or. tuictir4 .' .' P rob-pirria _ - New Series, Vol. JonnAWeir 15ju1y69 Strictly in Advance $2.50, Otherwise $3. 1 Postage 20ots, to be paid where delivered. gmtritait IrtzkOrtiait. THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1869. —Three of the ten young men, who went from Union Seminary last year, appeal to the students to give them immediate reinforcements. —A Deaconess Institution has been founded at ilittenham, England, by the' dissenters after the model of that at Kaiserswerth. The Members are to be . Called "sisters," and will wear a simple uniform. —Both the Rector and the congregation of the Episcopal Church at Put.in-bitY, Lake Erie, (jay Cooke's summer home), hive formally withdrawn from the Episcopal body, on account of its ex. clusivism. They retain the liturgy. Thus the hands of the Low-Church men are weakened in the already unequal struggle they are waging for Evangqical principles in their Church. —D4ing the recent unprecidented tightnefis of the money market in New York City as high, as one per cent. a day, or three hundred per cent. a year was demanded and given for the use of money, and it is claimed that some of the banks actively aided in keeping up the price of money and used their funds in these monstrous and ille gal transactions. The courts haVe taken the matter in hand, though in all prolAbility a thor ough and impartial enforcement of the laws would disorganize nearly the entire banking and broker ing sytem of New York City: ROW PRINCETON VIEWS RE-UNION. The opinion which we have deliberately ex pressed, that the present form of the Reunion movement involves, by the fairest implication, the entire surrender of the exclusive spirit which one branch had notoriously exercised towards the other, is confirmed in an important qnarter. The Princeton Review is• demoialized. Its senior editor, Dr. Hedge, and its junior editoi,'"V. Atwater, present a divided front. The former believes that the Ark of the Covenant has been surrendered, since no provision is Made for main taining the Shibboleths of Princeton. "The New School Church," which Dr, Hodge con trasts pointedly with what he calls "The Presby terian church in this country," (meaning the Old School branch), be declares to be tolerant or liberal, in its historical character. And while some of the Old School, according to Dr. Hodge, will vote for Re-union on the suipposition that it leaves the doctrinal situation of their branch un altered, others "will vote 'for it because the time has come to adopt a more tolerant principle. They admit that the Old School Church .dies with the union ; and that a more tolerant church takes its place. They believe that this course is indicated by the providence of God, and that it is best, not only for the outward prosperity-of the Church, but for the cause of religion and of sound doctrine itself." In this remarkable language, be it noted that Dr. Hodge is speaking of mem bers of his own branch of the church. Coming to those with whose views' he sympathizes, he says : " Others of us will be constrained to vote against the union, not because blind to its ad vantages . . . but because we regard the strict ness in interpreting the standards for which the Old School have always contended to be the 'ark of the covenant' committed to our trust, which we are bound to preserve, and on the preserva tion of which our safety anti usefulness as a church ultimately depends; and because we con eider that principle to be endangered by con senting to the union, when those with whom we unite, and the public generally, (so far as we can judge) consider that we, surrender our palla dium." Dr. Hodge clearly believes that the danger to the precious principle of Old . School rigidity is so great that all the admitted great advantages of Re-union on "the standards, pure and simple," are not to be weighed against it. Evidently, he does not count on a numerical preponderance of stiff Old School men in the United Church, but concedes that when it came to a question of ma jorities, the liberal men would carry the day. Dr. lodge and ourselves are of one mind on this point. Dr. Atwater, in his treatment of the subject is exceedingly cautious, yet he comes to opposite conclusions from those of Dr. Hodge on the expediency of Ile-union, for reasons which, with immaterial exceptions, will prove satisfactory to all fair-minded men. He frankly admits that the ipsissima verbs mode of subscription is shut out. He takes pains to thow—a wonderftil and unheard•of thing in the Prince=ton, Re view—that the hearty endorsement of Mr. Barnes, of which so much was heard in the last N. S. Assembly, by no means necessarily implies heretical views t - He refers to the fedi that Dr. Junkin, his prosecutor, offered to withdraw his charges against Mr. Barnes, on seeing, the repre • sentation made of his views 'by Mr. Barnes him self The claim itade for