THE RELIMIIS WORD HIND
GREAT BRITAIN.
The Revival Movement,—The " Open
Air 11Ession" organization reports for the
four months, in addition to the ordinary
street preaching, the visitation of twenty
three races, thirteen fairs, two executions,
and ~-three other special gatherings. The
secretary had, during the same period,
preached at twenty-four different places in
London and twenty-eight in the country.
The spirit of hearing was as good as ever.
Opposition from the Romanists was becom
ing less audacious, but in some localities
about London, that from infidels had in
creased.—At Bradford an interesting work
is in progress, the leading instrument bein g
Joshua Poole, formerly a dissipated charac
ter, but now earnestly at work among his
former vicious associates, to lead them to
Christ. He has with him his wife as a co
worker, her labors being confined chiefly to
her own sex.. The hall in which the meet
ings are held is crowded, and souls are
.
brought to Jesus every night Fighters and
other low characters come to hear what
Joshua Poole has to say, and remarkable in
stances are recorded of those who come to
scoff, returning to pray. Some abandoned
females are among the number .who evince
the deepest contrition,. and have hope in
Christ. —Mrs. Daniell writes from the Mis
sion Hall in Aldershott, that, for the year
past, God has wrought wondrously among the
soldiers, and that he is working Still. During
the month of September very many had been
awakened and brought to Jesus—officers,
ladies and men all sharing in the showers of
his blessed grace.—At the Brimingham
Onion Fair, attended by thousands, Mr.
'Usher disposed of about one thousand copies
of the Bible, preached Christ for three days
to the wicked ones assembled, and had glori
ous testimonies that God owns and blesses his
work.:Some who professed Christ last year,
came forward and stated that they dated
their conversion from the preaching at his
Bible stall at the last year's fair. —An ex
perience -meeting was lately held at the Cow
Cross Mission, Clerkenwell, a part of London
chiefly occupied by costermongers, drovers,
and slaughtermen, mostly very poor, though
not eminently vicious. Forty were present.
Among them wAs the reporter of a local
paper, who first attended the meeting for the
purpose of taking notes. At the meeting
just mentioned, he took the platform, and
said:—" Dear peoble, look at me. I.have
been a disciple of. Iconoclast.' I have read
greedily the works of 'Hume and Paine ; but
I must say, the simple, but forcible testimony
from one and 'another in this ball to-night
has made such an impression on me, I can
and do say, that I see the plan of salvation
now ; and, God helping me, from to-night
-here—now, I do believe in Christ, and mean
to live for Him, and Him alone."
At Liecester a meeting of great interest has
been held in the circus—about three thou
sand present—about twenty hopnfully con
verted the first evening, and a mighty work
expected. Interesting accounts come also
from Nottingham, Derbyshire, Ipswich,
Stowmarket, Islington, and more places than
we can well mention.
In Scotland, several preachers held open
air meetings in connection with the annual
cattle show in Inverness. Banners, with
Scripture texts, were borne about the streets.
Tile same company afterwards visited Elgin,
Aberdeen, Dundee, and several other places,
attended, in all cases, with the blessing of
God. Their last report is from Glasgow,
where, say they, " hundreds of precious souls
have been brought to Christ during the past
three months,. as different laborers have been
engaged in ths great work."
A Nobleman at an Open-Air Meeting.—
A Scotch paper says:—" On Sabbath Fast,
evangelistic services were held on the Mar
ket-green of Keith. Rev. Mr. Forres
ter, who presided, °petted the services
with praise . and prayer. The Earl of
Kintore then addressed the meeting from
Luke xis. 1-10. He spoke of the call
to Zaccheus as a sovereign call, an awa
kening call, an humbling call, a constraining
call, and an abiding call. Each of these
thoughts was beautifully and impressively
illustrated. Some anecdotes were told with
thrilling effect, and the people listened with
great interest and evident impression." On
the evening of the same day, in the United
Presbyterian Church, after regular preaching
by Mr. Fullarton, "Lord Kintore again gave
an address from these words, ' His blood be
upon us and our children.' This address,
like the former, was simple, and beautiful,
and very impressive."
