fmtcixait
THURSDAY, JANUARY IS6T,
CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES,
Second Page—Family Circle ;
Now Year’s Hymn-Gruel's Dinner; aStory from
the History of Scotland —The Good Santa
Claus— Interesting Incident—The Bird thau Builds
a Playhouse—Business First, Pleasure After—A
Noble Sacrifice.
Third Page— Religious World Aeroad:
Annual Survey for 1866.
Sixth Page—Correspondence:
Conclusion of the Reign of Charles V., 1550*55-
Letter from “ Ambrose”— Letters from a Country
Parsonage, 111. • , , _
Editor s Table : The Draytons and the Daren
ants; a Story of the English Civil Wars” —" Poems”
Miss Manning’s “Faire Gospeller” Fuller’s
" Brownings; a Tale of the Great Rebellion’’—Mrs.
Ellis’ ‘‘Brewer’s Family”—Laboulaye’s ‘‘Fairy Tales
of all Nations”—Macdonald’s ‘'Annals of a Quiet
Neighborhood”—Larcom’s*” Breathings of a Better
Life”—Mayne Reid’s "Giraffe Hunters”—"Milli
cenfc Legh”—"But Once” —"John Hatherton”—
Liggin's "Missionary Picture-Gallery” and “Ori
ental Picture-Gallery.”
Seventh Page—Rural Economy:
Winter Farm-work—Exploding Kerosene Lamps
—Cream in Cold Weather —Jujube Paste—How to
Burn Coal—A Perfect Antidote for all Poisons.
Scientific: Ventilation: its Necessity and Ne
glect—The Candle Fish—The Rag Trade.
Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion.—The Association commenced a
series of services for the masses in the
First Church on Washington Square,
on Sunday evening last. Rev. Mr.
Tallmadge preached. The large build
ing was crowded in every part, and
many persons left unable to gain admit
tance.
On the last night of the year, a special
service was held in the National Hall
attended by a large audience, at which
several addresses were delivered and
two hundred new members received.
Bowdoin College. —The well-known
Prof. Thos. C. Upham, who has been
connected with Bowdoin since i 824, has
resigned his professorship. Prof. Cham
berlain, the President pro. tern,., having
been elected Governor of Maine, Rev.
Samuel Harris, D.D., has been chosen
President.
Gone Oyer. —The Trustees of St.
Luke’s Lutheran Church (Fourth street
above Girard) have resolved to abandon
their connection with the (Low; CnHh)
Synod of East Pennsylvania,
unite with the (High Church) Synod of
Pennsylvania, thus going over from the
Evangelical branch to the strict adhe
rents to the Augsburg Confession, who
hold the doctrine of the material pres
ence of Christ in the Eucharist.
Statistics.' —Some curious person has
been counting up the results of last cen
sus, and arrives at the following results:
The average value of the 11,220 Bap
tist churches in the United States, in
1860, was $1100; ofthe 19,833 Metho
dist churches, $2060 ; of the 5061 Pres
byterian churcheß, $5OOO ; of the 2334
Congregational churches, $6000; of the
2250- Romish churches, of the 2145
Episcopal churches, and of the 440
Dutch Reformed churches, $lO,OOO ; of
the 264 Unitarian churches, $ll,OOO,
and of the 24 Mormon churches, $43,000.
Saint Eugenie. —The Empress of the
French is attracting much attention by her
devotion and sympathy in behalf of the sick.
She is said to have visited,, without fear,
the hospital during the prevalence of the
cholera. The Cosmopolitan, . in an extended
complimentary notice, predicts that she will
inevitably be canonized, — Exchange.
And very rightly, too. She has done
as much to corrupt society and rnin
families, by extravagance, as any ten
women in Christendom; but her playing
the philanthropist gives her quite as
gqod a claim to the distinction as most
of those who already possess it.
The High Church Lutheran Synod.
—The confessionalist wing of the Lu
theran Church, held a convention of
Synods at Reading, on Dec. 11th, to
organise a “ National Council,” and to
lay down the fundamental principles—
doctrinal and ecclesiastical—upon which
it is to be constituted. The Lutheran
says that perfect harmony prevailed in
all their deliberations, and than an “earn
est discussion of three days did not in
a solitary instance run into the faintest
appearance of asperity.” There were
present delegations from ten synods,
representing “ 813 ministers, 1322 con
gregations and 173,401 communicants.”
