gmtritalt rtzbOtriait.
THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1865
UNION BY ABSORPTION. -011r Baptist
brethren seem to have caught the notion•
which a correspondent of our Old School
cotemporary, The Presbyterian, is ply
ing with such diligence on the subject
of Presbyterian re-union, viz :—that all
difficulties in the way, of Christian unity
vanish, the moment you are ready to
come to us. For example,. a late num
ber of the Examiner and Chronicle, a
talented Baptist sheet, in remarkable
brotherly phraseology, treats the New
York Observer, to the following very
unbrotherly badinage on the subject of
inter-Communion: —
"The editor of the New York Observer
loves his Baptist brethren so well, that he
gives us, every now and then, a warm-hearted
invitation to open the way for him and his
Pedo-baptist brethren to come to the Com
munion Table with us. We can assure our
friend that the way is open whenever there
is a believing heart, plenty of water, and a
good Baptist minister. We can endorse
almost everything in our friend except his
baptism, and if he will put himse right in
that respect, and walk consistently therewith,
any Baptist church will welcome him to their '
communion. But when he uses a baptism
which his Baptist brethren conscientiously
believe to be no baptism at all, how can he
expect them to invite him to an ordinance
which is designed only for baptized believers?
We wonder that an intelligent Christian, of
so many warm sympaties, should persistently
shut himself out of the " blessed privileges
of communion" with his Baptist brethren,
when he might. so easily enjoy them in the
largest measure, and as long as he lives."
The writer above neglects to tell
what he would have his brother of the
Observer - do, if his locality, when desir
ing such communion, should happen to
be in a part of the world where there is
not " plenty of water." There are such
places on our globe, and there are people
who live for years without access to so
much as will make a sufficient " Jordan"
for the "liquid grave" which forms the
fundamental of the , doctrine of close com
munion. We expect that, after all, the
majority of Christians will seek that kind
of open door to the fellowship of the
saints, which can be made: as wide to
a convert an the Saharan desert, as on
the hanks of the Amazon.
HOW IT IS VIEWED ABROAD.—The
Kontreat Witness, a paper which has Pro
bably the largest circulation of any'in
Canada, has from the first taken a candid
and far-seeing view of our civil disturb
ances. As the inevitable result of such
a view, its sympathies have been with
the Government, and those sympathies
have been often unmistakably expressed.
In its issue of the 13th instant, com
menting upon the recent successes of our
arms, it gives utterance to the following
sagacious sentiments respecting the
future :
"If the colored population of the South,
which is, to a man, loyal to the Union, be not
only emancipated but enfranchised now, the
United States have nothing to fear. The
party at present in power will, doubtless, in
that case, be sustained by a majority every
where. But if the franchise is still confined
to the white population of the South,—a
great majority of which is, doubtless, sullen
and disaffected towards the power that has
conquered them,—they will, probably, unite
with the Northern traitors to the cause of
human freedom, amongst whom is numbered
a great majority of the foreign population,
and, perhaps, obtain once more the ascen
dency in the national councils, and proceed to
build up slavery again as in times past, by
every means, however nefarious. Let us,
however ? hope for better things. It is a great
point gained, if the rebellion be crushed by
victory. Any convention, or treaty, or stipu
lation for terms, would, like the compromises
of the constitution, be a source of never
ending dispute, and trouble, and concession,
in the future."
THE THEATRE.—Says the Banner of
the Covenant, in an article in relation to
the late national calamity :—Will not
the exclamation of the bereaved widow
and consort of our late President, " Oh,
that dreadful house !" "Oh, that dread
ful house!" lead professing Christians to
discountenance the theatre and other
such places of amusement ? If the church
does not reform, and utter her testi
mony, how can we expect that those
who are without will change ? Oh, that
history could draw a veil over the fact,
that our beloved President met his death
in the theatre I
BOOKS RECEIVED.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, May, 1865.
—Contents: With the Birds ; Gold Egg ;
A Dream Fantasy ; Out of the Sea;
My Student Life at Hofuyl; The Grave
by the Lake ; Ice and Esquimaux, 5;
Notes of a Pianist, 3; Diplomacy of the
Revolution; Oar Battle Laureate; Dr.
Johns, 4 The Chimney Corner; Needle
and Garden, 5 ; Castles ; Fair Play the
Best Policy; Reviews and Literary No
ticesl Recent American Publications.
