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THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1'66
CciNTENTa : IN IMIDE-PAGES.
SECOND PAGE—FAMILY CIRCLE :
The Buriabof Mosen.--A, drop , of Water-A Dutch
man's Temperance Lecture-The Unoet Diamond=
Life too Short for St4ife-I am the 'Family CIA-
Singular Iliberslity - - , -A Thrilling Inaident-Cardi
nal Wolsey-Lord Craven Truth.
THIRD PAGE--MISCELLANEOUS : '
John Huss and Martin Luther-Sketch of Count
Bismark-The Meanest -Blighty with God.
SIXTH PAGE--CORRESPONDENCE:
.•
. LOtter from East Tennesve-Preabytery. of Grand
River Valley, Michigan - ' Plain Counsels to Freed
men."
Einyon's TABLE: Fairbairn's ',Prophecy view
. ed in Respect to its Distinct*. Nature, Special
Function and Proper Inteepr atiOn"-Whedon's
"Commentary on the Gospels"-" Maude Grenville
Libr,r.y." five volumes in a box-" Harper's Picto
rial Haters , of the RehellionLittell's Living
Axe."
MISCELLANEOUS: The Papacy - Sanctified by
Prayer.
SEVENTH PAGE—RURAL ECONOMY :
'Plants for Hanging Baskets-About Peat-Useful
Plants-Ventilate your Children's Rooms
SCIENTIFIC: pinny/3140S at Saratoga-An Exten
sive Salt Mine-Tribulaticns of the Inventor of the
Needle-Gun-Ifemo and Wire Rope- Testing the
Old Cable -Strength of Iron and Steel-Whitening
of Paper.
DAILY PRAYER-MENTINGEL=The Noon
Day Prayer-meeting in this city has no
vacation. Some who, when at home,
are punctual in their attendance, are now
absent, but the fire is kept burning on
the altar.
Of the Fulton Street, New York,
meeting, the Evangelist says:—" The
attendance on the meeting is unusually
good for this season of the year, the
heated term' just passed appearing to
augment rather than diminish its num
bers. The requeits sent to the meeing
are more numerous than usual at this
time. They are generally fewer near
the close of the week, than during ,the
first half, but on Saturday last there
were as many as ten read at the open
ing of the meeting, and, as generally
happens, some of them were of a very
affecting character."
A Daily Morning Prayer-meeting is
sustained in San Francisco. It ie held
in the First Presbyterian Church, and
is very interesting.
ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION
Or THE NEW YORK STATE SABBATH.
SCHOOL TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.
The Sabbath-school teachers cf the
State of New York are cordially invited
to convene in the First Presbyterian
Church, (Rev. P. H. Fowler, D.D.,) at
Utica, on Tuesday, August 21, 1866, at
2 o'clock P. M., and 'continue through
Wednesday and Thursday, August 22
and 23.
Every evangelical Sabbath-school in
the State is requested to send at least
one delegate and their minister, and will
be entitled to an additional delegate for
every hundred scholars.
All delegates purposing to attend the
Convention, are particularly requested to
notify Wm. S. Taylor, Esq., Secretary
or any member of the local committee at
Utica, on 'or before the tenth day of Au
gust, so that they may make the neces
sary arrangements for entertainment.
The Committee will not promise to pro-,
vide for any delegates, vvho do not corn-
ply strictly with the above request..
Delegates who have sent their names
and cannot attend, will see the impor
tance of notifying the Secretary at once,:
so that their places can be filled with
others.
County Secretaries will see that no
tice of the Convention is published in
their county papers.
Publishers of all papers, religious, and
secular, who fee/ an interest in the wel
fare of the young, will confer a favor by
giving this a place in., their columns, or
by making an appropriate reference to
the same.
Will pastors and superintendents cause
a suitable notice of this Convention to
be read in their respective churches two
Sundays in succession previous to the
Convention ?
A, There will hP a meeting of the several
Committees at Utica, on Monday, Au
gust 20 , , time and place will be given
hereafter. A full attendance is re
viested.
CHARLES W. WARREN,
Chairman Local Committee, Utica.
Wm. S. TAYLOR,
Secretary Local Committee, Utica.
THOMAS DAVIES,
County Secretary, Utica.
