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is DAVID NOCIDDIVI a co., Pittsburgh.
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Board of Colportage.
A meeting of the Board of Colportage of
the Synods of Pittsburgh and Allegheny,
will be held at the Presbyterian Book
Booms, St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh, on Tues
day, the Bth inst., at o'clock P. M. A
full attendance is requested. An election
for officers will be heldiand plans of opera
tion considered.
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__lHonie,iTufroreigniteaud-
DOMESTIC MISSIONS.
The Record gives the Board's action in
constituting the South-Western Advisory
Committee. This we ,had published, from
the' True Witness, some time ago. The
principles we regard as correct, under the
necessity, but we regret the necessity of a
seeming sectional action. Several letters of
interest, from missionaries in various parts
of the Church, are given. There is no state
ment of the Board's operations, plans, or
prospects.
REOIII7O, in September : at Philadelphia, $2,-
501; at Louisville, $386.
EDUCATION
The Brick church; New York, having re
ceived an Associate pastor, from the Union
Theological Seminary, has reeolved to ap
propriate $175 annually, to the support of a
student in that institution: This is becom
ing.
The Record affirms that every Church
• Session is bound to afford an opportunity, an
nually, to every member of the congregatiois
to contribute to everKscheme of the Gen
eral Assembly.. By ." opportunity," we
suppose is meant, a call from the pulpit or a
personal application. To this we think all
Sessions will assent, admitting also that it is
their duty to give the people full and correct
information relative to thoie schemes, their
object, economy, and practical efficiency, so
that people may contribute intelligently, and
may hold the employees of the Church re
sponsible for a right use of sacred funds, and
for due energy in promoting the Redeemer's
cause.
RZOITPTEI im September:.at Philadelphia, $2,435;
at Pittsburgh, $129 ; at Louisville, $162.
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
The demands upon our columns leave us
but little space, this week. We call earnest
attention to the Foroi:n Board. Lar:el •
of very great benefit.
REMPTS in September : $7,199.
PUBLICATION.
RE03117193 in September.: Donations, $1,067;
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CHURCH EXTENSION.
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A Plea for Peace.
The Richmond Christian Advocate gives
the following excellent reason why the Dis
ciples of Calvin and Wesley should live to
gether as brethreo
gt John Calvin was a Calvinist, and John
Wesley was an. '"Arminian, ste every body
knows. What the former was in later days
to the Rdznish Chinch, the latter was to the
Church of England. Both were great Re
formers. The great Churches, both found
ed under God ) are the best proofs that there
is enough in each to make them love one
another. Each has already done enough
for Christ to inspire a cordial mutual omit :
denim and affection. The seal of God is
the highest authority. It shines with ce
lestial lustre on both. And now let Calvin
ism and Arminianism have done with con
troversy. The •Churoh that does most for
God, has the strongest arguments emits side.
Time is the testa Controversy is ;repel
lant; energetic, practical, efficient piety,
attractive. And as this improves, approxi
mation is made to Christian unity. Let the
Christian, world resound with songs and
shouts of brotherly love, like the peal of
great thunders, and the voice of many wa
ters, and sectarian peculiarities will be for
gotten, and mankind be concerned only
about the saving truth -in each Christian
sect."
Along with this truly Scriptural thought,
there is also another which is not to be for
gotten, and which is a rule of life. It is
this : "'Thou shalt in any wise -rebuke
thy neighbor, and shalt not suffer sin upon
him." This duty; however, is to be per
formed in the true spirit' of charity, with a
consciousness-= of our own hnperfections.
Rittnility must be manifest on our part, and
also a high respect"for the brother whom we
would reclaim from 'an error. If evangeli
cal Arminians and evangelical Calvinists
could but learn to use words, each attaching
to them; precisely ' the same meaning, they
would 'hod themselves less widely separated
than they'had thought they were. Then
would discussions no more repel. They
would conciliate and attract. Men who are
taught by the Spirit ortiod must have, in
fandamentals, a 'common faith. All who
are born of God, being renewed in the Di
vine likeness, will greatly resemble each
other. Those in whom is the same mind
which was in Christ Jesus, cannot but ex
hibit similarities in sentiment and taste.
Let all then who would, promote Christian
union, manifest distinctly the lineaments of
Christ. By these will they be known. For
these will they .be loved. These will at.
tract.
tor the Presbyterian Banner and Admata.
The Irish Miseion.
The, undersigned acknowledges the re
eeipt of a draft, (at eight,) from C. Arbuth
not, Esq., for twenty pounds sterling, in aid
of the Clogher Schools, under the superin
tendence of Rev. John Edgar, D.D.
JOUN DOUGLAS.
Pittsburgh, Oct. alst 1859.
Yor the Preabytenalt Bauer sad Advocate.
SUPlies for, the Sixth Church, Pittsburgh.
First Sabbath in Noiember, Bey. Burchfield,
morning; Rev bl'eartney, evening. Second
Sabbath in November, Rev. Braddock. Third
Sabbath in November, Nev.
Sabbath Observance:;
'MING Tiß ARPORT Of A OOMMITTIZ'OF 87A•
OD OF PITTSBURGH, OCTOBER,, 1869. ADOFTXD
BY Till SYNOD.
,Man,, him two grand. interests. of
these concerns him as mortal, and the other
as immortal. One is earthly; the, other is
heavenly. One is temporal ; the other eter
nal. These interests are not antagonistic.
The one wise and good Creator, has arranged
for their simultaneous advancement.
