have been treated, is constrained to speak as he did last evening, we may well look for ward to a period, and that not far distant, when the test of unconditional attachment to the Government will be so insisted upon that no man will ever be permitted to re main within the Union lines, much less to hold office under the Union Government, who does not give his best and sincerest energies to the good cause. -AND GENESEE EVANGELIST. THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1863 JOHN W. NEARS, EXTRA DAILY ISSUE OF THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, I=l During the approaching Sessions of the Gene ral Assembly in this city, we propose to issue from this office a daily paper, containing PHONO GRAPHIC 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 minister, older, 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 be sent, post-paid, to any address for 50 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 inches; $2O for a half column, $l2 for a quarter column. Address, AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, 1334 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. •:":" :1 lk THE current of opinion among the Presbyte rians of Great Britain and the colonies is not fixed towards union, but is taking a sweep of un expected breadth and power. Attention has for some years been directed to the relations be tween the English Presbyterian Church and the numerous Presbyteries of the United Presbyte rian Church—a Scotch organization—in Eng land. There is so little reason for the distinct existence of those two branches of the Church in England, that much disappointment was felt at the failure of the representative bodies to take definite measures for union last year. The indica tions of a disposition to unite have been growing clearer and more decided in troth bodies almost every day. And the Calvanistie bodies called Methodists, among the Welsh, are expected to form a third party in the united body which will doiibtless be realized at no distant day. But within a few weeks new and most impor tant developements have taken place, showing that the leaven of union is working in far wider circles, and is promising to achieve results of the greatest consequence to the cause of Chrillt, and particularly to the Presbyterian branch of his kingdom. Not only in England where Presby terianisiu exists almost wholly as the church of Scotch immigrants, but in Scotland itself, the centre and home of the church, the union move ment is making rapid progress and seems about to swallow up and obliterate every landmark of division but such as pertain to the vitals of the Presbyterian system. Says the Weekly Review of April 18th : " The great cause of Presbyterian union makes progress. Every post from the North,—and we might almost add from the South, East, and West,—brings tidings of its advance. Our read ers know how actively it has been promoted by I he people of Glasgow, and we this day chronicle a union meeting in Liverpool of a kind similar to t hose which have been held statedly in Scotland's tiommercial capital. But what is chiefly interest ing to the Presbyterian and to the Christian world at this moment is the fact that the ques tion of union will come up for ample and, we trust, conclusive discussion in the chief repre i•entative bodies of the Free Church and United Presbyterian Churches, the General Assembly of the one and the Synod of the other, at their thoetings next May. Various Presbyteries of t tic Free Church have overtured the Assembly on the subject, and the Rev. Dr. Cairns, of Ber wick, and the Rev. Messrs. Inglis and Daniel Kerr have been appointed by the United Presby tery of Berwick to bring it before the United Presbyterian Synod. The form in which the overture of the United Presbytery of Berwick is drawn up strikes us as admirable, and we think au can recognize in it the mind of the eminent man who has been appointed to support it before the Synod. It proposes union between the l'uited Presbyterian Church, the Free Church, the English Presbyterians, the Original Seces pion Church, and the Reformed Presbyterian Church. In one word, it embraces in its noble :lad comprehensive sweep every non-established bflauch of the Presbyterian Church in Great Britain." As Christian men and as Presbyterians we do most cordially greet these indications of a move_ went so noble and so catholic in its spirit, and su beneficent in its tendencies. We respond ben tily to the declaration of the Review: "The uilion of the broken and scattered Church of our Presbyterian fathers ought to be heralded by al/theme of great joy, like those heard when God brought again Zion." Nor can there be a question of the entire truth of another remark of the Review that this movement "must, if crowned with success, have consequences which will be felt to the end of the earth, and which must pro foundly affect the whole church of Christ." It will have weight here, where the fragmentary condition of the Presbyterian Church is felt by la altitudes within and without its borders, to be it humiliation and a stumblinedock, for which some adequate remedy must and can be found. It a ill wonderfully strengthen the hands of those ho have labored and prayed for this result. It will soften the needless prejudices of those swab er Presbyterian bodies, chiefly composed of :-!catch and Scotch-Irish immigrants—people who only need a more catholic spirit mingled with their sturdy orthodoxy to put them among the very choicest Christian people of the land. Tlia example of the mother country in this re spelt, must have decisive weight with them. '.J'hree years ago, we ventured the