' . ._• V " / p . 11 1 1 .4 ICATEG - . _ firgabirtirlia IhNIUNIND Ya4lilli /3 Preilikyterlas Advosatot Vale =Uri 1144 I DAVID MoKINNEY and JAMES ALLISON, Editors. LEREIL-111 ADT411.4.., *..4,4 - T. , ...-;;; --- !..1.tirtg-t "The ettlllthags of this present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory that shah be revealed In ne." My feet are,worn and weary with the maroh Over rough roads and up the steep W11.51(10; 0, city of our God, I fain would see Thy pastures green, where peaceful waters glide. My bands are weary, laboring, toiling on, Day after day, for perishable moot.; Oh, oily of our God, I fain would rest; I sigh to gain thy glorious mercy, peat. My garments, travel worn and stained with dust, Oft rent by briars and thorns that crowd my , way, Would fain be made, 0 Lord, by righteousness, Spotless and white in heaven's unclouded ray. My eyes are weary looking at the sin, Impiety, and scorn upon the earth ; Oh, city of our God, within thy walls, . All, all, are clothed upon with the new birth, My heart is weary of its own deep sin= Sinning, repenting, sinning still ilway ; When shell my soul thy glorious presence feel, And find its guilt, dear Saviour, washed away ? Patience, poor soul; the Bs:doses feet were WO 11 r , The Saviour's heart and hands were weary too; His garments stained,. and travel-worn, and, old, His sacred eyes blinded with tears for you. Love thou the path of sorrow that he trod ; Toil on, and wait in patience for thy rest, Oh, city of our God, we soon shall, see ' Thy glorious walls, home of the limed and hied. —S. Roberts. From our London Correspondent. A Visit to Northumberland—The English Synod and its Home Mission—, Plans for a, Better Sus tentation of the Ministry—The United Piesbyte rians—Revival at Newaastle—Lord John Russel and the Mortara Case—Meting at Dublin to Sympathise with the Pope—e' A Big Lee"—The National Sunday League—A Workingman Ex.; posing its Pretences--Controversy About Scottish Ballads—Storms and Shipwrecks—Sir William Armstrong and his Artillery—REP Corps. and Coast Defence—Spain and England—Lord Ellen borough and Garibaldi-. The Central Italian's Latest Movement—The Lord Advocate on Tohn Enoz, at Exeter Hall—Nezva from India and China—Postscript. LONDON, Nov. 11.0,1859: FROM Amwrox, in Northumberland, out upon a Deputation for our Synod's Home Mission, I address to you my present letter. Two ministers, each accompanied by a mer chant layman, (that is, a zealous intelligent office - bearer of our Church, and a thorough man of business,) take one half' of the con- gregations of the county, in order to . before all the people the importance and ne cessity of a better sustentation of the Chris tian ministry yamong them. We are the Deputies of the Home 'Mission CoitiV4t tee, and at the last Synod a scheme was submitted to the Court and , sanctioned by it, containing two leading rules and provis. ions. Ist. That inasmuch as it is essential that every minister in the Church should receive a minimum stipend of £l.OO per annum, that where congregations are 'weak, and are not able to raise that sum, if they will establish a Home Missiogary Assoola : tion, to collect by small subscriptions as much as in their power, as supplemental to the ordinary stipend, the Home Mission um, dertakes that the stipend shall be so far aided out of its general fund as to Nettie the minister the minimum sum above men tioned. 2dly. That inasmuch as it is most desirable that ministers should receive more than the minimum, that wherever a congre• gation is paying a stinend - of- £lOO out of its own resources, thatfor every pound con tributed above this sum, the Home Mission will give ten shillings, or one half, and thus onward and upward, so as to secure to the minister £l5O. You will peroeive how very important to the stability and permanence of any Church is such a movement. I love the American Presbyterians so well, that I long exceed. ingly to hear of a general movement, such as our system of Church Government is so well qualified to bring into powerful and universal operation, a Sustentation Fund. The strong helping the weak—" all at it and always at it "—these are the principles by the successful development of Which, the Free Church of Scotland has acquired a 'tability such as cannot be shaken, and by which every minister, even in poor Shetland, has £135 and a manse, worth altogether .4150 a year. The object of our movement is to teach the people the principle that God helps those who help themselves, and to encour age those who are willing to do their best. The United Presbyterians have a Presby. tery in this county, and connected as it is, ith the United Presbyterian Church in ,cotland the ministers have some help from 'sir own Home Mission Fund. Over hill and dale, amid traditional and lntie scenes, including the battle field of Percy and the Douglas, which is immor sized in the ballad of " Chevy Chase," 'ith the glorious old Castle of the. Dac;l toily of Northumberland, with its figures g• Hotspur " and other " invincible :nights," armed cap a pie on its turrets, we pass day after day, and in the evenings meet with and address the respective con. gregations. The Northern Presbyterians in England, are numerous. The English Synod and the United Presbyterian Church, have the mass of the population. They are a hardy race, chiefly farmers and' hinds," (farm servants,) Nnd are stout, ruddy, large.boned, and del la. Their ancestors fought in the feudal 's of their chiefs, and overwhelmed .iem V., and his invading army, on flodden :ld, on that disastrous day when !he flowers of the forest were a' wed away !" The people are warmhearted and hospi• le ; and though Winter is upon us, yet ;h blazing coal fires and all manner of Hine's, a Missionary Deputation goes on ih its work cheerily, even though its ,tubers must travel over wild districts, out the path of the railway. At Newcastle on-Tyne, there is a con- gable interest in the revival of true re• ion. Mr. Hanna, of Berry Street church, lfast, has recently 'visited the place, and been giving the people much informs ;as to the Ulster Awakening. I had an lortunity of addressing a publio meeting at ;enticed, on the same subject, a few even ; since, and all through my y Deputational !, I propose to