rally the friends of human rights all the world.over to our standard. That act has made our cause the cause of the people everywhere who needed a proof of the right fulness too palpable for subtle oppressors to hide or gainsay. anteritan freoirgitrian GENESEE EVANGELIST. THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1863. JOKN W. MEARS, EXTRA DAILY ISSUE OF THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN. 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 Aots, Reports, Sermons, and other Dom- . 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, elder, and ohurch-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, pdst-paid, to any address for 50 cents. To be paid in ad . van cc. 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,sl2 tor a quarter column. Address, MERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, 1334 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. WELCOME TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. AFTER an absence of nine years, during which period the chief judicatory of our Church has hold its sessions in St. Louis, New York, Cleve land, Chicago, Wilmington, Pittsburgh, and Cin cinnati, it returns to our city as its once familiar seat, and commences its Sixty-ninth session this day, in the mother church, upon Washington square. We extend to the body, in the name of the ministry and laity of our churches in this city, a cordial Christian welcome. We rejoice to have once more among us the representatives of the entire Church of our choice. We,rejoice to be able to contemplate with them the course through which Providence has led us during thole nine eventful years. They have witnessed great changes, agitations, trials, in our body, not without deliverance from peril, and decided pro gress in peace, homogeneousness, and efficiency. During these years our denominational status has been gained by ourselves and recognized by others. Returning from an excessive movement towards voluntaryism, we have begun to live and work as a Church in earnest. At the meet ing in 1854, but $50,000 had been paid in of the proposed $lOO,OOO Church Erection Fund; the Presbyterian House was not yet in a position to be made the property of the General Assem bly; the Publication Committee was almost with out property; the Education Committee had no Secretary; and the American Home Missionary Society was still the recognized organ of our churches. The progress since made in every one of these essential matters it is unnecessary to recapitulate; and though we are still Much below the right and reasonable standard of denomina tional zeal, such zeal may now truly be described as a characteristic of the body. We have been constrained to submit to losses from lack of sym pathy on the part of not a few of our brethren in these movements, and have barely maintained our numerical strength; but to have subsisted at all, in our scarcely organized condition, and with out a strong and clear sense of any work which we specifically were called to do, was proof of no little inward cohesiveness. But there is a leading incident in the history of these nine years, to which our seemingly sta tionary character is in fact to be attributed, and which has both illustrated and developed our de nominational traits. Six years ago some twelve thousand members left us in a body at Cleveland. The fact that we have so nearly maintained our numerical strength, in spite of that great loss, proves vitality as well as cohesiveness in the body. We shall not enter into the merits of the Cleveland secession. It took place simply because we desired to maintain our position as Presbyte rians, on the platform not only of 1818, but of justice, always and everywhere, and to all classes of men, as equal in the sight of God. In fact, this nine years of nur history has vindicated the Presbyterianism of our body in the eyes of all other branches of that Church. Our decisive tendency to specific Church action in place of voluntary and irresponsible channels of effort, as well as our outspoken, unhesitating testimony against the prevailing errors and abuses of our time, and in favor of human freedom, were the instinctive manifestations of a genuine Presbyte rian character, which could not do otherwise. The eyes of many who regarded us as justly ex cluded from the Church, have, in these nine years been opened. Our whole conduct has gone far to justify our claim to be nothing less than the fairest representatives in America of the Catho lic Presbyterian Church which our fathers strove to establish on these shores. As the represen tatives of a body with such tendencies, we wel come these Commissioners to our city. As a warmly and unanimously loyal body, we welcome the Assembly among us in these days of trial, of weary waiting, and of partial successes against ahem and still vigorous rebellion. Their presence and loyal attitude will cheer the heart of every patriot. Their known attachment to the cause of the oppressed will, doubtless, find such an expression as to strengthen public opinion, now flowing so broadly in its favor. As Chris tian patriots, these delegates are welcome to our city and to our firesides. They will strengthen and encourage the wavering, and they will enkin dle fresh fervors in th 3 breasts of the true and the strong. And may their example, their spirit, their prayers, eontribute materially to the success of the righteous cause, and to such a speedy issue of our conflict, that ere another meeting of the body takes place we may rejoice together in re bellion crushed, and the ensign ff freedom and good