freedom for these views must not,' he 'shoWs, be regarded as a claim:for views chaiged agdthst hint. Mi. Barnes, he'Says, is inconsistent ,with' himlelf a declaration which matters little to-'us. For if Mr. Barnes' State ment of his own views recognized as orthodoi, New School nien are prepared to stand or 'fill•by that reeOgnitiOn. ' " • Dr. AE stet else' reteri: to ` the origin; and charaeter''ciethe'ituburn Decl'aratron. "On many of the points," he saYi, " and these 'leading points of Calvinisna, Such as election and decrees, it is quite satiefabiory." Finally, - Dr: A.. classifies 4 • the great' body of our ministers" in' two di visions. The first, or stricter sort, he says . , would accept the"doctrines of the standards, without 'qualification; as stated'in the Shorter Catechisni, and, with Very few and slight if any; qualifica tions, as 'Stated' in the Confeesion of Faith and Laraer OtitetAsm-yet even they iinc•ht differ " from us" manner' and as to the of -im putation, end - might not accept Ihe . ;extreme no tion of it limited - atonement. Thein; in' his view, are the strictest iti our body : and of 'th6l:there is not,a hint Of any thing wrong in hil retnarkstq The great . body of those who do not go'these: lengths; he neverthelesss' believes 'to - " fin and true on the great Calvinittic doctrinal of Dilj vine sovereignty', decrees, election; peineveitince., the necessity of regeneration - by the Holy and entire dependence enlim:for it. • s he and here—let it 'be ever 'inemorablePrineetoisi appropriates distinctively,' Neir Sohdol language; '" we think the "common' use of terms anion.. o all ' Christians would pronounce this , Calvinistic and ntliesed' to Arminianism'ind Pe lagianiSm." Tefily 'Re-union 'does pro gress. The tuilfei of a liundied catiovertifes are 1, thijanentence: !The held'Oa l tai-tirerds': ai4t.atigtan . , - iihitift ha`ve i a+ orued ao many - indictments of trien',' firmly' holding the above-named great CitiVinistic doctrines;aiii•now pronounced irrelevant, arid are stricken out: krid that, too, before the Writer proceeds to-credit this class, as he, immediately does, with substantially. sound (though' not Princetoniart) views on . the atonement and the fedi ' All•outside of these two classes, in our body, he regards as exceptional cases, and be is right. • . Dr. Atwater is confident .of the prevalence of orthodox views:in -'the 'United church. We are happy to believe with him, seeing how far he'is from limiting orthodoxy, as has'been the wont of the Review; to a very' narrow conventionaltYpe. His language, indeed, may 'be construed= g as ex pressing the expectation, that the union will strengthen • the strict type of doetrine: , y , His whole article, so novel in this Review,' peeves that it is materially weakened already. " This," • he says, "is' not a surrender to tbe New School or` by the New School." Well, be it so; it is a com plete surrender by the Princeton Review; and if the junior Editor is not conscious of it, we hand him over to the senior. Editor to be convinced of the fact. • . ; THE NATErnL ORATOR. This was the themeof Dr. Cuyler in his recent address before the Adelphic - Union of. Williams College. The speaker illustrated his theme most happily: ind truthfully. With a voice by no. means musical' in "its..ordinary and' less emphatic tones, and that Comes' rasping Upon the ear as if a clarionet pliYer were to 'scralie the reed of his instrument to unwonted. thinness, there was a wonderful and complete triumph of real, electric, oratorical power. The address was finely con ceived, industriously and carefully elaborated, and in'all respects a most complete and successful productiim —a triumph of the true spirit of elo quence over natural impediments, and -a model, for the young men to whom it pointed' out so plainly the way of success in their endeavors to persuade and control the minds of others. The ad dress should' be printed, and sent to every student of every college in the land—and if most of the professors of elocution were included in the dis- Aribution, it would do no harm. Be yourselves,' and not,the servile imitators of Others;mas the leading thought that was enforced with unusual power of argument and illustration—a thought either so far 'off or so near, at hand that few Men grasp it. Dr.' Cnyler thinks that Henry Ward Beecher—whom he familiarly!and lovingly called• his Brooklyn 'neighbor—has very few peers; , though there are many ' who manage to Mimic these features of his oratory, which, if they Suit his mode of presenting truth, are the• very pe-. euliarities that should be avoided by others: As PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1869. the scintillations of genius—the curious and bril liant forms in which it sparkles irrepressibly, they please intelligent and cultivated minds; a s pyrotechnics, made of stolen powder, that leave nothing bit, an