LETTER FROM CHINA,
STATISTICS OF MISSIONS
Canton, March 26, 1864.
Mr. Editor:— Thinking that many of
your readers will be interested in some
statistics relating to tho number of
Protestant missionaries in China and
the stations where they are laboring,
and the probablo number of converts
from heathenism connected with them,
I send you the following tables. A
bird’s eye view may thus bo obtained of
tho present condition of the missionary
wor t with tho aid of the imagination.
The estimated number of converts is
given in round numbers.
A T o. of Missiom- No. of Mia- No of Converts
Name of Port. ties. eions. (Estimated.)
Amoy. .12 ® 19?
Full Chau 11 J
Shanghai 12 [j
Hankou * 2 99
Chefoo 3 “l 40
Tangchau 6 V ..
Peking .10 e 18
Hong Kong and aiija
cent country .10 4 • 440
11l 42 2600
In the mainland opposite Hong Kong,
whifch is an English colony, it is esti
mated that there are some 300 converts
connected with throe German missions,
whoso headquarters are at Hong Kong.
Those are included in the last item
above.
Of these 111 missionaries 5 or 6 are
absent on visits to their native lands.
The wives of the missionaries are not
enumerated, nor are several unmarried
ladies engaged principally in teaching.
There are about 20 different American,
English and Continental societies en
gaged in the work of sfcopagating the
gospel in China. Of the missionaries
about 57 are from America, 9 are from
Germany, and 45 from England, Ireland
and Scotland. Thero are boarding
schools for the training of youth, male
or female, in the doctrines of the Chris
tian religion at Canton, Swatow, Euh
chau, Hingpo and Shanghai, and day
schools at most if not all of the ports
occupied by missionaries. There are
soveral flourishing out stations and
country churches already formed, con
nected with the missions at Amoy.
Euh Chau, Ningpo and Shanghai, and
perhapß at one or two other ports. It
would be safe to estimate that there
are over 100 native Christians em
ployed at the different ports as school
teachers, or preachers, exhorters, col-
Tmitfnin' i '*
more or less, where the gospel is regu
larly preached by the foreign missionary
or his native helper.
I am sorry to mention that there are
5 ports open to foreign trado and resi
dence, in this empire,where there are no
Protestant missionaries, viz: FTewchang,
the most northern consular port, Kin
Kiang and Chinkrang, on the river
Yang-tze, and the two Formosan ports.
At each of these four ports there are
foreign merchants, but no preacher of
the doctrines of Jesus. The merchant
is ready to avail himself of increased
facilities for trade and to occupy new
ports as soon as accessible; but the
church lingers and fails to enter and
possess the land. Ought these things so
to be? Christ never commanded men
to gb into all the world and trade with
every creature, but he did command his
followers to go everywhere preaching
the word. The children of this world
are indeed more active and more wise
than are the children of light.
The following table has been supplied
by an American missionary of this place,
relating to the condition of the work
here, at the end of December last yoar.
It may be of interest sufficient to pre
sent to the friends of missions at home.
.§. e .
Name of Mission. ’§'l Sli §"1 S' ! ='s 3 8
4* !>f *$ s*
Whenbeguu . 1807 1830 1S« 1852 1846 1860
No. or Mission Stations 2 2 6 5 2 1
No. ,of Missionaries de- ,
eoased or removed 7 8 2 1 6
No. of Communicants at
date.... 23 6 8 33 72
No. of nstive assistants.. 2 l s 2
No. of sohools for boys... 1 2 3*2
No. of do girls... 2 2 1
No. of pupils, boys [day] 60 117 147
No. of do. girls. “ 10 '33 32
No. of do. girls,[bdg.J 26 10
No. of chapels 2 2 6 4 2
Out stations 1 11
Besides the above, in connection with
the South Baptist Mission there is an
out-station distant some fifty or sixty
miles from Canton, where there is a
church of some 17 members, and where
two native assistants are employed.
