REVIEW OF THE YEAR
OUR OWN COUNTRY.
‘'Watchman, wliat of the night?” God
has sent waymarks along the highway of
time, which only the thoughtless pass with
out pausing for a careful review of the past,
and some anxious thought for the future.
The transition from the old to the new year
is eminently of this character. For the
future, we can only trust and pray, girding
ourselves for new duties and yet untried allot
ments. What was the unknown future of
last year, has now passed over into the settled
facts of the past, and has thus become a fit
subject for review.
REVIVALS.
The year opened with the fifth annual ob
servance of that grand conception of modern
Christianity, the week oj prayer. From year
to year this solemn season has risen in inter
est, has been more extensively observed, and
followed with more striking effects. Our
revival record of the first few months of the
year, coming well down into the spring, was
richer than that of any previous year since
the great refreshings of 1857. And in far
greater numbers than on any previous year,
the published accounts of them spoke of their
origin in the great week of prayer. Mention
was made of this, not only in reports sent up
from many of our own Churches, but the
same was true throughout the various de
nominations which participated in the bless
ing. Cases were numerous in which the daily
meetings would not close with the close of the
week’s programme. They were continued oj ]
necessity, or at least their discontinuance
would have been an act of palpable violence
toward the Holy Spirit.
Still it cannot be said that, either in our
own churches, or on the Christian field at
large, the refreshings of the last winter and
spring amounted to a general revival. * We are
not aware that, in any given district of our
country, say as large as an ordinary county,
the 'cases of revival, -all denominations in
cluded, would cover one-fourth of the
ground; while in most of the territory com
mitted to the American Church, there was
but here and there a sporadic case of what
fairly meets our usual views of a revival.
gem:k,u, prosperity.
But, even with this abatement of the ani
mating aspect of the season under review, it
was pleasant to hear from the churches gene
rally the account of more than usual pros-1
perity, both in things spiritual and temporal.
Qur means of knowing are far from minute,
but our candid impression, from all that we
have heard, is, that cases of real revival, |
comparatively few &s they have been, are
nevertheless more numerous than those of
absolute decline.
We are .sure that such has been the ease
in our own Church. The statistical tables in
the Minutes of our General Assembly, as
compared with those of the preceding year,
will show advance in a large majority of the
churches —small in many cases, but still an
advance. This will hold true in all the parti
culars which belong to religious prosperity—
church membership, Sabbath-school mem
bership, church « edifices and parsonages
erected, pastors settled, collections for con
gregational purposes, and contributions for
general Christian benevolence. Of church
extension we shall speak again.
RETURN OF PEACE.
April brought with it the suppression of
the great and wicked pro-slavery rebellion,
the return of peace, and the conviction, on
all hands, that the fiat against slavery, which
had previously gone forth, had thereby re
ceived its fulfillment. Even the mad infatu-1
ation of the South could not blind itself to
the terrible reaction of its own schemes and
sacrifices to perpetuate it, and every rebellious
State accepted'the mortifying conclusion that
rebellion was a failure and slavery was dead.
This event instantly became a conspicuous
one in the year's history of church enterprise.
One of the worst features of the coming on
of the rebellion, had consisted in the cultiva
tion of a Southern Church sentiment of in
veterate hostility to Northern Christianity,
chiefly because of the aggressiveness of the
latter upon the slave system; and, in the
New School Presbyterian and Methodist
bodies, a secession from the national church
organizations ryith Which they had been con
nected. The Congregational, Pedobaptistand
Baptist churches had no national ecclesiastical
organizations, but long ipior to the outbreak
of the rebellion, the separation of the South
from the North was as virtual in those de
nominations as in the other cases mentioned.
The Church rebellion for conserving slavery,
was the pioneer of the political insurrection
for the same end.
Immediately .fallowing the commencement
of the latter, the Southern Churches of' the
remaining denominations also formed them
selves into separate organizations, and the
whole territory in rebellion became the field
of an organized slaveholding and slave-pro
tecting Christianity, walling itself against any
approach of evangelical labor or benevolence
from the North.
SOUTHERN EVASOEUZATIOS.
