The American Presbyterian
AND
GENESEE EVANGELIST.
RELIGIOUS' AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER,
111.7112 INTBRZOIT Or Mt
Constitutional Presbyterian Church.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY,
TIE • 1 4tES - BiCTERiAN HOUSE,
1384
6esnut Street, (2d Story,) Philadelphia.
Meow 'QED W. MEARS, Editor and Publisher.
CONTENTS OF INSIDE . PAGES,
Seem Peerfttnex:
,„
. The Painter and the: Monk', ll—Matehes—God'a
tittle Messenger—The Nests—Stiblinoitv of the
A ipS—APCeSA togod—.But one Sabbath in the Week—
Useless Young Ladies
'MM PAGE—EnITMVS'
.
' "Ande'son's Hawaiian Islands; Philips' Voice , of
.Blood.;,,lacobu,' Notes on the Book of Genesis; t"he
Martyrs of Spain and• the Liberators of Holland;
Books for the Young; , Pamphlets, Magazines,..tc..-
Soldiers and Religion.
Stain P.4ax—Celtasspownitkr: . , • '
Good Deeds Nevet Die -OpenAir Meetings, 11 -The.
Synod of West Pennsylvania—Western, Miniziera—
. Sandwich Islands. ,
Swarm Paas—Miscattessous: - • ' I
The Insoluble Problem of Airriculture—lVing& of
thleood—The Circassian Exbdus. -
MEETING OF VIE AMERICAN
,ECARD .
• AT WORCESTER., f :
This time-honorod'institutien held Its
anniversary meeting this year, under
• most favorable ,eircumsta S A
; full
account of its proceedings will be.found
in our columns. :,The fact that the Board
was permitted -tto= meet witliont 'the era.-
barrassinerit of-'a debt"-hanging over its
prospects4aYe ti E Y'Ory cheering aspect
to the'gathering'`' the, ; place of meeting
,was also every. way •favoriire. •"The
pleasant city of Worcester, - Ole beautiful
hall in'which the nieetings, were held.
• one of the finest in- all' the land—and
the large itttendanee of strong - and
eellent Men, partieipating, 'with their
anple experience and 'wisdom,
in the
business and public meetings, gave in
creased interest and abiEiolutel grandeur
to the occasion. ,
The weather, top was just a's, fine as
•
could be`; neither too .hot, nor, too cold
, clear, bright, beautiful, and exhilitratiliki,
putting one in , the best of spirits.
The generous hospitality of!the people
.of Worcester ; so gracefully exercised as
to put their guests entirely at ease,
-contributed immensely - , mot Only to the
Present comfort, but to the lasting
profit of' the meeting. It wail' not in
.. Mere form that the thanks`of that vast
assembly, near the close of the meeting,
were, tendered ,to, the good .people of
Worcester; it .was , ,a real 'tribute of
gratitude and esteem. Special; thanks;
we are shire, were due to the , cornmittee
-of arrangements, and particularly to Dr:'
Sweetser,' the excellent chairman, and
to Charles M. Miles, Esq . , the gentle
manly, agreeable, and courteous secre
tary, for the thorough manner in which
they had discharged thairduties.
Among the distinguished persons
present, the venerable face and form of
Dr. Cox was tionspicuous ; • and in spite
of his advanced ears be also,made some
good speeches. Philadelphia was well
represented,
.in the persons of Albert
Barnes j Dr.l3rairierd, and Mr.k.cLeod. It
was an occasion of thrilling interest, and,
a sublime spectacle when,' on :Friday
evening, in the presence of an andience
of not less than four thousand' people,
-as every seat, and aisle,' arid - nook, and
-door-way of that Vast hall was crowded,
the venerable, learned, gentle, beloved
Barnes rose and offered a series of reso.,
latiens in behalf of the country. He
prefaCed - them with a few weighty
words, to whichall listened with pro=
`found attention, and then . Cxpressed a
hope that they might pass, without de
:bate. Some one suggested that the
whole assembly be invited to vote on
-the resolutions, and to do it by rising.