There is also one missionary hospital at
Canton, doing a good work.
There is a considerable diversity of
ppraetice among missionaries in regard
to what constitutes a proper subject of
baptism. Some baptize inquirers on
much less evidence of real interest and
change of heart than do others ; some
baptize inquirers as a means of grace,
before conversion, while others, the large
majority of American missionaries, bap
tize only those who seem to give credi
ble evidence that they have been
born again, and are “ new creatures in
Christ.” It is first necessary to know
the principles according to which in
quirete are baptized, before one can
judge accurately in regard to the Chris
tian character of thoso baptized.
The work progresses here and in
other parts of China slowly, if viewed
by an eye of sight only, but surely, if
regarded by a vision of faith. A great
and glorious work has been commenced
at this port, and at the other consular
ports along the coast of this vast empire.
The present number of converts is not
relatively large. But the work is the
Lord’s, and will prosper in His own
good time, as in other lands. Missiona
ries are “faint yet pursuing,” “going
forward,” praying and laboring in hope
for a great and abundant harvest day.
Let them be cheered by the knowledge
that Christians in western lands are also
praying “ Thy kingdom come,’’ and look
ing by faith forward to the time when
many shall be born- in a day in the land
of Sinxm.
“ THERE IS NO NEW THING UNDER THE
Daniel Webster, in' his last hours, said to
hi* physician : “ Doctor, tell every body that
nobody knows anything !” Events are con
stantly ocouring to revive this declaration
and attest its truth. In this day of startling
discoveries and abundant self-complacency,-
we find the Book of Job, claiming to be the
oldest written volume of earth, frequently
confirming some of the: most occult and
wonderful discoveries of modern science.
Who ever dreamed, when reading the enu
meration of Job’s early possessions, that one
of his revenues was Petroleum, or Coal Oil ?
Hear his own words, in the 29th Chapter,
from the 2d to the 6th verse :
“ Oh, that I were as in months past, as in
the dayß when God preserved me ;
When his candle shined upon my head,
and when by his light. 1 walked through
darkness;
As I was in the days of* my youth, when
the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
When the Almighty was yet with me, when
my children were about me ;
When I washed my. steps with butter, and
the rock poured me out rivers of oil!
THOMAS CHALMERS,
THE APOSTLE OF CITY MISSIONS
Seventeen years ago, on the 4th of June,
was carried to his final resting place amid
the tears of all Edinburg—nay, of all Scot-
land—and with one hundred thousand spec
tators at his funeral, the man who had won
such a place in the hearts of the multitude,
not by his surprising powers of eloquence, or
by his massive intellect, but by his deep
personal concern, unparalleled labours, origi
nal, comprehensive and successful plans for
carrying the Gospel to the neglected and
degraded masses of his countrymen. The
commencement of the ministerial labours of
Dr. Chalmers gave not the slightest promise
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nary pastor. A cold, heartless formalist ;
devoted to intellectual and especially mathe
matical pursuits; aspiring, as he himself
afterwards admitted, “to he successor to Pro
fessor Playfair in the mathematical chair of
the University of Edinburgh/' he entertained
such low views of ministerial duty as to be
satisfied .with employing five days of the
week in scientific pursuits at a distance from
his parish, leaving two days, Saturday and
the Sabbath, to the labours of the ministry.
What could have been expected, in the way
of eminent parochial services, from a nmn
who conscientiously pursued such a course,
and who, when a discussion arose respecting
the union of other duties with the ministry,
defended his course in a pamphlet from
which the following is an extract:
“ The author of this pamphlet can assert,
from what to him is the highest authority,—
the authority of his own experience,—that,
after the satisfactory discharge of his parish
duties, a minister may enjoy five days in the
week of uninterrupted leisure for the prose
cution of any science in which his tastes may
dispose him to engage."
