grigitral fcrrattmtatifltts. QUALIFICATIONSFOR A 'WASHINQTON PASTORATE. [BY KEY. BYRON SUNDERLAND, D.D. A pastor of a church in this city may be de scribed [sotaewhat as follows: He ought to be gifted with more than the fa bled furnishing of Pandora, who, we are told, was endowed with the grandest qualities and the choicest charms by all the great divinities of mythology. He ought to be a universal genius in order to traverse the scope and appreciate the nature of the subjects to be brought before'’him. He ought to have an unexampled amount of -self continence and control, in order <to meet th'e multitudes of all classes with whom 1 he is daily brought in contact, and to give attention to the various topics and exertions that'will be Wrged, upon him from the most casual conversation of the sojourner, or the stranger having no Special aim or object but apparently to'lkfll the tiihe of the visitor, to the canvassing of >the city for sub-i scribers to a newspaper, or to the computation of chanceh in a presidential; election. He ought to be made of''that he ihay-endure’hnfemitted; toil.: He ought to be able to go without sleep, and almost'Without food of raiment, and to mul tiply [the dayq.of the wee,k, by seventy,times ''seven., -He ought; to have the ; function of ■Ubiquity, that he may be in many, places at the: same time,: He ought to have the : skill and strength to .become a factotum to all applicants 'in sill theirvariedplans and interests. He ought to: have no family:or kindred of bis own, lest, - they taighthitader or impair bis’more public uni versal ibenevblence. He ought, not bnly to: be ready for: every good word and work, but he dught even to anticipate the: time and know when the people! are likely to' need his services, and to be there on the spot beforehand, to meet 'the re quisition’so .soon as it shall’arise. lie ought to have unbounded influence .with all who: are in -high place's, and indiscrimin'ately use that influ ence upon'the’Slightest; suggestion of whomso ever may’desire it. He ought to be thoroughly versed in the alternations'of political fortune, so' as to be ever in-favor for himself and his friends, with the party, that isfot the time-being dbmi nant and benignant. :He ought to stand in the - first rank as ‘ an” artist, ah' orator; a statesman, a philosopher, a sentimentalist, a prabticalist, a theologian, a ground-walking, en cyclopedia or a living embodiment of ’all'bther men's pursuits, profusions, preferences, tastes* fashions, customs, habits.’ entertainments, and whatever' else may be involved in human nature, society, or experience. • He ought to be equally, adapted* to all, high : and loW, ; yoUng. and did, ' great and Small; rich and poor, conspicuous and ■'obscure; having time' and strength for all; do ing everything at ail times with promptitude und dispatch in the hiost approved style and manner ’ of execution. ■ For when We come to sum all the manifold calls which are 'macfe; by those who think, or those who do not think, upon a pastor in Wash ington, we shall find that nothing short of the qualification, and outfit indicated by this meagre and imperfect sketch will suffice for the work which is laid out to his hadds. WHY DID YOU WISH TO GET HID OF YOUR PASTOR? TO OUR VACANT CHURCHES. • Did you consider him a bad man, unsafe for the place of trust you had put him in? It is very unlikely that such should be the case. He was known to others before he came to you’. His reputation was good among his ministerial brethren. His record was good in the minutes of the General Assembly. The Lord had owned and 'blessed his labors before. Yea, and you thought .all the world of him for a while 'after you installed him. If he has changed while .serving you, do you think that you have had no agency in the change ? *' Did you think him inefficient ? He may have been. .But are you willing to be judged by the same. standard of inefficiemsy you have put before him ? .It might have been wfU for you to inquire if his failures were not, after all, your failures; if you had not imposed some or all your own duties upon him; ’if you had hot reftised him your sympathy and eo operation ’ in his arduous work. • Did you think he could nht preach as well as you would like to-, shave a pastor preach? You ought to'have Considered that you cannot h'ave Beechers and, Spurgeons and Newmari Halls' in all the pulpits in the land. You will probably never be able to get aqy one of these mepho be come your pastor. God has: a much wider field for them. You are, doubtless, a very important people, as, beyond question, you esteem your selves, but then you must make up your minds to-be content with , a much leßser luminary if you have any. | r "Was he 'unpopular with ;some men of the world ? How dii he become so? ! Was"it by ■ hip 1 faithfulness: in ..rebuking sin ? Very likely you will have to admit, in your own consciences, that it was as much by that means as-by any. You ought 'to'have reiflembered that this was why prophets, and-Apostles, and' Jesus' (Ihrist himself was hated and rejected of men, and per secuted and Blain. A wicked world docs not THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1865. love the truth. This should have been one of your strongest reasons for rallying around him, standing by him, and surrounding him with the warm atmosphere of Christian love and sympa thy, and letting him and the world know that you approved of his courageous course, instead of joining with a wicked world to reject him. But you said you were too poor, and too few in numbers to do without such men. You could not raise a minister’s support without their help. So, if either your pafetor or’ they must go, you would sen'd him away, though you admit that it was his faithfulness which has made them hate him. Shame on you.. So you are going to coin promise with evil men, in order to- get them to help you pay the'expenses of the Ford’s house. Ypu prefer trusting In them to help you[ rather th'aii.to do what'you say ought to be done; and, trust in the Lord for help. Do you khi’nk your trust is safely imposed ? j Fid dvil men speak evil of him? Then it was your.duty to defend ‘His reputation. Yoiir .pastor’s, good name should be moffe’ I'aCred, if, possible, than your own, because slandering Kifn; slanders the Church and the> Sfaster, brings re-’ proach upon the cause, and may be the means of; ruin to many soulS?' YM'~eannot expect that' all men will,,speak well/of hipi. They spoke, t evil of■ the. Master, will they treat the servant any-better Ifall should speak well of him, it would.be for, Christ says to his dis ciples,, “ Wo unto you when all men shall sj>eak well- of .you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets.’’. v . , Was, he top, plain in rebuking your own sins ? I would not;be,: uncharitable,-but 1 1 suspect that this was .the reason with .some of you. You were conscious qf.yrrong doing, and, as .he pressed you pretty.sharply,jyou thought you would, .crowd him away tq pay hirn for it- If, you had .been true Christians, you would: have repented of your sins, and loved hies all the better for ,his faith fulness.. That would have been the manly and rChristian course. . , Did any of you feel that he was gaining too much , influence, in the church, and that the power;w,as:slipping from your own hands as ,a consequence ? Remember Diotrephes, “ who loveth to'.have the,.pre eminence,’’ and also the curse which the Apostle pronounced upon him. ! But it, may be you say you have nothing against your pastor, only you want a change. You have no charge to make against him, only you think,a change.would,-be better. Do you lemembe;, anything in Paul’s writings about peo ple’s having itching ears, heaping to them teach ers to please their own lusts ? Look out that their malady is not yours. Now it may be you have first rate ground for Wanting to :get rid of your- pas toy, and! npn.e of the above things apply f t’o you. "But I ‘thouglit it. Would do ybu no hurt to ask you thfe questions, and.let you think about them. : FOOT-PRINTS. Once I followed foOtrptints.on .a sandy beach, and they,led: me : to a comfortable resting-place on a prostrate mast of a wrecked vessel. An other time I sfollowed them, and they brought me to marshy ground, where none could walk. Again: I traced: a path in. the , forest, and,-it led me far away from the road, deep into the woods. Often have I followed footsteps, on fresh, fallen Bnow, with gratitude''to my predecessors who trod out the path for me. In all these cases, ,it was desirable that those , who left their, foot marks to be followed by others, should see to it that they led them aright. , Is not this equally true of the invisible, but not the less real, influences' by which we lead Others along the journey of life'?. „ I have seen on a painted floor, the impressions of feet carelessly set upon it before £he paint was : dry, remaining there to bear witness to the in truder’s heedlessness; Also-have T, in common with many 'another'housekeeper, had my peace disturbed by- footsmarks brought in 5 from the street and left upon my clean carpet or matting, ' quite ignorantly on 'the part of the transgressor. People do not always know ‘of the foot-prints they ’make, nor how long the same' miay' endure Years ago, some one left a print upon 1 my soul, by something he said. I was not' than W child’when he 'said‘it,-'I remember it'now,- with all the attending circumstances, as distinct ly as if-it were but