3intritan prtzlilltftialt. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1868 REV. JOHN W. MEARS, D.D., Editor. No. 1334 Chestnset Street, Philadelphia. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any person who takes a paper regularly from the post-office—whether directed to his name or ano ther, or whether he has subscribed or not—is respon sible for the pay. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued, be must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may COR tinue to send it until payment is made, and collect the whole amount, whether it is taken from the office or not. O. The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from tAie post-office, or removing and leaving them uncalled Tor, is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud. Stir Letters from a Garret, by Z. M. H., (the last of the series); Letter from the Mississippi - Valley by G. 19: M; Rev. A. M. Stewart's Let ters XV.; Shall We Preach in English; Pag4 2d. Editor's Table; Literary Intelligence; Scientific—Nitrous Oxyde or "Laughing Gas," and The Influence of Weather Uponthe Public Health; Page 3d. Pamily. Cirele, Sabbath Musings, a Poem by Dr. Stryker; The'Doctor's Apple, &c.; What the Lichens were saying, &c. Page 6th. Dr. Pusey's Career; Rural Econo my,—Autumn Work on the:Farm, Butter. Mak ing , Little Things in Farming; Pale 7th. DELAWARE tiBLE SOCIETY. The - annual meeting of this, among ~_ the most ancient of Bible Societies, some fifty-five years old, was held in St. George's Presbyterian Church last Thursday the tenth. Mr. A.M. Higgins was elected Presi dent,:pro tent. The income of the year was a bout $750. Resolutions of sympathy with the aged and honored President, Judge Willard Hall of Wilmington were passed,' the judge being now too infirm to fill his wonted place in the Chair.: A proposal to donate to the parent Society the amount standing to the credit of the State Soeiety,.sl3oo, was laid over to next year. Delegates were <appointed to attend the meet ings of the Kent and Sussex county Societies. The next meeting was appointed to be held in Central church Wilmington and a committee 'of arrangements, Rev. C. D. Shaw, chairman, was appointed. The ladies of St. George's provided an ample collation for the members of the Society, for which a suitable vote of thanks was rendered and the meeting adjourned. GOOD NEWS - FROM BOSTON, EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN PRESBYSERIAN: —Many of our friends are , inquiring anxiously in regard to the close of our financial year. lam happy to say that the Treasurer will Dot be required to report any indebtedness to the next Annual Meeting. To those who have aided us so kindly and efficiently, we tender our sincere thanks. Very truly yours, S. B. TREAT, Home Secretar,y, A. B. C. F. M. [The large sum of $140,000 was raised , in Au gust.] NEW CITY POSTAL ARRANGEMENT. As a result of recent explanatory legislation upon the Post Office laws in Congress, procured by the personal efforts and correspondence of a few persons Connected with the religious press in this city, we are now able to use the Post Office for the City distribution of our papers, thus les sening the expense to a large class of our subscri bers. From and after the Ist of October, the fifty cents additional, hitherto charged in the city, will be abolished, and the papers will be served .by letter-carriers in all parts of the city at five cents•per quarter, or may be had free of charge, by calling at the Post Office. Subscribers hav_ ing any preferences in the matter will please give us due notice. LOMBARD ST. (CENTRAL) CHURCH.—In ac cordance with the announcement made last week, this church was re-opened last Sunday. Dr. Al len preached in the afternoon, a quartette from Old Pine St. church conducting the musical part of the services. As a number of his mem bers were present, the contributions from that quarter were not merely of a musical character, and were very liberal in amount. Dr. March preach in the evening, and in the course of his sermon allUded to an occasion when`,le resided within earshot of tombard St., church, and while recovering froth t a severe illness had been invigorated and inspirited by hearing them sing: " How firm a foundation" &c. The contribu tions daring the day amounted to about $5OO. Rev. Albert Barnes will preach in the, church