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GENESEE EVANGELIST.
PHILADELPHIA, NOV. 26, 1863.
JOHN W. HEARS,
Subscribers who are in arrears and
liable to 50 cents additional charge on their
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united to suctias pay an additional year, in ad
vance of ike present
GOD IN THE WAB.
If We believe thpt God designs to accomplish
great and valuable results to man by the war;
if we regard it as a crisis in the moral history
of man, in which great questions are to be
solved, great interests rescued from' jeopardy,
great evils and sills rebuked and put down;
then the attitude of all Christians in the struggle
should be decided, earnest, unquestionable.
For our part, We believe God is in this war, in
a peculiar maimer 1 . He has come very* hear to
ns; he hits made, as he does in every .great
event, a providential revelation of his purposes
to this peoplp and this generation. Like the
destruction of Jerusalem, which was full of
judgment and of terrible lessons to His enemies,
this war is a kind of second, coming of Christ,
in which he , shall consume the works of the
wicked with the spirit of his month, and destroy
them with the brightness of his coining.
There are some good people who shrink
timedly from the excitement of the times. There
are ministers who think they do their duty best
by making the fewest allusions to the war in
their sermons'and their prayers, and who act as
if their hope of success in the .ministiy were
measured exactly by the degree in which they
succeed in drawing away the attention of their
people from the war. Such conduct is, in our
ophtion, a grievous mistake, and a mis-ealeula
tion of the times and providences amid which
we live, unworthy of, an intelligent follower of
Christ. The servant of God shonld bestir him
self to recognize the finger of God in such great
events; should fear lest ; in his timidity, he shuts
out the light of his Master’s immediate presence;
lest he should efrone - along in the old channels
of action, All unconscious, while new, and glori
ous opportunities of'acting for God, such as
present themselves hut once in an age, pass him
by unrecognized and unimproved. He should
feel himself charged with the high duty of
interpreting for his people the moral import of
this mighty movement, in which God, is vindi
cating the,majesty of the ordinance of govern
ment, and .is sweeping away, with startling
rapidity, the aeeumulated wrongs of the ages.
Who would not rather rejoice, as a Christian,
that he lived to‘behold these revelations of the
and the mighty hand of God; that
opportunity was given him,to cast his influence
upon the right in so holy and so grand a cause;
who would not rather he.’ashamed to overlook,
the moral bearings of an event when they are
as clear almost as if written in the very skies;
who is not Stimulated far rather to deeper con
secration, to stronger faith, to humbler trust, to
higher hopes forthe race, to more earnest prater
for his country and ‘for the world ? -Nay, we do
believe that a lively Christian interest in the
great principles now being fought out, and in
the physical and moral and spiritual welfare of
the hundreds of thousands of officers and men
engaged in the conflict, is a. veritable means of
grace, and that by the exercise of such interest,
many a Christian character will be developed to
bolder proportions, and sounder and manlier
qualities, and broader and nobler views, than it
could ever have reached in the. ordinary current
of life and human affairs. And while it is tme
that the wdr excitement pre-occttpies the minds
of hearers of the gospel, and in many cases
seems to shut them more closely than before
against the preacher’s appeals, it is also true that
the popular mind has been made solemnly aware
of a divine presence and purpose in our national
affairs. Looking at the events of this war, and
at the moral revolutions attending its progress,
thinking men, not pious, are led to recognize a
present Providence in human affairs as they
nevet did .before. The remarkably reverential
tone of many of the State papers recently
Issued, especially thanksgiving and fast day
proclamations and orders in reference to the
Sabbath, illustrates the truth of what we are
arguing.’
Said Senator Wilson recently to an agent
of one of the most valuable and successful of
our Christian enterprises in camp: “I believe
that this is God’s war, for the benefit of the
human race. I never felt so moved to rely upon
his Providence as I do now. At first I was
troubled constantly ; now, I can rest in the:
thought that all will dome right. I take up the,
papers often and read some disastrous hews,
which may agitate me; for a moment;- but I
think of the past and of Him who is guiding this
country, and I feel satisfied that all will come
right. Go on; you are doing a good work.
You strengthen and' tone up the army. I have
learned that it is not the bully that fights; it is,
the calm, true, conscientious man,” and much
more in the same strain.
If mere men of the world are thus impressed
and solemnized by the war, surely Christian men
and ministers may take heart and not he over
anxious as to its effects on the spiritual status
of the community; nay, they must see to it
ihet such men do not actually out-run them in
recognizing the grand providential features and
n mrai and religious bearings of the mo vement. It
v 11, hi the long run, doubtless be found injuri
ous beyond calculation, to attempt to live and
Cultivate Christianity and carry on the work of
the church in these times, by obstinately stick
ing io old channels of thought and action, and
insanely trying to ignore the war in one’s
pres thing and teaching and praying.
t ’ ’ e cannot better conclude these remarks than
oy quoting two or three sentences exactly
expressing, our views, from Henry Ward
Peccher’s late address in Exeter Hall. They
were received with cheers by his English hearers.
The sober American regprds the war as part
Of . oat awful yet glorious struggle which has
oenii going on tor hundreds of years in everv
nauen between right and wrong, between virtue
and vice, between liberty and despotism, between
freedom and bondage. It carries with it the
wnoie future condition of our vast continent—
;ts laws, its policy, its fate. And standing in
view of these tremendous realities, we have
consecrated all that we have—our children, our
wealth, onr national strength—and we lay them
all on the altar and say, “It is better that they
should all perish? than that the North should
falter and betray this trust of God, this hope of
the oppressed, this Western civilization.”
