Amtritait Nuokgttrian. THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1866 CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES. • SICOOND PAGE—FAMILY CIRCLE The JourtleyWhat the Engineer told—True Po liteness—ln Season and out of Season—Come to my Grave Alone—Caller from the School-room to Hea ven—Care for the Feet—Future Housekeeping— American Childreh—Swearing. THIRD PAGE—MISCELLANEOUS Tht Brothers David and John Brainerd7—Our Lord's Glorified Humanity—Dr. Thick StiSrY. 8 Erni PAGE—CORRESPONDENOE: Old Books, ant what they have to Tell—John Knox, The Sircsch Reforteer—The Evil Eye. EDITOWS TABLE: 'Bootc 11' Received —Magazines and Pautphlets-dnisic.' • SEVEVIS E CONOMY PAGE= RURAL : - •, Fertilisers for the.Fatm and Garden—Training Colts -4The 'llurnio l lny-- , Frofitable Bee Culture—A New Pam Yearl3f—Sigmt of Rain—A. Point in Cooking. SCIENTIFIC: PORRiDIB Failure of the British Coal Supply; Another View—Violins and Violin-makers —True Science not Contrary to Scripture. far The brethren of the Fourth Presbytery will notice the call for, au adjourned meeting, July 26th. ERIE PRESBYTERY.—We take pleas ure in acceding to the request of this Presbytery, for the pnbllcation of Rev. J. Vance's sermon on " The Sin and Peril of Aiming to be Rich." It will appear soon. EXCURSION TO ATLANTIO , CITY.—The 1 10 1 14 A; Men's Association of Cedar St. Presbyterian Church in this city will make an excursion to Atlantic City on 'Wednesday of next week, the 18th, to which they invite their friends. As they propose to devote the proceeds to the further improvement of their church edifice and for like good objects, we hope they may meet a liberal 'response. Tick ets $1.25,;_ children and youth 65 cents. THZ ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES.-Dr. and Beke, of the company of the recently reieased 'Abyssinian. captixes, have pro :bably arrived in London. 'der letajesiy's ship. Victoria was ordered to, be at Mae sowsh on the 10th ult., to receive Con ant Stern, Rev. Mr. Sterne, and the others, and convey them as far 813' Aden en their hometOkid 16ay. , BISHOP Comtso.—This now famous prelate, or ex-prelate, (the question which does not seem settled ,) has published a new Hymn Book, which, froth beginning to end, ;: does not contain the name of, Jams, roof CEIRTST. '.llThis f , of course, is not at all surprising; but when his at=, tentioarwael -called to the omission by criticisms, ,he revealed the utter Christ lessness of his religions experierce, by ssying,in apology, that •the, omission .ftwas , qtaile.unintentional on:mylpart." CouzoOF r NENV JERSEY.;---Wq , were misled by a eotemporary. in our. last week's aCconnt of the degreeis conferred at tbeqiite commeneernentt itCPiineeion. We subjoin a Coflected statement. _ Graduating class, A. 8., 55. Bon,orary: Pla. D.—Prof. Mt.ntgomery Johns, Md; Rev. Frederick _Kniehtno,--11. Ray_ c,-;;Namerou,, protean r. colleg - eue Nev . Jersey; RQV. Charles , A.Aiken professbr College of New Jerkey ; Rev. John W. Ster ling, professor University of Wisconsin. D.D. —Rev. Joseph T. - Duryea, New York City; Rev: jam'es Blaek, professor in Washington and Jefferson College;Rev,. Theodore L. Cuyler, BroOklyn R R. Beadle, Philadelphia, . Penn. ; 'Rev. John Nelson, Glasgow, Scotland • Rev. Andrew Bing, Etalithin , ^LI4 D.—Oonrtlandt Parker, New, i rk, P og-C .; Ormond Beattie, professor, Cm , 13$ - , 11A , FrANE613. TEEA.T Ooze BEFORE FillucrnoN.—=The interest which the whole ,mkuse of Christianitl,iu,this coun try, and especially the good name of Presbyterianism b - as in the crisis through which the y d, School Chnro in Ken tacky.'la now pasiing; is our only reason frequent accounts of tkak'cou listing thovernents parties', loyal ofthe and dinlbyal tc the General:Assembly. The action: of the Assembly, it will be reeolleeted; forbade the' signers of the "Declaration and Testimony" from sit, ting' l ift7any iChnrch Court higher thaU; the' Session, Roth the issue of their case $. Rext spring: _ Previously to theJneeting of the "Aitilembl'y, the Presbytery cif Louisville hued made arrangements fair the Oidination and installauon of R. Carson as pastor of the Fourth Church kn, Loai Ville, and a . day in June waS de signated fur the services. In the znean iiiue,:thie action'of the Asiembly atiove ' l , took place, which of cdUrse disqualified the majority of the Presbji .: tery, who Were signers, from proceeding with 'the ordination. But as was inkown. that they, would disregard , the girder Of the' 'Assembly, and that Mt. 