iscittaittaus.
RITUALISM IN THE DIOCESE OF
LONDON,
The following letter, addressed to the
Bistlop of London, and published in The
rimes, created a great stir, and is a clear
er ror of the progress of the ritualistic
ov ement in the Church of England :
, 4 TO THE BISHOP OF LONDON.
"My Lord—l know not whether you
are aware of the precise extent to which
t he ritualistic element of the Church of
g u gland is being developed in the Church
of St. Alban's, Brook street, Holborn. As,
however, this ohurch is within your dio
cese, and the doctrines preached and the
ce remonies practised in it come of necessity
within the compass of your jurisdiction, I
h av e presumed on the liberty of detailing
with as much succinctness as possible the
things which I saw and heard last Sunday
morning, October 7. A. very general ru
iner is abroad that ritualism in its highest
form and in its nearest approximation to
that of the Church of Rome may be found
at St. Alban's. Indeed, I had heard ac
counts of doings there that seemed wanton
s ad passionate exaggerations,_ and, in com
pany with other friends, I went for the
purpose of ascertaining the extent to which
s uch accounts are worthy of trust. And
th e result was a conviction that nothing
short of a visit to the church, and an ocular
gad auricular and olfactory witness of its
sights, sounds, and odors, will- avail to con
vey a competent notion of the all but abso
lute identity that exists between the ser
vice of St. Alban's and that of any Popish
church in the land. It is true that the
prayers were not read in Latin, but the
greater portion of them were gabbled over
with suck rapidity and indistinctness that
a foreign or dead language could scarcely
have rendered them more unintelligible.
The sermon was preached, I was informed,
by Mr. Maconochie, his subject being,
'Quench not the Spirit.' Many of his
remarks were wise, pointed, earnest and
searching, especially when he was urging
the necessity of respecting the admonitions
of conscience', and of not stifling them by
misinterpretation, or neglect, or wilful sin.
Occasionally he seemed embarrassed and
bewildered, as if depending too largely on
the casual suggestions of the moment, and
left to flounder in consequence of inade
quate preparation. His abundant repeti
tions seemed traceable to the same source - ,
or else to a mind which has"Concerneditself
too much with ecclesiastical millinery, and
too little with mental
,discipline, and . the
accumulation, of those stores .of 'knowledge
which are inispensable to a, wise master
builder. . His observation on holy things,
holy places, and holy persons, were infan
tile in the last degree, worthy, indeed, of a
Jew under the ancient dispensation, but
utterly unworthy of a Christian who has
read and who believes the words of the
Saviour, 4 The hour eometh when ye shall
neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem
worship the Father,' or who has read the
Epistle to the Galatians, and learned that
all things and all times are consecrated by
a devout and faithful heart. In the course
of his sermon he preached the doctrine of
transubstantiation in terms the most un
mistakeable. With an emphasis which
showed the strength of his conviction,. and
his determination not to be misunderstood,
pointing to the altar in a manner not un
common with the priests of the Romish
Church, he exclaimed, In a few moments
you will be brought into the presence of
the Lord in the Holy Sacrament of the
Eucharist. You will see Him in His own
flesh and blood ; 1 repeat it, you will see
Him in His own flesh and blood' And
that this was with him no mere tropical
language, but a calm uncolored utterance,
expressing his faith in the real local pres
ence of the body of Christ, is put beyond
question by the hymns which are. sung in
the church, in which the doctrine of trap=
Substantiation is. taught with as much of
?lailosophical precision as is compatible
with rhythm and rhyme. Let your lord
chip ponder the following verses, and see in
what manner they can be reconciled with
the reformed doctrine of' the Church or
England : .
" Taste, and touch, and vision in thee are de
ceived,
But the hearing only well may be believed •
I believe whate'er the Son of God hath told;
What the Truth hath spoken that for truth
I hold.
4 ' His own act at supper seated
Christ ordained to be repeated
In His memory divine ;
Wherefore now with adoration
We the victim of salvation
Consecrate from bread anti wine
This the truth each Christian learneth,
Bread into His flesh He turneth,
Wine to His most holy blood;
Doth it pass thy comprehending?
