gmmrau Hmhytam THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1865. ACKNOWKEDGMENT. For circulating the American Presby terian in Bast Tennessee : ® First Church Harrisburg, per Rev. T. H. Robinson, . . . §53 50 Previously acknowledged, . 521 00 The Medical Department of New York University will open, in the Autumn or Preliminary Course, September 4th. The professors are such well known scien tific men, as Drs. Draper, Martyn Paine, and others. Sons of ministers and pliysi-< cians, who need it, can avail themselves of a beneficiary foundation, materially re ducing the expenses of tuition. Beauties of the Anti-CapitaAPun- ISHMENT System. —The State of Michi gan rejoices in a statute which abolishes the death penalty. A wretch, by name David F Bevins, was recently tried in Lenawee county, in that State, for the murder of his aged parents, and his young wife on the eve of maternity. The motive for killing the former was to get their property, and the latter, to enable him to marry another in Ohio. He was found guilty all around, and was sentenc ed to imprisonment for life in the State Prison, this being the law’s extreme esti mate of such atrocity. The Judge, in sentencing him, said:—“ Go from among men into your solitary cell. The walls of your dungeon will yield you at least equal sympathy and commiseration to that exhibited by you to your victims. Mankind is entitled by the verdict in your case, and the consequent protection of law, to be delivered from the danger of further depredations.” Pennsylvania Bible Society.— From the Fifty-seventh Annual Report, presented May 3, 1865, we learn that the officers are: President, Rev. Albert Barnes; Yice Presidents, Rev. John Chambers, Right Rev. Alonzo Potter, D.D., Rev. H. Boardman, D.D., Rev. C. P. Krauth, D.D., Gettysburgh; Rev. John T. Pressly, D.D., Pittsburgh ; Rev. Howard Malcom, D.D., Rev. Bishop Matthew Simpson, D.D. Corresponding Secretary, Joseph H. Dulles; Record ing Secretary, Rev. Richard Newton, D.D., Treasurer John W. Claghorn, Secretary for Eastern Pennsylvania, Rev. Irvin H. Torrence, Secretary for West ern Pennsylvania, Rev. W. W. Eells, Pittsburgh. Depositary, JohnP. Rhoads. We also learn that the number of books issued from their Depository the past year was 20,673 Bibles; 64,220 Testa ments, and 774 separate books of the Bible, making a total of 85,567 volumes, amounting to $32,368 47. This is a decrease in the circulation as compared with the preceding year, resulting from the very large number of' New Testa ments distributed then to the soldiers and prisoners of war, but shows an in crease of $3,192 23 in the value of the issues. The total circulation since the organization of the Society has been 1,945,586 volumes. ■ They have remit ted to the American Bible Society dur ing the year $31,389 03 for books, and a donation of $5,000. The total receipts of the Society from all sources, for the same period has been $44,254 38. Psalmody. — We are almost ready to regard the Psalmody subject as entailed upon church assemblies as a security against death from stagnation. We be lieve the attempt of the United Presby terian Church to obtain a new version has before been noticed in our columns. Its last Assembly overtured such aversion, (we believe completed only in part,) furnished by a committee of its own, to the Presbyteries for approval or other wise. We notice that the Second Pres bytery of New York has passed it over to its church sessions, requiring them first to vote, aye or no, not on the collec tion as a whole, but on each version of a psalm ; and second, to specify particu larly their objection to whatever versions they reject. If their Presbyteries gen erally adopt this course, it would be a rare sight to watch the countenances of any committee who should sit down to the task of opening the replies. Such a time! We truly sympathize with our United Presbyterian brethren in their feeling of need of an improved version, and we sincerely wish it were possible to realize their ideal of a versification which should unite the two qualities of a closely literal translation and fair lyrical merit. But if there can be no change of books until each psalm has run the guantlet of the sessions, and come out alive, the sticklers for Rouse need not be alarmed. Well Said.