2inttrirait Frtzblttriait. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1869 REV. JOHN W. REARS, D. H., Editor. No. 1334 Chestnut Street, Phitadaphia. THE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE. Rev. Z. PI Humphrey, D.D., Pastor of Calvary Church. Rev. 'Herrick Johnsen First Church. Rev. Danl. March. D.D., Pastor of Clinton St. Church. Rev. Peter Stryker, R.D., Pastor of N. Broad St. Church. Rev. George F. Wlswell, D.D.,..Postor of Green Hill Church. Rev. E. E. Adams, D. D., Prof. in Lincoln Ifni- Versity. Rev. Samuel W. Duffield, Special Cor respondent. Mr. _Robert E. Thompson will continue to act as Editor of the News Department. Correspondents in every Presbytery and Synod will promptly furnish us with fresh items of news from their respective fields. s Impressions _of Europe, 11, Gamaliel and Nicodemus, Co-Education of _the Sexes, Page 2nd; Editor's' Table, Halsey Dunning, Page Brd; St. Christopher (Poetry,) Good in vestment, He Prays for the Children, Budget of Anecdotes, Sharp Practice, Prayer in the name of Jesus, To be and to seem to be, Stng ing Altogether, Page 6th; Religious intelligence, Reformed 041:rakes, Episcopal Collregational, ctc., Page 7th. —The shore end of the French Atlantic Cable has been successfully landed at Duxbury, Mass. The event is taken the more quietly from the fact that the oable is almost entirely in the hands of the European agents and sympa thizers of the rebellion during our war. That the landing place was not in South Carolina, but in Massachusetts, results from the same superi ority in education, commerce and resources which gave the North the Victory. —One of the Baptist talupporters of the Bible Union and its revision of the English New Testa ment, writes to a Western paper to express his dissatisfaction with the Society and its bantling. He claims that the revised version is an advance on the authorized one, but concedes that the im provement is not so great as to warrant an agita tion for its introduction into Church use as a sub stitute. It is not, he thinks, what has been claimed• for it,—such a version as will render a new revision unnecessary for another two hundred and fifty years. Indeed itself needs revising, and the Union has actually been making alteratiuns in what it once called its "Final Revision." —A Ritualistic bishop has " come to grief" in New Zealand. Rev. Dr. Jenner was ordained bishop of Dunedin some time ago and in Eng land, His diocese were not asked if they would, accept him. For a good while after his cdese-' Elution, he went abroad in England, cooperating with the Ritualists and assisting at their cere monies. When he at last proceeded to his dio cese, the Synod by a majority of lay votes, refused to receive him. As there is next to no endowment, and the little that there is cannot be made available, he will probably be starved into . a withdrawal•of his claims. It seems that they have closed the very pulpits against him, and that in one church he had to sit under the ministry of a " lay reader." —Bishop Cummins, Low Church, of Ken tucky, persists in preaching in Illinois, notwith. standing the canons of the Church and the bulls of his irate High Church brother, Bishop Whitehouse. He preached in Trinity church, Chicago, Sabbath before last. The church was filled. Bishop Cummins publishes in The Chi cago Tribune, a letter explaining his course in regard to the difficulty between himself and Bishop Whitehouse, from which is appended a letter from Bishop Whitehouse to himself. The latter is bitter in its tone, protesting against Bishop Cummins visiting Bishop Whitehouse's diocese to officiate in any , manner within its bounds. —The great revival in Richmond, Ind., has not spent its force. Meetings are held three nights in the week in most - of the Churches, and the tide of reviving influence seems to flow from one Church to another, centering always in the one Church for . the time being, while quite good meetings are holding in the others. Several saloon-keepers have been converted and have given up their old business to begin—with the aid of Christian brethren—sonie,new line of work. One whose saloon has been the scene of daily prayer for weeks, inaugurated his new grocery store with a public Union prayer-meeting. The participation offthe Quakers has caused some little discussion in the Society. The Friend of this city comments on it very severely, but The Friend of London, while admitting that "some of the things described as taking, place in the Friend's meeting house .. Fe novel to our experience," yet " hesitates to.say that there is anything essentially inconsistent with the .principles of our Society." Our Quaker brethren are overcoming their old prejudices against singing as a part of public worship, and against music in general. Even the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting will no longer " deal with" a member for having a piano in the house. The New Ytrk meeting's First-Day School has published a hymn-book for its own use and that of other schools. The First Quakers sang much and merrily, but only "as the Spirit moved them," and not with any form of preconcerted words and music. This gift of the Spirit disappeared