t TOO OPEN AIR PREACHING. NO. X. IS GENERAL OPEN AIR PREACHING CONSISTENT WITH MINLSTERIA.L.DIG NITY BY REY. EDWARD PAYSON HAMMOND. This, after all, is the most important question which has yet claimed our at tention in connection with this subject of open air preaching. Many are ready to say, " I do not need to be convinced of the utility of pro claiming the Gospel by the way-side. The New Testament teaches this duty. But all have not the same gifts. Let those who feel called upon to 'go out into the high-ways,' do so. I don't see it my especial duty to make any, effort in this direction." _; Na doubt some might truthfully utter words like these. But were, the feelings -indulged 'by many true ,Chris tiOnS ,this,subject to be.written down, they would read much as follows: " Open air preaching is not respecta ble." "It is not consistent with abe coming regard to the sanctity and eleva tion. of the ministerial character." "It makes the preaching., of the Gospel too common." . "It Will detraCt from its interest in the regular ministrations of the word." Yar be it for us to utter ;one word that shall tend in any_ way to lessen the " dignity of the pulpit." We are so constituted that we cannot be much influ enced by those whom we do not respect. He, therefore, who wishes to .gain san influence for lasting good over the minds of others, cannot be too careful to avoid everything which shall have a tendency to lower his standing. Especially should every ambassador of Christ strive to keep the ministerial office inviolably sacred. ' ' Yes, there is a dignity which it is the bounden duty of every follower of- Christ to maintain. But he who sup poses that the preacher of the Gospel, whatever his standing may be, will en, danger his dignity and, obstruct his future usefulness, by following his divine Lord to the market-place, or the public thoroughfare, or the field,, and there proclaiming the glad tidings 6f-salvation to the perishing masses, does , not under stand the meaning of the word' dignity. Who so dignified as he who " spoke as of man spake ?" When but a child of "twelve years old," his parents found him in the temple, sitting in the midSt of the doctors both hearing and asking them questions ; and all they that heard him were astonished at his understand ing and answers. Even atthat early age. he must have been possessed of a.certain. kind of dignity, to, have Attracted the attention of those learned - doctors. In the life and death of our blessed Lord, we see that his was the dignity' of passion and benevolence—the dignity of doing good—the dignity of selfdeniall and self-sacrifice. Oh! what a lesson is taught us in Phil. ii. 5-10: fi Let this, mind be in you, which was also in Christ . Jesus, who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a ser vant, and was made in. the likeness of men; and being found in. fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name." The minister of the Gospel does not endanger, but secures, moral dignity by following the example of Him who was ever ready to speak the words of life to the multitudes beneath the open canopy of heaven. - Undignified to use the most appropriate and scriptural means to preach Christ and Him crucified to the perishing ! 'Far from it. If ever the servant of Christ is clothed with true dignity and crowned with a glory most God-like, it is when he boldly, and yet with deep humility and dependence upon the Holy Spirit's influences for a blessing on his words, goes forth to those whom he can meet only in the streets, whose danger is most imminent, and whose condition is most hopeless. It would appear that the - heathen sages of antiquity manifested great earnestness in disseminating their phi losophical speculations.. We, who are seeking to do the master's work, may well take a lesson from them. The orators and philosophers of Greece and Rome indulged no " mawkish dread" of lowering their dignity in discussing the most important questions, and gatherings in the open air. 4: Demosthenes, who wielded at will the fierce democracy of Athens ; and Cicero, who swayed by more bland, but as effective eloquelhee, the populace of rßome, both delivered their most splendid and elaborate orations in