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THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1869
—The Sabbath-closing movement in Paris is
making most encouraging progress.
—Forty-two of the fifty-seven daily papers in
Germany have stopped their 'Sunday issues.
—Religious freedom has been accorded, through
a legal decision, in Portugal.
—Daily prayer-meetings, we are most happy
to hear, are kept up at Cape May.
—Prof. H. B. Smith of Union Seminary at
tended the Synod of the Vaudois Church at La
Tour, Italy, May 18th.
—The Queen of Prussia lately visited a Sun
day-school in Berlin, and remained through the
entire session.
—lt is announced that the Royal Assent has
been given to the bill for the disestablishment of
the Irish Church, so that this great measure has
become a law
—Our esteemed friend, Rev. W. T. Wylie of
New Castle, Pa., has received, but not as yet. ac
cepted, the Publication Committee's appointment
of Secretary of the Sunday-Belool work of the
Committee, as arranged by the late General As
sembly.
—A party in Geneva is laboring, to exclude
the Old Testament from the Public Schools,
while the National Conference of German schOol
masters hissed the declaration of one of 'its num
ber that "no reading book could be better than:
the Bible." Even heathens respect their tacred
books, and base the training, of their youth upon
them.
—The liberal Romanist, Dr. Milliner, has
got into trouble for opposing the Ecumenical
Council. Proceedings have been commenced ;
against him. Romish teachers in America who;
have been trying to varnish over the bigotry col
their sect, and to recommend as adapted to our,
free institutions, will please take notice. - _
—The remarkable' success of Dr. March's lest
book : " Night Scenes in the Bible " of 'which
thirty-three thousand copies have been sold, 'at a
very good price, is due not merely to the "wise
selection, and happy and popular treatment of the
topics, nor to the energetic measures taken to
circulate it by a well organized system of agen
cies. These have indeed been indispensable to
its success. But the immense appetite and ca
pacity of this Christian American people for a
Scriptural literature is really at the bottom . of
this success. We presume it will appear froth
the experience of subscription publishers, that
no books sell so well as those la some way rela
ting to, and illustrating, the tiglish Bible. The
hold of the Book of God upon the popular mind
in this country, is. one of 'our. moat strongly
marked and encouraging national features. We
congratulate Dr.-March, or any 'other writer, who
successfully addresses it. A great work by Dr.
Hitchcock of Union Seminary, aiming to reach
and cultivate the same popular taste, is about
being put into circulation, of which we hope
soon to be able to speak more defihitely. It has
almost cost him his eye-sight, we are told, and
we are sure, from what we have seen of it, that
it is a most precious contribution of Christian
scholarship, philosophy and piety, to the Biblical
literature of our time.
—Of the Democratic nominee for Governor of
this State, lion. Asa Packer, we believe no - evil
can be said personally, and it is certain that how
ever the election issues, the Gubernatorial chair
is safe from the disgrace of a personally unworthy
incumbent. J udge Packer, too, lea liberal friend
of education, i.e., of the merely scientific sort,
having endowed the Packer Institute at Bethlel
hem, with the munificent sum of half a million
dollars. He is a man of enterprise and public
spirit, as the Lehigh Valley Railroad—built large
ly at his instigation and by his means—shows.
But his position on the Temperance question,
shown by the fact that, during the sittings of the
nominating Convention, he had two bars, where
`free liquor" was dispensed, in constant opera
tion, through which to influence the votes of the
body and secure his nomination, is enough to
alarm all friends of the true welfare of the State.
The man who aims beforehand to secure the
suffrages of the liquor interest, is the man who,
when in office, will be in imminent danger of
finding himself surrounded and controlled by the
vilest class of our politicians,` and in fact by the
criminal class of society,"however different `may
have been his intentions. aod save our commen
wealth from such a fate when the vilest men are
exalted. Governor Geary's administration has
been a constant war against them with some
•
most brilliant successes. We fear they Are taking
heart in the possibility of his removal.
CHURCH AND COLLEGE.
Mr. Eliot, the new President of Harvard Col
lege, has begun his administration of its affairs,
in just such a way as his " antecedents" had led
us to expect. He has decided to abolish the
daily religious services . in the college chapel.
