D. DI'KINNEY 1. ALLISON S. LITTLE DAVID M'ICINNEY & CO., Editors and Propriotors. TERMS IN ADVANCE. .. SINGLE BUDSORIPTIONS 8140 IN Muss 1.25 DELIVERED IN EITHER OF TOR CITIES 2.00 For Two DOLLARS, WO will send by mail seventy numbers, and for ONE DOLLAR, thirty-three lattrthera. • Pastors sending us TWENTY subserlbem and upward,,,, will be thereby entitled ton paper without charge. A RED PENCIL MARK on the paper, Opines 1 hat Alie term is nearly out and that ivy &elm a renewal. . ~ . Renewals should be prompt, a little belbrelbpygar,explreti. Bend payments by safe bands, or by mall. . Direct all lettere to DAVID '74IKINIVET ;li' CO. , ' ' Pittsburgh . , re. ' Discontent« There is nothing More 'common than this—discontent I All of us are, more or less, discontented. •We are prone to think every place better than.this place, and all times -better than 'ibiese 'times. 'We are either looking with regret to the past, mur muring, " Why. were the former days better than these days ?" 'or•gazing dreamily into the futnre, Sighing for the "good time coming." ..How happy we were in child hood, we think. How happy the people are in New.',En glan d or California,. or. the green islands of the sea;. forgetting all the while - that, in all probability, people in California, or New England are thinking just the same of us—how happy the people must be in this calm, conservative • old -COmmonwealth, where men don't speculate, ind so must sleep soundly and long. For getting, too, that in childhood we were looking forward impatiently to the very times we are now in, think how happy we would be when men and- women, to think for ourselves, cut a figure, and make our mark in the world. The man . here wishes to be there. The man there wishes to• be here. The old man sighs to be a boy again, and the boy is impatient to be a _man. Such is life 1' Such is our discontent; leading our thoughts away forward, or away back, while we are here. ,A man sits in-the cool shade of his native valley, gazing on the distant mountain top. He thinks how beautiful it must be up there ; the sky so blue, the gray rooks looming up like guarded battlements in-the distant heavens, while the mountain herbs seem soft Ats tufted moss in the dreamy distance. So, impatient of his monotonous valley, . ho dashes up the mountain side, only to find the air piercing cold, the rocks rough and jagged, cutting his weary feet, and the green shrubbery, which looked like tufted moss in the distance, .here full of bristling, spiked thorns. Things do not look so well at hand aS. in the distance. Cheated here, he looks into the valley beyond,. much more beautiful than -the valley he has left. There is a lake there, on which the sun - shine falls, beautiful as a dream. . There is n cottage on its shore,. among clumps of densest foliage. The smoke curls so grace . fully among the forest trees—a very Para dise, he feels. Surely, if happiness be in the wide world, it must dwell in that quiet cottage; in the hearts of the humble cot tigers by that peaceful lake. He thinks of the fireside, 'cleanly swept, the sunlight falling on the burnished floor, where the baby lies asleep. All peaceful, pure, - and good 1 So he leaves the ragged' mountain for the peaceful valley beyond. But 'when he nears it, he finds himself cheated again. The lake proves to be a swamp, -With a foot of stagnant water, where reptiles crawl'the livelong day. The trees are dark, dank, and poisonous. The cottage is the home of a drunken woodman, where crime, - want, and filth make life a. burden. All is wretched here. Peaceful and beadiful enough it looked from :the mountain top. He could not, at that 'elevation hear the oath, horridest of all, that falls from female lips. lie could not see the filth, vilest of all, that gathers about a' runkard's cottage door. The sun glanced brightly enough on a foot of stagnant water, and made it look a very crystal lake indeed. So it is. Such is the experience of life. There is better than here; then is better than now; that is better than this—in our imagination ! ' Contentment, then, "is great gain." It saves us'many a - weary foot'; many a restless night; many a foolish speculation ; many a ruined fortune ; many a broken heart. It may be cultivated, by keeping a - light rein on our thoughts and fancies; giving them plenty to. do where they are, and keeping them at it. The industrious worker is never a busy traveller. -The man that is busy doing good where he is, does not much wish or need to 'go where he is not. Calm faith in God, submission to his will, and a faithful 'discharge of present duty, will prove a sovereign cure for all our restlessness and discontent. But if, when your thoughts would nestle at home, you stir them up, and drive them out, you will follow them—now one, now another— a distracted man, to the earth's end. H. Tor the Presbyterian Banner Letters. Of the Rev. John Smith, a Presbyterian Mintator, to his Brother, the Reu. Peter Smith, a Methodist Preacher. . - LETTER REY. PETER SMITH :—Dear Brother Since my last letter, the Rev. Mr. Jones has preached another sermon on the salva tion of children dying in infancy. After the congregation was dismissed, the follow ing conversation took .place between two members of the Methodist Church:" Well, Doctor, did not the Calvinists receive a pretty severe handling this evening ?" ":So they did, Madam, but it strikes 'me that Brother Jones would have done as well had he given his reasons instead of so many loose assertions. Suppose that. Calvinists do as he says—believe in the damnation of infants—l do not see how this relieves the difficulties that beset our own system. I expected to hear a series of calm and dig nified arguments to-remove the objections which Mr. Smith urges against the Armin ian Theory." " Dr. Blackstone, don't you think that Brother Jones can easily answer all the objections which Mr. John Smith can bring fbrward against our doctrines ?" "That may be, but it is certain that he did not do so to-night. I atnnot a theologian, but Mr. Jones is a theologian, and as he gave out word that he would answer all ob jections brought against our views of grace, I supposed he would make good his promise." "What are .these great objections Pray, tell, Dootor. Did not Brother Jones make it plain, that all infants are saved by grace, in opposithin to Pelagians and Socinians, and did he not make it just as plain in op poiition to the Calvinists, that Elrod would be an Almighty Tyrant if he. did not save infants by grace ? Is 'there any difficulty in all