3:puritan ErolOttian.
THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1809
REV. JOHN W. MEARS, D. D., Editor.
No. 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
THE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE.
Rev. Z. M. Humphrey, D.D., Pastor of Calvary
Church.
Rev. Herrick Johnson, D.D., Pastor of the First
Church.
Rev. Danl. Starch. D.D., Pastor of Clinton St.
Church.
Rev. Peter Stryker, D.D., Pastor of N. Broad
St. Church.
Rev. George F. Wissvell, D.D., Pastor Of Green
Hill Church.
Rev. E. E. Adams, D. D., Prof.] in Lincoln En'.
versity.
.Rev. Samuel IV. Duffield, Special Cor
respondent.
Mr. Robert E. Thompson will continue to
act as Editor of the News Department.
Correspondents in every Presbytery and Sy
nod will promptly furnish us with fresh items of
news from their respective fields.
161 - China from a Christian Standpoint,
Concluded, by Rev. V. D. Collins, Florida and
the Floridians, 11, Letter from Harrisburg,
Missionary Strategy, by Mr. Wilder, TeMper
ance Items, Page 2d.; Editor's Table, Literary
_ltems, American and Foreign, Page 3d. Sunset
at Eighty-Six, (Poetry), by S. B. J., Sympa
thy, Playing Temperance -Meeting, Nervous
Babies, Lessons on Paul, Xll., Good Old
Hymns, Protection from Lightning, Keraunog
graphy, Page 6th. Religious Intelligence, Re
formed Churches, Episcopalian, Congregational,
Baptist, Church of the Brethren, Methodist,
Page 7th.
REV. A. M. STEWART, our popular correspon
dent, has been permitted by a kind Providence
to revisit Philadelphia and vicinity, and to receive
the warm congratulations-of his friends after his
long absence. During . his stay in more Western
cities, he has given to the public a resume of his
varied and interesting experience, in the form of
a lecture, in his own - fresh and graphic style.
Mrs. Swisshelm, who heard the lecture, says to
the Pittsburg Commercial :
It is a long time since I knew that the Ameri
can people know very little about this continent,
and last evening I discovered that I myself
knew nothing about it. Fol., listening to the
lecture of Chaplain Stewart, delivered in Ex
celsior Hall, Allegheny, I was profoundly im
pressed by my superior claims to the title of
know-nothing ; and, from the intense interest
manifested by the audience, conclude that I was
not alone in the conviction that there is a good
deal to be discovered about the discoveries of
Columbus, and that the civilized world has just
entered upon the work.
The lecture will be deliiered in West Ches
ter on Monday next.
—While other denominations are content with
our public school system, and sustain it heartily
as a means of harmonizing and Americanizing
while universally educating our youth, the rest
less and exclusive Roman Catholics are working
to break it up, and to get a grant of the school
fund for their own use. A bill, which it is said
was drawn up by the priests, is before the New
York legislature, making it obligatory upon the
authorities in any city in which a free school
containing not less than two hundred children has
been established, to make provision from year to
year for the expenses of such schools. Such:a
measure would, virtually, redistribute the whole
school fund and break up the system; for it is
not to be supposed, that Protestant denomina
tions would consent to the exclusive :enjoyment
of public moneys by Romanists, and if each de
nomination claimed a share, little or nothing
would remain for general purposes. We presume
the bill is too bare-faced to pass.
—To-day, as we have every reason to believe,
the murderer, Twitchell, will meet his deserved
doom. With all that sympathy, which it is but
natural to give to a fellow-creature meeting such
a miserable end, we cannot but express our satis
faction at the fidelity of Governor Geary and of
the Courts, inferior and superior, to their plain
and solemn duty, in spite of the most persever
ing efforts to defeat the ends of justice. . The
feeling of personal safety in the community is
weak enough as it is; this no time for failure or
hesitancy in enforcing the full penalty of the law
upon such as are plainly guilty of the most atro
cious crimes. It was Bentham who uttered a sen
timent which some Christian editors seem fond of
quoting : " The worst use you can put a man to,
is to hang him." Let us rather say the worst use
you can put society to, is to create a public senti
ment of leniency to great crimes.
