twilight fades away in a summer day.
We would have as much expected the
pastor to be absent from his place, as
Mr. Getty from the house of God on the
Sabbath. The last time he was in the
church, was on the sacramental occasion,
distributing the emblems of the love of
his Lord; when the next communion
season came around, he was seated on
high with his glorified Redeemer.
At our late communion, additions
were made to our church from the larger
scholars of our Sabbath-school. We
have had meetings for prayer, with oc
casional preaching, during the past three
weeks; last week a supply has been
officiating for us with great acceptance.
The good work goes on silently as falls
the snow flakes, but with the beauty and
all the attractions we expect to see when
the young heart turns to the Saviour.
Presbytery of Cortland. —At the
late meeting of this New York State
Presbytery, the cause assigned for the j
absence of several brethren was, that
their hands were full of duties in con
nection with revivals at home. Com
missioners were. appointed to the Gene
ral Assembly as follows: Principals —
Ray. G. M. Smith and Elder R. J. Dix
on ; Alternates —Rev. E. R. Kinney and
Elder Stebbins.
Installation. —The Presbytery of |
Ithaca, on the 9th ult., installed Rev.
Theodore E. White, late of Delhi, N.
Y., as pastor of the church in Ithaca,
N. Y. Rev. Warren Mayo preached
the sermon. The charges ware delivered
by Rev. Dr. Mann and Rev. George
Spaulding. The Commissioners from
that Presbytery to the next General As-
Bemply are: Principals —Rev. A. M.
Mann, D.D., and Elder Nelson Noble;
Alternates —Rev. T. P. White and Elder
George Whiton.
Durham, N. Y.—Our church in this
place, many years ago, unfortunately
took a dislike to our system of regular
pastorates,, and has, for the last twenty
years, worked the plan of unsettled sup
plies, with frequent intermissions of
ministerial service. Very much to its
own edification, it has now returned to
the old paths, and has, with great una
nimity, accepted a pastor in the person
of Rev. Y. Le Roy' Lockwood, who
comes to us from the Old School Pres
bytery of Elizabethtown, N. J. Mr.
Lockwood waß installed on the 23d ul
by the Presbytery of Catskill, Rev. A.
Cooper preaching the sermon, Rev. J,
J.. Buck giving the charge to the pastor,
and Rev. A. P. True that to the congre-
gation. Mr. Buck was present and as
sisted at the installation of their last
pastor, between twenty and thirty years
ago. There are just now indications of
a spiritual refreshing in the congrega
tion.
Change or Relation.—We learn
from the Evangelist that the Presbyte
rian church in Jewett, N. Y., together
with its pastor, Rev. J. J. Buck, have
ohanged their ecclesiastical relation from
the Old to the New School, the transfer
being frond the 0. S. Presbytery of Al
bany to that of Catskill.
Progress in Minnesota.—After a ,
long series of painful discouragements, I
partly providential, and partly due to j
the wickedness of proselytism, our two 1
feeble organizations in Minneopolis and ;
Fort Snelling have become happily com- 1
bined in one church, still small, but
thrifty, hopeful, and rising in numbers .
and influence. This result, under God, ;
appears to be chiefly owing to the enter
prise of our Home Missionary Commit
tee, who, last summer, sent to the field
Mr. Henry Ward, a licentiate just grad
uated from Auburn seminary, a man
who soon approved himself the man for
the place. Under his labors a commo
dious chapel has been erected at a cost
of about $3500, which was dedicated on
the 3d ,ult. On the same day Mr.
Ward received ordination from the
Presbytery of Minnesota, Rev. F. A.
Noble, of St. Paul, preaching the ser
mon. Nine persons have Bince been
added to the communion of the church.
Minneopolis, which thirteen years ago
was simply a Government reservation,
is now a town of more than five thou
sand inhabitants, and will be to us a
point of no small importance.
The Presbytery oe Cayuga, at its
stated meeting held last month in Au
burn, N. Y., dissolved two pastoral rela
tions—that of Rev. A. C. Reed with the
church in Elbridge, and that of Rev. T.
S. Clarke, D.D., with the church in
Weedsport. The Narrative of the State
of Religion sets forth a condition of un
usual spiritual interest in some of the
churches, and represents them generally
aB in a prosperous condition.
A Pastor Remembered. —Rev. J-
W. Lane, of Centreville, Allegheny Co.,
N. Y., makes grateful record of the kind
ness of his congregation and other
friends, in a donation festival exceeding
in value $2OO, consisting mainly of arti
cles considerately selected with reference
to their usefulness.
Ministerial Movements.—Rev. Dan
iel Gibbs has tak-n charge of the church
in Apalachin, Tioga Co., N. Y., the late
charge of Rev. David A. Abbey, de
ceased. Mr. Wm. N. Page, of Au
burn Theological Seminary, has been
called to the pastorate in Trumansburg,
in Central New York——. Rev. C. O.
Reynolds has been transferred from the
Presbytery of Caatekill to the Presby
tery of New York, 0. S. Rev, D.
Torrey is to enter upon the pastorate of
the church in Ann Arbor, Mich., early
in the present mouth.
A work oe grace is in progress in
our churches in Newburgand Manches
ter, Ohio; also in Mount Horeb, Tenn.,
* THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1866.
