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THE oheistiancommission on the
pAoUIO GO AST.
Sometime since we noticed the departure
of lfev. Robert Patterson, D, D., and Rev.
Geo. .T Mingins, as a delegation of the Chris
tian Commission to the Pacific Coast. Since
their arrival in San Francisco, they have or
ganized a Christian Commission branch for
that distant part of our country. The gen
tlemen composing this new branch of the
Commission embrace some of the most
prominent members of the Evangelical
churches of San Francisco. They have al
ready held three large meetings, all of them
full of great interest. Mr. J.B. Roberts, the
President of the Pacific Coast Branch, has
notified the Central office at Philadelphia,
that a draft of ten thousand, dollars in gold is
already on its tvay East. This is the first
fruits of what is to follow. .-',
From a late San Francisco paper we .copy
the following address of Rev. Dr. Patterson,
lelivered at the first,public meeting held for
the Christian Commission in San Francisco.'
Bishop Kipp. °f theP. E. Church presided:
Mr. Chairman, Right Reverend Father, and-
Beloved Brethren in-4he Ministry and Brethren
and Sisters in our L6rd Jesus Christ, it is with
tio ordinary emotion I rise to address this
first Union Meeting of all the Evangelical
churches of this, city, united to carry the
Gospel of our common salvation, to the brave
defenders of our common country. Though
personally unknown to you I do not feel my
hd (' a stranger here, for through the arteriesof
our hearts the same emotion thrills your life
blood and mine—love to Christ and love to
our country. Believing Him alone to be
able to save our brave soldiers from ruin and
misery—Him alone to be able to save our be
loved country from its threatening dang®
and knowing that he is able and willing «T
save, wo Unite in; worshiping and adoring
Him the Lord of; Hosts, and invoking His
presence as the pledge of victory—-the salva
tion of Godfor our soldiers and our country.
I nited in this faith with all who love our
Lord Jesus Christ in- sincerity, we present
here to-night the spectacle of a church unit
ed for the welfare of bur Union. This meet
ing gives assurance that the telegraphic com
munion <of saints which unites the hearts
of the churches at the East with their sons
and brothers lathe army has been extended,
across the Rooky Mountains, and that its
messages of sacred sympathy with those no
ble men, awake responses in your hearts
here on the shores of ,the Pacific; responses,
which encourage us to request your atten
tion to a subject in some danger' of being
neglected amidst the excitements of battle
The Moral Results of this War. 1
Isay the. results—for this war must come
to an end as all wars have done. We shall
vet dwell in peace with those brave erring
men against whom we are now at war. From
the Great Lakesto the Gulf of Mexico —from
the Atlantic to the Pacific that flag shall
wave over, these Re-United States—one glo
:ious country—one and indissoluble ever
more. There are some wise men in the East,
and possibly some here, who prophecy our
inability to obtain men to reinforce our .ar
mies, and to defend us from the aggressions
of European powers. Sir, I come from one
nf the newest of our Western. States, where
hundreds of miles of unbroken prairie yet
invite the plow, and where upon thousands
of farms the farmers’growing boys and bloom
ing girls are the only help for harvest labours.
But when the boom of the cannon fired
gainst Sumter was heard across the prairie,
lie farmer left his plow in the furrow, and
he young man building the cottage for his
lotrothod, left the handsaw in the plank—l
lave seen it there—and workmen fell into
ine in their working clothes, and sent word
o their wives to meet'them at the railroad
depot with clean shirts, for they were off to
light for the Union.. And again has this
-cone been enacted, till a hundred and eigh
tv-one gallant regiments left our soil, and
mothers and children gazed wistfully yet
proudly on the receding columns. No con
scription drew these men—they all volun
teered. To-day, Illinois has furnished,
ahead of all calls and drafts, on her quota,
12,473 of the sort of boys who took Fort
Donelson; and if Father Abraham should
need another million men to repel this threat
ened French aggression, we have a few more
of the same sort left. It is a great mistake
to suppose that our population is being di
minished by the war. Doubtless every
liousehold feels the blank caused by the ab
sence of the brother or son, who preferred to
-nticipate by a few years the common doom
rf humanity, for the honor of a hero’s grave.
Uut the lack is not evident in the commu
nity. A stream of emigration from the
snow-clad hills of. Norway, the pine forests of
Sweden, the meadows of Holland and the
vine-clad banks of the merry Rhine, the
workshops of Britain, and .the green hills of
Ireland, has more than supplied the drain of
the army; and to-day you could not get
house-room in Chicago unless you rented the
house while building, and the city is obliged,
‘o groat is the concourse in the streets, to
hoykio white-gloved policemen to assist the
allies at the crossings of the streets. There
■ no danger that we shall bo obliged to sub
til lo the breaking up of our country for
iho want of men to defend it, thank God.
