61jr famitg
FLOWERS.
The flowers the lovely flowers
They are springing forth again,
Are opening their gentle eyes
In forest and on plain I
They cluster round the ancient stems
And ivied roots of trees,
Like children playing gracefully
About a father's knees.
The flowers! the lovely flowers ! .
Their pure and radiant eyes
Greet us where'er we turn our sight,
Like angels from the skies;
They say that nought exists on earth,
However poor and small,
Unseen by God; the meanest things—
He careth for them all!
The flowers the lovely flowers.!
The faireSt type are they
Of the soul springing from its night
To sunshine and to day;
For though they lie all dead and cold,
With winter's snow above,
The glorious spring doth call them forth
To happiness and love!
Ye flowers! ye lovely flowers I
We greet ye well and long!
With light, and warmth, and sunny smile,
And harmony, and song!
All dull and sad would be our earth,
Were your bright beauties not,
And thus, without Life's Flowers of Love,
0, what would be our lot!
THE OLD MA ,N ENTERTAINED.
The day was bitter cold ; piercing
winds rushed furiously, the surface of
the earth was covered with ice, and
the scene was one of cheerless desola
tion. In the sweet country where
roses and verdure had filled the air of
summer with fragrance; winter had
jostled summer away, and with his
chilling breath had frozen every beau
tiful thing.
The gusts of wind caused the blinds
to creak and loose boards to swing,
when a lady opened her front door to
isee what would be the result of the
mighty tempest. She looked out, she
hardly knew why, but the sight she
saw transfixed her gaze.
There in the street before her door
stood an old man, with his silvery
hair streaming in the wind, his clothes
thin and old, while by the aid of a
cane he was struggling to stand on the
smooth ice with that fearful wind
sweeping against him. As the lady
opened her door, le turned towards
her and endeavored to walk that way.
She watched him a moment as he
tried to speak to her, and. to come to
wards her.
"He is certainly intoxicated," the
lady thought; and suddenly closing
her door, she went back to her warm
sitting-room. When she reached the
window, she saw that he had stopped,
and was looking at the closed door in
despair. No anger was in his thin
face, but a look of s - uffe,ring and of
disappointment. Putting his cane
upon the hard ice again, he turned
back to the road.
The lady watched his •uncertain
steps, and soon she -pitied him. His
frame shook with the cold, and his
benumbed bands could scarcely grasp
his heavy staff. It was more than a
quarter of a mile to the next house,
and every step of the way " glare
ice." How could he ever get there ?
The lady grew ashamed. "Of what
am I afraid ?"—she asked .herself—
"Of a poor old man who is so feeble
he can scarcely stand?"
"But," something whispered, "per
haps he is not so Ale as he pretends.
He may be intoxicated; that is why
he is on this retired road on a day like
this. If you take him in and warm
him, he may prove to be ugly." The
evil counsel prevailed, and the lady
"watched him till she saw him nearly
fall. Then her pity spoke again,
" Poor old man; he can never walk to
the next house ; he will surely perish,
and I shall be responsible for his,
death. I must not leave him to die
and go into eternity unprepared."
Again she opened the door, and
again the old man turned towards her.
He tried to walk, but the ice and the
wind were against him The lady's
pity grew strong,
and flying down the
path, she offered him her hand. He
took it, and she was shocked at his
benumbed situation. Tenderly she
led him into the house and placed
him in a chair before the warm fire.
Then she removed his cap and thin
mittens, and sat down beside him
watching to see whether he was
really intoxicated as she had imagin
ed.
"I thank you, lady," he said, in a
gentlehvoice. "I thought I was about
to perish, but the Lord has provided
for me. The Lord brought me to
your door that you might help me."
How the lady's heart rebuked her.
Instead of being a drunkard, be was
one of the Lord's chosen 'ones. What
if she had permitted him to die ? She
shuddered at the thought.
"It is too cold for you to be out to
day," she said.
"I know it, madam, but I haire
come a long way to see an old friend.
