§Ebts jai intr elturrtm.
VANDALIA, ILL.—Laying a Corner
tune.—On Thusday, the 17th inst., the
corner•atone of a new Presbyterian
Church was laid with appropriate exer
cises. Rev. C. F. Beach, of Centralia,
addressed the Throne of Grace in a
deeply impressive and eloquent invoca
tion, after which Rev. Joseph Gordon
gave a brief history of the church. It
was organized in 1828, by Rev. Solo
mon Hardy. There have been thirteen
mininsters laboring statedly with the
church since its organization. The
church was under the care of the Old
School branch of the Presbyterian
Church until 1848—when it was orderly
transferred to the New School connec
tion.
This is one of the oldest church or
ganizations in the State. The bell that
now hangs in the cupola, and to be
transferred to the new church steeple,
was the first bell that ever rung in this
State to call together a Protestant eon-
gregation.
After the stone was laid under the
supervision of the pastor, Rev. Robert
TA, Matthews, au address was deliver
ed by Rev. Robert Stewart The new
building, which will be pushed forward
to completion at the earliest practicable
time, will be 75 feet long, and 46 feet
wide.—Christian Herald.
ACCESSIONS.—The first Sabbath of
this mouth was a precions season to the
church in Lodi, Wis. Seventeen were
received into communion on profession
of their faith in Chrisht, and for the first
timelsat down toile Lord's table. These
are some of the fruits of the recent re
vival in this place: Fifty persons
were added to the membership of the
church in Racine, Wis., at. the commu
nion season held on the last Sabbath of
May.
PERSONAL.-Mr.. A. 0. Pollock, a
liecentiate under the care of Presbytery
and supplying the church at Prairie
Bird, Ind., was duly ordained and in
stalled over that church on the first
Sabbath in June.—Mr. Samuel Car
lile, a licentiate of the Third Presbytery
of New York, was ordained as an evan
gelist by that body in the Spring Street
Church, New York, on the 24th of May.
Rev. Howard Crosby, D.D., preached
the sermon ; Rev. James D. Wilson
presided and put the constitutional ques
tions; and Rev. W. W. Newell, D.D.,
made the ordaining prayer and delivered
the charge. Rev. Mr. Fetch was in
stalled pastor of the church in Danville,
June 6th.—The Rev. E. B. Wals
worth arrived at this port from Califor
nia early in May, proposing to attend
the sessions of the Assembly, but was,
we regret to state, prevented from doing
so by breaking his leg. This occurred
at Poughkeepsie shortly after his ar
rival. Haviug arrested his frightened
horses, he swuug himself out by the
dash-board of the carriage in order to
take them by the bits, but in doing so,
although he is not aware that he strack
the ground heavily, or otherwise than
square upon his feet, one of his legs was
badly fractured just below the knee, so
that there is some danger of involving
the joint itself. He came to this city
last week for treatment, and a wide
circle of friends will hope for his speedy
and entire recovery, though it will doubt
less require four or five months time.—
Evangelist, N. Y.
Congregationalism in, the South.—Church-
es have been organized in Washington
City, Memphis, New Orleans, Savannah,
and recently in Newberu, N. C. •Of the
lhurch in Memphis, our correspondent
'rites on an inside page. The congre
tion at Newborn, according to a cor
ipondent of the , Congregationalist, with
treely an exception, was made up of North :
people, officers of the army and bureau,
d traders in the city ; some with their
yes, but fur the must part unmarried.
Le society at present has a very narrow pe
iiary basis, and if it is to live, must be
ported largely by Northern funds. Oh
vannah, this correspondent says : "
shed Savannah just in time to see the pas-
Rev. Mr. Greet,' son of the Nestorian
.sionary, starting Northward to. accept a
which be had received to another field.
enterprise is not abandoned, but will
Lbably be suspended until a more favorable
lortunity offers for entering on the work
M. The congregation was small, made
as at Newbern, of Northern people, less
tumber, and with less prospkt ofsuccess."
