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li iN tlio evening hour or : prayer,
And now at elos,e o£ ;day,
now sweet, to meet, 7(i,h, : kindred souls,
And to the oaxourviky,,
For when has tine Vappier span,
Or earth a belief. place,
Than Christians meet
Before their Saviour's face.
This twilight 'hour recalls to'inind
The Saviour bowed in prayei,
Away from busy scenes of men,
When worn with toil and'eares
For on a mountain, all alone,
When evening's shades were come,
Oh there, in secret, earnest prayer,
Knelt Christ, the holy One.
Whilst round about Jerusalem,
The guards their watches kept,.
And lordly Priest, and pluirlsee,
Upon their couches slept—
The blest Redeemer, Israel's King,
Far on the mountain there,
'Mid silent trees and ruged,rocks,
Spent all the night in prayer.
The meneries of the Garden, too ;
That time of anguish'd prayer,
With none to watch, even for an hour,
By all forsak i en ; i.
Oh, surely' them he hpra our grieth,;i .t
Our sins *ere'on.lini4ahlf •
For us he wept—for us,he died,
For us a ourselitis made.
With Bach rememb'rauees as these,
Of Christ, the Sinner's Friend,
Can you refuse ; in prayer and praise,
The evening hour to spend 7
For when has time a happier'span,
Or earth a holier pface; . = "
Than time and place where Christians meet,
Before their Saviour's face:
A VIEW OP CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
The following extract from a sermon
preached before the last General Assembly,
contains many truthful statements; but it
is 'not all in accordance with Scripture. We
shall notice, on our next page, some of its
departures from correctness :
There is a reign of God on earth dis
tinguishable from the kingdom specially
meant in our text, and we may as well
here draw the distinction. Since the fall,
it has pleased God to govern men upon
two distinct, and to some extent, antago
nistic systems. The one adapted toiman's
fidlen nature; the other to that nature re
newed and partially or fully restored to its
original uprightness. The one system apL
peals to men's fears, and employs physical
force; the other appeals to love, and em
ploys moral power. The one is called, in
the Bible, (Rom. viii : 15,) "the spirit of
bondage to fear," the other "the spirit of
adoption, whereby we cry, Abba - thither."
The one is a reign of terror, the other a
paternal rule. The one employ's force, pen
alty, the other grace and love. The one is
a government of force, the other of free
dom. The one is administered through
the ?nstrumentality .cif the kingdoms of
this world; the other - through "a kingdom
not of this world." The one gives rise to
the state and civil government, the other is
the it . P.iiateN and the CHURCH of the liv
ing God. The one, adapted to a world of
rebels, is a temporary expedient; the other,
adapted to a redeemed and rising world, is
an eternal establishment.
These two systems, though diverse, are
yet cooperative. They govern the same
subjects, but by different principles and
motives, and each must act independently
of the other. The system of government
by moral and spiritual power, will, as it ex
tends, gradually diminish the range of the
other system. Before its silent, but resist-,
less infinence, despotic forms will crumble.
It will finally sweep all absolutism from
the earth. It will steadily liberalize other
forms of civil government, rendering then
more and more free, by inculcating the
spirit, of obedience, and thus forestalling
the necessity for force, until it has reduced
them to a condition light as' the chaff of
the threshing-floor; the winds of heaven
Will blow it away; , perfect love will cast
out fear, and the necessity of the govern
ment of fear; Christianity, as a "perfect
law of liberty," shall be supreme, and
proclamation shall be made, that " the king
doms of this world-are become time king
doms of our Lord and of his Christ; and
he shall reign fbr ever and ever."
These systems, and this their destiny,
were symbolized respectively, by the collos
sal image, and by the stone cut out of the
mountain, beheld in the dream of the
Babylonish King, and interpreted by'
Daniel. The image, with its vast propor
tions, its golden had, and its other parti
of silver, and brass, and iron, and' clay,
symbolizes the government of foree—the
empires, kingdoms, and other forms of
governing men by the sword, the prison,
and the gibbet. ,The stone, cut out of the
mountain without hands, small at first, but
steadily growing, till it fills the whole
earth, symboli4es' God's government by
LOVE, his spiritual kingdom=Christianity.
And as the stone broke the image and its
component parts into pieces, so that they
"became like, the cliamff of the Summer
threshing-floors, and the winds carried
ibein away, and no place was found for
tAen?„," whilst the stone itself became a
great mountain, and filled the whole earth,
so'shall God's spiritual kingdom—a kino•-
dom of light, and love, and liberty-de
molish all thrones of darkness and of ter
ror, and grow until Mills the world I
In describing his spiritual government
on earth, the great King himself was very
explicit in the declaration, " My kingdom
is not of this' world ;" and in striving to
aseertain its ftmotions, and its mission, we ,
must carefully distinguish it from the civil
government. The _State governs men by
force, and fear, but Christ his Church by
love. The former 'compek,' the latter
teaches and persuades. The one, wields a
sword of steel, the other:" the sword of the
Spirit, which is the Word of God." ,The:
weapons of the one arc carnal, , those of the
Other spiritual, but "mighty through God,
to ,the pulling down- of strong holds."
Christianity aims, by purifying the foun
tains of sooiety, to furnish the true elements,
and lay an enduring_ foundation of good
government. She begins with the individ
ual heart, and with the home—the family,
which is thu fountain of society. She in
stills high and - holy' principles. She quiet
ly prepares and !ashes the livina a stones ;
amid of the materials thus prepared, a tem
ide spontaneously rim3oi; in chaste and mag
nificent proportiotnirto the glory of the
great Architect, and 'forthe shelter of the
nations.' Such -is the function of Christi
anity--such is the mission-' of the Church,
and from this mission she should never be
diverted.
But if religion and the.l,ohureh should:
be restricted to their appropriate sphere, so
ought civil government. Her only mission
is protection /rola force by force. 'The only
weapon. placed in her:,hands, hTDiviiie au
thority, is the swords--(Rom.;;iii,) Y The
only motive to which she nuty, t Opeal is
fear. Civil governs:lo4 is, strigtly, a
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VOL. VITT., NO: 51. ,
stranger to moral sua.sion. The moment
she attempts it, she :usurps a spiritual pre
rogative, and turns church. If her magis
trateS resort to moral means' for accomplish
lug the ends'•of justice, (except in the sin
gle case ; of the tender of the oath,) they do
it as men and Christians, notes civit,rulers.
