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PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY,
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1866,
THE NEW YEAR.
We have entered upon another of those
leriods which mark the course of human
ife and history. 1865 is past and gone
orever; 1866 is the designation of the
pening, unspent, unknown period just be
ore us. What has been accomplished or
uffered, gained or lost, in the former, we
now. Some of the boldest and best marked
eatures of human history belong to that
ear. The crushing of the greatest of
ebellions, the extinction of American
Slavery, which had endured two centuries,
nd the re-establishment of the American
tepublic, in righteousness and in unparal
eled power, will make the past year famous
a all time. How more than famous, how
irecious, will be its memories to all the
riends of liberty and humanity.the world
iver! And how four long-oppressed mil
ions, with their children, in all coming
generations, with a thrill of indescribable
lelight and gratitude, will pronounce the
lumbers of the year that brought them
leliverance at last! 1865 and Emancipa
ion—that is an association that cannot be
iroken while time endures.
We know the immediate past; it is full
>f great, encouraging, inspiring results.
Che plots of a generation of traitors and
ippressors have been utterly frustrated; the
|iopes and aims of a generation of the
ft riends of liberty have been gloriously ac
;omplished. Treason, falsehood, rebellion,
larbarous cruelty and apostate Christianity
lave met truth, honor, patriotism and a
genuine faith, in a long and often doubtful
ionflict; but, thank God! his seal of com
ilete approval was given to" the right, and
t has prevailed.
With suoh a renewal of hope and cour
age" and thankfulness as is rarely, in the
I !ges, vouchsafed to the friends of humanity
,nd of truth, we can enter upon the new
;ear with its new questions, new duties,
.nd new conflicts. What evil may we not
lope to see-done away, since the' giant evil
)f the age, American Slavery, with all it's
girops in Church and State, in the base
hassions and interests of men, has been
iverthrown ? What good work, what
■ irduous enterprise may not be achieved,
when so gigantic and formidable a rebellion
• ias been so completely crushed? Why
Respond in the darkest hours of a good
. jause, after such providential interpolations
is we saw in Hampton Roads and SF Get
s.ysburg? Why doubt of resources and
neans for carrying out any great and need
'. ul undertaking, after the seventy millions
,• jf voluntary contributions, and the loan of
nearly three thousand millions, so cheerfully
made by the people foNffie expenses of the
war ? Why distrust the heart of the Ame
.’ican people, whom all the arts of unprinci
pled politicians, all the heavy burdens of
war, all appeals to love of ease, of personal
safety, of gain, or ofsld party feelings,
i could not swerve from their heroic purpose
to save this Republic, and to reconsecrate
Vits soil to freedom, at every personal cost
i and hazard ? Why speak any more re
gretfully of past ages of ‘chivalry, of the
self-sacrifice and devotion and martyrdoms of
generations gone, amid the splendid proofs
of a present-capacity of endurance, and of a
spirit of unreserved consecration to coun
try a®l to humanity never surpassed ?
Why question the safe and wholesome
tendencies of republican institutions under
the guidance of Christianity, which, out of
; the ranks of the people, have raised up such
V a ruler as Abraham Lincoln, such military
, leaders as Grant, Sherman, Sheridan,
| Thomas, Meade, and Farragut, and which
lihavc maintained themselves unharmed; nay,
■f rather have gained new strength and lustre,
? in the most tremendous conflicts of modern
.times? ,
(|| If God’s ways are mysterious to us, the
mystery is one of joy and of hope. The
Huguenots of France, with as righteous a
cause, and with leaders as sincere and as
able as ours, were entrapped, defeated,
massaoied, apd driven into exile, and France
to-day has no refuge from the godless revo
lutionary mob, but in a godless despotism.
Cromwell established the English Common
wealth with soldiers of world-renowned piety
and valor. His' death was the signal for
the return of the Stuarts, and the disappear
ance ot republican liberty from- England.
