©Drmjiflidjettce. OUE SPECIAL EUROPEAN CORRESPON- > > -ANOTHER SUNDAY .IN PARIS, Dear, Editor : A closer look at Paris on the Sabbath enables me to say that, as.acity, there is less religion in it than in any other place we have seen in Europe. Along several streets, I counted oyer half the stores open at poon—stores where they sold hats, boots,, dry .goods, millinery,, watches and jewelry, pictures, opera glasses, and philosophical instruments, handsome stores with fine large windows. ..Some places had fine shawls and other gqQds.hung out with prices marked ,on theip. < ~) T here were perfumers and ladies’ , hair dressers’ .shops open without number; also glove and some few book and pamphlet stores. The , meat or butcher shops, .which,are very numerous and very cleanly, neat-looking places'; the vege table and fruit shops, and the bread bakeries and cake and pie shops, wine and liquor stores and. cigar shops, of course, are all open. The .cafes* are very numerous and* all open; along the best streets they line the side walks with their little ’ round tables, about twd feet in diaitteter, surroun ded with chairs. , At these - out-door,tables tens of thousands sit and sup their coffee or .wine, or other-light drinksj'by the hour—mostly men with some women, all well dressed, and chatting quiet ly, or dreamily looking out on the throng of passers-by and not saying a , word. We notice' many men thnA passing away idle .hours, smoking their little paper cigars, moody and lonely—men of middle age, or often advanced in years—and we think.this whole cafe system bespeaks the, want of home and home comforts all- through Europe; for in every city we have seen, from Rome to Paris, it prevails very .largely. In Paris,, how ever, the pavements are not fuller on Sunday than in the week, because they are never empty of their idle throng, talking, smoking, moodily dreaming and not ufifrequently napping over their glasses. ' On Sunday at mid-day, we noticed probably a hundred men at work on the new opera house, some fixing the scaffolding, some carving the stone ornaments, some cutting and bending the iron' rafters which support the floors. Their' blacksmiths’ bellows and fire and the clang of hamtners were sad sights and sounds for the Lord's day. ’ Further on, we saw fifty men at work On the foundations of a block of houses; and across the street', the builders high up oh two other blocks, one of them having a steam engine at work hoist ing their stone and other material. A turn of the street brought us tO the new papal church of the Holy Trinity, a splendid edifice just being fin ished, with massive steeple, 250 feet high I should judge. The workmen were busy on it Outside, and I suppose inside also. The front street, “ Place du la Trinitie,” is a fine open spot at the junction of several streets, one a new one just being cut through. It is being paved, and the carts are hauling away the surplus stone, while workmen by the score were busy on stone and timbers for the new houses going up on the cor ners close by. In the more central part of the city, near the Madeleine, the number of carriages coming and going is countless. Thousands and thousands fly by continually; private carriages, hired vehicles, (they are mostly small open barouches/holding two or four persons,) and omnibuses, all convey a living throng hither arid thither, the tide being generally out of town westward, toward the Ex position or Bois de Bologne through the day, and back again as evening approaches. To be on wheels and go somewhere, appears to be a pas sion with the Parisians, especially on Sunday. At six o’clock in the evening, we noticed fully one half the stores open on the Boulevards near the Madeleine, handsome clothing, jewelry, um brella, trunk, and fancy stores, while men along the side-walk sold peaches and grapes from, hand barrows, girls carried along large bundles of red India rubber balloons, and all looked like Chest nut street on a week day. A' few men we met, in clean, blue blouses, the women with them wearing white caps, showing that a few at least of the laboring classes knew that it was Sunday. But we met others toiling home, driving heavy carts with two or three horses each, that' had been hauling coal or sand or stone all day, and the men looked dirty, weary, and worn out. ARCHITECTURE AS AN ELEMENT OF ROMISH POWER. Another new papal church is just being com pleted here, that of St. Augustine, and onerof, the handsomest architectural ornaments in th'e city. It