CaMSIMOSUL
EMERSON IN THE JANUARY ATLANTIC'.
"It is perhaps rude, in the face of the current
sentiment of Christendom, to sum up the quali
ties .of a providential man, under a title applied_
but onceritt theusual rendering of history; but
this we may say, in view of the pure and unde
filed sweetness "antistrength -of Mr. Emerson's
character, that here is a 'man christened above all
his fellows with the finest spirit of grate and
truth yet revealed in humanity—a man sent to
be a master of regenerate humanity in, this last
age of, the manifestation of - divinity in mankind."
—Special Cor. Tribune.
In• the reviewer's department of the N. Y. Tri
bune, Emerson's article in, the January .Atiantic;•
which it says, '" has certainly even surpassed:
itself in its brave beginning of,the New Year",--7
is said to throw the other portions of,the number
into the shade, and is termed "A wise and mas
terly expOsition or the intellectual wants
,of the
age. If any readers 'still regard Mr. Emerson
as "a fanciful.dreamer, a poetic visionary, specula
tive-mystic, they will he,clisabused of their error
by, contact with the ripe • solid -sense of •this re
markable production."
After attentive perusals, ire-are constrained to
say, that we do not 'think 'the article - worthy of
any such 'praise. The tide is indefinite, :, the
writer does not seem to explain what he meams,
by it, and the whole discussion lacks
,unityof
design, and especially that dependence of each
thought upon the foregoing or the niaintliought,
which marks the, close thikkeri It 'is- in some
parts brilliant, but many of the sentences, are
carelessly expressed, ,as_ if, the writer, thought
more about an imposing sound than, about ; the
real meaning. To •repeat the happy phrase of a
correspondent of the AMERICAN PuEsßYTErtitiv,
it. is distinguished by the "intellectual fire mitt."
The extravagant praise'argues in the: reviewer a
mind prepossessed in favor of the writer. • Of,
course it does not, appear to reveal a ic man sent
to be the master of regenerate humanity!'
We cannot, in the reasonable =limits of an arti
cle of this nature, speak •of all; nor one-laalf,'of
that to which we take exception, but will notice
a few passages. , •
Atlantic, p. :—"A. controlling inflnence of
the times has been the successful study of Natu
ral Science. Steffens said' the religious opinions
of men rest on- their' views of nature." • Then
mentioning the 'principal departments otscienee,
he continues:• " The narrow • sectarian cannot:
read astronomy with impunity. ' The creeds of
his Church shrivel like.leaves at the dbor of the
observatory, and a new and healthful air regene-.
rates the human mind." .
This appears to be a ..pretty 4 :" solid". lump.
Who are these " sectarians ?" From the fact of
his mention of church and creed, we suppose he
cannot mean ignorant heathens, like the Hindoos
who have indeed.had their faith ehaken by the,
knowledge of astronomy industriously dissemina,
ted by Christian missionaries, since the- religious
system of the Hindoos is committed to. a, false
system of astronomy. But where is the Chris
tian Church that has been' senSibly affected by
the progress of this science It is true that the
ignorant, clergy.of. the Catholic Church,:yet in
the darkness of the middle ages, did oppose. the
revelations made by Copernicus-and Galileo and
others. But we never heard of , any•essential
change in their creeds' arising. from it. A few
may at that time have been attracted to the more
enlightened and liberal Protestant Church. If
he meant such a change, it would put a new sense
upon the term witheirng of creeds for M. Emer
son. It has never been reported that Newton, or
Kepler, •to whom this science owes, much,._. or
Chalmers, suffered on account of their knowledge
of astronomy any diminution-of what the writer
means by " narrow:sectarianism." In the con
troversial and' apologetic works-of the Christian
Church we never read any warning "against the
observatory, nor did we ever bear of, any....of their
opponents building ari observatory or endeavoring
to entice the,Church near to it. 'On a,the centre
ry, many Christian sects have placed the deer of
the observatory quite near to that of the• church,
without the most distant fear of danger. Truly
a " solid" mass of sense this!
