~gatfciau «^Wptjteriaii. THURSDAY;; 22; 7867. i B W‘Oni s oiir Inside pages will be found :— on page 2d. A‘letter from Italy ft the Waldenses awl their Worlc ; and a communication ft otn Rev. H. H. Jessup] of equally great mteicsfwregard U, the work .of the fi. R. Q. F ; M- .and thfiir in. Syria, :and, what , the Nyrians : ,qre coming to think of it; also (Mege Record, On Fage-i 3d:: Rural Economy:(comprising the wb sfiSftW of the July report bf-fie Department of : e i dhd , fho'thf'\Nef_ I ’lf>rk‘ : dff/f.on Pennsylvania fdrmihgpdnd Scientific Items: 0% fiMf mh bkdgef’ofifamily rhallfii’g \ihe fifsl'stdry shoui<l be credited Id'Mrs. H. ,li. Stowe). On pane *7 til Editofis Table and Lite- fiKouglitfifiartwie by''Br. Hatfield, of Chicago', iphieJi sh&dlfi' have been ‘vtsgi i>ai i i->/« - pie of Pe OM Scbfoel byterian Soar'd 6? PplieatioD j ! a l nd' '£liose ’of the Ass'esinbly tlhe ‘^n^terian ®dbli<SS#lon; Gominittee;- Sheir/ -price is 75 and ■ !li9 ‘ v ;' .bnfifgn&L —.a •• • .l.m W .tut rar letter from tlie Secretary of Indiana •tVdHßPTßifcjr^received, ap yr.e g 9 topreps; announces .that fbjit 'lustitution havd epnfermL the degree of Divinity upon Itev.' John W. Mears. iiSMjii Sv • •.:/ ' ••••'■• , tjr Dr. Mears is m the country, et..present. We fFfghf&V many• ,enjpy) tbe honor. TKi* ♦eaoiui u <^‘ J L 'jr.-ian-i -<F *‘i are indebted to Mr. £ GWorge q °W?‘Childs''of Public - photograph of the uMiWLfLedger building, Which; is as ornamental to 'dilr i pk : ife office as 'is thje 'building itself to our .HUOU^nif-dTU New Papek. —We learn that the Publishing tlih'Eefortoed Presbyterian Synod (O. S.) have at lengtkoompleted their arrange jmeutSifor, %eit new paper, and it will be issued Spt. Ist. The'-name; we believe, is to be The Statesman, an Advocate of National Reform. gi-Bditors, Rev. Messrs. T. P. Stevenson, Milligan. To secure the formal •teoogniiipn'of the Mediatorial Headship of Christ S’: Constitution is one of the main ends •‘Ytt Bfi OU teG?,£o ; : H'ASvimond in London. —Hon. and Rev. Noel said to his congrega- tion, w (aiVyrecent Sunday, that, so far as man could judge, he believed that 200 children had been tru\x converted during the week. Mr. t SSmmonl?*continues his meetings at the Surges of the week (except Satur day,) at 7.cs, for young men and young women. On meeting for children, at 5.30. Finished.— Dr. Van Dyck has brought his bftipon the Arabic Scriptures to an n 'ift-is'ju&t about two years since he came to i-..';K s n.vn?:r this country entered upon the work. What a of it, may be seen in a let tef,vTrdiri Rev” H. H. Jessup on our correspon- dence-page. r:"'dT.HAT’sd;aBBEASON why.” —Rev.W. D. Green is publishing'a series of bitterly abusive articles against Eeuhi'on'in the North Western Presbyte rian. Another correspondent of the same paper writes:" ' ’‘i'ihakd some allowances for the prejudices of ‘W; .D. 6.;'' because I know he has recently come out of a bot fight with New School breth at Coviugtbi^,'' lN;BAS[r?y OfßOaf Religious Excitement.— Rev. Dr.Oookman, pastor of the Spring Garden streekMethodist 'Episcopal church, has had un der Mr. Stockton, late a city missionary qf Trenton, N. J., and his wife, both of' ivhOm' are -said to have become insane by re ligiQVJS, attendant upon the Perfection- at Vineland, N. J. The first indication of this w.-s the throwing of a set of false' teeth out of the car window, on his passa^e <! fr<M Vrhfeltnd. Afterwards the couple were found in the.,streets of this city, and, on giving indications" of their Church association, they wep& Italian'SWthe residence of a friend, from which ,tb,ey; escaped ; after which they were found in the greets and taken in charge by Dr. CdSkinan? 4MrBr Stockton still remains in Philadelphiahusband has been placed in the asylum at Trenton. The Trenton True American- sfysq “Ih v is known, that his mind sus tained;! W-severe .shock in the death of his son, who was killed-in one of the battles of the rebel lion. At times since that event, he has manifes ted a degree of excitability. He has been'influenced somewhat for two or three years Wtermed his ‘impressions.' Under this influC’nbe' he declined two years since tb receive K an W at the hands of the Bishop, and engage in the labors of an Eyangqijst-,: r;Aft?,T * f ew months he accepted an invitation-to laet ias City Missionary in this city. In March last, he received his appoint "mbnjf tp . His mind, for a number : ofi' years has.beeitunneli interested in the ques tion' Christian perfection, as taught in the M. E. Church.” THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1867. Positivist —Positivism is about to take its place among the religious sects, a religion with out a God. A series of lectures with a view to inaugurating a Positivist church with appropri ate ritual, calendar, etc., has recently been deliv ered