LITTELL'S LIVING AGE, April 22d,
1865.—Contents : Napoleon upon Cae
sar ; Miss lilajorbanks, Part 2 ; Ldaders
of Fashion ; John Leech ; Mr. Lincoln ;
The President's Entry into Richmond:
Evangelizing the Southern Army ; Let
ters of Eugenie de Guerin ; Poetry ;
Short Articles.
GODEY'S LADY'S BOOR, May, 1865.
L. A. Godey, Philadelphia.
THE LADY'S FRIEND, May, 1865.
Philadelphia : Deacon & Peterson.
MORE OE TEE *REVIVAL- IN ALBANY.-
Baptism has been administered in the First
church, Albany, New York, every Wednes
day for two months, and the last addition
night was really one of the very best yet.
Others are ready. Since January 26th, one
hundred and eighteen have joined this body.
Fifty-four are heads of families, including
eighteen husbands with their wives. More
than fifty are members of the pasto's Bible
class . the whole number. of which, in actual
attendance, averages two hundred.
FROM OUR NEW LONDON CORRESPON-
DENT.
LONDOX April sth. 1865
Sin :—lt would be a poor compliment
to pay to your readers if I were to go on
with your London correspondence, as if
there had been no change of correspon
dent. The difference of style in the let
ters, which they can only have in the
future, will soon show them that they
have lost, in losing your former corres
ponden.t, a practised pen, a clear intel
lect, a well-balanced judgment, and a
warm heart; and that they have got, in
your correspondent—what they will soon
find out, I fear to be a change, :for the
worse. I can only assure you and them
that I will do my best to report facts,
such as they seem to me, leaving ,them'
for the most part to form theiv own
opinions on them.
I never knew a London season in,
which there has been so little of interest
taking place as the present. The `Queen
continues in her semi-retirement, only
coming up occasionally to town from
Windsor or Osborn on a sort of flying
visit The consequence is that many
of the nobility and wealthy commoners
do not come to town at all, but remain
either at their country-seat or at some of
the watering-places ; the London trades
people grumble loudly and audibly ;
and the Queen has lost much of that
popular enthusiasm which' she so long
ago possessed. For another thing, tie
winter has been unusually severe and
protracted. Here we are in the fifth of
April, and still there is not so much as
a single bud burst on the trees. The
parks are dreary and wintry-looking; the
cold has been intense, the east winds
keen and cutting, and we have only had
a few days of real spring weather. At
last, however, it seems to have come,
the buds are bursting, and all things
betoken a good though late spring sea
son.
The event of the hour is " the Colenso
judgment." You will know the details
of this judgment before this letter
reaches you, so I need not enter on
them. In a word, the judirrient of the
Privy Council has the effect of cutting off
the colonial churches from all connection'
with the church of 'Engfiii4l;. excepting
so far as the colonists themselves may
wish to bind themselves. The judgment
has taken everybody'by surprise. The
editors of various journals do not see
to kniiw what to make of it. it appeais
as if it had cut far deeper than anybody
imagined. The journalists keep writing
away, evidently as they do who , grope
their way in the dark. Till men see
" whereunto this shall grow ;" till they
have had time to note the effects of the
judgment, and how it is received by the
colonists, and by the bishop at Cape
town, Dr. Gray in partieular, it would
seem as if men held their breath and
waited as one would dow,:ho had re
ceived a Slap in the face in the dark, and
who is not sure whether it is clumsy
fun, or the beginning of, what may be
terribly earnest warfare. Everybody
seems to like it, and- yet not to like
_it.
It pleases the most opposite parties, - but
for the most opposite reasons. Dr. Pu
sey, and " The .Record" both agree in
liking it and disliking it. Meanwhile
Bishop Coleus() is still 11 Bishop, and
sits in a snug house here enjoying his
notoriety, his ease, his salary, and what
little dignity is left to him. ' •
The second thing that occupies the
little hour is the death of Richard Cob
den: It came at last very suddenly.
He had been ailing long, and during the
last winter he kept himself a close pris
oner at his country-seat at Midhurst. A
week or two ago he came to town with
the intention of taking an active part in
the Parliamentary debate on Canadian
defence ; and soon after he arrived the
news spread that he was rather indis
posed, but nothing serious was appre
hended. By and by matters became more
alarming, friends were forbidden to see
him, though no immediate danger was
apprehended, and suddenly the news
spread like wildfire that he had gone to
rest on Sabbath_forenoon just` as the
congaegation had assembled for their
forenoon worship. He' is to be buried
next Friday 7th April. No person is
invited to the funeral beyond the circle
of his private friends and relations. Yet
I-understand the funeral will be a sort of
public one, many public men and mem
bers of parliament having signified their
intention of being present in testimony
of their respect and esteem. In Mr.
