THE AMERICAS PRESBYTERIAN
AND
GENESEE EVANGELIST.
A BtlifioHiand Family Newspaper,
IN THI lITfIRCST OP THE
Constitutional Presbyterian Church.
PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY,
AT THE PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE,
1334 Chestnut Street, (2d story.) Philadelphia.
B*t. loha W. Sean, Editor and Publisher.
Key. B. B. HotehJkln, Editor or News and
Family Departments.
Bev. C. P. Bnsh, Corresponding Editor,
Rochester, If. T.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1865.
CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
Second Pace—The Family Circle:
Himmelan Geht Unser Bahn—The Clouded Tntal
lect—Christian Lif*-Thci Foolish Young Chioken-
Three Lessons from the Circumstanoes of Mr. Lin
oolu s Death—Lily S.— God is by Me ”
Rural Economy: Praying for Rain-Hogs in the
Apple Orchard Cool Water—Lime Water for Cor
recting Acids in Dough, etc.—How to Catch Hawks
and Owls.
Third Page—Editor’s Table:
Whittier’s “National Lyrios”—Thoreau’s “Letters
•mjY™w 3 w”? 1 ?? '";" Tbe Young Apprentice”—
Rwos MonThlyY “ Lltarary Items-Ministerial
Sixth Page—Correspondence :
From opr London Correspondent—Letter from
China—Away from Home—Letter from lowa.
Seventh Page—Religious World Abroad :
Great Britain—-France—Germany—-Italy— South
Amenoa—Missionary—Periodicals.
THE COUNTRY PARISH.
• OUTPOSTS.
Church institutions are not for edification
alone. They are to the sacramental host 4
a means for efficiency. A congregation is
sadly deficient in its estimate of the purpo-'
ses of its organization, and its supplying
itself with pastoral ministrations, when it is
looking chiefly to the religious culture of
its own pewholders and their families, or
even others who happen to be in convenient
distance to the sanctuary.
Somewhere, in the neighborhood of al
most every rural parish, lies, a district of
oountry, just far enough from any house of
Worship to leave the inhabitants without,
the incitement to church going, which is
felt under the example and social influence
of the neighborhood of a church, and yet'
just near enough to be within the grasp of a
well-directed effort toward its evangelization;
People are there who possess valuable traits
of character, who have the grain, if they
only had the grace, to become noble work
ers in Christian enterprises; but they are
living outside of any established parochial
beat, where, on the Sabbath morning, they
never see the roads alive with worshippers
•on their way to the house of Gfod, and
where no neighbor proposes to join them'
in a walk or ride thither. The Sabbath
has for them almost no religious associa
tion's ; they know it only as Sunday, which
means little more than that it is not Mon
.day or Tuesday, or any other of the “week
days ;” but nothing is more unthought of
than its relation to religion, and the oppor
tunity which it gives for divine worship..
Simply because they feel themselves living
a few miles away from religion, they feel
themselves in' practical isolation from it.
The institutions of the gospel are within
easy reach, but the neighborhood and so
cial incitements lie in no such direction.
As suoh things generally go, it is not pro
bable they will step out of their way to go
to the gospel. But a church, within fair
working distance, can, without any charge
upon the general benevolence of its denom
ination, or any material addition to its own
home expenses, carry it to them.
The Methodist system of beating the bush,
so long as it was worked aoooiding to the
plan of its founders, was a capital one for
such cases. It is a loss to the cause of
Christian evangelization, that those glorious
old pioneer days, when the term “travel
ling connection” had more than a technical
meaning, have' passed away. Our syptem
is, however, sufficient for such localities, if
the’ministers and churches within reach of
them accept, as a part of God’s design in
‘ placing them where they are, the duty of a
ohuroh. extension on their own account,
with their own sanctuary as the radiating
point. The outpost system for a country
parish is hot a theoretical scheme. We
.know many places where it has been a suc
cessful experiment; places where the estab
lishment of preaching out-stations has
proved a feeder to the home congregation,
.and in some cases, the first step toward a
new and influential church organization.
We could name more than one country
pastor who, casting about for some way of
making his ministry more of a felt power in
-.the ohuroh, has turned to some neglected
district, seoured the use of a school-house,
invited people to assemble on afternoons of
-the Sabbath, and cheerfully loaded himself
with the extra duty of meeting them there,
■and preaching to them the great salvation.
