1 1 ,,ine. This church has also been blessed by a
, dlv accession to her membership, and a lage-
Iv increased attendance.—Church V the High
(:Hal:;. During, the past year the membership has
i,een increased about one-third, mainly on profes
si,,o of faith. Many of these were heads of
There has not been what is generally
termed a revival, but a quiet, steady interest, a
general toning up of Christian feeling and ac
tion. A great want is a better and larger church.
The little building is not large enough for parents
and children to sit down together. Adults fill
the church in the morning, and'.the ,sabbrith
school in the afternoon. There is only need. to
raise four thousand dollars more in order to build.
A few liberal men with large hearts and large
means could cause a new church spire to rise
;mi nutia these mountains before the year closes.
—Con Evangelist.
DEATH OF HENDERSON
In John Henderson of Park, Scotland has lost her
most princely giver, and the Presbyterian church
o ne of its heartiest friends. Born in 1782 at Bar
rom4onness, he died in Glasgow on the first of May
at the age of eighty•five. In his youth , he became
a merchant in the then rising town of• Glasgow, and
his fortunes grew with its growth, and were43catter
ol with that liberality that cause increase, because
it brings blessing. The accidental death of his
brother, and partner i , at once added to his wealth
mei impressed upon his mind with greater force the
sense of his stewardship in relation to it. His gifts
iz,r many a year were between £30,000 to £40,000
annually. He called into being and sowed Scotland
broadcast with the Sabbath literature that saved the
rational Day of Rest from utter desecration. , He
originated the preliminary movement which led to
the establishment of the Evangelical Alliance, and
was at his death the sole proprietor of its excellent
British organ Evangelical Christendom :It brought
him into closer relation to the struggling Reformed
churches of the continent, and to their impoverish
ed pastors. 'He educated students for the Belgian,
Italian, and French churches in Geneva, Belfast,
and Glasgow. The Waldensian College in Florence
is in great part a monument to his name and in- his
last will he leaves $5,000 to this martyr church.
He was liberal at home and in his own denomi
nation. To every scheme of the United Presbyterian
Church of Scotland. whether for church extension
into England, or missions to India, or the erection
of manses at home, his hand was-open and not
empty. To the widow and the fatherless he was
indeed the steward of the Most High, and many a_
Darkened home was comforted by his gifts of sym
pathy, while the donor was unknown, and many a
poor country minister had his salary eked out by
Christian present from the Park.
In personal character he was modest and unas
suming, a pious and_exemplary _Christian, "diligent
in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord."
Religions World Abroad.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Ritualism.—This blossom of the Tractarian
plant still blooms and excites attention. A special
Commission has been appointed by Parliamentary
direction, in which the Church is represented by
three primates, and several bishops and clergy.
The other members represent Parliament.. One
ritualist is a member, and Lord Shaftesbury has
been asked to serve.
About a score of the principal ritualists, including
Pusey, Denison, &'•c., have written a letter to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, denying what they con
sider his misrepresentations of their doctrines.
They assert the real and adorable presence, spiritu
ally and ineffably, in the consecrated bread and
wine, but reject trnnsubstantiation ; they admit that
they teach a sacrifice of the altar, but deny that it
is either a substitute for, or a repetition of the sacri
fice of Calvary.
Mr. Mackonoch ie. perpetual curate of St. Albans,
London, is being tried before the Court of Arches
for his priestly practices. An attempt to transfer
the case to the House of Lords has been defeated,
and it will proceed to be adjusted on its own merits
before Dr. Lushintrton.
Lord Shaftesbury's bill to prevent the clergy from
decking themselves in the thousand and one parti
colored restores of RoMe has been thrown out of
the House of Lords, but will probably meet with a
diatirent reception from the Lower House of the
first Reformed Parliament. It is agreed, by impar
tial observers, that the working classes, the thture
rulers of England. detest Ritualism.
