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THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1866.
THE SPIRIT OF UNION WELCOMED.
It is a joyful day, indeed, for the Church
and for the world, when such, movements
for union take place between different and
long estranged branches of Zion, as have
just been witnessed in the two Assemblies
at St. Louis. Whatever first opened the
way for them, they are hearty, sincere, and
grand manifestations of Christian love.
The world, which cannot appreciate the re-,
fined distinctions which kept denominations
apart, feels instantly the force, the beauty,
the Christian fitness of such acts. Men
understand the laying aside of prejudices;
the cessation of a thirty years' war of theo
logical opinions; the forgetting, on a great
scale, of wrongs and injuries done on a
great scale; the return of an era of mag
nanimous forbearance toward mutual faults,
and toleration of minor diversities of opin
ion. They acknowledge in a moment the
reality and the power of the Christian re
ligion, when they see it drawing together
vast bodies of intelligent, conscientious,
high-minded men and .women, already inde
pendent and powerful apart, and with a
generation of provocation and estrangement
lying between them.
Union is a sacred word. It embodies
the essential practical tendency of the Gos
pel. It is hallowed by the Saviour's inter-.:
cessory prayer, by apostolic repetita3 by
the example, the, whole spirit, ands the
dying words especially of the beloved
apostle John. It is thelieaceful goal after
storm and struggle. Ii is the crown and
consummation of human achievement. It
is the sweetest note in the harp of the old
dispensation, as it is the key-note of the
songs of the new. Discords, strifes, and
divisions are the works of the devil and
belong to his kingdom of passion, of dark
ness, and of sin. Union in the State has
been a talisman of subliine power. To as
sail it, has been to call up from the peace
ful and happy homes of a Christian nation
a host of two millions of stern, unyielding
warriors. Rather than lose it, 300,000
brave and noble youth have given up their
lives, and three thousand millions of money
have been sacrificed. Its significance thrills
our blood. It is as truly an element of the
American atmosphere, as oxygen is of the
air we breathe. Union is not less essential
or less precious in the Church of Christ.
It is the expression of a far holier, far
deeper sentiment, reaching out beyond
national boundaries and distinctions of race,
giving and receiving the band of fellow
ship with Christian brethren all around the
globe.
Union is a name dreaded by heretics, in
fidels, secessionists, papists, and the devil.
Can these only create and perpetuate di
visions among the friends of truth, their
work is half done. Christians are more
serious hinderances to the triumphs of the
Gospel in their divisions and jealousies,
often, than either of these, its known and de
clared enemies. And God sometimes
allows serious calamities to befall or to
threaten the Church, in order to open the
eyes of Christians to the value of union,
and to draw them more closely together.
So, under James I. of Englarid, all ranks,
all parties, all Protestant sects arrayed
themselves against the Popish designs of
the king. Episcopalians, Presbyterians,
Independents, Baptists forgot their long
feuds and remembered only their common
Protestantism and their common danger.
It was a short glimpse of 'the golden age
between two iron ages of controversy and
division. So with our brethren of the
other branch. The apostacy of nearly one
third of their number into pro•slavery and
secession, and their obstinate persistence in
impenitence, has given the loyal remainder
pause; has aroused them from their dream
of self-sufficiency; has softened their hearts,
and given play to the lovelier traits of the
Christian character. A taste of misfortune
has made them sensible of the excellence,
the comfort, the necessity of a closer union
of those that think alike in the Church of
Christ. However the movement may issue,
it is an omen of uncommon good to the
cause of Christ, and of confusion to its foes.
It is the signal for the end of unholy an
tagonisms and costly rivalries between these
two branches of His church. Henceforth,
there is to be a utilizing of force once lost
to the common cause. Henceforth, the
enemy will not be able to play off Ephraim
against Judah, or Judah against Ephraim•
But they shall fly upon [or against] the
shoulders of the Philistines toward the
West, they shall spoil them of the East
together. The shall lay their hand upon
Edom (the South) and Moab (Southeast)
and the children of Ammon shall obey
them.
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We cannot refuse . to regard this surren
der of prejudice, this blending together so.
freely of hearts long estranged, this con
spicubiis and honorable illustration of the
Christian spirit and vindication of the
Christian name, as a' fruit of the great re
vival, with which God is so signally bless
ing the American churches. The- precious
sanctifying influences which have 'been
vouchsafed to a thousand separate localities
in both branches of the Presbyterian
Church, found in those friendly gatherings,
those Courteous and affectionate inter
changes of deputations, that joint Eucharist
and those union resolvings, their focal
point. There, in that Queen City of the
West, was the grand practical proof of the
reality and value of the revival of 1866.
