gintritan ErtshOrtiait, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1869 REV. JOHN W. HEARS, D. D., Editor. No. 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 Clinton St. Church. Bev. Peter, Stryker, D.D., Pastor of N. Broad Bt. Church. Rev. George F. Wlswell, D.D., Pastor of Green Hill Church. Rev. E. E. Adams, D. D., Prof.; in Lincoln rni. veratty. Rev. Samuel W. 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. sEr Row we ,beat the Minister, American' Chapel in Paris, Minzite on Rev. Halsey Dunniv, India, Value of a Religious r etospaper, Temper- . once items, , Page .2d;; Editor's Talde, Musical, Mention, Page 3d; Christ All" in All (Poetry), Origin Of Soot, by . .1)64 Meaclaios,'''.:4t Batch of Stories, Facts Concerning Romanisni, Effect; of Pardons, Page 6th;,. Missionaryße'ligioUs Intelligence,' Page 7th... commissioNrag,TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY. The Committee of Arrangements request Commissioners 'and' Delegates to forward their names apd 'places of addresS, as soon 'as practic- able, , to. John :P, Crosby,_ Eq., Bo; 3599, P. 0. New York, in order that places of entertainment may be assigned them. —To the testimony so widely and cordially yielded from other sources to the firmnes's of Governor Geary in recently 'executing the' full penalty of the law in notorious cases of crinie, we add that of the Grand Jury for 'the April term of our city courts, presented Friday April 30, by their foreman, Robert J. Mercer, Esq. The closing sentence of their presentment is as follows: The Grand Inquest, in common with the Hon orable Court,'are 'profoundly sensible of, the,im portanee ,and need of a. great and healthful change in public opinion on the subject of crimi nal jurisprudence; and they hail the recent-de cisions of the court and the, firm and' immovable attitude of the Executive in withholding pardons, as good omens that,. ,the returning 'tidal wave is approaching, with its , judicial tenors to every violator of the laws, and:' its and and en couragement to all who love wane, oui::insti tutions. ROBERT J. MERGER; Foremim. —Archbishop•Spalding, Roman Catholie, of Bal timore, has issued a - Pastoral, in`Whieh be calls the attention of the faithful to the immense loss es suffered by that Church in America from the want of 'distinctively denominational schools, He says: "While we are gratified, at witnessing so many intelligent persons throughout the country em bracing the true faith, we are obliged to confess with sorrow that a greater number are lost to the Church. There is no exaggeration in saying tiow what Bishop England felt it his sacred duty to state many years ago, that hundreds, .nay thou sands of souls annually stray away from the fold in this country on account of their early , reli gious education.' He calls upon his people "to make ample pro vision for the• moral and religious training of our youth." Upon . certain important moral questions of the day, the 4.rchbishop gives ,admirable advice. He warns against the indecent theatrical performan ces-now so common. He also says: "We deem it particularly our . solemn duty to renew oui-'`warning against the modern fashion able dances, commonly called 'German,' or round dancesi, which are becoming more and more the occasions of sini. 'These practices are so much, the more dangerous, as most persons seem to look upon them as, harmless, and indulg9 them without any apparent remorse of conscience." The bishop presses upon the attention of the people the work among the freedmen. But he has so idea of aiding in the truly. Christian and philanthropic work of breaking down the caste distinctions which still remain to burden the ne- gro. He says : " We, therefore, desire that separate schools and churches be established for the blacks, wher ever they may be deemed practicable and expe dient. Where special schools are not erected for them, every facility should'be •afforded for their religious and moral training as far as circumstan- C 313 will permit." —Ninety-five teachers and ten ministers are laboring in the South under the direction of the N. S. Freedmen's Committee. AM APPEAL. The forthcoming Annual Report of the Minis terial Relief Fund will show an encouraging ad vance in the amount received fox .the last syear, especially in the line of the permanent" Fund. But as a healthful condition of things may some times be attended with a tempiirary pressure, so is it in the , present case., There is more than two thousand dollars in the treasury, but, owing to the increased number of applicants foci aid, eighteen hundred dollars more are needed to Meet the June liabilities. Theiefore, to prevent dis appointment and grief among those who are de pendent on ,the Fund for the necessaries of life, .wee.esirnestly desire•that churches and individuals sympathj with the cause, send us in:me- Alia& aiskialice. C. 8., See. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1869. OUR EXCHANGES. It is interesting to notice the opening of the eyes of such, as have been long blind to facts quite patent to others. The name Observer im plies a claim , to sharpness of vision, which it must be confesied is not always justified. Only last week's issue of the New York journal of that name :bows the beginning of a true appre ciation of the facts about Presbyterian Reunion, a subject on which the Observer has written as a straggler in the dark, yet with amazing confi dence hitherto. We quoted some very positive language from its columns last month. It now says: - • The indications of immediate reunion are not as distinct as they were a few weeks ago. It, is now clearly to be seen that two ,powerful causes are at work to prevent the reunion of the Old and New School . bodies.'Th'ere is more opposi tion in the Old' Sehool; there is more indiffer ence' in the New Scimol. While there are hun-. dreds of thousands in 'both churches praying, longing, laboring for union, -there are also, ,on .botli-s . rdes, many that are opposed to it, and many, that do not.care.much about-it. . . The causes for the ,opposition on the part of the Old School are sympathy with the South' and hyper-orthodoxy. The Observer continues: The effect of this hostility to 'reunion Upon the New School is natural and obvious. They say,' and justly say : " You Old School men started, this movement for reunion; you invited us•to be , one with you;• at your suggestion, not of our seeking, we consented to negotiate'; the terms have been approved by your Committee,, endorsed by your Assembly, and modified again and again td suit your wishes, and now you are more hostile to reunion than ever; , your news papers and. your quarterly review have charged us with unsoundness in the faith, and resisted the measures that look to peace and reunion, and we are not willing to continue .the negotiations any longer; if you are ready, we are; if yon are not, let us dismiss thd subject, and go on our ways, as we lhave for thirty years; we of , the New School have large plans for the extension of the, Church at home and ahroad, and now for three important years we have been waiting upon this question of reunion, and we cannot afford to wait any, longer; we will go with You 'if you will go with us; if not, we must go on with 'out,you and at once." This is the line of remark taken up by the New School, and men among them who were leaders of reunion ... a year ago are now lukewarm; indifferent, or opposed to any conference on the, subject*ith the Old 'School: They are offended by the criticisms of the Old School press. They regard them as' etninently unjust. =They natu rally decline reunion with men Who iMpeach their veracity, or orthodoxy. It has therefore come to 'this, that the opposition to reunion which the minority in the Old School has waged with such ability and zeal has not diminished the' majority in favor of it in the Old School, but it has so disgusted gentlemen of the New chool that they are quite willing to give the whole thing pp, and move on with their own -charetrorganization in their own Way. - _ _ Therefore, we say, the 'prospect ofimmediate reunion is not so favorable as it 'was a few months ago. It admits that the facts were different, first : weeks ago; and finally, months ago. Yet, only three weeks before, it` wrote as if the Reunion was just on the point of accoinplishment, on the platf`orm.of Dr. Hodge's speech• in, the Philadel phia Convention. Whether any kind of Re union which we could trame with our Old School brethren would be as promotive of our denomi national prosperity and evangelical efficiency