As Christians and neighbors, they may
persuade men to ,do right, but as magis
trates, their function is compulsion—their
argument, tbe sword. Now, your speaker
•solemnly believes, that most .of the dis.as
ters that have befallen society, and which
still imperil free social institutions,. have
sprung from a failure to limit the kingdom
of dod—'-the Church on thc one hand,
and the State on the other, each to her
heaven-appointed province. Even' in this
land there is a confounding of the fune
tiens of the two; and usually the State
has been the usurper, though sometimes ef
forts are Made to,lead the Church to inter
fere With matters strictly-civil'. Civil gov
ernment is' too often= tranifornied into• a
church, a school, or a charitable or , moral
reform . society, instead. of being used
simply as an agency for protecting rights
and avenging wrongs by force; and the re
sult, is a mixing up of •temporal and spir
itual functions, an absur,d interference with
the prerog,atiyes of the family and the
Church, a ruinous excess of legislation, and
'increase, of public, burdens. •
The perili•thitt'this Writ beget
lions Xiaiorr , and , thir free. , institutions,
spring, frowthis .yery,:blunder. , ;The doc
trine that the religious principle,of befpcvo
knee, that reigns in the hearts of individu
als and in the bosom of the Church, may
- lawfully warm the heart of the State, and
become the controlling impulse of civil
legislation and national action, is ,a child
born of the unhappy, wedlock of Church
and State. It was a monster birth, did is
a most mischievous bantling. The princi
ple of Christian charity never ought to be
come the impulse of government action.
The State,like the corporations she creates,
hath no soul." Her cold and
,mail-clad
bosom never Was designed to grow Warm
with the glow of' charity, nor to' feel the
throbbingsl.of cbmpa,ssion. The prince of,
patriots understood the true theory of civil
power when he declared, in his farewell
address, that " self interest is its only mo
iive, and that it is folly to calculate upon
favor from, nation to nation." And it is
when.we lose sight - of this, - and mingling
religion and politics, join together what
,God has put asunder, that we are.tempted
, •
to revive the spirit of the Crusades and
force men to be free. Men, in their amia
ble zeal for reform, forget that civil gov
ernment is designed only for defence, not
for 'aggression. They forg,et, - -that; in civil
government, ballots are bayonets--that
what the majority votes, the sword must
achieve; and that to propagate opinions by
the -sword, is simply persecution. They
forget that l in propagating opinions, force
and freedom are antagonistic ideas. They
perceive not the absurdity; of forcing men
-to le•free. They forget that sound moral
and spiritual principles, in the - 44AS and
limes of the people, are the only foun
dation of rational, regulated, liberty; and
that, until the foundation be laid, • the glo
rious fabric" cannot rise. Arid they ferget
that civil governnient is not the agency for
disseminating such, principles. That is
.the mission of the kinadom of our God.
The laws of the kingdom •of God forbid
one sovereign nation or commonwealth `to
interfere in the internal Police 'of another.
Christianity forbids the propagation of
opinion, by the: sword; and, I repeat it, in
civil government, suffrage and the- sword
are inseparable. It is the mission of the
kingdom for whose coming we pray in the
text, to meliorate the moral and social con
dition of men by improving their spiritual
condition. Working silently, unostenta
tiously, but steadily, like the leaven in the
meal, this kingdom will spread—assimila
ting mass after mass of the world's papula
tion- to its own blessed and holy principles,
until the•whole lump is pervaded by the
leaven of holiness and freedom.
S 'LC
Bible wisdom says, be.,: a, man, and God
will take care of your circumstances.,
Worldly wisdom sacrifices the , man to his
circumstances. This wisdom pushes God
out of view, and, with nothing'else to de
pend on, makes man dePend on, himself,
and so the great question becomes, among
the poor, "What shall I eat? what shall
I drink ?" and among the rich, "What
rare fruits rfrom the tropics shall burden
my board?, *hat sparkling wines shall en
liven my feasts? what costly raiment shall
proclaim my wealth?" And before these
stern ' and, imperious questions, honesty
vanishes, godliness collapses like a bubble,
and man becOmes the victim of his circum
stances. • A man dees not pass for what
he is, but .for what he isworth. People
not ask, ichat is he, but who? A" wisdom
which labels a man worth So many dollars,
and passes him through tbe mark.et, a com
modity to be speculated,on, current or not,
as the labelled worth is high or low. Then,
to, jncrease his price, and make himself
more current, a man will barter manliness,
truthfulness, and every high, ennobling ,
quality. And' when it"is done, what is
done? Simply the :man has managed to
gather about him a few, more material
thinVs, which once belonged to other people,
While he hireself is any amount less a man
than he was lielbre. So modern mer
chandise; instead of seeking first of all'to
be a man, trusting God for the. rest, our-
Merchant seeks first of all lobe a rich man,
with houses lands and the adornments of
luxury.
'So in polities. Here obtains the fa
tal worldly wisdom which puts circum
stances above theman. Office is the one
thing=a name and a . place—they must' be
won at all hazards. Al man 'is nothing.
Honesty is n't enough integrity, virtue,
manliness—place is • more. So the politi
cian ceases to 'be a man, and ''becomes a
slave.; , sells himself to whoever will buY;
puts his neck under a yoke, and, consents
to be driven hither and thither by a mob
as fickle as the changing wind.. Place is
everything, and ' so comes dolnagogue
ism, sycophancy, and pandering to, pop
the fashions and popular appetites ;
the wretched principle of doing what
is, populararather than what is right.
• This is, current wisdom. I retuember well
of hearing a popular lecturer say to the
young men " The first care of the eini
grant must .be 'to fell the forest, build , his
cabin, and obtain for his wife and children
a comfortable home; them it is time to send
to him the preacher., Wien it is time to hear
the Gospel!' . As if= the Gospel, with its
contentment and peace, its heavenly conso
lations and its inculcation of honesty and
industry, temperance and sobriety, kindness
and 'domestic virtue, had no blessing for
the poor man ! No. This lithe Gospel of
the poor man—good news for the poor 1
It comes to the pioneer's cabin, where pov
,erty sits and discontent begins to murmur,
and hushes the murmur. and sweetens. the
.poverty by whispering its own,benediction,
'.lllessed are ye poor'?—poor in "lands ; ancl
minted gold,,but rich in lionesty,,tioh in
uprightness,. rich in God's ismile& and bless
ings:l Yes, , llsay, send they Gospel-and the
preacher with' the pioneer,-to preach to him
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Worldly Wisdom'.
