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PITTSBURGH, JANUARY 2,1858.
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WANT or Mrsuarrits.-10ur Church has
about seven hundred vacant congregations.
Where ,are ministers 'to
,be found ? 'Where
is their snstentation to come from ? , 'What
is the duty of the large and wealthy toward'
the small and poor? . '
Tom' : Pussurrunxiix QUARTERLY E t *:
*Tuiv:The DeceMber number' of this' high-.
er organ of New ~,School theological intlu
once, contains some valuable article& Itti
contents are—l. John Wickliffe.; 11. The
Settlement of Maryland; The Office
of Deacon ; IV. Theory of Public Wor
ship; V. Exegetical view of Rom., viii:
19-28; VI. 04turch Poetry and Music.
The Seminary at Danville.
Rev. Stephen Yeikes, called by the last
General Assembly to the Chair of Oriental
and Biblical Literature in the Theological
Seminary at Danville, wan inducted into of
fale on the,l6th oi.December. His address
on the occasion is spoken of very .favorably
by the Presbyterian Herald. It is-'to be
publithOd. •
The'Board of Directors have ordered the
session to close ten days earlier than tuntal,
so that it report may be sent to the, next
Assembly.
There are about forty students in attend
ance.
'he Presbyterian Expositor
Is a monthly ieriodlcal, published at' Chi
,
cago, under'', the editorial care of Rev N.
L. Rice, D. D., pp. 56; price $1.50. "Its
leading design is to explain =and defend, in
a manlier adapted to popular reading, the
doctrines of the Gospel, and expose the va
rious iornis of religious error which prevail
in the country." = The first nuntber is be
fore us. It is a very able and very judicious
commencement of the executing
pleasure the
"design." We anticipate much pleasure
from the reading of this journal, and much
benefit to. the Church from
,its publication.
We commend it to of r readers, and ask for
it an d extended eiroulation.,
The aitlole On on Calla, in the
present number, presents some very impor
tant thoughts -to ministers. ,
The Day. of Pasting and. Prayer.
The, late Convention of Synodsiat this
place, recommended 'the, observing: of the,
_First Thursday in January •as .11, -day of
FASTING AND ..PRA.TER. The desire of the'
Church isi , thatwthe Lord ',shall revive bin
Work. :This accords` with his promise, but
for 'Ulla he must be entreated, humbly and
importimately. God's - ministers and people
must not give up, diScOuraged -fiy delay.
Tivy must Bold on to' a throne ,of Grace,
dgerrained not. to retire, nor be silent; 'till
they, are r 'blessed. ,God; will- bear and an!.
ewer' the prayer of faith—the day and night
cry of his 'elect.. 0 that We"could berdeep
ly humble and intensely anxious. if the
blessing is not bestoWed, the huh is in pur
aging,
,We must ever` pray; and we must
reform and wnMustpreach and hear ' ,
Along ,nth plainness and dir,etfuess in
preaching Christ an the Sa.Viorir of sinners,
let pastors; abound,:in private conversation,
personally calling the unconverted ; and let
the pious speak often one to another, and to
the impenitent, man men. God will,
bless the tendernestke deep anxiety
truth thus brought, home tC,,,t.he individual
heart.. He will bless. Bath said it,
and he Will , do it.
The New Year.
A• happy New ;Year to all - our , readefi:
May the Divine favors be , abundant to each
one ;` in temporal things so far as God will
samitify:them to the
,riceivir'S real "I:ienefit,
and in spiritual good, According to the .riches
of the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
And, now, we Wish to entreat'yotf
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fellow-Laborers. We wis h you . to 'roue*
your subscriptions, fully. and`promptly. ,We
wish you to increase the numbers in every
congregation. We' wish you to procure for
tut new lists.
We labor hard, and expend much money, •
to make our jouinUl . trily valuable, a coadju
tor to the pastor, and a yeasnio in the family.
We put the price low, very low, that it may.
be, within the reach of a 11.., We cannot af
ford to pay agents a round , '
sum to canviies,
for us. Neither can we tender "handsome
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snob things, must, , necessarily, come from
the people ,in the 'end. They must: either
-diminish the -value of the paper, or-enhance
its price. '• " • '
The religions weekly in the family, is
really,, and without any exception should be,
apart of the food of the flock. It then
.belongs• to the Shepherd's pleasant work, to
facilitate the acquisition of thii fOod. We
hence aPPOO to Our brethren, bothminis — iere
elders, on principle; and earnestlj , en
treat their, cooperation; and we expect the
greater success for them,> and the greater
benefit tii'the'people of their charge, from
its belug iirident, l -t i bat what they do is not
for gain's sake, but is a lam of love. , •
Oin , a religious paper liye on this pried
ple ? We irotdd APeriment
A Reviikng Time•
Nearly a year ago, (January 10th 1857,)
we directed the attention of our readers to
an investigation of the thought, whether, in
God's Nord,. and by analogy, and by the
history of the gracious outpourings of his
Spirit, there was a season of the year which
might properly be regarded as a REVIVING
TIMa. We have been asked, from a quay
ter which demands respect, and the request
has been repeated, to reproduce the article.
