Cartspplithirr. GEORGE WHITEFIELD AND HIS OPEN AIR MEETINGS, EDWARD PAYSON HAMMOND INTO. 111. George Whitefield seems never more happy than when preaching to the masses in the open air. lie loved to sing— "For this let man revile my name, I'll shun no cross, I'll fear no shame, All hail reproach and Nteleome pain, Only thy terrors, Lord, restrain." Little children gathering along his rugged pathway; loved to accompany him in his open air services ; and, as wayside flowers cheer the heart of the weary traveller, so this evangelist often found himself refreshed and strengthened by their presence. These children loved to crowd in and about the pulpit, ,and so make themselves useful by handing him the numerous requests for prayers. Some times they were exposed to the violence of-the rabble. Though sticks and stones flew ,fitst about them, they seldom clit sorted their tried friend. What a beau tif4'teStimony Whitefteld has left with regard to them 1 He says, " Every time I Was struck, they turned up their little weeping eyes, and seemed to wish they could receive the blows for me." Whitefield's boldest, and perhaps most successful attempt at open air preaching, was, made on. Whit-Monday, 1742, during thearirinal holidays at Moodields, "the season of .all 9thers," he says, "when, if ever, Satitn!s children keep up their rendezvous." Moorfields in Whitefield's days, was a large open space of ground, much frequented by the people on Sun day afternoons, and at, holiday times. At the great annual fair, the ground was occupied with booths, where mounte banks, players, puppet shows, etc., ex hibited. Whitefield was on the ground at six o'clock in the morning, accompanied by several of his friends, and took pos session of an eligible spot for his " field pulpit." He found at that early hour 1 upwards of ten thousand already there ; he gives us the following account of his proceedings : "I mounted my field-pulpit, glad to find that I had for once, as it were, got the ,start of the devil. The people immediately flocked round me, and I addressed them from . the words , As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.' All was hushed ' and solemn ; they gazed, they listened, they wept. Thus encouraged, I went again in the afternoon, but now all bustle, noise and confusion. Drummers, trum peters, merry-Andrews, masters of puppet shows, and exhibitors of wild beasts, players, etc., were in possession of the crowd of people, estimated at twenty thousand and more. The fields were white for the harvest of Beelzebub, and not for the Redeemer." Whitefield's pul pit was fixed on the opposite side, " and .fudgin g ," he says, " that like Paul, I should be called to fight with beasts of Ephesus, I preached to them from the words, ' Great is Diana of the Ephe sians.' " Great was the mortification of the players when they saw the multi tudes change sides and flock round the preacher. " You may guess," he says, " there was great noise among the crafts men." He was not, however, to have it all his own way ; whilst preaching, his enemies commenced throwing "rotten eggs, stones, and dead cats" at him. My soul was indeed among lions," he says. But the greater part of his audience can tinned to listen, and he gave notice, at the • conclusion, that he would preach again from the same place at six o'clock in the evening. When he went at.the time appointed, he was much encouraged to see several thousands collected together, and waiting for him ; lint he was now to encounter a more organized 'opposition. He con tinues: "Opposite to the pulpit was one of Satan's choicest servants, exhibiting on a large stage to a great crowd, but as soon as they saw me in my black robes standing in the pulpit., they :left ' the player and ran over. This Satan' could not brook ; the merry,andrew, armed with a long whip, and followed by a crowd of enraged and disappointed showmen, approached. Then mounting upon the shoulders of one of his com._ rades, the tumbler commenced lashing his whip at me, and pretending to fall down .at every stroke, with the violence of his exertions. They next persuaded it recruiting sergeant, with his drum, to pass thrkfighthe congregation. When I saw theiapproach, I gave the word of command, and ordered that w might be made for tie king's .ofreli: The ranks opened, while...all marched quietly through, and closed again." Finding their efforts to divert the, attention of the congregation fail, a large Body 4ssexii.:l2Jed together, and having pro'cUred a co e'for a standard, they