the forum." Sometimes we find the apostles and disciPles of our Lord preaching by the sea. Ishore—sometimes on a mountain side, sometimes b 3; the bank of a river, sometimes in the villages, sometimes in the crowd,o mart, sometimes in the porch of the temple, 'hut whenever they lifted up, their voice of warning, and entreaty, their dignity consisted in the faitliful execution of their high commis Said the distinguished Rev_ John ,Young, on an occasion of great interest in London, _When advocating men air preaching.: .. "Oh, give us to stand upon . the same haroweti ground with the godly and the devoted of" other tinaes ./ , and we.ask no higher' dignity. dive to us the honor of being despised for Christ, and let the wise and the prudent question, and let the worldling laugh, it shall well con tent us to blunder on with the great masters of sacred eloquence, the models of public religious instruction, with re formers and confessors, and prophets and apostles, and with the Redeemer and Lord himself. We shall feel reproach to be the truest dignity and glory." CENTENARY CELEBRATION OF WHITE FIELD'S LABORS. I cannot help quoting, some of the closing remarks of this speaker's ad dress, delivered at "the centenary cele bration of Whitefield's apostolic labors," at which were present many of Eng land's leading ministers. His earnest words can but stir our hearts and make us feel the dignity of using all legitimate means to .preach to the millions in our land, who, without Christ, must die the second death : - "No one," said he, "will, for a moment, imagine that it is sought to derogate from the unquestioned and paramount importance of stated . places of public worship. But the question is, What of the millions of our fel low-countrymen beyond the ordinary means of grace. Must they perish? - 'With all humility, but with_ affectionate earnestness, would put the questiOnto brethren in the ministry and WI those WhO:are pre aring for the ministerial— office: What oft the doomed millions`of Our fellow-comitryiien? They will net come;to our churches, -what then can be done ? Must we,not go where we can meet ,thenil Ordinary extraordinary' means !must -be adopted. Street and field, preaching seems the only order of instrumentality 'adapted to meet the wants of our "country. And - must it be abandoned for lack,:of ,agents? , Surely there is zeal enough, among our ministers , and lay men to answer, 'No.' • "It must not` be 'abandoned, As we love their souls, as we .love our Master,. and' would win 'to Him the 'Obedience and affection` of our fellow men we must - and pro- , claimtolhem His •grace and the tidingf4 of Salvation through His blood. `But giving utterance to such sentiments, does it' not leonine me • to. remember where I am, and t 6. think of that G-od-like man whose own intense, burning absorbing pm- Sion : was :the love of souls? He once stood where I now stand—these-walls have echoed to the. tones of his wine.- think I see him, his eye - Melting with tenderness, every feature of his speaking countenance, and every' gesture of his body l instinet with the language of compassion for souls. I think I hear him as. he was 'wont, with pas sionate . and - .seraphic fervour, wat?iing and remonstrating and beseeching,pouring forth the resistless tide of:eloquence, the elOquence Of feeling and pf nature, Pleading with_ the unconverted fO - flee 2 froni-the wrath-to come. Spirit of the sainted deadi•deseenct . upon us. Spirit of , the living God, baptize us with thine own, fire.. _A voice from, heaven asks,. who will go for us ; whom shall we send?' May the answer go up ~ from one and all, Lord, here am I, •seiiirtile...r" LONDON. OPEN AIR MISSION When these words were first uttered there were but few found Preaching•in the streets and parks of London. But :one - of the lengthy and most interesting annual reports , just received fromithe ;offtee'9l: WO:eft *ojkan states-- "It is calculated that in the middle of :summer there are nearly five thousand open air services held every Sabbath in London... and its suburbs, by clergymen, ministers, ±r is=: sioriarieS,' and other 'Preachers. When, the- ;mission began; but little open air nreaching Was attempted, and that little