(,lie ,_,;y.._• :47•01t rrirau .),„ -- rr:Tbvircian. .iohnAwei._ -I•T c -vc Series, Vol. VI, No. 48. Strictly in Advance $2.50, Otherwise $3. p o stage 20ots, to be paid where delivered. —The American branch of the Evangelical Alliance, in calling the churches to the celebra tion of the week of prayer, have issued a revised schedule of subjects, which we shall print next week. —We are requested by Dr. Fowler to say that the respective Chairmen of the Joint Committees on the various Benevolent causes of the Church, are expected to put themselves in ciimmunication with each other, and arrange for getting the Com mittees to work. The Presbyterians of Philadelphia are re quested to meet in a. social' reunion at. Horti cultural Hall, on Monday evening, December 6th, between the hours of seven and ten o'olock P. M. Tickets can be procured gratuitously at the Board of Publication, 821 Csliestnut street, and at the Presbyterian House, 1334 Chestnut street, on Saturday the 4th, and Monday 6th of December. —The Joint Communion services were attended by full—not crowded—congregations last Sab bath afternoon. They were full of solemn enjoy ment total who participated in them; and they aided most appropriately to express as well as to heigh ten the feeling of Christian brotherhood among the churches. In North Broad Street - church, elders from twelve different churches aided in dispensing the elements, and, besides Drs. Stry- . ker, Reed, Cunningham and Wiswell, appointed for the purpose, Rev. Messrs. Mitchell and New kirk and Drs. Schenck, Greer and Mears took part; thus both the newspapers were represented, with the churches. The. union meeting of Wed nesday night will be reported in full, in our next issue. When the deficiencies in the Tylethodist Book Concern were first mentioned we expressed our earnest hope that the facts might not prove so bad as at first was feared. Now that'the investi gation is complete and the report of the:commit tee published, we feel compelled to take a differ ent tone. We refer to the remarkable yai=ueness, with which the *hole matter' is treated' 'by the committee. While serious losses in one department and mismanagement in another are admitted, no amounts are named, no particulars of the writing are given, and no intimation breathed of a pur pose to bring any party to justice. In this brief report, made up of four Short resolutions, every thing that truth, or the importance of the affair demands may be contained; but considering the great notoriety the matter has acquired, there was not enough in it to escape the appearance of evil or of sheltering wrong. Frauds in religious institutions and in church officers are scandalous and humiliating enough ; but the whitewashing and covering of a fraud, in such relations, is sim ply outrageous ; and every approach to such an act, and every attitude towards fraud which could, with any show of fairness,' be construed as an attempt to whitewash it, should be avoided with religious horror. We think our Methodist brethren owe it to the public, whose attention they so widely aroused, and to their brethren of every name, who are sincerely concerned for their honor, to make a full and frank statement of the facts, and to prove unmistakably e either the false ness or the triviality of the charges, or their own purpose to pursue a policy of unswerving justice. We publish in full, on our second page, the so called " Syllabus of Errors," which, at various times, have been stigmatized by Pope Pius IXth. It is a condensed, conpected view of the opinions of the Pontiff upon almost every point on which the age is at variance with the Romish Church. Of course, many of these points, particularly those among the first fourteen, are aimed equally against all true religion, and the censures of the Pope, so far, represent the general sentiment of the Christian world. There are also veritable errors in regard to a godless education of the masses, described and denounced, in sections 45 to 48, but they are conjoined, in the statement, with those wise and just conclusions which are now leading all governments, to shut out sec tarianism of every kind, from the system of' pub lic education. . . The most serious mistakes made by . the Pope, however, are those pertaining to the relations of Church and State,—the rendering to Cmsar the things that are Caesar's. The reader will find the true doctrines of the rightful independence a nations and society, of the Romish Church, condemned as errors, from the nineteenth section or the Syllabus to.the end. But it was in the long Eueyclical Letter, which was sentforth with the S)llalius and dateolDecember Sth, 1869, that the utter antagonisabetween the Pope and mod ern society and civilization was most clearly and offensively stated. Note especially the sentence quoted approving from his peed ecessor, Gregory liar 70 XVI " The insanity," namely " that liberty of conscience and of worship is the right of every man ; and that this right ought, in every well governed State, to be proclaimed and asserted by the law." Oar readers, doubtless, remember the intense excitement which the issue of the Encyclical and the, Syllabus kindled, especially among the gov ernments and secular press of Roman Catholic countries. Almost unanimously they were re garded as hostile and dangerous; and instead of meeting deference and 'obedience - in such quar ters, they were outlawed. In the Church itself,' on the contrary, so far as represented by the hierarchy and the denominational press, the deo uments were received with almost unanimous ac quiescence. Ultramontanism grew is power everywhere in the Church. rassaglia's.eloquent voice was silenced in Italy. And only when Fa ther Hyacinthe appeared with his bold, indepen dent, evangelical utterances, and a few notes dissent from Di)Ringer and other German Bishops were heard did any exception appear to the gene ral course of the current: t And so it has seemed that the CEcumeni cal, Council would not advance beyond the posi tions of the Encyclical' and Syllabus of 1864; and'that thd assemblage would prove one of the, most abject to the Papal Supremacy, the most in tolerant of heresy, and' the most thoiough expo sition yet knoWn of the intensest shade of Roman ism—scarlet double-dyed. But this remains to be seen. THE FRATERNAL' SENTIMENT. Purity is before, peace, and truth must be maintained at any cost of feeling. And a health ful freedom of thought must never be surrendered, although the bon& be silken, - and the knots be tied in the sacred name of Christian 'Charity. But when purity and truth and liberty give con 'sent, then the renewing of old ties and the full flow of fraternal affection are matters of unalloyed and universal joy. Such a happy glow pervades all the' Members of the reunited Pr'e.shyterian Ghtlrcl r_, witlui9,4r% exlgit*Eto: It a naeti Christian experience - : -a real growth in grace. While we pray, somewhat anxiously, that fruits proportionate to the magnitude of the movement may grow from the Re union, it should not be forgotten that true Christian union, on such a large scale, is already one of the choicest of . God's spiritual gifts. It already proves that prayer has been heard for the advance of the Church. The kingdom of Christ, which is the kingdom of love, joy, and peace, has made pro gress, in intension if not extension. Stumbling-- blocks have been taken out of the way. The stimulus of mere denominational rivalry, always in, danger of becoming worldly and of leading to re-. sults more showy than sound, is removed. The union, which , must be looked upon not as' the work of scheming men, but of divine Providence working in the hearts of the masses of both branches, with its flowing together of, deep and tender sympathies—why may not this be re garded as Pentecost ? Why fail to discern its blessed and present significance ? 'Why cry to God anxiously for a blessing, without full anff grateful rectignition of what we have ? Wl4r not confidently see in this very work of divine grace, t the guarantee of greater works to come? There seems to us every reason for laboring with the elasticity and energy of a joyous hopefulness in this Church, which has been enabled to give such a conspicuous example of the grace of broth erly kindness. We confess that we could not, and did not, express ourselves thus freely a few weeks ago, when it seemed to us that great revivals must follow this union, in order to, create warmth enough to weld the two branches into one. Now so many proofs have been given that the needful degree of heat actually exists, that we recognize a revival as already in progress, with unwonted and precious manifestations, and giving promise of the abundant Converting influences of the Spirit. We cannot but believe that the'fraternal senti ment itself will spread. Not that -we. are think: ing of new denominational unions, although they are bound to come; but we look for a still deeper decline'of mere sectarian feeling among the va rious branches of Christ's people, who already have made such rapid progress in spiritual unity. We expect to see the downfall of exclusivism, as a denominational characteristic, among all bodies claiming to be evangelical. Suspicion and jeal ously and disparagement of other bodies of true Christians,- must no longer be taught along, with the first lessons of repentance and faith. Propa gandise; proselytism, and sectarian rivalry must be superseded by that cordial co-Opera tion and healthful zeal, which the different divisions of the same army may cherish in exe cuting their own shares of one grand work. Christian men will be more ashamed than ever II AY, DECEMBER 2 1869. of division and alienation. A conscientious stub bornness upon forms and ceremonies and the ve hicles of praise, and nice points in philosophical theology, and all matters not plainly prescribed in God's word as belonging to the essence of god liness, will be crowded into a narrower corner than, ester. In individual churches, in Christian families, and between Christian brethren, we expect to see • a marked growth of brotherly kindness. In the name of this greater Re-union, we rebuke all dis cord, division and'strife at home. Choose this auspicious time fox: the' settling of church and family and personal quarrels. Strike out all dis corda:nt netes in this PeaCe Jubilee. The quar rel, of thirty years, ,involving the standing of hundreds, of thousanda of Chrihtians and touching questions ofhisteric magnitude is magnanimougly settled ; what business have feu to keep 'elite, your petty, miserable strifes ?'','Lay off that pride, which is mostly of the devil,' and which keeps, you apirt.' Conk to an' understanding. If you cannot eplain the past to riidtual satisfactiOn,' mutually bury the past,- and 'start out, hand in• hand, and abreast ,of this great movement; in- a new life of revived , Christian.;brotherhood. Let not this favorable hour go bri.let not the sun Of this bright Re-union go dowl4-upon your wrath. To godliness add brotherly kiiidness,:and let bro therly k.indness continue. • WOMEN AT THE 'CLINICS. f We deem it most unfOrtunate that our women candidates for medical honors 'sad duties should have so compromised thedeliacy of their sex, as. to thrust ,themselves upon the,clinical lectures of the , Peniisylva - nia .Hospital, thitherto attended solely by persons of the oppossex. In the es-', timation of all people, with wpm modesty is a jewel, they have done serious damage :to their: own'cause. Their very plea, hat such attend ance is necessary to acquiring 'professional know ledge, will confirm people .iri the conclusion, which they were strongly inclimed to hold before,, that the medical profession ,<