?BE AIERICAN PRESBYTERIAN
AND
GENESEE EVANGELIST.
*Religious and Family Newspaper,
IN THE IN'TEHIST OP THE
Constitutional ,Presbyterian Church.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY,
AT TEE PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE,
1984 Chestnut Street. (24 dors%) Philadelphia.
Aar. Yoko. W. lilteeira. Editor end Publither.
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gmtritait EVtelyttrialt.
THURSDAY,. AUGUST 2, 1866
ILLUSTRATIONS 'OF HUMAN NATURE
Ih TILE CLRCUIISTANCES OF THE
TRIAL AND DEATH OF CHRIST. T.
We cannot too carefully observe ikow the
good and the bad .qualities. of the human
heart, of friend andloe,: of Jew and 'Gen
tile, of man and woman, of 'public med and
pr i va te citizens, are brought 'to view in the
last scenes of the life 'of 'our' SaViour.
Though the platform was
.narrow, and, but
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few of the actors or 44torio ipiritano' e by
themselves, yet, opportunity was given for
an extraordinary play, of .humien. passion s
and display of, the most ,varied traita;of
human character... It would . seem as it all
the chief three& 'of life and the ruling
impulses, good and bad, of which our na
ture is capable, crossed each other in this
great event. ± Man, humanity itself, was
on trial in the trial of Christ; so that the
incidents of the trial andcrucifixion have
been unconsciously accepted as types of
character and conduct ; are quoted famil
iarly as historical precedents, and .have
gone into the proverbial language'of Chris
tendom.
And why should this be surprising ?
The , greateit 'of human interests were at
stake; the relations of man to his Creator
and Judge were being adjusted ,• , sin
in the heart and life was meeting its
grand antagonist;.infinite love was bending
to bless and to save perverse, hardened,
guilty sinners. It could not be but that
such a process should most thoroughly and
searchingly test the inherent qualities of
the soul. It must reveal, in a most em
phatic manner, what was in man. The
doors of the soul are flung wide open at
such a summons, and all its secret tenants,
all its dark passions and prejudices, all its
subtle affinities for good or for evil, 'all its
weaknesses, its grovelling selfishness and
earthly•mindedness, its haughty indiffer
ence to spiritual claims and interests, its
narrowness and bigotry, its craven fear and
nruelty, its lalindneas. in the midst of Rita,
its cunning fraud and open disloyalty, its
timidity, its policy, its vacillation, its
despair ; all these, as well as its capacities
for good, come forth into the broad light of
day and write themselves on the pages of
history.
If' proof were wanted of the historical
correctness of the story of Christ's trial and
death, the wonderful truth to nature of its
various scenes and incidents would go far
to confirm it Amid signs not to.be mis
taken of something far , above nature, we
have the dearest and most instructive il
lustrations of what we know to be in us and
around us to-day,—a narrative, utterly be
yond the powers ; of man to originate, yet
in which never was man more;accurately
portrayed to . .himself. A grand_fignre,
moves gently and 'unresistingly, yeti with.
sweetand stately , through the Scene,
never ruffied•by the storm of injtistiCeilvin
lence and .cruelty raised against 'him; the:
crown of thorns canna remove the lieaveri•i
ly majesty from
,his brow ; the. mocking'
reed and garments, the bloody scourging,,
do not abate one jet of his royal beauty. in
our eyes. Divinity gleams through.. every
defacement attempted by fanatical hatred.
Through the darkest scenes of Getheenaane,
of the Judgment Hall, and of Calvary,
there is a mysterious and awful copdeseen
sion of somewhat far above ua to the limits
of human life and suffering ; but all around
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this Heavenly Sufferer, 'v' men and,
women are grouped, whosie, moralindividu
ality unfolds the more completely, it would
seem, under the contrast of the Divinity
with which, for the time, it. is associated.
