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DR. ANDERSON ON FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Dr. .Anderson's work on FOREIGN MISSIONS,
THEIR RELATIONS AND CLAIMS, has appeared.
Had it been called a "Vindication of the Later
Policy of the American Board," the book would
have been more exactly described. Not that the
work is directly controversial. Dr. Anderson
writes with a consciousness of • dissent from
his positions, but with no mention of the dissen
ters. We have noticed in his! pages the name of
Dr. Alexander Duff, the greatest of Modern inis
sionaries, and the one man of all others who has
done most to revolutionize the theory of Foreign
Missions, as held•and carried out ,by nearly half
the Missionary Societies- of the world. The
question of 'questions, our readers may not be
aware, is whether the missionary's work is to at
tack heathen, society (where that exists in, a
highly organized form) in detail, or in the mass.
Up to Dr. Dufrs time, the first view was all but
universal. The one work of the Missionary was'
to address himself to the conversion of individu
ala.' The friends of, Dr. Duff's methods, and ,
they are no despicable handful, claim that the
results had been most disheartettiOg when he en
tered India, and that new 'life was infused into
the work by adopting brOader views, and more
sweeping measures, especially by,,the,,use of the
great enginery of education. They dlaim that
although the specific results in gathering in a na
tive church membership are less striking, the,
totality of good effected is immensely
,greater..
Among those who have adopted this method are
all the great Presbyterian Missionary Societies—
British and American. Though Dr. Duff is a.
Free Churchman, his work has received t'he un
qualified approval of .the Established Kirk's re
cent deputation to India, and the testimony of
Dr. Norman McLeod is 'heartily endorsed by in
telligent observers of all parties. Up to the
visit paid to the Indian Missions by Dr. Ander
son himself, the missionaries of the A. B. C. F.
M. had been working by the same methods. Dr.
A. himself, had had no practical experience in
the work, and had evinced the possession of no
remarkable qualities save those that fitted him
for the duties of a Board Secretary. But he
possessed the power of the purse, and with a
grim Scotch-Irish persistency, he secured the
adoption of his method of giving a well-nigh exclu
sive prominence to preaching throughout the
Board's India Missions. Much invested capital
was wasted; great educational 'institutions went to
wreck; but the-work was, done. Nearly all the
advance made' in the line of the old theory of
mission work was destroyed, and the A. B. C. F.
M. gravely and deliberately went back to the
theories and methods of the ante-Duff period.
Mr. Wilder of Kolapoor resisted the reactionary
policy, and was forced to cut loose from the
Board, and to cast himself upon the sympathies
of such in our own Church as rallied to his sup
port.
We have written these words not in any spirit
of personal hostility to Dr. Anderson. He is no
longer in any position of responsibility to the
American Board, and if he were, the relations
of our own Church to that Board are about to
be so utterly revolutionized that it would be no
matter to us if he were. But we wish our read
ers to be apprized of these facts, in view of the
reconstruction of our relation to Foreign Mis
sions, by the impending Re-union of the two
Assemblies.
Dr. Anderson's work contains very much that
is most excellent and unexceptionable,—very
much that only a man of experience in the work
of the home field could have written. Nor do
we deny that there is an important truth in
volved in the anti-educational, theory,- T -a truth
which the admirers of Dr. Duff's uaethods may
possibly be in 'danger of overlooking. But we
would rather that he had stated both sides fairly,
and given his readers, and especially the young
men at the six Theological Seminaries to whom
the lectures out of which these chapters grew,
were read, a fair chance of judging for them
selves. Only in the preface does he refer to any
difference Of opinion, and there in such a vague
and imperfect way, that any one would suppose
that his opponents held that missions could only
safely travel in the wake of an accomplished
secular civilization, and that the disputes con
nected with his visit to the mission field related
solely to the ordination .of native pastors.
On another 'point we beg leave to speak our
mind freely. When these lectures were first de
livered, we'spoke of them—on good authority—
as teaching that the mission church par excel
lence was Congregationalist, and we were taken to
task therefor by some who had heard or read
them. A perusal of; Dr. Anderson's own words
confirms our. views. The independence of the
local churches; whether locally governed by el
ders or by the vote of the entire congregation,
is held up as a, great educational method, and
the supervision of the missionaries—a supervis
ion precisely such as exists 'over every home
church through our 'Presbyteries—is spoken of
as a temporary arrangement, not good in itself,
but needed an account of the weakness of the
organization. Dr. Anderson seems to think
(and his Congregationalist champions aver) that
he has avoided deciding between Presbyterianism
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1869.
and Congregationalism, but both he and they
show thereby that they have no exact knowledge
of what Presbyterianism is.