assertion th the divisive tendencies among Presbyterians all over the world had passed their maximum, and that the tide was setting in the opposite di rection. The assertion might have been regard ed as problematical then; events have been rapidly crowding into the history of the Presby terian churches since that date, justifying it in the fullest manner. Our branch of the church has ever been abreast of the advancing catholi city of the denomination. We are for union, most heartily, now. Toleration of difference on non-essential points is the only practicable basis of union. We have always been on that basis. On that, we are ready for, and would rejoice to witness a union of the whole body of loyal Pres byterians to-morrow. It will come to pass. " And fearful," says the Review, speaking words of the movement there, " fearful will be the responsibility, hei g nous the sin, of any man who permits sectarian jealousy, or individual crotchet, or un-Christian narrpwness, to betray him into any word or deed which might retard this union." Editor. THE ANTIQUITY OF THE HUMAN BAOE.* IN . our last week's issue, we stated the position recently taken by many geologists in regard. 1 the high antiquity :of certain human remains found in strata of the earth's crust, more ancient than the one we are at present occupying. We also commenced to state the grounds on which the believer in the inspired origin of the Mosaic record might meet these novel and startling sumptions, so contrary to the received opinions of the meaning of that Record and of the age of the human family. Either the pretended age of one hundred thousand years required by these savans for the existence of man on our planet is a gross error, or we are entirely at fault in our interpretation of the chronology of the Penta teuch. Having first considered whether the geologists themselves might not be in error, both as to the recent discoveries and as to the general princi ples of their adolescent science, we now venture to offer three other alternatives which may pre- sent themselves, in lieu of the geologist's con clusion, that the human race is one hundred thousand years old. _ 8. But grant all that is demanded by these discoverers; grant that human remains, so called, have really been found in the earlier stratifica tions of the earth's surface ; that a race or races with a bony structure similar to our own, lived on our planet ages before it was geologically pre pared for Adam and his descendants; the inqui ry may be started : Did .they possess the main quality of the present race ? Were they moral beings ? It is a matter of profound indifference to the believer in the inspiration of Moses and the modern origin of our race, as now constitu ted, how many or how ancient races resembling us in physical character alone, existed on the earth before our own. You may find remains of " man " in the deepest strata of the Silurian sys tem, and you may people all the exaggerated cycles of the planet's geological history with the race; it be granted that the true man,—the beingna.pable of moral feeling, of receiving a re velation, and 4 knowing, loving and enjoying God, came initexistence at the commencement of the present geological era. The others will affect us no more than the discovery of new spe cies of fossil saurians or monkeys, in places and eras to which they were not before supposed to belong. 4. Granting once more that the age of the Adamite race itself is proven by these discoveries to be greater than the accepted chronology of the Hebrew Scriptures would allow, some modifi cation of that chronology may be necessary and may be accepted by believers in the inspiration of the Scriptures. We are now guided by the chronology, as nearly as it can be ascertained, of the Hebrew text, which gives a little over 4000 years as the age of the world before Christ. The Septuagint or Greek version of the Old Testament, varies greatly from this chronology, making the world nearly 1500 years older than from the Hebrew text it would seem to be. According to the Septuagint the Deluge took place 3246 years before Christ. According to the accepted chronology of our English Bible it occured nearly nine hundred years later: B. C. 2348. The question of Bible chronology ap pears to be by no means settled, and it would be unjust to the last degree to hold the inspired writers responsible on this score, until we had ascertained what idea of time they really designed to convey. The modification in our view of the subject, will by no means necessarily raise a ques tion as to the perfect truthfulness and accuracy of the sacred record. Such modification, science has frequently required of the believer. The adoption of the Copernican system.of astronomy, and the geological conclusion, now so generally received in regard to the great age of the Pre-ad smite earth, constrained us to see many things in Scripture in a new light; they have changed our views of tke meaning of certain phrases and statements, but they have not stamped them as erroneous. In like manner, the new claims advanced in regard to the age of the race will compel a closer inspection of our views of Bible chronology, and may require new inter pretations, and new hypotheses, as to the inten tion of the sacred writer on points of chronology. And we may reach conclusions, as we have done already, quite at variance with our present views of the subject, yet without throwing a shade upon, but rather giving new light to the mean ing of Scripture on the points in question. That we shall convict the sacred writer of any errors I we will not for a moment allow. 