gramrait' |krslH)trtiait. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1867. On-bur inside pages will he On page 2 d'a letter from, our special European cor respondent on European Sabbaths , the contineuta l policy: of the Episcopalians, and Swiss Scenery; Our need;a plea for Christian literature; mother of Mr. Hammond’s letters from the'Holy’Land. On page 3d, Rural Economy, including a third New York article on Pennsylvania Farming; with Scientific. On page 6th our usual Family Circle budget. On page 7th Editor s Table with the latest American Literary Intelligence; and an article on Mahometanism. ' The Pastoral Association of this city, will resume its meetings, omMonday ne?4 Sept. 2dfitheivtisuali summer vacation having elapsed. Abiit ad veteran President Day, of r baa jbeen gathered |to ijs fathers, ’iintiid aOffi year bf fiis age. ' His mbfeHli took plac,e very.torgely at tended. ’ President Woolsey, preached the fune ral We learn froto our'&ew Work’exchanges.that, Bev. John Hall, Ih B:; ofi Dublin, has accepted the call proffered him by the iFiftli Avenue and Nineteenth Street church, of New ;Ybrk/ • The church offers him $6,000 in gold, and;the*use of - i ; - ’ i T j», -• • !•' ! a parsonage. v Aceording ’to thfe MissicmgryHerald for Sep tember, Hr.' Wm.Adanis, of New York, gives $lO.O to the American, Board to constitute' Hr. Hall and Principal Fahrbairn Honorary meihbers: Hon. Wm. H. of the elders and original members 'Presbyterian church in Chicago, Ills., ( js(hp. |ie4 jftgggfy' in Holland, generously left one-eighth part ot his estate, va riously to our Committee of Home Missions. But as the ten to(s?ttl<3 up the "estate, it wilt perhaps be several years before {he- Comihittee: will : realize arty portion of it. ’ •• - ■ .’la.i3.KT.i a/o'-.r ;. r - "C j :: tit aid:/, y Kensington Church, Phiea. —>Ye believe tfaaf s movement jtr on .ffoot;to}sen,difiOut?asstrongi coldiiy’ffdm'this lilrge ! b6dtff6urisbiri'g Church,-to a more northerly locality. The lot which will son Estate, on Harrison street, near Front, just facing the'presdMNevf Ydrlr depot:' 'Evlry friend of our Church, and ’of'the cause of Christ in that moveineiit is*fat lengtfi tikingJdefihife sWpei il'fr is in accordance-'with- the.'policy, of the New SehooL-jChujrph lia.-this scityfjoqes qf,;,extensionr rather than concentration,„and in accordance with the 4. “.JEhere, and yet increaseth YV ' • V. The Missionary , HerahP ; for September contains a beautiful Engraving of the “ Haystack M WfrliinfafewEn, Mass t , on the spotjTfhjpre.Aperiean .Missions had their birth;/alsOj interesting qrticleB^an| ( extracts from lettei s *as’ fblfdws 1 : Old* Lester,”' or a re markable case of African > piety; : “ Works of 1 a Missionary Pitysiciiip;*' a lettier 'from Dr. ,^ T of SivaS; “Eski Zagra;” “ Philippopolis';” “Smyrna;” “Marsovan;” “Aintab;” “Oroo miah;”Ci‘lCeyloifi;f “NortliSObinaj”jS.lbj!:Ma cedonian Cry V (for more labqrers among the Bulgarians;) “ other Societies ;” 1 a a statement of, the receipts of < the *.■ .«« w usu*P»j * the hour £ppoirited aJlafge 4 humber of del egateslwasdn'n't'tehdaiicel'’; AffterMoineflittle delay* the meeting .yas called to Order by E. T. Hum, tington, Esq., the State Secretary?? On, motion of J. H. Kellogg; of TrOy, a Committee of five were appointed to nominate the permanent oji eers of the convention. While this committee were out deliberating, short addresses were made by Rev. T. W. G-ulick, Rev.' A.-Ms Stowe and’ others. ! Mr. Gulict is, a native,of fjie I„Sandyieh( 1 „Sandyieh ( Islands, one of the- six sons: of..thel venerable missionary, of the Amefican Board ( pf that name, who are , ail devoted to the missionary cause in some form. This -one 'is soon to enter upon mis sionary work in, the city of Mexico, under the aupices of .vthe American; and Foreign, Ghristianf Union. T ."