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THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1866
CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE—FAMILY CIRCLE:
Faith—Huntingafter Him—Familiar Talks with the
Children, XlV.—fwo Sides to a Tale—Smart Little
Girl. .
THIRD PAGE—EDITOR'S TABLE:
Porter's "Giant Cities of 13APbRE ; or, Syria's HoTy
Places"—"A Hand-Book of Scripture Hs rmony"—
Greenwood's "Adventures of Reuben Davidger:
Seventeen Years and Four Months Captive among
the Dyaks of Borneo"—And.ews's " The South
since the War; as Shown by Fourteen Weeks of
Travel and Observation in Georgia and the Caro
, linas"—" The Children of Cloverly"—" School and
Home: or Leavea from a Bov's Tournal"—Perindi
cols and Pamphlets—Books Received—Literary In
telligence. American said Foreign.
SIXTH PAGE—CORRESPONDENCE:
Our London Letter—The Awakening in Peoria.
lll.—Letters on Reconstruction, I.X:—An Example
—Putting off Repentance.
SEVENTH PAGE—RURAL ECONOMY:
Spare the Trees—Floral Efferts—Bitting Colts in
Breaking—To Keep Tires on Wheels—Preservition
of Bruit=A Ward in Season—Sieilian Mode of Eat
ing Strawberries.
MiscstLaarrons: Anecdote of Dr. Payson—A
Bounty on Crime.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Of the Pres
byterian Church in the. United States o
America, will meet on Thursday, May'
17th, 1866, at c•'clock A. M in tbe
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 o'clock A. M. of the same
day, in the Lecture-room of the Church.
EDWIN F. HATFIELD,
Stated Clerk.
J. GLENTWORTH BBTLER,
Permanent Clerk.
OUR GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Commissioners who- have sent us their
names will receive cards introducing
them to the families whose hospitality
they are to enjoy, and giving directions
how to find them. We make these di
rections as plain as we cam, and if to any
stranger they need explanation, it can
doubtless be obtained of the omnibus
drivers. •
On each of the railroads coming from
the East, there are two arrivals daily— n :,
one a little before noon, and the other a
little before midnight. It will be for
the convenience of brethren to consult
time tables, and plan-their journey so as
to arrive in the daytime. They can-then
go directly to the places assigned them.
Our. farailes be ready, to receive
them Wednesday . noon, May 16tif.
Any who may have failed to send us
their names, or to receive the cards
which we send, may call on the Coni.
mittee of Arrangements, in the Pastor's
study of the First Presbyterian Church,
southwest corner of St. Charles and
Fourteenth streets. H. A. N. .
See list of railroad and steamboat line's
making reductions, on page five.
REVIVAL IN GIRARD, PA.
Our pastor, Rev. H. 0. Howland
went five hundred and fifty miles, to
Springfield, 111., last week, on purpose
.to get Mr. Hammond to assist in con
ducting a series of special services here.
They both returned last Saturday,
and the first meeting was held on Sabbath
afternoon. The Holy Spirit has been
present with power to bless the word
spoken. Nearly seventy-five children
and youths already think they have
found the Saviour. Last evening, at
the close of Mr. Hammond's sermon,
about one hundred arose for prayers;
though it was then half-past ten, scarcely
any left the crowded church. And at a
quarter to twelve, Mr. Hammond was
obliged to urge the people to leave, in
order to induce them to retire to their
homes.
It was a wonderful Bence. Nothing
but the mighty power of the Holy Spirit
sealing the truth upon the hearts, could
have produced such wonderful effects.
Young men who, a. few days ago, were
inclined to scoff, were then weeping for
their sins, or rejoicing in ,Christ.
Several who were converted in Mr.
Hammond's meetings in Erie, a few
months since, added great interest by
giving an account Of their experience.
Among them was a little boy, only
eleven years old, •who has been received
into Dr. Lyon's Church, who, in a
modest, child-like manner, gave the most
scriptural evidence of a thorough change
of heart. Hardened men were seen to
weep as this little child spoke of the
Saviour's love. Yet there was no undue
excitement; the Holy Spirit rendered
even the joyful singing from the "PRAISES
OF Jxsus," the means of converting the
careless of their sins.
Mr. Hammond has gone to Erie to-
day, to hold a reunion meeting there in
Rev. Dr. Lyon's Church:; returns to
night to preach here. He expects to re
main here till Saturday.
