PRESBYTERIA:\ BANNER: - & ADVOCATE,
Prosibytorlan Banner, Vol. VI, No. 1.
Prombytorlon Advocate, Vol. XIX, MO. 46.
DAVID MeKINNEY, Editor and Proprietor.
TERMS.-IN ADVANCE.
Original Vottrp.
Self-Examination.
0, Thou, whose condescending love
Don light and peace impart,
Send down thy Spirit from above,
And search my inmost heart.
I fain would find within my breast,
A. flame of love to thee ;
But Rh 1 with untold guilt oppressed,
What enmity I see!
Yet still, I think, I long to love
And serve nay God alone ;
Do thou this stubborn will remove,
And melt this heart of stone!
Is there, within this doubting heart,
That faith whioh cannot fail—
That, when oreated joys depart,
Still looks within the veil ?
That rests on thee for future good,
'ln calm and meek repose ;
When tribulation like a flood
Within the spirit flows?
Alas! my heart of unbelief !
0, whither shall I flee ?
Blest Saviour! I to thee would come,
Inerease my faith in thee!
On thee alone I would depend
For every needful grace ;
And, when this sinful life shall end,
I shall behold ;by face.
Dear Lord, may faith and love unite,
And in my heart abound !
Till faith be sweetly lost in sight,
Where songs of love resound.
Auguot, 1857
For the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate.
! Evidenoei of Regeneration.
Letter Vl.—A:Letter of Thomas Seott,D.D
And given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
2. Cor. i : 22.
I MY DEAR FRIEND :—Asbefore intimated,
you may not find these letters very orderly;
yet I hope they may be useful to you. This
is my aim. Hence what I have to say on
1 the evidences of regeneration, must be de
'ferred till another time, and then I, may try
to show what are not, and what are, certain
evidences of regeneration. At present, al
ow me to give part of a letter of the Rev.
r. Thomas Scott, the Commentator, on
' the knowledge of pardon, and the witness
of the Spirit." - This was of great service
.to me years ago, and it may possibly be of
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service to you also. He says : "Though,
in some oases, persons may know the time
and the place, both when they were awak
g ened and when.,they, were ,comfortell;„yea,_
when they were brought to submit to God's
; .righteousness in their condemnation, not
. withstanding all their endeavors, and to oast
themselves on his free mercy through the
blood of Jesus, and to see his whole (thane
-1 ter and conduct lovely, and Christ precious,
and his salvation glorious, and - holiness beau
'• tiful, and his service perfect freedom ; yet
itis not generally thus. At first, knowledge
is usually scanty, experiences are indistinct,
and views of Divine things are confused
and mixed with inconsistency. Then shall
ye know, if ye follow on to know the Lord;
his going forth is prepared as the morning.
Now, in the morning the day dawns ; a glim
mering beam diffuses itself, but it is dusk
still, and objects are indistinctly perceived;
1 but gradually it grows lighter. Thus it
I commonly is with true Christians. In time,
they find that these effects are produced;
1 and if they are certainly produced, it mat
ters not whether we know when or where.
If God hath shown you the strictness and
goodness of the law, and your obligations,
as the creature, to love and obey him ac
cording to it, so as to convince you that by
nature and practice you are an inexcusable
sinner, deserving of his wrath; that none
of your doings can make him your debtor,
or give you any claim upon his justice, or
make it unjust in him to condemn you; if
you see your best deeds to be sinful, and to
need forgiveness ; and seeing this, take the
blame to yourself, cast yourself on free mer
cy as a justly condemned sinner—see a suit
ableness in God's way of saving sinners,
through the infinitely valuable obedience
and atonement of Emmanuel, honoring the
law, and satisfying justice in our stead, that
he might be just, and the justifier of the
ungodly; if you have thus learned to see
God's whole character lovely—that one so
great and glorious, so holy and just, should
be so compassionate, merciful, and loving;
if in this way you have learned to hate sin,
to love holiness and follow after it, and to
be humbled, ashamed, and grieved that you
arc no more holy—to feel a spirit of cordial
love to God's character, government, and
Gospel, gratitude to him for his mercies,
zeal for his glory—wanting others to know,
love, serve and enjoy his favor—considering
his cause as yours, being grieved when his
name is dishonored, and rejoicing in the
1 prosperity of religion—praying from your
heart the beginning of the Lord's prayer;
[and indeed the whole of it,] if this has
taught you to desire to be patient in trouble,
to be contented in your station, to depend
on his providence, to adorn his Gospel, and
live to his glory, you then have the substan
tial evidences of conversion, such as they
who have the most of the others, have in
general little of. This filial spirit toward
God is the spirit of adoptioim—the seal of
I the Spirit, which the devil can neither break
nor counterfeit—the earnest of the Spirit,
a part of heaven brought down into the soul
as a pledge of the whole. And when the
Holy Ghost brings these implanted graces
into lively, vigorous exercise, then he wit
stews with, our spirits that we are God's
children, and not usually by any words
brought to the mind, as many are deluded
to believe. The latter, Satan can counter
feit, and it has nothing Divine in it; the
former is Divine, from God . , and leading to
God."
Please bear in mind these valuable
thoupihts, as this will prepare you to profit
by what I may hereafter write. The sub
stance of these letters, as you know, was
given more than four years ago, to a few who
- wet at my house on Monday evenings, for
conversation and prayer. They are pre
sented more fully. now for your considera
tion ; and I wish they might reach all, who
then earn© to me for conversation and in,
struction ; some of them not properly of
your congregation. Where are those per
sons now ? flow few of them are members
of your church, or of any'other ! How few
of them have any hope in Christ I One
truth at least they have learned—an excite
ment is not a revival. Of another truth I
would remind, them and you—conviction is
- not conversion. You may have some little
interest in religion, and in religious subjects,
and yet not become a' Christian. Yea, you
may even be persuaded you are converted,
and yet be in your sins It is possible some
of them are members of the Church; let
them, adorn their professiou. ft is possible
others of them should, be members of 'the
Church ; let them, come out from the world
and profess their faith in Christ. It.is pos
sible some of them are still baiting between
two opinions; let them choose' this (iy ,
whom they will serve.—josh. xxiv : 15.