twenty-four hours sago. I shall remember it till I.die-r-is there any- reason 5 ' to suppose that' death will obliterate:it , front ruty 'memory, which will still live ?. It was a clergy man-who said it, and.the words were words; |spo ken by our blessed Saviour—holy,, sacred .words i—ryet the clergyman used them'’lightly,' irr.evb* rently, applying them to himself in some trifling matter,-,and probably forgetting the, moment -af ter that he. had used them. Little' did he think -that/they burned themselves into the -mind'of an - unheeded listener, as used,by- him in that . way, and that over after the words would recall his use of them, with wonder .at his irreverence, and with great injury to his influence;-'as a, man of Godj.upon--that .one soul. . Many - words can we all probably remember, uttered by others with - perfect - unconsciousness on their part,-that what they said would live lon ger than the passing; moment; yet which, -with the look,and manqer, of t f he place, the: time,; aqd the occasion, are all - stamped inef faceahly upon our undying memory. Ah yes! Amicus EcclesiW. this is part of our experience—but 'the Words Which we ourselves have uttered add forgotten, Which yet have buried thenlselvea ini some other souls, and 'live there still for'good or evil—these we dp not know. Will they meet us in the last great day-L—~' If we could choose which of our words should abide, and which should die, it would be a less fearful thing thus to impress the souls of fellow beings. But alas, we cannot choose. Perhaps the words which We ihould least like tij have live as our words, will be the very ones to be so pre served. The clergyman of whom I spoke above said many excellent,'inbtruOtive things, some of which I remember, but not'one of them made so deep'an impression upon me as that one quota tion, so used, by such a man. I am sure he would be grieVed "if' he knew 1 what be did—he never will know ud’tSl ! that day when till secrets Will be revealed. Surely it becomes 'us bo to spibak, that We Shall not fear to' meet dtir' words ‘again, and As we can nev'e'r know whether’Whdf We day may not go into atfbfher'Heart, therP to rettaiti through' life, through death, add into eternity, ’ let us Bfe Vejfy 'careful to speak Words of 'lb've,' purity an'd ’truth. Let"us :;i bewa ! re';hbw we tread With careless; ‘hough ; or‘‘hurtful‘'steps; lest we 1 lead Others 'ah’trAy; oV IbaveWii fmprint; lasting an'din 'juribus, on some other houl.' ’ Dorcas Hicks. ARiAPPEAL FROM WABHIKGT.OIT. The.. Young. MenW, Christian .Association of Washington .haveva building: nearly completed, which jwe-trust w.ill;be anattractive home for the thousaodsf.of; young njen; in Government employ ment; and' pursuing other .ayoeations in ,our,,city. The ;Ghris.tian: : ladies.: ;are.'.nowjfliak.iug exten sive preparations for holding a Fair in a portion of the new building, tcTaicfin raising the $15,- 000 by Asabbiatiohi this building is’to be ;for the benefit, not: so much of 'thepkrmfauent residents* asufokitbose, who 1 -are' temporarily with us, it has seemed but r.ight that we should ‘afford an opportunity itonthe -parents, : 'brothers; -and Sisters of their loved r ones in our ; city,Trej3restentiug Avery: State in th'e ' Union ,‘:of aiding*in this noble enterprise.. . if: Some of the wives and mothdrsof [Washington’ - feel the 'importance of this home for, - the multi-; tudo living in boarding-houses, restaurants, :and’ - cheepless apartmehts, and;. are. Willing to • do. ’all; in their’power, but through; this medium Would make’ an Wainest- appeal to their'-Christian friends; throughout the cquntry to’aid’them ;in this Fail. No Raffling of'.'Lotteries fare to be allowed; everything is to be' conducted! Upon 4he strictest principles of Christianity. ’ ‘Wei would, ask- for -donations of money, or every and any kind of Useful -articles, and in fiict anything Saleable. .-!i -. Vi,-:'! ' If a-few'ladies of the .many cities, and -towns, of our land would combine their, efforts, and send us: $lO each, 5 hdw rapidly the'buildirig would ap proach ebmpletion, wherein we, with the-mnlti-i tude trSight-praise God for his goodness unto us; The*populati«sn''her'e isuot'-asuin ! other-? cities; it bsing only an abiding; place for many through ohe administration, consequently the residents are often changing,•—hence the necessity. for seeking aid from those who sympathize with us from abroad; ' - ’ - - -•- 1 The 'Fair ' will! commence February 22nd, to continue'two-WeeksJ iiAuyl donations may be. ad! dressed to ieither'of'-the-undbrsigned, and -will-be tliankfi-lly received. - .' ; - v ‘ Mrs, Z. W. Denham, President, 434 H St. ) Mrs.W. Swokney, Seb’y,443-llthSt.