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Presbyterian
Church Building and Ministerial
Changes, A new church near the Chicago
'.'minary was organized on the Mth ult.,
■::’.der th© name of the Fullerton Avenue
iiui’ch. The building is nearly completed.
“/he Harris Street Presbyterian Church
- ; Newbutyport, Mass., Ims given a unani
:;'.ous call to Itev. Benjamin, Y. George, of
- ‘ issouri. Rev. John M. Baris has accepted
iho appointment of agent for the Theologi
cal Seminary of the North-west.
Mr. A, P. Cummings, for more than a
quarter of a century one of the conductors
of the New York Observer, has sold lii3 in
terest in the concern to Messrs. Floyd W.
Tomkins and Thomas 11. Cuthell, for the
last twenty years the two estimable clerks,
of the counting-room, Mr. Cummings was
she financial partner of the old firm of Syd
ney E. Morse ,& Co.,;and integrity, courtesy,
prudence and'energy, did all that was neces
sary to give it the highest standing among
the business firms of the city; - When he be
came a partner in the. Observer it had a cir
culation of G;000. He leaves it with a circu
lation of 25,000, and a'commercial value that
would be an, independent fortune for any
man. Mr. Cummings ‘retires from public
life to enjoy the competence which he has
to honorably made,'and the Observer will
continue to be prosperous and useful ag
heretofore. <
The German, Reformed Church. —A cor
respondent'df The Messenger laments that
there is no English congregation of their de
nomination ih Netv York city. They have
s small German Church under the care of
fwtor Busche, “who has labored for nearly
rv. enty years in a truly missionary spirit and
succeeded at last in training his people to
-elf-support.” The,writer asks in conclu
sion : “ Is it impossible to start an English
Reformed ©liurch among the.descendants of
(he 160,000 or 200,000 Germans of this city ?
bet us not despise the day of small things.”
The Tercentenary Jubilee in honor of the
three hundredth, anniversary of the forma
tion of Heidelberg Catechism, wis held on
Tuesday evening, February 23d, 1804, ih the
First Reformed Church, York, Pa., of which
the Rev. J.,Q. Miller is the pastor.
San Francisco, Cal, —A meeting was re
cently held by the friends and advisers of
Or. W. A. Soott, to consider the question of
recalling him to that city, the proposition
being to organize a new church and establish
a new congregation. A heavy salary, one
thousand per month, we understand, was
proposed and an effort made to raise it, but
without complete, success. The final result,
if reached, has not transpired. If Dr. S., is
manifestly and certainly loyal, and will give
his influence and efforts, as a good citizen
and true to the support of the government,
there can be no popular objection to his resi
dence and labors in this city. If he does
not assume and maintain such attitude in
respect of the government, his friends are,
not wise in attempting to induce his return.
Time will tell.— California Advocate, '•
Gettysburg I . —The Sabbath School con
nected with tne German Reformed church at
Gettysburg, held its anniversary on the eve
ning of the 22d of February. As the Library
of the sohool had been destroyed during the
Hebei Invasion, the opportunity was im
proved in the way of raising some funds to
wards the replacing of the Library. A small
admission fee was charged, from which fifty
live dollars were realized. The exercises
are represented as having been of the most
interesting character.
Mrs. Anna, wife of the late President
Harrison, who died at North Bend, twenty
miles from Cincinnati, Thursday evening,
Keb. 25th, was born in New Jersey, July
2-3ih, 1775. In the year 1812 she became a
member of the First Presbyterian church in
Cincinnati. In 1833 her membership was
transferred to the PrSsbyterian church at
Cleves, near her residence at North Bend.
Union Tendencies. —The Presbyterian of
last week says :—We rejoice in the tendency
of Presbyterians everywhere towards one
another. We have tried the force of rivalry
long enough: let us try the power of con
centrated and united effort.
