TBE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN
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GENESEE EYANGELIST.
A Bel Iff loos and Family Newspaper,
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Constitutional Presbyterian Church.
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Her. John W. Hears, Editor and Publisher.
Italian Jmitgbriaii.
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1866,
THE EXPECTED GREAT AWAKENING.
Our readers do not need to be reminded
of the widely prevalent expectations that
arose in the hearts of God’s people as the
end of the war drew near, of an unusual
and gloriouß manifestation of the reviving
and converting grace of the Spirit all over
the land, as a compensation for the demoral
izing influences of war, and as a prepara
tion for the new era of history and of pro
gress on which the nation was about to
enter. The was so deep, so
general, and so definite, that it partook
almost of the nature of a prophecy. It
seemed to spring from hearts on which the
reviving Spirit was already moving, and
was in the form of an earnest of the luller,
greater blessing to follow. The venerable
and devout Dr. Way land, on his dying bed,
gave utterance to the most fervent and
positive expectations of an unwonted out
pouring of Divine influences upon the
Church and the country. Other saints
have passed to glory with the same pros
pect gladdening their dying hours. Many
of the Presbyteries, in their Narratives to
the General Assembly at Brooklyn last
spring, gave expressions of hope foi the
immediate future of the Church, remarka
ble for their fullness, deflniteness and
warmth. They were opening wide their
mouths according to the terms of the pro
mise. Doubtless since the war is over, and
the army for the most part disbanded, and
new and not altogether unexpected difficul
ties arise, and the spirit of the country
shows itself, the urgency of our need of
revival appears no less than before. The
great problems of the pacification and res
toration of the South to loyalty and to the
Union, of the dispensation of justice to
white and black, to rebel and to patriot,
seem far from solution. The hope of a
pure national administration, aiming, in the
fear of -God, to do justice and to seek un
selfishly the good and safety of the whole,
is bitterly disaapointed and must be once
more postponed. Meanwhile the immense
material resources of the country are de
veloping, the financial elasticity of the
people appears in the immediate and large
reduction of the national debt, and points
to an early diminution of taxes, which
again will react in the enlargement of all
branches of business. Capital is being
largely applied to the extracting of our in
calculable stores of mineral wealth; one
hundred millions worth of gold and silver
are already produced in a year; and the
opening of an era of unparalleled commer
cial activity,—and it is to be feared of par
amount worldliness, —is at hand.
And not only must these evidences of
extraordinary strength and prosperity attract
in still greater numbers the immigration
which has been steadily augmenting since
the first year of the war-immigration
made up largely of the ignorant, the atheis
tic, the materialistic, and the popish masses
of the old world, and eminently perilous to
the sound morals, the religion, and the
Bible Christianity of our country; but
our own youth are ready to oopy the loose
manners and to patronize the demoralizing
entertainments, which have characterized
the effete social life of the old world. And
we find prominent men among our own
native population volunteering to lead the
foreign infidelity that infests our cities, in a
crusade against the most important qf our
Christian institutions. Scarcely has the
smoke of war cleared away, and the favor
of God revealed our National ensign victo
rious over the dust of conflict, when we
find ourselves in this, and other cities, as
Detroit and St. Louis, plunged into a con
flict for the maintenance of the sanotity of
the Sabbath.
We say the indications —some unex
pected and some not—show plainly enough
that the country needed and still needs the
baptism of a great and general revival.
The people of God at this solemn opening
of a new era of the country’s history, ear
nestly respond to the words of the leader ot
Israel:—“ If thy presence go not with us,
oairy us hot up hence.” "Victory alone
cannot save us, as the signal deliverance
of the Israelites at the Red Sea, alone, did
not save them. An ungrateful people, for
getting at once their obligations to God
and to a large class of those who suffered
and bled for their deliverance, disregarding
the solemn claims of justice, hastening
with greater eagerness than ever to their
interrupted pursuits of gain and pleasure,
tampering with God’s law, robbing him of
the time he has set apart for himself, aping
continental irreligion, frivolity, and disso
luteness, it would Beem has only been saved
from dismemberment and political ruin to
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have a worse fate still. We therefore prayer
fully and anxiously expect this great bless--
ing. It is indispensable to that purpose of
good which we cannot doubt God cherishes
towards this people. Humanly speaking,
God cannot perpetuate our nation as a bless
ing to mankind without largely communi
cating to us of his Spirit.
