THE AMERICAN PRESETTERIV , AND GENESEE EVANGELIST. A litti „.. .igions and Family Newspaper, IN THAI INTEREST OF THE Oonstititional Presbyterian Church. PIIBLISHICD'I4VERY THURSDAY, AT THE PR ESBY ' T'ERIAN 1334 QheitnufEl'nest. (3d story.) Phibalelidna, .Ray..latnalq.llKears, Editor antt , *., *sham BSv. it. H. Ifotellacias, lltillttor st News and Family Departments. , Bev. C. P., Bush, Corresponding Editor, Rechanel., N. Y. gmerivalt litt,s4tstian. THURSDAY, OCTOBER s;l*. CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.s. SSOOND PAGE—Tam FAMILTIARA:II./1:- The Bird's Week—Johnny Ray, the Little News paper Boy—A Successful Mission— 'We Go"—Ad vice to Young People—A Yankee School-house— Children Working for God—Death of an Infant— Affecting Ordination Charge -Earthly Distinctions. THIRD PAGE—EDITOR'S TABLE: Reid's " Voices of the Soil Answered in God"— •Farrar's ' Re colleotterts of Sevetity Years"—Brown ing's " Lyrics of Life"—Grieb's," Dictionary, af the English. German and German-English Languages" —Children's Books "Little' Kitty's Library"— pamphlets and PerledicalsLiterary Items: Arne can and Foreign. SIXTH PAGE — CORRESPONDENOE : Daniere -rial and Victob:—.Me. Warner's, Letters on Reoem4ruotion—The Year-Day Theory. 81avIeNTR . RniAt Eaoxonnr; The Tallir--MutualtideratindinibetWein Farmers —A Conyenient Disinfectant=-Fa' Planting of Grapes. • ' • ' . Soorrraro .• 'Steam ! - .Plowing -Laughing Gas in Dental Operitions•--n. • Astronomer's Prayer—Re markable .Facter-The Right... Kind of an Invention. MISOELLANKOIIS: Holidays—Alligator's Nests— Sudden Death ; Cholera. DISSOLVIIid * VIEW ',OF COMTE AMID THE POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY. [QONOLhiED:] Reader,lt is no in feien ce of ours: Comte de clares it, and Mill hirtulelt explains, half-de . fends and mildly critieizas it, that Fetish * worship Is more akin to. Positivisti than any other form of, theology. Fetishism, our readers underttand, is the,worship of natu ral or artificial' objects; or, in the language, of the latest edition'of Webster "'ene pf the lowest and grossest Arms of super consisting in the worship of -Some , material object as a stone, a tree, or an animal, often casually selected; practiced . among tribes of lowest mental endowment, as certain ; races of .negroes." The author of the Positive Philosophy betakes himself to the debuedsaperstitions of Africa to find paralle4 in the.religious consciousness of inen, to the principles of his system, and the Westminster Review devotes certain' ex- 1 planatory paragraphs, al m ost in extenuation of thticoraParison I We cannot but regard r Gegree worshippers as v, • • • • • • • treitrer — Dron•Fv — imm 'mum ...or: • . ey vagucArhelieve in something behind and 'above the rook, the tree, the bottle, the feather they worship; they are supernatu ralism, and we are inclined to believeptliat, tho Ugh among them that are born of women, there bath not risen a greater than Comte, notwithstandingyhe that is least in the kingdom of supernaturalism is greater than he., Not satisfied, however,,, with recognizing a linenecis, Comte proceeds, to . ir,ame Tez tish worship as one-of theLpraotioak deduc- - tious from the Positive Philosophy::-Given over, judicially, one is ready to believe, to the uneontrullable litipulies of imagine tion, he pictuieti the earth itselflatiendoWed with tile; and as ..coniciously working in past geological' eras for the reception of znau, the " Grand- Etre" on her 'bosom at last. ; The planets, too, are, tipulfpn ot: as "improving their conclition,",ag,i , "oowog eat devotion, having consolation," and Mr Mill almost rise's. to indignation as he Rd lows his master through these absurd vaga 7 • 0 This stair says Mr. Mill, •'though' he c!alls it fiotion, he soon after speaks of as belief, (eroyanee,) t tti:be greatly recommen ded.. And'he obviously intends' that these fantastical inventions, shoUltllbecorne slant tu, and, in fact, transformed ; into ac tual belief. Wretched as thiS -singularly characteristic .of M. vigointe's: later Mode of:thought." thus animated; tire: ettrt t li becomes the " Grand' Fetish," dinicrete existence are reek.