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Pittsburgh. Pa. PRESBYTERY Or ALLEGHENY The Presbytery of Allegheny City directed the pastors and Sessions of the churches under its care, to take such action as might be deemed best in each particular ease in the observance of next week as a week of prayer for the conversion of the world. HANOVER COLLEGE, IND —The Trustees have divided the collegiate year into two terms, one to commence on Wednesday after the 26th of August, and the other on Wed nesday after the Ist of January. They have also ordained an Adjunct Professorship of Ancient Languages, and a Professorship of Modern Languages. And they have au thorized the President to employ Lecturer on Natural Science. These are encouraging indications of progress. CINOINNATI —Notice has been given that a new transcendental journal is about to be established in this city, that will receive active support from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Furness, Longfellow, and other rationalists and infidels of the same clam The tenth is, these men, and others of kindred spirit, have exhausted themselves and greatly broken down their cause in the East, and they are beginning to look Westward for a suitable field for the dissemination of their ruinous teaching on the subject of religion. Revivals. PLEASANT HILL, Mo.—A meeting of twenty days was lately concluded at this piles. Over fifty persons have united in the oommunion'of the,Presbyterian church, on profession; and ten or twelve with the Methodist church. On one Sabbath, when thirty persons stood up to ()entails Christ, tweaty•two of them were males. And, while sinners, numerously, have been con- verted, Christians have been greatly re freshed. We collect the information from a letter of Rev. James T. Lapsley, in the Presbyterian Herald. The Week of Prayer. Pastors and churches will 'keep in mind the Weik of Prayer, appointed by the last General Assembly. It is the Second week in January. The mode of its observance will be determined in Sessional counsel. In some cases there may be preaching daily; but we trust that it will not be expiated of pastors to do this work alone. No pastor should attempt it.. Some, however, perhaps many, can have aid. In cities it may be easily so arranged. And where there can not be preaching, there may be social prayer meetings daily, in addition to fervent prayer in the family and the closet, for the speedy extension of Christ's kingdom throughout the world. The President's Message. We give, as usual, the whole of this most important State paper. Every man who would pretend, by a vote or otherwise, to take any part in public affairs, should read it carefully. The people are really the government. They ehould be intelligent and well informed—all of them should be so. Many readers will not approve of parte of the document; but these are as much ooncerned to .have accurate information, as are any others. Such are bound, even more.than others, to read and weigh. If the President's eonnsels are to be oppoeed, let opponents know what those counsels are. In this remark we do not endorse the paper. We leave approvals and disapprovale to our fellow•oiti zeal', with the purpose, as citizens ourselves, to use our social rights. Synod of Mississippi. This body met at Columbus, Mies., on Wednesday, December 7th, and at till the Monday following. There were present forty:three ministers and elders. The True Witness speaks of the meeting as very pleasant, though there was not a very great amount of business transacted, neither was there manifest the ardent and all-pervading spirituality which is desirable, when the leaders of the people in spiritual things are assembled in council. Dr. Humphrey, of the Danville Theologi. oil Seminary, was present; also, Dr. Wilson of the Board of Foreign Missions. Oakland College has the prospect of in creased usefulness, and a hope is expressed that Dr. Anderson will accept the Presi dency. Foreign Missions were warmly . commended. The South Western Advisory Committee on Domestic Missions was strongly endorsed. Danville and Columbia Theological Seminaries were approved of. And sundry matters of minor importance, were harmoniously settled. For the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate. Female Prayer Meeting. At the commencement of another year, allow me to urge the claims of the female prayer-meeting upon the female members of our beloved churches. A •little praying circle has met weekly, in this city, without intermission, to pray for the coming of Christ's kingdom, for sixteen years•—and in reviewing the past, their gratitude to God rises high, that so many have been the answers to their humble peti tions. They acknowledge also, that they have themselves been refreshed and quick ened in the path of duty, and they can truly saff, " hitherto bath the Lord helped us." Dear sisters in Christ, let me entreat you, the coming week, which is to be one of in tense interest to all who love our Lord Jesus, to become members of a female prayer-meeting, and , you will find it an im portant means of grape to your souls. A PASTOR'S Win. New Raven, Conn., Jun. 1, 1860. Bo t. Matthew B Ripe, Da This= faithful servant of Jesus Christ ceased from his labors and.entered into rest, on the 17th of Deoember,lBs9. He died at his own residence in -Princeton, N. J., after a few hours' ilium His health had been delicate for many years. His bodily frame was not at all equal to the ardor of is spirit, so that in this sense, as well as otherwise, " he.could not do the,things that he would." But still, he was a very effec tive laborer. He will be long honored at the college of New Jersey, both as a teach er, and as eminently instrumental in advert°. ing the general interests of the Institution. Many a son of Nissan Hall will bless his memory. Many hereafter, who never saw his face, but who will enjoy the benefit of scholarships endowed through his instru mentality, will gratefully think of the good results of a wise and'active beneficence. Dr. Hope had not the wealth which would enable him to bestow largely, but he had the spirit and the address