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TEICESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1868
REV. JOHN W. MEARS, D. D., Editor.
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Letter from India by Mr. Wilder.
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see- Outside organizations, excellent and use
ful as they are, have one excellence which 'is, per
haps, greater than all others. They are a hint
that the Church itself is not at work as it should
and can be, in employing and developing its
divine organization uponsurrounding wickedness,
to the full. Do you wish to know how you may
work for Christ? There may be other ways,
there are other ways, but the . best way is to work
through your Church. Contribute your part,
to the full, in the prayer meeting, in Sabbath
School, in mission work, and in beneficence, to
bring it to the highest point of efficiency, and
then give the surplus to outside operations.
Work done outside, at the expense of the Church,
is a very uncertain sort of gain to Christianity.
SW We may puzzle ourselves vainly for ages
with the question of the origin and presence and
power of evil in God's universe. The attempts
made to solve the question serve as a kind of
mental gymnastics, and so are not without use.
But there are some things about evil which are
no mystery. It is a most powerful discipline to
good. It gives it a positive character. Good
would Bearcely be known as good without evil.
Temptation met by resistance confers robustness,
It is plain that evil is under such providential re
straint that it need do no moral being real harm
while it developes his character and tempers his
virtues to irresistible proof by conflict.
ROUND DANCES.—In one of our , popular
monthlies for January we read of " the embrace
which we all consider so eminently proper while
the motion of the dance continues—so very
shocking a few minutes later.". This is nothing
less than an open confession of the gross impro
priety of thai class of dances. And why then are
there found respectable, pure, and even Christian
people to patronize them ? An answer is given
in the article on Co operative Housekeeping in
the January Atlantic. The young ladies and
their mothers must be the judges of its truth or
falsehood: ." The real powers in society," says
the writer, are the young men, and they are its
despots; while the young girls (and their mo
thers, too) are their cringing suppliants and flat
terers, and this to such an extent that they dare
not be independent in their characters, their
pursuits, or even their principles. If this be.
disputed, witness the round dance question
alone, which the young men have so successfully
carried against the disapproval of the mothers
and the scruples of the daughters, simply by ne
glecting the young ladies who refuse to join in
such dances."
—Only seven members of the Senate voted
against the following resolution, repudiating the
repudiation scheme of Andrew Johnson, and
passed on Thursdiy last :
Resolved, That the Senate, properly cherishing
and upholding the good fitith and honor of the na
tion, do hereby utterly disapprove or and condemn
the sentiment and proposition contained in as ranch
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1868.
of the late annual message of the President of the
United States as reads as follows : [Here follows t' e
paragraph in reference to liquidating the National
debt.]
—ln every point of view, the liquor traffic is
a burden, an imposition, and a fraud of gigantic
character upon the community. By far the
greater part of our expenses for supporting the
poor, for maintaining the forms and enforcing
the penalties of the criminal law; for courts,
police, jails, houses of correction, arise from the
public use and traffic in intoxicating drinks.
By far the greater part of the misery, squalor,
abject poverty and degradation which character
ize the lower classes and make them a burden
and a peril to society, arise from the traffic in
intoxicating drink. And naturally enough, this
essentially immoral, destructive business defies
all attempts to make it tributary to the national
finances. No means of transformation have been
found as yet potent enough to convert drunkard
making into one of the pillars of, the
credit. It is such an unfathomable mmlstrom
of corruption, that .high officials of the govern
ment, that detectives set to watch them, and
courts, and juries, and witnesses undertaking to
convict them, are swept into it. You and
reader, actually pay our leavy income, stamp and
other taxes to the government, just because our
neighbor in the whiskey .business evades the
payment of his; by a round-about but 'very sure
process, he puts his hand into our pockete and
takes out his share as well as our own .of the go
vernment tax; and it seems that all the. wisdom
of senators, the astuteness of lawyers and police
men, and the stringency of statutes, cannot pre
vent it. There is only one way, and that is,'
PROHIBIT THE TRAFFIC; and if the savings of a
couple of years are -not sufficient:to pay off the
entire principal of our debt, the whole nation
will be so much sounder and thriftier, that the
debt will not be felt as a public burden. ,
THE JEWS AND SUNDAY. —The Israelite of
Cincinnati (an organ of the Reform party), has
a letter from a gentleman of that persuasion, re
sident in New Orleans which takes the ground,
that a change of the day for celebrating th'eJeW
ishSubbath is lawful and expedient.
