Religious world abroad
MONTHT>Y VIEW.
CUbbat BRnSsDfc'JSil2%e Edinburg Medi
cal Missionary Society held its annual
meeting November 17 th. The chief work
of this society is the training of medical
missionaries, leaving it to the various
■cMvches and missionary societies to send
them to tlx 1 mission-field and maintain
theta, there. Thus they have four or five
alumni in China, three in India,
i Palestine, some in Madagascar.
' All tl jeso are men who have taken a high
place iii the medical school for which
Edinburgh has long been so famous,
while their hearts are thoroughly imbued
; with a Christian and a missionary spirit.
t A i jXKALia.— Remarkable Statistics. —
■from the census of religious attendance
wpabii -hed last year, -we learn that while
f the:? are 150,000 persons professing to.
r. belong to the ChuTch-of England, in New
■ South Wales, 24,998 only are returned its
generally attending the means of grace in
! * Episcopal Churches, ' There are about
100.000 persons belonging to the Roman
Catholic Church, and of these 22,750 are
reported as attending the services on the
' Sabbath. There are 85/000 Presbyterians,
-and of these T 856 are in attendance. There
are some 23,682: Methodists, yet 24,398
are returned as attending their places of
worship. There are 5411 Congregation
alists, and, 4705 persons attend their
.services. The laTge attendance reported
■‘(by the Methodists indicates that their
-organization, provides for the necessities
of a ..people living in a very scattered
v-flondition, .more effectually than the other
and greater‘churches do. By the employ
meat of amagency somewhat akin to that
.- of the Methodists, including itineracy and
Jay, ag«ftcy|other churches might do more
sio carry religious ordinances to. the people.
Liberality of the Churches.-The Rev.
-tT.- G. Paton collected; during the last year,
-£4600 for a mission-ship, chiefly among
in New South Wales, Yic-
Australia, and Tasmania,
"independently of the usual missionary
collections. The Australian Mission of
- the .Wesleyan Methodists raised £lO,OOO
.St last year, bosn|ts the sustentation of the
jninistny and •their ordinary efforts in
building churches; and schools. The
Church of England, likewise, in these
, • colonies, obtains considerable sums.-
Union of Presbyterians. -The Presbyte
rian! ‘Churches have been uniting with
greoksjiccess and advantage. They have
no flhfed to : maintain the separation which
marks their ancestral country here. And
the rte\yiggneration is fully persuaded of
■this."; Queensland to New
-Zealand, the distinctions known in Scot
• land will be obliterated, and the name''
Presbyterian indicate all that marks the
section of the Church to which the indi
vidual belongs;
... - Life of Jesus.-^-The
45 this the higher
ma&fcf iiiindS|“has beeii by 31>c ?
; ifprfisseiise." AVPriris correspondent speaks
of Its ahdceptaWbness even to Romanists.
! He says: ‘‘ Instances are known of upright
‘%'flptwv in high dffice in the Roman Church
having derive?!‘Trom it good that they
" have not feared, to acknowledge. The
morf popular work of Napoleon Rousso'U
...is doing good service in its own sphere.
'• One'copy is known to have been read by
twenty-seven persons in a few days. This
•discussion makes the name and character
of Jesus the universal topic of conversa
tion in Paris, and the opportunity for
bold aricNiarnest Christian effort is greatly
Among the Romanists, the
Renan by the Bishop of
~I™' hniv’gained notoriety from the
deception given to it by the Emperor.
The following is the letter which he ad
dressed to the author:
“Monsieur l’Eveque: You have been
so kind aq to .sent me the book you have
• ; v tp combat a recent work which
-'.attempts to raise doubts on one of the
principles of our religion.
