Amtritan itrohistErian.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1866
CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
ECOND PAGE—FAMILY CIRCLE :
The Highway to Att4 not Calvary—" Talking to God"
—A True Spirit—" How would Jesus have Me do ?"
—Temperance Anecdote—ls the Matter Settled?—
"Will Sail To-morrow"—The Contented Young
Shepherd—The Horse—The German Prisoner and
the Gospel of St. John—An Obedient Private.
THIRD PAGE—MISCELLANEOUS :
Advice to an Inquirer more than One Pundred
Years Ago—The Irreparable Past—ghe N a rrow
Church—Conversion of Martin Boos—A Pleasant
Episode in the Andover Anniversary.
SIXTH PACE-CORRESPONDENCE:
Another Sabbath at Cape 1 lay—Letter from China
—"Did the Jewa really Crucify Jesus?"
EDITOR'S Thing : Beeeher's "Royal Truths"—
Brown's "Spare Hours"—Meld's "History of the
Atlantic Telegraph"—Moens's "English Travelers
and l talian Brigands : A Narrative of Capture and
Captivity"—Harrington's "Inside: A Chronicle of
Secession"—Magazines and Pamphlets—Literary
Intelligence.
Miscrguarszous: A Short Method with an Infi
del—What Ministers should Seek for—Mammon
Worship.
SEVENTH PAGE-,-RIIRAL ECONOMY
!be CoNv-Protecting the Wheat Plant—Cutting
Timber for Ponces—El ingbone in Horses—Active
Manure—Beautiful Experiments—Cream.
SCIENTIFIC: National Academy of Sciences.
SCHOOL ' ADVERTISEMENTS are inserted
at 25 per cent. discount from our regu
lar rates.
THE CHOLERA.-Our fifth page con
tains a carefully-prepared article, from
the pen of a long experienced and com
petent observer, on the Asiatic cholera,
covering the ground of its causes, symp
toms, general character, and the most
appropriate remedies for sufferers. We
know not what allowance, if any, is to
be made for the phases which the same
distemper may assume in this country,
different from those which it puts on in
Constantinople; and in the midst of a
community where a physician is almost
always within easy reach, who can treat
each case according to its individual
characteristics, and where life and death
bang so imminently upon the mode of
treatment, we shrink from becoming in
strumental in leading any person into
the self-doctoring practice. Still, as what
is done for relief from cholera must be
done instantly, cases may arise, in the
raral districts especially, where a few
plain printed directions are of the last
importance, and thus far we have seen
none which offer higher claims for con
fidence than Dr. Hamlin's. It is now
some months since they were first pub
lished in this country, but, as the cho
lera reports, which will be found on our
last page, will too painfully show, the
time has come when they have assumed
sufficient importance for wider circula
tion. We commend them to our readers,
at the same time expressing onr hope
that no one attacked, even with the pre
monitary symptoms, will fail to secure
professional aid at the earliest possible
moment. If, however, there is any de
lay in obtaining it, fill up the delay with
the use of these directions.
REVIVAL MEASUILEB.-At a confer
ence of pastors and members of churches
of several denominations, recently held
in Nothumberland county, Va., having
for its object the promotion of piety,
after a session of three days occupied
with discussion and prayer, the follow
ing resolution—one of a series of ten—
was adopted :
"That, reviewing the history of the
churches, we recognize the fact that protract
ed meetings have been greatly instrumental
in the conversion of sinners and the pros
perity of the Churches. But of late, since
the tendency has been to make these meet
ings social and epicurean feasts, rather than
spiritual, and to make religion a periodical
thing, we are of opinion that the annual ap
pointment of these meetings as a matter of
course, without reference to the state of the
religious feeling in the community, is of
doubtful propriety, and that we ought to look
more to our prayer-meetings as a means of
the conversion of sinners, and less to the pro-
Muted meetings."
SCHOOLS 1011, FREEDMEN.-By a re
port made to the Freedmen's Bureau,
it appears in the Southern States there
are under charge of the Bureau 976
schools, with 1405 teachers, and 90,778
colored scholars. This return does not
include night-schools, private schools or
Sunday-schools, and some few of the
districts have, not reported. It is also
stated that there area, considerable
number of schools under charge of the
Bureau for the education of the children
of white refugees. Of the colored pupils
in the' schools above reported, Virginia
has 11,784 ; North Carolina, 9084 ;
South Carolina, 901'l; Georgia, 7792;
Florida, 2663 ' • Alabama, 3338 ; Missis
sippi, 5407 ; Texas, 4590 ; Arkansas,
1584 ; Kansas, 1500; Missouri, 2698 ;
Kentucky, 4122; Tennessee, 9114 ;
Maryland, 8144; and the District of
Columbia, 6552.
