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