gatfritan grotiOtriait.*
I'HUROAN, APRIL 5, 1856
CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE—FAMILY CIRCLE:
The Angel's, Portion—By Their Fruits ye Shall
Know Them—Help One Another—Here and There
—A Day on the Lake—Jim and the Compass-box—
Heroes—Fruit-bearing—Worhays Beauty.
THIRD PAGE—EDITOR'S TABLE:
Woman in the French Revolution—lndian Affairs—
Periodicals and Pamphlets.
MISCELLANEOUS: A Shot at the Decanter—Anti
quity of the Waldensian - hurch.
SIXTH PAGE—CORRESPONDENCE:
Our London Letter—The Radical Seale out among
East Tennesseeans—Kev. Dr. Seiss on the Apnea-
Ivpse—TheJew vs. The Greek; or, The Units of the
Race—Patient in Tribulation.
MISCELLANEOUS: God's Plan in Geography — The
Pyramids—True Feeling,.
SEVENTH PAGE—RURAL ECONO3 I Y :
Labor—Medicinal Plants—Jersey or Alderney Co.w
—Row to Cook a Beef-Stenk—Selecting a Ca w —
WherAn Sow GYP,UILE Del•th and Distance of
Drains—Onions s o d Poultry.
t`CIENTIFIC: Icebergs and the Arctic Regions.
Mts...st,t,Akaous: -Seven-thirty at Par.'
THIRTEENTH WEEK OF' PRAYER,
Wednesday, Union Methodist Church,
Fourth Street below Arch; Thursday, West
Arch Street, corner of Eighteenth anal
Arch; Friday, Alexander, corner of Nine
teenth and'areen; Saturday, West Spruce
Street, corner of Seventeenth and Spruce.
PRESIDENT'S PROCLOAIATINN.
A proclamation declaring the rebellion
to be at an end has been issued by the
President, dated April 2d. It reiterates
his policy of recognizing • the lately Rebel
States as entirely restored to the Union, and
quotes resolutions of Congress passed in
1861 as in accordance with that policy. It
is quite •as much a proclamation to Con
gress as to the South, and will be welcomed
only by Rebels and Rebel sympathizers,
with a few conservative Union men North
and South.
TAB DEDICATORY SERV *ES in Ken
derton Presbyterian Church will take
place on Thursday, to-day, at 32 o'clooclE
P. M. ; sermon by Rev. Dr, Shepherd.
Preabhing in the evening at 7 o'clock,
by Rev. Dr. March.
`THE NEW Eivurr Booxs.—The New
and Old School publication agencies
have each recently issued a book of
hymns and tunes for social meetings.
Ours bears the title of " The Sobial
Hymn and Tune Book," and that of the
Old, School, " The Hymnal." The for
mer has already attained a large circu
lation, the fourth edition—making ten
thousand in all—having just been issue - a,
and, what is better, has met with almost
universal approbation from those who
are using it. The reception of the latter
has not been so favorable. Criticisms
have been numerous and severe. The
last number of the Presbyter says :
" We are not surprised to find that corres
pondents of all our papers are ventilating The
Hymnal, and causing the compound odors of
its defects to be diffused throughout the whole
Church. When it first appeared, it was com
mended in all the papers except the Presby
ter. Several correspondents of the other
papers also spoke in the highest terms of
praise. For a Week or two we really appre
hended, that the book would be received
without question or resistance; but the
posture of its popularity is now such that we
have no fear. A. writer, over the signature
Musicus,' in the Presbyterian Banner, of
Pittsburgh, is publishing a series of articles
in opposition to the book, which will make
an impression. He gives some of the objec
tions which were presented in our articles,
and suggests others of equal weight."
