gintritait Eroligtitiatt.
THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1809
REV. JOIN W. MEARS, D. D., Editor.
2tio. 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
THE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE.
Rev. Z. H. Humphrey, D.D., Pastor of Calvary
Church.
Rev. Herrick Johnson, D.D., Pastor of the First
Church.
Rev. Danl. March. D.D., Pastor of Clanton St.
Church. •
Rey. Peter Striker, D.D., Pastor of N. Broad
St. Church.
Rev. George F. Wiswell, D.D., Pastor of Green
Kill Church.
Bev. E. E. Adams, D. D., Prof.] in Lincoln 'Uni
versity.
Rev. Samuel IF. 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.
air A Covenanter Communion, by " On the
Wing," Presbytery of Cayuga on Re-union,
_Harrisburg Presbytery, Useless Ministers, page
2d; Editor's Table, Owen and Darwin, News
of our churches—Presbyteries, page 3d; _Mem
bers of the Sorrowful (Poetry), Miscellany for
the Family, Lessons on Paul, XV., Are we
Christ's? by T. L. Ginter, &c., page 6th; Re
l'gious intelligence, page 7th.
FULLER INFORMATION of Presbyteries voting
on Reunion enables us to report the action of
eighty one of the one hundred and eleven be
longing to our Assembly. Of these, forty-eight
vote with no material additions or qualifications,
to approve of the Joint Committee's Basis as
amended by our part of the Committee.
They are as follows, arranged in the order of
the Synods : Champlain, Utica, Onondaga, Cay
uga, Cortland, Tioga, Geneva, Chemung, Wells
boro', Chenango, Genesee, Hudson, North River,
Long Island, New York Third, New York Fourth,
Brooklyn, Newark, Montrose, Philadelphia 4th,
Harrisburg, Dist. Columbia, Erie, Meadville,
Kalamazoo, Grand River Valley, Trumbull,
Cleveland and Portage, Franklin, Cincinnati,
Hamilton, Indianapolis, Greencastle, Crawfords
ville, St. Joseph, Illinois, Schuyler, Ottawa, Chi
cago, Bloomington, Milwaukie, Fox River, Dubu
que, Mankato, St. Louis, Omaha, Union, Hol
ston.
Eleven vote for the Committee's amendments
but express greater or less readiness to unite on
the standards alone : Ontario, Coldwater, De
troit, Gal. and Belvidere, Monroe, Pataskala,
Wabash, Bochester, Dayton, Genesee Valley,
Rockaway.
Huron adopts the amendments, but is ready for
the basis of the standards alone, reserving the
right to deal with Congregational churches on its
rolls.
Maumee approves the Amendments, but de
sires that the Second Article be made more
clearly advisory rather than mandatory.
Minnesota votes for the Amendments, or for
any basis not conflicting with the one already
adopted.
Ripley approves of the Amendments, and con
sents to any other plan that may be adopted.
Salem approves of the Amendments, but gives
discretionary powers.
Scioto is for the Amendments, or for the Stand
ards alone, if three fourths of the Presbyteries
in both branches agree.
Troy is for the Standards, but refers emphati
cally to the omission of the Tenth Article, and
may, perhaps, be reckoned as voting for the Com
mittee's Amendments.
Seventeen in all approve the Committee's Amend
ed Basis with ct.nsiderable qualifying action; in
all but one case, Maumee, leaning towards the
" Standards pure and simple." Huron stands
by itself.
Eight vote for the old Basis, or for the Stand
ards : Buffalo, Columbus, Delaware, Lexington,
Niagara, Oswego, St. Lawrence, Wilmington.
Two—Logansport and Lyons—vote fOr the
Standards if three-fourths of the Assembly agree
to this basis.
Five adhere to the Basis of 1868: lowa City,
Ithaca, Catskill, Philadelphia Third, and Pitts
burg.
Leaving out Maumee and Huron, we have
twenty-six Presbyteries who may be regarded by
heir votes as ready for Reu Dion on the Standards
alone without further action of the Presbyteries.
