fuuTOpmtiinta CUB, SPECIAL EUROPEAN CORRESPON DENT. Frankfort on the Main, July 29, ’67 FRYBURG —ITS BRIDGES AND ORGAN, A hasty ride-brought us to Fryburg;' an old Swiss town built upon the high banks,of a wind ing stream. It, has some twelve old Feudal towers surrounding it, and on one . side the old wall still stands. There.are two suspension bridges which cross the winding river, and. are wonders oF art. One of them is 285 feei above the stream below, and the view up and down the gorge from the bridge, is as beautiful as it is wild. The wire ropes are not passed over pillars, but they are fastened right in the high rocky wall on one side, and on the level of the road-side on the other. The other bridge is 900 feet long and 180 feet above the water—the longest span in the WOtld, they say. This little-Swiss town contains-’ the greatest oi-gan in the wdrld; and %e f weht'lto 1 the old eathedrifltto hear it-. If 'was'"-jilaying' a® we entered; and the first 1 tones* w® ! heard coh viW6hdi‘ub that ife reputation’ %aS ; well : founded--' It Was early evening—the ! light r wus‘ fast' leaving' us, so that the 1 hiies of'the f great stained 1 window faded gradually, and thu little lone hanging ligh’tj 1 near the altar, grew hright ehough to reveal the surrounding 1 darkness. A fine h'armony from the “ hitman voice*’ stop; a'duett; sWWt as ‘the' Sing ing of angels, floated anrbhg 'tHe high arches! “ Gfertdmly thbre are ladies, &ihghig ; l thafc >: sbdhd is riht thb orgdii:” Presently a third’voice joins, a fine tenor, and the trio is exquisite’. The voices tremble fromflme chord td another, and as they die away and you can scarcely tell* whereithe. silence begins, suddenly ,there comesa. burst; of joy bus harmony with thefull -power of theorganj to revcah the truth that what we heard' fjUst- now; was -really >the iinstrument und snot a trio sof hu-* man voices;, i Next eomes a fine /uyMe,'with manly, vigorous i movement, ;the i concluding bars filling the whde house;with \their ;j'oyo'us flow:. Ano ther sweet, warbling of the, voice-stop; follows;vand you. 1 think you iare:hearing the>angels again.;, Last comes a storm; distant mutterings of thunder in termingled with low moaniug of the wind. The thunder comes nearer until Its roar seems to shake the very, cathedral itself, and, your head seßms;to Bwim with -the overwhelming .vibrations; Pie sentlyfthe wind dies away/thecloudlias-passed over sthd, the. becomes'-lessdistinct. -A very; soft -sweet movement breathes; of; sunshine and 1 peace. Its harmonies cease—a sharp bell; rings; .an'd; ,we> wake up to the fact ■ that we (have been, listening to an organ, the performance has ceased; aud it is time to go. : Lights are brought In and We find our way out; but we ask to be shown to the organ-loft that we indy have, an in terview with the being who has carried us so far above and beyond this earth-.. .Wejfind a bashful young man of nineteen. “ My; father generally plays' but,is-unwell to-night and I take his place.” “ Who composed these pieces?”. “ Most of them my father. The Storm,is his/' Evidently the father, Who is-said to be the greater player of the, twojhas caughtthe full inspiration of the-organ; its life, has- been part, of his,, and he has succeeded in imparting the inspiration ;to his sOn. We have heard other, great organs and: Other, , great players,-both in- Europe and America ;• but they, are all children’s toys compared -with this Fry- i burg organ and its player. iSMERLACHEJf; At Interlachen we meet the ’ pleasure-sCekers from every part of Europe and America in large numbers. Fourteen large hotels,'like those of Saratoga and Cape May, are well filled at this season of the year. .The town lies bri-the Aar, which here connects lakes Thunatid l Brienz, two of the rtfost beautiful of the Swiss lakes. In ‘full view* is' 1 ' the Jungfrau, crowned with snow, White and* glistening, towering high above the surround ing-Alps. There are-many fine tours made from this place to the glacier waterfalls and avalanches among the surrounding mountains. We went to the G-rindelwald glacier, climbing up some seven or eight hundred feet updn it, and* went into a grotto which had been cut in it some two hun-: dred and fifty feet; in which ,the light shone through the ice above, a beautiful blue color,, making:us all look livid and bloodless. The Gus baek falls come-down the'mountain 1400 feet in sevfen or eight cascades, forming.