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THIIRSDAX, MARCH 23, 1865
r agr . OUR. CORRESPONDING EDITOR'S
letter has not come to hand. It is,
doubtless, delayed by the flood:
IrJa"' Subscribers whose year began
January Ist, are reminded that after this
month they become liable to the full
amount of their bills rendered, without
the reduction of 50 cents for prompt
payment.
Vr . PAYMENTS for the current year
are coming in slowly. Subscribers will
remember that but few days remain in
which bills dated January Ist can be
paid at the reduced rates. City subscri
bers and others desiring to call will find
the office open from 9 .A.. M. to 5 P. M.
No subscriptions received or accounts
settled for less than six months.
MEETING FOR THE CHRISTIAN COM
MISSION.-A meeting in behalf of the
Christian Commission will be held in
forth Broad Street Church, next Sabbath
evening at 7 s o'clock.
DEATH OF A YISSIONARY.—On Thurs
day, the 2d instant, the Rev. Edward
C. Jones died, after a short but painful
illness. The deceased was an estimable
minister, and, at the time of his death; the
missionary at the Blockley Almshouse.
WE learn that, on the sth inst., the
Rev. Dr. Patton, of this city, was una
nimously called to the " Forest Pres
byterian Church," at Middletown, Dela
ware. Whether he will accept the call,
or that his congregation here will consent
to his removal, we have not yet been ap
prised.
PINE STREET CHURCH.-At a late
meeting of the congregation, to receive
reports for the year 1864, it was ascer
tained that, outside of all church expen
ses, the congregation had contributed
$12,500, or more than 1,000 dollars per
month, for general charities. Pretty
well that for a down-town church.
DEATH OF MISSIONARIES. - Intelli
gence has just been received of the
death of Rev. Austin H. Wright, D. D.,
of the Nestorian mission, (American
Board,) and of Mrs. W. Frederick Wil
liams, of the Eastern Turkey Mission.
Dr. Wright has been an honored and
valued laborer in Persia for nearly
twenty-five years. The missionary life
of Mrs. Williams has been brief, but
highly useful.
" CONVERSIONS. -We are gratified at
being . informed of the conversion • of two
prominent Protestant clergymen of this city,
the particulars of which, for the present, we
shall, for prudential motives, not.make pub
lic." .
We clip the above paragraph from
The Universe (Papal) of this city. It
has the air of the late rebel despatches—
" particulars withheld for reasons con
nected with the public welfare." The
particulars, what they come, will amount
to about as much in one case as in the
other.
A NEW " OPENING" FOR ALARMISTS.
—The last New York Observer, under
the head of " Religion and Health,"
says Several of our city pastors
made the moral aspects of the city health
question the subject of public discourse
last Sabbath. The relations of the sub
ject to the religious interestse of the
people, especially of the poor, are so
intimate as to demand the earnest ef
forts of our spiritual teachers. No
means should be spared to enlighten the
public mind and rouse the conscience to
the true bearings of this vital question."
Here is another fine opportunity for the
Robinsons, Van Dykes, and Hopkinses
to send up a new wail over the degener
acy of the pulpit. Political preaching
was not, after all, the climax of the
falling away from the pure gospel_
Even the domains
,of the doctors and
health officers must be invaded. Worse
than all, the Christian taste is not dis
gusted. Medical preaching ! and the
church sees no atrocity in it
Niflo RAILROAD ROUTE TO BROOKLYN,
N 3! Recently, on a return trip from
Brooklyn, we passed over the Raritan
and Delaware Bay route, paying but
two, instead of the three dollars, charged
on the usual New Jersey road, with no
material loss of time, and less than none
of comfort. Starting from a clean and
quiet wharf, the Brooklyn landing of the
Wall street ferry, we had a splendid
steamer route outside of Staten Island to
Port Monmouth, and thence by rail, in
tersecting the Camden and Atlantic
City road at, Jackson, to Vine street
wharf. Our time to this city was made
in foie hours; so much to our satisfac
tion, in all points relating to traveler's
comfort, that, with the same journey to
make again, we should unhesitatingly
employ the same means of conveyance.
Round trip tickets, with three days for
use, are furnished for 53,00. We are
also able to state that arrangements have
been made by which ministers of our
church in this State, can obtain tickets
for themselves at half fare, 1. e., $l,OO
each way. Persons who wish to secure
this privilege, should forward to the
office of the Company, 65 Beaver street,
New York, (enclosing stamps for return
postage,) evidence of their ministerial
Standing, and receive in return an annual
card, such as are given by companies in
this state, for securing clergymen's
tickets.
