i:tt' ablg.
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This is an era of military histories, since the
rebellion hal set all pens at work; but Mr.
Benj. J. LOSSiDO4 . gICTORIAL FIELD-BOOK Or
TOE WAR or. 1812, possesses great advantages
over most recent books of this class. Its interest
to the people is probably greater since , the re
bellion has given us the means of understanding
the situation and, the movements. Its execution
is more complete than our histories of the re-.
bellion itself, because• the distaste of half a
century enables us to appreciate the perspective
of the whole. It. possesses:the charSoteristics
which. Made Mr. ,I4esing's " Field Bopk of the.
Revolution q.so popular, clear and simple narra
tive, moderately graphic description, popular se- .
'action of details, patriotic ferVor, and overflow
ing illustrations of places, perSone, docninents
and medals. There lAN 'nearly nine hundred
pictures in its: 10,821 pages, and we have not
noticed one of slovenly execution.' Mr.'Lossing
holds that the war was on ,the whore a real . bene•
fit to the nation, while it did i . not Secure ;immu
nity from the •rightiof search, and lost us the
right of fishery in ' , British American waters,
about which our ancestors eared most. 'ltopened
to us the valley of the Mistisslppi, secured the
co-operation >of England and ~America in the
suppression , ofithe slave-tru de, demonstrated., our
national vitality and fixed our main boundaries
until we were ready to enlarge them. Thus God
secured for us His greater ends while 'we lost
some of , oar lesser ones., Published ,by. Harper
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The 'National Temperance oppiet l yhaa pub
lished THE TEMPERANCE SPE4.I3 ; ER, a ,collectiou
of Original 'and (Selected •Dialogues, Addresses
and Recitations; 'Edited by 'J. N'. ptearns , .- As
might be eipected the pieces in, the yolumd are
of uneven 'value and quality, ranging. from the
gravest to , the •gayest, , and' from dialoguo mantt
factured for , children's exhibitions; iip -to , the
ferVid oratory' of the great"moral reihrrners in
this cause: Einergon used to say " ElOquence
,
dog cheap., among the abolitionists,"
,Judgink
from this volume, we cannot, say. quite, as, much.
, of the Temperance men, although most of. the
abolitionitits 'ate Temperance men.' Yet there
are some piece's' here of real magnetic'power' and,
from great orators, one notable one beipg ;Tiidge
Denton's 0 Apostrophe to Cold Water,".which is
sometimes 4uoted ati Mr. Gough's'. The poetry
is 'even Jess able than the 'oratory, Veins not
much above the, average of our, Political Cam
paign Song books of twenty years ago. The
absence of great names shows how few of our
ablest singers have 'been ' ClitiMpions of the
Temperance cause: 'tot"both the prose eta.
poetry of the volume , have a,certain average ex
cellence, and arelprobably selected and written
less with a view to literary display, than for the
proper pre§eutation of jtist views of the whOle
.
subject . 6rno.
" 2' SS 1
We confess to &growing respect for Bishop
Cosa of Western 'New' York. His eerlier
literary produaions, written in the fer4or of , a
proselyte's zeal, were not of a, kind to . cause any.,
admiration 'of his head or heart, and we believe
that he himself has publiclyicipressed'his regret
that some of thedt were evepiOnbliChed. Of late
years,,and i es,pectellypnce,heilkes been raised to;
the. Episcopate-^a dignity long. occupied by his.
honored father in .our. own Church he has
been' growing in' grace'nd honor: His recent
Pastoral in' regard to'solne_ethe'siiis:cif fashion
able society elicited; universal pram from the
organs of all denominations. It .has grown into
a book of a hundred' and fifty pages, with the
general title Mciaar f 8, - E - Soßms; in which the
subject is disenssed more Another
and a much longer peatorid, letter on Wernan's
Work in the Murat is included in the yolume,
and is' in'the main soundly Protestant and safe.
There is much' in the book that We dissent
from ; the'au'thor has , many idiosyncrasies with'
which we have , no sympathy, and 'Seemsto us,to
often sink the reformer in , the: special pleader.
