atatopmMitte. LETTER. FROM EAST TENNESSEE. The Ammonites andi Moabites Among Us— Gentile-Equality Aristocracy Providen tially Advertised—Old Records—Black leachers in 1819—Anti-slavery testimo ny, etc MARYVILLE, EAST TENNESS4E. MR. EDITOR :—Since the President " swung round the circle," the peo ple of East Tennessee have been grow ing more and more radical. Union clubs are being organized in each county and district, and the Northern elections have had no little influence in encour aging our loyal men. Some began to fear that we were to have serious trouble again—perhaps a renewal of civil strife and bloodshed. This appre hension, however, is passing away, and instead of despondency, the people are animated by a feeling of ^ hope and security. The influence of the President's policy has been exceedingly hurtiful to all our interests. Rebel ministers have been emboldened in , their organiOng efforts to discount loyalty and to put treason at a premium in the ledger of the Church; and as the Ammonites and Moabites were left to disturb the children of Israel, they and their allies seem to be rallying in the land to vex and to annoy all those who have failed to perceive any moral beauties in the crime of rebellion. I had hoped that a rebel ecclesiastical ofganization would not be fainied - in East Tennessee ; but ;I am constrained to acknowledge that there are several under full headway. The Confederate Methodists have marked out a big pro gramme, and expect to take possession of all their old circuit& Of k course there will be collision where loyal and rebel preachers shall meet at the same church at the same time. The rebels are claiming the property in churches; aca demies and colleges, and they are pre paring to possess and occupy the country. This is so different from what we had a right to expect, that the loyal elements find it necessary to mass their forces to secure the legitimate, fruits of the war. The people are beginning to clamor for impartial suffrage as something which cannot and ought not to be longer de layed. Thus God is leading us to do justly, to love mercy, " and`. '`to walk humbly before Him. The pulpit is voicing the deep convictions of thinking men, and the doctrine of Gentile-equality, or the brotherhood of the race—for the de fence of which Peter' and Jain and Christ were all driven from the world— is proclaimed in all its phases aid with its fullest meaning. The Jew trampled on by the Almighty; the by-word and. hissing of the ages, as he goes up and down among the the nations, is a trav elling advertisement to show God thinks of human aristocracy,,when it lifts itself up to contravene his manifest de signs. That Jehovah is no respecter ` of persons is demonstrated by the illustra tions of centuries, which exhibit the weak things of this world confounding the things which are mighty, and base things and things which are not bring ing to nought things which are. The revolution going on in public sentiment, bringing it nearer the golden rule, is truly marvelous. I have just been looking over the Re cords of the Synod of Tennessee, and have several items of interest. The Synod was formed in 1817, and first met at Nashville. It extended south to the Gulf of Mexico, and west to the Pacific. In 1817, Rev. Messrs. John Matthews, Salmon Giddins, Timothy Flint and Thomas Donnell, -missiona ries. in Missouri Territory, srequested to be created into a new Presbytery, and they were ordered, to meet at St. Louis, the third Thursday of November of that yearn This Presbytery grew into a Synod, which bounded us in that direction ; and after various changes, our bounds were circumscribed east and west by Chattanooga and Bristol, and north and south by contiguous Synods. In 1842 the following resolution was adopted.:— Resolved, That there are no bounds to the limits of the Synod. of Tennessee toward South Carolina, North Caro lina, Georgia and Alabama, only by the bounds of some Constitutional Synod, if there be any such •gynod. If Confederate combinations continue to be formell, this resolution will have significance still. In 1819 the Synod met in Maryville, and in their Narrative of the state of religion they say " Sabbath-schooli for the instruction of the ignorant, and especially of the people of color, have been numerous and profitable. In several instances black men have been useful teachers." In 1821 the Synod met at Nashville, and sent the following reply to an ad -dress of the Manumission Society of Tennessee. I give it in full : DEAR bIIETIIREN: —WO have received, and with deep interest, your address to the judi catories of the Church of Christ. We lament the existence of slavery in our other wise free and happy country, as the greatest natural and moral evil that has ever existed in any country. We firmly believe it is such an evil as will ruin our country most inevita blunless prevented by a