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THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1866.
TRUE IDEA OF c. BROAD CHURCH."
" The true and grand idea of a church is a
society for the purpose of making men like
Christ; earth like heaven; the kingdoms of the
world. the kingdom of Christ'."—AßNOLD of
RUGBY.
Few men of culture in the Christian
Church but contemplated with interest the
movements of the party in the Church of
England, which developed finally into
what is known as "The Broad Church."
The honored name of Arnold of Rugby
is identified with these early movements.
The strenuousness, or, as he in one of
his early letters (xxvi. Stanley's Life)
calls it, the " ignorance and narrow-mind
edness" of the EVangelicals and " their
seeming wish to keep the Church and
the world ever distinct," estranged him
from them. On the other hand, he
far more cordially disliked, he even
dreaded and detested, the extreme hier
archical tendencies of' the High Church
Romanizing party, as pitting something
human between the soul and the Reedemer,
and as bringing tradition on a level with
Holy Writ. An idea floated before his mind
of a Christian Church; acting ao efficienily
and beneficently upon men in all their
daily life and social relations, as gradually
to widen out into a Christian state, where
every rightful tendency of the soul would
be encouraged, and every political and
social institution be subjected to the su
preme control of Christianity.
Since the time of Arnold, the idea of
the Broad Church has been carried to an
extreme of latitudinarianism. It seems to
be impossible to draw a line between '+ the.
Broad Churoh party of the present day, in
cluding Dean Stanley (the biogapher
of Arnold), Kingsley, ?Maurice, &0., ancl,
the Essayists and Reviewers, ,or Colenso
himself We suppose Robertson of Brigh:
ton, without sharing in Arnold's 'etithu
siasm for the identification of the Church
with the Christian State, very nearlylirepre
sented, in his views, the relative position of.
Arnold towards the High and Low Church
parties. "Broad`Church" in England to
day is little else than varnished infidelity—
very broad, indeed, almost like the path to
destruction. It is "Church" at all, chiefly
as a term of protection to men in the Es
tablishment, whose views are heaven-wide
from the orthodox standards of the Church.
It is Broad, as tolerating every shade of sen
timent, that, by any stretch .of language,
can be called Christian. We believe Ar
nold himself, though not a model of sound
ness on all important points, would have
been shocked at this result of his early
speculations. He would most assuredly
have repudiated connection with a class of
thinkers and writers; who think their great
duty as Christian teachers to their fellow
men, is to popularize the results of micro
scopic hostile criticisms of the word of God,
or to banish belief in the miracle from the
Christian consciousness. He would scarcely
have countenanced by his presence, as did
the Bishop of London recently,.the decla
rations of Rev. Charles Kingsley, in his
sermon in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall,
that the dootrine of a material hell is heathen
and entirely repulsive to Christianity;
arguing, too, according to the report, against
the doctrine of everlasting punishment
itself. Such teaching he, surely would not
have countenanced; nor that theory of the
Church, by which she is made to ignore all
distinctions in belief, and her power of
discipline for gross doctrinal error taken
away,.and her arms thrown open to embrace
those of any creed, or of no creed at all.
Nevertheless, the idea of a Broad Church,
which shall be truly a Christian 'Church,
with marked limitations of belief and with
disciplinary power, is too valuable to be
allowed to be thus shamed out of existence.
We want the true spirit of : Christian com
prehensiveness, and of manly breadth of
view, to prevail. We want all mere Rota.
Tian narrowness`' and exclusiveness to be
done away. We want all those small points
of dootrine, or rather of the philosophy of
doctrine, those' rallying places of mere
tenacity and bigotry, thrown in the back
ground. We do not want the thoughtful
men of the world, the followers of science in
the broad pathway of her splendid generali
zations, disgusted Oith the illiberality of
the students of what should be the Queen
of Sciences, the most ennobling to the
mind .of all pursuits—Theology. We do
not want to estrange them by the spectacle
of a multitude of organizations excluding
each other from fellowship, practising odious
ants of excommunication, excision, or what
not, for mere shades of difference, while
on the essentials of faith , they are fully
agreed. We do not want the creed of 'a
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New Series, Vol. 111, No. 17.
