church membership in a year. This
ssr sr thm , pet »“■>
. ' “ The annual mcrease of the
population of the United States is three
fa + ?u e ; ha ! f P er Looking to the
tact that the increase by births is only
wo- and one-half per cent., and of the
immigrants, who make up the residue,
our Church receives scarcely any, we
perceive that the church membership in
our Church is increasing faster than the
population ; and in regard to our body,
the Church is gaining on the world, and
there is, therefore, substantial ground for
satisfaction.
2. The Churches and the Ministry
Number of Churches, 1,419
“ “ Ministers, 1,619
“ “ Licentiates, 122
Where are the ministers ? Here is a
surplus of 322 ministers and licentiates.
This ought to comprehend the whole
number of professors, \ministers, and
missionaries. Why should our little
weak country churches be begging for
ministers ? Suppose we have 50 profes
sors and 100 missionaries, where are
the other 112 ? Are they all sick ? We
want laborers; we want them exceed
ingly ; but we want to know where these
surplus ministers are. The Church is
a great army, and it should be disci
plined like an army. There should be
some one to call the roll of the army,
and know where every man and every
officer is. The first great reform we
need is this, to know the where and how
of every man in the Church. This will
bring them under the eye of criticism,
and that will briDg them to a sense of
duty.
Da. Allen —We learn from a pri
vate letter that Professor Allen, of Lane
Seminary, who, as many of our readers
know, has been seriously ill since com
mencement, is now at’Hampton, N. H.,
and recovering rapidly.— Christ. Herald.
fUligimt# InMligetta,
PRESBYTERIAN.
Progress in England.—The foundation
stone of a church in connection with the
Presbyterian Church of England was laid
on Thursday afternoon, the 27th ult., on
Castle Street, Worcester, where the build
ing of the foundations has for some time
been going on. It is designed to accom
modate nearly seven hundred adults/ with
seats for two hundred children. Style thir
teenth century Gothic; size seventy-two by
forty-two feet, and thirty-five feet high;
facings of frescoed stone, tower and spire one
hundred and twenty feet high; cost five
thousand pounds, over three thousand being
already subscribed. A. C. Sheriff, Esq.,
M. P., laid the corner-stone. A “ tea-meet
ing” followed in ths afternoon, at which
Rev. R. R. Thom, Rev. Dr. Julius Wood,
Dumfries, Rev. T. Alexander, Chelsea, Rev.
W. Chalmers, and others made addresses.
Referring to what he called the “non-in
tervention policy” recommended by other
speakers, Mr. Alexander said: —“He would
honestly tell all —Independents, Episcopa
lians, and Baptists—that he would have them
all Presbyterians at once if he could. (Laugh
ter. ) He had no sympathy with those who
did not want to make proselytes. He told
every man and women he had the opportu
nity of addressing that there was no form of
faith under the sun like Presbyterianism.
(Continued laughter.) It was because he
liked them—lndependents, Baptists, and all
—that he wanted to make them Presbyte
rians. Why, to show them one good feature
in Presbyterianism, he might tell them that
in London and throughout the length and
breadth of the land they knew all about the
Presbyterians in Worcester. If they had
been Independents nobody would have known
any thing about them (laughter); if they
had been Episcopalians they might have
lived and died, fought and quarrelled, and
nobody in London would have heard any
thing about it. (Continued laughter.) But
from the moment the Presbyterians in Wor
cester took the first step towards the forma
tion of a church he had been informed of
every thing they had done, and had never
failed to regard them with interest. (Ap
plause.) Tf all the world knew how good a
thing tJtiv. > dear old Presbyterianism was
they woulu ail be Presbyterians, as he was, to
the backbone. (Laughter.) There was a man
said to him one day, ‘ Where was Presby
terianism born, bred, and brought up ?’
They knew it was commonly objected that
Presbyterianism was Scotch, and therefore
was not adapted for Englishmen. Nothing
of the kina. Was Westminster Scotch 7
That was where the Confession of Faith, the
Catechism Larger and Shorter as it was
called, was drawn up. It was hammered out
with wonderful care, and there was not a
word in it that was not there for a reason.
But this was not done by Scotchmen, but by
Englishmen. Then there were people who
said they did not like their Psalms —he
liked them; they said they could not sing
them—he could every one; but however
many faults there were in them he said let
Englishmen be silent for they were made by
an Englishman. (Laughter.) He liked the
Psalms, and always sung them, but there was
a great deal of freedom in the Church with
respect to them, and they were not exclu
sively used. In all their organisation, he
maintained, they wen- not Scotch more than
they were English or Irish.”
Loyal Church in St. Augustine, La.—
A correspondent of the New York Observer
writes from St. Augustine July 25th asfol
lows: — 11 We have just held a meeting of our
church and congregation, and given Rev. C.
