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THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1866.
CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
Second Page—Family Circle:
Nooturn—The Puritan of 1863 —A Song of Home—
Power of the Holy Scriptures—First Love—A Les
son tfnr Fast Young Mod—Jf One Lesson won't do.
Another will.
Third Page—Editor’s Table:
Periodicals and Pamphlets—Literary Intelligence,
American and Foreign.
Miscellaneous; The Safe Contract—Regulation
of Religious Worship in Jamaica.
Sixth Page—Correspondence :
Historical Sketch of the Kolapoor Mission Chapel
—“Want any Help"—“Established Christians
need Reconstruction"—Our Fellow-Sufferers—Let* .
ter from a Traveling Correspondence in the South— j
Thoughts on Humility—Tne way the Union was j
Saved. I
Seventh Page—Rural Economy:
Dr. Girdwood's Lecture on Poisons—Form of Prayer
During the Cattle Plague last Century—Manure
out West—The Peach Crop—Keeping Horses Feet
and Legs in Order—Shoeing Horses that Overreach
How to Freshen Salt Butter. .
Scientific : Magnesium Light— -Ancient Cave
dwellers—Manufacture of Arabic Type.
Communications to appear next week,
itfr. Warner’s Letters, No. 6; Letter
from Rev. Henry Harris Jessup, Beirut;
Trialogue on Church Erection, Obituary
of Surgeon Aiken, etc.
UgsT 3 The party who ordered Stew
art’s “ Camp, March, and Battlefield,”
will please send his address once more
Rev. Jonathan Edwards, D.D. has
resigned the pastoral charge of West
Arch Street Church, in this city, to
accept the Presidency of Washington
and Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa.
Philadelphia, and both branches of the
Presbyterian Church suffer in the removal
of Dr. Edwards. For thorough good
ness of character, catholicity of spirit,
eminent abilities as a thiDker, preacher,
and debater, earnest sympathy with
every good work, and for uncompromis
ing loyalty to the Government first and
last; he will long be remembered in this
city. Our best follow him in his
new position.
Public Loss.—Our Baptist brethren
particularly and the public generally
have met a great loss in the recent de
cease of two such men as Dr. David
Jayne and Mr. John P. Crozier. Both
were men of large means and liberality.
Dr. Jayne will be remembered *by the
Christian public as the owner of “Jayne’s
Hall,” in which the great Union prayer
meetings of 1858 were held, the use of
which he gave gratuitously for that pur
pose for a number of months. It iB an
honored and happy association with one
of the most remarkable religious move
ments of modern times. Mr. Crozier
was the representative man of his de
nomination in all united efforts for pro
moting the cause of Christ. His ready
purse was not moie sought than his
influence and, his cousel in the leading
benevolent enterprises of the day. The
last position of the kind allotted to him
by the Christian pnblic, was on the Com
mittee of the Sabbath Union, with Mr.
Barnes, Judge Strong and others, to
prepare the address, part of which ap
pears in our columns to-day. Mr.
Crozier bad more than completed the
Scriptural term of threescore years and
tea.
Princeton, N. J. —ln another column
there is a passing notice of religious in
terest in' the College at Princeton. A
friend from that town recently called at
our office, from whom we learn that the
state of things there is one of very pecu
liar interest. The seriousness among
the students sprung up almost without
any visible cause, and up to the time of
our information, has progressed to. an
extensive- revival with little more of
public effort than the ordinary college
religious exercises. In the senior class—
a class of unusual ability and promise—
only six or seven remain confessedly
unconverted. The towD is now begin
ning to feel the movement, and the
churches are taking up the matter with
a view to active effort. The Presbyte
rian Churches have arranged for a
thorough visitation of the families of
their congregations by committees going
two and two, aDd have proposed to the
churcheß of other denominations to share
in a general visitation of the borough, a
plan which is likely to he carried out.
Accompanying this effort there will be
an increased number of meetings. The
prayefs and hopes of Christians are
fixed upon a glorious effusion of reviving
and converting grace, which may the
good Lord grant!
Transfer of a Pastor.— Rev. A.
