TUB AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN
AND
GENESEE EVANGELIST.
A Religions and Family Newspaper,
IN THE INTEREST OF THE
Constitutional Presbyterian Church.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY,
AT THE PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE,
1334 Chestnut Street, (2d Btory,) Philadelphia.
Her. John W. Hears, Editor and Publisher.
Smetitstt
bought for the divine com
mandment, of the Quaker founder of our
city and State, Wiiaiam Penn. It is the
very law which that eminent legislator in
serted in the original code of the State,
which these retrograde reformers and raw
immigrants wish to abrogate. »
We are jealous of this distinction of
Philadelphia. It is not less, or should not
be less, a matter of interest to our citizens,
than is our reputation for the general
manliness of our thoroughfares, the abund
>,e of our benevolent institutions, the
ifort of our laboring population, and the
id order and safety to life and property
ich. we have maintained. Strangers
New'York and from the great cities
the West, who pass the Sabbath with
exclaim with surprise at the almost
: versal quiet and suspension of business
ich prevail on that day. ■ It iB really a
sathing spell from labor. Not only the
of spindles, the roar of the blast
jace and of ponderous machinery, the
ink of anvil and hammer, and the uproar
the wharf and the market place are sus
ided. Not only are the great railroad
ini deserted'through almost the entire
, but only a handful of the very smallest
ihe small dealers, who pretend to do a
[table business, put down their shutters
invite custom. No place of amuse
it ventures stealthily to open its doors,
nearest approach to such a profanation
igthe infidel and spiritualist lectures and
ites advertised for the day and even-
And our chief thoroughfares, now
tpied almost without exception with
enger railways, and made intolerably
y by the passage of cars every three
five minutes of every day in the week,
on Sabbath as quiet as if the Lord of
Sabbath himself walked the streets, in
jesty and in love.
Are we Philadelphians tired of this?
do we not feel that it is the only true
;e for our busy, weary, working popu
? Have we become ashamed of ohr
;ation as a God-fearing community ? Do.
;hink rich or poor would really be
more oomfortable by importing into
sacred day as much as possible of the
lessness, the bustle, the disorder of the
:, aggravated by the aspect of ungod
is which it must wear ? Are we wil
to yield what many would have us re
l as a harmless concession, knowing
it is as the letting out of water, the
fissure in the dam that keeps hack the
ige? Are we ready to put the good
ir, the reputation, the wholesome Sab
i-peace of our city in the hands of men
ie whole idea of public morals is drawn
i the frightfully dissolute cities of con
ntal Europe ? Do we not know that
je behind this war against the sanctity
the Sabbath comes war against Christi
:y itself, against Christian civilization,
st the Bible, the family institution,
mst domestic purity, against the very
,t of property? And not far* in the
inoe glimmers
“The red-fool fury of the Seine,
Piling her barricades with dead.”
There is no surer guarantee tor the future
j, order, comfort, and prosperity ot
city, for a continuance of its past hou
ile record of loyalty to good govern
it, than the maintenance, without de
;ion, of its present universal regard for
•edness and proper uses of the Lord’s
r. Change that, and we must at once
irge our prisons, multiply our courts,
rease our police force, and, in spite of
see violence and wrong arrogantly
[king our Btreets, and helplessly behold
youth fall atpray to the dissolute morals
they will now have so much larger op
,'tunity to copy from transatlantic models.
We beg our Legislature to guard the
>le repute of the greatest city of the
imonwealth, and to do every thing in
sir power to oonfirm and perpetuate an
imple of sobriety so potent to the State
large.
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ZSTew Series, 'Vol. 111, N"o. 11.
THE DAILY PRAYER MEETING.
On Tuesday of last week the meeting
was held in the United Presbyterian church,
Dr. Dales pastor. A tender influence was
thrown over the meeting by the announce
ment of the pastor, at the opening, that
great interest prevailed in that and other
churches of the same order, and by asking
special prayers in their behalf. It was
worthy of note that the first prayer of the
meeting in this rigorous Scotch Presby
terian church, at the request of the pastor,
'was offered by a Methodist pastor, Rev.
Alfred Cookman. After prayer, Rev. Mr.
