were the very words which were used,
ai.d when they considered that, , they
must regard
,the Pope in that moment as
the greatest personal enemy of Christ."
This was received with loud cheers. He
then went on to notice the dogma, that only
priests could interpret the Scriptures, and
that because " they had the Holy Ghost."
He answered this by an argumentum ad
hontinem—showing that in the Sacrament
of Confirmation the, layman received the
Holy Spirit (according to the Church's
t%chings,) ,AS well as the Pope, bishops,
and priests. " Where was the use of re
ceiving Him in the Sacrament, if the man
was still so ignorant and stupid that he
could not interpret the sense of the .Scrip
tures as well as the priests and the pope ?
This was a very simple and unanswerable
argument. If they believed in Christ's
promise, that every man who asked for it
sincerely would receive the Holy Ghost,
the Spirit of light and truth, which was
to be given to his Church, then the Church
of Rome must hold a fundamental error."
He compared the Romish Sisters of
Charity (whom we meet just now pretty
frequently in London itself,) to the beauti
ful sea, which reflected the stars, the moon,
and the rays of the sun, and "when all
these things were seen depicted, a man was
apt to feel moved and forget the rocks and
shoals 'beneath, and that the waters were
bitter. In the same manner when Protest
ants as well as Romanists, saw the sisters
of Charity going to humble dwellings, to
the rocky hills of Sebastopol, we are apt to
forget that there was any thing bitter
about these noble women, and only look at
their charity." He then said that the an.
swer of Protestants to this argument of
Romanists had been given, but not by a
theologian. "It had been answered by
that angel of Great Britain, Florence
Nightingale. * * It great Britain had
many Nightingales, what a blessed change
there would be ere long I It was upon the
minister's of religion, the Gospel, that the
eyes of Roman Catholics were now placed.
They were fast losing faith in. their own.
Church. The only way to convert the
Roman Catholics and the infidels, was to
labor among the poor, and to minister to
their wants; and when God had blessed
their work and united them into one true
family, then would the Roman Catholics
and infidels unite with them, and together
would they bless the Lord forever."
Dr. Guthrie in moving a vote of thanks,
said he would not rate the speaker Father
Chiniquy, because he had left that kind of
fathership behind him. He himself had
in former days a great deal to do with the
Roman Catholics, when he was laboring in
the Congate ; and some of them did him
the honor of calling him Father Guthrie.
He repudiated the name. * * One thing
about all, struck him, that Mr. Chiniquy
spoke in the very spirit in which the whole
Romish controversy ought to be carried on.
He was thoroughly satisfied of this, that
if they wished to deal with the Roman
Catholics, they must not only bring Mr.
Chiniquy's head to the controversy, they
"must bring to it his heart also." Verily
it must be gall and wormwood to Bishop
Gellis and his assistant priests, to have to
suffer the exposure of their system by a
MITI so able as this Reformed Canadian.
REVIVAL at Edinburgh seems now to be
a great reality. Open air and other meet
ings have been recently held. The Rev.
Mr. Miller, of Perth—who has witnessed
and powerfully aided in a similar move
ment in his own city—and also many other
persons, including the well-known Evange
list Reginald Radcliffe, and a gentleman
named Ross, froni Aberdeen, only eighteen
years old, took part.in the services at the
Assembly Hall. After the addresses, large
numbers remained to
. be conversed with.
"The scene was most solemn and impress
ive. In one place. might be seen a labor
ing man and his wife in close conversation
with a minister, weeping bitterly; while
hard by, a group of eight or ten persons
might be observed, engaged in prayer.
Small knots of people were scattered over
the galleries, now deriving instruction from
a minister, and then going, in quest of
their friends to communicate the truths
that had been taught." The Scottish Press
says that a clergyman who bad been sitting
in the meeting, became suddenly alarmed
and aw,akened, and came out into the side
room for conversation—himself an anxious
inquirer." Crowds of inquirers also went
into the three rooms 'set apart for their use
where ministers conversed and prayed with
them. Tho scenes were at times very
striking. Many were sitting bathed in
tears, and others seemed, while the minis
ters were speaking kindly into their ears,
completely paralysed and helpless; while
others were on their knees praying aloud
and fervently. ,
HOME EvAbionizamors in Edinburgh,
is also being urgently pressed forward.
The population is 170,000 souls, and of
these nearly 60,000 are non-church-going
persons. There are between 90 and 100
Evangelical ministers, 160 Sabbath Schools,
taught by 1800 teachers, and attended by
18,000 pupils, of whom 3000 are young
men and women, and about 15,000 under
14 years of age. There are also upwards
of 60 city missionaries, who spend five
hours every day in visiting upwards of
2,600 families, or about 10,000 souls.
Immense meetings have been held in
Edinburgh, to hear addresses on the im
portance and duty' of Home Evangelisa
tion. Dr. Norman McLeod, of Glasgow,
delivered a powerful address, of which the
following is a portion :
Having travelled over a great part of the Con
tinent with no careless eye, be would stand up
fearlessly and say that, though vices and evils
might be found in Scotland just as bad as in any
part of Europe, there was such a mass of intel
ligence, purity, religion, and sterling good
qualities characterising the people of this coun
try as might well make us thank God and take
courage. Nay, while we were constantly hear
ing from many quarters about the enormous
work done by the Sisters of Mercy and monkish
orders of the Romish church, he had no hesita
tion in saying—putting, aside the character of
the work (which was a vital question)—that even
as regarded its amount Scotland stood prami
neat. (Cheers.) He meant to say that among
her laity—her ten thousand elders, her thirty
thousand Sabbath School teachers, and her
many thousands of private Christians, who
wore trying according.to their means to advance
the kingdom of God, and teach their fellow-men
the way of salvation—a greater number of
earnest workers for good were presented by
Scotland in proportion to her population, than
were to be found in any other country in Europe.