TEE FORMAL' EXCOMMUNICATION OF
Du. COLENSO took place on Sunday, the
sth of January, at the Cathedral of Ma
ritzburg, at the early - service, when the
Dean read out the sentence asifollows :
"In the name of our Lord J4sus Christ:
We, Robert, by Divine permission Mettc
politan of the Church in the Province of
Capetown, in accordance with the decision of
the Bishops of the Province, in Synod
assembled, do hereby, it being our office arid
our grief to do so, by the authority of Christ
committed unto us, pads upon John William
Colenso, D.D., the sentence of the greater
excommunication, thereby separating him
from the Communion of the Church of Christ
so long as he shall obstinately and impeni
tently persist in his heresy, and claim to ex
ercise the office of a Bishop within the
Province of Capetown. And we do hereby
make known to the faithful in Christ, that,
being thus excluded from all Communion
with the Church, he is, according to our
Lord's command, and in conformity with the
provisions of the xxxiii. of the Articles of
Religion, ' to be taken.of the whole multi
tude of the faithful, as a heathen man and
publican.' (Matt. 'l7, 18.)
" Given under our hand and seal, this six
teenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord one thousand'eight 'hundred and sixty
five. --" R. CAPETOWN."
Dr. Colenso has found a new ei>adju-,
tor in his unauthorized ministrations at
the Cathedral, in the person of the Rev.
Mr. Nisbet, a military chaplain attached
to the forces in Natal. We understand
that Mr. Nisbet's conduct will be brought
under the notice of the Archbishop of
Canterbury and the Chaplain-General.--L
Church Ti es.
EVENGELICAL ALLIANCE. -A commit
tee has been organized in New York, to
prepare a report of the state of religion
in this county to be presented at the
meeting of the Evangelical Annie('
which is to be held next fall in Holland.
The committee consists of one prominent
clergyman from each of the following
denominations : Presbyterian Old and
New School, Congregationalist, Lathe
ran, German Reformed, Reformed Dutch,
Baptist, Episcopal and Methodist. P . rof.
H. B. Smith, who represents our denom
ination, is Chairman of the Committee,,
add has been charged with the . impor
tant duty of prepariog the report. ,Tbere
is just now material for one of the most
interesting.papers of the kind which the
Christian annals have ever produced,
and the labor of its preparation is in
good hands. We trust that it will not
only secure the atteation of the Chris
tian world abroad, but will contain cer
tain facts and conclusions therefrom,
suggestive of the , mutual bearing of
church and 'State, which they cannot
consider too early or too thoughtfully.
THE PRESBYTERIAN MONTHLY.
The Presbyterian Church has acknow
ledged and assumed the responsibility
of acting in its organic capacity to
spread,the Gospel throughout the world,
and has adopted a system of operations
by which her interest shall be developed,
and her polity shall be brought into full
activity for missionary purposes. To
awaken the concern of the ministers, the
sessions, and the churches—to guide
and invigorate their efforts, to unfold the
facts and motives bearing on the work,
and to freshen and augment their zeal—
the General Assembly has directed its
several Permanent Committees to pub
lish a neat Magazine, in such a form and
,at such ,a price that it-may attain a wide
circulation without interfering with the
movements of the religious press at
large. Such a periodical, with the above
title, was commenced with the present
year, containing twenty-four pages eaeh
number, at the low price of one dollar
per year, or fifty cents where as many
as ten copies are sent to one address in
any church.
It is well edited for the purpose de
signed, and is handsomely printed. It
is commended as being well calculated
to be most useful and cheering to minis
ters in preparing for the• Mthly Con
cert, in awakening and guiding the mis
sionary activity in the-churches, and in
encouraging a hearty and intelligent
loyalty to the interests of our entire
body. The subscription list is encourag
ing, but needs great enlargement. We
wish it to be ,placed in every family
throughout the Church. As agents
having in charge the publication of this
Magazine, we desire thus to make an
earnest appeal to all our ministers and
sessions to take immediate measures for
its introduction throughout. our congre
gations. - May not its purposes be ex
plained and commended from ourpulpits?
Whatever is done should be done quickly.
SubscriptiOns should be forwarded to the
Presbyterian House, No. 1334 Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia; or to the Presby
terian Rooms, No. 150 Nassau Street,
New York.
T. A. MILLS,
Gen. Sec. for Education.
IC. KENDALL, •
Gen. Sec. for Home Missions.
J. W. DULLER,
, Sec. for Publication.
J. W. BENEDICT,
Sec. of Church Erection Trustees.
W. S. GRIFFITH,
Sec. of Com. on Foreign Missions.
CHARLES BROWN,
Sec. of Corn. on Ministerial Relief.
