* 268 \ * FROM OWE LONDON CORRESPONDENT. / i ] London, August 6, 1864. Tho Loi don season has spent itself; the Court and courtiers and the gay thousands; who depend upon its brilliant amusemenl s for half their life’s engage ments, or i oaitate at a distance its luxu rious follic); the Legislators and Peers and Comn oners, wearied with official cares or pi il anthropic spasms of labour; and all wlv > have money without occupa tion, have vanished from.the hot, dusty, dreary streets, to cool watering places or green country homes. There is Something’ portentous in the rapidity with which London empties at the close of a session, and the bright, showy life dies out Of the streets, leaving them so . ghostly with the great deadened win dows staring down white-sheeted or shuttered, casting back the hot sun out of the dark, untenated houses! Per haps it is the same everywhere, but in this dusty place,' yvhere fashion has an enormous city to herself, the simultane ous depopulation, the grim desertion of that splendid place is a powerful em blem of the Divine aphorism, “ The fashion of this world passeth away!” Everything comes to a halt .and takes a. rest at this time. The schemes of politics, the conferences, of science, the designs and labours of ‘ philanthropy, and the strifes of ecclesiastical rivalry, are stayed for awhile. There’ is a Bhort breathing-space, and two months hence, it will all commence to rollon again— the.greatviLondon Juggernaut with its mimes and dangers and ecclesiastics, juggling and dancipg and praying, and the vast Wheels passing unconsciously Over wretched: worshippers, crushing &nd leaving them to the worms and vultures. i / ; The great ecclesiastical eVc nt of the moment is the Wepleyan-Conferonce at Eyadford in Yorkshire. The influence and power-of this vast body are.extract ing admiration oven from their enemies. A meeting which but a few years ago would have past unnoticed by the daily papers, is now considered of sufficient importance to demand a large para graph in the Times. , The Wesleyans have numbers, and numbers now imply political influence; and though the cynics of the 2\mes have no sympathy with; Methodism, it is expedient for the sake of party to give the good people a sop now and then. The Rev. W. L. Thornton, who has jußt returned from a visit as delegate to the Methodists of the United States, was chosen Presi dent of the Conference, in the stead of the Rev. Dr. Osborn, who has filled the post during the past year with remar kable ability. Indeed, he is probably by far, the ablest man now in the con nection. An’idea' may be formed of the . spirit and liberality of this body from the statistics of new chapels. Since the! Conference of 1863, 273 oases have passed the committee; 124 chapels cost ing £26,662 ; 36 organs, (horror of Scotch Presbytery!) £5,992; other oases £8,418, making a total of £205, T 900 ($1,029,500,) an increase of 34 chapels and £72,741. The entire cost of all the erections and enlargements completed during the year was £133,- 771. The Bishop of London has suc ceeded in obtaining about £75,000, for his great Metropolitan fund, from all the wealth of the establishment. Beside this the efforts of Wesleyanism for a single year appear monstrous. During the last ton years, debts of chapels amounting to more than half a million sterling have been paid off I Add to this, the jubilee fund which is far on to : two hundred thousand pounds (£189,285) collected this year. Yerily these men are showing us the powor of concen trated and disciplined energies, of ear nest piety and fervid zeal. If our Pres byterianism were half so animated or so concerted, what a force it would be t Weenvy not our Wesleyan brethren their •wonderful success, but they read us a lesson that should make us hang downpour heads in shame, and lift them, up - again biidd’enly ahd eagerly to a no ble rivalry. ’ * Dr. Livingstone, after perils and hair-s breadth escapes innumerable is permit ted once more to see his own green England and to enjoy the pleasures of an English homo. He avrivod on Satur day last, having come overland from Bombay through Prance. He was at the Mansion House with her Majesty’s ministers the other night, and on Friday evening dined with Lord Palmerston. Bow ho is in Scotland in the quieter and doubtless happier company of his children and aged mpthcr. Inveterate in philanthropic adventure and Chris tian zeal, he ' proposes to return to Af rica, with the design of initiating mea sures to put an end to the inland slave trade so disgracefully • maintained and encouraged by the Portuguese. -It is . difficult to give a character to this Im golhr man whcsa. inomolOßf laboHrs have been so rich in result, and still no bler in the promise of fruit. While Lord Palmerston entertains a Nonconformist minister because he is a great Geographer, the Bishop of Oxford, with