The' American Presbyterian AND GENESEE EVANGELIST. NELI(IIOUS AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, VS TEE muss' OF THE Constitaitional Presbyterian Church, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, AT THE PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE, 1384 Chestnut Street, (2d Story,) Philadelphia. :Rev. TORN W. MEMO, Editoi and Publisher. CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES. SECOND PAGE-FAMILT To My Clo9o'—Looking Back. Salmon orrs: "I Heard Sibgioa Tcrlight"—Seatter Blessings—A Grandmo ther—Making Tracks—Dinah. the Slave Mother—The Photographoseope Catoptrio Lantern. • TIIIRD PAGE—EDITOR'S TARIM : Scott's Memoirs—Warner's Melbourne House—Bo " God's Wily of Holiness"—'the Anthem Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church—Lcve in Ma - riage— Adcentures of a Missionary—Father's Coming Home Fanny—Reviews and Pamphlets. Gen. E. M. Gregory. Six , P iGC—CORIttSPONDENOZ : Open i r Meetings, No. VIII—A Word on the Univer salist Controversy , in America—Rev. Dr. Cox on the Recent Union Movements—A, Home Missionary's Experience in Missouri—Value of Home Missionary Boxes. 'SEVENTH PAGE-:MINELLANEOIII3 : ' • - Ev.ingelical Labors Among the Masses of London— Christ Crucified the Great Theme of Preaching—The Answers el Christ—Changes in the Productions of Palestine—Cost of intemperance—Get a Home and Keep it—U. S. Christian Commission. REVIVALS,—REVIVAL MEASUR,ES,— ErANGELISTS. ' After all the vehement discussions on these three topics, which from. the days of Whitefield -to the recent times, have -ilistraeted and divided the Church, some positions have been • attained, which are generally acquiesced in by Evangelical Christians. It is needless for us• now-atdays to fight over Again the ohi controversies. W e may, how-' ever, profitably . take a 'survey of the ground, which has been cleared away and recognize the general principles on which all can cordially work together for' he conversion of soils. 1. Revivals may be admitted to bring with them some evils; nay, we may freely admit that the phenomenon of a revival conveys a reproach to the church.- -or community in which it occurs ; we may insist that the,normal state of the church is that, of continuous revival; wb may fear ..seasons of reaction and of acquiescence in present coldness and worldliness, in the expectation of a re : - viyal which will make good all the defi ciencies and losses of such a time;of coldness. But, in spite of all evils con comitant or apprehended, there is a set tied belief in the evangelical part of the church, in the necessity of genuine revivals, in a great remairider, of gain when the balance orprofit and loss is struck; in a generally elevated state of the church as a result of true revivals. It is felt that • the conversion of the world is to be brought about mainly by PentecoStal effusions of the Holy Ghost, and by the preaching of the Gospel with nothing less than -an ApoStolie measure of success. Our hope for the masses of neglecters in Christendom : is in those extraordinary exhibitions of the power of the. Spirit , commonly un derstood by 'Revivals., , Perhaps not a score of our readers hesitates upon this.peint. :They doubt less are prepared for tome scenes of-an ,unwonted -character, -some confusion in, the simultatteous conviction and repen tance of thousands; but they haVe long, ago ceased to press the secondary pre cept "Let all things be done decently and in order" into the rank of the first great commandment of the law ; and for order's sake ,to be:willing to denude the church of that life and variety in which alone a place for order can be found. They will ratlier agree with the glowing language used by Albert Barnes,.many Years ago (1833) and lately republished in his Essays and Revii3ws : " This," said Mr. 8.," is to be a land of revivals of religibn. It accords with the charac ter of our people; the active, hardy, mighty exterprise of the nation. It is the manner in which all sentiments have here spread, by deep, rapid, thesrough excitement and hasty revo lution. • It accords with our history. It is the way, the grand, glorious awful way, - in which God has appeared to es tablish his:church in our land." Espe cially since the blessed work of 1858, the whole churcli—and we may say ta 'world tcio—haa learned to look upon Revivals with far different feelings. God's people are prepared, as they never were before, to value, to pray and labor for, and to welcorrie them `with all their hearts, as the most glorious manifesta tion of the power of -spiritual truth. They loO'k for revival to ,overtake and for revival to touch revival, until "•the Kingdom of Christ is the one thing thought of in the world, and at every, market, in every Exchange and 'on every bulletin—at the street corners, Men shall speak of the glory of His Kingdom and talk of His power, one to another, making known his mighty . acts and the glorious majesty of His King dom." • 2. Revival measures are acquiesced in, with very - much the same reservations. illtritint¶ teklan New Series, Vol. I, No. 47. With wide room for diversity .in regard to particular measures, and with a felt necessity in any case for the exercise of Christian 'wisdom, it is admitted that a variation