NOTES OF A’VISIT TO WASHINGTON.
All politicians of course regard the national
metropolis as their Mecca; but Northern,men,
without political objects, begin also to contem
plate this city with interest. They feel it a
duty and a privilege-to respond cordially to the
revolution in sentiment it is undergoing, and in
every way to strengthen old ties and weaveA
new cords of attachment between' the free Capi
tal and the free North,, Editors have their part
to do in such an important work. Their weekly
or daily issues should be made channels of sym
pathy between different sections of the church
and country.'
And the Christian community of Washington
City itself needs to be more fraternally fused
together.: That isolation that characterizes the
various congregations of the same denomination
even, is unprofitable: happy the instrumentality
by which they shall be made more conscious of
identical aims and interests, and by which the
way shall gradually he prepared for their more
active and cordial cooperation. One great hin
drance' to lively social intercourse among the
Washington people—the great size of the city
compared with the population—is partly over
come by the street railroads. This Northern
“institution” comes in, as an odious Southern
institution goes out. -It brings together the
ends of the great city, and symbolizes in this
central and conspicuous place, the free and ra
pid intereommunionr of thought, commodities
and persons, that ebarabterizes our country and
our ag£’ -
Editor.
The Presbyterian churches’ in Washington
City including the colored church, are almost
entirely connected with the Assembly which
met in our city last May. The First Church,
Dr. Sunderland, Pastor, occupies a commanding
position on A| Street near Judiciary Square.
The building has lately been remodelled in very
handsome style, and.is attended by large eon-,
gregations of such as seek in pulpit ministra
tions, stimulus for thought and. feeling, and’
clearness ’and boldness of apprehension of the
leading interests of the day in the light of the
Gospel. Dr. Sunderland has recently been ab
sent in Vermont, called thither by the severe
illness of a near relation. . ■
TheSeccind Church left its earlier connection
and went into the “.Old School ” body some
years ago; with it was joined,the Third, (though
it never assumed the numeral,) to form the
“New York ,Avenue Church,” now in charge
of Hey. P. D. Gurley, 1). D. Here the Presi
dent attends, his wife being : a member. The
congregation, is strong, though of quite a differ
ent class from that described in the First Church.
The interest shown in the present aspect of pub
lic affairs is but moderate, and far from satisfac
tory to earnest Christian patriots. It is under
stood that one of the most conservative members
of the Cabinet, who might for other reasons he
expected to attend this church, refuses to do so
on account of the obvious failure in the pulpit,
ministrations on this very point, 4
The Fourth Church, Rev. John C. Smith,
D. D., Pastor, gave decided evidence of devotion
to the country in relinquishing their fine build
ing on Ninth St., to the Government for use as
a temporary hospital. Unprepared as the Gov
ernment at first was to meet the great demand
for hospital accommodations, this was an act of
the noblest charity. Now, however, the prepa
rations for the casualties of battle in and around
Washington are so vast and so complete, that
the necessity for the use of other structures has
passed away. The congregation have for some
time been in possession of the edifice, and God"
has since that time smiled upon them. Acces
sions, in encouraging numbers, have been re
ceived at every communion season and large
congregations aftend not only the Sabbath, but
the week-day services, so that the pastor’s
heart is cheered and full of hope for the imme
diate future. Meanwhile, as need scarcely be
repeatedhere, his heart and that of his lady go
out in the warmest and most persevering and
self-denying regards to our sick and wounded
soldiers. A noble 'ambition possesses them to
achieve large -results in this field' of so
great ' and so unprecedented in ,thA history of
American charities. The soldiers’ “ God *ble£s '
you” has never been breathed more fervently,
than upon these zeaious, pains-taking and un
tiring ministers.to onr brave, and suffering men.
Dr. Smith’s especial field is Judiciary Square
Hospital, where he visits the patients as regu
larly, cveiy morning,'as the surgeon; ministers
to their spiritual wants; receives their messa
ges; writes their letters ; takes .charge,of itheir
funds and acquaints their relatives and friends
with their situation. We attended the soldiers’
meeting for exhortation and prayer, which is
held under his supervision, twice a week. It
is affecting ,to, see the partially recovered men,
some with: the. aidrof crutches, assembling for
theseJsimpldexercises; their prayferi and utter
ances are simple, direct, and earnest; it is the
marrow of the Gospel that men in their circum
stances must have; no artifices, no refinements
are sought’ or indulged/ We heard-of another
member 6f the F6urth Church, a’lady, who ri
vals her pastor and Ms wife in these acts of de
votion to the soldiers. Besides following,them
up with needed articles of clothing and delica
cies supplied by herself and a large circle of
friends, she has tents pitched in jthe yard of her
dwelling, where' the weary soldier is welcome
to repair for shelter and ■ refreshment at any
time. She even ventures fearlessly upon the
battle-field, and is never more at home than in -
dispensing her kind offices in the very hour of
carnage. Thus are the Christian virtues brought
into play by these extraordinary and pain/ul
events in our history; and the record of the
Fourth Church will show that pastor and peo-.
pie were animated by a.spirit equal to the na
tional exigency which they lived to behold.