But for some time previous to the final
triumph of the Government, the enterprise
of the Northern Churches had been making
itself felt in gradual encroachments upon that
dark spiritual iniquity, as the reconquest
of territory opened the,way. Missions for
Freedmen had been pretty extensively insti
tuted, and in some localities churches com
posed of citizens, some of whom had kept
pure their fidelity to the Union, and others
of whom were more than satisfied to return
to it, broke off their Southern ecclesiastical
connections, and sought readmission to their
former Our Church was already,
thus occupying important positions in East
Tennessee. The Methodist Episcopal, and
we believe the Baptist, had also raised anew
their banner on here and there a reclaimed
spot. ’
Peace at once laid the whole South open
to such enterprise. At least, it removed the
obstructions of military lines and bristling
bayonets, and left only a moral opposition,
teeming with the old pro-slavery leaven, to
contend against a Gospel which recognises
the manhood of our race.
DENOMINATIONAL WORK SOUTH.
This new phase of our Christian duty to
ward the South received the earnest atten
tion of the great ecclesiastieal 'meetings 0 f
the last'Spring. Our own Assembly, regard
ing compactness of machinery as an element
of efficiency in all its church extension work,
charged its existing Home Missionary agency
with the execution of our church work in
that direction. We had comparatively little
ground to reclaim. Our Church had for
many years enjoyed a bad reputation among
Southern slave-holders, including, we are
ashamed to say, the great bulk of Southern
professing Christians outside of the colored
churches. From the hour when, thirteen
years ago, Dr. Ross horrified the Assembly
by an unqualified declaration that the Divine
light of slavery had become, and would
henceforward remain, the doctrine of South
ern Christians, and that they were resolved
upon its perpetuation as a Christian duty,
our entire ecclesiastical separation from it
became a foregone conclusion. In less than
two years it became a fixed fact.
Still, with apparently fewer advantages
than those, of some sister denominations, we
believe our part of the work of re-construc
tion will bear comparison with that of any
other one. We have now one Synod, com
posed of three Presbyteries, between thirty
and forty „ churches, and we believe about
half that number of ministers, in the Tennes
see field. They come to us on the purely re
construction basis, eminently loyal, and hear
tily accepting our anti-slavery basis. During
the last fall, they have been largely blest
with the effusions of the Holy Spirit.
The Assembly of the Old School Church
gave a large amount of attention to the subject.
A minority/ (such, and beautifully less may
they remain!) were earnestly disposed to
open the door for the quiet falling in of their
“ Southren brethren,” unquestioned and in
discriminately. The discussion finally termi-
nated in the adoption, by a decisive majority,
of honest and stringent terms of re-union.
Ministers from any Southern ecclesiastical
body, applying for reception, are to be asked
whether they have, of their free will, aided
or countenanced the rebellion, and if such is
found to have been tbe fact, they are to be
received only upon confession and renuncia
tion of their sin. They are also to be ques
tioned whether they hold slavery to be a Di
vine institution, and if so, repentance and
forsaking the sin, are the'prescribed terms of
admission. Presbyteries, as such, cannot be
received until full proof is made that they no
longer tolerate these errors and scandals.
Under these rules, the changes of rela
tion from the Confederate States Presbyte
rian Church to that of the Old School have
r been very few, and the best men of the latter
are satisfied that they should be-few, so long
as the religious temper of the''South remains
what it is. An energetic effort, inaugurated
in Kentucky, is now going on to procure the
revocation of the action above noticed, and
to throw down all barrier to unconditional
re-union.
The Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, in default of the occurrence of any
General Convention the present year, took
official order for the recovery of Southern
ground, differing only in form from that of
the Presbyterian churches. Some progress
has been made, but not extensive as yet.
The Baptist churches have no national
church organization, but-use, as a bond of
union, such national denominational societies
as the Missionary, Publication, &c. The
anniversaries of these societies took place
last spring, in the city of St. Louis. They
settled, within their respective spheres, their
denominational policy toward the South. It
was one of extension, but avoidance of all
complicity with the rebellious or slavehold
ing spirit. They too are working, not with
out fruit, but in patient waiting for the full
sheaves.
To the Congregationalists, in the absence
of any national organization, and with almost
no preemptory hold upon Southern territory,
the South is a purely, missionary field, to
enter and build up tie novo. They are at
work with their characteristic energy, but as
yet with only moderate success.
The Reformed Dutch, United and Reform
ed Presbyterians, and Lutherans, have estab
lished righteous testimony on the subject of
religion for the South, and whatever any of
them have done, has been in accordance with
it. It is worthy of record that the United
and Reformed Presbyterian churches have
always refused communion to slaveholders.