(Applause.) And what a disgrace would it be
if this were not so! What a libel upon the
Reformation What a libel upon our open Bible,
and our freely-preached Gospel, if these results
did not follow (Cheers.) But then he also
felt that these very blessings and advantages
ought to stir us up to sink as far as possible all
our differences in the one burning desire to try
to beautify our country with the beauty of
holiness—to try to raise up still further dear old
•cotland, so that she might be a praise for all
that was good over the 'whole earth. (Applause.)
In regard to this question of home evangelisa
tion, it was natural to ask how and where it was
to be Inuit v He thought they had a solemn
instance in the history of the man of the country
of the Gadarenes, who was delivered by Jesus
Christ from the devil which had tormented him.
The first work to be done was the inner work of
the heart. The chief obstacle to evangelistic
work, as Paul told the Corinthians, was not so
much in the hostility of the countries round
about as in the state of the heart of the Church
itself. The minister who would impress the
hearts of the people must go forth among them
with the power of sympathy and love. We must
begin with ourselves—in our own rooms and in
our own hearts ; and when the beam was taken
.out of our own eyes, we should be able to see
.clearly how to take the mote out of our brother's
eye. He went on to urge the importance of
mission work at the fireside, of cultivating a
Christian spirit in the family, of promoting a
Christian life among the members of the house
hold—a work of which there were no reports,
which require no secretary and treasurer, and
no funds to be collected- 7 -a work which nobody
saw but the living God and the conscience of the
Individual wati. That with tht irtat tis tiAudath
the Christian character. It might be said that. if
a minister could not rule his own household
rightly, it would be imposssble for him to rule
the House of God. He believed that this was
the thing which was most needed in the homes
of rich end poor. The minister who went into
the wynds and closes was good—the city mis
sionary and the visiting elder were both good—
but the living machinery within the closes
themselves was still awanting, and nothing
could be effected unless there were made Chris
tian fathers and mothers; who would show
in their own families what Christianity was.
All external influences were valuable only when
the inner life was stirred up in the district, and
when the poor people who lived in the wynds
and closes could see their poor neighbors
visiting them and doing kindly offices for them
in sickness. He was certain that there was no,t
one present who might not be •of great service
in this work. As society was constituted, no
tracts could be substituted for the living person—
there was 'a love, a sacrament that bad all its
power from the real . presence that was in it.
There was work that they all might do—it might
be in visiting one family quietly and lovingly,
feeling that they were fellow-workers with
Christ, and that they, were expressing his own
mind, and his own love, to those who were of
his own flesh and blood. There was work they
could do in visiting the poor at their firesides,
and in tending the old in sickness. It was a
blessed and glorious work, and carried its re
ward with it.
Doctor Andrew Thomson followed, and
urged that " the whole city should be oc
cupied by various forms of Christian agen
cy, so that there should not be left a single
man or woman unvisited." This movement
in Edinburgh is being carried forward with
an enthusiasm which nothing but x really
revived Christianity could explain. Need
I add that this is the sure precursor of
abundant blessing to them that are igno
rant and out of the way ?
" SCENES OF TILE ULSTER REVIVAL RE
VISITED," is the subject of a letter ad
dressed to the Record by Benjamin Scott,
Esq., Chamberlain of the City of London.
He states that external demonstrations have
almost wholly subsided; it is like the aug
mented and steady glow of a fire thorough
ly kindly, as compared with the noise and
crackling which preceded it, from the con
flict of opposing elements. The Revival
has passed from the fields and the roadside,
to the houses of the people. Prayer-meet
ings are numberless. A minister said that
in those known best to him, and all the
rains that fell, .he did not hear a prayer for
fine weather; it was spiritual blessings
they sought, and of the weather they said :
" Ah, it is in good hands, and we may as
well leave it there."
Mr. Scott was at two public monthly
fairs, and saw nothing of the drunken rev
elry of former years. He thinks, however,
and in this opinion I entirely agree, that
the influence of the revival on the worldly
is abating, and impressions are wearing out
in the unconverted. But he adds : "It is
quite otherwise with the converts. Only
two per cent. might disappoint expectation.
Only two in one sphere of inquiry out of
two hundred and sixty converts, had been
betrayed into intemperance,'and these did
not apostatize; they publicly confessed and
deplored their sins. Even the pertinacity
of the world in watching for the halting
of professors, has been overruled for good,
inducing close walking and watchfulness.
Then " the thirst for hearing the Word,
is insatiable." Mr. Scott in twenty-one
days, attended twenty-three or twenty-four
meetings. He considered the staff of re
ligious teachers inadequate for the work ;
"some ministers have already yielded their
lives to it." In Antrim and Down, ten
thousand pupils have been added to the
schools of the Sunday School Union, for
Ireland, in addition to nine hundred and
ninety-three gratuitous teachers. This
does not include Congregational Sabbath
Schools generally, or at least fully—only
those assisted by the Union.