government waving over every corner of our,land. And may the savour of your piety, and the influence of your wise measures for the welfare of the Denowivation, long be felt in our families nhd throughout the churches to the glory of our common Lord and Master. ND- Editor, UNION THEOLOGICAL SENINARY, N. Y. THE Twenty-sixth Anniversary exercises in con. nection with this Seminary,were held on Monday, May 11th. The examinations took place during the previous week, and the sermon before the Society of Inquiry, by Rev. Prof. J. H. Seelye, was preached on Sunday night, in Rev. Dr. Rice's Fifth avenue church. The services on Monday night were held in Mercer street church. The pulpit was occupied by the Professors of the Seminary, Revs. Albert Barnes and R. R. Booth, and Drs. A. D. Smith, McLane, and Prentiss. The exercises were opened, Prof. Smith preii ding, with prayer by Rev. Mr. Barnes, and mu sic by the fine quartette choir of the church. Half-a-dozen students delivered addresses,which were all excellent, and indicated careful intellec tual training. The address to the Graduating Class, by Prof. Henry R. Hadley, was listened to, to the end, with marked attention, both by the class and the unwearied audience. We never heard a better says the Evangelise, and we have heard the happy words of Prof. Hitchcock on a similar oq casion. In the course of his remarks, Prof. Had ley feelingly alluded to the now broken ranks of the Professorship, and the sore bereavement that both they and the Seminary had been called upon to endure in the death of the distinguished Dr. Robinson ; they were reminded of the lively interest he ever cherished for all who Came under his instructions, notwithstanding a seemingly cold exterior, and exhorted to acquit themseves worthily as his last pupils. , We append the names of the Graduating Class: Charles T. Berry, Albert C. Bishop, George M. Boynton, Frederic A. M. brown, Geo. F. Cha pin, William H. Clark, Henry J. Crane, Bishop Falkner, James B. Finch, Henry M. Grant, Ells worth J. Hill, Joel J. Hough, John McVey, W. Wisner Martin, John H. Meacham, Edwin E. Merriam, Almon B. Merwin,William D. Mor ton, Alexander Nesbitt, Abram .J. Quick, A. Judson Rich, Leonard E. Richards, Robert H. Richardson, Ezra D. Shaw, John P. Torrey, John Walker, William White Williams. A committee was appointed to nominate a suc cessor to Dr. Robinson. Dr. James P. Wilson presented to the Seminary a cane made from the original Log College—the first Presbyterian school of training for the ministry in this coun try. Measures were also instituted for enlarging the Library Fund, and increasing the permanent scholarships of the Seminary. THOUGHTS FOB THE TIMES. DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON.—SeTiOus is the loss to the rebels of this famous leader, who died in consequence of wounds received in the late battles on the Rappahannock. His re putation for piety and conscientiousness no less than his boldness and rapidity as a leader, 'se cured their confidence and encouraged them greatly in their resistance. It is not too much to say that he was one of the chief props of the rebellion in the East ; and that he bore with him to the great Judge a large share of responsibili ty for the persistence of the rebels and for the slaughter of multitudes in battle. We do not mean to deny his piety or his conscientiousness. But how many a persecutor with his grim and - dreadful instruments of torture, has preyed upon the saints and thought that he was , verily doing God service thereby ? No I no ! let us have no eulogies of " conscientious" traitors and rebels, who think they are doing God ser vice in attempting to tear down the most precious structure of free government and to rear an em pire with slavery as its corner-stone on the ruins.* It is a most melancholy spectacle to see 'true piety enlisted for such an unholy end I And those who helped to confirm the Presbyterian Elders of the South in their false estimates of slavery, and especially those Northern men who enjoined silence in the Church councils on a system which our Presbyterian forefathers most freely and unsparingly' condemned, must share the responsibility. PARDONING TRATTORS.--IS is most unfortu nate, that the first and only individual convicted, by civil process, of treason, should have been pardoned by the President. Every day, almost, brings fresh evidence of the impolitic tender ness of our worthy Chief Magistrate, and of the need of the infusion of sterner elements, like those manifested by Gen. Butler at New Orleans,, into the measures of the Administration. We protest 'against the pardoning of traitors even when they have repented and returned to their allegiance. Of course a distinction should be made between the incorrigible and the penitent, but it should be slight compared with the distinc tion between the lowest grade of treason cogni zable bylaw and the most lukewarm patriotism. Under any other policy, the country must fast lose a sense of the moral enormity of the crime, which, like all other crimes, only needs impunity to secure justification •from public sentiment. POSITION OF MIL. CRITTENDEN,—It is a striking proof of tte ignoble character of the attempted Northern reaction against the war and the government, which until recently seemed so threatening, that almost no person of deservedly high repute for statesmanship, comprehensive ness of view or piety in the country had taken part in the movement. Ignorance, blind impa tience and ill-disguised sympathy for the South were at the bottom of it. In the Border States, it :has received even less encouragement from the peopled every grade than in the North.