The German Reformed Church has thus faT
been silent.
It was reserved for the Triennial Conven
tion of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
held last October, to make the only really
disgraceful church exhibition of the year
from the loyal States. Their action is so re
cent, and has received so large animadver-
I sions from the public press, secular as well as
religious, that we need only refer to it. Suf
fice it to say, that the arms of the church were
opened wide in invitation for the return of
Southern Dioceqe.-, with their organizations
intact, and nothing of the past revoked. To
give the highest force to this invitation, the
Convention deliberately, and by an overwhelm
ing majority, voted down proposals of thanks
giving for the suppression of the rebellion
and destruction of slavery. But the expect
ed price for this treason to the cause of righte
ousness, has thus far been paid in only partial
measure. The question yet remains whether
I Southern Episcopacy, as a whole, will accept
any ecclesiastical relation with the North.
The Southern Convention has since met and
taken action. It resolved to maintain its sep
arate existence, simply consenting that any
of the dioceses which might so desire, should
I return to the General Convention. Indeed,
the action of all the chief ecclesiastical bodies
of the South has been sternly and implac
ably against churcb re-union with the North.
THE FREEDMEN.
In the mean time, every leading denomina
tion has laid itself out for work among the
Freedmen—some through Church bureaus of
their own, specially erected for the purpose,
others through their permanent depart
ments of evangelistic effort, or through out
side associations. This work has been exten
sive and rich in fruits. Most of the South
ern religious bodies have breasted themselves
against what they call the interference of the
Northern fanatics with the spiritual affairs of
their" colored population, insisting that they
themselves best know how to adapt religious
instruction and care to their wants. But the
confidence of the Freedmen in the sincerity
of the Christian friendship of the South is
broken, and they turn instinctively to the
North for sympathy, and receive its mission
aries, teachers, books, and other aids, with
the fervent gratitude which is characteristic
of their race.
THE CHURCH SUPPORTING THE
COUNTRY.
With the remarkable exception above nam
ed, the religious bodies of the loyal States
responded to the great goodness of God in
the conquest of rebellion, the return of peace,
and the bringing upon slavery its doom, in
sentiments of high-toned patriotism and fer
vent gratitude. Scarcely an ecclesiastieal
meeting, large or small, has been held since
April, which failed to give unambiguous and
outspoken utterance to this feeling. The
same thing is true of other religious associa
tions, such as the Bible, Tract, and Foreign
Missionary societies. The act of the last Con
gress, laying before the States for ratification
the proposed Constitutional amendment, se
curing the eternal prohibition of slavery in
our Repuphc, was warmly seconded by the
voice of the Church. The year has deepened
the impression, which for the last five years
has so gained upon the candor of the people
at large, that the sympathy of the Church for
the purity and well-being of the State is in
valuable. Witt all that is said (much. of it
untruly) of the spiritual degeneracy of the
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1866
times, there has been within our remem
brance, no period when so much of public
respect and influence was accorded to religion
and its ministers and churches as now. The
religion of the loyal States has well earned
this meed from the public.
In the mean time, neither our own denom
ination in particular, nor the Church as a
whole, has been idle in the work of Church i
Extension in other parts of our country, par- j
tieularly those remote regions which are now
the goal for a rushing emigration. The min- i
ing territories and States are unquestionably j
destined to roll back upon the East a tide of
influence exactly answering to the religious
care or neglect which they now receive. AH
the circumstances of life in those
forbid the expectation that either piety or j
morality will there be a spontaneous growth. |
The Church has heavy responsibilities in that j
quarter. The past has not been a year of un- ;
mindfulness of those responsibilities. We i
would gladly speak in more positive terms. I
We are thankful to say as much as this—that j
our own Church has relaxed nothing of its |
foothold in Colorado, Montana, and the Pa- j
cific coast. Indeed, there has been in the lat
ter a decisive gain.
In this connection it is proper to notice the
very thorough and coast exploration j
performed last summer, by the judicious and j
efficient Secretary of our Home Missionary
Committee. Rev. Dr. Kendall. The time
had come when such an enterprise was essen
tial to the intelligent action of the Committee,
in laying out plans for, church campaigns in
that direction. It brought them face to face
with their work, exposing obstacles, reveal
ing facilities, and designating the points of
advantage. In this point of view, the close
of the year finds us largely enforced for that
work, waiting only for the men to make our
influence telt with power in that rough realm
of mammon.
