. No; it
don't the water "' um ?. heart of
But we hole f a r down in j t e
slit *
at
a deeP
goes into ,
GLACIER.
___..___________ re
gbloatetoieirn.and :nust run off 0,
..:
„ A NGERS OT above the edge of the
E B,LAND. --47 •
AVe are now half -even or eight hundred
A SIMMER DAY 11 SWITZ
bottom
to the 1 cier and Pr°level we started at. There
ice he
vueniii
also IN AND ON Tut GLACIER .
e feet higher t l' : ,reams and rivulets upon the
, ,
~ht il i y s i i ß h u e t
a melting ie sun o . f
mr the e
A few minutes' walkbrings
horn, a towering col%
are many '
orißarechs' the
' .p funnel-shaped holes,
of the valley and to the edge of
Wetter horn,
wit pierce s t
sthe glacier. To g a ,
r i g ht surface
.dee
our left rises the
of rock, whose ra
i„. op B Ul5. T o our
or pyramid of feet , aLo• -
~ od i ng th
edge of one of them as
twenty to fifty
sky thousandsus at the th.°• 611, 1- 07a,
and
yards across.
t as nearthewn, butthe convex sides preven
'til uo
M t etteo h he t r . g e , : e n ta d o s u ' o a ta,• ,
we
rises the fore '' d. ' look ,
: ,The little streams
very base of bet. la
is BU .
wards the gorr •
, filling •
~otu, seeing any distance.
y,ran into these funnels. A T
view *Viva . , iodced7
s l an ts up
sublime
c cam two qnear h •
to see down one of them o uorains•
glacieAr,
stream,
, .44
8 .was peer
tweet, ih w e a rk ra : the
footor more deep , • •• ing over, trying
*de and a ,
1,, ,
y rd 9 ""
- a , I,the edge of the ice, not Ilea ~:_ ,id companion called to me, h • ein '
mY
a uddering--" Come
unum
The . ' 'S fl - hat awaYquick;
chalky and clouded. fie
, don't you kn ow •
, . ;you might easily
but cha • the' ice" slipdown
from which it issues, i..? - , on „ . there, and it is certain d 4 ~
Pat ? I-saw
ing &v.! ,' • ~.X. M., is my danger and
height above the sar i
t. , suet .i .: 4 ~. , stayed my curiosity I h •
. . ave since
ccog
gm a ,,,..ar ~. ~ bet* fed-, learned that travellers have fll
a en down i these,
our Pc 1 .1•,,Atl 1, -! -, , • immense funnels in this veryglacier, and
d been
r oof. The watti..-A6.,__,
~.
~1,, ,
' killed before
1"144F41.,
It,IS :tt, , oqght.
the
beginnivimvitlfuthti
3treig i iiirs e reaching the bottom ' ' h '
1: • i the A
traveller once fell down one not f
lowing apute , trippekiriUt ' tunnel, far, from the
• .4u t - O r ~I • ~ ,Lettli: lower edge ofthis,
glacier, .and after nearly . freez
.41r4i4 tetkeLe, ~filit'rigiOuto , the ing to death, crawled out at the streama • •
ader. It iaabout ni ' '
six' , , •-,,. 1 , 1 1 1 0 Y. tee feet sues fromthe'
edge, with, one arm and a collar-bone
,nr seven with, With. arching
‘ ,0;.._•1 :•1.," II r .MAI .. . top i broken. ,As you ascend, these
e l se funnels are eight
W..r5.. I?i n •• t ' v f, P.itT , K et - OR h
' -ottom of hail& -
Original Comanitatitats.
M . 3 1‘7 .1 1; 71 1
.rirf
404 4E41444 eV ow, feet dry, for there
.s quite, a titres= issuiherom the: cavern, formed
by the truing' of we ar through little fissures
from abOve l ig ., .straight in,
but
_zigalis thee eve, viticiot see oat'when a few
yar,cia, from, theAnoutlir.
