IRE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN
AND
GENESEE EVANGELIST.
A Religions and Family Newspaper,
IN THE INTEREST OF THE
Constitutional Presbyterian Church.
PUBLISHED EVERY THIEISDAY,
AT THE PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE,
1334 Chestnut Street, (2d story,) Philadelphia.
Rev. John W. Mears, Editor and Itublisher.
Rev. B. B. Hotchkin, Editor of News and
Family Departments.
Rev. C. P: Bush, Corresponding Editor,
Rochester, N. Y.
gm vita ttoirgttriat
THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1866
CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE—THE FAMILY CIRCLE:
Pange. Lingua, Gloriosi—Violet—An English Noble
man on Temperance—Punch's Peccavi—The Even
him Lesson.
l'or the Little Folks: Familiar Talks with the
Children—Closer Looking.
THIRD PAGE—RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE :
Presbyterian—Congregational—Refointed Dutch—
Methodist — Baptist — MiscellaneouS—ltems. •
Rural Economy: Philadelphia Butter—Fences,
Gates and Posts—Wild Peppermint as aßat Exter
minator—How to Preserve Smoked. Meats in Sum
raer—Farmer'sTaint—Osage Orange Hedges in New
Jersey—The Canada Thistle; a Good Law.
SIXTH PAGE—CORRESPONDENCE:
An Excursion Under Ground—A Quaint Old Puri
tan—Ministerial Relief Fund—How shall the South
be Regenerated—The Presbyterian Church on In
temperance.
SEVENTH PAGE—EDITOR'S TABLE :
Booth's "Wayside Blossoms"—"The Diadem"—
Manoah; or Promise of the Life that now is"—
Pamphlets and Periodicals—Literary Items: Ame
rica—Great Britain—France.
Miscellaneous: The Dying Christian and the
Dying-Infidel—The Ancient Statue of Hercules—
Give to Your Neighbor; Give Light—List of Deaths
—Symptoms of Incipient Insanity.
SPONTANEITY IN CHRISTIAN CHAR
ACTER.
While true and efficient service may be
rendered under the promptings of duty,
with, more or less constraint and effort,
more delightful and more desirable by far
is the activity that flows from a full and
cheerful heart. The one resembles the
flow of an artificial fountain, precise, regular,
stately, but dependent on mechanical ar-
raugethent the other is like the fresh bub-
bling spring which bounds from the heart
of the earth and which pours forth its life-
giving tide with happy murmur all day
long; " a well of water springing up unto
everlasting life." There are Christians,
many Christians, true Christians, who pray
and who read their Bible, who attend upon
the ordinances andi*'who go about the work
they do for Christ, we will not say reluct
antly, but in great measure for conscience
sake. They are not dragged or drifen, it is
true; but they do not go without a certain
pressure; they are, atleast, led. In'their
acts of liberality, they show their. need of a
stimulus applied from without in the shape,
perhaps, of a well-introduced subscription
paper. They wait until called on, and
then their gifts are offered with hesitation
They originate no scheme, no method of
giving ; they never trouble themselves to
seek out worthy objects.
Nor can they be relied upon to prompt,
or to take the lead in, any movement de
signed for the advancement of Christ's
kingdom. The will follow, perhaps, and
work earnestly and well in some line of
another man's devising ; but they are not
like Paul, who struck out new paths and
avoided building on other men's foundations.
A great amount of work maybe got out of
them. They can endure much; but they
rarely lead, and all their work, being more
or less formal or constrained, will be found,
like their own character, to lack sweetness,
heart, contagious influence upon their fel
lows. They are somewhat as the horse or
as the mule who have no secret understand
ing of their master's will, but must be held
in with bit and bridle; not simply guided
by the eye.
The spontaneous soul is the one that goes
cheerfully and heartily to his work, in pub
lic or in private. His religion is a life,
not a slavery. He prays because he de
sires to pray; he reads the Bible, grate
fully recognizing the condescension that
communicated authentic heavenly truth to
men; he works for Jesus, because he hears
incessantly rising in his heart the lug - airy:
Lord what wilt thou have me to do ? He
gives of his substance to satisfy the benevo
lent impulses of his renewed soul. He is
ready for every good word or work;, his
feet are shod with the preparation of the
Gospel of peace. He is aggressive. He
goes out after the negleetors of the ordi
nances. He does not wait for opportunities
to do good ; he finds them, he makes them.
