gtligtas Presbyterian. ?;-,s Presbyterian Clnnucch a Gettysburg, H which was badly damaged during . 0 ; imous battles there in July, is about to , t Contributions in its behalf are ,vc being made in Philadelphia. Editorial Change.— Dr. McKinney, late ,-*pr and publisher of the Presbyterian Bans - about to commence the publication of . jjrnthly journal to be called the Family, -v re. His son, I. N. McKinney, is to be ated with him in itß publication. Call Accepted.—The Rev. Robert H. Wil" , pastor of Ghurchville and Harmony v.nches, Baltimore Presbytery; has receiv ; and accepted a unanimous call from ■ j church of Frederick City, Maryland. Effects of the War.-T-A/correspondent in Maryland, writing to the N. Pi Observer 1 “I understand that thereis but one •-l-.mt in theUnionTheological Seminary ;■ Virginia, and that one of the Professors . three churches forty miles Episcopal. —The Anglican and Greek —The Ohurch Journal, of Hew York, ijng article on the difference existing . i’ll the Greek Church on the one hand, ' -he Anglican Roman Catholic, and Pro churches on the other with regard - 1 ' doctrine of the Holy Church. The ■ Church adheres to the letter of the ue Creed, according to which the Holy •' proceeds from the father; the other ciies accepted the addition subseqently •o to that creed, that the Holy Ghost pro ■' “ from the Father and the Son.” This ".ion (called, in LataH Filioque) has been enturies the subject of theological Con ersy. The Church Journal undertakes rove that theGrfeek Church is right, and! >- there is not a shadow of reason for i)he -. ration. Methodist. — Washington Square Church • York. —On Sunday-the 6th, Dr. closed his labors in this charge previous hi; departure for New Orleans. The .'.•.•nth was densely crowded throughout ire day, but especially in the evening, when j-.li the audience" room and the lecture ?;!u were filled. ;; At the request of the . reiliren, Dr. Newman spoke from the steps ; -.he church to the people, who filled the: et to tlio opposite sidewalk. After the raing sermon tkehongregation subscribed •i >0 toward the payment of the debt on : : ■ Church;rsddoing it to-$19,000:-Gi’%s ■■dr New Orleans Churches. —On the even- : r : of Feb. 29th a flag was presented to the •:v. Hr. Newman ;by the Bedford Street, b. iv. Church, to float on one'of the churches which he has been appointed pastor in " Orleans. On the evening of March 3 : naa presented with another flag for the purpose by the young ladies of his own ii-rcli, bearing the same Inscription, “From iv? York to New Orleans, Greeting—From c Washington-Square M. E. Church.”— '■' !;/-Seventh Street, New York.— On Mon evening a. general meeting of- the-socie v is held in thjsr church, called, as; the .-•■-•■Mr, Rev. 8. A.'Seaman, supposed, for the : deration of church matters, but in the u. vs of the proceedings he was surprised " one of the 1 placing on his %Cad i new hat, the lining of which proved on lamination to bej.of’.more value than; the. ■at itself, being composed of greenbacks to lie value of five hundred dollars. At the inis time the young people of the phurch aanifeated their appreciation of their, 'pas ar by the presentation of ■ a copy of "Applet m’s American Encyclopedia: ——Proposed ■lonvment to Dr. Bangs. —The Revs. J. W. ■indsay, J. A. Roche, and L. 11. King, a rmmittee appointed by the preachers of ew York and Brooklyn to prepare suitable .'solutions in respect to a monument to Dr. tings, presented on Monday last the follow '.g report: Whereas, by his long and eminent ser ■:6s to the M. E. 1 Church, Nathan Bangs,- . [>., is so fully identified with its history '6 deem it desirable that a suitable monu ment be erected in Greenwood Cemetery as 1 slight testimonial of the Church’s appre- Yition of his worth. Mr. Cox, a Methodist ministers, -and lift; lain of the Twenty-fifth Regiment :>: [« d’Afrique, was seized while on a visit io his home, near Donaldsonville, andhanged c. tree near his house. Several colored j -idlers, who were with him, esoaped and “’ported the murder to. his regiment. i fatly Dr. Hodgson,. the pastor of the Fifth >:reet M. E. Church, was enticed into spend ing an evening at the residence of Mr. Soott, t.-.a of his members. While there, Dr. Os ier requested him to crack an English wal nut, from .which! he, extracted a kernel of i-so greenbacks.Of;|loo each. (We recom mend the planting of this species of walnut' •2 other localities.) It is said that matters *?re never in a ‘ more prosperous condition ia this /charge.—The Beligious Telescope „ bis information that Rev. “ Armageddon’?; Baldwin, one'of the rebel Methodist editors, who fled from Nashville in dismay when the; V’.".ion army spproaohed the place, is back stain, and enjoys a high state of loyalty .and. “notion to the Amerioan Eagle. He is teaching to a : colored... congregation,-*—— H. S. Turner, chaplain of the First Re- Vment qf U. S. Colored Volunteers, makes,, the Christian Becorder, a call for an African Methodist literature. Of the need of his n.