intritau protistalait. THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1869 REV. JOHN W. MEARS, D. D., Editor. No. 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. TIDE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Rev. Z. M. Humphrey, D.D., Pastor of Calvary Church. Rev. Herrick Johnson, D.D., Pastor of the First Church. Rev. Dani. March. D.D., Pastor of Clinton St. Church. Rev. Peter Stryker, D.D., Pastor of N. Broad $t Church. nee'. George F. Wiswell, D.D., Pastor of Green 11111 Church. Rev. E. E. Adams, D. D., Prof.? in Lincoln Uni versity. 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. How we went to Switzerland, 111, Octavius Fitch, Blackwood and the Lewd Opera, Work among the Freedmen, Temperance items, Direc tory, page 2d; Editor's Table, Scientific, page 3d; Three Years Ago (Poetry), Don Martin, Not Now, The Red Peppers, &c., page 6th ; Religious intelligence, page 7th. —The Second Protestant church of Madrid has been established. It is Presbyterian in order and worship. —On Easter Sunday morning fifty native Protestants united in a Protestant celebration of the Eucharist in Madrid,—a sight not seen pub licly in Spain since the days of Philip 11. —A series of very effective and spirited sketches has appeared in Pettengill & Bates' Hearth and Home, in which man is represented as having changed places with the brutes, and as subjected to all the cruelties at their hand, which he is guilty of inflicting upon them. In the last sketch, a man is represented as harnessed to a fearfully overloaded wagon, as having fallen upon his knees on the cobble stones, while a horse in the character of driver, is kicking him with every demonstration. of rage. Two equine po licemen look on in 'the distance. without any movement or sign of disapprobation. The les son is an excellent one, and conveyed with spirit, and ability. —The name of. George D. Stewart, Burling ton, lowa, appears on the records of the other branch of the Presbyterian Church. He is in gobd and regular standing in that body. He is a vigorous writer and thinker, and, contributes occasionally to the columns of the independent. His last article, in the issue of May 6th, is enti tled " Garnishing the Sepulchres of the Righte ous." It is made up of laudations of four men, two dead and two living : Edward Irving, F. W. Robertson, Horace Bushnell and J. W. Nevin. Of the two former, he writes as follows: " The Lord Jesus sent unto His Church in Great Britain two teachers—Edward Irving and Frederick William Robertson—in whom, more than in almost any others of their age and coun try, the prophetic spirit dwelt." And he continues by accusing the orthodox opponents of these men of sin in " Killing and crucifying both of them, in the prime of their — manhood, with extreme tortures, not of the body only, but also of the spirit." Of the two living men above-named, he says : " The same blessed Lord has sent to our coun try and our generation two men in many respects not unlike Irving and Robertson—Horace Bush nell and John W. Nevin. More than twenty years ago, a very determined effort was made in Connecticut, instigated and encouraged by Dr. C. Hodge, in the Princeton Review, to cast Dr. Horace Bushnell out of the synagogue as a here tic; but thanks to the liberty of thought allowed in congregational bodies, the persecution failed of its chief purpose, and Dr. Bushnell is still in good ecclesiastical standing in his denomination." Of Dr. Nevins' work : " The Mystical Pres ence," especially the theological part, Mr. Stewart says : • " As such, the writer of this knows of nothing to be compared with it The debt of gratitude he owes to that work 'may blind his judgment; for by it he was delivered from the perplexity of mind incident to the long endeavor - to receive as true the system of legal fictions and arbitrary imputations taught at Princeton." He thus concludes : " And when, at last, our age shall fully recog nize the fact that such men as Bushnell and Nevin are teachers sent from God, and they are gathered to their fathers, even the Rabbins and Doctors of the law, who have all their lives been casting stones at them, may bring their wreaths to garnish their sepulchres." It is very certain that no man living or dead, in our own branch of the Church, has ventured to write in this wild strain of laudation of these distinguished men, whose acknowledged genius and piety did and does not keep them from very grave errors. Is the New School Church in the proposed Reunion to be expected. to fellowship admirers of Robertson and Irving and Bushnell, and converts to the Mercersburg Theology ? Does the orthodoxy of the Old School Church, any more than that of the New, rise any higher than the known opinions of the least orthodox of its members in good and regular standing ? And, after all, is there any security for orthodoxy it- , self so effective, as liberty within the limits of great and universally recognized principles? 