IiCAN PRESBYTERIAN
AND
GEN ESEE EVANGELIST.
Anellgious and Family Newspaper,
IN TEN INTRREST OF TER
Constitutional Presbyterian Church,
PUBLISHED EVERY • :RSDAY.
AT THE PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE,
13i4 Chestnut Street, (2d story.) Philadelphia.
001 N :robin W. Mears. Editor and Publisher.
gmtritan ttoinstErian.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1866
CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SgcoNn PAGE—FAMILY CIRCLE :
In au Attic—An Ale-House PlotDefeated—Preach
jag at a Gaming Table—For the Little Folks : Let
ter from Mr. Hammond—Bread and Milk.
Tatan PAGE—MISCELLANEOUS :
Tho Faith-Talent aMinisterial Qualification—Great
and Popular Sermons—Mahomet.
San PAGE—CORRESPONDENCE:
Erasmus: A Sketch from the Hiltory of the Refor
mation in the Netherlands, (Concluded)—A Narra
tive of a Work of Grace—The Refugee's Coffin: a
Story of Kansas.
SEVENTH PACE—RURAL ECONOMY:
A Butter and Cheese Disoussion—Thorough Culti
vation.
Srmsristo: Iron and Steel.
A RIGHTEOUS DECISION.
In the conflict between good and evil,
between virtue and, vice, always carried on
Lio keenly in a great city, a decision from
o ne of the highest seats of authority, em
phatically and conclusively on the side of
right and overwhelmingly against an inso
lent and powerful wrong, sends a thrill of
j o y and a deep sensation of relief through
every good citizen's heart. It seems to
waft a breath of purer air all at once
through the guilt-laden atmosphere of the
city. It gives a stimulus to every waver
ing purpose of public good. Every friend
of good order and peace under the laws
feels himself and his family surrounded
with new securities. Every God-fearing
patriot feels his country more worthy of
his love and devotion than before.
A powerful monied corporation, to whioh
the Legislature of the State was persuaded,
against the wish of multitudes of our citi
zens, to grant the free use of miles upon
miles of our city highways, whose many
armed road-track branches, like a hydra,
in every direction over our city—emblem of
its own unbounded covetousness-; confident
in its own strength, and relying upon the
support of every class of irreligious ele
ments in our city, from the vile Sunday
papers to the genteel church-going formal
ists; not satisfied with their vast opportuni
ties of gain upon six days of the week,
made assault upon the venerable statute
and common law of our State, protecting
the sanctity of the Sabbath. This hinder
mace to the prosecution of their, secular
employment upon the remaining day of tlie
week, they asked the law-making power of
the State to remove. They failed most
signally. Both branches of the Legislature
rejected their request. The Sunday laws
of the State were left unrepealed and un
modified upon the books, and gained new
strength from the failure of their enemies.
But this corporation seeming to know of
nothing sacred, human or divine, and blind
to every consideration but that of gain,
determined, if possible, to evade, and if
necessary, to override the law which they
could not alter; and with a piece of min
gled intrigue and effrontery, unworthy of
men of honor, and deserving the most un
sparing reprobation, they crept into a mail
contract with the Government, requiring
one or two trips on a Sunday, and under
the flimsy pretence of that contract, ran
from fifty to a hundred times as many oars
on that day as were called for by the Gov
ernment. We have before us a copy of the
Postmaster General's order, of April 27,
1866, in which the contract with the Union
Passenger Railway Company is construed
as authorizing only a single service on Sun
day, to and from the sub-post-offices named,
and directing the Postmaster in this city
to conform his arrangements to such a con
struction. And it is in evidence.in the
late trial that 253 cars were run br this
Company between 9 A. M. and 11 P. M. of
Sunday, Sept. 16th.
This is the power and this is the spirit
of the power, which has been all summer
rallying the haters of the Sabbath and the
vicious and vile of every grade of our city
to weekly assaults upon the day; which
has been setting an example of insolent and
high-handed defiance of the law, and work
ing thus to demoralize the less established
portion of the community; which has
drawn half of the passenger companies of
the city to follow its rebellious course ;
which has nearly silenced three or four
ministers in their pulpits, and robbed hun
dreds of worshippers of their rights to-a,.
quiet possession of their pews and enjoy
ment of the ordinances of God's house on
the Sabbath. This is the power which has
scoffed at the laws on the Sabbath as obse
lete, and has calculated on the enfeebled
convictions of qhristians, and the preva
lence of infidelity and godlessness among
the masses, for impunity in its conscious
violation of law.