The new constitution provides for a
stricter synodic government of the
churches, with lay representatives and
for a more rigid adoption of the Augs
bug Confession, as the Creed of the
Church. The following of ad
herence to that standard was adopted:—
We accept and acknowledge the doctrines
of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession in its
original sense as throughout in conformity
with the pure truth of which God’s Word is
the only rule. We accept its statements of
truth as in perfect accordance with the Ca
nonical Scriptures. We reject the errors it
condemns; and believe - that all which it
leaves to the liberty of the Church, [“the
power of ordaining rites, ceremonies,
of right belongs to that liberty.
The new organization will, therefore,
be strong and numerous. We, of course,
dissent from their position and believe
that if many of them could see to what
it legitimately leads, they would shrink
back from their course. We cannot see
what : logical escape there can be from
hierarchical tyranny for those who hold <
that the priest (or “ minister”) can by
a formula of words make that an object of
worship or reverence which, before his
action) was not worthy of it. Nous
verrons.
lowa. —The Presbyterian Church at
Clinton, lowa, have called Rev. J. B.
Morse, of Moravia, N. T. It is hoped
that he will accept the call.
Presbyterian Union- in the South.
The Southern Assembly are pushing
for Union with a reckless energy. The
delegate to that body from the Cumber
land Presbyterian Assembly (Rev. Dr.
Davis) confessed that he had lost his
credentials and seemß to have forgotten
his constituency also. He made a strong
speech in advocacy of the immediate
union of the two Churches, and was
promised a prayerful consideration of
the subject. The Committee on Foreign
Correspondence reported, recommending
that,
In face of the fact that the Associate Re
formed Synod at its session terminated the
negotiations for an organic union with this
Assembly; and in face of the fact that no
overtures for such union have as yet origi
nated in the Assembly of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church. . , . . The Assembly,
laying, aside ecclesiastical etiquette, would
affectionally say to their brethren of the
Associate Reformed Synod that they may
pull the latch-string of our dwelling whenever
they may ehoose, and may be incorporated
with us upon the simple adoption of our
standards whenever those may happen to
differ from their own; and to oiir brethren
of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, we
respectfully suggest whether the time has
not come to consider the. great importance to
the kingdom of our common Master, of their
union with us by the adoption of the time
honored standards to which we adhere. . . .
Itrfs further recommended that a Committee
of five be appointed by this Assembly to
confer with any similar committee On the
part of the Cumberland Presbyterian Assem-
Dy, to ascertain how far the way is prepared
for an organic union between the two bodies
upon the basis of the Westminster standards.
The loyal branch of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church are justly indignant
‘at their Church being put in such a
position. Dr. Davis is one of the leaders
of the disloyal- majority, and coolly ad
vises the Northern branch, if they don’t
like such doings, that “ they- may as
well take time by the forelock, and be
off at once,” before the nest meeting of
the Assembly.
Old Utterances on Ritualism.—
History repeats itself, and old wisdom
will meet new errors as long as human
nature remains what it is. We give
below two quotations from old English
men of some .note and worth, which
read as if they came from some modern
testimony against modem corruptions
in order and worship.
The first is from Lord Bacon:
“The causes of superstition are pleasing
and sensual, rites and ceremonies, excess of
outward and Pharisaical holiness; over-great
reverence' of traditions, which cannot but
load the church; the stratagems of prelates
for their own ambition and, lucre,; the favor
ing too much of good intentions,. which
openeth the gates to conceits and novelties;
the taking an aim at divine 1 matters by
human, which cannot but breed mixture of
imaginations; and lastly, barbarous times,
joined with calamities and disasters. Super
stition, without a veil, is a deformed thing,
for as it addeth deformity to an ape to be so
like a man, so the of superstition
to religion maketh it more deformed; and as
wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms,
so good forms and orders corrupt into a num
ber of pretty observances.”