If the idea is correct and another twelve
months' observation has strengthened the
evidence, it is one of very great practicil
importance. But we do not yet set forth
the proposition affirmatively. We still but
suggest. Our brethren will weigh and de
aide. If any are disposed to exclaim;
" What! Periodical 'Revivals !" we urge it
upon such to see to it p that they have a per
petnal revival. But if they cannot have a
constant shower, let them not despise a sea.
son of out-pouring; if they may not enjoy a
daily feast, let them not slight the tender et
an annual Pentecost
The article requested, is as' follows
God has not bound himself to any particular
place, nor- to any specific day or, season of the
.year, when and where he.will bestow regenerat
ing grace ; and especially he has not named the
place nor the time , When -he may not be sought
advantageously hy , the. serrOwin" g sinner/ The
maly limitation is; that :he will not' hear those who
haveeinned away their day of grace. Previously
-to that sad hour, men; at any time, and =in any
place, and in any need, may call upon the 'alma
of the Lord and be saved. Offering the prayer of
faith, they shall certainly be accefited. And
always the Word of truth in Chriit Jeans; when
ever and wherever duly preached, shall have its
converting and ,sanctifying influence. Never is
the Gospel proclaimed, we believe, by 'Christ's
herald, but that there is a soul in the audience
which is to be saved, and, which 'receives benefit
from the message. This is a delightful thought,
cheering intensely to the devoted minister.
. But still is there not a time slightly intimated
Scripture, the thought strengthened by the an
alogy.of God's works in the natural world; and
the season indicated to the Church by successive
outpourings of God's Spirit, which may be dC
nominated the. reviving time---the harvest time;
coming in its appointed order ? If there is, the
,ohurch should, know it, and should improvelt ;
and thus be saved by the sad, desiiairing cry,
4 g The harvest is passed and the Bummer is ended,
and my people are not saved." The subject is
worthy an , rinquiry. 'Even if nothing can be de
termined with certainty, we may`yet be led to the
contemplation of truths which will strengthen our
faith and stimulate to activity.
In the Old Testament Church.there were special
seasons appointed for protracted religions ser
vices. these, God would meet his people and
bless them; as ,at the. Passover, Pentecost, and
Feast.of Tabernacles. -God speaks also of a time
when ke,may be found, ott season when h4e is near, an
(leaped time, a day of salvation. That there were,
of old, , annual seasons for the enjoying of the
'Divine, favor in religions services, is manifest;
and _that there is &season of grace, which, if not
animal, occurs yet once in the period of human
!life, is equally clear: And the thought that there
may be to the Church, an annual season of amore
-than ordiusay bestowment of reviving grace, is
not at 'all inconsistent with God's ways of good
.
ness.
God works much by seasons. So it haspleased
him. He has appointed a seed time and a harvest.:
'a:Summer and a Wmter. It is not always the
one; nor alWays the other. Men sow, and after-
wards they reap. They saw again, and patiently
await the appointed time for gathering. There
is the springing of the earth's verdure, the
harvest of. grain, the Autumnal' fruits. Men do
not plant and'itither, nor `I3OW and reap at the
liami seasons.' -
And the recurrence of the season for harvest
and ingathering do . es not; of itself, secure the
fruits. There must have been a previous sowing
`arid.'planim r g. .Human industry, and skill, and
tinst have precede& Without these,
the harvest thne, though divinely ordained, would.
come and depart 'unblest. There would, still bo
empty barns and a starving people. , Thus it is in
the kingdom of itater.
, Kow, does not, all this tough,. by analogy, that
theremay be aim's:Twit seasonin the Kingdom of
Grace ? It is the same God who ordains and
rules' in - each kingdom And tiothing is more
common` in his teachings, and especially in CO
instructions given by Christ, thento illustrate thu
one kingdom by the oiher.
We have the husbandman, the vine -dresser, Of
sower, the garden, the ,tields,i the vineyard, tin
fig-tree, the, harvest, „the -barn, the garner, the
early and, the latter rally:and the fruit in its sem
son. There is the souring, and the blade, and thi -
ear, and the full corifin the earo .There are till
rains,: and ;the winds,, and 'the; hsat, and thl
drought. There, is evertvicissitude adapted V.
the 'growth, the', ripening, and the ingathering
key we not then bejustifunl in carrying out thi
analegy,,,und saying, modestly, but in hope, then.
may be an annual harvest in the. Divine economy.
for gathering in, the fruits of the spiritual laber
er's husbandry, in kingdom of grace—a seasos,
for the recurrence of which we'shall look in tir ,
strong exercise of faith and expectation ; fe
Which we shall prepare by a timely sowing of flu.
seed, and a diligent attendance.upon its culture;
and when'We shall he prepared, and shall actually
'set to werk,logather` in the harvest? Triily,
we do not signet a harvest time ire shall not pre
pare for it and if ire prepare not for it, then.
