flmmtan gmlnjfemn. THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1867, B@“ Wanted. —Copies of the paper of the following dates of the year 1860: — January 4, 11, 18. February 8, 15, 22. March 15, 29. May 3,17. June 7, 28. July 5. August 2, 23. September 27. Ten cents apiece will be paid for one or two copies of each or any of these papers. CABINET ORGANS AS PREMIUMS. To encourage parties who are engaged in procuring new subscribers, we offer the following premiums in Mason & Hamlin’s celebrated Cabi net Organs: — FOR SIXTY-FIVE NEW NAMES, with pay in advance, a four octave organ, price $llO. FOR SEVENTY-EIGHT NEW NAMES, with pay in advance, a five octave organ, price $l3O. FOR ONE HUNDRED NEW NAMES, with pay in advance, a five octave, double reed organ, price $l7O. Each subscription must be $3, or in the city, $3 50. OITY OHUROHES. Rev. F. L. Robbins has resigned the charge of Green Hill Church and has accepted a unani mous call to the Oxford Church, recently organ ized in this city. Rev. Geo. F. Wiswell, D.D.,of the Central Church, Wilmington, was unanimously chosen pastor of the Green Hill Church, March 25. Rev. R. H. Allen, pastor elect of Pine Street Church, preached to crowded audiences in that church last Sabbath. The hearts of the people were carried away by the burning words of the preacher, who brings to the work all the ardor of a Southern nature with all the sympathies of a tried patriot and friend of human rights. We rejoice to believe that the pulpit of the lamented Brainerd will be worthily filled by his successor. Summary. —The receipts of the American Board for February were $34,124,73. Total for six months $175,608.15. The First Church of this city is the banner church of the month, having contributed $2,423,86. Buttonwood street Church gave $5OO, and Olivet $lBB. The Herald for April gives a complete list of the missionaries of the American Board, the date of their depar ture, and the scene of their labors. Half a dozen churches report revivals in our columns this week with probaby two hundred hopeful cases of conversion. Rev. F. L. Robbins will cease supplying Green Hill pulpit after next Sabbath, and. take entire charge of Oxford church, to which he was called March 18 th. Rev. George F. Wiswell, D.D., of Wilming ton, was unanimously elected pastor of Green Hill church, on Monday, March 25. Over 400 Home Missionaries are employed by the Committee of our Church. Their policy is never to refuse a deserving application, but to rely on God and Churches for support in liberal measures. They require $20,000 to close the year out of debt. The Sunday car bill was defeated in the State Senate on Wednesday the 20th. The enemies of the Sabbath in this city are much distressed at the failure of this “Christian” measure. The bill securing to colored persons equal rights in our passenger cars and railroad convey ances in the State has become a law. Ritualism is getting hard knocks on all sides in England. See “Religious World Abroad.” A sermon from Dr. Nelson, a letter from our Italian correspondent, an article from Dr. Adams, Dr. March on the character of Dr. Brainerd and other valuable matters are on hand for early publication. RESOLUTIONS. Philadelphia, March 18, 1867. At aTneeting of the congregation of Green Hill church, held in the Lecture Room this eve ning, a committee of three were appointed to pre pare resolutions expressive of the sense of this meeting upon the occasion, upon which they re ported the following, which were unanimously adopted: Whereas, our respected pastor, the Rev. Frank L. Robbinß, between whom and ourselves the most happy and cordial relations have been main tained for a period of seven years, has felt called upon to resign his ministerial charge over us, in order to fill another sphere of usefulness, there fore, Resolved, That while we sincerely regret the separation, we .yield our assent thereto, trusting .that he may be greatly blessed in his new field < of labor. Resolved, That in parting with our pastor, we cannot withhold the expression of our gratitude J'or'bis uniform kindness to all, and his faithful ness ip the discharge of his various duties as pas tor. .Resolved, .That we are deeply interested in the success, of the new enterprise, of which he has as sumed the head, and that we pledge him our prayerful sympathy. Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to furnish Mr. 'Robbins with a copy of these resolu tions and, that they, be published in the American Presbyterian. D. B. Woodbury, Secretary. We call attention to the advertisement of a Female College for sale in the Northwest. From acquaintance with the advertiser we can fully endorse his representations. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1867. FROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT. NOTES OF TRAVEL. Passing a Sabbath in Brooklyn recently, we were much interested in looking into Dr. Cuy ler’s church. It was refreshing to look upon his vast congregation, to see how they hung upon the preacher’s lips, and seemed deeply interested from first to last in his fervid discourse. We thought we could see what constituted the preacher’s strength. It is not in vast learning, or profound thought, or striking originality; but in his great simplicity, earnestness, and practicalness. He preaches directly at his hearers, and all about their own interests. He evidently believes that men are “by nature children of wrath;” and that “he that believeth not shall be damned,” and so he warns the wicked, and entreats the wayward, as though he really felt their danger and desired their salvation. Mr. Cuyler also makes the impression that he is thoroughly alive even to the temporal wants of men.. We were struck with this as we followed him in the prayer before sermon, so comprehensive, for the poor and the rich; the high and the low, 1 the blind, the deaf, the sailor, the soldier, for rulers, for slaves, for their late masters, for the country, for missions and missionaries, for all tribes and tongues and peoples; and all with such beauty and delicacy of expression, and yet with such sweet simplicity and fervor, that the whole congregation seemed to be bowed and melted by it. It was a blessed.preparation for the pungent and faithful discourse which fol lowed. One thing, however, was not just as we should have expected, where all else was so excellent. The reading of the Scriptures, which came im mediately after the invocation, was attended with much confusion, because so many who were late were thronging in all the aisles to their seats. That part of the service must have been almost lost to a larger part of the congregation. If so many must come in at that time, we should think it would be a great improvement to delay the reading a little, and let the choir, which was very fine, occupy a few moments in some appro priate chant or song, until the house is quiet; then all hear when God speaks. dr. c. s. Robinson’s travels. In the afternoon of the same Sabbath, we heard one of Dr. Robinson’s Lectures on his foreign travels, that upon the Pyramids of Egypt. As a lecture, this was excellent, clear, graphic, enter taining and instructive. The pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn is accustomed to see things clearly, and has a very happy fac ulty of telling his congregation just what he saw. He talks like an artist. He presents complete pictures. We could see the dirty, sluggish Nile lazily slipping along towards the ■ sea, together with its narrow fringe of verdure, and the clean, white sand of the desert stretching boundless away on each side, and the hoary old Pyramid of Cheops covering sixteen acres of ground, and the mysterious sphinx lifting its head for fifty feet out of the sand —all this was as plain to our vision as though it had been spread out on can- The degraded, miserable condition of the peo ple, the oppressions and extortions of the govern ment, were portrayed with equal vividness before our minds. All this was suggestive and instruc tive; it showed us a land that needs the Gospel. Other lectures of the course doubtless refer more particularly to this great want. We notice that both Dr. Cuyler and Dr. Rob inson wear tie gown. We believe, indeed, that this is quite a Brooklyn fashion, as we have for merly seen both Dr. Storrs and Dr. Budington disfigured in the same way. We have some min isters out here in Western New York, that we think preach quite as well without. We may he victims of a narrow prejudice on this subject, but to our mind the plain, simple citizen’s dress is much more becoming to any public speaker, be sides being more truly American. We noticed, also, that Drs. Cuyler and Robin son generally gave out their hymns without read ing the whole. And why not? What need of reading four or five verses of a familiar hymn when every hearer has a book in his hand—or ought to have —and can read for himself? Omit ting the reading saves considerable time for other parts of the service. ANOTHER SUCCESS. To speak again of matters nearer home. Mr. Charles Keeler, the indefatigable Secretary for Sunday-schools in this county, having succeeded so well in his Institutes recently held in Brock port and Pittsford, arranged for another to be held this week, Tuesday and Wednesday, in this city. It was conducted on the same general plan with the others, and was regarded as a great suc- One of the most noticeable features of this meeting was the holding of a real Sunday-school. On the morning of the second day the teachers in attendance