tion of Ministerial Support with great energy. It was remarked that Paul spoke freely of this subject, though many ministers dared not do so lest they should be thought, as was ])r. Chalmers by an old woman, to be 1 unco warldly.” Dr. Hamilton recommended a Sustentation Fund, and mentioned that in Wales, in the beginning of the century, an Evangelist’s wages was io<7. a sermon . A pro rata ten per cent, standard was advocated, as the measure of what each Christian should set apart for Christ’s service. The difficul ties in the way of movement are the preju dices of those who live on little and think ministers can do the same; the diffidence of ministers themselves, and the danger of giving , additional support the character of alms i Meetings with the same object have been held in Liverpool. ‘ “The Watchword” is the name of a new Scottish magazine issued by Dr. Begg, to represent the ultra Free Church party in op position to the Unionists. Dr. Begg also publishes a high Protestant Magazine, called the Bulwark. They are pleasantly known in Edinburgh as the “Bulldog” and the “Watch dog.” A “ Cheeryble Brothers” Commemora tion.—A festival of more than local interest was held on St. Andrew’s-day, in the East Lancashire town of RamsbOttom. The oc casion was that of the presentation to the minister and congregation of St: Andrew S, by Mr. W. Grant, of Nuttall Hall, of a church built some years ago, and now very elaborately decorated at that gentleman s ex pense, in memory of his father and uncles, the well-known originals of Dickens’ ‘ Cheery ble Brothers.” There were special services in the church morning and evening, and over flowing congregations were present. In the at tendance differences of creed seemed to be ut terly laid aside. Five' 11 denominations were counted in the building, the Church of Eng land having her representative in the rector of the parish. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Andrew Maclean, D.D., minister of the congregation, who is related to the “Brothers.” “Bishop Julius of lona,” whom we have adready mentioned as working to unite the Eastern and the English churches, on being questioned as to the propriety of his former connection with the Irish Presbyterian Mis sion in Syria,, said that he knew the Stand ards of doctrine, government, discipline of the Presbyterian Church, and that it was on the basis of these Standards, not of what . happens to be the popular view of Presbyte ; nans in the present day, that he agreed to be their missionary. These Standands, he says ingeniously enough, leave it perfectly open to have bishops, elders, and deacons, validly ordained, and to conduct religious ser vices and administer sacraments in a manner which both the Eastern and the Latin Church would consider perfectly orthodox and valid- This he did, and endeavored to persuade other men to do, but not secretly. When he found that his services were not appre ciated, he withdrew. New Church. —A new U. P. church has been opened at Bonnygate, Cupar, in Scot land. It cost in all about .£3OOO, of which more than £2OOO have been raised. Chaplains. —The Irish Presbyterian Church ■ has been moving to secure Presbyterian mili tary ch aplains at posts where Irish Presbyteri an soldiers are stationed. Two chaplains have just been elected for Sheerness and Shoebury ness. The Irish Church and the Manse Fund. —The Irish Presbyterians are making vigor ous efforts as to clearing off debt on churches, and also to build manses and school-houses. The Rev. E. L. Berkley, of Lurgan, is the convener of the committee, in the room of the late Dr. Edgar.- In Dr. Edgar’s day nearly $150,000 was obtained: Now for the completion of the work, Mr. Berkley has. already obtained nearly $lOO,OOO. French Protestantism. —The Protestant Consistory of Caen, like that of Valence, has just taken a step which is producing a lively sensation in the bosom of French Pro testantism. It has just decided that no Pro testant elector shall be inscribed on the parish register, if he does not subscribe affirmative ly to this question : —“ Do you belong to the Gospel faith as it is set forth in the Apostles’ Creed?” The same question will be sent to each elector already inscribed on the register, and if he should reply in the negative, his voting paper will not be received. Congregationalist. —The Rev. Dr. Hawes has assisted at the installation of five and the removal of four ministers of the South Con gregational Church of Hartford, and at the installation of five and the removal of three of the North Congregational Church. Up to the time of his leaving the Centre Church it had had hut eleven pastors in two hundred and fifty years, and all of them lived, died and were buried with their people.—Hart ford (Conn.) Herald. The Berkshire South Conference, ac its late meeting, re solved, that each church ought to map out and accept a definite parish, the religious culture of which it shall feel bound to care for. By the will of the late Mrs. Amos A. Lawrenoe, of Boston, bequests.were made to different institutions and societies, as follows: Williams College, $5000; American. Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, $5000; Foreign Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church, $4000; American Bible Society, $4000; American Home Missionary Society, $3000; Domestic Missions of the Protestant Episcopal. Church, $3000; Ame rican Seamen’s Friend Society, $2000; Widows' Society, $1500; Children’s Friend Society, $1500; Ameiican Educational So ciety, $lOOO ; Boston Female Asylum, $1000; Church Home for Orphans, $1000; Old Ladies’ Home, $lOOO. Total, $33,000. The church in Plainfield has been greatly blessed during the past year. Over forty persons have been added to the church, while more are yet to come forward. ' The year has been one continued revival, and the work still goes .on, while several other townsin that vicinity are similarly favored. There had been for two or three months a quiet work of grace in the Sabbath-school at Leicester, resulting in some twenty .five conversions, when a series of meetings was commenced with the assistance of Rev. J. D. Potter, Dec. 18, which continued daily for nearly a week. Business was to a considerable extent suspended in the village, and on the closing days of the meetings the Holy Spirit came down with great power. The church was melted.and subdued. Christians confessed their sinis to each other. Large numbers eame forward and asked for the prayers of the church. The subject of religion became the theme of conversation in the community, and even at places of public resort. The work has been remarkably quiet, and free from animal excitement. Somewhat more than 140 persons have expressed hope, and family worship has been established in be tween 20 and 30 homes. Many are still anx iously inquiring the way ol salvation ;Re vivals are reported in West Auburn, Me.; Westford, Vt., and Wnioitt, Conn. At the first twenty, and at the last, thirty-one have been gathered in. Hartford, Conn., is divided into districts, and the spiritual inte rests of the people resident in each of these is committed to the immediate charge of a Congregational church. In these districts are mission schools, and at present all of these are in a thriving condition. — Hart.' Relig. Herald. The erection of the new church building in Washington, D, C., is postponed till warm weather. The fbunda tions only are finished. The Oongrega- r tiondlist impeaches the accuracy of one of our correspondents in regard to Boston Church statistics, and says that Orthodox Congrega tional churches are just as numerous as fifteen years ago, and as to Evangelical Chur ches, “In 1851 there were 14 Orthodox Con gregational, 13 Baptist, 11 Episcopal, 12 Methodist and 1 Presbyterian. Now there are 14 Orthodox Congregational, 14 Baptist, 14 Methodst, 13 Episcopal and 0 Presbyteri an, a gain of 10 instead of a loss of 10. We might also add two or three more, Lutheran, etc. The Unitarian churches are one less than in 1S51; then the number was 20; now it is 19. The Universalist churches are two less; then the number was 6 ; now it is 4.” And if one would add the Evangelical chur ches formed by those who have gone out of the city, in the suburbs, the gain would be much larger. [Our correspondent says he wrote two in stead of ten in speaking of the diminution of Orthodox Churches. In one place our type reported him correctly, in another place the mistake was made on which this criticism is based.] a Episcopal. —At the December meeting of the State Board of Domestic Missions for Illinois, some painful facts were elicited, illustrating the necessity for increased and efficient missionary labor in that State —as, that there are -thirty-six towns in the State, each containing'Over one thousand inhabit ants, in which no Gospel sermon has ever been preached ; that there are whole counties in Illinois in which there is not a single church of any Christian denomination. “In deed, the State, 1 ' says an Illinois paper, “in the scale of religious advancement, was shown to be but a slight grade above heathendom, and as eligible a field for missionary labor as many districts in Africa, or the islands of the sea. ” This statement is said to be greatly exaggerated, but to have a sorrowful sub stratum of truth in it. The Ghwrdh Al manac gives the following statistics of the denomination: —Dioceses, 44; clergy of all grades, 2530; parishes, 2305; candidates for orders, 226; .burials, 16,828 ; baptisms, 31,309; marriages, 9900; confirmations, 19,296; received to communion, 14,138; present number"of communicants, 161,224; Sunday-school teachers, 17,570; scholars, 157,813; contributions for Church purposes, $3,057,669.94. — -Woman’s Work in the Church. —In an address to the Diocesan Con vention of 1862, the late Bishop Potter sug gested that the Church should provide for the training and employment of women in work among the sick and destitute. The suggestion was carried out in connection with the .Church Hospital and the Military Hos pitals in this city during the