A gentleman was present on Tuesday
evening from Elmira, N. Y., who gave
an acconut of the out pouring of the
HOy . Spirit in connection with Mr.
Hammond's labors there last December.
He said, that one of the N. S. Prisby
terian ministers in that city had pub-
Holy stated that, after a careful investi
gation, there could not be less than Fir
- TEEN HUNDRED con versions. Several
papers have spoken, of the number as
having amounted to a thousand, but the
above seems to be the true statementi.. --
This seems truly wonderful, when ate
consider Elmira is but a small city.': 0,
that..Christians,_in all .our cities, would
not rest
„padded till thousands, instead
of hundreds, were led to Christ. If all
pt Finlatroh' were gathered into con,
gregations,lundnr the care of an earnest
ministry, there would be no call for such
special services as those held in Elmira.
It is well known, that in all our cities
there are multitudes who never attend
the house of Gcd, and it would seem
that without the united efforts of God's
people to call attention to the things of
eternity, they are beyond the reach o
hope. GIRARD.
COMMISSIONERS TO THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY.
The following very incomplete list
comprises the primaries elected, so far as
heard from to the present time :
MINISTERS. RIMING ELDERS.
Presbytery of Champlain.
Moses Thacher. Wm. Wheeler.
Presbytery of St. Lawrence.
S. W. Pratt. . W. A. Eldridge.
Pkesbytery of Watertown.
J. J. Porter. James A. Bell.
Presbytery of Utica.
James B. Fisher, W. S. Taylor,
W. E. Knox, D.D. G. M. Giffert.
Presbytery of Onondaga.
J. F. Kendall. T. R. Porter.
Presbytery of Cayuga.
S. M. Hopkins, D.D., W. J. Cornwell,
Henry Fowler. A. W. Allen.
. Presbytery of Cortland.
VW. Smith. R. J. Dixon.
Presbytery of Steuben.-
W. A. Niles. C. C. Baldwin.
Presbytery of Chenuing.
Isaac Clark. - J. M. Reeder. -
Presbytery of "queen.
A. M. Mann, D.D. - Nelson Noble.
Presbyteiy of Lyons,.
Wm. L. Page. "C. Croul.
Presbytery , ol Ontario.
Levi G. Marsh. --- Bell.
Presbytery of Rochester.
J. B. Shaw, D.D., Ralph Thacher,
C. P. Bush. Frederick Starr.
Presbytery of Genesee.
Danish Russell. Phineas Stanton.
Presbytery of Niagara.
L. I. Root. Matthen.Gregory
Presbytery of Genesee Valley.
Isaac G. Ogden. A. Lockhart.
Presbytery of Hudson.
R. R. Kellogg. W. S. Webb
Third Presbytery of New York.
A. E. Campbell, D.D., William A. Booth,
Edwin F. Hatfield, D.D., William H. Christie
S. D. Burehard, D.D. Alexander Milne.
Fourth presbytery of New York.
Henry B. Smith, D.D., Geo. W. Lane,
Geo. W. Wood, D.D. Marais C. Riggs.
Presbytery of Newark.
4 Joel Parker, D.D., Asa H. Holden,
Nelson Millard, James R. Sayre,
Charles E. Knox. - John C. Hines.
Presbytery of Montrose.
H. Pattengill,. • S. N. Theater,
0. Crane. - D. Ridgeway.
Presbytery of Wilmington.,
Geo. F. Wiiwell. Samuel Barr.
Third Presbytery of Philadelphia.
Wm. E. Moore, Wilmer Worthington
B. B. Hotchkin. Joseph Allison.
Fourth Presbytery of Philadelphia.
T. J. Shepherd, D.D., J. Marshall Paul,
James Boggs. • Samuel Thomas.
Presbytery of Harrisburg.
Thos. H. Robinson. Peter Wilson.
Presbytery of the District of Columbia.
J. N. Coombs. 0. Knight.
Presbytery of Eric.
Thos. T. Bradford. Jona. A. Marsh.
Presbytery of Coldwater.
J. A. Ranney. Lorenzo Russell
Presbytery of Saginaw.
D. B. Campbell. Levi Walker.
Presbytery of Cleveland.
John Monteith, John A. Foot,
Joseph E. Tinker. • T. P. Handy.
Presbytery of Franklin.