The Sabbath is a' part of this arrange
ment. It was made FOR MAN—for the na
tion as well as for the Church—for the com
munity as well as for the individual. It is
revealed and enjoined in the Bible. It•be
longs to the existence of true religion. 'lt
is essential to a sound morality. Its proper
observance results in a knowledge of God,
and of man's social relations. It produces
an intelligent mind; an enlightened, and
quickened conscience ; a reverence for law;
security for the rights of person, property,
character, and family—it causes a well-or
dared, peaceful, industriMrs, and happy so
ciety. Its instructions and worship commu
nicate a knowledge, and put forth an influ
ence which are entirely for man's benefit.
It was intended as ahlessing, and has proved
a blessing.
The people of the - United States, beyond
those of any other country, have been a
Sabbath-keeping people. A' large portion
of the pritnitive settlers; that is, of the seed
whence the nation and its institutions sprang,
were religious men—yea, they were the
most devoted of the most Protestant and
moat Sang ally Wffgent : nations of ttie
old world. They were the' Puritans, and
Huguenots, and others who desired an open
Bible, a quiet Sabbath, and undisturbed
worship; and they iere followed and joined
by men of a kindred' spirit.
These immigrants brought their institu
tions, and taught them to their children.
They marked the Sabbath, and kept it strict-.
ly. It. was their day of rest from all
"worldly eteployments and recreations."
It was their unfailing season of worship.
They at once adopted regulations protecting
its quietness. As soon as they had regular.
ly octietituted governments, they secured to
themselves their Sabbath. When they be
came free States, they revised and i;sotitivi
ued their Sabbath laws. The Sabbath,,
then, is coeval with our existence, as a
people. It has been the crown of every
,seven days of our being. It was deeply
planted on the James River, and firmly set
tied on Plymouth Rook. The shores of the.
Connecticut, the Hudson, and the Delaware,
AS also the plains of the Carolinas, received
the Sabbath with the'first dawn of eiviliza
tion. . When white men crossed the• Alle
ghenies, they carried their Sabbath with
them. Western Pennsylvania, Weetern
Virginia, 'ltexttuoky, Tennessee, the - Missis
sippi, the Lake country—all the ,great West
and North-West---received the Sabbath with
their earliest inhabitants. A Sabbath, then,
a Christian • Sabbath, is no new thing to this
nation. A Sabbath, a Bible Sabbath, pro
tected by civil law, belongs emphatically to
the people of these United States—a Sab
bath giving character to their intelligence,
their spirit, and their morality—a Sabbath
hallowed beyond, that of any &lei nation.
And have the people _suffered from their
Sabbath? Yee, have they not, by it, been
more free, more enlightened, or more pros
porous 2 Where can its equal be found,
in all the elements of true greatness—in all
that belongs to man's earthly joys, and his
immortal hopes ? Will you compare this
people with those who have no Sabbath—or
with those who have but a desecrated Sab
bath—with heathendom ? or with the na
tions of continental Europe ? or with Mex
ico and South America ?. To lose our Sab
bath! 0 what a fall I
Sabbath laws have not, with us, been
stringently enforced. Rigidity was not
needed. Early instruction, established
habits, und the respectability worship, so
protected the day that there was bat little
requisition for the exercise of the civil
power. Public- sentiment, the grand ad
ministrator of law, has, however, of late
been injuriously affected.' This has result
ed from a laxity in family discipline, the
corrupting influence of prosperity, and a
new and large immigration vastly different
from the early fathers. Recent importa
tions, men who have fled to ns , for an, asy
lum, embrace tlaose who would rob us of the
most blissful portions of our heritage. They
must be resisted. They Must not be per
mitted, irreligious minority that they are, to
take the _Bible from the schools,, nor the
Sabbath from the land.
In our own State we are now waging the
third contest, within a few years, for the
rights of the Lord's day. When the canals
were opened, trade, on them, claimed a
superiority to law and religion _ ;"but trade
was compelled to succumb greatly. When
the railroad system was established„travel
ing claimed to be exempt from interruption; .
but soon it also yielded to the Christian
sentiment of the country, all but a single
train. Then"came the Passenger Rail Cara
in cities and their suburbs, claiming a‘ free
dom to disregard the Sunday law. But the
law still has strength. There is virtue yet
among 'the people, and honesty in magis
trates ; and we trust that a regard for flub
lie morality will, by the firmness and wis
dom of Christians, prevail over the spirit of
dissipation and the love of gain.
We would not now speak largely of the
positive observance of the Sabbath. Our
Church has often reiterated ,the Seripturat
instructions. Ministers habitually make this
a subject of teaching from the pulpit, We
would simply urge pastors to increased efforts
in this line; and exhort the people to nee the
day,'wholly, lovingly, and zealously, for the
purposes of its institution.
With regard to the negative observance
of the Sabbath, the " times " can upon us
for wise consideration. A Christian people
must protect their day of worship from , out
rage, and conserve their liberty of enjoying
it, to the end of ice appointment.
Just now there is being made a powerful
effort to procure a legal sanction for the
running of Passenger Cars upon the Day of
Rest. This day some would make a. season
of amusement. The Street Railroad Com
panies, and the panderers to the appetites
of the depraved, would use it as a time of
pecuniary gain. To'Such men, a Sabbath can
be made more profitable . than any , other two
days in the week. Against the desecration,
the ancient customs of the country, the en
actments of the Legislature, and the dein
dons of the Courts, unitedly Pretest. Some'
'." -7-- A .--\ :IDDVLIMCIIIIV ' AND ADVOCATE.
new and reverse.aet, by State authority, is
hence to be obtained; and this attainment,
they would make, by electing Men adequate
to such a deed; by petitions, and by prose
ciitionsOlnder the " existing law, of *chirch
going people who- are conveyed , thither. in
vehicles. Let Christians, however, not be
impelled to seek either the abolition or the
disuse of our 'good: and- salutary 44 Sttnda3r
laws."