The second is from Dr. John Owen,
(Sermon 29.). '
“Such were the innovations of the late
hierarchists. In worship, their paintings,
crossings, crucifies, bowings, cringings, altars,
tapers, wafers, rails, images, copes, vest
ments, what were they but Roman varnish —
an Italian dress for our devotion, to draw on
conformity with that enemy of our Lord
Jesus! In doctrine, the divinity of episco
pacy, auricular confession, freewill,- predes
tination on faith (yea, works) foreseen, lim
bus patrum, justification by works, falling
from grace, authority of a church which
none knew what it was—and the-like innu
merable, what were they but helps to Santa
Clara, to make all our Articles of Religion
speak good Roman Catholic? Howdid their
’Old father of Rome refresh, his spirit to see
such chariots as these provided to bring Eng
land again unto him!”
A Book Spoiled.—The Christian
Tear of the late John.Keble, has long
been an eye-sore to Romanizing Episco
palians for its testimony against the
dogma of the material presence in the
Eucharist In ninety-five editions it
has testified to the spiritual nature of
the Christian sacrament, mainly among
very class who were most exposed
to the opposite error. But as mind and
heart were failing on his death-bed, his
ritjialistic friends persuaded him to sur-
his testimony, and the John Bull
announces:—
“In accordance with the dying request of
the Rev. John Keble, the Rev. T. Keble, his
nephew, has made a most important altera
tion in one verse of the poem on the Gunpow
der Plot. The words that formerly stood
referring to the Eucharist were —
*' * Here present in the heart
Not in the band,”
now run —
"Here present in the heart
As in the hand/'
“At the end of the altered edition (the
ninety-sixth) a theological note (signed T.
K.) is appended, explanatory of the reasons
for the change. ” s
Mr. Keble was the editor of “ the judi
cious Hooker,” who says:— ,
“The real presence of Christ’s-most bless
ed body and blood is not therefore: to be
sought for in the Sacrament, but ahjiKe,wor
thy recewer of the Sacrament. I see not
which way it should be gathered by the
words of Christ when and where the bread is
Iris body or the cup his blood, but [only in the
very heart and soul of him who receiveth
them. — Ecc. Polity , 6. v., c. 67.
The Tractarian movement professed a
strong attachment to the old English
divines at the first, but they and even
the early fathers are only “an old al
manac” to them now.
Rev. Wkliah Ellers has been act
ing as agent of the Bible Society in
Michigan. Since last April, he has
visited 1995 families, of which 280 had
no Bible. and about 15—mostly Roman
ists—refused to accept one. Besides,
309 or 4*o children have* been supplied
with the New Testament.
OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT.
DEDICATION AT LE ROY
We have before mentioned that the
church edifice of the; Presbyterian
Church of Leßoy was 'undergoing ex
tensive repairs. Indeed, it has been
made anew, all but the frame. The
question of tearing even that down and
building an entire new house was seri
ously discussed. But that wonld have
required at least $25,000. The frame
was found to be as solid and strong as
the day when it was built; so, by using
this, the house could be made as good
as new for $lO,OOO. '
The work has necessarily been slow
ly done. The congregation have in the
meantime, for several months, been w -
shipping in the chapel of Ingham Uni
versity. They were evidently very glad
to get back to their o-wn sacred home
The improvements embrace a new
roof, a steeple, (it had only a tower
before) new plastering, new seats, car
pets, pulpit, windows, gas fixtures and
organ. The latter, a good instrument,
cost $2OOO, and was made by House of
Buffalo. Altogether, the church is now
one of the most tasteful, comfortable and
inviting sanctuaries to be found in Wes-'
tern New York, reflecting great credit
upon the enterprise and good'’taste of
the congregation and of the minister,
Rev. C. C. Kimball, under whose labori
ous and seceessful administration it has
been effected. j
At 11 o’clock on Thursday morning,
2’Jth inst., a large assembly fr as con
vened to attend to the dedicate
sermon, able, original and ins
was preached by Rev. Mr.
from John iv. 23, 24. The question
raised was, how to dedicate he house
so that God will accept it. No cold
formula of words will answer. It must
he from the heart. It must b) given to
worship—“ worship in spirit (and in
truth.” What that worship is, worship
in prayer, in sermon, and in song, was
the burcfen of the discourse inspiringly
and hopefully presented.
The invocation was made by R«y. T.
M. Hodgeman, of Byron pleading the
Scriptures and prayer by Rev. C. F.
Mussey, of Batavia ; dedicatory prater
by Rev. C. P. Bush, of Rochester. The
singing, in connection with the kew
organ, was also excellent and appropri
ate.
