The American Presbyterian. (Philadelphia) 1856-1869, April 21, 1864, Image 7

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Presbyterian.
Accessions to the Churches by Profes
sion of Faith.---At Hightstown, N. J., elev
en persons were received into the commu
nion on the late sacramental occasion. At
Hestonville, this State, ninetee4 were added
on the 3d inst. The Central Presbytery
reported at their last meeting, that forty
five were added to the Penn Church, (Rev.
Dr. Musgrave's,) forty to the Spring Garden
Church, (Rev. Mr. Sutphen's,) thirty-five to
Princeton Church, (Rev. Mr. Henry's,) and
twenty-five to the German Church, (Rev. Mr.
Locher's). The great majority - of these ac
cessions were on profession of faith. Many
of the other congregations, reported gratify
ing additions. It was also' evident from the
returns made that the spirit of beneficence
is growing in the churches of the Presby
tery. To the Vine Street Chnrch, (Dr.
McPheeters) St. Louik Mo., sixteen were re
cently added.
The St. Louis Presbytery decided at a
recent meeting, that the Rev. Dr. McPhee
ters could not be allowed to continue 'his
ministerial labors at the Pine street Presby
terian Church in that city. Dr. lifeheeters
was banished from the, department for dis
loyalty some time since, but the order of
banishment was revoked by the President.
Rev. W. H. Vail Doren has removed from
Riohniond Ind., to Chicako, 111, Two vol
umes of his commentary on Luke will short=
ly be put to press.
Rev. S. J. Bullock D. D., pastor of the
Franklin street Presbyterian Church, Balti
more, was arrested recently by our military
authorities, ()barged, with harhoring at his
house a rebel Colonel named Smith, from
Kentucky, who is a relative of the doctor.
Dr. Bullock is married to a sister of the rebel
Gen. John C. Breckinridge, and has from the
outbreak of the rebellion persistently re
fused to pray for the success 'of the Union
cause.
The Rev. John. N. Campbell, Regent of
the University, and pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church of Albany, died on the last
Sunday morning in March of-pleurisy, after
an illness of three or four days. He was a
native of the city, of Philadelphia, and com
menced his ministry in the State of Virginia.
He removed from Virginia to the city of
Washington, where he became pastor of the
church in Washington pity in which General
Jackson, then President of c the United
States, was accustomed to wokship.
stances soon brought him into collision with
the President, and the inflexible will of
General Jackson was met by a determination
just as inflexible on the part of Di„ Camp
bell to maintain his rights and dignity as a
minister of Christ. A member of Congress,
Judge Ambrose Spencer, admiring Dr. Camp
bell's courage and fidelity in these trying
circumstances, made a successful effort to
secure his removal to the First. Presbyterian
Church in Albany, New York. That con
spicuous and influential position he has
filled for many years with eminent . useful
ness.
Rev. Thomas Skinner, Jr., pastor of the
Reformed Dutch Church, Stapleton, Staten
Island, was severely, and it is feareefatally
injured by a fall from the portico of the
house of one of 'the deaCons of his church.
Some workmen had been making some
changes about the porch, of which he was
ignorant; and in the darkness he was pre
cipitated some fourteen feet.
'At a Meet%
Tila of - the Presbytery of
gheny elty,ll t — Wiiiik;theaTev. Robert
J. White, of the Methodist Episcopal church,
was received a member of the Presbytery.
At the commencement of the rebellion, 151 r.
White was pastor of a Methodist church in
Springfield, Mo.; but on account of his loy
alty he was compelled to fly, with the loss of
all his property. He is an able and accep-'
table preacher.
Weetnixdster College.—At a late meet
ing of the Trustees of this College, it was
resolved to make an effort to increase its
endowment, and President Patterson was
requested to give his personal attention to
this work.
Rev. E. P. Humphrey, D. D., Professor in
Danville, Ky., Theological Seminary, has
been unanimously called to the First Pres
byterian Church, Boston, Mass. He is a na
tive of New. England, son aso of thelate Presi
dent Humphrey of AMberiit , College. He
would be adapted to that field by peculiar
qualifidations, as well as eminent abilities.
Rev. Mr. De Laricey, who consented to takc
charge of that enterprise temporarily, we
are informed, earnestly desires Dr. Hum-;
phrey's acceptance.
Rev, J. B. Stewart; late of Dr: Rice's'
Chinch, Chicago, has • been unanimously
called to the Fifth Church, Cincinnati.
