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Vermillion Institute, Maysville, Ohio.—
The Catalogue of this institution, for
1.860, shows an attendance of two hundred
and eleven pupils in the Male Department,
and eighty-nine in the Female. In all )
three hundred. Rev. SANDERS DIEFEN
DOR?, is the Principal of this institution.
Jefferson Coage.—This venerated
tution is still the place of resort for our
young men, who seek an education. About
ninety new students have been admitted
this term. This promises well, not only
for the Cofiege but ter the community.
It also shows increasing need for an en
larged endoiwment, and must encourage the
liberal to gilve freely.
The Norti. American Review contaiss:--
Rom= an his Heroines; Climatology;
/Life and La ors Of THOMAS PRINCE.; ED
MUND W LER ; Lord SHAFTESIVURY;
Second vol 'me of PALFREY'S " History
of New-E land," Quarantine and Hy
giene, Rus ''s Occasional Productions; The
Englishuguage in America; The Ori
ginl of Sp cies; An " Inglorious Milton ;"
Critical N i otices; New Publications. Pub
lished- 'brt thotißY, , NicnoLs & LEE, lios-
On.
Western Thislogical Soniiiiari.---Wednes
day, the 17th instant, was a happy day at
this institution. Dr. PAXTON, who bad
been kept otherwise occupied and out. of
his - study, by removal from one house to
another, that day entered regularly on his
duties as a 'Professor. His Introductory
Lecture was very numerously attended. It
prodUned a most happy impression on all
itho heard it. The first part of it contain
ed a few modest-remarks on the novelty of
his duties; but when he came to the main
subject of his lecture he showed a master's
hand. There are sixty new students at
the Seminary. Others are expected soon.
May the Lord's favor rest upon this School
of the Prophets. •
SYNOD OF lENTUCKY.,
The late meeting of this Synod, held in
Louisville, seems, by the report
_in the.
Presbyterian Herald, to have been one of
much importance. Several matters of
Chiral interest Were discussed and voted
upon. Meetings .of ministers and elders,
whether in Presbytery, Synod, or Confer
ence, should never pass without a thorough
discussion of some topics, adding to their
knowledge and prompting them to increased
zeal in their work.
One subject before the Synod, on the late
occasion, was the Private Administration
of the' Lord's Supper. After much discus
sion, it was determined that such an ad
ministration is wrong; but what .t Private
Aclthinistration is, the Synod did not de
termine. All agreed that the ordinance is
social, but whether it may be properly ad
ministered in a private room, for the benefit
of a sick person, a. few other Christians
being present and partaking, seems not to
have been determined.
Another subject was, " Who are entitled
to vote in the calling of a pastor ?" The
decision was, that none but communicants
who submit to the discipline of the church
are entitled to vote, and of communicants,
none but those who pay their just propor
tion, according to their own engagements,
to the expenses of the church, can vote.
A complaint was entered, and the matter is
to be carried to the next Assembly.
A third subject was, the. New Department
in Centre College. The decision of this
was deferred for a year, to afford opportu
nity'for a fair trial of , the new scheme.
AN APPEAL POI TEEIIIBLE CANE.
The Allegheny Bible Society of Alle
gheny City was organised for the purpose
of circulating the Holy Scriptures without
note or comment in that part of our county
lying North of the Ohio and Allegheny
rivers, and to aid the Pennsylvania Bible
Society with its surplus funds.
.„ • -
A Bible Agent, or Missionary, is con
stantly engaged, under the direction of a
Board of Managers, in exploring all the
territory, under our care, including the
city and suburbs, to find out all who are
without a copy of the Holy Scriptures, to
supply the want, and kindly and earnestly
to impress upon all with whom he is per
mitted to converse, the importance of read
ing and studying God's Word.
Nearly all the Evangelical denomina
tions of Christians in the city are repre
sented in the Board of Managers.
Unfettered by denominational lines, our
Agent goes forth to'his work,
That
that
every maw is his brother. That wherever
there is an immortal soul lying in darkness
and ignorance, there his work is. .
His motto, " The Holy Scriptures with
out note or comment to all who will receive
them."
He sells the Book at the Bible Society's
price, to those who can buy. If any are
unable to pay the full price, be sells for a
half, or a quarter of the price. And if
any person wants a Bible who is too poor to
pay anything, he freely gives it.
We ask thu Christian public to help on
this good work by their prayers and con
tiibutions.
Mr. ROBERT DAVIN our faithful Agent,
has now commenced his labors in the city
and suburbs. We ask for him a kind re
ception; and when he calls for donations
and subscriptions, a liberal response.
THOMAS MCIOANCIIE, President.
.Tames Mc Cam:Ness,
J. P. Fleming, ,
William Magee, E x . C.
, %Warn Park, j . ,
8 A r • Davis,
a a BRYAN ' Rem Secretary'.
"FOR," AND "10."
Words aro things. They are things of
great utility and great power. They con
vey ideas, express sentiments, communicate
knowledge—they govern the world—they
determine the eternal state of men. They
should hence be well chosen, apd used
aright. The words used . . by a people not
only express their sentiments, but they
also serve to form sentiments, or change
sentiments.