The following resolnticns embrace
Synod's ieafting , thanghtsi. on this great sub.
jest } in the-aspect in which it is now pre
sented :
L Resolved, That this is a Christian coun
try. The government'was established by
Christians, and as Christians, the people
have a riglt to protect the institutions of
their choice. t
2. Resolved, That the province of the
.civil power, in regard , to religion, is not to
ordain a belie, nor to enforce an observance,
but to protect and restrain from a trespass.
3. Resolved, That it is the . privilege, and
the.duty of Christians, as citizens, to em-.
ploy the el t iotive franchise, and the right of
petition, and the power of the civil courts,
for the procuring, the upholding, and the
enforcing of such laws as are adapted to, se
cure to all who may desire it, the enjoyment
of a quiet Sabbath.
4. Resolved, That attending upon public
worship is not a (( worldly occupation," in
the legal sense of those words. It is a re
ligious service. It is aright, and embraces
all the means'needful for its due enjoyment.
The day, with all its privileges, belongs to
the hired man as really as to any other man;
and because a man hires himself 'by the
month for a livelihood, he is not"-there - -
fore-to be , hindered from %riding ttol church
ivittilits — ettiployer; -- Vneir men go ipiiiitly!
to the place of worship, BO officer of
the law, and no ether person, has any
right to inquire into their relations to each
other. The law: asks not .which is the em
ployer andt:which the t employee. , Both- are
alike in the law's eight.
5. Resolved, That we deplore the increasing
tendency , even in. Christian families, to spend
the Sabbath in idleness,
s in social calls,
worldly conversation, and
mereunnecessary, wan
dering abroad for ere pastinie, or to super
intend worldly interests which might be at
tended =to on weekdays, and- that it be earn
estly recommended to the members, of our
churehes-and their families, to abstain from
all these violations of 'the Lord's,day. '
6. Resolved, That it ie the duty of heads
of families to furnish facilities for all the ,
members Of their household', - to attend the
public, ati:well as private, worship of God..
Domestics as .well as children, are to,be cared
for. Males as well , aa females,
, s and field
help, if lodging with the family, as well. es
house help have their rights, and should
enjoy the Christian's care. Especially are
Christians bound'not to 'make any ustneees.
sorry requisition upon their employees, inter;
fering, with their proper attendance at the
house of God. ' Synod hence Condemns,'
most emphatically, the requiring' of hired
men to spend hours of the Sabbath morning
in ' grooming horses, and the causing of
drivers of carriages to abide on We street .
while the proprietor aitendi upon 'the wor
ship of the sanctuary. If faroilies need a
carriage to convey them to meeting, let them
enjoy it, of the-abundance,which God has,
given them, but let Ahem so arrange matters,
that their drivers may enter the house of
God with them, or may go elsewhere to wor
ship according , to the order of their choice..
7. Resolved, That, it be enjoined on.
the wernbeis of our churches, to attend,
sedulously, to the sanctification of the Lord's.
day; not Pharisaically, but using it for the
instruction of their families, and for the:
public and private exercises of God's wor-,
ship • that in reaching the house of God.`
they go as quietly, and with as little shoiv
• • =4 ..t;ereasonaTif"
practicable • and that in all things they stud,y'
to give no offence, and strive to be examples
to the world.
Editorial Correspondence.
NEw YORK, November 1, 1859
So much has been said concerning the
general featnres ohserved by, a visitor in
this great city, that we hardly know how to
begin, or of,what to write. Correspondents ,
of various journals have almost exhausted'
,
the vocabulary of the English language ha
,
describing the rush, the noise, the count
less multitudes, the confusion , the trade,,
the wealth, the poverty, the virtues, and
the crimes of the metropolis. Nor have its
charitable institutions, its churches, and its
ministers been neglected. It is even said
by some that certain preachers here owe
more of their
,popularity to newspaper
writers than to any special gifts separating :
them from and elevating them above many
of their brethren, in more retired localities,
where the industrious reporter is not to bw
found. And it will not`do for us to attempt
to describe the splendor of the stores, „the • . '
rich silks that sweep
,the streets or bewitch,
ing ribbons, or "loves of bosnets.” These
do not oome,within our province—for this,
'we have no qualifications. But Mr. Willis
and his school of writers, manage to keep'
the world pretty well informed of these
matters, "ard others of like importance.
We will attempt to give some , statistics of
the business of some of the great publishing
houses.. For every, body is interested in
books ; -even many who never read- books,
like to talk about them and look wise ; but
we do not presume that many of this class
are to. be fotrad among our readers, for they
are a thinking and reading people- And
though, some may affect to ;neer .
Gradgrind and his facts, who does mot. like
to see statements of facts! It cannot be de
'flied that there is a magic in rows of figires •
whether rndiciting money, population ,
or extent of bigness. After all that has
been said of the extent to which the pub--
fishing of hooks is carried- on in New York,,-
but few have any accurate idea of the
amazing number of volumes sent forth every
year front these prolific presses.