Temperance.—ln a highly interesting re
port of - God's gracious work at the Free Tab
ernacle, Notting Hill, it is said :—"I cannot
dismiss this part of our report, without xe
ferring to a great power for good that God
hath given us. I mean unswerving identity
with total abstinence. Stalking with giant
strides, guarded by legislative enactment,
daring to claim respectability, the liquor
traffic is destroying more souls and blasting
more fair prospects than united Christian
effort doth to save ; and so long as God gives
me,being, no worldly policy shall stay my
voice against its condemnation. Few churches
but are silenced by the guilty share that dea
cons, influential members, brewers, and dis
tillers have over them concerning this sin.
Thank God, we are free. We can spare
men, if our faithfulness offends them; let
them go. But the drink traffic, common
enemy of God and man, we'll spare it never.
Great Father, help us to be faithful against
this and every form of sin."
Evangelical Alliance—British Branch.
—The Anniversary was held at Hull, com
mencing September 26 2 and was marked by
the harmony and practical shape of its pro
ceedings. Rev. Dr. Blackwood, rector of
Middleton Tyas l •presided, and delivered the
annual address, in the course of which he took
occasion to remark The pertinent ques
tion for them seemed to be, not what were
they going 'to do, but what was the present
condition of their prime purpose of Christian
union? Were churches or denominations be
coming more or less selfishly sectarian, more
or less generously catholic, etc? After con
sidering this point at some length, the rever
end doctor observed that the question still
cropped up, whether something of more
directs and visible Catholic effort could not
now be attempted than.has yet been attained
to. He besou_ght their 'especial attention to
this remark : Is it possible to get the branches
of the Church visible, or at least many of
them;_ to confer together in one, and to act
unitedly for the promotion of objects in
which they are all agreed? If this proved
practicable, as he ventured to hope it might,
would not such united action be more power
ful by far than that of individuals united in
the Alliance?"
The annual report stated that, since the
last Conference, .120 members had been
reeeived by the Committee in London
—2B of them being ministers of the Gos
pel connected with evangelical denomina
tions, including 10 of the Church of England.
Reference was made to the very ; general
observance of the week of prayer at the open
ing of the year, throughout the Christian
world, and to the great results of good which
had followed. In one instance, in India,
from 150 to 200 conversions were report as
the evident fruit of the meetings. It was
stated that the services, of the Alliance had
been especially benefeiel in securing religious
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30 1865.
liberty. The Constantinople case was cited ;
also the case of a Swiss, from whose house ,
five children had been carried away, because
the parents declined having the youngest
baptized according to papal form. They have
subsequently been restored to their home.
Cases in other parts of the world were also
spoken of.
H. Battersby, M. A. of the
Rev. T. D.
English Church, delivered an address on
"The P r ivileges of Believers, and the Need
of a Stronger Faith to obtain Mightier Re
sults." He concluded with an earnest ex
hortation, the key note of which was: "Let
us exEect more, and we shall get more."
Rev Dr. McCosh, of Queen's College, Bel
fast, read an address on the Broad and Narrow
Church in all Denominations. Much time
was devoted to the progress of the work of
God in foreign countries, and also to the
securing of religious liberty in those countries.
The proposed *Fifth General Conference of
Christians of All Nations, to be held in Hol
land next year was warmly endorsed.
The closing session was held on the even
ing of the 29th, when Rev. T. R. Birks,
Rector of Kelsball, addressed the meeting on
" The Duty of Every Church to conduct its
Evangelical Labors in a Spirit of Charity,
Forbearance, and Kindly Appreciation toward
All Other Christians." Rev. Eustace Con
der, of Leeds, spoke of the Alliance as at
once creating and bringing out the sentiment
of Christian Union. Pastor Beskow. of
Stockholm, spoke for his country, and Rev.
J. Gostick, of Hull, congratulated himself
and his fellow townsmen on the presence of
the Conference. The closing address was
from Lord Radstock.