A great secret of this spontaneity is evan
gelical love. ' The merely conscientious man
is still under the law. Love enfranchises
us from this constraint, and brings us into
the liberty of the Gospel. Love itself is
the fulfilling of the law. He, indeed, who
has no love in his , heart, has not the Spirit
of Christ, and is none of his. Bilt to live
habitually under its guidance, is to have an
unfailing fountain of pure and holy actiob
in the heart. Love, says Jonathan Ed
wards, "is a principle which, if it be im-'
planted in the heart, is alone sufficient to
produce all good practice, and every right
disposition toward God and man is summed 1
up in it, and comes from it as the fruit
from the tree or the stream from the foun
tain." Love overcomes reluctance, gives
wings to duty, makes crosses light, removes
mountains, fills valleys, kindles zeal, imparts
a stimulus, anticipates commands, prompts
to sacrifices, waits not for leaders, for ex
amples, for opportunities, but becomes
itself a standard, a flaming beacon, an inde-
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pendent source of energy, an inspiration, a
contagion to the rest. Love is the- great
life-power, the form in which the Holy
Spirit is ever communicated to the saints,
the well of water in them springing up into
everlasting life..
There is too much of mere conscience
and law in our religion. We need more of
that perfect love which casteth out fear.
We need to feel the sweet attraction of
grateful love to the Saviour. We need,
as a leading and daily element in our
experience, to have nearer and more affect
ing views of the great sacrifice of Calvary.
Our relations to Christ must be more sac
ramental. It must be a personal, practical,
and delightful truth to us, that we are not
our own ; but bought with a price. Then
duty will lose its irksomeness, or rather
will cease to be recognized as duty. Then
consecration will be without reserve. Then
there will be no chaffering over doubtful
indulgences, over concessions to the princi
ples, fashions, and amusements of the world.
Then the choicest years of life, the dearest
idols of the natural heart, the cherished
pride and self-righteousness, the dreams of
ungodly ambition will be freely surrendered.
Then covetousness will find its antidote, and
the vile person shall become liberal, and the
churl bountiful. All other promptings to
holiness are poor and temporary substi
tutes; like prophecies, like tongues, like
knowledge, they shall all pass away. They
are of the earth, earthy. And when they
shall be eternally at an end, then Divine
love shall not fail, but shall be brought to
its most glorious perfection in every indi
vidual member of the ransomed church
above. Then •in every heart, that love
which now seems as but a speck, shall be
kindled to a bright and glowing flame, and
every ransomed soul shall be, as it were,
in a blaze of divine and holy love, and shall
remain and glow in this glorious perfection
and blessedness through all.eternity."
POLICY AND DUTY OF PUNISHING
TRAITOR LEADERS. I.
In the discussion of the question thus
stated, it will be seen that we leave the
treatment of the masses who haVe been in
the rebellion entirely out of view. All
will understand that a wide difference may
safely be made between them and their
leadera. As to these, the general senti
ment of the country we believe to be clear,
positive, and correct, demanding that capi
tal punishment should be promptly visited
upon more or less of their number. As,
however, our Government delays to act,
and limits its processes, as far as appears,
to cases which fall rather under the juris
diction of criminal courts, and as men and
organs of opinion of some note and reputed
loyal, are boldly demanding impunity for
these wretches, it seems necessary to ex
amine into the question. It is a startling
fact that, while multitudes of rebel leaders,
paroled and not paroled, are and have been,
for weeks, in our power, the United States
Government has not commenced a single
process or drawn up an indictment against
a single rebel leader for treason. There
has been an assassination; Government has
promptly followed up its guilty authors.
Prisoners have been systematically- starved;
we have no reason to doubt but that this
awful crime is properly estimated by our
Government. But has such a thing as trea
son been perpetrated Have the calamities
'of the last four years, exceeding any that
the nation has ever suffered, no guilty au
thors?, Is it a political campaign merely
through which we have just passed ? We
think, the Government will ere long give a
right answer to these questions, but, for
the present, we have much of amnesty, and
of pardon to cases excepted by the act of
amnesty and nothing whatever of the exer
cise of the rigor of law.
Now we hold, and we believe the mass of
the people hold, with the constitution, that
treason is a capital crime, and all guilty of
it deserve to be punished as such. It is
not at all necessary to prove them guilty of
assassination, or of deliberately starving or
shooting helpless prisoners, before it be
comes obligatory on the authorities to pun
ish them. They are condemned already
for their attempt to overthrow the Govern
ment. Their crime is indeed worse than
any single infraction of law, worse than
murder, than arson, than rape; it is in
spirit and in effect, a combination of all
crimes, a violent rejection of all authority;
an attack upon all the securities given by
civil institutions to life, honor and pros
perity, against crime of every sort. It is a
movement in the direction of anarchy; an
appeal from right to might, reversing the
whole tendency of civilization, and risking
everything gained; by. the progress of the
race.