"In modern Europe the middle ages were
called the dark ages. Who d'ares to call then'. so
now ? They are seen to be the feet on which mi,e,
walk, the eyes with which ,we 'Tis one of
our triumphs to have reinstated them. Their
Dante and Alfred, and Wickliffe, and Abelard,
and Bacon ; their Magna Charter decimal num
bersAmariner's compass, gunpowder, glass, paper;
and clocks, chemistry, algebra, astronomy; their
Gothic architecture;.their painting,—are the de
light and. taition of ours. Six hundred years
ago, Roger 'Bacon eiplained the precelsion , of
the equrnoxes, . . .looking over how many hor
izons as far as into Liverpool and New York,
announced that inadhities can - be , constructed to
-drive.ships more rapidly than a whole' galley of
rowers could do, nor would, they need anything ,
but a pilot to, gear; carriaOs to move with in
credible speed, without animals, and machines to
fly into the' air like birds."
" Who dares to call the middle ages dark
ages?" Is this bluster or ignorance? We
reckon that this verdict ..that has been passed
upon about ten centuries of the history of . Eu.
rope still never be reversed, much less will this
term 't Dark Ages". be' exchanged for that of
"Light Ages." 'Between the civilization' ,of
Greece and Rome and.. that of modern Germany
and Holland, and France, and England, therein
a great blank in histoi'Y.. The , civilization of
Rome declined. When that change began, the
nations of Northern Europe were almost barbit.
rians, and it took centuries to civilize them. Ci
vilization as represented by the arts of war, of
government, of architecture, of ,engineering, of
literature, was at` me time almost ;blotted out.
'Of conrse-in using the term age we do ncit mean
the stage of advancement of 'a few individuals,
btit the general condition of the collective Masses.
Tins •is the sense in'which the term dark ages is
used,its Mr. E. very well knows.- So low were
the tuitions , of Enrbpe.sunk at -tliati time, that
there seemed to be but little recuperative power
in the degree' of civilization .that they enjoyed.
When they dropped the study of the productions
of their own time and went back to the "ancient
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1868.
fonts of inspiration" tho cloud that hang over
them was dissipated. If indeed• they hact our
"feet" ,and " eyes," they lie tinder the *ivy
charge'f not making good use ae.-,thein,'*ifer to ,
advance or to-look about them. In slime Ithinus
it is true they made" progress. The power of s a
spiritual desPetisna by which such vast sums were
expended in building and decorating churches,
stimulated the arts or ohurzh arehitecture and
of painting to a high degree.
Of some of the sciences and discoveries cited
as the " delight and tuition of ours," there is
little to be said that will bear investigation, e. g:
of their algebra. The age that peisecutcfl. Cb•-:
pernicus aridT-aliled for their purely setentific
opinions could not teach, us much of that , celes
tial science. Their chemistry was iniolyed ; in
superstition and imposture, and the dupes 7 -whe
were the larger part=wasted i their Ilveit lib' the,
endeavor to prodnee impossibilities. Their furl=
diniental principle of the transmutation of ele
inents, or at least of some , of,thimi was a mistake
arid' a falsehood. - And 'not' until! -th ey, honestly
avowed this, and began to accept the • great:feet
of the creation--th*if!ChWssible tifidestrpy
ofie -particle of `matter or-one OVldiFtoVeViiing
laws- as it is to :,create them = did, the science
make any true pcl,adequatO 'progress. -
The light cif, their Dante was a light shining in
darkness, • whichl,he dark.neskeomprehended not.
Alfred did alittle to enlightetilhis autijeets, and
there was' need of it; for it, is said that there was
not a : man smith of the Thames, in his kingdom•
who. understood the satin service. 4belard was
compelled to flee fer, his life froni Si. Dennis, be
cause he, published his discoveifiliat'St..Dionyv
4itts of , Paris:wits -not, as the mOnks' , supposed,
Dionysius the _A:reepogite. , , As for the position
which modern • Europe has aceorded,,,th
" ese men,
we do - 49 p.see wherein, they have,,,,been reinsta r
ted' by'any of the present 'fl.Xy.' 'When were
they universally 'depreciated'? n'They certainly'
are not in any just; 'sense epecirnerisrmfthel 'ages to
which they belong. (Tohnidtbss could mot.fairly
be taken as a ,proof of the.coadiOcni of the Indian
tribes at this time. ,
As for Roger Ba,dpn,!,tlibiigh them is 'a" noble
spirit of enthusiasm in is'• `words; they -are too
high. sonndi ng :not `to excite suspiciorui, We have
no more faith' in..,tliat •flying:machine; then me,
have in the 4 1 1.ying buteliman;.,9f Ivo*,
have even if some man of our day should sove
the problem. We wilt briedre:tlikt
that he had a-plan by whicliftheirfeat)cobldc be
accomplished,. biitthathe -had Worked , it out to
any degree of certainty; especially,by,amy experi,
mental test of his recourcesT44l4, rqu i st wpigh
thonsand, , fold' more than any tbeiiry . , is pike
doubtful.' •He is - supposed to 'ltalie disedvered
the stes.m engine. - There may be - greater probe!.