3 THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1869. OUR EXCHANGES. The Evangelist has articles on " This Country not going to be Roman Catholic," " A Russian Literature," and a graphic account, from its cor respondent, " Caledonia," of "the Retreat of the Tories" in the English Parliament. The first article is based on the marked decline in Roman Catholic immigration as stated in a recent num ber of The Nation. From this it appears that the immigration of last year was 213,686, of which only 47,571 were natives of Ireland; and 52,000 is reckoned as fully covering the immi• gration from nominally Catholic countries. From Germany came the enormous number of 101,989; —a very large majority of whom, doubtless, were not Roman Catholics, whatever, they were in reli gious belief. Our ever sensible and wide-awake cotemporary, the Christian lntelligencer, sounds a needed note of alarm on Paganism in the United States. After • referring to the opening of the Pacific Rail Road it says " Already "we hear of the strange apparition of large numbers of Chinamen in, our Eastern cities. In San Francisco they already constitute a very material portion of the populdtion, and they are crowding in with every steamer. Chi na has an established population of five hundred millions. That strange country is brimming over with people, and they flow out on all sides. They are settling in South America and in Mex ico, and hordes of them are coming into this country, bringing with them their habitS of in dustry and their pagan superstition and idolatry. A Chinese temple is already built in 'San Fran cisco; another, we are • told is established in Maine, in Portland, if we remember Tight, and With the increased facilities for travel, this new element will pour in upon us faster than we can supply it. That it will cheapen labor is very probable ; that it will exert a demoralizing influ ence can hardly be doubted, audit is tnanifest that the crisis imposes new responsibility on the Church of Christ in this country and on the Go vernment." The N. Y. Evening Post calls the Independent to order for one of its keen and"audacious articles which too often are thrown in in to flavor its col umns. The article was a very sharp and expert satirical notice of a prominent Brooklyn minis ter, who had been called to Boston. The Inde pendent, in justification of severe ,outspokenness, pleads , Cromwell's declaration to the doubtful painter about to take his portrait : " Paint the wrinkles." The Post well replies : "But it Whs' his own wrinkles which Crom well nrdered•to be painted; not his neighbor's, or his enemy's, or his pet aversion's; and that makes a great difference." Some weeks ago, our neighbor, The Presbyte rian, made itself merry over a declaration in our columns, to the effect that our branch of the Church did not consider the logical consistency of doctrines indispensable to their truth. We note a statement which looks in the same general direction with the criticisms and witticisms of The Presbyterian, in a late number of the New York Universalist paper, The Christian Leader. A. Methodist paper, having adm4ted the difficul ty of reconciling eternal punishment with divine justice, the universalist editor • jumps at the " logical inconsistency ",.with great, avidity. He says: " We want nothing more conclusive than this. to fix the mind and heart against the doctrine of endless punishment. When a dogma confesses . that reason must be dumb in order that it mat live, we shall feel justified in letting reason speak and the dogma die." We have no hesitation - in - saying tharlf ' we' could not see the logical consistency of these doc trines, as they are both clearly revealed, we should have no hesitation in accepting both. • The Independent publishes a letter from Bishop Simpson, in favor of giving the ballot to women. The same paper says, in' regard. to the late ar rangements for the honest' purchase of goods for the Indians, that even . the red 'men themselves, proverbial as they are for proud . stolidity, must express surprise. It continues " Whether the Indians' will, be astonished. at this new state of affairs or not, there can, .be no doubt that the unhappy traders wizen ocdtzpation is gone, and the craft whereby they got their wealth destroyed, were overcome by special-won der when they heard that Colonel Parker hid come to New York and made his purchases, like any other fair dealer, at fair prices, just as if In dians were to'be treated like white men. When he might have made hundrods of percentage by the simple process of buying merchandise good enough for savages, and selling at prices too good for civilized men whom it was hard to &eat, it is, doubtless, an enigma for the solution of which their nature and experience affords no-key." As usual, the Independent leaves all religious topics to its contributors, touching none of them with the editorial