marched upon th 'di once ; but fortunately, when s 'tvi a few feet, they quarreled among, em selves, threw down their standar "..and turned away." " We then," hV-sitys, " returned to the. Tabernacle, whae the - sands flocked, with my pocket full - . ef letters from persons brought under con cern, and read them amidst the pra4es and spiritual acclamations of thousands• who joined with the holy angels in re joicing that so many sinners were snatch ed, in such an unexpected, unlikely place and manner, out of the very jaws of the devil. As a moderate computation, I received, I believe, a thousand notes from persons under conviction ; and soon after, three hundred and fifty were re ceived in one day. Numbers that seem ed, as it were, to have been raised up for THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1865. Tyburn, were at that time plucked as firebrands out of the burning." It would seem as if, after that memo rableday's labors at Moorfields, the even ing at the Tabernacle was mostly taken up with the reading of letters from those brought to feel their need of a Saviour at the open Sir preaching. White - field well knew the valte of Christian ex'pe rience. Some might have thought thAt this mode of occupying the attention of thousands for an evening, was very pro fitable ; but the extensive experience of 14bitefield taught him the great value of the simple narration of the dealings of the Holy Spirit with individual cases. He must have been a close student . of the Acts of the Apostles. That even ing's service seems to have proved so interesting and profitable, that after preaching again in Moorfields the next clay, he resolved •to pursue • the same plan. He therefore says, " I - retired with my following to the Tabernacle, - Where I read fresh notes that were handed in, praising God amidst thousands assem bled." UAMI=MMUMSIi.=!.MAL.da NIGHT, AT HYDE PARS, shows how eager he Was to seize upon every favorable opportunity to impress the solemn truths of eternity upon his fellow-men. In 1750, a violent earthquake moved the whole cities of London and West minster. . . Multitudes of persons of all classes fled from these cities, and re paired to the fields and open *aces in the neighborhood. Hyde Park was crowded with men, women and children, who remained a whole night under the most fearful apprehension. Dr. Belcher states that under these 'circumstances, the ministers of Christ preached almost incessantly, and many were awakened to a sense of their awful condition before God, and to rest their hopes of eternal salvation on the rock of ages. "Mr. Whitefield, animated with that burning charity which shone so conspicu ously in him, ventured out at midnight to Hyde Park, where he proclaimed to the affrighted and astonished multitudes that there is a Saviour, Christ the Lord. The darkness of the night, and the awful apprehensions of an approaching earth quake, added much to the solemnity of the scene. The 'sermon was truly sublime, and to the ungodly sinner, the self-righteous pharisee, and the artful hypocrite, strikingly terrific. With a pathos which showed the fervor of his soul, and with a grand majestic voice that commanded attention, he took occasion, from the circumstances of the assembly, to call their attention to that most important event in which every-one will be interested, the final consummation of all things, the universal wreck of nations, the dissolution of earth, and the eternal sentence of every son and daughter of Adam. The whole scene was one of a most memorable character." Passing over many thrilling events in connection with Whitefield's efforts for the masses in the open air, we come to the closing scene of his life. Whitefield had often expressed the wish that he might die with the " harness on." His desire, it is well known, was t. ot denied him. Having preached Saturday, Sep tember 30th, 1770, to a multitude in the open air for nearly two hours, his ran somed spirit, just as the king of day was lighting up the eastern horizon, took its flight to where " suns shall rise and set no more." The town of Exeter, where, at the age of fifty-six, his last message to dying man was delivered in the open air, had been the scene of glorious triumphs in former days. When once preaching there, a man was present with his pockets full of stones, determined to throw them at the preacher as soon as the services commenced. But a more than human power fell upon this wicked man, and before the - discourse was through, he was not only . glad :to get rid of