—We like the following few words in which the National Baptist exposes the absurdity of the current mania for the costly medieval style of church'^architecture—a fancy which had better have been - left to denominations who are ever locating all that is beautiful and good with the old ages:— “There is an evident tendency to excess, in this country, in the matter ol building fine places of worship. Great sums are expended in copying churches, built centuries ago, and which are not by any means either capacious or convenient. He who would build a ship or a dwelling on the model of the middle ages, would not be considered wise. Then why build churches thus? The grand object, in every structure, should be adaptation. In past ages, preaching was rare in churches, and they were built without regard, to use; now, every church should be primarily adap ted to this purpose. _ While every part should be neat and convenient and attractive, ex travagance should be avoided. In very many cases a better place of worship can be built for one-half the money thatis actually expended. ’ ’ BOOKS RECEIVED. ELLICOTT ON PniLIPPIANS, Colossians, Philemon. —A Critical and Grammatical Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistles to the Philippians, Colossians, and to Philemon, with a Revised Translation, by Rt. Rev. Chas. J. Ellicott, D. D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. Bvo. 278 pages. Andover : Warren F. Draper. For sale by Smith, English & Co., 23 North Sixth street, Philadelphia. $574 50 The Herald of Health and Journal of Physical Cnlture, devoted to Hygienic Medi cation, Bodily Development, and the Laws of Life. Edited by Russell T. Trail, M. D., July;, 1865. The North British Review, No. 84, June, 1865. _ Contents: _F. A. Wolf; The New Gold Mines and Prices; Three Women of Letters; England and Norway in the Eleventh Century; Popular Religious Litera ture; Symbolism in Christian Art: State and Prospects of Italy. New York: L. Scott & Co.; Philadelphia: W. B. Zieber. Announcement of the Sixteenth Annual Session of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, together with the Introductory Address (Abridged) delivered at the opening of the Session, October 12, 1864, by Edwin Fussell, M, D., Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine. Littells’ Living Age, No. 1102,15 July, 1865. Contents: Henry Martyn: Wives and Daughters, Part Y ; The Light House on the Skere Mhoil; The Pyramids: The Bursting of the Bombay Bubble: The Cost of a Uni versity Education; Poetry; Short Articles. WHAT THE COPPERHEADS THINK OF THEM. Two specimens of a venomous creature, not included in the terms of Lee’s sur render, and therefore still privileged to carry on their petty treasons, were pass ing by a Government military hospital a few days ago, when one said to the other: “ How long do you think the govern ment can afford to keep up these expen sive establishments?” Answer. “I dont know. . They’re nothing but d—d abolition hotels any how 1” That is what your mean, unsubdued Northern traitor, who is sorry his coun try’s government was not overthrown, thinks of the places where our suffering soldiers are still cared for by a grateful people. DISABLED MINISTERS, ETC. Messrs. Editors :—The action of the Presbytery of Erie, ou the Ministerial Relief Fund, and the remarks of your " Corresponding Editor ” on the doings of the Presbyte'ry of Niagara, in regard to the same subject, an account of which is contained in your columns of last week, will prove highly serviceable in a two-fold manner. First, in the direct influence thus brought; to bear on the Churches of those Presbyteries, and, Second, in publishing such action, which may quicken the zeal of other Presby teries in the work of making provision for indigent ministers to their needy families. We hope none of your readers will tire over the subject of the Ministerial Relief Fund. The enterprise being new in our denomination, tbe rule sug gested in Isaiah 28, 10, will have to be followed in this case, until our Churches generally become fully awakened to the importance of the cause on band. July 17, 1865. Gen. Grant’s Head Quarters in Philadelphia. —Philadelphia, like most American cities, has few lions. Last week, however, brought us one which we venture to say will be inquired after by all who are looking for objects of in terests in and around the city. Gen. Grant has presented to our distinguished merchant philanthropist, Geo. H. Stuart, the log cabin erected at City Point for his Head Quarters, and used as such during the last victorious campaign. It is presented both as a token of friend ship and as a memorial of the incessant and valuable' services of the Christian Commission and its self-consecrated Pre sident—services which won for