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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1866.
CONTENTS OF INSIDE.'PAGES.
Second Page—The Family Circle :
To One at Rest-Try Again-Boys who Think, and
Boys who Don'tThink-The Other World-How to
Honor a Mother—The ,Two Handies—The Adopted
Rabbits.
For the Little Folks: Thy Will be Done in Earth
as in Heaven.
Third Page—Rural Economy :
Improved Economy—Cultivating Chestnuts—When
to Pick Apples and Pears—Small and Large Farms.
MisotLi'AtfKous: Something New from the Stump
—Religion to be Carried into Business—Too Active
to Freeze— # Let Him that Heareth say. 4 Come*
The American Hayelock — lntemperanoe among
Women. .
Sixth Page—Correspondence :
Th® Periodical Press in Germany—Hints
OR the Circulation of Traots and Books.
Editor's Table: Angus's "Bible Hand-Book”-
Draper's Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of
America"—Nichols's "Story of the Great
" History of the United States
Cavalry, from the Formation of the Federal Gov
eminent to the . First of June. 1863”-Smith’s
8:mall History^of Rome, from the Earliest Times to
. the Establishment of the Empire"—Levington's
Scripture Baptism Defended and Anabaptist No
tions Pro ved to be AntiSoripturalNovelties”—Ham
mond’s Praises of Jesus"—"How to be Saved: or,
The Sinner Directed to the Saviour" —Sermons, &o.
Seventh Page—Religious Intelligence :
Fjresbyterian—Congregational—Episcopal—Metho
dist—Baptist—Lutheran—Jewish—Unitarian—Ro-
man Catholic—Miscellaneous Items.
PERSECUTIONS SUFFERED
BY THE PRESBYTERIAN CHRPCH IN
THE UNITED STATES.
Those acquainted with the life of that
Apostle of Presbyterianism in America,
Francis Makemie, need not he told that
the beginnings of our Church in America
were embarrassed witb difficulties which
would have appalled any not imbued with
the patience, the energy and the martyr
spirit characteristic of the Presbyterian
Church in all ages and countries. But the
persecutions undergone by Makemie in Vir
ginia and New York, were only a small
part of those encountered in establishing
the Church. Several years earlier, in faot,
than the transactions between Lord Corn
hury and Makemie in New York* a series
of oppressive measures against “ Dissenters,”
as they were called, had commenced in
South Carolina.
The history of the settlement of the
C&Tolinas is remarkable in its hearing upon
religious toleration in the British Empire.
Just after the cruel “ Act of Conformity,”
which, in 1662, drove two thousand godly
men from the pulpits of England for re
fusing to become Prelatists, the courtiers
of the intolerant king secured a eharter for
the territory, which, in his honor, they
oalled Carolina, and proceeded with the
necessary'measures for its early settlement.
Arrangements were made for a popular
Government, limited only by the laws of
England and the veto of the proprietaries.
To all, the most perfect freedom of religion
was assured.
“A singular spectacle,” says Dr. Gillett,
“is this, —a body of men. whose names were
indissolubly associated with the legislation
that harassed English Dissenters, and sur
rendered justice to High Church bigotry, yet
adopting—when left to look simply at their
own pecuniary interests —a policy as liberal
as the most fanatic of Cromwell’s Indepen
dents could have desired. The same hands
which framed the intolerant. Act of Confor
mity in England shaped a satire on their own
folly in the constitution which they gave to
Carolina. While with relentless severity they
silenced such men as John Owen, and filled
English prisons with men like Baxter, Bun
yan, and Alleine, they allowed the colonists
the most perfect and entire freedom of opin
ion. The New England settler, the English
Dissenter, the, Scotch Presbyterian, were
alike welcome, and alike invited. to a refuge
from oppression. It may even excite a doubt,
whether persecution in England was not
made more virulent by a policy which de
manded exiles to people the colonies.”
The first band of emigrants which left
for South Carolina was in 1670. Charles
himself provided two small vessels at his
own expense to- transport thither a few
foreign Protestants. But the most consi
derable emigration was from England. The
prospect of immunity from the molestation
of informers and acts against conventicles
and Non-Conformity, tempted Dissenters
to a colony where their worship would be
tolerated and their rights respected.