Rev. Dr. Armstrong, brother to the late
Secretary of the American Board,pastor of the
Presbyterian church in Norfolk, Virginia,
has been sentenced by Gen. Butler to work
on the fortifications at Hatteras, as a punish
ment for disloyal practices:
Congregational.—Henry Ward Beecher
has retired from the editorial chair of the
independent, but will contribute to its co
lumns. —Writes the Rev. Dr. Holbrook, of
Dubuque, who has been collecting funds for
a western institution, to the San Francisco
Pacific: “I had no conception of the aston
ishing wealth of New England until I had
occasion and the opportunity to ascertain
the fact. The nhmber of members of Con
gregational churches who are worth from
J 100,000 to $1,000,000 is almost incredible,
while you would be astonished could you
know how many make return to Govern
ment of an annual income of from $30,000
to $100,000! There is one church in a
country village in Massachusetts that is said
to represent seven millions of property and
or.other three, to say nothing of those in the
cities." ,
Rev. J. L. Jenkins, of Salem, Mass., will
commence his pastorate of the Pearl Street
Church, Hartford, about the first of April.
Rev. O. T. Lanphear (recently of Exeter,
■V H.) was installed on Tuesday evening,
March Bth, as pastor of the College Street
Church in New Haven. Rev. A . Quint
has reoeived a unanimous call to the pastor
ate of the North Church in New Bedford.
Our impression is that he has other engage
ments with the 2d Massachusetts regiment,
just now.
Baptist.—The N. T. Examiner has the fol
lowing items: As a-publisher we are abun
dantly satisfied to have no Baptist paper m
Philadelphia, for our subscription list is
gaining many additions by it, from Pennsyl
vania and Western New Jersey. But as a
Baptist, we think with humiliation on the
fact that so large and rich a city as Pmlaaei
phia, where other denominations have many
papers of their own, should have no Baptist
newspaper edited and published within it s
limits. We should be about as willing to
ask our Philadelphia brethren to shut up
their ohurohes, and come every Saturday to
.Yew York to get their preaching, as to wish
them to be wholly dependent on another
city for the making of their Baptist news
paper, But they will not long be thus de
pendent. In reply to the inquiry of a sub
scriber the Examiner says: It is believed
here that laymen and unordained ministers
have no right to administer the ordinance
of baptism -Commendable efforts are being
made by the Baptists in New York and Sac
ramento tp impart religious instruction
to the Chinese population —some two or
three thousand of whom are among us.
These efforts have in * measure been
crowned with success. A chapel has bee
erected for them in each city, and the con
verts are numbered by scores. A mis ® lon "
ary is laboring in this city among tnese
idolators, and until recently there was one
also in Saoramento. Some of the oonverts
have been licensed to preach, and have re
turned to their native land, to proclaim the
unsearchable riches of Christ to their delu
ded and degraded countrymen. At a
meeting of the friends of Spurgeon College
for the training of ministers, held last month •
in London, Mr. Spurgeon ,said the college
began seven years ago with one student,
and now it has seventy students. Forty of
the_students are now the pastors of congre
gations in different parts of England, and
some have gone forth as missionaries.—Rev.
T. G. Jones. D. ID., of Norfolk, has received
a call from one of the Baptist churches of
Baltimore, which he has accepted, and ex
pects soon to enter upon the duties of his
new station. He is an able man, and we
trust will be the means of doing a great and
good work in Baltimore.—The Twenty-third
street Baptist Church of New York, of which
Dr. Gillette was the pastor, have given a
very hearty and unanimous call to the Rev.
Wayland Hoyt, of Pittsfield, Mass., to be
come their pastor. The First Baptist Church
of Philadelphia have given a like call to the
Rev. George D. Boardtpan of Rochester, to
he. their pastor.-—Rev. Miles Sanford, of
North Adams,Mass.,has had the gift of $533.-
50 from His people.—t-i-The American Bap
tist says; The Laight Street Church leses
its pastor, Rev. I. S. Kalloch, he having just'
resigned with a view to going to Kansas.
Rev. R. J. W. Buckland, for seven years the
esteemed pastor of the Baptist church at
Sing Sing, resigns his charge to accept a
professorship in the Yassar College.