the Com mission the heart of the army and the admiration of the friends of humanity and religion all over the world. The General has forwarded his gift to Mr. Stuart, and it reached here by the U. S. transport steamer, Thomas E. Cahill, on Friday last. Mr. Stuart, we understand, intends to have it put up in some of the public grounds—perhaps Fairmount Park, where it can be conveniently visit ed. The furniture accompanies the cabin, and it will be the exact representation of what it was as used by its illustrious occupant. Ex-Governor Brown. —The Savannah Herald contains an address by ex-Governor Brown to the people of Georgia, in which he urges them to support, not only the Go vernment of the United States, but the ad ministration of the Chief Magistrate. He appeals to them to take the amnesty oath and observe it in good faith. He argues that slavery is now dead forever. As to his slaves, he will immediately emancipate and treat them as free, giving them a part of the crop, or wages, for their labor. To those who cannot support the Constitution of this Government, he suggests emigra tion from the country. Freshet. —A very sudden and heavy freshet took place on the Wissahickon Creek and neighboring parts of the Schuylkill river, July 16th. Roads and bridges, lumber, canal-boats, coal, and some houses were swept away, slight damage was done to the Fair mount Water-works, but no loss of life is known to have taken place, and the damage, is local in character. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1865. FROM OUR CORRESPONDING EDITOR. This body convened in semi-annual meet ing at Canton, on Tuesday, 11th instant, and was opened with a sermon by Rev. Cyrus Hudson, of Ellsworth. This excel lent brother was once pastor, for some time, of the Presbyterian Church in Mt. Morris; and although now considerably advanced in years, and infirm in health, he is still doing good service, preaching in no less than four small places as a Home Mis sionary. Rev. Bliss Burnap, of Massena, was elected Moderator, and Rev. H. C. Riggs, of Potsdam, clerk. After the sermon, Presbytery attended to the celebration of the Lord's Supper, in connection with the church of Canton; administration of the bread by Rev. C. P. Bush, and of the cup, by Rev. Asa Brainerd. This Presbytery is small, but an earnest, working body, giving especial attention to the feeble churches within its own bounds, trying to nurse them up into vigor and life. It also cares for all our causes of benevolence; takes especial pains to have the proper com mittees appointed, and to get their reports of what is being done to advance the inter ests of Christ’s kingdom,} at home and abroad. The writer was heard very patiently for Foreign Missions. Thanks to the thorough organization and efficient action of the St. Lawrence County Foreign Missionary So ciety, auxiliary to the A. B. C. F. M., the churches of this region do well for this cause. Presbytery adjourned to meet next winter at Potsdam, on Monday afternoon, at two o’clock, on the week of the anniversaries. The object of meeting on Monday is to get more time for the proper business of Presby tery ; and it is intended to introduce some exercises for self improvement, in connec tion with tbe meeting, such .its criticisms of sermons and the like. Rev. Mr. Riggs was appointed a committee to assign such services to members of Pfesbytery. SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION, OGDENS- I BURGH.-, j,- ’ > i - The ‘‘Seventh regular semi-annual con vention of the St. Lawrence County Sab bath School Teachers’ Association," was held at Ogdensburgh, on Wednesday and Thursday of the present week. About two hundred delegates were present from dif ferent parts of the county, embracing many of the most active and earnest teachers and superintendents of the various Sunday schools. This association waß formed in 1860, and holds its regular meetings in July and January, and is manifestly doing much to improve and elevate the standard of Sabbath-school instruction in this part of the State. The convention was.called to order, at the hour appointed, by Col. JV C. O. Red r ington, the President of the Association, who presided throughout with admirable tact and ability. The exercises of the first day, however, took the shape of a Sunday school Teachers’ Institute, in which that ac complished Sabbath-school man, R. G. Pardee, of New York, did most excellent service, imparting instruction in a few hours, which it might have taken many of these teachers as many years to