f nm'irau UmlnjtEnatt. THURSDAY, MARCH'22, 1866. CONTENTS OF INSTJJE PAGES. Second Page—Family Circle: Spring at Petersburg. 1866 —The Child of the Ham let—The Two Dogs—Starved to death—“ What we shall be”—A. Gift to Jesus—A Little at a Time—The End of a Quarrel. Third Page—Editor's Table: Guthrie’s " Parables of our Lord read in the Light of the Present Day”—A. L. 0. E.’g ‘‘Bescued Irom Egypt” —“ Views of Prophecy concerning the Jews, the Second Advent, and the Millenium”—Stevens’s •‘Women of Methodism: its three Foundresses. Snsana Wesley, the Countess of Huntington, and Barbara Heck "—Morgan’s “ Converted Col lier, or the Life of Bichard Weaver” —Shear down’s ” Half a Century’B Labors in the Gospel Publication Committee’s Tracts: “Fun, this Young Man;” ” Doing and Knowing I" B Triennial Catalogue of Union Theological semi nary”—Periodicals and Pamphlets. Sixth Page—Correspondence : Letter from Rev. H. H. Jessun —Is it Men or Money ? -These all died in Faith r Mr. Warner s Letters on Reconstruction, VI —Distinctions in the UospeJs. Seventh Page—Rural Economy : American Economy—its Future. Scientific: Cbolera-The Trichina Disease. Rev. Justus Doolittle and wife aod Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Williams expect to sail for China in the Samuel Russell, about April Ist. Their .destiny is Tient sin, via Hong Kong Mr. Doolittle’s address at present is “Rooms of the American Board, Bible House, Astor Place, New York.” Dr. Lee, the well-known Ritualist in the Kirk of Scotland, has . carried an overture in the Presbytery of Edinburgh, in favor of abolishing the action of the last General Assembly, against forms of prayer and innovations. Mb. Stewart, of Nevada, writes a Washington correspondent, startled the Senate March 16th, by the introduction of a resolution demanding universal suf frage in return for universal amnesty. Mr. Sumner rose and welcomed the new convert with open arms. The well known relations of the Nevada Senator to the President give especial signifi cance to his proposition, and it is looked upon as a good omen among those most solicitous for the restoration of the Union. The American Chapel in Paris.— The American and Foreign Christian Union has made a felicitous selection, io calling Rev. Az&riah Eldridge, D.D., to the charge of its chapel in Paris, the post vacated the return of Dr. Sun derland to this country. Dr. Eldridge was,* until recently, the pastor of the Fort Street Church in Detroit, an im portant position, which he was forced to relinquish by the wear upon his sys tem of arduous labor. Rest has meas urably restored his health, and he car ries vigor, as well as general fitness, into his new field. Wooden Wedding. —The people of Calvary Cbnrch, Rochester, N. Y., re cently celebrated the fifth anniversary of their pastor by a wooden wedding, bring ing in any number of presents of corres ponding material. It strikes ns that it lacks but about one more of thiß class of commemorations—say pipe-clay wed ding after thirty, months of married life —to run this whole second nuptials into the ground. In the case of this Roches ter pastor, however, the folly had the re deeming inconsistency of a good round lot of presents which were as unlike wood as the contents of a weil-Btored wardrobe end grocery closet generally are, throwing in also a pleasant congre gational reunion as part of the invoice. * A Combination of Celebrities.— We see it stated that an evengelistic work is going forward in Newark, N. J., under the associated labors of Elder Knapp, the veteran revivalist; Boston Corbitt, the soldier, who, in Pnritan sincerity, sent up a prayer for the soul of the assassin Booth, at tbe moment he drew the fatal trigger npon him; and Orville Gardner, the reformed pugilist. Tbe profession of conversion by the latter was, at the time, regarded with some jealousy, but a number of years have since transpired, and we have not heard anything to tbe detriment of his general Christian walk. Their work in Newark seems to be blessed, the power of the gospel reaching the hearts of many who have hitherto been regarded as beyond the reach of any such influence. The Almshouse Mission.