this ? To my mind this subject never appeared in so clear a light .before." " On the contrary, to my mind, madam i the theory of our Church on' this .point .looks like a sheer contradiction, and the longer I fix my attention on it, the more striking'. the contradiction appears. Brother Jones, quoting. from our last Christian Advocate, showed the absurdity of the doctrine that infants were involved in ruin for Adam's sin; this being so, how are infants saved by grace, if they were never lost? What has grace to do with their salvation ? And is Mr. Smith :far , .out of the way, when he tells us we had better drop the term grace altogether, when we speak about the salva tion of infants?" ~ H ere the conversation • was broken off. The ..next day Dr. Black stone politely requested me, to, state on pa- per, our views of infant ,salvation. I did so, and the following is a copy of the state ment I sent him : MT DEAR DOCTOR :--I cheerfully com ply with your request; and will come at once to -the subject. By one man sin en tered into the world, and' death entered along with sin, And so- death passed on all , seen, on infants as well as , adults,' for that all have sinned. That is, al-tanned in Adam, for, .not -by their personal`disobedi- - once, but fitly one nudes &Obedience, all •men, infanta al5-zwell- -.otaxerstwert4.- macle4 For the Freoleltorian Palmer 1,7 . - 1. •:. , ‘ , .... . - • .- , ' . - ' _. ' • '4 • ~.., 4 f - 4• . lie •!- . "!":' 4 - , I ~:, ; .1. '.. . t * J , '. 7) . 1,, I'9 -' . °..). )'': 1. . , It ;•^. • „ - . .. . • , _ .. . .. . . .. .. + • . . . . V0L.''V1T:T.,.:N0,.:•:31,• - . sinners. Not by their personareffende; but by one man's offence judgment came on all men, on infants as well as on adults, to con demnation, and in Adam all die, infants- as truly as adults. In the sweeping 'declara tion of the 'Apostle, that all haVe sinned, .and come short of the glory of God, in fants must be included. Infants were .really lost, for the blessed Saviour says of, little ones, that he came to seek and to save them -as lost, and the fact that they are saved by grace, proves that they were justly lost, for if they had not been justly.lost.they could not possibly be saved by grace. If one in fant is saved, it is by grace. If two, if'ten, if a thousand, if a million, if all infants are saved—and wehave no reason to . doubt this—then all are saved by grace. Thus our doctrine of infant salvation is consist ent with itself, is consistent with sound reason, and is consistent with the teachings of the Bible. Contrast, with this, if you please, the Arminian view of this subject. According to Arminianism, 'infants were lost and .they were not lost. They were lost, because, first, Adam fell, and second ly, Christ died for them. But if Christ had not died .for them they could never have been lost, for two reasons. First, be cause there would have been no infanta, and secondly, if there had been infants, it would have been an act of infinite tyranny to con demn them for Adam's transgression. Again, according to Arminians,infants are saved by grace, and'they are not Saved by grace. 'They are sa.vecl, by grace because Christ died to redeem them, but if Christ had not died for infants, simple' justice would have demanded:.thatrthershould be saved at any. rate. Thus you , 'see, sir, , that Arminianism is inconsistent with itself,.is inconsistent with sound: reason, , and is in consistent. with the teachings of the: Holy Scriptures. In fact, my dear doctor, if ever there. was a .contradiction .open, hare-faced, and absurd, the .Methodist. Arminian doc trine of infant salvation is just such a con tradiction. Yours respectfully; I will finish this letter with. an extract from a sermon which I delivered some time ago. It will explain itself. The bodies of our little ones, snatched by the \rude hand of the Destroyer from our longing embrace, we may consign to their mother earth in full assurance of faith that the diseuthrolled immortals, regener ated and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, have gone to seek their kindred in the skies. Death is a vanquished foe. In the awful struggle with the Prince of Life, the mon ster lost his sting, and it is written in the volume of the• 'deep decrees of God, that th'elast enemy of the Church that is to be destroyed, is death itself. We ought, then, neither to murmur nor repine. We ought not even to wish them back. They are transferred to the Paradise above, and it would be cruel to have them recross the deep waters of Jordan, in order to share our toils, to be exposed to our dangers and temptations, and to be made partakers of our sufferings and trials. The dark, and silent grave yawning, to receive its coveted possessioh, is' indeed • repulsive to nature, but the infantile tomb is lit Alp with the hopes the Mighty Conqueror Himself, the Resurrection and the Life, has •inspired. In that bright world to which they have passed, no fears shall disturb their calm 'repose, no disappointments cross their path, no vexations mar their peace. The only changes which they will •undergo, will •be to pass' from glory to glory, and from one' height of excellence and bliss to another still more exalted. Were. such. little ones'' permitted to break. -the mysterious. silence of eternity, how often might not they be heard to whisper words of endearment and encouragement-not unlike these : "Father ! mother weep not for us. We have been called from your family to join the higher and holier family of our 'Father in heaven. We love.you dearly, but we love him un speakably more. We would not, oh, no, we would not, if we could, forsake these celestiaLabodes to return to your habita tions of clay. Weep not for us, weep for, yourselves and for perishing sinners around . you. Oh ! could your eyes behold what we behold, could your ears hear what we hear —such countenances radiant with love; such, majestic forms, such an atmosphere, such sights, such glory, such kind greet ings, such hymns of praise, such majesty and love in the ever adorable Redeemer, so graciou's a reception' by the Eternal Father —but it is not for you to know these things now. Live by faith. i on the. Son of God, crucifythe flesh, overcome the.world, fight , the good fight of- faith, fight on,'and when , the•victory is won, we will be the first to welcome you to .the joys of our 'Father's house above." JOHN &arm. Dr. ,Tohnson. There is the faith, which rests exclusive 2 ly on the.,atonement of Christ. This has produced perfect peace;in minds.awakened in every family to