rile_ American Presbyterian AND GENESEE EVANGELIST. A RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, IA EU IMAM 07 7011 (institutional Presbyterian Church, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, AT THE PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE, 1334 Chestnut Street, (2d Story,) Philadelphia. Mee. JOHN W.-MEARS, Editor and Publisher. OONTENTB OF INSIDE PAGES. SECOND PAGE-PAM:LE: • Col. Robert G. Shaw—The Sea—A Dollar and a Quarter. Suzan. s : Jeems, the Doorkeeper—" John. Does not Write us very 0 Iten"—T he Prayers of Childhood.—Give Thanks-1 he Heavenly Home. TRIRD PAGE-RELIOIDUS WORLD ABROAD: Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Germany, Italy, Papal America, Miseionary.— The Plans end Wants of the American Tract Society— :Alinisterial Record. Burls Psos—Cortassrostmcs: Open 'Air Meetings, No. IX—Browning's Death of St. John, second raper. Eorrea's TABL11: Stan ton'a Church and the Rebellion—Bushnell's Nature and the Super natural—Christ and His Salvation—Prime's Power of Prayer—Child's Looking Towards Smiset—A. New Atmosphere—Jamestm's Sacred and Legendary Art— Margaret's Secret and its Success—Joseph, the Jew— Christian Home Life. California; the Mountain Re gion. "SRPENTH PAGE-MIEWELLAMODEI: Mr. Lincoln's .Early Training—ln the Presence of lleath—Ti ue Heroism—The End•of Our Great Men— U. S. Christian Commission. RECENT REVIVAL AGENCIES. The manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the earliest history of the church through miraculous, were scarcely more various than they are now. When that -divine Agent comes in extraordinary measure into the church, the fullness of His life and energy cannot be limited by the ordinary channels of communi ,cation, but will break forth in endless -richness and variety. Even good men will be surprised, and perhaps perplexed, that they cannot liken the demonstra tions to anything in their own previous experience; while cbld-hearted Chris tians will be critical and shy, and un believers will ascribe the phenomena to " new wine." The means which the Spirit uses to bring about, or to promote a Revival, may be classed among these varied manifestations. We must not look for uniformity in Revival Agencies. We must expect specialty, unless we settle down into- the idea that the whole round of resources of the Infinite Spirit is exhausted; that the regular ordi nances and work of the church, as at present ascertained, are the sole chan- nels of grace to the world ; that these agencies are sufficiently successful, or that if wrought up to their highest point of efficiency, would be sufficient for the work which the church has to do. Any one who believes that the Spirit which dwells in the, church is in finite ; that the rate at which the church is doing its work is almost infinitesi mally slow; and that there are unde veloped resources in her bosom, sur passing in efficiency any she has yet exhibited, and which may and must be used before she can subdue the world to Christ,—will be prepared to expect, nay will long and wait for some such -development of new power and efficien cy, and fresh adaptedness for the work. We use the word development purpose ly, for we believe it will be found that the various means used by the Spirit, -at different times, for promoting the growth of the church, are nothing foreign to her nature, but already exist - there, unrecognized, or only in the germ, before He summons them into unwonted -activity. And there is none of them rightly used but tends to strengthen the -existing fabric of ,the church, going into the accepted list of her agencies, -and swelling the sum of her influence. The great agencies employed by the Spirit in the revivals of 1857—'61 wore three : daily Meetings in great numbers , of Christians for prayer, the spontane -ous activity of private members of the church, and Christian union. - The great agency, in this country, for awakening sinners, seemed to be united prayer. Prayer-meetings, and not preaching, were the leading features of the revivals. Unprecedented throngs were brought together to participate in these simple exercises. Who had ever heard before of two and three thousand persons flocking together at mid-day, in the heart of a great city, day after day, for months, with no object in view but to hold a prayer-meeting? All over the country these noon-day prayer-meetings were held, so that travellers passing over the whole extent of the land, from east to west, found a continued succes sion of daily meetings for prayer. On every hand the spirit of prayer broke forth. Unwonted places were used for these exercises, and marvelous results flowed from them. Another feature of the work was the ready and uncon strained activity of private Christians. Our clergy indeed preached with a fer v.oar and a frequency that few had ever before reached, but they were sustained by the prayers and efforts of an awakened body of church members whose zeal carried them over every obstacle. -- Never, perhaps, in the his 2.knivitsit.ii,...7 l ,.t . estigittiiin. New Series, Vol. I, No. 48. tory of the church, bad the personal duty of Christ's people to labtr for the conversion of souls been so deeply felt, so readily acknowledged, and so widely performed. So with the catholicity of spirit which prevailed among all the branches of Christ's people. Only in times of danger as at the siege of Derry and during the assaults of the Stuarts of England on the Protestant faith, had the denominations been drawn to