QUEER ASSOCIATIONS.—PeopIe out
side of the ring have the notion that
there is a terrible social repulsion when
men, who as editors or politicians have
railed against each other, come into per
sonal intercourse. We remember a sim
ple-minded mountainer of sterling prin
ciples, who could hardly believe his
senses when he saw the editors of the
Whig, and Democratic organs of his
county cozily hobnobbing over their
glasses of—perhaps lemonade. Indeed,
as one of them was his mentor, and
had diligently instilled into him the
most intense abtiKrence of the other, he
was more than surprised—was absolute
ly scandalized by the strange conjunc
'*n. We are reminded of this by the
fallowing paragraph in our city dailies
--off last Friday
"these Banquet. .rl'he ne.wspaper repre
sentivesi Pretia Club, and leading firms of
Philadelphia, lea evening entertained the
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1866.
representatives of the press from other cities '
and States who had visited the city to attend
the meeting of the National Convention, by
a banquet at the La Pierre House. About
two hundred and sixty members of the Press
from all sections of the Union, sat down at
the table. Mayor McMichael presided.
On his right sat A. M. Holbrook, the
veteran editor and proprietor of the New
Orleans Picayune; on his left, Theodore Til
ton. Among the guests were Judge Pierce,
George F. Train, Judge Kelley, Col. Thomas
B. Florence, Gen. McCook, and others of
prominence. Speeches were made and toasts
given, and the festivities were kept up to a
late hour."
HELP FOR CHARLESTON.
We received last week a call from
Rev. Ennalls J. Adams, pastor of the
Mission Presbyterian Church in Charles
ton, S. C. This church, with its wor
thy pastor, is in ecclesiastical connec
tion with the . Presbytery of Newark.
The enterprise commenced in July, 1865,
with a constituent membership of only
six, which has since increased to three
hundred, with a Sabbath-school of two
hundred pupils, and an average atten
dance upon public worship of nearly
five hundred, and all these numbers are
now on a rapid increase. All this gain
has been accomplished under the em
barrassment of having no permanent
place of 'worship. For a short time the
church had the use of the Glebe Street
Church edifice, formerly Rev. Dr. Thorn
well's, but when it was restored by the
Government to its original owners, they
were of •course driven forth. Other re
sorts were had, the last of them being a
room in the State Normal School, bat
this also having been returned by Pre
sident Johnson to the State authorities,
they have received warning to leave it
on the first of September. They have
secured, for temporary use, a large room
in a private dwelling, but wholly insuf
ficient to seat all the communicants, to
say nothing of the promiscuous congre
gation. Thus has arisen a providential
necessity for their casting around to se
cure for themselves a permanent loca
tion, and the prospects before them for
higher position in the social scale de
mand that it should be respectable in
location and position.
A lot has been purchased on George,
between Sing and St. Philip streets, on
which, from their own resources, they
have paid $lOOO, and they have under
taken to erect a brick edifice, some
ninety-five feet in length by forty-five or
more in width, with a basement for Sab
bath-schools, lectures, prayer-meetings,
etc. They" wish also to adapt it to edu
cational purposes. They are looking
forward to the education of their people,
not only for its own sake, but as a requi
site to general improvement. The de
mand for places, as well as means of
instruction, is already more than can be
supplied. The whole expense of the con
templated edifice will be about $20,000.
To get the work so far advanced as to
give them the basement for a place of
worship, will require from $5OOO to
$6OOO, and this is the immediate want.
Mr. Adams is now in the North, and
may be expected to make personal ap
plication for aid some time during the
next month. He is well known in this
region, and possesses the confidence of
our ministry for wisdom and judg
ment, as well as general qualifications—
a confidence which is •none the less be
cause he and his people are of• African
descent. We are happy to learn that
both himself and his church are, by their
wise and prudent bearing, winning their
way against local prejudice, and that
some measure of aid will come in from
certain of the wealthy citizens of Charles
ton. But the North must be their prin
cipal dependence.