The stage left me at the corner back
_here, and I have walked the rest of
the way. I suppose I have nearly
reached my friend's house. He is old
like me, and for many years I have
not seen him."
" What is your friend's name ?"
" William Smith."
" William Smith I" echoed the lady
" Why he lives in the very next
house. He is a dear, good old man."
'• Yes," answered the visitor, "he
was always good. Peithaps you have
heard him speak of me. My name is
Jacob Snow."
The lady held her breath. "Jacob
Snow !" she repeated, " Are you the
former benefa,ctor of John Towle, my
husband's father:7"
" Yes," the old: man replied, "I
knew John Towle ; but I could not
befriend any one now, for I have lost
my property ) and I am too old to get
more."
" Stay with us then,".said the lady,
overwhelmed at the thought that she
had been tempted to let the good man
perish.
Soon her husband came in, and the
next day, when the old man went to
visit his friend, he was carried in a
nice sleigh, and loving hands adminis
tered to his wants. His gratitude, his
fervent piety and deep humility were
a rich reward for the lady's kindness.
She loved to listen to his holy con
versation, and felt that she had indeed
entertained anal" angel unawares."
"Cast thy bread upon the waters,
and thou shalt find it after many
days," said the old man. " Little did
I think when I saved the farm of
John Towle, in the time of his dis-
tress, that his children would nourish
me in my old age."_
"Never close your doors upon way
farers," the rady often observed to her
friends, "nor judge them too harshly,
for by your kindness to- them a great
blessing may come to you, as there
has to me. The blessing -of the
Lord's poor is better than gold."—
Messenger.
GRANDMA HAS ONLY MOVED TO
HEAVEN.
"Wouldn't you like to see grand
ma's flowers, auntie?" asked little
Nellie, on the afternoon of my arrival
at her father's house.
I looked into the child's upturned
face inquiringly. Her grandma, my
own dear mother, had been dead
nearly two months; what had she to
do with earthly flowers ?
"Perhaps you think I haven't any
grandma," said the child, .apparently
comprehending my look; "but I have,
she has only moved to heaven she
went last spring, before The flowers
came, but then she has them all the
time there;" and her face brightened
at the thought,' for she knew how
grandma loved flowers, and she loved
grandma dearly.
" Yes, I will go," I said, taking the
proffered hand.
" Allie go see ganma's flowers too,"
lisped a wee thing,' scarcely two years
old, who came toddling toward us,
with outstretched arms. So another
tiny hand was clasped, and we three
went into the garden.
"These are grandma's," said my
little attendant, pointing to the flowers
that bordered the walk we were just
entering. " She planted them all her
self, just before she went to the prom
ised land ' to live."
These flowers, then, my mother _had
planted with her own feeble, trembling
hands. It was her last work, a work
she had always loved ; but this time
she had done it for others, for she
knew she should not watch their
growth, she should not see them bud'
or blossom.
"Don't cry, auntie," said the child,
"for she has all the flowers she wants
now, and she is never tired, and will
never be sick anymore." 4
" Whotold you all this ?' ,
I inquired,
stooping down to kiss the flowers, and
the sweet little faces that looked so
sympathizingly up to mine.
" Why, grandma used. to tell us
about it every day, until one morning
she went to sleep, and they carried
her away. And she said we might
come and live with her too, by-and by,
if we were good children ; and we are
going sometime, ain't we, Allie ?"
And the two went down the walk,
singing, ill their clear, sweet voices,
"I have a grandma in the promised land;
liy grandnaa calls me, I must go ;"
a verse of their own rendering, which
they had added to the hymn,
" I have a father in, the promised land."
I had mourned a dead mother.
Bitter tears and anguish of heart had
been poured out, as I thought of her
dark, cold, dreary resting-place. But
there was no grave, no dead grand
mother to these trustful, hopeful little
ones. I accepted the lesson. My
tears were dried. I have no dead
mother, I said. She has only " moved
to heaven." She lives in the " promised
land."—Thankful Traveler.
