THE NEW YORK PULPIT ON THANKS
Gil ING,
Readers in this vicinity have perpaps been
so fully informed in regard to the celebration
of Thanksgiving in Philadelphia, and the
deliverances of our city pulpits, that a glance
at the utterances of the ministry of our sister
city would be more interesting to them. We
accordingly give extracts from sermons as we
find them reported in the Times and Tribune.
In these reports we miss the names of some
of our particular friends as Drs. Prentiss and
Booth, whose sentiments would doubtless
have been well worthy of a report.
MR. HENRY WARD BEECHER.
Text: GENESIS ix. 11-16.—}low seldom
do nations gain the ends for which they
went to war I It was from such considera
tions that our very friends, in other lands,
judging from the f r uitlessness of most
uropean wars, dissuaded us from confict.
But we have gained the very ends for which
we lifted our banner! For a nation's life we
went to war. lire bring hack that life in full
power. Orpheus brought fbrth his spouse
from the horrid region of the dead to life and
love. Not ours his charming lyre that put
all guards asleep ; but with fife and drum,
and huge artillery, we marched through the
fiery realm of war to redeem and bring back
our lost companions, and we - have brought
them! Nor is it unworthy of remark that
every
wa r in which this people have em
barked has gained the very end for which
the war set out. The power of the French
was broken_ and the Indians were subdued in
our colonial history. We also gained that
political independence for which our revolu
tionary• struggle was begun. And, in the
war of 1812, our desired point was attained ;
the war was followed by a totally different
policy on the part of Great Britain. Although
little was conceeded in doctrine, yet the cus
toms of the sea were changed from that
period. Just so now, this same Power, re
fusing in terms to concede anything to diplo
macy7--will inevitably, kindly change her
practice, and bye-and -bye establish it as ex
emplary law.
Nor do I conceal from myself how
nearly we came to a gulph, whose depths no
line of past experience is long enough to
measure. When I consider the elements at
work and all the probabilities that, by threat
of war, the South would make peace and
union upon the basis of a reformed constitu
tion, nationalizing slavery, and putting at a,
hopeless distance the day of universal eman
cipation, I confess myself to be impressed
with God's immediate interposition in saving
us from so great a peril. 1 can scarcely see
how we escaped it. It was not by man's
plan, certainly. In the sudden rage of the
people, when the flag was fired on, the unex
pected powerlessness of the Northern sym
pathizers with Southern treason; the grow
ing moral tone of the loyal States.; the unex
pected patriotism of commerce ; the wonder
ful resolution gathered from defeat, and the
solemn and awful purpose to which at length
the North came, to sacrifice everything on
earth rather than yield to slavery, are proofs
and memorials of Divine Providence in
human affairs. As a consequence of this
mighty upheaval and national indignation,
old prejudices sunk; selfishness and super
stition gave place, and men began to feel the
claims of justice, and by their Magistrate
proclaimed liberty to four million slaves.
But, as if moved by a Divine impulse to clear
their skirts of- this sin, they ordained a pur
gation of the constitution itself.
Mr. Beecher includes not only the colo'red
race, but woman in the policy of universal
suffrage which he advocated in this sermon,
—a sentiment which was received with
" moderate applause" according to the re
porter. The following telling comparison
was introduced towards the close.:—
I have an etching at home of which I am
now reminded. his a picture of a de?d boar,
near whom\ are two great dogs—in at the
death. The boar lies in the stiffness of un
mistakable death. He is dead in the eye,
dead in the snout, dead in his limbs, dead all
over. One of the mastiffs stands at a little
distance distrustful and apprehensive—his
eye never leaves the carcass of his ancient
enemy, and he trembles at every disturbance
of his hair by the playful wind ; the other
dog is stretched upon the grass, his nose rest
ing upon his paws, and his eyes closed as if
in sleep, but a careful observation shows that
he keeps one eye just enough open to enable
him to watch the dead body before lath, in
whose'death he is as but a doubtful be
liever. Just so there are people who don't
believe in the death of slavery. Dead !
Why, it's dead in eye, in snout, in body and
limb, in every hair and fibre of frame, and
yet they watch, and fear, and grumble.
[Tremendous applause.]
Watch, mastiffs, watch, but there is no
resurrection for slavery.
REV. DR. BURCHARD, (THIRTEENTH STREET
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.)
Teat: PSALM CXXVI. 3.—We regard the
elective franchise as a trust to be com
mitted to the worthy, irrespective of color.
God, by the fiery ordeal through which we
have passed, has been teaching us to re
spect humanity, to regard man as man,
irrespective of the color of his skin. And if
any should be perrnitted to show themselves
men a the polls, it is those who have proved
themselves to be men on the battle-field, who,
when their country was in peril offered them
selves to fight, and, if' need be, to die for its
rescue. Who shall say that these shall be
deprived of the privilege of a vote, when
through corrupt • and unprincipled dema
gogues their country shall again be in peril?
Upon the sober, the ,industrious, the intelli
gent, or to be more specific upon property
_holders, and upon such as can read and write,
I would confer the privilege of the elective
franchise—
" A weapon that comes down as still as snow-flakes
fall upon the sod,
And executes a freeman's will, as lightnings do the
will of God."