! The Fifth ' Church, called the “Assembly’s
Church,” is -now under the charge of Rev. T
B. McFalls, who cthne to the Presbyterian from
the Methodist Episcopal body. Hejs endowed
with many popular qualities, is ardently loyal,
and is carrying forward the affairs of the Assem
bly’s Church with fidelity and an encouraging
degree of success. He also devotes part of Ms
time as chaplain, evqry day, to the sick and ;
wounded soldiers at Harewood Hospital.'Here, i
among the wounded , brought in after the brilli
ant advance of Sedgwick and-French on the
Rappahannock, he found a rebel prisoner whose
home— -mirabile dictu! —was Philadelphia;' and
fltcsfcntcuatt and (Smss** dtanplisit
whose loyal father holds a high position among
the defenders of the nation! Sad to tell, he
gave no evidence of penitence in his affliction.
The late very agreeable and profitable sessions
of the Synod of Pennsylvania were held in the
Assembly’s Church.
[to be continued.] )'■
We go to press one day sooner this week,
on account of thanksgiving.
.Next week, we expect to print a communi
cation from a correspondent who was at the
Gettysburg dedication.
We have just sent a large number of bills to
our collecting agents, and hope onr friends will
make prompt responses. Any errors that may
arise will be cheerfully corrected]
MEETING FOB THE SOEDIEES AT CALVA-
BY CHURCH.
Therewas a very large meeting under the
auspices of the American Tract Society (Boston)
in Calvary Church, Sabbath evening. Rev. Dr.
Brainerd presided and admirable and affecting
addresses were made ‘by the Secretary, Rev.
J. W. Alvord, and hy Rev. J. Ji Marks) ,D.;D.;
both of whom for more than two years, have
been on the front of the Army pf the Potomac.
The most favorable impressions 'of this instru
mentality for supplying the spiritual wants of
the soldiers were made. Dr. Marks will remain
in the city" some days to labor- in behalf of the
society.
DEDICATION OF GEBMAN STEEET CHURCH.
We are happy to announce that the comple
tion of this church edifice; so long deferred and
frequently despaired of, has at.length by the
blessing of God, upon the liberality of, a few
laymen of *the Third Church, been effected.
The building will be dedicated on Sabbath,
morning next at 10J o’clock, when Rev. Dr.
Brainerd will preach the sermon. There will
be services in the afternoon and evening. .Rev.
Daniel March will preach in the evening. - The
public are invited to attend.
SABBATH SCHOOL LIBEABIES FOB PBIZES.
We are prepared to give to the school of the;
church furnishing us the largest number of new
subscribers over 20, by the close' of the'year, a 1
library of one hundred volumes, of late issues,
all of good size and approved character.
To the school of the church furnishing the
next, largest number over twenty, a library of
fifty volumes of the same character. '’ „ :
Or, we will give a premium of $1 for each
newsubscriber paying $2 in advance.
Address; John W; Mears,T334 Chestnut-St,
Pbilada.
MINISTEB’S SALAEIES.
All salaried persons are beginning, to feel the
severe pressure of high prices. Numerous classes
pf laborers and employfees have “struck” for
higher wages, and in the recent great-advance
5g the price of every thing necessary to a com
fortable living, w justification for most of Itheir
demands is seen and admitted, and their requests
have been granted. Pastors and home mission
aries do not combine or “strike” for higher wai
ges. None of them has suggested to us the
writing Of this article. Frequently their people
nobly anticipate, their wants and. make all ap
peals unnecessary. A year ago, very many in
stances of such spontaneous liberality—or shall
We not call it justice ?—occurred which it gave
us pleasure t.o chronicle. We . doubt not, we
shall have similar agreeable facts to lay'before
our readers ere long, if the necessity continues.
Pastors do not combine and strike. They
know a more excellent way. Laying their case
before Him who sent forth their apostolic pre
decessor Without purse or scrip, striking for a
higher measure of trust, let them combine for,
the advancement of the spiritual interests of
their flocks. In a true revival of religion are
found all the elements of prosperity. The
awakened and active church will npt be wan,t4
ing in justice to her spiritual leaders. Not giv
ing themselves up to a complaining; timorous
tone, let them show .themselves concerned for
the true interests of the church, and throw
themselves confidently upon the quickened sym
pathies of the brethren. 1
. A.nd' let. the brethren prove 'themselves not
■unworthy of such confidence. Responding to
the pastor’s labors and prayers with like zeal,
let them sustain him amply, and realize that the
great services of the ministry of! Christ are the
best and cheapest earthly good they enjoy. Nor
let them expect the church to enjoy the Spirit’s
.reviving influence while they fail In duty to His
messengers. Let their sacrifices and offerings
go with their prayers, according to their ability,
and they may look for gracious- answers.. God
will meet them in the performance of duty. Be
not deceived ; God is not mocked: (or whatso
ever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Read this in connection with!' the ? immediately
preceding verse,—Gal. .vi: 6.—and its solemn
pertinence will be understood.
ACTION OF THE SYNOD OF INDIANA ON
PUBLICATION. 4
Resolved, That reaffirming what we have
heretofore said as to the importance of the Pub
lication cause and its claim to the annual con
tributions of our churches, Synod would express
its peculiar gratification that an effort is now to
be made in earnest to raise the capital needed
for the successful prosecution of the enterprise.