PITTSBURGH, SATURDAY, SEPT EMBER 8, 1860.
as he fells the forest and builds his cabin,
" Seek first the kingdom of God and his
riohteousness, and all these things shall be
added "—houses, lands, food; clothing,
home and home joys, enough of them.
Preach this to the poor man. It will save
him from the gross materialism which is
ruining our. social fabric,. sacrificing manli
ness and godliness to a hollow show. Let us
not turn Atheists gltogether by worshipping
success, but believe God, who feeds the spar
rows, will feed a man who is, a man. IL
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.T.AoNij* August 10, 1860
THE •BATTLE OF ; MELAZZO, by which
Garibaldi became possessor .of Messina and
master of Sicily, has been described by
very eminent writers--one, of them a man
who had, witnessed the terrible fieits ,of
1 - hitekittitin valid
fattMelaiio; was a 1 ver? , desperatw iconibat,
4Pd.fAll oaf. peril to-the :life, of :that tnan to
whom above all others, ,the friends. of free
dom look ith hope as thi morning star
who is, to usher in the' 'day of 'ltalian lib
erty: .The Neapolitan forces were soposted
that they could pour a- concentricfire upon
their assailants, who were moreover inferior
in numbers. The brunt of the battle . was
borne by Garibaldi's trained veterans, in
cluding those who performed such wonders
last year, in their guerilla campaign against
the Austrians. It was a hand to hand con
test. Cannon were, taken, - and re-taken.
The Neapolitan cavalry •made destructive
charges. The fighting lasted seven hours.
The issue is thus summed up by' the Times'
-correspondent, a spectator of the fight:
4 Fifty guns, one,hundred and. thirty hors
es, one hundred thousand.rounds of anima-•
nition, are the material fruits of the victory
of Melazzo; but 'they represent only a
small portion of the real result of this bat
tle,'which will probably open the gates of
Messina." And .open ;these it did: Gari
baldi has entered Messina.
PROTESTANT IRISHMEN have taken part
in the Sicilian fight for freedom. When
recently at Belfast, I saw a letter froni Mr.
Patterson, who, with another student of
Queen's College, and each the son of a
Presbyterian minister, had started for Italy
.
some four weeks previously, not informing
their 'friends .of their deSign, until they
had reached Turin. Thence , Mr. Patterson
(a grandson of, the late, distinguished Pres
byterian minister of Broughshane, County
Antrim, the Rev. Dr. ,`R.' Stewart,) wrote
his' anxious mother, indicating his motives
in volunteering for this service and remind
ing her•that thesiune Providence was regnant
any where and every where to preserve and
'uphold: This was the letter which I,saw
and perused.
Since then came the telegram of the
victory of .Melazzo ; and this week arrives
a letter, telling how, while the Pope has
been helped by. Irish Papists, Italy, has
been 'served by Irish'Pretistants. These
two young men, on presenting themselves
at Palermo to Garibaldi, were. at once pre=
rented with commissions as ensigns. They
were both in the thick of Ahe'fight at Me
lan°, and while Mr. Nelson escaped' un
hurt, Young Patterson received two wounds,
neither of •them dangerous,' and 'immedi
ately after the battle, was made a lieuten
ant.. There was a considerable body of
brave Englishmen who shared in this strug
gle. The following is from 'a private letter
dated Melaizo, July 20:
A terrible battle: took place Yesterday between
the troops under Garibaldi and , the Neapolitans.
It.lasted seven hours, and the Neapolitans were
driven step by step from'the positions they occu
pied slang the coast from Barcelona, and into
Melazzo, which was then taken at the point of
the bayonet. The Neapolitans"were about nine
or ten, thcaisand, the: Garibaldists about four
thousand. Foremost amongst them was our dear
countrymen; Lieutenant-Colenel Dunne, and the
regiment he - raised and drilled , at Palermo. At
the moment the victory was doubtful Reggi
mento Dunne" charged with Garibaldi and their
colonel,on the ilank of the Neapolitans,: having
made their way close- up to, them through. the
canes and brushwood, and took 'four cannon.
Then, expoied ta a dreadful fire from two batta
lions of. the . Neapolitans, the cavalry charged
them and re-took the cannon; re-formed again
by their colonel; they' Ore 'another mural and
charged againire 7 took the oannon, and remained
masters of the position. Colonel Dunne was in
front and ridden over, but he shot the Neapolitan
commandant; and Garibaldi was dismounted and
nearly taken prisoner, but fought like a lion.
'There 'are" a number 'of English offieers in this
regiment. Colonel Dunne is wounded-in the foot
and leg, Mr. Patterson
.in the hand. Five offi
cers` -killed, and ninSty=eight men killed' ,and
wounded, out of four hundred. Major. Wynd
ham, of the same corps, greatly distinguished
himself, as well as Captain Styles, late Scots
:Fusilier Guards. The details of this battle will,
doubtless, reach you, but I thought you would be
glad to hear of the 'distinguished part our coun
trymen took in it, and say with Garibaldi; “The
English forever! "
THE KING or SARDINIA. has been acting
a part sufficiently disgusting. It is the old
story bf :" a double-minded man," and a
sad illustration, at least as far' as Statecraft
is concerned, and this esPecially as applying
to Count. Ca.vour,, the virtual master qf
Victor "Emmanuel; of the want of single : .
ness of eye. Victor Emmanuel writes'iii
a cold-hearted style to = Garibaldi; remind - -
ing him that he has already expressed his
disapproval of an invasion by him of the
mainland, and indicating that he still dis
approves of it. This attempt has failed
either to. intimidate Or to persuade.. .Gari
baldi showed how.he resented it, when,
with contemptuous independence of all fur
ther influence from such a. quarter, he put
away the White Cross 'ot Savoy from the
Standards 'that floated over the victorious
troops , that entered 'Messina.
