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THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1866
CONTENTS FiF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE—FAMILY CIRCLE :
Loose the Cable—An Account Book, and a Verita
ble History from its Pages—Treatment of the Aged
—They that Sow in Tears Shall Reap in Toy—Risen
with Christ—Vanity Chastised—The Warrior and
his Sword—A Teacher's Troubles—A Lesson of
Trust—A Rich Poor Man—Laws of Health God's
Laws.
THIRD PAGE—MISCELLANEOUS :
Welsh Preaching—Pilgrimage'and Cholera.
SIXTH PAGE—CORRESPONDENCE
A Glorious Record; The Presbytery of Harris
bum—Letter from Rolapoer—Praye• Answered
or, How a Son of a Godly Minister was Reclaimed
from Universalism.
EDITOR'S TABLE Lange's "Commentary on the
HolYScriptures; Critical, Doceinal, and Homileti
cal. with Special Reference to Ministers and Stu
dents"—Stone's "Living Temple; or, Scriptural
Views of the Church"—Thompson's " Holy Com
forter: His Person and His Work"—Gillett's "What
Then?'or. The Soul's .To-morrow" — Books for the
Young: Gill's "Hours with the Youngest. No. 2;"
A. L. 0. E.'s "Nutshell of Knowledge;" Gray's
"Nenie's Stumbling Thock."
SEVENTH PAGE—R URAL ECONOMY:
Jacob Strewn again—The Garden—PlantStrawber
ries—Clean the Cellars—Experiment in Grass Cul
ture—The Flower Garden.
SCIENTIFIC: How Old is Man?
MISOSI.I.AN SOUS: Samuel Fiske.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the Pres
byterian Church in the United States o
America., will meet op Thursday, May
17th, 1866, at 11 o'clock A. M., in the
First Presbyterian Church of ST. Louis,
Mo., and be opened with a sermon by
the Rev. JAMES B. SHAW, D.D., the
Moderator of the last General Assembly.
The Committee on Commissions will
meet at 9 o'clock A. M. of the same
day, in the Lecture-room of the Church.
E r owiN F. HATFIELD,
Stated Clerk.
J. GLENTWORTH BUTLER, •
Permanent Clerk.
GOOD FOR * THE EDITOR.--We hear
with satisfaetion that Rev. E. S. Porter,
D.D., the genial and able editor of the
Christian Intelligencer, of New York,
was recently made the. recipient of a
check for $1251 50 by his. Church
friends in Brooklyn.
A FRENCH PASTOR RECEIVING A
PRIZE.—The Rev. Mr. Rugues, senior
pastor of the Reformed Church of Ber
gerac, France, has just obtained the prize
offered some time ago by the Imperial
Academy of Science, of Bordeaux, for
the best treatise on e, question of Astrono
my. "This _ is ,a new proof," says the
French paper from which we learn this
fact, "showing that the men attached to
the great truths of the Gospel do not , re ,
main so much strangers' to science, as
some seem to imagine." As for us, We
are pleased to record this fact, both cre
ditable to Mr. Hugues and the Academy
of Science, and hail it as a new instance
of impartial justice towards the Protes
tants in France,
REUNION-ANOTHER ,
PLAN.--The N.
Western Presbyterian, decidedly inven
tive, (common report makes Mr. McCor
mirk of the Great Reaper, its financial
founder,) has a proposal that all the
Presbyterian bodies get together in a
sort of fifth-story Assembly, our present
'highest judicatory being fourth in the
grade upward It says:—
" Seeing the many and great difficulties in
the way of uniting even our Presbyterian
family under one organization, it seems to us
that all the great benefits of an organie unity
might perhaps be realized in another way.
It is this—allowing each branch to stand, as
at present, on its own distinctive organization,
'to seek some bond or centre of unity in kin
other and higher General Assembly t as sort
of general or ecumenical council, meeting once
in two, three or five years, in whiph all these
Presbyterian bodies might be represented. It
might embrace the churches of the United
States, or those of the whole continent, or all
the Presbyterian churches in the world. We
merely suggest the thought without develop
ing or discussing it."
