CO family eirtio. THE BREEZE IN THE CHURCH. This beautiful little poem is from a volume reeently published in England by Mrs. Hink man, entitled Poems: 'T was a sunny day, and the morning psalm We sang in the church together ; We felt,iwour hearts the joy and calm Of,the calm and joyous weather. The slow, and sweet, and sacred strain, . Through every bosom stealing Checked every thought that was light and vain, And waked each holy feeling. We knew, by its sunny gleam how clear Was the blue sky smiling o'er us, And in every pause of the hymn could hear The wild birds', happy chornd. And lo from its haunts by cave otrill, With a sudden start awaking, A. bteeze,came fluttering down the hill, Its fragrant pinions shaking. Through the open windows it bent its way, And down the chaicel's centre, Like a privileged thi ctitthat at will might stray, And in holy-places enter. From niche to niche, from nook to nook, With a lightsome rustle flying, It lifted the leaves of the Holy Book, On 3 the altar cushion lying. It fanned the old clerk's hoary hair, :And ,the children's bright young faces; Then vanished, none knew how or where, Leaving its pleasant traces. It left sweet thoughts, of summer hours Spent in the (Iraq mountains; And the church seemed full of the scent of flow _ ers, And the trickling fall of fountains. The image of scenes: sustill and fair, With our music sweetly blended, - While it seemed their whispered hymn took share In the praise that to heaven ascended. We thought of Him who h4d poured the rills, And through the green mountains led them, Whose hand, when ' He piled the enduring linTS, With a mantle of beauty spread them. And a purer passion was borne above, In a ',Nader anthem swelling, As we bowed to the visible spirit of love On.those calm summits dwelling. MARY GLEASON'S FAITH. "Look here, Mary ; I wouldn't gather the beans now. Let them hang and ripen if they will ; for if we don't have rain soon, there'll certainly be a fipine."' And Farmer Gleason took off his hat and wiped his brow, which was not only, damp but , dark. Mrs. GleaSon sat down her basket beside thq tall cedar, poles, and walked slowly towards her husband, talkihg as she went :--- - " You are so fond of shelled beans, Myron, I thought I would, cook.-some for dinner.; but no matter, we can do' very well without them. Nre do need, raip.," she added, looking around. " Heed it I we are almost perishing for need of it I Just look at that corn all rolling upil everything is spoiling -- - -spoiling." His tone was most des pondent. " There are two or three rows on that little ridge that look ratherwilted, to, be sure ; but I do not see as that a little beyond is injured. What a dark rich color I Doesn't it look well?" " Tolerably ; but I tell you, Mary, if we don't have rain before three days, I shall give up, all hope of raising any thing. There must be a famine I" "k Oh, I guess not 1 In damp and wet places - there will be ge o'a crops. We are promised seed-time and harvest —l'm not afraid to trust God, Myron." She looked so hopeful, and her tone was so cheery, it was evident she did not share her husband's anxiety. In truth, he was irritated by her very calmness. "You don't seem to realize, Mary, how things. are suffering. Look there, the ground is like ashes." As he spoke, he struck his hoe into the parched soil, and scattered it around, like ashes, surely. "Yes, dear, I do fully realize the treat need of rain; but, Myron, don't we know that a good God reigns over all 2" -"I don't know about God'a being good. to withhold rain." :" Why Myron, don't say so I Does I not the goodness of Gad endure con tinually ?' Are we not repeatedly as sured that his mercy endureth, for ever 2 1 Mr, Gleason leaned heavily on his hoe, and seemed,;recalling the assur ances to which his wife had referred ; c.a. he was a constant reader of the Bible; and in prosperity his faith Was lively and constant, but adversity weakened his love, and troublous waves of doubt swept over him. Sud d..s.nly he raised his head and looked. into the calm,peaceful face before,him, watching , every shade, of expression as he liked, "Mary, do you really feel that it is kind and merciful for God to withhold rain ?" "I certainly do." "And you. lbve him just as ardently, and feel to praise him all the same ?" _ " Most certainly I