DEATH OF EX-SHERIFF THOMPSON.
Extract from the Minutes of the Board
of Trustees of the Western Presby
terian Church.
Whereas, God, in his providence, has
suddenly removed, by death, the es
teemed President of our Board of Trus
tees, John Thompson, Esq. :
Resolved, that we have heard of his
death with deep regret, and mourn the
loss of an associate Who, for so many
years, has been connected with our con
gregation ; his connection with us dating
back to the commencement of worship in
our present building, whose influence
with us was ever for good, and who
made friends of all those with whom he
came in contact.
Resolved, that by his urbanity, liber
ality, consistency, and uniform cheerful
ness, he had greatly endeared himself to
us ; and by his wisdom in council, and
earnestness in every good work, he had
proved himself an efficient co-worker in
all the duties devolving upon us as a
Board of Trustees.
Resolved, that we sympathize with
his bereaved family, in this their deep
affliction.
Resolved, that a copy of these resolu
tions, signed by the President pro. tem.
and by the Secretary, be sent to his
family.
W. E. TENBROOK, Pres. pro. tem.
J. T. CLINE, Sec'y.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
DONATION. It affords -inc great plea,.
sure to acknowledge the receipt of the
handsome sum of $373 during the pre
sent year as a donation from my congre
gation, in addition to the salary, which
has been promptly paid.
In these trying times, such a donation
is peculiarly acceptable ; and the gratifi
cation of receiving it is greatly increased
by the fact that my people, at the same
time, have been giving generously to
many noble objects.
D. H. EMERSON, Pastor.
ST. GEORGES, DELAWARE.
CHURCH RE-CONSTRUCTION IN EAST
TENNESSEE.
The Evangelist of the 2d inst. contains a
letter from Rev. Samuel Sawyer, now in
Knoxville, presenting what is probably a
calm and well-considered view of the condi-
tion of that field. It opens before us a pros
pect of much toil, many vexations, a large
expenditure, but with these conditions faith
fully observed, we see nothing particularly
discouraging. Mr. Sawyer says :
"After conversing or corresponding with
official mefnbers of almost all our churches in
East Tennessee, the conclusion reached is,
that the churches which formerly composed
the Synod of Tennessee are almost utterly
prostrate. This is true with scarcely an ex
ception. For years to come the Home Mis
sionary Committee must take them under its
fostering care, and the liberality of the North
will have to repair the desolation everywhere
apparent. This liberality, too, will be mani
fested in behalf of those who before this war
were stimulated by every appliance, to think
evilly and speak calumniously of their present
benefactors. White-washed rebels, who have
taken the amnesty oath in most: localities,
make up a body not only of malcontents, but
of' malignants, who will do what they can to
thwart all wise and judicious measures adopt
ed by Christian ministers of genuine patriot
ism to build up the kingdom of God among
them, and pliable and negative men can do
little against the welded union of their oppo
sition. Ministers of the Elijah and John
Knox stamp, recognizing the fact that the
Almighty, in his righteous displeasure, is
crushing out the pro-slavery aristocracy and
the peculiar institution together, and over
their dishonored grave will rear up a nobler
manhood and a higher civilization, and esta
blish a glorious Church—whoever or what
ever may hinder or oppose—such ministers,
of Paul-like faith and toil, can alone go for
ward in God's strength conquering and to
conquer, and such alone will achieve the
greatest success. However discouraging mat
ters may look at first, at various important
points there is an element now too little ap
preciated, which, sooner or later, as they
move on in their mission, will come to their
aid.
"At Knoxville, for example, there are more
persons, gathered providentially within a feW
months, of the Presbyterian faith, than all
the rebel Presbyterians of both branches who
were guilty of treason. And as the intrigue
and mean persecution of some of the baser
sort of the Corinthians served to bind the
true-hearted the more closely to the apostle
Paul, and furnished an occasion to present to
the ages his genuine nobility and greatness,
the clannishness and disrespect of our modern
malignants towards a faithful and loyal min
ister may rally around him a heaven-blessed
band of noble-hearted friends—the very ma
terial out of which may be built a homogene
ous, a missionary, a glorious Church. And
what is true of Knoxville, will be found true,
no doubt, of many places in East Tennessee.