The Second Dutch Church, Schenectady,
under the pastoral charge of Bev. A. Du Bois,.
has been enjoying a season of increased re-
Hem interest.
Congregational.—There was a renewal of
the old United Monthly Concert of prayer for
Foreign Missions at the Park Street church,
Boston, on Sabbath evening. The
churches in the central part, of the city,
comprising the Old South, Park Street, Es
sex Street, Central • and Mt. Vernon
churches, came together on Sabbath eve
ning and re-instituted a mutual 'Monthly
Concert. Rev. Dr. Stone presided, and
welcomed the churches to the old home
stead. Dr. Kirk offered prayer. Rev, Dr.
Adams read the following from a Bengali
newspaper, written by the heathen editor,
advocating the use of the English Bible in
the Government schools: " It is the best
and most excellent of all English books,
and there is not its, like in the English lan
guage. AS evert -point of the •iiugar-cane,
from the root to the top, is full of sweetness,
so every page is fraught with the most pre
cious instructions. A portion of that book
would yield to you =more =of sound morality
than a thousand other treatises on the same
subject. In short, if any person studies.the
English language with a view to gain wis
dom, there is not anOther book which is
more worthy of being read than the Bible."
Rev. Dr. Kirk alluded to the failure, so far
as his church was concerned, of the attempt
to sustain the Monthly Concert by com
mitting portions of the missionary field to
members of churches to collect information.
He spoke of Italy, and the door opened
there for Christian laborers, especially for
Protestant women among those of their
own sex. Laymen are to be associated with
the pastors In the devotional exercises of
these meetings.- -111 r.y. Pliebs Cummings,
widow of Rev. Dr. Asa Cummings, so long
known , as the editor of the Ch. , 4 start i—pror,
entrusteikto her,pastor, Rev. Dr. Chicker
,frig,ieYear or two before her death, the• sum
of $lO.OOO for 'certain religious charities.
The Congregatipnalist has published
• .
a
list of, fifty : sqven churches which
devote . the evening of 'the foiirth Sabbath
in the month to a prayeNmeoting for the
army and the.country.4llr
M: Painter,
ent to
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leaVe.upper Missouri on account o re
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sympathies, is now preaching to -a ongr
gational Church in Lynn, Mass. The
Hartford Courant says : We hale seen an
elegant and valuable cane presented.by the
First Ecclesiastical Society, in Milford, to
their late pastor, Rev. Dr. Brace. The ma
terial is from a stick of timber preserved
from the ruins of their second meeting
house, the architect of which is said to have
been Colonial Governor Jonathan Law, and
which was erected in 1727. The cane is
highly polishett, is heavily mounted with
gold, embossed, and suitably inscribed.
The First Congregational Church, and Society
of Elizabeth was formally recognized and,
constituted, Thursday, March 31st, by a
council assembled in their place of worship,'
on Livingston street, Elizabethport ; Rev.
Wm. B. Brown, of Newark, moderator, and
Rev. James A. Little, of Paterson, scribe.
Seven churches were represented.—Rev.
0. B. Daggett, of Canandaigua, on returning
from ajourney, Friday, April Ist, was sur
prised by a call from a deacon of his church
who presented him, as a token of regard
from the people, six hundred dollars. Not
withstanding the date, such a suprise was no
illusion, and gave only pleasure.—On Sun
day last, Rev. J. T. Tucker, of Holliston, re
signed his pastoral charge, (as contemplated
on entering the Recorder office,) after occu
pying both parts of the day with a history of
his pastorate of precisely fifteen years.—
At Bangor, March 29th, Rev. G. W. Reid was
installed pastor of the Central church—its
first pastor, after an existence, not station
ary or unachieving, more than seventeen
years.
German Reformed.—Rev. E. E. Higbee,
has concluded to accept the professorship in
the Theological Seminary at Mercersburg,
tendered him by the Board of Visitors.—
On Patin Sunday five 'pardons were added to
the Church in West Philadelphia, of which
the Rev. J. Dahlman, Jr., is pastor, by con
firmation. On the same day eighty one
persons were confirmed in Salem church,
Philadelphia, of which the Rev. J. G. Wiehle
is pastor.—An effort is being made in
Frederick city, to establish an Orphan Asylum
under the: patronage': of they Reformed
Church. Much interest is manifested in the
enterprise, and there is.every prospect that
it will sncceed.-Rev. Thos. S. Johnston,
D.; was : installed over the St. John's congre
gation (G. F.) at Lebanon, by the Lebanon
classic, on the 10th ult.