— The an niversary meeting of the “ Female Do mestic Missionary Society for the Sop port of the Gospel in the Philadelphia Almshouse” was held on Tuespay even ing, the 13th inst., at the West Spruce Street Presbyterian Church. Rev. Dr. Breed presided and conducted the devo tional services., Mr. Benson read the Forty-eighth Annual Report, which showed that the labors of the Society had been highly successful during the past year. The reading of the report was followed with statements by the Rev. Charles Brown, who, as a frequent visitor at the Almshouse, bore testimony to the faithful labors of the missionary, the Rev. F. C. Pearson, and to the affectionate regard had for him by the inmates of the institution, which now contains about 3600 bouls. Appropriate addresses were also made by the Rev. Messrs. Caldwell, Beadle and Patterson, in which the missionary was compli mented for the patient fidelity that mark ed the performance of his self-denying and onerous duties, and the Society was urged to mike a more liberal provision for his support. The officers are: Directress—Mrs. Wm. Purves, 267 S. 9th St. Secretary —Miss S. M. Lisle, 1618 Spruce St, Treasurer— Miss Sarah Boytan, 908 Spruce St. Assisted by seventeen other managers. A TRIALOGUE, Mr. Eulogy. —Dr. L., this is Rev. Mr. Pocus. Dr. Longkey. —“ Mr. Poke us”. do yon do ? lam very glad to see you; take that seat. We have felt a great interest in the building of new churches for our denomination, and we wish to do all we can to make this successful. We have also a deep interest in the Fund for Church Erection—“ a sacred fund”—“not a cent of which can be given away, either interest or princi pal.” We thought we would like to ask yon what you think of it, and how it works where you have been. Rev. P. —l am but a humble mission ary of Christ. Perhaps my opinion on snch a high and pecuniary matter will be of little acconnt. There are wise men from the East (magoi) to manage these matters, aDd it would seem alto gether presumptuous in me to put in an opinion. Christ sent me to preach the Gospel, and not to baptize myself in pecuniary matters . Dr. L.—We are glad to see your modesty, my young friend; it angurs well for you. Rev. P. —Yes, sir. I have always augered my way through the world. Dr. L. —What is your observation as to the working of the plan for disbursing the money of the Fund of $lOO,OOO and interest, money that was secured from the churches for church building purposes ? Do you not know it to be a great labor saving arrangement? Rev. P —My great-grandmother iD the line of paternal ancestry being the grandmother of my father, Rev. H. Pocus— Dr. L. —Never mind about that; I see you are bashful; we want you to speak your mind. We “ are all honor able men” and Christian men, and if there is anything wrong about this mat ter, we wish to have it righted. We have no personal interests or ends. All we want is justice done. We must have patience with each other. What, then, can you say, from your experience and observation, about the working of this plan ? Has it not been a great blessing to the Churches ? Rev. P. —l think it has been of some benefit to the Churches, in the same way that a wooden leg is a benefit to a man that prefers it to a natural one. Bht my opinion will not be worth much. Dr. L.— Think not so. Every one who, being on the missionary field, ap proves the plan, helps amazingly, be cause no missionary would be influenced by personal motives in this direction. Rev. P. —Bat when a missionary writes favorably about the Fnnd—its working—we must take into acconnt that very likely he has never been acquainted with any other plan, has not made it a matter of much consideration, and when he receives the money to finish his church, be feels well and writes well about it. And besides that, a po.or hungry man-will sometimes gladly eat so much of sour bread as to do him harm. And so with these missionaries; they find when required to look to their bond, and when the payday comes, that circumstances have made it impossible to pay—a debt with interest is begun— and the last end is worse than the first. .And sometimes a man does not like to s&y “ no,” when he has once Baid “yes.” * You appreciate that, Dr. L., I am sure. Dr. L. —But is it not true, that very many of these missionaries, who have seen the working of this plan, do highly approve of it ? Rev. P. —So far as my acquaintance goes, I have never yet seen tbe man in the missionary field, who has known the facts connected with its workings, and approved it. But I have beard them all affirm tbat'it is a killing policy as now instituted and conducted. Dr. L. —And what in the world have they against it ? If you will show that this is anything more than ignor ance, prejudice, and inexperience, we will advocate a change—will we not, Mr. E.? Mr. E. —“ Let, them look to tbeir bonds.” “It is (he