DOCTOR CREEVER, who was in London
in the end of July and beginning , ' of Aug
est, preached on the evening of last Lord's
day, in Spa Fields, (Lady Huntingdon's
Chapel.) He had addressed a public meet
ing there previously, and he had also
preached in the pulpit of the Rev. T.
Binney. I am not aware of any general
interest here in his mission, at least in a
practical shape ;. but it may be developed
more fully, seeing that the Congregational
Union, at its recent meeting, passed a reso
lution in its favor. The Glasgow minis
ters have also requested Dr. Cheever to
visit that city, promising him a warm wel
come. I have not had an opportunity of
listening to his statements.
DOCTOR FLETCHER'S FUNERAL took
place yesterday, at Abney Park Cemetery,
at Stokenewington. Abney Park was the
residence of Isaac Watts, who spent the
closing part of his life in the house of Sir
Thomas Abney, one of the Lord Mayors of
Loudon. Within the last twenty years the
grounds were purchased by a Cemetery
Company, and it is now a favorite place for
burial with Nonconformists. Mr. Binney
delivered the funeral oration at an adjoin
ing Chapel, and prayer was afterwards
offered at the grave. Dr. McFarlane, of
Glasgow, is to preach the funeral sermon
next Lord's day. In some published state
ments of last week, Dr. Fletcher was said
.to have died in his eighty-third year. His
real age was seventy-three. There are
those in London old enough to remember
his early popularity between forty and fifty
years ago, as "Young Sandy Fletcher`."
J.W.
P. S.—lt is reported that Capua has
been taken , is entered by the Garibaldiaus,
and that the Royalists are retreating in
Gaeta. Garibaldi invites the Sing of Sar
dinia to come from Ancona to his help,
with fifteen thousand men..
From China we hear of the rebels march
ing in rapid progress in the maritime
provinces, and that the inhabitants of Pe
kin are disaffected and discontented. They
long to see the English there, since they
heard that they had not plundered the dis
tricts visited by them. We have, as yet,
no news of the attack on the Peiho forts.
Washington (Pa.) College.
The subject of the removal of this institution
of learning is being agitated and discussed. It
is indirectly under the guardianship of the
Wheeling Synod of the Presbyterian Church, and
directly under the supervision of the Rev. Dr.
J. IV. Scott, as principal. The Steubenville
Herald says it has been deemed advisable by the
Synod to remove the institution to a more central
and desirable point, generally conceded to be
Steubenville. The writer then goes on to state
the advantages likely to accrue to that village
in the event the removal thither, be brought
about, and urges the citizens to move promptly
in the matter, by appointing a committee to wait
upon the Synod now in session at Cadiz, and ten
der to them suitable buildings, as a donation,
provided the College be permanently located in
their midst.
The above which we copy from the Pitts
burgh Dispatch of theluth, is taken from
the Steubenville Herald of the 16th in
stant. Our neighbor of the Herald has
surely drawn upon his own or some other
persons imagination for his facts. It has
not been " deemed advisably by the Synod
to remove the institution to a more central
and desirable point," nor, if it has been, is
it quite clear that the desirable point is
" generally conceded to be Steubenville."
We understand that a number of the citi
zens of Steubenville made a proposition to
the Synod of Wheeling, at its session in
Cadiz, Ohio, last week, for the removal of
the College to that place, accompanied with
an offer of $15,000, for the erection of
buildings. But the Synod, after a full dis
cussion of the moral and legal aspects of
the question, as well as• the consideration
of advantage and expediency involved, de
cided by a vote almost unanimous, " that
the prayer of the petitioners be not grant
ed.' We respectfully suggest that this puts
quite a different face upon the subject.
It is not improper, however, in view of
this evidence of good faith on the part of
*midi on tire one hand-, and of the value
PRESBYTERIAN BANNER,---SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1860.
attached elsewhere, to the local advantages
of a College, both pecuniary and education
al, on the other, that our people should be
aroused to more vigorous efforts, than those
heretofore made, to supply the means ne
cessary to place our College above want or
danger. Its internal condition is healthy;
its facilities for instruction and its moral
and educational tone are unsurpassed; and
and it only needs. like many other institu
tions, to be supplied with adequate funds in
addition to the endowment already raised,
in order to the accomplishment of the high
est expectations of its numerous friends.
The Synod, we' learn, adopted vigorous
measures upon t. is subject, and it certain
ly becomes the community, in which the
institution is located, to bear its full pro
portionate share of the burden.
We are pleased to learn also that the
Synod nominated the Rev. Alexander
Sweney, of 'New Hafterstown, Ohio, fur the
Professorship of Mathematics, left vacant
by the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Alrich.
Prom what we learn of the scholarship,
ability and energy of this gentleman, and
of the high estimation in which he is held,
we feel assured that the choice is most hap
py, and that his connection with the insti
tution will be highly beneficial. Should
he accept the appointment, as is expected, he
will receive a most cordial welcome.
It will be remembered that the Trustees,
at the late commencement, elected Professor
William Webster,
of New Hampshire, to
fill the chair of Natural Science, in the
place of Professor Brewer, who had resign
ed. It will thus be seen that full arrange
ments are made for carrying on the institu
tion with the greatest vigor and energy.—
Examiner.
Vreshtterian Namur.
PITTSBURGH, SATURDAY, NOVENBER 10, 1860.