`Nearly all unite in the opinion that, as soon
as practicable, loyal ministers should occupy
the more prominent and influential points,
since it might be quite disastrous to have
amnestied rebel preachers, black with the
crime of treason, standing up as the guides
and counsellors of the people. The Church
at Knoxville hopes, through our Home Mis
sionary Committee, to secure the services of
an experienced and useful pastor, who is ex
pected here by the first Sabbath of March.
As the weather begins to moderate, many
churches will make an effort to revive their
Sabbath-schools, and I will need, to meet the
demand, quite a number of libraries. The
third. Sabbath of February I am to be at Eu
sebia Church, Blount county. Rev. Mr.
Lamar is working most faithfully in Blount,
and is hopino - a daily, the arrival of Professor
Craig, of Anderson, Ind..
UTAH.—Brigham Young's Annual Message
speaks of rapid advancement in the Mormon
realms. Population has increased, harvests
have been bountiful, mines of coal discovered,
commodious stores and dwellings erected, and
machinery for the manufacture of cotton and
woolen fabrics has been put in successful ope
ration. Cultivating cotton proves to be less
remunerating than raising cereals. The over
land route by the plains has been so much dis
turbed by Indians, that a safer and more regular
communication is offered by the Colorado lver,
aud, in anticipation of a change, the Deseret
Mercantile Associaton have built a warehouse
at the head of navigation on that stream. In
reference to the refusal of Congress to admit
Deseret into the Union, Brigham Young thinks
the time is "not far distant when she will be
requested and solicited to assume the dignity
and responsibilities of a sovereign State.'
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1865.
FROM DELAWARE, OHIO, we hear of
a revival in progress. Several new
members were received to the church by
profession on Sahbath, the 12th lust:
EDINA, Mo.—On the 12th inst a (N.
S.) Presbyterian Church was organized
in Edina, and on Sabbath, the day fol
lowing, two additional members, both
heads of families, were received on ex
amination and profession of their faith.
COLLEGE HILL, Onio.—This church
is about to receive the valuable acquisi
tion of an organ. We say, about to re
ceive; for we noticed an appointment for
a lecture from John B. Gough there, on
last Friday evening, the avails of which
were to go for that object, and we may
safely assume that by this time the fund
is rolled up to the point which insures
success.
LARGE A.COESSIONS.—The Westmin
ster Church, Philadelphia, received an
addition of twenty-two members at its
last communion. Of these, seventeen
were on profession of faith. This church,
now under the pastoral care of the Rev:
Dr. Irvine, continues p to flourish. The
debt which for a long time burdened it
is rapidly diminishing.—Presbyterian.
WELL DONE.—We record no special
benefactions to ministers with more plea
sure than those in which brethren who
have been cut off. by infirmities of body
from pastoral ties' are remembered in
their isolations from active service. The
church in Albion, N. Y., has just made
an expression of this form of Christian
kindness, by a visit of sympathy and aid
to Rev. 0. C. Beardsley, who resides
among them in feeble and failing health.
The visit was accompanied with a cash
present of $123.
ERIE, Pd.—Rev. Dr.
.Lyon's church
in this place has just given a noble fin
ishing to the enterprise so far consum
mated four years ago, as to "putthem
into the occupation of one of the finest
churches on the lake shore.
..T.lie,.maix%
drawback to their comfort in this posses
sion_was an ugly debt, which, in more or
less proportions, had scowled upon then(
for some thirty-five years, and which,
after this last church-building, had grown
up to $10,600. A resolute movement
has now put an end to it. Following
up this successful effort, four hundred
dollars have been added, to the pastor's
salary, besides the presentation to him of
a purse of five hundred dollars, intended
especially as a testimonial of regard.
JOHNSONVILLE, N. Y.—A great re
freshing has been enjoyed by our little
church in this place—much greater than
appears simply on the face of that part
of its results which consists in the recep
tion to the church of twenty-one new
professors of religion. The community
generally has been stirred ; men who
about their places of business were pro
fane, are thoughful and correct •, family
altars have been erected, and old profes
sors have, for the first time, opened their'
lips in social meetings. The revival has
been one of quiet earnestness, led by the
pastor with almost no ministerial aid,
but relying on his own' flock for the aid
essential in such a time of interest. The
Sabbath-school is blessed. The majority
of those received to the church are men,
many of them heads of families. .
