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counts of the Awakening from the pen of our
Correspondent, who describes vividly from
Ids own observation, and - expressive of his
own emotions.
Barr.. Wonsan
.Ln&,,of Lawreneeville,
FS., after a sickness which confined him to
his bed -for seven weeks, has so far recovered
his wonted health, as to' be able to wimpy
hie pulpit.
TEM PASTOR OF T 13311 ~FOURTTL .ugosoli t
in this city, Rev. Samuel Fulton, spent the
Summer in the Eastern part of Pennsyl
vania, with the hope of recuperating a
physics'' system which had becalm' much
exhausted. That hope has been, to a
considerable extent, realised. He has re
turned to his charge and reaumes his pas
torsi sduties, in part.
Blairsville Presbytery.
Oireumstanees make it important and very
desirable for the members of the Blairsville
Presbytery to convene on the third, instead
of the fourth of October. Therefore, the
Moderator, with the concurrence of other
members of, the body, requests the Preehy
tarp to meet in Salem church on Monday,
October 3d,`at 2 o'clock . P. M. The natal
business connected with the Fall meeting,
will be attended to. Those traveling by
.
railroad will, on that day, find conveyances
to receive them at Hillside and Deny Sta
tions. J. P. FULTON.
tottli-West 1342Linary;
The Board of Directors of the Theological
keminatir of the North-West, stands sdjcurned to.
meet in the North church, Chicago Tuesday, Go.
tuber 25th, at 7 o'clock P. M.'
In addiiion,to Much .other , important business .
to come before the Board, the inauguration of
the four Professors is appointed to take place du.
ring that meeting. The Rev. 3. H. Brown,,D.D.,
is to,preach the sermon, the Rev. C. Axtelbbeing
his alternate; the President of the Baird ..the
Rev. S. T. Wilson, to receive the pledge of the
Professors, and•glve the charge, the Rev. Henry
Neill being ids alternate; and afterwards . each
Professor to deliver an inaugural address..
These services will doubtless occupy portions> of
two days ; intervals being spent by the Board in
other business.
It is confidently hoped, not only that there will'
be a fullifinemfiers.o.f.tho_Board....bne..
41.0.4stisay other 'friends of the Seminary will make
it convenient to be present, and witness exercises
of such rare interest. To induce the members of
the Board to attend, especially this meeting, they
should beer in mind, that besides many other,
and very important truste, the General Assembly
has committed to them the graie responsibility . of
selecting'a site for the Senunary buildings, and
that, this , selection will probably have to be made
during their approaching session. s
JOHN IC FARIS, .Secretary.
Church Increase.
The North-Carolina Presbyterian claims
a large increase to the Church in that State
of later yeirs. It opt •
u Our Increase since 186 e, has been steady sad
rapid. 'Dating these three years it has been over
three thousand nonbirs, or about ttensty-eight par
cent. Surely we have reason to thank God and
take courage. , • .
The following table will - show the relative in
crease of Presbyterianism in Virginia, North Car
olina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and
Georgia.' 'The Preebyterit of Winchester; which
lies in the State and , belonged to the Synod of
Virginia, in 1849, is included in the total of coin
municante for
~Nrirginia, and the Synods of Mem
phis and Nashville are united in the number as
cribed to Tennessee. The largest increase has
been in the Stet. of South Carolina, while Ken
tucky has almost remained stationary:
Stater. 1849: 1859.
Virginis, . ..... 10,741 12,978
North Carolina, ._ . 9,642 '16,058
South Caro li na, . . 8,171 13,074
Kentucky, . . . 9,292 9,626
Tennessee, . . . 7,818 x 8,605
Georgia, . . . . . 6,059 6,822
But, the progress of the•(Thurch in North Caro
lino is equally conspicuous in the receipts of, the
various Boards. '
.
The amotint contributed for all the'Boirde ten
years ago, wee only $2,601, while thin year it
amonnte to $15,670, or airtime aft much.
Corauteniting 'a, New VolumiV
When the Presbyterian Banner At' ppm.
:fleeced, there were many who claimed to,,be
wise. men, who said that it would not live a
year. They were greatly mistaken.• It has
lived sivicrr years, and is, we' rust, destined
many Ames seven years Its COa.
tinuanoe, however, ass news pater, both cheap
and good, depends , mainly upon the good
will of Presbyterian ministers and elders.
These friendi of the people,' conservators of
the purity of the channel!s' of , popular in:.
formation, end the faithful. feeders or the
Church of God, called the ,paper into being,
to supply a want. By 'their continued. help
it has been sustained. " BY the'llanie ail it
may still flourish.
This number, eommunees ;new volume.
the last ye a r, our, s h eetwas much
Daring
enlarged, and, an increase, of mental fore*
Applied. We mean still to devote ourselves
earnestly to our work.. 4Earthly gain we
nevir sought by it; nor do we now mean to
make it a source of wealth. But we Wish
,
to : by our : industry. To do this coml.
fortably,lwe need that our subscription lid
shall stilrinarease.
We $l, O / reads s- 0 1 . * Let fall, re"
Isms his , subeeription, &tal i .*** Indus a
neighbor. to subscribe. Repeeially. do we
appeal to those' who are charged with the
edifying of the people: We are their fat
low laborers—Korn to them, of a' elm in
dispensable to their success.
We print some extra copies of this
number, for new eubsoribers. Our friends
may send on their lista, and pay -us at the
Synods, or remit soon by mail. Our terms
are in advance, but where a good brother
aseumesithe responsibility of making actual
paymilkin lb few weeks for all the limes
„ , ,
he may Ind, we regard Satisfactor y.
The Regeneration of Society.
The World's Great Problem, or, the Re
genration of 'Society, is the title of a Die
course delivered before the Society of In
'quiry, at HanoSetSage, in Airguet
by Rev. Nathaniel West, Jr. The discourse
was furnished for publication, at the request
of the Society. The theme is one of vast
interest, boththeeretioal and practical. The
solution of the problem has deeply occupied,
and still occupies, human ingenuity. Mr.