Fifty-five either adhere to the Old Basis, or ac
cept the amendments, or wish other amendments
less likely to be acceptable to the other branch ;
and two who xequire a vote of three-fourths of the
Assembly or three-fourths of all the Presbyteries
in both branches, are ready to unite on the
Standards alone. There remain thirty Pres
byteries yet to hear from, whose votes if they
were all given for the Standards would put them
in a scant majority. It is probable, however, that
the Committee's Amendments will prevail. If
now the Presbyteries or the Assembly of the
other Branch should agree to the Basis as amend
ed by our Committee, the Reunion might take
place this spring. Otherwise it must be postponed.
—The .Presbyterian church of Chestnut Hill,
having been enlarged and repaired,was re-opened
for divine services on Sabbath, the 2d inst.
—The'Philadelphia Baptist Church Extension
Commission, at its second anniversary, the 31st
of March, raised $6,000 of the $14,000 needed
to buy two lots on which the First and Fifth
churches will build edifices for two new societies
to be organized.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1869.
NOTICE.
To Commissioners to the General Assembly
The following Rail Roads have consented to
return delegates free of charge who have paid
full fares over their lines:
Albany and Susquehanna R. R.
Buffalo and Erie R. R.
Belvidere and Delaware R. R.
Chicago, Alton and St. Louis R. R.
Cincinnati and Zanesville "
Central R. R. of New Jersey.
Cumberland Valley R. R.
Camden and Atlantic R. R.
Catawissa R. R.
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western R. R.
Danbury and Norwalk 'R. R.
Deli Moines Valley
Flint, Pisa, Marquette "
Grand Trunk R. R. of Canada.
Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Bay R. R.
Lake Shore Line.
Lehigh Valley R. R. . '
Lehigh and Susquehanna R. R. • ,
Michigan Southern, and North IRdiana R.,R.
Northern Central R R.
Ohio and Mississippi "
Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain It. R.
Oil Creek and Allegheny River . "
Penn. Central R. R. •,
Phila. and Erie "
Phila. and Reading R. R.
Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg R. R.
Raritan and Delaware Bay R. R.
South Side R. R. of Long Island.
Syracuse, Binghamton and N. Y. R. R.,
Toledo, Wabash and Western R. R. •
West Jersey R R.
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis R. R.
Erie Railway Co.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Co
Delegates coming via Philadelphia will be
furnished with excursion tickets at reduced rates
by the Camden and Amboy Rail Road Co.
OUR. EXOHANGEB.
The Christian _Herald, whose sentiments on
Reunion have been vaguely, and as we were in
clined to believe, indiscriminately, favorable to
Reunion, shakes off all nebulosity and appears
in the last number, in a far different attitude.
It now insists, as we have so long done, upon
the necessity of looking at the business aspects
of the case. It says:
"We think that all which needs to be under
stood between the two bodies about to be made
one, should be distinctly stated in a written docu
ment formally adopted by both. We repeat
that this is business, and it ought to be trans
acted in a business-like way. To, insist upon this
does not imply want of confidence in each other,
but it is the very best means of securing the
continuance of such confidence. Experience
teaches that this is so in negotiations between
individuals and, between business companies.
We think it equally ithportant between churches.
We believe that definite terms ,of reunion'
distinctly expressed in writing, and actually
adopted, must constitute the historic document
which will record the reunion of these two equal
and independent bodies, forming the one similar
body, which is to succeed them both, inheriting
all their powers, and all their resources, and all
their history." •
It concludes by advocating the Basis amended
by our Committee, as including the Standards
pura and simple. It does not, however, insist
that the understanding of the Committee, on lib
erty should be made part of the final action.
This we deem essential to a sound business trans
action.
The New York Observer writes pithily and
fairly upon the question agitated by our e
ceedingly conscientious Popish brethren in re
gard to our common school system. The con
scientious scruples on the subject not being
with as, we ought nototo be called to pay for
them. We should be conscientiously opposed to
supporting sectarian schools out of funds con
tributed to a public object, and therefore we
cannot be asked to provide out of the common
school fund for Popi§h schools. The Observer
says:
"It is often a very expensive luxury, this con
science. It has sometimes made it necessary to
part with houses, and lands, and money, and
friends and life. But the right man pays the
cost cheerfully when the claim is enforced. And
the Roman Catholic has his path of duty plain.
If his conscience forbids him to have his chil
dren educated in the schools of the State, he
must educate them elsewhere. This is a short
and easy method with the Roman question, and
then we may go one step further, and grant
that the Roman Catholic citizen may be exempt
from the State school tax, provided, 1. That he
has conscientious scruples against paying for the
support of the public schools, and provided, 2.
