OLIVER CROMWELL. 11.
When the King and Parliament finally
cume into open collison, and both were
struggling to raise an army, Cromwell’s
course, for the first time, became clearly
pronounced. His arm is better than his
tongue; and as Parliament passed from
words into action, he immediately takes
a prominent position, which he ever af
terwards maintains. He contributed
three hundred pounds towards the ad
vancement of his cause. He then joined
the Parliamentary Army with his two
sons, one twenty and the other sixteen
years of age. Shortly afterwards, he
raised two companies of volunteers at
Cambridge. Here is high treason at the
very outset, and, if the Kjng shall con
quer, loss of life and property. But
Cromwell took his course, and not all
the kings of the world can turn him
aside. Soon the hidden energy of the
man begins to develope itself. He gath
ers around him that famous body of
cavalry to which he gave the name of
Ironsides. He selected for it religious
men, who fought for conscience sake, and
not for prey or plunder. He inflamed
them with the highest religious enthusi
asm. Fighting under the especial pro
tection of Heaven, they would rush to
the battle or to a banquet and embrace
death with rapture. These Ironsides
were truly religious men. To see them
singing psalms and praying, some might
curl their lips at the thought of their
being warriors. But with their helmets
on, and their sabres shaking over their
heads, and their eyes flashing fire, they
swept on like a thunder-cloud to battle.
The battle of Edgehill was fought in
1642. The next year, Cromwell was
busy subduing the country. In 1644,
the famous battle of Marston Moor took
place. The King’s army of thirty thou
sand was utterly routed, and almost en
tirely destroyed by Cromwell and his
Ironsides. The next year Cromwell is
appointed comander-in-chief of the cav
alry. And at the battle of Naseby he
commanded the cavalry himself. It Was
on a cold January morning that the bat
tle was fought. The war cry*of the
Puritans that day was, “ God is with
ns.” It rolled along their lines in one
shgut, as they moved to the attack. It
was the fiercest battle that had yet been
fought.
During these years of toil and victory,
Cromwell moves before us like some re
sistless power, crushing every thing that
would stay its progress. Simple, aus
tere, and decided, he maintained his
ascendency over the army. With the
Psalms of David on his lips, and the
sword of war in his hands, he swept
over his victorious battle-fields like some
leader of the hosts of Israel. Discour
aged by no obstacles, disheartened by
no reverses, Cromwell leans in sole dm
faith on the arm of the God of battles
and of truth. Without the feverish
anxiety that belongs to ambition, or the
dread of defeat which accompanies the
love of glory, he is impelled onward by
a feeling of duty, and loses himself in
the noble cause for which he struggles.
Acting under the eye of Heaven, with
his thoughts fixed on that dread judg
ment where he must render up a faith
ful record of his deeds, he vacillates only
when he doubts what is right, and fears
only when a pure God rises before him.
At the battle of Dunbar, he appears
in the simplicity and grandeur of his
character. Here fortune at last seems
about to desert him. His little army of
twelve thousand men was compelled to
retire before the superior forces of the
enemy, and it finally encamped on a
small barren tongue of land projecting
into the Frith of Forth. On the bleak
and narrow peninsula, only a mile and a
half wide, might be seen the white tents
of Cromwell’s army. In front of him is
a desolate, impassable moor, with a low
ridge of hills, beyond which stands an
army twenty-three thousand strong. It
would seem at last as if the lion was
caught. But here Cromwell, calm and
self-sustained, waits the issue. Forget
ting himself in the nobleness of his great
heart, he says, “ Let me fall in silence,
let not the news of my danger bring
discouragement on our
will be done!” That night his twelve
thousand men were placed in battle
array, with orders, as soon as the morn
ing dawned, to fall on the enemy. All
night long the drenched army stood,
without a tent to cover them, in the cold
storm, while the moan of the sea seemed
chanting a requiem beforehand for the
dead that should cumber the field. But
shriek of the blast and the
steady roar of the waves, the voice of
prayer was heard along the lines. To
wards morning, the clouds broke away,
and the moon shown dimly down on the
silent host. With thq : first dawn, the
trumpets sounded the charge—the ar
tillery opened their fire—while louder
than all rings the shout, “ The Lord of
Hosts! The Lord of Hosts!” as the
infantry and cavalry pour in one wild
torrent together on the enemy. As the
suu rose and sent Ms beams over the
Struggling host of the enemy, Cromwell
shouted forth, “ Let God arise, and let
his enemies be scattered !” and soon the
twenty thousand men were' seen like a
cloud of fugitives, sweeping hither and
thither over the fields. At the base of
the hill on which the enemy had been
encamped, Cromwell ordered a general
halt, and he and his army sung the 11 Tth
Psalm to the tune of Bangor. When
the psalm was sung, they rushed on to
battle and achieved a complete victory.