Mitchell and Evaiisville, Ind., and Eden,
Erie Co., N. Y. Indeed, our exchanges
are becoming alive with intelligence of
this character.
Rev. Justus Doolittle, of the North
China Mission of the American Board,
expecting to sail soon for China, desires
correspondents previous to his sailing to
address him at Oaks Comers, Ontario
County, N. Y.
REV. ELIPHALET NOTT, D,D, LLD.
Dr. Nott was born in the year 1773. He
well remembered many of the events of the
first war for our national existence. He took
an intelligent interest in the formation and
adoption of our Federal Constitution. His
youth and early manhood were spent under
the administration of Washington. He was
the friend and. admirer of Hamilton, and the
sermon he preached on the occasion of. his
lamented death is yet in demand as one of
the choicest specimens of pulpit eloquence.
He was the intimate acquaintance and coun
selor of De Witt Clinton. He was'the highly
esteemed friend, as well as the religious m
struetor, of Kent and Spencer. _ No clergy
man in our land ever held so high a place in
I the estimation of those old political and judi
cial worthies. While manifesting a political
acuteness which would have made him their
equal, to say the least, had he chosen a life
like their own, he was, in the truest sense
their religious guide. Kent acknowledged
his obligations to Dr. Nott for having reliev
ed his mind from some forms of skepticism
to which the active thinkers of that day were
specially prone, and Ambrose Spencer showed
by his closing life that the lessons of his early
teacher had made their due impressioif on
his mind.
Dr. Nott is best known as the founder and
President of Union College. The length of
his connection with that institution is unpar
alleled in the history of the literary world.
He was called to be its head in 1804, at which
time he was pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church in the city of Albany. He was still its
President in 1866. We find mention some
times made in our religious papers of clergy
men who have had the same clerical charge
for fitty years; very rarely can there be cited
the case of a pastorate continuing unbroken
for sixty ; but here is the President of one of
the first literary institutions of our land con
tinuing in his high and responsible office, for
sixty-two years. There is no case like it of
which we have ever read; and what makes it
the more striking, is the fact that it is only
within a very few years that this venerable
man has shown any abatement of his power
for such a trust. For fifty-five years he was
never absent from his presiding place at every
College Commencement, and during all that
time he continued well and faithfully to per
form his high duties in the chapel and lecture
room. He has conferred the degree of A.
8., on nearly 4000 young men (once young,
many of them now quite old), and by all of
that number yet living is he reverenced as
the man who has exerted the most distinct
and powerful influence upon their lives.
Dr. Nott bSs given to Union College a
marked and peculiar character. We do not
intend to praise it in any special manner for
its scholarship or its science. Other Colleges
of our land may claim to be ahead of it in
certain aspects. We shall not dispute that
claim, if they choose to make it. Union Col
lege has never indujged in that self-laudation
which has formed so marked and constant a
feature of some others. It has sent forth a
vast number of graduates, of greatly varying
talent and intelligence, and yet it may be
claimed for it that no College in our land has
been more eminently and practically success-1
ful in what are regarded among us, whether
truly or falsely, the proper aims of education;
that is, from no American College of the same
age has there gone forth a greater number of
men who have conspicuously succeeded in the
political, the commercial, the ecclesiastical, or,
to speak generally, the more active and busi
ness avocations of the land. We are not saying |
now whether such success is, indeed, the
highest aim of education, or whether such an
aim would have been as well-attained under
other guidance; but we are only presenting
a statistical fact. Although a pupil of Dr.
Nott, the writer must confess to a difference
between his own views of education and some
that were cherished by his revered teacher.
But in respect to what has hitherto been
regarded as highest, as well as most useful,
in American education, Dr. Nott’s claim to
preeminent success cannot be impeached. In
the National House of Representatives, in
the United States Senate, in the Cabinet, on
the Bench, in the highest places of the. Bar,
in the Army, in the Church of all denomina
tions in our Middle and W estern States, on
the Episcopal Bench of Bishops even, and
in prospering Commerce, the names from
Union College will successfully compete, both
in respect to number and eminence, with
those of any other institution in our land.
This statistical fact is Dr. Nott’s peculiar
praise, and the induction of sixty years proves
it to be no merely transient or accidental merit.
He has certainly been the means of making
succesful men.
It is no abuse of the term to call Dr. Nott
a great man —a great man even among the
few to whom the name can properly be
applied. We use it in no merely comparative
sense. He had the positive and substantial
elements of greatness. Without it he could not
have commanded the reverence of so many, and
for so loDg a time. But his chief claim to
such an appellation, his chief excellence, or
that which he exhibited most strikingly in the
prime of life, has not been tfully understood.
He has been celebrated for his management
of a literary institution'. Some have lauded
him for this, perhgps extravagantly, while
others have used the term in a depreciating
sense. He has been famed for his financial
skill; but here, too, there have been oppo
site opinions. There is, however, one merit
which all must concede who knew Dr. Nott,
and heard him preach, forty years ago,
although his later , more secular life (as we
would call it without the least thought of dis
paragement) may have dimmed the impres
sion. In 1820, and for years before and after'
that period, Dr. Nott stood princeps among
the pulpit orators of cmr land. He had no
rival, for the way he Cftose excluded rival
ship ; it was derived solely from himself. He
formed his style upon no other model; he
imitated no other speaker, although he him
self had hosts of imitators, whose efforts, as is
usual in such cases, were mainly failures.
