solemnly dedicated by Rev. J. H. Noble, D.D., after a :crnion by Rev. Marvin R. Vincent, D.D ,of the First Church. Three young ladies of his con gre,itt ion have presented the new colony with an elegant communion service of five pieces, and a baptismal paten. MINI,TERIAL.—Rev. B. B Parsons has re ceived a call to oar church in Beverley, N. J. lie lia4 of late been actin as stated supply to Tabor Church Rey. .11. A.llery has removed from Phila delphia to Milford, Del. R e v. D. 1.1. Emerson has removed frOm St. George's, Del., to 606 N. 21st Street, Philadel phia. Ile is Secretary of the Seamen's Friend Society for this District. Rev.•Prerl. A. Chase has removed from Lyn donville N. Y., to Lyons, lowa. :lie takes charge of the Female College in that plaCe. Rev. Dr. Hatfield's address is for the present at 150 Nassau Street, New York. The Ordination and Installation of G. W. Mar tin, a licentiate of the Fourth Presbytery of New York, and graduate Of the last class at Union Sem inary, as pastor of the Congregational Church of Saugerties, took place Thursday, June 25.—Rev. John Reid was installed pastor of our church in Angelica, June 30, 1868, by the Genesee Valley Presbytery. In a report of the meeting of the U. T. Presbytery of Oregon we see it said: "Rev. Spalding, of the N. S. Presbyterian Church, and a missionary Who crossed the plains to this country in 1836, was invited to sit with us as a corresponding member. Presbytery were entertained by Rev. Spalding, with an account of his early missionary work among the Nez Per cez Indians.' Rev. Spalding, with his companion Dr. Whitman, labored with great success among the Indiana for eleven years, teaching many of them the arts of civilized industry, Some know ledge of the art of reading, having translated and printed portions of the Scriptures in the Nez Percez language. In the year 1847 Dr. Whit man was murdered by the Indians, and Mr. Spalding fled for his life to the Willamette Val ley. The Indians were excited to this horrid deed, as Mr. Spalding believes, by the jesuitical emissaries of Rowe. On Saturday Presbytery heard a sermon from Rev. Spalding, on the truth of the Scriptures as evinced from fulfilled pro phecy." Mr. S.'s name does not appear in our minutes. REV. DR. HIOKOCK, late President of Union College, has taken up his residence at Am herst, Mass., and will teach •the class of 1869 in metaphysies.—Died in Waverly, N. Y., June Bth, Rev. JOHN WALKER of the Presbytery of Monroe, Mich . , aged 82 years. He was 50 years a minister of the Gospel. His was a ministry of revivals and building.ef churches. CHURCHEB.—In Poynette, Wis., Rev. J. A. Laurie received nineteen into our church June the 1 7th.—The corner-stone of the Second Ger man Presbyterian Church,' on Liberty St., below Freeman, Cincinnati, (Rev. G. W. Winnes), was to be laid with appropriate services last Sabbath, at 3 o'clock, P. M. Addresses by several clergy men, in Gorman and English. TO REV. J 4 WHHATON SMITH, D.D. DEAN, CHRISTIAN BROTHER :—lt was with great interest that I listened to your truly evan gelical discourse last Sabbath morning, on the '• Constraining love of Christ." I could not but be edified, and feel that I had a new incentive to labor in His cause. But alas, after being told that I felt the Saviour loved me; I need not doubt my love to Him, and might lay my head upon His bosom in child-like confidence, with what &dings of sadness was I compelled, (loving and trusting in that Saviour,) to turn my back upon that table, spread with the emblems of His dying love, over which you had been staring these great truths; because not of those .whom you invited to that feast as being " buried with Christ in baptism," (according to your acceptation of the term.) I cannot describe the feeling of de pression that followed me from that pew, to my home; the sweet influences of the discourse dis sipated ; absorbed in the fact, that although re joicing in the same: hope as yourself and your communicants, I war