gracious God. The principles of slavery are at war with all the natural rights of men, and hostile to all the 'principles of natural and revealed re ligion. We cannot doubt for a moment but ktia_o-9,q. will one day-plead , the cause, of the op regsed, either by causing the power of his lio, religion to be, „so felt that the people shall be willing to let the oppressed \ go,free ; orhe will unbind - their burdens by his own Almighty„.hand, and by -his righteous judg ments set the captive at liberty. We depre- . THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1866. gate the wrath of a just and righteous God, and pray that he may remember mercy to us and them. We rejoice at the change which appears to be taking place in the public mind on this subject. We hope God will make use of your society as an instrument to enlighten the pubic mind still more. We cannot, as a Synod, do much on this subject ; but we can express our disapprobation of slavery, and recommend to all who fear God and love their country, to do all they can in a mild and peaceful way to bring about in due time the emancipation and freedom of our fellow men. In 1824, meeting at Columbia, in re ply to the address of the Tennessee Man umission Society, the Synod - say, " They do hope the period is not far distant when God, in his providence, will remove the evil complained of." The following overture was brought before the Synod at Maryville, October, 1825: Resolved, That this Synod recommend all the Presbyteries under their care not to license or ordain to the work of the ministry, any man who holds slaves, unless he posi tively engage that he will diligently and per severingly, endeavor to prepare them for lib erty, and as soon as prepared, that he will liberate 'them forthwith without any unne cessary delay ; and if he have no slaves at the time of licensure or ordination, that he engage ex ammo not to hold and purchase slaves as property. This recommendation is not designed to produce any regulation in Presbyteries that shall have a post facto ope ration. Had this resolution been carried, it would have saved us from a world of trouble; bat the records say it was ably discussed and indefinitely postponed. Ten years later it was a penitentiary offence, in Tennessee, to utter an anti slavery sentiment. In 1831 several missionaries of the Synod were sen tenced to four years hard labor in the penitentiary of Georgia—mainly be cause their opinions were on the side of liberty. Things grew worse and worse•; and yet'in 1847, when the Synod met at New Market, as the leaders of the people were exclaim* slavery is ordained of God, Rev. F. A. ROBB, Moderator, preached from Lev. xxv. 10 : " Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof." Only nineteen years have passed since then, but liberty has been pro claimed to all the, inhabitants, and the rod of the oppressor shall be known no more among us. Truly the Lord reigns and makes . the wrath of man to praise Him while he restrains the remainder thereof. Yours, very truly, SAMUEL SAWYER A PASTORATE REVISITED. MR. EDITOR :—After an absence of months, I again looked upon the field where, for two years, I had lived and labored and joyed and mourned as pas tor. Surely, there are no warmer hearts this wide world over, than beats and: glow in ; and it was pleasant, indeed, to hold the hands which had not forgotten their old hospitable grasp, and to look again into the eyes which knew' so well how to sparkle 'out the soul's own radiant welCome. With what mingled feelings we go back and retrace the scenes of our early ministry 1 How familiar all the olden haunts I Not a house on all these streets, not a path around the village, not an object upon the landscape, but wears a smiling home-look. And par- ticularly yonder little brick church— neat and chaste and snug—loved and 'revered and holy—:with its graceful, white, eloquent spire pointing straight heavenward, just as of old. That church is on God's high-road to prosperity—gradually—quietly 7 -surely. Planted amid many discouragements, the training of generations adverse, the Presbyterian leaven has been assuredly working, and an intelligent mode of handling the Gospel . growing in influence. There is no reason why this should not be the case throughout the State. Our doctrines, faithfully preached, will tell. As a mighty lever for overturning the old prejudices and bigotries here, and in disseminating the purer truth, stands eminent that goodly Sabbath-school, with .its two hundred pupils and its earnest, devoted corps of officers and teachers. It is impossible to estimate the good there done. My curiosity was all awake to know my successor. There are not many ministers who cannot sympathize in that feeling. Into the hands of what kind of a shepherd had my flock fallen ? Espe cially my children, the beautiful children, my good, warm-hearted children—the hope of that church—the type of the millenial glory. Another was to train them—another to lead these darling lambs—another to wreathe the pliant tendrils of their young hearts along with his own, about the Cross of Calvary. Of coarse I wanted to study the man. I met him and loved him before I meant it. He was loving my people— my people were Ic4ving him—and my heart caught the infection and mingled in the general loving. 