war, as well as in the city parishes. Since Bishop Potter’s death, to establish a “Bishop Potter Memo rial House” in connection with their Church Hospital. A mansion near by has been se cured and will be opened in two or three months, under direction and control of the Bishop of the Diocese, and in charge of a Wisconsin lady. Special attention will be given to Home Mission work in the neigh borhood. As many suitably qualified volun teers as can be procured, accommodated, and supported without expense to the Hospital, will be trained in teaching, and in charitable work, under the direction of the principal and her helpers. At the end of six months they can leave the Institution, or re-enter, to prepare, according to their aptitude and taste, for some special service in the foreign or domestic fields, or for nursing in the Hos pital or elsewhere. More commodious build ings will in due time be erected, if needed. The managers will not adopt the plan and rules of any European institution, especially such as do not harmonize with the spirit of the American Church; but no vow of celibacy will be allowed; nor, without the written approval of the Bishop, and of the Board of Managers of the Hospital, will there be any pledge of service beyond a very limited time. ln the Church of the Atonement, Brook lyn, an election for rector, for one year, re sulted in a tie vote on Rev. E. F. Reming ton. The Senior Warden, claiming a casting vote, decided Mr. Remington not elected, and refused to induct him into office. A writ of mandamus was sued out to compel him to do so, and after argument, Judge Gilbert quashed the writ. .Bishop Elliott, of Georgia, died veiy unexpectedly at his resi dence in Savannah, on Friday evening, the 21st ultimo. He had just returned from a visit to the interior of the State, and was ex pected in jSkw York on Christmas day. He was in perfect health when the summons came. He was the oldest, and ablest of the Southern Bishops, and won bad notoriety by his eulogy on Bishop- General Polk, after the latter’s decease. It is belived that the/present Episcopal Diocese of New York will be divided into three parts, making a see of Albany 'and one of Brooklyn, besides the existing one of New York. Bishop Potter was opposed to* the movement, but a gentle and quiet but persist ent pressure was applied, to which he has gracefully yielded. To outsiders, the matter is of interest as indicating a return toward primitive Church principles, when the pro vince of North Africa counted bishops by the hundred. —Christian Intelligencer. . Moravian. —The Moravian missionaries in Greenland report a very 'successful year in that mission. Provisions were abundant and the schools . .were well .attended. The mis sionary vessel Harmony arrived recently at London from. Labrador, having on board Rev. B. Barsoe, who retires from the mission after thirty years’ service. Missionary.— China. —There are 55 Pro- in China, and 95 Protestant missionaries are also settled in Nagasaki and Yokohama, in Japan. Many of 'the rich Japanese are learning from these missiona ries the languages of the Western nations. The Millenarians at Jaffa.— A late letter from the Maine Colony, dated Jaffa, Oct. 30, contradicts the published dolorous reports concerning it. The affairs of the colony are in a flourishing condition, and the writer says there is nothing- to prevent making money there with a little American enterprise. The country is much better than was represented to Elder Adams, and although it is now the dryest and most barren season of the year, there is plenty of everything for food. The American, English and French Consuls have given the colonists all the assistance thay re quired, and the Sultan of Turkey is iii favor of their establishing, themselves there. It is expected that another vessel will leave Maine next year for Jaffa. Roman Catholic. —Austrian Monasteries. —There are in Austria 728 monasteries and 298 convents, the first with 59 abbots, 6754 priests, 240 novices and 1917 iay brothers ; and the second wj|b 5198 nuns. Two hun dred and eighty-two of these establishments belong to the Franciscan orders, 85 to sisters of chqrity, 60 to the Piarists, 41 to the Do minicans, 47 to the Benedictines, 26 to the Basilians, and 17 to the Jesuits. -Another Mortara Case. —A Frankfort letter says:— “We have had here a plagiarism of the Mor tara affair. A lad of fourteen, of the Jewish religion, connected with a (arge English firm, was decoyed Rom his home by a Catholic friend of his parents, and sent to a monastery at Cologne, there to be baptized. Happily* the father got a hint in time to telegraph to a friend at Cologne, who called for the boy on the arrival of the train, and took him hack. The law officers have now taken the case in hand, and it is to be hoped that the Government will make an example of this fanatic which will deter others from similar offences.” Miscellaneous. —City Missions. —During the past month the agents of the New. York City Missions have made 11,489 missionary visits; held 356 meetings; 904 persons were led to these meetings and churches; 303 children were introduced to the Sabbath school ; 88 temperance pledges were signed, and 57,108 tracts were distributed. Sab bath, Rest. —A few years ago, out of the 1200 omnibuses employed in London, only 108 had the Sunday rest; now one company alone allows 142 of their omnibuses to “lie still, as it is termed. Temperance. —A project is on foot in London for an immense temper ance club, to have ,a capital of half a million dollars and a building that shall contain, be sides lecture-hall, reading, class, dining and billiard-rooms, gymnasium, bath-rooms, etc., apartments ior about five hundred resident members. What (jigar-Ends come'to.