make this the staple of ;ry address, because that if we get a re- Id Christianity among our people, every ig else, financial and otherwise, will move ig equably and prosperously. Besides it imething important, indeed, , to be able to formalists how the Convincing Spirit waked up formalists elsewhere, to see their orthodoxy was worthless, to shelter m from the dorm of Divine anger, and to tell sinners, even the vilest, that has been done in Ulster may be done Our Best. here, and that, by the grave of our Lord Jesus Christ every guilty, polluted, tremb ling soul, " may be saved, even as they." LORD JOHN RIISSRL has been receiving, this week, a Deputation in reference to the Mortara " kidnapping." case. The Hon. Mr. Langdale, a Roman Catholic gentleman of ancient English lineage, has been trying to justify the sot of the. Papal Government in retaining the Jewish boy, by throviing the fatilt on the, parents, in having take,n a Christian into their service ! This super stitions girl baptized the child surreptitiously —the act is indelible—the grace is there by the opus operatuns ; and 46 *by did you take a Catholic into your house ?" is all the coil= solatidn the poor Hebrew father gets from Mr. Langdale I Lord John Russel says to this—" I am sure that if in this country any one was to propose that Roman Catholics should be prevented from taking& Protest. nut nursery-maid into, their service, every Roman Catholic would cry out against it•as a gross violation of religious liberty, and would maintain that such a law would be only an aggravation of the offence of taking the child from its parents. So that upon the justice,ef the, case, there need be no argrt ; ment.", bAt,the Deputation asked,,,wan that in . • any Congressional settlement of the affai r s ' of' Itaisr, the'tresiment, of the Jews in the MOrtara case ihnsildbnbrought by England before the Geverniients of Europe. More than thie, they - suggested that Bologna should be left free, arid not obliged' to're. turn under Papal domination,-and that Eng-: land should thus use her influence for an issue which would necessarily " leave this child free." Lord John said that it would be quite useless to bring the ease before the'Pope's Government, but that he would communi cate the views of the Deputation to his ministerial colleagues. You can well conceive how the hatred of the: Popish party against Lord John Russel, is, intensified by such a spirit as he now manifests,,, and by his 'cordial sympathy with a movement which has so thoroughly, posed their vile principles to the execration of,,the world. The Times holds that the true solution of all difficulties of this_ kind, is,, to take, away the temporal sovereignty of the Pope. The Pope as, such, claims it, and thinks it his first duty MINT souls, and so withholds P ihe okild from his parents. If he were not a temPorai sovereign he could not.pairy out his prin ci ples. Areat aillgring, with . Dr. Cullen' at its head, has been held at Dublin . , to express sympathy' for the iflllited• Pine IX., and speeches of great vehemence haie been delivered. A Father O'Connell wee short, but very decisive, 'declaring, 'amid" a storm of cheers, that the Papal Government was`emphatically "Pateikal I" Suitt a "big lee," as the Scotch vernacular would Put it, has a paternity 'peculiarly its own I Dr. Cullen delivered a violent tirade against Lords Palmerston and Russel, and against the " excommunicated " King of Sardinia. Verily, proud Babylon begins to be abased, and she holds at this moment, in her hand a fg cup of trembling!!..:. - _ THE NATIONAL SUNDAY LEAGUE is be ginning to hold fresh meetings, in order to obtain the opening of national museums, galleries and libraries, and gardens, on the afternoon of the Lord's day. Of course there was the usual " mint " of the party about ".religions liberty interfered with," and the usual,base abuse of the text, "Th e Sabbath was, made for man ;" and also as sertions that the views of Eyairgeli%l Obris. flans on the Sabbalh questions, were 1 t tra ditions and prejidiees." " """ .us' prejudices'. Then there is the fine Deistical talk about the refining' infinence :. 'as to the study ;of works of art, and for' " the cultivation 'of . truth and the beautiful," as " the necessary supplement of the church ind the chapel." The usual prOfessed zeal was put forth as to anxiety of the League on behalf of " the working man," and " the cultivation of his higher nature." A working plasterer, and another, of the sons of iOil, moved and sec onded a resolution to the effect that: public placei should be opened on Saturday after noons, instead of on the Sabbath; 'claiming the Sabbath as the working man's 'day, and as " the inestimable privilege of his order ;" that the object of the League was to secu larize the daY, and that this object 'was endorsed by every skeptic and free thinker, at.the present moment. 'T is thus that the false pretences of the League have been repeatedly exposed,; and although these mobs and semi infidel gath erings carry resolutions occasionally, by a majority, yet no Government will dare to, accede to their demands. THE ROMANTIC BALLADS ON SCOTLAND form the subject of a literary discussion of great interest at the present time. Mr. Robert Chambers, who last year, by unfair extracts from old Anng i ls, tried ., to hlaoken the memory of the Scottish.. Reformers and their successors , now has been endeavoring to deprive those Sottish hailade—so tough. leg and tender, and some of them "almost, like a holy psalm," in the better affections which they awaken—of their antique repu tation. He says they; areol of any ancient date, but were mainly written by a lady of rank, in the beginning of the last century.. Professor AYtoun takes up the cudgels in deferice of the literature of his country, and proves, by reference to ancient Seandinivian ballads, the antiquity of the corresponding lays of Scotland. THE STORMS are scarcely yet hushed, which in tropical fury burst on our coasts on the 25th of October, and which, besides the destruction of the Royal Charter, haie strewed the shores with wrecks. There were two hundred and sixty one wrecks in October alone; in the ten months of the year, including October, one thousand four hundred and seventy three. More rain also has fallen in a short time, than for several years. All over Europe, for several years, the fall of rain has been below the average, and great evil has resulted. The flax crop, both on the Continent and Ireland, with cereal crops also, have again been very short. England, last Spring and Summer, was well watered, but the turnip crop and means of cattle-feeding I find are generally deficient, particularly in Scotland and in this IForthern part of Britain from which I write. SIR WILLIAM ARMSTRONG- continues his great cannon•oasting works at Newoastle•on• Tyne, and there is no doaht that, after a little time, the British artillery will be by far the most powerful in the world. Think of a ball one hundred pounds .in weight being thrown with' unerring aim five miles, and of shells the most destrnotive-Ldestroy. 