from the stereotyped modes of procedure is both justifiable and necessary, in efforts contemplating a general and simultaneous religious in terest. The multiplying of meetings, special appointments for inquirers, more familiar personal approaches, a more direct style of preaching with a view to immediate results, singing of hymns and tunes, which; from association or otherwise, are adapted to such seasons, open-air preaching, special efforts for special needy classes, children's meet, : ings, parlor-meetings; all these and other measures are admitted to-belong to- revivals,_And they and ether expe dient's should be used, as a wise regard to the.varying circumstances may sug gest. " Man," says Mr. Barnes, in an other of his essays, written in the glow of early revival times, "must be roused, and • severed—however rudely—from earthly things; and hurried onward, and thrown into the deep solemnities of a universe where the God of justice' reigns ; where everything is full of God ; • and where voices from earth and heaven and hell meet and mingle and fall on his ear and tell him to hasten away from his delusions and be prepared to die." " Would to 'God rexclaimes a. writer, in a late number of the London Revival, "we all had that charity which 'hopeth all things and beareth all things' so long as souls are being saved and Christ glorified. While extraordinary means are used to beguile souls to hell, the Lord's people •are justified in the ern.-. ployment of any agency that is not un lawful: in itself for winning souls to Christ.'" • • • 3. Evangelists are part, and may be by far the most efficient part, of the means. used in promoting revivals. Perhaps' there is more of lingering doubt on this than on either of the points already noted. ' But most en lightened Christian people are prepared to conclude that,, with all the defects, singularities, . objection'able method% and isolated cases of disappointment, the office and labors of the Evangelist are to be accepted as a divinely recogniz ed instrumentality of the highest utility, for developing to decisive results . the lingering, half-formed religious purposes of the unconverted hearers of the Word, or fOr 'awakening the neglectful masses of the community-. Such men as White field, Wesley, Rowland 1611, Finney, Su mmerfield, Nettleton, Kirk, Rad cliffe, Hammond, are now recognized as forming a peculiar .class, raised up to Show God's willingness to facilitate the work of saving souls, to carry it for ward more rapidly than by the regular labors of pastors bound to their separate flocks. Frequently there is some idiosyncrasy about these men—often the out-cropping, in another direction, of the very charac ter which peculiarly fits them for their work; but rendering' them unaccepta ble to many who might fully sympathize in their zeal for the cause. Stnuetimes their style of teaching is outre and alarms the critical ; but the true and faithful evangelist, by long experience, has gained such facilitieS for his great work of dealing• With the souls of men that his usefulness must far outweigh all ob: jeetions based on such subordinate points. Says Mr. Barnes in an essay already, quoted : "He is the best theologian who is best apprized of the proper means of conducting a revival of religion, who under the inexpressible pressure on his spirit of a revival haS been urged to the Bible to know what is to be done to save 'trembling sinners." And who is habitually in such circumstances and under such a theological training if not the faithful evangelist? Yes, our sys tems may he logically admirable and our mode of handling the truth charmingly adapted to the cultivated judgments and tastes qt our hearers,. but the efficiency of our teaching is likely to pale before theology like thai i of the evangelist, learned under the trainir.g of that " in expressible pressure on his spirit." These are the conclusions which, after long years of controversy, the church, on both sides of the Atlantic, hasreached ; genuine revivals are to be prayed for and welcomed as the greatest of bless ings. Special measures are; as a matter of course, to be employed, when special _ results are expected, and the most vat- PHILADELPHIA, THVRSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1864. uable of all special instrumentalities is a true and tried evangelis4 So clear and fixed are these conclusons thatwe May set it down as.a, deliberate judg ment of the church. that 4 is perilous a,nd hurtful in the extreme for. a com munity to remain long indifferent on these points; that objections areburthe cavils of lukewarm any backsliddL. souls; and that it is the most .solemn and delightful duty of the Lord's peo ple to - be prompt and active in availing themselves of evenly facility in their reach for pre - Meting true revivals And rousing the masses to repentance, upon pain of being held responsible for the loss .of souls. We speak, of course, of the general principles involved and not, of honest objections to particular mea sures .or particular men. %..