6iorroo . liiiiiAttitie
FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT
IiDoN, April 2d, 1864.
It is astonishing what a number of
questions are now before the public—
questions of every grade and description:
The Danish question, the American ques
tion, the Conference question, the Stans
fold-Mazzini question, the Mexican
question, the Principalities, the Poles :
then there are the Essay and Review
judgment, the Oxford declaration, the
subject of Everlasting Punishment, the
Fenian "Conspiracy" in Ireland, and, to
England just now, most critical of all
questions, the coming political change.
Quietly, but strongly and continuous
ly-, the country seems to be impelling the,
conservative party to power; and I
think it, will not be long ere in America
a difference in the mana,gement will be
perceived. It is, of course, impossible :
to form any precise idea of what Tory
aation in relation to 'America will be;,
you. may be certain, however, that the'
Conservatives will not be able to lead
this country into collisicin with the
United States, so long as the Ameri
can GoVernment continues to act with
courtesy and dignity. We have quite.
enough to do to attend to our own affairs
without sending our iron-clads on a chi..
Valrie expedition to help Southerners to
hind fetters on fellow men. Whatever
may be said On your side; however
much certain - parties, who find a base
advantage in exciting malevolent pas
/310118 against this country, may agitate.
and "urge, you may hold it as certain
(that is my opinion formed on the spot)
that Great Britain is not going to war on
Southern account. The awful nature of
the struggle- 7 the en ornaous armaments--
the distinguished bravery on both sides—
the terrible struggles Of two, great and
powerful divisions 'of one coUntry--ni
press us - teo strongly, strike us with too
great an awe, (not, of fear hut of won
der„) to excite within - us any desire to
add fdel to the flame, to 'spread the con
flagratiOit over the whole world.
I" wouldurge yon `to endeavor, as
/meth iSpossible, to let nit know the true
state of Christianity in America at this
time. Wherever Igo among Christian
men in London I hear words of sorrow
and regret with reference to God's work
in America. They ask, "Is it going
on? Is` there not' a general decline in
-lots zeal ? Does not the distraction
Jrcat ts -,
of the civil struggle swallow up and
smother morality and piety ?" Then, as
is natural, facts, incidents, matters that
come through perhaps not very friendly
sources, are quoted, as evidences that
God has partly hid his, face behind a
cloud. Thesej say, are natural ques
.
tions ; they aro not put flippantly , or
curiously, but seriously and sadly; and
the fact that they are put only evinces
hoNi groat an interest the English . Chris
tian fools for his harassed brother in
Ameriba,. Will you not give us a lead
ing, article, that may be published here,
with some account of the position and
prospects of Christian prilaciples and
Christian,work in the, 1.1 - orth, especially
in the Presbyterian churches, not sta
tistical, but general?
Let me add one word: The Christians
in England look to the Christians in Amer-'
ica,. to see to it that as much, as possible good
feeling shall be cherished between the two
col47lfries ; and that political influence shall
be used rather to foster concord than to in
flame animosity. It would be a grand
and noble display of power for American
Christianity to show that it can control
or, direct political action. Here we dare
hardly say that it is so. Religious opin
ion influences, society—true, sterling
Christian opinion is not, I fear, so pow
erful. Orthodoxy in America, where it
is free, unfettered by State connection,
has settled its foundations throughout
the whole population, broad and deep;
and whatever power there may be in
the loose and scattered infidelity of the
land, I trust that against the true faith
it is now impossible that the gates of
hell should prevail.
Well, of the subjects I, have enumera
ted, I must, say something about the
Oxford declaration, which I sent you in
.a former letter. It has been signed by
tali the ministers of the church. You
will notice that the decisions in the Es
say, and Review cases virtually affirm
that the Church of England has no fixed
opinion, or principle or canon, or what
ever you like to term it—on three vita:
questions :
1. The Inspiration of Scripture.
2.. The Imputation of Righteousness.