DEPOSIT, N. Y—Concerning a revival
in this church, Rev. C. H. De Long,
pastor, writes to The Evangelist :
" The death of a young man, near the
close of last year, much impressed our
young people. Some special prayer
meetings were held, in which the influence
of the Spirit was manifested, and several
were led to take a stand for Christ. The
week of prayer came which extended the
interest. After this meetings were held
every night for two or three weeks. Be
tween twenty-five and thirty have been
hopefully converted ; nineteen have con
nected themselves with the Presbyteriari
Church, and several more are expected
to join the next communion. There has
also been an awakening, and a number
of conversions in the Baptist Society."
In the same communication, the pastor
also makes pleasant record of an increase
of $lOO to his permanent salary, and a
special gift of $179 for personal Comfort.
GOOD USE OP THE GREAT ENGLISH
CATHEDRALS PROPOSED.
The British Herald, Rev. W. Reid's
paper, speaking of the evangelist Richard
Weaver, recently preaching in Dr. Cand
lish's church, Edinburg, says
" Richard Weaver preaching in Dr. Cand
lish's pulpit, was giving him a recognition in
Scotland as an evangelist, the same as if he
were found preaching in IVestminster Abbey
or St. Paul's in London. And a happy day
it would be for England, if those two noble
structures, and all the cathedrals throughout
the land, were restored to their original use,
and had Richard Weaver appointed as
cathedral evangelist. We write this in
' downright earnest; for these cathedrals
were originally intended for the masses of the
people to meet in for their spiritual benefit;
and it is a pity to exclude the people from
them, and devoted and talented men like
Richard Weaver, who could waken their
echoes with the trumpet-utterance of . the
glorious gospel of Christ, and fill the largest
of' them with eager multitudes, of perishing
sinners to hear the Gospel of God poured
forth like a river of life from living lips, to
the conversion of thousands, and the glory of
the mighty Lord.
"We solemnly and in real earnest urge
those whom it may concern to get him an
entrance into those great gospel halls, orig
nally built for the people—the cathedrals of
England. Let people laugh as they may at
such a proposal, we deal only with the ought,
and that is how it ought to be, as a matter of'
ecclesiastical right as a bit of common sense
it would do much to roll away the standing
reproach that cathedral towns are uniformly
the deadest places in the kingdom, an utter
disgrace to the religion of the land,"
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PRESBYTERIAN.
'The
Butler, Pa., Rev. Dr.
oung writes to the Presbyterian Banner .--
Week of Prayer was observed, and at
the close, the Lord's Supper was administered.
Four of the youth came forward and made a
public profession of their faith in Christ.
More recently the Lord's Supper was again
administered, when twenty-five young per
sons came forward, and standing up in the
presence of the great congregation, took the
vows of God upon them. Two of 1 10 M were
baptizeg i the other twenty-three having been
baptized in infancy." Revivals are reported
from Clarksville, Stewartstown, and Ply
mouth,_in Pennsylvania.
PRESBYTERIAN FOREIGN MISSIONS.-311".
Blackford mentions the admission to the
church of Rio de Janeiro of six new members,
all of them on profession of their faith—one
American, three Brazilians, and one Portu
uese, besides a gentleman of education and
- infinence, to whom the missionaries willll_ro
bably refer more particularly hereafter. The
Canton Mission reports the accession of eight
members to the church during the year, of
whom seven were received by profession of
their faith.: The Ningpo Mission reports the
addition of fifteen new members to the church
in Ningpo and twenty-six to the church in
Yuyiao during the year. These churches
hive been divided, making four churches,
and-having 177 members. At Etawah, In
dia, the wife of one_of the Scripture readers
was baptized, after having for a number of
ypars refused to follow her husband as a die
utple of Christ.—B6me and Foreign Record.
REVIVAIS. —We have interesting accounts
of, the spiritual condition of the " Church of
the Sea and Land," a New York enterprise
for seamen and,their families, and other per
son 4 in the' lower part of the city, recently
started under the auspices of the Presbytery
of New York. The second communion was
held on Sabbath, the 12th inst., with nine
accessions by profession. The religious in
terest is progressing, particularly among
sailors, who attend upon the meetings. The
latter follow the pastor from the meetings to
his study for personal religious conversation.
A large Sabbath-school is gathered and well
sustained, and the enterprise, since its or
ganization, Dec. 29, has at no time been
without marks of the Divine presence.
