PRES IYTERIAN BAWR & ADVOCATE.
rresbytiorlaa llsaner. Vol. VI, Ns. 41.
Presbytariaa Advesate, Vol. U, lion 38. I
DAVID MoKINNEY, Editor and Proprietor.
rqRMS.-IN ADVANCE.
Vottrg.
Havelock.
BY W. WHITTON REIVICK, A B
" Ed Mum, tuned aelebrernus honorem "
ENCIP LIBBII. V.
Now my harp, with solemn measure
Would I strike thy chords again,
And, with mingled grief and pleasure,'
Tune a hymn of loftier strain;
A hymn for one whose deeds are ringing
Through the brazen trump of fame,
Whilst his faith and wort'i are flinging
Lustre round a Christian name.
Havelock I—now a name in story,
Hero in the world's esteem ;
Sainted now above in glory,
•
thou shalt_be the poet's theme:
Thou a Christian, yet a hero
Wreathed with battle's gory crown,
Not like Timour, nor like Nero,
But more like our Washington.
Had I pen of inspiration
To extol thee as I would,
Then I'd draw for contemplation
All in mortal that is.good:
A warrior-chieftain—Christian soldier,
Ever in his country's cause
Battling for the right, yet bolder
As a Soldier of the Cross.
Now beyond the banks of Indus,
Now beneath the Ghinese wall;
At the Butlej and the Ganges,
Ever at thy country's call;
Thou art seen, with noble spirit,
In the midst of deadly strife,
Bidding warriors stern, inherit
Hopes of.evetlasting life.
Now I see ten thousand dangers
Press thee through thy Berman wars,
Till, with Colin's. Highland rangers,
Thou dost burst like blazing stars;
Front to front in horrid battle, •
In defence of Britain's fair,
Ravish'd, hunted down like cattle,
Lost in anguish and despair.
Ohl thy life—how strange and thrilling!
Here it culminates sublime;
When we hear the pibroch trilling,
Par away in India's clime,
And behold thee stand undannted
'Mid the Sepoys' brutal rage;
And, when thine arm no more is wanted,*
Calmly vanish from,the,stage
God, who rules is God of nations,
Surely kept thee safe thus far,
Mid such perils and mutations
Free from death, or wound, or soar :
Then, when thou had'st worked his pleasure
For Ms kingdom here on earth,
England's Knighthood could not measure
Full reward all such worth.
So, whilst pride and royal favor
Olnstered honours round thy head,
Whilst the world proolahnid thee saviour
Thou Wert strioken cold and dead:
Death on earth for life!in heaven,
Golden crown for bloody sword,
Joys above all earthly given,
Now, confirm. God's, faithful Word.
Uniontown, Pa„ .funs, 1858.
* The imperllled,belng delivered, and another
General in the field, Havelock could be spared, to
enter into his rest.
For the 'Presbyterian Banner and Advocate
The Christian Ministry :
ITS. ORIGIN ; ITS OBJECTS; ITS DECLARED
RESPONSIBILITIES; ITS .ACTUAL BEAR
INGS ON ALL THE GREAT INTERESTS OE
MEN.
No. 1.
A distinguished Southern lawyer, well
acquainted with the family and character of
the late John Breokinridge, referring to the
choice of a profession made by that °mi.
nently talented young man, is reported to
have said, " Breckinridge has sold his
birthright for, a mess of pottage." This re
mark affords a pretty fair specimen of the
estimate which men of the world fix upon
the office of the Christian ministry.
It is true, that men who in their decisions
and conduct are influenced chiefly by the
things that are seen and temporal, are
often found paying their general homage to
religion and its institutions. Such men, if
intelligent, know, and, if honest in principle,
they will acknowledge the importance of
that influence which , these institutions ex
ert, in promoting and securing all the great
interests of &neje] and relative life, the good
of communities and nations, the happiness
of men. And, if they are benevolent, they
will give to these institutions their cordial
and their efficient support. Such men are
convinced that it is a truth, founded in the
consideration of man's constitution and
character, and demonstrated by his whole
history, that without the sanctions of reli
gion, human society cannot exist in any de
sirable form ; that without their hold on
men's conscience, there is no safety for
property,, for liberty, nor for life. And on
this score, even infidels themselves wily ad
mit the supelior claims of the religion of
the Bible.
Bat then we do not base the chief claims
of the Christian ministry on the• ground of
its bearings on men's temporal interests,
great and commanding as is its importance
here. We take the Bible for our stand
point,,in looking at the subject, and we re
gard this as an institution of the Son of God
himself; designed to bear especially on the
interests of his own spiritual kingdom, and
upon men's higher interests, the interests of
the soul and eternity. And mangre the
infidel's sco rn , we attach ideas of dignity,
of importanc e atia usefulness to this office,
which belong to 'windier distinction known
among men.
This 7 „,
omoe hasa its ORIQIN in Christ's own
express appointment.