,We { walk on, right to
wards . the heart of the giticier,4 and finally stop
atlthe end of the excaVatobi 'abate two hundred
feet from 'the outer is perfectly light ,
with the briliieet Ailipg,blue wall
,on either
side, and thehbigelarellz overhead. We turn to
each otheiry and ludNtfiatin the blue atmosphere.
we look like deitoPil:wiittei.: It is cold—exceed
ingly cold—and we knockoff apiece, of ice with
our .A.lpen-stock and stick it up againit the icy
wall at our side. It 'freezes fast instantly" and
does not drop. We try a larger piece and it
sticks to the perpendicular wdll as though it were '
glued. We soon make our way Out, and , take an
outside survey of where we have been.. The ice
ickness over our
xi of the grotto;
,
the solid, hard
our+iivers in the
ding nature; not
ight weight ; but
ice fronen togeth
er, so that when you dash a piece down on a
stone, numerous little scraps and globules break
off and fly hither and thither.
Professor Agassix has t said that the, texture is
much like that of a wet snow-ball compressed
hard in , the hands and then left to freeze. A
snow-ball thus frozen is quite. opaque, while I
found the glacier ice to be not - so clouded as to
be almost opaque ; though as I said above, not
clear like our hard-frozen ice. Again the frozen
snow-ball would .be solid, not granular or of the
crumbling nature of the glacier ice.
Agassiz tells us that the ice is formed by the
immense depth of the snow, causing heavy pres-
sure on the lower portions of the mass. Then
in summer the surface melts under the warm
rays of the sun, add the water 'soaks down
among the snow below and wets it thoroughly,
like a sponge. At night this soaked snow freezes
partially, and t,he next day the process is resum-
ed. Then winter approaehes the thawing
stops, the. whole becomes' solidly frozen. A new
weight of snow is again deposited on the sur
face, which in the following summer melts
ON THE GLACIER
But we must have a climb on , the surface of
the glacier, so the ladies sit down on some large
stones to rest, and we step from the ground upon
the slanting Surface of ioe and begin to ascend...
By the - . sid of our Alpen-stocks we get along
pretty well, xtounting higher and higher.. The
ascent is so steep that it soon becomes very la
borious. We walk around the ridges which are
too steep to climb, and find an easier path. Pre
sently our feet slip from under us, on a steep
ascent and we come down flat, sliding back ra
pidly to a more level surface, but the sand and
sharp pebbles have -scratched our hands so that
they bleed.
We see here and there large stones lying upon
the surface. Who placed them there? • They
have falleiu from sonie of ithe rocky cliffs .back
among the mountains, and been carried silently
along perhaps for many miles, for the whole gla`eier moves, 'all summer trig, thOugh so slewly
that the, eye cannot perceive its motion.
Here is a deep crack full of water. It is ten
feet long, six inches broad, and so deep that our
Alpen-stock cannot touch the bottom The we
,
ter is per4'ectly transparent to the bOttom, the
bright blue sides of the fissure,giving it a beau-.
tiful appearance. We see a number of these
fissures as we proceed. The' , Surfaee of the gla
cier. is rough, being sprinkled with dust and
small pebbles,,which have melted little hollows
for themselves, audArnk from, a quarter to a half
ineh below the general surface. tHere is a beau
tiful cascade. The stream comes'down from the
melting surface far up the glacier, and tumbles
over a steep place fifty or sixty feet perpendicular.
AMER ICAN
aIESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1868.
TilE „
iundred to one thousand feet deep, it is said.
Before long, I became.quite-exhausted with my
climbing and.rny falls, and wishddtfortsome geed
iron creepers so that I could easier c keep my feet
and climb higher, for I was very anxious to see
more of these greatest of nature's wonders ; but
wishing did mot bring, the creepers and I. turned
to descend. . Now, if I had a. sled, I might go'
sailing down like the wind, A - , thought. But sup
pose the sled should go' into •one of those terrible.
funnels, as certainly it, would I 'The fthought
was fearful and made my hair stand on end..
