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THURSDIY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1569
REV. JOHN W. MEARS, D. D., Editor.
No. 1334 Chestnut Street ; Philadelphia.
TUC EDITORIAL COMMITTEE.
Rev. Z. M Humphrey, D.D., Pastor of Calvary
Church.
Rev. Herrick Johnson, D. D., Pastor of the
First, Church.
Rev. Danl. March. D.D., Pastor of Clinton St.
Church.
Der. Peter Stryker, D.D., Pastor of N. Droud
St. Church.
Rev. George F. Wituivell, ro.D.,:Pastor of Green
fill Church.
Rev. E. E. Adonis, D. D., Prof. in Lincoln Uni
versity.
.Rev. Samuel W. Duffield, Special Cor
respondent.
111 r. Robert E. Thompson will continueto act
as Editor of the News Department.
Correspondents in every Presbytery - and
Synod will promptly. furnish us with fresh items
of news from their respectlie'ftelds.
IST' Reformed Presbytery in India, and Air.
George H. Stuart, A. M,
,Siewart's Letters,
XLII4, Our Exchanges, In .Memoriam of Dr.
Henry McClellan, by Rev. B. E. _Aides, page
2d; Editor's Table, Literary. Items, Genesis
and Science, Suggestive Paragraphs, Dancing
by Church members, Temperance Items, page
3d; Child's. Prayer (poetry), Young Gipsies,
Washington's Home and Tomb, Budget of
Anecdotes, page 6th; Religious Intelligence,
Scientific items, page 7th.
ViirWe hope subscribers will hasten to avail
themselves of our offer_of reduced rates, by pay
ing in advance. We cannot furnish the paper
at $2 50, and take the ,trouble and ,expense: of
collecting. Examine the figures on your paper,
or wrapper ; they show when your year begins,
and are changed-upon the receipt of the money.
—The collections for the American Board in
the month of August exceeded $lOO,OOO, and
the anticipated large indebtedness will prove a
very small affair,—less than $lO,OOO.
—The attention of readers is directed to the
announcement of the new subscription book just
about to be offered to the public by canvassers,
called PRIEST AND NUN. We cannot at present
speak from personal knowledge of the book, but
its subject and its endorsers are ample 'guaran
tee of its interest and value.
—The Union Prayer-meeting of the two bran
ches, held in Calvary church, last Sabbath, was
a successful and profitable meeting. The attend
ance was quite large. Dr. Humphrey presided,
and read the cxxxiii. Psalm. Dr. Sawtelle led
in prayer. Addresses were delivered by Drs.
Breed and Adams, who were followed •in prayer
by Dr. 'Beadle.
.Judge Strong made some re
marks, in which the Chairman of the last Re
union Cornmittee-,-Dr. Musgrave—was referred
to and called upon. Dr. Musgrave responded in
an address of marked ability,• which made a
happy impression, despite the prominence given ,
to " the Standards pure and simple" in the
course of his remarks. The benediction was
pronounced by Dr. Humphrey.
—The Bishop of Bath and Wells, and that of
Exeter have resigned.
The Belgian Government neither joins with
Bavaria, in the proposal to watch the Ecumeni
cal Council, nor will it send an official represen
tative to the Council.
—ion. Stephen Lushington, = who was the
confidential counsellor of Lady Byron, and who,
she says, fully agreed with her as to the unavcid
ableness of her divorce, is, we believe, still living;
it is a brother that has died.
—The Osage Presbytery, N. S., and the S.
W. Missouri Presbytery, 0. S., met at Cave
Spring, near Springfield, Aug. 19. Joint meet
ings of a deeply interesting character were held.
OLIVET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Last Friday night, the 10th inst., the Lecture
Room of this church, having been handsomely
re-painted and re-fitted with new carpets and
matting, was re•opened and re-dedicated to the
service of prayer and the exposition of the Word
of God. The exercises were of a simple char
acter, in which the pastor, Rev. W. W. Taylor,
was happily assisted by Rev C. F; Diver, a mem
ber of the congregation, and Rev. E. D. New
berry, the first pastor.