'leg, if need be, Cherbourg, Cronstradt, and another Sebastopol, Of it,exisited,) without any peril to the ships that throw those ter. rible instruments of war. Rifle corps are multiplying rapidly, and the opinion grows that we must, if Napoleon live, fight pro aria et fools, before very long. The Bishop of Oxford ban been sounding the trumpet of alarm, and one of the members of Parliament for Kent has been calling on the descendants of those "ONE THING IS NEEDFUL:" "ONE THING HAVF I DEPIEED ,OF THE XdOED:;" ,:" THIS .ONE THING I DO." FOR THE WEEK ENDING S SPAIN seems to have sought a quarrel with Morocco. She also took up a position on her coast very near Gibraltar, and Lord J. Russel instructed our Ambassador 16 in quire about it, and pointed out that England would not consent to, its permanent occupa tion. Spain denies ,such an intention, and Lord John professes his satisfaction. But the place is still occupied, and the cunning Napoleon.may make treuble of the matter some day. Loan ELLENBOROUCT has unexpectedly declared himseltin favor of Italian freedom, and has sent a stun of money to the fund for raising rifles for Garibaldi, and the army under his command. He is influenced in his views very 'much . by a desire to prevent the aggrandizement' of France. He says: " There is in Italy One man wholaas at once a head to dirnet, a hand to execute,' and• a heart which tells him what is right. That man is Garibaldi." He has no measures to observe with France. If he shOuld obtain success, he will not consent to hold the Provinces which he liberates, as a fief of the French empire.' He will note lend himself to the carrying out of the idea of the first Napoleon, that France should be surrounded by weak dependent States. • The Goverriffients of Russia and Prussia are said to be agreed to enter into no Con. gress in which England will not take part. It ie not yet formally announced that Great Britain has consented to take part in a Congreas'at all, although it is highly proba ble. The Central Italians are proiisionally placing themselves under Prince Carignan, (brother to the King of- Sardinia,) as. Re. gent, who, however, his not formally recog nized the movement: "' THE LORD ADVOCATE of Scotland, (Right Hon. James Moncristr,) delivered; on. Tuesday evening last, the first of.the Winter series of Lectures before the. London Young Men's Christian Association. I ask ydu to print the following confinsed sum mary of the lecture, ne given in - the' Tillie's. You will observe how it sets Knoit in a new and more genial aspect before the English than he has generally been regarded as occupying. is very seasonable, also, to be reminded that Knox exercised a povier ful influence in„ England, in, , the gays t of, the Reforniation, 'and was the whOse flue:dm—direct 'or iiidirectsecured the Rubric in the: oomniunion service which de: Otani that in kneeling at the Eucharist, adoration of the elements is not intended. Still, as long as kneeling, and pot sitting, is the attitude, , the 'Thiseyites will have it in their 'power to practice their ” worship • of Christ in the elements, and to pretend to transmute them into his body and blood : The roid Adiocate, in &discourse commencing at eight o'clock, and lasting nearly two hours, but the intereat 'of WhicW never 'for Wimoment flagged, sought principally to exhibit,,,Knexin the, somewhat . novel light of an English rather thin a .See#l.4li. Reforiner, with the latter of which char acters his name is usually associated'iti pop. relax mind., Regarding him as a man whose name Was engraven on the-institutions of his country, which, hp might said. to have regenerated, he took a rapid glanoeit - the more tmonainetitliarti of his career; tire - Mining - that, lathe - 14Y in Scat::' land the memory of Knox andthe Reformation was now as green - as in the sixteenth century, in . England Ile was afraid the estimat‘of "the great, Soottieli Reforrner Was One which fell Rir short of the Mark' at *blob he sten& even in'th& eyes' of Europe. In this part of the kingdom, Knox was mostly regarded ~as having , been identified with religiousVeir'entent whieh ooncitrii the people:Of 'Englaiut,And in which mere Win-t -ile removed from barbarism played the principal part. It was thought, too, he was rather unman nerlyto a yoUthfulAneen, and he and hisfollow ere were charged'with the destructipn of some of the most beautiful" echlesiastioal Monamente 'in' Scotland, The Lord Advocate endeavored to show how far from accurate those opinions were; to point - out Whit deep, vital, and continuing' interest Englandlad in the Cause of Proteatantl` ism from - its rise in Scotland till its triumph ;to show the part which the ,Seottish,RefOrmers, and Knox in particular, took not in the. Soottish. Re-, for Medea only, but in that of Engle:lid, and, still further; hoW much' this country,'With its` free institutions, its religions liberty, and - iti Protest ant faith, owed to the steadfast hand with which the affairs of Scotland were condueted during the few but eventful years in which` Kmix. was sub stantially thernler. It was a tiopulafraistake to snppOse that Knox was only a' Scottish . Reform er. ' He was the comrade in arms, the companion in misfortune, in labor, and to a great extent in opinion, of some of the best and noblest - fathers Of the Anglican 'Church. In S'eotland - he agent his youth - and his old age, but it was to England that he devoted the flower.; of his manhood: (Cheers.) They who" imagined that,Knox was an unpolished and uncourtly man Mhst have forgot ten the trainingarid eiperienci he had had (hiring his fouryears' residence in Englaitcev'eli if he had previously required that training. The everyday companion of the, first nobility in England, the private ohaplain of - Eilwardlia.