To make the apostle of city missions out
of this cold and conscientious devotee of
abstract science, was as great a work almost
as to make out of persecuting Saul the
apostle to the Gentiles. And the same
means—the transforming power of the Holy
Spirit—exerted in connection with divine
providence in his life, brought about the
marvellous result. Chalmers was prostrated
with a long and serious illness. His founda
tions were shaken. The nearness of eternity
revealed at once the shallowness of his hopes
and plans. He rose and returned to his
work a new man. The study of mathematics,
upon which he looked as his great field for
literary distinction, he relinquished entirely.
In the discharge of all his parochial duties
there came a total alteration. As if to make
up for past neglect, the spiritual care and
cultivation of his parish became the supreme
object of his life. We quote from Dr. Way
land’s memoir:
To break up the peace of the indifferent
and secure, by exposing at once the guilt of
their ungodliness and its fearful issue in a
ruined eternity ; to spread out an invitation
wide as heaven’s all-embracing love, to accept
of eternal life in Jesus Christ; to plead with
all, that instantly and heartily, with all good
will, and with full and unreserved submission,
they should give themselves up in absolute
and entire dedication to the Bedeemer; these
were the objects for which he was now seen
to strive with such a severity of conviction as
implied that he had one thing to do, and
with such a concentration of forces as to idle
spectators, looked like insanity. Most earn
est entreaties' that every sinner he spoke to
should come to Christ just as he was, and
bury all his fears in the sufficiency of the
great atonement, were presented in all pos
sible forms,and delivered in all different kinds
of tones and attitudes. “He would bend
over the pulpit,” said one of his old hearers,
and press us to take the gift as if he held
it- that moment in his hand, and would not
be satisfied until every one of us had got
possession of it. And often when the sermon
was over and the psalm was sung, and he
rose to pronounce the blessing, he would
break out afresh, with some new entreaty,
umvillingto let until he had made one I
more effort to persuade us to accept of it." 1
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1864.
SUN.”
He continued his practice of visiting his
parish, but, instead ol finishing this work in
a fortnight, it occupied him the whole year.
The visit on these occasions was not merely
an agreeable recognition and a pleasant
ceremony. Itwas improved by Dr. Chalmers
as an occasion for earnest conversation on
the subject of personal religion, with the
members of the family, and of solemn ex
hortation to lay hold of the salvation offered
in the gospel. “ I have a very lively r col
lection,” said Mr. R. Edie, “of the iiiUHS ;
earnestness ot his addresses on occasions of
visitation in my father’s house, when he
would unconsciously move forward on his
chair to the very margin of it, in his anxiety
to impart to the family and. servants the
impression, of eternal things that so-filled his
soul.” It was in this manner that he carried
the gospel to every family in his parish, like
the apostle teaching publicly and from house
to house, testifying repentance toward God
and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
But this did not exhaust his efforts. In
the autumn of 1813 he opened a class, in his
own "house, upon the Saturdays, for the
religious instruction of the young. At first
it was intended that it should meet monthly;
the numbers, however, who presented them
selves for instruction, and the ardor with
which they entered upon the tasks imposed,
’induced him soon to hold the class every
fortnight, and then every week.
Hor did,these private labors interfere with
his diligent preparation for thq Sabbath.
Instead of two or three h«ufs„ which he
formerly took for the work of preparation, a ;
large part c*f every week was now devoted to-
devoutly how lie best,
could bring the truth home to the hearts of
his Jiearers. In a letter to his mother, he
writes, “You may,tell my father that I
have at length come to kis opinion, that the
peculiar business of his profession demands
all the time, all the talents, and all the
energy that any minister is possesed of.”
_ It was not long before the whole aspect of
the Sabbath congregations in Kilmany
church was changed. The stupid wonder
which used to sit on the countenances of the
few villagers or farm-servants who attended
divine service, was turned into a' fixed,
intelligent, and devout attention. It was
not easy for the dullest to remain uninformed;
for if the preacher sometimes soared too high
for the best trained of his people to follow
him, at other times, and much oftener, he
put the matter of his message so as to force
for it an entrance into the most sluggish
understanding. The church became crowded.