As far as we had climbed we met no snow—
all was a hard ice -surface, Melting.and somewhat,
wet everywhere.; but a mile: beyond, and from i
half a mile to a rape higher
,up, the appearanee i
was that of .pure white snow, net icy and clouded
like the surface, we were.,lvalking upon, About,
one thousand, feet above,where we,climbed to,; he
steep declivity ceasedr as though the glaqier l were
dammed up, and beyond it lay more, level. ,
more level surface was , cut, up in steep`ridges and
furrows, so steep, and rough and high, that no,
one could, walk, upon,, them. was „anxiowto i
get a nearer l view of this portion of, the glacier,, .and:_
I cast , my eyes xdong the mountains on each side:
of the glacier, to discover some path which,_-
would lead to it, but the steep rocky , cragsforbade
the idea instantly, and I was compelled to con
tent myself with a view through' my" operti
glass. G.' Vtih.`
EDUCATION IN lOWA.-IL
Several years since, Lewis B.,Par,scini, a high,
ly esteemed member of our Church, ,died,,posse,ss
ed. of large landed -estate, of which. he be
queathed,betWeen three and four'thousand
to be devoted' to thefminding of' azi institution
of learnincr, to.be under the care, and, to be the
propeity -of the Synod ,of, lowa, of, thp,N.,S.
branch, until such time,as there lihould , be-a,
union of the two branches, then In .be the' pre
perty of the re-United Chureh."'
Vitious'eireimitanees hive,prevented the car
rying out of benevolent, design anuch_ be
yond tho. time conteniplated by him. - At the
present time G - en.Lewisl3:'Parsons and Charles
Parsons, ESti ? of ' St. Louis, his sons, who are
both executors of his will, are in Europe, but
expect to retur,n, to this country in October, and
have informed me that as soon as they return,
they will give their attention to the qi6stion
" Where 'shall ,this institution:lie loCatee. o " Howe
much will be realized from thisAkues,t, and
from the, donation of his sonspthe executors,
(which they have intimated it was 'their design
to add from their own property ,
,to the bequest
of their father ) ) it is impossible to estimate with
near approach to correctness. That it will, how
ever, be large, and- constitute an important par&
of the gundition of a highly useful. institution
we cannot' doubt.
The Trustees of the institution at Cedar Ra
pids, of which I wrote in my former communi
cation, hope to secure the appropriation Of the
avails, of this legacy IC their Seminary. From
their central location in the gtate, their accessi
bility by.ueans of the numerous railroads meet,
ing at that point, and the , amount of endowment
they already have, and to which theyare pre
pared
. in the future to make large additions, they
believe the executors of the,Parsons estate will
give Cedar. Rapids the preference over : any, other
location. They are, however, well aware that
Des 'Moines, -Marshalltown, and.othpr places are
competitors for the ,location of this, bequest. If
the executors on examination of the claims and
prospects of these several places, shall' give the
the preference to Cedar Rapids , then the trus-'
tees will enlarge their plans to a corresponding
extent, securing additional funds, both from-their
own citizens and from the friends of our Church
throughout the States,- and build up an institu
tion Worthy of the men whose names be so
vitally identified with its existence, and t of the.
Presbyterian interest in 'this' great State of lowa.
But if the Messrs. Parsons see fit' to locate
their fathers legacy•else*berOhe trustees will
renew their efforts at home, and among the
friends of education abroad in the State and
elsewhere, and ensure a first-class collegiate in
stitution. Of this our friends at home and
abroad may rest assured—that the enterprise will
be a success. We do indeed need very much the
sympathy and aid of our friends in the older
States, not to do our work or relieve us of our
responsibility, but to supplement our own en
deavors and furnish for the youth of our own
Church in this State those means of education
Which their higtestsood demands, but which.at
-mgpt we,are . not fully ,able to furnish without
such assistance. H. H. KELLOGG.
Marshalltown, lowa, Aug. 4, 1868.
StriaMEi RitsIBLES.
Mr REV; PETER jill**HEß.
MY DEAR DR. MEARS :-It is, an old saying
that a flock without a shepherd is apt to scatter.
But how with a shepherd when the flock run
away from him? •What can he do but run also;
and if in.hisivanderings be find any of his stray
sheep heis.fortanate. The pastor of the North
Broad Street church discovered that the hot sun
of July ,hfid - driien away, from Philadelphia nearly
all his people, and,so 'shouldering his crook, he
.concluded to seek a little fresh air for himself.
Where shall h e go? Well, perhaps Cape May is
the .best locality for him to visit. There he,can
see Philadelphia on,,a rampage, hopping in the
parlor, tumbling, heels up, in the surf, rolling
lazily in all.soris.of vehicles, walking, fishing, in
short, doing a &eat, deal of everything, with per
.hapsta single :exception ; They, don't seem to
pray, much. i . • ~ . , ,
„ Weil, my dolar, Mr...tditor, this is a great place
to study humau nature. , ;You see humanity, here
iuits real condition. p-o to u hotel at the sea
shore if you qant to learn character. You are
sure to find its digested of all its usual disguises,
But. I,need not, iet you into the inner chambers.