DR. SMITH'S' REVIEW.
Mr. Barnes' article printed in the Octo
ber number of the American Presbyterian
and Theological Quarterly, on " the Rela
tion of Christianity to the Present Stage of
the World's Progress" has been reprinted
in England, both as a part of a new edition
of his admirable "Essays on .Science and
Theology," and also in a separate form.
The New York Times in a commendatory
article upon the last number of the Review,
says :
The best talent of that branch of the Pres
byterian Church it represents is enlisted in
its support, and its discussions are aliays
marked by ability and candor.
We wish, indeed, our branch of the
Church could take the credit to itself in
this instance, but only a single article in
the last number (Dr. Prentiss') emanated
from this source. We presume this is the
fault of the denomination, rather than of
the publishers. Of the first article, by
Tayler Lewis, the Tribune Bays:—
In the opening article of this number, Pro
fessor Tayler Lewis discusses " the Bible Idea
of Truth, as inseparable from the Divine Per
sonality." The Professor argues, in opposi
tion to Herbert Spencer, that so far from the
personality of God being among the things
"unknowable," God is, in fact, as represent
ed by the Bible, the ground of all knowledge,
as well as the source of being and of action to
all things known. In . other words, faith is
the condition of all true science. The article
is remarkable for its ingenious application of
philological analysis to the illustration of the
author's religious conceptions "Philoso
phy," he maintains, " has marred the primi
tive thought. In its advancing speculations
it has more and more separated the two ideas,
tending ever to a theosophy rather than to
religion—making God a truth instead of all
truth—one out of many truths to which he
stands related, and from which he is as much
severed as we are. This process has gone on
until the most modern thinking of the
irreligious schools, not content with the
divorce between truth and God, would seem ,
to sink altogether the Pivine personality,
thits losing the truth itself in losing, or ig-
Romig, that which is its only trostygroursi.'
"HONOR TO WHOM HONOR."
A moat interesting and grateful scene
to all the parties concerned, took place
on Monday evening, 16th inst., in " Old
Pine Street Church," at the Sabbath
school Teachers' Prayer-meeting. A
beautiful album had been prepared, con
taining the photographs of all the teach
ers connected with the school, as a me
morial presentation to their superintend
ent, Mr. L. M. Whiltdin. At the close
of the meeting, Dr. Brainerd, who bad
been invited to be present and make the
presentation, rose and said be had a
very pleasant duty to perform. The
teachers had instructed him to present
in their name, to the superintendent—
first, three volumes of " SMITH'S BIBLE
DICTIONARY," a most elaborate and in
structive work, gisting all the light which
modern travels and researches could
bring to the illustration of the Word . of
God; secondly, a beautiful ALBUM,* con
taining most accurate Photographs of
each teacher in the school. Addressing
Mr. Whilldin, Dr. Brainerd said :
" It must be grateful to you, my dear
sir, to receive this 'token of unanimous
approbation from those who are the wit
nesses, as well as companions, of your
arduous labors. They have had abun
dant •opportnnity to observe your de
portment; they are too intelligent , to
be mistaken in regard to y,our merits,
and too conscientious to flatter you.
Such a token of love, from such a source,
is a high testimonial to your official
fidelity, and will cheer your heart in
your work, by the conviction that you
are =founded in the Sabbath-school` by
an atmosphere of ,onfidence and affec
tion. Such : harmony in the Sabbath
school is a token also of good to " Old
Pine Street Church." Yon can afford
to love this old church. Your grand
parents worshipped in it. Your father
and mother; as well as yOurself and
your children, were baptized here You
may prize it as the oldest place of Pres.
byterian Worship in Philadelphia`; as
' beautiful for situation,' from its' ample
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groun s and ancient trees shading the
ashes of the sacred dead. Yon will
prize it the more as you meet here the
young, the energetic, and the loving,
ever ready to aid your labors. If any
people may love their church with en
thusiasm, it is the members of Old
Pine Street' congregation. We are all
happy in our church relations, and, I
trust, all determined to make this sanc
tuary, where the fathers have worshipped
for a century, so attractive, materially
and spiritually, that new generations,
may love and honor it for a hundred
years :to come.