Congregational Church Extension in
South, generally, he says: "There are
ms reasons why it is nut easy to carry our
y South. One is that Southern Chris
t are suspicious of it, looking upon it as
Pandora's box, 'out of which all their
;tions and sorrows have sprung. A. polity
ours, unknown to the denominations of
South, suspected of infidelity, and of the,
evils which have afflicted the land,
expect to go Southward only by the
st. Northern men,originally Congrega
•who go South, can not be relied on.
" do not go with any design of carry
lie church and the institutions of their
trs. They have gone South for any
• reason than a religious• one. They
gone to make money, nut to bear the
..ns incident to the establishment of a
church. I could point to men all along;
Atlantic border, reared in our Congrega
tl churches, who attend the Episcopal,
ist, Methodist, or Presbyterian Church,
Ls will serve best the purposes of gain."
)ossibility that, in some cases at least, they
fitly prefer a different Church polity,
not seem to enter the mind of this zeal
lew Euglaudyv. We sincerely hope that
Congregational churches—not the tuis-
JOUS material that a blind proselytism
Lathered from every quarter and baptized
good old nstue—will be multiplied in
part of the South. The work is vast,
one and no three denominations can
dto monopolize it. Yet we are much
al to the view that the Congregational
will he found less suited to the great
.han the other forms, more familiar to
3ople .in the past. Still, they have a
in the work, and. ,we. wish them God
in their sealous • sod enterprisifig
TIE RELIGIOUS WORLD ABROAD.
GREAT BRITAIN
LONDON ANNIVERSARIES. — The religious
periodicals of the last month are loaded with
accounts of the May anniversaries, which,
besides their business aspects. have become
to tip United Kingdom a sort of national
celebration of the progress of religion and
philanthropy. Although the past year
brought forth nothing of startling interest,
nothing to break the quiet progress of the
work which these various societies have in
hand, still the usual interest and animation
of the meetings was fully sustained. The
fiscal reports of some of the societies for
home evangelization, particularly that very
important charity, the London City Mission,.
exhibit something of a decline. Those of
the enterprises of wider scope have suffered
no diminution. In no case, however, does
there seem to have been an enlargement
corresponding with the similar reports which
we; on this side of the Atlantic, have been
enabled to put forth.
THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOOIE
'IT, presided over by the Earl of Shaftesbury,
secured as usual the highest attention. This
is the natural result of the catholic character
of its organization. The report stated that in
every country except Spain, which is not yet
open to Bible distribution, there had been an
increase of the circulation of the Scriptures.
It also made a pleasant record of the inter
change of courtesies with the American
Bible Society, stating that " one of the
most important results of modern Bible
study bearing on the translation of the
Scriptures, had been the completion of the
Beyrout version of the Arabic Bible, begun
by Dr. Eli Smith, and completed under the
editorial superintendence of Dr. Vandyke.
This one book placed the word of God
within the reach of more than one hundred
and twenty millions of the human race. The
committee, anxious to avail themselves of a
work of such value, applied to their brethren
in America for copies of the stereotyped
plates. Itedoing so, they wished to pay for
them, but they were furnished gratuitously,
accompanied with the remark that, the two
nations being engaged in diffusing the same
truth, all translations should be used inter
changeably, and any advantage which had
been secured by either society should be re
garded as a gain to the cause in which they
were engaged."
• The report in the Evangelical Christendom
says that " Mr. G. H. Stuart, ot Philadel
phia, then addressed the meeting, in a speech
which was frequently and loudly applauded,
as he narrated the operations of the Ameri
can Bible Society and the Christian Commis
sion during the late civil war. He stated
that during the four years of the strug
gle there were distributed among the army
and navy alone, 2,000,000 copies of the Scrip
tures. All of these were furnished by the
American Bible Society, with the exception
of 15,000 that were from the British Society,
with an intimation that any drafts at sight,
for more, on the society in London, would be
honored. They were exceedingly grateful
for the Bibles, and also for the offer, though
the latter was not needed."
Here, by the way, we may say that, ac
cording to the reports of the press, Mr.
Stuart s presence, with his characteristic vi
vacity and inspiring eloquence, contributed
much to the enthusiasm of more than one of
the anniversaries.