Boardman Lambert, D.D., who has been
for the last twenty-eight years pastor of
the church in Salem, N. Y., connected
with the Presbytery of Troy, has been
transferred to the pastorate in Hoosic
Falls, in the same Presbytery. His in
stallation over the latter church took
place on the 21st ult., the Presbytery
then holding its annual meeting in that
village. At the same meeting, Messrs.
Anthony D. Axtell and Charles C. Flager,
were ordained as evangelists,
each having in view a definite field of
labor as a stated supply.
Kansas City, Mo.—The new edifice
for the Church in this place, in which
many of our reader?are specially inter
ested, will probably be dedicated about
May Ist. Several new members are
expected at the next communion. Rev.
Timothy Hill is pastor. Rebels and
copperheads, aided by sympathizers in
St. Louis pnd New York, are making
sad havoc with other churches in the
«fly.'
OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT.
REV. DR. HEACOCK’S LECTURE.
Rev. Dr. Heacock, of Buffalo, last
j week gave the closing lecture of the
course before the YouDg Men’s Christian
Union of that city. We hear it spoken
of in the highest terms by some of those
I who were fortunate enough to be present.
The Doctor could hardly be expected to
! speak in these times without touching
j the living issues of the day. And as he
j is such a thorough patriot, and such a
lover of liberty, such a believer in the
Declaration of Independence, he could
not well avoid saying some plain things
in regard to recent developments.
Who that knew Dr. Heacock could
have expected anything else ? Or who
could doubt that with all his good na
ture, he would speak with prodigious
force and telling effect upon these new
issues: if he touched them at all ? • But
this does not well suit the tastes and
wishes of some of the Buffalo journalists,
and so the Doctor gets pretty well daub
ed over with newspaper abuse—be is a
slanderer, a red republican, a blackgurfrd,
or some other things of that sort.
The Doctor replies in a good-natured
card, protesting his innocence of the hor
rible crimes laid to his charge, and his
willingness to to submit the lecture to
any proper examination, to see how
much of vulgarity and blackguardism it
contains.
O, how much more some people are
disturbed in these times by the truth,
than they could possibly be by the most
♦atrocious slanders that mouth could
utter! It reminds us of the criminal at
the bar, whose friendß thought to quiet
his anxieties by assuring him that the
judge was an upright man, and would
see,that he had justice —“that,” he re
plied, with increased distress, “is the
very thing I fear.” The Doctor has
lived in Buffalo too long to be disturbed
in his position or his feelings by such un
just assaults from any source
THE REVIVALS.
The interest in Geneva still continues.
Union meetings are held everyday, and
for nearly two months have been held
twice a day. “ The whole community is
moved,” writes one who is well inform
ed, “as I have never seen it before.”
More than forty have already been ex
amined for admission in the Presbyterian
Church, (Dr. Wood’s) and more are ex
pected yet to come forward. It is
thought that at least one hundred and
and fifty persons have been converted in
the place.
Quite a large number were received
last Sabbath in the First Presbyterian
Church of Utica, as a part of the fruit of
the blessed work in progress there. In
Clinton, it is hoped that the feeling is
deepening. The prayer-meetiDg on Sun
day evening, in the Presbyterian church,
was one of unusual interest and pro
mise. The power of the Spirit was
specially manifest with Christians. They
seemed prepared for a great blessing.
Quite a number of conversions have also
occurred in the Houghton Female Semi
nary, and the whole school is deeply
moved in regard to the great interests of
eternity.
And we might also remark, in pass
ing, that the highest aim and ambition
of the teaebers is not only to impart
thorough mental discipline, but also to
help their scholars to get that wisdom
which is from above; to make them
truly educated Christian women.
rural high school burned.
We are much pained, however, in Clin
ton, to see, in place of the fine building
known as the Rural High School, no
thing but a heap of smouldering ruins.
It took fire on Friday evening, 2d inst.,
abont seven" o’clock, and was speedily
burned to the ground. It had some
twenty boarding scholars, who were
suddenly turned into the street. These,
however, and Mr. Kelsey, the teacher,
succeeded in saving their personal ef
fects.