'Twos easy to see that he is a man of ability, zeal, tact, prudence—a man to wear well, in pulpit and pastorate—the man, for the place. God bless him To him and his Master I shrink not from committing the tender keeping of my loved, ones, the minister ing to the sick, the soothing of the be reaved, the comforting of those sorrow ing with whatever sorrow. I came in the middle of the dreamy November, and the season's pensiveness with its . sweet attendant melancholy, was resting over all. The .cheerful little warblers whiCh used to make for me such melody there by my study win dow, had ceased their sunny song. The forest groves, scenes of my olden strolls, were arraying themselves in their richest gold and crimson—the foliage, like the Christian graces, growing brighter and lovelier still as it neared its final going, Like the early departure of the little chil dren, the more delicate blooms had hid themselves away from the blighting; and the gray mosses and hardy chrysanthe mums alone were lingering to adorn to the last the sepulchres of their departed, flowery sisterhood. There was a pall of Indian-summer sadness over the whole landscape—Nature in tender mourning for her beautiful children, and refusing to be comforted because they were not. And amid the joys of warm meetings and fond greetings, amid the gladness of the genial, happy welcomes, crept in upon my soul a chastened sadness, a subdued autumnal melancholy, which I had no will to repel. Surely, &ere were sighs upon the plaintive breeze., Many dear ones gathered around ; but there were other remembered dear ones, after whom my spirit longed, who had stepped away from those rude pave ments up to the streets of gold. During my short pastorate, two of my nearest friends, two of the noblest of our mem bership, had ascended to the upper tem ple, leaving large vacancies in society and in weeping Zion. One, an ex-Gov ernor of the State, a citizen of ;noble in stincts and exalted worth, who in the midst of clinging hearts was ripening i for his heavenly rest through I ears of protracted, inevitable decline. How his old genial smile is missed f m "the places that once knew him!" tlhe other was a dear mother in Israel, gular in the sanctuary and at the prayer-meeting, honored and beloved by all as a true woman and a good. How vividly I recall the mournful morning, on which the start ling announcement came that, 13er warm heart had in a moment: ceased to beat I She was gone without one farewell. She had lived prepared for the summons and \?.. needed no long warning. Th se were' .among the saddest events of m minis try. And such were the scenes in which —weak, inexiietienced, overwhelmed—l was called to utter words of comfort. I can never think of the past 'without dropping hot tears there. Since my departure, death hae been especially' busy among the yottng: The barb piercing there, touched my own soul sharpest and deepeet. And where is my old elder—that man of the great, strong heart—that one of vigorous mind and brave achievements— that one of the pure, soaring faith and unsullied piety— that great man in Israel ? What an adviser he was! What a stay and support and prop to every weaker soul ! .His daily walk was a re velation to this people from God. For years his life was "the voice of one crying in.the wilderness," enacting a re ligion of principle, and proclaiming the power of vital godliness and the beauty of holiness in sW the relations of the social and business world. He demon strated how commercial success may be joined with sterling, exalted, Christian honesty. R— H— lives, though his poor, consumptive body has gone to the tomb. He has left his mark upon the public thought, upon the conscience, upon the activities of the community forever. L. P. B. REMARKS ON THE TRANSLATION OF PSALM LI: 4. "Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and d.one (this) evil in thy sight."