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GENESEE. EVANGELIST.
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RELIGION MADE ATTRAOTIVE.
A RIGHT AND A WRONGr*AIe:
In the "Life and Times of Lady Hun
tingdon," we find a letter addressed to
her by the Datchess ofßuckingham,.in
which the disrelish of the natural heait
for the humbling truths of till) gospel is
confessed without disguise. The writer,
after referring to, the, "Methodist"
preachers of the day, pr:oceeds to say
" their doctrines are most repulsive. .
It is monstrous to .ba told that you
have a heart as sinful as the common
wretches that crawl the. earth: This is
highly.offensiye and insulting."
But this Phariseeism of English aris
tocracy is nothingmcoTemtrecrriA....-
seeism of our fallen nature. It scorns
the Publican - and the Pablfean's humility.
It demands kir itself a proud religion.
4?ffensive doctrines must be pared down.
Disagreable truths must be disguised,
and
.the presentation of the gospelmust
be governed more by the sympathies
And tastes of the fastidious hearer, than
by the authority of its Divine author.
It has become in many cases a ques
tion of absorbing interest, how religion
can be made most palatable—how its
repulsiveness to the natural heart can
be most effectually disguised. The prac
tical answer that is given is .not always
wisest or best. To conquer the world
we must not begin by borrowing from
it. This was the secret of the rapid
temporary success, but of the final fail
ure. of many of the Jesuit missions.
Religion has its own legitimate adorn
ments, but they are not borrowed from
the world's wardrobe. No doubt piety
has been often made needlessly repulsive.
It has been set as a picture in an ungainly
frame. It has been associated with
narrow views and unreasonable sem
pies. It has elevated matters indiffer- •
ent to the rank of essentials. It, has
been invested with , tone and gesture
and garb that were merely sanctimoni
ous. It has been sharply hedged about
with precise habits and angular forms._
No wonder that - care - ICW
wearied out with the long prayers of
the Puritan preachers. No wonder
Lord Bolingbroke rose disgusted from
the perusal of Dr. Manton's long dry
sermons on the 119th Psalm, and felt
predisposed to be an infidel. Scotch
Presbyterianism in the days of the Co
venant risked its altar to guard the
tent-pins. New England Puritanism
was never the sweeter to the inner man
for denying mince pies to the outer
man on Christmas. No doubt an ex
cessive prejudice against harmless
sports and indulgences has done mis
chief. • God did not make the world so
beautiful that we might turn it sombre
by smoking the spectacles of our reli
gion. An exquisite piece of art is not
necessarily a Dagon, nor is propriety of
garb necessarily a sin of pride.
Nor, should any one deny religion
those ornaments or associations which
are id keeping with its character, or
which are not unbecoming its presence.
„Angularity is not 'piety, nor is boorish
ness a proof of principle. Paul was
ready to become all things to all men
that he might gain some, only he would
not forget that we must all stand at the
judgment seat of Christ. The sweet
charities and the gentle graces of social
life, as the fair verdure of the tree of
grace within the soul, may well invite
repose beneath their grateful shade.
The humanity of the good Samaritan
may be worn without a blush, an orna
ment richer than gold or gem. Nay, it
is often by the genial spirit which reli
gion has fostered, and which is exhibit
ed in the common intercourse of daily
life, that piety itself is commended; and
one may well humor a prejudice, if he
can do it without the sacrifice of truth
or candor, in order to open to good im
pressions a heart, which denunciation or
severity would close more tightly.
But the complaisance that would go so
far as to conform to the world in order to
make religion attractive, is no better
than Aaron's policy in conciliating the
people by the golden calf. Cannot reli
goon speak unless all her strains are
musical ? Must she never be exhibited
except in fashionable attire? Must she
depend for her attractions on the same
resources to which worldly enterprise
resorts? Must she consult the tastes of
the world in order to know how to se
cure the homage that will flow from
their gratification-? Such a policy. as
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PHILADELPHIA THURSDAY% 3,ECEMBER 29 *.°41864
this, carried out to its logical result,
would turn the church into a theatre,
suppress every unpalatable truth, and
Substitute for the simplicity of Chris
tian rites the gaudy ceremonial of Papal
or Pagan _Rome.
