efirtfspin6tittf. NOTES OF A PREACHING TOUR IN INDIA. BY R. G. WILDER NO. 1. DEAR BROTHER MEARS :-Will you accept a few hurried notes from the vil lages on preaching tour ? Alone as we are, at our isolated station, you will rea dily perceive it is extremely difficult to suspend•our local duties for the village work. And yet it is hard to restrain our desire to make known the Gospel in " the regions beyond ;" and we long since fully resolved that our local preaching, schools, chapel-building and all, should give way, for a time this cold season, to the claims of the villages. This resolution was fully confirmed by a letter from a dear servant of Christ in Leeds, England, who enclosed £2O for this special work, and was even moved to express a wish as to some of the particular villages we should visit. One of these was Meeruj, a large town in the Putwardhun States, some forty miles to the northeast of us. And this, too, was in exact accordance with our wish and purpose, as we- had already visited the villages in every other direc tion to the distance of from twenty to seventy miles from Kolapoor, but had never been in the direction indicated. Of the man of God in Leeds, we know nothing, except what is conveyed in his letter, and how he came to know any thing of us or our mission, we know not. But after enclosing the money, indicating the villages, and specifying particular portions of scripture for distribution, he added : " Rely much, dear brother, on God—in great simplicity and strong faith. Remember Gideon and the cake or barley bread that tumbled into the.host of Mi dian. Taking the sword of the Spirit in your hand, which Is. the word of God, and the sword of the Spirit in your lips —the sword of divine love and power with its two edges, moving as the Spirit wieldeth it from within, you will be armed for a successful Warfare—sure of victory more or less I Go, brother, in this thy strength—the Lord be with thee, and my spirit also." • With these animating words, bringing with them .funds for the extra expense of the tour, you will not wonder we felt that the will of God was plain to us. With the first cool weather of Novem ber, we began to dismiss chapel work men and adjust station duties ; but so many and pressing are these, that it took us a whole month to complete arrange ments. And then arose the question how we should protect ourselves and three little children from the burning heat of day and the damps of night; on a route unprovided with Rest-houses ; for we have no tents, and with the present enormous prices of all cotton fabrics, they '%vould cost more money than we should dare ask our friends to furnish us. But this difficulty was met. Our kind Political Agent loaned us a couple of tents, our Rajah sent a guard to protect our house in our absence, and a good riding horse for the journey, and thus supplied, we are on our way. Come with us, please, and see a few of our India villages. Our tenth have gone forward seven and a half miles to the village of Chiuts wad ; dear wife and the children have also started in the bullock gharry4.4st things have been attended te,.4o* we'll take our ponies and Three miles out of Kolapeer4 - :,ekirting along the base of a hill. WWII that isolated building on the top of it ? That is the temple of the famous goddess Tembleze —one of . the high places of Hinduism—where the Rajah, his Durbar, Surdars, Mahajuns, and all Kolapoor pour out in grand parade with martial music and the firing of guns, to bow down to the stone image of the goddess. Let us ride up and have a look at it. It is a massive, costly structure, made to endure for ages. How firmly all these temples are built ! The king's palace is needing repairs, but these temples seem as firm as when first erected, cen turies ago. It has an open audience -,room large enough to seat three hundred Men. A door opens into a small room in the rear of this, but near that we must not venture. The priests are already scowling at us, because we are in this open room without taking off our ,shoes. That small room they regard as the sanc tum sanclorum of their goddess. We can look in and catch a glimpse of the dirty idol besmeared with red.lead and oil and covered with flowers, and of the old priest lighting the lamps to burnbe fore it. But should we enter there, it would defile the holy shrine and rouse the bitterest anger of priests, people, and the whole Durbar. The priests are engrossed in their senseless rites ; little hope of good from any efforts to enlighten them, I fear, but knowing " kind words never die," we tell them of One who loves them, died for them, and would gladly save them. They listen demurely and accept a copy of the