=2!=M h. NI'LCINNE LIM& DAVID M'KINNEY & CO. Editors and Proprietors. T E,R.NI 8. I N AD V AMOS.. ! . siNilLl BUDEICIVPSIOND q 411.50 IN cum . 1.25 . DBLIVXXIM IN XITHIIIi 01 TIRE 9111.114 2.00 Theo btILLAZie, Tee Will, tenti,by mull seventy number - for ONs.POtteit, thirty-three 'numbers. T• Islets sendthg uleftylMlTY• milismdbers and upwards, will thellibY sallied to • *Der wlthent charge. neutterkleshoUldas 101 leen 1p t, A.llif 1 ti before the year expires Saud paymenOo stip him's. or by mull. ~ Direct all lettsillitts• ... DAVID M'KINNEY & CO" 'i. ) .Ii ' Plttsburgh,Pll. - • for the Preebyterinn Banner: ,we too many Ministers ? his strange question is brought before the Preibyterian Church, in such a.form as to attract attention. It is the subject/of nn article in the, Princeton Review, a reprint of whieb jaw been circulated.from the office of the ; .130.c.i.d' of Education. The design of the IkrAele, and its general bearing, are unqmstio.nably good. Yet, it may be doubt ed whether the views it presents , are quite ,accdrdgnt ,with the. condition df things in. do t Qhurch ; and still more, , Whether diPsulties are ,assigned to. theii proper cause.; and most °telt,: whether. remedies i l soommended are praoticiable f or adapted to Le ease. . • It appears thatithe-luestion has been raised, As a prudetillial , 'one, by members of the Church tvhoqtavolleen libertd . contrib utors to the EdOcatiqn cause. They have noticed two facts, Slid have thence inferred that, there' is a rodund,ant supply of , minis ters in, theCharoh':•l. That a considerable number, of ,our ministers are without a pas toral, charge., 2., That when: an congregation •becomesivacant; many minis ters offer their•servibes, thereby indicating their desire, to be employed: Either of these. facts, amd , .especially both taken in COUneXiOn,twereauffloient to raise the ques tion, " IlaVe.we too many ministers?" ' a question which is closely connected. with both the Education and the Missionary work. They are not,' however; sufficient of themselves; to warrant4siugivingit an affirmative ausweri or...itr4ithdraw,iiig or diminishing our, contributions to the Edu cation cause, • If led by Christian concisra for thoserwhe have no religious ordinances, we address • , the unemployed with the in•• quiry,• ;Why stand,ye here, all the day,idle ? and they, should. answer, Because no con gregation bath called us, the replrwould be altogether pertinent. Bstit vapid, snot be.either peitineat; or just fell. , other'pkities to allege, that our asking' the question' im plied a supposition that the Holy Spirit had called , too many men into the work . of the mioiwy. 'lt can scarcely be iiiten4d, by the author of the article in' the 'Prate - tom Manz: that such a 'suppissitien ever entered the %Inds' of those whose viewri he opposes.' And yet, it is remarkable, Whet prominence and repetition this idea has in his , article. Quite 'afi' logical would it be, to slain:L.-that's, sorrowful reference to nine httnerSd'boigregations destitute of pesters, implied'aidtpposition that the Holy Spirit bad caileittdOirtipbeoPte into the Church., The facts Abie fidtS• Ilan; *oberthe3r , be illcigicallyused in'erguments, the Aide orlhe other of this imPortant 'discus sion. If there in fetht, : rihiell is .admit ted, a- large number of' mitiiiiters unem ployed, and they are. Are 40 will ng : to:. Tabor in the Church, 'it scarcely Seeks agnate with the comman4 or with comition prudence, to '- go oh ficreakiingtheir number, unless proportionate eforts are made at the same time for 'Securing their employment. Nor ie enough see*, this result, to point'themio the Millions - 0 people who 'Hare iiorib,to break to them .00 1 bread of life. ildoi shall`they preanheir: . : cept they be sent'? Tliiiire'theystandOktile,, willing, ready, sayieg l ,Send us; &scour-, aged to find their . lather th - fin, their' facilities increasing, year t ;_Neitiltria,o taufficrient.lto semp,s i libpral ,contributions to the Educe!: tionior, hg it theldissionary cause it to depict, 46 . nelosIntpue. condition