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THIIRSDAY,, SEPTEMBER 6, 1866
SPECIAL EFFORTS FOR REVIVAL.
We published last week, without com
!neut, a rather singular item of religious
intelligence. A county conference of
pastors and church members from several
of the denominations which have been
d e eply identified with revival efforts, re
solved that the appointment of protracted
meetings without reference to the state of
feeling in community was of " doubtful pro
priety," and proposed to'substitute therefor
the ordinary prayer-meeting as a preferable
wea ns for the conversion of sinners. But,
in speaking of the singularity of the item,
we bad especially in view the reason
assigned for dispensing with the protracted
meeting—that of late "the tendency has
b ee n to make these meetings social and
e pienrean feasts, rather than spiritual, and
to make religion a periodical thing."
We confess to the last-named liability,
and how best to guard against it is one of
the problems in the system of special
revival efforts. But we are surprised by
the assertion that protracted meetings have
degenerated into social and , epicurean
feasts. We have often heard irregularities
of one kind and another laid to their charge,
but this is a new count in the indictment,
which, we Venture to say, will not be sus
tained by any extensive observation of
them. The oonference named was held in
Virginia, a section of the Church where,
for the last few years, its internal affairs
have come very slightly to our knowledge.
In that locality, all that is said may be
true; but if so, it casts a suspicious shade
over the revival intelligence which has
come from that quarter. We intrude
there no advice as to the proper remedy,
whether to carry out the proposed suspen
sion of protracted meetings, or in this, as
well as in some other things, to repent and
do the first worksin other words, break
off their festive and restore their spiritual
character.
Per contra, we give on the fourth page
of our present number, an item of intelli
gence under the head of New Measures in
th , Episcopal Church. The field is open
for Evangelists, and a class of ministers
under that name is to go forth. As yet
we know not whether labor in protracted
meetings is to become their special voca
tion, but we judge, from the drift of the
account, that something tantamount to that
is contemplated. At least there is to be a
stepping, outside of the beaten track of
parochial labor, something that shall give
a jog to the old routine, and produce, in
the language of The 4iscopalian; " a
stirring of the dry bones around us."
Thus we have two movements relative to
ep , oial religious effort, each from a quarter
where it was unexpected, and in the face of
traditional history. One is retrograde and
the other advancing. They will find a
meeting-place, but there they will proba
bly cross and not rest. Back of the inten•
tions of the persons who originate any
movement in spiritual affairs, there is
always a motive-force which presses toward
ionic definite point, and which does not
expend itself until that point is reached.
It may be violently constrained: it is not
impossible that a reactionary movement
from the highest point of revival measures
may atop at infusing the revival spirit into
the ordinary means of grace; neither is there
anything incredible in the suggestion that
the inaugurating of what has been regarded
as one of the most radioa of revival mea
sures, by a Church which has rather
plumed itself upon resistance - to innova-,
tions, may amount to nothing more than
a waking up of liveliness and zeal for spir
itual conversions, in connection with the
Prescribed forms of worship; but in either
of such cases, it would be due to some out
side constraint upon the laws of move
ment
We apprehend that, in most of the dis
cussions respecting revival measures and
the so-called revival preachers, no suffi
cient importance is given to a leading con
sideration involved. We will state it.
While the Church is anxious to settle on
sole horizontal plan for evangelization,
Something that shall meet all tastes for
propriety, and all views of order, the wick
ect world has no corresponding anxiety to
shape itself into one general mode of acmes-
Aility. In common war, every system of
tactics must leave a margin of flexibility,
in view of the uncertain positions of attack
Of the enemy. It is not to be expected
that the enemy will carefully study the
rules of approach adapted by the attacking
3 r 14 3', with a view of maintaining the
proper position for defeat under those
ru les• If he studies them at all, it will be
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for the purpose of so disposing of his forces
as to foil those rules and render success
under them impracticable. In such wars
every variety of tactics must come into
play, and the most brilliant victories are
often the fruit of some new stroke of gene
ralship, while an obstinate adherence to
established "system" has, in many cases,
weakened campaigns, and finally brought
on defeat.
So the Church finds it in its war of ag
gression upon the wickedness in the world.
