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New Series, VOL VI, No. 3 Johnxweir 15ju1y69
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A GREAT DROUGHT.
The Atlantic slope of the Alleghenies has
been suffering seriously from drought, at first
accompanied with a temperature as low as 50°,
and then with a,heat ,ranging for days together,
in the hottest part of the day, at 100°. Crops of
corn and potatoes are parching into nothing.
About Richmond, Va., no heavy rain has fallen
for nearly three months, and even forest .trees
are dying. In some districts cattle have per
ished from thirst. The Schuylkill river is kiwer
than for thirty years before; navigation and
and, manufactures dependent on,its water supply,
have been suspended,.and, for the'flreetime in
its history, our city, standing at the confluence of
two great rivers, has been in i hourlY dread' of the'
entire loss of those priimip4 supplies coming from
Fairmount water works. Millions upon millions
of man's wealth have wasted away under the Sun's
unmitigated heat, r , while the ' abundance thus
far promised in other regions of country, dePre
elates the value of the small escaping , remnants
here.
Shall we complain of • this ?--Shall we not
rather consider how much less, it' is than the
Lord might justly render to us for our sins—per
sonal and national ? Shall we not rather make
what judgments we actually experience, the oa
casion for marking more plainly, the very light
ness of the judgments theMselves ?' How ten
derly, at the worst, Cod deals " with a race which
habitually forgets Him; which purposely and
perversely shuts Him from its thoughts and
plans; which said of His Son, on His errand
of unspeakable mercy and forgiveness to the
world: "This is the• Heir, come, let us kill
Him," and then hung Him 'up in the midst of
three Roman crosses ; a world which continues,
in the spirit of His murderers, to reject and ae
spise Him still.
Murmuring reader 1 have you received ;Tens
into your heart ; or; if you have, do' you so 'faith
fully serve Him, that Yon can Wonder at any
small degree of inconvenience or suffering laid
upon you as if it w(ire s ; nittiV'ellously• unjust ?
Does not God prove His 'faiffifulness . to you - ;ttid .
to a sinful community, By` 'AA inflictions
as these 7 May we not recognize the truly wise'
and kind Parent, the more certainly tof the chaff)
tisements which He mingles with His mare
agreeable gifts ? -
The useful purpose of such an infliction of
natural evil is not indeed alWays clear ; but may
we not suggest that it is calculated to tng the
quality of our praying. Against such an evil as
prolonged drought; it is as right for us to pray`,
as for our daily bread. And we ought to pray
against it specifiCally, and doubtleas, have d'Obe
so. But do we not think it altogether an uncer
tain, unpractical - question, whether our prayer's;
shall have a specific answer'? 'tio 'we not'look
somewhat askance upon those ' iv'ho dpect a ape
cifie and favorable •answer, as ' dust a little
fanatical ? Yet how can - we 'via& get over
the illustration in Jaines v." 17 and 18, which
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seems to have no meaning at all,•if' it cannot be
applied to just such a ease as this? Why are we
expressly told that •Elias, whose prayers for
drought and for rain were so effectual, was "a
man subject to like pasgions With oirselves," dti
less to bring his case within the range• of our
every day life and wants? Shall , we depreciate
the specific value of prayer, or shall we not say
that drought continues, in spite of our prayers,
because the prayers are not what they should and'
can be? Instead of lowering our;views of prayer,
we are rather called upon to lower our views of
our praying. It is not THE PRAYER or FAITH
that is going up from our lips and hearts, und so
answer is withheld. It is not the humble, united,
believing, Christ-honoring, promise-graspin,g,
Spirit-given prayer, which we have been offering.
That scales the heavens and grasps,•• under ;God,
the powers of the world. That is the mightiest
of all instrumentalities. That is stronger than
armies in war; more effectual than medicine in
sickness; greater than enterprise, sagacity and,
capital in business, or statesmanship in politics,
or than all Martha's cares in housekeeping.
Using and consecrating all right means, it sweeps
them along with it to the throne of grace. There
it finds a power whiCh can work above and with
out and against means, and which is ready and
pledged to act in response to its calls. The his
tory of the Church, in the 'Bible' end out' of it, in
ancient and modern times, Ur the life and obser
vation of almost every pastor i and not a few pri
vate Christians, warrants us. in declaring the
Prayer of Faith forspeCific ends, and, with spe
cific answers, a reality; and such a time of trial
as the existing drou ht Is 'allowed to come Upon
us, to test the quality of our prayers and lead us
to a more diligent cultivatichrof the gift which
Christ's people are so slow to value'and to exer •
-
oise aright.