A TANGLE.—The Free Christian
Commonwealth, Louisville, paper in the
Old School connection, representing the
extremest wing of that disunion and pro
slavery element, of which there is just
enough left to be sorely annoying to
that Church, speaks of its coming Gene
ral Assembly as a six-sided one, classi
fying the parties as follows `--4 , 1. The
non-political orthodox party represented
by the • Declaration and Testimony and
similar protests. 2. The semi-political
conservative party of principle typified
in Dr. Hodge. 3. The Gallio-conserva r
Give, or party of no principle, typified in
the recent lusus ecelesice. L at Chicago.
4. Tee Radical excision Tarty of Dr.
Breckinridge. 5. The. Radical Anti-
New School party of Pittsburgh. 6.
The Radical New School party of Cin
cinnati, with the accesion to it, probably,
of the Presbyterian's remnant of a
clique.' " The Presbyter, commenting
on the above classification, reduces the
parties, so far as relates to the questions
betwen the Commonwealth men and the
loyal portion of the Church, to three—
the first, as above stated ;
,the second
and third of the above substtintially one,
making the second ; and the third, (pro
bably the majority,) those who will stand
implicitly by the action of the last year.
It holds the question of union with she
New School, as a separate one, and,
wholly out of place in the above classifi
cation. In relation to this point, it
says:— _
"In our own church there are some who
will oppose all efforts toward •reunion: but
they are mostly those who are opposed to the
present status of the Assembly, ` and • will most
probably not remain With us; or, if they do,
tEeir influence is not likely to be widely felt.
And inthe "other branch" there are those
who will strenuously oppose the movement,
but they will, at length. yield to the general
voice of the Church. Let our prayers go up
to God that this re-union may be speedily
consummated, and let all proper efforts be put
forth wisely to this end."
IT IS REV. GEORGE GILEILI t AN, not
James, who is in danger of discipline on
account-of heretical views on the Sab
bath, in the U. P. Church of Scotland.
Rev. JAMES is the author of the work
on the Sabbath so extensively circulated
in this country. He is an older brother
of George, and
. a very different man. So
says Rev. John Kidd, of Joliet, 111.,
speaking from personal acquaintance.
THE REVIVAL has reached Rochester.
A large accession was received by the
Brick Chuich, Rev. Dr. Shaw's, last
Sabbath. Particulars next week.
LErrsas, from E. Tenneiie and from
Augusta, Ga.,..wi1l appear in our next.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 5. 1866.
As I predicted in my last letter, the
great Civil Righis bill, framed to " secure
all persons in their rights, and to fur
nish the means of their vindication,"
has been defeated, at least so far as the
refusal of the President to sign it can
secure its defeat. While a vetcywas not
unexpected, there were some hopes that
it would not be so ex.ceptionless and
sweeping in its terms, as the one :which
reached the Senate on Tuesday. It is
generally conceded that the veto message
of the Civil Rights bill is far inferior in
point of argument as well as dignity to
that of the Freedmen's Bureau bill.
The President, as you *ill observe, does
not hesitate to appeal to the passions
and prejudices known to be entertained
by, the ignorant and the baser sort gen
erally against the unfortunate ~negro.
As in the veto of the Freedman's Bureau
bill, many of his statements are wide of
the mark, and not a few of them desti
tute of the semblance of truth. He
evidently views the whole matter as' a
Southern man, and as a quondam slave
holder. When Senator Trumbull, the
author of the bill, comes to review and
reply to the veto message, it will be
amazing how fall it will be found of
sophisms, and even •of grossly false
statements. It will be remembered that
Senator Trumbull's reply to the veto of
the Freedmen's Bureau bill placed that
document in its true light before the
people, and exposed most thoroughly the
superficial and fearfully lame argument
of the President against it The second
veto 'is even more vulnerable. It shows
that the Execiitivehas- turned his back
upon all th'e great principles contained
in the platform which he so eagerly em
braced in 1864. In doing so, he has,
of course, satisfied the Rebels, avl made
himself and his policy acceptable to the
Copperheads. With them he o doubt
expects to actin future.
As might be expected, last Tuesday
was an exciting day in the Senate. Ina°
mediately after the morning hour, the
case of John P. Stockton, the self. elected
Senator from New Jersey, was up for
consideration. His case excited much
interest, and at an early hour the Senate
galleries were crowded in every part.