was often done by poor and despised men. Now not only are there hundreds of earnest Christian lay-. men of all classes who either statedly or occa sionally preach out of doors, but a large num.: ber of bishops and clergy and ministers of all denominations are found preaching in the open air, and enciyuraged by , the Church Pastoral Aid Society, the Lon don Diocesan Home Mission, the London City Mission, the Country Towns' Mission, the Home Missionary Society, the Islingtp and Clerkenwell Home Missions, the Chris tian Instruction Society, the Young Men's Christian Associations, and other kindred in stitutions in London, besides the various city and, town missions throu4hout the kingdom. In fact, e - re:air Preaching lan, ,become an establishedinstitution, and. is now regarded as an absolute necessity by those who know the condition of the masses of this country, and are anxious to carry out the Saviour's last commission, Preach the Gospel to every creature.' " Let it be our earnest prayer that the time may not be far distant when, in our beloved land, reports like the above shall be sent forth from some of our principal cities, and when.it shall be' 're garded as the highest manifestation of dignity to followqn the footsteps of Him who had a "mountain for his pulpit and the heavens for his sounding-board." THE PROTESTANTS IN FRANCE. American Christians .have been ac-. customed to look= upon the. Frengb Pro testants as a persecuted people, and many are astonished when they learn that not only does the Reformed Church of France now enjoy full liberty, but that it has been supported by the government for more than 'half a century. Very few of our readers, we imagine, apart from those who have_ been in Europe, are conver sant with. the present position of thlt church, andhnderstand its exact relation to the State. We think, therefore, that the facts we are about to: present, will prove interesting, and enable them better to understand the religious intelligence we give from Fiance, as *ell as the crisis through which Protestantism is now p,asa, ing in that country. But before taking into consideration the present position of the Protestants in France, we must-glance.at their history since the revocation of the . . Edict of Nantes by touis xrv. in 1685. That most cruel measure, as all know, made dreadful havoc among the Protes tants. Thousands emigrated, carrying with them their energy and skill, if but little of their wealth; others were shut up in dungeons, or sent to the galleys ; many perished in the flames. And it seemed as though the light of Protes tantism was finally to be extinguished in the country of Calvin. Neik4theless, it continued to burn,. and tliskthese*' Christ THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 186.5. tians were not allowed to meet openly, they repaired to the wilderness, and there, protected from human enmity by rocks and forests, under the canopy of heaven, they worshipped the God of their fathers and their God. For a whole century they kept up their wor ship, organized churches, ordained minis ters, and held synods, in spite of the sword which was hanging over their heads, and constantly dripping with their blood. We may imagine, therefore; With - wild joy and gratefulness to God these perse cuted Christians hailed the liberal edict of 1787, which had cost them Awe* years of effort, and the subsequent, laws, during the first years of the revolution, which finally granted them full liberty. Distinguished Protestants then appear on the stage; and ' lend the weight, of their influence to destroy 'the ,-last vestige of intoleYance in the laws of =France. , As , a very remarkable event, and which shows the complete change that had taken place in a slew, years, we may - mention the -fact that Rabaut-Saint-Etienne, a, , pastor and the son of a pastor, :who, .for a long time, had been' proscribed, was, ,in 1799, elected president of the Constituent Assem= bly, - su.ccceding in that post a Romish cler gyman. It was on this occasion that'he wrote to tagfither -" The President of the National Assembly is at t yolif feet" The old Huguenot pastor 'Onst, have thought that there was something a new, under the sun, for ever since l4e