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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, is.
CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND CIRCLE
The Intercessor—How to be a Hero—A Word to
Young Men—l am Waiting, Annie Lee—Night—
Plan for Each Day Beforehand—How to Le: d to
the Lord—The Saviour's Sympathy—Stupidities—
Chart, e's Fright.
THIRD PAGE—MISCELLANEME
George Mueller's Orphan House at Bristol. England
—The American Union Commission—Tottering
Thrones—Vesuvius: the Eruption of 1862—Sinoky
Towns of England.
SIXTH PAGE—CORRESPONDENCE:
The Anabaptists—Rev. Mr. Hammond's Letter from
Switzerland'
EDITOR'S TABLE: Swedenborg's "Divine Attri
butes, including also the Divine TrinitY " • a Treatise
on . he Divine Love and Wisdom and Correspon
dence"—Aker's "Peems"—Taylor's "Picture of St.
John"—Whipple's "Character and Characteristic
Men"—" The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson" —
Reade's ( * Griffith Gaunt, orJealouss"—" The Blind
Princess" Trolybridge's ' Agnes Wilbur. or a
Daughter's Influence—Periodicals—Literary In
telligence, American and Foreign.
SEVENTH PAGE—RURAL ECONOMY:
Landscape Architecture—Sources of Nitrogen—
Marking Sheep.—A Grasshopper Plague.
SCIENTIFIC: Iron and Steel, (Continued.)
REV. J. CROSS has removed from
York, Pa., to Wheeling, West Virginia,
where correspondents will please ad
dress him, to the care of Samuel Ott,
Esq.
SENATOR WILSON A CHRISTIAN CON
VERT.—Boston papers report Hon. Henry
Wilson as among the hopefully con
verted of an interesting revival now in
progress in Natick, Mass. A layman,
H. F. Durant, Esq., is the principal
speaker at the meetings there in pro
gress.
PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL RAILROAD
CHANGE OF TIME.-By a reference to
the advertisement of the Pennsylvania
Central, Railroad, given in another col
umn, it will be seen that the running
time of their trains has been changed.
Those interested will please notice that,
by the new arrangement, the Sunday
Paoli trains have been discontinued.
A. ST. Lows telegram of Monday
says:—" The Presbyterian Conference,
[Synod ?] sitting in this city, have passed
p. series of very radical resolutions, con
demning President Johnson and endors
ing the action of Congress."
GERMAN CHURCH AND THE NATIONAL
ORPHANS' HOMESTEAD.
On Sabbath evening, a large and very
interesting meeting was held in the Ger
man Street Church, preparatory to send
ing a child to the Gettysbury Orphans'
Home. The exercises were commenced
by singing the hymn, "All hail the
power of Jesus' name," and reading the
Scriptures by the Pastor Father
Martin then followed in prayer and an
address full of life, urging Christians
not to neglect their duty in the Sabbath
school work, and making interesting
statements in regard to the home to
which the little boy representing the
Sunday-school was about to be sent.
The child, a bright little fellow seven
years of age, whose father was killed
at the battle of Sharpsburg, only twenty
days after leaving home, was then, in
troduced, after which Rev. Mr. liar
baugh of the Spruce Street Church
made an address.
The exercises were concluded by an
appeal to the Pastor, urging all to pray
for the child, who was so soon to go
from them, that he might not go without
God's blessing, and, also, asking that, in
the collection to be taken up as a gift
from the congregation to the Orphan,
every one would respond liberally,.
making it a thank offering unto God for
a united country, saved by the blood
and lives of brave men who had fought
the battles of the nation.
After the benediction the children of
the school, who had procured the three
shares in the home, came forward, and,
together with their parents and many
others, bade Willie good-bye.
The scene was an affecting one, and
the meeting will long be remembered
py the friends of the soldiers and their
fatherless children.
A DODGE.—We see, in the last Pres
byterian, in a detailed report of the pro
ceedings of the late meeting of the
Presbytery of Lewes, (an Old School
Presbytery, covering the south part of
Delaware, and adjacent territory in Mary
land,) an exact account of the admission
of Rev. W. O. Handy, a " Declaration
and Testimony" minister, to a seat.
