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THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1866
OPEN-AIR PREACHING.
The reality and the greatness of the'
revival, through which all th'e Evangelical
churches of our land are passing, will as
suredly appear in more decided efforts for
the evangelization of the neglectors of
gospel ordinances. Those who cannot be
induced to come within the walls of God's
house—and they are the masses of our city
populations—will be followed outside. We
do most thoroughly believe all our methods
defective, so far as they do not include or
contemplate these outside classes. The
missionary quality—that essential element
of a living Christianity and of 'all true
labors for Christ—is wanting, if they are
overlooked. It is justly claimed that the
church which is content, without making
efforts for the salvation of the heathen, is
in a declining condition. It is, without
doubt, equally true, that a high state of
piety will show itself in vigorous efforts for
evangelizing the heathen under the eaves
of our churches.
Ont-door preaching is bringing to bear
upon the masses God's own appointed chief
instrumentality for spreading his gospel
and discipling the nations. Tract visita
tions and efforts with individuals are of the
highest importance; but the Holy Spirit
plainly indicates the assembled congrega
tion, with the solemnities and sympathies
of public worship, as his chosen scene of
activity and triumph. It is' l / 4 rio ordinary
success to bring the unthinking, the worldly
and the Sabbath~ breakers, who avoid the
house of God, to'gather around the rough
stand in the open air, and listen to the
story of the cross. There are features of
such a seryioe well adapted to meet their
case. There is a peculiar absence of con
straint and formality, there is no deadening
familiarity in the surroundings. The
truth there seems more evidently preached
for its own sake. Motives of speakers are
less liable to suspicion and cavil. Religion
appears more real and more akin to thosein
terests of life, which draw all sorts of men
together in sympathizing crowds. The
idea that ministers and the church are
really in earnest; a conviction, apt to dis
turb the conscience, that the irreligious
cannot get altogether out of the way of
truth and its ministers; a remote sense
that the kingdom of darkness has found its
match in the all-pervading nature of the
kingdom of Christ,—these are some of the
favorable elements of out-door preaching,
so far as the hearers are concerned.
And the preacher himself must receive
great profit from the practice. In carrying
out thus, to the fullest extent, the commis
sions of his Master, he feels a contentment
and satisfaction, which the occupant of a
pulpit merely cannot be expected fully to
share. tome, many perhaps, are con
strained to restrict themselves,to what may
be called the.in-door department of preach
ing; but it is only half of the range of the
divine ordinance. The ministry at large
have no right to remain satisfied while so
small a part of the capacities of their pro
fession is brought into use. It is adapted
for the way-side. It is fitted to reach the
wandering and perishing masses. Out
door preaching is the true compulsive form
of the invitation to the gospel feast, and
without it, the feast is not announced as
widely as the Master wished. The very
title of the principal discourse in the whole
Bible is an argument for out-door preach
ing, as a leading part of the drity. Noth
ing delivered in synagogue or temple is so
famous as Christ's "Sermon on the Mount."
And the most remarkable discourse preach
ed by Paul was that on Mars fill. These
preachers understood their profession.
They did not suffer its wide adaptations to
be undeveloped. Consider what would
have been the result, if Christ and his
apostles had confined their preaching to
synagogues and to schools like that of
Tyrannus, or had waited for the erection
of churches before they began to preach?
Evidently, for the extension of Christianity,
out-door preaching is a prime necessity;
and a Christianity which is not struggling
by all available means to extend itself, is
a dying Christianity.
We need the open air to take off the
edge of formalism and stiffness and secta
rian narrowness from our preaching. A
form of worship and a style of preaching
which will not bear exposure to the open
air, but must hover around altars and
churches, must lean on paid choirs and in
struments of music, must listen in oomfurt
able cushioned pews, and go and come in
carpeted aisles, must have a marble pulpit
and an audience attentive, deferential, and
solemnly silent, is not without its uses. It
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New Series, Vol. 111, No. 24.
has a beauty and an impressiveness with
out which society would be poorer. In
fact we are dependent for the preaching of
the gospel, now-a-days, almost entirely upon
these methods. But we submit that they
often encumber and embarrass the truth.