Church to pretent the aspect of a thoroughly
ollaborate system, to the • ipsissima ve4a of
which, every teacher, office-bearer, and
well-informed member is expected to bind
his conscience. The Church, under such
an aspect, cannot but repel the cultivated
classes from her communion. To make an
uncouth Psalmody, or a particular mode, of
administering at ordinance—with more 'or
less water—or apainfally-wrought and alto
gether dubious claim of historical contin
uity, or a certain' order of subordina t ion in
the ministerial office, a Matter of life and
death ; is to disparage and dishonor exceed
ingly the breadth, the beauty, the noble
ness of the•spirit of Christianity. It is to
reduce it to beggarly elements, from which
the manly soul may well turn with disgust.
It is not from Christianity he turns, but
from its caricature.
A true Broad Church is needed greatly
in these times of - intense mental activity,
under the stimulus of modern science.
Why should we stupidly and needlessly
embarrass a mind expanding 'under these
high pursuits, in its movement toward true
religion, with the Shibboleths of a system
of doctrine or of polity, now more distaste-.
ful than ever ? Why needlessly encourage
them in the proud belief that their pursuits
alone are suited to the dignity of the hu-
man intellect, and that theology and the
Church are phenomena belonging to an in
ferior stage of 'human progress, destined to
disappear or linger among the ignorant,
among women and children, in the future ?
Why:be busy over points of belief in which
the great world can no more be interested,
while new and formidable errors, requiring
a change in the whole methed of attack
and defence, are rolling like a vast flood
upon the bulwarks of the faith ?
We. do not believe it is necessary for all
branches of the Church to. merge into one,
in order to, form the Broad Church of
which we speak. We do not assert that
Baptists should abandon immersion, or
Covenanters "their Psai-einOrig, -
copalians their diree orders, or Calvinists
their decrees, or Methodists their class
meetings. The attempt to crush out de
nominational preferences is Utopian, and
we believe, injurious. Let them stand.
But let their very distinctiveness only the
more clearly prove the liberality of Chris
tians. Let the very breadth of the Church
be manifested in recognizing and in re
specting these preferences, as all within the
pale, not only of a common Christianity,
but of the true Church as well. Let us
banish exdusivism,. Let Baptists,immerse,
as did Bunyan and does Spurgeon, without
unchurching those who, in these northern
climates, think best to pour or sprinkle ;
let"Covenanters sing Psalms and recognize
Messiah as true King of nations, while
cordially recognizing .the full. Christian
equality of those who prefer to sing what
are often leaner sentiments in sometimes
smoother verses; let Episcopalians cleave
to their three orders as necessary, in their
judgment, to. the "well being" of a Church,
but let them frankly admit that the true
Church may exist and does exist without
them. And let all the different branches
of the Church, within the well.known evan
gelical linaits, labor together for the com
mon interests of man. Let them show
that they 'regard the Christian religion as .
adapted to all his genuine wants, as encour
aging the free exercise of all his legitimate
powers and propensities, and as tending to
establish upon earth, in grand reality, the
fond dream of all philanthropy, the bright
goal of all deep and genuine aspirations of
the human spirit- 7 THE KINGDOM OF HEA
VEN, the Civitas Dei.
We may hereafter have a word to say as
to our brawl of the Church, as fulfilling
the true conditions of the "Broad Church"
in the better sense of the term.
ACTION ON MINISTERIAL SUPPORT.
At the recent meeting of Crawfordsville
Presbytery the' following resolutions, eon
templating a general .ohureh system of
ministerial support were adopted:—
Resolved, That the interests of the church
demand a more efficient system of minis
terial support than we haVe hitherto had,
and that it is the sense of this Presbytery
that a general plan should be adopted by
the whole church, as represented in the
General Assembly to provide a living for
all who give their entire time to the wor k
of the ministry, and to provide pastors for
all the churches;
Resolved, That a committee of one be
appointed to take the subject under consid
eration and report at the next meeting.
Rev. E. C. Johnson is that committee.
PRESBY:TERY OF GREEN CASTLE.—The
narrative shows that the &arches of
White Lick, Danville and Nevi Bethel
have been blsgst with especial seasons of
reviving duriag thelvinter, and an aggre .
gate of fifty member have : been added
to these three churches.
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PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, APRIL
_26, 1866.