Set- Having purchased for our office the Right" to use
Dick's Accountant and Dispatch Patent, all, or nearly alt,
of our subscribers now have their papers addressed to them
regularly by a singularly unique machine, which fastens
on the white margin a small colored " address stamp," or
label, whereon appears their name plainly printed, followed
by the date up to which they have paid for their papers—this
being authorised by an Act of Congress. The date will
always be advanced on the receipt of subscription money,
in exact accordance with the amount so received, all/ thus
be an ever-ready and valid receipt; securing to every one,
and at alktimes, a perfect knowledge of his newspaper ac
count, so that if any error is made he can immediately de
tect it and have it corrected—a boon alike valuable to the
publisher and subscriber, as it must terminate alt painful
misunderstandings between them respecting accounts, and
thus tend to perpetuate their important relationship.
*** Those in arrears will please remit.
Rev. D. Monfort, D. D.—This worthy min
ister of the Gospel died suddenly, at his
residence in Macomb, Illinois, on the 18th
of October.
ReViVal.—For a brief but vivid and most
interestiq, account of the Revival in Edin
burgh, Scotland, and for further notices of
the Irish revival, see our European Cor
respondence.
Ter-centenary Sermons.—The Synod of
New Jersey, per their action published in
another column, invite all the Presbyterian
ministers to unite with them in commemo
rating the first meeting of the General As
sembly of the Church of Scotland. The
meeting occurred three hundred years ago.
The 23d day of December next is the day
appointed for the commemorative services.
Is it Consistent for the New-York Observ
e•, a professedly religious paper, to reprove
The World, a professedly secular paper,
conducted on religious principles, for ad
vertising theatres and other like places of
amusement, while in its own columns bil
liard tables are advertised ? Gr has this
advertisement crept in unawares? The
moralities of the billiard room and the the
atre, are generally considered about equal.
A Newspaper Suspended,—The Presbyte
rian. Witness, a journal of the New School,
South, which was published at Knoxville,
Tenn., has been suspended, or, possibly, it
is deceased. Publishers and editors have
found no adequate remuneration for their
toils and expenses. Possibly the paper
may be resuscitated in Richmond, Va. If
not, the Observer of Philadelphia, will be
the lone weekly organ of that branch of
the Church.
Rather Unnecessary.—At the late meet
ing of the Presbytery of North Alabama,
belonging to the New School Synod of the
South, the following question, among 'oth
ers, was presented by way of overture :
" Is an unmarried man eligible to the office
of Ruling Elder or Deacon ?" - To which
the Presbytery replied : " A man may be
a Ruling Elder or Deacon, without a wife;
but be may not have more than one" !
Now, we take it, that the latter part of this
deliverance was scarcely necessary.
Ecclesiastical "Union in the British Passes-
Sions,—We lately noted the union of. the
Presbyterian and Free Synods of Nova
Scotia, under the title of " The Synod of
the Presbyterian Church of the Lower
Provinces." We can now add, that the
Presbyterian Church of Canada and the
United Presbyterian Church in Canada,
after many efforts, long continued, have
agreed on a basis upon which they hope to
become one ecclesiastical body. The name
is 'to be, "The Canada Presbyterian
Church." Committees have been appoint
ed to rearrange Presbyteries Seminaries,
Form, Mission Schemes, &c., &c.; and the
two Synods are to meet in Montreal, )4ext,
June, for the perfecting of the Union.
THE PRINCETON REVIEW
The October number concludes the Thir
ty-Second volume of the Biblical Repertory
and Princeton Review. For a few years it
was edited by an association of gentlemen in
Princeton, Of whom Rev. CHARLES HODGE,
then quite a young man, was one. Dr.
HoDGE, afterwards became the sole responsi
ble Editor, and continues to make the work
one of the best which the Theology and Lit
erature of the country produce.
Denominational Quarterlies ought to be
prized. To be prized tlfty need to be val
uable, and to supply the stimulant to make
them valuable they ought to be very exten
sively patronized. We regard it as being
almost unpardonable in a minister not to
take at least one Quarterly and one Weekly
journal of his own Church. And we would
hardly know how to excuse the elder who
would be destitute of these essential means
of knowledge. And while every Christian
however retired, poor, and illiterate sheuld
have the Weekly, all who can afford the
money to pay for the Quarterly and the
time to read it r should have it also.
The number of the Princeton now be
fore us, treats us to six excellent articles,
I. The Logical RelatiOns of Religion and
Natural Science; IL The Law of Spir
itual Growth; 111. HORACE BINNEY'S
Pamphlet; IV. Reason and Faith; V.
Napoleon ILL, and the Papacy; VI. Theory
of the Eldership. Short Noticee.
CHRISTIAN GROWTH.
Do Christians grow g Yes; the, chil
dren of God as really grow. as do the chil
dren of men. Growth belongs to their
nature. In their renewal they are not
made in perfect spiritual manhood at once.
They are babes, " new born babes." But
they are not destined to be babes always ;
nor dwarfs either. They are destined to
manhood. They are to come to " a perfect
man, unto the measure of the stature of
the fullness of Christ." This change is a
development—a growth. Food ii provided
to this end. "As new born babes, desire
the sincere milk of the Word, that ye may
grow thereby." The babe, by proper nur
ture, becomes the " little child;" a term
which conveys the idea of an advancement
beyond mere baby-hood. After a time the
little child becomes the "young man."