This absence of tLe pra-er 9f faith s pointß t°
the fact that there is a drought in many a read
er's soul, corresponding to that in the material
world. The softening reviying, showers of grace,
at• times so plenteous, have in 'many instances, as
much disappeared as if they bad never been :en-
joyed,at all. plants,of grace, bright profesOons
of piety, once so, charming and promising„ now
stand
. withering,, since the Bunt is up ,and there,is
no depth of earth.; Plans of,work are at a'stand -
still. Great- schemes for, God and man,. once pur
sued ,with.entlipsiasm, have nothing left but the
bare and motionless machinery. • Dry and barren
and dusty channels take the place of the fresh,
'swift streams, which once, made everything quiver
with life and activity. , The fervent, frequent
prayer has sunk to a hurried, formal • whisper.
The glare of worldliness, ; And gayetyl as evaporated
the tender early dew and morning clond.of piety.
The fierce devouring heats of, covetousness ha'ye
drank, up the shallows ofprinciple, made conscience
as dry• and callous as ..a beaten high 'road,, and• in
place of the pure, running stream of, an unstinted
and generous liberality have• left nothing .but, a
few pitiful pools that are drying up without, pros
pect, of, replenishment. ,
It is time for the Holy Spirit tohe asain poured
out. Let us seek the latter, as well as the early
rains upon our famishing hearts,
I NATIONAL DANGER.
The London, Spectator, in a kindly but humor
ous article on the Boston. Musical, Peace Jubilee,
with its Chorus of 10,000 singers, its orchestra
of, .cannon, bells • and anvils, its audience of
37,000 souls, touches on One of our national'
weaknesses, if not our great national temptation;
—the confounding.-of bulk with greatness. It
suggestslhat the• tendency, of our thought and
our admirations is to produce "a new sort of hu
man nature, with sensoria of telescopic grasp,
but with a losfrof microscopic •power." It sees in'
it a recurrence,to that Asiatic'taste for, and wor
ship of, the gigaiitesque which has•_",disappeared
in the closely , compressed life of Western. Ea;
rope.... There, was and is in Asiatics ; and there
;is in Americans, a' notable desire to ,reassure
themselves against the menaces of nature,- >by
gettiugivisible signs of humaii,unanimity and ,
cooperation on a grand scale.: We 'svispect, that
`there is much more of4real psychological analbgy
between the Asiatic !attempt to- build. a .tower
that might scale the skies on - the. plains of Shi
.nar, and the ,Atnerican Attempt to peal forth :.a
kind of* musical thunder - of human. liberty and
peacdat.that centre of the world, Beaton, Massa
chusetts, than our Yankee friends would at-all,
adthit."
The criticism seems to us to have a good deal
oftruth in it, if for Asiatic you substitute the
more - emphaticiword pagan. For the tendency
was not Universal in Asia. One Asiatic nation
at least was free from it. . One Asiatic people,
dwelling in a land , of no broad plains, no lofty,
mountains,no mighty rivers, no rich mines, and ;lab
vast .resources, , seem to have been it living protest
against this :worship of bigness: Engrained, into
the heart of this people, and reiterated in every
possible shape by their teachers, was the belief
that the weak things of this world had been
chosen. to Confound the nfighty., and that they
themselves were to be, by God's grace,. the
channel of influences and forces which should
mould all the peoples, as none of these-huge and
gigantic kingdoms and forces around them ever
did or could. And we' would trace the com
parative freedom of Europe from this pagan
worship of huge things, to an influence which
proceeded from, a part of that Asiatic Jewish na
tion—the influence of Christ and His Church.
That the whole of that Jewish nation did not be
come the means of disseminating that, influence
was owing mainly to their having lost faith in the
truth revealed to their fathers. Their hope be
came a hope that God would , change their little
things into such as were, gigantic,—would give to
'them an empire as great as that which , had .be
longed,to the heathen. And so when One came
who claimed to be Lord over all,.and to.be .the
centre of the unity which had bound the na
tion in the past, they asked of Him .pagan and
gigantic signs of His power. He refused to be
made a Sing on the same plane with Tiberius
and Herod,;, He refused to establish a universal
monarchy by His miraculous power, and they re
jected Him. He had lived the life of a poor
man ; they put Him to the death of a slave.