The issues of the Society during the year,
have been 2,296,130 copies, making a total,
since the commencement of its work, of
50,285,709.
TaE CHURCH MISSIONARY Swim' cele
brated its 67th anniversary. It now occu
pies 148 Foreign stations, and has for its
working corps, 190 European and 88 native
born clergyman, and 2152 laborers of other
grades. Its receipts from ordinary contribu
tions have increased. The decease ! during
the year, of fourteen devoted missionaries,
is recorded, and an earnest call is made for
young men, of the apostolic spirit, to fill
their places. There are, in connection with
its missions, 14,155 communicants.
THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY re
ports 110 stations, 185 missionaries, 750 na
tive agents, 227 churches, 28,914 communi
cants! and 41,000 day scholars. Satisfactory,
and in some cases unusually cheering ac
counts, were given of the missions in Polyne
s'a, the West Indies, South Africa, China,
India and Madagascar. The presence on
the platform. of Rev. Dr. Ellis, the veteran
missionary lately returned from the latter
field, excited a particular interest. He ex
hibited the manacles and instruments of tor
ture which were used for the.suppression of
Christianity, until the ascent of Radama to
the throne in 1861, and stirred the loyal en
thusiasm of the Assembly by reciting the auto
graph letter of the Queen Victoria, accompa
nying the draft of a proposed treaty of amity
and commerce between Great Britain and
Madagascar—" Queen Victoria asks, as, a
matter of personal favor to herself, that the
Queen of Madagascar will allow no persecu
tion of the Christians." Accordingly, the
treaty recently perfected, has the following
sentence :—" In accordance with the wish• of
Queen Victoria, the Queen of Madagascar
engages that'there shall be no persecution of
Christians in Madagascar."
THE LONDON CITY MISSION presented a
record of work done, which imparts special
sadness to the Statement above made, re
specting the decrease of its means of useful
ness. .
The number of visits paid by the officers of
the society during the past year to the sick
and dying, was 276,830. The visitation of
.
factories by the missionaries was now very
extensive. Upwards of 2,000,000 -of visits
had been paid, and that indicated a daily
-visitation of 5000 and 6000 persona. The
distribution of religious tracts by the society
-was nearly 9000 daily; and the readings of
the: Scriptures by the missionaries in the
course of their visitations amounted to pearly
600,000, which,gave a daily average of 1640.
During the year there had been an increased.
average of five persons at each in-door
meeting, and the gross total of attendancee,
at these meetings considerably exceeded
1,500,000, which was consideribly more-than
that in all the churches and chapels of the
metropolis. To that had to be added the
gross attendance at the out-door services of
the missionaries, and with that addition the
total number of attendances of every kind
amounted during the year to more than
2,000m0,, which was exclusive of children.
The missionaries had paid particular atten
tion to the visitation of ragged-schools. The
forty metropolitan union workhouses had
been extensively visited. Children had been
sent to school at a rate daily of 23; 1102
drunkards had been reclaitued, or three
daily; 173 shops had been closed on the
Lord's -day through the efforts of the so
ciety ; 576 families induced to commence
f a mily prayer; the average attendance at the
out door services had been scarcely less than
100 ; nearly 300 unmarried couples had been
induced' to marry ; and 368 fallen females
had been admitted to asylums, restored to
their homes, or otherwise ,rescued.
About a dozen other:-societies, religions
and, —hilauthropic, filled 31p % Ole residue. of
the anniversary week. §ofite of them—the
r A ;$. ` #o
"- #,l ty
t 3 ET
THE AkERICAN PRESBX AY - _2B, 1866
RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY, for example—
of world-wide reputation ; but we have not
space for more specific notice of them. We
add the sum total of the incomes of Bridal'
benevolence, as here represented, for the
year, as follows :
Bible Society, (gifts and sales,) £171,375
Foreign Missions-6 societies, 497,993
Home Missions-3 societies, 103,775
For the Jews—two societies, 39,414
Continental Missions, 2,000
Educational-9 societies, 68,611
Miscellaneous-12 societies, 31,809
Total, £914,977
In American money, gold value, this ex: ,
ceeds four millions of dollars.