pen. The Occident, San Francisco, asks How long will it be ere we behold the mem bers of the congregations generally 'provided with Bibles ? How long will it be ere ministers so conduct the worship of God, that Bibles shall be required in the service of the sanctuary?' The Bible ought to be considered by the Presby terian as indispensable as the book of common prayer is, to the Episcopalian, or, the Breviary to the Romanist. The New York Methodist has, a truly alarming article on the New York city courts. It'says And life is as insecure , as property. ; Male factors of certain party affiliations are secure in their evil practices.. A great noise was made a few months ago aboin the condemnation of a cold-blooded murderer. So ardent was one of our judges for the vindication Of justice, that the court was kept in session until midnig,k, and the criminal was tried and condemned' in one day. The wonderful vigilance of our judi- ciary was trumpeted throughout the land; but the day of execution has passed, and Real still lives. What one judge could do another could undo; and when Real suffers for his crime we shall be lieve that au influential ward politician in New York is amenable to the criminal code. This city is the only one in the United States governed by Roman Catholics. It is a specimen of the happy condition to which all our cities will be reduced, when Father Hecker's glowing predictions of Romish supremacy in this country are realized. A correspondent of the Boston Watchman and Reflector (Baptist) writes from Providence, R. 1., reiterating statements which he had pre viously made and which had been called in ques tion by another correspondent, in regard to Dr. Wayland's sentiments on close communion. We give part of the letter : All I wish to say is, that my remark had reference to the sentiments held by Dr. W. dur ing the latter part of his life. Having re ex 'amined my authority, lest possibly I might have been mistaken, I -am prepared now, to reaffirm that Dr. W. held open communion views; that he was very positive in his assertion that the right, of private judgment should be accorded to a member of a Baptist church, so that if without violation of his own conscience, he communed with another evangelical church he ought, not to be made a subject of church discipline; that he did in one, case, if not in more than one, invite members of other than Baptist churches to the Lord's Supper, as observed, in the meeting• houSe of the First Baptist church in, this city. I may not be able positively to prove it, but I think I can, that' during the war he wrote to one of the haplains in the army, encouraging him to bring together all sincere Christians, that they might sit down as a band of loving disei pies of one Lord and Master and commemorate. His:dying love. Comparing the stilted' with the simpler style of oratory the New York Examiner and Chroni cle says The real weakness of the , ." stilted" style, in 'comparison with the simpler one, was forcibly illustraied some yeais since by two eminent,pul pit orators,, the erudite Dr. Storrs and Rev. H. W. Beecher. The former, presenting in Plymouth church the necessities of the,l3rooklyn City Mis sion, exclaimed, "Brethren, we are in need of an enlarged, pecuniary subsidy" ! Mr. Beecher, in the course of a few after-remaiks said, in his di rect way : " In carrying out our plans we want money, and we must liave it !" In matters of more intense , concern than the raising of money, as when a soul is crying out for immediate help, how much better the simple speech of common life than the stilted phraseology of the rhetori cian however pleasing the sound , The editor of: the Presbyter has been attend ing Mr. Hammond's meetings in Indianapolis. Among other remarks equally commendatory, he says: We have never attended a meeting in which there was better ; evidence of ,the presence and power of the Spirit• of God, and less appearance of mere animal excitement. Mr. ; Hammond, in his instructions, hymns .and prayers; comes nearer than any evangelist that we have ever met in knowing nothing, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. The same paper, criticising Mr. Barnes' com mentary on the Pklms, says : So far as we have been able to examine, we confess we do not find anything that, we would pronounce inconsistent with sound Calvinistic doctrine. On the fifty-first Psalm, in which . the doctrine of "native depravity" comes up, coin venting on the Psalmist's confession, " I was shapen in iniquity," he `says: " The idea is that he would not have committed this offence (in the case of Uriah) unless - he had been "'thoroughly corrupt. . . . He looked at sin, and he looked back at his own origin, and he inferred that the one demonstrated that in the other there was no good thing, no tendency to goodness, no germ of goodness, but that there was evil and only evil; as when one looks at a tree, and sees that it bears sour and pois,onons fruit, he infers that it is the very nature of the tree, and that there is nothing else in ;,the tree, from its origin; but to produce just such fruit." His views on Ps. Iviii. 