THE FRENCH BOY.
A LITTLE French boy, in one of the
Sabbath schools of Paris, was asked
by his teacher if there was anything
in the Bible .about Sabbath schools.
After a moment's hesitation, the pupil
replied that he would tell him the
next Sabbath.
At the appointed hour the lad ap
peared, and from document in hand
clearly set forth three distinct propo
sitions,,---narnely, that the first Chris
tian Sabbath school was held in the
temple at Jerusalem; that Christ him
self was the first Sabath-school teacher ;
and that He had for His pupils the
Jewish doctors of the law, of whom He
asked and answered questions, which
greatly astonished these teachers in
Israel.
IT was a happy sentiment of some
devout writer, that God carries his
people only when they cannot walk : ;
he pities our weakness but not our
sloth.
'THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1865.
A REASON FOR GOING TO CHURCH;
My desire is to give you one or two
good reasons for going to church,
which do not depend upon the authen
ticity of - Christianity or upon the sa
credness of the Christian Sabbath at all.
My first reason is, that unless a man
puts himself into a fine shirt, polished
boots, and good clothes, once a week,
and goes into the public, he is almost
certain to lapse into semi-barbarism.
You know that unless you do this on
the Sabbath you cannot do it at all,
for you labor all the Week. There is
nothing like standing alone, with no
place in the machinery of society to
tone down one's self-respect. You
must beware that you are not in
sympathy with society. You are looked
upon as an outsider because you refuse
to come into contact with society on
its broadest and best ground. I tell
you it is,a good thing for a man to
wash his face clean, and put on his
best clothes, and walk to the house of
God with his children, on the Sabbath,
whether he.believes in Christianity or
not. The church is a place where at
the least good morals are inculcated,
and where the vices of community are
denounced. You can afford to stand
by so much of the church, and by doing
so say " Here am I, and here are mine,
with a stake in the welfare of society,
and an interest in the good morals of
society." My friend, thiS little opera
tion gone through with every Sabbath
would giv, you self-respect, help - you
to keep your head abpve water,. and
-bring you into sympathy with the best
society the world possesses.—Dr. Hol
land.
MUSN'T ALWAYS TAKE PEOPLE AT
THEIR WOO.
" Oh, that I were dead !" cried the
bullfinch.
"I don't wonder at it," said the cat,
sitting with her eyes filed on the ge.
"To be penned up re from day to
day while all my frie4ds are rejoicing
in the sweet - sunny: sky and the
flowers,", said--the bullfinch.' ,
"How distressing!" said the cat,
with much feeling.r •
"Aud just to_be allowed now and
then for a few minutes to try my wings
by a flight round the room," said the
ioullfinch.
"Mere mockery-I—a cruel insult I
call that," said the cat.
"As to - singing) how can I sing?"
said bully.
" How, indeed ?'! said the cat.
" This piping s g that I have been
drilled into, not a ote of it comes from
my heart."
" I could never ear anything that
did not come-from he heart," - said the
cat, demurely. ,
" Oh, that I were dead!" said the
bullfinch.
" It's what your best friends must
wish for you, dear?' - said - the 'eat " and,
as - the door' of - Your cage is a little
ajar, I see, you have only to come out
and—"
"And what ?" asked the bullfinch.
"why, dearest, I w i culd, however
painful to my feelings, oon put you
out of your misery," sail the cat, pre
paring to spring, upon ich the bull
finch set up a scream f such terror
that his mistress flew - .1 to the room,
and puss was glad to escape down
stairs.'
When we walk near powerful ma
chinery, we know that o e single mis-
step, and those mighty el gives would
tear us to ribbons with their, f Ting
wheels, or grind us to powder` in { their
ponderous jaws. So wen we are
thundering across the laAd in a rail
car, and there is nothing '•ut half an
inch of iron flange to hole us on the
track. So when we are, a, sea in a:
ship; and there is nothin bat the
thickness of's, plank b.etw. n: us and'
eternity. We imagine the that we
see how close we are to th edge of
the precipice. But we do , ot see it.