8. Everlasting Punishment.
I heard an able sermon the other
night by Ma. ALEXANDER of Chelsea,
(whom I have often mentioned in these
letters) in which he showed how com
pletely the avoidance of these three
doctrines, leaves the church high and
dry without any faith. It is to be pub
lished and I will send it to you as the
best resume of the subject that you could
publish.
Now the Oxford Declaration, you
have perhaps observed, deals only with
the first and third of these doctrines, and
the most mportant of these is ;unmen
tioned !''}The reason every one.kno
It is said that t!!_to framers of that. dec,
laration; w-ere pliliged to leave . ' ti out,
because there was either such universal
ignorance or such looseness of opinions
on it, that otherwise the demcinstration
would have -been an utter failure. This
is the saddest and most startling proof
of the condition of the Established clergy
that could be given, and is only a con
firmatory evidence of the folly and in_
consistency of selecting a Christian
ministry by its secular learning rather
than by its spiritual piety. Dr. JERE
AIY, Regius Professor of Divinity at
Cambridge, preaching at the consecra
tion 'of the Bishop Of Ely, at Westmin.
ster Abbey the other day, gave as
reason why the' doctrines of the church
should b e settled and, precisely defined;
the fact that young men without fixed
views of dOctrine, were often appointed
to large and important cures, which- oc4
cupied their whole energies and give
them no time to study theological ques- :
-tions, so that they looked to their elders
in the church to fix and define these for
them, and he argued. that if the elders
went astray or were not to be trusted ,
the others would follow them. Is it
possible to conceive that on such ques
tions as the Imputation of Righteous:
ness, .Tustification, Sanctification, the,
work and office of the ,Spirit, the Eter-,
nal Destinies of man, Christian' ministers
can be allowed -to preach when they
themselves have no practical knowledge
or comprehension of them ? How can
man properly display to the perishing
the power of Christ's atonement, or the
Grace of the Spirit if he knows not,
either by personal consciousness ? And
ia.he to ,look beyond 'to elder brethren
to tell him what they : mean'? Religion
then becomes „a, science, and doctrine a
- number of philosophic propositions.
But it is more, than this.; there must be
a. elearspirituat information and under
standing between man and man, a sol
emn evidence and communication of
inward spirituallife or the preaching of
the Gospel is foolishness.
A number of letters are appearing in
the Spectator on Eternal Punishment.
The recent judgment having thrown open
the field to the clergy, they are taking
advantage of the liberty to show how
little they believe. The MAnainu theory
on this subject seems to be the one now
relied on by these- :Univorsalists, for
though they repudiatethe name, I do not
see, how they can avoid the logical con :
elusion to Universal Restitution. Their
strong point is a mere metaphycial
quibble on the meaning of the word
"Eternal," (aionios.) The word used,
they
~ say, regarding. eternal life is the
one used regarding eternal punishment.
Now when used in connection with God;
this word moans ! everything (good) but
duration ! [what sense. there is in that yon
will find it hard to perceivq, when used
with life also you must sever from it the
idea of duration : therefore when used
with punishment, you must do,the same,!
This is the brilliant;logic of Modern Ne-,
ology ! Wouldn't Plato, and Plotirias
have laughed at their Christian .disci
pies ? This great subject is exciting a
very wide discussion. I went to. Long
man's the other day to get a pamphlet
entitled " Forgiveness after Death," hy
an English clergyman, and found that
though issued but a short time ago
there were none loft.
Nevertheless we hold fast to the
truth : THE WORD OF * GOD ABIDETH
FOREVER
FROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPON-
DENT.
A DAY AT TRUMANSBURGH
This is a pleasant, thriving village of
Central New York, about twelve miles
north of Ithaca, and lying about 'three '
miles back of that beautiful sheet of
water, Cayuga Lake. It is a town of
some 1500 or 2000 inhabitants ; with
Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and
Episcopal Churches, a thriving Acade
my, two banks, beside mills and mann
factories and a beautiful farming coun
try surrounding it. The Presbyterian
church was organized, with eight mem
bers, in 1803; has been, blessed with
numerous revivals of religion; in 1843
reported two hundred and seventy-three
members; and in 1863 two hundred and
sixty-one. Rev. A. M. Mann, D. D.,
formerly settled over the Dutch Church
in Poughkeepsie, is the present pastor.