learn by their own hard experience. The Association employs a county mis sionary, Mr.' C. B. Whitcomb. Hisiexplo rations reveal the fact that about five thousand of the children of the county are in Sunday-schools; and not less than thirty thousand are not as yet gathered into these nurseries of piety. He has been in the servicte of the society but three or four months, and has, as yet, been engaged mainly in exploring, to see what is to be done. The greater work of gathering and forming schools, and creating and sustain ing an interest in them, is now to follow. It was resolved to attempt to raise fifteen hundred dollars in the county to carry pn these operations. , W e are exceedingly interested in a little story recently told us by one of our travel ing companions. As we passed a pleasant farm-house, “There,” said he, “lives a man, whose conversion was striking.” The story was in substance this:— But, recently, this man neither feared' God nor regarded man, taking: .pleasure especially in showing his contempt for the holy Sabbath. Acting in this spirit, he engaged one Sabbath morning in the slaughtering of an animal for family use through the week. As he thrust in the knife, and the life blood of his innocent victim gushed OHt before him, an arrow from Heaven dropped into his soul —blood ! blood ! “So Jesus bled on the cross! So he shed his precious blood for me !” Thus this once bold, defiant man now soliloquized, as he stood and trembled like a child in the presence of some awful appar ition. He was bold and defiant no longer. Melted with tenderness, overwhelmed with terror, he dropped his bloody knife, stopped his wicked work, and wandered through the day as one beside himself, thinking only, wherever he turned, “blood, blood; so he shed his blood for me.” Ptfr many, days and nights he could neither work nor rest, thinking only of that blood shed on Calvary for his cruel sins. But at last peace came. He sought and found forgiveness through the efficacy of the precious blood of the atonement, and has learned how much better it is to love and serve that blessed Saviour, PRESBYTERY OF ST. LAWRENCE, BLOOD. than to live in bold and blasphemous de fiance of his love and mercy. TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. We do not wonder that there should be typographical errors, as we must sometimes write hastily, although we try not to write carelessly; but we are somewhat amused with the ludicrousness of a mistake made in our letter next to the last. We always dot our i’s, but we do not always connect the top of our o’ s ; and, not unfrequently, where we meant to write on, it is printed in. And so to complete the metamorphosis, where we wrote pass on, it is printed pop in. That would do well enough for some things, but was hardly dignified enough in describing an Honorable member of Con gress, a grave Missionary, and a respectable Clergyman, passing from town to town holding Missionary Conventions —“next morning, we pass on, [not pop in\ to the next town.” And so, in our last, we are made to speak of a good man as filled with the “ Son of God, and the peace of the Gospel,” it should be the love of God. THE MISSIONARY CONTENTIONS. x These meetings in St. Lawrence county, to which we have before referred, have been a decided success. We were highly favored in the weather, so that we were able to meet every appointment. Notices had been thoroughly circulated; reasona bly large congregations were generally gathered, and almost all seemed deeply interested in the service. We aimed to reach the smaller towns, where missionary addresses are not often heart. The object was to scatter to excite interest, to increase the spirit of prayer and of liberality for this good cause. The clear, sensible, and earnest addresses of Rev. L. Bissell, the returned missionary, were well calculated to promote this end; while our thanks are due to Hon. G. T. Hulburd, President, and to Rev. S. W. Pratt, Secretary, of the St. Lawrence County Missionary Society, aux iliary to A. B. C. F. M., for the admirable arrangements made by them for our meet ings, and for their efficient help in carry ing them on. AN EXCHANGE, Since our visit to this region last winter, we find two acting pastors of Congrega tional churches have changed places. Rev. L. A. Chaney is at Rutland, and Rev. James Douglass at Pulaski. Last winter it was vice versa. ENLARGEMENT. The Presbyterian Church of Ogdens burgh, Rev. L. M. Miller, Pastor, are seri ously contemplating the enlargement and remodelling of their