which could win tkeir way to the hearts of men, and thus he di rected the abundance of many into useful channels. On the occurrence of the death, we an nounced it briefly ; and then hoped that ere this, we should have seen, from the pens of those who had e ready access ; to facts , and dates, fuller notices of the , departed. In the absence of definite information / we make a few' general remarks, mainly from our own' personal knowledge. Dr. Hope was about forty-six years of, age, at the time of his death. He was the sett of Richard Hope, Req., of Mifflin County, Penna. We knew his fsther well, as one of the eminently godly, exemplary and useful of Christian people. And his mother was it mother in Israel." Matthew was henee child of the covenant, and was, trained in the way in which he should go. The Lord blessed the instrumentality. The promise was sure. The ohildhad grace early, and supplies constantly. In youth, manhood, at home, abroad, in foreign lands, in retirement, and in high places, always, he had the needful Su p: plies of grace, so that be departed not from the good way into which he had - been - early inducted. . We are not informed of the time from which Dr. Hope dated his conitersion; but the event occurred in his early life. He was graduated at Jefferson College, studied theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, att ended a medical , course in the University of Pennsylvania, and was ordained to the Gospel ministry by the Presbytery of Arm tingdon. The ordination took place with a view to his departing mitt mission to China: Itwas about the year DM. The event we well remember, having aided in the ezami. nations, and been entrusted with the deliv ering of the charge. Trials more satisfactory to a Presbytery, we cannot remember to have witnessed. Dr. Hope's foreign location was Singtt pore. In about two years, his health failed utterly, and he returned honie emaciated and almost lifeless. But he was , not lost to the Church. He recovered partially his , strength, and engaged in the service of the Board of Education,' first as Assistant, and t hen as Secretary. In this labor he was highly useful. The Board:flourished under his adminisigstion. For the last fourteen y ears of his life he was Professor of Belles Letters in the College of New Jersey; a position which, as, intimated above, he ;filled with a high degree 'of usefulness, while he contributed otherwise to the general and lasting benefit of the Institution. Sometime after his return from Singapore,, he was married to a daughter of Matthew L. Bevan, pig., of Philadelphia, in whom he found a congenial spirit. She was a gift to him from the Lord—an - •help meet, suoh as the minister of Christ needs, to the fill-' i ng up of the • measure of , his usefulness. As a preacher, Dr. Hope ,was attractive and instructive, in a very high degree; but the condition of big health did not permit him to enjoy extensively the luxury of serv ing Christ and'tlie Church, in , the pulpit. Ae a writer he ranked among the excellent. Ae a Christian, a gentleman,. a husbild, father, and friend, he had but few egnale. His name end worth will be had in lasting remembrance. The' Year:lB6o. To every reflecting mind, the =entrance upon the duties, responsibilities, triels, eor rows, and joys of a new year, must be attended with more or less interest An other of .those periods by which time <is measured, hae passed away. Its days, weeks, and mouths will never return, and t hey carry with them the "recordwe have made, into eternity. We enter upon un tried scenes, and look forward into a fti tura that we cannot read. We cannot tell whether the ensuing year is - to be one of prodperity or adversity, of pleasure or of pain. It is not strange then that some de gree of thoughtfulness should spring up in the most careless mind, or that the prudent and earnest Christian should feel some-seri ous and solemn anxiety. But the same kind Fatherthat has With erto watched over us, and provided ,for us, will continue to care for those who put their trust in him. Even the unthankful will still continue to share in his goodness. The Saviour that redeemed his people is still their advooate—he ever liveth to *take inter cession for us. The names of all his saints are graven on the palms of his hands; and not one of them shall be plucked from his loving embrace. Moreover he is still able and willing to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him. The Holy Spirit dwells in the hearts of the pious, filling them with joy unspeakable and full of g,lory. The Holy Spirit is still etriving with those to whom the Gospel comes, willing to make them new creatures in Christ. Jesus. So that by reason of the work accomplished by our great and glorious Redeemer, and on account of the relations we now sustain to him, of his fullness may we all receive, and grace for grace: • It is evident, then, that , it is our duty to begin the year in the exercise of living faith, that we may be able to meet its issues in a proper spirit ; for.as time rolls on, events increase in nuelber and import ance. 1. We have additional experience. 'As we move among Men and things, witness the progrese 'around us, Aontemplate contending opinions; and form cur judgments, inneh is to be learned. For no one dwells in a place „ . so seeluded; or is employed in a position so humble, as not to -have an , oPportunity for learning much and for , connoting mud thatis wrong in himself, and also for enlarging ilia ' I TERIAN BANNER AND ADVOCATE. capacity for thought, action, influence ; and ueefnlneee. 