-rch in this respect he says: “The goal o: our ambition hitherto has been to preach fbquently, set the people to shouting,: sing ■e * sober songs, etc. But that day is ; fast -Ceding; it will soon begone.” He men : sns the names of certain persons as com petent to create a literature. He adds : “It teust, and will be .done by some—if. not ■h'lu; the contrabands will come and do it; •o don’t.” Bast Saginaw, Mich., '-.0 debt .against the phurch, of over §llOO, air paid, and the Society voted to raise ,[ ieiv pastor’s salary to §l2OO. They also 'led hint $l57 —being the surplus in the 'l'fcisury at%he commencement of the year, i --An Ecclesiastical Council was convened l ‘ "'pringfield, Mats.,V,Feb, 24th, to organize I n African Church and to ordain a minister. I ''sis the Second African Church of the denomination in .Mass. The first is at field. The fitting text of Prof. Tyler, in preaching the funeral sermon oi.Dr. Hitch cock, former President of Amherst Col lege, was 1 Kings 4: 33: “ And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, arid of creeping things, and of fishes.” The society of which Bev. Alfred Emerson tspastor, in Fitchburg, have voted to purchase or build a parsonage, to cost, the land in cluded, $5,000. The benevolent contribu tions of this congregation the, past year, have amounted to $3,035. The resident church-membership is not quite 300, mak ing an average of. something over $lO, to each member. Baptist. —The Watchman and Beflector has the following:- '‘( Among the Union prison ers taken at Chickamauga and carried l to Richmond, were two or three Baptist cler gymen who were chaplains of Indiana regi ments. Rev. J. B. Jeter, D. D., and one or two others.——The committee of the Taber nacle Bapt. Church, N. Y., recommended that the pastor, Dr. Lathrop, be requested to withdraw his resignation, and that he have an absence of seventeen months—from May, 1864, to October, 1865—for relaxation from all pastoral care and the recovery of his health, with ; his salary undiminished through the whole time. This report was unanimously adopted.- Rev. Samuel ,J. Knapp, has resigned-the-pastorate, of the Bethesda Baptist Church of this city, to take effect after the last Sabbath in April. The Chronicle gives a singular cause for his resig nation, viz,: “Be,cause the meeting-house of the church is overfull, and-no'successful movement for a larger place seems, proba ble.”——The Hofi; John P; Crozer has given $lO,OOO to the Baptist^P'ahiicfttiOh 1 Society, the interest of which is.eto be used in the circulation of approved Sabbath Sohool literature. The Times of BeffesMng.— Writesrsviflifiur religious exchanges, says the Examiner, are earnest in the expression: ofitheit’hope And belief that we may look for- ‘.‘ a national bap tistry of the Holy'SpiritjPa general, revival of reKgion, to save the nation, from areac > tion of -evil when the war is over. We share in the desire; and would urge- much prayer for the revfelaticsn, of the gracious; power •which is mjghty to the arrest of sin and the salvation.of.sinners,' With the triumph' of righteousnesss in the nation, we would joy fully anticipate more blessed; triumphs of grace. We hope to be forgiven by our brethren, if we suggest to them that when they describe such' a fullness; of blessing by the figure of a baptism, fhey certainly must desire something more than 'a sprinkling of mercy. ’ ; We would suggest to our cotemporary that neither a deluge, nor a tempest beating upon bosom of nature) would’he'thWeymbol of the blessing desired; but a “shower of grace.” “So shall He sprinkle many nations.” Lutheran.—Rev. A. P. Ludden, pastor of two churches in Berne and . Gallusville, Schoharie Co., N. Y... whioh -have lately-re joiced in. a precious revival, '-injwhifih forty-five professed their faith in Christ has received donations, /during the r eight years of his pastorate, amounting to the sum of $4,300; 'For- 1 the last nineYmonths his donations have amounted to $075 in cluding a clothk>vei(SOat; Costing'. •s@s, witli a $5 greenback id the pocket, the present of Dr. J. Leh, » member of the church. We read- .of similar advances, in liberality towArd -pastors,; in all our ex changes—an encouraging sign of the times. Moravian.-^- C/W&s J. Bpindler, Teacher in the Boys’ School at Gnadenberg, Prussia, has been appointed to the Mission in Green land. -Bev. P. E. Hickel, a newly ap pointed Missionary tu South Africa; arrived at Capetown on the 10th of November last. ——At Paramaribo, in Surinam, Matthew Oikins Tinga, the first convert of the Chinese ■coolies of that Colony, was baptized' by the Missionaries on the. 17th,of October. .South Africa. —Several of the Mission Stations have been visited by, very severe hail-storms. At Engotini, such a storm oc curred on the 19th of October, and destroy ed the entire crop of corn and of fruit, be sides injuring the buildings of the Mission. On the 9th of Noyember, a second storm added to the havoc, and swept over Shilo 'and Goshen, also devastating the fields in a terrible manner. These stations are in' "great distress).;?; Revivals.