Joseph Drake, brother of the Admiral, led
thither a company of these refugees from
Somersetshire; Huguenots expatriated from
Prance, flocked to the shelter winch these
persecuting High Church Statesmen knew
how to offer when worldly policy was
concerned. The colony itself was governed
by “ Dissenters” —at one time by a Pres
byterian, at anotheT by a Quaker. Here,
some of. the earliest movements for organ
ising Presbyterian Churches in this coun
try took place, though the resulting bodies
remained isolated from the Church at large
for a full century.
This exceptional phenomenon of large lib
erality under a bitter and intolerant govern
ment, appears to have continued through
the remainder of Charles’ reign, through
Ee whole of the still more bigoted James’,
d of course was not disturbed by William
d Mary, the champions of Protestant
»erty and the inaugurators of the modern
kof toleration under the British dominion..
* fact, it was a larger liberty than that
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enjoyed in the mother country, under Wil
liam and Mary, 'or even at this day, invol
ving the practical equality of the Churches,
and the absence of a privileged establish
ment.
This was the basis on which the colony
was founded, and the practice of three suc
cessive reigns had given them strong pre
cedents in its favor. But in the reign of
Queen Anne, an entire revolution in the
management of the ecclesiastical affairs of the
colony took place. It was about the same
time that Cornbury, of New York, with the
Governors of Virginia and Maryland, took 5
the ground that the Episcopal was the Estab
lished Church of the colonies, as well' as of
the mother country, and that all classes must
contribute to its support whether they ap
proved it or not. Just as the early Chris
tians under the Roman Empire, found their
condition worse when the reigning monarch
was a more devout heathen, than when he
despised religion in any shape, so the Ame
rican Colonies found their privileges, which
had been gained under monarchs indifferent
to the Established Church, torn from them
under more pious and more Protestant
rulers..
In South Carolina the change was effect
ed with a show of respect for the popular
voice. We will let the historian narrate the
facts:—
In 1703 the Governor, Sir Nathaniel
Johnson, as if in concert with Lord Corn
bury at New York, determined to introduce
into the colony the system which Dissenters
had learned to regard with well-grounded
jealousy. By skilful . arrangements, and
through elections at which it is said that the
most despicable classes of the population were
allowed to vote, a legislature were secured
favorable to the Governor’s design. By a
ciose vote it was enacted that the Episcopal
should be the Established Church, and that
it should be supported by a tax on all classes
of citizens alike, including Dissenters, who
were deprived of all civil rights. The colony
was* divided into ten parishes, and arrange
ments were made to secure the necessary
number of missionaries from England.
“ Quakers and Presbyterians united in the
most vigorous opposition to this movement.
The citizens of CoHeton sent a petition to the
proprietaries in London by the hands of
Joseph Boone. “On reaching London, he
found the prospect before him far from en
couraging. The proprietaries were not'dis
posed to annul the obnoxious measure; but
the .London merchants united with Boone in
urging the petition, and it was carried before
the. House of Lords. Their action was favor
able, and there iras a prospect that the
prayer of the petitioners for relief would be'
granted. The queen issued, an order declar
ing the obnoxious.laws to be null and void:
hut her promise to issue a process againt the
provisional- charter was never fulfilled. The
Episcopal Church was established in the
colony. Dissenters were" taxed for its sup
port. The effect was disastrous to the Pres
byterian Church.
1 ‘ The English Society for. the Propagation
of the Gospel sent twelve Episcopal mission
aries to the colony, and their support was
largely secured from the. public treasury.
Spacious churches were built and paid for by
taxes, which fell heavily on Dissenters. The
State patronage extended to the Episcopal
Church soon secured it ascendency also in
numbers and strength. The friends of re
ligious liberty in the Assembly were reduced
in numbers, and the energy, and art of the Gov
ernor bore down all opposition. Large num
bers of the children of Dissenters were led to
abandon the worship of their fathers and
connect themselves with the State Church,
against which the prejudices of the commu
nity were so long directed.”
With their wonted persistance the Pres
byterians maintained their ground, and are
described as still forming a considerable
party in the province; able men ministered
■to their few congregations, whose losses by
desertion began to be made up by emigra
tion, and in 1710, a letter from. South
Carolina, published London, stated that
there were in the colony five Churches of
British Presbyterians. A Presbytery or
Association was formed at some date prior
to 1734, which, in 1811, united with the
General Assembly.
NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EVANGELI
ZATION.
A NEW ENTERPRISE.