as the Observer thinks, may be' questioned, but certain it is, there would , •bo_more vigor in our oWn`workin,g policy as a Church, if the question were settled and out of the way: , The National Baptist of this city is permitted to publish a letter from Rev. SR. , l3rawn, the son of Mrs. Phoebe Brown, in which among other things-are some interesting' facts about the well knoWn hymn,. Of which Mrs, „Brown was the authoress, beginning, ",I love tO - Steal awhile away.". Mr. Brown says: " This production Was never intended for a hymn, nor even for publicatiOn. The world is indebted for it to the attempt 'of,a person to mor tifj, and insult'my beloved mother, ,by rudely,re ferring' to her habit of retiring in •the -twilight of summer evenings to a secluded spot in the coun try, for the purpose of' meditation, praise • and prayer. It is one of the many instances in, which the ',wicked one' has overshot his mark, and done good by attempting to do evil': Returning to her home sorely grieved by the manner, in which she. had been assailed without making any reply to her assailant, she took her babe upon her knees at night, and taking up her pen, wrote the answer, commencing, as first written,- • Ilove to steal awhile away, , From children.and from care, . And spend the 'hour of setting day, In humble, grateful . prayer,' : "This lay among my mother'sqmpers' until 1824. The Rev Asahel Nettleton, D.D., hav ing applieilio her for hymns to put into the volume called Village Hymns,' which he was their compiling; procured this and'ieveral others from her, which are found in that useful collec tion. Dr. Nettleton altered iti,(the.second line) wisely,' to make it of more' geieral use, and omitted two or three stanzas• which were, more Personal in their character', The hymn is de• scriptive of the religious ,life of my mother. She loved nature, , and delighted, in being alone with God; in such retired nooks as the country fur nishes. For thirty years, Or . more, •she ,lived in Minion, Mass.; on - the border of a little moun tain ,stream,, just outside of tip village, and there was 'ac well-wern-.f001.-pathw.leading from her cottage-door. dowry/piling t,,he trees and al ders that skirted• the blibbling,,Eitony brook, and there, beneath a shelving rock, I once found the Bible she kept for .use•when she:withdrew to the shelter and concealment of , that•lertely spot; where noneinat God' could hear:" • - She was an ardent friend , of foreign missions,. and used to send her' ineiley Co misstonary ties abroad through a Christian merchant in Philadelphia, before there were any societies in this country. She gave her only son, the writer of the above letter, to be a missionary, first to China and then to Japan. She died October 10th, 1861, in Illinois. PROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT. ORDINATION OF MISSIONARIES The unusual event of the ordination of three missionaries at one time and for one field, oc curred last Sabbath evening, 2d inst., at Auburn; those young Men whose names we gave, last week as destined to China. The ordination sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Clark, Secretary of the A., B. C. F. M.; a discourse of rare beauty and power. His subject was the Signs of the Times, of which several were named and illus trated with great force—the world is wonderfully prepared now to receive the gospel; the English race and the !English language are wonderfully ,prepared to Rie,.the gospel.; the awakened mis sionary spirit', 4f the •present day:shows that the ,Church is beginning to appreciate her opportu nity and her obligation , ; p.ndr successes already achieved in, th.e . missionary work indicate the in tention of, Proludenee in regard, to the world's saliation. Under thesellfeads mogt, important facts were brought out, deeply,inieresting the large and ap preciative audience.' Eighty-one years ago Carey felt called to b' a missionary. That was the'be ginning of th ' modern missionary . movement. Now there are 2 Societies, w i t h 1;800 mission aries, engaged ' iving the gospel to the heathen. / Sixty years agd the American Board was not ill `existence; , noit has 200 churches , and has, reckoned, t in all, 70,000 converts . Sixty years ago,' writhing had ben done in the South' Seas; now v there are 80013 tive,preachers and 200,000• co mmunicants. q'llere are 1.00 - preaeheii in Mada-' gascar ;. 