Such conduct endears Garibaldi to every
honest man, and makes . his future path
more unembarrassed than ever. This, how
ever„is to be Said for Vietcir Emmanuel, that
he is scarcely hie own master, and dra,gs
about with him a load of obligation to
Louis Napoleon well nigh - intolerable. ,It
seems now, pretty evident that the youth
ful Bomba will be compelled to flee the
kingdom of Naples; and that ultimatelY the
King of Sardinia will reign in his stead.
_FURTHER NEWS FROM DAMASCUS has
been-'reoeived, especially in - its bearings on
the Irish Presbyterian missionaries there,
the escape of Mr. Robson 'the senior mis
sionary, and the slaughter, of Mr. Graham.
Mr. Robson writes from Damascus, dating
his letter, "British Consulate, July
,18th,
1860." After- referring to the departure
of othersiike , says : " Mr. Graham and,my
self remained here. I cannot now give
you either the reasons which induced us to
stay, or the other brethren to go. If our
merciful God saves me from our -present
peril, I shall do So at a future time: Our
beloved brother Graham has gained a mar
tyr's crown.?,' .Mr., R., goes_ on to give a
description of ,the massacre, which broke
out on thO,-afterhoon Of 'the 9th of 'July!,
and continued "till Wednes'day' 'evening.
He says that :" in t ithe numbers of the vic
tims and,.some&ther circumstances; it ex
'
ceeded in its horrors, those 'perpetrated in
any one place in the Indian mutiny."
He thus describes the fearful transactions
that took place : . 4 1 i '
' On Monday last., there wer e in this city some
seven,thousand or eight thousand poor refugees
from Raaheiya, Rasbelya, and'a large number of
other villages. Of this number, some two thou
sand were made widows or orphans by, the recent
massacres, and those and some three thousand or
four thousand more of the refUgees had lost every
thing they possessed on earth, and depended en
tirely on the charity of the ,Christians of the
city for food, raiment, and'shelter. As the
Christian inhabitants of the city were, about
eighteen thousand or twenty tkopsand, the whole
number of Christians in the plitCe must have'been
from twenty-five thousand to thirty thousand. All
the churches, convents, andjhouses were in one
quarter of the city. On Monday morning a good
degree of confidence , was reStered--most of the
Christians had gone to their business, the children
in the schools, and everything apparently return
ing to its norm al condition. It to a ft ernoon a mob
of Kurds, Arabs, peasants, and townspeople—all
Mahommedans, and, mostly ?if the worst and
lowest class of society—and with a fe'w Druses,
armed themselves with blud4bit axes,
is, knives,
daggers, pistels, guns, &c., tin' Pan fromdifferent
directions to the Christian gnirier in the North-
East port of the city. Titiehonis, their im
precations, their cries, and eiti threats, were
dreadful. The women excitegihem with cries,
curses, and fury to plunder 'lnd kill all po
Christians, and burn their ho , .' • Tlts'y'„Am4',i,
diately began to break the d...`.: ;
on fire:
1
houses i plunder them, , and tie
~ ..-enlire7The
plundering
,continu4'd inces. , I 4 ,. ill derk 3, and
till thYdukh' the night; tho n g , ) ..l.s
„ extensiv i llY.
ChiiVisiscittir intiiming it begs ' kai'n as at first;
but gradually became less in' hi course of the
day, as it became difficult to' . '',•. 'anything in the
Christian houses, but it did' i.;f entirely cease
until the third day. Everyth i f the Christians
had was carried off—furnit V , clothes, food;
tools, money, stores, glass windows, •window
shutters, doors, boxes, presses, gliarcoal, firewood, ,
and sometimes part of the tisiber of the roofs
or floors.• The ornaments and' even the clothes
were taken from the wonien, ahirthe dead Were
stripped. The honserrwere , seeton fire, and the
a t
conflagration still continues. parently not a
house will be le ft . It was r y that women
children were touched, bit /the 'Plunderers
often beat or killed the men wh m they found in
the houses, and those whom ey met in the .
streets. The terror; the coati n, the cries, the
efforts to escape, can he imagin al -,only by those
who haVe witnessed such 'awl . ; iettibs. Many
t p
families abandoned their hop and attempted •
to find a refuge before the mob c arne on them.
Othereremained to meet their .derers in their
own houses. Men hid in well in Cellars, in
every conceivable place. Me • , woinem and
children sought some charitabho Mahommedans '
to save them—some fled to th e onsulates. the
houses of Europeans, and the C lg:'' - ''e•
1 41iid
It would appear from Mr. , n s com
munication to the Secret s'" ' of he lrish
Assembly's Mission Board, t 'afethell3ritish
Consul sent a guard of soldieis for On. and
his wife, and brought themi ( sAfp' ly il lo, his
house. _Before lea.ving, lie .perined. a note
to Mr. Brant, thanking hirefor - his 'kind
remembrance in such a fearfultime: • "For
the last' two hours and a lii4f,itha.street
past my house has presented a terrible
scene. First the rush and running of men
armed and unarmed, boys - anclikomen shout
ing imprecations on the infid4l Christians,
and cries of kill them ! butcharthean I plun
der them '
leave not one, not abouse, : notany
thing; fearnot the soldiers,fear nothing •
the soldiers will not meddrawith you..
They -were right; nobody Sis intiffered.
These women, boys and sellers; for more: .
than two hours; have been., Trying every
thing past my house, like z fie;ds.from hell..
I cannot go to your house— : OW'. could - I
•
y,
go with m wife and se" ~iii i'liii'Laie,
midit of armed ruifiiinsier ' ei,:-anditliurst+ ,
'ing for bloodl-• To Opi3mmy . odiiiiiirniziefe
'as my; life is worth,. I mnst-iremain-Whera
I am and leave the event t0,G0d.•.1 know
not the moment when ' some, of these'pl:mi
dere= an'd murderers who 'treimisint imy
door without ceasing, Mayareeollectr ithat
this is the house of a FraAk, and.a Clirisr
tian, stop and rob it l mid
,murd?r,,ms. l
Perhaps till victims become scarce in the.
ta
Christian quarter, I 'may escape '
.",' - ''
It was from the midst 45frthisiimiiiiinii:-
peril that the missionary was reseued: l - ,lt
is sufficiently evident that.the Tnrkish sol
diery was particeps crimftiis. The Moslem
mob also was ernel"in the extreint. • Ent'
from the following stateinentia .i,:mia ap-•
pear that sonic of the better class-respected
and._ befriended the Christian missionary :-
"-I and my wife remained . in our, house
till Wednesday a.fternomi,.:bitt 'of course
without rest or sleep.• - foil'' tiliiev
bora. advised me then ea"cibandon iheohoisier
and escape. Mr. Brant; thaeontmliisehtla ,
guard, of soldiers and brought usi,to, his.
house. , We brought , nothing but the-
ClOthes on our backs, but oui.' neighbors h'a've
preiervedOirr henzse frond plunder"' • -"' ..'