do I" and she took a step forward, and laid her hand lightly ou MS. " Most certainly I do. Why, Myron, are we not as clay, in the hands of the potter,' and is it not just for God to give or withhold, as 6e,emeth him good? What have we done to deserve blessings from his bounteous hand? Do we not sin against him continually? Do we not grieve' the Holy Spirit, and forget to follow the exainple of the Lamb ? Dear husband, I know that God is ust and merciful and holy. I can trust him forever and ever." "What if he send famine upon the earth, Mary ?" " Then welcome famine." "And are you willing, to the by starvation ?" "I: certainly am, if that is ray Father's way to take me from this life." He gazed at her a moment with ad miration. Her glowing faith seemed to have fanned to light his own faint taper, but it flickered still. His eyes fell sadly, and his 'voice sank to an humble cadence. "I don't feel as you do ; my faith is weak, all too weak ; but—l want to trust want a spirit of 'reconciliation." " Then, Myron dear, let your will conform to`our Father's' Lose your own will, your own desires, in His. Let us renounce our own strength, our own wisdom, giving ourselves wholly to Him, and if the, union is entire, we shall feel no spirit of rebel lion. Faith rePels any suggestion of God's injustice. Faith lilts us to an appreciationef His truth and wisdom, and, relying upon that, we need have no fear but to diSobey. I cannot question his goodness, Myron ; my poor finite mind may ,not comprehend the necessity ,for adversity; but it, accepts it meekly, confident that all, chastening ‘ - yieldeth the peazeable fruit of righteous4sS: " ' "1 wish I could' feel as you, do's, Mar y." " You do sometimes, you ,now.„7 ",Hardly.. Sometimes I think I love niy Maker, and am willing to j3llthilit to his will; but my faith is ;weak fluctuating. However, it is stronger now than it was a half-hour since; so come, let me help you gather the beans!" • She gave him a quick, demUrring glance; but he smiled, and led he back to the basket As they quickly, snapped the pretty stripped . pods from the vines, Mary said, "Myron, have,. you thought, since the drought, of any of God's warnings to the Israelites about rain ?" "No ; do you remember any ?" "I have read them several times within a week ; but I cannot repeat Scripture as my dear father could. They were charged, I know, in, order to ensure the bleSsing, to `Fear the Lard I Tarn shalt thou - ''served a nd to Him shalt thou cleave. Thou shalt love 'the - Lord thy God and' keep' his`. charge and his statutes and his jog nie,nts 4wiyo.' Do we ever that' obediince to God's IaWS is necessary in order for us to eipect the; great brew.' ing of rain? l ' 'lf yon - Shall 'hearken diligently .unto ru . , - CoMidandinents which I, command you , thii day, to loVe` the Lord your God,_ and to serve him with all your heart; and with all your soul, then I will gjve ydu the rain of your land in his due Season, that thou rnayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not de ceived and ye turn aside and serve other gods and worship them : and then the Lord's wrath be kindled against you ' and he shut up the heaven that there be no rain', and that theland yield not her fruit."— Congregationalist. HOME -USEFULNESS; Calisthenics ftri young girls are good, but the active services they stimulate, are better. There has been a necessity, for an artificial substitute, as medicine is necessary in sickness ; but when the fresh question arises with, the rising generation, How shall our, daughters be brought up ? it brings, us baok to the true and natural !nuns of physical development—home usefulness. Not' to the extent practised by oar grand mothers, whose overdoing of duty we have been expiating ; they drew so largely upon the capital of their con-' 'stitutions as to have but little stamina to transmit to their daughters—but the pendulum has now swung far enough in the opposite direction, as proved . by. the 'existing necessity for exercises,' and our part is the golden mean, a moderate share of household • labor. We have watched an accomplished and' graceful tepher of light gymnastics with a running commentary of this sort—" If that were a scrubbingbriish in her ban& instead of delightful aleanlinesS re suit from such expenditure 'of force!