on the afternoon of Sabbath next, at 3.30 P. M. THE MUSICAL DEPARTMENT of Tusearora Female Seminary is under the exclusive care of Prof.,Carl F. Kolbe, a German gentleman of rare anualcaltalents, who has bad upwards of sixteen years' experience in teaching music. He un doubtedly stands at the head of his profession. Prof. kotioe also teaches French 'and German. Experienced and competent teachers are in all the departments of this Institution. See adv 4 tisemppA., , , Sep. 13-4 t. Since the great Pennsylvania Statesman breath ed his last at his residence on Capitol Hill, a thousand pens and ten thousand tongues on both sides of the Atlantic, have been busy w ith hi s character as a private citizen, and his conduct at a publicist. Few of them have dealt justly with the career of the fearless old man. Some of them have suffered the bitter hate which his bold and a ggressive spirit aroused while he lived, to pursue him with relentless fury, beyond the grave. Pos sibly no eminent man of this generation, certainly none in our country, has given, by his exit from the stage of action, a more forcible illustration of the aphorism applied by the great English poet to CEesar, House, Boston; Sept. 12, 1868. 5 THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1868. THADDEUS STEVENS 'The evil that men do, lives after them. The_good is oft iaterred with their bones." Very few of,his numerous critics really under stgiod Thaddeus iStelvens. The popular notion of him was that he was 'a 'harsh mari;;a -Ulan of strong likes and dislikes, of firm purpose and un bending will, wanting in all the better and higher qualities of mind and heart, and devoid of that mysterious "touch of nature which makes all the world kin "--a new and an aggravated embodi ment of Oliver Cromwell. Some of his cotem- poraries, those who labored side by side with him for years, were scarcely more . fortunate in forming a correct estimate of the man, The spirit of rivalry and jealousy, so common.among our public men, kid, no donbt, something to do with this. Not a few of the fairest and ablest men in Congress regarded Mr. Stevens as a sort of a compound of Richelieu and Cromwell. They dionghtsbe possessed all 'the thirst , for_ supreme rule, and all the unscrupulousness for attaining and holding it which characterized the former, with all the iron will and arbitrary use of power of the latter. Those who knew him best, those whose privilege it was to mingle with him on terms of intimacy, (and they *ere comparatively few) in moments of relaxation, . when the cares of public aff.girs were aside; measured hira , quite differently. To the masses of men, he was notAcilially attractive. He had- 4.,ourious way of putting every new aspirant for his ac quaintance, through a rigid examination. His keen, grey eye would survey them from bead to foot, as if atone, glance he. WOuld„ - Itake in I the whole character of the man. Few supposed that beneath' that rough, knotty and gnarled 'ex. : . terior, there dwelt a heart ever open to the ap peals of suffering humanity, come from whatever quarter, and a soul whose one great ambition was to lift the race out of the misery and degradation in which he found it, and to place it Upon a higher plane. No public man that I 'have met or heard of, possessed more of that quality which the mysterious author of "Ecce Homo" calls the " Enthusiasm of Humanity," than Thaddeus Stevens. He loved the human race. While he labored, for all, his best efforts were directed in behalf of "the poor and such as have no help of man." His theory was, that the rich, Savored and powerful, could help themselves, while the weak, poor and unfortunate of God's creatures were in constant danger of being crushed the con tending interests, passions, and selfishness of de praved human nature. This he assigned f'ss a reason for his prominent advocacy of the rights and interests of the negro. "I have no partiality for the negro above any other branch of the human family," he said to me a few. weeks before his death, " but," 'he con tinued "I find him poor, weak and oppressed, with an undisguised effort on the part of the rich and powerful to keep him down, and I deem it my duty to take his part." The much vaunted An glo-Saxon idea of "fair play," dinned into the 'ears of the whole world by our British ancestry for hundreds of years, so seldom practised either