Peoria.—Rev. E. P. Hammond con tinues bis labors with great acceptance in this place. The Daily Transcript, March 19, says: “Rev. E. P. Ham mond preached another of those thrill ing discourses, at Rouse’s Hall, last night. The hall was crowded to over flowing, and hundreds went away unable to get in. Nearly two thousand per sons were present. Intense interest was manifested. At the. close, hundreds arose and asked Christians to pray for them. The feeling was sucb ihat a multitude lingered as if loth to quit a place where God was in an especial manner His power to save ” It is estimated that 500 persons have been converted. Bloomington, lll.—The Lord has been doing an encouraging work in this church during the last few months. The graces of those who were members have been greatly revived, and sinners have also converted, aDd, with others, bring ing letters from different parts of the country, have been added to the church. Forty-three persons have, thus far been received into communion, twenty-five of these on examination and profession of faith, eight were baptized. A good pro portion of those now giving additional strength to church, are young men. Painted Post, N. Y. —God has blessed us at Painted Post. We saw signs of His coming in December. During the Week of Prayer we saw, by the numbers in attendance, their interest and deep seriousness, that Hfc was ready to bestow a great blessing. So it has proved. About one hundred have been con verted. This will be known in this region as the great revival year. In every hamlet and neighborhood God is now making displays of His converting power. —Evangelist Adams, N. Y. —An interesting work of grace has bfeen in progress in the village of Adams for several weeks, in which all the churches have shared, and resulting in the hopeful conversion of about one hundred and fifty persons. There were evidences of the presence of the Holy Spirit during the Au tumn months, when a few mercy drops were received. Commencing with the Week of Prayer meetings were held in the several churches daily for two months. A business men’s daily prayer-meeting was early estab lished, and is yet continued,, with unabated interest The “Hungerford Collegiate In stitute” has shared largely in the refreshing.— Ibid. Western Revivals.—The Christian Herald has the account of a revival at Central College Church, Franklin Coun ty, Ohio. Rev. Y. M. King, late of Scott, Ohio, just assumed the care of tbe church, • In connection with the work of grace, before noticed, in Troy, Ohio, a temper ance revival has sprung up, which now promises to accomplish great good. The religious interest in Ripley, Ohio, is one of more than usual power, even in these days of the power of God. The pastor, Rev. D. E. Brice, writes to the Herald that, as result of a 1 series of meetings for preaching, prayer, and con versation with inquirers, continued through the 'month of February, fifty five have been added to the church oh profession of their -faith, and there are still others who, it is believed, haye given their hearts to the Saviour. Among the number received, there are several young men of much promise ; also one aged man of sixty-five. Rev. John Gerrish reports a recent accession of fourteen persons, on profes sion, to the church in Homer, Mich. Rev. 11, Little has recently given ten days service to a church in Glarke County, Ind., which has been six months without any preaching, but has kept up its prayer-meetings and Sabbath-schools. “All our families,” he says, “ came all the time, and nearly all of them, not pious before, expressed hope, except some little ones. The church sat down at the Lord’s table on the Sabbath, when we received thirty-one on confession of faith, and of this number several prom ising young men, who are considering the question of setting their faces to ward the ministry.” We see also notices of revivals in Wilkesville, a missionary church in Ohio, where were ten have just been added to the communion, Atalissa, lowa, and other Western churches. Various Places. — Baldwinsville, N. y, The pastor writes to the Evangelist; “ It has been a powerful, glorious work. The churches, especially my own, have been greatly blessed. I have repeatedly said, that if not a soul bad been saved the blessing to the church would more than compensate for all the labor be stowed. As the result, thirty-five have already united with my church, and we hope to reach as many as fifty. Of the thirty-five uniting with us, twenty-two were heads of families.” Parkville, Mich. —Thirty or more conversions, several of them' heads of families. In two or three instances the last child in the family of suitable age has been converted. —Our two churches at Lansing, Mich., are now in the ninth week of a delightful work of grace, and as yet no signs of the eud. Montrose, Pa —The gracious work be gan with the Week of Prayer. The mem bers of the church have been greatly quickened, and youth