— Two years ago a society was established in Berlin, the members of which agreed to pre serve all the points of their cigars, instead of biting them, off and throwing them away. These ends are collected and then sold in large quantities, cither for the manufacture of snuff or for smoking in pipes. The sum thus raised is applied to the maintenance and education of orphans; and some idea of the extent of the society, and the intensity of its affection for the weed may be gamed from the fact that the cigar-ends of two years’ saving have brought in a sufficient sum for the maintenance of twenty-two children. Such a society ought to be established m London to support a hospital for persons suffering from the deleterious effects of ex cessive smoking. The Great Northwest.— There is (says “ Chicago,” in the Presbyten an,) an evident awakening among the North western churches. The Week of Prayer at the beginning of the year was greatly blessed to the revival of all the churches. The Springfield revival, culminating in the State prayer-meeting, was a remarkable, work of grace in that city, and its influence has been felt for good over all the State. The Sunday school conventions in the counties were greatly blessed as revival meetings; and the Convention of Sunday-school Missionaries in Chicago was a revival to every church in which, on the Sabbath, these devoted, ear nest men of God spoke. The Chicago Bible Society trebled its force, and is supplying every child in the county with a Testament. The Young Men’s Christian Association is doing a noble work of Gospel charity among the poor, and is building a Christian Ex change, which will Cost two hundred thou sand dollars. The students of the Baptist, Congregational and Old School Presbyterian Seminaries have commenced a Union Prayer meeting, returning from which, the other night, in the street cars, they astonished the natives by substituting for the Dutch chorals frequently heard, some of their Christian Commission camp-songs. CHURCH ERECTION. A SERMON PREACHED IN THE WALNUT STREET CHURCH ; PHILADELPHIA, BY REV. J. GLENi- WORTH BUTLER, D.D., DEC. 30, 1866. , “Ye ought to support the weak.”—Acts, xx., 35. In urging an appeal concerning an object of the highest importance toward which this church body has, never yet been called upon to contribute, I take occasion at the outset to introduce some things which are not only befitting here, but which will prepare for and aid my specific purpose. t THE PRESBYTERIAN DENOMINATION. As a distinot denomination of Christians, Presbyterians-of almost every branch in this land are greatly deficient in a proper denomi national spirit-. Methodists, Baptists, Epis copalians, Congregationalists and others are everywhere far in advance of Presbyterians in this matter. Their members are more fre quently and better instructed in what is dis tinctive in doctrine and polity; they are more thoroughly trained to the methods of church action. The tenets of each body, its pe culiarities of worship, and agencies far uselul ness, are more constantly brought wffore its membership, and pressed upon their practi cal consideration. On the part of Presbyte rians, it cannot but be acknowledged that far too little attention has been given to these matters, and as the result of neglect, the de nominational spirit, I mean a just and proper spirit, is scarcely cherished by the majority* of our membership. It is not to our taste to say much of our system, much less to say aught disparaging of any ether. Yet we might say as much, at least, as any other, of our visible origin as a distinct organization, of our formulas of doctrine, of our polity, and of our history. As our founders and build ers, we can point to men as learned in the sacred oracles, as wise in the knowledge of human nature, as godly as ever have lived. Of our formulas of doctrine, we can grateful ly say that no production of uninspired men sets forth more succinctly, more comprehen- 1 sively, and more effectively, the connepted truths of God’s, saving, sanctifying word. Of our polity, our principles .and methods of Church government, we can intelligently afiirm that none other is derived more clearly, or sus tained more positively by the teachings and acts of the Apostles; while, as respects this country, we can show the identity-of our form