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Friends of Youth. •
The merry friends of yotth are gone,
And with them memory's pleasant song
Of hope and joy in future years,
Which are now but fraught with tears.
But I hope to meet them soon
In bright realms beyond this gloom;
Afar from death, and sin, and woe,
Where living waters ever flow.
Sweet Home, Pa.
for the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate.
NEW YORK, July 19, 1853.
Rkv. Da. M'Kuirkkv :—Dear Sir :
I am indebted to your courtesy for a copy of
the Banner containing a report of the pro
ceedings at the Board of Domestic Missions,
on Jmy 28th. In that report you invite
Dr. M'Elroy, or myself, or both, to use your
columns for the publication of the remarks
offered by us at that meeting. For all which
you will please to accept my thanks.
The following is the substance of what ./1
said, or read
" My opinions on the question of abolish
ing the office of Associate Secretary, were
formed without reference to the mere exam
ple of any of the other Boards of our Church.
Neither have they any reference to the con•
tinning in office of the present Associate
Secretary. I have • only this to say here,
concerning him, that supposing the office to
be necessary, , the experience, fidelity, and
acceptance of the incumbent forcefully mg : .
gest his continuance.".(ln reverting to the
personal bearing of the question, I added
afterwards,
that "having heard of a rumor
to the effeot , ..that the Secretary's visit to
California;'last year, had involved the cause
of our missions in that State in great odium,
growing out of some secular business of
which he had the management, I had' taken
the opportunity of a recent interview with
Dr. Scott, of San Francisco, the Moderator
of the last General Assembly, to inquire
specifically into the truth of that rumor.
Dr. Scott assured me that he had never
heard of it in California; and, moreover,
that the prudence, diligence, and ability of
the Secretary, in California, had been of the
highest service to thecause of our missions
on the Paeific, and had greatly endeared
the Secretary himself to the ministers and
churches in' that region. In the meantime,
the whole expense of Mat jaarney, to the
Board, was but little over two hundred dol.
litre /")
"But I was persuaded that the office
ought not to be abolished. (1.) Notwith
standing the evident inclination of a portion
of the Asserably to abolish it, the' body hesi
tated. And' the very doubt thus thrown
upon the proposition is trantferred with, it
to the Board—with heavier , , weight, has.
much as the . Assembly not only pessessed
the whole authority over the question, but,
as freshly representing the whole' Church,
was far more competent to decide it. It
appeared.to me, moreover, that the weight
of character, influence, and argument, in
the Assembly, was against the proposition.
" (24 The abolition of all merely Collect
ing Agencies, as such, does not necessarily
suggest the abolition of the office of Asso
date Secretary, on the ground that that
officer is also, incidentally, a Collecting
Agent. (The"argument' would prove too
much; it may be applied with. equal perti. '
nenoy to the office of the Corresponding
Secretary. And indeed the official state
ments made here to night, in regard to the
limited duties of that office, would go to
prove that a mere Clerk, with a salary of
$BOO, could perform all the service now ren•
dered by the Corresponding Secretary I)
But the collecting agencies having been
abolished, the necessity of such services as
have been devolved upon the Associate Sec
retary, or interchangeably upon the Corre
sponding Secretary, becomes only the more
urgent. Neither of these officers has a sine
cure ; neither of them is a mere register and re
corder. There is work to be done by both
that requires able and diligent men. The
Domestic Missions of our Church are not
stationary / but progreseive, and we must
provide for enlargement. They involve a
system of collection and disbursement, bat
not of simple receipt and payment of money
The interest, affection, and co-operation of
the churches are to be enlisted, and sus
tained, and increased ; and the missionary
field is to be superintended and thoroughly
cultivated. While it is deemed essential
that a Secretary should be in constant at
tendance at the office in Philadelphia, to
counsel with the Executive Committee, and
to conduct the correspondence, an equally
important and valuable service must be per
formed by a Secretary, out of doors. Be
sides occasional service in preriehing at im
portant points, and incidentally,' in collect
ing—on which I lay no great stress—l
cannot but think that the visits of the Sec
retary to the missionary field, on the one
hand, and on the other band, his personal
conferences with the Pastors, Sessions ' Pres
'byteriee, and Synods, among whom he ca n
circulate with far greater rapidity than any
Collecting Agent, accomplish a most desire
ble and indispensable benefit—in the mutual
information thus communicated, in the inti.
mate knowledge thus gained by the Board,
or the Executive Committee, and in the
Stimulus to systematic beneficence and .eifi
cient co-operation, which is thus brought
to bear upon many churches which are yet
far below the proper standard. The time is
by no means come—if it will ever come—
when, with all the excellent provisions of
011 -r Presbyterian system, there will not be
needed something more than the mere spon
taneous working of its various parts. The
machinery must be wound up and kept in
motion. The newly inaugurated plan of
" Systematic Beneficence" is not going to do
the work, of itself. It is not going to do it,
BS if it were a charm. Resolutions on the
Minutes of our Presbyteries and Synod's are
not going to do it. Th'ere must be a living
agency—not a simple collecting agent--to
keep it before the people; to bring it before
pastors and elders, and to urge it, if you
please, upon their hearts, so that they may
not refrain, through sluggiahnas t timidity;
trelfishness, or distrust, from urging it upon
their people. We are all sluggish, arid need
to be reminded of our duty, and exhorted
and encouraged to do it. There is much to
he explained and set forth on this great
work. The addresses and interviews of
Secretaries with some Western Synods have
been disparaged here as useless, and repre
sented as havine. p provoked some muttering
rhuncli , rs ' ("although another witness from
West, Dr. Allan Campbell, contradicts
that statement,) and yet we are told; from
another quarter, that the Synod of Bahl
more felt itself neglected because, for a con
siderable time, no Secretary had 'visited it!