resolved themselves into classes. A. Gr. Mudge., Esq., was appointed Superintendent, and George W. Parsons, Esq., assistant Superin tendent. Some of the most experienced teachers present were selected to instruct the classes. The school was opened in the usual form, with pray er and singing. The lesson was given out Matt, xx: I—J6, and each teacher gave himself to the instruction of his class. ’ The school was closed in the usual manner; after which the teachers were called vmnn to re- port upon their different modes of unfolding the lesson, with remarks and criticisms all round. In experienced teachers are thus permitted to learn from those who had been longer in the service. Miss Lucy Mead won golden opinions by a les son on the Geography of Palestine from the Map; Miss Laura Nobles charmed all by a black board exercise, from the words, “There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God;” and Miss L. Grant did exceedingly well by a class lesson, on the subject of fruit bearing, from John xv: 1. 8. The first and the last just named are teachers in the Normal School at Brockport; and Miss Nobles is a teacher at Ogden. They all evidently know how to teach. The closing exercises were on Wednesday eve ning in the brick Church —(the other exercises were in, the First Methodist) and the house was filled with an appreciative, enthusiastic audience, most of them-bring earnest workers in the Sun day-school cause/ Addresses were made, by Revs. DAK. Bartlett, J. E ; . Lattimer, S. M. Campbell, D.D., and J. B, Shaw, D.D. It was a meeting of great interest. ■ . Resolutions were adopted by' the Institute cordially endorsing this soft of effort, also, thank ing Charles Keeler,. County. Secretary, ‘'for his untiring zeal and energy in the- Sunday-school cause.” The next Institute is to be held in Spencerport. , , Genesee. Rochester, March 22,'1867. ' 1 ‘ OUR. CHICAGO CORRESPONDENT. THE WEST AND FOREIGN MISSIONS. It has always been a favorite argument in urg ing the importance of Western Colleges and Theo logical Seminaries, that the churches of this ra pidly growing section of the country can be sup plied with ministers only by taking them from our homes and educating them here. The argu ment is valid; but one effect of it has been to in crease the feeling, very naturally indulged, that ministers educated in the West must be employed here and here only. The obligations of our cburcbes and seminaries of learning to Foreign Missions have been, by general consent, held sec ondary to their obligations to Home Missions. This sentiment has prevailed so widely-that we have been quite taken by surprise, of-late; to learn that at present the West, takes the lead of the East in the number of candidates for the For eign field—relatively if not absolutely. Our Colleges and Theological Seminaries are compara tively small, bat they contain many earnest and able yqung men to whom the Macedonian cry is louder than any other appeal. . The A. B.C.F. M. could find, last year,, in all the.institutions of the land but one missionary. There are at pre-' sent in the Senior Class of the Chicago Theologi cal Seminary alone,, six young men who have consecrated themselves to the Foreign Missionary work. One of them is at present disabled by ill health and may be obliged, to abandon his cher ished purpose, but the other five will be prepared in May to offer their services to the Board. In the lower classes there are five more who are fit ting themselves for the same work. The whole number of students in the'Seminary is but little over forty. , . In Knox College are sixteen who propose to enter the Foreign field. Most of t these are in the preparatory department, but among them are some whose birth and talents fit them remarkably for the purpose they have in view. One of them is the son of a missionary in India. Another is an Armenian who came to this country that he might prepare himself to preach the Gospel to his countrymen. Still another is from Sher bro, in Africa, taken directly from “ the bush,” an African of Africans, one who might, perhaps, in other circumstances, have tried the horrors of the middle passage, and be now working tinder the overseer’s lash'on a Southern plantation. : It is a significant commentary upon the intellectual character of the unfortunate captives, who have been brought in such numbers to this country, that he is one of the most prominent students in the whole institution to which he belongs. We have been told so often that negroes from Africa are of such low natural organization, not human, in fact, and only fitted for menial labor, that some good men, though intolerant of slavery, have half-believed the assertion. But here is one who, without the “blessing?’ of Southern civilization, with no more intellect than he brought, with him from under the very shadow of the barracoons, proves himself to be more than the peer of the vast majority of his white fellow students. We may well thank. God, that the sophisms of American slavery are disappearing with the system itself. May we not take cour age, also, if we have been faint-hearted respecting the ability of blacks now in the,South, pro perly to exercise the functions of the elective franchise? ’ The Valedictorian and Salntatorian of the last class- in Beloit College have both consecrated themselves to Foreign Missions; and three of the present Senior Class, one of whom is admitted to be the strongest man in his class, are antici pating the same life-work. Rev. S. J. Humphrey, the District Secretary of the Board'for the North west, informs me that he has the names of twenty five now in seven Western Colleges, who have the Foreign Missionary work in view. , It shows how consistent- love .of country, may be !■ with the love of the world for the sake of r~— Class of the Chicago Theological Seminary car ries the empty sleeve—a badge of patriotism, which he received while bearing the standard of his company up the breastworks of Vicksburg on the day it fell. In connection with this, it should also be men tioned,that the contributions of Western Churches to the A. B. C. E. M. have steadily increased during the past few years. Not a little of this increase of interest is due to the efforts of Mr.- Humphrey, who uses the press as well as the pulpit most wisely and efficiently. Indeed, he reaches the pulpits in which he; never appears, by a sys tem of effort which is not often so well worked by men in similar positions. ’ His health at'pre sent does not permit him to preach at all,' but he is unwearied.in disseminating information and in furnishing other preachers with ideas. I have before me one of his “ Missionary Papers” —a pamphlet containing, 1. A Plea for Foreign Mis sions, by Prof. S. C. Bartlett, D.D., one of the most condensed and forcible papers of the kind the country has ever produced} 2.. An Annual Letter, by Mr. Humphrey himself, designed ex pressly for the West, and containing many, a ; quickening thought most admirably together with tables showing the contributions of the five States of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, ’ lowa, and Minnesota for the years 1864, 1865, and 1866. 2. A brief article by ltev. 11. L. Hammond, headed, “ Harriet Newell’s Life Wasted?” in which he states .the remarkable fact that although this beloved young missionary per ished on an island in the Indian Ocean at the age of nineteen years, the memoir of her life making its way to a township in Western New York, which-had at that time neither church, minister, nor Sunday-school, was the occasion of a revival out of which two churches grew in that township, together with another, now large and prosperous, in a Western State; while the large family of the father and mother into whose hands the little book first fell were all converted; “ one of whom, converted in that first revival, is a lay man widely known and honored in both Church and State; others are pillars in the churches to which they belong; and one—the writer of the article—whose privilege it is to preach the Gos pel, gratefully pens this article to the memory of the young missionary.” A. striking.illustration, of the reflex influence of Foreign upon Home Missions. ' The next article" is Re'vAMr. Warren’s; telling speech before the General Conference'of Maine; and the last is a statement of what is proposed for the contribution of the Board jto the . Universal Exposition at Paris next month., A pamphlet so full of materials for missionary sermons, and for addresses in monthly concerts is seldom issued; Besides this, which' ! is No. 3of the series, Mr! Humphrey annually prints' lists of previous con tributions of co-operating churches in Chicago, for distribution in the. churches on the day of their annual collection. , By these means and, ; by a. wide correspondence he is arousing an interest in his work which cannot fail to be fruitful; 'His method is worthy of study by those who hold similar posts of duty. The smallness of the pe cuniary expenditure by which he accomplishes, results is one of the excellencies of his system. He has no paid agencies for collecting in the whole field. He depends upon pastors and churches to gather the contributions. His mod esty might be disturbed by this exhibit; but he will bear it, I hope, in view of the general good. REVIVAL ITEMS. Quite a large and valuable accession to our churches has been and will be made this spring. Revivals are reported from several of our West ern towns. The noon-day prayer-meeting in this city still