trath, And in conciences the most tenderly alive to sin. This, and this alone, ever did, produce peace in death in a mind and heart which was alive to the reality of things.around - Much was written at one time about the experience of DrJohnson, at the end of his life, as bearing upon this point. The case was briefly this: Dr. Johnson, though a mor aiist, and a defender of Christianity against its opponents, knew nothing of spirit ual religion, so •far as biographers (who, with the company he commonly kept, were more ignorant than himself,) have informed us. But he believed the Bible, and he had a conscience which took knowledge of sin,' and, of course, with his powerful under standing, he was dverwhelmed with fear when the prospect of standing before a righteous •God in judgment became immi nent. But for this he might have died in that peace in. which -multitudes are dying every day. But with his notions of the way of sal vation, his only hope df.success was in dil igence in duty, that he may meet the de mands of God's laws. -Witlrthis there was mingled, naturally enough, some notions of penance, and the great Dr. Johtison, the towering intellect of the eighteenth centu ry, might have been seen standing in the rain bareheaded, for some hours, to be gazed' at, and laughed at, and all as an expiation for sin which he had committed. Again,. when goaded by conscience, he sought to appease the Lord of the universe for a con scious and wilful infraction: of his laws by drinking.but one cup of tea in a day, and, this without any. milk in it. Then 'came the dark and doubtful.settle ment ,of his account with heaven. Had the merits of getting met, , and. being ridiculed, and, abstaining from, tea, been equal to the demerits of a life of; disobedience to the first and great commandment , of the -law, and of the second, which is like, unto it 7 "How can I tell," said he, ",when I have done enough ?" His distress became-intense, and was on ly increased by his wretched advisors who bade him remember his virtuous life. He was mercifully saved . from' listening to them. Finding no-peace iu-anything they had to- give, he sent• for the .evangelical Winstanley, and the" Moravian La-!Probe, and through such instructions as:theirs; he found out what the hope'of a poor Sinner -Wak, and :embraced, it with :the: simplicity of 4'a ~. Before lie discovered that a maw could be justified by faithwithout works, his soul in view of death and the judgment,, was like the troubled sea when it .cannot rest.. After he made that .discovery .the storm ceased,.and there was a great calm. This was all a riddle to his' biographers, who were seandaliZed and "shocked, as one of them said, at their" hero's tears, and they have, as, far as.possible, concealed the most important, part of his, history, which, in fact, they were so incapable of treat ing. 'We are apt to 'think- that these things are better underatood at the present day. Alas ! to• how many of those who profess to be teachers is the way of peace 'still a -se cret ! Not only the: case. of Dr. johnson,hut many others coming under ourown observa tion are full of the.- .most solemn,,instrue rtion as bearing upon this. question. As the sick in body will- fly to every drug for re,- lief, so those in fear of death will fly to opiates for the soul, and .spirituaLphysielaus who can discern •.the truth,. have peed of more than human courage and skill to use it.—Parish SARDINIA AND ANNEXATION.—COURAGE' or - CAvoiht. AND 'THE RING--WHO SHALL HINDER t—CHEERING- PROSVECTS AB. TO THE BIM AND THE GOSPEL 17 , j ITALY—A STATESMAN'S' LES SON TO AN ARCHBISHOP ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY—CONVERTS AT FLORENCE—SCHISM AND. THE PLYMOUTH BRETHREN— SAVOY AND NIORTiie PROTEST toir , SIVITiERLANDL-ColtairP.. ' ; TION AND FRAM IN- ..AUSTRIA—AN OUTBREAK AT ,PETIN— LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S 'REFORM 31ILL-11.1, IT TANS I--ITS .PRODADLEISSUES=PROGRERS AND ENDOITMENTVON POPERT , IN GREAT BRITAIN—SEAT/OES OF THE PROTESTANT ALLIANCE LAWGUARDIA.NE AND ITINPREESTS..-BROTHERLYC'ON .MONIONAMONG PROTESTANTS—THE SPIRIT C)F , • TEN ,REFOR NATION—THE liar. W. Gooii , s '1 , ....)._11LET ANALYSED. LONDOE; . 11 arch 23, 1880. SARDINIA marches on to the full forma tion of :a kingdom of Italy •with a daring, and a' , decision worthy , alike of her posi tion and* her destiny. The Pope's Bull may be launched at Victor Emmanu.el's head, Napoleon may threaten to withdraw his troops from Lombardy, or may persevere in opposing the annexation of TuScany • but the die is cast, and Cavour's policy, in the face of all possible contin gences , or • consequences,. is •to press on to ",possesion!" Once in actual possession of the Romagna- for example, who shill drive her back ? Not Austria, although she points to Sardinia's aggressiveness, and says shewill Sight 'for 'Venetia if at tacked. Not Ferdinand'- of Naples; who, under thuguidance of, the Jesuits, has been arresting the most excellent citizens ,at Naples, and deporting them. under , Mere suspicion, so that even the Pope is scandal ized at his conduct, and ' seems to :think, .like others, .that he •is rushing tin his, ruin. It is, indeed, a spirit • of blindness that has, fallen on, the Romish Ultramontanes throughout Europe, and to look back: even for twelve months and see what has been accomplished in its detrition• and demoli tion, and that by nominally Remark Catho lic powers, may well awaken thoughts of a I Divine Nemesis, and of, awful prophecies hastening on the crisis of a final and ir retrievable ruin,. The' consequences, too, arising from the necessary establishment; ere long, of both civil and religious liberty all over the Italian peninsula, are such as can be only partially appreciated or antici pated. A bright inture is, undoubtedly,' before Italy, such as your mere politicians have not taken into their reekonin gs. When one goes, for example, through the various rooms of that plain-locking-old house in, earl - -Blaokfriars, Lon:deli, Were, among editions in•the languages of all na tions, Continental Europe has its .silent yet. powerful messengers, ready to go forth as soon ,as the barriers of, despotism, are broken down, and when we recollect that already.the cordon sanitaire which Austria and the Grand Duke in her zeal drew around Lombardy, Tuscany, Modena, and Parma is broken through, and the omagna reads the Bible, the Pope no longer for bidding by the mouth of a Cardinal-Gov ernor—surely there, is abundant cause not only for hope, but for thankfulness. There is no doubt at all that over Italy the Scrip tures will soon have free course. Conititu •tional government will be the "pioneer of the - Gospel of Christ , THE WALDENSES are preparing, by Col legiate training, men for the future evan gelization of 'ltaly. A correspondent of the Hews of 'the Churches, writing,'from Florence, -says, ", It gives me great pleasure to announce that the .Waldensian, Church has •sent Ribet to "minister to the new congregation of Piso , and Leghorn,- as M. Coueourde's congregation in, 'Florence has *ncreased .