ginuritait 11)115111jtitiart. THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1869 REV. JOHN W. MEARS, D. D., Miter. No. 1334 Chestnut Street, .Phitadelphta. TIM EDITORIAL COMALITTEE. Rev. Z. M 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. Rev. Peter Stryker, D.D., Pastor of N. Broad St. Church. Rev. George F. Wlswell, D.D., : Pastor of Green Hill Church. Rev. E. E. Adams, D. D., Prof. In Lincoln Vni versity. Rev. Samuel W. Duffield, Special Cor respondent. Mr. Robert E. Thompson will continue to act as Editor of the News Department. Correspondenta in every Presbytery and Synod will promptly furnish us with fresh items of news from their respective fields. • 7167' Our Office will be open, till further notice from 9 A. At., till 3 P. M. REV. A. Ms STEWART'S LETTERS.—NO. %%XVII. SALT LAKE CITY, June, 1869 This Capital City and sacred headquarters of the Latter-Day Saints numbers about twenty-five thousand inhabitants, fifteen hundred of whom are Gentiles—that is, not Mormons. This foreign population is composed of Government officials, Military agents, Indian agents, Wells & Fargo agents, Merchants, Bankers, &c. Many of these are with their families. An effective Protestant Church should long ere this have been organized,' in this centre of the Latter-Day Kingdom. The Congregationalists attempted this some time since, but failed, (if my information be correct,) rather: from the character of the agent than the nature and conditions of the enterprise. The Episco palians are now making efforts to obtain a foot hold, but do not seem to draw very effectively the anti-Mormon' element. The time seems to have come when Protestantism must ignore High Churchism as distinctly, and for the same general reasons, that know does Papacy. PRESBYTERIANISM AMONG THE SAINTS I went to the 'source of'civil and ecclesiastical authority among these fanatics, and had a long, curious and interesting talk concerning the es tablishment of a Presbyterian Church in Salt Lake City. " What," it was inquired, "weuld be the Mor . mon views and feelings towards such an enter- terprise ?" " You have the right to carry out such an effort." " Certainly ; as a minister of Christ and' an American citizen, I, or any other Missionary of our Church, have the right to come and gather not only all the Gentile population into a Presby terian community, but also - to convert all you Mormons ;—yet, what would be your feelings and actions towards such an one, were he here ?" "We would throw no obstructions in his way, provided he minded his own business." " That is, you mean, if he did not preach against, nor in any way interfere with, Mormon ism 7" it yes!, " But a Presbyterian minister faithful to his Master would not, likely, be so passive. . . . Again, could a lot for a church building be pro cured within the city?" "Yes, provided any of the Saints would sell." "But would they ?" "We think not." • . "Then, the minister and his people would have to spat on some vacant place as you Mormons did." UNCLE SAM'S OFFICIALS Their situation here is certainly pitiable, and degrading. It seems difficult to understand how any man cherishing the feelings becoming an American citizen could accept an offiCial position here. Nominally they are sent to - judge of and administer the laws of the United States; while Mormon authorities enact and execute laws to snit themselves. Our 'authorities at Washington should act with more dignity. Either send no officials or support them to the last extremity in their authority. POLY,GA This crowning abomination among the mem bers of the Latter-Day Kingdom, is much more complicated in ty_eary, and more cunningly de vised in prao.lic4 , ia order to delude, than seems generally'to supposed It moreover an interesting fact and very in striictive, that many of the leading and,f,Suecess ful semi-religious errors in the world's histdry, hal're rested largely for their advancement-upon perversions and abuses ;of the marriage relation. Mahomet's heaven of Women and Wine ;" Swe derlbOrg's "Affinities';" and Brigham Young's " Sealed Wives for the other world', are all of a piecei .411 appeal to and seize upon _the lower passions df i pur,fikil,en nature, and connect them as religious tenets, with the idea of full gratifica tion in anothey" World. "All these systems are too gross, to dravt anChold.Oehiddd followers, with a proposed resting and final settlement , in the ,pre , sent state. • ,• In a la.l,o4rrilteAs.Reech .cf<Brigharn, now be= fareme, he vulgarl y boasts in this wise , , "Peo ple ask how 'tiny wives I hitve. Well, I don't I 41,AygrfiNen which I care for, how THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1869. many more belong to me I cannot tell." Now this, according to Mormon tenets, may all be true enough. The President may not know how many