That he pays the same amount exempted to the
support of his own schools?" -
The Observer calls loudly for the formation of
an "Honest Man's Party." It has
"No hope from the politicians of the day.
Statesmen, Christians, men of character and in
telligence, who have long ago retired frot,
political circles in disgust, if not in despai
must come forth from their seclusion and say
the country. An honest man's-party must Iv
organized in every city and State of the Uniof,
and its power will be felt right speedily. In a
few short years it would redeem the land fr
corruption, and make democracy and republic
ism a praise and not a byword among the !la
tions of the earth." ~
SOUTH ST. CHURCH, received nine personslast
Sabbath, five by profession ; forty-six in all, in
the three communions, since Dr. Parsons' has
been in charge. •
—The reports of increase in the City churches
made to the Central Presbytery of Philadelphia
(O. S.), for the past year, show that Cohocksink
church received by profession of faith k 7s per
sons; Kensington church, 44; the Central
church, 44; Trinity, 34; Port Richmond, 27;
Spring Garden church, 24; North Tenth street,
23; Alexander church, 19; Hestonville, 18.
PROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT.
PRESBYTERY OF GENESEE
The annual meeting was held this week in At
tica. Rev. John Wickes of Attica, and Elder
Augustus Cordin of Batavia, were appointed
Commissioners to the General Assembly; Rev.
T. M. Hodgman and Elder David Lewis, Alter
nates. Rev. J. W. Hubbard of Le Roy was elected
Commissioner to Auburn Seminary for three
years, and Rev. T. S. Dewing of Pike, to fill a
vacancy for one year.
Since the last meeting of Presbytery, Rev. G.
S. Corwin has been installed pastor at East Pem
broke, and Re*. T. S. Dewing at Pike.
The Presbybry had already passed, with ap
probation, the Assembly's paper on reunion.
And now to comply with all possible conditions,
they unanimoisly adopted the two resolutions re
cently sent oz by our own Committee , of fifteen.
We were pirtienlarly interested in the calling
of the roll of the churches, to'kthi* Which had
complied withthe Assembly's recommendation in
regard. to the causes of benevolence.. "Have
you taken a 911ection for each 'one—have you
filled all the flanks .
?"- This 'was the question-of
the Stated Click, well 'put to 'each church, and
generally wellanswered.
Rev. J. Wilinbbard evidently niakej a good
'clerk, and lools after the 'business of the church.
We know som others who could !earn something
from his prormtnesS and efficiency. The Pres
bytery as evidently have a high appreciation of
his, services inthis regard, and so make him sole
Oommiyee loran the causes , of benevolence; and
churches are o be admonished ft they do not
remember alloidorsed by the General Assembly.
'A suitable inute was adopted on the recent
death of Re Alfred North, who was a member
of this bad He once preiched in Attica,
v c
where the Pr 3bytery convened.
P SBYTERY OF CAYUGA.
This body leld an adjoined meeting in Au
burn on Tue'ilay, 27th, for the purpose of ex
amining threi young men, seniors in Auburn
Seminary, wi a.view to their ordination as
Missionaries,China. Their names are, Henry
Loomis of F, etteville, Joseph L. Whiting of
Jasper, and Z. Sheffield of Gainesville.
Another o ~D. C. McCoy, of Clayton, 111.,
was to have b' n examined and ordained witti,his
classmates, a eisto go with them to the same
field; but hi resbytery in Illinois very justly
claimed the *vilege of ordaining him, out there,
as well for e moral influence of the service
among them Ives, as for their own gratification..
The exact ation was protracted, searching
and satisfac y. The young men, are among
the best• th the institution has for any field.
The ordinati I its to take place to-morrow even-
`nd Presbyterian church of Au
,. Clark, one of the Secretaries
ing, in the S
burn: Rev.
Board, and President McCosh,
ollege, are to participate in the
of the Ameri
of Princeton
service.
This is SOlll 'iiny unusual, and certainly very
encouraging D the missionary cause, when
four of tebect young men of such a school of
the prophetshonsecrate themselves,: together to
the work of prrying the gospel to the heathen.
Surely the pest wishes , and prayers of our
entire churc will follow them in such a noble
service; an we predict - for the Seminary a
higher . spiritality and prosperity, for giving so
much to sucla cause.