- fined 'kwith the " Great i3eing,".. man as ob iaeta4kf, rrship, in the PosiO,Oilgoorio=, my ,lkitkce furnishes us stiltanotler deity, undettOnmne, of the •' Grand Milieu," Or the" Great Nemi,'.! nu* tho. new Pantheon of Modern , 'Atheism is complete. Brother Congoes, we niust tahake. hinds with you, and apologize for sending you missionaries. Instead of ''Ethiopia. `stretching forth her hands unto God, we stretch form our hands to Ethiopia for patterni of 'the true modes of worship. M. Cooke should certainly have gone on a tour of excloration'through Jour tribes with ,Dullhaillu, or bettei; Win wood Reade, to find his Supreme Pontiff of the Human Race. o om t e is dead, but so" great was his folly, while living, that it is still illustrating itself by the mere lapse of• time. In spite of his denial of supernaturalism, he ven tured upon the most .confident and definite " predictions as to.the success of hie system. ...Nor are-the dates by any means remote. It before the end of the present century that the.new spiritual and temporal Powers of the world are to be installed. At the expiration of seven years, the direction of I publio education in yrance would be placed in 31., Comte's hand;; in five years more'the „Emperor. Napoleon, or his successor, w,ould resign kis powerto provisional triumvirate oomposed of three eminent believers in the, a1,44(14 ) It) tttan res New_ Seriies, IT, No, 4-0— IMEMI positivist faith. These rulers will be twen . ty-one years in . preparing society for its final oonititutiou, and after duly installing the spiritual power and effecting the decom position of France into seventeen republics, will give over the temporal government of each to the three dictators, then to be forthcoming ! Poor .man, he , hoped to live to see it all, and did not even survive .to become director of public education in France, the very first step of this - confident `series of liredictions. Aefor those ' remain ing, there is perhaps not asingle thoronkb _ going pupil of Comte to be found„ who would be insane enough , to attempt to carry them out. Behold` the Positive Philosophy gone to seed I See a sweeping negatien of re ligion _demanding nothing : less than reverence for itself; suppressing faith in God,"immortality and revelation, and itself requiring to be received on faith; decrying theology as Obsolete, and' yet carrying out its own" principles to an extreine, which 'brings them face to face with the grossest and most degrade'd forms of theology; de nying supernatural inflnence, yet claiming to prophesy in the most distinct and specific manner; proposing as a stibstitn.tejor exist ing religions a system as intolerant, as. op pressive in 'details; as antagonistic in WI way to the free development of science and pursuit Of literature, as hostiie to civil lib ancl SW pliant to imperialism as Rome itself; dethroning God and putting in his place man; the race and individuals of it; the earth, as the,GreatFetish; . sll, concrete existence, Ancl.finallY apace, as the represen tative of fatality Here is the result ofthat vaunted,sys tem.whieh was to supersede religion. This is - the consummate flower of human thought in,its spiritual 'aspect: It 'declared war against true religion andthreitened to an nihilate it, and its anther' and greatest teaoher ends by, wopounding a.. polished fetishism inits place.,; We area laughed At for worshippin • the infinite ' God and we at.Jengtn — : 01(11:161r - TO Wilts-fflsl our mothers, wives and daughters, to wor , ship humanityi-the earth and - empty space. We began in the blessed -light of Chris-. tianity which* the Positive Philosophy was to 'outshine and sup,erstrie. ' We end in the degradatimi and darkness of China 'and 4ftica and Egypt, with a little of the 'wine-, ripg of Greece and ,Rome. We had a diVine Aid perfect Redeemer to worship, we are offered. now the 'sinful race he came to save. Have rict, these sublime and oracular senten oesin thifirst of Roinana gained newweight and in thfs , new evolution of error? "yroferssing theinselves to beirise they became fools, and' changed the glory -of the incorruptible Cpd i,an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds 'and four, footed- beasts and creeping things. Who changed the truth of God into , a lie, and worshipped and served - the ,ineatirre, more than , the Creator, who is blessed'for ever, amen!' • Well ' says Mill •him Self, though he applies it to only a single depart, ment of Comte's speculations : ; " It l is the most warning example we know, into'what frightful aberrations, a powerftil "and "com prehensive mind.,may be led, by the exclu sive following out of a single idea. 11 Per= tinent, too, - is the profound• remark of a re cent writer*. "The course of Modern, speculation tonohing ibis deeply interest, ing subject tither towards a divine and 'glorious Redeemer, orioWaids a divine and glorious humanity. . Jests - is not eialied and worihiptied, the race must be. There is no stopping place between the- Sinless and the sinf4.7 We are now done with Comte 'and. 