bility of this,, hizt the whole r is:obscure, -But
what shall we say of the• gge, mhich,,met.the map:
who made such astounding discoveries withper
secution ? It'would not have been a golden age
for Watt, or Step4ensoii; or Fulton.: -
It is not the number of improvements in the
possession of an age thab makes/ it, great, .but'ita ,
enterprise in realizing„them, A,Roger„Bapon
had lived in the - time - of - Jurium-paiiiitorsf+ek- -
des his - invention'would not have `slept 'for 0x
centuries, or till other Kieft had•rediseoveted.:it
China had more inventions than Gree - ett.• , Yet
the world could More easily,spare o theovhele na
tion of Chinese than it•eouldnare,A.ristotle.
The age which realizes in practice its ideas, is
greater'than that which simply conceives them.
The one is the age' of -faith and action; the other'
of unbelief and indolence. thibelleflwas the•
characteristic of the dark. ages. .Tbeir, whole,
system of Worship showed them seeiFin gt.er
props for faith. There - Were enough:6 lament
over their short-conlings, hal - lone-With faith-in
work. Men of faith brae the: pelt, -"Possibly
John Huss might hive sundeeded,, if he had had,
the requisite, faith. in success, ~- P rogress and la
bor at such a timeOeed men who will go on their
course though the " deviis be as rainy a's the
tileS on the housetop.'! - :Those who have read
the " Schonberg , Cotta Family!' remember the
amiable but inefficient :old philosepher 'who , fig-.
ures as pater famitfas. He had conceiyed,before
the time all the great ideas of the, T . Hi toot:
to himself the honor lif - thediWcOVery A.merici.
But he never did die`iseful thing. 'Happily the
age had a Columbus who endured 'Poverty, and
toil, and shame;,and disappointment for twenty
years for the truth which his ; faith set before
him. Columbus belongs to this - itiOdein
• -7i 0E7,111: ,
Ikruch that is saidof A q .., discoVeries of the
middle ages ~igriora this . principle. _ riebig has
just,Written an essay denying to Lord'l3aCon the
honor of founding the new•plailbsophy. He does
this by showing.that other men had-,:the., same
ideas before him. Liebnitz..and Vinci : saw)
this. .But why,have theY failed to •gat, the era %
dit of it r Who was' the akostle' of it,? Who
preached againit the vain Method of
men of-the middle ages and nverthr - eivat - t: ;Who
inaugurated the modern method ? ..,4
- it is the glory , of . our age that-thenifhave
faith in progress.. We expect new inventions
and new applications, ..so 'much that we are
wary of unbelief and 'dare not set Aimifs.
We received the art of printing front the 'best
days of the dark ages. The , world had seen , a
higher civilization without the' press, 4hoogh
itself considered, that is a greater. engine than
the pen, provided there be equal enterprise to
use it. But we assdit that the - inVention of' the
newspaper by which the Whole busihess of ihe
State is made to pay heavy toll.to knowledgeAs..a
greater invention than printing. The.. contri
vance by-which the.matter of a two-dollar hook
is sold for five,
cents is greater than that of move
able types. The knew the value `of 'pe
troleum, hilt they had no Pithole City nor kero
sene lamp.; We are proud of the sewing -machine.
The idea of putting the eye of the needle in the
point was the great, one and insured the rest.
But we have a far higher appreciation of,the
domitable spirit which led the inventor to . en
counter twenty years of hard work - amid much
discouragement, that he might, develop and real
ize his idea. The.orig,inal ; , invention is charac
teristic of no.. age in particular, the faith and
labor are
„eminently pee,uliar to.:our own. The
inventive
- power is one of God's universal gifts.