Cobden, America has lost • one of her
most sincere and consistent friends, and
one of her warmest and enthusiastic ad
mirers. In his place in Parliament he
was ever ready, along with his friend
and colleague, Mr. John Bright, to stand
up and say a good word for America
and American institutions..:: He it was,
too, who negotiated our late commercial
treaty with France, a treaty which has
gone so far to consolidate the peaceful
‘footing of the relations between the two
kingdoms. I note that in the French
Senate and in the French neWspapers,
the death of Mr. Cobden has been as
fully and freely and kindly commented
on as in our own. He was a "peace at
any price" man. And he was a man of
peace chiefly because he was a man of
trade. Commerce and politics were his
two poles. Farther up, to the God who
moves in every political event, and to
whom commerce owes a first duty, it is
to be feared he never looked: Of reli
giOn he seems to have known nothing,
and for it to have cared nothing.
Another of our remarkable men has
died while I write ; I speak of Mr. John
Cassels. Mr. Cassels began life as, a
'working man, and by teetotalism and
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1865
great industry, and hard study, he edu
cated himself, commenced the business
of printing and publishing; and has left
behind him one of the largest printing
and' publishing firms in London. Mr.
Cassels has done as much as any man
to help on teetotalism and the education
of the working-classes. He published
from time to time in one of his numerous
serials, a number of easytteatisesw ere
by a man of ordinary intelligence ould
teach himself many of the-sciencel,.and
some of the languages. His-" BaSy les , •
sons in French" if not republiied in
your country would soon remunerate the
publisher who did so. It is one of the
very best, treatises extant, as an "intro
duction to a thoorugh I and idiomatic
knowledge of the !French tongue. lat
terly, through divers influences, kr.
Cassel's firm have been publishing
anc aiding, largely in the circulation
of t ireligious works.' His large family
Bible, with profuse illustrations, was sold
by the hundreds of thoesands ; his Bun
yan's Pilgrim's Progre ,
si i
,'also admirably
got up and- profusely • lustrated, sold
largely ; and a periodi al called " The.
Quiver" which is, a thor uglily sound re
ligious magazine, :has also a very large
sale, I believe nearly Ibo,ooo copies a
month.
Politically, the Edmunds scan al, as
it is called, has latterly formed thtlopic
of- talk in high circles,. arid 1, low.
Every where you heard gossip o' some
sort going on concerning it. , Ed
mund's was a clerk in the `ido se of
Lords, at a high rate of salary; and a
mighty easy rate of work. In a ition,
he held an office as clerk of paten s. In
his latter office he had chested t pub
lic to, the extent of many th usand
pounds. This came out in conse nence
of an investigation, proceeding 0 other
grounds. First one thing, and t n an
other came out; as the invet ation
proceeded deep answered to dee At
last he resigned his office in the onse
of Lords, and retired on a pels n of
£BOO a year The Lord Chance r im
mediately appointe'd to the PUS.. office
a gentleman g , who stood to hi .1 in ( the
relatien of son;'-' as, it was sarc:4,ics,lly
phrased in Ptirliament this"gen emrin"
bears arrion&hisfrierids the Ter worst
character as a - mail about to ,The
Lord Chaneelibi. himself not s : iji4g in
the highest row of moral worth3:i pepiPs
dal grew and kathered strength. : (risk
the family of the Brougham'
dragged in, the late Lord
Brougham being seriously b3Eipl
A. committee of the House of Lor
pointeci to make a thorough invest.
into the whole affair, and the rep
be laid before the House, it is b
on Friday evening next. I have
thority of a noble Lord who form lone
;I
of the committee for saying tlia Lord
Brougham will come out with clean
hands. The present Lord Cha cellor
also comparatively so, the parties about
whom the less said the better • I be,
Mr. William Brougham, a bro er of
Lord Brougham and Mr. Edmun s him::
self. Meanwhile the scandal ha fotinEil
a town's talk.
.of many weeks,\ and o
doubt will stir rip many offiaals t a
more accurate and honest disckarg9 of
their public duties. ' '
Ex.-um - ex.—Some Western Presby -
riee and churches have, in their localit ,
taken this matter partially into tier
own hands, without awaiting any ago,.
of-the Assemblies. Thus in Mad&
Presbytery, a member of which write -
to the Christian Herald :---" One fiit
of the reunion movement exhibited itllf
in the meeting of our Presb'ytery,the
ii
other day. The 0. S. Church at sins
Sun was advised to connect with t e N.
