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 <Efaai;d.r The
Herald will be sent to,the,close 0f.,1867, (four
numbers,); for 33, cents, or to the close of 1868
for $1.33. Address Charles Hutchins, Mission
ary rr
* Messrs. ’(shas. 4 Scribner & Go. calf attention 4
through an. advertisement published 'elsewhere to
a number of works comprised amongtheir publi
cations, which are specially adapted, for Use as
text-books in our Softools and colleges. Marsh,
Muller and Craik represent} the 'Bngli|h /Lan?
» guage and Literature, and among "the other au
thors and subj ectjp axe, President?
Yale College, on international Law, "Prof "Hay
on Logic, and Prof. Perry on Political Economy,
&c. Prof. Guy’s admirably, series oftext-books;
upon Geography wilf be' frirtKlr enlarged Se|“
t ember, by the addition of the Intermediate; Geo-,
graphy, the distinguishing characteristics of which
are SuffiSientry ex*plaiii'ed elsewherer * Thifse text
books, by the way, are rkpidly-Wking-firogrfess:
in popular favor,—more than one hundred thou
sand copies having been sold during the year
since their first introduction, and this success is
as well deserved as it is marked; for«the system
upon which they are based, although 'Tadicaijy
different from that generally pursued, is
and highly philosophical. Instead of taxing the
learner’s memory with a catalogue of names which
are sure toJm. speedilyJ«got|pn, it teaches him
the |irm ojMifferent Mntinehts, ;c6unttt«, &c.,,
and thus shows where th# different plac#must'
be located. Without gomg jinto jtbe
this system, which are obvious at a glance, it is
only necessary to
ments which it has received from some of-our
leading sfignMSH&W* (ELI 'ITVI
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1867.
FROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT.
STATE S. S. TEACHER’S ASSOCIATION.
The twelfth annual convention of this associa
tion was held this week in Lockport. The ses
sions were commenced on Tuesday afternoon and
closed on Thursday evening. The place of mee
ting was the First Presbyterian church, Rev. Dr.
Wisner, which is admirably adapted to such a
purpose. The audience room is large, well
lighted and cheerful. The pulpit is moveable , a
consideration not often enough thought of in
building churches. The pulpit was set aside,
and then we had a large i platform already built
for the occasion, that upon which the pulpit or
dinarily Stands. Beside, it was at the, very „end
of tho room,. and decupled just so much less space
than it y ould have dohe if 'ln front o?. a htaSuphT
ary pulpit; there was so much more room left for
the large audience, add it' was all',needed.- ' .
The lecture room, Which joins upon the reap:
of the church, also furnished admirable' accbm-,
modations for'Committees and outsiders for any'
little flatter hf; Business: ‘ And the
jthis, church, not yet quite finished
was pleasant to look upon, as we approached the
f I —f.,o .t’i ~ A* .„,.rr
sanctuafy/ -U -'V *■ ■* <>*.■ .«« 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