Mears read a budget of fresh revival news
from Williamsport, and from Auburn, and
several other towns i» Western New York,
of the most surprising and refreshing char
acter. He also presented a request for
prayer from a town in the northwest part
of the State, in behalf of a prominent char
acter whose home is in that place, but who
travels over the country in a public capa
city ; whose influence at his home is wide
spread and deplorable, insomuch that the
whole town would show-the effect if he were
truly converted. The Christian people
there are praying for him, and they ask us
here to join their petitions.
A marked sensation was made by the ad
dress of Rev. Mr. Blain of the United
Presbyterian church of Canonsburg. He
based his hope of a general revival upon
the fact that the Church was being revived
first. The United Presbyterian Church
had hitherto been very, careful in its teach
ings, had fully comprehended and defended
the principles of theology, but had been
sadly deficient in heart. If Christ had
come recently with the same appeal which
he made to Peter, and said, “ United Pres
byterian Church, lovest thou me’?” he was
sure they could not have given him Peter’s
answer, “ Lord, thou knowest that I love
thee.” He hoped they were getting their
hearts warmed. Were the United Presby
terians going -to turn Methodists? No,
but they were going to be heart-Christians.
Backsliders and cold professors were rising
to ask for prayer in their meetings. Mr.
Blain spoke with unwonted fervor of man
ner, as one who had got fresh hold Of the
practical side of the gospel, and who was
participatingin such a movement to a higher
stage of Christian life, as he described to
be taking plaoe in that branch of the
.Church.
Several requests for prayer were pre
sented ; a most earnest, solemn, and power
ful address to the unconverted was made
by Mr. Cookman, when, at the suggestion
of George H. Stuart, cordially seconded by
Dr. Dales, an opportunity was given for
persons interested to arise for prayer. Was
it not a little remarkable, and evidence of
the power of the Spirit breaking down
distinctions and iormal usages, that, in a
church of this 'order, such an invitation
should be given, to be accepted during the
singing of, “two verses of the seventy
second Psalm,” Rouse’s version ? The in
vitation was not altogether unheeded. The
closing prayer was made by Dr. Edwards.
On Wednesday, at the Sixth Presby
terian Church, Rev.. Mr. Harbaugh, the
pastor, prop osed a limit of five minutes for
addresses and prayers, which has long
been needed in these meetings. George
H. Stuart said he had just received a letter
from a young man living in the very neigh
borhood of the church, who, although well
educated and a man of talents, had been an
open infidel, and had led a vile life, de
scending to the lowest depths of intoxica
tion and vice. At the opening of the war,
he had enlisted} and blessed be God,
through the agency of the Christian Com
mission, his fearful downward course was
arrested and he became a humble believer.
This letter was written to express deep
gratitude sto the instrumentalities of his
change. Mr. Stuart asked for prayer that
the man might be led to consecrate himself
to the work of the ministry. Rev. Mr.
Henry spoke of an extensive work of grace
! going on in Princeton College, where many
| students have already been converted.
On Thursday, the Rev. J. Hyatt Smith’s
(Baptist) Church, was crowded in every
part, and the services were deeply interest
ing. In illustrating the power of prayer,
the incident was narrated of a wicked
youth, the son of a godly mother, who felt
impelled, utterly against his tastes, to enter
a prayer-meeting in a oity of central New
York. Greatly wrought upon by the Holy
Spirit, he rose and begged the prayers ot
God’s people, exclaiming: “My mother’s
prayers are troubling me.” He was con
verted. It afterwards appeared that at the
very time, his mother, in company with
other pious women, in a oity eighty miles
distant, was praying for him.
On Friday, at the Old Pine Street
Church, Rev, Dr. Brainerd read and com
mented upon the ninth chapter of Ezekiel.
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1866.
He showed that the writer’s mark was not
upon the formalist, nor upon the shallow
and the cheerful only, but upon them that
sigh and cry for surrounding abominations.
Judgment would begin at the house of God,
upon those who must surely be aware of
the abominations, but who lifted not a
finger to arrest them. This meeting took
the direction of appeals to the unconverted
and was solemn and tender. There is a
number of inquirers in Old Pine Street
Church and some hopeful conversions.