by Mr. Thos. Congreve in London, and in the audience was the author of 11 Adam Bede,” her de facto husband Mr. G. H. Lewes, and Lords Houghton and Amberley. The new sect repudi ates the supernatural origin of religion, making man its source and object. Humanity is its deity, and eminent men who have contributed to the improvement of the race are objects of its worship. Comte the founder of the system is an object of special reverence. It bases one of its claims for superiority over other religions on the fact that it sympathizes with the latest teachiugs of science, and utilizes them for the benefit of man. It is scientific infidelity seeking an organization, and as imported from Paris, a strange birth-place for a new religion, may be re garded as the latest skeptical novelty.. Mr. Lit tre, of the' French Academy, tl;e ablest of the followers of Comte, will establish a periodical, devoted to the interests of Positivism. Temperance Societies and the African Race. The New Mark Independent says, a propos of General Howard’s establishment of a separate Lincoln Temperance League among the Freed men: — At this moment we have before ns a let ter from a friend in Assiwattac, Penn., in forming us that the society of Good Temp lars in that plaice lately refused to admit to membership an intelligent, industrious young man, of good moral standing, solely because it was reported that one of his pa rents had .negro blood in his veins! One of the members of the order, who took an ac tive part in procuring the vote of rejection, was heard to say, “ No nigger shall be made equal to me by having a seat in the hall.” The Prophets’ Chamber.— Mr. Jay Cooke of this city has purchased an island in Put in-Bay, where Commodore Perry landed after the Battle of Lake Erie, in 1813. He has erected on it a fine stone mansion, for the express purpose of entertaining, for a brief season during the hot weather, and in succession, many of the Christian ministers of various Evangelical denominations, and especially such as, from the smallness of their salaries, are unable to afford such rest and recreation for fhemselves. The act is too good and thoughtful to need praise. Two of our own ministers, Revs. J. Chester and J. L. French, have been sojourning there. PESM-Wfi-E.OCHESTEHrQORRESPONDEIfT, SUNDAY LIQUOR TRAFFIC, By request, Rev. Dr. Campbell, of this city, preached an admirable sermon on the above topic, on the first Sabbath evening of this month. It is mild and temperate in language —it calls no hard names—and yet it cuts like a Damascus blade. He states that there are in our eity some thing like a thousand places where liquors are sold, one to every sixty inhabitants, —men, women and children—through the town. Of these not one in ten—probably not one in fifty—closes on Sunday. On the contrary, the business goes on more briskly on the Sabbath than at any other time. Many spend that blessed day in drinking, who spend other days in work, squandering the hard earnings of all the rest of the week in per sonal indulgence, while their families are often suffering sore deprivations at home on that ac count. Often these places, where the Sunday traf fic is carried on, become scenes of boisterous revel ry. _ Here also brawls and fights often occur. But this Sunday traffic is all contrary to the laws of the State. Those who open their shops on that holy day are constant violators of the Sunday statute. Besides, in getting a license they are supposed to present proof of “good moral character.” But what sort of mural char acter is that which is constantly breaking the laws of the land ? They are speeifially licensed also to sell liquors on six days of the week, not on seven. The Sabbath is exempt. The license is of the nature of a contract. In taking such a license, .the liquor dealer agrees to abide by the contract. He knows that he is not licensed to sell liquors on the Sabbath. And yet what are stipulations, conditions, or contracts to him? And once more; many men have contended that a prohibitory law is so severe that it cannot be enforced; but how much better is the license law enforced in this regard ? Its Sunday pro vision is violated all the time, and by those who say that a prohibitory law is too severe; who pretend to be the especial friends of a license law. Do they not plainly like that law best which can be most easily evaded or violated ? These are some of the sharp points of the dis cussion- They were well put, and gave manifest satisfaction to a large audience; so much satis faction that a copy was asked for publication ; in response to which it has appeared this week in two of our daily papers, and has been read, as we hope, by thousands who had not the pleasure of hearing it. PALACE CARS. The New York Central Railway Company have put some new coaches upon their road, which