Nor is the financial difficulty which men
qprehend inevitable. I grant that we are
spending money very fast now, but no fas
tfr (lian we are making it. Our taxes cer
'i.inly are large, but they are only the price
!’l Hie barrel that holds the flour. The whole
national debt could be paid off in one year,
; nd the nation be no poorer than it was two
'tars ago. Our great difficulty is not finan
«al. We have money enough to carry on
Ais war until it shall please the Lord of
Hosts to give us the victory.
Our difficulty is the moral difficulty —the de
'«it of success. It is the. great difficulty which
tis overturned every military republic known
fa history—the political power of a demoral
•«d army. Spartan austerity, Athenian cul
'i o, Homan courage and discipline, alike
1 before the returning conquerors of other
-aliens; and the fate of the French “Republic is
hdi before our eyes. Every unchristian re-
i 'l'iic has fallen by war.
V>V must not shut our eyes to the influen
-1 % of that military education to which we
exposing the youths of our Republic du
■itirr t] la t susceptible period when character
fakes the impression of circumstances, and
’Midst circumstances which tend to confuse.
: i distinction betwen the ignoble vices of
:!i.j camp and the noble patriotism of the
1 ’iiv. We withdraw our boys from the busi
'■ s of daily life, and from the influences of
r !l,li c opinions, and from the refining infiu
cof female society. We employ them
; ’ hours in the day in a wearisome and mo
11’.onous drill; and when that is over, we
; "wo them to an equally monotonous mdo
■ fine. There is the. same camp beyond
rWh they may not stir, the same compan
y’s, the same hard-tack, pork and coflee
'■fa'ough the year, with no luxury, ■ save
I'Josky, and no,amusement, save cards, and
:!"• general tono of conversation’, around
‘‘‘■in, profane; need wo wonder'that very
many youths give way to vices from which
they would have recoiled with horror
home ! Withdraw from them the influence
of religious ordinances, the remembrance of
the Sabbath, and the stated preaching of thA
Gospel, and what restraint is left upon those
vices which military, discipline deems beyond
its range?
Our republican institutions are based unon
the moral character of our citizens llow
long could they stand if our people, became
a gambling, drunken, licentious oathdeswU
ing peopie? Look ; at the Spanish reput
lies. Remember the. return of the armv
which conquered Mexico—tWh but n.
mere handful compared with :
of tlfousands who shall return if God wills
their return to their homes.
How shall they return ? How shallmothers
receive the boys they sent forth so brave and
pure, and manly ? Shall they return reeking
d . Panting the air with oaths®
to teke up their posts at the taverns and
become patterns of vice to the community ?
for they will be the heroes and admired ex
amples of our children. They will be elected
to all public offices. They will give tone to
the manners and morals of our republic for
the next thirty years. Shall they come back
undei* the influences of the Gospel, temperate
reverent, pure ? They may if you will send
tnem the restraining influences of the Gospel.
■ , military discipline of an army is neces
sarily strict and imperious, its essential prin
ciple islobedience to orders; which is the very
opposite of the liberty of the citizens, v An
army is a despotism, a one man power. It
must be so. One mind must direct, and all
the rest allow him to do the thinking for
them v The General is master —absolute
ruler—on any other principle an army is
simply a mob. Now so far as this ideal of an
army is realized, its members become unfitted
for civil life, and especially for the manage
ment of Republican Government. They are
being trained by the military training if
that is the only education they are receiving,
and if no moral and religious influences are at
the same time brought to hear upon them—
they are being trained to submission to des
potic .government; and I put it to you
to say whether it is safe to expose boys to this
constant omnipresent and all powerful influ
ence, without at the same time, giving the
soldier those powerful higher motives, which
will enable him to submit to the orders of
his officer from respect to the authority of
his God. Engraft the principles of military
obedience upon the conscience, and you will
never see a Christian soldier lifting his hand
at the bidding of any man, or at ttie more
powerful promptings of ambition, against bis
oountry. He will lay down the sword with
which he has fought Ins country’s battles at
her feet, like our own noble Christian hero,
George Washington. But give to men who
have been educated out of their consciences
an unprincipled General and a convulsed
nation and you shall see, as in France, a pow
erful army bribed into the service of an adven
turer, transforming the republic into an
empire and a builder pf empires upon the
ruins of American republics. The Gospel of
Christ—-who humbled Himself and made
Himself of no reputation, and took on Him
self the guise of a servant^-is the only known
power which is capable ef restraining the
Geiieral and of inspiring the soldier, and of
uniting both in a willingness to lay down
their arms, when no longer needed for the
defense of their country!™
But not merely the welfare of our republic
—the best interests of the world demand that
the power of religion he felt in our army.
