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.
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