The feeling grew with the numbers who
shared in it. The fame of these wonderful
discourses spread through the neighborhood,
till at last there was not an adjacent parish
which did not send its weekly contribution
to his ministry. Persons from: extreme dis
tances in the county found themselves side
by side, crowded in the same pew.
THE ACQUITTAL OF THE ESSAY AND
REYIEW "WRITERS.
The London Quarterly has a careful
and discriminative article on this sub
ject, from which wo make some ex-
tracts
“ What is the strict legal effect of the
judgment which has actually been de
livered ? Mow, any examination of it
will Show that this question is not very
easily answered. Possibly of set pur
pose, certainly in sure effect, there has
hardly ever been a solemn decision of so
high a tribunal of which the true legal
Ble. Its very wording proclaims the
presence of the difficulty. It begins
and ends with an eager disclaimer of
‘pronouncing’ exactly that which the
Church required; namely, ‘ any opinion
on the character, effect," or tendency of
the publications known by the name of
Essays and Keviews/ and that not on
the ground on which Dr. Lußhington’s
judgment might be defended* as declin
ing to fix an explanation on passages of
Holy Scripture which had not already
any fixed ecclesiastical interpretation,
but with the avowed object of leaving
the volume unexamined. The Judgment
refuses to consider even the whole es
say either of Dr. Williams or of Mr. Wil
son. Its- consideration is confined to
a few short extracts.’ 1 The meagre
and disjointed extracts which have been
allowed to remain in the reformed arti
cles of charge are alone the subject of
judgment.’ flay, by a ruling which we
never remember to have met with else-'
where, against which in the hearing of
the case it seemed almost intimated that
the arguments of counsel were unneces
sary, and against which we believe that
lawyers in general would emphatically
protest, it was determined that whilst
‘it is competent to the accused party
to explain from the rest of his work the
sense or meaning of any passage or
word that is challanged by the accuser,
the accuser is, for the purpose of the
charge, confined to the passages which
arc included and set out in the articles
as the accusation.’ Thus the language
Of the accused in the extracts, though
in itself the most erroneous, could bo
explained away by the quotation.' of
other words from the body of the writ
ing, which seemed, however inconsist
ently, to contradict the error charged
upon them,’whilst the accuser was pre
vented from traveling into the same
surrounding matter to show that his in
terpretation of the offending words was
the true one. On such a rule it is
scarcely conceivable that any false
teacher should be convicted. For her
esy in its earlier stages hardly ever
vents itself in such distinct and com
plete propositions of false doctrines. It
avoids; or adopts with a gloss, a reser
vation, or a quibble, the language of old
formularies for plainly contradicting
which it might be at once condemned-
Its very novelty makes it- impossible
that it should speak distinctly oat. It
has to win its way for the admission of
its new teachings by frequent reasser
tions of the admitted truth which it
would _ subvert, and by the most subtle
inventions of ambiguous expressions
through which, without-a palpable con
tradiction of the old, it may insinuate
the new. It is not, therefore, difficult
to understand how, acting upon such a
rule, the majority of the Court were
able to conclude that, ‘ On the short ex
tracts before us. our judgment is that
the charges are not proved.’
“The effect, then, of this judgment is
most assuredly not that all things con
tained in the obnoxious volume, or even
m these two essays, may be taught with
out punishment by clergy of the Es.tab
* See Quarterly Review, Vo?- Cxii, p. 261.
lished Church. There may, so far as
this judgment decides the matter, be
many punishable statements in them.
‘ If/ says the judgment, ‘ the book of
these two essays, or either of them, as a
whole be of a mischievous and baneful
tendency, as weakening the foundations
of Christian belief, and likely to cause
many to offend, they will retain that
character, and be liable to that judg
ment.’ All that is ruled is that the par
ticular extracts before the Court did not
absolutely contradict the particular ex
tracts from the Thirty-nine Articles or
formularies with which in the accusa
tion they were contrasted.