It is indeed true that Christian ministers
are not clothed with those extraordinary
powers with which the inspired Apostles
were invested. As the speoiai and extraor
dinary messengers of Qod, the, Apostles
have no successors in the Church. With
the termination of their lives, ther, Apos
tolic Ace, Ito far as it was distinctive •and
peculiar, ceased .to exist. We know. l well
what are the high-sounding titles whicklis•
Holiness at Rome , appropriates to himself),
, as the legitimate successor of Peter, as the
Vicar of Christ on earth. Bat we regard
these as the impious assumptions of a pre
tender, not founded in the authority of
God's Word, but based on the lying tradi
tions of men. We know, too, the pompous
and the extravagant claims of the prelacy,
which loves so dearly to have the pre
eminence—its vain boastings about Apos
tolic succession and Apostolic powers. We
of course reject all such pretensions as in
jurious and anti-Scriptural. Yet we main
tain that the ordinary ministry is an express
institution of Jesus Christ. And all who
hold this office are, although not so imme
diately, yet as really commissioned by Christ
himself, as were the first preachers—as were
the Apostles themselves.
It is through the instrumentality of their
fellow-men, but it is in the name and by the
authority of Christ, and in the exercise of
that power which he has expressly delegated
to his Church, that ordinary ministers are
set apart to their office. And accordingly
we are told that when he ascended up on
high, he gave some Apostles, and some
prophets, and some evangelists, and some
pastors and teachers, for the perfecting of
the saints, for the work of the ministry, for
the edifying of the body of Christ. And
God bath set or appointed teachers in the
Church. The Apostle, to the elders, or
Presbyters, or ministers at Ephesus, says,
Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the
flock over the which the Ibly 'Ghost bath
made you overseers or bishops. To Archip
pus, an ordinary minister, the direction is,
Take heed unto the ministry which thou
host received in the Lora, that thou fulfill
it. And hence the command, Ordain elders,
Presbyters or ministers in every city.
Ministers are then among Christ's ascen
sion gifts to his Church, and they come to
us commissioned by the King of Kings and
the Lord of Lords. As men, they may not
make any claim to pre-eminence, or to any
peculiar dignity above their felloi-meit.
But as ministers of Christ, they hold 'an
office higher then that of the Emperors, and
Kings, and Presidents of earth. And we
have enough to chide all low estimates of
the dignity and importance of this office, in
the mere recollection of the paramount au
thority in whioh it originates.
And then, too, there are THE OBJECTS at
whioh it aims.
The direct and prominent object of the
Christian, ministry, as we have already inti
mated, is the promotion of the interests , of
Christ's spiritual kingdom in the world.
This institution, the ministry, is made to oc
cupy the first place of importance, in that
system of means (we now speak of human
instrumentality ) ) which God has instituted
to carry out the great purposes of his love
and mercy in relation to our apostate race.
With the advanowiiint of God's glory in the
conversion and salvation of men, ministers
are especially charged. In the language of
the Bible, they are especially appointed
(instrumentally,) to open men's eyes, to
turn them from darkness to light, and from
the power of Satan unto God, that they
may receive forgiveness of sins . and an in
heritance among them that are sanctified.
For the perfecting of the saints, for the 'edi
fying of the body of Christ; till we all
come in the unity of the faith and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, unto a per
fect man, unto the measure of the stature
of tLe fullness of Christ.
We may talk of the high political and
civil interests of the states and the ,king
doms of the world; we, may speak of the
most valued temporal interests of men; but
what are all these, when compared with the
interests of Christ's spiritual kingdom, and
with the immortal destiny of the soul I
Nothing is, nor can be, so desirable, as the
advancement of the glory of the Son of God.
Nothing is, nor can be, so important to us,
as our own salvation. What, in fact, gives
to the affairs of empires aid nations, to any
and all the events and the concerns of earth,
their chief interest and importance,, is, that
they are made to snbserve God's designs of
mercy and grace. It is for the . elect's sake
that the world stands.
If God had so pleased, he could have
carried out his gracious purposes without
this instrumentality. He could have com
mitted these high interests to angels. Or
he might have formed creatures more ex
alted than any that now exist, and have
clothed them with this high honor; or
without this intervention of means, by-his
own immediate agency, he might* have
brought these designs to their glorious issue.
But more illustriously to display his conde
scension, and tbe power and the riches of
his grace, he has seen fit to put upon men,
frail, sinful, dying men, this distinguished
honor, to employ their instrumentality in
promoting and securing these high interests
of his spiritual kingdom. lie makes men
the stewards of his mysteries. He commits
to these earthen vessels the treasure of the
Gospel, that the excellency of the power
might be of himself, and not of men.
The cause which it is the special business
of ministece to promote, is a cause which
has awakened, and which still continues •to
awaken, a deeper interest in heaven than all
things else that pertain to our world—that
can pertain
,to any world. In this cause
have been employed the peculiar efforts of
the wisdom and the might of God. It was
this that brought the Son of God down from
heaven to earth on his mission, so full of
love To promote this cause it is, that God
the Holy Ghost takes up his abode in the
hearts of men, arid puts forth there the ex
ceeding greatness' of his power. In the
furtherance of this cause, angels delight to
minister. And in opposition to this cause
it is, that the Prince of Darkness and all
his legions feel such malignant interest, and
employ such untiring effort. In forming
an estimate of the dignity and •importance
of the Christian ministry, therefore, we
must not leave out of view the objects at
which it aims.
Nor must we forget its declared EePPonsi
bilities, and its actual bearings on all the
great interests of men. On these last
topics, we propose hereafter to offer a few
suggestions. NOMINIS UMBRA.