West treats it with great ability. The dis
course indicates an investigating mind, a
sound judgment, an acquaintance with his
tory and the speculative theories of both an
cient and modern philosophers and reformers,
and a firm attachment to the Gospel, as
the only means, and the sure means, of
accomplishing the end desired.
It is not easy for a meditative and benev
olent mind to think that the race of man
started into being, as ignorant, depraved
and perverse as it now is -found to be. De
graded as man is, and prone to evil, there
are yet sufficient traits of nobleness and suf
ficient indications' of very high susceptibili- .
ties, to show that he is, a wreck, and but a
wreck,, - but truly the wreck of greatness ;
and also to afford the hope that he may be
restore& He is evidently capable' of vast
degrees of improvement. The 'world, lean
irate, animate, .and rational has, where civ
ilization prevails, been, improved, vastly. im- ,
proved upon.its savage' state ; and there is
age l neral and well 'grounded belief that 'it
may yet be imprOted a thousand fold, im
proved especially as regards man, both in
his physical and social condition, and pre
eminently
so in his intellectual developMents
and his moral and spiritual character. This
belief has prevailed ever since the dawn of
history, and has been the foundation of a
hope which handed to efforts numerous, per
sistent, and oft repeated, to renovate the
world and restore;' society to its supposed
pristine excellence.
;Some very faint idea of the,originatatate
of man, blissful and peaceful, holy and hen
py, was handed down by tradition, 'among
the heathen. They called it the Gelden
Age, and confidently expected its return.
Of this subject poets sang in their loftiest
strains. Upon it, orators were eloquent,
philosophers were wise, and legislators were
enthusiastic. All, lioirever, came, short'of a
discovery of the means of renovating a
world A wisdom and,a power were need
ed, such as are possessed not by poets, ora
tors, philosophers, or statesmen. All their
inspiration,; eloquence, wisdoin, and legisla
tive invention,, left mankind still deteriora
ted ; still idolatrous, superstitious, vile,
cruel, and getting worse: To really, better
his own condition, 'belongs `not to the race of
man, in the exercise of merely his own wisdom.
The Owens, the peuriers, and all classes of
theorists and inovators of modern times,
have proved themselves just as futile in
their plans and speculations' as were Plato,
and, Solon and all their co-laborers and
rivals in the days of the ancients.
To renovate world, is not within, the
reach of beings earth-born, either as to tke
plan :or the efficiency. It is of Good. He
created, and he alone clan re-oreate. There
is to beli Itestontion. This, to us, is, cer
tain. 'There will yet be a " Happy World,"
a world which in its glory and blessedness,
shall far exceed all that was fabled of the
. • via---Arc ---- Dwa :a ..nt be - or uncrs pru
du otion, both as to the wisdom and the
power. He says: "The earth-shall bellied
with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
as the waters cover the sea," and again. he
says, " Behold, I make all things new."
Peter said, "we according to his promise,
look for new heavens and a new earth,
wherein dwelleth righteousness." -
This work God will ,acooMplish, not by
miracle. There will be an instrumen-
tality. Men, though operated upon, will
yet be, in some mopeds of the case, the
opeptors. But it will be under the
,Bivine
iireetion. And the efficieney will bp from
above. The gltny will be to him Who sitteth
upon the Throne. God *ill work in man
both to will and to do. ,
And the instrumentality which God will use
in the production of the anticipated Happy
World, will not be philosophy, nor, legis
lation nor science- nor` social arrange-
meats, nor unusual forme of Government.
It_ will not .be general education,, nor the
abolition of servitude r whether.individual or
national. Some of these things may, yea;
will, to a' great 'extent, follow the change, as
results. Their Will b‘ enjoyed in the Reno
vated World, but they , will not be the means
of the renovation. , ,
In referenda. to 9 the production of the
change, the discourse before us, truthfilly
and eloquently; sail!:
Where, then, it- will be asked, is the
sovereign -remedy for the - world's distress.?
Where is the true method of its social, civil,
and political :regeneration? 'Upon what
condition is the solution of the great prob
lem possible ?- .
My answer is, the Gospel of Jesus Christ
firths world's 'only hope, and the method
which the Redeemer of men employs is
the only method: that will reach the ease.
The world's recovery is a labor which de
mends 'the interposition ot a God. The
difficulties to be overcome ire such as re
quire -a glorious display of Divine wisdom
and viewer. One great reason why: - God
has :permitted Men to try their own expert
matte is to -convince their incredulity, and
lead.thetn, in their helplessness, to look to
Him- who -sits upon the Throne, and says,
".Behold, .I< make all things new." His
purpose_ is to stain. the pride of all flesh,
and fill the earth with his own glory, even
it as the waters cover the sea."
The—Divine method employed- in the
solution of this great-,problem is precisely
the reverse of that employed by man.
g( My .thoughts are, not your 'thoughts,
neither' are my ways your ways, smith the
Lerd." It is a method which passes by
any. consideration, s at r first,' of outward
organic changes in the constitution of so
ciety, which leaves to civilization - all its
honors, which, dispensing with philosophy,
legislation, scienceogovernment, and the
like, begins, at once,-the workot regenera.
ting,the individualrean. Proceeding upon
the view that, in the human heart, there
lies concealed -a malignant virus, an inher-
Rause of deleily ; corruption which is the
cause of, all the evils that have cursed the
world, and made mankind unhappy, and
recognising the impossibility that a e9rrnpt
tree should ever produce good fruit, or, a
bitter fountain ever emit sweet water, it
relinquishes entirely;, the ancient Pagan
idea of
~progress, upon an unchanged
natural basis, and commences the recon
struction; -of the social, civil, and po
litical fabric, by the reconstruction, of
the separate personal elements of which it
is. composed. The re-creation of the ma
terial itself out. of which sooiety,and nations
4111 kl ia *N , al" tallnOliOn9 ll # ol of Pbe boAlvid
'ue4. chanoters by Divine power, imparting
ki!S'~:~Y4~
THE PRESBYTERIAN BANNER AND ADVOCATE.
to them a new life, celestial in its origin
and aggressive in its nature, from which
the streams of blessed influence shall issue,
is the plan adopted, in Divine wisdom, to
inaugurate and consummate the happiness
and glory of the race. It asks for no ad
vance of unrenewed human nature under
the auspices of human civilization. It
seeks, on the contrary, and makes for itself,
a new creation, a new basis, a new ground,
which is to be the pledge of a new order of
things. Thus it is that " old things " are
to pass away, and "all things become new."