wives he has. Fifteen certainly in his household for whom he provides. But he may have besides, fifty, a hundred, or even Solomon's number of " Sealed Wives." This Sealing and Endowing of wives among these rexorious saints seem to be terms unexplained to outsiders. Like other se cret associations, these appear to he among their unrevealed mysteries. And my impressions are they are made to cover a multitude of abomina tions. The uniting of the Atlantic and Pacific sides of our continent—the minglings and surrounding of Utah by an antagonistic population must ere long compel a -revolution of matters in this com munity so antagonistic to modern civilization and to Christianity. Yet bow this is to be accomplish ed without some blood-letting your correspondent is at present unable to understand-. A. M. STEWART. THE SAHHA'I4 A SOOIAL HEOESSITY. in the ,early days of " the Colony of Massachu setts Bay in New. England," when its'" General Court," or Legislature, took cognizance of every thing, from pins and .needles to creeds and commandments, a tribe of Indians was once brought into court by these 'Puritami legislators, and questioned as to their willingness to keep the Ten Commandnients. Many of their reiies were shrewd enough, but the most 'suggestive was that in regard to the •yourth dommundment, They confessed that they were 'not ithich in the habit of working on ~aity day of the *reek, but professed willingness to take stiebiarheed to that day as a day of rest. On reading this answer occurred. to• me, that these, old red,heathen gave us d.hint to the solu tion of the old questien--“ Did the Jewish Sab bath originate at the ' giving of the ' Law on' Sinai ?" The queation has been discussed with the greatest energy by the, friends and opponents of Sabbath observance, under: the supposition that if it be answered negatively, than the Sab bath is proved to be only national in its 'design and obligation; .not having been given to man as man, but to the Jew as a Jew. I think that the question must be answered negatively, but no such consequence can be deduced from the an- In the patriarchal age, society; as :such, had no proper exisence. The rapid "societary circula tion," (as Mr: Carey calls it,) had no place in an age when the family (or its enlarged development," the tribe) was the highest form of social organization. Family negotiated with family ; sheik with sheik. The precious metals were weighed out when, one bought a piece of ground for a' family plaCe of burial, because no central authority 'existed to coin them and stamp them with their true value and the insignia of sovereign authority. Wealth was estimated by flocks and herds. Their ernidni ments were the tending of these, duties which involved a good deal of idleness and rest on all days, and which could not be neglected on any day. Under our own dispensation, work of this kind among the cattle (especially in grazing countries) is classed among works, of necessity and mercy. The Sabbath of such a tribe could differ little, if at all, from other days. Life moved , • so uniformly, slowly , and quietly that no marked antithesis • between days of work and • a day of holy rest, could exist. , And the' inspired word is as silent as we might have expected; on the subject of special seasons of 'religious rest. The commands given to Noah and to Abraham say nothing on Ole subject. The tribal stage:of ,hu man progress—corresponding, to , that which we find among the Indians of our own country, is one on 'which man doeS comparatiVely so little on any day, that very special pains would have to be taken to distinguish one of them as a rest day. Now, the patriarchal and tribal .stage only ended for the Israelite at Sinai. In Egypt, Goshen was assigned them as especially suited for their mode of life.' In the" traditions' of Egypt they were spoken of as,the," Shepherd Kings," because they had in Egyptian eyes just these two char acteristics, that they were not united under one national head, and their 'eniployment was the care of cattle. It Was among the special cruel ties of the Pharaoh " that knew not Joseph," that he took them away from their own work and set them to such+ work as brick-makitig, for which they Were utterly unsuited, while'the pas ture fields of 'Goshen furnished no straw for the purpose. i, At Sinai, their national existence began. =The wonderful events which' preceded and adeom panied the givin ,, of the law' sere to intpress upon them the truth, that th,e will. of Jehoyah was the ground and cause of • their'-preservation in the past, and of their national. existence and unity in the future. The minor, laws' given them'were a series of instructions for their now conditinn 'of life, when they should become an agricultural community in the land which. , the Lord Save them. And now, at this point of transition, the Fourth Conirnanamdrit is given as a new itijuric tion. 