But there it nothing in-it in the spirit of ; his
f• Ecclesiastical Ballads,".and.these is much that
is every way commendable 'land - valuable. • We
,rejoice to believe that its plea for`the '" weightier
matters of the 'law" will cote lioide to' a Wide
circle of readers With a seal Preitige and a
weight of influence on account its aUther,
whial, does net belong to most writers oki"ptiatlei l
• morality. J. i g:'Lippincott & CO. ilabliSh It.
• Miss Warner's new book will be welcom-:=
efi by many waiting reaaers, as it is the
tinuation of a continuation.
A lt is the . 4con. ' d:
series of DAISY, which is in itself ,continued
from " Melbourne house.' We shall not spoil any
reader's enjoyment by dicicecting, the plot, hut
on ly pay that the , story runs on through the I
scenes of our late 'civil war an 4 ends haypily,
as Miss W.'S storitis. always clo. She always
deals out Pont,,ieal,justiep before she is through.
From tin expression on page 366, where the
heroine's mother "declaims against the religion
which does not-mike daughters dutiful and at
tentive to their motherc,"'We 'infer that the au
tnor has been listOing,ilo ionie of her English
critics, but we inf e r that;' like baiiy in,the'Se
circumstances she, would jay ." I heard hut did
not feel." That Miss W. finds the martyrs and
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1869.
saints of society in little girls of exceeding wis
dom and piety, is not the only fault that we find
with her. Her male characters are "soft," far
beyond the average of the heroes of lady novel
ists. NU even the bad ones have hardness
enough in their bones to be endurable, though
there is more manlikeness in them than
in such beings as her "Guy Carleton." Yet
her books are good practical sermons to young
folks ; they err in a direction which is too little
heeded ; and their error is so excessive as to
furnish an antidote without, exciting a reaction.
W e owe her many hours of pleasure. In
younger years." Queechy " made along sea voy
age less tedions 'to tench to thifseandal ,of
an old sea-captain who' thought'' people might'
to read nothing at sea except their Testaments."
We commend her new book to a wide circle of.
readers. Pp. 340, l6mo.
01, 4 0tfilalltkritLy
IiET HALBEY D uttiNa '
Memorial Sermon by Rev. IVft. Noyes, his .sue—
cessor as pastor; of the %First ~ C onstitutional
Presbyterian Church, Baltimprp. .
‘f Know ye nett there is a•prinee ands great mart
fallen this day in Israel Y"-2,SanTsl, As. ,
(Continued from, our La,Bl.)'
Thus .far, I have ,considered those i qualities
which .nature give hiin?•untouched bythe , grace' ,
of God. There are men'wlio seem to:be:born to
be Christians.t Suchtan one 'W2B , =he. , To - ,themo
the new birth is divorced froth ithose painst an&
rendings with which it is clothed to :others: •
,SO
it was ; with him: Godicalled - Samuel andßatnuel)
answered. In response ~to the Divine was
the charge. God callOd•..lSlr., Dunning; into his'
service when he waitbuttwelve years ofrage; he.
liitened, he had; been ; prepared 'lora.; and, as
naturally
,as rivers flow to the.; obean, he; glided!
into the. Christian life. '.;
'Follow me along ,, the 'line of his Christian
character! ;.: „ . ,
Ills piety ioas undemonstrative.—lt was a quiet
stream :gliding through the,green pastures. of •coli
flding love: He had a deep religious experience,
and' from its .ftillness he: furnished•guidance: arid
consolation to others hat of it, as his own, he
hardly ever spoke. .fle 'did' not favor: publie ref-'
erences• to the life existing betweenthe soubandi
its God: - One reason may,, perhaps, he traced to
:the faet,- that he regarded.•many:of these•experi-!
ences as related simply:for effect.: Said one.witli
whom . ' visited hini one• day, same reached; the
street :." He has strong feelings, .but huahhois.
everything that resembles cant." •He preserved
the same temper through every stage , of his sick
mess. .He was the samettnpretending,elfristian.