As you, have been lately at Atlantic. City, doubt
less you have, pen .quite enough of poor human
nature to Ault ,ou.„..l3ceides ,we can see people.
anywhere,.althongh not,in, the *me simplicity as
here.. But.there are sights, here which we can
. not find - in the. Feyst 9 l4etroppli q , and we must
glance, at these .. .
We ride around to, the Cape May Lightbouse..
It•is ; about thiee miles distant, near the..steam
boat 'landing. It is, six._o'clook, in, the•afterneon,,
and we learn the tint& for seeing the , interidr , of
this superstructure ie,limited• from 9.'A. Af.,tco,
P. M'„ :The door is *eked, , Approaching, the,
gentlemanly and intelligent-looking keeper we,
inquire.. .. . .f., ; , ,;iil:' . 0 , ,
'`,`.ls there Atradmissionfor us?"• ,.•; . , .
. " No, sir, you are after, time," is his reply ;tulle,
points to ; the plain ,notice on the door., -, ._.
",Yes,:hut t l um, a stranger, and did not know
ab,out. this Aule, and here are my wife l and, child-
ren,very anxious to,see the lighthouse." . .
'..l.,tuusorty, my friend, but this is our rule,
and, moreover„,it : is„now;•nea . rly time to light up .
and we. cannot he troubled with, visitors.",_ , ...,
' - ..::Here wesaw some r tacties were .necessary.,, , So,
w.e. re-Tarked blarldlY,:....filAwl a.. clergYmart,, sir,.
and men of our profession often are,compelled to
take-trouble,for.others, and that too at very in
convenient seasons
,oftentimes„7-
yew area clergyman,arci,ygu,'',paid; our
interlocutar.•( Pray .where
,are ; yen
. settled ?" •
",oyer,the North ,Broad Street Presbyterian
church,"t was our modest
eliangetat
; once was, ( The "open §e-,
same" had been uttered.
,"Are you a Presbyte
rian ?' must be accorarrunl4cd. ,I too am ,a.
Presbyterian / Walk
; in, my .friend." ;
And SO the door ffew l opeu, 414 ! we;„ageepdecl,
the 199 eteps.amieuw, thiuteriop of one
~of, the,
finest lighthouses in t4e,,,F9rld. ,fiefore than this l.
We had a full, explanation .of Wonderfulscieu-,.
tific u ar,raugement, by whicli, flashes, ..of light ; are
gif,en, which Can be seem many ; miles distant. The
prisms are very, beautiful, .forming a lantern
eleven feet inlenirth and about-eioltfeet in diam
eter., We.saw the ligytiug of ,it too, which to
the juveniles:was•quite a, show, for when the
keeper was inside of the prisms he was magnified,
to fully double his size, making , decidedly the
largest Presbeerian we, ever saw.
We must tell you afittle joke here. Since we
visited the licrhthouse -we were informed that a
good BiPtistbrother some, time since, like our
selves, came with a Party after the regular houis.
Being denied admission, he, announced himself
as Dr. of Philadelphia. The goodieeper
thinkinff it - was Dr. B—n the Old School
Presbyterian divine, most cordially welcomed him
and his party. This was somewhat of a sell, but
I do not know that our Baptist brother intended
it as such.
But we have taken so lon'a to tell this story
we must hasten to conclude our, rambling epistle. „
We cannot take you with
,us 'to Diamond Beach
to secure your fortune, or to the inlet to catch
blue fish and siteeps' heads, or to the large hotels
to'see`the people, or to , the beach to take a roll,
in the surf.