will be nothing to gather. But if we sow we shall
reap, and reap :in accordance with our sowing;
good fruit and bountifidly
Surely, to expect a'tiine, a favored time, a idf
tune for her Lord to visit his •Zion in his love,
would be a great stimulant to, her. Berrante, t,
make the due' preparation. They would strive t
have all things ready.' She would awake and put
pik her beantifil garments._ • 'To have a wise divie.
ion of time and rightly apportioned •labor, -is' hro
mensely important to the husbandman, the vine•
dresier, and 'the steward.: Thus we'may reason ,
for the, importance of a du; arrangers** ay.-
appropriation of time_and employment with thy
ministers ofeChrist. They are rightly to divide
the *Ord; and dispense,portions in due sensor
•its •
Now, islikere,anything in the history of God's
dispensations of mercy to his Church-Lanythis.g
in the - history of revivals, which indicates a seass3
of the year when the spiritual husbandman, visa
has eaYttiand - planted, and cultivate& well, an!!
Welched andluardedkwith diligence and i wisclote
map niPeotto feaP and gather in his harvest ? is
thetWinter, an& especially the former part of the
Winter, suoh'a,' Season? Is it the time for revs •
viler 'One own pititOral exPerlenoe would indi
oate it as Moth a .favorabliiand a favored season.
And oar ',Observation corresponds with our 'expert
' ence. ilzi searching' all :`our reminiscences, the
idea is vividly before usi that' the early part a
Winter has been the season of the year in 'which.,
-in nearly If in6t quite all instance's,' we have el.*
joyed, orwitnessed, tefieifiei time. • -
• And, ; in tie ordearbigilof Proiiilenoe, there IA
reason in this. Man id's° eisistit(ctiortbst he own
attend' earnestly to tlingst a tune. Anil
bola tiecifoinistititied
irlad
THE PRESBYTERIAN BALNNER AND ADVOCATE
a revival is an event which, to enjoy and carry
on, absorbs his whole soul. Hence it cannot, in
its deep poweri continue very long. Neither man's
nature in its feebleness, nor his other wants in
their imperiousness, could endure it.
We may look for a revival, -then, when a people
enjoy comparative freedom from other pressing
claims ; and that time is the season which wehave
indicated. It is the season of leisure. In the
Spring and through the Summer, and in the early
Autumn, husbandry, and trade, and -business in
its various forms, and sometimes politics super
added, demand men's time and anxious care.
Soaroely canfthey'find.leisliie to attend to their'
daily devotions and their Sabbath•day worship,
sufficient to keep alive, and-in a Strengthening
state, the plants of grace which had previously
taken deep root. But early Winter is the season
of comparative rest. God has so ordered it in his
Wine dispensations; and he says to his Church, .
Now is the accepted time ; call upon l ac, for I am
near; and oft and untiringly as he may have re
iterated that cry, in their busy days that are
past, yet now he says ''emphatically, .1 am near. I
may be found. Seek me now. ;
Suppose, then, that pastors and churches shall
regard this particular season of the year, as their
favored time of ingathering ; and shall adapttheir
labors thereto—their preachinge, visitations, cat
eohisings, personal addresses.to the young, their
business, their' leisure, all their arrangements.
Have a Pentecost, and expect a Pentecostal out
pouring. Are there not intimations in God's
Word;
. and indications In man's nature, wants,
'and circumstances; and facts in the history of
God's gracious bestowments of reviving grace,
which would justify .suoh an arrangement and
such expectations ? And would it not be wise in
ministers, elders, and people, to cherish'the hope ?
We can see nothing wrong in the thought we
are laboring to present. It would not be &limit
ing of the Holy' One of Israel.. He would be
regarded still as ready, at all times, to hear the
suppliant's cry, and, able to save. There would
be no encouragement to procrastinate. Every
motive, from the value of ,the soul; the precious.
nein of religion, the danger of delay, the freeness
of the promises, the uncertainty of life, the sud
denness of an unexpected death, and the certainty
and awfulness of judgment, could be stillovith
unabated force, biought to bear upon the sinner.
And while we can see nothing wrong, there are
evidently great advantages connected with the
suggestion we make. • It corresponds with the
analogy of God's working in the kingdom of no
tnre ; it accords with .Scriptural illustrations; it
is adapted to human - capabilities and the varied
duties of life; it would be a rational dividing of
time, that the spiritual workman might attend to
each of his duties, or parts of labor, in season,-
instructing and establishing the young convert,
nurturing the advancing Christian, defending the ,
outposts of Zion, warning the persevering sinner,
presenting the invitations of the Gospel, and
dwelling on the evidences of regeneration.
God works by system. Look abroad, and be
hold it.' Examine minutely, and admire it. Wise
men work by system. Scrutinize the order of their
plans, and mark •their success. Pastors should
have system in their , labors, and what we suggest
would lead to it. /day we not then ask for the
subject a serious thought?