Ab a part also of the day’s serv
Rev. Dr. WisneT, of Lockport, prea
a most excellent sermon in the eve
A fearful, storm of snow and
having sprung up in the afternoon
congregation which listened to this,
not so large as could have been det ired.
But beside the morning and eve aing
meetings, both so interesting and im
portant, there was still another, i lter
mediate, not less valuable perhaps ban
both the others. The expense of iaese
improvements had exceeded -first expec
tations—(they might have known they
would) —and there still remained,/an in
debtedness of $4OOO before they could*
give the church to God without/encum)
berance and embarrassment. (At the 1
close of the dedicatory service in the'
morning, a meeting of the male mem
bers of the congregation was held in the
lecture-room in the rear of the).church,j
at which an effort was made o cancel)
the indebtedness. Over three ibousand
dollars were subscribed upon >he spot,
and the remainder it was hoped to secure
in the evening; so as not to be guilty of
the felly of -pretending to give; that to
the’Lord .which they did not own them
selves. The storm interfered seriously
with this evening effort bat we donbt
not the amount will soon be raised!- ‘ It
is a noble effort, after all they had pre
viously done, and will enable them to
start well for the future. [
This church was never in a more
prosperous condition than at present..
Mr. Kimball has been with them a little
over two years. In that time the church
has hardly been at all without the
Spirit’s manifest presence and influence.
Seventy-five have joined the church on
profession, and forty-six by letter. An
old debt has been swept off. The/ Sab
bath-school has nearly doubled. { The
prayer-meeting is attended wii(h; in
creased interest. This church has
raised about $lB,OOO for church and be
nevolent purposes in the last two aricl a
half years. , i
We may add, that Le |ls.a-.
santly growing 'and improving ’all! |he
time. It is really one of the most jat
tractive and delightful places ini our
vicinity. We congratulate its good
people in living in a place wheie it
would seem so easy to be good am do
good.
CHRISTMAS IXESTIVAIS.
Any number of these have been held
in this region in the present week; and
thousands of little hearts have been
made very happy by the Christinas
trees; but not more happy than those
who have furnished them; inasmuch as
it is more blessed to give than to re
ceive.
TRUE ART.
Taking pictures by sunlight has cer
tainly been brought to great perfection.
We are led to. make this profound re
mark by what we saw a few days since
in one of the photographic galleries of
Roberts, of our city. There were like
nesses of many of. our leading citizens,
as large as life and almost as natural.'
Some were beautifully colored and ri
valed oil-paintings, not only in the accu
racy of expression, but in the delicacy of
finish.
But we were more particularly inter
ested ih looking at pictures of a well;
known and beloved clergyman and his
wife. These were in miniature and on
porcelain; intended, as we understood,
for a Christmas present to an absent
daughter.
They were beautifully enclosed in
plash lockets, oval in form, about three
inches long, perfect gems in their way.
We wonder if the world appreciates the
value of such mementos of absent friends,
so easily obtained. Snrely this art has
done much for human happiness.
Rev. W. B. Stewart, now of our city,
District Secretary of the American and
Foreign Christian Union, is out with an
admirable circular, to pastors and otherß,
setting forth the claims of his cause
upon the sympathy and aid of the chur
ches. He makes a good show of work
accomplished, especial in Italy, Mexico
and South America. We do not see
how the lovers of the Gospel or of liber
ty even, can refuse to belp so good a
cause. Genesee.
Rochester, Dec. 29j 1866.
STARTING A NEW SUNDAY-SCHOOL.
Rev. John -W. Dulles— My Dear
Sir: —Your favor of the ten Sunday
school bymn-boyks came to hand just
in time for me' to take them as I was
leaving for my appointment, where we
were intending to start our Sabbath
school. I took them down and found
the people all expectation. The school
master closed the day-school one hour
earlier Friday afternoon, and he and
the scholars cleaned up the school-house,
and arranged the benches in convenient
order for the Sabbath-school. They had
scrubbed the benches, and had bought
a bell, and were just getting it hung,
Saturday afternoon, in time to ring for
our evening meeting, (I preach the
Saturday evening before at all my
Sabbath appointments) and for the Sab
bath-school in the morning.
It was very gratifying to me. Sabbath
morning, it was very rainy, and I was two
miles in the country, having gone out (af
ter night meeting) the previous evening,
to visit an aged Christian couple. But I
came.ip, found- children and grown peo
ple waiting. Timidly and shyly I set
to work at the organization. So near
Christmas, the second chapter of Mat
thew was read and remarked on. The
hymn, “ Brightest and best of the sons
of the morning,” gave farther interest.