Faith the law of sight transcending,
Leaps to things not understood.'
' CC Anything more explicit and more un
unbiguously declarative of the doctrine of
'transubstantiation will be sought for in vain
in the whole hymnology of the Romish
'Clixrch, and yet the verses cited are but a
sample of much more of the lame kind
'which may be seen in the Hymnal noted,'
this being the book used in the Church of
St. Alban's for whose service your lordship
is responsible up to the extent of compell
ing its celebrants to conform to the ritual
of the Church whose bread they eat, and
whose fair fame they are now smearing
with their Popish dogmas and practices.
'The administration of the communion was
in keeping with the doctrine of, transub
stantiation as propounded in the sermon.
The priests who took the most prominent
part in the mass wore green robes one of
them having a black cross inwrought in the
hack. The genuflections and movements
to and fro, and the foldings of the hands,
seem to have been most exactly copied
From the Romish Church. The censer
was lustily and incessantly swung. The
altar was incensed, the priests were in
censed, the book was incensed, the people
were incensed, until the whole church was
filled with the rolling clouds. Then came
in due time the elevation of the host, at
which many of the accustomed worshippe rs
prostrated themselves. There was a con
siderable number of communicants, and I
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cross before putting into the mouth of the
receiver, and his example was followed by
the priest who had charge of the chalice.
As the service proceeded, and its Romish
character became more and more apparent,
many rose and left the church in indigna
tion and disgust; some of whom told me
afterward that it was a matter of sore la
mentation to them that the Church in
which they were baptized should be so
rapidly drifting back to the, errors from
which it had escaped. I have no concep
tion•of the exact number of regular wor
shippers at St. Alban's, but from the vol
ume of sound which came forth during
some portions of the service, in which the
musical cadences were both unusual and
difficult, it is but a moderate estimate to
suppose that not less than three hundred
form a permanent element in the congrega
tion.
" I have given to your lordship a faith
ful and unvarnished account of what I saw
and heard, and of what in substance may
be seen and heard in your diocese from
week to week. The ;priests who minister
in St. Albans loathe the names of Protest
antism and Reformation, and this because
they hate the things which they represent,
and alike by explicit teaching and symbol
they are assiduously endeavoring to lead
our country hack to Rome. I know not
whether your, lordship will attach much
value to the elaborate and complex ritual
ism to which we have referred, and for
which, if not in express violation of church
law, no provision is made in the Rubric.
You may regard it as external and second
ary, if, not. important, But the point which
is suggested by the ritualism of St. Alban's
and of other churches in your lordship's
diocese, is that it arises most unmistakeably
out of the doctrine of transubstantiation,
and is as clarly designed to lead back the
mind to that so-called mystery of the Chris
tian faith. This is the culminating point
to which the whole service in these churches
tnanifestly. progresses. It is the fact which
gives every other thing its significance.
The worshipper feels that he is being led
On step, by step, to some sacred wonder, and
he is conscious of hiving reached it when
the priest has transmuted the bread and
wine into the very body and blood of
Christ. It would require a 'mind of very
slow apprehension not to perceive that this
is the object both contemplated and obtru
sively pursued in the whole service at St.
Alban's.
-.."And this ritualism is on the increase.
his spreading like a plague. It is appear
ing in, different parts of our country, and
seizing upon ,the young of both sexes.
Under its influences, in a great degree, the
evangelical element in the Church of Eng
land-has, within the last few years, 'most
sensibly' declined. ' It is declining still,
and becoming in some places crushed be
tween rationalism and ritualism as between
the upper and nether millstones. It would
be a matter for; unfeigned regret if your
lordship were unconscious of ) these facts ;
but it would be .a matter for still, deeper
regret,. if, while conscious of them, you
should feel yourself , unwilling or unable to
meet the present exigency.' The suspicion
is rapidly gaining ground that the episco
pal bench is paralyzed by the aspect of
affairs in the Church, and that they shrink
from any step which might bring the
various ecclesiastical parties into more
overt collision. Many are asking whether
the doctrine of transubstantiation be indeed
the doctrine of the Church, and if it be
not, whether there is no legal Machinery
by which its maintainers can be excluded
from positions which their heresy dishonors.