Gustavus Adolphus was slain at the battle
| ol Lutzen when but thirty-eight years old,
and after, scarcely more than two years con
1, test for Protestantism. We are told that a
cry of anguish.went up from all Reformed
Europe at the tilings; and well there
might, for after more than two hundred
and thirty years, the toleration of the doc
trines of the Reformation for which he
2STew Series, Yol. XIX, ISTo. 1.
fought, is not lully gained, though rivers of
martyr blood have flowed. How bloody
and abortive were the blind upheavings of
the European peoples in 1848 ! How impo
tent and fatal the last Polish insurrection !
But here, tlie new year shines on a rescued,
strengthened, glorified Republic, On righte
ous laws vindicated, on a nationality of free
men perpetuated, on tour millions of slaves
emancipated at a blow. Here, a broad basis
for happiness, for prosperity, for efforts to
save and to-bless mankind, is laid anew, in
prayers and vows, in tears snd blood.
Here, stretches out a new and wide field
for educational and evangelizing efforts, for
the introduction of right ideas of liberty
and of an unmutilated Gospel among white
and black. Walls of exclusion as formida
ble, laws as severe, and persecutions as
cruel, as those of China and Japan, which
once shut us out from almost twelve mil
lions of people, are utterly broken down.
Grave duties' are before us: New ene
mies and new forms of opposition to the
truth are to be encountered. New fields
are to be won for Christ. New trials of
fidelity are to be met. But we are not the
same men that we were, and it is not the
same world that it was, at the beginning of
other years. With a fresh baptism of joy
and thankfulness; with a new sense of the
nearness and providential oversight of God
in the world; with new patience in the de
ferred triumph of the right, and stronger
confidence that it will come at last; with
higher courage to meet privation, danger
and death for the righteous cause;, with re
newed convictions of the folly of timorous
compromise with wrong, and of the expe
diency of frank and manly and positive
avowal of principle, and advocacy of right;
with wider views and richer experience,
with confidence and humble hope, we
advance to meet the duties, the opportuni
ties, the trials and the unknown vicissitudes
of the new year.
“Happy days
Roll onward, leading up the golden year;
1 When wealth no more shall rest in mounded
heaps,
But smit with freer light shall slowly melt
In many streams to fatten lower lands,
And light shall spread and man be iiker man
Through all the season of the golden year.
1 Fly, happy, happy sails, and bear the Press ;
Fly happy with the mission of the Cross ;
Knit land to land, and blowing havenward,
With silks, and fruits, and spices, clear of
toll,
Enrich the markets of the golden year.”
1 ‘ For I dipt into the future, far as human eye
could see,
Saw the vision of the world, and all the won-
der that would be;
Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the
battle flags were furled
In the Parliament of man, the Federation-of
the world.
There the common sense of most shall hold a
fretful realm in awe,
And the kindly earth sjjall slumber, lapt in
universal law. ■ ,
And I doubt not throughl&e ages one increas-
ing purpose runs, :•*
And the thoughts of men are widened with
the process of the suns.”
THE WORK BEFORE US.
As the deep spiritual need of man, and
the supply for it in thfe Gospel, remain the
same from year to year, the main features
of our work, in and for the kingdom of
Christ, remain the same. We shall still
need in the present year, as in the past, to
preach and to live the Gospsl. We shall
still need to hold up the cross of Christ, as
the vindication cf Divine justice and the
only hope of dying sinners. We shall still
need to illustrate the purifying, blessed in
fluence of the love of Christ, and to com
mend and adorn the doctrines of the Gospel,
in our daily lives. Our own denomination,
in its various organized modes of working
for the instruction and salvation of men,
will demand our peculiar filial regard. We
shall, as heretofore, most naturally give it
our choicest sympathy, our support and
our prayers. We shall perhaps, first off
all, labor for the enlargement of its Home
Missionary operations in the South, in the
'territories and mining regions, in the West
and -in the destitute regions nearer home.
Next, we shall think of its missionaries in
foreign fields, and perhaps, feel the time to
be' come in which to plan for the organic
union of this branch of the work with our-'
selves. Then we shall renew our prayers,
our efforts, and our contributions, to secure
from the Lord of the Harvest, a sufficient
supply of faithful laborers for the Harvest.