— The President's proclamation of the Ist of Jan., had almost no effect in promoting disaffection where there might seem most reason for it; on the contrary, we hear of Anti-Slavery clubs of native Tennesseeans in Nashville, and the effect on Missouri and WesteinVircinia he that runs may read in the late elections. Kentucky and Mr. Crittenden were regarded as peculiarly doubtful. Those who remember Mr. C's speeches in Congress last winter, especially on the negro enlistment bill, would hardly have expected from him any cordial declaration of sympathy with the bovernment in this war. But he has recently spoken in tones of unmistakable patri otism, committing himself to the prosecution of the war and support of the government to the *Rev. .r. Y. Killen's words, at the late lecture of Dr. Dill in Belfast, are appropriate here :—"D. was said their sympathy was not for slavery, but for valour. He cherished and admired valour and independence, but only when that valour was ex ercised in a good cause. ' (Hear, hear.) He could not admire the valour of the assassin who lay in wait to take away the life of his fellow Mall. He could not admire the valour of the slave pirate who, to make private gain, wrenched husband from wife and children from parent, and tore the unfortunate children of Africa tioin their homes. Such valour did not deserve their admiration, but the most condign punishment and - the disapprobation of mankind." (Applause.) 24intritint Nstrollttettatt and 6tittort 6rangtliot bitter end. His words are worthy of being classed with the noblest patriotic utterances of our struggle. We are sorry we can give so few of them and trust the National Leagues will spread them widely over the nation. " I don't love the South the less, but I love my country more. My hostility is the result of principle, which is the same, morning, noon, and evening—in the morning of the year, and at the noon and evening of the year. The nation will ,get through its difficulties. We have the power and the will to do it, and we shall accomplish it.— That great Providence that has made us the standard-bearer of freedom, will not permit our Government to go down and leave the world in gloom. I have faith; there is a Divinity aboire that shapes all our ends,' and He will shape the destiny of our nation. Its career has only just begun, and Providence does not permit a half finished work of such momentous proportions to rail and be abandoned ; and I trust in God that we the people, do not intend it. Our hearts must be filled with the noble determination to maintain the integrity of our Government, while we grow greater and greater, mightier and mightier, richer in civilization, grander in prosperity, until our glory shall cover the whole land. They [the South] now know what it is to have civil war, and we will have no more rebellions after this one is disposed of. We shall go on in our grand march, prospering and to prosper. I look forward to peace, to a successful termination of this war, which will secure a reliable peace, sad as is now the prospect. Whether Hooker. has recrossed the Rappahannock or not; whether Richmond is taken or not;'whether indefeat or victory— my determination is to stand, by and maintain the Government, and do all I can to promote a vigorous prosecution of the war." NEWSPAPERS FOR THE SOLDIERS. We are almost ashamed to tell it, that we are sending less than two hundred copies of our pa per every week to the army. Yet we think our friends ought to know the facts, and everyone consider what he , can and ought to do, to change them for the better. Not less than five hundred copies ought to go from this office to our soldiers and sailors, leaving over three hundred yet to be provided for. We prefer to send them to chaplains of our own denomination in the army, who re ceive them with great gladness and make excel lent use of them.. To supply to chaplains three hundred copies, for six' months, with postage pre-paid, would cost just three hundred dollars. Sent to the Christian Commission in this city without trouble to us, three hundred copies in one package could be furnished for six months at two hundred dollars; for three months, seven ty copies could be furnished at 25 dollars, or' twelve copies at 5 dollars. In behalf of the sol diem we appeal to our friends for further aid in this kindly and patriotic work. See what Chaplains and soldiers think of Reli gloms Newspapers Rev. W. Y. Brown, an ex perienced chaplain of the Presbyterian Church, in an excellent little work entitled " the Army Chaplain," just published by Martiens, says : " The friends of the soldiers can greatly aid the chaplain by furniihing the men with a supply of Religious Newspapqrs. They are sought for with an eagerness, read with an avidity, which cannot be adequately described to those who have not witnessed their distribution in the hos pital and in the camp. They seize them as fam-, ishing men seize food, and devour them with as much gusto; and some have actually kissed the hand of the chaplain as he presented a copy of the old family paper to them, and have baptized the sheet with tears of gratitude as they perused its much loved columns. "Will the friends of the soldier allow him to suffer all the horrors of homesickness and ennui, when these sufferings can be mitigated, and mea surably prevented, by occupying his mind with reading matter which is at once so interesting and profitable to him ? Shall the souls of the brave defenders of . the nation's life be periled, or, givenover to be eternally