600 missionaries in India•;• 20,000coni mtinicanti in Siuth 'Africa; 15,000 on the West Coast of Africa; =lOO native churches in Turkey and Persia.; 41,000'people taught to read id The past twelve ye• s froth a single 'station of the 'American Boa in Eastern Turkey. ' The. King o r Burmalv, instead of holding poor Dr.'Judson in • filthy dungenn,;-now Welcomes missionaries , to his capital. He isl 'building a schoOl house to .00min:iodate a thoudand'acholars, so that his suhi:ets may be educated.. He' . has commanded the ranslation of the British Ency clopedia, into th• Burrnese language, so that his people marhav,`access to those immense stores of•varied knowl: ge.• The Queen of. Madagascar, instead of persh‘ating her Ohiiatian subjects, •is crowned undei,a canopy inscribed, " Glory •to God in the'Highesi, nd on earth peace, goodwill to , men". :I_ , r • In money inaere the change is equally strik: ing.'l n 1788 't ere was nothing ' given •for the evangelization of he heathen; in 1808, $100,000; - in 1828, $ lOOO, 00; in 1842, $2 , 0.00;000; and in 1868, $5,000 00. •. ' These, and li facts, were Presented in suck a manner as to.hol the rapt attention of the coiagre •gation for near iiii hour, and go _to show that there is abundant reason to hope that the whole world is soon to be evangelized. There is cheering en couragement, at least, for just such work' as that contemplated by the young men just to be set apart for missionaries to China. , The orLining prayer, was made by Rev. Al bert True ; Moderator of Presbytery, and the charge to 4,e missionaries was: given by' Rev. Prof, Huntington of the . Theological Seminary. It was a seivi e of rare interest, and will leave, l we doubt ot the savor of a sweet and lasting influence orse highly favored institution which thus gives fir; of its best sons to the Foreign Missionary • Ork. , ' iii IVERSARY AT AUBURN One oft chief 'attractions of Anniversary week this y dr at .A.ubitrn .was the address before the Society ' Christian Research by Rev. Dr. McCosh. ,e number of clergymen in attend ance was la .er than usual, for , the, reason that many had 'pecial curiosity L and Ogre to hear . _. . lk him. He ' pke on Tuesday evening. ..His sub ject, as ann anced, was, "The truth of God in respect to t C nature: and destiny of, man; and what is to d done. for the benefit of !man". a oa d as the universe itself. He first hewed what does not'-exalt man or nations; n material gifts alony not intellectual advantages and endowments-alone; not mere de-• sire to be oral -,alone_; - , though all these have their valu ; but all may fail and will fail unless there be orality alse,sustaine4 ,fby the living principle f righteousness, Which alone exalted). a nation o an individual. , All systems of moral ity are inectnal which 'do not include the doc trines of ace. Morality in "11, nation, or an in dividual eds religion to sustain it.. These prin ciples we announced with greaCempha'sis. He the said, there are schools_ which teach other this; And this led to theydiscussion of the, Positive, bil ophy of Comt,P, which.,wss thor i. ou.hly an lyz d and , handsomely riddled. It is Oi l the philos ph of the senses , alone; the philoso phy of nescien e; man knows nothing and. can know nothing,texcept , his own sensations. It 'doubts or derii, the existence of the outer world; it is bald athei; virtually the same thingwhich ll ,obb'ei taugh n thP Vith ceptury, , ,:atidlliume f in the 18th; nhing new, except its forms and phraseology; he old -- infidelity revamped by Comte, Mill,encer and _Tluxley, to, suit this i progressive l ag , , , The only w ship of this new l'eligion—for it pretends to bereligion—is the worship of ab stiact Urn hanit ; or, if otie'Pri;feis not worship it the abstract, h may take _humanity in the person of io(rindin—lii mother; his Wife Of hiS daughter. If he has not tie last two, he may supply their placefi6irr hisiliy.: r - rr I ', , These doctraes were shown to tend' fo mate rialistu and siisuality., ,They are to be met by showing that n has an intellectual and moral nature also, fa ttperior,to,tlto material ; that he has conscious as, an internal source of know ledge; that he made