We must say, however; tliatthere is a prayer
meeting 'every m ornin g at 9 &Clock,' held Week
abmit in the churches, and that it ik iCinost re
freihings sirvide. 'Wartn!hearted people gather
to stitnulate each oilier "to'dlity; and unitedly'Seek
for grace. Hew sweet the songs of praise! MA ,
earnest the voice of prayer!' ' H w like heaven
I •
the spot ! Oh whereso fit a place 'to bow
erence and joy, 'with sUpplicition and praise,'
Be
fore the great Jehovah, as on the sea-shore? Look
out upon the mighty deep. See its power and
majesty. Hear its solemn intonations. And,
over and above it all, comes the voice mightier
than that of many waters, the voice of Him who
controls the winds and waves, saying, when he
will, "Peace, be still." 0, troubled soul, does
he speak thus to thee ? Dear brother, be it our
mission to lead the terrified, the burdened, to
Him who subdued tempestuous Galilee, and whis
per in their ear, "Jesus can give you peace,"
Cape May, August Bth, 1868.
REV. A, M. STEW' ART'S LETTERS—XI.
• AUSTIN TO BELMONT..
Belmont, Nevada.
Austin is the central point in Nevada from
which supplies are drawn to the mining districts
in the middle, Northern, Eastern and Southern
portions of the State. Little, apparently, is made
of distance by prospectors, miners and traders in
this all but limitless territory, Nevada being the
third in size among our thirty-seven States. The
people of Austin talk about their suburbs as
would a Bostonian, New Yorker, or Philadelphian
about their adjacent villages with which they are
hourly connected by railroad. On inquiry, how
ever, you learn that one suburb of Austin is dis
tant 90 miles, another 100 ; the next 125-225
and so on ; with no railroads to connect—stages
to a few—more generally by ox and mule teams;
in light wagons, on horseback and on foot.
After preaching four Sabbaths in Austin, ar.
rangements were made for a visit to Belmont a
htindred miles South East. Two years ago no
white habitation was, in or near where Belmont
now is. At present, there are a thousand people
with all the bustle and appliances of civilized life.
A vein of silver in the mountain was the carcass
which drew the eaglei so hastily together.
THE JOURNEY.
In Orderto render ray journey more pleasant
•
as well as speedy ; a man in Belmont, who believes
in mingling the gospel with mining, sent his
buggy,anA two, horses the 100 miles to convey
me acrois mountain and valley. And a more in
teresting and Speedier journey without change
of horses it - has not been my privilege to make.
The legion through which we passed k wholly
uninhabited, save a lonely.Ranekat, long distan
ces,.in some way connected with the mail route.
The term Rancrt, in its Nevada acceptation, will
be written' of again:'
Leaving'Austin at 2 P. M., the. setting' sun
found pus forty miles.distant, where, like Jacob
on his lonely, ,tramp to Pandan-Aram,,we ,lighted
on a, certain place, and tarried there. all night—
and a more strange, wierd, lonely ; desOlate place
,leivould not be easy to find on Our glebe.' It is
in the 'midst of the almost boundless Stnifircv 'VAL-
Yt aaiiteis named on.new maps of lievaila.
1 , ' '-A DEAD SEA.
A 'mall' w vast- salto-marsh and- soda-field,
'whichin expansion••and surroundings must -far
'excel that 'famous,vale of ,Sodom with its Dead,
Sea and valley of the ;Jordan. This Smoky Valley
itself is larger than *all.l s alestine—four hundred
miles long and wide; with ranges of
mountains oneither side higher ~than Lebanon,
havingtatimeroua l peaks constantly in view-as we
journeyed, , and covered „with • snow„under the
bright July sun. "Smoky Valley '; „is
,certainly
a misnomer. The air id so disenchantingly clear
that the:local 'color of - thinp is not 'c'h'anged'
'twenty-five miles - distance.
A familY isconhiri' has lit upon" this
sea' of desolation , as- home—erected a - rude
structure for a dwelling and.established squatter:.
sovereignty--laid ,preernption, upon, the salt
marsh. During the winter, and spring, the lit
tle salt Jake i- lihieli 'it l a's no outlet, 'is' swelled by
the' "rains sfidalitis from the adjacent sn6'
mountains, so -ashto - Cover thousa:nds of addi
tional', aeres. ;AS )the) dry season: advances this
overflow ,evapnrates, , eaving., the ground covered
with a heavy , Incrustation, of salt; and strange
enough, t,he ground in One section of the marsh'
is,left covered' with' a heavy depOsie of Soda. 1
Salt being largely/used ,as a flux in obtaining
the, silver , fromAthe d erude ,ores, ox,,and mule
teams , c,orne long 404,irepfrom the surrounding
ruining districts to these natural' deposits for
this necessary ennirnodity. With what help the
squatter sovereign cane obtain; the 'Salt, during
the Airy summer mcinthspis scraped together into
heaps and - sold, at large. profits .to the proprietor,
though at moderate rates to ,thewagoners.