Whether on the sea or on the land,
"the partition that divides us from
eternity is something thinne than the
oak plank or half inch iron fla e. The
machinery of life and death within
us. The tissues that hold the e beating
powers in their place are ften not
thicker than a sheet of pa •r, and if
that thin partition rupture it ould be
just the same with us as if _ cannon
ball had struck us. Death is nsepara
bly bound up with life in very
'structure of our bodies. Stru , :le as he
would to widen the space, no an can,
at any time, go further fr. s death
than the
. thickness of a sheet paper.
NEARNESS- OF
THE FAMILY CIRCL
Endearments bind together
hers of the household—sham
same flesh and blood, which
of the same kind and. to t
degree nowhere else on ear
dwellers in this common IN
have a common share in the •
and trials which befall their ha
They are fed at the same boar
under the same roof, and the
sorrows of one are very much
and sorrows of the whole
What a place those parents
this little empire. How thei
have power, and their will is
their very footsteps are walk
and how those whom God h
them are prized beyond all
things, as the jewels of their
Where, where in all this foot
the dispenser of our mercies,
God be acknowledged, if not here?
Shall not the voice of gratitllde and
praise ascend from that board spread
with plenty, and around an-altar reared
for the morning and the evening'6 sac
rifice of humble and grateful hearts ?
You may not only burnish your own
armor, and find refreshment for your
own spirit here, soldier of Christ, but
here is a favored spot on which to
train recruits to join the sacramental
hosts.
f.ttrittitittit finhz.
F kMILIAR TALKS WITH THE CHIL
DREN. VIII.
BY REV. EDWARD PAYSON HA:OIONP
Julia says, "these words, kept ring
ing in my ears." She knew well
enough that she ought to love Him,
and so, when,she thought about Him,
her conscience troubled her. It is now
seven months since this little letter
was written, and another just received.
tells that she is still clinging to Jesus.
She speaks of little girls seven and
eight years old, who thought they
found Jesus to be precious last winter,
and says that they are still showing
that they love him. Let me ask you,
my little friends, "Do you love Jesus ?"
What is your answer? - Hasn't He
loved you more than any—earthly
friend ever did ? Which of all our
friends to save us could or would have
shed his blood?
Julia says that when she was asked
if she would give her heart to Jesus,
" Thesolved then and there to give my
heart to the Saviour." How easy it
seems for her to become a Christian.
If she has become a true follower of
Jesus, it is because God by his Holy
Spirit opened her blind eyes so that
she saw herself guilty sinner, and
Christ was her - only ' Saviour. But.
God is just as ready to help you.
'Fill you ask. him ? Just now He
Will hear you. Oh believe Him just
now: He will love you just now.
APRIL, 15,1864.
Mrt. H. :—I went'to your first chil--
dren't meeting that yonvheld in-the after
noon, 'and, sat• down in the back seat, ,I re
mained to the inquiry-meeting, not because
was interested, but because another -girl
wanted me,to.. Quite a number spoke to
me, and, ampng others, you asked me," If I
loved jesus.','' I told you " I dig not." Af
ter yOu left Me, and after I got home, "Do
you love Jesps" kept ringing in, my ears.
The next aftepoon 1 went again, and set up
further front. I thought, when I went in, I
would not remain to the inquiry-meeting, as
I didn't care about being_ troubled ; but
when meeting was 'done. I couldn't get out,
so I had to remain. I saw 'my minister
coming towards me, and I tried,to run away,
but could not, because another girl' had hold
of znyland and would not let me go. He
,moments • then be asked
you to come -anapeni011e..81n,..6. 4 ....„„ 01 ,...
girl. You, spoke and prayed with us, and
then you asked us' if we would give our
hearts. to the Saviour. I resolved then and
there to give my heart to the Saviour, and I
think I did. 'Not I can sing, "'I love Je
sus," &e., with sincerity and truth. Mk
friend thought she had given her heart to the
Saviour, but now she is faltering between
two opinions'. Oh, Mr. Hammond, pray for
her, that her faith may be renewed, and: also
pray for our school, that God's grace may
be poured out in greater:abundance. There
has been Tithe a nu of conversions
among the girls. it
From your little friend,
In another letter from this little
614, dated November 5, 1864, I am
glad to see that she still seems cling
ing to Jesus.
