iiIERICAN PRESBYTERIAN AHD E EVANGELIST. Family Newspaper, :s THS INTIIIRIOST OP THII c.,:trational Presbyterian Charoh. LISHED EVERY .TRURSDAY. :1E PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE, vtnut Street, (2d story.) Philadelphia. Ji)tie W. Mears. Editor and Publisher. ttsbyttriat :2.GRSDAY , DECEMBER 27, 1868: THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW. • ore another of our papers reaches our -,' eyes, an old year will have run its , and a new one, with's new round of, ; and weeks and.dAys and hours,. and and opportunities ,and unfolding of knees and cares andenjoyments, will c ommenced. A solemn time is this o: of the year. We have done lu . wit h+ and cannot recall it. We have'put ,amp of our deeds and otar characters' Ably upon the putt. No power ean s fact; the God of truili*will establish ,validate it. Such sit # left our hands; rrdar will ranain. Natire herself will -:-re and perpetuate the records of our „, The air and the -etherial spaces od's whispering gallery, where our ;: ,-ancea may still be heard by the exqui , !Me of superior beings. Upon walls and '32. 7 rocks and roadsides, each separate • our lives is photographed, and endless .. , :arelyalleries await the summons of the :.eat Judge to start, in vivid freshness, to mversal view. 'r et how imperfect and how egotistic were a review of a year of our lives which ontemplated only our own deeds. There One in whose hands our breath ib , and whose are all our ways. Our lives are chiefly interesting and important for the port God has in them. 'We cannot spend me more profitably than in a review of la Providence,' toward us. Even if they live been in the form of afflictions, yet to k able to put our finger upon this and that went of our lives, and to say, "Here the :eat God, by his providence, broke through [le routine and the Common place in which we were living, and indicated!His Own Will concerning us; here we - seemed to come uto contact with"the broad, immovable iodines of his piirposes ; here our way was taiged up, and here again, as by an unseen and, a mysterious opening was made out :f all our difficultly'," is a great privilege and a great consolation. It is, indeed, de 4litful to see God in all parts of our lives, every morning's light and in every sea an's return;' but what miracles are to the ordinary course of nature, such are the narked interpositions of Providence in our t7eq, compared with his regular and orcii try government of events. Foolish and ilow of heart is he who, on looking back firer the space of a year ? can see, nothing in ct farm of life or death, of prosperity or mersity, of accident, of sickness or of t , olth ; nothing in peculiar 'and unforseen fabinations of events on which the most .icous results depended; nothing in miste rius, inexplicable disappointments, which rified of the yeouliar nearness of that who is never absent from human eLirs. Host momentous is this season to such as Ave allowed another year to roll by, with tt accepting the Gospel. The number of their years, of their past privileges, of their iabbaths, sermons, strivings of Qv) Spirit, struggles of conscience, warnings of Provi-, imce has increased ; the number of those 7t to come is diminished. At the close of t 3 L", as of former years, they stand without god and without hope in the world. Life lastens away, but life's great business is undone. Judgment draws near, but tzey have no Saviour's merits to plead and t: advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ,, tLe, righteous. The 'enthroned • Messiah salts on the ages . to accomplish his purposes, 47. t they have no part nor lot in the great Eedemption. But we are not putting the season to tight use it we merely spend it in regrets. Da*, indeed, would be the reflections thick a review of tie. ,past alone would tggest. After a profitable use of the past must ditimiss it, 'Under the smile of the Divine forgiveness, we forget the things satt are behind and ,reach forth unto those t high are before. The opening of a new !eat is a token of the Divine forbearance bd long-suffering. If the past is irrevOtai t4e, the future we may make, in all its l iitatial features, what we will. The Icords of the past are filled—the pages of tie future are blank. If our past has ,known otliiug of Christ, our future may be hum hy dedicated to him. With wonder at 0 Divine patience, whichistill bears with t 4 e rejeeters of the Saviour, let us seize the Itw and unmerited opportunity of the pre tat, to accept his offers before they are tally withdrawn. This may be—this will to many impenitent, their last new year. Christian 1 is God opening before you a nother of these years of high significance ' 1 of blessed privilege ? Gird yourself, 1 afresh for the Master's work. Renew !, 41 4 humble, simple faith in the merits of ( 0 Saviour. Examine and correct our Matt New 'Series, Vol. 111, No. 52. motives. Let knowledge join.with zeal in new devotion to' the cause of Christ. Live and give by system. Enlarge your liber ality with the enlargement of your means. Seek to conform your character, your Chris tian activity and your prayers to =the de mands of this "age on ages telling." This is no period, if ever there was one in the Church's haltory, for a listless, cold, covet:- ous type of Christianity.