'hiS impious extravagances, but we have a word for his•43ritio and admirer. In. spite Of ocOuaional protests and dis-• Claimers, Mr. Mill .must be held resPenii ble for palliating, and even recommending some Of the most abominable features !of this development of Positivist principles; He even deliberately- defends the attempt of the philosopher to deek'out his ath.eism with the borrowed robes of religion. Nay, more, he takes the broad ground that athe ism is not inconsistent with religion, and throws in a sneer at the idea of eternal re ward which enters so largely into the mo-. tives of evangelical piety. An atheistic form of religion is better than that " irra tional and mean° conception of human nature." •" A religion without a God may be even to Christians an instructive and profitable subject of contemplation." Prac tically, what does this amount to but a de, fence of atheism? What must be its ten dency but to exalt atheism above evangeli cal Christianity ? What but to recommend atheism as compatible with all that devotion to the true interests of our fellow-men, which we have been trained by the teach- *Rev. John Reid. Voices of the Soul answered.in Goa. R: Garter & Brothers, p. 84. AI 'IF, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1865. inv . of the New Testament to regard as .8, result of the constraining love of Christ alone ? Mr. Mill's whble argument would lead his countrymen to believe, not only that atheism need 'be 'followed' by no per : m . elons results, but that in the form' pre , sented by the Positive Philosophy, it is a more rational and noble method than; that ! of the gospel for effecting all the preetical results of evangelical Christianity. We dwell on this , point, because in there _ cent canvas for 'a seat in Parliament, Mr. Mill and his friends.have had to respond to a;, direct charge of atheism made against the former. In the discussion, Mr. Mill dej fended a certain .expression of which had been complained of as atheistic, de daring it to be " one . cf. the most religious and Christian expressions of feeling in all recent literature." He also 'defies any one to point out in-his writings a single passage I "that conflicts with what the best religious minds of our age accept as Christianity." While he was penning these proud 'expres sions, he was doubtless glancing at the proofs of this very article in defence of the atheism of Comte. While claiming to be as religious as any one, he was atuing for a religion without. a God, and he was dis paraging, as irrational and mean in the comparison, the motives to benevolence supplied in the gospel. Worse thanirra tional and mean are Such equivocations as these. He calli'his j writirige most.religiOns; • the reader should haie been Warned Mr. Mill'"believes in a religion withent; God • ; oreokonfilimself among the Christie% or as, above reproof of ,4.?,-Aziost: Christian •minds ...of the country, but his' Christianity. 'can - derive instruction and from atheism, and can dispense with one-,ef' the strongest the `gospel' motives, to right aCtion. Thanking - Mr. Mill for hiS frank •expo-.. sure of the faults and deformities of his idol Comte, we -tiOist -warn hiin that he will find it very difficult to ,iscap suspicion of atheism from people who persist in.regaid 7 idea ; at a 4. 0 € 1 : - o , ui ofssuPe - realities as , essential to religion, and very dithoult,-to .establisk*.hie , - reputation-- Christian writer wih those who take their ideas of Christianit ffrom the. Old and 'New Testankeiste. W4FIIL IGNORANCE; • We can call it nothing else when one with' ordinary means. of information,••per slats, at this day, in speaking of the. Sand wich lilands as practically heathen 'ground, and as' requiring the initiation of a new missinnary, enterprise to reach their wants. It is not merely insulting to the Chris tianity and civilization of . our American Churches, but it is lamentable perversion of facts, misunderatinding between Chris tiatt;men, and a wasteftd and reckless ignor ing of . achievements, gained at great •cost and. pains to our .common. Christianity, to : indulge. in such language as that recently 'utteredby the Bishop of Oxford, at a vais Sionary meeting in • Salisbury, England, in behalf of the S. P. G. He said allusion has already been made to tluk Queen" of the Sandwich Islands, now for, u! little.while tarrying among,us. lithink the state of-.things.there is a loud call, for dO something. One of the special motives for We, Royal Visit; to'thia country is to try andE stirrup 'among the English people a resolu tiorcto do something at once for the poptda- tion.of those islands, under the conviction of the Queen:that mother thirty years, if they do 'not :see a total moral change wrought' in