THE SOUL —As the ship lets go her moor
ings and sets sail, se the Christian—the
seul, that is the man—strikes the tent and
leaves the dilapidated tabernacle, and wings
its flight to a more beautiful climate, the
"rest that remaineth for the people of God."
WE.are not disarmed , by being diseuoum
bered,of our punsions.—Burke.
"ONE THING IS NEEDFUL:" "ONE THING HAVE I DFSIRED OP THE LORD':" "THIS ONE THING I DO."
PUBLICATION OFFICE, GAZETTE BUILDING, FIFTH STREET, ABOVE SMITHFIELD, PITTSBURGH, PA.
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1855.
For the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate.
Ordination of a Foreign Missionary
The Presbytery of Hudson met at Mil,
ford, Pike County, Pa , on Wednesday, the
16th , just , in order, if the way was clear, to
ordain Mr. Augustus Brodhead to the work
of the Gospel ministry. Milford is this
young brother's native place. He is a grad
uate of Union College. A little more than
three years ago, he entered the Tneolugical
Seminary at Princeton, where he finished his
theological course at the close of last term.
Mr. Brodhead's trial sermon wae.preached
on these words: "God be merciful- unto us,
and bless us; and cause his face to shine
upon us. Selah. • That thy way may be
known upon earth, thy saving health among
all nations."—Ps. lxvii : 1, 2. The Rev.
William D. Snodgrass, of Goshen, preached
the ordination sermon. His text was:
"He that winneth souls is wise."—Prov.
xi : 30. The &course was one which was
well adapted to the occasion. The charge
was given by the Rev. Ralph Bull, of West
town. This was also spoken of in , high
terms by those who heard it. The Modera
tor, the Rev. David' McAleese, of Goodwill,
made the ordaining prayer. -
Mr. , Brodhead has for some time had a
desire for the missionary work. It is a sub
jest .on which he has. frequently conversed
with his friends. It is one , over which, no
-doubt, he has often prayed. He is soon to
leave for Northern India, under the direction
of. the . Presbyterian Board of Foreign. Mis
sions, The, probability , is, that his field of
labor is to be Frittehgurh, which is the very
field that not long since was occupied by the
martyr-missionaries. May this young broth
er have a place, in the '
sympathies and the
prayers of the people of God.
The wife of the Rev. Mr. Scott, a mis
sionary of our Board in Northern India, was
'Porn 'in Milford. Bat in consequence of
losing her mother at a very early age; she
was placed under the care of her friends in
Warsaw, in the State Of New -York.
For the Presbyterian Batiuei and Advonte.
A Sabbath in Cleveland.
CLEVELAND, June 22d, 1858
Dear Banner :—lt was my lot to, be set
down at the door of the "American Hdtel"
in this beautiful " Forest City," Satur
day afternoon. The refreshing rest: of the
evening and night, in this quiet and Weft
ordered house; prepared me for the enjoy
ments of the Sabbath. Not often has it
been my privilege to hear four sermons in
one day, but this priVilege I enjoyed in this
city. And what is still stranger for me,
these four sermons were-by ministers of four
different denominations, and in four differ
ent places of worship: I, by no means, Mr.
Editor, recommend my example <in this in
stance to your readers, as worthy of habitual
imitation,- either as to the number or;variety
of religious services on the Sabbath. On
the contrary, I believe the multiplication of
public services, and the tendency to wander
from plies to place in quest of something
new, are both highly unfavorable, to the
development of the life of Crod'in the soul.
But to a stranger in a strange_ city, Such
indulgence may perhaps be allowable, and
may result in no serious evil.
I was the more anxious to make this ex
periment in order to test the truth of a con
viction which I have entertained, that there
is a growing unity of faith and oneness of
spirit in the Churches of Christ of all de
nominations; the tendency of which is to
draw them into closer fellowship, and more
harmonious working for the extension of his
kingdom. While the force of the evidence
obtained was,not wholly on one side of this
question, the result of the experiment, on
the whole, was not unfavorable to the view
I have heretofore entertained.
At 11 o'clock A. M., I heard, in the
celebrated "Round Church," the Rev. F.
T. Brnwn, of our own branch of the Pres
byterian Church. He preached to us faith
fully and impressively, Christ Jesus the
Lord; his object especially being to recom
mend to Christians, for their imitation, the
spirit and example of Jesus in his sympathy
with.the poor, the diseased, and the wretched
and in his labors'of benevolence, by which
he removed their miseries and thus sought
'to win his way to their hearts. The congre
gation was not large, but very respectable,
both as to size and. appearance. ; appearance. Youtread
ors are already informed that this growing
and active congregation have erected, for.
their use, a new church building. This will
soon be ready for occupancy, when we may
hope that this important 'church enterprise
will go forward with increasing rapidity.
Among other notices given by the pastor
of meetings during the week, was one of a
Union meeting to be held in the Round
church, on Thursday evening. , This meet
ing, for this week, is to be a thanksgiving..