The Bishop of Salisbury held a "visitation" re
cently, at Bridgeport and read a charge of several
hours in length, maintaining;-1,
that certain men
have had intrusted to theinby God, as fellow-work
ers with Him, supernatural powers and preroga,tives 5
2, that God had been pleased' to give to these, His
ministers, the power of so altering• the elements of
bread mid wine, as to make them the channels of
conveying to the , soul for its subsistence therefresh
ing body and blood of Christ; 3, that as Christ, the
ascended Lord, is ever pleading, so the clergymen,
His ministers, plead on earth that which He pleads
in heaven ;" and 4, that God, who alone can forgive
sins, hath delegated to them, His representatives,
the power and authority of expressing to those fit
ting to receive it the pardon of their sins. Having
remarked that there is a time to speak and a time
to keep silence, and he felt that the time for being
outspoken had arrived in his diocese, one rector
stepped from his seat and exclaimed, "I believe
there is a time to speak and a time to be silent; let
those that are on the Lord's side follow me," and
walked out of the church, followed by one church
warden. Intense silence prevailed for a minute or
two. His lordship said, "I would only remind you
that this is a court, and the clergy are bound to at
tend it, though their consciences are not bound to
receive all they hear; of course, a person may be
punished for any contempt of court." He then re
.
sumed reading, bnt, before lie had concluded, every
churchwarden had left. In the afternoon the thirty
lour churchwardens unanimously adopted an ad
dress to the Bishop. asserting that, unless a check
is at-once and promptly made, both by clergy and
laity to those innovations, that a considerable pOrtion
of those who are now sincerely devoted to the Es.
tablishment will be induced to withdraw to Dissent
ing places of worship, or be insidiously attracted
towards the Church of Rome.
The Reform Bill, now before Parliament, makes
a deliberate transfer of the governing power to the
hitherto unenfranchised classes, completely, as the
same power was transferred by the Reform Bill of
1832, from the Aristocracy to their admirers of the
middle classes. The Spectator thinks that - among
the effects of the measure will be a more stringent
legislation on moral questions, such as liquor sell
ing, and a more correct legislation on great inter
national issues. In this way it is likely to greatly
influence the moral and diplomatic future of Eng
land, and to set aside the narrow. policy of expedi
ency. which has shut men's eyes to evils at home,
and caused the nation to lose its place as' the .Head
ProteStantism in Europe. • -
The aristocratic party are anticipating the change
by large concessions; a bill to confirm the univer
sities of Oxford and Cambridge to the Scottish and
German plan, t and to open fellowships and profes
sorships to dissenters, has receivedthe assent of the
House of Commons.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1867.
The May Anniversaries gathered as great
audiences as usual. It was remarked how mach
the character of the meetings had improved since
earlier years. Then anecdotes served very often:
votes of thanks and compliments and controversies
had a prominent place; secretaries were puzzled to
find facts to put into the reports they read in dingy
chapels; the ,same arguments, and appeals did for
all the societies. In spite of the bad financial year
the receipts were mostly larger than in 1866; the
largest being : the British and Foreign Bible Socie
ty, ..£.181,508-; the Church Missionary Society, £150,-
356; the Wesleyan Missionary Society, £148,140;
the Religious Tract Society, £110,775 Besides
these there was received for' Foreign Missions,
£207,681; for Home Missions, £116,015: for .Jewish
Missions, £4l,6lB;'for Colonial and Continental
Missions, £35,519; for Educationkl purposes, £37,-
962; for miscellaneous purposes, £40:099 making
a total of £1,078,653, given through the , voluntary
societies who report in London.
The English Roman Catholics are manifesting
the true Catholic unity in some very sharp contro
versies. The Pope refused IN official sanction to
the proposal to establish Dr. Newman in Oxford, at
the`head of a Catholic College. The ultramonta
nists, who regard Dr. Newman as luke-warm and
half-Protestant, were loud in their exultation. His
friends started an address of- confidence, but Dr.
Ward of the Dublin Review first refused to sign it,
and then came out with an impeachment of Dr.
N:'s orthodoxy, on such points as Mary-worship,
Papal infallibility, and patronizing such metaphysi
cal German Catholics as ..Dollinger. Dr% Newman
has a very strong backing, including such men as
Canon Oxenham, and Will hardly be formally 'con
demned at Rome as that would open Oxford's eyes
too widely.