Next he becomes the "perfect man," full
grown, having his form spread out, his
bodily poWers at their height, and his
mental faculties up to the standard of what
belongs to regenerated humanity. Then,
again, he is denominated a father, from his
advancement ; his labors, influence, expe
rience, and wisdom. Thus growth belongs
to the Christian. It is a.law of his being,
and a fact in his experience,
Do all Christians grow ? Yes; all who
are permitted to abide for any time on
earth, grow. This is evident' from the
nature of the new man, as above set forth,
and evident from the language of Scripture
as cited. The growing nature of the
Christian is set forth by various emblems.
Grace is like the grain of mustard seed.
Is is very small in the germ, but becomes
very large in the plant. It is like leaven ;
invisible, or undistinguishable, for a time;
but it modifies and transforms every out
going and every, faculty of the man—the
whole lump is leavened. It is like the
grain sown in a good soil; there is first,
visible, the blade, then the ear, then the
full corn in the ear. These descriptions
have so much the seemingness of univer
sality, that it would be extremely unwise
and rash, for any one to conclude that he
had the reality of the thing, while this de
velopment is wanting.
Do we not read of some who had been
spared so long that they might have be
come able to teach others, and yet they
needed to be themselves taught the first
principles of religion ? Yes ; but were
these true Christians ? and is there not an
accompanying exhortation, to go on to per
fection ? and is there not a solemn moni
tion of the danger of so falling away as
that it shall be impossible to renew them
to repentance ? And how was it with the
tree that was not a fruit-bearer ? and with
the unproductive branches of the vine?
and with the unprofitable servant? Not to
grow is an evidence of want of real life.
It is a fearful thing, in a member of the
Church, not to grow.
Is Christian growth steady and uniform
Not' entirely so. The plant does not grow
equally apace. Under the influence of a
shower it will advance as much in a day,
as it advances in a week or a month
during drought. The progress of the
leaven varies with the degrees of heat and
cold. The child's advancement in stature,
in mental power, and in moral acquisitions,
varies with •.the means enjoyed. So also
the growth of children in God's family.
All grow, but the rapidity of their growth
is variable. The outward means applied
are variable; and grace comes sometimes in
showers.
Are Christians always COUSCiOUS of their
growth ? No; they sometimes make very
great mistakes, in their judgments of them
selves. They are liable to take spiritual '
pride as an evidence of attainments; and
to regard self-knowledge, humility, and
godly sorrow, as indications of backslid
ing. Our progress in knowledge we may
note, and the growth of our faith and trust
we may appreciate, and the onward course
of our joy and hope we may ascertain; but
when humility is on the advance 3Ve are
liable not to distinguish it as a grace, and
when spiritual vision and a relish for holi
ness are improving, we may even think
that we are going backward, whereas we
are really going forward. JOB had more of
purity when he said, " I abhor myself, and
repent in dust and ashes," than he bad
previously when he said, "Oh that I might
come even to his sight ! I would order my
cause before him, and fill my mouth with
arguments." DAVID had made a great ad
vancement.when he prayed, cleanse me
from blood-guiltiness, 0 God ;" and PAUL
also when, in deep self-abhorrence be cried,
"Who shall deliver me from the body of
this death." A *deeper loathing of sin, and
clearer views of ourselves as we are, and of
God as he is, belong to Christian growth;
but these tend to make us feel more unlike
to God and more unfit for heaven, and hence
may make us think that we are declining.
Still, the Christian grows; and it is his
privilege, and often his consolation, to note
his growth. He is being assimilated more
and more, to his Lord's likeness; purify
ing himself, even , as he is pure ; and soon
he will be like him, in that full perfectness
which belongs to the saints , in glory.
SYNOD OF CALIFORNIA-THE BIBLE IN THE
SCHOOL
We have not seen, as yet, any formal re
port of the proceedings of this Synod. The
following brief and partial notice, we find
in one of our exchanges
The. O. S. Synod of. California met at
Stockton, on Wednesday, October 20th.
The question of the introduction of the Bi
ble into the public schools, by force of
State law, was brought up in the Synod, in
the form of a resolution offered by the Rev.
Dr. ANDERSON, of San Francisco. An ani
mated discussion ensued, in the course of
which the Rev. Dr. W. A. SCOTT, of San
Francisco, delivered a speech opposing the
resolution, and to which Dr. ANDERSON and
others replied. The vote was finally taken
upon the resolution, which declared it as
the opinion of the Synod, that the Bible
should be introduced by law into the pub
lic schools. The resolution was adopted
by ten "ayes, i " to five " noes." The Rev.
Dr. SCOTT, and the Rev. Mr. WoonniuDGE,
of Benecia, entered their protests against
the decision of the Convention.
Our readers will remember that Dr.
SCOTT, unhappily, took very strong ground
against a law providing that the Bible
might be introduced intdi the Public
Schools. The above shows that in this he
does not represent the sentiment of his
Synod. If the• Bible were to be excluded
from the State Schools, those Schools
would then tail to supply public wants, A
sound and enlightened morality is the
grand need of the State. Having this in
a high degree, all things will go well;
without this, all things will tend to ruin.
And to such a morality the Bible is an indis
pensable. There alone is the instruction;
and the sanctions which reach the heart and
influence the life.
EDILITION IN TIIE FAB WEST.
The importance of education, under
Christian influences, none can duly esti
mate. The whole community should enjoy
it. The provision made in the older States
of the Union, to this end, is good, though
still susceptible of improvement. In the
new States, and especially in the Territo
ries, there is a sad want.
