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: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.
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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,
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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.
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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