These ultramontanes are compassing heaven and
earth to convert England. •In a recent sermon,
Archbishop Manning said: England is the head
of Protestantism, the centre of' its movements, and
the stronghold of its powers:- Weakened in Eng
land. it, is paralyzed everywhere; conquered in
England, it is conquered throughout the word ; once_
overthrown here, all is but a warfare of detail. All
the roads of the whole world meet in one point, and,
this point reached, the whole World lies open to'the •
Church's Will: It is the key 'of the whole position
of modern error." • ^
The Dissenters have been suffering somewhat
from what Rev. Dr. T. Smith, at Cincinnati,
called " the epidemic' monomania, for reunion,"
The recent sessions of the Congregational Union
were mostly occupied with a proposal to admit Bap
tist ministers to its membership,. without trammel
ling the Union in regard to its future freedom of ac
Lion. The application 'came from the pastors of
some few ehurchesi who do not exclude predo-bav
Lists from church-membership- The Union,'s Com
niittee reported 12 against; 9 for, their adMission.
The opponents gathered in strength and used every
fair means to exclude the, Baptists, but the discus
cussions by Dr. Vanglian and others; so won upon
the assemblage that .seareely a dozen . 'hands were
raised in opposition when the . vqt,e_was- put,
The CongregatiOnists having field out the olive"
branch, their Baptist brethren slapped them across ,
the face with it. At the Baptists Union eyery
telance, even including Mr. Spurgeon's was in op
position to what was termed this attempt " to do the
impossible.," While one speaker had the 'discourtesy
to sneer at "the little dodge" Of, 'the Congregation
edists.
Ireland.—Collrges.—The indidations are that the
attempt to put Maynooth on a legal level with the
Queen's Colleges will' be a ;failure. - It is. proposed to
raise Trinity College, Dublin, to the rank and ca
pacity of a National University. .The two Presby
terian Colleges were closed with addresses by Prots.
Witherow iu Derry,. and Watts in Belfast. Prof.
Watts was unable to keep from "Ilmbilityand Limi
ted Atonement," which we believe he takes to be the
" marrow of divinity." Prof. Witherow spoke on
Collegiate Education in the Irish Presbyterian
Church, In Belfast efforts are being made to -in
crease endowments and scholarships.
The Synods met jug' before' the Assembly. The
Moderator of that_ of, Dublin, referring to a meeting
of the Synod of Ulster in Newry in 1822, 'contrasted
the state of the Church at those two periods, showing
that the Church has since doubled its Ministers, ori- ,
ginated its missions, established its Sunday-schools
and evangelistic agencies, and spread through the,
land. The Synod of Belfast, the richeSt in the body,
overtures the Assembly for a Sustentation Fund, and
referred thitheran application from a . Mr.M'llwrath,
gentleman'a who has labored for seven years among
the poor in Newtownards, who• proposes to build at
his own expense a place of worship for 400 of these
persons, and who seeks to be ordained as their pas
tor. The Synod of Ballymena transmitted an over
ture praying for the establishment of a mission to
China.
The Asseinbly met in DUblin on the third, when
Dr. Montgomery, a returned missionary, was elected
Moderator.
Dr. Cooke '
the veteran ehampi,,n of orthodoxy,
has resigned the pastorate of his church in Belfast,
through the burden of advancing years, while the
Established Church must soon relinquish the active
services of Earl Roden, the Irish Shaftesbury, for the
same reason.
The Societies reported, - in' the main, increased re
ceipts; the Episcopalian Societies being of course in
advance of all others. The Irish Society is doing
a good work among the' Irish speaking population.
One Missionary said that a man calledout to him :
"Throw away your English, and give us something
we can understand ;" and another called out when
he was preaching in Irish in the county of Cork,
"God Almighty bless you, sir; you took the hunger
off us to-night."
The minor Protestant bodies do not seem to flour
ish. The•Pitptists report no increase and are very
few in number; the Congregationalists are sending to
America to ; ask money, : the sinews of broselytism
the American Methodists have to send $lOO,OOO to
Ireland to perpetuate their name in the native land
of Adam Chirke.