Though -many' expected memorable- revelations
from him as he approached the gates of, death ;
I' know not that he gave,, expression •to one irnj
mortal utterance. The calmness, the cheerful
ness, the patience,.the• constant acknowledgment:
of God'El goodness, that , hallowed. those months>
of suffering, so beautifully supplementing' and
;justifying :a life given to God, are the holiest
mementoes possessed by weeping friends. Be;
sides a natural: peculiarity, we trace in this type ,
of characters, evidences of the' old truth that the•
still waters are .the deepest:,:The • most :frequent
and lasting grief betrays itself the least., He is
the profoundest, thinker who , speaks•en,tare!ocv
casions: • The •noisy: and.!dernonstrative. Chris
tian. consumes himself:: in the effort of an hour;
• while he, who has an opposite disposition, reserves
his forces for grand and•snecestifulectinn. Chris
tians gain by weaving.,.th,eir hopes into their lives,
'rather than by using them to season their speech.
M.r. Dunning excelled , in living. • .
• Elemai a conscientious ehr(stian.-7-11e adopted'
the idea that to be 'a Christian one muskassnthe
a higher , style of thought,and.condact,--,that; ,
though the same duties were, performel,before
the new life began,! afterward .they must be
lwrought; from different motives, and refleet.a
higher ;As a Christian he occupied a dill!
ferent position. He was no longer own; but.
another's. He was a servant of God;:bnund to
'obey with cheerfulness , the,Divine will. Every
thing he did, he did. as a Christian. Whether'
.he ate or drank, or sat, orlvalked,. it wasL to the.
glory of GoiL, ',The Omniscient eye was on him.
He did . all thingsiwell.. It'. was his doctrine to
be careful, not only in speech, in conduct:in all'
moral influences, hnt,,in , the preparation of a ser
mon, ittlhe , offering of a prayer, in a pastoral,
visit, to strive to'do iris best. Hewes regular itu
his attendance on all,meetings,whethet of,alhusi
nesa, or a. religions,charaeter, because he,twaslw
Christian, and , was. determined; to maintain his.
character. as such .at any,. cost. -1 He considered . it
his duty to be present at the meetings of,the.Board ,
of Trustees, just fill much as at „the Sacramental
Board. Duty was duty to him, in.one - sphere, as
truly as in another. It is a necessity that ,the
individual and the church should render religion
more of an activp . , controlling principle. It is ;the
want of such a recognitions of its practical power
that &tett ~ e airses iti ltb , . be regarded 'Ai a us3lesa
appendage toa: man's , life in this:world, having
virtue only at the hour of death, ; and in the life
to come. To Mr. Dttnnin..religion „ was a reality.
He was a charitable Christian:.; This was ;lila:
very, great measure an acquired ;virtue. 111.4 d-a
Man. injure him, theifirst. intpulse was . thati of
resentnient ,but in a moment„tl2e. cloud had
pagsed away,--from the. lips -dropped wordi
lindness,-. and the .hand of reconciliation was
;cot dially.eitended. I haveiheard hint speak of a
man, ,, who, twiuse the mildest expression, never
labored imuch to promote his welfare,iplanguage
that surprised me,. though long before, I, had
learned the golden rule. • While I fear I should
have forged red-hot-thunderbolts of indignation,
and: hurltd them at .the - offender, he uttered
words of .kind. apology. If a; man erred, in him
he had a friend. He realized, what many good
men forget,,that we all are of "the same nature,
that the same , dark 'Possibilities lie .along the
path, each one must tread. :
In faith,.he was far from bigotry.: He loved
his denomination with a decided love, yet,he was
no sectarian. Free from trammels he rose above
names and enibraced the whole church in his
.catholic arms. The Bible was.his creed: Christ,
in his view, was the " Saviour,of all, men, espe
cially of those that believe." ~ • •.;
For fourteen years he stood alone in this 'city.
No brotherly hand extended to him or his church.
