MAINE GENERAL CONFERENCE
Principal, Rev. Stephen Bush; alternate,
Rev. A. B. Lambert, P.D.
VERMONT GENERAL CONTENTION.
Principal, Rev. J. H. Noble; alternate, Rev.
E. 1.
NEW HAMPSHIRE GENERAL ASSOCIATION
Principal, Rev. D. H. Allen, D.D. ; alter
nate, E. K. Kittredge.
GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS
Principal, Rev. F. S. McCabe ; alternate,
Rev. Henry M. Field, D.D.
GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF CONNECTICUT
Principal, Rev. Conway P. Wing, D.D. ; al
terate, Rev. T. Ralston Smith.
PRESBYTERIAN AND CONGREGATIONAL CONVEY
TION OF WISCONSIN
Principal, Rev. Geo. I. King, D.D. ; alter
nate, Rev. E. A. Pierce.
UNION EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF FRANCE.
Rev. A. Eldridge, D.D.
Rev. C. H. Taylor, D.D., from Committee
on Narrative of the Church, made a report
which was adopted.
The Assembly, after the reading and .adop
tion of the report adjourned to 8 o'clock,-P. M
Evening Session.
The Assembly met at B'clock, P. M. The
church was crowded with members of the First
Church and visitors from other churches who
desired to be present at the closing exercises.
After prayer, several resolutions, relating to
printing the minutes, &c., were passed.
Addresses were then made by Rev. Thos. H.
Robinson, Rev. William Hogarth, D.D , Rev.
W. E. Knox, D.D., Rev. George F. Wiswell
and Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield, D D.
Dr. Hatfield, the oldest member of the Pres
bytery of St. Louis, said that three and thirty
years ago he first set foot on the shores of St.
Louis, when there was but one Presbyterian
church in the city, and only , 7000 people within
the bounds of the corporation, and when one
would as soon expect the Millenium to have
dawned upon us as to have supposed that within
three and thirty years two General Assemblies
would be entertained in this great and beauti
ful city of the West. Here it was that I received
my first pastorship ; here I buried my first love,
and when I sat first in the General Assembly
in 1835 it was as a Commissionerfrom the Pres
bytery of St. Louis, and I was the only Com
missioner from the whole territory included be
tween the Mississippi river and the great Pacific
ocean. In saying farewell to this dear people
he would call upon them for their benediction
upon the members of the Assembly as they went
to their Northern homes, and he felt sure that
their benediction would be left upon the people
of this city.
The Moderator, in closing the labors of the
Assembly and its deliberations, returned thanks
to the members for their assistance in maintain
ing order and facilitating the business, and
causing it to be brought to a happy and success
ful termination.
Rev. H. A. Nelson, D.D., on the part of the
people of the Fourteenth Street, North Pres
byterian Church, and other churches, and citi
zens responded to the kind encomiums passed
by the first speakers upon the great hospitality
of our citizens and the many attentions shown
to the members of the Assembly. He hoped
that, while the members had been kindly cared
for, a blessing would rest upon the people in
the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, in answer to
the many prayers that had been offered.
The following resolutions were offered by
G. F. Wiswell, and passed unahirriously
Resolved, That this General Assembly take
peculiar pleasure in here publicly recording
their warmest gratitude for the large and gene
rous provision made for their comfort and en
joyment by the people of St. Louis, in circum
stances of great difficulty, owing to the unex
pected presence of so many delegates from
other religious bodies as their guests. That we
specially tender sincere thanks to the Commit
tee of Arrangements, the honored pastot of the
First Presbyterian Church and his excellent
people for their thoughtful regard and provi
dent arrangements for all our sessions, and their
kind and persistent efforts to make their homes
our own during our stay. Also to the Presi
dent of the Iron Mountain Railroad Company,
for the pleasant excursion to Pilot Knob, and
his personal attentions on that occasion ; to the
Mercantile Library Association ; to the Presi
dent of the Public School Library Society; to
rb.the President of the City University; to the
Directors of the Girls' Industrial School, for
invitations to visit these respective institutions;
to the Superintendent of Public Schools for
copies of the last repert ; to the St. Louis
Transfer Co. for the generous offer of their
omnibuses; to the four Boat Companies, who
have furnished dinners from day to day to
many of our members from a distance; to
the several railroad companies who have
granted commissioners a reduced fare over
their roads; to the press of St. Louis, and
specially the Missouri Daily Democrat, for
faithful reports, and a full report of our pro
ceedings in pamphlet; and also, to our beloved
and excellent Moderator for the promptness
with which he. has so cheerfully, ably, and
impartially presided over our deliberations;
and as we say farewell to the people with whom
it has been our delightful privilege to mingle
in heavenly places in Christ Jeaus l
Resolved, That it is in all our hearts to pray
constantly that grace, mercy, and peace from
our common Lord may ever remain with them.
