350 fortropontena. OPEN AIR MEETINGS. BY EDWARD PAYSON HAMMOND Jonathan Edwards, more than a hun dred years ago, said that "the best way to promote revivals was to tell of them in other places." No one believed more firmly than that great theologian, that genuine revivals were the work;of the Holy Spirit—that- Chris iiiis,muSt first be aroused to unfted, hiptirtlinate prayer, and be themselves , ItyuiLNed' in the dust before they e~: patent sinners cryirif for - meroy at the foot of Calvary: And, yet his oft-repeated ut terance just quoted, was not inconsist ent with all this. He knew that a faith ful report of one of the "times of re freshing from the presence of the Lord" was a most potent means to stir the hearts of Christians to pray for the descent of the Holy Ghost, and to alarm the careless. Dr. Julius Wood, of*Dumfries, " con vener of the Committee on Religion and Revivals," in reporting to the Gen eral Assembly of the Free Church, an account of the great religious awaken ing in Scotland, 1860 and 1861, ex pressed a conviction similar to that of Jonathan Edwards. He says : "In many of our congregations there was a gradual increase of, the spirit of prayer and increased expectation of re vival, which was quickened when we had tidings of the Lord's great work in America and Ireland. These tidings both excited gratitude to God and raised expectations that He would not pass, us by ; and when we used the scriptural means for obtaining the blessing„they were blessed to us by God. Sere was increased attention to the preaching of the Word, increased attention at prayer meetings. And when the Lord had• thus prepared us for receiving the.bless ing, it pleased him to pour itc-10'ut Very remarkably and very abundantly. I cannot help observing that one great means of awakening seems to. have been the communicating of intelligence of what the Lord had done in other Places. I find in almost all the reports, that this was done with the tmost blessed results. The information interested, the people, and brought the thing home to them; they felt that:it was a reality; and it .ex cited a desire to partake of the benefit ; and led them to use the means ,God has appointed for obtaining the benefit. I believe we can Scarcely ascribe: too much influence to the communication : ' Of religious intelligence. in bringipg sibput the results in which we this day rejoice:" This well established fact of the' im portance of no,rratixt, g.ovh i aGod ac complishedtheuse' of appropriate means,, leads me, in these article; : , - to speak of what has been effected in other places and - nations, ihr s onih the . .agency of open air preaching. I shall therefore again call attention to what the Holy Spirit has wrought by the agency of 4)6. 'Ear . 0 - caching' this and in distant lands. "Let us . con sider one another to provoke unto love and good works." (Heb. x. 29.) People, the world over, love to con gregate in masses. The very sight of avast concourse of people of itself af fords pleasurable excitement. In Scot land 'the annual fairs are quite an insti tution. They often call together thou sands. Rev. Aft; Golly, in relating to" the: Free Church Assembly in Edin burgh, in 1861, an account of the re markable revival in Annan,,took occa sion to speak of the way the gospel was preached on one of the market days. I quote his words as they were at > the time reported for the Wynd Journal. It says: „There is one other matter to which ~'I refer and that is to the °general effects awl results upon the public in Annan and its vicinity. I, may just say in wiird, that these are most marvellous. The w,general, aspdet of the t 1,1 and country is morally' -and spiritually changed—absolutely revolutionized. We wAes'almost proverbial: for. immorality. It is on the-liorcler T7 and the .Border is prverbial for badness. We had (1174,4- enness, and all the kindred vices, and aring. The vaille; of impiety iVnot now heard, and there is the.most mani fest arrest kid' Ott the aniiiren habits of' tha people. The attendance in the' 'P1.i.107-4 of, worship is greatly creased,. is:rug just illustrate that from my own congregation, which I may give as a spelfimen of all the othersin town whiclr took, part in the movement. We had' our usual communion Sabbath ,on the: first - Sabbatliiof Pebruary i threp weeks'. OriSO",after the movement began. We, sine then about fortynaembers to the - ch*ch, new conver4,—:members of a class-so different from what I-was wont tcrbitroduce into;*?