„ Snd - frequently brotight into 'contact with that Sovereign, 'the man who spent his life at that time' in Courts; could, never have bepn that rnde, untutored sav age thick it had been the delight of some histo rians- to represent hint; Strong in speech and an-' lion he undatibtedly was, but that he had 'the manners, as he had the education, of a gentleman, no one who reads his history could entertain a doubt. Mary hprpelf sent for him over and over again, and although she did not ' much like what he told her, there 46.8` no ground for imagining that hellid not behave in the presence of .majes ty with all the courtesy and,respect with which a gentlenrim Should. 1559 BEMs was 'called again to Sootland, sired froth that tithe tO hie death, in 1572, he was substantially its ruler. that interval, Scotland, from being the scene of 0011- temling factions, and.of miserable wars waged by a'petty nobility, began to eabibi ' t ' a - vigor of mind and opinion' which - from that' tune forward - had net been - without ha due weight throughout the whole of the kingdom. To that period he' dated the first impulses of popular liberty in,Seotl,nd, and , the existence of potiular opinion. From that time leariiing began tollourisli` among thelower ranks of the people, and thefoundations; 'were laid of that system of parochial schools which had made the name of Scotland respected and venerated. (Cheersi.) The Lord Advocate, at the Mose of his address, was loudly cheered. FROM INDIA we hear of the storming and capture of the Mind and Fort 'Or Beyt,in the Gulf of Cutch, off the Bombay Coast. "It is said that the ruler of Nepaul 'haii at last made up his inindne doubt under British pressure—to driie the Nona and the fugi• tine rebels from out the Terai, so that they can no longer hide themselves. FROM CHINA, it is reported that the treaty between China and the - United States will not 'come into' operation until 'matters are settled with England and France.' J.W. P. S —A Committee 'has been formed at Edinburgh, to sympathize With Dr. Cheever, of New York, in the position he now Occu pies in reference to Ule slavery question, and to assist him, by peauniarY gifts to maintain that position. I close this letter very near to Flodden Field, and may be able to add some descrip tion of it in my next. A WELSH curate being asked how, he managed to preach sermons so far above his own powers of composition, replied " have a volume of sermons . by one Archbish op Tillotson, which I translated into Eng lish; after which the Archbishop himself would not know his own. Compositions." OUR memories, as corrupted by the fall, are like those ponds where the frogs live and the Ash die. PUBLICATION OFFICE, GAZETTE BUILDING FIFTH STREET, ABOVE ShifTKOIELD, PITTSBURGH, PA. Kentish bowmen wbo won the battles of Creasy and Aainoourt*to be ready to deTend P their °dates. For the Presbyte' Banner and Advocate. Church-Unity, La ••Preaching and' Vol. untary .Assoc ions for Christian 8 Presbytery of Cincinnati, TURDAY DECEMBER 10, 1859. Resolutions passed by 'November 171 h, 181 WHEREAS, . Thlugh ~the inexperience and misdirected zeal of persons who have participated in the recent religiOns moVe ments of the day, tnciples and sentiments have been advance upon the platform, in the pulpit, from t :press, and.sometimes carried into prricti -in regard to the Unity of' the Church of lo thin'. the mode of °per ation, and lay effor, Aviiinh we believe to'he utterly at variano: *ith the teachings of Gid's Werd, upon t pnbjects, and , which, if adopted by those_ •r whom we are planed in the Lord; to, inst ilttand train "for useful ness', will prove p' &tie of discord, and subversive of the or'• dr,ipurity and efficiently of the churches, in :11401 - am, teesi souls; and, Wher st< yso ts ; Presbytery, holdin = ench truth as it does, and recognizing ehin tincouatahiliti tref3US Christ for r e: Maintenance of this truth ! to warn affect lately, but firmly, the churottes under 1.. dare against error; therefore a,. Resolved,. Ist, ' „ t. in reference' to the UNITY OF THE CH • dir of Christ' faii. to represent thatTh m unity is in ..any way dependent, upon, . . . essentially connected with mere 'Wilis. niformity of ecolesiasti cal'OrgadiatiOn ; r at ' the variety of such is, aselfb organizatm any b ar rier` to Christian co-open t; 'or thit' because of this existing yeti( the Church of Christ has never 11.— rile, but, that this one ness of CI w sought for in e ome imaKitted the deirif notikinktil ample 'h Wed- trial Josue Obl e bel always, in been one, and by ,w 1 unity cone place, rite nese of .13(' Head ove in both'' oneness And, in trea* itt. the e3nai milila~ee; strtiotioil o) Raolve tattoo. of who have Jesus or Grace", at wherever is that fix most ear, should sti And thei -denominai upon the our,care 'viteetipanfrjeadship, there,._ , oBWshiliWith LL . - shiter'elitiicliis*iti'enriet, „ so' far as' ' can be done without coirlprothisitig - our well established principles, weakening 'our testi- • Mony in regar,dto the doctrine and order of the Goipel,'-or giving"cOnntetianoi to the sentiment that our Confession i of 'Faith ought to be laid aside for Kim broader and, more liberal basis of Co-operation. Resolved, 3d, That in reference to VOL UNTARY SOCIETIES, composed of persons from different denemioations, for the avowed purpose of helping the; Church to do her duty, organized upon the principles of intro. pendency and irresponsibility; to any diVine ly constituted body' of Christians, there is room for serious apprehension. 