A CRISIS REACHED.--OUT readers have
frequently been informed of the great inter
nal struggle through which the National Re
formed Church is passing—the insuppressible
conflict between an evangelical orthodoxy on
one hand, and the loosest type of rationalism
on the other. We have before stated that an
appeal was taken to the Government, from .
the act of the Consistory of the National.
Reformed Church of Paris, which "retired"
on a competent stipend, the semi -infidel, pas- I
tor, M. Paschoud. Since then, the Consistory
have pronounced his ejection from the pas- 1
toral relation entirely. To this act the Min
ister of Worship has not yet made reply,
though he is well understood to be deeply
embarrassed by his partiality for the views
and course of Faschoud, on the one habd,
and ley the difficulty of ignoring the authority
of the Consistory on the other. ,
Meantime unimportant event has occurred
—the separation of the rationalistic mem
bers
from the National Conference of Pastors.
This Conference was instituted thirty-three
years ago, when orthodox views of the inspi
ration of the Holy Scriptures, and of the
person and work of Christ, were the unques
tioned principles of the Church; and no
necessity was felt for embodying the funda
mental points of Christianity in a creed. The
Conference meets annually in the spring, and
for some years past its meetings, though
under the control of an orthodox majority,
have been disturbed "by proposed acts and
testimonies of the most skeptical chap.cter,
and discussions correspondent therewith.
Only last year, fifty-two members signed and
threw in a paper declaring the resurrection
of our Lord a doubtful event and one of sec-1
ondary importance in religion.
This year, Pastor Coquerel, Jr.,—the same
whom Pastor Pa.schoud so persistently tried
to force into the pastorate in Paris, btit who
was repelled by the orthodox Consistery—
laid down a proposition signed by forty-three
members, in which the holy life of Jesus is
stated "to constitute all that is most grand,
most precious, and most perfect in the moral
and religious patrimony of mankind, which
He has regenerated ;" and leaving out all
reference to his deity, to his atonement, to
his resurrection; it ends with the words,
" we consecrate ourselves at the same time to
God as our Creator and Father ; to Jesus as
our beloved Saviour, our Master, our Legis
lator, and our King." Immediately a totally
different proposition was presented by Pastor
Abelr,us touching the meeting itself, -viz,
" That to the second article of its rules the
Conference should add the following words :
The general Conferences acknowledge as the
basis of their deliberations, the sovereign au
thority of the Scriptures in matters of faith,
and the Apostles' Creed as the summary of
the miraculous facts therein contained.'"
Three days were employed in an intensly ex
citing discussion, the radicals furious against
any doctrinal basis-for either - the Conference
or the Church, but the orthodox holding; by
a large majority, the power to adopt and
carry the proposed amendment. Instead,
however, of bringing it to a vote, they
choose a. more decisive measure, which
should eliminate from, the Conference the
entire rationalistic element. By a vote of
162 to 50, it was resolved to dissolve the
Conference at, once, on the ground of- the im
possibility of obtaining anygood result from
,irritating discussions and debates on points
which, to Christians, are matters of fact ;
and immediately to reconstitute it upon a
religious basis. The next day the recon
struction took place, and the above proposi
tion of Pastor Abelous was, by a large major
ity, made the basis.
The radicals formed a separate Conference,.
opening the door wide to about every shads)" ,
of religious belief. Each of the bodies voted
an address to be sent round to all the Na
tional Churches, and the latter are sending
in their adhession to one or the 'other. Thus
far the orthodox form the great majority.
There is now an anxious waiting for the,
answer of the,Government for permission for
the organizing of a NatiqSal Synod. 'lf this
be granted, the work done in the Conference
may be repeated in the Church, and an end
be made of the scandal of each party having
a preacher of its own, in the same pulpit, and
a believer and undisguised disbeliever stand
ing together as administrators-at the same
sacramental table.