It is possible some Of them'are yet careless
and indifferent; let them repent and turn
unto God. Could I address each ones of
them, I would say, as I now say to you—
you have seen and felt enough to know that
if saved, at all, it must be by grace, You
are a sinner. Regeneration is necessary :
you must be born again; you must become
a new creature in Christ Jesus, or you must.
perish. And , will you longer resist that
Spirit, by whose power you must be created
anew or sink down in, eternal despair?
You may not he guilty of the unpardonable
sin ; but remember, any sin unrepented of
is unpardonable ! And, sinner, as you have
resisted and grieved the Spirit hitherto,
there is danger that he may take his final
departure, and leave you in your sins to
perish I Yes, there is danger; and every
step you take, increases the danger I Ev
ery moment's delay increases your danger !
And, me thinks, the blessed Spirit is just
now spreading his wings, and ready to take
his final departure. There, sinner, there,
he is just ready to leave you, and then you
are lost I forever lost ! ! 0 Awake and pray
0 sinner, beseech him to remain, and yield
your heart to his control I See, sinner, see he
is about to leave you: will you let him de
part Will you grieve him away ? And
must you be lost ? Lost ! Lost ! 0
Spirit of gloiy, delay, thy departure; strive
still with this poor soul': subdue it by thy
grace, and create it 'anew in Christ Jesus !
The work is thine; pluck it as a brand
from the eternal burning; fit it for life, and
death, and heaven, and thine shall be the
glory, and the praise i for ever and ever.
Amen. YOURS TRULY.
MARY
Recent Action of the Committee of the
American Tract Society.
The Publishing Committee, with the con
currence of the other members of the Exe
cutive Committee, deem it due to the friends
of the Society to state their own recent ac-
At the last anniversary it was re.arded
by many as both feasible and desirable that,
without at all trenching on the political re
lations of slavery, certain moral duties grow
ing out of its existence, or moral evils and
practical immoralities deplored by all evan
gelical Christia.es, and found occasionally or
frequently accompanying 'it, should be dis
cussed in our publications; and this without
losing sight of our original and governing
principle in the Society's first organization,
that its publications shall be " calculated to
receive the approbatinn of all evangelical
Christians." And the confidence. was ex
pressed that the Executive Committee would,
in their action respecting this matters, exer-
oise such wisdom as would prpmote the use
fulness of the. Society "throughout our
whole country."
For the successful maintenance of the
past, and the happy expansion of the future
influence of the Society, we have relied on
the sympathies, prayers, gifts, and co-opera
tion of our brethren in the South, as in the
North. If the evangelical Christians resi
dent in any, portion of our wide country
give not their confidence, aid,. and personal
influence, our agents and our tracts, our
collectors and our volumes are alike denied
access. We have received from churches
and from individuals, from men in all the
strength and fervor of their best years, and
from Christians arranging their worldly
affairs iu prospect of death, among our
Southern brethren, a generous and hearty
support in the former years of our history.
With equal fidelity to , donors and testators
at the North or at the South, the conduc
tors of the Seciety have aimed to dispense,
far and near, their respective contributions,
for the best interests alike of our common
country and our common Christianity.
The Publishing Committee had, at the
time of the last anniversary, a treatise on
the " Duties of. Masters," under their con
sideration. It was composed of articles be
fore issued by brethren of various evangeli
cal denominations at the South, and was
supposed to meet the views that are pre
sented in the resolutions of that anniversary.
thThe Publishing Committee were not alto
gether unaware of the inherent embarrass
ments. Looked upon with some distrust at
the South, as the treatise, might be, because
bringing a Northern imprint; it was yet, on
the other hand, equally evident that many
Northern friends of the Society might ob
ject to it as recognizing "duties" inhering
in the relation of " masters," that relation,
in their view, being forbiden.
Since the preparation of this treatise, one
of the authors from whose addresses or tracts
it was compiled, has been removed by death.
Two °there of these, brethren, honored and
influential, known as,true friends of the So
ciety, have judged it inexpedient, in, the en
kindled and excited state of feeling awaken
ed, both North and South, upon the various
relations of this topic, that these writings of
their 'own, which were to form a prominent
portion of the treatise, should be issued
with a Northern imprint. They have ac
cordingly interdicted our further use of the
matter thus supplied.
But in addition, from all quarters of our
Southern field we have received, and from
the tried and fast friends of the. Society, ex
pressions the most unanimous and decided,
that any publication by our press bearing
upon the topic of slavery, even though of
Southern authorship, and carefully kept
within the terms of the resolutions of the
anniversary, could have no other result than
precipitating the entire withdrawal of the
South- from co-operation with the Society.
The now works would find no gate of ac
cess ; and the, separation, would henceforth
eiclude even our older issues, by flinging
"ONE THING IS NEEDFUL:" "ONE THING HAVE I DE TIRED OF THE LORDi" "THIS ONE THING I DO . "
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1557•
'i; 0 , ;i t, ;
over them the suspicion of their origin from
a quarter presulnd to have become hostile
to the interests of the South. Of those ac
credited issues, the siftings of a rich evan
gelical literature in our own and in Euro
pean lands—books on which God's Spirit
has, put his evident and gracious approval—
it seemed a sad necessity to be compelled to
clog in any way the circulation.