The photographs of your teachers
which I am instructed to give, are not
needed now as remembrancers, for you
meet them weekly; but when your head,
like mine, shall be sprinkled, with gray,
and death or removals shall• separate
you from these companions of' your early
Christian labors, it will be pleasant for
your then dimmed eye to rest on these
fresh countenances, which beamed so
brightly in your Sabbath-school.
"If you and I were younger men,
and less fixed in life, it might be more
practical and pertinent to repeat here
what 1 have heard from a highly
gent lady, that the photographs of your
female teachers show that the originals
unite personal comeliness with the beauty
of their characters. And if I were not
strictly forbidden, by the artist himself,
I should say that your fellow-teacher,
Mr. 0. W. Willard, the photographer,
has laid us all under obligations, by the
skill, taste, and finish of his work. But
as I am forbidden to speak on that
point, you may regard this as a paren
thesis.
"And now, my d6ar son in the Gos
pel, I may add the assurance of my per-
sonal approbation and affection to this
testimonial of your Sabbath-school teach
ers. Yon inherit my friendship from a
beloved father, and are likely to deepen
and outlive it, not alone by your per-
sonal character, but from the aid you
have given in my great work. I trust
yon will take this love-token of your
associates as a motive to higher earnest-
ness and more entire consecration in
be duties of your office
God bes,tow his blessing upon all the
superintendents, teachers, and pupils of
all our OLD PINE STREET' SABBATH-
SCHOOLS "
On receiving the gifts, the Snpeilnten
dent said his first feelings were those of
marvel, that forty-two officers and teach-
ers could systematically arrange and
execute so elaborate a work without its
having come to his knowledge in the
most remote way. So far as he remem
bered, it was the first thing that had
been carried through Old Pine Street
Sabbath-school without his having any
hand in it. As a testimonial of their
eelings toward him, he esteemed the
gifts beyond all price. It gave assur-
ante of their aympathy and hearty co-
operation in time to come, and would
strengthen his heart and hold up his
hands in the steady pursuance of the
Sabbath-school work. Moreover, he saw
that in it which cemented them to each
other, and all to the work in which
heir love to the Saviour would lead
them. As an honor conferred, nothing
could exceed it in dignity and worth.
* The Dictionary and Album were in uni
form, elegant, antique binding, of dressed calf,
with a finely-executed inscription upon the fly
leaf of the former ; "To our• Superintendent,
L. Y. Whilidin, from the Officers and Teachers
of Old Pine Street Sabbath-school." On the
second leaf: "' We rejoice, therefore, that we
have confidence in you, in all things.'-2 Con.
V/i. 16. PRELADEELPRIA, Avrinifi, 1866."
The Album contained forty-two. portraits of
the officers arid teachers of"the school, exe
cited la the highest style of tire-photographic
art.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1866.
Feeling as I do, that the Sabbath-school
work is the highest employment,to which
any of us are called ; and embracing as
it does the salt of the Church, no appro
val of smiler numbers can equal in value
the approbation which you have to-night
bestowed upon me. Often when a boy,
I thought of the high encomium con
ceded only to our great Washington—
." First in peace, first in war, and first in
the heats of his countrymen ;" but only
to-night have I learned that the highest
glory was to possess the last. It will
be my pleasure to look, frequently upon
your happy faces, so tastefully arranged
in this beautiful album, and they will
ever remind me of one of the happiest
occasions of my life ; while in the study
of these most beautiful and valuable
volumes, I trust to be the better fitted
for the explanations of Divine truth, in
connection with the Sabbath -school.
' The pleasant surprise, the merited
tribute, the appropriateness of the offer
ing, created an enthusiam which made
the occasion one of unusual enjoyment.
A circle of brighter, happier faces could
hardly 'be found than were gathered
around their Superintendent in this ex
pression of affectionate confidence and
sympathy.
OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT
In 1852 the American Tract Society,
of New York, established a branch
house in this city. They were fortunate
in selecting Mr. 0. D. Grosvenor, as
their business agent, a man every way
peculiarly, qualified for the post. Under
his hand, from the smallest beginnings,
the business of the establishment now
foots up nearly $50,000 a year. The
field of the' Rochester Agency inclncles
Central and Western New- York, with
•
Canada West. •
They claim to keep in their deposi
tory the largest stock of religious books
in the State west of New York city.
The supply of Sunday-school books and
papers is complete, embracing not only
those issued by the Tract Societies; but
many of those from the various denomi
national boards, as well as from private
publishing houses. Twelve thousand
"Messengers," and " Child's Papers" are
issued monthly to subsdribers in this part
of the State and in Canada. Special care
is'given by Mr. Grosvenor to the selec-
tion of Sunday-school libaries. Super
intendents and committees of Sunday
schools may safely entrust • their orders
to his good judgment, and his amply
supply. We are sure that he will take
special paina, • and real• piesatire in serv
ing them to the best of his ability.
This is the name of a train of cars on
the New York Central Railway, for
which twenty new coaches of a most
elegant and luxurious pattern have been
put 'Von the line. We doubt if any
thing more elegant or comfortable can
be found on any road. They are not
" floating," but rolling palaces ; each,
forty-eight feet long, ten feet four in-;
ches high, and capable of seating sixty
persons. The exterior of each car is
painted red, which gives its name to thel
train ; the interior is—all that art can"
make it—beautifully ornamented, finely
ventilated, and luxuriously upholstered.
These constitute one of the express
trains from Buffalo and Suspension
Bridge, through to New York, without
change at Albany, and is* giiat*Ccom
modation to the travelling public. It is
a fast train ; makes but one stop tietween
Buffalo and Rochester, two between Ro
chester' and Syracuse, and so on, going
from Buffalo to New York in fifteen
hours!' It would do no good to try to
tell this to our fathers, even if they could
hear us, for they could not believe it.
Oar Eastern friends could not easily do
better than to take this train, as they go
West this spring, and look upon the
thriving towns. and beautiful farms of
Central and Western New York, as
they whirl along,
This place is greatly changed for the
better within the last year. It was our
great rendezvous for soldiers for during
the war. Much of the time thousands
of officers and men. were. here congrtt
gated, and many of them wereno help
to the morals of the lilac-. Intemper
ance and its kindred vi es, licentious
ness and gambling, increased to an
alarming extent. One reason given by
some good people a few months since,
for their confidence thlit God was about
to revive his work in that infant city,
was the fact that its wickedness bad
become so . great, that nothing but a
marked divine interposition could save
them from utter demoralization and rain.
Hence they sought unto the Lord, and
he heard their cry, and. granted them
one of the most remarkable outpourings
of the spirit witnessed for a long time.
Now also the soldiers are gone, and
peace and order reign in the place.
It was our pleasure to look into the
Elmira Female College, that admirable
school, of the highest,order, for young
ladies. The President, Rev. Dr. Cowles,
is evidently the right man in the right
place. Something over one hundred
scholars are here enjoying, the admir
able educational and moral advantages
of this institution, and are pieparing,
we cannot doubt, for eminent usefulness.
And may
The recent revival left but a very few of
the number unconverted. An effort is
now being made for the more ample en
dowment of the institution; which we
trust will be entirely successful, and
greatly enlarge its capacity and useful
ness.
Rev. Dr. Curtis, of the First Church,
THE HOOHESTER AGENCY
THE RED LINE
A DAY IN ELMIRA
was greatly improved, in health and
strength, by his trip last year to Europe;
and has endured all the arduous labors in
cident to the great zevival withSut appa
rent fatigue. He is a model of robust,
manly strength both in mind and body.