from among them as they sobered down and abandoned some what of the Foxian recklessness. The Herald of Peace says that " Sewall's history of Friends, considered by Friends as entirely reliable, was originally written and printed , in German (or Dutch ?) We have not seen a copy of the Ger man edition, but we have a friend who.has, and who, furthermore, is able to' read it, and he states that it contains not only the hytina which the Friends sang, but the notes by which they sang them. All this is expurgated in the English editions." Pastor of the —The Pope is turning Protestant. He scarcely ever oPens his mouth Without protesting against somebody or something. Now it is, Bible Socie ties, now the progress of liberty, now Austria, now Russia, now: Spain, but especially it is Italy, and the "robbers" of his lite *dominions: On the 30th of June, we are told, the Holy Either delivered a protest . itgainst the Bing of Piedmont for omitting to present the gold chalice always offered annually to St. Peter by his ancestors, and also for his ustrrpation of the Marches, the Romagna, and Umbria. And•Serrino, the Span ish regent, it is said, sent'the Pope a bill on the Bank of Rome for six thousand crowns, but cruel to tell, there were no corresponding number , of crowns in the Bank to his credit, and the bill was not honored. Was this an unfeeling hoax —and from most Catholic Spain, too? A new protest must certainly appear against such treatment. Another ground of protest ap . pear in the fact thatdesertions from the Pontifi cal army are more numerous than new recruits, insomuch that an agent has come all the way to Canada after soldiers. Here is'a chance for the faithful to give work-day proof of their devotion. In these blissful days.between the' wooing and the Wedding,. Presbyterians are getting a fair share of courtesy and compliment from their denominational neighbors. Our. Methodist bre thren, forgetting all, old feuds, have been fore_ most in cordial add, handsome congratulation on the auspicious termination of the courtship. Otheis have followed suit; and only The Church Union (save the mark !) edited by an " open communion Baptist" is anxious to forbid the bans.. Some - members of the family, it is true,— United and SOuthern •Presbyterians,—are dis 7 pesed to, grumble and. propheiy evil,—the former possibly in view, of the expensive wedding pre sents which the occasion may call for, the latter as feeling .just a little jilted., With these slight exceptions, the general feeling of the Protestant public'seems one of very heartir satisfaction at the promised;. closing of old wounds and reunion of. old friends in the cause of Christ. The Low Church Episcopalian organs are, of• course, among the heartiest well-wishers, though The Episcopalian seems a little doubtful of New School orthodoxy. But then .it represents no. body, while the real organs of the party do not share its fears.' And even The [moderately High] Churchman of Hartford; though not as cordial as a wedding calls for, is still warmer than if at a funeral. It says editorially : "Presbyterians have come together again as one body. They .have accomplished this by ignoring the foimer pOints of differende. We are bound to 'put the best construction we can upon this restoration of brotherhood, and. there fore, in the absence of proof [or of knowledge?], to suppose that the vriginal differences bave been found to be fractiotilly unimportant, and that the love of unity was so strong that they were glad to lay aside whatever weight could hinder in [sic] godly union and concord.. Per haps 3h time they may cease to regard some other differences, once vital in their eyes, and return to the healing of, a more ancient separa tion. Whenever they are so disposed, the way will not be made hard for them." We rather like the spirit of those sentences, but we cannot say as much for their bad Eng lish, and their carelessness in regard to fact. Presbyterians have not come together yet, but they expect to do so in November. Had the writer been in anyway concerned to know the truth, he might haTe found "proof" enough that his supposition is correct: It, is allowable to plead " absence of proof" as a reason fur waking a statement hypothetical, when the docu ments are wanting, but that is not the case in this instance. High Churchmen do not usually write such slovenly English.. The last two sentences are, at first sight, a little . startling. The Presbyterian Church, in the year of Grace 1560 and under the providen tial leadership of John Knox, separated from the Church of Rome by banishing Romanism out of the,National Church of Scotland. This movement she called a Reformation, not a "de struction" or a " revolution," It was a true National Churoh, newly Puirged of idolatry and false doctrine, whose first free General Assembly met in Edinburg that year, under the modera torship of George Buchanan. This is the only " ancient separation " to which our Church looks back. Since then she has had a due succession of ,lawfully ordained pastors, aad (with a few interruptions for which she is not responsible) THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1869. A MATTER OF EIFTTORY. of free General