*` The fourth Thanksgiving . since ,the war began, is' no vain *appointment. The - loyal people feel that they are ap propriately called to t'his observance.. by the Chief Magistrate , of their,' choice. In the- progress of the 'War to a s - cessful issue, in the moral certainty 4if the removal of a prime cause, oft l e war and at great •curse and blemish o the country as well as a isgrace - o Christian civilization—American Sla very,—in the unanimity, deeisivenesi3 and great advance and elevation of th6' popular sentiment, in the -unabated , streams of beneficence that flow to' assuage the wants of,the, suffering, in the absence or foreign ,interventionOn the prevalence of health. and the abun dance' of the products of the field and the unwonted. and remunerative activity of all kinds of trade and business, peace ful as well as warlike, in the North, we find cause for devout and-hearty thanks, even when remethbering the drawbacks which must necessarily attend a state of war. The most heart-broken sufferers in the land must feel that,-this nation is rightfully summoned to the services of this day, and that it wouldbe shameful negligence and base ingratitude, on ac count. of local and partial sufferings however great, to omit public recogni tion of .the general and signal favors which characterize the dealings of Pro vidence with us as a people. A leading cause for thanksgiving is the simple fact, that this year has wit nessed a Presidential election success fully conducted in the midst of a great rebellion.. This has never occurred in our history before. It was, therefore, a serious trial of our free institutions and of the. right of suffrage. It brought out all the disaffected elements• of the North, whose inflammatory harangues were sufficient to disprove all the accu sations of interfering with liberty of speech which they charged on 'the Ad ministration. "A free election or a free fight was one of their watchwords. A formidable organization to resist and overthrow the Government had. just been discovered in their ranks. Preda tory bands from Canada and gangs of desperadoes in our northern cities were organized to interfere with the election by violence, and by thecburning simulta neously of several leading cities. What scenes of carnage and anarchy might prevail, they could imagine, who re membered the fearful riots in New York in 1863. What revolution might be brought about amid 'prevailing Confu sion, they could anticipate who re membered that the possibilities of start ling events in a time of national trial like ours were beyond computation. On the night of November 7th, many wise and intelligent people felt that ere another return of darkness, the whole fabric of our institutions might, be in hopeless ruin or tottering to its fall; many a pious . person could calm his fears only in trusting his country with God. On the night of Noiember Bth, instead of weakness, confusion and ruin, he saw revealed new sources of strength, new assurance of stability ; he saw the Republic steadying itself amid the con flicts of the people, riding over the waves as .calmly as on the - unruffled bosom of,a most quiet harbor; he_knew that four million of voters without molestation or disorder, in the army• and at home, in a time when Teal had been made to the sword and great'ques tions were being settled by bulfeta, had been content 'to submit the questions at issue :between them, to the simple sion. ,, Aof the ballot. No quieter' election had been known perhaps in a ger THANKSGIVING, 1864. Grenesee Evangelist, No. 066. tion. Perhaps less of fraud even, cer tainly fewer brawls and violence, than usual, 'were observed. And on the .),v niorrot ~ when the decision +of these paper eapons was announced, not a voice as heard in opposition. It was felt th t a fair expression of the public Will h d been made, and the good sense, the innate regard for law and order, and the love and reverence of every Ameri can citizen out of—the reach of slavery fOr the institutions of his country, led the people to a contented and. Unmur muring acquiescence. All threats,. all ugly hints, all wild schemes for carrying oii thq process of disintegration at the North, vanished like mists in the morn ing sun, and we were in a sort of maze and doubt, as if waking from a troubled dream and "-finding- .all' ouf fears' . - - but phantoms of a night, while the Union for which we trembled, looked forth in the light of .day like a resplendent, and glorious .palace, fairer, brighter, stron ger a than ever before. For this speedy clearink of the air, of ]ate so thick with fearful rumors, for this great comfort and assurance to all patriotic hearts and this signal and overwhelming proof of the strength of onrßepubliotm institutions and of God's care over our country, in .perhaps the very Worst of allits perils, we may well give thanks this day.. DR, TUSTIN'S REPLY TO SENEX ON RE-UNION. We observe in The Presbyterian for Noveniber 12; a letter from our vene rable. Old School friend, Rev. Dr.' Tus tin._ It is in reply to a communication in a former number of the same paper, over the signature of " Senex," which, besides expressing some grave cleats whether the "N. -S." church wa4 yet E 3 ufficiently. refornaed of its doctrinal errors to render a re-union with it safe, .; contained some insinuations personal to the Do,ctor, as if he was seeking, through the Movement, distinction and Itader ship. We have not room to quote the graCeful and decidedly successful manner in