eutitr,spanttlts.
PROM OUR TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT
IN THE WEST.
CINCINNATI, Jan. —, 1868.
DEAR Enrrou: The railroad runs from Xenia
to Cincinnati along the general course of the
Little Miami River, and the country presents all
the natural features usual in a " bottard,"—
rolling land and timber. The towns are more
numerous than picturesque, for while this last
quality is wanting in American natural scenery,
—though often grandly compensated for by na
tural sublimity—yet man seems to do nothing to
make up for the want. The rude, half-savage
utilitarianism which underlies half our social
eories,—as on education, municipal polity, &c.,
—takes shape and form in all: that we set our
hands to do. We write the .quality of our
thought in house, fence and farm. _ The divine
order compels us to make our theory of His uni
verse visible to ourselves in outward and mate
rial forms, that seeing them in contrast with the
noble beauty of natural forms we may " repent
and do the first works." Even in external na
ture the Master sends us his messengers, but we
"beat them and send them empty away."
As you approach Cincinnati, you have a fine
view of the Ohio River and the sacred soil of
Kentucky which rises -into lofty bluffs of Silu
rian formation. Cincinnati and Covington are
built in a valley of about twelve miles in circum
ference, and so divided by the stream of the
Ohio that the lion's share falls to• the former.
These bluffs which belong on both sides of the y „
river are steep and bare towards the city on the
Ohio side, rich only in fossils and very unsight
ly. The city of Cincinnati slopes up from the
river's edge, where.the lower streets are subject
to floods in spring time, to the foot of the bluffs.
The slope is not continuous, being broken by a
broad plateau which begins about Third or Fourth
streets, and on which the principal . part of the
city is built. The need of more room on the
landward side, of the town has led- to cutting
away the, bluffs, but the work is at present sus
pended.
In regard to the architectural merits of the
city; I am still ,of the opinion ) ex:pressed
,in my
letter of; October, that Cinciunati well deserves
the proud name of " Queen City of the West."
There are more buildings that evince the 'passes
sion of brains and the exercise of thought on the
part of their architects, than in any. American
city that I. have seen, and I observe that this
struck. Charles Dickens as a, characteristic of the
city even on his first visit to Anierica. Cincin
nati architects seem to haye heen less tied down
to some monotonous ogn,ventional pattern, and
more. possessed. of the true conception of Carchi
textural grace, than those fany other, great city
otreither side of the Alleglianies. The result is
not, indeed,,alwaysja the strictest conformity to
good taste as 'when the Clrecia.n cathedral is fin
ished off with a spire, but it is something very
different from, and, as I judge, superior to, the
monotonous no architecture of Philadelphia, and
the ostentatious, wasteful, and often fantastic,
bad architecture of New York. And while
there is room for improvement there are signs,of
it, also. The new Wesleyan Female doilege, the
palatial, airy structure which. is in course of
erection -for a new city hospital, , and numerous
other edifices, all indicate that the people have
learnt, something about the matter and - intend to
practice what they have learpt. The growth and
improvement of Fonrthstreet,—the finest pro
menade west of the Alleghaiiies-. 7 -wonld of itself
show this; while Pike's new building, a small
city of rooms and offices erected in front of his
(rehuilt),'Opers House, shows that it pays to
economise space here. The s county court-house
is a strange contrast in its size and style ,to our
paltry building. The private residences in the
city are many of them very handsome, but do
not, as a rule, come up to what the other build
ings would lead one to expect. Those of brick
are mostly painted in imitation of the clear red
of our Philadelphia Lori* but no one seems to
have hit the exact tint, _as the shade is by fat
too bright and glaring to satisfy. a Philadelphi
an's eye, but I presume that a few years of bitu
menous coal smoke will correct this excess. This
smoke is a deeideidnuisance to one who has come
from Chicago, where anthracite is mostly burned,
and whereutir Lehigh and Selinlll6ll. sell at a
dollar or so per ton dearer
: than with us, being
brought round by the canals and lakes. But
Cincinnati is much less troubled with coal grime
than the cities and towns of Western,geArpylv,a
nia, as iron-smelting forms = no part of the local
business here, and efforts are being made to in
troduce anthracite also.