He has sometimes been compared to the
famous French preachers, and especially to
Massillon; but Dr. Nott, though he may
have resembled these in some points, never
made them his study, and, in fact, was in no
way distinguished for any knowledge of the
French pulpit, or the French literature.
His manner, his elocution, his action, his
style of thought, were all his own. The chief
characteristic thatpervaded them was a deep
impressiveness. He did not dazzle nor alarm.
It was not the style of revival preaching",
though nothing was more calculated to deepen
the power, and to solemnize the influence ot
such seasons after the first startling effect
had been produced by a different kind of
appeal. Dt’- ott s religious eloquence was
lor minds already attuned, in some measure
to the solemnities of religious thotfght.' Asa
striking evidence of this, the writer calls to
mind a remark that was frequently made
during a revival in Union College i u jg„.
which had commenced under the preaehm^
of Mr. Nettleton, a distinguished revivalist,
and the fervid anpeals of the enthusiastic D r.
Macauley. “ How solemn lately have Dr.
Nott’s sermons become," Was a common
observation at the time. It Was thought that
he had received a new impetus from the more
zealous, as they were regarded. Dut ho, it
was the same styl'd of preaching, only now
seen in a new light, and heard by those who
had ears to hear. . It was the same seed, but
failing upon soil prepared for its reception.
On minds already religiously disposed, no
preaching made a stronger impression than
that of Dr. Nott’s. This was owing to the
choice of his theme, and the deep solemnity
of his manner in treating it. He was not
argumentative. He was not inclined to dis
cuss questions of obligation, or-of theological
casuistry, in what is called a logical way. It
was not mcnul this andmora? that, and ability
and inability, after the manner of the meta-
Ehysical Hew England preachers, although
e himself was a New England man; neither
was it a continual “ contending for the faith
once delivered to the saints,*’ 1 if we may so
use the favorite text of the Old School theo
logians. On the other hand, no sermons
were further removed from a mere empty
Pelagian morality. Dr. Nott assumed the
great truths of Christianity, as well as the
fundamental principles of morals, and of
natural religion, as something settled. And
so, too, did he leave unsolved, and without
attempts to solve, those mysteries of faith
that had baffled the thinking of all ages. He
took for his subjects the most solemn verities
of the Gospel, but his aim was not so much
to prove them, as to impress them upon the
minds of men. Hence his sermons were Over
a series of most vivid pictures, each present
ing one idea, but that of the loftiest as well
of the most serious kind. Death, judgment,
eternity, the strait gate, the narrow way,
the Christian war, the victor’s crown, the
day of grace, eternal life, the resurrection
hour, the opening graves, the dead, small
. and great, standing before God, the books of
life and judgment, “the great white throne
and he who sat thereon, before whose face
the heavens and the earth fled away”—such
were the constant topics so uniformly pre
sented as to subject him to the charge of
repetition; or if he sometimes varied, it was
to choose a subject drawn from the religious
experience as expressed in the more devo
-1 tional portions of the Scripture—“ whom have
I in Heaven but thee, and there is none in all
the earth that I desire beside Thee.” One
great thought selected, and that never lost
sight of it seemed to some as though the
speaker made no progress: but it was an
ever light in which the same truth
came over and over again, each presentation
and each new picture increasing the power
and vividness of the appeal. Add ito this
the commanding appearance of the preacher,
the power and music of his voice, as distinctly
heard in the lowest whisper, as in the loudest
utterance; the restrained yet-most impres
sive action; that peculiar gesture of the ex
tended horizontal hand, which all who then
heard him must so well remember, and we
have an outline of that most eloquent manner
so striking, yet so difficult to describe, except
to those on whose memory it has left its own
indelible impression.
Dr. Nott's high reputation as a pulpit ora
tor was not fully sustained in his later life.
One great element of the power of his elo
quence was in his voice, and that became much
broken in after years, even while the mental
powers remained in all their vigor, and his
college duties were as well performed as ever.
It was after this period, too, that he devoted
himself with greater activityto the more out
ward or semi-worldly labors of moral and
social reform. These now took, in a measure,
the place of his former pulpit .efforts. He
became very ardent in the cause of temper
ance, and wrote and lectured much in its sup
port. He was in like manner engaged in
most of the philanthropic movements of the
day. There are, however, sermons of his
written during the past ten or fifteen years,
and diseourees on public occasions, that still
maintain his high reputation. Among these
will be at once remembered by all who read
it, his most eloquent address to the alumni of
the college on the semi-centennial anniversary
of his presidency. Seldom ‘has there been
witnessed a scene more impressive than that
which was made, on that occasion, by the
(speeches of Dr. Francis Wayland and Dr.
Nott. The spontaneous rising of that vast
audience when one of his sentences took the
benedictory form, was truly an instance of
the moral sublime. Still it must be said that
Dr. Nott’s later discourses were not equal, as
a whole, to his earlier writings. The volume
of his Baccalaureates, delivered when he
was in his prime, will hold a place among our
choicest classics. As models of polished
writing they are unsurpassed by Ghanning or
Irving, although he is so different in his style
from Doth these authors. Seldom do we read
discourses of the kind in which there has
been shown more care in the selection of the
best words, and the arranging them in con
structions, that would exhibit their strongest
force, and'clearest significance. It is a most
valuable book for the young, those early ad
dresses, and we should be glad to see them
republished for the present generation.