The little words placed at the head of
this article, are among the things of pow
erful influence upon both sentiment and
conduct We notice a wrong use of them,
which is becoming very fashionable, and
which is likely to do a, vast injury to min
isters,, congregations, and the cause of
Christ,
In recent times it is becoming exceed
iney rare to hear it said of a minister, be
.preached to the people. The fashionable
mode of speech is, he' preached for the
people." This manner of expression may
have once been entirely innocent, and even
proper. A minister does preach for the
people's benefit. But this, we fear, is not
the common idea meant to be conveyed now
by the language. It now is rather used to
intimate that the minister isthe employee
of the people, their servant, their depend
ant, bound to .please them. This alters the
nature of'the relation between him and
them. It robs him of regard, them of ben
efit, and the Master of lionor and glory.
The true minister is a servant of Jesus
Christ. His. Lord called him, endowed
him with qualifications, commissioned him,
gave him his message, sent him. He is
the ascension gift of Christ. He is: an
Ambassador' of Christ. He preaChes for
Christ, as though God besought men by
him. And he preaches to' men. He
,de
livers God's messages to men. He in
structs men. He tries to convert men.
When he labors faithfully; it is as though
in Christ's stead he prayed men to be re
conciled to God. This is the manner in
which the Scriptures, speak. And. ininis
ters should• thus speak, and magnify their
office, and feel their responsibility; and
people should thus speak, and keep up in
their minds a proper feeling of, regard for
the preached Word, and of solemnity under
the apprehended results of the hearing of
the instructions, invitations, promises, and
threatenings sent to them.
The proper' use of these two little words
is hence of vast importance. Upon it
hang eternal things. When 'we say, the
minister preaches for'us, there is no direc
tion of the mind heavenward, no sense of
personal responsibility. He is as one of
us. We employ him. We have a right to
direct him, criticise him, keep him, or turn
him off. He is of the earth we are of the
earth; all is earthly. But if we say, the
minister preaches to us, the thought is at
once, by what authority, who sent him,
whence his message, what the responsibil
ity. The mind goes to heaven; to find the
authority, and to the judgment seat to
learn the resultof heeding, or of refusing.
. And so also the influence on, the minis
ter will be great. If he preaches for a
people, he must please 'thud, and 'if they
are too hard to please, he may leave them.
If they pity him well, he will continue to
serve them ; if others will pay . him better
he will remove and preach for others. But
if he preaches to a people, then be is
Christ's ambassador ,• then he must please,
not men, but God; then,he must reconcile
men to God; then he must preach whether
they will' hear, or forbear; then he must
abide and preach, till God calls him away.
How vastly different the feelings, the sense
of responsibility, the preaching, the hear
ing, the conduct, and the actual results,
temporal and eternal, when the divinely
constituted relation between minister and
people is rightly apprehended !* And how
intimately that apprehension is connected
with the very little words " for,""And " to !"
Who preached to you, last Sabbath?
.dlr A. preached to us ; and it was evident
that he regarded himself as sent of God.
He delivered his message with deep earn
estness. He pleaded for Christ. 'He could
not think that his 'work was done, unless
we were reconcilei to God.
TIM SYNOD 'OF PITTSBURGH.
This Synod has just concluded its An
nual meeting. The place of assembling
was the beautiful and flourishing borough
of Indiana. The sessions were continued
from Thursday noon, the 18th inst.„_ till
Monday evening, - Therseas much preach
ing, religious conference; and prayer. On
Sabbath all the evangelical pulpits except
the Episcopalian, in and near Indiana, were
occupied by the members. All the, busi
ness brought before the body was duly
transacted, and the last two hours were
consecratedlo devotional exercises.
The meeting was large, about one hun
dred and fifty members being present.
The interest felt by the citizens was mani
fated by their full attendance on the Sab
bath-day exercises, by the large number
who were present on other days at the
times allotted to worship, by the auditors
who were with us at business hours, and
by their abounding hospitality. Indiana
will be long remembered, and often and fa
vorably spoken of.
Thee business of the deepest concern,
both to members and citizens, was that of
Domestic Mission& The subject was /12-
troduced by Rev: THOS. L. JANEWAY, D.D.,
of New-Jersey, who appeared as a repre
sentative of the Board. Dr. JANEWAY
presented his remarks under three heads;
the Present Position of the Board; its Ne
cessities; and, its. Adaptation to the Mis
sionary Work.
1. The Board'spresentposition he regard
ed as favorable. It Was in a healthful con
dition. There was an increase of , laborers
beyond the number employed in any former
year. Means also had been obtained to
meet appropriations, so that the workmen
were paid. The sources of the Board's in
come are, contributions by the churches,
legacies, and ,individual donations. The
first was the main reliable source. The
others were fluctuating. The churches
were expected to contribute every year, and
that with some degree of uniformity,both
as to amount and increase. Their liberali
ty was indicative of their state of piety
and their'devotedness to the cause. The
Board'want a regular flow. It was desire
ble that contributions should come from all
the churches. It was a duty. Giving was
reidly'a' Vent& tb the -Over'. Little gifte
PRESBYTERIA2eBANNER.---SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1860.
should not' be despised. 'A multitiide of
small streams , flowing ,together, make the
mighty river. Twenty dollars from a•small
country church was an exercise of more
liberality than a hundred times as much
from a wealthy churchin the city.