Methodist; — Btyiscopal Residences. ■ The
PiUsburgAdvocate of January 16 th has an
editorial on the distribution of our bishops,
in which expression is given to some
thoughts having a place in other minds,
than the editor’s. Bishop Ames has re
moved to Baltimore; Bishop Simpson to
Philadelphia. Bishop Japes resides in INew
York;, Bishop Scott at Wilmington, Del.,
and Bishop Baker at Concord, N. H., leav
ing only Bishop Morris in the West, (Ohio,)
which is no more the West. These data
are taken as the ground for urging some
action by the General Conference, by which
members of the Episcopal Board shall be
compelled to reside at centers of sections or
districts. Methodism in Philadelphia; —The
Northwestern Adovcate has a transient Corres
pondent in Philadelphia, who thus writes of
Methodism in this city: “We have in this
city a class of very poor church buildings,
and no other sort. There is not a handsome
Methodist church edifice in this city of
600,000. The membership of the leading
societies is very large, most of the churches
are free, and the salaries of the preachers
very small. We doubt whether the increase
of Methodism in Philadelphia, is relatively
as great as that of other protestant churches
or commensurately as great as the increase
of population. There is wealth enough
here in the church, but evidently a great
want of appreciation of the demands of the
times, and the importance of furnishing the
rising generation with comfortable and even
handsome church accommodations and ap
pointments. The Methodist pulpits are well
manned : Drs. Hodgson, Coombe, and More
are here, and other names well known to
the church.”
Episcopal. —The bishop and assistant
bishop of Ohio have addressed a pastoral
letter to the vestries of the parishes in the
diocese, urging an increase of the salaries
paid to their pastors, in .order to enable
them to meet the present expenses of living.
A Change of Relation. —Rev. Mr. Yahn,
pastor of the German Lutheran congregation
at Valparaiso, Ind., and nearly one hundred
male, and nearly two hundred female com
municants, have gone over from the Lutheran
to the Episcopal Church, It is, said to be
the result of a division which has sprung up
in the Lutheran Church on the question of
the Lord's Supper, Contributions to Foreign
Missions. —The Christian Times (Episcopal)
says that for three years, from Oct. Ist, 1860,
to Oct. Ist 1863, more than two-thirds of our
parishes did not contribute a cent to Foreign
Missions. Even in such old, established
dioceses as Connecticut, New York,' and
Pennsylvania, the contributing parishes are
only about one-third of the whole number.
-Rev. Mr. Dix, of Trinity Church, N.' Y.,
preached a sermon in the Tabernacle church,
Gth Avenue, on Sabbath evening the 13th
inst., upon “Christian unity;” the animus of
which was, that Prelacy is the only Scrip
tural Christianity, to whose faith all sects
should return, and let the Priesthood do the
thinking for the people, on all matters of
doctrine.
Revivals. —Knox College, Galesburg, lII.
The correspondent of the Evangelist says :
This Institution is enjoying a preeftus revi
val of religion, the result, most manifestly,
of the day of fasting and prayer for Colleges.
This day was spent as follows :—The morn
ing chapel worship was prolonged for an
hour and a half; at 11 o’clock A. M. the O.
8. and N. S. Presbyterian churches held a
union meeting; at 2 o’clock, P. M. a prayer
meeting was held in the first and second
Congregational churches respectively; at 7
o’clock in the evening a general meeting
was held in the College chapel. It was
pleasant to see Dr. Candee (O. S.), Mr. Mor
ton (N. S.), Dr. Edward Beecher and Mr.
Perkins (Congl.), present and all equally
interested in the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit. The next evening was our regular
College prayer-meeting. One young man,
a member of the Sophomore class, and a son
of one of the above mentioned clergymen,
rose and asked for prayers, saying he had
resolved to lead the life of a Christian. The
work has gone on, and-is going on up to this
present writing. In all, fifteen, we hope,
have set out in a new life. -Sixty-nine
have united with the Congregational church
in Candor, by profession, and three by letter,
as the blessed fruits of the revival in Janu
ary. Forty-three were members of the Sab
bath School. Fourteen adults have joined
the Bible class. For all of which we give
God the glory. In some little figuring
which we have made (says the Western Ad
vocate) we find that the accessions to the
Methodist Episcopal church, East and West,
the past three months, have nearly reached
twenty thousand, the exact figures being 19,-
780. In many localities therehave been thor
ough and general revivals, with additions that
must tend to the strength and power of the
Church. It was reported from Brighton
in the Boston daily prayer-meeting, on Sat
urday, that several business men had been
hopefully converted there, and the signs are
encouraging. A father said he. had asked
prayer for the conversion of his two sons,
and he had a letter yesterday from one of
them in Indiana, saying that he had become
a Christian. The Presbyterian Church of
St. Anthony, Minnesota, has recently en
joyed a precious outpouring of the Spirit of
God. Christians have been revived, and
sinners have been hopefully converted.