that will see their extermination from - ,the earth. "(Heat, hear.). Is 'that not a - call? -.You are told that in another half a century, ImleaS",:you send the Means ,of training the Young of 'that rate 'in' habits dif ferent from 'those which English vietts,from ships timohing there, with no other 9b.jec4 - than immediate pleasure and gain,, have in,. troduced among 'a &cite* and thoughtless race, your vices, traasPlanted to those islands; , Will in a'?great measure have eradicated people who receivethem ; froniv - the face of the earth. At, this moment you have everything to help; you. The throne Is' filled by a monarch determined-to do all he. can to carry out your missions; the people are craving for them, are 'wearied Out by"the. mismanagement and maltreatment of Ameri can Puritanism; are shrinking 'exceedingly from the Maryolatry of the Romish Church, and are saying, ' Will you give us the-morals of Christianity without these terrible alloys?' (Cheers.) Is that not a call to .be doing something Mote? It is' all very easylb say that they should do it -themselves. - I was talking on the subject the day before yester day to the Queen, and she said; Our people are so poor that they have not the meads. Our people are, tiotlike your manufacturers and agriculturalists, able to do everything, with large stored-up capital. We have little more than . sufficient to give us the merest clothing and the poorAt elements of food f , and it must be done from your country- as a act of Christian gift if Christianity is to profit my people.' l(Cheers.) Then, I say, , here is a call- which at the present-moment can hardly be exceeded, because when God does give a Christian nation the opportunity of doing something, and seems to. intimate that unless it be done now the opportunity will be taken away, it: seems an absolute charge upon us that, we should go over to that Macedonia and help Mein." In the Sandwich Islalds;about one-third' of the , entire population are, members in good standing of churches which would be unwilling to admit many kmemberin good standing ',in this= y biShOi'S - diocese; 'there. are perhaps a score of native preachers, most of whom are better versed in systema tic the o logy than is many _ a priest whom • this bishop inducts into: the snored office; there is a college, and a complete system of public oducatiOn, with not far from ,three hundred and schools-and sixteen thousand five hundred scholars, the native Christians are "organized, into an efficient 'Missionary Society, and are cultivating the ,field presentee by the neighboring islands qzith the moat marked evidences of the Divine fairor. The contrilVipstof these t chinkites to religiinni - otjects has for`lidis avOnged over $20,000, or one dollar pet ,DiLember. • . The; testimony of ± :Richard H; Dana ; „Est, an Npiscopalian, ancl4l, distinguished lawYeriof Boston,- ai , given Originally in-the New York Tribune, heti oftenleen quoted , bit deserves to be placed in juxtaposition 'With the prejudiced declarations of the Okford Bishop. if It is no small thing," writes Mr.Pana, lte say of the Missionaries of the'Ameri can Board, that in less than forty years they have taught this whole people to read' an write, to cipher and to sew. TheY . have established . sehoolta, reared-up native teachers, and so pressed their work that' now the proportion of inhabitants, who can, read and write, -is - - matey than in New Englatid; and, whereas, they .found th9se isitiidefs a :nationAtfilalf-nakedt eavageti,] ittine , ,in the:surf AnCon the- sand; eating raw fiali; fighting among themselves, tyran-' nized over by feudal' chiefs and abandoned to sensuality, they now see &ern decently clothed, recegnizing the iaw of marriage, going to school and public worship with more regularity thanthe people at home. As to the interior it is, well-known that a man 'imay travel : alone, with money, through the Aiildest -spotk-:unarmed. I found' no but itithout its =Bible rand hymn book in the ,`native tongue, and the practice of family' or and- mice before'ineat is as common -11 • %gaud asentary - -- pAngrokeTz-niamvm - wwweer . : mama of the;apacfity and lust of nominal Chris tians before they became Christianized; , and since that time, the name of Christian ity-has,heen made , tk pretext_ for wrong,- op premien; w and slarelen rof them and the American missionaries down to the present `day. In 1835, an Irish priest was forced upon them against their laws, by the Brit-, ish Consul ? and in 1839, a French frigate compelled the authoritiesto:receive French priest, to grant a site forliuilding a Roman Catholic church and ,to abolish the laws