We eommepd this effort particularly to such of
our members as have been blessed with success
in business in these days of public calamity, and
who would therefore show their gratitude to
God by special thank-offerings.
FEOM OUB BOOHESTEB 00BBESB0NDENT.
A CHEAT nBCTUBK. *
One of the most no tic able things of the week has
been a lecture on the affairs of the country, by
Fred. Douglass, an esteemed and honored citizen of
Rochester, although a colored man. It needed but
to look upon the audience- gathered'to hear him, to
justify the complimentary words just used. The
night was dark and rainy, and yet we have not seen.
Corinthian Hall more thoroughly packed, in every
nook- and corner, than it was on’.this occasion.
And the quality of the audience was not less com
plimentary than-the quantity. It embraced a large
number of the very best people of the community;
lawyers, judges, physicians, merchants, clergymen,-
and others, listening with profound attention, and
manifest delight, for nearly two hours, to the truly
able and statesmanlike address of this man of a
despised race.; who was himself, hut a few years
ago, a poor, ignorant slave in Maryland.
But Fred. Douglass needs no introduction of ours.
His life has been one of more than romance, read
and known in both ihemispheres; and if he bears
himself but a few more fleeting years as moderately
and, honorably as be,Juts in the past, his place on
#ome bright page of "history is sure.. And yet,
highly as he is 'in. this city, and pie
pared as bis ttudiep'#7§rere to expect something
fine from his lips, we think we speak the universal
sentiment, .when, we feay that his effort even tran
scended their expectations. His more particular
theme was " ‘ '
THE MISSION OF THE WAR.
And this, in a word,■; he held to he, the complete
destruction “of slavery,; and the the
nation. We are to-be rebuilt, on better principles,
into a,higher and.better nationality, with,a purer
humanity and a nobler patriotism; one people, in
institutions, interests arid destiny. It is not mere
union we want, but unity; and,it is for this we are
fighting. .“ Put slavery out of existence," said the
speaker, “ and where can you find a country to he
compared with the (laited States?—one law, one
language, one liberty, for all races of men; one
Federal Head, one would be founded
upoa a rock, and no power could prevail
against it.”. ' i. •
But our object isijttoi to reproduce the lecture,
even if it were in our power. Indeed, we doubt, if
we could endorse evWj sentiment of it; bnt we did
with others greatly spirit and power!
Mr. Douglass in the Govern
ment, as our only safity; -spoke in the highest
terms of “Abraham, the Honest.” This is the uni
versal sentiment of the black man. He is thorough
ly loyal. Mr. Dougliss himself attests his patriotism
by his acts. He has «tbree sons in the army. One,
an officer in the 54th (Massachusetts (colored) Regi
ment, was at the storming of Fort Wagner, at’
Charleston,., and borh hintself most bravely in the
fight. We are sorry. to add,.that he is now at home
sick.' V
DOUGLASS OFFERS-HIS SERVICES.
It is known, aiso, that Mr. Doriglass recently of
fered his services to jthe Government, to aid in re
cruiting colored soldiers. His offer was accepted.
He visited Washington to receive instructions, or
get a more perfect uiiderstanding of the duties re
quired, and was expecting to go into the South-
West, to aid Adjutant-General Thomas in forming
colored regiments. For this purpose, he stopped the
publication of .bis paper, in this city, sold out his
materials, and to shift. Great things
fr6jiijms mission. It ; was believed
that his magic tongpe'would soon rally thousands of
his susceptible race nation’s standard.
But .then there w«h'a hitch. ;The Government
was not prepared toigiveihim a “commission,”-and
be was not prepared jo go without He had no sta-.
tus—no protection. If gobbled up by the guerrillas,
'he could not even claim the privilege of dying of
starvation, like a white man, in Libby Prison, but
must be hanged at the first tree—or roasted, for
sport, at the first log heap; arid there is no rfedress,
not even the poor satisfaction of thinking that an
indignant country will, at. least, avenge his death.
Can any .one wonder, that he hesitated about throw
i ing his life .away ? Arid yet the project is not aban
doned. . He is only waiting a little, until the autho
rities-do see their way. clear to'give him some sort of
position, which shall insure so :: much of protectioS
as the nature of the case will permit. He fcsks no
more.. - -
sojrcjnnxcj to think of.
One position of tfie lecturer is well worth ponder
ing. “ When the rebellion,'is put down, the Governs
merit ‘rviirUeed fnfyuiz (if dHeSouth. The way to
hgve them,” hp said;' “. is to free. theslave,anei then
give him the ballot.?- Then he would protect himself,
and the Gqyernihengas well. Tt would baa shame
to give the negro freedom, and not the ability to pro
tect it. If the negro knew right from Wrong—knew
enough to fight in a good cause—he knew enough'
to vote!" . i :
' It is too* Boon perhaps' to" agitate/this question;
but no one can deny that the speaker puts his case
forcibly. And so -we leave this memorable lecture
of a remarkable man; only adding, that it is doubt
less one of his best; prepared with great 1 bare, inten
ded for other places and other audiences as well as
this, and designed by the speaker to help, on the
good cause of liberty .and government, in. all tlie land
and for all the inhabitants thereof.
A I-ASTOR. OOING WEST.