The lower floor of the church' was full, but
for some reason, very few pastors of any
denomination were present. The condition
of their own flocks is such, doubtless, as in
some cases, to keep them at home.
On Saturday, at Rev. Mr., Sutphen’s
Church, a very earnest spirit of supplication
was poured out, and a solemnity prevailed,
which seemed to forbid almost any other
mode of exercises. A gentleman from
Boston spoke of the state of feeling in that
city, as one of waiting and of hope rather;
than of actual revival. Daily prayer-meet
ings are held in at least four churches,
from three of which he bore a request for
prayer to the brethren of this union prayer
meeting. The large daily union meeting
kept.up in Philadelphia for so long a time,
was amobject of interest and of encourage
ments to Christians in all parts of the land.
Appointments for the tenth week of
prayer were announced.
On Wednesday the meeting will be held
at St. Paul’s M. E. Church, Catherine St.
above Sixth; Thursday, Central Presbyte
rian, Eighth and Cherry; Friday, First
Reformed Dutch, Seventh and Spring
Garden; Saturday, Tabernacle Baptist,
Eighteenth and Chestnut.
RELIGION AND THE WORLD.
Some turn away from the humbling doc
trines and duties ot the Gospel, under the
pretext that they are gloomy, and that their
acceptance is fatal to all enjoyment. It is
true, they do cut down the shrubs of vain
delight that encumber the soil, but it is to
plant in their stead cedars of Lebanon-
Worldly amusements are for the most part
like Jonah's gourd, they wither in a night.
Yet, when they are healthful, and harmless,
and the heart is not set upon them, region
does not frown upon them. .But in place
of what it forbids, it substitutes what is in
finitely better —joys that will endure when_
the eye finds no pleasure in seeing, and
when music has lost its charm.
When Whitelocke was Cromwell’s am
bassador to Sweden,. he had interview
with the great ex-Chancellor Oxenstiern.
The latter, in reply to surprise ex
pressed by the former, that he had with
drawn from the “throng’of public and
great affairs,” replied: “ business was a
burden and much company irksome, yet I
was able to spend some of my time in study,-
and chiefly, I may say, solely, I did apply
myself to the study of the Bible, wherein
is all wisdom and the greatest delight to
be found, and much more in practice of
that Divine wisdom. You are a much
younger man than I am, and I counsel you
to make the study and practice of the word
of God your chief contentment and delight,
as it will be to every soul that savors the
truth of God, which infinitely exceeds all
worldly things.”*
Is such testimony solitary? No, there
are thousands who can respond to it—thou
sands who have testified, or can now testify,
that they never knew what joy was till they
found it in the peace and hope which reli
gion gives. Will you have no regard to
such testimony, unbiassed, unbought? Or
will you consult your feelings and taste
rather than your conscience or your judg
ment ?
* Whitelocke’s Journal of the Swedish Em
bassy, I. 303.
BARNES’ NOTES AS A PREMIUM.
In compliance with the suggestions of
several of those who are acting as agents
in procuring subscribers, we have made an
arrangement with Messrs. Harper &
publishers, for supplying Barnes' Com
'MENTARIES ON THE NEW TESTAMENT as a
premium. We will send, postage prepaid,
any one of the volumes, to the person pro
'curing one new subscriber, and remitting
$B. For ten new names and §BO, we will
send postage paid, the entire set of eleven
volumes, free of expense.
We yield a large part of our space this
week in presenting the most important
part of the address of the Committee of
the Sabbath Union of this city. That
committee consists of the Rev. A. Barnes,
Bishop Simpson, Judge Strong, Judge
Porter, Thomas H. Powers, Dr. Bomberger,
Ex-Gov. Pollock, Dr. Stork, and thelate John
P. Crozier. As might he exepected, in emana-
ting from suoh a source, the document is
worthy of general regard, and from the
candor and calmness of its tone, the com
prehensiveness of its views, and evident
aim at the public good, must commend
itself even to the opponents of the policy
which it advocates.
SYRIA.
A letter from our Missionary brother,
Rev. Henry H. Jessup, of Beirut, dated
January 31st, contains the following para
graph, on the late outbreak" on Mount
Lebanon. The principal portion of the let
ter will appear next week.