Above we give to it the only caption
which, in a word, properly characterises
it. The General Assembly of last
spring, it will be remembered, ordered
that all signers of that defiant and re-1
hellions document should, until. further
action of the Assembly, be denied a
seat in any church court higher than the
session. Mr. Handy appeared, as usual,
in the meeting of the Presbytery, and
was allowed the usual privileges of
membership. The Presbytery seemed
embarrassed. It was anxious to avoid
offence in the disloyal direction, and
equally anxious . to stand on good terms
with the Assembly. An escape from
the dileinma was found in the fact that
Mr. Handy's signature to the offensive
paper bad been attached since the
meeting of the Assembly. The lan
guage of 'the Assembly's resolution
that "the signers of the Declaration
and Testimony . . . . shall not be per
mitted to sit as members," /tc, was
construed as bearing only upon offences
already committed, and w.holy inopera
tive on the really worse offence of sign.
after the passing of the deliberate
judgment of the Assembly against it.
Thus slipping out from its responsibility
on the one hand, the Presbytery offered
peace on the other by a resolution de
claratory of its purpose to "obey the
decisions of the General Assembly, as
the highest judicatory of the church,
in all matters within their jurisdiction,"
i.e., with a reserved meaning which,
in these days, has, in both Church and
State, become, in so many cases, the
pretext for the broadest disloyalty. The
Synod of Baltimore, to which the Pres
bytery belongs, has since been in ses
sion, but we have not learned whether
this pecularly original piece of sharp
practice came under its review.
P. S.—Since writing the above we
find the following action has been taken
by the Synod of Baltimore : •
Rev. A. A. E. Taylor, of Georgetown,
offered the following paper :
Whereas, The General Assembly, at its
sessions in St. Louis, formerly condemned
the paper known as the "Declaration and
Testimony," as "a slander against the
Church, schismatical in its character and
aims, and its adoption by any of our Church
courts as an act of rebelliok against the au
thority of the General Assembly," and also
summoned the signers of said paper, and
others voting to adopt it, to appear and
answer for the same before the next General
Assembly; in the meanwhile not permitting
them to sit as members of any. Church Court
higher than the session; and
Whereas, It has come to the knowledge of
this Synod that the Rev. W. C. Handy, a
member of the Presbyteryof Lewes, with
full knowledge and understanding of the
action of the General Assembly above stated,,
has, since the dissolution of the Assembly,
appended his signature to this condemned
and obnoxious document, in evident con
tempt and defiance of the act and decision
of. the highest court of the Lord's House ;
therefore,
1. Resolved, That the Presbytery of Lewes
be and hereby is directed to refer tbe matter,
together with their minutes relating thereto,
to the next General Assembly for adjudica
tion thereon.
2 Resolved, That, until the case be decided
by the General Assembly, Rev. W. C. Handy
shall not be permitted to sit as a member of
any church court higher than the session.
This paper, after some discussion, was
adopted.
SYNOD OF PENNSYLVANIA.
The sessions of the Synod at its late
meeting at Carlisle, were replete' with
interest. Rather less, perhaps, than the
average number were in attendance.
But every part of the Syno,d, was well
represented, especially by ''is pastors
and ruling elders, and satisfactory rea
sons were assigned for the absence of
many, whose places are seldom vacant.
The business of the Synod was of the
usual routine, varied by no case of appeal
or complaint. An unusually large por
tion of its time was given to devotional
exercises ; while every scheme of the
Assembly for developing the power of
its churches to evangelize the world,
received full and earnest attention.
Resolutions were adopted, expressing
the Synod's sense of bereavement in the
death of Dr. Brainerd ; its gratulations
on the success of the effort to restain the
breach of the Sabbath, and cordially
seconding the Assembly's revised plan
for. Church Erection. Rome and Foreign
Missions, Eltlucation, Publication, and
Ministerial Relief, each received a cor ,
dial endorsement and commendation to
the prayers and alms of all our mem
bers. But the grand feature of the
Synod was the truly spiritual atmos
phere in which it Seemtd to breathe.