We regret that our duty to the subject has
compelled us to take up so much of our notice
with censures of this kind. We can, however,
heartily commend the practical home chapters of
the book without qualification. The Diffusion
of Missions, their Claims on Young Ministers,
Home Hinderances, and many other points are
ably handled. To any one who reads the work
understandingly, it will do no harm and much
good, and while we think that the venerable au
thor and ex-Secretary might have done better for
our Seminaries, we rejoice to see that he has
done so well. Published by C. Scribner & Co.
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Fields, Osgood it Co. have re.lpuhlished from
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Rev. Albert Henry Thirties has published in a
pamphlet of 34 his censures of PqE POPU
LAR MISTAKES IN EDUCATION. They are (1)
that education consists in accumulating knowl
edge; (2.) that familiarity. of knOwledge is little
worth; (3) the over-estimating the amount that
can be learned in youtli; (4.) the underrating of
words as a part of education; (5.) theoverra
ting of specific instruction of certain, kinds.. The
style of the writer is soterse that he gives us the
matter of a whole treatise, yet there' is no want
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THE REFORMED CHURCHES.
The 0. S. Assembly , was notified:of : the organic
zation of one Presbytery (Santa Fe,) since its last
session. The Presbytery of Austin, Texas, not
having officially communicated the fact of its or
ganization, the right of 'its toiraniesionere to a seat
was questioned and their 'papers referred. °dile
first ballot for Moderator Dr. Jacobus had 140
votes, Dr. Lord 54, Dr. Hall 63. The credentials of
the liommissioner from the Dec. and Test. .Presby
teryof Lafayette, Mo , were returned to Dr. Yantis,
The Mihutes of the Joint Comniiitee on Reunion
were' ordered to be deposited toning the Records.
The order for the organization 'of the - Synod of the
Atlariticin the South, not having been complied with,
was repeated, On Temperance, the former dully
erances'were reiterated, and preaching on the:sub
ject enjoined. The Report on General Presbyterian
Union was approved, and the Committee continued.
Bonds giyen before the war for the support , of a
Hone Missionary in Virginia'were returned to the
donor, a lady of that State, who wishes to transfer
the trust to.the Southern Synod of Virginia. The
Committee on Publication reported an income of
$145,817/8, and 'an outlay '0t , 5142;724'.09. They
had Issued, within a yeari, 98,000 , copies of new
publications, and 550,000 copies of old issues. The
155 colporteurs had sold 62,000,volurnes and do
.
nated,47,ooo volumes and .`,0z.)0,000 pages of tracts.
They aim at the employment of a cOlporteur , in
.
every Presbytery of the Clituich, and 'employ every
competent person who 'offers hiniself.- 'The Col
porteur Fund received $32,0Q8 within the year, and
asks $50;000. They had gfivin in aid of the work
among the freedmen without stint, and to needy
Sabbath-schools. Complaint vies made of the stingy
salariee offered by the. Board to colporteurs, ($25 a
month at the start,) of the small results actually
achieved by them, (5 booksi 'day,) and of the want
of some arrangement by which the. ministry could
help in the work. It came out. Abet the,books of
the Board are not as attractive to the people as
those of other publishing firms. The - Board were
directed to begin the work of publicatidh in the
Spanish and .Portuguese languages. The Board of
Foreign Missions appealed for an increase of $BO,-
000 in their lucerne this year. Men 'are offering
themselves for the work, but they wantthe means to
send them out. . •
The U. P. Assemblk met at Monmouth, 111., a
week later than the two Assemblies in Nekv York.