'Six days they are to :labor, rising ,to a higher degrees of social activity and, energy than that whjsh they, had hitherto been characterized by, and in so far being more like to the Lontr, their God, who in six days had made all things of nothilta.. And' as"they Were to share 'the di-- yine activity, so unlit they. as, men, made in the image and likeneds -of God;; sharea the. diyitie rest also : " 4 The Seventh day is the Sabbath (or Rest) of the LORD thy God." The Sabbath, then, was not given to man as man, nor yet to the Jew as a Jew, but to society as society. It is the antidote and counteraction to the countless movement and circulation which is always threatening to make , the individual nothing, and the mass everything; to set public opinion above conscience; work and gain above man. It is the intercalary space of masterly in activity in which we seek to take our bearings with the facts of life and the uhiierse, before plunging into the restless movement around us. It is the time to close our:doors against business and take stock to see how it stands with us. I have read somewhere of an Italian prisoner of State, who was confined to a dungeon for thirty years and then liberated. He went out into the world, but his own generation had passed away. The places ,and the circles that had known him knew him no more. Every face was new and strange to him, and thirty years of solitude had left him so utterly unsocial that he had no hope of finding a new Trace for himself among - men. The light and- colors of nature were an offensive glare, hersounds a ceaseless; noisy din; when contrasted with the dim silence of phis cell. The freed9m which he had lotprred for wag tasteless and wearisome when it came, and he went back and besought his jailors to restore him Once more to his cell. - Had that man been released' one day in every seven, *6llld he have found life so wretched when his final release: c,aine ? So with us. Money getting,,prk, and society are•building up an un seeiebut real prison-house around us. We may become 'so used 'to 'it that we shall find no place of rest beyond it ; our hearts may grow so close to the things of this, life, that all our, delight shall be in them. :God comes with His blessed day of resti and commandstus' to' spend' one day in seven outside of thdde : and so' to save our' lin- Man and ,spiritual freedom and independence of circumstances by cultivating life'outside of them. ON THE WING. .• PROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT. ST: ATER'S CHURCH We `suppoie we do' not peed to say " Old School" nOW, inasmuch as theie distinctiOns are virtually abolished. And you'r Rochester Cor respondent must confess that it has' already made quite a difference in, his interest in churches of the , " other branch," now that they are not to be regarded - as of another denomina, Lion, but as a part of our own. •Is this un natural? , We had the pleasure of looking, for the first time, info' the new St. Peter's last Sabbath. It is a greaVrnprovement, in our estimation, on the former building. The old-walla' were of - the drab brick,` one uniform drab, inside and out. Now the interior walls are beautifully lighted up and, relieved by a mixture of red bricks, in pleasant and varied figures, with the drab. The effect is very `pleasing, a perfect relief to the • • monotony, of the former gurface. The devices and mottoes in the windows are also very fine., The painting is rich and agree able. The church is also a perfect success in acoustics. The'voice of the preacher easily fills every part. We are quite sure,, at the same time, if we may judge from - the sermon Which we heard, that the preacher is trying to do the people good by his earnest, practical,, evangelical disnourses. We could but bid him a most hearty Grod-speed iri his bleseed work. lay the ChUrch thrive and prosper under his ministry, The organ,is on brie side, the_faee of, it flush with the wall, at about the. middle of the audience-rom, with a little norgay-loft, sufficient only to accommodate a quartette choir. In parts of the singing, however, the congregation are expected to join. Of course, We could not altogether fancy the ;.semi-Episcopal aervice, which is peculiar to the church; but if others like it, we hope they may find a blessing in it. WESTMINSTER CHURCH This young enterprise has enjoyed uninter rupted prosperity since its organization. - And now it is thought the time has come for im .proveme4 and enlar,gement in their present substantial brick,' edifice. was built, for a chapel, and has not enough of the appearance of an independent 'church. It is proposed to put unequal towers on the two front corners, to raise the roof , to make it steep and finished - with open