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COOS: •
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our readers will welcothe 'the ne* , atrarigement by
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TUE IminTOtutAaL. compigrirEs.
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•
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folloNjs:—
Rev.'Z. -IC liiimphrey, D.D:, riastok of ettivsiley
ChSireh: - ,;,!
Rev.-plerriek Johnson, D.D., Pastor of the First
Chnroh.
.111Pav“ Danl. March. D.D.:, to r
,of, , C44 l liPn Mt.
Il ' e l L F* ! l
Rev. Peter :Strtker;R.D., Baiitor of If: Broad
St. Church ; •
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11111 Ghtareli.
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set as:Editor of ithe Ne ws, Department.
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C. P. Wing, D.D., Carlisle ; PI
Rev. E. H. Gillett, :D.;
Harlem,N. Y.; eit'. Ches. P. Bush,' D.D., RoOhetter;
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Lyons, lotva ; Rev. A.M., Stewart, Pacific Coasl; Rev.
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Doolittle,.Tientsin, China ;i Rev. R. G. Wilder, Rola
poor, India; 'Rev. , J. B. Zittengor, Sewkokleyvillel;
Rev. 3. S. Travelli, Allegheny City ; George W. Meiis,
Esq.; J. Ewing Mears, M. D.; 11. Bilkinbine;
Mrs. Dr. , Brainerd ; Mrs. Col. Sangster (M. E. M.)
and others yet to be named. "
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nod will ,promptly furnish .us with fresh items of.
news from their respeciive
THE REVOLUTION. IN SPAIN.
The most systematic and hopeful popular move
ment that this country bas.seen perhaps. for cen
turies is now in rapid progress.. Many meaning
less and fruitless outbreaksiamredorded in ifs his-.
tory, but superstition and bigotry have thitherto
been too deeply rooted' in the countrymen of 'Tor-,
quomada and Dominic to fit them,for earnest and ;
intelligent oppoSition to civil tyranny.' Slowly
has the country which invented the Inquisition,
rather than the Printing Presiklinoved , toward
constitutional liberty. But the leaven of free in
stitutions and of Evangelical truth could not ,be
utterly excluded even from this stronghold of
Papal darkness. It is said there , aro Spain
more professed Protestants than those Israelites,
who, in Elijah's time, had not bowed the knee to'
Baal. At various periods, the Most liberal 'and,
anti-Popish measures havo been taken by the gov
ernment. A century ago the Jesuits were ex
pelled by the enlightened, Charles III.; hut his
successors ) , C harks IV. and Ferdinand NIL, (the
father of the ex-queenilsabella,) took! back the
liberal melisures.of their ; predecessor; while >the
formidable popular movement of 1820, in which
Gen. O'Donnell figured, and which might lave
led to substantial and permanent reform, was
crushed by the armed intervention of France.
During the Carlist troubles, when the. brother
of the young Isabella endeavored to seize the
throne, to which, under former Spanish law, he
was entitled,, and especially during the regency
of the brave and wise Espartero, from 1835 to
1839, many reforms were .inaugurated. Nearly
all the convents, which numbered about two
thousand, were suppressed, and church , property,
to the amount of seventy-eight Millions, was sold.
But counter-revolutions, in behalf of the church
party, drove Espartero front Spain, and a period
of almost unceasing strife has followed, in which
t we find Espartero again, for two years, at the head
, of the ministry, and religious toleration, and the
sale of church property announced, as, among the
measures of the government. That was in 1854
—56, since which time peace has beep made with
Rome, and the illiberal policy more accordant
with the history of the country has prevailed.
By the Atlantic Cable, Madrid, has,
of
the eighth of July informed us 'that Elitism, Ser-,
rano and five other, generals had been ,placed
under arrest ? add Variants issued for the arrest
of three others.. It ;was believed that the;' gen
erals were meditating another insurrection with
the view of plaeing the Duke of Montpensier,
the son of Louia Illtilippe and husband of Queen
Isabella's sister, UP: 4 ,4'the Spanish throne. On
the 12th of July, the' Duke °had been banished
from Spain and Wren refiige in Portugal. The
generals had also been.banished. Voir two or three
weeks, we heard nahing-nio n , excqt that. the
government had put striet,leertsorship on the
telegraph. Then, on the , 2Bth , of Jul,y, , it"tran
spired that Catalonia was under martial law, 04,
that all attempts at a rising in that extreme north-•
eastern province had been suppressed. Three
days afterwards , Londondispatehealiiii have
,
always had a decided liberal
the troubles as threatening to break .'050;41111160
insurrection, and mentioned that the officers of
the fleet sympathiied with the movement. By
the sth of August, the exiled 'Duke of Montpen
sliet had taken up his' residence, •with the per
mission of the Portuguese authorities, in 14isbOn.