To find some settled and' inflexible system
of general evangelization, has been the
study of the Church for years, and almost
ages past. Councils and Synods have bent
their beat efforts to the problem of order,
rules and uniformity; and Churches have
earnestly tried to achieve success on infrangi
ble modes of effort. The ideal of a continu
ous revival, a high spirituality on the part of
Christians, and an inflow from conversions,
keeping equal pace with the use of the or
dinary means of grace, charms us all, and
it is but natural that we should be a little
rebellious against the conclusion that as
yet this is but an ideal, beautiful indeed,
but not answering to the facts with which
we have to deal. Those facts are that
those who labor for the conversion of sin
ners on the broad scale, still have to shape
their efforts on the assumption that the
Church is infirm in grace and in need of
special gracious impulses, and with the no
less important circumstance that, so far as
the modes of approach are concerned, there
is no one royal ,road to all hearts. The
point is to get the Gospel into contact with
the sinner's conscience, and through some
mode of arresting his attention to it, place
him in a likelier condition for opening his
heart to it, and obeying the Holy Spirit's
gracious call. This first work of arresting
the attention is sometimes secured by a
sermon, a prayer, or a line in a hymn in
the ordinary service of worship. But the
multitudes hear the Gospel without one
rousing of thought respecting its immedi
ate relation to themselves. It is to break
in upon this monotony of careless hearing,
and to arrest the minds of nien, that the
Church is every now and then pushed into
some cuange - nr - the - mode- wr—a pp ,arsari. l3
the word; some new appliance, some nov
elty, if people will call it such, not of truth,
but of the manner of presenting the one
everlasting truth of Jesus the sinner's
friend, and Christ the final Judge of men.
Names and terms are of small account.
Such phrases as "getting up a revival,"
and "doing up religion by the job," and
such terms as "new measures," and " re
vival measures," have no force except as
they are brought face to face with the facts,
concerned. The facts are that the millions
of sinners slumber in sin, and hasten to•
eternal ruin unless they are aroused. It is
true that more, infinitely more, is needed
or they are still lost. But they must be
aroused. No inflexible and single form of
effort has yet met the case. We are deal
ing with a world where accessibility rnustbe
everywhere sought, and we do but follow
an illustrious example, when we make it
our effort, by all means, to save some
THE SITUATION IN EUROPE.
We live in a fast age. The remark is
not very original, but the events - of the last
few weeks in Continental Europe give it the
freshness of a new thought. The rapidity
with which a war, gigantic not merely
in its proportions, but more so in the
issues involved, has wrought out its mis
sion, and the swiftness with which great
nations have been settled into new posi
tions and new relations to the European
"system,"far exceeds the activity of events
which has hitherto been the special char
acteristic of our own country. Prussia,
but yesterday a power of questionable con
sideration, is to-day the undisputed head
and arbiter of Germany, and holds in her
grasp imperial dominion. Austria, though
still holding to the name of empire, enjoys
that distinction only as a grace, and has
lost the respect of other governments, and
from henceforth, if reckoned among the
" great powers," is such simply by cour
tesy. The right of Italy to this designa
tion is a settled point. By the acquisition
of Venetia, her northern extension has
reaohed its natural limit; and when that
absurd conception of a temporal power for
the chief pastor of a religious denomina
tion is ended—an event which seems not
far distant—those fragments of Italy which
now constitute that temporal dominion
will find their proper governmental rela
tions, and Victor Emmanuel, with his
throne in the Eternal City, will be at the
head of a full proportioned Italian king
dom. Meantime, smaller sovereignties,
whose existence seemed to have no other
use than to. complicate the politics of the
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY; SEPTEMBER 6, 1866.
Continent, and breed occasions for disputes,
have been virtually extinguished. And
last, but not least in the political effects of
the war, the " man of destiny" has at
last found his match. There are now two
men in Europe, and it is all the better that
it should be so. Any one man walks more
softly and is a safer element in society,
when he is brought to the consciousness
that he is not the only man that lives. It
will, probably, be somewhat annoying to
Napoleon to be compelled to take into all
his adroit calculations the fact that a great
and watchful rival beyond the Rhine must
not be disturbed; but this fact is oneof the
points in the present situation. A war of
the largest dimensions, and beginning with
the fiercest purpose and most sanguinary
conflicts, has brought this great change on
the political face of the old world with
a suddenness which makes the whole trans
action appear like a dream.
But these are the most superficial views
of the effects of this short war. As it re
quired but a few days to work out these po
litical results, so it will take the govern
ments of Europe but a few more to adjust
themselves to their changed circumstances.