excluding distilled "spirits from the islands. Finally in 1862, arrive Bishop Staley, and tw4Pre,sbyters to establish the "'Reformed `Catholic Church" tat the , '-ielands, who area to be sustained there by the effect upon the firitish public of such extraordinary statements, as those just quoted from the Bishop of Oxford. What. the result vidll be, we cannot, tell. God in his providence,- may have some. _tdti 'mate purpose which we cannot foresee. Meanwhile we may be, alloied to express our conviction; that if a . strong form of church' government had- been -organized among the Converted islanders; at`the begin ning, instead of waiting for a generation'to pass away first, and if the body had sheen in organic and rgegnized connection with some vigorous Atnerion,church, the state of affairs-would !have been far more.favora-' ble to peimanenna and usefulness.. THE AMERICAN CHRISTIAN COMMIS- There was a great ga.theriog of some of men, the most zeatous . Chriatiaos, I ,el the most liberal givers in the lamb at . Aleveland, on Wednesday and Thiirsdai of last week; All Evangelical - denominations; _,wore: represented in the 300 delegates. A `delightful: atmoiphere <of Christian unity and affection pervaded the place. The:Chief . Justice of the United States, upon whom the mantle ,Of Christian'statesmanship has Allen, since the 'death -. or our:good Presi waS there; ready to work for Christ with his , earnest_and'aetive rePreSentative& The meeting was held in the 'First Presby terian Church, the, pastor of which '5,y., Goodrioh, D.D., took a leading ; part in A • he prochedings. Chief _Justice Chase took the chair by vote of• the Convention; and' was retained as a permanent officer of the body. Jay Cooke, Esq.of our city, was one of the Vice Presidents. Rev. Dr. Kirk was • Chairman of the Business Com mittee. The following resolutions present the sub stance of the action taken-.by the Conven tion. Resolved, -That inasmuch as a large part of our people, both in city and country, are As yet unteached by the Gospel, we are solemnly Genesee. Evangelist, No. 1011. bound to reinforce existing agencies and de vise new ones to meet present exigencies. Reiolved, That this Convention appoint a Commission consisting of sixtY,- with power to add to their number to be called " the. American Christian COmmission," which shall be charged with the-work of awakening the attention of the Christian public to the - urgent need of extending the Gospel to the multitudes ofthis generation not yet.reached by Airect Christian labor, using for this pur _pose the. press,public meetings, iocal organ-; izations, and other suitable means. Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the Commission to collect and diffuse informatidif adapted to,,stir pp the hearts of Christians everywhere to increased activity in, the relief, rescue, and. - silvation of men ;" to suggest Methods which extended observation own pialison, -.and experience ..have prove& hest adaptedlo these various ends ; es f a r as pos sible to-call forth and increase the voluntary, unpaid services of individuals in the Master's vineyard';` to deviie plans for the training and employment of womaestalentin the va rious spheres-, of Christian - labor; . to be a medium ,between -Christian laborers and those who desire theifiervices, whether Churches, pub 7 lie inStitutions, societies,' or individuals ; -to !reinforce in every appropriate way, all forms of Chistian effort and , charitable work, and extend the blessings of the GoiPel to all mep, even the most abandoned. We last week 'chronicled the action of one of our East _Tennessee Pre b te ies (Kingston), in erasing from their roll, 'three- names of- ,, disloyal ministers, in ac cordance with the action of , the last Gene mil Assembly., Only four, names. remained -on their• roll after this loyal and decided 'action. 'No doubt, Kingeton Presbytery, by avoiding such a direct and manly course might have been a numerically stronger body to-day. 