H. Calhoun. A. D. Lord
Presbytery of Cincinnati.
Joseph Chester,
J. L. French.
Presbytery of Hamilton. •
J. P. E., Kumler. 8..4.. Hunt.
Presbytery of Salem.
T. A. Steele. Silas Moore.
Presbytery of Indianapolis.
P. S. Cleland. Thomas Hamilton
Presbytery of Gieeneastie.
T. S Milligan.
Presbytery of Crawfordsville.
E. C. Johnson. A. G. Wilson.
Presbytery of Fort Wayne.
George 0. Little. Rhodes
Presbytery of Wabash.
J. B. Gibson. D. C. Anderson.
Presbytery of-toiambus.
E. B. Miner. Ephraim G. Still
Presbytery of lowa City.
G. D. A. Hebard. B. S. Holmes.
- THE CATHOLIC STANDARD of this city
is much exercised over a pair of pictures
in Harper's Weekly which, with the ex
planation, connect the idol-worship of
China, with the honors paid to the im
age of the "Blessed - Virgin" in Spain,
as essentially the same. The Standard
does not breathe a syllable in denial of
the charge of image-worship, but simply
says:
"The devotion to the Blessed Virgin is a
most sacked portion of the faith of our
Church, and,-while the Messrs. Harper, or
the editor of -their paper, are perfec4 free
to differ with Catholics in, their, belief, they
havelto right to expect them to' purchase
their printed insults."
Is Harper's Weekly thus become their
enemy because it tells them the truth ?
or will the Standard say what is the es
sential difference in this service betiareen
Chinese and Spaniards ?
CEitmorms.—The name of the Green
field Church which has withdrawn from
Indianapolis .Presbytery and united with
the " other branch," was stricken from
the new church of fifteen
members, has been organized at Poland,
in Owen county, Indiana, Greencastle
Presbytery.
Wn call attention to the advertise
ment of a house for summer boarding,
at, Vineland, in another column.
REY. D. L. ,GEAR . has Pereroptorily
xesigned the charge of the First Congre
gational Chnich of thid
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1866.
report was read by Mr. RoWe. 'Tract
distribution, personal visits to the poor
and neglectors of religion, neighborhood
prayer-meetings, and meetings of the
'association for mutual improvement are
the chief means employed by the or
ganization. Several persons haye been
lidded to the church as the direct fruit
by Dr. March and Rev. James Neill.
Mr. Bishop sang " Your Mission" with
admirable affect. A concert of sacred
music was held in the church under the
auspices of Mr. Crawford, the accom
plished organist and leader of the choir,
April 19th. Carl Sentz wan •conductor,
and - 11, choice company of singers from
the Handel and Haydn Society, volun
teered • their services. The music was
of a very high order, and was sung with
taste, skill, and effect. Mr. H. G. Thun
der presided, at the piano. , •Thapioceeds
go towards the purchase of an organ.
MURAL TABLET IN THE THIRD CHURCH.
—Old Pine. Street Church has done her
promised honors to the fallen heroes
whom she sent forth to maintain national
life and liberty, and who yielded their
lives as martyrs to her and their patriot-,
ism. A handsome marble tablet, in
scribed with their names, was inserted
into the vestibule wall of the church, last
Tuesday afternoon, with appropriate
ceremonies. The 'Mayor of the city,
Hon. Morton McMichael, made the ad
dress. Dr. Brainerd, the pastor, and
Rev. Messrs. Wiswell and Mears took
part in the services.
TEMPERANCE SERMON. -- Rev. Dr.
r&illtrch preached in Clinton Street Church
on Sabbath evening last an able ! ear
nest, and hopeful discourse on the pre
sent aspect of the temperance caused
text, Prov. xx, I, "Wine is a mocker,"
&c. It slould be repeated in all our
churches. We cannot refrain from ex
pressing our admiration of the perform
ance of_ the choir Not least among
their merits was their almost perfect
clearness of enunciation, which did not,
however, mar the richness of the music..
• The fifty-first anniversary of the Sun
day-schocils connected with Philadelphia
N. L. First PresbYterian Church, (Rev.
T. J. Shepherd, pastor,) was celebrated
last Sunday afternoon. The occasion
was one of more than ordinary interest.