had en tered public life, - until a few yekrghefore, the hand of the lowestgpv4iiment official had been raised Againsii ; himi now, a member of the persecute,tl church, a pastor, yea, his Own son, was oC,cupy-, ing, the highest position in the t land, and paying homage to him I This period of peace, howevbr, Was to last but a little while. -Three years after, in its inutile* infidelity began to persecute, and pastori as Well as priesti had to suffer. The Protestant church numbered, in proportion, AS tithe ' as the Romish during'the 'awful reign cif terror. In fliat religious liberty. *as" again proclaimed, and the Protestants*, whose' religious exercises "had .bitan , maned-to the family altars during this sad period, caffie‘tiut of their retreat to' build.- 'the walla of. Zion ; but they hattevexy#4g to discourage them. There were but fewhilastoP; some*had died dniing ; :the revolutionary- storm ; others had finally, abandoned the ministry, and the theol 19gigg students at their only seminary at Lausanne, in Switzerland, had been dispersed. There was, moreover,. but little zeal among the laity; great hike warmness and skepticism. We, may, therefore, say that when. Napoleon took . the reins of the government in France, and - resolved to patronize religion, Pro ttSWlLsrei akr well aas Ttroras*m'was very low State. The first; consul rected ArVatholie," Church, as it was natural, made a con- - cordat with the Pope in 1801, and agreed' to pay the clergy of that church from the funds of the State. A year: ad nearly passed before anything was done.for the Protestants, and at first it Was Contem plated to give them fall liberty, but nothing more. Bonaparte; however, wanted to exercise his ,power over the Protestant ministers, and he saw that in &de to secure that object he mul3t pay' them a salary, as well as to. the priests. The decree to that effect is dated April 7th, 1802. This measure was received with gratitude by the 1 3 rotestants, who saw in it' a guarantee of religious liberty. Since that title, the government has salaried the pastors of the,,Aeformed churches, built meeting-houses for them, and two theological seminaries, one at Montauban and the other at Strasbourg. The Lutheran churches have also their share in the State budget. The minis ters thus supported• have gradually in creased, so that now they number nearly one thousand. The French Protestant Church, how ever, has paid dear for. State patronage. Bonaparte took good care to organize that body in such a way as would de prive it of that Union, which everywhere is strength. He left each church to be governed by a: body of men elected by those who paid the largest amount of, taxes. Nothing was decided, of course, about• a discipline; and complete silence was observed regarding the Synods. He, thus organized a body with members, but without' had, or father reserved ,the privilege of furnishing that useful commodity himself, when it would be re quired. The great object of his life, we know, was 'to be head' over all." Formerly the pastors and elders, assem bled in provincial or national synods, de cided all ecclesiastical questions, and governed the churches in all matters con nected with . morals ma t phristian life ; with the regime of 1 - 802—which has not been changed since—everything is subject to the temporal •power in some way or other. In this way, an essen tially-.civil oiganization substitited for the Presbyterian form of government as established by Calvin. As in all national churches, the membership is hereditary, and the richest of these hereditary mem bers elect a consistory - , whose only im portant duty is to choose the pastor, who is s 'r"ecommended' to,. the State, and al)- pointed by the latter. This body; which naturally bears the complexion of the electors, chooses a pastor to suit their ideas, and when once appointed by the government, he is free to preach either orthodoxy or heterodoxy. . The only power over himiS the State, and that power bares not enough about doctrin.es to interfere ; and, shbuld it take cogni zance of these, Matters, woul6 certainly give, , its influence to iationalism rather than to ev angelic al religion. And what has been the consequence ? The Reformed churches headless, have plunged head long into anarchy with- regard to doc— trine and ecclesiastical,governmen t. Errors of the gravest caracter have fixed their abode - within their walls, from the mild tniversalists to that kind of infidelity - which has Ratan for its repre sentative.