The Presbyterian Church, O. S., in Smyrna,
Del, has been visited with a gracious revival.
Several of the Methodist Churches of
Philadelphia are receiving large accessions.
In the Thirty-eighth-street Church thirty
eight have been received, and more than
fifty have been converted, some of whom
had joined the Presbyterian Church. One
hundred and fifty-five have been received by
certificate and on probation in the Heddmg
M. E. Church.
, Miscellaneous— 2Vse Israelites.—^ The Wil
na, Messenger states that according to„ the
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1864.
latest calculations made, the number of Jews
now amounts to 7,000,000, about one-hall’ of
whom reside in Europe. Russia contains
the m05t—1,220,000; next, comes Austria,
853,000: then Prussia, 284,500: and the
other-” 1 countries in. Germany together, 192,-
000. One remarkable fact is that in I-’ranee,
Belgium and England, where the .Tews are
entirely emancipated, the number is gradu
ally decreasing, while in those countries
where they are still subjected to a certain
restraint, they increase. This
well known people range their leading sta
tistics in three provinces, as follows: In the
continental (European) province there are
about 4,984 communicants and a total num
ber of 0,727 souls. In the British province,
3,078 communicants and s. ■ total of 5,997
souls. In the American, in’its two districts,
5,759 communicants, and a total of 9,429
souls—being thus a total of/3,821 commu
nicants,and of 21,253 souls in the three prov
inces. Gen. Butler has remitted the sen
tence of Rev. Mr. Wingfield, of Norfolk,
directing his employment in sweeping the
streets for a term of three months, for noto
rious! v disloyal practices. “ His., punish
ment,’’ says Gen. Butler, “ is remitted not
from respect to the man, or for his acts, or
because it is unjust, but because its nature
may he supposed to reflect upon the Christ
ian Church, which, by his connection with
it,has been already too much-disgraced.”
Panel Hostility to the United Slates. —A corres
poiulentof the New York Evening Post writes
from Rome, Feb. 10th, as folfows
The fact is; and the people- Of America
may as well know it, the councils of the
temporal power are irreconcilably and inev
itably opposed to us. We have no friends
in the Church of Rome, nor one in the whole
college of cardinals. I am informed by an
American, who has held an official position
in Rome, that the Roman officials in a body
have always expressed the most decided
sympathy with the rebellion, and faith in its
ultimate triumph. With the exception of
Monsignor Nardi, one of the judges of the
Rota, he nevCr met a Roman official who
has any sympathy with the North. The
whole moral force of the Catholic Church, in.
Rome, has been steadily exercised against
the federal government, and the sympathy
of all who oppose free institutions and popu
lar government has been as steadily with the
rebellion and its causes. This state of things
coupled with the worse than useless diplo
matic representation of the federal govern
ment at this place, brings us naturally to the
recognition of the rebel Confederacy involved
in the correspondence—a recognition, the
importance of which may not be very great
with us, but to the Catholic friends' of the
rebellion is of the highest importance.
The Cahierale Press': of Rome has recently
published the census of the population of
the Eternal City, during 1863. The total of
the population amounted to 201,161 inhabi
tants, being 4,083 more than 1862. The
members of the secular clergy in Rome, last
year, amounted to 1,894, and those of the
religious Orders to 2,569. The Nuns were
2,031 in number. The ecclesiastical colleges
and seminaries, to the number of 25, con
tained 1,027 students. Among them are the
Roman Seminary, with 94 students; the Pio
Seminary, with 76 ; the Vatican Seminary,
with 41; the French, with 58; the South
American, with 45 ; and the North American
with 53. The Propaganda College contains
128 students; the German, 59; the English
and Pio-Euglish together, 49 ; the Scotch,
15; the Irish, 15 ; the Belgian, G; the Greco-
Ruthenian, 22; the Lombard 11. Bequests.