the stones in his pockets, but was also anxious to know how :he could get rid of his stony heart. After the sermon, this subdued man said to Whitefield, " Sir; I came here to-clay to break your head, but God has given me a broken heart." It is said this man became an humble follower of the Lord Jesus, and lived to prove the genuineness of his conversion. Doubtless crowds of anxious souls accompanied him to Newburyport, a dis tance of fifteen miles, where he was advertised to speak the next day ; for it has been related that after trying to eat something, while attempting to make his way unobserved to his room, they burst in upon him, and at least with imploring looks, said, " Oh, tell us what we shall do to be saved." His .heart so yearned for their salvation, that, though he was scarcely able to hold himself up, he stood upon the stairs till the candle burned to its socket, pointing them to the. "Smished work" of Him hi whose'inunediate pre sence, ere another sun' he was to find fullness of j937-41,14:pleapres forever. At his funeral in Newbmiyport, it is said four_ or five thousand were present. Mr. Smith, who used to :accompany Whitefield, says, in speaking of the fune ral services, "the ReV. Daniel Rogers made a very affecting prayer, and openly declared that under God, he owed his conversion to that dear man whose pre cious remains now lay, before them. Then he cried Out, Oh; my; ather ! my Father ! ' then stopped and wept as though his heart would break ; the peo fie weeping all through the place." A few years since, I stood in the vault beneath the church in Newburyport, :where reposes all that is mortal of '.George Whitefield. I can never forget the emotions which filled my heart, as with tears I gazed upon the remains of that persecuted but untiring evangelist, who crossed the ocean thirteen times to preach the glad tidings of salvation to the perishing. Oh how blank my life seemed ; how small I felt, as I stood with the skull of Whitefield in my hands! God forbid that I should ever forget the solemn vows then made of renewed con secration ! As I held the ulna of that right arm which by an unknown hand had been carried across the ocean and - carefully returned again, and as I thought of the thousands of weeping souls it had helped to point to the “Lanib of God," I could but humbly pray that - I might be far more earnest to point dying souls to the cross of Christ. " Servant of God, well done I Thy glorious warfare's past, The battle's fought, the race is won, And thou art crowned at last; Of all thy heart's desire, . Triumphantly possess' d, Lodg'd by the ministerial choir, • In thy Redeemer's breast. " In condescending love Thy ceaseless prayer,he heard, Arid bade thee suddenly remove To thy complete reward ; Ready to bring thee peace, Thy beauteous feet were shod, When mercy signed thy soul's release, And caught thee up to God. "With saints enthron' d on high, Thou dost thy Lord prdclaim, And'still to God salvation cry, Salvation to the Lamb ! O happy, happy soul,. In ecstacies of praise Long as eternal ages roll, Thou seest thy Saviour's face. " Redeem' d from earth and pain, Ah I when shall we ascend, And all in Jesus' presence reign With our translated friend I Come Lord, and quickly come! And when in thee complete-, Receive thy longing servants home, To triumph at thy feet 1" LETTER FROM SOUTHERN INDIA. TIRUMIINGALIMS ' SOUTHERN' INDIA, October 7th, 1864. MY DEAR Siu:—Thinking a letter from this "far off" part of the world might be in teresting to some of your readers, whose ac .quainta,nce I was permitted to make a year and a half since, I take the liberty of tres passing upon your attention. You may have noticed in the papers, at the beginning of this year, an account of the disaster to the ship Osborn, Howes, in which we embarked from Boston, on the 21st of November last. We had been out but three days, when a huge wave so shattered the bows of the ship that the captain was obliged to lighten her by throwing overboard about fifty tons of her lading. Then he "used helps, undergirding the ship," and although we were "exceedingly tossed by the tempest," in eleven days we suc ceeded in reaching Boston. We had in the meantime encountered three heavy gales, and once struck upon-the Nantucket Shoals. But at length we all escaped safe to land. Our ship underwent a thorough repairing, and we set sail again on the 20th of January, and reached Madras in the unprec,edentedly short space of 92 days; an ordinary_ voyage is 120 days, and the last missionaries