A sum of more than two thousand dollars,
started by an outside friend, has been 'readily
raised, and partly expended on the old chapel
within as has been stated, and also,na the out
side walls to make them correspond- in color to
the new church edifice. The rest is to be spent
in repainting the audience room of the new
church. ' _
A few membershave recently withdrawn from
the church, but their numbers were made good
on the last Sabbath, the 12th, by the additibn of
eight persons• six by'profession, and the most of
them adults and heads of families.
The church is not only without debt, but the
pastor's salary has recently been raised, the spirit
and policy of Fthe church- are more harmonious
and united, and the ability and willingness of the
membership stronger than ever before before.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1869.
VACATION NOTES.
THE ST. LASVRENCE AND THE LAKES
A pleasant method of reaching the cities of
Lake Michigan, is to take a steamer at some con
venient point on the great highway of inland
navigation. Having time enough at our disposal,
and desiring a few days of repose after our
Adirondack experiences, we took passage at Og
densburg for Milwaukee. Our steamer was
small, but swift. Her cabins were narrow, but
comfortable. We left Ogdensburg at noon and
were soon threading the mazes of the Thousand
Isles. The impressions produced by them were
fainter . , perhaps, than they would have been had
we not just left the more charming scenery of
the wilderness. 'The islands in this group are
generally low, but bold with 'rocky shores, and
beautiful in their adornments of foliage. Some
of them are very small, mere hulls of stone with
green sails, furled upon two or three living masts
of - pine. Sotne of them are broad, and 'even
cul
tivated. Sometimes the channel bears you close
to a cliff, so close that you could ;almost biiak a
twig from a tree rooted in a crevice. 'The plea
santest spot in the whole region is Alexandria
Bay, a farnous resort for amatetlk fishermen.
Here Dr. Bethune loved tospend a portion of his
summer vacation, 'drawing his flies along the
reefs, or trollin; for the lordly mascalenge.
his exertions a beautiful church of stone was
erected in the little village, and within its walls
his memory is weekly blessed by those who, like
him, are the disciples of both the gentle Walton
and of abetter Master.' At this point' the islands
are thickly crowded, and are mantled with per
petual green. The water is in, summer almost
constantly furrowed' by the boatman's keel and
dimpled by hi's'dar. For one who loves the rod
and reel, and isnet partial to life intents, Alex
andria Bay or Clayton, a few miles :further up
the river, will afford abundant and not fatiguing
recreation. Indeed, the fisherman's boat, with
its carpeted floor and its cushioned seats, is almost
too Iniiirro'uSf One wants something rough and,
sturdy in his recreation. Oswego: was reached
early in the morning of our second day. A de
lay of Several hours gave us time to ramble
through the shaded streets of this city, and to'
admire its 'tasteful dwellings. An inquiry re
specting our revered Dr. Condit,' made of a
Stranger whom we encountered, brought out a
warm and deserved enlogium. He is evidently
regarded by all his fellow citizens with affec
tionate respect. Thus. does a long and hon
ored pastorate render' a man more a part of
the city in whieh he resides, than is even the
solid masonry with which he is identified.
The Welland Canal tempts the restless' travel
ler to forsake the steamer for the railway. Six
teen hours, at the least, must be consumed in
passing through this artificial channel. But to
one who is conscientiously lazy, and who is in
terested in hydraulics, the slow process of rising
from level to level is not without its attraction. , Toot
by foot you ascend from the - surface . of Lake On
tario until by the opening of the last lock you
glide into Lake Erie. It might satisfy the im
patient better to sail up the sheet and rapids of
Niagara in an hour were that possible. It would,
doubtless, be more exciting to - any one. But the
sensation of overcoming the height in the only
way possible for the navigator is novel, at least,
for once. To see schooners, barks, and propel
lers, apparently ploughing through the solid
earth before and behind you, is suggestive enough
of human skill. If one should become tired of
that, his book and his pen are in the cabin, or a
carriage on the tow path is ready to convey him
to Niagara, where, while the boat makes its
slow progress,
,he can "do" the Falls and
pay out his money at every turn to, his heart's
content.