We shall feel it a duty and a pleasure to
spread widely the admirable issues of the
Publication Committee, and.to sustain and
extend the circulation of our denominational
organs. Nor will the needs of the disabled
servants of the Church, or of their depen
dent families, be forgotten. Yariqus
schemes of Church erection and of Semin
ary or College endowment, are perhaps in
the minds of enterprising friends of our
Church, and the year will bring its usual
round of miscellaneous calls and opportu
nities, which it is in vain to attempt to
specify, or anticipate.
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1866.
Some parts of our work, as a Church, are
done. Our position with regard to great*
and agitating questions in the public mind, .
is taken. So far'as our influence extends, we
are among the leaders of public sentiment
in the land, where matters of justice and of
principle are concerned. We are compact,
homogeneous, cordially confiding in each
other, fully organized; save in foreign mis
sions, for our Church-work. Our Publi
cation Committee is endowed. Our work
in founding and endowing colleges .jandj
seminaries, east of the Rocky Mountains,]
,is perhaps complete. Our various bureaus
and committees may need some further de
velopment, but their grand principles are
correct and their working is satisfactory.
What we most heed in and through at,,
now, is the reviving influence of the Holy ,
Spirit. We trust we are so prepared that j
we could better economize and utilize such
communications of Divine power now, than
at any former period of our history.
In the future development of our denom
inational and spiritual life, there is nq
doubt that we should place first ot all in
strumentalities, the culture of the true re
vival spirit.. We should aim, so far as
means to, this end are placed in our handsj
by earnest prayer, by a renewal and a deep
ening of self-consecration, by oherishing
and inculcating large views and confident
expectations, by a reliance on the simple
Gospel of Christ in preaching, by evangeli
cal humility, by personal effort for the:
salvation of souls, to make this a year of
revival through our churches. We shoijOid
accept the wide-spread expectation of re
vival as a ground of hope and a warrant
for special efforts. The venerable Gardiner
Spring, in his “ Personal Reminiscences,”
says of revivals: —“ The Church of God
from the beginning has been enlarged,
beautified, and perpetuated by them.” We
can do nothing for the advancement of our
Church to compare in efficiency with the
cultivation of a revival spirit.
Tjiere are some fields of denominational
activity which it still remains for us to
enter, or more effectually occupy, and to
which the attention of our readers may be.
profitably directed during the present y'rtf.
Thercis the matter of a SxrSTENTATiON
Fund, to keep the salaries of the pastors
in our churches at, or above, a certain
minimum , of which such a prosperous ex
ample is given by the Free Church of
Scotland. We have no doubt it would
work well here and would contribute vastly
to the stability, usefulness, and comfort of
the pastoral relation. The ranks of the
ministry would not be so difficult to fill, nor to
guard from depletion by the temptations of
lucrative secular callings, addressed to men
with dependent families, running hopelessly
into debt, on the scandalously meagre sala
ries they draw from their pastoral charges.
It ought to be a rule with our Church, that
her .ministry shall really live by the Gospel,
instead of being into oil and land
speculations, life-insurance agencies, book
and map-peddling,-'Government clerkships,
and teaching, as mgny of them are. We
hope the facts, humiliating as they are, will
be sufficiently developed to show what
needs to be done, and then that we shall
manfully attack the evil. We cannot re
move it perhaps, but we should at least feel
responsible for its material abatement.
Wethinkitis becoming clearer every year
that our Church is losing ground in Foreign
Missions, for .wagt|of an . organization and
field of its owh. are nsj by any means,
doing our share $f thg work of evangelizing
the heathen woild. Ou'r people are not
giving as they can and would; our Sabbath
schools and our families are not interested
as they might be, and our children are not
led to look seriously upon the Missionary’s
calling as having claims upon themselves,
jn the degree they would, if it were'more
intimately associated' with the polity and
the life of the Church. To say nothing of
the loss to the heathen world, it is a great
evil-, aod perilous to the best interests of
vital piety, for a Church to be without the
largest attainable measure of the reflex in
fluence of Foreign Missions. '.