' r I h;ive seen with pleasure how energett
.the faith, and I offer you
c ns; Whereupon,
Utonsier t’Eveque' I pray God to have
you; in his holy keeping.—Written at the
this 14th of Novem-
er the celebrated English
fay-preacher, whose wonderful adapted
ness to, and power over the masses,.' is
• well known, has recently paid a visit to
y I?ftnet,is3!ljc same correspondent speaks of
~ Jne 't'oiy man to stir up, in such a
hS’this, the bold joyful spirit of the
Apostolic age. " He was sent for to labor
in behalf of the neglected and godless
English population, and visited their low;
and brought many of the
to a .place of worship ;
tnftdencing them so powerfully that they
.. wrote him a letter of thanks, and begged
hint t<a. remain longer- with them. The
corrcspbndent says:—“ Truly his speaking
the blast of - the hurricane, the blow
<rtslws4ledge-:bammer, and between whiles
■ exquisite touches of human and
sublime affection, which stirred the heart
to its very foundations. The extreme
r. Originality, too, and the singing of the
|’;at times alone, to the audience,
■ cal pul ated' to e xcite, 'command
ha|l?rivet attention. Finally, it. was' de
tenSfeted to try the experiment of inter-
his words into- French in a small-,
tneetiag of working- people. Tho experi:
beyond all expectation,,
and from that day the French have flocked'
to heanbim wherever he preached; and
invariably hearts have been stirred,' tears
of penitence have flowed, and men and;
v women have stayed either to seek more
fifiarnestly the way ,6f salvation, or to
iwith joyful,.-countenance, that 5
’ Possession of'.tbeir broken hearts, The
1 .love Cur woifkiDgmen and women feel fpr
b-iim is they .feelffibis heart
’lieating with: uieifSr—he "thd
. chord of sympathy.'” S
Switzeelanß.— &reat Edition of Gal
.wn’s Worfcs.;—Three ijtrasburg Professors
f Baum, CuniU ahdS'iliiuijs, are .slowly
preparing and publishing a new and
original edition of Calvin’s works, which
will far exceed in fullness and accuracy
any thing of the kind hitherto attempted.
One volume only, containing the Institutes
as Calvin first published them, has ap
peared. The three editors began by col
lecting an enormous Calvinian library,
comprising all the editions anterior to the
year 1600, and they do not mean to pub
lish a line without having diligently veri
fied it. As for the unedited works, al
though the time for their being committed
to the press must still be a distant one,
they have already been two years occu
pied in collecting them. Whatever one
editor copies is afterwards revised by the
two others; and the handwriting of Cal
vin, which is so difficult to decipher, has
no longer any secrets for them. In the
public library: of Geneva, they have found
treasures of which the Genevese, scarcely
knew the existence, and they have already
copied several articles, being
principally letters of the Reformers: It
is but a small part of Calvin’s correspon
dence that is yet known; and many, of his
letters arc probably, lost, but enough
remain to fill several volumes, and only
when these shall have been published will
Calvin be as well known as he ought to be.
' Itaiy.— More Laborers. —Pour Walden
sian candidates were ordained Nov. :10th,
at La Tour, as Evangelists.—The Baptist
Church are about to establish a Mission 1
in Italy.
Mortara Case. —ln July last, a Jewish
servant-girl, aged nine years, ran away
from her residence, and was picked up by
a Catholic family, who put her into an
institution to be “converted.” She re
fused -with tears and outcries. Her
parents interfered, hut in vain. They then
applied to the President of the Jewish
Congregation, who sent a deputation to
the Pope. He answered them angrily
and unsatisfactorily. The girl has been
babtized; ,and a petition of the Jewish
community begging for her restoration,
was coldly ignored, the official journal of
Rome the very next day, announcing her
conversion.
