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Religion;
TO A FRIEND ON UTE DOCTRINES AND
DIITIES OF TILE BIBLE.
CV. - Nature of Regeneration.
elieveth that Jesus is the Christ is
1(1-1. John i : 6.
Al FRIEND :—I will now finish
e to sky on the nature of regener
deserves to be considered with
)k at it :
change from sin to holiness, from
grace. Our moral nature is in
)neration gathers up the broken
;red fragments, remodels the
makes us new men, restoring the
of God to the soul, and writing
the heart. We are by nature
eneration is the infusion of spir
you bath he quickened who were
Spirit, by a direct act upon the
us life, and then we begin to live
-Eph. ii : 1. We are by nature
corrupt, sinful; regeneration is a
a our moral nature ; a change
moral nature of the soul from
liners, by a direct act of the Spirit
and there is in this change the
of a holy principle or gracious
hat we are inclined to seek after
are prepared to hold communion
; our corrupt natures are changed,
ire made partakers of the Divine
Pet. iv : 4. By nature we are
have no spiritual perception ; we
~ We may have a rational per
: the truth, but no spiritual appre
f it; this we cannot have until the
lightens our understandings and
blind eyes, and thus imparts to us
of spiritual perception; then we
ily and Divine things in their true
nature ; we have new views of
these new and clear views are the
of regeneration, and are insepa
saving faith ; for the truth thus
iicved, and the Saviour thus pre
embraced and confided in.
natural man receiveth not the
,he Spirit of God.-1. Cor. 14.
wings which the Holy Ghost has
dress themselves not only to the
true, but to the conscience as
and to the affections as excellent
not to receive them is not to re
our inward experience, their
.ity, and excellence."--Hodge's
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:al man does notreceive the things
it, because he does not see their
thority, and excellence—their
loveliness. He is blind. Now,
t open the eyes of a blind man;
know : well, so the truth—which
ies not open the blind eyes of the
e Spirit opens his eyes, gives him
of spiritual perception, and then
)d then he receives the things of
The Spirit illuminates the
ing, enlightens the mind in the
of Christ; and this illumination
alightening—this opening of the
he mind by the Spirit, is regenera
, to be more exact, the opening of
of the mind, and giving a capacity
• to see, is regeneration ; and then,
said, the illumination itself, the
,e ; 2, and the new and clear views
ler, are the first effects of regen
nil are inseparable from saving
1:4 Paul was sent instrumentally
eyes of the Gentiles, and to turn
thirkae,s to light.—Acts xxvi :
.!t is written, open thou mine
I may behold wondrous things
law.—Ps. exix: 18. This opening
, es is the Spirit's work, not through
merely, but by a direct and super
,nfluence upon the soul. By a direct
in, the Spirit gives spiritual percep
the mind, which is by nature blind.
there is only a rational perception
rut ; the Spirit gives a capacity of
perception, opens our eyes, and
We have new and clear views
aiul duty, of Christ and his salve.-
, if I,ur views arc measurably obscure
a. they sometimes are, they increase,
thy ; in clearness and preciousness;
hppears more and more plain and
and Christ is wore and more pre
lovely. Then shall we know, if
on to know, the Lord : his going
prepared as the morning.—llos, vi :
,e path of the just is as the shining
:hat shineth more and more unto the
day.—Prov. iv : 18.
1, by nature the will is enslaved; in
atiou the will is renewed and -set
So it is written : Thy people shall be
in the day of thy power; and: It is
hick worketh in you both to will and
of his good pleasure.—Ps. cx ;
Phil. ii : 12, 13. And this renewing of the
will is also by a direct and supernatural in
fluence of the .Spirit. Thus our Larger
Catechism teaches: " Effectual calling is the
work of God's almighty power and grace,
whereby (out of his free and special love to
his elect, and from nothing in them moving
him thereunto,) he dotb, in his accepted
time, invite and drw them to Jesus Christ,
by his Word and Spirit ; savingly enlighten
ing their minds, renewing and powerfully
determining their wills, so as they (although
in themselves dead in sin) are hereby made
willing and able, freely to answer his call,
and to accept and embrace the grace offered
and conveyed therein.".—Larg. Cat, Ques.
67.
I shall have occasion hereafter to speak of
the truth as the means k regeneration; but
if we say the Spirit operates only in, with, or
through the 'truth, and not by a direct and
supernatural influence as has been taught
in these letters, then it : will follow tha in
ffl4 ilOsifu{fv b 'tog erli e are, in
capable of perceiving and understanding the
truth, and being influenced by motives.
This may do for those who deny the doctrine
of original sin; but it will not do for us, for
you and me, who hold to that doctrine. As
our natures are depraved, these natures
must be changed by a direct operation of
the Spirit on our hearts. The sinner is
blind ; he has no spiritual perception of the
truth, and no spiritual capacity to perceive,
and understand, and embrace it, and love it.
This perception is imparted, his eyes opened,
his understanding enlightened, by a direct
and supernatural operation of the Spirit.
His will is enslaved ; it must be set free ;
this too is done by a direct and supernatural
operation of the Spirit. So that, as we
shall see, regeneration is the Spirit's work,
and not man's act. He also uses,the truth
as a means in the case of adults, or of those
who can perceive and understand the truth ;
but over, and above, and beyond the truth,
there is a direct operation of the Spirit,
infusing life; implanting a gracious princi
ple, giving a, capacity of spiritual perception,
opening the eyes of the mind, enlightening
the understanding, renewing and liberating
the will, and drawing the soul to Christ, in
clining and enabling it to rest on him for
salvation, and thus purifying and elevating
the affections, and turning the whole life in
a heavenly direction..
ll@;ter :~~m-: Y.i _'~~i
I have been, as you see, purposely repiti
tious, for it is better to repeat than not to
be understood. This is a very important
matter. Bear with me a moment longer,
and I will give you something better than
anything yet advanced. On the nature of re
generation, Dr. A. Alexander says " As the
restoration of depraved man to the image of
God, lost by the fall, is the grand object
aimed at in the whole economy of salvation,
it can easily be said, in the general, that by
this change a principle of holiness is im
planted, spiritual life is communicated, the
mind is enlightened, the will renewed, and
the affections purified, and elevated to hea
venly objects. Such general descriptions do
not afford full satisfaction." The change,
be says, is not "without any operation on
the mind itself. * * * The blindness is in
the mind, which can only be removed by an
influence on the soul itself; that is, by the
power of God creating a 4 new heart.' * *
The fault is in the percipient being; there
must, be such an exertion of. Divine power
as will remove it, and this is regeneration.
* * * The lost power of spiritual percep
tion and susceptibility of holy feeling" is
restored. * * * "No unregenerate man,"
he declares, " no unregenerate man is, while
in that state, any more capable of spiritual
perception than a blind man is of a percep
tion of colors." The blind man may have
eyes, but they are closed ; they must be
opened, and then he can see; so the Spirit,
by a direct and supernatural influence,
opens the eyes of the mind, and
,gives a
capacity of spiritual perception and of holy
feeling and action ; and at the same time,
and by the same ant, renews and liberates the
will ; so that we then see Divine things in a
new and clear light, and are inclined and
enabled freely to choose and to delight in that
which is good. This is the nature of regen
eration.
Your library contains several copies of
Dr. A. Alexander's Thoughts on Religious
Experience, published by the Presbyterian
Board of Publication. Every family should
have this work, and every one should read
it. It costs but 56 cents. I would earnest
ly recommend you to read the whole of it,
and especially the 6th chapter, pages 79-
102 Read also Eph., chapters 2-6; and
Rom., chapters 12-16; and Hymns 22, 83,
and 533.
Thus much for the nature of regeneration.
The next point is the &gent in, regenera
tion. Of that in my next. Adieu.
YOURS, TRITLY.
"I would not (said one who was not him
self pious) marry any woman who was not .a
Christian. I would feel it such an honor to
share a heart in which God dwelt." It was
a fine thought, and deserves to be specially
remembered.
You want a friend in whom you can have
entire and unlimited confidence; one who
cap be your counselor in all circumstances
Of diffieulty or trial; one who is to be iden
tified with you through life, in hope and
fear, in joy and sorrow. She is to be a sort of
presiding divinity at thy family board, and
her countenance the mirror in which must be
reflected the faithful image of thy domestic
bliss or woe; one who will be discreet, affec
tionate, and firm in governing her children ;
in short, who will love you for your own
sake, be happy with you in a cabin, and
when the storm of adversity , or persecution
shall have swept away or withered every
vestige of earthly comfort about you. Now
bear these things in mind ; and then to.pivr
prayers, and the exercise of a becoming
prudence, and you will not be likely to fail.
—Bishop Andrew.
My. Du. S. of Connecticut, having la
bored forty years, until the pressure of ago
was on him, was invited by his people to re
tire, on a salary of three hundred dollars !I
One of his congregation being lately in this
city, a friend said to him, "on have not
treated Dr. S. so well as Dr. Physic did his
old horse. Ile ordered in his will, that the
old horse should be amply fed, clothed and
sheltered so long as he lived."
A Pious Wife
THE depthn of misery are
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the d'epthe of
.mercy.
A Dream.
BY A. M. HOUGH
I dreamed, and oh, that I could describe
the beauties of the landscape, on which my
dreaming eyes feasted a ,•
Flowers of every conceivable shade of
coloring; trees of tropic luxuriance, with
pendant branches, loaded with the most de
licious fruits; fountains of living, waters,
throwing spray-drops of coolness into green,
mossy basins ; birds of the brightest, softegt,
plumage, and notes clearer, and sweeter, and
more sonorous than ever earthly songsters
snug. And then the dwellers in this region
of bliss—though the green valleys and ver
dant hillsides were filled .with; a countless
multitude, yet no lgud sounds of discord dis
turbed the harmony of the scene, for - every
Voice was tuned to the'satest, gentlest-tones
of affection, every lip was. - wreathed with
smiles of love't--eve e tovirEt4a4 it
041il*Phrgiut ,
dray hairs, there were none; but I saw
by the spiritual radiance 'that shone forth
from the countenances of some, that they
had, attained unto perfection, and were wait
ing to be translated to the land of spirits.
There were women, with features of per
feet beauty, and men, with forms of most
perfect symmetry, for they were made in the
image' and likeness of God ; and child're
were there, golden-haired and innocent
eyed, and the pratling words, that fell fro..
their lips were the alphabet of angels.
As I wandered farth,er into this new land
still stranger things came to my observation
In the jungles and roaming under the tall
forest trees were four-footed beasts, and al
manner of Creeping things; but the lion an.
the lamb lay down together, and the tiger
and the panther, and the, spotted leopar.
fawned upon the little ones who strayed into
the green coverts, licking their little hands
with brute-tenderness, an stretching their
huge bodies upon the green sward, to mak
e, couch on which to pillow the fair heads o
their sweet, childish masters.
But even while I looked, and loved, and
commended;therc came a change. A cloud
darker than midnight came rolling up over
the blue sky, till the, whole firmament was
darkened—it was the shadow of sin—and
then a wail arose. Oh, the bitter, bitter cry !
—even the affrighted birds helped to swell
it, and then, terror•strielren, fled far from the
abodes of man. The hitherto tame beasts
of the forest howled and raged with' a
strange fierceness, and bathing their parched
jaws in the blood of the innocents, laecame
at once the terror and the scourge of
men. Famine, and pestilence, misery and
death, stalked through the land. Every
man's band was turned against bis neighbor,
and mothers even tare the tender babes
from their own bosoms, and cast them to the
crocodiles, or to the chill embrace of the, re
lentless waters.
Alas that sin should so transform a para
dise into a den of howling demons ! I
looked above and , below', but .tbere seemed
no remedy; every one devoured the poison
berries' of the upas tree, pith maniac aVid
ity, rolling them as a sleet morsel under the
tongue, and then turned away to weep and
wail, and writhe under the pangs of re
morse, the dread of punishment, and the
terrors of that prison-house where the worm
dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Old men with gray hairs, and wrinkled and
marred visages; mothers refusing to"be com
forted as they looked on the dead ; bodies
of their little ones ; children weeping at the
grave-side of parents; and desolation, and
sorrow, and anguish reigning over all---and
yet there was no eye to pity, and no arm to
save.
So thought my despairing heart; but even
as I wept over this lost and ruined world,
the black cloud, that shrouded the firma
ment, parted, and in the opening appeared
a bleeding hand—a pierced, bleeding, hu
man hand—and above it, a brow fairer than
the sons of the morning, but bleeding and
crowned with thorns; yet around and above
all was a brightness exceeding that of the
sun at noonday—a glorious and dazzling
brilliancy—and out of the halo came a view
of more than angelic sweetness, saying :
" I am the root and the offspring of
David, and the bright and morning star."
"And the`Spirit and the Bride say, come,
and let him that heareth say, come, and let
him that is athirst come, and whosoever will,
let him take of the water of life freely."
"I, even I am the Lord, and beside me
there is no Saviour."
" Look unto me, and be ye saved, all ye
ends of the earth, for I have sworn by my
self that unto me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear. , '
"Suffer little children to come unto me,
and forbid them not."
"Cast your fatherless children upon me,
and let your widows trust in the Lord, for I
will be a father unto the fatherless, and the
widow's God."
"When` the poor and needy seek water
and there is none, and their tongue faileth
for. thirst, I, the Lord, will hear them---I,
the God of Israel, will not forsake them."
"Even the youths shall faint and be
weary, and the young men shall utterly fail,
but they that wait upon the Lord shall re
new their strength. They shall run, and not
be weary, and they shall walk, and not
faint."
" And even to your old age, I am he;
even to your boar hairs will I carry you."
" Oh, thou afflicted, tost with tempest and
not comforted, behold I will lay thy stones
with fair colors, and lay thy foundations
with sapphires ; and all thy children shall
be taught of the Lord, and great shall be
the peace of thy children."
"Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to
the waters, and he that bath no money,
come ye buy, and eat."
" Let the wicked forsake his way, and the
unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him
return unto 'the Lord, and he will have
mercy upon him, and to our God, for he
will abundantly pardon."
"Then they that feared the Lord spoke
often one to anOther, and the Lord harkened
and heard it, and a book of remembrance
was written before him, for them that feared
the Lord and that thought upon his name."
And I awoke, and behold I had been
dreaming ; yet I thanked Him who speaketh
t6'his children in visions of the night; when
deep sleep falleth upon men, for the teach
ing of this dream, which was not all a
dream.
WHEN we are roost ready to perish,, then
is God most ready to help. - '
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General View of the PTOyterian China
During the Year en 477, May. 1857,
Synods in connexion with the °card Assembly, 31
Presbyteries, - - - 188
Candidates for the ministry, - • 462
Licentiates, - • - - ' 257
Ministers, - - - 2,411
251
Licensume, - - -
. 11.8
Ordinations, 107
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Installations, • - - 199
Pastoral relations dissolveo, • . • 120
Churches organized, -• r r y 109
Ministers received from other den , , nations, 1 ' - 33
Ministers dismissed to other deno , ; Rations, 9
Ministers deceased, •• • ' - • 46
Churches dissolved, - . • ,
Members added on examination, 7, ~'P • 13,298
Members added WI certificate, ", 0,71.9
Whole number of communicants: dr 244,825
Adults baptized, -7 2 4 3,376
'infante baptized, • .- ,
- — "Tr • 13,007
Amounts contributed for Congfe Ipr.,
poses, - - • i' $1,963,964
Amount contributed for ,
tension, - - • $578,238
Amountcontri,butedformiscellato $210,602
The following ministe*, vr ;daring
the year : ,
S.`4,
Names. . 4 et
Rev J. M..Whiton, D.D% „.r di orotmartrtmvirr - ft' Ural° y.
" Archibald Ferguson, Rochester City.
" James Adams, Hudson.
" Robt. B. E. MdLeod, North River.
" William Gray, New York Second.
" S. C. Henry, D.D., New Brunswick.
George Ely, " .
6 6 William Grfhank, West, Jersey.
66 Richard ,Webster, Luzern
" Sand. Huie Smith, Donegal.
" John Dee,,ker, Baltimore. ,
" William N. Scott, Winchester.
" John G./Howell, RedstOne. •
" Robert Orr, Clarion. •
" Samuel'Henderson, Beaver.
NestorA. Staicos, Alleghtny. City.
" Anderson B. Quay,
" Samuel Moody, Richland.
S. Carothers, D.D., Chiliic the.
" James Coe, D.D., Miami,
"6 Daniel Lattimore, Madison.
" Pam Bennett,' Peoria:
". Robert Cameron, "
" James H. Dickey, ,
,t John Brittain Winnebago.
Robt. C. Mcdonib, lowa.
" James Gallatin, Dubuque.
"S. C. McConnell, Missouri.
" J. Howe, "
" Robt. Stuart, D.D., West Lexington.
" B. G. Fields, ti it
" M. B. Price, " '
"J. Hendren, D.D., Lexington.
" Albert L. Holliday, West Hanover.
" J. Milton Henry, " "
" Win. P. Wharton, ()range.
" Win. D. Paisley, "
" Jos. Y. Alexander, Flint River.
" J. It. McCarter, East Alabama..
" Elizur Butler, Arkansas.
" CandaurJ. Silliman, Ouachita.
" Jerome Twitchel, Brazos;
" Stephen F. Cooke, Western Texas.
SI H. W. R ogers , St SE
" Wm. G. Condors, Stockton.
JOHN LEYBURN,
Stated Clerk of the deqeral Assembly,
From our London COrreopoudeut.
The Funeral of Douglas Jerrold !'The Pall Bear
n'• ers and Mourners—Dickens and Th'ackeray—Sug
gestive Scene—The Evangelicailliliance at Lam
beth Palace—Report of the Deputation—The King
of Prussia—Religious Libertg On the Continent—
The English Evangelical Bishops—The Pope on
his Travels—The States oftei Church and Their
' Misery—The King of -Sardlida . • and Austria
Ultra-Montanisin on lhe iment—The Oaths
Bill and Me Romanies— . Dallas and the
Royal ifuntane Society—P
:Directors—The Handel Fedi
LONDON, une 19, 1857.
The FUNERAL OF DO
TGLAS JERROLD
was a , very suggestive Beene., It, was public
in its character s and was aftendedby a large
body of world-renowned men of the literary
and artistic world. I mae, a pilgrimage to
Norwood Cemetery to look on the spectacle—
to see the•faces of the ling, and to moral
ize about the dead. Cu iosity had drawn
very many thither, perha s the greater num
ber, because of the eeleb ities who were to
bear the pall. But he des ,these were a
body of the admirers, fri ds, and boon com
panions of the departe ohild of wit and
genius. Arriving at the einetery somewhat
late, I found that the bo y was
_being taken
out of the Funeral,Car, d carried into the
chapel for the first partiOf the service ay-
Pointed in the'English Chureh for,the burial
of the dead. The chapel wks filled to over
flowing,, and a large body could not find en
trance. ' Standing, however, at the doors,
these were in due 456 thrown, open, and
forth came, close to j ine, the coffin, (of pol-
ished oak, enclosing ; a leaden one,) borne on
the shoulders of six men, and the procession
was immediately ffrmed outside. The coffin
was replaced in ttLe funeralear, and imme.
diately behind walked thehrether, sons, and
son•in-law of the deceased, while, after them,
cattle Thaelte/4, Dickens, Mark Lemon,
Charles linigt& and 'a host of persons iden
tified with literiture.and art.
• At the foot IV th e , hill, the procession
stopped; the co n was taken one, and again
placed on the shpulders of, the bearers, and
on each side, t 4 pall-bearers ranged them
selves. Of -then ," Dickens and Thackeray
attracted univerlal attention. The former
I had not seen bikfore. He appears to be a
man of about 47 pars old, about five feet
nine inches high; •of light:figure; ' . of, fair
Complexion; with thin, brown hair, mein
tache and beard 'of fair complexion; and
brow small, is compared with Thackeray's.
The reasoning ,poers are not much devel
(pod, and the fo head is rather, retreating.
His aspect is rather :nervous and restless.
H fine own eye; glancing round',e has a
i f
rapidly,' and with a searching ken. He is
worn-looking, byet elastic. As For Thaek
2i;
eray, he is at east , ten .years older than
Dickens. His figure is more than six feet
high; the frame is massive; the Chest is
deep, and over fa 'very large head clusters a
mass of grizzled, dark hair. His aspect is
that of repose and coolness. His eye is
gray; his nos is flattened, from an accident
in childhood; the nostrils are wide; the
cheek is full, and the chin prominent. He
is, although plAn, a th4:;rougli gentleman in
his bearing; qUiet, thoughtful, and observ•
ant, and seemingly unmoved by the gaze of
the crowd. Around the grave these men
stand, with Charres`Knight, the publisher;
Mark Lemon, the editor of Punch, (a short,
stout man, with ina'ssiVe -head, and 'thick
gray hair ' over •lull brows and gray eyes;)
Sir. Joseph Paxton,, (the famous planner of
the Crystal PalaceALandseer,, the painter;
Henry Maybe*,
,the sou-in-law of Jerrold,
very clever, hilt like Jerrold, very extrav
agant and "fast ;" tall, worn, elegant in
figure; with many more besides, on whom
1 cannot dwell.
As the service, proceeds, and the solemn
words, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," cor
respond to the fall k,f earth on the coffin lid,
tears flow fast fromlthe two sons of Jerrold.
I observe Thackeray is palm, yet sad; Dickens
impressed, and at the name of .Tesns he half
,
inclines his head. Sonic whisp'er that he is
; about to deliver an' oration, but it is not sol
The service• is over, and after a last gaze into
the deep,
, hricl grave, and on the coffin, all
tarn aw wondered *hat were the
thougjitsig.;f2irp. 'crowd of literateurs. Death
brought very near them,
v/hether" , ,,th : ,• , ipuld` Or not, and scenes of
9
- ;;•.lated .with the departed,
.44 41. is time, there is reason to
' fear, a vie 4 ,- ;; thV'sn'ares'of society,) must
have& .. ,
memory. Then too, as I
-looked t..;..`:11 . the glass door of the chapel,
-I.thought'of the mass of its occupants, as
,nien who had generally, ceased to go to
church, or to observe and honor God's own
day. Nay, Leech, and many !Mire, (to say
'nothing of 'Dickens 'and Jerrold,) have, by
pencil as well as pen; idone their utmost to
weaken the national respect for the Scriptural
, observance of the, Lord's day, and to bring
in - Rion us i a continental ' Sabbath.'
And'he t iththii, ItliPught; is a man bUried,„
Mr-Ifto4ootikagtffiltOe&
. sign," and yet, over him is read that beau.
tiful, but indiscriminate . service, which
thanks. God for his deliverance " out of
the miseries of this sinful world." Is not
the 'tendency of this on' the living, bad, very
bad? I left that grave and passed away
homeward, sad at heart.
The EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE 'has been,
as you are, aware, taking active measures
preparatory to the gathering to be held at
Berlin, in September. next. A Deputation,
which went last month to that capital, was
most warmly received by the King. The
Deputation having returned 'to England, a
meeting of the London branch was held last
week, to receive their report. But. the
point of special interest is,, that on the 14th
inst., a meeting was held in the palace of
Lambeth, (the Archbishop' of Canterbury's
official residence,) the Primate himself pre
siding. At this meeting six bishops, be
sides the chairman, were present. • The ob
ject was to, hear from the. Deputation, about
the state of religion and religious liberty in
those countries which they had visited—" a
subject," said the Archbishop, "of common
interest connected with their common faith.
When Paul and Barnabas, who had been
visiting, many places, in Asia, came back,
the Apostles were called together to hear all
the things which had been done for them."
Sir Culling Eardley gave the history of
the Alliance, in its rise and progress, and
especially, referred to the three great meet
ings. Of 1846 and. 1851, (in London,) and
that, of 1855, held in Feria. At all these,
facts and statistics had been elicited as to the
state of religion on the Continent. Mr.
Glynn, (an Episcopal clergyman, and one of
the Dputation,) hinted that there were
difficulties to, surinount = that the subject of
religious liberty would' require to be treated
with great forbearance. The King of Prus
sia expected that the meeting of the Alli
ance at Berlin would help him to put down
any views ef Church governinent which
were not of a Christian spirit, and at the
same time - would aid him in promoting,
Evanaelical teaching in the schools' of his
kingdom.
The ; Rev. Dr. Steam, ,(Secretary of the
Alliance,) entered into a fuller statement of
facts The Deputation had conferred with
the King; with the Berlin Committee; with
influential parties in different parts of qer
many, and had returned • by Paris, to consult
the Committee there. The. King had sin
gled out, the Deputation at dinner, and had
specially honored them in the presence of
the Court ,
circle. He said that when he
found that the fundamental principle was to
reek the union, not' of ecclesiastical bodies,
but of individual and loving. Christians, on the
basis of a common faith in Christ, and com
mon love to him," he had enthusiastically
embraced it.
I should here mention a remarkable fact,
that although not members of the Alliance,
the Prelates present, at this meeting, had
forwarded, a paper to the King, expressing
their desire to see his countenance given to
the propeeed gathering at Berlin. With
this His Majesty' expreesed himself greatly
gratified. As to the programmeithe Con
ference is to open on the ,9th September, by,
a devotional meeting. The proceedings are
to be conducted in ,French,. German and
English'. It was expected 'that the Old
Ilundreth would' be sung by the assembly in
the three languages, in the same metre, and
to the same tune.
secutzon of Bank
al.
As to Religious Liberty, in Germany
the principle may be discussed, but any
practical application of it must be reserved
for a Committee. Another object would be
to appoint parties to go, without ostentation,
through Roman Catholic, countries, and
apeak to the, people themselves on the great
principle. (A. delicate task !) The Depu
tation had gone through Prussia, Saxony,
Bavaria, Wartemberg, Baden, Rhenish
Prussia, and then 'came home by way of
Paris. The result vras not, encouraging.
The views.prevailing in England as to free
dom of opinion and profeasion are "not pepu
'aria Gerniariy." The exceptions to this state
of feeling "are very few.! One Lutheran
clergyman had, informed Dr.- Steane, that
"so extensive was the hostile spirit, even
among the congregation of his own church,
that he had been compelled to 'drive the
Reformers front the Lord's Table, because
the Lutherans would not allow them to par
take of the Sacrament unless they would con
sent to give up their own principles, and al
ly themselves to the Lutheran Church."
This hostile feeling 'prevails throughout
Germany, but most of all, in Bavaria.
A German clergyman present, Mr. Schmet
tean, said that great sympathy with the
movement was .felt in the South of Ger-
Many—Wurtemberg was free from ration
alism. Even from the Palatinate of Spires
in Bavaria, many ministers would attend the
Conference at Berlin. They would propose
to the Alliance the building of a new Evan
gelical church on the ruins of the palace
where Charles V. had preiented to him the
famous PnonsT of =the e first Reformers.
" Spires was the baptiamal font of Protest
autism,' and the clergy were anxious that all
Protestants,should have a atone or brick in
that, building!) '
It was finally stated that matters of doe
trine should not be discussed in the Con
ference. This most interesting meeting
was brought to a close—by whom 7 A Wes
leyan minister, the son of the venerable, Dr.
Bunting. Thus, a Baptist (Dr. Steane,)
makes the principal statement; a Wesleyan
prays ; and all this with seven Prelates ap
proving ! Shade of Laud ! what an out
rage on High Churchisto ! Oh; Henry
Philpotts Samuel Wilberforce et hoc genus
mune ) shoild you not puhliely exednumuni
cate your bishop-brethren at onee, and de
mand a , "lustrationi" to purify Lambeth
palace from ,tbe,; pollution which these
" schismatics %%have left behind them?.
•
THE PoP.E is traveling through the. States
of the ChilW He Went without' Cardinal
Antonell ,' his kir 'genius, and it Was' eir
peeted 'that.; he Would. inaugurate reforms,
and redress, grievances. But he is constant
ly watched by the creatures of the,cardinal,
whO shut out from his ears the complaints
of a miserable and "oppressed, people. The
Council' of Bologna' were actually fdibidden
to meet; but"they did meet; 'and while not
allowed to go.up .with:an ' address, they put
one into the' hands of aSenator, who has
right of access, setting .forth the evils of
maladministration, peculation, and eerrup.:,
don, in the Goirernment.' Atta whoa& Gov
ernment ak this ? ,'l e> alleged Vicegerent
e
.'l4.ktetßlANKO4KijfkOPKOrtifnre
. poor that cry, the "needy and .him that
hath no helper I'
Whateverthe Pope's benevolence may
be, yet, as " Head of the Church," he is a
jealous guardian of pontifical Ascendency;
and, surrounded by Austrian Generals and
base-minded Cardin als,lie will do no more than
other despots sometimes do, grant in am-
nesty to poor captives, relieving there from
the bondage and the 'dungeons to which
they never should have been consigned.
Dete?ala, est. Roma., "own with it. Raze
it, raze it even to the foundations," is the
prophetic cry of Oppressed nations; and of
the persecuted saints of God. -
The widowed HrNo SARDINIA, Victor
Emmanuel, ie about to marry a Princess of
the house of Saxony. This is gall and
wormwood to Austria., as Saxony, has been
always found in the camp of her enemiefi.
Austria is losing ground in Germany, and
especially 'by the laswens and oppressive
Concordat with the Pop_e. " This, says,
the Times correspondent, ".has given Prot
estant Prussia a tremendous lift; and
every Austrian who crosses the frontiers into
Germany, speedily becomes aware that such
is the ease. Spain and Naples (the latter
by recent action,) are now-held fast in the
bondage of • the same iron taskmaster."
In BELGIUM, fears .were entertained that
the priest party may try to carry their Char
itable Bill, in the next Chamber. But
King Leopold, wise and wary, warns them
of the peril. The peasantry will elect,
however,' the creatures of the clergy. ' In
truth- the tide of ultra-montanism -is- now
rising all over gurope into dominant politi
cal influence. Even the grand Duke of
Baden has made a Concordat with the
,
"Holy Father." Louis Napoleon holds
Rome in check, and the ^ Univers newspaper,
its main exponent, is dying, if net• extinct.
Still, on; the whole, the progress downward
would be alarming but that we know that
,
" things must be worse before they are bet
ter;" and that Babylon will be "near to
destruction" . at the very time when ' she
shall say in her heart, " I am a Lady for
ever. I sit as a queen, and am no - widow,
and shall see no, sorrow."
The OATHS Brt.p, now before Parliament,
alters the terms of the oaths hitherto taken
by members of the Legislature. It abol
ishei the obsolete disclaimeis of the Pre
tender ;" and it also proposes to leave out
the words, "on the true faith of a Chris
tian," so as to allow the , Jew to, come into
.Parliament, This the. Commons sanction,
but the Peers, if acting as hitherto, will re
ject. Bat the bill retains the oath required
of Roman Catholic members, in Which they
affirm, with all solemnity; that "no' foieign
prince or potentate hath jurisdiction in this
realm." That the Romanists wish to have
'abolished. They, call it invidious, and they
are combining to thiow out the bill if they
'can, unless their . demands be granted.
They were defeated, however, on , the second
reading, in the. House of Commons.
Last night Lord Derby opposed the Min
istry, in their proposal to abolish Ministers'
'money in'lreland. This is a tax placed in
the reign' of Charles .11.;-on house 'property,
amounting to £12,000 per annum. The
Romanists are irritated _by it. The ,
Min
istry had a majority. I was present during
part of the debate. LA Derby" has amaz
'lug ease and fluency as a speaker. '
The ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY held its
anniversary dinner last week,' anCamong
the guests was the worthy Ambassador of
the United States. Mr. Dallas...made a
statement full of interestt.as,to the first per
son rescued by' the Society from sudden
death. The following is the report':
He wished to say a few words on the subject of
their own Association, and to tell them alittle
passage of simple, unaffected family history,
which might not be altogether uninteresting, to
those who were assembled there that = night.
Well, then, he was placed under an obligation to
the' oyal Hinnine Society, eighteen' years before
he was born. (Cheers and laughter.) He per
ceived in the ,paper which had just been placed
before him, that, there had been 15,960 eases of
, .
reacues from' death by drowning, effected through
the, agency of that noble institution, or at, the
rate of 200 per annum. (Cheers.) There was
probably not' a single individual connected 'with
the Society, who could be old enough. to recollect
the incident to which he, was about to refer ; or
if anybody could recollect it, "it would be the
venerable gentleman opposite to him, and he was
sure that, even, his age would fall a few years
short. He wished to speak to them of the first
man whom their Association . reseuedfroin death.
It was near
,the years 1774' and 1776, just after
the Humane Society had been instituted. A
young man of excellent education; of large prop
erty, about seventeen years . of age, was walking
with his servant on the banks of the Thames ; he
came to its brink, and the weather being unusu
ally warm, he soon ventured to doff his clothes,
and to, plunge into the river, He was a gallant
and excellent swimmer. He struck out boldly
and lustily for the centre of the stream, but be
fore he, got there he was, seized with a violent
cramp, and with one shriek he sank immediately.
His servant, diStracted, ran toviard some neigh
boring building. ,t that very time, and for the
first time, the implemcnti of the Royal Humane
Society, the grappling irons, the drags, the boats,
were accessible. Thetie were put into immediate
requisition, and the alarm having been given, the
young man was taken from the water. ACcord
ing to the usage of the time, he was rolled) upon
the bridge, and rescued, resuscitated, and re
stored by the agency of that institution:' (Cheers.)
That was in 1774 or 1776. He was then , seven-!
teen years of age. Five years after ,that young
man was rescued, he married in the County of
Devon, and in the course of a few yearwhe went
in search of his patrimonial estates: in ,Tamaica,
anti found that they had been dissipated , by
a steward, into whose hands they- liaehben en
' trusted. He went with his, wife tol the United
States, where he arrived in 1783, just at the close
of the Revolutionary • war. That young man,
thus rescued from a , watery grave,lapplied him
self at once • the study, of the law. He rose in
the profession: He became the associate of
Washington, , of 'Jefferson, Lot= Madison; ' He be
canieliniself one of %inmost conspicuous clop-
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eel of the United States of America; an-admira
ble, if not, -in that country, an unequalled writer,
and a distinguished politician. Heat length blb-d
the office , of treasurer of America.. 'That young
man, that counsel, that:author, who had been
rescued by the Royal Humane. Society, who be
. came the bead , of e: numerous: family, whose de
• seem:tants were now well-known throughout the
;United States of America--that- young -man, he
might say, without any feeling of vanity-,that
4young> man-was hie own father. (Tremendous
cheering.) He died , some thirty years ago; and,
during his life, he referred to the Royal Humane
Society as one founded on the noblest principles,
Mid - Which irtircairied nut with an energy pro
portioned mite excellence. (Cheers.)
-The COMMITTEE . OF. THE LANCASHIRE
COLLEGE by a majority, have pronounced
strengly against-Doctor Davidson's unsound
ness' on the Inspire' question, When
the decision was 'communicated to him, he
treated' it with Something like disdain and
.-saiifittuitileLll4l6o-4111Y
"itistiiirifiiiaincein him. -Twenty-three re
fused thus to • vote: Dr. Vaughan the
President, is against, him.
The fmudulnkt. • DIRECTORS OF TEE
BRITISH BA.NK. are, erelong, to be tried for
their misdemeanors. Several of them are
arrested alrea.dy. A. new Fraudulent Trus
tees Bill is being brought into Parliament
by the Attorney-General.
The 4ANDEL FESTIVAL,.fit the, Crystal
Palace, has its third and last performance
this day. The Queen and the Court were
present on the second day. It has been
a great suacess,'in a musical sense: But
when shall the day come when Oratorios
shall become real spiritual worship ?
J. W.
P. 8. The 13th. of June is over and
gone, and, with it the fears of the
to about the comet which was, to strike
the earth. In Connaught, in Ireland, the
people Proposed emigration to'esciipeit. On
the - u oritiuent - mime neileiled their gardens
and fields.. When last week: a great fire
broke out in London, at a railway station,
and the blazeilluminated the midnight sky s
there were not wanting many who believed
that the mighty comet had come ! "The
end is not yet.' Great Purposes are yet to
be evolved, ere the last conflagration shall
be kindled.
lads and itant(S,
No MAN dare ask of God so much as he
is ready and willing to give.
A MAN can be in no condition wherein
God is'at a'loss, and cannot help him. If
comforts be wanting; he can create comforts,
not only out 'of nothing, but ant of dis
comforts.
TEACH yonr children, by language or pre
cept, never to wound a persOn's feelings
because he holds an humble station in life,
or
,because he is pporly clad, or because he
is awkward.
Tars Is A THREE-FOLD MYSTERY; a GOS
pel published in the midst of an ungodly
world ; a little Church preserved in the
midst of devils • and : a little grace kept alive
in the midst of corruptioni.
RABBI ELIBZBB. said, "Turn to God one
day before your death." His disciples said,
" How can a man know the day of his
death ?" He answered them, "Then you
should turn to God to-day; perhaps you
may die to-morrow; thus every day will be
employed in returning."
Taui INDEPENDENOR i
—There s nothing
on,earth which mankind more generally or
more sincerely admire than a true inde
pendence. The most practised scyophant
who bends
—"the pregnant hinges of the knee,
That thrift may follow fawning,"
does not refrain from approving in others
that quality which he himself so plentifully
lacks.- - - -
A GLORIFIED SPIRIT.—WouId you know
what Tam4oing? I see Orod; I see him
as he is, not through a glass darkly, but
face to is,
and the sight is transforming;
it makes: rue like him. lam in the sweet
employment of my, blessed Redeemer, my
Head and'Husband, whoin my soul loved,
and for whese sake I was willing to part
withltill: I artchere bathing myself at the
spring-head of heavenly pleasures and joys
unutterable and therefore, weep not for me.
.am rhere keeping a perpetual Sabbath;
what that is, judge by your short Sabbaths.
I am here singing hallelujahs incessantly to
Him who sits upon the throne, and rest not
day or night froth praising him.—Mathew
Henry. -
DESPONDENCY.—A Christian once, in
doubt and discouragement, .considered the
darkness that ,overspread her soul to be the
frown of the Almighty. She , stumbled over
mole hills when she should have been re-
MovihgMountains. To an old minister who
was trying to comfort her, with impassioned
emphasis she said, " Oh,l'm dead ! ,dead !
twice dead 1 and plucked up by the roots!"
After a pause,, he replied, " Well, sitting in
xrly study the other day, I heard a sudden
scream``—"' John's in the well I" "John's
fell into the well l" Before I could reach
the spot, I heard the sob and mournful cry:
," John's, dead—poor little Johnny's dead."
Bending over the curb, " John, are you
dead ?" " Yes grandfather replied John,
I'm 'dead." was glattto hear it from his
ow,. mouth."
Immix HciilusTir Indian, being
among his white
_neighbors, asked for a lit
tle tobacco to smoke;and one of them,
having some loose in his pocket, gave him a
handful. The day following the Indian
came back inquiring for the donor, saying
he had found a quarter of a dollar, among
,the tobacco. . Being told as it was given to
him, he might as veil keep it, he answered,
pointing to his breast, ".T got a good man
,and a bad man here; and the good man.say,
"It is not mine—l must return it to the
owner." The had man say, "Why he gave
it to you; and it is your own now." The
good man , say, " That's not right; the ,to
is yours, not
,the money: The bad
man say, " Never mind, you:got it : go buy
some dram." The, good man say, "No r no,
you 'must nut do so." So r don't knovi
what to do; and I think to 'go to sleep) but
the good and the bad Man keep talking all
, night; and trouble me pad liinelthring die
money book, I feelsood." ,•
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