DEAR,'Six.—Your kind letter of August
22d was duly received, and with much Plea
sure. I still. have hope that I have been
born anew. I joined the church the third of
July, togetherwith twenty-nine others. You
wis.hed me to write; and tell you about those
girls that`- thought they became Christians
while you were here last winter. I will en
deavor to tell you as ..far as lam able. Near
ly every one.seems• to lav'e a hope that they
have become Christians. Little Mary- and
Abby joined the- church 'last communion,
they are about bine 'and eleven years old.
'
One of our number;
,Miss • Fanny . , has. gone
116 me to , that blest Ar t y above. She went
down East for her health and died while
away: •; • ' '
I endeavor to work for the blessed Saviour
every chance I have. At first 'I was reluc
tant about speaking to the girls about the
salvation of their souls: but I am gradually
overcoming` that reluctance. The gambler
who was converted when you was here has
joined the church, and is still persevering in
the Christian life ; he has made a public
dprofession of his faith in Christ. The chil
ren send you their love. You asked how
many of the other girls have joined the
church. There are about eleven, from nine
to sixteen years old, in our church, and
quite a number in the other churches. I saw
little Ida, who is eight years old, the other
day, and she said "Tell Mr. Hammond that
I try to serve the Saviour."
1 ATH.
"MOTHER. TOLI) ME TO HANG SIMPLY
-Yes, my dear little friend, that is
the way to becethe a Christian. HaVen't
you often wished you could be a bet
ter child than you. are ? Haven't you
tried a great many times to overcome
your wicked temper ? And haven't you
often been discouraged, and said "It's
no use `trying to, be good ?" I agree
with you; unless you try in the - right
way. The way to be made good, so
that you will love good things and
hate bad - things, is just to do what
this good mother told her anxious
little child, who says : " I have had
conviction all my life." She had
often felt her wicked sins a burden ;
but she says, " When I went to Jesus
with my burden, then it disappeared."
Now let me urge you, my dear
young reader, to hang simply on
Jesus." His kind words are, "Come
unto me all ye that labor and are
heavy laden and I will give you rest."
Matt. xi. 38=30.
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As you read this letter, so, full of
interest, try and say,
DO YOU LOVE JESUS?
ON JESUS."
" In my hands no price I bring,
Simply to thy cross I cling.
Thou must save, and thou alone." / •
I have had convictions all my life: 45'ome
times I would. think what I would an' in the : ,
'judgment day ; then I' would :cry And pray,
but it would do no good; I also felt as if I
ought to be a Christian. The - first Monday
you were here, I went to the children's meet
ing, and was much impressed, - Mr. Fowler
talked with me, and when I went -
' mother told me to hang simply on Jesus,. and
I gave right up, and I felt so-happy,- and I
wanted everybody to come to Jesus too. Two
or three times I have been much tempted to
think that perhaps' have not gyen my heart
to the Sayiour • but I went to 'Jesus with my
burden, and then it disappeared. Ido love
jesuprand I thank. im that he ever sent you
t o this city. We have very interesting meet
,ings now, and I think many are seeking
Jesus. I hope that your labors will be
greatly blessed in Rochest6, dear Mr. Ham
mond, and that many of the . dear , children,
with others, will be brought to Jesus. He is
very - precious to me. Please pray for me,
that I may be kept in the right path, and
strengthened to resist temptataon..
Your little friend, JENNIE.
"I OFTEN TRIED, BUT ALWAYS FAILED."