-largely, and requires 'all : his *time." JOHN .SMITH At a meeting held last, ..month at. Liver pool, to.hear a lecture on. Piedmont, by. a London clergyman, the Chairman, the Itev: Dr.. McNeil, made some : very• striking and impressive statements. He,spoke eloquent: ly as to the :fidelity of the Waldenses in persecuting tines, . 4 ' their Christian resolve being, 'sooner death than the mass.'" He then added : • They.have endured thirty-thr s es successive,per secutions, many of them attended with barbari fleawhich would have;disgraced anyTagan paw er. (Hear, hear:) During one - of these a little more than two hundred years.ago,..in 1655, their cry of anguish was heard in England; it was not heard in`Vain. There -was 'then at `the: head of affairs in this country a man who'was '2l; Pro tesfant and no mistake.' (Hear, hear.) He wrote a • letter ; not a protocol beginning with compli mentary allusions to the past, continuing with a verbiage of mystification of the present, and end ingwith shadowy, problematical indications of the future, thrown - together like the leaves of: the sybil, with ambiguity in every line.' No; the man I speak of had no fancy, for such„ , waste of paper and ink. 'He wrote a -letter, such as a straightforwaixl man :writes- when' he has some thing to say, and such as even 8; crookedlempor iser cannot fail to understand. :Re wrote to say that if peace were not immediately restored to his Protestant brethren in the 'Vaudois, the har bor of GeneaWould' spe,eclilTreficho the reports of British cannon. (Cheers.) , -Rome knows her men, both-friends- and foes. She :can.-.protocol and-cajole the roost accomplished of our. compro misers, hut without-attempting to, cajole, or even venturing to delay, she_ did what she was bid by Cremwell. (Chedrs.) • ome ecclesiastical may be compared :to- an: e.el,-,whichtwists and "writhes, and. slips. throughAke ,fingers of, our diplomatists with all the ,olliness of a .Ligouri. • Home tem poral is like a nettle. Tamper with it, and it stings; grasp it, it is harmless. • The :Emperor of the French" seems to have some very correct notions as to how to •deal with a nettle. (Laugh ter and applause.) We are not :without hope that the obstinacy with which the Pope is resisting the very moderate arrangement proposed by the Emperor may be' overruled, ito the. emancipation of millions from s tyranny no longer to be en dured. (Loud Cheers.) It has: haddts.fearful tri umph, Ire trust Fits last. It has persecuted. the' saints of: the Most High , in the valleys.of Pied- • mont, and wherever else upon, earth it, has had • the .power. It has for ages been the yoke, the , brand, the sheltie, and isxicnii: the'exasperation of Italy. , -(Lotui 'and' continued cheers.):',lt: is a Church,' if it :deserve the -name--(~heari :hear)—: by which a, hierarchy .fattens and :nation. starves—by,which religion has,b ' sien caricatured, morality'inverted, deceit engendered;liberty locatell(oontiniied cheering)=a• Church which nothing: but :standing armies -:can sustain-a, Church which has realised the fable of Pandora's box, and caused more wars, and tumults, and in- . trigues, and cabals, and assassinations`by bullet,' steel,cand poison—which 'has drawn 'forth more cries to heaven:from innocent victims- of mock justice, and ~ I v. r upg out more tsars of,anguish and groans of agony petit tortured men and ruined women, thi,p. any other' curse with which it-has= pleased thd Almighty. in mystefious- long-suffer-• ing:to afflict onr-fallen Mee. (Protraeted.oheer ing.) THRRRINCIPLES of BELIGIOITS LIBERTY: are ,now.,.onenly,aftmed irLitaly,by 4 men in.. power, who are yet the nominal adherents;' PITTSBURGH, EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE. TURDAY, AP RIL t 21, 1860. Thus the Archbishop of ished a'letter to' Baron ltias )f the Interior, , making vio -1 of the toleration- of non lip and " Schools of error 'cese, even to where he .said Inured by all kinds of argu got excf 'fled." This letter ' thou- In the (a,man n, nobly hbishop, , tion • for Roman ,ys; " the m or re liberty of of pub ter being of the Florence coli, Min lent comb Catholic • within hi " persons men ts, has been sands, bui latter the of roma] and boldly the right other To Catholic. question ligious pi console lie •worsh; disturbed " This every Lein; cellent t]] idea of ti of conscif judgment :the Supr the my public ri io'sz;q6.4it religion, and honor this prey .is only to be fol. _or relig ions or foi, ..., or worship. • There - are converts- at • Florence, who have adol the views •of:the Ply mouth brethrentuid object to all forms And order of the Chtirch of Christ as mundane institutionsTlL ha . . y , ve separatedthem selves from the lifrger` body who'plaadd for a •Christian minist l e t " e ", lders.". The-Irving .ite angels" hr itiso troublers of the new i Iy-formed church 's. The Piedmontese Gov ernment has see tly recognised an Italian g conegation, or ,nized at Nice, and' hav ing several mi 'sters, as a ` Christian Church. • i SAVOY, with i lion, and Nice 14, ,. number, of inhabi ed as fairly waif was believed th 2 'popolation of half a mil ' b a much. more - limited, nts, may now be regard -by France. It the Emperor - did not mean to ,take /nor= than a portion of -Savoy, but now he is viojating , the neutrality of Switzerland, and, , ! reatening, its very ex istence by absorbi ~g the whole. The Swiss Envoy at Paris; li. khanded' to the Torei,gn Minister a solemri .rotest, and has also ad - :dressed a note to tthe Great Powers who signed the treaties of:18 1 _5, at.the. Congress of Vienna. Bon I ;rrte is to explain his reasons for dewnirit g the innocent victim after supper, and Vis even' said 'that he will send an autogr 'ph letter to Queen Vic toria, in order 'to c .m. the apprehension, of the hlnglish.aris*, key. But he has left an indelible stain ,On his name, by this piece of rapine and'i 2 oliation, and:no one can henceforth trust hi t',.: Re will-be now for peace:for some tim: f..is 'disbanding part of his army, and about to give millions for ag ricultural improve , ents. , ,lle has .nomi nated , the great E :e-trade advocate, M. Ilichael Chevalier;: a senator ; and he 'finds it his interest to aiv , dime, for. the :develop ment-of 'results frO +.': the new Commercial s lireitY.; ,:And yet th' p ia , hot a week pass-' es, during which .:t e ,is not? Something. said, or,done by hi hickkgePe-AR:RIA easiness_thrtinglidiit { 4 urope.