He has not always found the access ready
or cheerful; has perhaps for long years
toiled with no support but faith, and has
perhaps almost fainted during that reaction
ary season Mowing the novelty of “ having
meetings," when one and another drops
away and slides back into his old Sunday
■habits. But Divine strength has sustained
his inflexible purpose through this most
disoouraging interval, until the time of the,
reward of patienoe. This reward is a well
'Christianized neighborhood, a recognized
New Series, Vol. 11, No. 31.
Sabbath, an appreciation of the afternoon
service, and more or less cases in which
jfeople follow him’to his church, and there
become lively stones in that temple of the
Lord.
; The establishment of a Sabbath-school at
•the outset ot such an effort, is generally the
most powerful auxiliary to its results- In
most, cases this must, for a while, be carried
on by foreign aid. The pastor’s young
men-and women must be his helpers, and.
these failing, those who are- older must re
new enough of their youth for such service;
Where the home material gives out, drafts
for teachers can sometimes be made upon
a*church the other side of the out-station.
We have looked on with wonder to see how
fast a well-worked Sabbath-school will make
its way to the favor and love of the people
of such a country district as we haye de
scribed, and in how few years it will
raise; up for itself a oorps of qualified and
enthusiatic teachers, and secure from the
people around a full provision for library
and other expenses. Indeed, as regards
rail the affairs of a well-managed outpost, it
requires often but a few years, with the
smiles of the Divine Spirit, to reach the
point where, with the exception of the
pastor’s services, it ceases to be a burden,
and becomes a positive helping power to
the congregation organizing it. In this
last feature, the case is more marked than
, that of a mission enterprise of a city church.
; The last generally looks forward to no per
manent incorporation of the material upon
which it works into its own organism: the
only blessing which, as an individual
church, it expects from its labor, is the en
largement of the church general and the
noble blessedness of doing good.
Another difference between ■ the caßes is
that the country church can establish its
outpost almost without pecuniary expense.
The school-house, if granted at all, (and
not in one case out ,of fifty will it be re
fused,) is given free of cost. There is-in
fact no call for money beyond that of sup
plying the Sabbath-school with working
facilities, and as we have said, that gene
rally slides off in a year or two. The city
church establishes its mission at heavy ex
pense—expense for building, for mission
aries, and expense all around : more praise
to them for it!
Of course the outpost system is a heavy
tax upon the pastor’s strength, and this we
have mentioned as generally the only per
manent home burden in tEe case. To bim
it is a burden, and is one from which he
may not hope for relief. There are pastors
who cannot and should not undertake it.
There are others who, having undertaken
it, have obeyed an impulse beyond their
strength, and whose congregations should
insist upon their giving it up.
Still, unfashionable as our views are, we
incline to the opinion that the ministry of
•our church are not, in the main., the deli
cate, sickly, and' overworjpd race -which
they are sometimes supposed to be. We
think that for promoting robustness and
capacity for enduoance, our vocation is above
the average of the fallings of life. There
are Some classes much sturdier and hardier
for effort, and there are many that are
feeble)*.; Our contract with the parishes
we serve may call for no such service as we
propose. Preaching in the church, keeping
an eye upon the families of the congrega
tion, and attending now and then a funeral,
may cover the whole claim of the parish to
our services. But what of God’s claim as
ratified by us in our ordination vows—our
contract with the Great Master we serve ?
What of the “ Great Commission ?” Are
we doing our part under it while, because
it is tiresome to preach so much, and is not
in the contraot, w# leave fields within easy
reach, and which might be fields of hope
and salvation, to become the uncontesjjed
prize of ruin ? What of apostolical pre
cept and example ? Work is our calling.
“ Servants, work while yet ’tis day;
So I heard the Master say.”
A Good Man Passed Away.*—Fox
some years past the name of Arthur
Tappan has seldom appeared In print.
Thirty years ago he vyas a merchant
prince and a princely Christian in New
York. He whs an earnest anti-slavery
man, of what was then called the radical
type, and'was undaunted in spirit and
liberal in his means' in that direction.
He was also, a munificent patron of
Christian enterprises generally. We see,
in the New York papers, the notice of
his death in New Haven, Conn., on the
ult., in the eightieth year of his age.