- now we may 'fancy the family bread' is being kneaded, and what bread it would be with all that Vigorous work ing !—now she is sweeping' the hduse, flourishing a duster, 'making beds.; now the march to the sound of music —those measured steps - with the ac companiment of a cheerful will, Would do all the errands; here come the hewerS of wood and drawers of water— what a train of heavy buckets that sys tematic energy would convey into a western cabin in drought time! and What sunshine would come with thein." Now we cannot help inferring that work is wholesome, nay, indiSpensa-, ble, if them_otions that mimic - it are found to be so ; and surely it is stupid' to be puzzling over the problem of domestic service,'at the same tithe that' we patronize• its counterfeit' Pregent ment. The old-faShioned rule of alter:- nate work and play, is as good now is it was then—earnest work and earneqt play, not the barren mockery of either.' This scientific going through the mo tions satisfies neither soul 'nor body,. and is only good as a fore Vn shadong and prelude of such a harrnonions arrangeraent - ot domestic Matters as shall make the trained servants vainly long to be those of our ownhousehold. The following passage in Mrs. Stowe's House and Home Papers is to the point. " Our land is now full of niotopathic institutions to Which - women, are sent, 'at-great expense-to laVe hired ntiera- THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1865. tors stretch and exercise their inactive muscles. They lie for hours to have their feet twigged, their arms flexed, and all the different, muscles of the body worked for them, because they are so flaccid and torpid that the pow* of life do. not go on. Would it nab° quite as cheerful and less ex pensive a process, if young girls, from early life developed the muse* in sweeping, dusting, ironing, rubbing furniture, and all the multiplied domes tic proCesses which our 'grandmothers knew of 7. - A woman: who did all . these, ' and diversified the intervals with -spinning on the great and little wheel, never, came to need the gym-. nastics of Dio Lewis or the awedish motorpatbist, which are really a neCes sity now. Does it, not seem poor: economy to pay servants for letting; our muscles , grow feeble, and then , toi pay operators to, exercise them. for, us:? I will venture to gay that: our grand mothers in a. week went, over.: every , movement that any gymnast had in vented, and went over them: to some: productive -purposes tooc-Lady's Frier.d. , , : Early ote , fro*. morning, the oilier (I . A.Y, 'a man going earlY his work, saw stMethinelying beside a pile of boards •Whieh made him sud denly'atop. He thought be saw two heads. Sure enough, they were two little heads on4ome leaves! andstraw. He kicked away the leaves with" his foot, and found two'small children, with their arnis ronnd. each • other, asleep : ; ;an old shawl covered them. The little boy opened his eyes. "How came you here, 'children ?" asked the man. "We had nowhere else to sleep," said the boy. Tht little girl then waked up,and began to cry: Hush, sissy," he said.; " don't cry." How came, you here, children?" asked_ the man again:. " Where's.your •. . mother ?" " Mothers dead," answered the boy. "Haven't u, a father 7" "Yes,; sir," answerer 4159.1.• wt.eT he ?" asked AlL.kinap. , turned us out bf,.:cloors,litst He drinked, and 'came: honte l nct:sweAded, us Out - of' the .house„ and sissy liere,"said:tlie tittle boy. " 4 Popr, dear ,Children," cried the man, t ears running down his .brawn elPiks I 0 6 ; rum .ail •(4, Nothing ;tut can turn a Alper's, .)Aeart to ,stone, and make him' drive his mother less children from his door. an. I dare say rum broke your poor ruo ther's heart." The man took the poor littl9 girl in, his as, for she was stiff with cold, Ir a and carried them both to hianwn . w kitchen, where _ his wife gave_ the ~ plenty of good breakfast. , - He then went to hunt up their miser able father. He was on tt > floor in his own house, raving with tlitit'siek: ness which is the drunkard's own sick 7. ness--deliriu9n tremens. Once he was an industrious, healthy man. Now what a sight was he I The' neighbolt called him a beast, That is not fair, for the poor beasts are kind to their little ones. He was: r, far; far below the beast. He hadwthade hithself a degraded monster. That is what rum, whiskey; and strong drink do for a: man, - boys.