S. church, and a minister was app nted
to visit the church, and give lett s of
dismission to all who would cc pt
them." The Presbyteries of aitoil
(N. S.) and Miami (0. S.) recen y held'
a joint meeting in;Dayton,- 0 o, and
after resolving that'the two'bra cues of,
our divided church ought to be .'sibly
one, and that we will pray and lab , f for
this desirable end, appointed a oint
committee, on whose recommend: ion
each Presbytery in its Presbyteria ca-
pacity approved the following prop'
tions respecting points where each bra
has a feeble church :
" 1 That each Presbytery appoint 'a c
mittee of two ministers and two elders
visit these feeble churches, and act in effict
ing union.
" 2 That these churches be left to adept
such terms of union as may be judged best
by themselves.
" 3 That, as far as practicable, the princi
ple of equivalent exchanges be applied 'in
forming unions." •
Each Presbytery appointed committees to
effect reunion in three of their fields, viz :
Greenville, Bath, and Yellow Springs. The
0. S. Presbytery also appointed a committee
for Dick's Creek. The N. S. church at
Dick's Creek is in the bounds of Hamilton
Presbytery (N. S.)
The Presbytery of Logansport, 0. S.
has adopted the following resolutions:—
" Resolved; That this Presbytery advise
the churches under our care, where the good
of the cause manifestly requires it; to unite
with the other branch of the church upon
some equitable. and satisfactory terms, and
cordially abide the ecclesiastical connection:.
Provided, the Presbytery of Logansport (N r
S.) take corresponding action.
" Resolved, That a copy of this action be
forwarded to the Presbytery of Logansport
(N. S.), with a request that if agreeable to
them, they take similar action."
The action of the N. S. Presbytmy,i- 11
response to the above, has not come to
hand.
THE CHURCH AT MANA.YUNR,
- realized from the recent Fair, a sum pr;
bably reaching. $9OO, a very eucouragii!
amount, in view of the unfavorable c
*to d nicc eititTth%
cumstances under which it was held.
The articles - were not sacrificed; some are
retained to be disposed of at a straw
berry festival designed to be held on a
future day.
WALNUT STREET, WEST PHIL/
Pale..—To life and enterprise in mat
ters, pertaining to outward prosperity,
and to the large liberality towards out
side causes of benevolence, which we
have frequently had occasion to record
on the part of this (Rev. Dr. Butler's)
church, we have now to add the record
of spiritual blessings. At 'the commu
nion last Sabbath, the church received
an accession of twenty members, one
half of them on profession of faith. This
makes the total increase of membership
during the year, forty-two—more than
half the number on. profession.
FOURTH WEEK OF MR. HAMMOND'S
- LABORS IN - THE CITY.
During the, past week, Mr. Hammond has
been laboring mainly in the South-western
part of tit city. -On Tuesday, and Wednes
day, meetrigs were held in the Tabernacle
Baptist C urch. An incident of marked in
(
terest omi t r in connection with the meeting
of Wednesday. This was the day of the
mournful funeral ceremony in Washington,
and the church was densely crowded : num
bers stood in the doorways and upon the
steps, and not a few passers-by stopped in the
streets, to listen to the sweet songs of the
children. Some one closed the door of the
church, but, Mr. Hammond requested that
they might remain open. " Some poor sin
ners," he remarked, "might be reached by
what he hears through the open doors, and
brought to Christ." His request was acceded
to. Itwas so ordered that a young man who.was
passing by on the other side of the streetiwas
attracted by the singing, came over and en
tered the church, and remained to the inqui
ry-meeting, having been deeply impressed by
what he had heard. A good work had begun
in his heart. Subsequently he came into one
of the churches, and related his experience,
traced his first impressions to what he had
heard upon the sidewalk, and declared that
as the result he believed he had found Jesus.
A respectable minister of the Gospel of this
city, who -heard his statements; is disposed
to regard it as a genuine case of conversion.