THE COMPANY WE KEEP.
The reasons why very many Christians
are cold and worldly, and many preachers
of the Gospel lack spirituality in their pul
pit exercises, is plain enough. They have
drunk in the spirit and character ,of the
worldly associations with which they have
suffered themselves to be surrounded. They
have taken no Mains to put themselves into
other and better .connections,' and have
glided, by the sheer "avec of gravitation,
into thoseless favorable to vital godliness.
And here we refer not merely to the com
pany of our fellow men, but to that of books
and literature generally. Books, newspa
pers, periodicals, and men make .up the
atmosphere around
,us, and very many are
content to breathe .that atmosphere as they
find it, and are imperceptibly assimilated
to its character.
Many Christians are not found in the
society of their biethren, except in the
somewhat formal services of the sanctuary.
They are content to miss all the influence
of the social meetings of the week. They
do not mingle in the delightful companion
ship of Christian effort, where the strongest
ties of friendship are often formed, and the
most decided impulses communicated to
Christian character. They mingle with
the world from day to day and froth •night
to night. A ceaseless round of blisiness,
of household cares, or a soul-deadening
gaiety occupies them from Sunday to Sun
day. What wonder that their spiritual
state, if we may call it by that name, is one
of chrpnic dissatisfaction and bicksliding.
Or y,oliwill find the Ohristian man or min
ister allowing • a digproportionate amount
of- his4ime for reading to he taken up
by merely secular publications. Them,
inaed, may not be neglected; but if they
Income the chief occupation of our - leisure
moments, then we have ample explanation
of our , tow spiritual . condition ; Our minds
are 99 filled with the topics; they present,.
our afecticons are so onliatectliz the—evxds..
ttgciclitiiiiitefs — diectibedi:thatstiey cannot
;riaturally, and easily be turned to spiritual.
topics. Those who devote ail their spare
motrients to fiction, must not wonder if their
hearts grOvr cold, and if deadly torpor steals
O'er their spiritual functions.' Those who
give their liveliest, freshest moments to
the morning newspaper, and the fagend of
the day, overclouded with drowsiness and
"fatigue, only, to the Bible, will surely find
the inspired word a sealed book, a profitless,
irksome lesson. Those who allow them
selves to be captivated by the current litera
ture Of the day, by tales, by essays, by the
literary Viands transferred from foreign
tongues and a foreign society to our own;
by elegant fancy, fine taste, and finished•
style veiling an utter heartlessness on mat
ters of religion, or even Atheism itself, will
soon find their minds • all - awry .from the
simple, exercise of the believing , soul with
its Saviour and its God. The 'ministry,
too, may well be warned' against' yielding
to thelieductions of that class of literature
which, especially in these times, addresses
their tastes. They may go too far in their
excursions with teachers Of new branches
of science;.they may grapple too long with
modern error, or occupy themselves too
much even, with * defences of the truth.
Something of all this the minister indeed,
must know; in aiming at some special ob
ject connected with his efforts in the pulpit
or the lecture, or with the culture of his
own mind, it may be necessary for him to
apply himself assidUously to &Loh sources of
information. And anything which is done
in the plain path of duty, is safe and con
sistent with complete spiritual health. Nor
is a minister or a Christian man to feel him
self excluded from the enjoyment and re
creation afforded to cultivated minds by the
best and pirest specimens of light litera
ture. But the difference is plain, between
makin g mental companions of those sorts
of literature, and only applying to them, as
the' occasional needs of quite a different
kind of inward life might suggest:
Make a book•companion of your Bible;
and in enlarging the circle of your literary
acquaintance, have regard to works which
fall within the circle of its attractions,
which are obedient to its laws, which serve
to reflect its truths and . to illustrate and un
fold its meaning. Seek the books and the
literature written by men imbued by its
spirit: Bathe your soul in the mental at
mosphere of the truly godly. Be your de
light in "the Saintaivhich are in the earth
and in the excellent." on will not find
it then so difficult to maintain your own
spirituality. One whole class of hindrances
will, at least, be removed. Your mind will
work easily, in , the, desired direction. Jesus
himself, in the person or.the ever-present
Comforter, 'no longer "hidden - and grieved
into silencellby the multitude of worldly as .
sociations, will tilted 'llls' 11 01 Y influence
through your 'heart. - Yeti become a
livelier, happier, and more efficient Chris
tian.