—Ps.kim li. 4. Thus reads our common version; but whether correctly or not, remains to be seen. Every one understands the Psalmist as referring, beyond a doubt, to his wickedness in the case of tiriah ; but if David did not sin against IJriah/ in that terrible act, an act which robbed him of his wife, his home and its sacred honors, ending in the loss of his life, it is not possible to sin against our fellow man. The common acceptation of the pas sage is, that David had such a view of sin, that he considered every act that was wrong as being committed againSt God ; or, more correctly, he regarded the Most High as a being so holy, so perfect in all His ways, that, whatever was done that was wrong, was against Him alone. He lost sight of man and all his interests, whatever the relations he sustained to the act performed. We may, perhaps, most seriously damage a sermon or two, and possibly do something in' the way of correcting the nctions that men have, without much reflection, entertained of this pas sage, if we should make some little alter- ation-in the translation before us. We are aware of the unwillingness of the great majority of those who believe, to have anything said to the disparagement of that translation. But there are points so obviously erroneous in it, that ! no man who wishes well to the cause of truth, and is acquainted with the facts in the case, can be guiltless if he remain silent. I He may not feel any more plea- sure in the pain which this exposure has'' caused the believer, than his Lord and Master did in that which was caused by his exposing the errors of the Scribes and Pharisees. Nothing but evil can arise from, existing error; and, therefore, every of should be anxious to know the truth and to obey it. A word further in respect to tire .common acceptation of the passage. There is a sense, we admit, in which it is true that every sin which is commit ted against man is also against God ;, just as an injury done to the subject is an 'injury done 'to the sovereign. This'. was one of the lessons taught us by .the Great Teacher. "He that heareth you, heareth me," So that there is some shadow, at least, for the view which is commonly entertained of the passage. But this view is evidently a necessity to the translation ; its object is to justify that astounding declaration " against thee, thee only, have I sinned," etc. The careful reader, whatever he may think of the translation, will inevitably feel that, if David did not sin against IJriah, it is not possible for one man to • sin against another. The second table of the law, the whole of which relates to the duties which arise from the rela tions that man sustains to his fellow man, may as well be blotted out No man has any rights which • - fellow man•should respect The sh most exhaustive definition of sin , 'its " a disregard of another's right ust no definition at all, if Davie :Dined against no one but God. Mark well ; we have no war :41th anything but the translation: "The word of God is right." Let us haae that, "without note or comment," in this case at least, and we will endeavor to be satisfied. The words " led! a, levaddaha," should be translated, " in thy presence, and in thine alone"-I sinned and did evil in thy sight In plainest English, " before thee, thee only,” have I sinned, and done this evil. Instead of being in harmony with the view which we have been considering, David confesses that he cared so little about the character of the„act, or what God would think of it, that he did it right before his eyes. No other witness existed to testify against him. In this way we preserve the paral lelism ; .a consideration which must not be lost sight of in expounding the pas sage. Direr' other verse (with but a single exception) ,in the whole Psalm is a most perfect example of that kind of writing ; even the remaining half of verse, (4th), "that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and. be clear when thou judgest," is one which is directly in point. The parallelism is an arrangement of wards in a sentence, in such a way, that the same idea or sentiment shall be found in both members of the sentence. The terms used to express this idea shall be so nearly synonymous as to throw light one upon the other; or mutually explain each other. But wherein does the declaration " against thee, thee only, have I dinned," set forth even the shadow of the sentiment found in the second number; " and done this evil in thy sight ?" Take the correct render ing, however, "before thee, thee only, have I sinned," and the declaration which' follows is in harmony with the law that governed . the sacred penman in all the rest of the Psalm. It is not difficut to see how the trans lator should have'iven us the passage -as he did : " Lecha" is often used in the' imperative mood, where it signifies " go on," " . gO foward," or, more correctly, "go t before," so that the reader will erceive the idea which underlies the word in all its various forms is that of something before our eye. ; something, if, we go forward, that We shall run against. Hence, as we are disposed-to think, he was led to make the mistake, which we have endeavored to correct • . . Z—%. LETTER FROM REV. R. G. WILDER Koteroott, INDIA, October 9, 1866 MY DEAR BROTHER MEARS :-* * * Our fullest sympathies are with you in all your strictures on the •attempts of Mr. Johnson and party to lower the tone of public justice and befriend rebels and traitors at the expense of the blood and treasure of the loyal, Union-loving men in Memphis, New Orleans, or any other -part of the country. We marvel that Mr. Johnson has so soon repudiated the noble principles and sentiments he so boldly declared in the height of the rebellion, when Governor of Tennessee. Two subjects of interest have claimed the attention of our India legislators :- 1. Kaolin Polygamy.