— W^e-learn from Dea;-King, of Providence, who visited our . city last week, bringing $7OOO, for the Christian Commis sion, collected in P., that of the three hundred, and fifty young laches' hi Mt. Hol yoke-Female Seminary,, only thirteen are without a hope in Christ; —the revival in terest . still continues. DeaK.'algo stated that; in Norton Female Seminary, Massachu setts, one hundred pupils have, recently been -hopefully converted. Thus is God preparing a happy influence to meet .bur - returning soldiers from the army. The,. following „ac .count of a precious revival in Washington County, Pa., -.will be read with; interest.., , j W It> Bas pleased the Lord to bless the fol lowing churches with a gracious outpouring of his Sprit, reviving' the graces of 'his peo ple and bringing many souls to Chrißt, viz., the M. E. -Church of Mt. Zion, the C, P. Church of Bethel, and the Presbyterian church of Upper Ten Mile, in Washington Presbytery. The above named churches have been greatly blessed, large accessions have been made to them. The pastor and Session of the Upper Ten Mile resolved to observe the week of prayer appointed by the General Assembly. During this week there were some tokens of God’s presence among those who met for prayer, which gave en couragement to protract the services. . But it was not till the- meetings had been over two weeks in progress, that sinners began to inquire what they.-must do to be saved. A correspondent of the A. Y. Evangelist, writes from South Berwick, Maine of a work of grace there ; ■■■■■ - The revival has not bebii confined to this village, but the contiguous towns of Salmon Falls, Great; Dover,'U. H., have PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1864. also shared in this gracious visitation. There have been it is said, more than three hundred hopeful conversions in the places just, named.' The work, indeed, seems to have been quite general among the Congre gational churches of this (York) county. It commenced in Wells last spring and had its origin in a little praying circle of three sis ters of the church. They were in the habit :of keeping a list of the names of such per- Bons as they made subjects of special prayer, and the result was that the church there became thoroughly aroused, and : upwards of one hundred hnd:fifty persofis. were hope fully converted. The work then extended to Kennebunk, where there were also many conversions. In, the early part of this.win ter, the churches in Acton, Alfred, Lyman, Cornish, and Kennebunkport, in some of which there had been no revival for thirty years past," Were visited by the- outpouring of the spirit, and scores, perhaps I may say hundreds, wore brought into the kingdom of God. Williams’ College. —The day of prayer for college was one of deep interest here. In the morning, the town and college met for conference at the lecture room of the con gregational church. A very solemn and impressive discourse was delivered by the President at the chapel in the afternoon ; and in the Averting, l -S1 large •> and'; in teres tin g meeting was held in the conference room, Griffin Hall. The stated meetings for prayer, in connection with the college, .well attended, and nightly meetings qf the se veral classes are held in the rooms of stu dents, The interest-iS;ih6reimarked.in the senior class, in which there; have been a number of conversions. >, There is no excite? ment, but the work is quiet, heart-deep. Will not the churches remember us still?—The CongregaiiOrtalist:- ——A correspondent from Springfield, Mass, writes the New York Examiner:.. “ The 21st of February, Rev. Mr. Earle, whose labors as’an evangelist have for seve ral years been specially blest, commenced a protracted meeting in the Baptist church, with Revj :p'4s;tqrj:vThe; me'etf,'; ings are by‘ ,gre|fi ik^lemhity: and an overwhelming sensatiqfr of tte‘ Divine presence; Last Sahbath evening Mr. • Earle preached at the City Hall, 'the Baptist church being far to smallltd ac.CQmmpdai.te the eager hearers. More than' twentyifive hun dred .were present) .many went away unable to gain admittance. At the . close of the meeting it is estimated, that jhundred catnb forward ror prayers, a large'p'rdportion of .men ; nearly Christ precious since these meetings com menced. A Sabbath school' class ; from BelChertown, .whose teacher’s, heart was burdened on their account, passed two days ,in this city.. Special prayer was offered in their behalf. They returned’ to their homes" rejoicing in a Saviour’s love. Truly God has commenced a mighty work in this city.” ; The Beligious Telescope ■ and .other papers from the West, contains, notices of revivals in many places there. A;prCcious work of grace has'been in pro gress for some time, in the church of Beaver,, Co'; Betweep twenty and thirty inquirers : are reported, and among them two persons .of four score years old. -A report before the Society of Inquiry in the Western Re serve Cdllege)h.as theTpllojvihg:—Six Cqlleges report a revival during the year.” 