They beget stiff and formal ways. They
are apt to make a breach between the
sanctuary and the every day sympathies
and habits of thought among men: Ser
mons tend to become essays. The preacher's
privilege of an ever deferential audience
tends to paralyze a whole branch of his
energies.
We know of nothing so certain to make
all the devices of Protestant worship natural
in tone, than to perform them in the open
air, to a company gathered and held to
gether by the miscellaneous motives which
influence a crowd. All the apparatus that
tended to keep formality in countenance
has vanished. We now come face to face
as men. Our surroundings now tell of the
every day practical wants and interests of
men. Is our message really adapted to
them in these practical and common sense
relations ? Or is it fit only for consecrated
places, and for peculiar associations• remote
from the affairs of men? Can the preach
ing of the Gospel be shown to be a power
apart from these associations, which would,
of course, give any doctrine great advate
•
ages in the presentation,?,_ IS the Gospel
something which may be' brought to bear
upon the mind as directly; as individually,
arid as simply upon its own merits, as the
political questions whioh men love to have
discussed before theth in the open-air?
We are taught, as it seems to us, by
open-air preaching, the necessity of relying
upon the truth alone. And we shall not
be pardoned or borne with by the miscel
laneous multitude, as by a decorous and
friendly congregation, for dullness, for
tedious and intricate speculations, or for
want of earnestness. If we wish to dis
cover how our preaching has, perhaps for
years, been lacking in elements of interest,
just let us go and try one of our ordinary
sermons upon a miscellaneous crowd in the
open-air, and as the assembly melts away
before our eyes, we may think what a
patient people ours must be, to sitoreek
after week, in respectful toleration of such
dullness ; and what intrinsic power there
must be in the Gospel, which, in spite of
such unattractive and inefficient instru
ments, continues to make its way into the
hearts of the people.
Open-air preaching will, we believe, act
most favorably on in-door preaching. It
will bring the fresh atmosphere into the
house. It will render impossible many of
those vices of manner, and those stupid
and erroneous methods of presenting the
truth, which are apt to grow up under the
comparatively easy circumstances of in-door
preaching. It will encourage true oratory,
and develope and strengthen vocal powers,
now so frequently and disastrously failing.
It will impart life and animation, it will
cultivate simplicity and directness in
.preaching. It will give to the preached
Gospel its rightful plane among the public
instrumentalities most effectually acting
upon the masses of men. Whatever else
is capable of interesting the accidentally
gathered crowd, it will be seen the Gospel
has equal fitness to that end.
This is a most seriously practical matter.
How is the Gospel to reach those who will
not come to our churches; those for whom
empty seats are waiting in our churches ;
those for whom there is no room in our
churches if they should come ? We be-
lieve there are one hundred thousand per
sons in this city, aside from Roman Catho
lies, and from those detained at home by
age or sickness, who are waiting for the
Lord's messengers along the highways and
hedges, to compel them to come in. Tract
Visitors and Church Associations reach sonic
of them, and a vast work of good is going
on through these instrumentalities; but
open-air preaching alone will bring the
Gospel, in its divinely appointed form and
highest efficiency, to their ears.
How THE HOME MISSIONARIES STRUG
GLE THROUGH.—Readers will not over
look the Report of the Ladies' Mis
sionary Socibty of the First church,
published on an inside page. It reveals
the secret supply, which, like Bunyan's
man pouring oil behind the chim ne y,
keeps up the fire of domestic comfort,
which low salaries and high prices have
well nigh extinguished upon the hearth
of many a Home _Missionary.
THE ADDRESS of Dr. Nelson, as delegate
to the other Assembly, and the response
of the Moderator, Dr. Stanton, will be
found - upon an inside page. They are
both important as revealing the animus
of the 'bodies OIL the question of their
mutual relation&
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1866. e
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF 1866.
A general review, giving in outline the
spirit and acts of the late General Assem
bly of our Church, will be acceptable to our
readers.
The very distant point which was the
place of meeting, had no sensible effect
toward reducing the number in attendance.
The roll (some 225 names) was about as
large as it has generally been during the last
few years, which have been remarkable, for
a pretty fall represeritation of the Presby
teries. This, in considerable part, results
from a greater confidence in the Commis
sioners' Fund, which of late has proved a
good reliance, up to a certain point, , for the
expenses of Commisisioners, ranging from
75 per cent. to the entire amount required.