But the place has suffered sadly by
the recent fire, of which the press gen
erally took notice at the time. And it
was no small matter, in a village of that
size to have forty buildings swept, in a
single night, right out of one of its prin
cipal streets; one grist-mill, one furnace
and one bank being among the number.
And yet the workmen are already clear
ing away the rubbish, and laying the
foundations for better structures, in
place of those consumed; and in a short
time the village will be greatly improVed
by that which it has suffered.
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1864.
It was by the greatest exertion, and
indeed by that which some regarded as
a special providence alone, that the
Presbyterian church was saved' from
the devouring element. The fire was
sweeping directly towards it, consuming
everything in its path, with no fire
engine in the village to check its pro . -
gress, until the house next to the sanctu
ary was all ablaze, and the sheds
belonging to it, situated in the rear,
were also on fire. In the meantime,
carpets had been spread on the roof of
the church and over the coriiice and
windows toward the flames, and these,
by the greatest exertions, Whre kept
wet. But all this, it was feared, would
not have-saved the house except tha . 4
apparently at the most critical moment;
just as the flames seemed roaring and
hissing- 'and leaping directly at the
chUrch, as if determined to add this one
more building at' least to its triumph;
the wind suddenly Changed,:and gently
bleW 'the other way. , It was only 4
breath-of air; and yet that mad, devour ; ' ,
ing element felt its' gentle touch, and
paused in its'wild career, stood ; erect foi
a moment, and then leaned far away
from the consecrated house, and the .
danger was Over. A grateful :people
acknowledge the good hand of God that
came to the rescue.
Our visit was - made pleasant and
memorable by .a trip to one of the most
picturesque and beautiful.wat4r falls we
have ever soon. A small stream, called
the Taghkanic, or Taghanie rivet; Pours
into the Cayuga Lake, about thrse miles;
from , Trumansburgh. Within the last;
two'rniles of its course it makes a deecent"
'of some several hundred ..feet; forming'
-several beautifureaseadea r riktling down!
amidst deep; rocky gorges, with -huge
overhanging cliffs, all festooned with the ,
ever-green fir, and pine and hemlock. .
beautifid road leads along the bank-,
where one may drive and catch nevi
glimpses of beauty and'grandeur .almoSt
at every step.
But the principal fall is two hundred
and fifteen feet high.; and here the
stream cannot be more than• iidrty feet
wide, enclosed in high, precipitous-walls
of rock, more than one hundred arid fifty,
feet high, from the surface 'of thestrea - ni f
before it takes its fearful plungo.' - The
water issues from this deep, winding,
walled chasm almost as from the-mouth
of some gigantic cave, and then plunges
in one long line of.foam down into the
deep abyss. The surrounding,bailks of
this huge chasm are • threeilmndtreithand
eighty feet high. It was fearful; to look
off into this • almoSt bottomless, abyss.
It was beautiful to gaze on that sheet
of foam; ever rushing; thundering into
the depths below. , Beautiful, too was
that grove of pines, with. their-soft car
pet of moss below, and:the gentle-sigh
ing of the winds in the brancheenbove.