THE PAY OF CONGRESS.—We must
say, we totally dissent from, the criticisms
of most of the journals upon the act of
Congress increasing the pay of its own
members. What other body is to increase
it if Congress does not? And who will
presume to say that Congressmen are less
deserving of such increase, than other classes
of public servants ? Or shall only rich men,
or only those whose consciences will allow
them to make good deficiencies in salary
by systematic plunder and acceptance of
bribes, be sent to Congress ? The country
is able to pay its public men well for their
services. Let it be careful to select men
who are worthy of being well paid ;. men
who would be in demand in other positions
at good prices, and let it pay them cheer
fully and liberally. The true difficulty in
public affairs is, that the people have not
yet emphatically declared to politicians, the
absolute necessity - of presenting them with
worthy men as candidates for office, in order
to secure their votes. Now that a respects
ble support, and, some remuneration for the
interruption of business is secured, let us
resolve to be more select than ever in our
choice of men for the important position of
legislators at the National Capital:
DRATEC or FRANCIS HALL.—This gen
tleman, long known to the public as one
of the proprietors of the New York
Commercial Advertiser, died in that
city, on the Ilth instant, in the eighty
second year of his age. In the religious
world, Mr. Hall's name has long been
familiar by its connection with some of
the leading Christian eni.•;erprises of the
country., He was one of the founders
of the American Tratt Society, and for
many years past, one of the Directors of
the American Bible Society, both of
which institutions found in him a watch
ful and devoted friend. His denomina
tional connection was with the Methodist
Church, and almost from the 'Commence.
inent of the Missionary Society of that
Church, he has officiated as one of its
Secretaries.
OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT.
MONROE CO. S. S. TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
This Society held its monthly meeting
on Wednesday last, in the Central
Church of this city. A goodly- number
of the most earnest and active Suiday
school teachers of the county were pre
sent and took part in its deliberations.
Ashman Beebe, Esq., of Henrietta, was
re-elected President, and Charles Keeler,
Secretary and Treasurer. A secretary
for each town was also appointed, and
so it is hoped to` eep the Sahbath-school
machinery moving.
The afternoon's programme embraced
an address to Sunday-school teachers,
by Rev. H. M. More, the young brother
recently ordained at Pittsford. He spoke
remarkably well. The address was ex
temporaneous, but evidently well pre
pared, and feelingly presented. All
were gratified and profited by this ser
vice.
It appeared in the reports of some
delegates to this convention,; that in
some of the country churches there is but
one sermon on the Sabbath, :and the
afternoon is devoted to the \ Sunday
schoiol ) • and in such cases the \Sunday-
school generally embraces nearly the
whole congregation. Old and you.ng
study the Bible for the second ervice.
Why is not this a good plan ?
It appeared also from the Secretary's
Report that there are 179 schO is in the
county; 2664 teachers ; 21,0 5 schol
ars, and 762 conversions in the last
year. This is an increase ov r the pre
vious year of 8 schools, 13 teachers,
1977 scholars, and 413 °lnversions.
We believe that ours has bOen called
the banner county. Certainlythe friends
of Sunday-schools have mac' lesson in
the last year's results to be •ncouraged
in their work.
One of the resolutions athited by the
Association warmly recomm•ads action
by the Sunday-schools in bzhalf of tem
perance, the formation of jUvenile tem
perance societies, or Bands of Hope,
pledged to total abstinencefrom all that
intoxicates. While so many . older ones
are going fast to destruction, it were
well to do all we can to save the chil
dren.
LIQUOR DEALERS MOTING.
The liquor dealers of thisregion are
putting on a bold front, and have had a
grand fete-day in Buffalo. A large num
berica went down from this city in a train
of fifteen cars, accompanied y a band
of music. On arriving at tb. 'r destina
tion they were greeted by t e firing of
cannon, and escorted into the ity. The
procession in Buffalo is sai to have
numbered many thousands.
All this is done to try to ake the
liquor business respectable. And tie
doubt not some dealers really t ink it so.
But if any one of them would, only sit
down honestly and reflect upon the sor
rows occasioned by his horrible traffic,
we are quite sure he would see much to
deplore in his miserable employment.
i t.
He is under a mighty temptation to in
duce as many as possible to drink and to
drink deep and long. His largist g ins all
lie in that direction. How can that be
a good business which thrives best when
men go fastest to ruin ?