Paris dipatches, which have always leaned
Strongly to the , Queeni; new also , admitted the ex-
'tensive 'Spread of disaffebtiOn inu , Spain, On the
1361'4f 'August, anted - bands of insurgents had
appeared 'in ''AragcM;(.thdiptoirinci adjaCent to
Catainnia. •A new •ministry iromidiiig:refoimiwaa
reported 'appointed, but 'on ther tither hand ; ,a
special'enVey'frotii the Spanish• court visits the
French `Empettr, with Tie4 , to:lreplacing the
Frenuh trdops, when witbdrawik from Romeiwith
a Spanish'feiren 30,0(10 'men. Nearly. three
weekemore pass:- QUeett Isabella is.at St.r.Sebas
tian, aeaportion 'the North ,toaSt r of Spain; near
France, and is exohanging , civilities; with the
French Emperor, planning .perhaps . for,;a new
Mill Alliance against Protestantisin and ,liliertY
in EuroPe ; little thinking that she- had "filmed
her' back-upon' Madrid for the last time; that the
dals - Italy 'Alliances -, were passed,' and' that,
Bpain 'in - all tprobitbility wias about to . !follow Aus
trialid the path ofttOnstitutional and !liberal re
form: `: •• ,
'Events ' followed each othdriframthis time with,
such "raildity r ; that =in: ten 'days the rebellion was
coriiplete. The rOyalist armies fraternized with
the inshrgehts, whom they wire sent to over
&row; tlie only generalf who held Mit ,for.the
Queen wss utteily.viuted and alias since died of
hislWetinds; 'the seaports; and , the navy declared
lir 'the 'reVolution rMadridl fell f intot , the
:of the' ititurgerits 'without a struggle, th& Queen's
Prime Minister' having led the piiptilacel A pro
'visional `goverment was foßhed which proelaimed
the deposition of the Queen, and the Queen herself
ted from•her coulitrp abandoned-her uneasy seat
of royalty, and accepted an obscure retreat in the
dominions .of the, Etiapror to_whom she was but
just offering the iise'of:3o66 'SPanish Soldiers, :
in aid of his plans to main t ain the temporal' power
Of the Pope'. 'And yet it would seem 'that the•
eontirigenl of being forded to depend 'diluter
own 'fisinifeeil,q9Ar ?ran her ,
thoughts, If, as asserted,ihe' 'carried with her
jewels estimated' at•about . thre f e Million's'in gold.
The choice 'of Madoz as Prdsident of the 'pro
visional junta tiligurs well foi the spirit with
'Which the new era is inaugurated. " He is a 'na
tive statesman, six 4, yeard of age; who has been
twice imPrisoded Thr - his' ativity on the liberal
side. who Tuts struggled' with 'poverty' and exile,'
.and has beeti'6llel, ill the many'revolutibng of
this 'century in Spaih, to high"politleal positions
including that'of Minister of 'Finance. In this
position he carried'through the measure for the
sale of the 'church prOperty during the brief ex
istence of the liberal government of Espartero,,
1854-56. Moreover; he seems to 'be peifee'lly
at home in such social p,erplexiti4 y aS struggles
between masters and workmen, One of which' he
successfully arranged :in Barbelont4 whilit his
energetic and successful Measures for relief, in a ,
cholera visitation in the same city, Won from the
authorities the offer of acivic crown, and a coin,
memorative tablet, and irom phe national govern- ,
meet aundry, grand crosses and 'titles; all pf - Wit l ich,
he modestly declined. At the same time, he is one of
the greatest scholars in Spain. With great wisdom
and'moderation, the Junta, under - the lead of this
distinguished Ibeiian, are taking the sense of the
people, in an 'electiOn fora definite Junta, and for
delegates to a constituent Assembly. This
is as far as we' can folloW the' mOvemdnt.' Suffice
it to say thatthe sudden and utter fall of dy
nasty Which has ruled Spain for a century and
a half, and Ina made heithe by-wol.d of Obristian
Dirope for ignorance, superstition and fanatical
devotion to Rome, is a surprising disclosure of
the inherent weakness or civil and ecclesiastical
despotism ix the Old World, much' like the
sudden collapse and, disappearance of the Old
ikuatria, after, the brief campaign which ended
with Sadowa. "Courage, friends of truth, liberty;
And evangelical religion. Subtly, yet ceaie!estly, the
disintegrating forces of Protestantism and' of the'
Spirit of Truth have been undermining' giant
forms . Of error; and the kingdoms of 'this world
which now seem So estranged and Unlikely may
be on the point of yielding themselves everywhere
to the sway of the ,1141 of lords and King of
kings.