by teem or their descendants, was a cardinal prin , ciple in the creed of the AmeriCan Commoner, which he not only brought into constant prac tice himself, but which he forced others to recog nize and respect. I have known numerous in stances where a !doe soldier o 1; a helpless widow (made so by the war) after knocking in pain ; week after week, and month after month at the, doors of the Committee on Claims, or the Com mittee on Pensions, until hope deferred made *their hearts sick, find a willing and an 'efficient• friend in Mr. Stevens, who, however, was not a member of either Committee. None such were ever turned away from the door of his dwelling or the door of his CoOlinittee room in the: Capi tol, without an *effort, prompt and nearly always effectual, to relien i their distress. On the other hand, few had theleruerity to approach him for aid in the accomplishment of schemes for perstsbal aggrandizement., If they did 20 once, the opera-, tion was never repeated. " I have no time for such things," he 'cycloid say, "there are too many poor people who need my aid, and you rich men can get plenty of friends without me." Outside of and beyond his labors for the help less, performed in the ordinary routine of his du ties as a' mernber of the House, hie - charities were large and, entirely free from ostentation. One of his executors informed me at Lancaster, while his remains were awaiting interment, that during his lifetime, Mr. Stevens had given away a hand some fortune, and that scarcely any record was, made of it, beyond that which is written indeli bly on the grateful hearts of the thousands who regarded him as their benefactor. He was not orthe nature to'inquire too closely whether all who appealed to his sympathies were properly de-. serving, and, of course, has occasionally been vic timized. With regard to such he. would say, ."Well, perhaps it wouldn't have done me much good, and it will do them less." Thaddeus Stevens was not connected with any religious denomination. The supposition that he had a strong leaning toward the Roman Oath °tic church, which I have seen stated in some quarters, because dome unmeaning rites of that Church were performed, at his death-bed by a couple of so-called Sisters ,of Charity, is errone ous. It is proper to state that this was not done with his consent, but at the suggestion of a friend. While the cermony was being performed, the old man was unconscious of, everything around him. ' His fiery Spirit• had already com menced to feel the cold waters of death, and his soul was callous to forms, ceremonies and all else, earthly. He was by no means an infidel. His views of religion were far from being Orthodox, but he: had a firm belief in the over-ruling and special providence of 'God and a profound respect I for the Bible, with which he was very familiar, through the teachings of a pious mother. In the early days of the anti-slavery agitation, when a large portion of the Christian Church took sides with the oppressor, in defiance of the plainest teachings of the Bible, Mr. Stevens was among those whose faith in religion as represented by those assumed to be its champions, was consider ably shaken. Still he never was an active op ponent of the Church, frequently gave liberally to sustain her institutions. In his will he be queathed money to erect a Baptist church—"out of respect" as he touchingly says "to the mem ory of my mother, to whom I owe what little of prosperity I had, and 'which, small as it is, I de sire emphatically to acknowledge." Up to the very, last, he never failed to speak in the most af fectionate and respectful manner about his moth er, who seems to - have been a woman of more than ordinary force of character, and of earnest iiety. "If it hadn't been for her," he said to me on one occasion "I don't think'l should ever have amounted to anything." The country and the world know 'Thaddeus Stevens as the States man, the champion of liberty, the advocate of equal and exact justice to all, the persistent enemy'of every fora, of , oppression. Who will give us a full length portrait of Thaddeus Stevens as the MAN ?, , J. M. Washington, Sept. - 6, 1868. FROM 0,1T.E. RQOHESTEIi, CORZESPONDENT. SYNOD - OF YIENESED. ' The'annual meetinc. " this' 'SYnoct was 'held this week at ,llornellsville. •Rev. Dr. Campbell, of Rochester, was chosen 4oderator: The open ing sermon was preached, on Tuesday evening, by Rev. A:'llJ.' Benton; . 