IN A SABBATH-60HOOL.—On Sabbath, the
12th inst., twenty-seven persons were received
to the communion of the Fifth Presbyterian
Church, Cincinnati, by profession, all of them
Inembers of the Sabbath-school, their ages
ranging from twelve to eighteen years. All
but three of this number were children of the
covenant, who, in their infancy had been con
secrated by the sacrament of baptism. The
religious interest among the scholars of that
Sabbath-school still continues. Many of the
phildren are earnestly asking the way of sal
vation.
CONOREGATIONAL.
ORDINATION OF A NATIVE . GrEOROIAN.
Rev. Harvey Mobley is a native of Augusta,
Ga., who was born a slave, as were his wife
and children, but who by his energy and
industry succeeded, about ten years ago ' in
buying the freedom of himself and all his
family for the sum of three thousand dollars.
On Mondiy evening, Feb. 27th, he was or
dained as a missionary by a council convened
in the Union Church, Brooklyn. Rev. S. S.
Jocelyn, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and Rev.
Dr. Storrs took part in the services.
THE PRESBYTERIAN TENDENCIES OF THE
CONGBECFATIONAL MIND.—We give below
the, closing , sentences of a long article in The
Congregationalist, by Rev: A. H. Quint, on
the question whether a church has a right to
ordain a minister against the advice of a
council. "The chief want in our denomina
tion," says the writer, "is the recognition of
`fellowship.' The centrifugal force is pow
erful enough ; let the centripetal have effect.
We want councils to act decidedly. If any
church insists on being Independent,' let it
go ; and there it must go, if the churches do
their duty. There is not the least danger
that the church at large will impose any
man on any church ; for it has not the
slightest poner to do it. But the danger is,
that local, churches will unwittingly or per
versely have pastors who are unfit to be fel
loiishipped. There is not the least proba
bility that a council will ever dis-fellowship a
good man ; but there is the lamentable fact
that they are often afraid to do their duty as
to heretical men. - When a council does its
duty in such a case—let a church persisting,
against its decision, to settle such an unfit
person, be summarily dropped from our fel
lowship, and let the council be counted worthy
of all praise."
EPISCOPAL.
A NEW PHILADELPHIA. PASTOR,.—The
Church of the Intercessor, formerly under
the charge of the Rev. Dr. Carden, and
which has been without any regular pastor
for the last seven months, has called the Rev.
J. W. Boiihana, of Rhode Island, to the rec
torship, who has commenced his duties in
connection with the parish. The Rev. Mr.
Bonhain comes highly recommended by
Bishop Clarke.—EpiscopaZ Recorder.
ST. STEPHEN'S CULUM, PRMADELPIILL
—The attention of the rector, Dr. Ducachet,
being so much engrossed with the Burg
Orphan Asylum, a noble charity of this parish,
the vestry sometime since obtained the servi
ces of Rev. Dr. William Rudder for the ordi
nary parish duties, and have .recently, with
the concurrence of the rector, more formally
committed those duties to him under the title
of Associate Rector.
CHURCH EXTENSION IN ENGLAND.—The
English Church has caught the good church
extension epidemic, carried over from this
side of the Atlantic, and there first taken by
some of the dissenting denominations. The
Bishop of Durham has followed the example
of the Bishop of London, and has established
a church-building fund. He has contributed
£2,000 towards it, and: although no canvass
has yet been made, about £5,000 have been
raised. One gentleman has promised to con
tribute a fortieth part of , whatever sum is
raised. A public meeting has been held in
Sheffield to launch a prOiect for erecting
seven new churches. The whole sum re
quired is estimated at £31,200; but of this a
great part has already been provided. The
Archbishop of York, who presided, quoted
the examples of two other. towns. In Brad
ford a sum of £25,000 has been subscribed
since 1360, with which seven new churches
have already been built, and three more will
be ready in the course of 'the present year.
At Leeds a church-building fund has only
been in existence for one year, but the sub
scriptions already amount to £.55,000.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has presided
at a great meeting in his cathedral city for
church extension within his own diocese.
The work was vigorously organized, and is
going bravely on. The Bishop of London's
fund, which contemplates the raising of
£1,000,000, in ten years, reports at the end
of its first year a total of £100,456 received,
besides £72,003 promised. The fund is for
church extension in the Diocese of London.
The Bishop of Rochester is working for
church extension within his diocese, and has
gotten a subscription (accompanied with a
roud growl) even from Lord Ebury.