- Shake off 'all remains of it that ding to you, in, this, new year of the wonderfal period through which alod is leading Ids Churcliand the world. THE , BALANCES 'HOG OCT IN HEAVEN: If the saying is true, that God does not settle up his accounts every October, there do come tipes in the lapse of years when the clouds and darkness which are round about him break away,, and when justice and judgment are revealed as the habits, tion of his throne. It is in such a time, precisely, that we are living now. And since the fall of jernsalem, we doubt' whether the Divine hand has been as openly manifested in human affairs, or the Divine attribute of justice , as broadly stamped upon the history of nations, as now. When we • look at our own country, we behold justice, long withheld ,by men, executed on a grand scale by the Almighty. A' race which, for three centuries, had been denied the commonest righta of men, and which politicians and apoitate churches, proud planters and abject whites, had com bined to seal over to perpetual, hopeless bondage, has been made free at a blow. The work, which to pliilanthropiste seemed practicable only in the lapse of generations , is done in a moment before our eyes. The very moment•and the'very method used by the powerful foes 'of the' African ito forge his 'chains anew, and to deepen into blackest • night his prOspects, is chosen by the Al mighty to *indicate his'own jitatice and to inske - his" - OW* interposition most conegin: OUS and unmistakeable. It is as if the very. words. were spoken from ,heaven : For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I rise, saith the Lord; I• will set him in safety from him that pnffeth at him. And,'step by step, he is advancing' to the enjoyment of all his rights as an American citizen ; from a mere chattel, he is becom ing a freeman. A marvellous act of Pro vidence, this elevation of a race of four millions from civil and poiitical nonentity, from degradation and contempt, to the honors' and responsibilities of citizenship; that by the single jewel of loyalty is seen to outweigh and outnumber the wealth and pretensions of the race • that once' so in solently lorded' it over him. Remarkable is the retribution now seen, in the call that comes most earnestly from the remotest regions of the South, for the elective fran chise to the negro, es the only measure that can counteract the ingrained traitorous tendencies of his former masters. The crimes 'of the ‘lave -owners work for the postive elevation, instead of, as formerly, the farther degradation of the negro. And the last grand enterprise of the slaveocracy of the SoUth, to fortify and per petuate their position, how marvellous and overwhelming has been its failure. What a second tower-of-Babel project was their new nation, based on the corner-stone of slavery. Not only was their idol slavery shattered, but themselves were, stripped of wealth, despoiled of their leaders and of their youth, their entire military force held as prisoners of war, their churches, which had become apologists for slavery, dismantled and disorganized, and their political status has become one of sufferance only. It is, in fact, the slaves who are free and the masters who are in bondage now. Their rebellion for slavery has laid them prostrate at the feet of the North, and radical Re.pub , loans are the very ones whose.feet are upon the A r . i n n d e . o t k it s. at, great political party, which anticipated .and nurtured the rebellion, by makingSubSetviencyto the slayeocracy the -corner-atone of its policy, how even the patrOnage and influence of a ,recreant Execaive and Cabinet, exerted in the most extraordinary manner, have, heen in vain to 81103 it from abandonment by :the loyal, intelligent, and the good of the land, and • from crushing defeat in every Northern State.; ao that its only hope of regaining lot poier is in the votes of men who have crowned the horrors of Fort Pillow, Law rence, Chambersbarg, Andersonville and Libby Prison, by those of Memplds and New Orleans, and .in the denial of - votes to the loy a l Masses of . the South . Leading organs of the once powerful Democracy, -in the certain . prOspect of the failure of these desperate calculations, hare actually urged the adoption of principles in advance of their o onents' latforms, to save their , PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1866. party from utter extinction. The great party of expediency is to be convened into one of justice. Expediency itself demands It is, in fact, an enthroning of conscience which we witness in the political affairs of the nation. That party, it is seen, is bound to emceed in the long run—indeed, latterly, in