The true heroic greatness of Crom
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 1. 1866
well is strikingly displayed on the occa
sion of dissolving the Rump Parliament.
This Parliament could not get along
with its business. Cromwell’s patience
became exhausted. One day in April,
a certain person informed Cromwell that
the Parliament was passing a bill to pro
long its own duration. On hearing this,
he became indignant and excited, and
hastened down to the house and took his
seat. For about a quarter of an hour
he sat still. At length he rose to speak.
At first he spoke in a calm tone, and
gave them all honor for what they had
done. Gradually, however, becoming
warmer and more vehement, he charged
them with injustice, delays, strifes, and
petty ambitions, and declared that he
had come to put an end to the power of
which they had made such bad use. He
had now fairly got on his battle face,
and his large eyes Seemed to emit fire
as he strode forth on to the floor of the
house, stamping it with his feet. “ Ton
are no Parliament,” he thundered forth;
“ I’ll put an end to you. Some of you
are drunkards”—and he pointed to those
whom he had in view. “ Others live a
corrupt and scandalous life”—and his
eyes glanced frightfully on them; “ I say
ye are no Parliament! Get ye gone!
Give way to honest men I”
Thus we see Cromwell, whether
bowed in fasting and prayer before God,
or trampling down the ranks of the ene
my under the hoofs of his cavalry;
whether lost in a strange enthusiasm
over a Psalm of David, or standing alone
as the rock around which the waves of
the Revolution were dashing and were
soon to sleep, displaying the same lofty
purpose and steadfast heart.
But as the sun must set, so must
Cromwell lie down and sleep the last
sleep of death. In 1658, Cromwell felt
his health declining. About the month
of August, he was attacked with a fe
ver. He grew worse and worse. He
was soon advised to keep to his bed.
Prayers both private and public were
offered up on his behalf. • The Bick man
spoke much of the covenant between
God and his people. As his wife and
children stood weeping around his bed,
he said to them, "Love not this world;
I say unto you, it is not good that you
should love this world.” Atone time he
exclaimed, “Lord, thou kno west if I de
sire to live, it is to show forth thy
praise and declare thy works.” At an
other, “I am a conqueror and more
than a conqueror, through Christ that
strengtheneth me I” Such were Crom
well’s engrossing reflections in those
solemn moments when the soul, no
longer master of itself, shows what it
really is. All his thoughts were directed
to his Saviour, his Covenant, and his
Heaven. On Monday, August 30th, a
dreadful hurricane burst over London.
The wind howled and blew with such
violence, that travelers feared to set out
on their journey, and the chamber of
Whitehall echoed with its roar. That
night Cromwell offered up a most solemn
and affecting prayer for his people and
even for his enemies. He died Septem
ber 3d, 1658. In reference to the great
storm that attended his death, the poet
Waller sung:—
Nature herself took notice of his death,
And sighing, swelled the sea with such a breath,
That, to remotest shores, her billows rolled
The approaching fate of their great Ruler told.
HAVE WE A BIBLE RUBRIC? VI.
DIFFERENCES OF ADMINISTRATIONS.
