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THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1867.
We still await the completion of our arrange
ments for mailing, which we hoped to have had in
operation last week. A part only of our subscri
bers will find their names and the state of their
Accounts on the printed slips pasted on the edge
of their papers. The whole list will be concluded
and arranged as rapidly as possible.
Summary. —Williamsport 2nd church was ded
icated January 20. Value of property $70,000,
clear of all incumbrance. $35,000 .were subscri
bed at the dedication.
The Joint Committee on Union are called to
meet in New York, Feb. 20.
The Church at Neoga, 111., received an acces
sion of forty-six a few Sabbaths ago. The whole
town is aroused.
Mr. Barnes’ Lectures are held in Mercer street
Church, and not in the Lecture Boom, as an
nounced. The attendance is large.
Dr. Aiken, ex-Pastor of the First .church,
Cleveland, who receives an annual stipend of
'sl,ooo for life, from the people, was presented
with $B7O by old friends and parishioners, Janu
ary 16.
Dr. E. E. Adams’ first sermon, since his tem
porary withdrawal from active duty, will be found
on our second page. He preaches again next
Sabbath evening.—Mr. Hammond continues his
deeply interesting letters from Palestine. He
expects to be in Scotland about February 10.
Our contributor “M. Em.,” sends an admirable
story: “ Can a child comprehend ?” See sixth
page. — Valuable literary intelligence —on the
seventh page. —;Our “Religious world abroad,”
on the opposite page, is a carefully prepared and
condensed summary of intelligence from all parts
of the world. It is in time for the monthly con
cert.
•There is no abatement in the ritualistic devel
opments in England. Our London correspon
dent, in his very able letter, presents a gloomy
view of the movement; with incidents of the most
telling character derived from personal observa
tion. His own position, however, —that of the
most rigorous simplicity in worship—is likely to
intensify his views of ritualism and to throw the
deepest possible shadows upon his discussions of
the subject.
Pasteur Fish of Paris, in a letter to Dr. Sun
derland, on our first page, pleads for the contri
butions of certain churches in the United States,
to be designated by the A. & F. Christian Union,
for the benefit of the Evangelical Society of
France, (Free church.)
The Union movement in Scotland presents a
less hopeful aspect.
The Church Erection Committee have received
from 121 churches $8,173.26; one fourth from a
single church. It has all been appropriated, and
$40,000 more is needed at once.
Churches Uniting. —The Old and New
school churches in Rockville, Indiana, have uni
ted after the following.manner:
The basis of the union is in substance as fol
lows: —We agree to worship in the Second Pres
byterian church, New-School, unitedly as a church,
but retainingour separate organizations as church
es, reporting to the Crawf’ordsvillc and Green
castle Presbyteries respectively, until twenty days
after the meeting of the General Assemblies in
1868, when, in case the Assemblies fail to unite
as one body, we are to decide by a vote of two
thirds of the united congregations, to which
branch of the Church, Old or New-school, we are
to be attached, and that vote is to be final. Each
church is to retain its own officers, and the united
churches have invited the Rev- J. Mitchell, of
the Old school, to become their stated supply for
the present.”
The New-school church has 120 members;’the
Old school 85.
The Olivet church has held a series of meet
ings every night for three weeks past. The Pas
tor, Rev. W. W. Taylor, has been faithfully as
sisted by preachers of four different denomina
tions, and with good success. Every sermon was
full of light and love, refreshing to the Church
and awakening to the unconverted. About fifty
persons, young and old, have been seriously im
pressed and a few hopefully converted. Although
the extra meetings are closed for the present, the
work of the Lord, we trust, is not over; and the
prayer of the Church is, “ Abide with vs -“ Why
shouldst thou be as a way faring man, that turn
eth aside to tarry for a night ?”
Lyndonville, N. Y.—The church at Lyndon
ville has bought a parsonage and paid off its debt.
Ministerial. — Rev. H. V. Warren has re
moved from Decatur, 0., to Granville, Put
nam Co., 111., where he is to supply the
pulpit. He has been preaching half of his
time to the church at Red Oak, but this
church haying united with the O. S. church
in the same place, the remainder of his field
will not afford him a support. Rev. S.
Calhoun has received a call from the church
in Troy, O.— — Rev. J. B. Hubbard, of
Whitesboro’, N. Y., has received a unani
mous call to the pastorate of the First Cal
yinistic church and congregation of Joliet,
111. Rev. J). R. Palmer, of Victor, has ac
cepted the call of the Presbyterian Church
of Prattsburg.