lost, when so favor able an opportunity is presented of awakening thoughts of righteousness, temperance, and judgement to come,' which, by the blessing of God, may be the means of leading them to Christ, and securing their. everlasting beatitude? Men cannot carefully read such matter as is generally presented in the religious newspapers without being benefitted thereby; and shall not this powerful agency for good be employed in the present periloui times 7" • A letter just•received from one of the Chap lains to whom we send twelve copies, is a perfect out-pouring of thanks which we cannot withold from the reader. INADQUARTERs -IST A. C AVALRY, MAY 9TIE 1863. Dear Brother : May God bless the Means, by which you are enabled to send to my address, twelve copies of "'The American Presbyterian?' It is becoming Well known and a favorite in my regiment. ' For five weeks I received not a copy. I was lost without it, and frequently reminded of my loss by the inquiry of, my men, " Chaplain don't the American Presbyterian come any more ?" Twelve copies are but a taste for us.' We make good use of them; each paper is read and re-read, then handed over to another and another until it is scarcely readable, and another issue comes, and is immediately started in the same channel. I have many Christians in my regiment who eagerly read your paper, in which they never fail to find something'to kindle in their hearts the " flame of Sacred Love.". I hope the good people in civilization will especially remember the Cavalrymen. in their prayers. We are so constantly engaged on the outposts and so un settled that the good work of the Christian Com mission scarcely ever reaches us while " Mili tary Necessity" more frequently breaks in upon our sacred days, than in any other arm of the service. The package of twelve readily reaches me by mail each Saturday evening so that we have the papers for Sunday, for which, please accept my thanks in behalf of my charge. Yours in Christ, J. HEttvEY BEALE, Chap. Ist Pa. ices. Cay. " GOOD SOLDIERS," A Tract for our Armies. Mr. Adams' excellent Sermon to the Home Guards of this city, during the early months, of the war, originally published in our' columns, and received with great favor at the time, has been revised.by the author, and issued by the Publi cation Committee as No. 19 of their excellent and very neat second series of tracts. It deserves a large circulation among our soldiers, as con veying in happy and attractive union, lessons of equal importance in the temporal and the spirit ual.service. WESTERN OORRESPONDENOE, LEWISTON, 111., April 1863. Hr. Editor, Having gone through the formality of intro ducing myself to your readers, I propose, from time to time, to hold short converse with them, through the mediiiin otYour useful sheet. And was it the fault of the printer, or my illegible manuscript, that in my first communication, I was made to say Monday for Midday : prayer meet.- ing : fifteen hundred for fifteen thousand people at Peoria; and that I was called Aligquis, in stead of my proper name, as found at the bottom of this letter. Truly, it was enough to alarm Delegates, to the 0. S. Presbyterian Assembly, to learn, from my scribblings from Peoria, that its population is only fifteen hundred. One member, in the last assembly, asked, at the time that Peoria was selected for the next meeting, if members would not have to reach the place, in the old fashioned way of horseback and sad dle bags. If that member saw my Peoria letter, he must have concluded that his suggestion was going to prove true. I venture to predict mag nificent hospitality and a charming visit to all who shall attend the Assembly at Peoria. In passing through that city for this place, I was in formed by the Pastor of the church, where that body is adjourned to meet, , that places enough had been offered to accommodate the Assembly, and as many more of the friends of Christ, who may be there. But it was a little humorous to hear that one family had sent in, that they want, ed none but elders;_ another, that they wanted none but D.Ds ; and that a Scotch member, with whom the First Presbyterian Church had recently had trouble,' had sent in that he wanted Dr. Robert -J. Breckinridge, because that good patriot and.great celebrity was himself opposed to instrumental music inAhe sanctuary, which is the identical matter of controversy between him and his church. One word about Lewiston. This is an old town, but just got a railroad completed to it. Let the types say fifteen hundred, now, and they will just hit the population of this snug and pret ty village. It is sixty miles from Peoria. Our denomination began here; with a small building : they worship, now, in a model„ I had almost said, a magnificent edifice. The two houses stand in close proximity to indicate the growth. Pres bytery is holding here. Large accessions have been received to this church lately, upon profes sion. Very truly, • FROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT. ROCELESTER May 15th, 1863 DEAR EDITOR—Can I find for you this week, a more interesting theme than the great revival? This is the topic still on most minds; this the subject still uppermost as. Christians meet day by day, even though the pressure of business is now fully upon the business men. But the daily prayer meeting is still full and deeply interesting. Rev. Mr. Steele, of Utica, is here again, preach ins to large audiences every night, and conver sions are still occurring gaily. Revival in a iPublic School A very interesting manifestation of the per- . vading religious awakening has occurred