Occupied as we have been, mainly with Dr.
Nott’s literary and more spiritual biography,
we have barely alluded to the fact of his hav
ing become,™ the latter part of his life, more
deeply immersed in outward worldly business
than is usual, or desirable, for a clergyman,
or teacher of youth. To those who knew him
| well, this never furnished any impeachment
of his moral and religio ns character. It was
his deep interest in the College, in its finan
cial as well as its liters :y success that drew
him into this, and which should be his com
plete defense against detractors. We need
not go into detail here. The story has already
been told, and there are the most ample ma
terials, aside from his triumphant defense by
the Hon. John C. Spencer, for putting it in
its proper light. Whatever may have been
the mistakes, if there were any such, they
all arose from his absorbing devotion to one
object—the prosperity of Union College.
For this he lived as the parent lives for his
child. If he was ever led into rash schemes,
it was to effect something great for Union
College. He was never satisfied with what
, he had done for it. If he made a good in
vestment, he was ever anxious to make it still
better, and, if in the attempt to do this he
was drawn into a bad one, it was only because
he was, in some way, led to think it one of.
the best means of making his beloved College
one of the wealthiest in our land. Dr. Nott's
charities to the poor are well known, but in
all tilings, whether in the aid of friends, or of
indigent students, or the release jl the slave,
or any measure of general munificence, it was
ever the same open hand. The most unsel
fish of men, he cared nothing for money for
his own sake, but was ever wimug, at any
time to put to hazard his own private means
to promote the noble object for which he
We may speak in a similar way of his spir
itual or more interior life. Some would think
that this must necessarily suffer from such a
complexity of worldly and financial transac
tions. To those, however, who knew h im
intimately there was no aspect of hishfe that
commanded more ol their respect- Men who
'• saw him so frequently in II street, and
: knew nothing else about him, might regard
him as a mere man of the world, very much
like other men of the world; but the intimate
liter course and converse of his family, or ot
his study, after his return to College, reveal
j j-2? Unt character. There was in Dr.
N tta strong and constant undercurrent of
solemn and religious thought. The great
themes he had so often presented in the pul
pit were the meditations of his daily life.
When in intimate society with those of a con
genial temperament, he was frequent in lead
ing the conversation to such topics ; and no
one who had himself any love of seriousness
could be long in his company, without the im
pression that he was a deeply thoughtful and
spiritually minded man.
This would appear in the fervor, we would
almost Call it the sublimity, of his prayers in
the social meeting and at the family altar.
And then, those evening devotions in the
College- ehapel, what graduate of Union can
ever forget them! Dr. Nott’s spiritual power
in prayer was truly wonderful. It was not
the mere gift of fluency, as it may be called,
which some men possess in talking, or seem
ing to talk, to the invisible. It was no well
composed formality. There was in his
petitions a rich unction —we can think of no
better word—to which all hearts bore witness.
How comprehensive were they, even embra
cing the parents and friends of the students,
as well as'the students themselves! How
full of paternal feeling and the spirit of bene
diction ! How solemn were they, for Dr.
Nott Reldom made a prayer without dwelling
much on death, and imploring grace for the
dying hour ! How short were they, lor no
one ever longed for their close. And yet,
withal, how varied in their style of language
—never repeating, never presenting the
appearance of deaduess or formality. There
is another fact respecting them that deserves
to be recorded ; and thgtwasthe maintenance
of their devotional power, whatever might
have been the circumstances, favorable <fr
unfavorable, that preceded them. Dr. Nott
was left by the trustees to do alone almost all
the outside work of the College. He_ may
have been laboriously engaged with politicians
at Albany, seeking to secure laws or grants
which he deemed for the benefit of the insti
tution. He may have just returned from
harrassing attendance upon legislative com
mittees, or the still more, unspiritualizing pro
cedures of courts of law or chancery ; but
when, immediately after leaving such scenes,
he appeared in the college chapel, the world
was gone; the spiritual man was there again;
the tone of voice in reading the Scriptures
was as devoutly impressive and musical as
ever; the petitions were as full and fervid,
the paternal spirit of benediction as pure in
its outflowing as though he had just come
from his study, and his soul had not’ been
chafed by the harrassing cares and _ per
plexities of the day. All this had a striking
effect upon the students. Prof. Jackson
lately repeated to us a_remark once made by
Prof. Averill, who died many years ago. Dr.
Nott, he said, governed Union College by his
prayers. The writer’s, own experience bears
its testimony to this. Never can memory
lose the impression of those chapel devotions,
or even the effect produced by the manner of
reading a chapter or a psalm.
Though a pupil and an admirer of Dr.
Nott, we would av.oid all extravagance here.