Western Reserve Synod, O. —Rev. P. C.
Baldwin, the Synodical missionary, reports
that of fifteen churches reported as vacant,
with an aggregate membership of four hun
dred and fifty-one, be has supplied eight
which have the bulk of the members, and
has collected $219 within the bounds of the
Synod; that railroads have done'much to
change the location of tho villages and of
the churches in that region, and that many
have been lost to our denomination through
want of supplies.
Ministerial. —Rev, Frederick Graves has
changed his place of residence from Nelson, Fa.,
to Tioga, Pa.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY SI, 1867.
OUB ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT.
PRESBYTERY OF WATERTOWN.
This Presbytery held its annual meeting in con
nection with the State Street Church (Rev. Geo.
D. Baker's) in Watertown, commencing on Tues
day evening the 22d instant; opening sermon by
Bev. Enos Wood, of Dexter. Bev. J. A. Pres
ton, of Cape Vincent, was elected Moderator.
Beside the ordinary routine of business, Bev.
S. M. Merrill, of Theresa, and Elder —. Botsford,
of Martinsburg, were elected Commissioners to
the General Assembly; Rev. J. B. Preston and
Elder A. P. Brayton, Alternates. Rev. J. B.
Preston and Elder Jason Clark, the latter of
Plessis, were appointed Commissioners to the Au
burn Seminary.
Rev. Henry Hiekock, formerly of Vernon,
Oneida "county, was received into this body by
letter from the Presbytery of Utica. He is
preaching to the church at Sackett’s Harbor,
within the bounds of this body.
PRESBYTERY OF ST. LAWRENCE.
This body met at North Potsdam on the 22d.
Rev. N. J. Conklin, of Gouverneur, was made
Moderator, and Rev. S. W. Pratt, of Brasher
Falls, Clerk. Rev. E. W. Plumb, D.D., and
Hon. H. T. Knowles, both of Potsdam, were ap
pointed Commissioners, to the General Assembly;
and Rev. B. B. Beckwith and Elder Geo. Rogers,
both of Gouverneur, Alternates.
One noticeable feature of this meeting was the
visit of Rev. L. M. Miller, D.D., of the Presby
tery of Ogdensburgh, the other branch, to bring
the fraternal salutations of that body, and to pro
pose something further in regard to the reunion
of the two principal branches of the Presbyterian
Church. It will be remembered that these two
Presbyteries are very earnest in this matter.
They held a joint meeting, in the most fraternal
manner, three years ago, and adopted overtures
to their respective General Assemblies, earnestly
asking them to take action toward reunion. They
propose to hold another joint meeting next sum
mer. They are ready for a candid, organic union.
They are one in spirit, one in theology, and want
to be one in organization. They may be one
before long, whether the General Assemblies are
or not. It now looks like it. And why not ?
They would be much stronger for good in their
own region.
ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY" ANNIVERSARIES
We cannot speak of these in detail. They
were held at North Potsdam, commencing on
Tuesday, the 22d instant, and closing on Thurs
day, the 24th. Seven- meetings were held, the
first on Tuesday evening, three on Wednesday,
and three on Thursday, representing all the lead
ing causes of benevolence. Home Missions were
represented by Rev. A. M. Stowe, with 'his big
map; Foreign Missions by Rev. C. P. Bush; the
Bible Society, by Rev. Col. J. M. Fuller, a good
man for it; the American and Foreign Christian
Union, by Rev. W. B. Stewart, who did admira
bly for his cause; the Tract Society, by Rev. H.
B. Gardiner, a new : man, but excellent in this
position.
The meetings were well attended; were full of
interest and profit; the singing was very good;
the hospitality of the place all that could be de
sired. North Potsdam is one of the smaller vil
lages, and we were afraid the meetings could not
be so well accommodated here, but there was
nothing wanting; and the attendance from day
to day was even larger, perhaps, than it would
have been in one of the more populous villages
where public gatherings are more frequent. Next
year the anniversaries are to be held in Lawrence
ville.
A CHANGE,
Rev. H. B. Gardiner, who has served the
church in Bergen, in all faithfulness, for the last
three years, has received and accepted an invita
tion to act for the American Tract Society of New
York, in the capacity of District Secretary, to re
side at Utica. His field is Central and Northern
New York. We shall regret to lose him from
the Rochester Presbytery, as he is a brother be
loved, but the best wishes of his brethren will
follow him wherever he may go.