Rev. Abram Blakley, formerly pastor of the.church
in Sodus, more recently minister to, the church in
Wolcott, has left that-held of laborand started for
Kansas. He, goes tdjthe Presbyterian Church (N.
S.) of the ill-fated ciSjLoFLawreqce; a feeble band
with no house of to. bnild
one. , ilr» Blakely
pathies and wants, in good heart
to aid them. He hasjpresehted'their case in several
churches of this region,* And has - Already-raised a
considerable sum of money toward securing the de
sired house: of worship., Mr. B. is an able, worthy,
affd. highly respected .minister of the Gospel; and
beside that, he has a most happy faculty of present
ing his cause to a public assembly; and will, We
doubt not, prove almost /efficient-And successful
helper in the cause. Success attend him.
’ Rochester , Nov. 20fft 1863.
LETTER FROmI oHAPLAIH STEWART.
Brandy Station, Va., Nov. 27th, 1863.
A NEW ARMY- MOVEMENT.
Dear Editor iEarly on Saturday morning
Nov. 7th, and very soon, after the dismissal of
my last letter. camp .near iWarrenton
was broken up, and are again in motion. A
grand, big, it.fiw a grand army,
on sudden qrders 6T break up its cantonments
and get into motion. Several 1 hundred small
cities, : as eabh regiment constitutes 1 within itself,
a distinct city, broken up, dissolved, disappear
ing within the spacp of a few minutes. Houses,
tents, shelters of dll imaginable shapes and
sizes—many evenjVithout any apparent shape,
size or convenience, unroofed. The canvass
covering of the privates’ little shelter folded and
strapped upon the iop of the already crowded
knapsack ; those of jthe line officers lashed upon
half worn but rickety males, whose drooping
ears skem to constitute half of their lean bodies..
i'.i •• , $» - - . ; 1 •
The tents of staff officers go into wagons. The
camp accomodations of a few days, weeks or
months are thrown away; much of which will
bum into some huge eaibp fire. All seems in
extricable disorderj 'pell-mell and confusion.
The bugle sounds-ttie-.wiarbh, the commanding
as if by sope
magicidii ,^t!l|^if|''^S4r a out this
bustling- chaps. SBJie* regiment is at once in,
ranks of deep, and trudging
away, away ; each [soldier -looking for all the
world like some old picture of Banyan’s Pilgrim,
with a huge "pack upon his back.
. 1-' - *
DESERTED CAMP.
Imagination can-hardly picture a scene of
more entire desertedness and desolation than a
camp of a' few weeks’ occupancy, even an hour
after it has been abandoned. - The ruins of
Tyre, Babylon or Nineveh, can scarce supass it 1
in completeness of desolation, and inthe loneli
ness of feeling produced upon: tfie solitary
beholder. Save a few fires here and there still
smouldering, it might readily be imagined that
ages had passed since -human footsteps trod
there, though so 'lately the scene of busy
crowded life and activities.
By the middle of the afternoon on the same day
the camp was broken near Warreriton, having'
.marched nearly fifteen miles, we arrived in the
immediate vicinity of Rappahannock Station,
the point where the railroad from Washington
to Richmond crosses the little river of the same
name. The ground in the vicinity was all
familiar, as we had encamped here for ten days
during the earlier part of the fall. Our 6th
Corps, after its long march, was at once and
somewhat unexpectedly in a fierce struggle
with the enemy. It was brief, bloody, decisive,
and for our arms one of the most brilliant
achievements of this fiercely contested war. The
rebels-were in possession of the earthworks
close along the hank of the river, which we had
occupied a month previous. These, they had
in the meantime greatly strengthened, so that
'each of the two ; thousand rebels by which they
were now occupied, was protected even more
than breast high by redoubts and breastworks.
At the assaulting foe they could take sure and
deadly aim .while nought but the tops of their
own heads were expired. How these formi
dable works were stormed with little'bloodshed
seems yet a mystery. The rebels must have
been taken in some measure by surprise. They
no doubt felt secure, never even dreaming that
an assault would be attempted on their formi
dable position over the open and rising ground
directly in front. According to the ©rdinary
fiereeness of the present warfaring, from their
strengh and position, they ought to have killed
a thousand of our troops, and wounded three
or four'thousand more. Only about one hun
dred were killed, and three hundred wounded.
Yet how strange this language, “ only tree
hundred killed /” Cruel war does greatly
transform both our language and our sensibili
ties. “ Only one hundred killed!” Only one
hundred noble young men in the flower of man
hood swept together into eternity. Only a
hundred homes and home circles thus quickly
thrown into inconsolable sadness and irrepara
ble grief Were ,one hundred young; men be
longing to your fire companies crushed ti> death
in a moment, under the ruins of . some burning
building fWhat a thrill of horror would pervade
the whole -city; yea the entire.community I
Each daily paper throughout the country; fora
number of issues thereafter, would be filled
With sickening details of the awful, the appal
ling calamity. When however, “only one
hundred killed in the battle of the Rappahan
nock,” is read by millions next morning, no
other emotion is excited thereby save perhaps
that of joy—a kind of pleasing breakfast repast.
SCENES ON THE' BATTLE FIELD.