Gospels. And now we remount our ponies, and a mile further on our way comes Oonch gaw, (high-,yillage, because on a hill.) Winding_our way through bridle-paths to the suburbs, we first come to the Ma har wadi, (low caste people), one of whom leads us by narrow _lanes, to the Patil's house in the centre of the village. He meets us with a courteous salaam and waits our message. Our presence:' is' quickly known, and thirty or' fortr.men soon gather around us. We tell them of the true God and preach Christ and the resurrection. The truths we utter are new and strange, but they listen at tentively, and many give audible and earnest assent. Will they not abandon their idols now and become Christians ? Would to God it might be so, but such precious fruit is not gathered so easily. We spend. only an hour, or at most an hour and a half with them. We find a village of eight hundred and ten souls who have never heard these things be fore—no school among them; only two, the Patil and Koolkurnee, know how to read our books in their own language. We give them a Bible and tract, with the ready promise that they Will read them to all the villagers; and rejoicingin the good impressions awakened, and praying God to deepen and make them permanent, we take leave and gct on our way. Now, who is to come again to-morrow to explain and enforce God's:truth, and revive and deepen these good impres sions ? We cannot, and even if we could we should find their iron customs still holding them fast in the ruts of idolatry, and notwithstanding their ready assent to the truth, we should find it necessary to give " line upon line, and precept upon precept" for many long months to secure a change of life and satisfactory evidence of a work of grace in their hearts ; and in the meantime the wily Brahmans will have interposed, warning them of the ignominy and peril of neglecting the re ligious rites of their fathers, or doing anything to violate caste. 0, where are the missionaries to prosecute this work on a scale to give any reasonable hope of success ? But the sun has gone down and we must hasten. A ride of three miles brings us to our camp at Chintswad, a pleasant village, so called from the sur rounding grove of Chiuts treq, whose dark green foliage furnishes a cool and never-failing shade. We are thankful to find our tents pitched 'and our party all arrived. Within a stone's throw from our camp are other tents otgreatsize, , and a broad field covered with the white canvkgs of small ones. What is this ? we ask, and are told it is the camp of His Highness the Rajah, prepared for his expected ar rival to-niorrow. We further learn that he is starting en route to Nursoba's Wadi, a very holy shrine at the junction of the Pandligunga and Krishna rivers, where he goes to make offerings to the god and priests, expecting to be healed of a troublesome disease. " Like king, like people"all immersed in the gross est superstition. The Rajah is some what educated, reads and writes Eng lish a little, and really seems too enligh tened to have the least, faith in these idols, but the bigoted priests and officials about him have great influence, and since British interference and control have been relaxed,,they are constantly bringing him more completely into their power. " Descensus Averni facilis est." 0 that these toils of superstition could be broken, and His Highness be brought under the elevating influences of the Gospel I But here comes Bapooji, a friendly native official from ,Kolapoor, who is here arranging tents and supplies for the royal train. He quickly sends us milk, water, fuel, fruit; fresh fish from the river, and provender for our horse and oxen— all from kindness and hospitality. -Why is this ? Is he not a high caste Hindu ? Yes, a Brahman of the "strictest sect." One of his family has just returned from long pilgrimage to Kashi (Benares), Vie most holy spot and shrine in all But two yearsao. '3 o Bapooji fell in witlqhe missionary. Since then he has -C . (;. 'called—has read our Christian books 3 ::;d Scriptures, and privately ad mits hiS•• conviction of the truth, though still shrinking from the sacrifice involved in publicly confessing Christ. May the grace of God yet triumph in his heart. It is late. We conveise with little bands of callers, have our evening wor ghip, and retire. Morning comes, and fresh from invig orating sleep in our cool tents we explore Chiutswad. We find it a village of some twelve hundred inhabitants. An old. Brahman from Kolapoor has gathered a school of te i n. boys and is teaching them to write tficiy,riiiid- or - business character. Not a book among them. The Patil and Koolkurnee (village officers) received us respectfully, and we are soon seated in their open Chowdi, with some eighty men around us, who listen attentively for two hours, while we try to unfold to their comprehension the (neat doctrines of our Christian faith. Iliany nod their heads at some clearly-stated truth, some give audible approval, none dissent. 