'Not that this „Presbytery wertldin any, way discourage any legitimate effort for 'the promotion of the Redeemer's 'Kingdom, nor impugn, in the least, the motives-of 'Any , pions persons who ; hive associated, themselves in this min tier. Bat'it is the judgment of Presbyteri as it has been the oft expressed judgment of the Church, and as all, history and expe rience •have proved, ; that, the tendency 'of 'such Societies, so independent, so absolutely irresponsible, and often managed brmen of the least Christian experience, is to interfere with the operations of that divinely author. sized plan tor saving souls which , God a lias 'been pleased to reveal, and according to which he requires his churches to act. This plan, as revealed in the Scriptures, this Presbytery regards as perfect, well adapted I to, and all : sufficient for the, Church in ao eemplishing her Master's work, in all ages of the world, and under all oirounstances. Resolved, 4th, That in reference ;to what is usually styled "Lay Preaching," 'this Presbytery discriminates ,between what is legitimate and illegitimate in the, efforts so denoMinated. The office' of the GoSpel Ministry, the highest as an instrumentality in'the gifts of Christ lo his people; Weis cred in its origin, too's - ileum in it& nature; and too important. in its relations!'to the church and eociety, to be permitted to,suffer the least invasion. Any attetript of persons, however pious ..and singe:re, to assume to themselves the` prerogative ofthis office, eittiorrdifectly or in'directly,'With'ont' alai Divine call and Scriptural etoriseoration thereto, is a usurpation which must provoke the anger of Christ, and if countenanced by the churches, will be visited i upontherdWith sorest disaster. Only, tc7the - diVinely e eilad and entirely consecrated minister of Chinit, set apart from world* , cmployMents; is com mitted the word of reconciliation with au thority to , preach the tiosper; as Christ's Ambassador, sikaking in his name, and standing in his stead. Only suok one has the rightirom Christ to de,mand,"autheriti- Lively of the people, that his message shall be heard. To heir him is to hear Christ; to reject him is to reject Christ. For 'any one not so called, and not so separated from the world, to demand, or, thus ask that he shall be heard as speaking in Chrialla name, and in Christ's 'stead, is a Clear invasion' of the office of the ministry, and a disregard of the ordinance of God. While this is true, the Presbytery would, however, be 4 far from discountenancing any word ' , of exhortation or voice of invitation, unofficially given, either to believer's to hold fast their profession, or to sinners to come to Christ, uttered appropriately and prodently, by experienced Cnristians, whose hearts are alive to encourage each other, and rescue soula from ruin. Without specifying the particular method of exhortation, an inspired Apostle has inculcated • this duty upon all followers of Christ, whether officiator unof ficial. And the Lord Jesus himself from his mediatorial throne,las extended the privi lege to every one that " heareth" the good news of living water for thirsty souls, to say, " Come.' The woman of Samaria, having received healing grace from Christ, "left her water-pot and went her way into .the city, and saith =to the men,, Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did. 'ls not this the Christ?' " Resolved, sth, That whilst thus uttering our . `yarning against all enoroaehment upon future, rising ,out of sting de and built' upon' this ed apart. from - Its re- Scriptures, viz.: that btr of sinners. Church of Chiriatlas all'oiroumstanhes, „ branolies divided, s4alled; and that this anoidents of time in the essential one -1 • \embers—oneness of oneness of Spirit. on'enesti - "of Tidal; oneness of Repo his, No eargpst,ly en ter our care to 43'0; gainet`~thi~ . ~`plaii' iri=" Wbtd the grfater moires it of unify,athong all ; by the'sameblood of the same spirit of ;simeteieent:ial truth, `lafeiieenarie ;hriatiarta are hciatla and` - they poriouely to secure. iThgtng' to, our own ; ye, still) would urge the functions of those who by Divine antbo rity are commissioned to "'preach the word; ~reprefe, 'rebuke; and' exhort," "in 'Seises' and outl'of season,"- we would not have-it forgotten that the Lord Jesus has bestowed upon the Church special helps to those " who labor id Word and Doctrine," in that di vinely constituted Eldership' which is 'so important, apart of the New Testauient Min istry.. To them it pertains by virtue of their. Divine ordination to conduct religions assemblies for prayer and exhortation; to catechise the people; to visit ,the sick; to home bring the wanderers, end 'diligently and e,onstaiitly to "watch'for sontsits 'they that must give account." To, the Orderly and more faithful discharge of All .which duties we would . 'most earnestly exhort all who have received this trust—in doing which they shall both magnify their high office in the efts of the people, and hold n o .the an • • those „ a• • in Iheao var ' 6th ' l TliatilMiteotiatiately urge - upon - all' the piiirate mem l beri et our church es; the cultivation of an enlightened zeal in their, Work. of 'saving souls, that constrained • by the love of C hrist, as they, have learned, its precioNiadessby happy experience, they should endeavoi' in every' proper way to brineetheis to enjoy the` same blessedness; that they speak often one to another; that they cooperate with their•Pastora and El ders in building up the chnrch, by seeking ont those , who are living in neglect of the sandinary', and permading them td attend upon its stated services; by speaking to their' unconverted—acquaintances ,and , neighbors, respeeting . the great truths that area pro= claimed: in the pulpit; and by bringing to the ministers of the Wordthese who are ittalrened inquiring *fat , theY " Must dO tovhe ileveit;" that they niiiyle"instruct; ed in a 'knowledge of the Utah, and so' be:. come. ; intelligent Christians. In this .way will the members of the Church become ef fectual workers itigethei'vrith the Ministry, in' " edifying the' ticidir t 'of - Chriat;"''and 'a Constant; . siteady,''"heiltoliful • gr i oWth of"tlie Chnrbh be Seethed; "'the pinughnian over taking the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth' med.') While,, therefore, this, Presbytery, would thus - seek to warn against the enoronehment of l crinieWhinh' tl4ll gions movement in our movement'" whinti his "extended' to' 'other' lands; andlfor the merciful blessings of whiSti etit , 'Oterial tian ought to rendatidefolt"thanks to God, and for, the continuance of which, regulated by, tite Diiine Word, all shoUld mostfervent ly pray, it would by no means discourige t 'the patting fOrth"OrLai effoitititlis great and' glorious work:• Rather-would'it - regard: the present movement *as a call7fron2 Ged every Christian , to , gird on , his armor and battle for Christ. The night ik sfar spent anti this' E ASY is at hand. Thiele short: Efernitr. 