Yes, and we may boldly, view it as a
pledge of further epiritual blessings. We
may draw fresh courage for future effort,
and carry with us the momentum: which
such a speaking, public, unimpeachable
evidence of the blessed harmonizing influ
ences of religion will give. Surely, the
times are ripening, the last problems of
Christianity are drawing toward- their so
lution. The Church is dressing its ranks
and massing its columns for the last great
battles with its foes.
Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, 0 most
Mighty, with thy glory and-thy.majesty,
and in thy majesty ride" prdsperously be
cause of truth andmeeliness and righteous
ness; and thy right hand shall teach thee
r 'terrible tbings.
DR. BOARDMAN'S SPEECH.
It is impossible for us to avoid noticing,
and treating in some measure as it deserves,
the speech of Dr. Boardman in St. Louis.
As the defence, by a Presbyterian divine
of Philadelphia, of the notorious Stuart
Robinson and his rebel associates of the
Presbytery of Louisville; as an attempt to
retain, for a Dingle moment, under the
wing of the Presbyterian Church, mdn so
notorious for complicity with the worst
forms of the rebellion, and to mitigate the.
indignation, which the feeblest spark of
honest loyalty to church and State must
excite at their audacious assumption of in
nocence and equal rights with the loyal
and true,—this speech is palpably deserv
ing of the severest censure. As a last and
most able attempt to hinder the whole
Presbyterian Church from finally clearing
itself,of the virus of pro-slavery and seces
sion, and from taking its due place among
the foremost influences and guides of civil
ization in America, it will be historical,
though we do not envy its author the sort
of fame it will bring.
Dr. Boardman is reported to have some
what ostentatiously declared 'his loyalty.
We quote from the opening part of the
speech a declaration to this effect, which
may owe its singularity of expression to
imperfect reporting; but which is coupled
with such a dark and ungenerous. fling at
the' true men now engaged in the work of
reconstruction, as , could only come -from a
heart utterly barren of sympathy with
them. Here is the paragraph :
Slavery is dead and , rebellion is dead,
thank God! and secession is dead, thank
God! ' Take that, brethren, you who have
repeated a thousand times over peradven
ture, or heard it repeated, that I have more
sympathy than you have with secession and
rebellion. But I am not here, though, to
speak of myself. No man, thank God! has
more loyalty than I have. No man rejoices
more sincerely than I do that this war is
over, that the authority of the' Federal Gov
ernment
is re-established, and that there is
some prospect, however 'obscure and remote,
yet still in the dim distance, that this whole
blessed Uniohis likely once more to be re-es
tablished under our glorious Constitution.
We have no idea of questioning a loyal
ty which seems so satisfactory tJ the gen:
tleman himself, especially as the clue
to its value is given in the concluding
words of the declaration. The great body
of the Presbyterian Church is prepared to
estimate it at its true worth. It meant,
before the war, giving up everything to
the South; it meant during the war: cold
neutrality, carping criticism of the Govern
ment's methods without a warm word for
the Government's object, lofty reticence
upon a theme for which hundreds of thou
sands were pouring out their life's blood,
or gloomy vaticinations of the profoundest
ruin to the country; after the war, it
means taking back the South without eon
ditions, allowing them to defy authority
and cherish all their moral and p o li t i ca l
heresies, and yet to recognize then, as
equal in rights and privileges with th e
loyal and the true.
Dr. Boardman is most sensitive and a u _
ions about the Constitutional rights of the
Louisville Presbytery, and about the revo
lutionary policy proposed by the majority.
He says ~
The resolution which I have just read was
prepare d en tirely-on _ my own motion under
the profound eonTidion, Mr. Mo derator ,
PHILADEIii'MA; THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1866.
that, as a General Assembly, we have placed
ourselves not' merely in a most undesirable
positibn, buf in a most perilous position. I
think we are in a false position. I need not
say that the danger' of legislating in'times of
great public excitement is very great and im
minent. I need not revert to that illustra
tion of it that meets us so perpetually, and
to which the sessions of the last hour have
presented a series of illustrations:
And again
I have intimated, at: least, that I have no
sympathy with' the views that have been at
tributed to Some of these Louisville brethren ;
but, sir, T have some sympathy;, trust, with
righteousness and truth and justice, and
Christian charity ; I 'have some 'Sympathy
with the, rights of any man who, bears the
form of a man, and Who carries an immortal
spirit in his .bosom, and I Will not sit here
willingly, Pwill riot`sit here qui4tly, and see
any than oppressed, tboiigh he be the bitter
est secessionist in the land., If he is to be
arraigned, and Condemned and beheaded, it
shall be done in so, far as my voice and my
humble influence can accomplish anything—
it shall be done under the constitution and laws
of the Church. We live, sir, under a govern
ment of law. We -are-not at liberty to take
counsel of our feelings or ,our passions. We
are not at liberty to go for our law precedents
to public, judicial or legislative assemblies.