is placed right, across one of the fine new Bou levards, the Maleshierbes, so that as you .look northwest from the Madeleine this fine edifice, half a'mile off, stands out alone from street,to dome a splendid pile. These architectural monu ments, tend to impress the masses wonderfully throughout-Europe with the strength and power of the Church; of Rome. .The poorest papist kdaws/of St Peter’s, as a grand edifice.; he sees the f finest buildings about him in every city, to bathe -churohes. If in Cologne or Milan, he knows that through ten or fifteen, generations the building of the great cathedralhaabeen steadily progressing, and while it Beems a waste of money and of strength to build such glorious piles to ac DENT. Paris, Aug. 5,1867 THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1867. commodate the ignorant population whicli flocks to them, and which cannot possibly appreciate the lofty naves, the fine Gothic arches, the glori ous stained windows, or the mighty donate over their heads, general impression on the people is one of strength and power somewhere, and they, of coarse, refer it to Rome. Let us not forget, however, that in Rome. while the Pope is beautifying a few churches and burning fire-works, he is a beggar for cash in America, to pay the troops that keep him in pow.er; that much of the magnificence there was paid for. long ago, when European thrqnes.tptter ed at the Pope’s nod, arid when emperors laid their nedks under his feet; tbat’in Venice,'their great St; Mark’s is falling to decay, arid the Other churches appear likely to follow, looking shabby and poor; that in Florence the great cathedral never was finished; its grand dome, which Dante used to sit and gaze at, and which Michael An gelo took for a model for St. 'Peter’s, looks' as though a fire had’burned its outside, or its cor nices had dropped off iu decay; for the holes are' still in the walls"whi6h : supported the scaffolding five hundred years' ago, and the ‘cornices'have never been put up: ’Their great church of Safa Lorenzo has no front to it; excepta dead wall' full Of scaffold holes. The money must have' given out before they fixed upon a plan for the front; yet in the rear : of this very church the Medieis have built a chapel finer’than anything' in Florence. One half of them are buried‘be neath its floor,-arid the tombs around the walls are chiqf wonders of'art and lavish expenditure. The chapel is a high dtfmby about 125 to 150 feet’ high, with the'firiest frescoed- ceiling ’we have seen in -a’ plain' and beautiful way, the principal events in Bible 1 his tory frOmAdam to the crucifixion. The monu men's of' the Medician dukes around the rooiri; ' shine with precious marbles, inlaid in : some places with immense jewels, and to ght to all this,'you must go through the ugly, rough, Rtable-like wall in front. The church of Santa OrOee, also in Florence, the favorite burying-place of the great," is old and decayed in appearance, with a pile of rubbish in the yard, that has probably lain there many long' years—loo cart-loads’ of it. ‘ The churches in Paris contain but little that is rich or valuable. We were surprised to see the apparent poverty of many of them, where we had expected gold and jewels in profusion. The Pantheon, a perfect jewel in architecture, showed bare walls, a few ordinary paintings, and but little else. Notre Dame is surrounded on two sides with shed's, shanties and old lumber, while within, the glorious high nave and stained win dows are about all there is to: admire. And, in fact, a similar disappointment met me in all the’ churches I have seen outside of Rome, with very few exceptions: ;• In those Of- Switzerland’ and Germany we saw no wealth whatever, and but little attempt at gaudy ornament. There was a time when two million francs were paid for a few of the thorns from the. Saviour’s crown and a piece of the wood of the true cross for the church; of Sainte Chapelle here in Paris; but, that day has gone by forever, and it is doubtful wheiher all the movable property we have, seen in the churches out of Rome, would, if sold, produce enough to pay the Pope’s army for a single year, Yours, G. W. M. LETTER FROM REV. JUSTUS DOOLITTLE, Tientsin, June 8, 1867. Mr. Editor : Are any of your readers inclined to regard Protestant missions in China as a fail ure? Let me commend to such in particular and to all of your Christian readers in general the following testimony of Rev. James Legge, D.D., published in the last Report of