Who has not mourned over t ie losses
of the late war ? the sufferi.gs, the
maimings, the deaths, the orphanage,
the widowhoods, the taxes, the burdens
and woes of every kind. B t it was
stated in that Sunday-school meeting, of
which we have already spoken, by one
well versed in figures, that the amount
of suffering, sorrow, death, orphanage,
widowhood, with loss of property, ex
pense and the like, occasioned byj intem
perance in the land, is fully equivalent,
year by year, to all that accrued from
the war. He " could demcnstrate that
we should suffer no more to have the
war go on for ten years to come, just as
it raged in those four horrible years just
past, than that which we xnnst suffer if
intemperance continues to prevail as it
now does." Surely this is a bold state
ment of the subject ; and yet we fear a
just calculation would prove it too sadly
true.
The procession in Buffalo was a sad,
ghastly spectacle, with its array of
" beer barrels, whiskey barrels, card
tables, and, all the paraphernalia of the
liquor saloons." It was a motley as
semblage, a large proportion being for
eigners, with some walking demijohns
and beer barrels on legs, but no - place in
the programme for clergymen or school
teachers. They do not help the busi
ness.
DEATH OF HON. CHARLES COLT
Our church in Geneseo, of which Rev.
G. P. Folsom is the worthy and esteemed
pastor, has recently met with a severe
loss in the death of Hon. Charles Colt.
He had been for thirty years an elder in
the church, a true Presbyterian, an ear
nest Christian, always in his place,
highly gifted in prayer, and a great help
to his pastor. He was gathered as a
shock of corn fully ripe.
There was something peculiarly
touching in the time of his burial. It
was arranged to have the burial at ten
O'clock on Sunday forenoon, the sermon
to follow in the church, bat on Saturday
night it was found - that the remains
could not be kept to that time. Friends
Were therefore notified in the night and
assembled at four o'clock in the morning
to attend to this mournful service. All
was accomplished, and the bearers were
just lowering the poor mortal body to its
last resting plac€ as the sun rose fall
and clear upon the scene ; fit emblem of
that Sun of Righteousness which had
already risen on the soul. Mourners
and friends were all touched by the co
incidence.
We fear the church in Mount Morris
is soon to be called to a similar bereave
ment. Hon. George Hastings, of whose
protracted and severe sickness we have
before spoken, is apparently near his
end; bat peaceful, yea cheerful and pa
tient. He has long been a pillar in that
church, and will be much missed, if,
indeed, he must be called away.
A NEW BELL
The church in Geneseo has recently
had a new and sweet-toned bell hung in
its tower, to call the faithful to the Sab
bathservices. The pastor made it the
occasion for preaching last Sabbath eve
ning upon church. bells ; a discourse
which indicated much research, and
which was turned into a most practical
and spiritual account. This church is
also moving to get a parsonage for their
valued minister.
BUFFALO
This city must be getting better fast !
Beside the liquor dealers' festival this
week, they have had a great concourse
of people, from far and near, attending
the Races. It is said that 15,000 were
upon the grounds at one time to witness
the torture of horse flesh in a trial of
speed. Of course, some curious charac
ters were present on that occasion, and
abundant work for the police and minis
ters of the Gospel was made by this
week's gatherings in that city.
FOOL-HARDINESS
This week, also, we have a mounte
bank in our city. Anxious to kill him
self before his time, he stretches a wire
over the yawning gulf just below our
falls, he walks and performs various
antics upon it, for the gratification of a
gaping crowd assembled to cheer him on
to death. In our boyhood we saw Sam
Patch kill himself at that very spot, and
we have no wish to see another specta
cle like that. Strange that our authori
ties do not interfere and prevent such
a cruel risk of life and limb. We sup
pose they would not permit a prize fight
or bull baiting within the precincts of
our city ; but why not, as well as this ?
And, worst of all, he proposes to carry
his little son, an innocent lad of six
years, with him upon the trembling wire,
above the abyss of waters and rocks
be
low. If he will kill himself, he ought
not to be permitted to kill his own son.
A CALL
The Congregational church at Henri
etta have invited Mr. George R. Merrill,
a licentiate, of Newburyport, to be their
minister; and be has accepted the call,
to enter upon his labors next week.