* one of the pret tiest views in Switzerland. , At Interlachen we met our townsmen Bev. ,Dr. Ei E. Adams and Alex. Whilldin, .Esq. Dr. Adams is improving: in health, cap walk three or, four miles at. a stretch, and lookg better,-than, we* expected to find him.. We were. very glad- to, have a long talk iwith. these gentlemen, as we had been on the look-out for them efersin,ce,we came, to the. Continent; MriWhiJldin looks spf rosy and.well that his friends will hardly *know him . when he returns. LUZERNE, From Interlachen northeastward, a pleasant, sail oyer Lake Brienz and five hours in the dili gence over the Bruning Pass, brought us to Lake Luzerne, probably the most picturesque of the Swiss lakes—not long and narrow like most of them, but of irregular,shape, the joining of seve-, ral lakes into.one^which together form something lik^.,a cross-. . .... .n , ... - the town of Luzerne, is a bright looking place, beautifully located on the lake. Thorwalsden’s great “ Wounded Lioq” is here, cut in a cliff of THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY rock, twenty-eight feet long, a monument to the niPinory of some 709 Swiss soldiers, the Guvr/h: Swiss/: of Louis XVI.’ who were slaughtered dur ing the French Revolution. Clouds covered the Righi and rain covered the lake during our stay, so we has:ened off to the valley of the Rhine. Through Basle we came to BADEN BADEN, the great watering and gambling place of Europe. It is situated in a lovely little valley, among the hills which form the eastern boundary of the valley of the Rhine. Five large hotels are well filled- kt this season. The springs are ftnnous both for drinking and bathing, the,Waters-flowing from the ground quite hot (sohbt that they steamy and of a salt taste. More people, however, flock, here because it is a-fashionable place, than foe any: other reason, and Satan has taken advantage of the crowd to establish one: of his most prosper ous dens of vice. There are splendid grounds;, shaded, with treesycontaining a gorgeous pavillion in which anfine orche®tr,a of; forty players is-seaU ed', a handsome building with spacious piazza and colonnade;, hundreds' of:persons at little- tables drinking wine'and eating ices- under the-shade;; id the a fine library and reading-room,, where all the‘best papers of Europe andsOiheof: America aTe on file,) and besides;all this; two large tables in the grand hill of tjie building on the first floor, all doors and windows being open, around which soWe'fwenty-fi.veioi-iliii-ty gamblers sit, ! with a crowd looking on, nearly ■ all day kii’d night.- ! Tens,of thousands of dollars are piled be fore the bankers :or of the-.,tables;- .who, ob tain from the government; for a large bonus; the. exclusive right, toj'ckrry offthc gambling at:this town and also at Weisbaden and Homburg;- two other places 1 <where,-Satanlsi is.jlfell play against the bank. The l cards, dfe'lthfomi by one off the bankers about , every three ~-minutes,-and. the money ; raked ’in. by the > bankers; or winners. every time, i Most of the players,stakeadollarat a time, some a goldo’pieeeiofifive-br.iten ,dollars; some five or- tdn gold l ' pieces;,, and some few iplay with bank- bills of one thousand francs eaeh. We were told .that an, EnglishJociking,man played a Whole, editing, last, week; .wjth nothing, ,'bul- one thousand-‘franc hills, five at'-a time' put up ; abd that-he won largely,.putting hisipile on the .same' spot on the table, the whole, evening. The tables are marked, off into squares and diamonds,’each, one representing, some,known value of the cards; Many Women play—fyoung, and .old —-the young dressed very flashily, .the 1 old, sometimes, fifty to; seventy year®; of, ; aUd ugly as, * Macbeth’s witehes, and without ornain.ental dress or jewelry. Some-of the ladies wear 1 jewelry—diamonds and , pearls—costing thousands of dollars, A young American gambler, we are told; broke the bank the other; evening;, so. jthati the .play- had- to be sus pended until a new amount of. money was raised next day. Most of, the. meh are of middle age— some young, and sOme Lew iwith gray hairs. How thankful I felt that the 1 public sentiment of my,; own land was so far above this, that gamblin'* is against the law and has to be carried on in the dark, and 1 ho'tiAbpfen‘-dkyWd , sl'oui%hest i places of resort. 