Hardly recognized by those trusting in the same
crucified Christ as worthy to pick up the crumbs
of their feasts, I have yet to learn of a singl e
uncharitable word or act 'that can be treasured
up against his memory. In regard to the great
question of re-union, already settled, his desire
was, re union, if 'practicable; if not, let it be de
layed for a season. ' If' charity is the bond of
peace out of t a perfect heart, he must have: been
a strong bond 'tithe kingdom of God on earth.
He was a prayerful 6:Aristiart. He recoollited
no such . being,as a Preyerless Christia n . ° Hu n _
self; effectual in suppliOtion, , he believed it es
sential to epiritnal groWth that there should be
'mueli 'fervent prayer ih the life: 'Man who p re ,
wails with 'God' is 'ttel i mightiest power on the
earth,' Mary fePed'ilie,pra'yers of Knox more
thin she did aimiee. Ido riotbelieve Knox had
any'more 'Poi& to find , ' and wield the 8
tlttinder of the Almighty, than Halsey Dunnin g ,
1 1 '1" the'/'..rltiek.e' of. many, -of ',You' died; befor e
Thirsting, bite' the language that heaven never'
'failed' to, tiai' lig forgot not tO'pray: His marked
PhYsicat diii,l4 , had elicited; much surprise . I
hopeTlieiray no e6nfrderice of the sainted dead'
in relating a circumstance, With which - he favored.
me, as 'it' Mile:Wiles' Ws Ipoint .In,his religious
~o • ~ Was JP , •' ' 1.. I , ~.- of
glipicter. He speaking of nis . prospects ,
Pvirig. " ifeSaia :. I . dcrii t et 'despair Of
it
to'
come, II wlr tell''YOU
. tir' hy, thgligh: it is the
fret ' time r hive' menthmedthe ebent to any hi:keit
A.bfitit thied }ears since,l was visiting 'lily bro r
Wei In'New Jersey, Early one morning ( ' I had ;
slenterrhige.'''''Cif coursed was alarmed: ''There
`is ti - " f'`" al i 4 ' a with"cw - •
Tittle'rise o groun , overe r es in
"the `rear of' MY hrollier'e dwelling: 'Thither I
`rePaire jiist as the sun ' Was, rising, fo',ine &my
God."' r boWed in Hisliresenee and inqUired, of
"Him Whether I shoilld li'e'or die ? '.' '1 rose' and;
cleSeencled 'frorri'that kite 1, , with the Conviction
that I was to live. Yo *now . how in the face'
t
of r physicians, , whelircirib Audit - iM,Ossible, her
'fivea,l arid 'lie 'li'ved"'An' ' sWer te, ; 't,bat'prayer.
, 'l'lieltrerigth that; ii , aa. iharvelloue in' hie very
,Nteliktiese, Was the ftA :cif God; beitowed upon ;
'hint beim:tee he',Prayed: In' that morning commu
nion hepaet God Dide'not Often' onjoi'Sucli'
seasons with his Matter? Was not the posses' ,
slop of 'encli a:inaii,'Caple of' be.seeehirig God,
of far more Value tq'yciiii than wealth, and influ
:enbe, and eloquence ? Not many churchei are
favored with a paStoel oeseisif ortnere faith
and power 111 prayer. re these prayers dead
or ? It .1124 - See rri:so . . 113 tit t4,y :are not. They
'are like triiii, ripening aniong,Ae v 'braiielies of
'the' tree ; When:the One 'of ' rietiing is fully,
conie,,GOA will' ,shakethem I into the 'spiritual
, ,t • . ~i. , . i ...,t
treasury Of Inis c i tl . 4 . ,,
The prayers of 'the tret pastor' of this pongre- - '
gation shall heeptue memorial gifts, / Of' , 'Prediotis'•
value;-set'in these familiar walls,:; I knowof' no.
better' attribUte'Aith which to 'round', off his,
Christian. charaCter. ' lit,' is 'the k ' ' i'of the
, 1 • ..= ~• i' I ? ;l e Yl -13 9 . 11 e
arch 'He - was a man pf pcaler. .'