It fell, the present year, to 73 per cent.,
which in view of the long and expensive
journey from the most populous quarters of
the Church to St. Louis was better than
was generally expected.
The strain upon the: hospitality of the
Christian people of St. Louis must have
been hard, but it was gallantly sustained.
When it is remembered that the two Ae
semblies were to be entertained by a city
which, though having '°a census of about
200,000, has. less than 12,000 attendants
on Protestant Church worship, and that our
hhurches were obliged, to furnish hotel and
boarding-house accommodations to no in
considerable number of their ,gifests, it
may well be believed that there was more
than usual sincerity in the vote of thanks
for the cheerful hospitality with which the
Assembly was entertained.
The .opening sermon, by the retiring
Moderator, Dr. Shaw was promptly pub
lished in ` or r paper. We presume it was
generally'
read; indeed we happen to know
—what does not at all surprise us—that
some have re-read it, and laid it aside for
other readings in days to come. It was full
of unction and timely, evidently the pro
duct of a mind skilled to adjust the Chris
tian graces to the spiritual events of the
day. It was a rare exhibition of good
sense, to forbear frequently coveted 'oppor
tunities for bringing:out something beyond
the ordinary line of pulpit performance,
and content oneself with .a plain and fer
vent exhibition of an every-day truth, be
longing to the vitalities of Christian life
and enterprise.
The Assembly was opened with the
usual formalities. The choice for Modera
tor fell upon one of the tried worthies of
our Church. Such certainly he ought to
be, in eminent degree, to justify the rather
singular course of calling one to follow, in
immediate succession, another of the same
immediate neighborhood, and, with only a
small interval of time, still another from
the faculty of the same institution. The
duties of the Chair were sustained with
dignity, and if, on any point, the Moderator
particularly excelled, it was in giving tone
to the hours of devotion, and carrying their
spirit forward into the business proceed
ings.
The most remarkable , feature of the busi
ness of the Assembly was the absence of
anything. remarkable. But' for the little
collision of feeling on the "Church Erec
tion" topic, and a slight ruffle 'of the sur
face in the matter of the report on the con
struction of a section in the Constitution
relating to judicial trials, the meeting would
have been almost oppressively quiet. More
of discussion would have been an improve
ment upon the character of the sessions.
It was needed , to rouse thought, to impart
liveliness, and to afford members higher
views of each other. The great enter-'
prises of the Church, of which the Home
Missionary is an example, should not, have
been cramped within a five minute rule,
but should have brought into the field the
power for holy excitements which was cer
tainly' possessed by not a few of those who
were sent there, not merely to sit watch
fully and see that everything was done cor
rectly, but to make themselves felt as an
element of strength in the glorious and now
widely extended work which, as a Church,
we have received from God. We believe
that, in the passing away from our Assem
blies of the discords and collisions, growing
out of the self-purgating process of former
years, and in the happy settlement of all our
Church plans for extension and usefulness,
we have passed too far out of the region of
excitement. We believe it would, have
been better, had we, in our public councils,
transferred the zeal and vehemence through
which we wrought the clearing o f ourse l ves,
into the fields occupied by our Permanent
Committees; not for controversy, but to
arouse and provoke to love and good works.
True, it might have extended the session,
but Commissioners should go prepared for
this. It i s a v i ce of all our ecclesiastical
meetings,. from the Assembly down, that s o
mall of th e re d i n terests of the Church
must bend to the desire of members to go
home.
The following catalogue comprises, in
mere outline, the principal doings of the
Assembly:—
1. The fixing of times for hearing the
reports of, the Permanent Committees, and
of the Standing Committees to,whom they
should be referred. In this arrangement
the "Church Erection" subject was taken
out of its regular place, the last, and made
the first. This was done, because no change
can be made in its - Plan, without an affirm
vote of two-thirds of the whole number en
rolled, a thing-almost` impossible of attain
ment near the end of the sessions.
2. The creation of a new Permanent
Committee to take in charge the general
intexests of Sabbath-schools. Rev. James
B. Shaw, D.D., is Chairman of this Commit
tee, and Rochester, N. Y., is the seat of its
operations.
3. The reception of the Report of the
Trustees of the Church Erection Fund.