The necessities of the Board were feel
ingly presented. The immense Pacific
Coast, its States and Territories, should
immediately be occupied , by a vast increase
of missionaries. Multitudes of men were
flocking there. The population must be
come exceedingly great, and now was the
precious moment for Presbyterians to
work. Others were busy. The ground
was being occupied. Men were wanted
there, and means were wanted by the
Board, to send men there, and to "sustain
them, till churches , could be established.
The Territories, on' this side of the Becky
Mountains, were calling for aid. .Kansas,
just now, wants fifteen additional ministers.
Nebraska needs a number. Other partS
need large accessions. The Chiniquy
Colony also made S. large demand upon the
resources or the treasury. There was
needed, this year, $150,000 and then there
should be still 'an annual increase. •The
people of New-York had just
_expended a
quarter million dollars, to see and enter
tain the Prince of Wales, and could not
the whole Presbyterian Church expend
their hundreds of thousands in the: cause
of their Lord. We must save 'to send
abroad. We are bound to send the Gospel
to the needy. •
The Adaptation of the Presbyterian
Church to the Domestic Missionary work,
Dr. JANEWAY regarded as admirable. Its
ministry, eldership, mode of worship, con
servatism, acceptability in North and South,
gest and West, fitted it for doing just the
work which our whole country nceded.
Presbyterians he did not regard as the
most rapid people in the world; but,
though slow, they were Sure. They were
a united people. They had also numbers
and wealth, and they held to. the doctrine
of perseverance, and he felt persuaded that
they-would yet'occupy this large country.
The speaker was listened to with deep
attention. He attracted much favor, both
to himself and the Board, and it was deeply
regretted that some things in the 'Board's
present administration rendered it impossi
ble for the Synod to commend it, unreserv
edly and unconditionally, to the favor of
the churches. A perseverance in what the
Synod had twice previously spoken of as a
needless expenditure of money, and the
means used by, apart of the present admin
istration to attain an end, made it necessary
that a commendation, most cordial as to
the Board's object and organization, should
be accompanied by an intimation that ev
ery thing is not satisfactory in the carrying
on of affairs. Two years ago, the Synod
mildly stated a grievance. Last year, a
protest was adopted. Now, as an ultimate re=
sort (as we hope,) it has been determined' to
memorialize the General Assembly. The
Synod's action in the case will appear in
the Minutes, which we expect to issue in
our next. The discussion of the subject
was more earnest, full, and pointed than on
any fomer occasion, but it was .fespectful to
personal feelings, noble, Christian. The
desire was most xnanifest to place the Board
in such an aspect before the churches, that
every Christian, the poor as well as the
rich, might contribute cheerfully, under
the full assurance of an effective,• wise, and
duly economical administration.
WEEK OF PRAYER
A LETTER FROM DR. DifFE
The following letter of Dr. Dirrx, en
clSsing an invitation from the 'Cu'elate
Missionary Conference to the Christian
people of this country to unite with them
in the observance of the first week of Janu
ary next, as a season of prayer for the con-
Version of the world, .has been kindly fur
nished us by the gentleman to whom it
was addressed, for publication, and will, we
have no doubt, meet with a hearty response
from all those who love the Lord Jesus and
pray for the coming of his kingdom. Sim
ilar calls was issued by the General
Assembly, at their meeting in Rochester
last Spring, by the _British Branch of the
Christian Alliance and other religious bodies
both in this country and Europe, showing
what a deep , hold this measure has taken
upon the hearts of God's people in all parts
of the world. The suggestion, it will *be
remembered, came originally from our breth 7
ren of the Lodiana mission. They had just
passed through a season of great tribulation,
and being deeply impressed with' the thought
that no great progress could be made to
ward the conversion of the world until the
sympathies and prayers of God's people
were heartily united in the work, they cere
induced to send forth this call which has
been so extensively and so heartily responded
to, and which has already been productive
of so many blessings, both to the Christian
and heathen world. We trust it will; be
come a consecrated season of prayer, and
may be one of the chief means under the
control of the Holy Ghost of arousing the
Church to the great obligation of• spreading
the knowipdge of the Gospel among all the
nations of the earth. -
We notice that the Calcutta Missionary
Conference have designated the first day
of January as the time of commencing this
season of prayer, whereas the General As
sembly have appointed the first Monday,
(the 7th) and the l3ritish Branch of the
Christian Alliance the first Sabbath of the
month (the 6th.) As there is substantial
agreement between the last two, we have
no doubt our Calcutta brethren, as soon as
they know of it will conform theirs accord
ingly.
The following is the action of the General
Assembly, viz. : "Resoltied, That the Assem
bly recommend to all the churches under
their care, to observe the second week in
January, 1864 commencing on Monday of
that week, as a season of special prayer for
the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on,all
flesh; that his Word may have free course
and be glorified, that his king,dom may
come, and hit, will be done on earth as in
heaven ; and the Assembly affectionately
invite all who love the Lord Jesus Christ,
to unite With them in such •observance, at
the time and for the objects specified."
CALCUTTA, August 8, 1860.
