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EARTHQUAKES AND ELDERS.
"In many a Presbyterian church it has re
quired but a slight breeze to unseat an installed
pastor; but it takes a small earthquake to move
an elder installed for life.'" So reads the arti
cle in the Presbyterian of January sth, over the
well-known initials "T. L. C." The Lafayette
Avenue church, in common • with many others' in'
the New-school branch, has adopted a plan for intro=
during "new blood" into the session, to "prevent'
it from becoming exclusive and stereotyped."
We ought to rejoice in eVery,attempt that is
made to relieve the Church 'of the great evil re
ferred to. The testimony of the eminently suc
cessful pastor in Brooklyn, wlioSe praise is in all
the Churches, and: who still adheres so closely to
the theology of 'our beloied Princeton, "the
mother of us all," is'wor'thy of notice. •If his
plan is not i,titccorditig; to' the Book," of course
we will not ad o p t it. In reading chapter' xiii.'of
the Form of Government we see, however; that
the founders of our Church suspected trouble in
this quarter, and wisely provided a remedy. The
ruling elders of the Presbyterian church consti-.
tute a class of the best men in the. world. The
caution of the Church in selecting proper men .
for this office and the abundance of suitable mate
rial from which to select, have secured for us a
body of layinen' for church officers,, equal in all
respects to any in the world. But miStikes are
sometimes made.. The wrong men are placed in
office, and we must not, while repudiating the
doctrine of Papal infallibility, act upon the sup
position that the Book mikes no provision for the
relief of an elder-oppressed church. Many a
church in our bounds is in the condition of poor
Sinbad the Sailor, when the old man of the sea
was riding on his back. That wonderful travel
ler hit upon the happy expedient of making the
old man drunk, and then shaking him off.. But
alas, what can the groaning church do if the
older will .not do any thing that will call for his
"deposition?" Our Book provides for this evil.
If the blood of the elder don't flow freely, he
may "cease to be an active elder." It requires
that "the session shall take order on the subject."
Ah, but if the session is composed of, as was
that of a small church in the Weft, that we wot
of—an elder, besides the minister! Whatthen ?
Twelve women and this one man cemposed the,
organization. Being, by, all‘ odds, the best man
in the church, he was elected for life. This man
is temperate enough in respect to drink, but , not
in respect to the " weed." He chews it like a
mill, and each side of his chin, from the corners
of his 'mouth downward, furnishes evidence thereof
painful to behold. He is not chargeable with
"heresy" or "immorality," but is pre-eminently,
unmistakably, and excruciatingly "unacceptable
in his official character to a majority of the con
gregation," and to every body else. Being a
lawyer, however, he is sharp enough not to put on
"the records" the fact that he is "incapable of
serving the church to edification." No man ever
yet hated his own flesh. The earnest, laborious,
and faithful minister of that church had for
several years endured the burden, and blushed
for the disgrace brought upon his congregation
by such an elder—but he is an elder for lie!
It seems to me that a more excellent plan than
that prescribed by "T. L. C.," is for a church to
select, every three or five years, a sufficient num
ber of live men, in all respects qualified for the
office, who shall act, after they are ordained for
life, in that particular church only for these
three or five years, unless re-elected. At the
end of the term the•church can see whether their
blood is warm enough to endure a second term.
If any danger exists of stagnation or fossilifica
tion, the church may guard against it by means
of that blessed contrivance, the ballot-box. If
by this process the whole bench should be "un
seated," the church ought then to pray that God
will give these men grace to submit as meekly as
do their brethren, the "preaching elders," when
unseated by "a slight breeze."
What if, in the course of years, and after many
elections, the whole male membership become or
dained elders for life? This will not hinder the
progress of the church, or conflict with its ortho
doxy. A popular young minister of your city
told us at St. Louis last summer that he bad
nearly a dozen ordained elders in his congrega
tion, and that it wab a veritable Saints' Rest! It
might be so in a church with one hundred ruling,
but not acting elders. Let us stick to the Book,
but at the same time protect ourselves, in a con
stitutional way, against "the old man of the sea."
—E. B. It ,in 0. S. Presbyterian.
DR. JOHN LAWRENCE VON MOSHEIM.