One can scarcely find an opportunity for
studying human nature to better adVantage
than in the unvarnished story which inspi
ration has furnished of the trial and cruci
fixion of Jesus of Nazareth. And we urge
this as a proof of the truth of the narra
rative.' For the Evangelists were simple
minded men, without ambition or capacity
as literary artists. Their work is .a simple ,
statement of facts; and the very nature of
the facts, in such hands, is the proof of
their reality. ,
We have, in fact, in the combination of
individuals, parties and races to accomplish
the death of Christ, a type of the fallen
condition of humanity as a whole, and of
the deadly hostility of our corrupt nature
to God in His most gracious and saving at
titude. It was the natural man, in Jew
and Gentile garb, in Church and State, in
the hierarchy and the laity, in the governor
and the.governed, in the partially good and
the wholly bad, which rejected Christ on
His mission of redemption, which clam
ored for' His crucifixion, and' for the
,liberation of Barabbas. Those dreadful
''resbo44n
New Series, Vol. 111, No. 31.
acts were the acts Ak of a few scores 'or
hundreds of PeoPle, long ago, and in a far
off country ; they were, substantiall3r,. my
ants and yours. In them we were. fairly
represented by the Jews, and Pilate.. The
natural man is everywhere sure-to tryout to
the world's Redeemer-: No this man but
Barabbas ! As human nattire, is Constitu
ted,' the murderous rejection bf eltrist was
absolutely certain , Would be so to=day:
Men had - been rejeefing all God's inferior
agents, and when He, sent fits son they
were ready,to fly upon Him,.,exclaiming,:
"This. is . the heir,;, come: lotus kill Min.!' (
We are, sometimealled:loff into Lvain and
deceitful dreanis'of :the, excellence ufs-Itte.
man nature. Nattfratquilities' are praised;
and teachers ;delirairity 'ate aerteunde4 ; as
bigots. The inherent capacity OrunassiAl
ed man to rise in ciiihzatien and in charm
ter, is often declared . and still more often
taken for granted. But Jest men, as the
Jews and 'Gentiles were tested, by present ;
ing suffering Saviour, claiming, Divine
authority, requiring supreme devotion, and
offering a free
,salvation by faith; and •the
most amiable and the , most cultivated; as
well as the most superstitious and - degraded,
will demonstrate the strength' and univer
sality of their' depravity by rejecting Him
as Jew and Gentile did. Their act, truth
fully described as "the grind discovery of
human depravity, and in all its eirettin
stances the greatest single act of , wickedness
that ever was or can be committed," is, in
spirit, done over and over again thousands
of times, every day, by the impenitent re
jecter of Christ. - All the elements of its
neprodnetion in its essential featuresoare
involved in' the character and 'acts. of the
men of this generation. It is part and
proof of the degree of man's depravity that
it rises most violently against the divine
and perfect means of his recovery.
PRESBYTERIAN EMIGRATION TO
SOUTHERN DELAWARE.
P 1111,3 : tir:grill Io y kr:, n4ll
AT BRIDGEVILLE
Cheering-Anstances of progress and re
covery of lost ground 'are occurring in.
Lower Delaware. The Presbytery-of Wil
mington have always kept a close eye upon
the old sites of Presbyterian Churches in
their bounds, and have watched and im
proved every opportunity offered by the
building of railroads and the movements of
new settlers, for planting, in new places,
the institutions of_ the Gospel. The se
cession of 1857, indeed, almost shut them
out of the lower part of the Peninsula.
But 'keeping good heart, and having still
some faithful men in the' region,,•partiou
r
larly in 'Milford, ihey manned the church
there,,estiblished new pria&hing places in
the neighborhood, and were chee'red .
response from the loyal and intelligent
classes of the old residents, and by a,
steadily
. increasing , y current of .Northern,
immigration. : • .';
Two years 'ago, Rev. L. C. Lockwocal
called the attention, of the Presbytery to'
Bridgeville, the house of the lamented'
Goieriior Cannon,' as a promising fiehrof
missionary 'effort. It is remarkable that
the immigration to' that quarter, coming"
,
'mainly; fioin Pennsylvania and New'"fork,
is, without any previous concert,—almost
exclusively, 1 3 ,tesbytcrian and Reformed
Dutch. Some of the' families ,are large;
most of them, is maybe :expected from.
such antecedents, are intelligent;.there are
truly pious Persons, zealous and active
niemberi of the church j leading men in
the dotninunity are praying and devoted
men in the Church, ready for Sabbath
school enterprise, and, so far as their
.
means go, for every measure necessary for
the advancement of Christ's kingdom. It
is rare, indeed, that a new settlement fur
nishes such an admirable nucleus for a
Home Missionary enterprise, as that which
is gathering in and around Bridgeville.