5. There remains an alternative which we think holds good after all others have been found unsatisfactory. Grant that the positions now assumed by geologists as to the age of oar race are sound; or at least that with our present knowledge they cannot be set aside. Grant that to admit their truth introduces irreconcileable contradictions between Science and the Mosaic record; does it follow that we must give up one or the other ? Must we, as believers, denounce geology, and discourage investigations in that and kindred fields of science, and warn our people against the dangerous tendency of such studies? We think not. Such a course is not only wrong, but it will be found unavailing. The church should not undertake, to hinder or to direct the progress of science. We agree with a writer in the Princeton Review for January who says : "The part of wisdoin for us is to yield * The Geological evidences of the Antiquity of Man, with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation. By Sir Charles Lyell, I.R.S. Illustrated by Wood-cuts. Second American from the latest London Edition. Philadelphia : G. W. Childs, 628 and 630 Chestnut street. Svo. pp. 526. ak intr i tan Vrtobtfetian itita 6tutort 6rangtlifit a free rein and an open course to the career of science and not attempt to force the authority of the Scriptures upon it in a way which does vio lence to their whole genius and purport." Let scientific men pursue their labors with the ad monition that they keep true to those Well-ascer tained principles of inquiry which hold in every department of research. Let us remember that their peculiar field of inquiry is from the same divine source; that nature and revelation are two books written in different characters by the same infallible Author; that though in consequence of their obscurity and our imperfect faculties, ap parent discrepancies in their progressive inter pretation arise, they must harmonize in thei; true meaning, and discrepancies will disappear when both are fully understood. We are not to dis 7 card science any more than revelation. We are not to renounce a single well-ascertained principle of revelation—such as the Inspiration of the Sacred Record—at the demand of the most spe cious discovery of science. Our last alternative is to wait. Maintaining our hold of the Scrip tures, we look calmly at the seemingly adverse conclusions of science which we cannot deny without doing violence to reason, and say :. "There is a mistake somewhere, truly, either your reading of the facts of scieneei or my interi pretation of the meaning of Scripture. Ido not see where the mistake lies. _I am content to hold the seemingly contrary facts as an unsolved diffi culty. As many theologians accept the free will of man and .the sovereignty of God without any lon ger attempting either to reconcile them or toisacri flee the one to the other, so I may admit the ex treme antiquity of the race, while I retain my belief in the plenary inspiration of the Penta teuch which seems to teach the contrary. I will allow both conclusions to stand side by side in my mind inconsistent though they may be ;- con fident that the whole difficulty is somehow capa ble of solution and that the solution, when it comes, will prove honorable to true science and to Sc alike." present these several modes of meeting the new difficulties raised by geologists, not as consistent with each other, but rather as alter natives, to one or the other of which Christian minds will betake themselves. We are not pre pared. to say which of them should be preferred; we can only urge our readers to acquaint them selves with the facts; to take up no new notions hastily; yield to no senseless fears on the one hand, or to conceive no blind prejudice against science on the other, and if they can do no better, to take the last alternative by which the difficulty becomes a trial of their faith and patience. THE LATE MOVEMENTS IN OUR ARMY. As our last numbei: was going to press the news from the army of the Potomac, then across the Rappahannock, was regarded as most favora ble to victory. Terrific battles had been fought : the heights of Fredericksburg had been carried triumphantly'by one part of the army, while,the main portion, under Gen. Hooker, lying near the fords and about ChancellOrville, 'had, with some disaster arising from a panic in the eleventh corps, for the most part maintained its ground against the enemy. Gen. Stoneman, with his 15.000 cavalry, was also believed, as has since turned out to be the fact, to have severed the Rail-road connections between Richmond and Fredericksburg and thus prevented reinforce ments from coming north. Of course the surprise and disappointment of the loyal people was great on learning that Hoo ker had withdrawn from his position and, recros sed the river; that Sedgwick had been compelled to give up the heights he captured and make a hasty retreat, and that the movement was on the whole, a failure. True, it is believed that the enemy's loss was double our own; it was speedi ly known that our army was still in good condi tion, less than one third of Gen. Hooker's entire force having been engaged; and finally the ex ploits of Gen. Stoneman were of such an aston ishing and brilliant character, reaching to the very gates of Richmond, destroying the rebel communications and spreading dismay in every direction among the traitors, that we were con strained to forget the failure of the main part of the movement in the entire and glorious• triumph of this subordinate demonstration. A portion of this command traversed the old battle ground of the Chickahominy, penetrated the intrenchinents around Richmond—where they captured a rebel of f icer—destroyed