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VOL 9':' rteibytothill Adv S tS, V4llO XX/ii 4 DAVID MoKINNEY and lA= =SON, Editors. rERNS-IN ADVASOL From our London Correspondent , Treaty Signed-4 Congress Corning—The Pope, the Emperor, and the !intoned—Neapolitan Troops on the Motie , LAustria in Venetia—Her Financial Distress—Disappointment of the Prot estants and Jetos—,The Mortara Case and a Protestant' Pr,okeet-E.ffeet on the Jewish and European Nind 7 ,--Irieh iVtional Education-- Spain and Morocco —Buoyancy of the Money Market--Luits in the Storm—Death of Robert StePhenilon--Episcopal Clergy and Temperance-- N . 66i r of the Revival on Intemperance—Effect of Anitientio Information on Pi Otis Minder—An Eng lish, 'Near and the Clerical Meeting—Social Changes in Ulster—Deputation to ,United States, and Ireland's _Future. LONDON, 00t. 20th;. 1859. THE TREATY OP Zuniat is signed at last, and a Congress (at Brussel& probably,) is soon to follow it. At the latter, all the Powers are to be represented, including 'the Pope himself, whose Legate will plead hard for the confirmation of his temporal sover eignty, and the subjugation of the revolted Romagnols. 'lliere is /namely any differ ence in the articles of peaoe signed at.. Zurich, from "the preliminaries" agreed mi at Villafranoa. Little is said., indeed, of the Pope's headship of an Italian Confed eration, for he—poor old gentleinan--:-has quite enough on his hands, and is not likely to be a " President" for a long 'time, if ever. The French Ambassador is confer ring with him at Castel Goodolfo, in the kingdom of Naples, and it is said that' His Holiness the Pope, acting in concert with the Emperor Napoleon, is about to issue an address to the people of the States ,of the Church. Probably some promises..will be made of the " pi&orust" kind—" made to be broken "—and it is very, certain- that the revolted people wont believe them, or he bamboozled by them. If that address, however, be : a ,preliminary to, fore, banked by a scheming .gtirperor, it will bfinithings to a crisis. Naples,. strange to say, is moving large military forces toward the frontiers It is said, on the other hand, that Sardinia is 'urging, by a special envoy at Paris, the annexation of the Duchies at time. This Napoleon would not like to see accomplished. He is beginning to. talk about the expenses of the war, and is sus pected of coveting, as , a" compensation, the Sardinian Province of. Savoy. Austria still tyrannizes over Venetia, and martial law ' ready to' punish, a look or - a word, virtually exists. The taxation, also, is crushing. Most damaging . revelations have been made as to the finanmal condition of the Austrian empire. .In the year 1858, the outlay—on the army chiefly—far ex ceeded the'reVenue, and a 'hideous addition must have been , made by, the terrible war of last Summer. Hitherto Auatria has recov ered as by a miracle, but now she is .fear fully crippled. It also comes out that neither the Protestants of the'Confession' of. Augsburg, nor of the old Hungarian Church, are at all satisfied with the concessions made to them. Thu lurks under the concessions,, State tyranny, and in the case of Hungary,- all union and publicity of Synodical action are' forbidden.' The Hungarians were, at '.the.,'moment peace was made, ripe fotinsurreotiop., Now they murmur and complain bitterly ;- they boldly tell the Emperor that they want back their constitutional kingdom and liberties. He sends Count Bach to talk with them, nd they do not hesitate to talk very plainly. . s to the concession to the Jews, the old restrictions are only to be partially removed, and a Jew mk not build a suburban villa I Tau MORTARA. CASE COMM up afresh before the public.this week, ,by the publica tion of the Protest made by. Protestant Christians, against the wicked abduction of the Jewish boy, Who is still'detained at a monastery in Rome--Cardinel Antonelli re fusing to give him up. The value of the Protest it very great in two ways : let. It demonstrates to the Hebrew community that' Protestantism is friendly, to liberty andthe rights of conscience, and is emphatically a religion of fair play, and transparent hon .sty. Thus prejudices are removed, and is ate than this, a lavorable . feeling of grate appreciation of what the New Testa:Meat teaches and recognizes, is produce& 2dly. It makes out. Rome ,to be the