ICE ABERICAN PRESBYTERIAN AND iENESEE EVANGELIST. BeliErionsand Family Newspaper, IN THE INTEREST OP THE Constitutional P . real Church. PUBLISHED. EVERY 'THURSDAY. AT THE PI3BYTPR HOdTT.gE, . 1334 Cheetnnt Street. (2d story.) Philadelphia. B ee. John W. Mears. Editor arid 1411ilitiber. gintritait Ersohyttrian. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1866. FUNERAL OF MMUS W. BALDWIN. On Wednesday of last week, an immense concourse of clergy and citizens, with seve ral hundreds of the employees of the loco motive works, assembled at the ample mans ion, formerly the Taeague House,, on Chestnut street, to pay the last tribute . o f respect to the remains of Mr. Baldwin. The entire square was thronged with a re spectful and ,sympathizing crowd. All were animated with one sentiment of Pro found affection forthe virtues and charities, the integrity, the kind-heartedness, the beneficence and Christian simplicity of the man , no less than for the sagacity, skill a nd enterprise which had made his name almost as familiar and as honored as that of the city itself. Soon after ten o'clock, the procession of clergy moved from the Presbyterian House to the abode of mourning, when the de votional exercises were commenced at the head of the great stairway, with prayer by Rev. W. W. Taylor, and reading of the Scriptures by Dr. March; after which Dr. March said, in substance : The sources of consolation in God's word are infinite and applicable to all our need. If it were not so, we should find it hard to• understand or submit to the Providence which takes away good men from the world when we need them most. The great Heavenly Father had higher work and purer joys than can be found in this world for his honored and beloved servant, whose departure fills us with sorrow to-day. He has taken him from us when great and sacred enterprises looked to him for sup port, and multitudes were instructed and gladdened by his beneficence. But all the good that God enabled him to do while he lived, is the pledge that the time of completing his work and calling him home is best. With all our sorrow that, we shall see his face no more, let us rejoice in the grateful remembrance of the genial light that shone u.od him wherefer - "E;3" - Wiiti -- arid 1116" Christian charity that mingled with all he did. The greater the loss which we feel in his removal from us, the greater is our consolation in remembering how much good God permitted him to do while he lived, The world has not many such men as Matthias Baldwin, but it would be a great deal better and happier if it had more of them. Our Heavenly Father must be infinitely rich and great since he can afford to take away such men in the height of their worth and usefulness, and yet feel no want of resources to carry' on his work of truth and beneficence 'among men. dud let us not forget what it was which made our departed friend the good man' thal he was. There never 'has been but oue influence in the world which could form such a character as his. He himself declared the source of his peculiar excel lences when he ascribed, as he often die, an he had done for the good of his fellow len, to the infinite goodness and mercy of God in Christ the Saviour. One of the last times I ever heard him speak, he es preyed, with tearful and tremulous emotion, his gratitude for the disposition to give and work in the service of Christ and for the salvation of men. And let us remember, too, that it was only by making it the study and prayer of his life, that he maintained that benovolent disposition which God had graciously given hint. Living in a great city, beset with competition and temptation, harrassed with ever-increasing earthly care as a conse quence of success, it was a great thing, that this man should have gone on from year to rear, for a whole generation, pursuing a toilsome path, yet ever trusting in God with a serene and cheerful faith, singing with gladness in his heart, and scattering blessings for others with both hands and la every direction as he went. With all the deceit, the pride anti the selfishness of the world to meet in the transactions of business, he maintained simplicity of life and manners, grew more meek and trustful toward God as he grew older and richer, and lived at peace with all mankind. He ioveci all the simple pleasures of life, all the beautiful things of art and nature, all the fit instruments of refined and tasteful feel ing; and, yet he was a thoroughly practi cal, hard-working man, looking upon the great and solemn realities of duty in their true light, and never thinking that he had made