The korper's have acquired, a reputation
that is 'world-wide:, their buildings , are im-,
mouse, and their issues are ceaseless. In
another place, and at another time, we men
tioned the 'size of their'buildings, the num-,
ber of presses' in operation and the number
of men employe& , We wili.now give some
statistics of their works, which have had the
largest circulation, and, are best known to
the public, not mentioning the vast numbers
of books of travel, learning and research in ,
every department, to be found in, their
catalogue. Of " Barnes' Notes " they
have • issued three' hundred thousand vol
umes ;. of a Morse's Geography," one. mil-,
lion.; " Abbott's Histories," one, hundred
and fifty thousand. of " Anthon's Glassiest
Series," volumes beyond' computation ; and
from. one hundred and fifty thousand to one
hundred' and seventy thousatid copies`; of
their. Magazineis circulated, every month.
This house has undertaken the pubhcation
of a full series 'of' Greek and -Latinp Texts'
from the hest -European editions,- for tha
use of schools and students, Smell ind
"portable volumes, 'with flexible bindings,
aid haytili n4ithernote nor comment, except
sos far at map be • necessary;to, indicate the
different readings. They will be printed on
excellent teper, , and from the noble Greek
type` Pima, the same ' ' as -employed in
their edition of. Alford's prew,'l'estament."
This edition will effectually displace, the
small q-erman editions now current in_thie
country, - but on Miserable paper and
from wreteliid type.
The waling energy, rare tact, said eor
diallibeiality Of Sheldon , it-- Co.-, has been
duly rewarded. Of,‘ Grace Truman ",_they
have sold more than thirty thousand copies;
of " Olshausen's Commentaries," thirty
thousand volumes; of 44 Spurgeon's Works,"
two hundred thousand. In ten years, they
have eirealated one million five hundred
thousand copies of " Stoddart ; s School Se
ries;" eight hundred thousand of 44 WeWs
Iteiders ;"lwenty , five thousand "Loomis'
Physiology;" of " liagen's:Speller and. De
finer,"
,two hundred and fifty thousand ;
" kilted's; Egypt," thirty•five thousand;
" Napoleon's Dynasty," ' ten thousand;',
"Linen Toy` Books," one'hundred thousand.
They haViChbar in course of preparation,
several new and valuable works- that will
attract attention; and 'sell
The sixth volume of " Spurgeon's Ser
mons " is just out of the press, and prom
fires to be as popular, and command as ready
aide, as any 'Of its predecessors. It is char
acterized by the same,doetrinal features, and
thnsame vigor and, earnestness, while there
pis an ohviozw, improvement:lw literary Merit.
f have 'eery a letter from Spurgeon, in
Willa he plonotincirs any priblioation of his
books in this country, by any other than
Sheldon & Go.; to be piracy.
Charles Scribner has acquired a deserved.
ly high- reputation for enterprise and liber
ality, and for "thee character of his beaks.
His sales "Of the works of a few . popular
authors, in addition to ,the amount of his
trade in theological, historical, and literary
works of standard , value, have been as fol
lows " Hendley's Napoleon and His Mar
shale," fifty, thousand copies.; " Washingten
and His ' "Generals " forty , thousand;
" Sacred Mountains," forty thousand; "Ike
Marvel's It r erfrieti of a Bachelor," foity
thousand.;:4"„Dream Life," thirty thousand;
-"Timothy Titcomb's Letters," twenty thou;
sand; Bitter Sweet," - ten thouuand ;
of " Bushnell's Sermons," ten thotusand.
He has paid Ike Misrvel over $26,000, and
Mr. headly more than $50,000, as their
share of the. roceeds of these large sales.
" Killen's' History of the Anoient Church,"
lately issued by this house, is receiving the
highest commendations from those most
.
competent to form an opinion, for accuracy,
. ,
thoronghness t r"iid vigor. Presbyterian
ministers and` Presbyterians, generally, will
find this volutrie rich and reliable in the
account which it gives of the Ancient
Church. Both author and publisher have
done their parte well.
This house ~bas just issued a work that
has oast the anther a vast amount of labor,
and the publisher a great outlay. It is en
titled " History of the Church of Christ, in
Chronological Tables, Synchronistical view
of the Events, Characteristics, and Culture
of each Peritig;
,History of
Polity, Worship, ; Literature,. and Doctrines;
together with'lta Supplementary Tables
Rev. Prof..ll: B. Bfilith, D.D., in 1 vol., folio.
It differs Tfo g ai!, 'a' Mere manual, by pre
seating in parallel columns the various de
partments,of the ~ hiato>y of each period. It
is not a mere. collection of dates and facts,
but is also a t complete digest 9f the
_subject
matter. The whole history ofthe Christian
Church is divided in this work into Ancient,
Medieval, and Modern. To the student of
Church Ilistery, it will be almost invaluable.
The Appleton's have one of the, finest book
stores in the World. `They'import great,quan
titles of the Choicest European works in, all
departments of literature' and science, while ,
their own publiciitionis are vast in 'number,
Comprising some of the finest editions of
English classical literature, rare works in
science and ,philosopliy, and - SchOol books
without numbers. Their Encyclopcedia is
a prodigious'
. undertaking, requiring an ex
penditure of,means, and the, employment of
skill in selecting - editors and contributors;
of which the uninitiated have but little con
.
ception. Theriggregate of subscriptions to
this great work will amount to more than
half a million•of dollars, before its comple
tion. They annually over a million: and
a quarter -of , gf Viebster's Spelling took,"
for the printitig'Of 'which they have an sr
.
rangement, by which both sides of the sheet
are printed. SC onee. And so perfect is the'
machinery--sorapidly d,oes it Work—that an
'average of from four hundred to five hun-,
dred 'copies4 ;this work pass threngh the
press,. are 'folded up, bound •and ready for
use, every hour. In the printing and bind
ing department alone, notwithstanding the
amount and 'variety of work performed by
machinery,. ,more than.three`e hindred hands
are constantly employed. ,This house is just
ilowbringing out some 'valuable new works,
The Carters are known every - where.