MY DEAR FRIEND :—The invitation, of
which a few copies are forwarded to you by
this mail, will, on- perusal,' explain itself.
It is with much diffidence and humility
that it ih isareld at all. But OhriStian Wee
on the banks of the Hudson will rightly
interpret and respond to , any emanation of
Christian love from , the banks of the Gan
ges. What, is Christian in Calcutta has
alreldy been greatly moved and stirred by
the wondrous manifestation of the Chris
tian graces in New-York and the United
States generally; and' if but, the fitintest
reflection of tbe light and heat thus com
municated to uer trom afhr, reach back
across oceans and continents, we feel sure
that the large and liberal hearts so rife
among you, will not. despise it because of
its tiny littleness and feebleness.
It is not among. Europeans only that the
influenee of the great American Revival
has been felt. Many of the native Chris
tians have been powerfully moved by it.
Whenever authentic accounts of it began
to reach me, I read extracts, with accom
panying remarks, to assemblies of native
Christians, others, l also, have been doing
something of the same kind. In this way,
Dr. Prime's excellent work on " The Power,
of Prayer" has been singularly useful. It
is one of the happy effects of teaching
numbers of natives to read and understand
the English, language, that rousing, books
of this description can at once be put, into
their hands, without 'waiting for the slow
and tedious procesS =of translation ; and it,
vast deal can be perused which it .would
not be possible to translate at all. Living
as we do,,surrounned bypich frowning; and`
to human eye, such impregnable ditadels'
of heathenism, we t feel, with an_ intensity
which no language can express, that the
one thing supremely needed by us is the
outpouring of God's Holy. Spirit ; and that
to obtain so signal.a favor the one grand
instrumentality supremely. needed is the
spirit of fervent, intense wrestling, unwea
rying, persevering prayer. And what' a
gloricua thing to think - of universal prayer
—prayer simultaneous froni all
God's people in all linds • what, a glow
ought the consciousness of so sublime a
spectacle to. enkindle in every bosom ani
mated with the love of God and ;the love
of Man; and burning with intense desire,
for
. the coming of the time when the earth,
the whole earth 'shall be fdled with the
glory of the great~ Jehovah.
Iu eonne4cion *ith - this subject I cannot
but recall to mind the loss which your con
gregation—and not that only, but New
-
York, the United States, and I may truly
add, the *hole Christian' world`"--hag sus
tained in, the
,dePartare of your, revered
pastor, Dr. AtExANDER ; a man whose re
fined and well-cultivated mind and noble
accomplishments would have enabled' him
to dignify and adorn the *elks of highest
literature, but who joyfully consecrated all
his powers to the Crosa of Christ. Some
of his treatises connected with the great
revival have reached, and edified and glad
dened souls on',the plains of India,, and
here--,--even here; far, far away—some of us
feel as if in him we had lost a father and a
friend.
lint he walked with' God, was ripe for
glory, and, therefore,God took him. May
his mantle fall on ,his,successor, and a dou
ble portion of his.spirit on his children in
the Lord. . Yours ,affectionately,
ALEXANDER DUFF
t
INYIrATION,
FRE& THE CALCUTTA MiSSIONARY CONFERENCE,TO
UNITED. PRAYER, DURING THE -FIRST ,WEEK OF
ZAHHARY 1861.
"To all that in every pia& call upon the name
of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and'ours ;
giace be unto you, and peace, from God our
Father and from the'Lord Jesus Christ."
•
BELOVED BRETHREN suggestion
from a &shut land - has reached this Con
ference, which, fort the last thirty years,
has "endeavored to;keep the, unity of the
Spirit in the bond' of peace" among all
evangelical laboreri3 in this ,part of India,
to the effect, -that , we should venture (in
imitation' of ouidear and faithful fellow
workers at Lodiana last year) to invite the
churches of our Lord and Saviour to join
in a special service of prayer and supplica
tion with thanksgiving, at the commence
ment of 1861.
„We, should have welcomed such an invi
tationfrom others; but as it has been .re
quested by some whom we love and honor.
in the Lord, that it should be issued by us
we, desire, in humility,, to make the proposal
—leaving the 'result with Hint " of whom
through whom, and •to whom, are all
things!'
The "signs'of the times" in which our
lot is, cast; the wonderful openings for the
Gospel in China, Japan, and. Central Afri
ca; the restoration of peace to India; the
remarkable movements in Italy and Turkey
—the seats, respectively, of the Western
and the Eastern Anti-Christian tyrannies ;
the stirrings in many places among the
scattered remnants of Israel, " : beloved for
the Father's sake; the blessed and glorious
revivals of religion in the United States of
America, in Great Britain and Ireland,in
Scieeden and other parts of the continent of
Europe • have all combined in creating, in
many hearts, the: joyful hope of the gra
cious Lord's speedily accomplishing mighty
works for the‘f,clory of his own great name.
At " such a time:; as this," it-becomes
his people devoutly' to remember that "His
ways are higher than our ways,. and His
thoughts than our thoughts;' to stir up
themselves in faith to manifest, before the
world, their lively concurrence in -the de
velopment of. His designs and purposes,
and to look for their full and'final consum
mation in the sure and speedy fulfillment of
all his 'promises.