The call for a convention at Cleveland,
Contained in this paper, will secure from
our readers more than usual attention. The
Christian Commission, while in full opera
tion, was one of the finest conceptions, one
of the most efficient schemes of Christian
effort ever produced in our world. When
its war-work was drawing to a close, the
question was anxiously deliberated, whether
it should regard its mission as fulfilled, and
give up its existence, or, with such modifi
cations as would adapt it to times of peace,
become a permanent institution. The first
alternative was, we are bound to suppose,
wisely adopted, but the Christian public
feel the void of a charity so catholic, so
evangelical, so unsparing of effort, and so
quick of access to points which the slower
process of denominational effort might fail
to reach. If theproposed.Society for Evan
gelization is intended to work on a system
as nearly similar as the altered state of
things will allow, at the same time adopt
ing the suggestions of the past as a basis of
improvement, and if the managementshould
be of the character which the names ap-
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER H. 1865.
pended to the call seem to guarantee, we
see no reason why it should not become the
legatee of that affection and support from
the Christian public, which the Commission
.so worthily enjoyed. We say this, taking
for granted that there is no intention that
it shall overleap the regular ecclesiastical
enterprises of the church, but shall become
a supplemental agency, filling the many
chinks which, for some reason, regular ec
clesiastical evangelization has failed to
reach. We are not sure hut, in the present
state of things, it would not best avoid col
lision with church mission enterprises, by
making the South its distinctive field, de
voting itself to the temporal and eternal
welfare of the freedmen, and of that large
class of whites whom the religious as well
as political aristocracy has kept, even
deeper than the blacks, in the social shade.
Not forgetting that there is work enough
for a National Evangelization Society in
.any quarter-of our Republic, we see in the
South the most imminent need of the tim'es.
NOTES FROM UPPER DELAWARE.
Under the Maples, Sept. 6,1865.
When las If we meditated in editorial
mood beneath the maple shade, which now
dances, with alternate patches of sunshine
on our page, it was amid the fierce alarms
of war. Lee was holding with an obstinate
but slowly yielding grasp, the defences of
Richmond and Petersburgh; Sherman had
just marched into the last stronghold in the
bowels of the cotton States; Mobile was
tottering to its fall, and three thousand
brave defenders of the Union had just per
ished of starvation, crowding, exposure, in
describable filth, sun stroke, poisonous
vaccine matter, undisguised murder by
shooting, stamping, hanging in the stocks
and innumerable other barbarities, while in
the hands of the subordinates of Davis and
Lee at Andersonville. Democratic editors
and partisans at the North meanwhile were
expatiating upon the peaceable dispositions
of these traitors and murderers and tortur
ers of loyal men ; stock-gamblers were de
crying the worth of Government promises
to pay; “ drafts”and “quotas” under new
“ calls” were deeply disturbing the minds
of the community, and a dark/heavy, war
atmosphere enveloped the land,, prohibiting’
all confident calculations as to its depth and
duration. Then we waited “ beneath the
furnace blast,” With, undying hope of lib
erty and of the republic in our bosoms, hut
with -irrepressible sighing of: How long, 0
Loftl! Then the gallant “ Seventh Dela
ware” had just come back from their brief
but timely service, in repelling the bold,
bad raiders, many of them mere renegades,
who came, with fire and sword, into their
.own State of Maryland.
Since that day, what brilliant achieve
ments crowned the ever rising prowess of
the Union, and cast deeper and deeper the
fortunes of rebellion! Sheridan since
then, rode his famous ride, and fought his'
fiery battles, and led his squadrons up the
valley to the very gates of the rebel capital.
Since that day, Sherman astonished friend
and foe, and. gave history a novelty to re
cord in her stories of great marches through
an enemy’s country; grasping Savannah
and handing it over to the nation as a
Christmas gift; uncovering Charleston and
gaining Sumter without a blow. Since
then, Hood was annihilated by the over
whelming, shrewdly-dealt blows of Thomas;
the pro-slavery Malakoff of Fort Fisher
went down before the desperate assault of
Terry; and then, with one grand, compre
hensive, crushing blow of the thoroughly
prepared Grant, Richmond and Petersburg
-tumbled in a day, from their four years of
impregnability,tumbled from their infamous
eminence as centres of a powerful and un
subdued rebellion; the vaunted Confede
racy on which the hopes of Pope and des
pot and aristocrat, every where, were set,
vanished into relics for sight-seers; Lee had
surrendered and Davis was a fugitive with,
a price on his head!
So we Bit in the maple shade, and hardly
realize the wonderful, the solemn, the awe
inspiring gladness of the change-— Victory
and Peace. Or did we not find it more
difficult to believe, especially in the earlier
years of the struggle* that we were at war ?