The truth is, these visits, brief and infre
quent as they are of necessity, and these
fireside, interviews in pastors' studies and
elders' houses, do great good. They leave
an influence behind them, which lives and
expands ; and your plans and your work as
a Missionary Hoard become better 'known,
appreciated, and loved by the churches.
And, moreover, there is the whole mission
ary field How much may be done to cheer
some little church in the new settlements—
how much to lift up the fainting heart of
the lonely missionary—by the fact that a
Secretary looks in occasionally upon his
toils, and that the Board is represented by
these living sympathies, and not merely by
the'stipendiary dole, and the doleful exhor
tation to economy I The itinerant Secretary
may be able to preach to but few of the con
gregations, but he can see many of the mis
sionaries He can learn much by conversa
tion and inspection. He can encourage the
aid-receiviog congregations to aspire to, self
enstentation, and to become aid-giving
churches 5 and be can so promote this cause,
that the remembrance and influence of such a
supervision by this Board, will - remain, and
endear it to the scattered laborers, and thus,
by the power of a mutual sympathy, strength
en and sustain your oause all over the field
it cultivates, and continually enlarge 'the
field itself by exploration for new enter
prise. It is no time to restrict our opera
tions. We need prompting agencies by
which all the parts and functions of oar
wide-extending organization may be brought.
into universal, harmonious', and efficient co- -
operation, and the much land that is before.
us may be possessed. - The Board must have
as many Secretaries as experience and emer
gencies demonstrate to be essential. It
would ill become us to consent to—or rather,
to provoke—the paralysis of an ill-judged
economy, and 'an !unsympathizing and ill
judging parsimony; a mere matter of clerk
ship, of dollars and cents. ' There is
that . scattereth, and yet inarsaseth ; 'and
there is that withholdeth more than is meet,
and it tendeth to poverty.'
" 0.) Indeed, I am so well, assured of
the soundness of these views, that, instead
of. contracting, I advise enlargement every
way. Instead of abolishing the office of
Associate Secretary, I am prepared to renew
a motion once made upon this floor, for
the creation of the; office. of Co "ordinate Sec
retary, believe that this is - the. true pol
icy of the Board. I will nit enlarge uporr
it now. But it will be found that whosoever
the officer may be, the sooner this Board
follows the example of the Boards of Educa
tion and of Foreign Missions, the sooner
yoq promote .harmony among your offi
cers, and, increase, the efficiency of your op
erations."
FRANK FAITHFUL
And now, the Editor of the Banner will
allow me to remark upon his report. L In
your "Remarks," you say
"We regret the continuance of the office of
Associate Secretary. It was retained mainly by
the Speeches, influence, and votes of gentlemen
who but seldom attend the meetings, and who
consequently cannot be informed at first hand, of
the wants of the Board, of the utility, or inutility
of an office, nor of the efficiency or inefficiency of
an officer. In such circumstances it is exceed
ingly hard;'that an office and an officer shill be
forced upon those members who constitute, the
business board, who meet weekly and monthly in
counsel, who know all the Board's affairs, and the
efficiency or otherwise of all it officers, and who
do the work and bear before the churches the re
sponsibility. Will the churoheis approve of this?"
Now, my good Doctor, without a thought
of "reproaching you for this plainness of
speech "—yet, nevertheless, as one of those
gentlemen, I would say in justification, (1.)
that I am a member of the Board; (2.) that
the Assembly in electing me, never eXpeet
ed me to 'attend many meetings, but it had
confidence in me that I would attend on im
portant occasions, and especially when itself
proposed important questions for the consid
eration of the Board; and, farther, that I
would keep myself informed of its " affairs ;"
(3) that my position in these premises is
exactly equivalent to that of the Editor of
the. Banner, who can "but seldom attend ;"
(4) that I have had very good opportuni
ties of being "informed, 'at first hand,' of
the wants of the Ikaird, of the utility or
inutility of the office," in question, and of
the "efficiency or inefficiency of the officer;"
(5 ) 'that no "business Board" is supreme
over the Board. itself; (6) that no of
has been "forced" on the Board; (7.) that
the " responsibility " of Continuing the
office is with those "whose speeches, irtfin-
eine, and votes " caused it, to be " retained ;"
(8.) that if the question had been decided
the ether way, I would not have reproached
the " gentlemen who but seldom attend the
meetings," for attending, and speaking, and
voting, differently from me, and by their
44 influence" deciding the question against
me; and (8.) tha't the Assembly made a
large Board for just such occasions, so that
the public opinion of the Church might
come in to the aid of the "•business Board,"
and, if yon please, even to instruct it. The
utility of such a reserved corps was striking
ly manifest in the recent discussions of the
American Bible Society. Public opinion
came powerfully into the " business Board ;"
and although that Board would have deci
ded, as it eventually did, to recede and re
scind ; yet the churches and the public) have
to thank the • " speeches, influence ; and
votes of gentlemen who but seldom attend
the meetings" for their overwhelming de
monstration in that business. There is
nothing in this that deserves to be called
"exceedingly hard l",
2. After analysing'the vote on retaining
the nine° of Associate Secretary, you say :
"Thus the working men of -the Board, who on
. derstami its business and its:wants, say the office
i
"ONE THING IS NEEDFUL:" "ONE THING HAVE I DESIRED OF THELORD:" "THIS ONE THING I DO."
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is unnecessary. This is so, or otherwise, the in
epiency of the occupant is so glaring, and the diffi
culty of removing him is so great, that to get clear
Of the incumbent they are willing to abolish the
office" I/ (The italics are mine.)
My dear sir, what does this mean ? What
is the animus that it reveals ? What policy
does it savor ? You speak as one " baying
some knowledge," and as of designs and
motives not hitherto aired. And is this
movement but a personal matter after all.?
Is it a desperate stratagem to get rid of Dr.