-- Chilel's Paper. - There are delightful moments in al 'most every Christian's We, when pass 'ages, of Scripture unfold themseLves suddenly with singular •beauty and power. New depths areilisceire in them never seen before, and: the heart finds in . them an unspeakable comfort. , Dr. Hackett, in his bea,ntiful tribute :to 'Prof. Chase, alludes to a- topclting ex perience of this kind: A few weeks before his .death Lwas asking him whether there was any .'particular passage of Scripture which 'had interested his-inind latelytmorethat 'any other. After' a< briet thoughtful pause, he replied, "Yes, there is one." , And then, as if suddenly - inspired with new, strength in his weakness, and with `an interest which spread 'an unwonted animation over his features, he pro ceeded very nearly jai theSe words`: "A few weeks ago I had been Mu dded by my health for several Sab baths Nom going to the house of •God. I was anxious to enjoy .that prilege - once more, which I always loved: ana' which might prove to be my, last." With difficulty I dragged myself along, rather than walked, ftnd 'at' length reached the chtirch. As I.'entered the sanctuary, the choir was chanting the - Words: 'Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden; and r `give yOu rest.' The words impressed tine as "they never did before. I saw a meaning in them I never saw before: . i sat down in the pew ,' and over come by my feelings. You. know, MY" brother, I am not given to weeping,-L-- that is not My nature. But I could not restrain my feelings thele, .I did weep and sob, and it was a relief to me. I seemed to hear a iroiceirt tion which sounded out to all the world. :II seemed to h,ave a view the Sa.vi. 4. .mr sOetchi*out Ills arms', anilaiyigg'to all the linhidn - failily, `Conie unto me, all ye that ,tabor anAl are heavY laden, and. I will give You rest' I felt that those words were for me, and for all the children of men: I longed that all Might come and par take of than blessed rest which the Saviour has ,i praiided for - thoSe Rho' trust in hire. A, HARD BED. A VERSE 'OPENER. ttrt fitho. FAMILIAR TALKS WITH THE CHIL DREN. VII. BY REV. EDWARD PAYSON HAMMOND. CITILDREWS TEARS. DID NOT SEE ANYTHING TO CRY ABOUT.". These are the words of a young Sab bath-school scholar, who had not found out 'what a dreadful thing it is to sin against God and reject his dear Son whom he gave to die for us. But she attended some solemn meet ings where the Holy Spirit led many little children, yes, and some oldei• ones, to see that they were lost sinners, that their hearts were very wicked. I wender if you, my little reader, hive seen how much reason you, have to weep over ybur sins. Paul, a though he was 'a very good , man, thought he was serving God, even While he was perSecuting Chris tians ; but when " Suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven, he if:ell , upon the earth,. and heard a voice .saying to , him, Saul; Saul, why -persecuteetthou me." Yes, when , a .light from heaven came into, hip -black Ileart, then, "he trembling and astonishek said, ~Lord, what. wilt_ thou have. me to 'do?" You can read all. about it in the 9th. chapter:of Acts. I hope that; like Paul and the Writer of this little. - letter, you will see that you have great ! reason to weep over. your .sins, and to seek Jesus before it is forever too late : APRIL, 1864. 'I have found the dear Saviour and trust and believein him now. The first Sabbath yoU preached here, 'I went to heat you" out'of mere curiosity, and when you said there' would be an inquiry -meeting after the.othef nte,tivw, I wondered what kind of a meet.- mg.that-was; but rstaid" to seb, and *hen I the people crying around the , I wondered'What they • were crying for. 1 1 did not see anything ;go crY about. I went Monday and tuesday. Mr. Dick : inion came and spoke to Me and prayed With. info,' and 'I 4' pt on geing,',finding no test:for My soul till; riday mght, whengesub washed my B awaYi and have' felt.very happy, ever since. I bre to read myPible apdpriiy noW,`and IVint everybody else about Hinz I 'kiw to sing "Ebealme'lio*, and' all there sweet hymns Out .of the• levitial `Melodist.. I try to. be' more kind and pattrfitto. my little sisters ; and more obedient to ny.PaVents: Satin often