Our nation is a microcosm. All the na
tions of the earth flock to our shores. The
Chinese and the German meet in your streets.
Here alone of all the nations of the world, are
all nations welcome. Here only has the
great experiment been tried of the ability of
men for self government. We are regarded
by the people of all nations as their natural
ally. r
The Lord has led us hv a way we knew not,
into a wonderful prominence among the na
tions. This nation was 1 being prepared for
the feeding of vast armies by the discovery of
the prairies. The reaping machine came in
time for securing the wholesale harvesting'
of the crops. The threshing machine and
the steam mill converted it into flour before
night. The power spinning mill, the steam
loom, and the sewing machine made it possi
ble to clothe our vast armies in a short time.
Mines of iron and coal were made accessible
by canals and railroads,, and engines of
tremendous power were working iron plates
for boilers and bars for railroads, and ship
builders were experimenting upon floating
iron ships. Millions of workingmen of all
lands came, impelled by some Divine instinct
to our shores, and when God’s trumpet soun
ded the call to the war, the German, the
Hungarian, the Swede, and the Irishman
marched shoulder to shoulder to the defense
of their'adopted land. Without any plan or
forethought of ours, and contrary even to the
traditionary maxims of the fathers of our Re
public, wo find ourselves the most powerful
nation in the world, with a large army, and a
more powerful navy than any nation on
earth. We have one million of men under
arms to-day, and, over eight hundred vessels
of war afloat. The quality and armament of
our armies and navies is even more extraor
dinary ; the developments of the strife per
fectly astounding. For when the Congress
and Cumberland sunk at Newport, the wood
en navies of the world went down with them.
The wooden walls of Old England fell before
the Merrimac, and her long boasted supre
macy of the ocean foundered as they sunk
before the iron monster. Thenceforth the
ironclad ship was the only ship of war. All
the rest in her presence were only wooden
coffins. Thus by a wonderful series of provi
dences we have been enabled to build from
our own work-shops a large number of iron
ships actually afloat and in service, and armed
with larger and more powerful artillery than
France, or England, or than either one of
these powers and all the rest of Europe com
bined.
Now this is a navy which we cannot sell or
give away, and consequently we must keep it,
and whether we will or not, remain the first
naval power in the ,world. Should we'never
use a rifle, never move a ship from her anchor,
we must be an influential people, to be con
sulted by the other nations of the earth.
Were we ever so peacefully disposed, they
cannot fail to remember when they want to
divide the people and nationalities of the
world among themselves, that there are a
million of armed men and eight hundred
ships of war across the Atlantic within twelve
days sail of Europe, and 3,000 of our commer
cial marine, capable of being armed and
sweeping the commerce of Europe from the
face of the ocean ; and this fact may have its
influence on their minds when they propose
to overrun this continent with a swarm of
bastard Emperors. .
But it seems all too evident that we are not
to be left in peace to exert a usual influence.
The Lord is mustering the nations to the last
great struggle between freedom and slavery,
truth and error, and wish it as we may, He
does not design that we bury the power He
has forced on us. We are being thus trained
not for idleness. The arbitrament of the
world’s destiny, the fate of the liberty of the
human race, depends on the American army
and navy.
And now, fathers and brethren, if these
facts be undeniable, and our nation’s destiny
—yea and the destiny of mankind, depend
on the moral character of our soldiers, how
unspeakably important is the evangelization
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY. JULY 14 isot
Kristian nation, charged
Snd s « rf-T 0f the WOrld ’ s libert V. de
Christian army. Give it the open
OWt; th? + Sym1 ? 01 ? f our coinmoa Protestant
Christjamty And yet three-fourths of all
°„Z:TT nts ? Te destitut e of Chaplains, and
almost a,U our batteries of artillery, and only
three ministers of religion are afloat among
our vessels of war. Rise, I beseech you, to
an earnest endeavor to secure the blessing of
.the Lord of Hosts upon our arms and the in
fluence of religion upon our armies.
THE RESURRECTION FLOWER,
We copy the following from the July
number of the Continental Monthly. The
curious botanical object it describes, was
procured from an Arab in Egypt, in the
year 1848, who declared he had taken it
from the breast of an Egyptian mummy, a
high priestess. One of two specimens hang
ing on -the stalk was presented to Baron
Humboldt, who “ acknowledged!! to be the
greatest floral Wonder he had yet seen.”
The other is now in possession of Dr. G. J.