prelatic zest and sternness, is en deavoring to revive the antiquated Canons against preaching in private ‘room#;’and unlicensed houses.” The Record' says, “It had hoped that such fEpiscopal pretensions, would not again he heard of, but the Bishop of Oxford has notions of the Divinely-commis sioned right of bishops 'which grate harshly on the ears of those accustom ed to the Divinely-inspired writings of the Apostles of our Lord.” There is an article by Dean Stanley in the current number of the Edinburgh Review upon recent ecclesiastical move ments. Re is of course jubilant: Over the Privy Council ./decision, which with drew from the church all the authority it ever had as a Church of Christ, and attacks with considerable vigor, and acerbity several great names, not spar ing the archbishops. The weakness of that unfortunatedeclaration of course does not escape him. “ The Declaration was intended to' fee a precise test against heterodox opin ions ; yet, beihg composed by two con tending parties, each of whom had, a few years-ago, feelievedeach other tb be fundamentally heterodox, it had to be so framed as to conceal the differences which smouldered under this apparent agreornent. The high-Church framers were obliged; to keep out,! of view their belief in the Divine authority of tradi tion, and of the inspiration of "the Apocrypha. The Low-Church framers were' obliged to surrender altogether their doctrine of imputed righteousness and transfep of merit. .The only point on which they were really at one' with each other was that of endless future punishihent, arid eVen on this the tfi|;h- Church'party were obliged' to suppress their own solution of the matter, as fur-, rushed ib’the Purgatorial views s'abc tioned by. Tract Ninety and its adhe rents, Bo wonder that, amidst such a complication of difficulties, the ambigui ty 6f this new fortieth Article fat ex ceeded the ambiguity ’even of the cele brated Thirty-nine, to which it was-‘to be an adjunct.” And to the proceedings regarding Essays and Reviews, in Convocation he gives short attention , and considers that “ With’the close of these proceedings in Convocation, in all probability this long controversy will have reached its conclusion, and the thrice-slain and thrice-revived hook, which has cost such oceans of gall, will be allowed to sleep in quiet, and the protests and de clarations, and Synodical judgments, will pass with it into the same grave as that to which, during the last two hnn-* died years, have descended so many other protests against 1 imaginary dan gers which have themselves passed away in like manner. But what happily will not pass Away will be the perma nent blessings bestowed on the Church and country by this timely decision of the highest Court of Appeal." Opinions differ! This man, if .he is conscientious, ■* is wrong-headed and wrong-hearted. K/ shows up. in this, very article the critical point of feeble ness in the ’whole established soheme. “ The very essence” says he, “of the Establishment is, that the leading tenets of the Church, and the rights of all its membejs are defined by law, and not otherwise." By Law! Administered mayhap by unbelievers, .by Roman Catholics, or Calvinists ! Which Will he take ? Will they all agree ? Shall the very principles of religion fee sub jected to the criticism and decision of unbelievers, when early Christians were forbidden’ so much as to submit their own private dissensions to the arbitra tion of heathen courts ? This is sheer treason to Christianity! This is world liness selling the Church of Christ to a monarch and the Devil. TOWN AND COUNTRY BY REV. DANIEL MARCH, D. D. My last communication from the country was cut short by the modern 'shears of fate or scythe of time—the coming of the cars. I was going to the seaside';' and as neither tide nor’ train .! j i wait for any man, the blast of the whis tle, five miles up the valley, - blew the last half of- my; letter into the middle of next week. And now again, treading the hot pavements, stealing along the shady side of the street, writing at my own deskj with the mercury at ninety; inside of the room, I repeat, that nobody in the world has a better right to praise the country than he whose life, for eleven months of the year, is shut in by the same round of streets and squares. And yet I am very far from believing that We must go to the country to be hold the highest manifestations of the divine.goodness and power, or to. learn the most instructive lessons of human faith, purity and love. Many unauthor ized and unchristian conclusions: have been drawn from Cowper’s familiar line:— “God made the country and man made the •> - j town." • , j ’ To contemplate the highest display of divine power within the reach of our PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 25, 1864. observation, we need not listen to the thunder of the cataract, or