ten4tS ,m e; but I peay' to'JostO '*h me to'r ha does: I. have determined i by JeStit'' fielltr to live a ConSistent _Christian ,life: Al- though we seperate here Soon on : earth; me will meet - heaten where • tbete,no Tart,' ,mg: Pray', for me also that I May nOt•stray from the'straighijaod narrow'path. You see this little writer says, " Satan often tempts me, but I pray to Jesus to liqp me to resist him" Do you think Jesus answered. hen? I know he did if. she gave herself to him, and trusted, him all , the'tiine; 'and I think she did, for I havf!, just had a letter from her, Whieh is dated eight -mon.tlis after the first, and she says :-- "I STILL CLING CI;OSER, aESITS." When. children of early years give themselvas to the dear Saviour, they Are more apt to live deyoted. and Ilse fnl lives than if ~they wait till Satan has more power over them. BoLcie of ihe best Cgristiatts I have ever 'known gave their hearts to Christ , when under nine years oiage. . : ' NovEMBER 5th,.1864, I still, keep_my hope in J, esua, I, some : . times have doubts and fears, butl banish . theM all'aiasi and cling still closer to Jeans. I have joined church, and feel.it, a'great, privilege to be Tiumbered . among the children j e , of God . " , I attend a girls' rayer-meeting (with 'an average attendance o from eight to twilie); and love'to go, feel' it'a privilege ,to spend an hour in prayer and praise to God. Will you pray for us that •we may :continue in our good. work ? The. morning prayer-meeting is very interesting. '`f IT, WAS JUST BECAUSE I SAW A TRAI3, IN ; kY 'EYE." If that was all that made Ahis little child weep i I don't wonder „ she found ,out, she w,is dgeeived,when she became a Christian: • A tear or two will never cleanse our 3soukfr9m sin .„, ••; , • • In Ist John i. 7, it is written, " The blood - Of.JesiisOhrist his Son cleanseth us from all " sin." If this little child really` confessed her sins and asked. God for a new heart, then - I know he gave her one, for in 'the ninthi verse of this same -chapter in John it says, "If we, confess . onr sins, lEte.is , faithful_and :just to forgive us 'olir sins and cleanse' us fronrall'unrightemisness." But fOu noW want to read this nice little letter:— . . that The 'first day ht I went to the childiens' meeting, I was late and did not heir anything that you said. The next day I went with two of my companions, and played all the time. The next day I went to piayer-meet. • ing in the morning. When you asked those that . liad found the Saviour to sing "r Xesus;" rsaw that-my mother had mtear iu hereye beicatm I could not get up. and sing 'it. 1 then resolved to give, myself to. Jews, that' dear' and thought that rdid,: • but it, was all deception. It just beecticse rani) a tecir iny:mother's eye., Batliasked God to take.roy,wicked heart . away, Juid,give the's Clean heart, and he has done so. 'hope that yen will' Pirity for me, that' I may be strengthened. I think that it seems`very ,strange to me that every one does not love the dear Jesus . who died to - save us on the Cosa Thive some trouble, but lask" Goii to forgive me, and I trust that• he has. -, your little friend, "I CRIED; BUT NOW I FEEL LIKE SING , INGA,LL THE TIME. . What do you think made' this change in this girl of thirtedti sum mers ? . Lilo not' certainlyknow but from her letter 'I 'think I,110" reason is, tha ihe come ',Teslis and hey washed her tears away and has given her a new, singing heart. Yo a see she speaks about that wicked being, the devil, who, the Bible says, in Ist Peter v. 8, "Be sober, be vigi lant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour whom resist steadfast in the faith." Those who are not Christians never think much about this wicked creature. This is another reason why I think this young friend has given herself to Christ ; and if she has, I am glad she " feels like singing." I think that I have found the dear Jesus. find him so precious to my soul, I do not see how I could have rejected him so long. I think that 1 can sing with the rest of those who have found Jesus, "Jesus is mine." The first time that I came to these meetings I-cried. But now I feel like singing all the time. The devil did not like it when I found the dear Jesus. This morning lam afraid he was a trying to tempt me, but I went into my room and prayed that .Jesus would help me to' resist him, and I thinkle did. I told the devil that, he could go-away to somebody else, and tempt them---that,,,l did not want him to tempt me, and that be should not. I went' to inquiry-meeting this morning, and we had a very nice prayer-meeting in the library-room. 11Ir. 