unsightly ' stick behind, they are to, discriMinating obseivers 'Superlatively ridi culons. Dr. 041er ia,not Isponsible for the last, remark—nor for this, that . these imitators of his Brooklyn neighbor, it is said; are very apt to comhthe bair back carefully ever the eara, and allow it to , grow somewhat lorig behind, while they studiously cultivate a roguish, kun-loving twinkle in the eye and around it. What is the tre ason that the fandidates for col t, r • r 0" legiate boners fel. the most 4i art , deliver their essays in pompous, ore rotultdo, school-boy style, with- a measured emphasis that is. almost Sure to hit the wrong word? Be natural, young men, and old men, and .men of every age—let your speech on the rostrum be as it would be if you were taking on the same i theme to a friend in' the street , only with such an increase of mei siveness and , majesty in your. style of utterance as numbers will naturally toque. Do not drop the conversational mode in tke one case, if you would naturally adopt it in the other. In logical 'demonstration, in earnest appeal, masses of men love to be talked ,to in a familiar way, if, for no other reason than i tbat imparts variety to your Mode of address. 'Nothing can be more absurd, nothing less persuasive, than the tones of mock solemnity which some ,ireachera carry with them 'into the pulpit, forgetting themselves : in a most objectionable sense,; in nasalized monotone re jecting all the elements of effective oratory, and 'sacrificing all the noble and momentous ends ac. eonvlished by it. :B e natural. This is the siMple rule. that em braces the system of ,I?rofessof White of Phila delphia, a most competent and successful teacher nf,elocution. I once heard him read Addison's 'description of Westminster Abbey.. The reading was prefaced-by a fe,w explanatory historical re, marks of his,own • and so true to nature was the transition from *lies°, that .T*B :fairly caught napping) fx reached_ ,t i L ioecnd,, or third, sentence of the, description :before- I was aware that he had passed from himself to his author. This distinguished elocutionist does not - hesitate to take lessons from the huMblest individual that walks the streets. If he ,sees two men talking earnestly, he is accustomed to stop at, some store window near by, - and 'pretending to examine the wares that are exposed for sale, listens to the em phasis and stcdies the gesticulation of the . earnest talkers„ , and says he always learns something. Every public speaker . might profitably study himself, by watching the tones of .his own voice when engaged in conversation or argument. And with equal profit might he study intonation, em phasis, and gesture, by listening-to the conversa tion of others. Williams College has all, the appliances that are essential to a thorough physidal, mental, and' mciral . education. Goodrich Hall, as the Gymna sium is called, is a noble structure of stone, erected at a cost of fifty thousand. dollars, and has an en dowment sufficiently large to support a thorough• - ly qualified instructor. Some of the classes gave a very attractive public exhibition of their skill. We visited the field in ,which the Foreign Mis• - sionary Enterprise originated. A suitable monu ment marks the place of .the hay stack around which the first missionaries consecrated them selves' to their work. Grass is still growing in , the meadow. We culled; the wild strawberries . that grew along the narrow well beaten foot -path, and stood reverently and thankfully on the spot linked with most sacred memories. Near the Gymnasium .And Chapel stands the monument that commemorates those sons of Williams who fell in battle during the late war. On the pedestal is the figure of a soldier cast in bronze. In front, on a bionze plate, are the names of the heroes. This tribute was erected at'a cost of ten thousand dollars. It is a fact worthy of record that one third o f all the graduates of this school of learning have entered the Gospel_ ministry. The revival of the last win ter,was most decided in its results. A deep, religious interest comes with almost every year. How can it be otherwise when each class has a daily prayer meeting conducted. by, its own members. On every ~ hand, the everlasting hills sweep grandly and gracefully. up towards the, sky. Mountain-day, which occurs each spring, means the privilege of a tramp to the summit of Gray lock. But it is said the attempt to scale the grand old mountain is confined to the Fre,shmen— the knowing ones prefer the rod, and a stroll along the river. C. A. S. young Episcopalian missionary from our twn city, aided only by his wife, has in nine years admitted into the church by baptism; one thousand of the Santee Sioux. i9lll 'PERILS Br FALSE BRETHREN." These words recurred to us frequently while ?dr. Parton was publishing in The Atlantic Monthly his articles on "Our Roman Catholic Brethren." Not