The Mown lies about 106 miles south
from Philadelphia, directly on the Dela
ware 'railroad, and is reached in a little
over five hours from the Prime street de
pot. The soil in the immediate vicinity is
light, but by no means excessively so. It
is .easily tilled, and susceptible of almost
any degree of improvement. It is, how
ever, especially adapted to trucking and
peach-giowing. Farms can still be had at
from fifteen to twenty-five dollars an acre,
in the neighborhood. Settlers are favored
by the railroad company, for the first year,
by a reduction of one-third from the regu
lar rates on passage and freight.
Presbyterian families, who are looking
for new' homes, may with the utmost confi
dence be referred.to Bridgeville, Delaware,
as a settlement where they will be certain
to meet' with : those religious influences and .
those privileges, rwhidh they would' mipst
'emphatically prefer for themselves and their
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY; AUGUST 2 . 1866.
families ) and where their church associa
tiona, from the material already on the
ground, are likely to prove of the most
happy sort.
On last Thursday, the Presbytery of
Wilmington, by a committee, installed as
-pastor of the new Church of Bridgeville,
Rev. Alexander Gulick, late •of Hudson
River Presbytery. The 'services were per-,
formed in a large and convenient building,
once used as a storehouse, and ,recently
fitted up, with benches and -lights, for the
congregation. This building Aiftkronged
by a most interesting audience r including
a large' numhef of yoting people, , and many
who could not ,gain a.draiitance„ , ,crowded
around doors alid'windows.', 4 Admirably
performed parinr organ, with._, a choir,
added interest . toi. the services, which were
hittodueecl by the bitpitiiim of theinfini 6444
of the pastor elect. The moderator of the
Presbytery, Rev:JOhn Patton, D.D., presi
ded and put the-constitutional questions;
Rev. Wm. Aikman preached a sermon on
Rom. i. 16, " Ford am not ashamed of the
Gospel of Christi" etc., which was a lucid
and faithful exhibition of the power of the
Gospel to elevate, to bless and to save meri.
Rev. John W. Mears gave the charge to the
pastor, and Rev. Edward Webb the charge
to the people. A spirit of deep tenderness
and earnestness characterised the exercises,
the very first of the kind ever witnessed by
the old residents in that community. The
impression made was, doubtless, most prof
itable. The associations cOnneete l d with
the.enterprise, not only as 11 promising ad=
trance of our Church, but rie part of a hope
ful Movement going on in that section 'of
the State, made the services unusually in
teresting.
It gives us pleasure to add that Mr.
Gulick has already won the confidence and
esteem of the communityyand that his min
istrations are most fairorably regaided by
the
, people. A flourishing Sabbath-school
is in operation with a good supply of faith
ful teachers, which . is aiding greatly in
commending the enterprise to the fami
lies of the neighporhood.
It is contemplated to commence build ,
ing.a-e-hure.h edifice-in-the fall,- Lots have
already been secured; and an effort to raise
the necessary funds will soon be made.
Friends who are called on for aid, may give
with all confidence in the enterprise, as one
of the most hopeful and deserving on the
list.
Persons desiring information, with a
view to settlement, are referred to Mr.
George Carom, Bridgeville, one of the
elders or the Church, and a devoted fiiend
of the enterprise, who will cheerfully
sorer
inquiries.
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PRESBt r YgL"
We'must cordially acknowledge the ser
vices. renderefl. 14.-i by the Cincinniti
;byte, in brilhantly advertising onr -patie?
its second editorial" column, `last
,week: It is rare,, indeed, that a, service so
eminent is „performed unsolicited.. ,
'difficult to calculate the money-yalne of
an 'advertisement so conspicuously ; posted.