-.7--- CORRUPTION AND PECULATION IN AlM high military , . Officers and other officials,. have been painfully -revealed : in connexion with the suicide .of ~several persons—the most proininerit,General Eyn litten—lwho were contreeters for •army 'stores and' provisions,'-last year,. and by' whom 'it has. been 'diseovered enormous frauds were committed:' .:Every thing in Anstria.seems rotten•te the. core. And yet !there. Popery has had her will and.way for centuries. Is not this the proper hoc, the true explan — ation of things as they Cie • • The Hungariarrstudents 'at Pest,h,- in a demonstration at: the-tomb .of. patriot gen erals hanged 'in 1848, have been- in violent collision with ,Austrian ~- troops. Every thing forbodes a : crisis. ._OPpression,will. drive even wise men.to 'Madnetia. • • ' • • Tim NEW REFORM BILL has been the subject of special discussion this week in the House of Commons in connexion with the second reading. Ihsraeli was the first'. speaker ;••. , rurd.although Antimatilg ; that he would - not diSidelhe ribirservatle - such a lengthened. attack' the.. measure,. and, • endeavored 'to deduce such frightfdl souse .queuces as to the transference„pf,-,the,Gov -ernment of the country from, the.npper, and „middle classes, to ,'a fierce, demoeracy, that it is .quite i possible ; an. attempt „will be ' made by the Tories in the 'House of lords, .to. throw ,out.,_the bill. If they do, they a epirit of stern determination • thronghout the country, whose utterances ;rill . cause their ;ears to tingle. Little as I would desire to see the power of godleie ' artisans and of Popish, peasants•in'lreland extended, yet believe that on 'the whole . it would be• better for' liberty aka religiOn, as well as comme.rcial progress, if there were' a larger iiifuSiiin of the- democratic element. •Toryisiit' is a hateful • thing , — timid; treinbljng, cowardly; and; therefore; • oftimes cruel. • Nomen are greater despots than our. Country Squires,. if-they-are•not 'of a-kindly nature ; 'for, as Ilr.Bright-says, while borough- 'constituencies may. be open to bribery,-the tenants of the Tory Squires .are• -bound ..down , that " they .have•-••not even liberty to sell themselves !" :::With :a • free:press,' and, above all, with ; the. onward • . progress of genuine religion. among , .the masses, I-have -great hopes that .a righteous constituency, will-more and -more' character ize the towns of Great..Britain.' -As foi 'Popish, mischief in the. House, . of ,00M- '- ,mons, it is ,verysonsiderable alrtiady.„. But Ultramontanism,is now petted by, the Con:. servatives, and not by tine Whigs, and' the . majority of the Romanist members fi nd :own; they, best satisfy even their con stituents,,by avoiding _extreme, courses The endowment of 'Popery at heike, and - in the Colonies, is one .of our - saki - al . iinS;•and•Powerfrilly:-tends. its cptogiesi • and'•consolidatiori. • The -increase-Ad.-the •Romith-priesthood and.spiritual machinery since -the passing• •Of -the - -Actran 1829, is' very considerable •in Great: rit.. sin; -for; whereas- intlB29 there - were ; but 477 , :priests; inlB69,there --were 1236: -..0f -chapels;...&c.,i thirty years -ago 'there rwere 449; now rthere are ,950. At the- former, period: there were-noanonastic or conventu al establishments allowed by. law,and -even {•- 'by the Relief-Act-monasteries ; are• psohibi ted,. yet there -are ,no,less. than .37 ,pg.t4epp, and, of : convents : there-Are • 1.43. . mitigate lave -now .12 glellegee, irk In and ! • end Wales. It may be said 14at.1116 uibreaee of priests is not so great ivlieirthei'irietieitiYof the population is conSidered, and 'eiltleifudly when it is remembered what a lit? "Mint gration of Irish Romanists has - been-going on--more especially since the faniine of 1846-47. But it •is -this settlement-of a strange. people with their priests:antheharr, • , els, which. gives:opportnnities for. seiting,up the standard of, Romanism.• in. dark:awl:ig norant .places, where proselytismicaneat tempt its.perunionsiwith.more c ozlesittam:' , ..:Eactmiownlatg ArPrker7AA vas c43.0.443net.f and modes, has now reached an alarming sum, and is annually increasing: in • eludes- the 141aynootb'Grant of $O,OOO •.Nelitecitional Grants for Schools, and: School Buildings 36,258 Ronan Catholic Reforniatories 8,000 Romish. Chaplains 7,229 Irish National Schools 116,000 Jails and Workhouses in Ireland.... .....• 10;000 ' Coloidei and India. 20,000 total for 1850 It is not in the direct pecuniary grants alone that Popery is making progress,butin getting 'aPpointments in the Royal House hold, Treasury, Colonial Office, Poor' Law, and State Paper. Office,• as Governors of Gov ernment Prisons, Judges in. County Courts, and in the magistracy of the country. • The. PROTESTANT ALLIANCE has been eminently useful in resisting, and, in stir ring up resistance to Popish demands. `Bills in favor'of Sorna,nism introduced' last session, were -closely. watched and exposed, and not ;one of them was passed. The Committee likewise succeeded in. causing - the salutes in connexion with Romish pro cessions in Malta to be so modified, as to remoye the groundLef•offende consoler - Di rolit s gaMers. The Important case on the Queen's Bench against. a priest named Ro berts, for, kidnapping, a. young girl, was suc cessfully prosecuted by the: Alliance, and the girl was cleliVered up to her father. The priest, whose answer, on - oath, Lord Campbell pronounced to be "illegal, eva sive, and untrue," after being imprisoned for contempt of Court, was, obliged to pay the . eosts.. Attempts have been made to have the statutes of Mortmain repealed,.forthe ben efit of Ronian Catholic charters, so that land. might be devised by will,hy irrespon sible ~persons, for any purpose ;which- the PrieSts might dictate to the dying. Not evert:Protestants,. under . the existing law, are-allowed to devise land for charitable purposes. This move the 'Protestant Al liance meets with.stern , opposition, as well . ae,a new order, of the Poor Jaw Board. Mr the religious instruction of RoMan Catholic children in work-houses. A great body