Existing evils in society are to be eradicated,
no suddenly, nor violently, but gradually
and steadily, by carrying the truth of . God
into all the various relations of life, die
playing and maintaining it there, inoculating
the laws, manners, customs, interests and
institutions of society herewith, and, under
the benignant influence of the grace of God,
transmitting tb future generations the•prae
goal result of that Divine method by
which the world is to - be redeemed from
all its miseries. This is the mission of the
" Church," all whose ordinances are de
signed simply as means to bear directly toward
this end—the work of that company of regen
erated souls, - made new in Christ, reedy
mg, by faith, from him, an ever-increasing
measure of Divine life, organically held
together and placed amid the mass of human
kind as the "light " of the world, the
" salt " of the earth, the " leaven " in the
lump, and the " witness " for the truth—
to shine, to purify, to permeate, to testify,
and , thus, with incessant solicitude, relay
the foundations of the social and political
edifice according to , the purpose and the
word of God, first of all within the heatta
of men, and next, within.the hearts of States
and nations. To every evil in society the
Church of Christ has some solemn antagonistic
relation. There is no overshadowing disor
der, of whatever kind, upon which she *IA
bound to flash her " light," o vitiated ,"re
lation into which she is not_ called to cast
her " Balt " and infuse her "leaven," and
no moral evil against which she is exempted
from lifting up the voice, of .her
," witness."
Circumstances may, indeed, require pm
dential delay, and facts a prudential appli
cation of effort, but sooner or later the
time Inuit come when her mighty influence
shall be felt in the truly miraculous renova
tion of :society from all its distresses.
In, quoting this. passage, ie are pleased to
have the opportunity of correcting a misrep
resentation on the part of some of the re
*
porters for the press, who gave thedebates
in the last General Assembly. Some of the
journals bp,a it as though Mr. West assented
to the proposition that the functions of the
Church 'were limited and confined to the
preaching of the Word, and the ad
ministration of its ordinances; taking the
ordinances, too, in a very restricted sense.,
This, we see by the quotation above
very erroneous statement Our brother'
maintains that the Gospel will eradicate
existing evils, "liy carrying the truth of
God into all the various relations of life,-
displaying and maintaining it there, inoon
-
lating the laws, manners, cuitoms, interests
and institutions of society," with its princi
ples and spirit, and bringing them into a
conformity with its precepts. It will " re
lay the foundations of the social and politi
eat edifice." " To every evil in Society,'
he says, "the Church of Christ has some
antagonistic relation."
This is sound teaching. It -is Scriptural
and Presbyterian. s And, what an induce
ment does it present to all Christians, to put
forth their most strenuous efforts 1, They,
are using the very, instrumentality which
God will make- effective. Their toils and
sufferings, will not be in vain. Society will
be Regenerated. , ,
Editorial Life.
Sp far u exciteient is concerned, edit o
rial life has: a charm. There is much 'ex
citament, the painful oft predominating.
The Nashville Christian, Advocate says :
" We have long "been casting about to
find the bright side of editorial life. The
press is a modern invention, and those who
superintend it inherit none of the promides,
except constructively, You made several
friends by that article in the Advocate,' '
said one. "Yes, and lost several,' - was the
reply. Such is editorial life, that if, on
striking the balance, we can keep even, it
is' counted pretty fair business in the way,
of making friends. Happily, however, that
is'" not the main thing.
" Many readers will go along with yell,
in the best humor and approbation, until
some one position is taken, or some one 'word
is'written {against their cherished opinions.]
Then they, forget all the 'rights:in:mess the
editor bath done. It is a trial of nerve to
make a cool ealculation to lose a friend, and
that, too, pro bon° public°.
" Others there are (God bless them 1) who
take a paper, as a man does his wife for
better or for worse. Dealing with inch,'
there is hope. They give you time to de
fend a position, or wait for you to make it
good. They allow for a full evolution of
truth."
Folks sometimes make, a great mistake in
quarreling with their newspaper. If it is
conducted: with energy,., the mind' of thS
editors must appear, and of `Course they will,
in some things, differ from some of their
readers. If it is adapted to general utility,
it cannot, in every particular, be just what
every particular person would prefer.
The editor of a' Religious paper; with
other qualifications, should he firm, fearless,
no man : server, and no time-server. Fideli
ty on the part of a watchman is of the first
importance; and those' whom he serves
should be careful not to either say or do
that which might tempt him to, silence or
StOP
What ? Not your Church paper This
you cannot , afford to stop for reasons given
two weeks _ ago. .And yet, many, regardless
of ail the evils which they entail on them-,
selves, and their children, persist in fancy
ing themselves unable to take it. Many;
subscribers can afford to continue the Church
paper without in the, least diminiehing their
luxuries, much less their comforts. It
would, however, be none too dear, even were
We to have a few luxuries less as the price
of the thousand intellectual enjoyments:
Which it affords to its readers. Many things
are less important than it,, though they may
be deemed necessary; and these may, with
out leas, : be •discontinued to enable one to
take it. It is strange that persons often
attach importance to matters.. and, things,
really indifferent, and undervalue what is
truly, essential to their welfare. Doubtless
many, in reading these lines, will differ
from us, and , place among the, indispensable
what we think, could. be, easily dispensed
with in order to the attainment of greater
good. We have often noticed persons " too
poor to take, the Church paper," spend their
five and ten dollars on objects that are un
necessary, if not positively injurions.—Ger.