The glorious autumn sunlight without
was not more grand and mellow and
subduing, than the influences felt within.
The Synod of Baltimore being in ses
sion at the same time, in the Second
Church, sent early on Wednesday a
committee of its most venerable men to
convey its Christian salutations to the
Synod of Pennsylvania. The scene was
impressive, and the more touching from
the fact, alluded to by each, that both
the ministers of the Committee, Rev.
W. P. Cochran and Thomas Creigh, D.
D., had received their earliest religious
impressions, and consecrated themselves
to the service of God in the venerable
edifice in which they then stood. Their
address to the Synod was truly fra
ternal, and was responded to in like
manner by the moderator. Alike com
mittee on our part, visited the Synod of
Baltimore, and were cordially-received.
By agreement of each Synod, the Lord's
Supper was celebrated in common, in
the First Church on Wediaesday evening.
The Synod adjourned on Thursday
evening to meet next year at Williams
port. Those who were there felt it good'
to be there, and left with regret the
kind hospitalities and Christian homes
of the good people of Carlisle.
RESOLUTIONS ON THE SABBATH
Resolved, That the Synod has heard with
pleasure and gratitude 'to God, of the trium
phant vindication . of the Sunday laws of our
State, in a recent decision from the Supreme
Bench, resulting in an injunction upon the
Union Passenger Railway of Philadelphia,
which, by running on that day, in defiance of
law, had greatly disturbed the worship of
God, and nearly rendered it impossible in
many of the Churches in that city.
Resolved, That in the judgment of this
Synod, the venerable and admirable Sunday
laws of our Commonwealth, are a most pre
cious inheritance from its sagacious and bene
volent founder, William Penn; and, under
God, the best safeguard against the increase
of vice and immorality, especially in our
great cities ; and we would earnestly exhort
our churches and people, to be prepared to
withstand all efforts which may be made to
abrogate or diminish the force and scope of
these laws.
RESOLUTIONS ON CHURCH ERECTION.
1. Resolved, That this Synod strongly ap
proves the new plan of Church Erection,
adopted by the last Assembly.
2. Resolved, That we commend this
agency of our denomination, through which
aid is extended to our feablechurches, to the
thoughtful and generals consideration of the
members of our churches, and express the
hope that every church within our bounds,
will meet the duty imposed by the AsseinEy,
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1866.
of taking a collection for this object on the
third Sabbath of December next.
MINUTE ON THE FRATERNAL INTERCOURSE
WITH THE SYNOD OF BALTIMORE. .
The Synod of Pennsylvania would hereby
gratefully express the pleasure they have en
joyed during the present meeting from the
salutations of their brethren of the Synod
of Baltimore, and from the fellowship they
have had with them at the table of a com
mon Lord. We highly . appreciate the truly
Christian courtesy and fraternal spirit these
brethren have exhibited, in commencing and
conducting this intercourse as Synods, the
confidence they have expressed ,in us as
partakers of the same faith and order, and
the hope they have avowed, that a day, is
coming, when a more perfect union.
desirable and practicable. We meeti,..plik
brethren with hearty assurances of reciprocal
esteem and love, and white we cheerfully
leave to others, all questions as to the ex
pediency and duty of an organic union, we
pledge ourselves that we will endeavor, in all
our official and private intercourse, to dis
courage everything which tends to mutual
alienation and strife, and to cultivate that
forbearance and brotherly kindness which
becomes those who are so intimately con
nected in faith.
SYNOD OF WEST PENNSYLVANIA.