The message of His life and death has been
the saving -wird of life to Europe. European
civilization has been largely built upon it. It
was a message that" God had,chosen the foolish
things of the world to confound the 7ise; and
the weak things of the world to confound the
things which are mighty; and base things
of the world,' and things which are despised, yea,
and' things , which are not, to bring to nought,
the things which are." All the permanent
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, AtieiliST 26, 1869.
strength of Europe has come from faith in that .
message, in the truth that God is the' Omnipotent
Source of 'all power, and will prevail with the
weakest weaponi against the mightiegi. All the'
weaknes of Europe, of her nations aciitChurolkes,.
has been throngh • forgetting that 'tind comiri
down to the worldly level of the itgatitescpie,
and of tiust in thb tnerely big as if it weYe,. o:ie r gi:•eaf.
The " great apostacy" of the Church Of 11, - Orne4ss
the seeking of.greatness on this outward'
worldly plane'of. vastness:'' Protestailliint cvds'''a
reassertion of the ipititual principle f4af-Christli
kingdom was not of this world, and' is strength
not to
to be thus measured. '• '
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And now" America stands as yet O'
threshold' - of a 'national existence, wil h 'manifold'
temptations around' her, and none ni 3 Oie`'dinger'-'!
ons than the'verylidolatry. We know' ihaf' the"
doom will. be - if- she-give' way to ts , . tempter.''
Nebuchadtkezdr's fate - Will' be -repeated in sub
stance in . e l very imitator of his sin. 'Behold'
this great-- Babylorrthat4 have made;" - and he
was- sent to hrdwith ; the beapts of the field:
But is America to fall.back on the godless pa
ganism of Asia 7 What
,is to be the source of
her national trust and confidence? ,Is it to be
in her huge resource's and VUst area, her hound
less plains and mighty rivers? What is to be
her national boast and glory_? Is it tlie external
advantages of, which she is, providentially pos
sessed? The " American 'thirst for liig things,"
the "pride which Americans'have alWays shown
in' the great scale' of their political iife, in the
immense area`of their States, in the vast square- :
mileage of their , laked, 'e'ven in the . enormous
dimensions of their catastrophes," seems' to us not
exempt' froth" the old'deicription pride goeth
before - destruction!' At best theae things are
not the - means to true nitionargreattieSs. Every
nation that has' risen to world-historie greatness,
has thrViren' through the Want of:these
things; while of every people that - hdS posiessed
theta it might be said : • " Their' history", was
written on sand."' It may be—we trilst it, Is the
casethat god' has a 'great; purpose to"Wdrk out
this continent, the dpbuihridg nation
vat: in cxtent; yet permeated by the Spirit of
all righteousness: But to that end we 'must be
rid 'of that Ahab-spirit which` hurried us into war
with Mexico, and 'would . hurry us into: siteilat•
wars •tibw "`to get all the land that joins nur
farm." We !bust have .hetter teachers than 'our
popular politieiana, who are debauching the na
tional Coriadidice' by 'appeals to " martifest',des
tiny," which: they 'have put' in the plan of the
will of Him 'whe has fixed the bounds of the n a t.
tions, and will take vengeinde Upon the mover df
" the' ancient landmarks." fr:not, our will
bring its own punishment. We shall gather and
graspi:absorb and spread, until . the unity and
homogeneity of the national life is destroyed; and'
the nation's integrity and' honesty overthrown,
when we will be the easy prey of any faction'
that shall arise to demand disunion. .-
ROMISH AND PROTESTANT WORSHIP 'IN
PRAGUE.