8f Lima. = Almost the whole of Wednesday waS devoted to hearing'the representatives of the yarious causes of benevo lence. The Synod seems to recognize the impor tatMe of these' operations, and Willing to needed time to their colJideiation. Indeed, each one has its place, and 'soma member or members of Synod are apPointecl . to Speak for it, whether ,Agent or,Secretary appears or not ; , .but Agents and Secretaries are not wanting. . , Rev. Mr.,Couch and Frederick' Starr, Esq., were heard for the Tract cause ; Stewart for the the Anierican; and. Foreign Christian Union; Dulles-and Hubbard 'for Piiblication; Doggett for 'Ministerial Relief; Folsom,. Boing , and , Cal kins fur, Church Erectiob ; Stowe and Wright for Home Missions; Campbell, Atterbury and Cowles for Education; Bush Bind Jessup for Foreign , Missions, and _Loomis fbp the Sailors. It must be confessed thatthat, last paragraph vindicates considerable.trilking. And we had it, morning, afternoon andievening; but it.was good talking; earnest, :practical and inspiring: . Some thing was.done; , we are Imre, to help forward all the mugs thus'represented. We were particularlylinterested in the speech of Rev. E. L. Boing, who represented Church Erection. Itvwas earnest; hopeful , and resolute. We think the Committee fortunate in securing his services for that cause, and .vwe desire most heartily to cointheind hit to- the confidence and co-operation of .pastors, ±elders and churches in Western New York, where'he is to labor. Dr. Atterbury' was also anew man , among us, and worthily represented the interests of Educa tion for the Ministry.' Dr. Campbell read a keen, pungent, admirable paper on the same subject, which is worthy Of being printed and widely circulated, . But we, are quite. sure that, no one will feel slighted if. we ,say, that Dr. Jgssup, the Mission ary. made the speech of the occasion. The Sy nod had kindly arranged to give hiinample time, the whole of Wednesday evening- being devoted to Foreign Missions. He has beenin this coun try about ten months to rest; has travelled near ly ten thousand miles, and has, spoken, on an average, four or five times each week. He would advise a worn-out Missionary, that needs rest, not to come to America, but to get away some where among. a people.Of an unknown tongue, so that he would be obliged to , be silent. Beauti fully he described his geld of labor, Syria ; virtu ally the centre of, operations for 120,000,000 of Arktbie speaking people. More touching than tales of romance were the stories of conversions as related by him ; that of Roof k (Rebecca) and that ,of Eleeyas. The, former was a poor orphan girl, picked tip by a Missionary in the streets of Jerusalem. By the , Missionary she was educated, and for five years she .was • one of the principal teachers in the ,Female Seminary at Beyroot. Last year she went to Cairo, in ,Egypt, for her health; there she found the Saviour, and is now prepared, as never before for usefulness. The story of Eleeyas, once Dr. Jessup's teacher in Arabic, was still more, touching, and drew tears from many eyes'-=7-oncelarbud and scornful ; once a mocker and blasphemer ; • and, afterwards such an hutabfe ' earnest Christian ' so ready,to do or suffer for Christ, asking to know only how he could do the most goed possible in the name of his Master. • ,But the,most, touching part of all was the fact as Dr. Jessup told us, that while the Missionaries are few and feeble in Syria, while more laborers are greatly needed, and he has been visiting the Theological Seminaries, try , ing to find some yo4hg paators also, yeady,to go abroad, lie has obtained only one new Missionary to go back with him. He ought to have three or four. The field needs , them, and the, Church would soon furnish them if her piety,were what it should be. , . He is to sail on the 10th of October, to return to his field of labor. The Synod of Genesee mill never forget him, however:, far he may •go 'from us. At a voeting of the Presbytery of Ontario, held at Hornellsville, the ~pastoral relation be tween gel. ,C co. P.Palaara and the ,f2d Presby terian church..of'd-elleseowas.dispolvea. He ac cepts the appointment as District ,Secretary of Church Erection, and removes at once to Chi cago. At the same meeting Willis Clark : (laylord, a licentiate