True, your secessionist, or States-rights
man, will claim that in preserving allegiance
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1865.
to his State, when he broke faith to the
nation, he avoided the great crime with which
we charge him, and maintained in spirit his
fidelity to law. But this is
.a mere theory,
the creation of subtle minds, and adopted
as a practical article of belief only to serve
a purpose. No one really believes that the
United States is or was an aggregate of
some thirty odd independent nations, as
this theory requires. A county or a city
seceding from a State, or a ward seceding
from a city, might just as truthfully claim
to be law abiding, because it maintained its
own internal organization. The leader of
a desperate mob might plead with equal
justice that he maintained family disciplirie
as a proof that he reverenced the laws.
The sinner against God excuses himself
exactly in the same way; he claims to be
faithful in the lower relations of life, and
thus seeks to establish his innocence before
God. But insurrection against a higher
authority, is virtually and • impliedly insur
rection against all below it. In point of
fact, the rebel leaders only submitted to
State authority so far as it suited their
grand purpose of throwing off the authority
of the Union. They forced States, with or
without tke consent of the people, into
secession. They claimed Maryland, Mis
souri, and Kentucky, although the people
of those; States invariably voted against
them. And they were as ready to coerce
a State, and to scent treason against their
Confederacy and denounce it as a crime, as
we could be in reference to the National
Government.
They plunged into an utterly unjustifia
ble rebellion. These leaders knew in their
hearts that they had not been wronged or
oppressed under a government which they
had controlled from the beginning. If the
policy of the Government was becoming
anti-slavery, that surely did noh look toward
oppressing them, but simply; toward the
limiting of their license to oppress others.
If a change was taking place in the govern
metn it, was not toward the curtailment of
their liberties, but toward the enlargement
of the liberties of a class, and with them, of
the whole nation. An attempt to justify a
rebellion on the ground that it was under
taken to stop a national movement toward
justice - and liberty, is only to write its con
demnation in larger characters, and to load
it with a far heavier guilt. It is enough to
say of a rebellion that it is an unjustifiable
assault upon the law to condemn it, but
here is one undertaken in the interest of
oppression; law is not assailed because it is
oppressive, but exactly the reverse.
In a word, here is a rebellion against lib
erty and law both.
It is not an exasperated rising of long
suffering slaves against proud and crue)
masters, but ratherioa rising of masters
against their slaves ; not a rising against
tyranny and intolerable public burdens, but
against the most beneficent of governments,
because it gave signs of becoming more be
neficent still; not against a crumbling,
worn-out monarchy, rotten with vice and
with inveterate abuses, but against the
latest, most hopeful, most elastic and buoy
ant, most generous and prosperous of na
tionalities, in the full tide of successful
experiment as a free republic, and simply
because it was becoming alive to the ne
cessity of shaking off its only political
incubus, and thus carrying forward its
grand experiment to imparalelled success
and glory. Right here the viper of seces
sion struck his fangs. It was a rebellion in
the interest of retrogression instead of pro
gress.
Every plea that can be urged in defence-)
of popular outbreaks against tyranny, such i
as the American Revolution, is a powerful 1
argument against a rebellion got up by a
set of petty tyrants to stop a peaceful popu
lar movement for the overthrow of slavery.
A rebellion against a free government
in the interest of slavery is without a praral
lel in the history of rebellions. Their own
Vice President it was, who both solemnly
asserted the beneficent character of our
government, and who, soon after, announced
that the very cornerstone of the new nation
was slavery. So that we convict them out
of their own mouths, of the donble charge,
that it was a good government against which
they rebelled, and that the rebellion was in
the interest of slavery. They wished to pull
down a good government for the purpose of
putting a terribly bad one in its place.
What then is the ground for a mild treat
ment of these conquered traitors atid rebels ?
They are plainly guilty of the highest
crime known to human laws. For four
years we have been engraving its records
broadly and indellibly upon the pages of
. history—for four years, with the most lavish
outlay of treasure and blood ever given for
such an object since the world began, we
have been standing between these lawless
furies and the Government they were raging
to destroy. We have felt their object to
be so monstrous, so ruinous, that we pre
ferred to sacrifice every earthly good, rather
than allow it to succeed. Did we esteem
their crime so dreadful a few months ago,
and now when it is foiled and our Union
saved, now when the greatest calamity that
could befall the human family, the over
throw of our republic, is averted, shall its
would-be authors be counted guiltleas,
restored to citizenship and made equal to
those who, at the risk of everything, frus
trated their diabolical scheme ?