On Thursday and Friday nights, meetings
were held in-Bethany Mission Chapel, South
near 21st St., -where a good work, was done
among children and older. Persons. On Sab
bath afternoon, in spite of the excitement
piliduced by the presence of the funeral cor
tege in the city, a large audience was present
at the first meeting-in-CALVARY PRESBYTE-
Rim; CHURCH. The Pastor, Rev.. W.. Cal
kins, cordially welcomed Mr. Haldmond to
his; ew field of labors;-and earnestly invited
all Christians to remain and labour in the
inquiry-meeting. Many favorable indications
were observed among the children, at this
first meeting and the hope is cherished that
the Caly,ary. and Tabor schools, and others
in the neighborhood, may receive a large
measure of the gracious inEntnces usually ac
companying these meetings. They will be
transferred to linton St. Church in the lat
ter part of th, week. '
A second and third visit to - the House of
Refuge levee' most blessed and "extensive re
sults of the work in that interesting field.
It may lte truthfully said that hundreds of
ihose children are hoping they have found
the Saviour. The prayers of God's people
are rsked for these children and youth, as
exposed to peculiar temptations and trials in
their efforts to lead a new life.
The following remarkable letter, received
by Mr. Hammond from one of the subjects
of the work in the ORPHAN ASYLUM, is pub
lished from the conviction that its perusal
must do good.
. DEAR Ma HAMIOND :—I feel so happy that I
can scarcely sit still, and all my joy ia through
your interesting meetings. It is now exactly.
one Week.4nce I found the dear Jesus. . Oh 1
I soMetim sit and think why I never loved
the dear Saiour before, when He has done so
much for pinr wicked-me,. and- the tears rush
to my eyes iyhen'l think of his cruel sufferings.
I will te115 1 ,011 how I found the ' dear Jesus. - I
went to heat: on the Wednesday you preached
in the Weltern Presbyterian Church. YOu
came And payed with me after the meeting
Was over and then, and not till then, did I think
I was so wicked; when
. 1 went home - and - had
retired ffelt - • iserably wretched, but could find
no comfort. Ihe next day I went again, and a
young girl I . ew, came to me and said, "Ohl
----f, don't l i ou love Jesus," :With such tender
ness that I Chtild not help crying, though I tried
hard not to: When I went home I read my
Bible and -prayed but could find no rest ? those
words_ kept . ringing in my ear, and it was
drawingxear midnight before I went to sleep.
I he next - I:14 I went again and when I had gone
iome and had retired I determined I would
nt go to sleep until 'I found Jesus, and I did
rk . I pra ed and prayed that Jesus would
to me "ju tas .I was," and Ohl sweet thought
4
He did tak me., I felt so happy I felt like
singing "N . I have found a friend," although
it , wa midn ht. The next day I felt so happy
iat sang . 1 day long.
I t ing to-day that we can never love
Jesus nou , even if we were to live a thou
sand ear and loved him_ a - thousand
\
times ' ore each day. • I . am an orphan, .
and on of ose who live in the "Orphan
Asylum, b I often think of that beautiful
passage, 'A father of the fatherless is God in
His holy h itatip.l thank Jesus every
night that : . incliner. your heart to come to
,Our churc , tit was then I found what a
guilty sinn r -. was. There are a number of us
who think • ,- have given ourselves to Jesus.
. . !i I:ltrcliirr oi. PLOWER&
In one .6 j ' lie meetings, Mr. Hammond,
while spea. •`g to the children and youth
'about givini , , 'heir,. young - hearts to the Sa
viour, asked: "hat they ,would think, were
Some one to 11'.r them an old withered bou
,pi
(J o liet of flowe .:
They\all agreed they would
•
-feel insulted. And yet," he added, .!' some
of you are t ,
,! i 'ng of giving your hearts to
the Saviour An you are older. Are you
not afraid tha • ; esus - will `Npurn your offer?
Will you not her ' come' and give your
young affection:: ) him just now ?"
At the close s': he servibes, Mr. Hammond
• requested only„,'! se who felt they had truly
giVen their "heag,t. to the Saviour to come
upon and aronnd.;:the large platform pulpit,
in. order that sett one of the ministers *-
Sent might ins n , l It the 4; and also \ that it
might be more 4,, yenientto, move among the
anxious, who re..?i lied in their seats for con
versation and payer. Between two \ and
.. three hundred a r • Ice flocked from all pkrts
`of the house. ”... 'e standing in and around
the large circular llitform, their appearance,
a.ff i py whjrt had I can said, reminded us of
alarge bouquet .! .fresh Young flowers, all'
given.' to 'Jesui.
11 in the honse seemed
iMpressed with - thought. While these
joyous children a ,ri youth were singing "1
love Jesus," . oth . hundreds all over the
house -were bathe .1 tears.. It was' a scene
• I e .; .• :: ‘.. - • j'eh than described.