Such a step is very natural on his part, in view
of the low and utilitarian views of education which
he announced in his recent article in .The Atlan
tic Alontlaly. Any one who thinks that academic
education can do ; nothing more for, man than put
him in the way of worldly success, is not likely
to have very high views of !ha' t relicion can do
hr a man. If Mr. Eliot's, vievts are to be the
law at Harvard, it is but. logical 'to abolish the
chapel services. They could have no real and
living relation to the studies conducted there. If
the course of studies is to.prooeed upon the utili
tarian maxim that - man is but an end to some
thing external called. 'success," why unite its
varied exercises to others of a religions character,
which proclaim that man is the End to which all
outward things are but the 'means? There would
be an evident incongruity.`
In one point of 'view, Mr.' Eliot's last step is
refreshingly cool. The churches which founded
the colleges of the land are to be-ruled out of the,
colleges. All our older educational institution&
are the children• of the Church, snot of the State,
nor yet the creatures of individual' munificence.
To the Puritan churches of New England, .Har
yard, Yale, Dartmouth, , Williams, Middlebury .
and Bowdoin owe-their very, existence. ; New
England Professor (a Roman Catholic: in reli
gious belief) is our authority for saying,,that the•
.colleges of the Middle, States owe their founda
tion to the Presbyterian clergymen who, came
hither from, the, North of Ireland. Newark
.Academy is a notable instance. ,Our own. 'city'
University. teas established by a union of the va
rious denomihations, Benj..Franklin, being the
only representative, of .(g the; world" on the Beard
:of Trustees.': :For manyyears_au annual 'collec
tion. was taken ;up for the institution in every
church, in the city. The professorial chairs were
o th - emffitairtrifaijlie — PaPirs
So it, is throughout the Union, the only excep
tions being a few of the State Universities, and
one or two that, like . Cornell ;University and the
Technological school at Bethlehem (styled a Uni
versity,) which have been fotinded by rich men
of their abundance. These exceptions, too, are
only experiments as yet.. All the institutions
that have proven their vitality by their, prolonged
existence, have been the children of the Church.
Mr. Eliot, however, is to change all that. He'
is the first head of any of our great colleges, who
has avowedly adopted the low utilitarian theory
of education, and that theory has no affinity for
the Church.
The higher utilitarian theory, that which tests
every tree by its fruits, remains, to be applied to
Mr. Eliot. What will be, the educational results
of his plan ? Time alone, will show, but we ate
convinced that any education which does not rest
upon a• spiritual basis ari,aim .at spiritual ends
will fail. To develop man in the, image of God,
to bring him up to: the stature, f perfect manhood,
in wisdom, knowledge and power—this is the
Christian ideal. What its, fruits have been, even
after the imperfect way that it has been realized,,
has been seen and owned on all hands. To make
man a social success, to fit him out with the pru
dence and skill for overcoming social obstacles,
and cutting a' pretty figure in the eyes of the
world,—that is the new theory. What its fruits
be, remains to be seen.
We are convinced that the result will be inju
rious to,science itself. Men, , as a whole, only , work
with the patience and reverence which, insures
success, when they have safe moral anchorage in
spiritual fact. ..Irreverence ends, in recklessness,
which is as disastrous in science as in morals. A
moderate respect for God's Word would, have
saved the scientific world from the, ceaseless crop
of mushroom theories, which have been succes
sively, springing up and dying away since the days
of John Locke, and which have done, much to
obscure truth and to encumber the ground. There
has been. no absurdity too gross for some savan to
adept, if it cut across the popular faith in the
Bible, And' set the philosopher on a pretty little
pedestal from which he might look down in con
descension,upon " the superstitious rabble." And
the first, work of every, honest worker has been to
upset these same pedestals. Alas, that good men
should - often .have, belied their training, and have
dealt with God's records in science as irreverently
as sevens have dealt with His record in the
Bible !
There is another mistake in this whole matter,
and it is from motives the opposite of Mr. Eliot's,
but comes tci, the same result. We mean the mis
take of the Church ruling herself, out of colleges
which , are not under her special control. The
very paper from which we, learn of Mr. Eliot's
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1869.
new measures, is jubilant over Dr. Haven's with
drawal from the Michigan University to take
charge of a Methodist college, as "E!. blow at se
cular education." We fear that Dr. Haven will
only help in the separation of education and re
ligion by this step. Clergymen in college chairs
are not' out of their'plice. They are a right hand
of the Chirreh. Whether the college,i.7'denomi
..