We are not at all disposed to laud him, in the
style of canting eulogy, either as a saint or as
a zealot. He was, in a good sense, a man of
the world, as well as of the Church. It may
be safely said, however, that he was more re
ligious, more devoutly tender, more constantly
inclined to the contemplation of the highest
themes connected with our solemn destiny,
than many clergymen who have worn the
outward appearance of greater sanctity, mis
taking for spirituality, perhaps, a mere local
and professional removal from the busy occu
pations of the world. It is on Dr. Nott’s
college and private life we chiefly love to
dwell. It was ever an exhibition of the most
amiable and attractive qualities. And here
was the secret of his remarkable influence
over his pupils. He adapted himself to every
difference of character—patient with the
erring and the tempted, encouraging to the
weak, frank and conversable with the intelli
gent, an exemplar W the noble aspiring,
prudent with the wild and reclaimable, stern
and commanding toward the incorrigibly
vicious, yet still paternal ever in his dealings
with all. He was 'himself one of the best
manifestations of the practical lessons he
taught, and of the practical character he
sought to form. Even in his advanced age,
so far as the changes of time would permit,
he preserved the same love-winning demeanor..
Some even said he was becoming more radi
cal, more like a young man. He was ever
with his classes, or ahead of them, in keeping
up with the progress of the times, and no
student could read the comparison of the
noble steed in the Electra of Sophocles, and
its applications to the ancient guide, without
thinking of their venerable leader in the moral
and intellectual stadium—
Old though he be,
Yet still erect and never losing heart;
ho did he lead them on, himself in front,
Their Model, Guide, and Champion.
Congregational. —The Church in Wil
liamstown, Mass., the seat of Williams Col
lege, has been consumed by fire. It was a
large and finely finished. edifice. From
Connecticut, numerous revivals are reported.
Among the churches thus refreshed, we Bee
named those in Woodbury, Harwinton, Mil
ford, Enfield,' Killingly, Mystic and Broad
Brook. Arrangements are at last com
pleted for the transfer of Kev. A. L. Stone.
D.D., from Boston to San Francisco. He
expects to sail on.the 10th inst. —-The Ply
mouth Congregational Church in Pittsburg is
enjoying a season of unusual religiousinterest.
MINISTERIAL RELIEF I^UND.
B£C£IYEB FROM AUGUST Ist, 1865, TO
JANUARY 3ht, 1866.
Orange, N. Jr, M. 0 Halsted, Esq
Orange, N. J v 2d Pres. ch„ S. VV. Baldwin...
Mishawaka, lud.. Pres. eh.. Kev. E. oeofield.
Blissficld, Mich., Pres, ch.» Rev. D. R. Evans,
(additional)
Sis months* interest on U. S. loan at 44J4
premium....
Cannonsviile, N. I'., 2d ch M Tomkins, Rev.
J. J. Hough
Toronto and Clinton, indd Pies, ch, Key.
J, A. Tiffany
East Nassau and Brain erd,N. ; ¥., Pres, chs.,
Kev. P. Barbour
Shipman, 111., Kev. E, W.Tnjlor, Mrs.L. K.
Taylor, and Miss M. King
Belle Valley, Pa., Pret. ch., Hev. J. Vance..
Kock Hill, Mo,. Pres. ch., Rev. B. Mills
Jersey, Ouio, , Kev. C. M. Putnam......
Philadelphia, lstch., Kensington, Kev. Wm.
T. Era
Philadelphia! E. T. M
Indianapolis, Ind., 2d ch. } per A. B. Clarke..
West Aurora, N. Y., Pres, ch., Rev. K. M.
Sandford
Lima, N. Y.. Ist ch., Kev. A. D. Benton
Dauby, N. Y., Cong, ch., Rev. VV. Mayo
Hudson, N. Y., Ist Pres, ch., Kev. W. S.
Leavitt .
Yates, N Y., Ist Pres. ci».. Kev. F. A. Chase.
lonia. Micb., Pres, oh., S. H. Sherman, Jb> q..
Catasaquaaud tiokendauquachs.. Pa., Hev.
C. Jiarie :
Eckford and iekonsha chs., Michigan, J.
Walker
Freeport, 111., Pres, ch., George F. Lelour...
Toledo, Ohio, Ist Cong. ch., Rev. W. W.
Williams
Philadelphia, Mis 3 K. M. Linnard, .{Clinton
Street Church)
Philadelphia, Tabor Pres, ch., Kev. George
Van Deurs
per George Kellogg, Esq., Treasurer of Erie
Pr®sytery:
Pa., Pres. ch. of Green
of Harbor Creek
of Union Mi115..??.-.
of Waterford..*
of West -Nantu.eal, Rev. I>.
; Meeker -
Pa., Market jsQuare Pres. ch. t GermantoWi,
per Rev. Dr. Uellen*teiu...... f...
Delaware, Delaware City ch. t per Rev. H. J.
Gaylord
tteUware, P;-rc Penn eb.. Per h. J. Gayiwrd.
Sbe'byviHe, JR** Pres, cb., per K. Cbeuey
*1 den&oro\ t-a,, Pres.eh.. Geo. Kellogg, Esq.
ijhUiLdelpbia, Oedarritreet Church, Rev. it.
. A Ma*lery...-
Philadelphia, Calvary Pre*\ cb., oolL $9O 27;
A. Br° wn * $5O; M. W. Baldwin,
Auro ’urN-'y'-'.'i'rei.ch., kev! W. W. Howard.'
Fly Creek, N. Y„ Pres, ch., Her. A. M, Mas
ter
Exeter, N. Y., Cong, cb , Rev. A. M. Master!
Norwalk, Ohio, Pres, ch., Rev. A. Newton..!
Muir, Micb., Ist Pres, ch.. Rev. G. Ransom...
Pewamo, Mich., Pres, ch., Rev. G. Ransom...