In making this announcement Mr. B. re
marked, that it was appropriate that Chris
tians oft this city should have a thanksgiving
meeting, not only in view of. what God ;has
done for them recently, but also in view of
the history of the work of grace here for the
last thirty years. "Thirty years, ago,"• Mid
he, "this was an infidel city, so much so
that a Sabbath School could' not be started
here." Truly in view of such a fact. as
this, compared with the present state of
things, Christians have great , cause for
thanksgiving. It was, remarked farther, that
it was peculiarly appropriate that this meet
ing should be held in this house—a house
which had its origin in a delusion, (the
Millerites,) but which had, in the overruling
providence of God, been made instrumental
in nurturing and sending forth to more'com :
medians places .of worship, two , Christian
congregations.
The building now owned and occupied by
'the Second Baptist church, was erected by
the congregation which, for a time, followed
the Rev. E. IL Nevin, whu, first under, the
flag of Free Presbyterianism•and afterwards
under that of Coneregationalisce, flourished
in this city. his first preaching place was
the Round Church, now occupied by Mr.
Brown. The history of that man's opera
tions, here and elsewhere, furnishes one
melancholy illustration among many of the,
tendency of fanaticism to burn up its own
*irks as soon as they are completed. Of
the congregation gathered by him here, not
even a vestige- now remains. The elements
brought together for combination have mu
tually _ annihilated each other. The red
duunt is,nothing. Nearly similar results, I
understand, have ,followed his labdrs else
where: To use the expressive figure of, an
, intelligent eider of another branch of the
Presbyterian family, in thile city, "As soon
as his feet are out of theleand his tracks are
filled, up, and no mark is Left behind."
AO o'clock P. M., I*all a good sermon
from the Rev. James Magill, pastor of
,the
United Presbyterian church, Like the ser
mon of the morning, it *is' full of Christ.
This congregation is wetik.having suffered
very, greatly, fur some yeirs,patt, by remov
als to the ,West. Sig ,out of nine elders
have left within three yitirs. Their house
of worship, which is 'a 14,4 and substantial
brick building, is unfinislted—the congrega
tion worship in the basenglent----and a debt of
$3,000 is hanging upon .4.,iert. ,May it,soon
be removed, and great prosperity succeed to
their days of trial. -
At half past 4, I akended service in
Grace church, Episcopal , . Two ministers
in white robes, read prayers and lessons with
their backs to the :people, There was no
Madonna, behind or over the altar. I thought
the place there looked wishful and expect
ant. A Rev. Mr. T.;',from Wisconsin,
preached the sermon; =or read the Eking.
Both.the other sermons had heard, pre
sented Christ as " the .way, , the truth, and
the life ;" this one presented Baptism, Con
firmation,, and the Eucharist..
At night I attended tia,First Presbyterian
'church, the Rev. Di. Ain's. He was in
the pulpit, but did not preach; this service
was performed by the, iltev. Mr. Hoyt, a
Baptist, minister, who was until r recently a
lawyer in this city. His' sermon' was well
prepared, and breatheek - good spirit. Its
design was to guard Christian's against the
idolatrous attempt to form in their minds an
image, or idea , of -the likeness of God. He
closed by urging. Christ upon the acceptance
of all.
This congregation worships in a large and
beautiful stone 'building; 'which has' taken
the place of the one destroyed by fire < two
or: three . years age. I see by reference to
the City Directory,that it reports forty-three
churches in the 'city; of which three are
Baptist, one Congregatiiinal, five Episcopal,
three Lutheran, ten Methodist', seven Pres
byterian, two Jewish l four Roman Catholic,
and eight miscellaneoq. .This list does not
include the churches theli
' iibnrban ,vil
lages. G.H.
EilEl
From onr°London Correspondent.
'Sumner in England—Summer in India—A Hot
, Weather. Cantgaign--Suffering of rroops—The
Arepaulese 'Gone frorne---Beathe , of Sir W. Peel
and Brigadier Rope--Bareilly and Nana Sa-
hib--Oude and the Landholders—Montgomery,
. ,the.Commistioner---Mutilations in India—General
Assemblies of the 'Scotch Churehes-77ie' 'Estab
lishment, Discipline, Moderation, and india=The
" Forty Thieves "—The ,Frpe Church Suatentation
,Fund--Supplenients and //Ansa; =Apical to the
Revived Chur•ches -of- , 4lmiriea—Cu.riouit- Case, '
~and Frinciples infiolved— Excitement in,
ment—Disraell and Shaftsbury—Clorendon and
Derby— Amish Question''' . and 'Compromise—
Prange, and her Future.
LONDON, June 4th, 1858. •
- SUMMER, in all its glory,. is upon us.
After a season of abundant rains in May,
such as.delighted the farmer's heart,,,while
" eits'" and uninitiated' ladies Sigh' over
gloomy'skies and muddy streets and pave
ments, the sun has come .Iforth in his
strength. It is a rare , thing in England to
find,the Thermometer at 80° in the shade,
but so it was, even on- the 30th of May.
The effect is marvelous on garden, field, for
est, and meadow. ' The hawthorn flings 'out
'its fragrance on the peasant toiler ; <the glo
rious chestnut-trees of the Royal. Park, ,at
Busby, are in full bloom; while ,Hampton
Court, and its gardens, grapi, and punds,
reposes calmly' in the bright sunshine, while
silver Thames (" labitur et labitur,") flows
past, as it did in the days when Wolsey
trod those shaded _walks, or , Henry VIII.
made those, woodlands, ring with the blast of
his hunting-horn.