The Detroit River and the River St. Clair are
beautiful streams, and one can turn from the
Queen on one bank to Brother Jonathan on the
other for constant comparison.
The Straits of Mackinaw we found cod and
thine. The hotels on the island had but few vis
itors. The fishermen scarcely put a net into the
waters. The season has been so cool that land
lords and the vendors of Indian curiosities had
plenty of leisure. We admired the purity of
the water all about the shores. The few boats
at'the docks appeared suspended in liquid crys
tal. The sand twenty feet below them Was brown
and smooth. A pebble dropped from the wharf
glistened on the bottom of the lake almost as if
there were'nothing but air between it and the
eye. We saw wonderful canoes of birch bark
ornamented by " quiils of fretful porCupine," in
the stores on the, beach : we purchased birchen
cases full of maple sweets; we had an opportuni
ty to buy the most startling feather work ;we
looked with our glass into the mouths of the
guns asleep on the parapet of the fort _ ; but we
sailed away without wishing -we could remain.
We stood'on the deck in comfortable wrappings
watching the receding shore, and had our last
disappointment in the Straits when on - going in to
dinner we,found no famous trout or white-fish of
Mackinaw on the table.
Six days of- sailing . over waters in the main
peaceful, brought us to Milwaukee. We had one
or two slight experiences of a " bilitus class."
Some of .the ladies on board were for several
hours invisible•in their state-rooms; then came
out pale and hac.aard: We encountered no storm,
however, and Lound something new every day to
enjoy.
One of the standing amusements of a voyage
is the study of character. We found a refuge
now and then in this amusement. Do not give us
credit for having caught the spirit of Mr. Mur
ray's book on the Adirondack, while we tell our
story ; for we deal only with fact without the
colors of fiction. Among our passengers were
a gentleman and his wife. They
two Canadians,
were well dressed and possessed apparently of
the Scotch:Ellen's requisite for happiness—" a
coomfortable share of this woorid's guid." The
husband was travelling for his health to the far
off and to him indefinite region of Minnesota.
One day while making conversation in the cabin;
he asked one of our party :
" May I inquire where you reside 2"
" Philadelphia."
Philadelphia! I've heard of that place.
Wife, is no t that t4e place some of our friends
spoke of—a'sinall place near Albany where the
drovers stop ?" '
1
(':No;" said our. side. " Philadelphia 'is in
Pennsylvania."
"I' think, husbAnd , ," said the gentleman's
wife," the place you are now thinking of must
be Bo.§ton?!.. ' -
Ourli;E:re' did not think it could be Boston.
As, we sailed on, the gentleman became some
what confused as to the relative position of the
lakes. When we were in Lake Huron, he in
sisted that we were in Lake Michigan. " No, we
must pass= the straits before we reach Lake
Michigan.", But still, he was .bewildered, and
when the straits were passed declared, as if re
lieved, "Now we are in Lake Huron!"
On the boat was a pretentious picture or the
Cream City vouso, - Mihi;aukee: The officers of
the boat recommended this hotel, a lecond-clais
affair, as the best in the city. Oar Canadians
were to leave the boat at Milwaukee; so they de
terpined to go to this hotel. When we stepped
into, the omnibus on the 'dock, they asked us to
what hotel we should go ? " The Newhall."
4 ‘ Why the Cream of the City is the best."
We did not think so.
-61 Well; why do they 'call it. the Cream of the
City, if it is not the best ??
Perhaps they thought it wise to follow our
lead. They went with us to the Newhall. We
saw no more of them that night. Next morning
as we• eat at one of the breakfast-tables our
friends came in fresh and radiant. The head
waiter gave than a place at our table. Just as
they sat down, lope of our party directed the
waiter to bring a spring chicken and an omelet.