'Callon would "actept of on ly from them, din Church began to forsee Trouble: A informatmeeting was there 144re: held, , cif the officers',Ubstees, and lOading members of l t he Church, to ,con. suit as to what was best, to be Alone, in order, if possible, to was: diffiCultty in the Church. It was the rtniinjmoua opinion of those present, that the ordi nation and installation of Mr. Carson ought not to take place under existing circumstances. Of this action Mr. Car anotwa,a duly , notitted. , The reasons as eigne'd fox" this coarse Were, that the Choral:Chad* no ititkidon 4::1t• separating from 00:lel:feral Q oiwtgy ; 'and furthei, did not wish .to .1 °come•entangled in a di* ttity. volylog cojillict t of thqrity. A.t,the appointed tinier. the Presbytery /Int l: the diyisi4lo, neetlrred,jaild elAcr of the Yourth Church took his seat in the true Presbytery of Lattisrille,,eol slating of those who adhere to the.4.t. sem bly. Notwithstanding all thia;;the bogite Presbytery of 3iferers. Robirtion; : 4 1,1044;r4.16 Qoap,iyeeiedid tOexasnine .S. .• • ~,• • Carson, and appoint a'n hour for his or dination and installation. When the elders learned through the daily papers what was , going en, they prepared a writteiviitOtest against the whole pro ceeding, and laid it before that body. Tbis,was ,disregarded, and. the nrclirta .tiori Of Mr. Carson 4-4 13 proceede& With ;- and the reporter of the daily press says, that when "the presiding officer proposed, the usual questions to the people," one solitary hand was lifted up ! In view of the general disturbance. produced by the high-handed proceedings of the Stuart Robinson party, the Louis-. ville Journal ways that It is a great , pity the principal leader, or leaders, ha not remaine.d in Canada or, some, othell fmelkd'eodiiirk, they no , thing but breeding discontent aud trouble in the community." • . . BOSTON • VIEW OF REIINION:The Congreqationdist, in an article on the opening of negotiations for Presbjr_teriiirti union; is decidedly in hasteAo •express its delight , over it. Indeed, it rushes far ahead of •the record, to find for the united church a new attitude toward its oven denomination. The point of its satisfaction, although drawn out into,,an , article of. considerable dimensions, is briefly this :.---that the reunion will ne cessarily involve the' purging', of our churches of Congregationalism ; that hence, for the,future, Congregationalists cannot slide over into Presbyterian pul pits and churches, without an unmis takeable abandonment of the principles of their fathers, and therefore a check will be placed upon those changp upon the'roadr,i,whicii;:it says; avails'iTow;‘. 4 for the most part, like the path leading to the lion's cave, to conduct footsteps only one way." Onr readers will admire the facility of the Congregationalist P?L reaching so happy a conclusion, When we tell them that its only clue to it, is a remark made by the Moderator of the O. S. Assembly, in reply to the congratulatory address of the delegate from the New School. The former is quoted as saying in effect, that the " purging off ot • Congregation alism' was.orie, ofilthe pecessaryi,terms Of tge propeseduntori. This sentiment, the Can4regationaliat says was "'Offered by the organ of one Assembly, and ac cepted, [i.e. not publicly repudiated, for there was .noother acceptance of it,] by that of the other." A lf the writer of the article. has ever known of the congratn-, latoty . remarks on` } the reception of dele gaieS'froin foreign bOdies.aasuming the dignity of official pronunciamentos, and especially it he has ever heard the sen tifitelf,is utteielionsidijddeasions'oPenly discarded in the response, he must have, attended Ameetin'gs where .these merely fraternal w cointekies Eire' of' Mitch - "graver consequence than we have been accu - tomed to find 'the*. All may be as . Moderatai: Stanton said, or it may, not. As yet the Cominittees have not been together, 'ankthOf a • ,word has passed be tween them ; respeCting any of?the "ne cessary terms,of the _proposed union." "Conseqt - re la?lb e_flon.gregationahat- is at least six months aheadond,for aught it or we lino* sixty tinieli six;: itr hailing "the effort at reunion ) etiveenoiii . ten , branches of the Presb,''', eriah Cliurdli;as tending