gether in such close sympathy before. The union movement in 1858 was spontaneous. It was one of the Holy Spirit's blessed surprisals of His people. It was one of His now and chosen means of carrying on His work-at this particu lar juncture. As the work spread into Great Brit. ain, new features appeared. Gifts which seemed to exist in this country in a sort of general diffu.sion among Christian people, were there vouchsafed, in grea ter- intensity, to individuals. Men: ap peared as chosen instruments of con veying God's truth to the aroused and interested masses. Lay and clerical evangelists, conspicuous for zeal, enjoy ing the special favor of God, and devot ing themselves exclusively to the work, contributed to extend and deepen its sphere and to multiply its fruits. No such characters appeared in this country as Richard Weaver, Reginald Radcliff, B rownlow North and E. P. _Hammond, whereas in Great Britain the spirit of the Revival culminated, so to speak, in these. persons. - Some in America may congratulate us as, so far, better off than the British people, but we differ from them. Had a class of men .pre.emi nently endowed for the work been, in like manner, raised up among us, had some American Radcliffe or Weaver been divinely commissioned to speak to the poor and outcast of our cities at that time, the result must have been far in advance of what we actually beheld. The Infinite Spirit in His sovereign ap pointment, did not see fit to• bestow upon us this crowning gift—a personal embodiment and representative of the work,—a Leader, whom all might recog nize, and who might have marshalled the Christian hosts, to far greater vic tories even than those which they did achieve. Rev. E. P. Hammond 7 a native of this country, and now an ordained minister of our church, at that time an unli censed student of theology in Scotland, was largely employed by the Holy Spirit among the instrumentalities of the Revivals in that country in 1860 and 1861. His ministrations were blessed with great success, especially in the city of Glasgow, in February of the. latter year. He was gladly recognized, by the best men of the Free Church, as a chosen instrument of Godr for advanc ing His work among them. In Mr. Hainmond, again, a special characteris tic appears, in which the Spirit flips t rates the variety of His workings when He comes in unusual measure to the church ; we mean the adaptation of the Gospel message for immediate saving effeefu_pon the minds of the young. Those who have acquainted themselves with the facts in the case, will be inclined to recognize in Mr. Hammond's evangelical labors and successes among the young, an indication of the development of a new element of power in the pulpit—a new revival-gift which in these times is being bestowed upon the church. Per haps this is the sort of agency which is to mark the next communication of the Spirit's influence to His people. We may see our Sabbath school children, and the baptised members of our house holds, in large numbers, brought to Christ. Many indications coincide in pointing to this conclusion. The hearts of the fathers are turning to the chil dren. The church is earnestly consi dering her duty to the young of her flock, and inquiring into the relation of the Sabbath school to herself. 'Unwon ted activity pervades .the Sabbath schools, and teachers ate earliest in seeking the salvation of their scholars. Mission schools, are gathering up the children of the poor and the degraded. The General Assembly of our church at Dayton, took no action so marked and so emphatic as that on the duty of the church and of the pulpit to the young. And the great and enduring success of Mr. Hammond's ministrations among children, join with these facts to point out this class of persons, as probably the sphere in which the Holy Spirit now PHILADELPHIA, TIMSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1864. designs to act most efficaciously, and to which He will adapt the agencies nest to be used in promoting by revivals the spread of the Kingdom of Christ. L NEW HELP TO INFIDELITY, From an Unexpectid Quarter. in these times of the veiled and accomplished arts of skepticism, we wished to put into the way of Divine Revelation the most perplexing embar rassmenb conceivable, we could think of no finer stroke for the purposp, than that of giving, to every denomination a Bible of its own, 'or what is equivalent, a translation of its own. *For,in such a , 3ase, all those words suseePttftileof different shades of meaning, which have any bearing upon the denominational pe culhrities, would be translated into the most positive terms demanded by le de nomination making the translation. The English speaking part of the Christian church has hitherto secured for-Divine truth a vast amount of reverence and respect, by having one written standard —one Book for common appeal: We have no conception how much this sin gle fact has done towards the preserva tion of - the public faith in the Bible. Reverse this fact, and perplex the pub lic mind with a variety of Bibles, con flicting in statements, and we shall soon find out. If anything- could be des tructive of all faith in Divine inspira tion, this would do the work. And this is just the work 'which a portion of the Baptist denomination has commenced, not purposely indeed, but none the less really. We say a por tion, because it is due to the majority of the denomination, including most of their wise, learned, and good men, to say that they have not so totally