SUMMER IN INDIA, is quite a different
thing from what Summer is in England.
Here, not a mosquito 'bites, nor do hot
winds half suffocate; nor is there a heat al
most unendurable, even in the shade. But
in India, what'must a Summer Campaign
be? Let Mr.. Russell, the Times Corres
pondent, tell us something about it in his
own graphic style :
" The Thermometer at 108°, in the shade
and inside the tent, at noon, three - days ago,
was a' warning, of Unmistakable cogency,
that Summer was coming.' Since that time
the heat has not been quite so great, but
the hot winds, which set in about ten o'clock
daily, and last till sunset, are all but intol
erable, charged as they are with dust of a
revolting nature, which fills l every pore, and
fires the blood—which, seems to penetrate
the internal mechanism of the body, as it
does in reality force its way into the 'works
of a'watch--which renders all out door ex
ercise a sort ofsevere penitential infliction,
and makes dwelling in tents, utterly misera
ble and hopeless.
He adds as to the effects of campaigning
in such' leather, "` lt'can only be` conducted
at 'enormous cost. The hottest day that
comes, let, some one who is desirous .of un
derstanding what. the, dry winds are, like,'
repair to any iron-foundry in full , activity,
arid let him stand in front of the fire
furnane door is opened; but unlesi he can
add to it the odors procurable 'by standing
over the grating of a strand cook-shop in-the
dog-days, he will have but a, poor idea of the
nastiness of the blast, which, sweeping otter
burning plains covered , with putrefYing re
mains, whisks clouds f pulverized animal
matter along - with it, and rushes in dens 4.
yellow volumes all over the city, (Luck- '
now,) and,the plains,aronnd it." He then
describes the,fearful dust, causing "a thick'
fog," and " impelled . in thick successive
waves," so that "the effect is, quite sufficient'
to make one detest India forever: Every
article in your tent--your hair, eyes,
and nose—are filled, and covered with this
dust, which deposits a coating half an inch
thick all over:the tent.",
Now it is such a climate, and at such a
season, that we have, now going on a new
campaign in India. Troops are in the field
when.they ought to be in cantonments, and
are fighting at hours when sun stroke is sure
,to smite down some of those whom the bul
let spares. It is too evident that, a`hot•
weather, campaign in Rohilound, as well as
on the other side of the Ganges, will involve
I great losses to the British army, which,
numerically, is far too small at the best.
Their Nepaul allies :are all gone home.
They were good at plunder, but
,nothing
else; theY 'cannot stand the heat, and very
sorry-allies: were they and their Pritiee,
(who made a sensation here, some years ago,
by his princely person bestudded with jew
elry,) at the best..
Among the victims of climate, the tele
.gram brings the news of the death by small
pox, at Cawnpore, of Sir W. Peel, of the
Naval Brigade. He was the third and fa.
vorite son of the late Sir Robert Peel. He
was every inch a sailor, and had'the daring
and dank of,a young-Nelson. It is said that
the illustrious Imre of the Nile and Tr.sfal
gar,
,was his model. With his Naval Brig
ade he went up the Ganges, and landing his
ftigate guns, they fought like lions in many
battlea,,and especially at Luoknow.
' His loss is greatly to be deplored. So
also hothat of , Brigadier ,Hopp, (brother to
the Earl of Hopetown,) a right-hand man. of
Sir Colin Campbell's, - who was shot by a
'Sepey' who fired on him _at - a distance of
twenty yards, while reconnoitering `,the 'fort
of Bowes. There our troops suffered a re
ionise, but afterwards the fort was evacuated,
and the road left clear for Walpole's june
den with Sir Colin Campbell.
It is said that Bareilly must be besieged;
and it is probable many of the rebels, as ;at
Lueknovr, will be ,able. to run away, and thus
keep, up disturbance in other districts,_. Ne
na Sahib, is said to be at Baieilly, but great
ly dispirited by'the death Of two nephews,
who were lately killed in battle. As to his
reputed learning and accomplishments,' Mr.
Layard has declared, that the descriptions of
him to that effect areliot true.
As to Oude, its pacification seems almost
certain. Lord Shaftsbury and the 'Whigs
were :right in interpreting Lord Canning's
proclarnationin a ,moderate sense. It was
only intended to give absolute power to the
Government to arrange the restoration and
settlement of lands which were not meant to
be "confiscated," in the :English sense of
the terms. On this very day, the 4th of
June, Lord. Canning, it is expected, will re
ceive Ellenborough's 'violent dispatch. , It
is to be hoped that the telegram conveying
the hearty support of the Derby Cabinet
(minus Ellenborough,) will have reached
him as soon. It is delightful to find that
Mr. Montgomery is the new Commissioner of
Gude.He is a thorough Christian man, and
Nyas the first (under Sir J. Lawrence,) to
enlist native Christians in the public service
in the Punjaub. Of his "ability, modera
tion, and judgment," as toiOude affairs, the
Times Correspondent speaks warmly, and
the telegram says : " A number of principal
Talookdars have made their submission to
the Chief Commissioner, either personally or
by their representatives,
and the settlement
of the country around Luoknow is being
rapidly made!'