But, " for these things Ire will be inquired
of ' by his believing people; and especially
He will honor and answer fervent, united
Peniel-like prayer. Yet that prayer must•
be accompanied with lowly prostration and,
deep humility of soul, for we are " not wor
thy of the least of His• mercies;" with
heart-felt confession of sin—all sin, private
and public, special ' and general, secret as
well as presumptuous—our personal or in
dividual sin*--our sins as families—our sins
as, nations--our sins as , churches, and with
ardent thanksgivings for Past long-suffering,
patience, faithfulness, and love, amid all our
negligence and indifference, ; our forgetful
ness and ingratitude, our provocations and
affronts. .
• Besides special subjects of prayer which
may be, suggested by local events or peculiar
passing emereeneies, there are certain great
outstanding topics which will readily pre
sent themselve‘to all who are waiting for
the full answer : o the petttion, " Thy king
dom come, thy mill be done .on earth, as it
is in heaven "—rthe outpouring of the Holy
Spirit on all teachers and of the
Gospel in nominally Christian lands, on all
evangelical missions and missionaries amour ,
the heathen, and on the circulation of the
Bible, the indestructible Word ot the Liv
ing God, with all Books and Tracts that
are fraught with its spirit and its truth—
on all means and agencies that have been
instituted , for the saving instruction of the
young, for the . revival of true .religion in
individuals,tamilies and communities " pro
fessieg godliness," and for the evangeliza
tion of.the •sunken masses that live," with
out God and 'without Christ," amid a mul
tiplied exhibition of the ordinances of Gos
pel grace and salvation—and, finally, onthe
varied instrumentalities that are employed
for the destruction and downfall of the gi
gantic systems of Pagan idolatry and super ,
stition, of Anti-Christian error and delusion,
and for the contemporaneous conversion of
Israel and the Gentile nations—all of
which„ in the vast aggregate of their tran
scendent issues and outgoings, shall cause
‘‘ the glory of the. Lard to be revealed, that
all flesh may see it together, as the . mouth
of the Lord bath spoken."
In these' and'such like . exercise of devo-,
lion, we humbly-yet fervently desires to join
with all that." fear the Lord and, speak- of
tim one tb Wither," id every land; and in
order that the union may be general, we
,send forth this timely notice, earnestly be
seeching that no unworthiness on our part
may prevent any of his people from agree
ing with us in this proposed season of prayer
and.supplication on each day from the Ist
January, 1861, to the 7th inclusive.
And God be merciful unto us, and bless
us; and cause his face to shine upon us;
that thy way may be known upon earth, thy
saving health among all nations. Let the
people praise. thee, 0 God; let all the peo
ple praise thee. • let the nations be glad,
and sing for joy; for thou shalt judge the
people righteously, and govern the nations
upon earth. Let the people praise thee, 0
God ; let all the people praise thee. Then
shall the earth yield her increase; and God,
even our own God, shall bless us. God-shall
bless us ; and all the ends of the earth shall
fear him." '
" Even so, come, Lord Jesus; come qttiek
ly% , Amen."
Signed by authority and on behalf of the
Calcutta Missionary Conference.
ALDXANDER DUEY, Chairman.
D. EWART, Secretary.
Calcutta, truly, 186 Q.
EASTER! S=MARY.
BOSTON AND NEW
BOSTON is the head-quarters of Ameri
can Unitarianism. . From it goes forth the
principal contributions in aid of this de
nomination, the leading preachers and lec
turers, and the most influential literature.
Consequently all Unitarian 'movements
have, in a greater or less degree, respect to
Boston." The Annual Convention was
lately held at New-Bedford, Mass., when
the Subjeot that has elicited So much" in
terest for several years, again: came up, viz.:
The decline of, Unitarianism in the East
and the best means to be adopted for its
spread in' the West. The thoughts ex
pressed and the schemes proposed in this
matter were wondrously various, showing
an entire want, of any definite system or
principle of Operation. Some supposed
that if $50,000 could be expended, and
fifty men employed every year in the West,
great results would follow. But how to
get either the money or the men. was not
so very - apparent. Mr. Pierpont held that
slavery was the great obstacle to raising
money. Dr. Elliott, of St. Louis, seemed
to have some proper apprehension of the
difficulty, and, suggested that the preaching
of the Cross • might be advantageous. Mr.
stay expressed the belief that female
preachers might do a great work in the
desired Western field. At length it was
proposed that each minister should give
the avails of one Sabbath's preaching to
the fund for Missionary purposes Mr.
.Pierpont was willing to pledge himself to
this if he could only get a pulpit topreach
in I It seems that pulpit doors haie not
been generally opened to this gentleman
for some time. His intercourse with the
spirits of the departed .has done but little
to enlist the spirits of the living in his, be
half. Mr. Nightingale was somewhat dis
respectful, • and cruelly intimated' -that
"most of 'the churches were not Christian
churches—not precisely an aristocracy, but
more properly, a snobocracy.” Mr. Wm.
,J. Clark was not a little disheartened. In
his opiniOni neither ministry nor people
showed much inclination to missionary
labor. Mr. Hale suggested that the dif
ficulty about raising funds lay in Unitarian
Congregationalism,; a sort of Presbyteri
anism would do this work much better. It
was
the opinienof Mr. Hill that the Ifni
•
tarian churches were cold, their atimation
•
Was suspended—they needed a revival.
