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Only bona fide newt bscribers will be accept ed in making up ts for premiums. No money is made in such a 'transaction; the simple object is to give wider circulation to the paper an the Committee's Publications. Hence pasts dr and others may the more freely engage in the work., 4 s tIV ashy/tern. N - ew Series, Vol. 11, No. 46. HONORING THE HOLY SPIRIT, They that loolt‘for true prosperity in the Church and that , would prepare the way for Revivals, must honor the Holy Spirit. They must give prominence in their plans, their prayers, and their efforts to his character, his relations, his power, his office work, and his supremacy. Naturally, they will be .drawn in this direction as the first conscious movement toward true revival. I. They will honor the Spirit by recog nizing his true divinity and .personality. Revival is unknown among those who deny it; those who heartily believe it and live up to their belief, are spiritually alive, are ready for revival. The supremacy of the Spirit in this dispensation, must be recog-_ nized in order to give Him due honor. The Holy Spirit is the promised Paraclete, the spiritual Christ, taking the place of Christ "after the flesh" in his church. Whatever we are and experience and do, as Christians, is in, and by, the Holy Spirit. Our prayers and plans must show that we are aware 'of this exalted position and these intimate relations of the Spirit to the Church. 2. We honor him by recognizing his indispensable agency in the work of regen eration. This great change is a new birth. It is a removal of obstinacy and of utter moral powerlessness from the sinner. It is quickening those dead in trespasses and sins. It is renewing the affections, spirit ualizing the tastes, turning from earth heavenward the whole tide or man's fallen nature; it is making Jesus appear lovely and glorious to those who could see no beauty in him to desire him. It is raising out of the depths of depravity to a career of holiness. We honor the Spirit by re cognizing the full and dreadful measure of man's necessities, by admitting that nothing short of Divine interposition can rescue him, and by casting ourselves wholly, humbly, importunately upon his condescen sion, his grace, for help. 3. We honor the Spirit by admitting large views of his power and willingness to aid His people. We are prone 'to narrow timorous views and expectations. When in the lapse of ages will the world be con verted if; we will not say the desires, but the confident hopes of Christ's people in large and speedy manifestatious of His con verting power, only, are fulfilled? We dare not allow ourselves to believe that the Holy Spirit is ready largely to bless us now. We measure our expectations only by what we have seen in the paSt. We do not look tor the early, sound conversion of the children of our families and of the Sabbath Scheols. We do not expect the Spirit, by great strokes of his Almighty power, to send a thrill of conviction to the consciences of a whole community:at once, or, as by a simultaneous impulse, to inflame all hearts with zeal and love, and devotion to Christ. We are too much absorbed in worldly affairs, verhaps, exactly to relish such a religious revolution. At any rate, we do not tune our expectations to such a key, or pray with ardent faith that such manifestations in any considerable degree may lake. place. We are content and happy if a slow, old-fashioned, orderly rate of pro gress is maintained, occasionally varied by a somewhat more abundant ingathering. We strike thrice when we should have struck five or six times. Infinite power and grace are not honored by such human limitations. The God that brought Israel out of Egypt—lsrael's God—says " Open wide thy mouth and I will fill it." The Holy Spirit that came down in tongues of fire, and that converted thousands in a day at the commencement of His dispensation,. and that, in three centuries of persecution, converted the world, may well be offended by our ignoble content, and Our low views of His real energy, and grieved and of fended may leave us where we are content to grovel. " According to your faith be it unto you." - 4. We honor the Spirit by rightly estima ting his tenderness, his pity, his long-suf fering love. He is no cold abstraction, but a true person, filled with infinite yearning towards perishing souls. He persuades, he entreats, he follows with miraculous pa tience the persisting obstinate sinners: He bears with innumerable rebuffs, with scorn, with bitter hostility. He strives as a wres tler with an antagonist. Sometimes the conflict is an agony to rid the soul from the grasp of its own: ins and its deadly enemy. It is as if God came in storm and' thunder, as if he sent from above, and took the sin ner and drew him out of many waters, from the sorrows of hell and the snares of death. The sinner has a work to do in honoring the Spirit. It is his part to recognize this infinite tenderness, this patient, persuading love of God, and to heed the still, small voice, speaking through his conscience. He must not forget that this infinite love can be wounded and grieved by rejection PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1865. or neglect, just as truly as human love can be. Nay, he must solemnly lay it to heart, that it is God himself condescending to strive with unwilling rebellious man, and that it would be no wonder if his continued opposition to the Heavenly call should sud denly put an end to the marvellous scene, and at last utterly reverse the position of the parties. " Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me." If you seekfor personal salvation, or for general revival, Honor the Holy Spirit. " SOMETHING TOLD ME." Most eventful results have often followed the carrying out of those suggestions of the moment which are expressed by the above phrase. Some of the choicest opportuni ties for eternal accomplishments have slip ped by, never to be repeated, by. ignoring their Divine origin, and treating them as