We are expecting, ere long, to hear, of a
great conflict at Calpee, between Sir H.
Rose:and host - of rebels, twelve thousand
strong.
Mtitilations in= India are still'a topic of
discussion, and there seems no doubt at all
but they were real and numerous, as also
those, outrages reported on women, which
certain writers attempted to decry. A sol
dier's letter to his wife in'England, awfully
confirms the latter, while, as to mutilations,
I find• the following in the Cheltenham Ex
aminer : " A lady had been married only
two years to, an Indian officer. He lost his
life, and his unfortunate widow now comes
home deprived of both her ears, and the
fingers of each hand. "
The• Thee Assembly of the ESTABLISHED
CHURCH of Scotland has been holding its
meetings at the same time with the Free
Churoh gathering in Edinburgh. It is al
ways a cold place, that Assembly Hall of
their's for although warm Evangelism pal
sates in many hearts, yet somehow," dusty
musty" Moderatism gives too many tokens
of its presence. Dr. Leeehman, of Govan,
near Glasgow, is the. Moderator. He was
one of the men who "ratted" on the Non-
Intrusion controversy. He 'was with the
Evangelicals all along, but just before the
crisis of 1843, he dimovered a middle course
of his own by which not to go out, and so
he, the leader,:and his thirty-nine followers,
were, known, and are still remembered well,
as "the forty thieves."
The Established Assembly has confirmed
the sentence of a lower Court, deposing a
minister for intemperance and blasphemy.
But even he found a minority to vote for his
escape.
On the India question, the Assembly took
up an overture from a Presbytery, whin!'
prayed 'the Court " to reprobate any con
nexion, even the most remote, with a system
of education which proceeds upon a total'
religious neutrality, and places idolatry, and
a
the - Gospel upon a common footing—sys
tem hostile to the . Conversion of the'nattves,
perverse in its principles, and contrary to
all the obligations of a Christian govern
ment." Another overture was presented,
praying the. Assembly to petition that the
India GovernMent should disconnect' itself
from the management of HindooMoham
medan shrines, withhold its sanction from . .
the system of caste, suppress . immoral rights,
and ustmes and revive the use of the Bible
in the public colleges and, schools. — The-
Moderator did not like this plain and honest
course; and so bye majority carried resolu-.
tion:adhering to "'neutrality" in education,
whiehi let us charitably hope, is something
better than the " neutrality" of the East
India, Company. At the same time they
petitien Parliament that, under the future
government of India, no encouragement be
e' eine!' to idolatry, and every opportunity
afforded for the extension of the Christian
religion.
Here I may, nention that Loup STANWY
is made the new Secretary of the Board of
Control, ,in other words, Indian Minister..
He is not rash, like Ellenborough, but he
has no real sympathy with Evangelism and
Christian, Missions..
The FREE - °RUCH' REVENUE for the year
exceeds =-the entire funds of the Establish
ment, from at:quarters, including parochial
endowments! They amount.to upwards of
£330,000. By the Sustentation Fund, each
minister last year received £l3B. This is
the lowest stipend, while many and many . a
minister is lamely supplemented in his in
come by free will offerings. Each, too, has
a free manse. Now that the revival wave
is sweeping over America, shall not one test
of its reality and power be found in a uni
versal movement to the better &ostentation,
of the Ministry. I take . the liberty of
affectionately entreating American Presby
terian Churches to turn their noble organi
zation to this end, and that speedily. Inde :
•pendents and Baptist ministers„ here are
suffering terribly from want of a Sustenta
tion Fund, and some object to any such as
sociation on the ground of its interference
with Congregational,principles. They long,
many of them, for Presbyterial power in
this and other matters. They are " a rope
of sand" without it, as a Dissenting minis
ter confessed to me a,short time ago.
NOW, if Presbyterian organization is suc
cessful for every thing,, why should it' not
be successful in the matter of a Sustentation
Fund It has been the salvation in a tem
poral sense, the very sheet anchor of the.
Free Church. It was the noble conception
of. Chalmers. Only let it be tried. I mis
take your merchants, traders, farmers, ,the
great, middle class,_, the backbone of Ameri
can society, if Wieg;- . =-itow that Gdd re
freshed almost all your borders, and" 4 3lade
the Church, the Sabbath, the pulpit, more
precious than ever—do not respond with one
heart to a movement of this kind. Are
there not noble-hearted laymen, statesman
like in, counsel and plan, to organize such a
confederacy ?
•
A CURIOUS CASE occurred in the Free
Church Assembly. A minister had been
deposed by a Synod for intemperance. The
General ,Assembly confirms the sentence,
and lo! the condemned ,man makes out a
law case, and appeals to the Civil Courts for
an interdict. One ground pleaded was, that
the 'General Assembly being a cart of
review, had exceeded its Towers, to the in
jury of the civil rights and character of the
complainer.
But the Lord Ordinary refused the in
terdict craved, as being " incompetent."
A threat of a similar appeal in a case of
this kind had been made once since the
Disruption, but it was withdrawn. The re
sult of this ill advised appeal is, gratifying.
The Civil Courts seem 'to have made up
their minds to let non.estahlished Courts
alone. in 'matters of discipline. 'But Dr. C.
took occasion of the ease to found on 'it a
speech and motion in the spirit;of the olden
time.