Methodiat.—A Methodist preacher many
years, since in the West, disboursed on Cal
vanism, under the following analysis :—l.
When a man who is a Calvinist is converted,
it is without`his own consent 2. When a -
Caliinistis converted he does not know it.
3. When le has experienced conversion he
can never'lbse it 4. If he loses his religion
he never had it.--In the late Conference
at Hartford, Conn.,' a resolution was passed
recommending the, General Convention to
abelisA the,` limftiztioh of ministerial appoint
ments, virtually introducing the pastoral re
lation. At the same meeting, Bev. G. W.
Paddock, pastor of the, M. EXhurch at Law
rence, Kansas, delivered his lecture on the
trials =and triumphs of Methodism in the
Border, in which he .gave,, a graphic and
thrilling account of the destruction of the
town, including his church, and the butch
ery of 180 citizens, including most of his
own church, and meant to include himself,
by the unutterable atrocity of Quantrell's
raid. The conference and audience gave
him $4OO - on the - spot toward a new church.
—Baltimore Methodism has shared in the in
novations of the times. But recently a step
has been taken which places a new church
back among ancient customs. Mr. Wesley
Starr, formerly a member of the Methodist
roterostant ,-- it latterly of the.
Methodist Bpiebopal Church, recently built
a church on the corner of Poppleton and
Pratt Streets. Mr. Starr clings to the old
peculiarities of Methodism, and built this
church in order that there might be at least
one church in the city where the men and
women should sit apart,' and where the
hymneshould be lined in the old-style. The
church is nearly completed, and has been
presented by its owner to the Methodist
Priiigstal:tr Church, the conditions; in the
rddea-toeingiliat . the-peculiarities abbve re
ferred to shall be forever adhered to within
its walls.
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Baptist —Ort 'Monday last' a meeting was
held, in which the Rev. G. D. Boardman, of
Rochester, was "unanimously "called"> too the
pastorate of the Coliseum church of New
Orleans, and he was immediately telegraph
ed to that effect. The field to be occupied
there is of the first importance in every as
pect of it, and the North can well afford to
give as many of its best preachers as are,
needed to fill great centres of influence, in
the redeemed South.Examiner.—Twenty
five thousand dollars have been recently ad-:
ded, in a very quiet way, to the endowmentj
fund of the Professorships of Biblical and.
Pastoral Theology, and of Biblical Literature
and Exegesis, in the Rochester Theoloeical
Seminary. This good work has been done
by the personal"efforts of Drs. Robinson and
Hotchkiss but.the friends of the institution
lire anxious to Increase the amount to a
much larger sum.—The Missionary Union
is again financially in the ascendancy. The
contributions for Mardi have_not been less
than $50,000, and for the year tbey exceed
sllo,ooo—enough to pay all appropriations
and expenses, notwithstanding the enormous
price of exchange.—A Thousand Children.
—The Freewill Baptists propose to raise a
thousand dollars for their College in Maine,
by obtaining one dollar from each of a
thousand children—thereby not only getting
the money, but enlisting the sympathiei 'of
the 'young in their denominational Institu
tion.— Baptists in Canada.— The Baptist
Freeman, published at ".Woodstock, C. W.,
says there is a growing impatience in Canada
under the rigor of strict communion ; and it
adds that " The Canada Baptist Union is
composed indifferently of Close and Free
Baptists, who virtually agree in the constitu
tion which leaves it perfectly optional with
each individual church to limit or extend
the terms of communion as its own members
may : judge right, without any .interference
from the Union, or frOm any other church."
--The Baptist :Missionary Union have
given a very cordial invitation to Rev. Bap
tist N. Noel, of London, to attend their
approaching annual meeting. We hope,
says the Chronicle, the invitation will be cor
dially seconded by the American Bible and
Tract Societies,' that those and other benev
olent and patriotic meetings may enjoy the
benefit of hearing one of the most exemplary
Christians of this age, and one of the earli
est in England to-'espouse. our National
cause in our calamity. Mr. Noel, a brother
of the Earl of Gainesborough, and connected
with nobility on all sides, a most accom
plished and successful pastor in the Estab
lished Church, and greatly beloved by all
classes of, Christians, renounced EPiscepacy
inthe year 1849 and has since exercised ;
ministry among the Baptists and other un
endowed churches. Before this, he wap l one
of the Queen'eahaplains, but preferred the
honor that is from ,God. , He was born July
10, In% and„if, hp 99meg here, spend
his shay-fifth' birthday among us: He was
educated at Cambridge University, and is
a highly finished scholar, with a most inti
mate and lovingly familiar knowledge of the
Scriptures.—Fallow Ground Field.—A cor
respondent of the Watchman and Reflector/
writing from a certain town in New Eng
PHILADELPHIA, TIEJRBpA.Y, APRIL 21, 1864.