PIC 'I,ICS
These now are quite the rage. The
Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian
Sunday-schools of Attica recently united,
chartered five cars, and went, about a
thousand strong, and spent a very plea
sant day at Niagara Falls. All returned
in safety, and more interested, it is to
be hoped, in the Sunday-school work,
becau§e of the pleasant occasion.
The Sunday school of the Presbyteri
an church at Lakeville (Rev. Dwight
Scovel, pastor,) went, last week, over to
Re.mlock Lake. Thirty carriages were
loaded with the folks, little and big, and
the day passed off pleasantly.
FAILED TO ELECT
The meeting of the Board of Trustees
of Hamilton College, on Tuesday last,
failed to command a quorum, and there
fore no election of a President was
made. The Board adjourned to meet
again on the 30th inst., when the va
cancy will probably be filled.
HIS WORK DONE
Wednesday of this week completed
the twenty-fifth year of the ministry of
Rev. John Tompkins, of Marcellus. It
was arranged to have an anniversary
sermon from the pastor on that day, and
a fitting celebration of the occasion.
But Mr. Tompkins' health has not been
good of late, and he was contemplating
retirement from the active duties of the
ministry. He" has been the faithful, ju
dicious, and acceptable pastor of one
flock for a quarter of a century, and had
well 'earned a season of rest; but it
came Sooner than he or his friends ex
\
pected.\ Instead of celebrating the day
with fe tive rejoicing, they were called
to mourn with his afflicted family over
his lifel4 remains. He died suddenly
on Wediesday morning at his own
home; his end hastened, undoubtedly,
by the eiFitement connected with the
contemplatpd celebration. GENESEE.
ROCHESTEIi, Mg. 18, 1866
A WIRE ExousE.—On one occasion,
at a dinner at the Bishop of Chester's,
Hannah More urged Dr. Johnson to take
a little wine. He replied, " I can't
drink a little, child, and, therefore, I
never touch it. Abstinence is as easy
to me as temperance would be difficult."
Many have the, same infirmity, but are
destitute of the same courage, and there
fore are ruined.
The Unconditional Union Convention'of
Maryland was held in Baltimore, opening on
the 15th inst. 'Resolutions were adopted to
appoint delegates to the Convention of South
ern loyalists, which meets in Philadelphia,
September sth. The Committee on Resolu
tions reported a series, endorsing the recon
struction measures of Congress and the pro
posed amendments to the Constitution, and
urging the necessity of maintaining the Re
gistry,Law Of the State, and condemning the
•course 'of Governor Swann in relation to said
law, eta. The Convention unanimously nomi
nated. Col. Robert Bruce, of the 2d Potomac
Brigade, for State Comptroller, and appoint
ed ten distinguished citizens as delegates at
large to the Philadelphia September Conven
tion.
lOWA CITY CHURCH.
EDITOR OF AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN :
—ltAecomes my duty to inform you of
a change in church matters in this place.
The essential facts are these. ' The New
School Presbyterian Church here was
organized in 1841—twenty-five years
ago—anffhas received, during that time,
$6500 from Home Missionary funds to
support the Gospel. The church build
ing, erected in 1842, is badly out of re
pair, and in a very unfavorable location,
a warehouse having been placed in front
of it, and the street being more cut
down, so as to leave the church in an
obscure and isolated place. It is, fur
thermore, indebted $lOO to Church Erec
tion and $3OO to the Synod, of lowa,
with interest at six per cent.
Efforts were made nearly two years
ago, and have been often repeated since,
to make some arrangement whereby
this indebtedness might be, liquidated.
But no arrangementS were made that
proved successful. In the meantime,
last April, at the suggestion of one of
the Trustees, (all of whom are members
of the church and men of experience,
and two of them liberally educated,)
there was an informal meeting of the
Session and Trustees, at which time it
became apparent, that, for some time,
several of the most worthy members of
the church, who had always been Pres
byteriamh and who had done most for
the church, had felt serious doubts as to
the expediency, on pecuniary and reli
gious grounds, of carrying forward the
enterprise.
1. .Pecuniarily, it was affirmed there
was a debt, with scarcely more than one
half enough money to pay it, and 'nearly
as much more needed to put the church
in repair; that when repaired, and if free
from debt, it could not become self sus
taining without a new house of worship,
on account of the smallness and locality
of the house ; and that there seemed to
be a decided aversion among all the
members to spending any more money
on the building, there being no prospect
of aid to liquidate the debt (see Art. 12
of new plan, with supplementary Art.)—
the present debt being nearly, or quite,
equal tothe value of the church and lot.