'We must also express our obligations .that
it has guarded its readers- against the not
uncommon error of confounding the editer's
name with Myersi; which he very jnitlY
informs them is incorrect—the true name
of the - family being Mears. Recent infes
.
tigations have brought to light some other
modifications of the, name, which, if the,
editor is curious on the subject, or ; desirous
of 'willing his aid further in correcting or
guarding against mistakes, we will commu
nicate to him.
I The general reader needs to be infOrtned
that The Presbyter, a paper of the other
branch in Cincinnati, has taken these liber-'
ties—as we may call them—for the sake of
discrediting the phrase " Constitutional
Presbyterian Church," which forms part of
the regularly published prospectus upon the
title-page of this paper. At this late date
The .Presbyter has waked up to the fact of
existence . there, although it is coeval
with' the' history of the paper. The pred
ent editor of the AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN
found it in the prospectus, where he has
since left it undisturbed. It has seemed
to him a truthful designation of the branch
of the Church more particularly represented
by the AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN'. We
cannot understand this sudden sensitiveness
on a phrase which has been floating at our
mast. head nine years, or the summons for
its removal at this time. We are sorry,
indeed, if so good a man as the editor of
The Presbyter does not like . it, for it is our
deeided intention to keep it there.
Ralf. EDwenn`P. HiqiiiOND and lady
'sailed from New York by the Albernia
ion SaturdaY,
gp'to 'the
Holy Land:
THE ATLANTIC CABLE LAID.
On Friday, the 27th of July, the Great
Eastern successfully completed the great
enterprise of laying the Atlantic cable, and
distinct and satisfactory messages were at
once received, as during the whole voyage
had been the ease, from the other side. It
is remarkable that, as with the cable of
1858, the fait 'news- blOught 'is that of
PLACE. In 1858 the'firth in& almost the
only 'news deSp'atch announced : piiace be
tNyeen England and
,Ohina. In 1866 the
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first news carried is of peace between.Atol 7
tria,Fid Prussia. is a. far':more
44PortItnt 4049nly*Penty. vi 9 !ITA*sl,l o 4cOt
as ;an omen of lar l greater Eterviee
renderect -the sieli cable; • „Remembering
Our reidature
.rejtiiiinga- eight piers Itgo;
we will not be' 'over-sanguine to-day.-• We
trait that ere this paragraph reaches' our
readers,'&ll confirmation will be given to
the hopes which now 'seem so reasonable, of
entire success in the great scheme for , pit
ting all parts of the civilized world in in
stantaneous connection with each other.
Certainly, it is not too early for all to ex
press acknowledgments to our indefatigable
countryman, CYRUS W. FIELD, to whose
zeal, perseverance, -good spirits, and un
daunted courage, we owe this last and most
promising attempt at Atlantic teleg,raphy.
OUR LONDON LETTER.
LONDON, July, 1866.
My Thus SIR:—We are in the'mid
ale of '"the dog-days." The heat is
very oppressive, not very far short of
the pleasant dose of, it I had lastyear in
your country. We have had a good
deal of rain and genial weather for the
last month, and everything bids fair for
a good harvest and• an early one. The
cattle plague is gradually dying out—the
weekly deaths have come down from
thousands to hundreds, and we are in
hopes of soon seeing the last of it. The
last account I saw was only 325. We
are slowly but surely recovering, too,
from the effects of. the' late commercial
crisis, or "'panic," rather. Money gets
easier, snd confidence is- gradually re
turning in 'commercial- circles, though
the hank rate ofinterest still stands at
£lO per cent. We 'have had, too, since
I wrote, a ministerial crisis, and• that,
too, has passed quickly over. Lord
Russell and his party are " out ;" Lofd
Derby and his party are "in " The
feeling is very strong that there was no
need of the ministry going out. They
were defeated only on a matter of detail
in -regard to their Reform bill; and it
was thought that, considering the state
'of matte r rs at_home •and abroad, . a minis
terial' interregnum 'Ought not to have'
been'added to the complications, Without'
muehittronger reasobs than the outgoing
Cabinet could offer. But now all is '
over. ' What remains of the tithe , de
voted to , the sitting= of Parliament Will
be -bestowed on'the passing-of necessary
ifedaehiee onlyi; then will-come the pro
rogation—then'the Derby ministry will
be left to prove itself ? ! unless any very
great crisis , arfse,lill the t usual time-of
the meeting "of- Parliament in February
of next year: The:feeling prevalent
that the ne4 ministry must have <a' fair
trial, and that it' will have, between now
and the meeting of Parliament ,
THE EIIHOPHAN**AB
Bat the position of foreign affairs ab
sorbs all interest. All eyes are eagerly
turned and wholly fixed on the continent.
