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AcAnEm.Y.—The catalogue for 1856 presents this school as being in a highly flourishing condition. There are the names of 160 pupils, from ten different States. It is under the care of Mr. J. H. Shumaker, and located at Academia, Juni ata CO., Pa. PITTSBURGH FEMALE COLLEGE, PITTS BURGH, PA.—This is a flourishing Institu tion, in our city, under the care of the Metho dist brethren. The Catalogue, just issued, records the names of 163 pupils—Collegiate Department 25, Preparatory 103, and Pri mary 35. Centre College, Ky. The Presbyterian Herald speaks of the present condition and prospects of tAis _in stitution as exceedingly gratifying to its friends and patrons: The corps of Profes- SarSiß complete, presenting perhaps the ablest faculty ever possessed by the College. The Catalogue shows a larger attendance of stu dents during the past than for any previous year; the number being 178—seidors 28, juniors 59, sophomores 32, freshmen 38, ir regulars 21. At the late commencement the degree of A. B. was conferred on the twenty-eight graduates; and the degree of D. D. on three clergyuien, viz : Revs. Wm. M. Scott, of Cincinnati, Joshua Phelps, of Dubuque, lowa, and James Coe, of Blue Ball, Ohio. The Ashmun Institute. It is greatly to be desired, that the call of Rev. Alfred Hamilton, on our first page, should receive a liberal response. Our Pitts burgh friends, and the myriads of advocates for the elevation of the colored man, have here a glorious opportunity of proving the strength and purity of their zeal. The Ashmun Institute is, in no way, connected with the Colonization Society, except that each aims at Africa's benefit in doing good to her sons here and her peo ple there. The design of the founders of this Institute, is, to give a liberal Christian, literary, and scientific education to colored youth, to fit them for teaching, guiding, and making happy, their brethren, wherever they can find a field of effort.' 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We would record all important social. events, that our readers may be informed, through a Christian medium, of the history of the times. To this end we read much, and incur considerable expense. Our London correspondence is to be con tinued, weekly. These letters we believe to be inferior to none which come from Eu rope to the religious press. Whoever will read them, with our summary of Foreign news, from week to week, will be well ac quainted withthe religious and political affairs of that leading quarter of the family of man. To enrich our columns, we invitee contin uance of the valuable contributions of our brethren. • Ecclesiastical news, we entreat our breth ren to furnish early and fay. We are co laborers with them for Zion's benefit. United Brethren's Xissions. The third Annual Report of the Board of Missions of the United Brethren in Christ, gives us some statistics of this growing body in our country. There are fifteen Home Con ferences mainly in the Middle and Western. States, and seven Mission Conferences. The number of Ministers and members in the body is not given. The amount expen ded on Missions, the last year, was 06,865. FoumaN MISSIONS.--In this department, very little has been yet done. Explorations in Africa is the principal thing which we see reported FRONTIER MISSIONS.—The Report speaks of nineteen' Missionaries, under this head; in Oregon five, in Missouri four, in Kansas three, in Nebraska one, in Canada five, and in Tennessee one. HOME MISSION s.—There are employed in this department about eighty Missionaries, doing a laborious work for a small compen sation. The report speaks of encouraging success, and bright prospects. ROSELAND 'FEMALE INSTITUTE, at Harts villotTa.t under the care of Rev Jacob Bel - Ville; sends us a Catalogue with the names of 65, youngladies who have been in attend. and° the last year: The number of BOard itig-pupils is limited to thirty. THE PRESBYTERIAN BANNER AND ADVOCATE. Secret Prayer. Secret prayer was recommended and practiced by our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, himself. His direction is, " When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hest shut thy door, pray to the Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." He often retired, not only from the gaze of the, multitudes, but also from his own disciples, for the purpose of secret prayer. "He went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night." " Cold mountains and the midnight air, Witnessed the fervor of his prayer." When no man was nigh, when no human eye beheld, be agonized in petition to his Father in heaven. In the solitude and quiet of night he