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The Children's Church at St.. Ann
MESSRS. .EDITORS of your
readers will be glad to hear that the corner
:4 Inc of the " Children'e'Church" at St.
Anne, Illinois, was. laid on the sth of
t4, T teniber, 1860: 'The exercises were : In
vm.ation and Reading the Scriptures, by
Jli.v. llr. Beaubien; of Chicago.
Prayer by Rer.- Mr. Angier. Singing.
..IWlress connected with depositing a Bi
ide in the corner -stone, by Rev. H. I Coe,
of St. Louis.
Address connected with depositing -a
Confession crf Faith in the corner-stone; by
11ev. Mr. Staples, of Kankakee City. Ad
dress and prayer, by Rev. Mr. Mouod, of
Paris. Singing and Benediction.
All the exercises were in French, or
translated into that language, and appear
ed to be deeply interesting to the twelve
or fifteen hundred persons present. Num
bers of the audience came ten or twelve
miles to attend the exercises, and all rnani
fasted unusual interest in the services of
the occasion. 'lt would have cheered the
children who are building this church, to
see the eager attention with which many
scores or bright-eyed boys and girls listen
ed to the counsels addressed to them, and
the heartiness with which they joined. in
the songs of praise that arose from the
multitude.
t WAD thought , bcatt ofely — u -
Bible and a Confession of Faith in the
eorner-stone of the church, that the truth
/night be more vividly impressed on the
ro,iple, that the " Bible alone is the religion
of Protestants," and that the Confession of
Faith is the only authoritative exposition
ot what Presbyterian Protestants believe
the Bible teaches.
The history of the Bible deposited in
the corner-stone is interesting. In July
last a little girl almost nine years old, liv
ing in Virginia, sent a gold dollar given
her for a keepsake, with the request that it
might be deposited in the corner-stone for
safe keeping, or used in laying that or
:Mlle other stone in the building. Her
letter was shown to a hook seller in St.
Louis, and he was asked to furnish the best
Bible that dollar would buy, to be deposited
iu the corner-stone of the " Children's
church." He at once selected a very beau
tiful Bible, usually sold for a much larger
sum, and on receiving the dollar, handed it
hack as a contribution from one of his
children. Just before the Bible was laid
in its place, the letter of the little girl was
read, and interpreted to the delighted peo
ple, and the gold dollar handed to the ma
son who prepared the corner-stone. He is
one of the colonists, and says he will not
part with it.
We must defer for the present, a number
of items of interest 'connected with the
laying of the corner-stone and our re
cent visit to St. Anne, in order to answer
the many inquiries respecting the progress
of the building, and the amount contribu
ted for the " Children's church at St.
Anne." The final contract for the building
was closed the sixth of September. The
house is to be ready for occupancy by the
first of January next, or sooner if possible.
Besides a large amount of stone hauled on
the ground, and some other items of ex
pense already met, the contract requires
$9,600 to be paid for the completion of the
church. About $2,500 of this sum we
have already paid. the contractor, chiefly
to purchase materials that were rapidly
rising in: price; and have agreed to pay;
SI,OUO every two weeks as the work advan
ces. tlp to the first of this mouth (Sep
tember,) we have received about $2,200:
This $2,200 comes from a number of family
circles and individuals, and from aboitt one
hundred and eighty Sabbath Schools. Our
young friends, in reliance on whose efforts
we have contracted for the building, will
therefore see the necessity for prompt and
Mara/ contributions to enable us to push
forward the work without embarrassment..
We trust all who desire to help in building
the "Children's church at St. Anne," will
speedily send their gilts to Archibald
Gamble, Treasurer, St. Louis, Mo., or to
some one of .the Receiving Agents of the
Board of Church Extension, named in the
Home and Foreipn Record.
Yours, truly,
For the Preebytertan Banner
The Old Paths Preferred.
'•.•MESSRS. EDITORS :—From my heart I
thank you for the defence you make of the
true and safe doctrine regarding " Civil
Government," in the Banner of the Bth
inst., just come to my hand.
I am sick of' quackery in medicine, dem
agogery in politick, and kiting in com
merce; and 1 am Sorry to say I am getting
to be almost as much so with recklessness
in Theology. While it was confined to
the Theodore Parker or even the Claeever
and Beecher schools of Divinity, I felt not
so much concern, as there was little re
sponsibility attaching to Bible Christianity
for them. Those men claim to act under
the guidance of a " Higher Law "—how
high, Ido not profess to understand. But
latterly this adventurous spirit seems, like
a terrible epidemic, to be seizing some
members of our own family, leading them
on, not only to their own ruin, but to pro
mote that of others also. The State
doubtless 'is as really an ordinance of Gott
as is the Church, or we have a great 'deal
of contradiction and nonsense in the ,Bible.
This blessed Book, which we love and our
flithere loved, and their fathers for ninny
generations taught them to love, tells us
plainly that " the Powers that be are
ordained of God" and that we must, for
this reason, be subject to them. If a
Christian people must be subject to the
powers that rule them, then there is a cor
responding obligation resting upon the
rulers and lawgivers to regard the well
being of that people, and not' allow their
Christian consciences to be unnecessarily
offended, or their Christian privileges to be
unreasonably interfered with. If they ac
cept of the power from a Christian people
--us in the case of a free republic like
ours—then they are bound to administer a
government and laws in harmony with the
hi gh est and most sacred system and author
ity known to and adopted by that people;
and that is the Bible. But if this be so
with regard to the mere officials' of such
a government as ours, how much ()Teeter is
the responsibility upon the people—the
source of power I God enjoins duties upon
men in every relation of life; civil as well
as cccicsiast ical ; 'as well as reel
f; ions • and his glory and the good of men,
should be-sought in all we do. No, no ;
these men; who attempt this reckless sev
erance of' God,. the Bible, the holy Sabbath,
Christian teachings, solemn warnings from
the Bench, and every semblance of religion
from Government in all its parts and ap
pliances, have made 160 mistakes, instead of
one. They have monstrously mistaken
their road, theologically, when they allow
their wild and unourbed hobby to run
past all the plain old _paths aqd guide
boards of the blessed Bible on the subject
they affect to treat; and they eggregiously
mistake: this .American, and:especially our
Presbyterian people, if they suppose such
Quixotism'is going to be admired or even
tolerated by .any whose good opinion is an
honor. I shall try to, " stand, . old
paths." OLD i SOLDIER.