'near: '' Sad 'are 'perishing.' We must sobs give account unto God. , This Presbytery, therefore, while acting under a high sense dila responsibility to Jesus Christ, in from the - churches under its 'care from would,` on the — otheehand, bid tbenilia . wareiestleiffif the etiliaboireipe- - inked, shald .tend; in any' , WV, to prevent or relax vigorous efforts for the salvation of perishing souls. As a closing Word of man set in whole matter, it earnestly recom. mends' to each ( clittreh, - united and persever: - ing 'nation in , its ostn special - field labcir' under' the direction of 'those Whom-God his called to bear rale in his house. And thus while cherishing the true spirit of Christian *hey , toward churches of ether de'doni4ittiOis,' Mit` Yo"' go on abounding ' mnreand Mare in'the work of lberlcird. Till:kik&4d by Corder of Presbytery. SAYRES GAZLAY, Ifockrator. s, p„LoGAN, Stated Clerk. 'N0v.17'11859 For the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate Western Colonization. MEEIgNS: Eurrons :—My com munication of October . 15t1i, to my friend I,C;;! on Western Colonization, Ins been the eubject aniiiiadversion in a late number ';tif 'the Banner sand Advocate. As you editorially remark, "The question is one of great ini portance to , emigrants, and is intimately connected with Zion's interests." It is this cort4ietion only leads rife - to trouble You once iiiiire'ciethe subject. ' ' ' - " 'The Statements "I - made are .the honest convictions : of my mind, resulting•hourlong experience and observation in Western : life, havin g bad, myielf,UO little to do in this very matter of Western emigration, by giving'•counael` to friends, arid assisting in - the location of those who' aolic ited the favor. The arguments and reason inir employed were drawn directly from the. Word of God, and from the and A ikn duty of, the ,Christian to his Divine Master, and to'hitlflilioilnlie. And if he sought'for opportunities do good'in the West, he would `seek them, not= in such a colony, but in, some destitute comMunity or , incipient enterprise, as affording afield of much stipelior - ns fnlaess. And as to the facts on *hi& tholeifiiiisificy orthii scheme is.'4denied?. as •au evangeliting ''-scheme, adapted ; to our. new States and* Territeries, and which the., writer ► thinks I should have iprodireed, he is a little too fast; Their progranifrie"assumed the fact dint theii scheme'as the'beet , WaY to come West, arid' the best way to do good. I denied the, fact assumed, and when they proceed to , estab , -. list:their premises , I ail ready toprediice rebuttirig testimony, and testimony that Will' got'to:"establish .the point`-'that the Same' amount of men- and capital may easily ac complish a.huridred fold more, in the t ordinary way. ' in regard to the common method of emigrating' West, the gentleman' assumes the'follening . : "If 'professing Christians are so sparsely, settled throughout thevgrow ing populations of the West as to ,be lost to church organization, and , unable to operate a echisiertativelnficience;' like tea little Salt on a mass of meat,' they will be abiorbed, overwhelmed, or putrified.l. I have trazeled, more or less for tya last twenty five years over our Weetern country, from' the'Ohio to the utmost harden — of this States, and I haste yet to find one jingle settlement in which there were three-Chris tian families of any Evangelical name, who did not attend, as they had opportinity, to the'inianif of grace, andlabor, acicording the measure of their ability, to' prdinote their , religious welfare. It is true; as said before, that there are those who, in comb* West, have left their religion in the Eist,and who,' in settling hre, had no in tention to retain or 'renew their church re lations; but that militates nothing against the true Christian, who goes forth at the call of Divine. Providence, as did Abraham of old, and erects his altar where haliitehes histent. But if this. gentleman's assumption is true, how are these "growing: populations" to have the Gospal Plant Christian colo nies,-he replies. That might df.if97k - soine of the sinner islands'of the Pacifie'Odeatt, but . hOcrwill it apply , to our' country rrflas he ever been over this West of our land," or Philadelphia, South West Corner of Seventh and Chestnut Streets has he any conception of the vastness of its extent, and of the teeming millions who are spreading over it ? Can a Church of such limited extent and limited resources supply this territory and these millions in this way; that is, -by sada Christian colo nies ? Are we so inexhaustible in agencies that we, may lavish them out in this profu sion ? Very, , very far from it; and hence We shall shOW our 'wisdom by purraibg the ordinary and more effteiint method l Which we have heretofore pursued.. A— dozen churches, with from six to twelve members eaoh, have been organized within the last eight years, over territory which we had bedlire passed by: These new enterprises are :Supplied with laborers under 'whose faithful ministry their' membership are grow ing in grace and numbers. Some of these families had been here for twenty yearl- 7 ,-, themsome o€ much'aless : M4ligiiik,A**litifitiedoir putaiear'' " . rbecitufe! Where 1- giteis is, tlihrh if abides, whether its possessor sojourns in , Lath, or dwells at Jerusalem. The gentle man is not a good Calvinist. I may now snow the operation of this scheme on our Church; first, as' it re gards onr present enterpises; secondly, a r it respects our future prospects. _First. As it has always been, and as it is at present, emigration is a fruitful and most important source' of increase to our new organizations in the West. Every mission= sty knows this; every church feels it. Like the mighty Nile to Egypt, it fructifies and enriches wherever it flows; and like that, if it fails to overflow the land, sterility and famine inevitalify fellow. Out off' the tide otPresbyteriatiernigration from