'They were' so invited by the President ;
'whereupon, all sprang entbusiagtically
to their feet, and seconded theie'vote
with demonstrations , of applause. It
was a , gra,nd expression of sympathy
- with the, government, arid pledge of
-,Aupport in its hour of trial' andneed:
:And itWas easy to see, on more occa
sions' than' ono, where the sympathies of
this great, assembly were, and how all
hearts throbbed with interest in the One
question of the hour. Every allusion - to
our honest President, to our noble army,
to Grant to Farragut and other heroes,
or to our suffering soldiers, was greet
ed with.some token of special recogni
tion. -:Thoughtthe members of this as-,
eembly are not generally politicians, yet
they are a power Itt•tbe land; and it will
be hard work for treason to triumph
while these, and such as these, remain
true to the d'ear old 'flag
The presence of Dr. Kin,gpotgre9ce,
Was, lierhaire,the'Marked feature of this
meeting. All were anxious to''see him;
, all looked upon him with the . highest
veneratiOn and respect—the rrin'' , Who
has been .absent thiriy-six yettie -from
his native land; who , has end - tired' so
'much persecution for Christ and stood
faithful in, all, was the man whom they
delighted to bonor.
Oa° other notteeable featureof the
=BE
New Series, Vol. I, No. 41.
meetirig,it will be seen, is the determi
nation•to attempt to raise six lIIUNDICEb
THOUSAND DOLLARS the current year
for missions. This Is absolutely neces
sary, in
. order to pay the current rates'
of exchange, and to reinforce such mi . 's=
sion stations as aro now suffering for
want of laborers; This action was
cordially "endorsed and urged by the
-strong monied men in the meeting; and
seemed equally to commend itself to
the good judgMent and approbation of
the entire assembly. It is belieyed that
the amount may be raised within, the
current year.
Among the-new members it will , be
noticed, we huVe two good men from
Western New York;—Rev. Dr. Canfield,
of Syraciige, and'Loois Chapin Esq., of
•
Rochester. Pennsylyarda,, also furnishes
,a worthy name for, the : list S4nitk t .Fl l ,
• small ; • Esq.,of wißOso be'
observed,that W. E. Dodge; Esq., 4, 1 4 3 ;
metchant prinpair of New York, is • elect-,
ed Vice -President, in place of lion.
tWi Liam Sessup ; ,of o
ur - own State, whose
-SetiOusly. 'impaired health-, i forb'ds
longer-Serving in this !responsible posi
yob ;2-Wllle - it the •Same time
sympathy with Mr. Jessup and
his family in referenCe - to Ids impaired
health, and of respect for his tWenty,.
yyearsof faithful:SerVice:_in. behalf of the ,
: - Board was. cordially:,passe'd.
The closing service on Friday - Morn=
ing was one Of. the most: totiching,'`afo r '
•
propriate and beattifulthat it was ever
our privilege to witless on such an occa
sion. It was a heavenly Beene, BO ten
der and impre.ssife, and.yet so cheerful
and hopeful, that . niany,•cenhf not r'e•
.'/
strain' their tears of - joy. Many' who:
have often attended these: meetings of
the 'Boards have freely remarked that
they havo-'never been at,one, morepro
•fitahle CTiileasant than thls:. All seemed
tOppt;s away deeply impressed,with the .
solemnify and glory of the missionary
'work, and apparently determined. to, do
more than ever before to, prornote 'its
- aloriousdnterests.- • ' • '
PROVIDENCE OF pop IN THE PUNISI4:I6fENT
AND: DISCIPLINE OF NATIONS.:
ANOTHER DOCTRINE FOR no TIMES
Great` - evils do not visit' the nations
without an a.deqUate cause.. Generally
they can be understood with little diffi
culty., They arise .frolll, fi•orn the
violation of: natural or: , .moral laws.
They are the 'results of a long career of
presumptuous iniquity, or they are the
swift pinishment of outrageous wrong,
or they are the severe training through
which a less criminal and a•ehosen peo
ple.are_marching,.undor a pillar of cloud
and of fire, through ; .the wilderneSs to
the prOmised land. War is, one of the
direst of national scourges ; a civil war
one of the mostidreadful of wars. The,
war which devastates Solarge a portion
of our country, which has entailed such
unprecedented-sacrifices•of treasure and
of blood, which, has invested With.• Sueb
tragic and imperishable interest hun
dreds of localities, towns, and', vitla,' - ges
hill-sides and mountains, bluffs and
heights, plains - and: vallieS; river-bends
and crossings, railroad centres, ,harbors,
inlets and isrands • which has a record of
battles on land and.water, of sieges,- of
trenchments, of advances and retreat*
of great campaigns, - of critical periods,'
when agonized , millions held their
breath, of heroie daring and endurance,
of 'savage . barbarities!wreaked upon, tin-,
armed' men and, women, upon helpless
prisoners, upon the property of nondom,
ba tants, not surpassed and scareely equal-.