%9l3lllA. NY7e - held, two Weeks :aO, a special ` conircusgioir rikeet the. desire in_ the 'congregation to come to the Lerd's I ad . ded then, I think r _ somewhere abaut; fifty more. members. Thus, , ; in three' months, we added about ninety ; mem I was not , 'One' 'Of that'9o - or 100, who; if I t liad'gdne and saidf—Now, have you been savingly blessed, do you think ?—but would have answered in the affirmativ3, yea, and are giving evidence, all the evidence we can desire, of having been savingly blessed. We have a great hiring market in Annan twice a year. One of them falls due in May; and oh ! it . has been a scene of iniquity. I remember when. I first came to Annan and saw that fair, that I gave offence to some of my peo ple, after seeing the intemperance that prevailed, ' saying from the pulpit, next Sabbath: " Oh! it is hard to think that anything good can be done here, while, by universal . consent, two whole days in the year are 'given virtually to the devil, in this town and neighbor hood." But this month we faced that fair in a way we had never done before. We have a revival committee, and they looked out for this coming rock, and provided for it ; and I think- they have solved the problem of hiring markets and fairs in the land. There are some esteemed brethren present--Colonel Davidson, who kindly visited ns, and also Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. Rainy, 'Mr. Reid, and a number of other ,members who came down to help us. About 8000 people were brought into the town that day; and notwithstanding the at tendance being three times the usual amount, yet, even on their own show ing, the whisky-sellers - did not do an average business. There were out-door services twice daring the day. , There was a refreshment tent, in which 13,000 or 14,000 cups of tea and coffee were sold, at a penny for each. A. penny was charged for each thing—a bun, a penny ; cheese, a' penny; bread and butter, a penny;—for we went 'on the penny principle. 19,000 pennies were thus taken in course of the day.;', the tent being opened with prayer and closed with prayer. On Friday first there is to be a meeting to take steps to ereet, a hall for the purpose of having it, open on every future fair and market-day. I believe if £lOOO were required at this moment, to carry on the ,revival work, the ,"sum would be raised before I Saturday night in, the town of Annan: We,see from the . statements of Mr. Goiley what may be achieved for the Lord when men are in earnest to win souls to Jesus. The clergymen who 'were engaged in this evangelistic move ment in Annan, were among, the most ;conservative ministers in Scotland—the AP " last that you would think of, to be car- tried away by mere enthusiasm or wild excitement. And yet at one time,: so I • I absorbing was the work of the Holy Spirit, that they did not cease-,for two weeks to point weeping souls to Jesus till 1 o clock in the morning ; ,It --was i usual to'findabout thirteen hundied- in 'the church at that.hour, and even then, . ,the people had to. be about, the,same as driven out Every body acted" , as if . 'they erimil.'y believedthe Bibte. And so wh e n those masses of unregenerated souls from the towns around Annan, came pouring in I.l.pon'thet3,e Cbristiaras and young converts whose harts` - - were all aglow with-Te „lotile r saii.o c ur, they were ready to do 'elfin their power to pluck'thenraS'brands froni the burning. Another. .of the XnPan .pagtere, xo t oxe than a year after 'these meetings' in the open air were held, writes, that'while in past Years, muCh had,4en done to arrest the fearful- ravages of intemperance, these special services, by the blessing of God, had effected far more, in the right direction Thousandswill kolesitia:iii til:lete,rnity for open air preaching in. Scotland. A voice fro one of the-Christian'poets of that land'calls to , . , Ho! all ye ChrisAO reapers Go, labor while You may 1 Into yourlifastees garner • Oh ! gather all day. He'll bldis the feehlesk..ifforts, thaVmet.l lArthO,in his name go weepitir scatter precious seed. _GOLDWIN SMITH ON LIVERPOOL. ProiltiSor-c:Gol ." n Smt ;latel - 1 at Chicago, and .visiting the,Thiiversity in that eipyoreinitried, thitt • Ahe, hostil4 of.the British aristocracy,ta this,eoun try " was. 