ALKALIV t S.
.To such an extent do the abounding:alkalies
pervade everything in the, region, that the.skin
of those who gather the :salt often breaks out
into blotches, and goggles 'have to be - Worn over
the eyes to prevent blindness:from - the:glare of
the Still reflected from the crystalized: saltqand
soda.
PIUTE INDIANS
At the time of our visit, the proprietor, had
engaged half a dozen Piute Indians, who abound
hdre, to gather salt. Necessity sometimes com
pels these miserable,
lazy, filthy beings tio.work.
Next Morning a. Chinaman—Yes, John
-,China
man, for hire had come to this desolation and
engaged as cook,—John gave the Indians their
breakfast outside the door. Hard to" Saywhether
John or the Indians were Abe more miserable
specimen of Physical humanity. Certainly there
Was an unmistakable .degraded likeness. An old,
Indian,looking more like a baboon than a man,
taking his cup of Coffee, piece of bread and chunk
of cold meat' went and sqUatted himself down in
the road 'where the Wagona had Worked the earth,
Salt and-soda several inches deep—dry and fine;
laid his eatables down in the dust and 'commenced
devouring them, much as a/Chimpanzee monkey
Would an apple.
' .
Oust nOSTESS.
To our Pleasfiritand in eiligent hoitess it *as,
propounded 1 0 "Ar l e 'y du content to live' in a, place
of such utter , loneliness and desolation ."Oh
yes, this is .howe pox," , Dome is home, no doubt;
but to dwell content suchcons l itions certainty re-,
quires the powers of SaaptatiOn of an early Jesuit,
Missionary. • ' - • •
VEGETATION AROUND SHE 4
The graphic pen of
a x
late 'tourist through th'e'
Holy Land, a woman, (the grandiloquence of our
gentlemen tourists never lets them down to such
small, yet very important items), this lady travel
ler—thanks to her—writes of the vegetation on
the shore of the Dead Sea : "A few pale green
shrubs that seems rather to have that strong,
unchanging life of coralines, than the fresh,
varying, expanding life of plants—rather grey
than green, with wiry stalks that have hardly
energy to develope themselves into leaves." Word
painting this; and equally descriptive had—it
been written of the vegetation around this sea
of death.
The remainder of our journey to Belmont
again. A. M. STEWART.
REOOLLEOTIONS'OF OLD PINE ST. CHURCH,
BY A VIRGINIAN.—NO. 2.
My Philadelphia friends have sent me papers
containing accounts of the recent centennial cele
bration at, Pine St,. church, which were highly
interesting to me. Could it have been so, I would
have liked to have collected and carried there my
basket full of some of the beautiful wild flowers
which grow in thesemountaine, and strewed them
upon the graves of the beloved ones, who took
me under their care in my childhood.
" Only the'actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in the dust!'
Twenty years of my earlier"life were passed in ,
the city' of Philadelphia, among warm friends
and dear relatives. - Here , I wits educated, and
here "trained up in the way I should go;" being
regularly ` trotted off , every Sabbath morning And
afternoon to Pine St. 'church ;. and at night;in,
strutted in, the Shorter Catechism, which made.
part of the famous and never-na-be-forgotten book,
The Nem England Primer.
A dear old aunt of mine,'Who died in 4826; at
the advitneed age 'of ninety-two-years, I think.
'must have been one of the first members of: the;
" HILL oHuang." I have eften,heard her, sneak,
,
in the most affectionate manner of Dr.:Duffield j .
also of Dr. Smiih, in - iiii6Sehays'the l /lack fa:
gown was generally worn by the clergy, in preath
ing and attending funerals. I It ippeararthat Dr.
Smith-had no great .partiality for •this
_garment;
as he would frequently, after attending arfuneral,
come out of his way to my aunt's house, for . the
purpose of disrobing himself; and would then
walk home with his duds under his' arm. With
him, I am inclined to believe. , the gown dis
appeared,from the. Pine St,:,. pulpit, as ,I never
heard, of his successor wearing one.