same-bigoted, blinded, persecuting system it always '-was. It intensifies over Europe the ever increasing hatred which her abominations create in every intelligent mind, and pioneers the deluge which . must at last , sweep her from off thei face of the earth. If ' , were a Romanist, and not quite sure of the " in fallibility" doctrine, I certainly should. look upon things quite as gloomily as, it is .aid Pio Nono does. Nevertheless, Doctor cHale, the Archbishop of Tuam, (whose eltic face and figure, his determined brow nd bearing, I once described to you, as lie appeared before a Parliamentary Election : Committee,) has published , a letter addressed to Lord Palmerston, in which, after heaping abuse on the Whigs and Tories alike, he declares that things were never in a - more hopeful condition for the interests of' the true Church in this kingdom, And that she being the true Church, against Christ and " his anointed Vicar upon earth," the kings hereof and people set themselves in vain, nd will be surely broker' to pieties. This the usual way in which Rome bias. ;,hemousy parodies Scripture,, and uses it o curse those whom God has 'not 'cursed. ertainly the fishwomen of Billingsgate are not to be compared, in the choiceness of their objurgatory language, to Pio NOM), in his allocutions ; "Cursing Cullen," in his Pastoral ; the Univerx, in its diabolical bate if England; and John of Tuatn, in his buse of Palmerston. IRISH NATIONAL EDUOATION is still troubling the country. The Irish Liberal Romanist M. P.'s have been put in a dill oulty, as they do not want to break with the overnment by joining the Popish prelates n open war. Many of them are place .unters, and some of them in- their hearts .test the tyranny of priests. The upper d middle classes of the Romanists know t.ry well the value of the Queen's Colleges and the Queen's University, in Ireland, in 'preparing young men for the civil service, both at home and in India—now open, with ,rich rewards to talent and industry. The demands of the prelates • fell, therefore, 'harsh and grating on many Romish ears, and the projected gathering of M. P.'s has ,not come off. Lord Carlisle and the Ex• Chancellor Brady, at the bistowment of degrees to the Quetn's Colleges' students, last week, apoke firmly, but courteously, as to the preserving intact of the NationalSctern, and also of that 4, united education" ieh Rome hates and fears. Whereupon , a meeting of gi their Lordships," the Bishops ) was summoned this week, in Dublin, and the Irish Seem. tarp's reply to their demands was laid before them. The first rumors were to the effect that Mr. Cardwell proposed to'remove an objectionable Scotehman,andplace a Romish " {'Hagan" in his place; also, to remove some Protestant and foreigtr - professors or teachers in the Training Sehooret the Edu cation system in Dublin. With', this" small concession, s Romielt organ was ill pleased, 'flying that the Government entindylunder rated the real wishes of the prelate These reports however turn 'Of ill. founded, and nothing is vet known of Mr. Cardwell's reply. The Government, how ever, will never yield on the subject of united education. That would be as dis graceful and unstatesmanlike, as it would be wicked and cruel toward the Irish people. THE QUARREL BETWEEN SPAIN AND MOROCCIO seems about to be 'settled, princi- pally through• English intervention. This, with the signing of the Treaty of Zurich, the certainty of a Congress, and the great abundance of 'money, makes the funda, and also 'trade and commerce, buoyant. The funds now• are 96t, What a great change from January last. The suddenness of great changes is a characteristic of these last times. If there be =in store, as most thoughtful students of prophecy consider, dayerof tribulation ere the Golden Age,he inaugurated, we have at least pauses and parentheses of peace, between 'the gusts pre liminary, which •indicate their coming. This is in God's great mercy, and , allows old wounds to eicatrize, and commercial losses to be retrieved. THE DEATH OF ROBERT STEPHENSON, the great 'Engineer, and son of ilia celebra ted George Stephenson, who made Watts' invention first applicable to traveling by land, has quickly followed that of his illus. trious contemporary and rival, Brunel. Both were about the ,same age. Stephen son died of liver complaint, in his fifty.third year. His reinains are to be interred in