We Wondered that this spoLwas not,
more celebrated, and that •it was not
a- place-of great resort. _There is here . ,
indeed, a hotel upon .the bank;,with the
finest possible view, of the cascade right
at its door; and in simmer. it has some
visitors. A few' rods from the , house,
there ItA - also fine views. ukand down
bayitg,a. Lake. Ithaca, is but twelvel
miles' south. Beautiful little steamers'.
are Constantly plying Upon. the lake,
making the place easy of access to the.
dwellers in cities, east or west. It is. a
'spot free from dust,away from the rushing,
crowds and confusion of onr gpat , water
ing places; presentingfine oppiartanities;
for sailing, rowing, swinging, fishing. ) ,
riding, or for clambering up and down
precipices and banks, a,midst . sild. and
romantic scenery. : If there are any of
our readers who cannot do better for
the summer, we advise them, by all
means, to go to Taghkanic
ADELPIIOS
THE REVIVAIk AT HONEOYE FALLS
We have before spoken of the refresh
ing experienced by the. Presbyterian
church in this place. The laethodist
church also shared in the blessing, and
the two pastora have labored together
as harmoniously and pleasantly as
though they were of the same denomi
nation. As a part of the precious in
gathering, thirteen were received last
Sabbath to the Presbyterian Church
under-the care of Rey. E. 13.,1ran Auken:
ten by profession, and three by letter.
Others, it is hoped, will be enrolled at a
future day.
The Salina Church, o-,resbyterian
Church of the First Ward in Syracuse,
are moving in the Matter of securing a
parsonage for their esteemed pastor,
Rev. L. H. Reid; having purchased an
eligible lot, on which they propose to
erect a substantial brick dwelling for
his accommodation.
Rev. Dr. Daggett, of Canandaigua,
has been absent from his people for
three Sabbaths, for a short vacation.
They were glad to have him take a lit
tle rest, for he deserves it; and very
glad to see him back again, when the
appointed tiurts was past, for he is a man
esteemed and prized by them—how
TAG EMANIO FALLS
A PARSONAGE IN PROSPECT.
PAEMORS IN FAVOR.
much esteemed is plainly manifest by
the substantial and unexpected welcome
they gave him on his return, in the
shape of a purse of WO, a gift for the
times. Both pastor and people will feel
better for it.
In the same connection, we may men
tion that Rev. E. F. Allen, the young
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
Cayuga, has received an addition of
$lOO a year to his salary.
HAMILTON COLLEGE
The junior exhibition in this our fa
vorite and prosperous institution, came
off- recently with more than ordinary
success, if we may judge from the repre
sentations which- have come to hand.
The class of '65 will only be expected to
do themselves still
.greater credit at that
more eventful period of graduation.
But ; , we refer to , our noble college,
now more. and ,more a credit to the
State, and a blessing to the church, from
yer to , year, only to express our, heart
feltthanks, and the unanimous thanks,
of Central and Western. New York, to
these noble friends of the Institution
residing in and around Philadelphia
who are endowing the Barnes Professor
ship. We are sure that in this they are
doing a good work, laying up stores of
blessings, for the church for all time ;to
come.
SANITARY. FAIR AT ST. LOUIS
An earnest appeal has • been received
from Rev. Dr. Nelson of St.. Louis, for
aidf for the Freedmen's Department of
the-proposed Sanitary Fair in that city.
Some of our citizens are nobly respond
ing. Valuable gifts are already pledged
and others: expected from men who• are
giving all tbe time, giving liberally to
everygcause,.and are now- ready to do
what they.can, to make-glad the heart
of the- freedman.
How different the feelings of suchlmen:
must be from those of a. man of whom
we, recently. heard. Ho is: -an old man,
and soon to render up an .account of his
stewardship. He is ricit•in this-world's
goods, and a professed follower °fa-belle-.
21... friend applied to hina.for one hundred
dollars, as his contribution - for the year
to one of the greatest and.hest of causes:
His earnest and prompk, reply was, "1
cannot-give one hundred. cents ! I'liave.
to pay three hundred dollars taxespandi
I must stop giving in charity l" Boor,.
rich, old , man I Thera are thow , ..thab
would willingly talc°, his property;:
cheerfully pay all the taxes upon. it, and!
give atleast a thousand dollars a . year
to the great causes of benevolence;. and,
bo tortabirao'ro-happy in. doing
_it, _ than,
he ie in, refusing. How few know how
really to-enjoy their riches,- Gr....us.r.n.