Mt Dear Brother :—I am glad my
last letter, on the marriage and funeral
dlrvices, commended itself to you and
your friend’s judgments, and I hope this
may be read with the aid of the same
judicious critic. The truth is, God gives
us more grace, and more freedom, than
we generally avail ourselves of; but
when a great revival comes we walk at
liberty, and wonder at our former wor
ship of graven images.
As to your demurrer against instru
mental music, as not commanded m the
New Testament, that is Baptist ground.
The Presbyterian principle is, that a
Divine ordinance, such as infant church
membership, or instrumental music,
needs only one institution, and is in
force till repealed. Now, no one can pro
duce a repealing text in the case of
either.
Tour second demurrer, that it is car
nal and Jewish, is a confirmation of my
position. You bring a Bible institution
to the tribunal of your reason, and decide
that it is carnal. You do not say it is
not, but that it ought not to be, of con
stant obligation. The objection, how
ever, I may say, comes with a very bad
grace from one who so strenuously main
tains that the Psalms, of which it was an
accompaniment, are the most spiritual
and Christian of all liturgies of praise.
How can you make the hymn spiritual
and the music carnal ? The hundred
and fiftieth Psalm, for instance ?
But the most extraordinary manifes
tation of the presence of the Holy Ghost
under the Old Testament, was given in
response to worship which consists of
the union of vocal and instrumental
music. “ It came to pass, that as the
trumpeters and singers were as one, to
make one sound to be heard, in praising
and thanking the Lord, and when they
lift up their voice with trumpets and
cymbals, and instruments of music,, and
praised the Lord saying: ‘ For He is
good, for His mercy endureth forever,’
that then the house was filled with a
cloud, even the house of the Lord, so
that the priests could not stand to min
ister, because the glory of the Lord bad
filled the house of God.” A Seceder
exegesis of that passage would be a
curiosity. Are the heavenly harpers
carnal worshippers? Let us humbly
acknowledge that our controversialists
have indulged themselves in a very profane
way of talking about such Bible ordinan
ces as they did not like ; and have, by
their rationalistic pseudo-spiritualizing,
prepared the leverage of prejudice
against the Old Testament, which the
Broad Church now use to such a variety
of processes. But whether carnal or
spiritual, no man can deny that the wor
ship of God by instruments of music is
an ordinance of Divine institution, re
corded in Scripture; and no man can
produce any Scripture commanding its
cessation. Now, if you believe in the
rubrical authority of the Bible, why
have you not a brass band in your
church ? For such is the pattern shown
in the mount.
We are greatly more prone to idolize
the special ordinances of the Church,
however, than the common ordinances;
witness the 'Sanctity which Episcopal
ordination is supposed to confer. Yet
imposition of hands was at first bestow
ed on justices of the peace, afterward
upon the general of the ariny, there
after on the lowest order of clergy, the
deacons, and finally upon multitudes of
sick persons, and new converts. In
each of these cases it appears that the
action was not a religious formality, but
an effective conveyance of the gifts of
the Holy Ghost. It is, as you well
know, a greatly disputed point,- whether
in any case it was employed as a desig
nation to the presbyterial or episcopal
office. There is no clear scriptural ex
ample of any bishop or Presbyteries
ordaining any body to the Gospel minis
try by imposition of hands, though there
were hundreds of bishops in the churches
ere the canon closed. The only thing
which looks like it, is the dedication of
Barnabas, and the Apostle Paul to the
Foreign Missionary work, by the Pres
bytery of Antioch; both of whom, how
ever, had been long in the full exercise
of the ministry, and the latter of whom
expressly ' asserts the independence of
his apostolic authority of any human
being. Whence commentators conclude
the design to have been the conveyance
of fresh powers of the' Holy Ghost.
Hence the great diversity of ordination
services, even in the same Church; and
the general acknowledgment, that where
a ritual is used, it is ecclesiastical, not
scriptural.
The ordinance of chrism, however,
lies - under no such uncertainty. It is
appointed in one of the Catholic epistles,
in language plain, direct, and incapable
of sophistication. The subjects, admin
istrators, mode, accompanying prayer,
and consequent blessing are plainly pre
scribed. It is commanded along with
prayer, praise, confession, intercession,
and conversion of sinners. It has never
been repealed, nor does the least hint
thereof appear in subsequent Scriptures.