The more general view of the Christian
work of the year, in our country, would be
incomplete, without a special notice of the
notable era in American Congregationalism.
We have before alluded to the fact that the
Congregationalists have no national ecclesi
astical organization. They abjure it. In
deed, tbs character of ecclesiasticism is gene
rally denied to aDy association above the par
ticular church assembled in one locality.
Their church extension work has long felt the
embarrassment of this looseness of structure.
They had a large amount of energy, bu^ there
was no point of concentration. The conse
quence was, much of that energy was unde
veloped, and some portion o£ what was de
veloped was injudiciously expended and
pretty much lost.
The prohlejn was, how to secure the bene
fits of a national unity without compromising
the “standing or falling” doctrine of the
denomination, the perfect independence of
the local church. The great National Coun
cil of.last summer was the result of the de
liberation of that question. It was a con
vention of delegates from churches in many
and widely separated States, and ye_t it ig
nored being the embodiment of the church
authority, without which “delegation” is a
nonentity. It was indebted to the inconsis
tency of its organization for the great effi
ciency which it is now in the way of exerting.
It gave power to the denomination just in
proportion as it was most virtually Presbyte
rian in the very features in which it claimed
to be most purely Congregational. 4*
Its chief mission was to start a system of
more vigorous effort for general evangelism,
carrying along with it the peculiarities of
Congregationalism. An exceedingly well-de
vised plan for securing the money material
for the enterprise was adopted. By simul
taneous church collections, on a given Sab
bath, accompanied with individual solicita
tions, a sum of at least $200,000 was to be
raised, and a much larger amount was hoped
for. The third Sabbath of the last month
was named-for the collections, which,
into account the wealth and giving habits of
New England, we presume to have been a
success.
GENERAL CHURCH EXTENSION
THE NATIONAU COUSCIL,
U. S. CHRISTIAN COMMISSION.
Yery incomplete would be any notice of
the home history of the year, which should
pass over the closing up of the affairs and ex
istence of the United 'States Christian Com
mission. It is interesting to record concern
ing it, that there was no decay, no ninning
out , hut that it expired by its own constitu
tional limitation. It was brought into exist
ence for one special work. How generously,
faithfully, and with what self-sacrificing spirit,
this work was done ; what a record of salva
tion has been rolled up as its memorial—
human lives saved, and impiortal souls saved
—are things too well known to need repeat
ing here. In this work it went on, expend
ing its millions of treasures, and scores of
years of personal etrort, abounding more,
until the return of peace fulfilled the tenure
of its mission. It retired from existence
simply because its work was all done.
The Christian public were not satisfied to
give it up. There were many who felt that
an agency so Catholic, so extensive, so ener-
and possessing so tenacious a hold upon
the confidence of the good, ought not thus to
be lost to the' cause of ” Chrisfi Much desire
was expressed that' it,: shpuld so reconstruct
itself, as to become amoiig the needy and
neglected, in time of peace, the same coun
sellor and helper which it had been to- the
sufferers in time oi war. The Commission
considered these views patiently and prayer
fully, and finally reached the conclusion that
it was best to adhere to its purpose of dis
banding at the close of the war. During the
summer and autumn, it gradually contracted
its work, and on the first of January closed
up its offices.
THE NEAT COMMISSION.
But the desire for some agency adapted
to the new state of things in the country,
partaking of the leading characteristics of the
Commission, gave birth to a new national
enterprise. This was provisionally organized
last- summer in Cleveland, by a meeting of
Divines and Christian laymen from various
parts of the Union, presided over by Chief
Justice Chase. It took the name of the
American Christian Commission. The out
line of its purpose is evangelical work, by
word and deed, among the classes, North
and South, whom all existing agencies,
churches included, have thus tar failed to
effect. We believe that the details of the
plan are still under discussion, but it is ex
pected that they will soon be developed inac
tion. Of this much it has been careful to
give assurance, that it will avoid friction with
any regular church work, making ofi itself
not a rival or disturber, but a subsidiary aid
of the established institutions of the Gospel.
We know not how much it may be embar
rassed by the effect upod the Christian public,
of the apprehensions thrown out by several
of the religious pap e f 3 > that it will become
intrusive upon their institutions. Our own
confidence is strong that, once fully at work,
its acts will dissipate these fears, and bring
warm-hearted churches and ministers to re-
joiee in the guiding of the Holy Spirit, which
brought it into existence. This will be espe
cially true, if it shall be clothed with an in
fluence which will draw out the personal
activity of Christians in the work of God.