How then shall religion —how shall the
church be maire attractive ? We need'
not, forswear tasteful ,edifices for wor - -
ship ; we need not eschew the eloquence
which charms., the ear and commands
theottention of the listener. We need
not repress every naturally, cheerful im
pulse. We should be false to the Spirit
of him who shared the sochl delights
of the family of Bethany, and had taste
to appreciate the beauty of . the flowers,
if we did so. Mit we may not borrOw.
% i, a on's rituaLfett-threffiervice of the
sanctuary, or 'couple a singre l: - .
extrava. ance "- i .
sion in order to-show how easy it is to
be'a disciple. To lighten the'burden of
the Cross with balloons inflated with the
vanity of ball rooms and dancing halls
surely is not the true method of com
mending the religion of Christ. It is
the willing and submissive spirit that
makes us unconscious of self-denial, and
the grace of Chest himself, and not the,
arts of the world; that peke his yoke
easy and his burden light.
Religion should win by love, but 'she
should not surrender her tone of autho
rity. The rewards she has to bestow
are not the blandishrnentii of sense, nor
must she employ' these =when they will
be interpreted as' symbolizing her com
promise with, the hoetility of the unre
warded heart. But she, has in heiself
the most attractive charms—not indeed
to 'a. Dutehess of Buckingham, not to
one who has become so habituated to
wordly indulgencti that the 'loss : of it
would make heaven itself seem a Sahara
—but to the soul made conscious of its
'needs, or roused, to the solution of the
great problem of its "final destiny.
There can be nothing more beautiful on
.earth than the life pervaded with the
Spirit of lesus ; and a genuine devotion,
even to worldly minds, can .invest the
lowliest..roof .with.a solemn dharm be
gond that of " storied' &fir grand ,,
cathedral. ,
Eschewing as we do, and
must, the borrowed drapery and incon
gruous show of cumbrous liturgies and
demonstrative rites, it becomes us not
to overlook the importance of our only
substitute, but to let the light of piety
shine forth, and the -unencumbered
power of truth be felt, both in public
And in private, in the sanctuary and
the dwelling, till all that we come in
contact with is hallo Wed by the 'spirit
in which we deal with it, and we can
sing with the poet—
"There's not a strain to memory dead,
Nor flower of classic grove;
There's not a sweet note warbled here,
But minds us of thy love."
FALSE COMFORT TO THE DYING SOL
DIER.
The American Unitarian Association
is issuing a series of Army 'tracts, one
of which, termed " A Letter to a Sick
Soldier from Robert Collyer," and which
claims to be in the " Fifty-fifth Thou
sand" of the issue, has fallen under our
notice. Our readers would like to know
in what language it addresses men, in
hourly danger of dying, upon the great
concern of the soul's salvation. We will
let, them see. The writer, after intro
ducing the scene of a soldier falling and
dying on the field, and exclaiming with
his last breath " My Mother," continues
thus:
" The love of the best father and
mother in the world is no more than a
poor= shadow of the love of God. God
is love, and he loves us right through.
He loves us here, he will love us yonder.
He loves us now, he will love us forever.
Death makes no difference with the
love of God. When the body is dead,
then God takes that one good grain that
is in, us all, and plants it again in better
soil than this, and under a kindlier sky,
and he will care for us and see to our
growth foreVer and forever. And so T.
sac cheer up. You ars a true, brave
man." &c.
Not a word of a Saviour, nol a word
of repentance, nor of a day of judgment,
but blank, stark universalism., " In us
all"—the inebriate, the profane, the god
less,—there is "one good grain" that
God will take care of and plant in
heavenly soil when we die! Christen
dom will hold the American Unitarian
Association responsible for offering a
dying soldier Such unmitigated heathen
ism as a consolation, in this nineteenth
century of the Christian era.
And see with what a mere affectation
of earnestness, ufter this utter , rejection
of the strongest sanctions of morality,,
addresses the sinner's conscience • and
seeks his reform
.
- " And Ido hope, my- friend, if you 11 ave
been a wicked man, when you .get
you.will take a new start.. Nay, taken.
now you are sick. If you have done a,
good deal of hard, coarse swearing,
will feel ho* wrong it is, to, speak so 4. of
Him who loves you so well, andyou will:
drop it entirely. It Willdo you no good.
It will do you harm. If. you dtinot take
care, you will be shocked when You ge t t
back home, to find how r. you 'have run
doWn in the things that make a gentle.
Man, a true man.