West Minster Abbey. Some of your readers have, ere now, darted, through =the Tubnlar Bridge, -over the Menai Straits; 'as 13on struoted by him. THE ixREAT..nASTERN ill still at Holy head, and is being visited by great crowds. To-morrow is to be the last day of her being exhibited, and so the assertion of the Daily News seems to be correct,,that she will cross the Atlantic) this year, and will certainly sail.before the:end of this month. On the other hand, the Times' " Special" writes strenuously against the propriety of ; sending her across the Atlantie until next Spring, and points out that she has not .warming apparatus; consequently that in a Winter voyage the: crew and passengers will be almost frozen in North American latitudes, and that in an American harbor in Winter time;.people will not ore svd to see her as they. would do in a more genial, season. If she go to America this year, but few passengers. will. be taken. The crossing the Atlantic back and ,iorward safely, will be the only Waltrip whioh will.imspire pablie confidence. A considerable body of CHUROEV or ENG LAND CLERGY, with Dean Close at-their head, publisloan , appeal to their hiethren, urging' them to 'adopt-the principles, and co operate with the designs of the Pcital Absti nence`imovitinent. On , the ' , other hand ap peared- letters from clerical hande, in the Times, denying that Scripture demands en tire abstinence, asserting that ""a little Wine for thestomach's take," is allowed; that a "bishop";martakerwine; but only not "mach wine," and so %n.' As a body; th&%lergy arektentpeMe, *end not very many of4the• rising ' race, or the middle aged, are "rosy rectors." But all the Bishops; I have no doubt, have 'tolerably ivell furnished wine cellars. On this plea - of benevolence and self denial for the good of others alone ' I submit, can the Total Abstinence 'system be urged? In fact, those • treatises which I have read onthis side of the Atlantic, about wines approved of in Scripture as being all "unfermented," seem to me to be a shameful begging of the queetion, totally inconsistent with the , sense the original. Vidous countries , as - traoh, are temperatel; the , bran died wines, demanded by the nations of Northern Xurope, are a libel'on nine, as in tended for the tisi3; of-man. Ilear that by these observations, I might provoke contro versy, did rnot write them eurrente calanio, and without the; least design `of provoking any one.* The , RE V 1 V Ara . ;or' RELIGION by the ont. pouring of the Holy Spirit, is she true solv er of all social questions. Mr. Moore, of Ballymena, found its operation in his own town so potent in destroying intemperance root and branch, that when Mr. Gough, the temperanbe orator, went thither to lecture, he did not take 'any- interiatt:in the move ment,, although himself a total , abstainer. Bindles- statements' from Mr =Hanna, of - Bel. fast,'have been addressed to myself, as to the " obliteration of" Temperance Societies (as suoh,) in Belfast, by the power of the sober. izing awakening. Nevertheless, Mr. Gough• has been lately at Belfast, and has lectured there Under high Christian and Evangelical auspices, with great success. The social bearings of the Irish Awaken ing, are 'being every day more and more de velnped, in ',spite of the wicked misrepre sentations and lying " statistics" of a hos tile press. =I am receiving every week fresh and true "statistics " on' that subject. One communication- is from the Rev.- George Hay Shanks, Presbyterian minister at Broad. County Dpwn; Which indicates a mar veins change both social and spiritual. He dwells, as ethers do, on- the refining in fluence on the appearance and manners of the converts—producing true, " courteous," Scriptural "gentlemen" and "gentleiromen," and healing family divisions thoroughly. I gave, this week, to. Baptist. Noel's congre gation, and at his request, some of my im pressions and information as to the Ulster Revival. The expression of one of the Des eons; that " to hear such things , produces an intense desire for _similar manifestations of Divine graoe among ourselves ' " is a specimen of the feeling now general among Christians. The atmosphere of prayer is now widely, diffused, and I trwit the bles sing will oome. I had a letter this week from an English Vicar, (the same who, at Nuneaton, near to which the lamented Rev. T. Millar, of Lurgan, was killed