JOHN F. SEYMOUR,
THOMAS DAVIES, Committee on Cor-
Wm. S. TAYLOR, respondence, Utica.
- E. T. HUNTINGTON,
Seey State Ass's, Rochester, N. Y.
THE NEW CONGREGATIONAL ENTER
PRISE IN PHILADELPHIA.
We copied , two weeks ago, from the
Roston Recorder, some statements from
a : Philadelphia correspondent, to 12/341D
knovz, respecting a.misadventurpof an
e> orf t .establish , a:.; : Congfeiational
Church in this city, stating, at the same
time, that we had no personal know
ledge of the matters stated. We, are
since informed that those statements are
incorrect, in important particulars, doing
injustice to Rev. - Mr. Caldwell and other
parties concerned, and we are requested
to make the fullowing corrections
1. The neighborhood alluded to was
canvassed and the congregation collected
by Mr.
,Cald well's individual efforts.
S. Mr. Caldwell declined to organise
a Congregational Church because there
were no materials for doing so.
3. Mr. Caldwell resigned for: the fol
lowing reasons :—(1.) Want of support;
(2.) Want of faith in the-success of a
Congregational enterprise in that part
of the city ; (3 ) He did not like a work
which depended entirely for its success,
,on proselytising from other churches.
4. The statement that a. proposition
was made 'to the Presbyterian Board,
(O. or N. S.) to talte charge of the en
terprize, is simply' untrue; as is also
the statement that the Central Congre
gatioßal Church voted to withdraw - from
the - American Home Missionary Society,
their recommendation of Mr. Caldwell.
We are informed that reference may
be made for the correctness of the above
statments, to the riarties mentioned, and
to A. S. Dotter, Esq.,, 702 Chestnut
street, or 2035 Ridge avenue. _
OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT.
A, DAY AT BINGHAMTON
This is truly a beautiful place, occupy
ing a charming valley, at the confluence of
the Chenango and Susquehanna rivers, two
hundred and fifteen miles from Ne* York.
Its population_ is.estimated at fifteen thou--
Band, and it is now growing very rapidly.
New dwellings and blocks of substantial
buildings are rising in various directions,
and everything gives indication of real
prosperity.
Here is the Inebriate Asylum, or that
which was intended for some such purpose.
It does not go much yet, although it has
been a long time in building, and has cost
a vast amount of inoney. One end is par
tially finished;; _anti is occupied by about
a dozen patients, and each one pays, we are
told, from fifteen to twenty dollars a week,
for its privileges. For a charitable institu
tion, that seems a large sum for most of
those whoa would be likely to - seek ;its -ad-
vantafresi
But Whatever may be thought of some
other things, we• could but regard the
Presbyterian Church as a success. Its new
house of worship is one of the most chaste
and beautiful to be found anywhere. It is
quite large; will seat about 1250 persons,
and is ordinarily full on the Sabbath, with
an intelligent and appreciative congrega
tion. Indeed, we hardly known of another
audience so pleasant to look upon, or so in
spiring to speak to, as this.
Equally happy are they in their able,
highly educated and devoted pastor, Rev.
George N. Broadman. We do not wonder
that some are trying to get him back again
into New England ; but we trust they will
not succeed.
...We need him here more
than there; and in our judgment, the
IWO such- a church as that to which
he ministers, it worth more than - the Pre
isidency of Middlebury or Burlington Col
lege, in Vermont. The church now num
bers ,about seven, hundred communicants;
is
, growing rapidly all the time, and is a
great power for usefulness in that region,
land throughout the world.
ADDITIONS AT CORNING
Eighty-nine persons have been received
into the Presbyterian Church at Corning,
under the faithful ,labors of .Rev. A. W.
Niles, since the first of March last; eighty
byr profession, fifty-one. being. heads of
families.
The'new church edifice, building by this
Society, is progressing finely. It is to be,
of stone, and it is expected to get the roof
on this fall.
The pastor is now absent on his vacation.
He is to supply the pulpit of the new Dr.
Cuyler in Brooklyn, for four Sabbaths, and
spend the intermediate time recreating
somewhere in that region, snuffing as much
as possible of the salt sea air.
OTHER ADDITIONS
Rev. C. E. Robinson has been a year
and a half with the Presbyterian Church
at Oneida, (0. S.) and in that time has
received sitty-five to his;membership'; a
growing "%mil t and is devpted, Oda',
earnest - working minister, botrblegrof the
Lord.