.t`• It is indispensable," he said,.
"that we mark and stamp with our highest
reprobation, 'the very first attempt to coerce
the Char& by the threat of pains and pen
alties in a Civil Court."
A motion .has been carried in the Free.
Assembly, whereby one-third of the mem
bers of Presbytery shall be eligible to 'sit in
the Assembly each year. Mr. Gray, of
Perth, opposed the plan, (advocating a one•
fourth return,) and it was considered to be
unwieldy and:unworkable by Dr. Buchanan .
and others. What , says the experience of
America?
THE EXO,ITEMENT consequent on the In
dian. Debate, in connexion with the slashing
and severe assault of Disraeli upon the
"Cabal," so called in his speech in Bock
inghamshire, has. not subsided. He vio
lently abused Lord Shaftsbury, as .a " Phar
isee making broad his phylacteries," thus
insulting a man of marked humility and
piety, whose reputation is only used by him
as a capital wherewith to enrich the cause
of everything excellent. Disraeli, a heart
less adventurer, brilliant, deiterous, will be
forgotten, or only remembered as what he
is, and " ever has been, when Shaftsbury's
name will be embalmed in the hearts of
Palmerston and Lord John Russell, both
read rebukes to Disraeli. Lord Derby, when
his Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech
was first'mentioned in the Lords ; intimated
that he could now have an opportunity of
reading it, which he had not done !
Lord Clarendon, in an able and elaborate.
address, attacked the misstatements of Dis
raeli's speech, especially contradicting ab
whitely the startling assertion that when the
Whig Ministry resigned, the question =of
peace or war with France, was " one of
hours" only. Derby made as dexterous a
defence for his Lieutenant as possible. The
escapade of Disraeli imposes on nobody
except Tories, but'the Whigs are not a whit
nearer office just now, notwithstanding.
A COMPROMPiE is likely to take place
on the question of the admission of the
Jews to Parliament. Over and over again
the Commons have decided for, it, and, as
often have the Piers rejected and condemned
it. Now, Lord Lucan pronoses a Bill to,
allow the Commons to admit a Jew, if it so
please them, omitting the words in the oath;
" on-the true faith of a Christian," while
the Lords , . are to have.a, kindred_liberty of
rejecting or receiving. Thus a. continued
collision of the two 'branchea: would be
ended. Probably some middle course *rill
be adopted. Very few Jews will _seek .:ad=
mission to the Commons, and our Queen is
not likely to ereate Jewish peers..
IN. FRANCE,Lamartine is reduced to
poverty, and a subscription in England as
proposed. by the times, on, his behalf, is de
nounced by .several of the Paris papers I
The stern reOrne is still maintained. Triide
is very badln Paris, and the farmers' 'are
growing, poorer, every year. The, army is
insolent, and eats ,-up the resources of the
land. Such is . despotism always. The
Paris corrOspondent of a London piper
writes thus
It: is obviotur that a Government which fears
criticism is self-condemned; and every time a
newspaper is seized or suppresied by the Bona
partists, we may look upon the act as a.vercliCt of
guilty against themselves. The attack on the
Press'has never been more violent in France than
this year. No conclusion,. therefore, can be More
fair than that the, Emperor andthe immoral=
clique that surround him, feel that their position
is becomingless safe every day. This is the truth.
But it would be wrong to, suppose that the • hos
tility of the party, of liberty is becoming more
active, or that there is any greater danger' of
+evolutionnow than at this time last year. , A larger
number of persons may be willing now than then
to fight against the present regime, • but it is gen
erally admitted that the opportunity has not yet
arrived. Besides, every one sees that the Empire
is its own worst enemy. Scarcely a week passes
that some act is riot committed by which its pres
tige is dimiikished; and its warmest partisans
cannot point out a single clever manoeuvre or a
single honest intention. Stupid and unsuccessful,
attempts to: coerce elections are followed by
wholesale spoliation of private properly, arid'
thereby blind attacks on those who venture to'
criticise such insane policy.
It is useless to say much more on the barefaced
robbery of the charitable institutions Of France.
The whole case id resumed in the observations of
a landed proprietor who said the other day:—
" If it be lawful_ fir the State to seize on land be
longing to hospitals, and offer eolipo l ur in its
place. on the plea that a higher, percentage will
be•given,,lt is equally,lawful for the State to aa
.COrporate the whole soil of the 'country on 0 0.
same plea.". Every one knows•that the value of
land is constantly on the increase, whilst the
value of money is decreasing. There is Apower
ful agitation going on against this monstrous act,
the consequences -.of which are incalctdable. •
Philadelphia, 111 South Tenth Street, below Chestnut;
By Hail, or at the Office, $1.50 pllr Year,, t BRE PROSPECTVB:
Delivered in the City, 1.76
WHOLE NO. 801
This confiscation measure will, I believe, be aban
doned.
We fear that if the Emperor were gone,
things would be worse than ever. What
can be expeeted from the leaders . of a na
tion corrupt to the core, and the prey of In
fidelity or Romanism ? The next outburst
in Europe may' he indeed " the deluge."
But scatheless about its surging will rise the
Ark which carries a greater than Cmsar, the
predestined Conqueror of the world.