English United Presbyterian Synod.—
We have before mentioned the existence in
England of two distinct bodies of Presby
terians—the one the English Presbyterian
Church, a purely English organization, and
the other the United Presbyterian Church in
England, which maintains an ecclesiastical
relation with the United Presbyterian Church
in Scotland, and is largely aided from its
Domestic missionary funds. Each of these
churohes has an English Synod, in both of
which bodies a desire for an ecclesiastical
amalgamation has, to more or less extent,
existed. The subject came up in the meet
ing of the English United Presbyterian Sy
nod in October, and after consideration, a'
resolution was adopted to. the effect that
while the proposed union was very desirable,
and all prudent means should be used to
effect it, no such separation from the United
Presbyterian Church in Scotland as the Eng
lish Presbyterian Church. desired could be
entertained as a preliminary to the union.
Archbishop Trench on Revivals.—The
new Archbishop of Dublin has recently de
livered, in the dioceses of his province, his,
first triennial charge, in the course of which
he says :—" Some special servicts had found
place during the year; for, indeed, it had
always seemed to him that, where the pro
moters of so-called revivals erred, was not so
much in the premises they started from, as
in the methods they used to draw conclusions
from these premises. Then only there was
mischief when the means employed for the
reviving of a flagging interest in spiritual
, things became merely sensational appeals to
the feelings. In themselves, revivals pre
sented themselves to him as good and profit
able. With these convictions he had ventur
ed upon an eight days of special services in
the summer of last year, taking Bray for a
centre, and including, so far as possible, the
neighboring parishes in the scheme. During
this period sixteen sermons were preached in
the churches of Bray ; the holy communion
was celebrated daily, and at the four early
communions addresses to the communicants I
delivered. n the surrounding churches
seventeen sermons were preached: Besides
this, two numerously attended conferences of
the clergy, both within and without the dio
cese, were held during the week. The work
at Bray had so many encouraging features
about it, that he trusted next year to repeat
the experiment in some other part of the dio
cese."
Other Irish Items.—The threatened sup
pression of lotteries for Romish chapels has
not been carried out. This species of church
gambling is advancing at a rate which threat
ens to demoralize and impoverish the popu
lation.—The Magee College in London
derry has been opened with a public festival,
which, with the bazaar, netted near £lOOO to
furnish and equip the building. Addresses
were delivered by the Moderator of the Gen
eral Assembly, Mr. Gibson, Trustee, and
Rev. Dr. Dill, the President.—The Irish
Presbyterian Church observed the third Wed
nesdhy in October as a day of special prayer
for their students in school or college, and
for thanksgiving after a bountiful harvest.
FRANCE.
Moderating Tendencies in the Franco-
Papal Church.—The Paris correspondent of
the Christian Work speaks of " a movement
among the deep thinkers of Romanism to
wards union of heart with believers in reve
lation, belonging to other forms of church
government." This feeling finds expression
in the phrase, "The times of St. Peter, and
of St. Paul are passed ; now is the time of
St. John." They look upon the G-allican
Church as being, despite of its traditional
impassibleness, on the eve of some great in
ternal change, and the question arises whether,
if saved at all, or if religion in any form be.
saved to the Empire, it must not be done in
dependent of the Papacy—whether, in the
revival of atheism, the inter-Christian senti
ment should not be one of love, instead of
hate; condentration, rather than dispersion.
A moiety of this feeling is imputed even to
the Archbishop of Paris. On a recent public
occasion, if correctly reported, he expressed
remarkably liberal views, desiring his clergy
to rise to the level of the age, in order to
bring it to the doctrines of faith; to put aside
prejudice, and avoid misunderstandings , and
exaggeration. This speech has intensified
the previously existing hostility of the Jesu
itical faction towards him.
In the meantime, the ultra-montane party,
with their usual insiine . disregard of the popu
lar discernment, continue crowning statues,
fabricating miracles, casting firebrands of
hate right and left, and keeping time with
the follies and excesses of the Pope. Thus
the Bishop of Metz has published, with much
parade, the account of a recent miracle wrought
by the _Holy Sacrament—no less than the
instantaneous cure of a paralyzed young girl,
who, in her great faith in the real presence in
the eucharist, was, at her earnest entreaty,
carried to the cathedral, where, for three
hours, she knelt before 'the Holy Sacrament,
and prayed with yeat fervor. Then, sud
denly exclaiming, "Tam cured ! lam cured!"
she rose and walked with as much ease as
any other person. Of course the Bishop's
story has believers, but, even in the church,
the number is increasing who shake their
heads, and ask why it generally happens that
the subjects of such miracles are young girls,
notional about ailments, and of excitable
imagination. Still others give indistinct
mutterings about wholesale fabrications.