The large audience-room of the church
edifice was crowded in every part by the
children and their friends. The singing
was spirited and admirable; the addres
ses by Rev. Messrs. Henson and.'"COok
man, pertinent and powerful. ,Wl.-'were
pleased to learn that the past year has
been one of great prosperity in the
schools.. The contributions to benevo
lent objects have exceeded one thousand
dollars ; many new scholars have been
enrolled ; and twenty-eight persons con
nected with the schools • have, made a
public profession of faith in Christ. The
number of scholars in the schools is about
five hundred.
F. V. Chamberlain,
Andrew Flasher.
KENDERTON—DEDICATION OF THE NEW
CHURCH.—The new a' commodious
edifice erected for the use of the Ken
derton Presbyterian Church, was dedicat
ed with appropriate religious services on
Thursday, April 5. Sermon by Rev.
Dr. T. J. Shepherd, to whose early and
efficient co-operation the organization of
the Church, under God, is largely due.'
The services were participated
several of the brethren of the Third and-
Fourth Presbyteries. The day was
delightful, the attendance large, and the
occasion one of exceeding interest to the
congregation. The Church is loCated
on Tioga street, above Broad, in a very
beautiful and rural section of the city.
The building was designed by Mr. S.
Sloan, Architect, and is 50 by 70 feet.
The audience room, including organ
gallery, will seat about five hundred
people. The lecture and Sunday-school
rooms are on the - ground floor. The
whole completed and furnished, including
cushioning and organ, at a cost of about
$15,000.
INSTALLATION AT VINELAND.—.Rev.
John 0. Wells, late of Presbytery of
Catskill, was installed April 19, pastor
of the First Church of Vinelau9,,by a
committee of the Fourth Presbytery:. Rev.
Y. Hendricks presided, and preiched a ser
mon, Rev. D. K. Turner gave the charge to
gfeius of nur eljurtly,s.
CITY CHURCHES.
NORTH BROAD STREET CHURCH, in the
absence of Dr. Adams, have secured the
services of Rev. Wm. Elder a native
Scotchman who has been studying at
Andover, and preaching with g reat
acceptance in the churches of Boston
and vicinity. He will preach next Sab
bath for the first time. Dr. Adams left
for New Hampshire, April 23d. The
seventh anniversary of the Ifortn,'Broad
Street Sunday-schools' was, held Sunday
afternoon, April 23. In the three schools
there are between seven and eight hun
dred scholars who contributed about
$6OO to missionary, and other purposes.
Rev. Drs. Beadle and Bomberger, and
Mr. Walton, superintendent of the branch
, school, made addresses. Mr. 'W. E.
Camp read the annual report. Mr.
Thomas Potter is superintendent of the
main school. Miss Harned, supei•in
dent of the infant school, received a laige
photographic album and other tokenS of
appreciation of her faithful services, from
the teachers of the main school. Through
the liberality of Mr. Potter a large num
ber of elegant Bibles and Bible Diction
aries have been distributed to deserving
scholars during the year. The Young
.Peoples' Association of North Broad
Street Church celebrated their first an
niversary in the church April, 16. The
of its labors. Addresses were delivered
the pastor, and Rev. R. Adair the charge
to the people. The house was fall, and
the occasion deeply interesting.
INSTALLATION OP "CHAPLAIN" STEW
ART.—Rev. A. M. Stewart was installed
pastor of the united charges of EAST
WHITELAND and REESEVILLE, by a Com
mittee of the Fourth Presbytery of
Philadelphia, on the 26th of April. The
services were held in the Reeaeville
Church.
Prayer and Reading of Scripture by Rev.
John McLeod; sermon by Daniel March, D.
D., on John vii. 46. "Never spoke man
hke this man." Constitutional questions
and installing prayer by Rev. W. E. Moore.
Charge to the pastor (in place of Rev. B. B.
Hotchkin) by Rev. John W. Mears. Charge
to the pet)]* by Rev. W. E. Moore. Bene
diction by Rev. A. M. Stewart.
The kttendance was good and the
services profitable.
.Pastor and people
are to be congratulated upon the happy
auspices under which this new relation
is commenced.
REVIVALS
Besides those reported elsewhere, we
learn from our exchanges the following :
The pastor at La' Porte, Ind.,writes :
"We gathered a part of the fruit on the
second Sabbath of April, when forty-four
persons sat down with us at the Lord's table
for the first time, all of them having been re
ceived on profession of their faith. There
are many others whom we expect to receive
to membership at another time. I think not
less than seventy-five have been led to indulge
hope in Christ in connection with our meet
,
inas."