by , a railway accident, showed such sympathy,) asking me to send him -Some Authentic information as to 'the Irish Awakening. There was about to be .a 'clerical meeting in the neighborhood, and some " doubted.' He therefore wishes to convince them. The Dean of Canterbury having heard au address from au eye witness, and a recent visi tor to Ulster, has declared hie con vietion of its genuineness; and Dr. Hugh McNeil, of Liv erpool, a County Antrim man, has borne very striking testimony to the spiritual re sults among his tenantry there. At Crumler, in County Antrim, eleven publicans have given up their licenses. The harmony and love produced among Chris tian congregations, who had been rivals in the same district, and had cherished their small prejudices and sectionalism, is truly astonishing. The Rev. Richard Smyth, of Londonderry, has furnished me with'a most valuable statement of" the Awakening' in Londonderry city. ' Tars RECEPTION of THE "WEN DEPU- Yrs regard it,a duty, on BeriptAriuciples . to,abstahl from the use, as a beeplage, 4. 6l all al. ooholio liquors, fermented as , ws4 8,8, . "ONE THING , IS NEEDFUL:" "ONE THING HAVE I DEED OF THE .:LORD;' " THIS TEEM, I:DO.." FOR THE WEEK ENDING SA TATION in the United States, has given great satisfaction to ':the= people of Ulster. They represent a revived 'and therefore powerful Protestant Confederation, and they deserve universal , support and eneotrage• ment in their truly patriotic Home Mission operations. The United States, know best what misehievous.elements Irish. Popery has introduced, and if by their .help and. God's blessing, the fountain is purified, then sweet instead of, " bitter " waters, will flew., A. regenerated Celtic populati2n would furnish fresh Columbas—fervent missionaries for the truth—to all the world. Oh,ltappy day, when Ildand shall he the light of Western. Europe, such is' in the days when, as Old Coke has it, "Thither," (for, the sake of learning,) ,‘ did the Saxon youth resort as to a fair I" What an improved cultivation has not done; what Queen's Colleges or secular edu cation, or Constitutional Government cannot do, the Spirit, with , the Word, can mom plish , for Erin. , Surely-a• bright future is before her, and this Awakening in Ulster itiwpioneer. - And-so in a nobler sense than Thomas Moore , meant it, her Christianized sons may cheerily sing : young, ' And thy sun is, but rising when others have set ; And though slavery's chains 'long around thee have hung, Yet the full noon of freedom.shall:beim round thee yet I" . • P. S.—The death of the Rev. R. Wilson, D.D., Professor of Biblical Oriticism in the General, Assembly's College, Belfast, is ,a severe loss to the cause of sacred literature. He was very eminent in his own :depart; went; a very distinguished, student in, Col lege days, and amply fulfilling the promise of his youth. His work on Infant Baptism is very weighty and able. Aye 'there ys shine, and there have shone, In one eternal hour of prime ; Each•rolling, burningly, alone, • Through boundless ispace, .and countless time Aye! there ye shine—the golden dews That pave the realms by seraphs trod ; There, , through yen echoing.vault diffuse The song of choral worlds to God. . Yemisible spirits I bright' as erat - Young Eden's birtit-nighesaw Ye !bine On all her flowers and fobntains first, Ye sparkle. from the hand Divine; ' Yeil 'bright as then ye Sidled, to catch The music of a sphere so fair, Tohold , your high, immortal watch, And gird your Ood's.pavilion,there. Gold frets to dust ; yet there ye era: • • Time rots the diamond; there ye roll priMal light, -as if each star ' ..Enshrined - anayerlisting_soul.--, And do they'not `Sliabe Yon'bright•thongs One "all-enlightening Spirit awn, Praised there by pure, sidetiell tongues, Eternal, glorious, blest and lone Could men but see what ye have seen— Unfold awhile the shronded,past-- From all, that is, to what has been,. The glance how rich—the range how vast 1 The birth of time—the riseohe fall Of empires--myriads, ages flown— Tirones,, cities, tongues, arts, Worships--all, The,things whose echoes are not.gone 1. Ye eaw'red Zoroaster send' His soul into your mystic reign ; Ye eaw the adoring Bahian bend— The living hills his mighty farm: Beneath his blue and .beaming sky, He worshippid at.yonr lofty shrine, And deemed he saw, with gifted.eye, . . The Godhead in his works Divine: Aye