led in the: world's history,`this' war
too has a meaning, and a plain:one. It
is holding up, in bold and blazing char
acters, truths overlooked and slighted by
,
our people heretofore, but, which. ,God
intended we should heed in spite of oar
selves. The conscience of this iia,tion
must be roused, and th,e,thunder-clap of
war is to do it. - _ 1 "
We are glad to know that our clergy"
are not insensible to their 'great duty
as we have:endeavored to set it forth,
of. interpreting itnd enforcing.thedolemia.
prOvidentia 4 l lessens of the - tiraesl .IWhile;
preparing do ,write upon f,liisi 7 brarch of
the tillibject, we were so fortunate as to
meet with a sermon., by F:' Ii
RCIBIiINS, pastor of Green bhurch,
on the Divine Adininfetration;ov'er the
Affairs of this World, an extract, from
which will express, with force and 'dig
nity, the thoughts we had intended to
present, besides furnishing some perti-
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, OCTOtER 13, 1864.
meat And instruatiyy ; le,ssons , from t e
'.history'of other nations-. WQ may enti
tle the extract— •
TIIF WAR A PUNISHMENT FOR NATIONAL
Speaking of the overthrow of the cOr
rapt nations of antiquity, the preacher
says:
Another cause for their diesolution
and abandonment to the just judgments
of Heaven may be found in their inhu
manity. Not only was debauchery
universally approved by their laws, and
sanctioned bytheir religion; so also was
inhumanity and injustice, . especially
toward their slaves.. They deprived
millions of their natural rights, and not
only so, but they treated them with
systematic cruelty. ; Violating thus'the
laws of humanity and of G-Od, retribu
bution was visited upon them. `, Under`
God's administration, national injiistihe,'
systematiC erdelty, legalized wrong.
cannot prosper, 'chniiot escape 4 a just re-
Cortipense of reWarch ' • 4 '`,
Rome - held . '60,000, 000 i 'of pool:del ;as
Slaves, ;and: considering this vast popu.l
latior;`atipa- dangerous ,eleinent.iin; the
I.State-,-,oniitted no.opportunityof oppres
[sing them, andel destroying hope and
'ambition and every manly trait. The'
master, was invested with absolute'
dpower ; and, so far as possible he 're
uced them to the condition of -brutes.
T4y,w.ereput naked upon the -Market
block, *ere- chained like'dogs',.in some
instances, - hefOre the houSes; the aged
and hiffrin: and sick were , -placed upon
an island- in,•the :and left .to
perigh., - In one, instance,.it is recorded
that. dyer 4000 were put ,to death to
expiate the crime, of one of their
number who,could not be detected: - •
Nothing could eXceed the inhumanity
and cruelty of Greece id her treatment
of her slaves, Whose' number was inhere
ihat fear times that of= her fre,e oitizens:
The' young men,of
,Sparta hunted them
.as wild beasts, to acquire facility in.the
Use of 'arms. Everyislave was annually
whipped, to remind him of his servitude.
They were not allowed to sing, pure,
ennobling songs, but were required_ t,9
sing • sensual ; songs, and ,to `engage
indecent, games,,to effect ;their self-,
deg
radation. They, were compelled to'
make themselves drunk, in order that.
the Spartan youth' might be disgusted,
andtaua b ht to shun the vice of 'drimkeri' ,
•
ness. The high-spirited and the strong,
manly slaves were either broken in spirit
and manhood or killed outright.
- No wonder then that Rome was given
over to destruction, that the sun of
Grecian civilization, so resplendent with,
the lustre of arts and arms, went down,
succeeded by a long night of desolation.