a passing fancy. We have often thought of this. Recently, in a social meeting, our views of it were freshened by the narrative which a Christian 'brother gave of the re sults of some efforts of his own, the imme diate prompting to which was—something told me to do it. For example : Walking along the street of a city in the evening, during a time of great .religious interest, he saw • near at hand a young man, a total stranger, and some-- thing told him to make inquiry respecting the condition of his soul. Feeling tlie instiga tion to be one that had a meaning and should be obeyed, he joined himself to the young man, and affectionately inquired, res pecting his spiritual condition. He found him unconverted, but candid, free, and in terested—indeed anxious for salvation. But he was standing at bay, at the point.where unbelief generally makes its last stand— Christ's present readiness to receive the re turning 'sinner.. Our brother met the case at that point, and by instruction and invi tation, sought to lead him to the Saviour then. God opened his heart to believe. The two stepped aside into a retired nook and knelt together, and there the young man, as is believed, made the everlasting consecration of himself to the Lord. God had unquestionably arranged the cir- • cumstances of this conversion. He had brought the mind of the subject of it to just the point where nothing further was needed from,man than that last appeal to come then to Jesus, but where just that final urgency was indispensable.' He had brought him into the street at that hour that he might fall in with the brother men tioned; and the something which told that brother to inquire for the welfare of his soul was the whisper of the Holy Spirit. It may not seem lawful to speculate con cerning what might have been the result, had the suggestion of the, moment been dis missed as a passing thought. With God there are no uncertainties; there is noth ing which answers to our common notions of contingerit results. Still he has laid out our work in a way which presents crises to be met by us, as if their issues for good or evil were suspended upon the manner in which we meet them. And so there is an allowable sense to the supposition that, in the case here related, the loss of an immor tal soul might have been the consequence of disobeying the inward monition. In the same allowable sense we may and .must believe that, on the broader scale - of the Church's whole field of effort, many ir reparable losses of seemingly possible acqui sitions—the loss of individual souls, the loss of revivals, and the loss of golden op portunities for glorious Christian achieve ments—are ,to be laid to the account of trifling with this "something told de"— these heaven-born suggestions of the mo ment. We may suppose that they never come from God until he has himself pre pared the way for some specific result of what is done in obedience to them. If they fail to secure obedience, although it is not for us to say what God may do concern ing that result, still the case stands practi cally against us. Practically, our responsi bility for all the loss and , misery, tempooal and eternal, which that something told us to strive to arrest, is real. We do not forget that this subject is beset with some dangers of mistake. We give no countenance to the wild conclusion that every mental impression is to be ac cepted as the voice of the Holy Spirit: The' worst beings in the universe have some in visible, mysterious access to our minds, and their suggestions are often dangerous in proportion as they put on the false show of sanctity. We can accept of nothing as coming from God, merely because one says that something told him to do or say it. We cannot be satisfied to obey any such suggestions made to our own minds, until we have some reasonable evidence of what that something is—whether the Holy Spirit, or an idle fancy, or a Satanic inspiration. , We hardly need to say that, in trying the spirits, reference is always to be had to the word of God, as the conclusive test. If they speak not according to that, there is no truth in them. If the impression of any given moment relates to some proposed duty, does it fall within those lines of Chris tian duty marked out in the book of Divine revelation ?: And does the way suggested for pursuing the proposed duty, accord with the Gospel-prescribed methods of winning souls, extending the Church, and doing good ? Fainiliarity with these inward sug goations, such ne is obtained through obedi ence and watching the fruits of obedience, largely qualifies one for judging the -true nature of any individual impression upon his mind. The men who are constantly handling bank notes are seldom,, imposed upon by a counterfeit. So the people who habitually live in the Spirit, and walk in the. Spirit, who are always careful to lten to its special calls, and who have found in the fruit of their obedience to those calls, that 'they were not mistaken concerning the na- ture of them, become familiarized to the modes, the tones, and the utterance of the voice of the Spirit. Their hearts answer it with a responsive thrill which is not likely .t 1 be awakened by any simulation of its im 'pressions. Weknow not whether there was any outward word or sign, when the Spirit told Philip go, and join hithself to the Ethic)- ! pian noble; but it is easy to suppose that the command was given only through one of those special silent prompting which we are now considering. And if so,,there was little danger that its character should be mistaken by such a man. We think of him as one whose familiarity with those influ ences was intimate, whose heart was ever open . to their reception, and ever ready for obedience, and who had learned, from the fruits.of such obedience, to trace them to their l Divine source. We expect him to disticicmish the voice of the Spirit from all impo4 j ure. And in precisely this way, .tdotig'with the additional advantage which , the.:yrritien• word now furnishes, we may stillexpectChristians to be