national'or 7 iidependerit_ mikes no essential dif
fetence. ' E. brethren may have done a
good thing for Evanston' in •calling Dr. Haven
thither. But the result of a general policy of
that kind would be a bad thing for the' Church.,
Putnam's Ilidgazine for the current. month,
contains a brilliant article "on"" Our Established
Chirrch,"—meaning the Roman Catholic Church
in the State of New'Yerk—and said:to be from
the pen of Rev. L. F. Bacon, of Brooklyn. It'
charges the five prelates of thit State with having.
acCumulated property worth inillionS,"by de
manding and securing' control of Species cif
,
ecclesia4tiCil . proPert3i.'contributed by thei*hole:
bddy . of "'"the'faithfuy' Bishop McQuaid, of
Rochester,ene'of 'the five, .writes fo a leoal paper,
to say that " there is not a foot'of .11(11 :in the,
world standing in [his] name. All the. Church
societies in the — diocese of RoChester, not organ
ized 'as corporafi3"bodies under the lams of the.
State of Nett York; previonsito [hieil' appoint
'ment as bish'6P of Roehester, laveorkanized or,
are comPleting, their organizations those!,
laws.' So soon as these 'societies Ontily with,
the law °Utile' Slate, Bialrop Loughlihr [his -pre.
eleC'essor, - now] of Brobklyni "tignsfer to,
them;,by quit claim-deedi, whatever-Property Of,
theirs he inherited from thelate BiSl4 Tin3on."
This looks as if Mi. Bacon were caught pub-
lishing, "apocryphal 'stateiiien ts in regard to 'the
11,:onaish Church, an . offeh 6,e) 4vhich shbui'd
the 'censures of the land Foreign Chiis
tian Union.
The changehdwever 4 - - ata the biithoiAitirnates,
- Vtierrec - erit'rdrid'iirdo'nOt bereft-hat:lt has
taken place in this 'State - jet. At ont'iiint the
Romanists of'Pen . nsylvania owned their churches,
and fought 'their bishops, and bullied their
priests, with Protestant freedom. But Bishop
Kendrick 'changed all -that. He would' dedi
cate n'o church until -it was made over to
himself, and managed by ecclesiastical pres
sure to' secure possession too of those already
erected. " Sure, the church •is our os6n,"
said "the . faithful;" when he refused' else to
dedicate St. Peter's church in `Pittsburg. " - yes,
it's your own," he answered, "to make an auc-
fion-room or a theatre of, if you choose, but not
to make a' church of God unless you vest its
ownership in your bishop." Will the Pennsyl
vania bishops 'now now do as the New York ones
have done ?
Should *the change thus announced' in th,
New York become general throughon '
State of
/
the Unibn; it ' will; we think, produce the inoiti
important results": 'The whole constitution of the
Romish Church in' America will be' fundament,
ally altered. Hitherto, the American Church has
been treated as a Miision Church, not as in the
Romanist counties of :Europe,: -sts a national
Church. When, however, the control of the
,
property of the .Church returns to the laity, the
latter, will of necessity, and in spite of all canons
and regulations, take their place by, the side of
the priesthOod in the control of Church busineis.
Disputes, such as recently convulsed congrega
dons in. Chicago and Rochester (and our own
city has, hardly . ever been without one or
more of the same kind), will not terminate so i n _
variably in favor of the hierarchy as heretofore.
Papal and prelatical authorities have learnt that
the only course of safety and prudence, in deal
ing with the sovereigns .of the old world, is a
policy of compromise and yielding. So much
did Rome concede to the First Napoleon, to se
cure the reexection of the hierachy in France,
that some impetuous Romanists prayed that
death might speedily, remove the Pope from the
throne that he had diskraced. The Papal see
will, probably find the sovereign will of the peo
ple inside the fold in America, as stubborn and
unmanageable, as that of any iPdividual sover
eign. The character of our institutions, and the
tone of public. opinion, all tend to foster self
respect and independence, and even to force
men—under social penalties—to act and think
for themselves. Let his holiness look before he
leaps in this matter of putting the Church keys
into the hands of our democratic Romanists.
Even if no, general struggle, such as has re
peatedly-been threatened, should take place be
tween the priesthood and the people, there will
certainly be local 'dissensions and disagreements.
Or, to put the case more correctly—the local
Squabbles and dissensions will be hereafter more
A ROMANIST REFORM.
numerous and of a much more serious and threat
ening character. We cannot, of course, re
joice in these things as good in themselves.