FRANCE
The Reformed.—The death of Mr. Juillerat hav
ing left vacant the presidency of the Consisto& of
Paris, and a Parisian pastorate, the Messrs. Coquerel
claimed to succeed him, the elder by right or senior
ity to the first of these positions; the younger to
the second. Their friends exulted in the filet as a
foreoone conclusion,.but the Consistory has had the
faitldzilness to pass by both these Rationalists, and
to choose the venerable Dr. Grandpierre to the first,
and Rev. M. D'hombres to the second. This has
not allayed the bitterneSs with which these Liberals
regard orthodoxy, and the controversy of the day.
The Ministers of Worship, M. Baroche—a French
Stanberrv--has annulled the decision of the Consis
tory of (Jaen, that requires all Protestant electors to
assent to the Apostles' Creed before exercising ec
clesiastical suffrage. He bases his decision on the
fact that the Central Council of the Church, a body
selected 6,+ . / the Government, several years ago. declared
that the certificate of admission to communion was
sufficient evidence of the candidate's standina.
To
get rid of this and other difficulties, the prin
cipal Consistories demand that the GovernMent
shall convoke a General Synod of the church. This
'body lies not met since the beginnin g of the French
Revolution. Several eminent men have asked an
audience of the Emperor in order to secure its con
vocation.
The pastors and leading men in Paris have estah
lished conferences as a means of-;edifying the faith
ful within and attracting them
,that are without.
The materielle of the Protestant Churches' in the ca
pital, comprising such men 'as De Preseilse and
Guizot, make them centres of decided attraction.
They are both special (or in connection with the
Established Reformed Church) and general.
The . Protestant Societies held their AnniVersaries .
in
M. Two Home Alission Societies reported de
sirable progress. The Foreign Mission Society's
Mission Stations in South Africa have been broken.
up by the wars between the Boers or Dutch settlers
of the Transvaal Republic and the natives. The
Deaeoriesses' Institution and the Publication So
cieties rejoice in success.
The Exhibition is a success in itself, and in hay_
ing.savedEurope from a sanguinary war. The de
partment set apart within the champ de Mars for
objects of religious and humanitarian interests,
worthily represents the now predominant faith of
Europe—Protestantism. All who pass the Kiosk
erected for the purpose, receive sometimes from a
native Christian Arab, religious tracts. printed on
the spot, as memorials of the Exhibition; while
froni the great Bible Stand, copies - Of the Gospels,
in a Pentecostal number of tongues, are distributed.
One old soldier, receiving one of these, said:."
love this; lain a Catholic though I do .not observe
the, forms. lam not a Protestant, but I have often
longed to do something to further the spread of the
simple Gospel." He then gave a ten franc 'gold
piece, but would take no refusal and no receipt, say
ing: "The Lord God knows (Wit, and that is enough."
A tract containing the parable of "The Prodigal.
Son ". is an especial fovorite.
The opening of the Salle Evangetique was an im
pressive. and brilliant occasion. Shaftesbury,
the
.representative of Evangelical laymen, presided, and
after enumerating the purposes for which . the Hall
was erected, referred to the exhibition of Military.
weapOns in the Brea' building, as an evidence of the
need for thus.. Baron Latour welcomed the slran
gers present. M. Guizot, the Christian statesman,.
pleaded for religion as the safeguard of liberty.
Bishop Stevens pastor Monod, and Fish, and Dr. El.;
dridge in turn addressed the crowded asSembla , re.
A native of Algeria distributed tracts in the'Hall of
the building. .
The attempt on the part of the English and Amer
ican exhibitors to close their departments on the
Lord's Day-was at'first successful,. but the French
authorities have revoked the permisSion to dO so.
Error and Ultraism.—At the induction recent
ly of a very common-place professor in a Parisian
medical college, one student said to his 1800 com
rades:
"Gentleinen, our new professor deserves from us'
a hearty welcome, for I can pledge myself that he
belongs to the school- of materialism, and that his
teachings will be in conformity with his convictions.
We demand—:--We adopt materialist ideas; and we
shall haVe t'ie'd." ' linmediately fanatical bursts of
acclamation resounded throughout thelialli although'
a minute before, they had been indulging in demon
strations Of just the - "opposite Character. What a
sad omen: for " vount , France."