plan, and as to its fundamental principle cannot be changed —no portion of this fund can be given away as an absolute gift, either princi pal or interest.” Rev. P. —As to its practical working, I should think that yonr and Mr. E.’s. conversation about it, published in the American Presbyterian, of February 22d,—shows that something is wrong, 3 for it there appears that though during the year 1864-5, the feeble Churches, by being pressed to their obligations, paid into the fund nearly $lO,OOO, they received from it a little inore than $3OOO about one-third as much as they gave, and then were $lOOO more in debt than at the beginning of the year,—and that now they are more than $23,000 in debt, past dne and paying interest, besides all the rest of the indebted ness to the Fund, —and that there waß disbursed only about one-tenth as much to the feeble Churches during the year as was given away by the O. S. Board to theirs. And, Mr. E., may I here be allowed to inquire how much was tbe salary of the treasurer, and the expenses of the office for managing this fund for the year 1864-5 ? Mr. E. —“ Only $1,701 76.” (Minu- tes, page 102 ) Rev. P. —So it seems, according to report of Standing Committee of last Assembly,. “ duriDg the past year, loans and donations amounted to only $2426, (page 50, Minutes), and yonr salary, postage and office-rent amonnted to $ 1 707 76, and therefore only $7lB 24 more THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY. MARCH 22, 1866. ’—how The revival in Buffalo has reached the Bethel interest, and ha 9 resulted in the formation of a Bethel church. Some twenty-five or thirty persons, it is sup posed, have been converted in this con nection, and have thus associated them selves together for mutual help and for Christian work. The articles of faith are few and simple, embracing only those things . upon which evangelical Christians can unite. A feeling of real unity and love seems to pervade the or ganization, while the revival interest is also represented as spreading and'deep ening among that class aiffimtecLmonk particularly by the movementf' ‘ The strong, patriotic lecture, of Dr. Heacock, of Buffalo, before the Young Men’s Christian Union, is published en tire this week in the Buffalo Advocate. It is a live lecture, and as good-natured as any thing needs to be. It goes with great force for punishing Borne of the leading traitors, for protecting the freed men, for admitting Sonthern members to Congress who are truly loyal. Who can wish to admit any others? The doctor has some good-natured, but keen critcismß on,the position of Mr. .Reeqher. He certainly seems to have the, a&rah tage of the Brooklyn, lecturer on some points. He also takes—or did take on the first of March—quite a hopeful view of the President’s course. He thinks he will yet be found true to those who elected him to office. We shall see. He also is quite spicy on the local press. He knows better than we how much some editors in that city deserve it, for he has seen their daily issues. He has a right to feel deeply after hav ing given a brother for the* defence of our country. The lecture is overflo'wing with good sense, true patriotism, ,and real eloquence. ‘ THE FENIAN SCARE. j. ~v We should have very mnch m<sre pity for our Canadian neighbors in their present perturbation, if it did not so forcibly remind us of what we saw on our own side of the border, only a little more than' a year ago. Then we were arming for defense in this city, in Buffalo, in Oswego, in Ogdensburg, and all along the frontier. And we had reason for it, after what had been seen at St. Albans, Yt., and after the infamous decisions of Justice Coursol; but neither they nor we could have supposed that the tables could so soon be turned, or that they would so soon reap precisely that which they had sown. In St. Lawrence County last year, we found even clergymen armed with their revolvers, and prepared day and night to defend their own dwellings and fami lies from anticipated assault. In Og denßbnrg, for weeks, the place was kept' in a state of fearful ferment, its peace ful citizens enrolled for military service, and acting as nightly patrol. Their neighbors across the river seemed to en joy their fright and trouble—wonder how they feel now! Sooner than any anti cipated, they are getting their reward for their mock neutrality. Inadvertently we did injustice week before last to Rev. ‘A. R. Hewitt, senior in Auburn Seminary, It is he, and not Mr. Gibson, who is supplying the pulpit at