of the Sabbath school and aduU members of the eon gregatiop, about, fifty in all, profess to have been "born again.” The Cleveland Herald, of Tfee lOth, gives th s following account of cover sions in jtbat city : “ First Presbyterian Churth, |4B ; Second Presbyterian, 30; sl.yterian, 30 ; Other churches |O. Third Pi nearly 6 Lou Presbyterian Church in The Si charge of Rev. 11. H. Garnett, seems to be making progress. Its present pastor, Rev. Sella Martin, has been a good deal absent in his ardent labors for the American Missionary Association; but since his return from Eu rope two .communions have occurred, at the first or which five were received, and at the second seventeen. Five more persons have been examined and expected to be received next Sabbath. —Evangelist 22 d. THE RELIGIOUS VORLO RRROII GREAT BRITAIN, The Convocation of the Province op Canterbury met as usual, at the same time with the new Parliament. The education “Conscience Clause” occupied much of the time of the Lower House, and was disposed of by a resolution, almost unanimously car ried, declaring as the opinion of the House, the injustice of insisting upon that clause in the trust deed of a parish or other school of the Church of England, as a condition of assistance out of the Partiamentary grant, and that it is not safe as respects the teaching of the Church. In the course of the debate, Archdeacon Denison, the mover of the reso lution, said:—“There was a time when the Church was allowed to walk by its own light,< but now it was Privy Council light which was to guide the Church ; and so great was the difference between them, that the Church and the Privy Council could not long co-exist. Things had come to a dead lock.” More time and feeling was bestowed upon the sub ject of the excess of ritualism, or in other words the Rome-ward tendencies of the cele brations of the Church service. It was dis posed of by a resolution praying the Upper House to take steps for ascertaining the actual state of the law on the subject, and expressing the belief that when this was pro perly ascertained, the clergy would restrict their ritualistic performances within its limits. The resolution also exp>essed the belief that the evils which “mar/ arise” from an excess of ritualism, do not call for any changes in the Book of Prayer as a remedy, but will be best rectified by the above measure, and, lest all this should be thought too non-commital, a clause was subsequently inserted to the effect that the convocation did not mean to approve the conduct of those who erred on the other side of too low and bald a service. The Upper House very distinctly echoed these sentiments — i. e. if there can be any distinct echo of indistinct utterings. Several Bishops “feared the evils of extreme ritual ism,” “knew of the performance of many rites and ceremonies which they could not approve,” “could not but think that theritual the present day was calculated to distiurb quiet Christians,” etc., etc. Bat they would not “restrict the freedom and liberty which was such an essential element of the comprehen sive character of the Church, “ thought the clergy would obey their bishop, if he enjoined them to ' cease from such ceremonials, ’ ’ “thought they would obey the law when its limits were properly ascertained,” and finally adopted a resolution concurring with the Lower House, and directing them “ to in quire, by a committee, as to such" measures as may seem to them suitable for clearing the doubts and allaying the anxieties to which the address alludes, and to communicate to this House such report, and also the judg ment of the Lowefr House upon it.” The Rev. E. H. Oraufurd, the rector of Oldswintord, has, according to the local re ports, delivered an extraordinary sermon, de clining to observe the day of humiliation appointed by the Bishop of Worcester in his diocese. The reverend gentleman based his refusal on two grounds—first, that the Queen is the head of the Church, and a day of hu miliation should have been appointed by her Majesty and not by the Archbishop of Canter bury ; secondly, that it ought not to have been appointed in Lent, which is, or should, be the season of fasting.” He protested against a “ number of rubicund and well-fed Christians” meeting together, to pray not that the sufferings of the poor beasts might be relieved, “but that Go'd would be pleased to spare their lives,, that man’s carnivorous appetite might be more fully gorged; that He would condescend more abundantly to supply the shambles, and suffer not the victims of the pole-axe to decrease!” The reverend gentleman said a good deal more to the same effect. Rev. John Griffiths. Calvinistic Metho dist minister, North Wales, one of the .most powerful and eloquent preachers in the Prin cipality, died on the 28ch ulr., after only five days’ illness at the age of 49. He received' his education at Bala Collette, under the care of Dr. Edwards and Mr. Parry: and