'Hamilton College, N. Y., reports ,ninetipeii i;qpny.er sions. The revival has ceased) hut there is still a good degreeof,jatereat)— enjoying a precious and powerful revival; fiftefeh'have rhade profbs %ibh of their faith, aind more are inquiring.” ln Wabash- College; a revival-. immedL, ately followed,,the day of ..prayer,, last Feb ruary, resulting in fifteep conversions.—— The University of Rochester, N. Y;, reports a’revival during s the year—ten conversions. . Wittenberg reports a revival last win- .The Ohio Wesleyan University “is now epjoying.a ijeyiva.l season. , More than- twenty students have professed : conversion witjqiu,,p few xtays: and many more are seriouß.-i-iiS’everSr College'# inake.the request: “•BrefchEenj.pray.for us.” “ W.e desire an interest in your prayers.” Others have] only the remark ? “ No special interest here.”—--From the Report of the Board .ofiEdiication, for'"the; ;?year ending; May Ist, 1863, we learn the following facts: UptO;the year 1860, the number of candi dates for the ministry received under its care was steadily r in'creasihgf; 'buf Jrbm 'bhatJ time ,the number, diminishes rapidly. In 1860 they received 18f new" Candidates; in'- 1861-1-156; in i 1862j ; 74,;5in,1|63 i -..3|. .yShQyr-- ing the alarmin'g decrease, in fhreeVbars, o'f 1 272■ candidates; or an average, of, about ,90, per yer:; the' decrease in -1863 alone being. 143. This is a.; descendihg, series, in which May Ist, 1864, will give the, lastof the series) Miscellaneous. —Evangelical BeligUii among the Germans. —Writes a. correspondent of the Beligious Telescope ; The making of the German work a distinct work from the English, was, I think a wise measure. By the smile? of the great Head of the ChurCh; it has SUcce’eded even beyOnd the expectation of its best. friends. The character of the ministers and members of both the German conferences .is to -pork, as though, they expected to’do the whiofe'wofk" themselves, and to pray;and trust in God,as thojigb all depended on-ffis reviving influ ences. The manners of. our German people are simple. Costly apparel is not popular; among them. Plainness, in diet is ..peculiar. They are accustomed to daily labor. Their! general tende’ncy is to accumulate wealth, and td give freely for the support of church enterprises. There is no. better, missionary ground in America than among the Ger mans. The obstacles in-fthe way of success, are in some communities very herd to re move. But when removed by a thorough conversion, the -work is : done,. not to be repeated in general. That which the writer estoems most of altjsrthelreviVEd- (influence. The divine presence is still among' the Germans. The Rev. Dr, Alexander Black. —Formerly Professor, of Exegetical Theology in the new college; Edinburgh, is numbered with the dead. lie was a man of great erudition; but so inddest and retiring in his disposition as to be less known than other prominent members of the Free. Church. Dr.. Guthrie once said of him, that he could have Spoken his way to the wall of China; and it is re lated of him, that in the two last years of his life: he began the study of Chinese, and mS.de so much progress, that it was his daily habit to read a chapter in the Chinese Bible. It is said that his great stores of learning have perished with him, as he left no works of any value.- The Clergy at the South.-r The Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph says: “A Bishop, writing from one of the rebel states, warns us against .encouraging clergymen to return to the South while the Confederate government is in power. All clergymen not in charge of congregations, ’ he writes, 'have been' conscripted;; and even the pastors in charge, he says, will he forced, ho fears, into the ranks of the army.”— Death of Thomas Starr,. Jfing.—An overland "telegram -announces the’sudden death of the Key. Thomas Starr -King, . .which, took place in San-Franci&cO on: Friday : ,Marbh 4th, after an illness of a few days -of : diptheria. He was to have been buried under the pulpit of his Church—the Unitarian—on Sunday laßt. The Rev. Mr. Kittridge, (probably the newly arrived pastor of the Howard street Presby terian Church,) was announced to preach the sermon. The deceased was widely ■known in the States as a brilliant lecturer, and a large debt of gratitude is due his memory, in : view of his loyal teachings in California.