climb the lofty mountain, or behold the deep in stdrms. [Cod’s greatest work in this world is man himself; and we see most of the goodness and the power of God in the city, because there we see the most of man. The morbid asceticism which shuns the face of man, and sighs for a “ lodge in some vast wilderness,” under the pretense of seeking higher commnnings with Cod, is akin to the heathen superstition which; made, caves and cataracts, forests and mountains the haunt of deities, and knew not the great lesson of the Gospel, that the Most High dwells, with man. Yisions of angels, and the. light of inspiration have been given to faithful men in the homes and Workshops of the city; while the devout hermit .has listened in vain fox - the di vine voice in the desert, , and the sell torturing solitary has) been left to wres tle with imaginary demons in his cell. IThe Son of God himself, while maintain ing his pure and lofty separation the world, sought the society of men where they could be found in the great est numbers—in the 'mansions of the rich and the hovels ‘of the poor; ‘in 'cities and by the seasideand he never, except for; brief intervals, withdrew (to the solitude of the .deserfcFtho wilder ness, or the mountain. ' ' * Yile and abominable as were t|e cities of-the Roman empire inthe apos tolic age, it was in them, almost’ exclu sively, that the first churches were gathered. The name pagan,’ originally signifying a dweller in the Bamlc'ts or villages of the country, and still later, the name heathen, applied to dwellers on the wild/ieatA, cametosignify aliens from the faith of Christ, because Christians were found almost' wholiy|in the .cities. In our day the great city is oftener named as the crater.where fall the moral miasma of the pit breaks forth. Wc hear much of “heathen)’’ liv ing by thousands, where.churches, and charitable# institutions adorn every street. We are told of “Arabs” and “ Corsairs,” living in outlawry, with their hand against every man, beneath the sanctuaries of justice, anjl in the full splendor of the highest civilization. And this tale of the “ city and its sins ” has been told so eloquently from the pulpit, on the rostrum, in the harrowing romance, in the grave treatise, and the daily newspaper, that some good people in. the city Seem .to think that they have only to go forth into the open country to find themselves surrounded with the’simplicity of patriarchal life, and' the innocence of paradise restored ; and some equally good people, secure and self-complacent in their rural homes, think it would be a blessing to the world if all great cities could share the doom of those on which the Lord rained . fire out of heaven in ancient time. But great as are the evils consequent upon crowding the homes of a million human beings into the compass of a few square miles, the ignorance and barbar ism consequent upon excessive disper sion of the population, are still more to be deplored. The*virtue, intelligence and refinement of a rural population are due, in great part, to influences sent out from the great centres of com mercial, social and intellectual activity in the city. Wherever we see (the rural landscape adorned with a more than usu ally elegant cottage, school house, or church, or more tasteful grounds, gar dens, or farms, there we may be sure that influences from the city have gone forth and created the attractions which make the country so desirable as a resi dence to the passing traveller. Obvious aud familiar as is this fact, it is apt to be forgotten by the hard-working busi ness man in the city who is in haste to get rich and go out into the country to enjoy his wealth. He must carry with' him at great cost, lie must create at great disadvantage, in the country, the comforts and elegance, the variety and the social attractions of his former course of life; and -When he has done all that to the utmost of his power, he discovers that he wants a \country seat only so far as it resem bles a city house, and ,that Only for* a vacation of a few weeks iii the summer iandheis never so glad as when his tiresome and costly dream of rural en. tjoyment vanishes and he finds, himself back again in the -same busy streets, with something left to live upon and something rational to do.. Adelplios • It was only the other day I visited as , beautiful a country residence as can be found in all New England. To the owner, a retired merchant, it was the realization of a fond dream cherished from his youth. And yet ho and all his family would be so glad, if the boau ful and costly bauble was off their hands and they were all back again in dusty noisy Ifew York! In the same town a a retired clergyman had built ,a house, all to suit himself, and with |the sole hope that there he might end the peaces .iul remnant ofhbi6 days. Apd if bp can preach asas he can praise the work of his hands, he