0. Reynolds (of the Christian Commission)
a call. It was encouraging to see the spirit
manifested, and the liberal subscription
made, which is not enough to support a
minister J the balance we expect, will be sup
plied by the Presbyterian Board of Domestic
Missions. At the same time we voted to
withdraw from the Church South, and have
applied to the Presbyterian Board of Domes
tic Missions for admission into some loyal
Presbytery North, until our name is estab
lished at which time we can be transferred.”
Southern Items. —The Middle Street and
High Street Churches of Portsmouth, Va.,
have taken measures for consolidation into
one The Union Theological Seminary m
Prince Edward is announced to reopen in
September. The faculty are, Rev. S. B.
Wilson D.D., President and Professor of
Pastoral Theology. Rev- B. M. Smith, D.D.,
Professor of Oriental Literature and Exposi
tion Rev R- L. Dabney, D.D., Professor
of Didactic and Polemic Theology and Sacred
Rhetoric Rev. Thos. E. Peck, Professor of
Biblical and Ecclesiastical History and Church
Government. A Texas rebel chaplain is
preaching in the First Church, Nashville
Two of the Presbyterian pastors m Mobile
remained with their flocks after the capture
of that city, and are still with them. J.he
third, has returned from a temporary absence
in lven l ucky.
Bloomington, Ills. —The Western corre
spondent of the Presbyterian, commenting on
the recent consolidation of the two branches
in that place into one church of our branch,
says: “There yet remains to us a church of
about one hundred members, who still ask for
the old paths. But they are without a house
of worship; they receive nothing for their
interest, whatever it may have been, in the
church property, which went with the majo
rity—and, just now, they seem in no condi
tion to' arise, and work, and shine. May
they so act in this trying emergency as to
secure the smile and favor of the Great Head
of the Church; and may He raise up friends
tor them. It should, perhaps, be noticed in
umi connection, that this church was a New
school church for some time before it became
connected with us.”
Oregon Presbytery.—This body num
bers now nine ministers. It has six churches,
numbering, according to the Minutes of the
last Assembly, 200 members. Four of these
ministers are without any particular charge,
except of farms. Two members were received.
One was James Wiley. This gentleman is a
man of at least sixty years. He has three
sons, all now on this coast, one in Bloomfield,
California, one at Corvallis and one at
Eugene City. He sold his property several
years ago, moved to Princeton, New Jersey,
and accompanied his three sons through their
entire classical and theological course ! We
heard him examined in Hebrew and Latin for
licensure, one of his own sons examining him
in Caesar’s Commentaries! He proposes to
live at Eugene City and preach and do good
as he has opportunity. We doubt ii a more
interesting family ever entered the ministry
together before. The Oregon Presbytery is
an Old School body. We suppose that the
only N. S. church in the State, the one at
Eugene City, will not preserve, its distinct
organization, but be united in the ministry of
Mr. Wiley.
Other Presbyteries. —There is the rem
nant of the Washington Presbytery in the
territory of that name. A church was organ
ized at Olympia some time ago, and it is con
templated to send a minister there soon. In
deed one of our California ministers has been
solicited to take charge of it.
The United Presbyterians have six small
churches and five ministers in Oregon.
The Old School body on the whole Pacific
coast last year reported 21 churches and ,1318
members, which is seven churches and six
members less than was reported by our Con
gregational Associations. They had thirty
three ministers and two licentiates.— Pacific.
The U. P. Assembly’s overture of the new
version of Psalms was considered at the late
meeting of the Ohio Presbytery. The ex
pression of the Presbytery was very cordial
and nearly unar imous in favor of the version.
The vote stood: Ayes, 16 —Nays, 1. We
believe this Presbytery is the first to vote
upon this question. '
Personal. — Rev. Jas. Sinclair was in
stalled pastor of the Church of Smithtown
Branch, L. jA, August 2.- Rev. A. M.
Hoge , D. _D* has resigned the charge of
Westminster Church, Cleveland, O. Rev.
E. W. Kellogg has left the Presbyterian
Church of Bethany, N. Y., and taken charge
of the Presbyterian Church of Oakland, N.
Y. Rev. Bdvvde Roberts has been released
from Calvary Church Rochester, and called
to Freeport, 111;-
Rev. D. T. Carnahan, formerly of the
Associate Reformed Church, has accepted a
call to the pastoral charge of the Presbyterian
Church in Gettysburg.
Professor D. Kirkwood, of the University
of Indiana, has been elected Professor of
Mathematics in the department of Canons
burg, Washington and Jefferson College, Pa.
Rev. R. H. Allen, pastor of the Second
Church of Nashville, who was a member of
the last General Assembly in Pittsburg, is
pursuing his work with great success. The
loyal people have clustered around him, and
his influence for good is felt throughout the
whole community.