After a short prayer, which A assure
you went from my heart, as I thought
we might be laying the foundation for
a spiritual temple for the Most High,
we were ready to commence classify
ing.
on. The
jtructingj
Kimball,
One difficulty was at once apparent,
a scarcity of teachers. Some that we
expected were absent—some that might
have been efficient seemed afraid. The
school was a new thing, though often
wished for by the citizens. Two old
people, who are well qualified for teach
ing—a gentleman and lady—had left
their “ specks” at home. By pleading,
urging, waiting, urging, and pleading
again, one gentleman and one lady
alone being already willing, we got the
classes provided with teachers. Not
protracting our exercises for the first
time, we sang several hymns of the
the committee’s Sabbath-school hymn
hook, and fortunately, all seemed to
know and like the tunes. Music is a
great item with a western congregation.
The minister who cannot sing is poorly
qualified for home missionary work in
the West.
The school exercises went off like a
chtlrm. Everybody seemed pleased.
Some said- there were four times as
many present as they expected. I need
not say all the hymn-books were sold
and mobs called for. I send two dol
lars, requesting you to send ns ten more.
Please send immediately on receipt of
this that I may receive them in time for
my next appointment there. I hope
tl|ey will raise fnnds for a small Sab
bath-Behool library. Pray for and re
joice with us. Tour brother in Christ,
* Samuel Ward.
Tandaua, Ind., Dec. 24, 1866.
“ Go Prom Home to Hear Home
News.” —The London Athenaeum con
tains the following scrap of Philadelphia
news which may interest some readers.
We are glad to know that the Library
anthorities have acted with Philadelphia
straight-forwardness and honesty in the
matter.
A very interesting mass of historical letters
has been found in the city library of Phila
delphia. A book was being shown to a recent
tourist in America as a collection of mere
autographs, which the tourist saw at a glance
contained a missing portion of the great
series of public instructions from the Privy
Council of James the First to the Lord
Peputy of Ireland. The letters are numer
ous—many hundreds; and cover the whole
of the very important administration of Sir
Arthur Chichester. They are said to have
been carried away (abstracted might be the
better word) from Ireland by a retiring Lord
Chancellor m the troubled time of William
the Third. On its being pointed out to the
city authorities that these records—of little
value where they stand, isolated by the At
lantic ocean from the series—belong to the
Crown of England, and a portion of our
national archives, a ready disposition to re
store them to their proper place in our Rec
ord Office was at once evinced.. Of course
some forms will have to he gone through;
but we have no hesitation in saying that,
when these forms have been observed, these
remarkable State papers will be restored to
the (brown.
Metropolis, lll.—The church edifice
is nearly closed in, having been erected
at a cash outlay of $l2OO ; exclusive of
the- church lot, which was donated by
“ a mother in Israel.” Services formerly
held in the Court House, are now con
ducted in the pastor’s house.
AFTER THE POPE.
A Handsome Thing HandsomE-ly
Done. — Rev. Dr. Marcfi , of the distort
Street Church, has jult received from
hiß congregation, a handsome New
Years gift, in the shape of a $lOOO
greenback. The donation was acknow
ledged in the most delicate and feeling
manner by the pastor, on Sunday morn
ing last. No man, in or out of the pul
pit, can make an acknowledgment like
that more handsomely than can Dr.
March. The frequency with which he
is called to such services, proves the
strong attachment existing between him
and his people. It seems to grow greater
as the year rolls round. We are informed
that not one dollar of this donation was
asked for. Two of the members of the
church merely sent notes round, stating
that the project was on foot, and the
money flowed in, all in two or three
days.
Statistics op a City Church.—We
are permitted to use the following sta
tistics, without any revelation beyond
the statement that they refer to one of
the churches which owes its existence
mainly to the liberality of the late M. W.