New- Orleans, September 2, 1860.
Fur tho Preabytenan "Winner
H. I. Coy.
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VOL. IX., NO. 2.
EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE.
GARIBALDI ON NEAPOLITAN SOUL-A REPRIEVE FOR THE POPE...-
ills TACTICS AND THEIR SUCCESS--REGGIO TAILEN--7PIICIET
OP FOOL BIRDS FROM NAPLES-74.118TM AND HER DEFENSIVE
ATTITUDE-Mu GUILT AND PERILS-THE TIUNGARIAN PA
TRIOT'S AND GARDIALDI-MITE FRENCH EMPEROR AT LYONS--
.REDUKED Dt PALMETISTON-41:11ROPE DISTRUSTFUL-DEPUTA
TION TOUR IN IRELAND--REVIVAL AT KINGSTOWN, AND RE.
SULTS:-.WALES AND ITS LoAttrAGE-RELATIVE STRENGTH OP
CHURCHES-ROMA:118M AT A DISCOUNT-THE CA ItE/NAL
DIPPED IN THE HOLT WELL-POSTSCRIPT.
GARIBALiII has begun his conquests on
the Neapolitan territory. It had been, pre
viously resolved and arranged that at the
same moment in which he would cross
the straits of Messina, a column of six
thousand men, under an able General,
should invade the Papal territory. For
days and weeks open preparations for em
barking from Messina were carried on in
sight of the vigilant Neapolitans, on• the
other side. Steamers with their fires
banked .up, and transports of every descrip
tion, were visible to the foe, and all was
expectation, on both sides, that right oppo
site Messina should the invading force be
transported. Had this been done, there
must have been great loss of life, in the face
of a hostile fire, and the expedition would
have been crippled in its very outset. And
so with one of those sudden resolves pecu
liar to the great General, and that seem like
inspiration, Garibaldi sent his main ships
-sand- trnn i va.-nway-to- anotilor quo...* or,- an c} - tire'
troops • were marched behind m,ountains
sufficient to conceal them until they de
bouched ou the coast at the right time and
place. The deception, however, at Messina,
in troops along the shore and ships with
steam up, was, preserved. The result - has
been that a powerful force landed almost
without opposition ; that Reggio, a strong
hold, the possession 'of which gives Gari
baldi the command of the straits has been
taken; that two brigades of the enemy
have surrendered, and that the standards of
the invaders fly on Neapolitan ground,
with the prestige of victory.
As for the expeditionary force intended
to . invade the Romagna ' a two-fold difficulty
presented itself; first, that Garibaldi found
it, on close inspection, not so thoroughly
disciplined and equirlped as was desirAle;
and secondly, and above all, that as they
must pass' into-the Pope's dominions from
Sardinian, soil, the Piedmontese Gov
ernment would be compromised. The' let
ter has advised Garabaldi not to thitik of
attacking the Pope's domains until-he has
'mastered Neapolitan soil and its capital,
Naples itself. And 'so, Garibaldi carried
off this force intended for Papal subjuga
tion, to effect virtually the same object by
landing them on the mainland, and there
strengthening. the 'army by which, we trust,
under. Providence, he is destined to sweep
away the abominable Bourbon dynasty for
ever.
At Naples, the COurt Carmorilleo has
been broken up and coMpelled-to flee. The
leaders of this vile party were Count
Aquila and the Dowager Queen. The
firmer, who, it is said, - hired an assassin
(afterwards seized,) to assassinate Garibaldi,
was sent off to Marseilles. Thence he
proceeded ,to Paris, but we were duly in
formed that not Paris, but London, was to
be the place of his future residence. Well,
we do give shelter to-fugitive tyrants, and
even to statesmen who employ assassins-to
work out their nefarious ends. Neverthe
less, it would not be very pleasing to have
to rub clothes with them, even though Car
dinal Wiseman (just returned.with restored
health to England, glad, to get' away from
Rome, and covered with contempt for the
failure of his pet scheme of an -Irish Papal
brigade,) may endorse and bless these
" Divine:right " scoundrels.
. Palmerston , has publicly contradict
ed the statement so confidently made
last week, that Austria meant to resist and
attack Garibaldi, if he dared. to land on
Neapolitan territory. Austria's wishes are
not equalled by her power—thanks to the
French victories of last year. She will not
interfere in this Bourbon quarrel, but she
avows her determination to fight for Venice
and Venetia; and from her quadrilateral
thrtresses she can doubtless pour forth to
the field a mighty host, and if beaten, re
tire thither as to strongholds apparently
impregnable. But as, there is a Divine.