3, are of the same purport. . The Herald has a fine article froin Prof. Mor ris, of Lane . Seminary,on the right mode,of read ing. We quote a paragraph The art of mastering books is as difficult as it is rare. It is so much easier to let the book, or its author, become for, the time our master ; to peruse page after page passively, and without independent inspection of what is stated therein •; to flow along with. the current of 'thought, and ,vaguely suck in , general impressions, and accept spontaneously the >conclusions urged, •without that positive and earnest study to which every good book summons us. To master such a.book is quite another' process, and one involving very different mental conditions. In that process the thought rises far above the expression, and the theme above the author ; the subject dis cussed becomes the central object of attraction; the understanding accepts the challenge which the subject brings; the mind rises into an active, perceptive, judicial state; they judgment, the sensibilities, the whole moral nature, are brought into play; arid the soul sets itself deliberately to the task both of comprehending. the .author, and estimating his work, and understanding, the topic he discusses. Then the book becomes the possession of him. who reads it; and•the effects it leaves behind are henceforth as ineffaceable as memory—assimilated by the soul as food is as similated by the healthy body. Mir Rev. A. M. Stewart, (late Chaplain of the 102 d Reg. of Pennsylvania Volunteers,) who has recently returned from a Tour across the Continent, will :deliver his interesting Lecture on the Great American Basin, in, the First Reform ed, Presbyterian Church, Broad Street, below Spruce, on Monday evening, May 24th, at 8 o'clock. Tickets, 25 cents; or, five for one dollar. For sale at the Presbyterian House, 1334 Chest nut Street, Presbyterian Board of Publication, 824 Chestnut Street, and. J. C. Garrignes & Co., 608 Arch Street. FROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT A MEETING FOR THE COLLEGE On Thursday of last week, in connection with the anniversary at Auburn, a meeting of the friends of Hamilton College was held in the Seminary Chapel, to talk up the interests of that institution. Dr. Chester of Buffalo was called to the chair, and C. P. Bush was appointed Sec retary. Some sixty or severity persons were present. Remarks were made, by Dr. Chester, President Brown, Dr. Goertner, Dr. McCosh and others. Hamilton College has graduated 1,178 stu dents ; of, whom 450, or a little less than one half, have been ministers of the gospel, and fif teen of them. Foreign Missionaries. Dr. G-oertner said there are 355 clergymen now living, who are graduates 'of that institution. - About one third of the students now in the College intend to be ministers , It is 'a Christian College. It was founded.. by the Church, and for the Church. It-was consecrated from the •begin ning to Christian learning and the world's salva tion. , The present • officers of the College are warmly.in . accord , with this .hallowed design£ of its, pious founders. The• religion of the Bible is honored within , its . walls, in its class-rooms, and in its morepublic:exercises. Its truths are openly vindicated by its Professors. It is just such an institution as the: "earnest Christian. philanthropist would like' to see 'flourish. • But it•needs mores funds: The object of this meeting was to talli'of its, , wants,'and its plans for still greater usefulness., 'For, it is bound to have the money, to enlarge-its facilities for giv ing instruction by• two or three new` Professor ships, and' by increase of library and , philosophi cal apparatus. It purposes also soon to have a more perfect gymnasium; with all the modern conveniences for Manly exercise. Every way it intends to'be one of the largest and best colleges in the land; lackina. c nothing of the finest ap pointments for intellectual training, whilst hon-• min.- 0 and cherishing the 'Christian religion as the true handmaid and ornament of the highest learning. • , • Much ha's of late'been 'added to the funds of the College, but 'not all it: needs, and needs at once, to meet the growing demands of the age.' Where is the money—two hundred thou 's and dollars---that .are aching to be consecrated to such a grand purpose ; to. training so many young men to be ministers of 'the gospel ? : . LADIES' MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. Stich an erganization has been formed in, this city, auxiliary, to the Women's Board of Boston, to act in connection' with the American Board in §ending out and supporting Female missionaries. Dr. Clark, one of 'the Secretaries of the Board, was here last ,week, in passing, and