The'opening sermon contained an appropriate plea
against the carnal policy of paying ;; deference to
public' opinion. Dr. Robert Audley Browne of
Westminster College was chosen Modexator, which
indicated possibly a Liberal policy, as Dr. Browne
has been published in three leading Presbyterian
journals as a hymn-singer, and has never contra
dicted the statement, though very anxious to trace
it to its origin. The. Board or Church Extension
reported: receipts of $1,724,69. The Freedmen's
Mission (Nashville and Vicksburg) reported re
ceipts of nearly $17,000 from, the churches and in
the field.: 'They have 2,334 children in the day
schools. The Board of Foreign Missions laboring
in India, China, Syria, Egypt and Italy, reported
receipts of only $50,624.62; being a sum so• inade
quate for, their purposes that missionaries have had
to borrOw money at 15 per cent. interest to buy
daily bread: Tbe Baord, relying on the pledges
given by the Assembly of last year, had ordered uo
retrenchment, but much of . iheir'field would have
to be abandoned. The workers:report:no remarka
ble encouragements or discouragement& The breth
ren in Egypt suggest the extension of the.work into
Abyssinia. Honorable mention is made of David
Stuart, Esq., of Liverpool (brother of our G. E. S.)
tad of the Maharajah Duleep Singh,' for their libe
ral aid. The Board cannot do. with leSs than
$80,332 for the coming year. The Report of the
Joint Committee on Union of the three Assemblies
was referred to a Special Committee, which reported
that a union was impracticable, and continued ne
gotiations inexpedient. It was adopted, but the
special negotiations with the R. P. Church were
continued.
The Reformed [Dutch] General Synod began
its LXIIId session in the First church of this city,
June 2d. Dr. Chas. Stitt was choson Moderator.
The Treasurer of Foreign Missions reported receipts
of $91,990.87, and expenditures of $90,577, so that
there can be as yet no great reduction of the
heavy debt. In the Amoy Mission two self-sustain
ing churches with native pastors have 409 members.
In the Arcot Mission seven workers are employed,
with about 60 (?) native helpers and 3 native pas
tors and 534 church members. In Japan four mis
sionaries are at work. Two of the Classes memor
ialize Synod to take ground against Masonry. O ne
asks Synod to pronounce on the propriety of church
members owning stock in Sabbath -breaking corpo
rations.. The' Board of Domestic Missions reported
receipts of $30,973, and expenditures of about as
much. The Board of Education has 58 parish
schools under their care with 615 pupils on the
rolls, and an average attendance of 529. For their
support, $2,791.50 had been, raised by the Board,
and $6,650 had been directly contributed by the
churches.. The Board of ,Publication reported re
e:ei si of 26,847.54, and expenditures of 524,395.84.
'Tlie Southeth' Aisenibly and the rree,dmen.
—This body at - its ' seesions in Memphis voted,
" That inasmuch as'the correspOndence of the Sec
retary of the Comrttittee, On Freedmen, of the Gene
ral Assembly of ,the .Presbyterian Church of the
United States of America, with the Committee of
guatentation of our. Church,,has developed no prac
tidal mode of co-operation between the two churches
in efforts IV evangeliZe. the freedmen, this General
Assembly is. not prepared , to take any steps contem
plating afproposed.concert of action. • •
Miniaterial.—Rev. Dr. J..M. Crowell has been.
released from . , his pastorate of the. Seventh church
of this city,, and has entered on his labors at St.
PetePs,'Rocheker. . •
—.Bev. Henry B. titaworth,late pastor ofPlymouth
Cong. church in Pittsburg, has been received into
the Presbytery of 'Philadelphia, after a full exami
nation. ' ' •
=Rev. Wm. H. JaMes is called to be the assistant
and successor of Dr; J. N. C Grier, who. has been
for forty years pastor of Brandywine Manor church
in this State.
—Rev. Dr. A': L. Lindsley was installed pastor of
the church in Portland, Oregon, April 25th.
Ohurches.—Calvary•church in San Francisco,
dedicated May Mb by Dr. Wadsworth's 'congrega
tion, is in theßyZantine style, with massive base
and flanking towers, but finished more lightly
above, with Corinthian columns and supporting
arches. The lower floor is furnished with fine
Sunday School and lecture rooms. The main aud-
ience-room hasi a lofty ceiling, tinted sky-blue, re-
lieved with arches , and pilaSters of warm stone
gray, while i the, Walls •are a delicate lilac,—the
whole effect being at once bright and modest. The
furniture is of black walnut and damask, and the
recess behind the liulpit is tapestried with purple
velvet. • The pulpit•of,white marble is from the old
church,'and fabes the choir, which sits in, 'the rear
of the church; about three feet above the atidience;
while the greaVorgan fills the background:. The
church cost $lOO,OOO, and stands on a lot• 137x138
feet, worth $60,000.
—A German church of fifty-three members has
been organized in Beloit, Wis. Another of sixteen
Members was organized May 2d, in Franklinville,
lowa, and two elders elected. It promises well and
is in charge of Rev. J. J. Weiss.