Prof. Henry Sander, of Carlsruhe, in his
splendid work on the Providence of God,
says of Mosheim that he had to endure many
painful things even in his youth. Whilst a
student at Mel ; when he was like a weak
and drooping flower, he had a strong desire
to master the sciences. Even then he had
already commenced his splendid career of
glory and renown, but his path was beset
with thorns and briers. He had but a slen
der income, nor could he see much promise
for the future. He studied with the great
est diligence, not indeed so much to become
renowned, as to make his living. His own
native town, Lubeck, did not appreciate his
merits for a long time, not until he was tailed
away to labor in other places. He was taken
sick at Helmstadt, and was obliged to give
up a projected journey that might have been
of great advantage to him in after life. But,
this sickness was the means of bringing him
into a position of extensive usefulness. Very
soon his life was a complete web of labors,
difficulties and sufferings. This great man
had to learn, by a sad and bitter experience,
that an extensive acquaintance, a celebrated
name, and a - wide-spread popularity, were
sometimes a heavy burden. He admired
the unknown virtues of ,retirement more
than anything else. His clear head soon
saw the vanity of all mere worldly greatness
and honors. He said, on one occasion, "I
am afraid I shall die before I have fully
learnt to know myself." In the height of
his popularity he lost his wife and his mo
ther, and suffered more than any one could
see. His many labors compelled him to con
ceal his sorrows in his own bosom. The im
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN,, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1867.
mense labors of this great man are well
known. Every moment of his time was de
voted to Study and devotion. Everythinr ,
he said or wrote was received with delight h
by the people. He had only to speak or
write, and every, body would hear and read
with pleasure. Eloquence flowed like a de
lightful stream from his lips. His amiable
disposition won all hearts. Nature had made
him an orator. In his small and feeble body
there dwelt a great soul. His extensive
reading, his quick understanding, his cor
rect judgment, his genius, his sharpness, his
retentive memory, his knowledge of all the
sciences, his extraordinary, and, at that time,
his incomprehensible capacity, not .only in
the learned languages, but in his own
tongue, (that language which he first puri
fied and built up)—and the ease with which
he did say any thing—the simplicity and
the popularity in which he commended him
self, and the beautiful and ornate manner in
which he clothed all his thoughts, procured
for, him hosts of admirers. Everybody
wanted to see Mosheim; and hear him speak,
and read what he had' written. Many a
young man considered it the highest honor
of his life that he, had been• permitted
to sit at the feet of this great teacher.
But amid all this immense popularity,
which he enjoyed as Chancellor of the Uni
versity of Gottingen, he remained the same
humble unassuming man. He remembered
that he was a poor, weak man.. Nor was he
ashamed to confess that he had to fight
against the ambition that rose within his
own heart. He wrote to his friend, Dr. Gess
ner, " Why do you praise me so much ? You
will spoil me, and make me proud. Re
member when you write to me again, that I
am nothing but a poor sinner, and that it is
only through the Providence of God that I
occupy this elevated position." He always
thought of his latter end, and seemed to live
with death and eternity in constant view.
God laid upon him many severe afflictions
and sufferings. His weak body had to en
dure many painful sufferings—and at last he
had' to die's most painful death. The last
winter of his life was especially very pain
ful. Every position into which his body
could be placed gave him great pain. He
could no longer walk, even with a cane, and
when he laid hirriself down, contrary to na
ture, he had to rest on his chest. Under the
most severe sufferings, he lived till' spring.
Death'-would have been to him a great , re
lief, but God willed that he should linger the
whole summer on a bed of suffering. In
June his sufferings reached such a pitch that
he lost his mind ; but this did not last long.
His reason returned, and his mind became as
vigorous as ever. The great desire he had
to be usefully employed, it was hoped, would
be gratified again. A machine was built by
which he could move himself about, but he
had become so wasted by disease that he
could not use it. His body soon after broke
out in frightful ulcers, and his sufferings
were imitOwiely great. But no murmur
ever escaped his lips. Thus he continued to
suffer until the 9th of September, 1755, when
he died in the Lord.
Thus is the evening sky sometimes over
spread with dark clouds; the lightnings play
upon the summits of the lofty trees; the for
ests roar with the fierce winds, and the
bright sun goes down in the gloomy forest!