Enierial has'recOgnizettliii in a -brilliant' pas
sage. But memithrough want of 'philanthropy
and of, industry, have-let it run to NYABtP,. ; - This
was the fa.ult.of the middle, ages, and the cause:
of their darkness..
"The length of this article forbids 'making iny
further extracts. In our next article we will
dive other veeimens from I!"ribtine, showing
mg its abu4ot public conft, 8 wa and will make
some comments upon the teildellity of its. policy.
it ht. (10.A.sp,
FROlt - '4I;M.XRACVELLING CORRESPONDENT.
A night's ride from the " Metropolis of the
Interior," brought us to quite a different region,
the true blue Presbyterian district of Ohio, which
Drtjqhre Hallrepufht,like alsrtion of Ulster.
._y ; '
i f ' i I
MIS a sdaion oftllsteii BO ar as the people are
.. .
concerned, witit'a flavor -oT South Carolina.
Here, as`-in "Egypt;'' , io(i 'Meet the children of
the old Covenanters', who ,i'dund the atmosphere
of that State too stifling for Anti-Slavery men,
and came Northward with a -heart-hatred of
the Itikithtien.- One lin& you , probably met
in the Philialpliii•Coalvention in Elder James
C``ArMilihn,: •o£ "the the 'teforried. - PresbYterian'
Chnichroffthis;plaCe; as du ` of a' widely-spread
stock. ~ He is Chairma of the Horne; Mission
ary,BOar.4, of ;that Ch 04, an4 , it under . his •
it
or,ders,that.your, cprrespdent has• been ‘.,c,swing
ing7rOund the circle " the West , ' ; though not.
(;[..
as fir as . MMinnesota . ,
Is 'record ' on union is
known to you. ,-*: ii .
Xenia is. a passably pr y &wit; at the junction
of the Little s Aiarni It. l and d the Columbus and,
,t,
Dayton ..11,A. it, iL, yer horoughly Scotch Irish.
ii eCeleiliatical matters nd the. U. P's takeilie'
i:)
lea' Here if WAithati e Mc(une case on
hand in the II P: Ass° ly. a year agd, and that
"taxa-heretic: l ", Was :ccin emned untried and un
heard.:, The old Assoc' , Church still , prolongs.
ita i esistenee here, in sr& of the Union of' 1859,
which absorbed the main body Of the 'clenomina
f
ti,tliV."' This body still 'h a dozen Flea - Chem, four
times is many charges; " d 120 menabers in ya
riot's ,parti3 of the•Weat They are opposed. to,
" occasional hearing ," i. e. allowing their mem
' in 3 Bl'the word
bera,to wait on f,.e inin4 ryo in,
gh4reheg! - They what:to other ChUrchei,
L
seenag'tlieharsh and rig' Measures taken - against
Mr. McCune ;:as evidei kiAisity. of principle
bordering on ' latitudW nism.
Xenia ought to be a ell-governed "pity " if
a Stranger may judgh. -- the finical .exa'ofm'esss
of its municipal. code: , he Spartaupocle.,of Ly
curgus . and the sumpt y laws of the Romans
were a, trifle to this., oys • are not allowed to
play s _'? tag ," or 1411,76 r
,' 2 flikites in th6 - Streets;
ndperson must lounge a corner, Sto.,. &c. There
was fi, 'law forbidding eese to:.cross the little
,creek that rune throng theAdge pf the town ;--i l
'whether stilrilt - force Ito not , know ., A former
town marshall used to o "down and lie in wait
till the geese, berongin to some old woria9ii aCrdgoc
the 'Creek, eerie to f sho , on his -13ide,:i'Vhen jhe ,
wduld gather them , in nflock and ,drive them'
up through„the town nd. impound them, In
spite of' such, .mmdei 1, odd i ties , Xenia is a
very pleasantpiacp, au he conduct .`ef its People'
amply juatiflaiitinial (Wm-hospitality.) - ' ' 1
..-•'' liedgryite_liefi - - - acinat- 1 0 - yei, -....u,..e...;;._
ther Northo oft therliiie-4"th'eLittle Miami R. R.
and..is Ilisterish_ in a still ; . higher,. degree. The
country between is rolling`arl well-wooded, and,
very well cultivated. Ohi n agriculture is so
far developed that'irhat is lied in the old- conn
try, "Fancy: Farming," is ite in. place. I was
shown some, eatt.le dri l Mr. Daniel, MacMillan's
farm, of which I hail en angravings—very
poor ones—in „the U. :4.grieulfuial Reports,'
o f
and whose backs area , ardacross, and as flat as
a tale, while their s es,--from neck to rump
and from , _deWlap to u ;er,-4-form perfect paral
lelograms.