In another column we present an appeal
in behalf of Highland University, in Kan
sas. The brethren there are doing admi
rably. They are public benefactop—bene
factors to their Eastern brethren, as well
as to the region where they dwell. Our
sons, brothers, friends, go to the far West.
The new States and Territories are already
a great political power. Soon they will
have a dominant voice in the ruling of the
land. Shall they be adequate to the prop
er use of their influence? This will de
pend upon the character of their education.
Let this be general, and duly imbued with
the spirit of Protestant Christianity, and
all will be well. Let it be such as will be
given at Highland, and spread abroad by
ministers and teachers, who shall be in
structed at Highland, and true religion,
sound morality, and pure patriotism, will
pervade the population, and qualify them
for doing their proper part in both Church
and State.
The aid solicited is small, and should be
cheerfully given. Any sums sent to us,
large or small, will be thankfully received,
and duly forwarded.
TOBACCO.
On our fourth page we give an article of
great value, on the use of tobacco. It is
from one of the most eminent Scientific
Associations in the world, and deserves se
rious consideration. We have no doubt
but that tobacco causes much feebleness,
and shortens many lives. True it is that
many use it, and. live long; and so also
many who inhale malaria daily, live long ;
and many who, in warfare, 'go into deadly
battles, live long. Still malaria and war
fare are highly destructive to human life:
The loss -of time, in the use of, tobacco,
and the expenditure of money; and the pain
caused to your friends by the nauseous odor,
and the pollution and vileness attending
the habit, are also things deserving consid
eration. Let the weed be confined to the
chemists laboratory, and to the drug store,
to be brought forth only when a poison is
needful.
TILE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN QUARTERLY
REVIEW.
This journal, as our readers may know,
is an organ of the United Presbyterian
Church. It is edited by Rev. Dr. KERR,
of our city, aided by Drs. 1 5 RESSLY and
RODGERS, and MR. CLARK. The number
before us (for October,) is the fourth of the
series ; and we may say of it, that it ably
concludes the first volume. Its contents
are, L The Hebrew Servant; 11. The Bi
ble and the School; 111. The Eighth
Psalm ; IV. Church and State ; V. Niag
ara Falls—lts relation to Chronology; VI.
The Recent Syrian Massacre; VII. Trac
tarianism Traced to its Sources; VIII. Ex
amination of 2. Cor. 6-14; and I.
Cor. v : 9-11. IX. The First General
Assembly; Short Notice.
EASTERN SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND NEW-ENGLAND.
THE PRIVATE LIBRARIES of Boston
contain many rare works of the olden
time. These are treasured with the utmost
care, and sacredly transmitted from one
generation to another. In a modest brick
mansion not far from the Common, may be
seen a fine copy of the first edition of
" Paradise Lost," a queer little quarto,
"Printed by S. Simmons, and to be sold
by S.- Thompson, at the Bishops-Head, in-
Duck Lane," &c., &c., 1668. Mr. Sim
mons thought it necessary to apologize in
behalf of Mr. Milton to the readers, be
cause the poem " rimes not," and he accord
ingly puts a note in his own name after the
title page, addressed to the "courteous
reader." An errata corrects the mistakes
of the printer, and this error appears
among other odd emendations " for hun
dreds reads hunderds."
There is also another copy of Milton in I
the library, of special interest, for it once
belonged to the author of " The Clergy,"
and the name of Thomas Gray is written
nine times in the volume in his own hand.
Side by side with this book stands Richard
Baxter's "Holy Commonwealth," dedicated
"to all those 4in the army or elsewhere,
that have caused our many and great
Eclipse since 1646." The date of this
book is 1657, and it once belonged to the
author of " The Excursion ;" it bears on
the flyleaf this signature—William Words
worth, Rydal Mount.
Among the first editions in this choice
library are. Lord Bacon's Advancement of
Learning, Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia,
Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Gray's
Poems, and Dr. Johnson's Rasselas. The
last two volumes are enriched with auto
graph letters of their authors. A portfo
lio lies on the library table containing
manuscripts in the handwriting of Cowper,
Burns, Byron, Campbell, Goethe, Richter,
Pope, Addison, and numerous other celeb
rities. Sidney Smith's famous letters to
the Pennsylvanians, as originally sent to
the press, are in this famous portfolio.
All Theodore Parker's writings have
been transferred to Ticknor & Fields, who
will publish the work he left in manuscript
on Historic Americans. The memoir of
Mr. Parker will be included in the same
volumes, and is now occupying the pen of
Rev. Mr. Weiss. These volumes will no
doubt engage the attention of the reviewers
for a short time, but it is not possible to
give them a permanent popularity. The
evil seed sown by Mr. Parker, will long
continue to bring forth sad results, but
his name and reputation will soon pass
away He had no attribute of immortal
ity.
The Massachusetts ANTIQUARIAN SOCI
ITT proposes to publish another volume on
the Indian lauguages, from papers furnish
ed by T. W. Thornton, and Rev. Mr. Bliss.
The same Society has requested Mr. Henry
W. Poole, to communicate the result of his
proposed researches into the antiquities of
Mexico.
THREE MISSIONARIES of the American
Board, Messrs. Nathan Ward, J. C. Smith,
and Jams Bates, with their wives, and a
child of Mr. Smith, and others, of the
Methodist Missionary Society, embarked
at Boston, October 30, in expectation of
spending their life in Hindoostan.