. The reason this - little Brooklyn girl,
of only ten summers, "'always failed"
When she tried to be a Christian, was
that she did ~ not "hang simply on
I Jesus."
She says, " I used to think the Bible
was not true." She must have been a
little infidel. Ah how thankful she
must be now that God has opened her
" blind."'eyes.
If you will only look to the cross,
God is just as ready to• open your
blind eyes and help you to see Jesus
there bleeding for you, and then you
will love him and. see what a, great
sinner you have been to eject
Then, like this little chiTa, you will
pray that you may " always. see Jesus
and in him trust."
MY DEAR FRIEND MR. HAMMOND : I will
tell you how I found Jesus. You do not
know how much pleasure it gives me to think
that I have found the true Lord and Saviour.
I used to think there was no use to try, for I
often tried, but always failed ; but now I see
the necessity , of it, for I thought I had tried
'enough, and that I could not be good, but
now I see that I can. I used to think that
the Bible was not true. I thought that some
great man had written it, and that it was
supposed to be true; but now I see quite
different. I did not like to read the Bible
and pray as Ido now. I often think how
Jesus died on the cross for • me, and how I
have slighted him. Then I was blind, but
now I see. 0, pray for' lie, that I may al-
WEWS see Jesus and in him trust.
Yours in Christ. Age, ten years and four
months.
JESUS PAID IT ALL.
Nothing either great or small ao
Remains for me to do,
Jesus died and paid it all,—
All the debt I owe.
I When he from his lofty throre
Stoop'd to do and die,
Every thing was fully done,
"'T is finished," was his cry.
Weary, working, plodding one,
Wherefore toil you so?
Cease your "-doing," all was done
Long, long ago. •
.ritrutrefrs.. muu .k a
By . a simple fait h ,
"Dom" is a deadly thing,
"Doing" ends in death.
Cast your deadly "doing" down,
Down at Jesus' feet;
Stand in Him, in Him alone,
Glorious and complete.
- eligiuuo kittetligtur.
PRESBYTERIAN.
DEATH of REV. DR. MAGIE.—A standard
bearer,--one eminently worthy of the name—
has fallen, in the person of Rev. David Nagle,
D.D. , pastor for forty-four years of the Second
Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth, N. J.
His death took place on the lrth inst., in the
seventieth year of his age. Rev. W. C.
Roberts having recently been settled as his
colleague, this event leaves no vacancy in the
pastorate. Of Dr. Magie's personal history
the New York Observer says :—" He was
born, reared, married, ordained and installed,
lived labored, died, and was buried in the
same place. We seldom write a more extra
ordinary statement It is high honor to its
subject: '
MARRIAGE OF DIVORCED PARTIET—The
scandal has
_,just . got wind that in the old
strait-laced State of Connecticut, the mar
riage bond has reached about the most shabby
&int cflooseness. The good people of the
State have become deeply- alarmed at ,the
facility with which divorces are granted! The
Presbytery of Connecticut has taken"- action.
The -following is, a _ clause in a 'long pream
ble, and one of a series of resolutions adopt
ed:—
"Whereas, It is notorious' that the true
nature of the marriage relation has been ex
tensively lost sight of; or openly. disregarded
in this State—the relation being continually
foimed and dissolved under conditions and
on grounds utterly unscriptural and sinful:
therefore,
" Resolved, That the ministers of this
Presbytery can have, no part in uniting in
marriage parties, either of whom have been
divorced on any grounds not sanctioned by
the Scriptures: and in the present frequent
application of such parties, it is the duty of
ministers to acquaint themselves, if possible,
with the facts in the case before uniting any
parties in marriage. •
Another resolution invites the attention of
other ecclesiastical bodies in the State to the
subject; and still another rnakesarrangementa ,
for getting the subject before the Legislature.