in eon• nection with one of the ,large Public Schools of this city. Pleasant mention is made of the work in the following brief extract from a letter written May 9th, by the Principal to Rev.. Mr. Hammond: We held a meeting yesterday afternoon at the close of our school, at which about eighty chil dren and youth expressed a hope that God, for Christ's sake, had forgiven their sins. " Nearly all have come to Jesus since God per mitted - you to come to this city and speak to them of the love of Jesus, and tell them the wonderful story of the Cross. ".Several of the children were not'ashamed to speak for. Jesus, and tell what joy and peace they had found in believing in their Saviour. "The meeting was one of great interest, and some anxious ones in tears and oppressed with a sense of their sins in not' loving the dear Jesus, were inquiring the way to,: their Saviour. The good work still goes on through, the blessing of God, and prayers are daily, yea, almost constantly, of fered to God for the outpouring of His spirit upon yourself and the dear children of Auburn." The Revival at Auburn Mr. Hammond left this city one week ago to commence his labors in Auburn, and from that city we have the most cheering accounts of his success. Hundreds remain at the inquiry meet ings, and,many it is believed have already been born again. On• the Sabbath, Mr. Hammond preached, at the depot to an assembled multitude of three or four thousand. He preached in the evening of the same day in the old First church, which was crowded to its utmost capacity. ' It was thought that at least four hundred persons remained, after this evening service, to converse and be conversed with, in regard to the arext in terests of eternity. Of Tuesday evening, also, a brother writes " The Second church was crowded. Bro. Ham mond: preached with power. Text --" Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ?" • It was grape and canister. Some two hundred rose for pray ers, and among them were strong men, and some whose heads were white. The great mass of the congregation remained for personal conversation, and many, we believe, found Christ." Next day (14th), the same friend writes : "In creased attendance at the morning meeting. Church crowded again in the evening. New cases of interest. One young man came from S , from curiosity, to hear Mr. Hammond, and found Jesus before he left the bouse. The work is decidedly apparent among our young men. The inquiry meeting was full of interest. The chil dren who hate found 'Jesus are at work with their parents. Requests come in for prayer, for their unconverted fathers and mothers, and in some cases for the little ones who are persecuted at home. One little girl, the other day, was heard crying aloud in the street, surrounded by some half-dozen others; and on being asked why she wept, she replied, 0, lam so wicked, for going to the meeting to make fun of Mr. Hammond." Two or three other incidents, of striking in terest, are mentioned in the same connection. A clergyman came from a distance, to see his daughter, who is a pupil in the Young Ladies' Institute of Auburn, so deeply exercised was he for her conversion ; but he found her already a Christian. Indeed, Mr. M. L. Browne, the Prin cipal of this excellent Institution, stated that of nineteen young ladies in his family, all but one are now rejoicing in hope. So is the work of salvation going forward in the beautiful city of Auburn. Commencement Week—Rochester Theological The great event of the week, among our Bap tist friends of this city and region, has been the commencement exercises, in connection with the Theological Seminary; including a very able and interesting sermon by Rev. Dr. Hovey, of the Theological Seminary, at Newton, Mass., on Ministerial Education; together with a meeting of the New York Baptist Union for Ministerial Education ; and the'speaking of the Graduating Class of Theological students. Unfortunately for the "procession," which was to be, including Faculty, Board of Trustees, Clergy, Alumni, " Friends," etc., etc., in long array and holiday attire, a cold, drenching rain sadly interfered with all order, display, or" comfort. Neverthe less there was an audience, and the young minis ters—to be—acquitted themselves with credit to the Institution, and satisfaction to their friends. There are indeed some young men of fine prom ise among the number just going, forth to the active duties of the ministerial life. One, at least, of them, has won " golden opinions," as a sup ply fora few Sabbaths in the Presbyterian church of Buckport; also, in the Plymouth church of this city. He is already engaged to settle over the Baptist church, of which the late Governor Briggs was a sincere member and an ornament, in Pittsfield, Mass. illness of Prof. Robinson. Unfortunately also for this Theological Seminary, and for the recent graduating class in particular, their most esteemed and principal professor, (perhaps we may call him the principal, without offense to the other esteemed and excellent men,) has been for some weeks completely laid aside from his duties by severe sickness. He is pros trate with a slow fever, and so much unwell as as to have excited some apprehension, at-least in a few minds. Still, for the sake of the instl tution with which he is connected, and for the sake of all good interests in this community, we trust his valuable life is to be spared. Rev. Dr.. Robinson, as a preacher, is a great favorite with all denominations in, this city. He, although a Baptist, has been for some time supplying the pulpit. of the Plymouth Congregational church, in