I there ye shine, as ifto mock The children of an earthfal sire : The, storm, the bolt, the earthqunke's shock— The red volcano's cathract fire ; Drought, famine,plague, and blood and ilame, AU nature's ills, andßfe's worst'woes, Are nought to you—ye smiled the same, And scorn alike their dawn and close. PUBLICATION. OFFICE, GAZETTE BUILDING, FIFTH S T, ABOVE SMITHFIELD, PITTSBURGH, PA: " Thoughmatrons have fallen, yet still thou• art *elect tiottirk. Hymn ta the Stars. Aye I there ye roll—eniblems!sublime" Of Him, whose Spirit o'er us moves, Beyond the clouds of grief and ,crime, Still shining ou the world he loves. Nor is one scene to mortal given, That more divides the soul from sod, Than, you proud heraldry of heaven— Ton burning blazonry of ,God ! Laboring Elders, Some changes for the worse have seeming ly taken place in the practical performance of the duties of the Eldership. The 'day was, when the 'elders of the churches con etituted a very efficient band of laborers, do-.' ing a great deal more than merely to admit, I dismiss, and discipline members. The diary of all elder in one of our leading churches, ender the 'ministrations 'of the late Dr. Richards, ahowed the fact - that the elders divided the congregation into districts, and, without the pastor, visited every family. The work was accomplished principally in the evening, it being found, difficult to meet the members of the different families at any other time. The elders went two and two, conversing conversing and praying with' the people. The apprentices and " help " were called to. gether in almost all casesoind that Class, so muck neglected in our day, was faithfully warned. The diary alluded to states the in teresting fact, that by this system, many cases were bronklit to light which needed the special attention of the pastor—such as crofessors in despondency or difficulty, or persons ,in an anxious or skeptical , state of mind. Such cases were .reported tor , Dr. Richards, who had a remarkable tactiin deal ing with them. It .is ~a well known fact, that very Inany persons, who need and , wish spiritual counsel, are very .reluetant to ask it. If they are fortunate enough to be sought out, they will, obtain the mueli t needed coun sel ; otherwise, they wilt probably go, with out it, to their :serious injury. In- the church alluded to, I Inge been told that it was often a matter of Surprise to such par ent{ that the pastor should " happen in so opportunely I They sometimes called it a special providence "--attaching to it the quality of the semi -miraculous, whereas the mercy came through the agency of efficient elders, who were constantly acting as over seers of the flock committed 'to their trust. The results, >as I have been - told, were re markable, since scarce a Communion season occurred witholit additions from the world. People abroad spokeladmiringly. of 'the pas tor, as .a successful minister gathering jewels for, Christ.. And, indeed, they could not say too much of, his searching, and often tearful sermons f with which , : he moyeddlis great congregation. - But undoubtedly, long before this, it has appeared that theamccess fal ministry of thst gr,eatnan was in, part owing to the faithfm of 'whom but . one, hav4 in hope of a better." One of the numbs single•eyed service wir stantly in his office of content themselves w oapaeiogally with the savor so ouch of the from a 'close contact wl is " happening in not merely to say a wt. but to sho w Byrn pathy sap courage this widow, ant o this child whO, .do • The elder tp whom 1 industry in business , every engagement of I noted for the holy skill tip the ".odds and el making even tirm for exercising the fl For instance, he has gg.on the-hill," or gg 4:14 or- returning he wool sae " old Mr. A," gg Widow B.'s health,' abe did not need a lit rent, ot'to drop a woi_ .._ __—. , , ~._ he saw weeping during the ;Oka' Sunday's Et t discourse. And;so scarcely a , ayLpassed in which this single-eyed elder id not find some opportunity to, bear hi yea in the eldership, even. in the biniest 4 Cason. He did not- make long visits, uinally. Very often he wouldzstql-at the door,%and, with whip and hat in hand, say : a iftgooct morn ing,' with some good, comforting word, that, would, be as a perpetualnheam.in the house after he was gone. 