- - There are in the Established Church, many good and noble men, but they mourn over the desolations of Jerusalem, and ask in vain• fora discipline, and an effective government. .The.y think it is an outrageous thing that opposite doc trines shoUld be, preached alternately from the BEgne' pulpits, as it is in Paris, where the pastors have a kind of circuit, the rationalists following the orthodox, or' vice versa. . A feW such as . Frederic Monod and the Count de Grasparin, seeing that 'there is no hope, have left the Establish ment, and forined free: churches, - but their number yetsmall' - The Evangelical - societies of;--France: and Geneva ara exerting Bo good in fluence in favor of - vital piety and church independence, while they make many converts from the ranks of Popery. The Wesleyan and Iliptist -missions .are also working in the:Seine spirit and tending to the - seine object; but, amidst a popu lation of forty-millions, they are merely Rs 'a drop in the bucket. - Yet the influ ence:of - these free Churches is felt for good, and the seed sown by Vinet and others in Le Semeur, during the nine teen years of.its existence, is not lost. The press `is stilre.xtensively used to dis seminatathose principles of soul liberty and. church independence, which are now axioms with-us, and the truth, whiich is mighty, mnst in - tithe triumph. PAR4ONITIS. [The following , is ' from one of the sprightlier .pages of Blackwood's Haga zine. It is, as any one may understand, a caricature of certain habitudes of the profession—perhaps leas a caricature in England thain it:Wefild , be on this side of the wa,terbut there'is doubtless a spice of truth permeating the loose pleasantries of the sentences. We insert it, partly because --it is clearly said, but Chiefly because there may be something really to the purpose in the solution given to the problem.] "That-:the criminal, lawyer who has badgered his witnesses in a'three, hours' cross-examination, and then_addressed,a five hours' speech to the jury, should' go home hoarse as a bull-frog, if not actually voiceless, I can. ,well understand. This man has been every inet-p -mei*. atalie.":49leatra_vdth .one: • poor. throat. . From oboe to ophycleide he. has explored -them all--in entreaty, conviction, .-scorn, •pathos, defamation, riOCule, and to wind up, religion, No.wonder'if he. Should only be able to make signs to his wife at . dinner, and pantomime his wishes for food and drink. But the . p . arson—the parson of honeyed words and clulcent accents—the bland, smooth-cheeked, oleaginons angel, the very creak of whose shoes whispers pa tience--,he has none of these moods of violenee, for, be it remembered, we talk of sin with far less of reprobation than of the individual sinner'; and no one that ever ''l' heard laid the same stress on the Decalogue as the most common-place Quarter-Session chairman will do in, sen tencing a delinquent- to the game-laws. The abstract never has that tangible reality about it, that the smallest in stance possesses ; and- for this reason, again, I say the parson's task exacts less strain, less violent effort, than• that of other public speakers. And why, for the third time, I ask,, are these men the vic tims of an especiid disease that now goes by their name, and promises, like the painter's colic, to - show the perils that attach to a peculiar calling ? The fact is there ; there is no denying it • the speechless curates of the Jardin Anglais at Nice, the voiceless• vicars of the Pin - clan, prove it. Physicians, I am told, confess themselves little able to deal with this malady-; they treat, and treat, and treat it, and end, as they ever do when baffled, by sending the patient abroad. Law and medicine have this much in common, that, whenever they are fairly beaten, " they change the venue." Hence it is that every shel tered angle on the Mediterranean, every warm nook on the " Corniche," has its three, four, or: five mild-faced, pale men, sauntering among the orange groves, and whispering through a respirator. Thee is something so interesting in these people, deserted in - a measure by physic, and left to the slow influences of climate,—soft airs and, softer attentions being their billy msdicaments—that I found myself eagerly engaged in think ing, first what it might be that predis posed to the affection ; ; and, secondly, how it might be met - by precaution. Cure, I need - not say, I was not pre sumptuous enough -to consider. I can not now record how the subject baffled me—what combination of difficulty met me here, what new and unexpected phenomena started up there ; but.' went steadily, - carefully on. I amassed my facts, I registered my observations ; and at last—L hope it is . not in vain boastful .ness I declare it—l solved my problem. Few words will tell my explanation. The parson throat is not the malady of neces sarily loud talkers or energetic speakers:; it is not induced by exaggerated efforts in the -pulpit ; it / is not brought on -by terrific denunciations delivered in the trumpet-call, or mild entreaties insinuated: in the flute-stop of the iniinan organ. It is simply and purely brought on by men persisting in preaching , in an as sumed unnatural voice—a conventional . ;.; voice, imagined, I suppose, to lie . the most appropriate tone to call sinners, from their'wickednessand teach thensvto live better. You are startled by My explanation, but giant the a brief" hear : ing. Who 'are the victims of this throat= affection ? Not the high-and-dry old rubicund parsons, with bright, frank eyes and well-round chins, neat of dress, knowing in horse-flesh, strong in horti culture. These hale and healthy fellows have-one voice, just as they have one nature; the same note that summons the gardener to look after the dahlias 1 cries to the congregation "to take care of their souls. ,- , -They are not, perhaps, out-and-- out divines; there is a. bucolic element through them that makers them what Sidney'Srnith used, to call " Squars.ons." They are, at all events„a very noble set 9f fellows and thorough gentlemen. These men are totally free from par sonitis ; a case has never been known among them. Next come. more muscu lar Christians, whose throats, attuned to the hunting-field, could perform, if called on, the office of a railroad-Whistle. These have no touch of conitilaitif. JOTTINGS FROM A PARISH JOURNAL, THE TIMIGIEFA O,TH . IE TRADE. Dr. Chaliners , - gave utterance to a great truth when he said, " The surest' way to get into a man's heart is to get into his house." It is impossible for even themost sagacious and far-seeing pastor to adapt his ministrations on the LBrd's day to the ' every day wants of his people, unless he, is - familiar .with these wants; and his knowledge of, such wants . can only be acquired by' personal observation and by 'coming personally into contact with the parishioner and hi's family. Hence the ,iniperative necessity of a well organized and constant system of parochial visitation. The- blesSed " , Gospel of the grace of Godmembodies scheine of practical morals and lays down: a code .of rules for the management of the concerns of the family and the firm, and unless the pulpit wield a power:which lrenders the economy 'of-the domestic and -I commercial Circles `:subservient.- to• 'its." biddings, it 'is utterly imbecile"; When I the pulpit becomes a_a-mere- rostrum, and its-teachings' a Mere systerir of =doctritial> theorieS, it' loses -its effect ; just because it practically ignores its own grand de= sign. , Dr. Chalmers' powers of observation, coupled with his great faculty of gener alizing, rendered his ministrations most effective_ His , f commercial- sermons" literally - revolutionized the mercantile code ofinorals in. Glasgow. His knowledge bfwhat was called ' The' Tricks.'of the fade'? ninth:id the meithaittsland shop keepers'or that city It may be ''Mentioned here that his ;-; Sermon on wfirtygeng , ' t. e having (in retail_establishments) three, prices for the same, artiele, liken thunder bolt on the retailers . of Argyle street. One of the happy, fruits of this disconrse Was the conversion of the late William Campbell of the Candlerigs, a Christian gentleman, by.. whose -lamented death some two years ago, • the. cause of Chris tian-philanthropy, e,specially. in Scotland, sustained a great loss. That sermon led -'young Campbell, then a poor boy living on a small salary - , to resign his situation. 