The popular anxiety, however, was con
centrated On the anticipated veto mes
sage of the Civil Rights billy which it
was expected would reaeh the Senate on
that day. Of late years, Presidential
vetoes have been few and far between,
and although they are coming thick and
fast now, thelpeople have.not become so
thoroughly accustomed to them as to
make the occasion of their deliverance
to Congress a matter of ordinary mo
ment. Besides, strange as it may seem,
the capital of the nation contains more
of •the spirit of secession auilttlislbyalty
than perhaps any other city in the Union,
if we except Charleston,, South Caro
lina. This is nothing more than the old
leaven of slavery which permeated the
entire mass of society, and :wrought its
anti-American and anti-Republican influ
ences into all the forms of public, social,
and private life. This spirit was less
prevalent here, as elsewhere, immedi
ately after the closing of the rebellion.
But it has received`a fresh impetus from
the conduct of Andrew. Johnson, and
under the reviving
,influences of his
policy it stalks forth as boldly as when
James Buchanan was President, and
John B. Floyd Secretaiy of War. A
A habitue of the Senate on an, occasion
like last Tuesday; as he mins his practiced
eye along the galleries, 'can 'Point out
those would-be-Secessiortiits, male- and
female by the hundreds. They scarcely
ever make their appearance there except
when it is'expected that some blow is'to
be"fittruck at universal liberty.
The President's private secretary
made his appeal:B4e - qter two
o'clock. Mr. Stockton was trying to
" kill time" by reading to unwilling hear
ers a thirty-two *page pamphlet setting
forth the argument for his right to his
seat as a Senator from New Jersey. At
five o'clock the Secretary of the Senate
commenced reading the' veto message.
It soon became apparent that the worst
fears of those who expected a sweeping
veto were fulfilled. The President, set
ting at defiance the wishes and prayers
of the loyal millions of the country, and
holding in utter contempt' the combined
wisdom of more. than twu-thirds of both
houses of Congress, bad written "veto"
upon every section of he bill. But for
an unfortunate dreams auce, the absence
of Senators Grimes and Kirkwood, of
lowa, the bill would have peen put upon
its passage immediately after.the reading
of the veto, and carried by a two-thirds
vote over the President's objections. I
am not without hope that even yet such
a desirable result will be reached. It is
scarcely possible that the veto will come
up for consideration before Wednesday.
It would have been before the Senate
last Wednesday but for: the lamentable
circumstance of the death of the Hon.
Solomon Foote,Wetted States Senator
from Vermont. Several of our friends,
who will vote for the bill as against the
the veto, accompanied the remains of the
deceased Senator to their last resting
place in their own Green .Mountain home.
They will not buable to reach here be
fore Wednesday next, which ,accounts
for the postponement of the consideration'
of the bill to that day. Senator Trum
bull will deliver a speech in reply to the
President's veto message, after which
the question will be pushed to a vote.
The popular indignation at this last
exhibition of the President's policy as
reflected in that 'mirror of public senti
ment, the press, is even m ore emphatic
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 31, 1866
and unmistakable than the response
which followed the veto of the Freed
men's Bureau bill. Not a few Republi
can journals which were disposed to jus-_
tify that act, or to apologise for the
President's incipient perfidy, are open
and avowed in their disapproval of this
new veto. If Congress shall be able, to
pass it notwithstanding his objections,—
and there is a prospect that it will,—it
will teach him a lesson which he cannot
learn too soon, that he is merely the ser
vant of the people, and not their auto
crat. J. M.
CITY CHURCHES.
NORTH BROAD St—Nineteen persons
were received last Sabbath ;- nine on
profession. Several others are indulg
ing a hope and indications are spiritu
ally encouraging. The pastor leaves for
New Hampshire in ten or twelve days.
RANATUNIC—EIeven persons were
received on profession last Sabbath.
Much interest prevails. There are many
is quirers. .
SERMONS APPROPRIATE to Easter were
preached by Rev. A. Barnes and by
Rev. W. Calkins in their rekaective pul
pits last Sabbath. - The First Church
was well'attended. The congregations
generally show a decided improvement.