1 • ■ The old Gastle of the Lukes of Baden is a grand ruin ori-a hill behind the town, from which a lovely prospect is Seen: The wide valley of the Rhine stretches 1 Westward, thirty or fdrty miles, level as- a floor,-rich as a garden, every foot under high cultivation, with the river like a silver thread running it 1 . The Vosges Moun tains in France - in dim .outlinV bound the view. To ,|he west, rolling hills covered with the black forest, stretch far south into Switzerland, and' 1 east for 100-mile®.' l 1 The hills shew' at a glance why the forest is 'called black. They appear blacker than any hills we ever saw; At our-feet, as we stood on the okbtoWer, were the ivy-covered ruins of the castle, with large l trees'-grOwing in its old baronial halls. The look-out of the war ders, as they stood on the tower, watching for the coming enemy in the feudal'days, was upon a landscape-of such loveliness as no painter’s can vass could ever give an idea- of: I We next visit ed Heidelberg on the Neeker,;with 1 its old castle, one of the finest ruins in Europe; though not so high as that of Baden.- I FRANKFORT ON THE MAIN, To-day finds us in th'e .beautiful'city of Frank fort on the Main, certainly the finest city we have seen on the continent since leaving Paris. The Streets are wide, the buildings clean and bright. On the outskirts, where the bid wall ran, are fine shaded promenades, and beyond them, as fine a collection of square-built mansions, surrounded by trees and shrubbery, as in the best parts of West’Philadelphia or Germantown. There are hundreds of these splendid residences, all eviden ces of wealth an'd refinement, such as we did not expect to see here. They remind us that We are. in the city that first 1 bought our bonds during the war, and wo see evidences that they were able to hold them after they were bought. The cathedral is an old building, Standing in an open square. On one side stands ah old house with gable front, covered, roof and sides, with slate, and'with bay windows jutting out from its corner. From this window Martin Luther preached to the crowd in the square, a few days before he went to the Diet at Worms. His carved likeness, freshly painted, is fastened upon the house, wjth ap inscription telling ? the story. ' ! Formerly .the" Jews’ quarter was divided 1 by a high'irofi fence from the rest of the city. : We rode through its principal streets, and found nar- roW houses, h%h, sharp gables fronting on the streets, upper stories jutting out over the lower, sides of the' houses covered with slate, ail old and ricketty: forming a very quaint picture. No. 148, a- narrow old- house, was pointed out to us as the early home of Baron Rothschild. Iu the little room on the street, he had his first banking house, and from this little beginning grew that firm at whose nod all Europe to-day either speaks or holds its peace, goes to war or swallows insfilts quietly. The Baron’s, mother died iff this house not very long ago. A splendid city resi dence, a fine mansion in the west end, and two country seats near by, are now occupied by differ ent nephews of the Baron, now in the firm. We attended the Lutheran -church on Sabbath morning. We found it % grand edifice, oval in shape, the high galleries supported by a fine colon nade of pillars. On a marble altar below the pul pit stood a black crucifix, two feet high, with an ivory carving of the Saviour on it. The singing was led by. oue man, accompanied by, a, grand or gan; all sing'ng; iu unison, the same part of, the choral, there being no, harmony except from the. organ, The congregation were all neat and, yell dressed people, .totally unlike the rough lower classes in-the papal cathedral. G;. W. M. ; RECOLLECTIONS OF REV. MEDAD POME ' 1 • ! ■ For.- - The 1 late notice of the death of this good man recalls many 1 pleasant holirs spent with hint dur ring two years of acquaintance, formed after he had retired from the active duties of his prbfes sionl Among the many characteristic anecdotes that might be related of him, I will mention's feW illustrating prominent Christian virtues. The first is on the power, of personal,' private effort to influence men’s minds. When he first entered upon his minis tiy, after leaving the po sition of teacher in the academy, he went to a place-known as Quaker Settlement, and preached for nearly a year in the 1 ball-room of a cross-roads. The'Word was with power, and* there followed a great revival. 