Seagelecitit'a'Sablith' School or a fireside`
library be (Ound any,where in the ;United .
States , opEritish America, in which, there,
are not some-books ,bearing the imprint of
the Carters. They publish Theological and
Histerical works, Uommentaries' on the 'Holy
Scriptures, Sabbath School books, and roll
glees books of a miscellaneous character in
numbers so great that ,it is , impossible to
form any accurate account, without involv
ing considerable- trouble. This house has
"always - been rloted'for the sound doctrine of
its theological publications , and for the pure
morality for,, which all their books are die.
tingnished. ,!‘ D'Aubigne's History of the,
Reformation," published by this house,
reached Scirculation of at leatit three hundred
thouiana Volumes; and more than ten thou
,
sand . volumes of Dr Jacobus' notes on the
" Gospel and.the Acts," have been sold with
in a little over six months. Our &Au= of
book notices shows something of the until ,
ing energy of the 'Carter's, and also givei
evidence of the ghat demand for works such
as they publish.
The Educational publications of Bison &
Phiwney have reached a circulation, almost
incredible. The' =saleof 18one/ere series of
"Readers, 4ellirs," & e., has been twelve
,
million Copies, and is now one million per
.
annum. The yearly , sales of " Thompson s
Aririznpetios', is oierone hundred,and fifty
thousand, and of " Colton & Fitch's Geogra
phies". abont . onehundred and 'twenty then.
'sand.:` Wells' English Gierainar," of which
anew edition has just been published, has'
sold to the extent of about three hundred
thousand copies. This house pays annually
about thirty thousand dollars for copyrights;
and up to , the present time has paid an ag
gregate of five hundred thousand dollars in
the sama,way..
The lecture season has fairly set in ; the
onurses have been announced; ; _ and the
names of the lecturers are known. Beecher,
Chapin, Curtis, author of the gi Potiphar
Papers," J. G. golland, author " Tim
othy Titoomb," " . Bitter Sweet," &c., and
*Prof. Mitchell, are the most ;a:lnept:mous in
this line. Mr. Beecher's new lecture,
" Bargain-Makers," which has been re
peated three times this week, is a failure,
as is acknowledged by his admirers. It is
greatly wanting
r in tbo vigor, strength, and
raciness for which some of his productions
are noted, while its spirit is in several parts
highly objectionable. The .ovangetist has
a rasping notice of the lecture, that must oit
the author to the quick. The Evangelist
certainly has Mr. Beecher direetly on the
raw this time. Mr. Curtis, so far, has
failed to draw good houses ; the publh3 ear
seems to have tired* of him. Mr. Chapin
alwayi has large audiences. Dr. Holland,
editor of the Springfield Republican, the
most influential secular, newspaper in New
England, is a most accomplished lecturer as
well as writer, destitute of all clap.trap, and
distinguished for literary culture ; correct
sentiment, and great sprightliness. Prof.
Mitchell is too well known and too successful
.to requir e any- speoial notice. But, after all,
the great mass. of thepeople take hut little
interest in these public lectures and , many
of the substantial citizens knoW as little
about the commotions and agitations of
which we read so frequently in the news
papers, as those who live hundreds' of feller
The church of whioh the Rev. James W.
Alexander was pastor, has rint taken any
decisive Flaps toward' securing a successor,
notwithstanding the reports that have gone
abroad. A memoir of Dr. Alexander is in
course of preparation, by Rev. Dr. John
Hall, of Trenton, N. J. Dr. Hall was the
life-long friend of , Dr. Alexander, and is
admirably adapted , to the labor of love he
has now Undertaken. -The work will con
tain many of the letters and other private
writings of. Dr. Alexander.
The > Rev.. Mr. Farnham, and Wife, mis
sionaries of our Board of• Foreign Missions,
sailed last Saturday, in the ship In,dian, for
China.
No successor has been yet secured, fof the
church of which Dr. Bethune was, formerly .
pastor, on Brooklyn Heights.
The determination of the Episcopal Con:
vention, , at Richmond, not to restore Bishop
Onderdonk upon any of the conditions pro
posed, seems to meet with the highest ap
probation of the best men of all denornina•-
tions: To have restored him in any-of the
,ways proposed, would have produced a high
degree of excitement throughout the Epis
pocal denomination in this city. Dr. Tyng
and his coadjutors have, been taught a lesson
that should render them more cautious in
the fattre,•when inclined to undertake any
ecclesiastical engineering of doubtful pro
priety: The fact is, it is about time for
the Church to frown, a way not to be
mistaken, upon all trickery and manceuvering
Church courts, Church enterprises, ,and
benevolent institutions of all kinds.
It is not likely that the Sabbath arming
services at the Academy of Musio will he re
-
slimed this Winter. ' The expenses last Win :
ter exceeded the aggregate of contributions
made at the Academy, by about 33,000. But
this-was not all. • The amount of care and
effort expendeffin securing preachem, and
in providing for the comfort of the audience,
was 'very great. And, in addition to this,
many of the most judicious pastors and lay-
Men doubted the expediency of, the whole
• movement, however liberal and excellent the
intentions of its originators.. '
It is now proposed by some to have a
greater number of churches than usual open
on Sabbath evenings during the Winter,
and especially of the Presbyterian churches.
,
We maybeullowed to suggest the thought,
if it would not be better for a greater num
ber of PresbYterian churches, in New York
and some other large cities, to be open
throughout the year, on Sabbath nvenings.