'One of the parties thus droppedis pastor.of the. Church in Chat tanooga, to which he has, returned : since the war, and where he is now , .ministering to e large congregition of former rebels and half-hearted Union men. Rather than be aesociateir WAY 'Men 'Ott eYraloathy with our church, this handful of faithful men in . Kingston Presbytery have determined to forego all the apparent advantages of such an allience and to stand alone. But they are not alone. God and. God's aruth are with them, and their brethren in the. North feel doubly near to men who have resisted alike the storm of war, and the still more influenees of a hasty and. dangerous spirit of ilenieecy:and' conciliation. . Reiohied; That 'this Convention affirm . s its fuitwaverinefalth in the'goSpel our Lord Jesus.Cluist, as the Divinely appointed means for the moral and social regeneration of hn , manity. Resolved; That we believe thatihere exists in Evangelical Protestant Christianity, 4 seen in r the various churches, sufficient, effici -ent and practical'agencies"fof the accom_plish ment of the great work committed to the Church, viz : that of improving the . Condition of men tn this - life, -and smiting Iheir. eternal happinessin. the world to come. Resolved" Tha t in order to the, greatest ef ficiency ,of these means, this Convention in dornrnendi see - Solent' and' hearty ce-opera tion in the objects of the - Ameridan. Commis- Sixty persons were chosen to constitute the Commission of which the ,followmg persons . were appointed temporary officers. President—ehiefeTustice S. P. Cliase. Fee Presidea—Rev. Dr. J. 'P.' Durbin, New York. Secretory'-Rev. Wm. E. P.oardman, Phil adelphia. The first meeting will take place October 25th; in. New York City. • A letter from our correspondent in: Cleve land is in.hand ; and will appear next week. FIDELITY OF OIIE E REVIVALS. In the rural• portions of Southemstern Pennsylvania; the season opens with the ;shoat of the .Great King. The work has made its appearance in several, schuiehes in Chester and Lancaster4coun ties; connected with the Presbyteries] of New Castle and Donegal, both in the 'Old- School connection.. We, copy an ac count, furnished by .a :correspondent of the Presbyterian Banner. The work began in Union Church,-Lancas ter County, under the charge of• Brother C. W. Stuart., about the first of June, to which over one hundred - and twenty . were added. Since the harvest, a . similar and almost ecipally powerful work was manifested in the Middle Cletorara Church, neighboring to the former, and under the care of Rev. Mr. Rit tenhouse, where over one hundred hopeful Conversions have taken place. On the 29th of August, protracted services were com menced in, Lower West Nottingham,Brother Gayley, pastor, and in Fsigg's Manor, Brother Umstead, pastor. ln Mr. Gayley's church the work'was not so great, yet good and last ing results are no doubt pledged in the greater fruitfulness of the membership. But in old Fagg's Manor the work has been ex tensive, deep, and overwhelming. The con victed sinners were led to cry out literally, " Oh,- my sins I my sins!—what must I do to be saved?" At last accounts, there were near one hundred hopeful conversions, and the interest scarcely abated. I spent Sabbath week with that venerable and successful pastor, Rev. Mr. Rutter,. at Chestnut Level, Lancaster County, preaching three times for him, to large and deeply in terested congregations. The meetings were just closing, with the result of about fifty conversions,_, and others still inquiring. • During the first week in September, meet ings were begun in Little 'Britain Church, .under the pcstorate of Brother Alexander, and also inllpper West Nottingham, in the extreme isouthwest corner of Chester County.‘ These, have now ab o ut closed for the present. TERBtffital e Per annum, in advance: By Hail, $B. By Carrier, $3 50 Fifty cent* additional, after three months. Clubs.—Ten or more papers. sent to one address. payable strictly in advance and in one remittance: BZ_Mail,s3 50 per annum. By Carriers. $3 per annum. Ministers and Ministers' Widows, $2 in ad- Home Missionaries, $l5O inadvanco. Fifty cents additional after three months. Remittances by mail are at our risk. , ' • Postage.—Fire cents quarterly. in advance, paii by subscribers at the office of deliver,. Advertisements.-12% cents Per tine for the first, and 10 oasts for the mama insertion. 081 square (one month) $3 0 11 two months.. 5 50 "i three " 750 six " • 12 00 GA one year 18 00 The following discount on long advertisements, in serted for three months and upwards. is allowed:- , - Over 20 Linea, 10 per cent off; over 50 lines, 20 per cent.; over 100 lines. 