Mr. Calkins' sermon on Skeptical Ob
jections to the Resurrection was able,
lucid, and timely. It would make a
valuable and seasonable tract.
REVIVALS.
CARLISLE, PAr - -Rev."Dr. Wing writes:
" There has been a very interesting
work of grace among my people during
the last few weeks, in which there have
been not less than fifty persons who
have expressed a hope that their he'arts
have been given to Christ, and their
sins have been pardoned. Twenty-four
united with the church in their commu
nion the second S'abbath in this month.
Services were held during the weeks im
mediately before and after communion ;
in which I had the assistance in preach
ing of Rev. Wm. E. Moore, of West
Chester. The week after, services have
been held in the Second Presbyterian
Church (Old School,) are now in pro
gress, with very successful results. In
all the churches of our borough, not less
than one hundred and sixty have ex
pressed a hope in Christ during the last
tWo months, Abodt twenty young men
in the college, under the care of the
Methodists, have united with the' church
in connection with it."
ADDISON, N. Y.—A revival is reported
from the church in this place, under the
labors of Rev. D. F. Jud`scrn. Mr. J.
was formerly pastor of this church, and
has just returned, after three, years ab
sence, to the same field.
TROY, KANSAS.—This place is about
sixteen miles west of St. Joseph, Mo.
Our church there is under the care of
Rev. F.'E. Sheldon, who' writes to the
Presbytery,Reporter On the second\
Sabbath of the year, our church was
dedicated. A series of meetings was at
once commenced, and is still continued.
The number of hopeful conversions is
now about one hundred ; sixty of whom
have been received to the church. Here,
where• two years ago there was no
church-going bell, no libuse of worship,
no professor of religion, no voice of
prayer, we have now all these. Here,
on this beautiful prairie, stands the first
Presbyterian• church ever dedicated to
the worship of. God in this State.
A VETERAN GONE.—We find in our
exchanges a notice of the death of Rev.
Ova P. Hoyt,.D.D., a brother who, for
nearly a quarter of a century, has been
deeply identified with the general in-
terests of our Church within the bounds
of the Synod of Michigan. He died
recently, (the precise date is not before
us,) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. His age
is not stated ; we suppose it to have
been • about sixtylve. Dr. Hoyt, be
possessing good pastoral qualifica
tions, was, from his early ministerial
lire, distinguished as a counsellor and
helper of brethren and churches outside
of his specific field ; and the regions
around his pastorates, first in,Potsdam,
in Northern New York; and afterwards
in Kalamazoo, bear many traces of his
sagacity, his peace-making wisdom, and
his power for infusing energy and
hope where discouragement had before
reigned. His heart was warm, his
address\ fervent, his manners bland, his
mental powers strong, and his good
sense always reliable. We notice his
decease with more than ordinary regret.
A FIELD.—To young ministers look
ing anxiously for a field, and who would
know the kind of work that is work, we
commend the following extract from a
letter of Rev. John M. Brown, of War
saw, Mo., to the Presbytery Reporter.
ts The work on this wide field is too great
for us. These desolations cannot be
restored unless we have help. We are
straining every nerve—traveling in a'l
kinds of weather, and over all kinds of
roads, for long distances—preaching
on the Sabbath, visiting and talking all
the week, faring sometimes like John the
Baptist in the wilderness, or worse,
.1t on h w
arid yet we fall far behind the needs of
our field. We want one good man im me .
diately, and shall want more very soon.
My circuit (just marked over and en_
'
lmastragleeesda ,) measures
o m ou e nn a cd s e u ;
irnae
and
fdo m ut o rh r iw e s thanemekust be traveled
two hundred
sometime
once
not by
This is too much labor for frail mortality,
railroad, twou weeks—and,
or in a buggy,
and, this
this cold, storming winter weather.
Then, we cannot half finish our work.
About all we' can do is too say good
morning,' to a church, and then good
bye.' These hnrried visits, as you well
know, are not the way to build up 'Pres
byterian churches. I believe our labors
will largely be lost unless we have help.
Can you not send on a man immediately ?
If you can, I will give up Warsaw, and
move further South and West."