Ref. Mess.
For the Presbyterian Banner and .A . shrokate.
Change, of itello:ion.
The Presbytery, of. Susquehanna, at its
recent meeting in Osceola, Pa., received the
'Rev. James Gordon Oarnochan from the
Presbytery of Pennsylvania '(N. 5.,) and
made arrangements for his installation over
liht . ,eangregation of:Troy, the 4th nesday
of September. STATED CL
EASTERN SUMMARY.
Bogen and New England.
The failure of the large publishing house of
Phillip, Sampson 4- Co., last week, took many by
surprise. But this occurrence should not be
thought remarkable. Mr. Sampson died some
time ago, and Mr. Phillips died within a few days.
These were the old, tried, and reliable men of the
firm. The remaining partners are comparatively
young men, and somewhat ambitious and daring ;
this, united with the removal of the means of the
deceased partner ft, , impaired the credit of the
concern in the public estimation, so that a sus
pension became necessary. Nor can it be denied
that the Atlantic Monthly, published by this
house, is a heavy load. Owing to the erroneous
religious proclivities of some of the writers, its
circulation has nat - been increased to the degree
anticipated, or that might have been realized, if
it had been clear of thesi objectionable features-
We know that some of the i papers say the Atlantic
has been a Raying enterprise, but we also know
that the same thing was said of Putnam's Maga-
I I
eine; and yet it brought own every one that un
dertook to carry it on.
. 1
It has been customary for several years to have
a Game of Foot Ball uplen the opening of every
term at Harvard. Gradually these contests in
accordance with the spi t of the age, have been
assuming the character f regular pugilistic, con
tests, in imitation of hi rissey, the. Benioia boy,
et id genus OT/Ing. The me for the present term
was .largely attended q the good people of the
modern Athens; but th manner in which it was
oonduoted, must have made aboutlhe' same im -
prosaism on the minds of the spectators as a reg.-
tiler' Spanish bull fight iwould have done. The
contending cliosegy prepared for the game in the
regular spirit: of the' "ring," the ball affording a
mere pretext for what would have been consider
ed, under eircumotanees,nothing-lege-thalla,
regular rougiand tumble fight„ BOYS and young
i t
men were pitted against eaoh other, by scores and
fiftieg ; and after the st ggle was over, there was
a , motley exhibition 9 bunged eyes, blackened
faces, bloody shirts, gged coats, and broken
shins. And yet hund eds of ladies anf ti
„gen e
-1
men froni Boston andi eurrounding to,, were
witnesses, of this beast y exhibition . , The Presi
'dent and Faculty have or a long time disapproved
1 of the game as condo ted by the students, and
have entertained great fear of the results. Un- ,
loss something be.spe ily done, it is not at all
improbable that the re urrenee of such scenes as
this will injure the ins tution greatly in the pith
-
lie mind. The tended at present to" exalt wind
and tangelo unduly, i likely to manifest itself
among the " fast" yo g men . of educational in
stitutions, to the hsaury of themselves and
others. ,
delivered one of the Pra
.nter, and excited' a good
ions quarters. These lec
ind, are under the auspices
vongregation of Theodore
winced that he will lecture .
in during the present Win
riticisms with which his
ived, has led hint to accept
either for the purpose of
:es, objectionable, or swan
Henry Ward Beeche
tensity . Lectures 'last :v
deal of comment in va
tures it is to borne in'
cif Members of the
Tinker. We see it an
for the Association ag
,
tar. Probably the
former lectureime ree
the present invitation,
delivering sediething
daring public opinion.
The 100th anniversy of the Victory of General
I
Wolfe, at Quebec, w f
,s celebrated, by the New
England Historic dinalogical Society„ at the
t;
State House. The dress was delivered by the
Hon. Lorenzo :Sabine who showed-Ist, the in-.
finance of the French war in producing the Eevo
lntionary struggle ; pad, the Characters of
,sev
eral British military' facers iii . o riging upon.thehe taxation f America; 3d,
the English Ministry t
parts performed by e four Brigloier* Generals,
under the comma 4 of Wolfe, atkthe Battle of
Quebec; 4th, difficulties overeomel7 Wolfe, ow
; ing to the failure o -General Amherst to meet
him ; and%th, an enumeration of l i, the private
.virtues of the hero.
Last week, some of the leading, tfroperanoe
men. in the . State, . eld a meeting • Tremont
Temple, for the purpose of forming a State Tens
-7
~.......birice, to which all the varlfas Temper-
Anne leagues now organized in the Componwealth,
are to be subordinate. The Honiffeliry Wilson,
of Natick, United` States Senator, pr i esided, and
upon taking the Chair, said, that ' enty-seven'
temperance
;pledge;
ago, "he Tlaced his name to temperance
pledge; and his experience \en had im
pressed upon him the den ring his aid
to the bbly cause which lo Ways, by his
vote and M .
his influence, Mai le had seen
the evils of intemperance—) the foremost
.
men of the country legislat the effects
of, intoxication, and it had' im to new. ef
forts.
An address to the people itste was re
ported which recommends Ands of tem
perance, and all good citizens, by combined ao
tion, to secure, in ail , emis, the nomination, and
election of 'candidat s * Mayor, and Aldermen '
in our citiesomd fo Selectmen in our towns, of
men of, well know fidelity to the temperance
principle, and who • ill pledge themselves faith
fully to enforce the ohibitory law. ,
The temporanee nof Massachusetts seem
awake to their dange nd responsibilities.
_,
The Rev. Thamas Hi , of Waltham, Mass., has
been elected successor o Horace Maim, as Prat'.
,dent of Antiach`Coll ege. It is said that Mr.
Rill holds to the mulles extent the same views as
Mr. Mann, both is to - nCation and religion. By
the way, grist claims. • liberality in Theological
opuaion have been nrg . by its friends in behalf
of this College::- But . e Cincinnati Gazelle tills
a different story from' ne of its correspondents.