Andrew Johnson is speaking without much re
serve among his old friends and showing how
scanty must have been his loyalty at a time when
his professions were lofty and the public confi
dence unquestioning. Speaking of the debt con
tracted during the war, he said :
" I would to God that the Government had not
[had] the credit to borrow a dollar to carry on war.
Thank God, my honors have not been gained
through blood."
Dar Rev. M. B. Smith, late Associate Editor,
to The Protestant Chierchman, has written a
letter to Bishop Potter announcing his withdraw
al from the P. E. Church, because he can no
longer, with a good conscience, subscribe to her
formularies. •
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1869.
NOW AND THEN; OR, THEN AND NOW.
ED. PRESBYTERIAN :—A few days since, a
friend called my attention to a letter written by
one Rev. J. Leighton Wilson, Secretary of the
Southern Presbyterian Freedmen's Board, to the
Rev. S. A. Logan, Secretary of the 0. S. Pres
byterian Freedmen's Board, in which a para
graph, one fourth of a column long, is-especially
devoted to a comparison of the moral and reli
gious development of the black race South be
fore the Emancipation, with that claimed for
them now. The Rev. gentleman commences by
saying that they have " sadly deteriorated ;"
that they will not go to church ; that the" " ma
rital relation" is frequently violated; that they
are not so " orderly or respectful" (to whites)
its when in slavery; and, in a style which would
do credit to the moral and virtuous Mr. Peck
sniff, winds up by declaring his confident belief
that if the (now) freed-people had remained (in
slaiery) 'with their former " friends and spiri
tual guides," (1. e., their former masters,) they
" would, at this present moment, have been in
the enjoyment of richer privileges than they
can reasonably hope to enjoy anywhere else."
Now, I do not remember. having seen the
Rev J. Leighton Wilson in :the flesh, nor do I
remember ever having seen him "in print"
more than two or three times;_ but, from `the
tone of his letter, and from his (tome) perfect
ly familiar use of the SOuthern cant phrases,
"separation from us ;" "their'extravagant ex
pectations in regard to freedom ;" the' evil
counsels of unprincipled white men;" "'their
idleness," and " their improvidence," I can
tell just as well who the Rev. Wilson is, and
what his principles are, as Sam Guzzle's wife
can identify the aforesaid Samuel, even in thick
est darkness, by his drutricen footsteps and the
smell of liquor. The paragraph froti.t which I
have quoted would adorn any chapter in ,the
quondam slaveholder's prophecy of the
; evils of
freedom for the black race ; even beats Parson
Brownlow before the, devil of slavery was exor
cised from him, and he became a convert to
Christian liberty. The "pious view" of the
"patriarchal institution," which. Bro. Wilson
presents with such emotional fullness, is one
with which even sensible Southern men never
had any patience, and which, by the less devout
champions of the system, Was, perhaps irrever
ently, styled " stuff." There was a notable
manliness in John Randolph's cutting reply to
the Northern dough-face, that he " envied nei
ther the head nor the heart of the man who tried
to justify slavery from principle.", 'lt was not
only disgusting, but, as Tom Loker, in Uncle
Tom's Cabin, says, " it's sheer, dog. meanness ;
wanting to cheat the devil and save your own
skin."
Now, let us notice the main points in the
Rev. gentleman's letter, seriatim. He says that
they have " sadly deteriorated." In the name
of common sense, let me ask, in , what 1' Does he
mean in point, of property ? Who does not
know that the alive could own neither house nor
land, nor ox, nor ass, nor a single article in the
whole range of things, real or personal. Not
even his wife and children, or his own - flesh and
blood and bones and brains, belonged to him,
and his master would have laid claim to his soul,
had it been of any pecuniary value.
Has he deteriorated in education and knowl
edge ? Who is so ignorant that he does not
know that,. in every slave State, - the !pos i t :rigid
laws were enacted to prevent "slaves from learning
even the alphabet, and to punish, by heavy fines
and imprisonment, any person who might be
found guilty of imparting to them any knowledge
of letters ? Let the prison walls, of the South
answer whether these laws were rigidly enforced.
No Southern man was regarded as orthodox on
the slavery question, who, dared to countenance
teaching slaves even the simplest rudiments, of
science. Brute ignorance was considered .the
slave's normal condition. Does the Rev. J.
Leighton Wilson know 'these facts, or has be
just awakened from a Rip Van Winkle sleep ?