'Hammond, will you please pray_fOr two very dear friends Who are yet without Jesus? May they` shed tears when they:hear the melting story of the lamb. Will, you . please pray for me, that I may gm tinue on in hiS good work ? and please pray foir my father and mother, sister, brother, and, those two dear friends who are without Jesus,?_Pray for your friend, just thirteen years 01. That you may the better remember this little girl's letter, I have written foryou some of her thoughts in verse. "I FEEL LIKE SINGING ALL THE TIME." I feel like singing all the'time My tears'are wiped away; For Jesus is a friend of mine, serve him every day. When on the cross my Lord I saw Nailed there by . sit La mine, Fast fell the burning teUrs,*but now I am singing all the time. When fierce tertttations try my heart I'll sing "Jews is mine." And so, though tears at times may start, I'M singing all the time. Ah happy little singing one, What music ie lik:p thine? With Jesus as thy life• and sun, G'-o : singing all the time... The: melting Story of the :Lamb'," Tell,with that voipe,of thine. ofhpri thegla"cl, "new song" Go Singing all the!'tinie. Ittighnto tuttiligtutt. REFORMED DETER. Tili.;'Woxg tilinoAD.—Rev. Mr. Brown, of the mission of the Reformed Dutch Church in 4 - apaii l under date of January 14, writes: —Our week of prayer, is past, and I hope there was something of the spirit of prayer 'in the hearts of 'Christians for the little flock here. I believe that week of prayer did is rill good, and that it served to unite our' hearts more perfectly in the bonds of ChriSt's love. On the first day of the year we received „to our communion a seaman, (carpenter;) belonging to the English flagship. EurYalus.This man has been some five months a converted . person, and is intelligent and zealous for Christ. Since then, a daily meeting has been commenced on that ship, in. the lower hold, on the water-tanks. There are now two of our church members on that ship. There are three others who seem to be in earnest about their salvation. They, 'with the two men first spoken of, have cote .menced theprayer-ineeting. One of the two men came in this evening to tell, me what they were • doing, and - shad been, -out buying , some mats to lay, on the cold iron tanks when rthey met to pray. When men will go to inch a plaCe - of their own accord, where they ieahnot stand erect, -in the hold of a ship, to ; pray and read GOs Word, and sing, his praises they are apt-to be in earnest. RNIAN unroulm). ACCESSIOI4B.—Amon the Pennsylvania re- Torts, we notice the foing recent recep tion's to the eomrannio , most of them con 'firmati'ons of 'persons baptized in childhood. Cherry Charge, Sullivan and Bradford Coun ties,, = l7; Keely's Church, Montgomery :County, 18; Limerick - , Montgomery County, •31; Codorus Charge, York County, 21. WANT nINISTERS.—This, we learn by the „Me.ssen,ger,„is-now,very great in the Crer .man Reformed. Church —so great as to threaten serions' embaiasinient. The Nes :sewer invokes: the. earnest attention to the subject,,,Of the Classes about to hold. their :animal Meetings, and urges that every con gregation- in the communion should be ap ,pealed to for, young men who will consecrate 'themselves to the service. HOME' MISSION OF THE G. R. - CHURCH.-- The contributions to this cause hare consider ably increased, the help of the Board has in cieNsed within two years - from twenty-six to forty-tWo. • - EPISCOPAL. NEW' DIOCESEN OF WESTERN NEW YoRK.