the most of any acquisition or enjoy ment until he had used it for the honor of God and the good of others. After long culture and prayerful discipline, he gained t he mastery of himslf so completely that the agitations of the e world seldom ruffled 'us spirit, and the peace that dwelt in his heart shone upon his face, and made his 4 i a benediction upon all whom he met. I cannot speak as I would on this owe ninu, for every word I utter.is accompanied !nth regret for the absence of two who had .bee. 4 associated with the deceased in plans. n works-of Christian usetulness.for thirty Sears, and who could have set forth the t ens, an of the hour with the fervor of long ed friendship, and the vividness of per sonal history. One has 'been called from the ,,„ City by a previous engagement, and the her having finished his work on earth, 7 a ns waiting to receive his friend and fellow ' borer to the blegn3ed and endless rest. S IP ' • 7........ , i • ) •- - . \......1 ~. ~., ( ... .r;,: ,---) , . , „..... . .. ; A t ~1 9_ it ( . . 1 : .. n 4 . ... 1 2 , .• . ~••„._.• ~,.t.l.i lion.i ., n ~•, . • f : ~_, _ • - - , ...,,n, ;'. , ld LIVi • P.': • : • New Series,, Vol. 111, No.; 38. VAJLELINS' ADDRESS. Mr. Calkins, pastor - of the decreased, said : It is very rare that an occasion of death causes such a variety of emotions as this. When before have our feelings been so conflicting ? The grief felt for. the mur dered Lincoln was simple as it was over whelming. One thought filled the country. When, a civilian of public spirit is removed, the loss of the city seems irreparable. When the head of 'a great establishment falls, large business interests are affected,' and industry feels- the shock through a thou= sand- channels. • When a' leading ineniber of the church is 'removed, ,an office-beard, the superintendent • of a. Sibbath-school," still new interests are ..reached and .new cause of mourning is given.- The, most humble citizen will be mourned hills own neighborhOod; and 'no little child can be changed into a seraph without one home being made desolate. To-day all thede causes of grief blend in strange harmony. The nation mourns the death of one whose love for her was a per fect passion of patriotism. The communi ty, the world of business and of practical science, mourns one of its greatest bene factors. The Church of Christ mourns a most distinguished friend and benefactor ot the cause at large, and an officer, almost the father, of one church in particular. Fellow Sabbath-school teachers mourn around, and there is a grief of the widow and the father less so sacred that we will not attempt to unfold it. And what shall we say of the hundreds of workmen who just now filed in sorrowful procession by the cold relics of their friend and employer ? At another time we will speak of him more fully in his public relations as a citi zen, a patriot, a man of enterprise and of munificence. .Let us now concern our selves with the traits of his private char acter. What then, said the speaker, referring to the splendid works of art that covered the walls. and crowded every nook of the lofty and ample apartments—what do these rooms say ? Suppose we had no other key to his character than these ob jects—what should we infer? Plainly that he was a man almost free from any mere vanity, such as success in life is apt to generate. You will not find here any one ob ject merely in display of wealth or of self. They are not designed for any selfish end, but-ovidontly-to do good- -to-othora, was of such a generous disposition that he could not enjoy anything unless others en joyed it with him. His own home was not a home to him unless others, even the public, shared its entertainments. Wit ness the magnificent conservatory of exotic plants and . tropical flowers facing the street. How many have been the multi tudes arrested there ; lost in delight at its rare and gorgeous beauty. And just that was the design of the owner. It was for the purpose of giving to all a source of culture. In fact, it was exclusively for the benefit of the public. It was so ar ranged that it was impossible to gain any enjoyment from it within doors. The only way for him or his family to view it fair ly, was to go out and view it with you and me from the side-walk of busy Chestnut street. 