HoW
Well the' dominant hierarcy is fitted to
meet and grapple with the doubts of such errorists,
maybe judged_ from , the fact that the Bishop lof
Nismes has,recently published a pamphlet in eulogy
of the "ll ly See," for its persecution of the Albi
crenses.
Switzerland„—,The Jesuits have again been troub
ling the peace of Switzerland. Not content with
their attempt to break u the national union by the
war of the Sonderbund [i. e. Secession] which led to
their ignominOus expulsion from the country, they
have been attempting to foist themselves into the:
pastoral offices in the Catholic Canton of 'Valais,
but the Federal Council have peremptorily ruled
their exclusion. A division of the Canton of Unter
walden enters protest, and will bring the matter be
fore the Federal Assemblies.
The Central Council has issued a decree forbidding
Italian bishops to exercise jurisdiction in the coun
try. The Pope, after 50 years of opposition, com ,
plies and,constitutes a new bishoprieont ot' portions
of Italian dioceses which lie within Swtizerland.
The Government isalso moving to exclude nuns
from employment in the public schools, where, es
pecially in the Canton of Berne, they have a great
influence, and use it to promote their proselytizing
ends. It is to be regretted that their places will
probably 4e filled by 'Rationalists.
The increase of intemperance is arousing the most
indifferent to the corrupt state of society in their na
tive land, and it is hoped that the efforts for social
reform made in this direction will at least roll away
the stone from the mouth of the grave, and allow a
sleeping nation to hear the Master's word.
ITALY.
The Situation.—Dr. De Sanctis, the Waldensian
of Florence, in a recent paper, compares Italy, in
religious point of view, to Ezekiel's valley of dry
bones. Of a believing foreigner, apolished Italian
says: "that gentleman is an excellent man, but has
his prejudices." The grossest immorality has de
stroyed all religious feeling. The suppression of
crime costs $12,500,000 per annum. Religious tolera-,
tion rests on no law; only on the indifference of the
many, and is not strong enough to prevent petty
persecution' by the birbted ; and even by the National
Government, when policy recommends it. The Bar
letta massacre is still unpunished. •
Rumors of contemplated treachery on the part of.
Victor Immanuel are making themselves heard.
The reactionary and hasty measures of the Ricasoli
ministry, in regard to recalling
,bishops, and com
pounding for the Church property, originated with
him, and his "devoutness" is not questioned by his
Romanist enemies. He is a man of thoroughly im
moral life and therefore a fitting tool t'or a confessor.
One minister warned him that he must clear out his
palace before Prince Hubert, the Heir Apparent,
brings home his new bride.
Evangelistic Work-The work in Venice is,
still advancing, though Gavazzi has withdrawn to
other fields for a time, in compliance with the wishes
of the police, who are friendly to the Evangelists.
Lent preachers were ealled ha to preach the Gospel
"as Gavazzi does;" but preached only ." death to
Gavazzi." The superStitious part of the populace
Was so wrought upon by these Ephesian shrine
makers, that another Barletta was threatened; but
the police thought the result would be 'quite the op
posite. The books of the Claudian press are offered
for sale side by side with "The Catholic Fortified
Against the Wiles of Protestants." The newspapers
and the theatres have taken up the war in good ear
nest, and the popular plays and feailtcstons boast, of
the days when Paolo Sarpi taught in a ftee, almost
Protestant Venice, or expose the Roman intrigues of
the preseiit.
The Stations of the American and foreign Chris
'kian Union in:Northern Italy are advancing slowly.
The Christian World says, Bassignana makes an im
portant exception. There the popular movement
is on a vast scale: the whole country around is
awakened, some for and others against the truth, but
of the former, there are many more Than of the
latter. The place of worship is always crowded to
excess with attentive hearers. The brethren of the
Church are active and zealous in the defence and
spread of the truth.
The movement has been in progress for some
months. Indeed, from the time the former Evan
gelist, Sig. Musso, left with many. Evangelical fami
lies to immigrate as an Italian colony, to the United
States, there has ever continued a most interesting
state of religious awak en ing. Though deprived of
their pastor, the people would not remain deprived
of the Gospel. The Evangelist at Vercelli has fre
quently visited them, and his efforts, together with
the labors of others, have been greatly blessed.