GERMANY.— The Thirtieth Anniversary
of the-Rauhe Haus was recently celebrated
at. the Institution, near Hamburg. The
Haus was adorned in all its gardens and in
all its cottages with the loveliest flowers,
wreaths and banners, and resounded with
hymns and glad songs of praise. The
grounds were filled with thousands of
friends of the institution and its former pu
pils, who came'from far and near to praise
the Lord for. what He had done ,for it, and
ascribe to Him the glory. About ,3000
parents were present, who, during these
thirty years, had Sought a refuge for their
unhappy children.- - More than 300 young
Christian men were assembled, prepared
for the different ;works of the: Inner Mis
sion, and ready'to' be sent to all the terri
tories of Germany and to foreign lands:
Besides these, about seventy young theo
logical students had for years, in active
cooperation with the "institutions of the
Ria’uhe Haus, made a blessed preparation
for their future ministerial office. About
the middle of the festival the foundation
was laid for a house in which twelve boys
and a number of brethren should liye7 and
which the Arch-Dnke of Mecklenburg-
Scbwerin, the, generous promoter pf all 1
pertaining to the kingdom of God, had'
given them money ,to build. Notwith-:
standing all the opposition of the inimical
or indifferent, the Rauhe Haus ; prospers
under the visible blessing of God. A site
for extensive buildings, to accommodate the
Berlin Branch (St. John,) was at the same
time determined upon.
Dexmarr.— Religious Toleration. The
Established Church of Denmark is Luthe
ran, aud like Sweden, this country has
been slow to concede liberty of conscience
even to the Frotcstant denominations. A
great step in advance was made, so far as
the duchy of-Holstein is concerned, by the
law of July 14th.. By this law, the exer
cise of public worship is henceforth per
mitted to tho Reformed (Calvinist,) Catho
lics, the Mannovites, the Anglicans, and
Baptists, wherever they form a church
community with the consent of the Go
vernment. As soon as they can show
that they possess the necessary machinery
for the organization of a congregation,
they will be allowed to establish one; and,
with the consent of the sovereign, they
may build churches with steeples and bells,
which they have hitherto been forbidden
to do.
, But convents are not permitted in Hol
stein, and no religious ceremonies are al
lowed except within the walls of the
churches; consequently no public proces
sions of the Catholics through the streets.
Jesuits, are forbidden to exercise clerical
functions of any kind, even preaching,
which is permitted them in Denmark.
Another edict of the same date removes
all the restrictions which had been hither
to imposed on the Jews, in Holstein.
Russia. —Justice and, Public Instruc
tion. The Emperor Alexander Subscribed,
a few months ago, apian by which trial
by jury and open oral pleading were to be
introduced from the year 1864. The
question of public instruction likewise en
gages universal attention. The govern
ment has just published a plan for- the or
ganization., of all the popular schools in
Russia.. In this it is announced that in
order to obtain for national education the
Services of competent men; provision must
be made for a suitable support'and to
.maintain; the dignity, of the. office.. It' is !
accordingly proposed that the teachers in
towns shall receive 250 rubles (nearly as
many dollars) and 150 rubles in the coun
try ; besides a free reeidenee, wood , for
fuel, and two: poods, (a pood is about thirl
ty-nine pounds weight) of grain or corn
mqntjhly, and in the country , a pie.ee of gar
den-ground. ' After ten years of
vice the teacher will have a right to have
■his salary increased by a third, and after
twenty years to, two-thirds. Lastly, he
will be free, from the conscription and
from all communal burdens, and after ten,
years receive the ribbon of the order of
St; Alexander.
" *
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 186 4.
Annual Survey of the work of the Ame
rican Board. —The condition and prospects
of the work in the several fields abroad,
do not differ greatly from what they were
in January, 18(53; but if the summary of
statistics at the close of this Annual Sur
vey be compared with that of ten years
ago, there will be found some noteworthy
differences. Then, there were, in all, 400
laborers from the United States engaged
in the service of the Board. Now, there
are but 345, and the call for reinforcement,
from many fields, is pressing. This would
seem to indicate retrogression rather than
advance ; yet other figures point to pro->
gress, of a very gratifying kind. Then,
there were 110 stations and but 34 out-:
stations. Now, the stations are 112, and
the out-stations, occupied by native help
ers, 211.. Then, the whole number of
" Native Assistants ” given in the “ Sum
mary” was only 221; but it should be
stated that the 1 native school teachers then
employed do;not,seem to have been in
cluded in this number. Now, we find 30
native, pastors, 233 native preachers, (inf
eluding those denominated catechists by
some of the missions, but who ace virtually
preachers;) 268 school, teachers, and 200
other helpers,, making a total of 737. The
whole number of laborers then. given a&j
connected with' the missions (many hativ%
teachers not included) was-G2l; it is now
(including teachers) 1,089 —Miss. Herald.