Which is the dream, the present or the past?
The night of anguish, or the joyous morn ?
The long, long years With horror overcast,
Or the sweet promise of the day, newborn ?
BATTUES YET TO BE FOUGHT —VICTORIES
Right here under the maple shade, in
one ot the most loyal districts of Delaware,
we are reminded of the conflicts of opinion
which the war has left us still to fight, and
ot the utter insufficiency of mere material
victories to give a nation solid peace. Here
we plainly perceive the need of lofty moral
elements and of the diffusion of sound
Christian principles to a happy solution of
the social question left unsettled by the de
TO BE WON.
cree of emancipation. Shall we free the
slave because he is a brother man, and
then, after freeing him, persist in treating
him as less than man ? That is the ques
tion ; that is what is really involved in the
question of the colored man (the colored
soldier too) riding in the street ears, in the
question of. the right of suffrage for-the
freedmen, and the entire treatment of this
race of-loyal, Protestant, Americans, North
and South.
And Low Lave the Maples got anything
to do with it ? Why, through all this
Stretch- of country overlooked from this
maple-emhowered window, • are scattered
individuals and families of the unfortunate
race, eager here as everywhere to- receive
instruction; and beneath the maple-shade,
and close around it, are noble-hearted Chris
tian men and womenSburning to impart it';
and in the midst of this fertile landscape,
rises the spire of a New School Presbyte
rian church,.with its commodious lecture
room, and nine-tenths of its congregation
are of the loyal and true of the land, who
would risk death sooner than see the flag
dishonored; some of them have done it.
And yet the most earnest efforts have ut
terly failed to procure a place inside that
church or out of it, for the accommodation
of these, candidates for religious and intel
lectual instruction. Shut out of the house
of 'Gfod,'and out of the public-school-houses,
even the erection of a building for the spe
cific purpose of accommodating these peo
ple is at least deferred; from threats of mob
violence ; and here, but a few hours’jour
ney from Philadelphia, there is more diffi
culty, discomfort, and even risk, in efforts
for their' amelioration, than are encountered
in Louisiana. It is a burning shame, and
we are astonished and pained to see-it and
to record it. The truly loyal people, who are
largely in the majority, ought not to suffer
it a week longer.
And what is the ground for all this per
sistant opposition to opening a New School
Presbyterian church, or a public school
house, or to putting up a building for such
a truly humane object? One thing and
'bne-9ttlyf.it- is -unreasoning, unchristian,
hard headed, hard-hearted PREJUDICE.
It is the sin of the North against' those ill
used people; the sin which debars them
from the street cars and from a reasonable
participation in the rights *of citizenship;
the sin which our government is verily
guilty of strengthening by so sadly failing
to use decided influence,* not to say au
thority, in behalf of the freedmen in its
plans of State reconstruction. It is a sinful
despite of their manhood. Itis a wrong vainly
excused by the result of other wrongs; ex
cused by a charge of inferiority, which, if
true, is the result of ages of contempt and
wrong, and which it is the prompting of
Christian charity to remedy, but of sheer
inhumanity to. deepen and to perpetuate.
By. the way, some of these victims of
prejudice', these “ inferior beings” whose
color deprives them of a fitness to vote sup
posed to be possessed in full by a raw Irish
Catholic, are living not more than an hour’s
easy ride from this Maple-shade, whose con
dition .is worth noticing. Close by the
road’s side, in a -somewhat out-of-the-way
neighborhood, the traveller observes a suc
cession of very neat frame dwellings, a story
and a half high, painted white, supplied
with lightning rods, surrounded with truck
patches, and with small farms, cultivated
with a fair measure of care and skill; each
family seems to have a horse, one or two
have neat painted carriage-houses attached
to the -i welling, and all show signs of com
fort and thrift which would be looked for
in vajn about the dwellings of thousands of
our rural white population, I might say in
Delaware especially. Some of these colored
farmers have earned characters for integrity
among the whole community; some have
earned what perhaps their maligners would
regard as a more convincing proof of ca
pacity—money. We heard of one, who,
when, called on for payment of a bill, which
required more cash than he had in the
house, requested his creditor to wait until
he drew him a. check on the. bank. The
creditor, a little surprised, courteously con
sented, received the check, and turned it
into cash without any. difficulty. This
drawing of a check by a colored man, in his
house, on a bye-road in Delaware is not
without interest or significance at this time.