The building was erected and owned
by Rev. B. W. Dwight, now of New
York. In connection with Rev. D. A
Holbrook, now of Sing Sing, he here
started a boys 1 school som'e eight years
ago. We understand Mr. Dwight is
fully insured, and it is thought not likely
that he will be disposed"to rebuild the
edifice, as he has now left the place, and
waß wishing to dispose of it. The loss
in the community is regarded as a real
calamity.
PERSONAL.
Rev. J. W. Whitfield, of Waddington,
haß been engaged by a benevolent gen
tleman in Utica (most people in that re
gion can readily guess his name) to labor
for one year in Oneida County, for the
cause' of Temperance, giving lectures,
organizing Bands of Hope, and the like.
Mr. Whitefield iB an earnest and inter
esting speaker, a warm friend of the
temperance reform, and seems well cal
culated for this work. We trust he will
meet with great success.
Rev. Samuel B. Sherrill, of Meridian,
has recently been remembered by his
people to the amount of about two hun
dred and fifty dollars. Among their
valuable gifts, a very fine sleigh, with
buffalo robe to match, are to be included,
fn this the people evidently have an eye
to the good pastor’s comfort in making
his parochial calls. Who can doubt but
they will receive, in spiritual blessings,
more than a return for all such delicate
attentions ?
Rev. R, M. Sandford, of Griffin’s
Mills, Erie County, has supplied the
Old School Presbyterian Church ■of the
neighboring village of Aurora one-half
of his time for a year past Beside
paying him the stipulated salary for his^
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY. MARCH 15. 1866.
services, they have also remembered
him, to the amount of one hundred and
forty-five dollars, in a special donation;
thus showing their generous apprecia
tion of his faithful and acceptable labors.
Rev. Dr. Oondit, of Auburn, is preach
ing with great acceptance, we learn, to
the First Presbyterian Church in Syra
cuse. The church is full, we are told,
morning and evening on the Sabbath, to
hear his acceptable discourses; Hb is
supplying the pulpit during the absence
of the pastor, Rev. Dr. Canfield, in
Europe. C. P. B.
Rochester, March 10, 1866.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C., March 12, 1866.
The publication of a portion of the
testimony taken by the Joint Committee
on Reconstruction, going before the
country almost simultaneously with the
veto message and the disgraceful
harangue of the President, has consoli
dated public sentiment iu favor of Con
gress and against the Executive. Hav
ing observed carefully the tone of the
loyal press, reflecting like a mirror, the
intense popular opinion of the loyal
millions, I have been astonished at the
unequalled unanimity which prevails in
the ranks of the great Union party in
opposing what the President terms,
“my policy.” It might be thought that
Mr. Johnson would have by this time
have discovered his mistake, but in his
reply to a delegation of Maryland Cop
perheads the other day, he reiterated
his determination to carry out his
“policy” as already announced. The
fearful response of the people to his ap
peal, reverberating in thunder tones all
over the country, has qo effect whatever
upon him, except to make him more
stubborn in pursuing the course he had
marked out for himself. Like the Bour
bons, he neither forgets nor learns.
If there were any doubts as to the
pernicious effects of the President's re
construction policy, they have been com
pletely dispelled by the concurrent testi
mony of such gallant soldiers as Gen
erals George H. Thomas, Clinton*- B.
Fisk, B. ft. Grierson, and Edward
Hatch, concerning the condition of affairs
in the late rebel States. And yet their
evidence is merely a fragment of the
report of the Committee, which will
soon be spread before the astonished
gaze of the country. It is eaßy to un
derstand now the cause of the hitter
enmity which has been shown by the
Copperhead press towards the Commit
tee on Reconstruction. The President
himself shared in this feeling, and you
will remember the proof he gave of his
undisguised opposition to it: when in
the midst of his harangue, he styled it
an “irresponsible Central Directory.”
This Committee has spoiled the jpresb,
dent’s plan of reconstruction, and effect- 1
ually blocked the way to the immediate
readmission to Congress of the Repre
sentatives from the Southern States.