of Poor LaW Guardians from town and coun try, lately held;a meeting in London, and. ,presented such an array of opposition that the " order". was declared "non compul sory," and so it will be a dead'letter, and formally repealed. In the .Nortli of Ireland • the priestly chaplain of the .Newtonards Union demand ed to have altar, vestments, &c., specially pre pared for hint at the expense of the rate prayers. -Thr Guardians took the case to the Queen's Bench,. Dublin, and the. Chief 'Justice ignored the claim of the priest. Rad he succeeded, the Guardians had made rup their minds to .resign in. a body. Other cases •of • such •ecclesiastical impudence just nascent, and in the bud, -were thus arrested. In truth the Constitution and. Rortianisni are Constantly-in antagonism, and so it will always be till the'abomination is eliminat ed. Dying as Popery is at the heart, that vitality which she displays at the extremi ties,- appears almost• prmternataral. But the anomaly, is largely explained by the use and. abuse of the toleration` and the frei dom of Protestant Countries, such, as Ent land and the-United States, for the ad, vaneement and, wealth of a. system which aims---hoyever, hopplesslyin the_e_od— Ithrifr-overtainisalidde-strtiction. right to (how ex the false of liberty' of private ibility to ibute of de of ?Pt'. va rrig .nment, limit of. Brotherly communion amono. real Prot estants is increasing, and will increase just in. Proportion as men are brgught to sit at Christ's feet, and, through his Spirit's life andleaehing, drink in his.: requirement to have love one to another. Priestism kills true catholicity, and therefore is of, the devil. It is lamentable to mark its work ings in the, Church of England, in many quarters ; but it is truly delightful to find a large hody who sigh and labor for that mutual recognitibn between Protestants which prevailed at the time of the Reforma tion. In. my lastletter I referred to the Rev. William . Goode, a London Rector, who.. has been . a most able and successful opponent of Tractarianism, and who has labore4 also to. proznote. catholicity of heart .sod intercourse among Christians. His ".Brotherly Communion • with the Foreign 'Protestant Churches desired.and cultivated .by the highest and ,best of the. Divines of the Church. of England , " as published' in a :pamphlet, is tlie substance of an, address deliyered at Cambridge, at a. private meet ,ingof some of the senior members .of the University of Cambridge, and published at their request. It is an, admirable produc tion and..pile of facts, many of which are !little known. 'He Opens by showing that the chief impediments to the Emcees . of the Reforinatioulas be,eri disunion, .and that it .has ever been the policy of.the .Church of Rome to foment discord. ,He then. says that there is a special reason• for showing what the true spirit of the English Re forrners.wa.s, because of the. misrepresenta tions "of late years, by.au active, resolute, mad,penevering.party; who.lave 'said that the Church of .angland is "precluded by . her Principlei from holding Ockiiiniunion withi Non , Plpiscopal Ohurclies i 'ind she bas no sympathy ;with . -foreign - Protestants." The application of the principle of.brotherly communes, with ..any foreign ~Protestiint Ciiirch, must .of courie .cleperid on. its present state. But Mr. 'Goode maintains that " so far-as-they hold-to-their ancient Confessions ofeFaith, so ; far . do, ..the testi menies adduced by him 'hold_ good at the present-time for our intercourse with them." - . He then •refere to Creamer's endeavor to . !effect a-union,.of, all Protestant. Churches, -by the proposal in 1548• to 33ullinger, Cal; min,.and Melanothon , that a Synod should heldin England; to drisettin•common Confession :of Faith. -.lt z was to this: pro pbstil 'that•Osivin responded .by saying.. that . he. would ! ffeoilliney .cross ten .seas; if .3.t was necessary, to !insist in each a work.',' The tronbles of the times marred the design. 'Mr. Goode- also refers, in proof of his itbsition‘ to the rece ption and welcome given refutees.from-foreign Protestant. Churches o , r incltaling,the Dutch congregation under John ; tasco, as well -as the Germans, Italians, Walloons, and Stryhe. Of Teter 'Martyr, .Stryhe says, of him our Arth bishop made particular use in .the steps- he took in our Reformation. Bucer also came over by his influence, was employed by him to write a review of the Book of Common 'Prayer, and adopted in the, second edition . 'several of his suggestion's. In like manna; Maityri-Bucer, and Faguis become Profes: sora Universities. In .Elizabeth's reign ,there was special. Oldness (warmly approved by r .the prelates amid, clergy `of' the day,) 'shown by - the •Maien Queen• to the . Freneh-Prcitestants, IDEr:=Goode •contrasts-with this the following notice of Elizabeth's conduct by the •noto-. ,rious Tractaria,n Neale: ",One of the-worst • actions of her life," he says, ".was the as sistance which she gave to the Huguenots, the French Puritans, then in arms against their lawful sovereign." • YlThe-Zatrichletters are also :adduced • by -Mr.4iloodep,. in:connexion. with. the, position _then takeroo9,.ishops,..that.'.' one form of. Church fickrernzeint is not necessary in all times: and plocep of the . chnrch ;" that ireieftoreTfeebyteriaiiism 'vie es lawful as lipisdoplicy ; 1 ' and t that . . f'.the : :•reason ithat: • "oviMVAOLEnglisiOXiiint:‘.l.4lo.-to,dike WHOLE NO. 395. this" (Presbyterian) " platform of doc trine was, that they did not consider it suitable" to the state of our country, peo ple, and commonwealth. As to doctrine, Bishop. Jewel wrote to Peter Martyr, at Zurich, in 1562: "We do not differ from your doctrine by a nail's breadth." And so Beza, on the other hand, wrote in 1.660 to Grindall "your churches agree with us in all points of doc trine." Mr. Goode does not exclude horrid Presbyterian Churches from recognition, and refers to, his work published in 1852, in " Vindication of the Doctrine of the Church of England on the validity •of the orders of the Scotch and Foreign' Non- Episcopal Churches." £228,487 It also appears that a large number of foreign ministers were admitted without re ordinatimi up till 1661. "We had," says Bishop Pleetw - ood, "many ministers from Scotland, from France, and the. Low Coun tries, who were ordained by Presbyters only, and not Bishops, and. they were insti tuted into benefices.' It was the infamons Act of Uniformity that virtually put the Church of _England in the false position of unchurching all