Corfu, N. Y., Pres, ch.. Rev. Allen Traver...
Vineland, N. J.,Rev. Samuel Loomis
West Chester, Pa.» Ist Pres, ch., Wm. V.
H listed..../.
Williamsport, Pa., 2d Pres, ch.. Rev. Wm.
St erliDg...
Succasunna, N. J., Pres, ch., Rev. E. W.
Stoddard
New York, Mercer Street Church, per Geo.
H. Lockwood
Philadelphia,*,First Church, N. L., Rev. Dr.
Shepherd
Middiet .wn, Del., Forest Church, Rev. Dr.
Patton
North East, Pa.. , Rev. T. B. Hudson..
Watertown, N. Y.,Pres. ch., S. E. Bacon
New York, Ist ch., Tompkins, Rev. C. fl. De
Long.;
Ohio, College Hill Pres, ch., Rev. C. E. Babb.
Ohio. Cincinnati, Poplar Street Church, Rev.
J. Chester ,
York, Pa., Pres. eh. Samuel Small, Esq..’
Nunda. N. Y., latch., per G. H. Bagley
Le Roy, N. Y., Ist ch., per J. H. Stanley
Harrisburg, Pa., per its senior pastor. Rev.
Dr. De Witt: —Mrs. E. E. Haldeman,
, $100; Mrs. H. A. Weir, 50: Chas. Bailey,
50; Mrs. H. Gilbert, 25; Mrs. C. Bailey,
20; Mrs. Coverley,2o; John A. Weir, 20;
D. McCormick, 15: Mr. Hall, 10; F.
Fahnestock, 10: Mrs. D. Flemming, 10;
D. Flemming, 10; Mrs. M. Orth, 10; Mrs.
J. S. Kerr. 10; Mrs. Caroline Briggs, 10;
Mrs. Dr .Riley, 10; Mrs. Dr. Bailey, 7;
Mrs. McKinley, 5; Mrs. Julian Fisher,
5; Miss Sibel Fahnestock. 5: Mrs. Dixon,
. 5; Mr. Shaffer, 5; A. J. Jones, 5; Miss
Mary Jones, 5'25; Mrs. S. -Ingram, 5;
Mrs. Boas, 5.; A. Roberts, 5: W. O.
Hukok, 5; Mrs. M. Foster, 3; Miss M.
Foster, 3; Mrs. Kellougb, 3: J. Roberts,
3: Mrs. J. Briggs, 3; Mrs. Dr. Flem
ming, 2; Dr. Flemming, 2: Mrs. Kirk,
2; A lfred Robinson, 2; R. J. Flemming,
2; Mr. Parsons. 2; A. Sloan,2; Mr. Van
dever, 2; Miss VandliDg, C. Snavely, G.
W. Parsons, John E. Forster, Mrs.
Weistling. Mrs. James R. Boyd. Mrs.
Stees, each 1; Hon. Jacob Haldeman,
ex- Minister to Sweden, 50 —total
Philadelphia. North Broad Street Church,
per Mr. Carsoi}.*.
Philadelphia, North Broad Street Church,
' B. D. Stewart
Girard, Pa., Pres. ch„ per Geo. Kellog. Esq..
Barre Centre, N. Y., Pres, ch., Rev. L. W.
Billington
Nineveh, N. Y., Pres. ch.. Rev. W. M. Hoyt.
Collected at meeting of Susquehanna Synod,.
W. M. Hoyt
Batavia. N. Y.. Pres, ch., per A. Cowdin
Cazenovia, N. Y., Pres, ch., per A. Foord
Philadelphia, Rev. John W. Dulles
Brasher Falls. N V Y., Pres, ch., C. P. Hulburd
North Bergen, 2>r. Y., Pres, ch., per Rev. R.
Bunning ..*
York, Pa., Miss Jane L. Cathcart
Lafayette, Ind., 2d ch., Rev. D. Rice
Three Rivers. Mich., Pres, ch.. Rev, J. A.
Ranney
Philadelphia, Clinton Street Church, per
Wm. Roe, Esq
Phialdelphia, Wharton Street Church, Rev.
J. G. Hamner
Marquette, Mich., lstch., Rev. F. H, Adams.
Cincinnati. Ohio, 2d Pres ch., G.B. Bradley.
Carlisle, Pa„ Ist Pres. ch., per L. F. Lyne,
Treasurer
Philadelphia, Walnut Street Pres. Church,
per H. Sloan, Treasurer
Shipman, 111., Rev. E. W. Taylor and wife...
New Albany, lnd., 2d Pres, ch., C. A. Reine
king, Treasurer 1
1 Onondaga, N. Y., Pres, ch., per Rev. W. J.
I Erdman
Interest on balance, cash
Lansing. Mich., Ist ch.. Rev. J. E, Weed
Aurelius, N. Y., Pres, ch., S. Stringham
$3,609 93
JOHN C. FARR, Treasurer.
Philadelphia, February 6,1866.
HOMESTEAD FOR SOLDIERS’ ORPHANS.
NATION AX SABBATH-SCHOOL ENTER-
PRISE.