Will he not please rub his eyes, and take a good
look around, before he takes up the quill ?
But, the Rev. gentleman complains that
" Sam and Andy" will not go to ehurchincor
rigible fellows. Let me ask why they will not
go ? In the first place, " old marse" has come
out of. the war with no carriage to drive, and
possibly the aforesaid S. and A.., who never
could exactly understand the story of " Onesi
mus," and who always did get " fairly riled "
over that most popular of Southern sermons,
"Cursed be Canaan," now that they are not
obliged to carry the " old boss " and family to
meeting, prefer to go and hear ",old pap Caesar,"
or Uncle Bob, with his glowing image'ry, preach
about the "glorious'day of jubilee" which has
already come, is well as about the still more glo
rious day which is yet to come. No- wonder
that there has been a slim attendance of sable
worshippers in the galleries of Southern churches
since freedom came.
But the cool impudence, to say nothing of the
unblushing falsehood, which the Rev. Nilson
brings to the consideration of the " marital rela
tions" of the former slaves; is decidedly refresh
ing. Brigham Young on polygamy, and " Andy
Johnson on the Constitution," are both thrown
completely in the shade. " Marital relations,"
indeed. When, during the entire existence of
that most villainous, withering, blighting, God
defying, and, I had almost said, hell-deserving
curse of American slavery, was there ever sol-
emnized a legal marriage between two of its vic
tims, or one which, before any law of the State
or of the United States, was regarded as worth a
rye straw ? Perhaps throughout the entire cata
logue of villainies connected with slavery, there
was none more accursed, in the sight of God and
man, than the total disregard (by the master) of
the sacredness of the marriage -tie. The law vir
tually compelled every slave woman to be a con
cubine, to say nothing of the master's unlimited
power to force her to become a partner to his
lice n ti ousness . What though, notwithstanding
the loose mockery called marriage, the poor and
outraged couple had vowed between themselves
to be true and constant'? Was it not in the
power of the master.and was it not the general
practice, to separate them, with as little regard
for their marriage vows as though they ha&been
literally beasts of burden ? To those unques
tionable and undeniable facts touching theslave's
" marital relations," add the other equally well-
knovin fact that nearly every Southern planter's
house was a harem, whose victims failed tore=
ceive the humane treatment common' even among
the Oriental voluptuaries, and there need twilling
further be said about regard for the sanctity, of
marriage during the , days of slavery.
That the freed:people are more moral and re
ligious than when in slavery; that they are more
virtuous in every sense of the word) . that, there
are comparatively- few cases of ;inconstancy be
tween married couples ; that .they , are, as a geb
eral thing,'sober andfindustrious ; that theilitee
ally hunger and thirst after education,. that they
have a full sense of the obligation M . they owe
to their former " friends and spiritualiguides;"
and thitt theit growing intelligence has taught
them to regaid the Southern " sanctuary" as a
cess-pool of iniquity; no one with tithe of that
" common honesty" of, which the Rey. Wilson
prates so loudly, an'd of which he claims so..niuch
for him Self„ no one can possibly deny. The
" unprincipled white men" to whom he alludes,
are those who have gathered the freedmen togeth
er in schools and church es,and ,are en deavoringto
point the to the , way to :a higher and better
life.
In conclusion I haVe to thank the Rev. J.
Leighton Wilson for writing, and the Any. S.. C.
Logan for giving to the press, this .letter,
inas
much as it fairly shows to what straits ,. even• a
learded.Southein divine is driven' for argument
for further oppression Of the negie. ,
• - .
O. M. WARING
WINCHEST }t, ' VA., Mareit,24, 1809.
IjELIGIOUS PRESS,
The Christian Herald comments on, the re
cent action oflithe Pastors' Association: of this
city, on reunion, which, as our readers remember,
was based a good , deal upon the views of our Co
,
temporary, The. Presbyterian.. Thq . lierald says:
" The journal' referred to represents the views
and feelings of only a portion of its' own Church,
and to propose that we discard• the advice of our
own Committee, because one dyspeptic Old School
Editor is not quite satisfied with it,•seems to us
not very wise and`' dignified in itself, and not very
courteous to our fifteen brethren."
•
The Independent comments on the announce
ment of various elaborate courses
,of study to be
pursued in the Methodist Seminary at:Boston,
this year;'they aro: atriennial.course, a quadren
nial course, a missionary course, and two addl.
tial courses, besides various special branches.