land, says : " The pastorate in this place
will be vacated after next Sabbath. If this
fact should come to the knowledge of any
brother who is destitute , of a place, and is
willing to accept of a position where he may
have all the work he can do, and more too,
without any, co-operation from the church,
and will live upon a very small salary in the
midst of a wealthy farming community,
then such a place is, or will be, open to him
soon.—llfr. Spurgeon.:--The London Record
says:—We regret to learn that the Rev. C.
H. Spurgeon, whose popularity as a preacher
continues unabated, was yesterday unable
to officiate in his spacious tabernacle in con
sequence of an illness of an inflammatory
character. The publication of his sermons,
revised by himself, still goes on weekly,
and it is said, although we do not ourselves
vouch for the accuracy of the statement, that
in all ten millionsof copies of these sermons
have been circulated.—Chronicle.—= = Refused
to Receive.—A. Brantford (Canada) corres
pondent of an exchange says, the Baptist
church there is considerably exercised about
the propriety of receiving into the church
two persons, one of whom was baptized by
a Methodist preacher, and the other by a
Baptist layman. The parties were not re
ceived, as over half the church was not dis
posed to recognize the baptism in either
case as valid.
Episcopal—Bishop ilicilvaine has recently
I written a " Prayer for Congregations and
Vestries seeking a pastor," the sentiments of
which are worthy to be remembered by all
churches without an under-shepherd: " Al
mighty God, the fountain of all wisdom,
who haat taught us to seek thy guidance and
help in, all our doings, be Thou our light
and protection in seeking a pastor and
teacher for this congregation. Purify our
minds from all worldly and unholy desires.
May we seek only thy glory, thy truth, thy
Service, the best intests of thy church and
of our souls. Save us, from divisions and
strife and every evil temper and disposition.
Unite us more and more in all brotherly
love and concord, and so guide and govern
us that •We may choose and obtain a faithful
minister of Christ, under whose teaching
and other labors, by the power of the Holy
Ghost, we may grow in the knowledge and
obedience.of. thy. Word, in faith and-love, :
and every godly virtue to the praise and
glory of thy name, through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen."—The Church Journal says:
On the morning of Easter day the offertory at
the church of the Holy Apostles was devoted
to the extinction of the parish debt, and
amounted to the handsome sum of $9,628 21.
The vestry met the next morning and forth
with raised the sum to $10,200, which, with
$9,000 &era one person, clears off the whole
debt of $19,200. -:Rev. Dr. Butler has re
ceived the appointment to the Chair of
Ecclesiastical History in the Philadelphia
Seminary, vacated by the death of the Rev.
Dr. May, and lately declined by the Rev.
Mr. Brooks.— The Rev. Dr. Brandigee, rector
of Grace Church N. Y., (Episcopal,) died on
Wednesday the 6th inst., after an illness - of
only two days, at Utica, N. Y.—There
seems to be no check upon infidelity in the
Church, so-called. A congregation of evan
gelical Christians can hardly be found to
tolerate Colenso and the essayists and re,
viewers ; but they nestle in the bosom of
mother church without fear or rebuke.
Revivals.—The , Boston Recorder in its
weekly report of the Old South Chapel daily
prayer-meetings, states, that a brother from
Brighton said the last week had been one
of great solemnity in all their meetings.
Many of the business men and their wives
are being converted, the work bein mostl ,
aurefig - - Anottier — br i .