A DAILY PRAYER MEETING has been
held in the chapel of the Old South church
for ten years. The tenth anniversary was
to be celebrated on Thursday of this week.
Our readers have not forgotten the FALL
OF THE PEMBERTON MILL at Lawrence, Mas
sachusetts, by which so many lives were
lost, and which awakened so much sympa
thy in many parts of the country. The
new Pemberton Mill is now, nearly com
pleted, and has been rebuilt. in the most
substantial manner. It will be in full
operation next January, giving employment
to 1,000 hands, male and female, in making
ticking, shirting stripes, cotton flannels,
cotton pantaloon cloths, cottonades, cotton
vestings and ginghams. It is 84 feet
wide, 284 feet deep, 60 feet high to the
cornice, and with a double attice 91 feet
high to its highest point. It has 480
windows, 4 feet wide and 9 feet high, 4
feet 4 inches apart. The number of bricks
used is set down at 2,200,000. One con
tractor supplied 1,417 barrels of lime, and
521 barrels of cement. The cost of the
whole mill, when completed, will exceed
1 $60,000.
It is a curious circumstance that the
new TRINITY CHURCH on Lord's Hill, at
Hartford, Ct., is to be built from the chureh
on Asylum Street, formerly belonging to
the Unitarians. The stones are taken
down one by one and numbered, and they
will be put up in the same relation on
Lord's Hill to constitute the Episcopal
Church.
ATEW-YORK.
MoNEY continues abundant, but the stock
market has fluctuated a little. Last week
Mr. Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury, Mr.
Thompson, Secretary of the Interior, and
the Governor of Louisiana, were in this
city. During their visit, an attempt was
made to inaugurate a commercial and finan
cial panic, to further political scheming.
Certain presses of this city and the South
were filled with violent declamations, and
absurd prophecies of ruin to the country,
consequent on events which have nothing
to do with the question. For a day or
two it was successful on some of the stocks
most easily influenced, though United
States stocks, which, if there were ground
for a; realpanic, should have been first to
feel the effect of it, were scarcely influenced
at all. The loss to holders occasioned b 5
this unprincipled movement of politicians,
must have been reckoned by hundreds of
thousands, if not millions, of dollars. But
the folly of such a panic soon fOrced itself
upon the holders of stocks, and a Taejon is
now taking place on all the sound stocks.
The CENTRAL PARK contains eight
hundred and forty ems, and the estimated
cost of the ground and improvements is the
snug sum of 412,000,000, but probably the
actual outlay will greatly exceed this
amount. About one thousand five hundred
men are .constantly employed, while fifty
policemen are in attendance to preserve
order among visitors, and protect the build
ings, bridges, trees, &c., from injury. The
surface of the ground was mostly covered
with the rocks; and the greater part of
the soil now in such a promising state of
cultivation was carried thither from a con
siderable distance. On a pleasant Satur
day afternoon it presents an exceedingly
gay and animated appearanCe,. The beau
tiful landscape is all alive with elegant
equipages, equestrians, and richly dressed
pedestrians. The number. of visitors is
very great; take for instance the account of
last Saturday week. Those who keep a
record at the several entrances report eight
thousand seven hundred and fifty pedes
trians, three hundred and seventy-five
equestrians, and three thousand two hun
dred and seventy carriages during the day.
If we allow on an average three persons to
each vehicle, we have eighteen thousand
seven hundred and seventy-six visitors in
the Park in one day. Even this is not
equal to some former occasiens.
The New-York EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE
lately held a meeting in the church of the
late Dr. Alexander, preparatory to com
mencing active operations. Rev. Charles
C. Gross, Secretary, presented a report
giving the population of the wards, the
portions provided and unprovided with
religious instruction, as follows: Present
population, 843,741; places of worship,
274; number provided for, 205,580; num
ber unprovided, for, 638,161. The places
of worship include some twenty-five Mis
sion Stations, twenty-five Catholic churches,
besides twenty others usually termed. un-
Evangelical. Deducting these from the
two hundred and seventy-four, and we have
only some two hundred Evangelical church
es in this city. Including every place of
religious worship of every name, only one
third of the population is provided for.
In every ward except two, there are from
fifteen thousand to fifty-seven thousand
persons who could not enter any house of
worship if they so desired.
It is to be kept in mind that this estimate
includes infants, children, the sick, infirm,
and aged, and those in attendance on them;
so that it is not too much to say that the
reported destitution should be lessened at
least one-half. But even after this deduc
tion is made, the condition of things is
alarming enough. Earnest addresses were
made by the Rev. Wm. A. Hoge, of the
Presbyterian Church, Rev. Dr. Tyng, of
the Episcopal Church, Wm. B. Crosby,
Esq., and others. It is the intention of
the Association to rent a theatre or some
other place on Broadway, for free preaching
on Sunday evenings, another in the Bowery,
during the Winter, and several halls and
cellars in the lower wards; also to institute
open-air preaching in accordance with law,
and so to carry the Gospel to the people.
There are at present no leis than 10,000
ITALIANS in this city. For the most part,
they are a poor, industrious, cheerful peo
ple. Large numbers of them support their
families on a frugal scale by the pennies
worded to the organ-grinders and r .,,,.
pickers. If we visit their humble
on the Sabbaths, we will find in some 01 .
them almost as many monkeys—the a ouoti.
paniment of the organ—as children. 3104.
than one hundred of their children a „
now in a Sabbath School conducted by m,.