of the world; .as, 19pg as. a 'lapse nnuiber of minieters 'are nn-• Tap i ingly idle, and . silent l in the, ellitrelt,; he piciture AS gloomy inlieed; but the, view pf its tchs4u4Ply Astute is rendered. the, less clear asd,tbe less effective, •by the, Urge group oA c ,,the . unocoupied figures the*. fi!l.up .44 tiregrottud, , The true, .way to; secnre:whi. reiOnrcemen to to the minis try to . ogiploy, those already in Whilq thie,tc xiotilOnei..the ! considerate. and.. conscientious, liberality ,the ,Chureh • map e,xpeobed i to pansei.nite t ,contributionste; #Anoition canoe.. ,Biemove that difft-... caXty,,naild:,btbe One& ask: both:the Mis sionarrazitt,ttie ,E,ducation ri r ite.rest are, pro 4.• motied e , waste r Of Mie: wONidnand, , the umtfitil , Of thOdifilifi of 'the:Church utterly. Priftiyide tho i , Wear, that,there, are. too many.; mlßistars. .The, apprehension of ;A super- , finity of laboteteisip..new,dear;.if , it' really! esietist; all ; Th 11000,402 the Lord .calls] . . he„ caliq :not .to the offrgi. onfy; but to itt useful labc,irep But we beveithe•fact before. our eyes„ tit* there are. mapyrin the min istry who : ere:mot in the, work— m iner' who, for aught.thet : appears to the contrary, are as competent • and , to willing, tel labor as those ;who, are aotiveki.‘engapdb!, 4.hith erto . hopeful, andi prstressive .liberality pauses, at this sad •sight,. and invites, .are we wisely directing our,;oontributions to the increase of the ministry, ralready en cnmbered with so many: supernumeraries] The tendency of this inquiry.. on,the.inter oats of. the Church, renders it too important . to be neglected; and ihe evidept•consoieu- • tiouriness of it , to say nothing of its ;seem ing pertinency, claims for it a considers, tion, serious and, at least, void of unohar-• itable implications. The existing condition of affairs bodes'i'njurious consequence to the Church, unless • it. • can' •be obviated, wheAllor,„there be too, -many. ministers, or whet i llpr ,there only seems to he. The sup prombes yeduudancy, though erroneous, would I , o* t the same unhappy- Jesuits •as the reality,).nsy, worse, would doom the o:intob. to a pyrmanent deficiency, denied. in . the supposition; that we have already. 0.4 abundance. ..• Considering the „obligations resting on, Gbdis people, ain't* needy condition of, the'w'osltd, it can Sanely bo imagined that any intelligent Christian will say that the Church, thdugh she'hds done liberally, has done too much, or contributed ton freely, lot:: the ad' aneement eil 4 Christianity. Whether her efforts haieVltieen 'wisely directed or proportioned, niityibb matter of doubt. Indeed, I apprehend , thatlit 'iS' ve it, of proportion, as much•rasi , watitnof that lays our contributions•open to , Itithe means of sustairringment _ in , the'reidietry be employed ,for &ringing , them„intoit, ) there is an errorroLpropor , tinn, v4943:flay he as disastrous to, the in tarots of, zeligton,as.a deficiency ,in either • department _;• and,it may boas real, a (liver slip of funds ! liom.l.heir proper design- as • 1f,,,9 1 9,Y were appyopriated to any other 411)1 P t i. .4e,' , ~- .4. i , . ifQ) t h erefore, accordinc , to the, rep ?, v , ~ • • - • e , VI resep anon, 9f the g.eview„ . liheral cortrAu torS.ift'thp,,Eduedien pause have indlicated a, putpotie „to withdraw or dbninish ;their. contributions to that interest; we bitibtit think eery/ill fail to 'turn them into the iVilssiMitifj:treasnry, ti; restore thinis,,,,,t,o what theop:dgern their ,true proportiouS i ; , both,,thestaanteyests-being mediate and auor iliary to: Gtodiolgreat end and idesign.) As I ItateNSaid;,:it'can hardly with justice b 111144 diitt . they think God, has called tOP , many men into the tutemtry ; so, 1 addithe writer of' that article cannot seriously mean to charge those who hive been liberal sup ; porters of candidates, for the rninistr,, wiih' a Wish ; ‘‘',.to stop the supplies of thy : „ Tigard of gdnoation, and tootturn ,our : Then-. logical Seminaries into , mapiufactories and: arsenals t " , 'or with the impious' prayer, “Stay thy hand, 0 Lord, we have already` 13/o*elPrtiqffr,lhatt we kn4w"whet to dm with! he etreiteli.Of thefte.expressioos • . • ,P. .... k .