What, then, are the facts ?
Certainly they are not a little encourag
ing. We are of opinion, from the reports
thus tar received, that nothing like so
general a revival influence has been en
joyed throughout the country since the
great awakening of 1858. There is a
heightened religious interest pretty much
everywhere. And conversions are multi
plied, in many instances rising to truly
astonishing numbers. We do not remem
ber ever before to have seen so many
churches reported as receiving from forty
to sixty additions at a time. The numbers
in each case heretofore have generally been
less, with exceptional cases reaching a hun
dred or more. Now, while the exceptional
cases continue "to be reported, the average
of additions seems far greater. In one
small city we read of one thousand conver
sions. In another place,, one-third of the
whole population is reported converted.
Another small town counts three hundred
conversions. In another place, a'congre
gation without a church edifice, and using
a court house, received over one hundred
additions at one time, and eight hundred
conversions, one-tenth of the entire popula
tion, are reported. Not less than five hundred
conversions are believed.to have occurred
in a belt of Presbyterian churches in the
adjacent counties of this State. The hearts
of the people of God are drawn together,
and union of effort, meetings of great
bodies of Christians of every denomina
tion, with their ministers sharing freely in
the services, are so common as no longer to
excite remark. There is scarcely a city or
town of any size but gives some daily de
monstration of tins unity.
But' the movement has by no means
attained the proportions contemplated by
the-people of God, in their longing and ei
pectations for eighteen months past. Many
of our largest centres of population apd influ
ence are scarcely touched. There is in some
minds an anxious fear lest our large hopes
shall be disappointed) and after all, the great
expected revival turn out only a fond and
pleasing imagination. How shall we meet
the emergency? Have we any security
for the fulfillment of our prayerful long
i ings ? *
SUPPORT OP THE MINISTRY.
We have already spoken of. the Susten
tation Fund of the Free Church of Scot
land. -Light upon this vital point of church
prosperity is welcome from every quarter.
And we now turn to that furnished by the
United Presbyterian Church of the same
Presbyterian land. The Missionary Record
of that body for February, reminds the
churches that the Synod had appointed the
first Sabbath of the month for the annual
oolleotion in behalf of “ the Fund for the
Better Support of the Ministry” in some of
their weaker churches. The article pro
ceeds to complain, justly enough it would
seem, of tho inadequacy of the contribu
tions to the object, the whole amount
raised for 1865 being less than nine hun
dred pounds sterling, ($4500 in gold.)
A considerable portion of this amount
comes from the congregations themselves
receiving aid. The funds are employed in
bringing up the, salaries to a minimum of
one hundred and twenty pounds, ($600.)
No congregation able to pay that amount
•receives any aid from the fund, although
the intention is to raise the minimum to
one hundred and fifty pounds. There is a
distinction between congregations receiving
missionary and pastoral supplements, but
we are not informed of the practical mode
of carrying out the distinction.
Some interesting facts are presented,
based upon the very accurate statistical re
ports of membership and salaries in the
possession of the Synod’s committee. We
may remark, in passing, that the United
Presbyterian Church, in its business depart
ment is the model church of Presbytery, if
not of Protestant Christendom. So far as
statistics can witness to the actual state of
a church, they are thoroughly informed
upon their own. And they can proceed
knowingly and confidently in the manage
ment of their internal affairs, when other
bodies must go by guess work. The tables
before us show to a pound, how much
money must be raised every year to bring
every “ stipend” in the church to whatever
amount they choose to name as a minimum.
It appears, from these tables, that three
hundred and two of their congregations are
giving less than one hundred and fifty
pounds, and that contributions of a little
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over ten thousand pounds sterling per an-1
num, would be required from the Church at
large, to bring the stipends in each of these
cases up to the minimum named.
The inequality in the contributions of
church members, in different positions, to
the pastoral support, is truly marvellous.