There is no more direct authority for
baptism, or the. supper, than for chrism.
Yet no Church observes it as instituted,
and the Protestant Churches do not
observe it at all. We all feel instinct
ively that a mere Scripture command
cannot make an ordinance. The law
hath no dominion over a dead Church.
The Popish perversion of anointing
men for death instead of recovery, is
genuine anti-Christian. Our neglect of
it is merely non-Christian. " Why,
then,” you ask, “ do you not revive this
ordinance?’’ Alas! my brother. If
you ever hear of any man who can re
vive a dead ordinance, tell me, and we
will cross continents and oceans to have
his hands laid on our heads. But let
the hideous exhibitions of the Irvingites
warn every believer in the Holy Ghost
to beware how he begins to galvanize,
the corpse of a Divine ordinance. 0
Lord, when will thou anoint us with
the Holy Ghost and with power?
Baptism is the next ordinance in
order, which I shall pass over lightly,
as it is the point in dispute, and my
assertions, or your friend’s, would be
merely begging the question. Yet I sup
pose your friend will admit some modern
improvements, such as warm baths,
water-proof dresses, and examination of,
candidates before the Church. There is
also a wonderful stress laid on following
Christ into the water, and an apostolic
succession of immersed believers, and a
great desire for immersions, which
scarcely correspond to Paul’s declara
tion, “ that Christ sent him not to bap
tize, but to preach the Gospel.” ' He
would not stand well, I fear, with a
Baptist Board of Missions in such terms.
And I may here express the opinion that
to make any mode of baptism a term of
communion is to elevate that ceremony
above all the other forms of worship,
which we all treat as secondary, to the
level of an article of faith, or a duty of
morals. It is to mistake the sacrament
for the grace, consecrate the outward
form with the importance of the living
Spirit, and lead the unthinking crowd to
confound the washing with water, with
the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
Are Christians to be scared from their
propriety by the spirit of fashion and wealth,
and the egotism of this world —the hea
venly by the earthly V Shall a' royal priest
hood, a holy nation, blush, and cringe, and
skulk, and compromise in a world of shams
like this ? * * *
A spiritual life—which is in the will,
irresistible righteousness; in the con
science, delicacy and decision; in the un
derstanding, light ; in the affections, re
verence and love —is the one thing our
churches want, and ours to-day is the high
honor of consulting how to bring it to
them or them to it. —Scottish Congrega
tional Magazine.
WESTERN MATTERS.
THE LUMBERMEN.
I suppose the habits and character of
all people are largely modified by their
particular pursuits, and that this modifi
cation will extend to their moral and
religious character. In this part of the
world, where the manufacture of lumber
is a leading business, one has abundant
occasion to remember this fact. Lum
bermen are, I think, a peculiar people,
wherever they exist. I have reference
more especially to those who do the
work, rather than to such as furnish the
capital, run the risks, and share the pro
fits. These latter are perhaps little
different, if any, from other people.
But the real lumberman spends his
summers in a mill—a saw-mill at that
—and his winters in the woods. In the
latter case, he is cutting and getting out
his logs ; and in the former, he is work
ing them into boards. In either case,
his life is one of work. The ’mills in
summer—for the mills hereabouts do not
run in winter—commence their running
with the first dawn of day, and do not
stop till dark.; and in this latitude the
days in summer are a good deal longer
than in Philadelphia, as you may see by
looking at the almanac.
Is the lumberman a religious man?
Does he attend church on the Sabbath ?
So far as I have knowledge, it is the
general case that he neglects religion
and- religions privileges. In summer,
his only relaxation is in the evening,
after his work is over. He is therefore
tempted to be with his company at the
saloon, where he prolongs his stay often
far into the night. His winters are in
the “camps” in the woods, where large
numbers of men are gathered together
by themselves. Their amusements are
such as usually attach to snch a mode
of life. Of coarse, there is no religious
exercise of any kind in such communi
ties ; at least, not often. Ido not say
that there are not such camps made up
largely of religious men, and who take
care to secure religious privileges for
themselves, for I do not pretend to know
of all such communities; but I appre
hend that such cases are rare exceptions.