" Many of the laity in London are express
ing themselves with a not unnatural free
dom and warmth upon your lordship's sup
posed timidity, connivance, or supineness
in.regard .to the ritualistic practices which
are. .so ,notoriously rife in London and its
neighborhood. They, are beginning to sus
pect that Nonconformity may be something,
better than an evil, and may become with
them a painful necessity. They are talking.
about a free Episcopal Church in which
they can use the. Liturgy, and from which
they .can exclude Romish dogmas and cere
monies,, and the heresies that spring from a
licentious rationalism. They can accord
with your lordship in your often expressed
'
opinion that a National Church should be
marked by its comprehensiveness,, and
should include superficial varieties of faith
and practice, with an underlying unity :
but they are strongly convinced that as
contradictories cannot both be true, tran
substantiaticm and its' opposite, baptismal
regeneration and its opposite, and the doc
trines 'of rationalism and 'their Opposites,
cannot have place in such a generously
inclusive plan without first proclaiming the
absolute indifference of the true and. the•
false, the right and the wrong, and without
teaching the people, under the sanction of
religion, that it matters ,not what is the
religion they hold and profess.
"At present, my lord, he would be a reck
less man' who should venture to assert that
the Church of England is, in'.any intelligi
ble sense of the term, the bulwark of Pro
testantism. It is, the nursery of Roman
ism, and it has supplied that apostate sys
tem with some of its noblest sons, both'
clerical and lay. Of no other Church in
Britain can this be said. I have written
this letter in sorrow, not in anger, knowing
well that I am but
. giving utterance to the
convictions of thousands who have loved
the services of the Church of England, who
received its baptism and confirmation, who
were married within its pale,' and had hoped
to die its steadfast and loving adherents.
And I claim your forbearance if, in closing
this letter,. I venture humbly to warn your
lordship that you cannot fail in your duty
in this perilous crisis of the history of our
National Church, and of the Christianity
which it professes to represent, without
incurring the responsibility involved in
yOtir high positiori, of having suffered the
spread' of Popish "dogmas and ceremonies,
when, by a vigorous and'prompt action, you'
might'have driven them from your diocese.
" I reinaini .your lordship's faithful ser
vant,i,.E. M.
"October 11th, 1866."
HAPPY indeed does he esteem himself
who, in ease of need, advances something
to a royal prince who is expecting a crown.
Pious poor people are nothing but needy
princes;
,the kingdom of heaven is theirs,
maim rimr fortune if we
THE ISLAND OF SARK.
Few, even in England itself, have any
knowledge of the existence of this island,
scarcely any knowledge of the Channel
Islands of which Sark is, territorially, an
insignificant member. And yet the British
crown has no possessions of more historical
interest, they being, in fact, as a part of the
original duchy of Normandy, the dominion
of the present race of sovereigns, before
they had any rule in . the British Isles.
Their geographical position is clearly French
lying, as they do, directly on the coast of
France, and most encircled by one of its
great bays. Weir language is also French.
In fact, their political relation is almost
their only English characteristic. Their
loyalty, which has remained unbroken since
the conquest of England by their Duke, is
a feeling of allegiance to the sovereign as
Duchess of Normandy, which she is, rather
than as the Queen of Great Britain. The
principal islands of the group are Guern
sey, Jersey and Alderney. The latter
name has become familiar from the popular
breed of cattle which there took its start.
The small'er members of the group are mere
specks on the map. From an interesting
article upon the Channel Islands, in the
London Quarterly Review, we extract what
relates particularly to SARK.
He...wholes not seen Sark has not seen
the Channel Islands. The geography books
that we used to learn when we were young,
told us that this was a barren and rocky
island, and that was all they told us. We
were left to infer that it was uninhabited
and desolate, a place little favored by God,
and forsaken by man. Rocky it is, but
not barren. It is so rocky that the Lords
of the Admiralty once steamed round and
round the island, and finding no landing
place, gave up their intended visit in de
spair. But the interior is fertile enough.
The island is a bowl, and the concavity, of
it abounds with tree and flower and fern,
and there are nooks of luxuriant greenery
and leafy lanes such as . Devonshire would
not be ashamed to own. So far is it from
being uninhabited, that the only fear of the
islanders is that they will be over-populated.