Some of. those prominent in opposing the
opening, of > a school-house for the instruc
tion of this man’s children, are doubtless
accustomed to “ make their mark.” . Be
hold the prejudiced and behold their vic
tims ! In spite of prejudice, they 1 have
made such progress in thrift and in educa
tion as utterly to distance probably all of
Such as Mr. Lincoln used in that memo
rable little note. of his addressed to Governor
H a hn, of Louisiana, almost equally creditable
with the Emancipation Proclamation.
Genesee Evangelist, No. 1008.
the bitterest of their opponents! What
might .they not be expected to do with half
the privileges of the whites ?
■ We say that a system which, all over
the country, excludes such worthy citizens
from all participation in the duties, respon
sibilities and privileges of citizenship,
while it allows a worthless, brawling igno
ramus of a Fenian to put in a ballot which
he cannot read, all on account of a differ
ence of color, is so radically wrong and un
just that it cannot stand. The seeds of
dissolution are in it. Every principle of
sound political economy, every sentiment of
true Republicanism is against it; and what
is more, GOD is against it, and unless the
abuse is remedied, no amount of victory can
save the guilty nation. Do our busy, re
constructing, pardoning rulers understand ?
We have no wish to thrust a modest man
into needless notoriety, but we think the
example of this brave citizen-soldier be
longs to the country. And especially, as
we have dealt plainly with some'of the
shortcomings of Delawarians, we take the
greater pleasure in commending where we
may. Here is a young man, of fine pro
perty,'with troops .of friends, his parents
worthy “ Friends” in the teohical sense;
has but lately married a lovely woman.; his
farm beautifully located, large, fertile ; his
new, ample, and costly residence the orna
ment of the whole country-side, approached
by a broad, green avenue, flanked with
trees and hedges;—that young man broke
through the restraints of the old family re
ligion, parted from his young wife, forsook
his beautiful house and-his rolling acres,
and flew to the rescue of the country which
alone, by its freedom and its laws, gives
value to friends and home. . He rallies a
company of cavalry, one of the three or
four furnished by the State to that arm of
the National service, and is made captain.
Once, just before the final news of Gettys
burg, rumor, borne on the tongues of flying
comrades, brought word that the gallant
captain had fallen in a cavalry skirmish at
■Westminister, Md., desperately wounded
and covered, with blood, and that the rebel
lines under Fitz Hugh Lee, closing around
him and many of his company, had swept
them from sight. That was a gloomy day
at that beautiful country home; a dreary
pall fell on its many charms, and a large
community bowed in silent sympathy with
one so early made a widow by rebel wea
pons. But lying rumor did not long enjoy
the dismay she had spread so wide. Truth
soon appeared, in no other guise than that
of the captain himself, without scar or
scratch, with no disadvantage other than
his parole as a prisoner of war. He and
his command of seventy were stationed at
Westminster, Md., as an advance scout, to
watch the motions of the enemy’s cavalry,
which, the reader will remember, made such
a bold approach to Washington just before
Gettysburg and cut off a train of one hun
dred wagons near Poolesville. This raid
ing column was the object which the little
company of Delaware cavalry was to watoh,
but unfortunately it got in between all the
appointed guards and the city itself, and on
its return, took Captain Corbit and his
company in a very unexpected quarter and
while ten of his men were having their
homes shod. The alarm was given, that
one hundred and fifty rebel horsemen were
in sight. The heroic captain and his sixty
men, nothing daunted, sprang to their sad
dles, and met the onset of the rebels with
such determined bravery, that though, as
it afterwards appeared, there were three
hundred of them, and though their captain
rode right into the ranks of the Delawarians
and was shot dead for his temerity, the
whole band was driven back in confusion
with the loss of some half a dozen killed,
including the captain, and a number
wounded, while the Delawarians lost but
two, and the captain had his horse shot
under him. The flight of the rebel three
hundred was only stopped by a much larger
force of their own cavalry stretched across
the road, who were compelled to fire into
them before their panic .was quelled. This
was Fitz Hugh Lee’s entire body of cavalry,
several thousand strong, which soon out
flanked our handful of Delawarians, a num
ber -of whom fled, but the captain, dis
mounted, and twenty of his men were made
prisoners. And handsomely were they
treated by the rebel commander and his.