Many of the men are Catholics, so far
as they have pretensions to religion;
but the priest seldom follows them to
their winter quarters. The effects of
such a state of society upon its general,
and especially its religious condition, is
easily seen. Strictly lumbering regions
seldom become fionrishing as to their
general, and particularly their religions
interests. The owners, and agents sel
dom reside in the pine districts in per
manence ; they go there to make money,
which they spend elsewhere. Hence,
affairs in such communities do not usu
ally assume permanence, nor become
attractive to other people. There is apt
to be a large floating and a small per
manent population—similar to the con
dition of things which obtains in mining
districts.
As a consequence of this tendency of
affairs,, this region did not grow much
in settlement, nor become attractive, till
the development of new capabilities,
commencing five or six years ago. At
that time successful borings for salt were
made, and this branch of business has
increased with wonderful rapidity. The
first wells were sunk in 1860. In the
following year, 1500 bushels of salt
were sent to market. In 1862 the yield
had increased to 1,210,000 bushels, and
in 1864 to 3,000,000 bushels, valued on
the ground at over one million dollars.
The salt manufacture has developed
other matters very rapidly. It has led
to the discovery of the agricultural re
sources of this section. It was thought
previously to be a sunken, swampy, and
consequently permanently unhealthy re
gion, from which it was advisable to
cut away the pine trees, and begone with
them as soon as possible.
It is found on the contrary, that the
land is nearly all drainable, and is aston
ishingly fertile, and the State being so
surrounded with water, has a mild cli
mate ; combining this with its high lati
• tude, so that it must be very soon greatly
desirable for residence, on account of
healthfulness; for, its malarious tenden
cies must give way, so soon as the
ground. - is brought into culture. This is
now being done at a very rapid rate.
The lumber interest now combines
with these other interests, to give im
petus and success to business, and per
manent growth. It has been, for a few
years, past, and seems destined to con
tinue for a long while, a very remunera
tive interest. And the money made by
it is no longer all carried away, bat is
expended upon the ground, as it ought
to be.
The result of these things together, is
the very rapid growth of the Saginaw Tal
ley, in population, wealth, and whatever
of advancement is naturally connected
with these. And with other changes
came those of a moral and religious
character. With the moving population,
which largely attaches to the lumber in
terest, by itself, to found and foster
churches into growth and strength, is a
very difficult business. Indeed, the
thing was well nigh impossible. For if
you have an active church and a full
congregation this summer, you cannot
assume the same thing for the winter;
for your people may be most of them
gone elsewhere.
j3 U t can anything be done effectively
for the lumbermen, as a class ? They
are very numerous in these United
States. AH upP er lake re S ion is
full of them. And they are. a hardy,
bold enterpring, enduring people, full of
good impulses, and yet their business so
separates them from the stated means
of grace, that they naturally fall into
irreligious habits, which become chronic.
MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY.
The University of this State is in a*
very flourishing condition. It has a
fund of about $500,000 and the number
of students increases from year to year.
The institution has now and then a Bort
of political storm to undergo, but it does
not seem to effect its condition very
much. Two or three years since, a
change of Presidents was made; Dr.
Tappan having become at odds with the
Board of Regents, and a terrible stir it
made; the old President being very
popular with the eight hundred students
then in attendence, and the new one not
being specially in their favor. But the
number of students in all is now more
than a thousand; so I concluded the
storm has long since blown over. Of
the one thousand and seventy-three
students, four hundred and forty-one
are medical, and three hundred and
sixty law students. But the controlling
interest of the University is, after all,
the literary department. Its students
are from nearly every State in the
Union, and some out of the Union.
The large attendance is from Michigan,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, New York, and
Pennsylvania. Prom Illinois, for in
stance, there are one hundred and twen
ty-five students.