«> <■' ■> ■■■■ ■■■■'} Mr. Qulick,.interested .the.cpnyentipn mucb.hy remarks;upon the manners and ' customs :of the Sandwich contrasting their present' condition of civilization and their naked barbarism and wietchedness "as the mis ..'tirio-.il Vi 3.,Z .• -A? BSC..OM sionanes first found them. A., larger proportion of the inhabitants, of these Islands,, can read and write* than in New England, and they* are - 'how doing more in proportion to their means and their numbers than any other Christian land for the work ©f ® - IUJ’-?'! On report of the nominating committee,Hon. - T. T. Flageer, of • Lockport, was -chosen chair man; with Geo. W. Parsons, of Rochester, Rev., S. Hunt,,of Lockport,.and,,three, others, for.Yiee, J.E. .gilbert,'of Ruffalo,,JEl', of New Ypfk, and others for Secretaries. Noah T. Clark, of Canandaigua was made chairman of, the Business committee. Mr. Elagler is well known in Western New York, a leadihg}cifi®u bf iiBbkpl®t, ,dn Elder in Dr*jW]snefr’§ church, and-jßuperjntentlent of-jhis, He, is . alsou a of the Constitutional convention'at lA.lbahyj Has Been a methbeV of our Legislature and 4 of' Gonkreskjis entirely familiar with parliamentary rules, is gen tlemanly and courteous- whilst impartial and de cided in discharging his duties, and every way qualified for presiding on such .an .occasion.!; He well deserved the honor conferred, and after get ting fairly started’ admirably perform!©* the ser vice required. 41 • ’ ■ ■' ; ' It-isr|mpossib|e'sfor^'im'! ! totgive-a{de(Sivled'a|- count qfr-'thetgnyingS'janddoings;of this; three days', ThereCwere eight sessions; avera- full of people, sometimes uncomfortably crowded. There were about one thousand regalit delegates in attendance. ‘The time was devoted to hearing reports, with speeches, addresses,and discussions, on the'SuUday-school work. There was .no want of themes ; no want of talkers; and. there was something going on all the time. Addresses of welcome were made, on the first evening, in behalf of the citizens of. Lockport, by Rev.‘ Dr. Wisner, of 'the’Presbyterian church, and byjßev. S; G; §mi,th of the Baptist, churchi; The welcome was cordial, and. Lockport enter tained the convention with the most generous and graceful hospitality. Addresses were also made off.the first;ev,enißgfbyß.ey.|ArfT. Pierson, of Waterford, S'. B. Scott,' Esq., of' Montreal, and >JJrof. B. • The latter marked'{HaVthere'are one hundred and two counties in his State; that they have an i organization- for Sunday-school work in every county,' andHmean t§4i a venture in each town. At the Stajte, Convention in June last, in Decatur, 2000 delegates were present. There was no hall ifl the'gldefe •sessions, and so' they buiitf-awigwarils- 4 Two hi eh are constantly employed by their Stjate associa tion, organizing societies and carrying on insti tutes and conventions. Mr.. Pardee^, remarked in the Bame connection thaV'dllinoisSs the banner State in the Sunday more thoroughly engaged than any other. Let Nerwf'Yofk and Pennsylvania look to their lau ‘Siiate Secretary waspresented. *Bre had*return's ; ■frpm.fiftyjfoqr, qut/of. the sixty counties of the State. Number of Scholars, 392,064. '! Tgapr?A ’f> 236 - At a later period the Secretary stated, that he had reason to believe that the number of conver sions was nearer 17,000; but the returns were as yet so incomplete that he could not give an ex act estimate. And, after, all, there are 300,000 children in the State who do not attend any Sab bath-school. The Secretary made an earnest ap peal in their behalf. ’ Something more must he done. We should nbt rest until these also are gathered in. There were two essays read before the, conven tion ;, one by J. H. Kellogg,' of ■ Troy, on Sunday school Institutes; and’ ode by Rev. Chas. E. Kpox, of Bloomfield, N. J., on the proper Train ing of Sunday-school Teachers. These were both good;; the -latter s brilliant!, and -able; They are both-'fo- be!