Gavazzi has been laborinw in Padua and Milan
and other towns; in one 'place preaching to 1000
workingnaen in a noble's - countryhouse.. In Guas
talla, the Bishop asked hini to dinner and a "pri-
vate conference" on their differences, and after
wards raised such a stir that only the police pre
vented a riot and massacre. In Udine, the Bishop's
palace was sacked, and the people, as also in Chi
ozza, secured a hall and - sent )Or an evangelist to
preach to them. In Cantania, "the toe of the
Boot.", an ex-priest has begun evangelistic work;
Mr. Kay, of Palermo, came over and helped him.
Spain.—The Reformed Christian people who are
scattered throughout Spain, are about 2000 in num
ber: They are all known to each other as Bible
Christians, they abjure the tern: "Protestant," and
carefully abstain from everything that could, by im
plication, even be considered political, agitation. For
greater Security they rarely assemble in larger num
bers than ten or fifteen; their meetings are always
at night; their preaching is in a conversational
tone, and singing seldom indulged in, and when ven
tured upon only in a low tone of voice. The print:
ing of the Ney , Testament. in the Spanish tongue—
which i's 'a penal offence—is done at midnight in a
deep cellar, eareftilly arranged to
_prevent any inti
mation of the work being carried to the outer world,
and it is circulated by means which its friends do
not find. it desirable to divulge.
Portugal—An Evangelist writes froni Lisbon:
"The work of reformation is indeed begun in
Portugal. by the great mercy of God. I have been
working in Azores; where I live, and there we have
already a
,Portugnese congregation, I came here
and met another Portuguese Protestant congregation,
of about sixty members, that meet secretly on Sun
days for Divine service for fear of persecution, as
they are poor most of them."
After beseeching help from America, he continues:
"We have here two priests who have left secretly
the Roman Catholic Church, and who desire to
make public'their belief, but how can they do it?
If they are nothelpedin someway by Protestant So
cieties, they must starve. They could be employed
in these tw,o congregations, one in Lisbon, another
in Azores, but who can pay them to live?'!—Chris
tian "World.
MISSIONARY.
East Indian Missions — . -Missionary Unitarian Tes
timony .•-•Bliss Carpenter, daughter Dr. Lent Carpen
ter, and biographer of Ramohun Roy, has returned to
England from her philanthropic visit to India, and re--
cently gave an account of her visit at a soiree of•the
Social science Association. Miss C. is a Unitarian,
and says that before her Indian journey she had
been somewhat prejudiced against missionary efforts,
and had little faith in their efficacy, especially as re,-
spects•• liindoostan. From many English residents
in that country she. had received statements which
tended to confirm her prejudices. But she deter
mined to examine for herself, and to form an impar
tial opinion, based on ObServatione on the spot. The
result has impressed upon her the conviction that
the missionaries_ are doing,a very great and good work in
India. It, is : true that their labors are-not as yet at
tended by 'many professed conversions: " brit
there:is doubt but that they are introducing the
Scriptures'. and gradually leaVening the population
with theindirect yet elevating influences of Chris
tianity. 3ltis: 3 C. stated that the missionaries them
selves have little:confidence in direct efforts, to pro
selytize. They aim rather•at forming the youthful
mind, and ill imparting a knowledge of Scripture
history and biography. In visiting .the Scotch Pres
bvterian school at Bombay, uneer;the superinten
- • -
dence Of Dr. Wilson, she was much, pleased with
the very remarkable knowledge Of the Bible mani
fested by the native pupils. One of the -pagan tu
tors (a Parsee) was there teaching the Ten Com
mandments. •
Through friends at home expecting a long tale of
profesSed proselytes, a strong temptation is held out
to adduce exaggerated and superficial statements.
But the real work accomplished cannot thus be
ganged and registered like so many inches of rain
fall or degrees of atmospheric heat. It is an effect
produced gradnally; silently, and invisibly in the
mind and heart of the community. In india, as in
other paks of the world ; "the kingdom of God
cometh not wiih observation." A missionary of
thirty years' experience described to Miss C. the evi
dences of great moral improvement amongst the
surrounding population, and she was herself a wit
ness of the warm attachment of the still unconvert
ed students to these their missionary friends and in
structors. Incorrect statements at home produce
very mischievous efiects in india, and excite ridicule
and - seVere - criticism, which discourage the actual
workers.