The educational systeniMif this State
is very good. It is a system graded
from the beginning to the top—the top
being this University. The primary
school fund is about $1,100,000. There
is also a Normal fund of $20,000.
Michigan is on the whole going to be a
great State, bye-and-bye. ' She has an
immense lumber interest—good to begin
with—then she. has unknown treasures
of copper, iron, gypsum, salt, and I know
not what else, in the way of minerals.
And then, she is bordered with a sea of
fish, as well as intersected by lines of
them. And then her agricultural re
sources are going to astonish people—
even her own people—bye-and-bye.
Then the State has a good population.
It is largely settled by people who look
out for the school house and the church.
Hence her fine educational system.
Hence her and flourishing
churches. All this upper region of the
State, now showing upon the map no
thing but parallels of latitude, and county
lines, is going to bear very soon, a great
population. The pine timber is being
cut away, and that involves the destruc
tion of quanties of other timber; roads
are being ent through in all directions,
and not very far hence it will be inter
sected with railroads; and settlement,
and the school house, and the church
will follow.
INDIANS.
At this point we see a great many of
the Aborigines. They are Chippeways,
and their residences stretch up the State
from this point; their first settlement
being only five or six miles from here.
They lately came down for a payment,
which was made them here by the Gene
ral Government. It was given them in
“ green backs,” and the difference be
tween them and gold was made up.
They are very quiet, as indeed they al
ways are, it being a high misdeanor to
sell dr give an Indian whisky. Many of
them are very well clad indeed, in the
white fashion, as well as the whites
themselves Indeed, the most of them
seen here, dress like other people, with
occasional uses of moccasins and
blankets.
The Dearest settlements are Metho
dists, and there are many good people
among them. 4 They dislike to use the
English language, and flock to the stores
where they are addressed in their native
guttural. They are very fond of trade,
and a large portion of their payment
was spent before they left town. It
looks a little queer at first to see an In
dian driving his span of horses in his
sleigh, loaded up with household com
forts. The tribe does a great deal of
hunting, for this State is yet full of
game. They sell large quantities of
beaver, mink, raccoon, and muskrat furs,
with a large sprinkling of other pelts
related to, or existing with, these; and
their furs bring ready money and a good
price. So that there is no reason why
these dusky men should not live very
comfortably, if not usefully.
REV. HOMER B. MORGAN.
In the Missionary Herald of Decem
ber, there is a valuable, yet succinct ac
count of the life, character, and labors
of Rev. Homer Bartlett Morgan, whose
death at Smyrna, on the 25th of August
last, was announced in these columns.
The following statement is placed on
record as a tribute to his memory, both
on account of his personal worth, and
the cause he so faithfully and ably served.
He. was born at Watertown, New
York, (where his parents yet reside,)
May 31st, 1821. He was a child of
the covenant converted in early life,
and after graduating at Hamilton College
and Auburn Theological Seminary, was
ordained by the Presbytery of Water
town, of which he remained a member
through life.
Having given his services to the
American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions, he was by them, in
1851, first sent to Salonica, in Greece,
and afterward transferred to Antioch, in
yria. He bad nearly completed four
teen years of missionary life. His
knowledge of the languages used in that
field, the confidence reposed in him, both
by the Board and the missionaries, and
his remarkably robust constitution' and
power of endurance, eminently fitted
him foj his work, and render his removal
inexpressibly afflictive.
It having been decided by the Com
mittee and the Central Turkish Mis
sion, to which he belonged, that he
should return to this country with his
family, for the purpose of leaving them
for a year or two, while he should
speedily return to his work, he pre
pared for his departure from Syria, in
great haste, expecting to reach this
country in season to attend the meeting
of the Bottrd in Chicago last October.
As they were about ready for their
journey, one of their children, a lovely
son of two years of age, sickened and
died. This event, with his responsibili
ties at his post, - and his official cares as
Treasurer of the Mission, devolved upon
him an amount of labor at this juncture
too great for even his capacity for en
durance. His intense application to
bring all his accounts and charges into
such a state that he could safely leave
them for a few months, brought upon
him the fever which terminated his life.