—The custom of a high-caste Brahman (Koolin Brahman,) having a score or threescore of wives, with the cotseqent teominations involved in this abnormal system, has Come before Government, by a petition got up and pre sented by natives themselves, praying for legislation to abate the nuisance. From the published "viewsof the Lieu tenant-Governor of Bengal, I fear there is little prospect that the petition will be favorably heard, or any legislation ensue. 2. Ghat Murders.—From time im memorial, or ever since the Ganges was a sacred river, the Hindus have been accustomed to take their sick, old and infirm relatives to the banks of that river to die, under the pretence that it secured to the dying a direct and, speedy pass port to Vishnu's heaven. This pious pretence has furnished opportunity for all, when tired of supporting aged parents and sick relativigi, or anxious to come quickly in possession of inheritances, to despatch such relatives in the most orthodox and charitable manner, by ex posing them in the burning sun" and night damps alternately, varying the programme by forcing water and mud down the throats of their helpless vic tims. An immense number are thus hastened out of the world every year. There is at present some prospect that Government will take up this wicked custom and interdict it. What other so inhuman practice is tolerated by any Christian Government ? I write haste. My health is . still improving, and I feel it right to hold the doctors' well-meant advice, to leave I India, wholly in abeyance. We cannot I leave our dear mission if the Lord will give s us health and strength to hold on. In the love of the Gospel,, Yours ever, R. G. WILDER. lOWA CITY "CONSTITUTIONAL PRES BYTERIAN CHURCH." Notwithstanding-the defection of two ministers and a large majority of the members of our Church at rowa City, the remnant is not abandoned nor dis banded as a Church. Efforts are in pro gress to obtain legal possession of their edifice, parsonage, and Inoney raised for Church purposes before' the schism. Nor do the brethren of the Presbytery and Synod deem it best to give up this place for the future—the seat of the State University, and a growing city of -about eight thouqand people, beside the suburban population that must resort here for religious worship. We have never publicly complained that the. Congregational denomination organized a church here years ago. But after a flat failure of that enterprise, we have good reason for finding fault with the dismemberment of our church to create a Congregational church here, and for frowning on the persistent occu pation of our property and means for carrying on our Gospel work here, where a population comes in every year large enough to Make a "goed ciingregation. The, plea for a change, so as to become " self-sinitatning,", has been made null by an immediate application to the Con gregational Home Missionary Society for aid to their minister. S. S. H. Pitvez galth. 0:4 A)Cr'•;11 hPtitl3,l n,:194Vt.11,410:iA1u LIGATION COMMITTEE Lrrrix RED CLOAK. Pp. 64. §quare Bvo., 8 Illustrations. $1.75. JESUS ON EARTH. Pp. 64. Square Bvo., 8 Illustrations. ' $1.75. Miss MUFF AND LITTLE HUNGRY. Pp. 40. Square Bvo., 4 Illustrations. $1.50. RAH KRISHNA-PUNT. Pp. • re Bvo., 4 Illustrations. $1.50. 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The materials for two of the books are drawn from missionary and heathen life, as they appear in the great world of India. "RAM KRISHNA PUNT" is the story of a Hindiro boy, led in strange ways to the knowledge of the Saviour. " RINDOO LIFE, WITH PICTURES OF MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF INDIA," by Rev. Ed;ward Webb, late missionary to Madura, is, on the whole, the best in the series. The drawing in the pictures is much the best, and the information con veyed is at once valuable and entertain ing. JESUS ON EARTH" is aISO edited by Miss McKeever, who gives simple and pleasing descriptions of the principal scenes in the life of the Saviour. With the eTception of the picture of the cruci fixion, which is a failure, the illustra tions of this volume are very striking and must help to interest the children in the wonderfiil story. We have seen no set of presents in the book line more appropriate or accept able than these for the Christian house hold. . BEACH. The Muzzled Ox. 