Happersett ?—a mere barn.burning busi
ness to " get &ear of an; incumbent ?"—and
that incumbent a man whose " personal
friendship, you enjoy;" a man of whom the
last Assembly solemnly declared, that they
" cherish full confidence and regard," and
the Board of Domestic .Missions has just
voted " nem. con.,", that " in that .declara
tion of confidence and regard it cordially
united r , Is he so "unnecessary," or is his
"inefficiency so glaring," that the whole
Church must be moved to get rid of him ?
And is the ".difficulty of removing him so
great," at the same time, that the , Church
must be invoked to mutilate and,derange the
organization of her Board of. Domestic Mis
sions in order to oust him.? Does this radi-,
cal movement, and revolutionary temporis
ing, and mere pretence, connect itself
with the, " business Board "—with the got -
sip from •California, ,and with the proceed
ings before the -Greneral ,Assembly ,involv 7
ing " chargetrof an, injurious nature in the
premises, from 'which the Board felt them
selves bound, in, common justice to shiold
their Associate Secretary,?" There have
been some whispers of this intent and pur
port of this earnest .and, portentous move
ment; and Dr. Snodgrass's speech at the,
annual meeting, shrewdly surmised it. But
your paragraph comes take , nearest to a pub
lic avowal of the, schome—if such a scheme
exists. Is this a worthy policy ? Must the
Presbyterian Church resort to indirection,
and stoop to injurious insinuations, against
the incumbent! of any ;of her offices "Is
she so powerless to try an impeachment, that
she must resemble
•
all ooean into' tempest tossed,
To waft a feather or to drown ally ?",
But, however this rosy' be,i reiterate nay
conviction that this is. no- time to disparage
the work of the Board, ,by ,reducing its
working force. To-me, the whole policy
seems a strangely narrow one. Before, Dr.
M'Dowell retire;:l_,,f;om die ptri...E._-_,Cor
r...pi;;“llnti Scretary, the Board did me the
honor of electing me Associate Secretary,
such was the magnitude of the work at that
time. .Surely it has not diminished since
then. And are we now to retrace our steps,
to deny all our history and our progress, and
to proclaim to all the world that, after all
the "long agony " of its 'youthful struggle
for existence, and aui its achievement in
strengthening the Church, and all the glory
and triumph of its free expansion, the gre‘t
Board of Domestic Missions of the great
Presbyterian Church has reached, its limit,
and now prepares itself to dwindle and to
dwarf its dimensions, and its enterprise, and .
doggedly subside into a mere " one.horse
concern ?" Respectfully yours,
For the Presbyteilan Baiaitor and Advocate ,
•A Suggestion About-Churches.
MR. EDITOR :—Your truly valuable sheet
makes its regular weekly visits, which are
very welcome indeed; and it brings glad
tidings of good at every visit. How joyful
to hear that the grace of oar Lord Jesus
Christ is steadily gathering the lost sheep
home. Revivtds still go on, and the attend
ants on the means of grace still increase in
numbers. God grant that : the work may
steadily prosper, and thousands and tens of
thousands yet seek and find a sure relief
from all their woes, through faith in the
Lord Jesus.
-The news also comes from many places
that help is needed, and the cry is, We are
not able to build, churches, nor to pay labor
ers. The want of churches might be speed
ily remedied, by a due effort, and the build
ing being had, the obtaining and sustaining
of a pastor would be' much less difficult.
For the first, build less costly edifices; $5OO
to $l,OOO will build an excellent and com
modious house. Two or three thousand dol
lars rightly experided, will, furnish, as com
fortable and as enduring an edifice as is fre
quently obtained for five or Six thousand,
thus saving much toward paying a minister.
Such economy is often necessary, and is as
commendable in the sight of, our Divine
Master, as it is to have a rnore,costly• edifice
and a less. amount of religious services.
Brethren, ponder over this, and see if it is
not so.
Again : From the " Far West" the news
comes that there is a most desirable loca
tion for a Presbyterian church, bnt funds
cannot be obtained for building. As the
Board of Church Fxtension contributes
$1.50 to $5OO toward the erecting of a
church, suppose the Board' , in - such. new
places as contain vacant hinds, enter a .quar
ter section, more or less, for a church lot, on
which may be ,erected a building suitable to
accommodate a small congregation till such
time as a larger one will be necessary ; the
Board paying such sum toward the erection
of the first edifice as it may deem proper;
$BOO to $5OO will readily purchase material,
the congregation paying the expense of
erection. The church lot would be in the
care of the Trustees, who shall lease it to
some competent husbandman for a certain
yearly consideration, which shall be devoted
to the support of a minister: When it be
comes advisable to erect a more commodious
edifice—in which time the church lot will
have increased in value—it may be reserved
as a parsonage, or a portion of it, or all, ex
cept` a sufficiently large graveyard' lot, may
be sold,• and the prebends be. devoted to the
erection of. a church adequate to the accom
modation of the people for a 199 g time to
'
come. This will be accumulating church
propeity, but I think in a very appropriate
• J.-. WK.
s way.
The Mouse of Peers, and the Extra ,s'enines in the
Prayer-Book—Analysis of the Discussion--T'
Compromise Church in its Workinge-Leßishop! I
London's. Speech The Latest frani-India-- i -
i ,„
tension of the Rebellion—Fall of Calpt The -
din Bill, and Lord Palmerston's Di/ i—A es
suit Campaign over Protestant Bit ape,- igh
Churchmen of Germany—Kindred Doings Ise
where-4cottish Episeopal Church—the C fis
sional at St. Barnabas—Romish CoWiteq , V
Interest in American Revivals at Edirr,g The
Hungarian Church—Postecript. -,idl,
LONDON,. Jul illi t 58
Tint HOUSE OF LORDS, Witaln 4 1 unex
pected unanimity, has agreed tb)fv. also&
tion of the Services Annexed to Oa /: cilc.• of
Common. Prayer whiOla were V, .' , dett . to
commemorate• the Gunpowder Pt , ;Aiex
ecution of -King Charles 1., artda ectioctea-s
sion - to the thronepf King Gharle 1.. The
motion was brought forward by , liird Sian
lope. He referred to the mb ion made
earlier in the session by Lordliii•Yrfor a
lit)
general revision of the Liturg ' l'ilnd' Whinh
the House had rejected. ,Hi (oLord.S's),
proposal,,however, was of a. di ereut kind ;
because, the Services which. he r2posedto
abolish' were no -part of jginal and
"real Liturgy!! They were act and a
stain upon it. ti!.