REFORMED DUTCH.
The Collegiate. Church of New York is
the richest religious corporation next to
Trinity. The property is valued at $4,000,-
000, with an annual income of about $130,-
000. Harpending, a Dutch elder in the col
legiate Church, left by will on dying a swamp
which he had used as a tan-yard, for the sup
port of the ministry of the Dutch Church in
New York. This constitutes the property of
the Church chiefly. Its location is in the
most valuable portions of the cite, and be
tween Maiden Lane and Ann Street, on
Broadway, down Fulton and John, Nassau,
William Street, and Maiden Lane —in all
forty-one lots, besides property uptown.
GERMAN REFORMED.
The Board of Publication has ap
pointed the Rev. D. D. Leberman, of Mead
ville, Pennsylvania, recently of the Titusville
Mission, which he was obliged to resign on
account of impaired health, an agent to col
lect monies to cover the losses sustained in
the burning of the printing establishment at
Ghambersburg, and to place the publication
operations of the Church upon a proper foot
ing.
BAFTIST.
The First Baptist Church of Petersburg
Virginia, recently struck by lightning and
consumed, was reared at a cost of nearly
$40,000, and has an insurance of only about
$20,000. It was one of the most beautiful
and convenient structures of its kind in the
South, and an ornament to the city of Peters
burg. A new Baptist organization was
recognized at Beaver, Minnesota, July 16th.
CONGREGATIONAL.
Mb. H. Allen Shorey, a member of the
Graduating Class, at Bangor, was ordained
pastor of the neighboring church in East Or
rington, July 28. Mr. Shorey . had labored
with the people as he was able, in connection
with his studies at the Seminary, during
most of the past year, and his labors had
been signally blessed.- There has been a gen
eral revival- of religion, and not less than
forty persons—several of them heads of fam
ilies—are. expecting, in a few days, to become
united with the church. —Boston Recorder.
Theological Institute of Connecti
cut. —The next term of this institution will
open in Hartford, Wednesday, October 4,
1864, the Seminary having been removed
from East Windsor Hill to that city. A
commodious building has been procured, in
which will be located the Library and Lecture
rooms : and arrangements will also be made
for the accommodation of students.
RejjX John A. Albro, D.D., acknowl
edges the receipt of $5,000 from ~his friends
in the First church and society of Cambridge,
and also a gq[d watch from the Sabbath
school.
Salaries.—The First church, Medford,
Massachusetts, offers $l5OO, and the First
church of Randolph, Maine, offers $l4OO
salary.
EPISCOFAi.
The Theological Seminary of Virginia,
at Alexandria, is to be placed in the hands of
jts Trustees by the Secretary of War, and
it will probably soon again go into operation.
Rev. Mr. Bolton, assistant rector with
Dr. Tying, having been called to St. Andrews
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN. THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1865,
Church, Staten Island, and accepted the call,
found the church locked against him when
he proceeded to fulfil his first Sabbath’s du
ties. There appears to be a difference be
tween the vestry and some of the congrega
tion from which a law suit is expected to
grow.
Consecration of thf Church of the
Evangelists, Oswego, N. Y. —Fifteen years
after the laying of the corner-stone of the
Church of the Evangelists, the patient efforts
of its founders and friends have been re
warded in beholding its formal consecration
to the worship of Almighty God. The corner
stone was laid by Bishop H. W. Lee, in July,
1850. It was consecrated on the 18th of July
last.
Colenso is about to return to Natal, if he
has not already started. In view of his in
tention, a farewell meeting of the. friends of
Bishop was held in London, July 26th, when
the purse of £3330, previously collected, was
presented to him. On this occasion the
Bishop, as excusing himself for receiving the
money, referred to the stoppage of his dio
cesan income in Natal by order of the Bishop
of Capetown and the futility of his efforts
through the Court of Chancery thus far to
compel payment. “He hardly required to
say but for the generous aid of those present,
and his other friends, at that critical moment,
the very delay itself would have crushed him.
He had patiently borne the twelve months’
unavoidable suppression of income pending
the judgment of the Privy Council, but he
would frankly own that his own resources
could not much longer have maintained the
struggle.” This looks as if the making and
publishing of infidel books by a bishop, how
ever noisily received by sympathizers, had
not proved a very profitable business. Re
ferring to the renunciation by the Natal
clergy of Colenso’s Episcopal authority, and
their request addressed to the English Arch
bishop and Bishops for a new Diocesan in
his place, he said: —“The resolutions were
not, however, what they were represented to
be. When the resolution referred to was
first signed some fourteen months ago, one of
the clergy who did sign iff, one of the most
able and learned of his diocese, distinctly told
the bishop that if Her Majesty supported the
bishop of Natal’s position he should pay him
all due obedience as a bishop, (cheers), and,
though rebuked before his brethren by a
bishop of Capetown for saying this, he re
peated his assertion, and no doubt intended
to act upon it. All this he knew from the
best authority, though the bishop had never
mentioned the fact. Another clergyman had
altogether refused to sign the resolution until
threatened by the bishop with the withdrawal
of his licence, and the removal of his name
from the list of the Propagation Society, and
he had since written to the bishop that his
name might be removed from the declaration,
as he could not possibly abide by it. The
laity of Natal had not given their approval
of the resolution; and he was quite certain
of this, that there were excellent persons who
would not forsake the Church of England for
the Church of South Africa, who would de
sire to pay due respect to the decisions of the
law, and to recognize the Queen’s suprem
acy.”.