-published - with ! the minutes of the c’pnVe'ntiM.:' 1 '‘ ‘, ' ‘ Oil the,, subject of Object Teaching Mr. Par dee made,, some excellent suggestions.,, Object teaching- is’ ho new thing. It- is only-a new name for' illustrative teaching; Our Saviour used it freely in his day. ' Mr. Pardee 1 ’ cpbimends the bjack-.bbard.for- spme■' pgrposps.,, He hot make a hobby of it.,. . Natural objects-may, .often be used to better advantage than the figures on the%ll^k:-bblard : .' ; v' 1 ' ' i 1 Hr: Huryea, of New'York, was presen t on the sepond and third, dsays^and-spoke with great' effect several,times.. ,He-was.manifestlyntbe lion of, the shpw. The convention were anxious, to all ; they couldfrom him,, We. were delight ed' iwith. some ofi his remarks on Sunday-school music ' .He would •‘not/ have hymn's of : sorrow ail'd’penitence Sling tb ' tiefrtcinjj' tuqe’s. >' True, some will say witlj Wesley : “ It is too badj .to,let the .coeval hayej all,'tbe, good,tunes.” Bdt -if•!his- jtunes; are ■aq thoroughly mixed up. with evil, that >te cannot, r iscue them from their vile ! asspCiatiCns in "many hinds, we 1 ! had , better let the 'devil' have’, them,; > In* times'"or } deep re ligious interest .he would pet sing merry .tunes, such as ‘bl'am glad I’.il.iin 'this army,” 1 or “ Marchihgalbhg.” Thosi are better for picnics and anniversaries. And ?hen a given hymn is thoroughly associated .jyitl . ope (particular, stune,, ihe would not fry .to peper.te them j : it is - betteh always to sing that hymn' d'that tune, The 'speaker further rrged that ,; hymns 1 of sound doctrine only shouli."be used: and brdi'na , ,/■! lit* '■ icviti rily, hymns, ,of devotion rather than,.hymns,of preaching. i;, .hynjns of w. rship rather than -ex hortationhymns to God ether thah man. How often this good rule is'uni ecbtsarily Violated. ; 1 Blit one of the, finest' jxercises of the whole of questions by My. seiies was the answerin' 'Eardeei Qnly thirty.min ltiesi were given to this service,'and'that hearthe felosfe of the third day', iwhfen all were'iteary, 1 and some just ' ready, with bag in hand, tp leave for]th f eir, ho t mgs; and yet, as Mr. Pardee took the-platform, with u hundred questions, mo,r^ t Jpgs, in his hgnd, offered by members of the’ convent sn, : preilnting their dif ficulties, asking for info mation on- points where they P“J§ Ml nee to arrest the attention lof'all. No one seemed any longer weary. And' for thirty minutes Mr. jPardee read off these questions, and offered his answers just' as fast as his' mouth Could spCak. And'yet-he'answered with such discretion, such pertinence, such 1 wisdom, jand "embodied in ‘that single'exerfiise such' ah aihpunt of Solid, valuable infdfm4tibh’, that' it'se'emed to us, for the time, worth taore' than all the < one of 1 the wisest men afterward .expressed to u As'a m?re intellectual e markable, indicating ,bre; observation of no ordim Mr. 'Pardee'goesJ let bim drapers . y |jj The 'exercises of evening were oft but wedikve' not time to* speak oPpaTticffiars.' ‘Mr. Huntington is re elected State Secretary. The place of meeting next year is'left, for the Central committee to de cide upon. They have invitations from Albany, Elmira and Auburn. . Genesee. _ . Rochester, Aug. 24,1867. ghks sf flue Churches. Forest Church, Middletown, Del.—A correspondent of. the Wilmington •Tribune says, that this church has handed the; pastor, Bey. John Patton, D.D., a parse of one hundred dol lars, to enable him to enjoy the usual summer vacation. • I,- .• -fi > ” / f »v.»' jf • „ SELF-SuUPORTrNG CnUKCHES.^- lf! The Pres byterian Vfontlily for August, in 6kiugja review of comity ; up } oned hundred churchen in that denomination (New,Scho'ol') tfiat havereceived 'missionary aid, and have nowdJet come self-supporting. 