The late Maj. Charles Jarvis of Wethersfield,
Conn., who was killed near Cedar Point, N.
C., bequeathed §5OO each to the American
Tract Society, and Foreign Christian Union ;
§l,OOO to the American Home Missionary
Society; §1,500 to Foreign Missions; and
§2,000, upon certain conditions, to the Ver
ment Domestic Missionary Society.
Church Debts. —The Chicago Advocate thinks
that now, when the currency is plenty, is
the accepted time for paying off Church
debts. It closes a half column of editorial
with the remark that “ wherever the pastor
is an efficient man, and the Church united
as one man, the Church debt can be paid.”
Dr. Bellows, of New York, is going to San
Francisco for six moths, to supply the pulpit
of the late Rev. Thomas Starr King.
THE GREAT UNION MOVEMENT.
We are again indebted to the news
columns of Mr. Bayne’s Weekly Review,
for intelligence of deep .interest and im
portance on . r '
Presbyterian Union in Great
Britain. At a meeting of Ward Chapel
Congregation, Dundee, held in Febru
ary, W. E. Baxter Esq, M. P. of the
Free Church, made an address on Pres
byterian Union, which is reported in
the Weekly Review. He rebuked the
dogmatism which prevails among “ high
church" Presbyterians, as follows: “The
New Testament is sufficiently vague on
questions of Church government to pre
vent and rebuke dogmatism, and to
allow thought and inter
pretation which, as tve claim for our
selves, we are bound to give to others;
and, depend upon it, our denominational
interests will not be advanced by an
exclusiveness and.segregation for which
there is no Scriptural warrant, and
which fosters and ministers to spiritual
pride. Let us not imagine that wisdom
will die with us, and that differences of
opinion on matters connected with
Church government and discipline will
mot continue to the end of time.” He
referred with regret to the opinions of
Mr. Adam Black, of Glasgow, and of Dr.
Lindsay Alexander, in opposition to the
Union. Mr. Black believed that a single
great organization, embracing, as he
imagined this would, the established
church also, would be “ baneful to civil
and religious liberty.” He believed the
established church, in the days when all
were embraced in her fold, had proved
thus injurious to the evangelical liber
ties of the people. Dr. Alexander had
told a member of the House of Com
mons that these churches united, “ would
put in every member of Parliament,
every provost, and all the town councils
throughout the kingdom." He said:
“the only chance of an independent man
getting in now, was that they were not
united.”' Mr. Baxter confessed himself
totally unable to comprehend these
chimeras. These good men were cer
tainly laboring under a nightmare. The
difference between the Free and United
churches was confined merely to theo
retical idea, affecting no doctrinal truth
and there was no reason why thej r
should not unite. In the democratic
colony of Australia no one objects to
the Presbyterian Union now going on.
The secret of the dislike of politicians
to this union in Great Britain is the
probability that the united body would
prove too strong for the establishment.
Mr. Baxter regarded the idea of embrac-
ing the established church of Scotland
in the . union as altogether- visionary.
Hr. George Gilfilian opposed Mr. Bax
ter’s views, in a speech which he opened
by repealing and endorsing a most
slanderous and abominable charge
against the public men of our country,
taken from a newspaper.” Thoscoun
drelism of public men, which was
avowed by them and applauded by the
people in. America only, -Mr. Gilfilian
condescended to allow might be better
I ban the scoundrelism- which shrinks
from view. He regretted that the dark
and crooked ways of state craft were
found in the church. “ Policy is there,
too; the master of every situation.
Cliques arid committees downstairs are
the real rulers—independent action and
Independent thought are in a great
measure unknown; and often, when
even a spark of these appears, it is in
instantlv trampled onand extinguished.