Weedeport. Mr. Hewitt was two years in the Seminary before the war broke out. When the Rebels fired on Fort Sumter, the first shot fell in his quiet room. He left Turretin, and took to “ Hardee’s tactics.” After serving three years as a soldier, and risking health and life for his country, he was’ honorable discharged, and returned*.tbi his preparation for the ministry.. He is preaching with great accept ance to the church at Weedsport, end with a great blessing on his labors. The. revival is steadily progressing, and the church are earnest andr united in *be desire to retain Mr. Hewitt as their pastor. ! * . ■ were given to aid feeble Churches than was paid to take care of the Fund dur ing (hat year. Or, in other words, con siderable more than two-thirds as much was paid out of the fund to take care of it, as was disbursed to aid the feeble Churches. Dr. L. —But all this may be 'no fault of the fund; the Churches might have bad the money; the fault was in their not applying for it. The Churches are responsible. Rev. P. —l would be far fro.pi ppppps iDg there was any injustice practised by those who manage the Fund, inor would I complain of the salary of the Trea surer—he should be paid for his labor. But you remember the Latin verse: “The mountain labors and brings forth a mouse”—which reminds us of the fol lowing words—“ Nothing has occurred to shake in the least our confidence in the wisdom of the plan.” Dr. L.—O temporal—’Ocns Pokus! you are beating about the bush—can you give any good reason against the plan ? Wherein does it fail ? What is the cause of its failure ? Rev. P. —These are pertinent ques tions, and demand an honest answer. I think something can be.said on this sub ject. I have some communications which, with your permission, I would read to you, but I have not them with me at present.' * ' Mr. E —Let us then meet %gain. [Exeunt Mr. E. and Rev. P.] March 8, 1866. ODR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT. BETHEL CHURCH OP BUFFALO. DR. HEAOOCK’S LECTURE. A CORRECTION. PERSONAL. Rp—ijkenry M. Morey, a licentiate, / * has received and accepted a call to the church in Pittsford. He is now preach ing as associate to Dr. Lowrie, at Fort Wayne, Ind., but is expected to enter upon his pastoral duties in May next. We hear Mr. Morey spoken of as a young man of fine promise, and he is called with great unanimity. The church in Pittsford has but recently bnilt a fine house of worship, has a large and inter esting congregation, and all will hope for them, both pastor and people, all pos sible prosperity in their new relations. , The pulpit in Pittsford was supplied with great acceptance for seven weeks by Rev. W. N. Page, of Auburn Semi nary. On closing his services there the people not only paid him the sum stipu lated for his service, but made him a present of bne hundred dollars; a fact creditable alike to him and to them. We learn also that the good people of Phelps, wh'ere Mr." Page has preached for a time, kindly remembered him by the present of a fine watch, valued at about one hundred dollars. This was done principally, we believe, by the young men of the congregation. Mr. Page’s labors have been peculiarly blest among them. Some sixty or eighty, we under stand, are indulging hope. Rev. Joel S. Jewell, a senior in Auburn Seminary, and son of Rev. Joel Jewell, of Wells, Pa., has received and accepted a call from the Presbyterian church of Preble. Rev. Selah Merrill, of Massachusetts, is to bje installed pastor of the Congre gational church, of Le Roy, on the 21st instant. MURDER IN ROCHESTER. Our city was startled one morning about a week since by the astounding fact, that* a horrible murder was com mitted in one of our streets about seven and a half o’clock the evening before. A respectable hack driver was beaten to death by a heavy “ cart stake” in his own bam. Being absent longer than usual in caring for his horses, his wife went out to see what had become of him, and found him prostrate, bleeding, speech less, and dying. -His skull was broken, his face horribly mangled, and the work of death surely done. No clue has yet been obtained of the murderer. One man was arrested in Lockport, brought here, and examined, bat estab lished an alibi, and was discharged. Officers are at work however, and “ mur der will out.” AN INCIDENT. These revivals are bringing many facts of peculiar interest "to . light—some, cer tainly, which are top good to be lost. We have in mind a gentleman who was an officer of some distinction in oar army. He