The merely secular governmental education works
well, as which the Bible is excluded, the beSt British
classics are introduced, and thus Christian influ
ences were brought indirectly .to ..bear upon the
children. Many are expressing..a willingness to
read Christ's words as He spoke them; but they re
fuse to accept them - with accompaniments of author
ity, of dogma, or of sect. The devotional poetry
and moral lessons of Christian'ity are also being
sought after by an increasing number of ,the Hin
doos.
. China..—The light shines on the borders of a dark.
phiee. A. Church. of England missionary says :
"There is no great stirring of the dry bones, but an
increasingly rapid spread of the leaven of Christian
truth.. It is quite rare to meet with people in and
ardund.Ningpo, who have heard nothing of Chris
tianity at any time. It is tallied about amongst the
peciple, and signs are apparent that Our .arch-enemy
is disturbed . and uneasy, though the number of
Christians is at present insignicant, and our a.ppar
rent success is small. There is enough: Gospel know
ledge in thousands of hearts, I believe I, may truly
say, to save them, when applied by the teaching of
the Holy Ghost."
Tx■ MASON & HAMLIN CABINIT OROAN.—The tones of this instru
ment are mellifluously sweet, with a volnme, power, and expression
truly marvellous in so small and compact an organ. , They are
beautiful, simple, and econornical.—New Orleans Times.
OBITUARY
Moses Ham died in Williamsport, Pa., May 6, 1867, in his ninety
first year.
Ho was born August 25, 1776, near buneey, in this county, then
Northumberland comity. His early boyhood ie largely identified
with the horrors and privations of the Indian wars of the Valley of
the \Vest Branch. When but a child, hit
,parents, after a severe
struggle, in which an uncle was killed by theludians, were driven
from their howe to Port Augusta, near Sunbury:, where they were
oblited to remain for two years—after which they returned to their
farm. He was an attending witness at the first Court ever held i u
Williamsport: In 1798 he married fur his first wife Phebora, eld
est daughter of ,Gen. John Burrows, of Montoursville, and in 1800
emigrated' with her to Geneva, N. Y , going by boat to Northunt
berrand, thence up the North Branch, polit 's , . his boat to Elmira,
N. Y., thence by us team across the country to the head of Seneca
Lake, and thence by boat to his destination. A few years subse
quent to his settlement in Geneva, he and. his wife revisited their
friends in this county. He performing the entire journey on foot.
and his wbe on horseback. lie spent fifty-live years of his life at
Geneva, during which time he buried three wives, rind raised a
family, f eight children. In 1555 he returned to Lycoming county
to spend the remainder of his years with his eldest son, John B.
Hall. His name is found among the list of the first menthe's of the
Presbyterian church, founded by the Rev. Jedediah Chapman. in
1800, in Geneva—one of the, first churches formed in Western New
York. He was early chosen a ruling elder and deacon. He livid
to see ell of his children, and several of his grandchildren, mem
bers of the Christian Church. He was a devoted Christian, a kind
husband, and an indulgent father. He made, friends of all who
formed his acquaintance, .and was ever faithful to warn those with
whom he conversed, that gave no evidence of Christianity. Hs
was always ready to extend the hand to any Christian brother by
whatever bailie. He was a warm friend•of the Government and
freedom.
. .
During the war of 1812 he answered to his name, and being phy
sically unable to do duty, sent a substitute who served the full
term. During the late rebellion he has been a close reader and a
careful observer of the current events. lie had read the Bible
thrdugh many times, and on the first of January last he com
menced reading it again, and on the 6th of March had completed
it, besides reading'several other books. Since that time he has
read the second volume of Greeley's history of the rebellion, having
previously read the first. lie was taken sick on the 11th of April,
with erysipelas, since which time he has gradually failed, with
but little pain, until the 6th inst., when the taper of life went so
peacefullY and calmly out, and his spirit Was borne so quietly'
away that those who stood nearest him did. not realizedt until-he
wad gone.
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