continues to be hallowed by the presence of the Holy Spirit. It is very largely attended and some striking instances of conversion have taken place—though many of these have a his tory in which meetings in pur churches bear an honored part. Chicago, March 13, 18G7; Wabash. REVIVAL AT DELAWARE; WATER GAP. We have had a great awakening here—over sixty persons have arisen for the prayers of the ■ Church. We commenced holding prayer-meet ings in private houses during the week of Pray er, and continued for three or four weeks; —then commenced preaching every evening. The result has been as God has promised. “Ask and it shall be given.” We asked that He would visit every hou;e, and touch every heart. It seemed a very unlikely thing to happen in human esti : ; matron, there was so much indifference and cold-; ness even on the part of God’s people God? nevertheless heard the prayers of twb or three, and it is now actually the fact, there is scarcely a house were the slain are not to be found. Brother Wood of Allentown aided very, much in the commencement of the meeting. He came endowed with power from on Aigh, and almost every word seemed to .tell ' His first sermon on text “Come and let us reason .together’’' really made the impression as if God had come down, and was’ conversing with' his sinful creatures! Most of those who have coine forward'are young. ; Yours trul 7» ? " E. J. Pierce. : On,page second, a, letter on Mittetidridn i&mj Mr: Sammbnd’s fourth, letter from, I'Pales tine, and a continuation of Mrl Wilder’ s 'Afissioiii ary Tour. Gov. Geary : and Senator. 'Tates' Temperance' dnd parts' 1 of ■ Senator Lowries Speech oh the Sunday car hill ‘:;dre on the 3d pope. ; Religions World Abroad. BTftiaXD: A Decision, on Ritualism,—such as it is—has been arrived at, both Houses of Convocation (the Bishops unanimously) having adopted the following declaration: — . . r “ Having taken into consideration ihe report made to this House, by the Lower House concerning cer tain ritual observances, .ws, have concluded that, having regard to the gangers, first, of favoring er rors deliberately rejected, by the Church of England, and fostering a tendency to* desert r her communion; second/ of offending even- in ‘ things indifferent, de vout worshippers in our churches who have been long used to other modes of. service,, and thus of es tranging many of the faithful laity; third, of unne cessarily departing, from..uniformity; fourth, of in creasing the difficulties which prevent the return of separatists to our communion—Convey to the Lower House our’unanimous decision that, having respect to the considerations herd recorded, and to the rubric concerning the service of the Church in our Book of Common Prayer, our judgment is that no altera tions from long-sanctioned and usual ritual ought to be made in ou? churches until the sanction of the bishop' of the diocese jhaa been obtained thereto.” The Bishops are already acting upon this ordinance or “judgment,” by the withdrawing'of licenses, &c., inuthe: case 6f Ritualistic churcheß. The London Standard is informed that St.'Mary’s Church, Kil burn, has been closed by order, of the Bishop of London. ,Extreme. Ritualistic practices haying been lately carried, out by the Rev, Mr. Kirkpatrick, the clergyman in charge, the* Bishop wrote to the gen tleman, demanding explanations. These not being satisfactory; his lordship has ordered’the church to be shut up: i> Convocation also adopted after much debate, a resolution, praying the archbishop to con vene an assembly of ajl the bishops in communion with the Church of England. The bishops decided to address the Crown to revoke Dr. Colenso’s letters patent, on the ground that he has depraved the Li turgy in.denying the duty of prayer to our Blessed Lord. Another Declaration.— The Protestant Dissenting ministers of “the three denominations," the Presby terians, Independents, and Baptists, have passed resolutions relative to the present condition of the Church of England, asserting their fight as English men to see to the utmost of their power that the National Church shall exist for “such ends only as have been determined by public law.” They regret that in her, men have found shelter for their efforts to maintain the doctrines of Rome on the one side, and of a latitudinarian skepticism upon the other, and assert that “these distractions in that church would not have arisen, had the wisdom of our Pu ritan and Nonconformist forefathers been heeded, who, knowing it to be in tbe nature of seed that it should bear fruit after, its kind,- never failed to pro test against the latent Romanism allowed to remain in the services of the. Established Church.” After drawing inferences in favor bf voluntaryism, they conclude by asserting the satisfactory condition, alike as to the ti'umbers, doctrine and religious vitality of the Nonconformist boilieS,'. and congratulate the cliurcKes that the “inevitable” changes of the fu ture will be changes jin the direction, of their princi ples. The address .bears the Signature of Dr. Robert Vaughan,, as Chairman of the united body, and of the Rev. jW. JSrockj as Secretary. ..Doubtless it was high time thjat some decisive‘action was taken as facts like tKd following on ’the s status and progress of ritualism abundantly show; 1 ' Status and Progress of- 'ititilalism.