,ito treat men
like cattle, and to commit adultery and murder
with impunity. Setting aside all political
considerations, can any Christian heart, fail
to be stirred to indignation at hearing the
chief of that Confederacy answering a decree
of emancipation by an implied threat of ex
termination
The triumph of such a cause would put
back the progress of Christian civilization
and of.humanity a whole century. It would
make angels weep in heaven and demons re
joice in hell. It would, enable the friends of
the slave trade and of slavery in, all lands to
hold up their heads, ever ready as they are
to reappear at the first signal, in Asia, in
Africa, and even in the great cities of Europe.
It'would give a fatal blow to the work of
evangelical missions, and what frightful re
sponsibility would rest on the, Church which
should remain the silent spectator of such a
triumph , , •
If there is a peaceable means of hastening.
the end of the war and of rendering its, issue
such as is, desired by all the friends. of u
manity, ought not the sincere Christians of
Europe to give to the cause of emancipation
a powerful testimony which would leave to
those who fight for the right -of oppressing.
the slaves no hope of ever seeing those
Christians give them the hand of fellowship ?
Ministers and pastors of all the evangeli
cal denominations , of England, Ireland, and
Scotland, it is here we need your assistance.
Take the lead and let us call forth a great
and, powerful manifestation of sympathyfor
the 'colored race id Ling oppressed and de
baSed by Christian nations. Let us strength
en and' encourage those who wish to abolish
slavery, at the same time disposing them to
listen to our suggestions. It. is in free Eng
land that such manifestations can be power
ful. What, may we not hope for if through
out Great Britain the voice of all the minis
ters of the crucified Saviour,, and in. France
our voice echoing`theirs, pray and plead that
soon there may no longer be in the United"
States a colored man that is not free and
equal with the whites'.
May God grant it, and may his blessing
rest alike on Great Britain and the United
States in. Christ, the true liberator.
Sign.Adup to this day by six hundred and
o:ghty-mne pastors in France, as attested by
Grandperre., by William and Frederic Ma
,.
ned, and others in Paris.
PRACTICAL INFIDELITY. .
I,• carkunderstand ; _that very, ignorant
At, r heistsshould be. heppless regarding . • this
war. peopie Who have a knowledge of ;
this world's history on the one side; or of
God on ' the other, are without excuse. True
leaders may be incompetent, generals may'
blunder, avarice, - jealousy, 'greed, and all
manlier of 'selfishness, •May seem to push our
cause on to certain shipwreck ;:but do you
suppose that the Lord God Almighty is going
to be stopped in his course by the non-arrival
of a pontoon bridge ? lam astonished at the
amount of practical, infidehty developed
among Christians. From , the manner in
which many talk and lOok, it would seem as
if God was not in all 'their thoughts. No
body expects time-servers to look higher '
than Tammany for, machinery and _results ;
but the people who profess to .worship God,;
the Father, _Almighty, Maker of heaven and'
earth, might be expected to possess their
souls in patience. It seems to us that' the ,
God whom many Of us worship is after our
own`tmage'i likenesa—a God . s'nfficient in
peace, while everything goes smoothly, but
rather taken aback by a sudden outburst of
war—a God adequate to the government Of
the world in ordinary times, but quite out of
his reckoning in these tumultuous days. .1 We.<
can, trust him to give us day by day our daily,
bread, but we have not the least confidence
in his ability to cope with Stonewall Jackson
and Gen.. Lee. I know that . God works, by,
means, and if Gen. Burnside should say,
"God will take care, of his-muse," and should
therefore not poet pickets, or watch the ene
ray, lt - e - would deny the-faith, and be worse
than an infidel.; or if we should say it, and
therefore cease to' pray, and to work, in. every
possible way for the cause, we should be the
same ; but I, and most of those who read,,
this paper, have no more influence over the,
management of troops at Vicksburg, the dis
position of forces in Virginia, the furnishing
of plans or material anywhere, than Daniel
had over the lions. We have the same' call
for trust in God that he had. Things 11711-
doubtedly looked very dark when the Israel
ites.stood fronting the sea, with the Egyptian
cavalry s hard after them; but the sea return,
ed and covered both chariots and horsemen ;
Things must have looked dark to the Jews
when the Assyrian host sat down before their
city, but'in the morning they were all dead
corpses. , Those were Bible times, miracle
times ; but is the Lord's arm. shortened that
He cannot save, or his ear heavy that he
cannot hear?:True, we cannot be sure that
He is on our side, but we can at least be sure,
that, we are on His. We talk of our country,.
and it is ours—just as' Paul's house was his.