---Bishop A. C. Coxe; (left, by the de -tease of Bishop. DeLincey, sole administrator ,of the Diocese,) is, in his present eminent po on , retaining and even making advance upon the popularitywhich he enjoyed as a Presbyter. The, Commercial, Advertiser, of Oswego, in a notice of his 'late official visit to. that city, sayis:—"..The bishop preached without noteS, in _a most fervent, earnest manner, seeming the.rapt attention , of all. His address to the candidateS was most affectioriatO and impres= -Apart `from his eminent gifts' as a Aithful scriptural preacher, he attracts many Jo his services, from his high reputation as a poet, and:more from his devoted loyalty and j devotiop.to- his country while in Baltimore. It was in testimony,.:to this latter fact, that one Of the vestry nitrOducad the AmeriCan flag into 'the "SundaY-schoel -room. and the children sang 'America' and Victory at _ - - TJEEE'VERG CLERGY TO PRAY Fox THE . E'R.EF.ODEiIT. - -Bibhor• Johns, of the'Diocese of Virginia, has finally relieved , his clergy of their embarrasmeiit with the Union authori ties, by giving them, his tpiscorial recoMmen ; datiOn to. isle the payer - for the President of ,the. United States. Itaisletter to,the clergy _and laity,,he says :—" The issue,of the pain ful oeintiet 'through which we have Passed, and which leaves the Commonwealth' under the, jurediction of the United States,- renders very clear the course to _ pursued, obedi ence to ,` the powers that be,' 'for conscience' sake,', is the duty of all who , profess and'call themselves, Christians; And as such are also enjoined to make ,prayer and supPlicotions for%theif ridirkli. is incumbent upon them to inplorethe bleasing:ofAhnighiy God on. these . • in ahthoritynver them. .For 'thisrpurpose• the player to which we had been lotlg was towed is, for obvious reasons, most advisable. Therefore, Ido not hesitate to recommend its use in public worship, by the rood people of thisbiome, and to express the hope that they, will be true and faithful to its spirit,- in all their action and intercourse with their fellow-citizens; that the resumed civil rela tions maybe:hapily, maintained, and redound to the glory of God and the temporal and spiritual vvelfare of the nation." This, considering the bishop's unequivocal sympathy with the rebellion, is certainly put,. ting the case very . well: BAPTIST. IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE ACCOMPLISHED. —Some seven years since three bretbieri of the Spruee Street Church •in this ',city. ert gaeed Rev. J. G. Binney. D.D., President of Columbia College near Vis:asbil?gicl,P,S9 institution to the East and establish an for the training of a native_Karen ministry. Dr, Binnoy proceeded to . Rangoon. organized a school for such instruction at Beminendine, and, after a successful course of labor, has now returned to this country. • CORRY, PENNSYLVANIA.--This town is one of the almost magical growths of interngrail communication. It' is situated on the "re cently opened Philadelphia and Erie. Rail road, at the point from which the Oil - Czee Railroad branches out. There amongstidays and bushes is a town of some five thonsand inhahitants, with a prospective number in=„ definite. The Baptists have erected , achapet , - which, with the exception of a Popish-mass house, is the first church edifice in the:pjatlN It was dedicated on the 26th ult.., and ;the church, under the pastorate of Rey. A. D Bush,. is happily under way.. writes Cotomuo.—Rev. Algiond Barrelle to the National Baptist from Central "At present I am the only Baptist mintstor. in a territory of over one hundred thousantl sqrlare miles, alive-with a thrifty mining pope tation. The territory is immensely rich id gold, but all the miners with few exeeptiom • are poor. The mines of Colorado are worked by capitalists in. the East. These compardei take the gold." Mr. Barrelle further con=` plains that the Baptists are a year behind all other denominations in the Occupation of Coloradq, and makes an earnest appeal for books' and tracts, particularlt , denominational literature, such as "presents the gesPel in its PHILADELPHIA.—Thq Spring , Garden.Bap- - tist Church is about to receive a pastor,,ip the person of Mr. Lewis P. Hornberger,:no* a member of the senior class of Hamilton Theological Seminary. We notice with r,e .gret the resignation of an esteemed city pas tor, Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, of the tleventli Baptist Church.' His pastorate there hil3 been one of considerable success.r. . , KANSAS CITY, MISSOURL—To the church in this place there have been, during the last four months, thirty-two additions, eighteen of Which were• from the Sabbath-school.: • METHODIST. IVEr t inttutukMAssAcmisErrs, Acammv. —This is an institution of the ,M. E. Ohnreh, and has recently enjoyed a spiritual refresh ing, as the result of which twenty-two were received into the church on the 7th inst. „ _FROM OF DISLOYALTY.