2. We should have increased Piety. To increase our personal holiness, and conse quently our , personal happiness, is'one 'of the purposes for which Christians are al lowed •to remain in this world after they have passed from death to life . ; and if our faith is as feeble, our love as cold, and our hope as dim, as they were one year ago, we have mat reason to„frile., Disr„ opporty nitiei MA been many and - prieiouk And if the , providences of GA, ,the goodness of God, the Church of God, the Word of God, the. Spirit of God,..and •the inflnencce, of God's people upon us; have been duly hi proved, we are better prepared than ever before for the toils, struggles, and rewards of the future. • ' 3. We have permission to continue to labor for arid and the good of men. What a privilege is this I What a high honor I Alas I how forgetful are` we of the high,distinotionc conferred on us 1 But the time in. which we are , allowed to bear the burden and heat of, the day'is ever growing , less. Boon we can endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ no more. But shortly the ruler and the citizen, the teacher and his pupil, the pastor and his flock, the parent and the child, the pious and the ungodly, must go the' way whence they cannot return. "It is high time to awake out of sleep ; for now is our salvation nearer than" when we believe& The night is far spent, the day is at hand." 4. The claims of 'our country are many and pressing. There remaineth yet much land to be poseessed for the Lord- Jesus Christ. And the mutterings of political storms are all around ns. Before this year has passed .away, the whole land will be shaken from centre to circumference, by the shock of contending parties,, each. seeking to elevate its favorite to the first plum in the nation. Never did the 'people` need ,more wisdom, patriotism, and. piety, for the proper discharge of their duties as citizens ; than now. 5. The enemies of the truth'are still many and violent Atheism, Infidelity, Universal ism, liege and sensual Spiritualism, and error in all its various forms, have still their de moted adherents and detirmined adiacates. They are in the pulpit and on the platform, and they speak through the press. These are not to be checked, turned back, and routed, along with all the devices of Satan, by a formal and lifeless Christianity. All the faith, zeal, energy, and consecration of re deemed and sinetified souls, given as living sacrifices to Sid, will be required. And this is a conflict, in which every one, what. ever may be his station or .gifts, is to take part, according to his ability and opportunity: 6. The scroll ;o f prophecy is unrolling. We live in the last times. Whatever a cheme of prophetical interpretation we may adopt, great and wonderful changes loom up not very far in the distance. It is for nate stand in our lot, having nn the whole armor of God, not being faithless, bOt believing. 7.' There is much to encourage. 'The promises of God are yes , '.and amen. , This world belong, to hie Son, and he will yet take possession of it. His Word has had free course and has been glorified, and it will be so again. The showers of grace have fallen upon us in former days, and they will not now be withheld from the prayer of faith. The agencies for good'are many, and God is on our side. Let us then' go forth to the labors and battlee of the year, strong in the'Lord and in the power of his might. Let us be earnest and per severing in doing or in suffering, knowing that though we die we shall live again, and that when we fall, whether in obscurity or in the.high places of the field, the victor's crown will be ours. Home and Foreign Reiord. The first number of . the new year evinces a new interest in' this Church journal, on the part of its conductors; and we trust that the churches will show, on their part, that progress' produce's' a growth hi their piety, and especially an advancement in the graces , of prayer, and of giving of 'the, knits of, their industry to' the cause of Christ. The Record ought to be one of the most welcome sheets that reaches the Chris tian family. Why is it 'not so ? o,r, if it is, why is not this shown by a very large in crease of promptly 'paid subscriptions, and, by a continually increasing liberality in the, sustentation of the good works, whose seise the Ream? pleads, and whose doings' it heralds, in its monthly visits 7 • DOMESTIC NUSSIONS. We lately stated the action of the Board relative to the South-Westerit Advisory Committee. The call for increased Domes tic efforts, is urged by the extent of land yet to bepossessed in the country. The States embrace an area of one million lour hundred ,and sixty-one thousand and ten square Miles, and this but partially ocoupied by ministers and churches; while the. Teritorries have one million eight hundred and seven thou sand square miles, beginning to be °coupled. : What missionary force is needed, if the Gospel shall be kept up with the extending pout/intim I The country's welfare, civilly ae well as . religiously, depends greatly upon ,the Domestic Missionary cause. We hence appeal to our people's hnmanity and patriot. ism s as well as to their piety. Let nothing prevent the =tented= of the Domestio RIONIPTIIi in November : at Philadelphia, $8,728 at Louisville, $1,086; .at New .Orleans, $215. Of the above, $8,609, were legacies. • • .EDUCATION. This lies at the foundation of all our hopes for the cause,of. Christ at home or abroad. Christ's bidding to the Church was, to pray for laborers. How ehall men hear without a preacher? Train men for the work, and commission them; men of the right spirit, and well qualified, and work wilt be done— will certainly be done, well done, and much of it. Paul, and Barnabse, and• Biles, and thousands of others did not wait till the churches could raiselunda to send them out. They: had . a spirit within them which*. pelted them onward. They were called of God, and they went everywhere preaching the Word. - Must it not be so still, where men are called of God, and feel that a die peneation of the Gospel is committed 'to them.? Then, only let us have the laborers, and we have the first essential requisition, instrumentally, , to ss stable and a growing ChurOh. And God is calling many lo this, service. 