- ; . llev. Geoi A; Hall, 'Gen. See’y.,- Y. M. C. A: • 'Washington, Feb. -6,1869. ? • FREE SUFFRAGE *IN OLD’ t)&MINlON. Rev. B. D. Neill has been makiug researches with a view to exhibit the early practice of the Colonies and States as to the suffrage qualifica tion. T.he following , letter, addressed to Gov. Marshall,, of Minnesota, and published in the ,St. Paul Daily Press , gives the facts in the case of Virginia. . ■Wasbungton, D. C., Jan., 14,1869. • i Hon. Win. »K.-Marshall, Governor of Minnesota. Dear . Sjr: Although my preferences are for suffrage laws requiring voters to be able to, read the English still I have rejoiced that. Minnesota,' in Which 1 I have resided' mhn'eaH-y 5 manhood, except When'absent in - the military or civil Service of the UniiedStates, has, expunged tbg restriction in its constitutlon, limiting,-, voters to white men. ...In. the Northern States of the Union, where blacks. and "other colored persotiß are so few, ! can see no ; reason -as'long s as worthless and unlettered whited are allowed,-why -those of darker'complexions shall be ; debarred the .privilege of, voting, ..... , , Lately I had occasion to examine the fluctua tions in the'suffrage laws of Virginia, 'pre'vibus tb J'ulyi 4‘j 1776; and'Was surprised• to find how brbad’the vlfewsof the ehrly cblonists were; and that • more than one- huudred years,after its settlement, the first,law- was .passed limiting, the right to vote l to white persons , .... ’ Until 1 1653 all freeffiCu were voters, but then the “Asseml)ly" ! limitid 51; the‘ , -right , 'of suffrage to housekeepers, freeholders,leaceholders-ortena'nts. The restriction j .howeyer, did • npt. .give ..satisfac tion, and in two years w|is abdjshed, the .repeal-' ing .act of 1655 stating that it was" something nard 1 and unagreeable to reason,’that ahy ! persbhs shall pay taxes r and have-no votes in election;’' Withthey estimation of monarchy in England : SiV 'Ttfllifin’'Berkeley'who ’ h'ad'ibbeu ‘during <! the ’ GromWellian 5 pbriSd j» resumed ' the Governorship of: Virginia' and: in' 1670 1 the -As sembly passed the following preamble; ‘‘Whereas, The usually of choosing bur gesses by the votes of fall persons, who haying ■served their time are freemen, who having little interest in this country 3d dftener make tumults afr the election,by marking choice of fit persons, and whereas the laws of England graot a voice in such elections only to such asNijuthgir estates, real or personal, have interest enough to ■tie them to the endeavour of the public good.” After this statement was an enacting clause re quiring voters to be freeholders or householders In six years, however, again the restrictive clause wag revoked, and -.all freemen were once more voters', but in ’1846, it -was for the third time limited to freeholdrs. No .material change in the law of suffrage after this was made Until 1723, when the Assem bly fenidted'that “no free negro, mulatto, or In dian, whatever,’ shall have any vote at the elec-, tion of burgesses, or any other whatsoever.” As usual, the laws of this session were sent over for the review and approval of the Commissioners hf Trade and Plantations in England, and their legal adviser in unwritten report ion the above quoted restriction, said : cannot see why one should beused worse {hart another, merely upon account, of liis complexion”. Notwithstanding this opinion, the law was suf fered to femain as 'passed', and in its main fea tures'wasl retained untilafter the rebellion, al though an article written by:, that true, patriot, George; Mason, and prefixed to the Virginia Con stitution of .1776, declared: “ That ejections of' members to j serve 'as rep resentatives of -the people in the'‘Legislature ought to be-free, and* that all! having sufficient evidence of common interest with, and attach ment to the community,'have the right of suf frage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property'for public uses without ther own con sent, ortbat 1 of 1 their representatives so elected, norboundby any law to .which they have.not, in like tnannef, assented for the common good.” If I had not known your interest in such mat ters, I would not have troubled you to read these notfis. ! Yours truly,’' E. D. Neill. . .OEIGIN OF THE WESTEEN CHURCHES. A, veteran missionary, of the American Sunday School Union in Illinois-writes as follows : ■f‘ Some eight or ten years ago we had a mission ary in Western lowa who was very faithful and successful, apd planted many .Sunday-schools among the new and public settlements., He has been employed, "for the last two or three years, in a different relation, in organising churches in the same region. Being inquired ,of, respecting the Sunday-schools he formerly established there, whether he found them" stiH 'living,.an.d