What is the.lesson of historyt This.;
God will not Permit nations to inn a
career of injustice, and cruelty, and
voluptuousness, and irreligion uncheck
ed:- Godless prosperity does not stand
like the mountains. Its mountain stands
(her 'an earthquake. National wicked
ness, though it rise to Babel height,
towering high, heaven-defying, will
Meet, :must meet, sooner or : later, its
,doorn. of _overthrew. -
, God is governing this world on prin
ciples, of justice,.and .With bare that
never overlooks_iniquity or falters in its
punishment. • '
And pow let us' apply these principles
to ear own history, condition and pros
-For three' years'nnd a half the work
of 'retribution has-been going on. We
have been expiating and we are ,expia
ting, in the,sorrows, and sufferings, and ,
martyrdoms, of: vow,_, our national
We. have been,catled by the visitations
of calamities toremember, repent of, and
put away our sins.
Has not this nation been rebuked for
- declining from the ways of the pious
fathers, for abandoning their godly ens
foraS arid ObserVances, the high charac-'
ter conceded to them - for moral integrity
arid right principles'? Has
,not - our
`d iesecration= of they Sabbath, oar national
eagerness fOr gain, our abundant pesti
lential:literature—much f of it "sensual
and devilish "—our Atheistic disregard
of God, the conceded and almost univer
sal corruption in
• the domain of politics,
the very general rapacity and venality
:51:pnblie servants, had an influence in
Predaeing the existing state of things?
You have been so jUdging and, saying
Tor three years, and yet dbf you, do we,
all, deprecate Heaven!s - :anger, , and seek
to put ourselves and •our republican in
terests' on -:the side ,of safety and the
Divine favor, by wholly abandoning
these sins? I amrconvinced that only
- this is necessary tc; our complete success
in the fields of war. Let not the' gov
ernment•of God, be ignored in this
matter. '
But dwell for a little 'upon this prin-'
diple - of retribution, and' see how sig
nally it is illustrated.` it, regard to the
great national-sin of4Slavery. I think
this war God's:icurse, , poured out' in
retribution upon thattmonstroas
• - Ne thought. our prosperity ; was . fixed
,andkenduring as; the mountains : It,was
'fondly ihiagined .that; there,eduld be so
strange an anomaly as a 'free - govern,
meat with the element of slavery,in it.
Xow slavery vielates every natural.
right of man, desecrates the holy rela
tion of marriage, carries prostitution
into 'the Sacred circle of the family, de
prives a man of the fruit of his own
body and his own labor, seals up thin
blessed Bible and the fountains of in-
INJUSTICE
Genesee Evangelist, No. 960.
struetion and. deprives light and
knowledge, and largely of''.lititelligent
views of obligation and duty, of time
and eternity, of God and his own desti
ny. Throughout the entire sphere of
its , influence it is at - war with every:
.element of natural right, of justice and
humanity and of the spirit of the
Gospel. - Enliffhtened civilization con
demni it; the moral sense,unless blinded
by prejudice or seduced by interest, re
-
-coils from it; religion condemns it.
Hence, is it strange that the just retri
bution of' Heaven fell upon this country,
where it was tolerated, upon the gov
ernment which legalized it, and surround
it with constitutional safeguards, upon
all - classes, South, North,' in , Europe,
'the world, who . shared in the guilt of
establishing or perpetuating it, or who
participated in its fruits and products ?
it was not possible for this grand
multitudinous wrong to go unpunished.
; That intelligent and just and exacting
Providence:which,presides over nations,
coiald notpass..over, unobserved and un
tiVetiepthe speetaCle of four' millions
iof .men held to unrequited !tell, and
dented every right of manhoed.
And it has frequently and justly, been
observed, that penalty has fallen beavi-,
Ot, where, offence was greatest. Where
enactecrits darkest crimes, it has
avenged itself most, rigorously. Where
it most cheapened life and debauched
Morals, there - were witnessed' most fro:
,qtiontly scenes of duelling, and murder,
and riot,' and ;rancorous passion ; and
therecwere oftenest heard tales of infi
delity and.sin. ' Virginia, 'with 'a soil so
'Wan that 'Slave4abor - was no longer
- productive (a,ndit is one of theretribu
tions of.this system of forced labor that.
it-never fails to wear out the soil, and
demand new territory), turned to slave
Jireeding, for the Solitheria Market. And
how has she been Stripped and trodden
.down, and made a desolation, in. retri
biition for her infamy Charleston,
inO4e than- any other city, -perhaps, is
possessed and infatuated:with the spirit
`of slavery ; and more than any other,
,„Perhaps, she' has suffered, and drank of
Abe wine of Heaven's wrath. All along
leher wharves grass grows to-day. Many
,her proudest, citizens are fugitives,
'rik,any of her song .are slaughtered. In
.herstreets there is beggary, hi her pal
aces mourning, at her gates thunders
',the conqueror; the conqueror iiho will
yet crucify treason before her eyes.