IMPROVEMENTS AT MARION
About a year ago the Congregational
Church of Marion was in a very low
condition ; the people few, and the house
of worship dilapidated and sadly out of
repairs, with a minister to serve at the
altar only semi-occasionally, as one
should come along. Rev. Mr. Eaton, of
Palmyra, who is always looking out for
the interests of Zion, went over to visit
them to preach to them, and try to get
them started in a better way. They
soon after obtained the services of Mr..
Gaily, a student in Auburn Seminary,
and he has virtually been their pastor
for the year past.
Under the inspiration and zeal of his
faithful and acceptable labors among
them, they have repaired, or nearly re
built, the house of worship, at a cost of
nearly $2500, raised among themselves.
The congregation has, in the meantime,
increased three fold, and the church . has
added over thirty per cent. to its mem?
bership: The society formerly paid its
minister so small a salary that we dare
not name -it. They have now called
Mr. Gaily, with entire unanimity and
enthusiasm to be their pastor, and offer
him a salary of $lOOO.
This is a great and admirable change
for that little place ; and shows that
poor, and small parishes need not des
pair of improvement. We know of
other places where we wish such ear
nest, hopeful young men could take hold
and lift a whole people out of the slough
of despair. We chronicled a similar
cake at Riga. We commend
.these to
the attention - of our Committee of Home
Missions. Other desolations need ' just
such a resurrection. Young men of
the right stamp seem to do wonders in
this line
INSTALLATION.
Rev. Alexander McLean, Jr., was
installed'pastor of the Calvary Church,
(0. S.), in Bnifalo, on Thnsday of last
week. The work was done nominally
by the Buffalo City Presbytery, other
branch; but they appear to ,have had
considerable help from our side in the
service; as, for instance, reading Scrip
tures by Dr. Heacock ; prayer by Dr.
Clarke ;.,sermon by Dr. Chester; and
charge to the people by Dr. Huntington,'
of - Auburn. The. other parts were by
members of Buffalo City Presbytery—
constitutional questions by Dr. Burtis ;
installation prayer by Re*. Mr. Han
cock ; and charge to pastor by fir. Lord.
This, we believe, is the first settled
*tor this church has had. Its pulpit
was supplied for a time by Mr. Kemp
shall, now of Elizabeth, N. J.'; for a year
also, we believe, by Dr. Chester; and
for some time by Dr. Huntington, of
Auburn.
CALLED BACK AGAIN
We learn that the Presbyterian church
in Phelps, of our connection,are trying
to get their former minister, Rev. C. E.
Stebbins, back again. , He received and
accepted a call last year to Ovid, and
we do not see bow he can be spared
from that important charge, and yet we
do not wonder that his former people
would be glad to see him again among
them. He left troops of friends in
Phelps, both in and out of his own
church. GZNESEE.
ROCHESTER, April 21. 1866.
GREAT OPEN-AIR RELIGIOUS MEETING
IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS,
We clip the following from the Daily
Illinois State Journal, in regard to an
open-air meeting conducted by Rev. Mr.
Hammond at Springfield, 111.
The fact that four or five thousand in
that city of but sixteen thousand popula
tion were in attendance, shows the ex
tent and depth of the work of the Holy
Spirit now in progress in that city.
The fact, too, that even after one of
Mr. Hammond's long sermons, the Hall
of Representatives was at once filled
with an " inquiry -meeting," shows that
many must have been led by the Spirit
to ask, " What must I do to be saved ?"
Would that all over our land we
might, in the secular press, read of such
efforts to reach the masses in the open
air. How else are the thousands who
never frequent the house of God to be
brought within sound of the glad tidings
of Salvation ?
GREAT OPEN-AIR MEETING.-Yesterday
afternoon an immense audience, estimated at
four or five thousanq, assembled in front of
the Court House to listen to the preaching of
Rev. R. P.' Hammond. The services were
opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Hale, who
introduced Mr. Hammond as an earnest and
zealous minister of Christ, whose labors had
been sigull, blessed in the conversion of many
souls. Rev. Mr. Miner took part in the ex
ercises, and said that he believed that a great
work of grace was in progress, And God was
manifesting himself in the outpouring of the
Holy Spirit in our midst.