I am sure we can do nothing lesS' than this,
if we follow the teachings of Providence and
act in harmony with God in his work of re
deeming this nation from the threatening
perils which environed her. .
In a most important sense, it may be re
garded as God's war for the salvation of the
nation. It has bin carried forward under
his auspices, and with a prayerful recognition
of His hand. It plosed in devout thanksgiv ;
ing and praise. See how, on hearing of *the ;
fall of Richmond,, the masses, in our most
business thoroughfare assembled, at midday,
to sing, as in one great anthem the Doxology :
"Praise God Irani whom all blessings flow."
Infidelity, wide-spread and desolating, has
usually followed in the track of the burning
chariots of war. It was so after the war of
the Revolution, and after the war of 1812.
It is not so now. Soldiers are coming in
scores from the camp and the field to join the
army of Christ. The war has been to
thousands a lasi* benediction, opening ears
long deaf to the gracious proffers of salvation.
It has lighted the fires of reliziow3 faith by
the beacon of many a eamp. It has poured
he songs and supplications of the redeemed
through many an old forest, on many a hill
side, from many a valley of the land.
DR. I K.F.NDRIC I K, (BAPTIST.
ie4?.24lebbilli Vi t ett
spher, to whom walltifflntletted"rdi
any striking aphorisms—" words that on
the outstretched finger of time would sparkle
forever" —had said that: " AN' ar is the
father of all things." A little considera
tion would convince us that the great
est seeming evils were often productive of
a large amount of good. The victories of
Caesar and Alexander introduced civilization
among barbatians. The wars of the Roses in
the Northern country annihilated almost the
turbulent Norman aristocracy. Even the
French R e volution, with all its horrors, wds
productive of good. War sometimes struck
d own i n a few months, giant evils that had
been the growth of centuries. In our own
land the question of slavery had been debated
for years. In a moment of blindness the
South appealed to the sword, and after four
years the question had been decided, and
slavery is dead. -
DR. Foss, (METHODIST EPISCOPAL.)
Text: PSALM calvii. !A —Among the ma
terial elements think, for a moment, how
important a consideration was the health
of the country. Suppose the - war had
broken out in a cholera year. Suppose
the prediction of our enemies had proved
true, and our soldiers in the South bad been
decimated by yellow fever. Consider for a
moment what might have bren the result of
a failure of our crops for a single year. With
what spirit, think you, could our troops have
fought if they knew that their wives and
children were starving at home? Again,
look at our singular financial successes. The
war could not have been conducted without
them. Depend upon it, money is the sinews
of war, and Wall street is a reliable pulse of
.the nation. 'When foreign capitalists warned
us that they would not lend, and we seemed
on the verge of financial ruin, our bankers
came forward, and with wonderthl patriotism
and unanimity placed their treasure at the
disposal ot the Government, thus reawake
ning confidence at home and abroad, which
has been further sustained by the almost
miraculously rapid development' of our
material resources, and which had been justi
fied by the glorious result. Among the
moral elements which contributed largely to
our success, may be mentioned the remarka
ble and unexpected unanimity of the people
of the North, the unity and the proud, defiant
attitude of the South, and the hostile position
taken by Great Britain and France, which
awakened our national pride, and lured on
our enemies to their destruction. Among
the specifically providential elements of our
conflict, the first which presents itself to my
mind is the raising up by God, as a pilbt for
our ship of State through the tempests of
civil war, of that great, loving, meek, mag
nanimous man, whose name has become the
talisman of freedom—loved the world over,
and destined to shine throughout the ages
with ever-increasing lustre—Abraham Lin
coln.
jA large number of extracts unavoidably
deferred.]
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Extreme peril sometimes occasions an
anxiety of mind which ends fatally. The
long and hard strain, from the uncertainty
of escape, leads to insanity. Mrs. Farrar,
in her very interesting volume of " Recol
lections," gives an illustration :
Only twenty miles from Milford was the
pleasant sea-side resort called Turby ; little
known in my day, but now a fashionable
watering-place. It was a small town, of
poor houses, built on a projecting point of
land, with a fine, hard sand-beach on each
side, giving thebathers the choice of the
north or the south sands. Curiously-Shaped
rocks form the coast, and one large cave,
which is filled with water at high tide, but
remains empty many hours in the day; was
once the scene of great alarm to a governess
and three little girls who were caught in it
by the tide.
She who should have seen to the safety
of her charge, was so absorbed by an agree
able book that she did not observe the ris
ing tide till the possibility of retreat was
cut •off by it. She was terribly frightened,
but concealed her alarm from the children
as well as she could, and made them climb
up to a high ledge of rock and sit there
with her. To pass away the time she told
them stories ; but they grew very weary,
and when the bottom of the cave was filled
with water, and the waves began to dash
upon the rocks beneath their feet, they
were much terrified, and it was all the gover
ness could do to comfort them and assuage
their fears, whilst her own courage was ebb
ing fast. At last the youngest child fell
asleep in her arms, and the other two nest
led close to her on either side.