Islands of the' Pacific. —The
tion of three new churches in Honolulu,
has been determined upon. Six person?*
were licensed to preach, at the September
meeting of the Hawaiian Evangical Asso
ciation. Two nati man
and wife, were prepared to leave for Mifc
ronesia at the next trip of the Morning
Star.— Contributions —Mr. Sturges, at As
cension Island, sends eighteen dollars tin
the American Board, “the amount of
the contributions at the monthly concert,
during the-last eleven months.” One of
these infant: Micronesian Churches has ac
tually sent one of their number as a mis
sionary to more destitute parts, and pro
vided for his support for a year:
Reception of a Returned Missionary. —
Rev. John Inglis reached Aneityuui, ,in
the South Pacific, on his return from Scot
land, July 3d. Of his reception there lie
thus writes : :
“Our reception, was. most cordial,.both
by the members of the mission and the na
tives. Wo received quite an ovation.
Captain Williams and Mr Geddie met us
at the entrance of ;the harbour. . Every
mast in the John Williams was covered
with flags, as if it had beenuthe Queen's'
birthday. When we reached the shore,
what we may call the Aneityuu loyal vol
unteer rifle corps were drawn up, with flip,
principaljchief at their head, ,and fired off
a grand salute. The British flag and the
flags of the different chiefs were flying in
front bf the mission premises: A flag was;
extended over the gateway, with, the in-,
scription in large letters, AVelcome Home.
The orphan the other children attending'
Mrs. Johnston’s school,.to the
fifty or sixty, wdre* drawn up 6h each.side
of the gate; and as we passed ;themyshf&
sang the. Aneityum version of the hymn,
,* There, is a happy land, far, far away.’
This to my mind was the most touching
and affecting part of the whole arrange--
melts. On'our fiide of the-dslahd there
-Was an equal, but somewhat differentdis
,play. As we came round in our boat yes
terday, we were met at the reef, near the
landing place, by a crowd of natives, hea
ded by the principal chiefs; bearing a na
tive palanquin decorated with flags; on
this we were carried shoulder high frem the
boat to the garden gate; the whole proces
sion joining ih a song,' in the'same way.as
they inauguarate their highest chiefs rand
every one must shake hands with us, from
The oldest the youngest.” ,
India.— The number of missionaries in
India has rather diminished
last two or three years; but the native
laborers are becoming every where, more
numerous and effective. The -Wdftve
Evangelical Society , of Madura,- i?|htch
undertakes the. support of nearly all the
native pastors, held its annual meeting,.
September 12, The receipts for the year
had been 540 rupees, - (S2TO,) a considera
ble increase over the income of any previ
ous year. Mr. Cornelius, the President
of the Society, had taken great pains to
collect funds among the heathen, (many
of whom had been his pupils in the Eng
lish school,) and had in this way obtained
ITS rupees. The Society seems to have a
strong hold upon the affections of the peo
ple, and although it now has on its list,
for support, five native pastors, it will
cheerfully assume the support of others.—
Government Schools icithoul the Bible. —
When I see, says Mr. Washburne, of
Madura Mission, a Government excluding
tlm Bible from its sehools, and yet edu
cating men in these sehools to the Bache
lor-of-Arts standard in our colleges at
home; when I see the schools watched
over by infidel English inspectors, super
intended by heathen under-officers,' _,and,
taught by heathen teachers; and )spcF
schools giving all the higher eddeatiofl of,
this district; it becomes a question of
some significance, what kind of a legacy,
shall we, of this field, leave to our
next successors in the mission work ?