Pardee, a devOted city missionary.
THE OLD MANSION of James Beekru an,
erected more than a century ago,
04
Beekman Hill," is still standing, near th e
corner of Fiftieth Street and First Aven ge.
This house, at one time, was the finest mi.
vate residence on the island, and command ;
a grand view of East River, Hell-Gate, and
the surrounding country. It was here that
Washington, Lafayette, and other office rs
the Revolution, often found the repose o r a
quiet home. Here Admiral Howe and his
staff, 'among whom was Prince
Henry, afterwards King of England, n ut &
their head-quarters after the city was taken
by the British. Here, also, General 0115.
ton resided; and here the brave and yo ut h .
ful Hale was tried and condemned to death ;
and it was in this house that Major Andre
spent his last night in New-York. These,
with many other historic associations, a re
; connected with this venerable mansion.
MESSRS. HARPER & BROTHERS have in
preparation a "Dictionary of Biblical Liter
ature," to be completed in two large octavo
volurnns, under the editoral supervision o f
Prof. Strong, of the Troy University, an d
Rev. Dr. McClintock—but w,th numerous
eminent collaborators, both in Europe and
America. It is their design to presenta
work which shall hive, in the fullest pos ri i.
ble manner, the results of recent biblical
scholarship. They also have in press, a n d
will shortly publish, from early sheets, a
volumn called The Wits and Beaux of
deity, by Grace and Philip Wharton, au
thors of that successful book, The Q 1 1 07013
of Society.
Messrs. T. R. Grr.mortE and B. P. B An .
NETT, of Orange, N. J., have purchased
the Knickerbocker Magazine, with a view t,
bring it up once more to the prominent lit.
erary position which it held in days gone
by. Lewis Gaylord Clarke. esq., will re.
twin his life-long connection with "Old
Knick." Without the former, the latter
would seem to its readers like the play of
Hamlet, with Hamlet's part omitted. The
incoming proprietors are men of tact and
business ability. Their new series will
commence with the January number, on
which occasion the Magazine will appear in
a fresh and enlarged form.
THE AMERICAN SEAMEN'S FRIEND So
crEvr was organized in 1825. It is now
sustaining thirteen chaplaincies abroad, be
sides several in our Southern ports which
are most resorted to by sailors.
In connextion with it and its branches
at the West, about forty clergymen are
preaching the Gospel to seamen scattered
through this and other lands.
It has over one hundred and fifty sea
missionaries in the forecastles of as many
ships, who are furnished by this Society
with ten-dollar libraries.
It was established eighteen years ago, and
now sustains-the Sailor's Home in New-
York, which has received more than fifty
seven thousand seamen, who have here
found the comforts and the privileges of a
Christian home, in a well spread table.
good beds, and pleasant rooms, a family al
tar, a reading-room, and a weekly prayer
meeting, by which many of them have been
greatly benefited, and where thousands of
them, shipwrecked and destitute, have been
relieved by the Society.
The Society has now earnest applications
for more foreign chaplains to be sent to
ports where thousands of our sailors are to
be found during the year, and where they
are greatly needed to preach the Gospel on
shipboard and in the Bethel, to visit the
boarding houses and the hospital, and to
give the sailor such counsel and sympathy
while he Jives, and such burial when he
dies, as his friends and the Christian pub
lic would desire for him.
The names for such -managers as Rev.
Drs. Ferris, Brigham, and Parker, and
Messrs. W. A. Booth, (President,) Peletiah
Perit, W. B. Crosby, will assure all that
under their administration, funds will be
wisely and faithfully appropriated. God
grant that the time may soon come when
"the abundance of the sea shall be convert•
ed," and every seaman shall be a mission
ary.
PHILADELPHIA.
ME PEOPLE of this city are beginning
to wake up to the importance of securing
a part, at least, of the trade of the West and
North-west. In this matter she has been
greatly outstripped by New-York. And it
will require years for Philadelphia to re•
gain what she has lost in this direction.
through neglect; but an increased degree
of public spirit on the part of her mer
chants and manufacturers, will do much
retrieve the losses of the past. The Board
of Trade has just r?turned from a delight
ful visit to the leading cities in the West
and North-west. Its members speak in the
highest .terms of the reception met with
and of the openings presented for Phila
delphia interests. The travel of emigrants
to the West, over the Pennsylvania Bail
road, has been much greater the present
year than for several years past, the traini
averaging daily from seventy-five to one
hundred passengers. For several months
past a large number of Philadelphia me
chanics have purchased tickets for Nen'
Orleans, intending to•make that city their
future home. A great majority of those
who have left are carpenters.
THE ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY, a benevn
lent institution composed of geotchmen and
their descendants, will celebrate its one
hundred and twelfth anniversary, on the
30th of November. This Society is in
flourishing condition, and unostentatiously
does a great deal of good, besides keepinz
up the patriotic feelings of "Auld Lang
Syne " aiming Scotchmen, and their de
scendents here. One of its Chaplains is
the Rev. Win. Blackwood, D.D., a well
known scholar, excellent writer, abin
preacher, and faithful pastor in the Pres
byterian Church.
AN ASSOCIATION has been lately found.
called the "Old Man's Home," for the pa'
pose of providing a comfortable home for
respectable old men, who hare no relatives
to care for them, and who may have
been visited by misfortune. It Was
the
projected by some philanthropic ladies,