When its entire report is made public, 1
venture to predict that the Committee
will be fully exonerated by a grateful
people from all the odium which the
President and his friends had sought to
heap upon it.
The great debate in the Senate, on
the joint resolution, proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States relative to the basis of represen
tation in Congress, was closed on Fri
day. Senator Fessenden, of Maine,
who is Chairman upon the part of the
Senate of the Committee on
tion, who reported the resolution frepr
that Committee to the Senate, delivered
the closing speech of the debate. It
was a very able effort.. Mr. Fessenden
is justly regarded as the best debater :u
the Senate. He is not what you wou d
call a popular speaker, and yet there s
something engaging and pleasant in tqe
style of his delivery which attracts,
general attention. Notwithstanding his
able defence of the resolution, it was]
as you will have already seen lost, hav-J
ing failed to secure the necessary two-l
thirds vote. This was owing to thei
opposition which it met with from 1
Senator Sumner and two or three other
extreme radicals. Mr. Sumner opposed
it because he did not think it explicit
enough in its meaning with regard to
enfranchising the Southern blacks. He
wanted such an amendment as would
make it positively obligatory upon the
late rebel States to give the negro the
right of suffrage. Senator Fessenden
and those who supported the measure,
contended that while the amendment
proposed by the Committee would be
likely to be ratified by the requisite
number of State Legislatures, it would
also secure* indirectly the same end as
was aimed at by Mr. Sumner. But the
great radical was inexorable. He would
make no compromise, and consequently
the measure was defeated. The whole
subject comes up again on Thursday, on
a motion to reconsider, when it is un
derstood some amendment will be pro
pose as a substitute upon which all can
unite.
There was a lively scene in the House
on Saturday, on the occasion of a speech
from the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, Mr,
Stevens, notwithstanding his radical
ism, is very popular with the masses of
the people, and, like Senator Suinner,
always secures full galleries when he
delivers a speech. There was an addi
tional inducement presented on Satur
day, because it was expected that he
would say something in reply to the
President’s attack nponhim. He treated
this part of his subject with the greatest
coolness, and in his own peculiar sar
castic manner affectedto believe thattbe
President’s speech was a hoax. He Is
made a powerful argument against the
inconsistency of the President’s policy
of jeconstrnction, but spoke of the Ex
ecutive all through in the most respect
ful terms. J. M.
.fteta af mrc ffljjroimf.
CITY INTELLIGENCE,
The Frankford Chapel. —The foun
dations of this chapel, which is to be of
the same dimensions as that at Broad
atd Oxford Streets, are complete, and
the floor joists have been laid. As -soon
as the season opens, the work upon the
walls will be pushed forward, as the
stone for the purpose is upon the jfround.
The location is perhaps the finest in the
place, on the corner of Main and Han
cock Streets. The lot is ample for the
erection of a first-class bnilding when
needed. A number of families have
united in weekly services -from house to
house, and a good congregation is ex
pected to be gathered as soon as accom
modations are furnished.
Broad and Oxford Street.— The
walls are up, the roof is on, and the in
side work is rapidly going forward.
Mantua ’First. —This congregation
is in a flourishing condition under the
very acceptable labors of the pastor,
Rev. H. Augustus Smith. Eleven per
sons were received into the communion
on profession two Sabbaths ago. The
proposal for a new church edifice is se
riously under consideration.
Mantua Second. —This Church, since
the removal of Mr. Pratt, has been
under the care, temporarily, of Rev. E.
B.'Bruen. The congregations are excel
lent. Much interest prevails. Special
services have been held for a fortnight
past, and the fruits are highly encour
aging. ,
REVIVALS.
We find in our exchanges notices of
revivals in a large number of churches
iu our connection. Besides those more
specially noted in our columns, we name
as the scenes of special interest, the
churches in Centreville, lowa, where
twenty-five have recently been received
on profession; Brooklyn, 111., (about
twenty accessions); Alton, 111., (nearly
fifty received)*; Fort Wayne, Indiana,
(twenty-eight, and the work going on);
Berlin, Ohio; Horse Heads, Le Roy,
Olean, N./Y.; Kiirklin, Mt. Lebanon,
Third Church in New Albany, Ind.