ROCHESTER, April, 16 .1864.
MR BARNESON NOME MIMI%
Last-Sabbath morning, with.a4frenci
from the "Old BapAta.te,'' the. writer
heard, the Rev. Llibert Bannes ) „ up=
Homet.3l;issions. The text war s ._" Bate if
the salt have lost tits savor- wherewith
shall it be salted. It, is ther..o"odh, good
for nothing, but ta".„,be cast. out.arith to. be
trodden under foot of men.",
The meaning of the text i , said the
speaker, is, that salt has a z ,preserving,
purifying effect„" and
.when.. applied to
an.individual, fwaily,towu, city ezr com
monwealth, in a moral 'sense, it means
to preserve and keep them:pure..
1. It is ,nob onough to atart7well.
Our fathers started this, Nition, a
Christian Nation. Thiw. were good
men, farseeing:men,--"mm.n. eminent for
piety. So far • the Nation. was , started
right. Under this. head, was - much
pleased to. find justim done to the Puri
tans ; and, this was. the more gratify-.
ing, because during zkresidence of about
five years in this city, I have found
many - who have veaT limited notions of
the Paritans, and not a., few disposed 41 . .),
represent them as.= ignorant, bigoted,
persecuting sect.. Mr. B. showed that,
while they did not know everything h and
Were not without faults, still they V,IfRO,
for their time, ahead of the rest of; the
would, which certainly was the fast.
IL Mr. B. spoke of the departre of
our country from the good cust4m.g, of
our fathers.
1. In picky. We are not as. pious as
they were. As • a nation we ha i ve depre
ciated in this respect.
2. We were not as patriodt as they
were. They were true lovscs of their
country. True, there-were some at the
time of the Revolution, who were called
tories, whose feelings were with Eng,
land. But the great mass of the Nation,
were patriots. Previousto the brealriag
out of the rebellion, there had been, a
great decay of patriotism in the N*tion.
3. We did not feel our dependence
upon God as the Nation did at its foun
dation and at the time of the American
Revolution. We were grown strong,
had become a great people; and gloried
in our union and in our strength. In
this respect, viz : feeling our depen
dence upon God, there bad been great
decay.
B. did not believe slavery was the
sole cause of this, war ; though it was a
Clause, and no mall one, of it.
Our fathers believed slavery, to be an
evil, and they als . o believed that it
world work itself mit of all the States,
as it did out of most o f them ; and, but
for the invention of the cotton gin, it
probably would have bet''•n worked out.
All, North and South, believed slavery
to be an evil, and it was - not till the
South changed their minds upon this
subject, and declared it to be good, a Bi
ble institution, and contended fo. r it upon
this ground, that there were signs of our
present trouble.
Mr. B. now spoke of the reconatrt 'cam)
restoration of the- rebel States. ollhey
could never be restored by compromise.
This had been tried, we have had cm
promise upon con promise t to our sham ).
The only way the 17nion can: be restor
ed is by the utter destruction , of slavery.
Here the speaker was firm : and eloquent.
All know, who have ever - heard. Mr. 8.,
the gentle, solemn, easy, flowing man
,ner in which he,speaks, and many of us
have admired him, and, when we have
heard him, have felt j.ast as j Horace
said, in his "Art of Poetry,"—he- would
have it flow so easily that those who
read, or heard it, should feel- as though
they could write just se,- and then let
them try;. so we have felt, and have not
found how much we were wanting, till
we have tried. Here Mr- 8. , showed'bis
power and his feeling, and, is-not this
just what every man now living ought.
to feel'on this subject 7
_This point is vital to our nation. If
slavery and liberty cannot-dwell togeth
er • and if we cannot kill slaveignowi
when, in the name of Heaven, can we do
it ? A mortal blow has been given ,to-it, ,
but it has been given to a giant in.whieh
a fearful vitality yet remains; and again•
we say, if it cannot be now liestroyed,
when can it be ? Never, no , never:-
Every good man, every minister, every
patriot, every man, woman , Arid child
ought to speak out and act out= on thisi
subject. Now,let slavery die,
Mr. B. then brought, out thanbject.of
his. sermon, to wit : Sable- Missions:
We- must not only start right, but, in, a
government like ours, enlighten; improve
)7 efine and sanctify the ple. by the
gospel. Here is the field; themar opens
the door.;; great, indeed; let us .make-it
effectual.