Loana for- the year, $4675; donations,
s7so—total $5425. Receipts from churches
on acount of loans and donations, chiefly
the former, $7210 87. Present amount of
\I
the fu d, accruements from interest in
cluded, $127,489 52. Subsequently, on
the recommendation of the Committee to
whom the report was committed, the Plan
was amended. Principal changes—The
inorementg to this date consolidated with
the original fund, making the amount as
above, to be invested, and its interest to be
used to aid feeble congregations in erecting
houses of worship : The loan system to be
abolished, and grants to become an actual
gift, subject only to this incumbrance, that,
if the church shall become alienated from
this General Assembly, or its corporate
existence,shall cease, the property shall be
liable for a return of the donation with in
terest : The sum granted any church may
reach one-half instead of one-third the
amount contributed and secured by them
for house and lot : The Board are to ap
point a Corresponding Secretary, whose
duties -shall be similar to those belonging
to.that effteer. in. the _Permanent Commit
tees.
4. Provision for raising annually, by
colleotions, a supplemental fund, to, be
added to the interest of the Church Erec
tion Fund, and with it expended, as occa
sions arise for the same purpose : Recom
mendation that at least $35,000 be raised
for that purpose the present year, aad that
collections be made on or before the third
Sabbath in December.
5. The reception of the Report of the
Permanent Committee on Foreign Missions.
Contributions from churches in our °ounce
tion to the American Board, during the part
year :—about $140,000, an advance upon
any previous year. Falling off in the num
ber of those missionaries of the Board in
connection with our Church, from fifty-six
to forty-seven. The Committee to whom
the Report was referred, recommended
renewed activity in all the agencies for the
promotion of Foreign Missions, and made
prominent the peculiar work of the,Ameri
can and Foreign b hristian
6. The reception of Reports on the con
dition of Union, Auburn, and. Lane Theo
logical Seminaries,
7. The reception of the Report of the
Permanent Committee-on Home Missions.
The whole working force in the missionary
field has been three hundred and eighty
five men; fifty-eight more than last year.
Six of these have died. About Afty ,
churches have been formed, three thou
sand five hundred souls converted; three
thousand two hundred and forty have
united with the churches. Contributions
during the year, about $92,000; expendi
tures $106,000. On the recommendation
of the appropriate Standing Committee,
the Assembly subsequently determined
that an effort should be made to realize for
this cause at least an average of $1 for
each church member, in all about $120,-
000, counting, we suppose, only known and
resident members.
8. The reception of the Report of the
Permanent Committee on Publication.
Advance in contributions; increase in the
issue of books and traets; many new
works; the Presbyterian Monthly estab
lished, and several editions of the Social
Hymn and Tune Book disposed of. The
field widening. The Assembly, on recom
mendation of the Standing Committee,
recommended the inauguration, by Presby•
tori e s and Synods, of a system of colpor
tap, and the employment of unemployed
ministers, students, and Christian laymen
as colporteurs. A special Committee of
five was appointed to prepare fresh tracts
and books, and, if thought desirable, trans
lations in ,the German language. The
p er manent Committee was '4:iirootod t o con
sider the , expediency of publishing Rer-
G-enesee Evangelist, .No. 1047.
man religions newspaper, adapted to the
wants of the German population of our
country.
9. The reception of the Report of the
Permanent Committee on Education.
Funds about the same as last year. In
crease in the number of candidates aided,
thirty-five per cent. Advance of thirty
three per cent. in the amount of aid be
stowed, which now ranges from $lOO to
$l6O per year. The Assembly recom
mended that this amount be continued,
and also, on a supplementary report of the
Standing Committee, recommended Mary
ville College and other educational institu
tions under the ()are of the Church in East
Tennessee, to the churches for material aid.
10. The reception of the Report of the
Permanent Committee on the Ministerial
Relief Fund. Six thousand three hundred
dollars was the sum contributed this year
against $3600 given the previous year. One
gentleman has donated $3400 to be given
at the death of a near relative:,- One hnn- ,
dred, and thirty persons were helped last
year against forty-four helped the year be
fore. The Committee had been ,able to
give a prompt and cordial response to all
applications properly brought before them.
The balance in the treasury was 61605.