The Moderator concluded the exercises by
saving that it devolved upon him to declare
this Assembly dissolved, and to require another
Assembly, chosen in the same manner to meet
in the Brick Church, in the city of Rochester,
on the Thursday in May, 1867.
The Assembly and the congregation present
rose and joined with the choir and the great
organ in singing, in grand chorus—
" Praise God from whom all blessings flow."
After which, the Moderator pronounced the
benediction, and this Assembly, which was one
of the most harmonious sessions held for a long
time, and one which will ever be memorable in
the history of the Presbyterian Church was
dissolved.
THE NATIONAL HOMESTEAD FOR THE
ORPHANS OF SOLDIERS AID SAILORS has
purchased a site adjoining the historic
field of Gettysburg, and is about pre
paring the building temporarily for the
uses of the institution. Sabbath-schools
are' , the main contributors to its funds,
and the work may well and easily be
done by the children of our rescued
country. It will be seen by the list of
contributions we pnblish in another part
of the paper, that very many schools
have lately sent in their gifts. The in
stitution is in excellent hands, and de
serves the liberal patronage of all who
would join in one of the best testimo
nials possible to be given to the memory
of our departed heroes.
REV. HENRY S. OSBORN, LL.D., late
pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church in Belvidere, New Jersey, and
some years ago, Professor in Roanoke
College, Virginia, has entered upon his
duties as Professor of Mining and
Metallurgy in the Pardee scientific course
in Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. He
is meeting wits great success in making
collections, illustrative of his chair. His
works on idle Holy Land have been
widely circulated, as also the elaborate
descriptive map of Palestine, the fruit
of the joint efforts and travels of him
self and I Professor Lyman Coleman.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S EXCHR-
LETTER FROM OCR ROCHESTER COR-
RESPONDENT.
The citizens of St. Louis have done
their best to make the stay of the two
General Assemblies pleasant among them.
Am ong other things, they planned for us
an excursion to Pilot Knob, the famous
iron mountains, eighty-six miles south
of St. Louis. A train of six elegant
cars, on the Iron Mountain Railroad,
was yesterday put at the disposal of
our Assembly, and at 6.30 A.M. about
two hundred delegates, accompanied by
a goodly number of citizens of St. Louis,
started for that destination. At 10.30
we reached the spot. Dr. Nelion was
appointed President of the day; Ste
phen D. Barlow, the President of the
road, Vice-President; and James Rich
ardson, Marshal.
The road terminates at a little village,
where there is a large smelting furnace.
Once on the top of the mountain, the
company were called to order by the
President. We sung America. Rev.
Frederick Starr, Jr., pastor of North
Church in St. Louis, gave us an address
of welcome, to which the Moderator
gracefully replied in behalf of the As
bly, and then Dr. Nelson " told us where
we were." The monntain is five hun
dred and eighty-one feet high. The
base covers three hundred and sixty
acres. It is a mountain of solid iron
ore, yielding on analysis about 'TO per
cent. of pure iron. It is estimated that
one hundred and forty feet of the top of
this mountain will yield thirty-one bil
lions of pounds of pure iron, and that
there are in the whole. mountain four
teen millions of tons.
Shepherd Mountain is near by, is
larger, covers eight hundred acres, and
yields 68 per cent. pure iron. This ore
is magnetic. Iron Mountain, so called,.
is still another vast deposit ofk the same
mineral, six miles nearer'St. Louis, and
is estimated to contain 230,000,000 of
tons of iron: Enough in these three
mountains to supply the world, one
would think, almost to the end of time.
Just below the height upon which we
stood, Dr. Nelson pointed out an earth
work which was the scene of one of the
terrible fights of the late bloody war.
There, all day, Brigadier-General Ewing,
with 800 men, withstood the repeated
and desperate assaults of Sterling Price
with 10,000 men. It is said that he lost
four times as many men as Ewing had.
After Dr. Nelson's admirable address,
Dr. McCosh, of Scotland, being called
upon, offered prayer. We also sung the
doxology with a hearty good will, and
then descended the mountain, and re
turned safely to the city. The day was
fine, and all passed off very pleasantly.
It was an excursion never to be for
gotten.