The waiter, receiving the order, passed to the
Canadians, who evidently thinking it safe to fol
low our lead still `further, said, " You may bring
me . a spring' chicken and a hamlet !" Oh,
Shakespeare,,did'st thou hear that order
After breakfast we saw our friends no more;
but have much pondered on the mysteries of
geography and cooking since that day.
"AM) I SAW - NO MORE SEA."
So wrote John in Patmos, as he-looked on the
vision of the New Jerusalem. The lEgean rolled
its blue waves around the isle with a beauty
that one might have expected to win his admira
tion and respect. Butle speaks as if comforted
by the absence of any lEgean from that brighter
world. As tears-would be wiped away there, and
-nothing could defile that should enter there, and
the Lamb should le the light of it,—as all these
bren;ght him gladness so did the absence of the
sea. What was the meaning of his promise ?
I. The tempest-tossed know his meaning,
while the becalmed do not. They that look on
the ever-shifting mountains of the waves, with
no help at hand, with the 'wrath of the sea pur
suing them, the resistless inechanical force of
the waves. beating against the water-logged and
leaking vessel, that has no longer the elasticity
to sweep on before them, while the waste of wa
ters lies all around, offering them only a grave,
—they can rejoice that there is no sea there, and
that " the burden of the desolation of the sea"
shall bo laid down I;y man forever.
The tempest of earth will end with earth, and
we shall enter into rest. The storms of unrest
that disturb restless souls here, have no place
there.. • The peace that passeth all under
standing shall reign within us, and all out
ward things shall but reflect our inward blessed:
ness.
IL "No sea any -more." They know its
meaning for whom the sea still holds their dead
or to whom it has given them up. They who
sorrow over young life cut short, and bright
hopes destroyed by its shifting sands,-its treach
erous under-currents, its relentless waves, know
what the promise means. They know, too:what
dead lie in the deep waters, which God, for their
comfort has declared, "are in the hollow of His
hand." Their dead lie on His very palm.' But
"there shall be no more sea." The shifting, treach
erous element shall vanish out of life. We shall
walk no more in a vain show, with quicksands
and undertows and waves more cruel and relent,-
less than those that draw in and crush oat hu
man life. Danger shall be gone, as well as the
unrest of storms. Our feet shall stand on the
firm rock, and the Lord shall establish our go
ings. We shall have safe footing forever, and
shall find that the Lord is a stronghold of safety
to all that trust in Him. We shall no longer
fear for others and ourselves - the snares of the
Enemy or the deceits of the world. We shall no
longer build on the sand to see our work beaten
down by the tides. There shall be "no more
HI. They know the meaning whom seas di
vide,—whose hearts and hands stretch out in
longing over its billows for souls seen no more.
Dintidium Vita; ('-half of my life !") were the
words in which the heathen poet expressed his
love and longing. The words are true. Half of
many a life is fretted away by the world's sore ne
cessities, and torn hearts vex themselves in vain
over separation. Time is heavy, 'work is weary,
when absenee of those, who have been en
twined with our lives, leaves us but half the
powers that their present love called fOrth. But
there shall be no more sea for longing hearts to
grow weary over;—separations shall be at an end.
'Above all, the sea that stretches between those
we call the dead—" All are alive unto Hiin
shall be gone. • Every generatiori•in its turn,
unites there entire, until all whom - it has loved
and known are united to it. Some linger till
three score and ten, some go at dawn, some at
noon, all; all gather Above.
.The Lord will
gather:alike the buds and thelowers and the
ripened fruit lof His .garden;.and who shall say
Him nay!: --
There shall be " no more sea" then,; to divide
and separate, no billows of sorrow, no distrust, or
care: or death to sunder heart-from heart, or any
heart froth God, but in the blessed'nnity of love
and life-they sball'dwell at rest.' ' " :
THE MORALITY OF IRELAND.