The navigation thither is intricate and not
a little perilous, so that the Sark pilots,
who have learned to thread the watery maze,
and to encounter the dangers of rock and
shoal, have a reputation for skill and hardi
hood. A steamer goes from Guernsey to Sark
about once a week in summer, and luggers
go every day. But in winter, when the
wind is tempestuous, still more Ah there
is a calm accompanied by a fog, it is often
impossible to hold communication for more
than ,:a; week. Twelve days have. been
known to elapse before the Sarkites could
learn anything of what was going on in the
great world of Guernsey. If the weather
be`fine, the most pleasant way of crossing
is to einbark in one 'of the luggers. With
a breeze sufficient to freshen the sea and
swell the, sails, one goes bounding along
past bold groups of rocks and islets tenant
ed by sea fowl, until the southern extremi
ty of Sark is reached. Then the tack is
altered, and the little vessel glides along
more slowly in smooth' water, sheltered by
the high cliffs that rise up precipitously
from the shore, and are here and there
pierced with caverns, until it reaches the
pier which their naval lordships thought
too insignificant to notice. Landing here
is not an easy matter, for, one has to walk
the plank under the most favorable circum
stances, and if the sea be at all fresh, one
must be prepared for a wade. Even when
this has been done, it is hy no means easy
to discover where the portal is which is to
give us an outlet from this rock-bound bay
and entrance 'into the island. Advantage
has been taken-of a soft cliff which the sea
had partly excavated, , to pierce a tunnel,
and this is the gateway into the domain of
the Lord of , Sark. That passed, the ad
venturer toils .up a steep road, at first be
tween turfy hills, but presently through a
tree-shaded lane, past cottages that tell of
human habitants, past a church, a post
office, and an inn, which reveal 'a certain
degree of civilization, and then downward
through meadows and "happy orchard
lawns," to a charming rustic hotel lying at
the head of a luxuriant, glen that slopes
down to the lower sands and, the blue sea.
It,happened to the writer to spend a Sun
day here not long since, and anything more
truly Sabbatical than that - day he never
experienced. It was absolute rest, most
welcome to one wearied by eleven months'
toil in the greatest of cities. The ripple
ran softly up- the sand, and then glided
back with scarce a sound. Far out at sea
there was the soft haze of summer, hiding
the glare of the French coast that would
otherwise have been visible, to tell of the
great world of Europe. Close at hand
there was no sound save the humming of
the bee and the crisp rustle of the cattle as
they cropped the short grass. Then, as
the morning wore on, the people gathered
from the scattered' cottages and wended
their way to the unadorned church, wherein
no sign of cope or chasuble, crucifix or
thurible is likely to intrude for centuries to
come. There, the old familiar prayers
sounded strangely in another tongue, and
the psalter was sung in grand chorales
worthy to be included in Sebastian Bach's
Gesanglyuch,. Then, to wander slowly over
the downs, with the sea visible to almost
all around the island; to sit upon the far
thest point of some giddy height and gaze
at the heaving water, almost steel blue, as
seen far below, and between the peaks and
altars of rock that storms had severed from
the island and left standing apart—to think,
by, way of deepening the deep repose, of
hot churches crowded with worshippers in
gorgeous attire, not to read, but simply to
"muse and brood and live again in memo-
ry," old and cherished words or scenes well
nigh forgotten—that was delight keen
enough to render that summer Sabbath
for ever a red-letter day in the writer's
calendar.
There is one peculiarity which cannot
but heighten the strange, dreatay.thoughts,
that the visitor must feel at finding himself
on such a spot as this., The Sarkites walk
about in sable garments. In Guernsey
there seemed to be an unusually large num
ber of mourners going about the streets,
in the gloomy costume of death. One is
tempted to suppose that some great pesti
lence has swept over the people, and left
one-half of them lamenting for the other
half laid in their graves. You cannot learn
that any such calamity has befallen them.
Their weeds appear to be due to other
causes. The island is small, and the in
habitants intermarry so much that they
are like one large family, of which, if our
member suffers, all the other members
grieve. This is one reason ; but there is
another. The Sarkites are an economical
race, and having bought a good black cloth
coat, they will wear it until it is worn out.