From Maryland,. Virginia, North Caro
lina, South. Carolina, and Georgia, from Ala
bama, Louisiana, and Tennessee, we hear
but one testimony, as borne by State
Branches and Auxiliaries, by the Society's
officers, General Agents, Superintendents.
and Colporteurs, by ecclesiastical bodies, and,
by, the religions press. Over the South we
have now a virtual suspension of collectiOns;
and 'if the preierit distrust and alienation
but'remain, there must speedily ensue a
withdrawal of colporteurs and distribution
throughout 'our, Southern field. We must
surrender all , the Southern , and South-
Wesiern Sta . tee. To proceed, is thus to
palsy one whole aide of our Institution.
The Committee have believed that the ac
tion and instructions,of the last anniversary,
explicitly cherishing, as they do, the, So
ciety's usefulness " throughout our whole
country," could not contemplate, even on
the part of those Northern friends most
earnestly advocating them, any revolutionary
and disruptive change in the line of the So
ciety's policy, cutting off from the Society
a portion of " our whole country" so large,
and in our past labors so largely blessed, as
the entire South.
The Publishing, Committee, therefore,
voted with entire unanimity to arrest the
issue of the work that had been before them,
confidently believing that their adtion in the
premises would commend itself to the So
ciety under the phases which the subject
has assumed; and the Executive Commit
tee united in sustaining this as the only
present action conservative of all the in
terests, and just to all the parties involved.
It were a waste of the Society's funds to
issue a treatise on Southern duties for which
we could find no Southern readers, and for
the sake of securing such issue, to forego
deliberately, and without explicit warrant
from the Society, all farther opportunity of
sending thitherward the large body of pub
lications we have hitherto under God's
manifeit blessing, scattered there.
To the farther deVelopments of God's
good providence, and to the guidance of his
Spirit, promised where reverently and hum
bly implored, the Committee now refer this
question, meanwhile seeking the' things
that make for pew," and aiming to secure
the fruit of righteousness sown in peace
of them that make peace."
Publishing Coin. Dietriteg Finance• Com. •
JOHN KNOX WM. FORREST, R. T. HAINES,
DAVID MAGIE. W.•WINTERTON, MOSES 'ALLEN,
W. R. WILLIAMS, A. M. TREA DWELL,- T. C. DOREM OS,
WM. ADAMS, OLIVER H. LEE, It. S. PELLOWES,
B. C. CUTLER, ALP. S. BARNES, Ma N. TITUS,
N. ADAMS, - ' E..WOOD:
Executive Cbmmittee..
WILLIAM A. HALLOCK,T
O. EASTMAN, - Cor. Secretaries.
J. M. STEVENSON,
• NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 1857.
From onr London Correspondent.
Further News from India—Deaths of Barnard and
Lawrence—Dude and Annexation—Lord Dal
houeie' s Ambitious Policy—His shattered Health
—His Church Antecedents—Victories over Mur
derers— Want of Troops before Delhi—A New
Church Movement in London—Mr, Spurgeon the
Prime Mover—His Physical and Mental Power
-Examples—" Largesse" and Harvest Homes—
The Christian Farmer—Gleaning in England—
Official Reports of the Atlantic Cable—The Mam
moth Steam Ship, "The Great. Eastern"—The
Policy of the Vatican versus the Irish R. C. Bish.
ops and Priests—National Education—Doctors
Denvir and Newman—lreland's Future—Politi
cal Condition 'of France—Religion in France,
Belgium, and Spain.
LONDON; August 26, 1857.
Further news, since I last wrote, has come
from INDIA. It is not reassuring. `As'might
have been expected, indeed, Delhi had
not fallen up till the 17th of July.
But the death, by dysentery, of the brave
General Barnard, before its walls; the waste
of life in the small force without, by war
and disease; the small prospect
,of a , speedy
European accession of strength;.and the
fearful certainty that come when will the final
assault, and end however successfully it may,
yet the carnage must be tremendous—
all east a deep gloom over the public mind.
We have dispatched our bravest and best,
but the voyage is long, and November will
have begun ere theft:nighty force, one third
of which would be so precious now,'can land
on the shores of India.
The death of Sir Henry. Lawrence, in a
sortie made by him and his beleaguered
band at Lucknow, in the Kingdom of Oude,
is a great calamity. His administrative
qualities were extraordinary, and in many
respects, he was the first man in India.
Lucknow is in the Kingdom of Oude, whose
population seem to have risen up, almost to
a man, against British authority. Its " an
nexation, ' by 101 l Dalhousie, was justified
on the ground of mal-administration of the,
worst character, and the consequent _misery
of the millions under the sway of licentious
and cruel despotism. But the whole policy
of that nobleman, as Governor General, was
eminently an ambitious one, and something
like a Nemesis, now brings retribution. He
himself, amid all the excitement and dis
cussions, in connexion, with Indian affairs—
with a shattered constitution, and unable
even to crawl, with suppprt, to his place in
the 'House 'of Loids to defend his policy, and
to throw light On the state of affairs—is now
at Malvern Hills, seeking, it may be in vain,
to recover that health, without which exist-.
H ence is a burden. He, lost his wife,
from the effects of the Indian climate, while
she was returning home, and almost in sight
of our shores. When the Non-Intrusion
principle was asserted by a vote, frn the Es
tablished General Assembly, and resistance
to the State, in its Erastian usurpations, re
solved on by Chalmers and his majority,
Lord Dalhousie it was, who, as an Elder on
the Moderate side of the House, rose, with
hat in hand, and saying, "The knell of the
Church of Scotland has been rung this day,"
walked oat of the Assembly, never to return.
Although Lawrence fell at Lucknow, in a
sortie, yet, by the latest accounts, that place
still held out. In addition to this, General
Havelock had defeated the mutineers in
three engagements, inflicting heavy punish
ment at a small loss. These were the cruel
men who massacred, one hundred end, fifty
Europeans, men, women and children, on
their passage down the Ganges. No where
can the Sepoys stand before 'Euri!peans,
, even although trained and armed by our-
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selves. The fatal error has een.the fortify ;
,
ing of Delhi, and garrisoni g . with a na
tive force. Not more tha 'three iliousand
Europeans could be calcala 'A ..ciii'' from the
numbers required for g rison, outposts,
for an assault upon the plac . -- They might,
and could effect a lodgm:
~,t:uur t he walls,
.. .
but could not take the town ior if they, did,
they could not hold it
The following seems to dicate ' r Persian
plotting, under the preten 'of,•`predietions
of the olden time : ',. I • ,i - ,
PERSIAN" PROPHEOIE ' S CMCII'6IMIN:IN-Trre.—=
A correspondent of the Calcut ..E'n,q4shman af
firms that General Low has red ive.d a, 'number of
;couplets in, Persian, said to be 'Srposd by Nig
mutollah, seven hundred years . go. i:Phey begin
with a prophetic enumeration f the successive
t
'rules of Hindoostan, and con ude with'stating
that the rule of the English is .o expire 19 , ,1260
Hegira corresponding to` A. D. -7.- Th—
'have been circulated through -
North-West. : . ..
A NEW CIIIIRCIL MOVE,
ally: Evangelical, but
mono. '' its council the Di
Lord Shaftsbury, and Oti
initiated. It is proposed'
Diocesan Home Mission,
clergy to assist where the
tem are unable to overtake
parishioners, and to make
SPECIAL services. This
on account of the great
tended the recent service;
which it is now proposed
larger scale. The field
ment, is the teeming poi
of London. The arrange
ciently matured to enal
open the work of the.llli
services ih the parish of
November, prior to whici
Hall services will be rest
As to church accomm
the following is interesth
In Low's Hand-Boole to WorBhip in
London, there is a list of th' .ed ana sev-,
enty-one churches and.chapf terion -with:
the Establishment. The n church sif
tings, according to Mr. Mal i,ls4. ' TI4) ,
Independents have about F lriW9ll3l4l?t,
and 100,436 sittings; the : 30 chaTikle,,
and accommodation for 54,. it alicidiefs,
'
154 chapels, 60,696 sitting= ssbyteriane,
23 chapels, and 18,211 sitt Unitarians,
9 chapels, and about 3,300 'the Ennio!
Catholics, 36 chapels, ant . sittings ; 4
Quaker chapels, with sitting:. X5l; the MO;
raviolis 'have 2 chapels, with sittings ; ther
Jeers have 11 synagogues, and _ _ sittings ;f. and!
there are 94 chapels belonging ti . ople,Plew Chuch,i
the Plymouth Brethren, the 17ingites, the Litt
ter-Day Saints, Sardemonians,Ditheratts, Freno T h:
Protestants, Greeks, Germanltplians, whiohl
r,
chapels have sittings for 18,83 i
If "one sinner destroye l kin . ' u l ehl good;":
the converse is equally trueVtliatione' faith
ful servant of the Most It hie the.instru
n2ent of great usefulness. t nquestionably
not only in the order of even 1 ein the
developments of a graciouf Frei , ' r ' q; Mr.
Spurgeon is -to be regained as, the plitini . tielo- , -'
of this movement, and of kindred move
ments. That gentleman has continued to
preach at .Surry Gardens every Sabbath
morning, and at Park Chapel, Southwark,
in the evenings, during the whole of the
hottest Summer known for years in England.
Besides this, he preaches either in or out, of
town almost every day, and sometimes twice
a day. His physical powers are wonderful,
and his mental concentration is something
equally marveloua. The writer once asked
him, " How and when do you study your
sermons?" And the reply, with .mingled
gravity and cheerfulness,. Was, "In cabs."
Allowing for a little exaggeration, the rapid
power of analysis, arid' Of arraying before
his own mind the " lueiclus ordo" of the
coming discourse, belong to Mr. Spurgeon
to a degree rarely paralleled. Driving in a
hackney carriage, even, in London, men in
-1 tent on business may pursue'afixed train of
thought. And so'can Mr. Spurgeon, alio.
The HARVEST, although somewhat, in
jured in the North of England by thunder
storms and heavy rains, will, as a whole, be
inost abundant. Thus; while war rages in
India, and One form of Divine judgment is
upon us, we are, spared from the terrible,ea
lamity of famine, which, once seen in a man's
Ifetinae, (as it ',has been 'in Ireland by my
self,) is graven so deeply into the tablets of
the memory, that it can never be thought . of
without a shudder.
In several parts of the country, a custom
called " Largesse "
,prevails at the, close
of harvest. Collections of money are made,
of small sums from' farmers and shop-keep
ers, by the reapers of a particular district, and
the whole is spent in wassail :revelry and
riot. Efforts are being made to correct this
evil and to make the Harvest borne to be a
scene of cheerful and temperate feetivity, ac
companied by religious services in 'parish
churches, or other modes of expressed thank
fulness to the God of the seasons. There is a
little book published here, entitled " JoliN
LAST, or the Christian parmer," which peen
tifullY illuStraten the - influence of itr godly
farmer over his workmen and their families,
and exhibits a scene in England, as morally
lovely as was witnessed in the olden time,
when Boaz said unto his reapers, " The
Lord be with you," and they said, " The
Lord bless thee."
It is pleasing, when one goes into the
country districts, to observe Gleaning—the
fair image of the practical Poor Law. System,
Divinely instituted among the Jews, and
which has an immernorable preStige in Eng
land—still preserved. Many a widow or or
phan is thus relieved; and on the scattered
bands of gleaners, still'shines the warm sun
shine which once invited to her humble toil
the lovely Ruth, in Bethlehem's harvest
field. Poor Laws, as such, seem necessary,
in the present state of society ;'but there is
a virtuous poverty which pines in secret;
which never applies for work-house relief ;
and for this, how precious the gleanings of
golden Autumn !
The breaking of the Amasmro CABLE,
on the second day after the "paying out "-
commenced, on the Irish Coast, is traded,
by the naval officers, to the strain produced
by the pitching of the ship, and the too
great velocity of the cable, as,it ran, out—:
not forgetting that the hands employed to
watch its action were too few. Improve
ments are being suggested, as to the con
trolling power of the machinery; and the,
utmost confidence is cherished, by the best,
judges, of ultimate success. The Times, of
yesterday, contains lengthened official com
munications on this , subject One writer
preposes that the new mammoth steam
ship, the Great Eastern, now fast , .ap- ;
preaching completion, should be rapidly
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finished, and employed to, pay out the
cable. Her vast length, as well as her
breadth of beam, it is argued, would, enable
her to pay out the cable with measured
slownesd, and consequent safety. This mg.:
*gestion, however, is not, I presume, likely
td be adopted. The Great Eastern' is
certainly a wondrous experiment, to say the
least. It will be a little world in, itself, able
Aci'earr i y ten, thousand - persons. I presume
it will' not be launched before next Spring.
A euridus pla,n for TRANSMITTING MILI
TARY SIGNALS BY MUSICAL SOUNDS, has
been lately brought, by experiments, efore
the fayorable notice, of, the French Emperor.
:the .system is called , teleph onic,. and it re
duces the transmission of signals ,to thrse
sounds, eXPressed by the tzumiret; the drith,
-or the .CaltrlOtt fror,. the%event of hilt";
three 4gn . s. Scieice laolt4l/ii _ Of?
toward falter developpieuts than ever.ye i t
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3 u
' THE POPE AEU HIS ADVISERS are taking!'
means, if possible to carry out their cliqr4
ished: intention' of - subjithatink to theiratit
0
•solute , contrcil thetbishops and priests of the
Irish-Roman Catholic .oburch. ;Dr. Callen;"
as Legate, has been, long.:prosecuting this
scheine, , .with.but, , partial.success. Many Of
'the priests, and" seine of the biahops, ebun
tenanCe;-and use for their own purposes, the
Nationalysted of Education.'; lint it is
against, the, mind, of the Vatican that they
shotild-„do„so. -Not:Jong ,since,,Dr. Denver;
the
, tAuiar Bishop .of Down and Connor,
~,
Was inbirkieried'tb Renie, and when - t,liere,, a'
'proinisb‘ -iiii''Obtaified' zfrona' him, 'that he
woulditeease 'to :be , a Commissioner , of the
GeveranientrßeAtil:ef Education: : '.lts
•ten
dency! is k found . ,toc i 1119pciath,, liberal, and
enlightening, `fdr the. tegate and his his ,mis
terd.' 'The etchision' of the' driioifii, or of
the crosses—a the laythbolf Of sitlioation"-L--
frod the school-honses, both externally: and
internally, is a : great ,c;iine., ,
~-„ ~
i t
, Doctor bje.wroan's failure iriestabl ishilg a
University on thittinieughly iiiedi'M` hapis,
contemplated' by hid, 'i bhaigM , ltt , eon
the' Irish bishops - ; , alSoitatid: font the' 'sits.
The Pope hes retfuested.hinbnoli to abandim
his.post for" the Prese i nt , I r- I A 14. , 4 , .ri
Irish Popery is, bad enough as . it is; but
With such`ComPlete'inil'atjeCtlajeretiOg as
. ,
Reme'dernitids; Matters werild he r liVentirbise.
The genini , i6f the Britieh 'o6ElStiilltiiiitp and
.its workings also, modify 4he pitit's toian„ex
itent sufficient, to annoy the, Pope;. but,the
"only true and final liberationf ' Ireland
..
~or
,„)
will be When, thrOugh tink . Pcewer Of . 'the
Word afid•Spirit, she shalt hihake'the"foreir:gri
spiritual yoke imposed , by • Henry IL; (eight
centuries ago, and.shall become ”, the island
of saints," as in the days of -PATRICK, and
COLUMBA.
A Mr. David Buchanan of 72 Washing
ion" Street, - "Sitt"Tinni r icer . Wii l d 7 M — f f idni
Ireland in the rebellion trouliles of 1848,
revisits Ireland in 1857, and writes to the
Times thus :
!‘ Ireland is no longer the land it was; beggars
now do not swarm round public conveyances, as
in former days. In the -birrizoopal. "city of 'roam,
where, ten'years ago, mendicants, witty„ clamor
us, and abusive, crowded about the coach doors
in dozens,l Only saiv 'onelioor old creature, asl
passed trough yesterday, asking abns. , From
Athenry, where I left the railway. for Bianconi's,
car, to ' Westport, a journey of seventy miles, I
saw no signs of abject misery or poverty. Detibt
less, there are cabins to be seen, that might shook
a " Bassenach's" notions of comfort; but, had
he seen' the same district twelve yearsi ago, he
would. rejoice 'and take courage, as I do, at its
flouriShing appearance ; and, when he contrasted
the limpro ved cultivation or the present' with; the
wretched scraping of the past; the little white
cottages on the mountain sides or in the lonely
glen';' the flourishing patches "of oats and potatoes
far up among the rugged rocks, on.the steep hill
side ; the healthy, happy appearance_ of
,the
peasantry ; the utter absence Of beggars=—With
things as they wereln those days, then)lie would
cease to wonder that the, hot blood or the Irish
rebel of i4B flows in: a nioreteniperitite flood, and
that, while there are men in Ireland who. thy not
fear to speak, of :98', ,0r,'48, yet the brave, the
wise, and the experienced thank Heaved that
'their mad , schemes 'failed, and that . prosperity
dawns over the - length and breadth of. Ireland.
The POLITICAL STATE OF FRANCE is at
present one of calm. Nevertheless the, e
cent elections demonstrate that the Govern-
ment has laraely lost hOld Of the middle
classes, in' the main centres of popuration.
Lonis Napoleon's power is firm, howeVer, as
long as the arty stands by him; and this it
is likely to do. Upon his life; humanly
speaking, depends the tranquility of Europe.
Ina sense stronger, and . Mere prophetic,
than a great* Austrian'state`sman, `nlight
say, "After me, thedeltige' 'One .rehult
of the mutual concession's. made.at the late
conference with, 'Queen ;Victoria and her
Cabinet, is, that if the
,elections in . gel
davia be unfavorable to the' union of,
-Principalities; (is Seems • certain,)' Nance
will withdraw lieroptetensions in its favor.
The astute Emperor-foresaw this, no doubt,
when he made sk trip to Osborne.
With regard Yto , the spiritual .
~state of
France, Jesuits are .powerful O n , their'
well-known principle} " Calninniate, calhm
niate," they foour forth; 'through' their
organ, the Univers, the'most 'atrocious mils-.
representations against , the Evangelical Al
liance, and, against missions in the South
Seas. Of the former, it is said to admit to
its fellowship ' 4
sectariee who. deny,'the:ne-'
cessity of balitii; the DarinitY or
Lord, arid' Trinity I" ' And as to::the
Wesleyan Missions in the Feejee Islandsiithe
world is told, ; "on the authority of a Ro. !
miekpriest, mho recently visited,these Joie;
,ly islands," that ." the 'missionaries are, men
without, piety or modesty, giving, in their
private, conduct, detestable examples of: im 7 ,
morality; and laboring for nothing bit to ac
' quire power, wry, and goods !" To
crown Jle.calumiii, it is,added that. "King
George is-a chief, who, seduced by spirituous.
liquors, or some, other similar means, mas
sacred whole villages in the Friendly Is
lands, without distinction of age or sex,,and
then went to the Feejee Islands, with an
army-, of three thousand .men, threatening
the poor islanders, with.ilfeth,odisnt or death!"-:
" Meantime, the Jesuits and Ultrarnon
tanes," says the Paris Correspondent of the
News of the Churches, " are bending the
box in such a way that it must break , soon.
In order to dominate. over the ,minds.of the'
people; they foster a spirit, of,gro,ss ; super
stition, by inventing the most extraordinary
miracles-and fables. The, result ef. this is
seen in'the,.number ,of preten4ed. sorcerers
and wizarde.that:haVe. nPPellrOdi pf,lgfis' iii
the .proyinces„endi mado,, nutnerhpi Attpes." l, f ,
It also appars thar,,the aiiPladed ; *jraele of
httwr IE, al t , 1113 313/4
IRE
La Salett,e,. whose leading actor, a woman,
1, Nut beep. prosecuted; before the tribunals, is
aoteallydef l e i nded
l as -ginfine by one of the
tr i en j ch r bighoits. ‘`'Qui %mit,
ctlihe blikileail the blina."
' '. Rt,tikor,,, besides:having 'witnessed, with
-• •
in thi-lise•lfteen 'years,' the rise' and pro
gress of ."•The Evangelie.sPclureh,"l Pres
.,byterian.in.its constitution,- most of ,itstmin
isters once. R.4lmish:priests, or devotees,: And
whichcroptisktn . prtensive f . )lportive, : hAs
also lately lately vi l gestiel .ii,"' Meeting in Brussels
of ''the .44 0otnite."Synedal' D'EVanglia
,tion.?' ~T his body is paid by the;State. , - It .
seems to limited in its Cperations i .buttot
Afithoirt,...signs,pf,,life. Twelve, .years, ago,
some agents - were " . engaged to labor . among
th'Cliipersed Proteetants,df Belgium . : The
' Wriili r t was afteiivirdi ' eitended . to "Roman
.:0•10.0 116 4 68 -41114i - - Eift,t,:li itil. , -Atitk , origt6e,
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' Reulis,h in !. , um, t , iv , •,., A , ,r of
4 "Stre:Ritiiii'lhiiii:' iiktifil 4iiit i': --...- ..;?; '''', ,of
ttliC • ii#alw family lof 'lreland,"!' -wle..4d re
`...liciPtorkhaVe gone -over to .:glande,rs, to ,
i." - ,•,.7,t ert;its Pagan, inhabitunts. e., scene
' - '•' - 't:ati enacted at Mello, which: A f irt '' seat, Of:
11.
-.., lA.? ( I .•
a: Fi d ( oliege",' Poi , ' trainirig - - ii 1 si,ruid. ,Irisy
students in Romish the - " . of - these
.
•Writes 4,htiN.. to 4 4 P01)4 : j 4 OllO 'in G'reat
•Bri,iStit‘with true •ffibetidaii . magniloquence:
••::;••?
gt, inj,rtell. :you,' sayli.'. this aerreipond4l,,
4 . , A
V
f - =`, -0 'th4Coliep to bear; nada: a stat!lY canopy,
~.'. '',::':'? cPS4lp. jiiihimeelt; : yon" inteittfifnly eV .
~, i.::..7 . ', : , of tle t tai,honorahl e functions of, the day's
' pr, ,: - .•••.'i;regs;wag allotted toldelle ; and whilSt, ea
'3,`;'.:iibjett,l4. ifs, gist, Add,, tliat 'ohilin day pfe
9ediqg thaPartit_tleLP. l :9ce:iP%:all t 0
jr. 1 9 1 E.14 4
Who took, art therein, viz.: his Grace the. Arch
ilishofika - the
. Bishopstof '~-`:are4B,rnges, Ghent,
.atok e ttoVnitOf
„ (Canada, ). delgoed; to honor the Cqllegei:&g.elle
with ..iisif;'thialifssistl4, ' ire ' thelbeautiWth'eil
tre:of,'l,hef,eatablishment,--at..an,epera founded
upon. the holy,p l et , s' i of St. .Livia} ,whilst
,in Flan
dere; the inirform'anee - Of . iiiiiietk 'gate "general.' Sak ,
isfttotioit)lb - atheia lordships and , the; numerous
1. 4 ..i., 4 0. eiltlfzuen,..who had bee R. so- fortunate
as to'ieeeive g an invitatitiii - fi'om ''the superior of
the College."
As , the' Gbdpel :kill secretly
makes progress': there; in the' face !of
innn
,merable ohstatleVL4 ,havejilately - seen ,an
account, of an .F ! ,nglish ,engineer and his
wife, who have been Elie instruments ofspeeiid
geed, 11„tay copiefrof the "Ne l w
Testa - mei:4 ',Cotivetsitien.
Meanwhile, , , while,.immoralitYrand: tyranny
are rampant at the.Ceurt,, and ,that yeteren
Jezebel ; the Queen mother, is revelling in
her restored estates, once forfeited,a
grand ' discovery 'l: s aa" been"! Iciaae of the
body of St: Jellies, the once be
-headed, says they Church, , and '" once after
his , martyrdom, like, St. Penis,,,, of France,
walking several miles, headless!! It, appears
that the trunk sailed from 'PeeStine to the
panitili Veit 4-'iCeßre34e;lthaftati 4 figa,4l
and trunk — are 'now *foitid; that a grand
shrine is raised, which Queen Christina pat
ronized ; and that the priests are, jubilant,
for money flows in in glittering streams, the
contribUtiinis of i ‘ the faithful." J. W.'
The Peie of God.
At one part of the sermon he stopped' me,
that he might inieditate on •what he had
heard, and then he said, ' Read it again."
When I had finished it, " This " said he
" exactly expresses what I would say .to
you ; that just
,rity sentiment:" I have
copied the passage ''"
"The fear - of. God is not a: perplexing
'doubting, and i distrust of his love ; onAhe
contrary, it is, a fixed resting apd.trusting :in
his love. Many who .have some ,truth and
grace are, through,weariess,filled With dis
quieting fears; hut, pdasihly; lhorigh they
perceive it not, it may be in some .a'point of
willfulness, a:little latent,- undiscerried affec
tation of scrupling and donbting, ; placing
much of religion in it. True, where the soul
isreally Solicitous about its interests id God,
that argues some grace ; but being' vexingly
anxious about it;- argues that grace is weak
arid low.' A spark there is, discovered,even
by that smoke ; but • the
„great smoke still
continuing, and nothings seen but it, argries
there is' little Are, little faith, 'little lode
and theri, Rolla, is 'unpleasant to thyself, so.
it, is to God as smoke to.the eyes. What,.
if one, should be,always questioning, with a
friend • whether'he loved him or not, and
upon "every little occasion Were -ready'lto
thinkhridoth not; how would they disrelish.
their society, together, though tyrily, loving
each, other? The far more excelleutway,
and more pleasing both to ourselves and
God, were - to resolve on' humble `trust, rev=
erence and confidence, held , " mdst ifiaid' to
'offend, delighting to walk in'-his
him and his •will iniall; and then, resting
persuaded of his Jaye, !the:ugh he chastise
us, and i uyen though we offend him,
ard,See
Our offence in our
- chas'tise'ments, yet is
good; `plenteousr - redemption,
• read to
:forgive ; ttherefore; let Israel hopeand trust.
Let my, soul roll itself on him, and-,adven
trite there all its weight. He bears greater
matters, upholding the frame - of heaven and
earth, and is not troubled nor burdened" with
it." lieaylc , Rielahnond'i Memoirs.
„ ; o
The Contrait.-:
You, had' to hive to: God ; but he' has
, exercised unspeakable, love to,: you.. ;;You
have ,condertmed Grod, and ,set, ; light by him;
but so high a ,value has God's grace sgt on
yoU and your `happiness, that you have - been
reilieined' at the price of! the blood. of his,
only Son. You chose' to•be with. Satan in
his service; ,but yet (led bath made you a
joint heir with Christ, of his glory.. You,
was ungratefUl for past Mercies; but , yet. '
'God not only , continued ' these mercies, but
best Owed Unspeakable inerOles up:ill you.
••YOU refused to hear when God called=;: but
yet• he has manifested his in#uitc, , mercy in
the mtercise of it , toward you. You
,haVe
rejected Chiist, and him at naught;
and yet he 'is 'become Your ' You
have destroyed yourself; but yet in .God
has' been your help. God has magnified his,
free grace,:toward you r and AO to ;others;
because he, _ ha's „chosen you,,
,aud,it i bath,
pleased fo set hie eve upon you.
0 what cause is here - for PraiSdl 'What
obligations are upon - yap, tkilblast Lords
who bath dealt hountifully.iviiliyod,land to
/ magnify, ;his,.) cause for
yon to praise him in humility,
,to walk'
humbly before', God, and' ie eilititypne4
id hie` Wage'. '!‘ Thal' titbit
ber, 3 and "lie' confoindedVaudi neveri7opcu
Mity mouthiatipmore, becatseioLOYeslim4e
suss on .nri bib it w boa ,eodpEidseltr
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when '„lt paeifie toward` thee for 'all
• that tliuhailt.ilone,.g4ik the . 1 104 Gb q' ”
never your, .Mgott.. in
boasting • or.. self-justification -lon. Should
lie the lower before God for hie 'mercy to
;;you.' ; But you: 'have retkontlieniniesliand
, antly for.your,
in God's praises that they may be, eplatinii•
ally in your. mouth, both tere and to all eter
, nity;for lis =riblOitispbakable. and sOYereign
,tner,pya,ml„Xierebte,,,anil alone- has
made you to differ from ' . othere. i '="•l'VelMntl
Echo
.:
..,. Woman's * Lanai.
A woman has no.natural grace more lid
' witching than a sweet laugh./ it is . . like
the sound of flutes on the, water. It clesips
from-her heart in a clear,_ parkling rill,,,p,Rd
the,hearktliat hears ii feels as if bathed in
id t
OW c a liliiliiiti , • :f.::, % ', ,* , i:' , 11 ". ,
..,
' -
-: 4 "4ls' *, Y 'AI f -A 1 4 , 4 !r!g 'f' . '''' ' ''' t ' ' re '
6 - _, .. ,L . iqiolisi lona
.?-' ' e &n i l; fi:Aimi %a
e' ~ suing 'that ''iiiiidiiiiig,lk - '* rtes
'1.040P -Sometives it Comis tb*iifttiminidat
of care, of sorreiv, of irksome litu*sq,,Aid
then we turn-away-an
~
..,,., , and test it
Otiiiing throiigkthe roe', , - esaadiveillbell,
4itth powerioWaire,away-Aho' ill spirits :of
.the minthi 1:r - :&,:44 r o, owoto that swept
laugh! igt, #Ol, the.,proso of life into
' 'poetry,' if..SE inge3linirehr 'of sunshine over
the dartioniii i iirbod in *high We are travel
lag, it touches ;with- light, , Averi our sleep,
whinh is more.than. the image of death, but
'.ierioliirtitied'Vrith dreams , that . :are shadows
Of .immortality... , .. , - •
. .
A Coinparison.'
The difference between 'a republic and a
monarchY isithus•pointed• out by somebody :
‘I! Pile all the people , into a, pyramid,,, with
the President for an apex, and you have the
symbols of a republic. You can shake the
President, but : yen can't move the united
force of the t :Invert-,that pyramid,
with .a king fOr its,. base,, and, you, have the
symbol of a l monarchy , Trip Up , the king,
and the Whole stractnre falls into confusion.
anti ISltantngs.
JUDGMENT orr - , the - wicked, and deliver
antes for Godl,Traintqfulay) seem long in
..coming:; -laut they will eel:Willy arriVe at
the appointed, tirne; 4 f God le faithful."
•
'•.THE WOItST :of people are sometimes
,plased sin, the •best ) situations; while the
Lord's pepPle seem to he in the worst
dl'San; remember that thou. in thy lifetime
reeeivedSt' 'thy 'gtod.'-things, aid - - likewise
Lazarus evil things:"- - •
Trim FOUNTAIN Of content must spring ttp
;,qind the who has so little
knowledge Of human nature,•.as to seek hap
piness by changing. anything but his own
disposition, will waste' his life in fruitless ef
fortd,.and multiply the;griefs which he par
-poses to remove.'
SINGING.-" Unless you hake singing in
the lumily, singing in the house, and singing
in, the shop, and singing in the street--sing
big everywhere until it becomes a habit—
,3rou dm
neverhavecongregationalsinging.
'
It Will be =like the , cold drops; bhlf 'water,
half ice,. which drip in March , froin some
cleft of a rock—one drop here and-.one drop
„there; whereas it should be liko the August
shOier which conies ten Million drops at
once, - and'rears ripen the roof
A TENDER. 11,441.5i0r.-7---A little 154 had
one day) , ,dene wrong, -andowas sent, after
parental,correction, to ask in seeret the for
giveness of his Heavenly rather. , XVis of
fence had been passion. Anxious to. hear
what, he would say, his 'mother- follewed to
the door Of; phis room. In lisping, accents,
, she ihearil him ash. robe made better—rnever
to be angry again ; and then with, child-like
simplicity he, added, ,"Lord „Jesus I make
ma's temper better, too."
A Goon Iturz.—A few , days since, -we
-happened to fail' into the company of a very
respectable farmer; and' as wei believe a good
Christian. During' the time , we were' intis
company; the coliversittionsturned upon the
support of the ministry. He remarked ; .that
,he always, measured. the depth of a person's
piety by their support - of the ministry, keep
in in' vieW,lit the same tlini, their eireum
""stan'ciis aitd4nietilisef 'support- We arewnot
sure but the ruleis &good- one, and will 'gen
erally,,be 4foumd hold ,good. ,
COMPARasoN.A converted Hindoci r on
being assailed with a torrenc, of profane: and
obscene words _from-his idolatrous neighbors,
went.up - z tit thew and
„asked : 7 - 0 Which is
worse, the, abusive terms that you are just
using, or the mud and dirt that you see
On yon ' " The abusive terms,'
was the reply ; '" And *mild you ever take
in your mouths the =dead dirt?" "Never."
g 4 Then why. do you fill your, mouths with the
abusive, terms which -pm confess to be, the
worst of - the two?" . Confounded With this
rebuke they retired, saying that "'the' sign
but' fair:"
A MOTHER'S FAITH RzwAniiin.—A
venerable , aid' lady, who kinked lierenely
litriSpy, was asked' if .her children , warp eon.
vertedf. • •
'fixes,",, she, rel4led) children are
members of the Church 'Jesus. ',Two of
, who • , /4.
•
My !wile, were eonverteu wneu they
were' fottrteen years Old;iireljust.wbere they
Might to be, iiiiii'steli'orehifit."
'‘‘` ft' rovot. to you mad
ain~ to know tha your"children'are con
' verteilV 'rembrked a friend:
"Yes j "iht ;replied; while a beautiful and
heavaiily smile `played round her lips."
es ` ; but,t ralways had'faith in the . prom.
t, , •
GOING TO '
. / A RETTin
•
e t hrit . ItiaO does not turn his, baCk upon the
fine thingi of this world, because be has no
„natural capacity, to enjoy them no taste for
thein; but because. the holy Spirit has shown
him greater and, better things. .HU wants
flowers that willnever'fade; ; he Wantssome
thing thaw loan mamiekia with him to an
other, world. Ha is like a man wh o has had
neticejto.goit his,houS4aod".luvriusli,s,tcured
in.e7l9net I,iP no;more anxious to Tepair,
ruck less to,embellish andheaut4,Abe old
one; thliughte,Pre,upoothe,re}norj.lf
4 1011 j :4w higtconyerse, it le t !ipou gis t once
to which fie•is goimg.
'Thither . he,ltep4s his
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