surely ought to be in the pulpit still. And yet he would he very much obliged to me if I would send him a purchaser of his convenient and charming country house so that he might leave it forever and go back to the city. After all in this matter, as in many others, human desires are playing at cross-purposes. The city is full of peo ple longing to become rich and to with draw to .some quiet retreat in the, coun try. And the country is full of people still more infatuated to get into the-city. And if the desire of both were granted, it would he followed in most cases by one equally strong to go back to their former condition. At the close of va cation,, with the memory of green fields and the- music of bubbling brooks still fresh in our mmd, and with the pros pect before us of a long winter of hard study and earnest work, encompassed by the awful realities of life and death, we may be excused if we purposely give advantage to the city, in the comparison of its attractions anddemands with those of the country. Bowhere can time, talents, possessions, Opportunities be Worth more to one than here, because here the whole , force of personal influ ence-tells most directly upon the char acter and destiny of immortal men. It ceases to bo a question of mere taste where we shall live, or ,what society we can enjoy most, when every hour of life affords us opportunities for doing good, the reward of which shall be reaped in heaven and the fruit of which shall give] joy forever. , fUttgimts §ttteHigme. Presbyterian. < The Presbyterian.—Our -excellent co tempdrkry has contracted its dimensions to a single sheet. The reasons are, the ad vanced, prices of paper, ink &c., in connec tion with the fact, that subscribers so far as their,,wishes,.are known, prefer this ito an increase in the terms of subscription. . A Noble Offering. —A new church, called the heetsdale Church, has just been organized at Sewickleyville, Pennsylvania, near Pitts burgh. When the members came together to determine where they should build a house of worship, and how they should raise the means necessary, it was announced that Mrs. Eliza Shields, a venerable lady in the church, had rosolved to give: a lot, and build a house of worship for the congrega tion, at her own expense. This is a noble liberality and one which will bear fruit of good for many years to come. At the same time, she does not impair the Benevolent feelings of the rest of the,congregation, but suggests that the contributions which they intend to make to - the church, they should devote to the purchase of a lot, and the erection of a manse, that thus the new church may start fully equipped for its work.— Presbyterian. A Disloyal Minister.—The trial of the Rev. S. J. Anderson, D. Di, of St. Louis, for disloyalty a year ago, which resulted! m ; his conviction and expulsion.to rebel territory, although he returned and officiated in that city, has been recently published The specifications were, expressions of hostility to the Government, justification of rebel attacks and outrages, and “ that on and af ter a meeting of the church Extension Board of the so-called Old School Presby terian Church in the city of St. Louis) in conversation,, argued and spoke in favor of the rebel 'cause, and against the efforts of the Government, of the United States to put down the rebellion, averring that the South was in the right, and could not, and ought not to be conquered," Presbyterianism in Connecticut. The Presbytery of Connecticut on the 26th inst., met in the Congregational Church, Stam ford, to ordain to the work of the ministry. Rev. A. L. Lindsley, a supply; at the invi tation of the people. Mr. L. was under the care of the Presbytery. An Old Bell.—The old’ bell in the First Presbyterian Church of Morristown, New Jersey, was cracked a few days since, and has been thrown into the furnace to be re-cast. It cape from England some time during the reign of Queen Anne, and must therefore be a century and a half old, as the Queen died in. 1714. The first organization in Morris town took place in 1714. In this venerable church, it will be recol lected, General Washington, during the Revolution; while his head-quarters were near, communed on a saoramental Sabbath, accordingtohis request, modestly .expressed. He was not “High Church.’? A , Degree Conferred.— Rev. Wm, Cornell of this city, received the degree of D. D., from Jefferson College at its late commencement. Dutch Reformed. Centennial at Hopewell.