also at Edinburgh, under Dr. Chalmers. The eyes of thousands in Wales were upon him, and much was hoped from him. Nearly one thousand six hundred people followed, his re mains to their last resting place. His death is a great loss to the Principality. In ripe age and full of honors the Rev. W. J. Shrewsbury has passed away to his hea venly rest. For more than fifty years he held a position iu the Methodist ministry; and whenever the history ol the Methodist mis sions is written, few names will be more prominent, or more honorably mentioned than his. The Sabbath Alliance of Scotland, in a quiet recent report, speaks of a considera ble dimunition oi Sabbath labor in news paper offices, accomplished through its exer tions. It is using every means in its power for the decrease of railway violations of the Sabbath. We notice with peculiar surprise that Rev. George Gilfillan. a well known writer in behalf of the Sabbath, has gone over to the views of Dr. Norman Macleod. It is expected that he will, in be called up before the Edinbury Synod of the United Presbyterian Church, ofi which he is a member. Preparations are going on for a renewal of the “innovation” agitation in the next General Assembly of the Church of Scot land. The Missionary Collections of the United Presbyterian Chur h lor the last year, exceed those of any former year. The For eign Missions £23,497 were raised, and £9,533 for Home Mission —in all £33,330. Rev. Dr. Macfarlane, Moderator of the General Assembly ot the Church of Scotland, died last month at his parish of Duddings ton, near Edinbury. In Ireland, the Sabbath-school Society of the Presbyterian Church reports at its annual meeting that about seven hundred schools, almost six thousand teachers, and about forty-five thousand scholars, are now connected with it; an increase of Seventy three schools on the preceding year, but still many schools short of the total number in the Church. Its operations have been sus tained by about £540, chiefly spent in grants * of some ot the bonks it furnishes, and deduc tions on others. The contributions from the schools have doubled, and the circulation of its “Teacher’s Guide” has increased by one fourth. Archbishop Cullen is out with a pastoral, in whidf he denounces Garibaldi, infideii !y ; Fenianism“Orangeism, Freemasonry; godless colleges, and especial!) l l )at boiulu-rn h,u tion," -the Presinterians. He lecoiiin-cnes '.I . : r . ..1.., .....I drills. With l‘l -'naH THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN. THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1866. from the Romish ritual, and the erection of crosses on lands, houses, market places, and cross roads, as a protection against cholera and the cattle plague. “Let us,” he con cludes, “place our petitions in the hands of the Holy Mother of God. Let us recom mend ourselves, and our poor country, to our great apostle St. Patrick, to our patroness St. Brigid, to St. Malachy, St. Lawrence, St. Kevin, and all the other Saints of Ireland.” The good news of the month, says The Christian Work, and indeed the year, is the opening of two long closed* chapels, that of Mamers in the Sarthe, one of the Evangeli cal Society’s stations, and that of Chauny in the Ailne, after twelve years’ patient peti tioning. The latter was built and opened by the Baptist brethren in 1850, and suddenly closed in 1554 by the retroactive effect so strangely given to the law of 1852 on un authorised meetings. Some occult power prevented hitherto the performance of the promise given by the Emperor at Compiegne years ago to the Baptist minister, and it is only this week that the welcome despatch arrived from the Minister of the Interior. We recently noticed the visit to France of a deputation from the band of English evan gelists whose labors have been so signally blessed on their own side of the channel. The Christian Work, a periodical which uses care in the making up of its intelligence, says of them:—“Joshua Poole, with Mr. John Stabb, spent a fe.v days in France, and spoke several times in Paris to the grooms and jockeys, whom “Fiddler Joss” addressed with amazing power; his picturesque York-’ shireisms were delightful to all who could enter into them; he brought tears in floods from an assembly of French rag-pickers to whom he spoke through an interpreter, and Christians of all classes felt invigorated by his appeals. The calm, pointed, and affec tionate addresses of Mr. Stabb, and his ac count of the midnight mission in London, were well suited to do good. Mr. Lockhard, and Mrs. Thistlethwaite had preceded them. We greatly hail these visits, as bringing in a fresh and earnest element into our Christian life. It is amazing the good done by the in fluence they have upon many Paris Christians, irrespective of the direct blessing to tlie un converted often granted by the Lord to their efforts. ” " Dr. Lamouroux has been called to his rest. Brought to Christ, after