the Morri son Education Society: “ When I compare the conduct and realizations of missionary labor with what has been done in tlie civil government of this colony, (Hong Kong ,) with the management of military affairs , and with the operations of commerce, I do not hesitate to avow the convic tions that the body of Chinese missionaries have gone about their business with more wisdom and efficiency than any other class of foreigners.” The editor of the China Mail, in commenting on the above remarks. “ Pew residents in China have better claims to be considered as an author ity on Mission subjects than the Reverend gen tleman, as he is universally allowed to speak on such matters with a truthfulness which disregards the temptation to exalt his own labors or those of his class at the expense of others.” The re mark is eminently just. Dr. Legge became a missionary to the Chinese in the Straits in 1839, and removed to Hnng'Kong soon after the close of the Opium war, where he has labored iodefatiga bly ever since, excepting the time occupied in one or two visits to England. He has quite recently retired from the active labor of a missionary in China, having returned to Eng land, in consequence of severe domestic afflic tion. It is understood that he will continue the translation and publication of the “ Chinese Classics,” of which four large volumes have' al ready been printed. !f Dr. Legge’s deliberate conviction in regard to the il wisdom . and, efficiency” of Protestant mis sionaries in.Cbina, when compared with the “ ope rations..of commerce*”.“management.of military affairs,” andithe “.civil government of Kong,” deserves to be pondered by western Christians interested in the progress of the mis- sionary work in this empire,. It should encour age them iri.’their faith. His’ifesiffliorijy in favor of the “’Wisdom upd efficiency” of Missions ip this land, is worth infinitely mor’e than the dispara ging criticisms and denunciations of irreligious travellers, merchants and ship captains. When one contemplates what commerce has effected, and what the military operations of the English and the French armies have accomplished in China, he cannot call them failures. The best "part of the; Empire is open tbTofoign travel and’ commerce.. What colossal fortunes ..have been., made daring the last twenty-fiye years ! Yet Dr., Legge does uOt hesitate, tO express his conviction' that Chinese missionaries have gone about their business with more efficiency and wisdom than anjy other class of foreigners. Rev. C, R. Mills, missionary,of the 0- S. Pres-, byterian Board of Missions,' at Tang-Chau, re cently passed through Tientsin On his return from a twelve weeks’ tour in* the interior. . He left his home early in March, and in company with Rev. Mr. Alexander ' Williamson, agent of the Scottish National'Bible Society. They la bored together for several weeks, visiting impor tant cities and district in' Shantung never before visited by Protestant missionaries,— preaching the Word,'and selling Ijfifistian books,'. tracts, ancl Bibles' in Chioal They were, treated' witF uniform kindness'bj'the people. Sir. Mills ’spent in' preaching Christ, arid in' selling riopks, at an. immeriseßnnual Fail,' atterid -sed by.inany thqusandsjof bwriese from great dis itaqces, lasting for about tjvo month's,^—held ori the grounds of the celebrated IRoriastery or Temple of the “ Great Mountain On only one occa sion was he treated disrespectfully or interrupted while preaching. On that occasion an aged. Buddhist Nun, connected' with alarge Buddhist Nunnery near where he was preaching, came’ out and in an authoritative manner called his hearers to leave him, which they immediately did. Mr. Mills,visited the tombs of Confucius and Mencius, the great 'teachers' of antiquity, whose writings are now studie,d,by. school boys in China. He was especially interested in his visit at Tsi nan-Jht - the capital of Shantung Province. ,'He represents it as being a populous city. It is sit uated but a few miles from the present channel of the Yellow river, one ■of the great fivers of the world. When the writer came to China in 1850, that river emptied into the Yellow sea ori the eastern coast of the Eiripire. It has how ever, since changed its channel, and now empties into the Gulf of Pqchili, on the northern side of the province of Shantung. There has been con siderable discussion in regard to the desirableness of making Tsi-nan-fu' a consular port for the’ transaction of coiririjerce. In such