—- On Wednesday, the 3d inst., the church of Hopewell cele brated the one hundreth anniversary of the building of itß first edifice. The old Dutch barn yet; stands, about a half a mile north east of the church, in which the congrega tion originally worshiped, under, the pastor ate of Dominie Rysdyck. The occasion was one, of course, to revive the recollections of -the past, and to review the transitions which-the century has witnessed from that ancient barn to a beautiful temple of wor ship, from a wild wilderness to a farming country .whose native richness has been developed by the best style of modern cul ture, from a sparse backwoods congregation to one that is now one of the most delight ful and flourishing within our denomina tional limits. The occasion ■ called out a large congregation from the neighboring communities ,#nd churches as well as from those directly interested. . There was also ( an unusually large representation of the clergy. The exercises commenced with prayer by Rev. Dr. C. Van Oleef. The Rev. Dr. De Witt read the 48th psalm—first in Dutch from the old Bible that was once in use here, and afterwards in English—remarking previously upon the common origin of the Anglo-Saxon and the Holland Dutch, and the consequent fact of a greater similarity existing between these languages than even between the Holland Dutch and German. — Intelligencer. Congregational. The Congregationalists in Union. —The two items which follow present two phases of a. tendency to union. The Congregational Churches qf Neu> Hamp shire have passed a resolution recommend ing the union of different denominations in the support of a minister where neither is able to do it alone, and commending the plan to the attention ot. other denomina tions. The New Hampshire yearly.meeting of Freewill Baptists, at its late session took up the matter, and postponed the conside ration of it to next year. Rev. W. W. Patton of Chicago has published a letter advising the old friends of free mis sions now to divide their donations between the 'American Missionary Association and the American Board, as his church has just voted to do by a < unanimous voice. Both he and his church had co-operated for many years only with the Association. As reasons for this advice he mentions, 1, the Board is on anti-slavery gbound; 2, the most of the missionaries are under, the Board; 3, the A. M. A. has withdrawn from nearly all missions outside of the African race; 4, Presbyterians seemed, inclined to leaye the Board to be supported by Congre gationalists alone; 5, desire to seek reunion; 6, the Am. Board is now under a pressure. The Association itself, says the Chicago cor respondent of The independent, wisely dis cerning the signs of the times, reeognizes this drift of Providence and falls in with it. A Veteran and Excellent Raster. — JDr. Sweet ser, pastor of the Central Congregational church, Worcester, Mass., preached his twenty-fith anniversary sermon on the last Sabbath of .July. Only one of the original members of the church remains, the senior deacon; and only eleven of the male mem bers who acted in the church at his settle ment are now living. A Singular Observance of East-Ray. — Rev.B. R.-Allen, pastor of the first Congregational Church at Marblehead, told his people, who were convened in the church on the day of the national fast, that he had often preached to them of the troubles that , were coming upon the country, and they Had now come as he had predicted ; he would, therefore, let God preach to them ; and instead of a sermon, he read to them the whole book of Lamentations, without a word of comment. He also read a part of the first , chapter of Jeremiah and the whole of the second chap ter. ‘ : If we are correctly informed this pastor knows how to avoid expressions of. loyalty. Advance and Charge. —The,Congregation-, alistsays: , , The Congregational Society of Westville, Ct., at a late meeting raised the salary of their pastor. Ren. J. L. Willard, to $1,300. Dur ing the eight years of his ministry in Westville, the congregation has greatly in creased in numbers, and' the recent exten sion of the'horse railroad to this beautiful suburb of New Haven, promised still fur ther to add to the strength and importance of the Congregational churoh there. The Oak Place Church in this city, which had for several years, worshiped in the edifice formerly occupied by Rev. H. M. Dexter's congregation, have disbanded their organi zation, and united with the Presbyterian Churcb, Harrison Avenue; and their pas tor, Rev. J. P. Bixby, is to become the pas tor of the Harrison Avenue churoh. He stated in his sermon to the united congre gation last Sabbath, that two thirds of his theological instruction had been Presbyte rian and one-third Congregrtional. Baptist Minister’s Institute. —-The' Illinois Baptist l Pastoral Union has established an annual “ Ministers’ Institute." It is intended tp secure to ministers and students for the ministry an annual course of Theological Lectures from the best men in the denomi nation. The first session opened at Chica go, July Ist, was attended by about eighty ministers, and continued for two weeks. Lectures were delivered by Drs. Bailey of Indiana, Colver and Evarts, of Chicago, and