Schenkel still remains a centre of excite
ment. We regret to see that the Berlin
XJnionsverein has taken sides with the Pro
fessor in the following resolutions:—(l.) We
agree with our evangelical High Consistorial
Counsellor when, in his announcement of the
Bth of December, 1864, he characterizes the
transaotionxbetween Dr. SchenkeTs 'arecuserx
and the Baden church authorities as the pe
culiar concern of the evangelical church of
Baden, and declares the other Prussian
churches to be incompetent to sit in judg
ment. (2.) The highest church authority of
Baden has already in a regular way commu
nicated its decision to the Baden clergy. We
must therefore regard the unscrnpulous sup
port of the accusers of Dr. Schenkel, who are
found in unlawful opposition to their own
church courts, as a doubtful agitation tending
to weaken the authority of those courts. (3.)
Repeated declarations of the High Consisto
rial Counsellor of Baden relieve us from all
anxiety lest he should tolerate any invasion
of his prerogative, or allow any popular de
monstration to sap the great protestant doc
trine of free and conscientious investigation.
(4.) We disapprove all joint declarations as
to historical facts ; believing that their truth,
even in the case of the life of Jesus, is to be
ascertained, exclusively by scientific investi
gation. Neither majorities nor authorities can
change aught in historical matter.” In
regard to the above, the correspondent of the
N. Evang. Kirchenz. writes that “ the sec
ond, especially, has made a peculiar impres
sion in Baden. If these resolutions had ori
ginated in the hostile camp at Heidelberg,
.they could have been better understood. Is it
‘unlawful opposition’to church authority to
ask of it the upholding of the confession
guarantied by the constitution and of the
plan of instruction to which it stands
pledged?”—The Leipzig Literary Centralblat,
No. 3, 1865, has a favorable notice of the
Characterbild, by an adherent of the “ free
theology” who declares that the opposition
which the book has excited shows that it has
its place among other vastly more important
works in winning the ground for a freer the
ology. One hundred and forty-six of the
clergy of Posen, including thy general super
intendent, have signed a congratulatory ad
dress to the one huqdred and nineteen of Ba
den who protested against Schenkel. The
returns of the High Consistorial Counsellor
on the Diocesan Synods of 1864, naturally
alluded to the subject. He holds fast by his
decree of August 17, 1864: “We have nei
ther authority nor purpose to change the con
fession.of the Church. ’ 1 But what confession
is that by which the author of “Character
_bild’ ’ can hold his place unmolested as Semi
nary director, or by which a servant of the
church can be guarantied the exercise of
“free investigation” because “our present
European humanity is essentially Christian
and unfailingly rejects by its moral power all
that is foreign to Christianity?” Thus per
tinently inquires the correspondent of the
N. Ev. Kirchenz. —From Konigsberg, in
Prussia, comes an address of sympathy with
the brethren of Baden who are pledged
against Schenkel’s errors. It is published in
the Gemeindeblatt with 523 signatures.
Many who stood aloof from any demonstra
tion, sent in their names rather than be
counted with those opposed to it. —And the
Synod of Duisberg on the Rhine have sent to
the same brethren an address closing thus :
“In prayer addressing the throne of grace
stand we fast in the assurance that you will
victoriously conflict the work and battle of
the Lord.”
FOREIGN.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
[TRANSLATED AND PREPARED FOR THE AMERICAN
PRESBYTERIAN.]
Some features of the war in Schleswig Hol
stein, 1864, remind us of the like in our own
struggle, now happily past. Says N. Ev.
Kirchenz., in review of the year, “Cheerful
tidings came from sons and brothers; our
youth on the battle-field longed for the word
of God.” “ The field white to the harvest,”
was the cry—“ Volunteers to the front,” the
response. They brought back the tidings that
our youth in the army had learned to pray.
The highest general and his staff were in
prayer with his soldiers on the eve of battle.
In the hospitals of Schleswig-Holstein, there
were in all, one hundred and sixty volunteer
nurses, one hundred and eighteen women and
forty-two men. One of the nurses, a Kaiser
swerth sister, was killed on the field of battle
and buried with military honors where she
lay among the soldiers.