By sn.bsequent action, in the report of the
appropriate Committee, the Assembly cot , :
dially commended this cause to the
Churches for more general attention and
liberality.
11. Reception and adoption of the Report
of the Special Committee on Manses and
Ministerial Libraries. Out of sevenhundred
churches addressed by circular, containing
inquiries, etc., one hundred have replied.
One-fifth of those have manses, and one
tenth ministerial libraries. All express
hope that the subject will be pursued.
Presbyteries were directed to send letters of
inquiry and suggestion to their churches, and
to report information obtained to the next
Assembly.
12. Reception of the Report of the
Special Committee, appointed by last . As
sembly, to answer an overture asking for
the proper construction of Section 13 of
Ohapter IV. of the Bk of Discipline
Committee reported that the structure of
the section, together with the known princi
ples of judicial proceedings i imply that the .
ex-parte examination is intended for trial
and final judgment. On a motion to adopt
the report, the subject was discussed, but,
through haste for adjournment, left un
finished. The sentiment seemed largely
in favor of the report which was well labor
ed and exhaustive.
13., Reception of proposal from the
General Assembly of the 0. S. Presbyte
rian Church, sitting in the Second Presby
terian Church, St. Louis, for joint devo
tional meetings and sacramental commu
nion. Committee of arrangements ap
pointed, to act conjointly with , a Committee
from that Assembly. The proposal fully
carried out to the great delight of all partioi
pating, by a devotional meeting in Second
Church, on Monday evening, May 21, and
communion service in the First Chttroh,
(the place of meeting of our Assembly,) on
Wednesday evening, May 23.
14. Appointment of a Committee on the
State of the Country, and the reception
and adoption of its report. The Report
recognises the occasions for gratitude for
displays of God's overruling hand in our
late national troubles, atyi reaffirms the
deliverance of the last Arembly as to the
l rights of colored men, o i the same .condi
d t
Bondi-
Lions with the whites, the right• of suf
frage. It holds it to e the solemn duty
Exec of our National Exec tive and Congress to
adopt only such met ds of reconstruction
as'shall effectually pr teat all loyal ' ersons
in the States lately i revolt. It declares i
it due to the vindica 'on and satisfaction of
national justice, thlit the chief fomenters
and representatives; of the rebellion should,
by due process of law, be visited with con
dign punishment. :1 Ministers and churches
are exhorted to constant and earnest prayer
for the President,'his Counsellors, Congress,
Judges of the S i npreme Court, and all in
authority. Menibers of our churches are
.1
urged to lay aside all partizan and sectional
i
aims, and, in every sphere of service, do
the full duty 1 Christian freemen.
15. Receptiton of the Report of H. A.
Nelson, D.D.,bif the fulfilment of his ap
pointment as? Commissioner to bear the
frateinal sal Cations of our Church
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to the
General A embly of the 0. S. Pres
byterian Church, with a pleasant account
of the welclme received.
16. Itecrption of a fraternal letter from
the Free j Church of Scotland, conveying
proposale s for correspondence by inter
-change of. , delegates. . Reception of Rev.
'James lifcCosh, LL.D., member of the
Irieh (bhurch, < commended to the
'Assembly by , special 'letter from several` of
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Per annum, in adva ' ye:
By 83. liilarrier, 83 50.
Fifty cents additional, after three months.
tlllubs.—Ten or more papers, sent to one address.
payable strictly in advance and in one remittance.
Bv Mail, $2 50 per-annu By Carriers.s3,per abnum.
adlliesiatems and Sera , Widows, $2 50 is
vance.
Home Xissionaries, $2 00 iivad vineek . •
Fifty cents additional a ft er three months.
Remittances by mail are at our risk.
Postars.—Five cents Quarterly, in ,advinee. paid
by subscribers at the office of delivery.
Advertisements.-I*i cents per line for the
fast. and 10 cents for the sasondinsertion.
Out square (one month) 00
two months_..... 5 50
three 750
" 12 00
ne year 18 05
The following discount on long advertisements, in
serted for three months and nawards, is allowed :
Over 20 lines, 10 per cent off; over 50 lines. 20 to
cent.; over 100 lines, 33% per cent.
eminent Scottish ministers. Report of the
Committee on Church Polity, recommend
ing the correspondence proposed, and adop
tion thereof. Appointment of a Committee
to draft a rep}y to the Free Church, and
reception and adoption of their report con
taining draft thereof. For these very
interesting proceedings in extenso, see
American Presbyterian of May 31 and
June 7.