JUDICIAL INTOLERANCE. —A French Pro-
testant has been fined for pursuing his seclu-,
lar avocation on All Saints' Day, and the
sentence has been confirmed by the highest
judicial tribunal of France. The penalty is
not heavy, but the principal at , stake is-as'
great as though it had been martyrdom. .114
might have worked on the open street fifty r
two Sabbaths in the year, and no civil tribu-*
nal would have noticed it God's eternal in
stitntion may be violated with impunity, but'
there is no forgiveness for trifling with, an
ordinance of Rome.
DISSENSIONS OP THP. ROMAN CATHOLICS.,
—The bieach between the Ultramontanes,
and the less bigoted Romanists, who 'favor'
some measure of toleration,-and-some pro
gress of ,religious thought, widens. The
bournal Le .Monde, the organ of theformer,
estows on the Liberal Catholics the epithets
of traitors, heretics in disgmse, rebels, lenemies
of the Holy See, and other like invectives. It
demands from them an ,open assent to the
late Encyclical, including au,endorsement of
its assertions that religions' liberty, and, in
genentl, all modern liberties, Are the work' of
Satan, - Eminent in the Galilean or. Libeial
party, as our,. readers are :aware,: stands-the
Arelibialtop of 'Paris and Bisbop of, Orleans.
-This partj just now says but little in reeent
ment of the abuse of the Ultramon'tanes, but
it is believed that their quiet- forebodes a
calm and resolved demand upon the Holy
See for important concessions, backed• by
some of the strongest itifluences of the em
pire, and which may not be denied without
peril.
The dark war cloud overshadows all, and
from its deep shadow, all the religious intel
ligence takes its tone. To human view, the
interests of Protestantism are deeply involved,
notwithstanding the absence of any distinctly
religious
question in the, dispute. Still it is
remove one principali, 'obstacle to r.titq . dorm
the rporgigraVe,. wifirt -tho 'case 'Of
v a i a e ti w i
o t tO a v i a i r worship' the eonsTenee, This
Italy ts brought into the account. That
FRANCE.
GERIMOLNY.
kingdom has now bound itself too closely to
the fortunes of Prussia, not to feel almost
vitally a defeat of the latter, and at this mo
ment nothing could be more opportune for
the trembling sovereignty of the Pope than a
great military disaster to Victor Emmanuel.
It is not to be disguised that, so far as the casus
belli is concerned, and especially so far as it
is viewed as growing out of a deep wrong to
Denmark, Prussia does not enjoy much of the
sympathy of the civilized world, and it is all
the more unhappy that religious interests of
such vastness seem, by a mysterious provi
dence, to be involved in a success for which
few hearty prayers are offered. But while,
on the one hand, small success seems to be
deserved by Prussia, on the other hand,. Aus
tria was a sharer in the outrage upon Den
mark, and her triumph would probably,
through the interference of others, become
the harbinger of a system of wrongs which it
would be the work of a generation to undo.
The inevitable bearing of the war upon the
religious state of Germany has already mani
fested itself. In Prussia, all the great reli
gious meetings of the year are. adjourned.
The meeting of the Kirchentag. which was to
have been held at Kiel, has been counter
manded, because—so says the order—" it
would be impossible to avoid political discus
sions in a place like Kiel, and the least anti:*
sion to p2litics would sow ''discord in the
assembly. The annual assembly of the
Protestantverein, which was to have been
held in Hanover, on the fourth week in May,
was put off for a similar reason. The King
of Prussia, who is regarded as a Christian
man, sincere in his purposes, but, the slavetif
corrupt politicians, on avcent occasion called
into his presence the piellidon s of Consisto
ries and superintending `clergy assembled in
Berlin,
on.business relating to the Provincial
Synods, and tiaid .to them that it was with a
heavy heart, but with a good conscience and
trust in God, that he had given orders to
prepare for war, and besought , their prayers
for his . Divine guidance and for victory. The
speech, which is an earnest vindication of his
course, is given at length in the Berlin reli
gious journals.
LIGHT IN DARKNESS.—Under this gloomy
state of things, it is cheering to meet with an
account like the following, which we con
dense from the quarterly Reporter of the
German Baptist Mission, found in the Chris
tian Work :--- ? Since the publication of the
January Reporter, the full enjoyment of reli
gious liberty in Hamburg has been sealed by
the votes of the Senate and Burgherschaft.