•• ~ t .: I ~ 43 - 1 i ...1 .. . . • . % • ..f ; i .'.: . I. j •.• . . 4 .:. • ... '' l '% . ' ..? ..- .:-.% t.. . " " 4 ' l. :7rt ;.. ,' ... i.. t f t ‘, .ti i I•• 6 :. i'.... fit.ti 4 . • ..• .;.:• . a-• - . . .. . 1. .. 1 / 4., .. .•.;• it Z : . :... _ ~ ~ 1 • . . ...: . ~ ' 111 :, . i 1 ... 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The. writer Nor:dtiescit, sustain the'cause. the. writer trAly says, " each. man must ex ercise hii own . judgment ,and his own •ChcriiieT"sind the churches need have no fearl , of being-'pestered• much less disti pli ned. into giving - to sap cause , which their reaspn. and conscience., dO. , not •If it be made to appear that we have noP too 'many ministers, whibh it, is riot hard to do, otti•Clitiatian people, as- ateivardiedf"Gkid, will~notmithholdi.their costributiotts: CORgESPONBBNOB. ,The „Imperial, Speech— The Emperor? s Wisdom—His Difficulty in Italy—Prance and Amer:ica—The Pacific' Counsels of die English Cabinet—rhs • Colliery - Accident Affeeting - :Details— The , Funeral Day—The. Southern " qoprtivrioners" Hr. Yancy and Aia Exposure—The Pope and .Antonelli say ....Non• .Possumus"t—Treaehery to Truth-271. Nets School of Theology—Act Of Uniformity-Signs of Ultimati dissolution of the Anglican Chursh—Nonconforinists and 1662-:.= Presbyterians the, True Successors of the " Effect ed"—Curates Starved and Bishops Pampered, , " LONDON 'Jan. 81, 1862.: Li THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH has opened the Legislative' Chambers with a BP 6 4 F (th mock_ pacific anft;satisfacitory its character. He referred to the • Inippy and' conailiatory iesnits of . of' the Xing' of Prussia toPa 'no doubt it has had a tranquilizing 'affect on 'the Ger mans.. ,Napoleon the•4l‘. differs ;from ,Na-; poleon f. , in that even,whiie,l3e.is very see-'• (Ante and generally endive to his reaolve,', yet that' he doe's riot dat forkine atidlatei to the 'last extreinity, idid iii 'Wise eruiiigh to, withdraw from positionsrailith- Would: involve his destruction. ; ~: T htiChe has giv en up sine die (though 'not...pecessarily nev er to ix, attempted, rather thea. that NS dynasty': should come' to grilif,)* be has,:l say, given up the idea'rof invasion - 6f Biiglan,d_for the present. :.,Puithermore tie has pat Away among his papaw charts'-and plans for a campaign. nu; Anal ..over, the And in. matters , 'fiiarioial; be hes sibwer ifingUlar self-ebniiiiihin and •sensil In- honestly confestilag -that Ad; had .I),en a great and irapid Aideline inAthe resources of the State, tha t he .himself by his authorizations had contributed to it, aiidtgat hencefork the Legislature should contiol; the finances (whit' spiCial excep tions) Ala in a word; that : .no .more 'debt should be-contracted - .-- Nor is it to be for gotten tliat'3l: Fould' occupies the post of Finance Xinister. against) 't‘h Lwish of sev eral of theutber ;M,liiisterS'of State, Couits Peritiger aud , Widewsliilinelnded. " 'As to Italy); ithe Emperor 'uses. langit* Which indicateslow handl:Alias :beeti-bY the obstinacy, of the' Pope . 'ind Oitididari4 evert While' , he holds- &Alt/ Piogininnr; and desires .- 11 1 have-recognized the king dom of 'ltaly With , the. fitiii intention''Of camtributing.by sympathetic and disiritii= sited counsels. to conciliatkittivo causes, 'the antagonism of which evertwheierrtroulifiii minds and : consciences."'• •It is • dicididtlik see any other. solver of this 431:ordial than the sword. The Pope 'will not' yield voluntarily. • ' • ••• Am.zwicA, AND ,PIADIC,E,, theix J•els4, thins for the futire; • lieve of late s iieen s iuneh liefdie - , the '011,40,1: world of r ;4,1099, There p aeems no doutit, whatever iliat„the iiiiterings.in.iimsY,Pairts.of trance, and, the gr,eat : suinei recpitred for the relief. of the, iiiieniPloyed tad greatly. agitated .the periti,.!ind that he, w as de,etrous to jpin.t.,4 British Cabinet in remon strances with. rerep er of to the' hpricidde - of,Sll . 