01 it seems as if every beauti ful flower there was at this' moment filled with tender recollections of the man, who loved everybody, and provided for every• one's enjoyment. Often I have heard him say, when he saw others enjoying the fruits of his liberality, It was the best in vestment I ever made. Business men, think of it. He never regarded any in vestment worth anything to himself, ex cept it in some way led to and provided for the the rational, the moral• and •the spiritual improvement of his fellow men. Perhaps, my friends, you ask, was it hard for him to leave this world, so bright and beautiful to him—made so much bet ter by his life? One year ago he was very sick; we all thought he would die. At that time I asked him what hisjeelings were in view of death. He answered that, at first, there was ' just a little doubt, enough to remind him that death is the king of terrors. But it did not last long. Very soon there came a perfect peace. What, I asked, were your more particular reflections then ? I asked myself, replied he, why I should wish to live longer ? What have Ito live for ? - Indeed I ex claiined ; is it possible, Mr.' Baldwin. Did you ask that ? Yes, said he. Life to me is full of pain and suffering; working and suffering all day long, and thinking and suffering nearly all night long. Why should I shrink from dying ? I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that through his grace all will be well with me. But did you think nothing of these churches, of those various and great benevolent inter ests, nothing of your family, to which you are so necessary, when you spoke of having' nothing to live for ? Yes, but they must spare me soon, at any rate. If I am kept longer, they may not soon enough learn to depend• upon God, and .80 I fold my hands in resignation to his will. . At that time he was spared. And he went back.without a thought of repose to his accustomed business; he entered into it with his heart; he projected great im provements. And in that of his, he set up a public 'institution to beneficence. There was a source of influence training hundreds of workmen to accuracy and faithfulness in one of the most elevated mechanical enterprises in .the world. There was the centre for• hundreds of charitable appeals, commencing from early morning, to which, he cheerfully gave up the large part of ,his_, time they required. Every day theyJime ,were sure to come ; none can remember a day which was an excep PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1866. tion. And he kindly received them all; whether he gave or not,- •you were always blessed in the application.,Frequently you were surprised to find te amount of your request doubled. His very last day, in that consecrated place, was filled up with just such services. Then, feeble and weary, he turned away to his beautiful home on the Delaware—that home, which, like everything else he owned, was open to all, and full of the most beautiful proofs of the sweet and kindly nature of the owner. Why, even birds and beasts came to sport with the man, whose affections they sp largely shared. Yes;, I. saw them there go be wil!leyell, and mourning through the •deso late walks, seeking in vain his familiar caresses. That `beautiful home—was it hard for him to leave it ? Did he cast his eyes around over' the beautiful prospect and say, I cannot go? I wish Mr. Barnes, his former pastornow,out,of town—was here to give testimony upon the spirit of our dear friend's last hours. It was to him he poured out his heart. And the fact was, the broken heart belonged to the pastor, not• to the dying man. Mr. Barnes went to console, but invariable came away consoled. The last thoughts of the dying man were to comfort the mourners. Mr. Calkins closed with an earnest appeal to the large assembly to profit by the example of the deceased. The exer cises were closed with prayer and the bene diction. Mr. Baldwin's remains lay in the back parlor, on the east side of the mansion, in a cloth-covered, silver-mounted coffin. They were dressed in a snit of plain black. The habitual expression, of the now bloodless features was still there, placid, noble, sweet, heightened into a certain majesty by the dead calm, the marble rigidity of death. The silver plate of the coffin bore these words : " M. W. BALDwIN, Died September 7, 1866, Aged 70 years." The pall bearers were Judge William Strong, Asa Whitney, Franklin Peale, J. B. Townsend, B. F. Kendall, R. Camblos. The six carriers were Chosen from among the twenty-five of the foremen of the'works of Messrs. M. W. Baldwin & Co. Some .dreds . of the employees walk.o iuTpro cession by the cortege, which moved up Chestnut to-Fifteenth street - , up Fifteenth to Hamilton, down Hamilton ,to Broad, and up Broad street, thus making a circuit of the locomotive works, the bell tolling as they passed. The march was continued up Broad street to Girard avenue, up Girard