Mr. Hammond read an interesting accoun't
of an open-air meeting from the Bth chapter
of Nehemiah, showing that such meetings
were of no recent date, and stated that the
Bishop of London and the most distinguished
ministers of Scotland were in the habit of
preaching in the open air. He referred to
he conversion of Senator Lindsa William O'Brien, both well known tothe
citizens
of
such Sprinfield and who had been opposed to
mee g tings , ,
but who were induced to yield
by the grace of God, to the power and influ
ence of the Gospel. He spoke from the 16th
verse of the 3d chapter or the Gospel of St.
John : "For God so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten Son that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish but have
everlasting life."
We trust that many a hardened sinner was
made to feel his need of a Saviour, and that
the words of Divine truth that were so pow
erfully spoken, found s loagment in many a
heart that has heretofore been insensible to
the appeals of his levy.
An inquiry meeting was appointed in the
Hall of Representatives, and in a few min
utes it was crowded. Rev. Mr. Wines made
an earnest, heartfelt prayer, after which the
ministers and Christians of the different de
nominations engaged in conversation with
those who were anxious about their immortal
interests.
The meeting cannot fail to be productive
of much good:
*tiro nf nut Outdo
THE SIXTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
in Washington city, (formerly the Rev.
Mason Noble, D.D.,) is much encour:-
aged to labor for the Redeemer's cause
in a destitute part of the city, by the
earnest efforts of its members to improve
its temporal condition, and the spiritual
good of those among whom it is situated.
A blessing has attended the preaching
of its pastor, the. Rev. George Smythe,
and some forty have been added to the
holy communion of the saints. 'An
earnest effort has been made by the
ladies of the ohurch with the view of.
making some repairs (greatly needed),
and some six hundred dollars have been
raised by a fair. Mr. Smythe will spend
a few days among the charitable of
Philadelphia and ,New York, and those
who have any money to bestow will find
it well applied by giving it to Mr.
Smythe, for the Sixth Presbyterian
Church of Washington city.
REVIVALS
IN CLEVELAND, Orno, the work, which
from the beginning has been gentle, con
tinues.
Every week witnesses i new instances of
awakening and of conversion. The morning
pryer-meeting is not as thronged as it was,
owing perhaps, in part, to a change in the
hour, which makes it rather too- early for
many persons In makes
scattered city. The
church prayer-meetings, however, are as full
as ever, and there is great earnestness and
tenderness• of intercession. The fruits of this
gracious work are not -yet harvested, and no
exact estimate can be made of the number of
hopeful conversions. We have reason to be
lieve that at least six hundred have given
good evidence of having passed from death
to life, in "those cnngregations which have
taken share in these special meetings. April
Bth, thirty-nine persons , were received into
the First Presbyterian Church at a special
sacramental service, held at Mission Chapel
in Wasonville. This is a district about two
miles from, the church itself, in which a con
siderable population of intelligent workmen
in the rolling mills and other manufactories is
gathered,. and where that church has for some
years maintained an'efficient Mission Sunday
school. It is hoped that within a, year or so
this branch of the vine will become so rooted
and strengthened in its growth as' to for,m a
Fourth Presbyterian Church (N. S. ). Anew'
and ample chapel, sufficient to seat nearly 400
persons will be built for this mission during
the, present summer. —Eferati.
THE Cifizinca IN ELYRIA, the pastor
of which, Rev. F. A. Wilbur, has xesign
ed his charge, is still enjoying the prey.
ence of the Spirit in a marked degree.
There has been more power'in the work
of grace there than in any place in this
region. Strong men have been bowed
and old men have been converted and
the fallow ground of many years broken
HAMILTON PRESBYTERY. -- Besides
other places heretofore named, particu
larly Oxford, where fifty have been add
ed, Blue Ball Church has been much
blessed, and received about twenty-five
,new converts. An interesting work has
been progress at Lockland, from which
it is expected that twenty-five or thirty
persons will be added to the Church.