Students are to be accommodated who ; wish, to
pursue Arabic and Syrian,' and even Talmudic
Hebrew and Samaritan. The Independent says :
When tint' readers learn I .
. that leo
..
tures on Christian Halieutics" and "Keryktics "
are delivered to the missionary' classes, he will
believe that the Methodist world moves, and is
bonnd to fill lip that which was behind in the
education of its earlier preach'ers. We owe our
readers an explanation of these two'W.brds " Hali
eutics " and 1 " Kerykticsl" . They 'puzzled our
Greek ; but we have, we humbly trust, mastered
them. The latter would be spelled Cerycties by
ordinary logo' lasts, or 'Keryktiks by Greek pu
rists, and is derived from ,a Greek word meaning
preaching. The word Hatieutics is translated in
the report as.lhe "theory of missionary . labor,"
and is,
as we .have discovered, derived from a
Greek word meaning "salt-water fishing." Please
remember - that Christ's disoiples were to be
" fishers of men," and we have the Itey to this
trope thus reduced to a scientific term. " Hall
elides " is " salt-Water fishing."
Rev. R. M. Hatfield of Chicago,, in last week's
independent, writes strongly and wholesomely on
Women's Rights. He considers the statements
in regard to the present sphere of woman and
her compensation, as having some truth, with a
good deal of exaggeration. He
" Inclines to the belief that about one-h,alf of
all the work needed in the world lies within the
limits of domestic and feminine avocations."
- He adds
I have made observations on my own ac
count, and consulted gentlemen who are in the
best positions for understanding this question,
and am led to the conclusion that the men in
Chicago wbo are to-day seeking opportunities to
earn a comfortable living, without being able to
find them,.outnumber the women who are in the
same condition by two or three to one. And
a hat is true of Chicago is probably true, of most
of the cities of our country.
After a view of the Scripture argument as to
woman's position, he says:
The experience of the world has confirmed the
truth that woman finds not only safety, but honor
and usefulness, in the discharge of the domestic
and maternal duties. Other things being equal,
that is the beststate of society in which there
are the most .inarriages and the largest number of
children. It is sometimes sneeringly said that
daughters are educated for matrimony, and with
a view to their settlement in life. If they are,
they are trained as they should be—for the hon
orable position for which they are designed in
the providence of God. It is not to the discredit
of any mother that she desires to see her daugh
ters suitably married. Nor is any young woman
disparaged by the fact that she hopes one day to
be the loved and trusted wife of a noble, large
hearted man.
The Christian lntelligencer, on the woman ques
tion, justly condemns the
False discrimination which regards an aimless,
purposeless, idle character as proper in a woman,
whilst it withholds its approval from similar de
velopments in the other sex, so 'that • practical
wrong is done in denying opportimities of .use
fulness to woman. This vicious 'public opinion
justifies a-life of vanity in fashionable ladies, And,
to be consistent, it must condemn any effort to
lead an gamest, active life as disreputable. To
have it said, 'that a young lady earns her living,
is to: utter a sentence of banishment from the Flo
eial circles to-which she would otherwise ; he ad
mitted. This ig, wrong,,and a grievous one.
Gran'te - d, there are social distinctions .Which are
'based'upon variety 'of occupation's, and although
all honest callings are honorable, they are not all
on a footing of social equality. • •It may be pre
sumed that a,,lady ; will,.select employment that
befits her sex and her associations; but,, why
should it be less reipeetablefor her - to 'teach` than
for her brothOr 'tit be leficher ? 'Wherein-does
she justly forfeit the regard of her by
• putting'her, superior accomplishments to a prac
-deal use .
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The same paper is responsible for the follow
ing statement : •
There is a, very significant fact, confirmed by
statistics Which - are within reach, that in cases
requiring college discipline (and such "instances
are to be expected in the student's curriculum),
more. encouragement is given to the insubordina
tion of which complaint is, made, and less hearty
support is accorded to measures adopted to cor
rect the evil on the part' of ministers of the gos
pel; than any other' class. In other words," law.
yers, phySicians, merchants, farmers, etc., are
usually more disposed ,to acquiesce cheerfully
than those whose office invests them with the
,highest anthoritY alloted to man on earth.