to eliminate, from thorn Collie. gregationalism, ,and may we not , hope, Congregationaltifs alsh? .t '-' ' , . The following extract from the article is certainly ambitions of effect, and it might, be both effective and affecting if anybody supposed that, CongregatiOnal-: ism, as distinguished from 'Presbyterian, , _ ism, bad anything to-do with the,, self exile and endurances of the Pilgrim fat)fers,'lm if aliybodyt did, tibil knOv that 1 these pilgrims organized and worked' churchea9n -Abe Presbyterian basis. "But With these utterances-publicly made' and, denied inno-naarter, in the Conferenees for a union between the'Old . and • the New` School, no spirit of' proselytism can be &aim lesaenough:to continue such a pleat ,[`( pin with us; there is no difference; we represent, New England Congregationalism :1 - On , the contrary, it roust now say, IfY . Oix mink:with us .you ;must leave the prim:aides of that chnrch-:§rder' for'which yoru. fathers,,btaved: the dungeon,, and the stake,',. and...became , strangers and pilgrims on earth; which they` planted with_prayers and tears andin& bleed in• the dreary wilds of New England, ana , made thereby those dreary wilds the gardellof thli wb ili,Varth. You must renounce the church' principles of Robinson lind the Pilgrim fathers,and: that of, Vour own ;fathers 'and' motherS. ,Do nothring these.principles lath' thaPresbyPrian Church ; they areinhoinpati- I n le with its unity and concord.' '' ' VHS ClutitrriAN-4'ar'srcr.tte—ltelaben D. Anssey, *-D., : a, physican, o ' f some emitence; le race y in ' Boston, at an advanced age. D . wring the more active .period l of his life he r vyas a , prp,gestsqt• the:digs' i ii Hanover, N. H., and' afterteinf for 'many years in Gin.cinnntti.t =ln ..thn3lgt9r.ttßlano.; ite.gWan, for about twenty years, E t i useful and honoreti - elder in the 'Secopd P;Csbytel rian. ChiirCh, where, his remains having beep .carried tcrethat city for interment, the services of his funeral took place. Dr. Webb, his plistor in Boston, in a sermon on his 14atfi, thus noticed his Christian principles; "Asa member of his church at the time'of his death, he took &deep interest in its wel. fare. During his last years, the deceased seemed to want everything to become cons genial with the kingdom of Christ. With all his extensite: , practice, he found time for daily prayer andveligious worship. He has; particularly in this:respect, left an imperish ; able record.. He was also in the habit of ministering to the souls as well as to th' bodies of men. He belleied prayer w someth#,es , as necessary as,sn tome. D * Musgeyas also benevolent almbst:ecr'a fault He carried , . his religiOn into everything; and was respected though he was pronounced by some radicalcllitiring,;modest, and at times diffide_4** WssA eneet.boaauftitl. and' re ( markagY 400.96eP4C THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1866. OUR ROCHESTER,. CORRESPONDENT. Commencement week at this highly fained arid prosperous institution of learning is to open with the baccalaure ate sermon by Prof. Fisher, on, S t oday the lfith inst. This is the eighth, and . we suppose will ,be his last, discourse in,this c relation, he having, definitely ac cepted the pastorate of. the, Westminster Churchlin Utica: The address before the Society of Christian Research As' tbi lie 'on:Sunday evening"; prize -speaking Stfiniday eventiC anniversary of the Literary societies , 'on Tuesday; Meeting of the ,alnmni on - Wednesda . y a ernooril, as usual; and poltnencement proper on ,Thlirs4ay. tou,„ T Pomeroy, of -Auburn,,-as , Ao-appoin ted l orator of the Alumni , •Society, and• J. Erd man, of Fayetteville, th`e-poet. , -But'especial iittetest will cluster; this vear, around another meeting of the althrini, to - be held on College Hill; on Wednesday foreneon, at 'l'o4 o'clock, to lay the corner-stone of new Library building. This is , to be called Perry Smith's Hall, in honor of Perry 11. Smithy Esci, of Chicago, the chief donor to the fund of s2s,ooo;'recently raised in that giant city of the West for this ,purpose: This is intended to aceommo date the Noyes ,Library, the Robinson Collection, and ,tlie societies' libraries, , and also to contain'memorial. ablets the sons of Hamilton who have recently! fallen in defence of their country-, It 1 1 a beautiful design, as well as a roue. needed building, and will be not less a. Wonor to the