Later intelligenee shows that Munoz is Minis
ter of Finance, while Serrano, the vietorious Gen
eral, whom the populace received with one of the
grandest of modern ovations„;is President of the
Junta, and that it was promißid to call the wise
Esparterp, the greatest statesman :, of to
the head pf the new goiernment.
All hail to thee Spain! latest.candidate for the
priceless heritage of Liberty. - Thou Lazarus of
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the,flationi.; may.it indeed proie it.stimmons from
the Lord of life too powerful`; for even thy deep
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY,'OCTOBER 8,. 1868.
slumber of darkness. and 'corruption to resist.
Rise from thy centuries of blind subjeettion to ithe
Papal yoke, and moire into the light of evangeli
cal truth and Protestant civilization! •
WORK FOR ALL.
•
As long aS God'keePs us in the ivorld'it it-"for
a'great antilbod purpose; and hesgive
us something tO We'-have never done enough
'So 'long 'as "there' iernaiWS linything ticle
hai work for' i the aged, the afflicted,' the` inf.
felling, they disappointed; the helpless, podr.
The'greatese witiiltier 'done in this:Wórld .was
dOnV-by Oiie'lihtirwas called a Mire offilorioWs,
and WhOlad not Where to lay, his hail' , 'The
greateSt suceessleirer gain'ed , in thisl Woi•blywas
called a failhre at the'tinikand tbe Iretitma;
tory was' thought by inen:to 'be anvitttili and
Shameful defeat. - : "
.) ` l When .tve late ihost-Ite ) ary and disechitagedi`
+the' world seems' a ilesert, l God's angel lay bye on
the Wing to bring in inessiiges of' metcy-tfko'Cit the
throne. Whateverl.steniing. failurei;
pcintnients 'We rod.) , experience, it is never tide for
us to' fling 'otirselVes 'do*n in despair aid ita3i,''qt
enifonghl" - Whht :we call fiilure mityibteDiiine
succeiAftvith-Ged, and , imir'scirest • difeaihmkrbe
the iPreparatiotvlbr the most .gloriousrotritinailli.
Elijah's:night vfoilesphir in -the desert; and • his
long cotriestvith an .apostate king atid
people, wade hith .the man to be , taken 'to
heaven ' , in a chaiiot offifire:
`lt is not the chief 4nd of Man to 'achieve what'
ll
the world will applaud as success. Iris ourmadin
bUsiness , in life t,o.show 'ourselves true - sued; lov
ing Tighteoneness; hating: evil, and willing to take
such measure' ?of preseni happiness and aucceisz
as--flows from obedienee r ,to. the truth. i• There' is
unconquerable 'strength which begiture , Nyitho the
confession of Weakness. There is • t a Sereneiandi,
lofty . repose of soul which is react ectrAldne
through - conflicts and•through Scars! There is 'a
•p ore and ,sacrod. , jey, Which • springs qtlis
deepest sorrow - and!. Suffering: • TIM !treat ',loss
which we':handlnbetineed to 41eplorelis'theiloss
slarnealiese' ito: (la right:the-floss' distrltligtir.to..re
sist temptation, the loss of 'faith in the 'elerlist.=
ing principles of truth and duty.. The pootest
into in the Aworlil'has . •something • to live s.and td
die for so long as he preserves the integrity.of his
own conscience. , `The4noststiceessful man* the,
world is the man who gives himiglfanost es.rnest:
ly to the' eituie of GOd in& trutk and who never.
bates , one jot of heart or lhope, ,his good wbrk,
whatever , difficulties and , delays he. may , have' to'
mee t... .t 11,
Take, eonrage;_then ; when' tiiiilmrden is heavy
and the work moves shAvl 'and thel temptations
and conflicts to be' niet • - are many and istrongi
Never - say ," It is enough, ) ! long aslou-heiv one
lwrong diAposition' in your 'owritheart(toi
long as there is-one soul' to be , benefited by yotit
effort Or etarnple .-long as patience'and faithand
love-and devotiOn to duty are 'the.great lessons to
be , taitglit 4tlid , lea rriedl'LlonOts • God says he , will
never forstikel the soul that trusts inhim and Seeks
his 'aid—L•long as•the erowitiof 'life is offered only
to hini that' , overeometh Never) say it is , 'enough I
But toil on, pray mai hopi3 on; and'alwaYs believe
that while life lasts there is soteething to do to
prepare - yourself and others for the-better ilife to
come. - D: M.