This public defiance of the laws of God
and roan, on last Thursday, met a most se
vere and stinging rebuke in the righteous
sentence of Judge Strong. In his decision,
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whioh we publish in full, their whole case
has been held up to view, and ita utter
baseletisness has been exposed in the most
complete and masterly manner. Never
were defendants worse beaten before, any
court of justice; never was specious and
insolent wrong more thoroughly itript of
its disguises and branded upon its very
forehead more clearly as crime ; never was
every point and standing-place of ;defence
more summarily swept away. As we sat
and listened to this grand decision, rising
as it proceeded, to still etronger•grOunds of
condemnation,and covering the offenders
with deeper and deeper dignaee an un
speakable sense of theMariitian majesty of
our laws, and of the, dignity, Integrity and
courage of the Christian judge uttering
that righteous and glorious sentence, pos
sessed our souls. It was a grand scene;
and without doubt, rejoicing angels sped
upward from that court-room, proclaiming
the news, that in one of those great sorrow
stricken, guilt-smitten places on this foot
stool, called cities; the beneficent institution
of the Christian Sabbath had such a strong
refuge and guardian on one of the supreme
seats of authority of the State:
We trust our readers will not fail to read
this decision, one of the most important
and honorable to the Supreme bench that
has been uttered in a generation. We ask
them to read it and the arguments of the
counsel, if it is necessary for them to ne
glect the editorials of the paper for a month,
in order to find the time. They will gain
new views of the importance of the Sab
bath as a necessary part of the -public de
fences against vice and immorality. They
.will learn how complete is their protection,
under the laws of our State, against inter
ference in their right to a quiet enjoyment
of the Lord's day. They will see to what
fearful results a relaxation of the laws in
behalf of this particular sort of worldly
employment must lead. They will learn to
prize the institutions of the Commonwealth
as inwoven into the fundamental law by
William Penn, and will be fortified and pre
pared against any attempt to outrage those
laws which may yet be made in the future.
THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS.
The great States of Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana and lowa cast their votes on Tues
day of last week, in a political struggle as
momentous and as exciting as any since the
organization of the Government. Nearly
all the issues raised in 1860, and fought
over in the war, were once more brought to
the test. The question whether a Congress
which remained true to those issues, or an
executive who had forsaken them, and gone
over to the defeated rebels, should be sus
tained, was the well-understood issue before
the people. Could Andrew Johnson, by
patronage, by bold assertion, by the aid of
a couple of once honored members of the
Cabinet, and by a tour around the country
in which he studiously appealed to the low
est instincts of the mob, succeed in reduc
ing the overwhelming radical majority in
Congress to a point where the introduction
of the rebel element would completely over
power it? This was the question, and to
secure a popular response to his . liking,
ever since the adjournment of Congress,
he has tried all a politician's arts upon
the people. He has cajoled, he has bul
lied, he has bribed; and his corrupt' ad
visers have waited, with no small degree of
confidence, for the result.
In these four great States it has come;
and as in Vermont and Maine, it has found
the purpose of the North utterly unshaken.
The radical Congressmen have been return
ed
. man for man. A gain of the radical
element in the Senate of four members is
ascertained. And it is plain that the pe6-
ple have too much light, and far too much
conscience to be played with, as the toys,
and cards of soulless, political gamblers. In
vain do the most astute and determined of
public men essay to rob the great majority
of the North of their deep convictions of
the guilt of treason. As well , ask them to
rewrite the history of the Revolution, and
to put Benedict Arnold on the roll of honor,
as to seek a reversal of their judgment con
signing Robert E. Lee and Jefferson. Davis
to hopeless infamy. It is a shameful un
derestimate of the sagacity of the people,
which they cannot and will not brook, to
think they can be persuaded into a hasty
admission of bitter rebels to a leading place
in the administration of a government, which
they have toiled with might and main, and
made every xonoeivable sacrifice to over
throw. The people must not be asked to
throw away utterly the purchase of billions
of money, and of hundreds of thousands of
precious lives in such wanton recklessness.
The. policy which would put rebels in
power and loyal men in jeopardy, which
would give the unrepentant South a' better
political status in the nation than it had
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before the, war, whiCla would leave the loyal
colored population of the South without
adequate defences and without a possible
chance of gaining the rights of citizenship,
has ,been blown, to the winds ; and a policy
of righteousness, justice, honor, and nation
al safety has been once' more settled as the
solemn purpose of the great majority' of the
people.