PENNSYLVANIA DIOCESE. —This Diocese is
about to suffer the temporary loss of its ac
complished and energetic chief Diocesan,
Bishop A. Potter. In an address of recent
date to his Episcopal charge, he says ;—" For
some time past I have been indulging the
hope that strength might be given me to
engage more actively and constantly in the
visitation of the parishes in—all parts of
the Diocese. Repeated journeys and con
tinued services seemed within the compass of
my ability, as they were to me a source of
exquisite satisfaction. Lately, however, I
have been admonished how easy it is for one
in my state of health to pass the bounds of
moderation and safety. My physicians coun
sel an entire suspension of active work for
some time ; and it is probable I shall seek
change of climate, and sojourn in a distant
part of the country." During the absence of
Bishop Pater, the entire charge of the Dio
cese comes of course into the hands of Assis
tant Bishop Stevens, a popular and energetic
administrator.
METHODIST.
PROTESTANT MkIiODISTS.—The Western
Methodist Protestant reports revivals from
York Station and Brownsville Circuit, Mus
kingum, Ohio ; Tyler and Harrison Circuits,
West Virginia ; and Leonidas Circuit, West
Michigan.
OVER THIRTEEN HUNDRED.—The North-
Western Advocate, in its revival column,
March Bth, records over 1300 recent acces
sions. At Albion, Mich., the work has been
extraordinary. Over 400 have been converted,
some 170 uniting with the Methodist Epis
copal Church.
BALTIMORE CONFERENHE.—At the recent
session of this body, the presiding elder of
the Baltimore District reported over one
thousand white members added to the church
during the year. He was unable to speak by
authority of the addition of colored persons,
but there had been progress. Revivals, ac
cessions, and an improvement of the Sabbath
school interests were reported from the
Washington District. A paper was submit
ted containing resolutions of the quarterly
conference of Dinwiddie Street Church, Ports
mouth, Va.,
dissolving their connection with
the Church South, and asking this Confer
ence to send them a minister.
BAPTIST.
IN PENNSYLVANu there have been con
siderable ingatherings, resulting from revi
vals, in Reading, Germantown, Bridgeport
and Allegheny City. In New Jersey interest
ing revivals are reported from Trenton, Had
donfield Moorestown, Newark and Muffles Hill.
Hill.lowa sends on the like good news from
McGregor and Mount Pleasant. Cambridge
City, in Indiana, also rejoices in a gracious
visitation. Concerning Ohio, the National
Baptist says :—" Revival influences are -visit
ing a number of the churches in the State ;
among them the churches in Lorain County,
in the northern part of the State, seem to be
sharing richly. Revivals are in progress in
Penfield, Lagrange, Camden, Avon, and Co
lumbia churches. Ironton, on the Ohio River
reports a pleasant work of grace in progress."
Fiskilwa, in Illinois has enjoyed - a large bles
sing. A good degree of interest prevails in
Racine and Oshkosh, Wisconsin- in Long
Run, West Virginia; and in Bay City, Mich
igan.
BAPTISTS IN PENNSYLVANIA.—From the
State Convention minutes for 1864, just pub
lished, we glean the following facts : There
are seventeen Associations in the State, em
bracing 301 churChes, with an aggregate
membership of 39,326. Of English Eaptists
not connected, with Associations in Pennsyl
vania, there are eleven churches,. with a
membership of 313 ; of Welsh Baptsts eigh
teen churches,
with 966 members; of German
Baptists five churches, -with 235 menibers—
making altogether a total of 424 churches,
with 40,946 members. The number baptized
during the last associational year is 1,194 ; the
number of death 614.-I\rat. Baptist.
LUTHERAN
NEW FIELDS.—The Lutherian Observer
says that Rev. R. F. Delo; returned from a
three years' chaplaincy, is successfully en
gaged in building up a Lutheran Church in
Elkhart, Indiana. From Nevada, Rev. J.
G. Beckly writes to the Observer Will
Lou tell your readers that I have organized a
utheran congregation; five miles from Ne
vada, at Johnson's Grove, and have a fair
prospect of building up a church, and ad
vancing the cause of Christ, where formerly
there - was but one Lutheran family ? As
sisted by Rev. S. Ritz, I commenced a meet
ing about two weeks since, which was at
tended by the Divine Spirit, and many became
the subjects of saving grace. We closed our
meeting with a communion service on last
Sabbath, which was very solemn and im
pressive, the like never having been witnessed
in the community before."
