&hiemenciu I 'tiesboirrin New fieries, "Vol. IV, No. 48. $3 00 By 11lha -4340 N. Gagaier:. 50ots Additional ater.throollontho.- sintri,ta4 TIIIIRSDiAT,. OCTOBER 24 1036 L VACANT MVOs. s- In these days, atahortelive4. pastoratas 4 of 111-paid and aver-worked intnOtersoarictnAlf, fastidious hearers,. vacant eimtrah unusua l phenomeaatk. The, onadilionl ofi such a church is a. trying -Ave: .iik_dernimis' the exercise of a high deggee,,qt glOstiou t wisdom and virtue on the part . g l ogigors , and members. 1. They should , ecoutend agaiust diseour.' agement. Althottdt:witittnituu t- finman lead er and shepherd; t lieekstidcutil Teel' church is an objebti'brDriefna very destitution has cloubtfess . biOtieitriat-, ted for the purpose of banging Itherid'ltti closer sense of that'DECfie Protreutibifilied''a deeper dependeUcti ti ft ,thair IlfeY previously. Hence' ba 'fiq gloomy looks and omiiii6las ib'i tk head, but a calm trastftiliAlitin.'ilii4Vader. ship of the *443freukftritl Shepherd of the sheep. 2. Seasons Of lipeftittiraifbi tion should be obSte4oBEl.ofrrit efitrii.ehes. The opposite feellat . #4 l offt ptandietreifitay appear in fL dertairrirC*o64olfilitetitq' 114 indifference. rmietiii)i944)Aiettteff4filici chastening thUn to lig t an ill sign whim afttrdWilliftvOittl i e"ifiqico concern at the :truetathiil effsitkirglit tifit 'AS candlestick. Air lia*bfe'befoie God and prayer sikiii . f . d.:*Mtii if - Wee well if special seasons orthrfted'praybr4(46 observed, when thacdiidittoU - iiiidl'AiriadS of the church were ntidiffe , the tdirdell Of 4 ttitetit. pleading with God fdrirelibf.. 4 he taken to unfold . and rtiipret4l; "fir''as possible, the spiritual ait'ddtilifnil telittions of the case, and thus 6irtit'olititivt;ikvic.orldly views of the obarrefei *MU iffildh.lai•e . so apt to prevail add . obatrot it& poltibfritt time. Tha-tiiiekoe o gttikt td ay thus bo' church. The work 'of the Lord may be revived in the midst of the years. B. Every enterpfisn'orthe .. vacant church should be kept' gd4ig: : The real power of the lay element and of the eldership for good is tested fu a time ''of vacancy: It should at once be made to . appear that-they have not lazily depended. upon the pastor as the spring of their efficiency. if possible, let every part of the church work be pushed with more earnestness and energy than be fore. Let members be more careful to at tend the prayer-meetings, and elders more studious to keep up the interest in them. Let every Sabbath-school teacher feel more than ever bound to be in hila and 'her class. bet the congregation rally to the -Sabbath 'ervices, and all show their true affection t - Jr the church by livelier demonstrationa in its hour of need. Especially should every appointment for benevolent purposes be punctiliously ob ,erved. Let no solitary cause go by with out the usual effort in its behalf. It is la mentable that regular habits of giving to he great causes in their regular order should be allowed to be interrupted by the acre fact of a pastoral valiancy. There is a sacred sense of personal responsibility for hese great causes that every church should keep alive, in entire independence of the minister. Without him, indeed, collections will probably be smaller, but whatever they illay amount to, they should never once be intermitted in his absence. Every business man can see that such a coarse must be damaging and demoralizing in a high de gree to the church as a benevolent institu tion. The Synod of Pennsylvania in its re l'ent action on the ?Ultima press, wisely ''lnphasizes the case of vacant churches as special need of the presence of the de nominational press among their familiekt, 4. In the Presbyterian body, the elders. of a vacant church have a deep responsibility. '[hey are the lieutenants, to step 'into the