0 for 'the missionary force to follow up this favorable beginning with line upon line; But giving the Patil a Bible, the old teacher a Testament, and the Koolkurnee the Gospel of John, (not another soul in the whole village can read), and having preached to several parties at our tents during the heat of the day, we pass on and find our next camp at Rookdee. Here we find a village of seventeen hundred and forty-one souls, only three of whom can read our books—no school at all. The Patil and Koolkurnee read well and accept a Bible, promising, as usual, to keep it in the public Chowdi and read it to all the villagers who will listen. The people come out to our preaching services in large numbers and 6 listened with much interest. Having crossed the sacred river Panchgunga on our last march, and being now in the centre of her fertile valley, 'surrounded with thriving villages, our tents beautifully ;shaded by venerable Chiuts trees, we keep our camp unmoved for three days, during which time Mrs. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1865 M. has good audiences of- women at her tent, and within a circle of three miles radius I visit seven other villages, preach ing and laboring in each in the manner already described. In one of these, the pleasant village of Mangaw, with a population of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, I became so much interes ted as to visit it twice. More than two hundred listen to the truth as long as I have strength to preach, and their im portunities for a school and frequent visits constrain me to make them a pro mise to come again and establish a school if possible. In another village, I find an old pupil who had been some two years in one of our mission schools in Rolapoor. Having acquired the rudiments of edu cation, he recently came here and gath ered a. small school of boys, to whom he is now imparting his knowledge. I gladly speak words of encouragement and furnish his pupils with books. Find he has imparted some knowledge of Christian truth: SIR EDMUND ANDROSS AND HIS PERSECUTION OF THE NEW .ENGLAND CHURCHES. Neither Dr. Green, in his History of Princeton College, nor Dr. Sprague, in his " Annals," gives a complete list of the works of that eminent man, whom Dr. Bellamy was accustomed to call "the great Mr. Dickinson." Ins--:the Episcopal controversy of the .last-cen tury, originating in the renunciation of Presbyterian Ordination by Timothy Cutler, President of Yale College, and others, in 1722, • and which was con tinued by' Chandler, Chauncy and others, for many years, Jonathan Dickinson, of Elizabethtown, bore a prominent part. His first publication in= this controversy was issued in 1724, and wa - S entitled " A Defence of Presbyterian Ordina tion," - in, reply to " : A Modest Proof of the order and Government, settled by Christ and his;Apostles in the Church," from the pen probably of Samuel John son, of 'Stratford,• Connecticut. In. 1736 he published a sermon on "The Vanity of Human Constitutions in the Worship of God," and in the followink year defended it against the assaults which it had pro voked. _ Meanwhile;abwever, be bad issued a more elaborate work, for which, from the fact that it was published anony mously, he has failed to receive due credit. It was occasioned by a reply to his " Dialogue between Prmlaticus and Eleutherius upon the Scripture Bishop." The title of this reply, probably from the pen of Dr. Cutler, now settled at Boston, was "the Scripture Bishop Examined." In this work, the Congregationalists of New England were charged-with intoler ance and persecution, and their system of Church 'order and ordination was re proved as unscriptural. _ . . In answer to this work, Dickinson again takes his pen in " A Defence of the Dialogue," etc., published at Boston in 1733. He answers specifically the arguments adduced by his antagonist, and carries the war into the enemy's camp. Not content with vindicating the New England Churches from the charge of persecution, he goes into a his-. tory of the intolerance shown toward the Puritans and Non-Conformists by the Church of England, not overlooking the tragic experience of the Scottish Church in that troubhius period of her history, which followed the restoration of the Stuart line. In the previous year, 'the first volume of Neal's History of the Puritans had been published in London, and of this