the revival in York, Me., where union meet
ings are being held. any are inquiring
the way of life, while some are rejoicing in
hope. The good work in Washington was
also mentioned ; at one church which was
visited, one hundred and fifty stopped. to
be conversed with.---Shurdef College.—
President Read writes to a friend : " You
will be rejoiced to know that our church
and college have enjoyed a precious revival
of religion, resulting in the conversion of
about fifty souls to Christ, among them
some fifteen students. Also that we are be
ginning a new college building; also that
Rev. J. Bulkley, D. D., of .Carrolton,
has acccepted the call of our church to be
come its pastor."—St. Johns, ..Yewfotind
land, Writes a correspondent of the,Provin
cial Wesleyan: Considerably over a hundred
persons, chiefly adults, have professed to be
converted to God, and the work is
. still pro
greasing. The-same good work is now ex
tending to each of the outposts of the Cir
cuit, and many are being, in those places,
converted to God. Altogether, we believe,
up to this time, bearly 200 souls have been
brought under the influence of the saving
grace of tied—and this is only a part.of the
good that is being done; the church has
been greatly quickened and blessed.--
The Baptist churches in Troy and Fredonia;
N. Y. , in of Pennsylvania and the
West, report interesting revivals.—A cor
respondent of the S. S. Times writes from the
Army of the Potomac ; " I can go out At
night-fall, and standing at my tent=door,
can hear the songs of praise coming up from
the different chapels. At all of these, meet
ings are held every night, and at nearly all
souls are being converted. It is a moving
sight when these brave, stalwart men bow
at the altar of prayer. Often they are all
broken down before the - Lord. Sometimes
the tears make little pools on the rude
bench of which they kneel, I told the con
-verts to-day to write home, and tell their
mothers what God had done for their souls.
They said they would. I shall not be pre
sent when these letters reach their destina
tion ; but I can partly imagine the effect.
When that blessed sentence, Mother, God
has pardoned my sins,' is read and re-read
through dimmed eyes, I can almost - hear
the cry of joy, and the prayer, Lord, now
lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for
mine eyes have seen thy salvation. These
converted soldiers talk a great deal about
their religious parents. I think I have hit
upon a good plan of housing the fruits of our
revival. I ask each young convert, What
church would you join if you were afhome?
Think about it, pray over it, and let me
know.' I then write to the pastor of the
chosen church, and send him the young
man's name, commending him to the
prayers of the members, and requesting the
pastor to write to him. Congregations of
more solemnity and interest I have never
seen. It has been my privilege to witness
many revivals of religion in the churches at
home; but never have I witnessed happier,
evidence of the Spirit's power and presence.
Probably not less than sixty reclaimed and
converted men. haVe in their testi
mony as henceforth determined that, let
others do as they may, they will serve the
Lord. The change is wonderful in many
instances. Unbelieyers look on with sur
prise. Said one to Me, a man who made no
pretensions to religion, would not have
believed that such a change could have been
wrought here in such a short time.' The
work of your mission here is very apparent
upon the conduct of the men. Said an Offi
cer - one - day; you are doing a-work here
greater than yob. hale antidea. of. I can
judge better;than you; the effect is truly
wenderfuL'--Amherst College.--Referring
to the close of the present term, which has,
since the Day of Prayer, been charaCterized
by considerable religious interest among the
students, a writer connected with the Col
lege says: "Our meetings have been calm,
quiet, and thoughtful, as one after another,
with manly decision, has arisen to express
his determination, by the grace of God, to
be a child of Jesus. Twenty-one have thus
given evidence of being renovated by his
sanctifying power during the weeks that
have passed. There are at present only four
non-professors of religion in the senior
class,"
Niscellaneotts,—The - universe, of this city,
contains the subjoined intelligence :
It is now confidently stated that Bishop
Spalding, of Kentucky, has been raised to
the vacant Arobmitre, , of. Baltimore, and
that Bishop McCloskey, of Albany, is to take
The chair of Archbishop Hughes. Pius IX.
is near his end. Look at his years : he is
beyond seventy. Look at his health : he
suffers many illnesses in the space of' a
short time. When all' men are subject to
serious attacks, their 'days are counted. It
is, therefore; physically, medically certain,
that the SOvereign Pontiff is near his end.
* * * Who will succeed him? Some
Italian—Ca dinal An tonelli, beyond a doubt.
France and,.A.ustria will not like this. But
the Cardinal has so much ability and expe
rience, thaf 'the conclave will unite on him.
How Englixid will gnash its teeth at his
election! (May he prove a Hildebrand? A
Pontiff of more than usual energy, spirit,
capacity, is now required.--The Unitarian
organ's new prospectus furnishes the topic
of animadversion.—" Its position, held now
for moreithan forty years, as the leading or
gan of Liberal Theology in this country!'
What " Liberal Theology !" How can there
be liberality in theology ? Can men think
as they please of God? They cannot. In
some queitions in moral theology, opinions
are allowed to be held. But it is dogmatic,
and not ,moral theology, the Erminer an-'
nouncea,land in that there can be no free
dom of ithought. It is the science of the
Creator. r' How can such a science be liberal ?