4
In reference to the Gunpowd „Riot,. be
incidentally illustrated the serve 4;spirit of
t
the days of, the pedantic and 'wort 'less James
1., by quoting the Act Of Par ainvikt on
which the Service for the sth of November
was - founded. That Act begin by speaking
of, the utter ruin which .might have 'wined
to the whole Kingdom, had it nq leased
Almighty God to inspire the King Meet
j
Excellent Majesty with a Divineu piritio
interPret sonie , dark phrases of a litt err -and
so on. The Service for the sth 41 event-.
her was so far afterwards modified, AO inas
much as William 111. landed at `ay on
the sth of November, 1688, thankkivings`
were 'added -for "this %lso. ' On the 'ground'
of the lapse of time, and the harshilanguage
used in these Services, ‘,Lord, Stanyope pro
posed their abolition.
f
' Then as King Charles the olfetrtir"
while pitying that unfortunate menareh; he
thought that the title of "Martyr" 4 :Should
be reserved for those Christians who, rather
than renounce , their faith, had i ' suffered
death at the hands of the Pagana, f [This
would ,very Unjustly abridge the glorious
martyr roll; it would exclude the vaitiins of
bleat , Mary, the Wildensian "slarlghtered
saints" of God, and the 44 Martyrs.of the
Covenant") The objection also to f,heoom
parison in the Service for the:3Qtliief Jan
uary, of the sufferings of Charing; to those
of the Divine Redeemer, was powerfully
urged by the speaker. ' "`l•'= ~
The Archbishop of Canterburyireseinane
diately after Lord Stanhope, andz*xpressed
hits approval of the motion. "ThatiSerihres
are -.practically, Obsolete. -wri-dy:=.4a.ker-no
part'ofifie Book of Common Prayer to Which
the clergy haie'declared their consent, and
are bound ,te conform."
Lord' Ebury approved of the motion, • of,
ceuree, •and with some force showed that,
some anomalies almost as great still remained
in the Liturgy, which he thought should
also be abolished. Whereupon the Bishop
of London, , while strongly approving the re
moval of the - Extra Services, said that , 4 ,4 it
was impossible to enter upon the revision of
the Liturgy which the noble Baron advo
cated, without touching on many'points of
doctrine." ' That is quite true, and,ns you
and I think, the Liturgy 'should , have but;
one voice, so far as it teaches,. and even,
prayers must teach. For example, we may
pray that the water of haptism may he act
companied by the'' washing - of renenenition
and the renewing' of` the 'Holy-Ghost, littt
the:Liturgy.pronounces tire child regenerate.:
The Bishop ef London is a Lpw-Chnretiman, ,
but he is a Churchman still, and stands fast
by the "compromise`" - spirit that keeps
together=in connexion With State ply—
such heterogeneous elements. Hear , him
on this point: "I believe it to be the safe
guard of the Church of _England, that Whits,
from tlie very - first, included within its walls'
persons of very different religious sentiments,-
who yet multi all concur in the fundamen-,
tal principles of religion; (?) and T feel
assured that such a revision as the noble
Lord proposes, would lead one party to ex.
pect, by - stereotyping their own opinions,
that they might get rid of the opinions of
others, which it was equally desirable. to
retain in the Church. with themselves." To
which their Lordships said, "Hear, and
Hear." Coining from such a man—a Lib
pral of the Arnold school, Evarigelidal in
sentiment and spirit—these are not satis
factory words, and indicate the wretched
plausibilities by which the status quo is jus,
tified. Better to have a "Chinon of Eng
land," out and out High-Church, and by its
Convocation' shutting' out'' - Evangelicals 'and
Low-Chrirchinen, tharr 'such- wicked - com
promise as the - present, which makes Ben
net of Frame and Millar, of Birming
ham, brethren in one body, while, in heart,
the one is a medimvalist and a Papist, and
the other a New Testatuent Presbyter and
'a Puritan. Meal:thine, Wiseman and Com
pany look on delighted, and the poor, weak
Millenarians--Dr. Cumming teaching them
in his utterances—say, " Ali I under the
present dispensation, we must be content
with the mingling 'of chaff and wheat ; when
the - Lorduomes in person to reign atjeru
salem, all will, be put right, .and all existing
ecclesiastical arrangements will pass away."
I have always looked, on this last plea for
present corraption nsintolerably disgusting
•
'lt was largely On'thitt 'principle that the
Free Church movement was (and is) looked
upon by many Evangelical Churchmen with
dislike. Besides, it is a standing rebuke to
their policy in keeping in. I despair—as
long as Prelacy lasts 112 England—of a' real
'" Exodus " being ever accomplished..
The Bishop of Oxford—strange to say—
was for the abolition of the extra Services.
"They were far too political, far too polem
ical; far too epigrammatical, (bear, hear,)
and contained nothing of that ehaitened de
votion which characterized the Liturgy of
the Church of England, in those prayers
which had come dawn from the earliest times
of the Church." (?) Lord Malmesbury, on
behalf of the Cabinet, agreed to the motion,
and no doubt the House of Commons *ill
go along with the Lords. in , ♦ the matter.