Atheistical Spcieties and Tendencies.—
On the other extreme, the pure Gospel is be
set with openly infidel and Irreligious organi
zations, such as the Solidaires and Inbres
Penseurs, who abjure all religious rite and
dogma, and who take an oath that they and
their offspring shall belong to no church, and
call in the ministry of no priest in life or in
death. Independent Moralists are of tho,se,
who violently contend, by word and by press,
that morals are, and should be kept, indepen
dent of all religious faith. At the Bern Con
gress, Dr. Ed. de Pressense gave these men a
desperate thrust, the keenness of which was
shown by the tremendous uproar which an
swered it. They have lately created an organ
in Paris to propagate morals without God.
In the religion of the future, towards which the
world is striding, and whose shape is dimly
shadowing in the distance, the followers of
Jesus will probably be persecuted, not as in
times past, as revolutionists turning the
world upside down, but as narrow-minded op 2
posers to liberty. The spirit of hate is rife.
All things are boiling up in the T eething caul
dron.
A New Sect.—The Work has the account
of a sect in the , south, originated by a Chris
tian woman of warm affections and imagina
tion, slender education, and little judgment.
The persons who follow her consider her to be
one of those of whom the Prophet Joel speaks
as to prophecy in the latter times. To a
blameless life they have added works of active
charity, and their crude theological theories
and undoubted errors do not seem to over
balance their Christianity; they are known
by the name of Hinchites, from their fonn
dress—an appellation which they repudiate.
GERMANY.
General Meeting of the Gustavus Adol
phus Society.—This association, one of the
most influential instrumentalities for the ex
tension of evangelical religion throughout all
the German countries, met in Dresden on
the sth of September. The meeting is pro
nounced by a Frankfort correspondent of
the Evangelical Christendom., as one of the
most remarkable in the whole history of its
anniversaries. The important increase in its
means, - ite missions, and its efficiency, con
stituted no mean element in the interest of
the occasion. Thus, while in 1864, six hun
dred and seventy churches had been assisted,
to the extent of 179,000 thalers,
this year
195,600 thalers have been distributed among
seven hundred and twenty-three churches.
The auxiliary societies have increased by
seventeen, as well as by seventeen ladies'. as
sociations. The societies founded among the
students of universities are also in progress,
as also are the donations collected by the
children of the schools. Places whe. e Pro
testant churches are on sufferance, and in
behalf of which the society was chiefly
founded, now count it an honor to contribute
to the funds of the institution in aid of
others. As it regards the results obtained in
the course of the year, the report makes
mention of the inauguration of twenty-one
churches, built, for the most part, at the cost
of the society. Many others are in process
of erection. Moreover, the first steps have
been taken for augmenting the salary of a
large number of Bohemian and Moravian
pastors, who suffer all the privations of
poverty,aas well as to ensure relief for the
widows and orphans of such.
A considerable portion of the time of two
days was occupied in listening to addresses
from the delegates of auxiliary societes, de
picting the needs and general condition of
the communities represented by them, scat
tered over all parts of Europe, and even in
Africa and America. These are usually a
feature of high interest in the meetings of
the societies, each speaker being a living
witness of the vastness of the enterprise.
This year their number was so great, that,
althoughbut ten minutes was allowed to each,
only about one-half of those set down could
be heard.
Sabbath Movement. —ln some of the ag
ricultural districts, the Sabbath rest allowed
to laborers is limited to a few hours for at
tendance on public worship. An address has
recently been circulated among the proprietors
of estates in the neighborhood of Berlin, in
order to obtain for agricultural laborers a full
opportunity to keep holy the Lord's day. It.
is signed by sixty-four proprietors of great
estates—among them some of the best names
of the Prussian nobility, men known for their
personal piety, and also men holding high
political offices. Another measure—an offi
cial order by the Government at Berlin, gives
great satisfaction to the friends of the- Sab
bath. It suppresses, after the first of next
April, the so-called Sunday-schools—not
Christian Sabbath-schools, but schools held
on the Sabbath for imparting purely secular
instruction, and held at the usual hour for
Divine service.