“ As an element of trouble, there is a new
insurrection' in Mount Lebanon, and the
mail and telegraphic communication' with
Tripoli by land, is interrupted. This minia
ture rebellion is headed by a fanatical papal
Maronite. named Yusef Keram, who, dis
appointed in seeing the mountain govern
ment in the hands of so enlightened and
liberal a ruler as Daud Pasha, undetermined
to rule or ruin Northern Lebanon. He led
a thousand Maronites to Ghuzir, about,
fifteen miles north of Beirut, and attacked
Daud Pasha’s force, but was defeated.
This was a fortnight since, and it was sup
posed that peace was secured. But yester
day news came from the North, that he
had surprised the Turkish camp near Tri
poli, and driven the entire force within the
walls of the city, killing a number of the
troops and some Turkish officers. A
steamer wap despatched at once from here
with reinforcements, and it is-.to be hoped
that the arch-rebel will be caught and pun
ished.
“If the Turkish Government is thorough
ly in earnest- in supporting Daud Pasha,
the rebellion will be put down, but Daud
Pasha is a Christian, and the Government
is Mohammedan, and nothing in the shape
of treachery and intrigue would be surpris
ing on the part of the Turks. There are a
thousand rumors afloat about the state of
things in Northern Lebanon and the recent
battle, but- Syrian rumors are as little to be
depended on as the stories of the ‘ intelli
gent contraband’ in the days of the South
ern rebellion. "If I can obtain reliable
news before the mail leaves, I will add a
postscript.’’
A SUNDAY PAPER.
The proprietors of the Sunday Press have
steadily endeavored to make the impression,
that their paper was full of improving and
valuable matter, and that it was mere
bigotry to endeavor to keep the people from
reading it. Whatever such an argument
for a Sunday paper might be worth, it
turns out that the claims to respectability
and utility upon which it is founded, can
not be sustained.
The Sunday Press has fallen into the in
evitable slough of all enterprises in open
violation of the fourth commandment. Im
purity seems necessarily to follow in the
wake of fjjabbath-breaking; with the fourth
commandment, quickly falls the observance
of the seventh.
A Harrisburg paper, also published by a
Forney, presents some pretty conclusive
evidence in the form of extracts, which will
not bear republishing, to prove this charge
.upon the Sunday Press, and then adds :
If this be the sort of Sunday reading
usually furnished' by the Press, then we
must most heartily commend the Philadel
phia clergymen in their, efforts to suppress
the evil of Sunday literature. If such
moral leprosy as is contained in the above
quotation, be allowed to pass the thresh
|hold of the family circle, as Sunday read
ing, along w|th reports of sermons and dis
sertations upon loyalty, love of country,
lete., without reproof, what will, in a short
jime, be the moral condition of the grow
ing generations? Do the parents'who
Jake the Sunday Press into their families,
for serious and orthodox edification, desire
,io have their little daughters taught that it
(is “ prudish,” over nice, etc., to start or
J)lush at * * * * Do they wanttheir
little sons taught to believe that when a
Wife proves to be “too pure minded” that
that is a just ground of a divorce from
iier ?
j It is unnecessary to multiply words upon
If he subject of such a Sunday literature,
wherein everything pure and beautiful and
fcacred—the virtuous and modest' instincts
|>f womanhood—is scoffed at and insulted
*s with a Voice from a New Fork dance
Louse.
? California Items.—The San Jose
Mercury says that the Presbyterian
lehurch in that city has secured' the ser
vices of Bov. James Wylie, of Bloom
jdeld.———The Pacific, Feb. 1, says:—
: A Presbyterian church, (N. S.) it is
expected, 'V'U be organized at San Le
andro, on ihe second Sabbath of Febru
ary.”——Meetings have been held, for
three weeks past, each night in Brook
lyn, alternately in the Presbyterian and
Baptist churches. An encouraging state
of feeling prevails.
G-enesee Evangelist, N”o. 1034:.
LETTER FROM EAST TENNESSEE.