Early next morning (Sabbath) I passed en
tirely over the scene of last evening’s bloody
struggle. All quiet now. The wounded had
been sent away during the night, and the six
teen hundred - prisoners conveyed far to the
rear. The dead were being collected into
groups in order to be covered up in trenches
tben'TSTggidgt by their living comrades. All
“Were buried just as they fell—uncoffined and
Shrouded in their bloody garments—perhaps
the fittest burial for the brave soldier. At one
place within the enemy’s works were collected
and laid side by side for interment, thirty from
the 6th Maine Regiment. . All noble looking,
young men; still, calm, bloody, dead. They
came from that far off northeast, to sleep their
last long sleep on the quiet banks of this lone
ly fiver. Hearty every one of these had re
ceived the death wound in the face, the neck, or
upper portion of the breast, as they marched di
rectly-up to the muzzles of the rebel rifles.
On the day after the battle, we were marched
some miles down the river to Kelly’s Ford, in
the vicinity of whiclrwe did pigket duty for
several days and night. Returning from thehce,
the battle ground of Saturday was again passed
over, the river recrossed and out to this place
Station —a: name no doubt full of
euphony to our too many lovers of strong
drink. From whence the name, has not yet been
ascertained, whether from some F. F. V., who;
bare the rather dubious surname of Brandy, or
from the large quantities of said beverage drank
at this locality while the railroad was being
constructed. Said locality is six miles east
from Culpepper. Here is the; once beautiful
domain of John Minor Botts, a well known
Virginia.’Statesman, who has been trying to
retain his loyalty during all this protracted
struggle. So often during the past three years
has this section been made a camping ground
both by Union and Confederate, together with
a number of skirmishes and cavalry deeds, that
the bare ground is about all which now re
mains. Our boys have to trudge a long' dis
tance, ere they can find old rails, or any kind of
wood, with which to light a Camp fire.
grave' OP AN EXECUTED REBEL. 1
Genesee.
Close beside our regimental encampment is
a clump of young pines, in which is a large
newly made rebel grave, at the head of which
is a pine board, bearing in pencil the following
inscription': “Jordan Harris, Co. F.< ,47th N.
C. Troops. Executed for desertion about nobn
November the Ist, 1863, aged 49 years.. ” Poor
soldier, alone and quietly he sleeps undisturbed
more by dreams of escape from rebel tyranny,
or yearnings for home and family.
During all of last week the weather was ex-'
ceedingly beautiful. Days cloudless but smoky
—dreamy, solemn, Indian Summer. Nights
clear and frosty. Lying down by night to
sleep, as we did tentless on the dry leaves or
withered grass, and gazing up into that won
drous “ Firmament on high,” the soul often
became lost and dreamy in her multitude of
thoughts. Little wonder those Babylonian
philosophers, in their ignorance of the true
God; should fall to worshiping, “ The. Host of
Heaven.” Had we not the blessed Jesus to
claim our devotion, the next object of adoration,
would be stars. Happy, .thou ruddy youthful
Bon of Jesse, having like ourselves the heavens
for a covering by night, as those few sheep
were tended in the wilderness. Gazing upon
these same stars and yonder horned moon,
Thou didst sweetly sing: ~ ■ .
When I look up unto the heav’ns,
.Which Thine own fingers train'd,
Unto the moon and to the stars, / ,
_ Which were by Thee ordain’d ; /
Then say I, what is man, thatffie .
Remember’d is by [Thee ! '
Or What.the son of man that Thou
So kind to him shoiildst be?”
ANOTHER BLOODY BATTLE.
NEW MARCHES AND DUTIES.
THE WEATHER.
last Saturday nigbt and Sabbath morn
ing, we were visited by a terrific storm of thun
der, lightning and rain, since which the high
ranges of the Blue Ridge, full in view, have
been covered with snow. Winter is near.
PRESENT CONDITION AND. EXERCISES.
Our present unsettled condition, with that
of the past, twelve days, has not made so many
inroads into, or interruptions of, our ordinary
religious exercises or even literary exercises,
as friends at a distance might suppose. Every
evening since leaving the vicinity of Warren
ton, save the one occupied in the fight, we have
been enabled to hold a large, interesting, and
most refreshing religious service. Almost every
day also has our very large class hr English
Grammar assembled at 1 P. M. for recitation
and lecture, R 3 well as a class in Latin at 7 P.
M. We have learned, that when strong, living,
earnest men set themselves for the accomplish
ment of a purpose, they can do the same, by
the help, of God, under almost any circumstan
ces: A. M. Stewart.
WHY DID YOU NOT COME SOONER ?
Matb. 9: 37, 38. The harvest truly is plen
teous, but the laborers are. few. Pray ye there
fore the Lord of. the. harvest .that he will send
forth laborers into his harvest. ,
As the missionary Shaw was one day reading
the Bible to the Cafirees,' there came one of their
chiefs and called out after he had listened for a
time: <£ 0 why' did not this wordeometous
long ago? What has become of our fore-fathers
who are dead? Ah! if that which the book
contains is tr.ue, why did you not come sooner ?”
The missionary in that moment felt ashamed
for Christianity, and unreservedly confessed
that it was indeed time; that Jesus had com
manded to spread his Gospel among all nations,
and that this command had been too lon® ne
glected. But now many Christians had come to
see that this was wrong, and they were'taking
measures-to supply all nations with the bread of
life. At this their countenances were radiant
with joy, and one said : “ Certainly that was not
right in your people when they had found such
a sweet honey comb to seat themselves around it
and eat of it and say one to another: Ah ! how
sweet it is 4 notwithstanding the Lord had told
you there was enough for the whole world., ; Yet
‘we-,rejuice that you are at length resolved ,to
give us a share.” ... .