that came out before us were 159 'days at sea. THE BELLS CAST OVERBOARD Some of your younger readers will be in terested in :the fact- that the three church bells which they contributed their money to buy were thrown into the Gulf Stream. Also, a fourth bell that was being sent out as a kind of memorial bell for Mr. Scudder, who was drowned in this district, shared the same fate. Instead of calling these benighted people to the house of God, as we hoped, these four bells all lie away down, down among the sharks and monsters of the deep. But I am happy to say that, through the favor of the insurance company, all of the bells were replaced by others, and three of the four are doing their appropriate work. The bell for lily own church is so large that I am obliged to build a tower for it, and as the mission has no money for a tower, I am trying to collect some from rich natives. I need more than fifty dollars, and think we shall be able to raise it, and I hope soon to fulfill my promise to write those Sabbath Schools many interesting particulars. THE , LOCOMOTIVE IN INDIA On reaching Madras we were happy to learn that 200 miles, of our inland journey might be travelled by the cars, the railroad having been completed from the eastern to the western coast. We came to Salem at the at the rate of 30 miles the hour, and, thence to Madura with speed decreased to "inside of three " miles ari hour. This, of course, by ox-power, changing cars, or rather changing oxen, once every eight miles. We now occupy what is to us a new station, one left by Rev. Mr. Herrick, who was com pelled by ill health to visit the United States. I have a large field of labor, covering a tract of country 61S square miles in extent, having a population of 179,600, living in 894 villages. I rejoice to say there are now Christians in 17 of these villages—some 734, in all—with 136 communicants in good and regular stand ing. Thus you may infer that a good -begin ning has been made, yet much, very much still remains to be done. On one of my re cent tours in the villages, a -man attended meeting with an iron frame about his neck, firmly riveted on by the blacksmith. It was about 18 inches square, having bands of iron ,passing from each corner of the frame over his head, riveted at the apex. This most uncomfortable affair he has worn seven years, all for the purpose of begging successfully. In reply to my questions, he said he was en deavoring to raise money to excavate and enclose with hewn stone steps a tank—which is a work of great merit—and that people, seeing how much he suffered with his head in that coop of iron, would give him money. After a half-hour's talk, he seemed, almost persuaded to have the rough thing removed. But alas, the iron enters his soul. PRAYERS OF NATIVE CHRISTIANS (*very pleasing incident has just occurred among the native Christians at this place, which I will mention. Two years ago to-day many, of the crops were wilting and withering for the want of rain. Also the news from America was rather sad. The Christians, without saying anything to me, decided to have a day of fasting and prayer : First, that God would send rain, _and thus arrest the threatened famine, and second, that He would hasten the end of that terrible war, the influ ence of which is felt all over the world. " Give the victory to the Northern people," was an oft-repeated petition. They literally abstained from food, and held four or five prayer meetings during the day. I was pre sent in the morning from ten to twelve. Now the result : before night a shower of rain fell, and it has rained nearly every day since. Whether we shall hear of great successes to the Federal cause occurring about this time I cannot tell; but of this one thing I am sure: God will not despise the prayers of His "little ones." We' all feel more or less anxious about the financial condition of our Board. We are already sailing under close-reefed top sails, and if the furids of the Board will not allow us to carry these what will become of the ship? I wish some of your great men would preach from Isa. xlix. 6. "Finally, brethren, pray for us." I cannot close without sending my most cordial Christian salutations to those pastors, Sunday School superintendents, and others— all the Aquilas and Priscilla,s with whom I had a short but exceedingly pleasant ac .. quamtance. The Churches •of Asia salute you. 40 Very sincerely yours, J. E. OECANDLER Ditt(fzMt. DIARY OF MISS Brix Txi v YLYAII : A Story of the Times of Whitefield and the. Wes