—— Baltimore has the following churches: Methodist,Episcopal, fortyr.five ; Methodist, Protestant; seven; Methodist, Confederate, two .;! Methodist, African, five; Episcopal, twenty-two; Presbyterian, fifteen; German . Reformed, three; . Baptist .ten; Disciples,.; two; ■ Lutheran, eleven.; Evan gelical, "two; Swedenborgian, !: three ; Friends, three ; Independent, two; Roman Catholic, nineteen; Otterbines, one; Uni tarians, one; • Uniyefsalists, one; United Brethren, one.—— ltupert’s Land—The vast arctic region lying south of Hudson’s Bay is the field of a missionary work which seems to have been richly blest more especially since the apostolic Indian Henry Budel, was ordained as preacher in 1853. In the im mense district presided over by the zealous Bishop Anderson, more than 2,000 Indians have since 1849, entirely renounced heath enism. Bev. ••• Walter Waddington Shirley, M. A., has been appointed Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford, in En gland; in the place of Rev. Dr. A. P. Stanley, whose works are read with so much pleasure in this! country. Dr. Stanley has resigned to succeed Dr. Trench as Dean of Westmin ster, Dr. Trench having been made Arch bishop of Dublin in the place of thedeceased Whately.— -r — Surprises.— A distinguished pas tor was isurprised by a Call froni the. 'treasu rer of his church, who paid him a part of salary due, adding this surprise, that he would pay the balance iiuej.-.before long. ■Another; pastor has been surprised beyond measure thatbis; good people have; neither.; increased his salary, nor made him an un expected call .to place at hi? disposal a solid addition to-his home comforts. ■ ’ 1 .. . . > —. illl iMfcw - - -DR. Djlir’S .ESTIMATE OP THE PRO GRESE OF; INDIA. !Dr. Duff) in taking’ I‘oave of the- Mis- Conferenipb’; of ’ CJalcutta, .and, in. to ffn :: address,presented to b)im, body; took a-viow of'the progress .of,’lndia l during- the last few years. ;In the course of his addreßS- he; said:—' ' '• Y''- “ And whak vast' strides, of progress gigantic company, the greatest' ,: t'he : world has ever seen, which, in the course of a century, became, the grandest ;GoTo nipl, empire on' the face* of the globe; the ! oyer-liiaii6wi'ng Power, whose own peculiai , t;ph'li , by“ ,wa s to stereotype; the ancient order of things, to shut out In dia from the world, and .eternize the reign of ignorance'and superstition,:hps? been swept out of existence with the besom of destruction, and the millions of India brought into .enlivening-, contact withtbesovereign British nation. Thou sands of miles of rail way have been con structed—some of them over mighty rivers, and some over stupendous moun tains. The distance of Benares has been reduced from one or two, or even, three months, by the old river route to a sin gle dav. ...Sn 154.0 it_toak we twenty one'days tiff get to Bajmahal - last year I went theye in eight'hours ; Immense 1 tracts of witd .'juuglQ and ! forest, fof -Un-, known ages. the. h aunt of the tig'er and. the elephant,, are .now covered, with, flourishing tea and other plantations. An English mail.reaches bffbhjKed Sea'; anfl'newV by felegMm ffbtn London sometimek in little more B than a J Sbftial '&dE'Bg&3£ Jehamges jh.aye also-proportionally^.prxq, , greased . f Cshi|..peaeSntl:yj>f Be3bg§l Klybi in many parts been awakened, to the surprise of,all who regarded, them as the mq%t abject' aiud passive of beings; from' the torpor and lethargy of ages. Great reforms have ! been effected in the legis lative, judicial, administrative and finan cial of .tal.eqt.and,, .rank, liong..ex(3liiSea frdmlall'high offices ’ of Staid, have now become members of .our legislative,councils,.high, courts, and the coveted, civil service. The re-marri ‘afe of Hindu widows, who are often. mepe ;! infants* doomed to perpetual U3O-.- lation, degradation and misery, has been rendered; legal. : A native 'prince is preparingsin enactment for th e abolition of Kufin polygamy, The demand, for female education is spreading over ■ the country with a rapidity that utterly bafies : our; power to meet it. ' The Guramahashays, or teachers ofindge nous vormiculor schools—once deemed the most inert and hopelessly incorrigi ble of all bipeds under : the sun—are* under, sundry impulses, beginning to show signs of animation and activity. A University has been established, which has improved the tone and character of higher education from the temple of Jaganuath in Oripsa to the awful defiles of the Ehyber Pass beyond the Indus— already numbering its under/graduates by thousands, and its graduates, in arts, law; .medicine and.civil engineering by .hundreds. From.!