On the lst of January, 1866, it became law
that all religious sects should be placed on an
equality; that the registration of births,-
deaths, and , marriages should be in the hands
of the civil authorities; and that all marria
ges so registered should be valid, without the
necessity of a certificate from a Lutheran cler
gyman. Hamburg is the first city in Ger
many which has this obtained perfect reli--
gious liberty. Still'higher cause for rejoicing
we now have in the' fact that God is giving
us many seals to our Ministry, especially
apongst our children and young people,
mostly from ten, to sixteen years of age. The
prelude to every ontpouring of the Holy
Spirit is earnest and continued prayer for his
influence. So it has been at Hamburg. Since,
the beginning of January an unusual solici
tude has been manifested by parents for the
salvation of their children, and many earnest
prayers have ascended on their behalf, both
in public and in private. Early in the year,
brother Windolf (the missionary to seamen
hi the port of Hamburg, who is supported
by the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon's church in
London) began to gather the children to
gether to pray with them twice a week. The
Spirit of G'od has been poured out on these
young ones, and the result has been the we
version of twenty dear children. Oulord's
day, March 18th, seventeen converts, fifteen
of whom were under sixteen years of age,
rendered a cheerful obedience to the com
mand of our risen Lord, and were baptized
in his name. The glorious revival is still
extending, and last evening several dear
children were with me, rejoicing in Christ as
their Saviour. Several adults have also ap
plied for membership. During. the past year
130 pastors, evangelists, and colporteurs,
have been engaged in setting forth Christ, in
the greatness of his person as the self-existent
Jehovah—in the completeness of his media
torial work, having by one offering perfected
all them that are sanctified—in the fullness of
his mercy, , as able and willing to save all who
come unto him. Millions have heard this
glorious Gospel of Christ, not only in Ger
many, but in Denmark, Russia, Poland,
Hungary, Austria, the Danubian Principli
-ties, Turkey, Switzerland ,' Franoe, and Hol
land. Our circulation of tracts and books
amounted to 1,000,900 copies; of Bibles and
Testaments,-to 15,000. May the Spirit of
the Lord water the seeds of eternal truth
sown, to the glory of Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost.
ITALY.
THE PoNTrsIcAL LoAN.—Just now there
is no more ominous aspect to the impending
downfall of the temporal sovereignty of the
Pope, than thelact that no religious inspirit
tion and no diligence of the proverbially in
domitable faculty for begging on the part of
the priests, can keep the new loan in any de
cent, financial condition: It was shaped to
put it in the power of the members of the
church at large to become, in small amounts;
accoicling to the ability of each, the creditors
of the Holy Father. For the small sum of
sixty- six francs, a yearly , ' interest of five francs
is,olfered, and for three hundred and thirty
franes lent, five hundred are to be repaid.
But with all the faith of good Catholics in His
Holineaa' power of abiolution, they
,are not
.at-all Clear ant° the value of his Promise to
pay. On the continent especially, where the
largest results were expected from the zeal of
the clergy, the sums continues discourag
ingly low, and at the boards of: Paris, any
amount, Of the sixty-six 'franc riotes' Can be
obtained for fifty-five trines.
I'M SYNOD OF THE WALDENSIAN CHURCH
was last month at La Tour: The m
ei:hint of its proceedings has nothing of snecial
=interest.. The labors Of this ancient . Church
during the year have been steady, faithful
and efficient, There were two ordinations,
one, that.of Signor Devita,,,formerly, , a monk
at• Salerno, but for .the last three years an
evangelical and hopefully pious member of
the Theological Seminary in Florence: The
votes of the parishes, by a large 'majority,
perpetuate the rule, for the annulling of
which a proposition was laid - before the last
Synod, viz : that the youngest and most
active ministers shall be sent to the highest
Alpine parishes. The object sought in the
proposal to abolish it, was lo afford to .the
churches in the valleys the range of the
entire ministry in the selection of pastors.