"The changes of the last half century, have ren
dered it impossible to observe properly the seventh
day of ate week. It might be proper in Airliner
times, but so were other observances which the Is-'
raelitee have found it necessary to modify. The
commandment to keep the Shabbat, or Sabbath,
holy, the writer declares, does not instance the par
ticular day of the week. Nor would it be possi
ble, in all parts of the globe, with the hours of sun
set and sunrise changing with every degree of lon
gitude, to indicate by them any precise time which
would be always the same holy period. The Chris
tian wcrld, outnumbering , largely the Jews, have
adopted another day, and it is very inconvenient to
vary from their usage."
The writer also administers a gentle reproof
to his co-religionists for their former implacable
bitterness and prosecution.
" Jesus, was a reformer of the Jewish religion;
whom they caused to be executed: and afterward
they compelled his disciples to alienate themselves
from the Jewish church. They were themselves to
blame that Cbristiarity is now a Faith` outside of
Judaism."
The Jewish Messenger, the orthodox organ,
strongly opposes any change, on the ground that
there would be just as much reason in submitting
to the will of the majority on the question or
whom they should worship, as on the question of
the day on which worship should be offered. It
says that the attempt was actually made by a
Berlin Rabbi, but his synagogue, though thronged
for a while, was soon deserted.
FRIENDs.---Some twenty years ago the New
England and the various Western Yearly Meet
ings of the Orthodox Society of Friends divided
into two parties on the question of the orthodoxy
of Joseph John Gurney, an English Friend who
visited this country. The seceding (or exeinded)
minority were called Wilburites from John Wil
bur, of the N. E. Meeting who denounced J. J.
Gurney's " Evangelical " sentiments as inconsis
tent with "the ancient testimonies of the Society"
and with " the truth." The Philadelphia Yearly
Meetings, (the 12th St. meeting excepted) mostly
sympathize with the Wiiburites on doctrinal or
disciplinary grounds, but the moderate party,
who wished no separation here, had the upper
hand, and for years avoided coming to any vote
as to which of the rival yearly meetings in the
East and West they should correspond with. At
last they decided to drop all correspondence with
all other yearly meetings, thereby obviating all
necessity for a decision. About a hundred of the
ultra-Wilburi.es, however,. have since seceded
and now hold a General Meeting at Falsington,
Pa., with three or four particular meetings, one
of which, comprising some score of persons,
meets in a parlor on Coates St., in this city.
" Is IT EIONEST to say that Rome discourages
the circulation of the Bible ?" the Protestant
public were recently asked, in a widely scattered
Romanist tract. Hear Cardinal Wiseman in re
ply. He says in his tract, " Catholic Doctrine
ron the Bible," page 25, republished from vol.
xxxiii. of The Dublin Review:
"If, therefore, we be asked why we did not give
the Bible indifferently to all, and the shutting - up
(as it is called) of God's word be disdainfully thrown
in our face, we Will not seek to elude the question
or meet the taunt by denial, or by attempting to
prove that out principles on the subject are not an
tagonistic to these of Protestants. They are antag
onistic, and we glory in avowing it. We answer
boldly, we give not the word ot God indiscriminately
to all, because God himself has not so given it. We
farther say we do.not permit the indiScriminate and
undirected use of the Bible, because God has not
given his Church the instinct to do so. We cannot
and must not adopt the Protestant course, because
we have no reason to admire its fruits or expecta
tions. But, though the Scriptures may be here per
mitted, we do not urge them on our people; WE DO
NOT ENCOURAGE THEM TO READ THEM. We do not
spread them to the utmost among them, certainly
not."