Church quarrels are a disgrace to Adam, much
more to Chriatians. But neither can we rejoice
in the dull, dead thoughtless slavery of a quiet
that is stirred by no independent life, and that .
mines not as the quiet of the kingdom of God,
by Subjecting all wills! to the One Will, but 'by
enslaving all wills.to the will of one man.
UNCONSCIOUS CALVINISTS.
Our cotetnporaries .The Presbyterian and The
Church, Union have not yet closed their discussion
in regard to the catholicity of Calvinism. The
former takes bold . ground on the psychology of
Christian experience re-affirming Dr. Hodge's
declaration • (which we fear was meant of Old
School peculiarities, but is really , true as Applied
by The Presbyterian to Calvinism itself,) viz. :
" Those doctrines lie at the foundation of the
whole scheme_ of redemption itself. They enter
,into all genuine Christian experience. They are
believ,ed by 01 • Cbristiaps with the• heart, even
when ;ejected with_ the., understanding ,and.
de
nied with the lips, Every true believer is an
Augustinian on l ltis knees."
Z h
'h,e urc U nion retorts that "he assumes
more than the Pope, for while that, dignitary
says You ought' or You must,' this dogmatist
says,---‘ You . . . There is such a
thing, as self-consciousness—the sense and know
fedge 'of, what you are, how you feel and what
you are becomiug--and nobody .can have this
for; you. Goethe's definition , is quaint but it is
true : .‘ Experience is , what an exp,erienced man
experiences in experiencing his own experience.'
1. Can either the Calvinist or the Ar
minian speak ,for his own soul and the souls of
• the Church universal ?" • ,
To, this it might be suggested that. the Armin
iatisshave
. spolfon for themselves,p,r, : at least the
highest official organ of the leading, Arminian
- Church has
,spockert• for them, a
_pros of the
• Pry.-tta,tht ; whic-leproveire this- disenssiw
N. 1 7 . Christian„ Advocate. avowed that all the
essential ideas of , .A.ugustinianism)ie at the
foundation.. of the Methodist theology, and that
on the one point on which the divergence is sup-
posed to he'greatest, the Methodist, Church ae
tually states her belief in Augustinian terms.
Of that same VIIIth, article of the Methodist
Creed, Dr. Hobart Berrian says •
"It condemns free will both by the word of
God and the ancient theology of the church—
for both teach that, without the agency of the
Holy'Ghost, the natural man, cannot conceive
the things of the Spirit; that in order to per
form those spiritual actions which God requires,
we must obtain the direct aid of the Holy Spirit
by the grace of God, . . . that in our nor
mal state of sin, we cannot choose Him; He
must, as He says, choose us. . . . Free .
orill is
,neither taught in the. Scriptures, in the
reeds, in the fathers, nor inthe later confessions
',of faith." "I, for :one, am. content to rest on
the .endurina rock of the bondage of human
will.". " No, dread of the eternal decrees, or
God's everlasting, sovereignty or reprobation
shall remove me from a footing so solid."
Not less to the , point, is a story which we found,
years ago, in, the columns of The Boston Re
corder,. A. young Calvinist had an opportunity
to discuss the two opposite systems with John
Wesley himself, but before beginning ascertained
by a series of questions that Mr. Wesley held
that he "was a... depraved creature," such that
he would never have thought of turning unto
God if God had not first put it into his heart ;"
that he ";despaired of recommending himself
to. God by anything he could do„and looked for
salvation only through the blood ,of Christ, and
that from first to last ;" that " he was upheld every
hour and every moment by God, and all his hope
is in the grace of God to : preserve him unto his
heavenly kingdom."
"Then sir," proceeded the Calvinist, "we
will have peace on these subjects, for this is all
my Calvinism; this is my election, my justifica
tion by faith, my final perseverance; it is in
substance all, that I hold and as- I hold it. Let
us rather, cordially unite in those things where
in we agree." , •
The story - may be a pure invention, or it may
have be& greatly embellished in narration, yet'
CluiE. -Simeon is
,the authority for it; he says
Wesley refers to it in his journals, and if such
question had been put to thefounder of Method
ism, at what pohat , would he have said "No?"
at what point, would any judicious Methodist
say "No I" They might justly say that they
hold other truths also—the truth of the uni
versality of God's love and Christ's purpose,
of natural freedom of the will and human re
sponsibility,—truths which they cannot recon
cile with these. But irreconcilable truths are
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not logical: contradictions, and the grasp of one
truth should not lead any man to let go another.