Western alunfini of Hamilton by whom it is ,erected; than' to the energy, perseverance and consummate ,tact of Rev. Dr. Goertner, Professor an' Commissioner of the College, by wild I. so much money has recently been raise , ! for this institution. So long as tle building shall stand, it will bear witnes' to his successful advocacy of the inter ests of the college, and of a sound Chris tian education, before Presbyteries an • Synods, and with the strong and wen thy men of the land. The Commencement exercises In co nection with the Auburn Young Ladi;:. Institute were held on the 21st ult., wh seven young ladies presented, eas some of them of decided' merit, and ,received diplomas as 'having completp. with honor the prescribed course o study. r After the -young ladiee had well pe formed their part toward 'the entertai ment of the occasion, our esteemed an genial Aiend, Rev.Dr.lfewleY ; of A , burn, was introduced to give the , annu address before - the school; and its, friend This he did with hija, accustemed ea a ill f h and grace,,an „Nvor s o Sue r wisdom, and such:. v,aluable instructs that we:venture to live quite a full street of it, even to the exclusion of a 4,4 other matters we had in hand, but w will safely keep to another week. DR. HAWLEY'S ADDRESS. . , ATter very happy allusion It ancient festival in honor 'of' Mitt contrasting that With tliings as the are, by Way of introduction, he an no as hie" subject ii - The • /deli/ an / ,titre'.' He said: . ;". The ideal ini liter:attire is that whit gives it cast and quality: Anidea thus, a thus only, takes [shape and place among t, forces of society.. A qua, rumi nohle idea lways Creates, a living hcerature in. its, bite st. A perfect idea, would present in the li ratttre it created the standard' titi to *hid' 11 real ti ? '-progress, individual art& social, is orking. 'The perfect is as yet-to as, in the highest sense, , the. ideal. ,It mayoreverthele , be de scribd and presented to thamind's ye, em bodied in. `appropriate language a so pre served until.it shall. ; bacome true ,hurn,an einerience. The ideal in literate, then, explains its Origin and defines its The materials of literattireerett things of ilife, familiar totall , ir,. revolutionize opibiorh and, giveta y i society, are, born in the common. 'A find exprewon itt the great work which is creative not of , the idea, I true liiied, acting form,tin' whiff 'becoes al poWer. It belongs most gifted class of minds to to .neon thoughts' :and every-day. e people, and give them back agai true. to , life. that they, mill. always, and ,everymhere. This which impels and prides soci hi,gher tilieki of duty and achiev beeause it Oakes the ideal act ' , ble. HiStory' is broken into 'with its producing, idea, and 'type of literature. • The ohs seen in ,the differeht modes of, ,educatioiA, religious sentime tional events, .areforesliadow by a representativeliterattire . '''' ' Homer may be-cited - as ,ii, that...power of genius which. the spirit.of an age, and -subsequentf ,time. His : in ,fooh,the popular ideal of 'his portaits of character are' preach Id Biblical "simplicit 'Milioir Was not .leas true .t. ology in its``doctrinal'pphase 'was Homer to , the Greek 'Paradise lostidealizes the -the Puritan age, with, : its ,for truth and liberty. . Shakespeare ceuld i ta,ke his frame workof history, and idealize' eve peWsion and eino i don of the human heart; n endless combine. , 'tion of 'character, and . delineate; life, in forms of art, as tobe'trn ful to his' age,,and to human natuer in all ages. Dante perfeWeirrfaffahliterature by giving form to ?the Nationd.,ptQught. His Divine, 'aomedy is an incarnatiok.of,tbe spirit'pf the i age in which he lived te 4 . 13 the yearniiigsof , the poptilafinind, agitated' hY'relegiairs zal,4 'chivalric ''passion, thfr-' ha,Pee; '. of ' libefty. tits materials were present 'to him in events, Laud personages melkhnoirn ; its great idea, 1 the old and ever-endnring conflict between food and evil• in its .application to his time, new after,a lapse of six centuries , andin,the,l foini iii which his sublime powers cartitit, is 're.terilikjeirlito Nlttioual life. ' - , . — The mistakes as well as the successes of literature' are'th be found in its ideals from .Platololeepublic to.ithenagalar awl ono-aided theoAins of. modern socialism, , They ,do Dot agree with &Um, are falpe to Providence; HAMILTON COLLEGE YOUNG