The bearing of these events upon the cause
of religion may not be so quick of develop
ment, but it will be more radical, more sure
and more enduring.
To observant minds, the ostensible cause
of the late commotions was the least of all
its inciting causes. The little duchy of
Schleswig was not worth one German life
—scarcely worth one round of the cartridges
burned in a single battle.
" God moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform."
Not.only is the whole situation of Gel.-
many, as it relates to the ultramontane
system in government, changed, but pro
bably the ideas of cabinets on the sub
ject are, or soon will be, revolutionized.
The struggle between the jesuitical and
enlightened systems of government had
been gradually approaching its issue, but
the approach was slow. That issue has
now been precipitated. Napoleon 111.
had seen it coming, and had undertaken to
engineer it, _Though nomi.nalls_a Roman
oata..lic, -he was committed to --- Wet r- in
ideas; but he was more committed to his
own ambition, and he gave his influence to
the former only in such measure as would
advance the latter. At Solferino he struck
an effective blow toward placing Italy
under a liberalized system; but it did not
suit his policy to leave Italy, - as the trans
alpine representative of that system, strong
enough to act without his concurrence. So
Venetia was left in the grasp of Austria,
which means under the intolerance, politi
cal and spiritual, of jesuitism. So, too,
Rome was occupied with French troops to
protect the Pope against the revolt of his
outraged subjects. To secure his prepon
derance, one power must be played off
against the other. Liberalism, though alt
the while gaining ground, was too much
the tool of the' great trickster to move ac
cording to the speed of its innate impulses,
or to be felt along its course in the full
,healthiness of its nature.. What it most
needed was free play in its antagonism with
the medieval priestly system which makes
governments to exist only for the purpose
of forwarding the interests and enforcing
obedience to the decrees of the Papacy—a
a System which Pio Nino, in the celebrated
encyclical of last year, says he will not re
lax the breadth of a hair.
Now, for once, these antagonistic forces
have met under the fairest opportunity for
testing their relative strength and, deter
mining their influence for the future. The
Papal ideas had no fairer representative in
Europe than theAustria,n Government; and
no question could be a more conclusive
test of the prospects respecting the resusci
tation or the hopelessness of the. Pope's
influence in government, than the one
pending in Italy. The triumph of Ans
.
trio,. would crown the adherents of the Pa
pacy in Italy with new strength to thwart
the progress of Christian liberty—perhaps,
would disintegrate the kingdom and re
store to the Pope his lost States, and to his
creature Bomba the Neapolitan dominion.
In anticipation of this; the bigoted priest
hood began to give an earnest of what they
hoped to do. The whole question between
the ultramontane and the Weatern ideas
was thus, through the wonder-working
providence of God, sprung out of the
dispute for the sovereignty of a few poor
acres on the shore of the North Sea. The
days of the Papal influence, as a political
element, are numbered. There remains not
one thrifty government to represent it. Of
the so-called great powers, it can count
only on Spain and Austria. Spain.has long
since been a nullity in the councils of Eu
rope, and from this date Austria takes her
place in thecatalogue Of the ejfile.
So far, everything is cheering for the
friends of Protestant Christianity. But
with these changes there arises a new oc
casion for Christian solicitude. The ques
tion whether the benefits of this emancipa
tion from bigotry shall accrue to the cause
of evangelical religion, or whether they
shall be seized upon as a new power in the
service of infidelity, is yet an open one.
We must riot forget the notions so preva
lent on the Continent, respecting the mean
ing of such terms as "liberal sentiments,"
"freedom' of thought," "modern ideas,"
" anti-cleriCal governments," and the like.
We . must remember that Germany and
France have an immensely large element
in 'their population, including scholars,
professors and authors of high reputation
—have influential organizations, who in
culcate . only too well the sophistry that
ideas become liberalized only in proportion
as they are removed from the sphere of
religious obligation. We must remember
the unsatisfactory condition of the leading
Protestant Churches, such as the Lutheran
in Germany and the National Reformed in
France, in respect to evangelical truth. In
the mouths of many of their pastors and
consistories, the decline of Papacy is a lib
erating of Christianity, and the liberating
of Christianity is setting it free from its
cardinal truths, such as relate to the person
and work of the Lord Jesus. This great
movement is going forward in, a country
where rationalism has deeply corrupted the
Church, and where in circles of high in
fluence, the, baldeit infidelity is the per
fection of human enlightenment.