Rev. Nazyn Sehesehadi, a native Hindoo
Missionary of the Free Church of' Scotland,
has established two ragged schools in Inda
pore, with very happy results.
During the past year the question of the
best church constitution has been discussed ;
for the Lutherans by Dr. O- Meyer, of
Rostock; for the Reformed by Hundeshagen,
of Heidelberg- The event of a new church
formation in Germany was evidently present
to both.
Athird collection of “ Sermons from the
Times;” by Dr. Carl Schwarz, Court preacher
and High Counsellor at Gotha, has been
published at the Brockhaus press. Dr.
Schwarz is the historian of the newest theo
logy, and aims at a reform in Christian
preaching by the spirit of the age and modem
culture. Hence, he preaches not from the
Bible but from the times, although he takes
his text from the Scripture. The sermons
teach a religion without revelation, Chris
tianity without atonement, a Christ who
came not forth from the bosom of the Father
and sits not at the right hand, a Christian
life without regeneration. That the High
Counsellor at Gotha should preach and print
such sermons from the times, is as great an
anachronism as that a Seminary director and
Church Counsellor at Heidelberg should pub
lish his 1 ‘ Characterbild Jesu.
Prof. Delitzsch was engaged, under the
auspices of the London Missionary Society,
upon a new translation of the New Testa
ment into Hebrew. The translation wag to
be strictly scientific, with the points; and it
has been urged that, as the German Jews
only use the points in their synagogue rolls,
such a verticil as this of Delitzsch would not
be acceptable to them for private uses.
Zurich.—A protest against the doctrinal
views of Pastor Voegelin, of Uster, has been
published, signed by seventy-eight members
of the Zurich ministerium (nearly one-half
of the clergy). Pastor Voegelin is shown
from his published sermons to have studiously
undermined the authority of Scripture, and
to have denied very decidedly the principal
truths of religion as celebrated from Christ
mas to Whitsuntide. A dissolution of the
church in Zurich seems inevitable as the
majority seem opposed to orthodoxy.
Italy.—A recent number of the Raccog
litore says:—“ The evangelicals are in certain
parts of Italy abused in a most barbarous
manner. Peasants are hunted from their
fields, mechanics driven from their shops out
upon the streets without work or bread,
many are even forbidden their own homes and
given over to misery. Rome has substituted
for the scaffold a new mode of persecution—
hunger, the most horrible penalty with which
any one can threaten the heail of a family.
. . . That a priest shoiild understand
nothing of such anguish, is easily seen, - but
that citizens should tolerate such things is
somewhat against which we raise our voice
in the name of decency, justice, and human
ity.”
Brazil.—The principal organ of the
Romish press is A Cruz (the Cross), pub
lished in Rio de Jadteiro every Sabbath. It
purports to be “ a religious, literary, histori
cal, and philosophical journal.” The literary
element is exhausted in book notices from a
Paris paper. As for philosophy, they begin
in Brazil to study it at twelve years of age.
The .tone of the paper may be estimated trom
an article headed, “Two words about Mo
hammed and Lbther.” One sentence runs
thus: “A youth is safer with an atheistic
than with a Protestant hook, for a lie is
known and avoided, but a concealed truth is
hardly discoverable. ”
Mexico.-MSus IN. has advised Maximil
lian to make Roman Catholicism the establ
ished religion exclusive of all others. The
women of Mexico have petitioned the Em
peror to destroy the projects ot reckless men
and forbid any other religion than the Ro
man-catholic-apostolic “Then,” say they,
“ then only will God establish the throne of
your Majesty. ”
EDUCATION FOR THE MINISTRY.
Inquiries are frequently made of the Gen
eral Secretary, whether particular individuals
can receive assistance from the General As
sembly Education Fund. To all such the
answer is returned, that, any individual pro
ducing the proper testimonials from a Pres
bytery, (see. Education Manual p. 5, Rule 1,)
may share in all the benefits of that fund.
The payments the present year will be made
on or about the first days of November,
January, March, and May, and will be to
students in the Academic preparatory course
$100; in the Collegiate course $132; in the
theological course $l6O. All students intend
ing to apply for aid are expected to obtain
the proper testimonials in all ordinary cases
from the Presbyteries to which the churches
where they hold their membership, are at
tached. The Permanent Committee are
charged with the duty of calling for an
increase both of students and the means of
affording them assistance. It is believed
that we have gathered therefore only the
first fruits of a great harvest; and that all
ministers and churches who appreciate the
earnest providential call, now growing louder
and louder to spread the Gospel in our land,
will enter into the work with becoming inter
est. T..A. Mills,
Gen. See’y for Education.
Presbyterian Rooms, N. Y., Aug. 15,1865.