of the Presbytery of ,Roche ster, and graduate of ,tlle last , class in Union, Theological Seminary, was received under care, of the Presby tery of Ontario, and arrangements were,madogor his settlement,,on the Gth of October, over the church of Union callow, to which , be has a call. adANGp. Dr. Campbell is to preach the ordination sermon. Rev. E. R. Davis, formerly of Avon Springs, was dismissed by the same Presbytery, to unite with the Presbytery of Chicago, within whose bounds be is now laboring. Rev. L. W. Billington is transferred from the Presbytery of Niagara to the Presbytery of Rochester, as he is now preaching at North Ber. I gen, in the bounds of the latter. Elmira Female College opens finely this Fall, having already a larger number in attendance than usual so early in the term. There ar• about eighty boarders, and more coming. Its admirable corps of teachers, including Dr. Cowles, Miss Bronson, Miss Stanwood, who are among the best in their profession, are also in their places, and everything promises well for the year. Asa D. Lord, 'M. D. (a licentiate, but not a D. D.,' we believe; as some of the papers have it), who has come `to 'take charge of the new Asylum for the Blind at Batavia, is an admirable Chris tian man, attends the Presbyterian Church, t and will identify himself at once with the cause of piety and morality in the community. He is a real acquisition to the religious "strength of the place. a GENESEE. , ' Rochester, Sept. 12, 1868. REUNION ITEMS. Just' now the 'two great bodie:s of Presbyterians in the North are greatly agitated, ftom.the high est reviewer down to the humblest Church-mem ber; on the snbject of organic Church..union. The devil is busy it Work• in" this matter. It 'mug 'be a fine field for hie . Satanic powers, in sinuating; themselves t between brethren . and chief counsellors, and allying to each, " You had better not unite; you Will lose your dignity, you will compromise old principles, you will humble yourselves, and the proud world will laugh at you all for not seeing Long ago that there was no real cause for separation." If there is no union, the devil will be in the way of it. We observe thlt, those on both sides, who get into a good' re liigious mood, favor union.—The Banner of Peace, (Cumberland Presbyterian.) My aim is; to urge that. there are irreconcilable differences of doctrinal belief 'l;etween the Old School and, the New, which for:bid Organic Union; in, particular, that many,of the New Scbool hold and teach, and the whole body consents to allow heresies—" which make not only a different theo logy, but a different religion." This was the testimony harm) . against theixtin The last Assem-, bly by Dr;. Hodge: I am not aware that ,any person attempted to disprove it. You [Dr. hardly dispute it—holding as you no doubt do with the Old .School, that the New Elayen, Theology, otherwise called Taylorism, : Or the New Divinity, is amothewerospel. But this you well know is widely held and not disalloived, but fostered among the New School. I venture to say that ,you. ha,ve, never, heard of a man dis ciplined or, disowned by khat, body for holding it, and ,you will not deny that some of them, hold and teach it—how many I know not. I also in sist that the notion,pf" Reunion on the Stan dards pnre and simple,." is ,a mere delusion—in noway removing the difficultie,s, but increasing timm. For nothing is plainer, as a matter of fact, thanthe different sense,of the Standards in the two bodies. The pure and, simple of, the New School is a very different thing, as, to .many of them, from, ,the pure and simple of the . Old SChool, and the, liberty and the righteousness 9 f. this difference on their part:, the whole New School' Church ,ngrees to acknowledge, and will have no Union- ; .which does not recognize the same. You know that their last Assembly un derstood the Basis now pending Efferently, from curs. I accepted it on their own understanding of it. Alithis makes it worse than idle to, pro pose to unite in this way, on the plea of mutual confidence, when all men know that such confi 'dence is wanting. It could not be otherwise, be cause both, sides perfectly understand that they do not hold the Standards alike, and there is no reasonable hope that, they arill do so .in the future any more than the past. It appears that some favor this plan of Union,, as securing