%CORNER STONE LAID
The conic-stone for: the .new, edifice of the
First Presbperian church of Auburn was laid,
with approp)ate ceremonies, on Wednesday, last,
at 4 P. M.: The new Lecture and: Sabbath-
schoolroomwas already finished, and occupied
last Sabbatlaby the congregation, Rev. Dr.. Haw
ley, the pincir, preaching a dedicatory sermon.
In this nevand commodious lecture room the
congregatin .and friends assembled at tho hour
appointed,;" Hon. William H. Seward, being
present ail occupying a seat on the left of, the.
desk."
The serices were . : reading of the 132 d Psalm
by the pa:or—prayer ,by Rev. Henry Fowler, of
the Cental church ; and address by Rev. Dr.
Condit. After the address, which was very
beautifuland highly appropriate to the, occasion,
the proe6sion moved to the spot where the stone
was toe laid, and around which ,a great con
course c citizens was gathered.
Theastor, Dr. Hawley, in a loud and distinct
voice, ad in a very impressive manner, repeated
the was :
" ()ler foundation can no man lay than that
is la4 l which is Jesus Christ."" . Ye are built
uponle foundation of the Apostles and proph
ets, jsus Christ Himself being the chief corner
stow" He then raised a hermetically sealed
boxin full view, of all present; stated its con
,
teul; placed it in the receptacle prepared for it ;
and as the stone was swung by the tackling to
itsplace, he said : " On behalf of the congrega
tio of the Fiist Presbyterian church of the city
ofAuburn, and in the name of the Father, and
q. the Son, aad of the Holy Ghost, I now lay
is corner stogie, for a building to be erected on
i tis groundond to be dedicated to the worship
f Almighty God, according to the forms of the
Presbyterian Church of the United States of
America."
A coneludi
W. Board=
prayer was offered by Rey. S.
of the Second church; benedic
tor, and the vast concourse of the
d. The walls of the main build
apidly. It is expected that it will
September next.
tion by the, p
people disper
Inc , are rising'
be enclosed b
The box de
tained : a co Li
losited under the corner-stone con
of the Bible; the Church Psalm
/ ion of ,Faith and Book of Disci-
Lnual of the First Church ; the
ourse by the, pastor on leaving the
lrch 7,1869; copies of the Auburn
Ir with the AMERICAN PRESBYTE
-VdiSt, and New York Observer,
Condit's address just delivered,
ady in type, and is published in
apers ; the Jubilee Memorial of
unty Bible Society; the city char
t was an interesting and memora-
The edifice is to be one of the fin
e.
Rev. Dr. Mcllvaine has declined
First church of this city. It is a
ist ; the Coot
pline ; the .11 .
Historical Di
old church
papers, Loge
RIAN, the E,
a copy of D
which was a
the Auburn
the Cayuga
ter, &c., &c.
ble occasion
est in the S
PERSONA
the call of t
great disappointment to many of the congrega
tion, as they had quite set their hearts on his re
turn. They must now look elsewhere.—Rev. T.
B. Hudson of North-East, has received a call to
the Presbyterian church of Clinton.—Prof. Up
son of Hamilton College, preached last Sabbath,
with great acceptance for the Central church of
this city.—Rev. Dr. Campbell arrived home,
from Florida, on Wednesday last, in good health
and spirits. He gave his people an admirable
talk on Wednesday evening, in regard to his trip
South. His invalid daughter did not return with
him, but is expected home in three or four weeks,
when the weather is a little warmer.
We have received and read with interest, a
pleasant and tender funeral sermon, by Rev. A.
L. Benton of Lima, on the death of Zachariah
Longyor, an aged and well known parishioner.
Text :i" Thou knowest not what a day may bring
,forth.'•' Subject: the Uncertain Future. Lesson :
be prepared for it. The sermon is.published by
the request of friends, and is well calculated to
do good.
Rocheater,, May 1, 1869
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.
DEAR AMERICAN :—The North, Wastprn Pres
byterian of this week quotes from my last com
munication to you, ami comments, in this un-
"The'writer belongs to that class of nominal
Presbyterians, who have had their c training out
side of' the Presbyterian Chntch and who,ihough
in the Church, have never inlly received its
doctrines. or approved of its government. Such
persons would be fir more at home in the Con
gregational Church where they had their birth
and training."