taken leave of their senses as to expect denomination al advantage through a translation which must always be held in contempt from the mere fact that it is but the Bible of a sect, to say nothing of its character, as a translation. The history of this bad enterprise, so far as our recollection. serves , us, briefly this : Many years ago the Bap tist Missionary Society asked aid from the American Missionary Society for publishing one of their missionary trans lations—we believe that into the Bur man. While the Bible Society was about making the appropriation, the fact leaked out that this version, unlike all others, including our English one, had discarded the .untranslated word ,baptize, with its cognates, and had in serted in lieu thereof the native words which signify immerse, immersion, &c. The Bible Society, being bound by its constitution to non-denominationalism, felt constrained to decline giving its aid for the publication of a Bible which was essentially denominational, and which must therefore be repudiated by all the Pedo-Baptist portion of the churah. The Baptists thereupon got up a new National Bible Society of their own, through which they have since, pushed their work of translation and publica tion in foreign languages, and we be lieve also their home distribution of our common English' version: But some of their more intensely sec tarian men, including the late Dr. Cone who headed the movement, thought that while they had their hand in the work of making Baptist Bibles, they might as well reform King James' trans lation into the same shape. The pro ject was discountenanced by their judi cious men, and the radical elerne4t went independently to work, forming a revi sion society to meet the expense, and now, after fifteen years of labor, and an expense of $830,000, they have issued as an earnest and first fruit of what they intend, a revised translation cif the New Testament. For some reason—perhaps to remove thepappearance of a " one idea" transla tion, insignificant changes hav been made—such as " happy" for " lArsed," in the beatitudes, " light-stana" for "candlestick," "presented" insted of " put," as "presented the vinegar to his mouth," " underworld" for "hell," Ste. &c. But the singleness of purpoe is not to be concealed. The words baptize and baptism, as few of our readers need to be informed are not translations, but an Anglicising of the words, bap 0..z0 and baptisma. The revisionists conts i d that as we translate in full other wor' s,(true only in part,) we should in con. stency do the same by this. They fart. er con- Genesee Evangelist, No. 90'7. tend that as baptizo means only to plunge or dip, (not true at all,) English readers, as well as Karens and Burmans should .have a version which unequivocally ex presses the meaning which they have assumed for it. The following is a spe cimen of the manner in which they have carried out the idea. Matthew iii, 1. In those days came John, the immerser, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, Saying, Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 5. Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the region about the Jordan, 6. And were immersed by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins. 7. But - when he saw .many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, Brood of vipers, who hath warned you to lee from the coming wrath ? 11. I indeed immerse you in water unto repentance, but he that comes af ter me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to bear ; he will im merse you in the Holy Spirit and fire. This will do for a specimen. We believe in tfanslations—just so far as we are in need of them. When Virgil wrote "Did() et dvx," we do not suppose he meant the line should be a witness for the ages to come that poultry was an article of food in Carthage. But it would be a silly criticism on Dryden's version, to complain because he applies to the queen the untranslated word, " regal," instead of rendering it " queenly." It is just as well understood as it is, and, if anything, a little better. So the whole church has hitherto been content to treat the Greek baptizo. If we are not mistaken, it has gone un translated into , every version of the Bible in all lands, except the recent ver sions of the Baptists. Its classical meaning requires only the application of water in greater or less degree, but it domes -to the Christian church with th appropriated and only used mean ing of a Christian rite. We think no longer of the rinsing of cups and the watering of flowers, when we hear the word baptism. We, think only of the solemn ordinance 'initiatory into the ho usehold of Christ. •The case stands precisely as it does with the word Bible, an untranslated word, meaning origi nally only a book, but by appropriation and universal consent, now known only as a designation for the Holy Scriptures. Let the revisionists carry out their prin ciples; let them reject "Bible" from their title page and give us " The Holy Book," and while it will redound to their consistency, it will help to expose the ridiculousness of the whole scheme. Let them carry it out in their deno minational title. Let us hear no more the offensive Greek terms, "Baptists," " Baptist" churches, &c., but give us in their place Immersionists, Immersionist churches, Immersionist Associations, Immersionist periodicals, and so on to the end. This will be alike the.point of consis tency, and the climax of the absurdity of the whole movement. This absurdi ty is