Dickinson makes large use, referring also to the works of Burnet, Calamy, Stillingfleet, Pierce, Calder wood, and others, which indicate the richness of his library in this field of investigation. Among other things which he brings forward, are sone which the historians of New England generally seeem to have overlooked. Episcopacy had betrayed its aims, in connection with the mission to this country of the notorious Sir Ed mund Andross, who was foiled in his attempt to wrest her charter from the Colony of Connecticut. " Let us now turn the tables," says Dickinson, " and see how it fared with us, when in an evil reign we lost our charters, and fell into Episcopal hands, . . in 'the days of Sir Edmund Andross, who, with four or five of his Council, by the most arbitrary proceedings, harrassed and enslaved the country, invading liber ty and property, and threatening a deso lation of all our rights, civil and eccle siastical. Armies they levied ; laws they made ; taxes they raised on the people, and did whatever else they pleased, without the advice of an Assembly. Some worthy persons, having in an humble address represented this proceed ing as a grievance,were committed to the common jail for a high misdemeanor; denied the benefit of the habeas corpus act; tried of their country; fined exorbi tantly, and obli g ed to pay £l6O for fees. . . . And when, upon their trial, they claimed the privileges of Englishmen, they were insultingly and scoffingly told . , those things would not follow them to the ends of the earth f Their title to their lands was absolutely denied by the Governor and his creatures, Upon trifling pretences. Oppression rushed in like a tide, and bore down everything before it. There were standing forces to keep the country in awe ; a crew that were ever raising tumults, and committing in sufferable riots amongst a quiet ' , and peaceful people ; and that without re dress, upon filquent-conaplaints. ' The Governor had 'said upon occasion that BY REV. E. 11. GILLETT, D. D it would be for the king's interest for this people to be removed and another introduced ;' and there were several things which made it suspected that Sir Edmund (carrying on secret intrigues with the Indians) had conducted seven OT eight hundred of our soldiers into the Eastern wilderness, in the depth of , winter, to sacrifice them there. Some of the principal gentlemen of the country were imprisoned, bound to their beha viour, and cruelly squeezed by the demands of cormorant messengers and officers, and all without accusation, but merely upon a jealousy that they joined in the com mon complaint of these grievances. Some of our old magistrates were put in jail without any fault laid to their charge, and there kept for several months. Some of our ministers were grievously perse cuted ; a process commenced against one for a book published long enough before Sir Edmund arrived in New England. Another, accused of seditious preaching, dragged out of his county to be tried,. because there (where he was best known) a panel' could not be got wicked enough to ruin him on the testimony of one de bauched person, contradicted by the whole assembly _that heard the sermon. " The scrupled mode of laying the hand upon the Bible, in taking an oath, was then imposed, and many holy and worthy men suffered for refusing it. The church-party, demanding the keys of the South Meeting-house in Boston, and being refused, the Governor threatened he would presently sieze upon that house and all the meeting-houses in the country, and hinder the people from con tributing the value of two-pence toward the maintenance of any non-conformist minister.' He also bade them consider what effects the stiffness of the Protest ants in France had, who would not yield in what they might have done, and now (said he) there is not a Protestant in France,. But this not prevailing, the consequence was, they thrust themselves into Ihe'South IVleeting-house, and there continued, until by - interrupting that con gregation, dl in their tunes, scone times in the very parts of their worship, the whole town cried shame upon them ; then they thought of building. Some of our people contributed towards it. But can the townsmen of Boston tell at whose charge the land (part of one of their burial places) was purchased ? The people of New England endured these and a hundred more such injuries from a little restless party - who arrogated to themselves the name of the Church of England." Some—not all—of these facts are stated by Bancroft, but it is instructive to note their impressions upon the popu lar mind, as 'set forth in the words of Dickinson., The Boston Churches espe cially had little reason