But it is especially as a manufacturing city
that Cincinnati interests me. If St, Louis is
d• the Philadelphia of the West" in its external
Characteristics, Cincinnati seems to me most to
resemble our city in more essential matters. It
is not, like New York and Chicago, a mere tun ,
nel through which the products of the country
fiow, unincreased in value, while its people live
on the profits of playing factors and middle-men
between the producer and the distant consumer;
it is rather a great work-shop where the real
wealth of the country is increased and multiplied
by the energies of strong arms, whose,. every
Atroke is so much sure gain to the nation. I, at
least, am not sorry to hear that the pork-business
which once gave name and character to the city
is in great measure passing into other channels.
I would gladly see this city's prosperity rest on
surer and nobler basis, and let those who can do
no better stick pigs and salt them, while room is
made for the skilled labor which is the most val
uable form of material wealth, if it be material.
Cincinnati employs 29,501 operatives in her
manufactories, and their gross earnings amount
to $46,436,948, being more than three times as
many- workmen as St. Louis and nearly four
times as many as Chicago, while to judge from
election'ietuins her population is only as great
as that of these two cities combined.
The manufacture of furniture is among the
most important in the,eity. The establishment
of Mitchell & Rammellsberg in the southwestern
part of the city, .probably the largest :of the
kind in the world. It covers—factory and
warerooms—an area of five acres, rising story
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1868.
above story to an immense height, and employs
six hundred men constantly. The capital in
vested is over a million of dollars, and the value
of the yearly product is half that amount. As
long ago as 1853 they were making of chairs
alone, one million in every eight years. The
workmen are mostly Germans though some are
native Americans. Every article is cut into the
required shape by peculiarly formed saws driven
by steam-power, and is then smoothed, polished,
and,adjusted to its place. The furniture made
here is shipped in every direction through the
adjacent States, and up and down the valley of the
Mississippi, and in one case an order for the entire
furniture for a large hotel in California was filled
here. The spacious sales-rooms on Fourth street
are filled, story above story, with samples, merely,
of the articles made. lam glad to hear that co
operation has been tried in this business of fur
nitnre-making, and has met with the greatest
success. The whole number of factories in this
line of business is over a hundred.
In another line of business, the manufacture
of clothing, Cincinnati comes into competition
with our own city. When it is known that there
are between twenty and thirty thousand Jews here,
it will not seem strange that there are over fifty
wholesale and twice asmany retail establishments
of this character. I cannot stop to specify the
soap, candle, and glycerine factories which sup
ply " the nterior" with these articles to .the
value of seven millioris of dollars a year to
tell bow many cargoes of lard oil are shipped
every winter to Marseilles, via. New Orleans ; to
be transubstantiated into "Genuine Olive Oil"
and reimported to New York. The details of the
Catawba wine and brandy trade would hardly be
palatable to some of your readers, and it is of
local interest ()illy, as the article - never reaches
us. The . middle States are supplied 'by a moral
Jerseytnan. at Trenton, who makes it from turnip
juice, and who; supplies also, in large part, the
Parisian and Champagne markets. This will
helpito account,for the fact that there is more
champagne ,drunk in Paris than is made in the
whole province of Champagne.
Pork and beef-packing employ some fifty es
tablishments, and as many as half a million pigs
have been put through in a season. The state
ment already referred to, that Chicago is taking
the business from Cincinnati is not admitted
here. In the winter of 1866-7 Chicago packed
382,000 hogs and Cincinnati 380,000. But the
business scarcely deserves to take rank among
the manufactures. - - '
Steam Fire En g ines were invented by &Cin
cinnati mechanic, _Abel Shawk, who spent years
of labor on'theidea. When , the first one came
on to our city for trial, the Mayor had-'to issue a
special proclamation to keep the "b'hoys" from
" spilin' her," but, as a correspondent of the
Commercial says,- the, man would run a small
chance of being , elected Mayor who would de
declare that ire did not invent it: Mr. ~Shawk
has derived halt? pecuniary benefit from hist. in
vention. -* ' On THE WING.
AN APPEAL TO THE,. FARMERS.
I remember to have seen in an issue of the
London Times in the spring of 1564 a reported
speech of the noble John Wight, in which he
undertook to explain to all astonished and incre
dulous Englishmen, how it was that the South
ern Rebellion was then toppling to hopeless ruin.