We give below further items of the
action of this Synod, at its late meeting
in Meadville :
HOME MISSIONS
After listening, with the deepest in
terest, to remarks from Secretary Ken
dall, giving a graphic description of the
nely developed wants of our country,
and the necessity of immediately making
provision to supply them, a commit
tee rwas appointed, who subsecpieiitly
presented the following report which
was unanimously adopted:—
In view of the facts which have been pre
sented to us, your Committee would report
that the work of Home Missions in its open
ing field, in its vast in extent, immediate re
sults, holds a place second to no other of
those mighty agencies with which God per
mits His people to work with Him in the
saving of souls. The deliverance which His
hand hath wrought, " proclaiming liberty
throughout all the land unto the inhabitants
thereof," the possession of a country ribbed
with gold, flowing with oil, thrusting agri
cultural wealth upon us from each pore and
crevice, while it tempts and fills us with .a
foreign emigration, calls for practical thanks
giving and an active Christianity. Your
;Committee believe that with the vast acces
sions, rapid development, the increase of rail
ways, and the change of - centres there is no
way so effectual to preserve and extend the
pure Gospel, protect ourselves, and enlarge
the church, as a proper attention: to this
work of misssons. They regret to report,
the churches as not, in this respect, aroused
to theircluty to themselves, their neighbors,.
and their God. They would point to their
contributions, and remind them of the dis
proportion between that used for God's ser
vice and that squandered upon sinful self.
They would appeal to the pastor for a proper
presentation of, and to the churches for a
liberal response to this stirring call, and an
enlarged advance on their previous record.
In the opening of that portion of our coun
try which is within our bounds, from which
God has " caused the rock to pour mit rivers
of oil," the Committee see a providential
call to "possess the land." They would
urge the appointment of a missionary who
shall be supported by a special contribution,
who shall visit, evangelize, and where possi
ble collect the floating population and, the
scattered elements which there exist into
self-sustaining churches.
In order that this matter may be brought
before the Synod., in a- tangible form, they
-would present the following resolutions :7--
Resolved, That this Synod stand pledged
to the presentation of "Home Missions,"
and by a special sermon, once at least in the
year.
Resolved, In consideration of the increas
ing population, religious importance, and
Reculiar character of the " oil regions," this
Synod will, employ and support a Missionary
whose labor shall for the greater portion of
his mine be given to that section.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed
and empowered to secure the services of' such
Missionary by the offer of , and that
said Committee be requested to report at
the next annual meeting the condition of the
-entire synodical field.
Resolved, That they be requested also to
take steps to introduce eolportage, Bible dis
tribution and Sunclay-school effort.
MINISTERIAL RELIEF FUND.
The following action was taken:—
Resolved, That for the benefit of such min
isters and to give them a position above the
apprehension of want, we do hereby recoin
wend to all the churches within the bounds
of this Synod that they enter into an earnest
co-operation with the General Assembly in
its enterprise of making ample and perrna
nent provision for 'the relief of those minis
ters, who by reason of age, infirmity, or other
visitations of providence are disabled for the
work of the ministry, or are in want of a
comfortable liVelihood.
The Committee 2 . l recommended the
adoption of a standing role, by Presbyte-
ries which constitute this Synod, to the
eff , ct that all the churches under their
care be required annually to report` to
this body (or to their Presbyteries) what
'action they have taken in this matter.
The excellence and force of.this report
will be enhanced by the fact that it was
made not by ministers, but by elders.
MINISTERIAL EDUCATION.
After remarks by Rev. 'Dr. MftlB,
Rev. Joseph Vance, Herrick Johnson,
Dr. Kendall and others, the folkiwing
resolution was adopted unaniniously
Resolved, That we, ministers of the. Gos
pel, connected with the Synod of West Penn
sylvania, do hereby pledge ourselves to pre
sent the subject of Ministerial Education to
our churches, on or before the =Sabbath fol
lowing the day of prayer for Colleges—
preaching a special sermon in behalf of the
cause from Luke x: 2: "Therefore said he
unto them, the harvest truly is great, but
the laborers are few ; pray ye therefore the
Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth
laborers into his-harvest."
NARRATIVE ON THE STATE OF RELIGION.