The Roman Catholic population of the
world is estimated by the Tablet at 207,901,-
000. The Pope of Rome was seventy-three
years old on the 13th of May, and on the 16th
of this month will reach the nineteenth year
of his pontificate. Out of the long list of two
hundred and fifty-nine Popes, only eight
Lave worn the tiara for a longer period than
Pius IX. The number of the Jesuits has
more than doubled in the last twenty-five
years, the present number being 7,728.
There are in North America seven hundred
and twenty-six.
AI’PALLiNG revelations as to the prevalence
of infanticide in England, were made in the
course of the trial of a Charlotte Winsor, for
the murder of a child four months old, which
took place in July, at Exeter. According to
the evidence on which the jury convicted
her, Winsor made a trade of doing away with
infants, and talked of it as the simplest and
easiest thing in the world.
4®* United States Christian Commision.—
TO ALL WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN ITS
>V ORK.--Tt is the purpose of the Executive Commit
tee to publish a History of the Christian Commission,
and also a Collect! n of Authentic and Valuable In
cidents, such as will prove a worthy memorial of its
work.
We would respectfully ask all who have wrought in
the service of the Commission, and all who have wit
nessed its operations, to forward any materials that
will assist in giving value and completeness to these
Memorial Records, All who can furnish reminis
cences, facts, and incidents, that will illustrate the
spirit and method of the Christian Commission, at
home and in the field, will please communicate them
at their earliest convenience.
\Ve are especially anxious to -obtain any and all
notices of labors similar to those of the Commission
prior to its organization, SVe desire also the reports
of personal enterprises and local associations that
preceded the formation of the Commission, and after
wards became identified with it.
ihe History-will be prepared by Kev. Lemuel Moss,
Home secretary.
-n^J 1 i e o V 0 of Incidents, by Rev. E. P. Smith,
Field Secretary.
Communications may be sent to either of the Sec
retaries above named at the rooms of the United
States Christian Commission, 13 Bank Street. Phila
delphia. Penna. (iEO. H. STUART, Chairman.
July 28,1865.
HOME MISSIONS.
3?he Presbyterian Committee of Home Missions
acknowledge the receipt of the following contribu
tions during the month of July, I860:
Pres, ch., Berlin, Wisconsin, m. c $7 60
2d ... in part, Chicago, 111 520 00
... Lllsworth,N Y 7125
Bequest of Henry H. Spaudiing, deceased,
Ellsworth, N Y 50 00
Pres, ch., Penn Yan, N Y * 93 30
K B. Jones, Jh’sq., Penn Yan, N Y 30 00
2d Pi es. cb„ Dubuque, lowa 30 50
Burr Oak, Mich 20 50
... Riverdale, NY 47 35
bouth Pres, ch., Newark, N J., m. c 80 18
Miss Katherine Linnard, Clinton Street
Pres, ch., Philadelphia, Pa 10 00
Pres, ch., Attica. Ind 30 00
bynod of Ohio, Ohio 150 00
Miss Mary Walker, Biissfield. Mich 1 25
Pres, eh., Bushville, 111 is 45
... Minonk, 111 22 00
Ist ... Bay City, Mich..... 34 18
Vineland, N J . 15 00
Wilkesville, Ohio 45 40
Ist ... Mendham, N J ..... 46 S 3
... White Pigeon, Mich 11 25
Van Buren, Ihd 5 00
J. H. Colt, Esq., Atwater, Ohio 5 qq
Ist Congregational ch., Toledo, Ohio 1
David timith $5O 00', K . - A
John R. Osborn 2 00; 54 o 0
J. D. Beach 2 50 J
Ist Pres, ch., Ypsilanti, Mich 105 50
Pres, ch., additional, Vinton, lowa ; 3 75
Mrs. Catharine B. Atterbury, Paterson, N J, 50 00
Rev. James tihaw, Windham, Ohio 125 00
Cedar Street Pres, ch., Philadelphia, Pa 20 00
_ “ ti. s. ** *• 20 00
3d Pres, ch., Philadelphia Pa 20 00
Miss Caroline C. Alexander, Maryville, Mo, 2 00
Pres, ch., Greenville, N Y 11 00
Greenville 111 14 00
... Nevada, lowa. 21 50
New Hope, Mo 7 00
North Madison, Ind 10 00
Springfield, Iti..: 40 00
Chatham, 111 25 00
Neelyville, 111 20 00
Manchester, 111 25 00
... Buffalo, 111 40 00
... Mechanicsburgh, ill. 10 00
North Broad tit. Church, Philadelphia, Pa... 480 01
Ist Pres, eh., Erie, Pa 100 00
_ , ... , Springfield, Pa., 10 00
Sabbath-school oi Pres, ch., Cherry Valley
_ , NY 25 00
Pres, ch., Ada, Mich 10 00
Brown Valley Pres. oh„ Indiana 33 75
Pres, ch., Catskill, N Y 56 18
Mrs. Beach, Catskill, N Y ; . 2 00
A friend, Catskill, N Y 5 00
Pres, eh., Birmingham, Mich 20 50
... Yonkers, N Y 140 68
Allen Street Pres ch., New Y ork 197 00