The average payments of individual mem,' I
I bers of small and feeble churches are fre
quently far greater- than those of large and I
wealthy churches To illustrate this fact,
two groups, one of sixteen and one of seven
teen congregations, are made up from these
statistics, of which the Record says :
There are seventeen congregations each
I with a membership of not more than fifty
I persons, some of these congregations being
j in thinly-peopled districts, each member-of
j which contributes for pastoral support an
average of forty-five shillings a year. Then,
| in contrast with these, there are sixteen con
| gregations, each with a membership of up
| wards of a thousand, in the midst of large
populations, and contributing for stipend
I an average per member of eight shillings
and sixpence.
Again:—
The same table informs us of the relative
position of two other groups of congrega
tions. One of these groups consists of
thirty-six congregations, with an aggregate
membership of four thousand hundred
and sixty-six, not one of the thirty-six
having more than one hundred and fifty
members. The other group consists of six
congregations, not one of which has less
than nine hundred 'members ; their total
membership being five thousand eight hun
dred and fourteen. These five thousand
eight hundred and fourteen persons con
tribute each at the rate ot scarcely eight
shillings for stipend, and yet at this rate
can easily provide in every respect an ade
quate income for their six ministers ;■ where
as their four thousand six hundred and
sixty-six brethren, chiefly belonging to
rural and village charges, cannot provide
adequate ministerial support, though they
contribute at the rate of more than twenty
one shillings for the stipends of their pas
tors.
The article concludes as follows :
The questiun now submitted for just
and generous consideration is to tho follow
ing effect:—Can it be held as consistent
with our unity as a Presbyterian Church,
that the six large congregations referred
to, and others similarly- situated, should
have nothing to do with the thirty-six
small ones, and with the support of ordi
nances among them ? If we look into the
New Testament for an answer to this ques
tion, we find it in these words“ Look
not every man to his own things, but every
man also on the things of others,” —a pre
cept which the inspired apostle follows up
with another of still more deep solemnity :
—“Let this mind be in you which was alse
in Christ Jesus.”
STAMP IT OUT!
For some diseases there is apparently
no cure, and from some contagions no
defence. Remedies and prophylactics are
in vain. Amid all the bountiful and varied
preparations of nature, and all the multi
plied devices of human skill, nothing avails,
in the slightest degree, to control or ward
off the disorder. For the cattle plague
nothing can be done but to stamp it out.
The infected animals must be killed and
buried deep at once, and none must be con
veyed fiom the infected neighborhood to
poison the healthy. It is like a fire, which
must be absolutely quenched before we can
be sure it will do no more mischief.
So there is a degree of sin which must
be stamped out. There is a hardness, an un
belief, a presumption, a degree of rebellion,
a persistence to the very last in the rejec
tion of Christ, for which there is no Temedy.
If ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die
in your sins. The sin which defies all the
curative power of the Gospel, must be put
out of the way; must be eternally buried,
must be cut off from all opportunity of in
fecting the rest of God’s holy universe. It
can no __ longer be dealt with tenderly or
treated as something remediable. It has
lad a life time in which to reveal any such
possibility, and none has appeared. Now
goodness, wisdom, sound principles of moral
hygiene, justice exclaim: Stamp it out!
And it sinks to hell.
And is rebellion with its atrocities,
with its unoured malignity, with its fatal
power of infection, to be treated as some
thing that can be managed, mollified, and
transformed into healthful loyalty ? Speak
ing not of the masses, but of the leadere,
we say all past and all recent experience
teaches one lesson: Stamp it out! An
drew Jackson, in his last hours, regretted
that he had not stamped out the rebellion
with which he had to deal. And we are
perfectly convinced that all attempts to
restore the South to loyalty by ignoring
their crimeß, by restoring them to political
power, by yielding to the rebellious class
their former preponderance over the loyal
minority, white and black, only fix the
venom of rebellion in their blood, an pre
serve a nidus of infection that will pollute
the whole polities of the country. Stamp
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it out'by the capital punishment of the
leaders; stamp it out by witholding the
franchise from all voluntary active rebels,
by insisting' upon the test oath, and by
giving the loyal masses of the South a con
trolling voice in their Government.