that we applied them in the strong sense in which Paul used them,—not that we classed 'Roinanists with the hypocrites and wolves" in sheeps' clothing, who endangered his life by their treaCheri. Yet we could not help feeling that the brethien whoM Mr. Parton was pressing on our, attention were, in a very real sense of the words, false brethren. Many of them, we trust, in spite' of the syatem in which they are trained, have "the root of the matter" in them. Many'Of them we hope to meet as brethren in the , great hereafter. Many of them cherish the same .hopes for . Christians, who do not hold* with them in regard to the "Papal See " and the "One Church." But they will be saved as. Christians in spite of their being Romanists. Were they nothing more or better than the great system 'of doctrine' and discipline devised by Rome could make them, our hope of them would be much less. The true cross may be ,borne by many a one that Makes too much of the material crucifix. All. the, perversions of Rome arise, from a sin . gle mistaken principle—the putting of the means in the place, of the end, the Church in the place , of, God., There is no more Protestant statement in our Standards than the first,answer in the Shorter Catechism,...—the answer that brings man face to face with ,God, as the. End and the Reward of all service. ' Put the Church there in place of God, and the Romish foundation . is 'substituted for ,the Protestant one. Give us the glory and 'the rewards of the. Church as the end of man r and the whole , system Of the Sesuits that is of consistent, thorough-going Roman ists--follows of necessity. And when once that Jesuit idea takes possession of a.man it makes him a 'false brother—whe has neither the faith, the hope, nor the love of true Christian brother hood. He has not the faith,- for ,he is living, not for • ihe unseen, ,bnt the visible,—not for Ailing on the spiritual plane, but on the,natural. Thlt,lll44, l ing, of : a jimottarard, ealpireis Ida N. end, and ,to that he postpones, all things else. He has not the, hope of 'the true brotherhood, for he is not, looking for the day when, ,Christ tshall reign in, all hearts and in,society, but for a day when all hearts and all society shall unite in glorifying Rome. He has not , its ehdrity, for the Church demands his love in preference, to loving his brethren. And so he becomes .a false brother, enslaved to a greater outward and un spiritual scheme of worldly conquest,—laboring not for a Church, but for, a world , which calls itself by the name of the Church, which .uses the words of the Church, but seeks the ends of the world, acts on the maxims of the world, fights with the weapons of the world, lives the life of , the, world. _ Our perils from these false , brethren 'are not chiefly outward but• inward. ,God will perfect His strength in the weakness of •every Church• that makes Him her End of being, her Centre of life. If the Protestant Church stands fast in thei truth, she may be outvoted here or elsewhere, but she will never be, outmastered. "The fool ishness of God, is wiser than men.". Rome has everything that to the, eye of sense should make her stronger than we. She has unity; we are' divided. She, has uniformity in discipline and organization; we are different. She has agree ment in doctrine; we diversity. Her material resources, her hold on national ;governments and political parties, her venerable traditions,, her cmilmand of suitable servants, her attractive and magnificent worship, are all outward advantages which we .do not possess. But she is powerless against the truth, the life, and the faith of this divided Protestantism at which she sneers, and hich is as Elisha and his servants amid ,the ists of Syria. Our dangers are internal—dangers of imita- . tion. We need to fear lest we lose our hold on the truths of which Rome professes herself the • much_ to witness, but which she has Alone so much to obscure and hide. I. Rome professes to be founded' on the doe trine of the incarnation—the great truth that in Christ God . was reunited to our,. humanity,, and the latter redeemed and purified - by, the union, so that a clean thing /was brought , pat, of, an un clean. Her creeds teach this truth.„ Her prac tice denies it. She tramples under her feet the, very things that belong to .that humanity. 'lf our manhood has been, redeemed, are fatherhood' and marriage among, the profane—the only half holy things of the kingdom of God? Are the nations of the earth to be cast under the feet of the Church as unclean; things, or do they, by virtue of ,the Incarnation, become : (equally• with. the Church) the rightful domain of our Lord and, of His Christ . ?