We do not admire the person who boasts
he has no sensibility on any point; we
rather conclude he has drifted from all .the
moorings of affection and etiquette, and Is
not fit for the society of the delicate-and
refined.
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1865.
THE INEXHAUSTIBLE THEME.
An article is just now taking the rounds
of the papers, giving some statistics con
cerning the immense amount of sermon
writing accomplished by individual preach
ers. In many cases it far exceeds the
amount of authorship by the most prolific
writer in. any other line of literature whom
the world can produce. In our own coun.
try, for example, the late President Dwight
wrote one thousand sqrmons in ten 3 years.
Rev. Dr. Gardiner Spring, preaching his
fortieth anniversary discourse, stated that
he had written four thousand sermons at
full length. Rev. Joseph Lathrop, D.D.,
of West Springfield, Mass.,. besides' six
octavo volumes of printed sermons, left
five thousand in manuscript—the latter
estimated to be equal to two hundred and
fifty, octavo volumes of ordinary size.
These, it is true, are among the extreme
oases of the amount of authorship by indi
vidual ministers ; but the average extent of
such authorship, if stated,’ would excite
astonishment at the immense radiating
power for interest which can be found
dwelling in a single subject.
To make . the view more impressive, let
the reader consider the well known
acter of the productions of that class of
sermonizers, of whom the divines above
named are specimens. The four thousand
sermons of Dr. Spring are not the turnings
of a containing a lew bril
liant pieces, so as to present them in a
change of combinations, an effort for variety
which, because it is but an effort, soon be
comes an unbearable monotony. At the
feet of preachers like him, or like one in
our own city whom our readers generally
will identify by this simple reference, there
have sat men of the highest order of intel
ligence, whose interest could not have been
secured for any length of time without
such preaching as contains freshness ot
thought, and enlarges the scope of Chris
tian knowledge. And yet, through all the;
best period of their.lives for appreciating
the edifying powerdf a gospel ministry,
they have sat under, the an
individual minister, and heard from two -to
four thousand Bermons from his lips, with
no feeling that his sermons were becoming
monotonous, or that the theme was approach
ing toward exhaustion. On the conWtry
thSy have- often retired from the public
service with the feeling that there was yet
much more to be said, and a richer spiritual
entertainment awaited them in the future'
development of thoughts just suggested.
Preachers there may have been, and
doubtless have been, who soon exhaust
their power to edify thinking minds. But
in the face of the facts just named, their
failure does not militate against the inex
haustibleness of the gospel as a theme of
authorship. They fail either from natural
incapacity, or from a want of that earnest
interest in the subject which leads to
earnest thought.
To Bee tow much is involved in this
view of the' gospel as a theme, it must be
remembered how very small is the compass
in which its substantial truths are com
pressed. Men who' have given their minds
to other truths, such as belong to human
science, or worldly knowledge, have some
times been wonderfully prolific in author
ship, or have perhaps spoken before audi
ences, and held them in rapt attention a
thousand times. But they have swept the
circle of the universe for their subjects;
have in fact generally been inventive of
subjects; have made a merit of regarding
the particular truths in which they deal as
progressive, and have consequently felt
themselves independent ofmxed boundaries
of thought. We admit that this may be
said of some divines in the' church, arid
that they are only too surely indebted to it
for their power of attraction; but we are
now reasoning from other well, known ex
amples—those of men. whose life long habit
has been to confine their speculations within
the limits of the truths settle;! by the words
of Jesus and his apostles, apd to make the
gospel the central point of discourse, always
preaching out of it, and preaching it.
We challenge all history and all the living
world to produce the man whose known
writings or orations on any subject below
that of revealed religion, betray the power
to hold the interest of an intelligent dis
oipleship, week after week, from youth to
old age, the auditory and the theme being
always the same.
The view is still more vivid, when we
remember that these preachers have at
command only a finished, series ,of truths—
a short and defined science which they may
make no effort to enlarge. On any othjyj,
subject, the doctrine of the progressiveness
of science is allowable—is indeed true;
arid this truth respecting it is what fur
nishes the largest amount of material for
authorship; and for the interest which
i
authors and speakers. are able to awakeja*
If they are prolific of thought and investi
gation in any given line of inquiry, it is
not because of the inexhaustibleness of
thought springing from a settled and' de
fined truth; but it is the intrepidity of ex
ploration for discoveries in unknown fields.