S. S. ANNIVERSARY.
The Sunday-school of the Presbyterian church
of Geneva, (Reiv. Dr. Wood’s,) celebrated -their
anniversary on Sunday evening, the 20th instant
It was a very pleasant occasion —the church full
of the children and their friends, the singing very
spirited and cheering, the report of the superin
tendent, Mr. Edward A. Wood, very encouraging
and satisfactory. Forty-three have been added
to the church from the Sabbath-school in the
past year; and $352 were raised by the school
for various benevolent objects.
IMPROVEMENTS.
The church of Gouverneur, (Rev. N. J. Conk
lin, pastor,) has recently been handsomely re
modeled and a parsonage obtained; and the
church has expended some $4OOO in these sub
stantial improvements. We have no doubt they
will find it money well laid out.
THE CORNELL LIBRARY.
Two years ago we noticed the founding of a
public library in Ithaca by that prince of givers,
Senator Cornell. The building which ,he has
erected for this purpose is finished, and was
formally dedicated to its purposes on the 29th
ult. The structure cost over $60,000, and con
tains rooms for the village post-office, the national
bank,, and other offices, the rent of which goes to
help the library and pay expenses.
Beside this, Mr. Cornell has already given four
thousand dollars worth of books, and pledged
himself to give one thousand dollars a year for the
same purpose for eleven years longer.
In his address, in response to the thanks of
the citizens, at the dedication, Mr. Cornell uttered
words which we should be glad to commend to
the serious attention of other rich men, —
“ Years ago he became convinced that it was
folly to hoard up treasures on earth to bequeath
in one’s last will and testament, and to be dis
posed of, probably by unwilling heirs, or injudi
cious executors; and he decided that he would
act the better part, and give while he lived, and
reap in his life-time at least the satisfaction and
pleasure of seeing his benefactions do good to
those for whom they were designed.” Let others
go and do likewise.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
If the unfortunate doctor who attempted to build
a State Inebriate Asylum at an expense of $500,-
000, and never got through with it, had rented
some building and begun ten years ago, the ex
periment of saving drunkards, instead of waiting
all this time to pile up stone and mortar, it would
seem as though he might have accomplished some
thing. He would at least have tested his cure,
and, if successful, could have commanded the
public confidence. But hundreds of those who
sought admission at an early d ;y to his projected
institution, have been going down to drunkards’
graves while he has been building, and public
confidence, at least in the management, has at the
same time been going down, until the present col
lapse came. To what purpose that splendid, un
finished building may yet be appropriated, remains
to be seen. We have confidence that the able
and upright President of the Board of Trustees,
Dr. Willard Parker, will try to turn all to some
good account.
FOLLOWING ON.
We have joyfully chronicled two or three cases
of recent advance of ministers’ salaries. We have
now the pleasure of reporting that the First Pres
byterian Church of Syracuse have added one
thousand dollars to the salary of their esteemed
pastor, Rev. Dr. Canfield; a man whose position
and influence well deserves the reward. We are
happy to add, that the Doctor is in better health
than at any time for the past six years, and he is
preaching constantly.
REMEMBERED.
Rev. B. B. Gray, who has served the church
of Seneca Castle in all faithfulness for the last
seventeen years, was kindly remembered by his
people about two weeks since, in a donation visit,
amounting to one hundred and seventy-five dol
lars. Although his parish is a little off the’lines
of public travel, he has an intelligent and inter
esting congregation
Rev. A. H. Parmelee, of Livonia, is also kindly
remembercdi by hiS.pieop]e, by a donation of one
hundred dollars, and another hundred added to
his salary. Genesee.
N. Potsdam, Jan. 25, 1867
FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.
SABBATH PUNISHMENT FOR PROPOSED SABBATH
DESECRATION.
On Sabbath, the 30th of December, 186-6, the
tropical department of the Crystal Palace was
turned into a ruin by the all-devouring fire. The
flames were seen far and wide, and the palace
continued in a glow all night through. Had the
wind been in any other quarter than it was, the
whole structure would have been a complete ruin.