'His employer urged hint to remain, and offered him an increase of salary ; biit the young man was so impressed with the convic tion that there should be no second prices in dealing, as-to decline any and every offer made by his employer. In order to subject Chalmers' princi ple to the test, and to try the young en thusiast's-faith, his employer, joined by three other retailers, advanced hiin each £lOO sterling on a loan of twelve months, and started him in business, believ ing that he would break down inside of twelve months. He commenced on this capital of $2,000, and at the end of the first year discovered that he had not contracted one bad debt, and that he had turned the capital over eighty-four times during the year. This was the beginning of the commercial career of a man who,• between the years '1843 and 1861, gave to objects of Christian be nevolence $450,000, and bequeathed many large legacies in his:will I By_mingling wfti, - flie Miss and stily-f ing their habits, Chahneri was enabled to suit his teachings to their wants' and to l arrange„and ; classify lo,eal and parochial sina, in.sp.ch away as,to deal withAem `and denounce them on a scale, of gener- ' alization, which freed •him from the im peaChment of :personality, and 'secured for-'him. the confidence 'and respect even of the very men whose daily and hourly practices he was fearlessly denouncing. I - Parish visiting-'may'be made - a great linstrument of - good, while it may just as readily be converted into an engine of Mischief. • A familiarity and frankness which indicate a deep and profound interest in the temporal and. spiritual welfare of the parishoner, should ever be observed .by the pastei. But the• .moment such a; familiafify becomes friVo=, lous and his conversation. degenerates to ;the local gossip and tattle of the neigh ;borhood, that moment his influence and usefulness begin, to wane, until he sinks (as Dr. Chalmers used to express it) so low as to become, in the 'esteem of the parish, -” a gude body—when he had better be out of the parish than in it." A simple 'minded man who, in com mon with thousands of his class, could only say,. "welave had Abiaham to our Father," when asked if he had-any experimental knowledge of the "new heart," replied, " I was always brought i t p to it." It was evident that,this. man knew as much about experithental re ligion as Nicodemns. The mystery is that any man of the 'very smallest capacity and most limited attainments in religious knowledge, could have been so utterly destitute - of all spiritual appre hension_uf theplost momentous question in all the range of personal - religion. Yet it istobeleared - that , there are many, if not theoretically, 'at' least experimentally, a s ignorant as the Tian - in question. The clise 'cited may be deemed an ex treme, a rare - one. This is admitted, and,it, has been selected because it is probably somewhat rare ; but even if only one such case existed on an average in each parish; it, shows the rtect*ity of a very careful ond,prayerful effort on the part of the pulpit to adapt its services to the wants of *all.' While the well in structed and experienced believer may seek the " stiOng Meat" of -- t the word, yet are there babes in grace wito require the milk. E _ Nay- more, the juvenile and ignorant portion of the membership iniach charge are entitled to a greater share of -pasto ral labor than thempre advanced; because they are less safe 'and more - expoted , to the wiles of the devil. The young convert, the weak and the,. ignorant`are in great peril. Error with- , out and sin within, must be guarded'= against by the faithful, prayerful, and' . laboribus efforts of the, pastor; who would seek to train them in the fold and for the , service of the great Shepherd. A PUPIL OP CHAIM:ERB MINISTERIAL RECORD. XONTIELY. Atlen, Heman. H. Pres. O. S.—Ampted call to Gla,sgow, Beale,. J. Harvey, Pres. N. S.