It is true that some of Ate members of the
church might in this way be prevented from
attending the second Service, but, this would
be more than compensated for; `from the fact
that many of the faung people in, all city
and town congregations, who will , go 'tome
place to ditty& on. Sabbath evenings, would,
have the opportunity of attending their
own churches, and Many who. will not gut*
any church in day time,- but will attend
at night, would have the' privilege of at
tending our churches. It cannot be doubted
that in some places one cause of the success
of some denominations among the careless
and ungodly, is to be found in their having
their churches. open every Sabbath evening. ,
Bat enough for the present. Our next will
be from Boston. A.
Ecclesiastical.
Rev. GEO. W. &wag - , of Steilacoom
Puget Sound; W. T., wishes to be ad
dressed, till December 25th, at Limestorie
Post Office, Clarion County, Pa. Persons
desiring information respecting Washing.
ton - Territory, can address Mr. Sloan as
above. He expects to return to his field
of labor in January, and to be accompa.
nied by help; that is, by preachers and
teachers.
The Rev. H. R. WiLsom, D.p,, having re
moved from Sewickley, Allegheny County,
to Mansfield, Ohio, to take charge of the
Presbyterian church at the latter place,
requests editors and his correspondents to
address him accordingly. ,
Rev. GEORGE D. PORTER'S Tog Office ad
dress is changed from Tipton, Cedar
County; lowa, to Crow - Meadow, Marshall
County; Illinois.
Rev. THOMAS J. 'amines Post Office ad.
dress is changed from Montezuma, lowa,
to Wintersett, lowa.
Mr. J. D. HOwEv was Ordained by the
Presbytery of Erie, on September 21st,
and, installed pastor of the Mill. Creek
and Sugar Creek churcheis. His Post
Office address is Utica, Venango Co., Pa.
Mr. JoItN J. WOLCOTT
,has has received and ac
cepted a call from the church at St.
. Charles Mo. •
Rev. N. - CHHVALIER has accepted a call to
the church of Gonzales, Texas. Hie
correspondents Mill please address him .at
that' Post. Offwe.
Rev. N. SHOT'vwx. hie received - slid ao 7
cepted qallifrom the churches of Ruth
erfordton and tittle Brittaiir;N. '
Quarterly Review of Literature, Science, .
and Art.;`
NUMBER 1.11
[BY OUR LONDON OODDXSPONDII Z 3
LONDON, Oct. rC l ir!69.
1 begin with an important and most start
ling announcement. I make it on high an
thority—no less than Cardinal Caen 6 ,
favorite Dublin newspaper, The Freez
man's Journal. And " did you_ ever"__.
hear any thing like or equal to the an
nouncement which it makes to the world f
What is it about ? "A literary matter, of
course I" Well, but is it about DOM old
MS. discovered
. in a monastery or in the
Library of the Vatican ? No ! Well, and
what is it'? Why, about the "
Progress" of—l was about to say, "
van's Pilgrim's Progress "—but that name
is henceforth to be omitted, " by desire "
of the _Freeman and Rome. For lo !
says that miradh-mongering, heretic hating
organ
An interesting literary discovery has just
been brought to light. It was asserted some
time ago that Bunyan, who wrote the ,4 Pilgrim's
Progress," was an impostor, and that the whole
story was made up from so ancient manuscript.
Several erudite members of the Reformed Church
wrote letters to the newspaPers, denouncing the
libel, and claiming for honest John Bunyan the
whole credit of having conceived and written the
famous " Progress." Mies Catharine Isabella
Cast has, however, taken up the gauntlet thrown
down by Dr. Cumming and other admirers of MI.
Bunyan, and has shown, beyond all possibility of
doubt, and on the most irrefragable evidence; that
Bunyan,the 4 ' Star 'of Protestantism," was - a
mere iffer, and a shabby, unprincipled duffer
into the bargain. She has pnblished . (this,day)a
translation from the - French" manuscript copy in
the British lidueetini of the s , Pylegremage of the
Bowie," by Guillaume De Guiieville, a churchimn
who flourished in the fifteenth• century.- The
original work was translated in, England seventy
years before the Reformation, and was printed
by Caxton in 1483. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Pro
gress " is nearly a verbatim copy of this, rare,
work, with a few alterations here and there, to
give it"the tinge of originalityl
Well now, is not that very startling and
even very trying I Startling it certainly is,
even in ,an age when we are being. taught
that Henry VIII. was not a Bluebeard and
a spouse-killer at all, that Richard -111.
did not murder the princes in the Tower
and, moreover, that instead of carrying, a
hump on his back, as the vulgar tradition
of four hundred years , would- make us
believe, he was a very - " proper " and
handsome man. It is " startling," I say
again, even though History : is being proved
an old , almanac, and we, arp assured that
many of the greatest beauties, in what we
call the works of ShaksPeare, were never
written by him, but are-the orations of blun
dering compositors; and of the carelessness
of proof readers in the printing offices; and ,
are farther instructed, that not one of the
dramas called. Shakspeare's, were written by
William, the " Swan .of Avon," but`by Lord
Baoon. And then, this announcement, is
" trying," first , to the Protestants, because
our Bunyan, hated Popery.; and now, the
real " Pilgrim's Progress" was the work of
Itoutish .hands. And what. will Macaulay
say, after his splendid panegyric Upon the.
tinkcr of Bedford jail'? What would
Southey, who wrote his life lave.said ?