us,. and turn' it:into mammoth-;Christian colonies; make it, the order of things that her membership, in coming West, , must, like the Mormons or the Socialises, dome in communities, and settle in Coniiriunities, and you inflict upon us one of the greatest calamities- that can' overtake ns. Our feeble churches and mis sionary enterprises must remain, for years, in'their feebleness—a burden to the 'Board of "Dornietil'Miiiichis, and a diecoaragement to the missionary; and many'or them must actually die out. This will' be the in evitable result; just as certainly as you turn aside the enriching stream, .the vine, that flourishes upon its banks, must wither and die. Whereas, if the men and'capital ` this cohinfirefe judiciously scattered'over a sore. of our mission chukehes, 'which I could designate, they would, in less than three years with , the blessing of God, lift them off the Board, and make them self sustaining congregations. How much more noble - a -work this would' be, and , hoer - much more noble a field for Christian activity and Christian philanthropy, than sitting down in a compact body; to take care of one another —A' Milking herse shoes for B and' B grinding dornior A, &e., &o. But, secondly. It operates disastrously upon our future prospects. As an indis pensable beginning to a chum& organization, we must have the materials: 'These mate rial are the' Presbyterian'families we find scattered through the growing populations of the,- West. Without these we- , .can -do nothing. That city, town ' or com inianityln which you dO`liot find this mato riaras the germ of your future aural,' you may is well abandb4 once, and , expend Our labor to more profit in the right place. Every experienced missionary is, satisfied of thie. And what is , the reaeon? Simply be cause the ground is occupied by others. Ttie members Of Othei'- churches are there; and 'are - "followed, or 'rather accompanied there by - their.-respeetive. shepherds, - who build their folds, and gather and feed their flocks. But where are ours ? Where is orrigisin'of - geed Platted there,''to grow'stately spreading tree, so thaf"the 'fowls of 'the air may--come and-lodge in the branches thereof? :Where'is our handful of salt, to oast into those fountains, to , heal their bitter waters?''Stacked up some ten, twenty, fifty, - niai r hundfed — milez3 off as the case may be; on some fertile prairie, most wonderfully , productive, most wonderfully conseivative ; while these "growing popu latiene,' from which ; we would exclude our peciplein pairs or elfieters, may go to hea- Ilienistu er infidelity, So far as' 'we are Con cerned. • They are - none the better for us. Now I maintain . that we have no right to bring such disaster upon onr Church, and sitalrevils upon'oiir country, as this project inirolves. 'For this reason, I lift myvoice against it; and feeble as that voice may be, it-will not, cease to raiser its warning against swell suicidal measures. Passing over the factthat the gentleman's article displays' more temPerihatt the ma- Mott Celli forithere is an evident effort to dispose of-this subject in a summary and authoritative manner, as if the wisdom and the experience were all on one side. " I was born," says he, "in what was the West—born among the Indiaris." Abating the - astonishment 'that arises - at a fact - so 'remarkable, what is the -conclusion arrived 'at?? Therefore, a most legical dedue lien,) tberefore " my experience is as good as J. 'F.'s," who "no exiierience, in the Matter.' Query : If the latter, then, has mine, how Much has the former'? Bat this is, not all. - "The exodus from Egypt was a specimen of concerted emigration, ' "used as a means of spreading the true religion" among the inhabitants of Canaan`? and they skied have iiicoraphih'ed their mission lanais earlier, "lad it riot been for the croakings ' that started objections, and discouraged- the people from going forward in the enter- prise I" And Lot was a specimen of the folly of going "out alone" 'to convert the Sodomites; for, " un ablate operate a conserva tive 'influence," he - abandoned the place, "absorbed, overwhelmed, or putri fi ed.' , And even this is not all. " Must a system so synthetic in theory as Presbyterianisai, be forever torn into imbecile fragments `by a selfish and inceniiderate oentrifugaligin ?" it is not 'to admire the sublimity of this utterance, that I quote it—though this is worthy of note—but to show its wisdom, by laying it 'beside, tine 'Soloman,' which words of Sela's, which are; apropos to this ease, that you may see hoiv charmingly it harmonises : " There is that scatteretkand yet TROREASETH, and there is that •withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to POVERTY." Lastly. I am sorry that the article under review seems to breathe 80 ranch of the' spirit of Wight:less. " " Sons go work "to•day' in 'my vineyard'," eaith the Divitie - Maker. , Yes, replies the advocate of this \ pleasing scheme; only make it easy,.to avoid thoheat and burden of the day. If the church, and School, and stare, and smith-shop, and mill, and pbysician, be " far off," and if - the plebe Where im to worship be a, log school house, or under some shady oak, I pray thee have me excused. If all the inconveniences of a new country be forestalled, and if every appliance of hamar, comfort be fur nished; I - can consent to go. ' Now, I say nothing against human comforts;`they are good and- proper ;. and, as the gifts of Divine Providence, are to, be received thank fully; but what 80# of religion is " my reli gion;" if these nithitle the coriaitibiebfiny going into 7 sity . Ott ef My° liketer'ir vine` yard? I should think, a selfish religion. By La or at the Office, $1.50 per Year, / woo arDnipurompris . Delivered in the City, 2,00 " " (" 4 ' ''''"'"u" WELO.LE N 0.876 And if this deliverance breathes the animus of the saherne, I greatly fear that selfish ness may hive as much to do in the move- ment as Christianity. Is the thought un charitable ? - . For the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate Have you a "Thus Saith the Lord"? Dr. Baker, in a letter to his son, makes a playful remark about. his bees, and then adds, " Industrious creatures ! is it right to rob them ? But I suppose they were made for the use of