church edifice, at an expense of some twenty thousand dollars. It will be almost equivalent to making it new, and is intended as a great improve ment on the present structure, making it more light and airy, and giving it two unequal towers in front, not unlike those of the Brick Church, in Rochester, a pretty good model for any church to copy after. GROWTH, The little church in North Potsdam, under pastoral care of Rev. J. W. Grush, received nine at & communion on the first Sabbath of the month, eight by profession. The church has nearly doubled in members within the past year. PERSONAL. Rev. D. A. Holbrook , the late able and successful Principal of the Rural High School, at Clinton, has accepted an appoint ment, as Associate Principal of the Hunger ford Collegiate Institute, in Adams. He will prove a valuable acquisition to this new and highly flourishing institution. Rev. Edward Lord, of Fulton, has re ceived a call to the Presbyterian Church, in Adams, which, it is thought, he will ac cept. C. P. B. Ogdensburg, July 14, 1865. A Christian Sailor Gone. —T. S. P. in the last week’s Evangelist, furnishes a notice of the death recently of Capt. Thomas Rogers, in Chelsea, Mass., at the age of seventy-nine years. He com manded the first steamer which plied in and out of Boston harbor, and lived to make, by sstil or steam, four thousand trips between Boston and St. John’s, without the loss of a man or a spar. As a Christian, he was as steady and relia ble, as in his character as sailor. His last words to his pastor were character istic of the Christian seaman. “I can almost see the light-house .” This part of the notice reminds us of the language in which old John Adams, the converted mutineer in Pitcairn’s island, described the exercises of his last hours ? “How now,” was the inquiry made of him a few hours before he died. “ Coming into harbor ,” was the reply? “How now,” was repeated a short time after. “Rounding the point,” was replied. Soon he was seen to be going fast, and the inquiry was repeated, “Let gothe anchor,” was the response. The voyage was finished, and the port of Heaven gained. Gustavus W. Smith is among the ap plicants for pardon at the hands of the President. We think Mr. Johnson will pause long before he allows this applica tion. Smith is a northern renegade, who left New York City some time after the commencement of hostilities, and who almost immediately afterwards appeared as a rebel general, high in command, and who has been a prominent and leading spirit in the whole struggle. The least pardonable of all cases in rebeldom is, in our view, just this one of Northern rene gades. A memorable example should be made of some of them. gfsfos af fITO California.—We learn, through The Pacific, that our Assembly’s Permanant Committee of Education has organized an agency, with a Board of Directors attached, to facilitate the education of young men in California for the ministry. Rev. George Mooar, of Oakland, is the Secretary and Treasurer of the Board, and contributions to the important enter prise are invited. A vigorous effort to raise up a ministry from pious young men now on the ground, would afford the best hope for a sufficient and satis factory supply for the Pacific coast. Colorauo.—lt is pleasant to hear that the spirit of recognizing the services of laborious ministers by some substan tial token, has reached this remote mountain region. The friends of Rev. Theodore D. Marsh, in Central City and Black Hawk, places which he is supply ing under the auspices of onr Assembly’s Home Missionary Committee, recently complimented him with a purse of $670. Irvington, N. Y.—This is one of the charming rural towns which fringe the Hudson above New York, remarkable for its exquisitely beautiful natural scenery, as well as its artistic adorn ments. Our church in that place, received on the 6th inst. a new youthful Pastor in the person of Rev. John De- Witt, son of our Synodical patriarch, Rev. Dr. DeWitt, of Harrisburg. Mr. DeWitt was installed in his new charge by the Third Presbytery of New York. Rev. Dr. Burchard presided, and pro posed the constitutional questions. Rev. Mr. Dodge read the Scriptures, and Rev. Mr. Meikle, of Dobbs Perry, offered the opening prayer. Rev. Dr. Thomas DeWitt, of New York, made the ordain ing prayer. Rev. Mr. McLoughlin preached the sermon; Rev. Dr. Newell gave the charge to the people; and Rev. Dr. DeWitt, the venerable father of the candidate, gave the charge to the pastor. The New York Observer says:— “ These ordination services made a beau tiful exhibition of practical Christian union: in laying on oft hands the Old and the New School Presbyterians, the Reformed Dutch and Baptist ministers, united cordially.” Death of a Pastor.