EDITORIAL NOTES IN NEW TQRK,
Arriving in New York one day lastjweek,
we found ourselves at once enveloped in
fog. And during dur entire stay, as we
were told had been the case for days and
weeks previously, we found ourselves and
all surrounding objects wrapped in the
same dingy, damp, chilly envelope, which
finally developed into, a northeasterly rain-
height of which we took our
departure. Light broke in upon us as we
neared Philadelphia, and a clear sunset
seemed to speak of a better air and a more
favored locality.
But in that great, crooked, mismanaged,
un-American city which we had just left,
the tog was everywhere. Fog on the water,
and fog on the land; fog down town, and
fog up town ; fog among the masses, and
fog among the leaders ; fog in business
circles, among financiers, with buyers and
with sellers, with manufacturers and-con
sumers ; fog in the City government and
fog in the courts of justice; fog alas! in
the churches (we were not in Brooklyn)
and fog, with rare exceptions, in the news
paper offices; and right in the heart of the
fog, in Printing-house Square, sat the subtle
agent who, through the New York Times
is vaiu|y,.efldeavoring to wrap the whole
land in thesauie cheerless, chilly dampness.
Thank God! The air we daily breathe in
Philadelphia is clear of such “ conservative”
chill and obscuration. And to whatever
extent it may have spread in the National
Capital, the Capitol itself is in sunshine,
and truth, justice and righteousness are re
vealed as the flaming pillars of the Con
gressional policy. Will New York City
never again be governed by her truly good
and-great and true men ? Shall she ever
stand a warning against the indiscriminate
suffrage which has put the wealth and the
iwerifrmf her population under the control
Ignorant/the penniless, the reckless,
| the papist, the rebellious, the blind and pre
judiced opposers of the principles of Ameri
cah'Ttepublicanism ? Can she hope to main
tain her place as the metropolis of the New
World, while her votes, her representatives
in Congress, her leading presses and her
general influence are persistently, arrayed
against'the principles which have led our
Republic to greatness, and in which its
future destiny is involved? We verily be
lieve that New York City must amend or
decline. We cannot conceive of an ano
maly so great as she now presents being
prolonged or made permanent. New York
Citymtist control and guide her raw popu
lation in the interest of true freedom, and
present a different aspect ft) the country
and the world, or abdicate her present lead
ing position We do not want the oppor
tunity ever again given to her disloyal
financiers to carry on a phrensied specula
tion in gold, to gamble in the neces
sities of the nation in the throes of a
terrible struggle for life, and to add a
thousand millions to the national burdens
merely to satisfy their own greed. Before
another war, the metropolis should be
cleansed or changed. And if, by reason of
her inland situation, our ' own stubbornly
loyal city cannot aspire to the position which
New York is in danger of losing, then
Baltimore, admirably located to command
internal trade and foreign commerce, the
rapidly advancing metropolis and repre
sentative in opinion of a free State, where
rebels can have no votes, may hope to win
the crown of commercial eminence on the
continent. Of one thing we are sure:
splendid harbors, great commercial advan
tages, vast traffic with every part ot the
globe, boundless wealth, will not, cannot
avail, to maintain and perpetuate greatness,
without healthful principle in the commer
cial, social, and political life of the people.
We did find at least one illuminated spot
in New York. As we entered the saloon
of a colored man near 'Broome Street, an
entire stranger, our eyes caught a copy of
our issue of February 22d, hung up in a
gift frame against the wall. Closer exam
ination showed that the artiele entitled,
“ Vision of a Dialogue between the two
Andies (Jackson and Johnson)” was the
attraction. Over it was pasted a scrap of
paper 'containing the direction, “ Read
this.” Our colored friend explained that
he regarded that article, which had been
shown him by a customer, as worthy of a
gilt frame, and he had procured the paper
and hung it there. There was no fog in
that establishment.
Father Hyacinths has gone to
Lyon* to preach * n th« Cathedral there.
WHAT OCR FRIENDS SAT.
With the design of introducing our friends
to each other, we present extracts from a
few of the many kind letters they have
lately been sending to out office.