2. Religiously, it was said the church
has been receiving aid for twenty
five years, and will need aid for twenty
five years to come ; that there were two
other Presbyterian churches in the place,
with new houses of worship, (one of
which is also a missionary church,)
amply accommodating all Presbyteri
ans ; and that a considerable portion of
this New School Church were not, and
never had been, Presbyterians, and they
were desirous, as well as. others who
always had been Presbyterians, to
leave this organization, when another
more prosperous and more demanded
should be put in operatiOn.
In view of such facts as these, the
Trustees, in June, held a formal meet
ing, mid unanimously asked the Session
to join them in calling a meeting of
the church and society, for the purpose
of disbanding. The Session received a
copy of this resolution, and voted unani
mously a concurrence in the sentiments
expressed in the resolutions of the Trus
tees, and invited them to meet with
them in joint meeting of Session and
Trustees, for consultation.
Such joint meeting was held, when
three resolutions were passed, (with
reasons attached,) to the effect (1.) that
they believed the church could not be
come self-sustaining; (2.) that a Con
gregational, instead of a New School
Presbyterian Church was warranted and
demanded here; and (3.) that .a meet
ing of the church and society be called.
The church and society met on due
notice, the meeting being fully attended,
when it was unanimously voted to dis
band said church and society at the
earliest time, and in a manner thereafter
to be by them determined. A commit
tee of three was appointed to see who
were willing to take letters for the pur
pose of becoming members of a Congre
gational Church, and to see what other
persons would also co-operate.
At an adjourned meeting of the church
and society, said committee reported the
names of a large portion of the church,
who had desired letters for the aforesaid
purpose; also several other individuals,
mostly members of the old Congrega
tional Church of this place.
A council met, on call, July 31, and,
after papers dnly examined, eighty per
sons were found in order, and were
organized into " The Congregational
Church of lowa City."
Thus two public churches have -com
bined is one church, which will be able,
with aid received from abroad, to build
a new church, and thus at once become
self-sustaining.
There are eleven members of the New
School Presbyterian Church who have
not yet taken out letters, but will do so,
no doubt, at no distant date. There has
been no opposition to the movement by
either church, though these few have not
yet made up their minds what they will
do.
It is designed to arrange so that all the
indebtedness on the old church shall be
fully liquidated.
It is thought that this simple state
ment of facts is due to all parties, and
will be a sufficient reason, in all reason
able minds, why, under the circum
stances, the change has been made, and
with so much unanimity.
Truly yours, GEo. D. A. HEBARD.
lovirA CITY, August-18, 1866.
Mississippi.—Governor Humphreys has
called the Legislature of 'Mississippi in
special session on the sth of October, to
revise the legislation of the late regular ses
sion.
af,ths )If our eittuttin.
THE ALLEN STREET CHURCH, NEW
YOBIL—We learn, through the Evan
gelist, that for many months past, the
ordinary means of grace have been
greatly blessed in the church under the
pastorate of Dr. Newell. Forty persons
have been hopefully converted to God.
Nearly that number have united with
the church, mostly on profession of their
faith. Most of the conversions have been
from among the more recent members of
the congregation. An uncommon pro
portion of them are men, and they have
in many cases entered with spirit into
the labors of the Sabbath-schools and•
the prayer-meetings.
INSTALLATION AT TITUSVILLE, PA.—
Titusville, until the breaking oat of the
petroleum enterprise a little back-woods
town, is now an incorporated city of
ten thousand or more inhabitants, put
ting on with its prosperity an air of taste
and refinement. Our Church there
dates back to the primitive days of the
settlement, but is expanding with the
increase of population. Just now it la
rejoicing in a fresh opened prospect of
prosperity by the settlement of an ap
proved pastor, Rev. W. Howell Ta or.
Mr. Taylor was installed in this chllif.ge
by the Presbytery of Meadville, on
which occasion the sermon was preached
by Rev. Herrick Johnson, of Pittsburgh,
and the charges delivered by Rev. G_
W. Hampson, of Woodcock, and Rev.
R. Craighead, of Meadville.
At the same meeting, the attention of
the Presbytery was given to the great
need of at least one missionary to preach
the Gospel to the multitudes along Oil
Creek, a region offering no hope of ex
emption from self-denying toil, but every
inch of which ought to be contested with
Satan, and conquered for Christ.