Spiritual Condition.—ln looking over the
Synodical field we find special occasion for
gratitude to God. We have seen the glory
of the coming of the Lord. Many of our
churches •have been- revived; many souls
have been won to Jesus; many Christians
have put on new strength;, and God's min
isters have been made to rejoice at the re
newed evidence of His gracious faver. His
right hand and His holy_arni have gotten
Him great victories. Most precious and
most glorious have been the displays of His
Spirit, and putting to confusion the spiritual
foes of Zion. Concerning some .of our
Israel, the enemy have said, "I will pursue,
I will overtake, I will divide the spoil."
And in their feebleness and great straits th 6
children of Israel have been "sore afraid."
But God has blown upon the enemy, not with
a mighty wind in destructive wrath, but
with the breath of his convicting and con
verting power. So that we can shout to-day,
as Israel of old, " Who is like unto Thee, 0
Lord, among the gods? Who is like Thee,
glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing
"wonders?"
Yet here, as everywhere in our world,
shadow's fall. While Jesus of Nazareth has
been passing by, multitudes have failed to
cry in faith unto Hit* and the light of God
has not shined in their blinded hearts. Some
churches have been unblessed with large
measures of grace. Portions of our field have
gone without refreshing showers, and upon
them the clouds have not dropped down at
ness. We have reason for importunate prayer
that these churches already blessed may be
blessed more abundantly, and that all our•
waste places may be made fruitful to God.
Sabbath-Schools.—The attendance, upon
our Sabbath-schools seems to be larger than
ever, and the reports from the various
churches indicate an increased interest in
this important department of Christian effort.
Young .Moples' Proyer-Meetings.—Several
of these are reported as held weekly in the
churches, theprecious results of the out
pouring of God's Spirit. They are attended
with great interest, and give promise of great
good.
Benevolence. —With regard to Christian
giving, the record as presented to the Synod
is more favorable than the tabular statement
in the Minutes of the General Assembly. It
it indicates an advance in the department of
systematic beneficence. But while some
churches have done well, others have mea
surably failed of their obligation, and still
others have done almost nothing. In view
of the material and spiritual prosperity of
the last year, it is manifest that no figures in
the past have begun to touch our capability
and our duty. And the cry ought to go out
through the churches sounded by the leaders
of the hosts of God, that with respect to
Christian benevolence the children of Israel
should "go fbrward."
Temperance.—The sad report still comes
up from all our borders, that Intemperance
continues to prevail, and that little or nothing
has been done to stay the tide of evil. There
is need that we meet this , enemy of God and
of souls with God's own truth, that we sound
out the warning of Scripture against the sin
and crime of drunkenness, and that we strike
at. the root of the matter by dealing our blows
at moderate drinking and fashionable wine
bibbing.
In the survey of the whole - field, we find
that the very largeness and richness of the
blessing in some piaues t bring out into greater
and more painful prominence the dearth and
barrenness of those places that have had no
bleising. We praise and thank God while
we mourn our desertness. We shout our
Exultentys while we sing out .Miserere. En
couraged by our successes, and humiliated by
bur failures, we feel the obligation laid upon
.us to - go back to our respective fields of labor
with the high resolve to be trues to Christ
and his truth, and to help on His cause by
our most self-denying efforts and our most
effectual prayers.
GEo. A. LYON, Stated Clerk.
UNION MEETING 01' PRESBYTERIES .
Two Ohio Presbyteries, the Trumbull,
New School, and the New Lisbon, Old
School, recently met in convention for
fraternal and devotional purposes, and
also to forward the reunion movement.
Two days were spent in religious exer
cises and friendly interchange of views,
in the course of , which the following re
solutions were unanimously adopted :
"Resolved, That in view of the spirit and
action of the two Assemblies of 1866, this
Confrentiott is encouraged to hope that at.no
distant peiriod these .two bodies will become.
organically one.
"Resolved, That the hinderances to this
union are much less now than at any former
period.
"Resolved, That this Convention recom
mend a free and full interchange of Christian
fellowship and labor between our ministers
and ehuiehes, so far as .practicable."
OLIVET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
ACTION ON THE DEATH. OF M. W
BALDWIN.
MONDAY EvEbriNG, , Sept. 17th, 1866
Having heard with sincere, and deep
sorrow of the death of Matthias W.