exceed in elegance and luxury, we imagine, any thing before on wheels in this country. They are sixty-one feet in leogth, ten in width, with arched ceilings beautifully frescoed. They are divided into separate apartments or parlors, with a hall at one side; each apartment carpeted and furnished with sofas, chairs, mirrors, tables and everything which can minister to the comfort or taste of the traveller. The trucks are each furnished with six wheels, instead of four, which enables them to move so smoothly along the rail that those inside would scarcely know they were in motion; and there they may sit and read, or chat, or sleep, almost as quietly as if sitting or lounging in their own drawing-rooms at home, even while whirling along through the country at the rate of thirty miles an hour. These cars are run between this city and New York without change, passing over the Hudson River road. And from this point, to Chicago, passing ovei: the Great Western road in Canada, and the Central railway of Michigan, is a line of Hotel cars. . These are similar to those already described, in jthe elegance and conven ience of their appointments. These, too, have their separate apartments, for families or parties of pleasure. And oA these passengers may find lodgings at night anfe meals in the day time, al most as comfortably tarnished as in a first-class hotel.- We know of So more desirable route from east to west than ova this thronged and popular line of travel. | inebriate asylum. • The Inebriate Asylum, located at Binghamton, is at last in workingfjrder, and bids fair now to do something of the ' usiness for which it was in tended. Dr. Willia i Parker, of New York, is continued as Preside it of the Board of Trustees; Dr. Albert Day, wh< met with great success in managing the Washi igton 'Home for Inebriates in Boston, is the Superintendent, and Rev. Samuel W- Bush, who was o ice pastor of the Presbyte. rian church at Coop rstown, is the faithful and gentlemanly Chaplain • it thirty patients in the in lom belong to families of l it was peculiarly sad to Vh associations—we fcnow ere they may hope for re ler still to think that while kese thirty, the thousand city alone will make more (very year. Buffalo will Ve 5 and New York City, Sing holes, can make as 3 State beside, si that we have, at least, one hundred thousand drunkards in the State. The average life of the Irunkard is about ten years. Ten thousand, therefore, \annually pass from the Empire State/nto drunkards’ graves, and ten thousand now fiunkards take their places, so as to keep the raajtsfull. ■ We make ten thou sand drunkards a jfr, therefore, and are trying There are now aboi stitution, some of w| world-wide fame; an- find such names in s\ of no better, place wl| form! But it was sadi Mr. Day is reforming u dram shops in this one than thirty drunkards i make twice as many mi with seven thousand ti' many as all the rest of tl And so it comes to pa! to reform thirty! our laws are the en James S. Seymoj than fifty years an I ited cashier on the 11th of having been now for many ft. The completion of fifty and honorable service in the fits affairs, was very properly n, op the'part of the Directors, if a little speech to Mr. Sey jith some very fine specimens er, two goblets and a salver, having been appo August, 1817, and O / 1 i years its Preside! years of faithfu management ofj made the occas; for the presen mour, accornp/ of silver wan jfition ,nied —apil with suitable! inscriptions upon them. Mr. Seymour iis ajleading member of the First Presbyterian Chur/h of Auburn, a prominent citizen, universally respected, a friend of the Theological Semi/ary and of every enterprise of Christian benevolence, a man of great liberality as well as high /business capacity and integrity, and it is to see such had in honor. After fifty yeafs of such service, without a sus picion or a shadow upon his fair name, he well deserved the compliment so handsomely paid him by the Direacors; and we know that all Western New York tfill say, Amen. The Prtsbyterian Church of Ogden, of which Rev. A./McA. Thorburn is pastor, has given $3OO to/ the American Missionary Association, to support two teachers among the freedmen at the South.' The church also furnishes the teachers, two of their own number, whom they follow with their love and confidence and prayers. PERSONAL The Post-office address of Rev. D. W. Marsh, of whose removal from our city we spoke last week, is Godfrey, Illinois. That is the name of the town in which Monlicello Seminary is located. There is another little town, in quite another part of the State, called Monticello; and letters addressed to “ Monticello” are not likely to go to the place where the Seminary of that name is planted, and where Mr. Marsh now resides. The church which lie is to take charge of is, we be