The Church at Plymouth; Ohio, has' re
cently enjoyed an extensive and very interest
ing work of grace. The revival influence has
pervaded the whole place; a large number
have professed conversion, and forty-four
have united with the Presbyterian Church ;
not a Christian family in connection with the
Church that has not maintained a family
altar. Other churches in the place have
shared in the revival, and are gathering the
fruits.
One year ago the Church at Milan, Ohio,
onjoyed a powerful work of grace. The Spirit
dame down suddenly, just at the close of the
annual meeting of the Presbytery held at that
• One. In three or four'days there were as
.inarly,a,s 130 inquirers. About eighty of this
limber professed conversion, forty-five of
whom have united with the Presbyterian
Church during the year,,the remainder with
other churches. The Spirit's influences have
continued since the last sluing. Inquiry
meetings have been held weekly or oftener,
and new eases of interest and of conversion
have continually developed themselves. The
last month the Church itself received a new
baptism, resulting in humble confessions of
am,
iin new consecrations, and more earnest
labor and prayer. While God's people seem
to have shared this spring more largely in
this blessing, the impenitent have not been
passed by, there being between-thirty and
forty inquirers, some of whom hope they have
experienced the great change. Such a work
of grace, so long continued and so marked in
particular cases and so extensive in the
particular
and without, has not been known in
this community.
l he Church at Montrose, of which the
Rev. J. G. Miller is pastor, received an ac
cession of forty-four new members on profes
sion of their faith, on the first instant.
"There were," says a note to the Evangelist,
"children and young men who, a few months
ago, would have scorned to'be called a child
of God—young - ladies of whom the world
was proud—mothers with their children—
all one in Christ the Lord. 0, such a day I
have, never known since I first found my Sa
viour. We indeed sat in heavenly placs in
Christ "
The Church in Perry, 111., hasjust received
24; those of Lexington and Mackinaw, 111.,
(Presbytery of Bloomington), have received
37 - members-25 on profession of their faith.
Plymouth, 111., reports 25 conversions ; Mon
roeville, Ohio, 13 professions ; Lyme, Ohio,
22 professions; Bloomville and Republic,
Ohio, 12 each; Sandusky , City 10; Putnam,
Ohio, 30; Third Church Cincinnati, 15. The
following are reported from New York:—
Watertown Ist., 12; Watertown 2d, 36; Se
neca Falls, 23; Hammondsport, 33; Cohoes,
33; Laurens ; 17; Howard, 17. In Illinois,
Quincy reports 18 professions: Perry, 22;
the interest commencing March Ist, the day
of prayer for Colleges; Walnut Grove, 20
professions; Warsaw, 19.
LAFAYETTE AVENUE CHURCH, BROOK.
LYN.—Rev. T. L. Cuyler, writes to the
Evangelist, April 20th:—
We are now in the fifteenth week .of the
revival in the Lafayette Avenue Church. The
number of new cases of awakening has fallen
off; but hopeful conversions are reported at
nearly _all the meetings—which continue
crowded. Twenty-five were received last
Sabbath from our Cumberland Street Mission
Chapel; and fifty-one . have already . been ex
amined for admission at the coming _commu
nion in May; the whole number enrolled in
the Church since the commencement of the
revival is two hundred and two. They would
make an average sized church in a rural re
gion.
PRESBYTERIES.
PRESBYTERY OF WIEMINGTON.—The
Presbytery of Wilmington held its semi
anattal session at Elkton, Md., April
18th and 19th. The Church at Elkton,
after a separation of several years, re
turned to the Presbytery during the pre
vious year.
The meeting was opened by a sermon
by appointment by Rev. William Aik
man. Rev. John Patton, D.D., of Mid
dletown, was elected moderator„,and
Rev. 11. Matthews, of Elkton, Clerk
Rev. L. C. Lockwood was dismissed
and transferred to the Presbytery• of
Brooklyn. Rev. J. Garland Hamner
was dismissed and transferred to the
Fourth Presbytery of Philadelphia.'
At his own request on account of ill
health, the license of Wm. R. Morris
was withdrawn.
Rev. George F. Wiswell as principal,
and Rev. William. Aikman , as alternate,
Elder Samuel Barr of the Hanover
Street Church, principal, and Elder W.