Hand against her, what prosperity can she
—the oppressor and .persecutor of Hungary
and her old Protestant Church; she on
whose hands is the blood of Batthyani and
other patriots of 1849; she who deported,
the Bibles brought to. Pesth• by the Scot
tish missionaries, as " contraband "and de
testable things; and she also who, even in
her present concessions to Hungary, is an
impenitent tyrant still:--what blessing can
she hope for on her arms Y
Rage and fear fill the breasts of Francis
Joseph and of his Jesuit advisers behind the
throne. The Concordat galls his neck, and
now and then he indicates restiveness, and
it is permitted him occasionally to relax its
tightness, " pro majoreus bonum ecclesiac "
e., that Rome may preserve someatng
of her despotism over the Austrian State,
rather than lose it altogether. It is stated
that papers compromising the Hungarian
patriots, have lately been seized by the po
lice, and that from these it appears that Gari
baldi has promised that after the conquest
of Naples, he will furnish• ten thousand men
to aid an insurrection in Hungary. Mean
while the Hungarians are extorting from
the Emperor a modicum of liberty, and it is
distinctly understood that unless their an
cient rights and a separate kingdom as
of old be recognized, the Hungarian
deputies in the Emperor's new Council,
(representative in its theory ; at least,) will
indignantly and unanimously retire. The
Sclavonic races are also being conciliated
by Francis Joseph, by being permitted to
have the proceedings of the Courts of Law
conducted, not, as hitherto r 'in the'Germon,
but in the native tongue,. These things
are' good as far as they go; and die Regent
of Prussia, also, at 'a meeting with Francis
Joseph has pointed out that there can only
be close German unity on the condition of
the latter carrying out extended reforms.
Tun FRENCH EMPEROR is now on • his
way through the French Provinces, to Al
geria, accompanied by the EMpress. Pre
viously he had visited the camp at Chalons,
and reviewed the soldiers there, causing
the little Prince Imperial to ride his pony
in front of the troops, who cheered him
enthusiastically.
At Lyons the Emperor delivered a speech
of a peaceful tendency. He assured the
bowing and sycophantic authorities, that in
spite of alarms abroad, (referring, of
course, to England,) he meant to persevere
'in his peaceful course; and in the next
place—with much more probable sincerity
—he rebuked the French Protectionists,
and declared his determination to carry out
the principles of that free trade polity
which has lately been inaugurated.
The drawback to European tranquility is
found in the immense naval preparations
made, and the enormous army maintained
by the Emperor. But in addition to this,
there is something still more, unsatisfactory
—namely, that very ugly transaction, the
'annexation of Nice and Savoy. On this
point, Lord Palmerston has just spoken
with a plainness and fidelity_to English
opinion and to truth, which is as honorable
to himself as it must be galling to the Em
peror. Napoleon—in the letter which ap
peared some weeks ago, deprecating Eng-
lish alarms as to invasion—used language to
this effect : " Lord Palmerston knows. me,
and therefore cant testify that I will not
break my word." Lord Palmerston, how
ever, refuses to furnish the certificate thus:
asked from. him. He declares in a very
solemn manner the stern .disapprobation of
the British Cabinet of the annexation of
Savoy and Niice, and says that Savoy and
Nice do Rot belong to France in the eye of
"'European law," even though the Emperor
may have asserted the right to ask; and
Sardinia the right to concede them. He
goes further than this; he denounces in
calm, yet decjded language, the lying lan
guage of the Thouvenel dispatches—one
'time making promises not to proceed, and
:another recalling them---and then with du
plicity consummating a transaction .by
which Napoleon has damaged irreparably'
his historic fame. and taken the fresh step
to make himself at last an ostracised man,
and a public enemy, even as his uncle :was
at last declared to be before, and as the
precursor of, his - final fall and ruin.
Napoleon 111. has received several checks
of late to his ambitious desifis, and at all
events he will be obliged to postpone the
attempt of their execution. If, as is con
fidently affirmed, Prussia means to .help
Austria to defend Venetia, if . attacked, (a
very f .
oolish and unworthy thing on, the
_part-of_the_fortn.er.).__L_azenture-th....nrediet.
that Napoleon will not hesitate—if there
are fair appearances of...anceess—of
coming
once.more a G-eneral, leading on a
host for the " liberation of Italy from the
Alps to the Adriatic," and in that case,
successfully. He would be' glad to 'wipe
out the stain left - on his reputation. by the
Savoy annexation. Meanwhile, the. little
Swiss Republic confronts and stispeets him,
and England is - determined tofesist'all ag
gressions by France; upon her borders.
A DEPUTATION TOUR IN IRELAND, for
the British Society for the propagation of
the Gospel among the Jews, terminated at
'Dublin and Kingstown. In the capital of'
Ireland—as indicated in my last—there is
a good work of aggression on Romish dark
ness and error being carried -on. Kings
town is virtually the port. of Dublin, at
least for their steam - 'vessels which carry
the mails, and all around which, clustering
beneath the beautiful Hill of, Killeny, as
well as up its sides, are to be seen beautiful
villas, occupied by the families of gentry
and merchants. This place is i I rejoice to
say, the scene and centre of a.true Revival,
which has told.and is telling powerfully, on
Dublin itself.: Hero is a' Congregational
minister—English by birth; but Irish in
his fervid temperament and his consequent
adaptation to the . people—the Rev. T. -Den
ham Smith- He has been honored of 'God
to'inaugurate a new era of religious life.
In his place of worship about the end, of
last year, and the beginning of thepres
ent, there was the manifest power: of the
right hand of the Most High : This was
specially the case among young men and
maidens, and also the children.:of the Sun
day Schools. But the movement -Was not
confined to them. It has led to safety, joy,
peace, and self-consecration o,f' persons—
some among visitors for health's sake, from
a distance—of all ages, and it has also.
caused' a large number
,of Sailors in' the
harbors, and :specially of the crews of the
Express boats to Holyhead r to begin the
voyage that ends in the haven of eternal
rest. Among those awakened and convert
ed not long since, was the sec) of the Presi r
defiVie on nof Ihe`Qiaeen''s`Cfilleges"iii'lre
land. The young man was about' to go to
the English bar, but such was the mental
revolution wrought by what.he experienced
in connexion with a sudden arrest of mind
and heart, and change of motive and aim,
at-Kingstown, that now he has set his face
toward the noblest of all employments, that
of an ambassador for Christ. I had this
fact from the lips of the young, man's own
father—the President, as I have said, of
one of the Queen's Colleges.
The meeting specially blessed - for months
past, is that held on each Monday evening.