For theories, they may sweep through the
universe of fancies and conceivable possi
bilities, and for dogmas , they may torture
into service the logic of the ages.
But those wonderfully voluminous pro
ductions of ministerial authorship which
have been mentioned/ consist only of the
exhibition of a finished science, embracing
a series of truths .so few and Jpiple that in
good round man .may oarry them
in his breast' pocket, and read them delib
erately at a few sittings. They are all the
gospel, and, as such, they are his whole
range ot thought. i.They are not his start
ing point for explorations inti) unknown
divine science, but they are his limit of
discovery, his absolute knowledge, and for
him the bound of such knowledge, either
as a learner or teacher. His whole liberty
as a preacher of “ Christ and him cruci
fied,” is to enlarge the understandings of
men respecting these few truths, to present
them in striking and convincing aspects, to
reveal .their goodness in severity and grace,
to seek to win’for them the approbation of
the reason of men, and the cordial concur
rence of their hearts, to exhibit their rela
tions to human affairs and conduct, public
or individual, and to bring home to the
consciences of men their warnings and ex-'
hortations. In .this work he may indeed
draw upon the widest - fields of history or
science for analogies' and.illustrations, but
all that he can teach is; that finished gospel
system, the whole truths' in which can be
read in a few hours.
A writer or speaker on some great human
theme, straitened to such limits, would
despair of permanently drawing freshness,
from it. But Christian divines have found
thjttdnterest of the gospel inexhaustible,
we have said, men ot the highest
order of mind have sat decades of years
under, the same ministry, and have felt
themsejvc'gr enriched by what they have
heard, no IeBS by the four thousandth ser
mon, than by the first.
There is but one way of accounting for
this. Short and simple as the gospel is,
considered merely as a statement of truths,
and perfect as the fact character of those
statements is, the truths which .they dis
close have their spring in the nature of
God; as themes of interest, and of contem
plation in various lights, they have the
boundlessness of the nfind of their Divine
author. The preacher is lost in this region
of boundless thought, not so much in his
discussions of the letter of the gospel as m
the attempt to clothe its spirit in words.
The former he might preach through; the.
latter is bringing men to “ comprehend
with all saints what is the breadth, and
length, and depth, and height, and to
know the love of Christ which passeth know
ledge.” , The exhaustlessness of the gospel
is not so much found in its scientific char
acter, as in a susceptibility of use as a
power in the world, and the adapta
tion of its spirit to every condition of mind,
and every thing committed to human
agehfjl, relating to earth or to the world
to come, In this lies one of the marked
points of its distinction from any other one
theme of authorship or discourse, one of
the signatures of its real Divine origin,
that thus employed, no man unless himself
monotonous and dull, no generations of
men, can pursue it to the point where its
freshness is lost. The theme of the gospel is
inexhaustible simply because it is the gospel
: —the glorious gospel of God.”
WRATH AND LOVE.
How closely these attributes may be as
sociated in the highest measures and most
perfect , natures, appears in the Scripture
delineations of the Divine character, espe
cially in such a phrase as the “ Wrath of
the Lamb,” Rev. 6, 16. Those who pre
tend to draw their religion from nature,
assert the incompatibility of the two senti
ments as ascribed to the Deity. They say,
a God who feels anger is a God who does
not love.” We are glad to see that the
subject has been taken in hand by a Chris
tian philosopher, who. vindicates the Scrip-;
tural view by a careful examination of the
various eras in the history of Redemption,
,and by showing how they illustrate the
doctrine of the Divine wrath. The writer
is Prof. Delitzsch, of Erlangen, best known
in this country as the author of the bril
liant Commentary on Genesis. A late
number of the Bibliotheca Sacra, in a
commentatory notice of the work, gives the
following extract, which will show its
genera} spirit:—
“ The wrath of God, in act, is the mani-
Genesee Evangelist, ISTo. 10*02,
festationof the jealousy of hisiove. Only
by viewing it in this light, can we recon
cile the two expressions ‘ God is love ’■
and ‘ Our God is a consuming fire !’ Ab
solute love asserts its exclusive right to the
creature, by becoming ~a consuming fire to
the creature which repels it. Fire shows
how serious a thing love is. Holiness is
the repellant principle in wrath, ; love the
attractive, for wrath includes both. » The
former principle - removes the enemy, the
latter refuses to let him go,, till he rends
himself completely; away. Because God
loves his creature, therefore does he keenly
feel its apostasy; this his feeling is Divine
jealousy ; because he is holy, he manifests
his jealousy in act. In short, anger is not
opposed to, but is an expression of love.