We can readily anticipate an objection. We
have alluded to it. Men will say, why, the Win-,
ter has come and gone all our lives, and we have
seen on special revivals. True, it, may be so ;
and it would be just so with the harvest time of
Summer, if <no man expected it. There would be
the season of the year, but no ingathering, no re
plenished barns nor full garners. Why ? Because
the seed would not be sown, the soil would lie
unfilled, and the fields would not be hedged. *No
preparation would be made. God's appointed
time would come and depart, but man would not
be blessed. So is it with the spiritual husband
man. If he is uninformed or unbelfeving, he will
not expect the harvest; hence he will not duly
sow nor cultivate, and God's time to favor Zion,
even the time which he has set, will come and
depart, but his heritage will abide unblest.
Now, what is the experience of our churches
The few revivals whiph.we have, come, generally
if not always,. at the season named. But our
people are unbelieving; have no expectation; no
pre-adapted arrangement; no specific prepara
tions nor labors. The Winter—the proper, ifnot
the appointed season----lionies. Men have leisure:
Entertainment and excitement are needed. The
theatre 'opens; 'the opera invites; the ball-room
allures; systems' of lectures are gotten up`;
the world tenders the means for gratifying the
desire for excitement, and it has the masses,
The poor pastor goes on in his old way, laboring
in sorrow •, the elders lead their little dwindling
prayer.meetings, and mourn; Christians wonder,
at the folly of men, and sorrow over their straying
children. But why is it thus? Why? It is be
cause the pastors, and elders, and Christian peo
ple did not prepare for the season. Thexhave no
measures adapted to its:leisure, and to the excit
ability of the, human mind, and the wants of the
multitude. The means of entertainment are un-.
provided by the Church, and the devil steps into
the empty, and garnished house, taking with him
his wicked spirits, and he has things to his liking I
Alas, for the pastors, and rulers; and people of
the Church. They are thrown back in those days
—thrownhack because they, have not wisely and
boldly .put themselves forward. ' .
Oh, when will the children of the kingdom be
wised When will ministers, and elders . , 'and
Christians young , and old-; but especially
tors, who are the leaders'of the people; irhen will
they be as consecrate as their vow den:tends, and
as judicious. es God would make them by his
teachings, and as is regnired by their high call
ing? It - will be a happy day for Zion, when her
watchmen shall be all wide awake, and all her
children shall wisely discern the signa.of the
times. They will then sow the seed, and'tend it
well, and gather in the fruit in its se_ aeon; iii
some, thirty ; in some, sixty ; and in some, an
hnndred fold.
Home and Foreign Record.
The number of this Journal, for January,
is prorriptly sent forth
. 1 conveying to the
churches the condition of their great cen=
tral operations. The importance of the
Boards.is but very , imperfectly appreciateo,
and the officers who labor there, are oft left
destitute'of sympathy, and sometimes even
censured, when they are really among the
most effective far good, of all of Zion's
eons. We honor and would cheer them,
even though occasionally we suggest where
in their labors might be still more prodno
tive.
DOMESTIC MISSIONS
The reports, from missionaries are eneouv
aging. They labor in the cause, and strug
gle against difficulties; but they read the
promiies, and are permitted to rejoice in in
dications that the word ,preaehed by them,
a portion of it at least, is the good seed in
good ground.
The contributions, also, are improving.
Let the home laborers be sustained, whi4:
ever self- denial may be required.
Swims during November in Philadelphiii,
$9,824.; at Louisville, $1,082.
EDUCATION.
We regaid every Prevbytdnan 'as borthd
tii 4 alit eituA and he vidil fief
gation just as he 4ppreciates a numerous and
well qualified ministry. The Church will
have just such hiborers to supply her con
gregations and extend her boundaries, as
she shall,use the, means of producing. The
Lord will not give her ministers by miracle.
She must procure . 'them in the established
way. She must take her sons—the sons of
her poor as well as others—and train them.
There are some indications of liberality to
ward supplying the urgent, the painfully
presting 4: this, : ; cause. , A , Lay
they increase till they become abundant.
'RECEII O III for 'November: at Philadelphia, $2,-
910 ; at Pittsburgh, $llO ; at Louisville, $96.
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
INDIA.—The latest dates are from Cal
cutta, Sept 21st. Mrs. Newton died, at
Sabatini, of typhoid . fever, Sept. 2d. Mrs.
Foreman was convalescent. Mrs. Janvier
was stronger, but a visit 'to th.s country was
still regarded as needful.
Toward replacing the property destroyed
at Lodiana, $14,000 had been received;
and the whole amount would be paid, from
the assessment 4aid upon the city by the
government. At ,, Agra, the brethren felt
themselves 'safe, since the fall of Delhi.
THE 0:rmo. MISSIONS do not present
any thing new or peculiar.
DOMATiONB in Niwitnber, $7,952
PUBLICATION.
