THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN
AND
GENESEE EVANGELIST.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1866.
THE AGE OF CRITICISM.
ITS NECESSITY, ONE-SIDEDNESS, AND
WEAKNESS.
“Fides prtccedit intellectum.”* — Auqustine.
“Neque enim quiero intelligere, ut credam,
sed credo ut intelligam. Nam et hoe credo,
quia nisi credidero non intelligam.”t — Anselm.
“If ye will not believe, ye shall not be es
tablished. 1 ’ — Isa. vii. 9.
The mental characteristics of the age
through which we are passing, may be con
oisely described in one word: Critical. It
is'an age of question, rather than of asser
tion ; of doubt, rather than of belief; of
analysis, rather than of synthesis. In lite
rature and .in high art, men are criticising
rather than creating; are writing histories
and philosophies of histories, rather than
achieving great works; in politics, they are,
with notable exceptions, revolutionizing
instead of building up nationalities ; in re
ligion, they are rationalizing, i. e., criticis
ing the grounds of faith, rather than ac
cepting and reposing upon them. No
production in any department of thought
can appear, but instantly a swarm of critics,
with keen sight and keener talons, swoop
upon it, like the gathering together of the
eagles around the carcass. No journal is
complete without its critical department;
Some live upon that department alone. Not
merely from regard to, the publio interest,
hut from the force also of this critical bent,
had we a Congressional Committee oh the
Conduct of the War , and a committee of
the whole editorial fraternity of the land
vigorously discussing every phase of it,
from the beginning to the end. We have
criticisms of the critics by other critics. We
have reviews reviewed by other reviewers,
and a rationale of rationalism by the latest
tribe of rationalists. The highest philoso
phical problem of the age is said to be in
methodology.
This phase of thought is upon us, around
us, and in us, and cannot be avoided. Its
excesses and perversions are criminal; itself
is providential, natural—a necessary p'ro
oess in the development of the thinking
Reflection and analysis it seems,
sooner or later must come, in all progress
.of the individual or of the race. After
every period of more or less unconscious
activity, we may expect a pause, in which
the mind shall turn to survey what it has
done or what has transpired within its ,
sphere; shall analyze tfye elements of its
new knowledge, discuss its value, and reo
ognize and appropriate what is good and
true as a basis for future advances. Thus
its ideas will gain clearness. It will know,
as a prudent man of business, the actual
amount and state of its possessions. It
will be furnished with tests of error.
Therefore the critical stage of thought
must not be disparaged or denounced as
worthless and dangerous. It is a necessary
element of progress. Protestantism itself
is, in great part, a challenge of the dead
spirit of acquiescence in authority, the spirit
of stolid and unquestioning content in past
acquisitions, that had overspread the world.
But this is not all of Protestantism, which
its enemies, and false friends alike, would
indeed charge with being a mere negation.
It asserts the right of private judgment as
against ail human assumptions of infalli
bility, while it bows the reason and the will
in intelligent submission to the Word of
God. Protestantism is not mere rational
ism, or cold criticism of the foundations of
truth. Criticism of itself is. one-sided and
defective. Pushed too far, it becomes a
vice and an abomination. It may be greatly
overvalued and suffered to usurp a place
far beyond its own importance and worth.
It may be practiced, not only with the hon
est purpose of clearing up our knowledge,
but with the perverted aim of sweeping it
all away, and unmooring us from all the
hard-won landmarks of the past.
Has the race really made any progress ?
Has it gained any knowledge of the mys
teries of our being and destiny; or is every
thing yet at the mercy of mere guesses ?
Is the critical spirit, in its full develop
ment, the only real evidence of progress
man can show ? Is it our greatest achieve
ment to have found out that we have never,
as a race, really achieved anything ? It is
indeed to-this reductio ad absurdum that
criticism, pushed to its one-sided extreme,
would bring us. Iu religion, it assails, with
sweeping analysis, the standards of our
faith, and not only honestly endeavors to
give us exaot views of their nature, internal
relations and value, blit pushes its work to
the actual destruction of their elemental
* “Faith precedes knowledge.”
f “For I do not seek to know that! may
believe, but I believe that I may know. For I
also believe, because unless I shall have be
lieved I shall not know.”