A far more liberal policy in Church
Erection is demanded of our denomination.
This is indispensable, if we. would give
the highest degree of efficiency to our
Home Missionary enterprises, and if we
would keep pace with other denominations,
who are ready with a church edifice almost
as one of the preliminaries of a new enter
prise. Some of the most promising fields—
fields most certain to become self-support
ing at an early date —are those in which
the means for a building should be in hand
at the commencement, and where almost
everything is risked by depending on the
growth of the congregation for the remote
accomplishment of the work. Our Church
Erection policy decidedly needs expansion.
The revival of sectional feeling and or-
ganizations in the South, consequent npon
the peculiar policy of the Executive, has
.multiplied the difficulties of the work of
evangelization there. But that work in its
length and breadth, among white and black,
including bodily and. spiritual necessities, is
still before us, and must command the best
wisdom, 1 energy and liberality ,of the
churches during the current year. Com
mon schools must be given to the entire
South; perhaps the churches of the North
will feel most interested in training intelli
gent men of color, as preachers, for the re
ligious instruction, evangelization and true
j elevation of their race in this country.
One thing is certain, no legislation, or re
construction, or government policy toward
the South, will be tolerated by the true
friends of the Union in the North, which
does not forever secure them from un
righteous interference on the part of the
late slave-drivers of the South, in all proper
efforts to elevate the white and black masses,
whom they have kept for generations in
ignorance and degradation, and whom they
will still keep there, if they can.
The enemies of the Sabbath have made,
in this city at least—renowned hitherto for
the order and peace of its Sabbaths —a
fresh attack upon the sanctity of the day.
Lured on by covetousness, emboldened by
the faithlessness of some of the professed
followers of Christ, basely using the stand
ing they have gained with good people ,by
loud professions of patriotism during % e
war, we see them settled m business ar
rangements of the most public kind, cover
ing the entire 3even days of the week. We
shall be called in Philadelphia, this year,
to decide whether the Sunday liquor traffic
shall be pursued with impunity; whether
respectability shall be yielded to a Sunday
press, and whether the quiet of the day
shall be broken by the incessant tumult
of the passenger railway cars; in short,
whether or not a long stride shall be made
towards all the mischief, the demoralization,
and the terrible omens of a Continental
Sabbath among us.
This is the year 1866—a significant year
with a very large and respectable class of
the .students of prophecy. In their view,
“the -tirne7 times, and' the dividing of a
time,” in Daniel, and “ the thousand, two
hundred and threescore days” of John,
commencing with the Papal usurpation and
the rise of 'Mahomet, about A. D. 606, end
with this year. Some signal judgment
upon Anti-Christ—some grand closing up
of the book of Providence and of judg
ment —may, in this year, be expected.
Something of the kind we have already
been privileged to witness in the recent
overthrow of the great rebellion and of the
Anti-Christ of American Slavery. '-It may
be we are on the verge of still more con
spicuous and decisive revealings of the
Divine purpose, and of still clearer fulfill
ment of prophecy. It behoves us to have
“ our loins girded about and our lamps
burning, and ourselves like unto men that
wait for their Lord. Blessed is that ser
vant whom his Lord, when he cometh,
shall find so doing.”
THE SATANIC PRESS.
In this fallen world, facilities for good
become also facilities for evil. Improve
ments in science an'd in art, which con
tribute to the advancement of civilization,
are quickly seized and appropriated by the
agents of the evil one, for the more effectual
corruption ■'and final damnation of men.
No spectacle is sadder- to contemplate than
the wide and terrible perversion of that
grand engine of enlightenment, that lever
of public elevation—the newspaper press.