God is angry because he loves. The goal
of the Divine wrath in its various revela
tions of itself is the triumph of love over
sin, whether by the restoration of the
fellowship, or by the eternal ex
clusion of the sinner, who wilfully persists
in his enmity to God,”
This, says the critic.: in the Bibliotheca
Sacra, is one of the most beautiful and
pregnant ideas of the newer school of ‘the
ologians in Germany; and with some modi
fications needs vitally incorporating into
our own theology.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
We have been favored in our city this
week with a visit from that venerable and
veteran missionary of the American Board,
Rev. Jonas King, D.D., of Athens, Greece.
He addressed'a large congregation' on Sab
bath morning in the First Presbyterian
Church, and another on Wednesday even
ing in the Central Church. And he told
us just what we wanted to, know-rhe made
just the sort of address almost universally
most acceptable, and most profitable from
a returned missionary., It was not a
general discourse on the duty of benevol
ence, or on the interests of missions at
large, or an argument for the fact that
heathen have souls; but he told us what
his own eyes had.seen, what his ears had
heard, and he had himself experi
enced, in trying to make known the gospel
in that classio but semi-heathen land.
Dr. King arrived in this, country about
twelve Ulonths since, after an absence of
thirty-seven years. -He first went out forty
three years ago, and was, for a short time,
a missionary at Jerusalem. After revisit
ing this country he went again as missionary
to Greece. AH this time he was a single
man; but in 1829, jp. the Island of Tenos,
he was married to a Greek wife. The cere
mony was performed'by Eev. Dr. Ander
son, of the A. B. C. F. M., then on a visit
to the Levant. The service was both in
English and in Greek, and seems to have
been well done, as it remains to this day.
Mrs. King was with her husband in this
place a stately, queenly looking woman..
They have six children living, five daugh
ters and one son; the daughters all married,
one in St. Petersburgh, (Russia,) one in
Constantinople, and three in this country,
thus widely separated. %
The doctor is now seventy-three years of
age; looks feeble, and yet spoke vigorously,
and talks of returning to Athens very soon
to resume his missionary labors. He has
already accomplished a great work, as the
world well knows, and has led an eventful
life. Like Paul he has fought with beasts,
not at Ephesus, but at Athens. His great
mission seems to have been to contend
manfully for liberty to preach the gospel
in the midst of the corruptions and su
perstitions of the Greek Church —another
name for papacy, without the Pope. For
this he has suffered persecutions, and stripes,
and imprisonment;-and for this has held
his life almost in constant jeopardy from
year to year for a quarter of a century.
His courage and heroism for the truth are
absolutely sublime; and it is for this that
the friends of missions every where greet
him with tokens of profound respect and
grateful reverence. He was so welcomed in
our city; and, after a week’s stay with us,
he left on Thursday morning for Niagara
Falls. He had never seen that Wonder of
the world. After spending a few days
there, and addressing the people on the
Sabbath, he is to visit Buffalo and gleve
land, and possibly go still further West.
A discourse, addressed to our returned
soldiers, was preaohed by Rev. Dr. Ellin
wood, in his church, on Sabbath evening,
25th of June, which is now published by
request of a number of his parishioners.
It is a word of commendation and welcome
to those who have fought so nobly for our
country’s defence and salvation, founded on
the words of Paul, “I have fought a good
fight; I have finished my course; I have
kept the faith.”
These words are applied,.in a limited
sense, to the good soldiers of the Republic,
and their brave deeds, steady and true,
DR. KING AMONG US.
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while victory was so long coming, are justly
commended; after which, good advice is
offered for the future. They that fought
so well to maintain the majesty of our
Government, and the integrity of our
Union, will be expected to do all other good
things to maintain order, peace and pros
perity within cur borders. It.is a valuable
discourse, was well received by those who
heard it, and is wisely put in a permanent
form for farther reading and future refer
ence.