ISTew Series, 'V'ol. 111, ISTo. 3.
parts. If we yield ourselves to the exclu
sive direction of this bent of our nature, it
will land us in utter barrenness of thought,
in universal skepticism, in sneering Sad
duceism. We not wonder that the poet,
Wordsworth, declared that he “ held the
critical power very low, infinitely lower
than the inventive,” or that he said to a
friend, “ if the quantity of time consumed
in writing critiques on the works of others
was given to original composition of what
ever kind it might be, it would be much
better employed.” He doubtless had in
view the class who indulge that one-sided
bent, of their natures to excess, and who
blindly exalt it to a supreme place in the
mind.
We protest against the exaltation of the
critical faculty in religion, as -Wordsworth
did in literature. It is a grand and fatal
mistake, and a grievous wrong to other fac
ulties of the soul. It is a sin against .the
law of proportion and of healthful develop
ment of those faculties. It is worse; it is
giving to a faculty, meant only to hold
secondary rank, supreme and exclusive im
portance. It is making the prying, doubt
ing, questioning spirit the ornament and
glory of man's nature. It is making it his
chief function to suspect. Useful and ne
cessary as this may be in its place, it is a
mere weakness, a morbid activity, when
carried to the extent we see exhibited all
around us. The true glory of man is in
the right exercise of his capacity op faith.
All movements which in themselves, tend
to weakeft, confuse, and corrupt this fac
ulty, are hostile to man’s true interests and
true dignity. They are a degradation in
stead of an advancement. The true dig
nity and safety of the intelligent creature
is an intelligent, unshaken trust in . the
Creator, and in his revealed word. The
highest and most satisfying exercise of the
human mind is in graspiDg firmly the great
truths, the soul-sustaining doctrines of the
Gospel. • The true strength is to be strong
in faith. As the highest dignity and excel
lence of literature is in- originating—“ in
venting”—as Wordsworth asserted, and not
in painfully going over and ’.computing the
worth of what has been produced, so the
highest exercise of the - religious nature is
in appropriating and having formed in our
selves, as a personal reality, the truths
which God has revealed for our acceptance.
The first necessity is to believe; and the
seoond necessity : to know why and what
we believe, is never so great or so plain as
the first: to believe. In a word, the first,
the second, and the third necessity, is still,
to believe, and all criticism is superfluous,
noxious, and wicked, which blinds us to
that prime necessity, or seeks to make it
secondary. First, we must live, after that
and in subordination to that, we may study
hygiene,anatomy, and medioine. First, we
must have the ship, and though after long
voyaging she may need to have her bottom
cleansed, let us suffer no man, under pre
tense of removing- barnacles and sea-weed,
‘ to hew the staunch planks from her bottom
and to rend them from her sides.
The capacity to believe in God and to
embrace the truth as it is in Jesus; this it
is which we must guard, cherish, and cul
tivate above all things, and hold it as infi
nitely above all the attainments of a busy,
boasting, speculative criticism ; as intrinsi
cally the most valuable and honorable of
the powers with which man is endowed; as
giving him real personal, eternal posses
sions, which criticism may measure, es
timate, and decry, without a title to the
smallest portion of them, or indeed of any
other real good. The mere critic will die
in the midst of the plenty he is chemically
investigating, while the believer lives -and
is happy forever.
IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE.
We are glad to.notice that. Dr. William
Adams, of New York, reiterates, in the
current number of the Presbyterian Quar
terly, the position taken by him last spring
on the above subject. We quote a few
sentences from page 91:—'
“We like the expression impartial suf
frage better than universal suffrage. What
ever qualifications may be thought proper
for the high and solemn duties of a voter,
let those qualifications be allowed to work,
impartially, without regard to color-. Those
qualifications existing, let none be denied
the right of voting because of the com
plexion of the skin; and on the other hand
we may well hesitate to confer that right
on any, because they are black, when want
ing the qualifications which are expected
of others.”
We believe the colored men of the coun
try would be entirely satisfied with suffrage
on these conditions. ' History may be
searched in vain, we believe, for an exam
ple of a race so lately enslaved, improving
with such ardor the opportunities just
placed in their reach, to fit themselves for
the’duties and responsibilities of citizen
ship.
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1866.
ALL HAIL, CONGRESS!
True hearts all over the land rejoice in
the high, honorable, and eminently safe
position assumed and steadily maintained
by*Congress, on the relations of the lately
rebel States to the loyal part of the Union.