a very short run—which is closest to the conscience of the nation in its policy. And those men who lave been most re- gardless of this great fact,- and most con spicuous in their effort to weaken-and per vart the national conscience, are the most signallr'defeated and universally despised men in the whole country to-day. If we turn to other countries, we find the same character of retribution stamped upon passing events. The nations which exulted in our troubles, and insulted us in what they thought Our death agonies, which trumpeted all over -the world the bursting of the bubble of Demnarboy, which denied our right to deal with the South as rebels, which returned to Parliament men that built and equipped rebel cruisers to prey upon our commerce, or= which took advantage of our hour of weakness to plant imperial institutions on our borders, have been rill:lnked for their ungodly sympathy with a-rebellion in the interest of slavery. Scarcely had our own rebellion ceased as a military movement, when England found herself involved in exactly similar troubles in her own dominions, and compelled to act upon the very principles she had denied to be applicable to our case, or humane, or con sistent with liberty in any case. Jamaica, Canada and Ireland, with singular prompt ness, have commended to the lips of the British people a chalice, if not so large, yet as full of bitter ingredients as the one they so self-cOnziAmently beheld'us dii.nk. And now they are shaken with a reform move ment of - such dimensions and such formid able strength, that it must „send..terror to the hearts of the oligarchy and the wor shippers of prerogative in that country. Ap.a.#ol-for the, foreign - relations:of _great Britian, the November 'limber of Black wood gloomily declares, "'We have not one cordial friend or ally in the ;" eon fesses,-lhat for the unsatisfactory state of their relations with the United States, they are themselves in great degree to blame; and counsels the payment of the Alabama claims, going even beyond. , the TiMee liberal, -offer of October 4th.- , Itargues for the, restoration of a cordial understanding with the "Greatltepublie," because, among other. reasons, "the- first gun fired" by England:" against Russia; will' bring down upon her the military and naval .strength of the United States!' This is 'the lan guage of the tory Organ, which has been notorious for abuse and evil speaking' and misrepresentation of , America througheat and. since the war. Even in the present number, it classes Andrew Johnson with Presidents Jackson and tincoln. Continental Enrope, has been ,the scene of profound Convulsions, not even so re markable for their magnitude, _as for the unparalleled swiftness with which their great results have been achieved. Instead of a thirty-years: war, the world, with breathless astonishment, has seen the po litical balance of Europe radically altered, and an ancient Popish kingdom brought to the dust of humiliation, in thirty days' fighting. The work between the two com batants was done, and securely done, with such amazing dispalch, that there was ac tually no time for the most cunning of in ternational meddlers to put in his claim for a share. The French Emperor had the look of a person coming to what he was expecting to find a grand entertainment, and discovering that, in consequence of the expedition of the invited guests in de spatching the feast, nothing was left to chance-comers but despicable fragments. The great dish of territory, in which he expected to share with gusto, had all been carved and served out,, withent so much as reserving a slice for his imperial majesty., And so near was his majeity to the exeeed-' ingly awkward attitude:of' a beggar,lhat in hand, that he was obliged, with his• well known veiacitY in such Matteis, in so' many words to disclaim any desire for such Uninz- 1 portant acquisitions. Of couree, the Pins- - i sians of liconiggratz, with • their needle-guns, felt very much relieved by this considerate announcement. For our part, 'we, think the Emperor, must have caught a glimpse' of the balances hung out in heaven, "And read his lot in that celestial sign." Prussia, under the lead of a despotic and ambitious statesman, with motives which cannot be justified, especially, ail, connected with her recent spoliation - of Denmark, has been made the means, under Providence, in one brief summer, of erecting a first class Protestant • iwer for the first time on the Continent of Europe; of thoroughly humbling the greatest foe and hindrande to free thought and religious liberty, in Eu rope; and of crowning the liberation of Italy, by7estoring to her the splendid 'Pro vincei_of Lpombardy and Venetia, while she took awa r ilahnost the last earthly hope of Pius IX. These are events we have been waiting 5t since the Reformation—nay, for some of them the souls of Huss and Jerome, beneath the altar, have been call ing since ,the . Council of Constancej'since Protestantism was stamped out in