• If humaiiitybe indeed redeemed, why that ceaseless , antithesis between the ha- Genesee Evangelist, No. 1:209. I Home & Foreign Miss. $2.00. Address :-1334 Chestnut Street. man and the divine, which runs thrOugh all her practice,—why are all the human relations and activities of life to be degraded as secular and tabooed as profane? We need as Protestants to hold fast to this great truth, for it is a fundamental one with us. The Reformation was a revolt of nations against the Church, and whatever we may think of the opinions of the Reformers as to the right of na tions and of princes in regard to the Church, we cannot let go their main principle—that nations as well as Churches have their place in the king dom of God's grace, and are in very truth, equally with the Church, the domain of God and of His Christ. We need to carry this truth with us, into our national life, that that life may not become unchristly and impure—that our duties may not become secular and profane to us through the blindness of our own hearts. We need to remember, also, that Protestant assertion of the sacredness of family ties and relations, in an age which would overthrow and ignore these. Is there not a growing un-Protestant sentiment that a Christian as such has no business with these political matters,—that because his citizen ship is in heaven he may let the kingdoms of earth go to wreck? .Is there not also a growing indif ference to the family as a social unit,—a perverse assertion of individuality, which would subvert the divine distinction between the sexes, and burst the bonds, of social order. Wi; need to hold fast to the doctrine of the Real Presence, which Rome claims to especially uphold, bot.whieh she really obscures and denies "Lo am with you always!" are the words of Christ, speaking of His kingdom among men. Rome says :"" He has gone away ! He is not with us as really as, he was with the disciples, much less more really. .He. has not, indeed, forgotten us. His body and blood are present in the un bloody sacrifice of the altar, and He has left a Vicar who, speaks for Him and supplies the loss of His teaching. , This Vicar is, the centre of the Church's unity., This human king, reigns in stead of the Bing who is both divine and human." Thus does` Rome proclaim, not,the Real Presence hut the Real Absence r —yieldini thus to the weak ness of sinful human nature, with which "out of sight. is out of mind." Christ has indeed ascended, but it is to God's right hand that He might wield all power, might "fill, all things.", His ascension. makes Him more really present to us , than ever he was to His dis ciples. -But-do we realize the fact? Do we not rule, Him out of His own Church often by our phrases, putting the power of "Christianity" and of " religion" for the presence and power of Christ.? Do we not trust to institutions, creeds and endowments to do what only the power of Christ can , do, in the perpetuation and the ad vancement of truth? Do we not trust too much to organization and machinery, and too little to the spiritual force of our Present King ? Are we not falling into this second error of Rome? 111. Rome depreciates the Church, even while professing to ; uphold. it. She sees no, identity be tween its cause and the cause of truth and right eousness. She will lie and conceal in defence of the Church. She will use every unholy means to advance the Church. She will inflict suffer ing, destroy life, hide the living in loathsome dungeons, all for the sake of the Church. She will, for the sake of the Church, stoop to use every tool the devil has devised, and all because she has 710 faith in the Church. If she had that faith, if she realized that the Church's victory always comes by passivity, sin cerity and faith, that her triumph is in inaction, would she beg help for a temporal power, upheld by Chassepot rifles ? Would she stoop to employ ing lotteries and uttering lies to raise funds ? She is the successor of Peter forsooth, but it is of the unconverted Peter, of Peter before Pentecost, and of all that was left unchanged at Pentecost,—the Peter, who drew his sword in his ignorance of the mightier spiritual powers that overhung his head; of the Peter whom the Devil desired to have that he might sift him as wheat; of the Peter who denied his Lord through fear; of the Peter whom Paul had to withstand to his face at An tioch, because of his, time.serving, worldly policy. Let us have more faith in• the Church than Rome has, in the power that triumphs in weakness and sincerity over:the,mighty and the insincere, —in .the power for which, no sword need be drawn and no lies either told or sworn to,—in the power that is advanced by no politic concealment " for the good of the cause,",—in the power that needs no Outward shows of gain To bolster her, • . -in the power. that wins with a broken army as easily as with united hests,—in the power that prevails fearleusly, though hosts of false breth, ten ontnuntber , and surround her. R. E T. —Rev : A. }L Sreivarti address is-Treasure city, Nevada.
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