The damage is estimated-at £150,000; and it is
only insured to the extent of £20,000. I fear
the beautiful courts can never be replaced. The
undertaking does not pay. And unless the pub
lic subscribe largely- to aid them, the sharehold
ers, it is likely, will content themselves with
simply the necessary repairs. If so, the unity and
harmony and wonderful proportions of the build
ing are gone; and that forever. Upwards of 120
feet of the lineal length of the erection are totally
destroyed; nothing remains but grotesquely
twisted fragments of iron.
Christian men are making no heavy moan over
the loss. The attempts of the directors have been
latterly persistent to have the Palace opened to
the public on the Sabbath day. At every suc
cessive meeting of the share holders, this has been
pressed with frantic eagerness, with total disre
gard to the feelings of the better disposed, both
of the share-holders and of the Christian public.
It is just possible that to retrieve their enormous
loss, the directors may finally put their resolve
into practice, and throw open the doors of this
wonderful building to the public on the Sabbath:
if they do, its fate will be sealed; and no good
man will regret to hear that the other half has
followed the fate of that, whose glory and goodli
ness have just departed for ever.
COMMERCIAL PANIC.
The year closes on us in gloom. The panic in
the money market of last May has left permanent
effects behind it. All stocks and shares with
very few exceptions, are from ten to twenty per
cent, below their real value. It is “all sellers
no buyers.” Confidence seems completely to have
departed from the men of money. No man trusts
his brother; and the stories one could tell of hu«e
cheats; of bubbles that swelled and glittered, and
then collapsed, would fill many a goodly volume.
Still it is asserted, and believed, that the trade of
the country was never in a healthier position than
at present; and the quarterly return of the revenue
just issued, fully justifies both the assertion and
the belief.
YACHT RACE.
The next topic of public interest is the arrival
of three American yachts off the Isle of Wight;
London, January, 1867.
the termination of a long and, let me Bay, fool
hardy race— ocean-race, iu mid-winter, across the
Atlantic; who but Americans would have thought
of it; who but Americans would have brought it
to pass? The excitement is general, and per
vades society, from the Queen down to the meanest
of her racing subjects. Her majesty had the
yachts sailed near to Osborne, that she might have
a look at them ; and then invited the yachtmen
to come and have a look at her. There has been
no end of dining and speechifying, too, at South
ampton and elsewhere; and this peaceful invasion
will do more good than a hundred protocols and
diplomatic notes.
RITUALISM.
But the one subject of paramount interest now
is Ritualism. At last men’s eyes seem to be
fairly opened to this monstrous innovation. I
fervently hope it may not be too late. But all
thoughtful men are now seeing that here is the
rising problem of the day, that must soon be
grappled with, if it is to be grappled at all. They
now see this; they feel that here is something,
contemptible and mean in itself, but which is yet
of more real importance than all political ques
tions, than national politics, than money panics,
even. It confronts you everywhere. It has
spread out and on, and has its seat in country
towns; in quiet and retired villages; in the heart
of great, of the greatest city. It is in the school
and in the college; it is in the high dignitaries
of the Church; in the heart of deans and bishop 3,
and canons, major and minor. It has a hold of
the young, of the poor, of the enthusiastic, the
poetic, the aristocrat, the very judge on the bench.
It is in Parliament; in the House of Lords and
Commons. It is a power every where. It is not
only a power, but it is a united power; it has its
recognized heads and leaders; it has its societies
secret and open, ramifying all over the country,
the strong supporting the weak, the weak leaning
triumphantly on the strong.
The very atmosphere one breathes is ritualistic.
Even the extremest of the dissenters feel it. It
is among us Presbyterians. Our young people
are carried away with the feeling and spirit of the
times. Every where among us discussion turns
on “improving our modes of worship”—‘our
music is bad, our hymnology is bad, our whole
form is bad; it is repulsive; we must have it re
newed, reformed, brought more into conformity
with the spirit of the times.” And hence, all
over our Presbyterian Church, the only questions
that are debated with a real hearty earnestness
are questions touching ritualism is some shape or
form—hymnology, music, chants, chorales, an
thems, three or four shorter prayers, shorter ser
mons. more music and the like.