While there may be some members elect
from those States, whom it would be entirely
sate to admit, as individuals, to the delib
erations and the ams of. the body, who is
there that did not feel a thrill of irrepres
sible relief, when the greater part of the
delegations that had trooped to the Capitol
of the nation, confident of easy admission
to its highest councils, found out how
grievously they (and some others) had. mis
taken the real sentiment of the nation, and,
like a flock of unclean birds, disappointed,
in their prey, reluctantly rose, took wing,
and disappeared from the sight. Thank
God! we have a Congress, in which, not
yet, a recent traitor, fresh from scenes of
fiercest and bloodiest effort to overthrow
the country, can take bis seat unquestioned
by the side of the men that have risked
their , all to defend it, or can share with
them the most sacred functions entrusted
to the servants of the Republic. Thank
God! no disloyal community in the South,
has, as yet, secured representation, as such,
and over the heads of the: loyal portion of
the community, white or black, in the
legislative branch of the Government.
Thank God! no State which refuses the
commonest measure of justice and of pro
tection to the Freedman, and that giveß
evidence of a wish' to perpetuate his degra
dation, has been recognized as upon the
rolls of this free and victorious sisterhood
of States ! Thank God; 1 the precious fruits
of victory, purchased by;ah enormous debt,'
and .by the sacrifice of three hundred
thousand loyal lives, are not legislated out
of our reach, nor are likely to be, by the
Thirty-ninth • Congress, .or by any body of
legislators truly representing the people.
All praise to this faithful, immovably
loyal body, which seems conscious of the:
vastness of its responsibilities, and which
may yet be hailed as the saviour of the
country, as truly as Gen. Grant and his
brave soldiers, or as Mr.. . Lincoln and his
Cabinet.
There are worthless, heartless politicians,
who are looking greedily' towards ! the
elements of future party strength in the
reconstructed South, and who are vieing
with each other in bids for its support.
There are those who have not lost, and
never will lose, the trick of fawning and
grovelling upon the dominant class of the
South. There are those who, with all their
show of statesmanship, leave out of view
the important element of-justice in their
schemes of national policy, and who can see
no reason for delaying the process of recon
struction, to satisfy such an abstraction- as
the public conscience. There are those
who are supremely anxious for a speedy re
turn to a specie basis in business, to a
plenty of cotton, to the palmy days of traffic
with the South, and who are perfectly wil-
I ling to “jump the hereafter” if their selfish
wishes may but be gratified in the present;
ju|t as they would have yielded the South
everything they asked, rather than break
with them and go to war. There are those
who suffer unchristian and unreasoning
prejudice against the colored man to close
their eyes to his rights/to make them in
different to his fate in the hands of his old
masters, or to his aspirations and capabili
ties for the future. All these and similar
influences are at work in the community;
all have their organs in the newspaper
press, and their lobbyists (who are often
reporters to these papers) in Washington.
Some lay large claims to the influence of
the Executive, and in a manner most scan
dalous in a free country, menace the repre
sentatives of the people with the dire con
sequences of the displeasure of the Execu
tive, if his wishes are not complied with in
the matter of reconstruction. Such para
graphs as the following, telegraphed from
Washington to one of our city dailies
during the early part of the session, are a
disgrace to the columns of an American
journal:
“The action of the Senate caucus upon the
joint resolution is an augury of better times,
and affords sincere gratification to the conser
vative masses. The radicals have but to re
member that the President holds the.strong
est hand, both in a constitutional view and
also in the matter of patronage, to compel, if
need Joe, an acquiescence in the only policy
which he feels sure will restore harmony and
true peace to the nation. The power to
•appoint and remove is one that few of even
his bitterest opponents can withstand, and
when it is onee known that the President has
determined to use that power to bring the
malcontents to terms, there will be a far
different feeling in Congress from what was
evinoed during the early proceedings of last
week -
“ The Mexican resolves are, at best, buga
boos. A large amount of valuable breath
will be wasted in the ‘vindication of the
Monroe doctrine, as was the case at the last
-Grene.see Evangelist, No. 1026
session; but were Congress to pass a whole
hatful of resolutions, it would not succeed in
driving the President into ahostile position. ”*
Such unworthy attempts to influence a
body of high-minded, honorable and un
usually able men, put forth, doubtless,
utterly without authority, it might be seen
beforehand, must fail of their object.