We are not at liberty to open our bosoms to
all the gales of human -passion that may
meet and concentrate here. No, sir, we are
bound by that Book, and if it were not my
deliberate conviction that thereachings of
that Book had been infringed' upon, I would
not trouble you witinheletnarks that I am
now making.
Once mire, after quoting the resolution
appointing the committee of inquiry, he
exclain,ed :
Well, sir„ since the world began, since the
institutions of Justinian were organized and
established, was it ever heard that a set of
men were put upon trial under an indictment
like that? What better right have you or I
here to• day than they to a seat upon this floor?
You deprive me, in wresting that right from
me, of all opportunity of explanation—of all
opportunity of self-defence, when I am about
to be cast out of the Church of- my fathers—
the Church upon whose bosom I pillowed my
head, and upon whose bosom I hope to rest
in my dying hours; and if there is a tear to
be shed by anybody on my humble grave, I
hope it may come from that honored mother.
Sir, this Church is dear to me, and all its
rights are dear to me, and in striking down
these brethren they have struck at me and
struck at you, sir, and every man on this
floor, and every convenient method of defence.
And, sir, rely upon'hit, it is not the mode of
procedure which- is recognized in the house
of God ; it is not the method of dealing with
the highest' and most sacred rights of Chris-
Bari `ttierrand eirristian ministers, winch is
prescribed in that Constitution; it is an utter
invasion of all those rights. You not only
find no precedent for it in the history of the
Church, and no precedent for it in the history
of Christian jurisprudence, I take it. I tell
you, sir, you are traversing here one of the
fundamental principles—l will not say of
jurisprudence, but of American liberty, and
of all liberty. We cannot afford to have- the
action of the Presbyterian• Church cited as a
venerable precedent, as giving sanction to
these foul and oppressive measures. lam
delighted to see that one member—l suppose
the good brother was one of the two hundred
who voted against the poor minority of fifty
—I am glad to see this discussion has sent
one of these two hundred brethren to the
Book of Discipline.
In this impassioned and eloquent strain,
the Doctor went on, pleading for liberty
toward liberty-hating secessionims, and la
boring to throw, the proteotion of the Con
atitution around men whose very presence
was desio o ned as a defiance of the plainest
laws and highest authority of the Church.
Every one who reads these sentences will
be irresistibly recalled to the scenes of '37
and '3B; when a very different class of men
pleaded in vain ,the same Constitutional
3
principles,, and when Dr. Boardman com
mitted his reputation, as a Christian man
and, a minister, to the unconstitutional and
revolutionary party which accomplished
their overthrott. Where then was his
anxiety for the Constitution; where then
his zeal for legal rights; where then his
fears for the consequences of high-handed
and arbitrary acts ? Ah I Dr. Boardman,
is it only for rebels- and proslavery. men
and secessionists that Chucch constitu
tions are made?. Is it only the rights of
such men to a home in the dear old Church
of their fathers, to a resting _place on its
bosom when they die, and to its sympa
thetic tears upon their hnmble graves,
that you feel urged to defend, with all the
ardor of your nature and all your gifts of
oratory ? Is it for Stuart Robinson and ex-
Governor Wickliffe that you deem it neces
sary to deny your own record of twenty
nine years as an Old School partisan, and,
in their name, plead the Constitutional
rights of Presbyterians, as innocently as if
you had never been a party to their viola
tion, on a grand gcale, and against myriads
of the best and truest men in the land ?
When the Third Presbytery of Philadel
phia in 1837
. was, by the direct act of the
Assembly, dissolved, without hearing o r
opportunity of protest, when its ministers
—men like Albert Barnes, Thomas Brain
erd, James Patterson, and others—were
left without ecclesiastical, connections, and
directed to apply to some Presbytery, as
candidates for 'admission, was it this sa me
Dr. Boardman, then a member of that
P resbytery, who urged on such action of
the Gene r al A s sembly, and, bat in h an d ,
hastened t o Bee k c Onnentionmith the body.
which' had perpetrated what he now pro
fesses to deem a great ecclesiastical outrage?