We wette. highly gratifiosi-and pleased
that we had the pleasure of hearing this
sermon r andi especially upon-this su.bje . et,
This sketch, brief and vey imperfect,
has, been- given to call the attention 4of
your readers to the subjeo.; one of mo,
men tous.importance, dt *.,taus time. The
present crisis demands. such sermons,
and they ought, to beq-reached from.
every pulpit.
Mr. B: (it should hav*.been said abtkve),
paid a high compliment, tot the" Sanitary
and Christian Commistacue." But 6hese
will end with the wari.and some, more
perinacent means musk- he used totkeep
the people enlighteatidi and purified.
_Hence-the need. of th*Giospel.
RP.OFIVAL IN WI?. EreiGTON,
BaoLenEft .11Ixams , 47--,Y031 : requested a
notice of the work off' grace whieh God
has-done in the Hanewer,Church s ,of
raington, this winten,and spring. ,I hes
itW,-ed a moment, *ace, at. - BAIA_ glance,
it seemed to savor; of, ostentation, this
making so public what has oeoured in
a:sngle ehurch,bitt,lrecalledAhe words.
GE Edwards in hi ";Narrative of Sur-.
Rising Conversions," and 4, concluded'
that it was right that 5 . 7.43:h accounts
should be given. Let Mgt repeat the.
!paragraph to ; which I alluded: "
`what other towns heard of and found
in this, was a_great mean3pf awakening .
therh ; so °nit hearing of such a swat
and extraordinary propngation, andox,
tent of this, work, did doubtless, for. a,
time serve to uphold tb.s l work amongst
us. The continual news. kept alivothe
talk of religion, and did greatly (vicken..
and rejoise the hearts,of God's people,
and mw' awaken those that looked on,
themselves as still lef6behind, and .rando
them the more earnest that thaTmight
share.: the great blessing that, others;
had obtained."
Last Sabbath was one offthe days
which will be long remembercd;in. the
history of the Hanover Church of this
city. Fifty members were negeived into
the communion: of the church; cloven
fNom othet chr4rehes, and thirty:l:Liao on
profession of their
_faith * . An unusual
interest attached itself to, the reception
of the members from churches from
abroad. Three of them were refugees
from Virginia, compelled, on account. of
their Unionism, to fle*and leave every
thing Iwhind. The husband had been
torn sway by the rebels from his 'home,,
his only offence being the fact that he
was known to he opposed to the rebel
lion, had been °roamed firstin Richmond
in the Libby prison, then sent away to
Salisbury, then back again - to Rich
mond to Castle Thunder, whence, after
a captivity of five months, he with two
brothers, (the wife of one of them unit
ing with our church at this time,) were
exchanged, and made their way tCi our
city. These beloved friends confirm- all
the accounts which we have been accus
tomed to hear of the horrors of the
prisons of Richmond, and having been
confined ,with the non-military priso
ners, are able to testify to the demoniac
cruelties practiced upon Union men by
the rebel authot:ities. I might fill sheet
after sheet with the story told by these
brethren, of men of wealth and stand
ing, chained in gangs with slave fetters,
stripped of everything; of old men
dragged from home, compelled to make
king and weary marches and . dying at
the end of mere exhaustion and sorrow,
of robberies and murder, but it would be
only repeating a sickening and often told
story. More than one of these brothers
lives to-day, only because of the defec
tive aim of the wretches who sought
their life, and who repeatedly fired at
ti'lem with the purpose of killing them.