In a subsequent letter, (February 21,)
to the same paper, Mr. Brown states
that the Church in Warsaw, which for a
while took up ihe fortunes of the " United
Synod," has resolved to return to our
connection, and is showing fresh signs
of life. He also states that he recently
organized a small church in Clinton,
Henry County, a town of about six
hundred inhabitants, without any - house
of worship, and no other church organi
zation. The church was gathered under
the labors of Mr. De la Vergne, a licen
tiate. He adds:—" On my last trip
South, I received Mount Zion Church
back to our connection. We have there
forty-five members. There is much good
material in that church. They have been
urging me to settle with them. I have
consented, and expect to move my family
within its bounds in March, and preach
to them one-fourth of the time."
NEWARK, N. J., PRESBYTERIAN CITY
Missions.—The enterprises of our New
ark brethren generally answer to the im
port of the term. An example is fur
nished in their Presbyterian City Mission
Society, of which Rev. Di. Stearns
is President, and Rev. Dr. J. Few
Sniith, Vice-President, with a very good
sprinkling of free-working laymen in the
board. Their- annual meeting has re-
Cently been held. The last year's work
has told well, and they now laancii out
upon a scale which will demand an ex
penditure of - $5OOO, and they mean to
raise it.
MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.—Rev. J.
G. Kanouse, a zealous Northwestern
pioneer, has finally so far, yielded to the
wear of labor, as to give
.up the active
duties of the ministry, and has taken up
his residence at Sun Prairib, Wis.---
Rev. J. N. Crittenden, formerly of Bel
mont, N. Y., has commenced pastoral
labor under a cordial call from the church
in Keolcuk, lowa.
REV: C. FRANZIISCO has removed from
Hopewell, .Ontario County, to Branch
port, Yates County, N. Y.
Ettigins katAtigtuu.,
PRESBYTERIAN.
Revivals. The Church in Washington,
Pa., the seat of one of the departments of
Washington`and Jefferson College, received,
on the 11th ult., twenty-nine persons on pro
fession. Twelve of the number were students
in the college.—The Church in Warsaw,
N. Y., has been greatly refreshed, and has
received an important accession to !its mem
bership. Other churches in the same village
have been blessed.—Prospect Church, in
the Peoria Presbytery, has received a gracious
visitation. On last Sabbath twenty-two per
sons sat down for the first time at the Lord's
Supper, as the fruits of a series of meetings
held some weeks ago.—A great awakening
has taken place in the United Presbyterian
churches in Pittsburgh and Allegheny, Pa.
Meetings are held every night, and the as
semblages are very large.—At a late com
munion, eighteen persons were added to the
Church of Abingdon, near this city.—The
last number of The Presbyterian has the ac
count of a revival in Silver Spring Church,
Pa., in 'connection awith the Presbytery of
Carlisle. Already a goodly number have con
secrated themselves' to God and his people,
and are waiting to be admitted to church
fellowship. .Besides, the community for miles
round has been roused up on the subject of
religion.—The same paper says that the
Church in Columbia, Pa. '
has been enjoying
a quiet but precious work of grace. For sev
eral weeks the work has gone on with no un
due excitement, but with an interest such as
so solemn and weighty matters demand. On
the 25th ult., thirty-four were admitted to the
Church dh profession of their faith, and
solemnly engaged to be the Lord'i.—Forty
six have been received into the communion
of the Church at Tipton, Ind., on profession
of faith. Of these,twenty were baptized.—
In the Church at alden, Illinois, there are
sixty inquirers, many of whom are indulging
•a hope of having been born again.—Three
Sabbaths since there were added- thirty-one
persons to the First. Church in Camden, N.
J. ; to the West Spruce Street Church (Dr.
Breed's), of Philadelphia, nineteen ,• and to
the Central tresbyterian Church (Dr. Reed's),
of Philadelplia, thirty—all on examination.
—ln the church at Parkersburg, West
Virginia, there are over thirty inquirers, most
of whom have professed conversion to God.