I was absent from my country at the time, and
found peculiar heart and cheer in the strong
words of the honest and manly commoner.
He,explained by saying :that the success of
the Union cause had been due in large degree to
the patriotic constancy and devotion *of the in
telligent and powerful class of landholders, who,
from Maine to the Missouri tilled their own pro
ductive acres, and were ready in , every emergen
cy to defend them; who, while free from the
corrupting influences of city life, had uever,the
less their daily papers and were abreast with the
advances of the age. England had very few of
these well-read' freehblding farmers; no 'country
in Europe knew anything of such a class, and
therefore Europe had shown herself utterly una
ble to estimate their importance in forecaSting
the probable issue of the rebellion'
In all tiegreat cities of America, during the
war,
thei.2-ftert i bousande who were really dis
loyal or at last had no interest in the struggle,
but the yeomanry of the farms stood firm for the
Government and the right; and in all filture.or
deals, these same men would prove the true con
servators of the nation's, life end prosperity.'
T' confess to having felt no little pride as I
read this tribute to 'the intelligent landholders
and workers of my country, and 'farm my own
knowledge of the readiness with whieh r sered,
brothers-had been sent from the rural firesides "of
every town and county, and with which contri
butions had been made for the support of the
army, I was, able to pronounce the tribute just.
The country is saved in one respect, but not
in all. There are-dangers greater than those of
an armed force. If once given to the dominion
of moral corruption and religious error, it would
require more than one - patriotic uprising to re
gain the sceptre of truth. That which made the
representative American farmer what he is, was
the early planting of religions institutions in the
home of his childhood.
He is the son and heir of those who not only
resisted the stamp act and all foreign tyranny,
hot
who,_ with equal zeal and self-sacrifice, es
tablished churches and schools on the soil thus
emancipated. I remember as a family tradition,
how the farmers' wives of my native town , spun
wool and flax and contributed the proceeds to
the upbuilding of religious and educational in
stitutions. And looking back now 'fifty years, it
would be impossible to measure the influence and
value of the work thus achieved. Has that spirit
ceased to exist, or has it rather grown with our
country's increasing demands_?
Since the close of the war, changes of the
most rapid character have taken and are still
taking place. The mighty resources of energy
and enterprise which had been developed on the
field of battle, seem now to be turned,toward the
speedy, opening and occupation of our vast Terri
tories., Railroad enterprise outstrips all its pre
cedents. New towns by the score and hundred
are springing up everywhere along the new lines
of travel and commerce. Vice follows closely as
soon as the iron track is laid. Error, too, is on.
the alert at once. Shall the gospel be equally
prompt ?
The sons of Eastern farmers, full of honest en
terprise, are pushing Westward -for a new home.
They.find the " Bier Garten" and the gambling
saloon in every Western village; but no Church
spire is, there; the Sabbath is marked by no
sound of Church-going bell; the Sabbath-school
is unknown as yet, and the voice of prayer is
never heard. On the other hand, business is
transacted on the Sabbath, swearing is universal,
and infidelity—nay, downright atheism—is bold
and aggressive. How long may an inexperienced
young man be expeetcd to retain his early im
pressions and habits amid such surroundings ?
And no man can tell how soon a son or other
kinsman of his will be subjected to the ordeal.
Seldom does a father in this country succeed in
settling his sons about him in the place of their
birth. In other lands it is so, but not herq.
There, children , and children's children may fol
low the same employments and cling to the old
homestead; here, the stimulus to enterprise is too
great and the field is too broad and promising.
Every ambitious youth selects from the whole
country his future home. He goes wherever he
finds the greatest promise of wealth, be it in
New York or Colorado—on the Atlantic or On
the'Pacific coast.
Even the comparatively selfish motive -of se
curing the moral and physical safety of our own
children then , constrains ns to seek the evangeli
zation of our whole country. The destiny of all
parts of it is one and the same. 'lf we , ndglect
the West to-day, its'dark tides of evil influence
will roll back-upon-us to-morrow. We must-fur
nish the great blank ,spaces with Christian
Churches or do worse..,: -
And we appeal to the rartners to join in the work
of raising these Church Spires: Are theY not
the cheapest and yet most effective of all our na
tional defences ? If the country .churcheS, as
well as those of the city will, join in the work,
we can build a hundred mission churches a year,
and no contributor will feel a jot the poorer.