It is melancholy to think-that the paper of
widest circulation aryl greatest enterprise
on the continent, long ago r was, by common
consent, awarded the title ofSatanic
Press.” Of late, indeed, we have seldom
seen or heard that term applied,* yet cer
tainly not- because it is less deserved, but
perhaps for other and more startling
reasons. We fear that the Satanic-quality
of disregard of divine laws and of-public
decency, has become so diffused and inter
mingled with better qualities, that it can no
longer be justly restricted to a single jour
nal. Other journals seem to have found it
“ pay” to mingle some of these satanic ele
ments with those more respectable and
edifying, that formerly were alone admitted
to their columns. At any rate, the publi
cation qf the detailed, literally exact re
ports of the foulest cases of scandal, is no
longer confined, to the single notorious ex
ample, which men hesitated to bring to
fire-sides, but is unshrinkingly practiced by
journals in New York city, claiming
hitherto to be respectable, and to be con
ducted with an honest regard to the good
of the community.
*Mr Wheeler does not give it in his “ Noted
Names'of Fiction.”
Genesee Evangelist, !N"o. 10 Q>4:.
For weeks, the columns of the N'. 7.
Times and Tribune have been burdened
with the disgusting details of such a case,
which to the infinite relief of their decent
readers closed last week. Indeed, when
the evidence was concluded, the N. 7
Times gave a careful resume of the whole,
dividing it into paragraphs, with sensation
headings, in regular ad captandum style,
as if reluctant to dismiss, or to have its
readers lose the taste of so enjoyable a mor
sel. Do the conductors of these papers
suppose that the heads of families, who
subscribe to them for their superior respect
ability, feel no concern to have these re
volting details of crime thus spread before
the tenderer members of their families, or
are without a deep feeling of wrong done
themselves by such pandering to the tastes
of the vile ?
The course of the N~. T. Times is truly
amazing to those who once put confidence
in its editor. During the war, it began to
appear seven days in the week. The hour
ly call for news in those anxious times
■made men oblivious to the sin of Sabbath
breaking involved, but now that the plea of
necessity is removed, the Times has not for
a moment ceased its Sabbath-breaking
course; it is a seven day paper still. We
have borrowed the severe epithet of
“ satanic.” If it is anywhere appropriate,
it is where truth and goodness are sneered
'at, and so far as practicable, made contempti
ble. We have been shocked to see evidence
that the N. 7. Times is falling into this
practice. When G-en. Howard declared
that the love of Christ was the only thing
that could secure a right treatment of the
freed slaves, the Times grossly offended the
religious community, and sought to destroy
the popular reverence for the combination
of piety and generalship so much admired,
especially in that noble Christian patriot,
by holding up his language to ridicule.
Neither the eminent services nor the
wounds of Gen. Howard shielded him from
a most ungenerous, unchristian attack.
In a similar scoffing spirit does it treat
the purpose of a rescued and grateful
nation, to commemorate its deliverance by
placing upon our larger coins the highly
appropriate motto : “In God we trust.”
Hear how flippantly the Times Speaks of
this solemn act of the people, and how it
strives to put them out of humor with this
their only official recognition of God :
“ This new legend may be well enough;
but is it quite in place, on the commonest
and basest of all human manufactures—the
filthy lucre that serves the meanest of our
needs ? In view of our recent struggle for
national life, does it not sound somewhat
like a death-hed repentance.? Does it not
remind one of the significant words of the
Master; whose estimate of this common me
dium was expressed in the words : “Whose
image and superscription is this ?” With
out questioning the good motives that led
to the enactment of this new form of
national worship, we respectfully submit
that such tract-printing by the government
is always improper, and, just now especially,
ill-timed. It reminds one unpleasantly of
the ‘ Dei gratia' of the divine-right schools
of Europe. Let ps try to carry our re
ligion—such as it is—in our hearts, and
not in our pockets.”
Hitherto in Philadelphia we have been
quite clear of the. satanic element in the
daily press claiming any degree of respecta
bility. Our papers have not made their
columns ministers to lewdness. A manifest
purpose to foster sound morals, and to in
struct and benefit the people has generally
guided their policy. It was a proud dis
tinction for our city. It made every parent
feel his •family to be safer. The moral
atmosphere of the city was comparatively
salubrious, and strangers could not so
readilybe brought into contact with vice.
They must seek it out, instead of having
it publicly paraded and thrust in their faces
everywhere.