encountered the powers of hell; then he felt the woes of a lost world pressing upon his soul ; then he plead the cause of people before God the Father. Who can tell the agony of those hours ! Who can estimate the worth of those tears ! Who can describe the rapture of the, moment when the Father smiled, and whel the Son was again thrilled with his quenchless love I Secret prayer has been the delight of the saints in every age. Jacob prayed in secret at Bethel, and was heard. Daniel:and Peter retired to the remotest part of the houses where they 'dwelt, for the same purpose. In the closet hard conflicts-have been waged and glorious victories won. The amount of good secured already to the Church and the world, in this way, ho one can now compute. From this solemn iutercourse with God, the champions of the Cross have come forth armed to fight the battles of the faith. And if we would be found workers together with God,• we, too, must pray much and earnestly in secret. This is not only the -duty of the ministers of the Gospel, that they may be successful, but also of the elders and private members of the Church. To. the prayer that was offered in secret was attributed much of the instrumentality by which the precious revivals of half a century ago, were pro duced in Western Pennsylvania. In the Fall of 1842, a convention of ministers and Ruling Elders, belonging to the Synods of Pittsburgh, Ohio and Wheeling was held iu this city, for conference and prayer, espe cially with the view of seeking the out pouring of the Spirit of God. During the sessions of that convention, a scene took place, and a speech was made, never to be. forgotten by any present. The venerable Rev. Elisha Macurdy, almost blind, and trembling with age, bade farewell to his brethren, and in the course of a few remarks, made with faltering tongue, .he said : "Forty years ago, the piety of the Church I was of a most active and vigilant kind. Those who were leaders made it a business, on all favorable opportunities, to converse with those who were yet out of the Church. This was not confined to the pastors, but was attended to particularly by the elders. I have in my mind one who, when brought into the Chureh, could not read the. Bible; yet that man did more for the cause of Christ than many ministers. He lay, I think, at the foundation of the great revival which took place forty years ago. He addressed himself to sinners on all occasions. He was a wrestling Jacob, who poured out his soul to God. A hundred times have I knelt with him, in a solitary thicket, and implored God to pour out his Spirit upon the whole Church. My meaning then is, that elders and others should do ai this man did, if they would have God to pour out his Spirit?' This man was father Macurdy's "praying elder," Philip Jackson, concern ing whose piety, faith and prayers much may be learned from the life of Macurdy, by Dr. Elliott. May the Lord raise up many more Philip Jacksons. The Church needs them ; perishing souls need them. It is high time for the prayer to go up from every closet and family altar, " Lord•revive W." THE CENTRAL ' PREBBiTERIAI4. - Our Richmond contemporary giveifair evidence of progress. The sheet is greatly:enlarged, the printing paper is excellent, the execu tion is good, and the contents are valuable. For the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate Contributions to the B9aid of Colporta,ge DR. MoKnown—Please acknowledge the fol lowing contributions to the" Board of Colportage : July 25th, New Rehoboth church, Clarion Presb'y, $25.34 July 25th, Madison church, New Lisbon Presb'y, July 29th, Fairmount church, Allegheny City Presbytery, 13.46 July 30th, First church, Pittsburgh, Ohio Presbytery, 128.00 Aug. 15th, Sewickly church, Redstone Presbytery, Aug. 18th, Miss S. Wallace's bequest, Aug. 21st, Mill Creek church,Vashingtort Presbytery, Aug. 26th, Sabbath School children, -first Sabbath Scholl of First church, Pittb'g, 53,15 Sept. lst, Westlliberty church, Washing ton Presb'y, 3:09 Sept Ist, Lower Buffalo church; Washing ton.Presb'y, 30.00 SePttlOth, West Middlesex chrirch, Bea verPresh'y, balance of assessment, Sept. 10th, Clarksville church, Beaver Presb'y, Sept. 10th, Neshinnock church; Beaver Presb'y .$362.39 .T.onts Seuomntmcau, Treasurer. Pittsburgh, Sept. 1904.1856. ' For the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate. Presbytery of Susquehanna. The Presbytery of Susquehanna, at their recent stated meeting in Athens, Pa., received under their care the Presbyterian church in:Brookfield, and dismissed the Rev. E. H. Snowden, to connect himself with the Presbytery of Luzerne. The Rev. Moses Ingalls, they deposed from the office of the Gospel ministry, for contumacy, and suspended him from the communion of the church. By order of Preibytery. Juaws FOSTER Stated Clerk. CONVIOTION.