of government with that of the nation, and a striking affinity with the spirit of all its institutions. And we can as intelligently and thankfully assert that the Presbyterian chapter of history is one ot the largest; the facts it clusters, which bear effectually upon the progress of Christianity and the welfare of the face, are among the most numerous and important of any. It is true the Presbyterian body has been divided and subdivided in the mother coun try and this, until we really number many bands. But all have held tenaciously to tbe same system, subscribed to the same- formu las, maintained the identical, polity, and claimed a common inheritance in the same grand history. And all have stood together as a mighty division of the army of Christ in the conflict with evilis As to the benign effects wrought by our entire denomination in this land, where we have a field admirably ffijteAJor the.jlejfolop-, ment of our system, we could rehearse, "With out possible fear of being counted invidious, facts, numerous and signal, which could not but excite the wondering gratitude of every one that delights in the glory of God and tbe best weal of man. ‘ To-day we number more than* six thousand ministers, as educated, able and godly men, and a like number of congregations, compris ing as intelligent and devoted men and women, as can be found in any Church body on the face of the earth. OUR OWN BRANCH. Of this whole number, our Own branch comprises more than a fourth. : Our Chris tian work is carried* on by methods and with agencies similar to those of the other branches and with the same efficiency and success which characterizes them all. We have our indi vidual churches, large and small, compara tively strong and weak, 'planted over the breadth of the iand from ocean to ocean.. All are organized, for the most partf with houses of worship, a stated- mihistfy, 'Sabbath'wor ship and ordinances, and Sabbath schools. And in compliance with the Gospel principle of the text, that the strong ought to support the weak, like almost all other Christian denominations, we have established agencies to aid in the perpetuation of existing churches and the increase of their number with an incasing population, as well as to assist in carrying on the work of Christ in lands of either hemisphere, as yet unblessed with the knowledge of God’s saving word. THE VARIOUS AGENCIES OP OUR CHURCH WORK. For the systematic and successful prosecu tion of these ends, we have several distinct agencies, each directed by a few chosen qualified men; agencies, each of which acts for the whole body, in carrying out a specific part of the whole connected work. First, we have a wise and efficient scheme to provide for the education of a sufficiency of ministers —a scheme whose necessity grows out of the fact that not many of the wealthy —either parents for their sons, or sons for themselves—‘■recognize the call of God to his service in the ministry; and therefore they who feel the call must be aided in their pre paration, either wholly or in part. Next, we have an agency which searches out and seeks to provide for those localities in older as well as newer States which are destitute of the Gospel; where the people are either indifferent or unable to obtain for themselves the services of a minister of Christ. Without such quickening, helpful agency on the part of the several Christian Churches, this land had been to-day in peril from a vast and growing barbarism. It has been mainly through this form of agency, employed by every branch of Christ’s body, through the planting of the institutions of the Gospel, fast and far as population, has gone westward, that we owe the distinctively Christian character of our civilization, the excellence of our laws and the unprecedent edly rapid development, of our. beneficent in stitutions, educational and social. And this Home Mission agency is still augmenting and extending the same healthful civilizing and evangelizing work. So, too, our branch of the Church has its part in an organization for sending the Gospel to nations, heathen or half civilized. In the wonderful work which has been achieved in the last fifty years, we have been permitted to Many laborers have been raised •up among us and sent forth to the great world-field of Foreign Missions. Many from our midst have gone forth from home and kindred to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ in distant lands. Many have wrought a partial or full life-work and gone to their reward while toiling among those far nations. More recently we have established a fourth agency for the creation and dissemination of a Religious Literature, an agency needed even in churches and communities like ours, which are largely supplied from other sources, in order to keep pace, with the vast supply of secular and irreligious reading—an agency needed far more, as chiefly designed to meet the destitution :of religious reading among the poorer and' less intelligent-districts, old and new, of our vast population. And this