We trust this most desirable and honor
' I
able feature of our newspaper«literature
will be maintained. We trust that any
agency which, under'cover of past respect
ability, of enterprise, or of patriotism,
attempts to break it down, will be suffered
to sink into the disrepute it deserves. It
should be understood that no man is com
petent to sweep away the land-marks of
decency and good order which have been
the most precious elements in the fair name
of our city. We believe Philadelphians
have too much regard for them to consent
to their removal.
Dfifirjc'aN the Ministry.—Rev. D.
A. Abbey was removed by, death on the
6th ult., at the age of .52 years. The
event took place at Apalachin, Tioga
County, N. Y,, where he was in charge
of the Presbyterian Church. His minis
try was spent chiefly in Canada West'
and Western New York. Atone time
he was stationed in New Milford in this
State. A deep impression of his good
ness was made, wherever he was known.
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CHOICE EXTRACTS FROM «THE
PRESS.”
Speaking of the recent effort of the
clergy and laity of our city to protect the
sanctity of the Sabbath, the above paper
allows itself to be led to the use of such
extraordinary language as the following.
Taken from articles spread over the issues
of more than a week, it cannot be as
cribed to a sudden act of indiscretion, but
must necessarily indicate the deliberate
judgment and settled policy of the conduc
tors of that journal.
“A more discreditable exhibition of in
tolerance and proscription we have never
been constrained to notice. Who will be
lieve in the piety of religious teachers so
filled with venom, and so forgetful of their
own duties as the servants of a forgiving
and an indulgent Creator ?”
“To their attempt to destroy the busi
ness of one of their own citizens they add
most shameless hypocrisy.”
“We have unexpectedly stirred a per
fect nest of bigotries, and they are let
loose upon us with a vehemence not at all
proportionate to the piety they so noisily
and ostentatiously assume.”
“The proscriptive and intolerant Pro
testant clergy of Philadelphia.”
“The unprovoked proscription and un
christian intolerance of some of the clergy
men in this city.”
“ The utter uncharitableness of the pre
sent pharisaical antagonism.”
“ Pious persecutors and saintly scolds.”
“The unfairness of jts statements, the
venom with which they were made.”
“ This exhibition of frantic bigotry.”
These things, reader, are said of some of
the most venerable, most able, and most
patriotic of the clergy of our city. But not
satisfied with such unqualified and unpar
alleled abuse of godly and true men, the
editor assumes the office of censor and in
structor of these teachers of the public.
He says:—
“ If the persons who begun and have
in charge the exclusive and passionate
mo,vem§nt for the proper observance of the
first day of the week, had deliberately
started out to bring discredit upon the
cause of morals, and especially upon their
sacred profession, they could not so thor
oughly and so speedly have consummated
that deplorable result as by the intolerance
and proscription which have marked their
words and acts.” t
He puts the question “ plainly to these
clergymen : Whether they are doing any
good, either to Cod or man, in their pre
sent crusade against The Press, and in their
imperious and insolent call upon their par
ishioners to stop reading a newspaper, to
the general character of which they have
voluntarily paid such exalted tributes?”
He magisterially declares that they are
“ fatally ignorant of the real meaning of
the laws'of Scripture.” He even charges
“specifically that they are now engaged in •
deliberate violation of law;” that in this'*
Sabbath-keeping movement they falsely and
maliciously conspire, agree to cheat and
defraud him of his property, or to do dis
honest, malicious, and unlawful acts to his
prejudice!!
But who is this editor who thus pre
sumes to play the bishop over the ablest
and most eminent pastors of the city, to
correct their interpretation of the Scrip
ture, and to amend their cherished plans
of promoting the moral and spiritual inter
ests of the community ? Who is it that
feels himself competent thus to deny to
them the simplest and commonest attri
butes of their calling ? Must he not be a
man of eminent purity of character; of un
blemished reputation; of chaste and devout
speech; of sober habits; a diligent student
of Scripture; a companion of the virtuous
and the good; unselfish; too noble to be in
fluenced by considerations of gain or per
sonal advancement; —in short, a man uni
versally recognized in the community for
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