It was at one of these I . attended, and was
invited to speak to a large audience, on the
claims of the Jews (toward the funds of
the Society, for whom a liberal impromp-_
to collection was made, - )-and also with re
gard to the progress of Religious. Awaken=
ing in London. Immediately after the ad
dress, commenced the prayer-meeting pecu
liar to this evening of the week: Previ
ously, Mr. Smith read a large number of
letters, some entreating intercession for un
godly relatives ; others indicating intense:
anxiety and agitation under, the sharp ar
rows of the Spirit; and others abounding
in 'thanksgiving. One letter was frnin
lady unknown, who was about toleave,-for
her wonted home, the place where, she had
found mercy, and entreating supplic;ttion
on her behalf, that she might be upheld,and
_strengthened. -
Next morning I proceeded across the
Irish Channel to Holyhead. -I found that all
the men who manned the vessel,:save two, ;
were decided Christians—nearly all the fruit
of the awakening. One man was pointed
out to me,: who had: been Wicked' exceed.-
ingly, now a thoroughly new creature.'
These men were wont-to welcoine to the after-
Cabin, - ministerspassing: over the Channel,,
for exposition of the .Scriptures and for
'
prayer. Mr. Spurgeon and others, have
thus joined in their hymns ,- and supplica
tions:,.But•now, .it is , suspected throngh
Popis influence, Commands have :come
down from the head office of the Steam
Packet Company in London,. that neither
on Sundays, nor week days; shall there be
religious services held on board the:vessels:
The men expressed to me their deep regret,.
and their ardent desire that th; obnoxious
prphibition (a diagraceful and unchristian
uk.ase,) might be speedily repealed. 'They'
still meet with one another; morning - and:
evening, 'for prayer. and praise, and I had
several indications of.personal kindness
cherished toward me a's a minister,.and also
as a Deputy fcir a good cauSe—one iitthem
being a diminution the fare, of nearly
on e-third the ordinary , amount.
August 27, 1860
WALES presents itself to a visitor in an
impressive aspect, on his first landing from'
Ireland. As he approaches, he sees the
outworks and defences now being thrown
up in the form of a mighty breakwater,
needed to form a noble harbor of Refuge.
He then entersthe old harbor, and from
thence he is carried by rail a short distance
into the town of Holyhead. Here he finds
a new and strange tongue spoken by all
around, and the little children in their
play, shouting out their sportive gladness
in purest accents of the tongue of. Lewell
yun and Prince Madoc of the days of old.
The inn-keepers and shop-keepers, speak
English' sufficient to carry on business with
strangers,'hut their native tongue, that in
which they think, is Welsh; as it is with
all others, around them. I once spoke in
the streets of Bangor, North Wales, to an
old man who did not know a word of Eng
lish, and who was thus unable to hold the
least intercourse with me. So at their
public meetings which I have attended
and spoken at, in Holyhead, Oarnarvon and
Llandudno, I have found that the Welsh
population has a two-fold character in ref
erence to the English tongue. Ist. Apart
—by far the largest—stay away from the
meetings because they not only are-unable
to speak English, but do not understand a
discourse or speech in that language.' But
PITTSBURGH, SATURDAY:, SEPT EMBER 29, 1860.
then there is the 2d class; including the
young people of the , middle , class, who do
both speak themselves and understand from .
the lips of another, an English discourse.
And, idly, there is a class who do not,
speak English---some very, imperfectly—
but who can follow a speaker tolerably well.
The Revival of Religion .in Wales dur
ing the last twelve or eighteen months, has,
been very remarkable. Iti. came suddenly
and with power., Even the wicked were
awed by its presence, and;(l fear fell oven
every soul." While, however, many of
these have refurned to their. 'besetting sins,
and are serving: Satan as hefore; there is' a
large number who .have ,boen gathered out
of the world and into, the Church of the
living God. Thus at Carnarvon I was told
that the accessions to the communion of
the different cougregatione Ayes aboutfour
hundred sculls. This,is but a specimen of
what is general--.-the rule and not the ex
ception over both North and South Wales.
The singing of, the , Welsh people, in their
public worship, is selemp, plaintive, ten
der. Their attitude and'nlantlerin prayer,
is truly devout.- Their n't 'isiers in-large
proportion, are gifted me!l . some of them
have' extraordinary power..ver the people's
hearts in their public addiesses, and recall
the names and 'memory Of those glorious
'Welsh apostles of the 18t4entury—Row
land.s,, Harris, and CharlecOf , 'ale. - '.'r':,,lit: ;1
Theieralirtionrfr-trre-reti • .
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denorniitationall' Wales, may be thus classi
fied: I. Calvinistic Methodlats, or the Welsh
Presbyterian Church, as hilmany places, it is
'now being called. The lidherents of this
body are more numerous 413:11 of any other.
IL Wesleyan Methodists.; 111. Independ
ents. The communicants:fin this body are
larger in number thantany. other. IV.
Welsh Baptists. V. Thq, Church of Eng
land. The Established bureh, through a
long peried, by reason,o .the evils of pat
ft
ronage and Erastianism, had . become also
effete, and even now—though there are
great imprevements, andftwo of the. Bish
ops (English born ;) havi learnt to preach
in Welsh, and, have an ip;Feasing number
of godly clergymen und l pr their jurisdic
tion—the mass of the Welsh 'people. is ir- .
revocably lost to the Church , of England.
As to Roinanism, its I A o wer is almost nil
in Wales. Only. two 4lppels have been
erected in• the whole of /North Wales, one
at Holyhead, which ha4Proved an entire
failure, and the other at Holy Well, Bangor.