They don't adopt the modern London
fashion of wearing mourning three weeks.
Tenderness and thriftiness alike forbid.
They are not only tender and thrifty, they
are independent. They pass their own
laws, and no one has the right of veto save
the Seigneur. Their parliament of forty
meets in the school-house, and there the
island budget, about £BO a year, is voted.
They have a prison, and tradition tells that
there was once a prisoner, and that when
she was about to be locked up for the
night, she begged that the door might be
left open as she was nervous if left alone.
The request was complied with, and the
prisoner made no attempt to escape, think
ing, probably, that concealment would-be
impossible in a country with such narrow
limits as Sark. Once upon a time there
was nearly a rebellion in the island. It
was the introduction of the penny post
which caused it. Before that event, the
islanders used to go down to the little bay
we have spoken of, and meet the boat
which brought their mail and seize their
letters without asking leave. The necessity
of seeing them carried away to the post
office, and waiting until the eagerly-expect
ed missives were delivered, irritated them
in the highest degree, and their anger was
not quickly appeased. The chief authority
in the island is a clergyman, who is not
only Seigneur, but High Sheriff, President
of the Legislative Assembly, and Comman
der of the Forces, which number about a
dozen men, of whon;i about ten would be
officers. His is a very mild despotism.
The land tenure is regulated by the strict
est primogeniture The Sarkites are so
careful that their island shall not be over
populated, that the younger sons 'are not
permitted to inherit their father's estate,
but are expected to leave the island and
push their fortunes in Guernsey,. or in the
great world beyond. Notwithstanding these
precautions, land attains the very high
price of 0300 an acre. French is the lan
guage almost universally spoken; by no
means Parisian French, but a patois to
which the people cling so tenaciously, that
although taught English at the schools
they speedily forget it. The Seignory is
the chief sight of the island, ' and very
charming is it. A quaint castellated build
ing, with terraces on which peacocks dis
play their fans, with velvet lawns in front
and hollyhocks of many collors growing
ten feet high, and a brilliant blaze of
flowers such as are not often seen north of
Italy, and luscious fruits that crowd the
walls and bosky glens through which one
descends to a precipitous rock, that looks
across a narrow gulf of sea upon an island
which, to those who know Cornwall, will
at once suggest Tintagel—such is the
Seignory.
We must not forget Little Sark. It is
joined to Sark by the narrowest neck of
land that ever saved peninsula from becom
ing island. A pathway, eight feet broad,
with cliffs sheer down 200 feet on either
aide, and with no protection for the dizzy
traveller, such is the highway from Great
to Little Sark. It may be perhaps on
account of the tenuity of this coupe. so sug
gestive of the bridge that leads to the
Mahometan's Paradise, that the inhabitants
of one part of the island will pass months
without visiting the other part. Tradition
tells that one Little Sarkite who used, on
his visit to the Sarkite metropolis, to take
more liquor than was good for him, would
pause on his way homeward before passing
the coupe, and would balance himself on
an old cannon, to see if he were in a condi
tion to traverse that perilous path. If he
could maintain his balance, he would go
on;if he fell off, he would remain for the
niht on the northern side, and sleep him
self sober. Formerly there were mines
worked in Little Sark, but though produc
tive, they did not pay their expenses, and
they are, now abandoned, together with
many of the cottages. The population of
the, entire island is almost entirely given up
to agriculture arid fishing—to the harvest
of the fields and the harvest of the sea.
The first are so little venturesome that
many of them have never set foot out of
their island, and seem to think it so wide a
world that they tie up all their fowls by one
leg lest they should,stray. The second
must be bold, for thei coast is dangerous,
and the storms are sometimes terrible.
I•
SERIOUS QUESTIONS.
Has the Son, in any sense, set us free ?
Has Christ broken for us the yoke of sin—
of evil habit., wrong desire, sinful living—
and enabled us to go forth, as his freemen,
to do and to suffer, day by day, in patient
consistency, all the will of God ? 0, we
may deceive ourselves in some things, but
we can scarcely deceive ourselves in this.