Baldwin, and being desirous, at this first
meeting since that event, of expressing
our sense of the bereavement; therefore
Resolved, First, That in view of the char
acter of the deceased, whose works testified to
hip faith in the great Redeemer, and•his love
for" His cause, we find no ground of sorrow on
`his own account, for his removal from the
earth. .
SeCond, 'That in view of his pure mr.n.ils,
his expanded principles, his warm patriot
ism; his impartial benevolence, his large
benefactions and exemplary Christian life,
We express our sense of the public loss, and
of the bereavement sustained by the Chris
tian Church, especially by that denomination
of which Mr. Baldwin was a member and a
ruling elder.
Third, That we claim the privilege ofjoin
ing in the public expression of grief; by
reason of) our large share in his Christian
liberality, both when the church was first
organized, and in her late attempts to enlarge
her accommodations for worship. His liberal
donation has enabled us to erect a house of
God, commodious and convenient, which, we
doubt not, will remain for generations to
come, a place for receiving saving spiritual
good and this revord is intended to keep
alive in the hearts of our people, a grateful
remembreace of him who has now been called
to the " better country."
Fourth, That we hereby -express our lively
sympathy with the bereaved family, acknowl
edging at .the same time, that our warmest
expressions are a small alleviation for the
loss of one so kind, so good, so provident,
and so closely endeared, whose loss in the
family circle must be irreparable, except as
GM Shall make itsood.
HENRY R. RAIGUEL, President.
GEORGE W. RIGHTER, Say.
LAYING A CORNEA-STONE.—The COT
ner-stone for the edifice of the Bethany
Church, a new Presbyterian enterprise
in this city, in connection with the Old
School, was laid on the loth inst.- The
church is located in the southwestern
part of the city, and is the fruit of the
Bethany Mission, there commenced a
few years ago. It is largely indebted
for its commencement and growth to
the personal attention of Mr. John
Wannamaker, and has now a member
ship of about one hundred, and a Sab
bath-school which numbers about seven
hundred and fifty scholars and forty
taachbrs. Its pastor is Re.iv. Mr. Law
rie, who conducted the ceremonies of
the laying of the stone. Other clergy
men and also Mr. Wannamaker took
part in the services.
OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT.
DR.: SHAW'S RETURN
We have before spoken of Dr. Shaw's
long vacation. After twenty.five years
of unceasing toil, as pastor of the Brick
Church of this city, he determined, with
the cordial consent of his people, to take
a season of rest, something more than
his summer vacation. We are happy to
say, however, that he was not sick ; and
yet he felt somewhat worn, especially
after the exhausting labors of the great
revival in his church last spring.
But Mrs. Shaw, we are sorry to say,
wast'il good deal out of health. She
needed a change of scene and rest. . For
her sake as well as his own, the Doctor
left our city about the first of Jane, and
has passed most of his time at Pigeon
Cove, Mass., in the vicinity of Cape
Ann, getting as much as possible of the
bracing air of the sea. The effect has
been delightful upon Mrs. Shaw, and
the Doctor has apparently added some
pounds to his weight. He expects to
resume his pulpit ministrations to-mor-_
row, after an absence of ' four months
and a half. We know that his people
are very glad to see him back again.
The, ecture-room, indeed, was filled last
Wednesday evening, as they gave him
their first greeting; and we doubt not
his great church will be crowded to
morrow, as they wait again upon the
words of truth from his lips: Few men
are more beloved ; few so well deserve it.
SYNOD OF UTICA.
This body hebtits annual meeting in
Potsdam, commencing on Tuesday even.
ing, Oct. 9th, in the church of which
Rev. R. C. Riggs ispastor. The opening
sermon, by request of Rev. B B. Beck
with, the retiring Moderator, was preach
ed by Rev. Dr. Fisher, of - Utica, on the
value of the soul. It was regarded, we
should judge, as one of this distinguish
ed preacher's happiest efforts, and was
often referred to in the progress of the
meeting. Next morning, after an hour
and a quarter spent in earnest devotion
al exercises, Rev. A. H. Corliss, of Hol
land Patent, was chosen Moderator, and
Elder J. C. Gallup, M.D., of Clinton,
and Rev. Geo. D. Baker, of Watertown,
Clerks.