assured of the heavenly origin of the special inward calls, which often summon them to special duties. We are surprised that a subject which is so influential in the progress of the work of salvation, so seldOm comes up for remark. We doubt whether there. is scarcely a Christian reader of this article, who cannot recall to memory times when his mind felt singular impressions of duty toward some sinner, some straying brother, some peculiar interest of the Church, or something to be said, done, or bestowed for the cause of Christ. In this way God often brings his own chosen instruments into contact with the exact work which he has prepared for them. When his preparation for the re sult of their effort is complete, then they feel that something which tells them to do it. We trace an intimate relation between this " something tells me" and some of the most surprising results of holy enterprise which our world has witnessed. In the early part of the present century, something told three college students to start out for the salvation of the heathen world. They obeyed, and now behold all Christian Ame rica committed to organized missionary en terprises which have already belted the globe. No doubt God opens to his people sea sons and opportunities for peculiar results by peculiar outward providences. But his most special calls to special effort for the salvation of men, are those which, unheard and unseen from without, are spoken direct to the heart. When that call is made, he to whom it is addressed may be sure that it is - fn. some purpose. Some work is then ready. and if prosecuted, something will come of it. It is' the moment of a passing opportunity which;if lost, may return no more—the crisis moment of some immortal soul, or some still wider, interest of the Church. He that is thus •moved by Hea ven, has only to step forth in the spirit of prompt, obedience, and he will find that God has gone before him. Or if he treat the Divine impression as a play of fancy, he will probably find his false judgment re corded as a contempt of the Spirit of grace. REV. HORATIO W. BROWN, lately of Lyons, has accepted the call given him by the Presbyterian Church of Brock port, and is to enter at once, we believe, upon his'labors in this new field. Rev. C. E. Stebbins, of Phelps, has received a call to the Presbyterian Church at Ovid, which it is probable he will accept. The Ovid Church has re cently paid off a small debt, and now stands clear of any such embarrassment; are preparing also to put their house of worship tin coMplete repair and so be ready to receive a good pastor. Genesee Evangelist, No. 1017. IF TREASON BE NO CRIME, WHAT Those who are acting upon the admission that no crime, requiring repentance, has been committed by the rebellious South, are perhaps not aware of the width and significance of the inferences to be drawn from this most false and dangerous con cession. Let us but enumerate some of the more striking of them. Of course, then, it is no crime to plot and -undertake the, destruction of this or any human government; none, to seek to subvert the social order; it is none to assail even a happy, just, and equal government; none to rise without a real serious grievance and from mere passion, political jealousy or sectional ambition, to declare and carry on a most, murderous war against the life of a nation. All possible aggravations, such as the purpose to perpetuate Ameri can Slavery, the free Constitution and glorious nationality which it was proposed to destroy, the' candid acknowledgment of leaders like Stephens and General Lee, that secession was unwise and unnecessary, that ours is "the best and freest govern ment—the'most equal in its rights—the most just in its decisions—the most lenient in its measures, and the most inspiring in its principles, to elevate the race of men that the sun in heaven ever shone upon ;" and that the attempt to overthrow such a government "is the height of madness, folly; and wickedness,"—such acknowled ments betraying the clearest convictions of wrong on the part of the perpetrators, do not make them, guilty. Their . apprehen sions were a delusion ; they were over-Con scientious; they should have plunged into their rebellion without a scruple. There can then be no such a thing as crime in rebellion against any government, under any circumstances, and with any aggravations, if crime has not been perpe trated by the South. The whole thing is removed from the sphere of morals and become a mere matter of calculation. All governments are fairly and , justly at the mercy of the dissatisfied and the restless if these happen to be the strongest.* There is to be no barrier against rebellion in the public conscience, or in the solemn deci sions and penalties of the law. Minor dis orders, single cases of murder and robbery, street-mobs, are to be treated with all the formality of law, with a strict view to maintaining the moral sentiment of the community; but when all crimes are organ ized into one, and when the attempt is made by thousands of intelligent responsi ble agents to break doln all law, then the offence is to be treated as if no moral ele ment was involved in it, as if it were a mere natural evil, no more to be punished than the boisterous waves of the Hellespont should have been for hindering the pro ()Tess of Xerxes. All we have to do with it, is to treat it like a flood, to sweep it back, to dike it out if we can, and to thank God for it when it is done. Had the rebellion succeeded, and had the fair fabric of liberty erected by our fathers been subverted and replaced by an odious slavocracy, binding the fetters more closely on the necks of four millions of men, and putting contempt upon the memory of a quarter of. a million of new martyrs for American liberty, still there would, have been no crime committed. Success, indeed, would, to a very considerable and an almost excusable extent, have blinded and bewilder ed the consciences of men; but would even success have much more misled and per verted the judgments