'less malignant. hatred or dislike than fear for their own position." Ilia ;sail that :" religion and frea_institutions in this country, combined, with-theyprpgressive feeling - of Englistritecifilli; 66nel:tired to7Lrinicliti carious. one.", - There ; are k large-nusabers oftnifishinen,lie add6d, who arti`frniiidly to thid•country—u'the rower Vert' Of. the middle classes—the `iepieseilfafiveS of the free clittrAttes, r whickcontained the true religidro- .`country, were sentiriel t by refectpce,..to Piverpoolspeaking of the building-and equipment of the__Alabaina —contaipsatfact,andreveals an estimate of that pity on, the part, ofso r od,inen in that• may, well "surprise us. Said he: --' "That eiluipment was' ndt' theAdt of the English ,ped t ple,:but.was effected by a party of Liverpool Meregents. Liver pool, it must be remembered, was rather a branch or offshoot of the Southern State!, ;than a truly English city, It hekbeen• a ;slavelbnying,j`lgeye-' deilini 'part, enk t vias, in the"pdptiler language of the ',British, Lieeplejk with, the blppl., ) ,of the:b,ondsmen, to;the gitafllistagor Of We' country and the indignation of the English people." PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1864. LETTER FROM UTAH TERRITORY. A member of one of our Philadelphia congregations now in Great Salt Lake City, writes to his pastor as follows, under date of September 19tb, via San Francisco : On the Sabbath following his arrival, Dr. Kendall preached ns a powerful sermon in the Mormon tabernacle here, by invitation of President Brigham Young. The audience was very large, consisting of' all or nearly all the Gen tiles in this place and a numerous addition of .Latter Day Saints. They were uniformly attentive and respectful. Dr: Kendall left, I think, impressed with the practicability of establishing a mission here. As, however, he probably intends to communicate his observations and . impressions, through the proper channels, details may well be left to him. As every system; whether social, moral or 'religious, is much influenced by the physical nature of its location, it may not be improper to add a few words respecting the Great Basin and the remarkable: fanaticism here. The Great . Basin as it is called is situated between the Wasatch and Rocicy Mountains, in the form of an ellip . se, with its major axis extending from 37i to 41i- deg. of north 'lMitude, about 250 y and its'minor axis - about 130 miles in length. The' bottom of the basin consiits "of a series of :Valley's, the finest of which is' Utah; none ; of them less than 4100 feet' above the ltivel of thesea . . The sides of thia remarkable phsiOal 'structure are composed of a chain of Mountain wall'all around; from 8,000 -to 12,000 feet', high, and' *holly unbroken . except by ,a_few ravines or canons; as- they are called here. The supply of Wate'r s in g thVbislititt' inade quate to the requirements of extensive agriculture or manufaetures;por he materially increased - by.any existing natural laws, for the oceand, which are the Only possible sources ,of such in crease' s are 1000 and'2ooo‘milesdistant .and the snr' ionnAling mountain „ k barrier rises far higher than the watery vapor ever ascends in any considerable quan tity, and thus hermetically excludes all accessions of water from without. Not more than an annual 'average of six inches of water falls In the - valleys' iff the basin in all the forms of rain, snow and hail. With an evaporation of ex"- traprdinary intensity; cultivation of the soil' in any form 'requires an . aggregate ditittivElinpply. of at leAst- thirty inches of Water per a,nnum. The differ ence must be supplied from; the rivers and mountain streams. The Tainsrwhicb pare Attracted , by the massesrotthsmoilptainftfnal-mAchTmore abundantly on their, .decliVities than in tbe valleys. Rain etch& ",-fitemotimei come