- Two' parties, however, will be displeased._
First, certain Heads el Colleges at Oxford,;:
and "High and Dry" Churchmen; and
second,the Orangemen of Ireland a qtilio
, ;
almost deify the merrier& 'Of 'William TIL
The , last mentioned ,party will soariely im
JOHN M. KREBS
From our London Correspondent.
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soothed by the assurance frequently given
in the discussion just described, that King
William was providentially a "deliverer.
THE NEWS Esom INDIA indicates contin
ued disturbance,. and hard work for our
troops, yet is more cheering on the whole.
One great success has been achieved, name
ly, the 4capture of Calpee bv. Sir 11.. Rose,
and the capture of guns, elephants, and am
munition. It was from this place that the
Gwalior mutineers long sullenly looked out
eMbarratieingly on the early part of the strug
gle. Thence 'they proceeded to. Cawapore,
and by a clever feint drew Windham out of
his. camp, and, inflicted the only serious re
verse- which our 'army suffered during the
war, and which, "but for .'Sir C.
advance to the "rescue,. might havebeemvery!
'4iBastic.4 B -_.l.TheY,l.ore!etenc4:4.:? - 9 1 41;,tAtEM
were daagerons because „strong in numbers,
had thorough' discipline, and abiindanCirtil
lery. NOW they are a scattered rabble:
The Bombay Presidency is at lasCfeeling
the, effect of the rotatory 'storm. In the
'Southern Mahratta country a political ; agent
has . been murdered, although the rebel
Chief who headed the emente talien.
Chandra also, to - Whioli I referred:in My
last, been recaptured from: its rebel •oe.
°operas, and Madras and Bombay troops are
advaneingon disturbed districts. Still the
mischief, I fear, will spread more widely:
For Lucknow; there does not seem
.`to be ' en%
tertained such danger of recaliture as - wai
'indicated in the last Calcutta telegram. As
• rebels, however, are advancing in .. , great
numbers toward ,Oude, and as the great
trna • • " • • • clo se d , is
n •roa near awnpore
plain-that: much is yet to be done. The
Fundi , did-Inot rise on the receipt of the
news, as, whole, it was discouraging;
indicating iliiillSeeiSity of 'great additienal
expenditure,- „;„
The Government will probably carry their
INDIA BILL,' with some amendments. = Rut
the; failure of ihree. attempts, of Lord Pal-.
merston last week, and the present, to alter
the constitution - of the Connell, is most sig
nificant as to his 'apparently irrecoverable
downfall. Still' he has wonderful tviiacity
about hiur, and pei.wo,alli ie not .disliked in
the - House of > C om mons..by the, majority.
Next year, he May vault into power once_
more. Meantime, his exelosiou is to the
beneffe of the 'country.
A JESUIT CAMPAIGN, on a new plan,, is
now in progress In various , Pretestant
countries in . Europe, and' deubtleiti the
plan has' been - issued from: headquarters.
"'Not only every controversial. , ; and -.pp=
culiarly Popish, but every distinct
flan dogma thrust aside, so as_ to leave
it doubtful to What . iside, wheter nela
tive or positive Chimtianity, Ilie4reaoheri
beleng; While -the lofty-sounding. _moral.,
somewhat sentimemsar-etudiTmely ,popular
discourse;-might , . eara,Appleute frorn.a,
hammedan , pr beithen audience." Sowritesa
special isoriesiohdent cif=the Nem of the
Churekee, from ," the shoret of the Baltic.";
It appears that no other: preachers . :; than the,
Jesuits, in 40,,= . are,, allowed to pervade
Protestant Districts. The effect is evil.
Great concourses of Protestante have been
thus'attracted' at 'Lubeck, and at Berlin. A
Protestant lady having expressed; her sur
prise at the, total absence Of all polemical
animosity,_ a Boman Catholic officerleplied,
" What ! lawich out hiti thunderbolts against a
confession which outnumbers his own' by one
Hundred to one No, no ! that wereto
tribute to the Jesuit .father a most unpar
donable defieiency in the sense, of thpfitnfi . fs
of ,thingi for which,his,orcler has, ever., been
celebrated'!" There are 'leis on our Eng 7
lish SeAute Book against'` the Oreiiitsiimi 'of
Jesuit Collegee; ite.---'-elauiew in -connexion
*ith' the Emancipation Act of 1829-7 but
they are a dead letter. The Jesuits have
their establishments is varions, placep,,And
divide with the fathers of "the oratory and
some other Order's, the work of plausible
Preaching, and of holding " retreats° far
penance 'and confession, fin,the Lenten sea
son.- Wiseman probably is himself a' Jesuit.
The Jesuits at Rome n eontrol Pio Nono, and
are, as of old, the stout rowers who bear on
ward, with combined and energetic' stroke,
"the bark of Be 'Peter"' over the Adverse
waves Some 'day it' will go doivn no doubt,
and probably when apparently entering the
haven. in triumph.
An Article for, Pastors.
The PROTESTANT HIGH CHURORMEN ,of The relation of the , -Reli • Press to
North Germany r have been , holding ,a Con-
personal religious progress, is triornintinmee
ferenee at Hanover ; several Romanising t h an n e na r aff y iiii,pnago,- mo re '. ull' to
ceremonies Were intraneed. Another great '''
As - the intellect is expanded' biits;eker-
Conference his come off at Thuringen, at else upon .proper ' subjects, so _the moral*
Which' the main -kph; of the deliberations .
spiritual nature is ,improvnd by,the,contem- ,
was the introduction , of exorcism at4he rite plation of moral truth. But,the - ,cont 4 e'inpTi.
of baptism ! It is the common contagion lion of'i;ettli, idene' hi 'hot enfficient 'tattle'
of " ecclesiastical antiquarianism," which highest literal 'deVeloPinent.' We ineed' o
haunts ehur6hPe° alike ` i ° l ier ma nY) =see the ' l deas of "that =truth in the great
England, Scotland, '(Scottish Episcopal;) world, and • upon individual life, ,in-onderp
and:the, United Stated. It in'AL marked sign realize its Divine power, and.streegthen sews
of the times, and.the origin and pregress of faith in its Divine character. Then; lab
this spirit oft,eermonialisn ,waY surely be this increased confidence'in its eiffeacy;ns
traced' to Sedates, devices. The 'Scottish seen : sp o s ours, we .. th i l i th e .,th ore p ri ij, e r.