bridges and railroads exten sively in that vicinity and came into our lines at Gloucester opposite Yorktown. The causes of the failure of this great and pro mising movement, were threefold : First, Gen. Sedgwick's repulse from the heights of Fredericksburg; second, Gen. Hook er's partial defeat before Chancellorsville ; and, third, want of information in regard to Stone man's movements and even suspicion of his fidel ity. We believe these three considerations pre senting themselves together to Gen. Hooker's mind, on Monday night, decided him to with draw. Had the facts been different in a single one of these particulars, we believe the General would have remained. Sedgwick's failure, after achieving a most brilliant success, seSms to 'have been caused by the unexpectedly great number of the rebels who were thrown upon his men on Monday. Whether these,were detached from Lee's army, which was not molested by Hooker on that day, or whether, as other accounts say, they were the rebel reinforcements under Longstreet and others, sent .up from Richmond and the south of the James, before Stoneman succeeded in des troying ,the communications, we cannot tell. They were at any , rate, far too numerous for our small force to cheek, even behind entrenchments, and Sedgwick was compelled to withdraw. Gen. Hooker's inaction on Monday must have resulted, in part, from the losses and derange ment of his plans during the battles of the two preceding days. Without suffering defeat as a whole, one corps of the army, the eleventh, gave way and fled in a panic at the first serious onset, and without firing a gun. This was on Saturday evening; and the result was that our entire army was compelled to fall back and assume a much less available position. Duiing Sabbath the ene my endeavored in vain to overwhelm the army iu its new positions. We yielded some ground during the fighting, but we suffered no defeat and the enemy's loss was terrifie.Thus on Monday, Gen. Hooker felt it necessary to remain within his entrenched lines waiting' an attack ; and the enemy perhaps seized the opportunity to fall in great force upon Sedgwick and compel him to abandon his 'positions near Fredericksburg with great loss. There was another reason, doubtless, which constrained Gen. Hooker to the inactivity of Mon day, and which entered into the grounds of his subsequent decision to withdraw to the north side. Gen. Stoneman had not been heard from. Fears and suspicions, e n, arose as to fidelity of this officerand Gen. Averiyl, who was entrusted with a similar errand, ciuq.ccount of this delay; and it is said that Gem Hooker was so far in fluenced by these fears, that he actually wrote, and dispatched to the war-office, an order reliev ing these officers of their command. If the work assigned to them was not'done as he believed it was not, and the rebel army in our front was in free communication with' all yarts of the South, Gen. Hooker was contending with an enemy al ready powerful and caplide of indefinite rein forcement. Hence being somewhat crippled in battle himself, he lay still on Monday, while Sedgwick was driven back, and then, both Sedg. wick, and the cavalry expeditions having as he thought proved failui&,' he felt it the part of pru d ence t o withd ra w. He did so most success fully and without loss on Tuesday night May 5, and the army he commands is even now describ ed as prepared for new movements upon an ene my which has suffered far more, and which is badly crippled irrall lines"of communication and routes of supiSly: L. • ; The people therefOre' have speedily settled down from their high and painful excitement of last Thursday, into a simple sense of the neces, sity of further delay. Many brave men have in deed fallen, but if 'their fall was the means of crippling and damaging the enemy to a far grea ter, extent, it, was note, vain sacrifice; as, indeed, no lives are ( vainly lost in a good cause. The people, we are glad to believe, do not require encouragemebt at out , hands. They feel that they have not been trifled with in the exceeding ly manful, courageous, and skilful methods of the commanding general. As an instrument in the hands of God for our final success, they trust him yet. THE FEMALE MEDIOLL COLLEGE OF PENN SYLVANIA. WE have looked soinewhat carefully over the Valedictory address rf Professor Emeline R. Cleveland to the 14,graduating class of this. Institution. It is pnblished by the special re quest of the corporators among whom are such names as M. W. Baldwin, Thomas Brainerd, D.D., F. J. Dreer, Wm. S. Pierce, and others of e'qual standing. Professor Cleveland, in her address, speaks of the steady progress made in recognizing the standing and servicesg female physicians. The Philadelphia County Medical Society had, in deed, adopted stringent resolutions against the whole class, and against those who consulted with them, or favored their enterprise. But she is happy to chronicle 'the fact that not only may members of this Society consult with women and their instructors, " bit those of them belonging to the professional aristocracy of our profession ally proud city, may request such consultations." She hears " most flatiering, accounts of the recep tion given in London to an American lady now prosecuting her studies in that city.", Drs. Car penter and Druitt formally recognize her de gree, and she is admitted freely,to visit'in some of the best London hospitals. During the last year, a young English woman of intelligence, wealth and position was admitted as a medical student to the University School of St. Andrews, Edinboro; but the Senatus, after taking legal advice, refused to allow her to