So Pope Clement XI., in his famous Bull,
Unigenitus published in 1713, said :
"The proposition of [the Jansenist] Quesnel, that
it is useful and necessary at all times and for all
sorts of persona to study, and to know the spirit,
and piety, and mysteries of the Scriptures,' is false,
captious, shocking, offensive to pious ears, scan
dalous, pernicious, rash, seditious, impious, and
blasphemous,"
THE JANS,ENISTS AND THE ULTRAMONTANES.
—The calling of an .Ecumenical Council , by the
Pope, an experiment avoidei for four centuries
by his predecessors, has opened an old wound.
One hundred and fifty years ago the followers of
Jansenius in South -Holland, finding their (Augus
tinian or Calvinistic,) doctrines condemned by the
papal Bull Unigenitus, withdrew from the com
munion of the Roman Church and appealed to
the next Ecumenical Council. They still survive
to the number of 16,000 communicants in twen
ty-five parishes, under the oversight of two bish
ops and an archbishop, being most commonly
known as " Old Roman Catholics" and " The
Episcopal Church." As the Pope has invited
the members of all orthodox Christian Churches,
though not in communion with the See of Rollie,
to, be present by delegation, they announce their
purpose to be present, and present thefr appeal
against the papal condemnation of Jansenius's
14ok "Augustinianus "- and ," the five proposi
tions" extracted from it by the Jesuits. The
Catholic Telegraph thinks that " their appeal to
the future council' will be declared inadmissi
ble as long as they hold to the absurd idea that
no definite sentence can be rendered in questions
of faith, morals or discipline when it is not in
session." We do not know much of the law, but
we think that a lawyer would regard that as a
curious ground for rejecting au appeal. It will
probably - result 'in r bringing the queition of the
personal infallibility of the Pope before the
Council, in a form that Will demand a decision.
THE CRY OF FAILURE.
In the hard and swaying conflict between truth
and error, sin and holiness, the Kingdom of
Christ and the kingdom orSatan, there have
been odd times, not a few when failure might
have been charged upon the former. The divine
counsels themselves might seem frustrated in the
hasty judgment of the observer, especially if his
sympathies with them were not very lively. The
Fall of man in Paradise, and his second fall in
the ages before the flood; the long delay in
starting the Hebrew migration from Ur of the
Chaldees ; the delay of Terah in Haran ; the
long waiting for Isaac; the entanglement of the
twelve tribes in Egypt, and the deepening dark
ness of the ceptntes from the death of Joseph
till the appearance of Moses •and Aaron before
Pharaoh; the Exodus, the Red Sea, the defection
at the very roots of Mt. Sinai,—and a score of
other like critical and apparently hopeless pe
riods in the history - of the kingdom of truth, may
be found, where the cry of "failure" might have
been uttered, and doubtless was uttered, by the
disheartened and jaundiced observer. Time and
again the people of Israel declared their whole
movement under Moses a failure, and there were
occasions when Moses himself was disposed to
agree with them. The brave, rugged, impetuous
Elijah felt the iron of disappointment enter into
his soul, and fled to. the desert where God had
once gloriously revealed himself to his people,
believing, in his burning heart, that the whole
economy was a failure. And when the disciples
saw their Master wrested from them by violence,
borne away by the - mob to the Sanhedrin, to Pi
late, to Herod, to Calvary, without any miracu
lou., interposition in his behalf—when they knew
that he had actually died, and when the shadow
of that Friday night came down upon a Dead
and a Buried Christ, they looked into one ano
ther's faces, and saw the unutterable sense of
failure written upon each.
And so we are hot surprised occasionally to
hear some earnest voice, even in our day, raising
the cry of "Failure" against one and another of the
forms, ins. itutions and organizations by which
the conflict of truth -with error is carried on in
the world, or against the Church itself as a whole.