“ Certainly, there was as little as there
possibly could be in their escape to war
rant any exaltation. In both cases it
wks what is well known in the legal pro
fession as ‘an Old Bailey Acquittal/
The language of the judges of both
Courts as to the offenders was the same
in tone, and the acquittal was scarcely
less severe than the condemnation.
Though the judge in the one Court
thought the case just capable, and the
majority of those in the "other just.in
capable of legal proof, both took equal
care to separate thepselves from the
accused; both intimated, with almost
equal clearness, their sense of the utter
impossibility that men of scrupulous in
tegrity should occupy such a position in
a Church from the teaching of which
they in spirit dissented, whilst they
kept its emoluments and office.
“Certainly if this is in the judgment of
the "escaped a triumphant acquittal,
they are men of the most modest ex
pectations, and are most readily thank
ful for the smallest mercies. We think
that in the judgment of the English peo
ple the tenets which narrowly missed
with such pleadings the full censure, of
the law will be generally felt to have
been morally condemned.”
Nevertheless the Review believes the
results of the acquittal must be disas
trous, “a fearful impetus given to opin
ion in the direction, which must end in
heresy.” It says:
“ This danger can scarcely be over
stated. Por assuredly a new element
of latitudinarian uncertainty has been
for all future trialß imported by them
into execution of the law. Ab cer
tainly, moreover, the moral sense of
the Church has been grievously shocked
by perceiying not only that its faith has
been now endangered, but also that all
correction of offenders for any of the
new forms of unbelief which modern
thought may be expected to develop,e
has been rendered hereafter, whilst
matters remain as they are, well nigh
impossible.
. “The present attempt is to set all our
teachers absolutely free. The Yiscount
Amberley and Dean Stanley, with it
may be a score of other old deans and
young viscounts, would abolish all sub
scription, and the Colensos and Wilsons
of the Established Church have snown
us with no little clearness what is the
from theseTofcP trammels, the teaching"
of our people would assume.
' “ Are the laity of the Church prepared
for these results? Is England ready to
follow Geneva ? Are we to emasculate
formulary after formulary, to drop
creed after creed, and so gradually to
come down to the broad level of incul
cating general freedom of speculation
in the place of a fixed belief in the arti
cles of the Christian faith, of receiving
every ma%’s own imaginations in the
place of the rule of Holy Scripture, and
of preaching a sentimental pietism in
the place of the morals of the Gospel,
enforced under the binding sanction,’
they that have done good Bhall go into
life everlasting, and they that have done
evil into everlasting fire?
“This is the real issue to be tried; and
none can be more momentous; for it in
volves the further question, whether or
not we shall hand on the faith to our
successors. The Church at present up
holds for all the one common standard.
But is this to continue amongst our
children ? . Undoubtedly it will not, if
this liberalizing movement has its unre
stricted way. And what must be the
sure result ? A Church founded on ne
gations will never satisfy the practical
minds of Englishmen. The Establish
ment will not long survive amidst the
liberal processes which seem to promise
her so much, and which must so fatally
destroy her conscience and.her witness.
One by one the men of fixed belief and
high principle would drop off from her.
They know that to declare the truth is
the master requirement of the charter
of her incorporation. They will not
hold office or very long fellowship with
a body which has substituted opinions
for creeds, and sentiments for morals.
The high places of the Establishment
will be filled with men of more supple
consciences—Broad Chalk will over
spread the land, and the day of doom
will not be far behind. A national
Church without a fixed faith is nothing
but a- great imposture, which waits only
for a popular outbreak, and a Bishop of
Autun, to dissolve into the utter nothing
ness of the vanishing vision of the
awakened dreamer.”
A METHODIST VIEW OP JOHN GALVIN.
From the Christian Advocate and
Journal of New York we clip the follow
ing -view of Calvin; being part of a ser
mon on the -Reformer by Bev. Dr.