passing through the mazes of scepticism, he was a noble, firm, decided confessor of the truth, during a long and useful career. The Francois de Sales Association, a society of the more Papal wing of the Romish Church in France, has recently held its an nual meeting, and reports an expenditure of 154,000 francs during the last year, devoted to the energizing and widening of ultramontane principles throughout the empire. During the last six years, it has given away two mil lion tracts and books. Only three dioceses remain in which its agents are not employed. There is no abatement in the unhappy con troversy in the National Reformed Church, growing out of the firm stand taken by the Consistory in giving retirement to the semi infidel pastor, M. Paschoud, and the inter position of the Minister of Justice and Wor ship, suspending the effect of their action until the pleasure of the Emperor may be known. The friends of truth are turning their attention to a General Synod, with power to define the doctrines of the Church, as the only feasible plan of relief. But they are dubious over the question. .Will, the government consent to authorize the conven tion of such a Synod ?' A complication jn the forms of legislation in the Helvetic Confederation, has lost to tfie friends of religious liberty, an important measure. The Federal legislative body adopted two changes in the Constitution re lating to religion—one granting religious free dom to the Jews, and the other securing liberty of conscience aud worship to those Christian communions which are separated from the State. All change.- in the Consti tution of the Confederation must be ratified by a majority of the cantons, the decision of each canton being made by a popular vote. The first of the above points—that extending freedom to the Israelites was adopted, not so much, it is thought, from good will as from a political necessity growing out of a treaty with France extending such freedom to the French Jews. The second, relating to non-recognized Christian bodies, failed, 'the vote of the cantons being eleven to eleven. In all the cantons the popular majority in its iavor was about 30,000 ; but, as in the President elections in this country, by State-votes, a majority of the whole may fail to carry a measure. The friends of' the proposed reform believe that, in some of the cantons, it was lost only through jealousy of the Federal power, a teeling which is quite intense, and which has before supplied the place of any better reason for throwing over board propositions sent to them for confirma tion. We believe the result of the move ment shows progress which must come to maturity at no distant day. This view is strongly taken by Dr. Merle d’Aubigne in a published letter. In Berlin, the Evangelical Society has, through the winter, sustained a course of lec tures for the defence of truth against ration alistic skepticism. B .sides these, another course of apologetical lectures has been or ganized by the Church Building Society. The books of Renan and Schenkel, the first of which has been sold here to the extent of 300,000 copies, have roused Christians to the necessity of paying attention to these things. It is necessary to give to the people weapons to defend our most holy faith ; else a clever sceptic can bring them to confusion by a lew pompous phrases, the emptiness of which they must learn to see. “Inspiration,’! “The Historical Position of the Jews,’ “The Doctrine of the Trinity,” “Romanism and Protestantism,” have, amongst others, been the subject:, of the lectures. Their ob ject is to show, in a popular form, that though the proofs of Divine revelation may be, and to a great extent certainly are, far beyond the comprehension of human- reason, still they are in no way contrary to reason; and that, on the other hand, the unbeliever is obliged by his system to entertain the most mon strous belief. FRANCE. SWITZERLAND. (JEKWA 3ffY. HOLLAND, The Colonial 'Church Chronicle has the following letter, by a Dutch friond of the editor, which deserves special attention just now, when Dr. Colenso has returned to Natal to carry on a mission there in avowed accord ance with the heresies rife in Holland “The state of things here nowissuch, that ministers of the kirk deliver leetures to snow that the Gospel of St. John was not written by the Apostle whose name it bears. very wbere on Sunday, you may hear Pre^her.s tell their congregations that thi ,• f ,alt of St. Matthew’s GospeUs a late, ed tton and of this or that Epistle of bt. Tau that it was not written by hl “ f ord ; authenticity of the whole Bj we 10 ppenly l&fcjjled Since the radical C 1 V^ L ‘ S 111 the Dutch Christianity, even its ‘'orthodox’ type, has been abstract and drily speculative. But now the points brought into discussion are such as these: ‘ Ought we to believe in Christ’s Divinity, in his Miracles, in his Im maculate Conception, in his resurrection?' The bulk of the people are not gone over to absolute unbelief, but the neutral way in which they regard the whole controversy show that the entire atmosphere is charged with the vatal virus.