THE REV. JOHN JENKINS, D.D., presented
an application to the Presbytery`of Montreal,
at its last nieetinkTrforidmisliisn into the
Church of Scotland- Excellent testimonia i ls
respecting the reverend gentleman's history,
referring to his ministrati:onsin England, and
as a Missionary in India and in the Colonies;
accompanied the document. A •committee,
was appointed, to, consider the matter, as well
as an application of the same nature from the
Rev. J. Al. Devine, late of the Central Pres
bytery, Philadelphia, and to report at next
meeting.:Dr.• Jenkins was, we believe, some
time
_ago, the most eloquent,, clergyman in
connection with the Wesleyan Methodist
body in Montreal, and officiated with marked
success in Great St. James Stregt Church.
The session of St. Paul's Church have ap
pointed him to ,occury that pulpit till next
meeting of Presbytery.—Montreal Paper.
NEW CHURCH. —A new church, Chiefly an
offshoot from the Third Presbyterian Church,
(O. 5.,) was organiied in Newark, N. J., On
Sabbath the 14th inat. It is to be under the
care-of Rev. Dr. Brinsmade, former pastor of
,the Third . Church. •
DEATH OF A MINISTER.-We trot veiylong
since noticed the installation of Rev. J. Y.
McCartney as pastor of :the Twelfth Presby
terian Church, (0. S..J of Baltimore. Death
has removed him from the field which he so
lately entered fuli-Of promise and hope. His
departure took glace on Saturday night, the
13th inst. Ho is characterized as a man of
true consecration, and he is greatly mourned.
THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI.—A writer, who
dated at Vicksburgh, says :—" Dr. Stratton's
church - in Natchez is in its usual flourishing
condition. The church in Baton Rouge is
closed, the minister and most of the people -;
being gone. Four of the churches in New
Orleans are supplied. There is great need
that the coming Assembly take action with
regard to our churches in the Southwest. All
those at military posts may be occupied. at:-
once
once ; while as the country opens up, those
in the interior may be readily occupied. Promi
nent ministers, as Drs. Gray and Stratton,
are anxious to again be in the Assembly."
[The above are quondam Old School, since
C. S. A. Presbyterian ministers and churches
—some of them, as for instance, Dr. Strat
ton, we presume not willingly so. Certain
Old School writers, talking of re-union with
their New School brethren, say, " Our door
is open : come in—on examination." We
judge a little examination would not be out
place in the case of their C. S. A. brethren.]
STILL ANOTHER BEREAVEMENT. The
Stated Clerk of Bloomington, 11l Presby
tery, writing to the Presbyter thatßev. Amos
H. Rogers, former pastor of the church in
Waynesville, 111., departed this life on the
sth inst., adds :—ln the mysterious provi
dence of God, Rev. Thomas M. Newell, the
successor of Bro.- Rogers at Waynesville, was
also suddenly removed by death on May Mk
He was present at our last meeting of Pres
bytery only ten days ago, in usual health,
and was chosen our Commissioner to the
General Assembly. But God has called him
to the Assembly of the Redeemed above."
CONGREGATIONAL.
NEW ENTERPRISE.-A Congregational
Church has recently been organized at. Sara
toga Springs, and on the 2d inst. it was put
into working order by the installation of Rev.
E, N. Sawtell, as its Pastor. It gives promise
of being an energetic church.
REv. CHARLES BEECHER. - Our readers
have heard something of the dissensions in
the Congregational Church, in Georgetown,
Mass., resulting from the call of Mr. - Beecher
to the pastorate, the refusal of an Ecclesiasti
cal Council to instal him, on account of doc
trinal unsoundness, and the agitation in "the
church whether to submit to the decision of
the Council, or settle him independent. .. The
matter has now culminated in division. Mr.
Beecher's friends have left the church, and,.
taking him with them, organized "The First
Orthodox Church of Georgetown.' '
CALIFORNIA.—The organization of a Con
gregational Church in Caloma Cal., was eft
fected on Sabbath, the 9th ult. It consists
of eight members, all heads of families.
FOREIGN.