already so apparent to the think ing portion of our Baptist brethren, that we have no expectation of even a denominational sanction for the new f denominational Bible. For reasons named at the commencement 01 this article, the attempt to bring it into any considerable use would be disastrous if it could succeed. But we look for only a ridiculous termination to t 11 this im mense labor of misdirected zeal • and unmitigated bigotry. EQUALIZING THE SALARIES Or MIN- ISTERS. While wrong impressions and exag gerated opinions prevail to a considera ble extent as to the great salaries of some of our city clergy, which are often brought practically down to the level of a very moderate support by the great, expenses which accompany them, and while we are decided unbelievers in any leveling policy which overlooks natural distinctions, we are free to say that the Church may and ought to mediate be tween extremes now so wide apart in the salaries of her ministers. We have lately understood that one of our city clergy hitherto receiving $2OOO per an num, is hereafter to receive $3,500, and deservedly; nor would it be to the de triment of the people if it wore $4OOO, or $5OOO. We have - also just heard of a laborer in New York State, where our Church is such a power, who receives $4OO, if he chooses to collect it, and who has forfeited no small part of that by his outspoken loyalty. Another in the North-west receives $6OO, out of which goes $l2O for house rent. And very close to this 'city among our ministers,- there is a case over vhich we have had the heart-ache more than once,—but we forbear to give particulars.. It is suffi cient to say that there are cultivated, godly, faithful men with their families, in the ministry of our Church, who" are being crushed with burdens and stared in the face by want, while the religious newspapers are every week chronicling the noble liberality of congregations to their pastors; the liberality being for the most part exercised, in those cases where though needed, it is,least needed, while the real sufferers get no relief. , Nor do we know of any means by which they may be generally and promptly relieved. But we think the case is one which should turn the atten tion of the Church to the subject of a Sustent alien Fund, such as exists in the Free and United Presbyterian churches of Scotland. This fund, gathered from the liberality of the entire Church, is used to keep the salaries of all the set tled ministers up to a certain minimum. Wherever a congregation is not able to give what is considered a comfortable support to its pastor, rated *by the Church at so many hundred pounds a year, the deficiency is made up from this fund, and the Church thus guards the income of every one of her pastors and guaranties to him a living. To some undertaking of this sort the Church-must, we think, sooner or later come, as a measure of protection to her faithful men. A step towards it has al ready been taken in the _Ministerial Re lief Fund inaugurated by the late Gene ral Assembly. Let that idea be enlarg ed to include relief for the active and efficient in the ministry, who often need it quite as much as the disabled. Far that matter, it would seem a dic tate of common sense to provide relief, first for the active and useful classes, and after that for the worn-out and dis abled. * * The subject admits of being consider ed in various lights, but we think the preponderance of reasons is decidedly for a Sustentation Fund. Meanwhile, we hope that our suffering brethren will be succoured in incidental ways until the fund is provided. We know of one minister, a home missionary in the North-west on a slim salary, for whom a bog is in preparation, contributions to which will be gratefully received at this office. THE ROMAN CATHOLICS IN OUR CONFLICT. The Ethiopian must change his skin and the leopard his spots, before the papacy can be friendly.towards a popu lar form of government like ()Uri. The whole genius of the hierarchy is in utter antagonism to constitutional lib erty. The Pope's own immediate sub jectgare controlled by bayonets—foreign ones at that; and only in kingdoms sustained by the . same sort of agency can his spiritual pretensions and his ecclesiastical arrangements be ,satisfac torily maintained. When the existence of a great Republic is menaced, a sure instinct tells him on which side to be stow his sympathies. The Pope can have no- sincere desire for our success in crushing rebelliom He recognizes the rebel executive as " most excellent President." ,He is not by any means loth to see the rebel plot so far success ful, as to cripple the power of the na tion, and forever destroy its prestige as the great Protestant - Republic of the world. Our downfall would leave the world clearer for the - accomplishment of his purposes. It would be the fail ure of Protestantism in its culminating point. Whatever might *be our future with secession •accomplished, the re mainder of the American Continent would be thoroughly Latinized and Catholicised. That imperial spider who keeps his den in the Tuileries would gather it all into the meshes of his vast net. In Europe and in heathen .lands, Protestantism would be but a feeble power. It is very surprising that better things should be expected of any of the agents and minions of the Pope in our own country. They must follow their spi ritual head, and the lead of their in stincts, as members of an, arrogant, ex- --'r m xt, zit s- Per annum, in advance: By Mail, sa. By Carrier, 633 50 Fifty cents additional, after three months. Cinbe..