Cases of Conversion.- —Rev. Mr. Ballan
tine; of Akmednuegger, reports the follow
ing to the last Missionary Herald: ..“ Since
I wrote you last month, several interesting
circumstances have occured with us.
First, a girl, thirteen years of age, and two
or'three weeks after, a young man. of
eighteen or twenty, both of high castejeft
their.relatives, being desirous of embracing
. Qhristianity, and took up their residence"
with sortie of our Christian converts. ’-Ef
forts were made by their friends to induce
them to return, but without avail.. The.
.girl was taken before, a magistrate, .and
declared to him her.purpose to , become' a
Christian. He decided that inconsequence
of her tender year#, she must be given up
to her mother, but she returned here again,
two. days after, and no further effort waq
made to recover her. She is, now
girlsf school, learning very rapidly, and
wears a countenance indieative’of the great
est happiness ”
MISSIONARY
PRESBYTERIANISM ABROAD
Address to Dr. Duff. —A meeting of Dr.
Duff’s pupils in Calcutta was held in the hail
of the Free Church Institution, Oet. 2d. Our
readers will perhaps be interested to learn that
among those present were Rev. Lai Behari
■ Dev; Baboo WopendraMohum Tagor; Baboo
Hurromohun Chatterjee; Coomar Harendra
Krishna Deb Bahadoor; and that the first
resolution was moved by Baboo Moliesh Ohun
der Banerjea. The Christian ear finds proof
in these uncouth-sounding names of the pro
gress of Ohrist,s Kingdom among all “ nations
and kindreds and tongues." The first resolu
tion expressed “ their deep gratitude to him
for the benefits he has conferred not only on
themselves, but on the country at large : their
sfneere affection and profound reverence for
Mir as their teacher; and their warm admira
tion of his disinterested exertions for the pro
motion of the welfare of the people of India."
An address to Dr. Duff was voted by these
grateful scholars, which recited his extraordi
nary services to the cause of Education in
India, and in which occurred the following
sentencelt thus appears, Sir, that your
name stands the highest and the first among
all the promoters of education in India; and
sure we are that yonr honored name will be
remembered to the latest ages amid the bene
dictions of an enligheehed and grateful nation.”
A committee was appointed to secure funds'
for procuring a marble bust of the venerated
teacher, to be placed in the Calcutta Free
Church Institution.
The Union Movement. —The Sabbath-school
Union Of the English Presbyterian Churches of
Manchester, invited the United Presbyterian
teachers of the city to unite with them in a
social:meeting, which took place Nov. 23d.
The attendance was large and the most cordial
feeling prevailed. The speakers referred to
the Union movement now in progress. One
ofi .the U, P. speakers said that, as the differ
ences existing between the two bodies were
not such as would cause a separation were
they t>ne, neither should these be sufficient to
keep them asunder because for the time they
happened to be two. Another said that with
the S. S. teachers in a great measure, it. rested
whether Presbyterianism was to become accli
matized in England. He was himself an
Englishman by birth and education, but had
early been indoctrinated with Presbyterian
views; and his riper judgment had confirmed
his early teaching. He was sure that our
Church polity had ouly to be fairly represen
ted, and denuded of its Scotticism,*to recom
mend itself judgment of all candid and
trnth-seekingj*MBi§hmen.’ ’
Neta Englv?tt%esbyterian Oku reft.—Several
hundred pounds have been subscribed recently
to erect a church .edifice in Worcester. A
congregation has been in existence ia the city
for sometime.
The Jjiberation Society, a political organiza
tion composed of dissenters, in England, which
aims to secure to, the people of England entire
liberty in ecclesiastical matters, has recently
changed its political tactics. The new plan
consists in giving primary importance to the
objects aimed at by.the I-iberean Society, and
remanding to a secondary and subordinate
position the general principles of liberalism.