man. Oar Saviour took a piece of a broiled fish, and of a honey comb, and did eat. Let every thing have a Bible warrant." This was - deducing from Scrip ture, permission to eat honey, "by good and necessary oonsequence." Had, Dr. Baker ,qu'eted,Prov. iXiV :13, " My ion, eat thou hooey, be'eadse it: ie goad, and the lieney itsornift Whielfibilkitifeetitoth'ytaste," he would• lave - troveditieliatire' from—what- is " ex pressly set down in Scripture." Now it appears to the writer, that many good people are in unnecessary perplexity about their duty, - because they do not find express permission or direction in the Bible. They think that they have not a " Thus saith the Lord." The consequence is, that many duties are really left undone, for fear of going beyond what is written. While they do right in guarding against what is unwarranted, they err in overlooking the general tenor of Bible teaching. They are crippled and in fear, feeling their way cautiously, and often refusing to unite with their brethren in worship, and in those noble Christian enterprises that are blessing the world. Oar Confession of Faith seems to take the right and safe ground. Chap. I.; Sec tion The whole counsel of God, con cerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and• necessary consequence, may be deduced from Scripture." " Conclusions," says Shaw, " fairly deduced from the decla rations of the Word of God, are as truly parts of Divine revelation, as if they were expressly taught in the seared volume." Bedausel cannot show a "Thus saith the Lord"-in so many words, for the change of the- Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the. week, I am not bound to keep the seventh as the Sabbath, when the spirit of the New Testament favors the change. So• it is with the baptism of infants. I cannot show in so many vords that infants are to be - baptized-, and yet I infer from the general tenor of the Bible, that they are. So it is with the use of hymns in the worship of Got • It is contended that we have no express . warrant; and that therefore we-corrupt the ordinance of praise in sing ink any thing but the Psalms of David. Bat were we to admit (as I do not,) that tfiere is ha express 'warrant for singing any thing but David's Psalms, still the use of hynriii is right, according to the main drift of the prophecies and of the New Testa meat Where-do Where-do we get any direct warrant for praising* God in rhyme ? or in metre ? The - Psalms of David are neither in rhyme nor in mare. Farther: • Temperance Associations and pledges are objected to, because God's Word is silent on the subject of their use. Those who - object; forget - that the Rechabites were pledged and associated total abstinence men. Must we have a " Thus saith the Lord " for all the modes of conducting all good enter prises before we enlist in them ? Then we may 'bill farewell to - every moral , reform. The mannerkif hurrying oat benevolent en terprises must be left,-as , it-is, to the sound discretion of the wise and good., 13ecause there is no express warrant for Temperance Societies, many worthy. men make little or no effort to arrest the evil which is spreading desolation and death through all our borders. The circumstances of every age point the Christian and the Philanthropist to theproper - ineans for pro moting virtue and repressing vice; but still philanthropists who disregard the Scriptures, or whose efforts are in opposition to the Scriptures, are pseudo-philanthropists, and often heiome fanatical and dangerous. Let the - Beripturet be 'the basis of all philan thropy. Let us " eat honey," both because it is expressly,, approved of in, the Bible, and " because it is good." ELICOY. Tor the Preebyterlatt Benner end Advocate, Centre Congregation, Mercer County. MEISES. EDITORS :—I take this medial of informing your readers,• and - the people of God, that a great revival has been ex perienced here. This congregation was formerly under the oharge of the Rev. John Munson; but since last' June it has been vacant, except when supplied , by the differ ent brethren, afid during that time nothing worthy - of notice took-plaee. We obtitined the services of the Rev. J. R.. Findley, of Mercer, who preached - on Sabbath, the 6th of Nov. We-did-note-intend-to hold a pro tracted meeting at .-that time; but an un usual interest took place, and the meetings were continued. Daring the greater part of the time of the meetings, an- -unusual solemnity seemed to pervade the congrega tion, betokening - the Divine presence, and Christians felt that God was working with them, and for them. Every lover of God wait fully" aroused,'And the burden of their prayer "'O Lord, thou son of David, have mercy on us."• God - answered their prayers, and many sinners -were converted, and gave glory to him. The meeting was continued till last Sab bath; when 'the sacrament of- the Lord's Sapper was administered, and seventy three persons were received into the communion of the church; for which work of Divine grace we would render to Almighty God, sincere" and heart-felt thanks, gratitude, and adoration: • In addition to the services of Rev. Findley, we had, toward the close of the meetings, the services of the Rev. Boyd, of Harrisville, and the Rev. Walker, of grove. ”The Rev. John Munson was also present during a part of the meetings, and seemed to take a deep interest in ther . R. This old veteran of the Cross was a.gam 'riffling to "come up to the helpof the 'Lord against "the mighty," and no 'doubt the hearts of many were gladdened by seeing this father in Israel < amongst them once more. Yours for the cause of Christ, j. 13. JERUSALEM. - A Syrian correspondent says that Jerusalem has been making-rapid strides of late toward a newborn civilization, and its progress has been watched with in terest the most intense, on the part of those who - associated with the name of the Holy City ideas of the Millennium and the speedy return of the Jews. Large buildings, con vents, hospitals, and churches, are rising in every direction, and thousands of Russian employees and Jews are becoming residents of - the place. TEEM ire minds, as well tie lands, of so harsh and crabbed a disposition, that little can it made of them.
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