--it is reported that the Black River Conference, at its re cent session, tried one of its members for dis loYalty, and the committee chwed, with the duty reported that the suspicion against him arose from the fact that lie was not natural ized, and that he took the paper called'the World. The Conference evidently held that a good Christian shall renounce the World, as well as the fleshly and the devil.—Aduocate and JournaL CHARLESTON. S. C.—Rev. T. W. Lewis, under date of Charleston, April 28th, writes to the Mission Rooms of the M. E. Church: —"ln the four Methodist Churches I supply nine preaching appointments, filling three myself on the Sabbath. We have now four Sabbath-schools in active operation; two of them have been organized since I came here, and all are prospering. On Sabbath nights the altars are usually crowded with seekers, and we have held a morning prayer meeting daily for the last two weeks with good success; several profess conversion. I held the first quarterly conference for Old Bethel, Zion, 11101 Spring Street, on the first Friday.in the month. I have regnlarly organized these three into Methodist Episcopal Claurchei." CANADA—SYMPATHY OF THE mrrno- Dins.--The Conference of the M. E. Church of Canada was in session at Strathray, when the news of the assassination of - President Li pain was received. A solemn public ser vice was ordered, which, by invitataon of the authorities, took place at the Town - Hall, the Conference walking there from the °birch in procession with raised hats. There they were joined by a large concourse of citizens. Addresses were delived by Bishop Smith, who presided, and several other of the clergy. While prayer was being offered to God in be half of the people of the United States, the , safety of President Johnson, the recovery of Hon. W. H. Seward and son, for the widows and fatherless of the neighboring country, as also for the arrest of the desperate assassins, many a hearty amen was uttered by the peo ple. The. Conference further appointed a special Committee "to prepare an address of condolence: to the people of the United States in this day of their national affliction." ENOUGH 'OF THE CHURCH SOUTH. " We see it stated that, on a recent Sabbath, in the State Street M. E. Church, Mobile, where a vast audience had gathered to hear Rev. Mr. Conway, the question was prtposed —"Do you 'desire:to continue your relation ship with the MI E. Church Smith, or to seek a union with the M. E. Church?" The call was made to express the answer by -rising: Not one rose for continuing the Southern relation, but as nearly as could be seen, the entire membership called for the restoration of the old national relation. FOR REVIVAL EFFORTS IN LONDON.—We find the tbllowing paragraph at the conclusion of a report of the proceedings of the N. W. Branch of ~the London Y. M. C. A., April 29 :—Every Sabbath afternoon we are called to rejoice over fresh trophies of the. Lord's grace, and frequently at the Wednesday eve ning meeting it, is our joy to raise. Glory, honor" over young men " parsed from death unto life." 'The open-air work has com menced in right earnest; with most encour aging results. Lissougrove was • visited on Lord a day last, and twelve Open-air meet ings were held. In the evening over fifty young Men'started' on * this mission, and the need fbr such services was soon demonstrated by large groups of labbringinen at the corners Of thc streets and apparently whole families at the windows o)' the hosies. We have rea son -to believe these services were useful to 34:111114 . • We also clip from The Reaual the-follow ing testimony respecting the work wrought in East Londoir, where there has lately been a grat, increpe of : tract distributions, mission open-air services; and other religions meetings': `i An elderly Christian who had known' Spitalfields in its glory,' said that if the story , of the. reformation in the East of London were told', it would be fund` to be miraculCius. How great is the' change! -Thieves, vagabonds drunkards, blasphemers, scoffers, And infidels have become converted and are' preaching 'the gospel. Jews, too, aril' 'men of :other -nations = have confessed , ChriitUfore the world."
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