The Sabbath-schools connected with the churches
as named, have taken twenty,-five dollar shares in the
Orphan Homestead Fund, each school securing by its
contribution the privilege to nominate one orphan
for admission into the Institution, and to give one
vote per share upon the location for the Homestead:
St John’s Episc ch, Yonkers, N Y, 12 shares.... $3OO 00
St Paul’s Episc ch, Philadelphia, 4 shares 100 00
First Baptist ch, Philadelphia, 4 shares 100 00
Tenth Baptist eh, Philadelphia. 3 fhares 75 00
Sab-sch Assoc. Wharton tit Pres ch, 3 share**... 75 00
Presbyterian ch. M*tteawan, NY,3 shares 75 00
Ch»of the Nativity. (Episc) Philad. 2 shares 50 00
Grach ch, (Episc) Philadelphia, 2 shares 50 00
St John’s Lutheran cu, Philad, 2 shares 50 00
Methodist Episc ch, Gettysburg, 2 shares 50 00
Methodist Episc ch, Pottsvilte, Pa, 2 shares.... 50 00
M ethodist Episc ch, Yonkers, NY, 2 shares... 50 00
Methodist Episc ch, Nyack, N Y. 2 shares 50 00
Meth Episc ch, Kensington, Philad, 2 shares... 50 00
Methodist Episc ch, McGregor, lowa, 1 share. 25 00
Meth Episc ch, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1 share. 25 00
Meth Episc ch, New Hamburg, NY, 1 share... 25 00
Meth Episc ch, (2d) Newburg, NY, 1 share 25 00
Methodist Episc ch, Fultonville, NY, 1 share. 25 00
Methodist Episc eh, Little Falls, NY, 1 share. 25 00
Methodist Episc ch, Matteawan. NY, >. share. 25 00
Meth Episc ch, Downingtown, Pa, 1 share 25 00
Methodist Episc ch, Coatesville, Pa, 1 share... 25 00
Meth Episc ch, Mechanicsburg. Pa, 1 share 25 00
Meth Episc oh, Germantown, Philad, 1 share... 25 00
Metbooist Episc ch, Fishkill, N Y, l share 25 00
Metn Episc eh, Fishkill Landing, NY, 1 share. 25 00
Methodist Episc ch, Siug-tiing, NY, 1 share... 25 00
Meth Episc ch, Tnird St, Camden, NJ, 1 share. 25 00
Meihodst Episc ch. Broad St, Philad, 1 share.. 25 00
Methodist Episc ch] Green St, Philad, 1 share.. 25 00
Methodist Episc ch. Fifth St, Philad, 1 share... 25 00
Trinity Methodist Episc ch, Philad. 1 share.... 25 00
St Peter’s Meth Episcch, Beading, Pa, 1 share. 28 00
Central Methodist Episc ch, Philad, 1 share.... 25 00
Emory Methodist Episc ch, Philad, 1 share 25 00
Salem M ethodist Episc ch, Philad, 1 share 25 00
Nazareth Methodist Episc ch, Philad, 1 share. 25 00
Mariners’ Bethel, Meth Episc, Philad, 1 share* 25 00
First Keformed Pres ch, Philad, 1 share 25 00
Second Reformed Pres ch, Philad, 1 share 25 00
Fourth Relormed Pre3 ch, Philad, 1 share 25 00
First United Presbyterian ch, Philad,l share.. 25 00
Fourth United Pres ch, Philad. 1 share 25 00
Sixth United Presbyterian ch, Philad, 1 share.. 25 00
First Presbyterian church, Philad, 1 share 25 00
Tabor Presbyterian church, Philad, 1 share.... 25 00
Seventh Presbyterian ch, Philad, l share 25 00
Ninth Presbyterian church, Philad, 1 share 25 00
North Presbyterian church, Philad, 1 share.... 25 00
Olivet Prebyterinn church. Philad, 1 share 25 00
Calvery Presbyterian church, Philad, 1 share.. 25 00
Bethany Mission Pres Sab sch, Philad. 1 share. 25 00
Oxford St Presbyterian ch, Philad, 1 snare 25 00
W est Arch St Presbyterian ch, Philad, 1 share. 25 00
W est Spruce St Pres eh, Philad, 1 share 25 00
Westminster Presbyterian ch, Philad, 1 share.. 25 00
Presbyterian ch, Coatesville, Pa, I share 26 38
Presbyterian ch, Pennington, Pa, 1 share 25 00
Presbyterian ch, York, Pa, 1 share 25 00
Presbyterian ch, Gettysburg, Pa, 1 share 25 00
Presbyterian ch, Newville, Pa, 1 share 25 00
Presbyterian ch, Greencastle, Pa, 1 share 25 00
Presbyterian ch, Boalsburg. Pa, 1 share 25 00
Pres ch, Oxford, Chester Co, Pa, 1 share 25 00
Presbyterian ch, Kennett Square. Pa, s share.. 25 00
Presbyterian ch, Saint Louis, Mich, 1 share 25 00
Presbyterian ch, Belvidere. N J,l share 25 00
Presbyterian ch, Lyons Farms, NJ, 1 share.... 25 00
Pres ch, Saratoga Spring, N Y, 1 share 25 00
Presbyterian ch, New Hamburg, NY, 1 share. 25 00
Presbyterian ch, Bolveltville, N Y,l share 25 00
United Pres ch, Newburg, N Y, 1 share 25 00
First Presbyterian ch, Peekskill, NY, 1 share. 25 00
First Presbyterian ch, Camden, NJ, I share... 25 00
Second Presbyterian ch,Camden, NJ, 1 share. 25 00
Mt Vernon. Pres SS, Cqmden.N J, 1 shage.... 25 00
Central Congregational ch, Philad, 1 share 25 00
Congregational ch,Charlestown,Mass,lshare. 25 00
Congregational ch, Schenectady, NY, 1 share. 25 00