-- hundreds, . native Christians, especially in the districts of’ Ghpta [Nagpore, Krishuaghur, and Bur i’isaul, have increased 1 to thousands— rnative' churches, .haye not, only been fbrmod. but some of them heebme self sustaiuing--fully educated native Christ ians have been ordained as pastors und evangelists—some of them are members of this Conference—not fewer than four of them being present this day. In a similar strain I might go on and notice other points of importance. But it is not necessary fof my object. Enough, surely; has been stated to verify my as sertion that changes—great and mo mentous in their bearing on the ultimate destinies of India—are in rapid progress. Having the general state of things a little more than a quarter of a century ago vividly before my mind’s eye; and looking abroad now on the considerably altered, and hereafter still more rapidly altering state of things, I confess that an inexpressible feeling of awe creeps over my spirit. I feel somewhat, though in a higher and more peculiar sense, as I felt a few years ago, when , standing on the verge of the mighty St. Lawrence— when the thaws of later spring were acting with visible effect, and there were nnmist.|,keaj3le. that thei vast icy pavemehtlwKjiphreoircealed'the dark d epths bene&lb was about to, bseah Ap> amid the thunders of splintering and crushing fragments—and the mind in a •wildering maze was racked in striving to realize the rush and the roar of the resistless cataract of waters, and the tossing and dashing hither and thither of the rapidly accumulating and rapidly dissevering masses—wondering ere the floods settled down again in their wonted channels, what cities and dis tricts might be strewn with the wreck and ruin of all that was stateliest in architecture and goodliest in the pro ducts of the field. For ages and ages has the mighty Btream of Hinduism been moving on, slowly, silently and sluggishly, in its dark, deep channel; bound, solidly bound, with the frost and the ice of endless, nameless, boundless polytheisms and pantheisms, idolatries and superstitions. How, however, we are on the verge of mighty coming changes. The whole vast incrustation seems gradually loosening and softening under the thaw of wide-spreading know ledge and improving enterprise.. .Intel lect, slumbering for ages, is awakening out of sleep ; mind so long sluggish and dormant, is stirred up into multiplying activities; new tastes are created, sub versive of the old order of things; new passions are excited;, new objects of ambition are presented with. luring at traction; the spirit of devoted super stition is fading and giving place too frequently .to the spirit of a rampant secularism ; and where the old moorings and anchorages of Yedantic pantheism and Puranic idolatry are shaking into weakness before the blasts of innovation; :,we may be threatened (if we are faith less to our trust, and if the Lord in his niercy interpose not) with an out-burst ing flood of wildest and most undefin able infidelity; and if so, what, havoc may there not be of all that is goodliest, fair est, best, ere the national soul, purified as well as liberated, settle down in the peaceful channel of gospel righteousness apd peace!,. But the Loiffi;reigneth! that is our hope, Our stay, our support.'- Oh) what/a time for stronger faith; mom .fervent prayer,.,mpre ; ;energetic effort! Help*, oh ' Lord, help—do- wo feel with ipeieasing intensityMielp;' for- vain =is the heip' of man !—ours is Jo employ, the' means—thirie, oh Lord, thine' alone it is tO'ehergiz.e.them all with the,bypath, the liyipg breath of thy Holy Spirit 1 ... OEEGON AND WASHINGTON TEBE-I- TOBIES. A Stirring Home Missionary Ai>- .reaj..—-We clip' the. following appeal for the more remote and destitute regions of our country, from the columps of an Episcopal paper; hut its ,starring and trumpet-like tone adapts it'for useful ness among; onr own or any of the churches of Christ. There is a loud call for self-eohsecratiqn, in view'of the many needy fields of labor presented by our perishing world, Messrs. .Editors. — 'Gan-.yeti' explain why it is that the loud arid repeated calls for labor ers in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, meet no response ; among the clergy? Even the secular Press ex presses astonishment fhat'such crowds of people as congregate in .tke: mining .districts ancf towns should be left with out any Christian 'mipistfationsr' > Onr' iGjbarfbh papers ''haye 'oftcri -d-yelt upon ffie' destitution of/chaplains lipthe army, although there are twelve Eundred.. - -Am the. souls of soldiers more precious tham those of miners? Or are the clergy-'in ■love with, the scenes qf-rirmy life; t;,'o’|.