—How insane the delusion, that the sinner's case,.while yet in his sins, is growing better, when he is convinced.but not converted. As well might the drunkard fancy be is • growing better because every temperance lecture convicts him of his sin and shame, while yet every next day's temptation leaves him drunk as ever ! Growing better.? There ;can be no de lusion se &lie arhl so fatal as this 1— pinny. From our London Correspondent. Chapter of Contrasts between England and Scot land—Physical Health—Education—Sabbath Ob servance—The " Jocular Coachman," and Earnest Educationist—Sabbaths in Edinburgh, and in the Highlands—Presbyterianism makes the DijThrence —The Clergyman and the Tracts—Reformatories and Lord Stanley-Lord Shaftsbary, and the colors nailed to the mast:—Duncan Mattheson, and the East—The Jews at Constantinople—Tract and Book Society for Scotland. My recent . visit to North Britain has vividly brought out before my mind contrasts between England and Scotland—moral con trasts, decidedly in favor of the land of the Celt. These contrasts present themselves even in respect to the physical condition of the Scotch and English peasantry. On that point, there is a strange ignorance in this part of the island.. People in the South hear of lowland bothies and Highland huts, of squalid poverty and wretched diet; of oaten bread and sheep-head broth ; and straightway, conclude, that the Scotch must be the most miserable people in Europe. Well, " bothies" there still are, but they are few; and Highland huts, I suppose there will always be, with "a but and a ben," and nothing more; but, as contrasted with our "bold peasantry," how, much superior in wire, muscle, in the large frame, the, full calves, the clear, ruddy. complexion, the elastic step, the arched foot, the full lips, the strong teeth—taken in connexion with the perfectly whole and decent week-day dress, the universally respectable clothing on the Sabbath—are theee Scottish farm laborers in Midlothian if those Highland • men, women, and 'Children, whom you meet on the banks of Loch Katrine, or in the hay-meadows of the glorious Juvenary Park of the Duke of Argyle. An article on this point, in the Weekly Dispatch, fell into my hands before I left home ; and now, after I have seen, with my own eyes, the difference, I indorse it to the very letter. Here it is. While it comes from some ren egade Scotchman, who writes for a notorious Sunday paper, yet it is truth extorted from troth, and one almost exclaims, on reading it, "Is Saul also among the prophets ?" To begin at the, beginning, the infant is very sure to find in its-mother one who knows how to nurse, who loves it devotedly ; who knows noth ing of beer, and scarcely anything of whiskey; who, with scarcely an exception, has a cow and a garden to go to, and a meal-ark for wholesome cakes.or porridge; and, as a rule, is in her house, not toiling in the fields. There is either coal or peat, or wood, for warmth; and homespun from the mountain sheep. As the child grows older he goes to sohool, and older am, just has task en ough gradually to let him know that be is not to be idle all his life. When be becomes a man his diet is still the same. No beer, little whiskey, milk and porridge, cheese and butter, broth and bacon, occassionally beef or mutton, fresh her rings and other fish. Intoxicating drink is never an article of diet with him, only an indulgence and recreation. He will not overwork himself for anybody; in winter he has much leisure; he feels that his strength and health are his capital, and he husbands them. We (in England.) have just finished the bay harvest of Middlesex; the grain harvest is coming. The market gardens are full of Tea pickers, strawberry gatherers and others. The mowers, rakers, haymakers, garden people, be gin work as soon as they can see, and go on as long as they can see—boys, girls, men and wo men—all the same. Their employers systemati cally bribe them to toil beyond their strength. It is beer from morning's dawn till moonrise—beer the first thing in the morning—beer to breakfast —beer at resting-time—at dinner— after dinner —at tea—at supper. The boys and girls grumble if they do not getit as often as the adults do. They are filled with beer to get as, much work out of them in a given .time as possible; they could not go through with 'what they do but that their muscles and sinews at least are filled drunk, to .hold out beyond the capacity of nature. Now is thel3 arvest of the public-house. The market-gar den women are all day thrCugh kept