As the: ecclesiastical year draws to a close
(it ends with May Ist) -niity we not' receive
a response from the hundreds of country
churches which, have not yeti contributed for
Church Erection. Will not those who contribu
ted so nobly to the Call of the Government, heed
alsU the demands of Chriat's cause? If our Arne:
rican farmers are the solid class and , the hope of
our ancestral: institutions, (many of our large
cities are already, in the hands of the enemy),
may we not rely upon their, aid in stamping an
evangelical character upon the whole land ?
F. F. E,
HENRY BEWLEY OF IRELAND.
F,F,E4tuAnv 15th,, 1868.
DEAR MR. MEARS : The readers of the A.mx
RICAN PRESBYTERIAN may hi glad to hear some
account of our visit to the Emerald Isle
.
It is now just three months since we first came
beneath the - hospitable roof of Henry Bewley,
Esq.,, the well-known proprietor of the Dublin
Tract Repository. When we left LOndon we ex
pected to return four or five,weeks ; but it
has been impossible to, get away from Ireland.
Dear Mr. Bewley Who ie . ever ready to forward
the work of the Loid, has' been of great assis
tance. My sister wrote me, that she had fre
quently seen his name in the American papers,
as the donor of nine tons of tracts, through Mr.
Moody, to the Y. M. C. A. in Chicago. As we
have now been constantly in his family for three
months, rprOpose, for the sake,' of provoking to
love and to good works, to give your readers
some account of this remarkable man.
The night after we arrived in Dublin, he sur
prised me by taking me into the beautiful glabs
house, which he built for the purpose of meet
ings, and which adjoins his mansion. There he
introduced me to between three and four hundred
guests, whom he had invited to tea to meet us.
I there' found gathered some of the choicest
Christians I ever met. It has often been re
marked that there is scarcely another city in the
world,. where Christians are so deeply taught in
the truths of God's word. It seems as if the
Christians of Dublin, knew the' Bible by heart.
There are many here who almost literally read
no other book, and who are able at once to give
chapter and verse for 'any quotation you may
make. I find that rlarge tea-meetings, where
hundreds are gathered by him are of very com
mon occurrence with' Mi. Bewley. By some bus
iness transaction in London, he unexpectedly
Made £lOO, which was at once given into the
hands of a trust-worthy friend, who expended it
in giving breakfasts to the _poor of London. I
may say, that here .in Dublin, he is almost con
stantly giving tea-meetings in halls, to soldiers,
sailors, and other classes, with the special object
of bringing them under the influence of the
gospel. In this way I have found, that many,
who, humanly speaking, would otherwise have
been left beyond the of the glad tidings of
salvation have been browalt 'within the joyful
sound.
After the tea is over, at these meetings, ear
nest addresses are delivered,. which are always
followed by an inquirY
meeting, in which Chris
tians,ic of different denominations are em
ployed talking to, and praying With thosl, whoSe
hearts have been touched by the - preaching of
the word, through the;influence of God's Spirit.
Though Mr. Bewley has several important
places of business to look After, still you would
think if you saw him in his study, or at his
breakfast-table, that he had nothing to do but to
edit tracts and books, and to=diacuss Theological
questions. Though he is the largest owner in
the Atlantic Telegraph company, still you never
hear him talking about the ".wonderful cable."
But, at the breakfast-table with a dozen ministers
and laymen, he will Bit . and' talk for an hour,
morning after morning, over a Fe* precious verses
in some of .Paul's Epistles. He takes the time
to go to the original Greek, that he may get the
fullest and clearest meaeino , of the passage; for
he is truly a thoroughly educated man. I have
often been astonished to see how readily he is
able to quote from memory the original Greek of
the New Testament.
He is very clear on the doctrine of the atone
meat. I remember when I was a student in the
Union Theological Seminary in New York, that
Professor H. 13. Smith said to us one day :
" Make yourselves masters of at least one lead
ing doctrine of the Bible ; take up for instance,
the doctrine of the atonement, digest all the dif
ferent views on the subject. Rest not until your
own views are clear and scriptural; so that you
will be perfectly at home whenever youliaVe'oc
easion to speak upon it." If there is any one
truth which Mr. B. is more clear upon than any
other, it is the atonement, as it is taught in such
verses as 2 Cor. v. 22. " Fon. HE }LATH MADE
HIM TO BE SIN FOR US, WHO KNEW NO SIN;
THAT WE MIGHT BE MADE TEE RIGHTEOUSNESS
OF GOD IN HIM." That is why lam so fond of
his tracts. They give great prominence to "the
finished work of Christ." I believe they con
tain a clear view of the gospel.