necessarily to reason from effect to taus ;that he is made to knoic.; . and that . even,, s senses give positive evidence Of an external wo not all- a &earn. in the Pro( ess of this adtnifable discourse BuAle's Hist y' tif Civilization ,- received soine . hara"ra'ps—bei 0. characterized as a inass'of fats" and thoughts, some valuable, but much crude, undigested and erroneous. With some, the discourse was not quite all that was expected of the eminent author, but on the whole it gave great, satisfaction. The sermon before the Alumni on Wednesday evening was preached by Rev. Wm. ,Waith, of Lancaster. Mr. Waith's manner is easy and na tural, both in the style of his writing and speak ing, and quietly held the attention of the audi ence from beginning to end. His subject was : "The glorious liberty of the Children of God." Next year is to be the Semi Centennial of Auburn Seminary, and measures were taken pro perly to celebrate the event.. Rev. Dr. Gridley, of Waterloo, was appointed - to.preach a Histori cal Discourse; Rev. Prof. Hopkins, alternate. The exercises of, the gradnating class occurred on. Thursday evening. The class numbered four teen; seven of whom, by election of the class, were appointed to speak. The orations were good; not one ,of an Inferior order,, while one or two of them possessed peculiar merit. The farewell address "to the : class was, writ ten by Dr. Hall,, tut:beautifully and impresSively read by,Dr. Condit, in Dr. Hairs Unexpected absence; after which Rep: Dr. M.cCosh, by ino- tation, made a few remarks 'to' the graduates. 'He spoke to them very kindly, tenderly and hopefully of their great responsibilities and 'dit ties, affectionately coinmending theta tb God' and the word of his grace. He said he had just attended another A.rini versary, that of the Theological Seminary at Princeton; and he could not see differOice betw,een the teachings and doctrines there "and _here. They were essentially one. He 'had also mingled freely with ministers called New School, rand ministers, called Old School . ,, and he could not see any difference. He did not see why they should not be., one - body. He hoped sincerely that they were soon to be one. So ended one of the most pleasant 'and sails factory Anniversaries we have ever attended at this highly' favored institution ; of which we should be glad to speak Much more fully if space would allow. Many things Of , real interest are necessarily omitted. . . ITRMS. As a part:of- the fruit of the great revival in Buffalo, 30 Were received last Sa:UAL to the lat Presbyteiian Church; 70 to the Lafayette Str. Church; and on the previous Sabbath 60 to the ,North Church.. In Lockport, 130, have uni ted with the Ist Church,',about the salnie' riuni ber to the Co igregational Church; and 47 'to the Second Presbyterian.. kr. 'llatnniond labored three weeks :in that,city.—The-Firat Church of Rochester came near being spared; the trouble ,clif tearing down the old edifice, Which they are•now moving to replace Wil,l4better:l About 8 olliock last Sunday evening,, while Dr. Condit, was preaching, as usual•in 'the lecture Room-adjoin ing,. there was an alarm •of fire, which Stopped • • , _the sermon without, any. ceremony right in the middle of it. The steeple Of. the Chtirch was on, fire, and all the Wooden, Spire was soon demolished ,by the flames, the amid the ruins. ' It . does 'not, hOweve;r, interrupt worship in the Lecture Reom, where it hag been held for a;year; and Dr. Condit continues to supply desk, most aCceptably, as •he haa for four months ipast.The gentFal - of Au burn have sold their Cli*ch property for 4 : 9*, have bought lots , on a new site, near by; and are preparing at once to put up, a first class church edifice ; .the „building .to be of stone,. ground floor 96 X 58 Peet, with Lec6.,re ROom and Sab bath, BchOol goom in front like "the Central Church of this city. GENESEE. , •Rechester May Bth, 1869. • , . lifttn BETIIESDA Last;.Sabblith was a glad" day for .the people of this new churcli with their faithful and energetic. pastor, Rev.. Wm. T. Eva. After a month of toil, Mingled with doubts, fears, and heart-sink ings, but' sustained •by the divine presence Mid their own consecrated . purpoSes, they were .per witted to assemble for the first time in the beau .tiful