avenue to Ridge avenue, and up the Ridge to the depot of the Manayunk Rail road, where - the 'employees took cars and omnibusses. Arrived at old Laurel Hill Cemetery, the workmen divided their lines, and with uncovered heads, and in mourn ful silence witnessed the passage of the clergy, the bier and the immediate . friends of the deceased, in the midst. Down into the bosom of the earth 'the precious re mains were lowered, and after brief but appropriate services by Messrs. calking and McLeod, a last lingering farewell was taken by weeping kindred and friends. Rest, venerated clay Rest, 0 dear re mains of a man greatly to be missed and longed for ! Rest in peace, 0 long tor ,mented body, replaced, ere now, by a saintly robe of 'glory, and soon to be mira culously transfoimed into a spiritual body; incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away . ! Yes, take thy fill of rest now Ours is the toil, the struggle, the sorrow, the burden. Thine, the long coveted re ward. For thee, to live was Christ—and to die was gain. THE INSOLENCE OF THE SABBATH- Men who have made up their ininds l to set at naught the laws of. God, care very little about the laws of the : State or the laws of decency or propriety. Those who have resolved to profane the Sabbath, may be expected to set at defiance all the re straints, and to pour contempt on all the mere statutes which good men have put in their way. Last winter, the Sabbath breaking passenger railway men of our city, and those of our citizens who stood by, them, were fairly and decisively defeated in an effort to repeal the Sabbath laws of our State, by an appeal to the Legislature. Had they been law-abiding men, safe and good citizens, men desirous of setting an example of , order in the community ; they would have gracefully acquiesced in the 'decision of the majority rendered through its relife sentatiies. The voice of the rightful, u thorities of the Commonwealth would h e v, been a finality to them. Or they world have confined themselves to legitimate sfad honorable methods of agitating for a charige. But who ever heard of sworn and m *g nant Sabbath-breakers feeling or sho 'ng any refined, deferential, right-minded en tin2ents toward the laws of ,'the` land ? All instinct of revence has died out of ueh men. Covetonsness, if not a positive h tred BREAKERS, of divine and 'human restraint, impels such men to overlei!p all bounds. Aid we find these men, our defeated antagonists of last winter, after'prociming a slight and utterly inadequate authorization from Washington enabling ,the to carry , letters which nobody, wants carried; coolly setting at defiance the ancient and good laws of the Common wealth, and- the reassertion of them by solemn vote% of• the last Legislature, and riding right eirer the 'heads, and destroying the immunities of the citizens, by robbing them and thej faiiilies of their wonted opportinities or worship on the Sabbath day.;Almost every prominent line in the city was running last. qabbath the entire day. And thecity of which, from the days of William Penn,' its vene rated and sagacious foundtr, has enjoyed immunity from outrageous offences against the sanctity of the Sabbath, was on that day, from one end to the other, in its rural and denser districts, one scene of secular hurly-burly. Ministers were disturbed, interrupted, and almost silenced in their pulpits ; worshippers were 'robbed of their portion of God's word, and of the comfort of the ordinances. All the soothing, hallowing influences of the Sabbath upon the domestic <life of multitudes of Christian fiunikEt were swept away. Pacifies were driven from the front part of their houses to seek peace in the rear; and lawlessness reigned, and the wicked triumphed. We say that this is an insolent conspira cy to break down the, laws of the State. It is an example dangerous to all rightful authority.. We charge upon the passenger railway.companies of this city, the delibe rate purpose, for the sake of gain, to break up the Sabbath-keeping habits of this orderly and peaceable 'city, to - cast odium and disgrace upon the Sabbath laws of the State, and to show that they, in their ille gal and violent purposes, are above law and stronger than the rightful authorities of the land. We charge the mayor of the city, much as we admire him as a true pa triot, with,a guilty conniving at these repeat d ,offeame, I'll:kW:4_os the chief e,xecntive officer of our city, he was bound to hinder, an,d might have prevented with a word. We charge him with astonishing indiffer ence to what should be most dear to a man in his station, the