agency, now firmly established, is achieving a mighty beneficent work, year by year. Still more recently, our Church has organ ized a fifth agency, to meet an imperative obligation in making provision for the disabled ministers and the destitute families of those who have died in their toil. These men, whose bodies have broken down under the pressure of poverty, disease and faithful labor, and the needy widows and orphans of those who have gone to rest and reward; these, the mostr deserving of all Christ’s poor, have become the Church’s care, and the obligation to meet their necessities is more and more acknowledged and responded to by | the membership of our body. I All ot these agencies, charged with the education of. men for the ministry, with the sending forth and support of missionaries, home and foreign, with the creation and dis semination of a Religious Literature, and with the gathering ana distribution to the necessities of disabled ministers; all these agencies, needful for the prosecution ot the Church’s aggressive and progressive work, have been established and have been mea surably successful in meeting the demands made upon them. CHURCH ERECTION. But thore is another agency, as needful as the rest, which, though established for many years, has had a history of comparative fail ure. I refer to the scheme devised and set in operation more than ten years ago, to aid feeble churches in the thinly settled portions of the land-in the erection of houses of worship. The plan then adopted and since carried out, consisted in the raising of a Permanent Fund which should be loaned in small sums to such as needed help, for a term of years, without interest,) to be. returned with interest in yearly instalments thereafter. The plan seemed to be many of its details, so ; far 3£sit required and so stimulated the ut most exertion on the part of the aided church, and ajsj it secured the ultimate return of the amouuts loaned as well as the property itself to th|jcause of Christ, it was wise—if not liberal: But in its main principle of loaning in plppe of actual donation, ten years have shown it to be radically defective. For the samapoverty which demanded help at the out set, inilmost every case, continued through and far beyond the term of the loan, and made it exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to re fund! the amount loaned. The result has beenrhat where if has not been refunded, the accumulated indebtedness has been a burdei and anxiety to the people, and where it has been refunded, the congregation has been | impelled to take the money out of what' should have been appropriated to the supprA of its ministry. So it has come to pass t at either the church has been con strain d to forego the services of a stated minis sr, or else to draw the principal part of his Si ary from the Home Missionary Agency. In :ct, as is easily seen, the Permanent Fund for Church Building has been kept, but.t e Home Mission Funds have paidfor the ho.usi A worse result, too, has happened, in tht utter discouragement of the churches indeii 3d to the Fund, as well as the gradual withd iwal of applications for loans by chur ches 1 :eding help. Th< experiment often years having shown the in ffieiency and failure of the plan,- the last G neral Assembly replaced it with an other. The fund already in its possession having been solicited and given as a perma nent- 1 1st, and so not being legally donable, is to t permanently invested, and the inte rest u] >u it to be given to needy churches. •Beside this, the Assembly appeal annually to all the shurches for funds to meet the exist ing an growing necessities of feeble congre gations _ The essential change in the plan consist in the principle upon which aid is to be imp rted. By the old method, the feeble churchlre'ceived a loan, by the new, a gift. One of the effects, of this new plan is toplace the caule of Church Erection upon the same basis wth that of Home Missions—that is, the ont true basis —to make it dependent upon tie annual voluntary, contributions of the churches. NEED (F LARGE FUNDS UNDER THE NEW PLAN. s action of the last Assembly, the bbath in December was designated lie.for a-eollegfion in all its churches I irate thjfoinesy’ pjjan. For a large 0 this /frsfdqntripiition, the appeal th great 1 powbr I 'to the friends of all'our congregations: l In the first By tH third Sj as the ti to inaug response comes v Christ ii place, from the failure already referred to of the tried plan, there have accumulated a great number of cases outcrying for help. These calls come from new and growing, al though not wealthy, communities, to aid in the building of plain, uncostly edifices for worship. The people have settled down, with everything to do. Dwellings for their families are to be constructed, farms are to be paid for as well as improved and stocked, highways to be constructed, and other public necessities to be provided for. Hence they cannot, without help, build even cheap houses of worship. Yet, without a house, all