—Called to Christiana, Del. Benton, Andrew, Pres. N. S.—Died at, Beloit, Wis., Jan. 12, aged 65 rars.' Berlin, S. J., Luth.--Resigned pastorate at Dunean,sville, Pa. Bigelow, Albert, Pres. N: S.—Transferred from Jackson, Mich. to Silver - Creek, N. :Y. Bogardus, Win. E., Ref Duteh.—Ordained and installedpastor of R. D. church& of Unionville and Greenlyargh, N. Y., Tan. 17th. Br rwd, A. W., Pres. 0. S.—Accepted call to Florence, Washington Co., Pa. Brown, F. E, D.D., Pres. 0: 1- S.—trans ferred from Georgetown, D. C. tb Chicago, 111; - , iler Henry E., Pres. N. S.—,-()rdained as 'an vangelist by the PresbYtery 'of Cham plain. Caldwell, John P. Pres. Q. 'S.—L. mtalled at Beech Springs, Ohio, iTan...lo. Claybaugh, Wm. M., Un. Pres.—Accepted call to South Boston, Miss; Davis, T. D. Un. Pres:--Acciepted call ter Hopewell; Missouri. Dunlap Charles, Pres. N. S.--Ordatned and installed over Lyon Church, 'Oaklands," Mich., Jan. 24. Dunn, Oliver S., Pres. 0. S.--Dieif in Holt Co., Mo., Dec. 16, aged about '3O. Dunn, YE C., Un. Pres.—Accepted can from the congregationo f Huntsville and Round head, Ohio. Ed/cards, W. Ptes. N. S.'Ordained Evangelist at Wilinington, Del,; Feb 8. Ertgle„ W. G., Ger. Ref.--Acoepted call - to Shanhondale, Pa. Foster, Julius Pres. 0. S.—Died at Towanda Pa. Jan. 16. When, Prank, Pres. N. S.—Accepted call to Peoria, 111. Halsey, Samuel P , Pres. N. S.—Resigned _pastorate at Rockaway, N. J. Hamilton, G, C., Pres. N. S.--Ordained and installed at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., Feb. 4. Hauser, J. C.„Lnth.—Taken charge of Ger nian mission in southwesternpart of Phila. Bendy, John F., Pres. O. S.--Ordained and installed over 2d Presbyterian Church, Co vington, Ky., Jan. 20. Heisler Eli E. Ger. Ref.—Ordained at Pine Grove, Pa., Feb. 16, assigned to Hanover, Pa. .11ofm.eier U F., Ger. Ref —Resigned pasto rate at kcComiellsville, Pa. ..Remeier, V. F., luth.—Accepted call to Rebersburgh, Pa. Jones, John L., Pres. N. S.—lnstalled at Mattoon, 111., Jan. 8. Jones, Norman, Pres. 0. S.—Resigned pasto _ rate at Yellow Springs, 0., to take chap laincy in the army. Sittridge, Abbott E., Pres. N. S.—lnstalled over.lltliPresbArian Church, New York, Jan. 15. Ludlow, Jew.:112"., Pres. 0. 2.—Ordained and installed, over Ist Church, Albany, N. Y., Jan. 19. Mc.M . asters, A, Pres. N. S.—Ordained an Evangelist at Cooperstown, Jan. 17. Morron, J. E., Pres. N. S.—Accepted call to. Peoria, 111. Nnyfent, E. R., Pres. 0. S.—Taken charge of ..churches in M apleton and "Pleasant Hill, Kansas. Patterson,J. A., Pres. 0. B.—Died recently at Lick Run Pa. Proctor, David G'., Pres. 0. S. Died near J Frankfort, Ky., an. 18, aged 71 I?a,msey, J. S., Pres. 0. S.—Ordained and installed pastor of churches of Landisville, Upper and. Lower, Perry Co., Pa., Dec: 6. Reid, S. C., lin, Prqs----Accepto4 call to Centreville,Pa. Riddle, 111. B, Ref. Dutch.—Accepted call to 2d R. D. Church, Newark, N. J. Rupp, W. Ger. Ref.—Ordained by Lebanon Classis, Feb. 6, assigned to St. Clair, Pa. Russell, C. C., Ger. Ref.—Accepted charge of Ligonier and Donegal, Pa., congrega tions. Sat ß erm! Benjamin F.,. Pres. N. S.—lnstalled at Mineral Ridgd, Ohio, Jan. 26. Shaw, Samuel, Ger. Ref.—.Aceepted:Call to North Hampton, Ohio. Sutherland, FF. 8., Un. Pres lustalleii over U. P. Church, 28th street; New York, Feb. 7. Taylor, Thos. J., Pres. O. S.—Died at Tolono, 111., Jan. 1, aged 38. Thomai, R. P., Ger. Ref.--:-Resigned pasto rate at London, Pa. Torrey, David L., D. D., Pres. N. S.—Re signed pastbrate at Ithies; New =York, ill health. Wilhelvi, John C., Press o. 'S.—Ordained in Chambersburgh, Pa., for chaplaincy of 45th U. S. "Colored Troops, Jan. 12. Willoughby, B. F., Pres. N. S. Accepted call to Cong. Church, Augusta, N. Y. TV - ortolan , Denis, Ref. Dutch.---Called to Schenectady; N. Y. Wylie, Wm. X., Ref. Pres.—Accepted call to New Castle and Nishannock, Pa. THERE are some philosophers who in the matter between Christ and Belief say, that on both sides there should be yielding. Let them try, and do what they can, and do not grudge them their pains; for,if they , make the devil religious, and °tor with God, they will be the first who could.--,Zuther.
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