And what will my venerable friend at,Hack 7
ney, the antiquarian Bibleopole, and the en
thusiatitie editor and collector of ' every
scrap of Bunyan'or writings—in whose house
I saw the early editions of the "Pilgrim,"
and honest ig John" himself furnishing, the
portrait for the pilgrim in his dream ; what
412
tinker's, scales, in which he weighed- gold
-and silver, aye, and the very pens with
which 'he *rote—what can he say under
this " trying " disoovery. " The fact can
no longer be disputed that John,, Bunyan,
of pious memory, was nothing more,, nor
less than a literary swindler, and that the
sublime sentiments enunciated:, in the
Progress,' were those ''of a OatholiC
Divine who , lived and died before'. John
I3unyan, saw' the light—whose wcrk_ , was
translated by Catholic pens, and printed by•
Catholic hands, in.the little printing room
called ye :presse closet,' within the abbey
church of Westminster" f
Is not that moat excellent information for
"the faithful ?" Is it not quite clear that
the, tinker did prowl about amongst neglecb.
ed French, MS., and found the "Pilgrimage
of the Soul," and then " made a few liter
ary 'a'lterations heri and there, giving `
,it,
the tinge of originality,?" But thousands
of &monists, perhaps,, will believe this,
even though a journal which' many of them
read, thus writes
We might conceive that, in , his time, John -Bun
yan was capable of giving " the tinge of original
ity " to a superannuated pot or pan, by putting a
new bottom to it, or furnishing it with a
brilliant lid-; but we must that .lady,
whoever she be, who rejoices in the name of Miss
Catharine Isabella Gnat, that tinkers have done
scarcely anything in this World, - in the way of liter
ary bnposture. They have •left that offence to
people of geuteeler pretensions; and this story
of Catharine Isabella Cust's is about as rank
and as stupid an attempt at literary imposture as
either man or- woman was ever guilty of in= this
world. Imagine only the absurdity of telling
us that the book oP the Calvinist tinker, in the
seventeenth century, is .wholly stolen from the
work of a clergyman of the Arminian Chnrch of
Retie in the fifteenth - century I
Neal, the notorious Tractarian, published
a revised edition of Bunyan, in which he
brings in. Baptismal Regeneration, Priestly
Absolution,- and all the rest of his creed;
that was an'outrage, but this last exceedsit
in brazen 'impudence.
Mr., J. ,B Elliot, a well knowsr<oriental
scholar, formerly of the East India service,
has recently presented ,to the Bodleian Li.
brary, a very valuable collection of Bodleian
manuscripts, upwards of a thonsand in
number, all in perfect preservation, and fair
'samples .of Persian Literature. I appre
head' that Sir H. Rawlinson, the , celebrated ,
savan of Nimrod fame, who has gone out
as British ambassador to the
_Court of
Persia, will not lose, by want 6f cultivation
or inquiries, his taste for Oriental 4iterature.
The, liveliest interest in the learned world
has been excited by, the important manu
script treasures distiovered by Professor
Tischendorf,- the. celebrated German Biblical
critic. Ile says S 6 as4o its contents,theMS.,
even at the present day, compriseg first of
all, some very large sections of the Old
Testament, ; e. 0., the greatest part of the
greater and lesser prophets, the Psalter, the
Book of Job, the Book of jeans Sirtseh,.the
Wisdom of Solomon,-besides others the
so called Apocrypha_ of the Old' Testament
To these books succeed the whole New
Testament, and herein lies the extraordin
ary.•_importance of the discovery. Only
three extensive. Bible MSS., of SU intl..,
gutty, reaehing from the fourth to the
ninth century, have come :;,down to our
times; but there is - not,. one
,of these, that
contains the whole New • Testament The
most extensive of= them lathe Codex Alex
andrine of Londost;. but it wants "'almost
the'wboleof ,
well
the greatei pprt ofr Seoond Corintitiono, and
two ohoptero of Jokn's .Goapel.
"'TlierVati' east Codex'," (treasured up for
centuries in the Papal Library as one of its
most precione jewels,) "is still more defective.
The ReVelatioi of John and;, four., Epistles
of Paul are wanting entirely, and a third
park besides,,of, the Epistle, to Pis Hebrews.
Whereas the MS., now discovered does not
_want a single leaf of the New Testament;
it is, therefore; of all the MSS of the New
'Testament which claim 'an antiquity' of a
thornond _years, or more, the only one
which is complete. For every Theologian
who knows:how decisive is the testimony of
the few MSS, which claim in antiquity of
one thousand ram or more, no farther proof
will be needed of, the importance of this hap
py discovery. This gives a new guarantee
for the possibility of settling and restoring the
Apostolic teat. Nay more; for the faet is, on
proper scientific grounds of judgment, we
already possess this testp at least in the
main."
Two other discoveries are announced
first the whole Epistle of Barnabas ; "a work
, which was regarded so early as the second
century with pious reverence," and of
which only recent Greek MSS. and Latin
translations, imperfect and often unintelli
gible, hitherto existed; second, the first
part of " The Shepherd" of Hermes; "re
garded in earliest times as portions of Holy
Scripture, although their authority, as such,
was called in question by some persons."
This diacovery was made in a cell or con
vent, at the foot of Mount Sinai. The
MS consists of three hundred and fortysix
leaves of fine, beautiful parchment; the
writing arranged in four columns on every
page. Professor T. considers that "beyend
all doubt it belongs to the fourth century."
He thinks that in three years the literature
of the Church will be enrich'ed with an
edition of the MS. now discovered, aid
which may be regarded as so precious: One
is ready to speculate on the bearings of this
discovery on the texts disputed between
Trinitarians and Unitariani; especially I.