W. Ferris of the Delaware City Church,
alternate, were elected Commissioners
to the next General Assembly.
The next stated meeting will be held
on the fourth Tuesday of September, in
the Delaware City Church, Rev. H.
Gaylord, pastor.
PRESBYTERY OF EBIB.—The pastoral
relation between the Rev. James
Read, AR, and the 'congregation of
Union was dissolved. .s 6 : *
The Rev. Thomas T. Bradfoid,
ter, and Jonathan N Marsh, elder, were
chosen as Commissioners to the next
General Assembly; their alternates,
Rev. Dwight K. Steele, Minister, and A.
N. Wood, elder.
The time devoted to hearing reports
on the state of religion in the churches
under the care of Presbytery, was one
of richest interest. At its close, the
Presbytery united in thanksgiving to
God for his great goodness and mercy
in reviving bis work in so many of our
churches; also, in supplication for the
continuance for the revival in these
churches, and of, the effusion of the
Holy Spirit's converting and sanctifying
power upon those churches that have
not yet been Specially visited.
Abstract of the Narrative of the State of
.keligion in the Churches.
Death has not diminished the number of
our ministers, nor have the wants of our
churches required any addition. One stated
supply has removed, and another now fills
his place. One pastor and two stated sup
plies, receive Home Missionary aid. The
other churches are self-sustaining, and all
contribute something, more or less, in aid of
Home Missions. All the congregations have
houses of wonship,*and are out of debt. Sab
bath-schools are generally well sustained, and
Bible classes are not neglected. The congre
gation of Edinborough are building a parson
age, which will soon be occupied by the
pastor.
The churches of Erie, Belle Valley, Harbor
Creek, Girard, Waterford, Edinborough,,
Northeast and Greene, within a few months
past havebeen greatly blessed, in some of them
the work: continues, with the renewing in
fluences of the Holy Spirit. More than two
hundred have been hopefully converted to
God, and have united with their respective
churches on profession of their faith in
Christ.
Most of the churches have added, in one
way or another; to the support'of their min
isters; as also, to their contributions in aid
of the institutions of the church at large.
The aggregate of these contributions for the
past year, have been as follows :
General Assembly's Home Missionary Com... $489 60
American Board of Commissioners for. Po
reign -Missions 515 52
General Assembly's Education Committee-- 120 45
General:Assembly's Publication Committee... 88 27
General Assembly's Mini,teral Relief Fund... 152 51
Salaries and general home expenditure for
the maintinance of Christ's cause in our
Churches 11,224 34
Our three Home Missionary Churches have
received aid from General Assembly's Home
Missionary Committee, amounting to three
hundred and twenty-five dollars.
The number of pupils inour Sabbath
schools is about fourteen hundred.
The general confition of our churches is
peaceful, active and prosperous. -We cannot
but hope and believe that their liberality and
efficiency will be greatly augmented by the,
converting and sanctifying influences of the
Holy Spirit with which we are now so signal
ly favored.
PERSONAL—Rev. R. D. Hitchcock,
D.D , Professor in tke Union Theological
Seminary, sailed with his family in the
Fulton for Havre, intending to spend six
months abroad. From France he will
proceed to Italy and Greece, perhaps ex
tending his visit to the north of Europe.
Dr. Hitchcock's health has been much
impaired, audit is hoped that he will be
,greatly recruited by his travels and . rest
from labor.--The congregation of the
church of Plymouth, Ohio, have just
given .a call to Rev. J. D. McCord to
become their pastor. He has accepted,
and was to be installed the last Wednesday
of April.---Bev. B. B. Beckwith.,
,twenty-three years pastor of the ,church
of Gouverneur, New York, has got leave
of absence for a year.--Rev. N. S. S.
pe,man, D D., the venerable ex pastor of
the First Presbyterian church, Troy,
New York, resides in Carbondale, Illi
nois, in a beautiful cottage. His health
is much better than it was at the East.
Cuoacuzs.—The Presbytery of New
ark has taken under its care a church
organized among the freedmen of Charles
ton, S. C., by the Rev. Ennals J. Adams,
one of its members, and lately a mis
sionary in Africa. The same Presby
tery has just organized the fifth German
church in its bounds, at Orange, N. J.