leys. By the author of " Chronicles of the Schcenberg-Cotta Family," "The Early Dawn," &c. With a Preface by the Author for the American Edition. New York :M. W. Dodd. 12mo. pp. 436. Philadelphia : for sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co. The New York publisher of this and other volumes, by the same author, has certainly earned the gratitude of the reading public, not only by recognizing the merit of a series of works which had previously existed only in the form of magazine articles, and by bringing them out in a permanent shape, but by opening communication with the 'writer, and procuring directly from her fertile pen the manuscript of the work above announced. A new field in the domain of pious fancy was entered by this accomplished writer, and a new class of pleasurable and wholesome feelings awakened in the reader. Those who have read the " Chronicles" will be prepared to appreciate the "Diary," which breathes the same homely pathos and tenderness, and exhibits the same exquisite grace, refinement, and Christian courteousness. The "Diary" is worth reading for the style alone ; but the Chris tian sentiment is so evangelical, so noble, so pure, that the highest principles of the soul are reached and strengthened by it. The nar rative is, of course, fictitious, as much so as. Walter Scott's novels, or Shakespeare's his torical plays. Truth to nature is preserved, and a near view of the characters and doings of Whitefield and the Wesleys, as they doubt less appeared to private Christians of large views in those days, is given with great skill and truthfulness. No false impressions• are produced, only an attempt is made by the aid of the imagination to fill up a void in history ; to give us facts as they appeared to persons from whom we are cut off, except as we can live and think ourselves into their circum stances. Not a little of the enjoyment given by the perusal of these.works arises from ad miration of the ingenuity with which the author fills out the picture to the minutest details. The feminine tact is visible on every page. The volume deserves a welcome from every cultivated Christian household in the land. MITCECELL. Wet Days at Edgewood, with Old Farmers, Old Gardeners, and Old Pastorals. By the autor of "My Farm at Edgewood." New York: Chas. Scribner. 12m0., laid tinted paper, cloth, pp. 315, price $2. For sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co. • . Another of Ike Marvel's delightful volumes. With marvellous industry he has improved the " Wet Days" upon the farm, which is his pleasant retreat from the busy world, and which he enjoys as the fruit of most success ful literary labors. A vast extent of litera ture, classical and modern, comes under re view, and Yields its choice tribute to the novel and pleasing purpose of its writer. An elegant taste and a skilful avoidance of the prosaic, the tedious, and the conceited, which not unfrequently mar the work of the' essayist in such a field, characterize the volume. Quondam scholars, who have had no opportunity, amid the pressing cares of life, to keep up their studies, will have their classic memories delightfully refreshed by the, " Wet Days;" those interested in modern literature; from the "Piers Plowman" and Chaucer in England, will welcome the gems of quaint beauty which the author draws from treasures too little known, and as all persons instinctively take an interest in rural life, the circle to whom " Wet Days" will commend itself is a wide one. To farmers especially it is an instructive example of the excellent use to which their hours of enforced leisure may be put, and is particularly worthy of the regard of the class in America, so many of whom lose their reason (according to the statistics of the Insane Asylums), doubtless from the utter monotony of their lives. The volume is handsomely dedicated to Mr. Scribner, the publisher. SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS. Boston Tick nor & Fields. Square 18mo., red edges, pp. 160. Fdr sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co. Admirers of the great poet will welcome this little volume, in which all his sonnets are contained. We believe it is yet a problem in literature what the exact purpose of these compositions was ; but they unquestionably display the exuberant genius and . marvellous copiousness and command of language of the poet in an aspect not familiar to the - readers of his plays alone. FROTHrNGHAM-KING. A Tribute to Thomas Starr King. By Richard Frothingham. Boston : Ticknor & Fields, 16m0., laid tinted paper, pp. 247. MArrisoN. The Immortality of the Soul, Considered in the Light of the Holy Scrip • tures, the Testimony of Reason and Nature, and the various Phenomena of Life and Death. By the Rev. Hiram Mattison, A. M. Philadelphia : Perkinpine & Big gins, 12m0., pp. 398. With steel engraved portrait of the authr. The aim of this volume, which is the work of an itinerant Methodist minister, is to popularize the arguments for the immortality of the soul. The author does not seek to startle by novelty, but takes the common sense scriptural views, and defends them with ability. Great labor has been bestowed on the subject during the twenty-five years in which the topic has lain in the author's mind. He has first treated it in the light of Scrip ture, and then in that of reason. The various arguments are clearly and forcibly stated. The styleis pleasing and abounds in valuable illustrations of the power and functions of the soul, and the phenomena which involve most nearly the question at issue. The work is one calculated to do good, though we think no one should now write on this subject without consulting Ezra Abbott's exhaustive catalogue of works on the Doctrine of a Future Life, in Alger's History, published by G. W. Childs, of this city. REFLECTED LIGHT. Illustrations of the Re deemer's Faithfulness in the Happy Death bed Experience of Christians. Philadel phia: Wm. S. &A. Martien. 12m0., pp. 173, red edges A happy thought it is in the compiler to gather these brief accounts of death=bed ex periences and triumphs into a single volume. Many timorous Christians will thank him for the strong consolation he has thus put within easy reach; and many will be glad to possess in this compact form such a variety of testi monies to the power of Divine Grace in the most trying hour of all. Among the accounts given are the dying experience of Lady Hun tingdon, Doddridge, Hervey, Romaine, Venn, Payson, Hannah More, Bedell, Simeon, the Haldanes, Sarah Judson, Dr. Judson, Bick ersteth, Susan Allibone, and Judge Jones. Appropriate scriptural and poetical extracts give increased interest to the work, the ex ternals of which are very creditable to the publishey, who is also steieotyper and printer. WINES. Children in Paradise. By Frederick Howard Wines, late Chaplain in United States Army. Philadelphia: Wm. S. &A. Martien. 16 mo, gilt, tinted paper. The conclusions to which the writer comes in this little treatise meet our entire approval, but the processes have all the stiffness of medieval logic, and all the dryness of Prince tonian theology. The doctrine of infant sal vation out of such premises is like figs upon thistles and grapes upon thorns. However, it is here, and we are glad to see it so dis tinctly avowed, and so tenderly urged upon the bereaved, for whom the book, is designed. Again, as in the former case, we remark the extreme beauty of the externals of the volume. HOLLOWAY. Mental Geometry, or Generali zations of Geometrical Demonstrations in Planes, Solids, and Spheres. Designed as a Manual for Teachers and for Students of High Schools, Normal Schools and Col leges, By H. H. Holloway, Professor of Mgher Mathematics. J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia. 12mo, pp. 260, price $1.25. Although this is the first regular treatise on Mental Geometry ever written, the exe cution is such as to elicit the, admiration of all lovers of mathematics. It exhibits much original research, and is in no respect a com pilation of the excellencies of either American or foreign treatises on Geometry. The arrange ment of propositions according to their rela tions is excellent, and much more logical and philosophical than that of diagram geome tries. The work is perhaps the most com plete treatise on• solid geometry in the lang uage. The placing of the principles of proof at the commencement of each theorem is pe culiar, and Is 'evidently a very commendable feature. The formalities of demonstration adopted by Euclid, and so servilely copied by most modern geometers, have been generally rejected. The work will tend to impress thoroughly upon the mind of the pupil, not only the properties of geometrical magnitudes, but also the rationale of demonstration, It will be •invaluable te . teachers, -and all mathe matical students - should have a copy as an accompaniment to their diagram geometry. The literary excellence of the work will be as delightful to the taste, as the clearness of the reasoning is satisfactory to .the