THE Wreft.—ln Italy, as in G-erma,ny, all
the religious movements are becoming ab
sorbed in that of war. The feeling differs
from that in Prussia in this respect, that in
Italy the war is popular, and all classes, ex
cept the priestly party, are enthusiastic over
the p r ospect of wiping, out Austrian rule
in Venetia, and incorporating the States of
the Church into the Kingdom, thus com
pleting the, magnificent proportions of an
Italian empiretrian , trines Ph with its throne in the Eternal
Cit.y, and making religion free.
o n the other hand, the ..hope,,,pf an Ails
whiCh shall the Govern`''
merit and feiitoro' the power orß,Onii3; . 'haa in.':
cited the priesthood to all manner of outrages.
The massacre 'at Barletta has • already beet►
chronicled. It has called out large- • contribu
tions for the sufferers, and the orphans have
been provided with good homes. Bat we
learn with surprise that the trial of the large
number 'of priests and their abettors who
have been arrested, is likely, through the
clerical leanings of the magistrates to be a
mere farce—a paltry mockery of justice.
Since the massacre, all the evangelists and
teachers have been warned by the civil au
thority to leave the place, " because the au
thorities cannot insure their safety, it being
well known that the parties opposed to the
Government, and especially the clergy, avail
ing themselves of the present grievous condi
.of Italy, try every means to agitate the
country and.create new difficulties." Thus
for a season public evangelical labor is there
suspended; but believers are generally faith
ful, and Popery is more execrated than be
fore. At other points where the priestly
power is still strong, and in fact wherever
they have not before them the wholesome
fear of civil penalties, or better still, royal
bayonets, the priests are carrying it with the
same audacity.
SPIRITUAL AID FOR THE Altam—The ex
ample of our Christian Commission has in
spired a similar enterprise, so far as the purely
religious effort is concerned, in the Walden
sian Synods. Arrangements have been made
for supplying the evangelical portion of the
soldiers with religious ordinances. This will
be a work of great difficulty, as they are not
found in groups, but are scattered over all
parts of the army. Still experience will lead
to system, and system, enforced by strong re
ligious fervor, will accomplish wonders. A
thoroughly worked enterprise of this kind,
sustained by religious principle,would afford
one of the highest promises of riumph.
BOUTIN AFRICA.
PROBABLE BItEAKENG UP OF A MISSION.—
The mission of a French Protestant Society
to the territory of the Basutos, after thirty
years of labor, and timid the highest prospects
of usefulness, is now imperilled and likely to
be driven from the ground, in consequence of
the war between the Boers and Basutos.
On the breaking out of hostilities, SI. Brand,
the President of the Volksraad, (Free State)
guaranteed to the missionaries, by proclama
tion, the safety of their persons and the
imviolability of their. property. Notwith
standing this promise, several among them
suffered outrageous indignities and consider
able losses.' Nevertheless, their constancy
did not fail. They remained at their poets.
endeavoring to lessen the calamities they wit
nessed, by affording protection to the aged
and infirm, oaring for the wounded, and diffu
sing around them the consolations of the
- Gospel. In the course of the month of Feb
ruary, they were threatened with a measure, :
which, if put into execution, will be the ruin
of their work. The Chamber of Representa
tives of the Free State ( Volksraad) decreed
that the French missionaries should be
summoned, under pain of being treated as
enemies, to evacuate the country of the
Basutos by March 1. The President, M.
Brand;' opposed, with all his power, the
adoption of this measure, but all his eforts
have been useless. To say nothing of the
loss which the cause of Christianity and of
civilization will sustain, the departure of the
missionaries will entail the ruin of their
establishments. Their parsonages, their
churches, their schools, their farms and
plantations of every kind, being. no longer
protected by their presenCe, will be entirely
laid waste.
The charges upon which this summary
order is founded, have not yet transpired,
but there is little doubt that the secret
springs have been moved by that power
which has for ages made fraudulent use of
the holy name of Christianity, to thwart the
best schemes for lifting the dark nations of
the earth into the light. We do not yet
learn whether the order
,has been finally carried
out, and the mission dispersed.
INDIA.