The, Co'portage Fund is still • defective,
and the system of reduction in the number
of laborers must be continued. This is
painful, but it seems to be a necessity. A
large debt should, 'on no account, be in
eurred. If the churches will not supply
funds; it is. evident that' they have no strong
desire for thoptogress of the work.
DONATIONS; NOC - 11th to Deo. nth,' $1,01.8 ;
sales, $8,012.
CHURCH EXTENSION.
Though we 'have not a great deal to re
cord,. either of ,i he doings'of this Committee
or the Church7s liberality toward it---and
the former is dependent on the latter—we"
would yet still' keep it before our readers.
It is an agency whose value has never been
duly appreciated. But, with small means,
it is doing a good work.
EZOILIPTH in Noyember : at. St. Louis, $1,428; at
Pittsburgh, $B7 ; at Philadelphia, $644.
Something Singular.
The following very , singular plan for in
creasing the :subscription list to a religious
journal, was, furnished to us by a pastor not far
distant, who received it by mail. The re
ceiver requested` that we should publish it,
appending our editorial opinion. The pro
position is as followe. We italicise a few
emphatic words and phrases :
[Hrivate Oneuraa.)
PRESBYTERIAN OF THE WEST
magsaL OFFER To Ministers.
REVEREND AFIS DRAB BROTTIMI: —With the
'present number of our paper I send you this pri
vate proposition for the purpose of securing your
aidin promoting the intereato of our paper. Our
object is to secure an immediate, efficient, and
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to effect this, we offer the most liberal terms.
It is found'to be difficult to employ traveling
agents, in canvassing for new subscribers, with
the hope of reaching any considerable portion of
the Church; and it. is too much to expect minis
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J. G. MONFORT.
No. 74 West Fourth Street, Concinnati, 0.
December 17,1867.
We can easily reprint the paper but, to
engross an opinion may require some cau
tion. We shall' rather note, what seem to
us, some of its singularities, and let each
reader form his own opinion.
1. It is singular that a teacher of moral
shOuld offer to sign receipts for two dollars
each, where he had really got but one; and
`Still more so that he amid urge moral in
struotors to, demand and receive two dollars
each from their pupils, under the pretense
that they had actually paid, or must pay,
him that amount for his paper, when really
and truly they put one of the dollars into
their own pocket.
2. It is singular that a Christian minister
should try to induce his brethren, the pas-
tors; of churches; to use the influence which
attaches to their official Character, to induce
a loved, and confiding people to subscribe
for a journal not commending itself by any
superior worth, when they would thereby
tax that same people extravagantly, not only
for the one year, in which the pastors were
to Share of the spoils, but, as the Troposer
hoped perpetually, for his benefit
3. It is singular, that .any man, for his
own/ benefit, should . think of miarto Any ,
lother Alin in - an - afield station for so Pal:
try a tali; to intei into such a consphiay.
But, 4. It is not singular that the paper
conveying such a proposition, should ba
marked "PRrve.m;" and that a promise
should be annexed, that the "compensation"
should be regarded as "confident/ca."
Upon the whole, this paper, with the sin
gle exception noted, is a very singular doc
ument.
The Southern Presbyterian Review.
The October number of this Quarterly
taslow iniireathin g - us ; rbuttiv sores rich.
The articles are—l. The Sabbath Contro
versy; IL The Messianic Interpretation of
Isaiah 53d ; 111. The Alphabet of Natural
Theology; 'IV. *The Influence of Stimu
lents on the Manifestation of Mind; V.
Our Problem; VI. Testim•my of the Rocks;
NIL Critical Notices.
The fifth article, "Our Prbblem," is a
dismission on the best mode of embracing
the colored people in worshipping assem
blies; whether the separate mode, in con
gregations by themselves, or the raied form,
the whites and blacks being associated.
The Reviewer prefers the hater. He thinks
the rich and the_ poor should Meet together
in worship, inasmuch as the Lord is the
Maker of them all.
With questions of this kind we but sel
dom interfere. Where they are practical
matters, affairs of every day 'experience, and
in hands equally able, they are likely to be
far More:wisely adjusted, than they would
be by the theories of distant ones. And
for this reason,-thdugh sometimes we find,
in our contemporaries, things from which
we dissent, yet we rarely say much. God
bas4given to our Southern brethren, mainly,
the work of converting the negroes, and
guiding them to heaven, and we trust that
he will also give thein the needed grace.
EASTERN SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND NEW . ENGLAND.
Mr. Everett is engaged in delivering his
address on the character of Washington, in
many places, and always with pleasure and
profit to the hearers.
The puhlishers of the Atlantic Monthly
state that although the -enterprise was un
dertaken at a time peculiarly unfavorable,
the result ' s thus far have been beyond the
expectations entertained in the beginning.
Great diversity of opinion' continues:to ex;
ist as to the position in ,which this monthly,
is to be viewed. It is admitted, however,
that the number, for January is a great im
provement on both its predecessors ;, and it
is to be hoped that some of the features no
ted as objectionable, will quickly •disap
pear. The article in the last number on
the new work of Agassiz, mentioned last
week, will be read with much interest by
thoughtful minds, as it sets forth the prin
ciples of inquiry and classification adopted
by that distinguished naturalist, and exhib
its his opinions concerning the creation and
support of all things, as being in accordance
with what are generally known as orthodox
views.