an event; Mr. Mills considers i't ! as a very eligible place for missionary residence and labor. The Yellow river/ where it passes Tsi-han-fu, is wide and deep, making it navigable for steamers. * I perceive you have presented your readers with an account of the remarkable religious move ment in the district of Lou-Ling, in Shantung Province, written by Rev. Mr. C. C. Baldwin, of our Fuh-Chau Mission. They will I trust be glad to learn that the interest there still contin ues. Much of the curiosity and excitement which existed at first has passed away. Rev. Mr. Innocent of the English Methodist Mission of this city, moved to Lou-Ling with his family in March, hoping to be able to reside there. He has baptized several since lie removed, and if I am not mistaken, the number of baptized men and women and larger children, (not infants,) iu connection with that station, is not far from one hundred, where only some. sixteen months ago, not one person had heard a gospel discourse or had a page of Scripture. The work is spreading gradually on all sides to a greater or less extent. I understand that there have been only two or three occasions for disciplining the church mem bers. Mr. Mills on his route hither from Tsi-nan fu, spent a few days at Lou-Ling with Mr. Inno cent. He preached on the Sabbath to the Na tive Christians, but did not become much acquain ted with any of them, his time and strength, du ring his stay, being employed in assisting Mr. and Mrs. Innocent in nursing their youngest child who was very sick, and who died since he left. Mr. Mills was favorably impressed with what he saw of the deportment of the Christians at Lou-Ling. I trust that the Native Christians in the country, and the foreign missionary in his labors amoDg them will be remembered in prayer by many of your readers. Mr. Innocent and others who, like him, leave Central Mission sta tions to live and labor for Christ at out-stations, must separate themselves from medical and friend ly aid in times of sickness. Our own Mission here has had two loud calls to occupy country stations, but we are unable to do so on account of our weakness. Some ten or twelve weeks ago, three men appeared here from a country village, some one hundred and twenty miles to the South, representing themselves as a committee from two hundred or more people, who wished a missionary to go and preach to them the Gospel, of which they had heard in various .ways.. As it-was not practicable to com ply then with tbeir request, we sent them back for more definite information. After a time, they appeared again, repeating the request, and bringing a paper haying the names of fifty-eight persons, who wished a missionary or a nativh •*°) " *— - - t :*_ . , helper to be sent them. In the ’following week, one of my associates, Rev. Mr. Stanley, rode down to their village, and spent two or three days there. He saw no manifest signs of a work of the Spirit .already commenced', but felt that if it were possible, a chapel should be secured and preaching commenced there, looking to the Lord for the blessing. At another place on the TifffTe rial Canal, more distant from, Tientsin, which he visited last winter, in company with Hev. Mr. Mark Williams, by request of several Chinese- - living there, he found considerable interest in tbd jpeqplejmore anxious a chapel .should beppened.' But_there,was no,man to be, spared. Will not your readers ponder .these facts, and do something appropriate in view of, them ? The Work of Missions in China is not si. failure. The calls’ for missionary work away from" the consular ports are loud, and increasing. But'the laborers' are few, alas! very few. Will not some come over "arid help us ? Very sincerely yours, THINGS IN ARIZONA TERRITORY. Prescott, A. T., Aug. 13,1867. .-Editor American. Presbvterian l greet you and your readers from : this most remote, most inaccessible, .most hopeless frontier of th,e, Repub lic, which extends from the. river Colorado on, the west to the watershed which divides this. Te rritory from the Rio Grande oh, the East—an area more than equal .to,.allof ;New. England—and cqataining,,sqme 12,000 white inhabitants. ~ Jf was formerly the western, part, of Hew Mexico, and the, northern portion of . Sonora, and for all historic time it lias been the home of the untama- ble , and , predatory Apaches.,, .More, than 300, years ago,Spatfsh valor was put. to. its severest test in coping with these savages ;,apd .here; only in North America, as among the Auracanjans