gave the la dies an admirable address in regard to woman's degradation and her need in heathen lands. He told the ladies, also, what wonderful changes have already transpired since , missionary opera dohs were commenced; how we may now get ac cess to many' whb were, but a few years ago, un approachable; what oPenings now exist for Chris tian work among the women of other countries. He called.attention to ,the faOt - that Western New York has already furnished some eight or ten ladiee for such service ; some of whom' have already wrought long and well on mission ground. Five or six of this sort have recently gone to Tur key.' SOthe engaged in teaching preparing the native women fbr usefulness; and some in direct missionary 'labor, from hou'se to house. He wished the ladies of 'Rochester to know more of these excellent' women. , For this purpose they formed this Society, to put themselves in more direct connection with this part of missionary work, to get fresh intelli gence occasionally from their own sisters in for eign lands, and to' help sustain them by their prayers and their contribuitiong. Our ladies have manifested "a deep interest in the movement, and their organization starts with good promise of vigor and usefulness. This week, also, we had a visit from Mrs: Snow; returned Missionary 'from Micronesia', and she gave our ladies a touching 'narrative of her own experience in those far off islands of the sea. Some of her hearers were so much moved that they wished that they too could have been mis sionaries. Her charming talk gave a fresh im pulse to the new Society; several new Members were added; contributions made ; collectors for the Various . churches appointed, and work was really inaugurated. We hope for much good from the Ladies' Missionary Society, and wish they were started in every city. The ladies would then feel that they have something to do for the missionary cause—it is not left to the men alone —and there is a peculiar fitness' in it, while wo man is the chief sufferer in hethen lands, and women always among the best missionaries of the American Board.' PERSONAL Rev William A. Fox has resigned the pas toral charge of the Presbyterian church of Dun kirk, his resignation to take effect on the first of June.—Rev. E. B. Van Auken has ceased to act as stated supply of, the c,hurch, in Bergen.—Rev. Chas. A Ruddock, in like manlier, leaves the Congregational church of Churchyille, and goes, we understand, into the service of the Amer. Mis. Assoc.—Rev. T. B. Hudson, of North-east, Pa, declines the call of the Presbyterian church of Clinton. His people can't spare him.—Rev. Chas. R. Burdick, of Youngstown, has received and accepted a call to the Presbyterian church of Joliet, Illinois.--Rev. Dr. Crowell has arrived in our city, and is to commence his duties as pas tor of St. Peter's church to-morrow.--Dr. Henry S. West, an honored and successful Missionary Physician of the American Board, sails from New York to-day, with his family, to return to 'his field of labor at at. Sivas, in Turkey. Miss .Eati ly Calhoun, daughter of Rev. Dr. Calhoun, of the Syrian Mission, makes one of the party going out to meet her father at Constantinople, and re., turns with him to his home at Abeih, on Mount Lebanon. She has been living with an aunt, and going to school for three years past in Buffalo. —W were a little too fast in saying 130 had al ready joined the First church of Lockport. The communion did not occur until last Sunday, and then about 200 were received. The happy pas .tor' Rev. Dr. Wisner, was assisted in the service by Rev. Dr. Cheiter, of Buffalo. It was a 'day long to be remembered in the annals of a pros perous church, and a prosperous pastorate. GENESEE. Rochester, Mar. 15, 1869 eitij gutittin. Philadelphia Fourth Presbytery.—A late meetings of Presbytery the following ministers and licentiates were dismissed: Rev. Isaac 0. Sloan, to the Presbytery of Minnesota ; Rev. Alfred J. Snyder, to the Presbytery of Wilming ton; Rev. Samuel Loomis, to unite with' other ministers of our denomination in the formation of a Presbytery in South Carolina; Mr. John Edgar, licentiate, to the care of the Presbytery of Donegal; and Mr. Ambrose N. Hollifield, licentiate, to the care of the Presbytery of Phila delphia Third. The following were received : Rev.. Samuel A. Haight, from the Reformed °lanais .of Albany; Mr. George B. Peck, from the Presbytery of Cayuga. Arrangements were made for the installation of Mr. Haight into the pastorate of Belvidere Second church. Mr. Ed ward T. Bartlett, licentiate, having certified Pres bytery that he was about to take orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church, his certificate of licensure was revoked. -The Rev. J. Garland Hamner, on the ground .of impaired health, was released from the pas torate of the Philadelphia Wharton street church. In the minute of Presbytery respecting this matter of equal necessity