Baldwin:— *
Statistics of the year 1866.—Visits
made, 1931; married, 11 couples; bap
tized, 61 children and 6 adults; attend
ed 56 funerals; raised by pew-rents,
$1042.25 ; raised for the poor, $121.62 ;
raised for furnishing the church, $651.-
91; weekly collection for general church
purposes (5 months) $111.02; for the
various objects recommended by the
General'Assembly and for others, $109.-
49 total, $2048.35. During the year,
84 persons joined the church (26 were
by letter and 58 on profession); 15 per
sons have been dismissed to other chur
cheß; .5 persons departed thislife, leaving
a church membership! of 319 persons;
14 copies of the Presbyterian Monthly
and 25 copies of the American Pres
byterian have been taken.
A Parsonage Visited. —The people
of the Marple Church, just outside of
this city, paid a holiday visit to the
family of their pastor, RCv. B. B. Hotch
kin, on Wednesday evening of last
week. The gathering-was larger than
on any former occasion of that kind in
that parsonage, and old and young
passed a brisk and happy evening. The
supplies left were liberal, spreading over
the general round of household wants,
not forgetting the worthy occupant of
the pastor’s stable, and giving also a
fresh lining to his porte-monnaie. The
feature of the evening was the presenta
tion to the pastor, of an imperial quarto
photograph albnm, of superb Turkey
finish, with room for two hundred pho
tographs, all of which are intended to be
taken up with likenesses of members of
his congregation. The presentation was
accompanied by a few words of affection
from Mr. Joseph Oat, to which a brief
and grateful response was made. The
whole affair, which, as usual, was large
ly due to the energetic ladies of the
congregation, was conducted in the
best, taste, and left the kindliest -feel
ings on all hearts. If the record of it
may stimulate the people of other coun
try parishes to a like thoughtfulness for
the comfort of their pastors, more hearts
will be made glad.
Sunday-schools and Mission Work.
—Some are now giving to support
schools and build chapels in foreign
lands. Our Home Missionary Commit
tee have recently issued a circular in
viting the co-operation of the children of
the .churches. They will send a letter
from one of our home missionaries to
any school requesting it, contributing
$25 or more. They will furnish a mis
sionary in an interesting field to any
school which singly, or united with an
other school, may undertake his support,
the average expense being $250. In
this case, the school will regularly re
ceive his reports and letters. In a mis
sion school in a destitute field in New
York city, the contributions average
$2O per month. A little girl in this
school was seen to take from her pocket
an old snuff-box which contained four
pennies, covered with cotton. After
quite a seeming struggle, she took out
one and gave it with a cheerful look.
Thus was she learning the joy of sys
tematic benevolence, and on a larger
scale than some older, for she gave one
fourth of her possessions to the cause of
Christ. In another mission school a poor
little fatherless boy, who lived by selling
matches, was known to give forty-eight
cents in one month to the cause of mis
sions.
One school has had its society organ
ized under the second plan nineteen
years. During this time it has contrib
uted to mission purposes $,7514, begin
ning with $214 and reaching this year
$756; thus showing a constant growth.
In our own denomination we have
reported 143,639 scholars. Calculating
a school for each church, the schools
would number, about ninety-four schol
ars. Should each scholar contribute
one penny a Sabbath, the average would
be forty-nine dollars a year, and would
accumulate a sum of nearly seventy-five
thousand annually.— Cor. of Evangelist.
Warren, Pa—The Hon. G. W. Sco
field has lately transmitted to the Pres
byterian church of Warren the Bum of
$lOO, contributed by Hon. W. E. Dodge,
M.C., of New York, to our new church.
He owns considerably property in Cam
eron and McKeon counties, and we un
derstand he offers to give as much for a
new church in Emporium as the inhabi
tants will raise for that purpose.
Byron, N. Y.—The church :n this
village, (Rev. T. M. Hodgman, pastor,)
having nearly completed their new, or
entirely remodelled and enlarged sanctu
ary, in order to light, cushion and carpet
their beautiful house of worship, held &
fair and festival in the body of the
house on the evening of December sth.
Three hundred dollars were realized.
Delaware, Ohio.— Rev. O. H. New
ton writes to the Herald —“ The mem
bers of the Second Presbyterian Church
and congregation of Delaware paid us
a very pleasant visit on the evening of
the 28th of last month, furnishing a very
ample feast for the body, as well as
everything else necessary to a most
pleasant and agreeable sociable evening
entertainment. We have had a good
many of these visits from our people
during a ministry of more than eleven
yearß, and we can testify to both theb
pleasantness and profitableness.”