her sisters of the Reform ation i and ;till _that is,. repealed, her catho licity mist be confined 'to the floor of the Church or to the platform or prayer-meet ing. Chalmers could not enter one of her pulpits. The four English Divines sent to the Synod of Dart, Archbishop Ushers' tes timony, and many others, are intrOduced. Laud seems to have been the first to ques tion Presbyterian 'orders, and was for this rebuked publicly at Oxford, by the. Regius Professor of 'Divinity. His elevation to the Primacy was the interruption to. the harmony whiCh previously existed: Alas ! I , .the "spirit of Laud is still malignant and active. It is not long since a London suburban clergyman of the High. School was seen tearing down, in his own parish, the printed bill announcing a sermon by the Rev. A; 'Raleigh, (a, Congregational minister,) for Female Education in India. This man, eloquent, aspiring, Wand ambi tious, is the son of a Wesleyan minister What if, after all, a Wesleyan. baptized 'him, and so he himself is not even a Chris tian enrolled among the faithful ! Air. Goode's pamphletis the loving labor of onp who is set upon promoting the good of the whole Israel of God, and who hates with a perfect hatred, and counts as his enemies, Rome and, all her abettors and imitators.' J.W. P. S.—The Irish Unitarians have been quarrelling among themselves. Dr., Mont gomery (the "Lion of Arianism , ") in olden times was fierce against Creeds and Con fessions. Latterly he got frightened at the fast tendencies toward Socmianism, and Theodore Parker's notions about Inspiration, &c. A Code of Discipline prepared some years ago, contained a limited and meagre list of questions to be put to candidates for 'ordination. • The 'a Diiine Mission:" and 14Iediation of the Son of Gocl, was therein acknowledged, and -the Inspiration Hof the .lloly, Scriptures. There is not a word of the Atonement, or of the Holy Spirit. But, one Presbytery lately ordained_ a man without pitting these questions,and so there was a special meeting of the-Remon strant Synod. The Presbytery was‘blamed, but their offence was condoned , and the or dination ratified. 4 Dr Montgomery finds inmseu—der — isled - being—an advocate of - Creeds aid as in part the:fruit of the Revival which he denounced, .ninety-five fa,milies have just ' been formed at his door , into a new congre gation of the Ceneral Assembly. The former students of the lamented Dr. Wilson; the late Professor of Biblical Criti cism in the Assembly's Theological Colle. - e at Belfast, are about to erect a,marble tablet to his memory. Many testimonials, with gifts of, money, are being, presented;to min istera in Ulster, from grateful Congrep-a tions. One of these was to the Rev: D. Adams-, of Ahoghill, County Antrim, where the Revival appeared, early, with astonish ing power, and cmitinues till this clay, 'There are now seven hundred cm:mum cants. From March 1859 to March 1860, two hundred and sixty-nine communicants were added to. Mr. Adams' church, "su r perior for devotion" and piety." The French Emperor acquiesces in the annexation of Central Italy, takes Savoy, and leaves Austriti', the Pope, and SWitzer land n.the lurch. Miss., Nightingale is very, ill. Prayers were offered for her" by every military chap on last Lor'd's day, in connexion with his - ,public serVices. Many a poor fellow who had known her in the hospitals:of the Crimea, would say "Amen !" with his Whole heart". The following are worthy of being print ed in letters of gold, and being placcd in a conspicuous 'position in every household`: I..—From your children's earliest infancy, inculcate the, necessity of instant-obedi ence... ' - , 2.—Unite firmness with gentleness. Let your children. always understand that you mean exactly *hat -you say. 3.z—Never promise them an3rthing unless you;are sure you can- give them 7hat you promise. 4:—lf you tell a child to do anything, she* him how to' do it, and see that it is done: 5:,--Always punish Tour children for wil fully disobeying -you, -hut never punish =in anger. 6.—N.cver let them perceive that.they can vex yon, or make you lose your self= command. they give way, to petulance and temper, wait till they are calm, and then gently reason with them on the-impropriety of their canduct. B—Remember that a little present pun ishment; when: the occasion arises, is much more effectual than the threatening of, a greater punishment should the fault be re , newed. • 9.—Never - give 'yoiir children anything because ,they cry; for, it. 10.—On no ,aceount allow them to do at one time what' you have forbidden, under the like circumstances, at another. 11.--:Teaoh them that the only , sure and easy way to appear good, is . to he good. I.2.—Accustom,thcm to make their little recitals the perfect truth. 13.—Never tale.:bearina °.* 14.--Teeth them -that self-dental, not self-indulgence, is -the :appointed and ;sure ;method of seouring.happirtess. The Agency of the;Holy; The presence -and agency :44,the Holy Spirit should be recognized sought„cher ished,and gratefnlly acknowledged. Alpon this agency ,the 'Ohtirch is'> dependent for prosperity„progresap and poWer. Without it our prayers are not .answered, the cere monies of worship are formal and, power less, and the, preaching of the Gospel is comparatively in vain. The, terrors of Si nai and the sweet accents olCalvary, dives ted of living power, fall , upon listless ears, •and the hearers,remain insensible under the „discipline of; • and ,of judgments. Every tboughtfdl" Christian know% . that when'thnSpirit of God is present in'it eon g,regation;- Christians are instinct-with life ; thy ....labsire'fb±J_ChriSt;.:they agonize .for Mlles for Rome Education. THE P ESBYTERIAS ANNE& Publication Ofn de GAZETTE BUILDINGS, 84 Finn ST, PITIDBMIGH, PA. PHILADELPHIA, SOOTII-WDST COD. OF 7TII AND CHESTNUT. ADVERTISEMENTS. TERMS IN ADVANCE A square, 01 lines or lees,) .one insertion, 60 cents; eacti anbsequed insertion, 40 cents ; each line beyond eight, 5 cte, 'A Square per quarter, $4.00 ; each line additional, 83 tents, A. ItHDUCTION Wade to advertisers by the' year. BIiSLIIESS .1601 4 10 ES of Tex lines or less, $l.OOl each ed- - Aitiolial line, 10 cents, • • ' PAVIIi lIVKINNEY &: CO., • • nioruir.vons . Puntisßsits.