to us the means of discipline on the errorists of the New School. It proposes to let them come io, that we may turn them , out. The absurdity of the scheme seems to me as palpable as its bad, faith. I cannot imagine that a truly sensible man, in his sound, sense, would attempt to carry out such a method, or that a truly upright ma,ncpuld bring himself to turn upon, others, on pretense ,of love of truth, who were just the,same as when he agreed to unite with theni in"-close Church re lations. .I should think the New School would be' disgusted at it. I sincerely wish they may be —Pr 7 TV. L. Breckinridge in The .Pre,spyterian Banner Rev. Dr. Woods, the late venerable and dis tinguishdd Professor in Andover Theological Seminary, once made a visit to Dr. Ashbel Green, the. President of. Princeton College, and the most extreme of Old School Presbyterian divines. The two great teachers, one the representative of New, England Theology, and the other, of Scotch Presbyterian Divinity, compared views on , theplo gical subjects, and while they differed a little in the exp,laining of some, points, they radieilly aoteed "Would to God," said Dr. Greeu, after Dr. Woods.had gone, " that all our miniitera and churches held the. sentiments Of my brother Woods." This was the sentiment of one of the most orthodox men the Presbyterian Church ever held. It is in striking contrast with the intoler: slice of some, men „now on the stage, who are , not worthy to unloose-the latchet of Dr, Green's shoes. These - modern leaders teach us in their speeches and,'their essay 'that there is one mode • Of explaining and defending the doctrines of the church, and whoever does not state and nu 'derstand them in this «obvious and accepted sense," is not orthodox. They, sneer at a man who claims •to be , Old , School, and rejects their mode of 'interpreting divine trail. Dr. Green was not of that way of thinking. Woods Was not the man to put his thOughts into Dr. Green's words, but hii views,as ,explained by himself, were such that Dr. Green wished all Presbyter isms ;held Dr. Wocidk sentiMents.—The N. Y. Observer. Take the latitude of Southern Connecticut, crossing New York, Northern _.Rennsylvania, and Ohio, And theuce it° the ;Pacific, and yon find that New England,hae.extendeditself, mainly In tio north of this line: Fhereare varieties. In- dividuals, and some times in large numbers, bare gone southward. The "universal Yankee," and his " wooden nuttneg" system of morals, are found almost everywhere; but as a preponderating influence he is north of the line indicated. And take this same New England, with its early great colony, Western New York and it is the birth place and seat of culture, as far as America is con cerned, of nearly all the religious heresies. Uni tarianism, Universalism, Emmonsism, Taylorism, Shakerism, Finneyism, Mormonism, Oneida Communism, have there had their origin, or their early American home and culture and con verts. If these are the "outside religious wold" with which it is alleged that our " clois tered" professors have but little connection, their seclusion is not to be regretted. It would be well if all our ministers, and our people, too, could be guarded against a, conu:ction with such religions; against the influence which produces such religions i • against that Congregationalism in whose dwelliag place such perversions have 'sprung up and ilourished.—The North Western Presbyteridn. COLLEGE RECORD. TkIVERSTTY r OF PENNSYLVANIA.—The Col legiate Department` recommenced its labors on Tuesday, Sept. 15th. The renewed interest which has been generally felt of late in college education, the reorganization, of the Faculty of the University, and the choice of a new. Provost, together" with the great ad-vantages' offered to young men by the " elective system" of studies, have attracted, within its walls the largest Fresh man class known in its history. It numbers about seventy young men, and we trust may be regarded as evidence that the day has come when our citizens are more sensible to the value of a liberal tultuie,'anil desirous of avail ing themselves of the opportunities provided here for attaining it.