Wentworth, a Methodist clergyman.
The estimate of Calvin is honorable and
genial for an opponent; bat the wonder
expressed in the last two sentences is
singular enough:
The Protestant world is greatly in
debted to Calvin. He was a man to
admire rather than to love. He had
strong friends and bitter enemies.
We admire,
1. His intellectual activity in the midst
of the bodily sufferings which he endur
ed almost constantly—headache, vertigo,
rheumatism, gout,- catarrh, colic, gall]
indigestion, fainting, spitting blood,
fever, tertian ague, etc.—some eight or
ten of which completed the “bill of fare
at his wedding, to “modify,the joy” of
the occasion, although he had arrived at
the temperate age of thirty-two.
Romish writers might well deem the
great reformer worse cursed than Arius
for his apostacy.
2. We may admire his firmness. His
life was stormy, bat he stood like a rock
amid the bursting tempests and heaving
billows, exiled by enemies, banished by
friends. His discipline was reviled, bi 3
doctrines contemned. Disaffected Gen
evese named their dogs “ Calvin,” while
his polemical adversaries excited his
choler with charges against his favorite
doctrine of predestination:
“ He makes ns wood and stone by bis
notions of fate.”
He teaches “ the fate of the Stoics." .
“He makes God the author of sin.”
“ His God is a tyrant—a poetical Ju
piter.”
“ Calvin’B God is a hypocrite, a liar,
and double-tongued."
Modern days have said nothing se
verer than was said to his face in his
own lifetime.
8. We may admire the manner in
which he impressed himself on his own
and ‘succeeding times. He alone of the
ologians succeeded in impressing the
doctrines of predestination and election
upon the popular mind. His Institutes
were the great book of English Univer
sities for a hundred years.
Finally, Dr. Wentworth spoke of the
indebtedness of the Methodist denomi
nation to Calvin, although for a century
the pulpits of that Church have abound
ed with denunciations of the great re
former. .
The thought of the masses is concrete.
It is dialectically necessary to demolish
men in order to demolish their princi
ples.
Calvin has been abused to get at
Calvinism, and it had been torn up root
and branch to demolish a single objec
tionable feature of the system. Yet the
speaker considered the work to be one
of supererogation. Calvinists had de
stroyed Calvinism—it had perished in
the house of its own friends. It had
been well asked, If the great reformer
should rise from the grave, where would
he find pure, unadulterated Calvinism ?
“ The great doctrine of predestine-'
tion,” says Galvin’s German biographer,
“after jt had gained a complete victory
in the Reformed Church,and annihilated
Roman Catholic Pelagiamsm, sunk from
the firmament.” The “ mystery lies be
yond the circle of human inquiry .”
We may profitably omit discussion
which begins and ends with the inscru
table.
Methodist views of the sacrament are
substantially those of Calvin.
Methodist preachers are lay and not
priestly.
Methodist ordination is Presbyterial.
Methodists ought to adopt Calvin’s
jealous care of the rights of the laity.
So fearful was ho of clerical assumption
that he introduced two laymenjfor-on®-
jLU^^^umsia3tucal~councils
of Geneva.
As a denomination, the Methodist
Church might rejoice that, though once
heretics, they were now in fellowship
with the communions that revere the
name of Calvin—imitating the piety,
intellectuality, and zeal of those who
show “ every good word and work," (by
a; singular paradox) alongside a theory
that, if carried out, would paralyze all
human effort. It is a singular phenom
enon that the purest liberty was nour
ished in the lap of the dire necessity of
Hobbes and Jonathan Edwards.