—Rev. Edmund D. Holt, Pastor of the church in Chat field, Minn., died at that place on the 11th ult. This will be felt by the church and neighborhood as a painful provi dence. Mr. Holt was a native of Ver mont, and an alumnus of Amherst College and Union Theological Seminary. Installation.—The First Church in Lansing, the capital of Michigan, is again supplied with a Pastor, Rev. J. Evarts Weed having been inducted into the pastorate by the Presbytery of Marshall, on the 28th ult. The intro ductory services at the installation were performed by Rev. A. Bryant. Rev. E. L. Davies preached the sermon; Rev. H. Kittredge, Moderator, put the con titutional questions, and gave the charge to the Pastor; and Rev. A. Bryant charged the people. The extra-consti tutional, but not inappropriate service of an installing prayer, was taken by Rev. C. S. Adams, of the neighboring Presby tery of Coldwater. This pastorate was not long since vacated by an occasional and much valued army correspondent of ours, who left it to accept of a chaplaincy in the Fourth Michigan Cavalry. It was under Mr. Armstrong’s judicious and laborious ministry that the church grew up from small beginnings, and became a parent stock for churches. Two others in the same city have colonized from it, and yet such is itß thrift that the congre gation is outgrowing its present house of worship, and requires a new one, of the class of large churches. The Right Wat.—The Presbytery of Cortland at its late meeting, tried the plan which makes the meetings of eccle siastical bodies of some other denomina tions, for example the Baptists, so eager ly sought after, and so interesting to the people among whom they meet. The meeting now spoken of was held with the church at Summer Hill, Cayuga Co., N. Y. According to a pre-arranged scheme, the meeting was continued through two full days, and a large por tion of the time was given up to preach ing services, a sacramental communion, discussions of our missionary work, and matters which inspire spirituality and enrich the hearts of the membership of the church. It was to the people of Summer Hill a season of delightful in terest, long to be remembered, and one which binds them in strong attachment to the Presbytery and denomination as such—a result which might be every where accomplished by the same trifling and pleasant effort. Rev. George Duffield, Jr, —The Western Presbyterian, (0. S.) of Danville, Kentucky, thus speaks of our beloved brother and former fellow-citizen on his removal to Galesburg, Illinois:—" The Rev. Mr. Duffield, is a son of the vener able Dr. Duffield, of Detriot, and thirty years ago, was a classmate of one of the editors of this paper, in Yale College. He was then a noble youth, maintaining an unsullied Christian character amid the many snares and temptations of College life. Our remembrance of him in the companionship of early manhood, is precious. He has been a laborious minister of the Gospel in the New School branch of the Presbyterian Church, in Brooklyn and Philadelphia, and more recently, in Adrian, Michigan. We wish him great success and comfort in his new field of labor in Illinois. Though we might not agree with him in all things, we would rejoice in an oppor tunity to hear him blow the Gospel trumpet, and to renew the intimate and loving intercourse of earlier years.” COLLEGE RECORD. Shurtlbff College, Illinois, had a graduating class of five members, and conferred the cegree of D.D. on Rev. G. S. Bailey, of Illinois, and Rev. S. Graves, of Norwich, Conn.; also an L.L.D., on Major General 0. O. Howard. Centre College.—This institution is located in Danville, Ky., and is Pres byterian in its character. The Com mencement occurred June 29. Rev. Dr. W. L. Breckenridge preached the Baccalaureate sermon on the previous Sabbath. The graduating class consist ed of thirteen. The honorary degree of D.D., was conferred on the Rev. James Hawthorn, of Princeton, Ky., and Rev. H. H. Hopkins, of Owensboro, Ky.; that of L.L. D. on Hon. L. H. Noble, of Leba non, Ky. Monmouth College.