~.—The 'Walnut St. church. of Louisville, has,
within a year, received to membership four persons
who had been Romanists.
—We have been rather •sceptical about the al
leged great number of adjacent weaker churches
whom Presbyterian union would enable'to support
pastors. When such cases do exist, we have never
understood why they should wait for a general Re
union before combining their resources. Some one
writes to the N. W. Presbyterian, that in the Pres
bytery of S. he knows of two churches (0. and Isl",
S.) at adjacent stations on.s. R. R., which could.sup
port a pttstor if united, but are vacant. Also two
0. S. and a R ! S. church are vacant within reach
of each other, and each,too poor to support a pas
tor. Queri—Why did not the two O. S. churches
combine?
Scottish Synoda.-L—The Original Session Synod,
numbering: some thirty churches, mostly weak,
emitted its usual annual testimony against the sins
and short , comings of its neighbor churches,' and
their apostacy from ." covenanted uniformity."
The proposed Union of the three negotiating
churches, and the proposed disestablishment of the
Irish Church, were alike hailed with the vials of
seceder wrath. This body is but the remnant of
the Church that bore , the name in the days when
Dr. McCrie—the. historian of Knox—belonged to
it, he and the best men in it having joined the Free
Church.
—The R. P. Church, representing " the faithful
and contending remnant," who refused to go into
the Establishment in 1688,,has also been purged,
but in another way. Its exclusivists withdrew
when the Synod retused , to censure members for
taking the oath of allegiance, and its members are
in hearty sympathy with Mr. George H.,Stuart and
his friends among us. That they are desirous of
Union may be judged from their having mostly
acted as mediators in thepending negotiations, and
from the hearty unanimity with which they sent
down the Joint Committee's Basis in overture to
the Presbyteries. The forty-four churches have
50me.:2,600 members. They c, operate, with the
Church of the Seaboard Provinces of Canada in
sustaining an able mission to the New Hebrides.
—The U. P: Synod has 599 congregations and
177,905 members, and raised last Synodic year,
4209,697 for congregational purposes and £59,697
for Hotne and li'oreign Missions. No other Pres
byterian Church in the world is characterized by
such systematic liberality. At its late session, the
Synod voted unanimously to' send down the Basis
of Union proposed by the Joint Committees of the
three churches, to the, Presbyteries and Synods for
their approval. This vote does not represent the
degree of approval felt towards the Basis, as not
a few members of the Synod object to points in the
Basis itself, while others are repelled by the lan
guage and conduct of the Bed; and qibson party in
the Free Church. •
OTHER DENOMINATIONS.
Episeopalian.—lt is claimed . that the society
chartered in this city, in 1779, for " the relief of the
widows and children of ulergymen in the com
munion of the. Protestant Episcopal Church, in
the Commonwealth of, Pennsylvania," introduced
the system of Life Asstirance into America, and it
is proposed to celebrate an Assurance Centennial
this"year: The society is' still in operation. It is
claimed that the society was anticipated by the-ac
tion' Of the Presbyterian Synod at a still earlier
—The Rev. W. H. Woods, rector of St. Mark's
church in Cincinnati, has gone over to the Baptists.
He was immersed ay Pith.
--Since 'Dr. 'fyng left the 'Epiphany church in
this city; twenty-five . years ago, to take charge of
St. George's church in . New York, he has had
20,000 children.in the Sabbath-school of his parish.
He preserved the records of their names and at
tendance, which show that fifty of them have zone
into ,the: ministry, after ,beginning in the infant
class.
—Dr. Paddcick leaves Christ church in Detroit
for Grace church in Brooklyn, where he will find a
public more congenial than that which he outraged
by rebuking a brother rector for preaching in the
pulpit of (the venerable and just deceased) Dr. Duf
field. As he recently urged his people not, to take
The Episcopalian and The Protestant Churchman, those
papers will probably pay him some attention in his
new field.
—The war has reduced the clergy of South Caro
lina from seventy to fifty-three, with only forty at
work; the parishes from seventy to forty-two (nomi
nally fifty-three), with resident rectors and regular ser
vices in only ten. The Widows and Orphans' Fund
has fallen from $lOO,OOO to $50,000; the Bishops'
Fund from $70,000 to $50,000; the Fund of the
Missionary Society from $90,000 to about $30,000.