REVIVALS.—Between twenty and thirty
hopeful conversions are reported from the
Lutheran congregation in Lucas, Ohio : and
some forty•frve - from St. John's, another con
gregation of the same pastorate. They are
the fruits of protracted meetings which, in
each place, were attended with signal tokens
of Divine influence, and have left the churches
in a greatly revived state. A revival, of
much interest, is also reported from Nobles
ville, Incl., resulting thus far in an accession
of twenty-one persons to the church—the
first revival which the congregation has ever
enjoyed.
MORAVIAN.
The New York Observer, after saying that
there is, in New York City, no adequate pro
vision for the 160,000 Germans there, many
of them Jews, Infidels, or Romanist, adds :
—" It has been found, by careful inquiry,
that there is no religious body which can sup
ply the requisite force, save one—the Mora
vians. This pious and laborious, but hmnble
church of Christ, can send into the field as
many German missionaries as can be sup
ported, and their support costs less than that
of any other class of city missionaries that
can be named. A work has been begun by
them, which has already accomplished much
good. Mr. Erdmann, the faithful missionary.
has gathered a congregation as large as his
limited space will permit, in a very unsuitable
upper room; and he combines a school for
Christian training with his other work.
likscanty support is raised by the contribu
tions of Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Dutch
Reformed, and others. But the time has
come for trying the experiment on a larger
scale. A decent church should be provided,
and the means for several missionaries should
be forthcoming. Nobody who knows what
the Moravians have done, or are now doing,
in Europe and all over the world, can have
any doubt of their missionary zeal and effi
ciency."
THE CHURCH CATHOLIC..
THE UNION EFFORT IN LYONS, lOWA.-
We have before alluded to the progress of the
revival in this place. A correspondent of.
The Evangelist adds :—Union "meetings, em
bracing the Baptist, Methodist, Congrega
tional, and Presbyterian churches, were held
during the Week. of Prayer. The interest
was so great that they have been continued
almost daily since that time. Sixty or seventy
souls have been rejoicing in hope of sins for
given. There are heads of families, husbands
and wives, parents and children--children
have even led their -parents to the altar for
prayer. The work still goes on. There are
new cases daily. There hai been a greater
spirit of union and brotherly affection than
has ever been manifested here before, and it
has cheered the hearts of many Christians
from abroad.
MISSIONARY.
THE KOLAPOOR MISSION.—Rev. R. G.
Wilder writes from Kolapoor, Dec.
24, that the much-needed chapel is up and
covered, and promises to be very useful
among the 252 costly idol temples of the
place. Great efforts are made by the heathen
priests and friends to prevent converts from
being baptized. Out of seven inquirers,
long convinced of the truth, and sufficiently
decided to ask for baptism, all but one have
been prevented in this way. Mr. W. says:—
" We are now on a tour in the villages, trying
to make known God's message of mercy to a
few of those thonsands who have never heard
it before, and who are literally sitting in the
region and shadow of death. We have never
been able to visit this regii?n before, and the
chief men of each village visitedthus fare
us they never saw a missionary before.
find ready hearers ; and many, under the in
fluence of kind feelings and the incitement of
first hearing, admit the excellence of our doc
trines, and ask for schools, books, and means
of understanding and knowing more of the
things we tell them. This village, Rookdee,
has a population of 1,741 souls, and yet I can
find but three readers among them
dependent.
OnNA. —Three years only have elapsed
since missionary operations_were commenced
in Pekin, and the Rev. Joseph Eakins, of the
London Society, is•able to report the conver--
sion of twenty Chinese and Manchus to the
faith of Christ. Some of the converts afford
indications that they are likely 'to become
earnest promoters of the truth among their
fellow-countrymen. One of these, in an im
portant part of the city, imparts dailyinstrtic
don to all comers in the afternoons, and
holds meetings for prayer every evening.