—This College is under the special patronage of the United Presbyterian Church. Its loca tion is in Monmouth, Illinois. As we notice the names of both gentlemen and ladies in the graduating class, we take it for granted that it is open for both sexes. The Commencement occurred on the 59th ult., having been preceded, on previous days, by the usual round of ram-linns, - orations, baccalaureate, &c— -all said to be of a high order. The num ber of the graduating does not appear in the account before us. Rev. Gulian Lansing, Cairo, Egypt, and Rev. John McCurdy, of Miramichi, Nova Scotia, were the recipients of the degree of D.D. Columbian College, * Washington, D. C.—A friend who was present at the recent Commencement, corrects our state ment of last week respecting the condi tion of this College during the war. Al though the Government hail in UQO JOl '■ hospital purposes a part of its ordinary accommodations, the course of instruc tion was not interrupted. At the Com mencement, six graduates took the de gree of Bachelor of Arts, and one that of Bachelor of Philosophy. Two, by ex examination, and one, in course took the Master’s Degreee. The Preparatory Department was last year well attended, and a fair-sized class this year enters upon the college course. - Marietta College, Ohio.—The Com mencement took place week before last. There was a disappointment of the ex pected oration before the Literary Socie ties, Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, of this city, the promised orator, being detained by a domestic affliction. Edward H. Allen, Esq., of Chilicothe, delivered the annual oration before the Alumni. Eight gra duates received the Bachelor’s Degree. That of D.D. was conferred upon Rev. George Maxwell, of Cincinnati, and L.L. D. upon the Hon. Joseph G. Wilson, of Oregon, and Hon. A. F. Perry, of Cincinnati. Dennison University.—Most of our readers, notwithstanding the ambitious title of this institution, will need to be told of its existence and lacation. The latter is in Granville, Ohio. The Com mencement exercises were held week be fore last. There were two graduates, and four Doctorates were bestowed— that of D.D. upon Rev. Messrs. N. S, Burton of Akron, J. M. Pendleton, of Hamilton, and S. B. Page, of Cleveland; L.L.D. upon Gen. J. D. Cox, U. S. A., next Governor of Ohio. ' TRIBUTE TO DR. GOODELL. We have before spoken of Rev. Dr. William Goodell’s retirement from the missionary field, after more than forty years signally useful service in Eastern Turkey, under the auspices of the Ameri can Board. The following letter from Constantinople, published in a New York daily, exhibits the estimate of his charac ter and services on the part of Christian residents of that city generally. A meeting was held this afternoon of the British residents in Constantinople to bid him good-bye and present him a testimonial of their great admiration of his character and affection for him. The testimonial was a costly and magnificent clock, presented by all the principal English residents. The occasion was a most touching one._ Mr. Hanson, one of the oldest and most distinguished British merchants in the East, presided, and more than once he was forced to pause in his ad dress, his voice being choked with emotion. Dr. Goodell replied in a speech full of humor and pathos. There were few in the room who did not shed tears. This voluntary testimony to Dr. Goodell’s worth by those of another nation and another denomination of Christians, is only one of many such which he has received, and which he more fully deserves than almost any man living. I have never known a man of purer charac ter, of more simple hearted devotion to God and to the good of others, of more unselfish and genial disposition. At the same time he is a man of strong mind, and of genuine humor and wit, always happy himself, and always making all around him happy. His departure from among us is felt by all as a personal sorrow, and those who have known him best mourn over his departure they would mourn for the loss of a father. It belongs to the churches of America, which he has represented in Turkey for forty years, to make his last days as happy and free from care as they can make them. lam sure this duty will not be forgotten. “My Country, ’Tis or Thee.”— Rev. Dr. Bushnell, of Hartford, in a recent article, laments that we have no Na tional hymn—nothing which is suitable to become to us what “ God save the King” is to Great Britain. He ridicules the pretensions of the one commencing as above, to this character, and is sur prised that the popular taste should so extensively receive it as such. A friend of the author replies, that he wrote the verses forty years ago, for a Sabbath school celebration, and that he ought
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