DEATH OF A MINISTER BY CHOLERA.
—The Christian Herald of last week
has the account of the death, in Cincin
nati, of Rev. David A. Grosvenor, of
of our Church, by cholera. He was a
native of New England and a graduate
of Yale, but has spent the larger por
tion of his ministerial life in the West.
He was for many years pastor of the
Church in Elyria, Ohio, and was a sue
cessful agent in securing the establish
ment and endowment of the Female
Seminary at Painesville. He was sixty
two years of age, and had not been for
some years in very vigorous health.
DE SoTo, Mo.—Rev. J. D. Jenkins
bas removed from Huron, Ohio, to De
Soto, Jefferson .county, Missouri. He
has entered upon Home Missionary work
in the latter place, with fair prospects of
building up a Presbyterian Church.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—A. call—whether
likely to be accepted or not, we have
not learned—has been given by the
Church in this place to Rev. Levi B.
Wilson, of Youngstown, Ohio.
REV. T. R. TOWNSEND, of Dunmore,
Pa., expects to be in Meridian, Cayuga
county, N Y., on and after September
first. Correspondents will please take
notice.
kltttiligtitrt,
PRESBYTERIAN.
Presbyterial Convention.—A convention
was held (if the appointment was carried
out) on the 16th ult., under the auspices of
the First United Presbytery of Ohio, for de
votional purposes, and the consideration of
the following subjects:-Ist. The duty and
necessity of greater personal holiness on the
part of ministers and church members as a
means of the conversion of sinners. 2d.
. Prayer and effort necessarily conjoined in
building up the kingdom of Christ. 3d.
The duty and privilege of every member of
the church to labor as a co-worker with God
in accomplishing his designs of mercy to a
lost world. 4th. How can a Christian con
gregation be best organized so as to work effi
ciently in the vineyard of the Lord.
A Minister Burned to Beath.—The Rev.
Hervey Chapin, an Old School Presbyterian
minister, aged sixty years, and late of Min
nesota, was burned to death at Tipton, Mis
souri on the 28th of July, by the accidental
catching fire of his divelling-house. Himself
and three children were at one time safe from
danger, but in his anxiety to reach a trunk
sitting at the head of the stairs, and containing
a small amount of gold, he fell with the burn
ing stairs,. and in a moment more the entire
coof fell upon him. He was burned to a black
risp in sight of his three now orphan children.
Spetcators were unable to render any assist
ance toward his rescue, on account of the
great heat. Mr. Chapin, we believe, recently
came to Missouri, from Owatonna, Minne
sota. He was the stated supply of the church
in that place, and a member of the Owatonna
Presbytery.—Missouri Presbyterian.
A New Test.—The Presbytery•of Lafay
ette, Missouri, 0. S., is, almost exclusively
composed of virulent opponents of the deliv
erances of the Assemblies of the last three
years, and particularly the action of last
spring. Two or three of its ministers are
also signers of the Declaration and Testimony.
At its recent meeting, Rev. Charles Sturdi
vent presented his letter from the Presbytery
of Muncie, and pending his examination, the
following question was put to him—" The
General Assembly, having passed an order
dissolving any Presbytery admitting a signer
of the Declaration and Testimony, would you
help to dissolve this .Presbytery in such a ease?"
Mr. Sturdivant answered in the affirmative,
whereupon he was rejected, those voting
against his reception stating that they did so
solely because of that answer. Rev. George
Miller gave notice that he would complain to
Synod of this action; Rev. Geo. Frazer also
presented his letter from the Presbytery of
bteubenville, and in his examination had a
similar question put to him, to which he
gave the same , answer; whereupon he was
rejected, 'those voting against him giving the
same reason as in the other case. Mr. Fra
zer will carry this up to Synod by appeal:,
He has just taken charge of one section 0 1
the Presbytery's church in Kansas Cs.ty,
which has been rent by this subject, and we
hear will be held on to by them, notwithstand
ing the opposition of the Presbytery. Elle
friends there have raised S6OOO toward tie
erection of a church edifice.
Southern. The Southern Presbyterian
Church hes just had a little of the sunshine