My tiiliiiite'WOuld not, .be 641ete if I failed
to •consider him in lie public churacter as al
watchman on the wallio,f Zion., ,
14 magnified kis a eln "this respect , he,
q t i
was a ,80/dloaa follO`Ne ofPaUl. , .4e had 'a most,
exalted, s idea Of 'the (1 r4tian,niiiiitry: At times,
fc
his reverence for hie - c sing seemed 'siiperStitious;
The pulpit' was, to' hi
~:b, holy eininence, from
which, in' Christ's stead,'he besought men to be
reconciled to God. He spake with the, 861 eniiiir ,
ties of '
s oeternit: h
judgment wee near. lie was completely come
-crated to his work' ''pl, e had but one thoyght,
44; that thought
.i j was Oliriat and lie iv to brinai
men into loViii.,'captiNity to his will: The' sad
°-
dest,hour of his life wai that, which bare -wit
ness to' the conviction that his life, as li 'Preacher,
was no More. , llis, intense love for the pulpit
often led him here, when, lie' shoUld have, `been
in :his dwelling,- Tile', Impna
seron, ',Ais ever
preached'
,Way on, the nternipg" of the first Sab
bath intec,ember, eighten hundred and slily
seven. He lelivilred,th lecture preparatory to
che Coplinutuen o
, i ,an ; ary, ei„, en uridred
.and 'sixty-eight, „from' , th.ivords, " Prepare ye
, ,-.. e , , l i, , . , • .
t i i!,4 way of' t4e, Iprd. , „ Thus closed his public
ministration. lla.tprrted op earth a year longer•
before. ascenclimg to,the higher ministrations of
God's,r i , I',, . ro --41, Jr .
eternal, temple., , to .
c
Chtzi*ccer p, MI c rqacia
ny. He preached, a
pure Gospel: '
"pletie,.coniOained of his, erring
froitilhe fitith, and,:forgettang gravity of speech.
He dealt with the soul as creation or God, des
tined to live hereAr a ssalon,on ,earth; , ,:and, by'
i itslife here, to detegininc,flie , character of its
etereal o state. t , • While ,maey, men , preach, the
Go s pel, they ,are,apt,,.to, adopt some particular
phase of it,,ind exalt,it at:, Ole expense of 'the'
rest. - It is difficult to find the man who presents
,the Aospel,iti, its true.,propprtions,,giving each
~doctrine,its,,appropria4 place., The mental,Con
stAtution and•the,physical 'state of the man leave,
their i stemp,2n his Pub,lie teachings. Mr. Dun
9ing .was net a one-sided prearifier, but I ,think
,he gave peculiar gm:nil:one to those , features of'
the Gospel that lie nearest , the law. He :' ; loved
the ,eross i ,but ; he, yetnembered that God descen
'Zed ' from heaven amid thunder and lightning,
long before the, cross , was raised and published
His unalterable rule to mankind. 1
He never was esteemed a popular preacher.
He would. have dieowned such an appellation. For who is thepopular preacher , of' to-day?, He
is o the,rinin„i,vho ean create, a sensation, g4,„shall
he . suatenarice for ,inferior minds ;, ,the mad who
prostitaitea,the pulpit, to the laying of the beams.
of his own I repntation,; who converts the Sall4-
pry into a place' of jesting—not of wit, for
flint, is to..be tolerated everywhere;—who says
sharp : things, that he may be , considered of a rare
order—who, once raised above the floo d, scruples
not; to use, any.,mearis by, Whi4h'he may` bolster
up his uncertain reputation. ~, „ , „ •
, Neither was his style calculated to arrest the,
seeker of, a chaste eloquence and faultless
rhetoric. t
His sermons were carefully prepared, anew
ately weighed, sturdy expositions of the truth.