The first is from a distinguished pastor
in one of the great lake cities. He says
“ My Dear Brother MEarS :—ln enclosing a
draft for my subscription for the Americas
Presbyterian to January 3d, 1867, I beg to ]
say how greatly I admire the attitude and rigor
of your paper, especially on the great National
and Sabbath questions. While tearless and in
the forefront of the faithful on the great ques
tions arising out of the war, you do not forget
that there are also other questions to be can
vassed and considered. Without the “sensa
tional” which the somewhat affects,
your blows are just as true and just as strong,
and because without the alloy of the above, are
vastly more telling to my mind, though a hearty
sympathizer with the general position of that
powerful organ, than even its vigorous strokes.
May God ever hold you true, firm, fearless.”
A venerable divine of Michigan writes :
“ I am delighted with the bold and firm stand
you make against the Sabbath breakers. I
trust the ministry and .churches will rally nobly
to the rescue and prevent the Satanic legislation
proposed.”
A pastor in Central New York writes^—
“We all continue to like the American Pres
byterian very much, and why should we not,
when such valuable matter is contained in every
number even to the last, the articles on the
first pagk of which are worth twice what the
paper costs us.”
Another says:—
“The Presbyterian is regarded with increas
ing favor in this place, and I hope its circula
tion among us may be largely increased.”
Another: —
“The paper continues to hold its high place
in our esteem as a conscientious, patriotic,
spiritual paper.”
A pastor on the Hudson writes:—
“Enclosed please find for my year's
subscription to the Presbyterian ; money right
cheerfully paid from the pleasure and instruction
we have received for your excellent paper. We.
have rejoiced at the manly and decisive tone
of your columns in regard to the reconstruction
problem. It is cheering to hear a trumpet
with a certain sound in the midst of such a con
fusion of half-measures and miserably tempor
izing. ‘ Right' ’is such a straight path. Cor
dially yours.”
A pastor in Erie County, Pa., writes
“Rev. J. W. Mears, Dear Sir: —l rejoice in
the abundant revival intelligence, and in the
abundant material for promoting revivals too
which the American Presbyterian contains.
Two articles in your last, I read last evening in
onr special prayer-meeting. Your paper had,
earlier in the season, and now has, more of
“revivals” in it than any other paper that I see.
I have often carried it into our prayer-meeting
to "aid mem stirring up ourchureh
prayer and effort. And then what you have
published sbout Mr. Hammond has been especi
ally valuable.”
A layman in East Pennsylvania writes :
“ Give my compliments to Mr. Mears, of the
Presbyterian, and tell him that I congratulate
the readers of that paper in having for their
favorite journal a patriot as well as a Christian
for its editor. ,
“Does the President receive a copy of the
paper? I hope so.”
REVIVAL IN PEORIA, ILL.
[We are permitted to make some extracts
from a private letter written to a gentleman
in Towanda, Pa , concerning the awakening
in Peoria, Hl.]
Children's meetings have been held
every afternoon, and not only children but
older ones have attended in very large
numbers, and have been blessed. Between
two and three hundred children have gone
forward around the pulpit when Mr. Ham
mond asked those who loved Jesus to do so.
There with smiling faces and happy voices
they sung from the “ Praises of Jesus,”
while in the pews were anxious ones, with
tearful eyes, asking the way to Christ.
I have great reason myself to rejoice be
cause of Mr. Hammond’s coming. My
oldest brother, fifteen years of age, has for
two years carried a burden which of late
has grown heavier. He wanted, as he
thought, to be a Christian, and yet he was
opposed to these meetings, and his mother
was obliged to command him almost to
attend. But it seemed impossible to
come within the influence of the Spirit, so
manifestly present in the meeting and not
be touched. To-day he is a happy Chris
tian. My little brother eight years old
also thinks he loves the Saviour. When
asked if he was only going to be a Chris
tian as long as Mr. Hammond stayed, he
said no, he was going to love Jesus all his
life. He said if the school boys made fun
of him they would have the worst of it.
One little girl who came to the meetings
and gave her heart to Christ, was turned
out of doors by a cruel step-father because
she would come.