Rev. Jonathan Copeland has been eight
years with the Presbyterian Church in
Champlain, and the church has nearly
doubled its membership in that
,time. A
large number have been received as fruits
of the recent revival ; sixty-four at one
time, out of the Sunday-school. This cer
tainly indicates real success in doing the
work of the ministry.
We should be glad to speak of Dryden
also. Rev. A. McDougall six years ago
became pastor of the , Presbyterian Church.
Their house of worship was then sadly out
of repair, dingy and dilapidated in appear
ance, with walls broken and roof leaking.
But a new impulse soon moved the con
gregation, and improvements were begun.
They have added twenty-five feet to the
length of the church; have painted it up,
put in new seats, and erected a lecture
room in the rear. The seats are of chest
nut; oiled, and retaining the natural color
of the wood, and are really beautiful, better
than any graining. Enamelled glasti was
also put into the windows; towers erected,
and all , thoroughly modernized and made
, very comely' and attractive. So are the
earnest, cheerful, hopeful labors of a
devoted pastor, favored by a kind Provi
dence in this plane.
CATTLE TRAINS
Some idea of the business of the New
York Central Railway may be ,obtained
from the fact that they ordinarily run two
hundred cattle or stook oars a day over
their road, from west to east, for which
they charge $lOO each; receiving from
this item alone of their manifold business;
$20,000 a day. We do not suppose they
do this every day---if they did, this would
yield $7,300,000 a year. The entire'earn
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inns of the road are set down last year, we
believe. at $12,000,000. •
If the Erie, Pennsylvania Central, and
Baltimore • and Ohio roads, are doing the
same, one is tempted to ask why the West
noti *already drained . of its live stook,
and what the East can do with such vast
herds pouring daily into her markets. It
gives a big idea of the resources and wants
of our country.
Somehow Philadelphia seemuya little,
nearer to our own beautiful city than it did
a few weeks since, as we virtually have a
new and nearer route of travel opened to
the City of Brotherly Love. Here daily,
in our depot, cars may be seen labelled,
Northern Central ,Railway, and they have
come all the way from Baltimore, by Wil
liamsport, Elmira and Canandaigua. We
have not yet been over the route, except
as far as Elmira; but it seems quite direct,
seems to be getting some through travel,
and must present some bold and
.beititiful
scenery in the hill country of Pennsylva
nia for the traveler to look upon.
In our sketch of Rev. Dr. Hawley's ad
mirable address before the Young Ladies
Institute of Auburn, the types make us
talk of French infidelity , as a " philantfropic
atheism." We need hardly say; that Dr. ,
Hawley would hardly accord: that charac
teristic to an infidelity so monstrous, and
so destructive of all good. It should have
been "philosophic atheism ;" and that only
a "philosophy falsely so called." In the
next paragraph, "faller colors" should be
false colors.
It continues good, as yet, for which.,we
have reason to be very grateful. And still
we know that the pestilence may yet strike
us. Our true safety is, not in talking so
much about it as to excite otir own appre
hensions to an unwonted degree, but, with
proper care, cheerfully to attend to our
daily duties,. just as though nothing un
usual were' abroad, and peacefully to leave
ourselves and all our interests in the hands
of a kind Providence. They are safe who&
Ile protects, and none beside.
Mr. J. V. C. Bogue, a licentiate of the
Presbytery of Buffalo, was ordained as an
=Evangelist, in Buffalo, by said Presbytery,
on Wednesday of the present week, in the
First Presbyterian Church. Sermon by
Rev:: Dir. Clarke, and, charge to the.pastor,
by Rev. H. P. Bogue, father of the candi
date. Mr. Bogue is engaged to preach for
a year in the Dutch Church at Fishkill,
and chose to take ordination from his own
Presbytery. - GENESF.E.
A SAD DISPENSATION.—James Moore,
a young man aged twenty-three years,
belonging to the neighboring township
of Haverford, but engaged as an assist
ant engineer on the Western division of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, came to an
untimely death on the evening of last.
Thursday. He was on his way home
for a visit, and, at. White Hall, Station,
where he wished to get off, jumped from
the car before it came to a stop, fell, and
struck his head . probably against the
wheel, and was instantly killed. Mr.
