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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Cooke's summer home), hive formally withdrawn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-
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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.