We are no bound to answer Dr. Board
man's COnstitutiorial argument in defence
of these arch-sympathizers with rebellion,
or to vindicate the methods taken by the
bold and loyal men who have such a trium
phant majority in the other assembly. We
rejoice at their unalterable purpose to purge
their body of these odious elements. We
are sorry that they should find it necessary
to appeal to the `exseinding acts and to
legal and judicial opinions based upon
those acts, as a justification of their pro
ceedings Any attempt to exalt those
acts , into precedents must diminish the
prospect for reutdep n with ourselves We
regard the Louisville Presbytery and their
representatives, Robinson and Wickliffe, as
notorious sympathizers with, and .abettors
of, the crime of rebellion. The word of
God, the Constitution of th . e Church,'and
the specific acts of that Assembly, contem
plate rebellion as a crime; as much so as
duelling or polygamy. Had the, Louisville
Presbytery issued r a denlaration in defence
Tarty of duellists or polygamists, and
sent to the Assembly a duellist or a Mor
mon as a representative, its conduct would
no more have demanded summary treat
ment than it does now. To pause and
refine on Constitutional formalities, and
seek precedents, at such a time, is a mark
of the most deplorable moral weakness, and
is hardly to be distinguished from sympa
thy with the crime itself.
But Dr. Boardman has very low and
inadequate views of the crime of rebellion.
He chides and chafes at the purpose of the
loyal men •in the Church to brand it as
a crime. Not only is he anxious to throw
around' rebels the defences of the Constitu
tion, but he pleads for them the law of
love ! The honest indignation which good
men all over the land feel for , the mon
strous, murderous, and unpardonable viola
tions of our supreme law, he dares to call
unchristian. He dares to pervert the
Christian doctrine of forgiveness and for
bearance, to the very overthrew ef justice
itself. He slanders his btethren, by putt
theii deep "morit oonvictiOns; Based — upon
such Scriptures as the Thirteenth Chapter
of Romans, below even the loose and de
moralizing attitude of mere politicians
toward crime. In the view of Dr. Board
man, their indifference is more commend
able and more Christian, than the pure
and conscientious spirit of the Northern
Churches toward the great crime of the
day.
Of a conversation he had held with a
prominent man in St. Louis, whose loyalty
is, of course, undoubted, since Dr. Board
man endor'ses it, he reports as follows:
He said , to me, What is the reason : that the
soldiers—the men who did the fighting—not
the holiday soldiers, but the men who did the
fighting—are ready to exercise forbearance
and forgiveness and peace, while the ministers
seem to be in favor of war? Sir, said I, you
have - propounded a problem to me which -I
cannot solve. I know the fact, for I have had
personal experience of it. '
Referring to the sentiment applied to
Great Britain RI the Declaration of lode
pendence—" In war enemies, in peace
friends"—he accuses the loyal ministry of
holding to ethics inferior to thlse of
Thomas Jefferson, and
.sophistically cries
out:
Shall they who not only profess to sit at
the feet of the meek and lowly Saviour; shall
they whose professed voice and whose hered
itary function it is to preach the Gospel of
peace, to.preach forgiveness and forbearance,
and universal charity ; shall we set our hands
to the atrocious doctrine that any class or
condition of men in any land shall be regard
ed by us enemies not only in war, but even
in peace? God forbid ! God forbid !
Were we gave it. Our troubles were
nothing more t han a state of, war bet Ween
equals; . and too conquered South is to be
treated as a great nation, which whom ,
simply the fortunes of war have gone con
,
trary. She is to be treated as France
treated Austria after the battle of Solferino.
Lord John Russell was perfectly right in
promptly conceding belligerent rights to
the rebels. In short, Dr. Boardman's logic,
if logic it is, is that of secession. Or, if
he did not mean it - to be understood as
logic, but only as a rhetorical point, ; if he
does not mean to excuse rebellion, but only
to shield rebels, then is this position as
antagonistic to sound morals as the other
would be to national life and unity. Dr.
Boardman is declaiming against the moral
Sense, sgainst the cleirest moral convictions
of they Presbyterian bodies of the. North.
His appeal in behalf of the authors and
abettors of this utterly gratuitous and unjus
tifiable pro-slavery rebellion, is equally in
behalf of all criminals. His outcry against
s everity is an outcry against the sacredness
o f law itself. His plea for mercy is the rose
water sentimental plea,which overthrows the
very idea of justice, and in which are hid
den the direst' elements of cruelty. His
a ttempt to tax the ministry of his Church
Genesee Evangelist, No. 1046_
with a violation of the principles of Chris
tianity in excluding impenitent traitors and
rebels from the Church, is an attempt to
enlist the pure Gospel of Christ on the side
of license and of crime.
The following action has been taken by
the Board of Trustees of Old Pine Street
Church, in view of the death of Captain
Wilmer Whilldin
The first meeting of the series will be
held to-day in Calvary Churoh, Locust
above Fifteenth street, Rev. Walcott Cal
kins pastor.
The daily noon prayer-meeting, as here
tofore, at 1210 Chestnut street, third story.
A DELAY MUM TO BE BJSGB.ETTED,took ,
place in our issue of last week. It re
sulted from a serious brbak in the
machinery of the press, and hindered us
fully thirty-six hours beyond our usual
c If it is an outrage, such as warms the
blood and kindles all the powers of the
speaker, to insist upon punishment in their
case, then, we submit the very idea of
punishment and •of sanctions to law is an
outrage. Then, restraint must be laid upon
every judge who is about to pronounce a
severe sentence ; then prison, doors must
be lifted from their hinges; then the gal
lows must be taken down; then the Al
mighty himself must be _called to account
for dooming the incorrigible to an eternal
hell, and must be summoned in the name of
mercy, to fling wide open the triple gates
of the pit, and to span the great gulf with
a broad pathway to the pearly threshold of
heaven. Such sentiments as those above
quoted have been heard, too, from the
pulpit of the speaker in this 'city, and have
already' been charncterized anmewhat as
they deserve in this paper. We take this
opportunity to declare Once more our con
viction that they are dangerous and demor
alizing in a high degree, and that their
legitimate issue is the denial of the doctrine,
of everlasting punishment. ,
Thus much, for truth's sake, we have
felt should be said of this most remarkable.
discourse. It is one of the landmarks of
the great revolution taking place in the
other branch of the Church. 'Us a pow
erful, a masterly struggle, but it is for a
doomed, a dying cause. Al ! if such
mighty appeals had come during the war
from the pulpit of the Tenth Church, in
behalf of assailed and insulted law and im
perilled national life, as were eagerly volun
teered in St. Louis by its occupant, in
behalf of two of the most odious arch
sympathizers with rebellion in the whole
Union, how loyal hearth would have glowed
at the brave words, and how deeply en
shrined in the memories of a grateful peo
ple would have been their author ! But
that sublime opportunity is forever gone.
. 0 eon sag:trifles( to gain- the art
plause of a handful of Missouri secession
ists, and the commendation of a Richmond
journal, the organ of an apostate • Chris
tianity, which, in spite of a brie?, galvan
ized revival, is doomed to disappear from
the earth.
The following is the congratulatory echo
which comes promptly from Richmond :
On Monday, 21st, Rev. Dr. Boardman
made a speech against the right to exclude
those members, in the course of which he
characterized Dr. Thomas' speech as it de
served. We have concluded to publish this
speech entire. Of course there are some
things in it , with which we do not sympathise ;
but in its main point it is a noble defence of
what is right, and a protest against outrage
ous wrong. It will give our readers a clear
idea of the condition in which this "preitin
inary proceedure" is likely to place the
Church. All honor to the man who his
thus stood manfully up for truth. •
THE LATE CAPT. WHILLDIN.
Whereas, in the mysterious providence
of Almighty God, it has pleased him to
remove our late President, Capt. Wilmer
Whilldin,-by death; therefore, .
Resolved, That this Board of Trustees,
in the death of our late President, has sus
tained an irreparable loss. One so endeared
to us by his genial bearing and ready
charity; whose presence always contributed
to our enjoyment; whose heart and purse
were always open to every just claim, and
whose long presence in this body has en
deared him as a brother, cannot be separ
ated'
_from us without deep and painful
emotions.
Resolved, secondly, That this Board of
Trustees will, to-morrow, attend his funeral
in a body, to testify our respect for our late
President and our sympathy with his
family in their terrible loss.
S. T. ELDRIDGE, Secretary.
PECLUDELPHIA, May 25, 1866.
THE UNION PRAYER-MEETING.
The twenty-first week of the daily.after
noon prayer-meetings closed on Saturday .
last, when it was determined to change the
arrangement to a weekly union meeting, to
be held on THURSDAY AFTERNOONS at five .
o'clock.
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CARMEL CHURCH.
The Chapel, corner of Broad and
oxford streets, was dedicated to the
purposes of Divine worship, on Thurs
day evening of last week. The build
ing was crowded to its utmost capacity,
many remaining ou the outside The
services were under the direction of Dr.
Brainerd. The singing was by the
choir of Calvary - Chuch, led by J. C. B.
Stanbridge. The Scriptures were read
by Rev. John W. Mears, and the dedi
catory prayer offered by Rev. Dr. March
Rev. W. Calkins read a statement pre
pared by Mr. J. S. Cummings, giving a
history of the under.aking, and an
nounced that the name " CAMEL" had
been agreed upon as the name of the
Church. That gives a list of four
charchea, in our connection, in this city,
called after the eminences of the Bible—
Calvary, Tabor, Olivet, and Carmel.
' The lot has a front on Broad street of
100 feet, extending through to Cadbury
avenue 239 feet. The Chapel building
is 42 , feetjront by 80 feet in depth, of
cat brown 'stone, in Norman style, and
was contracted for at the cost of $17,800.
It has accommodations for five hundred
and twenty persons. Six hundred could
be seated by occupying the aisles. The
Church lot has a front on Broad street
of 100 feet, extending in depth to the
'Chapel on Oxford street 120 feet, leav
ing more than 60 feet on Oxford street,
with a depth of 100 feet, that can be
either disposed of in aid of the Building
Fund, Or used for a parsonage.
Addresses of the most interesting and
stirring character were made by Rev.
Mr. Barnes, Dr. Brainerd and Dr. S.
G. Spees. The benediction was pro
nounced by Rev. John MeLeod.
There can scarcely. be imagined any
thing more neat and tasteful, or more
appropriate to its present and prospect
ive uses, than this chapel. It contains
an audience-room, a library fitted up for
a thousand volumes, each volume to
have a small compartment for itself, an
infant school-room, and a commodious
gallery. Interior and exterior are alike
attractive and satisfactory. All praise
is due to the wise and large-hearted men,
Messrs. Baldwin and Whilldin, who
lave, thus far, been its only patrons.
On Sabbath, notwithstanding the in
clemency of the day, all the services
were fully attended. Rev. Dr. Brainerd
preached in the morning; Rev. John
McLeod preached at night. The Sab
bath-school was organized in the after
noon, out of the two schools formerly
held in Wagner Institute and in the
Hall on Montgomery Avenue, the latter
being the Branch School of North Broad
Street Church. The Superintendent,
Mr. John S. Cummings, presided, and
presented a brief history of the two
schools thus consolidated. Brief and
stirring addresses were delivered by
Benedict D. Stewart, Esq., Messrs. Mar
tin, White, Walton, and Moore. The
opening- prayer and brief address was
made by Rev. Hugh Elder. The attend
ance, notwithstanding the very inclem
ent weather, was large, not less than
400 children being present. The entire
services gave promise of future growth
and prosperity. A delegation consisting
of Messrs. Camp and Rowe, from the
North Broad Street Sabbath-school were
present, and tendered their salutations
and good wishes.
Under such favorable auspices is an
other of the enterprises of our branch in
Church Extension in our city inaugur
ated, making the NINTH of the sort in
the last twenty months.
FANCY FAIR AND STRAWBERRY
FESTIVAL
The people of East Whiteland Church
will hold a fair and festival, under canvas,
on Wednesday and Thursday of next week,
the 13th and 14th insts. Opening services
will be held at 10 A. M. on Wednesday,
when Rev. Dr. Brainerd will be present
and officiate. Excursion tickets to Garrett's
Siding by the Pennsylvania R. R., 8 o'clock
A. M. line, for 95 cents; return in the
afternoon. Proceeds for the benefit of the
East Whiteland Church.
A CALL.—Rev. Dr. Fisher, President
of Hamilton College, has received a call
to the Westminster Church, of Utica,
which, we understand he has under con
sideration, and will most likely accept.
The doctor has done a very great and
important work for Hamilton College ;
but we have known for some time that
he would not be unwilling to return,
when a suitable door should open, to the
pastoral work, for which also he has
peculiar qualifications.
Ray: HALSEY DIINNING,,paigtOr of the
Constitutional Presbyteranebareh, Bal
timore, has returned konChMf'Yoyage to
the West Indies, much, 41(eii•ed,. and re
vived, and hopeful of the best results
from his trip. He has resumed his pas
toral duties in part. W jign with many
friends in the prayer thatiAla recovery
may be permanent. ••