PRESBYTERY OF CLFAMAND.---TheFO
never has been. a meeting at which the
reports from the churches were so fall of
the manifestations of God's saving mercy.
WESTERN PRESIBIMIES.
We summarize from the Herald
COMMISSIONERS TO GENERAL ASSEM
BLY. Indianapolis : Rev. P. S. Cleland
and Elder Thomas Hamilton, of Kings
ton Church ; alternates, Rev. J. S.
Craig, and Elder John Gehan.-- C raw
for4sville : Rev. E. C. Johnson,
‘ (his al
ternate. Rev. W. N. Steele,) and Elder
A. G. Wilson, (his alternate Alexander
Thomson). -- Franklin : Rev. H. Cal
houn and Dr. A. D. Log, elder ; alter
nates Rev. E. D. Morris, D.D., and M.
D. Covell, elder. --Hamilton : Rev. J.
P. E. Kumler and Elder B. A. Hunt ;
alternates, Rev. B. W. Chidlaw and
Elder Wm Cleveland: Rev.
Messrs. Monteith• and Tinker and Elders
John A. Foot and T. P. Handy.--
Salem : Rev. T. A. Steele and • Elder
Silas Moore ; alternates, Rev. J. G. At
terbury and Elder James F. Dodd.
REV. THOMAS ALLEN STEELE WBB in
stalled pastor of th? Mitchell church,
Indiana, on Sabbth, April 8, 1866. Rev.
Wm. H. McCarer, preached the sermon
—an admirable apology, in the old sense
of the word for Presbyterianism—found
ed on 2 Cor. xii, 13, " For what is it
wherein you were inferior to other
churches ?
REUNION OF PREEBYTERIANS.-- In
Hamilton Presbytery (eight churches
ten ministers, close to Cincinnati), a
free conversation was had on the sub
ject of the union of the two branches of
the Presbyterian Church. There was
great unanimity of opinion expressed in
favor of making the two Presbyterian
families one.—ln Cleveland Presby
tery, (42 ministers 18 churches,) " the
prevalent sentiment is decidedly adverse
to any hasty or anticipatory action."
PRESBYTERY OF FORT WAYNE.-Thig
Presbytery recently met in Logan, Ind.,
continuing its sessions over the Sabbath,
on which day the Logan congregation,
with great joy, dedicated th6ir new
church edifice to its sacred use. The
dedication sermon was preached by the
Rev. W. C. Smith, and the dedicOory
prayer offered by the pastor,. Rev. W
J. Essick. The venerable Dr. Jacob
Little was, also a participant in the ex
ercises. The meeting of the Presby
tery partook of the prevailing character
istic of our ecclesiastical meetings the
present spring—a pleasant spiritual tone.
Most of the churches reported revivals
and general prosperity. Fort Wayne
and Huntington churches were the most
blessed, but Wabash, Franklin, and
Gilead churches were visited .by the
presence of the spirit too. Rev. Geo. O.
Little and Ruling Elder Rhodes were
chosen Commissioners to the General
Assembly, and Rev. W. C. Smith and
Ruling Elder Sackett, alternates.
TAD PRESBYTERY OF NEW YORK ON
RzurnoN.—At a late meeting, the fol
lowing resolution, proposed by Rev. Dr.
Hatfield, was adopted :
"The Third Presbytery of New York, in
session April 3d, 1866, respectfully represent
to the General Assembly, that in their judg
ment the time has come, in the good provi
dence of God, when some definite action
should be taken by the General Assembly,
looking toward a reunion'of the two branches
of the Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America ; and that it is desirable
that a large competent committee should be
appointed to act conjointly with a similar
commitke,e to be appointed by the Genpral.
AssembTy of the other branch, to take into
consideration all the interests involved in Bich
a reunion, and report to the next General
Assembly." •
THE GENESEE VALLMY PRESBYTKRY
has recently closed an annual meeting
of more than ordinary interest. Rev.
Isaac G. Ogden and Ruling Elder A.
Lookhart were elected to the General
Assembly, and Rev. E. L. Boing and
Elder J. Hurlburt their . alternates.