officers, who praised their gallant bearing,
earnestly asked if they were not regulars;
if not, then they were certainly the Eighth
Illinois Cavalry; their fighting was equal
to that of the most famous corps. Neither
the captain’s money nor his watch was in
terfered with, and soon all were paroled on
account of the urgent necessities of the
rebel situation, A few hours later, the hold
Kilpatrick came upon them and gave them
a thrashing at Hanover. Pa. These two
CAPTAIN CHARLES OORBIT,
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actions may have had more significance
than we have hitherto suspected. Captain
Corbit’s gallant onslaught delayed the rebel
movements some twenty hours. This gave
Kilpatrick the opportunity to come up with
Fitz Hugh Lee, and detain him some honrs
further. Hemmed in thus between Meade
and Kilpatrick, Lee was compelled to make
a long detour towards Carlisle, is order to
join the main rebel army, which he did not
reach until the battle of Gettysburg was
lost Who knows but that the timely pre
sence of five thousand cavalry on that field,
which had so many awfully critical mo
ments, might have turned the evenly poised
scale in the direction? Who
knows, hut that this brave Delawarian, now
peacefully gathering his crops and distin
guished from his countrymen only by his tall
and robust frame and his manly bearing, with
his gallant comrades, formed one of the es
sential links in that wonderful chain of
Providences that goes to make up Gettys
burg ? Who knows hut that Westminster
(noble name) with its sixty against three
hundred, with its ringing shont and cheer,
its'valiant sabre stroke, and its routed and
flying rebels was not a Thermopylae of
American liberty ? Welcome back, heroic
captain and cavalrymen of little Delaware !
“ Welcome ye living ! From the foemen’s
gripe
lour country s banner it was yours to
wrest.”
A MIRACLE OR AN IMPOSTURE!
Firmly as we have believed in the re
cuperative powersof our shattered Union,
we must confess ourselves quite taken
by surprise at the rapidity with which
the process has been characterized, in at
least a single The State in
which it took place, has never enjoyed
any particular' distinction for loyalty,
was never supposed to contain any con
siderable amount of latent Unionism
during the war; it in fact furnished the
rebellion with its civil head, a man who
for years had exerted a most baneful in
fluence upon his fellow-citizens in the
direction of State’s rights and pro-sla
very,—a State, therefore, which might
well be regarded as needing some special
probation, before its fitness for re-admis
sion could be recognized. On the con
trary, we find it advanced’the furthest
of any in the rebellious territory, and
already enjoying some of the most sig
nificant privileges of restoration. In
short, we find Mississippi, without any
change in her local and county officers
so that the active agents of the rebellion
continue in the exercise of judicial and
executive functions throughout the State
—without relinquishing its regard for
the rebel chieftain, whose pardon it
asks in. the same breath with its vote for
restoration ; without adopting the con
stitutional amendment; without provid
ing for the safety of the freedmen, is
nevertheless recognized as substantially
in the Union again. As such, she is
allowed to arm her lately rebellious and
lately disarmed militia, and the Union
troops are withdrawing from her terri
tory 1 In five months, loyalty has
grown to such strength on such un
friendly soil! The arms we wrenched
from her, the military organizations we
broke up at such terrible cost, may all
be restored, she has. become suddenly so
worthy of our entire confidence and
esteem ! What are we to think of this
five months’ revolution, in which a pub
lie sentiment of thirty years’ growth,
culminating in the bloodiest and greatest
rebellion of all history is supposed to be
reversed ? A miracle ? Credat Judaeus.
For our part we regard it as a shameful,
terrible farce.
We call attention to the notice of the
exercises to be held in the Wagner In
stitute, on the 30th of this month. They
are designed to celebrate the First An
niversary of the Sabbath-school organ
ized there by zealous laymen of our
Church, and to prepare the way for a
transfer of the enterprise to its new home
in the Chapel, now going up at the cor
ner of Broad and Oxford streets. This
is a highly important step in the pro
gress of onr Church, in that rapidly and
solidly growing region of our city, the
northwest. The liberality of Professor
Wagner in offering the commodious Hall
of his Institute for the earlier stages of
the enterprise, is deserving of all com
mendation and grateful remembrance.
Rev. Dr. Wylie, of the First Re
formed Presbyterian Church of this city,
is expected home from Scotland the last
of this week. It appears that his tour
had a close and interesting connection
with the excellent Doctor’s domestic
affairs. He went away a widower of a
couple of years standing; he returns
with a helpmeet, a lady well-known and
“{fry , Tes P eeted 111 the congregation of
which he is pastor, Miss- Jessie Grant
daughter of Mr. Jas. Grant, of Stirling,
Scotland, and sister to Mr. James Grant
of this city. *