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" The Old Helmet" our readers have not forgotten as an attractive and somewhat sensational, though pure and elevated, religious novel, in which the heroine is led to prefer the lot of a foreign missionary in Polynesia to that of mistress of grciat estates and a title at home. The struggles with self, with parents, and particularly with the gay and positive suitor, before reach ing the result, is powerfully described and forms the attraction of the book. THE STORY OF - MARTIN Linn t. Edited by Miss Whately. 16m0., pp. 354. $1.25. The story of the great Reformer is well presented for the instruction and profit of the young. The materials drawn from different sources are thoroughly di. gested and unified. The writer is care. ful to throw light on points on which the reader is too commonly supposed to be well informed. Skill in condensing has enabled him to bring the substance of the whole within quite moderate coin pass. We commend the work to gene. ral circulation. Our children greatly need to be kept acquainted with the leading spirits and the real meaning of the Great Reformation. A RAY OP Limn. By the author of -A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam." 16m0., pp. 15S. A most interesting story of self-sacri fice among the poor for the benefit of neighbors, told with discrimination—the turning-point being an instance of excess, in which others were thoughtlessly- and wrongfully involved in the over-kind and generous act. The tendency of the book, while encouraging self-denial for others' good, is to instruct the reader not to give way to mere impulse in such matters— a very needful lesson. CRIPPLE DAN. By Andrew Whitgift. ISmo., pp. 330. 90 cents. This volume comprises Cripple Dan, Mr. Wills's Cruelty, Preaching Tom, Sunday Afternoon in a London Coart, A Character to be Avoided, A Visit to Marie, Clara, Linzell's Commentary_ a ll originally published in Guthrie's Sunday Magazine, which is a sufficient gutrattee of their high excellence in every point of view. Carter's books are for sale at the Presbyterian Book Store. TICKNOR it FIELDS. BOSTON. WEErrNEr. A- Summer in Leslie Gold thweitel s Life. By Mrs. A. D. T. Whit ney. 12m0., pp. 230. Illustrated by Hop pin. A most entertaining tale, in which the chief actors are the keenest, brightest, liveliest sort of youths and maidens, spending the summer in genuine recrea tion, and yet revealing an under-current of kindly, manly, wholesome feeling'and tendency, which makes the book as pro fitable as it is attractive. There is genius.and heart in the book. There are original characters continually ea citing your interest and wonder. 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By the author of "Peep of Day," &c. Part IL Harper & Bros. Square 4t0., pp. 202 The numerous illustrations, the care fully divided words, and the large and clearly printed letter-press of this vol ume will draw on the juvenile reader in his tasks with a lightened sense of their oppressiveness. The brief narratives from Scripture and other sources, consti tuting the reading lessons, are of a kind to throw an additional charm over the undertaking and to dry up the last ves tige of tears with which it generally is encountered. PERIODICALS. AND PAMPHLETS. EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CCLIV, Oc tober, 1866 New York: The Leonard Scott Publishini, Company. Philadelphia : For sale by W. B. Zieber.---Contents : Kaye's History of the Sepoy War; Varie ties of . History and Art; International Coinage ; Napoleon's Julius Cesar; Felix Holt, the Radical; Strauss, Renan and Ecce Homo ; Froude's Reign of Elizabeth ; Antique Gems; The Military Growth of Prussia. EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE. Report of the Annual Conference of the British Or ganization of the Evangelical Alliance held in Bath, October, 1866. Presented by Geo. H. Stuart, Esq. TALES OF THE LIVING AGE. Sir Brook Fossbrooke. By Charles Lever. First issued in America in Litters Living Age. Littell, Son & Co. Bvo, paper covers, pp. 267. CATALOGUE OF DR. BRAINERD'S LIBRA RY. Sold Decentber sth and 6th, 1866, by M. Thomas & Sons. 701 different works. A JOYFUL THOUGHT, It is indeed a joyful thought that God so inhabiteth eternity, that travel where I may, in unlimited space, I can never reach the lonely spot where He is not pre sent as my guardian, never find a solitary scene where He is not as watchful over me as if the universe were a void, and myself its sole inhabitant; and, therefore, I know that though I may live among the hum blest, I am as much observed of Him as a monarch on his throne ; that when I go to my daily toil, say my daily prayer, when I lie down or rise up, lam cared for of Him ; so that I cannot weep the tear which He sees not, nor feel the pang which he notes not, nor breathe the prayer which He hears not. PROUD, ambitious, avaricious teachers are more dangerous than the greatest sin ners among the people.
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