Never had we a Congress which so truly
represented the best sentiment of the coun
try —never had we a body of men in Wash
ington so little likely to be swayed by mere
partisan influences. Against the resolute
will and the stern sense of duty of these
legislators, the tide of semi-rebel sentiment,
North and South; the reaction towards ex
cessive and misplaced leniency; the short
sighted haste.of covetousness calling itself
business enterprise; the wicked prejudice
against the negro; the -whole vis inertine of
the respectable conservatism of the North,
backed by threats of Executive displeasure,
as false as they are have availed
nothing.
Representatives, shrink not, swerve not
-from your position. Stand true to your
. glorious and incalculably precious charge,
to which so many have proved unfaithful,
and the old Roman Senators shall not have
a reputation as honorable and as fragrant
.as yours.
* Special Dispatch to the Public Ledger.'
THE DEMAGOGUE TURNED RE
FORMER.
We have already informed our readers
of: the; extraordinary assumptions of ; the
editor of The Press to superiority in Scrip-'
tiir'e knowledge, to greater regard for the
public morals,, and to more enlightened,
unselfish and practical designs for the pub
lic good, than those of the entire body of
the evangelical clergy in the city. Doubt
less they are prepared to learn, that this
sapient editor has taken a fresh step in
arrogance, and now assumes to play the
pedagogue, not only over the clergy of the
city, but over the legislators of the State.
They, too, shall learn from the pure and
sound'light of this great and experienced
moralist, to draw right distinctions between
question's of public morals - and public
utility, to understand the nature of the
Sabbath, to know their duties generally as
speaker, as committee men, as legislators,
L gna as guardians of-the true interests of
the Commonwealth; -Eor some time, by
means of agents at the State Capital, this
editor has been inculcating his views upon
individual members of the legislature, and
has so far succeeded, that bills to allow the
running of'passenger railway cars in the
city have been promptly introduced into
both houses. The disposition made of the
bill in the Senate, however, does not please
him. The Speaker of that body is not a
proficient in the new doctrines. The
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rail
roads is also a poor scholar. He dqep not
want the bill in his Committee. The
Speaker consigns it summarily to the Com
mittee on Tice and Immorality.' What a
shocking disposition of the pet measure of
I this new teacher of public morals ! Natur
ally he is disgusted. The instructions of
his Harrisburg agent having failed, he will
now take the stupid, legislators, and espe
cially the perverse Speaker of the Senate
in hand, and read them a terrifying lesson
through more public channels. Hear the
Reformer speaking ex cathedra.
“ A QUESTION OF UTILITY
“ The Speaker of the Senate, at Harris
burg, is an estimable gentleman, no doubt,
but he was scarcely elected to that dignified
and useful office to discuss religious theories,
as if he were a professor of theology. On
Thursday, Mr. Donovan, one of the State
Senators from Philadelphia, read a bill in
J,he Senate to allow passenger railway cars to
run on all days of the week, in compliance
with the general demand for such accommo
dation. -The Speaker referred it to the Com
mittee on Vice and Immorality. Mr.
Donovan, who is a practical man, requested
that it should be referred to the Railroad
Committee, but the Speaker said it would be
referred to the committee he had. named,
because it had reference to the morality of the
community. Herein, it is clear that the
Speaker h'ad fallen into the too common
error of begging the question. The bill in
question refers not to a moral question, but to
a matter of public utility , and has to be con
sidered, in and out of the Legislature,. on
that ground, and not upon any fanatical
theory, whether broached by the clergy or
the laity. The Speaker will please take
notice. ’'
But seriously, does this editor expect the
legislators and the moral people of this
Commonwealth to accept his teachings on
matters of morals and high public utility, as
sound and disinterested ? Does he think
they hare forgotten, that through his politi
cal tnanoeuvering, it came to pass that the
imbeoile James Buchanan occupied and
disgraced, beyond all precedent, the Presi
dential chair ; or that they have forgotten
how, like the high priests abandoning the
w retohed Judas, when they could make
nothing more out of him, this same editor
abandoned Mr. Buchanan, when he became
useless to his schemes of political ambition;
or that they fail to observe now the attempt
of the same man to cast off and crush the
religious part of the community, to destroy
the institutions of the Gospel, and to intro
duce a Parisian Sabbath into our goo'd pld
Commonwealth, after he has gained from
the endorsement of the loyal and religious
community all the reputation for decency he
ever had, and all the additional chances for
political preferment he could? “Utility,”
forsooth! No doubt he, and the classes he
represents, would like to have not only the
fourth, hut all the ten commandments re
moved from the sphere of morals to that of
“utility,” if not abrogated altogether.