The abolition of Church-rates, the admission of
Dissenters to the use of parochial burying
grounds, and other objects of a similar nature,
are. to be regarded as more important, than
that of maintaining a Liberal G overnment;
and : Nonconformists are, in Parliamentary
elections, to “ insist in every locality, upon SO
much advantage to their, principles as will be
fairly proportioned to their local strength, aud
in .the event of their being refused; to decline
that electoral co-operation which is to yield
them no benefit.” The London Weekly Review
doubts whether the proposed plari is "wise anrd
well-timed.. .
:: More than .£l,BOO (9000 dollars,) were sab
scribed in a .single week, in the north of Eng
land, for fhe English Presbyterian Building and
Debt-Extinction Fund. ■ Dr. Hamilton of Lon
don labored a 3 Chairman of the Committee,
travelling from place to place, and addressing
Churches in behalf of the fund.
Free ChuTek, ’Seottand. —Dr. Begg is cer
tainly one of the [best men to keep things
stirring, in the Church Courts that we hear
Of iil America. His latest movement—and
it.seems likes, the others to be a timely one—
u;as tp move in Edinburg Presbytery, an over
lure' calling upon the General Assembly “to
adopt sOrae effectual meaiis by which to instruct
our people in regard to the Scriptural authority
Of Presbyterian Church government.” In an
address's of considerable length, he referred to
the very liberal and “ loose” idea' advanced by
Dr.• Caii'd of the Established Church “ Good
Words that Scripture does uot prescribe any
definite form of church government. A very
interesting discussion arose, which was shared
in by Dr. Caudlisli, Sir Henry Moncrieff and
others. The indifference shown by the Estab
lished Church of Scotland, or indeed, the
learning of many in that body to Prelacy,
makes it necessary for true Presbyterians to
assert and maintain the more positively, their
distinctive views. The overture was agreed to
fitter’s mM?,
Aluer. A Critical History of the Doctrine
of a Future Life: with a Complete Biblio
grahpy of the Subjec-t, By William Boun-
Seville Alger. Philadelphia: George IV.
Cbiids. Svo., pp. 924.
If we were to criticise this volume from
the unquestionably meritorious end of it,
wc should begin with the concluding por
tion—the section on the “ Literature of
the Doctrine.” This is a full, chronologi
cally arranged list of works relating to the
Nature, Origin, and Destiny of the Soul,
the titles classified, with notes and indexes
of authors and subjects, by Ezra Abbott,
Jr., Associate ‘Librarian of Harvard Uni
versity. It describes thus fully no less
than 5000 publications, hnd presents ns
with a historic.development of thought on
each of the great themes included,in the
general subject. A vast amount of infor
mation of high value is thus conveyed,
which, we believe, can be found together
nowhere else in the world.
Mr.. Alger’s part of the work is divided,
into five parts: 1. Historical and Critical
Introductory Yiews. 2. Ethnic Thoughts
Concerning a Future Life. 3. New Tes
tament Teachings Concerning a Future
.Life.;-,: A, Christian 'Thoughts Concerning
; a. Future Life, . .5, Historical and Criti
cal .Dissertations Concerning a Future
Life.' It shows great research’, which ex
tends into the rich literature ofi Germany
on this subject. The discussions,are bold,,
hesitating,;not to grapple with eyery, as
pect of the question;, the historian is also
the critic at every turn. Undoubtedly
there is much, very much that the Chris
tian teacher and the, inquiring layman of
the, highest culture will . find instructive
and reliable in the volume. But the theo
logy which it inculcates, and the Biblical
criticism on which it is based, are. such as
sound scholars ban loss rejected.
The reckless dogmatism of the Tuebingen
school is applied to such passages of the
Scripture as do not accomodate themselves
to his theory. The story of man’s crea
tion and fall in Genises is a myth. The
doctrine of the vicarious atonemement is
rejected; Christ’s resurrection and not
Christ’s death is the ground of our salva
tion ; the rewards and punishments of the
future are wholly subjective; an attempt
is made to hold a middle ground " between
the credulous-excess of the Calvinistic in
terpretation and the skeptical poverty of
the Unitarian; how rich in Christian
ideas, in comparison with the “poor” Uni
tarian, Mr. Alger is, it is difficult to see.