There never was a higher crime
committed in merely human relations.
There never,was a clearer, ditty laid upon
the ministers:ofjustice than that of punish
ing it. There never was a more scandalous
or more dangerous dereliction, than for
organs of public opinion,* or preachers of
the gospel;- to represent the demand for
such unpardonable crimes -as a call for
" vengeance." They are debauching the
public conscience and insulting the majesty
of the law °; they are prolonging, cherish
ing, and inoculating the very life of the
people with the' virus of rebellion—disre
spect for law. They are sapping the found
ations of justice by a most lamentable and
gross perversion of the Christian doctrine
of forgiveness, aiming grievously to cheat
the people by the sophistical use of the
noblest and - sweetest of doctrines. We do
not believe they represent the sentiment of
the church or of the country. - Hear it
rather, in these impassioned words from the
occupant of one of the loyal pulpits of St.
Louis.t -
"These men have avowed their crime They
have filled the full possible measure of earth
ly cruelty and iniquity. The' monuments' of
desolation stand on every side. The woe
and wailing is universal. The innocent blood,
yet wholly unappeased and unatoned, in deep
red waves :rolls over our country. The mur
derers, unawed, by hundreds of thousands
stalk the land: Tell, us, 0, JuStice ! born in
Heaven, and given of God , to man—thou
friend of innocence----defender of the weak--
deliverer of the outraged and oppressed—
maintainer of the truth—champion of right
eousness—avenger of. crime ! Oh, whither
hast thou fled? Why haltest in - the execu
tion of thine office ? A million bloody dag
gers hatli treason plied with all its power, on
the fair neck of liberty, and yet SUE lives—
revive.s--stavds up again, in beauty, purity,
and strengtlo;--preserved of *God ! 0, Jus
tice ! Atlas of all government in earth dr
heaven, why shouldst THOU perish NOW?
Who thus has smitten thee? Tell us, ere
thou shalt utterly expire I have all thine or
dained instruments, thy sworn allies, the
Church, the Court, the Rulers, who bear the
sword of God—have ALL TitasE conspired to
be thine own assassinators?"
*The Public Ledger, of this city, June
says : "The tendency of enlightened opinion
is certainly against vengeance in political
prosecutions.'
tßev. H. A. Boardman, D.D., in his pub
lished sermon, "The Peace Meaker," speaks
of ministers "who have made the air ring
with maledictions" instead of inculcating for
giveness toward the conquered rebels : and
after,apathetic description of the desolation
of the South, asks : Can you still talk of
vengeance ?" Even in his sermon on the
day of humiliation, June Ist, he condemns
the Christianity which he says " draws its
inspiration from the world . . . from
the fury which at such crises influences the
passion of the multitude." "It is not," he
says, "for Christian men and women to adopt
the principles, to cherish the resentments,
and to deal out the maledictions common to
those who are swayed by mere natural im
pulses."
tßev. F. Starr, Jr., late of Pen Yan, N - .
Y. now of the North Presbyterian Church,
St: Louis.
THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE,
We published, in last week's paper,
the report of the Standing Committee on
Publication to the late General Assembly.
It . will be seen that the position of the
Permanent Committee is highly satisfactory
and encouraging for future usefulness.
Those who. compare the situation at pre
sent with that of two years ago, when Dr.
Beman made his very able Special Report.
to the Assembly in this city, will appreci
ate the vast improvement made. That re
port contained the following language :
"The collections of last year, amounting
to some :Tour thousand dollars, to adopt no
severer language, were . no honor to the
church. A few such efforts of masterly
inactivity would ruin any specific plan ever
adopted for the reformation of the world."
This year, the committee report the en
dowment fund of Fifty thousand dollars
complete, with sales amounting to $36,000
and a total income of over $70,000. One
half of the remaining indebtedness of ,
twenty thousand dollars on the Presby
terian House has been cancelled, and that
fine property is becoming increasingly
available and valuable as a source of income
to the committee. We have already taken
occasion to refer-to the recent issue of the
Committee, among which the History of
Presbyterianism, by Dr. Gillett, must stand
pre-eminent in substantial value,—a work
which would be a credit to any publishing
house in any country.