As the,canvass has been, to a remarkable
degree, one turning upon high moral and
Christian principle, so the tone of the
speeches and.arguments has been elevated.
With great frequency, the authority of the
Bible has, been cited, and quotations and
illustrations from its pages have been liber
ally, and, for the most part, reverentially
employed. Men have moved in a higher
atmosphere by far, than that of an ordinary
political campaign. And we have reason
to rejoice in the number of good men to
whom the people have assigned some of the
most elevated places in their gift. General
Geary, the Governor-elect of this State, has
been heard to speak emphatically of , the
importance and extent of the support which
he and his party were receiving from the
'religious people of the State. There is good
reason for believing him a man of strictly
temperate habits, of high principles, and of
hearty respect for religion, if not himself a
professing Christian. The best men of the
party repose the utmost confidence in his
fidelity to its principles.
Here, in Philadelphia, we have placed
upon the bench as presiding and associate
judges, two of the best men in the, commu
nity; both of them earnest, active Chris
tians, one of them an officer in our own
branch of the Church; we refer to Judges
Allison and Peirce. And one of the gains
in Congressmen, which gives uncommon
brilliancy to the victory in this State, se
cures the return of honest, burly, Cromwel
lian Jourr COVODE to the new Congress; a
man of Scotch Presbyterian associations,
about one of the least-desired, worst-feared
and most intractable men, in the view of
knavish politicians, that could be found in
the country. We think the appearance of
honest John Covode in the legislative halls
of the Capital, will send a .quaking into the
camp of the Philistines, and will prove
fatal to many a scheme or public fraud and
wrong.
These are facts that give the Christina
citizen abundant ground of hope. God will
yet guide us out of our difficulties and bring
forth judgment unto victory.
A MINISTER WHO KNOWS HIS
' CALLING. •
Honored is the church or denomination
which possesses ministers, of whom such
record can be made as Rev. A. T. Norton
here makes of our good Dr. Nelson of St.
Louis :
"Left my home Friday August 24th, at
10 o'clock A. M., for St. Louis.. Called on
Dr. Nelson, and found him perfectly calm
and cheerful amidst the prevailing pestilence.
He has attended more funerals since the first
of this month, than for a whole year previ
ous—sometimes three in one day. Only last
Monday, twoßersons died from cholera in
his house. They were not members of
his family but strangers, whom he had
taken in. When visiting at a dwelling, where
the wife and mother had been stricken down
by the prevailing pestilence, he found that
the fanaily—father and five children—could
not with'safety pass the night in their small
tenement of two rooms. He took part of
them to his own house—all contaminated
with cholera as they were—and obtained
another place for the other part. But with
in a day or two, the whore family, of six per
sons, were thrown Upon his hands. Sabbath
night, Augusts 19th, they all retired to rest,
with the expectation that the afflicted house
hold would, the next morning, start for Bond
county, 111. But at 3 o'clock of that morn
ing, the two elder children of the stranger
family were taken down with the prevalent
epidemic. At 12 o'clock M. of the same
day, they both died. The father nursed his
children until daylight, when he too suc
cumbed to the disease. He was carried to
Dr. Nelson's study, and'nursed there. He is
recovering.
" Look now at this pastor. In the first
place, lie stands at his post, like a man, visiting
his sick and burying his dead. When the be
loved wife of one of the elders is stricken
and expires, he is there to comfort and assist.
When the dark shadowcrosses the household
of the humblest of his members, he is there,
not only . to present the consolations of the
Gospel, but to render every needful material
assistance. Then, he is not afraid. He
brings the suffering, though infected (if there
be infection about this disease ; we guess
there is,
not, except to cowards,) to the last
degree, to his own, house, and his own family.
And when they are smitten, he nurses them
with his own hands. God preserves him and
his household through it' all. And this in
eideat in the life of this beloved pastor, is
not a solitary one.. It .is .but a specimen of
the christian heroism which he is constantly
exhibiting. •
" Perhaps Dr. Nelson may not like the
publicity which' I give to this matter. But
I beg him to remember that such light ought
to sttine."
REv. DR. ADAM having, on account of
continued ill -health_presented his resignation
as pastor of North Broad Street Church, the
congregation, honing in his ultimate restora
tion,, voted on Monday night last, that it is
inexpedient to accept it. Dr. Adams' health,
though not, fully restored, is ,believed to be
steadily imprOving.
OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT.
SYNOD OP ONONDAGA
The annual gathering of this Synod. was
in the beautiful village of Auburn, in the
Second Presbyterian Chnrchi Its session
commenced' on Tuesday evening, and closed
on ThurSday 'afternoon; "a very pleasant
and profitable meeting" The opening
sermon. was preached by Rev. Dr. Rall, of
Auburn-;,. and Rev. L. H. Reid, of Syra
cuse, was elected Moderatos:
Beside, the usual routine of business,
Uncle John Vassar was heard in reference
to the work of the Tract Society among the
Freedmen , of Virginia; Rev. W. B. Stew-
OA Am. and Foreign'" - Christian
Union;' Bev. J. B. Richardson, for the
Bible Society; Rev. J. W. Dulles, for
Publication Cause; Rev. A. M. Stowe, for
Home Missions, with his big map preach-
ing too; and Dr. Mills for Education.
Drs Condit and Huntington also spoke
upon edoc,ation, and Dr. Cox made one of
his characteristic and inimitable addresses
on Home Missions.
Thus all these interests were fully and
ably represented. Stirring appeals were
made for advance in every direction, with
increased liberality and usefulness. These
Synods do much to set the wheels of Chris
tian enterprise in motion, and to keep con
tinually accelerating their momentum.
Beside the excellent addresses to which
we have already referred, another of great
eloquence was made by Rev. N. G. Clark,
D.D., the new Secretary of the American
Board, pleading especially for men to rein
force many missionary stations now in great
need. Dr. Clark was listened to with great
interest, and we are glad that some of the
pastors of Western New York had this
opportunity of making his acquaintance.
It is rare that he is able to get away from
his office duties in Boston. Beside ad
dressing the Synod, he also met the stu
dents of the theological seminary, and laid
before them the pressing wants of the Board;
and we trust that some of these consecrated
young men were moved seriously, to think
of the Foreign Missionary work. The
Lord hath need of them in that field.
One of' the most interesting exercises
of this meeting of the Synod, was the ac
count presented-By pastors and others of-the
blessed revivals: enjoyed in so many places,
especially in Baldwinsville, Auburn, Syra
cuse, Amboy, Binghamton, and Oswego.
In the last place, one hundred and fifty
were added to the Presbyterian Church, of
which Rev. Solon Cobb is pastor. His
story of the Lord's doings in that place
was exceedingly interesting. Five churches
received, in all, four hundred and fifty new
members.
Rev. Dr. Canfield, of Syracuse, by ap
pointment of last year, read an able essay
on Christian Unity, embracing in its close
an earnest appeal for re-union between the
two great branches of the Presbyterian
Church. He would have them one again
as soon as possible.
The administration of the Lord's Sup
per occurred on Wednesday evening, Rev:
Dr. Boardman, late of Cazenovia, and Rev.
W. W. Howard, of Aurori, officiating.
The meeting of Synod next year is to be
in Baldwinsville.
A NEW SECRETARY
The friends of the Church Erection
Enterprise will hear, we are sure, with
peculiar' pleasure, that Rev. Dr. Ellinwood,
late pastor of the Central Church in this
city, has been unanimously appointed Sec
retary of the Church Erection Committee;
and all will rejoioe that his health has so
far been restored that he feels able to ac
cept the appointment and enter at once
upon the duties of his office. His address
is, Presbyterian Rooms, 150 Nassau street,
New York.
A better appointment could not have
been made. Dr. Ellinwood has the confi
dence of the churches and pastors to a de
gree which few men can command ; and it
is also thought by his friends and physi
cians that employment of this kind may
tend to the complete restoration of his
health, and that- a long career of great
usefulness yet remainsfor him.
HAMILTON COLLEGE
This institution. opens prosperously this
fall. The Freshmen class has about forty
already on the ground. A few more being
expected to join its ranks; and the whole
number of students is about two hundred.
IMPROVEMENTS
A little dengregational church in Nor
folk, St. Lawrence; county, whose affairs
have not been .over-prosperous for some
time past, and whose house of worship was
somewhat like the people, a little run
down, has recently taken a notion to live
and thrive after a better sort. A young
man has been. preaching to them a few
months, Rev. H. F. o.. Nichols, and they
Genesee Evangelist, No. 1065.
have raised $l7OO to repair their church
edifice, and things are beginning to look
new again.