in collision with the rnouniains, producing stupendous water-falls,whoie local dytistnio effects are' not unlike earthquakes. Thee mountain streams and rivers.rcividk tilteliLeicsignce to the rainy an4'snoi s'which fall at elevation onsiderAbly : , al:l6'l4Y ;the, vall : eys, much more tly ,than Whe4tpb4rley, oats, and Itedjan :corn, with the various fruits and vegatityles, .are produced in , various . parts of the valleys in toleble quantity and quality Chinese- smg•hum 'and pie more bardy. varieties 'of grapes especially do welt' All these however require laborions' and , expensive irrigation. Coal 'iron copper - lead, sulphur sodium, nitre; antimony and..rock with:several kinds-of , potters' clay, are found in many places --some of them! in latish abundance—all of them in, quantities sufficient perhaps to supply ultimate. wints.' The coal is a gooct l medium between the cannel and bitu-, urinous Oats, Signs a gold and silvep aye nunaerons; ag e d promisin VAF. PlOrePi.'haVe peen! active. Much has been. said and written; of the abindance of both these 'metals, in the - Territory' of Vtas I 'am not nvYar,e, he*ever, that.. existence, here, in 'any Very' large - masses•has yet been v - erified. The quoatiisi - must sooni r' be,determined by.ageneiea now in opera-tion , •' ' - ' The. most interesting _Object in the ,Great Basin- , is Great • Salt Lake, an, inland. sea lA, no apparent; outlet, some what 'larger than the State of New: Jersey, whose ,Eaters are so 9 9Tnpletely: satnrated,with saline ; matter : mkt° yield,, by evaporation, one-third their own bate& salt The J'oritair -Weber • • • ""i. ands 'Bear, three,' :considerable- ' supply-the waters of the lake. The; waters of these streams are supposed to be entirolr:p - nTe,'4nd :the .cgestion is• whence the lake aeciunires, its salt. Tbe tr.nth, is,-,theke„.rivert,3 carry 4i3,1 solution!' ohlorrne and"sodium, which are "the:' elements df. dOinmon salt. The waters, pass from the lake by evaporation only, absolute - 3F pxl4 - 6 !or: nekilyl. so. leavingt I , behiad !Cum , thb •chlorina•-and which-combine .chemically and form the ,salt of ~- t h: e kage; 06,.*ater,s, of great: Salt Lake are in 'natty , pladds Of 'great depth and contain no vestige of vege- table or animal life. It contains several considerable mountain islands, which rise several thousand feet above its waters. The waters of the lake which are forced over its banks by, the winds into the neighboring depressions, there evaporate and annually produce many thousand tons of good table salt. The nearest part of the Jake is ten miles from this. The condition of the Mormons here, as nifty be inferred 'from the above, has heretofore been one of hard labor and isolation—neither of them, perhaps, favorable to social or moral change. The developement of rich gold and silver mines, and the construction of the Pacific railway would powerfully aid in destroying this Mdrmdik fanaticism, by attracting an Untnormon element here, and placing it in conflict with the other sentiment. The moral results of the'Pacific rail way, would, for many reasons quite ob vio-as here on the western slope of the country, be greater even than the physical. The .14ormon population here may be 60,000, with, perhaps, an equal number in pthar parts of the world. All the Mormon population and power are 'rap idly concentrating in the Great Basin, and here this remarkable fanaticism must find.its solution; if at all, either by the mild , agencies of Christian reform, or by; the sterner - processes of war or social convulsion: • • Mormonism is, as already stated, a system oflanaticium, whose oh aracteris tic is the impions'effrontery Of its claim to infallibility, tested by Christianity, its prevarications-.are revolting to.de - - coney•and °maim? sense. the deity of the Mormons is infinite in but one of his attributes, duration Be has been and Still is ,progressiie. , Mormonism has not explained how Divine perfec tion &"reconoilible ;with progress at nor when and .how he Li to fieente per feet whoni eternitistillleAtre's in a state of progression:, ' The Korn:ion deity is! superior to the . .letermon man, only in . duration; and even this is fat doubtful' by the - syettim, 'rejects the Bibli cal "doctrine - of bianan creation, and adopts the 'dogma' of pre-existence of thelift man 'soul—a dogma as. inconsist ent, lierhaPi, - wityuy established On dition of hamennature.rasr it has been found ingoluble_by-theliumAe mind. The .origin; of man,Motmonism leaves in doubt. - Ci,eatiorr, According to this system,, was pothillg more than ,the fab riaation ofs=bodies for - stmls, pre-exis- tent,rn s tes'of traristnidi#On in some ;way _unexplained-, of course, "for indefi nite,pqions.'