It was easy to see within a very short time af
ter crossing, day before yesterday, the fronlier
between Saxony and I3ohemia, at Bodenach, on
our way from Dresden . by rail, that we were en
tering, a country where the Catholicreligion pre
dominates. By the way side—in the fields—on
the coping of bridge' walls—on the hill-tops and
in the valleys—in the open fields and on the
fronts of of the houses—everywhere, we beheld'
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the cross, the crucifix, or the Virgin and Child
in wood, or rude sculpture, or painting. A n d ,
here in the capital of Bohemia, with thick-clus
tering •associations of the bloody conflicts between
Papacy and Protestantism, ending in the success
of the former, when Frederick V.of the Palatine
and the Bohemian Protestants were, defeated at
the battle of White Hills by the Austrian Catho
lics; all"through the city, in the crosses, the cru
•
cifixes, the images of the Vir'gin, painted or rude
ly carved, on the sides of housei and stores and
taverns, sometimes with lights burning before
them day and night;—in the precessions t with
crosses and banners, priests and swinging censers,
passing along with songs to the Virgin;-in the
69 Catholic churches, with but three Protestant
ones, tbe former open every day,
, the entrance
ways and the vestibules lined with beggars, male
and female, telling their beads, andintersPersing
the pious exercises with solicitatiens for alms;
all these features, and many more which it is im
possible to enumerate, force upon the traveller's
observation the difference between this and a
Protestant city, like Berlin. These are, however,
but outward and material characteristics; of the
More essential and vital differences the lives,
habits and morals of the people, I am free to con
fess that I cannot fairly judge from my F limited
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and most cursory knowledge.
Thiel turning, at 9,1 went to ; the Tein-churgh,,
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on Old-squale, quite'surrotinded by houses
built elose, up
t vainst its walls, entering through
yatiltect` passage ways, dark and close.' 'The
original gtrubture was 'built about 1100 as a
chapel f , t 'afid. j akiieeit'added' to, enlarged, daintwecl
by fire, kiillightiii4 l and the ravages of nun-wr
ong hwets; Nairecl.' and ye-constructed, till
Arida as ireient,' the second - 'clinrcli in' the
citY, in point Of interest,`'' not only 'froth 'its his
toilet, as'sociat frbui ifs' aliellitedfure; its
p:',ainiStiga; l i tWeil-Vizi& and 'stltiiei, tunnefous'
tanbstiitlif clia l eek "ThelCalliedral scone iiithe:
any cli;lichei of the
city;'hBe 'richer at ir:tintions, di r e' exiensive
pairs` present' '
orally with the indp - eatiOn . 'nf
Hips preached in the '4lO trOli
m ,
;I
o' i ite "date' of the 'of 'the
Wliite''ills,"'it"was in possession of`th i e
In' 1458` Geeiie" Po(libtad` was crowned king of
tolielniEln thehey C a t el near the chi&feh,
and' by l lthn i tke two' huildlngS' 'cotin.Oted;
and:tw6 towers' added to: - the chureli,' 'between
Whicii,'high On'the'pOiiited gable, he placed
'gildgd Oliali6e, embletii Of out of the great'plints'
fer'Whiele Huss Coiitended—'-that the cup, in the
ad i rainistration of the Lord'4 Supper; should ''be
given in' 'the laity: In 1621, after the Catholics
obtablit,d control of the church, this chalice was
taken down, and replaced , by an image of the
Virgin, which still remains' there.
The 'service had already conii*nced when I
entered. From the . or,gaii, - aceorripanied by an
orchestra of stringed and wind in4truments, and
many voices, maleand female, pealed out some
. , ,
of the magnificent music of the RomiSh ritual,
in response to the .utterances of the gorgeously
robed priest, • 'who, at the other end of the
church', with his attendants, in garments of black
and yellow, scarlet and white, Wes engaged in
the 'celebration of- the 'mass at the. high altar,
amid the fumes of incense and the light of many
tapers." - The church'as well filled, both nave
and side' isles, while the transept and choir, as
far up as the railing 'before the' high altar, was
crowded with worshippers, itOibe*hod; lt
;
ing, it the fail; were waiting to'receive the wafer.
The nave' was occupied -throughbdt its- entire
lefegth. with' slips or pews without dodis-, Of 'a'dirk
colored wood, rendered still darkeithy the effects'
of time and ithe wear of the successive generatiods
sklio- had occupied them. The colutuds were
adorned with- tombs and moddiments;'"paintings
and crucif;ief,'hli' elaborate,'' but many 34them
taWdit'and ="4XCeedinglrbad taste; haVing 'no
merit `but that •11 -an iqu'l y. • . •
inultitilde of reflections crowded upon the.