fair name and the goodly reputation of our city, as the most' Sab7 bath-keeping city on the globe,, and with allowing himself to be insolently told, in his own office, and in , his high capacity as mayor, by one of these railroad officials, that they intended to trample upon the law and have their own way in spite of it— and then blandly bowing the boastful, in sulting offender out of the very shrine of justice, as if he had been one of its most distinguished supporters. We charge the authorities at Washington with a most scandalous subserviency to the wishes and plots ;:,f unscrupulous 'men, who are deter mined to break down the Sabbath-keeping customs of our city; sustaining them in their idle and palpably false pretext of mail service, which is no service at all, and lending their high positions in an unwar rantable interference with .the internal policy of a State, making - 6he Nation an in strument in the wicked and cruel work of demoralizing a great city, when it might naturally be looked to as a. helper and a guardian against a process , which goes on so rapidly , and so, terribly by its own mere force of gravitation. .';k Citizens of Philadelphia—Christian men and women—we know that you do not in tend to give 'up this conflict. There are no Sunday cars in Baltimore; none in Wil mm gton, and we feel comfortably certain that there shall be none here. FAREWELL TO HENRY WARD BEECHES. George Francis Train, that eminently safe, sagacious and conscientious politician, reckons up twelve elements of strength be longing to the party of tlie President, and makes Henry Ward Beecher the last of the twelve. And we suppose Mr. Beecher's recent letter to the leaders of the Cleveland Soldiers' Convention, called to endorse Mr. Johnson's policy, must be regarded as a formal adhesion of the writer to that policy. The reader can, judge for himself by simply glancing at the concluding sen tence `"For`the sake of the freedmen, for the sakeof the South and its ' naillions of-our fellow-eountrymen, for our, own sakes, and for the great cause of freedom and* civiliza tion, I urge the immediate reunion of ail the parts which rebellion' and war have shot tered." Without further guarantees then, with-' out a single judicial condemnation of trea son without an adjustment of the ratio of representation so as to prevent rebels_ from actually gaining in power by ,tbeir very Overtbrow, without a single step toward Genesee Evangelist, No. 1061. securing equal suf&age or even sufficient constitutional defences to the freedman in the enjoyment of the commonest of his rights as a man, without heeding the warn ings of Memphis and New .Orleans, with out repugnance at the monstrous spectacle of unchanged malignant rebels in power all over the South with their feet upon the necks of the sorely-tried, the faithful, the sterling patriots of that section, without concern for the confusion of ideas on the subject of loyalty and treason which such ;a . policy must breed in.the consciencessi and of ooming generations, Mr. Beecher is, for immediate, reunion. The true men of the nation, then, part company with Mr. Beecher. The friends of the colored men' in America bid hiin farewell. The churches of the North with which he has-been affiliated, see no room for him any longerupon those Declarations of high . principle, with which they. have unanimously reinforced the national con science during and since the war. Hence forth he must seek his associations among that motley and miscellaneous throng which could never have been gathered save by the most monstrous betrayal' of principles by men in high places. Hence forth Vallandigham and the Woods in the North, and the Monroes and Semmes of the South can never be so antagonistic to Mr. Beecher, as Butler and Brownlow, as Ste vens and Sumner and Wilson, as Tilton and Douglass and the _lndependent itself. To the companionship of the Copperhead party, reinforced by a handful of weak Republicans, we are constrained to hand over Mr. Beecher. Worse, perhaps, than all, he has antlered the catastrophe of the friendship and the patronage of George . Francis Train ! How are the mighty fallen! Since the above was written, we notice that Mr. Beecher has been called out by a protest from some of his congregation,. to whom he replies in an explanatory letter. We confess this second letter is in some degree calculated to mollify the severity of our judgmeni as elicited by the first. Mi. Beecher in this refusal& be classified with the copperheads, and Mrglares himself op posed to the simultaneous admission of the rebel States. He also expresses some nat