1 The Friends of the vicinity, most of them of the orthodox persuasion, were greatly interested, add considerable numbers of them came to hear him: They said that; he was dif ferent from mbSt of - his* class, in that he preached “ with* the Spirit.” At the end of the year, after examining and sifting those who made a profes sion, he found that he had’nearly a hundred, who gave good evidence of conversion. These he proposed to organize into a church. But this was in the days 1 when the Baptists had more sec tarian zeal, and-less honor in regard to their measures, than at present, and they attempted to have a hand and tffiiare in the work, although the Whole burden-md credit of the movement be longed to himself. H ,While they had no church iff the place nor in' the immediate neighborhood, their ministers came to proselyte the young con verts from far and ne.ar, there being no fewer than ten of them engaged in it The, unsuspect ing sower of good seed was but partially aware of the extent of their operations, &nd felt a certain delicacy in going to those to whom he had min istered the pure milk of the word to argue the strong doctrines involved in that controversy. But after they had done their work, he discover ed that of the one hundred he had relied upon, all but thirty had been turned to the peculiar views of the Baptists; His compensation had been less than a hundred dollars, the p'rospect Was far from encouraging if he should' stay, and he therefore gave up the field in great disappoint ment. The result was that no Presbyterian 1 church was ever formed there, nor is there along that important road through a rioh country, set tied by- New England stock, any Presbyterian church (save one just alive) for a distance of twenty miles. Neither is thbre a Baptist church oni that road. The nearest to the scene of that' great outpouring of the Spirit is tfen miles away. The Friends came in and occupied most of the country about. In process of time, they divided into the Hicksite and Orthodox branches, and the latter have divided again [into the Evangeli cal and Wilbiirites ] Many of them have passed through the reaction against strict practice which always follows relaxation from strict principle, andbecome what is called “Progressive.” . Spir itualism has made great inroads there, and not a 7 few are infidels or rationalists of the Theodore Parker school. ■ i The next year, Father Pomeroy went to am other place, and had a revival of about the same extent and power. Again the wolves came down upon his fold. But this time the shepherd had learned to watch and to war. Said he, “ I told the people to let me know when they heard of one of them going to a house to visit a young convert, and I went to the same house pretty soon after. And they didn't get one! They never followed ine up after thait.” The second illustrates the power of true cour age. At one'place there were in H his congrega tion two men 1 notorious for their avaricious grasp ing spirit, in doing-business. Both were wealthy —gOt'their wealth mostly by dishonest practices, but were, also, supporters of the church. The minister had now and'then touched upon these sins, but with no apparent effect, and they had held themselves aloof from the revival measures. After some consideration of the subject,- he de cided to make the truth plainer; so plain, if pos sible', that they 1- should feel it, let the consequent ces be what fhey-miglit. Accordingly he wrote, with great care, two discourses on Covetousness, SEPTEMBER 12, 1867. and preached them, one in the forenoon and one in the afternoon of the same Sabbath. The next morning, as he Was passing along the street near the house of one of them, he saw him coming out to meet him at the gate, and was apprehensive of an outbreak, as he was a man of violent temper. The minister collected himself, and in a cheerful way bid him “ Good morning.” But he, pale with anger, burst out, “ You meant me. Every body in the house knew you meant me.” “ Mr. said the man of God, “as much time and thought as I spent upon those sermons, I should be ashamed if you did not know that I meant you,” The man was quelled at once. He hesi tated a moment and then said: “ You are right. You have done your duty, and I respect you for it.” He was from that time a firm friend. Had the faithful preacher of righteousness faltered, probably a breeze would have been raised that would haye unsettled him in a few months. The third is one of those proofs of the power of, faith that illustrates the fulfilment of the pro mises of God in such a way as to confirm.,us al most :asmueh as the promises themselves. I will give it, as'nearly as I can remember, in his own words,: “At one place of my ministry, there were in the church six devotedly pious husbands, who had unconverted wives. The fact that years were passing, by, while they remained unmoved by, the,m|:ans of* grace, was becoming more and more a .grief to them, and they, occasionally don ferred with one another about the matter in the privacy of personal intercourse.