of southern Chili, the Spanish arms were - totally , re pulsed by the aborigines. ~ . pT.he case is,.not..widely different here .to-day. Anglo-Saxon blood and,.skill .scarcely over these Arab-like ; sops .of. the. deserts,,.and. mountains. For the .past fifteen or more years of our occupation , of. the „spvereignt;y.,,here, war has not ceased alcing this border,} and ;yet to-day. the foe is more ■ act jvelyhostile, and, injurious than, ev.er before. . It is true that population has increased} roads have been, opened ; mines, and mills,-and farms have been put in operation. Yet, like a ship at sea, or au arrow in the air, the liquid,element .of the wily red man has closed around its pathway, whatever movement the pioneers, here have, put forth. War is the trade of these wild men. They are .never happier than when there are mili tary operations going on. And even our super, .rior,arms are only admired, not at all feared, by "the Apaches. “ Heap-shoot guns,” as they call; them, only.make the campaign the more interest ing to them. . , ; They are so thoroughly at home in all these wilds; so perfect in the perceptions of sight, scent, and sound; such complete masters of the situa tion here on their native heaths, and, Alpine fast nesses, that it is., an exceedingly .difficult thing for the few hundreds of veteran, soldiers here,, though fresh from the bloodiest fields of the re bellion, to hunt up and conquer these flitting Bedouins of the West. And until a permanent peace is once conquered from them, I see no hope of the development and speedy settlement of this Arabia Deserla et Petrea of America. The fourth Legislative Assembly of this Terri tory soon meets here. I hope its members will wisely and earnestly consult for the public wel fare of Arizona, as they never seem to have done before; In this central and northern portion, an elevated table land,- —well watered by the rains of summer, and rains, and snows of winter, we have plenty, of timber, grass, and arable lands; mining promises to be a source of great wealth, and the climate at this elevation, (5640 ft.; is ex tremely healthy and agreeable throughout the year., . Further south the country is arid-zony truly; yet along the Colorado, the Grila, and lesser water courses, every where fertile valleys abound, and abundance for man and beast springs', almost spontaneously, out of the earth. There is more arable land here than in New England. Here after I will write of the history,and inhabitants of this region, and of other matters to interest you more fully as they are unfolded. B. LESSONS FROM THE MICROSCOPE. BY JANE BOSIVELL MOORE. Having had occasion lately to examine a num ber of objects under one of Zentmayer’s most pow erful microscopes, I have been astonished and in structed % the glimpses thus afforded into an al most unknown world. That veteraii microsccipist, Mr. Starr, of Chestnut street, from whose fine col lection of specimens many amateurs have been enricKell, and who, amid the engagements of busi ness, has found time to pursue his much loved science, showed me many curious revelations of insect life. Under the microscope' the eye of the moth appears like finest lace work or web-like tracery the beetle’s' is full of tiny lenses, while that of the brilliant dragon-fly reveals twenty-' tour, thousand separate eyes fir lenses Who cah look on such unfoldings of God’s wondrous care and that “tender mercy" which' thd Dsalifiist beautifully tells us,“is over all His works » and n ? fcl ¥ strengthened and comfortea ! ifi the assu rance that He by whom even the 1 sparrow’s M not unnoted, will surely care for His children ? Justus Doolittle. By the aid of this glass, even (he exact measure or thickness of a hair can be told, and this brino-s to mind Christ’s words, “The very hairs of your head are all numbered.” Who can doubt, after such proofs of the infinite pains and skill die. played in the tiniest objects on which the eye can fall, that each event of life has .some wise, though it may be, unseen purpose, and that all together “ work'foir good to them who love GocL?” That great Being who is go mindful of the com fort, sight and protection of the most insignificant pfJfi&fWfatures can, j£e forget those who are made in His own image and likeness, and who whether with HimOr without Him, are to live forever? Hear"-the Diviue answer: “Remem ber these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: Ihave formed thee ; thou art my servant: O Israel, them shalt fiot be