lecture-room of their new. building, ; corner Frankford'Road and Norris street. The'walls of, the entire buildino• are up and the roof is on, only the spire' being needed to complete the 'ex terior. This is exclusively of brown stone, and pre sents a very• handsome appearance, the style being 'Romanesque, With Some elements Of Gothic. The house is Of generous dimensions, the 'andience phamber with galleries.around the four sides; will seat 1100 persons. The lecture-room is one of the pleasantest tolie anywhere met with. It is entirely above'ground, will-lighted and cheerful, and will' aecommodate 500 persons. The seats are, arranoed to choola accommodate Sabbth-s "classes. Bible-class, and Infant-school rooms are in the rear. • - • , 1,!.. - At the opening in the morning services, the • • pastor was assisted by Mr. 'Barnes and Dr. Mears. Al r. 'Eva, hoWever, had the' laboring oar, his part being the raising "of funds. From his statements: we learn' thiit the Congregation lies already Contributed s2o,ooo,"and now needs $6,000 to meet outstanding claims. Of the 'amount 51800 was 'raised in the morning, the list s being headed' by Mr. Win. Minim with $5OO. $20,000 win•be required to complete the build in. . The sermon was then preached; with all his wonted clerdness, insrructiveness, and"felicity of illustration' by Mr. Barnes, Eph. 3 : 10, - "To the intent that now, unto the 'prinCipalities and fdiwers in heavenly rilaces, inight be known 'by the chtjeh, the manifold wisdom of God Mr. Barnes had walked the entire distance frOm his own home, at 'forty-first and Walnut stieet, to the church, having declined the use of the'car riage which had been . sent for him. He had stopped at the House of Refuge of which has recently been made an officer, and where he is successfuhy laboring' in the 'establishment . of a complete form of Sabhath-schOdl instruction. In response 'to` his calls, Di. Wiswell 'Waspresent that morning at the Refuge with twenty of his people as 4olunteeri& for the work. /111 e. Barnes expected to walk-home in the same manner. The services were continued in the afternoon and evening, Drs:' Stryker, Humphrey, and Adams, participating, and in words of instruction and encouragement addressing the people ; and were closed by the Pastor in the service of for mal dedication. The amount of contributions and collections during the day were nearly four thousand dollars. It may be proper to add, that through the liberality of Sohn A. Brown, Esq., and others, this enterprise has lately been aided to the amount of more than four thousand dollars, the first, fruits of the fund lately raised among the churches of our city for Home Church Extension. They will need immediately some ten or•twelve thousand dollars more. Nine persons united with the Walnut street Pres. church last,Sabbath (May 9). Forty-four have united durincr . the past year, under the min istry of the preser7t-pastor, Rev. S. W. Dana. The Piesbytery of --Pbila 4 o.S., April 19th, adopted, the followin,g, overture to the General Assembly : "That this Presbytery views with regret the continued separation between our Clifirch and those 'ehtircleS Of the South, with whom we once stood in the closest relations of union, and - requests the. Assembly to institute measures for a correspondence between us and the Southern Presbyterianiditurch, in the hope 'this move Merit may -lead — to a union of the di vided!portions:of 'our eomutunion, on the basis of the ancient andittnaltered .Standards of the Presbyterian Church," CoNvEnTa—Something, of a sensation has been made by the dpartiire Of shine young men liorri the' Episcopal . .Etchise, in West .Philadelphia,`for the inirpose , of attaching them selves to 'the - sect..known in,.England as Ply mouth Rrethren, , though, we believe, they do not acknowledge that as their - title in this coun try'. The' Proteitant Ch,urch.m.an of last week , alltdeb to this defection, big in very kind terms. The young . men,,two from the Mission Mime, and one from the-Jbeological Seminary—have joined, as we have been informed, the company of disciples to - whom the Rev. C. Campbell minis ., tersin this 'city: We have . heard, within a few days,.'that another young. 'man who had been preparing for the Episcopal "ministry in West Philadelphia has ipassed over to the Church of Rome.