Hospitals, Institutions for the Sick and
Needy, and Protestant Deaconesses, are
making good progress in 'Germany. The
increase of the latter from 1861 to 1864, was
3 " mother houses," nearly 400 deaconesses,
and 106 stations, making the numbers re
spectively 22, 1600, and 386. Their present
annual income, foreign stations included, is
about 350,000 thalers. The late Dr. Flied
ner was a very efficient agent in securing
these supplies. The Berlin writer, befote
mentioned, sags of him, that he deviated
somewhat from his fellow-countrymen in his
methods—he was a thorough beggar. Our
German brethren are much too delicate on
this point. They deem it sufficient to state
a case publicly, and leave it to do its own
work; forgetting how many are slow to con
sider, and feel, and act; and that no greater
favor can be conferred on such people than to
awaken or even pester them into giving.' As
a gentleman, occupying one of the highest
positions in Prussia, said not long ago, No
body was offended with Pastor Fliedner fot
begging so hard."
General Meeting of Roman Catholic
i Societies at Tre*es.—This took place in
September. The meeting was an assembly
of delegates from numerous associations of
Catholics for the promotion of the charitable
interests of their Church. It is held yearly
for • common conference. The attendaiia
this year was large. One sitting was devoted
to the press. In spite of all the efforts of
these societies, it is a notorious fact that the
political press of Germany is but little favor
able to Ultramontane Catholicism, even in'the
Catholic States. A scheme has been on foot
to found at Frankfort a central office for the
Catholic press. To the dismay of the meet
ing, their Committee reported that the pro
ject must be given up. Interest, money,
writers, and everything else required, was
wanting. The Church and School question
was also a prominent one. Little, however,
could be done, except to reiterate the chronic
grievance that, while the state enforced the
instruction of all children, the public schools
were under the direction and influence of the
Protestant Church, leaving as their dilemma,
either to place• their children under. Protes
tant teaching, or to sustain teachers out of
their private means. It also appeared, from
an extended report, that the prospect of real
izing another cherished prospect, that of
founding a German Catholic University, is
decidedly poor. In the course of the meet
ing, Dr. Cramer, of Amsterdam, made an
energetic appeal in behalt of the Roman loan.
`,` I have been convinced at Rome," he said,
" that the temporal power of the Pope is in
thegreatest danger, unless the finances of
the Holy Father are powerfully supported by
all Catholics."
Deaths.—Prussia has recently lost two,
eminent and useful men—Dr. Niedner, Pro
fessor of Church History successively in
Leipzig, Wittenberg, and Berlin, who died
at the age of 68, and Stuler, a Christian ar
chitect, the author of the plans of some two
hundred churches. Carl Von Raumer, the
author of an extensively-read work on Pales
tine,and a valuable contributor to the evan
gelical theological literature of Germany, is
among the recent dead.
ITALY.
The Trying Time.—ln connection with
the great political changes which gave birth
to the Italian kingdom, there were obvious
reasons why the cause of evangelical religion,
as the best known counter-influence to the
papacy, should enjoy a public favor which
would be of uncertain continuance. The
anti-papal sentiment, so far as it was unsanc
tifted, and merely political, would be likely to
find other objects more congenial to the de
praved heart. Symptoms of this appear in
the following extract from the report of the
evangelist at Carrara, communicated by Rev.
E. E. Hall, the American and Foreign Chris
tian Union's well known superintendent at
Florence, to the Christian World. "The
most powerful enemies of the Gospel do not
appear to be Catholics, but the consequences
of Catholicism ; that is to say, indifference,
incredulity, practical atheism, rationalism,
and the great number of vices to which
Roman Catholics are addicted. It appears to
be our duty to sow the seed of Divine truth
with a diligent hand, in the hope that, with
the blessing of God, it will hereafter bring
forth fruit. As almost all the Italians are
indifferent, or superstitious and immoral, our
efforts ought to be directed to the religious
instruction of the children. The present will
be the time for sowing the word of truth, and
the next generation will gather the beautiful
fruits of the Gospel."