The new church, which has about forty
members, has sprung from the faithful
mission work of Rev. Christian Wisner,
pastor of the German flock at Bloomfield,
during nearly two years. His people in
Bloomfield, assisted by the Presbytery, are
just completing a house of worship, which
they will dedicate without debt.—
The church in Cairo, Illinois, after a long
period of trial and struggle, is now, under
the ministry of Rev. C. P. Roberts, self
supporting. It has received 33 additions,
and has cleared off its debts, since
January 1, 1865.—The " First Pres
byterian Church of Lebanon, Illinois,
was organized April 8, with nine mem
bers. A. subscription paper has been
put in circulation for buying, or building;
a church edifice, and such progress made •
with it as assures the success of the
enterprise.~Vith aid from our Church
Erection .Thind.
TOLEDO.--A correspondent of the
Presbyterian, O. S. writes :
- -
The Westminster church is a colony from
the Congregational church, under the pasto
ral care of the Rei. W. - W. Williams. It is
in the New-school branch. Shortly after its
organization it secured the services of the.
Rev. H. M. Bacon, of Indiana, a minister in
our branch. FHe engaged to serve the society'
for six months as stated supply, and has been
gaining on their affections ever since he came
to Toledo. Under his faithful ministry that
people will prosper. The people of our
church will also be greatly benefitted by the
continuance of brother Bacon's labors in To
ledo.. The Westminster church is in the
lower part of the city. and the Congregational
in the upper part, while ours, the First Pres
byterian, occupies the central part. Thes6
tilt* churches, so nearly allied in doctrine,
have thus, in the good providence of God,
been located where they can each work most
zealously for the kingdom of Christ r and not
conflict with .each other. -
The Board of Foreign Missions, it is said,
is likely to end the year under a debt of from
510,000 to $15,000. , One gentleman, on learn
ing *h e state of the ease, nobly sent in his
check for $ l OOO.
.The Presbytery of New York, 0 a, has
. ordain'ed Howard P. Peehert, to labor in th e
Southern country under the Commisgion -
of
the Board of Domestic Missions.
letigiinto tattiligentt.
PRESBYTERIAN-OTHER BRANCHES.
California.—The Westminster Church,
recently organized at Sacramento, was admit
ted into union with the Presbytery. The
Rev. Thomas Kirkland, a licentiate of the
Free Presbytery of Scotland, after due exam
ination, was also received.—The Rev. A. W.
Loomis, of the Chinese mission in San Fran
cisco, will soon leave on account of the ill
health of his family. The Rev. Mr. Condit,
of the mission "to China, and now of Napa,
city, will take charge of the work which Mr.
Loomis leaves.
Revivals.—At Nottingham, Ohio, 72 were
recently added on profession of their faith,
and 37 a few months previOugly:making a
total of 109. Of these,' 53 ;received the ordi
nance of baptisrw,—.6B were males, and 35
heads of families.=-At Denville, Ky., more
than one hundred per s ons publicly manifest
ed concern for their souls. About. , seventy
have made profession of kith in ,the Lord
Jesus, Sixty of whom'have been united with
the two Presbyterian churches in this place—
,others will unite soon. Of this number,
about a dozen are students of Centre College ;
eight, or ten are heeded families.—At
Finlay,' Ohio, sixty.ainited- on profession , of
faith, twenty-six, from the ,Sahbath-school;
twenty-two were bantized when received, an
t w enty-two are = heads of families . —ln Lew
isburgh, .Grreenbrier : county,,ahout one'hun
dredpersons have recently inadea, profession
of fa ith in connection with the'Preshyterian
Church in that town,. mostly 'young 'perions.
—ln the Church.jn.Salem, N. ~.I,,,,tweritye
ight persons were a - Aided to the Church
April 22d, 'others are rejoicing in a new 'faith
in Christ, and •others still are inquiring -the
way to the Saviour. We ccuaint one hundred
and fifty additions on profession, besides the
above, in fah week's Pr'esbytericra.-L--In
Park.ersburg, W. Virginia, April 1.5, forty
four were received on profession.
Barnesville, Presbytery of St. Claimille, fifty
three persons have been added to the Church,
mostly on profession of faith. The Lord has
also Poureil out his Holy Spirit upon the
Church in New Philadelphia, Presbytery of
Steubenville, and thirty-one, have been added
to the Church.