Bohemia 'andAltiStikvia. • The very regions, in fact the it:ten/ail localities, which witnessed the bloody' itliPpression of 'Protestantism in the sixteenth 'century, -lannune the scene of the greatesti most overwhelming, most zunrunary, defeat almost ever suffered by a nation— the sore humiliation a Roman power =ever experiened at the hands of Protestants. The Withdrawal of the - French ' troops from Mane and from- Mexico restores the political ,'equilibrizun, and gives a jester aspect to'the world's affairs. At present, it looks 48 if the two usurpers in the Old World and the New, although abandoned by their' powerful and only,ally, intended, with -a , kind. of mutual understanding, to brave it out Alone. :Possibly their lee of life may :be %prolonged, but, perhaps, only to assure: to them a more signal and irrecov erable overthrow. The power of Rome not to, 'disappear without a convulsion, if we have read prophecy aright It is not to melt away in a rose-hued cloud of diplo macy, but to fall, like a great millstone, flung from the uplifted hands of a mighty angel into the sea. Victor Emanuel's courtliness and forbearance to the old pon tiff,- thozighliotated by the best principles of a worldly;statesinanship, may have a far differenitesnit from what he and his coin senors anticipate. - But at all events, Protestant powers and tendeneittayere never so great, and Roman powers never so Weak, on the Con tinent as now. And even the ritualistic, `semi-Popish frenzy in the High Church of England is more than balanced by the great uprising of -the middle classes in the Reform movement, which, is essentially a Protestant movement. The work of Gus tavus Adolphus for civil and religious lib erty in Europe, mysteriousli interrupted by his death, is resumed, after two centuries, and carried i rapidly toward completion. Bohemia is again inquiring for the doctrin es of lines, and remembering the heroic deeds of her blind but victorious General Ziska. And the Protestant world has received an secession, in the emancipation of the slave's in our country, of millions, who, in gaining the status of men, have become a power in the world. Indeed, the whole onwa t rd movement of our country, there- Etistance of slavery, and, the, deliverance and perpetzuttion of a ß free government, are but developments of the same spirit of Protes tantism that has inspired men to fight for liberty everywhere—in Bohemia, in Hol land, in England—and that led to the found ing of this country at first. Whether we have just witnessed the preludeto those final displays of the Vivine justice in which every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess, in which 'He shall judge the world in righteousness and :His people with truth ; or whether the half-drawn veil will be suffered again to fall on the startled and admonished world, we know not. We• cannot allow ourselves to believe that men and nations will be delivered over to the rule of injustice in Church and State again. Slavery will not be reinstated. The Roman hierarchy will not again triumph over kings, crush peoples and darken the cleared heavens with the smoke of her auto-da-fes. Voluntary reli l.gious organizations and free governments, general education and an impartial admis sion of all to civil rights, are the mile-stones in the advancing progress of hninanity, which, once past, will never be overthrown ' by'a reflux wave. But so:long as the Gos pel does not .utterly transform the heart and-break. the power of Satan over apo - state men, we,must•look for new forms' of Wick edness and dark periods in the world's his tory,. ` THE ' CHRISTIAN COMAHSSION IN PARIS. -- 1 11iS PT 8 S in speaking .of . the .ptepara dons to 'represent America at the Paris exhibition, says . :— " A.:very , large.and valuable collection of the appliances, devised during the war for relieving the, sufferings of the wounded. sOldiers—including surgical instruments,, improved ambulances, the coffee wagon 'used by the Christian. Coinmission—has been made by the . American dentist who' has gained faxneluid fortune at the French We are glad to learn thit :the " Phris tian COMI6I§I4OII Light Artillery" willbe an item' of the show, but we think its work will hardly be represented unless a few Genesee Evangelist, No. 1075 SUNDAY-SCHOOLS AND HOME MIS SIONS. , DEAR BROTHER MEARS :—The letter I send you herewith cannot fail to interest the many friends of Sabbath-schools among : your, readers PRESBYTERIAN ROOMS, 150 NASSAU ST, NEW YORE, Dec. 21, 1866. All 'our missionaries tire in a noble sense Sabbath-school agents and workers. They establish Sabbath-Schools 'wheiever they go, and they keep - them alive when once established. Theie is no better way to save , the children than to the cause of Home- }Missions. Many of the school's connected with our, 4arge. Eastern ,churches reg ular contributions to, our •treaSuryr'Mbre might do so, though the number is now rapidly increasing.: For the close relation of the Sabbath-school work