The,earth is the Lord's, and the fullness
thereof. This country belongs to Godf. It
was His when a forgotten pbople held it—His'
when it passed into the hands ofthe Indians
His when our fathers dwelt here, and His to-'
day. If the Lord. can afford to •let it go;
rather think we can. If his cause can lie
better served by,giving it over a .while to dead:
men's bones and all uncleanness, it shall, he
given. Possibly, God sees that the only
way by which we will be led to the truth is
a reductio ad absurdum. He will let us have
another pull at slavery, selfishness and wick
ed prosperity, or perhaps det,us try anarchy,
and division, arid humiliation a while, till we
shall be ready to return to Him. I hope not.
We ought to strive that it may not be neces
sary. I only say that if worse comes to
worst, we should not put on mourning, as if
the earth were.orphaned of its Maker.--Gag
Hamilton. • n
COME, OR tOll MUST 'PERISH.
f` Neither is there salvation in any other ; for
there is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby"we must be saved."'-- 2 '.:A.OTS
iv. 12.
No one can meet your case but Jesis.
who made must save, and -as all things were
made by him,rso all who are saved must , be
saved by !dia. .The watchmaker must re-,
pair the watch. The sculptbr must repair
the statue. 'lle painter, must restore ,the
picture. 'So Jesus must save the soul. This,
is "the work" the Father has given him 'to
do,—to "'bind'up thee broken-hearted, to
proclaim liberty to the captives, and the
opening of the prison to :.those that are
bound." His blood alone can cleanse. His
righteousness alone can justify.' His Spirit
alone can sanctify. His word alone can
direct.
Jesus can save any one, but out of Jesus
there is 'salvation for no one. Reject his
atonement, and there remaineth no more
sacrifice for•sin.. Resisthis 'Spirit, land there
is, no purification for thy depraved nature.;
You are shut up, to Jesus. He can save, and
he alone. Out of Christ, all is danger. He.
is the one ark amidst the deluge. He is the
only city of refuge, where the manslayer is
safe. He is the only house where the weary
soul will find rest.
All out of the ark of Noah perished in the
waters of the flood ; so all out of Christ will
be punished with everlasting destruction
from the pre.sence of the Lord, and the glory,
of his power. Come, oh, come then, to
Jesus! lie will receive and shelter you.
He will protect and preserve
, you. He "
save and lift you up forever.'
Receive not Christ, and you' are ruined to
all , eternity. "He that - believeth not the Sett
shall not see life,." but the wrath of God
abideth,on, him." The wrath of God I The
wrath of God abiding on, the soul.! What,
oh, what ;can this be ?
PLAIN ,PREAORING.
The, late Ebev. Dr., C. Evans of Bristol,
having once to travel from home, wrote to a
congregation to, say that lie should have occa
sion to stay a, night in their village, and that
if it were agreeable to them, he would give
them a sermon. The poor people hesitated
for some time, but at length permitted him to
preach.
After sermon he found them in a happier
mood than when he first came among- them,
and could, not forbear inquiring into the rea
son of " Why, sir, to tell you the
truth," said one of them,'" knowing that you
were a very learned man, and that you were
a teacher of young ministers, we were much
afraid we could not understand you; but you
have, been quite as plain as any minister we
ever hear. , " Ay, ay," the doctor replied,-
" you,.certainly mispderstood the nature of
learning, my friend; its design is to make
things so:plain that, they cannot be misunder
stOod.7::
,Similar was the - vie* of Archbishop
LeightOn, 'who says, in one 'of his charges to
his cleigt: " How much_ 'yearning, my bre
thren,-is • required to make these things
ANOTHER VOICE FROM ENGLAND.
Another portion of the English conamunity,
says the Philadelphia North, American, which
has seemed to be unfriendly to us gives evi
dence here and there of a change of feeling
—we mean the clergy of the Church.of Eng
land. Mr: Bernard, Professor of Interna
tional Law at Oxford; who, though a layman,
holds, a sort of ecclesiastical position, being
assessor of the Vice Chancellor's Court, has
taken strong ground against the government
iri the matter of the Alabama. More than
this, the Oxford lJnion, theleading club . 'or
society in connection with the= University,
decided recently, after a lengthened debate,
that, ‘fthn moral support given by England to
the southern confederacy was a disgrace to
the nation." But as, evidence of a begining,
at least of friendly feeling. among the clergy
proper, we cite the following communication,
which we find in the .London Guardian, of
April Bth, the writer of which we take to be
a son'of Dr. Arnold;
• NORTH AND SOUTH.