J.W.
Anecdote of Dr. Wheelock.
The following incident is derived from the
personal narrative of 'a Mr. Baldwin, one of
the earliest residents of Hanover, N.H. He
remarked: I was a constant attendant on
the preaching of 'Rev. Eleazar Wheelock,
D. D. Oa one Sabbath the congregation
was convened in a barn, as there was then
no house of worship in existence in the
place.• After the introduction of his subject,
the Rev. Doctor observed that he should ad
dress several classes of hearers in succession,
and apply his discourse to each. As the sev
eral classes were described, I selected in my
mind certain individuals whom I supposed
the "coat would fit." As he proceeded in
his specification of faults and sins, I followed,
mentally exclaiming, " Now A. is hit ;"
" now B. is wounded ;" " this will excite ill
blood;" "this pointed preaching will be felt
by them ;" " the preacher undoubtedly
draws his pictures from life ;"'" I know who
sat for each." After the Doctor seemed to
have enumerated all classes of sinners found
in his audience,. he paused and cast his eye
over the congregation.. He then, with great
solemnity, added : " There is still one class
that I have not mentioned." Then there
was a • slight pause and breathless silence.
The preaoher, with unusual ' , emphasis, re
'mined : *II The persons . to- whom I now al
lude, are those who are carefully hearing for
others and, not for themselves, who are ap
plying my discourse to their neighbors, and
cloaking their own sins." Then, said Mr.
8., iny heed dropped, and I bore the chas
tisement as best 'I could. "The wounded
bird fluttered," I assure you. It was a les
son that I did not soon forget. The gar
ment prepared for me was a better fit than
any that the good Doctor had prepared for
my neighbors.---miner.
A,New Test of Conversion.
An excellent pastor of Masaihusetts
writes to us, (says the EtrangelistO Talking
the other day with a brother minister who
is enjoying a rich outpouring of reviving
grace, :he: ,observed. that an influential man
in his congregation had recently asked, him
to exchange pulpits with a neighboring pas
tor, toward whom this bearer had been
wont to' express, great dislike as a preacher.
said my friendto,him, "this is
a strange 'request' froth youl you used to stay
away from church when brother P. came
here to preach."
"I know it," seplied the parishoner,
". but I hope I have lately become a Chris
tian, and "I thought if I could see Mr. P.
going up our pulpit stairs without getting
angry,. I should have pretty good evidence
that I am really converted."
Wonder how the religion of some of our
older disciples would stand that test ?
,fac4-.4011 . 41.t0in5.
TIEN BIBLE is, like a wide and beautiful
landscape seen afar off, dim and confused;
but ,a good telescope will bring it near, and
spread out all its trees, and rocks, and flow
ers, and verdant fields, and winding rivers
at one's -very 'feet. That telescope is the
Holy Spirit.
FROlT.—Every virtue gives a man a de
' gree of felicity in some kind. Honesty
gives a man good report; justice, estima
tion; prudence, respect; courtesy and liber
ality, affection; temperance, gives health;
fortitude,a.quiet mind, not to be moved by
adversit3i.
CONCEIT AND POLLS.-It IS not possible
but that a conceited Man must be a fool.
For that overweening opinion he hath of
hiniself, excludes all opportunity of pur
chasing knowledge. Let a vessel be once
full of never so base a liquor, it will not give
room to the costliest; but spills besides
whatever is infused. The'prond man, though
lie be empty of good substance, yet is full of
conceit. Many men had proved wise, if
they had not thought themselves so.— Hull.
PRIDE AND INGRATITUDE.-YOU may
rest upon this as an unfailing truth, that
there, neither is, nor ever was, any person
remarkably ungrateful, who was not also
unsufferably proud; for as snakes breed in
dunghills; not singly, but in knots, so in such
bue hearts you may always find pride and
ingratitude' twisted together. Ingratitude
overlooks all kindness, but it is because pride
makes it carry its head so high. In a word,'
ingratitude is too base to 'return a kindness,
too proud to regard it, much like the tops
of mountains, barren indeed, but yet lofty;
they'prodnce nothing ; they feed nobody;
they 'elothe nobody; yet are high and state
ly, and look down upon all the world.—
Botta.
OLD PSALM TITNES:=BrackwOOd says of
old psalm times:
There is to , us more of touching pathos,
heart•thrilling expression, in some of the
old psalm tunes,-than in a whole batch of
modernisms:
"The Strains go home, and the "founda
tions of ,the great deep are broken ar
tha'great deep of unfathomable feeling, that
Ilse far, far below-the surface of the world
hardened heart--and as the unwonted, yet
unchecked tear starts in the eye, the soft
ened spirit , yields„to their influence, and
shakes off the load of earthly care, rising
purified and spiritualized into a clearer at
mosphere.
".Strange, inexplicable associations brood
over , the,mind, "like far off dreams of par
adise " mingling their chaste melancholy
with a, - musing of a still, subdued, though
more - ieerful character. How many glad
'hearts, in the -olden time, have rejoiced in
these songs of praise; how many sorrowful
ones,f sighod •out their, complaints in those
plaintive notes that now, cold in death, are'
laid to rest around that sacred church, with
'in those walls they had so often swelled,
sLwith-letnetion."