American slavery is avenging itself,
Meting' out just and proportional pen
-.ray, South, North, abroad, wherever
guilt or complicity therein may be
found. God's hand is in this. His
righteous government is vindicating
I itself before the nations.
:;may friends, "affliction cometh not
ifirgor,44: the ground, neither cloth
tronle-'spring; from the
sins of this nation, and among them this'
great sin of slavery, have precipitated
this republic, in its fast and furious
carper, against the iron barrier of God's
everlasting decrees. And I repeat, here
on this holy Sabbath morning, as. the
most solemn truth that can be uttered
in relation to our country, notwith
standing present successes and hopeful
auguries, a return to justice, justice to
all, nobin proMise merely, but in fulfill
ment also, ,an abandonment of habits
and;:, Practices which conflict with God's
righteous'government, alone can save us
, froni disintegration, anarchy and ruin
past' redemption.
YANKEE NOTIONS DE GRAMMAR AND
GEOGRAPHY.:
A most ribstod. attempt at criticism
appears in ' the Boston Recorder, of
September .. 3oth, headed " The Presby
terian 'Church.,.at ,St. George's." To
give our, readers, especially those most
interested, a little innocent sport, We
4uote the greaterpart ofthe article:.
MESSRS.: EDITORS grammatical'error in
the American ,:Presbyterian seems to justify
the idea that there exists (it - would seem in
PhiladelPhia). , ,a Presbyterian churdh dedi
cated to, or •nanied' in honor of some Saint
Gedrge'. • 7n 'the State of Delaware there is a
St. Mary's, -county, and : in . that a. town or
village named St. Georges or St. George's.
How, any St. Mary abquired - the large terri
tory, orhy what title St. George holds under
her, appears not -to your informhnt; : But it
is:certain that in that village is a Presbyte
rian church which might be called the St.
Georges Presbyterian church, or caCographi
cally St. GeOrge'ses church; or better than
either,' the church in St. Georges, but not
with any, propriety " St. George's Church."
It. is ( a pity that the " saints"—and they are
not a few—are not expelled from the ga-:
zetteer of Protestant nations. We would
commend to 'the Presbyterian brethren in
St. George's a movement in the same direc
tion." :
Now, as to the bad grammar of the,
form of expression = " St: George's
Church," we submit that it is pre
cisely- the same, good or -bad, as the
"BOston churehes," "London churches,"
or Boston ladies, Boston merchants.
Boston newspapers, Bostiin Recorder;
and the like, in support of which con- .
.venient . abbreviations there is a very
prevalent niage r if ILO more. Turning
to 'a number of-the Bdsten Congregational
Quarterly; Which happens to be at hand;
we find in the first sentence of an
historical article, the same form used
in speaking of "Plainfield Church" ; and
again, in another colum.n, the " Abington
Sikiety" is mentioned. The Presbs-te
-
fiand, of St. George's, in naming their
church, took the simplest course that
Puritan scrupulosity could have sug
gested, calling it by the village in
which it was erected, the corporate name
of which is not St. George but St.
George's. They did not trouble them
selves as to the idle fancies that might
arise in some crack-brained correspon
dent, who may, if he chooses, write to
the Recorder that it is ungrammatical
to speak of living in St, George's, unless
you mean to say that you have taken
up your abode, Jonah-like, in the veri
table body of the old dragon-killer.