The cause —at least one cause of all
.this—lies in tlio overgrown size of relig
ious bodies. -This renders their motions
so numerous and complicated that noth
ing but dexterous .management and rigid
conceh’tratibncan-sebiire their unity and
prosperous action. Surely, the leading
churches of Scotland are large enough
already.” Twelve hundred congrega
tions'he thought would make a “ huge
church!” ,
To us in America with Presbyterian
organizations embracing 1500 congre
gations and upwards, such fears seem
almost childish. And we do not believe
that, thft.. immense W eel cyan body in
England, 350,000 strong, has furnished
any'warrant for the fears expressed,
with such bitter extravagance of rhe
toric, by Mr. Gilfilian.
; A fourth meeting for Presbyterian
Union, of the Office-bearers of the Man
Chester Presbyterian Churches, \vas held
Feb. lGtb, at which one of the speakers,
Rev. Hr. Munroe, of the English Presby
terian Church, alluded to the case ;of the
Wesleyan Methodists, above mentioned.
He said : '“The idea that a church num
bering 1,41)0 ;chrirches could endanger
the liberties of the people was prepos
terous. Look at the Methodists. They
had 6,000 congregations; and did any
danger to liberty flow from these ? On
the principle of this objection, they
should never pray for any union what
soever. And suppose the 1,400 congre
gations should increase to 12,000 or
14,000? Well, that would he easier
governed than the 1,400. But they
needed strength, constitutional strength;
and he wished to be strong constitution
ally—not strong by spasms, not strong
in one limb and weak in another—and
that strength conld be obtained only by
a wide and comprehensive union.”
The general sentiment of this meet
ing was in favor of one great British or
ganization,‘including the Free, United
and English bodies. . This feeling wa!s
declared to be growing among them.
One of the speakers referred to the ob
jection that “the wide union which he
desired would extinguish the Presbyte
rian ‘ Church in England, as a distinct
religious/community. But, to his mind,
a'far more important question than this
was, Ho w can the cause of Christ be best
advanced? Is it by a weak, sickly Church
in England, or by a strong, united Pres
byterian Church for the whole kingdom ?
When it was put iu that way, he thought
every unprejudiced mind must approve
of the wider union."
Another wished “Presbytery to be
contributed for the British Isles, that it
may be a power iu the earth." Another
referring to the existing ecclesiastical
condition of England, since the final
judgment in the “Essays and Reviews”
case, said well, that “There was no field
in which the Presbyterian Church had
such, good prospects.of success; and
when he remembered the position in
which recent decisions of the Privy
Council had placed the Church of En
gland in reference to the sentiments
of its ministers concerning the Bible,
he thought that by a United British
Presbyterian Church they would be
able to - show the English a better state
of things. He thought purity of doc
trine and zeal in'.the cause of Christ,
should be conjoined by them, so that
they might be able to show to the En
glish that they were in earnest.”
Rev. R. S. Scott, a member of the
joint Committee on Union, took part in
these interesting deliberations. He said
that Committee was preparing a docu
ment, embodying the results of their
deliberations, on "the duty of the civil
magistrate in relation to religion and
the church. “He believed, the docu
ment, when it appeared, would show
that, while jthere was to a large extent
substantial agreement, the points of
difference had not been overlooked, but
had been brought out at once clearly,
and in a manner that showed they might
be made matters of Christian forbear
ance.”
Other Presbyterian Items. By the
agency of the Committee on Stipends,
the English Presbyterian' church has
raised the mimimum stipend in their
ministry to one hundred pounds. The
aim is to make it one hundred and fifty.
—At a meeting of London Presbytery,
in February, requests for moderating
four calls were made and granted; two
for colleagues and two for single pastors.
The “ Ttegium Donum.”—We learn, says
the Iteview, that Moderator Rogers, with
a posse comitatus of excited Irishmen at
his heels, is to visit London in order
to beg at head-quarters for an extension
of the Donum. He had much better
stay at home, and devote his energies
and those of his followers to the preser
vation of education in Ireland from the
insidious and menacing attacks of Rome.
—The established Presbytery of Glasgow,
as already stated, has negatived the lib
eral overture from the General Assem
bly, proposing to open the pulpits of the
Church of Scotland to ministers of other
denominations. Dr. N. Maeleod headed
the liberals,and the decision was reached
oply by the vote of the Moderator, Rev.