— The eucliar istic vestments are used dh.twelve out of the 55S churches included; in. the-.area embraced in twelve miles round the General Ljpet ; Office; incense is used in six churches; and colored-stoles are worn by the clergy in .three churches'where the’eucliarist vest ments have-nbt yet been adopted. 1 At 94' churches the services-are fully chotral, at 66 partly so, thus proving that the psalmk are'chanted at nearly one foUrth of our London and. suburban churches. Of the choirs 84 are said to be’ -surpliced, .nearly one sixth of tile \vhole; and Gregorian music is exclu s}vb!yd>sed 39- Services ar,e held on Saints’ days a t 169 churches, pearly on'e-third; while at 90 of these, or in th e proportion bf one-sixth, there is also daily service. One of-their leading publishers, (says a Romanist organ,) announces a new manual, con taining the offices of prime. and compline, and the vigils for the dead, the forms of blessing and sprink ling holy water: the peculiar ceremonies for certain seasons; the Miss'a in flocle fidtiaitaiis Domini; the Lenten Litanies; ’ the blessing of the ashes and the palm branches; the washing of tie altars and the Maundy, the benediction of the ftnt, &c., on Holy Saturday ; and the like; translate from the Latin, with an introduction and explanitory notes, and illustrated with extracts from the donsuetudi bf the Church of Sarum, and the plain song of the Mechlin office-books. 1 English Items. —Three colonial bishops were consecrated at Canterbury Cathedral Recently: Milman to the bisphoric of CalciAta; Rev. (notthe Dean) to Victoria (Hoar Kong); and Rev. Dr. bawyer to the newly-constitiked dio cese-.of Grafton and Armidale, (New South\Wales.) —A rector of Bath, declares hlie doctrine of the real [material] presence Cannibalismi.' “Never he fore,” declares a.’high church-phper; “has a Bath! parish church, been defiled with dnchi revolting txprcß sions/’ : i. ■; vu; .is;. . ° ; There are 2,168: Baptist in Gnat Bri- whona 391 are without pastoral charges, and -,052 churches, the smallest of which numbers 4 members, and the largest, ’ Mr. Spurgeon’s,! 3,326. ,lhe oldest' church appears |o. be' that of Hllcliff. Cheshire, whifeh bears the date of 1523 ; the text is that at George street, Plymouth, 1540. . IRELAND. , ... Irish Presbyterians and National Education- The battle for the principle of unit ed or non sec tarian education is fought with'great persistence, by the Presbyterians 'Chiefly, though other bodies of less importance j bin theuf. : Influential public mtet liigsare’held in all the principal townsof the North; the Presbyteries and’congregations are petitioning against (the threatened, ; ch;ange; deputations have waited. ,on the Lord-Lieutenant and the Premier; ,i» said that Lord Derby has affirmed that the adoption of Str. Rortescue’s obnoxious 'proposals -woujd overthrow the present system. Derby, when Irish' Sebretlary l , originated, the 'system now in prac tice, aha the'Pope’s brigade (as'the Irish Catholic members > are called) after'coming to terms, with Bright, and the Liberals, are now trying to get a higher price for themselves.and their masters—the priests, out. of the .Tory party. These members de sire,'mainly, political but''the Priests demand sectarian,.education’, arid - the abolition of , the establishment. < ■ "t ii . Ageneies at Workin Ireland. —The Presbyteiioo Sabbath School Society reports 749 schools, 6,386 teachers, and .46,550 scholars' ah increase of 51 schools, 448:; teachers,'arid 44332 'scholars! ■ 32,563 elassbooks, including 10,564 Bibles and Testaments, have been sent-out, almost half of them free. While more than £2OO worth of books have been supplied to school libraries. The ßiomand Colportage Society reported 36 colporteurs: inrlNster, 6 in Leinster, 6 in Munster, and 15 in Connaught, 0r ,50 in all; while there , are still seven counties without a single col porteur.' ■ Grief agent iri -Ulster reports, The lower class of Protestants do not attend any place of wo r " ..phould say fifteen out of every twenty. ®oine Catholics do 1 not attend mass!”’ "The Presby terian Orphan Society'yegbxtbA hat its first Annual
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