4intli-,., s eqtally,leertitii that i t,W.t!it„isb:-CalipAct has not lod:sinY NIA Oiikt it has' endorsed the ,?pjpgigs :of She great mass di' the natiOii . ,*l !declining ,AO tiilie•aey step such as was su ggested. , 44F1 . oqe limit of thie, as well ag , , f,ol?er.Te-. is' seen. the folio the Imperial epreeh i• " The civil war which _.:claiplates,Ame* en, has ,come, to «imprint* grayely..lonr commercial interests. .:114weiver, • as .. i leug as the rights otneutrils Are ~respeoted,,we must. confine uursethes, Agl wishes that,these ai*nfiicmi 09ail0!" A-Cora:tsar to iin the postseripVorlity'ltiat letter, ion tinuetinos exolte the.tktmitiit.latheiltittcon throughout the -ciouritryi', ll 2l9 men' and boys.periahed i and the-seetied of' ageniiiii grief in Connexion , With the' desolation of wives; ke,,' of the:dead; hav'e been harrowitigt'beyond description. ,It now clearly-appears that: there Was a OeMdlietl4 ble leaven of true piety among .the Who were thus•suddonly faken awity;aiitt that previous to their deaths"' in the,pitt : prayers were -offered, Chriiittivite preach r. , and poosinners had time to loek fail' , cy from:the Merciful Itedeempi:.. o the body !of one of the . foremen'.wfiti fotindii memorandum written in penoil thus day afternooni'• half. pitst` , . Ediraidi Armstrong,Thomas• Glediterio, John Rr-° dy, and' others, taken extremely ill: we' had also a prayer-meeting at`li quarter' t two, when Tibbs,- Henry, •'Shilip, SrAi."., • (This sentence id ingtohplefe9 • "Tibli s i . exhorted us again;"' (underlined by the waiter:) • !It was on the night! cif.the dap' ,when this' prayer-nieetiiagwiime held, that death seems—through poisonous gases—ter have'numbered all his victinni: Peor boys had crept Into ;their fathers'. bosoms, and thus''eve:looked, they were•discovered stiff and cold. Th& excellent Bishop of Dtirliani who hae!been indefatigable in the cohicilition . of 'the Mourning, said at a Relief 'tneetibg at lieWmistle-on-Tyne,(where fain I,lfaiisaiid• pounds -was raised;) that he had rid'dOubi'' many of thef.men were true Chriiitians.• The Primitive Methodiat ministry is*Pica-: Harty , itdaptettlO the mining popnratioht,. and seems.to have4accomplished a gracious . : work among' the' men who have perished:' The funeral was a. thrilling scene. Sexed coffins were taken' , otit'ef One •house—a ther and six Bala: Onn °their be:sides the victims was buried on the'fitheitil was the wife of 'ate of the letit'ined, whom he had left lying in the last 7 itake s .df con- . sumption. The news. inkiebed'iliettlint he wag gohe; she langandieViad' l die# J ' was :intdtred beside':ll4lliishand. : '"Tbei . e Were • six thousand.' persoia "'the fuheial:,' and in an iintiortitn l t.ishisalft;*4' be 'said that the whole "natibn, the . Queen an chief mourner, was there is heart.' (kir beloved , Sovereign wrote a akin: chin'' ideletter to the 'poor widows—thtrWitdii?g• pf which, greatly comforted thenr, Bent !two hundred pounds, declariiigithat her awn misery—only -made her feel the more deeply for thrn . The lack of tivo sL.fts in each pit, com mon all over: the. ngi llg me i nti!se r yonntbe evasion of . this, hp 4 gq,;414.4 ,the,Gorpra m.Sol3. alirfkatiY l t4i9 40Rfactc9Plzd legisr . ukee pke e 94:: . TiIF. I'aVNT had arrived at'Southampton,', with 'Messrs. Slidell , and klVlttiOn on hoard. - Thole was-a crowd asSeinbledlii , sic thein; but , &ere was no' dreintibnetration of any kind, Our press had" , uaninitnerisly depre cated, anything of the kind,- and the South is by no means. in good` odor. The Daily Niece hag been effectively,dealing with let=; ters apologetic find . explanatory ' written 'by Mr. 'Yam ceyrund given himlc quietus: Hig attempt to show that when he moved in the, Lcieonfederatn Congress"v that the acts Should be repealed which taut the ports to t he elive , trade , :traffie.; hem did ao meih thereby that the South shouldresume the slwie trade, is contemptible to a degree, and Ms been thoroughly exposed. Tut PpPE is a s :obstinate as ever,.....,i50 late as the 11th inst., a, dispatch wait' . sent' by the Fkeneli'ForsigliGilinistei . to lenme, tirging. on the Hey Bee the neetiSider of resigning:; itself t 0 . ," the • lemon of yexpe., XiP49PI", and th.o 1 1 48.