FRANCE.
DE raiglisEssys LATE WORK.
The two principal subjects which attract
attention, in France at present, are the pub
lication of the Life of Jesus Christ, by De
Pressense, and the struggle between the
Orthodox and Rationalistic parties in 'the
Protestant Establishment.
With regard to the first, we are glad to
hear that the work of the learned French
Protestant theologian is.succeeding beyond
expectation. The first edition, although
large, was soon , exhausted, and the second
is selling rapidly. It is. worthy of notice,
that none of the works published in answer
to Renal!l' by RomaniSti has had anything
like the success of Mr. De Presserise's even
among their own people. This work is de•
cidedly superior to anything that has ever
been brought out in French.. It is a pe
culiar kind of refutation. M.,De Pres
sense proceeds very much as: Iv man enter
ing a pathway where the only =obstacles
were cluirips of shrubbery here and there:
he adiandea with a light` a t nd sure step,
rooting out with the greatest ease and re
moving Whatever, comes , ' in bis Way. He
is perfect master ef his subject, to which , he
has : devoted long ,research, and patient
study. Consequently, •the Roman datholies
overcoming;their prejudices, wisely judging
that whatever• is calculated to defendi dhris
tianity aFgaiiistthe attack's of roes who are
theirs not less thaw ours; have recived this
new with Marked fafor. Even priests
have written to, • yea, have called on Mr.
De Pressense, to ekpiesa the satisfaction
they have experience4,in reading his book.
We learn by the. French copy , which we
had the good . rortune to procure, that it is
to be translated into English, German, and
Mr.: Scribner, of New York; is to
puhiiih4ll6^-4melican edition. ' - '
'NOittio4initerriiig analysis of 'this
new` life of Chfist; we can' point out its
prinoipel divisione. Quite a large portion
of the volume is 'devoted to the preliminary
questions, such as .the .philosophical, , and
religious basis of the life of Jesus,,trenting
and exhausting the'whole question o£-the,
,supernatural. .7hen, the credibility of the,
documents of thiSAhistory being fully es
tablished, the second book embraces the
preparation of Jesus' for his work; the
third treats of the first part of Christ's min
istry ; the fourth, cif the period of struggle,
and the fifth contains . the great week, ern
bracing 'the denouement, death and victory.
13a - oh of these books is diiided into chap
ters, so as, to present the subject in the
most, natural order and systematic manner.
Six, pages -form the cenclusion, the most
hearaelt an& touching we ever .read, re
minding one of the beautiful page which
ends Yinet's Pakoral Theology:
THE M4RTIN-PMICHOIID DIFFIII.LTY
We are sorry to turn from, so pleasant a
subject to that.Of the difficulties now exist
ing in the Protestant Established Church
of France.: It ia the continuation of the
troubles that excited so much interest in
Paris a year ago, When six members of the
Presbyterial Council were elected. Our
readers recollect that Mr. Coquerel,
had been dismissed from his office of Vicar
of. Mr. Martin-Paschoud, and , his friends
made a rally at the time alluded to, in
order to have more representatives, in the
liresbyterial Council, so as to turn, if possi
ble, the balance in his favor; but they
were defeated, and Mr. Coquerel, Jr., ha?
remained without a, pastorate ever since.
The present difficulty is caused by the
action of the Consistory regarding Mr.
Martin-Nchoud himself. This gentleman,
Who has been called' "the interesting sick
man," has been thirty years pastor, and
drdwn his salary during that time, although
he has really had only ten years of continu
ous pastorate. He has enjoyed largely the
furlough privilege; spending some of his
time in Italy and Switzerland. Being now,
according' to his own stateMents, no better
able, to perform his duty than forMerlY, the
Consistory have 'relieved him therefrom,
allowing him a pension of 6000 francs per
annum• Certainly that was generous, and
one would think Mr. Martin-Paschoud
would be glad thus to be superannuated.
But not so. AHe is a Rationalist, and he,
as well as his friends, resents the action of
the Consistory. Hence the outcry, all over
F ra nce, among the so-called Liberal party
against the Orthodox.