In a word, this editor is egregiously mis
taken, if he thinks he is not thoroughly
comprehended by the religious community;
if he thinks his old and half-forgotten char
acter of demagogue is not instantaneously
brought back ; by his recent attempt to play
the Reformer; if he thinks the dissonant
notes of the mere self-seeking politician
are not recognized, under the assumed lion
skin of the public reformer. Whatever
success he may have in his schemes of
advancement, let him no longer calculate on
the support of the religious portion of the
community,unless Unitarians, Universalists,
Swedenborgians, spirit-rappers el id genus
omne, are its representatives.
SABBATH-BREAKING NEWSPAPERS
UNNECESSARY.
We are thankful for the aid our New
York City contemporaries are lending us
in our movements to maintain the Sabbath
keeping character of our city. The JV. Y.
Observer says:—
There is no more necessity for having
newspapers published and circulated on the
Sabbath than there is of having all other
kinds of business carried on as on other
days. England, so far, has resisted the
temptation to issue Sunday papers. If the
London Times , the greatest newspaper es
tablishment in the world, can get along
without a Sunday paper, it is difficult to
understand why the newspapers of this city,
and of Philadelphia, and of other Ameri
can cities, should not be able to flourish
“Without violating the Sabbath day.
There are many who desire to have the
news on the Sabbath, and there are' many
who would like to have everything else
going on upon the Sabbath just as on other
days. But the question is one of morals.
The Sunday, press is. exerting a very perni
cious influence upon the public mind, be
cause it is insidiously, hut efficiently, break
ing down one of the greatest harriers against
immorality. It is destroying, in the minds
of those who regularly read them, all re
gard for the day as a sacred day. It is
placing itself in direct antagonism to the
pulpit, God’s appointed means of conserv
ing and extending 'religious influence; it
unfits the reader for the services of the
sanctuary; it increases the current of
mammonism and secularism already so
fearfully strong and debiting; and it opens
a floodgate for the influx of demoralizing
influences. Even the late Theodore Par
ker, who had labored all his life to break
down the Puritan Sabbath, in one of his
last letters from Italy, made the memora
ble confession that rather than he cursed
with the fearful desecration of an Italian
or Parisian Sunday he would have the old
fashioned Puritan Sabbath, with all its ex
cesses. It is impossible to' violate the
fourth commandment without at the same
time undermining the whole .Decalogue.
If anything distinguishes the Christian
ity of Great Britain and America from the
Christianity of the Continent, it is the
strict observance of ■ the Sabbath as a Di
vinely-appointed day of holy rest. Every
earnest Christian traveler and observer ad
mits the superior practical advantages of
the Anglo-American Sabbath, however he
may differ from our theory. Even the
zealous Homan Catholic Count Montalem
bert derives the constitutional freedom and
national prosperity of England from her
sacred regard for the day which God gave
to man as a training-school of piety, virtue
and self-government. Freedom is impossi
ble without law and discipline. The best
men in Switzerland and Germany are now
laboring to introduce a better observance
of the Lord’s. Day after the English and
American example. Should we retrograde
and degenerate ?
The Christian Intelligencer quotes from
the Journal of Commerce the declaration
that:—
Since the foundation of the paper in
1827, no person in its employ has been
permitted to do any work on Sunday, and
the doors of the entire building are locked
from Saturday night till Monday morn
ing.
The Journal argues for the Sabbath as
follows: —
It is so beneficent, so pure, and so calm
int' in its effects on the entire stream of
life, t.Tift, the human race have the most
profound interest in preserving, cherishing,
and widening its powerful influences.
Whoever invented it, whoever opened the
spring from whioh this current flows, it is,
beyond dispute, the greatest of blessings
now Did the Philadelphia editors never
observe this notable fact ? If not, they
are lamentably ignorant of all history. They
dare not deny that it is fact. If they know
it, and yet seek deliberately, and with such
unseemly anger, to throw filth into the
i fu K M es.
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Borne Missionaries, $2 00 in advance.
Fifty cents additional after three months.