Episcopal Bishop•of Aberdeen has protteen- fully-study it, to secure the same blessedtre
ted the Rev. P. Cheyne•foi heresy, in " Six salts for ourselves. -IMoreover, as Ire -hear
Sermons on the . Holy Eueharist." The of the wonderful effects of very feeble cans-
Advocate of the latter_threatened to appeal es; put ineperatio we
n by very feeble men,
to the -Civil
~Court. Twelve clergymen are st i mo i ato d -to l i k e effort, and this effort
agreed with the "Bishop in eendeinning, the being followed:by like blessinge,'ourfaithlie
large minority ornine were in favor of the , ` s till'f u rthe r strengthened' faith in God,
.
heretic. - and faith in our own powento do good y un 7
, 1
The ST. BARNABAS CONFESSIONAL affair, der god., ~; ..., .., ,
is to come up , for , investigation : before m
the ' There arc any Christians s eemingl y des
courts of law., Mr. Poole • and his friends titute of this faith, who hence„,make • - Milo
deny the of the female witnesses effort to be isefdl, and'ininieqiientlY hie all
examined by Mr.' Bering: Miss JOY, a lady : the benefit of therefiel influonee of doing
whose
' name ' was • ~
at the public , good. , The Chriatian o therefore, daily needs.
.
meeting; writer, to the Antes that she never I to be broti , ght into close ` centaet with
,the
confessed herself, nor ,urged the women to • great religions world, that - hii,mla 190* of
do so - But the existeece, of the , conies - the toils and trials ofiGod'a people; andthe
sional. and the propriety„ in "exceptional triumphs' of Tivine greet) , ife , rieedii , thie.
cases," of " lisbitthil confession," is not toiaequaint him with ' his own L capacity lor
denied by Mr. ladder ' A Romish Writer in usefulness; to. remind him- that. he *not
the Weekly Register, wants Ito know , from fulfilliuglkie_ mission,,,attd to. AtipOnlate him
(Liddel, Poole, dpc.,) " theee self.constitu- to, the required effort, and thus bless and be
ted, reformers," how he couldfUlfill his du- blessed. • ' .
ties, without entering into' - midi' details Logi ' Now, that pastor 'Who will ,th - us bring a
have excited suck tdakil ' indignation. ' IA ' - disciple into this daily contact with the(ne
confessor in a spiritual physician and a spit.- ligious world, performs for him a moetAm.
itual judge'; a physi c ian to, ,minieter tO the portant service, .by.-placing him in (Aroma:
spiritual health of the patient, and a judge„ - stances-feveratile _to , personal religip prc.
to remit or retain the sine of, the offender. gross. This importeqeepl i ee,' l l,O j oilleasily
How can he act, as a physician` without ac- render, by inducmg,h4
,to take, s ome' ell
painting hironelf with the:an:min?: And conducted religions Piper; andihet4fil won' t ,
how can he exercise thenedfunit of: a judge' wane" hinnown P. reward ganelhedneflased and
i
without knowing the offence ?-I , i‘N9 doubt," more,. , . intellifitintut4tAntktn , Viihke pi,10 3 ,1 01-
it is coolly added, " these ; details are di& t tions, and in the spiritual growti and greet
gusting; but What should we think Of, a ,e,r, use i fulpees,•both t ef o the t intiehAtar,iffd - his
surgeon'who should refuse to' undertake a .family. ,--,lipeciallximpizta4C;B jt;that,thet
1 44
needfid'operatitin; - becanie' : it" Vailld liWelve -theneindwreoentlyArotglitfintogle bilirokt
). 4 . stisl i s A 4' 1 1 'drd -
tf lf" V '' - ''. -. .1
him in some disgusting a .?•-f, , The lob- she at once ; I}e lbrourit 1 - 404hiliOose
- - . 1 -' ~ 1 , ~ r . : ---}, • , ~ 1
jeetion of these gentlemen, in the abstract,
is, absurd and senseless. Let them contend,
if they will, against the practice of confes
sion altogether, which is not an Unfair
ground for a Protestant to take ; but Wier
altogether, ridiculous to: seem;to, admit, the
principle, and then to, object to details whi4h
are essentially necessary toward carrying
,the princiPle into effect." ; and
so, if Liddel' and his Partrarelinffered to,
go ; we shall have: in blngland , all therdemer-,
alization of confessor, and,peny '
ent,
,and , the
total uprootingot l ftli domestic confidence
by " eptrituA dtreetors,'? eo fearN.lli jibe
.trated thWecithineiii, and
,pOrtraYed with sieh;rnet4elous fidelity; in
,'‘ Mi4helet's Priests, Norm, trelPamiliesf.
D.IBiIAIINTNItEit/ IN , THE ‘AASEILICAIP
AwAkErsoidiisundw generaltove , xl-I , lo,4lrapp
dogli At 13 ..._Fixiire0eO.titsq!!) 8P,F, 0 4X,A ,
Edinburgh. There, 11 : 5,pre y ,viously, bon
iik.'Be6uittcr Ottended,'"lth&pl2
dressed • a `public meeting: Qiiejn;
Street; -Hall was, :filled , overflowing, - and:
deep solemnity Trevailed. V At. ,the .close
S."B,.statornent o Pr.. Candlish made,- by.
requeit„ a: fewoheervetions., He deprecated,
anything like an attempt to initiate 'Faith*
in'this'codetry-byimitation4olll64
124wever,i that bY,,ixtirchi prayer.) and
dealing- mightbe
fidTalred,!Ktd.itht?