Mind is itolid keijeCt thimigh service;
while, at the of thells; Berne . viSible and
others while. the sacred emblem's
were being eleVated,thewhele mass' of wcirship
pen3, 441'40ntheir itte'es, in pew and aisle,' be
forsidesrf over the chureh; and
crossed theinselveS. vows Upon their knees on'
the barestode 'floor' of the nave, were . many Old
Woinei, apparently devoutly reeking' prayers'
following the' serVide out 'of thuub-marked
dingy books; lookir;g even''older dud `mord toil.:
;stained' than' theniselvek! An old Woman 'had 'a
sort of desk or stand in one corner, atAhe side• of
the church, where she sold, candles, at a kreutzer,
(half a cent): ap - leee, ti:o the worshippers,,tc,, ,burn
to the Virgin,
,before one of her pictures. in the
chapels. When the' trade slacked a little, she
would leave her stand and wander through, the
church, quietly offering them' for sale: The pur
chaser would light it, and stick, it 'on; a, frame
provided on the railing in front ,of the picture,,
and let it burn out. And all the while the priest
at the altar, with, hi&k t
baco the People . , except
.when occasionally .6k:turned round' and gave
them his blessing,. in the words "Dbminui vobis,
'cum,"—pronouncing. the, last word ", come "
was intoning . and Thanting, and bowing And
:kneeling, and rising' up, again, and incensing the
utensils and eleinedis, `and being'hirnself incensed
by his attendants, as :the' censers swung to and
'fro. ' • - '
And I thought, as I stood, of the power of the
Roman hierarchy, and erthc Appeal to the senses
made by its gorgeous Ceremonial, and of the mix,
titre in all' this temple, intended for the worship
of the living and true God, of the. tawdry artifi
cial 'flowers surrounding the altars; the glare and;
(extravagance,of_the .gilded. work, appealing to the
unrefined pind—miiigled ; with much that was
'rare and curious in`art to; attract We - refined and
elegant; andciver 'all; and enveloping; as 'it were
in winystic sense ,of•the eleVating and beautiful,
irose the clouds of sweot;smellingincense, and the
Nolumes of d9licious and raviShino• 'strains of 'mu
sic, which filled the high arch of the nave, sixty
feet'abeve'the'flOor 'of the church, and rolled in
graceful and solemn, and swelling volume throuigh
nave and aisle, , and chapel and choir; and arch
and • transept and then I recalled .the Tres
sure.hou.se of the ,Cathedral which I had, seen
but yesterday, with its pricelesi robes
~of gold
and'silver, and pdrple and fine linen work, the
production of princesses and royal and noble ladies
whO with 'fair lands'had hoped in;soine measure
thus to work outtlac salyatiOn of their souls,: and
with its rich utensils, for, the, altar, of .solid,silyer
-and gold, adorned with diamonds, and, rubies and
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emeralds and sapphires, and with its so-called
relics, consisting of pieces Other wood of the true
Cross, of the hankerchief of the,Virgin Mary, of
the table-clqth• on which, the lasksupper was cele
hrated, of two of the' thorns of the crown made by
the soldiers 'for" Christ, of, a nail which pierced
His feet, Of a piece of the sponge upon which He
was handed vinegar to drink;• and then of the
wag* awl bloody contiicAs which all this (falsely
So-called) religion had given rise to; and then as
I could not help thinking of the pbssibility, nay
prohability, that in'olir ' own beloved and free
conntry, there is yet to' arise a conflict, peaceable
iindiwithout•blood lit •anay -be, but whether peace
aldp tin: - blnpdy, ; tor) be met boldly, firmly, manfully.
With all the spirit,of the old Protestant principle,
nefailli and sturdy rigidity, and 'stern cletermi
gliOn; there Wag'll, - comfort; a' strength, a peace,
i-Atiiiisfalcti - on; a iestfulness in the feeling that
Gott rilles.nveruill, and or,ders all the affairs of
ine.p, and i maliesieien ,the wrath of man to praise
tam; anti ,the i 'prayer, arose even there in that
' temple . 1 - '4" --- oi - that` the Christian
o a orer,,, faith, peo
ple Of Strieriea, blight be awake' and awakened to
their -responsiliitities. • ~: . :, , .
WhaVa r relief tostep, out'from- the dim, and
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smoky and :pppressive church, into the open air
upon the great square, and have right before me
the spot where, on June 21, 1621, more than 200
Years 'ago; r 27'Protestant nobleinen were beheaded
for themtattachment to ;their faith; and then to
the chnroh where worship at this day the fol
lowers of the Protestant religion in the simplicity
Of the ,faith.in, Christ Jesus, who offered himself
up, Once‘ai 'a - sacrifice for all sin: Turn down
from the Josef PlatzintO Elisibet Strasse, which
leade to 'the Tlplir Sugpension Bridge; and a short
distance, reaching; the. Bridge, take Neu
rniihle Strasse to the rioht, and a few steps bring
you in sight of the church, surrt.unded by a wall.