Mr. J. F. Clarke was crrieved at these con
fessions.; - they • had better be restrained ;
there had been already enough of self
criticism., Dr. Putman referred to the
late meeting of the American Board of
Foreign' Missions, and advised a - closer
imitation of other denominations in their
modes of raising money for benevolent and
religions objects. This entire discussion,
conducted for the most part by men of
acknowledged ability and enlarged culture;
is very humiliatincr and at the same time
very instructive. It is humiliating to see
. •
such men giving vent to such puenhties.
And it is instructive, because it shows
that when the true doctrine thneross is
• •
taken away from a people, all true life and
spiritual energy depart. Unitarianism
must restore Christ to his' rightftil place,
in their system, or increasing weakness
and final extinction are inevitable.
•• At • a UNIVERSALIST CONVENTION, re
-
wady held in 13'oston, Mr. Skinner, one of
the ablest preachers of the denomination,
said that after twenty years' labor,; he' had
not been able to induce the members of
the Society to join the Church. The Apos
tles of Jesus Christ found no difficulty,
even though persecution even unto death,
stood in the way. Evangelical ministers
have found no such diffi.culty. What is
the matter with Universalism.? Why, it
is'so obviously of the world that its worldly
converts see no diffierence, - and therefore
see no sense in joining a church.
At the conclusion of the recent PESTI-
vAL of the American Board of Commis-
sioners for Foreign Missions, Rev. Dr.
Anderson invited to his house fifty-five
missionaries who had attended the session
of the Board. While at his house these
missionaries repeated the first sentence of
the Lord's Prayer in twenty different-lan
guages. •
THE FOLLOWING which we take from
the Christian Intelligencer is worthy of
being read and remembered. Mr. Cheever
is a brother of the noted Dr. Oheever of
Nevr-York. Dr. Bacon and Mr. Wolcott
are the ones who lead in the crusade
against the American Tract Society at the
Anniversaries, because it would do nothing
in the matter of slavery. And Dr. Tyng
is thb man who so abundantly denounc
ed that Society, because of this silence:
During the meeting of the American Board in
Boston, Rev, Henry T. Cheerer offered resolu
tions condemnatory of the slave-trade. Among
those who opposed the introduction of those res
olutions were Rev. Mr. Bacon and Rev. Mr.
Wolcott. As those gentlemen were foremost in
• the attempt to force similar resolutions upon the
American Tract Society, it is to be presumed
' that they have either changed their opinions as
to the propriety of insisting upon their paisage
by voluntary Societies, or else they think it
makes a great difference whether they are pre
sented to a catholic Society or to a Congregational
body. Be this as it may, it is at least, plain that
if they were honest in refusing admission to the
American Board, of resolutions touching the
slave-trade, they had no right to demand that
the. American Tract Society should entertain
anything of the kind.
We have charged the opponents of the Tract
Society with being governed by‘ sectarian and
factional motives and feelings. If the charge has
at any time, been deemed severe, it was never
, proved to be more so, than now, when sive.funi Dr.
Tyng; in the Epistoler:el Convention, and'Dr. Ba
con and Rev. Mt-Wolcott in the Al3ol'loll. /Nord,
advocating precisely that course of action which
they condemned the Tract Society for pursuing.
Certainly there was far more reason for asking
the Episcopal diocese j which is a purely ecclesi
astical body, and the American Board, which hag
missions in Africa, to pronounce upon the char
acter of the slave-trade, than to ask the Tract
Society to perform this questionable duty. Hence
forth, the consistency of certain gentlemen may
be required in proof of their "sincerity.. At all
events, we expect the public to remember that
Ara. Tyng and Bacon, and Mr. Wole.ott areoppos
ed to resolutions about slaikery in their own
church bodies. .
The FRIENDS OF FOREIGN MISSIONS
will find with satisfaction that the Vermont :
churches have this year made an advance.
of forty-four per cent. This is ten per cent.
more than the proportion of advance needed
by the Board from all its patrons, to re
move the debt, and meet the expenses of
the year. The whole amount of the present
missionary year is $16,815A2.
EIGHTEEN MINI:MED copies of Prof
Phelps' " Stall Flour," have recently been
ordered for gratuitous distributiim in An
dover and North Andover, Mass., and sev
eral hundred have, in like manner, been
furnished to students in Amherst and
Williams' Colleges. Since its publication
in January last, more than thirty thousand
copies have been sold.
MESSRS. GOULD & LINCOLN, of Boston,
announce a new work on " Ecclesiastical
Law," by Edivard Buck, Esq., of that city.
It will exhibit the legal relations of minis
ters, churches, church officers and members,
religious Societies, parishes, and councils.
NEXYORK.
The excitement-occasioned by the visit
of the PuxNcx WALEs has died out. It
is now talked of as a thing of the past.
And metropolitan extravagance, fashion,
and folly quietly await some new sensa
tion, a thing not likely to be, long delayed.
In the meantime commerce, trade, and 'en
terprise, are as active and untiring as ever.
Large vessels, immense warehouses, 'and
palatial stores are continually in progress.
On . Broadway, notwithstanding the millions
already expended in building, great-chang
es are made every few months.
Mu. A. T. STEWART, the Dry Goods
Crec.sus, has purchased the block bounded
by Broadwa: nd Fourth Avenue, and Ninth
and Tenth. Streets, and within the past two
weeks a few of the buildings on the site
have been demolished, preparatory to the
erection of some noble iron stores.. There
are to be in all twenty-one stores, five sto
ries high, aside from basement and subeel
lay, covering the entire bleak. The cost is
estimated at $750,000. They are intended
for leasing, as Mr. Stewart has no intention
of removing his own business from y his
present location.
DL CUMMING'S NEW WORK haS been
secured by Messrs. Rudd & Carleton; who
will issue it in uniforin style with his Great
Tribulation to which indeed it is connected
by its subject matter. It- is entitled Re
demption Draweth, Nigh,; or, The Great
Preparation 4 and will include the two ser
mons lately delivered with so much eclat at
the French< Protestant chapel, the " Ora
toire," at Paris—" The Future of the
Earth," and "The Future of England.."
Whatever may be thought of Dr. CrOD-
Tiling's theories, his own sincerity in their
belief is manifest, as the near approach of
the time be now fixes for, the consummation
of all thinn-1867—will soon experi
mentally test their truth.
SHELDON & CO. are preparinv a- large
edition- of "Everett's Washington," to be
illustrated and printed on toned paper.
Thee same house also have the following
works in press. The second volume of the
new edition of " Milman's History of Latin
Christianity;" the second and last volume
of the . " Annotated Paragraph 'Bible ;" the
"Southern Colonies," being. Volume 111.
of" " Abbott's American History; "A
Higher Arithmetic," by A. Schuyler; and
an "Excursion to the Orkney Islands," by
Jacob Abbott.
DR. CREEVER'S CHURCH is in a very sad
condition just now. Meeting after meeting
is held. Party spirit runs, high. elim
inations and recriminations are made by
each party against the other. The police
are in attendance to preserve the peace.
Forty four of the leading members have
published a declaratron' that they are not
paupers, that their church has no need of
foreign aid, and urging British Christians
to decline making contributions upon the
Solicitations of Dr. Cheever. The state of
the church is pitiable, .and that of Dr.
Cheever is no less so.
THE WANT OP CHURCH ACCOMMODA
TIONS in the lower part of the city is be
ginning to awaken great anxiety among
Christians. FOr it must not be supposed that
by the growth of the upper part of the city,
the lower part is depopulated: Fashion
and wealth move up town, but people of
moderate means cannot do so. Nor are the
inhabitants of the lower wards composed
altogether of the vicious, by any means, but
a large population of great respectability is
also found here, as is evident to every vis
itor. Yet it is a note-worthy fact that in
the lower part of the Fifteenth ward, there
are now no less than five church edifices for
sale. in the wards below, the number of
churches have been continually diminish
ing—so that now in the First there is but
one, Trinity; in the 'second but three; in
the Third but two, St. Paul's, and the Ro
man Catholic, St. Peter's; in the Fourth
but three; in the Seventh, with a popula
tion of 35,000, but six, and they so small as
to be able to accommodate only 5,000 per
sons ; and the Eleventh, with a population
of 80,000, has church accommodations for
only ten thousatd. During the last twenty
years, thirty-etoo churches have been sold
out below Grand Street, and no others have
been erected in their places, though, not
withstanding all the encroachments or
business, the resident population below
that line is now, far larger than then. Of
course it is understood that the lower wards
are not specimens of' the remainder of the
eity-r.the great upper half, where the
churches have increased so that they now
number over three hundred.
,But the fact
that in so large a section of the city the
tendency is so continuously toward the
worse, ought to arrest attention.
On Monday evening the congregation of
the Brick chuOch presented a service of
silver to their venerated pastor, Ruv. Du.
SPRING, on the occasion of the fiftieth an
niversary of his pastorate over the church.
Addresses were delivered by Mr. Horace
Holden, Daniel Lord, Dr. Humphrey, Dr.
Krebber, Dr. Murray, Rev. Dr. Spring' and
others, and it was an occasion of special in_
terest to a large congregation. The service
consisted of twelve silver goblets and two
large silver salvers. On one of the latter
is an engraving of the old Brick Chard ,
and on the other an engraving of the n ew
edifice. They each bear the following in
scription
Presented to
Rev. GARDINER SPRING, D. D.,
on the
60.ru ANNIVERSARY
of his
Pastorate over the Brick Church,
August, 1860.
The address of the venerable Dr. Spi n ,.
was very appropriate and very touching.
PHILADELPHIA.
M.R. Goma has delivered three lectures
on Total Abstinence; under the auspices of
the Young Men's Christian Association, to
crowded assemblies. He still retains all
the intense earnestness and wonderful dra.
matic power of former years. He gains the
attention of his hearers at once and keep s
it to the end. He employs but little ar
gument, and gives but little instruction,
but in anecdote, imagery, and pathos, he is
exhaustless. It is certainly high time for
something efficient to be done in this cause.