Recently they have issued the hand
sourest temperance tract we have ever seen
Genesee Evangelist, No. 996.
The richly engraved illustrations, the ele
•gautly ornamented cover, the heavy tinted
paper and the faultless typography, serve
to recommend a most truthful, practical
lesson to those who deny themselves the
luxury of domestic happiness, for the sake
of selfish indulgence of a taste for strong
drink. It is called "Buy your own Cher
ries." It will be found, we' doubt not, a
valuable aid in efforts to reclaim the erring.
In the revived and active state of our
branch of the church, we may congratulate
ourselves that an interest so vital as that
of Publication is sharing. Let it continue
to enjoy the benefactions and the prayers
of the people, until it becomes a fountain
of liberal, yet pure and. evangelical influ
ences to our whole body and the communi
ty at large.
HOME MISSIONS AND THE FREED
MEN.
one can have read our reports of pro
ceedings of the General Assembly without
noticing how deep was the interest of that
body in the spiritual condition of the Freed
men. Precisely in accordance with those
views was the act of the Home Missionary
Committee week before last. They appointed
Rev. J. B. Reeve, one of our worthy dele
gates in the Assembly, the alternate of our
retiring Moderator, Dr. Brainerd, to make
a three or four months' tour of observation
among the Freedmen in the West and
Southwest, and to see how many fields we
may find open to us where we can work, and
not seem to interfere with any other church,
and how many Presbyterian ministers he
can find among the Freedmen; and also to
observe how far it may be necessary -to
combine the school and the church in the
work of evangelizing an ignorant race set
free, and now most eager to learn.
They have assigned Rev. H. H. Garnett,
of Washington, D. C., another colored pas
tor, to the same work South from Washing
ton, perhaps as far South as Savannah.
We are assured that nothing would please
the committee more than to employ these
two brethren permanently in their service,
and preaching the gospel, organizing schools,
and doing whatever else may be , done, all
over the South, in organizing the religious
element among the Freedmen, in the social
and religious reconstruction of the South.
But this we suppose is impossible. The
congregations they are serving so success
fully would probably withhold their consent.
But we hope they will not object, nay, we
think they will rejoice to spare their pas
tors for a few months to engage in so com
mendable a work. And we shall expect
that these brethren will return overwhelmed
with a sense of the amount of work to be
done.
We have but two fears touching the
whole matter. The first is, that suitable
colored preachers cannot be found for this
work ; and the second, that the churches
do not realize the magnitude of the under
taking, for these Freedmen just liberated
from bondage are poor, and must have aid
largely from the churches. But to meet
this state of things, the committee have
resolved to call on the churches for special
collections for that purpose, and agents are
to be sent out to solicit contributions.
We are particularly pleased with this ar
rangement, because there are agencies we
know not how many, or how responsible,
or wisely managed; we know nothing about
them, scarcely, except that they are calling
at the door of every church, and begging
almost every minister to let them into his
pulpit to obtain aid for the - Freedmen. The
next worse thing to giving nothing is to
give distrustfully or unintelligently. But
now every pastor and every church can say
to every such applicant, "No : our church
has taken hold of this work, through its
OWn recognized and authorized agency,
which we can trust; it will need all we can
give and probably much more. Our contri
butions must go there."
Acting thus unitedly, and cheerfully, and
intelligently, we ought to expect great
things.
This is the title of a beautiful little
volume, by Rev. Edward Payson Ham
mond, just issued by the Baptist Publica
tion Board of this city. It contains six
chapters, in which the little ones ate ad
dressed upon a variety of topics, such as
the author knows so well how to handle,
and with which he has so successfully ad
dressed their consciences and their hearts.
His thrilling illuatrations give irresistible
interest to the themes. Every child must
be attracted by them. And it is a pecu
liarity of the book, as it is of Mr. Ham
mond's addresses, that it is full of energy
and seeks positive and immediate results.
In a word it reflects, in every line, the dead
earnestness of the man.
"CHILDREN AND JESUS."
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Fifty cents additional, after three months.
Clubs.—Ten or more papers , sent to one address,
payable strictly in advance and in one remittance:
)3y Mail, i 2 50 per annum. By Carriers, $3 per annum.
Ministers and Ministers' Widows, $2 in ad
vance.
Home Missionaries, $1 50 i na d vance.
Fifty cents additional after three months.
Remittances by mail are at our risk.
Postage.—Five cents quarterly, in advance, paid
qy subscribers at the office of delivery.