1 jit is a significant “fact, that all these churches have houses of worship. In some cases the church ceas4 to; ask aid as soon as the meeting-house was completed, and in othere as.soornds'a debt was paid which was con tracted ;in building thepaine. This principle holds true in‘our, owh denomination, apd it. has 'often been remarked that tne buildingand ownership of a meeting-house free from debt, give a church in the new communities of the West,a wonderful impulse towards self-support.”— Bolton Congre gationalist. ’ / ). . Hokendaqua, Sunday, last? at 3-P.: ■M., the corner-stone of -the ' First Presbyterian church > ppkendaqjia thp/appro priate . exercises. ' The singing was led by the choir of the First Presbyterian'iohurch of Cat- q Mr. Lewers, of the 2nd nvention beside: And e know in our Church ijhe same, sentiment, but he 5 ' thought' it re .dth and, 'Strength and ry degree. Wherever lot forget the question Church of Catasauqua, read the scriptures and offered prayer. The Rev. J. W. Wood, of Al lentown, preached the sermon from the text in Genesis, 28, 22 : “ This stone ichirh I have for a pillar shall he God's house." The Rev. C. Earle, 3j whose judicious and unremitted efforts this enterprise has been carried forward, read a brief history of the church and a statement of the contents of the box put in the stone, and then proceeded to lay the stone in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The building is located on the hill, south-west; of .the furngeej it faces the east, and commands a beautiful view, of the Lehigh and of Catasau qua and vicinity. The tower will be on the. north front corner, one hundred and twenty feet high, ifhe pulpit will be in a recess in the west end. The, structure will, he of brick:, and in style Gothic, modified to consist with Christian purposes and taste. This youug congregation has already gathered a Sunday-school of some two hundred and forty,; scholars. These were present with their teach ers and parents, and constituted a very; interest; ing part of the large audience. It is hoped that the building .will be entirely finished by next Gfinsbrnaal—Murayian, Aug. 22. , . ..,, ~ Ministerial.— Rev. Ghas. A. Keeler of East' Pembroke, A 7. Y.,.haa.removed to Evans, N. Y., and has taken charge of the Congregational church in that place.——Rev.'Reed Wilkinson, formerly of'Pomeroy, Ohio, more recently of Vinton, lowa, has-received and accepted a call to' the Congregational church in Toledo, lowa/—4-; Rev. Christian: has ichtinged; his field Bf labor'Trom Bloomfield; Nt J.,. to, Mankato,.;Blue Earth county, Minn.— The Church in Ripley; have given the Rev.. D; E. Bierce,.a/well'filled purse, andleavo.of absence. He has gone to, the sea shore.'—-;—Rev. L. )D. Chapin, Professor in Michigan State University, is making prepara-;, tions tb spend a year in,Europe; chiefly foT pur poses off study: HiSi add'ress will be Halle, until about the middle >of October,- and then Berlin for a time; iA ' ■ '■ - / Hill.;— The Session and Trustees of -the ’ChurchTiDCbllegb Hill, O-i have given "Rev. E.'L. Davies'a three or foiir Weeks’ vaeilibn/He goes 'westward. -y —lt is with unfeigned regret’ that we, aimoiince the resignation of‘Rev. Anson. Smyth, l as Superintendent of Instruction in this’ city. .. . During the six ‘years previous to his first ele'ction to tbffi office, he held' theßesponsi ble position of State Superintendent 'of Ijnstrue-' tioh, ih ! WfricH capacity he !l evinced the same de votedhess tb thcciuse of education that has sig nalized hfs labors in this cifj.' In,his retirehtent he will calrry with him the best wishek qf• all, for -his 'abundant success, in whatever sphere he may be called 'upon to act'/’— Cleveland Leader. Hr, . Hodge on Christian Herald no.tes as follows ,Dr. Hodge’s assertion, that the New School, do not receive, the Confes-: sion- even as .containing the