So does ritualism shape itself as yet amongst
ns. But the thing is the same. The feeling
among our youth is, as nearly as possible, identi
cal with the feeling of the Episcopal youth,
making allowance simply for the different ecclesi
astical up.bringings of the two sets of families. I
feel convinced, from all I see around me, see and
hear and observe, that the movement is spreading
rapidly among us in all directions. I may give
you a fact that came under my notice only yester
day. A gentleman comes up from Scotland. Jle
arrives here a very Pharisee of the Pharisees, a
Presbyterian out and out in all directions, the son
of a noble and right notable Presbyterian ances
try, of whom he is justly pr.iud. From conveni
ence he soon gets to worship in the Episcopal
Church of England. His family grow up, with
few leanings toward Presbyterianism. The only
son is a genuine Scot and sticks to the good old
way-—loves it, and were it easily possible would
follow it. He is sent to school. On his return
from it I happen to be travelling on the Continent,
and the lad and I “ fore-gathered,” and travelled
two or three weeks together. A sounder lad, one
clearer, or faster or firmer settled in the roots and
grounds of faith and practice, I have seldom
known. We discussed, and very nearly agreed
on, most of the points of any importance now
being argued among us. This lad grows up al
most a son of my own, so dearly do I love him;
he goes to Cambridge —mot to Oxford for the
world—he gets a curacy —he marries the'only
daughter of a clergyman of the Calviuistic school,
and the out-and-out evangelical type, and all is
well. But what did I hear yesterday ? Why,
the vestments, the altar lights, the incense and
all the rest of it, are his sole hobby, by night and
by day, and I, your humble servant, am handed
over to the unconsecrated mercies of God! What
next?
Another fact. The Bishop of Norwich is a
Pelham. He is out-and-out evangelical. During
this past summer I met him at a private prayer
meeting, held at the Dowager Lady Buxton’s.
He expounded one of the parables; and I must
say a more clear, thorough, scriptural exposition
I never heard. It was all that could be desired.
And then he knelt down and prayed—prayed
without book, in an unconsecrated place, and
among dissenters, Presbyterians and the miscella
neous gathering that may be grouped in summer
at a fashionable watering place —prayed with the
earnestness of a saint, the simplicity of a little
child, and the unction of an apostle. Now this
man, this Bishop of Norwich is, I understand, all
that he seems. And yet, mark the strange times
in which we live I happened to be stayiug at a
farm-house in a small country parish within his
diocese. The parish church had been burnt
down, and was rebuilt in the most ultra style. I
happened to be in the parish the day before ‘-the
consecration;” and went to see the church. I
defy any living man to say wherein it differed from
a popish temple. There was one thing, and only
one thing: the “altar” was of wood; a pop sh
one would have been either of stone or some more
costly material. A piscina was there, sedilia, and
all the rest of it; saints’ heads carved all round
and statues in niches. The Evangelical Bishop
of Norwich “ consecrated” that church, the day
after I saw it, without a single word of rernon,
strance, as I was told by the leading church war
den, who opposed the whole thing, step by step
and was finally baffled and beaten, and bad to
betake him to a little dissenting chapel newly
erected. 1 J
THE CONTROVERSY IN “ THE TIMES.”
At last, l say, men’s eyes are slowly opening.
The Times can keep silent no longer A few
months ago it broke silence in two or three lead
ers of crushing power; worthy of the old thun
derer m his best days. These articles were fol
lowed up by the devoting, from day to day of
two or even three columns of its space, to ritual
istic controversy in the shape of letters from cor
respondents, lay and cleric, of all ranks The
controversy had not gone on long, till S. U. 0.
came on the field with a series of most character
istic and graphic and pungent letters, b. G. 0.
is the signature of a well-known correspondent of
The Times. For years he has had the entree to
their columns, as often and as long as he wished.
Hitherto, his subjects have been either political
or social, or rather have occupied the debatable
land that lies between; perhaps politico-social
would indicate what their subjects have been.
Some years ago, he came out with a scries of
tbunderers on the management, or rather mis
management, of oar great religious societies,
which created a great furor of anger at the time.
amon°- committees and secretaries, but which did
a world of good. S. G. O. is the Rev. Lord
Sydney Godolphin Osborne. He is the vicar, or
something, of a parish in Wilkshire, and is in the
diocese of the Bishop of Salisbury.