Bostonians cling fondly around Old Har
vard, and bestow largely upon it their gifts. ,
The valuable library of the late Dr. Giesler,
of Germany, purchased principally through
the liberality of Col. Loring, has arrived,
and been placed in Divinity Hall. The
magnificent library bequeathed by the late
Henry B. Wales, has also 'heri received,
and placed in appropriate eases, furnished
at the expense of his brother. The same
gentleman' also provided in his will, that
upon the occurrence of a future event,
840,000 should be paid to the College for
the endowment of a Professorship of the
Sanseript language and literature. Thomas
Lee, Esq., has also made a donation of prop
erty to the amount of 810,000, the income
of which is to be % added to the stipend of
Dr. Jeffries Wyman, Hersey Professor of
Anatomy.
The members of the Old South, Church
held an interesting meeting to welcome the
return,of their pastor, the Rev. Dr. Blagden,
after an absence of six monthay on a tour to
Europe.
The Puritan Recorder of last week has
an editorial article, styled . ":Review of
Creeds," in which the , necessity of profes
sing and - adhering to a correct and Scrip
tural creed, is strongly 'advocated, and at
the same time any tendency toward lower
ing the doctrinal Standards or .omissions of
truth, is greatly deprecate& , The Congre
gational churches of Massachusetts and New
England, originally stood on the Westmin
titer platform. But, according `to this paper,
the defection began in the churches relax
ing their creeds, and dates as far back as the
times of Edwards. The work of altering
the creed into a conformity with Arminian
ism, began in 1765; from which time the
work of change progressed until 1813; when
a professedly Unitarian minister was settled,
who admitted members on a creed of his ,
own composition. Now, the declaration is,
that many of the new churches of the Con
gregational order, especially in the West,
either have no creeds, or statements of doc
trinal belief, or adopt such as are at fault, by
the omission of a clear and distinct enunci
ation of doctrinal troth. They do not set
forth heretical opinions, but open the way
for the admission of members holding most
diverse and erroneous sentiments.: As a
sample, the creed of the Plymouth church
o f Brooklyn, of which Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher is pastor, adopted in 1848, is se
leotcd. This is done because of the alleged
ability of this church, by the wealth it can
command to " rear up churches in its own
image," and because of the reputation of
its pastor, exerting a wide influence, that
the evil may be arrested. The fault is said
to be not the error it contains, but the truth
it does not contain.
The creed has nothing in it of our need of Re•
generation—nothing of any Special Influence of
the Spirit in Regeneration—nothing of Justifica
tion by Faith alone,--nothing of the Sovereignty,
of God in renewing grace—nothing of the Decrees
of God, or of 'Election or Foreordination—noth
ing of 'the? Perrseverance of the Saints—and noth
ing of Infant. Baptism. So it may: be seen at a ,
glaucethat .it is, deeddedly below. a respectable.
Arminian level : Itis as near , to llniMrianiem,
an equivocal and b ungling definition.,Of
ity will allow. On the Atonement, it has rt
most appearance of truth; but yet nothing which
a Unitarian, aided by hie ambiguities, might not
readily receive.
To publish such large.hearted Benevolence
as the following, is truly refreshing. The
liberality of this man las not been merely
posthumous, but during a long life, his
gifts were freely dispensed toward all proper!
objects of charity and Christian effort:
The Hartford papers publish a statement of the
bequests of the late David Watkinson, a wealthy
merchant of that city,.who died on the Sabbath,
December 16th, at the age of eighty.
After legacies to his nephews end neices, num
bering over thirty, of $lO,OOO each, and to his
adopted daughter, $20,000, the will gives, for the
establishment of a Library of Reference in con
nexion with the Connecticut Historical Society,
$lOO,OOO ; to the Hartford Hospital, $40,000 ; for
the establishment of a Juvenile Asylum and Farm
School, his Pavillion property, (10 acres) valued
at $40,000 and $20,000 in cash; for the estab
lishment of a Fund for. the -support of Indigent
Orphans, and other children, in connexion with
the Hartford Orphan Asylum, $30,000 ; to , the
Retreat for the Insane, $3,000; to the Wadsworth
Atheneum, the Young. Men's Institute, and the
Connecticut Historical Society, each, $1,000; to
the A. B. 0. F. M., American Home Missionary
Society, American Bible Society, American Tract
Society, and American. Sunday School Union,
each, $600; to the Hartford Female Benevolent
Society, and the Hartford Orphan Asylum, each,
$lOO ;, to the church in Lavenhans, Eng., (Mr.
Watkinson was born in England,) £lOO.
Besides the above, there are sundry lega
cies to individuals making up a total of over
half a million of dollars.