As earnestly as •we watched your inter
nal struggle, do we now watch and
wait for the last news from the seat of
war. It all seems like a fevered dream.'
When I last wrote you, war had not
been procliiined; or if, it had, that was
all ; now; it may be over. It was only
On the 14th' of June, not yet a month
ago, that " Federal Execution" `was de
creed by the Germanic 'Diet. Two' d ays
after, the Prussians entered Leipsic ; the
following day they entered the Hanove
rian Capital. On the famous 18th of
June they had entered Bohemia, and
had taken possession of Dresden: The
first, action of any importance,near Trau
tman in Bohemia, took place only on
the 25th of June. Then action folloWed
action with fearful rapidity , . Each day
had its new engagement, and its new
Victory to the Prussian arms. Prussia
carried all before her, in 'one unbroken
stream of conquest, till the 3d of July,
when, ill the desperate battie of Sadowa,
Austria was fairly baffled and beaten.
As account after account comes in, the.
complekeness of the victory Is established.
We have now accounts of all sorts from '
all 04E, We have two separate ac
counts from two very able correspondents
of the Times ; one a military, and the
other a literary man. The soldier cor
respondent was with the staff of the
Austrian General; the litterateur got
posted on the top of a high turret in the
fortrem of Koniggratz, from Which ;he;
could - see nearly the whole ftelAcith4tl6 4,
13 : y "their aCcounik f the Audtrianwiveit
completely routed. These ideOuntivelie?
G-dnesee Evangelist, No. 1054.
confirmed by official documents from
Austria, from Prussia, and &old corres
pondence of all sorts. It seems alto
gether beyond doubt that Austria, as a
military power, is fairly, for the time,
crushed and utterly crumpled up. It
seems undoubted that she lost, in that
one disastrous battle, in killed, Wounded,
prisoners, and missing, upward of 80,-
000 men, 150 guns, vast , stores of war
material, some of her ablest generals,
and, the very ,heart and courage of her
beaten army. Prussia 'not slow to
see and follow up , her :advantage; she
noW . 'holds Prague, - and so Bohemia;
and is within two or, three daps' march
of Vienna, on ,whicki there is hardly
anything to, hinder her' from walking
awl.,,taNng , ,possesion, ( Bo soon as _she
There was a long letter in the Times
"after the battle," by- a. sppctator, of the
field. The description reveals a scene
of horrors truly awful. One pi cture was
very touching. , The dead soldiers were
laid in, trenches side, by side, Prussians
and Austrians together, in their uni
forms; the officers in single graves apart,
marked only by a wooden cross. The
writer saw '-a woman sitting, on a , fresh
mound over a common soldier's new
made grave. The wooden cross at the
head of it she had decorated with ;oak
boughs. She, held his shattered helmet
in her lap. She had followed her hula. ;
bandthrough all his weary marchinga,-
faithful to the very death ; and now : she
sat,pouring out her deep sorrow alone
over his grave. 0, the hearts that have
been, dried ,up, crushed, and made deso
late by this horrid butchery I And yet,
" It was a glorious victory."
The result hitherto seems to be this
Austria cannot stand up alone against
Prussia, man for man. The needle gun
carries all before it. The needle gun—
yes, but in able bands, and with able
geneials. Prussia has established her
superiority,first, in promptitude ; second,
in-generalship ; third, in the superiority
of her soldiery in strength and endur
ance, if not also in bold courage and
daring ; fourth, in the clearest and most
undoubted point of all, in her arms
small arms. It seems a clear result,
that the needle gun, all things else being
equal, is about; at the lowest computa
tion, equivalent to multiplying the side
that is armed with it by three ; some say
by five ; others enthusiastically go higher
still. One result of that is, that we have
alreadf ordered the conversion of 100,-
000 Enfield rifles into. breachiloaders:.
But further, - Italy was undoubtedly.