work on the . inside,,ip 'put In galleries, to enlarge ,the audience-room by taking ; in what has been'cui-off for the infant department of, the Sabbath-sclMOl, and to build a and room'on'the rear for the infant dcpartment and fOr prayei meet Rigs, . so arranged as to open directly into the church. , These chancre s it is thought, Will cost, about, $8,000; will make the church, yerY,preity' and attractive, and enable . it to accommodate a con gregation of , hundred, which will probably be all' that is necessary for the - Preaent. The Central, church are deeply interested in the pros perity „of - this enterprize., whicli they have al ready done so much to establish, and they will 1. , still Jenil a helping hand' in. the improvements proposed. • , INSTALLATIONS On Wednesday evening, 30th June Rev. E. N. Manley was, installed, pastor of the new Pres . byte,rian church of camden. The serrpon ,was preachediby Rev.:George Boardman, B.B.; charge to the pastor by Rev. B. .Willoughby,; charge to the people and instOlipg, prayer by ,Rev..Selden Haines. Mr Willoughby and Mr. Manley were class mates in the Seminary ; and as the ,former is to be installed at Satiquoit, next.. Thursday; Mr. Manley is to. have a chance to :reciprocate / all •the kind and, faithful worcls addresied to hini ,by giving ,the, charge to . the pastor on that oc casion. • • . . . The .eharge, to the people came very appro priately, from ; the elips of R r., itiep, as he was the founder of the church, and supplied it during the first three months of its existence. He congratulated the people on the prosperity so far given them, and gave them tender and affectionate advice for the future. Mr. Manley has been twice settled before. He was installed at Oakfield ten years ago, and at Barnsville five years ago to-day. Mr. Wil loughby's installation is to take place on the tenth anniversary of his ordination. These co incidences were not thought of until after the arrangements were all, made. The congregation at Camden are greatly en joying their beautiful new church edifice. It is a gem of a building, tasteful and attractive. The people are united and happy in their faithful minister, and his settlement promises to be one of great usefulness. [Later.] Rev. B. F. Willoughby was installed pastor of the Presbyterian church of Sauvoit on the 6th inst. Sermon by Rev. Dr. Fisher ; install ing prayer by Rev. E. C. Pritchett ; charge to the pastor by 'Rev. E N. Manley; and chargc 'to . the' people by the Rev. J. N. McGiffert, for , mer, pastor of the church. , itev. Philander Barbour was installed pas: • tor of the Presbyterian church' of Augusta next day, July seventh; by the same Presbytery. Sermon .by . Rev Dr: Fowler; installing prayer by. Rev. E. C. Pritehett; charge to the pastor by the Rev. B. F. Willoughby ; and charge to the people by the Rev. C. W. Hawley. ' It is'thus that three pastors are settled over churches of 'the Utica Presbytery in as many webks. MORE lALPROVEAIENTS The Holley church is in the hands of the workmen. It is raised up, for a• basement. Twenty-two , feet are : to be added .to the _length.The high, and unsightly galleries are to come down. New pews, desk, carpets, etc.-411 .at a cost of about, s3,ooo—are,to make the edifice modern and attractive. They expect to have it ready for the meeting of our. Presbytery and installation of their new pastor in October. The Independent Congregational church of Richmond, of whiCh Rev. Samuel M. Day is paS tor, are making some' deriirable 'improvements in their house of worship; adding sixteen feet to the length in front; putting up a **vet; ' , get- Ling in a bell, which they have never Yet had ; building a lecture-room, and improving things generally. It is a good sign of life and enter prize in an old and staid parish. - Rochester, July 3, 1869. GENESEE. THE PEINOETON REVIEW ON REUNION. • The July number of this quarterly is unus ually, interesting >as revealing a difference of sentiment on Reunion, between the Senior and Junior Editors, Drs. Hodge and Atwater. The former, although expressing satisfaction with the terms of the Plan, declares that, be " will be constrained to vote against the union," be. causele regards " the strictness in interpreting the standards for which the Old School have always contended, to be the ' Ark of the Coien ant' [l] committed to our trust"; and because he considers " that principle" (qu. strictness ?) " to be endarwered by consenting to the "union' when those with whom we unite, and the public generally (so far as we can judge) , consider that we surrender our palladium." =The sentiments of the Junior Editor, Dr. Atwater, who, con sistently 'with his course in the General Assem bly, heartilY advocates the Reunion in this num ber, ape,'on the whole, satisfactory and just. After rehearsing -the