There was no higher ledge of rock on
which they could sit, and she feared they
would fall into the flood below if she at
tempted to make them stand on the rock
they were sitting on. As soon as the arched
entrance of the cave was covered by the ad
vancing tide, they were in perfect darkness,
and that added much to the fearfulness of
their position. At last the children cried
' out in distressed tones that their feet were
wet, and the water was coming all over
them. To which the governess replied,
" Mine have been wet for some time; but
never mind that : I don't think that it will
come higher than our knees." It was only
after some mental exercise and earnest
prayer, that she was able to say this.
Her words proved true. The tide did
rise to her lap, and swelled up against them
and all around 'them fearfully; but in a
few more minutes its force seemed less, and
presently they could be certain that it be
gan to lower. Relieved from their terror,
the two older children fell asleep, and then
the governess was very anxious lest they
should fall frO'm their narrow perch and be
drowned after all. Very long did the time
seem before the tide retreated far enough
for a little light to enter at the top of the
entrance to the cave; but at length that
light came, and not long after was heard
the welcome.soun4 of Voices, and as soon
as a boat could enter, one came to their re
lief, with the father of the children in it. He
foulid the little .girl's refreshed by their
yap, and as lively and full of prattle as if
no-trouble had come near them; but their
unhappy governess was utterly overcome.
She could donothing but weep, and after
wards fell into melancholy,,a*died insane.
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THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1865.
The Commercial List and Price Current of
the 2d inst. has the following relative to the
silver mines of Nevada.: "The interest in
silver mining is increasing rapidly. Scarcely
a day passes but brings an arrival from Ne
vada of new silver properties seeking a mar
ket. The companies already established are
succeeding well, while the Revenue Extension
Silver Mining Company of this city, organ
ized but a few weeks, has met with greater
favor than any yet formed in this city. The
reasons for this are obvious, and, under the
same conditions, any company will succeed.
In the first place, the mining property of the
Revenue is first class, surpassing even the
richest veins of its neighborhood. The enter
prise has been accompanied by the reports of
not only resident mining engineers, but is en
dorsed by every citizen of Austin or resident
of the vicinity who has reached here. The
ores have been assayed both here and in Ne
vada, with the same enormously rich re
sults. The services of competent officers
and skilful mining engineers have been se
cured; and last, but not least, the com
pany have invoked the aid of the press with
no niggard hand, to enlighten the community
as to the legitimacy and merits of their un
dertaking. Within sixty days the Revenue
Company will be at work upon their pro
perty, and we may safely venture the predic
tion that by that time the stock will have
advanced far beyond its par value. As an
evidence of this, the stock of the Boston and
Reese River Mining Company, originally $lO
per share, has advanced to $lO5 per share,
its present value. The working of this'com-
Pany upon,their ledge have not yet reached
twenty-five feet in depth, and when the depth
of one hundred feet is reached that stock will
command $5OO per share. This property,
it must be remembered, cannot compare,
either in location or richness of ores, with
that of the Revenue Company of this city.
At the rate at which the stock of the com
pany is being taken by the public, it is not
probable that the books will remain long
open, and those who desire to obtain a stock
which promises to ne a profitable and perma
nent investment, will do well to subscribe at
once."
MARRIAGES,
HAZEN—PA YNTER.—On the 16th ultiinn, at the
Sixth Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C., by
the pastor, Rev. G. 11. Smyth, A. D. Hazen, of North
ainpton, County, Pa, to Mary V, Paynter, of Wash
ington City.
DEATHS,
EVANS.—On the 30th of November, at the resi
dence of J. C. Pumphrev, Esq.. of Prince George Co.,
Md., Mary Virginia, beloved daughter flitev. W. B.
and Mary Frances Evans, aged five years and five
months.
kpEtint 4tutircs.
A Meeting of the Presbyterian His
torical Society will be held in the Lecture-room of
the Presbyterian Church. corner of Spruce and Seven
teenth Streets, Philadelphia. on Thurday evening
December the 21st inst., at 7% o'clock. Those inter
ested in historical research and in the collection and
and preservation of the records of Presbyterianism
are reqaested to attend.
AV- The Presbytery of Columbus will
meet at Cottage Grove on" Tuesday the 19th of Decem
ber, at six o'clock P. M. It is expected that s.tveral
discourses on special subjects will be presented.
B. G. RILEY, Stated Clerk.
Lodi, Wis.. Nov. 16th, 1865.
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a short - distance from the city. Best of references
given. Address TEACHER, at the office of the Ame
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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1865-6,
Sessions Commence September 11th and February Ist.
This School has been in operation for the last ten
years. On entering upon a new decade, new facili
ties, and improved accommodations will be affnrded.
The Princißal will bestow the closest personal at
tention, care, and oversight upon each Pupil, and in
the work of histruction will be aided by the best pro
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Thoroughass in every study which is undertaken
will be basistqd upon as essential to true progress and
right mentalaeveldpinent.
Pupils wiV be prepared for any class in college or
for mercanti life.
Elements Studies and the Modern Languages will
receive full attention.
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