if churches had grown out of any of them, he ' re plied : * I think nine-tenths of our ministers in lowa, Missouri, Kansds, and Nebraska would find, if they inquired into the history of the churches to which they imnister, that the Sunday-school is to these churches What John the Baptist was to the Saviour—the fore-runner and herald that the foundation of their chur,che3 was laid a few year's ago by*some”inissioifisby of the Ameri can Sunday School Union, or else that they were aided by that Society” He gave many facts con firmatory of this position, and added, ‘I ■ hope that the friends of the American Sunday School Union will come, up promptly and liberally to their help, and enable them to enter in’ 1 at once the land.’ ” Another Famine in India; —ln the Raj pootana and gome other districts of India, the failure of the; rains has caused a recurrence of •the horrible scenes of 1859 and 1866. Natives have; been known to , sell /.their • children- ior - a irupee to buy rice, -which - now buys but :twelve, where once it bought forty pounds. There is -food neither for man nor beast. The-. Mission bungalows are besieged by beggars, and they can neither in prudence be supplied, nor in .mercy turned away. - Children • are' offered to the or ;phanages and - missions to'save, them, from death by- starvation. • REFEREED CITY ITEMS. A Young Men’s Home —An influential meeting of citizens was-heid recently, in the ;par lor of-the; Continental Hotels to devise, moans for the erection of a “Toting. Men’s H'ome” in this city. JohalVelsh, Esq , presided. F.'Rl'Starr, “Esq., Urged the' erection of a building capable of accommodating one hundred aiid fifty boarders. He’ especially urged*the claims of.the boot-hlacks. and news-boys., For these and for other classes of young men, now neglected in a city that,seems to care-for' every other class'in nefed of an asylum, a 'home' in reality, net merely a'cheap-stopping place, should be provided, and he suggested; the outlay of $50,000 in its erection,fand, ;the .ap pointment of a board of lady, managers fori its control. Rev.,Phillips Brooks testified from his mihisterihl experietace among 1 yohn°- men! that there was an absolute need of .such anlnstitUtiou, 'in which the young-men might be surrounded by such unseciamn, jet Christian . influence,., as to save from moral ruin a class whose moral well being is so essential to that ot'the community.; It would keep many out of o'ur prisons; it wonld' 'bring 'many within the'reach of I 'the 'Church; He- was ready to do all in his power. Dr. New ton thought a home would,be.invaluable, and that,sljp,pop.-,80 spent would be well spent, Sev eral other speakers addressed the. meeting, and it was' ; ‘ '‘Resolved, That the’establishment of sWch i a hodic for young men as is proposed isi an''object worthy of the warm interest and supports, of the ;citizens of?Philadelphia,)anp that- we commend 5,t to the directors to .make such .efforts in its be half as may seem to them advisable. !f —In the other branch, we observe that a call ' tendered f-o the 'highly' successful 1 pdstor i>f pjo- ! ’hhoksihk'chui'oK* Rev: S.' A/ Mutchm6re,'-by : the' Secon'd' 1 'church^Baltimore, 1 was virtually with-' drawn, , by that church, inn, ithe> great religious interest existing in the Cohock-' sink church at present, and the peril of interfer ing with pastoral relations at such a time. *1 ho Cohocksink church were ready to protest most earnestly against the removal off their pastor, and are greatly pleased with the termination of the affair. At a meeting held in the Cohocksink church nearly 85,000 were promptly subscribed to pay off the floating debt, and the ingathering of new members promises to be large. It is now one of the most prosperous churches in the ’city, i ' : Persecution in Brazil. —The 0 St Presbytery of Rio Janeiro in May last organized a fourth church in Lorena, some seventy miles from the capital. Daily services were held from Nov. Ist to Nov. 13th. and eight persons were received to membership on examination, the following Sun day being fixed for the communion. The vicar of the place then laid a complaint before the Prefect, who refused to entertain his irrelevant charges, and detailed a guard, at the missionary’s request, to protect-their place of worship!' After the evening service, wh’en both guards and hear ers had been dismissed, the latter were suddenly assailed :by a mob of Romanists, beaten, wounded, cursed, and one of them left for dead. The ministers were especially sought after, but es caped unhurt as by a miracle: , Activity in Ceylon.