- souls; they devise and execute plans for the glory of God; they consecrate them selves with all that they possess to the ser vice of Christ—they cokiperate cheerfully in every good work, and the preaching'Of the Gospel , becomes the power of God• , in conversion and sanctilication. But when the Spirit of Gbd hi not pres ent, Christians are characterized by spirit. , ual insensibility; they are not active and devoted; their prayers are lifeless and.fot , real; they complain of the:burden of .the Cross; they turn aside from the straight and narrow way, and seek a path to heaven strewn with-flowers—they devise no liberal plans of usefulness, and oppose. those ,de vised by others—they.withhold their gifts from the treasury of the Lord, and invest their .substance in stocks, and mortgages, and bonds. But the Churel languishes, the benevolent agencies are not prosecuted vig orously, the treasury of the Lord is not filled, Colleges ansl. Seminati.es are not en dowed, expediency is made the rule of ac tion, prudential maxims constitute the standard of morality, the ritual and the form are the chief manifestations of Chris tianity) religion is.nn incident, rather, than an 'essential .element of life;-and in reference to the great interests of the soul--immor tality and, retribution, ,the relation of the cause and the effect is disregarded. A' Ministerial Ability. The ability to be alone is a great ability. Is it not peculiarly important for the Gos pel minister, upon the acquirements of whose heart and brain such vast interests depend ? At the same time every church member should be taught its importance for hitnself ? The ability to be alone (we can mean, of course, 'only alone in regard to the presence of human heings,)` with pleasure, felicity, and effect, is an ability not as easily attained or retained as some may suppose. Doubtless Satan is ever ready-to infuse an irksomeness and gloom into the soul in retirement. To remain half au hour resolutely and passively alone, shut up with God, is such a grand security for his intimate enlightening and invigor ating manifestations, that Satan plies all his powers to preventit. Satan is not so much opposed.- to set seasons of -hurried prayer, which modify rather than remove-business or social perturbation. He is not so much opposed to merely an intellectual glance each morning at a short Psalm or half a chapter of the Bible, especially if it be fbl lowed by an hour's heart-plunge into a newspaper. He is not so much opposed to an exciting discussion or controversy in the social group on the current topic in the public mind. Nor would he be much op posed to solitary reveries which continue flights of fancy or throbs of emotion, start ed in the busy world under his guileful in fluence. But Christian solitude, especi ally if daily, systematic, obtaining the force of a habit, Satan will spare no pains to prevent. -His envious malice is committed against it as against the sight of the soul's intimate familiarity with the source of bliss • and the reader and — writer must be resolute .and :watchful or.be k6pt , ahort bf it.— Chris. Adv..and Journal. BM No Ihndrancd. . , How blessed to reroeldbei that th . eie is wnien our own Fears , suggest ! His words are, "Look unto me, all the ends of the earth, and be ye saved;" as if our. Lord would speak to every, individual between hiniself and the isles that were very far off, and pay to each, " There is mercy for you; only look, and live." And 'then to .encourage their approach, he says, " Him that cometh I will in no wise cast out." No extent of sin, no abuse of privileges, no real or imagined difficulty, can prevent. "I who have said the word, 'Come unto me all that are heavy laden, and I will give you rest'—l will fulfill my promise; it shall be done; only come, and ye shall have rest in your souls." Oh ! how sweet the promise how sure the fulfillment! There is,'indeed, no promise for to-morrow. We know not that when trials come, there may be a moment given to. come to Jesus; but should that moment graciously be afforded, do not- despair, but think that, in love to your soul, and in answer to the many pray ers offered for you, your Lord has watched over your course.—J. H. Stewart. an _ 1 rTayet_in the household. I was once told of a cottage patriarch who was born in those days ,wheri Scotland had a church in almost every house. There was one in his father's dwelling; and when he'pitched a tent for himself he builded an .altar. Round that altar a good number of olive-plants grew up ; but, one, by, one, they were either,,planted.out in families oitheir own, or God took them, till he and his old partner found themselves, just -as rat their first outset in life, alone. But.their ;family worship rcontinued. -as of old. At last his fellow-traveller left, him, Still he parried on the worship by himself. So sweet was the memory of -it in his father'slouse, and so pleasant had he found it in his own, that he couktnot.give it,up. As ihe,.satdn..his silent.habitation, morning and. evening, his quivering voice was heard singing, the old psalm-tune, reading aloud the elta:pter ' and praying as if others still worshipped by his side. He had not found it Jas. Hamilton. - Christian Comfort. 'Let the course of your- tribulation be what it will, " in me ye shall have peace." Row is it, then, perhaps you will ask, that Christians are not always rejoicing ? How is it that we so often see them bathed in tears, and Scarcely hear anything from them but. sighs and complaints? It is easily enough to be accounted for. It .is because they love the world, and the things 'of the .world, so much, that they have no room or relish for Divine consolations: To be sure, 'Where Christ is there is always ground for comfort ? 'but Christians are not Always . fit to be comforted. They may through mere inattention to spiritual 'things, or too fond attention to temporal possessions and.en joynients, be so sadly declined as to require reproof rather than comfort, and what they want, Christ gives.—Lavington. Why Put Into the Church. Arikt-puts, any one, into his,Clutr i eh, he puts him there to, work ,for.-him. yon are really a member of his. ,Chi rph, you were redeemed by his preciotus.blood, and renewed by the Holy Spirit. ,Pid Christ die for you, did the -Holy give you a new heart, that you might,,T4ter his' Church, and fold your arms-in.:Ado knee, and give your affeetions.tly things, and leave to others thp_self4enial, and the spiritual labors which - the.Chnreh was instituted to perform? - .What would be done by the Church, for: the 7 honor of God, and the salvation,and. l happiinesa of men, if all, the members., of ..111.e %lurch Were like yourself? :; • • Bon a person to leave public 110014 in raptures with the minister's s, is no 74. N. -proof , that-he has received spiritual bear fit. Booth. .7