intellect. rgsmlyvvvvrywir_n • , BOARDMAN. Healing and Salvation for our Country from God Alone. A Sermon preached in the Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, on Thanksgiving' Day, No vember 24th, 1864. By Henry A. Board man, D. D. A few sentences in the opening part of this sermon have somewhat of the manly and pa triotic tone, which we should expect in a document given to the public at the request of so many respectable men at this period of the war. With truth and emphasis, Dr. B. calls the rebellion a. "criminal revolt." But as we read on, we become conscious of a sort of vanity ; we gasp for breath amid the cold And attenuated atmosphere. Dr. B. says dubis ously,, " we may be thankful that any slave States have become free ;" but he has the boldness to assert, without any intimation of doubt, " that the prevailing sentiment of the country is not one of praise and rejoicing." Pray, in what part of the country has the author of this extraordinary assertion been living ? What authorities can he give for, a declaration so sweeping and so disheartening? How many home-circles of loyal people, gathered around the thanksgiving board, was he enabled to visit, or by what token does he pronounce their gladness assumed and hypo critical? Do they belong 'to that "larger class of frivolous people whose heartless mer riment nothing short of the grave ,could ex tinguish ?" And are those the true repre-, sentatives of the national feeling, who spent the day of thanksgiving, as Dr. B. encouraged his hearers to do, in counting over, with gloomy hearts, the length and cost of the war; in ruminating over "the frightful bat tles," the death and sorrow it had caused, and in contemplating what be calls " a future as dark and impenetrable as that which rises bdore us?" We think it is pretty clear what sort of people the preacher has been associated with,,but he evidently knows very little of the feelings of the loyal part of the nation, even of those who have suffered by the war. Any Government hospital, full of wounded and maimed -soldiers, would have contradicted his sweeping, unjust, and errone ous assertion, that the " prevailing sentiment of the country' is not that of praise and re joicing." After the fashion of a certain sort of Union men, Dr. B. lays the blame of our troubles about equally on both sections ; " the oppres sion, the fanaticism, the ambition, the cu pidity, the disregard of human rights, and the invasion of Constitutional rights, [what rights, asks Mr. Stephens, has the North invaded ?] the wrongs and sins on the one side and the other." He thinks it necessary to rehearse Mr. Seward's prophecy about ninety days, and to emphasize its falsification—a political device long outworn.' He dwells upon and magnifies the difficulties of the military posi tion ; new armies must be raised, and tens of thousand of additional soldiers' graves dug; then turns to the very grave difficulties of the political and social ,position; and with some risk of self-contradiction, too, for if the future, in a military point, is so dark and im penetrable, as he verily believes, what need of speculating upon the grave problem of arranging for the "four millions of emend patedlolaCks ?" That need not be discussed, accorNng to the preacher's point of view, for several thanksgivings, if ever. Nevertheless, the period seems to him to be approaching; " a mighty convulsion must follow the annihi lation of this complex system." Are there any signs of it in Maryland? The social problem he states in language which must have sounded strangely in the ears of believers in the essential and rightful unity of the American population: " Can these two peoples ever again become one nation?" The italics are ours. We are also once more informed as to the " prevalent sentiment with us ;" this, • says the writer, "appears to be that it is only a forced and nominal Union which can be ex pected under the most favorable circumstances, and even to this the South is not willing to listen Here is a difficulty," continues the preacher, " which the most sanguine will concede to be of the most 'towering proportions." Very true, doubtless of " tlt I! "I do not know" —this is much more modest--" whether it [the task of allaying resentments] will ever be accomplished." The great remedy proposed is a "general 'reformation and return to God:" most true and most excellent: But the able author is utterly blind to the National reformation that has been going on, almost ever since the war commenced; he seems to have