This writer 'says i ..., ',.
Moreover, '‘'recta *, &lima" are taught
within its halls; and at he present time Mr. Fay,
.the special favorite of ie orace Mann, who is an
agent of the College, i preaching in the College
',iChapel a series of il courses against the doc
trine- of the Trinity, nd in vindication of the
distinguished , t dogma of Unitarians. This is
but a- specimen of m• t institutions that make
high sounding claims t “ liberal" sentiments.
Gov. Banks does no seem at all satisfied with
the manner.in which te State Reform School has
been conducted ; and i his message to the extra
Session of the Legisiat re in reference to the Re
-1:1
form School, whose tpildings were lately con-
entned, be suggests ver , important 9 hanges with
n
reepect to its future anagement: He opposes
i
sending children to 6' institution merely On act-:
count of vagrancy an ' trivial offences. He al
ludes io . the fact that> e thousand' and twenty
eight of the cbildren ere committed2sin3ply for
stubbornness., It can tbe doubted flibat great
advances"' are yet to b made in our 'reformatory
systeins.
The General Agent
Company, of Hartford
of,,m
commissions' sal
$80;000 per annum,
This City continues
brilliant appearance.
still at the various h.
Business transactions
rapidity
DteMoney Marke
about $23,000,000 in
the general tendency
ward.
Large quantities Grain and Flour are
continually arriving, nd no apprehensions of
scarcity or high prices re now entertained. The
report that the; whea when threshed did not
yield as witatiaxpected, iitts not had any effect upon
the market, since it w generally regarded is a
run of some speculator wishing to make a little
profit out of a moment ry alarm.
The Custom House j tables of Foreign Trade
show a large increase Of importations during the
eight months of the present year over the same
months of last year. The total of imports, at
the port of New York for the last eight months
is $183,823,561. During the. Faroe time last
year, the amount. as $101,342,259. This gives
anincrease of importations to:the present time'
of this year of $81,881,802 over the same peilogi
of last year, over the same months of 1857, SI.N
881,614, over the same months in 1856, $22,290,-
527. The eame tables make the exports for the
same months only $44,426,159, an increase of
merely $1,656,728 over the same mouths last
year. This gives a wide difference between im
ports and exports, that must be met by specie or
its equivalent.
The opponents of the Sabbath. Lama are untir
ing in their efforts to defeat every thing interfer
ing with their purposes. The liquor dealers have
done their utmost to arouse the _German feeling
on the subject, but in this they have been only
partially successful. The Herald has been lend
ing itself, for a consideration of some'kind, no
doubt, to the anti Sabbath agitators. We - are
plesied to notice quite .a change in the tone.of
the Times on this subject, since the return of Mr.
Raymond from Europe.
The American Institute is now open for visitors,
and will continue open until the 28th of Oc
tober. The exhibition is a very fine one, and .
three spacious edifices hastily put up in addition
to the great Music Hall, will afford ample acconi.
modations for all the entries likely to be made.
the 2Etna Are Insurance
Conn., receives in the way
' equal to from $25,000 to
York.
o present a thronged and
Haste of strangers' are
els ond boarding bouies.
are :conducted with greet
is ettey ; the banks bold
peeie and exobenge t and
the Stock Market 's tip-
The Mews. Hoe have just completed one of
their mammoth six 'cylinder printing presses for
Anetrilia, and have dispatched one of their best
workmen to put it up.
Charles Scribner has just published " The
Ancient Church. Its History, Docixine.
ship, and Constitution, traced for the first eight
hundred years. By the Rev. W. D. Killen, D.D.,
Professor of Ecclesiastical History, &o, to the
General - Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in.
Ireland. 1 vol., Bro." This is a work of re
search and real learning in a fieldhitherto mostly
• •
neglected except by Episcopalian historians and
German philosophising ,Divines... The author is
an eminent Divine and scholar in the Presby
terian Church of Ireland. The, discussion of the
qUestion of the Ignatian Epistles, to which so
much intortanow-has-been-attached in .cer
quarters, is thorough. Abundant eiidence is
•
brought forward to prove , that they. are utterly
spurious, and have no right to a place among the
genuine remains of ancient ; Church literature:
Thus questions are * raised that 'will require our
Apostolic succession brethren - to - start on their
explorations 'the past, ,anew, if they would
make good the claims so confidently presented.
We are greatly. , inistaken if this book does not
create a greater sensation among them than any
thing that has appeared for, some time. At the
same time, Presbyterians and others will be - as.
tonished at the shallowness of: the pretensions of
the Apostolioal succession party, and of the vast
preponderance of historical evidence against
"The Christian Advocate and Journat, the great
organ of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the
North, has a - leader on the articles in Harper's
Weekly with respect to the approaching General.
Conference of that Church. , -In this article it is
admitted that strenuous exertions are made,to ee l
cure such a representation as will ensure ;tlie
adoption of the rule mentioned in the Weeekly,
but does not :suppose that , the prospect of their
success is so strong as was there indicated: The
editor takes strong ground , against the movement
of the agitators and 'says:
Our chief danger would arise from the attempt
to introduce into our, law an : utterly prohibitory
rule against slavery, thereby changing our long
established standard of Discipline, on the sub
ject,-'and cutting off those families among us
which are involved, by inheritance, iu the evil of
slaverY.
11e gives' the following reasons against the
adoption of the new rule:
First, anti. Biblical—contrary to nearly all
standard expositors of Scripture, Methodist as
well as others; and would therefore be an =-
scriptural assumption of legislative power against
ihe legislation or the only lavigiver, Christ. As
such, not only the border chttrehes would feel'
themselves hint up to the alternative , of choosing
between the Word of God and the•word of the ma
jority of the General Conference, but men rever
encing the Word of God, through all the range of
the Church, would feel so too, and no calCulations
could compose the poseible coimequenced.