Was ever such dilettaiiteism witnessed?
is' not, this homceopathic mode of dealing
with gross sins enough to provoke a
smile of derision on the TaCe of the bluff
soldier who knows well enough what
kind of, doctoring his corrupt nature
require
praCtical part of the tract-are logy ac
UnivoisaliSta — make but
rose-water reforiners when anything
deeper than the mere 'surface of things
is to be mended.
HOME MISSIONS
150 Nessiu ST., N.Y;,. Dee. 16, 1864
Ma. -Enrron, :—The following account
of a Missionary field, may interest many
of your readerS. We receive similar
accounts from other Presbyteri.es in
other States, indeed from nearly every
State of the West, when, any one takes
the pains to make the invelitigation.
More thrilling statements reackius from
Minnesota, from Kansas, front Western
and from Northern lowa. What shall
we do ?
Shall we appeal to all our young men
in the seminaries, and to our unemploy
ed ministers to go into all these ftelds
in force we appeal to,the churches,
for $200,000 * to sustain the/ missionaries
till the churches formed in, these destitute
places will assume their support ? Will
the churches respond ? They never
have failed! There is encouragement
in that. _ Yours truly,
lIMENE
GIe.AND RIVER PREOSYTER'Y'.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 18th,1864
DEAR STR.-My object in writing to
you at this time is to lay before you the
needs of our Presbytery.
The Presbytery of Grand River Val
ley embraces the North Western portion
of the Southern peninsula of Michigan.
Its Eastern boundary is the meridian.
line, the line which separates- the coml.
ties of Lenawee and Hillsdale, and the_
passes North through the State, goin
two miles East of Jackson and two mil
East of Lansing. Our Southern ton
dary is the Northern limit of the coun
ties of Allegan, Barry, &c. Our
, PresJ
bytery extends over all the territo7 be
tween. these boundary lines and Lage
Michigan. Its area is more than/18,00'0
square miles. If the three States id'
Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode
Island could be placed on the top of f.t,,
they would leave more than 4,000 squ' re
miles uncovered.
And by a reference to the map
will notice that nearly one half of
Detroit and Ililwaukie Railway pE
through._ our Presbytery. Other
are projected and will be built in
one of which will connect this, city
Kalamazoo and pass ,Northward to
Traverse. The rivers Grand,
gan, Manistee and other; afford
miles of navigable waters, an'
good harbors at their mouths.
At present the lumber trade
leading interest in all this region
employs thousands of workmen.
A large portion of this territo y is yet
unsettled. And some of it wilnot soon
be settled. The pineries do /not make
at once the best of farms. But a large
part, probably one half, has a soil and
climate as favorable for a,gribulture pur
poses as Western New Yorl. It is a
mistake that the climate is tpo cold for
the ripening of crops. Grains and fruits
can be raised in great abundance. Set
tlers in. Manistee county, one hundred
miles north of this city, have told me
that there is no doubt that they can
there make it profitable to raise fruit
for the Chicago market. It is not so
cold in Northwestern Michigan as it is
in many localities farther south. , There
was more =suffering from severe cold last
winter on, the, prairies 'of Illinois than
any Arkere, in the" \ State: ernom
, The th,
eter indicated from ten to twenty degrees
t
severer cold ll
:- one' hu( red miles south
l 'eastifrOm here in Det oit and Jackson
/
th in this city.
.. .... he p_l9,P ll.l ation inc ded within the
bo' ds cif our Presbyte y is by the census
of 1860, 73,827. 1850 it was 27,-
_
1 6, 'slibwing a de ennial increase of
271.97. per cent.
Suchis
,the field with which our, Pres
hyteryAs charge with the oversight.
And: we #umber in. all but eight minis
ters andeight churches. iffnly two,of our
churclieS .are self-stpporting, and tnose
only juit ahle to snstain . themselves,
We• want to send a missionary into all
:.of 'thii"destitute region. We want him
to tgo tp those -wleke-sanger_ef r e_
110•••••—a.!__-__ • • • athenism an* pr ; j : . ..
and the
gospel to them. • "e want him to go
and look up those who have emigrated
from. i our Eastern churches, and are
in the wilderness:
witho t a shepherdldss.
i f
, ,
I now that congregations can be
gath' ed many points, if there is only
a ru a
1 1
to attend to it. And we can find
the art, but we can pledge nothing for
'
his pport. Our feeble churches are
noro well supplied that it is not de-
Bi il. e to send
a
A r ii - - where it is desirable
fora t
mission
ary`
them.