We passed,an India. ,
faquilies of theJted me
the manufacture of fur
across the, fields we sa
the` edncational'instituti,
Church, which is bein
wooden edifice having 1 ) ,
few weeks of PreSideni
Cedarville is not a vet.:
grand one, but how call
place 'is by what it 100
hide , - many happy hoe
"zwebtness and light,"•
may have their place-4
most inappropriate sni
for the day when the
ple shall take outward
when men shall. write t
work: and Wood-work,•a
Manyl and 'England id •
€lO did-when-' the
embody the ciirdiA gin
riga enters into life's r~
Romanism the •Ndri
frigidity of the clasaid:
of the past;-for the t
ity that shrinks from
pocrisy in life, ihr•
risiesof - paint, plalitii;
_
the ontwarcl - I*rouni
childredgrow .Ihal
of grace anibtruth artc
heiven has stoyinl , lar%
But our life•grnws
and Cedarville—whirl
Tier than •other ,Nyeste
The kincloesSand.hos]
as good a natural,righ
ail its neighbor "city
placenia.the:inemeriet
Cedarville is an in
far as I saw it, but. ,ev
the chan,ges and imiVe
si.ciety, and no amdut
cin"stiflethe question•
no change of seriiiinnii
controversies
here, the -oid-sidnisr! - ..
sornetbiiigisAo
one old gentleman tol•
come to know:that th.
they supposed, and-w.
you have got:llia...fart
in their-life."
I was present at
'Yln'sic in thh•Towil L.
the old- year; in-which
of:the' use of. instrnm:
U. apcl
have always opposed,.
quite a warm one, arii
in deciding that tho
XENIA : 0., Jan., 1868
ettlement, where several
support themselves,by
ure. At some distance
Wilberforce Unyersity,
of the African. M. E.
rebuilt in brick; the
n burnt down within
(1 lincolu ' s assassination.
arge .place, nor a very,
,ve judge of what any
? Plain house-fronts
,`--integrity ;
Matthew =Arnold says,
o have place—in the
landings. But I lo.ng
rt qualities of our peo
+nu
,in - beautiful
it Christianityin
sone
ur forefathers in Ger
+it We 'call "the d'a'rk
othic arch sliall'lgaih
.4111— whichf the Chris
lice's,- and the slavish
1 . and . the heathenish
• les"shall-become thing
e; too ; whew the , sinter=
two-flidedness and hp
1 . else from the hype
! ceo and 'east-iron ; when
, g-4 in which the little
eflect the natural forMs
eauty that our Father in
st over the earth..-
in spite of surroundings . ;
. 4 1 to._prettier and no
,ng
toy.:As-I.as life in—it.
lily of its people give it
the riaine„,of "'Xen ia "
both‘a.relitight
thoie who visit them.
sely orthodox, pla - 03,42,_
it is not exempt from
;ea' that are luplieavin.
uppeals.to . the' fatherd.l
their sons: Even when'
as beeis produced by the
'agitated the churches
',been . 'persuaded that
'the 'other' - side. As
- : ." Some . of them have
On't kilo* ( S 6 Banat as
r ou- get a man that far,
than most men ever get
bate on Instrumental
m on the last day of
e principal champions
were members. 'of the
:,--the veg bodies whii,
use:., The egnttst was
agreed with thejudges
•ho were in favor of
"praising Godby machinery " had the best-of ib
One speaker.on that sidlevidento made a. sen
+4m. He was a vene earrprecrpr who
'bqught things t 4 .3, Oat*. point, c u
mug either use a inichme to• do the mechanical
part of your church music, or make a machine
of a man; if your precentor has no instrAene , to
aid him, he has to devote his whole attention
to the mere mechanical part of the music, and so
lose the spiritual benefit of the service." Such
was the gist of his reasoning, and his appearance
on that side created an evident stir in the and
7ience, and the, *airman (as he rose) asked in
wonder on' which -side-he meant to speak.