proceed with her studies. In other parts of the old world little progress is making. Touching briefly upon the question of the capacity of the female mind for the nice mental processes required in ,the practice of medicine, she admits that " her mind may be less induct ive than that of man;' but intimates that as a deductive reasoner, shelnay prove of great value to science. Goethe's suggestion that the skull is composed of expanded vertebrae, she cites, as an instance of the great value of this method of reasoning, to science. As to the rights and duties of women physi cians, Prof. O. asserts ,that they will not differ, in consequence of their womanhood, from the rights and duties of physicians of the opposite sex. She refers her students to the Bible for a standard of character suitable to their high voca tion. The sorrows and woes liable to be poured into their hearts from their patients, they must sacredly guard, and vindicate thus the character of woman as worthy of confidence. The self abnegation for which such a wide field is pre sented in this profession " is more especially re quired of women'who would make themselves mi nisters of good to their kind." The opportunities for gaining new inform A ntion such as the physi cian must constantly aim to acquire, are, as yet, restricted for women; hence she must rely more on books and periodicals. She quotes from " the late lamented (?) Buckle" i to show that some knowledge of other Sciences is needful for a full knowledge of one's own. In the last par agraph but one she says,: " The 'physician, of all men, perhaps, needs an abiding faith in that Providence which rules over all; nay . more, a religions i trust' in a personal, pre sent, spiritual guide, and" a' sene.of accountability, to Him , in whose hatid is' the giving and the with holding of life. Accountable - to no other for his determinations and his acts, and dealing with a subject no less_precious . than human life, the thought of the Eternal should be ever present to his spirit, and a light froni before the throne of the Almighty should guide him in the way. The sweet influences of religion, besides sustaining his own soul in a thousand anxious perplexities, become often a marvelous resource of good to his patients, teaching them consolation in misfortunes, the con trol of the passions, influencing all their acts of life, and consequently their health, and the physician ought not to be without this arm of strength." Without entering upoA e the question of the expediency of introducing female physicians, it is clear that females have that delicacy, tact, kindness and quiet, which make them incompa rable as nurses. A.nd the instances of Florence Nightingale, the Sisters of Charity and the Deaconnesses of Kaiserwerth show how safely and successfully their practice in this regard may be formed into a profession. Can it be such a serious problem to advance from this ground to that of the medical 'profession itself ? Or would not the profession hezrefined and rendered more efficient and acceptable by such an acces sion to its ranks ? • CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN 0111TROHIN. L. We are happy to learn that the congregation and friends of the Central Presbyterian Church, N. L., have succeeded in entirely removing the debt ($7500.) from their church edifice. This church is under the pastoral charge of the Rev. James Y. Mitchell, rind we are able to state from authority , that it now bids fair to take its former position among the sister churches of our denomination, as an active working people. In fact the promptness which characterized all classes, in the movement toward the liquidation of the debt, is a proof of this statement. The creditors manifested their interest in the matter, by a magnanimous abatement of their claims; and the people connected with the church, en couraged by this practical sympathy, were soon able (with the assistance of their friends in other churches,) to satisfy those claims. Not only is the temporal condition of this church a source of congratulation, but since their present pastor has been with them, there appears to be a livelier interest manifested in reference to the spiritual condition. The congregation has been gradually increasing, and there have been several additions to their membership. We congratulate the pastor and his charge on the happy condition of their church, and pray that their present relations may be long contin ued. THE SABBATH SCHOOL, THE PIONEER OF THE OHDHOH, It is worthy of remark that a very large por tion of our Church organizations especially those of a missionary character, on the outskirts of our large cities, have had their origin in the Sabbath School. And yet•nothing is more common in the notices taken of such organizations, than to ignore the relation which the Sabbath School sustains to them. THE TABOR PRESBYTERIAN CHI7ROII, which has recently been' organized at the corner of seventeenth and Fitzwater streets, with two hun dred and thirteen members, strikingly illustrates the influence of the Sabbath School in prepar ing the way for its present growth and prosperi ty. A few facts in its history will illustrate this. On the Second Sabbath in March 1856, twenty three very poor and neglected children were ga thered in an upper room, in a small house of a narrow street, in the South We'stern part of the City, and were organized into a Sabbath School. At the instance of the Superintendent it was to be known and recognized as " The Tabdr Sab bath School." The fostering care of the School was assumed by the Missionary Association of the Calvary Church in the month ol April following. Its numbers