ural disgust at the President's demagoguic performances, and some indignation at the Memphis and New °Aetna massacres. Still he advocates the heretical and peril ous policy of admitting 'the rebel States without further guarantees, and is. favor of electing such "Republican" Rspresenta fives to Congress, as will aim at carrying out substantially the President's policy. As we cannot understand this in any other sense than a fleclaration in favor of the re turn of such. " Republicans" to Congress as Mr. Raymond, we do not see what real improvement the second letter makes in the writer's position. We have, therefore, concluded not to cancel what we have written. At length the extraordinary - Presidential circuit is done, and Mr. Johnson is at home at the White House again. And of all public demonstrations on the part of men in exalted stations in any country, we think it is felt that this is by far the most re markable on record. We are accustomed to regard the Presidency of the great Re public as the Most elevated political posi tion which mortal man can hold. Presi dents, indeed, are but men ; yet we tura voidably expect the' dignity of their office to ,exercise a refining influence upon their manners, and, to appear in their every-day deportment. And in the whole list of in cumbents down to the last, the-people hive had no serious ground of complaint on this score. The dignity of the office has been measurably upheld. Contempt has been thrown upon it by none. Whatever com plaints men otherwise had to lodge against their Chief Magistrates, they , could not accuse them of disgracing the whole nation by trailing in mire and dust the dignities of the highest office they had to' bestow. But from the spectacle of unmitigated vul garity which has been paraded from one side of the land to the other, and chroni eled with phonographic minuteness in every newspaper, they have turned away their faces crimsoned with shame, disgust and indignation. When rulers in former times have wished to descend to, unbecoming and unkingly conduct, they have gone about it in disguise. Nero Jdid not go through the provinces as a fiddler or a play actor; he confined his shameful antics to the capital. It has been reserved to an American Chief M4istrate to make the circuit of ten or a . dozen States, with every. arrangement for 'rendering him as conspicuous as, possible * and'to exhibit such coarseness, such vin dictiveness, such bitter passion and prein, dice, such instincts of the niob, such shock ing profanity, to say nothing of his. mea- THE PRESIDENT'S TOUR. T3E11.31 IS 9 Per annum. in advance: By Mail, $ 3. By Carrier, $3 6 0 . FM cents additional, after three months. Clubs.—Ten or more Papers sent to one address. payable strictly in advance and in oneremittance, By Mail, $2 50per armum. By Carrier. $3 per annum. Ministers and Ministers" Widows, $2 50 in advance. Rome Missionaries, $2 00 in advance. Remittances by mail are at our risk. Postage.—Five cents quarterly, in advance, paid by subscribers at the office of delivery. Advertisements. -12% cents per line for the first, and 10 cents for the second insertion. One square (ten lines) one month 5 two months-....- , three months ... six months 12 ... oneyear IS 00 The following discount on long advertisements.i n serted for three months and upwards, is allowed:— Over' 20 lines. 10 per cent off; over 50 lines, 20 cent.; over 100 lines. n% per cent. snrelen egotism, or titter disregard for his own recently and solemnly avowed senti ments, that even the lowest forms of po litical wrangling in a heated campaign must be searched to find a-parallel. Mr. Johnson's closest political adherents, who applauded his 22d of February speech even, are ashamed, and they confess it. The whole country is immeasurably disgraced. It will not do to speak of the scandal with bated breath. And it is idle to attempt to apologize for or palliate such an offence. It la simply unpardonable. There is no possi ble excuse for the exhibition of petty spite at official neglect; hone for bandying low epithets with the mob; there• is none for pressing a political policy offensively on citizens who came to welcome him irre spective of party; none for denouncing a co-ordinate branch of the Government, as honorable, as powerful and as legitimate as himself; with vulgar language; none tor denouncing the loyal men who have given blood and toil and treasure to save the country, as traitors, simply because he can- not bring them to his views of reconstruc tion; none for whetting the thirst of the mob for blood and violence by calling upon them to hang two