with that of Home Missions is manifest. But how many schools, if they would this of it , might send joy to other missionaries' hearts and aid them in their work. Send libraries to these men. We are continually having appeals for them. Send money to them. Send money to our tremnr-for the more we have, the more such men as the writer of the letter below can we send `into the field—the more such Sabbath schools can we establish and maintain. The writer of this letter completed his lhes in one of ourseminariesless than st. two years ago. The letter was directed to our indefatigable brother and District Secretary, Rev. A. M. Stowe. Yours truly, H. KENDALL. DEAR. BROTHER b- : I mailed < a letter to you yesterday, giving you some statements in regard to my fields and work. I also wrote and mailed a letter to Miss S.'s Sabbath .school olass,giving them some facts Aoncern, ing " Prairie Home" Sabbath-school, to which I gave their ten dollars. This morn ing I received a letter from Mr. 'W., of 1; N. Y., enclosing the handsome`, donation of sixty dollars, to be appropriated to "new or . needy Sabbath-schools on my field.", This. is a t perfect "God-send." It will give me an introduction and an influence in six school districts and tarn others to me to assist them in getting-books for theii- sohook . . Mr. W.'s class gives $lO of the amount, Mrs. B. $4O, and $lO is from another source unknown to me. I shall acknowledge the two slo's to Mr. W. and the $4O to Mrs. 8., and just tts fast as I can, I will appropriate them to schools most needy and interested. Bro. S., you can hardly imagine what an advantage these donations will give me in my work:in the " out stations" ot my' field. It will remove a vast amount of prejudice, when they realize that we can help them so liberally to that whiCh will do their souls good, and develope the intellectual powers of their children and become convinced , that it is for their highest, interests that we are engaged. I am very greatly obliged to you for the interest which you manifest in my work, espeoialy in the Sabbath-school department of it. If I can.get the means to do it with, I propose to go beyond , the direct bounds of my assigned field into regions unoccupied by any orthodox minister, and establish Sabbath schools next spring, here as yet•none exist, and "' where there is-no preaching of .the true Gospel. There is a vast neglected field to the north west of me which must be cared for, and have the Gospel preached to the-inhabitants. I am just beginning to realize the dreadful moral and religious destitution which sur round us, and yet the entire approachableness of those who inhabit them, when treated as men with immortal souls to save .or lose. Yours in Christ's work, Wm. C. WHAT A PITY !-A writer in the Chris tian Register complains that the Trinitarian Gloria Patri is sung in Unitarian churches; " that almost without exception, the music books used" by them "are prepared by Trinitarians, and the words in very many of the hymn-tunes and anthems are what we may call Trinitarian poety—and these books thus become a sort of orthodox tract for general distribution. And it is noticeable that the most active among the music con ventions through the country are of the orthodox faith, and can thus act as quasi missionaries of their own faith." Socinianism has fostered no-art, save the art of making smooth speeches; The great, artists, and the great mass of 'artists, (in eluding poets), have been fed on more sub stantial food, :and have been, therefore, missionaries for their own faith. We have indeed, quite, a number of each mission Aries, preaching loudly enough, though, indirectly, the Gospel of the Son of God-- Dante, Darer, Shakespeare, Raphael, Han del, Wordsworth, Turner, &c , i . to. Ortho doxy itythe creed to work••by. MAGAZINi AND HDIIRS AT HomE.--Subsoribers wishing to continr or discontinue these magazines,, must write directly to the office of publication. We can only concern ourselves with new sub scribers according to the terms ,of , 6our arrangement for preniiwns. Lexa Sasurrißy.—C:W• . 9 Potarin Esq., of Putnam, Ohio, offers to defray the ex pensein of one young man each year of the theological course. Three young men have been put on this foundation, at an expense, • 1 . • ..... m TERMS, Per annum, in advance: 31„M ail, $3. By Carrier, $3 50. QV cense additional, after three months. Cabs.—Ten or more Papers sent to one address. Earable strictly in advance and in oneremittance. Mail, $2 60 per annum: By Carrier, $3 per annum. Ministers and Ministers' Wid awls, $2 50 in advance. Home Missionaries, $2 00 in advance. Remittances by mail are at our risk. Postage.—Five cents quarterly, in advance, Paid by Subscribers at the office of delivery. Adire ra isements.