continued to increase so rapidly that the erection of a building became necessary. Measures were at once taken for this purpose, and pfecisely eight months from the time of the organization of the school, the beautiful Chapel in which the school is now held, was dedicated with appropriate exercises. The school contin ued to flourish and many of thd scholars were hopefully converted ; and thus the way was pre pared for the ministrations of the Gospel. Rev. Geo. Van Deurs of Western New York having been invited, entered-upon his labors on the 2d Sabbath in July 1858, nearly two years and a half from the commencement of the mission. The school then numbered 338 scholars and 28 Teachers. During the five years of his connection with the mission, his labors have been unremitting, and eminently successful. Of the whole num ber who have united with the Church, thirty five have been from the Sabbath School. In a few months the Congregation will occupy their new building now in process of erection, for which they are indebted to the munificent liberality of a member of Calvary Church. May the future of their history be as prosperous as the past. BOOKS ASKED FOR. From one of our good brethren in flows., we have received a request for books, which, with out his request, we make public. Any packages for this purpose can be sent to the Presbyterian House, 1334 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. We may add that our Publication Committee will be very glad to receive donations of money to be expended in sending new LiLraries to our needy churches for their schools. J. W. D. " Within the bounds of our Presbytery there is a great want of Sabbath School books. Most .of the men are away in the army, and there is no money to purchase. The brethren of the Pres bytery have rewsted me to gather up second hand books IN GOOD CONDITION, during my at tendance at the Assembly. To secure this ob ject I have written to several of my acquaintances to send to your care what books of this class they might have. And I send you this, requesting your'influence in the Sabbath Schools of your acquaintance in the city for the same object. Perhaps you can procure for us several hundred volumes of second hand books for our schools, They will be very acceptable: got these in good condition : books of a larger size than those in the ten dollar Libraries would be preferred. Keep them till I come to the Assembly." ANNIVERSARY OF OLIVET SUNDAY SCHOOL. The eighth Anniversary of the Olivet Sabbath Schoool was celebrated on Sabbathafternoon of May 3d. A church crowded with children and friends showed the prosperity of the Institution, and the interest maintained in its welfare. A distinguishable feature of the occasion was the singing of numerous beautiful Hymns, for which the children had been in training, under a most accomplished Leader, for many weeks, .and in their accurate performance all enjoyod the fruit of patient labor. The services were directed by the Pastor and Superintendent, and enriched with appropriate and earnest addresses from Geo. H. Stuart, and Rene Gillou, Esqs. The Super intendent's report exhibited the advancement of the school in numbers and appointments needed to give it permanency and efficiency, and after a distribution of prizes,' children, teachers and friends after high' gratification were dismissed to their various homes. REV. DR. BRAINERD in a very excellent Ser mon to the young, preached on a recent Sab bath, said that when he 'came to the Old Pine Street Church, twenty-six years ago, there was but one young man in its membership. In the churches of New England and the country gene rally at that time there were few members under twenty years old. Now, a large portion of the church members are young persons. Dr. B. at tributes this encouraging fact in great part to thr special, organized efforts which have been made of late years to reach this class, and particularly to Sabbath Schools. Some of it may, in our judgement, be attributed to the general fact of the precocity shown by the young in modern times, which has its advantageous, no less than its objectionable feature's. Twelve young persons are expected to unite with. Pine Street Church at the approaching communion Season, FROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT. ROCHESTER May -Bth, 1863. DEAR EDITOR : 7 4t would be very easy to give you another long letter—indeed, many of them—about the great and precious revival of religion still in progress in this place. It would be interesting to gather up many more of the touching incidents daily brought to light in these meetings.' It would have touched your heart, as it touched many others even to tears, a few mornings since, to see a gifted and highly educated young man, who is blind in the natural eye, stand, and with trembling lip, ask Christians to pray for him that the eyes of his understand ing might be opened. He cannot see the light of the sun in the heavens; but Christians did pray that he might see the Sun of righteousness in his glory. What adds deep interest to the case is the fact that he lost his eyesight prose cuting some experiments in chemistry, a study for which he had a special affection. He was led to the meeting by the hand of a sister. He is often seen in our streets, always with some one to lead him. Fervently Christians prayed that Christ, the good Shepherd, would come down and lead him into green pastures, and be side the still waters. It is understood that the young man is now indulging hope; and while all is dirk around him, a great light from heaven shines within. You would have been deeply interested also in the remarks of a recent saloon