Assemblies. Attempts have been repeatedly made by the civil powers to sub vert her discipline o and modify her government, but she never assented. Men, indeed, came in "not by the door" of Church order, but " climbed up by another way" of civil tyranny, and claimed to sit as Lords over God's heritage in spite of the clearly expressed dissent of the Church, s. e. of "the congregation of faithful men." But no lawfully elected Assembly or Synod ever voted to abandon one jot or tittle of her Calvinistic doctrine or Presbyterian order. The Church from which her "ancient separa tion" took place has invited her back this very year. The Pope himself has addressed her and all other Protestant bodies with that view. She has sent back from Assemblies which overflowed with the spirit of Christian union, a refusal and a defiance as clear and emphatic as ever rang out of " Old Greyfriars." Does The Churchman wish us to accept the invitation ? We hope not. It boasts that its own denomination (we have Prayer-book warrant for so calling it) is a true Protestant body. Asurely does not wish us to become anything else.' We must suppose that the editor, in writing thus, was a little oblivious of .historical fact,—a worse fault in a High Churchman than even loose Englfsh, for `the High Church claims that , its especial mission is to " awaken the historical conscionsness" . of.,the Church. Or perhaps he has been misledlby some of- his English friends, who are 'Erastian in their views and regard the act of Parliament . which established Episcopacy in Scotland as of ecclesiastical force : At any rate, he seems to have some confused impression that Presbyterians' are a secession! . from Episco palians, and that a union of the two denomina tions would. be the " healing of a more ancient separation." A little examination will show him that neither thministry nor the membership of the Scottish Church were ever anything but Prea byterians, and that the instant. the external pres sure of king an'd parliament was removed, the Church repudiated prelatical innovations, (Es owned the instruments by which they had been introduced, and expunged their proceedings from h 6 records. The Churchman cannot claim that the governmental act by which Prelacy was set - up, changed the true character of the Church itself, for it claims that a similar proceeding on the part of the present government in regard to Colenso does not' commit the Church to that worthy heresies.' FROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT. Q UAR ZEE= Wednesday, 28th instant, was an interesting day at Newark. T i n s is a large village on the Central Railroadeboat thirty miles east of Roches ter; and here 11ov. Geo. R. H. Shumway has been pastor of thed'resbyterian church for twenty five years; and as the termination to this long period drew toward its close, it was thought best all round to take suitable notice of the event; and so .the note of warning was duly sent forth; friends were invited ; preparations were made, and at the appoint(ai time a large congregation was gathered, filling the commodious church edi fice, as upon a bright Sabbath morning. Stephen Culver, Esq., one of the leading men of the parish, preqed on the occasion, and made a very sensible address of welcome to those in attendance. He spoke of the changes and im provements which have transpired in those twenty five years, since their pastor came among them 7 of the exciting , theines ..and mighty interests which had occupied the public mind. In all these their pastor had borne his part like a man, true to his own honest convictions, outspoken and earnest in defense of the right; the advo cate of judiciouvreforms, the friend of.temper ance, the foe of, oppression, the zealous and pru dent laborer in revivals of religion. He became pastor of the church when it had only one hundred members, and was torn by dis sension Under.his ministry they have grown to nearly two hundred and fifty. By hard, work they have also built two houses of worship.. That is, they built a new and commodious house in -1854, had it almost done, and it was burned up. They went right to work and built another. The congregation has grown with the increase of the church membership. It has been blest with re peated revivals, in which the pastor has labored with peculiar tact, energy an d success. They were reminded by this anniversary of many such scenes through which they had passed together, which were full of tearful and.tender interest. After this, Rev. Charles E. Airmail, of Roches ter, our new poet laureate, was introduced and recited some very pleasant verses; Which were not, however, quite equal to his admirable poem on the semi centennial of our Presbytery. But it is well understood, that poets are not 'always expected to do their best. He wrote tbis time also in a more difficult stanza, and that may have loaded-his wings. Pleasant and highly complimentary addresses were also made by Rev. J. B. Richardson, agent of the American Bible Society, by Rev. Franklin S. Howe of Watkins, Rev. C. C. Carr of Horse Heads, Rev. Robert E. Wilson of Clyde, and others. -Mr. Howe and Mr. Shilmway were boys to gether. The latter had helped him over many hard