A young men's prayer-meeting, and also a
female prayer-meeting, have been established,
and both are well attended. Twenty-seven have
been received.on examination to the Church
of Fairmount, West Virginia, and a revival
is in progress at Morgantown, West Va.--
The Christian Instructor, LU. P.) of this city,
says;—" In our last we announced that over
forty persons had made application for mem .
bership in the Third United Presbyterian
Church of this city. We' are now able to
state that the number admitted was fifty—
nearly all of them on the profession of •their
faith, and thirty-seven of them from the
Sabbath-school.' =Oar Presbyterian ex
changes mention many other places where're
vivals have been or are now going forward—
among 'them Fredericksburg, Va. ; Council
Bluffs, Iowa; Deersville, 0.; Round Hill,
McKeesport and Allen Grove, Pa. ; Bethel,
Indiana.
Stuart Robinson at Large.—The New
York Evangelist of last week. says :—" Rev.
Dr. Stuart Robinson preached in this city on
Sunday last, morning and evening, in the
Fifth Avenue Opera House. We gather from
a notice of his .mornin,g's discourse that he
has been invited here by a number of friends
who wish to establish religious worship `for
the masses in the city without reference to
any sectional influences.' About one hundred
.and fifty persons were present to hear the
opening sermon.
Vacation Work.—Rev. Drs. Hodge, Mac
donald, and others, of Princeton, have issued
an appeal to students in theology, to spend
the long summer vacation in missionary labor
in the pines and on the sea-coast in New
JerseYa field Which, -in several, localities,
has proved unusually responsive to spiritual
effort. They also solicit the co-operation of
pastors, Sabbath- s chools,.and, other Christian
friends, for the funds needed to sustain such
laborers. The estimated, requisite amount
for each varies from $l2O to $l5O for three
months.
Abington, Pa.—This old Bucks County
Church, of Scotch-Irish origin, has had in
general a thrifty career. The first edifice Was
built in 1714. It was rebuilt in 1793, and en.
larged in 1833. •It is now to be taken down,
and a new one erected on the old site, amid
the graves where sleep former pastors, elders,
And generations of ancestors, who there wor
shipped. Farewell services of an interesting
character 'were held in the old building last
Sabbatlf
A New Church, bearing the name of the
Woodland Presbyterian . Cluireh, West Phila
delphia, was organized by a committee of the
Presbytery of Philadelphia on the evening of
Friday, 2.3 d ult.Tw eity-five persons pre
sented certificates of dismission from other
churches; and their names were enrolled.
Of these, three gentlemen were elected ruling
elders in the church—Mr. S. R. Mason, Mr.
William Montgomery, and Mr. M. A. Wurts.
The church has purchased a lot on Pine street,
west of Forty-first, on which they have
erected a very neat and comfortable chapel.
designed for - the temporary use of the con
gregation, proposing hereafter to erect a
church edifice on the same lot.—Preshyterifin.
Congregational. Andover Theological
Seminary has at present seventy-nine students
attached to the regular class, and fifteen resi
dent licentiates.—The New England Col
leges, under Congregational patronage, are
just now greatly blessed. About thirty o f
the students of Amherst have expressed a
hope in, Christ. The religious interest in
Yale and Williams, as at Dartmouth, is very
considerable. At Yale, union prayer -meet
ings are just now held every evening in the
College. They are not only crowded, but a
deep, earnest feeling prevails among those
who have not known what it is to trust in
Christ.—Rev. Dr. A. L. Stone is at last in'
possession of the Pacific Congregationalists.'
He arrived in San Francisco 'on the 6th ult.,
and was warmly welcomed by his new par
ishioners.—The "First Congregational
Church of New Orleans" has been recently
organized. Aided by the Congregational
Union, it has purchased and renovated the
edifice formerly known as the Second Presby
terian Church.—Rev. B. G. Relyea, of
Westport, Conn., reporis a precious season
of revival in his church since the year begun.
with froth sixty to seventy hopeful conver
tions.—Rev. Ray Palmer, D.D., the highly
esteemed Albany pastor, has been invited to
take the post of Corresponding Secretary to
the American Congregational Union, the
headquarters of which are to be located in
New York.—ln the Congregational, as in
other denominations, there is no observable
abatement in the revival interest.
Reformed Church.—The IL It. Church of
Helderberg, N. Y., Rev. William P. Davis,
pastor, has been blessed with the presence of
God's reviving spirit. Seine forty persons,
most of whom are heads of families, have pro
fessed their faith in the. Lord Jesus Christ.