W. C. Smith, Huntington, Ind 5 00
Pres, ch., Oaktield, N Y. 26 00
Byron, NY 23 68
Chicago, 111 64 35
Ist ... Weedsport, N. Y., including Sab
bath-school collection, $l9 10 . 10418
Independent Pres, ch., Bedford, Ind 6 25
Pres. ch.. Arkport, N Y.. 20 00
Ist... Perry, ill 33 00
Washington, 111 ; 800
... Santa Clara, California 32 10
Shasta, California 44 69
... tian Jose, California 14 30
Austin, Nevada 11 87
The following contributions have been re
ceived during the month for the Breedmen
and the South :
Ist Pres, ch., Warren, Ohio 64 15
Green Hill Pres, ch., Philadelphia. Pa 475 00
Member of Allen Street Church, New York.. 3 00
W. W. Wickes, Esq., Brooklyn, N Y 100 00
J. K, Ford, Esq., New York City 100 00
S. & C. Ishain, New York City 50 00
Total. $4,259 98
EDWaRD A. LAMBERT, Treasurer,
Presbyterian Rooms. 150 Nassau Street, N. Y.
MARRIAGES.
.YOCUM—HETZELL.—At Bridgeton, New Jersey,
on Thursday, theil7th instant, by the Rev. Caspar
Gregory, Mr. Jacob H. Yocum, Jr., of Philadelphia,
to Miss Mary Hetzell, of Bridgeton.
OBITUARY.
Died, August 5, 1565, at her residence, in East
Whit eland Township, Chester County, Mrs.
Mary Babran, relict of the late Jame 9 Farran, in her
64th year.
When only nineteen years of age, Mrs, Farran pro
fessed religion in Ireland. Emigating to the United
States, she became a resident of Chester County.
Upon the formation of the East Whiteland Presby
terian Church, she identified herself with it, and for
twenty-four years, she was one of its most consistent
members. Although always delicate in health, she
was regular and constantin her attendance upon the
ministrations of the sanctuary. Unobtrusive and
modest, she never sought prominence.
While others were loud in their religious profes
sions, it was her continual endeavor to honor her
Saviour by a consistent walk. Fortunately possessed
of an equable temperament, she witnessed noiselessly
for them aster. Although thus retiring and modest,
shfe lacked not energy and decision of character. For
the success with which she reared her little family,
after the decease of her husband, shows no deficiency
in this regard. For more than two years she was con
fined to her house. Deprived of Sanctuary privileges,
she often reverted to past seasons of communion in
the Lord’s House, and expressions of gratitude were
frequently on her lips for that goodness which had
crowned Jher days. Upon her death bed, the same
traits characterized her. Patient under great physi
cal suffering, thankful for unnumbered mercies, she
continued submissive to the Divine Will. True to
the Lord Jesus during health. He exhibited hisfaith
fulness when she battled with the last foe. She
clearly and firmly stated that her trust was in that
Saviour alone who died to redeem her. And upon a
Saturday, about half-past seven o’clock, she was
ushered into his presence.
Died, in Kingsport* East Tennessee, on Sabbath
morning. May 28,1865, Mrs. Frances J. Lynn, wife of
Mr. Charles Lynn, in the 47th year of her age.
The bad of earth deserve no eulogium, the good
desire none. And we are too well acquainted with
the feelings of the deceased upon this point, to at
tempt anything of the kind. Just a few days before
her death, in speaking of self-righteousness, she said
to a friend—“l loathe it more and more.” And could
she speak to us to* day, she would bid us write nothing
of self on her grave-stone, or in her obituary. Be it
so. Yet many a little Sabbath-school scholar, that
she has pointed to Jesus; many a poor and destitute
family that has heen cheered by her presence in time
of affliction and want; and many a sick and wounded
soldier to whom she was a ministering spirit, will rise
np and call her blessed. In sueh living, loving, and
eternal characters, is her name now written upon
many a memory. Friends, she had many: enemies,
we believe, none.
In early life she gave herself to Christ, and became
a member of the Presbyterian Church. And her ex
emplary walk and conversation: her mild, gentle,
and forgiving spirit; the deep interest she ever took
in the church and the Sabbath-school; the great con
cern she ever manifested respecting the welfare of
her children; her earnest but noiseless efforts to lead
those around her to Christ—'these were some of the
evidences she gave us, that her religion was not a
name merely, but a sweet, solemn, comforting, work
ing reality.