- Hence we have no real missionary -spirit '" .Individualism swam everything, and breaks the bond which else where calls lorth united feeling and Christian interest. The missionary work conducted from Holland is, in consequence, little better than a mere attempt at Europeanizing. A people must first itself possess a living faith and rejoice in the hope of the Gospel before it can bring to the heathen world their ac ceptance. Alas! so far from this being the case now with Holland, that the' Jews here declare with triumph. ‘ The Dutch no longer believe that the Nazarene was Christ. ’ ’ ’ ITALY. The gradual progress of evangelical religion continues. The priestly opposition remains exceedingly virulent, but, under the present political state of the kingdom, and the popu lar contempt of the. Papacy, its power for harm is pretty much gone. The annual re port of the Nice Foreigners’ Evangelization Committee, recently issued, contains a highly encouraging view of their' work in Northern and Central Italy. It states that the preach ing of the gospel has there Ceased to be a novelty, there being but few of the larger cities, or eveh Sifisner towns that have not been visited by some evangelical preacher employed by some of the Christian agencies which .occupy the field. The church es in con nection with the Committee are becoming more and more established, and are also rising in purity of discipliue. There has been, during the year, a steady progress in the number of conversions, in the edification of older converts, and in the formation and sup port of schools. The stations of the com mittee where evangelists, and generally also schoolmasters, are located, are Como, Fara, Milan, Piverone, Sondrio, and the Island of Sardinia. An itinerating evangelist has his headquarters at Pesaro, and a Book and Tract Depository and Lending Library is maintained at Florence. , An interesting case of conver sion of a Romish Priest has occurred at Milan. The great spiritual peril of Italy is one that is common to all countries when they re coil in disgust from Romish imposture—a loss of all religious faith. Infidelity has, as usual, been on the alert to reap a harvest from the changes there going on, but happily with less suocess than further. Westward. Reports have gone abroad of the formation of large societies of freethinkers, with Milan for their headquarters. Referring to these accounts, Rev. Wm. Clark, of that city, writes to the American and Foreign Christian Union: — ‘‘This is all an exaggeration, as I could easily show by a brief history of some feeble attempts at infidel organization with which I have been fully conversant. These attempts Milan, and some at other places, utterly failled, so that at present there is no associa tion, there are no meetings, and infidelity manifests no signs of life whatever. But what is significant is this, that when the first attempts were made in this city to form such an association, and it was evident they would not succeed, the principal leader in the move ment remarked that their efforts were all in vain, for the Bible was having too much'in fluence in Italy.”. Mr. Clark has no ques tion that the Bible work now going forward in'ltaly, has exerted a powerful influence in preventing any prosperous infidel associa tions, and he adds concerning the more gen eral influence of the circulation of the Holy Scriptures there:—‘‘lt is most gratifying to see that there is a more serious turning to the Bible on the part of the people to satisfy their felt religious and spiritual. wants. They have heretofore, many of them, studied the Scriptures in order to combat Romef but uow there is a more evident advance beyond. The reform in'this land is assuming a more personally practical and spiritual character, and the Bible is more sought for and studied u.i spiritual food for the soui.” A report, just published in L'Esperance, gives au account of the Christmas celebration of the evangelical schools in the late priest ridden city of Naples, which strikingly illus u-ateSithe changes of the*'fast few years. The municipality placed at the disposal of the di rectors, the immense hall of Montoliveto in which princes used formally to preside at like festivals. “ You,” Said they, “ make ityour business to instruct young people; you are laboring to do good to the country; that is enough. We are here to support you; we do not ask what your religion is.” In that vast hall some five hundred children of the lazza roni, members of the schools, surrounded by a concourse of parents, enjoyed their Christ mas festival, with prayers and hymns to. Jesus in their native tongues, to delight of The great assemblage. The writers says:—“The Lord has set upon our work the seal of his .protection. The thirst of learning has