of the leading emancipa tionists in the country; none, 0 ! none, for a use of the name of the divine Redeemer, which for coarse impiety, almost amount ing to blasphemy, has certainly not been equalled in the utterances of any public man, we venture to say, since the days of Tom Paine. Apology for such offences must rebound disastrously on the one who offers it. Men of common decency everywhere must repu diate the attempt: Rather let us bow our heads in humiliation, and confess that we, as a nation of Christians, are in this un speakable disgrace, deservedly punished for yielding up the nomination of our offi cers, from the lowest to the highest, to the management of mere politicians. And we may comfort ourselves, too, that this tour has been one of the most damaging politi es) devices that has ever been executed. Five hundred radical speakers on the Pre sident's track could scarcely have effected more for £he good cause than the President himself has done. CHURCH ERECTION. WORK FOB THE CriIIUB.CIIVS. By the action of the last General Assem bly, the , funds in the hands of the Board or Trustees are no longer subject to distribution among the churches. They are to be secure ly invested, as explained in the August Num ber of the Presbyterignifonthly, and to be re garded strictly as permanent funds. The interest accruing from these investments. is alone subject, since the first of August, to the call of feeble - congregations. This amount, even when all the outstanding loans shall have been refunded, will probably never ex ceed $BOOO, and for some considerable time it will not much, if any, exceed $5OOO, a sum falling vastly below the needs of the denomi nation. After a careful and anxious consideration of the whole subject, the General Assembly, with entire unanimity, came to the conclusion that " a sum not leas than $35,000, in addi tion to the interest scorning from the Per intinent Fund, will probably be required for the aid of feeble churches this. year, in pro viding houses of worship for their use ;" and they " therefore resolved, that the third Sabbath of December next be fixed as the day for a general collection for the purpose of raising the sum, and that our Presbyteries and pastors be requested to use their utmost endeavors to secure the full amount designat ed." The applications that already, since the adjournnient of the Assembly, have been made for appropriations, clearly indicate that a much larger sum might be judiciously ex pended during the year. From every quar ter reliable statements are made to the effect, that the operations of our missionaries and churches are greatly crippled for want of suitable houses of worship. Were it possible to announce that the Board are now in pos session of the requisite funds, applications would be speedily multiplied much beyond the sum named by the Assembly. It is exceedingly desirable that, in these circumstances the churches should anticipate, to some extent, the simultaneous contribu tions of next December i and, where practica ble. have the cause p .rilibbteil and a collection made at an early day. In many cases, it will be impracticable to comply with the Assem bly's recommendation for December, as, in many congregations some other cause is al ready assigned for that month. In such eases, it is greatly to be hoped that some Sabbath in September, October, or Novem ber will be selected for this object and the cause duly presented. The Synods are to meet in September or October, and the subject will naturally come before them. The Stated Clerks should have it especially in, charge. It will, how ever, devolve principally upon the Presby teries, as earnestly requested by the Assem bly, to carry this recommendation into effect practically and vigorously. At their autumn meetings, now approaching, means should be taken to secure an annual hearing for this cause in every one of their churches, how ever small and feeble, and to have a day as _signed for it in every congregation., A Stand ing Committee, as in the case of the severali. Permanent Committees, should be charged with the duty of corresponding with' each of the churches of the Presbytery, and urging -them to,-make the, arrangement. One fitith ftil man in each Presbytery, if appointed and willing to undertake the work, can secure the object. The more system the better. It should not be left to the turn-of an hoar, or the fitful impulpes of the moment. Will the Stated Clerks of the Presbyteries put it upon their dookets, and 'see that the work is done? =--Presbyterian ltrinthly.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers