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TIISOARORA. 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.' The design
is a noble one. Their plans of operation are
wise. They are zealous and liberal. Now,
who will aid them ?
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should be a matter of intense desire. To
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44 As a general rule, short pieces are best
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, . • or . k*
ming . . Scylla, are determine, real
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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
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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
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LONDON, Sept. 2, 1856
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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