- But if the discussion was keen it was sot tho
rough, The theory of a divine appointment, of
every part of worship, etaliew Testament "Book
of-Leviticus' for the chtirch, underlay and
dated nearly all- the reasoning. 'They did' not
seem to apprehend the distinction laid down by,
the author of the. .Epiatle to the , Hebrews„that,
while in the dispensation,all things must be done .
" accordingto the pattern shown'' of - God, the
new dispeniation is that in which God was' to
write. His law in mit hearts. " Christianity wprka
from within outwardly. Judaism worked' from;
without inwardly. Yours , igte. •
• OLD PINE STREET OICUROHT
'SERMON ON "END GENERAL.:iIitith&ENT
We-are' familiar with the 'Course .lof events
Which,-for years, has been ; rearing an almost; dew.
city gorthwest of our old , city limits.: .Od. the
other hand, the business world hae-)been steadily
encroaching on' theinte of residences !in' an
T
• ,A: •
posite. f direettoiab- s a consequence oiir Churches;
in the litter loeality, 'aie' left to •centend With. ad
veise forces—change ar i dadeaay.., -:Within.; the
plane of whose'vadnis does not exceed
four or five squares, with centre near Fifth :and
Spruce Streets, stand - 110 fewer than- twenty-five
churches? A - great moral power. needa .to bp :
wielded : to keep allitrfull tide of prosperity.
•Onr remarks, however, will be , confinedzprid
cipally to of three churches 'which repr i esOt•
the New School Presbyterian-branehlifithe circle
referrelto. Of the Clinton Street Church, ive
may siMply say that Dr: March holda-i steady ;
hand on the helm of his bark, as it rides, on Ow
lake of Gennesaret; or'ruffles the surface of the
Dead Sea. Mr. Barnes no ,longer holds his cer
tain light at Washington Square, but his people:
rejoice inthe prospect of an able.divine froth the.
Iron City to. succeed the great commentatar, Old
Pipe Street Church is now in full prouessrunder,
the .. .past:oral care of Rev. R. H. Allen . , Dr. Brai
niiee-Suceessor. 'Mr.'Allen is a genial add:ear
imst pastor and preacher. - -!flitelnovelty and ex-:
citement, attendant on,the introduction Ofianew
pastor, will soon be followed by the regular of
fects of the gospel ministry. TuMay, of the pre- ;
sent year, will occur, the centeiVal of the " Old
Pine Street Society." Dr. Brainerd Who lodked
towards 1868 ith lon desire dias joined .the
ant. e congregation nave evi
dently improved the house of worahip : as a fitting ;
receptacle for the new pastor and the dawn of - a
new century. We look into the intorior—cha'nge
is apparent,-linedeeity is not visible. A century
has newly run its sands;: but, like the eagle, the
ancient edifice,hacrenewed its youth, Under a
Board of energetic Trustees, $15,000 have been
judicieusly expended, not; on outside marble or
brown stone, but to beautify anct'Ma.ke comfort
able the inside. The minister, no' longer caged
within elevated and narrow limits,,: has ample
space r for work, and action. The people have
'cushions on which to sit, soft as thrones nnop
pressed by the weight of crowns.
For the last two months Mr. Allen's lectures;
.gre .
on SabbatlVeveriings, to the youth of his con
gation, have been listened to by crowds, filling
the Church to its utmost capacity. On the even
ing of the 16th instant he made, an appeal in be
half of the mid-night mission to the lost ones who
traverse our streets "when the arm goes down:"
The response, in contributions, exceeded the sum
asked. On the 23d, having completed his course
of lectures, he 'preached to a full, church on the
genera/ judgment. During the lectures the min:
tenances of his audience at times haVe been
seen radiant in sunshine, or moistened bythe
dew-drop. With an easy manner he sketches
his pictures graphically, makes his appeals in
touching and tender language,.and applies the
truth with much force and pungency. To the
• yoUng man, leaving home, away from parental . re- .