This last has very few adherents. Its priest
is an apostate . Wesleyanlminister, expelled
by the Conference for immorality.. This is ,
the, only Welshman Cardinal Wiseman
could find to occupy a pface at the idol al
tar which had been set f •On the'margin of
the, once, sacred well of olywell, in whose
waters by-and-the-by, 1 e said .Cardinal.
it)
once dipped his own pon,derous corpus that
he might get healing frOM it. ram sorry
that I had- not time aid' opportunity to
speculate--from personal 'examination—oa
the facility or difficultkof that " toosolid ,
flesh " getting into the well. ,I am almost
affrighted at thinking to:myself what a ca
tastrophe it 'would have' been, once' in, he
could not be brought out; save by the mi
raculous interposition of. Saint Pudicentio
(his patron intercessor;) Aar by the more
vulgar and undignified appliance of pulling.
The lever power thus applied, Would have
been sufficient, I" doubt;' not, such a cri
sis and extremity. But thOugh he got safe
out of the well (his pludge, I doubt: not, in
tended - to consecrate 420 P afresh, for the
benefit Of blother,Clitirir.*Aflkhas notanc- T
ceeded in winning over the Welih. to Rome.
The chief :support of this chapel at Ban
gor, is the wife of Sir Richard Bulkley—
not a Welshman, but Irish--and it is now
the popular rumor that sheOhrough the
influence of a lady of rank, has been re
cently converted to Protestantism.
It is certainly refreshing, after coming
from dark and degraded Roscrea and other
seats and centres of Popery in Ireland; to
pass through the glorious region of Ancient
Britain, against whose mountain barrie.rs
the waves of Papal heresy have beat for.
centuries, but to be thrown back again.
I have yet to communicate other facts''
with regard to Wales, and propose to take
your - readers next week with me in an.as
cent to the top, of Snowdon, the crowned
monarch of Welsh mountains.
P. S.—With the exception 'of the glori
ous sermon.of Dr.,Guthrie at the opening,
and the valuable papers read by Professors.
Lorimer, Killen, and others, the Tricen
tenary Commemoration of the Seottish
Reformation has not been marked with'
special'and general interest.
The weather is somewhat: better, but
there is still great anxiety. The United .
States and Canada,s will be able to supply
all our wants as to food, and English gold
will do your farmers no evil. -
Mr. Lindsay, M. P., is going out to con
fer with tbe , Gov.ernment at Washington,
on the question of Protective Duties, and
other matters affecting mutual trade and
commerce.
Patient Continuance.
' God, in the rich volume of his works)
exhibits to us countless examples 'Of slow
and steady process by' whichliis great pur.
poses are .accomplished. " By. his , Rat' he,
could, in.. a moment, summon a , perfect
world from nought,: yet,all, his works,, so
far as we can, learn, proceed on the law of
progression. We look out upon the gel-.
.den harvests so abundant in blessin,g, all
provided. by this simple, - imperceptible
force of progre.ss.. ,First the blade, then ,
the ear, then thelull corn in the ear. So
in the growth of the forest. There it
waves in majesty; the work of 'years and
years, perhaps centuries, from the little
seed, the germ, the twig,.up -through all
its gradations of ceaseless expansion. .Se
throu.l all the various departments of
nature.
The same law obtains in mind and in
morals. Jesus- increased , in , wisdom. as'well
as in -stature. All finite mind has a be,gin
ning;, but there is before it the „field ,of
endless progression. And its growth is by
.as- strict a;law as that which pertains• to
matter. 'lt is the same both in its intelle-
WO and moral developments. No one will
deny that peculiar circumstances and con
ditions will have their influence in modi
fying results. No one will question the
power of God in any case. Still the , ques
tion is not so much what he can tic as what
he tail do.
Many err by attributing too, much to the
operation of arbitrary forces, to mere physi
cal omnipoteryze overlooking the laws which
the Creator has established. Some have
erroneous views of answers to prayer in
this respect. It is a Scriptural' doctrine
of great= value, that. God answers prayer.
But this doctrine does not conflict with
the regularity, harmony, and strictness of
his laws. Right prayer conforms to these
laws, rather than the laws to it.
That could not be acceptable, effectual
prayer in the husbandman, which would ask
for a plentiful harvest, without employing
the, appropriate culture. Nor in. the, stu
dent, who should request mental discipline ,
and power, without proper application.
ilere the old maxim holds eminently, that
God helps those who help themselves.
When we, ascertain, so tar as we, can„the
established law, and eonforni our action to
it-in the best mannti, we -may"
dently. seek the Divine approval and:bless
ing. But to expect. God, in answer to any
petition, to supply the lack of our volunta
ry delinquency, is the highest of presump
tion.
Nor , is 'this view one in any measure
ignoring God, bfit acknowledging him.
He established and upholds these laws.
No one ever labored more earnestly, perse
veringly, than Paul, yet with entire depen
dence on the Divine arm. "I have plant
ea, Apollos watered; but God gave the
increase. So, then, neither is he that
planteth anything, neither he that -water
eth :.,but God that giveth the increase."
Here is a bright example of human faith
'fulness in entire dependence tar ihe grace
Of God.
So the Apostle in another place makes
the condition of obtaining eternal life to
be. "patient continnanee in well-doing."—
Rev: ii :7: And there is much contained
in 'the . expression. Salvation is not to be
obtained at a stroke, butwe must work' it
out.:There is no patent deviceer spiritual
insurance office, where the object may be se
cured once for all. The only promise• any can
obtain on this point, is that he who, endu
reth to the end shall be saved.
In seeking tiir the advancement of the
cause and the salvation of sinners, we
need the same patient continuance in well
dOing4rAliVe.pley ~haYie.z t p..toil, long with
e , •(1• c_
courage. No faithful labor is lost. Toi
on, toil ever, with au earnest, confiding
heart, ands infinite wisdom will secure the
result.—Morning Star.