We have not room to dwell upon this
last view. The statement in outline is
sufficient to show that the call for evangeli
cal effort on the Continent of Europe was
never before so loud as now. The door is
now opened very wide, but the enemy, in
full foroe,,is on the ground. The antago
nism between ultramontanism and the en
lightened.policy is now measurably at rest.
The Papacy lies on the field weakened and
disgraced. But this result lends to the
contest between the true light and the
other extreme of darkness, new spirit
and an, kiportance beyond anything of the
.lost for long
years to come.
ABOUT THE LAST OF IT.
We congratulate our Old School bre
thren on the present aspect of the dis
loyal element which, in their Church,
has proved so persistent an annoyance,
and which, since the last meeting of
their Assembly, has threatened them
with a systematic course of opposition
for the future. To lay out a regular
prhgramme for agitation, preparatory to
the next Assembly, a Convention of
ministers and others opposed to the
action of last spring, from all parts of
thh Church; was called to meet in St.
Lies on the 15th nit. A demonstra
thin intended and"expected, in
respect to both the numbers and stand
ing of those attending. The important
day came, and with it came eight min
isters from Kentucky, twenty-one from
Missouri, and from all other parts of the
Church, four. There were also thirty
eight laymen from Missouri, two from
Illinois and • one from Kentucky. Hon.
Isaac D. Jones, of Maryland, sent a
letter of apology for non-attendance,
which was read, and which says:—" It
is, perhaps, better that I should remain
as a rear guard, to look out for Backus
and Smith, et id omne genus, some of
whom we may perhaps find in Lewes
Presbytery." Six other letters were
also read—two of them from ministers,
one of whom, Rev. Wm. McMichael,
says, that "if the Convention should
determine to make continuous and sys
teinatic opposition to the recent course
of the General Assembly, it should in
stitute measures for the establishment
of a new paper in the North. The
paper should have, especially, a twofold
ohject—the maintenance of the Church
in its spiritual and independent sphere,
and the reunion of the Northern and
Seuthern sections. There is no paper
to do the requisite work. Southern
papers and border State papers cannot
de what is required in the Northern
portion of the Church, and the existing
pupers will not do it. I would, there
fore, respectfully suggest to the Conven
dim, especially if it should have repre
sentatives from New York and Penn
sylvattia, the expediency of establishing
a conservative paper in the North." As
the Convention did not happen to have
Py representatives from New York or
ennsylvania, Mr. McMichael's sugges
tion seems to have passed for nothing.
As regards the personelle of the Con
vention, it is sufficient to say that Stuart
Robinson and his coadjutor, S. R. Wil
son, were there, and a scattering of
".Declaration and Testimony" men from
his State, and, the secession veterans of
the Missouri Synod-taken all in all,
just the men - to destroy the' influence of
Gl-enesee Evangelist, No. 1059.
the affair; just the names with which
even th*disaffepted men of the Church
dread to associate their own.
The proceedings of the Convention
came to no point. Everything in the
way of plan was left to committees.
The troth seemed to be, that the amount
and character of the response to the call
created a despondency. The Convention
was disheartened at the sight of itself,
and after creating one committee to
draw up a statement of their position,
another to draft a popular appeal and
warning to the Aople, and another to
write circulars and letters urging im
mediate concerted action, and after pass
ing over, without vote, a proposal• to call
another meeting, it hastened to an ad
joirnment. Some show of life may
come from these committees, but we
judge that the proceedings are pretty
much the embers of that factious oppo
sition to the Assembly which has been
led on by Robinson and Wilson, and
that the time is not distant when the
Kentucky and Missouri agitators will go
where they belong, to the Southern
Church.
P. S.—A later account says that the
resolution proposing another Convention
did pass. The time fixed. is nest No
vember. So the party will not die with
out another spasm. The same account
says that letters of sympathy were read
from Rev. Drs. H. A. Boardman, W.
S. Plnmer, and H. J. Van Dyck. Dr.
Plamer says " I wish I could be of
some service. I can think of but four
things possible for those who think and
feel as you and I do about the acts of
the Assembly. 1. One is to quit the
Church and run up a new flag. 2. An
other is, to wait and be cast out by sum
mary violence, such as the last Assem
bly displayed. 3. Hold on quietly,
testifying, protesting, washing hands.
