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.