Last week at Mr. Beirley's invitation over
three hundred people came to his house for tea,
that they might discuss the question, " What is
the gospel, and how should it be preached ?"
expected there would be not a little sharp dis
cussion; but on the contrary it seemed as if all
were led by the Spirit of God, though hyper-
Calvinists and hYper-Arininians took part in it..
No extreme vie were presented. lam sure
all went away- with enlarged views of the great
ness and - completeness ,of the death- of,Christ;
and with a deeper love to him who "loved us
and gave. himself for us." I went to the meet
ing with a good deal - of anxiety, but came away
delighted. " The gospel of God" spoken of in
Rom i. 1, and "the gospel of Christ'.' . in .Rom.
i. 16, and the gospel of, salvation in .Eph..i.,13,
were each spoken of with, great clearness. A
Church of England 'cie j r i gynian read and com
mented on that clear definition of the gospel in
1 Cor.. xv. 1-4. He with followed by a Baptist, 'a
Methodist, a Presbyterian,•and a Congregation
alist; and yet the theme of each was Christ and
him crucified, to be preached in the demonstra
tion of the Spirit and of power.
At meetings like these, made up of all
branches of the-church who truly love the Lord
Jeans, one loves to, think that as fields of wheat
belonging to the, same owner, while growing, are
separated often by high walls, are at'larit
gathered into the same garner : So, by and by,
those wh'ii are now separated, by minor differen
ces, will be gathered side by side intd., the heay
enly.garner.
As Mr. B.'s tracts are now being, distributed
by the millions in the'United States I thought.
Mat some who have read them wouldlikito hear
a little about him, who edits every one ot them:
I have often wished that some poor infidel like
Victor Hugo, whike splendid home we 'visited
when in Guernsey last:All, could live for a week
Or two in the home of Mr. Bewley. It seems, to
me that a man like him, who possesses all that
this world can bestow, giving his time and ener
gies and thousands of pounds annually for tile
one object of seeking to lead perishing sinners
to the foot of the cross, would be enough to lead
any man to feel most deePly that there is a real
ity in Christianity; and . that there is such a thing
as disinterested `benevolence: I intended only
to-have said a feiv words about.dear Mr. Bewley,
and then to ha,ve touched.upon other topics, but
Imust,now lay down my pen. I may find time
next week for,another chat.
Yours in Jesus, E: Him mum).
LETTERS FROM A 001INTRY PARSONAGE,
BROTHER Miens the enlargement as
well as increase in the ability and interest with
which the AIIIERICAN PRESBYTERIAN is now
confessedly edited, but meagre intelligence is pub
lished from your country cousins. Cities,
know, are large items in the world's account, and
city congregations and ministers are of much mo
ment in the estimation of those who Conduct re
ligious journals. Hence, Metropolitan doings
and progress are sure to be.well chronicled. This
lack of Special intelligence' from -that •indefinite
region known as the country, may moreover lie
as a fault at the thresholds of, rural parsonages.
Editors are not übiquitous, nor 'with all their
knowledge 'should they be expected to know
everything. Country parsons are well known to
be a modest and unassuming order of beings. -Not
over fathed for extra learning, breadth of thought,
depth of knowledge, or as being superior masters
of pen eloquence,—hence their shabby And un
frequent appearance in print.. 'Nevertheless, a
corner is again asked to be filled from the Cozen
try Parsonage.
Here at Vrazer, Chester Co., we have no spe
cial ambition to be accounted part and parcel of
your goodly city. We are emphatically country—
rural, though claimed to be a vicinage, a subur
ban outgrowth, a physical and moral attachment
to the city bishopricks. True it is, we begin to
ape city manners; are putting on fashionable
church airs, and cultivating the impression gen
erally that this is about as near the centre of
creation as most other places which are farther
off.