Calvinistic system; that -they, license and ordain niinisters who deny> the great and; cardinal doctrines of that system. t'ST.bi&jweialljknow, is a gross and gratuitous libel, upon. our. Churqh. W.e do examine candidates, thoroughly as, to the.ir belief in.tlie Calviniafic system, and we .do not license or ordain .any who reject one even of the distinctive doctrines ,of tha,t system., :If Dr. Hodge, shut up; in his study at Princeton, does not know this, his Old School brethren all over , the land know it. They, will read with surprise and, sorrow his mis-statement of facts, while they will welcome his views in re gard to the principle for which liberal Presbyte rians have so long-contended/’ Pagifio Coast.— -A.: Presbyterian - church was organized at Hayes Valley, last Sunday. It will be known as the' Westminster Presbyterian church. ’ Dr. Scudder preached an appropriate sermon in the Sunday-school building.— pacific, Jnli/ 25. Rev. A. B. Earle held a farewell pervice at Oakland last Tuesday evening. This afternoon, at Dr. Cheney’s [Baptist] church, and to night, at. Dr. Sounder’s, there will be similar farewell services. Hundreds of converted souls will bless the day when he came qinong Us. — Pacific , July is/ ’/"/ / . '/■' ■' : './‘' ! Rf,v. A. B- Earle left our shore on the 19t.1i instapt, having.;labored some nine months in Cal ifornia,. Oregon ,and Nevada. .He thinks s,ome five thousand have professed conversion in ,con nection with the meetings he has -held on the coast. He has had two hundred calls for meet ings that he has not been able to auswer. It is intimated that he may return, after a few months’ rest. He;has many friends and has done much good among us. —Pacific Christian Advocate July. is. ..'... ~ : . Hume. N. Y.—A ehurch'.consisting of seven teen members,: was organized at Hume, N. Y., by commission from tbe Genesee -Valley Prjesbytery, July 11th, under very flattering auspices. A very neat andcommodious house of worship, well finished and well furnished,_ free from debt, was already 7 in possessipn| of ,a Presbyterian Society, formed some time lafet fail. A most, excellent and able voung brother, yet a member of Union Theo logical Seminary is laboring, among the people, with zeal and suceess, and.'the result thus 1 tar has been an organized church with its ordinances. Two Elders were ordained by' prayer, and the laying on, of the hahdS'of Presbytery. On Satur-' day afternoon the candidates were examined aud their names enrolled, and Sabbath morning fol lowed the organization and administration of the Sacrament. I know of ho enterprise more'hope ful, with a large and wide-awake Sabbath School, an ample and well selected library, a growing community, and a goodly number ready to join the church, some on profession. and soine by let ters—Rev. E. L. Boing, in the Evangelist. Evangelistic Work—Mr. Moody of Chicago, re cently on a visit tO England, says there is a hundred per cent, more iav preaching there than in this country. Fifteen hundred regularly attend:: tbe preaching of: the “London Butcher," who notonly exhorts on the Sunday, but'afler attending the cat tle-market, preaches jn the evenings during the week. Ue lias built a house of worship and gatli-, ered.a church of fifteen hundred members. Also a yourig'macbinist, who'seven years ago could hardly address an audience'intelligently, has now a large church, and is very popular among the masses! 'Mr. Moody says -there are hundreds of. young men in Boston ,who havp.more, natural talent, than, either ,of these. Theirpo,wfr consists, sjptpjy in their tle.y.oteil ness.and depepdepce work, of evan gelization by such' instrumentalities, has' b&en Yery .largely Hl ' ■ l >! ~'P Religious World Abroad. GREAT BRITAIN. Anti-Ritualist Meetings have been held in the provinces and St. James’ Hall, London, and in the London Tavern. At St, James' Hall the speech of the occasion was made by an Auglo-Indian soldier, Sir Herbert Edwardes, who did good,service in In dia some twenty years ago, and Las since been asso ciated with the Lawrences arid the Montgomerys in spreading the knowledge of the Scriptures through the North-west Provinces. 