• . The•moral.influence acquired by a
and consistent Christian 'man, itth.traetrik4
ingly ,suggested. Mr. Robsph . ..haa.xpsided '
for years •in ; Damascus.' He 'is a, mini of
singular prudence and wisdom, • Ile gives
a' lamentable account of the •*Oorlditibit- of
the -Widows •of the massacred-Protestants of
Hasbeiya and elsewhere. These were the
.spirituol fruits of the American Mis,sions.
'" What are the multitude of survivors,
Whiilltive last 'all, to do? ' May God help
tlidal-'•At present the support of widows
and-m . .016s of the Protestants ofrllisbeiya
devolving upon 'me, costs nearly the whole
of my, salary. , . I will soon have.numbers of
our own upon my hands, and at, the - same
tithe my' own expenses will lie very heavy."
In &nth; the distress and misery of the
survivors; fugitives, scatteredy . peeled; is
beyond- conception. I Artist that in 0-ors
great mercy, there will be ample help.fer
•them bOth from Engliid and America, ere'
long. Lord Dtifferin,a 'fine young noblo
- of genial' spirit, who Slient a donsidev
able-portion of last year among the riaoun4r.
taro ; tribes of Syria, will doubtless be the
medium of succors. The hatred of foreign
ers, and the poPular fear ,that bioslemism
is threatened withoxtinction'hy the Chris 2
tier; nations • of the West as; welltatby'Rus-.
sia, is sufficiently indicated by-defect that;
the people attacked the houses and sought
to take the lives of the COnsule. , Mr.
Brant's house escaped beeausie it lied' no
cross upon it. But it wasithlivery feeling
that , caused• the death of poor- Graham:
"Poor fellow!" writes Ilir.;Brant,
~‘ he was '
killed
.elose to re 4couse,..py a man who
boasts that , to
did. it becanse he t , thought
he was Ciinaul."' "'" ' - •
Profemor.! Porter ' .(lately elected to the
Chair of Biblical i Criticism at Belfast, and
who is son-irOaw , to the .Rev. Pr.„Cocke,)
has,expressed to me his decided conviction,
from long residence at Damascks; thif the
life and soul of . this terrible`massacre is
Mohammedan. fanaticism; and l!that! I fear • of
extirpation of the faith.; of the ..Koranlto.
which I hav e already: alluded, .
that the Porte, left to. itself, will not, re
dress the wrongs rioil Punish the' murderers.
" When " he exelaimeil; "-eta ever - a
Pacha punished or executed-Pi
Sultan, who generally.gets credit, for some
enlightenment and liberality, Mr.. Porter.
regards as rkothing better than a hypocrite,
as having no real symplithy with liberty,
and has me4er fttlfdled any engagement lie'
has.made. , ' '
Some will : think this too harsh a verdict.
One thing is certain, that ,the representa
tives of Virkey, in Syria, have been, faith
less or crWel, or both,. Avid unless tinder,
the. high 'pressure
what can we :inpeot of reitlirediess"-iwiliJ
provementl The Gorernor.i of Dannweaa.
has indeed, been sent away, tco. : lit tried ,and
other demonstration 4 maybe m ade.
we look at 'tlie' Syrian
itprestion, it is. rhoSt
:Lord Shuftsbury asked this week a question
which is put on behalf of many who think
as he does, '‘‘ if the forc about to be sent
to Syria' is to be employed simply in the
preservation of peace, without interfering
in civil ,and: religious matters ?" At the
same time he .expressed a hope that the
vigorous,policy,inaugurated by .Lord Strat
ford' would' be maintained, and expressed
his distrust of the - intentions of the Em
peror of the 'French.
Napoleon, in his celebrated letter to
Lord Palmer'ston denies that he has any
sinister ffr ,ulterior designs, expresses his
regret t a any intervention is necessary,
and pleads the" public opinion "of France
--meaning, thereby the Romiih oi)iniorratid
sympathy: with the sufferers , of the. Latin
Church, of which the Sovereign of Fi;.nce
is regarded as the, hereditary protector—as
the cause of the steps he has taken. His
troops are new being sent, by the conient
of Turkey, and the' ultimate!action of this
Imperial sympathy will be ,awaited= with
some anxiety, even though. 11. troops will
not operate alone.
THE-
PAL,MERSTON CABINET has-tri
umphed over a very serious peril, and in fact
is stronger. than it was, a week ago. This
arises , from the failure. of Mr:Via - teen:4nd
o. l 4 4 3lll,BM*o4l446 l *.tattafit rip - 4 al Irni.
Gladstone, the Charteell&-IWrepeal
the cluty,of one penny per pound on. French
paper coining into England, and thus to
carry into full execution the spirit' of the
treaty with France.' The 'paper-makers of
this,:country 'Were - up in arms against the
proposal, • and the Tories were only too glad
to assist them, in order either to oust the
Cabinet itself', and so step into their places
'.--for which the subordinates, at least, were
nothing loth—or what, it is more probable
was specially contemplated by D'lsraeli, to
upset• Gladstone. The former has always
shown spite against qiads,tone. In 1852
Mr. Gladstone tore D'lsraeli's Budget to
tatters, and thereby o'verthrew the Derby
Cabinet. This Session he has been able to
-carry the French Treaty almost in, its en
firety in the Commons; but, this in face of
bitter
,sarcasm from his, rival. And now
D'lsraeli has been defeated afresh,
after the utmost exertions being inade to
bring from the Continent, from ScOtland,
and f.gom Ireland, absent members, so that,.
uniting with a portion of the- Pope's Brass
Band, (always ready to upset a Liberal
governnient,) and also those members who
represent the paper makers, or are such
themselves ; they 'might -hunt, down a 'man
whom, they fear and hate. Lord Palmer
ston surnmoneda:gathering of the Liberals,
on Monday, at Downing, Street, end made
explanationa "of a satisfactory character.