---Presbyterian. • --It is ,proposed , to remove the site of the old St: James' church of Philadelphia, now at the corner of Seventh and diiminerce streets. For this piirpose, a suitable lot has been secured at the northwest Corner 'of Walnut and Twenty se.cond streets., The old louse has been sold, but posession of will be retained until late in the falt, When it will be faked dOwn at once. —The Rev, .I)r.Bpardinan, of the Tenth chnrch, Itas;da fai.,r.Cgkined' his 'health as to preach with con'sideiable :fre'quency. Several of the.churches in St. Paul have enjoyed the privilege of hear ing thn ,precjons gosp,el,.presented with great power by this honored 'minister of Christ—Pres byterian. - - - - Mi. Di. Edwards, President of Washington and Jefferson Ciallege,'it is announced, has ac cerked the call to the pastorate of the Second Presbyterian church of Baltimore. ,=Rev. Willette, D. D., has resigned the pastorate of the West Arch St. clinic)). The effort to relieve the congregation of its liabilities having failed, a union with the 10th and Arch St. church is talked of. 'l l ll6 Occident of San Francisco, April 27th, quotes The Preskyteeidn'A statement of April 10th, to the . effect that Dr. 'Wadsworth had accepted a e.all to the First Reformed church of this city, and adds i " We have- the best authority for stating that Dr. Wadsivorth has not received a call from the chnrch. t named. Of course he has not accepted it." We have," the best authority,7, for saying that Dr. W.'sdiSpatch, accepting the call, was received, and the firiandial arrangeinents in regard to his passage Eastward 'made, 'sometime ago, as stated in our columns:. The late earthquakes in San Francisco, helped to bring him to the conclusion on which he is acting. —St. Andrew's church (tutheran, Rev. Dr. Stork, pastor), having purchased the lot at the S. W. corner Of Broad and Arch, and commenced to build a large edifice, have been interrupted by an injunction based. on the wording of the 'deed of the ground, which forbids the erection of anything but dwelling houses on the spot. The suit is brought by a neigh boring property-owner, named Oliver, and the case will he argued.in June. Meanwhile, the granting of a temporary injuuetion has stopped the work. —Since the end of October only one extra meet ing has been held in the Second Baptist church, Rev. Mr. Cathcart's, but one hundred and three have been added to the membership, seventy-two being immersed. —Rev. A. R. Thompson, D. D., of New York, declines the call to the Second Reformed church. :—ReV. Henry F. Lee is called to Thompsonville, Conn. .4E,:0 . d'flltt OTll4r*,l; Pres4yterlep. Otiego Presbytery has adopted the Basis unan imously, and the Committee's ,Amendments, and further, consented ; to•a, union on the common Staticlaids pure,and or ion any other Ba sis upon which the two Assemblies may agree; and that the union he effected without further overture to the ,Presbyteries. Athens Presbytery ,met at. Pomeroy, 0., April 20th. The Basis ,O ',re-union having been al ready , approved , the amendments of the Commit tee on Reunion were also endorsed, and the As sembly authorized to.consummate Reunion with out farther , reference. Rev. H. W. Ballautine and Elder Marcus Bosworth were appointed Commissioners. Horatio H. Wells and Chas. H. Taylor were licensed. A student in Marietta College was taken under care. Two new churches, New England and Nelsonville, were added to the roll. One church (Newport) has been dis banded and its house, of worship sold. Rev. Warren . Taylor was dismissed to the Presbytery of Cincinnati. The Presbytery of Grand River, 0., overture to the General Assembly, first, to reduce tfie as sessment for Commissioners Fund for the ensu ing 'year, •to the rate of six cents a member; secondly, to omit the appointment of delegates to all corresponding bodies, with the exception, of the Reformed Church, the Reformed Presbyte rian Church, and the OtheT Branch (commonly called Old School) of the Presbyterian Church. In regard to rennior( . `tie gonimittee's Amend ments were adoPted with the followin.'additional resolution, viz:: Tlitti'P ri eilir,eiy believe, that the whOle matter'h , io thoroughly disouss-
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