A Confederate Preacher Approaching the
Truth —Developments of Providence—lndi
vidual Liberty—Fear of Negro Equality —
An ex post facto Affair —Schools for
Freedmen Sustained by Public Sentiment
—About the Veto.
Maryville, B. Ten'n., Feb. 26, 1866.
Mr. Editor :-»-We rejoice with you in
the revival spirit you are enjoying in the
city of Philadelphia, and in the general
progress’ of earnest Christianity throughout
the North. It is your only hope, as well
as ours, for securing all the blessed fruits
of the war. Some of our churches in East
Tennessee have been greatly strengthened
by an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and
are working hopefully for the future. A
writer in the Christian Observer, a quon
dam rebel preacher of the late Confederacy,
who left us in consequence of his active
participation in the rebellion, indulges in
the following strain :—“ God’s providences
are mysterious and incomprehensible to us.
Certainly his ways are not as our ways, nor
his thoughts as our thoughts. The Church
in East Tennessee is almost entirely over
run and occupied by missionaries from the
North. What will be the end of all this,
will be developed in the providence of God.
We ought to feel that the Lord reigns.”
When apprised that the minister who
wrote the above was one of the members ot
Union Presbytery who voted against or
daining Rev. Wm. Lyle because he was an
anti-slavery man, and who voted to ostra
cise all Union ministers and elders, you
will perceive that he has made considerable
progress since theo. He did not want the
Lincolnites here —but they took the coun
try and he withdrew.. The churches here
had been overrun and torn up by rebel
preachers, and when the Southern despot
ism.was overthrown, they chose loyal min
isters, partly from the North, and identi
fied themselves with'our General Assembly.
There are four Northern ministers in Hol
ston Presbytery, seven in Union Presby
tery} and one in Kingston Presbytery, and
if their loyal congregations are satisfied
with them, they need not be concerned
about the conjectures of their refugee cleri
cal brother in Alabama. The masses of
the people here discovered that the worst
men they ever knew were not born in the
North, but in their own midst, and loyalty
rather than the place of nativity will be a
prevailing consideration with them for years
to come, in determining who shall serve
them as ministers, lawyers, or statesmen.
This will doubtless be one of the develop
ments “ in the Providence of God.”
Efforts may be made here and there to
revive old prejudices against Northern men,
but in almost every instance they will fail.
If there is any one question settled by the
war, it is this, provided always a man is
loyal, he may take and circulate what paper
he pleases, and adopt and defend the most
radical reconstruction measures ; he may
subscribe for the New York of Chicago
Tribune, or the Independent , or the Right
Way ; he may circulate Helper’s Compend,
or Sumner’s speeches, or those of Kelley
■ and Thad. Stevens; he may be in favor ot
1 negro soldiers’ voting, or of impartial suf
frage in all the rebel States or throughout
1 the # Union, if it be known that he has his
opinions and can give a reason for them, and
has nerve and mauhood enough to maintain
them. After the Government of the United
States has solemnly abolished slavery, for a
man to raise the stereotyped cry of Aboli
tion, is to write himselt down as a fossil oi
“ auld lang syne.” By common consent he
is associated with the overthrown aristoc
racy, and, like Judas, politically, he soon
will sink •“ to his own place.”
, There are some who profess to be afraid
of negro equality, who may be manipulated
by the artful demagogue, and led to take a
wrong position —but most of them are good
men and true, and if disenthralled from
•their prejudices, will come out right.
I have just returned from a tour through
Anderson, Campbell, and Scott Counties.
In one neighborhood I found a large family
of children, none of whom could read, and
yet they dreaded negro equality. I told
them go-far as they were concerned they
need have no fear; that there were over a
thousand colored people at Knoxville who
could read, and were, therefore, ahead of
them—that unless they started a school in
their neighborhood, the probability was,
that they would.never catch up with the
freedmen; that I was no candidate for
office, aud comld therefore tell them the
honest truth adaout it without fear or favor.