-. The Mormon man is rit idly,progrAsive,Andja the con.ree of his development ThakbeboMe di3ific. ;hid • R , d . f . nttri n e..,mnynres, e, rno y.,.pr •destroy-Ivorlds:" Mormons claim mitae iitqepkilWer:' Brighkm Young dial s' b thke,etandard.,of Aomori, excellemee; • , and. , theleasotivl 'aiS eigAe'fOr net exercising his .miraculous poWers itr healing the-Sick, and raising the aiad is the ' want 'nf faith wino ng, Happiness; accordinitCi. the litori*p' systßm: the future Jot4tl3,,consists in! enjoyiiient-,,miserr in 'the' wipit of it.• T4ougas - 61.iiCtionsin tbie life are of no other consequence,thanyhe they es-i tablish ceOe Habitsin atisdeptibilitieb,l Yir4lo l' ;foVoW the her4n,.. t ibeing which not-be ableEtu gratify in the,' to ,come. Thu§, the, Mon: murderer,. •suer y eeause • e cariffotiratifrhis' rifertieibtie foraPensi. - "-t.;t•- • ties, in tlielifete ebme—so of tl_ie .drunk ard, the thief,Ac-,,,&5. _Toi t he adulterer: the: spy m neßre accommodating. i• Brigham 'Young 'claims; to•be equal: to the lliormon• deity, and Inany4formo - ni3 • have • bf:sen';expell,pd *cm; the conn tion for 4enyirig it Other Morinola , le4lers share" 'ek4ellCnCE;;bet'ie r li " in erlor de The surpass a men who are .not _Mormons but they are in, feriorto:l3righam. ~.,The-nnly office _of the -Mormo.nt'woi manT.,is,• to minister ..to:thewipatisionsfYof‘ man: - Th3s:she; &Hifi iit6cditlirk6 -to the systeni,"hoth'in the 'present aiid •in •the - er ,- 71 111'dt - 6'601,k • No'llOrnion Woman. can be 'happy in, the futiireAtate unless She; marries acme - man in this.' The wonian , dRty•)?9V44 lO ; litaiTY2lPYeil• it the. marriage be cpiritualAnd mothingnnore.; The death-of one 'party' in this life " mis-• panda the marriggei•but it is renewed; on the dedthof--the- 'other; ill the - life to cotne,ll - __The - attributes::: of 'thei Mormon system are lailt; - " - aVaiioC Andt ambition. thc ; pro.-' etotype of the triteaMormon,•ind-he is here 'for 'his-, - Wealth unscrupulously : Acquired, for .bisi,scoret Or mote of Wives and hie Brcitle•Qf PoNar ,! • -The Mormonisystem is one of diaboli: cal malignity. 'Gentile's are those net; korm,ons,-, and, the i Mormon. system. teachesthat faith'nebdhe - kept'With i • ,anyny suck yy its pro f °snore., Falsehood,. deceptionyslooliation f seductionAnd mur der arenailt4able'fOr' the lioriiien' to wards the Gentile. As early as 1836, the Damte Mormon band was organized, consisting of a body of Thugs, or murderers, pledged by the most atrocious rites, to execute the mandates of the Mormon leaders. Many Gentiles and contumacious Mormons have undoubtedly fallen by their hands. One effect of the Mormon system is disloyalty to our Government. This sentiment is said to have had its origin in a foolish rhapsody of Jo. Smith de livered about the time of ourtronblas in 1832 or '33. I have seen this production, and contemptible as it is, both, in thought and expression, it cannot, by any legiti mate construction be made to predict the overthrow of the United States. This however, is its interpretation as Made by the Mormon leaders; and as it is alleged by them to have been deliver ed under Divine inspiration, its effect has been most prejudicial to the politi cal sentiments of the Mormon followers. Jo. Stitith declared that the Mormons would some day conquer and govern the United States. The Mormons openly declare that the Constitution of, the "United States is of Divine authority, having been framed under heavenly in spiration, and thatihe national power is destined to revert to them (the lifor mons,) who are to govern the country ,- in accordance with this Divine charter. At both the' courts in this district, a rule was adopted in April list, requir ing every applicant to swear, before ad missien as a citizen of the United States, that he , had done no act in violation of the Abt of Congress of 18 . 