'Be said“ These, tny friends, are sifting days. One after another we hear it said of the old institutions of our country that they are upon their trial, and at last the turn of the Church lias come, and the Church of. England, this Episcopalian Church of England, now stands upon her trial, For what is Episcopacy ? ' What is its essence, if it-be not an' ecclesiastical machinery to carry oh the oversightof the ministry and the flock ? And in these days can an honest man- name the word ‘oversight!- and not feel a sense of entire in naming it?. Oversight, forsooth 1 ,y.es, it is all over sight/ It is.ah oversight of broken Articles and Pop ish error. Now* I wish to speak,' as I have always felt, With rbspfect'of the ihsfttdtion of bishops, but I declare that'there is no sU'bh thing in heaven or on earth as a system witkouta head, or as Order with out.real power.-: What I ,see,,however, inlthis our Church is a section, a mere section of our clergy, or/as the leading journal tells-hs, two thousand out o? twenty-thousand of pur clergy, mutinying against the very ’Articles to which' they have solemnly con sented,'and' rsee'also that, 'witHiriWiir Churcli, there is ho’ sufficient power, no binding' power, at all-events; to say them nay.. " Then it comesto this, that the ecclesiastical law-must be am ended, strength- and made available,.orfhis Church of England of o.urs!"must ,be rent, asunder fall to,pieces.” Church and State.— The Ihouse i«f .Lords has defeated the-Rill for the abplition of the,compulsory church rates. The, force ,of public sentimppt has competed the abandonment of prosecution dpi their non-payment in some districts, blit not in all!' While theLoMs' were' vtitihg on'the.bill’ phe : dissenter lay in a c6untyijail'Jruiried ! by the ebsts inctirred by a refusal to-pay a rate ;ol Some few. shillings'. A re foriuediparliainentTWill; probablytakea more em phatic view of the ; case,,a)though-but,a. very small proportion of the .enfranchised, adhgre, to dissenting churches/ , ( r .... .. The High Church party wpuldnot offer much re sistance‘to: antentfre separation'’ of Church and State,’. provided: that the property and Vested rights of; the Establishment were left intact- It-has long heen, known,that Dr.[Pusey,who is now .the acknow ledged chief;pf the.Rdua,|ist par^y.Jias,declared him self, in favor of.a separation, .and, tliiq opinion is be coming . general anVong the ' wfiole tjig party, Which seems to btrdispb&ep to with the Liberal Refqpmerk in - the ’ 'effort "to' reach the ‘com mon-goal. -They hailed with'-delight thfe decision tliat the Bishops of South: Africa and thfe’other col onies-are,as destitute of. any legal .-Establishment as are the Bishops of Scptland.or. the United. States. It, is, also, reported that Mrj |jladstdne, the lender of the'.Liberals in Parliament, is on terms of,greater idlimacy with 'Dr; ,'Pftbe|' oh' all' Chkrch questions thart ever before. ■■ •-- > r .. . ’ Gone to, Rome.— "Onp of the most notable, if not exactly the fnost recent perversion to*Romanism, is that of Ladf Frah'ces Linddhy, the n daughter of the Earl of Wicklow,'an'd’the wife bf the Hon. Colin Lindsay, the lLdefatigable* President of the English Church Union, jin which !is conducted the defence of the St. Alban’s clergy, against .the, charge of -illegal an,d Romanizing innovations. , . , :)l . Curious Agency.