and his young wife, both apparently gay and thoughtless, went into one of oar small villages, where the Lord is gloriously pouring out his Spirit, for a brief visit among family friends. They, as little knew what was in store for them on the journey, as Saul did when he started for Tarsns. Both hus band and wife were soon converted. The G 1, in relating his experience, gave this, incident. While he was a prisoner at Richmond, sick and almost starved, he made a solemn vow, that if the Lord would deliver him from that horrible captivity, and bring him once more to his' beloved home and friends, he would live a Christian life, and try to serce the Lord as faithfully as he had tried to serve his country. At the time of his capture, a color sergeant was also taken by the Rebels. Hastily folding his flag, he wound it fafound his body, under his clothes, and so went into the hands of the enemy. Through all his long confinement, while sick, and nearly starved, covered with filth and vermin, his clothes rotting from his body, that brave, heroic color-sergeant still kept the dear old flag upon his per son, undiscovered by the cruel foe. But, at last, the day of deliverance came. With other poor, emaciated vic tims of that horrible barbarity, he was exchanged. The moment he stepped upon the deck of our own steamer, he pulled out the starry banner, and, with tears of joy, waved it over his head, as the emblem of all that is dear and true. So, in substance, said the G——l, I have had a hope in Christ ever since that awful day in Libby prison; but to my shame be it said, I have kept it closely concealed under the follies and fashions of a worldly life; fearing to let men know that T had thus given myself to the Saviour; but now, like that brave soldier, I want to bring out my colors and fling them to the breeze, that all the world may see that henceforth I fight for Ring Emmanuel, and may God help me to fight right manfully. So he and his young wife have commenced the Christian life together. another revival. One of much power is in progress at Spencerport, under the labors of Rev- D. H. Blake, pastor of the Congregational Church. Some thirty or forty are in dulging hope. Genesee. Rochester, March 17* 1866. The New York Tribune, with its frequent, extensive supplements, con taining • elaborate and able (though not, always sound) reviews of all the cur jre.ntjjterature, agricultural and scienti fic intelligence on a liberal scale, corres pondence from every quarter of the world, important speeches and public documents, besides the regular daily news, and editorials written from the stand-point of equal rights to all, is the most valuable secular paper that comes into our office. We are this week largely indebted to its columns for articles under our “ Rnral Economy” and “ Sci entific” departments. our Washington letter. ; Washington, D. C., March 17, 1866. There are those who think they can see, in some of the events of the past , week, a disposition, upon the part of the President, to abandon the extraordinary position he had assumed on the great questions now before the country. Know ing the character of the man as well as I do, I am not of those who believe that any such desirable result will be reached while he holds in his hands the reins of power and patronage. If An drew Johnson’s public career has been notable for any thing, it is a dogmatic stubbornness, which is neither Bwayed by reason nor judgment. He is an as tute politician, however, and it may be that, in the unfavorable response of the people to his appeal for support, he reads the certain failure of his present course, if pursued to its legitimate conclusion. But if he is forced to surrender “my policy,” as he pettishly terms it, and defer to the judgment and opinions of the Union majority in Congress on the great question of restoration, it will only be because he finds that the overwhelm ing masses of the American people are against him. No public man knows better than the President the value of the immense power and influence lodged in the hands of the Executive. He has not yet taken the fatal step in commenc ing to raise it against the party that elected him, but he has, on several occa sions, given out that he will do so at the proper time. What he considers the “proper time,” it is impossible to state. It is enough to know that he even enter tains the idea, and it is immaterial when he sees proper to carry it into practice. The Executive patronage of the Govern ment is now estimated at one hundred j millions of dollars. You can imagine the fearfully demoralizing effect this would have, scattered broadcast among a party of hungry and unscrupulous politicians, by a defeated and disappoint ed partisan President. As soon as he commences to use this patronage against the people, for the self-evident purpose of promoting his own ambitious ends, he will not only solidify, but crystallize public sentiment against himself, and lay the groundwork for his own political ruin and eternal infamy. ■ One of the grounds for the idea that the President, to use a favorite phrase with Western members, intends “ back ing down,” is the series of resolutions offered in the Senate on Friday by Sen ator Stewart of Nevada. This gentle man, although elected by a Radical Re publican Legislature, has heretofore acted with Doolittle, Dixon, Cowan, and the other Senators, whose special claim to public favor is that they are the Pre sidents friends and authorized expo nents. Senator Stewart is quite a young man, of very ordinary abilities, vain, foppish, and ambitious. He has been working zealously to attain prominence before the public, but' has, up to this time, been a miserable failure. He es poused the President’s “ policy” because he thought it would be popular to do so, and now, having discovered his mistake, and still anxious to be a Sumner, or even a Garrett Davis, he wheels into line on the other side of the HousS. He is the son-in-law of that eccentric rebel, Henry S. Foote,, better known as “Hang man Foote of Mississippi,” who obtained his soubriquet by his famous declaration, While a member of the United States Senate, that “if he had John P. Hale in Mississippi be would hang him ” The ex-Unifed States Senator and recent rebel is now in this city, and it is shrewdly suspected that he had some hand- in drawing the preamble and reso lutions presented by the Senator from Nevada. There is some color lent to this idea from the fact that Mr. Stewart seemed somewhat surprised at the effect of his resolutions upon the Senators, especially the more radical of them. He was openly welcomed into the Radical ranks by such leaders as Sumner, Wil son, and Yates, while the President’s “friends” and the Copperheads seemed awe-struck at the new defection from their numbers. Whatever may have been the intention of Mr. Stewart,! his resolutions will have a salutary effect upon the Senate, and will give increased strength to the friends of equality and freedom. They simply ask for universal suffrage in exchange for universal am nesty. The President’s pardoning “po licy” is fast giving us the latter, and, if some such measure as that suggested by Senator Stewart’s resolutions is not adopted very speedily, we will have given all we have to give, without get- ' ting anything in exchange. I do not think, however, that the President had 1 anything to do with Mr. Stewarts 1 “flank movement," as it is termed. He - has already declared himself against what he calls “forcing negro suffrage on the South.” • The final passage of the Civil Rights bill by both Houses, is another import tant step in the progress of just and salu tary legislation. This bill was originally introduced in the Senate by Senator Trumbull of Illinois, the author and able defender of the Freed men’s Bureau Bill. It was intended as an accompaniment to that measure, or more properly as a finpporter of it and helpmate for it. The veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, while the Civil Rights Bill waß pending in the House, uecessiated some amend- ments which were made by the House Judiciary Committee, and finally con curred In by the Senate., As it now stands, it practically secures for tjje blacks throughout the United States, equality before the law, and provides amply for their protection in life and property. There are some'doubts of its receiving the approval of the Executive, and not a few anticipate another veto. If the President should veto this bill, so eminently wise and just, the country will then understand more fally his purpose to defeat every measure looking towards the protection of the Freedmen, and the practical enforcement of the Emancipa tion Proclamation. Thq condition of af fairs at the South, the disgraceful and heartless treatment of the negroes in places where the power of the Freed men’s Bureau is not felt, imperatively demand the immediate passage of such measure as this Civil Rights Bill. As was to have been expected, the Copper heads in both branches of Congress voted solidly