Strange as thiS may 'seem, it is a fact, neverthe
less; and We•think - it can be accounted for on
the grotnid-that ininisters are more sensitive to
any disgraceful imputation than any other class ;
and it is right that they should be ; but the fact
proves the tendency to overlook the paramount
obligation of law, and the necessity of always in
sisting on prompt obedience.
The New York Tablet sees in the Methodist
Episcopal Church the most formidable- antago
nist. of American - Romanism, but prophesies the
ruin of that Church. It says
The real enemies to us among Protestant sects
in this country, are the Methodists, admirably
organized for:aggression, and who, in their ap
peals. to the Animal nature and sensible devotion,
acquire-no little . power over the, sensitive, the ig
norant, and the superstitious. They, however,
are laying the foundation of their own ruin. They
are becoming wealthy, are building fine churches,
founding colleges and theological seminaries, and
are taking their place among the respectable sects
of the country. A strong party among theM,
almost a majority, are struggling to • introduce
lay representation in their Conferences, and they
are not unlikely to succeed. These things will
gradually work their ruin. They are
- ruined the
moment they lose sight of the pobr, the igno
rant, and the neglected, and-pride themselves on
having large, wealthy, and fashionable congrega
tions. The poor are Worth more than the rich.
FROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT.
THE HARVEST
Last Sabbath was communion .in the Central
church of this, city. Fifty-two were added'to its
membership by profession, and eleVen by letter
—sixty-three in all. It will be remembered that
only one year ago, this church dismissed eighty
. , •
two members. at one time r to form the 'Westmin
ster church: But the additions since made have
restored its :numbers to what' they-were, seven
hundred strong. - • •
To-morrow the communion Service occurs in
Dr. Shaw's church, when about one hundred and
sixty, in all, are to be received to its fellowship,
when its entire!membership will be about twelve
hundred and fifty.
We continue to receive good accounts of the
blessed work now in progress in BuffSlo. The
union services of our three churches, in the cen
tral part of the city, still continue, with marked
encouragement. The meetings are carried''on
'without foreign aid, the preaehing being done by
the pastors.
The work seems also to be moving on in Lock
port. Churches and pabtors are generally united in
it. Quite a number have been down from this city,
to bear witness to God's goodness so wonderfully
manifested here, and also to lend a helping hand
in the prayer and inquiry meetings.
The Lord has been also doing.great things for
them in Attica. It is estimated that some sixty
or seventy conversions have occurred. Rev. Mr.
Wicks; of the Presbyterian church is almost
worn out with hard work.
Like reports come to us from Fredonia, Fay
etteville, and New York Mills, some thirty or
forty indulging hope in each place. In Fredonia
the work is mostly among the children and youth,
though some adults are included. In Fayette
ville aboys' prayer-meeting seems to be doing
much good. Older persons, and some whose
walk has not alWays been exemplary, have been
attracted to it. One man was broken completely
down by hearing the voice of his own son in the
meeting. It was the means of bringing to
Christ. .
MEXICO
We recently had the pleasure of spending a
Sabbath in Mexico—not Juarez's 31exico, but
Trio: Weed's Mexico, which is a pretty iillage in
Oswego countY. Two Years ago it 'was an out-bf:-
the-way place, but now it is just as near the,
earth's'centre as any other,' for .it has, a rail Way
right along one side of it, that which leads from
Syracuse to Rome.
And here, about ten miles from the Lake, in a
beautiful farming country, is this village of two
thousand inhabitants, the centre of considerable
domestic trade and some home manufactures. The
Presbyterian church numbers two hundred and
thirty members. They have a very pleasant
house of worship ; at least it was made so by
extensive repairs, repainting, frescoing, carpeting
and the like, in the last year; and on the Sab
bath it contains a large and intelligent congrega
tion, pleasant to look upon, ankpatient to hear.
Rev. Thomas A. Weed has been their pastor
for twenty-one years. Though his record and
his wisdom may put him quite among the patri
archs; yet he gives no other sign of advancing
years. He has one of those natures that never
grow old; genial, hopeful, happy whether or no;
just as any devoted servant of Christ should be.