'Many votes doubtless were influenced by
-the' desire , not to irritate France, now offer
ing us the hand of, friendship, and the re
sult, irt.a House,. of five, hundred mei:eters
present,• has been.; a : majority ,forl
eminent Of thirty-three. ' Tlcub the session
closes with positive eclat for the Whig.
Cabinet, and. with an unexpected closing up
of the,Libfiral rertlis.
THE QUEEN, traveling by night to Scot
land, (the journey to- Edinburgh from
London being'performed inless than twelve
hours,) She had'a day to rest at Ilalyrood,
before reviewing the .Scpttish' volunteers.
Many of the volunter . forcenf the Border
English Counties• were also present, and
many rnores desired: to , share- in'the proceed
ings of 'the Ilijr; it was found that the
space devoted to the Review' was not suffi
cient to accoremodate them. The,' Review
went off admirably. There was " Queen's
weather" for the occasion, and a great
Multitude 'Of spcbtators were ' present7—ae
cording to, one. account, two hundred and
twenty, thousand. If , ever the day come
when- an attack is nia.de on `Briton's soil,
Caledonia's sons will be among the fbre:
most to repel the foe. The volunteer force
has reached nearly one , hundred and, forty
thousand. . -L,ord Clyde,= has accepted the
honorary Colbnelcy of the London Scottish
Volunteers. - '
.A.hownettoP Ovum Ti taking tid*antage
of the Feasttof 'the "Assumption"• of the
Virg n-one thoie•fable i n s n which:Rollie
delights, eihiSpially as, more mad ',Upon ari
idol titan ever, she loves to' direct all the
thoughts and affections of a confiding, yet
ignorant people to Mary, andlnot to - Christ
—has issued a fresh pastorhl; in which he
hakes occasion to unburden, his grief and
indignation on the well-worn topics of the
Pope's wrongs, at' the triumph.of rebellion
in Sieily, (Some - .of whose ckrgy, the Pope,
in his allocution ntOntns over as recreants
to their Chnich, in.:having sympathized
with the popular insurrection,) and at the
massacre of Christians in. Syria. • The sub
ject mixed education' also comes 'up
afresh, and a claim of exclusiveness in the
Matter is once more put forth with the usual
violence ; of . denunciatory language. It is
worthy of notice. that Dein Meyler, an
eminent Romish.ecclesisetie„liits!‘,.bearded
the lion," and on this vexed topic has come
boldly forifardAVith a letter *opposed to the
views of the Irish UltraniOntanists, and in
favor of the National Board. I have no
doubt that the, system , of National Educe
s tiin' will he .overruled for . great gockd., It
is clearly' opposed' to the gent= of 'Popery,
which never. educates save in its 'dogmas ,
when it has fall sway: Ignorance itcher
ishes and loves.. It is the Protestant at.
mospbere of a free .Constitution, and the
opening of place and•pay to a clever people,
which make,,it a necessity with. the priests
in. Ireland to allow the children to be taught
,as .theY. are. It must .be confessed, how
ever, that the grants in aid to National
schools in connexion with Romish chapels,
acts very much as an endowment, and I
fear is often pervertectto strictly ecclesias
tical ends, by priests and by those ladies in
:convents who have schools under their'. own
•TICRIMPROVEMENT in national wealth in
Ireland; comparing' the present time with
that immediately before the ' famine ,of
184647,,is truly marvelous. Agriculture
has made an astonishing advance r laborers
are
,better paid, trade and .commerce. are
largely daveloped, and the comforts of the
people immensely increased.
The number of cattle and sheep in Ire
land is very great. Ili the year 1859, the
heads of cattle in Scotland were 914,437;
in Ireland, 3,630,956. .14early the half .of
the whole surface of the country is devoted
to pasture. The fine old Irish crop-of
oats still maintains its preeminence. • /Po
tatoes hold the second place . ; this year the
crop was so late in being planted, and the
weather preventing as extensive a planting
as usual, the, produce will be: less than an
average.. But the people are not dependant
on , this as an article- of diet; as formerly.
They are far better fed than the last gen
eration. The value : exported butter is a
million, sterling.. T a
he number..of persons
relieved from the poor-rate, form t only one
per cent. of the population. In. England
they form four and: a half per cent.,
and in Scotland, four per cent. Mud
cabins, (" my father's mud edifice,' of Irish
_comic song;) formerly the opprobrium
tfie country, and whiehlunounted, in. 184, '
'not twenty years ago,.to four hundred and
ninety-one thousand, have now diminished,
;to ;one hundred anOwenty-five ,thousand.;
;.',As ' to emigratioli it has soniewhat in-!
creased in. the' lnit ; and Tresen t.year, .They,
are .gentrally of superior• class:to,thosevtif
former titues, better educated, awEintore-iu4
WHOLE NO. 416.
telligent. As Lord Carlisle expressed it,
in
,a speech at a recent Agricultural meet
ing at Cork : " The success of those who
go out will prove a stimulus both to these . who
are induced to :follow' them, and to those
who • cling .to Aheir accustomed soil and
their native homes!'
When :we add ; to, all this that crime is
fast disappearing; th . at the party "riots of
this year, though'deplerable, have been the
exception to Ile rule ; that "Ulster, at
least, has been leavened by a divinely mor
alizing, refining, and purifying influence—
the.future of Ireland is becoming,more and
more hopeful every year.
"I.do not pretend, said His Excellency,
, ,
" that there are no drawbacks—no scattered
clouds On this brightening sky—but we do
tell all the ill-wishers to ,progress, and•dis
turbers of - the country'S peatl , e, that we
have better hopes and better omens"
Church' Stiiiginoss.