LADIES' INSTITUTE common t ' Is Which' , w typo to ad. They f genius, IC of the the idea um to 'the 3 the corn rerienee _ of fin ideals so !,,recognised the power 7 along ,Cho [rent; Olmjily and desire, .tipochs, each of eciarsei its` ;es in soetetY, Lying, states of =,- great p„.lu and shaped illustrition''bf fathers todtAalf, isea it -for all bkaiep aellenoe , • 1r . elike 'a and pi Ito 'revealed tle= Lin his day, thin ythology. The religious spirit of .eroism- and love and are wrecked in the tide of events. It is here, also, that speculative philosophy shows its influence upon literature. English deism found its poetic type in Pope, as did the philanthropic atheism of France in Byron and Shelley. It was remarked, that it is, in the realm of fiction that literature shows its great power for good,or evil. The novelist" nks with the historian where his ideals - are in keeping with moral tenth; 'but where he follows fancy, and paints, life in fuller colors, or, on the other eitreme,,is its bald copyist, he deserves no• place in, literature, and sinks beneath gen-. tempt. The passion for, moie.fietion is itself a diseiged fhney,,anil'comes ffroma naokbid coniEtion of the. soCiallife .. - = 1 , It followed frOM this part of the discussion and` hi , logicaPinferende 'frodi the , main. thought of the address, that it is a vain at , temptto, reform the' literature, of people ) without,first reforming the common thoyght. and 14,, out* which that literature springs, and from which it takes its type. It . was ShoiOntihat, for this reign,, the greatest Mischief is *might 'When iniagi naticin comes to the aid' of 7s, false.: principle ill. morals and:religion-L.-when attractive books are., written, in, the interest of a dry, hard sliepticismovhich, in its skeleton form, could have no charm for the common mind,,but Which, idealize + after Christian mOdel4, - wiris . its way to a wide and unsuspecting'' circle of ref ers. his led to a brief but suggestive discus- I sion of the :influence of-Christianity upon , modern culture and ,modern thought. While I poetry, for example, has inAll ages looked to Nature for its imagery, that yearning con templation of Nature which is so essen tially modern, which in WordSworth finds ex pression in a finely-wrought but abstract morality, and in Tennyson seeks to idealize what is most distinctive in the present age, in verse of delicate harmony, is first to be found in our Lord. He was not less original in the truth he spake, than in the use he made of the imagery of Nature wherewith to clothe it. ' The reason of all modern' progress, was shown to be in Christianity, as the Divine ideal of the perfect , individual, and so of a perfected social state, true: alike. to the nature of man, the stern realities, of good and evil, and,to the purposes of God, The address concluded with an application of the subject to the aim of all fight edbca tion, which unites moral with mental culture, and - which is so happi yre.alized in the Young Ladies' Institute of this city. While alt at tempts, as such, on the, part of.wonian to de fine for herself a mission .not in harmony .with the ideal of her nature end , in a medley of monstrous failures., Let woman be true to her womanhbod, and she will always be in her sphere and•enjoy, without disturbance or jealousy, all her. ights. Roo:naysTEß, July. 7, 1866 FROM OUR ; CHICAQO, CORRESPONDENT Cm0409,-,July 4, 1866 Inrrou :--There: must' be some relation bet Ween patrietisni and the noise and glare of our national anniversary. Enthusiasm is always demonstrative. The delightof- Uliop ular addience breaks _ out in a roar of applause. A public re ception is nothing without cheers. Gari baldi is welcomed back, to. Italy with shouts which make thuwelkiuring. The largest gunsure fired when most: honor is to be done to a national' guest. 'This reconciles , iriti to 'the' explbsions which shatter all the air as I sit ; 'and I ilonhtlehs watch the aicend ing fockeo to-night with some scitisfa' c don; while I`reflect that each st*gests, by its gpwaril, flight, the sic itur ad ustra ct our national ruip.cipies...,, 'tat as this letter -will_ reach your readers after the noise and pyrotechnic splendors of this annivereary arelost, I will not at tempt, to perpetuate them in print. 