Wno is; he? , Who is the Christ preach
ed; by Mr. Beecher, of Plymouth Church
fame ? We have been lectto ask this ques
tion 'very often during aTeading, for some
:months, of Mr. Beecher's sermons, as they
have appeared in 'the litdependent. We
confess that we have been linable to answer
the question for ourself, on the basis of
those nownotikrious sermons. That there
is a Christ in many of these sermons, is
very plain. That the preacher has 'a Christ
in his mind—that he talks about Christ,
and about his being a Saviour, and : about
coming to Christ, is all very true ; but who
this Christ is, what there is about him that
recommends him to sinners, how it is he
saves, what gelation he sustains to the lost
world; are points so obscurely presented,
that after , all the reader is, at a loss_to de
termine where the ground of a lost man's
hope is. Certainly, the idea of aidnement,
the sin-cleansing "through blood, if it runs
through these sermons, is woven in so fine
ly in the beauty of the fabric (and-the fabric
of thought the preacher weaves is beauti
ful), that it is nowhere distinctly discerni
ble. The altar is behind a veil, in the
temple of Mr. Beecher; teaching where
nobody, can 'see it: His: sermons are, to 'as,
something like the history of Jesus Christ
with the, narration and meaning of his death
left out. ' With texts which call for, at
least, allusionto that death in its full sig
nificance, one is disappointed in sermons
which contain scarce an allusion to that
significance.
We make this reference without any
sympathy with those men who seem, to
bearjor some bidden reason, a hostility to
this preaoher, and are always as ready and
delighted' to hurl their weapons at him on
MlT,fayorable t oecasima, as a Caroanche In tauwould t , against one: of a hostile : tribe:
Is is with nothing ot the censorious we
speak. Nobody • can deny the intellectual
power of the preacher. None can' help
wondering at the abundance,
aptness, and
almost matchless variety of his illustra
tions. None can help feeling impressed
with his earnestness and uncompromising
fidelity to certain truths touching duty to
God and man. And yet, so' far as those
sermons pretend. to - he GOSPELS for sinners
—representations. of.Jesu.s as a Saviour—
they are, so far as we have read them, fail
res ; for a maireannot get a trite idea of
Jesus, or his Saviour's character, out of
them. So far as they go, they may be
most truthful and, stirring—swaying and
sweeping mind and heart; but they leave,
out thn knowledge of Christ 'Jesus so defi
nitely and distinctly set forth that men'may
recognize him, know who he is, and how he
is a Saviour. We have often heard men
speak in admiration , of these sermons, and
in their admiration we have always acqui
esced most heartily, but at the same time
have pointed out this grand, and, to our
view, so far as they are means of-doing the.
good, they might do if this was remedied,
a killing defect, and in every case it has
been acknowledged. ,
We,• make this reference to these sermons
in the above question, not because we sup
pose there is reason• for, regarding the author
as a source of especial authority in interpre
ting the• Gospel,, but because there are so
many, who allow Mr. Beecher to think for
them r i
with whom he s authority; because his
words would reach to such masses, hun
dreds and thousands every week,' far and
near, reading the issues of his pulpit; and
because, too, he, assumes so much authority
for -himself, says what he says with such
emphasis, as coming from its peculiar
source. If he preaches ChriSt incomplete
ly, then •thousands hear only of an incom
plete. Christ from him, and are satisfied with
out knowing more of him. So far as they
learn Vora such source, and , are.inftuenced
by it, we wonder what they would answer
if the luestion was put to, them, "What
think ye of Christ?"We judge now, on
the basis of what_ has come under our eye
is the Indepencle nt, though we may add
the fact.that an intelligent lady heard Mr.
Beecher preach, not long since '
,on "We
preach _Christ crucified," and expressed
herself as ashamed that he said nothing
whatever of the blood of Christ aS atoning
for sin. There was the temple; where was
the altar ? What - are wnto•hope for, if so
little of the real life- of the , Christian re
ligion is set forth before men ? Does it
build up a church? If it'does ' what is a
church worth 'that knows but little - and
recognizes , but little of • Christ g Who is
this Christ of Beecher ?--- Christian Intel
ligencer.'
J: 'W
The Doubting Christian.
..We cut the following graphic' piece of
. .
word-paintmg from a sermon of the late
Rev. J. Addison Alexander, D. 10., on
"Abfaharn as the Friend of ' God and
Father of the Faithful." It is true to the
life, • •
He journeys toward the heavenly city,.
but_ he sees, it not ; Jerusalem, is in his
heart, but not before his eyes. He even
dreams that he has taken the wrong path.
Imagination magnifies the dangers of the'
journey: Every step appears to lead him
intol some hidden , snare;and every stone to
be the mark of some eep Every
thicket is an ambush, every dark spot an
expected place of conflict. The ' hardy
plants that bloom along the rugged path
seem poisonous; the springs provided by
the Master for his pilgrims are passed by
in timid and suspicious thirst. And when
at length 'the body sinks exhausted and in
need of slumber, all seems lost, and. the
man of little faith sleeps in the belief that
he shall'neVer awake. And when he does
aciake, it is only to a repetition of ' the
Swine illusion He still"'afraid that 'lie`
The. Odd of. Beecher.
WHOLE NO. 418.
shall. never reach the city. He is still un
able• to discover it in the distance; he will
not look for it, but keeps his eye fixed, up
on the ground, or if he look he' will 'not
look to the right' point, or if he looks to
the right point he finds the mist too dense,
or the light too bright for his diseaSed
vision. ,Or if he sees the .object he re
fuses to believe ,his senses, and suspects
delusion on the only point where he is free
from it. Thus goes the doubter 'on, -often
ready to lie down and. die, and' sometimes
tempted to go back,,or turn aside, but still
moving onward, because. Christ is in his
heart, and the. secret hope, that_ notwith
standing all his fears, he shall, yet appear
in Zion before God. But see, theTrospeet
changes. Beal dangers now arise. The
storm which deluges the valley, sweeps
aeross-the:mountains, also. The doubting
Christian gives up all for lost. But : the
very dongers'which alarm his fears quicken
his footsteps, and although he may believe
that he is going wrong, the tempest' and
the earthquake drive him on and up, until
the last ascent is gained, until the , last
'cloud * breaks away, and he who thought
himself approaching to the verge, of an
abyss, finds himself standing on an ever
lasting-rock and at the threshold of an
everlasting door. If shame can be felt
there, he blushes as he looks back for a
moment at the scene of his imaginary ter
f'solsweetetbe.„sun
-brea 'on Up -
trodden, and gladdens every dark spot
where he wept or ,trembled •;' the noises
which once terrified him, •and still„pursue
him, now Vegin to blend with shouts and
'songs of triumph within ; the everlasting
doors lift lip their heads, and with one
farewell look at earth's baseless fabrics,,the
enmneipated soul enters, never to..