After a very spirited discussion in
the presence of a full assembly, of this
important subject, in which, the Rev.
Herrick Johnson, and others took part,
the following testimony was read and
unanimously approved :
1. In the great increase and extensive
prevalence of intemperance, we recognize a
great danger to our country and reproach to
the Christian Church.
In Madrid, in the same county, a simi
lar change has come over the, Congrega
tional church. They have awaked out of
their slumbers, raised $lOOO to put
their house of worship in order, and so
hope to realize a reasonable prosperity
again.
We know something of both these
places, and rejoice that they are giving
these signs of renewed life. We are sure
they will find a big blessing, both spiritual
and temporal, in these efforts to better their
condition. 0, how many churches are
going to decay, that might be saved by a
little of this sort of Christian enterprise.
" The gods help those who help them
selves."
THAT WILL
Was ever anything more delicately con
ceived than that provision in the will of
the late Silas D. Childs, of Utica, giving
$5OOO to the Rural Cemetery of that place,
to keep things in order, especial& the
head stones and graves of the poor? He
knew that the rich have friends—their
graves would be cared for; but not so the
poor. It would seem as though the bones
of the man who died with such thought
fulness on his mind, must sleep more
quietly in their resting-place for having
made such provision for those whose por
tions in this life were so much less than
his own.
THE REVIVAL IN WESTFIELD
We alluded to this in its season. The
results are a large accession to the church,
eightly in all, sixty-five by profession, with
others yet to come forward. Rev. Dr.
Chester, of Buffalo, has supplied the
church most of the time for the past two
years. The revival commenced in April,
and •for six or eight weeks there were meet
ings almost daily, with great solemnity and
almost constant conversions. Dr. Chester
preached on the Sabbath, going out from
Buffalo for that purpose, occasionally also
on Friday evenings. A few sermons were
also preached by others ; and Rev. S. G.
Orton, D.D., the veteran Evangelist, al
though too feeble to preach, rendered effi
cient and invaluable service in attending
inquiry-meetings, and visiting from house
to house. 'ln like manner tlfratir was
aided by the faithful and constant labors
of. Rev. L. A. Skinner, whose home is
with the church; so that, even without a
pastor, the church did not want for pastor
al care. The blessed influence of the
quickening is still felt, as well on the old
members as on the recently gathered in.
Dr. Chester has now closed his labors
with the church; and they have employed
Rev. Mr Van Cleve, a young man, as we
learn, to supply them for the present.
BUFFALO ACADEMY
This flourishing institution for young
ladies, over which the Rev. Dr. Chester
presides with so much ability and success,
opens this fall with 253 scholars, indicating
all the prosperity which its most earnest
friends could expect or desire.
We have a similar account from the
Ingham:University, of Le Roy. Students
are flocking to its halls, and all looks well
for the coming year. GENESEE.
ROCHESTER Oct 13 1866 .
SYNOD OF WEST PENNSYLVANIA.
The Synod closed its session, Tues
day, Oct. 9. The ministers, all except
two, who are without charges, were
present. More than the usual number
Of churches were represented by men of
the right stamp, intelligent, spiritual
minded, and in their inclinations and
purposes progressive. Altogether we
constituted a body though by geographi
cal necessity not large, yet by choice
and the grace of God active and effi
cient.
According to rule, we commenced our
sessions the first day with half an hour
devotional exercises. The second day
the brethren felt that they could not be
trammeled even by a standing rule.
Such evidently was the " spirit of grace
and supplication" that God poured out
upon them, that they could not be satis
fied with less time than an hour. 0 !
it was good to be there.
The presence of Rev. Dr. Mills and
Rev. Dr. 4 ll,.ndall added very much to
the pleasure and profit we all felt and
received in...the ecclesiastical duties and
devotional services in which the Synod
were engaged.. ,
TEMPERANCE
TERMS
Per annum, in advance:
By Mail, S 3. By Carrier, $ 50.
rents additional, after three months.
tflubs.—Ten or more Papers sent to one address.
payable strictly in advance and in oneremittance.
By Mail. S 2 50 per annum; By Carrier. s3per annunl.
Ministers and Ministers' Wid mrs, $2 50 in
advance.
Home Missionaries, $2 00 in advance.
Remittances by mail are at our risk.