THE OLD SCHOOL ASSEMBLY
The meeting of this body this year has
been one of peculiar interest, and plainly
indicates that the old ruling spirits in
that branch of the Church have lost
their power; it has passed into new
hands. Loyalty and patriotism have
triumphed over an effete conservatism.
It is no longer considered the highest
glory of that Church that it may con
serve the dark system of American
slavery, and the Church at last is free.
This was plainly indicated in the
election of the Moderator. He was
known as one of the most radical of its
leaders. How much impulse in that
direction he received by his early resi
dence in Western New York, we know
not; but it is no dishonor, that he was
a printer in one of the newspaper offices
in Rochester in 1830, and was convert
ed in the great revival of that year in
that city. He was afterwards a pastor
in New Orleans, once also President of
a College in Mississippi, and when the
Assembly met was a Professor in Dan
ville Theological Seminary. During the
pressent session of this Assembly, how
ever, he expects to resign his Professor
ship, as he is not inclined to spend his
thee any longer in educating rebels for
the ministry.
It must greatly gratify the friends of
liberty, to see how firmly, in all its
doings, this Assembly has held fast to
its patriotic utterances of the past five
years. Those of Southern proclivities
intended that these sh9nld be repealed
and repudiated. For this they have
labored incessantly for some time past.
They bad made some impression upon
those who were trying to occupy a
middle ground, partly for the country
and partly not. Many feared for the
result; but truth and justice have tri
umphed. Treason is thoroughly re
buked and traitors are left to go to their
own place.
It may interest some of our readers
to know that Rev. Dr. Wilson, one of
the Commissioners from the Louisville
Presbytery, is the son of that Dr. Wil
son who persecuted old Dr. Beecher in
1834, and had him tried for heresy. In
1860 this son was pastor of that same
church in Cincinnati where the father
was settled in 1834 ; and in that same
pulpit in the fall of 1860, he preached
eon of the first and most obnoxious
secession sermons, we are credibly in
formed, ever preached by any traitoro us
minister. He is manifestly a fit colsy
panion for the notorious Stuart Robin
son.
GENSBEE.
ST. Louis, May 2.5,1866;
-THY. Conrmu-sroisrx of the new *edifice
for the Third Presbyterian Church Pitts
burgh, was with appropriate cere
monies, June Ist. The lecture room is'
and in use. Further
already completed,
particulars in our next.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1866.
MY DEAR SIR : " The May Meetings"
are drawing to a close. This year they
hare been more than usually successful.
All the great societies, such as the Bible
and Tract Societies, the Church of Eng
land Missions, the Sunday-school Union,
and the like, have filled the large room
of Exeter Hall, which holds nearly 4000
people, to suffocation. The speaking has
been marked with great, fervor, great
breadth of view, and kreat catholicity.
Our own Synod may have been said to
commence the proceedings. It began
its sittings in Regent Square Church,
Dr. Hamilton's, on Monday, 16th April,
and closed there on Thursday of the
same week. Regent Square Church is
the church of Edward Irving ; but, since
his day, it has been remodelled and al
most reconstructed. Still it possesses
all the features which distinguished it
in his time. It is a noble structure, and
well worthy of the meeting of any Pres
byterian Synod. The Rev. Thomas
Alexander, M. A., of Chelsea, was, on
motion of the retiring Moderator, unani
mously chosen to occupy the chair. In
his opening address, Mr. Alexander
treated the subject of creeds, their rela
tion to a church, and the relation of a
church to them; their relation to the
Bible, and their nature and necessity.
He also adverted to the recent contro
versies in Scotland concerning the Sab
bath—treating it fundamentally, as the
relation of the law, the moral law, as
summarily comprehended in the Deca
logne—to the Gospel.
The Synod transacted all its ordinary
business with great facility and: business
power. The report of the various com
mittees was one unbroken:record of pro
gress. We seem to have taken a fresh
start in these last years. The fund of
X 25,000 which we raised a few years
ago for Church Building and Debt Ex
tinction, has worked very admirably.
It has not only largely aided the work
of Church Extension, by assisting the
building of new churches here and there,
but it has very 'nearly extinguished all
the debt on all our existing churches.
This it has done in so judicious a way
that, notwithstanding large grants—free
grants—by a skilful management of
interest, and in other ways, while title
debt of the churches is gone, the fund is
as yet very far from exhausted. •
A CHEERING RETROSPECT-HYMNOLOGY
In the School work, in the Home
Mission work, in the College, and in the
Foreign Missions, the reports were .all
equally favorable. There is a balance
on the right side of the account in all
our schemes, with only one exception.
That exception is our Foreign Missions,
in which the balance is on the wrong
side. Bat this, so far from being an
evidence of flagging, or Jack of zeal, is
the very reverse. For, in fact, our very
success has been our burden. God has
blessed oar missionaries. They have
gone in at , all open doors, and thus our
sail has, in some sort, exceeded our bal
last: we have more leafage than root
hold. But this we hope soon to rectify.
Some years ago, our Synod introduced
a Hymn Book. The great majority of
our people hold and cling to the Psalms;
the old hymn book never was popular;
and though it was introduced into a
few of our congregations, it was there
received with so little favor that it may
be said to have fallen out of sight and
out of mind. At this last Synod, an
other and a larger book was introduced,
ail hastily sanctioned. And this i'Atrd.
subject may be said to be the only gib
ject which marred the harmony of an
otherwise most harmonious Synod.
We had for deputations many of the
good, wise, and noble of all churches—
among whom we may mention the Earl
of Dalhousie, and the Earl of Kintore
from the Free Church ; Dr. Marshall
and Dr. King from the 'United Presbyte
rian Church of Scotland. On many of
the evenings of the meetings of the
Synod the large Church in which we
met was quite full.
ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF SCOTLAND IN
- Your readers know that the Estab
lished Church of Scotland has " a rem
nant" of ministers and congregations
here in England. They have a Presby
tery of London which meets, or is sup
posed to meet, quarterly. They have a
meeting, too, of Synod, annually. They
met this year in London, in the school
room attached to Dr. Cumming's church.
They soon finished their business and
departed. The matter of chief impor
tance before them was the case of a Dr.
Macßeth. This reverend gentleman
had for many years a congregation in
connection with the Established Synod
in the West End of London, near one of
the largest and most fashionable squares,
Belgrave Square,. and in the very heart
of the fashionable quarter. Palling into
bad health, he got also into debt and was,
it is said, pressed for money. The lease
of the church was somehow, legally, his
own property. And so after service,
one Sabbath, he announced to his, con
gregation that they were to meet
,tfiere
for worship no more, and accordingly he
locked the door in their face. It was
also reported and believed that he had
offered to sell his church to the Papists,
and certainly h e did negotiate with the
Puseyites for a sale of it to them. The
news of this created quite a sensation
both i n E ng l an d and in Scotland---e n _
Pecialiy amon g the Presbyterians here
an d there.
Pinaity it turned out that one of our
l e 'rigregati nna in that quarter of London,
OUR LONDON LETTER.
LONDON, May, 1866
SYNOD OF THE E. P. CHURCH
LONDON
the lease of whose church was just ex
piring, bought Dr. Macßeth's church
from the mortgagee to whom he had by
this time sold it. Our congregation,
under the pastorate of our Moderator,
the Rev. T. Alexander, took possession
of the church, and now it is filled to the
ve ry door with one of the choicest con
gregations in the West End. This, of
course, is a sore point in the eyes of the
Established Synod ; and Dr. Macßeth
having, after he had shut up his church,
demitte& his charge to the Presby
tery,, the case came befote .their Synod.
After a long speech, and a bitter, from
Dr. Cumming, and a longer, and still
more bitter one from Dr. Macßeth, and
after a whole sederunt's wrangling, they
deprived Dr. Macßeth—by the vote of a
large majority—of his ministerial status,
and declared him no longer a minister of
their Church. Dr. Macßeth appealed to
the General Assembly of the Established 1
Church of Scotland; and so, for the pre
sent, the matter takes end—only to be
resumed, however, in the Assembly, if
they agree to take up the case, which
they must legally do.
ANOMALOUS POSITION OF DR. CUMMING
The Synod of the so-called Estab
lished Church of Scotland, in England,
have no missions. They have no college:
no united action as a Church. Their
Synod has, in fact, only an appellate
jurisdiction, and besides that it does
nothing. The strength of the whole
Church is Dr. Cumming's name. I say
his name, for he does little for Presby
terianism any way, least of all perhaps
for his own body in England. Among
his Episcopalian friends he passes him
self off as a minister of the Church of
Scotland, 'which he no more is than I
am. He was ordained herein London.
He was never in his life under the juris
diction of a Scottish Presbytery, and
likely never will be now. He has a
spendid congregation; large, wealthy;
but it is not what it was, for Mr. Spurgeon
is the popular and fashionable notoriety
of the day. Nobody but Dr. Cumming
could keep together his present congre
gation, the church in which be preaches
is so very awkwardly situated. So soon
'as' he leaves, or in any way gives it up,
the doom of "the Established Church of
Scotland" in this country is sealed and
and settled. There are very few con
gregations of any importance beside his
own—excepting a few in the North of
England--and I have no doubt the
others would speedily be absorbed by
us; and then, if there came union with
the United Presbyterians in this coun
try, we should be a compact Church by
that time from two to three hundred
strong. The Lord hasten it in his
time.
THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION-THE
BREAKFAST.
The Congregational Union has also
been holding its sittings last week in the
Weigh House Chapel, Mr. Binney's,
under the Presidency of Mr. Newman
Hall. I am sure I need not tell your
readers who Mr. Hall is. I believe he is
one of the most popular of the Congre
gational ministers on your side of the
water. 'He followed Mr. James Sher
man as the minister of Surrey Chapel,
where the famous Rowland Hill min
istered, lived, and died ; for the parson
age is part of the pile of buildings.
At the close of the sittings, a breakfaet
Was given to several ministers of the
Congregational Union—to the number
of about two hundred—as many as
could be packed into the schookoom
attached to the chapel. But the feature
of the' breakfast which was given by
Mi/Hall; the invitations being issued
by him, or in his name, was the strange
gathering thereby brought together.
A HETEROGENEOUS ASSEMBLY.
There Was, first, the rector of the
parish in which Surrey Chapel stands.
There was Second, as representing the
House of Lords, no less a personage
than Lord Ebury—Lord Shaftesbury
having, for reasons best known to him
self, declined.. There was Mr. Thos.
Chambers, Mr. Harvey Lewis, Sir Frank
Crossley, and a few more representing
the House of Commons. There was
(whom think you ?) representing the
Church of England, Dean Stanley, of
all men. There was the son of Kossuth,
the Hungarian patriot. There was Mr.
Sella Martin, representing the freed
staves, I suppose ; there was the Rev.
Dr. Thompson, of New York ; there was
the Rev., the President of the Wesleyan
Conference, Mr. Shaw ; the Rev., the
the ModeratOr of the English Presby
terian Church, Mr. Alexander; the Rev.
Dr. Angus and others representing the
Baptists. These, with &lithe leading men
of the Independent persuasion in Eng
land, such as John Stoughton and Mr.
Henry Alton, made a strange gathering
indeed. But the thing that has caused
the greatest talk, and no little scandal,
is the fact of Mr. Dean Stanley's pre
sence.
DEAN STANLEY'S OPINIONS
He is well known to hold hardly a
scrap of anything that deserves to be
called " Gospel." He laughs at impu
tation, scorns substitution, denies inspi
ratiOn, doubts or openly professes his
disbelief• of all miracles ; holds a sort of
mysterious Deity who manifests himself
at different times and places in different
ways, but who is so essentially one as
t o preclude the possibility, of any doc
trine approaching to that of the Trinity;
i n fact, he is near to the level of the
barest and boldest Socinian you could
raentio -to me. I. would not compare
hini‘ fo one moment with your Charming;
Chan ing held and felt far more truth
than ever did Dean Stanley. Well:
this man is invited to a breakfast, a
public breakfast, in a public place, by a
I public man, and on public grounds.
How was he received by this assemblage
of Congregational ministers in the nine
teenth century ? They stood to their
feet as one man when he entered, and
waved their handkerchiefs, and stamped
and cheered as if he had been a con
queror just returned from a battlefield.
And so he is, a conqueror as he thinks ;
but the adversary is the truth of God.
He stands up to speak, and has to wait
several minutes before he can be heard,
and, after he had finished, the whole
assembly—nearly, for I at least sat still
—rose again, and cheered and cheered
as if they had before them the saviour of
their country, if not the very Saviour of
the world. Need yon wonder that men
are saying we live in strange times?
REPRESENTATIVE AMERICAN CHRISTIANS
IN LONDON
Your Mr. G. H. Stuart has been
speaking at many meetings of all sorts
here, from the Bible Society downwards,
and always with the very greatest ac
ceptance, so far as I learn, or have seen,
or heard ; the same may be said, though
in a less degree, of Rev. R. J. Parvin,
of your city. A meeting of the Chris
tian Young Men's Association, on a
grand scale, is to be held on the 22d, to
do them honor, and hear their account
of what was done in the war times.
OTHER TOPICS
The cattle plague, week by week,
slowly but surely diminishes; still it has
not departed, and the returns are still as
high as 2000 a week, and of course
that must be far below the reality. We
have had cases of cholera, too, in one
and another town, and the weather has
been of the most untoward description.
We are now far on in May, and yet the
leafage is but scant. It seems to me as
if our spring were at least a month be
hind its usual time. Frosts here and
there blighted and killed much of the
bloom, so that our prospects of a fruit
harvest are but scant, while the pros
pects of a grain harvest do net look
much brighter. Cold, cutting East
winds, and all but November fogs, have
been the characteristics of our "merry
month of May." Add to all this, that
the European war which everybody
seems to expect, is now all but inevita
ble, and you will not wonder when I
tell you that, in many quarters, men's
hearts begin "to fail them for fear."
In some measure, doubtless, these con
siderations and combinations acted on
the minds of men, and went far, if not
to cause, at least to increase, the inten
sity of the money panic which we wit
nessed last week in the city of London,
and which has hardly ever been equalled
in intensity, possibly not within the
range of the memory " of the oldest in
habitant." The furor was positively
terrific ; it was a panic foolish and ig
noble in the extreme. It has now,
however, passed away, and every day
&Oa to the strength and steadiness of
the gaze which men take into the future.
Let me come back before I close to a
small ecclesiastical matter. The Free
Presbytery of Glasgow have been en
gaged of late in dealing with one ,
of
their own ministers on a charge of heresy.
Mr. W. C. Smith is an old friend and
fellow-student of mine, and I know him
well. His heresy is that of Dr. Norman
McLeod. He Me to see the true rela
tionship in which the old dispensation,
and so the Old Testament, stands to the
New. He denies the Old Testament
altogether as a binding rule on us in
any shape or form. I am convinced
the heresy is nothing worse in him
than a sin of ignorance. " Walter," as
we used to call him, knows many things,
and knows them well, but knows little
of theology. Finally, I must humbly
apologize to you and your readers for
the delay of this letter. The real truth
is, I have been so` very busy that I have
had no time for any extras whatsoever.
Yours, in good truth, PHILADELPHOS.
Altriat 4dirtz.
Ali- The Presbytery of Cayuga will hold
its stated meeting at Aurora, Tuesday Jane 19th, at
two o'clock, P. M. CHAS: .11AWLEY 3
Stated Clerk.
OW The Presbytery of illagewa will hold
ita next stated meeting at Lewiston, June 19th, at 4
o'clock P. M. W. G. HUBBARD.
WILSON, N. Y., May 30th, 1866.
nir•Philadelphia Tract and Mission 110.
ciety.—Office, 115 South Seventh Street.
The one hundred and thirty-sixth meeting in behalf
of this Society, will be held in the Calvary Presbyte
rian Church, Locust above Fifteenth Street, on nab
bath evening, June 10th at 8 o'clock.
Rev. Messrs. Adair, Kummer, Saul, and Church
will address the meeting. Public invited.
JOSEPH. H. SCHREINER, Agent.
Air The Presbytery of Ontario will meet in
Nunda, on the third Tuesday in June, (19th), at four
o'clock P. M.
T. BARNARD, Stated Clerk
ad- The Presbytery of Cortland will hold
ita next Stated Meeting at Dryden, on Tneeday, 12th
of June, at 2 o'clock P. M.
H. N. MILLER)), Stated Clerk.
AUBURN. May 22,1866.
air Oxford Street Chapel. --The new Ohap . el,
Oxford Street, below Broad. will be dedicated with
appropriate services, at eight o'clock, on Thursdas ,
evening, list instant. - Rev. Messrs. Barnes, Calkins.
and Rev. Dr. Brainerd, will participate in the exer
cises.
The Choir of the Calvary Presbyterian Church, with
the assistance of J, C.Stanbridge, Esq.. will conduct
the music on the occasion. 2t
SEP. The Presbytery of Columbus will hold
its next Stated Meeting, at Baraboo, on Tuesday. the
19th of June, at seven o clock P. M.
B. G. RILEY. Stated Clerk.
ARP-Buffalo Presbytery will bold their
Stated Meeting at Jamestown, on the second Tuesday
of June, commencingid four o'clock P. M.
TIMOTHYSTILLMAN, Stated Clerk.
far The Presbytery of Rochester will hold
to Semi-Annual Meeting in Bergen, on Tuesday. the
12th day of June next, at two o'clock P. M.
CHAS. E. FITILMAN, Stated Clerk.
BUFFALO, May 19, 1866.
Mir Presbytery of Ste'abet' will hold flit 1182
regular meeting at Paßimy. on the -second Tueedai
(12th) of June, 1966, at 4 o'clock, P. kt, •
W. A. MILES, Stated Clerk.
Cosmic% May 11,1866.