— By means of native agents the Scriptures are beitig'carried into the remotest villages, and many persons are sold. In this work,, native Christians of all Protestant denom inations, besides increasing their contributions in money, cordially unite. Mr. Sanders speaks of oyer 11,000 persons visited in his district, out of a population 0f40,000. Thus thoroughly is the good'seed sown. One ofthe, native churches holds service b,at half a day on-the Sabbath, and the remainder of the day. the men go out, two by two, to labor with the unconverted, while the women assemble to engage in prayer for God’s blessing otrthe e efforts' of the. men. • gfcfoij d! Hue Sliurritfs. [Deferred Items!] Rev. T. E. Davies. —The pastoral relation ex isting between this gentleman and the church of Mechanicsville, was dissolved by'mutual request ■at a special meeting of Albany Presbytery, Jan. 11th. He has accepted .a call to the Cougrega tional church.of Unionville, Conn. Rev. S. B. Sherrill has removed from Meri den, N. Y., to Bellevue, Huron county, O'. Rev. Alex .'iff: Yoiciiff,6f N. S. parentage,,-and a graduate: of Lane Seminary in 1862, but now in charge of the O. S. chnrch of South . Salem, 0., was unanimously,-called, Jan. 17, to the .pas torate of our church in Oxford, O. Rev. IFot! C. Rankin's post-bffice is changed from Plymouth, 111., to Quincy. Rev. E. M. Halbert's post office address is changed from Warsaw, Benton Co., Mo, to. Lin coln, Benton Co. He is still stated supply of the Sunny Side church, in that'county. Rev. Jim Fix« de liuystcY. late ofthe Holland Presbyterian church of Milwaukee, Wis., has re ceived a: call from the Presbyterian church of Holland, Sheboygan Co., and entered upon his new field of labor. 4 ' , Rev. Mi. Post, of Oswego, N. T., has been elected pastor of the church made vacant by the removal of Mr. Van de Luyster. , . Rev. Mr. Ellers has entered on the work of a missionary, among the Hermans in Milwaukee with much encouragement. Rev. A. H. Sloat has become pastor of the church on Hayes street, San Francisco, in place of Rev. I. N. Hurd, who is at/present preaching in the church at the Potrero in .that city. , Rev. T. E. Taylor, of the church at Virginia City, has been obliged, by the state of his health, to leave his work "in 'that piaffe. He is now making a* trip in the' Southern counties. Sunny Side. —At their recent annual visit, the friends of Rev. John S Rucon, Amboy, N. Y., benefited him to the amount of pearly three hun dred dollars in cash., ’‘ ’ 1 S«nny Side. —The people of our church in Stotie Ran k , * Wis:, • visited 'Rev.. Wm. Rmmm ond January 6th, and, contributed. $llO to his tem poral welfare.—The church in Newton, Ind., visited Rev. S. R. Ring on New. Year’s day, and left him richer by $l5O, which his other charge in Rob Roy, Ind.,' increased to - $2OO. —In 9he Maryville, ( Gal.y Appeal, -Dr. McKaig presents his grateful acknowledgments “ to many iriends, most of whom chose to remain incognito, for the many costly and invaluable tokens of kindness heaped upon myself and family the past week.” —Rev. Horace BushDfell.ofGreehwood, Ind., has had a visitation from; hisc'people which left him $55 the-richer. ... Educational, , Hamilton College—Alumni, Reunion.—-The Association of the Hamilton Coliege pri-aduates of New York, met last‘evening in the AstOr House. Prominent among'the Company were the Presi dent of the' College,Rt G;- Brown, D..D., LL.D., Gen. John Cochrane; - Gen; Joseph. R, Hawlev, Daniej Huntington,Prof. Theo. L. Dwight, Prof. Pomeroy, .the Rev.' Dr. Joel Parker, Edwiu Litchfield, the Rev: Dr. Hastings, Col. Emmons Clark, and others. The Hon. Charles P. Kirk land-presided —The N. ,7. Sun of Jan..2B. r Union ■Seminary.— Prof.. A-, H., Guyot, of '? r^ c ? (o ( n >will deliver a course of eight lectures, duriug the month of March, before this Seminary. His subject is “ Man' Primeval.” The ■'lectures are open foMthe public, and will consti tute- the regulartannual course on “The Relations of 1 to fche Sciences,” secured to the Se minary by the lectureship founded several years of. Rev. jedidiah Morse, D.D-i by hid ion,"'Prof. Mbrse. ’ It'ds expected that the 1 lectuTes 'of "Prof. Giiyot will l be-published. .•” Western Reserve College. —ln the steady growth of; this institution a new professor has just been added to the former numbei,,Rev. Edward W. Morley has taken the . Chair of Chemistry and Naturhl History. Mr. Morley- is a graduate ot Williams College, of the class of 1860. He stud led theology at Andov,er. ;fle was occupied a year.,during the -war in,the;Christian Commission. Ihe remainder of his time, since graduation, has beeu dpyoted to study ah£ ibaijhing. : More than three-fourths oftheCollegesthdents are profes- , sors of religion* and a.'.good proportion have in V (M fche ' Ghfis^ian ’ mins^ry.—^ Cor, of The Her- j
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