Advertisements.-1234 cents per line for the
first, and 10 cents for the second insertion.
One square (one month) $3 00
two months 5 50
three. " 750
six 12 00
one year 18 00
The following discount on long advertisements, in
serted for three months and upwards, is allowed:—
Over 20 lines, 10 per cent off; over 50 lines, 20 per
cent.; over 100 lines. 33 1 / per cent. off.
The latter part of the volume is, we
think, unique in addressing young children
as already converted and in counselling
them as such.
A beautifully engraved portrait, by Sar.
taro, and numerous wood-cuts adorn the
volume, which is quite a credit to our Bap
tist brethren. They have also published
an admirabl, tract for young men, by the
same author, entitled " What I saw from
Vesuvius," many thousands of which have
been distributed in the army by the Chris
tian Commission. The same fervid earnest
ness, and the same copiousness and apt
ness of illustration characterize this, as all,
the efforts of Mr. Hammond for the
spiritual welfare of men.
MORNING PRAYER MEETING AT CAL-
VARY CHURCH.
This prayer meeting, commenced in con
nection with Mr. Hammond's laborers in
Calvary Church, has been kept up ever
since, with great spirit and success, from
eight to nine o'clock, and has been much
blessed to those participating in it. It has
been sustained as a union effort. On Sat
urday morning last, the closing services
were held, taking the form of a thanksgiv
ing meeting. Rev. Mr. Saul, assistant
rector of St. Clement's Church, conducted
the meeting and read the 21st chapter of
Revelation. Prayer was offered by Mr. A.
Martin, - who remembered Mr. Hammond in
his requests. Rev. John W. Mears spoke of
the tendency to neglect thanksgiving and
of the causes this church and others had
for rejoicing at this time. Mr. Calkins,
pastor of the church, called on those pre
sent who had recently given their hearts to
the Saviour to rise, and join in singing, by
themselves, the consecration hymn, " 0
. happy day that fixed my choice," with
the chorus, " Happy Day !" Some forty
five persons, young and old, arose in re
sponse to this call, and sung their hymn.
It was a beautiful sight. Among them
was an individual who afterwards explained
that, although he had been a member of
church for ten years, he did not think he
had been converted until within the last
few weeks.
Mr. M. W. Baldwin said, How much has
this church to be thankful for ! Nearly
forty expect to join us to-morrow at the
Lord's table, besides others believed to be
converted, who go to other churches. If
one soul is worth more than all the world,
what are forty worth ? Who can calculate
the sum ? He also took occasion to thank
the brethren from other churches, who had
assisted in these meetings, and who had
encouraged us by their presence and counsel.
Rev. Mr. Calkins also joined in this ac
knowledgment, and hoped to see all unite
again in re-establishing the meeting in the
fall. He also presented requests for prayers,
and related the touching replies of one of
the applicants for admission, to inquiries
made by the session.
The meeting was prolonged beyond the
usual hour, and was an occasion of un
wonted and joyful interest. It marks the
first season of general religious interest in
the history of Calvary Church.
Forty-eight persons united with the
church on Sabbath.
A QUESTIONABLE MEASURE.- The
"American Missionary Association" has
sent an agent to England to solicit
aid in its work among the Freedmen.
Considerable disapprobation of this step
has been expressed. It is felt, that, in
view of our responsibilities of the past
toward this people, and our abundant
ability for the work, we, in this country,
ought to assume the whole enterprise of
educating them and furnishing them with
Christian privileges. It is also felt that
there are reasons too obvious to require
mention, and which are intimately related
to the subject, why it is peculiarly un
desirable to carry this application
for aid to England. We confess to
some sympathy with this view of the
case, and we believe the humiliation—if
humiliation it be—is a needless one. As
yet there is more difficulty in procuring
the right material, than the pecuniary
means for the enterprise. We know that,
in our own church, the main embarrass
ment is the want of men of adaptation to
the service. Give us the men of tact,
talent, industry and prayerfulness—men
who will inspire givers with confidence,
and the means will be forthcoming•
THE Florence Nazione publishes some
details of negotiations with the Papal
Court by Signor Vegozzi.
The Pope, it is stated, will appointßishops
to the vacant Sees, but they will be pre
sented by Victor Emanuel, and will ac
knowledge him as their sovereign, and
recognize the Kingdom of Italy. The
Pope consents to the suppression of some
bishoprics, and the Italian Government will
have the right to prevent the return of
prelates whose presence it may consider
prejudicial to public safety.