keeper and liquor seller. He has given up that abominable business, and he and his wife, both recent con verts, are now walking with the people 'of God. Butt I must not particularize further at this time. Mr. Hammond left us as described in my last letter, and passed a few days, resting and preach ing, at Niagara Falls. • There also God is pour ing out his Spirit, and some conversions have occurred. The same is true of the -village of LewistOwn, near by. Mr. Hammond returned to this city again on Saturday last, and passed four days more with us, preaching and attending meetings as usual daily. Crowds still waited on his ministry, and new cases of conversion were• every day occurring. Yesterday he again took his leave of us and ►vent to Auburn, where he is expected to labor for a short time. As te`the number converted in this city, thus far, in this revival, I hardly dare give you the estimate which some of our friends have made, as it seems almost incredible. And yet we read of a time when three thousand in a single day were added to the Lord. Shall we never expect like things again ? Christ said, "He that believeth in me, the works that I do shall he do also ; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my Father." - Is this promise a dead letter ? If not, why should we be aston ished when a thousand souls, in a population of fifty thousand, are brought to Christ in a few weeks ? It is thought that in Utica, with half the population of Rochester, there have been five hundred conversions; and there, as here, the work is still going forward. A DAY 'IN" AUBURN Yesterday, was the Anniversary of the Theolo gical Seminary in this, the smallest of our West ern New York cities. For three days previously the students had been passing through the an nual examination. The graduating class num bered twenty-one; and although it was not our privilege to be present at their examination, we learned from others more competent to judge, who were present, that the students appeared well; as a class, " remarkably well." We -be lieve it will be gratifyigg to many of .our readers, and therefore we insert their names and residen- W. R. 13enliam, Auburn, N. Y.; 3. S. Bing ham, Oneida, N. Y. ; F. A. Chase, King's Ferry N.Y.; C. A. Conant, Temple, Me.; W. C. Curtis, Norwalk, Ct. ; W. C. Galpin, Candor, N. Y.; Prank Gilbert, Middle Granville, N. Y.; H. R. Hoisington, Warren, Ohio ; S. M. Keeler, Ridgefield, Ct. ; J. R. Lewis, Deerfield, N. Y.; W. W. Macomber, Westfield, N. Y.; Samuel Miller, Clinton, N. Y. ; W. J. Nutting, Ann Arbor, Mich.; D. H. Palmer, Victor, N. Y.; W. W. Palmer, Binghamton, N. Y. ; G. O. Phelps, i Newport, N. Y. ; S. W. Pratt, 2d, Livo nia, N. Y - . ; A. C. Reed, Albany, N. Y.; C. J. Slack, Mexico, N. Y.; J. E. Werth, St. Louis, Mo. ; S. D. Westfall, Lyons, N. Y. These all received their diplomas, as having completed the prescribed course of theological study with credit to themselves and to the insti tution from which they go. The farewell ad dress, able and interesting, was handsomely de livered by Rev. Prof. Huntington, one of the faculty. It bore beautiful and apparently sin cere testimony to the solid worth and high pro mise of these young men. And we were happy to learn incidentally that all, or nearly all, have already been engaged for one field and another of Christian labor. One, Mr A. C. Reed has a call to settle over an interesting church at Eld ridge, but a few miles from Auburn. Another, J. E. Werth, has already received ordination to act as chaplain of the Seventy-fifth Regt. N. Y. Vols. in the army of freedom. It was mentioned in the address of Prof. Huntington that three classes now respectively, in three successive years, have each furnished a chaplain to our army. Two others of theie young men, W. W. Macomber, and D. H. Palmer, are under ap pointment of the Home Missionary Committee of the Presbyterian Church, to go as missionaries to the far off Territory of Nevada. These are to receive ordination very soon by the Presbytery of Buffalo, in a special meeting called for that purpose. Others go in other directions; but we did not learn that one of the number was going to the heathen. We almost fear that there is some lack of the Missionary spirit in this most excel lent institution. We have heard some of its truest friends and patrons express in a slight de gree the same fear. Perhaps the fact that the institution was founded to meet a special want of this region—to raise up here on the ground ministers to supply these which were then the churches of the West—may account for this. But we feel sure that if there were in this Semi nary a Society of Inquiry for Missions—which, we are told, there is not—and if such a society should have occasional addresses from the right persons on the great themes of Missions, and its anniversary exercise in connection with this Commencement Week; and if, by such means, with the divine blessing, a deep thorough inter est in missions should also pervade the institu tion, it would be no draw back to all its other intere.sts,,,or clog to its prosperity. We hope that ere long it good move will be made in this dire& tion. Seven of the graduates delivered adclresse.s The large church in which this concluding ser vice was held was crowded with an intelligent, and deeply interested audience. The speaking was good, some of it very good, and gave promise of future eminence and usefulness. We give the names and themes of the speakers Abuse of Reason in Theology, Wm:- R. Ben ham ; Milton's Satan, Frank Gilbert; Isaiah in his Times, H. R. Hoisington ; Theology in the Pulnit,,,T. R. Lewis; The Peril of the Church, W.