EAST BLOOMFIELD.
The people of this rich farming town are
moving to build a monument to the honor
of their fellow-citizens who have recently
given their lives for the salvation of our
country. It has been an intensely loyal
and patriotic town; has contributed its full
proportion, if not more, to the armies of
the republic; and a-large number have
fallen in battle, or died in rebel prisons.
The monument proposed is to cost some
five or six thousand dollars.
SYRACUSE,
The good people of the First Church in
Syracuse have been making a good move,
paying off an old church debt of six thou
sand dollars, and adding five hundred dol
lars to the salary of their excellent and able
pastor. In the same connection we may
mention, that Rev. Dr. Canfield is seriously
contemplating a trip to Europe. His plans
are not yet matured, and maybe modified
by the inroads of a pestilence in the old
world. It is well-known that the Doctor
haS;: battled manfully for many years
against ill health, and has kept up, and
been at work, while others would have
died. Foreign travel, with six months or
a year of rest, would manifestly do him
much good.
PERSONAL.
Dr. Shaw 'is rusticating at Clayville,
Oneida County. The 'chief attraction to
that quiet little place, we imagine, is the
fact, that his son, Augustus C. Shaw, is
there, the pastor of the Presbyterian
Church, and# so he spends the time near
him. Dr. Chester, of Buffalo, is expected
to supply the pulpit of the Brick Church
next Sabbath, and Rev. Dr. March, of Phi
ladelphia, through the-month of August.
TRUMANSBURGH.
Rev. A. M. Mann, D.D., has resigned
the pastorate of the Presbyterian Chnrch
in Trumansburgh, and is going to Ithaca
to reside. Fortunately, the Doctor is not
dependent on the Ministerial Relief Com
mittee, and may reside where he will.
COOPERSTOWN,
Rev. Charles McHarg, late pastor of the
Presbyterian Church in Irvington, near
New lork, is now supplying the pulpit of
the Church in Coopertown; Rev. W. W.
Newell, Jr., having left that place, and
accepted a call to the Church at Wappin
ger’s Fall’s, New York. C. P. B.
Rochester, July 29, 1865.
How is This ?—The Old School PreB
bytery of Potomac recently struck from
its roll the names of three ministers for
the sin of disloyalty, basing its action,
as was said at the time, upon authority
to that effect from the last General As
sembly of that Church. The impression
has been abroad that the Assembly last
spring struck from its rolls the entire list
of the Synods, Presbyteries, and minis
ters who seceded to form the new South
ern church. We are greatly surprised
on being told by a correspondent, in last
week’s Presbyterian, uneontradicted by
the editor, that this impression is false,
and that all these names are still on the
roll as an integral part of the O. S. Pres
byterian Church. Not having the Min
utes, we cannot, examine for ourselves,
but give the statement in the Presbyte
rian as follows:
Messes. Editors: —Your respected cor
respondent “Hawkeye” accounts for the
striking from the roll of the Presbytery of
Potomac, the names of Messrs. Bocock,
Balch, and others, on the supposition that
the Assembly struck from its rolls the South
ern Presbyteries, Synods, &c. But if he
will consult the proceedings of the Assembly,
he will find that the clause in the report of
the committee directing the striking off, was
itself stricken out, thus leaving all the South
ern churches, Presbyteries, and Synods, still
on the Assembly’s roll; and, of course, the
names of these brethren of the Presbytery of
Potomac, if “Hawkeye” gives their status
correctly, must be still legally upon that
Presbytery s roll, so far as any authority of
the Assembly is concerned. R. L. S.
PRESBTTERIAL Visitation. —We clip the
following item from the account of the last
meetingof the United Presbyterian Church’s
“First Presbytery of New York.” If such is
the ustihl habit of the Presbyteries of our U.
P. brethren, they are an example which might
be followed by our own connection, with the
result of a vastly increased sympathy.and re
verence of the churches for the higher .judica
tories. The account says:—During the sit
tings of Presbytery, the congregation in whose
bounds it met, was visited; and after a full
examination, and faithful dealing with both
pastor and people, Presbytery expressed its
satisfaction with the Btate ot th?n g a as f on nd
in this congregation.' A