Dr. Milledoller appears to have been a very
great favorite of the 'Pine St,: people, particular
ly of the younger portion, it is - any impreasiote.
that a revival tookplace during his. ministry, when
many young persons joined, the church ; which
in some measure will account for their attach
ment to him. It is said of Dr. Alilledaller, that
he was a minister of the Gospel' for several years,
before he became a conVerted , Man. I heard him
preach several times after heleftiPine St,. church,
and he w able for thefearnestness of his
manner. ipso,
When
ip t
to. Philadelphia,. in 1806,
there were in ity preper, only four Presby
terian churches. he Fourth had just, been built
for Dr. George Potts, at the Corner ~of sth and
Gaskill streets. The Second on Arch street, was
, under charge of Drs. Green and The
pulpits of the First, (Market St.) and of the
Third, (Pine St.) were then vacant. These, how
ever;mere shortly afterwards supplied by those
two, eminent divines, whose,names will ever hold
an exalted place in the Presbyterian Church. I
allude to Dr. James P. Wilson, and Dr. Archi
bald Alexander.
It will appear from the above that, Presbyte
rianism for a long time made bat slow progress
in Philadelphia; as upwards,of ferty years inter
vened between the building, of the Third and
Fourth churches; the one being l
put up in 1768-
the other in 1805 or 1806: , ' -
And:what has now beeinne"df those old places
of 'Worship.? Pine• St. alone has escaped the work
Of demolitioa,J ,'May, her •walls, 'resound I to a
preached ,Gespel,fer, many, generations to, , eo me.
I recollect, when HYMNS . were not - sting in
Pine St.
,". Tire pewe. were weir 'supplied with
Psalm'books; the title‘lpageS of some of them
read : " Psalms of David metre by/Isaac Watts,
D. 1). ,: adapted for worship iii.the,P,hureh of the
United States, by Joel Baflow.." . What a strange
association of names, as the ' characters of those
two men are n'Ow litaiiir'tii' lid? - 'Ni:hiips some of
those books may still be in existence.
After -Dre.Alexandee came toePine•St., he oc
casionally gave, out one ~ 9 4:WAtts'Hymns; and
then; in singing, the lines were parcelled out by
the Clerk. After some lime, the congregation
supplied themselves'ivitlilEf'3lUM books, and they
gradually tame into I:vie - With' the Psalms. One
of Dr. Alexander's favoritea Psalms, commenced
with the line - r
"I'll praise. my -Makertwithrny breath ; "
this , wet marked "Partieniefuletrer and I used
to thirk - our Precentor.'; Mi.iJacob-Mitchell, al
ways endeavored toping kt , ,plicrcticylarill well. The
Words and tune are graven on the table of my
heart, as if " written Witraieit Of 'iron and the
point of a diamond." '' i- "-f-ht it , ';' -
When Mr:•Mitchell wished tointroduee a new
tune A into , : the Congregation, it was previously
practised on the, eveninga for prayer-meeting.
Have the ancients, of Pine St. any
knowledge
of a certain Indian', that a very Jong time ag o, I
saw about. the church? • Ite . was tall and decent
ly clad ;
and I was jelftanmed • had been in the
habit during the, mauler 181400 i for some years.
of waking, Ilia appouraco there ; but would ney
go inside of the ohoisoh.. l Tie stood without, at
the oak window, whoro ho att'entively listened to
the preaching. I was flintier told, that he came
across the river from New -Jersey, and bad a
steed at the liew market' Second and Pine Sts..
where he, disposed of melltis,in,;their season. I
mention this pirouniataneq, in hnies there heir I.e
others living, who otit(con l ohdrate it, and tell a
something about this "taatioir the .Mobegaws."
In One of my lastevisiteto.Philadelphia. about
twelity years age,. I went te t hesr Rev. Dr. Brain
erd preach. In this however was disappointed
The congregation were di' ' h ' theit
Mien wore 'ppm , 111
new modelled church, wltich was crowded. It
had, I thought, rather 'a confined appearance
finil the air-was oppressive for want of nreathine
mini Besides, that Hiltht-the gas-lights get t'
a freak, and refused to perform their part; at one
time threatening to leave us in utter darkness.