62, against Polygamy— Erastus Snow, a MormOn and formerly a trnited.States - Judge on argament of'a motiockfor the admission of 13rdadkuist, an Englishman, who could not thus sweai, declared that the day would soon come when the Mor mons would pass judgment upon the • government and people of the 'United States. THW nuiLDEAt OP THE POET. wr DiLTETT, D. ,D. " One "writ "thine elegy ?" Such is :the first line of - a poem in a volume recently pnblished, In which the poet Shelley is apostrophized 7 It sug gests another questien, "Why the mem ory of so gifted a genius should be a ‘ba:n 'dolled to such neglaot ?" His life 'and fate are invested with a tragic interest. -We can scarce fail i to'Syininithize - deeply with one' hb Suffered as he .did. 'Nor was be lacking in.'soine 'of these' rrarely generous add lofty initmilses which corn , mand - adeniatioM . 'And 'when to 'all 'this 'we the''eplandor of his poetic ging,' Can' I tanarce l 'fiat 'to ; Confess 'our surprise that at dai one should' need 'to c alk, " His‘' lid one' writ thine , ''elegyr• 9: II '. t • not Without reapon that the . - *Orld . *Lehes by' memorial" in Sad , silence it6,4. 4 aieitot the, world l and he ,did not Understandhim .J. was;: a.- toeing :Of , generous,' indeedp but of: wayward , impulse. He 'was SO blind - zetilntr;agliinstr%regtraint' that he spnrnad'liheitY rein - la - tell by law. Even l. s*Egion a waita the aspect in which most -unfortunately it was. preaentectild view-bnly aspiritual tyrinny. tieliiiblied'prejUdiced; as he , 'regarded Which' some men:held , convictions". His`liberty'degenerated . intoliceiie, and-his independenCe into , reeklessnegii:"iminingi What ha 1 re gaided as) Mere eonVenlionalittes; - he outraged=TinbThc' km ardent: -If the world; ieseiltiod. 'it and - - took - revenge 'neglect of . tha poet, - he`surely ihotild be' ilia I wit; to' Comiilairn3 Fiilividual foibles: ana'idinsin oracles 'ire coldly 'regarded *here' '6YriiDathY not 'lust - been ' ' ,1 'Ho* differign-the lite of Henry Kirk White's nienio4‘l l ` The touching linei Of SyrOtchnVe'ernbnlmed it forever; "Unhappy White, wliil'e life was in its spring, And thy young musefffst raised her joyous The spoiler came," &P. The plaintive t,lihntepfthe bard tempts .s,to dentgently, i*ty „his own failings. Certainly, his secypftd defiance of hn mamty seems melted andsubdued, as h, , ,, -.0., 4.4 e bends, to lay his , graceful wreath ; on ithe tomb ot.,gen,ins too snry blighted. . : :Theltruthis.that even, of the poet the Av . ,9iia.,49ls,eniAs ; And h,as j a right, to. demanq, more tbnn.thephosphorescenop or : pyrotechnics ,of ‘ fancy. _it, want§ something, .nseful, not,, in the.,..sense of tbe matter i ofgant- mnthema,tician, who asks of Milton's " Paradise " What does that'lrove?"—but in the sensb'efihd moralist rather, who`aSks "Does it i elevate and refine'?" The poet'l is not' exempt fromthe awt extends; ilf.bnrien-fig trees'' with all their Wealth Of foiiaid2 w Hetoo - is bound 'to giVe evidende WhEit frukbebears, what seeds ritilin under his lin?* tiessoins.'For a. man .to mbiglßi7i. l 4 l .lnc,4 and, - not-leave' theui.tbiCt;4e.,T.,,,for4kill,„presence, to l'Oa ko,Mols o l l9 l r ' o 'l 3Proktal4:intiude r .'o'4 i3l a tl 4 l '.'4l.E 4 '4 l s, of, mutual obligation. Drones that hum arc little better than drones that are silent - . The rhythmic flow must be sustained by a deep under-eurrent of sense and utility. Babbles radiant with all the hues of genius can scarcely expect to command an admiration longer-lived than them selves. The idolatry of mere genius is, and of necessity must be, only transient . No lasting memorial of it that is fit to command the world's homage remains. The nine-days' wonder, like a brilliant rocket, just lights its way up to a loftier descent to ignoble oblivion. The world cares little for the charred stick. It treads upon it with careless unconcern, only for a moment perhaps recalling what it was. The • living ass is still better than the dead lion. If man does not live by bread