144 My purpose is a quiet one--simply write of the Condition and' prospects ot Presbyterianism in this city. The first seed of 'coin denomination was planted here When Chicago was a mere trading post. It the spring of 1833, two corn parkies of , • llnited States troops were transferred.from the Falls of St. Mary to Fort •Dearborn, a cluster of block houses near the mouth of the Chicago river. With Ahem came their chaplain, Rev: Jeremiah Porter,• now chaplain of a regiment in Texas. Several of the officers and soldiers of these companies had, duiiiig the winter 'of 1822, been hOpefully converted. They desi,red to enjoy the henefits of a church organize ,cioß., About six weeks after_ their arri valfat this post, they, with a few of. the citizens, were gathered. into the First Presbyterian Church of-Chicago, organ ized by adopting, togetherwith our gen eral standards, the Articles of Faith and Covenant used by' the' 'Presbytery of Detroit. The membership; at first was in nuniberiwenty-fiv6. two 'years `it increased to otia hundred. Bier since that time Presbyterianism has liere.fOitnd a congenial soil. , Prob- Ailly no denominaiion has,at ,present, a wider intluencelrr the whole community than 'nurse Of the die*sSchool branch there are now eight churches ,within the City limits. ' 'Of the Old School are four.:- Besides - tlieSe , are , sever's.'" others belonging, under' different names, "di rectly,oi indit a ly, tb the Presbyteogati The New . School churches are much the strongest in all 'respects. '` , Of these, thelFirst has a membership of u'bout five hundred ; the Second, of, about four hun dred; the: Third, of nearly an egad] number. The houses of worship belong ing to these three churches are among the finest is the =country Indeed, •Chicago, though-so yonng as a city, is distinguished for the' excellence and bealty of its churches and other public PerhaPs no , city on the contiberitrpretients greater contrasts betweep its temporary and its.pernianent is3prOvpients." Its, finest streets are lincd,with bltermingied strut-tures which may he ,characterised ._the formula, "good, fbedii and• indifferent." The eye otakes is almostoevery where, st tbe same , glance,-the- story ' , cif ibe past and the prophecy of' theluture. The streets ire 'continually = .blocked' up by - Migratory 'dwelling* retiring 'from"`the front.", '9haMi sesinir*very where to ieigp, Jet creation jB e44wiieretiiiinkOsat C ; Q: • , cago will, one day, be a beautiful city, notwithstanding its unvarying level. The energy which characterizes its business is felt in all its ecclesiastical enterprises. arge sums ,of money are easily raised for church banding or for meeting any of the necessities of,church zrganization. The time is 'rapidly ap proaching, I believe, when much will be contributed;by our churches for the gen .eiat ivOrk of the denomination. Hitherto, :Eto l indch has been required 'to - 13411d our 'Cbtliches' and mission chapelk and to. prepare our varied machmery;,tliat we have ,Ivt,been able to afford the tance,wo . la - veydesiied to fUrniss to the committees. of -.the General Assembly. It,-may r -perhaps, require some little- time yet to educate the' people to give for that; whose fruits do not 'mature 'over `their own beads and it their own feet. But the process is - already begun, and will be so far perfected, ere long, that Chicaso will not be behind, her sis ter cities In her care, for those beyond her, bounds. .At present, a. great deal of attention is paid ‘ to mission work in, the streets and lanes. The First .Church -has two fine mission chapels, one of which was; recently erected at a cost of about $lB,- 000.: 'ln this chapel it maintains a- Stu day-school, numbering . about 1000 pa- In the other, it sustains a school of about '5OO. It is now about to erect a new chapel contiguous to its house of worship, which will accommodate a school of six or seven hundred. The Second Church .has also two large and commodious chapels for mission pur poses, and is accomplishing a great work by means of them. The Third Church is scarcely less active or useful in this par ticular than either of the others. The Oli vet Church is now completing a,beautiful and 'commodious church edifice. The Eighth, the youngest of the group, has already outgrown its first' sanctuary, completed but little more than a year ago, and is just commencing a. larger and better one. All of our churches, in fact, are in a healthy and prosperous con dition. Most of then' have pastors ; all ofthein enjopa vigorous