.return,
the city which hath foundations whose
builder and maker is God.
[Se acted.]
The Grave-yard at West Point.
BY WILLIAM AILE.Di BITYLBB.
On this sweet Sabbath morning, let us wander
,
Prom theloud music and the gay parade,
Where sleeps the grave-yard in its silence yonder;
Deep in the mountain shade.
There, sideby side, the dark green cedars cluster;
Like sentries watching• by that Camp otLeath;
There, like an army's' tent, with' snow -Mike
• lbstre, •
The grave-stones gleam beneath. -
But as'we go, no otherposted guard or picket
Stays .our approach across the level-grass,
Nor hostile challenge , at the simple wicket
Through which our footsteps pass.
Sweet spot; by Nature's primal consecration,
Sacred' to..peace, and thought, and calm repose;
Well in thy breast that eldergeneration
Their place of burial ,chose.
Few are the graves, for here no populous city
Feeds, - With its myriad lives, the hungry fates;
While „hourly funerals, led by grief of pity,
Crowd through the, open gates.
Here death is rarer, yet full many a token
Tells of his presence on these grassy slopes;
The slab, the stone; the. shaft, half-reared and
broken,
Symbols of shattered hopes.
Here sleep brave men who, in the deadly quarrel
Fought for their country and, their life-bleod
Above whilse dust she carves the deathless laurel,
Wreathing the victor's sword.
And here the young cadet, in manly beauty,
Borne from the tents which skirt those -rooky
banks,
Called from life's daily drill and Verilous duty
to these - unbroken ranks.
Here too, the aged man, the wife the .maiden—
Together hushed as on His faithful breast,
Who cried: "Come hither, all ye heavy-laden,
• And give you rest r
And little grave-stones through the grass are
gleaming,
Sown like the lilies, over forms ai fair,
Of whom to-day what bioken hearts are dream-
Through Sabbath song and prayer
Peace to the sleepers May the bud and blossom;
Spring's early bloom' and Summer's sweet
- increase
Fail not, while nature, on her tender bosom, •
Folds them and whispers—peace !
And here, at last, who eouldmot: rest , contented?
Beneath, the river, tranquil: good ;-
Around the breezes of ,the morning, scented
With odors from the wood.
Above; the eternal hills, their *shadows'
With morn, .and , noon, and twilight's deepening
pall ; -
And overhead, the infinite heavens, attending
Until the end of all!
A • Compliment.
lgany. years ago .there was a preaching
station some distance from Princeton, to
which it was usual to send the licentiates of
the Seminary to preach, ` an d' they,' very'
properly, , performed the ''duty assigned
them with'a due 'regard to, the great im
portance of preaching well prepared Bei.,
mons. One of their habitual hearers was
an old New-Jersey slave, known as Uncle
Sam, a sincere, humble, Christian -man,
but, of course, wholly uneducated. Always
when he .came;home from the preaching,
he would try to, tell, his mistress what lac
could remember of the sermon, and he al
ways came with the same complaint. Ile
was a poor; i g norant old man, he would say,
and he could not understand these learned
men, at, all. ,The little he did comprehend
was mingled with so much that was deep,
that he could not remember it. One day,
however; Unele Sam came bathe in a great
good humor: was a poor; ignorant
old man,,just'like himself, he said,•who had
come to preach that day. It was plain
that he did, net know much, indeed he was
hardly 'fti to - preach to the white peoPle,
but. Sam was' glad he had come for his own'
sake, for be could remember everything.he
had said. On inquiry it, was found that
Sam's ignorant old preacher was Dr. Arch
ibald Alexansler ; and when the Dr. heard
the oriticisixi, he said that it was the highest
coinplim'ent ever paid to his preaching.—:-
Banner of the Coveaant.
Zacchens."
Zaccheus was chief among the Publicans,
and 'he was rich. Riches were ark object
then 'as now. But, notivithatanding his
worldly-standing and posSessions, he desired
to see, tr e u„ s ; a distinguished personage,
'then passing ,to and from, their midst. But
as' crowds followed 'hilt, and he mingled
everywhere amongst them, &was not easy
for one small in stature to distinguish him,
who was the' centre yof attraction, from
those that surrounded him. In order to
ascertain to a certainty, and satisfy the de-,
sire of his heart
,ceto see' Jesus, who he
was," he' ran - before and climbed a sycamore,
tree, whence casting his eye over the throng , '
he, might, recognize the leader, from the
rest. As the ~good Spixit had awakened
this desiy,e, was filled with love,
raged litg ey4f upward and" gaiiP hi
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PROPILMORS AND PDBLIIIII2EIL
said unto him: " Zaceheusi make haste
and come down, for to-day I must abide at
thy house." Now was his heart filled with
joy, that he not only said him, and spoke
to him, but he was to have the pleasure of
entertaining him as his guest, and that too
at his own house. How different was the
state of those of his companions, that mur
muring said, He had gone to be guest with
one that ,was a sinner. They did not per
ceive his mission was,,to bring the lost
sheep .home to the fold. By this• simple
statement we Itte assured every good de
sire is met and strengthened, and also ap
'proved, by hini who sees the heart. •
Then Zaecheus gaire a statement of the
manner of his - life. • The half of his goods
be gave to the poor, and if he had at any
time,' taken anything from any man, by
false accusation, he made restoration of
four fold ? How comforting must the re
turning reply have been to this chief
among the Publicans, whom some would
shun as an outcast: "This day is salvation
come to this house, forasmuch as he also is
a son of Abraham!' And as his aim had
been to do right, he stood approved by the
Highest, when classed with those the tlar
isees esteemed despicable. 01 we have
need, even in these days, to beware of the
leaven of the Pharisees, and the leaven of
Herod. For the one would destroy the in
nocent life and cut it off from amongst
Men, wbile the, other would plume itself
-with—the.J.Larsi sjewels. Neither bear the
image of him who harmless and
undefiled.—Friend's intelligencer.