'
o labor, it will not do to begin by
i and careless , ,
g for money . The people are god
les -and will , be at once
pr . udiced against. a man, who comes
am, rig them and asks them to , do some
t :fang for'''his support The only way
th4t party- of these people can be reach
ed is to go among them and labor with
them. "They-must learn the•importance
ofthe institutions of.the gospel, and then
theywill of their own accord do some
g.
.
.
thin • ' • '.: 4 71•A
r
i The only way, by which our PreslV
t,ery can engage in this work is by an
, ,
appfopriation of $5OO, from your trea
sury. And the object of this leftetr*Lto
inquire whetheF, if the application is
`'`A
made, _tlit . *m...‘ue form, you will grant it
Our Presbyter Oath itits= next meeting
on the Bth of November. We'would
lithe to set Mr. M. at work immediately.
\an you reply to this in time so that we
an have definite information ?
f i v
I know that you will feel the import
ance of the work proposed. I believe
that by means of such work, churches
may be organized, that will in a few
years become self-sustaining,- and will
pour back into the Home Missionary
treasury far more than they will receive.
It seems very_plain that the interests of
the Redeemer's Iringdoni demand imme
diate attention to this work. The peo
ple are prepared for it. lam trying to
do some of the same kind of work within
ten miles of this city. I cannot well go
farther away than that. The school
house will be filled with an attentive;
often tearful congregation. But there
are many places: beyond the reach of
pastors, that cannot be supplied in any
other way than that already indicated.
I am often receiving invitations that ' I
cannot accept. Let some one be sent to
these dying sinners.
I could add many more facts and
statistics; but have already made this
communication too lengthy.` Yours in
Christ, A. M.
H. KENDALL
with
rand
uske
many
have
is the
This
The celebration of the glad event
which proclaimed "Peace on earth
good-will to men," again comes to us in
the midst of war. But we are aided in
our celebration by the news of a splen
did and bloodless victory that fills our
hearts with hope of a speedy and a righ
teosus peace. A Southern city of great
importance, with cotton, stores, guns and
material of war, worth many millions,
seized and handed over to the govern
ment, without the firing of a gun or the
sacrifice of a life, is a. truly appropriate,
as well as magnificent, Christmas gift
to the nation. We accept it with de
vout gratitude to God, and to the brave
Generals, officers and men who crowned
a long series of splendid achievements
by this easy capture of the fair city of
Savannah. Happy men, who may all
I join unharmed and comfortable in the
celebration of. their Christmas and New
SAVANNAH 'A CHRISTMAS GIFT.
Years',- within those entrenchments
which only their appearan.ce stripped of
defenders, and on - which no drop of
their valued blood.had first to be spilled.
Happy President who receives this gift,
happy America, in whos9 civic crown
another recovered gem is set, unsoiled
'with military violen6e; bright with its
palmetto bowers, and soon to: shine with
all the glory of a better national and
municipal life. *ever was a nation so
dowered on a Christmas day—never had
a people greater cause of humble - grati_
tude, hope in God and rejoicing in the
triumphs of a righteous and struggling
'causes
THE LAST CONTRIBUTION.
lEfeltßisimußc;•Dec..l7, 1864.
REV. S. ~ 3 16Lzon :--Enclosed I send
you a draft for fifty . dollarg, in addition
contributitho A. B. C: F. M.
rear friend
This comes
very
•
who, at four o'clock this morning, closed
his eyes to all on earth, Mr. William
M. Kerr, a beloved, member of our
church, President of _the Harrisburg
Bank, member ofwour Board of Trus
tees, and a faithful Sabbath School
teacher... He died in the prime of life
-47 years of age. During his illness he
has expressed most triumphant hopes of
redemption and magnified the love of
Jesus in tenderest and most confident
words. This was his last contribution.
Yours very truly,
T. H. ROBINSON
HOW TO OBTAIN THE EEMAINS OF
FALLEN SOLDIERS.
A correspondent of The Presbyterian,
writing from Fortress Monroe, gives
the . folloWing valuable information, for
the want of Which time and labor has
been lost, and much unnecessary ex
pense has been incurred:
" For the information of friends of
home would say, that to exhume a body
you must procure a metalic case, get a
permit from the surgeon in charge, Dr.