Though he
,sometimes touched the finest chords
in the human heart, he had not a poekic mind. t,
He lost, in failing to enter the realm, of , his
tory,, nature and daily life, to lgather. illustrations
for the enforcing of truth. Though his manner
was far from being perfect—though to him was
denied the silvery eloqutince, of some, and he
was destitute of the graceful arts of others, he
had those superior gilts, character and earnest
'ilesss and all , win listened to,his solemn 'utter..
ances were sure that they flowed froin his heart.
I think his weekly lectures were more fruitful
of interest than the more formal discourses of a
Sabbath.
He was a sower. There is a time for sowing
and a time for reaping. The order of nature is
neither to be disturbed nor removed. " One
soweth and another reapeth." It is very seldom
the same man performs both of these offices.
One is not often permitted to garner the fruits
of his own toils. It always was the province of
Mr., Dunning to east, the seed into the earth. Is
he who sows worthy of less honor than he who
reaps? Clould linrVests spring from a seedless
soil ?
• For ten years God. commissioned him to scat
ter the good seed in this vineyard, and then
directed him to Cuba to recruit his shattered
system. During his absence the Spirit, deseended,,
are ninny were &Wed. What is'the logical con
clusion Y: Halsey Dunning prayed, wept, labored,
sacrificed; enriched the earth with, his devotion,
but,he.was not the one to, gather in the sheaves.
y - et it is certain.there could have been* harves
had there not been the limg year of 'faithful pre
paration:" I sny'this, 'since some are disposed to
undervalue the 'silent worker, and I love to see
the;sealAtypesit ,put jnat where it, belongs iu
this life. • •
, •n
There cannot be a revival of religion in ,this
,Church—a ! spiiituat 'ad'vance of o'y magnitude,
'in' which 1 wilF`not. discover some . 'evidence
-that Mr. Dunning lived, and labored ;and died,,
in the interests 9ft,this people, and, that his nwork '
Avas not in. vain. -.lf; ,to the unthinking man, his
ministry appears to have heen barren, it is because'
the ways in which God moves is not fully recog
'
. nizeir and the criterion of HeaVen is not -under
,..stood•." Tathe eye Of religious philosophi it; Was
,a e , complete -success, and, from, it this church is
destined,to grew, into p holy temple to the praise,
and glory of the Most:High :
2' 'He w a smodd .I'ardor. . • The last time I
visited' Mire; reinatkeds, in a' conversation eon-
Cerningthe hest. method. of influencing the human
heart kyield to Christ :." I have been more sue ; ,
ceseful iu personaf efforts
,than in any other."
Ve,was kind in toile, loving. in deed, ever ready
to - ilB good'.' He acquired' the 'friendship and
'aftectibns:cflthe people; that'he might gain their
souls for the Master. I have seen many good.
Piston, -14. never. his , oqual. have...knowa
those wh0,.. i3 would but I have never , known
:anOther wh `con vizir such purPoie—shed
dinga genial influence 'all around, arid securing.
the respect of; all with r whom he came in Contact.
Tastora , are.friends,. since their position renders it
necessary, n ;
He was a friend, because his nature and his
piety rendered itltnpbssibje that he — should not,
be. He stood by yon,''nof pastoi only; but
through the pastor shone a &kind of the: loveliest
tenderness; and rarest syrepathy. He entered' a,
sick. room, he was in spirit % one 9f the,faraily
standing in dread anxiety around the couch of
suffering, He prayed and watched, as it onthat
bed lay the center of the t'opes and the'affections
dna long life."' He' went into a family flow whole
circle mfatlier had just ascended to the ,Parent "of'
the rape. No child i arqund that hearth, on,Which
the fire had ceased to burp, ,mourned more sin
cerely' than' he. 'Again" he stood. by, the side of.