Among the items of interest, was the
action ofPresbytery. on the call of the
church of Lyons, New York,= for the pas
toral services of Rev. J. B. Beaumont,
pastor of the church in Olean where the
Assembly held its sessions. It appeared
that the church in Olean were unani
mously and tenderly attached to Mr.
Beaumont, and deplored. the -proposed
removal, and also that the latter, al
though submitting the matter to the
Presbytery, had neiertheless no . per
sone wish' for a change. In view of
these facts, the Presbytery declined
breaking tip the pastoral relation now
existing.
THE OLD SPRING STREET CHURCH,
which is to our denomination here what
the Old Pine Street is in Philadelphia, is
highly prospered under the pastoral care
of the Rev. James D. Wilson. At the
recent April communion• nineteen were
received on profession of their faith, and
six by letter. Welly do such results
repay all the Cost of putting this oldest
of our city churches on its present se
care basis. It was never more needed
or probably more useful "in that section
of the city where it stands, than at this
time.—N. Y. Evangekiit.
OHIOA.GO.—The will of Flavel Mose
ley, one of the early residents of this
city, appropriates out of his estate,
which has been appraised at $240,000,
to the Second Presbyterian Church with
which he had been associated from its
organization, the sum of $lO,OOO, the in
come of which is to be used for mission
schools ; to the " Moseley Public School
Book Fund," slo,obo ; to the Chicago
Home for the Friendless , ) s2o 000 • and
to the American Home Missionary So
ciety, $10,000.---Cor. Independent.
ANOTHER MINISTiR GONE.— Rev.
Samuel L. Tuttle, for mapy years pastor
of the church of Madison, N. J., and
more recently Assistant Secretary of the
American Bible Society, died on Monday,
the 16th inst., at Madison of inflamma
tory rheumatism. Mr. T. was a son of
the late venerable Rev. Jacob Tuttle,
and a brother of President Tuttle- of
Wabash College. In hisposition in the
Bible Society, he was highly valued and
effticient.
R. R. G
LIOENSUILE OP • CANDIDATES. - The
Presbytery of Lyons week before last
licensed Mr. Almon R. Hewitt, of the
senior class of Auburn Seminary, to
preach the Gospel. Mr. H. was for three
years a soldier of the Union. The
Third Presbytery of New York, at its
recent meeting, licensed "Messrs. Charles
H. Baldwin, David W. Evans, Ernest
F. Borches, James G. Mason, and D. S.
Morgan.
COMMISSIONERS TO THE GENERAL
Assiniumc.—From the Presbytery of
Lyons, Principals, Rev. Wm. L. Page,
Riding Elder C. Croat; Alternates, Rev.
G. R. H. Shumway, Ruling Elder J.
Wilder. Third Presbytery of New York
—Clerical Commissioners, Rev. A. E.
Campbell; D.D., Rev. E. F. Hatfield,
D.D., and Rev. S. D. Barchard, D.D.
Alternates: James D. Wilson, Robert
Russell Booth, D.D., and James M.
Stevenson. Elders : William A. Booth,
William. H. Christie, and Alexandei
Milne. Alternates: Benjamin Lyman.
William C. Foote, and Joseph F. Smith
---The Newark Presbytery send Rev
Dr. Joel Parker, Rev. N. Millard, anc
Rev. C. E. Knox. They have ale(
passed% an overture on Reunion simile:
to that of the Third New York.
MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.—Prof
D. Hitchcock, D.D., of the Union Thee
logical Seminary, has sailed for Havre
intending to spend six months abroac
—Rev. H. N. Millerd has reeigne
the care of the church in Trnxton, Nei
York—Rev. Alvah Lilly has change
his residence from Pewaakee to Har
land, Wisconsin. Rev. J. H. Trov
bridge, of Chicago, hasibeen appointe
Secretary for Home Missions for Nortl
ern Illinois, Rev , Alonzo Welton ht
commenced labors with the citurch
Worcester, Otsego county, New Yor
under a call to the pastorate