straint and counsekin the height of successful
business, Or 'struggling- with adversity; to the
young woman as sister bride or;mother; hepor
trayed, the value of religion for " the lifethat now
is." To both sexes, all ages, and all conditiOns,
by his sermon on "the judgment '''-in'language
oftterrible import, he Showed how important, yea,
essential, religion must be for "the life which is
t o dome." The Prophets where are they ? Port
sibly not• all dead. For, said Mr. Allen, during
the last half millenium, at intervals "of2o years,
there has not been lacking a class of - men sangu
ine in their`belief of seeing theSaViour in His
second advent: Christ's second. advent and..the
last great judgment day will_ urely come. "But .
of that day and that hour kno,weth no man,--no
not the angels which are in heaven, neither the
Son,`'but the Father." 'ft' is a 'great and impen
etrable secret:belonging to the- clads -`:of things
" which`thei.Father-hath put in :his own,pewer."
Nevertheless it will break on the world. :The
living will know it. And those who sleep lithe
'
, grave will awake at the sound of the arch-angerti
trumpet. Earth and sea will Yield up:their dead:
IEN who once sought Gethsemane as 'the man - of
Sorrows acquainted with grief—the despised and
rejected of ,men, will return, his retinue, "'mil
lions 9r7iiiriels strong," , to, occupy '" the great
White Throne"—Sovereign Judge I rn the`great
constimmaliw, righteousness will prevail. All
fallacie,s in'lmman jurisprudence will then be!re
versed. No it'}equality, real or apparent, in
Gods Providential dealings with men, will escape
without impartial k adjus tment„ Triumphant vibe
i
will reach ts.doom and sorrowing viitne its'eter ,
nal rewird. •Sinsewhich have eluded the detect
tive will be divulged: m the light 'of a day above
the brightnetit.of :the BUrl. - The secrets of every
heart, will be revealed, •But., is not 'ever:) , -Man
judged immediatelLafter deatliihe good, as the
thief on,the cross,'a:fodee entering Oraltrise,-the
wicked, as the rich' man, lifting tharrayen-iii,the
place of torment ? A.ll, however true this may
be, there is a sense in which fill juatice cannot,
before a universe, be awarded 0,11 the course of
humanity has (*used. Men Opt by judged out
of the books,-41, their sins and , they good acts
with their results must* sunkweli up; and the
records of the last day alone can witness to each
complete history. Then comes the resurrection
—the reunion of body and soul. No; a final and
general judgment, of quick and dead, is as rea
sonable_as it is in accordance with, the revealed
will of: G6d.
DR U N. 1.411 EFcpmE , ILND 11:9111V93p,IATE
A Y IFEIV YOWL,.
The Aduocate, of Buffalo, says, there are nine
teen hundred groggeries in that city; and bewails
the, crime, arulpaup,erism, flowing fromails source
of piline corrup - tion. We have neat st thousand
establishments of like chiritier in this city. Our
metropolis maintains seven thousanctlf • the same
sort, `•
At that, rate 44VP, eighty
grog shops in our State ;, and -itsestimated ;that
we baye ; one hundred thousa,r4d arunkards ;. that
ten thousand die. , every-yeari; and ten thousand
new ones dre,made in the same time.,
ON i',ELE WING
But ==we suppose it is prepertbatoweehoukl also
remember, that we hie an' rnOrta — ie : Asyturn an
elegant establishment,- built -, : at , a cost of near
spoo,000; where some forty-or fifty of these poor
inAriatO are cared for at die Moderate cost of
ten to twenty dollars each a that it is
confidently hoped that some few of them are per
mauently reformed by , the kind and careful treat
men t n wliieh
_they there -receive.
lli
'oreoierrthis Inebriate Asylum is one of the
pet institutions .of the . Stater' It is carefully
watched over by our Legislature.. It receives
ten per cent. of ap t evise Toney, amounting to
one or two hyndred thousand ,dollars,
`to
or
Year, enabling the 'institution to furnish
comfortable boara..and 'good_ taint' :to a few un
forth:nate .sons of -richonen, ite the moderate
chargelkabove named,„ And offbodoe.s . not know
that this excise-money comes : from these grog shops?