BAZAAR PREACHING.—Just now, in the
British province of Ajmere and airwarai
the missionaries of the United Presbyterian
Church of Scotland are practicing, with great
usefulness, the system of holding forth the'
'Word of Life in the public bazaars. In sever
al cities, on two or more evenings in a week,
the whole available missionary force is em
ployed in this form of labor. The audiences
have been well sustained, and have often
been swelled by - merchants and wayfarers
from the distant towns, who, led to the city
for purposes of commerce, hear the message
of salvation, and return to tell the good news
to their kindred at time. In this way echoes
of the Saviour's name and work have been
reflected back from distant towns where
the standard of the Cross has never yet been
planted. The city Brahmins and Buniai
keep aloof from these meetings but some of
them come occasionally to the mission bunga
lows to inquire into the Christian faith.' • -
SUMiItMS.
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scribers must be such in the strictest sense, and
,must pay 'regular; rates, as named, strictly in
advance.
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For one subscriber, 75 cents; for four or,
more, at onetime ) $l, 25 each; for a club of
ten new names, $7 60 ; each single addition to
the,club, 50 cents.
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Life of John Brainerd and Zola Land. Post
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cents extra,) or Gillett's History of Presbyte
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Taa•MMIMM. ,, r ,
MA RRI'AIES.
MOREYLEURMEX.—Iti Windsor, Vermont, on
the 21st ofJune, by Rev. F. Butler. Rev. HENRY M.
MOREY. of Pittsford. N. H.. and Miss ELLEN M.
LE URMEX, daughter of Wm. Lenrmea, Esq.
PARSONS—DAY.—On the 19th instant, at tha re
sidence of the bride's father, by Rev. A. L. Benton.
Maier THERON E. PARSONS, oi Rochester. N. N.Y.
to SARAH M., daughter of Levi C. Day, Esq., of
Lima., N. Y.
DEATHS.
OBITUARY.
Died. March Md. at the
the tat
Graves ln dia. Mrs GRAVES. wife of the late Allan .ig
the 79th year of her age.
Mrs. Graves prepared herself for her Missionary
labors under Rev. Dr. Proudfoot, of Salem. New
York, previous to the year 1816, when tbr , was married
to Rev. Allan Graves. Soon after she and Mr. Graves
set sail for their work in India, under the Ameri
can Board of Foreign Missions. Having losther hus
band and all her taildren by death, in India, Mrs.
Graves still laboredron faithfully and with great seal
in her Saviont's cause for fifty years. devoting hellish .
'solely in bringing the heathen to a knowledge of the
way -of salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Worn out in her Master's service, she now sleeps her
last sleep.
teal ti s.
nir The Presbytery of St. Lawrence will
hold-their Semi-annual Meetiat -Bracher Fa ll s, on
Tuesday. July 10th, at 2 o'cloc k. M.
B. B. BECK WITII, Stated Clerk.
Gouvaasaua. June 16,1866. -
11Phtladelphist Tract and Mission $O.
ciety.-office..lls South Seventh Street.
The one hundred and thirty-eighth meeting in
behalf of this Society will be held in ,the Presbte
rian Church, Walnut, above William street, (West
Philadelphia;) on Sabbath evening, July ht, at eight
o'clock.
Several' addresses will be made. Public invited.
JOSEPH. H. SOHRELNER, Agent.
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Dysentery and Oholera Morbus, and these oconring
when absent from home, are very unpleasant.
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you feel the symptoms, take one teaspoonful in a gill
of new milk and molasses and a gill of hot water, stir
well together, and drink hot. Repeat the dose every
hour until relieved. If the pains be severe, bathe
the bowels and back with the medicine, clear.
In oases of Asthma and Phthisio, take a teaspoonful
in a gill of hot water, sweetened well with molasep
also bathe the throat and stomach faithfully with the
medicine, clear.
+ Dr. Sweet says it takes out the soreness in cases of
bone-setting faster than anything he ever applied.
Fishermen, so often exposed to hurts by having
their skins pierced with hooks and fins of fish, can be
relieved by bathing with a little of the Pain
Hiller se noon as the accident occurs; in this way the
anguish is son abated; bathe as often as once in five
minutes, as threepr four times, and you will seldom
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