33% per cent, off. In the former, the work penetrated into some of the most ungodly neighborhoods. A man who refused to attend the services at all; owing to prejudices against the preacher, was overtaken of the Spirit in his own corn field; deeply convicted, and driven to the house of God to cry for mercy and direction. lam invited to be present and aid - at the coming communion there, when I may have something more to communicate. Scores of persons have there also found hope. Last Sabbath T. was with Brother Gamble, late, of Philadelphia,.now supplying the West Nottingham Church. Here--.,Some who had long fought against the Spirit, and who _cams„ to scoff, remained to pray and ask the inter " cessions of the ministers and people of God. This church, although small, has now before her portals nearly fifty who will early enter her communion, and others are anxious. Wild, reckless, and even profane and inteirt perste young men have been stricken doivn and led to pray. In four of these churches, where I was a personal observer, and hak a very humble part, I saw no means used but the ordinary ones. The preaching was mainly.plain, ear nest, and direct exhibitions of the doctrines of grace; a large proportion of it was ad dressed to members of the church, but having close application to the impenitent also. The assemblies were as still as the house of death, and more solemn. Everybody seemed -'to drink in the truth. I ought - also to 'say, in justice to many brethren and to truth, that there were in' all these meetings ' Many mutual helpings — of neighboring brethren. All who had a mind to the work and were able, wrought , therein as they were called upon. A few brethren from "out of the bounds," as Rev. J. Cross, of Baltimore, in three cases conspicuously, Rev. Drs. Pinmer find Work of Philidel:- phia, in two cases, and Rev. Dr. Hodge, of your place, rendered, signal service, I am told. Let the glory be to the Lord. INTERESTING SERVIOES AT TEE WAG NER. INSTITUTE--,The first anniversary of the Oxford Street Sabbath-schools meeting at the Wagner Free Institute, was celebrated on Saturday afternoon. The schools were assembled in the main hall, in which there were representatives also from the Sabbath-schools of the First Presbyterian, Calvary, Olivet, Ta bor, North Broad Street, Wharton Street, and Clinton Street Churches. It is estimated that there were not less than fifteen hundred _children present. ." . The ,meeting was presided over by Alexander Whildin, Esq. John S. Cum mings made*the opening remarks. In June;-1944, a- successful application was made to Professor Wagner for the use of the Institute for Sabbath services. Rev. Dr. Brainerd soon after preached the opening sermon: Since then reli gious services , have been kept up regu larly on-Sabbaths in this place, the pul pit being supplied by clergymen, from the different persuasions. The , school now numbers about 225 scholars and 19 teachers, and in view of the need of a• church in the neighbor hood, u lot of ground at Broad and Ox ford streets haabeen. purchased, and a building is - now in course of ereotion on the site. The chapel will hold about 500 adults or 600 children, .and will be o,i:fished early in the coming year. During the afternoon, a splendidly bonint Bible was presented to Priffilisor Wagner, on behalf of the' scholare, by Rey. Dr. Adams, who Made some ,elo . quent, allusions to the sacred vaarne. He hoped that the recipient of the favor would value the gift in consideratidn of the source from which it came, bat more especially because of the preCious truths contained' within it In reading from its sacred pages he trusted that he would derive that benefit which would prepare hiin for the upper temple. Professor Wagner received the gift, and in so doing he said that words were inadequate to express his gratitude. He had arrived at the age of three score years and ten, and had, he trusted, made this volume the guide of his path. He had the glorious record in fifteen differ .ent languages, but if he was intrenched around with Bible's this one would re main in his memory with more than or dinary love. No other book can Com pare with this : no work of nature could comparealn.e to its blessed truths. Its history is in advance of all others, and it points out the history of dead em pires. Without this volume he would he without hope. It is no less than 'the breath of Heaven. J. K. P. Stites i Esq., Revs. Dr. March, and Mr. Taylor also par ticipated in the services. Rev. Mr. Calkins of Calvary Church was providentially de layed and thus prevented from taking the part assigned him in the exercises. The singing was admirably- perforMed, a duett especially making a most happy impression upon the auditors. The benediction was pronounced by Mr. Cal kins. The services passed off in. the most delightful manner, the day was fine and the promise of future progress tothe Oxford Street enterprize most encourag ing. We shall next week give the history of the undertaking, with a view of the Oxford Street Chapel in process of erec tion. Rev. G. L. POSTER, after a ministry of twenty-one years in ',.%1 ichigau , has remov ed to Connecticut and tu keit charge tem porarily of the Congregational - chureh is Bethel.
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