4. The last is to play the hypocrite,
pretend approval and hurrah for non
sense and fierceness. The last wonld.be
wicked and mean. Either of the others
is lawful according to circumstances.
But either of them is hard, very hard.
God is trying every true man, every free
man, every man that is a man, I sup
pose. I have reliable information that
the Old and New School will not come
together. I think I may rely . on that.
My own ex pectation i is that the Assem
bly of 186'T will behave wari - e - than
this. There are plans and plots leaking
out which, if known;:would startle every
man that is not now mad." Dr. Van
Dyck's terms are decidedly Saxon, and
not gingerly at that. " There are," he
says, " two parties in the Church in the
North—the Radicals and the Numb
skulls. The first are blind ; the second
are cowards, waiting for something to
turn up. The prospect for accomplish
ing anything appears dark at present."
The Doctor would of course disclaim
any membership with the Radicals, and,
since he says there are but two parties,
he has, in the above sentence, very dis
tinctly defined himself.
TRIBUTES TO REV. DR. BRIEVERD.
Our cotemporary, The Presbyterian,
says of our lamented brother :
"Dr. Brainerd had a character of no com
mon force. In the pulpit and lecture-room
he was an earnest, instructive, and practical
preacher; and as a Presbyterial counsellor,
he was always a ready •and fluent speaker,
as well as an . active and influential participa
tor in church_ enterprises and general works
of benevolence. During the recent war he
was a firm and uncompromising supporter of
the Government, and his voice often cheered
our troops as they passed through the city to
the seat of war. He was a patriot without
disgnise, and to no heart did the ultitnate
success of our cause bring a livelier thrill of
pleasure. In private intercourse, his manner
was kind and genial; and to the Philadelphia
public he was well known for his zeal in a
good cause, and the ready devotion of his
best influence. Now a chasm has been caused
by his departure, which it will not be easy to
fill. So it is, humanly speaking ; but when
one of God's servants has fulfilled his ap
pointed time, served his generation, and
passed away, God has inexhaustible resources
from which to fill up the broken ranks."
The Evangelist, in the course of an
article filling between three and four
of its columns, says :
" And now the biographer of these sainted
men [David and John Brainerd] is himself
numbered with them.. He has gone to return
no more. The chair at the social board and
household altar is vacant. The sacred desk
where he ministered so long and so faithfully,
even at times when he could not stand, is
draped in sable. The voice that Spoke in
such sweet persuasion for his Master, is now
silent in death. All too soon for the favored
flock, over which he watched so long, and
which he fed with a shepherd's care, and
which in turn looked up to him with perfect
confidence and trust; all too soon for the rever
end members of the Pastoral Association,
with which he had been identified from the
first, and by which he was regarded with
mingled respect and affection, as a true friend
and brother; too soon, so in our blindness it
seems to us, for the i nterests of learning,
morality, p hilanthropy,. and re li gion, he is
takenfrom the labors of earth to the rest and
rewards of heaven. . . Excellent as
our brother was in the Pulpit, he was even
more so on the platform. In consequence of
a serious nervous affection, from which for
many years he suffered greatly, it was not
always easy for him to command himself suf
ficiently to engage in earnest r debate. But
when he, did c it was greatly to the delight of
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his brethren. His ardent temperament, his
genial humor, his quick perception, his keen
wit, his aptness of illustration, his sharp
logic, his compactness of argument, and his
ready utterance, combined to secure the fixed
attention of his audience, and in most rases
to carry their convictions."
A Philadelphia correspondent of the
Boston, Recorder writes:—
" The writer of this attended service at Dr.
Brainerd's church some months ago, and
while waiting in the porch for the sexton,
the Doctor entered. Stepping up, he inquired
if he was a stranger, his name, and what
church he usually attended, and then turning
to a gentleman, who with his family was en
tering the church, said, "Here, Brother —,
please give this stranger a seat in your pew
dila morning:" This rare act of courtesy
from a pastor was not unusual with him. And
it was his custom to hurry from the pulpit
after service, to speak to strangers whom he
had noticed in the congregation.