alone, neither does he live by whipped syllabub alone. The poetic wreath must have the homely harp of utility to support it. For a poet to aim merely to amuse, or startle, or dazzle, is a low ambition. It reduces his platform to the level of the counter of the toy-shop. He is just an intel lectual Blondin astonishing us by his feats. We think of his achievement as we do of Pope's fly in amber. The poet that lives is the one that makes himself immortal in our affection or oar reve rence- The jingling of words is not enough. The kaleidoscope pictures of a• fertile imagination are not enough. We want truth of some kind to embalm the strain. We' want to feel that we are transformed; elevated, instructed or subdued while we read. We do not climb to the mountain-to# to abide there in everlasting fog, or to hold communion With shadows and vapors. We want a prospect that will live in thethemory, a thing of beauty and a joy foever— . something that will abide in our mental landscape. We deinand of the poet that with all, his figures he :Shall give us something that will tranap'OA.ui out l of the dull routine of our old familiar thought& We want a picture made np . of something beside colors: We want living features on the canvass. We want something that will kindle us to loftier aims, or stir us to holier endeaVor or set before us some purer ideal We think it is welt for the would be poet to remember the world he lives in. It is not perhaps exactly the world of :his own ideal:.., It is not plastic to his fancies. It does not adopt " poetic license!' as one of its fundamental laws. Depraved as it is, mistaken as many of its nt d jugmes are, constrained it is still . to ask.after,the utilities. J To make an impression, to leave a mark that will be gratefully recognized, a man Must, do something for which somebody will be wiser or better, Poetry. must have same practical element .about it if it is to live. The poet's enduring fame must be built ,on something more than bril liant fancies or jingling words. wINfiLOWII•GREAT woßar The departure from „India, of that .venerable, ,and eminent , missionary, ~,Myron Winalqw, D. 1 - .), L.L. D., for this! country, after;forty-five years of Servic,e.,has been already announced. His very_zname- is, fragrratt with mis sianaFy, achievements,. and his labors in _lndia have been, greatar„nacre,effectual and wide .spread than, those of any other lillYing,Missionary When be first went to India, but little, progress, had been made , in establishing Christianity, and the Hindoo rites were universally prac ,ticed. - The suttee:,, the murderous Jug gernaut and infanticide were not then abolished by the British government. Now, after forty-five years have passed, yrosperous missions, .native schools, a flourishing college at Madras, thousands of converts, scores of native preachers and teachers, are fruits of that enter prise - of:which. Dr. Yirinslow was the pioneer and leading ; spirit. Bat the . greatest achievement of his life, we nay say,_is his TA.mErp-ENGLISH LEx.reCtf, a monument of his learning and industry, andan honor to American scholarship. This work is undoubtedly the greatest yet accomplished by any of our missionaries, and ranks Among, the first of - philological anbieiements. It Cost its anthor upwards of twenty years of, unremitting toil, and is a Nark of nearly a thousand pages i three closely -, printed coNit i ns?n,a,p,age, and contains.about 68 066 +arabd WOr translated into English. 41!1)e,,, typo .graphieal execution ~,o£ is remarkably ' ' : t 4 Re., andreflects9redit upon the Madx:ae j printers i „Thej,,exicon em hrapettmpelt, pertaining, i to ,the. poetry, mythology ;and , sciences of t , India, and .c9:ttlains ;t4c l na..pespf authors, heroes, znds,,,etc,7 ;;Such a,work is.invaluable to the s .4 up.e of„phrist*ity in - , India, and it ltas l called, forth expresmons of deep grit,i,tude `to its author from the. English and native press. The American ; p J ublic 9400 to: be: A,hankful has spared the life of Dr. Winslow:, ;and permitted = him to, hring. this ;labor, of loye to a successful,close; MAN may commend thee, but God may condemn thee. ~
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