“ is the pay better? ‘ Why haye/..so.ipariy gone to the army and so few to the mines? ; 7? Is it became the died away in the are thbte not as manj T « a; a H£is sion as there are for'a comfortable Rec torship? . Take e. g., Puget 'Sound, with Olympia, Port Townsend,; Seattle, half; a dozen other points: could;'one desire ah ampler field? At the first; named place, the --ladies-reeeatly- held~a : fair,, and realized some sixjhundred dollars, and at the second they have a’ vigorous Sunday school; and.yet the'only minis trations are Sunday school and Lay Reading. At those two points a clergy man would receive a and. and cordial co-operation.; - At- , several other 1 lumbering ports, where .there are no ministrations; a goodly number would gladly attend. What more could a mis sionary expect ? ■Or why are none;..of;.our Christian men. and womphllready fo take part in our school enterprises in that vast re gion? ; Rome i^graduaflyadding school; to school, and thus leavening the lump—- Sisters always ready in abundance to conduct them. Have we no devoted earnest souls ready’for’stich Work? To what intefit has the church spent so many hundreds of thousands of doL lars. for our Church Colleges, Semina ries, and Schools? 1 What are those, doing who preside over these Institu tions, that so few of their pupils go put, imbued with the fervent desire of doing good, especially in the neediest regions of the earth? Are these children taught,, are these young men and women con stantly reminded that “ it; is more blessed to give than to receive;” to give, not merely money, if they happen to be rich, hut their own selves —-their hope, and muscle,'and spirit, in toiling, suffering if need be, in building up the Kingdom of Christ over all the world? , Is the church in the more favored re gions mindful of its duty and privilege in this behalf? Not only of giving money, but its children, its sons, ana daughters, to go far hence on this blessed errand of seeking and saving the lost? Pray, what is the matter? Are we to have no increase,, no enlargement? From what quarterns it to come?. A Highly Concentrated Vegetable Extract. A fill f®«®. GERMAN BITTERS* Dr. C.' M. JACKSON, Philadelphia, Pa., LIVER complaint, DYSPEPSIA, jaundice. diseases of the kidneys, and all diseases ARKTOG FROM A DISORDERED LIVER • • OR STOMACH; ' such . as Constipa hon, Inward Piles, Fullness or Blood to the Head. Acidity of the Stomach. Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust tor Food. Fullness or weight in the Stomach Sour Wth**- tations, Sinking or Fluttering at the toUrf the Stomach, Swimming of the head. Hurried w Difficultßreathing, Frittering of the Suffocating. Sensations when in a lyingrokure! ness of Viaron, Dots or /Webs before the Sight, . Fever and Doll Paltt in the Head, Deficiency of Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes, Pain in'the Side, B4ck. Chest, : Limbs, Ac.,Sudden Flushes of . ; Heat, Burning, in the Flesh, . Constant Imaginings ' of Evil, and'great - . Depression of j Spirits, ... And will positively prevent Yellow Fever, Bilious Fever - Sc. : *: * THEY. CONTAIN NO ALCOHOL OR BAD WHISKEY. , They will cure the above diseases in ninety-nine cases out of one hundred. From Ben. Joseph JET. Konnard, Pastor of the Tenth Baptist Church: Da. Jacksou —Bear Sir: I have been frequently re quested to connect my name with commendations of different kinds of medicines, bat regardieg the practice as out of my appropriate sphere, I have in all eases declined; but with a dear, proof in various instances, and particularly m my own family, of the use of Dr. Hoofland’s German Bitters/ I depart for once from ffl? usual course, to express my full conviction, that, for general dibility of the system, and especially for Liver Complaint, it is a safe and valuable preparation. In some cases it may fail; but usually, Ldoubt not it will be very beneficial to those who suffer from the above causes. Yours, very respectfully, , J. HiKENNARD, Eighth st/below Coates, Phils. 1 From Beo. Warren Bmtiolph, Pastor of, Baptist Chords, Germantown: Da. C, M. Jaoxsos— Sir.- Personal 'experience enables me to say; that'-I regard the German Bitters prepared by you, -as,a most excellent medicine./ In. oases of . sevora cold and general debility I have been greaHy benefitted iby the use of the -Bitters. and’ ddi** Prpm.Beo, J. S: Turner, Fasti* ofHeddi tig-fifl jt Gbarehc .Bitters in my,fiftnily frequently,! anr preparOd-ts say that it Has been of great .service. I bolieveithat in most ■eases of general de.bjlity of the system iit<is, the safest and most valuable remedy of which I hath any know:-’ ledge. Yburs respectfully, t-.t S. ’S: ‘■TURNER; North Nineteenth, street: Prom, the Beo. Thomas ' Winter, Pastor of lioxborough -f ‘Baptist Church: ■ ■ , DK'.i[icxsos— Bear, Sir: I feel it due to. your exeellent. preparation—Hoofland’s German. Bitters-.-to add my testimony to the, deceived reputation it has ■obteiifecK I have for-yoars, at times, been troubled- withtgrtott disorder iin my . head and nervous system. 17 was advised: by a friend to try a bottle Of Four German Bitters.