_ Some of our Romanist journals are ,exultant
over statistics which go to prove , that 'Ulster,
which we are gravely told is mainly populated - by
Presbyterians, is less obseivant of the Vllth
Commandment, tltan are,tbc ot:her three provinces
of Ireland. The Catholic Standard of 'this
city has a leading article on the subject: We
would suggest
(1) Ulster is notoriously the only province of
Ireland that is not animated with a hostility to
the
.Government so intense as to render all
Government statistics untrustworthy.
(2.) The majority of the people of Ulstefare
Romanists. The combhled strength of Episco
palians and Presbyterians outnumber the ad
herents of the Church of Rome only in two
counties,—Down and Antrim. From personal
observation we can say that a very large pro
portion of - the current immorality exists in .this
very class.
(3.) The superior morality of -Irish Romanists,
in this respect, if it has any'existence, must be
traced to the system of reckless and improvident
early marriages, promoted by the priests because
their support is derived mainly from marriage
fees. To . this more than to any, other cause must
- be attributed that rapid multiplication of the
Romanist population which is the root of so
many Irish miseries. Such a.-state of things
does obviate much of the immorality that' would
otherwise come within the ken of a Registrar
General; but as prudence in worldly matters is
a Christian virtue and imprudence leads to many
a vice, the balance is hardly in favor of the South
and West' of Ireland. The late Nassau W.
Senior, in his posthumous " Note's on Ireland,"
has, exposed this 'whole Subject.
(4.) It is not fair to
Z. M. H
"Compound for sins [you] feel inclined to
By blaming those [you] have no mind to."
Ths agrarian outrages, and' cold-blooded
as
sassinations of the other three prOvinces are all
their own, and until the. Romish priesthood raise
their hearers above, their pagan indifference- to
the 'other COixtmandments, it will . not be graceful
to boast about the Vllth.
(5) The Irish marriage laws which apply only
to Protestants, by, absurdiestrictions and quali
fications do much to put a premium upon law
lessness. The promised reform in this matter
will do much to clear :the Ulster record.
FROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT.
A DAY AT FREDONIA.
We found this verypleasant village growing
more rapidly than at any time for years past.
The locating of one of the great Normal schools,
ordered by the state at this place; has_ given a
new impulse to business, as it brings also a con
siderable accession.to the population. The Nor
mal school building has cost the citizens of Fre
donia about $lOO,OOO. This -they cheerfully
pay for the privilege of having the institution in
their town, and a noble building they have made
of it; large, well-arranged, imposing and beau
tiful in appearance.
The old Fredonia Academy is merged in 'this,
and so an academic department is to be main
tained the year round, during the months ordiz
narily devoted to study. The people seemed to
think themselves peculiarly fortunate in the
Principal secured to take charge of the institu
tion, Dr. J. W. Artntrong, late Head-Master of
the. Oswego Normaland Trainhig School. He
is regarded as an accomplished teacher, a fine
scholar and a Christian gentleman. The school
opens this month under the most favorable
auspices.
We found our friend Rer. Dr. Wright, of the
Presbyterian Church, enjoying an uninterrupted
popularity and usefulness, after fourteen years
of faithful service. His church is:full and pros
perous. They s only need a new and larger house
of worship, which we doubt not they will arise
and build before long. The increasing p,,i,ula
don of the village, brought in by the great Nor.
mal School, makes this demand the more impera
tive just now. The Church needs to be p re .
pared to get its share of the new corners.
We were greatly interested also in meeting the
father of the pastor, Rev. Worthington 'Wrigh t,
now 84. years of age. In his studies he
was contemporary with
.Dr. Spring of New York,
classmate of Judson, Newell, and Nott of mi s ,
sionary fame.' He graduated at Williams C o l.
lege- in 1806, and has outlived two generation s of
ministers. He was first settled at 'Woodbury,
Connecticut; afterward at Woodstock, Vt. Hi s
health gave out, and be studied to be a physician.