The noblest record of any year in the modern
history of the church, awaits that of the one
which opens a new era of general, self-sacri
ficing and well-applied lay effort for the sal
vation of men.
MINISTERIAL RECORD.
- monthEy.
Ballantine , Mom/, Pres. 0. S. —Died at sea,
Nov. 9, while returning from 30 years’ ser
vice as missionary of the Am. Board in
India.
Becldey, G. H., Luth. —Transferred front
Woodsboro, Md., to Shippensburg, Pa.
Boggs, IF. K., Pres. N. S.—Resigned
charge of church in Marengo, lowa, and
become teacher in Ottumwa, same State.
Clarke , Samuel S., Pres. N. S. —Supplying
Fort St. Pres. Church, Detroit.
Davis, Edwin 11.. Pres. N. S. —P. 0. ad
dress changed front Camiilusto Avon, New
York. “
Dole, A. G., Ger. Ref.—Resigned pastorate
at Milton, Pa,
Goodrich, W., Ger. Ref.—Resigned pastorate
■ at Bloomsburg, -Pa.
Graham, James 8., Pres. 0. S. —Resigned
! pastorate at Norristown, Ohio.
Graham, Samuel, Pres. 0- S —Ordained and
installed at Mill Creek. S. W. Pa., Nov.
20.
Haight, J. 8., Pres. 0. S.—Ordained and
installed at Oxford, 0., Nov. 28.
Hough, J. W., Pres. N. S. —Installed at Sa- •
ginaw City, Mich., Nov. 22.
Jones, Williston, Pres. N. 6. —Died atßolla,
Mo., Nov. 20.
Killen, J. T., Pres. 0. S. — Transferred from
Constantine, Mich., to Green Bay, Wis.
McKee, Samuel , Pres. 0. S. —Installed at
Kendallville, Ind., Nov. 17. '
Magee, Irving, Luth.—lnstalled over Second
Luth. Church, Baltimore, Nov. 19.'
■ Marsh, E., Pres. N. 8. —Changed residence
from Canton to Washington, 111.
I Marshall, Joseph 11., Pres. 0. S. —Transfer-
: red from Doddsville to Perry, 111.
' Martin. Asa, Pres. N. S. —Died in Mahaska
Co., lowa, NofT 9.
Newberry, Samuel, Pres. N. S. —Appointed
Dist. See. of Am. (Boston) Tract Soc. for
lowa.
Park, IF. J., Pres. 0. S. —Ordained and
installed at Fredericksburg, 0., Nov. 7.
j Reeve, Tapping S., Pres. N. S. —Transfer-
i red from Rushvilie to Lacon, 111.
! Root, L. J., Pres. N. S.—Changed residence
; from Medina to Loekport, N. Y.
i Rosseter, F. E., Pres. N. S.—Transferred
! from Huron, 0., to Baraboo, Wis.
j Sebring, Elbert N., Ref. Dutch. —Orddßpd
’ ■ and installed at Ghent, N. Y., Nov. 15/
I Shenvin , John C-, Pres. N. S. —Transferred
! from La Crosse to West Salem, Wis.
; Sloat, A. J, Pres. 0. S. —Installed over
churches in Milford and Holland, N. J.,
Nov. 30.
, | Thom. J. C., Pres. 0. S. —Died recently in
j St- Louis, -Mo.
j 1 hompson, S. H., Pres. 0. S. —Installed-
I over churches in Tuekerton and Bass River,
: N. J., Nov. 22.
Ihorbum, A. M., Pres. N. S. —Installed at
i Ogden, N..Y., Nov. 21.
I Tan Vranken F. I 7!, Ref. Dutch. —Resigned
■ pastorate at Lysander, N. Y.
Voorhis, Stephen, Pres. M. S. —Resigned
pastorate at Hammondsport, N. Y.
Wallace, C. TFT, Pres. N. S. —Transferred
from Coshocton, 0., to Seymour, Ind.
' Wight, Ambrose., Pres. N. S. —Installed at
1 Bay City, Mich., Nov. 23.
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CAMP, MARCH, AID BATTLE-FIELD,
KEY. A. M. STEWART,
Chaplain 13th and 102 d .Regiments, P. V.
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