Congrega’i ch, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1 share. 25 00
Baptist ch, Saratoga Springs, N Y, 1 share 25 00
Baptist ch, Matteawan, N Y, 1 share 25 n 0
i Baptist cb, East Gaines. NY, 1 share 25 00
Baptist ch, Sing-Sing, N Y,_l share.. 25 00
i First Baptist ch, Camden, NJ, 1 share 25 00
North Baptist ch, Camden, N J,l share 25 00
i Third Baptist ch, Philad, 1 share 25 00
Tabernacle Baptist cb, Philad, 1 share 25 00
• German Baptist ch, Philad, 1 share 25 00
First Reformed Dutch ch, Philad, 1 stare 25 00
Second Keformed Dutch ch. Philad, 1 share.... 26 00
'J hird Reformed Dutch ch, Philad, 1 *hare 26 00
i Reformed Dutch ch. Newburg. NY, 1 share... 25 00
i Relormed Dutch ch, Fishkill, NY, 1 share 25 00
i Ref Dutch ch, Fishkill Landing, NY, 1 share.. 25 00
i Reformed Dutch ch, Nyack, Nx, 1 share 25 00
Reformed Dutch ch, Piermont, NY, 1 share... 25 00
, Christ ch, Lutheran, Gettysburg, Pa, 1 share... 25 00
i StJamesLutberanch.Gettysburg.Pa.lshare. 25 00
i St Matthew’s Luth eh, Hanover, Pa, 1 share... 25 00
Bethel Luth cb, Mechanicsburg. Pa, 1 share... 25 00
> Lu beran ch, Wrightsville, Pa, 1 share 25 00
i Lutheran ch, Newville, Pa, I share 25 00
i German Ref’d ch, Farinersville. Pa, 1 share... 25 00
Moravian ch, Philadelphia, 1 share 25 00
i Oakland, Pa, (Episc) Sabbath-school, 1 share.. 34 72
i Church of the Advent (Episc), Philad, 1 snare. 25 00
Oh of the Mediator (Episc), Philad, I share .... 25 00
Ch oftheßediemption(EspLc).Philad,!share. 25 00
St Clement’s i-h (Epißc), Philad, 1 share 25 00
StMartin’sch(Episc).MarcusHook.Pa,lshare 25 00
i Fiist Mission SS> Yonkers, NY, 1 share 25 00
i St Paul’s Episc ch, Cheltenham, Pa, 2 shares... 50 00
Old Pine Street Pres ch, Philad, 2 shares 50*00
The foregoing is a partial list of the Sabbath-schools
now holding shares in the Homestead Fund. Ihe
Banner School , thus far. is the Sabbath-school of tit.
John’s Episcopal Church, Yonkers, New York.
The schools are urged to transmit the names of
such children of fall en soldiers as they desire to have
enrolled lor early admission into the institution.
J FttANCIS BOURNS, Secretary,
No, 330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.
marriages.
T)AVIS— BROWN. —On the.2l** of December, 1&65,
in the County of Lunenburg, Virginia, by Rev. TV os.
Ward White, Mr. William A. Darts and Mrs. Mary
J. Brown.
DOOLITTLE—JUDSON.—At the Second Piesby
'terian Oburch, Galesburg, Illinois, on the Ist of
February, 1806, by the Rot. George DumeJd, *Vr.,
assisted. by the Rev. William S. Curtiss, President of
Kuox College, Rev, Justus Doolittle, of the
China Mission of the American Board, to Miss Louisa
Judflon, of Galesburg, Illinois.
Uptcial fliifes.
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20 00
10 00
7 00
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«“Xhe Rev. Dr. HcUanwill deliver an
address in the Lecture room of the Rev. Dr. Bnard
man's Church. Twelltb nnd WalDnt Streets, r, n Mon
day evening, the 12th ins,nut. <*t o’clock, uron the
Life’and Character -c v. Winiam lenneut and
the Rev. Dr. Woodhu.l.
The lectures, of which this will be a part, is a series
delivered before the Presbyterian Historical Society*
Thus far they have been intensely interesting, and if
their character were generally known, we are satisfied
large crowds would attend upon their delivery. All
Presbyterians are most cordially invited to attend.
ALLCOCK’S POKOU* PIASTEK*-..—These
plasters have the compactness of kid leather and the
flexibility of a silk glove. They have cured varicose
veins and external aneurisms. For all affections of
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affections and cramps, for heart affections, —in all
these cases they have to be used to be properly ap
preciated.
iJR. I. T. HENDERSON’S LETTER.
Farnville. Louisiana. March 8,1850.
Dr. T. Allcock— &trl have been suffering under
a severe attack of neuralgic disease of my bowels for
year?, with hypertophy of the heart , and fcave tried
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at the head of evevy plus’or r.«w in use.
Yours, very i;uly,
T. UKNDEKSON, M. D.
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Proprietor “ Nicholas House.”
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The Trochee are recommended and prescribed by
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