Williamsport, March sth, 1866.
Yesterday was a happy day in the
Second Presbyterian Church of this city.
Never have I seen the faces of Chris
tians glow with such .holy joy. It waß
6ur communion Sabbath, and one hun
dred and thirteen were received into the
Church on profession, and sixteen on
certificate, making an addition to the
Church of one hundred and twenty-nine.
Of those admitted on profession, sixty
were males, and fifty-three were females.
The number who had not been pre
viously baptized was forty-four. The
number of heads of families was forty
three. Of the young persons received,
nearly all were from the Sabbath-school.
One .Bible class of young girls were all
brought in.
In every family where the husband
and father has been converted, the fa
mily altar has been erected! And where
the husband has not been brought in,
the wife or the sons have commenced
family prayen.
' In ihi§ glorions outpouring of the
Holy Spirit, those who have long been
members of the Church have been
greatly revived, backsliders have been
brought back to the Saviour, and ne
glected family altars have been restored.
In fact, the whole Church has been
vitalized and “reconstructed.”
This Church is engaged in the erec
tion of a new and beautiful edifice for
pnblic worship. It is of dressed stone,
and will cost, when completed, probably
about $45,000. The lecture-room will
be ready for use in a few weeks. The
meetings were held in the Court House.
What a marked intervention in behalf
of a people without a house of worship!
As the Methodist Conference has since
been meeting in the Court House, and
is Court will soon commence, the ser
vices are necessarily suspended, though
the work showed no signs of cessation.
\ 'The work of grace has extended to
iearly all the Churches in our city, and
a very large number of the leading men
lave been converted. This is one of
|he marked characteristics of the revival,
j Rev. E. P. Hammond was with us
lor two weeks. The work of grace had
iommenced, and was in progress when
le came, but waß greatly extended and
feepened by his faithful and. devoted
hbors.
SCarbondale, Pa., March 5, 1866.
here has been a most precious season
‘ refreshing and ingathering in the
resbyterian Church in Carbondale, Pa.,
•tiring the last four or five weeks. In
ftet, it began with the week of prayer.
II was foreshadowed in the earnestness
aid wrestling witnessed in the prayer
nhetings held every alternate, and, as
tine advanced, every evening, for two
or three weeks succeeding the week of
player. Then the Church was opened,
and the evidence of the Spirit’s presence
became manifest at once. There was
nl noise, no excess of emotion, no ex
ilement as commonly understood; but
l&p and pervading solemnity. And
has been the characteristic of the
element throughout. It has been
lilply in the line of pastoral and ses
dfial labor. Yesterday (Sabbath, 4th
L) was our communion, when twenty
[were received to Church fellowship
on profession, and one by letter. It was
a day not soon to be forgotten by those
who were permitted to participate in the
exercises on the occasion. Seven, lam
assured, is the largest number hitherto
remembered to have been received at
any one time into this Church; now
nearly four times that .number, and
many others wait over to come forward,
at the next communion. And still the
interest continues. Last week there
were more rising for prayer than at any
previous time. There is a seriousness
and solemnity pervading the community
around. Many young and more ad
vanced are among those already hoping.
May prayers incessant still be made for
us. O.
Northwestern Pennsylvania. —We
have accounts of revivals, some of them
quite extensive, in several of the churches
of the Presbytery of Erie, particularly
in those of Waterford, North East,
Greene, Wattsburg, and Edinboro. A
suggestive feature of the latter is that
it was preceded by a vigorous and mea
surably successful temperance effort—
one that was not made before it was
needed. Some churches of the Presby
tery of Meadville have also been re
freshed, especially that of Meadville,
where the work goes forward with
great power.
Owego, N..Y.—The blessing in this
field exceeds the report heretofore given.