place of the commanding . officer when -Ve is carried away. Their : opportun4ylhae .Aow come to magnify their office; now Shay may win the double honors- which the apentle aAks for the elders that rule well. If suffi ' eiently gifted and otherwise aMecePtable, we no reason why they, should not preach —at . least in cases of peculiar emergency. \% itliout doubt, they . are now especially culled upon to do. pastoral world.,.' They b.g.tuld be among 04),,pe9i1e, act 40 , 00' ;bond;bondof union:and ,sympoithyatiVl)9l/1. them `; together. - They . , tilie,vdtt.: be. prlvapt,ly iftntttP: itedsi4e, of the ssajn,, tb.e / hcAge,.e, , ze i nproing. r l a iettheieks i l i ehafgt4,o4ratelil raPerrtile jeteTePt4 l .4 o. l l l ,4Arei& gyt, f.. 1 +04 UndeLl'L.ollrecgistit , St;k9akir.4 9 A94 4 . larg@viirkektw i tre Qgority a lv a tnejv them,* Hfai4ISIV Pftifixs, *ViettacIAMOOMO S JANI lase 0: 1 6 , 44. forthOlukisitAtitttPCJ,All.fi4.4lk. l AM is room. for ,grkittsprO4wviTA tta!qt` ,barg, ~but there sho !be 11.291, fiskrboalaii4Rop the Presbyterian systm 11#8 49ypeollar: 344vAntagesvitlw Rtt APPIWAAgt 4i!.inuffP.V9inAhs of it ( INgbri. P r f i ' _44terAlethodigtp, : :paptists,noy qppgresation 48tfhavittfailki4cd;offiFtgl'§Ye.190.0,0%* * argtoßistri PTA Pekt-,104 sO.P/345 ) ,ffloarly 110* place of .04q,P4Y3tqr.;‘,14911S,uP°P '7 l o° M sv l &e 4 nke1 4 4R-PP r e 4.PP10 ) ) 11 0:f.:1 11 9 the n4iPi9Tl 9gAkquetkv*ii PP41104, , bt , kcL944411n , c 3 , 1 1. 9,1 0P lerst.el4 fh,90 1 ADA!PIN7 Pe•wle 1,4 appear; yr c sipytery is-responsillte refc,..tbc, r. cop dition of all the chnrchee pul i eltpeclally of TiIik..P.E.PI.4"VA be la ,a , _tand - MgißClM ll 4 • - . fle swept aver a wide range of histori cal inatancei--LUther, the Puritan fathers &c., especially dwelling. on the record of the. Church of Scotland, which in the First Book of Piscip line adopted: at the meeting of the First General Asseinhly, ip - 1566, provided for the,establishment of, a grammar school in every pariah, and of' a tlege in every considerable town.:lie quoted I.l* Unfriendly Mill's eulogy of the Church that= raised th - e - niesTiritirliirtir degraded people in Europe rantins intelligence and 4brift; He. He-next spokettif- the pulpit-as a literary Power',-in that it: had :not only produced g sermon iitexittUre (Of its•oiraAitqwas every day mould- A:kg and foil:ging the *ittflecand. the- matter. of-the /petit.: bodyof, everk- nation's literatiiret- i vibiettitaaildlitOdes , 474 -I.regtmeat , i3bgitifoir: 0-enesee . Rvangelist, No. 1118. 1 Ministers $2.50 H. Hiss. $2,99. I Address:-1334 Chesfalut the pulpits or the land,, and, you have a very fair picture of the national mind and character,. aad that not so much because the pulpit reflected the people, as be..ause it moulded them. He wake further of the pulpit's relation to civil liberty, showed_ that the Church had been fighting the battle_ of the oppressed for three centuries; that i cycry great . political: struggle went side by nide ~with a great ,religious.meve,ment, He songratu late& the newly-firmed church on their connecting with ,a, body thoroughly sound-on all political and philanthropic issues, hecause thoroughly sound on all great religious issues; that if any pullit had sent forth an uncertain sound during the great strugleß which the pulpit had so powerful ,lyaided, it was because "the truth of Christ "so called was but a lie. 