We may fall into errors, into follies, even,
alas ! into sins, and yet not be utterly care
less, not wholly destitute of faith and grace;
but we must know—we do*now—whether
Christ is anything to us, or nothing, as to
the great question of living in sin or living
to God; whether, in any degree, by faith
in him, by prayer through him, we are
conquering, or even Struggling with, our
besetting temptations ; whether the words
have any meaning at all for us, " The
Spirit of Gad,•<through Christ Jesus, sets
me free from the yoke. of sin and death."
Yes we know it----each man• in the depth
of his heart.
May He awaken us, who alone can ! If
no otherwise, by one of his sharp shocks—
by fear, by shame, by loss, by bereavement,
by the approach of death ! Anything
rather than that we should sleep on and
die; anything rather than that we should
hear the words, at last : " How comest thou
in hither, not having a wedding garment?
Bind him hand and foot and take him away
—for in that day there shall be no more
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S. E. corner Eighth and Arch Streets.
PHILADELPHIA.
The public are invited to exam° specimeas of Life
Size in Oil, Water tolors, Ivorytype, India Ink, and
Porcelian Pictures of all sizes.
CARD PICTURES, 82 50 PER DOZEN.
Entrance con Eighth Street.
M. P. sniows Would call attention to his DUB
SIZE PHOTOGRAPHS. Those living e.t.a distance
can have Daguerreotypes, Photographs, dm, copied
any size, and colored any style, by mailing the picture
and description of complextion, hair, dm All pic
tures are warranted to give full satisfaction.
M. P. SIMONS.
1050-1 y 1320 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
TARRANT'S
EFFERVESCENT 'SELTZER APERIENT
Is a gentle. cooling Cathartic or Purgative medicine,
in the form of a Powder. pleasant to take, and is re
commended and used by the best Physicians in the
country as a most reliable and effectual remedy.
EFFERVESCENT
Cures Dyspepsia,-
Curetg Heartburn,
Cures Siek'Hemlaehe,
SELTZER
Cures Indigestion,
Cures Costiveness,
Cures Piles,
APERIENT
Cures Sour Stomach.
Cures Nervous Headache,
Cures Liver Complaint,
A POWDER
Cures Bilious Headache,
Cures Rheumatic Complaints, -
Cures Jaundice,
It is a most efficient n adioine for Females and Chil
dren whose stomachs frequently reject ordinary pur
gative medicines. Read our pamphlet of testimo
nials, and as you value your life and health, lose not
an hour in procuring a bottle of this most wonderful
remedy.
MANUFACTURED ONLY BY '
TARBANT & CO.
27S Greenwich Street, New York.
tuourants egmpailitz.
LOSS OF LIFE OR INJURY
ACCIDENTS
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
TRAVELERS' INSURANCE COMPANY
Cash Capital and Assets. Dec. 1, 1865
pATT , ADELISHIA BRANCH OFFICE.
THE PIONEER ACCIDENT INSURANCS
Where policies are issued covering all and everyde
script:ion of accidents happening under any circum
stances. An institution whose benefits can be en
joyed by the poor man as well as the rich. No medi
cal examination required.
Policies issued for amounts from $5OO to $lO,OOO in
cases of death, and from $3 - to $5O weekly compenar
tion in case of disabling`injury, at rates raaiging from
$3.50 to $6O per annum, the cheapest and most praeti
cable mode of Insurance known.
Policies written for five years. at twenty per omit.
discount on amount of yearly premiums. Hazardous
risks at hazardous rates.
Ocean Policies written, and permits issued for travel
in any part of the world.
Principal.
Accident Insurance to persons disabled by accident
is like the Sanitary Commission to wounded soldiers
in the geld, providing the means for comfort and
healing and 'supplying their wants while prevented
from pursuing their usual employment.
The rates of premium are less than in 'any other
glass of insurance, in proportion to the risk.
No better or more satisfactory investment can be
made of so small a sum. Therefore—insure in the
Travedere.
OLDEST ACCIDENT. INSURANCE CO-
J, G. BATTERSON, President.
RODNEY DENNIS. Seoretarsr
' HENRY A. DYER. General Agent.