THE SYNOD OE PHEGADELPHIA. cor e .
meneed its annual session at Germantown,
on Thursday of last week. Rev. Dr. Grier,
of Mifflinburg, Penna., preached the open
ing sermon. This Synod is the oldest and
largest in the United States. Its organ
ization dates from the year 1717, seventy
two years before the organization of the
General Assembly; and although it has
been several times divided, and its limits
much abridged by the formation of new
Synods, it now contains two hundred
churches, and 195 ministers, in the States
of Delaware and Maryland, and, with the
exception of the Presbytery of Carlisle, all
the Old School Presbyterian churches in
Pennsylvania, from the Delaware to the
Eastern vale of the Alleghenies. The
Rev. W. P. Breed was chosen moderator.
The Rev. Dr. Lowrie, of New York, made
an interesting address in behalf of the cause
of Foreign Missions. When this address
was concluded, on motion of the Rev. Dr.
Dickey, the cause was commended to an
increased interest in the prayers, and labors
and contributions of God's people.
The Rev. Mr. Fish, a representative of
the Free Church of France, was introduced
to the Synod by Dr. Boardman. He pre
sented some cogent statements in favor of
effort to strengthen and extend evangelical
religion in his native country. The cause
was commended to the churches.
Dr. Junkin presented to the Synod Rev.
Mr. Irwin, of the lowa Indian Mission, who
was listened to with much pleasure in the
remarks which he offered.
The Rev. Dr. Maigrave, with his usual
ability, presented the claims of the Do
mestic Missionary Board.
The Brainerd church. of Easton, was
chosen for the next meeting.
An overture was presented from the Pres
bytery of Philadelphia, asking the Synod
to divide that Presbytery, and ti :e request
was granted. =
„Egcli:RlSsTicAL.
•
'ff4rl 'Wu • , 7
Rev. T.B. LEA was installed pastor
over Mt. Taboit i ,4 fl utat on the Bth inst.
Sermon by the Rev:Wilgam McMichael.
Charges by Rev. C. P: "'Cummings.
Prospects good. Mr. Leason's Post
Office address is changed from Leechburg,
Pa., to Brockville, Pa.
For the Presbyterian Banner.
Tho Choctaws Starving !
MESSRS. EDITORS is probably un
known to the Christian public that famine
with all its horrors is.upon the poor Indi
ans. The South-west generally has ex
perienced unwonted drought; so that
bread is scarce, and in many localities the
people are in great want. But in the
Indian Territory, the destitution is appall
ing! By letters received from my son and
his wife, I learn that many of the Choctaws
are in danger of famishing for want of
food. "They are starving now," writes
my son. The Only subsistence of many is
wild roots and berries. For two or three
years their corn crop, (their principal de
pendence,) has beettshort. But this year
it failed entirely. Acorns too have rioted.
Game has became so scarce that they can
not depend upon it much more than we
could in' Western Pennsylvania. They
have nothing left but their cows. Some of
them subsist wholly on the milk of these.
We have sympathised with the Chiniquy
Colony, and with the Syrians. The poor
Choctaws are less able to obtain supplies
than either. Many of them are true
Christians. Shall they starve to denth?
It seems to me that an offering more ac
ceptable to our Saviour could not be made
than to send them relief. " I was an hun
gered, and•ye gave me meat." "Inasmuch
as ye have done it unto the least of these
any brethren, ye have done it unto ine."
Who will act the part of the good Samari
tan? -'lf not sooner, the day of Thanks
giving would be a suitable time for benevo
lent hauds to bring their gifts. If trans
mitted to the Mission. Bow, New-York
city, the contributions will find their way
to the sufferers. LOYAL YOUNG.
PEItSONAL.
The gel'. W. Prettyman, Superintendent of
the Methodist - Missions in Bulgaria, writes
from. Shumla, Bulgaria, dated September
"In a letter received a few days Sine°
from our excellent Ambassador, Col. Wil
liams, he informs us with grateful joy,
that of all the numerous American mission
aries seattiered through Syria, in cities,
towns, and in many of the larger Nillages,
not one has suffered personal violence from
the Druses in the late massacres in Syria!
Resignation.—Hon. Israel Washburn, who
has, been elected Governor of Maine, has"'
signed his seat in Congress, to take effect
on the first of January. The vacancy Will
be filled by special election probably oa
the day of the presidential election.
By a strange vicissitude, General Calia , '•
who was shot for invading Costa Rica, suf
fered his execution at the foot of the very
monument erected to his honor, in the Pla
za at Punta Arenas, for his many services to
the country.
Ifidente Pfeiffer, the celebrated traveller,
bas left in manuscript, an autobiography ,
and an account of her last voyage to _Nada
ga,icar, - Which is about to be published b'
her son, at Vienna.
Lord Beaumont, a Roman Catholic and a
member.of one of the oldest Catholic fami
lies in England, was received into the Priit
estant Episcopal church at Leeds, Eng
land, last month. •
'The Postmaster-General has extended the
maitcontraet from St. Joseph to Salt Lake
Cityovith the present contractors, the Cen
tral. Overland Mail Company, W. 11. litu 3 '
sell;' president:;. This insures the colitis
tlane4 of the Pony Express.