Theicase has been brought before the
mi n ister of ecclesiastical affairs, and, he has
deolare,d himself against the Cortqistory; this
body, however, will no doubt appeal to_th6
CbUncil of State : ,
The Ratiopaliet:a, in -Ordef letaliate,
have rallied at NimCisi'ind -hive succeeded
Genesee Evangelist, No. 1040.
in electing their , own candidate, causing
great scandal in the Church.
The French religions papers of late have
been filled with the particulars of these dif
ficulties, and some of the Orthodox say
loudly that this state of things cannot /est;
some think it may lead to a disroptdorr in
the Reformed Church,We Gan hardly ex
a
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pent such a happy event soon, for even the
better portion of the Protestant clerev are
afraid to trust to the voluntary system for
their support, although they keenly feel
the inconveniences of their offidial.oonnec
don with men who subvert the fundamental
doctrines of tfie Gospel. It seems to us
that the evangelical Christians in America
ought to show these good men some sym
pathy, and encourage their faith in the in
dependency of the. Church of Christ. If
the French clergy were to , see what the
voluntary system has accomplished in this ,
country, they .would, doubtless, be more
ready to give up State pay and trust in the
Great Head of the Church.
MR. GREELEY ON THE WORKING
MAWS SABBATH.
Years' ago, Mr. Greeley, of the Nero York
Tribune, on a visit to Europe, wrdte his
impressions of a Parisian Sabbath' as fob
lo 4 ws :—" I suspect that lablir gets no more
pay, in the hng run, for seven days' work
per week than it would for six, and that
morality suffers and philanthropy is more
lang4id than -it would be, if one day in each
week was generally welcorned .as a day of
rest and- worship."
On Tuesday, April 10th, the Tribune .
completed the first quartet century of its
history. ThET occasion was marked' by the
snlargement of the paper beyond all former
'limits; and the leading editorial, expatiatinir
upon the fact, contains amen , its opening
sentences the following memorable deelar
ation, whipli, whether intentionally, or • not,
has . special signifkoanse, at. this Axe
4 4 . The :erigencien-of irar fors-brief sew.
son constrained us to issue on Sunday-morn
ings,,as. well ,as to intermit twp or , three of
our semi-annual, holidays. 'Wit,,Avere glad,
how ' ever to return, as soon as might be, to
the good old fashion'of issuing on six ays
only per week, and of taking and giving
our -scanty holidays; for (without pick
ing a quarrel with any man's theology) we
consider the weekly dayof rest a most'
beneficent institution, and one which all
who profess to regard and uphold the rights
of labor should cherish, We are confident
that the great mass of mankind would be
neither better fed, clad, nor honsed, if every
day alike wes . given to labor, than they. are
with 'every seventh day set apart for other
uses than those of secular toil and care."
Mr.. Greeley has never been charged•
with religious - bigotry; he is understood to
be a Universalist, (hence his opposition
to capital punishment) ; he .is• best ac ;
painted with the needs of the working
Classes, and is the most devoted friend they'
have, among the public men of the country;
as such, he declares himself the friend and'
advocate of the rest of the seventh day.
Mr. Greeley could not have introduced his
quarter century more auspiciously than
by reiterating this sound and wholesome
sentiment. . We wish him and his associa•
tion success, proportioned to their 'new
outlay.
DR. NORMAN MeLEOD
CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOB HIS VIEWS
OF THE SABBATH.
At the meeting of Glasgow Presbytery
of the Established Church in the first week
of April, the views of Dr. McLeod on the
Sabbath were made matter of serious in
quiry. As it was' generally known . that
the subject would be brought up, there was
a large attendance of the members, and of
the public as well. On entering the Pres
bytery Hall Dr. McLeod, was loudly cheered
by the audience. To their very great dis-.
appointment, however, it was resolved that
the case should be considered in private,
and the public and the reporters had to
leave. Nevertheless, the Weekly Review`
informs us that a proposal was made to
confer by committee with Dr. McLeod
upon his published views on the Sabbath
"which seemed to be opposed to the Con
fession of Faith." This was lost by, a vote
of .24 to n. Dr. McLeod then made a
detailed statement, in which he declared his
adhesion to the whole doctrine of the Con
fession.
He furthei maintained that while his
.