no capacity to recognize the great purifying process which has been making such rapid strides and filling the hearts of Christian people in the North, and all over the world, with inexpressible gladness and thankfulness, and which the re cent decisive vote of the nation uttered forth in such thunder tones, that our thanksgiv ings of November 24th was mainly a joyful echo of them, and that one would think even the leader of the conservatives in the Old School Church must have heard and understood it. We are amazed that a man of Dr. Boardman's moral and mental culture could live, and write, and preach in such pro: found oblivion of the great realities, the sub lime materials of history, transpiring around him ; we are indignant that a moral teacher should leave the impression that men guilty of' rebellion in the interest of slavery, were little, if any, worse than men who are resolved, at the cost of a fearful war, to put down both rebellion and slavery ; but we are not sur prised that a man with such views of the moral status of the contending parties, should see no positive ground of encouragement, no de cisive evidence of the divine favor in the steady progress of our arms, no prospect of early victory, or of a successful settlement of the difficulties which victory will bring in its train. DIRECTORY, Of Presbyterian [N. B.] Ministers and Churches, Philadelphia. ADAMS, E. E., D. D 1702 Mount Vernon street. North Broad St. Church. Broad and Green streets. ADAIR, ROBERT Norristown. Sec. H, M. Com. Presbyterian House. BARNES, ALBERT .255 South itighth street. let Pres. Church. Washington SqE&Te. BARNES, A. iIENRY 923 Spruce street. BERRIDDR, LEEDS It 31st street, above Baring. Chaplain U. S. Hospital. Haddington. - BRAINERD, Moues, D. D.... 634 Pine street. . 3d Pros. Church. Fourth and Pine streets. BROWN, CHARLES Spruce st., above 40th, W.P. See. Ministe'l Rel. Fund. Presbyterian House. BRUEN, EDWARD B 1531 Chestnut street. Ist Church, Darby. Below Darby Borough. BUTLER, J. G., D. D Chestnut st., ab.4oth, W. P. Walnut St. Church, W.P. Walnut st., ab. 39th, W. P. CALgnis, WoLcorr .1814 Pine street. Calvary Church. Locust street, above 15th, CATTO, WILLIAM T 2d African Church. St. Mary's street, ab. 6th. Cox. Gino. W 1041 Beach street. CRITTENDEN, lit W Darby. 2d Church, Darby. Below Kinesessing. CULVER, ANDREW' Green Lane, Manayunk. Manayunk Church. Manayunk. DULLES, joliN W 4037 Chestnut street, W. P. Sec. Pres. Pub. Cool. Presbyterian House. EVA, WILLIAM '2 1116 Columbia avenue, E. Ist Church, Kensington. Girard ay.,near Hanover st. BARBEE, J. GARLAND 902 Pine street. , Wharton St. Church. Ninth and Wharton streets. HELFFENSTEIN, J., D. D Germantomi. Market Square Church. Germantown. HENDRICKS, FRANCIS 805 Vine street. Kenderton Church. Tioga street. shave 17th. Horoaxwi, B. B Haverford P. o..'Del. co. Mande Church. Alarple. MALIN. DAVID, D. D Broad and Ellsworth sta. • Agt. for N. Y. Soldiers. 1021 Chestnut street: MALLERY. RICHARD A 919 South Fifteenth street. Cedar Street Church. South street. above 11th. MARCH, DANIEL, D. D N. W. CDT. Tenth and Pine. Clinton Street Church. Clinton and Tenth streets. McLsoo, JOHN Sec. A. B. C. F. M. Presbyterian House. Southwestern Church. 20th and Fitzwater streets, Teens JORN W 300 Nor th ., Eighteenth st Ed. Am. Presbyterian. Presbyterian__House. MILLER, JEREMIAH 1106 Callowhill street. Sec. Phila. Sab. Assoc'n. MITCHELL, JAMES Y 1003 North Fifth street. Central Church, N. L. Coates street, above Third. PATTON, JOHN. D. D-......... 2023 Wallace street. Logan Square Church. Twentieth and Vine sts. PRATT__, LEWELL1N..........N. W. cor. Broad and Pine. 2d Mantua Church, - W.P. Lancaster ay. and 41st st. RBEVE, J. B 1029 Locust street. LombardSt.Cent.Church.Lombard street, above Bth. ROBBINS, FRANK L 834 North Broad. street. Green Hill Church. Girard avenue, ab.l6th st. SHEPHERD, THOMAS J... . . . _507 Brown street. Ist Pres. Church, N. L..... Buttonwood at., below 6th. SMITH, CHARLES A, D. 3) 1530 Arch SMITH, H. AtroosTus 3404 Bridge street, W. P. Mantua Church, W. P. 36th and Bridge sts., W. P. TAYLOR, W. W.. 2021 Wallace street. Olivet Church. 22d and Mount Vernon sty. VAN AKBN. GULICK 13)6 South Fifth street. Southwark Church. German street, below 3d. VAN DEVRS, GEO 250 South Juniper street. Tabor Church. 17th and Fitzwater streets. W.n.Lts. J. S Filbert street, above 17th. Western Church. ' 17th and Filbert streets. PRAYER should be diligent, increasing, un tiring, ever withstanding suspicion, unbelief, and despair.