which the latter disposes of what relates to himself personally. Respect ing. the doctrinal harmonies between 0 the two churches, he says : " We hold the cause of truth, scriptural truth, paramount to all other considera tions. In tlaelAnguage of a distinguished transatlantic divine, we would not sac rifice one particle of essential scriptural truth for a whole, ocean, of brotherly love. All attempts to establish a per manent unity upon any other basis must terminate in failure. The Bible is the' great pacificator bet Ween theological disputants,' and if we 'decline its friendly offices, we may as well retain our armor, and -resolve to continue the conflict. The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, according to my theological training, were. the only infallible rule of faith and practice'—the only symbol and basis of union—the assertion of Senex' to.the contrary notwithstanding. This is the judge that ends the strife When wit' and reason fail.' "Pis.-supposing this to be the acknow ledged basis of 'all desirable and perma nent unity, why.may not the two great' branches of the Presbyterian Church be Brought together :into one fold, there, being but one Shepherd ? Having thus received the Bible as teaching what man is ,t . ° believe concerning God, and what duties God requires of man,' we have mutually accepted the standards of the Presbyterian Church as containing the system of doctrine taught in the sacred Scriptures, in contrast with Arnunianism and Pelagianism, as well as Socinianism and Romanism, and have thus given a two fold guarantei of our mutual fidelity to, the cause of truth and 'righteousness." Then, referring to certain positions of " Senex" respecting the necessity of minuter theological tests than those of our standards—that spirit of 1837,which, we are happy to say, has been largely eliminated from the 0. S. church, many of its venerable benexes (our classical readers will pardon us) having been translated to a better sphere—the Doctor goes on to say: "From my knowledge of both branch es.- of the Chureh, however, I am pre pared to affirm, what. I sincerely be lieve, that on. the essential doctrines of the imputation Of Adam's first sin, the imputation of Christ's righteousness, the nature and limits of the atonement, the necessity of the Spirit's influences, ability and inability, there is just as. much difference of opinion among our selves as there is between the ministers and people of the two branches, of our dismembered Zion. To expect com plete and entire uniformity in every item of theological opinion, is to :Antici pate what will never be realized, until faith is-lost in sight, and . hope absorbed in fruition. Even among the most intensified svprala i psariarS, a ,class' of theologians to which I presume Senex' belongs, there are some questions, such as whether, in the decree of election, man is to be considered created or creat- able, fallen or unfallen ' which. remain somewhat in abeyance to this hour; and the magnitude of these questions depends very much upon which end of the tele scope is applied to the mental vision. If my venerable friend would have em ployed his powers of analysis in eliciting and adjusting the elements of harmony and resemblance, instead of extorting and magnifying the'' points of difference and conflict, he might have produced a picture glowing with light and beauty, upon which the Church militant and the Church triumphant would have gazed with delight and rapture. Now, in this aspect,of the case—and this is no fig ment of the imagination—would it be inexpedient or unsafe in our approxima tion to our brethren of the other branch to accepV the spirit, and adopt the lan guage of the sentiment tif that renowned maxim, which, however uncertain as to its earthly authorship, is undoubtedly of heavenly inspiration—' In things essential, unity; in things not essential, liberty; in all things, essential or unes sential, charity.'' "Senex" had been unable to discover any material abatement of the original causes of the disruption. Dr. Tustin finds them as follows: " The Plan of Union, which admitted a foreign element into our church courts, and was consequently a source of trouble, has become obsolete. " Voluntary church associations have, from the force of experience, consented to recognize ecclesiastical authority and 1: 5 supervision. " From a better spirit, and more scriptural conceptions of truth, both branches of the x Church are yielding a deeper homage to the symbols of our glorious faith. " The frigid indifference, not to say bitter animosity, which intervened be tween the Assemblies, and interrupted the courtesies of Christian communion, has vanished in the presence of the spirit of love. "The mountains of jealousy and pre judice' Nyhich interrupted our Christian and ministerial intercourse, and thus damaged our influence and diminished our usefulness, have been either re moved or tunndlled,sa that we can now say, though in a higher and sublimer sense with the eloquent Editor of. La Aloniteur, a Parisian journal, The Py renees are no more r " If Series' desires, as he professes to do, still furtlier evidence that the sha dows of the night are giving place to the dawn of the morning, I would earn estly invite 'his attention to