their pastorless condition. Many of your readers may know also that for about two years he acted as stated supply to the First Presbyte rian church of this city, previous to the settle ment of Rev. Dr. Pease. He is a. rare, gifted preacher. He has true pulpit talent; perhaps we may say, of the highest order. He speaks without notes, with great depth Of thought, beauty of language, and fervor of manner. He possesses real magnetism, and carries his hearers where he will. Long may his life be spared, to train many ministers of the same sort, .whether Baptists or Presbyterians. ALlQuis. On passing through this little village of Sten ben County, last week, we learned that a bless ing has fallen here also. The Presbyterian church began the year with special prayer, and the answer was not long delayed. The esteemed pastor Rev. H. E. Johnson, besides preaching much at home, and in the outskirts of his own parish, was called to assist in a precious work of grace at Knoxville, some twelve miles distant. The result, in all, is thought to embrace some sixty or seventy conversions. At Corning, also, under the earnest and accept, able ministrations of Rev. W. A. Niles, the church has been somewhat quickened; a few conversions have occurred; and a very strong desire is cherished and expressed, by some at least of the faithful, for a great refreshing from the Lord. Such strong. desires for such good things, so expressed, as we hear them, in prayer and conversation, it seemed to us, would not be disregarded on high. We shall be much disap. pointed if we are, not, permitted ere long to tell you of a deeper and more general quickening in Corning. GENESEE. LFor the American Presbyteriark.l You have been in a gymnasium, have you not, reader? if you have, you know what wealth of paraphernalia for musculation it contains;; what ladders for hand-climbing,what ropes for arm swinging, what duality of, iron balls for lifting at arm's length, what runways for pedal agility, and what variety of wands, clubs, poles, and curious gear for speed, strength, and corporal cortor tion, that it may. be seen how the human frame shall lord it over space and inertia. Perhaps you have been present when the young men did disport themselves. If you have, you have seen glimpses of what may be, in the way of attitudinizing. You have seen leaping, running, lifting, twisting, and turning such as Paul , had, maybe, in his eye, when he takes hold of the agonistic metaphors. How the young men get red in the face; how they pant: how the sudorific dew gathers up its drops over their visages 1 To whal end ? Oui Bono ? Ah, the lads want to work off their steam; they love to see what they can do.. _Some of them are think ing of Winship; some have been reading Isth mean stories; all love the social excitement. But would you suspect a plain parson, with shining hairs getting into his crown, and frosty specks clustering around his cravat, of looking wistfully towards vanities like these ? Yet what shall a semi-dyspeptic do How shall a rejuve-, nated invalid get and keep the vitality needed in his rightful employ ? Much study is a wea riness to the flesh; and the flesh calls out for some chance, against the mental overdraughts of a calling whose business is study. Is not the gymnasium a place for him to get back what he loses, whu is always giving the longer end 'of the .whifiletree to mind against body, in the drawing 'of life's load ? Did not he, the tall man of Cin cinnati, while among the buffaloes, get back departing health, catching it even by the skirts in its flight, and rebnild himself from a skeleton; to a man, such as can charm and instruct the great congregation ? Did he not add fifteen or more years to his lifetime? Why then should not the writer hereof call at the gymnasium, seeking to know terms; why should he not visit the hardware stores for dumb bells. That is what he did. Why should he not enter upon a series of practical lessons ? That is what he did not. You ask why ; ;—the coast being clear, good friend, I. will tell you. Money that will pay fees at the gymnasium Will buy boards and scantling. Skill that will tie and untie muscular knots will sharpen saws, planes and chisels. Strength that will climb Seminary. Revival in Painted Post GYMNASTIC& ropes and lift iron balls, will smooth, saw, and shape pieces of lumber. Why not build some ? No matter what—a shed, kitchen, or verandah ? " You have not learned the trade ?" Learn then as you go. You can make something —if 'not the thing begun. Try it. The thing can be done at home, and can be pursued as you like it. Dr. Beecher had a cart-load of sand in his cellar, which he shovelled,it is said, this way to-day, and the reverse way' to-morrow. But why shovel sand in a cellar; when you can saw a board above ground ? Other men saw cord wood : but what living man, without a tea-kettle for his lungs, can endure the one pendulistic motion of a buck saw y It is too much of a good think. No, I will play the carpenter and joiner. Easy to say and to imagine; but, who that has tried it, does not know, that there are hard nesses in the doing of it? It is no small job to get ready. That old saw, rusty and dented, into be filed and set. There is music for you. Every old plane is to be ground ; the hammer must have a handle, and the hatchet is nicked and dull. Have you a grindstone ? If not you must get one ; for a man might better think to read with_glass eyes, than to go on without that to give edge to his work, and when it is got, it must be hung, cranked, and, set in a frame, which will have to be built, if not invented. But