'An t al& he sir- culated in' -this easy and:- iffectixal a Way through the congregation. Tffire.,:was) not . a house in which lie was not ß ielcome, nor ~ a person to whom he could iloC i syeak on the great theme which engrossed his affections. When he died, his brethren 114entted over him as an extraordinary work land a-good „.• man. I - In this case the elder wattiPoisessed of -4 t excellent sense, sound judgid t, F much in telligence; but at thelroundatidn 3 of Ilia ad mirable qualities was his, piety, and, then.::; his praistibal recognition pf the solemn vows he had made when ordained moan elder. I reaill,the case of ,anothei2dir,limous for his efficiency. • In, him. Are, was no guile, and he had thai'direcineseerpurpose which-often gavics him "suecesalleie &eater tacticians would have failed. Ard-had-gteat clearness-of mind And powerlbf' argument, ad that, in determining his owlitditty -helves' not very' liable to mistakei#and thew he could. combat-the wrong positions "of others. But it . was not mere intelligencewhicki gave -, him , hiippower asa spiritual ndviser; , :aniex- -: horter, a comforter, a .patifietitor: , It , Avas rather his ripe godliness -andibisapprecia-. tion of the vows,he had made as- an eider. I have .known him to meebaup,eessfully cases of, perplexity which his ti pas)gr could not, tt li and which he ought not : o 1;4 e:rtake r Our dear old elder ,Wotdd state „ ,ti s, views, so 444 4,44 clearly, so lovingly, and yet ,ftp, timly,,timit the boldest found it 410E0 feliit jiim : ; leeTtUoi diedin'n - giledidt age ~. ,nit" day, those ; who knew him' speak of hiai with a tendernetis which showe'how:blessed!ii the memory of a faithful elder. ' ' Pay Your. Pastor.. Some congregations commence thinking - about-the collection-of the salary..on(the day I it should be paid, and pappart''otit a few, weeks afterward. A. part. of,. the ; salary of each quarter is permitted to ,run into the -, next, uatil the.parish hindreds of dollars in debt to the pastor. What now Is to be , done ? To sue for-it would seem hard ;to insist on its payment, would be unpopular; to permit it to increase would be adding to , the evil ; to cancel it, or to .disaolve the pastoral relation, is' the only: alternative ! States cannot repudiate without losini their characters, but churches think nothing Of it. And thus parishes will cheat their min ister, who would not think Of cheating-the carpenter that'-built their churoh, or the' sexton that takes care of it. This, in many cases; is owing -more to :neglect,- and , that. tentcon, , and the-want of spirit in of& cers.of the church, than to any .purpose to wrong the pastor, and_ may; therefore :be remedied. A . young man.,, settled ;;over .a ohurchnotorious-for theoprocess of starving out the minister ;., when , the int- quarter's . cutlery was due, the treasurer came ...with a part of it, promising the remainder, in -a ehort time." "Have Lfailed inany of ,my.-. duties?" said the =pastor. "By no =means," wit!, the reply. " Then," said,lie to the treasurer, "you must not fail in yours. You have i promised to pay me my salary quarter ly; not, a part of it; I want all of it, and will take none, until paid The treas urer retired somewhat mortified; if not vexed by the interview. He soon returned and paid all. The salary Was: afterward paid; and punctually, to thee comfort` of the pastor, and to the delight of the people. The starvation process was stopped: A pastor Of a church in 'New .Angland, years ago, sent for one of the profiesionar-revival lets., Before commencing his Operations f he learned-that the'church , was running' yearly' in debt to the pastor, and was very remiss in meeting , their, angagemeptn ovith ,him. His first address to 'the people,; was .I as lows : "You have sent formeliere to preach to you, and to _pray that the Lord!, may re vive his work among you. You have failed in your promises to pay your _pastor's salary, and the Lord-aeveF blesses a lying people. You must confess and- forsake the sin of lying to your minister before I begin' my work` for I cannot ask the _Tiord, to re vive his work in a lying congregation." This is one of the beat things I.' ever heard of that class of ministers. The people paid their minister, and a3greaterevival followed I —Dr. Murray, in Observer. • _The Sting of Death. The sting, of death is, sin," says the Apostle; and what says the history of man, throughout all the reeling and all the ages of lfeathenism? -low was it