The Cincinnati Christian Herald,
under its early name of the Cincinnati
Journal, was, from 1833 to 1836, under
the editorship of Dr. Brainerd. That
paper, in a fitting notice of his death,
reproduces portions of his salutatory on
taking the editorial chair, and of his
farewell on leaving it. We have only
room for the extracts given from the
latter. It must be remembered that the
period in which he conducted the paper
was that of the great storm which cal-
Aninated in the division of the Church,
and that, owing to the prosecution of
Dr. Beecher for heresy, no Where was
that tempest fiercer than in the region
around Cincinnati. Referring to the
commencement of his editorial works, he
said:—
"At that time the waves of ecclesiastical
controversy rolled high and threatening.
Shoals and quicksands lay all around us.
False lights were gleaming on every side.
The vessel itself, tly the misfortunes of other
commanders and stress of weather, was in a
leaky condition, and, by many, condemned
as unseaworthy, and not a few stood on the
shore, hat in hand, ready to shout if she went
down. The cargo was valuable. She was
freighted with the bread of life' for thou
sands and tens of thousands. Te take the
helm at such a period required more skill
than we possessed. Days of anxiety and
almost sleepless nights follolied each other
for weeks and months, until experience had
inspired courage to face the angry elements
without apprehension. Sometimes the clouds
seemed to divide and promise a great calm.
We looked for the rainbow of peace, but
looked in vain. No sooner had one exciting
subject relinquished its grasp upon the public
mind, but another succeeded. The last four
years, above their predecessors, have been
distingushed for a succession of moral earth
quakes which have convulsed society. While
our readers have been divided into parties,
mutually distrusting each other, it has often
been our lot to occupy a middle position,
where no party could fully approve our
course, where our want of partisanship has
been a crime inviting reprehension from those
who could never agree except in their mutual
dislike of prudence and moderation.
* * *
"In retiring from our post, we are cheered
with the behef that we have poisoned no
weapons to rankle in the hearts of our readers.
We have carried on no envenomed personal
controversies with good men. Our friend',
have been many and constant, onr enemies few.
Those who have injured us we forgive. If
an unadvised word from us has inflicted pain
upon others, we crave forgiveness. We part
in peace with all. Wherever our lot may be
cast in life, or whatever may be our earthly
destiny i it will be pleasant to .reflect that we
have mmgled, to some extent, a good influence
with the elements which are to give charac
ter: to the hundred millions who will yet have
their habitations on the long rivers and
broutplains of the great valley—we have had
a hunible share in the attempt to diffuse the
lights of literature and religion over the
fairest domain on the face of the earth.
;`Long before the West shall have reached
that elevation of wealth, intelligence, and
moral' excellence, for which she is destined,
this hand will be cold and this heart will be
still. But there is another and a better
world, where our friendship shall be renewed
and perpetuated, and where the results of
Christian efforts will be garnered up. In
that home of the righteous may all our kind
readers find eternal habitation."
The Preachers' Meeting of the Metho
dist Episcopal Charch in this city for
warded to the Pastoral Association, of
which Dr. Brainerd was a member, the
following resolutions of sympathy :--
Whereas, The Preachers' Meeting of Phi
ladelphia M. E. Church has heard, with prop
found regret, of the death of Dr. THOMAS
Pattatimn, of the Presbyterian Church;
and,
Whereas His spirit was so- truly catholic,
and his usefulness : so general, not being con
fined to his own pastoral charge, contrary to
our usual custom, we deem it fitting to pay
special honor to the memory of one not of
our denominational ranks; therefore; -
Resolved, That in the sudden death of
Rev. Dr. Brainerd, we are forcibly reminded
of the uncertainty of life and of the import
ance of being also ready.
Resolved, That we praise the great Head
of the Church, for the gifts, grace and use
fulness which distinguished our departed and
now sainted brother, in so eminent a degree.
Resolved, That we cherish the memory of
his eloquence and devotion as a minister of
Christ; his simplicity and sincerity as a
catholic Christian, and his devoted loyalty
and patriotism as a citizen.
Resolved, That we most affectionately sym
pathize with his bereaved family, and with
the Church which has lost a shepherd, whose
voice they have heard for thirty years past,
and pray that God may be with them in this
great sorrow. 0. W. LANDRETH,
Secretary pro tem.
MANCHESTER, MICHIGLAN.—Rev. J. G.
Jones, a recent gradtiate of Lane Semi
nary, has signified his acceptance of the
call from the Church in Manchester, and
has entered upon his labors with them.