17. Reception of Rev. P. D. Gurley, D. D.,
and ruling elder Hon. W. Clark, as Com
missioners from the General Assembly of
the Old-school Presbyterian Church, bear
ing proposals for the appointment by each
body of fifteen persons, (nine ministers and
six elders,) to confer conjointly "in regard
to the desirability and practicability of re
union, and if, after conference and inquiry,
such reunion shall seem desirable and prat
ticable, to suggest suitable measures for its
accomplishment, and report to the next
General Assemblies." The proposal cor
dially accedett-to, and Rev. Drs. T. Brain
erd, F. Hatfield, W.
.Adams, J. F.
Stearns, P. 11 Fowler,' J. B. Shaw, H. L.
Hitchcock, R. W. Patterson, and H. A.
Nelson, and ruling elders Hon. Joseph
Allison, Hon. E. A. Lambert, Hon. H. W . !
Williams, T. P. Handy, Esq., R. W.
Steele, Esq., and W. H. Brown, Esq.,
were accordingly appointed on the part of
the Assembly. Our paper of last week
has a fall and interesting account of this
proceeding, with a copious report of the
remarks of Dr. Gurley and Judge Clark.
18. Narrative of the State of Religion.
The materials were' copious, refreshing,
and arousing. God has wrought wonder
fully with us in his salvation, and our course
has, in all respects, been an onward one.
All this was well told, and the Assembly
sends forth no more cheerful document than
its Narrative of the State of Religion.
We have not room for giving separate
places in this catalogue to several other
and minor parts of the Assembly's pro
ceedings. The Committee on Bills and
Overtures brought in replies to certain
questions of more or less importance. Re
options of delegates and reports from
delegates' from the Assembly, other than
those above mentioned, belonging to our
correspondence with other ecclesiastical
bodies had - their usual odor of fraternity
and pleasantness The fraternal and com
plimentary matters of the closing service
were a well-arranged and beoomining finale
to the harmonious and devotional character
of the General Assembly of 1866.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY.
Oommencement at this Institution, which
was formerly known as Ashmun Institute,
will occur on Thursday, June 21st. Major-
General 0. 0. HOWARD, Superintendent of
U. S. Freedmen's Bureau, will deliver the
address. An excursion from this city will
leave the depot of the Philadelphia and
Baltimore Central Railroad, Thirty-first
and Market streets, at 7:20 A. M., and re
turning, will leave the University Station
at 5:45 P. M. Fare for the round trip $2.
It gives us'especial pleasure to call the
attention of our readers to this interesting
Institution. All who are interested in the
moral and iatellectual culture of the Afri
can race, will no doubt enjoy the opportu
nity,.of seeing what is here being done in
its behalf. All are cordially invited.
SABBATH-SCHOOLS AND THE NEW
MISSIONARY SHIP.
• PRESIIITTBILLAN 110111311. 1334 Chesnut St.,
Office Anierioaa Board C. Foreign Missions.
Sabbath-schools wishing certificates of
stock for the new Morning Star or copies
of the history of the old ship, can have
the same by sending the amounts do
nated, with a statement of the number
of blank certificates and books needed,
either to L. B. Ward, Treasurer, Mission
ary House, Boston, or to this office.
Our schools in Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Dis..
trict of Columbia very generally and
gladly took part in building the first
Morning Star ; we hope they will all,
with like zeal, lend a hand in building
this second missionary ship. We feel
quite sure they will. It is important
that the collections be made as promptly
as possible.
It will be remembered that ten cents
secures acertificate for one share of stock,
and that fifty cents secures in addition
the neat little book giving a history of
the first Morning Star, by Rev. Mr. Bing
ham..
Any schools that have not received
specimens of the certificates °rite volume
can be supplied, if they will send name
and , address as stated above.
J. Maim.%
Diet. Sec. A. B. C. P. M.
Tun ORIIRCH EDIFICE in Andover,
Allegheny county, N. was burned
Mal 24. '7