in those days, which the long-suffering of God, winked at and overlooked.? And how is it,-at this day, , in thoie countries. , which ,still, continue to weary. his patience by themultitude,oftheir abominations? What was it, that in ancient times demanded the fruit of the,,parent's body for the sin •of the parent's soul? What was -it that -caused the children of the idolators to pass through the fire Of Moloch ? And what is it which, at this day, prostrates the ,Eastern pilgrim .beneath the, chariot-wheels of a monstrous.and shapen idol ? What are all these atroci ties but visible commentaries on the text of the Apostle"? What is there but the in ward sense of wickedness, and a persua sion of the necessity 'of, atonement, Which can account for these prodigies of volun tary sacrifice and martyrdom ? If' `death had no sting but that which it inflicts upon the body; if' the = sufferings " of life, or :the agonies of dissolution; were all that7mortala ' had -to apprehend, .whT isnit that. fathers.' should •ever censign.:their , children to-=the fire, or-their ; , own• = bodies to , the 'extri3mity ffl NOVEMBER 19,'1859, of torment? Throughout the world there is, and ever has been, a deep and indelible sense of fine, which poisons every- sunrise of human enjoyment; which makes life restless, and the end of-life terrible. 'lt knocks at ,the door of the peasant and thUnders at. the portals 'of monarchs. It' tells the cottager at his meat, and the I sovereign` at- banquet, that he is weighed in the balance and found wanting It whispers terror even to the sage in the retirement of .his chamber,, and turns his boasted 'wisdom into foolishnese. And what`is all ihe Will-worship, and..all the vol untary humiliation,land , all' the superstitious vanity and corruption which the world has aver seen: what are,theyilihut expedients to blunt the iting . which`catt'neSer be taken out; - and .to deaden` the , angnish which its point constantly ' Why is it that man bath ever sought to hide himself in falsehood, but that he may . escape that Atifietiageopa t inent, which altakes 414- /163 . U . wirtun Dcowards of Walla; whibh=redtceii :tWone -wretched level him that the earth in.-the sweat of his brow, and him 'that is canopied in grandeur, and in power,; aye, and him, too, that is endowed with might which surpasses the - glery of the kingdoms of, the earth—the might of a:capseions and comprehensive intellect P—Le Bas. About Maobbiery-Mendiug. It is the infirmity of some people to-com bine it,grest tensility of attachment to cer tain,,things,,with a most humble confession that thp, things in question are trifles, un its, to 'occupy the` time of Christians. tat,lirchinerY "is one of these- things. It is 'O6 low; little, narrow, debilitating to the Christian spirit, to .g tinkering maohin;., ery," instead of working it I Well, we happen to, have a system of benevolent Ma chinery, so ~c omplicated and ill-constructed Abet a third Or half the "capital has' lo be expended in coaling the .engine. Some of us =wish' to .effect an improvement Oat shall require, a smaller expenditure for fuel. It, might be _expected, now, that those who lhaveindh hodly contempt for, all engineer ing inquiries would be: happy to acquiesce.- "Very:veil, brethren," would seem to be ,their natural and logical , conclusion, "Me are, not able , to see the importance of such a change; but it is of no Consequence—mere machinery. One machine will snit us as veil` - as another, provided -it is only well leorked.7 -Strangely. enough, the ;fiery men who claim credit for stroll holy-and superlu nary indifference to .these email , matters, are most strenuous in maintsiningevery eliding organization and every part thereof; as they would-articles of faith. Not a crank, not a eog, not a pulley, not a..band, ,must be touched. You.might,as.well touch the.ark. The ministers and laymen who, on. a certain day at a certain place, agreed to 'organize under a certain name, to do a certain'good 'thing, have all theautbority that was claimedi by the Connell of Trent. Their treasury and the - 1 1aord!s ; Treasury are synonymous terms: To differ, from' them is heretical and ,nalte_ li itenesion of the question whether. a change trod:advilable;in the eyes of some of this classp is an ;illegitimate abuse ,of the light ,of free discussion. * -*` If a man's entrusts another with the charge of procuring a