Moore had been a citizen soldier in the
123 d P. Vols., and was a young man of
pleasant disposition and strict industry.
He was the son of Mr. James A. Moore, ,
an elder in the Marple Presbyterian
Church, and grandson of the late eldet,l.
Mr. John Lindsay. He was connected
with others of the leading families of
the neighborhood, and few personS could
there be taken away whose loss would
be more sincerely mourned.
OARS TO BALTIMORE
THAT ATHEISM
THE HEALTH OF OUR CITY
ORDINATW
ROCHESTER, July 28, 1866.
kisbts of tau eljutttto.
ERROR CORREOTED.—Editor of Am.
Presbyterian the Minutes of the
General Assembly, which have just
reached me, a grave error occurs in the
statistical report of the Presbytery of
Pittsburgh, for which the Stated Clerk
of that Presbytery is supposed to be re
sponsible. The Third Presbyterian
Church is credited with $l5 to the
Board of Foreign Missions, while it con
tributed $l5OO. The contributions of
that church during the year ending in
May last, amounted to *69,008, and
that, too, while it is erecting a church
edifice at an expense of about $230,000.
The Stated Clerk of the Presbytery
deems it due to the church and pastor
to make the above statement.
A GOSPEL HOESE.—The people of . Rev.
W. T. Hart's charge, In Lyme; Ohio,
have •recently-: presented their pastor
with a horse and carriage, to enable him
to 'carry on the labors of a country
parish. We name this, not so much for
its intrinsic interest, though it is of itself
well worthy of notice, as for . the sake of
the good exa..ople It proposes to other
country charges. If the good people of
Lyme wish, as we hope they do, to
make the example a model one, they
will remember the draft which the horse
makes upon the pastor's income ; in
other words, they will not forget the
hay and oats.
MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.—Rev. •J.
T. Pollock, of Belle Centre, Ohio, has
taken charge of the church in. Osborne,
in the same State.--Retr. Juhn• G.
Atterbury has resigned his pastorate in
New Albany, Ind. He has been a sue : -
cesugul pastor in that.placelor thelast fif
.
teen years, and, now leaves the post to
seek a less debilitating cimate. His
present address is Detroit. Rev.
Robert C. Swinton, of the Free Presby
terian, ,Church . of Scotland, has, accepted
a call to the pastorate in Rushville, 111.,
a church which has well maintained
worship and carried on its enterprises,
spiritual and financial, during a vacancy
of 'its pulpit for the last eight or nine
Months.
WAVERLY, PA.—This is a railroad
town a few miles from Scranton. Con
cerning the little church of our connec
tion there, which, for fifteen years, had
sustained a precarious existence—had in
fact only been kept in existence by the
faith and faithfulness of a few who stood
by the ark; a correspondent of the
Evangelist writes :
About one year ago, providentially, the
Rev. W. J. Parrott came among us to breathe
our pure air and recover his strength among
our hills and valleys. He was of the Old
School branch of the Presbyterian Church,
while our church is of the New School. But
the difference of schools (if any) seemed to
make no difference with him. He saw our
condition, and kindly offered to preach one
sermon on Sabbath for the time being, with
out money and withoutprice. He at once
entered upon the duty of faithfully directing
us to Christ as the way, the truth, the life.
Soon our feeble church began to show signs
of life, and our congregation largely increased
during the winter. Early in,March, a series
of meetings was, commenced, andalinost im
mediately-the Spirit of the Lord descended
with mighty . power. Many of all ages were
led to inquire, " What shall we do to be
saved?" - They were directed to the - Lamb
of God that taketh away the sin of the
world." About• 60 we trust were changed by
grace. Some features of this remarkable re
vival were of peculiar interest., Before the
meeting commenced, Dr. W., who had long
lived in unbelief, suddenly arose in one of
our prayer-meetings, requested the prayers
of God's people that he might not perish but
have everlasting life. He found the Saviour,
and is now an active, faithful member of our
church.. Our hearts were thrilled with joy
as the young man passed from door to door
through our little villain, saying that Mr. 8.,
the hotel keeper, had just then removed all
intoxicating liquors from his bar, and would
sell them no more. It was then,
we believe,
that "he had chosen that good part that
could never be taken from him." Thus
The moment grace is felt.