THE LECTURE
This great institution of the nineteenth cen
tury for speedy mental stuffing—this potent
means for becoming wise pleasantly, speedily,
and without study or readinci b the art of bestow
ing upon a large assembly, by some learned and
eloquent student all his life acquisitions in an
hour's pleasant talk,, some wise heads andsootli- .
sayers have supposed and even ventured to as
sert that the Lecture Period is fast waning and
must s o on give place to some' fresh ands more po
tent means for elevatin i g, the masses of Humanityto a high condition of moral, intellectiml, spiritual
-and physical dignity. Ileie dreamers and croakers
are each and all mistaken; The Lecture is but ; just,
entering upon its high mission. Although our
cities ; and provincial .towns be no longer capable
of, higher culture' on anv theme within the lean
rer's compass from theChristinas Carols of pro
fessor Dickens to the soup making of PrOfessor
Blot; yet dOthe great masses of our people live
in country and not city. The. Lecturer is now
successfully invading the countr y ;where soon,
over all its boundless extent, each• parish and;
school district is to become the , i s
speedy and triumphant process of transforniing
rusticity into polish, and ignorance into wisdom.
- Our Young Men's Christian Aiseciatimi . of
East Whitelandj 7 the only ,one as yet known in a
purely rural' diatrict—did . not die out - Within — the
year of its organization, norivith la st.year's effort.'
The course of lectures - for the present sessionlias'
been quite as successful as the past.
GEORGE 11. STUART,
gave us the fourth one of the course at the full
of the February moon. His theme, BOYS IN
BLUE. No one more capable from experimental
knowledge, nor with a warmer and more gushing
heart,.to speak on this interesting and prolific
theme. The evening was cold and brilliant, with
the finest possible sleighing. The number of
sleighs, and merry jingling bells which filled the
grounds all around East Whiteland Presbyterian
Church were worth a considerable journey to
behold.
The lecture or address was such as befitted the
the theme, the occasion and the speaker, abound
ing in earnestness, eloquence, incident, illustra
tion and anecdote.
Mr. Stuart has ascended too high in the scale
of Christian vision, become too deeply imbued
with the infinite importance of the soul's salvation
and the special dangers and temptations besetting
our young men, to address an association com
posed of such for an hour and. a quarter merely
for their amusement or the pleasine , entertain
ment of an evening. Without violence to his
theme or leaving the text, Boys in Blue, his ap
peals to the hearts and consciences of the young
men—yea of all, could have,heen equaled by few
ministers in the application of never so practical
a sermon.
The important yet perplexing-subject of Lay
preaching, has been lately adverted to by many
brethren as demanding the gravest consideration
from ecclesiastical bodies. Mr. Stuart, and such
men--would there were more such—are practi
cally'solving this matter without counsel or die
tation from learned bodies of assembled divines.
May such lectures,
_addresses, talks, sermons as
the last_one to, our young men be vastly multi
plied.until every section of our great country
from the Atlantic to the Pacific be blessed there
by. The LECTURE will then have reached its
proper and ultimate sphere, and become a means,
next to the SERMON, for interestinol,. instructing
and purifying the heart. A. 11.1.°STEWART.
pagingg*littna.
CHIIILCILESI.
Ministerial.—Rev. I. N. Hays leaves Middle
Springs, Pa., to take charge of a new church in
Martinsburg, Va., organized ont-of those members
of the old church in that place, who prefer the
Northern to the Southern Assembly. The old
church - has called Dr. Riddle br Canonsturg, Pa.,
and he has accepted, and goes over-to the Southern
Church.—The Second Church of Carlisle, Pa., has
given a unanimous call to the'Rev . . Wui. Harris, of
Towanda, -Pa., Presbytery- of Susquehanna.—The
Rev. W. Cochrane, M.. A., formerly of Jersey City,
and now of Brantford, Ontario, has received a u nark
imotis call from the First Piesbyteriali Church,
Poston, Mtiu4saehusetts. 7 --Rev. Dr. James Black,
Vice President of Jefferson and Washington Col
lege, has been elected President of the lowa State
University'
- Charches.—About eighteen months ago, Mrs.