Yarious classes are being reached. A
minister of the city was passing down the
aisle, when he found before him a gay and
fashionable lady. He sat down and talking
with her, found that her sins had become a
burden. Passing on, after directing her to
the Lamb of God, he found a strong man
who had probably resisted many invitations
to eome to the Saviour, bowed down with a
sense of his own sinfulness, and humble as
a little child. Then in another pew he
found a little ragged child, who had proba
bly wandered into the meeting, sitting alone
weeping, and he spoke to her asking her
if she wanted to find Jesus, because she I
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was a sinner, or because sh.% wished to be
happy, and various other questions. She
answered yes, but said she, “ I want to
oome to Jesus because I have no father or
mother, and no friends; I want Jesus to be
my friend.” She hoped she could say be
fore she left, “ Now I have found a friend
Jesus is mine.”
Quite a number of young men, many of
them students of the Commercial Colleges,
attend, and appear interested. It is hoped
that muoh good will he accomplished among
that class during next week’s services,
which are 'to be held for adults. The
morning prayer-meetings at half past nine
j o’clock, fill the N. S. Presbyterian church.
The other meetings are held in the O. S.
Presbyterian churoh, that being the largest.
I A young man spoke, this morning, of the
wondrous things the Lord had done for
! his soul. He had long been thoughtful on
the subject, but his stubborn heart refused
to yield, until Wednesday evening, at the
young men’s prayer-meeting, he felt that he
must take Christ for his Saviour. He said
be used to think it was unmanly to be a
Christian, but now he thought itwas much
more manly to confess that he loved Jesus.
The meetings are creating a great interest
throughout the city, and through this part
of the State. *
The deep conviction of sin which many
of the children manifest, is a sure evidence
that this is the work of the Spirit and not
of man. I sat dowu by one little girl, about
ten years old who said she did not love
Jesus. When I spoke to her of the love of
Jesus to her, and of her sin and ingratitude
in not loving him, her lip quivered and her
eyes filled. ‘Kneeling down, she prayed to
him to forgive her, and on rising, she told
me she thought Christ 'had heard her
prayer.
Many other interesting cases, doubtless,
might be mentioned, hut these facts are
sufficient to show that God is blessing the
labors of his servant in the outpouring of
his Spirit upon this wicked city where
there is so much need of a great work of
Divine grace.
Yours truly,
Peoria, 111., March 10, 1866.
ELEVENTH WEEK OF PRAYER.
Wednesday, First United Presbyte
rian Church, comer of Broad and Lom
bard Streets; Thursday, Christ Church,
Green Street, below Sixteenth ; Friday,
Scots’ Presbyterian, Spruce Street,
above Third; Saturday, Central Metho
dist, Yine Street, below Thirteenth.
Bey. E. E. Adams, D. D., has been
suffering from an affection of the throat
for some time past; and being con
strained, with the advice of his physi
cian, to suspend the use of his voice,
his congregation, North Broad Street,
have voted him leave of absence for six
months; continued his salary and will
supply his place meanwhile.
The people and pastor part with deep
reluctance and pain, but the congrega
tions hold together quite well, and hope
to welcome Dr. Adams to his wonted
post of usefulness at the close of his en
forced vacation.
Mn. Jessup’s Plea foe the Native
Protestant Female Seminary. —We
need only remind our readers that one of
Mr. Jessup’s admirable letters from Bei
rut will be found on our Correspondence
page, to insure its attentive reading. We
trnst biß appeal for the necessary funds
to complete the new building for the
Female Seminary in charge of the Mis
sion will receive from American Chris
tians a prompt and generons response.
A disappointment in regard to certain
subscriptions constrains Mr. Jessup to
pause in his important work, and renew
his appeals for aid. We trust they will
not be in vain.
The Drift of Feeling. —The Pres
byterian of this city copies from an ex
change the notice of a “well-ordered
Presbytery,” and says:—“We are not
sorry to have to add that the Presbytery
so commended was in the New School
branch of the Church, for-we rejoice to
find there so mnch of a proper watch
and care of the churches under their
supervision; but would it not be well if
equal zeal and watchfulness were seen
in] all our Old School Presbyteries ?
And if the providence of God should
open the way to a reunion of the two.
Churches, will affiliation with such Pres
byterians do our side any harm,?”
Rev. Professor Chas. Hodge will
preach on “ the Inspiration of the
Bible,” at the Tenth Presbyterian
Church, next Sabbath evening.
The Minister of Public Worship
has interfered to hinder the National
Church of Paris from superannuating
its infidel pastor, Paschond.
J. H. J