to love Epis copacy. Cotton. Mather, in sending out his New England emissaries" to plant Presbyterian -Churches- in the. middle Colonies, was but acting in self-defence. Episcopal aggression and ambition for more than two generations threatened the liberty of the country, and had no small influence in inaugurating the revolution. In exposing the nature of this aggres sion, and refuting the exclusive claims of the Episcopal Church, Jonathan Dick inson occupies an honored place. LETTER FROM MONTANA TERRITORY, What is now known as Montana Ter ritory was first settled 'in the fall of 1862. Parties from various places, mostly from Denver, Colorado, started for the Yellow Stone country, attracted by reports of gold found in that region. Simultaneous ly with this movement, teams laden with provisions from Salt Lake City set out with the same destination. These parties met on the Yellow Stone, but finding nothing at that place, determined to push their investigations further into the Rocky Mountains. They continued westward, not knowing whither they were going, until they reached the Beaver Head country, and on Rattle snake Creek; the advanced party learned that a small party were at work in rich diggings about twelve miles distant, whereupon they wrote a note and fastened it to a stake, telling the rest of the party to remain there until they could report. They then proceeded to the place named; there the men were at work in rich diggings on the Grasshopper Creek. A courier was dispatched for the remaining party, and soon travellers and teams were en camped, and the city of Bannock was founded. Had >not those provision trains started from Salt Lake on a venture, these hardy pioneers would have perished before spring for food ; but God never sends men to do any work without making ample provision for them. This little party was also exposed to extermination from the Indians, who came down upon theril like grasshoppers, and warned them to leave ; but the time had come for these treasure-vaults to be unlocked, and God again interposed, by giving them favor with the red men. The reports of these newly-discovered mines scattered far and wide, and thou sands flocked into them. In the summer of '63 the Virginia diggings were dis covered, and in less than one year the cities of Virginia, Nevada Junction, and Summit were built, containing a popula tion of from fifteen to twenty thousand. The gold taken from the mines of Ban nock and Virginia is estimated by the ton. In these mining camps men of every shade of, opinion and character had met without the restraints of law or gospel, conse quently whiskey became the law-giver, and the pistol and knife the judges. Bold ontlaws usurped authority, and sealed thek decisions in blood. Tinder this reign of terror a vigilance committee was or- ganized, as the only means of safety and protection, and during the winters of '63 and '64, from forty to fifty' of these out laws were executed. It was a summary method, and, in most cases, the first inti mation the people received was the swinging bodies of the victims. No trial, no jury, no judge ; even the executioners were not known. The promptness and firmness of this committee soon restored peace, order and safety. Last June, Congress divided the large Territory of Idaho, and formed the new Territory of Montana from the eastern portion, lying between the parallels of latitude 411 deg. and 44 deg., and of longitude 104 deg. and 116 deg. The mines, are confined to the moun tains, and are about 5,000 feet above the level of the sea, which gives us a light and dry atmosphere and healthy climate. The weather is mostly very pleasant. Sometimes, for a few days in midwinter, the cold reaches 40 or 50 degrees below zero ; but this is not at all unsufferable, owing to the dryness and rarity of the at mosphere. The soil in the valleys is exceedingly productive, and grain and all kinds of vegetables can - be raised in great abun dance. Potatoes were raised here last summer which weighed 6-1,--,pounds. A great many are going to farming in the spring, which will greatly reduce the ex penses of living, which at present are fabulous. Board in private familes, with furnished room, fuel and light, is from $5O to $lOO per week. Montana has already a larger voting population than Colorado, as shown by the last election. This large population will be largely increased this year, as the excitement from constant new dis coveries is, continually augmented. Towns are springing up like magic. Within a few weeks, and in the dead of winter, a new town has sprung up num bering thousands, and the roads are lined with others flocking thitherward, with bright visions of gold.' This