Reed, of Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, Mr. Spurgeon’s Attacks. —Some time ago' a statement appeared in the papers to the effect that on paying a visit to St Marys,’ Bury St. Edmund’s, Mr. Spurgeon called the baptismal font “ a spittoon." A weekly cotemporary states that Mr. R. D. Robjent, of Bristol, having seen this statement, wrote to Mr. Spurgeon for a confirmation or con tradiction of the report. Mr. Spurgeon has not replied to the letter, but has sent Mr. Robjent the'offensive sermon on “Baptis mal Regeneration.” A Scripture-reader, who was stated to have heard the .conver sation, was also written to by Mr. Robjent, andjias replied to the communication, 'as serting that Mr. Spurgeon did designate the font “ a spittooD." Mr. Robjent wrote a second letter to Mr. Spurgeon, but had received no reply.— Record. Mr. Spurgeon has been pronounced a boor because he once, as it is alleged, slid dovyji his pulpit railings to establish claims to singularity. If the above extract be truthful, one may not be charged with in temperance 6f language in calling him a blackguard, and a very,impious one at that. — N. W. Christian Advocate. Methodist. The Set). Samuel S. Thorp , Professor of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in XXam~ line University, died on Tuesday, July 19. His end was a triumph. The Sev. Dr. Wise has been seriously sick iwith spasmodic cholera. He is now conva lescent! The Sev. Bernice D. Ames, formerly of Providence Conference Seminary, has ac cepted a call to the Principalship of Ame- Seminary, formerly a mixed, hereafter to be only a Female Seminary. l The Sev. G. B. Jocely, B. 8., has been unanimously elected President of Albion College, ®ics,Dr. Sinex, who has been trans ferred to California Conference. Episcopal. St, Paul’s Church, Yonkers. —The rector, Sev. . Dr. B. Brewer, having tendered his resignation, on account of the failure of his .health, it was unanimously voted' that he be •requested to withdraw the resignation, that a vacation of five months be offered to him, and that hiS" salary be continued during his absence. A puree of 12,025 dollars was also presented to him by the congregation.— Gh Times. The Trustees of Trinity College, Hartford, hive elected Sev. J. C. Kerfoot, D. B now rector of James College, Md., to the Presi dency of the college. $lOO,OOO have lately been contributed tp the funds of the col lege, $53,000 being subscribed in Hartford. Bevivals. Seventeen persons were added to the church S t £. ib !? u ' y Corner > New Jersey, on the last Sabbath, on profession of their faith in Christ. These, with six others received at the previous communion, are the fruits of a quiet and most precious work of grace which has been in progress here for several months. During this season of.interest, two praver meetings and one preaching service were added to the regular weekly meetings Be sides these there were no extra services The pastor did all the preaching, and at tended all the prayer-meetings, entering with his whole heart into the work, and ha quently conversing and praying with those who sought counsel off him. in his study. Besides those received into the church, a number more have been very seriously im pressed—some of whom, it is believed, have been born again, and will yet join them selves unto the Lord in a perpetual cove nant that shall not be forgotten.—Presbyte rian. The Boston Recorder says that the “reli gions interest in the Presbyterian parish, Rev. Mr. Haskell’s, East .Boston, seemß unabated. Last Sabbath nine members were received into the church, and several others give evidence of real piety, and hope to be soon admitted to the public profession of faith in the Saviour.” The Christian Advocate oontains-the follow ing : —Revival m Newark, Del. The. following has come to hand since the editorial note on. “Dearth of Religious Intelligence” was written. As now the spiritual drought is broken at one point, we trust that we may have to report frequent showers of grace among the ohnrches. Brothers Day. and Spring, of Newark Circuit, Del., wrife-: “On August 4 we commenced a woods* meeting near Cherry Hill Church, intend ing to hold it three days, but the good Lord so abundantly poured his Holy Spirit upon us in the grove that we opntinued it seven, daring which several were converted, and God’s own people graciously quickened. From the grove we have gone to the church, and the Lord is still with us. From eigh teen to twenty nightly are seeking.him, and many are happy in God, having, found peace in believing.” Miscellaneous Unitarianism.