Sir : I hope you, will, by the insertion of
thiS letter let your readers in the northern
States of :America see that all at least `of the
English clergy do not sympathize with the
south.
I confess, indeed, that itis to me a painful
reflection that, :whether on , the platform or
in, the press, -there has been so little express
sion of sympathy on the part of the clergy
with the cause of the north.
It was a saying I believe of the great Na
poleon, ,that it was impossible to say what,
view would be' taken in England of any
great public event, because so many perso
nal and party considerations came in there
to modify 'publie opinion; and certain it is
that; whether owing to our aristocratic dis
like to the Yankees and their democracy, or
our - jealousy of, their rising wealth and
power, the public opinion in Figland a.mong
the, uppe,r classes is less liberal and more
violently opposed to all their former profes
sions than that ofany nation on the Conti
nent.'
I am not going to . deny that there are
many peculiarities of manner in the Ameri
cans which make them often personally disa
greeable, nor that they have as a nation shown
touchy irritable sensitiveness in their foreign
relations with this country which has made
their conduct often overbearing and offensive.
These are the characteristics of a young na
tion whoie head'his been turned by prosper
ity, and which is being constantly recruited by
noisy and diScontented immigrants from the
old world: For the sake 'indeed, of America
herself, , I do not altogether regret this war.
She needed the fiery furnace of adversity
to sober and purify her character, and get
rid of
,some of that frantic bombast and
"bunkum" which seems ready to dare
Heaven itself, and whiph must always pro
voke from older and more cultivated nations
that quiet ridicule which the Americans find
so hard to bear.
But an unprejudiced thinker will not allow
these personal considerations to affect his
estimate of, a war with the merits of which
theyla,ve nothing to do. For what are the,
merits of the present straggle ? They are
briefly and incontestably these
The election of Mr. Lincoln as President
set a limit tb the extension of slavery. If
this litnit'was 'acquiesced in on the part of
the, sonth, it was clear that the constantly
increasing wealth and population of the north
must swamp the.political power of the south,
and in the end snuff out the domestic ifisti
tution." So the south 'revolted against the
north, and the war began. Those who pre
tend that the war was caused by questions
of trade and trallicknovitoore than, the anthill's
of the war Themselves, for thesouthern lea
dera,und newspapers have never for a mom
ent concealed that slavery was the •one great
question, at stake. Let us observe that the
election of Mr. Lincoln was no coup ,d'etat,
but in a.ccorffancei with the ~ordinary. nary. laws of
the Constitution and The will of the majority.
The morst part of the conduct of the south, in
a philosophical view, is. that it is subversive of
all law`and govermient - that without any
grievance except that their own selfish inter
ests were touched by the legitimate action of
the' Constitution' which they themselves had'
helped to establish, they broke through all the
restraints of law, and 'determined .to abolish
the whole. fabric of the Union. It is, as.. if
Parliament were to enact, some scheme of
organized mingration for the Lancashire pp..
eratives, and the mill owners and manufac
turers Were at once to rise in rebellion.
GE.NESEE EVINGELIST.:-. 2 Whole No. 885.
But it is often said, even by professed libe
rals in England—whatever may have-been
the cause of the war, when*the north saw
that the south Was resolved upon separation
;it should have let them go. 1V : ell, sir, it, is
not so easy yet to form a correct judgment
on this matter. It is quite.possible that the
north may yet be victorious, and that the
Union mayhe cemented again; though' under
different, amid course for tho time disadvan—
tageous, conditions, as regards the sinith.
But` whether tas may, happen or not 'it ap
pears a pr'iorr, to be 'the bounden 'day
. of
every govern*ent to uphold its anthority
when it is illegally attacked, whether by a
handfnl of rioters in. the streeter by a league
Of revolted States ; and we at, least, who have
held Gibraltar, and, are prepared still to hold
it in defiance of 'the.' Spanishmation, upon , /
'whose soil it stands, who have fought for the
possession of India, and are prepared to fight
for it against all its native princes and popu
lations, can hardly blame the United States
for not quietly allowing their territory to be
dismembered by default—a territory, be it
remembered, compact and undivided by sea,
lakes, or chains of mountains—for not con
senting ,to lose all access to the Gulf of
Mexico, and the command of all the great
river system of the northern continent.