' "
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especially for dabs?' You:will find idapt
ed to the almost universal circulation of the pa
per. One hundred copies, $l.BO each'. Twenty,
copies -besides, -given"as premiums.
THE 'BOYS IN BEM
As.after some great victory, °lli city, last Fri-'
day,' diesseditself in the national colors and kept
holiday. She had'siirrentle:ted to the Boys in
Blue. Without arMS they easily occupied . her high
places. Our arniories, oUilititels, our halls; our
private houses; our Leagne Hriiiie,"and our In--
dePendence Squa r re were flung open at their 'ap
proach. A hundred ihrilliancl' people lined the
Streets through which 'they' paraded, and child
hood and age, and womanhood and manhood,
smiled .•
and cheered arid *tired them the deep
welcome of loyal "hearts '
as they passed. A rich
light and fragrance of hist6ria renoWn, 'of deedi
and sufferings for union and 'liberty hung over'
their great prOcession, crowned the nOble'forms
of Burnside and - Sickles, and GearYland Kil.
patrick, and Naglee arid "Baxtei3floated'aionnd
the battle:riven s.ntiersi and 'Clung te'the o nce
wasted form& of the Survivors of Libby' and of
Andersonville and'Of Salisbury, and - to the crip
pled veterans of 'a; score' of bloody battles. From
the remote fields, frena the Smoking workshops,'
Siom'the mineral regiOlii o&r own State, froui
`rooi-ribta arid trile;fieliited i ttassadliuietta fro&
,
o r"
far-off Texas,, whose bileexed are again loaded
f,,.
.
with sounds ' of rapine and murder; feCin
" MarYland, "M ll lVlgryland," from "the Empire
Staid; from lithe Rhody,from New Jersey, whom
'gallant kilpitiick again' resiore• to the
the'Diaimind State and the District
'of COluMbia, their 'swanned'. By . day they , moved
•
-with the `steady tramp a'solid column
'Of blue, through the streets; not now accoutred
fbiL l the 'cOnfliOlAf . lir6;',:tio deadly qeiipon was
a'ilied by officer or 'man;' but a litindred atream
era " waved' over- tiie serried
'ten thOu4and:"torcheSt 'flashed
above't,hefr heads, arid 'they , walked d a sea of
milei lenktVi What - 414
stirring SPeChei from ben rapt above theineelfei
biihe SCCasiOn,'With strains of music from the
choicest bands - inlhe atinntry, with ceaseless
huzzasi:ind Witinh'ellitightoesblof tanners under
*Mai ) tht, svery breezes have, grown fresher; ms if
-.lpralui Of, their Atarry, burdeu,(sve have, bon
'Oxicated. salad latmosplurothm tur4e4(ll.epobli-
ash,: alut pixtuouncis fer ; GRA j 4L.O3A.ItTY, and
PE'Actqq rd . `,;'d; 7 - 4, • r
iDelubtless,these'ihosts of Boys in ! Blue axe
marching to a`victory.at the ballot-box, as sure
Ilirthat theylivon witlrswordiand rifle. We
areiinclinied, to believe 'flats the/victory, (thus ,won,
wil} beta finalitylas to` the great issues of I,ll l e war,
,pethapi:evett more) decisive' because of the, sup
plemehtaryJ treason 7 and, • rebelllom,
cove:Will nearly all of : the, last' four. ',years., As
the , ,proldnging of the war from the defeat ,ofßull .