W. Hill,ofEaglesham. This gentleman,
strange to tell, had been enjoying the
courtesy of the managers of the Dis
senting chapel in thatJJJplace for six
months, while his own parish church was
undergoing repairs.—The Welsh Oa!-
vamst'.c Methodists are looking forward
witn great interest to the proposed or
ganizaum of their General Assembly,
which is expected to take place, if no
untoward event occurs, in Swansea,next
M<ay.—Some complaint is heard of an at
tempt being made by the established
church of Scotland to obtain control of
the Presbyterian chaplaincies ot various
military posts inErfgland, where chapels
have been erected through the liberality
of the English Presbyterian church.
The Scotch soldiers do not by any means,
show a unanimous preference for the
services of the Establishment. , It is a
matter of history that when the gallant
93d Highlanders were marched to the
door of the Established Church of Scot
land, on the Sabbath after the news of
the Disruption reached them, they, al
most tp a man, refused to enter within
its walls, requesting to be marched to
the Free Church of Scotland.—The va
ried activity of Presbyterian churches
in England appears from the reports
read at the. annual “tea-meeting” of
the Grosvenor Square Church, Manches
ter, Feb. 10th, Rov. Dr.Miioro. pastor.
They, were .as follows; The .Sabbath,
schpol; the Boys* School :" the Girls’
School; the Sabbath' Morning’Class;
the Young Men’s Society; the Juvenile
Missionary Association; the Tract Dis
tribution Society; andthe Ladies’ Cloth
ing Society. All these enterprises were
stated to be in a flourishing condition!—
The Presbyterians of Exeter, being
weary of paying a rent of 100 1. per an
num for a place of worship, have com
menced an effort to procure the neces
sary funds for erecting a building of
their own. ,Over seyen hundred dollars
was secured by a “ bazaar” held.during
three days. The United Presbyterians
have just opened a new edifice at Al
dershot, costing, ground and all, 2000 Z.,
and accommodating 400 people*—'The
meeting for Presbyterian Union pro
posed to be held at Bayswater, March
3d, for which the Earl of Dalhousic and
Mr. H. C: Ewing M. P., were announced
as speakers, has been unavoidably post
poned.
PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONS,
"We have already spoken of the very
low state of feeling on Foreign Missions
prevailing in the Presbyterian Church
of Scotland in all its branches; at least
so far as the amount of money con
tributed: would indicate it. In the Free
Church there has been a steady decline
in contributions for three or four years
past, only about sixty thousand dollars
having been raised for foreign missions
last year. A meeting was held February
16th, (in Glasgow, we ' believe,)"to re
ceive information on the missions of the
church and to consider the position of
affairs. There was a large and respect
able, attendance. Rev. James Stewart,
who, as agent of the committee, had
visited Africa last year, and met Dr.
Livingstone on his travels, was present
and made some interesting statements.
He spoke very doubtfully of the success
of the Universities’Mission to : Africa,
planned at the instance of Dr. Living
stone. He did not credit the report of
the murder of this great explorer. He
made the following highly encouraging
report of the Free Church Mission to
Caffraria: There are four stations in this
mission, nearly 600 miles from the
Cape. They are L wed ale. Brun’s Hill,
Pirie and McFarlane. Mr. S. said that
in Lovedale and the out-stations there
was a congregation of 900 people, of
whom 345 were communicants,..and
schools, connected with the congrega
tion, attended by, 450 children. Last
year their monthly and church-door
collections amounted to £l4O, which he
would, without offence, venture -to say
was a much larger sum than was con
tributed by many congregations in this
country. But they had made an.extra
ordinary effort. They had opened a
new church last year, and at that tiine
they gave £9O. They made other col
lections, so that their contributions last
year, for the purpose of keeping the
gospel among them, amounted to £322.