This pressure upon evangelism from the
counter side does not imply the lessening of
Roman Catholic persecution. The material
power still remaining in the hands of the lat
ter, may be judged from the following exhibit
d by Mr. Hall as copied from a pub
lic statement. "In Italy there are 84 re
ligious orders; of which 80 are possessed of
property, and 4 are begging friars or nuns.
The 80 orders occupy 1724 religious houses,
valued at 40,000,000 francs; the four beg
ging orders occupy 658 buildings. There are
1506 monasteries, which contain 15,494 cleri
cal, and 4,466 lay members; a total of 19,960.
There are 876 convents, which contain 25,869
occupants, of whom 18,198 are professed
nuns, 7,671 lay sisters. Of the total 45,829
friars and nuns, there are about 20,000 who
beg. The income of the orders possessing
property amounts,
according to official re
turns, to 16,216,642 francs, of which 7,049,463
francs are from land rents, 2,129,067 francs
from houses, 868,813 francs from money
variously invested, 5,453,213 francs from land
mortgages, and 710,386 francs from the pub
lic funds. The church in Italy possesses an
annual income of 76,266,766 francs ; and that
sum, if capitalized at the rate of 4 per cent.,
gives the enormous total of 1,906,669,400
francs. This statement I believe, does not
include that portion of Italy still under Papal
rule. When the bill for the abolition of re
ligious houses is passed, as it doubtless will
be this winter, the number of these drones
will not be increased, and probably many of
them will be driven from their hives, and
obliged to submit their.necks to the common
yoke of labor, as a means of living."
The Political Contest.—A brisk election-.
eering campaipn for a new Italian legislature
has been in progress. The issue is substan
tially between the old ideas of the Papal su
premacy, and a free catholicism. In the last
election, the policy of the Papal party was
non-interference. The government of Victor
Emanuel was a sacrilege, the Italian king
dom was a robbery of the rights of the holy,
the king was excommunicated and the king
dom accursed, and all good Catholics should
wash their hands of any participation in a
sacrilegious government. So they left the
State in the hands of the Liberals. But the.
prospect of a sweeping off of the revenues of
the idle orders in the church has roused them
to a desperate effort for the control of the
legislative department. So Italy has become
the scene of a fierce electioneering contest.
• The platform of the anti-Papal party, as de
fined by one of its champion candidates, the
excommunicated Canon Lusebis Reali, is as
follows :
"1. The power of the clergy is not a poli
tical or juridical power, but one exclusively
moral.
The territorial domination of the head
of the Church is a violation of liberty of con
science, and with it of all civil liberties.
"3. Ecclesiastical properties cannot be con
sidered as privileged possessions.
"4. Moral corporations in which the bond
of union is exclusively religious cannofreceive
juridical sanction, nor consequently a recog
nition of civil existence.
"5. Science,
.theology included, cannot be
the monopoly of a caste or of any authority
whatever, least of all, of the ecclesiastical au
thority.
" Before the eyes of the State the- priest
should disappear, and only the citizen be re
cognized."
This declaration of principles may be taken
as a specimen of the mode of thinking on ec
clesiastical questions which, in' this election
crisis, is prevailing amongst the liberal popu
lar, and not atheistic section of theltalian
politicians. Our readers are aware that the
anti-papal party was overwhelmingly success
ful.
TURKEY.
A Strange But Important Movement.--
The Koran was originally written in Arabic—
not the present spoken Arabic, but the most
beautiful Arabic of the past, and by the com
mon consent of all good Mussulmans,
it has
been held a most sacred obligation to pre
serve it exclusively in that version, and hence
a sacrilege to attempt its reproduction in the
common language of the people. This fact
imparts meaning and interest to the follow
ing sentences from a Constantinople letter to
the Evangelical Christendom :
" The American missionaries have actually
been advised by Turks of the new school (who
are really infidels, and no more Christians
than they are Mussulmans) to translate the
Koran into common Turkish, and print it for
circulation, as a sure means of destroyin its
sanctity in the eyes of the people. What
they declined to do, the Imperial Govern
ment has now done officially. By order of the
highest authorities, the Koran has been
translated into Turkish, and has just been is
sued from the Government printing estab
lishment. It is a strange and unaccountable
step. I understand that Ethem Pasha, who
ordered the execution of the work, was ques
tioned about it the other day, and replied that
its translation had become a necessity. The
Protestants had begun to circulate the Bible
among the people in their own language, and
as a means of self-defence, they could do no
thing less than give the people the Koran.