lieve, Presbyterian in form. Rev. Dr. Vermilye, Professor in the Theologi cal Seminary at Hartford, Ct., by invitation preached the sermon at the dedication of the new Congregational church at Warsaw last week. He will be remembered by many as the Corres ponding delegate of the General Association of Connecticut in our General Assembly in May last. - We see that the University of Vermont; at its recent Commencement, conferred the degree of We are a great State; and )odiment of the wisdom of APPRECIATED. r, Esq., has been for more dicer of the Bank of Auburn, LIBERAL. Doctor of Divinity upon Rev. Geo. iV. Board mctTij of Binghamton. This is the man they tried to get last year for their President; we do not know where they could look for a worthier candidate for either honor. Mr. Smith N. Penfield, who has held the post of organist for several years in the Central Church of this city, and who was acknowledged, we be lieve to be the finest player on that majestic in strument in this region, has gone to Germany, to spend a year- or two in taking lessons and further practice, under the directions of some of the great masters. He aims at still higher excel- lence in his profession. Rochester, August 17, 1867, Ddfa* flf fra ©Jnrttjjt*. The Springfield Presbyterian Church (N. S.) located in the beautiful little village of Flourtown, and in sight of Chestnut .Hill, with whom the Rev. Alfred Snyder has been minister ing, have secured the services of Rev. George H. Hammer, of Meadville Presbytery, Synod of West Pennsylvania. His labors with the church commenced with the first of August with flattering prospects of success. With the aid and counte nance of the New School element of our city churches, who during the summer solstice seek the pure air beyond the city limits, a large and influential chureh can undoubtedly soon be built up. ’ The congregation are in possession of a neat and comfortable church building in a cen tral location, free from debt, and are prepared to accommodate all who may favor them with their presence. May the blessing of the Great Head of the Church attend both pastor and people ; that they may exert a hallowed influence over the community surrounding them. Massilon, o.—Mr. Richard L. Williams, one of this year’s graduates of Lane Seminary, was ordained and installed pastor of the Presbyterian church in Massilon, on August 7th, by the Pres bytery of Pataskala. Rev. D. E. Beach was chosen Moderator. President Hitchcock, D.D., of Western Reserve College, preached the ser mon ; Rev. A. Kingsbury, D.D., made the or daining prayer ; Rev. D. Tenney gave the charge to the pastor; and Rev. D. C. Blood the charge to the people. Massilon is a charming little city of about five thousand inhabitants, full of enter prise, and with prospect of growth. Our church there contains about one hundred members.— Cor. Herald. Holton, Kansas. —Our church, which was organized last March with twenty members, is engaged' in building a house of worship. They appreciate the fact that every family ought to have a home. Churches. —In College Hill, Ok. at the quar terly communion, eleven were ad led to the Church —three husbands with their wives by letter, and five young men on profession. • Ministerial. —Rev. Dr. Allen of. Lane Sem inary is at Superior City, Wis., and finds the cli mate there very favorable. Rev. H. W. Gil bert of Bingliampton, N. Y., has accepted a call from the Congregational church, at Longridge, Conn. Rev. Geo. Spaulding is temporarily supplying the Church in the 2d. Ward of Scran ton, Pa.; address Providence, Pa. Rev. H. H. Northrop recently tendered his resignation as pastor of the Church in Flint, Mich., which lie has served for fifteen years. His people, how ever, refused to accept it, and added to his salary $5OO. Rev. Mr. Martin of Virginia city, Ne vada, is about to resign his charge on account of the condition of his wife's health. He will be greatly missed in the field where he has efficient ly labored. The Rev. T. E. Taylor will tempo rarily succeed Mr. M. Rev. Elbridge Mix, (Cong.) has accepted a call from the First Pres byterian church in Orange, N. J., and has re quested a dismissal from his pastorate at Burling ton, Vt.— Rev. John Salford, of Bellevue, 0., commence!! his labors two weeks ago as -pastor of the Church in Crawfordsville, Ind.