—The old Market Street Church in New
York, a time honored edifice has been sold
for a house of worship for mariners. The
congregation will take leave of it on the last
Sabbath in the present month. Anew loca
tion will be made, butit is not vet fixed upon.
—Revivals are reported from Niskayuna,
Lisha's . Hill, and Geneva, N. Y.—The
Christian Intelligencer, under the heading of
"Gone, Sold and Closed," records that the
Consistory of the Forty-sixth Street Reform
ed Dutch Church, in New York, " disap
pointed in their hopes of receiving brotherly
aid, baffled in their labors, and worn out by a
burden which they could no longer carry,"
have sold their edifice to the Episcopalians.
This is a case of total extinguishment.
Baptist.—The statistical account of the
recent unusual spiritual prosperity of the
First Baptist Church in this city, (Rev. Dr.
Jeffery's), is as follows:—Received by expe
rience, '6. by letter, 11 ; by restoration, 1;
by baptism, 184; total, 202. This number
includes 60 Sabbath-school scholars, 12 of
whom were from mission schools. On Sab
bath, the2sth ult., the Church as a thank
offering for this great blessing, swept off its
remaing debt of sosoo.—The last National
Baptist, has accounts of 62 baptisms in eleven
churches in this city, on the previous Sab
bath.—Rev. George Sleeper, pastor of the
Baptist Church, in Vincent, Chester County,
Pa.; died of apoplexy, on -the 19th ult.—
The Baptist interest is reported as on the ad
vance at seval points in California. Particu
lar mention of improvement in Napa. Stock
ton, Petaluma, and Brooklyn. —Rev. Hi
ram Hamlin, is meeting with success
at Boise City, Idaho. He holds Divine
ervice in the court house, with increasing
congregations, and increasing attendance at
prayer-meetings.
Methodist —Several revivals in connection
,with the M. E. Church, are reported from
the Pacific Coast. Among the points men
tioned, are Salem. Oregon; and Dalla, Cal.
—The Methodist learns, from intelligence
recently received from Charleston, S. C. that
the M. E. Mission Churches in that city are
in.a flourishing condition. One hundred .and
seventy-three conversioushave been recorded
at the Spring street Church. Mucji interest
is manifested for our good old Methodism.
Less than half a dozen white persons have
thus far joined. The membership is quite
large, however.—The question of reunion
begins to be seriously agitated in different
"branches" Of the. Methodist churches. At
a session of the N. Y. Preachers' Meeting,
(M. E.) Rev. Dr. Curry and Rev. S. D.
Brown, the delegation appointed to convey
`our Christian salutations to' the Protestant
Methodist Conference recently assembled in
this-city,' reported having met with a very
cordial reception, and that old asperities were
"worn out. " —Revival items continue nu
merous in the Methodist papers.
Episcopal.—A Fifth Episcopal Church has
been organized in San Francisco. It, is to
have free sittings, and depend upon volun
tary contributions for its. necessary income.
--Ascension Church in New York, the
former parish of Assistant Bishopßedell, of
Ohio, is about to erect a church in Gambier,
Ohio, the seat of the Diocesan College and
Theological Seminary ; for the use of the
parish and the institution. It is intended
by the donors as a token of remembrance of
their former rector.—The arrival of the
Pennsylvania Bishop Stevens in London, in
improved health, is announced.—Bishop
Vail of Kansas, officiating for the absent
Bishop Stevens, confirmed from the Ist to 23d
of March, 183 persons in Philadelphia par
ishee. The l*gest number confirmed in any
one church—that of the Atonement—was 32.
=TheEtoiscopal Church has made itself
notorious for foraging upon other denomina
tions for its ministerial supply. We noticed
only a week or two since, the re ordination,
by Bishop Eastburn, of Massachusetts, of two
Congregational ministers.. The last Episcopal
Recorder chronicles a like act of supereroga
tion by the Bishop of Maryland, of which
"Mr. J. W. Brown,"—so says the Recorder
—was the subject.
Miseellaneons.—The* Central N. Y. cor
respondent of the Evangelist says :—" Tem
perance and Religion walk hand. in hand in
this region. Revivals as to one or both have
been experienced in Western Oneida, Verona,
Vernon, Lenox, Utica, Ilion, Mohawk, &c.'