Who, for a moment, will claim that Christianity
has done more than a tithe of its intended ;lo
riouß work, even in Christian lands? Who does
not 'often more than half feel that the work which
he would see accomplished in his own heart is a
failure? Does not even Paul himself charge us
to forget the things that are behind; to count
them as nothing, almost as, failures, in view of the
vast proportion of our. work and the greater
weight of glory, that lies before ?
The most recent instance of this cry of " Fail
ure is in certain sermons by one Dr. Ferdinand
C. Ewer, Rector of Christ Church, NeW York,
who puts it ia the shape of the Failure of Pro
testantism; with whom we would not quarrel, if
we understood the declaration to be in view of
the vast ends proposed by Protestantism, and
will so far from being realized. With equal
truth, it might be said that Christianity is a
failure. Has .it converted the world ? Has it
reached, even in the most indefinite way, to every
part of mankind? Has it conquered unbelief?
Has it reached and elevated the masses of the
great capitals either of the Protestant or the
Romish nations? Is it clear of apostacies, and
heresies, and gross inconsistencies in any of its
branches ? Have not all the natural sciences
risen up as at some infernal signal, as at the dis
mal drum-beat of Diabolus before the town of
Mansoul, to lay violent siege to the supernatural
claims of Christianity and to sweep its evidences
from the earth ? Might not very eloquent ser
mons, very pithy, acute and learned, and with
a great show of plausibility, their positions forti
fied by abundant quotations from desponding ut
terances of Christians themselves, be preached to
show that Christianity, after a much longer trial
than the three centuries of Protestantism, is a
failure? But the preacher would simply forget
that this is not the triumphant but the struggling
Church—ecclesia militans ac pressa—sometimes
almost crushed out of existence , by the vehement
assaults of error: Dr. Ewer thinks only Protest
antism is a failure, while he considers the
" Catholic " elements found in the Roman, Greek
and Anglican Churches as the only true grounds
of success. A mere glance Over the present con
dition of the Christian world will show that,
whatever success the religion of Jesus has had
in elevating mankind, no small *tare of it be
longs to Protestantism; while the tery existence
of a pure Gospel in the world is due to that great
movement in which Protestantism was born.
By all means, let us have something better
than Protestantism, if it can be had. We are
nothing loth to reform the Reformation, if it can
be done. But Dr. Ewer's sentimental revamp
ing of Romanism will turn out the deadest failure
of all.
LETTER FROM CHICAGO.
DEAR AMERICAN :—The sensation'of the week
with us has been the long piojected and much
heralded Retinion of the armies of the West—the
four great armies known as those of the Tennessee,
the Cumberland, the Ohio and Georgia. The
occasion was made illustrious by the presence of
a greater number of men of brilliant fame than
were ever gathered here, or at almost any other
place in our land, before. It would require a
letter of considerable length to recount simply
their names. Extensive preparations had been
made .for giving fit receptiOrk to so distinguished
guests. The principal hotels, headquarters -of
the respective armies, were elegantly-decoiated,
and every attention was lavished on the nation's
heroes dtiring'their 'entire stay.
A reception at the private mansion of Lieut.
Gov. Bross, on Monday evening, inaugurated the
festivities of the occasion. Among the personages
present were Gens. Grant, Sherman, Thomas,
McDowell, Schofield and their suites. Of course
the ebliter of attraction was - the corner Where the
President. elect, in citizens' dress, received.the sa
lutations of the company in his own peculiar stolid
and immovable manner. Eminently modest and
sensible in appearance, there was scarcely a less
distinguished looking individual in the densely
packed rooms. He was as voluble as usual. When
the hour, for departure came he looked long and
vainly for hat and overcoat, in common with many
othemequally unfortunate, and finally was obliged
to boirow those of his host. Being advised to'
advertise them in the morning, he replied that
this would be unnecessary, as several newspaper
men were present. As I saw no notice of this
circumstance, through some remarkablegoversight
of Jenkins, I put it down here, to the chagrin,
no doubt, of that individual, when he shall read
for the first time in the Presbyterian so salient
an incident of the evening. The comery, too,
will no doubt be electrified at reading a speech
from the General of such unprecedented length.