- Rev. A. W. Sanford has removed from Marion, Ind., to Erie, Monroe county, Mich. fUliijw Jtritllijpif. Tire REFORMED CHURCHES. City. —On a recent Sunday- sixteen persons were admitted to the membership of the First United Piesbyterian church, corner of Broad and Lombard streets On a late Sunday the Trinity [German] Reformed church, for some months worshipping in the American Mechanics' Hall, held their first com munion in the hall, corner of Sixth street and Girard avenue. After a sermon by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Cloop, about a dozen new members connected them selves with the new church enterprise. The congre gation have secured a plot of ground at Seventh and Oxford streeie, where they intend erecting a church edifice. The new Trinity Church building on Frankford avenue, will be entirely completed in the autumn. The lecture room is finished. The chureh at Port Richmond in the Central Presby tery of Philadelphia, recently received twenty- per sons to its communion on profession, and has re ceived eighty- one members during the year. The propriety of enlarging the chureh edifice is under consideration.- The South Church, Third and Redwood, is being renovated. It has been closed for several Weeks, during which the workmen have been replastering, painting and frescoing it. When completed it will be a very fine building. "West Arch Street Church. —An overflowing congregation in a city church in midsummer is a novelty; but such a congregation was seen in the West Arch Street church, on the evening of last Sabbath. The pews were filled, and seats had to be provided in the aisles tor the thronging numbers. Dr. Willetts preached, with his accustomed earnest ness and power. His sermon was marked by great and beautiful simplicity, by transparent clearness, and by a warmth of appeal, in which, unfortunately, many- of the sermons ot our day are lacking—Pres byterian, (Aug. 17.) ° Ministerial.— Rev. John W. Scott, D D., form erly of W ashington College, has been chosen Vice President of the West Virginia Agricultural Collects, at Morgantown.—i-TUe Rev. A.,Hamilton, D. D. has been commissioned by the Board of Domestic’ Missions as District Missionary for the State of Illi nois. The General Synod of the Reformed Pro testant [Dutch] Church has recently released Rev. N. E. Smith from his bond to pay $40,000 to wards the endowment of professorships in the semi nary at New Brunswick, as all his property has been sunk in a worthless oil well. Rev. R. G. Wal lace, formerly of Burlington, New York, has accept ed a call to take the pastoral charge of the congre gation of Rock Prairie (formerly Reformed Presby terian, N. 5.,) in the United Presbytery of Wiscon sin, and will be installed on the Ist Tuesday in Oc tober. Churches. —Several years since, the Presbyterian churches of Bedford, Ind., (0. and N. S.) united and became independent. They have now determined to form a connection with the New Albany Presbytery, 0. S. Rev. Mr. Crowe, late of Crawfordsville, Ind., has taken the charge of the church. The United Presbyterian congregation of Salem, N. Y., former ly known as the Associate Reformed congregation at that place, have resolved to celebrate the Centen nial Anniversary of the establishing of the congre gation there by the Rev. Dr. Clark, in 1767. The celebration is appointed for the 27 th day of‘August nex t. Theone hundredth anniversary of the dedi cation of the Reformed Dutch church at Claverack, N. Y., will be celebrated on Wednesday, the 28th inst. The edifice was erected 1767. At the Con sistory meeting of the Reformed Dutch church at Hopewell, July 3, 1867, it was That this Consistory heartily endorses the action of the oldest Consistory of the City of New York, joining with them in considering any change in our denomina tional name uncalled for, unwise, and very dangerouß to the peace, prosperity, and even the existenee of our Church. Resolved, That this Consistory will not only resist this persistent effort, this inju dicious, uncalled for, and hasty action, but in view of it, will stand now all the more firmly by our time honored name.— —Of the 254 pastoral charg eein the bounds of the Canada Presbyterian Church, only seven omitted to send returns. 'The First Re formed Dutch church of New= Brunswick, N. J., will complete the 150th year of its history this fall, and is to celebrate the occasion on Tuesday, Oct. Ist. The church at Glendale, to which the Rev. W. H. Babbitt, of Hoboken, has accepted a call, is made up of Old School and New School, members alike, though ecclesiastically connected with the other Branch. Ordinations.