On the 4th inst. one hundred persons
were received to the communion of the
Presbyterian Church. .Meetings have
been held every evening for nine weeks,
and what is remarkable, the pastor,
Rev. Solon Cobb, has conducted them,
preaching or performing tantamount la
bor, on every occasion but two. The
other churches in the village are scenes
of similar interest, each keeping up its
own afternoon or evening meeting, while
all the denominations unite in a morning
prayer-meeting.
Central Church, Wilmington.—
Sabbath last was a memorable day for
this church As the result, in part, of
the work of grace which has been going
forward for several weeks past, sixty
two persons were received on profession
and two by letter. Many wait for an
other opportunity; some have joined
other churches, and the interest still
prevails. One-third of the members re
ceived were men, and the whole charac
ter of the work is most encouraging and
strengthening to the Church.
Cortland Tillage. —Rev. Irving L.
Beman informs us that at the recent
communion in his church at this place,
forty-two persons were received into
membership, with quite as many hope
ful cases remaining over. The work
commenced and went on from the week
of prayer, with no special agencies, and
indications of the Spirit are still vouch
safed.
Peoria. —Rev. E. P. Hammond is
engaged in evangelical labors in this
city. The ministers are a unit in the
work, those of the other branch being
especially prominent. A week ago it
was believed that nearly 200 persons
were hoping.
Presbytery op Utica.—State op
Religion.— The Narrative adopted at
the late meeting of this Presbytery,
speaks of revivals in Waterville, Verona,
Vernon, aod also mentions an interest
ing state of religions feeling in Hamilton
College. It says farther:—“Prom al
most every church with which your
Committee have held correspondence has
come a report so like to each of the
others, that with a change of names, it
might almost stand for either of them,
and even for the whole Presbytery. Per
haps the most encouraging thing to be
noticed is a marked increase of the spirit
of prayer, imparting to meetings an in
interest and a tenderness which are quite
unusual.”
Delaware, O.—At the recent com
munion thirty were added by profession.
One old gentleman aged seventy-four
years united on the profession of. his
faith, having never before been connect
ed with any church, although consecrated
to God by baptism by his Presbyterian
parents when but an infant.
New Richmond, o—Rev. John Ran
kin writes to the Herald that sixteen
persons were recently added to the
church. The meetings were deeply
solemn; the presence of the Holy Spirit
was manifest, in reviving Christians, and
in converting sinners. The church has
been greatly enconraged, and promptly
made up a support, and I have agreed
to serve her one year. At the close of
the meeting, there was no abatement of
interest. *
Portsmouth, O.—Ten were recently
received, on profession, the first fruits
says Dr. Pratt, of a revival of religion
now in progress, and, as we hope, only
just begun. ’ J
Fourth Church, IndianapBlis.
There has been a very pleasant state of
religions interest in this church, begin
ning with the opening of the year. /They
have received an accession of forty-one
members, twenty-four on profession and
seventeen by letter.
Troy, Kansas.— Prayer-meetings are
being held from house to house without
a minister. More than a hundred, up
w this time have, we trust, come out on
the Lord’s side. And more or less
every night, rise up still, and ask the
prayers of God’s people
»sr re s a^-I T r n . tr - o “’' ere
faiib cj , profession of their
fcith. Several others will be received
convl H meetiDe - Nearl y the
oaverts were persons of mature years.
y ChTOOH AT BrHDGEVILLE, Del.
—lnis Church, organized a few weeks
ago by a Committee of Wilmington
Presbytery, is now the southernmost
in that body? It is upon the Delaware
Railroad, about one hundred miles south
of this city.' Its membership is nine-
teen, with two elders and a board of
trustees. A Sabbath-school of forty
scholars is in operation in a storehouse.
A congregation of about one hundred
and fifty is counted upon, whenever a
suitable place of meeting is procured.
By the purchase of a piece of ground
and the disposal of part of it in build
ing lots, the trustees have secured a site
120 by 124 feet, free of expense.