did ever mortal botch get quite ready'? And then what a burden of thinking, and contri ving,.and inventing, is to be gone through with, before you touch tool to the wood; and at every corner and turn in the process, and I warn you that patience will, be needed at every hones en deavor. You have ground up that plane spe cially nice; giving to it the time you sadly begrudged, to be used in carrying• to completion some speoial joint of work, and will now see that board smooth in short order. Not too sure; chip, and there is a nick in the iron at the second lunge. And how came that nail hidden there, with its point just under the surface, so as exactly to catch the sharpened steel ? No matter, a pin head is out of its edge, and you must go and grind again, or see your work fitfully streaked with little beads all along its surface. Does any body know why it is, that the nail always lurks for the sharp iron, or is just in the track of the new filed saw ? "I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye," etc. You know the rest; if you do not, you can find it in Lalla Rookh. True love and, joiner-work never did run emooth—to the amateur pursuer. You wish to fit a board to a particular ,i)labe. You measure it carefully—so many inches and eighths wide, and so many feet and fractions long. You slit and out, and plane, and square, with self-satisfied endurance and skill ; and are sure it will fit, to at. You essay to put it up; whew I it is precisely too short—say a quarter inch or so. That will do for to-day: To-Morrow, or as soon as courage comes back, we will fit up a new piece, or—putty up the crack I Did you ever try your hand at miter-work ? If you 'are to do joining, you must; for corners are to be turned in making things.' Perhaps 'you do not know what a miter is, but are off with something upon a Roman Catholic bishop's head. If so, I: cannot set you, straight, and you must remain ignorant, till experience or the dictionary Puts , you right. But a miter is not easy to adjust—for you; though as you look at the man whose trade it is and see him fit the corners together, nothing in the world is easier, and you are sure you can do it the first time. Tr* once. Now it is open at the outside; and you saw and plane again. Thi l s time it is open at the inside. But that 'is not so bad, for it will not be seen—unless the wood shrinks; and by that time it will be forgotten who did it—perhaps. with eachthe work grows. New pieces appear with each two or three days ; for an hour a day will accomplish considerable with days, enough. But, do not look too close;.what if it be not as smooth as cabinet work ? You cannot see a fly on the church steeple, and you need not come here with a microscope. Besides, this is not exactly joiner work, it is gymnastics. And if a shed be built, and health' too, who cares if the building be im perfect. ' I was going to say something of Fast Day, and Election., but they were , both so long ago, that it is useless to run away back to find them. Be sides, has not Hooker battered the rebels on . the Rappahannock, and Burnside spread. dismay among the Vallandighamers ? And before this epistle gets to you, and especially before this gets back to me, something else likely will happen. How did yon make me say the,exact contrary of what I wrote, in my letter to, you a while ago. 1 wrote that I could not recollect more than three or four good extempore sermons_heard in all my life; but that I could remember a great many good written ones. But the printer or the proof-reader had it that I had heard no good written sermons. No, I cannot be conscripted to fight on that side. Let its own advocates wage its battles. Yours sufficit, riJ,ul4 Chttrick Nen, THE Rev. G. W. Wood, of New York, one' o f the Secretaries of the American Board, arrived at Constantinople, on the 7th of March. He was warmly welcomed by the members of the mission circle. REVIVALS AND ADDITIONS.---The: Westmin ster church, at Jacksonville, Illinois, which on account of the burning of their house of worship, have been obliged to worship in a hall, have en joyed in connection with the Old School Church *of the place, an extensive revival, the fruits of which, received at two communions, are .fifty-six persons ; from twenty-five, to fifty more are ex pected.—At Hyde Park, P a ., the first religious awakening has been enjoyed in the a seven years' history of the church, commencing with the Week of Prayer. The hopeful conversions reach thirty.—Eight were added on examination, recently, to the Fourth street church (Rev. Dr. Smith's), in Washington. The number of mem bers shows no failing off, notwithstandin g the church edifice, for eight , months,• has.been used as a hospital.—Seventeen persons have been added to the church of Fort Wayne, Ind., in two recent communion seasons. MINISTERS AND CRURCRES.