You, may .be sure NORTH-WEST opened his
eyes very widely at this piece of information ; he
having always labored under the impression that
he had had his "birth and training" in the
Presbyterian Church,,of which his parents were
attached members, and with which. alone he hag
ever had any connection of any sort. While,
therefore he has not the authority of any litera
.
ry institution for attaching a D. D. to his name,
nor the dignity of the editorial stool, he doeS not
quite see why he any more than the editor of the
North-Western is among " the very last persons
who ought to set themselves up as- interpreters
of the Presbyterian Standard's, or attempt to dic
tate Presbyterian policy."
Some might possibly imagine that the gentleman
was seeking to do this, very thing when, in the
next column, he says
" Many of us could not allow to pass quietly
the licensing, ordaining, or receiving into Presby
tery -any man.who should uphold the views of
doctrine which are distinctive of what is known
as Taylorism, or, to speak with more restriction
and defininiteness, who profess and teach the pe.
culiarities which have been advanced and de
fended by ; Mr. Barnes, Dr. Duffield, Dr. Beman,
and some others, who are not only tolerated, but
honored in the New School Church. Opposition
would be a conscientious discharge of duty, en
forced by the sacredness of ordination vows."
(The italics are ours.)
Such, then, we are distinctly told' (and the
writer is to be
honored for his frankness, what
ever. ,
may be thought of his exclusive and un
catholic spirit) is entertainment to which by
far the larger part of our body, beyond all dubi
tation, is invited. I know that it is .replied by
ardent re unionists on our side, that this is not
the spirit nor ;intention of the majority of the
Old School. I hope and believe that this is true.
But that it is, the spirit of a very large number of
its most able and determined men,
and, as the
events of the last three years have fully shown,
'of the men who, in the last resort, control and de
termine the action of most of its. Presbyteries, ap
pears to me to be beyond a doubL
Why is it that we cannot have a union based
on the most full, explicit, unambiguous and in
disputable recognition of all that liberty which
is the glory and the strength of the New School
body;, which has given it, more than all beside,
its noble and influential position among the
Ohurches of our country, and which many of us
prize infinitely beyond all mere organic unions, or
any array of numbers ? Is it not certain
,that
not one in ten of all our members, lay or deli
cal, would listen to any talk of a union which
they, did not fully believe and expect would se
cure them this? And if the proposed union is
to give us this, what possible reason can there be
for not saying so ?
No, Mr. Editor, it is because I am a Presby
terian and nothing else,—baptfzed into its com
munion early in life, admitted to its sacraments,
for years permitted to hold a place among its
ministers, heartily in accord with its doctrines
and its polity, proud of its history, a believer in
its grand and beneficent future, if it be not
stripped of its power and all its popular elements
by cribbing and confining it within the limits of
an orthodoxy falsely so called. and not because I
am an " ite ' of any prefix whatever, that I de
mand alike for myself and the editor of the
North - Western, a recognized standing in the re
united Church in no wise affected by our diver-,
gencies of views on points not involving, in the
judgment of New School men, the integrity of
the Calvinistic system. When by the expressed
hearty consent of the parties to it such a union
can be had, none will rejoice in it more heartily
than this correspondent. Till then, he is unable
to see any promise of good, but much of evil, to
grow out of it. NORTH-WEST.
THE PENNYSLVANIA SEAMEN'S FRIEND SO
CIETY has during the past year placed 125 Sea
Libraries in 11 different languages on vessels
leaving the port of Philadelphia--given 915
copies of the Word of God to seamen, and dis
tributed 40,000 pages of tracts among the sailors
along our wharves. Within a few years it has
placed 700 Sea Libraries on the vessels of differ
ent nationalities as they left this port, and it has
learned that many seamen have been converted
to God through this instrumentality. The price
of such a library, containing fifty or sixty vol.
umes, well selected• and attractive, is $l5, and by
contributing this small amount, many Sabbath
schools, Bible-classes, and individuals may gratify
their desire of doing good, and feel assured that
they are helping those who, but for their instru
mentality, would be left to perish.
D. H. EMERSON, Sailors' Home, Phila.
A correspondent in Indianapolis commences
with some extracts from the secular press of that
"The Work of the Lord Continues to Increase
at Indianapolis.