Postage.—Five cents quarterly, in advance. paid
by subscribers at the office of delivery.
Advertisements.-12'A cents per line for the
first, and 10 cents for the second insertion.
One square (ten lines) one month Sd 00
two months 5 50
three months 7 50
six month. 12 00
one year 18 00
The following discount on long advertisements, in
serted for three months and upwards. is allowed:—
Over 20 lines. 10 per cent, off; over 50 line:, 20 per
cent.: over 100 lines. 33,3 per cent.
2. We hail as one of the most encouraging
signs of the times the revival of the cause of
temperance throughout our land, and espe
cially that it is now more directly identified
with the Christian Church than ever before.
3. It is the duty of every member of the
Church of Christ to set himself actively
against the practice of moderate drinking,
because it is the nursery of drunkenness.
4. We commend to the consideration of
the churches the action of our late General
Assembly, which declares that the use of in
toxicating drinks as a beverage, however
moderately, is contrary to the Word of God.
5. We recommend that this cause be made
much more prominent • in all our Sabbath
schools.
6. It is ordered that this testimony he sent
for publication, to the following papers:—
The New York Evangelist, AMERICAN PRES
BYTERIAN, and The Christian, Herald, and
also that it be read in all the pulpits of our
Synod, on the first Sabbath in November or
as soon thereafter as may be.
[Other items in our next.]
4t.tuo MIT eijIIIIIJES.
INSTALLATION.—Rev. Irving L. Be
man was installed pastor of Logan
Square Church, by the 3d Presb'y, Oct.
11. The Moderator, Rev. H. A. Smith
presided and put the Constitutional
questions. Rev.. J. G. Butler, P.D.,
preached the sermon from Acts, v. 20;
Dr. March gave the charge to the pas
tor, and Rev. P. L. Robbins the charge
to the people. The benediction was
pronounced by the Pastor.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, CHURCHES.—Rev.
John Monteith, Jr., has offered his resig
nation of the pastorate of the Euclid
Avenue Church. The congregation de
clines acceding to his request for a dis
missal, and in this shape the matter will
•
come before the Presbytery. Rev. Dr.
Goodrich, of the First Church, who has
been confined by illness for the past four
weeks, is improving, but is not expected
to be able to resume his duties for at
least six months to come. Rev. J. G.
Atterbury, D.D., late of New Albany,
Ind., has been engaged as a temporary
supply.
THE THIRD PRESBYTERY of NEW
YORK, at its recent meeting in Irving
ton, placed upon its"roll the name of
" The Park Church," a new organiza
tion located in the northern and rapidly
growing extension of the city. It also
released Rev. S. B. Bell, D.D.. from the
pastorate of the Fiftieth Street Church,
and dismissed him to the Presbytery of
Lyons. During the session, the Pres
bytery, by invitation, took an excursion
in carriages among the many places of
interest in the vicinity, such as the late
residence and the grave of Wishington
Irving, and other localities identified
with his genius.
SYNOD OP SIISQUEHANNA.—This Synod
covers the New York State portion of
the Susquehanna region. Its annual
meeting was held in the village of Nide
veh, commencing Sept. 18th, and was
presided over by Rev. Charles Gillette.
The narrative of the state of religion
says:--
"The Sabbath-schools are reported as emi
nently . prosperous among us, and those who
have been lately added to the Church are
mostly from this source. Thus we are great
ly encouraged to go forward in this blessed
work.
The benevolent contributions of our
churches are on the increase. The amount
contributed during the year is in advance of
former years, but it is not what it ought to
be in order to meet the demands of our time,
and what could easily be collected if all of our
churches were rightly impressed with their
obligations. The prayer-meetings are well
sustained, which is another encouragement
for us to wait on God who heareth prayer.
"The various revivals repCrted among us,
some of which were quite powerful, have
proved so far genuine, and permanent in their
results, and apparently have been brought
about by the Spirit of God, and not by men.
Therefore, we may rejoice for these revivals,
as the natural result of God's blessings upon
the ordinary and appointed means of grace,
and such spiritual growth is always the most
healthy and pleasant."
Two COWER-STONES OF CHURCHES were
laid in this city Oct. 14th and 15th. One,
an 0. S. Presbyterian, at Twenty-first and
Shippen streets, and one, a Moravian, at
Franklin and Thompson streets.
THE SYNOD OF KENTUCKY, at its meeting
last week, voted 99 to 57 against sustaining
the General Assembly.
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