brought to us children by hundreds; perhaps two thousand altogether have heard from us at different times the name of Jesus Christ in the midst of their elementary instruction. The confidence of parents has overcome the hostile insinuations. We have been able to show ourselves openly. Our schools, which have been well watched, have supplied the bestat tainable professors of ealigraphy to the country. They have acquired civil rights. They are celebrating their personal, festival by evangelical songs under the.nagis of the ministry. All is done in the most orderly manner; at most, a single policeman stands at the door to restrain over-eager relatives.” JAMAICA, By way of disabusing the negro of the prejudice against efforts for his spiritual and general’advancement, sought to be created by the late events in the island, Rev. Mr- Wat son, of :the United Presbyterian Mission, writes irom Kington as follows: —■“ The peo ple in St. Thomas-in-the-East, [the chief seat of the insurrection], have no schools worth the name, as is shown by the report of the school inspector. They have, with the ex ception of two small villages, had no resident European missionaries. In fact, from Yal lah’s Bay to Port Antonio, a distance of nearly eighty miles along the coast, there is not "a European missionary. Instead of thirty years’ kindness and education, the people have lived in neglect and ignorance, and have been excluded altogether from the direct influence of missionary "teaching and exataple.” '"■■■• Ho then presents the following picture of the effects which proper missionary teaching has produced upon the negroes:—“Neither the color of his skin, the peculiarity of his countenance, nor the-diflerence in his physi cal structure will ever prevail to deprive the African of his title tti humanity, or weaken his claim upon our exertions lor iris improve ment and welfare. The accusation against his manhood is confounded by the mingled voices of hundreds of Christian missionaries. Our schools show him in his boyhood success fully keeping his ground, and carrying away the prize from those of his own age of Bura ia descent and fair complexion. _ Our . Henries show him first on the list in )gu a . es and mathematics. Our churches can £ ua ®, them by thousands as truthful, as T“l l f, e i M honest, as industrious, as God- men as any churches' can boast of in the world. Our regular mission churches are in their various localities, lights that twinkle through the gloom of Jamaica’s long dark moral night, and the country for miles around these mission stations is blessed with the in fluence of peaceful, well-ordered families, where purity, decency, order, intelligence, and loyalty prevail; where thedawn of every day, and the ingathering of every night, is welcomed with the voice of prayer and the sound of praise; where the hum of village schools and the luxuriance of provision grounds attest the success of missions and the footprints of advancing civilization ; where the sound of the Sabbath-bell sends its in spiring invitations among the beautiful val leys, rich pastures, and lofty mountains of our magnificent island; and where hundreds of black men, women, and children assemble to worship Grod, and listen to the gospel of his Son. _ Here the simple rites of our com mon Christianity are observed, the whole ap paratus of instruction and salvation is in full working order. And while, like home churches and home ministers, we have to lament the carelessness of some and the backsliding of others, the .indifference of many and the falling away of a few, still we have to rejoice in the Christian progress and steadfast conduct of multitudes, and to attest with one uplifted voice that the man, be he who he may, that denounces Christian mis sions as a failure among the black people of' Jamaica,, utters ‘an unfounded and a pitiful which in tlje good already accom plished ‘is publicly and before the world refuted.’” Similar testimony is borne by members of the Wesleyan mission, all showing that the insurrection was the fruit, not of Christian culture, but the neglect of it. SANDWICH ISLANDS. The English papers are publishing, as a commentary upon Bishop’s Staley’s state ments _ concerning the Sandwich Islands Chiistians, an account given by Rev. Mr. Coan, of Hilo. It was at this place the bishop—who, it is said, can neither speak nor understand the native language—wrote that paragraph in his journal which he has since published in England:—that the Ha waiian “nation religiously is as purely heathen as it ever was, only with a thin film of Chris tianity over it.” Of this community Mr. Coan says that they have nearly completed two meeting-houses, one ,to cost five hundred dollars, the other fifteen hundred;' besides subscribing and paying five hundred dollars towards a third, of which last sum more than three hundred dollars were raised in a single day. In a single church the monthly concert collections for four months have ranged from sixty-seven to eighty-five dollars a-month. The Missionary Herald (of the American Board) accordingly acknowledges in the December number $744 57 from the “native Christians of Hilo and Puna. ’ ’ A story has been told that these gifts are made under compulsion and as a price for receiving the sacraments ; but this is known to be “ abso lutely false.” The Missionary Herald for April, has a notice of the meeting of the Association of Western Hawaii. Three candidates for the ministry were examined, two of whom were licensed to preach the Gospel; Calls were presented from three churches for pastors; one ordination was agreed upon, and the ser vices, afterwards held, were all by native pastors except the charge to the candidate. MISCELLANEOUS. Recent advices from Japan give an ac count of the baptism, by one of the mission aries of! the Reformed Dutch Church, of an aged Japanese teacher. This is believed by those missionaries to be the first instance of Christian baptism on the islands. Bishop Crowther, the native overseer of the Niger Church Mission, writes that he has baptized thirty-seven persons, and con firmed several, at Gbebe. That station has now twenty-five native communicants, and, twenty candidates for baptism ; also an en couraging Sabbath-sehool. At Onitsha, he administered-confirmation to twenty-six na tive converts, and five Sierra Leone settlers. Things there, under the influence of Chris tian teaching, are fast improving. The Sabbath is becoming.regarded, and people, in their personal habits, are exchanging filth and nakedness, for cleanliness and tidiness/of apparel. _ They are also becoming comforta ble in circumstances, and education is ad vancing. ' From Madagascar, Rev. Robert Fay writes to the London Missionary Society that everything in relation to the work of the mission continues in a cheering state. At Analakely, a new chapel is nearly completed. At Ankadibevava the chapel which, by re movals and other causes had last May become „half emptied, has again become well filled, and a new church, capable of seating about seven hundred, is nearly completed. The attendance at nearly all the other chapels has greatly increased during the last few months. From Nicronesia, Mr.' Sturges, writing to the American Board, speaks of an urgent demand for native readers to instruct others, and native Christians to conduct meetings; a surprising degree of intelligence among so rude a people in regard to the facts of Scrip ture history and the truths of the Gospel; communion seasons with many communi cants ; additions to the church; baptisms of children ; the dedication of one new meeting house ; large congregations of most attentive listeners, &c. Mr. Clark, missionary of the Board in Philippopolis, Western 'lurlcey, writes under date of January, 26: —“The Spirit has seemed quite near to us of late, and several [pupils in the school] have been quite seri ous. We have reason for gratitude that one has coine out decidedly on the Lord’s side.” This young man was reueived to the church on the first Sabbath in January—“ a good beginning for the week of prayer,” which .was observed with interest. The Macedonian, of the Baptist Union, states : “From statistics of the work in Bw mah, which are, however, incomplete—Tavoy, Prome, and one department of the work in Toungoo being omitted —it appears that the total number baptized in 1864, was 741; pre sent number of members, 14,102; pupils in schools, 2,555; churches, 252; ordained preachers, 43 ; unordained, 302. From Samoa, Rev. H. Nisbet writes to the London Missionary Society:—“ We are endeavoring to occupy new ground, which we hope be the means of bringing more of the inhabitants of ‘ the isles’ under the influence of the Bible. We deputed one of our num ber, Mr. Murray, to proceed, with three native teachers, to the coral groups lying to the north of Fiji, there to commence a new mission. If our mission there gets fairly established, it will afford an opening lor in definitely extending the the knowledge of the truth in that neighborhood, as there are many groups of islands scattered about. Hence we hope, ere long, to shake hands with our American brethren, who are zeal ously carrying on the work, with the assis tance of Hawaiian teachers, among the mul titudinous groups which lie along the north of the equator. ” Items.—A family can live in Europe on the rent of their house in any of the great Amer ican cities.- All vessels leaving Liverpool for the United States are crowded with emi- gbfa IjuMitafifltt.i Now Beady, The April Nnmber of HOURS AT HOMI. TABLE OF CONTENTS! MajorrGen. j. b. McPherson. j\v Major- Gen. \V. T. Sherman. Recollections of Dr. John TV. >ranclsL. By Jdhn Esten^Cook*. Jamaica Massacre. By R. A. Johnson. The Mnsic ot Italy. By Prof. E. A. Lawrence* Jone Gurh*y s Ntory. Chapters JII. and IV* By Miss E. btuart Two of our Sculptors. I. Paul Alters. 2. E. S. Bartholomew. By H. T. Tuck ruisn. An Omitted Jbeal in the History of Soeial Manners. By James K. Medberry. Schiller. By J Uick c on Brun«. Upward. An origin*! hymn. By R.. 11. Bonar. D.l). Bertie's Four Years. By Mis* Pi,cube R McKeen. Luther at the Sick Bed of Slelanctlioii* By the author of Bouverie ” Religious Views and Eccle» stastical Policy. By Dr. Be Pre?son#c. (A Trans lation.) Why Weeprst Thou? Augu-M Moore. Death the liorsciuau. CLOSE OF THE SECOND VOLUME. Beginning- of a New Year. The publishers of llocrs at Hour desire to call at tention to the fact that the present ilumber closes the second volume ef the Magazine. A new year will begin with the number for Mav. NOW JS TEE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE AND TO ORGANIZE CLUBS rm TEItMS. Three Dollars a year. Six Copies for Sl5: Thirteen for $3O. Bound Volume, post-paid. $' 5i.». Bound Volume and one year's subscription, $5. PREMIUM. •Wheeler A Wilson's Sewing-Machine for 25Sub scribers ($75). C. SOKIBNER & GO.. New York, Publishers. P. P. P. B. POWER’S “PATENT PERPETUAL BROOM” IS LIGHT, TASTY AND ELEGANT. Will save to this State, when generally introduced*- $3,000,000 annually. Gan be refilled (.when the com is worn out), in cities, for 10 or 15 cents. Can be refilled in five or ten minutes, by farmers themselves, who will raise their own Broom-corn. Requires no sewing, is perlectly simple, and not liable to get out of order. IS JUS C WHAT IS NEEDED in every house, to save the CONSTANT, USELESS expenditure of so much money for Brooms. 1 IT Ik SWEEPING THE COUNTRY LIKH WILD FIRE. Very many are making from $l5 to $3O per day with it. YOU can do the same. NOW is the time to -invest, as this and adjoining States will very soon be sold. State and County Rights for Sale. Send stamp for Circular, or call on J. N. WHIDDEN, 736 ARCH Street (near Eighth), Philadelphia, Pa. Philadelphia, January 1,1866. Dear Sir: —The Tee business heretofore carried on by us und«r the name of Moliere Ice C 0.," will here after be known as the ’* COLD SPRING ICE AND COAL COMPANY." We respectfully solicit from you a cont inuance of your favors under the new ar rangemeu t, and assure sou that hereafter you will be supplied by the Cold Spring Ice and Coal Co. with Ice of the best; quality, always at the lowest market rates, and with regularity and promptness. WOLBERT & BROTHER. (INCORPORATED APRIL, 15?4.) COLD SPRING ICE AND COAL CO. THOS. E. CAHILL, Pres. JOHN GOODYEAR, Sect. HENRY THOMAS, Superintendent. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS AHBSHIPPERSOE ICE * COAL. BOSTON ICE now being supplied dailyin all pavod< limits of the consolidated city. Twenty*fourth Wardt Richmond, Mantua, and Germantown. LEHIGH and SCHUYLKILL COAL carefully selected for family use, and as low as the lowest for a first-rale article. BLACKSMITHS' COAL of excel lent quality. HICKORY, OAK, and PINE WOOD, and KINDLING WOOD. DEPOTS. Southeast corner Twelfth and Willow Streets. North Pennsylvania R. R. and Master Streets. Twenty-fifth and Lombard Streets. Pine Street Wharf, Schuylkill. OFFICE, No. 433 WALNUT STREET. REMOVAL. I beg leave to inform, the Public that I awe CHANGED my business location from N.E. Corner Fourth and Chestnut Streets? Commodious Rooms in SANSOM STREET HALL. Having re-furnished my Office with IMPROVED STEAM PRESSES AND NEW TYPE, , I am enabled, with the aid of SKILLFUL WORK MEN, to execute orders for PBINTDre I9T THE BEST STYLE, Expeditiously and at Moderate Prices. Trusting in a continuanca of your patronage. I am> respectfully, Yours, &c. SAMUEL LOAG. 1025-ly •#S* Office on First Floor. THOMAS RAWLINGS, Jr., HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTEE, Broad and Spring Garden Streets. W. G. BEDFORD, IPEYB ID BElLffifE AIIT No. 53 NORTH TENTH STREET. PHLADA. My central location and the many means of com munication with the suburbs enable me to take the Agency for sale and care of Real Estate, the Oolleo tii>n of Interests, ground and'houserents in every part of the city. References will be furnished when desired. SPECTACLES. WILLIAM BARBER, Manufacturer of Gold, Silver. Nickel, and Steel Speo t icles, Eye Glasses, £c., has neatly furnished a room in connection with the factory, fur RETAIL PUR POSES, wherespectacles < f every description may be obtained, accurately adjusted to the requirements of vision on STRICTLY OPTICAL SCIENCE. Sales room and factory, No. 248 NORTH EIGHTH Street, Second floor. 991-ly COAL! CO ALII LEHIGH AND SCHUYLKILL C ALofthobegfc quality, selected Irom the Appioved Mines under cover. . i Prepared Expressly jor Store and family Use. ‘ Northeast corner of Pa&sayunk Roadand Washington Avenue, Philadelphia. ’ ALBERT REMENTEB ldO-ly CALL AND EX AM IN is. L. D. BASSETT, * DEALtiR in FINE CHEESE, OOKHEN BETTER, CfDEB VINE©AK, SWEET CIDER, CANNED TOMATOES AND PEACHES, WRIGHT’S SUPERIOR MINCED MEAT, 40, AC. . NEW I2TH ST. MARKET, Ithrtwd.n,
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