- At last:the bur den became so great, that they resolved to hold a secret prayer-meeting every, Saturday night, in a lonely, deserted school-house, till their wives were every one brought to Jesus., They had not met mere than, four or five times, when the Spirit was poured out in great measure, All of those six wives, were ~converted: —they were the. first, converts- —they dated the beginning of (heir-con victions, from .the night of the first meeting, w;ere deeply impressed with the manner of their .hus bands, and felt that they must be praying for them. And my, fr,iends (he said in a prayer meeting) I was one of that prayer circle, and my own, wife was one of those converts.” I,shall never forget the fervor of feeling with which he uttered these last words, As, illustra ting his deep love for one who was thus .saved to heaven and to himself in heaven, I will give a few words from some remarks at a- communion. He, was' commenting on “ This do in remembrance of me.” “My Christian friends,” said he, “I have in my possession, kept choicely, some little articles that I suppose none of you would care' for. If yon should light upon, them in your -houses you would throw, them away. But though I am, a poor man, all Auburn has,-not wealth enough to buy them. For they are memorials of her,,whom I loved next to my Saviour!” I do not ever remember to have heard any thing that, by turn of thought' and by tone and manner so impressed me with the strength of con jugal and Christian affection. The human was contrasted with the Divine, and yet both were heightened by that contrast. Father Pomeroy, though, a powerful and truly eloquent preacher, had a thorough contempt for a style of preaching that was merely rhetorical and,sensational. His faith was in the demonstra tion of power. He did not think that much was gained by those theological students who left their own good home seminary at Auburn, and went to New York for the last year of their course, in order to hear the ministers of the city and acquire a “ fine polish.” He sometimes quoted the remark of a minister from New York who joined his own country Presbytery, and said that therd was no,ne in the city that could com pare with it for ministerial talent. A man of such character could but be greatly respected and loved wherever he was known, and yet in one thing it seems strange that he did not receive fuller proof of it, and that is in his sup port. After over forty years of hard and success ful labor, he was without a competence for old age. Though the farthest from being soured by it or made misanthropic, he spoke of this condi tion of affairs with deep concern, but more for the churches than the ministers. In all of his long service, no church had fulfilled its obliga tions to him, nor with any approach to it that, in other business transactions, would be called up “gbt. Puritan. CARD FROM REV. MR. EVA. Rev. J. W. Hears, Editor: It is suggested as a special favor, that you give a place in' .your paper to the following: Some time ago there appeared in your columns, over the signature of the writer of this, two arti cles on the subject of Millenarianism.' In one of these articles is a paragraph reading as follows: “ We knew a young man who, at the age of thir teen, became a member of the church, arid re ceived the impression that he was called to the Work of the Gospel ministry. In the autumn of the year 1841, when between fourteen arid fifteen years of age, he was put under the care of a pious divine to enter upon a course of preparatory study. Unfortunately that divine was a Millen arian,” etc. . The “ pious divine” spoken of complains (that the' statements in this paragraph are in fact,'and- are injurious to his reputation as a Christian, and as a Christian minister. ' - He there fore calls upon the writer to correct them, in the same medium through which they were publish ed: in response to which call, WO desire to say— 1. That in the original publication, tbere was not the remotest thought of such “ injury” as is , complained of, but a simple desire, by what was conceived to be a pertinent instance, to illustrate the point in hand. 2. That after a careful examination of the par agraph, and a diligent calling up of the circum stances of the case as they are now remembered, if the writer at all understands the force and meaning of the language and the facts involved, everything, stated in the paragraph (excepting only one phrase) is literally