Tuesday was occupied with the separate busi
ness' meetings of the several military organiza
tions represented, and was closed by the magni
ficent gathering at the Opera House, which was
the grandest feature of the entire afair. Great
was the rush to procure tickets of admission to
the house, and the thousands who crowded the
vast theatre from floor to dome were but a small
fraction of the number who would have sought
admission could it have been had for "love or
money" Seldom has so brilliant an assemblage
of brave men and showy women been convened.
The building was splendidly decorated with battle
flags, with shields bearing the names of a hun
dred famous fields, and with evergreens, and
flooded with light. Upon the stage at five hun
dred or so of men, a large pert of whom were em
blazoned with the stars of General, Lieut.-Gen
eral, Major and Brigadier Generals, as well as
the insignia of inferior rank; and many of whom,
although in private or civil life, were like the
others identified with the history of cur great
civil war. In the centre of the stage sat the
noble, soldier-like form of the President of the
evening, Gen. Geo. H. Thomas, on his right the
imperturbable Grant, on his left the alert, nervous,
magnetic Sherman ; and about and beyond him
such men of fame as Schofield, and Logan, and
Pope, and Terry, and Slocum, McDowell, Stone
man, Stone and Wilson, Augur and Butterfield,
Parker and Dent and Vandever, and a host of
others whose names are familiar to us all in con
nection with the events of the war—men whose
names will go down to posterity honored and re
vered as the nation's proudest possession.
The exercises commenced by the Reveille, by
the Drum Corps, given in fine style, and calling
forth loud applause. Then followed the Welcom
ing Address, by Gen. Sherman, admirable in man
ner and substance, brief and pertinent, succeeded
again by music and by addresses by Gen. Belk
nap, of the Army of the Tennessee, Gen. Cruft,
of the Army of the Cumberland, Gen. Cox of the
Army of the Ohio, and Gen. Cogswell of the
Army of Georgia, in which the battles and the
marches, the sufferings, endurance and victories
which have rendered them immortal in history
were recounted once more in glowing terms, and
fitting eulogy pronounced on the noble dead who
saved the life of the nation by the willing sacri
fice of their own. It was, all in all, a scene
which will never be reproduced, and which those
who witnessed will not forget. Brief responses
were made by some of the others to the loud calls
cf the audience, but true to his record, Gen. Grant
I could neither be coaxed nor driven into any ut
terance beyond the pantomimic one of a silent
bow.
Wednesday was again devoted to business, and
the evening to a monster banquet at the Board of
Trade Hall, where more than a thousand sat down
to close the exercises of the occasion with feast
ing and hilarity. I am sorry to say that this
part of the affair was not in keeping with the ad
mirable manner of all else pertaining to the Re
union. A portion of the guests participated quite
too freely in the liquors abundantly provided, and
conducted as drunken men will, to their own dis
grace and the great discredit of the whole affair.
I am happy to be able to say that Gen. Grant
took no wine or spirituous liquors whatever dur
ing the whole evening.
Thus ended this remarkable gathering. Our
guests are mostly departed, and our streets have
resumed their peaceful appearance But my letter
is already too long, and I have no time for com
ment on this or other matters of interest.
NORTHWEST.
Chicago, December 18th, 1868.
*in d eturths.
CITY CHIIRCHIA
The First Church, on Washington Square,
Dr. Herrick Johnson pastor, received 24 persons
at the communion last Sunday, four by profession
and twenty by certificate.
At North Broad St. Church a meeting will be
held on Christmas morning, at 9 o'clock for ap.
propriate devotional services. Next Sabbath,
Rev. Dr. Cuyler, of La Fayette Avenue church,
will preach morning and afternoon, and President
McCosh before the Philadelphia Bible Society in
the evening.
Mintsteriall.