It is another illustration of the ten
dency of common-sense to override met
aphysical theories thattherepublicanisra
of the present day has come up with the
stern belief and sterner preaching of
Geneva, Scotland, Holland, and Old and
Hew England. *
OHTJBOH STATISTICS OP NEW YOKE
CITY,
The American Quarterly Church Review
for J uly, opens with a very Jong and
interesting article called “Hew Y-oi’k
City a Field for Church Work,” which
gives the following statistics:
“The number of churches and chapels
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in
this city is sixty-three. Supposing
thirty-one of these churches and chapels
to accommodate one thousand worship
ers each, and thirty-two to accommo
date six hundred each, and we have,
provided by the church,accommodatic ns
for the worship of God to fifty thousand
and eight hundred souls; leaving nine
hundred and forty-two thousand and
two hundred persons for whom she has
made no provision.
“ According to a late report the Eo
manists have thirty-one churches (of
which six are for Germans), and sixty
four ministers in the city; the Presby
terians have fifty-five,; the Dutch Re
formed, twenty-two; the Methodists,
forty-one; the Baptists, thirty-three; the
Congregationalists, four; the Friends,
! three; the Unitarians and Universalistsi
six; the Jews, twenty-four Synagogues ■
and there are for miscellaneous sects’
sixteen buildings or halls. Mow of
these two hundred and thirty-five
churches and chapels, &e., allowing one
hundred of them to accommodate one
thousand persons each, and the remain
der half that number each, and the esti
mate is a large one, we have church ac
commodations of some sort'for one hun
dred and seventy-seven thousand and
five hundred persons; and still there
are seven hundred and seventy-one
thousand and seven hundred persons in
this Christian city of Mew York for
whom no provision to worship Almighty
God after any form has been made.
After allowing all- necessary deduction
for the young, the aged, the sick and
the infirm, who cannot attend upon
Public Worship if they would, still the
fact stares us in the face that there are
hundreds of thousands of persons in
this city to-day who could not, even if
disposed, worship at Christ's altars in
any form or manner whatever."
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Coffee! Coffee! Coffee!
East India Coffee Co.,
254 REAf>E STREET, N. Y.,
Three doors from Greenwich streefc/cAIT universal atten
tion to their
KENT’S EAST INDIA COEEEE.
Kent’s Hast India Coffee
H l a ? I L t V?,u flaYo ? of OLD GOVERNMENT JAVA, and
13 but half the price; and alsa that ™ ™
Kent’s East India Coffee
Has twice the strength of Java, or any other Coffins what
ever, and wherever used by our first-class hotels and
steamboats, the stewards say there is a saving of 50 per
Kent’s East India Coffee
Is the most healthy beverage known, and is very nutri
tions. The weak and infirm may use it at ail times with
impunity. The wife of the Rev. W. Eaves, local minis
ter of the M. E. Church, Jersey City, who has not been
able to use any coffee for fifteen years, can use “
Kent’s Cast India Coffee
Three times a day without injury, it being entirely free
from those properties that produce nervous excitement.
Dr. JAMES BOYLE, of 168 Chambers stree* aavs* “ r
have never known any Coffee so healthful, nutritious,
and free from ail injurious qualities as . ’
Kent’s East India Coffee.
lution to use exclusively ,r
- Kent’s East India Coffee,
And would not be without it on any account.”
LA - RUE > eminent clergyman of the
M. E. Church, now stationed at Halsey street. Newark
says of * **
Kent’s East India Coffee:
“ I have used it nearly a year in my family, and find tt
produces no ache of the head or nervous irritation, as in
the case of all other Coffees. It is exceedingly pleasant,
and I cordially recommend it to all clergymen and their
lkmilles.”
Kent’s East India Coffee
Is used daily in- the families of Bishop Ames, Bishop
Baker, and many of the most distinguished clereymea
and professional men in the country.
Beware of Counterfells!
And be sure that the packages are labeled
KENT’S EAST INDIA COFFEE,
154 READS ST., NEW YORK,
As there are numerous counterfeits afloat under the
name of u Genuine East India Coffee,” "Original East
India Coffee,” etc., pat forth by impostors to deceive the
unwary.