'Second, such 'a measure would:be, as we have
heretofore shown, anti-Wesleyanj not: only -con
trary to the nresent English Methodist sentiment,
but contrary to Wesley's own showing in the'case
of-the:West Indies ot,nd- the-slaveholder• Nathaniel
Gilbert, who founded Methodism there, and
thereby produced at last the West India emanci
pation. -
Third, it . would put a restriction on the capacity
of the Church to spread in the world, which would
not only be , anti:Scriptural, but which might
cut off its successful access to 'important - lands.
Fourth, it would be the sactifice of a certain
evangelical victory over slavery among us, for the
sake of a form of law..
The same number of;the Advocate and • Journai,
has a circular signed by a large number of the
preachers and lay members of the New York East
Conference, calling upon their,brethren in other
parts to rally for the support of the rules of the
Church as they now are, and against the attempt
made to divide the Church again, and cripple> its
efforts for good. • -
The Rem Theadoie Botto, Foreign Agent of the
Afrie,an Civilization Society,,of this city, is now
in London, advocating the claims of this. Society,
the objects of-which are The evangelization and
civilization of Africa, and of the 'descendants of
African ancestors in" all parts ()Ville earth; the,
destruction of the vile and inhiman African slave
trade ; the introduction or commerce and trade
into Africa; the - promotion of the growth of cot
ton and . other products there, whereby the natives
may become industrious producers ;, and the els
widen of the condition of the colored population
in our'own and other countries.
Observer has a letter frota Delaney,
a colored gerdleinan of education andability, and
formerly a resident of Pittsbnrgh, who is now fix=
plormg l the interior of Africa, for the purpose of
facilitating the efforts of this Society. He is
delighted Liberia, and with the prospect
Aqica preients of becoming the home for the
black Mall Ickig exiled.
. ,
The Advertising Columns of home of the' daily
papers, every Saturday, contain curious announce
ments of subjects of discourse; by some ministers,
on, the following Sabbath. The Times, of last
Saturday. , announced that on the following day,
the Rev. Joseph M. Waite, of .the, church . of the
Holy Comforter, rmi mild preach in the morning on
"Conscience," and in the afternoon 0n.." Rispah;"
that the Rev: 0. B. Erothhigham, would discourse
to the 'Christian 'Union of Brooklyn, 'on "The
Conditions of : Full and Free Infiniry in Religion ;"
that Elder Snow would in Union Building, preach
in' the morning,' on "The End of the World,
What - It Is, arid When," and in the :evening on
"The Real Chsracter of Spiritualism;" that the
Rev. 0. B. Frothiegham, in addition to the ser
vice already mentioned, would speak to the Third
Unitarian Society, in the morning, on "God in
Nature," in the evening, on "What Constitutes a
Church ;" that Elder George Storrs,would preach
in the morning and afternoon, on the Hebrew,
Origin, of the Anglo Saxon Race ;" and that Rev.
T. L. Cuyler would preach on the "Deisive Battleit
of Life." This is but a sample of the dish offered
`every Sabbath morning, by a certain class of gen
sation speakers inNew•York. This is a kind of
thing, however, into which the regular and sue.
eessful pastors never enter. Many of them are
in the "habit' of preaching series of sermons on
particular subjects, which are generally announced
in advance to their congregations.
Pfiiladelphia.
The Amount -of .Butdatoa transacted continues
to be very large. The jobbing houses have been
thronged, and the salesmen have been busy, early
and late. .
"Wheat and Flour continue low, and with but
little prospect of any great advance in price this
Pall. So that the people in the /toted district in
Western Pennsylvania, Western Virginia, and
Eastern Ohio, who will be unfortunately com
pelled to buy their bread this year, haire a
good reason to expect to get it at'very reasonable
The Sabbath Question is not at rest yet. No
small amount of malignity is displayed, not
against religious men, but against Divine truth
and Divine institutions. The Daily Ledger seems
to have com mitted itself irretrieVably, „to the
anit-Sabbatariane.
The Book Trade Sale was largely attended
and thcprioes obtained were generally & aw ay ,
tory to the cellars.
The Roman Catholics have been for several
years engaged in erecting an immense Cathedral,
bearing name, of St_ Eeter, and- St.,Faul, in
Eighteenth Street, opposite Logan Square. Last
week the ceremony of blessing the immense cross
and fixing it in its place, came of. A numbil of
bishops and priests were present, an WWl
blage of five thousand enovened within 44e.
the walk, and probably twice that number in
opposite square. The cross is of Florida pine,
and richly gilded. The length of• the building is
tie hundred and twenty feet; the breadth one
hundred and thirty feet ; the height of the navels
no less than one hundred feet; and the great
dome will swell one hundred and, twenty-five feet
above,this, So that the whole elevation of the
grand cross surmounting the dome, will be two
hundred and sixty-five feet. The walls and piers
are exceedingly massive. Some idea of the vast
strength of the work may be formed from the
fact that the drum "of the dome, from the top,
of the wall to its.kesent elevation has required
half a million of bricks.
The American Presbyterian has an article in re
ply to the artiCle in the last number of the
Princeton Repertory on Barnes' on the Atonement.
The writer in the American PresbYterian contends
that Princeton cannot appreciate Mr. Barnes'
argument, and that the whole object of Mr.
Barnes' late work is misunderstood by the rep=
viewer. But something more will be necessary
before Mr: Barnes can be - acquitted, or the main
positions of the reviewer shaken.
UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Va.,
opened Sept. 12th, with thirty students.
Ecclesiastical.
Rev. JAe. H. GAILLARD has removed from
""itlpley,
which place all letters should he ad
dressed.
Rev. J. E. C. Donsmuo, of New Orleans,
has accepted a Professorihip in the Aran
aUla College, located at Goliad, Texas,
and has removed thither.
Rev. Taos. S. CROWE has signified his wil
lingness to accept the call of the church
at Walnut Hills, Ohio, provided his
Presbytery releases him om his charge at
South Hanover, Indiana.