Great God ! we mortals cannot pretend to
understand the economy of Thy grace ! But
we tremble when we think of the storms He
holds over our heads, and know not upon
what dear friend they may fall. How often
are we compelled to say, "Lord, he whom
Thou lovest is sick."—Rev. B. Weiser.
REWARDS IN HEAVEN.
Mr. Spurgeon, in a sermon on the'" Two
Talents, has some admirable remarks on the
reward given in heaven to the humblest
Christian who has done what she could. He
says:
"Here comes Whitefield, the man who
stood before twenty thousand at a time to
preach the Gospel; who in England, Scot
land, Ireland and America, has testified the
truth of God, and who could count his con
verts by thousands, even under one sermon.
Here he comes, the man that endured per
secution and scorn, and yet who was not
moved; the man of. whom the world was not
worthy; who lived for his fellow-men and
died at last for their cause; stand by, angels,
and admire, while the Master takes him by
the hand and says, 'Well done, good and
faithful servant; enter thou into the joy of
thy Lord.' See how free grace honors the
man whom it enabled to do valiantly.
"Hark! Who is this that comes there? a
poor, thin-looking creature, that on earth
was a consumptive; there was a hectic flush
now and then upon her cheek, and she lay
three long years upon her bed of sickness.
Was she a prince's daughter? for it seems
heaven is making much stir about her. No
she was a poor girl that earned her living
by .her needle, and she worked herself to
death; stitch, stitch, stitch, from morning to
night; and here she comes. She went pre
maturely to her grave, but she is coming,
like a shock of corn fully ripe, into heaven;
and her Master says, 'Well done, thou good
and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful
in a few things, I will make thee ruler over
many things; enter thou into the joy of thy
a Lord.' She takes her place by the side of
I Whitefield.
'Ask what she ever did, you find out that
she used to live in some dark garret down
some dark alley in London; and there used
to be another poor girl come to work with
her, and that poor girl, when she came to
work with her was a gay and volatile crea
ture, and this consumptive girl told her about
Christ; and they used, when she was well
enough, to creep out of an evening to go to
chapel or to church together. It was hard
at first to get the other one to go, but she
used to press her lovingly; and when the
girl went wild a little, she never gave her
up. She used to say, 'O, Jana, I wish you
loved the Saviour,' and when Jane was not
there she used to pray • for her, and. when
she was there she prayed with her, and now
and then, when she was stitching awa y,
read a page out of the Bible to her7for, poor
Jane cou d not read. And with many tears
she tried to tell her about the Saviour who
loved her and gave Himself for her.
"At last, after many a day of hard persua
sion, and many a hour of sad disappointment
and many a night of sleepless, tearful pray
er, at last she lived to see the girl profess
her love to Christ; and she left her and took
sick, and there she lay till she was taken to
the hospital where she died. When- she
was in the hospital she used to have a' few
tracts, and she used to give them to those
who came to see her; she would try; if she
could, to get the women to come round, and
she would give them a tract. When she
first went into the hospital, if she could creep
out of her bed she used to get. by the side
of one who was dying, and the nurse used
to let her do it, till• at last she got too ill,
and then she' used' to ask a poor woman who
was on the other side of the ; ward, who was
getting better, and was going out, if t she
would come and read a chapter' to, her,,not
that she wanted to read to her on her own
account, but for her sake, for she thought it
might strike her heart while , she was read
ing it. -
"At last this poor girl died, and fell asleep
in Jesus;'and the poor, consumptive needle
woman had said to her, '—and
what more. could an archangel have said, to
him ?—‘ She hath done what she eould.' "
SOLDIERS' ORPHANS SENT BY A SABBATH-
SCHOOL - fOll - TTYSIIIIEG.
The Presbyterian Church in Nyack, N. Y.,
was the scene on last Sabbath afternoon , of a
deeply interesting service. Some of your
readers may be aware of the, fact that a
seminary for the instruction of the orphans
of such of our brave soldiers as fell in the
rebellion, has • been opened at Gettysburg.
The Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal
Sabbath-schools have each contributed a suf
ficient sum to entitle them to send a scholar,
each making the selection from its own
school. On the part of the former, William,
and on the part of the latter ' David Morris
were chosen; sons of Robert Morris, who
was captured at, the Battle of Gettysburg,
and subsequently died in the prison 7 pen
Andersonville. Sabbath afternOon the
schools assembled at the Presbyterian
Church, to commemorate, by a farewell ser
vice, the departure of the lads to the semi
nary. The pastor ' Rev. Mr. Cory, opened
the meeting, and after a brief statement of
the nature of the call whibh. had brought
the large congregation together, interesting
addresses were' successively made by David
J. Blauvelt, David D. Smith, and E. C.
Brown, Esq. The last named gentleman
also presented to each of the boys a Bible,
the gift of their fellow pupils in the Sabbath
school. The exercises throughout were
marked with 'the deepest interest, and the
lads themselves seemed visit affected. At
the close a collection was taken up for the
purpose of defraying the expenses of the
journey, and some trifling necessaries yet
wanting in their outfit, and the remainder
was placed in the hands of their widowed
mother. The Sabbath-school of the Re
formed Dutch Church, which' was also pre
sent on this occasion, some time since con
tributed to the Gettysburg scheme a suffi
cient sum to entitle them to a scholar, #nd
we presume their choice will not be long de
layed. This . is indeed a pleasant way to
commemorate our battle-fields, and at the
same time pay something towards the inex
tinguishable debt we owe to our fallen
braves, by the care and education of their
orphan children. We trust the noble work
thus instituted will grow into public favor,
until, upon every consecrated battle-field of
the Union will stand one of these memorial
institutions. C.
Nyack, N. Y. _March 3, 1867.
gritittiftv.
PROF, AGASSIZ AND THE ANIMALS OF THE
NEW WORLD.
WARREN LELAND, writes to the N. Y.
Tribune, as follows:
I regret to perceive that Prof. Agassiz, in
his recent lecture on the animals of the
Amazon, reiterates the assertion of Buffon
and some other foreign naturalists, that' ani
mate nature is dwarfed and inferior in the
New World..
This assertion is the more remarkable as
it is not true even according to their own
showing. According to these authorities,
the beasts and birds of prey stand at the head
of their respective classes of animals, and
America produces the largest beast and bird
of prey now extant I refer to the grizzly
bear of the Sierra Nevada and to the condor
of the Andes. I have met with the grizzly
in his native wilds,
and ean testify to his
vast dimensions, his great strength and
courage. Re there roams as much the lord
of the waste, as do the lion and tiger over
portions of Asia and Africa, and, in my opin
ion, would do so ifthey were his neighbors
instead of his antipodes:
Buffon was not aware of the existence of
this formidable animal, or evidently regarded
the accounts of it as fabulous; but the grizz
ly must be well known to Agassiz, and he
describes, in the lecture referred to, the Con
dor, which is the largest living bird of prey,
as also the .highest flyer. The Condor is not
only the king of birds, but, the master of
some of :the larger quadrupeds, and is ter
rible even to man himself. In regard
to the superiority of species, it may be
claimed that the New World produces the
largest bear, the largest wolf (the great
gray wolf,) the largest buffalo, (the bison,
weighing often 3,000 pounds,) the largest
deer (the moose,) and, finally, the largest
pachyderm, for we too have our elephant,
which looks down with gahlime indifference
upon the pigmies of the Old Word. I refer
to the Mastodon. .. .
OREM
This terrestial giant, it is true, is .a scarce
animal, and, but for its remains, which we
find so near the surface of our marshes and
alluvial soils as to indicate their recent de
position, we might not be aware of its pre
sent existence on this continent.
But, if we accept the testimony of emi
nent geologists and of the aborigines, it yet
exists in some undiscovered valley of the
Rocky Mountains, where it will no doubt be
found in due time, and from whence it will
be transferred to ltarnum's Museum in this
city, which will have to be enlarged for its re
ception. Concede to the Old World its lions
and tigers, its dromedaries, its camelopards,
and its rhinoceros among quadrupeds, and
its ostriches among birds, and the superiori
ty still remains with the New, which boasts
the largest predaceous, as well as non-pre
daceous quadrupeds, the largest bird of prey,
and last but not least the largest and best
of game-birds, the Wild Turkey.
WARREN LELAND
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