Eames, New York. It is regarded rather as
■ a peridarp or seed vessel than a flower. The
reader may, or may not, believe the Arab’s
story as to its connection with the mummy;
but what is called the hygrometric variety of
plantsi' i. e. those which open and shut
imder the influence of moisture and dryness
and which preserve the property Igng after
they have been detached from the stem, is
well known to botanists and curiosity hunt
ers. It includes the Rose of Jericho, speci
mens of which are found in cabinets, of this
country, which retain their elasticity after
fourteen years and more, the Ground Star,
found in Saratoga county, N. Y*., besides
other species.
If a traveller in Egypt were te bow before
the Sphynx, and receive a nod in return, be
could scarcely be more surprised than I
was to-day, upon seeing a little, dried-up
thing—the remains of what had once bloom
ed and faded ‘’mid beleaguering sands’—
spring into life and beauty-before my very
eyes. All the Abbott Collection contains
nothing more rare or curious. Old, per
haps, as Cheops, and apparently as sound
.asleep, it is startled at the touch of water,
and,, stretching forth its tiny petals, wakes
into life as brightly as a new-born flower.
No one could believe, upon looking at
this little ball, hanging on its fragile stem,
and'resembling both in color and shape a
shrunken poppy-head, or some of the acorn
tribe, what magical results could arise froth
merely wetting its surface—yet so it is.
Sleeping, but not dead, the flower is
aroused by being for an instant immersed
in water, and then supported in an upright
position. Soon the upper fibres begin°to
stir. Slowly, yet visibly, they unfold, until,
with petals thrown back in equidistant
order, it assumes the appearance of a beau
tifully radiated, starry flower, : not unlike
some of the Asters in form. Resting a mo
ment, it suddenly, as though inspired by
some new impulse, throws its very heart to
the daylight, curving back its petals farther
still, and disclosing, beauties; undreamed of
even in the loveliness of its firstffwakemrig.
To say that, in general effect, its appear
ance resembles the passion-flower is to give
but a poor description, and yet one searches
in vain for a more fitting comparison.
Lacking entirely the strong contrasts in
color of the latter, it yet wears a halo of its
own, unlike any other in the whole range
of floral effects.
When viewed through a powerful lens,
■the heart of the flower, which, to the naked
eye, lies flooded in a warm, colorless light,
assumes the most exquisite iridescent hues,
far more beautiful than the defined tints of
the passion-flower. Melting to the eye in
its juiciness and delicacy, yet firm in its
pure outline and rounded finish, it bears the
same relation to that chosen type of the
great suffering, that peace bears to passion,
or that promise bears to prayer.
Soon the aspect of the flower changes.
As though over the well-spring of its eter
nal life hangs some ruthless power forcing
it back into darkness, before an hour has
passed, we can see that its newly found
vigor is fading away. The pulsing light at
its heart grows fainter and fainter-—slowly
the petals raise themselves, to drop wearily
side by side upon its bosom—and finally, its
beauty vanished, its strength exhausted, it
hangs heavy and brown upon its stem, wait
for the touch that alone can waken it again.
A rich old gentleman, residing at
Manchester, was lately called upon by
some members of the Bible Society
there to subscribe his mite; he replied
that he had been thinking about it, hut
would first wish to become acquainted
with their plans, etc., and wished them
to call again. Some time after, they
did so, and he told them he had made
up his mind to subscribe a guinea a
year, and immediately began to count
out upon the table a quantity of guineas.
When he had got to twenty-one, the
gentlemen stopped him and said, as
their time was rather precious, they
should feel obliged if he would give
them his subscription, that they might
go. The old»geDtleman still continuing
to count them out upon the table, they
interrupted him a second time, when
he simply hoped the gentlemen would
suffer him to go on, and on he went, till
he had counted down eighty guineas.
“ There, gentlemen,” cried the old
man, “I promised you a subscription ®f
a guinea a year; I am eighty years old,
and there are the eighty guineas."
The Heart of the believer affected
with the glory of Christ is like the nee
dle touched with the loadstone. It can
no longer be quiet, no longer be satisfied
in a distanceirom him. It is put into a
continual motion towards him. This
motion, indeed, is weak and tremulous.
Bantings, breathings, sighings, groan
ings in prayer, in meditations, in the
secret recesses of our minds, are the life
of it. However, it is continually pres
sing towards him. But it obtains not its
point, it comes not to its centre and rest
in this world. —John Owen. .
The Glory, Life and Power of Chris
tian religion, as Christian religion, and
as sealed in the souls of men, with all
the acts and duties whieh properly be
long thereunto, and are therefore pecu
liarly Christian, and all the benefits and
privileges we receive by it, or by virtue
of it, with the whole of the-honor and
glory that arise Unto God thereby, have
all of them their formal nature and rea
son from their respect and relation unto
the person of Christ; nor is he a Chris
tian who is otherwise minded.— lbid.
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