Then the hardest heart will melt."
He is now a member also of our church.
We can never forget the scene witnessed a
few weeks ago, when nearly thirty stood'
arounclthe.altarin the house of God, includ
ing the child of twelve, and the man of fifty
years, solemnly covenantingjo walk in the
ways of the Lord and serve Him forever. We
retain our beloved pastor, and he is faithfully
leading" us on in the path that " shineth
brighter and brighter unto the perfect day."
The aboie account closes with the
statement that this revival has so eularg
ed their borders, that they find the erec
tion of a new church edifice in the place
of their present small one, a necessity.
They are willing to contribute to : the
extent of their ability, but they are poor,
and they look to the. good Lord to incline
his people.to aid them.
REV. SYTAIIANITS WARREN, late of
G'owanda, N.lr., has become the Stated
Supply of the Presbyterian Church at
Union Mills , Erie county, Pa.
litigirato uttitigrittt,
PRESBYTERIAN
Dr. Humphrey and the General As
sembly.—By request of the Presbytery of
Louisville, the Rev. Dr. E. P. Humphrey
addressed the members of that body on the
evening of July 12th, in explanation of the
acts of the last General Assembly, and in
defence of the position assumed by himself,
and Dr. William L. Breckinridge, and others
in Kentucky. Dr. Humphrey's argument is
calm, lucid, convincing, and contains not one
intemperate word or harsh expression.
There are noble men in the Border States
standing up for the integrity of the Church,
and they deserve the confidence and sympa
thy of the entire Church.-I+esbyterian.
fimmateld, EL—The correspondent of
the Freybyterian, states that, as the result of
Mr. Hammond's meetings in this place, the
two 0. S. Presbyterian Churches have re
ceived, on profession, one hundred and
thirty-nine persons. Add to this the number
received by, other churches, and there-is an
aggregate of about five hundred.
The Southern Chureh.—Rev. James
King has donated property in Bristol, Tenn.,
valued at $16,000, to the Presbytery of Hol-
ston, for the purpose of a Theological Semi
nary. Several revivals are reported. The
accessions, by profession, at Palmyra, Ala.,
are 55 ; at Rogersville, Tenn., 43.
A Great Work—The Second Presbyte
rian Church in St. Louis, maintains a Mis
sion Sabbath-school in the German portion of
the city. The whole number of pupils en
rolled is over 3000, while the average attend
ance from October to the first of May is
over 2000, and during the summer from
1300 to 1700. It must be borne in mind that
the parents of these children are ge9erally
irreligious, and many of them grossly wicked,
so that the difficulty of securing regular
attendance`is very great, especially in a city
such as St. Louis, where the temptations to
Sabbath desecrations are so many. About
200 ladies.and gentlemen are connected with
the care and management of the School as
teachers, librarians, etc. This is said to be
the largest Mission Sabbath-school in the
country, and also to be unsurpassed in its
management.
Great Britain. New Churches. - The
cost of the new Church commenced at. Stirling
for the IL P.. Congregation will be £3500, to
acoommodate 700 to 800. Another, contem
plated near the Meal:lows, Edinburgh, by the
same denomination, will accommodate 1100,
and cost 45000. The foundation of a Mission
Church (Established) was laid June 29th, at
Port Glasgow. It will accommodate 300.
The Trinity Established Churoh, Aberdeen,
was sold recently to a builder for £l5OO.
,
Congregationaa. The uongregationai
churches in Michigan have increased in nuin
,ber by ten or eleven during the - past year,
notwithstanding the loss.of one or two feeble
ones by death or transfer. >Tne increase of
church membership has been more than pro
portional. Seventy-three juiced the church
in East Saganaw last Sabbath, the most of
them by profession, leaving many more to
conic in afterward. These are part of the
fruits'of a recent revival, the first which the
place haaever= enjoyed. The church there
one ailie most vigorous in the State, and
is about to build a new-and larger house of
worship at
,tbe cost of perhaps $40,000.
Statietim of 500 bingregatiOual churches
at the West, show that more than One-guar-
ter of the whole number of male members
served in the Union armies during the war,
including the church officers and sixty-one
ministers. About one in six of those in the
service lost their lives.