—The good people of .Liverpool seem tp be going y.ery far; to, meet an,a win ,the work ing-man. Every Saturday night., under the direction of a “Christian Committee,” star actors'afh’engaged, with the best possiblesttiff-of supporters,to’perform' in a theatre secured for the purpose “unexceptiona ble plays and pantomimes/’ iAs the charge is only a penny for.,adults,,while the children are admitted free, the houses ar'e craferded. Rev. Matthew Hale Smith is the authority for this, , is. reported as saying’:— : “This may seem a strange business for Christians to be engaiged in; but I feel b’ouiid to say that these performs nceB have; I verily Believe, been ameahs of:grace of ten thousands.' The theory of it is this: We know ,that many of. the: working classes spend tbejr money, in drink, but wh.en they attend these theatres with their .families they soon discover that,it is, much pleasanter Better to spend'the evenings there, kith their wives and chil dren, tha,n at the bar-rooms with people who rob them of their nlOney. From the tlieatre conducted in this way to the Sunday meeting the gradation is easy, and so. many. a man ilada himself Christian before lie suspected he was on the road!’’ [American Christians want a better guarantee for the results .of this agency .than ‘Matthew Hale Smith.] 7 ’ " _ Bishop of 'London’s Fond.—The scheme of spe cial work; for 1867 shows, that of! the seyenty-fiye Mi-sion Districts connected witli the t'und since its establishment, fifteen have their permanent churches built'O'r building, while fifteen 'titMre have sites eith er secured or voted by the Committee of the Eund, and can have the churches built, so as to securethe endowment of £2OO a,year from the Ecclesiaastical Commissioners as soon as . the required funds are provided. A gentleman who desires to be un known, has contributed to the Fund, for the purpose of promoting the erection of a new church in Kensal-green, the district around winch j s rapid ly increasing in population. The Imbecile Pulpit.—Dean Alford of Canter bury, in a review of several volumes of sermons by four Congregational ministers of England, (Dr. Raleigh, and Rev. Messrs. R. W. Dale, H. R. Rey nolds, and the late Mr. Hull),'pronounces them “far, very far above the average of such sermons in the church of England,” and adds: h" Already the Non-conformists have passed us in Biblical scholar ship and ministerial training f the specimens which we have of their sermons are such as the church of England in our day could hardly show.” • British Items.—lt is announced that the Prince of Wales has signed the Temperance pledge. If it be true that he has taken such a bold and decided step, he will soon be followed by large numbers of Ihe aris tocratic, the fashionable and the'‘ fwrialthy, who would have held-back or ridiculed A similar pro ceeding by aless distinguished personage. Even though they may not at once banish alcoholic li quors from tHeir entertainments, they will no longer think drinking necessary aipong fashionable people, as the London Lancet and the PallMaWGazette com plain that it is fast coming to bei‘ ' “ The South, Londim Press'' says thait the lady who gave Mr; Snurgeon $lOO,OOO to erect an orphanage, has since: ordejred her plate, to: be sold for the same object; and Mr. Spurgeon asserts that-the donor lias thereby “ set, an example t0, ,1111 believers who have surplus and unused gold arid stiver, which °Hgbfto be put'to better use. than' lying wrapped up in a box.” > • hi. ; . In,connectionwith,the.meetings of the Associa tion of Baptist Ministers, a 'costly dinner has been provided by the church in! which they met, and as is the custom Im England, wine has been abundantly used, , At the last meetings in the church of Hon. -Hd'frjSftptist W. Noel,, the table was bountifully spread,, apd wjtilwut wine. Mr. Noel said it was, mot •com parsimony or poverty, ‘biif that he was satis fied thart the brethren too far, and that without (hscussing'fhe quest loibwhether wine should he used at' the social -boardl ori not, religious bodies