Ittigino kutfttigtma.
NEW JERSEY CONFERENOE.—This body,
recently in session in Trenton, - passed the fol
lowing resolution "with great unanimity:"
"Resolved, That. hile the passage, by Con
gress, of the Constitutional Amendment for
ever excluding sla'very from the States and
Territories of the nation meets our hearty
and grateful approval, -we must say that lan
guage utterly fails to express our deep and
abiding mortification at the recent action of
our own State Legislature in refusing to
sanction a measure so inseparably connected
with the'future peace and prosperity of our
whole country. However, as this action is
not 'final, our feelings are somewhat relieved.
We firmly believe that the citizens of this
State are so imbued with the spirit and love
of liberty, that when the proper time comes
they will say, in a way not to be misunder
stood, that New Jersey must and shall stand
up bythe side of those States which have al
ready decided in favor of universal freedom."
THE'UNITARIAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.
—This meeting, held in New York, week be
fore last, was successful in bringing together
nearly six hundred ministers and_ delegates,
representing one hundred and ninety
churches. Governor Andrew, of Massachu
setts, presided during the two days of the
session. Much earnest discussion took place,
on the subject of name, creed, scope of effort,
and many other topics,
but the body was
kept well in hand, and all changes were suc
cessfully avoided. The practical result is the
organization of a yearly "National Confer
ence of Unitarian Churches," to meet by
their representatives, "to the end,6f energiz
ing and stimulating the denominations with
which they are connected to the largest exer
. dons in the cause of Christian faith and
work." The warmth of the discussions was
upon points involving the question whether
the new organization should be formed under
such titular phraseology as would make it a
sort of ontnium gatherum for all non-orthodox
religious and humane organizations, rational
istic and semi-infidel included, or whether it
should be defined by such terms as would give
it at least a seeming Christian distinction.
There was much opposition to the use of the
word "Lord" before "Jesus Christ," one
member contending that Paul, in speaking of
him as the Lord Jesus, meant nothing more
than Master, or as we should now say, Mr.
Jesus. The introduction of the phrase " Son
of God" was also opposed because, in the
popular s a iew,. it is regarded as implying that
he was the Son of God in a higher sense than
- that in Which God is the Father of us all.
These terms, with the following schedule of .a
creed were finally referred to a " Council of
Ten,' ; to act in the interim between this and
a future meeting. •
Whereas, Associate and efficient action can
only be expected of those who agree in cer
tain leading doctrinal statements or positions.
Resolved, That, without intending any in
tolerance of individual opinion, it is the right
and duty of this convention to claim of all
who take, part in its proceedings, an assent to
the fundamental doctrines hitherto held by
the Unitarian body, by reason of which it has
acquired its standing in the Christian world,
and asserts its lineage in the Christian
Church ; and, to this end, this convention
declares as essentially belonging to the Uni
tarian faith : -
Ist. Belief in the Holy Scriptures as con
taining a revelation from God to man—and,
as deduced therefrom,
2d. Belief in one God, the father.
3d Belief in one Lord, Jesus Christ,our
Saviour : the Son of God and his specially
appointed Messenger and Representative to
our race ; gifted with supernatural power,
"approved of God by , miracles and signs and
wonders which God did by him," and thus,
by Divine authority, commanding the devout
and reverential faith of all who claim the
Christian name.
4th. Belief in the Holy Ghost, the Com
forter. .
sth. Belief in the forgiveness of sins,the
resurrection from the dead, and life everlast
ing.
APRIL 22d, 1865.
FOR AFRICA.—The Western, Episcopalian
says :—" We are about to reap the first
fruits of our Mission-House scheme; the
incid,ental fruits, but nevertheless, part of that
for which the House was established. Mr.
Duerr, who has been a membar of the Mis
sion House for the last six months, is to be
ordained in Cleveland, on Saturday, Ist inst.,
by Bishop Malvaine. He was educated at
Basle; was'for some time a German pastor,
but has now cast in his lot with us, and goes
to do the Lord's work in Africa. Let many
prayers accompany him and his wife, as they
leave for the field of their future mission
life."