As to the geographical knowledge
displayed in the article, we must believe
that New England has sent abroad so
many of her " schoolmasters" that at
least the junior portion of the corres
pondents of the. Recorder have suffered
from a neglect of the p*.mary part of
their education. "In the State of Dela
ware," says the learned correspondent,
" there is a St. Mary's 'county." Cer
tainky, the'eagerness of the writer- to
overwhelm little Dela Ware with the
odiuni of multiplying saintships has
helped him into this gross error, from
which the editor, of : the Recorder either
did not.-know how,' or did, not, care, to
save him as he might . have done, by a
stroke of the pen. New England must
be careful how she would correct the
errors of Philadelphia journals, and in
deed beware of criticising, with undue
,
severity, the frequent mistakes of British
journals in regard to the,geography of
this country-, if she reveals, such= gross
ignorance of the internal divisions of a
State with but • three counties in all—
Newcastle, Kent and Sussex. Let
" Illinian" and the Recorder look care
fully at their atlases when they make
their next venture in geographical
criticism.
,If they cannot find maps of
the State, with, counties named, in
Boston, we :will furnish them with an
excellent atlas published in this city,
containing all! the information needed,
at, wholesale prices.
an of tht Oman.
PRESBYTERY OF lOWA. CITY.—The
Presbytery of lowa City met at Brook
-411, lowa, Sept. •:.
Tread*ell was chosen.
Moderator and fie , is. S. S: Teel)
porary Clerk.
Rev. L. B. Rokers was received from
the Presbytery of Niagara. Mr. Ben
jamin Talbot, a Licentiate of Franklin
Presbytery, and now •I'rofessor in the
lo*a State Asylum for the -deaf and
dumb'at lowa City, Was received by
letter and at his request examined and
ordained' o the Gospel ministry.
An overture to Synod was adopted,
requesting that the, Prebytery be di
vided so as to follow in general range,
the two' lineS ofßailway. in our bounds,
running'west from - the - Mississippi.
Rev: W. M. Kain was dismissed to
unite" with the' l i resbtery of Lexing
.
ton.
Kowa city was appointed as the place
for the next, stated meeting.
At the subsequent Sessions of Presby
tery during the meeting of Synod at
Newton, the' following:additional busi
n.ess was transacted : •
Rev. John . Glass was received from
the Presbytery of Cedar Valley. 'Rev.
. •
L. 13. Rogers Was added to ' . :the
Com
mittee on Home Missions. The pasto
ral relation between Rev - .W. Ather
ton and the church at Cedar Rapids was
dissolved by mutual consent.
Among other resolutions passed were
the following :
.Resolzied, That' we believe the slave
holders' rebellion of the Southern Con
federacy to bUContrary - to and destruc
tive of all true'democratic principle, and
to be a sin note only against this nation
but against the great and all-wise Giver
of all the glorious principles and holy
institutions which ; constitute us a nation
and a people.
Resolved, That it is the duty of every
liberty-loving man and woman and of
every Christian, to do all in their power
to aid the - government 'in its efforts to
subdue our enemies -in arms, and to re
store ,Our • once happy conntry to its
former tranquility and peace.
Resolved, That the sincere and heart
felt thanks of this body are hereby .ren
dered to Almighty God for the recent.
victories _with which-he has so, signally
crowned our Army and Navy.
An abstract of the proceedings of
Presbytery - was ordered to be published
in the Am. Presbyterian and N. Y. Evan
gelist. H. L. STANLEY, Stated Clerk.
Lyons : lowa, Oct. 3 1864.
-TERMS—
Per annum, in advance :
By Mail, 83. By Carrier, 83 50
Fifty, cents additional, after three months.
Clubs.—Ten or more papers, sent to one address
payable strictly in advance and in one remittance:
By Kai!. $2 50 per annum. Bv Carriers, $3 per annum.
Ministers and Ministers' Widows, $2 in. advance.
Home Missionaries, 31 50 in advance.
Fifty cents additional after three months.
Remittances by mail are at our risk
Pestege,—Eive cents quarterly, in advance, paid by
subscribers at the office of delivery.
ADVERTTBENENTs.
12.3,4 cents per line for the first, and 10 cents for the
second tosertion.
One square, (ten lines) one month.
two months,
" three "
a six " 12 00
-
" one year 18 00
.The following discount, on lowr advertisements
inserted for three months anti upwards is allowed:—
Over 20 lines, 10 per cent. off; over 50 lines, 20 per
cent.; over 100 line 4, 33 , 4 per cent. off.
REV. ALVAH DAY.—This brother, late
of Morris, Grundy - co., 111, has been ap
pointed chaplain of the 91. st Regt.