GERMANY.—The following items relate to
the Baptist churches in Germany. Inlhreen,
during the last year, upwards of fifty were
added to the church by baptism—a pros
perity unequalled in any former year of its
history. In Ksionsken, during the year, one
hundred and thirteen new converts were
baptised. The war in Denmark, opened a
field for the earnest Christian labors of the
church in Sleswick and their pastor. They
have endeavored to sow the good seed of the
gospel among the soldiers in camp, and in the
hospitals. In their own special field, also,
God's blessing has been with them, nine have
been added to the church by baptism, four of
whom were the children of members.
In.l-S9SLI.ANEOIIN.
GREAT REVIVAL HT-14 H CONN.
ilarelri—ar,.since the days 4 rr-trr.,,,a‘4,2,,
has there been a greater awakening in. any
locality than has recently mused at Norwich.
Commencing with ihe Baptists, it extended
to the 2d Congregational Church, of which
Mr. Dana is the pastor, and thence to Mr.
Gulliver's and other churches in the city and _
vicinity. On Sunday, the 7th inst.,
fifty-five
united with the 2d Church, of whom forty
five were received upon profession, and of
these a large proportion were heads of fami
lies. Many others are ready to come forward
at the next communion, and a deep interest
'is still evinced by the whole community. In
Mr Gulliver's Church seventy were received
upon profession. The number in the other
churches is not stated, but is understood to
be large. Evangel*.
FINANCIAL ItmereTs.—The following
table, of receipts for the year, of the Societies
named, is taken from the fiscal reports made
at the recent anniversaries in New York:—
American Bible Society, $677,851
American Tract Society, 421,365
American Board of C. F. M.,* 257,885
Boston Tract Society, 190,948
American and Foreign Christian Union, 83,791
American Seamen's Friend Society, 43,06 T
American Colonization Union, 13,977
American Temperance Union, 8,000
Total
*EightMonths
ITEMS.
It4v. Professors R. J. Breckenridge and E.
P. Humphrey, have each been granted twelve
Months absence from their duties in Danville
Theologscal Seminary, to - recover from the
exhausting effects of long continued service-
The Board is to provide for instruction in
their depart-meas.—The Half-Ceniury An
niversary of the Sabbath School of the Frank
ford (Phila. ) Presbyterian Church, was cele
brated on Sabbath, the 7th inst. Since its
organization it has become the parent stock
of severalother prosperous schools. It now,
by itself, numbers 425 scholars and 45. teach
ers.—The Rev. Dr.-Goodell, the veteran
missionary at Constantinople, by reason of
the infirmities of age, feels compelled to aban
don his work, to return to his native land to ,
live and die with his children. He left the
United States for his missionary field in 1822
—A new Protestant 'church has been erec
ted in Naples, and set apart far public wor
ship by the Bishop of Gibralter.--L-Baron
Ricasoli has declared himself in favor of n
church reformation in Italy, by which the
Italian church shall elect her own bighopEs.
,
without any reference to the pope.---The
Bishop of Malta has prohibited marriage be
tween Roman Catholics and Rrotestants until
the latter have for six months abjdred their
religion. The report comes that the - bishop
of Gibraltar has returned the compliment by
forbidding mixed marriages until the Roman
Catholic has been sic months a Protestant
-We are pained to learn that Bishop
'Whipple, the: good working Bishop of Min
nesota, when last heard from,
was lying very
low at Jernsalem, with thesSyr ian fever, with
the chances against his recovery.—lnstruc
tion is about to be resumed in the Richmond
College. During the insurrection, its build
ing was used as a hospital for Louisiana rebel
soldiers.—A committee of ladies in this city
are making an effort to give the children of
Saint Anne's, Illinois, whose parents have
recently left the Catholic Church, the benefit
of a Protestant education. The services of
one female teacher have alieady been secured.
-7—John G. James, who died recently at
Dpylesto`wn, Pa.,has left all his property,
valued at $50,00, to the Sunday School
Union,-with the exception of a small house
bequeathed to a woman who nursed him while
sick.
$1,693,88T