up with gin. Eighteen hours' toil cannot go on 'without it. The farmer saves Lis hay, and the fruit and vege tables find their way to Covent-garden. How many of the bands would pass the army surgeon? Consumption is never out of the cottage. Insan ity, in the rural districts, increases so rapidly that there is no accommodation in the Asylums for the pauper lunatics, albeit they build large addi tions to them every year. Look tit the calve less legs, the great splay feet, the heavy une-- Isaac gait, the gradually diminishing frame, the lean round shoulders, the premature agedness. Think of the prospect of the unborn infant whose mother is so worked and so drugged during the period of gestation. Think of the condition of the boy who begins the Morning, not with por ridge and milk, but with bread and beer. Think of the example set him by a father who clears the' ale barrel, not by pints of pots, but actually by gallons; or of the morals of the-girl whose mother ever and anon recruits he'r exhaustion- by. a drop of gin. Do we exaggerate? are we severe? doWe say a word incapable of in•oof ? We ask the far mers, we appeal to the market -gardeners, to say, if they can contradict the !general features ofthis description. And if they eannot, how grave . is their responsibility. What right have they to complain of drunkenness, theft, impurity, pauperism, if they lend themselves to such a sys tem? They get work, indeed, out of it; but does any man, with so much as a teaspoonful of brains, believe that beer ever gives to an employer a great er quantity of useful service, taking the aggre gate of efficiency for the whole year? No man is entitled to abuse his bodily gifts for any return in mere money. It is an offence against God and Divine Providence to mortgage strength and to use up in a few years the physic.4l stamina, which, if doled out in tbe proportions dictated by the ca pabilities of the human frame, might last unim paired to a good old age. No master should lend himself to this spendthrift and improvident sys tem. Long as this extract is, I mistake if your readers will not prize every word of it. It throws a flood of light on things as they are. The hop picking in. Kent, and elsewhere, is now going: on; the heaviest work has en gaged multituderi, and overwork has been here the order of the day; while theinasters, too often, are utterly careless as to the de. grading results. ~ But this reminds roe of a second contras I refer to the state of education. Go doiy, at this time of year to Kent, Essex, H fordshire, among the farm laborers, and q children. There is a man with his s: frock, and ruddy face, and thick 81 there a woman and a mother ; here, a ' girl, of sixteen years of age ; the y in eight cases out of twelve canna - the boy or the girl may be able to g in nine cases out'of ten, either the read is so feeble; that'there is no o i it, or'that boy oggi 1 reads not at all, go,to SCetland---a e, to the Hight and glens . - The . arish schools, schools, are every here ; and th read, and read wei, is not the exj the'rule ! Ilownften have I m mites of boys or girls, and wits ture tract in my ,hand, ready, the question, " Can you read, invariably was, 4 kc Yes, sir] tract was given, anpl joyfull,- 1 Take an illustrition of people for educatiin even districts. With a line pa a lovely morning in Aug' ferry opposite Invcirary, 4:e on the opposite si of then clustered'on s ma -team of four horseslvasj 6-oil Head, fromwh no anothel Loch, and up,l gosr, ere eventide s'T had scarcely set out driver of rare inter mor. The Guide 13 tious driver," and, fun came first; al Min, ascent of fi mom pleariantly 7.00 5.20 100.00 5.00 1.00 5.25 BM LONDON, Sept. 2, 1856 to , ut xny ret dted iswer the away I of the .igbland blasts, on wed the ratherines, iong. We with its Us*to Loch ht repair by Hyde to Glee i.e. Well, we vuud we bad a r rnd rich in hu him the face find The as a slow num- r ig Scotch miles'" thin by the per. featly innocent, but wondrously varied and richly comic tales of our Jehu. And then came suddenly a burst of the pathetic, in the 'recitations of some Scottish poem, full of tenderness, exquisitely recited, and with the tear trembling in the eye of the speaker, as our tears started forth responsively too. One poem told of the son of a widowed mother, and his first earnings; another of a little ragged child, with a drunken father; and another was appropriate to the spot, " Lord Ullen's Daughter ;" and Campbell himself would have been flattered by such a recita tion of that touching lyric. But last, and hope I shall be excused for only reaching it now, came out this man's zeal for education. I incidentally asked him " How are you