—Mr. J. Calvin Elliott was ordained and installed pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Nebraska City, Sabbath evening, July 28th, by the Presbytery of Missouri River. This Presbytery is becoming more settled and permanent. One year ago but one member sustained the relation of pas tor to his people, now there are five pastors. Mr. L. N. Mudge, late tutor at Princeton College, was ordained and installed pastor of Westminster church, Yonkers, on Thursday, August 2. On the 9th of July, G. T. be Boutillier was ordained to the ministry of the gospel, and installed pastor of the churches of Tuckertown and Bass River, New Jersey. ' Kentucky. —The First and Second churches in Dan.ville, adhering to the Old School General As sembly, have expressed a desire to unite in the sup port of a common pastor for both churches. Ac cordingly, on Sabbath, the 28th of July, Dr. W. L. Breckinridge offered his resignation to the Second church, and on Sabbath, the 4th of August, Rev. W, J. McKnigiit ottered his resignation to the First church, in order that both may be free to select any one on whom they may be able to agree. In the First church negotiations are pending between the Declaration and Testimony party on the one side, and those who remain in connection with the Gene ral Assembly on the other, which will probably re sult in the latter selling out to the former their in terest in the old church, and uniting with the Second Genesee. church in building a new and handsome church in a more central locality.— Western Presbyterian. A congregational meeting was held in the Presby terian ch urch at Hopkinsville, resulting in a division of the church. The Presbyterian Banner says the long expected division in the Second (O. S.) church of Lexington, has at last occurred. The pastor, Rev. R. G. Brank, and three elders have declared in favor of the “Dec laration and Testimony” Presbytery and Synod, and three elders have declared in favor of the Presby tery of West Lexington and the Synod of Kentucky, recognized by the last Geueral Assembly. New Scholarships in Princeton. —During the last year six Scholarships were established in Prince ton Theological Seminary, to wit: The Latimer Scholarship,” of three thousand dollars, by a lady ot Philadelphia; “The Fowler Scholarship,” of tweuty-five hundred dollars, by Messrs. F. R. and W. C. Fowler, of New York City, connected with the chureh at Peekskill, N. Y.; “The Dayton Scholarship,” of twenty-five hundred dollars, Ly Geo. Dayton, Esq., of Peekskill. N. Y.; “The Ar thur Pemberton Sturges Scho arship,” of twenty-five hundred dollars, by Jonathan Sturges of New York City; “The Halliday Scholarship,” of twenty-five hundred dollars, by William Nelson, of Peekskill, N. Y.; and “The Stone,Scholarship,” by Levi P. Stone, of New York City. Want of Ministers in the South. —A Presby terian paper, published at Richmond, Va., speaks in this manner of “vacant Pulpits ” of the Presbyterian Church South : The Macedonian call for “help ” is still reiterated in behalf of many destitute congregations of our Church, where the words of life are seldom heard. Were all these vacant pulpits endowed with the gilt of tongues, they might speak of the spiritual wants of thousands in tones which, “like the voice of many waters,” would rouse the entire Church to ac tion. Connected with our General Assembly, there are twelve hundred and eighty or ninety congrega tions, of which more than half are destitute of a stated ministry. Of our eight hundred and eighty o >e ministers and licentiates, some are too old and infirm to bear the labors ot a pastoral charge, and others are laboring as professors or teachers in Theo logical Seminaries, Colleges and schools, and as edi tors, superintendents of missions, and other evan gelical enterprises of the Church; and others are compelled to engage in secular pursuits to obtain bread for their families. As a result of this state ot things, we have seven hundred and eighty more churches than ministers regularly employed in the work of pastors! 0 missionary Presbyterians. —The Central Presbyterian of Richmond, Va., referring to a classi fication of Baptists by Dr. Burroughs, of that city, into “ Missionary, Ami-Missionary, and Oinis sionary,” says: Perhaps it would not be quite fair to wish all the Omissionai-y members were in the Baptist Church. But the wish may be allowed that none such could be found in the Presbyterian Church. Alas! they swarm in every part of it. Hut it is astonishing what results are brought about by the labors of our Omissionary Presbyterians. They can starve a pastor, aud send him adrift in the most quiet style: they can put a lock on the wheels of all our Church machinery l . The circular of Dr. Wilson, our Secre tary of Foreign Missions, told last, week with what perfect ease they have this year made the contribu tions of the whole Church cut the sad figure of only $3300, wlie;n. at least $12,000 were needed to keep our foreign missionaries alive and at work. It seem-! that out of thirteen hundred: churches, only one hundred and forty have proved themselves Mission ary Presbyterians; the others—namely eleven hun dred and sixty—appear to be Omissionaries. The Wilmington the 20th of June last a. meeting was called (irregularly, it is claimed) by. a portion of the Firs&O. 2s. church in Wilniing ton, Del., and the loyal portion of the congregation were present, and chose Rev. Dr. Landis as their pastor. The session refused to recognize his elec-
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