High officers of Government find their way to
the missionary hospital, and Christian books
find their way into the palace.—Evangelical
Christendom,
TICE ARITY
FROM POINT OF ROCKS, VA., a corres
pondent of the Boston, Recorder writes,under
date of March 4 :—"The work of grace in pro
gress is without noise, and apparently genu
ine, very much like an old-fashioned New
England revival. Young converts speak and
pray in our meetings. There have been some
cases of hopeful conversion of more than or
dinary interest One young man called on
me yesterday, saying, 'until a few weeks ago,
I was an infidel, profane, intemperate. Now,
I feel that I am a new creature in Christ
Jesus. lam soon to rejoin my regiment at
.Wilmington, and I hope you will pray for
me that I may prove faithful.' I have not
time now to narrate interesting instances of
conversions, as I should be glad to. How
many indulge hope in Christ, as recent con
verts, I cannot state, but the number is con
siderable. The meetings this week have been
very large and solemn, and the work is pro
gressing. Last Sabbath evening our chapel
was crowded to overflowing. Let all God's
people in the country pray for us, that we
may see yet more glorious manifestations of
the Holy Spirit's power among our soldiers.
Almost every man in this army is accessable
on the subject of personal religion."
Field Secretary Ames, of the Christian
Commission, writes from Sandy Hook, Mary
land, near Harper's. Ferry :—"A. deep reli
gious inter est was, and is still, prevailing at
this point. For nearly four weeks meetings
have been held every evening ; and during
this time 150 men have given evidence of
conversion, twenty-three, at their own re
quest,
have been baptized, and more are
waiting to receive that ordinance : and about
40, on one occasion, received. the Lord's Sup
per. The work seems very thorough and
very clear. Striking cases of conversion are
continually occurring. Those who desire
religion do not merely rise to ask others to
pray for them: they fall upon their knees and
cry to God for mercy. They usually find
peace, and rise and confess Christ before the
meeting closes. Their earnest and subdued
pleadings fOr pardon are most touching. Ten,
fifteen, and even twenty go forward at. once.
One young man, as soon as he was converted,
ardently confessed the Saviour, and then,
prompted by the new love in his heart, com
menced shaking hands with all the brethren
within reach. .New men are brought at once
under the prevailing religious influence.
When a squad of soldiers arrives for whom no
quarters are ready, they are received into the
Commission tent for the first night A meet
ing is heldieuring the evening, which they
must attend, or beat a retreat, after w ich
they bivouac upon the table seats or floor.
We thus have a hold upon them from the
first."
THE FREEDMEN.
While attending the religious meetings
among the colored people at Freedmen's vil
lage, on this beautiful estate, lately the prop
erty of the rebel General R. E. Lee, I have
been particularly struck with the freshness
and quaint expressiveness of many of their
petitions during prayer. One, while praying
earnestly for the impenitent in the village,
besought the Lord that he would "get around
and about their hearts, and stir 'emu , that
they might turn away from sin." Waxing
more earnest for the salvation of his brethren,
he prayed God " to rob hell of her large ex
pectations." Another, praying for the chap
lain of the Tract Society, entreated that the
Lord would " backstay him with faith."
Many are very intimate and fraternal in their
approach to the mercy seat. A patriarch,
who told me that he had been a preacher near
Richmond forty-eight years, began his prayer,
"We 'turn thanks to you, dear Saviour, and
adore your blessed name that we have anoder
Sabbath day." And as his heart warmed in
recounting the proofs of the love of God to
lost sinners, he exclaimed, in broken accents,
and with a voice choking with emotion,
" Didnt' you give up your darling Son to die
for us ? Didn't you say you had balm in
Gilead to cure our sin-sick souls?" His clos
ing appeal touched every heart as the lan
guage of humble submission: "And when,
dear Lord, you done wid troublin' yourself
wid us here, take us all home to glory to
praise you evermore." One who entertains
a great dread of sin, prayed : "May we op
pose sin in ebery form, even though we be
called on to meet as a bull in a gangway."
Is there not a vivid power in that illustration.
—Cor. N. Y. Ovserver.
ROMAN tATSOLIC.
BIBLE BURNING IN ITALY. —A curious
incident occurred a short time ago in the
Piedmontese town of Galatina. An agent
of the Protestant Bible Association having
made his appearance in the market of the
town, began to sell Bibles. The customers
were rather numerous, and almost all be
longed to the class of the rural population.
The rector of the parish having heard of the
fact, hastened to assemble a general meeting
of his priests, at which a subscription was
made to raise the necessary money for buying
up all the Bibles the wandering bookseller
had not yet disposed of. The Bibles having
thus been bought, a large bonfire was lighted
on the threshold of the church, into - Which
the obnoxious book were thrown, in the pre
sence of the rector, who, of course, had-pre
pared a sermon for the occasion. But, alas !
the Bible-seller was an old hand; and as he
had a large stock of sacred volumes in his cart,