;beaten at Cdstozza. Thai is admitted'
by common consent 'Beaten; bit by no
s means' shamefully- so ; ; overborne :by
mere strength and mere foree of num
bers, PlEmted in a superior pOsition. She
was again' gathering her strength`up for
renewed, battle, when Auatiii, beaten on
the other eide;by a *stet stroke' -or
policy 'ceded Venetia-14 the `Emperor of
the' French ne-and'all the "dijolomatiats .
arenow at work -I —lhe latent rumor,' while
I write, speaks 'of"l'arnied l itikedietion"
di the part of ;Loillik'Niipoleon.''' It is'
tiad-that; two or three ironiclide.hat , el
already left Toulon, and that otiei vcipl
eels are busily - engaged in victualing,
prepared' to follow. SPeotilatioibi baf
fled" What the next step, tale neit
snit may be, God only knOWs: t-Brit Men
are'beginning slb*ly to confess thet r he
finger of God is growing more fully
visible: It is notthe least use attempt_
ing tO forecast thefuture. The situation
is now very complicate& If Prance is
drawn in, Russia will undonbtsdly fol
low
low, And then how we can escape and
dwell apart, does not seem so clearly
visible. We rejoice in .our insular pbsi
tion.. We dwell as in a castle surround
ed by a inoate? broad and deep ditch,
always full-70` miles in breadth at the
narrowest part. There, and in our trust
in God, lie our security.
We have had no end Of royal mar
riages, too, since . I last wrote you. The
gossip that has beep going abunt these
marriages, and about the royal faMily
generally, .in this West End of London,
is trulywonderful. " Conrt - gossiP" is
confined to the higher . eircles,. It polio
lates very slowly down, want is long
before it reaches the lower strata of
society. Ronnil the royal rasidences,
at Windsor, at Osborne,and at Balmo
ral, the gossip is thick and fast "as
leaves in Valhambrosa." When Buck
ingham Palace was used as a royal
abode, during- the season, there was no
lack of "court news," "court scandal,"
and "Court goi3sip." This was picked
tip at the clubs and at parties by ".our
own correspondent," slightly embellished :
i by him in this neat, oracular style, and
sent Off to-his country newspaper,whence
it - Soon went forth over a-whole country
side: This "seasons'—l may tell .your.
xeideis, by the that "the season"
coihm•inces with- thn'usual meeting' of
.tPailianient -ancrlitsta -it` alijowns; or
till toward tiieliniddle":4:if
t: :
AFTER TE -BATTLE.
RESULTS.
COURT GOSSIP
TERMS,
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By Mail, $3. By Carrier, as 50.
Fifty cent* additional, after three months.
Clubs.,—Ten or more Papers sent to one address,
plyable strictly in advance and in one remittance,
By Mail, $2 50 per annum. By Carrier. $3 per annum.
Ministers and Ministers , Widows, $2 50 in
advance.
Home Missionaries, $2 00 in advance.
Remittances by mail are at our risk-
Postage.—Five cents quarterly, in advance, paid
by subscribers at the office of delivery.
Advertisements.-12r4 cents per line for the
first, and 10 cents for the second insertion.
One square (ten lines) one month $3 00
two months. 5 50
three months— ' 750
six. months 00
... one year is 00
The following discount on long advertisements, in
serted for three menths and upwards, is allowed :
Over 20 lines. 10 per cent. off; over 50 lines. 20 per
cent over 100 lines. 23'- per Per cent. '
season, then, the gossip has been more
than usually abundant, more than nsu
[Lally consistent, and more than usually
credited. I am thankful to say, that
most qi that regarding Prince Christian
has turned out to be false.