history of previous negotiations, the writer proceeds to examine the declarations Made by speakers in our Assembly in New York before the passage of the Phin of Reunion. We quote from this part of the .article, as . containing the essential points. - • 'Be this as If may, it" is'right and wise, hefore it is too late, to face the facts just as, they are, spading nothihg'and disguising nothing, and see if they prove any ferrnidable antagonism that will hereafr r beget irreconcilable collisions and rend - Or the united church in twain. me divine, re puted eccentric and exceptional in hisown church, expirtiated on the 'merits of New England theolo 7 gy-a tern in vogue to denote alikesystems that have, as well as some which have not, been al ways freely tolerated in our church. We think it unreasonable* to regard this as very Perious, whatever we may think of its taate. Another had satisfied himself that the liberty - he Wanted, would not indeed, without, some friction, be se cured. Bue.the main and :significant thing was Dr. JOHNSON'S statement, that, though himself Old School in his theology, if it was understood that the advocacy of the views of Albert Barnes would notte . freely allowed in the united church, "the' Plan of union would-not command , the vote: of a dozen members or p. half-dozen Presbyteries " The first announcement of this, ,produced some misgiving among us, until further an nounced that .henad ; been misreported, ,and uatil cool reflection, sati;fted.,ras, that it, 4p: , lo t, nece p. sarily imply the.toleration, of .errors,lieretofdre deemed intolernip, or condemned by the Assent- MY: ' • • For, 1 It is settled bey,ond a peradvintnie and in the understanding of all,parties;, that no 'one whom : the united chureh shall judge a rejecter of the, essenturls, o f palviniain, can shield himself by showing that .51esars. Barnes, BeOelier, .Tunkin, Wilson, the Pi•i*lton Review,' ,or the P4espllterion Review or ,any other,p,ersori or nu. thority, living or dead has said tie 'of what is objected to.. 2., The belief that the advocacy of Air: Barnes's ,sentiments will be tolerated, is mere matter 'of inference and ~opin ion from ascerttined 'or supposed state of opinion and, practice in the two bodies, and is, not claimo to be foundedon_tlib express or implied terms Of the compaci.' however:, it arises, or an whatever it. is fOUnded, it is simply the opinion'of those who - enter it: lt may_ave arisen from extensive conference with *platers, and members of, our • church or from 'what is claimed to bp its•knownp,reaent - practice. We have heard a prominent of t tlaiidox. member of the New Sehool.bodY say, tl4, Eger haring .many; chUrchas, l he'shonld - need a more latitudinarian basis to protect some from our body, whom he had heard, than any from his own. And we have seen enough to give at least a verisimilitude to the statement. If they judge that we now tolerate among us, what they expect will be tolerated in the united church, or even more, this is their own judgment, and unless they are wholly mistaken, the union will alter us little in this respect. 3. What is more important and decisive, how ever, on this held is, that Mr. Barnes has un consciously but largely exercised the privilege of being inconsistent with himself. There are few topics on which he has uttered exceptionable views, on which he has not also in some form spoken in a very satisfactory manner. W e d o not, yield to his colleague in our estimate of him as a'man, a Christian, and an eminent minister and. author. But, we presume, no offence will be taken if we say that systematic theology is not his forte: that it was easy for his prosecutors, by one array of excerpts from his writings to table a formidable list of charges against him, and for his defdndera to claim and prove from another set of excerpta, that his views Were not fairly repre sented by the charges, and that judged by these, he held doctrines not hostile to the system of our confessions. The New School never admitted that the charges against Mr. Barnes, on his trial, truly or fairly' represented' his opinions. I n claiming that his opinions 'are to -be tolerated, they do not therefore -claim. •thati the •opinions charged against ,him arelo, .be tolerated. Mr. Barnes made such Of his views be fore the Ansembly,,tetrhich he appealed his case, that as we are credibly informed ; Dr. Junkin told him if he (Mr. B.) would "Sign his name to it, he (Dr. J.) would withdraw his thargen: If'Mr. Barnes could thus set .forth'! his .views to Dr. Junkini can th.eynot be set in •a light to the view of our New School brethren, at least,. giving them a claim to be tolerated?' ' , Hence, on 'account of the want of system and harmony in Mr. Barnes's utterances, we have not - referred to him or .his writings, as a test, in our attemps