We can ask nothing better than this. Let
the people have the Koran. Let them read
inside by side with the ißible. Let them
compare the two and judge between them. It
will not require great learning or skill to de
cide which is the Word of God speaking to
the soul, and which is the work of man."
The Protestant Community.t-Ghazaros
Effendi has received the appointment of
Vakeel, or Civil Head of the Protestant Com
munity, filling a vacancy created by the death
of his immediate predecessor. The new
Vakeel was educated in the school of the
American mission at Bebek, was for some
years a teacher there, and was afterwards in
the employ of the Church Missionary Society.
During the Crimean war he held an import
ant post in the English army as dragoman,
and for several years he was the secretary and
de facto head of the Protestant civil commu
nity. No doubt is entertained of an iutprove
ment in the administration of the affairs of
the Protestants from this appointment. In
several pashalics where they have hitherto
been subjected to great annoyance and out
rage, protection is now enforced.
INDIA,
Deeline of Caste.—The Calcutta " Brah
mf, Samaj," a Hindoo Reform Society, con
tains a conservative and a radical party—the
first being for compromise, and opposed to
any decisive action against caste, lest the shock
should prejudice the Hindoo mind, while the
other were for the boldest type of reform. A
recent marriage of parties of different caste,
under the auspices of the radical wing, brow ht
the two parties into ripen collision. The
radicals also proposed that no one who recog
nizes caste, should henceforward take a lead
ing part in the divine services of the Samaj.
The conservatives were resolute in opposition
to these measures. Both parties were strong
in the character and influence of their mem
bers, but the trustees, who were invested
with the legal authority by the late Rajah
Ram Mohun Roy, the founder of the Society,
all belonged to the e conservatives, and they
closed the contest, so far as it was an internal
one, by clearing the Samaj of' all the radicals
who proved inveterate. But even this sum
mary disposal of the question in the Society
is expected to awaken fresh discussion, and
give impetus to the reform in the outside
circles.
MISSIONARY ITEMS
The American Baptist Missionary, Dr.
Kincaid, has bid farewell to Burmah, after a
residence there of thirty-five years.' He has
been a worthy successor of Judson. It is sad
to see so many of the grand old missionaries
—Duff, Mackay, Anderson, Winslow, Ewart,
Kincaid, taken away from India by sickness
or death.—The London Missionary Socie
ty's mission at Amoy report's an addition,
within six months, of thirty-three members
to the native churches. This makes a total,
within the city, And surrounding stations, of
413 native Chinete members,—Rev. Albert
Bushnell, missionary of the American Board,
writes from the G-aboon, West Africa mis
sion :—" Our congregations are generally
pretty good and attentive, and our schools
are prosperous. I have a class of religious
inquirers, numbering about twenty persons,
and from this number occasionally one or
more persons are baptized and received to
the Church. lam now engaged in translat
ing the Epistles, and have already finished
thirteen of them."—Rev. W. Ellis arrived
in London last month from Madagascar. He
gives a most encouraging account of the
spread of Christianity among the people of
Antananarivo. Notwithstanding the reports
of political disturbance which have since ar
rived, he has firm confidence in the stability
of the present government. He regards the
recent treaty between the British and Mada
gascar governments, as securing civil and re
ligious freedom to both the native Christians
and the missionaries.—The John Williams,
the seventh missionary ship owned by the
London Missionary Society, was launched at
Aberdeen on the sth ult. The ship having
been built and paid for by subscriptions in
the Sabbath-schools throughout the king
dom, a peculiar interest attached to the
launch.—The contributions of the poor in
habitants of Savage Island, Polynesia, (pop
ulation 5,000) to the London Missionary So
ciety for general objects and the new ship,
amount, this year, to £324. Towards this sum
the children alone raised nearly 10,000 pounds
of cocoa-nut fibre. Liberal subscriptions have
also been forwarded from other islands.
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