Volunteers, and is stationed at Brazos,
Santiago, Texas, where he can be ad
dressed.
DRAFTED MINISTERS.----WR see named,
among the recent recipients of our good
Uncle Samuel's compliments, Rev. G.
D. Archibald, of the First, and Rev. W.
W. Atterbury, of the Second Presbyte
rian churches in Madison, Ind., Rev. E.
Bushnell, of Fremont, 0., and Rev. A
W. Freeman, of Aurora, 111. The con
gregations of the first two have pro
cured for them subStitutes. We have
not learned how it is with the others.
PRESBYTERY OF CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND.
—From the Christian Herald's report of
the proceedings of the recent meeting of
this Presbytery, we learn that three
new laborers, (names 'not given,) have
taken up fields of labor within its bounds.
" While," says the report, " we rejoice
much in having accessions so valuable,
we are very- anxious to, have two more
good men : one for Newtown and Rob
Roy and the other for Perryville and
vicinity." We add the following sen
tences from the narrative of the state of
religion : " Sabbath ministrations are
attended generally by, increased num
bers and with growing interest. The
weekly prayer meeting is sustained with
special encouragerrient in most of our
churches ; in some- with new fervor and
power. Several of our congregations
have been refreshed from on high ; ad
ditions have been made to the majority
of our churches during the year, on pro
fession of faith. Sabbath Schools are
generally in a very hopeful and effi
cient condition', and are the marked fea
tures of our Christian communities.
They seem to be constantly achieving
good."
REV. DE BEM/AN.—We learn from the
Troy Daily. News that this venerable
Pastor and Patriarch in our church, re
tires from the pastorate 'of the First
Presbyterian church in that city after
precisely forty years of service in that
capacity. He intends removing to
southern Illinois, to spend the remain
der of his life among kindred and friends.
He is now in the eightieth year of his
age.
CORNER STONE LAlD.—During the
session of the Synod of lowa, in New
ton, lowa, on the 10th Wt., the corner
stone of a new church in that town was
laid, accompanied with interesting reli
giors, eictreiaes 'I in .. - '. vcchich. Rev. M. H.
Dysart, the Mciderator. of Synod, and
Rev. Messrs Thompson Bird, Henry B.
Holmes, L. B. Rogers, L. H. Loss, and
W. Treadwell took part. The stone
was deposited by Rev. C. I. Slack, the
Pastor of the church. Mr. Bird treated
the audience to some very interesting
reminiscences, having himself, in 1850,
preached the first sermon delivered by
a Presbyterian minister in Newton.
DEPosmON.—The Third Presbytery
of New York,on the 3d inst., pronounced
sentence of deposition against Rev.
Henry Toelke, sometime since suspended
for errors in doctrine and practice, and
afterwards refusing 'to respect the act
of 'suspension, and giving no evidence
of repentance.
REVIVAL IN NEW. ALBANY, IND.—In
relation 'to the • Third church in this
place, the correspondent of the Evange
list writes`: " Tlni, faith and love of
G-od's. clear people ha,ve 'been revived
and-strengthened by the evident mani
festation of His blctiscd presence in our
assemblies. From Some who were out
of Christ, has been. heard the anxious 1
inquiry, What must we dO to be saved ?
And a small number are now rejoicing ir
in the assurance of sins forgiven." .n
NEW Cnunon.---The Indianapolis
Presbytery has taken under its care a 1
new church recently organized in Edin
burgh, Ind. A Pastor is wanted for it,
in connection with other work in the 91
region. Apply to the Assembly's Corrl
mittee on Home Missions.
OnniNATioN.—This evening, (13th) is en
appointed for the ordination of Mr. J- IE
W. Stevenson, by the Third Presbytery le
of New York, and his installation as ; 11 1
Pastor of the Sedond - church of Jersey - e
effi
city.
•
REV.TIISICiTILY WILLISTON haS remover; .
Il
to South Boston, lona county, Michigan w ,
2—Evangeltst. jn
NAME ER USED.--R9v. Indson Aspin h
wall's name was strieken from the r011. 3t0
of Kansas Presbytery, at the reeert,id )
meeting of the same, he having commui
nicated to Presrbytery his renunciatio
of the fellowship of the Church.