—so much contributed t r owel-1 sustaining this
splendid Charity.
welitid no-grog ithops; ho 4, Could we
get that excise mone.y, to furnish board, at twenty
dollars-a week, Ao rich men:4 pops.? .And if the
keepers of these grog shops had not the excise
money to pay, how else would they find oppor
tunity'for the exercise of their' bentirolent aliec
,tiont? - And is• it not -verYtinin, that if they
hope permanently to reform a few of thn forty or
fifty patients. in.. that „institution each calendar
year, the streams of intempepnace i are t soon to be
'dried up, the teirthoiisarid'new dttinkards made
each year are sioon't(Pbe reformed-T Nightythou
sand grog, shops licenseds.to .Make ten thousand
drunVartis a year; knd.te3.4 porsept, of the license
money to, reform twenty, thirty in the same
.s
it not easy to.ee Itow arunk.m l ness
tie_iiirirtoiarn -11 - hem- State'? Consistency is
one - of the prime considerations in .statesmanship.
Rochester, Feb., 1868. -;:.
In this sgeLof locomotiorkit may be interesting
to look back and. see what. - .Major Underwood
thought about travelling fifty years ago:
The Major was the richest man in Underwoods
ville, and being thoroughly'satisfied with the town
which owed its very being to the enterprise of
the Underwoods, had neier'been fifty miles away
from it in all his life. When: however, his eldest
son was to graduate with-high honor at old Har
vard, the Major made up his mind to go and see
what it all amounted to, -and his dutiful son—to
his' honor be it spoken--.heartily encouraged the
idea.
Now John . Underwood—the young collegian—
was a great.favorite with Judge Winthrop—great-
Freaf grandson to thp - -Governoi::—so the Judge
invited both father and :son to the little select
party, - which he was accustomed to to have on
Commencement !lay.
•The conversation turning upon travelling, and
others having eipressed their opinions frely a
to' its`utility, the Judge turned to the Major
•
saying, . -
" You.havn't expressed your opinion, my dear
sir. It ought to be made -too-; for your son,
here„ will soon be, wanting a few thousand to
spend in Europe and Asia. What do you say as
a the utility of going abrOad-?"
"Oh, as to Jghn, he can . go ' n lies a mind to;
but I, for one, never went fifty miles from lin
derwoodsyille in my life, till I came here, and I
don't know but I'm jest as ,well off, and jest as
happy, as if I'd been ten thousin' million legion
miles clear tound-the world!"
' The wise-men held their breaths,
son. John to faint'; but he answered instantly.
an
with affectionate glance into- the parental
face and expected
"Father has the right of 'it gentlemen: Ineed
to travel; but he dont; - - hii - views of the world (10
not need_enlarging."
Stathttiea.--The l 'iteatolici"- or Evangelical' ,
are est4mated to;number 32,684, of which 23,578 are
found a in Eiedmo.nt and Liguria. The nominal
Catholies number - 21-720,360, and make up ninety
mhe-andahree-fcmrths per cent. of the whole P°Pu '
lation. Of these 73,296 are monks or nuns, and
87,744 'are priests." But these estimates date from
1861 and are imperfect. ,1
WWI - among Spaniardn.:-=ln the African
province et , Oran, Algeria, 'there are 320 (1
spaPjvils 4.
, mon g these .people :Miguel Tregor
a fcllow-laborer of Manuel Matainoras, has bee.
labor:ing . 'Since '1853; hOldiziemeetings in t he
French National Church .and •in private }woo .
He hoa met with the moat decided opposition oa
tlie, part of the - priests and 4/Mita; but has
gathered
a congregation of some seventy of his countrymen,
and appeals fp,r rotoey to.:establiAh a school an d
circulate the. ible.. Only 5 ,per cent. cap read. Th e
Trequ eh arrivals of vesaselatrom Spait enables him to
Work still more directlifor his native land r by sending
Bibles and books through th,e l cfntfina t ana sailors,
with whom he is on good tee i ns. He tliinks that
radical changes -are-Ho/jab g Zpitnish insti: , : -
- tions which will secure liberty of worship.
Philadelphia n lep ;r 29l,b, 1.8613.,
ROW - NOT TO DO-IT.
ENLARGED VIENVG.
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