.them also. ICsuah, an awakening did' ex
tend
"teiks„ , bonntry; the ;Siii;awpiiictlC4,si'
tit in flee°pr ould' beat iwitedf. yoi , 4,e'peoi7e;
He, hadibeeir muoh , struclr witiv a 'state went
of ,Dr,Sehauffler! to. the effectthat.the,mint
raters in Amerrea,..while. giving their full
countenance, to the prayer.meetings,,, bad
mingiedin thew, not as 'Ministeri; but sim-
ply: as private Chtietiaris.'
; mend:that' during!tb:efew remaining 'Weeks;
before , most, families: left's
scia;;sidorecreation,)nwettkl . y.prlrrlueotßg'
• should be held on this principle,, in Whleh
alt-LnkiniSters and laymen—should 'Meet'
simply " as' Christian brethrefil . This
posaLmas Cordially agreedito, and it was .de,
termineciAo hold .severat meetings : in „Queen !
, Street; all. ~
The R.IINGAATAN PB97P 3 TetNTEI-,4vM,
yet, received { . no, redress, spite , „the
•
promises "of th.Enlferor . of
bOOke not agreeable to the Obv4iiireent,iii6
ohnfiscateel, when imported Ming*y. 7 :
All Bibles andatiazin found iut possession
clergymen: p . ,K.priv,ate., persons„ have been
confiscated or destroyed. the. Word of
GA is thus Soiree fliingari:' . :: . Eien in a,
whole parish, only one or two copies be'
found. - spiritual Aife is. found, there,
although therenreindioations of the shaking,
of, the dry.bones. prayer for one of the ofI I
est Most ontoreSsed'il'rlite'stantOiiiiretlieh
-:- . 411403f HinikariLai's rv a great duty'
',..lk.6,Last night the House of , Lords,
a considerable , nrajority,: t rtgreed
can's Billy for the aditussion of jewsinto the,
House of 'ConniOne ' 4rheLtiiii4}erCedi'd
and. Others strenuously protested, bveLbid;'
Derby; : xesolving td!putwaniend , to a•ivexed
question, : ,ensured its triumph. ,was
present When the division was resolved, on,
and saw *Baren Rothschild at the 'dam of
the liaise; as the" Peers, coming out, an::
nonneed the result.- He siratisbut ei-'
cited. ,:This; minim:take - of Europe,iis
10 4 P) 9f, Abclo fiftY-Aye.„, pears ,of agq,i,rat , ..ke„T;
stout in, figure, about five eet eight ; inches,
herglit,witi(itioleasiiii facie; not. marked.
With llebreirgeurinine laid hut for the 11 - grk'
eye, not " Jeiviali ittj'asielitt" cis remember,
sonie.yeareagooseeingirit the Jews' , quarter,
al , -.P'Fa4f9,01 4311 it4 3 4M0P4).gi,eA1!ife4 1 19.40,,
'house (a clothes' shop,) j iuovhipli he. ,
born, and which his aged mother i'ed IvtA
j t:c;
leate. for ! a palace' the , rampartsii prefer
ring: to live and die there,. . .
- It is not prohablc ,thntlnere•thaja i two,or
three Jews wilf„ enter , the:
feeling of the 'better class !of' 2 J 'ears in Lou':
dni C ht-not.'bitter . tewireCliiiitiatlitY, and
probably this , decieion; will , Conciliate! them
stillmore. :One of thenyAlderManuSelomonsi
.when Lord 31 kaAri: 4!:11",?,_ years , agPf , went
otitc fay and in state,seyeralitlnes, =tehear
Bishops preaoh charity sermons, "andlately
subscribe& a 'large' inin to 'lite fund now
beingraised, tuifit up the nave. of SOPaul's
Cathedral for the; working classes, „;::
4elphla, 111 South Tenth Street, below Chestnut,
By sail, or it the Off Lee, $1.50 per Ta i l; I BEI PROSPECTUS.
Delivered in the City, 1.75 "
WHOLE NO. 805
contact with thtt great body of Christ, and
thuS, at the outset of their course, acquire
that eompiehensiveniss of view ever indis.
pensable to the greifear largeneis of heart
for we can be deeply interested iu,tlp4a t l9te
with which 'we are intimately acquainted.
'' .. P4orsl at once to the work, anddeb , ttte
,new converts have the bentfit ofronerelig
ions,perigdinals, and, the fruits will licioAip
appeari,both at home and abroad.r;Ex
aminer.
, • . Pass Him not By. •
In emnpany , mith,s young : converkil the .
freshness and glow, of his love ; I was
visiting fiom house to.hetuie, aiming tourge
the - skids "the Gospel upon &Airy ilidi
viduali ,'
One yonng-mon, sitting by himself in the
taiefir; presented; peindiar r case.
He to& beemuwakened ? ;sand. had,,thouglic
he became a .Christian , i
n a l . former .
and then exhorted his yetinF friends io give
their hearts 't i e , he had ielapsed
into stupidity; and &Nit into open, flagrant
sin. "' fti . there yet may haps of him ?- -flas
riot the grieved. Spirit.: left, him utterly ?
Who,kirewar „ Pass,hill,a9t by."
Thesev thoughts' passed rapidly in my,
mind. I tried him once more. 44
is not your soul se mecums tuf those of oth
ers who are'iintie'abiiiiiii; for their salva
tion'?" . . 1 1irsicountananhe grew solemn, and
teareatatted: He:Was the ,sulject of thor
(nigh conviction, AO of.hopeful conversion,
fellown4,lq,credible evidence of ,true piety.