off in this district for education f Have you a parish school ?" &o. "Yes," was the reply, "but it is six miles away, at the lower end of the parish, and I am collecting money myself to build another schoolhouse. I have got £B6 from the passengers on this coach ; and for every pound I gather,' the Privy Council in Lon-, don will give me another.' With that, he drew out his collecting book from the breast pocket of his coat, and handed'it to me. It went round the passengers';‘ each gave some thing ; and thus, from day to day, is John Campbell, (for that is his name, and be has eight fine sons,) doing the work of a philan thropist and an educationist in the High lands of Scotland. But I may not pass over a third contrast. It is in reference to Sabbath observance. Last Lord's day I had the, joy of meeting a loving flock, after absence, and of seeing not only their faces, but also of grasping their hands, for it was what we call " The Preparation Sabbath," and the communi cants came in troops to receive "tokens" for the communion of the next Lord's day. But between the services, or in the evening times, what a contrast was, presented• by the streets 'of London, to those of Glasgow or Edinburgh, to say nothing of the Clyde, as contrasted with the Thames; the latter crowded with steamboat excurtionists ; the other unrippled by a solitary keel I There is a man on the City Road, respectably dressed, who carries a carpet bag in his band; there others are smoking or laugh ing; there on the street thunders past the loaded omnibus, and round the squares go men and women, with their "London cries" of sweets and fruits. And when night has come, and after six o'clock in the evening, (the law throwing open the public houses from that time till eleven o'clock,) gin palaces, and beer shops in the great thoroughfares are crowded; while if you go to London Bridge Station, or to the South-Essfern or Shoreditch Terminus, you will find thou sands more coming back to town, after a godless and ill•spent Sabbath. In Edinburgh I saw not one omnibus run on the Lord's day.. A few cabs were on thej stands ; and as rain fell fast, some wer used. But quiet reigned, both in the 0. Town and the New, save toward night, p; haps, in the lowest places; and even th sin is not rampant, but cowed in its as and bearing. So is it in Glasgow; ch bells ringing; crowds on the reets b and after each service, but only then when there is a wet day, (" a Glasgo as it is proverbially called,) a forest brellas covering men, women, and c all repairing to the different ohur go they will ! It is habit, if it is grained inclination in every case, torn national, and commanding. So, likewise, when I spent a L t bath at Tarbert, on the ban d ' Lomond; with Ben Lomond n ` rn crest right opposite—there Church, and beyond it ' Church both filled with worshippers. Sabbath qui and in the evening I met to a Sunday School, as pious daughters of Lord the Lords of the Court between the morninj vices—the-one in En; Gielic—tbe childrer by the ministers. All this, my dear gress of Christ's on " the pro ' which you . that kingdom With Presbyte iphatically ex dry—rather is it calm and candid ;aeon of facts in le—when I assert Amsted with. Eng . to "the Gospel of the systematic opera energy of that true red 'Evangelical Pres this, as opposed to a which the people are nest clergy too oft fat ally or heretical clergy ;ed and encouraged by 3, Scotland, aye, and Ash beneficial, gladdening Llts. Lest I should, how - the law of love, let me of honor to the increasing ly bishops of the Church of the increasing bandy of Evan , who, both in town and coun ingland and Ireland, (specially are-seeking to " build up the lions of the past," both as to. and Sabbath observance. May of Zion crown their toil with. a ask me to treat of, "especially in cr rianism," as, yo, pressed it. For anything but the observation, numerable and that Scotland, land, is mair. the Kingd tions and Episcopal byteriani hy bred nothing ; tered, r men wor dl Ulster and ever, pay tEM let me give you an example of the zeal igenuity of an English clergyman born and with Irish fervor,) lately d in an English watering place on our i coast, where before his time, the Gos qmd scarcely been preached in the Es tisliment for half a century. He came Four Tract Society Committee meeting this pry morning to 'ask our help; and he told Fs that he and his friends had three ways of istti'buting tracts amongst an ignorant popu ation, besides giving them away to those at tending Cottage working men's meetings. " The first,"` said he, "is dropping a tract on the street or on the pathway ohe second plan is that of shooting them; we shoot them over garden