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PRESBYTERIAN. .. BANNER ' & ADV ICATE. Presbyterian Banner. Yob VI, Nth 46. Presbyterian Advoseatli, Vela Xl l 10. 40.1 DAVID MeKINNEY, Editor and Proprietor. ;ARM $.-IN ADVAIOE. riginat attrg. 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." PUBLICATION OFFICE, GAZETTE BUILDING, FIFTH STREth, ABOVE S HFIELD, PITTSBURGH, PA. FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY JULY 31, ISSS. 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. .• ~ I= 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. , =CI