',Had that l oppertunity been neglected,
cOnfirniii4 haidrisasof heart might have en
sued, that 'young man's' soul' haveteen
'lost
ferefer.-- , American geuenger.
„ . Cheerfulness.,
Try for, - a:Single: tlay, I b o som* you f ,
prosem, youreelf..ft an easy and otipertui
frome of mind. Be'' but foi one day, in
stead of a fire-worshipper of passion” and
hell, the sun-worsin:fitte'rbf clear self-posses
s sion ; and oonifaie the dayin which you.
haveiroCted,out .theweed, of dissatisfaction
with that - „which- you
. havo.allowed it to
gr . qw ,wp- m ew4.jow will. find, youF heart open
to eyemgOodoptivo,YOUrlife strengthened,
and" your breast armed with panoply
against /every trick of fate;'txttlyt you will
Wonder! at lioat °We improvenient.—Richter.
•
• ( J i arts anl)
MANY waste their, mornings In anticipat
lartheirofterneopsopd theirtafAnninnns in
regretting their mornings.
4""
T ntlio*era - fade, the leart - withere, man
growat,old: and dies, ibA l tinko writes no
1M7 11 11 1 4 1 1 101 -titt ) 4,9Fiqf ~el 7 #3r- •
HATING PEOPLE.—Hannah More Said to
Horaoe Walpole, "111-wanted to punish an
.efigiiitkitaboaltiberby4fiiiittntigionAirui the
trouble of obrista,ntlyhatingrnonnebody."
Wig' the wiyikig =of 2 Sir Robert Veel,
".1 1 neveivkiewmman , to'Lesdapelailnre, in
, eitherlizdyjcw inind,-whp worked wen days
in the week."
.A ppgrzs4J . ,*;Ftsf A ,,,anyiy,e t retudle
four:things for woman ; thatzrutge dwell in
her* heart, that modesty pia on her brow,
thliViWeetness flew from Ifet: and
&le
or-r
fty oeon; y htiihands.
Kturr Omersiiitt are like- chestnuts—
Mite; lmitt - encloied ;:hi"'every
prield3i busiipwliiclLneedivariowFdoling
btatit79,Ark* het! OP of *dr befogs the
ken:tells disclosed.
~ i.i1f4'.41"11#18,4a0rt13 7 4144 tno,l4nkalFan ;
know your, own hea# and inspebe lit con
, q4qtlyi jaw? , your ,Thends t 'and
t kindly , itnow your eprntnal foes, `and watch
thereriarrarly."'—
BiA+OLINCE DBEMID;L--A. aharity ger
noiris'at'Vrat csitaMenaitlir -the' (Dean of
138 t. Pies: as <<follo s : if Benevolence.. is « a
sentiment common to human naturt ) „A
..nev,e;seetatinlystress, without wishing C
to reliefs hinir;''''
&FALL Sinviims:—=Tho following lines
are iio4eissltitt thisPbenntifuln ,
tituseerviestAihile it iseits
Of sK ,friends though humble . scorn not
ThedsiSypby thelidkadow4tuttit oasts,-
Protects timlingering dendropfrom, the sun.
Witto)koitysiti—"l thank-f.tod,','Laaid a
good aiietiii,"wfor 'a GiiipeHrthit hat a
g whosoeveiMiAti - And'theltSpirit and the
'bride,,Aly,. Coin. t And , JetWtha.khOareth
ALY•IIO49Ni Alld. 1 0- kiza , -Vd4itoithirst
()cane. 430 mhopoever mill s Jet h 4 pie of
the waterJotalifelieely.”
Blonux--7.llp.,,NßPOrnt °COI*, on
certain. sys et the nyear r paysoLlvisit , to his
mother, 3 ithe isisettedmitnEthione Itoireeeive
him; "etid;fikiiiines t ifiti'liiitiet,' ad we of
wkvii4ol 1: 4 24 . f i er tafilund
obeisencie r ,t hexing his hend even to the
grotin&;orkt., •
• COMMENSATION.-m''SellAttifUl is tl;e work
ingoith s lbw in , the-life of individual. man,
000110 i xdfl i tiatural3cieficlieing,
wolgteitiVeitiO "`& cOuntail Eitierunks.
e*“4 „, t o t-,
1 1A,sMIP , s m Kt :yOO off ..but in
_
r no> raw, lint has
somepwornv giawing.tlitiqrootqff his enjoy
ment '"Piiirettklie si cheerful
Z5...74r tfeA MOO,
19u44 13,11r00.
.thyd %f.4.llr9v7
rilluxrujapunishe Mi f eeble owintitation.
They Adioictst died lkrumtithin
the ring of "itfikfirlitibb.'" '
A SIGN.—The duties of a pohoe-officer
spitiltilirs. jet =lB' 'le iiiiiififiilonse.
' .Thetatlierecngnistdutki s'
bank among the-t)ifinikehtianiiilesoubdif the
gaming-table.
gfiklinic,4o4 i y ogid „the o f_
finer to biimielt:;,/f4igitßark i s rotten at the
more." Ho = w exit to‘ono of the bank &free..
tore and irilitila-kidinifie - not fi t
in:biaedebitdl **.M l the palming-table."
The dirietorlihodk his beady iag.filtrain st be ;
Ire):,htwernwlifigtnoll kbrritin4;r4hiAingy
~,kgweNFOAfft P ot ,V eri dr u egEl the
the. . officer ?, c Ouvrs pit a
— thaugh 3 Ofiefirialifi o f thiPlifiiiii`lif the
fits de
fronded them of UV tralthe
iklollars ;
which,494EnfigriliPolilliii books, he had
triOofithlodirititorrodalin see
ting.hvAorriamis knowitkrktiwtellipsnY he
- -keeps. ,
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