John v : 7. It remains to be seen whether•
GriesbaCk's emendations will be sustained.
Prince Luoien Eonaparte has published
a catalogue of works printed, or at press for
him t in NI/rims European dialects ; among
others, the Gospel of Matthew, in Vene
tian, Milanese„ Neapolitan, and Bergs"-
masque, and the Song of Solomon, in
Scotch, the Cumberland, Westmoreland, and
Newcastle" dialects.
The Oxf ord' - University press has issued
an edition of the ".Greek Testament," in
an 18mo. page, printed on fine writing
paper, in (town 4to, for the use of stu
dent& This method is considered prefera
ble to the old way of interleaving.
Book sales still continue to develop how
precious are the stores laid up in English
libraries. • Thus a sale of a select portion
of M, Libros', lasted thirteen days, and real
ized the amount of £8,622'. A book from
the library : Of Francis 1 brought £B5;
Basilii .Opera, in the 'beautiful-. - binding
of Drain of aPoictiers, 185 Biblia Sacra,
Paris, 1549, "
. with a curious note on 1. Cor.
in, to explain purgatory, £lB. A Breviary
on vellum, date 1422, brought £47 ; the
Canons and Decrees of the . Council ,of
Trent, in vellum, from Cardbial Paleotti'it
r••••.wworci;eiwarwal 100 ,_ - 4 ! e vir
i
tion and Count Hoyne's copy sold for X6l;
Cicero's Epistles to Attocus, >edition 1540,
&rife paper, X 44; Heliodorus Latine, 1552,
in the superb binding of Grolier, £110;
although copies of the book in the:usual
condition have never sold higher than five
shillings. The. first edition of Seneeile
works was sold for £35.10x;; of the works
of Tacitus, .E.lB ; Epistles, £26;
_while a superb specimen of Xenophon's
Cyropedia, from the, library of Edwaxd VI.,
brought £34 10s.
A - new Stationer's , School being, about to
be built in Gough Square, the. City Press
refers to No. 17 as the'former residence of
Samuel Johnson when in 1754 he com
pleted the folio edition of his Dictionary,
consisting of '15,799 words. It adds that a
gentleman has founds table ofi the deriva
tions -of English 'wards; 6,722 from the
Latin; 4,812 from the Freneh; 1,146,fr0m
the Greek; 211 from the , Italian; .95
Welsh; (Ancient Britain, how hut thou
been ignored!): 59 Spanish; 30 Swedish;
16 Hebrew; 13 Arabic; 4 Runic ; 4 Erse;
3 Scottish; Turkish; 1 Portuguese ;
1,665 Sean ; 6,691 --(7) ; 106 German ; 75
Daniell; 50 :Icelandic +; 31 — Gothic; 16
Teutonic 6 Irish ; 4 Flemish g Syriac; 2
Irish and Erse ; 1 Irish end Scottish 1
Persian ; one,Frisee (T) ;. And 1. uncertain.
Whether this table be literally accurate or
not, it is very suggestive as to' the language
increasingly 'dominant, in its literature and
ieligious teachings, among the nations.
'POETRY and POLITICS oft have gone to.
gather in days past, and even now there is
inspiration to be ferried, when "freedom's
battle "'in Italy is the the Me.
.Witness the
following sonnet, by Mrs. Mary Cowden
Clarke, (dated Nice, §epteinber 11th 1859 , )
addressed—
TO THOSE y wBo TOUOITT POT TTALIAN,INDMPENDINCII
Dr TSB . S.P.R.lld4lt
Bravely ye, fought for - freedom, bravely bled
To liberate your ionritri from the ybki
Of foreigietyrinity; 'many a fierde-atroke
Bore witness lo the binning. hope thatied
You on aggvimst the bated foe, that:fed
YOU hig4, with patriot ardor and awoke
Responsive sympathy from ; ,. 11. Then spoke
The fiat which blank consternation spread;
That bade you stint from seizing on your prize
In moment of success; decreed yonr cause
Should halt tutgain'd, Mad the very. cries
That hail,d,it won. ,The.torture this slangs
Ye bore as raloronily as.your wounds in fight;
And—harder" task than action--waieibe oombg
right.
" Kingsley's Account of Milton."' takes
rank side by side with "Mary-Poiel," and
" Deberah," (Milton's first- wife and his
daughter,) in thrbwinglight wilds domestic
•
habits. A literary man, cannot but read the
folloWing with interest:- It is a good speei.
men, moreover, ofiKingisley's "pure well
of English undefiled':"; -
DOMBSTIO MANATN OR MILTON THIS . kOZT.-At
his meals he never took 'much of wine or any
other fermented liquor ' and he was not fastidious
in his food; yet.his tas te seems to have been deli
cate and refined like his other senses, and he had
a preferenee for such viands , as were of , an agree
able flavor.' In his early years he used to sit up
late et-his studies, and perhaps' he continued this
practice While his sight was good ; but in his lat
ter years he retired every night at nine o'clock,
andilay,nlll four in Summer, till five, in Winter,
andif not then disposed to rise, he had some one
`to sit at his 'bedside and read'to him. When he
rose he had it chapter of the Hebrew Bible read
for him;. andthen, with of course the intervention
of breakfast, studied till twelve. .He then dined,
too Boone exercise for an hour --generally in a
chair, in which he ,usedto. swing himself—and
afteriards played • on the organ or the bass viol,
and either sang himself or made Ids' wife sing,
who, as he said, had a good voice hut no ear.
He, then resumed,* studies,,till six, front which
-hour till eight he conversed with those who came