I• do not, therefore, for a moment admit
that the north ought to have let the southern
States, depart peaceably ; but granting, for
the sake of ,argnment, that the north was
wrong in accepting this war, „still our sym
pathies cannot be with the south, if we ask
ourselves why they wished to be free and
separate from the Union ; for it was not that
they might, as has sometimes been the case
-with rebellious citizens, free themselves from
arbitrary tyranny and oppression, but in order
that slavery, which they knew to be doomed
by the growing feeling of the mass of their
countrymen, might still flourish in their own
States unrestrained and uncontrolled.
I will, with your permission, return once
more to this subject in a second letter.
FOREIGN SEMIKIRY.
- GREAT BRITAIN.--Midnight meeting move
ment. —The third annual meeting of the
friends of this important effort in London,
was held April 7th. It appeared from the re
port and statements made that nearly 1,200
fallen women had been rescued since the
commencement of the experiment, and after
pa'ssing a sufficient time in homes and refuges,
had been restored to their friends, recommen
ded to situations, or honorably married,
while many'of them have given evidence of
having experienced the power of that Divine
"which only the grace of God can effect. The
general.: summary showed that 33 meetings
had been held, at which 7,500 unfortunate
females had heard the Gospel, 50,000 Scrip
ture, cards, books, and tracts circulated, and
500 poor girls rescued. During the past
year eight meetings had been held, attended
by nearly 1,500 persons, and 75 had been
rescued from a life of sin. There are 13
homes in connection with the mission. The
income for the year was £1,124.
We have recently noticed the efforts of
the Presbyterians of Belfast to meet the
4dritual wants of the growing population.
It now appears in the Established Churches
there is only room for one-fourth of the Epis
copal population, which is now 30,000, while .
the number of clergymen ministering to them
is only 15. A local paper states that efforts
are - being made to provide better church ac
commodation. The Ecclesiastical Commis
sioners, in answer to a memorial from the
inhabitants, have undertaken to build one
church in Belfast this year, the cost of which
will, be.not less than 1,0001.; and they are not
only willing but anxious to erect four similar
churches—one in each succeeding year—
provided anAndowment of not less than 751,
a year is secured for each. In consequence
of this response, a society has been establish
ed to raise the necessary endowments, and to
still further increase the church accommoda
tion of the town.
MISSIONARY.--Ceylon.—in 1518 the Por
tuguese took possession of the coast ; in 1640;
the Dutch;; and in 1795, the English ; and
in 1815 y the entire island was ceded to the
British crown. The religious influence ex
ercised by the first conquerors has been great
and abiding. There are, districts that are
almost entirely Romanist,; there are two
resident bishops ; nearly fifty priests ; and
churches of imposing appeara.nce abound a
long nearly the whole of the inhabited sea
board. By marriages especially, and other
secular causes, Popery is fast spreading among
the people. - z-:----ifissionary to India.—The
United Presbyterian congregation of Brough
ton Place, Edinburgh, (Rev. Dr. Thompson's)
at a meeting, unanimously agreed to send
out and support, a missionary in India, at a
salary of 3001. per annum. This congrega
tion has long maintained a mission in Jamaica,
which has now become almost self-supporting..
They also support a missionary in Old Cala
bar.—Ohina. —The Bishop of Victoria
writes from Hong Kong January 30th:—
" Within the last nine months twenty-one
Chinese have been baptized in our mission at
Hong Kong, including nine pupils from
our college; On Sunday last out of
fifty persons confirmed by me in the
Cathedral, eighteen were Chinese.—
In the neighborhood of Swaton the Scotch
Free Presbyterian missionaries, after seven
years of apparently% bootless labor, are be
ginning to receive decided encouragement,
Rev. Geo. Sinith writes as follows : "On
the first. Sabbath of October, Mr. Mackenzie
and celebrated the communion at
Yam
chow along with twenty native Christians,
who, with the 'exception of three; belong to
the' village. It• eve-as a sweet sight to see so
many men and women, most of who'll had
not long before been sunk in the i darkness of
heathenism without God' and without hope,
now commemorating the love of the Redee
mer."rifin The Rev. James Calvert, of the
Wesleyan Mission, writes from Ovalau to
the . secretaries of the Bible Society
we have in this district 394 churches, 172
houses for ' preaching, 12 missionaries, 1
English schoolmaster and 1 schoomistress, 1
,printer, 11 ordained native assistant mission
aries, 17 on trial as ditto, 241 catechists,
250 local preachers, 1,476 school teachers,
13,101 church members, 5,216 on.trial for
church membcrship,,B7l schools, 3,500 scho
lars, and 66,860 'person's who attend public
worship. And now all, parfs of Fiji are
,
Opening to us:..
E. P. ARNOLD.