The title chosen for this article is by no
means agreeable to our taste. But we can
find no other, which more exactly.fits44lie
scourged 'thine , to‘ , bef,pdOciibed.a*lP,arld
413ti'VerhifibUgithsrmliSgAiLkitirigiiiVell;
wry= reed" in
• •
,green ingatnernig anti Avarice in using
money, are justly accounted as most de
testable vices of private characters. But
when these •vices have embodied themselves
in a church, and, under the cover of reli
gious profession, consult the demands of
Mammon more than the honor of God or
the claims of his truth, then it is plain
that the Scriptures themselves warrant us
in pronouncing such church to be, in fact,
14otatrous. Eren though it have a Chris
tian creed and a, Protestant ritual, covet
ousness is placed by' the -Sacred , Word in
the•catalomie of the Nilest sins; and the
.disciples of Christ are explicitly told that
they " cannot serve God, and Mammon."
Where the love of money is supreme, the
rove of God cannot 'rule with an equal `au-
And yet,it is beyond question that ;the
crying sin, of Israel, to-day.is covetousßess;
stinginess in the Church is a prevailing
epidemic. We can hardly think of another
evil so huge and monstrous as this, Which
exists in well-nigh every congregation. 'lt
paralyzes faith, impairs charity, and , nuLi
fies hope. It ,is the real, hard, obstinate
heresy with which God's . ; unistry is obliged
"to contend. It.' hinders all evangelical
'efforts at home and abroad, It -cripples
the exertions of pastors in• their every at
tempt to do_ good. It renders the growth
of personal piety, impossible in its, victim.
A stingy churah-membey will let his heart
go after its `'covetousness; while listening
to the most animating discourse, mid his
tight fist will choke his conicience, even
while it is gasping fbr aTbreath,of vital air.
He may admire his minister ; and feel an
attachment for, the church in which he is
wont to Worship; and yet, the monient he
required to show his love for 'Christ' by
.proper works of beneVolence or charity, he
straightway takes' counsel of his stinginess;
and, is, seized with a, spasm of economy
which shuts up his heart as closely as a
vault, from which the light of day is ex-
Chided. .
Many professors are perhaps unconcious
of-their meanness in,religious matters, If
they were, no -doubt they--wo - ulcl t repent ?
and do works Meet for 'repentance. BUt
Until thercOn. be shown, and made by the
grace of the Holy'Spirit•to feel how great
theirs sin, -in this regard, truly-is, there Can
be little hope. of .reformation. Let us,
therefore; propose a few questions which
profeSsors may ponder, with a view of as
certaining whether they are indeed guilty
of covetousness, and eharg,eable with inek:
cusable stinginess
1. Do you believe that you, and all you
possess, belong to. Christ? Were you saved
by the precious blood of redemption, only
thatryou mighlthe More indulge your 'own
selfishness, or that you Might no' longer
live for yourself, but for Him who' died in
your stead ? A car;eful and honest answer
to thisinquiry will go - far toward deter
mining your duty with respect to religions
effirts for the salVation of others.
2.. Are your gifts'for church TurPoses'
single tithe • of the amount of yourexpen
ditures forluxuries in your oWn home If
you have sufficient means to comply with
the demands of fashiOn or• with the'claims
of 'an increasing 'lnisiness, can 'you 'give
these as reasons, for diminishing or ,with
holding:'your ,contributions. for religious
purposes? It is an, indisputable fact, that
many professors expend so, much , upon
diess',, and fUrnitnre, and other luuries,
that they have but little to besto* in charity.
.Thitiare , they hlanieless ? Is this course
consistent with the, ,claims .of an enlight:
coed, Christian conscience? . ,
3. _Do you, place yourself in, ,debt in or
der to grow richer than you new are, and
then 'plead that bet:M:lSe .yon. are in • debt
you have nothing to give? This ; is , a, sub
terfuge 'very commonly resorted to among
farmers. They add farm, ,to and
While their gains are all the while increas
ing, still they grow more and More relic
tant to aid ..religious' efforts: If there is a
little debt on the church,-they are unable
to help in removing it;, if-the parsonage
needs repairing, if must ratnain, untouched
until individual
,greed has 'done its, perfect
work; if missions want assiStince,''or Char
itable interests plead for aid they" Must s be
sent empty; away from who ,offers• in
excuse the : existence of debt, which is, in
fact , but a real advance toward increasim ,
wealth. Every pastor knows very well how
the subtle devil of covetousness entrenches
himself in the lniman heart under • the
above-named pretexts. , '
, 4. Have you, made, it . a:principle to live
for others as well as for yourself ? If you
hive, then you will find 'little difficulty in
so m.anaving your affairs as to save a per
tion of , your weekly' gains for the service
of God. If;you havemet, then beware lest
you• fakinto the error and., condemnation of
Balaam, the soii, of Beer, 'who loved the
wages' of unrighteousneSs.
The Old Sailor's Faith.
, A, poor old.-sailor ment.to see Mr. Jones,
pastor of the Mariner'i church, New-York,
and asked with tears gushing from his;eyes,
if he thought Jesus had any - mercy for
" What is your ease?" icindly'asked'Mr
JoneS.
" Five times-have I been shipwre'cked,"
said the old mart, "nine timea-have I been
washed overboard. I *as mice twenty-six
days without tasting freshwater, and.living
alone on seals- and penguin&' blood, and it
seemed as though the very angels Stood by
me. I 'always promised in that time of
suffering,that if 'rod would' deliver me,
ivOuld , serve him but though' he saved sine,
not keep mrpromise and *hat kill's
me is, that no sooner hattl got-dry clothes
on than I: 'turned 'round and cursed him,
`and led a life as bad as' , ever.,' can I hope
for hiw salvation?" • '• •
,
The pastoi'Said it was to save just such
that - Christ diegv an'd if there . was any hin
drance on hi side fie roust , in.§tantly get
rid of it.
"Do you , diinkr he asked.
" Yes; sir,"'angwored the old man, " and
the ddetor die , if I quit'in'y
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"But you want no doctor now ezeopi4es
Lord Jesus Christ, the great Thysicia,o,4f
souls. Can you -trust him , and give. Up
everything for him ? Are you not willing?"
" I will," 'cried the old man, lifting 'his
streaming eyes
_toward heaven, " will; if
I die."
This promise he'kept. Re quitted the
grog-shops, and turned" to Alike his thirst
at t 6 fountain of living • waters opened
for sin and all uncleanness. There was
,
mercy for him and Christ is now precious
to his sad.