It is now proposed to commence a
frame building 40 b r c 60 feet. Members
and friends of the congregation will fur
nish the framework and put it upon the
ground, besides contributing according
to their means, which are moderate, for
the completion of the building. They
look for help from the friends of Church
Extension in Delaware, and in this city
and section generally. Within a tract of
about nine hundred square miles it is the
only Presbyterian Church. Its position
is one of great interest, marking as it
does the missionary progress of our
Church in a Southern direction. It
ought to be promptly aided and ax once
placed on its feet.
General Assembly. —The Presby
tery of Columbus have appointed as
Commissioners to the next General As
sembly, Rev. E. B. Miner and Elder
Ephraim G. Still. Rev James A. Lan
rie and Elder Harper T. Savage were
appointed alternates.
Commendable Liberality. —The 3d
Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, Pa.,
Rev. Herrick Johnson, pastor, has just
paid its annual' contribution to the Gen
eral Assembly’s Education Fund, amount
ing to $1225 62. This shows a truly
commendable concern in this great cause,
to contribute so liberally while engaged
in building a costly house of worship.
The contribution last was over
$llOO, exceeding that of any other
church in the communion. May the
Lord increase their spiritual prosperity
and cause their zeal to provoke very
many. This help was most opportune,
as the treasury had been largely over
drawn to meet the third quarter’s appro
priation, due the first of this month.
There will yet be needed six thousand
dollars to close the year on May Ist
and conduct the work without embarrass
ment. Shall we have it? If with a
loyal and prompt interest each minister
will present the cause to his congrega
tion, and take up a contribution, as re
commended by the General Assembly,
there will be no difficulty. T. A. M.
Presbyterian Rooms, New York, March 9.
A Mournful Event. —Rev. Henry
Snyder was probably drowned on the
evening of the 22d of February, on his
way from New York to Staten Island
ou the 1 o’clock boat. A friend saw
him on the boat, where he was ill- and
in great pain. As he has not been seen
since, it is supposed that he fell over
board, Mr. Snyder was for some years
Professor of Mathematics in Hampden
and Sydney College, Virginia, and at
the outbreak of the rebellion was forced
to flee to the North, on account of his
opposition to secession, leaving behind
all his property in Virginia, which of
course was lost. Here he was appoint
ed post chaplain at Fort Richmond, S.
1., in which position he remained until
a few months since, when he was mus
tered out. He was making arrange
ments to remove to Sharpsburg, Pa.,
when this sad. event occurred. He
leaves a widow and six children.—
Evangelist.
New Field Opened. —The Evangelist
has the account of a special effort, cul
minating in the organization of a church
in Rockfield, a railroad station in Car*
roll County, Indiana. The moral condi
tion of the place was from bad to worse
until meetings were commenced, a few
months ago, by the Rev. Amos Jones of
Delphi. He was soon enconraged tto
hold them continuously for six weeks ;
not, however, omitting engagements with
his own people The attendance and
interest were from the first extraordinary.
The partial results are a church of twenty
six! members—sixteen by confession of
their faith, and of these the greater num
ber with baptism; a good eldership
ordained, a iot, and $1,600 and more
subscribed for a house of worship, and a
social purification and improvement of
the community, marvellous in their own
eyes. Seldom are happier meetings
held than when, on Saturday and Sab
bath, the 17th and 18th ult., the labors
of Brother Jones culminated in the or
ganization of the church and the cele
bration of the Lord’s Supper. During
the four services, besides the closely
crowded house, a large number patiently
standing, hundreds could not gain en
trance.
A Good Account.— The N. Y. Obser
ver says, that more than 700 have been
added to the churches under the care of
Dr. Mattoon, of Monroe, Mich., and 500
of this number by profession. More
than this, twelve young men have gone
front under his ministry to the American
pulpit, and are now preahing the ever
lasting gospel. Since the Ist of March,
1865, seventy sonls have been added to
the Presbyterian church in Monroe. Two
prayer meetings are held weekly, and the
attendance on the two will not fall much
short of 200 of all ages.
Death of the Founder of a Sect.
—-Elder Alexander Campbell, exten
sively known as the originator of the
denomination of “ Disciples,” or Camp
bellite Baptists, died at his residence at
Bethany, West Virginia, on the 4th
inst., aged 77 years. ,