The very introduction offends against good
taste in the use of such words and
phrases as “ opinionativeness,” “tissueless
realm,” in. such a bombastic sentence as
“ Man is the lonely and sublime Columbus
of creation, who, wandering on, , the Spa
nish strand of time,” &e.; or again, who
would expect, in a work actuated by a
purely scientific interest, such an exclama
tion as occurs at the opening of chap, iv :
“A hell of fire and brimstone is the great
raw-head and bloody-bones in the super
stition of the world!”
However, with all its faults, there is
enough of real value in the volume, and
of promise that Mr. Alger may do still
better as a writer and thinker, that we
would conimend it to all discriminating
persons, and would express tho hope that,
as Mr. A. grows older, he may give a
still wider berth to the “ skeptical poverty
of the Unitarian.”
The mechanical execution of the volume
is admirable. •
For sale at the Presbyterian Book Store.
Abbott. The Rollo and Lucy Poetry, I.
The Rocking Horse; or, First Book. 11.
Carlo; or, the Second Book. 111. The Ca
nary Bird; or, the Third book. By Jacob
Abbott, Author of the Rollo Books: with
Original Engravings. Philadelphia: Geo.
W. Childs. For Sale at the Presbyterian
Book Store.
These truly handsome volumes, -with
their gay binding and spirited illustrations,
will find many readers among Mr. Ab
bott’s old friends, as well as among those
just reaching the happy age when they
can begin to appreciate his successful ef
forts to please and instruct them. The
books are progressively arranged, the first
being designed even for such as depend on
their parents or older to read to
them, while the third embraces many
pieces from the classic English and Ame
rican poets. Several of pur friend Mr.
Mackellar’s best poems, including the
Dying Soldier to his Mother, are given.
We trust Mr. Abbot, when he says: “ The
compiler has been careful to exclude care
fully from this collection every thing that
seemed to him to inculcate any thing false,
whether in matters of fact, in morals, in
sentiment, or in philosophy ; so that the
influence of the book upon tile minds of
the children who may read or hear it may
be, in all aspects, wholesome and sound.”
Angei. Voices; or, Words of Counsellor over
coming; the World. A nety. and enlarged
edition. Boston : Tickuor <fc Fields, 12mo.
sq., pp. 224. For sale by JVB. Lippincott
ik Co. ;, •
This truly elegant volume is niadeup of
choice extracts from one hundred, and
seventy-five different writers of the highest
character, in prose and verse. All the
pieces have" a high moral and spiritual
tone; they are selected with-, admirable
taste and good judgment, and arranged
under suitable Scripture texts, which form
the running titles of each page, it is di
vided into two parts : I. OP Life ; 11. Of
Death. The thoughtful person will here
find his best ideas clothed, in the finest lan-:
guage, and wi'l be struck with, the power,
quaintness and elegance with which new
suggestions are conveyed to his mind.
The paper, typography and adornment are
rich, tasteful and substantial. No more
appropriate gift for the season could be
found.
Abut Life: or, Incidents from the Prayer
Meeting and the Field. [ ‘
Hospital Life: being Incidents from the
Prayer Meeting and Hospital.
Christ Ever Witei You. By Rev. 0. Wins
low, D. D. Illustrated.
These little volumes, just issued'by the
Board of Publication of the Reformed
Dutch Church, are well fitted to show both
the power and the need of true religion in
our army. They abound in rich lessons
of Christian experience, profitable to every
class of readers. Some of the illustra
tions might have been omitted without loss
to the volumes.
Tee Youko Quartermaster. The Life and
Death of Lieut. L. M, Bingham of the Ist S.
O. Volunteers. New York: Board of Pub
lication of the Ref. Prot. Dutch Church.
12m0., pp. 213.