certain thing to be done for him, he has nofight to pay two dollars for a .service that can be ..as well done for one dollar.. If, it is,propnsed44c.raise .00,0 0 .0 for a benevolentwprk, it is ; a..sin to l „impiny such ageneies and naethods as,cost.sls,ooo, when quite as. much can be done, - and as well none, for $5,000. gconomy is a virtue when we are regulating the expenditure of our own money. Profusion in expending moneys given us in trust, is a .great sin. We have need ;to ask pardon of. intelligent readers for insisting on such evident truisms. But it is become so prevalent a fashion, in someAqttarters, to reckon 'a disregard of them as evidence of sanctity, that a , dose of , cony , mon sense seems to be occasionally indispen sable.—Examiner. ' Those venerable ,witnesses._ for truth—the Waldeneeehave in their possession Con feesioneiof Faith and other writings, drawn up long liefore the &formation' ' which - are mow exceedingly interesting, and important, because of the ,light they cask on the.ancient tenets and practices the Church. Their opinions have been quoted with the greatest respect by Protestant writers, because for a long time they wisre, perhaps the sole rep reientatives of the primitive and pure Chris tian Church. We propose now to present to our readers a few extracts from the creeds and standards of this interesting Teople, for the purpose of shOwing - what- is the voice ot antiquity with regard to '=some' subjects, about whio4 there‘ is far :from.• unity of opinion in the Christian ,worid. In one .of the early confessions of r the Waldenses, they say, ' 6 , 6 We believe there, is one Holy' hureh comprising'ihe whole ,as affably, of-the elect ands faithful, that-have waisted from-the beginning.of the,world, or that, chall be ~to the entFthereof. In this ChUroh it behooves all Christiani- to have fellowship." Again : "Sy the Holy Catholic Church is meant all the elect of God from the;beginning of the,world to, the end, , gathered together by the. Holy Spirit, and foreordained to, eternal life:,, In the Catechism of the ancient Wat• domes, irranswer to the,question, 'if Where by dost-thou know the Church of : Christ?" vre,,are. ; told " . By ,the. ministers, lawfully called, And by - the, people participating in the faith of their, ministry." And in re• sponse to another, "By what marks dost thou know the ministers Y" The answer is, "By the-genuineness of, their faith, by sound,doetrine,,by a life of, good ,example, by,the preaching. of the - Gospel, amd by the due administration of the sacraments,' With regard to Church officers their testi mony is: "It is• necessary for the Church to, have pastors' sufficiently learned and, ex .emplary in their conduct .as well to preach God's Word as to administer the sacraments, and watch over the sheep of ,Tesua-Chriet, together with elder and deacon according-to the rates of good . and holTdiseipline, and the called upon to re fteit3f.antiliOrbb • Praying, no Crime. An officer once complaine'd to Gen. Xack eon that softie soldiers ware makinw a noise in, their tent. " What are they doing 7" asked the General. " They are praying ' now, but have been: singing ;' was thereply? ""-And is that a crime'?" , the General demanded. -"The articles of war order punishment for ally unusual noise," was the reply. " God forbid that praying shoidd.he au tiiinsnal noise in my camp,' :mid Jackson, with MuChfieling, and advised the officer to - join` theM. A Sure-itecord. There is,no way for men to, diseern their names written in the „Book of Life but by reading the., work of sanctification in their own hearts. I desire no miraculous voice from, heaven, no e,xtraordioary signs or .un scriptural notices and information in this matter. Lord,, let me find my heart obeying thy calls, my will obediently submitting to thy .commands sin, - . my burden, and Chrhst r my desire; I:;neverrorate a fairer or surer evidence ; of :,thy electing7ove to my ' Value of Religions Papets. , ,friend, give his testimony 018 follows tc,i,,haye)heeo ,pastor of ,a ohoreh, several yeam i ) fbave. noticed that all men , who have been f troublesomeßio; my, elvereh,who have been oiferifloir; at. epiall tliingsi who have, been crooked, 'set; and .ngly 7 —have been. men who; did, not :take , a rah:glow newspaper. .Anu,lou will4PdAhstalMs_st all Church diffundties- emperfiem men who dolma readTreligions jaornale?',.