life. It conduces much to the good fellow ship which Pervades them, that the pas tors or ministers . of all meet once -week 'for mutual conference: The unity of . feeling which characterizes them is re markable. ' -No pastof has occasion to feel• that he is isolated from his breth ren. -The condition of each church is constantly known by all. The methods -of labor pursued 'by each pastor are un derstood. All.questionsof common in terest are freely discussed. Whenever harmony 'of action is required the course to be pursued is agreed upon, and thus I:the influence of our denomination in ye .ference to all such questions is thrown, as far as possible, in one,direction. The Old SchoollChurches in Chicago are not relatively strong. Therels too ulna division 'among them. In one section of the city, two occupy' the ground which one can scarcely cover to advantage. The Planting, of the N. W. Theological Seminary here has, how eyer, given the 0. S. Branch an advan tage of which they will make use. Sbould a reunion between the two ,branches be effected, an adjustment of the interests of the Churches now on. either side of the river will be'made, to the great advantage 'of all: e • - k/ENESEI The union sentiment is strong-here, especially among our 01d School bieth rem'. There is no diSposition upon - either side to precipitate a reunion. On the New School -side, there is no wish for it until it can be effected On equal terms, and in such a manner as to. shelve for ever the questions which have divided us. Yet there is a growing< conviction among us, that such a reunion as would he organic:-and permanent is possible- 7 there is• a growing hope that it is'near. Heads-eve wisely shaken on both sides- incredulity in every nod - 7—but there is np mistaking the drift of I:input:sr senti ment. Many . who found theinselyes delightfully - Surprised at the memorable Sacrament of the Supper at. St Louis may: find :themselves delightfully sor prised, ere long, at the harmonp,of an Assembly, on whose platform " things new and old" , :nre , run together•its if they had not been sepainted. This, at least, seems probable. If the dream is' never, iealiked, the conference now pro vided ter' between the two Assemblies, will have a most happy effect itt 'noting, a good 'understanding between those who seem, for thess‘ many years, when glancing toward each other, to have. had : upon their lips, Remember , sa wasiLum. THE ,COUNTEBB SENIGN.T, Sifit9r of the Pope,,, reported ..dead. b _ adr. for .years lived in great miserton 'a pittance of ten crowns (2.f.) per- I month, doled out by berbrother. Tbe . party to Which she was attached-:-that .of *the Italian patriots nothing for" her, and - the priests, whom' she fairly hated, treated her with SiMilar negfect: Forgopert fhus alike p by,friends and by flies,,she lived in o,bscurity and died of starvation andtnisery. 0 0INATIOhr.—At a'special meeting of the Presbytery of Indianapolis, in Greenwood, June 26, Joseph Swiadt was o r dained as an Evanglitit. Any. 11. A.. Odeon, of Indianapolis, pTached thenermon from Luke xvi. 31. Rem. A. I' Rankin, of Kiugston,-propt.nrided the constbitional 'questions ; • Rev. J. R gan, of Thornton, offered the conseeraV 'hog prayer; Rev. W. L. Clark, of 'burg; dioivered the' charge to'4le FROM OUR ITALIAN CORRESPONDENT. The storm which has been gathering for more than two months, is now on the very point of breaking out to deluge with human blood the plains of Venetia. Long before this letter reaches you, hos tilies will have commenced. The papers of this morning announce that the official declaration of war, on the part of Italy, against Austria was sent off yestiiilay to Mantua. 'There has been afreo#32; & slight brush between the prussians an d Austrians in *hie') the, 'latter seem. to have fared'worst. The, much talked of .conference,• which never met, was be lieved in byveryiew. Nearly every one said it would end in smoke-tboth figura tively and literally. Hence Bismark's nnwillingness to leevell3erlint, and Gtirt sehakoff's most convenient/ attack' of the gout It is, impossible to overestimate' the importance of the present crisis in I4y. She hie 'staked her UAL:her_very exist ence—on the possesaion of Tenise. Prussia might have drawn back, as fears were entertained, only a few days ago, that she would ; but. Italy, fully six weeks ago, had entirely committed .hsr self, gone. much too