Sueh a life ever leads to a peaceful death, and such
indeed was hers. Who waited around that sick-bed;
who watched that calm, composed, resigned face,
when in full view of death; who listened to her last
cheering and comforting words, and did not pray
more earnestly than ever before, “Let me die the
death of the righteous, and let my last end be like
His."
, One of the last acts of her life was to dedicate her
youngest son to God in the ordinance of baptism. She
could not think of dying, she said, and of leaving that
little one out of the pale of the church. This done,
she dismissed the world, and seemed not to have for
it another thought. Husband, daughters, son—she
loved them—loved them as only a Christian wife and
mother can love; but all these she had given back to
a faithful, covenant-keeping, prayer-hearing God.
And now she waited only for the coming of Jesus.
Nor did she wait long for this: for soon her Father's
voice was heard, saying, “My child, come home.”
The pulse ceased to beat; the eyes closed; and the
freed spirit sought its “ house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens.”
On that beautiful, quiet Sabbath morning, when the
church bell was calling our little village to the house
of God, there was a meeting in heaven —and what a
meeting, when her four sons came out from the celes
tial city to welcome their mother to their bright and
glorious home. Some ten years previous, and almost
hand in hand, three of these little brothers had gone
to live with Jesus. The other died some four years
since.
Father, sister, brother, take comfort; these little
ones, and this wife and mother will anxiously watch
for your coming. Disappoint them not, but be ye also
ready.
Kingsport, July, 1865,
IpFCiul Unto.
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medicines in the market, pretending to answer the
same purposes, yet the sale of Perry Davis’ Vegetable
Pain Killer is more than the whole of them put to
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49- Philadelphia Tract and mission So*
ciety, —The hundred and seventh meeting in behalf
of this Society, will be held in the Nicetown Baptist
Church, on Sabbath evening, 25th inst., at a quarter
before eight o’clock.
Several addresses will be made. Also, on Sabbath
afternoon, at the School House, Third and Elwood
* JOSEPH H. SCHREINER,
ll5 South Seventh Street,
4®" Daily Union Prayer meeting Removed
to No. 1210 Chestnut Street. ve
Prayer was appointed to convey
The blessings God designs to give.
Long as they live should Christians pray.
For only while they pray, they live.
49* TUe Presbytery of Keokuk meets
at Montrose, on Tuesday, the 12th of September next,
at two o'clock P. M. U. C. BEAMAN,
Stated Clerk.
§pml gjati us.
Auburn Theological Seminary.—The
Fall Term opens on Wednesday the 6th of September.
The Faculty meet for the examination of candidates
at2P.M. The Seminary : •*-<■* be!-? jutin a
state of complete repair. lYicb rnnm uewiy rap<
and painted, and fur..as..-. nt
tress, bureau, and other articles.
Other important improvements have been made in
the Seminary grounds, so that the convenience and
comfort of the students are better provided lor taan
ever before.
Liberal provision is also made for meeting the ex
penses of a course of study. Those students, whose
circumstances require it, can be aided to the amount
of at least two hundred donai*. v iz, one hundred,
and sixty dollars from the General Assembly’s Com
mittee, an,d forty dollars or more from tne tiemiiiAry
funds. SAMUEL M. HOPKINS,
1003-4 t Clerk of Faculty.
. The Synod of Wisconsin will meet
in the Presbyterian Church of Neenah. on Thurso sy,
the 24th day of September next, at 9 nYlock. A. M.
In the evening, the opening sermon will be preacued
by the Moderator, the Rev. H. H. Kellogg.
. Discourses on various topics will be preached dur
ing the meeting of Synod oy the persons previously
appointed.
The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be ob
served on Sabbath morning, and? in the afternoon
there will be exercises in connection with the Sab
bath-schools.
In is expected that arrangements will be made with
some of the Railroad Companies to reduce the fare.
v . B. G. RILEY”, titated Clerk.
Lodi, Wisconsin, August 17,1365.
flisallreiro.
HENRY HARPER,
Ko. 520 ARCH STREET, PHIEADEEPIIIA,
Dealer in and Manufacturer of
WATCHES, FINE JEWELRY,
BXLTEB WAKE,
AND SUPERIOR PLATED GOODS.
WOODLAND SEMINARY,
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and attractive. For Circulars, address
1005-lm REV. HENRY REEVES, Princi, .1.
FREDERICK FEMALE SEMINARY,
[FREDERICK CITY, MAKY JL VM).
This Institution having passed into the hi.' 1 of
the undersigned, late Proprietorof the Young L os'
Institute, Wilmington, Delaware, wiil oommcuc i its
Twenty-first Scholastic Year, on MONDAY, the 4th
of September.
For Circulars, containing view o’ buildintrs <ind
other information, address
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