places. He had been the 'same sort 'of help ful man ever since, lending a helping handwhere ever he could. Mr. Wilson bore the same testi mony. Mr. Shumway had been a true friend and helper to his brethren in the ministry. Many converted by his instrumentality, in other parishes than his own, would long remember him. And these were but parts of the kind things said on this pleasant occasion. The speaking and other public exercises being ended, the whole congregation and invited guests repaired to the basement of the church, where ample refreshments were waiting, to which we doubt not they did ample justice, though we were compelled to come away before that interesting portion . of the day's service was reached. Mr. Shumway commenced his ministry thirty-five years ago in Palmyra. After leaving theie, considerably out of health, he preached for a short time in Patterson, N. .T.; then sup plied the Washington Street church, (now Cen-_ tral) of this city for six months, where he is still remembered with affectionate interest. And from here,in 1844, he went to Newark, where he has remained to this time. . But he is not now so young as he once was; is not in firm health; thinks also, or says, that a change may now be good for the people of New ark and So he resi , rns his eharae Be corn tnenced, preaching there on the 'first Sabbath of August 1844, and to-morrow is to preach his farewell discourse. His people, however, do not mean to let him go empty-handed. lie was . "settled, twenty-five years ago, on six hundred dollara. No very great advance has been made from that sups to this day. An efforkhas been made to raise $2500 for him as a parting gift. We trust this sum will be realized. At last accounts it stood at 81800. Mr. Shumway will still reside at New ark,' where he has a home of his own, and will doubtless preach, as opportunity offers. We trust his health may soon be so fully restored that he may feel able to take charge again of some con gregation ; for we . donbt not he, would still be eminently useful. Ile was sufficiently endorsed for almost any place. GENESEE. Rochester, July 31, 1869. THE STRENGTH OF THE UNITED CHURCH. The completion of probably the last separate sets of statistics for the two branches of the Pres byterian Church, enables -us to form an estimate of the strength of the Church whose union is to be consummated in November. The two stand as follows usyrEn. SYnsds 24 27 51? Presbyteries 113 143 256 Licentiates' • 116 187 303 Candidates.-303 . 376 679 . . Ministers 1,848 2,381 4,229 Churches ... 1,631 • 2,740 4,371 Members 172,560 258,903 431,463 Added on exam.... 9,709 15,189 24,896 Added on Certif.... 8,046 '11,982 20,028 Net gain. 3,628 6,348 9,976 Adultsbap 3,500 4,236 . 7,745 Infants bap 4,787 11,383 "6,120 S. S. children 192,264 234,089 426,353 MONEYS RAISED. N. S. 0. S. UNITED. Congregational, $2,866,940 $3,180,102 $6,047,042 Min. Relief, 18,966 37,196: 56,162 Freedmen, 12,594 27,310 39,904 Education, 29,4921 Home Miss.; 142,377 For. Miss., 116,364 }. 868,573 1,214,310 Church Erection, 43,013 Publication, 14,491 J Contingent., 12,998 15,708 38,706 Miscellaneous 363,298 397,392 760,690 $3,020,533 $4,626,381 $8,166,814 These'statistics show that the 0. S. have had a net pin of. 2i. per .cent, in membership, while that of the New School is per cent. •The gain per congregation is 2?„. in the 0. S., and 21 in the N'S. churches. The average contributions for ail-purposes are $17:48 per member in - the 0. S. and $2l 56 in the N.S:Church. • •• A YEAR'S GROWTH. The New School Minutes for this and last'year furnish the following statistics: [1868.] • - [1869.] Synods, 23 Presbyteries, 111 Ministers, 1,800. Licentiates, 121 Cindidates, . 290 • 303 Churches, 1,590 1,631 Members, 168,932 172,560 Added by ex., 10,891 9,707 Added by cer., 8,737 8,046 Adults bap., 3,805 8,509. Infants bap., 4,967 4,787 8. S. children,, . 184,637 • 192,264 FUNDS 'RAISED. [1868.] [1869.] Gen. Assembly, $9,723 $12,998 Henn Miss., 132,848 142, 377 Ch. Erection, - 43,013 For. Miss., 108,196 . • . 116,364 Freedmen ~12,594 Education, , 33,678 29,492 Publication, 13,986 14,491 Min. Eel. 10,516 18,966 Congregational, • 2;441,086 • 2 866 940 Miscellaneous, 350,811 - 363,298 These figures show an encouraging growth both in strength and liberality, but not exceed ingly so. The withdrawal of ‘ sun dry plan-of-union churches to the Congregationalists has probably diminished the net gain in , membership, while the compensation obtained for thii in the' more Presbyterian character and closer relations of other similar churches, does not appear'in these figures. The gains in point of strength are: Synods, 1 ; PresbYteries; . 