- I did and' experienced 'great? and* unex pected' relief. My health .has been" very- materially benefitted. I confidently recommend the article where •I meet with cases similar to my ; own, and have'been assured by many of their good effects. Respectfully' yours, ; ; • . T.WINTER. .. Itoxborough, Pcl } December, 1&58. From Feu. J. Newton Eroum, 3. D., Editor of the Fflicy dopccdia of Religious Knowledge: - ~ Although not disposed to,favor or recommend Patenfc Medicines in general; through: distrust of their ingre dients and effects; I yet know : of ‘no eufficientteasons' why a man may not testify to the benefits he believes himself to have received from any simple preparation*, in the hope that he may thus contribute to the benefit of Others, _ I do {his more readily in regard to Hoofland’s German Bitters, prepared by Dri C: It, Jackson, of this city, because I was prejudiced-against them for mimy.yeais, under the.impression that they, .were chiefly an alco holic mixture. 1 am indebted to riiy friend, Robert Shoemaker,’Esc;, for the removal of this prejudice' by proper teats,, and for encouragement .to try them, when suffering from great and dong continued debility. The use of three bottles of these 1 Bitters,'at the beginning bf the .present year, .was- followed: by evident relief and restoration to a degree of bodily and mental vigor which I bad-net felt fdf six ihbriths,before, and had almost dgprarod of regairiihg.i thaiibGda Wnd my friend for directing; me te-tlie use.of-th'em. PMtai<i,/un« 23,156% .: , 1 J. JfEjVTON BROWN. _ There are many preparations sold under the name of Bitters, ptit up in quart bottles, compounded of the cheapest whisky, or common rum , costing from 20 to 40 cents per gallon,'the taste disguised by Anise or Coriander Seed. , v <- > i This'tides of Bitters.has caused and xcUl continue tocauie, ;«? tfiey can 1 be sbtitffarto&ds to: dieihe death-of Vie i • the injliienco- alcoholie ■ stimulants d,esftsfor liquor is credied'and hqii up, and the result 'is all the attendant vpdh a drimkdriFsi&fe arid death. . F&r a Liquor? Bitters, ice ■ publish t the.foUowina receipts Get -ONE.BQTTLE GERMAN and mix with -THREE "QUARTS OF 7 WHISKEYv and &** FAR ■ '?t'od- unit hav& all’ the virtues -or i HOOF LAND’S 'EXT-TERS • in •connection „ ipith. a good-.article., ojf,. liquor, at ! a much fefs’pr fee thdn these inferior preparations rottt cost ypui tJ '■ >.*• Attention, Soldiers l and tire Friends pf Soldier®. We call the attention of all having relations dr in the army-td- the fact'that “ HOOFLANIW3 GERMAN BITTE.RB”wiII cure nine-tenths of thedis eases induced by-expbsurcs and privations .incident to pamp life. In the lists,published"almost daily in thenewspapeTs, on the arrival of dhes sick, itiwiip ;be; noticedthat- a very: large propertiozi :are suffering; from debility. Every kind; can he readily cured byHooflancPs German-Bitters. DiseasesrresuUing- from disorders’of the digestive organs ;are speedily removed. : We. haye no hesitation in stating,that, if these Bitters 'were freely used among onr soldiers,-hundreds of lives might bo .saved that-otherwise will he lost. BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS! See that the signature of" C. M. JACKSON” is on the WRAPPER of each bottle. 5 J.v : 'PRICE , PEK. BOTTLE 75 CENTS. OR HALF DOZEN FOR $4. Should your nearest druggist not have the article, dp not be put off byany of the intoxicating preparations that may be offered in its place, but send to us, and we will forward, securely packed, by express. OFFICE AND MANUFACTORY, No. 6SI Arch Street; ■ For. sale by Druggists, and dealerstin every town, m the United States.; , . . f SAMUEL WORK, | , WILLIAM McCOUGH, ■ KRAMER & RAHM, Pittsburg. WORK, McCOIJGH & CO., ;i}o. a6:SOUTH THIRD BTRBaE'S.hhILADA, TkEALERS in UNCURRSfe TblnK AND JJ COINS. Southern and ; Western-Funds bought on the most favorable terms;.} ■) ■ •; . Bills of Exchange on New York, Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Bt. Louis, etc. etc., constantly for sale.' T ' -' --h; i : . Collections promptlyvmade on ill accessible pointagin. the United States and Canadas.. . *' Deposits received, payable bn demand, and interest allowed as per agreement. . .-•■r? ; Stocks -and Loans bought, and .sold on commission* and Business Paper negotiated. . ; Refer to Philadelphia and Commercial Banks, Phila delphia; Read, Drexel & Co., Winslow, Lanier & Co.* New York; and* Citizens’ and Exchange Bank, Pitta burg. . , fe!3-tf BANKING HOUSE. GEORGE X BOTH, NO. 18 SOUTH THIRD* STREET, PHILADELPHIA; (Two doors above Mechanics' Bank*) 1 j Dealer jn bills of exchange, bank notes and Specie. Drafts on New Balti more, 1 etc.j for sale. Stocks and Bonds .bought android on commission, at the Board, of Brokers.. Business Pap&r, Loans on NegoUatecl- Dei«>sibi 1 leceiyed and interest * > .i •• •, j , IIESPERFS. NOT ALCOHOLIC; Lit. HOOFLAND’S rUF,PARED : -BT WILL EFFECTUALLY CUBE CHRONIC OR NERVOUS DEBILITY, partiopljar; ’notice., JOKES ' «fc - EVAHTS, (Successors to C. M* JACKSON & C 0.,) " ‘ / PROPRIETORS. BAassrofltitvsaa*
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