'How is it 'then that his people are so reluctant to cooperate iri.his cause? Why is tite Board of. Education kept - so very bare of neans-yea, obliged to borrow money, t• • * to sustain' devotedAiandidates while they are • being fitted to preach for Jest? We can not but hope that this Board will yet, and soon too, be appreciated more in accordance wish its real worth. Funds are greatly needed for the growing numbers. A soh& - arship, is, $l2O it year in the Seminary, $lOO in College*, and $BO in an Academy. . ituOurrrs in November ; at Tbiladelphia, $2,258 ; at Pittsburgh, $265 ; at Louisville, $24. FOREIGN ' MIBSiONS. Letters from the Indian Triba l Africa, chine, and the Chinese Mission in Califor nia, give"quite 'the usual amount of 'gement. From India, the call of the missionaries to their patron o'hurches, to observe the second week in January as a sewn of prayer for the spread'of the Gospel, ie very urgent and affectionate. ,They see an im mense work before them, and have many indications that it may be accomplished, and yet feel that only by the effectual influence of the r Holy Spirit working, in them and by them, can they be succeseful. Hence their earnest call to 'prayer. lisomPre in. November, $14,586, PUBLICATION The Colportage Fund is atill,grestly defi . dent. The. Board is keeping up the work, though the Fund is overdrawn to the extent of near $10;000. The Board is prepiring two books'for re cording the business of the churches, Which 'will be very convenient,, and will serve to keep a much` fuller notation of, affairs than has been natal. • One• Of • these is called " Minutes Of Sessions," and the other, "Church Register." We 4111 gives faller notice when we receive the books. BACSISTS in Itov,exiiber , : Donations, $2,022; Bales, $8,067. . • CHDRCH EXTENSION. Funds -still come in bit slowly for'. this great .and good, cause. One reason of this is, a great undervaluing of its iniportance ; and another is, the frequeney with which individual churches send their agents to the more wealthy parts of our Zion, to absorb the liberality , of donors. Those who have something to give, - should not so exhaSet themselves in answering personal calls, as to be unable to , aid the general cause. The Committee makes afar-more = extended dis tribution. It reaches the more obscure and the most needy, and is far more effective. On individual applications, several thousand dollars are often given to one Church ; while, through the . OOmmittee, 'a 'thousand dollars' always affords substantial relief to several ohurehes. Help should, be afforded in each may. 4 • RampTo in November: at 'Bt. Louie,' $1;600 ; at Philadelphia, $1,008; at Louisville, $191; at Pittsburgh, $216. EASTERN SUMMARY. Boston and New England. Wendell Phill42B seems to hive become alarmed at the storm' raised around , him, in consequence of his advocacy and defence' of John-Brown, After having lauded him in terms such as' hould be applied to no mere man, even having gone so far as to urge others to """go and do likewise," hp now publishes publishesa card in which'he says that he always 4 , discountenanced and , discouraged Brown "in his plane. This looks 'very much as if this infidel and fanatic was wanting in " pluck " and " bactbone," to Maintain ,the position his daring folly had led him to take. The .Biti that passed the Legislature Of Massa chtisetis, authorizing colored Amen to join `the military companies, has been vetoed by Governor Banks. Mr. _Everett is entitled to the credit of , having contrib nted 'nearly $70,000 of the monerneees eery for the purchase of ,Mount Vernon, which has low been completed beyond a peradventure.- His lectures netted over $60,000, and hie contribu tions to the Ledger $10,000: , These sums, with the interest,, go.; that has accumulated, in the meantime, swelled his amount to $69,000, Br. John E: Todd, son of the Rev. John Todd, D.D., author of the "Student's „Manual" and various Sabbath School and other popular works, has received an invitation to become pastor of the Winter' Street church, 'Bostan. Eider tnapp, the Baptist revivalist, who sev eral years ago, figured quite conspicuously in various parts of the eountrYi in Pittsburgh, as well „ . as ill other plaete; - ,lins,been liolding meet ings in Boston for several , weeks, but they have been thinly attended., MasaaChusetts lost another of her old minis ters, in the death; of Rev. Dr. Perry, at Grime on the 16th of December. Be held,- for many years, a 'very prominent position as a ruin- 'later and's citizen in the region where he dwelt. The: Gloucester Massachusetts Fisheries yield, nnnnally, about one hundred and fifty thousand quintali of codfish, and from forty thousand to `sixty thousand barrels of mackerel.; These are generally; taken by vessels' , to the, New York market. • ' The. Rev. Dr. Cooley, of, Granville, Mass., whose visitation of his flock in inch patriarchal style we gave an account of some time ago, has gone to his reward, at thevenerable , age of eighty-seven. He as not merely a 'faithful pastor, but, after the +=stein of the early minis try of New England, was 'also a suceessful educator of youth During his ministry, not less thin eight Inindred youth were under his instruction, of whom some sixty or seventy be came ministers of the GOspel.' ' In 1670, Tea Clergymen met at Brandford, Corm., each bringing a few books underlie. arm. Placing these hooka on al.table in the study of the 'Rev. Mr. Perilous, each one said, solemnly, "I give these for the founding of a College in this Colony." Elihn "1",, London, was ohief among the early,patrons, of this institution,' and Yale College was rio nettled in' honer of him, Its property, consisting of buildings, library, cabinet, apparatus, stocks,' funds, &0., is now supposed' to 'be worth'', bet Ween: sBoo,ooo' and $400,000. But strenuous efforts are conaidered necessary for, an increase of productive funds. The Mineralogical and Geological Cabinet con tains not less ' than forty thousand specimens. The College and Societies' libraries have nearly one hundred thousand volutnes. The library building is an admirable one, being one hundred and fifty-one feet in length.. A Call, numerously signefi by manufacturers of Connecticut, is being oircuhated for.a meeting to be held at. Meriden, on the 18th of. the present month, for taking into Consideration what con ciliatory measures should be adopted for restoring peace and quietness to all portions of our' dia -1 traoted country. Many manufacturers in New England are apprehensive, that . the ,present ex citement in the South will injure their business in no emall degree: Deep snows ' have prevailed all over Naw Bifg land, and , the people have never entered with greater zest into' tne excitement of sleighing. New York., The Dry Goods Business has been quite active for several days, owing the presence of a large rounVer of merchants from the far South, who . come on much earlier to make purchases for the Spring ,Tride,'than those from 'the North. This arises partly from the distance goods have to be taken, and the difficulty of transportation in some - districts, and partly from the fact that the South ern Spring trade !pensions before ours. i ...From ;present indications, it-is not probable, that; the resolutions passed . at some of the meetings in the Sim*, denouncing all.tradeArith the North, aid recommending direct' importation: from Hampe r are likely to have any trett effect upon the woes of the business liken in theAmthern States. For they have been buying as usual, without lug thought of disunion. The Prices of Proviaions have increased a little, but.there is no tendency toward speculation in this line, and the probabilities are, that while theY , cOmmaid fair prices, the siorbitant rates of former years will not be reached. The Trade in some small articles in a great city like this, is really enormous. It is estimated that no less than six .hundred thousand. pairs of skates bare been sold the present season in New York alone. Poi skating has beconie quite spas.' Edon since the opening of the Central Park, and the inducements there held out to engage in this kind of exercise. The sport is not confined to boys, but:gentlemen, and even ladies, are parti cipants. Hence, it is not unusual to 'see gentle men wending their way in that direction with two pairs of skates under one arm, and a delightful bundle . of crinoline' and furs, surmounted by a dainty hood, on the other. The Arrival of Senator Reward from his trip to Europe and the East, was quite an event last week. He bad a public'reception at 'the City Hall, and was welcomed in an 'address by Mayor Tiernan. Large numbers called upon him, and he was warmly greeted on all sides. The Fire on Beekman Street last week, des. troyed property to the amount of $500,000. The greatest lose was in the paper warehouse of Cyrus W. Field, of Telegraph fame, and cannot be less than $lOO,OOO. However, upon this there is an insurance of $BO,OOO. popular` The lion. Judge Mann, pf lowa, so p with, inventors, when Commissioner of - Patents, has become associated: with Nunn & Co , of , the (Matt*: American, and the most popular and Jsuccessfulpeent agents in the country. This paper has completed , its first half year of the new series with great credit and success, and enters upon the new year with increased attractions. The. New York Observer commends highly the proposed new political party, which originated in Washington, where a meeting composed of members of the Senate and House;' and others, for this purpose, was held some weeks ago. Subsequently, a meeting was held in Philadel phia, having In view the same object, and a Com mittee of ten, of which Hon. J. J. Crittenden, is Chairmen, was appointed to report some plan for the formal inauguration of such a movement. The Committee is expected to confer •with the Executive Committee of the American Party, the Executive Committee of the Whig Party, and such other persons as may be disposed to unite in the formation of allational Party on the basis of the Union and Constitution. 'Whether this pro ceeding will result in any thing effective, re mains to be seen. But the 'Observer is evidently disposed to give the Democratia and Republican parties, as they now stand; the cold shoulder. One of the Most Populai Writers of New York, a few years ago, was Eldridge F. Paige, author of the world-famed 4, Patent derma's," over the signitare qf ".Dew, Jr.." At that time he was possessed of affluence, and exerted considerable social influence. But haring no fear of God be. fore his eyes, in the early part of his careen he established one of the Sunday journals, and by his varied abilities, secured it a ride elm:dation. Alter a short career. of prosperity in , this un hallowed enterprise, reverses came, his wealth departed, be took to the intoileath)g bowl to drown his sorrows, and then rapidly sped on his downward career. This man, once admired and flattered, was shunned by. fonner companions; expelled from circles 'of which •he was formerly the delight, and became a homeless and ttapitied outcast At length, he went to California, where he died a few years ago, in a Wearable hovel, in the most abject degradation, and:with his bottle beside him. 4, The way of transgressors , is Meet probably The Oldest' Bible now in the eountry is in , the possession of a gentleman' of Brooklyn. It is 'a fine copy of the Latin Vulgate printed in the year 1484. Therefore it is three huhdred arid seventrfive years old, and dates back long before the Reformation, to the time when Luther was only one year old, and about twenty-four years after the art of printing was* first diecovered. It isTrinted in tie black letter, beautifully illuminated by hand. with large .initial letters at the beginning' of - every - chapter, alternately "red' and_blue. Many of these 111u minated letters are distinguished by a shining brightness, nearly four centuries hiving but little effect in dimming their original lustre. The book is of small , folio size, bound in hog' skin, with clasps, and is in an excellent state of preservation. , Union. Theological .Seminary, of this city, under the control. of New School Presbyterians, has one hundred and fortysix students. The whole number of Alumni, living and dead,. is five hundred. and seven. The Professors are Rev. Drs. Robinson; Skinner, Smith, and Hitchcock, and Rev. Mr. Hadley. Many foreign missionaries have gone out from this Seminary. i• The Annual Report of the' state of the Metho dist Church in the 'United States,'North, haitjust been publishpd by Messrs. Carlton and Porter, in an octave volume of nearly four hundred pages. Fri= this it appears - that :this body , embraces 49 'conferences, 882,657 1 members, nearly 160,000 probationers; with an increase of the . entire mem bershiP, during the last year, of 17,790: The whole : number of Ministers amounts to 6,877 traveling, and 7,904 local preacher& The churches number about 9;800., A Member of the congregation of which the late Rev. James W. Alexander, was pastor, presented one hundred and eightr copies of each of the following works of his former ' pastor, for distribution among the' students of Princeton Theological Seminary, , viz.:'"Consolation," " Praotical Discourses," and " Sacrameittal Dis courses ;" making in all five hundred and; forty volumes. This venerable school of theology still continues its career of unchecked prosperity. Many resort to it from all quarters of the land, to sit at the feet of its able, learned, and expe rienced teachers, Philadelphia. The ,Secular Papers are very severe, on' the two physicians through whose instrumentality some of• the Southern students were induced to, leave the noble medical colleges of this city. It is re ported that several of those who left for Rieh mond have returned, being deeply chagrined on account of the folly of the step taken without " any just cause or provocation." After all, it seems that Water Gas is making its way, notwithstanding foriner failures. The Northern Liberties Gas Company has secured the right to make and use this gas in district. We condense from the sprightly, entertaining, and able, daily, the Evening Journal, some. facts connected with the History of Philadelphia, and its present state, that will interest our 'readers. The city itself was founded in 1682, by . William Peng, with a company of English Friends or Quakers. The land comprised within the prov ince of Pennsylvania had been ceded to him by Charles 11; in payment of a debt due his father from the Government. Thnfirst printing press in this oity, and the eeoond in the new world, was set up in 1687. In 1689, Penn obtained a char. ter for a High SchooL The University of Penn sylvania sprang from a free school projected by Dr. Franklin, in 1742. In 1765, the merchants adopted a resolution not to buy or sell goods from England, unless the " Stamp Act" was re pealed.'The first Congress in America assembled in 1774, in Carpenter's Lisll; on Chestnut Street,' hetween'Third and Fourth Streets. On the 4th of July, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read from a stand in the State Rouse yard. The present Constitution of the United States was framed by , a Convention in this city, in. May, 1787. The house occupied by General Washing ton, when President, stood on a lot now occupied by Bennett?s clothing store, on Market Street. The first Bank in this country was the. Bank of, Pennsylvania, whieh was opened in , ,fhis city on , the 17th of July, 1780, p ith a capital.of $1,500,- 000;. its speelai obje ct was the sappy_ of the American army with provisions.. In 1782-,; Bank of North America went into operation, and the United' States Bank in 1791. And in 1792, the national mint was established in this city. In 1793, the yellow fever nearly depopulated the city, and it again became epidemic in 1798. The Vigilant Fire El:4;Mo Company, still In existence, and'elili efficient, was ;31itablisliee'oiriitirtd 'of January, 1780. Cohen's New City Directory ennraerstets thiztept daily newspapers, four tri-weekly, fiftrfive weeklies; six Sunday, and forty-three monthly, making the serial press in all, one hundred and twenty. The Directory also gives the number of churches at three hundred and ten, divided as follows: Baptist, 81; Bible Christian, 1; Christian. 1 ; Church of the New Testament, 1; Disciples of Christ, 1; Evangelical Assocation, 6; Friend's Meeting Houses, 6; German' Reformed, 8; Inde pendent, 2; Jewish Synagogues, 7; Lutheran, 'l5 ; Methodist Episcopal, 41; Methodist Prot estant, 4; Moravian, 1; New Jerusalem, 8; Presbyterian, (New School,) 18; . Presbyterian, (Old School,) 82 ; Protestant Episcopal, 61; Re formed Dutch, 4; Reformed Presbyterian, 8; Roman Catholics, 8; Seamen's, 4; Second Ad vent, 1 ; 'Unitarian, 1; United Presbyterian, 9 ; Universalist, 8. Colored churches—Baptist, 4 ; Methodist Episcopal, 11; Presbyterian, 8; Protestant Episeopal, 1-19. Making a total of 810. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. A VAIAIBLI WILL LosT.—French papers relate that the nephew of the late Sir Robert Feel, Sir - Edward Egerton ' is at Cannes, in France, trying to engage divers to search for a will which went down in a steamer wrecked a few months ago. The document, it is said, will put him imposses aims of. £82,000,000 sterling (I) the property of a lately deeeased relative, and he offers. . a reward of £20,000 for its recovery. . Vion Pizaminir BRZCIUMBIDGIO made a speech at Frankfort, Ey., on 'Wednesday of last week. He took strong ground against popular sovereign ty, and skid that if the South finds the, present laws:insufficient for the protection of slavery in the Territories, then Congress should pass laws that will be sufficient. He believed, however, that existing laws gave all the protection needed. He denounced ffilibustering and the re-opening of the slave trade, as Southern "isms," which the South should discount/mance before she com plained of the " isms of tbe North. Tna State of Arkansas has enacted a very . 1 stringent measure against free negroes, which will go into effect the Ist of January. All free negroes found in the State at that period are to be sold. into slavery. In Miesissippi, a law adopted on the 7th inst., piovidee that free negroes shall leave the State on or before the Ist of July, /860; or, if they prefer to remain, that they shall be sold into slavery, with a right of choice of mas ters, at a price assessed by three disinterested slaveholders, the proceeds to go into the treasury of the county in•which the• provisions of the bill may require it to be executed. Norma -Wan TRADIL—The extensive trade car ried on.upon the North-weds* lakes# gives em ployment to over I,6oosteamers and sail vessels ,• having a tonnage or nearly 450,000 tons, and manned by from 18,000 t 014,000 seamen. These vessels navigate over 5,000 miles of lake and river coast, and annually transport merchandise .to the value of from $600,000,000 to $700,000,- 000. A Vcrocrma BPRINa.--11 is stated that Colonel Drake, of Titusville, Pa., is now pumping oil from his spring at the rate or nearly a bar rel an hour for twenty-four hours in the day, and sometimes that amount is far exceeded. The net profits, of this one spring are estimated at over. $20,000 per month. Tan population of Memphis, Tenn., by a cen sus just completed, is twenty-five thousand, or double the population if 1854, and Any times larger than in 1850. The valuation of real es tate in the city, is also put down at eighteen mil lions. During the past season, fifteen hundred houses were put up in the city, at an esti mated cost of three millions of dollars. A Rion Cator.—A company in St. ,Toseplt, Michigan, raised.during last`year 210,000 bushels of potatoes, from fourteen hundred acres of land, averaging Ape hundred and fifty bushels to the Gore. Suus NEnmtemt.r-Share are very raw elavealess than a Sozen—living ;in Nebraska, owned , u house servants by Southern office-hold ers, and to prevent further encroachments of slave property on free soil, a bill has been introduced into the territorial legislature providing for its abolition, which has passed to a third reading in the Rouse, and been referred to a select com mittee. Tan Baltimore Patriot talks in this style to the Southern disunionists , t The declarations of Mr. Crawford, of Georgia, the other day, have no terrors for Maryland. Let who may be elected President in 1860, according to the forms pre scribed by the bore of the country, she for one will submit to the election and stand by the Union, even though the Congressional delegation from Georgia, , as gravely announced by Mr. Craw ford, shall seek to prevent the inauguration of the new President. Nay, even though every State in the Union North ; Smith East, and West, shall repudiate the Clection, Maryland will insist on obedience to the Federal Government, and rally •to the flag of the Union." That is' bravely and patriotically said. A few more such utterances, both North and South, would soon make croak ers and ftee-eaters, North and South, draw their headi) into th • ea' shells . Ecclesiastical. Mr. ltionAßD J. EVANS, of the Western - Theological Seminary, was ordained by = the's Presbytery of Allegheny City, on Wednesday the 4th inst. as an Evangel. - ist. Mr. Evans is to \ sail on the sth of February, in omitany with Messrs. Swan and Spargrove, all missionaries to Wash ington Territory. Mr. S. A. E. , SIMPSON Was ordained and installed over the. Millersburg church,' by the Presbytery of COshocton, (Revs. M. W. Brown, R. W. Marquis, and Wm. E. Runt, remectively, give the , charges to the pastor and people, and preaching or dination sernion, and making ordination prayer) on the 27th of December, 1859. Rev. W. •A. Hermison, of Gallatin, Tenn., has received and accepted a call from the First chruch, Knoxville, Team, and re moved to tha t _ city. Rev annum NRAZICR was mstaneu pastor of the chive!). in Newstead, Ky., for one . half his time, on the 2d ult., by a com mission of the Presbytery of Mulenburg. Rev. Fi. V. D. NEVI[JB was installed pastor . . of the church of Hopkinsville by it com mission, of the Presbytery of duhlenbtirg, on the 4th wit. Rev. J. M. Molt= was installed pastor of the church at 'Lane, 111., on, the 9th ult., by a commission Of the Presbytery of Chicago. Rev.. A, D. MiTonram rims removed from Macon, Tent', to Greenville,.R.y., and , desires oorreapondente to addreee him at that place. Rev. 11.• M. KERR has removed from Pur dy, Tenn. to Water Valley, Miss., „and requests editors and corcespondents to address him there. Rev. W. F. GmzerTE has removed from Denmark, Tenn., to Liberty,. Miss., and desires to be addressed there. Rev. 0. F. Romis of oamargo Mils has been elected Principal of the Academy at Verona Itiwamtin County, 'Mins., and has removed thither. Rev. E. W. BEDINGEB, was installed pastor of the church in Paris, 'Ky., on Sabbath, the 11th ult., by a committee of Ebenezer Preabytery. Messrs. R. C. BuTsow and A. D. HAWN were ordained by the Presbytery of Nor thumberland, on the 30th of Nov.- At the same time Mr. Bryson was installed pastor over the united churches of Ashland.and Gordon. Mr. HAWN was appointed to labor as an Evangelist in a very interest= lug field, including Shamokintown, Tray erten, and Holland Run. Rev. L N. HATS' Post 0111 cc address is changed from Shippensburg, Pa., to Mid die Spring, Cumberland County Pa. • Mr. H., It DioxsoN was Ordained by , . the Presbytery of Chatleston, on the 18th nit', and installed pastor of the church of Mr. ROBERT 13nermlY was ordained by the Presbytery of Earn:l6y; on the ' 10th inst., and installed pastor. of the churches of White. Oak and Ron in Williaznabtag District, B. O. Mr. JA. ssi 0. Sxwwwpv, licentiate, was ordained to,'the Work of the Gospel min istry, and installit pastor of the churches of Aimwell and Horeb, in Fairfield District, South Carolina, by the Presbytery , of HlllMOlrly; . int rift: Rev: L-'`G. GAitas' Po,st:Orboe: *aaress •ig • changed from Cununinsville, Ohio, to Cincinnati, Ohio. Rev- Aucrs's Post - Office 'address is changed from West Liberty, Va., to Washington, Pa. Ile,. S. 0. Pn.nx has declined the call from the , church of Salisbury, N. C. Rev. H. W. Arxxswpzu, son of the later Dr. James W. Alexander, has received and accepted a call to the church of Char lotte Court House, Va., formerly served by his father'and his grandfather. For the Preabyterhaltanner end Advocate A Church , Revived. Mnssns. EDITORS :---TheLord has been pleased graciously to revive his work in the church of Upper Tuscarora . ; Pa:; within the bounds of Huntingdon Preshytery, to which it is my privilege to minieter. At our re cent communion, ten were added to the church, eight of whom were from the world, and most of them beads of _families. Our services, in connexion with this com munion season, were protracted nearly "twos weeks; in which we received essential