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Advertisements.—l2Js cents per line for the
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One square (one month) $3 00
“ two months 5 SO
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Over 20 lines, 10 per cent off; over 50 lines, 20 per
cent, trover 100 lines, 33)4 per cent. off.
stream out of which this nation derives
such life-giving benefits, then we leave
them them to their own judgment, retort
ing none of their senseless clamor against
us.
DR. MARCH’S PASSAGLIA.
Perhaps the best article of the many
very good ones contributed to our paper
by Dr. March, was one on Passaglia, which
appeared in our columns some time last
fall. In the November number of Chris
tian Work, it appeared exactly as printed in
our columns, without the slightest intima
tion of the source from which it was derived.
Nay, worse, it was placed among “ Letters
from Correspondents of Christian Work,”
without a sign of distinction, immediately
following a letter purporting to come from
Milan, Italy. The running title “ Letters
from Correspondents,” is immediately above
the commencement of the article, at the
top of the page.
This singular sort of “ Christian work”
would have scarcely seemed worthy of
notice, but for the fact that several of our
American cotemporaries, aided in their
judgment by an English approval of the
article, are republishing and quoting from
it, as original in the English journal. The
author was as much suprised to see it in
that position in the journal as we were. It
is about as cool and as inexcusable an act
of literary pilfering as we have almost ever
met with.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN AND
THEOLOGICAL REVIEW.
The number for January has just been
laid on our table. It appears in a new
dress, showing the genuine Presbyterian
color. From a glance at the contents, we
should pronounce them timely and valua
ble. They include: Maxims for Sermon
izing, by Prof. Shedd; Relations of the Old
Testament to the New, by Prof. Harhaugh,
of Mercersburgh; an Essay on Induction,
by Prof. H. N. Day, of New Haven; The
War for Independence and the War for
Secession, by Dr. Adams; Patristio Doc
trine of the Sacraments, by Dr. Schaff;
The Westminster Confession in England
and Ireland, by Dr. Gillett; Mill’s Exami
nation of Hamilton’s Philosophy, by Prof.
H. -B. Smith, D.D. ; Bushnell on the
Atonement; Critical Notes on Recent
Books; Theological and Literary Intelli
gence. The reviews of Mill and of Bush
-nell must command attention. The con
ductors of the journal oould not have done a
better service to the Church than in spread
ing these documents upon their pages.
It is claimed that the Review is, in circu
lation, the second among theological reviews
in the country, yet in need of further
patronage for its complete establishment.
We heartily commend it to our readers.
THE CONGREGATIONAL OR FORE
FATHERS’ FUND.
The last Independent says that the fund
attempted to be raised December 20th, or
about that date,. by the Congregational
churches of the country, was designed to
reach §200,000, for church building pur
poses. It figures up about ninety thousand
dollars reported to that office, and supposes
the total collections thus far reported will
amount to one hundred thousand. Some
disappointment at the result pervades the
following sentences which we cut from that
paper: —
It is greatly to be regretted that some of
the more wealthy and liberal of our churches
failed to enter into the spirit of this noble
undertaking, which promised to meet so
effectually one of the greatest wants of our
cause in the West and South. We hope
the trustees of the Union, on taking a
survey of the ground, will be encouraged
to make such a vigorous and fresh appeal
to the Congregationalists of the country as
will bring into the treasury the entire sum
recommended by the Council, of two hun
dred thousand dollars. There can be no
doubt that the whole will be wanted, and
much more, as the work of religious recon
struction goes on in the South, and if that
of expansion shall keep up in any /tolerable
measure with the advance of population in
the West.
,il The times of triumph of sin are only when
the Church strikes hands with it.” — America*
Presbyterian, December 7.
List of orthodox Churches advertising in
Saturday’s Press :—
15th Presbyterian, 15th and Lombard.
Arch Street Lutheran, Arch and Broad.
Ist Ref. Dutch, 7th and Spring Garden.
Church of the Nativity, 11th and Mount
Vernon.
2d Presbyterian, 7th below Arch".
3d Reformed Dutch, 10th and Filbert.
St. Philip’s, Vine below Bth.
Central Congregational, 18th and Mount
Vernon.
Besides these, we find Swedenborgian,
Universalists, and Second Advent meetings,
advertised, but no New School, United or
Reformed Presbyterians, no Methodists and
no Baptists.