Rev. Alfred Ely, D.D. of Munson, Mass.,
died suddenly July 6th, after a long continued
feebleness. He was ordained to preach and
settled at Munson more than sixty years ago,
and his pastorate was successful as it was long.
He died in his eighty-eighth year.
The fortieth anniversary of the ordination
of Rev. Daniel Fitz, D.D. pastor of the
South Church in Ipswich, and the hundredth
anniversary of the settlement of the Rev.
Joseph Dana, D.D. as pastor of the same
church, was recently' celebrated. Dr. Dana
was the sole pastor over sixty years, and re
ceived his colleague on the 26th June, 1826.
Moravian.—An effort is to be.made to es
tablish a Second MoraviauChurch in Phila
delphia. A lot has been secured for the pur
pose, on th,-; corner of Franklin and Thomp
son streets.
Miscellaneous. Sunday Funerals in Liv
erpool.-The authorities of the various local
burying grounds have voted it expedient to
discontinue' burials on Sundays after 9 o'clock,
A. M. Sunday funerals are regarded as
causing much physical, social and moral
injury, especially to the working classes.
A Jewish. College. -There is a project on
foot among the Israelites of the United States
to build a magnificent college, for the purpose
of educating the young men professing that
faith in all the scientific and classical branches,
but particularly in Jewish theology. Hith
erto the Jews have had to send their children
designed, for the ministry, to • the European
Continent for educ,ation.
The Italian Priests.—At Milan, Bologna,
Florence, Ancona, Naples, Ferrara, , Turin,
Modena, JeSi, Cesena, Lucca, Pistoja, Bari,
Nieta, Genoa, ' Savona, and 'every
town of note in Italy, the priests, nobles and
fratri, 'are filling the dungeons. At Capua,
they number 900 in one prison, and the lay
prisoners are not inclu ded
_ in, this return.
The nuns are to be expelled en masse in a
few weeks.—Rome Correspondent of the
Tablet.
Tili RELIGIONS WORLD innit
GREAT BRITAIN.
THE EvAna-wasp° WouK.—There seems
to be no relaxation of the evangelizing enter
prise, to which we have so frequently alluded,
under the oversight of a non-denominational
association, having its headquarters in Lon
don. Its laborers are mainly men in the
humble walks of life, and their work is, for
the most part, in the same class. They speak
at open-air meetings, or in the country towns
in circuses, or such other rooms of sufficient
capacity for large audiences as they can pro
cure, retiring to more limited accommoda
tions for inquiry-meetings, though sometimes
forced by the numbers of those seeking salva
tion, to use their most capacious place for
personal conversation. Our last accounts of
them are from Glasgow, where they were
preaching to large audiences; at Hertford
shire and "contiguous towns, where they were
holding services for the railway laborers and
other,working men, opening a school_for their
children,, and distributing the Bible and
other religious reading among the people ;
at Barton-on-Humber, where a series of re
vival 'services had lieen conducted with;very
signal displays of God's power in salvation;
at Evesham, Cheltenhana, and among the wide
fields for reformation which the East end of
London presents. We are satisfied that these
people are really working for the Lord, and
are doing a great and good work.
BAPTISTS AND INDEPENDENTS.-The ques
tion of denominational union between the
Congregationalists and Baptist's is again at
tracting attention., Amongst the correspon
dence which has itpeared, two letters from
the Rev. Dr. Angus claim special attention.
Dr. Angus has taken, as a Baptist, advanced
ground on this question, but he urges his
views with great moderation. In a first let
ter he remarks :—" Only . cease to make agree
ment on baptism essential to equal member
ship, and differences on the ordinance will be
no bar to holy loving *fellowship. You may
have earnest Baptists and Palobeptists in
the same church, not only without mischief;
but with positive gain." Dr. Angusoonsiders
that our trust deeds are doing . every year
what they can to make separation eternal.