one whose 'paitnerchad been swept airay—Whose
hopes had been blighted by an unexpected frost,
and so tender was, his sympathy, so, moist his eyes
with
,gathering tears, that a 4 stranger ,could not
tell' which was the ruined - man. He rejoiced
with their who were in joy. Ills strains of
thanksgiving was 'as sympathetic as his agonizing
intercession: sympathies were- aetive, per
omal,- always awake. ~It is not, irreN,rerence to say
that, like Him who bears th, e ~ bu.rde,rksi o f ages,
he, in his sphere, ivellf.nigli literallY carried the
!riefli . tintl•joys of his people. Biit why - do I re
hearsethese virtues? With:streaming eyes and
voices tremulous with,hidden_ereotion,, you speak
.more eloquently than can any human tongue,
though inspired, hype gi;acespf poetry and song
For fourteen years 'he' kiV , ae" the light '6f your
homes. -For --fourteeno),years he baptized your
children,,,j,oined,y,our, sons and daughtexs in holy
wedlock; and e hOned year dead. For fourteen:
yeare Vointed,nyou•iii yeur•-seasons of darkness
(and gkief•to-the':ersvZ of love and the Heaven of
light. He loved you, with a holy ardor. Thank
God,, theugh,
, you have consigned him to the
grave, yen cannot hilry roemiiry., Let that
live, and th't6'w - it:sl:kMa of SOftenedlight across
your way forever: i'AT!'Congregation of his , love,
youOcannot.yet realize thetdepth.of ;your bereave : ,
pent, Yota : singll4 elinreh to expect, more than
on . s!ich pastor i 4 , too Inuch t, , , ,
' His pastbral excellence 'Was Ili `crown. His
pekniliatitids•as aqiiari ;May fade' frbm your re ;
mem bra ce. , Ati preacher fiis memory may be,.
'comer dim; but:as„,a, pastot, ever live in
,your; most, ballnwed Fecollections of a, changelesi
t• •
past, ,
1 , ,
It is now more than ;
tia'ree years since' friends
became convineed that disease Was weaving its
'fatal coils around his manly, frame.. It. It . followed
him with a malignant smile along', every, path he
trod. , He bade it,,retira r , He visited,pther elitnea:
r lt_found him there. Hegazed on other scenes:'
It revealed' itself iii very 'flower, 'arid 'bride of
grass, and sounded its threatenings' on 'every
breeze. • '
Others would, have' yielded. , For fortydWo
months he disputed the ground. lie combated
it, as man, always,+?hosld, for, if ope,ever g on es
Goll in, the ,Ilesh, 4,is, when he clinks with all
the te'itacity of,a great spirit to the life so kindly
and divinely
,given,, Go l d loves men who wish to,
live andact,. He lived and acted till hc'dicd. " '
'Qn theinornineof the eleVenth of,Janiiary he
passed frem the tests ptlife receive, the, crown
which the, righteous Judge, had reserved for him.
When the last,inoinent,eame'and, the roar of the
dark, yaters were heard, just beyond, wrapping
his mantle , abont him he descended into. the
stream, rith the, firmness of the hero, the gensis
tenay of the philosopher and the faith, of the
Christian.
He had but tt, few months before completed his
fiftieth year f ,had just, entered on! Abet ~period
which is the intellectual man's •prime; for, if oiie'
is ever colossal, in mental excellence, it. is during
the decade stretching from the fiftieth to the:
tieth year of his race.. The passions. of youth are
hushed; its ambitions calmed. Time, bas been
afforded for the rectification of mistakes : that 'Oc
cur in every Jite. Experience has. ripened; the
mind and the heart, and all the-, forces : of the
moral being ate ,trained to actin= perfect ,corteert..
Just as he was striking for the zenith hissun *eut
down. As he died, one of God's royal men pass
ed away. In ecclesiastical councils, as in every
circle that he graced, he will be sadly missed.
Who will catch his falling mantle and wear it as
he wore it? The entire Church mourns, for from
her towers, a mighty one has fallen. His trum
pet.that gave no uncertain sound shall never
sound again, for God has called him home.