CATHortersm.—On Thursd, March 30,
the beautiful new Episcopal "Church of the
Messiah," in Brooklyn,_was opened -for wor
ship. The rector, Mr. Thrall, a fearless Low
Churchman, invited the pastors of six differ
ent denominations to deliver addresses on the
occasion of opening the edifice ! Addresses
were made by, representatives of five (Afferent
denominations. We notice, of late, that a
number of the clergy of the Episcopal Church
in and around New Tokk, are planting them
selves very boldly upon- their canonical Tight
of this kind of inter-denominational minister
ial intercourse. We notice, for one instance,
in the report of remarks made in a recent
" Christian Unity" meeting, held in the Re
formed Dutch Church on Washington
Square in that city, that Rev. John Cotton
Smith, D.D• Rector of the Church of
the Ascension, reviewed the standards
and - practice of the Church of England
and the Episcopal Church in this c3un
try, declaring with great emphasis, ex
plicitness, and power, that there is nothing
in the theory, in the foundation, or the rules
of his church, to forbid the interchange of
pulpits and the recognition of the validity of
the ordination of non-Episcopal ministers.
For himself, he believed his ordination to be
essential to the well-being, though not to the
being of a church, but he regarded Presby
terian ordination as perfectly valid. We re
gret to have it to add that Dr. Smith marred
this manly assertion of the liberties of Epis
copal clergymen under the canons, by propos
ing to non-. Episcopalians seeking ordination,
the silly subterfuge of receiving it through
the Moravian Church, and thus softening the
usual Episcopal objections to a true minis
terial fraternity.
To these we add the- following, taken from
the Christian Rmes (Protestant Episcopal),
of New York.
"The Church of the Epiphany, Washing
ton, D. C., a church regularly consecrated to
the worship of God according ,to the doctrines
and liturgy of the Protestant p Episcopal
Church, is now used every Sunday evening,
with the consent of the parties concerned; by
the "Foundry Church, for the worship of
God according to the doctrines and usages of
the " Methodist Episcopal Church." Dr.
Hall's congregation occupy the Church as
usual in the morning and afternoon. Who
ever denies the right of a parish to extend
such a courtesy will havey a heavy load to
carry. ' '
Nzw Oaszdugs.:—The Church in this city
is now assuming a more encouraging aspect.
Divine service is held on each Lord's day in
METHODIST.
UNITARIAN.
EPISCOPAL.
all the church edifices. The Rev. Mr. Jessup
has returned, and is now residing in J efferson.
He formerly officiated in Trinity Church, and
is much esteemed by the members of that
parish. He declines any place, until some
matters relative to the ecclesiastical authority
of the Diocese are adjusted. As a clerical
member of the Diocese, I am glad that he is
here, for his element of influence may do
much in restoring the Diocese to harmony of
action. The clergy here have united in send
ing an invitation to Bishop Hopkins to visit
New Orleans,
for the purpose of Episcopal
duties in this Diocese from which, if we are
favored with the visit, much good will arise.
—Spirit of Missions.
CONGREGA.TIONAL.
Rxvivsis.---Amongthe recent accounts of
these, we noticed that the church in East.
Somerville, Mass., received on the last Sab
bath, over seventy new communicants,. mak
ing nearly one hundred additions _in two
months. In Thompson ? Conn., the number
of hopeful conversions exceeds one hundred
and fifty, including several whoseage are
seventy years and upwards. A hundred cases
of hopeful conversion are reported at Put
nam, N. H., where the work extends for
many miles around. In Connecticut, the
work of salvation is going forward in Wood
stock, Putnam, and Thompson. In Boston,
special efforts, with some measure of bless
ing, have been going forward in the Mount.
Vernon and Shawmut Churches.
WORIONG ALONG.—We noticed, only a
few weeks since, that the church of Dr.
Storrs, in Book - ly . , n, N. Y., had by.:YOte,
adopted the practice of audibly joiningtllith
the pastor, in repeating the Lord's Pra_ yer as
part of the regular worship. We see by the
following, which we take from the Boston.
Recorder of the 31st ult., this was but a -pre
lude to further progress in the same direc
tion. Says the .Recorder:—" Rev. Dr.
Storrs, Jr., D.D., pastor of the. Pilgrim
(Congregational) Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
favors a partial ritual in his church service..
At a late meeting of his people for the dis
cussion of the subject, part of the church, the
older portion, opposed the innovation on the
ground that it was contrary to Congregational
usage for the last two hundred years; that.
any such approach to a liturgy would be a
substitute for heart religion, and sink the
church to a state of formalism, and that the
position held by the Puritans was correct.
The measure was however carried, the pastor
urging it ; and Dr. Storrs was authorized to
prepare and introduce such forms - and re
spouses as he proposed. This is certainlya
i
step in the wrong direction, and doubtless n
a few years there will be a clamor to go. far
ther."