- .His church has prospered under his ministry,
and he has grown up with it ; a beautiful illus
tration of the blessedness of the permanent pas
torate. •
We saw quite a suggestive device in their
Pleasant Sabbath.schoolroom; the likenesses of
several .children hung together in frames upon
the wall, with the words, "Over the River,"
wrought in evergreen above the group. Surely,
it, should suggest to every scholar who looks
upon it, that it were worth while so to live as to
get over the river:
AT, WORK
-The yoUng ladies of the Presbyterian church
in Corning, Rev. Dr. Niles', recently held a
festival at as h' in ton Hall, for the purpose of
raising money to complete paying for the organ.
We understand it was quite a success.- A New
England supper, of the olden time, was served
by._ ,waiters clothed in antique fashions, and
speaking in the regular Yankee twang. Tableaux
and music added to the - enjoyment and success
of the' occasion. They are always doing some
thing in Corning. y ' •
The Auburn Journal (a first-rate, sensible, re
liable paper, by the way), has begun publishing
brief reports of the Sabbath sermons of "the
various clergymen of that city. One. from the
Rev, • Dr. Hawley of the First church, on the
Power of Faith ; another' from Rev. Henry Fow
ler of the Central, church, on the Deity. of
Christ, are published. this "week.: We are glad
to know what our brethren are about down there;
and glad the Jaurnaiis adding so much valu
able reading to its lexcellent columnso Perhaps
it may suggest to those esteemed ministers,, that
they must now do their best• every Sabbath, as
their congregations are so much enlarged.
PERSONAL.
The Presbyterian church of New York. Mills
has,called Rev. V. Leroy Lockwood, of Durham,
and hope to, get him for their pastor. Rev.
D. W. Marsh of this city is supplying the
church for the present.
Rev. Dr. Campbell, of the Central church of
this city, is to sail this day for Florida. He
takes his vacation now, instead of waiting for the
summer, and embraces the oportunity to visit
his invalid
. daughter, at St. Augustine, where
she has spent the winter. He hopes to bring
her back with him about the first of May.
Rev. Dr. Condit of Auburn is still most ac
ceptably supplying the First Presbyterian church
of this city.
And this reminds us that the types made us
express a most'cruel wish for this church last
Week; to wit, that they might be disappointed-in
getting Dr. Mcllvaine . We wrote , or intended
to write,
,that "we hoped that they were not to
be disappointed." But that cruel slippery "not"
drokied out somewhere. G - ENESEE.
Rochester, April 3, 1869.
ENLARGEMENT OF OUR FREEDMEN'S
What is our Church doing for the Freedmen ?
has been asked for years. " As a Church, noth
ing,"—was the uniform answer. The fact was
Mortifying ; and, in view of the vastness of the
,
work 'to be done, and th 'energetic efforts of
others, mournful.
What is our Church doing for them now ?
God be praised l—we have begun to work, and
to do what we can. Last November, our Home
Mission' Committee issued an Appeal for preach
ers and teachers, places and contributions. In
response to this Appeal, six excellent bretlirenn=
ministers of our Church, offered their . services,
and have been sent as Ne'ssionaries to the Freed
men of South Carolina. They have found more
work than they can do, are doing what they can,
and will soon be organized, with one or two more
brethren previously in the field, as a .Presbyter:y.
Another preacher has been sent into Tennessee.
Two large colored churches with their 'pastors,
in Tennessee and South Carolina,Were previous
ly under the care of the Committee. The gather
ing of several churches 'will immediately follow
the organization of the Presbytery.
Not less than seventy Teachers, mostly of a
high order, and thoroughly devoted to their
work, have been commissioned in response to
numerous applicationi for teachers and places.
At two 'of our mission stations, valuable proper
ties have been purchased, at reasonable rates,
greatly to the advantage of the work. Many
more missionaries and teachers are now called
for, and could be profitably employed.
The growth of the" . work has been entirely
providential. The hand of `God has been so
distinctly seen in its progress, that the Commit
tee could not hesitate to go forward. They' were
"fully authorized and urgently desired," by the
last; Assembly, "to go forward in this Wert(
boldly and swiftly;" and, as the servants Of the
Church, they have endeavored to fulfill the 'ex
pectations of the Church and do their bidding.
But they can go no further, without large and
liberal contributions Appeals hav,e 'been sent
to individual pastors' and elinicties tbroughout
our bounds. As yet the returns are sMall. In
a few instances, the. support' of a teacher ($350)
WORK.