He was practising medicine in the village of
Rochester (this city) in 1831, and was one of the
early elders of the Brick church. He spent
fifteen years of his Mature life in the healing
art. •
. .
But; his 'health being much improved, the
great revivals of this region in 1831-32 so stir.
red his heart, that he turned again to the min.
istry, and preached faithfully and successfully for
many years. But his •working days are now
past;and he irenjoying a serene old age, living
with hiSlion, and waiting just on the confines of
the Celestial country, his citizenship in that
world, not in this. 'His serene trust in a crucified
Savioni, and his bright hope of a blissful in,.
`mortality, were very sweet *and inspiring to con
template. In his case the promise is beautifully
fulfilled, At evening time it shall be light"—
It is light with him: and all around him.
BEARING FRUIT,
Guy H. Salisbury, Esq., who was once one of
the most accomplished citizens of Buffalo, an
editor of rare grace and power with his pen,
was found drowned:in Buffalo Creek last Sun.
day' Morning. He has been for a few years past
but the wreck of his former self, having been
completely overthrown by the wretched delusion
of Spiritualism. His- wife embraced the same
errors, and being taught by the lying spirits that
•
she did not at first find her true " affinity," she
forsook her husband, as the Buffalo papers tell
us, and consorted with another man. Broken
up in his household, neglecting business for his
new delusions, he soon - became a complete wreck
at 58 years of age.
The Spiritualists have' just been holding a
National 'Convention in Buffalo. They ought to
have staid long enough to help bury this poor
man; their victim.. They did stay long enough
to pass the following shocking resolutions. Such
doctrines cannot but bear evil fruit.
Resolved, That we recognize the necessity of
the entire separation of religious creeds from
political organizations, and that we will oppose
by our voices the engrafting upon the Constitu
tion
,of these United States the recognition of
any particular God, Bible, or Saviour, and that
all attempts to do this by any convention or ec
clesiastical combination should .be denounced by
every lover of religious liberty. "
Resolved, That all legislative enactments by
any Government for enforcing the observance
of any day as a Sabbath or sacred day, are a pal
pable violation of the United States Constitution
and the rights of man, and should be expunged
from our-statute books.
Hon. 0. S. Williams, for many years Treasur
er of Hamilton College, resigned his position, at
the late meeting of the Board of Trustees, and
his resignation was accepted; although it is ex
pected. that he will still perform the duties of
the office until a successor shall be appointed.
Rev. John Waugh of Canton has accepted a
call to the Presbyterian church of Carthage,
and enters.at once upon his new charge.
We learn from the Clinton Courier that Rev.
A. G. Hopkini declines the Assistant Professor
ship of Latin offered him in Hamilton College,
and will devote himself to the pastoral work to
which he has just been called at Cortland. At
the same time we learn, from the Auburn Ad
vertiser, that he accepts the Professorship and
declines the pastorate. When we find out which
is correct we will report accordingly.
Rochester, Sept. 11, 1869
—The New York State Convention of Uni
versalists met at Watertown. The N. Y. Tri
bune, which i always puts all Universalist news in
coleur de rose says :
"Neier before were the prospects so flattering
for the spread of 'Universalism in the State of
New York through the aid of its schools and
colleges. During the past year the importance
and influence of the St. Lawrence University
have been greatly extended by the appointment
of, the Rev. Dr. Fisk to the Presidential chair,
the establishment of a Law Department, the ad
dition of several `competent Professors in the
Collegiate and Theological departments, the erec
tion of anew Library building, and by generous
c.ontributioMs to its funds. The Clinton Liberal
Institute was also reported as in a flourishing
condition. The Committee on Sunday-schools
reported a good degree of prosperity.
—The Sunday school of Hocken dauqua Church
raised $512 for a bell, only $4OO being required.
The church will be dedicated on the last Sunday
in September.
.
—The Presbyterians of Victoria, Australia,
are raising a magnificent .endowment for their
l'heolegical Hall. Twenty pounds subscribers
gave to the amount of 412;000.
ITEMS
GENESEE.