Whittier, Jony Greenleaf. In 'War Time and
other Poems. By.T. G- Whittier. Boston: Tiek
nor & Fields. 16m0.. pp. 162', Gilt top.'
The times in which we live are fortunate' in
haying among them a true poet, whose soul is
alive with genuine interest, and whose pulses
beat in rhythmical sympathy with the grand
movements of thought and opinion now trans
piring. In this little volume are embalmed iin-'
perish'ably; we think, some of the noblest pb'a'ses
and trials of our straggle. Such precious truths
and facts deserve to be wedded to immortal
numbers. The conquest of Putt Royal; and
the early emancipation of the Sea Island popu
lation, were almost . like a splendid romance;
and the Poem ‘ * Port Royal ” fitly'chronicles one
of its aspects. A number of.fine miscellaneous
pieces are embraced in the collection. ,
For sale at J. B Lippineott & Co., Phila.
Eav. Men-tal Hyoikne. By LRay, M. D. Bos
ton: Tieknor & Fields. 16mo„-pp. 338.' • :
A great variety and interesting mass'of facts
is brought together in tHisvdlume, upon a to
pic of the highes| importance. In general, the
views are. sound, thougb«we note an:att|tude of
coldness, at least towards evangelical religion.
The subject is not presented with the vigor and
earnestness of one who feels he has a mission
to bis readers. Nevertheless it is A valuable
treatise, and, in some fespeets, occupies a place
in this sort of literature hitherto unfilled.—For
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MtFabm of A, Country Book. ’;By
the Author of “ Reveries of a Bachelor■ “It
is all groiori over with thorns, andfiettles covered
tho face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was
-, ,h roken down. Then J saw, and it
well. 1 looked upnn it and received instruction."
(Prov. 24: SO.) New York, Charles Scribner.
12m0., pp. 319.
This is a sort of American prose “ Georgies;”
an 1 elegant version of the comm'only plain and
hard story of.a farmer’s life. Donald Mitchell,
the Ik Marsel of the literary world, some years
ago, having acquired a snug fortune through
his btroks, has been'investinglthe' proceeds in a
farm near New Haven. Hirf experience as a
farmer is given in this volume in charming
style, mingled, too, with admirable lessons to
his class, whp, we th’nk, will gead his book
with avidity. We are sorry not to find any al
lusion to religion'and church going as one of
the sources of 'profit and solace to the isolated
farmer. The book is got up in elegant and
•substantial style.
Mim.er.—Bayne. The Headship of Christ and the
Bights of the Chrstian People. A collection of
Essays, Historical and Descriptive Sketches, and
Personal Portraiture, with ’the
ted Letter to Lord Brougham. By Hugh Miller,
Author of “Footprints of the Creator,” Ac., Edi
ted with a Preface by Peter Bayne. 12m0.'.
502, $1,50. ; ’ IF
These papers, most’y from the Edinburgh
Witneif, open a new phase in the life of sthat
noting sided,, whole-souled man of the people—
Hugh Miller. He here appears as the popular
leader m that re-istance to Parliamentary en
croachments which led to the Disruption of the
Church ofr Scotland, in-1848. The 'papers are
classed under the titles: Headship of Christ,
and: The Rights of the Christian people. Un
der the first head we have jthe celebrated pam
phlet to Lord Brougham*which
during the intervals of his duties as a bank of
ficer, and which secured to him the position as
edjtor of the Witness. Interesting papers on
the literary character of John Knox, on Dr.
Thomas MeCrie, and one containing a graphic
description of the Disruption, will- attract the
eye of the general redder. The important
principles of church! independence, happily
settled in this country,’ are ably and profoundly
bandied through the volume; and all who de
sire familiarity with the history’ and spirit of
the Scottish Church, in the period immediately
preceding the Disruption, will find ample in
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®^? K 7'? rl 7 ,i “: i ;.® €0 ? ra phi ca l Studies by the late
i ar J ■ er ’ of Berlin. From the German
by Wm. Leonard Gage, Translator 1 of Steffens’s
“btory of my Career,” Ac., “Is it not worth while,
for the sake of the history of men and of nations,
to study the surface of the earth in its relation to
its inhabitants ?’* Boston : Gould and Lincoln.
*12m0., pp. 356, with Portrait, $1,25, '. f.
~ 'There is np great name, in science which; we
pronounce with such affectionate .and hearty
reverence as that of Ritter. It is because he
himself worked [in a spirit of sincere devotion
to his God and Saviour. His regard for Deity
was not that vague, unpractical sentiment
which sometimes stands clqse beside .an ill-dis
guised infidelity; it was a living, supreme in
fluence m his career, as a student and man of
science. His work was designed lifeo TTawwv
to exhibit the glory of God in creation &hris
tiamty claims him as her own, and places him
m contrast with the unbelieving Humboldt and
with all that,presuming class of (scientific men
who now-a-days ignore, or seek to
Deity from his works. The volume Sre hs
18 a Wanslation of such of his papers as reveal
the principles of his system of Geography, with
an account of his life, bv the translator, and an
account of his geographical labors, by Dr, Bo
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from the shallow essays that are just now s 0
abundant in the scientific world, and receive,
with deep satisfaction, the rich, mature, com
prehensive views of a mind whose regard for
God only gave greater range, loftier flight, and
higher troth to its conceptions. For sale by
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Heaven our Home. We have no Saviour but ,Te.