forgotten of me. Be hold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls areicontinually before me.” The next piece of glass examined bears un looked for testimony. It looks like a blank piece, which may have come from the glazier’s, but the slip of paper pasted on the end tells ns that the dot in the centre, is scarcely visible. I should say not, for the eye grows weary search ing "fot ft. But place it uriddr the microscope arid we, fintf that in' a space one ten thousandth part of'a sqjuare incii’ ' two hundred and sixty eight letters have been photographed, and that these foi-m.aistihctljr the words of that sublime pe tition, which has gone up /frbiri millions of lips, since, on the mountain top', listening disciples and multitudes first Eeapi the Lord’s Prayer. SMALL HYlte BOOKS. Hear Brother Mears: 'lwas glad to see a letter in the American' Presbyterian from one who had found the Social Hymn and Tune Book* amply sufficient for public worship. If any one would mart each' hyrirn and tune, each time it is used in public and social worship, he would be. surprised to see how lew of each are needed. If one hundred churches would communicate such observations for a single year to the Publi cation Committee, the result would be most in structive. . ■ . =■■ t have .used thd Social jSym'ri and Tune Book in. iny family worship since its isfeue. I think I may have used in all' about a quarter of it. I have lbng been satisfied that a little 24m0. book, containing 20.0 hymns’and 100 tunes—the music in the finest 'type used—would be ample for family worship, Sabbath-schools, social worship, and funerals at houses. But it would be essential that all of in alphabetical arrangement of the tunes in ebch metre —should be abandoned. Aud r ft is all-important that each tune should have a hymn suitable for family wor ship. A jewel of this kind, "very near perfection, cbtdd be easily prepared, such that a dollar could buy thrteej rind a'pocket cirald Hold six. Shall we not have it ? Tours, ■ i S. Malden, Mass., Sept. 16,1867, PBEAOHIITG IN THE WOODS. For ten successive Sabbath afternoons, the Rev. Hr. Helffenstein, pastor of the Market Square Church, has' held religious ; services in a grove in the vicinity of Germantown. The meet ings have been attended by some hundreds, and the most perfect order has been observed. Mem bers of different Churches, and among them some from the Society of Friends, were in constant at tendance. It was particularly gratifying to wit ness the interest manifested by several among the latter, bringing with them every Sabbath tracts issued by the American S. S. Union and Ameri can Tract Society to be scattered among the eager crowd. Many not.in the practice of attending a place of worship were Seen listening with breath less attention, and impressions, it is believed, Were produced that will prove permanent and saving. On last Sabbath these interesting and, we trust, profitable, services were brought to a conclusion. After a pointed discourse from the words: “Give an account of thy stewardship," Dr. H. made the following remarks: • “And now, my hearers, as we bring these ser vices to a close, let me once more make my ap peal to those who are yet strangers to grace. The object of these meetings has been your salvation. In compliance with the command of the Master, we have come-out into the highways and hedges to compel you to come in. If you will wander, we must wander after you. No means shall be left fin tried to win you to Christ and to heaven. Whether we shall ever meets in this delightful grove again, is known only to Him who holds our life and breath in his own hands. Should these meetings, however, during' the next summer be resumed, it is not probable that we shall all be here. The lips that now ; address you may be silent in death- and many of my dear hearers may have been called tbTendef in their account to God. One word more before we part. ‘ Behold the Lamb oUGod that taketh away the sin of the world. Once more let me. point you to the blood-stained cross. ’“Hark] the voice of lovo and mercy, Sounds aloud from oalvarj r .’ en ,’ andjive, believe and be saved. Oh, rush oot by-tbe CTote to perdition. Fix that wandemug eye yonder. 'Behold how he loved you? Come, join your heartsand hands with onrs kingdom of the Son of God, hopjng at k|t jo unite 'j n , t h e triumphant song of complete and cternil redemi ition around the throne of God and the Lamb.” I. F. H.
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