Thirteen churches and twice as many negro
chapels, worth $130,000, were destroyed, and, over
all, $160,000 was lost through bad investments.
The Theological Seminary is bankrupt..
—A member of Trinity church in New Haven,
Conn., has begun the erection of a Church Home,
chapel and refectory and two first-class tenement
houses, to cost $120,000, and to be presented to the
Church in trust.
=The English Solicitor-General---Sir Roundell
Palmer—thinks there is no
. tribunal before which
Colenso can be brought for trial.
—ArobbishOp Tait announces that a bill is to be
i i ntroducedinto the House of'Lords, to retire'super
annuated bishops on a pension proportioned to
their incomes: In 1856, Palmerston adopted this
plan, with regard to, two of the bench, and five
bishops in Southwestern dioceses are now unequal
to the work required of, them. The Pall Mall
Gazette says there, is hardly a bishop from London
to Land's End, fit for work, but none will resign,
their'best excuse being that their'dioceses get on
much better without them.
Congregationalist.—The secretary of the Me.
Missionary Societnhas been canvassing the Theo
logical Seminaries in behalf of the vacanciesr in
his field, and has secured several students at Ando-
Ver and font' cit
Dr. Storm-the:florid pulpit orator of Brooklyn,
whom the Central church of Boston have been be
seeching ft:Leonle and fill their fine "Eastminster
cathedral" with fashionables and relieve it of debt,
refuses to. leave Plymouth church.
,z
—Prof. Park of Andover, has been suffering so,
much" 6y.ei3; that he has been releaged
for a time erom 'prcifessional duties.
:—The Connecticut city vacancies are filling up.
Rev. Jas. W. Habbell of Milford, takes charge of
the College St. church of New Haven. Rev. John
E. Todd, recently of, the Central church in Boston,
accepts the,Chapel St..church in the same city.. • .
EnOcli E. Rodgers, of the Senior class• ie
Yale 'Seniinary. his been ordained an Evangeliet,
and goes.to,Macon, Ga., to take charge of a Freed-
Mein s church under the A. M. A.
—The last , vacancy in the churches of this' order
in Chicago. is in the New England church, which ,
Dr. Gulliver leftfor the, presidency of Knox College,
,
at Galesburg.' They have called. Mr. L. T. Chain
lierlain of the Senfor:c,lass at Andover.
—Among twent3r.five accessions to a church of
this faith in Howard Co. Ind., were a Quaker who
rejecta4ater baptisin,.and a Restorationist who be
lieves in the final salvation of all men.
—The .Spring• St. chUrch of Milwaukee, (Mr
Love's) counts six superintendents of . Mission S
schools.
—➢fir. Kidder, preaching at three outposts in. M
ichigan, has no 'evangelical preacher for 250 miles
north of him; nor 40 miles east. In the 70 miles
from Plymouth to Green Bay, there is scarce any
evangelical preaching!, and in the 50 north and south
of Sheboygan, there is no English preaching, The
districts abound in Romanist foreigners.
. —The church in Dubuque, lowa, (Dr. Whiting's)
feels quite venerable at thirty years of age, and ce
lebrated the fact, May 14th. Two days later it re
ceived twent, -four to membership, all but five on
profession, seventeen of them young. •
=fYr: Raleigh , of London is to have a coadjutor,
and is to preach alternately with him, once a Sab
bath in the church and, once in a mission chapel.
2aptilt.- I —The waterieaked from the baptistery
of d'cliurch in" Providence recently, not only com
pelling the ,postPonetnent' of the immersion of a
candidate, but causing an alarm of fire by coming
into contact •vrith the heaters and passing off in
steam.
—Thurlow Weed has given a .church in South
Carolina a handsome communion .service.
,
—Dr. Do of New York, removes to Newark
to take c,liarg,e of the South churoh.
—The' Second church's Sabbath-school, Phila
delphia, organized in 1816, has 697 pupils, and an
average attendance of over 500. Forty-two scholars
have been baptized-within a year.
—The schools of the city have a denominational
S. SchoOl Association, which met for discussion, &c.,
May 11th, in the Xlth church. A thousand dollars
for the "stipport of a city missionary were pledged.
—The North church has' enjoyed a revival, and
thirty converts have been dampened.
—Brandywine church, at Chadd's Ford, in Dela
ware Co., the third oldest in the State, was organized
in 1715. It is about to build a new house of wor
ship at a cost of $lO,OOO. The structure; just now
torn down dates from 1806.