true: 3. That as to this one phrase, though true in itself, yet because, owing to the fact that it is used conventionally and has a somewhat techni. cal meaning, it-is perhaps understood in a sense different from what the writer intended, he would recall and correct it. The phrase is, “he was put under the care of a pious divine;” which we would alter so as to read, “ a pious divine took , him under his care,” for there was no specific contract or bargain made with the only living parent, or with himself in the case, and therefore no such contract or bargain violated, as the pious divine supposes may 'fee" understood was the fact, and as perhaps the language first used may legitimately imply. But the youth, with the consent of, his parent, did put himself under the care of ttiis pious divine,, and for the purpose stated; and tlie pious divine did take him under his care, the result being precisely as stated in the paragraph complained of. Excuse this intrusion upon the valuable space of your paper. The writer shrinks from parad ing in a public jpurnal a little personal matter of this kind, and would hot at all have ventured to do it, but that the demand was made upon him, and in truth, and justice, and charity, he felt bound to respond. W. T. Eva. LETTER FROM ITALY. Favale, Italy, Aug. 3, 1567. Dear Brother Antonio:— Your letter of July 14th has been received, and read to all the congregation. It was a great consolation. Joseph Buitano has remitted to me the amount of 400 francs, which you gave to him for me on his de parture from Philadelphia for home, for our need ful congregation and the two small meeting rooms at Cabana and Cicagna, which are conduc ted by two of the most respectable contadini of the above named places. These are two of the largest villages in our neighborhood, and where some of our worst enemies (or the enemies of our faith) reside. But these even are not so wicked toward us as they were at first, and this change is due to some of those six colporteurs who have gone there from our congregation in Favale, from time to time, explaining the truth of the Bible, and for which they were led -to persecute us so much by the priests, and for which we have been imprisoned. But now they commence to see that when they persecuted us, they were wrong, and for which now they feel sorry. And seeing that a family so persecuted for believing in the true God have come out so prosperous in evangelizing their persecutors, that when we read to them from this verse: “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and.persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake,” Matt. v. 11, their hearts are pained and they soon seek to find some one to point out to them the true gospel. In this manner our work for the Redeemer prospers, and for this we give thanks to Him who alone can help us, through His Holy Spirit, to keep our hearts devoted to His holy cause. The colporteurs, members of our church in Favale, who are in and near Venice, send good news. May the good Lord bless their work there. t I' am again obliged to pray you not to forget us in future, but still continue' to obtain for ns some pecuniary aid, by going yourself or sending our Cousin Andrea to some Christian brother and sister, and makingknown to them our miseries and need.. And when you get anything, send it with out delay, as we may need assistance soon, as the cholera is visiting our near cities. If we are visited here, we shall have to suffer more because our enemies will not help us, but will be glad of our misfortune and poverty. So with sincere thanks to our dear American benefactors for the past aid through you and Cousin Andrea, we pray them to still favor us as much as they can for a little while,- and then the Lord will take care of us in His good providence. "With the saluta tion of all our homestead, I am your brother, Stefano Cereghino. (Pastor.) WHEN JESUS; SPEAKS. 0, when Jesus begins to speab to me, my ear, my heart is the willing captive of his tongue. When he counts over that heavy load, the sins he bore upon the tree I love, I weep. I blush for shame >when he talks over- his bloody passion. How my; heart is enraptured and drowned in tears when he shows his pierced hands and melt ed heart. > How it sets my soA on fire when he recounts his victories.! My God, my Christ, my heartstrings break with love to thee. I dream of j‘oyS perpetual in per petual change ; of sthble ihe tossing Wave; of|(endless sunshine in the storms of life!
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