The Splendor of Damascus.
Damascus is the oldest city in the world.
Tyre and Sidon have crumbled on the
shore; Baalbee is a ruin; Palmyra is bur
ied in the sand of the desert; Nineveh and
Babylon have disappeared - from the Tigris
and Euphrates; Damascus remains what it
was before the days of Abraham—a centre
of trade and travel, an island of verdure
in a desert, " a predestined capital"—with
martial and sacred associations extending
through there than thirty centuries. It
was " near Damascus" that Saul of Tarsus
saw the " light from heaven above the
brightness of the sun:;" the street which is
called Strait, in which it is said "he pray
etb," still runs through the city. The
caravan - bom es and goes as it did a thousand
years ago; there are still the sheik, the ass,
and , the water-wheel ; the merchants of the
Euphiates and of the Mediterranean, still
"occupy" these "with the multitude of
their wares." The City which Mohammed
surveyed Trom a neighbering height, and
was afraid to enter because it is given to
hive but one Paradise, and for his part he
was resolved not to have it in this world, is to
this ;day, what Julian called the eye of the
East, as, it was in the time of Isaiah, "the
head of Syria." From Damascus came the
Daimon or blue plum, and the delicious
apricot of Portugal, called Damasco ; da
mask, our beautiful fabric of cotton and
silk, with vines and flowers raised upon a
smoothe, bright ground; the damask rose,
introduced into England in the time of
Henry ; the Damascus blade, so fa
mous the world over for its keen edge and
wonderful elasticity, the secret of whose
manufacture was lost when Tamerlane car
ried off the arts into Persia; and the beau
tiful art of inlaying wood and steel with sil
ver and gold, a kind of mosaic—engraving
:and sculpture united—called Damaskeening,
with. which bnxes and bureaus, and swords
and, guns are ornamented. It is still a city
of flowers and bright water ; the streams
of Lebanon, the"rivers of Damascus," the
" rivers of gold," still murmur and sparkle
in the wilderness of " Syrian gardens."
Germane Rationalism
German Rationalism has not only cor
rupted our divinity r but our language. It
has introdUced a jargon, a gibberish, a jum
ble which fills the ear, while it tarnishes
the mind. The diciples of this New
School, of the very humblest intellectual
pretentioias, may be found ringing changes
without end on the "objective," the "sub
jective," the " inner life," and a multitude
of mystical nothings, equally strange and
foreign to the idiom of pure English. To
the ignorant, this may appear very profound,
but to men of sense it is simply ridiculous.
Let us, then,• send back, without further
loss of time, all this chaff and jabber to
Germany, and: so do homage to common
sense and our.mother. tongue. Rationalism
has supplied the best illustration ever given
of the language of the Apostle, " Great
swelling words," full or emptiness. It is the
niere-" calf of Samaria," which will cast ita
rider. The style and the matter are alike
'foreign and • worthless. It is a growth
which "bath no stalk; the but shall yield
no meal." It yields nothing but sponge,
fungus, a something alike useless for par
poses of nourishment to man and beast.
For, 'a man in 'the guise of a Christian
teacher to keep tossing " subjective " and
" objective" before the intellectual eye of
an ordinary audience, like a juggler with his
haft in the London streets, is conduct
closely allied to profanity. The style of
the expression-is thoroughly un-English,
and to the mass of the people utterly unin
telligible. How unlik the Apostolic rule
of using cr words easy to be , understood !"
British Standard.
Rehition of the Sabbath School to the Viol-
ble Church.
'The Church must furnish 'the teachers
from. its.first and diciplined members, that
there may be no lack of discretion and
piety. The subjects or instruction should
be drawn from the. Bible only. There
should be brought into play upon child
hood a genial influence, which Shall be a
compensation for the pleasures of the play
ground, without, however; the introduction
of tawdry amusements. The teaching
should be such, as to make the -religious
growth constant, and the children should
be taught that Christ in his Church has`
laid his hands upon them, and that the
Holy Ghost is awaiting their faith. The
Sabbath School should be clothed with au
thority, and the pupils should, feel that the
moral authority, of the Church is pressing
down` rivet them. The teachirig should'
carrritith it a Scriptural interpretation of
the rite.of Baptism, an outer , symbol and a
veritable means of the inward washing
away of sins. A vital and attractive char
acter would thus be put upon Church mem
bership, as' the pupils would' thus be di
verted from the baptismal font to the Com
munion table, and be assured that they
were children.of the Covenant. The Church.
would thus be honored, by having all the
benefactiOna the Sabbath School yields-con
nected 'with her; It would give the Church
what she'soq earnestly needs, a; distinguith ,
ing Church mark to do, and; in the timing,
of her young, and the rescue of htztr,
lost 'upon the mountain, she can find igain
her health, her blown, her 'energy, and het
hope. •
is little troubles that Wear the lieait
out. It'iseasiei• 4,4:i-throw
mile_than .a , feither.-.... , exeri with 'iittilleTty.
Fecty debt;s,of a ti.dollat
eause you more trouble and dunnillg4ttp 4 „ .
One big one of a thousand.