'ln conclusion, he tirged_the necessity of .a trt,in istry awake to_ these minor and. less spiritual,re lations of the pulpit qualified to speak on. every great issue of the day. • (Dr Johnson spoke, with great animatiog LTA energy, thouola thorenolly, wearied with continu -are,xertions and labors during• the se.ssion,of Sy nod; ,his brethren there, expecting to have r ,no more of him for a while, were set on haying, as much as possible. of him then.) - • - . , The usual eimstitutional guestions were,..,the,n put - by the. Moderator, and after , a brief and „for cible charge to the pastor, Rey. Mr. Travelli,nd dressed the people on the responsib?lities they were incurring in this aiew relation, which he happily illustrated by analogies drawn from,. :the marriage - state. He especkatly congratulated them on havincr o ,r 0 a stirrin thourrlatful 111411 as their under shepherd, • .1 to go in and out hefore After a ,few e ei felltoU,rrriarkS John son, the services were brought to a close at a late hour. The congregation .a.t Newcastle have every reason to witieipate 'a prosperous future. This pastor, 111r. - Wylie, is a. cousin of Dr. Wylie of . your city., and the son of one of the old pioneer ministers of the (then), "Far West,",,Aev. . Wylie, of Sparta,lll. isfavorably known in the - educational world as a very successful, teacher in and as the author of the best man niaal of 13:-lio,11-idevqt t iop 114411,1, Worship 4n. the School it,Oom f 7 i ' a Woik'iO-w.hich the most , . distinguished divines of every Evangelical denom ination in our land, from Beecher up, have con tributed. An abridgment of this with the addi tion of the late and popular S. S. tunes, has been very widely introduced into Schools, Sabbath Day and Freedmen's, and is very highly recom mended, among others, by the American Mission ary Association, who appeal for 50,000 copies for the South. The place is a growing and thriving one, being qnite a centre in the iron business, and on the line of travel from Pittsburg to Erie aad to the North West. The Old School church, of which Dr. D. X junkin is the pastor, is quite a numerous charge; as is the U. P. church, which has recently lost Hon. and Rev. R. A. Browne, D.D. iiho goes to the Presidency of the little U. P. Westminster College at New Wilmington, Pa. The Baptists, .Methodists,Romanists, Lutherans, Coyenanters, (0. S.), an Episcopalians, are Aso representedhere. The Campbehite Baptists (or "'Disciples"), represented mainly by a single wealthy family, are' erecting a fine Gothic church, on; which they have, already expended $72,000, and ;it. will nut be finished until late in the winter. But withal there is a very wide field of use fulness-Opening up here, and a very large class who' seldom " dirken the door "of a church. If I have any judgment of men, this united church will be a. povger for good• among , this class, em bracing, as theyloolaite,a nutiber of Christians who will not - easily weary in well doing, and whose hands ace,ever ready for every good work. - johnson left 'the neit Inorninc , ' to return Pittsburg -Which already "-ballet!. ,good bye" to, being _recalled .for . a brief space liby the death of. Mrs. ; - Alikree ' the wife of Jos. Aibree, Esq. of the:Third church. Mrs. John son is at Auburn, N: Y., and they will start for MartfuotWllfich.,"in a'very few days: To THE PothT.-=The official board of the .Western Methodist Church` `in' this city, learning that a committee from a vacant church was on'the - ground, and using efforts r 'to.secnre the - transfer of their pastor, Rev. •T B Miller,,met and adopted th - e - folio wing -preamble and reaolUtion, evidently meaning therebk not to be misunderstood : "Whifeas A certain committee from a dis lant-church -hava waited upon our present ipastor, with.a viewto invite hisservices and induce him_ t t o ,seger ;his connection with us, we deenKthno - onduct of said committee highly reprehensible; and it is therefore , 9Resdived, That we - entertain the highest 'respect: and Christian love for. our pastor as a mat a4ninister :of the gospel; we de sire:-to retain..his , Bervices, and wish that thOse who want to interfere. between us and would stiii at home and tnind.their t'uesiness." ON• THE WING