----ReV. Joel Par ker, D.D., was installed pastor of the. Park church, Newark, N.J., by the Presbytery of Newark, on the evening of May 6th. Rev. Dr. Poor presided, Rev. John Crowell conducted the devotional exercises, Rev. Howard Crosby, of New York, preached the sermon, Rev. Dr. Wit son charged the pastor, and Rev. Dr. Few Smith the people. The pastoral relation between the Second church of Orange, N.J., and Rev. John Crowell was dissolved by the . Presbytery at late meeting in Newark. Rev. Chas. Thomp son has accepted a call to become pastor of the Plane street (colored) church, Newark, N.J. Rev. E. J. Adams, the previous pastor, is soon to sail as a missionary to Afriea. REV. DR. SEELYE, of Albany, having resigned his charge, an incident occurred, narrated as fol lows, in the Albany Evening Journal : " Surprise parties are, we are satisfied,.not all ' , common' nor unclean.' We make a note of one that, for its various excellences, we are dis posed to set down as an entire and perfect chry solite.' One evening last week a party of, four or five ladies quietly dropped in at 495 Broad way, chatted pleasantly for half an hour with their pastor - and his lady, and then as quietly withdrew. On leaving they, without note or comment,' after the style of the 'received version,' placed a small packet in the hands of the Doctor, and bade him good night. On examining the packet it was found to contain a charming note, expressive of the good will of his people, and a thousand dollars as an accompanying seal and token. The surprise and gratification of the re cipients of this generous and delicately bestowed gift can well be imagined. Yet, as . the work of one of the most generous of 'churches, the act was simply natural; and by one, everywhere known as one of the most friendly and generous of men, it might well have been taken as a mat ter of course. There are quarters in which no good or generous thing is surprising. Long may such pastors and such churches live and flourish. Our best wishes for• Dr. Seelye and the :Fourth church." . ,Here, we may mention another incident. The church having debts of about $9OOO, a few gen tlemen took up the matter ; . subscribed the amount and cleared the church of all debt. A NEW CHURCH was formed at Nokomis, Mont gomery county, Ills., on the 21st of June, 1862, by Rev. Joseph Gordon, Presbyterial missionary; thirteen members. David Nioky' was' duly ap pointed elder. Nokomis is on the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad, fifteen miles east of Hillsboro. The village is small, and can not as yet bbastnf a church' edifice of any kind. TRIUMPHS OF THE BIBLE, with the Testimony of Science to its Truth ThO book labors under the disadvantage of being, two treatises with two titles, bound up together. Part The Triumphs of the Bi ble " is , an accumulation of proofs of the benefi cent and mighty effects of the Bible in the world. Part Testimony of Science to the Rible," . comprises nearly the whole of the book, and is a most valuable andwell nigh exhaustive statement of the points of contact between Science and Scripture, which have excited the interest or brought in play the skill and ability of the opp - nents and the defenders of Scripture. The chapters. relate in tarn to Astronomy, Geology, Physical Science,Unity of the Race, Chronology, History, Tradition, Ancient History, Sacred Ge ography, Topographical Accuracy of the Bible, ArchccologicEd - "Discoveries. The mass of infor mation here . gathered and classified., is great; in fact this is the first serious attempt to system atize the facts in the relations Of Scripture to modern science. , It is just such a Book of Evi dences of the truth, of Scripture as the tittles deinand, beings brought down to the very latest developments',and Phases of the argument. The author is Rev. Henry Tallidge. New York: Charles Scribner. _For sale by J. B. Lippincott SABBATH Serrbor, PsAimoDisr. This little. collection of tunes, with the words fromltouse's Version of the Psaims, has. been got Up to meet the wants of Sabbath Schools in the Reformed and United Presbyterian Churches, and is well adapted to the end in view. .We won der that our brethren - of these branches do not go- one . step further, and take the more consistent course of chanting, the Psalms exactly' as they stand. There are two such chants only in this book,'Which is, however, an encouraging begin ning in the right direction. It is got up by our enterprising friend, 'Tames M. Ferguson, of No. 25 North Sixth street, in this city. TECHABIERIOAN PUBLISHERS' vIRCUI,AR AND LITERARY GAZETTE, Published by GeorgeW. Childs, Philadelphia. The first number of this work, for May, has been laid upon our table. It is a handsome pamphlet of 96 Bvo. pages. on heavy white paper, stereotyped by the well known house of L. John sOn & Co. The contents are precisely such. as book-buyers, book-sellers, and puhlishers need to be acquainted with, comprising London Corres pondence on the Book Trade in Great Britain, Authors at Home and Abroad, Changes in the Trade, 'Obituary, Library Intelligence, National ACaderny of Sciences, Notes on Booki and Book sellers, PeriOdleals, The Auction Roota, Book Notices, Announcements, List of Books printed in America in 1863, and in Great Britain,, Prance, and Germany, up to a recent date. Monthly, $2 per unnum. AxtßaosE THE EDINBURGH RErrsw, for April. Leonard Scott & Co., NewTork - W. B. Zieber, Phil adelphia. • Contents—Kinglake's Crimea, a very search ing and severe criticism directed against the Anti-French Character of the work ; Worsley's Odyssey; Tithe Impropriation; Simancas Re cords of Henry VII.; The Black Country (Coal Region) ; India under Lord Canning,; The Bible and the Church, (probably by Canon Stanley— a bad'aiticle, ,everyway calculated:to lower the standing of the Bible as an inspired volume, and working into the hands of the Essayists and Re viewers, to whom Stanley must now be reckoned) Alcock's Japan; Huxley on Man's Place in Na ture; The Greek Revolution. BLACK -WOOD'S MAGAziNx for April. Conteuts--Diplomacy in Japan) Mrs. Clif ford's Marriage; Sir James Graham; the Inex haustible Capital (Rome) ; Caxtoniana; Sped ding's Life of Bacon; Spirit Writing in China ; Marrilige Bells. " A FAST IMPLIES A DUTY!' A Fast Day Sermon, by Rev. Charles S. 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