new town is called Silver Bow, about 80 miles north of Bannock, in the Deer :Ledge country. Three thousand are estimated to be already on the ground building houses, saloons and stores, and making preparations for the spring. The mines are from fifteen to twenty miles in length, and considered rich and very regular. Preparations are being made for two new towns at Bald Mountain and Rattle snake ; both of which are but twelve miles from Bannock. On the " Prickly Pear" there are two towns, Montana and Jefferson. • These will be largely in creased this year, as that place is rich in leads or lodes, which are veins of silver and. gold in the mountains. Extensive and rich gulch diggings have also been discovered, seven miles from Montana City, which, are . attracting, the attention of the people. A town is building there called Last Chance, which inthe•name of the gulch. In all this rich and extensive territory, with all its large and rapidly growing settlements, there are but two appointed ministers of the gospel. Fortunes have been made, and more are to be made. The devil 'is getting the first use of .this treasure; and is thus fortifying the ground. Truly, " he is going about as a roaring lion," and many are the noble boys he is devouring. Shall the Church allow him undisputed possession of this rich field ? The Church needs these hardy, enterprising young men ; she also needs to convert this virgin gold into the treasury of the Lord. Let her send out good and faithful men and she can have her share of both. Now is the time to strike, and not wait until these young men from Christian homes and Christian Sabbath-schools, are so debased and corrupted that it will be next to im possible to rescue them. They are here free from all parental restraint, and even that of good society. They have no booki, papers, or literature, save that of the place, a pack of cards. They have no place to spend their leisure time, save whisky shops, gambling saloons, and places even worse than these. These constitute all the opportunities of amuse ment and recreation. They soon become familiar with scenes of drunkenness, gambling, and degradation, and then plunge in headlong. They say that they shuddered at it at first, but now do not think there is much harm in it. "We must have some amusement, and there is none other." This is not astonishing. They are away from home and a Chris tian community; they live in small log cabins, plastered with mud and covered with earth to. turn the rain ; the ground is their only floor ; a buffalo robe and some blankets their bed; a box and some stools their furniture. They do their own cooking and washing. Living in this desolate Way, is it wonderful that they should seek companionship and diversion in haunts of vice? - Send faith ful men to these places at once, with the necessary means, not with hands and feet tied, and spirits crushed out of them, and they can rescue these, your loved ones. The work is Army work. Send out chaplains. Send with every man a large and well-selected library ; a full set of Sabbath-school books; a set of hymn books or church purposes ; a- large quantity of tracts and Testaments, with the Psalms, (large print,) and let your children send the religious papers, when you have read them. The missionary can then gather together the professors of religion, they can fit up a room, and with these books and papers can estab lish a Christian Association, and furnish a profitable place for young men to spend their evenings. The government would not suffer her noble braves to be taken from Christian homes and religious privileges without giving them the means of grace ; nobly and faithfully has she supplied and sup ported these heralds of salvation in her army. Shall the Church be less Chris tian, less in earnest than the govern ment ? Is it not the duty of the Church to furnish chaplains for her army, and send the bread of life to the dear boys in these mountains of gold? Send them out and you will not have to support them as long as the government does hers ; they ;ill soon be taken off your hands. The government furnishes one chaplain for every thousand men. By the opening of spring there will be five thousand at Silver Bow, with no minister to lead them to mines of imperishable treasure ; to gather in the scattered sheep and lift up the fallen ; to visit the sick and point the dying to the Saviour; to bury the dead and comfort the afflicted; with no minister to protect the sanctity of marriage, and restrain the impious hand that would seek to undermine, or overthrow, the ordinance of God ; no minister to look after the children, and gather them into the Sabbath-school, and lead their young