against it. That party is still unwilling to abandon its prover bial hostility to the negro, and its mem bers lose no opportunity of showing that they have lost none of their traditional hatred of liberty. Should the bill be vetoed by the President, I fear it could not secure the necessary two-thirds vote in the Senate to make it a law, notwith standing the veto. Yon will see, there fore, that the whole responsibility of its failure, should it be defeated, will rest upon the Executive. The news of the Union victory in New Hampshire has had an inspiriting effect upon the majority in Congress, and a correspondingly depressing effect upon the President’s “ policy” and the Presi dent’s friends. New Hampshire is what is called a “ close Statethat is, the parties there are more evenly balanced than in some of the other States, and it was thought that the Copperheads through the assistance of the weak-kneed Federal office holders would have been able to make the Union candidate for Governor, kick the beam. Senator Nye of Nevada, who has just arrived, from Connecticut, informs me that the chances for carrying that State for the gallant Hawley, and of course against “my policy,” are very promising. Connecti cut like New Hampshire is generally very close. No wonder. The former gave us an Isaac Toucey and the latter a Franklin Pierce. J. M. Jjtta af mtt CITY ISTEIIISEKCE. “ Old Pine Stbeet:” Fecit in Odd Age. —This century old church, under the faithful pastorate of Dr. Brainerd, at least its wonted measure of the Divine favor and steadily gathers in the material of present, and the promise of future prosperity. From the bosom of its own families, who have inherited memories of ancestral piety for genera tions past, as well .as from the world, comes its increase. Young men espe cially find it a genial spiritual home, and its communion seasons are delight* foi reunions, which the ready eloquence, the admirable tact, and the cordial man ner of the pastor turn to the greatest advantage in concentrating the affections Of all around the dear old spiritual home stead. The thronged congregations with in are surrounded with the mute memo rials of generations gone, who once sat at the same table, but are now gathered at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb himself. On last Sabbath, twenty-six united with “ Old Pine Street Church,” twenty two by profession and four by letter. Half of these were men, several bring ing their wives with them. Their ages were from twelve or fourteen to sixty or more. They are the results of a quiet work under the ordinary means of grace. May they prove the first fruits of a far greater blessing. Old Pine Street does not forget the brave youth of her congregation who caught the patriotic zeal of their pastor, and who did their part to sustain our Government in the field. A handsome frame encloses the of each of these heroes, and is suspended in the vestibule. A marble tablet to be in scribed with the names of the fallen is in preparation, and will be inserted in a conspicuous place in the wall. The whole number enlisted under various calls, is 116, of which only 19 died or were slain in battle, not many more probably than would have died in the ordinary course of thiDgs. We cannot but feel in this as in other similar stances which have come under our notice, that the prayers of God’s people have been a real defence, a covering to the head in the day of battle. The Audience-boom of Kenderton (Rising Sun) Church is almost complete. The exterior of the building has also been neatly coatedl Good congrega tions are worshipping in the Lecture room, under the acceptable preaching of Rev. F. A. Hendricks. Olivet. —On Sabbath, 11th inst, were received thirteen members into Olivet Presbyterian Church, eight of whom were by profession of faith. BEVIVALS. Springfield, N. Y., March 6, 1866. In onr meetings, during the week of prayer, the Holy Spirit was with us, and at the end of the week, several persons arose for prayer. During the next week, the Spirit was working with great 1 power upon the hearts of the people. The con versions have been mostly among the children and youth of Christian families, and of the Sabbath-school. Thirteen Were added to the Church by profession last Sabbath, and several are waiting to Unite at the next communion. The praise all belongs to God. Niles, Michigan. — A revival in the Church in this place, under the care of Rev. T. Dwight Hunt, commenced with
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