fences, or into , wagons'; and thirdly we fly them, letting them loose to fly over walls, &c., when the wind is strong enough !" The other day, "said. our visitor," I found a pair of inexpressibles on a hedge drying, and I put a tract into the pocket l' We were all amused and grati fied by this holy ingenuity, Voted him a present supply, and sent him away with an invitation to "come again when he wanted more." The Reformatory movement is making rapid progress in England, and has received a freshimpetus by an annual meeting held last week, in connexion with " The 'Re formatory Union," over which Lord Stanley, a rising young Statesman and son of Lord Derby, presided, and delivered a speech marked by great power over statistics , and by much eloquent earnestness. ,This " Union" aims only. at the re formation of the juvenile thief; 'whereas "The Reforma tory and 2,4/age-Union" not only seeks to cure, bUt to prevent crime, by taking charge of helpless -children, orphans and others, and tirainlug . &ant. to industrial trades 1 and in Ike Mar of Odd. And Ws Union also differs from the other in am point. It arose out of the the subject of Reformatorir don last year, to which I cal tion at the time. There ca, occasion what was known pi ist ; namely, the fact that t; thropists not Evangelical, after all, however earnest,) think the Bible useful, nay,: to sueces, yet are not very ai especially if Roman Catboli to whine about liberty of its invasion by those who Iv teaching on the poor orplr, child I' On the other side Shaftsbury and his friends, fosterers and supporters of Refuges, &c.; long before . were popular, or forced the if attention of Statesmen, beca f the awful ord-Shafts prevalency of juvenile cri: at be stated bury and his friends said— .tso that every as part of our fundamenta. .i.e' ry ..sha.ll tine child coming into the educated in the fear o ' ana i n he knowledge of the Holy ''' cares." These ded ; these are . were the very worda reco 'seiormatory fear Refuge words retained by t name and ear Refuge Union," but, f abandoned b of offending, disgra " The Reformatory U „ which , on that ground alone, assiun eparate existence. Lord Stanley is for 'tug m us e u m s) 874- 1 on the Sabbath; 1 Shaftsbury opposes it. The one refo 'ith or without the Bible at all even bout its being made a sine , qua non; her says, " Without Bible truth, aces ied by the Holy Spir it's power, thee: children can never be ;time, for enor made thoroughly reel holy with whit and ha pp et erni - t ,y. 1 need not ask them will go- the sym pathies of yo ders ? Wonderful gB, blessed results, shall yet be see the great war recently dosed. B gh has been done to make 8 admire ; ore. The labors especially one ma ncan Mattheson, who. went , the C as a Scripture reader and ble di or, with Scotch theology in head the love of souls in his heart, e amazing. He distributed ma , , Bibles among French, Turks ians. Among the last • men ic is have appearzd. On-his second • I e East (to Constantinople) they him for days together for copies ow= i t ptures; and this day I heard from authority that he hadgot access to nofficers, and holds delightful inter - ith them. Let prayer be made for Mr. M. mentions that never were eeks of the East in so hopeful a con as now ! The Spanish Jews at Con nople, as we learn from- Mr. Thompson, • Church missionary there, are inquiring r the true Messiah, and new schools ong the female children are being estab i ed. • A new Religious Tract and Book Society or Scotland, with the Rev. A. Cameron, editor of that best of our periodicals, the Chris tian Treasury, as its energetic Secretary, has recently been formed, and already is accom plishing great things. The demand for books, even in the remotest country districts, is truly astonishing. Colporteurs are exten sively employed, and also parish agents. Mr. Cameron, at the opening meeting, made a telling speech as to our Ropular literature— infidel, sensual, dissipating and latitudi narian. Here is an extract : DISSIPATING AND LATITUDINARIAN.