Rev. W. H. VAN DOREN has received a call
from the First church, (N. 5.,) at College
gill, near Cincinnati, Ohio.
Rev. C. K. CALD WALL has accepted a 'call
to the church in Pittsborough, N. C.,
half his time to be given to Haywood.
Rev. W. K. MARSHALL'S Post Office ad
dress is changed from Rusk, Texas, to
Henderson, Texas.
Rev. J. L. MOKRE has received a unani
mous call from the Chestnut Street
church, Louisville, Ky.
Rev. T. A. HOYT has - accepted the call from
the First Church, Louisville, Ky.
Mr. Tabs. L. PRlsmioN was licensed to
preach the Gospel by the Presbytery of
Lexington, 014 the ISth ult.
Rev. R. J. L. MATTE_Ews has been ap
pointed Principal of the Male Academy
at - Brow nsville, Tenn. -
Rev. J. A. L Lowa:s has ,been unanimously
elected' Principal of Salem Academy, by
the Presbytery of Chillicothe.
Rev. j. A. DzvngE has accepted the nnan-:
imous <invitation of the Presbyterian
church of Howelton, New York, to be
come their stated supply. This church
was 'formerly connected with the Congre
gragational body, but on application of
itspineers and members, it was received
by the Presbytery of Ogdensburgh. The
-prospects of ministerial usefulness , in this
field are very encouraging. ,
Mr. GEORGE H. WEBSTER was licensed by
the Presbytery. of Philadelphia at' a late
meeting. ' '
Rev. MaK. WILTJTAMSON has received a
call from the church of Rocky Spring,
Presbytery of Chillicothe.
Mr. VirM. WILLIAMS was ordained by the
Presbytery of Chillicothe, on the 6th
inst., andinstalled pastor of the church
of West'Union t and a Committee was ap
pointed to install him over the church of
Man cheiter.
Rev. liltAmom LYRN has received and ao•
o opted a call froin the church at Carlisle,
Ind.
ReV. TIIOMAS G. PECK" Of Baltimore, haft
been chosen to the Professorahip in
Vnion Thologioal Seminary, Va., lately
held by Rev. W. J. Hoge. '
Per the Presbyterian Banner and Adveaste
Dedication at Deerfield, Ohio.
It;was our privilege to be 'present at the,
dedication of a new church edifice ' in this.
place, on Thursday, , the Ist inet. The
church is in Morgan County, in this State,'
cis miles west of McConnellsville. The oc
c-asiori was one of much, interest: This 'is
the- third building sinoe the organization,
which dates back nearly forty years, viz :'in
the Spring of 1820. This took place under
the ministry of Rev. Mr. Moore. Four
candles entered. ;ti The first communion was
held in•a sugar camp about a, mile, from
where the new, house now stands.'
During the Summer, a small round log
structure was put up; in which the congre
gation worshiped for some time. Mr. Moore,
the pastor, being assisted on communion oc
casions by. Revs. Wright, Clark, Jones, Cul
bertson, and ether self denying ministers of
our order, who, under God, have the honor
of laying the foundations of Presbyterian
ism in our/noble State. Some who were
then boys, remember well some of the texts
preached by Mr. Culbertson, of Zanesville.
"Ye are the salt of the earth," is one often
spoken of as having had a powerful effect
on' the minds of many. Of the eight per
sons that entered the organization, two only
survive; and they are waiting and ready to
depart
Were the History of Deerfield church
carefully- written, the chapters of its high
prosperity and deep distraction would alter
.
nate in the. most reviler order Into this
we have no heart to enter.
The second houeo was, a ' frame, ' When
first erected, it was considered large and
rather elegant. It occupied:a commanding
prospect, one quite aedeasible to all parts of the
country. Like other buildings of its day, it
was constructed , with an eye to cheapness,
and hence, in a short:time gave signs of de
cay. By patching and groping, it was
made to' stand for thirty years. It still
stands as a memorial of the architectural
skill of the peat. About it there still linger
associations dear to many—to none, perhaps,
more than to us. Here we first made trial
of our 'ministry, after:licensnre, moderated
for the first time a Session, first adniitted
members into the church. Here We re
ceived our first call from man to preach the
Gospel—was ordained and installed into the
lull work of thepastoral office.
It was here we met some of the best
and truest friends of our life—saw the,
greatest revival of religion we - ever- saw
since or before, and passed six years of as
happy an existence as falls to the lot of
most men in , this world. We experienced a
pensive sadness as we bid farewell forever
to the dear old walls that had, so often
echoed to our voice and the voice of others
as we called sinners to repentancesnd saints
to a closer'communion with Heaven.
Besides the writer, this church has had
the, regular ministerial services of Revs.
Hunt, Plumatead, Aikins, Lowe, Hanks,
Dickey, Fulton, Grimes, and Reed. The
latter is now linter elect. Of i phe above,
only two or three were paeitors. Mr......tranks
died, greatly regretted, a few month atter
he'
came "''among the people. Messrs.
Dickey and Fulton were here but a shore
time, having aceepted,ollB elsewhere.
The building just dedicated is a very fine
one of the kind. It is a large, well-pro.
portioned and exceedingly well built frame'.
It is well finished throughout. Indeed it is•
faultless—a inodel - in its Way. It stands
near to the old site, on •an eminence com
manding a fine view of a wide 'valley lead
ing down to the `Muskingum:` A lovely •
grove of well-trimmed email oaks , surround
and shade it on all sides: ;
On I t he Sabbath following the dedication,
the. Communion of the Supper was admin
istered. \The day was fine, the crowd great,
and the interest general. An hour before
service, theyapacious edifice was filled to
its utmost- capacity. Still the people came
pouring in on\foot, horseback, in wagons,
carriages, buggies, Sm., to such a degree,
that the officers ,of; the church agreed to
take the pews from the old church and seat
the yards in front and at one side 'of the
building, for 'the acoornmodation of the
masses. This done, the' 'Windows and doors
being opened, there appeared before the -
speaker the largest audience he ever ad
dressed iikthe State. It was a grand sight.