A New. German Church _ is about to be
undertaken in Allegheny. The Banner says:
—"Two hundred and fifty dollars have
been already pledged to aid in the support of
a graduate of the last class in the Western
Theological Seminary, in that 'field, for the
ensuing six months.• And about $4OOO will
be necessary to buy a house snehas is needed
for the work to be done in that locality. At
the late meeting of the Presbytery of Alle
gheny City, this movement was commended
to the favorable notice and Christian liberal
ity of the people."
The Neit Assembly, 0. S. —The Presby
ter says:—" We think that the proper courge
,for the Assembly to pursue, in order to make
the exit of the Declaration and Testimony
party as easy as possible, and to give it as
little occasion , as possible to raise a hue and
cry against the Assembly, is simply to decline
to pass any paper in regard to the action of
1865. Let those who wishi to 'abrogate or
modify the action of 1865 propOse such action
as they choose, and let every proposition of
the kind be voted down. If middle men,
who want to remain in the Church, are not
satisfied, let them protest and remain if they
choose." •
Rev. H. J. Vandyke, D.D.—We take the
following from a reconstructed rebel paper in
Richmond:-' This honored and beloved
.
brother, whose course during the war has so
much endeared him to the Southern people,
is expected in Richmond this week. He will
preach in the Second Presbyterian Church,
on Sabbath morning, at 11 o'clock, and in
the First Presbyterian Church at night. He
will also address the Virginia Bible Society, at
its anniversary meeting in St. Paul's Church,
the following Tuesday night,"
THE RELIMIS WORLD 111011
GREAT BRITAIN.
PARTJAuvwren.Y.—ln the House of Com
mons a new concession has been made to the
really disloyal element in Romanism—that of
holding allegiance to the Government subor
dinate to the authority of the Pope. The
House has passed the Parliamentary Oaths'
Amendment Bill, by which the Roman Cath
olics are to be exempted from the special
oath, by which they abjure the Pope's juris
diction in England. Still worse, an amend
ment of Mr. Disraeli's, to the effect of making
a declaration "that Her Majesty is the only
Supreme Governor of this realm, and that no
foreign Prince, Prelate, State, or Potentate,
hath any jurisdiction therein," was rejected
in the committee. On the other hand, in
the House of Lords, during a discussion on
the endowment of the Romish clergy of Ire
land, Earl Russell stated that the Govern
ment had no intention of taking any steps in
this direction. Another legislative item
having a bearing upon the religious interests
of the country, is that the Commons have, by
a decisive majority, thrown out a bill for com
pelling Irish railway companies who now
close their lines on the Sabbath, to run a
train each - way on that day.
BROAD Cauial.—ln the Church of Eng
land there has been another of those illustra
tions which are just now so numerous, of the
utter impotence of the Episcopacy and the
prescribed Liturgy to protect the Church
against the most glaring heresies. Professor
Kingsley, in a recent sermon at Whitehall,
at which' the Bishop of London and many of
the nobility and memberx of parliament were
present, closed a series of startling broad
church novelties by arguing against the doc
trine of everlasting punnishruent, and ex
pressing his belief that as at the Reformation
in the 16th century men threw off opinions
which had prevailed for a thousand years,
so now God might be directing men's minds,
with regard the theology, ethics, and science,
into a new channel, so that he might make
new revelations to them. -
IntnaND.—The Romish.p/ot--for such the
history of the inception and progress of the
agitation shows it to be—for securing the
priestly control of the university education of
the Roman Catholic youth of Ireland, has
become the absorbing topic. It has assumed
an importance which retiders'a succinct ao
count of the whole matter desirable for our
readers.- We have such an article on hand,
which, may !)e expected in our columns soon,
perhaps next week.- Meanwhile we may
state that the audacitY and excessive Popish
ness of the Aneasure has-excited the resistence
of a small but not insignificant party in the
Church itself, who are likely henceforth to
sustain toward the Ultramontanes a similar
relation to that of the Gallicans in Prance.
One of this party, Mr. Kane, son of a dis
tinguished Irish professor, Sir Robert Kane,
formed one of a committee who waited upon
Earl Russell with a protest against the de
mands of the Bishops. On that occassion
Mr. Kane made -the remarkable statement
that the avowed intention of the Ultramon
tanes wasp take any, concessions that might
be offereirtlYthem only as instalments, and
never to remain satisfied until they. obtained
the entire control of the education of the