Rev. Chester Holcomb.—A correspondent of
The Evangelist says of this young brother:
" Fifty Sabbath _schoolsorganized in Georgia
durinc , the previous year, seemed to us a fit pre
lude of a foreign missionary, to which work he
has consecrated his life."
Rev. John Noble has removed from Harrison
Junction, 0., to Constitution, 0. He has en
gaged as stated supply :of the Warren church
(post-office, Constitution) for one year.
Rev. George R. Carroll' .s address is changed
from Wyoming, lowa, to Council Bluffs, lowa.
He is about to enter•upon the missionary work
in the far West, as missionary of Oznah ► Pres
bytery.
Rev. Wm. R. Powers has accepted a call to the
church in Danville, 111., Salary $1,500 with par
sonage. The church is quite a flourishing one.
and in promising circumstances. Danville is an
old town, lately seized with Yankee enterprise.
Its neighborhood is very rich in coal.
Rev. J. P. E. Kumler (late of Oxford, 0.,)
was installed, Dec. 6th, over the First church at
Evansiille, vacant by Rev. W. H. McCarer's ac
ceptance of the District Secretaryship of the
Am. and Fr. Christian Union. Dr. Smith, of
Lane Seminary, preached the sermon to a large
and profoundly interested audience. President
Tuttle, of Wabash College, delivered the charge
to the people, and the installing prayer. This
church has a history dating back to 1821; a
membership of 200; a house of worship, built in
1860, valued at $75,000, and a comfortable par
sonag,e, lately bought for $6,000 Evansville
has a thriftpand enterprising population of 30,-
000, and larger trade than any city on the Ohio
below Cincinnati. It is the residence of Gov.
Conrad Baker, whose republican simplicity and
wise statesmanship have endeared him to the peo
ple of the Commonwealth. He is one of the
most active members of the First Presbyterian
church, and one of Mr. Kumler's right-hand
men.
1 el. John S. Mac Connell, recently of the U.
P. Church of Chicago, has received and accepted
a unanimous call to the Presbyterian Church of
Pontiac, 111., and commences his labors with the
New Year.
Churches.
Fairmount, o.—To this church five persons
were added on profession at the last communion.
Rev. H. C. Mcßride ministers to the church half
of his time.
Rossville, Ill.—After an interesting meeting of
twelve days' continuance nine members were ad
ded, about fifty per cent. to the membership, with
others hoping in Christ.
Ceriron, 6.—This church kept Thanksgiving
day with festival for the children, and began 'a
series of' meetings on the following evening, the
following Sabbath beino , their communion. Their
pastor writes to The Yeridd under date of Dec.
10: "From the beginning, the Lord gave' us
sweet and blessed tokens of His presence with
us, and for the past twelve days it has been one
constant Pentecostal season; sweet, solemn, and
heavenly. Being alone ministering in preaching
day and night, I am obliged to stop a day or two
and rest. Up to this present writing, about fifty
have been added to the church, and still they
come. The meeting last night was as large and
solemn as at any stage of its progress. How the
people . , have come from night to night through
the dark and storm, and mud, one can hardly
tell. Those only can know at what sacrifice, who
have been at Cedron, and over, its roads. Whole
families have come to the Saviour, bringing
their children with them in Baptism—a nuble
band of youth—and the aged and backslidden,
together bowing to Christ, and entering into
covenant with him."
Chester City Church (Rev. M. P. Tones paF
tor) received nine persons at the recent com
munion. Seven on certificate, two by profession.
The services were greatly enjoyed, and the at
tendance was excellent in spite of the weather.
Bloomington, ill. —We find in, the Chicago
Legal News the report of a decision by Judge
Lawrence, of the. Supreme Court of Illinois, that
is of considerable importance. A.majority of the
members of the Presbyterian church in Bloom
ington voted to connect themselves with the New
School body. The minority brought the matter
into court, with two questions to be determined :
First, Whether the majority was competent to
make this change in the relations ,of the church ;
Second, whether the right to ; Vote,"upon such 'a
question, should not be confined, to members of
the' church and.denied lo those who are simply