hearts to the Saviour. SENT. us HELP. There is no such field. Montana will soon become a State of boundless mineral wealth. Soon the Pacific Railroad will reach us, giving additional advantages and privi leges. Schools, academies, and colleges are to be founded, and who is to attend to this if not the Church ? I suppose several men will come here next spring. Let the Churches fully equip these men. Let every man have, before he starts, a good libiary, as stated above ; Sabbath-schoolbooks, hymn books, tracts, Sabbath-school papers, and Testa ments. Take up a collection, raise a sub scription, or let some individual give the requisite means for one of the above neces saries Send your donation or subscrip tion to the Home Missionary ;Committee, No. 150 Nassau Street, New York, and they can invest it better than you, and spare you all the trouble of selecting, buying, and shippi,ng. Let no Church or individual fail to do this, on the sup position that some one else will attend to it. It is too important a matter to be neglected. The men who come cannot furnish these supplies, neither can the Committee, unless you furnish them with the means. If the missionary have not these appliances, he will be as helpless as a mechanic without tools. If you would be sure that he is supplied, attend to it yourself. •If more money is sent than is necessary for the object stated, the only difficulty then will be that more men can be sent and supported, and all will know that they are represented in this great work. BA.NNOCS CITY, Jan. 31, 1865 MINISTERIAL RECORD • moNmx.r. Armstrong,Hallock, Presso. S.—Appointedto chaplaincy in U. S. Volunteers. ,Bartholf; Bend. A., Ref.. Dutch.—Ordained and installed pastor at. Wolcott, N. V., Feb. 7. Bird, Was. H., Pres. N. S.—Taken charge of the church in Sandoval, 111. Eben, Pres. o..S.—Appointed Itin erant Missionary to Freedmen in Kansas. Boyd, Samuel, Pres. 0. S. Suspended from the ministry by St. Clairsville Pres bytery. Campfield, Nathan P., Pres. N. S.—Ac cepted call to Cazenovia, N. Y. Clarkson, C. B.,_ Pres. N. S.—Accepted call to Cuba, N. Y. . Dieffenbaelter, a.R., Ger. Ref.—Accepted pastorate at West Greenville, Pa. Garrettsott, John, AD., Ref. Dutch.—Ac cepted call to churches of Esopus and St. Remy, N. Y. Gerhart, Isaac, Ger. Ref.—Died in Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 11, aged 77. Hamilton J. C., Cumb. Pres.—Died in Illi nois, Feb.' 13. Howden, William, tn. Pres.—Died in brie Co., N. Y., Feb. 15, aged 82. Humphrey, lenry, Pres. 0. S.—Died at Hudson, Wis.,Feb. 6, aged 32. Eassee, A. K. Ref. Dutch.—Accepted call to Cleveland, Ohio. Kelley, Joseph C., Pres. 0. S.—Ordained and installed at Cambria, Wis., Feb. 14. Kennedy, Joshua, Ref. Pres.—lnstalled at liovinia, N. Y., Jan. 11. Laurie, „Tames A. Pres. N. S.—Ordained an Evangelist at Lowville, Wis., to labor in Lowville and Arlington. McCartee, Robert, D.D., Pres. 0. S.—Died in Yonkers, N. Y., March 12, aged 73. McCoy, John, Pres. o..S.—Ordained and installed at Smyrna, Del., Feb. 21. McLean, John, Pres. N. S.—Resigned pastor ate of North Church, St. Louis, Mo. Matthews, J T., Pres. N. S.—Accepted call to Bth Church, Chicago, 111. Martin, IV: W, Pres. N. S.—Accepted call to San Jose; Cal. Morton, J. 8., Pres. 0. S.—Resigned pasto rate of - i\ iddleton Ohio. Nicolls, S. J., Pres. 0. S.—lnstalled over 2d Pres. Church, St. Louis, Mo., March 12. Nugent, E. R., Pres. 0. S.—Taken charge of Mapleton and Pleasant Rill Churches, Kansas.. Patterson, J 8., Pres. 0. . S.—Resigned pastorate at Steubenville, Ohio. Patton, John, D.D., Pres. N. S.—Accepted call to Middletown, Del. Phillips, W. W., D. 11., Pres. 0. S.—Died in New York, March 20, aged 68. Riddle, M 8., Ref. Dutch.—Listalled over 2d R. D. Church, Newark, N. J., Feb. 2. Roberts, H P., Pres. N. S.—Taken charge of church in Cairo, 111. Robinson, Charles E. Pres. 0. S.—lnstalled at Oneida Village, N. Y., March 1. Sailor; John, Pres. N. S.—Accepted call to Allegan, Mich. Slack, C. Pres. N. S.—Died in Newton, lowa, Feb. 24. Stevenson, Joseph, Pres. 0. S.—Died at Bellefontaine, Ohio, Feb. 24, aged 86. Sutherland, W. 8., Un.• Pres.—lnstalled over 28th Street Church, New York, Feb. 7. Sutton, Robert, Pres. 0. S.—Accepted call to St. Paul, Minn. Trowbridge, J. M., Pres. N. S.—Resigned pastorate of Calvary Church, Chicago, 111. Watson, S. N. Pres. 0. S.—Accepted call to Ebensburg, Pa. Wilson, S. R., D.D., Pres. 0. S.—Dismissed from. Mulberry Church, Shelby Co. Ky. Woods, John, Pres. 0. S.—Accepted call to Urbana, Ohio. Young, John C., Pres. 0. S.—Ordained and installed co-pastor of 2d Church, Louisville, Ky., March 5. G. G. SMITH
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