NEW .YORK-
The present is one of the regularly Duil
Seasons of the year.; yet the prospects for
the future are, on the whole, encouraging.
Manufacturing establishments are going into
operation again; money on Wall Street is,
abundant; and the stock market continues
to improve; while new enterprises of finance
and trade are agitated. It would not be
strange if, in twelve months, all vestiges of
the late calamities should have disappeared,
except in the case of individual sufferers.
The Hon. Auguste Behnonte has been
for several years engaged in forming a col
lection of the Best. Paintings of the most
"distinguished Modern Artists, of the French,
German, Belgian, Italian, English, and
American Schools This Gallery is now
opened for exhibition, the proceeds of which
are applied to the relief of the poor. It is
to be regretted that, hitherto, most of the
best and most chaste Paintings in the coun
try have been confined exclusively to the
parlors of the wealthy, without any opportu
nity of being seen, except by a few:
Monday the 22d inst. was the two hun
dred and thirty-seventh Anniversary of the
Landing of the Pilgrims at Plimouth.
The .New England Society of this city cele
brated their fifty:second anniversary in the
usual way; and in the evening was addressed,
in a happy and able manner, by the Rev. R.
S. Stara, D. D., of : Brooklyn. ..;A large
audience VIM in attendance.
The Mercantile Library Association, of
Iltlooklyn, is a young institution, but has
already a capital of ten thousand dollars
subscribed; and a libraryitfof five thousand
volumes, for the use of the library rooms,
has been presented.
It is now twenty years since The Old
-Tabernacle, on Broadway, near the Park,
was erected. On Christmas, the corner
stone of the new edifice, nearly three miles
distant, was •;laid by the pastor, Rev. J. P.
Thompson, D. D., the Rev. Dr. Buddington,
and Rev. R. W. Clark, of Brooklyn, assist
ing in the ceremonies. The edifice is to be,
one.hundred and eighty feet long, and eigh
ty-eight feet broad; containing, in addition
to the main audience room, rooms for lec
tures, Sabbath School, Social and. Bible
Class, and pastor's study and library.
Professor Mitchell, of Cincinnati, has been
invited by some of the clergy and literary
men of the city, to deliver a series of lec
tures during the present Winter, on Astro
nomical Discovery and Science, as connected
with Christianity and Scripture, which
have been for some time in course of pre
.
paratton.
The recent difficulties, throughout the
country have embarrassed •almost. ad the
great religious Societies. During the first
five months of the present financial year,
the receipts of, the Arneriasn Home Mis
sionary Society were in advance of the cor
responding period of the previous year,
$7,961; but in the three following months
they have been less by $12,729, than the
same period last year. Outlays have been
contracted, as far as possible, yet, on the
first of December, there were $13,424 due
missionaries for labor already performed, but
the treasury was empty.
The contributions to benevolent °Veda
are in danger of being lessened by the
course pursued by some, in pointing out de:
fectiveneas of administration and unnecessary
expense, forgetting at the auk time that
every one, 'in looking over his own private
accounts just , now, perceives many leakages
that might have; been prevented. Many,
wishing' some excuse for not, giving, will
seize upon every plausible pretext of this
kind, to cover their parsimony.
A writer in the Evangelist controverts
the assertion so often made, he says, by
• means of the press, and also by the younger
ministers of the Methodist Episcopal C'hurcls,
that that Church has five hundred thousand
children in its Sabbath Schools in this
country, and is "in advance of all others
in ;that department of Christian effort. He
takes this city for an illustration.; in which
the Methodists have thirty-six Sabbath
SchoOls, containing eight thousand eight
hundred and twenty-eight papils, or an av
erage of two hundred •and sixty to each of
the th;rty-two churches.. Of these, four
are Mission Schools, with six hundred and
seventy pupils, and sustained at a cost, to
the denomination, of $l,BOO. annually.
Only four hundred and ninety-five,ef their
teachers were professors of - religion, out of
over nine thousand two hundred communi
cants. Or, in other words, the Methodist
Ohurch comprises one-fifth of the entire
number of professors of religion in the city,
and yet ^ only reaches one-filteenth of the
Children.
While the fourteeu.New School Presbyte
%riga, churches have •eight thousand two
bundred and sixtrnine pupils, an:average
4 fiVe hundred 'aid itiventy to eteh of the
fourteen churches ; and connected with
th ese they have thirteen Mission Sch ou ',
with three thousand six dundred scholars; and
more than three•fourths of all their teachers
are professors• of religion. Thus the four.
teen New School Presbyterian chur c h es
have three limes as many mission schools,
containing five times as many scholars as
all the thirty-two Methodist Epi scopal
churches. And if the comparison is er.
tended to the twenty Old School churches,
the result will be still less favorable toward
our Methodist brethren. Two of these
churches last year paid from 82,000 t ,
83,000 each, to sustain their own Ch urch
mission school enterprises ; or, eithe r o f
these churches paid, last year, more than a ll
the thirty-two Methodist Episcopal churcha,
for city mission schools. The writer say,
these statements are made, not in au in.
friendly spirit, but to cheek boasting a q .
self-glorification in the future, and to p r ,.
yoke to love and to good works. For it
certain that the Presbyterians can, ari
ought to do far snore than they ever har.