sns, and no Home hut Heaven. By the Author
of “Meet for. Heaven.” Boston: Eoberts Bro
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This is a reprint of a volume which, in Eng
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thousand copies;. It -presents its delightful
theme withji peculiar tenderness and familiar
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Jacobs. Notes on the Rebel invasion of Maryland
and Pennsylvania, and the Battle of Gettysburg
July Ist 2d, and 3d: Accompanied by an Espial
natory Map.- By M. Jacobs, Professor in Penn
sylvania College, Gettysburg. Philadelphia: J.
B, Lippineott & Co. 16m0., pp, 47.
It is believed that the author of this carefully
prepared’ and valuable monograph pointed out
to General Howard, on the first day of the
fight, the natural strength of the position on
Cemetery thus contributed most ma
terially to our success on that, decisive day.
’We do hoi know that any thing remains to be
wished in the form of a history of that battle,
after the clear and graphic statements of Prof.
Jacobs. Every Pennsylvanian, at any rate,
will wish to possess a copy of the work. The
map at once makes the whole situation lumi
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Winslow. The -Man of God: or, Spiritual Eeli
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Under a great variety of aspects, the devout
author, already well known for hfs acceptable
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Christian. For sale at the Presbyterian Book
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Betd. Invitations to Jesus. By Wm. Reid, D. I).
Boston: Henry Hoyt, 3 vols., 16m0., each 16
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Son & Co. Boston : Published by Henry Hoyt.
. IBmo., paper, pp, 107. 1
Mr. Hammond says of this treatise, "It is
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gaze \the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin
of th e world. ’ The anxious 'inquirer is not de
layed with a lengthened analysis of tfie nature
of saving faith, but, in simple language, h% is
told to look ajid live.”
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Guo roe Morton an® his Sister. By Catherine M.
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: 12m0.,i pp. 258: . ‘
■ A well-written story of life among the ne
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Little by Little. 16m0.; pp. 124.
Frank and Rufus ; or, Obedience and Disobedience.
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Margaret, the Young Wife.
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MAGAZINES, REVIEWS, AND PAMPHLETS,
The Boston Review, for October.
The Edinburg Review, (American Edition,)
for October.
. The Westminster Review, (American Edi
tion,) for October.
Address before the Hew York State Agri
cultural Society, at*tJtiea, Sept. 18th, 1863, by
Rev. S. W. Fisher, D. D., President of Hamil
ton College. > ‘
The Risks op Thinking. Address before
the Literary of Jefferson College, Au
gust ,4th, 1863. By Rev. Herrick Johnson,
Pastor of the Third. Church, Pittsburg.
Endurance, Individual and National. Ad
dress by Hon. John F. Nixon, before the So
cieties of the College of New Jersey, June 23d,
1.863.
The Peril op the Republic the Fault op
the People.' Address before the Senate of
Union College, ‘Schenectady, and the Societies
of Franklin and Marshall College, Pa. By
Daniel Dougherty, Esq.
Rumor. By the Author of " Charles An
ehester.” Boston: T.O.H.P.Burnham. Bvo.,
pp. 212. ,
The American Literary Gazette and Pub
lisher’s Circular, for November 16th, Gee. W.
Childs, Philapelphia. •
From the Presbyterian Book Store we have
received two packs of “ Cards, Illustrative of
Animated Nature, for Little Children.” Very
beautiful and interesting.
The' same handsome articles, adapted for
Sabbath school use, may be had at the Ameri
can Sunday School Union, and at Martiens.
IMps ®f ®ttr; jSMwte.
Presbyterian.
Rev. A- D. Smith, D. D,, preached his farewell
sermon'as pastor of the 14th Street Church, New
York, November 15, He preached on Lube 16 : 2;
“Give an account of thy stewardship." Dr. Smith,
according to the Evangelist, is the oldest pastor in
our connection hither in this city or Brooklyn,
having,as is said; “preceded the beloved pastor of
the Madison-Square Church, by a few days.” He
commenced his ministry in the “Brainerd Church,”
Not. 2d, 1834., This church afterwards, in 1851,
was, reorganized with the addition of 79 members
from 6th street church, making 274 in all, when the
hew site oh 14th street was occupied and the name
of the Church changed to that which it now holds:
fourteenth Street Church, The whole number re
ceived into the church is 1393, 627 of them—or au
average of over twenty-one a year—on profession.
Of these about forty have entered the Gospel minis
try, some of whom are Home, and others Foreign
missionaries. The aggregate of contributions in
Rivington street, including the cost of the church
were about §103,000 ; the annual average of con,
tributions in Fourteenth Street Church something
oyer §11,500. And last, but not least, from 10,000
to. 15,000 different children have been connected
with the several Sabbath-Schools of the church. Dr.
Smith goes to occupy the Presidency of Dartmouth
College. His loss to our church is very great, as
he was among the few prominent pastors in New
York city, who knew how to combine a firm deaomi
' nationalism with a beautiful catholicity.
NOV. 26,
16m0., pp. 311,