BAPTIST.
PROGRESS IN BURMAH. —Mr. Bixby writes
to the Afac,edonian that he has lately baptized
fifty-five native converts, and formed two
churches. He adds:-"Among those bap
tized were two chiefs ; one of them gave me
his spear, saying, • This spear in the hands
of my, father when he was chief, took the
lives of ten men, to my knowled_ge now I
have no use for it, and therefore I.give it to
the teacher.' I brought it home with me as
a trophy of the gospel."
BArrisr MARINER'S CHURCH IN NEW
York.—When the Baptist church in Oliver
street, of which Dr. Cone was so long pastor,
was constrained to follow the people up town,
its meeting house, a capital building, in per
fect condition, was happily secured for the
use of a Mariner's church of the same denom
ination, under the pastorship of an experi
enced minister to seamen, Rev. Ira Steward.
God's blessing has followed the enterprise,
until the pastor's health gave way. But now
the place is happily filled by the appointment
of Dr. jtodge, of zeal, - Brooklyn, a man whose al,
earnearaess, fidelity, aud versatility are a
pledge of his fitness. The debt of $ll,OOO
on the house is about to be paid off, and the
property" will be conveyed to the Baptist
.Home Mission Society, in trust, to be kept.
as a place of worship, with free seats, for the
Baptist denomination in perpetuity.—Nation
al Baptist.
XPICELL/LN'EOUS.
REvrvms nv lowA.—The pastor of the
church in Fairfield writes to The News-Letter
that twenty-three new members mere added
on the first Sabbath of March--twenty-one of
whom made profession of their faith. In
Eddyville, in the same State, a:Union prayer
meeting has been held, resulting in seventy
five or eighty hopeftd conversions. Of these
twenty-two united with the Congregational,
and thirteen with the Presbyterian Church.
The News Letter also learns that the conver
sions in McGregor number one hundred and
fifty. Fourteen have united with the Con
gregational church at Lucas Grove.
MISSODRI AND ARKANS AS M.
, CONFERENG
—All reported large increase in hounds, mem
bership, and collections. Distracted as the
State has been through the last year, yet the
missionary collections exceeded by some s2at
the amount assessed. • Some circuits have
multiplied their membership nearly fourfold.
Several churches have been bought, and
thousands of church property secured to the
use of the M. E. Church. This is the first.
meeting of the Conference in free territory;
the first time that men could speak and aett
freely. One brother was there who had swam
one of our largest rivers to save his life years
ago ; one was present who had been warned
out of St. Joseph a few years before. One
was there who had been ridden on a rail;
another who had taken the tar off a pooe
brother to whom it had been applied, and
another who had been tarred himself. A
large number were received into the Confer
ence, some by transfer and others upon pro
bation, yet,a large number of places are left
to be filled by the presiding elders. Two new
districts were made, and yet these are aslarge
almost as an Eastern Conference.—N.
Christian. Advocate.
ITEMS.
" A Layman," who has left his name with
the editor of he N. K. Observer, propws„
through that paper, to become one of a hun
dred to contribute $lOO each to endow..a per
manent fund for the relief of disabled 1111815-
tern whose circumstances require such aid..
—A meeting, (one of a series in pro
gress,) for the discussion of the subject
of Christian Union, was recently held in
Dr. Hutton's (Reformed Dutch) Church,. in
New York. It was addreised by Rev. John
Cotton Smith, D.D., Episcopalian, Dr. Dow
ling, Baptist, and Prof'. Schaff, German Re
formed.—Rev. Dr. Bidwell, recently re
turned from Russia, reports to the managers
of the American Bible Society that.the Rus
sian empire is now open for the circulation of
the Scriptiires, and the demand is far beyond
the means of sapply.=-An elder recently
placed in the hands of his pastor $5O for one
of the benevolent enterprises of the church,
with this inscription :—" A thank-offering
for God's goodness to me and mine, and his
blessing on the labor of my hands during the
past year. "—Rev. Chandler Robbins, D.D.,
pastor of the Bedford Street (Unitarian)
Church, Boston, distinctly announced to his
people, on a recent Sabbath, that he could no
longer preach Unitarianism, and is now un
derstood to be an earnest inquirer after the
truth, if not already rejoicing in it.—We
notice with some surprise the announcement
that the question, "Is the doctrine of Bap
tismal Regeneration taught in on - I.N stan
dards?" is up'for diacussion in the New York
Pastoral Association of the Reformed Dutch
Church. -