The Rev. George Rood and Lady,
Of Princeton, N. J.—Experienced educators--receive
into their family Six Kisses to educate with their
own. Terms moderate, with a good and safe home.
Reference College Faculty. Send for a circular.
THE NATIONAL ORPHANS' HOME
STEAD. AT GETTYSBURG.
National Sabbath -school Enterprise.
The Sabbath-schools connected with the c'turehes
named below, have taken twenty-five dollar s!. tree in
the Orphans' Homestead. eact school thus s.ccurint
by its contribution, al- P , irtlege to r oniclte one
orphan for d issiop •. • 1 1 c
Presbyterian eh. T.. wands "a. 11 shares. S2 - 'l5 00
Presbyt• rim, ch. Law bow i I e, \J, 11 shares, 27.5 00
Christ Episcopal ch. Towanda. Pa, S shares. :I'o 00
First Baptist ch. Chester. Pa, 7 shares. 175 00
St Paul's Epis ch, Philad, G c f school.j n' shares, 154 00
St Paul's Eels eh. Cheltenham, Pa, 6 shares, 150 00
Missionary Society, Ist Independent church.
Philadelphia, 6 shares. 110 00
First Presbyterian ch. B•• 1 i of ere, N J, 5 sh ar• •. I`s 00
Pint Presbyterian ch. vlie .betb, J, 4 hkret=, 100 10
Westminster Pres oh, NJ. 4 share , . 100 00
Ephipbany Episcopal en. Philad, 4 char, s, 100 (0
St Paul's Episcopal ch. Ch ester. Pa, 4 shares. 100 00
St Andrew's Epis ch. Wilmington, 11-1, 3 shs, 75 00
Calvary Epis oh, G..rmautown. 7-1 shF, 75 00
Second Presbyterian eh, o.drid N 3, 3 81,4, 78 CO
First Presbyt'n eh. coo t.lnv„,ik. Pt ilati 3 stis, 7.5 00
First Presbyterian oh, Chester. Pa, 3 bha es, 75 00
Methodist Episcopal ch. Scranton, Pa, 3 she. 75 00
Methodist Episcopal ch. Towanda. Pa. 2 she, 50 00
Methodist Episcopal oh, Nyack, NY. 2 shares, 50 00
Tabernacle Methodist Epis oh, Philad, 2 shs, 50 00
Reformed Dutch ch. Nyack, N Y, 2 shares. 50 00
Lutheran eh, Nowville, Pa, 2 shares. 0 00
German Reformed ch. Allentown. Pa. 2 shs. 50 00
Presbyterian eti, Allentown. Pa, 2 shares. 50 00
Presbyterian ch. Waterford, N Y. 2 shares, 50 00
Presbyterian ch, Mauch Chunk. Pa, 2 shares, 50 00
Second Presbt'n ch. Elizabeth NJ, 2 shares, 50 00
First Presbyterian ch. Philadelphia, 2 shares, 50 00
North Presbyterian ch. Philad. 2 shares. 50 00
Arch Street Presbyterian ch. Philad, 2 shares, 50 00
Spring Garden Baptist ch. Philad. 2. shares, 50 00
Broad and Brown St Baptist eh, Philad, 2 shs. 50 00
Baptist ch. Alanayunk. Philad, 2 shares. 50 00
Baptist oh. Lambertville, N J. 2 shares. 50 00
Gr a ce Episcopal ch. Philadelphia , 2 shares 50 00
Trinity Episcopal ch. Carbondale, Pa. 2 shares. 50 00
T r i n ity 'Bois oh, Wilmington, Del, 1 share, 25 00
Calvary Epis eh, Wilmington, Del, I share, 25 00
Calvary Epis Mission. Wtl'ton. Del, 1 share, 25 00
Grace Episcopal oh, Allentown, Pa, I share, 25 00
Christ Episcopal oh. Lexington. Ks. 1 share, 25 00
Christ Episcopal oh Elizabeth, NJ, 1 share. 25 00
St Martin's LAS ch. Marcus hook, Pa. 1 share. 25 00
Congregational eh, Granville, Illinois, I share. 26 00
Winthrop Congre ch , harlestown. Alitss. 1 sh. 25 00
First Congre oh, Cincinnati. Unit), 1 share, 25 00
Carr Street Mission Sa, Cincinnati. 0.1 share, 25 00
St Peter's Methodist oh, heading, Pa. I share. 28 00
Siloam Methodist oh, Philadelphia, I share. 25 C 9
Methodist eh. Fishkill Landin,g, N y, I share. OO
Methodist ch. Lambertville. NJ, I share, hi 00
Methodist oh, Harrisburg, Pa, 1 share, 25'00
Methodist oh. Mauch Chunk, Pa, 1 share, 25 .00
Baptist church, Upland Pa. 1 share, 25'00
Fourth Baptist ok,Phildelphia, I share, 25 00
Fifth Baptist chePhiladelphia. 1 share, 25 00
First Moravian oh, Philadelphia, 1 share, 25 00
First Universalist ch. Philadelphi share,are. 25 00