-itike .iPope.timuldtrnot: hors,for ,and* tereet; to negotiate .the dthinet of Italy."-The'iPbpe Let . its writ for' evente"--the old Story • 'if , ' ' "Rusticate expeetat, dum detittit,amnis At ille,,,lnb4ur,et,labetur . In mime volubihs cevum." But Antonelli, 'the; real sovereign t‘,t, Rome, 'treats the Iniperial- proposil *ithlirond defiance, evetivhile 'f thinking' theTreinch , 4 30sTrument:f for.. the affectionate . interest .shown 1. , , The Cardinal , says._ t,hat both Card' fiats and Pope are hound by.oati 'never to cede any part of 'big 'territory of the Chireh. " Whet - ''nexe?"- we ask. Can:. and awilL France.] afford • or .endure •to keep its army. at Rome; ,the .cost of which aidce 11348, : h5e been tit lcftst eiaty millions of fran cs? AMPero; will keel; Italy fikeasit.. .11iinettiiielf *mita repose, 'in order- to reamer "itself - Some people,- say ...04t .tlistyPQPei is 9ne of :his agents,, thp pcseicleut.,of ,the Civil Tribunal Boine, has been :assas sinated. This is riot the witY 'tohCen'in , liberty—it always reterditit. s '''Ton possumus pbsitioo- of4hogourt :of Italie has answerod,its,desigo hitherto,; bat. it i ts ifter all . bnt like, a L bisr4er. dept. act Amble that W 13611 the Ibie . rises 1.504; . 'the inundationliffile:ie add' dilatiiietive to the temporiditriffantitt htifeitichothe weeping swity:l:4 the. lkollantlidykesi. by the raging, oa-rushing, ; inkYclt" of ; the *PYr der Zoe. . • TftEACEgari TO. TW0:471, "frO)ll.A. , Non cOilforcoist few,, is shown, in,the,syrapatby expressed for 'gotta' CArgynien who ;hive the /ace to stay; in the4Ohiwelf'df Eitglar4 White: denying' the ' , foundation truths ens: bodied in,•her,Artiolestand Oreeds,lo which they„hav,e,given. " unfeigned .consent, assent," and adherence. The demoraliza. ; ton" - ithOled - in' the . aitenipts to defetidttrheir pout as tenable, is one 'of the moat painful features. Their counsel in thy .Court .4 : Alphas py.t,,forth before the World' the most gariv„assertions, with a • directly` Rationalist' tendincy. But thidoilSo;:ait I lia. r ve:said; Wit the Star and Dial-.lkhieh,• whenever it(tteichee gionds,stwe to AtaV.q. ins_pitation.of• the " Rimulet," School. emonff_Zic!ilennformiste, and of David Thomas, " the laomileat,". in/eve - Vika anon whiting in iii4or of thine attntwheibtibit ' The Bislicip Salialtitry; btPtinck nnwiridiculed.sis f•ftirheilakepherd who jel:Only :doing ditty when„ he propcntes,Pfc.F,illiamei "an accuser of the brethren:" lihs.the bfildneib to 'bring up the ineinoilis of the tWo• thonsendLejected: Ministere; auxil lary3o..ac.,bacb.isause, which,4o Its Iserpent ) 1,24 : 1 illPP"reat4P-..4heiri slays, wouldte - vebeentreddelk i dclvn•hy•the r lml. 5::44.140n5 - -indigng,ttion: The . Stqr , pitticiiieeli 'the authors dfilie'"Essaii and Reviews'A'ai "the' rieheit ornaments of the Chproh,..Universities; and, Schools • of: the . Establishment," and it exclaims.: "3,011 these who are now bited byy lawyersitt..the instigation Bieltops;%ida i 4ti diked - of condemnation , to: •shaancadniffenne to' ecelesiaptioal., ; if, they are true. Imhebt w and L lyorge the l liberv,- l et prophesying" the mernect they.leave ,the, EibiblfishMerit,' licit the shame rest ' if' Ohnrch'S ' 'brea4 and yetylifbartlieheel against her Tr! AP11.1 13 .- 0 • '`..encl4ileitioal doeS,:not conseionce . ,dewukkt4t Alyte, ; men : shall be 541 f-exiled ? . , , „ , " that by , staying its . ; if Piossiblei thirleivefilinafhaVe time spread, . amilithat , if) the , flail Ooirt of , Ap peal !Mit: be in!** 0103 re shelter to :a , new, NegativA r. :l3cluntras,:. ,fermerly, ,en-, dorsed Regenerotle t n f ink th'en• in dui3 .these Eitayiste thall"become' d`ominan ' t and' some 6frtheirredryithcei shall , occupy p,lams on. the Bench. t The,worst-pf. -that ,men , who