"Each contains a clause providing that the
Church shall be substantially a Pmdobaptist
or a Baptist Church forever. And it is only
on condition that such clause is inserted that
either of our chapel-building societies will
give help. So long as we not only keep apart
ourselves, but do what we can to keep our
children and our children's children apart, it
may be fairly questioned whether we under
stand what we are doing, or whether our
desire for union is more than an empty
name. '
PRESBYTERIAN Catraotocs.—Our recent
and somewhat copious accounts of the condi
tion and efficiency of the Presbyterian bodies
in the kingdom, as brought out at the meetings
of their respective supreme judicatories, has
pretty much exhausted our fund of interest
ing information respecting them. - The Pro
ject for a Presbyterian union is still lively,
and every week adds to the belief that it will
be successful., The question whether it shall
embrace the churches south of the Tweed
still remains embarrassing. But tie commit
tees are intent upon success' and none the
less so because they axe cautious in their
movements. In the G-eneral Assembly of
the Established Presbyterian Church of Scot
land, (endowed by the State,) which is not a
party to the negotiation, a movement was
made for something like concession to the
Free Church, in the hope of detaching it
from the proposed union, and recalling it
back to itself, but it was voted down, and
would probably have no effect upon the Free
Church if it had been adopted. The non
endowed churches will henceforward go to
gether.
REVIVAL IN EDINEUEGIL—SpeciaI re
ligious meetings are now being held in Edin
burgh. Rev. Dre. Oandlisti l .Blakie, Duns,
Bonar, and many other ministers and gentle
men, have taken part in the services. Very
crowded meetings are held on Sunday even
ings in the Assembly Hall. The chu ches
are being refreshed „Similar meetings are
being held in many, other parts of Scotland.
THE CHURCH . OF; ENGLAND is surging with
the excitement of the ritualistic controversy.
We refer our readers to the, account given,
in our last issue, of the meeting of the Con
vocation of the province of-Canterbury; also
to the letter of °lli - English CorresPendent in
the present number. There is probably no
other Chinch now existing where the unity
is so exclaively ecolesiastical f .and so desti
tute of the unity of faith, spirit, good-will,.
and views of. the vital principles of godliness.
But for its, common hold' upon the State
patronage, this unity would nut survive the
year. The two archbishops condemn the
ritualisms; but counsel fOrbearance toward
the ritualists. The latter, thus , " let alone,"
Eo- further and further toward Rome. The
vangelicals cry out for law, but.iu the mazes
opta half sod- half ecclesiasticaland civil juris
prudence, no one knows what the law is, and
law that cannot be discovered is in effect an
unbridled license. Still they write and
preach, warn and denounce, and meet and
protest. There has ,been a recent gathering
of about two; hundred: Evangelical ministers
at Ipswich, where papers were read and ad
dresses delivered on the imperilled points of
Christian faith and worship. All this was
well done, but in a country like ours, they
would have given matters a point by sayin g
that they were resolved either to turn these
Romish flummeries or themselves out of the
Church. And the same unhappy aspect
continues in the relation of the Church of
England to Broad Ohurehism.
FRANCE.
A TEST VOTE.—The radical or rational
istie party in the Reformed Church of Franee
has made loud claims'of being the majority;
but the Evangelicals, while confessedly ott
clamored have nevertheless; persisted in the
confidence that, with the removal _ of certain
extraneous hindrances,
_they had the strength
to control and eventually,ptirge out this semi
infidel element. On a recent me. sion, the
consistories of the Reformed Church were
required, in conformity with the law, to pre
sent to the Government certain persons as
candidates for the vacant chair of theology in
the college of Montauban. The choice lay
between M. Bonifas; strictly orthodox; and M.
Goy, of the radical school, a rejector of the
fundamentals of the faith. So far as the
vote is unquestionable, M. Bonifas has ob
tained the suffrages of 61 consistories, and
M. Goy those of 33. The votes of two con
sistories remain doubtftil, but the choice of
the former, by an almost two-to-one vote, is
a certainty. It now only remains for the Grov
ereinent to conform to' this clear expression
of the will of the Church, and a sound theo
logical teacher in...the. college is secured.:
Should such confirmation he refused, it
add another to;the numerous cases illus
tration of the perils of the Church from State
entanglement.
ENCOURAGING ACCOTINTS.÷-Tlie Paris cor
respondent of the ClrefsOan, Work, after
speaking of the internal struggles of the Ro
mish Church in France, between the Ultra
montanes and those disposed to religious
progression, and the conflicts for and against
the faith in the Reformed Churches, presents
a better view of the spiritual situation than
we have been led to expect from the previous
accounts.