attempts to do permanent good with or without a church organization, are comparatively fruitless. This is the uniform testimony of our mission ary laborers in the West. Here, many of them say, is our great hindrance—the lack of a house of worship. “Worshipping as we do in private dwell ings, ill-constructed school-houses, or incon venient, unadapted halls, we work on almost hopelessly or with but partial success. But from the moment we enter into the possession of a comfortable ‘meeting-house,’ a new impulse is given to every religious depart ment. The congregation largely increases; the Sunday-school receives new life and new members; the church enterprise commands increasingly the respect and confidence of the community; hopefulness is infused, into the hearts of the believers; new energy imparted to the preacher; the pecuniary income en larged ; and the people enter upon a new era. ’ ’ Take the case of a church in one of our Western States, from whom an application has lately been received for help.. They had begun to erect a house of worship, suitable, as they thought, for the thriving community where they lived—a manufacturing people in the suburbs of a young city. They expended ail their resources, and could go no further, leaving the house but half built; one of our brothers whose chaplaincy in the army had just expired, was induced to take charge of the congregation. He prevailed upon them to make an extra effort, by subscriptions and loans, to finish the interior of the church, so that they might be able to rent pews to all who desired them. The effort was successful. The work was accomplished. The pews were rented. An income was obtained sufficient to enable them to pay the minister twelve hundred dollars a year. The congregation was more than doubled; new interest waß given to the prayer-meetings, the Sunday school and the social gatherings; occasions for public worship were multiplied; the word of God was preached daily for weeks and months. The Spirit was-poured out; the church was thoroughly revived; the com munity was stirred up; many were awaken ed, brought under conviction and converted. “And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. ” Another case —the New Hope Church, Miami county, Indiana, about five miles from Peru. It is a country church, located at an important crossing of roads, with no village near or even in'sight. . Four years ago it was made a preaching station, for Sabbath after noon, by the pastor ut the church of Peru. A religious interest was awakened in the neighborhood. The Holy Spirit was given; some few souls were converted; a Presbyte rian church was constituted. “Then, with a little aid from without, a neat and commo dious house of worship was last year finished and dedicated.” “At no place has the Presbytery been more cordially greeted.” “In no church has there been so good an attendance upon all its meetings on the part .of the congregation.”. “The future to that community, because of that church , seemed full of a golden promise.” THE NEED IMMEDIATE. —OTHERS AT WORK. The demand for this aid is very great and very urgent to-day. The Secretaries of Home Missions say, “the first great want of the West now is houses of worship ;” and there fore they say, ■“ the success of this year’s movement in behalf of Church Erection is vital to our work. ’ ’ Other denominations are doing, and doing well, their share of this work. God puts upon us the doing of ours. With an intensity of pressure wrought out by his providence, in the war and its results, he summons us to do our part. “ Five hun dred years of time in the process of the World’s salvation,” says one of o;ur most godly practical divines, “may depend on the next twenty years of United States history.” To inaugurate a new and effective work for our branch of the Church of Christ, you, in common with the other churches, are appeal ed to to contribute in this most essential par ticular also, to the help of the weak, in fit ting proportion as God has prospered you. The amount actually needed now, by rea son of the long accumulation of deserving cases, is about $75,000. For this sum, our five hundred stronger churches are asked by the Assembly. For a kindred purpose, the Congregation alist body has collected nearly $200,000, while the Methodist connection have signal ized this their centuiy year by a total contri bution of more than $2,000,000, one-half at least for Church Erection. Single churches among them have given $30,000, $75,000, and $120,000. Is it much for our prosperous, comparatively wealthy denomination to con tribute $75,000? I know that you, my dear people, have done a good home work the past few months, in the beautifying your own house of God, and in seeking to render its service more at tractive. In doing this you reap a return in your own gratification. Now the appeal comes to help some other feebler band of Christian disciples, in the erec tion of a house not large nor outwardly attrac-' tive, without ornament, having nought but four walls, roughly