ser vice from the Rev. John H. Clark and the Rev. Wm. A. West, of the Presbytery of Carlisle, and the Rev. George M. Swin,late of lowa. God was pleased to accompany the word preached, with the efficacy of the Holy Spirit. The church was aroused from her slum. ben, and led to cry mightily to God. The " effectual fervent prayer" of many right eons, was offered at a throne of grace, with earnest importunity. The house was filled for successive days, with a large, solemn and attentive audience. A general atten tion to the subject of religion, seemed to be awakened among all classes, through the , whole community. Many were , deeply con victed of sin, and led to ; inquire for the way of salvation through a ornafied Re deemer. Ere our meetings closed, some twenty-five were brought to rejoice in the, preciousness of Christ as their Saviour, and give thanks to God for the change wrought in their souls. Several of these were heads , of families, and some far advanced in life, but the greater portion were in their youth. "Not unto us, 0 Lord, not unto us, hub unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and thy truth's sake." " Let the people praise thee,o God, let all the people praise thee." "My praise shall be of , thee in ther great congiegation—enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with . praise." G: VAN ASTBDALEN.' Shade Gap; Pa., December 21. for the Presbyterian ,Bannar and Advocate: Bou A olyibli'Cation: App r FOB AID. This Board is now greatly in need of fundsi and appeals to pastors, churches, and indi vidual Christian-friends for aid. I. For the Co7portage•Fund.—Sinae the beginning of the current , year, the number of colporteurs in the , iservioe,of the Board has been largely increased. On the other hand, the receipts have thus far been uot• much in advance of those sent in during the corresponding portion of list year. In con siquenoe, the Colportage Fund is now' not : only exhausted, but overdrawn in the sum of $9,579. Applications from Presbyteries, churches, and destitute fields for tlie services of eolporteurs, were never more numerous or urgent; and men, well recommended, are every week aPplying for commissions. Will not those who hive the rmer to do so; without delay, furnish the Board with means whereby to sustain and carry forward this good work? Enlarged and , speedy mufti" butions, are needed. IL for its Distribution fund.- ! -From this Fund the Board makes all grants' for the libraries of mission Sabbath Schools, feeble churches, and poor ministers, as well as for gratuitous distribution by others 'that ool porteurs. A number of earnest applications are now waiting fora response, and others are coming every week. But the bait dollar of this fund has been expended. The Board appeals to the'benevolent for means to meet these applications Shall the appeal. be made in indn Any contributions for these, objectsmay be directed to,Jsmes Dunlap, Esq., Treas. urer of the Board, No. 821 Cheetnut Street, Philadelphia. Witmer& B. SOMINCK, COM ;690. Nor the Presbyterian . Banner and.44vapite. Letters-for -the,Xew -Yearnto -X Con " gregetion. - - 4 ' Walk in wisdom, toward them that are redeeming thetime."--CoL iv: 6., Wnitand, to day, looking out on. a New Year. The,book of our life, for the twebie monthe.gone, has been- all sealed up. .day We, each in. our way, write the title page of another volume. Twelve months ago we didthe . same, and three hundred and six4 fi ve pages have been written since, -transcribed by the' Recording. Angel, and-the record laid up-for the final:day; .when all our lives shall be published -'ol,you of that, when you began the past' year, that' you were just beginning another of those volumes, which, gathered together, some sixty, .more or ,less, shall constitute your pablisheil-life? Did-you think, as thought after thought found its way into the unwritten page, that you were composing for.eteroity, writing for the eye of the Universe ? We long for fame, and here is fame ! A day will oome when, on the highest ram parts - of Heaven, trumpet tongued, Fame will stand and' herald our deeds to the uni verse. Men are ambitious ;.of;authorehip. We think it a notable thing to be ananthor. I tell you, we all are authors. Morefamous, too, than we wish. Our deedS stand out in capitals >; and our sins,- alas, in- sign board letters,,shall shine in the light of the Judg ment, as though :written on the heavens, with a pen allightning I We did not think to be so conspicuous. Bat, ever in our life, as the busy pen went dashing over the page,. the Recording-Angel was copying the words for the Great Day when the +" books shall be opened." And since but the title page has been written of this volume, thrown off, doubt,- hurriedly, without much , thought, might it not be well, before we write fur ther, to stop and consider what, We `are do ing ? This first Sabbath of the New Year seems eminently proper for: suchconsidering. We seem all to stop, today, writing in our private journals, and come together to write a page in the new volume :of our Church History.. And let us seriously ponder, to day, what shall be the character of this yet unwritten volume of our individual and. church life. And as -we turn the unsoiled leaves; wherenot a blot is yet, with what trembling: solicitude should we begin -the record; *hick alas, we know, shall cover the page with blanks or blots, evidence against ns of: criminal-neglect and strange-perverse ness. - - , The record of 1859 is `sealed up. We have nothing to do with it now. Much as weans, regret the year, we may not live, it overagain. The Put belongs to History. Atture:belongs to God. The „Present belongs to us; therefore the Apostle says, " walk -in wisdom—redeeming the time," making,the most of the opportunity. Let us do 80. Wehave a Personal, a Representative, and an Reclesiasti,cal 'character to sustain. We have duties., as Inditricluals, as Members of a, Communes!, and as 'Members of a 67iineli to discharge. Every position in Which, we: are placed, in this three fold re- Won, is an opportunity. Discharging AA4JI
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