The Communion sermon was preached
on Wednesday afternoon by Rev. Ed
ward Lord, of Adams; Rev. John• Reid,
of New Haven, and -Rev. C. W. Hawley,
of Waterville, officiating at the table.
Wednesday evening was devoted to a
Synodical conference, in which prayers
and addresses were made by different
members of the body.
Among other matters of business,
Rev. John Waugh, of Clinton•, read an
able paper on the privileges of female
members in the social meetings of the
Church, taking rather novel ground, it
was thought, for a staid, Pauline Pres
byterian. His report elicited 'consider
able discussion, and was referred to
another committee to report further upon
the subject next year—the meeting a
Synod then to be held in Clinton.
Gollections for the Ministerial Relief
Fund were recommended to be taken, in
November, in all the churches of the
Synod, on the Sabbath preceding or
succeeding the national Thanksgiving.
HAMILTON COLLEGE
The following resolutions touching
the interests of Christian education in
connection with Hamilton College, were
also passed by the Synod:—
Whereas, It has ever been the glory of the
Presbyterian Church, that it has always in
sisted on the necessity of religious education,
especially of a thorough scientific culture on
the part of those who enter its ministry;
this Synod, recognizing in Hamilton College
an institution essential to the training of our
youth in their preparation for Christian,
usefulness in all the professions, and as
necessary to secure an increase of fit candi
dates for the ministry ; recognizing, also, the
fact that this institution sustains a special
relation to this Synod and the Presbyterian
Church ; therefore,
Resolved, 1. That we will, as ministers and
elders, cordially co operate with the TruStees
in their efforts for the further and ample
endowment of all the departments of instruc
tion necessary to enable it to meet all the de
mands for higher education, created by the
age and times in which we live.
2. That we will endeavor to influence our
men of large means, generously to con
tribute to the special endowment of particu
lar departments of instruction.
3. Ttiat we will co-operate with such
agency as the Board of Trustees may employ,
to obtain from the churches of this Synod a
fund of not less than $40,000, the interest of
which shall be appropriated to defraying the
expenses of the collegiate education of
Christian youth, especially those who are
studying for the ministry - whose circum
stances demand assistance said fund -to be
placed in the hands of the Trustees, and
secured for this purpose.
SYNOD OF BUFFALO
This Synod, in connection with the
other branch, met in St. Peter's Church in
this city, last week. Rev. Milton Waldo,
of Hprnellsville, appeared in the body as a
delegate from the Synod of Genesee, and
made a handsome speech, giving the
cordial fraternal salutation of the New
School body to the Old, and was well
received. The Moderator of the Synod
made a brief and pleasant reply.
A good part of the meeting of this
Synod was occupied in trying an appeal.
An elder had - been excommunicated
from .one of its churches for breach of
covenant, neglecting the sanctuary and
its ordinances. He appealed to his
Presbytery, but found no redress. He
appealed to Synod, and here also the
judgment of the Session was sustained.
Elders are set to keep others in order ;
they aheeld first he in order thetn;elree.
MINISTERIAL SALARIES
We continue to bear of cases of real
distress. We wonder that the people
are so slow to find them out, and to
minister the needed relief. We will not
believe that it is from want of interest in
their ministers, but they cannot have
thought of this matter as they should.
We have in mind a country parish, large
and strong. The people are all living
on the fat of the land. Their tables are
loaded with the bounties of Providence ;
their granaries are full; their spare
money, is in Government stocks ; they
have enough, and to spare. They pay
their minister eight hundred dollars.
They paid him six.before the, war, and
they think they have done a very good
thing in patting it up to eight in these
times. But-they do not seem to realize
that their advance does not at all corres
pond with the change in prices of
everything he has to buy. He, in fact,
may be paying them from day to day - ,
twice and three times as much for pota
toes, eggs, butter, and the like, as he
paid before the war, and yet they have
not put twice or three times as much
money into his hands with which to do
it.