-1234 cents per line for the first, and 10 cents for the second insertion. One square (ten lines) one month $3 00 two months ' 550 three months 750 six months - 12 OS one year 18 01 The fallowing discount on long advertisements, in serted for three months and upwards, is allowed: — Over 20 lines, 10 per cent. off; over 50 lines, 20per cent.: over 100 lines, 3.33 i Per cent. OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. The Capital is crowded and gay, and the denizens of it have entered upon the enjoy ment of the holidays with a unarlimity and zest seldom witnessed here; before. The hells of legislation are deserted, the; corri dors no longer echo to the merry= lapgh of thronging visitors, and the tick of the " hill tonic clock" in the old Hall of. Represents tives -is• heard. as distinctly alr when John cinincy Adams fell dead in his chair, and death, assuming the prerogative of Speaker, commanded silerwe tboughout the House. Most of . the Congressmen have gone to spend Christmas with their families. May they enjoy a " Merry Christmas" for the good work they have begun. , • By the bill which passed both of Congress a few days ago, and which, is spite of the expected veto from the "Second Moses," is sure to be enshrined within the precincts of our statutes, the District of Cplumbia will soon be, in the eye of ,the, law at least, the freest spot within the broad 'dominions of the United States. This bill, granting equal suffrage: to this " ten-milen square," was opposed with all the ingenui ty and desperation.which the champions of a rapidly failing cause could summon. The opposition to it in Congreis culminated in the attempt of Senator Cowan to heap ridi- elide upon the measure. By advocating an amendment with which he had no symps- ' thy, he vainly hoped to divert votes enough to prevent its passage. His speeches, how ever, had but little effect upon his °Om peers. If he believed half',,the truths he ' uttered in his sarcasm, Pennsylvania would to.day rejoice in a Senator who more nearly represented her sentiments. Theold residents of the District who in 1 former years, held to the ".divine right" of slavery, became very much excited at the . prospects of immediate equal. suffrage,:and ' predicted instant and bloody revolution, rapid depreciation of property, and the .., exodus of a large part-of "the`better class ' of people," as they, in their modesty, are fond of styling themselves. But events hive thus far proved - thaethey were neither prophets - nor the sons of prophets. Similar prophecies were uttered when, slavery was abolished in District, but is stead of being fulfilled, property has ad vanced more than a hundred per cent., and every . act of justice will enhance its value. A gentleman, who was high in office, dur ing the mal-administration of Buchanan, and whose love for the "peculiar institu tion," did not die with that "relic of bar barism," besought a New York Senator, with tears in his eyes, not to allow such an " in dignity" as impartial suffrage to be heaped upon the inhabitants of the District, clinch ing his, entreaty with the sordid considera tion that it would lessen the value of his palatial residence one-half. The Senator, Whose backbone, in common with many others, was wonderfully stiffened by the result of the fall elections, - replied with the ring of Haneock, " Though it make me a beggar ,I will give it my vote; justice is not weighed in the balance with bricks." The colored population are making every effort to qualify themselves to exercise in telligently the .right of elective franchise It is estimated that there are between five and six thousand' who will be thus clothed with the toga - of , American citizenship. The resolution offered by Mr. Stevens, and so promptly passed by the House of Repre sentatives, to appoint a committee to report. a bill to establish a system of common schools in the District, is a movement in the right direction. The present system is very defective, provision being made for only about one-half of the children. Much .dissatisfaction has been expreased with the manner in which the taxes paid by the colored people have been Appropriated. Little or none of it, has been used for , the benefit of this class of, ,individuals; while the law requres that all of it shall :be. riciwever, we may ,rest%assured that , the matter will be remedied by this seleot .eom mittee created 'br Iffe:Stevenze reonlutinni It is composed of men who thoroughly 'un ,derst,srid the subject committed their charge. One of them, Mr. Boutaa, more than any Other , man, unleas we except, Horace Mann, deserves the „vredit of the present excellent system of common Ached" i n Massachusetts.‘ J. F. G. DECEMBER, 22, 1866. ue 1 lowa., Nov. 9, 1866. Loomis - J.onm, Ixo.—=The good people .of the church in this place celebrated Dr. Post's silver wedding; on inst.- Dr. Post's successor elect, (Rev., A. S. Dudley), the' clergyman who married him twenty-five years ago; (Rev. Dr. Tuttle,) his son; (Rev Martin Post,l and seceral other ministers; took 'part in the rejoicings. On. the following Sunday, Rev. A. S. Dudley was install ed as Dr. Post's successor. The church
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