Run; Ted ;th a more , thorough war policy, so the
.uprisirig of ‘once defeated rebeldom through, - the
assassination; of, Mr, 'Lincoln; the, drunkenness
and perjunrofi Aridrew , Johnson, and, the,rpc,ent
capture of .the. IDerdocratic party;
'unrepentant: rebels'Of the: Soutlh, has wrfangbt,
our Boys: in 'Blue, and. in their, supporters . , at
. home. and inCorigress il a. Clearer conviction, than
43therwisnivaa pOs,sible, ;of .the ' necessity, of CCM
.servicng the fruits.. of their, victory ,in ;the, field
liy_a founded.mrthe rimperishahlg •princi
!pies Of justice and; etitial rights to 'all:
TEV Til co is a 4 bpi NEW sußscraYEßs':e6iiid 'be
obte.hied by . o'ne bunilied ehurehed, ea`eh'adepting
tlie~ ONE Hirigi)fiEtc CLUB aicald'eineht:' Who
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f I .t , •
WeriNG l t •oir. THIS WEST
Sur" PENI~S k LVANIA.
f, !j_ .; i •
Newcastle, Fa.„Sept. 26t1i, 1.868.
'
TO THE ANEAICAN . PR.ESB . YTERL =Our'
annual meeting has just closed Again it is My'
s privilege to speakOf the meeting as one of
i deev
religious interest . wias prevented froM getiing'
to, Vinod till late on - Saturday evening, but from.
thiit time to the CloSe on Monday evening, every
one seemed to ,feel that it Nl* an occasion of no
ordinary religious feeling. The prayer meetings
r - •
were characterized.
.by simplicity, 4ireethess, ab
sence of formality, and a pervading seutiarrit of
• , .
concern for the personal spiritual welfare of the
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brethren individually, and theirfamilies
1 ' The
•
discussions were all,' with scarcely an exception,.`
characterized by ability and a deep feeling of cob
viction of the, importance of the subjects bionght•
before the Synod. Among these topies those of
the Freedmen, Systematic Beneficence, . and' the
Publication Cause attracted' the most 'attention
during the time present. Noted as the
meetings'of this Systodb - atc,:ben,tg Any personal
fknowlodgejot their religious interest.and - earnest
fraternal: spirit, it' seemed ; to :be the universal
feeling that; his,onebad. been .a most bles,sed one
—one not soon likely to be (forgotten.,
THE FREEDMEN
,
This subject came up in connection *hie the
report of the Committee on the Minutes - '4 the ;
General Assembly; The brethren seemed to feel
indignant that nothing had yet been done by the
'FizniE;Missionary Committee, in accordance' with
the ''direction of the General' Assembly 'in May.
The impression was very, general and- deep; that
some one or more 'ilia ~b lUndired" in allowing
the - wave-of " feeling that was spreading over the
'whole country; after the meeting of the Assem
•
bly Brooklyn, in favor of our branch of the
Christian ChUrch;lb'illi3 aiVey, and nothing done
; th 'enlist our Church e'nergetically the
good cause. All seemed to feel that
n(3 cause had higher claims on us than' this.' The
.
resolutions'were 'adopted 'with entire
unanimity, and even'entlittsihsin : •
3.: Resolved, That tins Synod regards the Freedmen
Of the Solithern? States as presenting:to our branch of
Abu Church ,a, field. of missionary labor, whose claiins
upon us at this tin:mare second to those of no other
field whatever. t`>
2. That .as.#lienoi,ninatiop 98f hriatiang we h arp
not hitherto taken
, possession, of this field WO, that
efficienCy Which the unusual e4igenbieirof thetas&
peratively demanded ;
8. .That Messrs. Rev. F. A. Noble, Joseph S. Trai'elli,
The': Thaw, be''aPpointed `CoW
Mitteou tor confer with the General!AssetoMy?.B; Home
M.lssiunpryCompittoe, ,and,Fge, upon . them . the lin:,
' poilinCe - of takingghionedi l ate ` action to`perfeet our or
>") t f . 1 It
Genesee Evangelist, ILTo. 1168.
ganization in accordance 'with the direction of the
General Assembly to , carry ort this work.,
4.' That in case of failing lo'Senure the result indi
cated, through the nomellissiimary Committee, the
Committee now, appointed ,hasre power to increase
theii own "number AO seven, and take all necessary
measureloto; 'perftieCtlteir organizatiOn and prosecute
the work under:the supervision, of sills Synod.
5. That this paper be read in at the Churches in
the . bounda-of'Syn'od, and also be published in' our re
ligious PAPer.E.f. .. rl • ,- ~)
,By appointment of :Synod Rev. W. T. Wylie
, iead a tract on , this subject, which elicited a most
.spirited ; discussion. After the reading of the
.trapt : 4 , ...Bre. Craighead, of,Meadville, made a Most
leatneskspeOch on the: subject., , .}le,lvnts. Allowed
byßro; Noble, of the Third churdh, Pittsburgh,
In a speech full of pathos and power. This was
listened,, to; by the Synod with breathless, and
tearful attention. The• Synod appointed .a-CoM
mittee to have the tract, printed, and, as far as
vossible, put into all the families of our Church.