--;111 this claSs of publications—the largest and most influ ential of the whole—they would find (even in the worst of thein) neither avowed infidelity nor unblushing pollution. They consisted chiefly of light reading—stories which did little to prepare, but much to unfit the reader for the duties of do mestic and social life—stories of love, jealousy, and revenge, for the mostpart characterized eith er by a silly sentimentalism or an unhealthy ex citement. A few months ago he had looked over the numbers -of those periodicals for several weeks in succession, and he had a very painful impression regarding their character and influ ence. The periodical most extensively circulated of this class was at once the best and the worst of its kind; the best, inasmuch as, he believed, it was conducted without any direct purpose to des troy the faith and morality of its readers; the worst, inasmuch as for that very reason it gained ' admission into many families from which its more consistent contemporaries were excluded. itwas evidently managed in very haphazard style— some number& containing nothing more objection able, morally or religiously, than might' be met with in our more reputable literary journals, while others contained matter as objectionable as could he found in the worst of its contempora ries of this class; the explanation (he supposed) being, that the editor reckoned all good stories or piquant anecdotes alike suitable, irrespective either of their aim or their authorship; and, more studious of his readers' gratification than of his own consistency, transferred French, German and American papers, with their varying views and characters very much as he found them.— He need scarcely -say that, in consequence, some of the numbers contained matter of a most inju rious kind. As a specimen, he would read a few sentences from a single number recently issued, which he held in bis hand. In a story- in this number, we have a conversation between two lovers who had not seen each other for thirteen years, in which'Scripture is quoted after the fol lowing fashion:— "Thirteen years is an awful chasm in a hu man life." "Why . so it is—especially when it opens in the most flowery portion of youth." "It has ruined our two lives. It were prepos terous now to renew—to recall—" - "—All those blank, dreary years of ab sence. Why, so it would. 'Let the dead past bury its dead.' 'Forgetting the things that are be hind, and reaching forth unto those that are before, let us press toward the mark for theprire of the high. calling." "Don't be irreverent, Joseph." "I'm not; I think that text as good for this world as for the next. . . . . Now, no more dis mal looking back. Remember Lot's wife.' " He need not say how grievouely such jesting with Scripture must harden the careless and un concerned, and blunt the spiritual sense of even Christian readers. With this I must now close, hoping to bring up arrears next week. J. W. " I ee shed 11-clad around, d going by the (one of n,) while soon ser e other in catechized THE judicious Hooker used to say, "If I had no other reason and motive for being religious,l would earnestly strive to be so for th sake of my aged mother, that I might requite her care of me, and cause the widow's heart to sing for joy." Rev. E. P. ROGERS, D. D., of Philadelphia, has been called to the 'North Dutch church, Albany. The American Pres byterian learns 'that Dr. Rogers has ac cepted the call. Rev. JAMES WATSON, D. D., as been called to the Great Island ehluth, at Lock. Haven, Pa. Kr. E. F. MIINDAY has a canto the church ' at Smithtown, Long Island.- '` Rev. H. NEWELL'S Post Office address is changed from Fort Madison to West Point; Lee County, lowa. Rev. S: FINLEY, of the Associaie Re formed Church, late President of Am herst College, has become nuked with the Presbytery of Zanesville. Rev. Mr:. MAINARD; of the Methodist Protestant Church, , has alio joined the Presbytery of Zineivillit. Ecclesiastical. larts anb . ennings. Reformed Dutch IMPARATIVE STATISTICS OF TUE PROT. JEF. DUTCH CHURCH FOR 1855 AND 1856. 1855. 1856. 364 380 348 368 umber of churches, cumber of ministers, - 'timber of members re- ceived on confession, 1609 2551 umber received by certificate, - - - - 1474 1483 of Communicants, 38,927 40,413 'umber of adults bap- tized l - - - runaber of infants bap tized, - 2448 2754 Number in Catecheti cal instruction, -- - 779, LO, Number in Sunday School, ---- - - - 26,593 30,070 Contribution to Jong. and benev. purposes, $77,999.46 $85,898 Moravian Statistics. The last number of the Moravian eon_ tains ,the following general statistics of the United ]Moravian Church, or the Unitas Fratrum : Communicants. Whole Num 1. The American Prov- ince, 4,460 8,831 2. The German , Prev Thee, 3. The British Prov ince, ----- - - - 2,921 5,061 4. The Foreign Mis sion Province, - 19,600 5. The Continental Di aspora Province, - Total, MOUNT vt.T.---An exchange paper states that the celebrated•Monnt of Olives, near Jerusalem, has been purchased by Madame,Polack, the widow of a wealthy banker, of the Hebrew persuasion, at Kon igsberg,'in Prussia. This lady intends to beautify the place, and improve the whole neighborhood, at her sole expense. The first thing she bad done was to plant the whole area with a grove of olive trees, thus to restore it to the original state from which it derives its name. MINISTERIAL CHANGES.