to define , and prove what-IMA•beren held : dr tolerated in the New School 'body. ', And we can perfectly understand how,,while one man hi that body would say not a dozen among them would vote for a union which would not tolerate the advocacy; of, his sentiments, another should say itywas equallytme, that not a half dozen, men among them tvould vote his theology to be ?representative:lhr the body. We think, therefore, on closer consideration, that this statement of Dr...Tomtsow,, whatever we may think` of its taste . or •propriety id the circum stances, need not plarni us.":. ' Are then the 'two' bodies i 0 such a relation to each other ortthele - Mitterktliatrolie is committed to tolerate a set. tirdogmas,which the other is committedroilinfolerate? t • This` brings us to the Hall resolution as the pivot on which the whole question turns.. Ilere is a specific and deter minate series of dogmas condemned by the As sembly of 1837, while theehurch was yet undi vided, and by a nearly unsaiincius vote, to hold which we have unanimously and officially notified the New School 'Assernbly,,We shOuld consider a bar to licensure mid ordination •in the united church. This action ha's not been revoked. Whatever may be said as to the degree or dura tiOn of its obligation, it may at all events be taken for'a pretty fair revelation of• the animus of our body, until . evidence to the contrary appears. Does it then 'appear that the New School are on opposite ground in regard to that series of arti cles? Not certainly from any action of theirs since' the adoption of the Hall resolution. And the protest/offered by'some New School men at the time of their cOadetrmation, they signify that; if these'artidles had been presented at a time and in a Why to prevent falseimplications, all parties would 'have' united to make this con demnation unaniinotiX; and, further, to prevent misconception they take up eaCh of the condemned errors in turn, and reptidiating it, state' what they conceive to be the true doetrine instead... This series of substitnted articles was after Wards adopted by the entire body in convention at Au burn, and constitutes. What is Called the "Auburn Declaration." On many of the points, and these leading points of Calvinism ; such as eleetion and deerega, it is quite satisfactory. Its faults with an 'occasional exception are rather in the Way of defect,. than of positive unambiguous error. But without pursuino. 6 this Matter further, we think it sufficiently . proved that' , the gall resolution does not evince any necessary or'probable antagonism between the bodies. We 'do' not believe that one Presbytery in twenty Of the New School body, would license men professing the'SerieX of errors therein specified and 'COnileirined. We have lately heard of the rejection of two candidates for licensure or ordination region of the exscinded Synod, for imsOundribilon soine of the Points there involved Even the utmost latitude that we have heard of as being claimed biithe extreme left in their body, is also' claimed to'be some "'form of Calviniguf." Whether justly in every case may be n'quest l ion.' But; fie believe, the great'body of 'their'minietern may be ranged theotogically in two classe's. ' 1. Those who accept the doetrines of the stand ards so fully, that.theY would' take them as stated in 'the Shorter without qualifying a single sentenckand lwith very few and slight, if any,' qualifications. as stated in the'Confession of Faith and larger" eatechisixis`• who would differ from us, if at all;'otilY as theological teachers in our own . church differ from us on the manner of the Imputation of Adam's sin; and who, if chary of the phrases " definite or limited atonement," would cordillly agree With us in regarding it as atrue and proper satisfaction to the divine jus tice, "aufficient for the whole world, efficient only • for'ele ct" • • the 2. We believe that the great body of them who could not go this len,gth are still firm and true on the great Calvinistic doetrines of Divine sover eignty, decrees, election. Perseverance, the neces sity of regeneration by:the Holy Spirit, and'en tire dependence on him for it. We think the common use of terms among all Christians would pronounce' thiS'ealvinistic and opposed to Ar mittianiam andlielagiatiisiu. We further believe they hold to justification by the substituted obe dience and sufferings of Christ, and to the fall of the whole race in and through the' fall of Adam into utter corruption and universal siafuluess— itltheugh they might not 14.1b14 to held with us, o`ithe !pi - iss.' - `verbs 'of- - all the , Standards here in every, particular. We; elleit,a that all in the New School not include4* ihese 'two classes are exceptional, Whether itersCins it or bodies.
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