and regret, the follow ing resolution was embodied: " It was further resolved that in according to the reqnea Re . v. J. Garland Haniner for the dis solution of his pastoral relation to the Wharton street church, Presbytery would express their sincere regret for the necessity that -constrains this action. • They bear testimony to the faithful ness zeal and ability of Mr. Hamner, and rejoice withhim in the enlarged success that c has attended his labors in the building up and growth of the church. of which he has been the pastor. They hope that the health of Mr. Hamner, impaired by constant and laborious efforts may be restored by a season of rest, and that God, by His good Spirit 'and providence may so direct his course that lie shall still be abundantly useful and suc cessful in the work of the holy ministry." T. J. SHEPHERD, Stated Clerk. Calvary church.—Last Sunday was the anni versary Sabbath of this church. In the morning the pastor preached his first annual sermon, text: 2 Cor.' viii. 10, 11, " Herein I give my advice : for this is expedient for you who have, begun be fore, not only to do, but also to be forwarea year ago. Now, therefore, perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have." As may be inferred, the aim of the discourse was to animate the congregation with new zeal. In reporting , the progress of the past year, the preacher stated the number of' accessions to the membership of the church, to be fifty-two ; losses by dismission and death, ten. Contributions to benevolence and the support of the Gospel, in cluding $20,000 contributed by Jno. A. Brown, Esq., to the cause of Church Erection in this city r about $43,500. The pastor also acknow ledged a recent act of generous kindness to him self, an endowment policy, of _Life Insurance for $5,000, the date of the policy, being that of his first anniversary, a thoughtful and noble com memoration of the day. In the afternoon, the anniversary of the Sun day-school was held. The church was filled. Floral decorations of remarkable taste and beauty adorned the speaker's platform. Addresses were delivered, by Rev. G. 'F. Wiswell, D. D., and by the pastor. On the whole, this was a white day in the calendar Of this church. The foundations of the new chapel are now being constructed. The corner-stone will be laid about the first of June. It will be a model building. Bethesda ,church.—The lecture room of this neir church will accommodate 700 instead of 500 persons, as stated in our account last week of the 'dedication services, _:The subscription in the af ternoon was beaded, by. JAMES IRWIN, Esq., with $5OO ; and the amount received from the City Church Extension 'Fund, up to the present, is $5,000. Two days after the dedication, the pas tor and family were called to suffer, a great sor row, in the loss of their, eldest child—a beloved daughter of 21 years--whose 'lovely and- useful Christian life, was cloSed, after a four months' illness, by a death of greet peace and triumph. The funeral services held on last Friday, were of a peculiarly impressive character. Present and ; participating in them, there were, the venerable, Albert Barnes, Rev. Drs. Allen, Adair, Shepherd; Brown, Mears, _McAuley, Monroe, and others. On last. Sabbath afternoon, Dr. Allen, by request and In memoriam of the daughter, of the pastor, just deceased, preached to a crowded congrega tion in the new chnrch, his celebratedeermon on The Heavenly Recognition. They occasion was marked by. a degrenof solemnity, and emotion, seldom witnessed. —The lately organized 4issiou School (Col ored) of the First church; as voted - to raise dur ing the year, twenty ten - dollar libraries to be dis tributed among Sunday-schools organized at the South, in connection with. the Preedmen's Com mittee of our branch of the Church. Clinton St,. Sunday-school has gathered into its treasury about $175; in the last three months for berrevelent purposes: — 2 Late San Francisco papers declare that Dr. Wadsworth informed' his session, that he " de clines most positively to entertain any, proposition for his removal from the pastorate," but comes East simply fora few months of recreation. The session of the Calvary church have proposed to continue his salary and supply his pulpit. There is certainly' serious misapprehension somewhere, as to Dr: Wadsworth's. intentions. —Bethune Memorial Reformed church held its Sabbath-school anniversary Sabbath before last.. RepOrts ' 'prizes, singing by the " 'Little Wanderers," addresses, were the features. The children have been raising funds for the increase of the library. - —The First R. P. church of this city had an accession of thirty four at their last; Communion. —The Fourth _EC P. chureh (Di. Steele's) re ceived forty-eighttpersons Ito'membership at the last semi-annual .communion, mostly on profes sion. ,A prominent elder- 7 -the Treasnrer of the
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