Warburton, a member of the Centre Congregational
Church of Hartfoid, unsolicite.d, pledged $5,000
to the Presbyterian "church in that place if the so
eiety would undertake the building of a new house
of worship. The, chapel of_ the new church was
dedicated on Friday evening, the 28th ult., the pas
tor- Rev. J. Aspinwall Hodge, formerly of this city,
ofticiating. —Ale church ethtice to be commenced
in the spring will adjoin the cliapel,,and both will
constitute one symmetrical building. The dimen
sions of this structure will be 132 by fifty-six feet.
The material used is pressed brick, with trimmings
of Portland and Ohio stone. The church is now
entirely free from debt. The society numbers .14.3
communicants—ten having been added to the church
at the last communion.
• Congregational—Broadway Tabernacle church,
N. Y., has o4o.members,.contributed last year $lB,-
000 to benevolent objects, and has . an income of
$15,000 from Petvzrents.—Rev. W. L. Gage was Th
.stalled ,pastor, of :Pearl. i Street. Church, Hartford,
February 26. Mr..G,rage is well known as the trans
lator of Ritter's . Geographical - works and other Ger
man Works of. value - . - He wad - obliged to leave the
ministry temporarily on ..accoulit of feeble health,
bat he now returns to his chosen profession with a
'hearty relish.—Two new churches have been organ
ized in the West; one of seventeen members at
Soath Pass, Southern Illinois, Feb. 23, and one at
Bawd, go.—At Ripon, Wis., a church edifice of
600 sittingi costirtg42o,ooo, was dedicated Feb. 20.
„Also one at Tama, lowa, ,costing $3,000; also
at Pleasant Hill, Mo., on the 13th of Feb.—Every
'family of the church and congregation in Bunker
has a religious journal: It is not remark
.able, therefore, that it shares largely in the great re
vival th'e - re.—the most retharkable the town has
ever known, and which after two months of increas
ing power still goes forward.—The congregation at
St. 'Cloud, Minn., unite.in the audible repetition of
the - LOrd's Prayer as an invocation.—A plan of
-weekly church intercourse-by delegates is in opera
tion among the Congregational churches of Cann
bridge, Mass. Brethren of one church are appoint
ed to attend the weekly prayer-Meetings df another,
conveying Christian salutations, and reporting on
their return, somewhat after . the manner of larger
ecclesiastical bodies.--The Theological Department
of Yale College has received .from Hon. Wil
liam E. Dodge, a donation of ten thousand, dollars
for its building fund. He has also given permission
to quarry all the stone necessary for the building at
his quarry in Ansonia. The stone is granite and
has been used in the new church edifice of the West
Congregational Society.—A church of fifteen meal
-bars was formed at Bla,ndinville, 111., Feb, Bth.—A
new church of seven members was organized at .
Kellogg, la., Feb. 22. They were all members of
the same 'Church in Wisconsin:- 1 ---With the help of
$5OO froni the Congregational Union, and of smaller
sums from neighboring churches and individuals.
the church in Albany, haviiig a resident member
ship of. only eighteen, has built and handsomely
furnished, .a holm* of worship at a cost of about
$4,000. The "last - bills" having been paid, the
house was dedicated on the sth inst.—The CongTt
gational church in Holden, Mass., was organize"
in 1742. ,It . was, ; neyer without a pastor but once,
and then but ,Ibr . One year. The present pastor:
Re.V:Th.PcliVe; is fourth in 125 years. It Be
:sent 'Out-iiine Missionaries and nine clergymen. —
Rev. .Edward 0. Bartlett was installed over the
Free Eiitigelical Chuich in Providence, March 1t h.
.11iiiversalist,7—We wonder what sort of thing
thtiverqalist revival is. We read, , however, that
"an ilthveiiirinteradlas been awakened at Mount
Pleasant, lowa, since Rev. Miss Chapin removed
there a few moßtlis ago. .Meetings are held ever!
night and - promise .much good." Also, that "at Con
cord, Mich., 'Rev. A. WI Mason received on Sunda'',
the 17th:inst.; sementy-two , naernbers• into the Church
there, and, sPme twenty more ,were to be added on the
following Sunday. revival." :" - At Vevey, Ind..
there is-now"-t# smile of -suriilar intereist under the
pitiaistrAtipps o Re e .Di Thirty-two pe,raoc§
from amongst the beat people of the place [cf. Alath•
ix. 13,] have recently united with the Church."