High 'up on" the gable appears a large gilt chalice.
,Entering an arched - gateway in the wall, close
before you is the. church: itself, a plain brick,
plastered, edifice-erected quite recently. It is
divided into a nave and choir,—or chancel, per
haps, as we understand it. In front of the chan
eel stand's the altar covered with a plain linen
cloth. At' one side where the nave joins the
choir is an elevated pulpit. At the opposite end
of the - nave its ; the:gallery, or organ loft, with a
small, but very sweet toned organ. The number
and verses of the hymn to be sung are displayed
on one or 'two 'blackboards on the wall. Over
the piripitf is a'sounding board, the front of which
hears a - .narved-Bible, on - which stands.a gilded
chalice ,The chalice also appears in relief on a
blue panel in the front of a small gallery which is
thrown across the back of the choir. The hour
for SerVice '(11' o'clock)" having arrived, the min
ister, Dr. Von Engel, enters from the vestry (at
one side of •the chancel) accompanied by a Scotch
i
clergy,man„ Rev. 4. Moody Stuart. They take
their seats, in an, ennlosed pew at the foot of the
pulpit. The choir, accompanied by the organ,
sing 'the'flise hYmia for the day, in which nearly
the whole congyeition, consisting perhaps of 100
perSonaf join. „ ;film Dr.,Von Engel steps into
thechancel behind the altar, or communion ta
ble, and.offers prayer in 'Creintati, in which the
whole service ie cOnducted.' Then follows an
other. hymn, after'which - Dr. Von Engel ascends
the pulpit and delivers a'sermon.
, The people, all rise in,•their: place. during the
reading ,
.of the Aext; remaining seated through
the rest pf the service, except when the 'bene
d i &SOU' is pronounced; vilieri they alsn'riie. After
the. sermon, , Which • occupies' full half an hour,
another hyrha is•sna„,“.; -and 'then wenajov a most
excellent spiritual address from Mr. Stuart, which
is delittere,d from thechancel,—Dr.Dr. Von Engel
Standing ,by the side of 'Mk. Stuart, and' trans
lating into Gerntan as he 'progress. ' The bene
dibtiOn plbses the seivice.
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Dr: , Prime, in The N. Y. Observer, some months
since,, gave a very full and interesting account of
this church, and I : am indebted to him for the
knowledge of its ekisience, Which led Me to seek
it Out.' The simplicity of its service was far more
inii)ressive and .grateful from the contrast with
the :gorgeousness' Of the Romish service I had
witnep§ t ed, just,previously. There is a deputation
from the denominationto which this church is
attached, at piCaetit in'AMerica, and Dr: Prime
colaniends them to all evangelical' denominations.
.A visit to the old Jewish Synagogue of an un
certain fagiN,but at, least 600 or 100 years old in
its newest part, and , the interior black with the
dust' and smoke of centuries, presented another
phrase of religious obs'ervance. An ancient roll
of the Book of the Law, more'than 600 years old,
the characters hardly legible through the effects
of time; is, carefully preserved and cherished,
though no longer used - in
,the service. Near by
is the cemetery, the most recent grave in which
was made :in 1784, and the oldest tombstone
known, is• —l2OO years old; the whole ground,
which is am -English mile in . cireuniMrence,
crowded. as, thickly as a napery garden is, with
young trees, with gravestones .covered with He
brew inscriptions and the emblems of the several
tribes and of the priestlibod, and dark with the
effects of time and overgrown with' moss and
weeds: What another. train of thought and emo
tion was. awakened 1 And :then an hour
spent most pleasantly with Xr.,Rloody Stuart,
and two' English i c l ergYmen and the family of
one cir them in' their roan ai the Hotel, in a so.
cial , =religious servicej . singing - "Jesus and shall
it ever "When I survey the wondrous
Cross,'.' with p,rayers,arid reading of the Scrip.
tare, and a warm, telling, Christ-full address,— a
'fleeting 'Of Cliristiana - from different lands, and
all interested in . those who were here striving to
Make His' narne , known in the midst of supersti
tions' and' difficulties,--dosed a Sabbath, whose
naemoriea,ehall linger long as among the pleas
antest recollections of our foreign tour.
- Preigu 1.'1869.. S. C. P.