" No one will deny that a deep religions inter
est excites . this entire community. Every ortho
dox tuittister in the city, and every truly religious
person, is in earnest sympathy with the great
work, and the attendance at the meetings is
limited only by the capacities of the churchs to
hold the people who gather to them."
The above is froni the Daily Erening lfirrOr,
a paper heretofore conducted in the interests of
Satan. It has always been ready to east a re
proach upon religion, and ever anxious to attack
any Christian or moral institution. But they
are compelled to make this acknowledgment, and
they do it pretty well in a column and a half
EDITORIAL, all in the same strain. We con
sider this a good deal, coming from the source it
does. It` does more for the Master than a good
many very good sermons will accomplish. Our
Canie is strong when our enemy testifies in our
favor. The _Morning Journal (our most reliable
GENESES .
paper) says :
" There have never been ven in this city such
sights as are witnessed in every one of the meet
ings. Christian men and women laboring ear
.nestly for the conversion of the people, just as
thouoh there was no such thing as church de
nomination."
Thus the: work continues to deepen and widen.
We hear of it upon every corner, in places of
business, and everywhere. It has taken hold of
almost all classes of our citizens, bringing some
into lively sympathy with it, and setting others
against it.
The children's meetings were discontinued
last Saturday. That last children's meeting sur
passed anything it has ever been our privilege to
witness. The large audience-chamber of the
First Presbyterian church was packed as full as
it would hold of anxious ones, most of whom
were children.
On last Sabbath evening the first meeting was
held for athilts in the "Academy of Music."
This is a magnificient temple lately erected and
dedicated to the service of Satan, and his follow
ers have been holding high carnival there dur-
ing the past winter. Last Sabbath evening the
scene was quite different. It was such a scene
as Indianapolis never before looked upon. There
were three thousand five hundred or four thou
sand in that Theatre, and nearly as many were
turned away not being able to find standing
room. Mr. Hammond spoke with more than
his usual earnestness and power, and all seemed
deeply interested. At the close of the sermon a
'second meeting: was held. Almost all stayed.
The sight was indeed a grand one, and solemn
beyond all power of description. There in that
vast audience chamber, from the "Pit" to " 3rd
gallery" were anxious souls weeping for their
sins. Some had heard the gospel preached from
their cradle' up, others not for ten, fifteen and
t wenty years, and all together inquiring " What
they must - do to be saved." Many, I have no
doubt, camel° Christ there and then. One of the
most interesting sights was the President of the
Institute for Deaf and Dumb, with fifty or sixty
of his pupils around him. He heard the word
of the as it fell from brother Hammond's lips
and, by signs, gave it to these anxious souls.
They were deeply interested, and many of them,
.I am informed, have become Christians. The
meetings have been continued during this week
in the First Baptist church. They are daily in
creasing in interest. Last night more than two
hundred arose asking Christians to pray for
them. Another meeting will be held in the
" Academy of Music" on Sabbath evening, and
the meetings will be continued next week as
they have this, in one of our largest churches.
We expect still greater things. J. B. B.
—Rev. Herrick Johnson, D. D., preached his
first anniversary sermon as pastor of the• First
church last Sabbath. Text : Exod. 14: 15,
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go
forward. The text is a well-chosen motto for the
the man and his method with this Church. Nor
has the response of the church itself been less
cheering. 76 persons have been added during the
year, 42 by profession ; the latter number exactly
represents the net gain of the year. $21,441
have been raised for all purposes, of which just
about one-half, or nearly eleven thousand dollars
was for outside purposes. Thirty-five teachers
have been furnished for the new Mission effort
in Lombard St. In benevolent contributions the
church is considerably in advance of all others
,of our denomination in this city. With great
joy we chronicle these cheering facts in the his
tory of this venerated organization. Rev. Mr.
Leeds assisted in the services, during which very
tender mention was made of Mr. Barnes. Though
the day was stormy, the attendance was good.
—The Rev. George A. Durborrow, for nearly
twenty years Rector of .the P. E. church of the
Redemption, at Twenty-second and Callowhill
streets,. died at his residence, Friday, April 30th,
after a few weeks' illness. he deeaased was the
founder of the church of which he was rector,
and was widely known, particularly in the north
western portions of the city. His loss will be
seriously felt. His age was 47.
MR. HAMMOND'S LABORS.
INDIANAPOLIS