Sabbath-schools and day-schools for the
freedmen are being,’ organized all over the
State, and in this section of Tennessee
public sentiment sustains them. The whis
ky-drinking class get top-heavy sometimes,
and feel almost enough ol South Carolina
chivalry to interrupt them, but since the
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colored testimony bill has become a law,
they are leading a quiet and more becoming
life. There are 100,000 white persons in
Tennessee who can neither read or write,
and in five years’ time there will be much
less than that number of the colored people
of the State, who cannot do both ; and on
the question of impartial suffrage, it is be
lieved that the number of amnestied men
who will favor it, will more than make up
the defection from the Union ranks, in con
sequence of wise and legitimate measures
to secure it.
Since the President’s veto and his . 22d
of February speech, the people have been
holding their breath’, and taking their bear
ings. Governor Brownlow and his paper
will stand square up to Congress. The
reading of Trumbull’s speech has opened
the eyes of many with regard to the possi
ble break between the President aud those
who placed him in his present position, and
since the’intimation that the Test Oath ot
Congress must be broken down to let rebels
back into the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives, it is more than likely that a con
siderable majority of the loyal people of
East Tennessee will stand by the Governor
and thus, if possible, secure the legitimate
results of the war. It may be several
months before our people will have the
matter all before them, and be thoroughly
roused to the momentous issues involved.
Our people will not easily be dragooned
into the adoption of measures which will
obliterate the distinction between loyalty
and treason. Hebdomadal and weakly pa
pers may try to check the progress of lib
erty, and gather to their support the worst
enemies of the country; by appealing to
prejudice, and by stimulating sectional
hate, they may blind a few, for a time, to
tbeir true interests,, but the Republio will
live, and those who have upheld its flag so
bravely, will lay to tbeir helping hand in
every hour of danger, and quietly put by
any and every one of their cherished idols,
where they obstruct the nation’s march to
a magnificent destiny.
You may inquire, what is to be the effect
of the veto and of the President’s polioy
upon Northern men who have cast in their
lot with the Southern people. I have heard
some mutterings and threatenings against
these “interlopers and adventurers,” as
they are sometimes called within the last
few days, that sounded very much like the
talk just before the war, but while Con
gress stands firm, and bayonets are South
of us, and the Governor, backed by most of
the loyal thousands of the State, upholds
the cause of humanity and freedom, there
need be little apprehension. God has been
stationing the right kind of men at various
posts of influenoe all over East Tennessee,
who will not be found wanting in the day
of trial, and with a free press, a free pulpit,
and a free Congress, with Divine aid, all
will yet be well. Yours, very truly,
F- S.—Rev. Mr. Le Vere has taken
charge of the colored Presbyterian Church
at Knoxville, organized last summer by
Rev. J. B. Reeve, and has received some
twenty odd persons on profession of faith.
He will do a good work among the breth
ren there.
Important to Ministers attending
the General Assembly at St. Louis.
—Both branches of the Presbyterian
Church hold their General Assemblies
in St. Louis next May. As, on such,
occasions, Commissioners are expected
to preach pretty extensively in the
churches, the question has arisen, whe
ther it will be necessary to take and
put on- file the test oath required by the
new Constituton of Missouri, before at
tempting to preach in that State. To
obtain satisfactory information, Rev. S.
J. Niccolls, a St. Louis pastor, made in
quiry of the Attorney General, and ob
tained in reply the following:
My view is, that as the 10th section oi
Article 11. of the Constitution provides that
ministers who are required to take the oath
of loyalty shall file their oath “in the office
of the Clerk of the County Court of the
county of their residence,” and as ministers
who reside in other States have, of course,
no residence here, and therefore cannot
comply with that provision, it could not have
been the intention of the Convention which
framed the Constitution to require ministers
residing in other States to take the oath,
in order to preach while temporarily sojourn
ing in this State. Respectfully yours,'
R. F. Wingate,
Attorney General of Missouri.
So all will be well enough, unless some
people politically and religiously wicked,
merely out of Bpite to the oath, get up a
few arrests, with a binding over of the
strangers to answer to some secession
court. Of course, nothing would come
of it in the end; but it would serve the
purpose of present annoyance, much to
the enjoyment of certain parties. Can
our St. Louis brethren certify that there
is no danger of this ?
Rev. Martin Moore, for many years
editor of the Boston Recorder, died in
Boston, March 12, aged sevenly-six years.
Samuel Sawyer.