DEPLORABLE FANCY OF THE QUEEN
But still the gossip goes about the
Queen herself. Her persistent absence
from. London life—her wearing mourn
ing so long, even at her own daughter's
wedding, and at that of Princess Mary
of Cambridge—her fancies regarding
her late husband—she will not pirmit
any one to`speak of him as " the late"
Prince Consort; she persists in the be
tliahe alive; keeps his horse al
ways ready, saddled and' bridled; keeps
a lamp burning at his• shrine, night and
day = and a 'thousand :Things of ~that
sort. Bat the gossip goes down further.
There is a ‘s 'elite," by name John
Brown, a low, vulgar felldw, they say,
who smokes a short, black " catty" pipe,
and spits as he goes—the report, in the
very highest circles, is, that the Queen
sees a likeness to the Prince in` Brown ;
that she believes that Prince Albert's
soul has gone into this man ; and so,
wherever the Queen goes, goes with her
John Brown—a stalwart, brawny High
landman. The other day, at Windsor,
as the Queen was driving to or from
the railway station, with the inseparable
gillie standing on the footboard behind
the carriage, the mob grew and gathered
and shouted out to him, in its wrath,
" Why do yon not go inside beside Mrs.
Brown ?" A board, too, was stuck up
on the Palace wall, when the Queen was
in Balmoral, on which was the doggerel
rhyme painted in black upon white :
"Mrs. Brown's gone out of town."
That these things should be even said
in any quarter, is deplorable in the ex
treme. That they should be said in the
very highest circle of the land, and be
lieved there, is worse still. The popu
larity the Queen so long and so largely
enjoyed, has been for some time on the
wane ; and people are beginning to ask,
What is the *good of keeping up a State
puppet of this sort at a cost of £300,000
a year ? Cui bcmo ? lam sorry to say
the heir-apparent to, the throne, the
Prince of Wales, does not stand much
higher in the estimation of the good and
true in our land.
ALARMING SPREAD OP RITUALISM
In ecclesiastical matters, there is little
to report, beyond the growing ritualism
of the Church of England. Convocation
had a committee appointed to consider
and report thereupon, which committee
reported and considered; at least, judg
ing'froni the report, they - reported first
and considered afterwards. There is
not a word of Scripture in the whole
document There is not 'a word in it
which a liSathen, ignorant of the source
((of oar faith the 'Bible,.might not have
Ipenned:. It' blows-hot and cold—recom
mends 'this. an& that---do and do not ;
'but substantially, hold fast all you have
gbt in the'way tof ritual, if you can keep
itt.; if not, let gO 'only- what you must.
!Meanwhile, " the movement" waxes
}strong and spreads. One hears of it
everywhere. = Reports come= from all
!districts . =ofl strange sayings and doings;
tof' incebse , regnlarly used ; of the whole
;Popish vestments' being regularly (mi
-1 ployed; of the elevation of the host ; of
!prostrations before " the bread god;" of
iconfessional boxes openly set up in
;churches; of processions out of doors
and in, with crosses, banners, and Bur
piked - priests, and choristers clad in all
manner of ecclesiastical finery; of prayers.
for the dead ; of sisterhoods and of bro
therhoods,/of retreats, of fasts, and of
penances—in short, as one of the ablest
of the evan - gelical•elergy of the Church
of England said to me only the other
'day, " Sir, we have men among us by
the score and 'by tbe hundred, who want
,only one thing to make them complete
and ont-and-out Papists; and that is,
i acknowledgment- of the supremacy of the
i'ope, not in general terms, for that they
do, but , over
. themselves." And yet,
things being brought to , this pass, how
are they met ? By feeble protests, feebly
uttered and feebly , offered. They are
met by indifference, a shrug of the shoul
ders, and by a boPe expressed that " all
will be put to rights when the Lord
comes."
A general expectation prevails among
the clergy of the Established Church
that the personal advent of the Lord
Jesus Christ is near at hand; that all
things must grow worse and worse till
He comes; and therefore they acquiesce
in g , things as they are," almost without
a`murainr. One thing grows clearer to
me daily—if things do not get mended
soon, the Lord will certainly be down
upon them in judgment,-for they are
very ripe, indeed, for thit. My paper
is,done, nrtd I close Mistily. .
Yours ever, PIIII.LADELPHOS.
Rzy. 'Enwelual , (not William) Winos
was installed 'pastor at • gliigow, Del.,
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