TI ley tell us that we neednot disbelieve
an) r tale, it matters riot ho* dreadful,
of O. le abominations committed by rebels
upon Union men at the Soatla. If any
of yo ur readers should hitherto have
been ioclined to doubt these accounts, I
would ;that they could talk with these
brethen and sisters; they would doubt
no more.
Th ese f t mines have left houses, crops,
almost ev k lrything except what they
could• take with them in a hasty flight
at a few hon rs' notice They were wel
comed, with more than ordinary plea
sure and affec Lion to the communion of
the ehurch. They could not be said
strictly to be - eceived on certificate of
membership, fs yr letters could not be
obtained from ti 'm church within tke're
bel lines, but upt m the evidence furnish...,
ed by them of me mbership.in the church
to which they for merly belonged,.
The-reception t )f these refugees was
made all, the more interesting, from the
fact that two daughters were among
the rnanbep admittt )d on the profession
of theircfaitla. The Providence of God
had ineade the place. - of their exile the
birth-14c° of their' k souls.
This ingathering iE i the fruit of a very
blessed work of gra see in the• church
turning.: the- Winter and Spring. Last
October, as , you ma y remember, the
corner-Btone• of a us Tw and beautiful
obapel,we.s laid, in a 'destitute. part of
the city. The effort t o erect this build
ingdrew. the church togetber; , and we
believe i , gave rise to a. spirit , of prayer
'and adwillinguess to v cork; so• that as
the year opened it seer. ned to be a pro..
piticus time for som e special effort.
Rev,E Sprague, of Csz. yell, N.
formerly a. co-presbytor ag'the pester,
was invited to make a.
visa o,Wilming
ton and assist in a series of meetings.
He remained nearly two vareetts, preach
ing with great power and with manifest
tokens of the presence of the Holy
Spirit. After his' departure, meetings
of various kinds were continued far
several weeks, numbers being awakened
and-hopefeßty converted. lb, is of course
impossible , to say how maaay have been .
the., subjects of this work; thirty-nice
wene.roceived last Sabbath,. others have
united , with other chtlnehee, and still
others are hoping to unite With the
oburohon a subsequer.'.;vaceasion.
The gsanp as it liked the isle, was
composed of all age:l A .2nm twelve, to
middle- life, a father raison, sisterci-and
brother , of seVeral_rlifferent fa. - 4ilies
stood side by side. - .hang the number
were twelve young men, all excer* two
between seventeen and twenty-fivi*years
of. age: More than_ twenty are i.in the
Sabbath Schools ail the churchoeither
as teeehers or sohelars.
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This addition, the largest made at
any ono time, to the church for more
than twenty years ) is full of encourage
ment and hope battik. venerallie.church,
thus bearing fruit. in its old age. Fifty--
six have been ,added during; the year,,
forty-three making a profession ot their
in ChriF.4w. We cannot ;but regard
it, as a tokeu..oil the divins*,approbation
impon a spirit of' activity and endeavor
, to extend the , blosssings. of the Gosppl
to the destitute.
A few =Nimoks since ytetrz gave a brief
statementpf an ingathering in the Cen
tral Churok nearly as lame as this and.
in your rut week's isane you spoke of
two othen extensive revivals in other
churches.. of the Presivtery of Wilming
ton; - may we not tAlle this as. an ap.
provali of the coarse of unswerving
loyalt t y to the Government which our ,
chnreabss in this Biwa State have main-.
tained?
S 4 we regard. / it here. Our`- experi,
oe proves thei the spiritual prosperity
of the church, is not hiudered by the
fullest denumoiation of treason and the
most emphat,io support of the govern
ment, butt rather promoted by them
both. W. A.
Wnaraterox, April 15, 1864.
Islxvra suffer sin to live any more in
you, that would not suffer your SAVIOUR
to live in the world; never allow that a
room in your kart which would not allow
him a room angst' the living- on ealth,
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