The thing is impossible, absurd. Is there a
liberal medicine? Is there a liberal. archi
tecture,? Are the fine arts liberal ? Is chem
istry liberal? Nothing is liberal in which
- truth or essence is in the issue; and in dog
tleatic...,theology truth or,essence, alone is at
isgen.t"';44beral theology authorizes at one
and the, aame time, ,belief and disbelief 'in
; all that and has taught: But because men
are corkiiptbecause they like irresponsibil. ,
ity better than restriction ; disbelief is Teri,'
easily diffused than belief in religion; and,
therefore the Christian Examiner is virtually,
and by its own declarations, a vehicle of in
fidelity. The Christian publication that
announces liberal theologris , avowedly in
the ceireer of religious falsehood. Bigotry
is an odious prejudice ; but infidel doctrines
deservh the reprobation of the whole race,
' for such doctrines lead directly to the cor
ruption; of all morals in this life, and to
eterned perdition in the heit. If the Exam
frier is right, the FATHER, and the Sox and
the libiarGetosx are impostors, the Universal
Church is a universal chichaner, and the re
ligious sentiment of the *Oriel since the world
commenced, is no more than a fancy:
The case with Dr. Brownson, is this—that
he has nO weight in the dogma, literals and
metaphysics of the Church; that he has no
weight inletters ; and that he is distrusted.
in politics. This is a bitter condition of
things. It presents &collection of blighted
hopes which it is melancholy to look upon
and as it is universal, it would be difficult to
' prove itto be unjust.-- The Fraternity.—The
Boston correspondent of the Springfield Re
' publican thus writes about this institution :
".. „Miami. devoted Faster Sandal:to a
•m-ipetore — ttis'irraxerretty - ' — upon rhea=
dore Parker, his relation to Hume, Voltaire,
' and other iconoclasts. He argued that
while they only pulled down, Parker demol
ished and built up. The lecture was said
to be a fine effort: - It is unfortunate that
Mr. Parker's friends persistin holding, their
excellent course of lectures upon Sunday in
stead of some week day. There is such a
rattling of newspapers, slammihg of doors,
tramping up the aisles, and gazing about in
their tabernacle, that one who has no objec
tion to a stroll in the woods, or a quiet drive
on Sunday, feels here a sense of self-reproach;
as if the day were desecrated.,
The . Oldest S. S. Teacher.—Peter Badeau,
Esq.,the oldest Sunday school teacher in New
York, and probably in the United Stateg,
if not the oldest in the world, departed this
life on March 16, in his eighty-ninth year.
-He had been an active Sunday school teach
er from the first formation of Sunday schools
in New York up to the time of his death.
Schism.—There is a serious
schism in the Mormon ranks. The seceding
party declaxe against polygamy, and 'content
themselves with one, wife. An organization
founded on this idea has been formed in
Cincinnati, under the leadership of Joseph
Smith, Jr., and Israel L. Rogers. In the
southwest corner of Idaho Territory, at Soda
of
on Bear river; thereis a settlement
Of Mor s, called Morrisites, who reject
the dory Wb and - - Practice-of- polygamy,-and
have'-instituted many reforms in the practi
ces of tlairMormons. They were diiven fitoni
Utah 'l4,4tretkii, j though they profess to be
ll:We inloe Smith.---The Jews in Poland.—
The. Journal des Debate says that several of
the Jews of Warsaw, having refused to com
ply, with the decree of the 6th of February,
ordering them to cease wearing their Jewish
costume, they have for' several days been
exposed to outrages and insults of - every
kind.---Preaching in London Theatres.—This
is still kept up. Eight were crowded on one
Sabbath& One of the papers says; "At the
Standard, where our reporter attended, there
was again a very large assemblage, and of
such a class as fully to justify this "irregr,
lar " action of the Christian Church on the
masses, of our popalation. According to the
testimony of the city missionary in atten
dance at this theatre, a lower grade of the
society is reached 'every year.—Negroes at
Rome.—The Rome "correspondent of the
London, Times says that at the last annual
"Academia Polyglotta" of the great_ Catholic
college of the Propanda, the youths who
carried off the palm . were two negroes, re
joicing
in the names Of William Samba and
John Provost. Their delivery and action I
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Those who have been in service- less than
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those wci_have served under twents,-one
, years and over fourteen, the rank of :major.;
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;colonel ; and those. who have served over
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