GIRARD FIRE AND NAME
INSIURANCE COMPANY.
OFFICE ON WALNUT STREET. PHILADELPHIA.
CAPITAL PAID IN, IN CASH, $200.000.
This company continues to write on Fire Wales
only, Its capital, with a good surplus, is safely in
vested.
701
Losses by fire having been promptly paid, and more
than
$500,000
Disbursed on this account within the past few years.
For the present, the office of this company willre
main at
415 WAIMIT STREET,
But within a few months will remove to its Oust
Building N. E. CORNER SEVENTH AND CHEST
NUT. Then, as now, we shall WI happy to insure tar
patrons at such rates as are consistent with safety,
DIRECTORS.
THOMAS CRAVEN. ALFRED 8. GILLETT.
THOS MA CKELLARRD, ,
C N ARL AWR DII E t
NT.
JOHN SUPPLEE, HENRY F. RENNNY
JOHN. W. CLAGEORN, JOSEPH KLApP, M.D.,
SILAS YERKES, Jr.
THOMAS CRAVEN. President.
ALFRED S. GILLET T. V. President and Treasures.
JAMES B. ALVORD, Secretary. 1028-ly
IN YOUR OWN HOME COMPANY,
S. E. ea% Fourth and Walnut Streets.
Insurers in this Company have the additTunal mar
antee of the , lAPITAL STOCK allpaid up IN CASH.
which, together with CASH ASShTS, now on hand
amounts to
Invested as follows:
$lOO,OOO U. S. 5.20 bonds.
100,000 City of Philadelphia Loan 6's
new,
70,050 11. S. Treasury Notes, 7-30,
25,000 Allegheny County bonds,
15,000 11. S. Loan of 1381.
10,000 Wyoming Valley Canal bonds,
12,700 Compound Interest Treasury?
Notes,
10.0114 1 Philadelphia and Erie Railroad
bonds,
10,000 Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chi
cago bonds,
6,500 City of Pittsburg and other
bonds.
1,000 Shares Pennsylvania Railroad
450 shares Corn Exchange National
Bank
107 shares Farmers' National Bank
of Reading,
22 shares Consolidation National
Bank.
142 shares WiffiamsportWater Com-
Pan/.
Mortgages, Uronnd Rents, and Real
tate 147,309 ss
Loans on collateral amply secured. 169,481 96
Premium notes secured by Policies.... ....»
217,504
Cash in hands of asents secured by bonds. 52,469
Cash on deposit with U. S. Trea5urer,.........20,C01
Cash on hand and in bank5..65,824
Monied interest and rents due, Jan. L 10.211
INCOME FOR 1121:1E YEAR 1865,
Lasses Paid during the Year amonnting;t•
087,636 31.
LOSSES PAM PROMPTLY.
DIVIDENDS MADE ANNUALLY, thus aiding do
the insured toay premiums.
The last DIVIDEND on all Mutual Policies in fore*
January 1, 1860 was
of the amount of PREMIUMS received during ega
year. 3865.
Its TRUSTEES are well known citizens in mag
midst, entitling it` to more consideration than thaw
whose managers reside in distant cities.
Alexander WhiLldin, William J. Howard,
J. Edgar Thomson, Samuel T. Bodine,.
George Nugent. John Aikman,
Ron. jemes Pollock, ' Henry K. Bennett,
L. M. Wltilldin. Hon. Joseph Allison.
P. B. Mingle, hitile ifilliehltil*
Albert O. Roberts.
ALEX. WHILLDIN, President. _
GEORGE NUGENT, ViedlProsidoß6
.
JOHN O. SIMS, Avineri.
JOHN S. WILSON, Secretary and Treamor.
C. O.IIOBESON, Assistant Seereteri.
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INDEMNITY FOR
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
6596,335 12.
409 witractrit% STREET,
COMPANY IN AMERICA
PANY IN AMERICA
WM. W. ALLEN .& CO.,
General Agents for Penuarvania,,
409 WAZNIIA' STRFJEIt,
PHILADELPHIA
INSURE YOUR LIFE
AMERICAN
OF PHILADELPHIA,
$1,143,874 15.
$544,592 92.
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