Ini lb. packages, and in boxes of 3C, 60, and 100 lbs.,
-furwocers and large consumers. Sold by Grocers gen
Orders from city nnd country Grocers solicited, to
whom a liberal discount will be made.
jtgente in Philadelphia—^W.J. HrESS dr BROTHER,
Girard Ayenneand Front street, and HOEFLICH
® MOLUN, 130 Arch Street.
Sold by JOHN H. RARKER, corner of Eleventh and
Market streets, Philadelphia. JAS. WEBB,-corner of
Eighth and Walnut sts. WM. PARVIS. Jr., 1204™hest*
nut at, above 12th. THOMPSON BLACK A SON N W
corner Broad and Chestnut sts. SIMON COLTON k
SON, corner Broad and Walnut sts. , 940-tf J
MEL.ODEOJVS ! ZSARMOIVIUMS I
nONSTANTLY ON HAND, A STOCK OF MELO
v DEONS of my own make, which cannot be excelled.
I am sole agent for SPLENDID
HARMONIUMS, possessing unequaled powers* variety
and beauty of tone.
Tse best instrument for churches ever introduced.
H. M. MORRISS,
' 72S Market street
FRAGRANT SOZODONT.
Only True Dentrifice Known.
The public have long been in want of some conve
nient, safe and beneficial Dentrifice, which could be
relied on as having a healthy and preserving effect on
the teeth and gums. Hundreds of worthless prepara
tions have already been offered as such, in the form of
powders, pastes and liquids, when a trial has only
proved them injurious to the enamel of the teeth, or
else too inconvenient and unpleasant for daily use, so
indispensable to the preservation of the teeth. The
k.ozodont is offered with all confidence as a Beautifier
and Preserver of the Teeth, a scientific combination,
every ingredient of which is known to have a beneficial
influence on the teeth and gums, imparting a delightful
and refreshing taste and reeling to the mouth, correct
ing all disagreeable'Odors arising from decayed teeth,
use of tobacco, &c. Its fragrance and convenience
make it a pleasure to use it; it is perfectly free from all
acids or other ingredients having the least tendency to
injure the enamel. _
This popular Dentrifice is now used and recommended
by many of the first Dentists in the country, as well as
by many of the most eminent Divines, Physicians,
Chemists and Scientific Gentlemen of the day.
The following eminent clergymen and their famiifos. of
New York city, together with hundreds of others, having
used the SOZODONT, are convinced of its excellent and
invaluable qualities, and give it their most cordial com
mendation.
CLERGYMEN OF NEW YORK.
Rev. JAMES W. ALEXANDER, D. D.
“ B.M. ADAMS.
“ SAMUEL COOK, D. D.
“ E.H. CHAPIN, D.D.
“ THOMAS DEWITT,D.D.
“ WILLIAM F. MORGAN, D. D.
“ HEMAN BANGS.
“ J.B.WAKELEY.
“ W.S.MICKELS.
« IP. NEWMAN,
“ SAMUEL OSGOOD, D. D.
“ D S. PARMELEE.
“ GEORGE POTTS, D.D.
“ E. E. RANKIN.
“ PETER STRYKER:
“ A. VERREN, D. D.
“ T. E. VERMILYE, D. D.
Sold by Druggists everywhere, at 75 cents per bottle
Hall & RVCSGL,
I BOrRjETORS,NEW YORK.
SELECT CLASSICAL AND ENGLISH SCHOOL
NO. 1230 LOCUST STREET, PHILADA.,
B. KENDALL, A. M., Principal.
riIHE SCHOOL YEAR IS DIVIDED INTO TWO
x sessions of five months each, commencing September
and February.
Pupils are carefully prepared for any class in college
or for mercantile life.
Thoroughness in the rudiments is insisfcecLupon as
indispensable to the successful prosecution of classical
and higher English studies.
Special attention is also given to the Modern Lan
guages.
A fine play-ground on the premises gives unusual
value and attractiveness to the location of the school.
All other desirable information will be furnished to
those interested on application to the Principal.