0, how changed the people in ten years !
So much improved in dress, manners, and
morals. How orderly ! how attentive !
But, 0 the babies l—numerous, 'noisey !
This edifice was undertaken about a year
ago, t iat the suggestion of their pastor, Rev.
W. / Reed, seconded by an urgent appeal to
the congregation, from your correspondent.
The members are comparatively wealthy.
They west to work, like liberal Christian
men. - All did something, except two or
three. Success has crowned their efforts.
True blue Presbyterianism is more than
ever in the ascendant in this community.
No_field in our . Presbytery (Zanesville,)
g lietter — fiiiinlie iCricher - harvest; to
the spiritual husbandman, than this. No
church in our bounds has such multitudes
of young people attending it, as Deerfield.
Nor have we any other church with so vast
a field all around it for lengthening its cords,
as this. The sittings will all be taken ; and
some say, now, they wish - the building had
been made larger.' They have, perhaps, the
strongest Session in the Synod of O. io—
certainly in numbers. Happy the pastor
that has such. Happy the people who are
surrounded with so many privileges.
In this connexion we might mention a
new church enterprise in progress in Oak
field, Perry County, nine miles West of
Deerfield. A fine new church is in course
of erection there_ by the same gentleman,
Mr. Samuel Price, who supervised that of
Deerfield. The church there was organized
a few years since by the writer, and is flour
ishing greatly under the blessing of God,
although in the - very heart of a Roman
Catholic community. A colony from Deer
field started it. Bro. Reed preachei there
part of his time.
Our delightful ride home through Mc-
Connellsville and Cumberland, in both of
which places we pre ached, we pass for the
present. ' ' • - W.M.F.
For the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate-
• The 'United Presbyterian.
.
MESSRS. EDITORS :—The editorial notice
of " The Letters on Psalmody," contained
in the limit Preacher, is conceived in 'a spirit
of kindness as great, perhaps, as could have :
been expected under the circumstances.
Assuming that the editors have no desire to
do the author a wrong, evezkunintentionally,
permit me to direct their attention to one
or two of its statements :--
1. "The point in controversy" as pre
sented in the "Letters," is not, as . the
Preader states, " the exclusive use of
Ronee's Version.". The " Letters,""X ad
mit, discuss the merits of Rouse, but with
what view? with what object? To argue
down its "exclusive use ?" By no means;
but te,demonstrate that this versification by
Rouse, the only one'noto tolerated by these
brethren, is not " inspired Psalmody,"
not " the word of God" in the sense in
which " our prose version is so;" not " the
songs composed in heaven;" but an explana
tory "paraphrase" of those songs, at least
to a great extent.
These points the author believes to have•
been established in the former part of his
book, and on these is founded the inference
that these brethren,hy singing Rouse, sing
large patches of " human composition," and
practically commit all and several of the
sins which in that aspect, they are in the
habit of vehemently charging upon Pres
byterian's I Thus, while constantly . pro.
fueling to adhere "to the very matter provided
by God" as " their True Psalmody" says,
they sing " a paraphrase," part human, part
Divine I And this patchwork of. Divine
and human composition is called "the songs
of the Holy Spirit," &c. Thus, this favor
ite, exclusive "version" of the brethren
is a constant, practical refutation of their
own theory of "an inspired Psalmody," is
a " millstone about ;its neck," and, until
they oast it away and get a better one, ought
to silence • -their ceaseless denunciations of
those whom they call "the friends of hu
manlv
composure We say, " physicians
heal yourselves 1"
Now I hope these brethren will not
deny that
.this is a legitimate line of ar
gumentation, a lawful use- to make of their
favorite, their , only versification especially
since their leading authors. affirm Rouse to
be " a literal and correct version," "a fair
and literal version,":" as literal as the laws
of versification will allow , " " God's Psalna.
Book," &c.
2. As to the charge made by the edi
tors of the United Presbyterian against the
author of the " Letters," viz , of " perver
sion of the , views " of the friends of Rouse,
and in a manner "not tolerable even in a
politician who ignores , every law but party
success," we can only express,the hope that
these brethren may never feel greater trouble
of conscience in reviewing suoh."ltaking up of
areproach against their neighbor," (Psalm
xv : 3,) than that neighbor, feels in inquir
ing of his conscience, "is ' this injurious
charge true ?" And he has , a still higher
and m9oini i mate Witness;-whose testimony
deprives ite, uncharitable statement of these
editors of all its poisonous sting. With such
a Shield, the , most envenomed shafts fall
harmlees at thc - Christian'll feet.
°Hammy.
OM
Print'eton Seminary
The exercises of the Princeton Theologi
cal:Seminary were resumed on Friday last,
Wiih an introductory lecture. by. Professor
Addison Alexander. Rif! theme _wail "The
Present Age as One of Controipsy."
There have been about: forty adn4ions,
thus far, into the Seminary ; others'are ex
pected, some of whom have., sent their
names, which will doubtless increase the
number to fifty or' upwards; not equal to
the linprece.dented increase of last year, but
about the same as the average accession of
fornler ordinary , years. The number ' last \
year's catalogue was 18 1; the class hick
graduated, 49.----New York Obser:ier
: -
Preshyteriaa Camp Meetings,
, In the Southern, Presbyterian them. ‘, -
notice under the signature of, , the
Henry Brown, that there will 'lie a ctnip
meeting at the Presbyterian' eamp.ground
near Canton, Cherokee . County. Ga., begin
ning °tithe Thursday before the fourth Sab
bath in- September. And another, under
the signature of Rev. H. C. Carter, stating
that the members of Bethany and Smyrna
churches will, encamp near Smyrna meeting
house,lrewtfn County, on Thursday before
the second Sabbath in September. Such
meetings have been common for many years
in some portions of Georgia; and, they hive
beenlound profitable for the edification and
enlargement of the chureh. , ,rCentral f res
byterian.