These terms sound like a contradiction.
,The adjective seems to belong to a different
family from the noun. It is a mis-alliance.
One of those unequal yokes, against which
the Apostle Paul and good sense have al-
Ways protested, but nevertheless such "a
marriage as not unfrequently takes place in
a world made up of " the sons' of God,"
and " the daughters of' men." 134 what is
an irresponsible Christian ? ,
treii afaino'
himself.-no resfinifsittlaY" Elf tiitttifi"fdllie
fullness of-%thrigtaturerut: jeans Christ.
He does noefedrinterest . diiough in godli
ness to select even a standard. He neither
runs, nor walks, nor stands in the way of
life—he merely drifts, and, like all drift
wood in high water, he is in the middle, of
the stream; and in low water he hangs on
a sand-bar, or clings to the shore,' or most
likely sticks in the mud, all begrimmed,
waiting to be washed off, and floated' on
ward by the next swelling,—in• all likeli
hood, " the swelling of Jordan," which will
at last launch him on the sluggish tide of
the Dead Sea. '
Second. The irresponsible Christian
holds himself' bound by no general obliga
tion "to do good to all• men, especially
those of the household of faith." Objects
ontside 'of hiinself sit lightly on his con
science. When appealed to for such ob
jects,:his secret, speech is, " What business
have they to bring their wants here? Why
don't they mke-eolleetions at home? '
He does not realize that All• Christians be
long to, the same -body and are members
one of another, and that one of these mem
beri is Suffering in Ireland or Persia no
more excuses us from aiding and comforting
him than the absence of a child from the
homestead cuts off his right, or ,our duty, to
help him. An irresponsible-Christian of
ten gets to these hard principles of conduct
by calling himself a Methodist or Presby
terian, and then calling Methodists and
Presbyterians "those of his own house
holdl'a kind of logic which neither Paul
nor Clirist deemed valid, but rather other-
J.W.
A third class of i4esponsible Christians
are: made after -even a smaller pattern.
They, join the Church as a politician joins
a-party. They are not born into it,. There
is no community of life and no communion
of Spirit between them. ' They are a sort
of camp followers or suttlers, hoping for
victory and plunder, and in. times of peace
or marching, ".selling provisions and li
quor" :to such of the Lord's host; who, like
themselves, follow godliness ;for gain ; per
sons to whom "the loaves and fishes," and
not the utiracles of Christ, are proofs that
religion is• a good thing.
r - A
-fourth. kind of IrresponsibleChristiarr,
is the Jean who takes no. interest in. the
pra y er-meeting of his church. Whether
prospers,it or declints, or dies he does
not care. ke does not inquire whether it
is well or ill attended. You cannot count
on him for anything in that direction. So
little sense of obligation have some Chris
tians upon this point, that from one end of
the year to the other they never are seen at
prayer-meeting. I wonder whether any
such will. read these thoughts. Many—
perhaps most ---of them, we know, will not,
for they do not feel any responsibility about
' taking or reading, a religious paper.
Another kind of irresponsible Christians
are, those who assume no obligations to sus
tain a church, beyond renting, a pew -for
their, Thmily, and perhaps regularly Occu
pying it on the Sabbath. If there is any
work to be done for the Sabbath School, or
for the poor, or the stranger, they always
excuse . themselves, until at last, from the
delicacy which Such indifference begets, no
one thinks of asking them to do anything.
A sixth sort of irresponsible Christians
is discovered When a church wishes to make
up the minister's salary, or pay a church
debt: It isperfectly astonishing bow many
Christians there are in every community
Whe will enjoy every thing about a church
enterprise but assisting to pay its honest
and necessary expenses. People Who will
enjoy the preachitt . fora—whole year, but
feel no responsibility to: pay 'fore it, or to
pay,in an honorable proportion.,
Is there yet a, seventh kind of :these irre
sponsible persons, and are they Christians?
In a church of one hundred and thirtY, 'are
there ':only ten workiiag members? • Out of
thirteen Christian, men, only one responsi
ble Christia n .? Out of thirteen. Christian
women, only one responsible Christian .?
One advanced clergyman once told us that
when he entered the ministry, he thought
there lives one in ten."' He now believed
there was but one in twenty. Only one in
ten, thirteen, or twenty, that is responsible
for fuel, light, rent, salary, singing, Sabbath
School, prayer.peeting„ charity—a devel
oped. 'Christian charactei.—C. C. Herald.
THE PRESBYTERIAN B
Publication Ofne_e_:
Irresponsible Christians.
ilow to Die nappy.
Glorious words these, to. I heard a
dying 'woman' respond, not, long ago, with a
solemn, burst, of praise: "Is he not a pre-;
cions Saviour, so great and gosd, and wil-
Hng 'to save all us poor sinners'?"
- "She was lying on a hard bed, in the
dreary infirmary-ward of a workhouse;' and
the,power of faith, and love to create a hap
piness independent . of circumstances, came
out with almost startling force in her an-
SWerto the inquiry, " You . know him, then,
at d- leve,him
“:Yes, I do know him, and love him.
His “i presence makes a heaven of this
room.”
"If you heaped up my bed with gold'and
silver," she added; "if you eonld give the
the 'Queeles carriage and horses, and her
palace and her garden, and all her beauti
ful flowers, and health and strength to.en
joy it all, would not take them, if they
would hinder me from going home to my
Saviour. `They talk of the- pain§ of dying;
what.will they be to me? - They will but
hurry roc to heaven: , and go .Jesus."—A-44
thor, t , of " English, Hearts and En glisli
.Hands."
len Silent.
'lt is a kriailait in the
learn to 'be silent. Under oppnetilini;te
bukes,,injuiies; still be silent!: isfbater
to say .nothing, than, to say it in an, elc.4ted
or angp i, manner, even if ; the ,oeerion
sho l uld Seem - to justify a. degree' of anger.
By‘Yernainiwg silent, the :mind is' 'enabled
to col loot' elf; and ball God )lin itje
,eret aspirations, of prayer..,'. And,thus you
will speak , to .the t .honor ofi nur holy pro
i'essig:4l, as welLas,tl thegood, , eg I : 1)osp, who
have: injured astrlien -i yon, j eoyn
.G o d: lo_ri