At Burn’s Hill, of which the Rev. James
Laing was the missionary, there was a
congregation of 750. Twenty-five years
ago they built a small church, but last
year they moved out of that rude erec
tion to a church which had been built at
a cost of £lOOO, of which they them
selves contributed one-half. At the
Pirie station the congregation numbered
450, of whom 150 were communicants;
they had three schools attended by
about 170 children. At McFarlane
station the number of the congregation
was 150, and there two schools were
attended byGO or 70 children. In round
numbers this had been done; forty
years ago there was nothing; now at
these four stations there were 2000
worshippers representing 750 commu
nicants, and about 1000 children who
: were being educated. In addition to
that there was a large seminary, under
the care of the Rev. William Govan, at
which 120 boys, black and white, re
ceived an excellent education. Indeed,
some of the boys were taught Latin,
Greek, mathematics and algebra, and so
educated as to fit them, had they the
means, to enter any of the universities
in Scotland. Rev. Dr. Murray Mitchell
deplored the backwardness of the church
in this wOrk, and thought there was
ample encouragement to laho'r and pray
in view o’f the large amount of success
enjoyed. He seemed to attribute the
low state of feeling in part to the sneers
of such papers as the Times and the
Saturday Itevieio on missions. It was
stated that two most promising young
men at Glasgow Free Church College
had offered themselves to the Foreign
Mission Committee, had been accepted,
and were preparing, and iu the course
of a year or two one of them at least
would be ready to give himself to that
work.
Howe’er it be, it seems to me
’Tis only; noble to be good;
Kind hearts are more than coronets;
And simple faith than Norman blood. J
MAIHTEHAHCE OP THE SHFS HeIW
The amount of heat and light -which
emanates from the sun ig go enormous
tb&t the mind fails altogether to grasp
• t!) e uic-a. It has, however, been ealeu
! lated t.hat oat of 2,800 millions of parts
of light and heat emitted by the sun
the earth only receives one partf whilst
the whole heat radiated from the sun
in one minute has been found by Sir; <
John Hersebel to be sufficient to boil
twelv# thousand million cubic miles of
ice-cold water! How, we may ask with
Dr. Tyndall, is this enormous loss made
good? Whence’ -is the sun’s heat de
rived and by what means is it main
tained? It cannot he kept up by ordi
nary combustion, for if the sun were a
solid lump of coal it would be burned
out in 4,600 years; whereas, geology
teaches ms in every page that the sun:
shone on our earth hundreds of thou
sands of years ago as it does at the pre
sent day. The philosophers who have
■speculated upon this groat question
show, that if a meteorite-or asteriod
were to fall into the sun with the
greatest velocity which it is’ capable of
acquiring, it would, on falling, engender
a quantity of heat nearly ten thousands
times as great as that which would be -
developed by the combustion ofan.equal
weight of coal. These meteorites are'
known to fall upon the earth in eer-'
tain seasons in- large numbers, but
the heat developed bv them is small
owing to the comparatively slight ve
locity which they attain before reach
ing so small an attracting mass as that
of the earth. How astronomers seem
to think it probable that the lens-shaped
mass, termed by us the zodiacal light,
which surrounds the sun, consists of a
vast collection of such asteriods; these
moving, like the planets, in a resisting
medium must approach., the sui> ; and on
showering down upon, the sun’s surfaee
transfer their motion into it- thus main
taining the temperature of the sun, and
therefore sustaining life on our planet.
The quantity of matter Which would
thus have to be added to the sun’s body,
in order to replace the heat lost by ra
diation, insignificant in comparison
to its bulk that it would not have al
tered the apparent size of the sun during
the historical period. If our moon fell
into the sun, it would only develop heat
enough to make good due or two years’
loss, and were the earth to fall into the
sun, the necessazy heat would be sup
plied for nearly a century.
It is a question, however, if the aug
mentation in the sun’s attraction which
this theory presupposes would not have
been observed by astronomers even af
ter thelap6e of somefewyears. Whether
this will turn out to be the true expla
nation of the maintenance of solar heat,
we know not; but, at any rate, a sun
might thus be formed, and the theory
serves as an illustration of the applica
tion of thermodynamics to cosmieal phe
nomena. —Edinburg Review.
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THIS School was. established Eleven years
since, by the 'Rev. M. Meigs, formerly
President of Delaware College.
The course of study is extensive,,: thorough
and practical; including the usual preparation
for Colleges, and the various branches of a
substantial English Business education. The
studies of pupils will be conformed to their
future vocation, so far as it ■ may beactually
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The ensuing Summer Session will commence
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