" Only very young people" says the Country
Parson, " believe in logic."
REV. A. M. STEWART'S LETTERS.-NO.
%XXVIII.
alto, Humboldt River, Nev., June, 1869
From Salt Lake City, the date of my last, to
this locality is about four hundred miles. Pro
montory Point at the North end of Salt Lake,
where the East and West ends of the great over
land route made connection, ceases to have a spe
cial interest, save a fifteen hours' detention to tra
vellers in a spot of more than ordinary barren
ness, and without depot, fit resting-place or food
that a civilized stomach cares to make an effort
at digesting. This serious inconvenience is ow
ing to the jars and mean jealousies of the rival
roads.
From this point Westward is a long stretch of
desolate region, barren hills and alkali flats, to
the head waters of the Humboldt River, then
down that pretty stream to Elko station. The
valley of this stream, from its rise until it loses
itself in the arid soil and dry atmosphere, some
three hundred miles Westward, has been famed
for its fine pasturage. It was the Paradise for
Overland trains in their weary pilgrimage for the
gold dust of California. Here their weary, jaded
horses, mules and" oxen were rested and regained
their flesh and strength. •
• Railroads designate points and make them im
portant. At the commencement of the present
year This locality Was unnamed, and the city had
no existence. There are now from fifteen hun
dred to two thousand people, conglomerated of
many nationalities, living in tents and hastily
constructed houses. Its existence and rapid
growth have been occasioned principally by the
immense rush of travel and trade, opened by the
Railroad from' this point, with the new and won
derfdl White Pine mining region, a hundred and
hiit*.~_iftnes Smile other' interests, as
farming, stock-raising, and 4te starting of travel
:ind•tride in other directions than White Pine,
give additional signs 'of .. .permanent growth. Car
lin, a station twenty miles Westward, where the
Company are erecting considerable work and re
pair shops gives also evidence of permanence and
growth. That, with this place, would be a suffi
cient field for an active Missionary.
By arrangement, before leaving New York, a
Sabbath has been spent here. And a more ear
nest, and devotedly wicked place it were not easy
to find, even in regions given over to evil. The
people, who are here, are cordial, outgoing and
intensified in the devil's service. Paul's heart
was stirred within him when he saw the people
of a certain city wholly given to idolatry. Yet
Was the idolatry of old Athens tame in its ele
ments of evil, compared with the intelligent ac
tivities in wickedness within this newly collected
community. Oh, for Paul's earnestness, piety
and devotion. No regular preaching has as yet
been established here.
Assisted by Mrs. Stewart, we succeeded in
getting together a respectable number of child
ren, with a few men and women, and had Sabbath
school; with the promise that it would be con
tinued. A tent opera house and theatre was
hired for the evening, preaching announced and
had a good and-attentive audience.
This is a point to which, before leaving New
York, I invited a dear brother to come and spend
the summer in agency to effect the organization
of a church—a brother who is a pastor and who
has been, abundantly successful in the work of
the ministry, and to whom, on account of im
paieed health, his congregation bad given a re
laxation for six months. But on looking at the
conditions, of the field, the necessity for arduous
and taxing labors, connected with the climate,
which along the Humboldt during the summer
is very warm, I cannot find it in my heart to urge
or even invite that beloved brother hither. Were
his vigor as once, how glad were he to do this.
Whom shall the Church send? What young man
because he is strong? What minister more ad
vaneedin life because be is still vigorous? We
ought to have several men along this Pacific rail
road, who are capable of :doingvaliant service for
the ..aster.
Half a mile from Elko, and across the Hum
boldt, is a special natural curiosity among the
many which abound in all the Great Basin. It
is a'Bowl of water eighty feet in diameter, and
two hundred deep. The side of the bowl is with
some difficulty descended for about twenty feet
until the water is reached. It abounds in white
sulphur and various other minerals. This great
bowl seems to have no outlet. • At several places
round the edge, the water steams and bubbles up
nearly at the boiling point. A speculative ge
nius has erected a wide tent-bathing-place over
the edge of the bowl, and invites the visitor to a
steaming or a hot plunge at fifty cents the trial.
A. M. STEWART. .
THE NEW CITY
A SABBATH IN ELKO
HOT SULPHUR. SPRING