—The following facts are mentioned by the N. Y. Obstiver as remarkable :—The (Old School) Presby terian Church has during the past year dis missed five ministers to, and received thirty one ministers from other denominations; twenty-four churches have been dissolved and eighty five organized; thirty-eight min isters have deceased and eighty-seven have been ordained. RETURN OF DR. HAN - Lim—Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, D. D , Missionary of the American Board at Constantinople, who, after an ab sence of eighteen years, has been on a visit of about two months to his friends in New Engld, took his leave again on Tuesday of last ',leek, on his return to his field of la bor. CONGREGATIONALISM IN CANADA.—The following are the statistics of Congregation alists in Canada : Churches 74; Ministers, 65; number of members, 2,805. Amount contributed last sear for the maintenance of religion and for missionary objects, £8,492. EfARVARD AND YALL—The Freshman Class of Harvard College numhers 126, and that of Yale 150; the former is the largest ever entered at Harvard, the latter, next to last year's (which was JET), the largest at Yale. Nittrarg Rotirts. BOOKS sent to rim for • Notice, will be duly attended to. Those fro= publishers in Phila.. delphly New York, ite., nosy be left at our Philadelphia Office, 27 South 10th St., below Chestnut, In care ofJosephill. Wilson, Esq. EMMY SETTLEMENT OF THE SITNIATA VALLEY, embracing an account of the early Pioneers, their Trials, Privations, &c. By U. J. Jones. pp. 880, Bvo. Published by Henry B. Ashmeati, Philadelphia. 1856. This is a contribution of great worth to the history of an interesting portion of Pennsylvania. It speaks of the region in which we ourselves drew the first breath of life, and among whose first settlers were a portion of our ancestors. One who can hold no second place in our memory, was obliged, in childhood, to flee on foot, under the guidance of a mother, from the merciless tomahawk, while her father served in the bands which protected the frontiers. Mr. Jones has done a good service in this his torical collection. A great deal of interesting matter had never been committed to writing, and those in whose memories were recorded the trans actions, were nearly all passed away. A last op poitortity of rescuing the events from oblivion, was embraced by the writer, and we desire that his labors may be rewarded. The narrative will be found lively and graphic, and, without any pretensions at rhetorical display, yet well adapted to keep up the attention; and convey knowledge. The writer's allusions to the devoted .Brainerd, are not sufficiently:appreciative hnt •he looked rather at results than intentions. The poor mis sionary, preaching ..the Gospel of peace in those days of strife.and blood, found bat little to cheer his heart. The speeimen of Christians which the savage saw in the traders, and fire-water men, and others with whom he was brought into contact mainly, in mortal strife, was not at all adapted to prepossess his mind in favor of the missionary's religion. Still, we commend the work of Mr. Jones to the favorable regard of our readers. HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY. StatiStieSl and Dynamical: or the Conditions and CoUrse of the Life of Man. By John William :Draper, M. D., L. L. .D., Professor of CheMistry and Physiology in the University. of New York. Illustrated with nearly 300 engravings. Svo., pp. 649. New York : Harper t Brothers, Publishers, Frank lin Square. ~1856. We have exiiniined this important and very ad mirable work with much care. It displays great research and remarkable ability in arranging arid condettaing information. As a scientific work, it doeirgreat credit to the learned author; and as a Text Book, it must, we think, be found eminently useful. The manner in 'which the illustrations are prepared, and the mode of reference to the minutest portion of the figures, are such as to indicate great clearness of conception, and fall mastery over the subject. In many works, illus trations, - especially as referred to in the letter press, serve only to confuse. Here we have system of notation introduced, which removes the possibility of mistake, and enables any reader to comprehend the author's meaning. Instead of confining our notice to more general laudations of this work, we prefer giving our readers an idea of the subjeicts an,d their arrangement, as Dr. Diaper has treatell'theini: .The volume is divided " The into two books. The first devitid to 290 369 7796 10,729 4,541 . 5,894 71,450 100,000 81,522 191,236
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