—The Whtchman and Refit a tor, forcibly says of the facts brought out in Dr. Gody’s discourse before the Historical So ciety, of the denomination at the anniver sary llast spring in this city: “ The address brings into prominence several points in reference to our Unitarian friends, which ought not to be forgotten. It shows them to be in possession of property to which they have no honest claim.' Harvard College and the orthodox houses of worship retained by them are. usurped possessions, got snd kept unworthily: They were estab lished by evangelical men, for evangelical purposes, and, are now perverted .to ends which their founders would have looked on with horror. A nice sense of honor one would think, must sometimes make Unita rians a little uncomfortable in their ill-got ten inheritance. But the fact seems to be quite otherwise, for they resist to the last extreme all attempts to liberalize the go vernment of Harvard, and stigmatize any effort to introduce evangelical men into its faculty, as evincing excessive bigotry. In the famous controversy between the Hick site and Orthodox Quakers in New Jersey courts, the bench decided, and was sustained in an appeal, that the Hioksite party, hav ing rejected the Divinity, of Christ, and the atonement, and the inspiration of the Scrip tures, has lost claim to the property of the society, by departing from its principles. The decision commends itself to every one’s sense of equity; and if this holds good in the canse of a society without any written creed, how much more so in the case of churches with a blear and authoritative creed, which the Unitarians renounced. If the bench of Massaohußets had not' been strong ly prejudiced in favor -of Unitarian views, its decisions, one cannot doubt, would have been in harmony with thoße of New Jersey. “ Nor is one more favorable impressed with the liberality of feeling claimed for the early Unitarians, than with their nice sense of honesty. They aimed to absorb the social and political power of the State, and a prominent man of the orthodox faith was proscribed by a self-constituted ostra cism. A strong writer, in one of the lead ing journals of the day, quoted by Dr. Eddy, scarcely overstates the matter: ‘ Any person to attain to any of the honors of this State (Massachusetts,) must be a thorough Fede ralist and Unitarian. If they have a blotch of Democracy or Calvinism about them, they muet bid adieu to public honors or to Massachusetts. The Catholics are not more exclusive in Spun than are Mr. Otis and his associates in Boston.’ It was the purpose of Unitarian leaders to keep orthodox men hot only out of the government at Harvard College, but out of posts of honor in the Commonwealth. For a time they succeeded by adroit management, and while they never constituted one-fourth of the voters of the State, they monopolized four-fifths of the public offices. That day, bbwever, has gone by, never to return. “ Another thought suggested by the ad dress, is the utter failure of the Unitarians to grow in numbers and influence as they anticipated. They felt confident of becom ing the largest and most powerful religious body in the land. They looked forward to the complete triumph of their views in New England, and their rapid spread everywhere. The'rose-colored predietions of some of their leaders, at that early day, have a strong Falstaffian coloring, as read in our time. Their growth was attained under the ban ners of orthodoxy, and since they gathered under their, own colors the progress has been scarcely perceptible. The Baptists of Massachusetts alone outnumber the Uni tarians 6f the whole Union, by the statistics of the American Almanac for 1864.” The Grave of Thomas Starr Sing. —A sarco phagus of marble, after the old English style and cruciform in shape, is to be placed over the grave of the late Rev., Thomas Starr King, by the Unitarian parish in San Francisco. In carrying out this! purpose, the remains are to be rembyed from the church to the chapel-yard connected with it, to repose “where the birds.sing, the flowers grow, and nature rejoices The transfer and the erection of, the (monument will taxe place during the stay of Rev. Dr. Bellows in California, and the services on the occasion will be conducted by him.' Beeline of an Infidel Society.—Theodore Par- W P ret * y mucK P%6d out. A few faithful souls, who appear to think more of his empty pantaloons, than of any living preacher, still hug the delusion, that there is something left for them to stickiogether by. It is a mistake. There is no remaining element of coherence. They have had a scattering succession of clerical' and lay lecturers, most of whom would' wearily, and with manifest irksomeness go through with certain exercises not exactly devotions' prior to the commencement of the address, while many of the audience were reading newspapers and French novels, and listless women would sometimes 'protrude their feet and parasols through the lattice work of the balcony. Hut this is mostly over. They have moved from the Muaio Hall to theMeiodeon, and even in the hitter place heard tt them.- Cor* Mprxngfi&ld Hepvbliccuu «
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