An advance of twenty per cent.•in
salary, and two hundred per cent. in
prices for food and clothing, do not
agree well together. And this, beyond
question, is one reason why some are
deterred from entering the ministry.
They that preach the Gospel must live
of the Gospel, or there will soon be a
greater dearth of ministers than there is
now. We know more than one good
preacher of the Gospel who is casting
about to know what he shall do to sup
port his dependent family. Many are
at the point of being driven from the
ministry. In justice to .good and de
voted men, consecrated to this service,
and in justice to the great Head of the
Church, whose servants we all are, as
well as for their own good, the churches
ought to look more narrowly into this
subject. How can a minister do justice
to himself or to his people, with actual
want staring his family in the face?
AH-WA-GA
We have a beautiful village in the
southern part of our great State, upon
the Erie Railway, of which this is the
euphonious Indian name. In an evil
day somebody contracted it to Owego.
If we had the power, we would compel
everybody to write it Ahwaga, as it
should be written ; and then we should
indulge the pleasing hope that the
printer and proof-reader would not con
tinually be confounding it, as in our last
letter, with Oswego—two very different
places, nue north of us, and the other
south.
We are made to speak of the Rev.
Solon Cobb, as pastor of the Presbyte
rian church in Oswego. Rev. Dr. Condit
and his young colleague would both dis
pute his right to any such "placeor title.
But leave out that impertinent s, or go
back to the beautiful Indian Ahwaga,
and there would be no quarrel. A cor
respondent in the last Evangelist is
made to say that the General Associa
tion of this State met in the Congrega
tional church . of Oswego. Last year
that would have been right, but this
year that s is in the way. It is a real
misfortune that we have tWo large towns
in our State whose names are so near
alike. Others beside printers are con
fused by it. Letters, we' are told, often
go astray on that account. If we could
only return to the beautiful Indian. name
of the southern village, it would all be
easy and right.
PERSONAL
Rev. Edwin Allen, who has been
for some time acting pastor of the Pres
byterian Church in Parma Centre, has
accepted an appointment under our
Home Missionary Committee, and has
gone to labor in the West. He was
beloved and useful among his people ;
and we trust a great blessing will follow
him to his new home.
ROCHESTER, Oct. 20, 1866
"TABOR CHURCH,"
LINES. INSCRIBED,. TO THE• BELOVED PASTOR, BY
ONE. OF rus FLOCS
0, Tabor to thy hallowed courts
With faltering steps I came,
Bowed to the earth, in deep distress,
To hear my Saviour's name.
To learn, within thy sacred walls,
The " Life. the Truth, the Way,"
And yield submission to the calls
That lead to "perfect day."
0, Tabor! Temple of our Lord,
And portal, too, of heaven ;
'Tis here the weary may find rest,
And sinners be forgiven.
And may th,24 Tabor be as bright
Po Thy loved flock below,
And shine with Thy resplendent light
As Tabor long ago.
,
No' Answer from Dr. Wadsworth.—Dr.
Wadsworth is reticent respecting the calls
which have reached him from the East, and
it is earnestly hoped that he will not be
drawn away from us. Only think of it,
after all the difficulty which is experienced in
getting men out here,
that such cities as
Philadelphia and New Haven, etc., do their
best to get them away from us. Dr. Stone's
church'was over two years getting their man.
The Fir Presbyterian Church, with a beau
ful edift , free from debt, and offering
. a
$6OOO ary, have been applying to men in
vain fo two years past, and still have found
no one f their choice who will consent to
come. And yet Eastern churches, in the
midst if plenty, are crying after the very few
men . e have beenable to get out here.—Sars
Fran ' co Cor. of Evangelist.
C , Ige of Denomination.—Rev. W. P.
Stri land, D.D., has changed his relation
fro II the New York Methodist Episcopal
Co' • rence to the Presbytery of Long Island,
and s how supplying the chard/ at Bridge
hail pton, Long Islar. 3.
GENESEE.