'done in this good work.
PMIADELPHIA.
Thomas Allibone, Esq., late President of
the Bank of Pennsylvania, has written a
letter from Nice, Italy, to his brother, er,
pressing intense surprise at the char ges
made against him in connexion with thin
Bank; declaring that he had no idea that to
waiindebted to the Bank; denying that he
was ever engaged in speculation, and stating
that on leaving the country, he gave full
power of attorney to two friends, authorizin g
them to sell real estate to meet any demands
against him; and that absconding debtors
do not usually take their families with them,
as he .did. He is now suffering greatly in
mind and body, partly from the suspicions
excited against him.
Philadelphia has long:been celebrated for
the variety and extent of its Hiscellaneas 4
Manufactures, in vrhich Horace Greeley says
it surpasses every other city in the world.
The North American says there seems to
be a disposition to retire from this business
on the part of some, and to enter into the
various channels of trade, and warns against
it as certain to be, in the end, injutions to
the, persons themselves, and to the growth,
wealth, and importance of the city.
The people of this city are beginning to
feel proud of their Polytechnic College,
whch has been very successful in its efforts
toward scientific and industrial .education,
The last graduating class promises well. Of
the four graduates in Civil Engineering,
one immediately obtained an appointment
dirtai'llitisbuirgh; Fort Wayne and Chicago
'Railriaid; said another is in the employ of
the Great Western Railroad of France. The
graduate' in Chemistry now fills a Professor
ship in that bnanch in the interior of Penn.
sylvania. And the graduate in Mechanical
Engineering is attached to one of the large
machine works in this city.
The Episcopal Recorder says that there
are now, fifty students in the Episcopal The•
ological ,Seminary at Gambier, Ohio, a
larger number. than were ever at one time
before, in anyone Theological School of that
denomination in, the land.
The Day Prayer... Meeting in the 'Union
Methodist church, continues to be well at•
tended.
Ecclesiastical
Rev. A P. RAPPER'S Post Office address
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Rev. D. A. MURDOCK'S Post Office wiling
is changed from Otoe Mission, Kansas, W
Doniphan,. Kansas.
Rev. Wm. A. yirmsT's Post Office address is
changed from Dry Run, Pa., to Spring
ban, Franklin County, Pa. Pastoral re•
lation unchanged.
Rev.
_JOSEPH R. WILSON, D.D , desires
correspondents and publishers to addres
him hereafter at Augusta, Ga.
Rev. P. A. ,blcAlAnTrtes pastoral relation
to the church at Cape Island, New Jer•
sey; has been dissolved. Post Office ad
dress unchanged.
Rev. L. S. FINE has received a eall from the
church of Ohambersburg, Pa.
Rev. ROI3ERT CRANsoRD's Poet Office ad
dress is changed from Chester, Pa., to
Deerfield, Mass.
Rev. G. L. Mote's Post Office addratis
changed from Doaksville, Choctaw Na
tion, to New Orleans, La.
Rev. A. L CRAWFORD'S Post Office address
is changed. from Indiantown, S. C., to
Warren, Arkansas.
Rev. R. TAYLOR has accepted a call from
'the church at Hightstown, New Jersey.
Mr. E. H. RUTHERFORD was ordained and
installed pastor of the Vicksburg church,
Miss., by the Presbytery of Central Miss.,
on the 15th ult. , t
Rev. Dr. E. T. BAIRD'IrPost Office address
is changed from Columbus, mi ss ,, to
Crawfordsville, Miss.
Rev. Wu. E. RAKER, of Georgia, has re.
calved a unanimous invitation from the
church of Staunton, Va., to become their
pastor.
Bev' T. M. HoPKINs' Post Office addreasi s
-changed from Keene, Ohio, to Yellow
Springs, Ohio.
Rev. ROBERT S. FINLEY has received and
accepted the appointment of General
Agent of the Illinois State Colonization
Society. His headquarters will be at
Speingfield,
Rev. T. S. REEVE has received and aceePt'
ed a call to the church of St. Charles,
Mo.
Mr. J. CAMERON was ordained and installed
pastor of the church in New Scotland ,
New York, by the Presbytery of Albany,
on the Ist nit.
Rev. *roux V. DODGE has accepted an inv.
Cation to supply the church in Canton, IL
Rev. S. E. ROB=SON, of Milton, Florida,
departed this life on the 21st
Rev. 0. J. Knw S Pest Office address is
changed from Sidney, "lowa, to Binning'
ham lowa. •
A
RIM S. A. /dui.°ammo h a s engage-
to
supply the church in Bowling-Green)
Kentucky, until Spring.
Rev. R KIINZENMAIKE ' German Presby
terianurinister of the Presbytery of La'
Warta, died in St. Louis on the 28th of