A warm and tender tribute of affection
from a pious aud patriot father to an
equally pious and patriotic son, who died
of disease in his country’s service. Well
written, breathing the most earnest piety,
fitted to do good, yet with the narrative
somewhat overloaded with comment and
exhortation.
Thurma.y, Our Bible Chronology Establiahed.
The Book ,of Daniel opened; or a Book of
Reference for those who wish to Examine
the “Sure Word of Prophecy.” By Wm. C.
Thurman. Published by John Goodyear.
Bvo., pp. 252. .
The interest now taken in discussions of
obscure points of prophecy, .the dead earn
estness of the author, the industry mani
fest in his work, and the effect of his in
vestigations in turning'his own mind from
unbelief to the acceptance of the truth,
combine to ; make his book worthy of the
Christian student’s regard. The primary
object of the autjhp.r is to establish a cor
rect system of Bible chronology." By ex
tended anid elaborate'astronomical ealcula
-tions, based on. the eclipses mentioned by
ancient writers,? hej-qoncludes .That the,
w.orld was. 4126 yeajjs old at t,he.birth, of
Christ, and that consequently at 1875 of
our era, it canndt than 6000 years',
old. ; It is his conviction tkat4?he certainty
and harmonyithns brought in.jtnthe hi
therto confused field p£ .chgpnplqgy will act
as a powerful argumenT upon the mind'of
the unbeliever, and will compel such to
confess that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
tlw Brins Qod.
For sale at the Presbyterian Book Store
Price, $1.50.
Aikmax. The Moral Power of the Sea; an in
quiry into the True Relations of Commerce
to the Evangelization of the World. By Wil
liam Aikman, Pastor of HaDOver St. Pres:
byterian Church, Wilmington, Del. Phila-:
Penna. Seamen’s Friend Soc’y. 12m0., pp *
148, with an appendix.
We have derived great pleasure and
profit front the perusal which we have been
able to give to this essay. It argues with
a wide comprehension of facts for the
startling proposition that “Commerce in
itself brings no good to the nations, it but
intensifies the evils which exist.” The
terrible mischief wrought among uncivi
lized nations by the lust, brutality and un
scrupulous greed of merchants and sailors
from civilized shores, is painted with a gra
phic hand; the dependence of commerce
on Christianity for solid success is also
forcibly argued, and, above all, is made to
appear the vital necessity that the Church
should go hand in hand with commerce, if
not before it, to counteract or to forestal
its evil tendencies. We commend the
book especially to the attention of Chris
tian merchants; shippers and sailors.
For sale at the Presbyterian Book Store.
PAMPHLETS AND MAGAZINES.
The North British Review for No
vember (New York: Leonard Scott & Co.,
Philadelphia: W. B. Zieber,) contains:
On the Ancient Glaciers and Icebergs of
Scotland. The Seaforth'Papers. Recent
Geographical Discovery and Research. Pet
Marjorie. Clerical Subscription in the
Church of England. .A Voyage to Alex
andria and a Glimpse of Egypt. The
Scotch Universities’ Commission. Harold
Hardrada and Magnus the Good. Eng
land and Europe.
The Eclectic for January is a noble
number, richly embellished with a portrait
of Agassiz, one of the best magazine pic
tures we have ever seen, and with a plate
of the famous Congress of Vienna, con
taining twenty-three portraits of the dis
tinguished participants, Metternich, Talle
grand, Wellington, Nesselrode and others.
There are thirty articles selected and ori
ginal, on topics of immediate interest , and
from the best periodical literature.
The Continental Monthly for January
contains a large number of articles of a na
tional character from the pen of Rev. Dr.
Henry, Hon. R. J. Walker and others;
the Conclusion of Was he Successful ? by-
Kimball ; the Decline of England; English
Press, &c.
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saving of fuel by the use of his heating appara
tus. He guaranties to heatthe main building
of a large house by one of his Air-tight Gas
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son. He invites the public to test this assertion,
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