far, even to think of such a thing. The enthusiasm oflthe the people throughout the peninstili'ia semewhat extraordinary. The wa'r'like: policy of the Government has been fr om . . the very beginning, most heartily Ap proved by them. Volunteers from every corner of the country,'from every rank in society, have hastened to offer their services for , the .realization of Italian unity. So many presented themselves that it was actually necessary for setieral days to refuse new names. Patricians have vied with plebeians in their devoted patriotism. ' You ' may find in eva4y battalion sons of" Italy's aristocracy , serving side by side as common soldiers with the children of -.peasants And , . paupers. Last month, very: many *id from Venice to put themselves under the tri-color of Victor. Immanuel. One of these faithful fugitives, after risking his life and suffering •Many privations, offered himself as a volunteer against the Austrians. Unfortunately he ,w of of the required height end was relea, d. ettThe poor. fellow almoatlirctiteliis li t . in, despair ,' until some : friend, acquairiied with his history, made itAnown tir the officer in command, whir _immediately enrolled him to his great delight . Garibaldi landed here early on Mon day morning, •on his way to Como. There were thousands waiting for him. He it almost worshipped as' a saint by the Genoese. They tell' me he has now a most venerable appearance—his hair and long large beard having become quite grey. His appointment to the command of the volunteers was almost as much a matter of necessity as of choice with the;ltalian government. It is notorious that -General La'Marmora was much opposed to it, and only re cently withdrew his opposition. At such a time as the present, Garibaldi would never have continued in Caprera —he would certainly have drawn his sword for the good of his country. Asked or unasked, his aid would have been given, and it is infinitely better that there 'should be a perfect under standing between kim and his ,Majesty's ministers than that each party should be independent of the other. There are few countries that can boast of such a character as Garibaldi. After the treat ment.he met with three years ago, when he was so miserably deceived and lured on, until wounded at A.spromonte, he is well worthy of the very highest praise, in so readily accepting the generalship which has been offered him, and so en ' tirely putting himself at the disposal of the government. He stayed in his island home until every preparation bad been made on the main land—when word was sent for him to come. He obeyed. His coming is the signal for war. It is impossibie—,useleSs to speculate on the conflict , INW at hand. Most peo-- ple here think it will be sharp but short. ./t may be so., The Austrians are very strongly entrenched in the quadrilateral. -Their fprtified cities are almost impregna ble. At least, they could only be taken by a long siege—work Ifor which the youlig Italians are totally unfitted. An attack, will likely fire be made on Ven ice itself. There is the most confident expectation of that noble city belonging to Italy before many months are over . How strange that such, a struggle should should take place this year. Is it to be the beginning of the end,? Wh at effects will it have• on the Papal power? .When Venice is won, Rome must soon follow—sooner, perhaps, than some ex pect. Yesterday's papers contained the resignation of Cardinal Antonelli, which has been accepted, and Al tieri mentioned as his ,probable successor. The imule• diate reason of this step on the part ot Antonelli, was the Pope's refusal to in ane paper money, (as the Italian gov ernment hare done,) which would have immensely enriched the disappointed Car 'dinal's brother, who, it sa-ems, is Piree tor of the Bank of Rome—but hoiy . great aloes will be the resignation (,) supha man to the Pope at the prt critical moment. GENOA, June 10, (To be Concluded in oor next.) Right, and Worthy to be Passed Around. —The _Hock Island Presbytery of the UutiLd 'Presbyterian ()buret', has adopted and pub . the following resolution :— "Resolved, That members of the Church who fail to contribute to sustain the Gospel at home or send it abroad, are un worthythe privileges of her communion, no- less in the judgment of the session such Po tions 'owe not able to contribute."
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