the dis course on Christian, Union and Eccle siastical Re-union,' preached at Day6n, Ohio, in May last, by the accomplished scholar and profound theologian, the Rev. Henry B. Smith, D.D., of New York, on the occasion of discharging his duty as the retiring Moderator of the Assembly which met in Philadel phia in May, 1863. " The scriptural sentiments of that truly admirable diScourse found a cor responding response, not only in the hearts of the members of the Assembly to whom it was' announced, but was also received and. endorsed, ias I have reasorL to know, by some of the most uncompromising theologians in the As sembly which met in Newark, New Yersey,_ at the same time. INSTALLATION OP REV. W. OALKINS, Calvary Church on Sabbath evening last was thronged, in pews and aisles, with a deeply interested congregation participating in the installation services of the pastor, Rev. - Wolcott Calkins. The entire service was performed in a most appropriate and impressive man ner, marking the occasion as the most solemn and important of the kind held, or likely to be held, among our churches for years. The choir opened with the Te Deum, performed in a grand and inspiring man ner as befits that noblest of Christian anthems. Rev. Dr. March, as modera tior of the Third Presbytery, greeted the vast assembly with the apostolic hene diction,and announced the nature of the business about to be transacted. Rev. W. W. Taylor, of Olivet, offered prayer a hymn was sung, and the preacher of the evening, Rev. R. D. Hitchcock, D.D., Professor in Union Seminary, was intro-. duced. Prof H.'s theme was the Doc trine of the Church on the Person of Christ, contrasted with the leading her esies on the same subject. We need not say that this august and fruitful theme was handled in a most masterly manner. The speaker passed in rapid review the various phases of opinion in the differ ent ages of Christendom, showed the prompt and true condemnatien by the very instinct of the church of all the false views which sought to usurp the the place of the true in its bosom, traced the rapid and hopeless overthrow of all the leading errors—Ebionitism,Apollin- 1 1 1 S Per annum, in advance: By Alan, S 3. By- Carrier, $3 50 Fifty cents additional, after three months. Clubs.—Ten or more papers, sent to one addreat payable strictly in advance and in one remittance: By Mail. $2 50 per annum. Bv Carriers. $8 per annual. Ministers and Ministers' Widows, $2 in advance. Rome Missionaries, $1 50 in advance. Fifty cents additional after three months. 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And how the orator put his overwhelming climax to the whole, by subjecting the testimony of Christ himself before the 'High Priest, to legal examination, and ,by putting with an awful emphasis the alternative of " God or perjury—the everlasting Fkther or a perjured man!" we shall not attempt to describe. Great as the preceding part of his discourse really Was, it was but as the skirmishing that .precedes the final and decisive charge of a victorious army. The Constitutional questions were put by Rev. Dr. March, and the install ing prayer offered by Rev. Dr. Kirk, of Boston. Rev. , ; Dr. Adams, of North Broad street Church, gave the charge to the pastor, Which was based on the words of Paul: I magnifu mine office, and which commended to the incumbent a joyous, manly, bold, earnest course in the exercise of his high duties. The tone and point of view of the charge were healthful and encouraging, and came with eminent fitness from the lips of one whose own ministry is such a shin ing illustration of these qualities. Mr. Barnes, of the Fourth Presbytery, was fitly chosen and invited by the Third, to close these services with the charge to the people, The oldest settled pastor of our churches, appropriately addressed the people who were thus settling the most recent of the pastors. Mr. Barnes briefly enumerated the various branches in which the relationship of pastor and people was expected to be profitable to the latter, emphasized the fact that the people called a pastor with a view to their own benefit rather, than to his and charged them to open to him the homes and hearts, and facilitate his e deavors for their spiritual good. The exercises were prolonged to half past ten o'clock, having been commenced at an unnecessarily late hour, yet scarce ly any of the, audience left before the close. It was felt that a great and im portant duty, certain• to be fraught with incalculable results to the souls of men, and having a serious bearing on the re ligious interests of our city and the pros perity. of our Zion, was to be done. May the new relationship be productive of a, thousand fold more good than even the most hopeful anticipate, in time and in eternity. The services of the morning were also arranged to form part of the solemnity, Rev. Dr. Kirk having preached a most able discourse on " Worship." A MERITORIOUS CASE. Rev. A. Blakeley, pastor of the church in Lawrence, Kansas, is now in this city soliciting aid to complete a proper edifice fdr his church. The building is partially erected through a self-denial on the part of the congrega tion which has reached apparently the last possible strain. 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