E. McClellan, and then you can get the
grave-diggers to take up the body -and
put it ;n the case, and send it home by
the express company at the Fort. All
this can be done by writing to a friend i .
the surgeon in charge, or the elailass
company, who will attend toAolple
matter, The, cost of a metafc case - and
exhuming is $3O. A,groat manfbodies
have been taken up this fall. Nine
were exhumed on Thankscriving day,
and transferred into new coffins."
CITY RELIGIOUS ITEMS
AccEssioNs.—We are informed that at the
last communion season in Rev. James Price's
Church, Frankford, on the 18th inst, fifteen
persons were received into the church,
mostly on profession. This church is in the
United Presbyterian connection. It is in
itsinfancy, but gives promise of ' a vigorous
growth.
TABOR' Cm - am—We reported last week
the dedication of the new house of worship,
erected for the-use of Rev. Mr. Van Deurs'
Church. One of the Deacons reports that
seventy-two pews have been already taken.
Prompt and good.
REV. D. MARCH, of Clinton St. Church,
received a Christmas gift of $lOOO, from his
people. Another pastor whose people are as
modest as they are liberal, received $2,500.
DEATH' OF REV. DR. SAVAGE.—We read,
with a. sad feeing, the death of Rev. John A.
Savage, D. D., of the 0. S. branch of the
Presbyterian Church, late President of Car
roll College in. Wisconsin, and formerly for
many years pastor of the church in Ogdens
burgh. In our early ministry, Dr. Savage
was our co-presbyter and personal friend.
In generous cordiality of temper, and faith
ful kindness, it eguld not have been easy to
find his superior. - He was a gooa and unc.Ao.
Christian pastor of the so-called conservative
stamp, remarkable for tact and wisdom in
dealing with human nature. In the divisions
in our church, previous to the disruPtion,
his theological sympathies were strongly
with the Old School, but in the Assembly of
a 837, he opposed the Excinding Act as an
outrage upon• constitutional rights. After
the division, however, his Scotch affinities
took him over to the other side, but we be
lieve he never became properly a partizan.
He died in Waukesha, Wis., on the 13th inst.
passing away in a decline calmly and peace
fully.
FREAKS OF THE TIMES.—We see it stated
in an exchange, that the Central Methodist
Episcopal Church, Seventh Avenue, New
York, when furnishing their church, used
cotton for stuffing the backs of the, seats.
Recently they have been refitting, repairing
and painting their house; in doing this they
substituted horse-hair for the cotton, which
they disposed of for $3,399,50. This amount
more than sufficed to cover all the expense
of the refitting, &c., leaving them a balance
of several hundred dollars.
-TERMS--
Per annum, in advance:
13y=Mail, BiB3. Say Carrier, $3 50
Fifty cents additional, after three months.
Clithe.—Ten or more papers, sent to one address
payable strictly in advance and in one remittance:
By Mail, $2 50 per annum. By Oarriera. $3 per annum.
Ministers and Ministers' Widows, $2 in advance.
Henke Missionaries, $l5O in advance. -
Fifty cents additional after three months.
Remittances by mail are at our risk
Postage.—Five cents quarterly, in advance, paid by
subscribers at the office of delivery.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
1234 cents per line for the first, and 10 cents for the
second insertion.
One square, (ten lines) one month gs 00
two months- 5 50
" three " 460
Six " 12 00
One year 18 00
The following discount on lone advertisements
inserted for three months and upwards is allowed:—
Over 20 lines, 10 per cent. off; over 50 lines, 20 per
cent.; over 100 line., 33% per cent off.
F'',4 two of the fitntritto.
MINISTERIAL CHANGEB.--We notice, under
this head, the installation of Rev. Edwin A.
Buckley, at Plattsburgh, N, Y.—Sermon by
Rev. Dr. Darling of Albany.; the tendering
of a call from York Pa., to Rev. H. E. Niles,
of Albany, N. Y., and the resination of a
pastoral charge in Coventry, N. Y., by Rev.
W. Smith. We do not yet learn whether
Mr. Niles is expected to give a favorable re
sponse to the call from York. We know
that his acceptance of it would give great
satisfaction alike to the church, and to the
-.Presbytery with which it is connected.