—A new church was organized at Lincoln, Del.,
April 28th. of 22 members, and is about to build a
house of worship and call a pastor:
—Dr. Jeffrey—formerly of the Buttonwood St.
church in this, city,—has baptized one hundred since
he recently took charge of ,a church in Cincinnati.
—The churches in Indianapolis are sharing in
the fruits 'of the great revivals, most , of the evening
meetings have been held in the Firit church. One
church has had thirty accessions.
—The Theological Union of Chicago is building
an edifice for the Theological Seminary, containing
lecture rooms, reception room, dining hall, kitchen,
and thirty suits of- study rooms, and two dormi
tories. They expect to accommodate one hundred
and twenty students, and to have it ready in Sep.
tember.
—Rev. S. Crandall, of lowa, has left the Seventh
Day for - the Regular Baptists.
—The fine mission in Haiti' has come to an 'end
through . civil commotion. One missionary left We
post,, one died of hardships. and z bad • food.
Methodist. The second attempt to release
Mary Anne Smith from her imprisonment at the
[louse of the 'Good Shepherd [n Ili/ nery], has, failed..
Justice Sutherland refused to interfere, although
one of the witnesses who swore away her charac
ter, confesses that he perjured himself.
--The White Methodists of Boston have, not
quite come up to Gilbert . Haven's standard yet, as
their cdlored brethren in that citY have a •church
rod' pastor of their own.
_Ch a plain McCabe;' of Libby Prison and U. S.
C.. C. faMe, as to be Assistant Secretary of the
Church Extension Society, , with .headquarters at
Chicago. .
,-When a Conference met at Honesdale, Pa., re
cently, all the pulpits of the place, not exCepting,
the Episcopalian, *ere filled with its members. A.
Methodist paper comments: " When 'EPiscopali
ans open their doors to the ministry of other ,
churches, and Orthodox Quakers sing Methodist,
hymns 'in their meetings, and shout hallelujah,'4
we must conclude that times are changing."
—The. venerable Laight Street church of Balti
more; associated with the names of Asbury and
Cope, is to be torn down to make room fgt. stores.
New. York preserves her John St. church and
Philadelphia her St. George's as precious heirlooms.
Is Baltimore more mercenary?
—Theßook Concern moved into their new building
June Ist. hirty feet of the ground floor on Broad
way is retained as the retail sales-room, and the
rest is rented, while the upper stories are reserved
as editors' rooms, library, society rooms, Sunday
school Union rooms, and for the work of the Con
cern itself.
—Bishop Kingsley starts on an Episcopal tour,
which begins with Colorado and ends with Sweden,
taking California, China, India, Germany and Den
mark on the way. Every day of the tour and of the
meetings to be held is announced in the pro
gramme.
—The Southern M. E. Bishops, in their corres
pondence..with the Northern, stoutly oppose any
organic Reunion, and The Christian Advocate of New
York, the leading Northern official paper, takes
the same stand, but for the opposite reasons.
The Jews.—There being much incredulous in
quiry upon the matter of converts from Judaism,
we notice that the First Annual Report of the Western
Christian Hebrew Brotherhood in Chicago, gives, as the
result of eight months labor of a converted Jewish
preacher, now in the German. Reformed Church,
tour hopeful conversions, a generally kind reception,
in some instances the eager acceptance and diligent
reading of tracts, the gathering of a number of
Jewish
,children, by consent of their parents, into
Christian Sunday-schools, and' the attendance of
more or less of this class of people on every one of
the preaching services designed for them. The
Secretary says, in hie report, published in the N. TV.
Presbyterian: "Much opposition we have had to en
counter, especially from the Rationalistic Jews,
who, as a general rule, have little respect for the
Old Testament. and are, of course, opposed to those
who are basing all their arguments on the Scrip
three. The Unitarian has assisted them in their
endeavors to hinder 36 work, and even a discourse
was delivered twice by a Unitarian on "The folly of
converting the Jews." This mistaken man thinks
himself to be wiser than Christ or Paul, and he
scorns the attempt of converting the Jew to a belief
in a Triune God, though he is very anxious of see
ing them turn Unitarians. The Secretary having
replied to this discourse ; and both discourses having
been printed in the Chicago Tribune, God made use
of this reply to bring to us the gentleman referred
to above, and thus has God brought to naught the
counsels of the wicked, and made use of the foolish
ness of this world to bring an inquiring soul at His
feet." '
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