First New Jerusalem oh, Philad. 1 25 'OO
Evangelical Protestant oh, Philad. 1 share. 25 CO
Bible Chri,th pendent delphia, 1 share, 25 OD
Ebenezer Inh, Philad, 1 share, 28 26
First Lutheran church, York. Pa. 1 share. 25 00
St Panl'S Lutheran oh, York, Pa. 1 share, 25 OS
St John's Lutheran ch. Allentown, Pa, 1 share. 25 00
Lutheran oh, Germantown, Philad, share, 25 00
German Ref oh, Farmersville, Pa, I share, 25 00
German Feformed (sth) eh, Philad. 1 share; 25
United Presbyterian (sth) oh, Philad, 1 share, 25
Fiist, Presbyterian oh, Illinonk„ 111, I share. 28
Second Presbyterian oh,Carlislo. Pa, 1 share. 25
Olivet Presbyterian ch. Philadelphia, I share, 25 RI
North Broad St Pres eh, Philad, 1 share, 25 00
Kensington Presbyterirn ch. Philad. I share, 25 00
Presbyterian oh, Marietta, Pa, I share, 25 CO
Presbyterian oh, Shippensbure. Pa. 1 share. 25 00
Presbyterian oh, Lyon's Farm. N J,l share. 25 00
It is earnestly hoped that schools will not delay in
sending the names or orphans to be enrolled for early
admission into the Institution.
J. 'FRANCIS BOURNS, Secretary,
No. 330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa
aILtY 17. 1866
IMPORTANCE OF HAVING DAVIS' PALM
KILLER ALWAYS AT HARD.
Wonderful cure of the Rev. D. L. Brayton, Miser
sionary in. India, who was stung by a scorpion. Ex
tract from his letter, dated Mergui. June 13, and pub
lished in the Baptist Missionary Magazine for Decem-;
bar, 1849 For the first time since I have been iII
India. I have been stung by a scorpion. I went out
this morning to my exercises, as usual, at early dawn;
and having an occasion to use an old box, on taking
off the cover, I put my band on ascorpion, which im.
mediately resented the insult by thrusting its sting
into the palm of my hand. The instantaneous and
severe pain which darted through my system is quite
incredible; what an awfully virulent poison their
sting must contain I I flew to my bottle of ' Davie
Pain Killer,' and found it to be true to its name. The
relief was almost as sudden as the pain: after a men
inent'e relief % I saturated a small piece of sponge:
bound it on my hand, and went about my exercisegt
feeling no more paltiozdar inconveniences," 1015-31
ASTMEAL CURED.
Relief guaranteed in ten minute*,
_and
apermanent cure effected by the use of "UPHAhI'Ef
ASTHMA CURE." Cases of from ten to twenty years'
standing yield at once to its influence. Price $2.
Sent Dost-paid to say address, by S. C. UPHAM. 25
South Eighth Street. Philadelphia, Pa. Circulars
sent frac. ' 1036-310
MANY WILL REGRET
THAT THEY DID NOT INVEST In
POWERS' PERPETUAL BROOM
When their States or Counties could be hid at Erd
coot,
Territory is selling rapidly. 2.1•29 men are
COINING HONEY.
One purchase! writes r—'' In 10 day ' s I have sol!i
Brooms; amorously one to a Amity.' Another. 'MI
fast three week's work with the Broom has netted
t 550." "Another. "Enclosed find draft to pay for 200
Brooms. In about two weeks I shall want 400 more! ,
A fourth, "In S Coro I have sold 7 townships for A.
coos qf sly csansig, and have 27 left.
YOU CAN DO AS WELL. if an enterprising mast;
and in a good County. Then, why be satisfied with ia
to $5 per day? ,
THE RIM IS NOTHING!.
The probabilities of large returns are evident
' State and . County rights for sale.
Brooms furnished (complete or in earls) in an
quantities required.
Send stamp for circular, or call on
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N. M. Cor.l7tk and Market St.
1046 Philadelpuia.
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