After a letter or two of S. G. O. s had appeared,
the Bishop evidently lost his temper, and came
out with a grave ecclesiastical censure, but at the
same time virtually affirming the truth of all his
criticisms, and laying claim for himself and his
clerg/, to all the powers ever claimed for her
priests, by the Eastern or \ V esteru Church, plain,
simple, undisguised, undiluted popery in fact,
only called Anglicanism. S. G- 0. did not want
his reply. After he had silenced the Bishop, he
held on his way for a letter or two, and brought
out that cunning old fox, Dr. Pusey: Dr. Pussy
on Confession and the Confessional. The Titties
had to put a letter of Dr. Posey’s in the Paper
Basket, as Unfit for public perusal. But the con
troversy still proceeds —S. G. 0. finishing off, I
see, in The Times of this morning, in an admira
ble letter.
FUTILITY OF THE WHOLE COUNTER-MOVEMENT.
The question in all men’s mouths is, W hat is
to be done ? Protests are zealously written, and
zealously signed, and are worth the paper on
which they are written; protests for which no
body cares, and which nobody minds. “ Wha*
will the Bench of Bishops do?” I answer, jnst
as much as the bench they sit upon, nothing at
all; encourage the movement in secret when they
cannot encourage it openly, and openly whenever
they think it possible. “ What will Parliament
do ?” Nothing. It will talk and talk and talk;
and no more. “ What will Government do t
Nothing. It will only act when it can no longer
help it. “ What will the Evangelicals do?” Pro
test, and talk, and sit still, so long as the house is
habitable, sit still till they are burnt out, till the
walls, roof, flooring rot away from beneath and
around them. “What will the. people do?”
Nothing—talk, run over in angry ebullitions and
then settle down again. And mean while the
leaven is spreading, spreading fast and far and
rapidly, leavening the whole lump.
The mighty evil is, that the evangelical party
is like a rope of sand. It has no coherence, no
unity, no head. An Evangelical Bishop dares
hardly peep or mutter; and many of the Bishops
we thought evangelical are, one hardly knows
what. Think of Bishop Ellieott. One of Lord
Shaftesbury's Bishops. First, he came out with
a sermon in his own Cathedral Church against
Evangelicalism, and in favor of Ritualism, so far.
And then the public was astonished, if any thing
astonishes the public now-a-days —by Bishop Elli
cott,the Evangelical commentator, withdrawing his
name and subscription first from “ the Bible So
ciety,” then from “ the Church Pastoral Society!”
But I must stop. I will have to return to this
subject before long.
The report is, that the Rev. Dr. Roxburgh of
Free St. John’s, Glasgow, is to be the Moderator
of the Free Church‘General Assembly this year.
Dr. Roxburgh well deserves the honor; he is an
earnest, hard worker.
We have had strange weather this winter. Up
to the close of last year, the weather was so open
and mild that new potatoes were sold in the
market from out of doors, and at a penny apiece.
We had no frost, hardly, worth speaking of, till
the close of the year. To-day there is a fall of
snow which I do not remember to have seen the
like of in London for many years. I fear the
telegraph wires will all go. The snow is more
than a foot deep. We have had some very foggy
days. One day, at the close of the year, we had a
genuine London fog and no mistake. I had to
hum my lamp all day. At 12 o’clock noon, the
whole of London was lighted solely by gas, and
you only saw men as trees walking. And now,
as my paper is done, let me wish both jou and
your readers a hearty “ gude new year”—so we
say it in Scotland. Yours ever,
Death of Eev. Elias C. Sharpe.— This
excellent and most highly esteemed brother
in the ministry, departed this life for the life
that is higher, on Saturday, the sth inst.,
aged 53 v He contracted his disease when in
the service of the Christian Commission,
within the army lines, throe years ago, and
though he so far recovered as to resume his
pastoral duties with tolerable comfort for
awhile, yet he finally succumbed to its deadly
power. His funeral was attended at At
water, bis home and bis parish, on Wednes
day, the 9th inst., in the presence of an im
mense congregation, gathered not only from
the community in the bosom of which he so
ong lived, hilt also from the surrounding
towns. Ten of his ministerial brethren
walked before his bier to the house of God,
and thenee to the grave. The sermon was
preached by Eev. Pres. Hitchcock, of West
ern Eeserve College. Atwater was Mr.
Sharpe’s only settlement, and he filled the
pulpit there for 26 years with marked suc
cess as a pastor; the people loved him with
a ove which is pleasing and rare to see, in
ese ays of change and uneasiness; they
buried him with heavy hearts; but glad
Srhr h - 1S Se P“ lC^ e : must go into it SO
— Cor. Herald. ’ Wltil
tn^ C t ESSlONS ;—Seventeen have been added
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Philadelthos,