of men, than our treat ment of failure is doing? Men, who re joice at the elevation of General Lee to the presidency of a college, make substantially the same impression upon the public con science with men who deplore his humilia tion at Amelia Court Rouse. And if treason is not a crime, where was the honor, the nobleness, the virtue of op posing it ? What right had we to lay the duty of opposing it, with all the great and solemn sanctions of religion, upon the hearts of our youth ? How can we look into the pale faces of orphaned children, childless parents and broken-hearted widows, whose fathers, whose sons, and whose husbands we encouraged to go and mingle in the deadly fray, as we would have encouraged martyrs to go to the stake ? We would not have dared to lay such responsibilities upon them in a strife for mere material interests apart from all principle. Above all, what security against the re petition of the offence have we in the fu ture ? It is only a mistake, a blunder, a failure which is to be attributed to the South. Whatever their consciences may have objected before or during the attempt * In Ciirlye's very immoral History of Fred eric the Great, he lays down a political princi ple corrupt enough to be quoted in this connec tion :—" The only real treaties are a well trained army, and your treasury full." THEN? 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The Southern people are showering honors upon their late rebel leaders, electing them to high literary positions, making them legislators, gover nors, and even Congressmen; and we might just as well as not prepare to see them pre sent one of their own number, in due season, and with the calmest kind of effrontery, among the candidates for the next Presi dential term. The Southern churches, re taining their distinct organizations, encour aged now by the attitude of the North on rebellion, as they formerly were in regard to the Scripturalness of slavery, will render their combined and powerful aid to quiet the Southern conscience, and indeed to nurse a sense of the holiness of the cause in which they were enlisted, and to keep alive the hope of success in another effort. How bold is the Southern Church in these efforts, may be seen from its recent demonstrations in the Episcopal Convention, and in certain Synods of the other branch of the Presby terian Church. It not only teaches its people at home that they have done no wrong, but it demands that the whole Northern Church shall recogniie and teach the same doctrine, as the only condition on which it will resume its former ecclesiasti cal relations with us. Thus, not only is the terrible perversion of the Southern con science tobe perpetuated, but the conscience of the North also is to be debauched to the admission that the South has done no wrong in the sight of God or man, and needs no repentance. Without doubt, the recent rebellion is utterly crushed, and it will be many a year .before a second attempt is made by those now smarting under the bitterness of their failure. But the mortification of failure and the sense of pecuniary loss are feelings not too deep for the lapse of time to obliterate. If the judgment of the Na tional conscience that rebellion is one of the greatest . of crimes is not solemnly put upon record and illustrated by some signal judicial act ; if the Government is to appear utterly oblivious of such criminality in its treatment of the rebel leaders; if the whole North is to welcome back to an equality in every civil, commercial, ecclesiastical, and social relation, the Southern people, as en tirely worthy of our confidence and respect; if the idea of Providential failure in a good' cause, of martyrdom in fact, is thus to be encouraged in the Southern mind, and hon ors-of every kind are •to be heaped upon rebel leaders living and dead ; in short, if not law, and the moral sense, but 'ONLY FORCE is to be arrayed against even ,the least justifiable and bloodiest of rebellions, then its spirit will ,not die. - Guarded in the palladium of public opinion, it will live —it will maintain respectability and Fes age in spite of temporary ill success; it will bide its time, and in another unex pected moment it will burst forth more vir ulent than ever; and as we suffered the penalty of our forefathers' Constitutional and well-meant toleration of slavery, so our posterity will expiate, in tears and blood, if not in National ruin, our easy and unpar donable lenity to the crime which has nearly undone us. PROCLIVITIES OF TREASON.—It has all along been curious to observe the read iness with which - traitors, when they have passed over the St. Lawrence, betake themselves to *the sympathies and insti tutions of Itornanism. A Montreal cor respondent of La Canadien, is responsible for the following : " The children of Jefferson Davis have been for some time in Canada, as is well known. The two boys are just now in Chambly, and about to enter Lennoxville College. The young girl, nine years of age, is a pupil at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Sauk au Re callets. Last Sabbath several Southern refu gees went to see her. They brought with them the Federal General Cochrane, whom they introduced to the girl , ‘ telling her that he was a good friend of the Southern cause, although circumstances constrained him to fight in the ranks of its enemies. The child, looking to the General, answered, `I shall be lieve that you are one of the friends of the cause when you shall have obtained the re lease of my father.' The General was deeply moved with this answer, and promised the child to use all his influence on behalf of Mr. Jefferson Davis. General Cochrane, who, I believe, occupies an official position in the United' States, visited yesterday the magnifi cent establishment of the Hotel Dieu. He was so highly pleased with his visit that he begged leave from the good sisters to present them a picture for their Church, which he is to forward them from New York."
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