Maumee City.. —Our church here, to
which Rev. C. Richards ministers, has
just realized $2OO from a festival, and
purchased a fine cabinet organ. The
congregations are increasing and the
prospects encouraging.
Rockfield, Ind.— Rockneld is aßtile
town on the Wabash Railroad, between
Logansport and Delphi, Ind., containing
about 2000 inhabitants. It is just as
old as the railroad (nine years'), anti
made by the railroad, and, like many
similar towns, till a year ago was
“ rather, hard.” Rev. A. Jones, our
minister at Delphi, went up occasionally
and preached to them in their school
house ; and last winter he preached
several evenings in succession to a bouse
packed full. A number expressed hope
in Christ, and in the spring they, with
others who had moved into the neigh
borhood from other churches, were or
ganized into a church of twpnty-six
members. Mr. Jones circulated a sub
scription paper, and everybody sub
scribed a little, and a meeting-house,
32 by 45, was built. When the build
ing was completed, the trustees assumed
the debt of $6OO ancUpaid off every -cre
ditor, borrowing money at six per cent;;
$3OO nf this was subscribed at the dedi
cationf and there is now's3oo still due.
A beneficial effect has been exerted upon
the community by this labor of love, and
an infidel said to Mr. Jones, “ I dp not
believe the doctrines you. preach, bnt
there has been a very great change in
the character of this town since yon
began to preach here.’!— Cor. of Chris
tian Herald.
Mount Pleasant, lII.—A revival iu
the church in thiß, place, lasting eleven
days, has gathered in fifty?seven -souls.
The way was prepared by faithful, ear
nest and persistent labor on the part of
the pastor, Rev. Geo. F. Davis, and by
prayer-meetings in private houses. Aid
was furnished by the Rev. J. T. Whet
temore,, of Plymouth, 111., who says
there was no undue excitement, bat a
steady increase of power and of attend
ance amid very stormy weather. Brother
Davis “ has lived on a very small
salary, and his people have grown rich.”
Sulphur Springs, Mo The church
at this place, in spite of the accident in
raising the rafters, is nearly ready for
shingling. Rev. W. S. Post, of thi®
place, and Rev. D. J. Jenkins, are the
only ministers of pur Church in South
eastern Missouri. They are laboring
hard in the face of financial and political
difficulties. “ The people in this region
seem anxious to have Church privilegfes,
but do not Beem to realize that these
must cost money. They .imagine rich
Churches in the large eities are rich
enough to supply &e nation with the
means of grace.” Sabbath-school book®
and appliances are greatly needed.
Jefferson City, Mo.—The
meets in a convenient hall. The Sab
bath-school numbers forty-five j the
church, nine members. Collections for
Home Missions, $lO6.
Death in the Ministry. —Rev.
Hoyt, pastor of the First Church, Orange/
N. J., while in his §£udy preparing a
sermon- on Saturday evening, Dec. 15,
was seized with apoplexy and died next,
day. “ Earnest in his work, an exeel
lent writer and preacher, he was also a
faithful pastor, wise, discreet and- pru
dent, and a safe counsellor to hie breth
ren.”
Mission to Jews—Bov. A. J. Levy
reports (under date of Cincinnati, Dee-.,
1866,) that through last year he ha&
visited in CiUcinati-, Columbus, Pitts
burgh, and other places in the
575 families, and conversed with about.
200 individuals in the street, steam beat,,
and railroad car, about • Jesus, their
Messiah; distributed about l4,oo6pages.
of tracts in the Hebrew, German and
English languages; 25 Hebrew, 5 €ter
man and 5 English Bibles; 4 Hebrew
Psalters, 10 Hebrew, 8 German and 112
English Testaments. In his mission of
love he has been well receivedy with at
few exceptions. In many places they
came to church on the Sabbath day t»
hear him preachy and invited him to*
their houses, and willingly conversed os»
the subject of their soul's salvation
Since his last report, one more hap been
added to the Church of Chrißt.
Churches. — Cuba, Mo. — A ehurck
was organized here, June 10th, witha
nine members. Troy, Kansas A
pleasing work of grace in progress^
audience lage ; several accessions.
Lebanon, lU,. —Church building is in an
advance stage of erecting. The * cost
will be close on $4OOO, of which $2300
is subscribed. Twenty-one members.
CerUralia, Itf.—Rev. James W.
Stark has taken charge of the church at
this point.