&pee& might differ in the letter from the
eonfesSion, yet in sPirit they were in har
inony, holding, as he did, the permanence
of the moral law, though not of the Deca
logue, and also the necessity of the Lord's
Day, though not on the authority of the
Fourth Commandment.
; '
The exp.anatxn given by.Mcleod
not being, considered by many members of
the Presbytery as* altogether sufficient, a
long, deliberate, and solemn ,9onference en
sued. The Presbytery nitiurattly, on' the
motioniiif `Mr. Menroc came to a unanimous
finding ; to the effeet;."That they had heard
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'Leod twit° his adherence to the Confession
of Faith; but believed that his speech was
in its language rash and unguarded, and
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We regard this to a step let the right di
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Churh. There is life in the old body yet.
INFAMOUS ADVERTISEMENTS,
A few dap ago, the .New York Tribune
contained a self-complacent comparison of its
own advertising columns with those of the
Herald, showing that the latter paper con
tained twenty-nine columns of advertise
ments of a doubtful or positively pernicious
character, none of which were to be found
in the Tribune. So far, ad good. The
character of the Herald has long been nn
derstood, and no surprise could follow such
a statement. Confidence, too, is generally
felt in the Tribune is a pure, high-toned
journal, seeking the public good as its
paramount aim. Two days afterwards,
readers of the Tribune found the entire
first column of the first page, the last
column of the last page and two consecu
tive columns of the fifth page, in a word,
the most prominent . places of the paper,
filled up with advertisements identical in
chaiktcter with.those denounced in the for
mer issue Part of these were advertise
ments of medicines, and,part (two columns)
the glowing announcement of a Sunday
paper, which, in • addition to the violation
of the fourth commandment which it pro
claims and invites, repeats over and over
again the outlines of a vile story, equally
in violatioit.of the seventh commandment,
to appear in its columns. Rather than
give - the announcement place and air in a
respectible newspaper, the police should
ite and &Silty the paper`in which`such
a story appears, as a public nuisance.
We are astonished and grieved at this
performance of the Tribune. We have rib
other ; object in speaking of it, than that of
triendly xemonstrance. Can vre not have
one, leading secular paper free from such
abominations ?
Ai to religious papers, the scandal of in
serting'such advertisements.is unspeakably
great. We do not know how to speak of
it. It is almost past credibility that jour
nals claiming a foremost position in the re
ligious world, with a.circulation and a line
of-Advertisements making thein independ
ent of the pecuniary aid which might tempt
others, should admit such infamous matter
as they have done and are doing to their
columns. How must it detract from the
satisfaction felt in reading their elaborate
and well-paid contributions, their "prize
stories," to reflect , that they are purchased
with the rewards of iniquity. We have
been credibly informed that a New York
religious paper, which is perhaps the re
presentative religious paper of this country,
received eighteen hundred dollars in ad
vance for inserting a single one of these in
famous medical advertisements! Not only
the religious, but the merely moral and de
cent public has aright to call such journals
as the New York Observer, the _lndependent,
jnd the Congregdtionalist, to a strict ac
count for defiling their columns with such
loathsome stuff, and for giving respecta
bility to men whose true associations are
with the abandoned and the vile of both
sexes. And how much longer are the
estimable Messrs. Littell going to compel
us to tear off the cover of the Living Age,
'before we put it with its rich and varied
contents, and its frequent protests against
vice, on our centre tables ?
But remonstrances and protests are in
vain, so long as the religious part of • the
community, by its continued patronage,
shares in the responsibility of these acts of
its favorite journals. The only rebuke
which they have a right to administer, and
the only one they have a right to expect a
journal to notice, is to let it severely alone.
And so long as the conscience of the reli
gions public is indifferent, so long may we
expect journals conducted for pay to go to
the very verge of allowable and of doubt
ful transactions, for the sake of gain.
In these times of increased peril' from
licentiousness, we look anxiously to our
ministers 'and our people to take effectual
measures against the wicked and demorab
izing course of our so-called religious and
moral newspapers, in their advertising cob.
lawn.
CirEsTER, Ortio.--Within the past
two weeks this Church has experienced
a cheering -work of gnce. Fourteen
have' united: with it and have been re
stored) by =4t renewal of their church
vows: - •