RaviveL.—Special intersat is repOrted as
existing in Rev. J. M. Bishap::s church, in
Bloomington, Indiana. -
CHURCH DEDICATION IN THE . WEST.—The
First Presbyterian church in Warren, 111,,
have just completed a plain and neat church
edifice, well adapted to their 'present state
and circumstances. It was dedicated to the
service of the Almighty God on the 3d of
November. Sermon by Rev. A. K. Strong.
e tor.,Reir. E. H. Avery • offered the
prayer of dedication. Warren is an interest
ing field, and prospectively one of much
importancerto our church.
SUPPLEMENTING OF ,SILLARIES.—An out-and
out stipulated increase of a Pastor's salary,
up to the standard rates of living, is the
first and best arrangement for the times,
Where this fails to be done, the good prac
tice of supplementing the salary by compli
mentary presents of money and really vain
'able articles for living, comes next in order
of excellence. In the latter category we
this week notice a gift of $4OO from people
of the Presbyterian church in Valatie, N. Y.
to their Pastor, Rev. C. F. Berry, presents to
the value of $350 having been previously
donated. We,also notice that the people of
the Presbyterian church in Monticello, 111.,
after 'erecting a new $5,000 parsonage, gave'
the family of the Pastor, Rev. G. L. Little, a
house-warming visit which filled up the
cellar .and larder for a good time to come.
A cash donation was also left. Rev. Alex
ander Parkee, of North Madison, Ind., has
also been the recipient of the like compli
ments of his congregation.
A WISE AND THOUGHTFUL MUNIFICENCE.--
As such we characterize the following which
we take from the Christian Herald:—`° On
Thanksgiving day, ,Rev. Wm. Van Vleck
gave $lOO to each of the members of the
Senior class in Lane seminary, to purchase
hooks. He appreciates the fact that a work'
man needs tools. No more judicious and
acceptable gift can be made to a young min
ister than good books, or the means to buy
them. We hope that during the approach
ing ,gift,gmag - season the libraries of our
pastors and tliological students may be lib
erally replenished."•
A CALL ACCEPTED—A unanimous call to
the pastorate has been tendered to Rev.
Martin P. Jones, of this city, by the united
churches of East Whitetand and Reesville,
in Chester county. We are -informed that
Mr. Jones has signified his intention to ac
cept the call, and that he has already en
tered upon his work there. We congratu
late those churches on their acquisition,
feeling that we have the most ample reason
for so doing.
'.'-DEATH IN THE. MINISTRY.—Rev. Frederick
W. Graves, a brother well known in this
city, and who has been an occasional and
useful laborer in some of our churches, de
parted this life in Canandaigua, N. Y., on
the Bth inst. His funeral was attended at
Corning on the Monday following, Dr. Cur
tis of:Elmira, and Mr. Niles of Corning par
ticipating in the services. Mr. Graves was
a warm-hearted Christian, and an earnest
laborer for Christ.
DEATH OF A Home MISSIONARY.—Rev.
Abraham Blakeley, of Lawrence Kansas,
died suddenly of apoplexy, in the city of
New York, on the 19th inst., aged 58 years.
Mr. Blakeley was recently in this city, so
liciting aid for our church in Lawrence, and
was in New York pursuing the same enter
prise. Re was an earnest and faithful mis
sionary, having spent most of his life in that
work. We learn from an obituary notice in
The Evangelist that Drs. Adams and Kendall
ministered to his last hours, and that, dying
far from home, the Home Missionary Com
mittee were attentive to meet every need.
THE VETERAN MISSIONARY WINSLOW GONE.
—We announced a shorttime ago that Rev. Dr.
Myron Winslow, long and well-known as the
American Board's Missionary in India, was
on his way home. So he was—but not as we
meant—on his way home. We have the ac
count of his decease at the Cape of Good
Hope, •on the 22d of October. His age was
seventy-five years. He was the founder of
the Madras Mission, and first President of
the native college in that place. He was the
author of the " Tamil and English Diction
ary," a work of great labor and of much use
fulness for general as well as missionary pur
poses. He was a profound scholar and an
earnest and successful Christian missionary.
It is but a few months since we recorded the
decease of his two brothers, Rev. Dr. Hub
bard Winslow and Rev. Dr. Gordon Wins
low, and his mother, who died a few weeks
ago at 'Williston, Vt., at the advanced age, of
ninty-five years.