The work of 'God, he says, advances under
all this turmoil ; souls are saved ; efforts are
made in various directions. The Young
Men's Christian Unions throughout• France
are yearning after life. The young men, of
Bordeaux invited Dr. Ed. de Pressense to
give them a series of lectures on the origin
of Christianity. The hearers increased every
night, and were very numerous. On Whit-
Monday there were gatherings of young men
it St. Quentin, Fleury, and elsewhere, and
the reports of these meetings show longings
for spiritual life. An open-air meeting was
held on the same day at the Malerange, nepr
Nancy, the residence of Catherine de Bour
bon, sister of Henry IV., now the property
of M. Fred. Monnier, auditor of the Conseil
d'Etat. a Like many other places where the
Gospel is now preached, its historical remi
niscences are heart-stirring. Here it was
that the sad Catherine became Duchess of'
Bar, lived and suffered, and' died in Christ;
and the chateau of Sans Bowl called Val
grange, had its name changed to' Afal-grange,
At of derision for the Reformed worship
therein held. Now that worship is resumed,
and the pious family in charge of the plaoe
are of those who rejoice in the God of Salve
tion, as well as the owners, who spread the
Gospel wherever they go.
The general willingness of the public in
Paris and elsewhere to receive tracts, and to
read them, is more and more noticeable; a
case of refusal is, 'I believe, unknown.
A considerable space in the Exhibition of
1867 is allotted to the various Protestant so
cieties ; the Missionary Society and Bible
Society of France have secured their places.
We hear that the London Religious Tract
Society will be there. It is in the portion
of the building set apart for sale and distri
bution.
GERMANY.
SABBATH SCHOOLS.—WhiIe the war in
terest is so absorbing, we can expect only
now and then an item relating to the reli
gious affairs of Germany. Suck an item
we find in the progress of the Sabbath
school work, slowly and against great
prejudices; working its' way in as the fu
ture leaven of Evangelism, and just now
almost the only hope against the over
flowing deluge of Rationalism. We have
referred to the incipiency of the effort in the
capital of Prussia. It is a sad story of the
influence of State religion upon Church Ex
tension, especially where the people have
been accustomed ko lean upon the Govern
ment for parish organisations, and the erec
tion of church edifices, that Berlin, with its
half million of population, can count but fifty
Lutheran Churches. The missionary spirit
of America, says the correspondent of the
Christian 'World, despite persecution, has
thrust into Berlin one Baptist Church and
one Methodist, but they are small and feeble,
and as little known to that people as the Chi
nese pagoda or the Jewish synagonge is to
We noticed, last month, that the court
Sreacher was likely to prove favorable to the
abbath-school interest. Later intelligence,
through the correspondent above mentioned,
confirms this hope. " The highest preacher
in the realm," he says, "we find to be the
humblest servant of the humblest" With a
letter of introduction from him, the gentle
man who writes visited all the pastors, and
found some who heard him gladly, and called
together some of their best membership, both
men and women, to consult respecting it.
Many were in favor of trying it, and the only
decided opposition was from a " worthy
deacon," who denounced the thing as dan-
Terously revolutionary in all its tendencies.
he history of some beginnings is given, and
several interesting incidents are related.
Strangest of all, the leading public schools in
Berlin adopted the system. The teacher had
conceived the idea of the system, and, in the
absence of other teachers, used the more
competent boys to instruct the groups into
which he divided the scholars. It is hoped
that teachers will come in from the churches.
One parish has already three schools, all of
which are visited and encouraged by the pw
tor, who is delighted with them.
WORK AMONG THE JEWS.—There is in
Berlin a _Society for Promoting Christianity
among the Jews, which recently celebrated
its forty fourth anniversary. Under its labors
eleven Jews were baptized during the last
year ; six have been baptized during the cur
rent year, and Fix others are waiting to re'
ceive the ordinance.
STATE OF THE 00IINTRY.—We notice a
few cases of what we, in this country, would
; sail ecclesiastihal action on the state of the
country. , There are pastorals from Romisl!
prelates and heads of provinces; also an ex
pression of the Supreme Ecelegastical Coon
' oil of Berlin, and another from the Synodal
Assembly: of Coblents, and some others
The Berlin paper exhorts clergy
and people
to be- strong and united, .rallying around the
throne and government of the king. The
others simply deprecate God's wrath in war,
and exhort to prayer for peace.