On arriving at Smyrna in a French
steamer, and being too ill to proceed on
his voyage, he was taken immediately
to the house of his missionary brother,
Rev. D. Ladd, where he received the
best medical attention the city could
afford. Mr. Morgan had spent a year
and half of his missionary life in Smyrna,
and had many friends among the Eng
lish and American residents, but they
were nearly all absent, having aban
doned the city on account of the preval
ence of the cholera. It was, therefore,
somewhat difficult to obtain needful at
tention to the sick, or fitting burial for
the dead.
Under these circumstances, the atten-;
tions of strangers, of Prussian deacon-1
esses, and of Captain Hamilton and his
crew of the barque Armenia, of Boston,,
were peculiarly grateful. Should this,
notice meet his eye, he will know that]
the God of the widow and the Father of
the fatherless has been, and yet will again!
be invoked in his behalf and that of his,
men. Captain Hamilton watched with
Mr.-Morgan on the last night of his life,
and at his burial six young American
sailors, members of his crew, bore the
remains of the American Missionary to
their last resting-place, in the Englisj
cemetery, near the Dutch hospital.
Dr. Pratt, of the same mission, aid
who had been their family* physician,
was at this time in Constantinople, and
hearing of Mr. Morgan’s death, hastened
to Smyrna, and accompanied the widow
and her family to America, and to tl e
residence to her husband’s parents.
Mrs. Morgan, who is the daughter f
Rev. H. H. Kellogg, formerly of Clif-
ton, New York, now of Marshalltov
lowa, leaves behind her the graves
two husbands and three children. Hr
first husband was Rev. Joseph Walworp
Sutphen, who died in Marsovan, Tur
key, in 1852. With her remaining
children, the widow finds a home wih
her parents, having been wonderful/
sustaiped through all her trials. Hr
health is steadily improving, and she
wishes to acknowledge the kihdnessm
her numerous friends, both in this cojn
try and abroad, whose letters of s*n
pathy have .been exceedingly comfortig,
and for which she is grateful, but to
which she is unable at present to re ly.
The letters received by her from the Af-
ferent members of the missions in
key, show how high a place Mr. Moi
held in their respect, and how wai
he was beloved. give brief exti
from but two, in concluding this art
Says Rev. J. W. Parsons, of Nicome
—“ Brother Morgan was greatly en
deared to us. His love was the sts ■of
our hearts during mapy dark day in
Salonica. Great as we feel the oss
personally, greater is the loss to the
Missions in Turkey, first to his ovn
Mission, and then to the others. Tie
wisdom in council and good judgmpt
which he always exhibited, rende :d
him of incomparable value to all.” Rv.
Dr. Hamlin, now President of Rottrt
College, Constantinople, writes, “Y nr
departed husband was a noble missi n
ary, a man of right judgment, of >x-
ecutive power, of self-deDying devol
to his work
but done it well, and now rests from
labors in the enjoyment of an etei
reward.” H. H. E
Ambrose.
GEN. GRANT'S OPINION OP NEG'
TROOPS.
The New York Tribune says, editorij
Gen. Grant said of the negro trol
“For guard duty "and; picket duty, c
inarch and in assault, I consider the :
troops surpassed by no soldiers in the \
and equalled by very few.”
“But,” queried a listener, “does
that include all you can say of a sold
“Nearly, but not all,” respondei
Lt.-Gen. “ What remains is the abil
endure the steady pounding of a proti
campaign ”
“Yes,” said another questioner, “
the negroes are good for everything
why not tor that ?”
“ I don’t say they are not,” re
Gen. Grant; “I only .say they ha
been tried ”
The parties to that conversatioi
Gen. Grant, Edwin M. Stanton, and
Ward Beecher, and we had it’fro
lips of the latter.
Ik heaven all God’s servants
abundantly satisfied with his dealij
dispensations with them, and shall j
all conduced, like so many winds, a
th*n to their havens, and how el
roughest blasts helped to bring the*
ward. I
Heaven is a day without a clow
en it, and without a night to end i
He has finished it ea
were
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