The general feeling of `the speakers seemed to
„
be ttlat, in proportion to its length, the tract was
one Of the ablest they ha'd 'ever read or' beaid.
'US suggestions were eminently wise and practical.
The, intorMa of the Publication Committee
were presented by the Moderator, ro. Bradfoid,
of WaterfOrd, and'by Rev., W. 'T. Dickson, of
Pine. Grove church, and others, in strong tes'ti
monials to the excellence of the books published
by the Committee, and the desirableness of circu
lating theft' especially in this section of Ole
bountry, and thusdo away with the prejudices t of
the ChUrch
BefOre ele - sina the . fellowinr;•resointion, was
unanimously passed,:
. •
Reaolved, that ‘,‘ the,Abridgm'nt 'of Worship in the
-SehoOl Rodin;" tr Iter: T. Viryle,'be' earnestly co'm
,Hiende:tii,x,_ tll Synoit to: the Sin:Way-schools , and
churches as an admirable work for the Sabbath and
day sohoob3 of the coi'intry:" •
.I Was glad that this resdlutiOn- was paesed,•as
I myself have seen'it used Most 'happily and sac
cessfally room. As man
aged' bp'Bio : on: several occasions
when=l have been pregent, : lithouglit I had never,
a longlife of Ailtidliy-schtibl- ittior .seen any
:thing. InOre effieieni atid useful. His system of
black-board bx.ercises drairn from the lessonsiin
this work wciula• commend themselves generally
'FT 11 "' J. S. T.
MEI
Stir Onr esteemed arid acute correspondento in
Allegheny. City contributesa defence of the Pitts
'burgh, Vitaiilar in a communication to which we
incite ourlreaders on =the seconetpage. We have
never for, a motnent questioned-the truth and the
honor ,of snails. he ;the other branch, nor.do
we .doubt the generosity and liberality of their
doctrinal .conaprehensivenessv Nor do. we mean
to deny. the &roe of his-argument, which we print;
but it is impossible that Ithe "Circular" move
meats of our brethren 'of the other branch should
escape the ahearince of an :attempt to avoid the
issue.iiresented by the action of both the
lite General Assemblies; and' expounded, to the
satisfaction, of all liberal men in both, by the sup
' plementarY pagers aceoinpanying. So it strikes
vast.majority of our own church. Probably
the most distingnished: supporter =of the Reunion
movement in our body; , represents us all fairly in
the-following "extract - from a note recently received
from h m
"I think the 0. S. are getting into a fog. We
;are in sunlight and on a, straight course., If the
,O. S r adopt any thing else, than. our Basis,
,it is
their risk. - Let us act consistently, manfully, and
henorably in regard to that Pla'n of Union which
'was adopted by JoinVComMittei3 and the two As
semblies and there rest: Such is the course pre
scribed by my own feelings and instincts."
We are gratified and 'thankful that not
withstanding the resignation of .Judge Strong,
"the highcharacter of the Supreme Bench of our
Stateis to be maintained in the appointment of
Hon'. Henry W. Williams of Pittsburgh, as his
successor. This is an act most gracefully recom
mended by the retiring Judge, and promptly per
formed by. Governor Geary, and is in some de
gree a compensation for the defeat. of the will of
the pcople,cf Pennsylvania, the loyal majority of
whom, doubtless, had really chosen Judge Wil
liams to this ,position last fall. In this staunch
old Presbyterian state, it is not se very aurpris
ing:thatall three , of, the agents in this transaction
are metal:4M mci two pf them office-bearers, of
our, own chureh; . while men of all creeds or of
note, mite to applaud the Act.
Or We learn that: city postage will have to be
pad by publishers, in advatico, for their subscri
berg; Herice .eit3r Mibseribers will find twenty
cents---thei amount .of postage—added to their
ser": - ItJwould tie a comparatively easy thing
for d ien ofroni City chnrches each to introduce a
qiiiikdred Psapeis !into their cong'regations. Will
4Metidisibusrivill not the young men, will not the
itinhand and see'that it is done I'
I Horne - et Foreign Miss. $2.00.
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