2; Ministers, 48; Candidates, 13 ; Churches, 41; Members, 3,628; S. S. School membership, 7,577, The losses, are in - but cue item, Licentiates, 5. • The figures whiCh indicate relative growth are not so favorable. The receptions to membership by examination are 1,184 less than last year; by certificate, 691 less. More adults by 296 hat e been baptized, but fewer infants by 180. We shall only anticipate our Baptist brethren in say. ing that this speaks badly for the growth of Pe dobaptist sentiment in the denomination. The financial statistics are more encouraging and show a gain in every department, nearly $lO 000 in the Home Mission Department, and quite $B,OOO in that of Foreign Missions. The gain in the former is really $65,136, as the work of Church Erection and among the Freedmen fall under that head. The former was not counted separately last year ; the latter has bbgun within the past year. In the department of Ministerial Relief the gain is over $B,OOO. The gain in the grand total )8 $519,689. " Two Canadian presbyteries have voted that revivals are at variance with the Westminster Catechism." Bad for the Catechism —Zion's herald. This is about the twentieth form in which we have seen this, falsehood published by religious papers. The fact is that the revival in Galt fell into the hands of Lord Cecil and others of the Plymouth Brethren, and these made denuncia tions of existing Churches and a stated ministry the staple of exhortation, declaring that the Church lost' her Church character if she con tained a single unregenerate person. In a word they substituted for earnest appeals to the con sciences of sinners, the usual pietistic platitudes of " The Brethren," alias "The Darbyites." Two Presbyteries thereupon warned their people, not against revivals, but, in view of " the agen cies employed and the doctrine taught," against what these men had made .of .this revival. The item' man of The Independent took the Presby teries up wrong ; he of The Examiner and Chronicle, with his usual keen eye for "things lovelynnd of good report," followed suit, and so the falsehood has•gone the rounds. TWENTY 'YEARS LATER. The veteran, Father Rankin of our Church, writes to The Christian Herald, that twenty pars ago, and at fhe invitation of a Presbyterian elder, he came to Chester county, Pa., to speak against slavery. The anti-slavery brethren made an appoint. ment for me to preadh on 'Sabbath in a grove at the village of Oxford ; for such was the hostility of the minister of the place and some of'the peo ple, that there was no prospect of getting a house. When Sabbath came, it rained, and the audience had to shelter themselves in the basement of a large and new barn belonging to a colored man. There was yet no floor in it, and the basement was a stable, and- used as such. I remarked to the, audience that we were not so comfortably situated . as might be desired, and reminded them that the Saviour was born in -a stable. And as Some of the clergy in that region taught that the Bible sanctioned slaveholding, I proceeded to show that it gave no such sanction, and that it prohibited all kinds of oppression. For Monday evening an appointment was made, to be in a school-house in the village of Oxford. When the hour came, the audience assembled, and found the school-house securely locked against them. I proposed to them that if they could, stand so long as to hear me, I would preach to them by starlight; for, at that rtime there was no moon light. They assented to the proposition, and I preached by starlight. Now, at this same village where I, because an abolitionist, had to preach in a stable by day, and in the' street by night, with no other light than the shining of the stars, is the Lincoln University for educating the co lored people. —The arrangemen is of the (Ecumenical Council begin toassunie shape. There will be a certain • number of preliminary; councils held, according to the Perseverariza, each of which will be pre sided over by a Cardinal specially named by the Pope as his locum tenens, and the results will then be proclaimed as canonical laws, in the ses sions presided over by the Pope himself. There will be about ten of these sessions, but they are not to be a " clerical - Parliament," but assemblies, to which certain propositions will be read, and which will vote upon them by acclamation and without any discussion whatsoever. The pro gratillne, as at present fixed, gives for the res pective sessions the following subjects : 1. Pan theism, rationalism, naturalism, absolute ration alism in nine theses ; 2. moderate rationalism, in seven theses; 3. indifferentism, toleratitism, in four theses; 4. socialism, communism, secret so cieties, Bible societies, liberal-clerical societies, in six theses;' 5, errors on the Church and its rights, in twenty theses; 6. errors ho society and its re lation to the Church, in seventeen theses ; 7. er rors on natural and Christian morals, in ten the ses; 8. on the Christian marriage, in ten theses; 9 'on the sovereignty of the Pope of Rome, in two theses ; 10: on modern liberalism, in four theses. *: ' 24 113 1,848 116 $3,630,533 —Mr. Voysey, the , lait Church of England heretic, quite eclipses his predecessor& In the Sling and tlie Stonp (a book of Sermons for which he, is to be prosecuted)' he impugns the doctrine of Christ's Meditation and Atonement, and of the Incarnation itself, And writes with contempt of the Scriptu'res generally; but especially of the Gospel by John. The Archbishop of York is to bring him to account before the proper court. Dean Stanley, while protesting that he differs from Voysey, has'taiken part in a movement to raise funds for his defence.
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