—Ten or more papers, sent to one ad payable strictly in advance and in one remittance By Mail, $2 50 per annum. Threarriers,23 per ann Ministers and Ministers' Widows, $2 in advance, :. HOMO Missionaries, $l5O in advance. Fifty cents additional after three months. Mentittanees by mail are at our risk Postage.—Five cents quarterly, in advance, said ti l l subscribers at the office of delivery. • ADERTISEMENTS. 1234 cents per llne V for the first, and 10 coati Jar WS second insertion. • One square, (ten lines) one month. p fle t; two months Set t h ree a _ 7 Wi a s i x II 12 1111' " one year.. 111 iiiit The following discount on lone advertisement inserted for three months and upwards is allowed:4 Over 20 lines, 10 per cent. elf; over 50 lines, 20p01 cent.; over 100 line., 32 1 ,4 per cent. off. elusive, soul-deluding church, requixini implicit faith in men, and unquestioning obedience to human decrees. How eat: they help being in antagonism to th interests of a country and a civil ordei whose foundation principle is the a% knowledged right of the people to self government? To what sentiment, if natures crushed and debased by priestli domination, can we appeal in behalf o an imperilled republic ? And whence bui from the depths of a protestant faiti comes the true and steady devotion t? country which outlasts the first bursti of enthusiasm, rises above all discow agement, and in the fourth year of terrible war, votes in overwhelming ma) jorities, and in every part of the land that at any cost our free institutions sh. be preserved, and the authority of th( national government shall be sustained 1 The case was well put a few day: ago.by an anonymous correspondent o I the Press in this city, who writes fron Chester, pa., reproving the paper foi its pro-Catholic leanings. The: Pre& generously prints his letter entire. H speaks plainly, but the facts are notorc ous. "Now, it is a known fact that the, whole body of the Catholic voters ir, this country, with a small upper-cru.si exception, voted in solemn earnest th Copperhead ticket. That vote has go to be enormous and serious. It is a Brownson has said : If it were not fen that vote there would be no Peace parts at the North. Let the American peo ple take note, as we pass through thii sifting, fiery trial, that the combine( Catholic vote of this country was cas for a party rather than for, the war an( the utter overthrow of the rebellion, that they voted in sympathy with thd British aristocracy, the oppressors o Ireland, and just as the enemies of thii country, the traitors at home an( abroad, desired. While the great bod 3 of the members of this church hav4 treasonably voted, their bishops an priests have remained silent. In con trast, look at the various Protestan sects of the land ! They have bee zealous and outspoken. The influence exercised has been patriotic and poweli ful. Lincoln may appoint ten thousani Catholic generals; Dan Dougherty General Sickles, Bishep Purcell, am others may talk themselves blind ; ii the face of all this the Catholic vote ii New York State will be 10E0,000 in ah and comfort of this horrid rebellion and 50,000 in Pennsylvania. In Phila delphia the main difficulty you had t( contend against was this ferocious vote In all the mining counties in the interio_ it was this vote which gave to licOlel; lan his heavy majorities. Even i Chester county it takes one th, usan American votes to kill off this fbreigi, vote. It is this vote which corrupt the ballot-box with frauds. It is thil combined element in our politics which explodes in mobs, and to keep qui& which the Government was put to muc care and expenditure in forcing int( good behavior at the last election." Nor is the Press content simply witl printing the letter. It makes some, show of extenuating the truthful sever ty of the writer, probably with a view of saving its own consistency, but closet its article with a few significant utter ances which amount almost to a renunj elation of its former faith in Romanisn; as a political power in the land. W 4 1 take pleasure in quoting them as a sio of the times. Romanism, by such ari unscrupulous and concerted manifest& tion of disloyalty as was made at th( last election, is estrang . ng her - old politii. cal friends and sacrificing her influence', among the parties. It is a great blunt der to estrange such a friend as - Colone, Forney has been to Romanism, but is was inevitable, in the conditions of thkil conflict, that such should be the case „ We give the concluding remarks of the Press: " The Catholic Church has done won, ders in its long career. Admitting all that its devotees claim for it, it hard' done wonders. Bur IT IS NOT TN/ . ROOK OF AGES. It may have been thd bulwark of monarchy in Mexico, ix Italy, in France, and in Spain, and the. ; bitter foe of progress in England anc t Germany, but it cannot survive a strug. gle with the only free government ii the world. The protests, not of young Ireland alone, against the tendency o. the present managers of the church, but of the mighty Catholic intellects o: France, and of the intrepid anti-slavery Irishmen of America, should at least bi effective to forwarn those who misman age and misdirect a great church or ganization, that their plots and cabala may be consigned to the same hate( obscurity in which human slavery h forever sepulchred." THE NEXT UNION MEETING of oui churches will be held in Clinton Stree - Church, on Tuesday evening,at quarter before eight.