-CMacomber, Difference between Civil and Moral Law, Samuel Miller; Mission of Suffering, D. IL Palmer. As the concluding portion of his farewell ad dress, Prof. Huntington repeated in a most im pressive manner the following stirrino. t' and beau tiful hymn, which was also sung by the chior. It was written by Itev..Prof. Hopkins, of the Seminary, by request of the class; and with this we conclude •our letter. Forth to your tasks, the hour has come-- The work is great—the world is wide— One parting glance to friends and home, Then forth, with Providence to guide. Go at Christ's bidding—in His name. Go healthe sick—restore the blind— Call back the dead, while ye proclaim His great Evangel to mankind. Speak out the truth--that potent spell, Shall light the dark, and right the wrong ; Not all the banded host of hell Can weave a talisman so strong. As o'er the severed tribes of old The Prophets waked their strain, With thoughts as free, in words as bold, Call us to righteousness again = Speak to the North—the South—the West- 7 And plainly that the world may hear : Plead for the poor--defend the oppressed, Though cowards shrink-and traitors sneer. Trained soldiers in the camp of God, With trenchant sword and ready shield, Uplift where'er ye.march abroad The bright Labarunt in the field. By this ye conquer ; fix your eyes I:Tnwaverin6 on that sacred sign Which gleaming from the western skies Spoke victory to Constantine. OONXISSIONERS TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY I. SYNOD OF ALBANY: PRESBYTERY. CLERICAL. Champlain, Z. M. P. Luther. Troy, • SeldenHaines,D.D., E. Baker, M.D. A. DeWitt,' C. F. Dowd. Albany,. Charles Doolittle, Hon.O. Allen. Columbia, W. 8. Leavitt, J. W. Fairfield. Catskill, George Robertson. IL—UTICA Watertown,W. H. Lockwood. ' Oswego, J. N. Hubbard, S.W. Brewster. Utica, P. H. Fowler,.D.D., Spencer Kellogg. W. B. Parralee St. Lawrence, John Waugh ILL—GENEVA. Geneva, S. H.,Gridley, D.D., D. D. Dayton,M.D. B.Woodward Brown Platt Crosby. N. C. Taylor. D. B. Westlake. J. A. Redfield. Stenben, Chemung, C..C. Carr, F. S. Howe, Ithaca, L. McGlashen. Penna. F. Rand. Lyons, A. Blakely. W.---ONONDAGA. Onondaga, E.. R. Davis, A. Ford, M.D. Cayuga, Charles Anderson, Daniel Hewson, Amos Crocker, Daniel Bennett. Cortland, A. McDougall, J. R. Dixon. Tioga, T. Dwight Walker. V.-SUSQUEHATNA. Otsego, - Andrew Parsons. Chenango, W. M. Hoyt, Delaware, George P. Everest. VI.-GENESSEE, Buffalo, Walter Clarke, D.D., Silas Kingsley, Samuel W. Roe, S. H. Hungerford. Ontario, A. L. Benton, -- Johnston. Rochester, Nathaniel Hurd. R. S. Crampton, E. T. Huntington. Genesee, E. Whittlesey, J. H. Loomis. Niagara, H. E. Niles. E. P. Healy: - Gen.Vallei John E. Baker. A.B. Palmer. VII.—NEW YORK AND NEW JEESEY. L'g..lsland, C. H. Holloway, John A. Sayre. N. Y. 3rd. Edward French. - W. A. Booth. T. H. Skinner, D.D.,W. C. Harp. F. W. Graves, D. Gillnmr. N. Y. 4th. Wm. Adams,D D., Bartholomew. S. H. Cos, D.D., -- Lane. Brooklyn, S. T. Spear, D.D. W. W. Hurlbut. Rockaway, Syl. Cooke,W. B. LeFevre. Montrose, Edward Alen. . Wm. Root. V M. -PENNSYITANIA. Wilmington, George Foot, John B. Porter. Phil'da Brd, Henry Darling, D.D., B. D. Stewart, Charles Brown, W. E. Tenbrook. Phil'da 4th, Albert Barnes, David Thomas, • Rotert Adair, Ambrose White. Harrisburg, Alex. D. Moore, J. W. Kerr, M. D. but, John°. Smith, D.D., Daniel Miller. LX.—W. PENNSYLVANIA. Erie, Ambrose Dunn, George Kellog, Meadville, John McMaster, James Clark, Pittsburg, Herrick Johnson, R. P. Bakewell. X.-MICHIGAN. Monroe, Samuel Fleming. Fleming lioMath. Marshall, C. S. Armstrong, Alvin Upson, Washtenaw, L. D. Chapin, Wm. R. Martin. Kalamazoo, Milton Bradley, Eli R. Miller. Coldwater, Charles M. Temple, L. Russell. Saginaw, E. 3. Stewart, Janies Seymour. Gd.Riv.Val. D. M. Cooper, Calvin 11. Chase. 11. --WESTERN RESERVE. Grandßiver,J. M. Gillett, 0. H. Fitch. Portage, George E. Pierce, T. L'Hommedieu. Huron, J. E. Weed, A. R. Marsh. Tramball, Henry B. Eldred. Wilnim Rice. Cleveland, . J. B. Bittinger, S. H. Mather, T. H. Hawks, Hon. J. A. Foot. Elyria, James E. Vance, E. C. Bradford. Maumee, G. A. Adams. XIL—ORao. them, C. D. Curtiss. Pataskala, A. Duncan, Franklin, Anson Smyth, Scioto, John M. Boat, MIL - CINCINNATI, Cinneinnati, Prof. G. E. Day, E. P. Starr, Joseph Chester,L. H. Sargent. Dayton, S. G. Spees, D.D. G. L. Massey. Hamilton, John Stuart, George W. Hair. Ripley, D. A 1... Moore, T. N. Sniffin. XW. I N DIANA. Madison, Alex. Parker, T. S. Paine. Salem, Charles Hutchinson, J. Loughmiller. Ind'napolis, L. P. Webber, P. H. Roots. Greencastle, John Hawks, I. J. Coffin. XV. -WA/SASIL Crawfords, S. B. King, St. Josephs, John Sailor. Logansport, N. L. Lord. John W. Shields. Fort Wayne,Wm. J. Essiek, John L. Knight. xvl.-ILLrNOIL Illinois, Prof. 11.. Nutting, David A. Smith. Wabash, r E. Kingsbury, E. P. Palmer. Alton, A. T. Norton, M. Yerkin. xvIL -PEORLC Ottawa, Nahum Gould, Jos. Baker. Knox, B. B. Parsons. L. L. Day. Chicago, E. A. Pierce. W.C.Barker,MD. Belvidere, Isaac C. Carey, 'W. IL Avery, Jr. Bloomington,' Benj. E. Miles. XVIII. — WISCONSLN. • Fox River, Charles F. Halsey, Coluralius 13. G. Riley, -C. W. Baldwin. XIS.-lOWA. Dubuque, Elder J. Maelay. Des Moines, Thompson Bird, W. D. Moore. lowa. City, G. D. A. Ilebard, Saud. H. Rogers Chariton, Asa Martin. 3EX. --XECNNESOTA. Daeptab, James Thompson. Minnesota, P: A. Noble, Winona, Charles S. Dekm, XXL —KCSSOtrai. St. Louis, John Mac Lean, Kansas, J. Brownlee. General Convention of Vermont, Azarial Hyde. MAY 14, GEPTESEE. S. J.-Sayles. D. Green. W. S. Atehineon. Samuel H. Lee. Hon. C. N. Olds. A. 8. Jores. D. W. Ingersoll. Russtll Bourret
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