built, plastered and roofed over; a house that will mainly be built out of hard earnings and real sacrifices, (such as we have never known,) but a house in which the builders will find the Master’s presence, and rejoice in the Master’s blessing. Each ap peal comes from scores of such feeble banded toilers for Christ, scattered through every sec tion of this unprecedentedly expanded popu lation ; and especially from the great States of the Mississippi Valley; and from the greater States and Territories stretching over the Western half of our broad continent; from villages, towns, and cities, which, in these vast regions have sprung into existence within the last ten years. Such a demand in the interests of humanity, of a Christian civilization, for the establishment of Chris tian institutions at these giant beginnings to shape and mould rightly the destinies of these teeming millions, such demand was never before made upon the Church of Christ in the world. If there be a Christian mair, a church, that is strong in this country, never before has come so loud a call to such from God himself, to help the weak church. A single thought in closing. Not alone ought the strong to support the weak, but God has set the weak in such as sociation with the strong, that both may be blessed thereby, the strong in the giving, and the weak in the receiving. And I press the point that in no form of giving can a surer, more compensating in vestment be made, be the sum small or large, from no other investment can a larger inter est be received, than in helping to build a house for God. Think of the good achieved by one man in this city just gone to his re ward, in the eight or more church edifices which : he was mainly instrumental in build ing ! A® tb e ye ars roll on, and souls are gathered in in these churches for the garner of God, he, by. his -wise beneficence, being dead, yet lives and acts for the glory of God and the saving of man. Such good in kind, though not in measure we too may cause to live after us. By this investment, be it small or large, if only according to our abili ty. we too may make sure of receiving and re joicing in an ever accumulating , an everlasting interest. DEATHS. MALLERY.—O n the !&h 'f N■ .. uiatr. 1806. Miss CLARA G. MALLERY, youiiKiwt daughter of Mrs. Clara and the late Daniel Mallery. IjpHial gofeist. 49* The Presbytery of ciwmung will noul its next Annual Meetiug m Watkins, tin Tuesday, 29th instant, at 2 o'clock P. M. C. C. CARR, Stated Clerk. January 7,1867. 49* The Presbytery of will its annual meeting in the First Presbyterian Churco in Lockport. on Tuesday the loth day of January next, at 4 o'clock P. Al. W. G. HUBBARD. Stated Clerk. Wilson, N. Y., Dec. 26.1866. 49“ Philadelphia Tract and Mission so ciety*— Office, 1334 Chestnut Street The one hundred and fitly-sixth Union Meeting in behalf of this Society will be held in the Presbyterian Church, Seventeenth aod Spruce streets, on Sabbath evening. 13th instant, at o’clock. Rev. W. P. Brfeed, D.D., will preside. J udge Win. S. Peirce and Rev. F. Church will address in-' meeting. Tract Visitors’ Monthly Meetings for January as following:— For the Southern District* at the Presbyterian Church, Fourth and Pine streets, on Friday evening, 11th instant, at VA o’clock. For the Western District, at the Presbyterian Church. Nineteenth and Green streets, on Wednesday evening, 16th instant, at ~]4. o’clock. For the Northeast District, at the Presbyterian Church, Buttonwood street, above Fifth, on Friday evening, 25th instant, at 1A o’clock. Subject for remarks at the Monthly Meetings:— What relation does this Society sustain to the Chnrch of Christ ? Tract Visitors and friends to the cause are cordially invited to attend these meetings. JOSEPH. H. SCHREINER. Agent. Tbe “January Thaw” often leaves many un pleasant mementoes, in the shape of sadden Colds and Coughs. They are, however, easily controlled by COE’S COUGH BALSAM. 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It has been thor oughly testedhy people in this city and vicinity, and the proprietor has testimonials of its value from pel sons well known to our citizens. We recommend its trial in all those cases of disease to which it is adapt ed. It is for sale by all our druggists.”— N. Y. Inde pendent, / ■- „ The Great New England Remedy! DR. J. W. POLAND’S WHITE PINE COMPOUND Is now offered to the afflicted throughout the country, after having been proved by the test of eleven years in the New England States, where its merits have be come as well known os the tree Jrorn which, in part, it derives its virtues. THE WHITE PINE COMPOUND Cures Sore Throat, Colds, Coughs, Diph theria, Bronchitis, Spitting- of Blood, Pulmonary Affections generally. It is a remarhable Remedy for Kidney Com plaints, Diabetes, Gravel and other Com plaints. For Piles and Scurvy it will be found very valuable. Give it a trial if you would learn the value of a GOOD AND TRIED MEDICINE. It is Pleasant. Sale and Snre. 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