This simple tribute can shed no immortal fra
grance on his virtues, it is but the offering of a
heart that loved and trusted him. That silent
marble is tot to perpetuate his memory, it is but
the expression of a people whom he led in spirit
ual paths for many years. His noble life is his
proudest and most enduring monument. It is
eternal, since he has built on the immortal rock
of 'righteousness. •
The pan,Avly,pm we saw, slumbers in his tomb,
to-night. The man whom we did not see, but by
whom we were , moved toholy living and Christ
like sacrifice, is this moment an attendant of God,
as he sits on His throne, Above.,
If departed spirits iu.their ministrations of love
are•permitted 4 to care ; for the precious objects
which they left along. the shores or time, then
this Church- is watched overwith , eager tender
ness by the noble leader of days no more to return,
save on the waves of consecrated , memory.
For her his love was unselfish his zeal. un
broken till the `last, and to-night her name is
written on his heart:in characters rinsing beauty.
ifs has a reward' in the church triumphant.
What shall be kis reeonipense here 7 What can
you render?
Rear ~a thous'and columns of granite ' they shall
'be splintered and broken by time. Twine ten
thousand wreaths of burning gold and gleaming
silver around a monument of adamant, and let
each letter of the inscription it shall present to
the shining. touch, of the, rising sun, be cut with
the diamond; the gold shall rust, the silver lose
is gloss and the letters be bleared as the monu
ment crumbles to dust.
• You.would- honor him. He cares nothing for
•these :tplEeps of,respect. Here build a spiritual
temple that shall endure forever. Let harmony
be the chief song within its walls. Let each one
for whom he toiled' and - prayed erect a noble
Christian life to his, memory. Let him not have
lived and died in vain for you.
Yes; as we bid fareivell to Halsey Dunning at
tbe gates'erdeath, and 'gather up our robes to
hasten on to meet him amid the .radiant scenes
of Paradise,,as the youth Rogers, and that other
disciple, Haphine, whom Jesus loved, have already
met him„there comes but one response to our
competition to do hirO honor, "Remember me
by remeMbering*Christ."
ROMISH 011IIROH.
—For, a thousand years says a North German
correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazate, the
Cathinhe 'Episcopate have never been so utterly
powerless,- so helplessly servile to Rome, as
'at this moment. 'An ominous increase has
: tAken place. in the ranks , of the Jesuits, which
on the Ist of January last numbered 8,584
members, while in 1833 the entire order did not
, doiint"more than a third of that nuniber. Its
headquarters are of course in Rome; but by its
emissaries it is übiquitous, and many of its
patrons, perhaps even of the affiliated, are Ger
map Bishops:
—The freedom of the, Romish Church in the
'Sae j declared 6 . include the folloWing stipu
lations': "That the State .shall , tolerate no dis
sent fforn the Roman creed; that marriage and
education are within the jurisdiction ,of the
Church,and not of the State; that the members
of'the hierarchy are not amenable to the civil
coulltsTiind that it is the duty of the State to
enforde the decrees Of the Church." What, in
all this,' bas become of the freedom of the State
and of the individual P•
Hungary there .is a' stir as of Protestant
air, in the Church itself . The laity have de
manded_a recognizeitplaeain the administration
°fits affairs., The government has warmly sup
-porte-d'them, and the Rotiiisli archbishop`has been
constrained to call a'Church Congress, which is
,expe,cted to reorganize , the. Church government
under an old, law, by which churches and schools
Were placed Under theof a mixed com
mission of'clergymeri and' laYmen. The Con
gress met June 24th. It is also asserted by a
newspaper correspondent that• the Hungarian
Government is firmly resolved, in case the Court
of Rome s,Unable or .unwilling to furnish cer
tain guarantees required as to the spirit and ten
denc?Of approachiAg, 'Council, to strictly
atidlibsolately forbid 'the' members of the Hun
°Arian -_Episcopate 'attend it.
—Mrs. Lewes, an English authoress who us
fnally.signs herself ,as George Eliot, has received
: from, the, Messrs. ;Blackwood„ her, publishers,
l $67;000, for her'WOrks, : for " Silas Marner,"
'$12.000; for'" bo the Floss," $20,000,
'and'for' "Itiiihola," $30,000.
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Rbutledge; Nelson, Casselht and others.
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