-- The ,4)ublie Ledger. LAFAYETTE COLLEGE —The fall term opened on September 4.oth; with seventy-one applicants for 'admission, twenty-eight of whom elected to pursue the studies'of the Pardee Scientific - Course. Messrs.' Charles'llidcbtirei Bachelor of Science, and Abram Paschal Garber, have been appointed ,assistants to the 'Professors in the departments of chemlitiy"aiid 'botany. gitiro id gut Cintaijcs. CinuteriEa.—New York.—The Seventh church , enjoyed the presence .of their pastor, Rev. T. 31. Dawson list' Sabbath, he haiing rettrrned front a Vacation trip.--The Fourth Avenue chureh, has been open and supplied by its pastor for three .sabbaths.—Dr. 4essup, of Beirut addressed, the children (youni , and old) at Dr: Adams' (Fifth *venue) churl last Sabbath; being about to 'return to his . field lot labor. (Dr: Lansing of the If. P. Mission , te 'Egypt does not like Dr: Jea sup's, Harrisburg description of their success in Presbye„riaaisittg ,Copts, as appear from the last _Missionary I"rumpet.)- . —Tbe Mercer St. church resumed its services . last Sabbath, Rev. George Thacher preachingly, Dr. Booth's absenee.—lr. Cuyler has returned to the pulpit in Lafayette, Avenue, in the Brooklyn auburn. Cincinnati.—The Central church has 1 a prominent member in the death of Elder Chas. Cist at his residen( e on College Hill, in the 77th year of his age. 'He was a native of Philadel phia, but make, Cincinnati his home more than forty years ago. He was one of the original mem bers and an elder of the Central church. He published a weekly newspaper :called Cist's Ati vekiser, from 1845 t 01.862; also a succession of volumes of statistics; "entitled -" Cincinnati in 1841," ":Cincinnati in , 1851," ;rid " Cincinnati in 1859." He had a remarkable memory for facts and dates, and was a man of great energy and decision of character. Toledo, 0.--The 'Westminster church have resolved td c ommence the erection of a new church atonce, on their lot; corner of Superior and Locust streets, and, have adopted a most ad mirable design of the Italian Gothic style of ar .chitecture. The nfarial used , for the walls will he &Sandusky blue lime-stone nith cut stone dress ings. \The foundation of the main :structure' is 80• x 114 •feet 8 inches. , ..The audience room is 60. x 94,feet, and will comfortably seat 740 per sons' The cellar is seven feet high in the clear. The main walls, frorntlieNor are 36i, feet, while the audience-room has a height of 50 feet from floor to ceiling. The vestibule is l 3 x3l feet. The principal tower has a.. base 2-1 feet square and an elevation, of 140 feet from the ground line. It has what is called a part open timbered roof. Work will be commenced on the building immediately, with a view to its completion next season. Its cost is estimated at $60;000; apd it will be one of the most .-imposing structures,. in the city.—Toledo Commercial 4September 3 , 1868. Montclair,' N.'-J.-The ,congregation of Mont clair chur6h have extended a call to the Rev. C. H. Marshall of Indianapolis, Ind. Elizabeth, N. .7,..--7The farewell sermon of. the Rev. Mr. Aiktuan, lately,pastor of this church, was preached by him on Sunday morning befbre last.' It was a touching Ociasiori, aneinatylears Were shed when the actual parting came. 'Cedar Rapids, lowa.---The, Independent- says "a beautiful. New, , School Presbyterian church has just been completed at Cedar Rapids, lowa. It is surmounted by a Cross.' Perhaps the day is -coming *heti our Protestatdcliurches will not be so afraaof*aymbidisai asto`make it necessary to v state 'that a cross stands over. a new church." Pittsburgh.—The magnificent house of wor ship for the Third church of this city, is rapidly approaching - Campletion. The entire cost will be about $250,000: - The 'organ has been placed in position, has alt eady ' been' tested, and performs admirably,. ,h is from, the manufactory of Mr. Hook, of Boston; cost $lO,OOO, and is one of the finest in the. country. It is placed in the recess back of - the'puliit and in' this respect differs from 'the' location of .most other organs.. The choir will occupy a raised "gallery, inunediatelyin front of the instrument, and back of the minis" ter'sdesk-,—the choir and. organ being in full view of the congregation. , The gallery will ae coMinoLdixte about three lintared'persons. It is seMi-circulitr. in' %tin; ' the centre extends back aver theivestihukv,,,,Tliere, are_ no aide gal leries, and .the,arptkugew u t , guo i,,, aB t o co ver but a small portion of the main audience room.
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