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If, as has been seen in our last article on this question, it is the duty of the Churoh (embracing her entire membership,) to preach the Gospel to every creature; and if, as was further seen, it is her duty to do this through the heaven-ordained agency of, men who are called to the office of the ministry by the Holy Ghost, it must be matONAt., that the question placed at the hear of this article is reduced to very nar row limits. If the positions embraced in this statement are valid, then the question of duty must lie between the entire Church and the individuals singled out by the Holy Spirit, and called to'the work of the min istry. The duty of preparation is implied in the commission given to the whole Church, and no less unquestionably implied in the call to the execution of this com mission, given to the individual. As the work of preparation involves not only labor, but cost, the question is, Who is to bear it —the young man, or the Church? Against the former conclusion, and in favor of the latter, there are many weighty reasons : 1. The class of men chosen for the work of the ministry, warrants the inference that it is not the will of God that those who are called to serve him in the Gospel of his Son, should bear the burthen of the work of preparation. What was true of the membership of the Church at Corinth, is true of the ministry. To them, with singular appropriateness, the langua g e of the Apostle to that Church may be ad dressed : "Ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men afterthe flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are call ed; but God hath chosen the toolieh things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, bath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are ; that no flesh should , glory in his presence." It is just as true of the ministers of ChriSt as it is of the private members of his Church, that it is not the wise, or mighty, or noble, who are called. The venerable Dr. Alexander, whose observations as an instructor of can didates for the ministry, through a long life, must give great weight to his opinion on this subject, in a sermon preached near the close of his life, advanced and sustain ed the proposition, that the Gospel is not only prettehed to thepoor, but the poor. Indeed, so prominent is this fact in the his tory of the Church, that we are persuaded few will call it in question. From the call of the fishermen of Galilee to this day, the Master has drawn his ambassadors chiefly from the poor, It has been by the poor that his Gospel has been preached, In this feature of his policy, as the Ad ministrator of the economy of redemption, we have a clear intimation of his will, as to whether the cost of preparation should be borne by the Church, or by the individ ual. By this course ,of procedure in call ing his ambassadors, be shuts the Ch utch up to the necessity of providing the means requisite to the o preparation of 'those Whom he calls, or of refusing to fulfill her great commission. By laying upon his Church the obligation to preach the Gospel to ev: cry creature, by the agency of, men celled to, anct'gualified for the work, and then calling those who are not able, through lack of means, to qualify themselves, he places the Church under the manifest ne cessity of supplying the means, or of prov ing recreant to her trust. When a young - man of this class appears before a Presby tery, and the Presbytery, after due exami nation, are satisfied that Christ has called him to preach the Gospel,. it is at their peril they refuse to receive him as a candi date. Is there a' Presbytery in Christen dom that would refuse to receive a candi date, whom they believed to be called, be cause he was destitute of the means of ob taining an education ? Why this were to revolutionize the policy of the Divine ad ministration, and transfer the honors of a place on the embassy of reconciliation from • the poor to the rich, and to wrest, so far as man can, the keys of the kingdom from the hands to which Chrilit has conlinitted them. Suoh a position could not, be,,taken except on the assumption that wealth is a condi tion of admission to the ministry. And if this ground is taken, and the divinely-or dained rule of vocation, which was estab lished on the shore of Gennesaret, remain unrevoked, then must the great majority of those whom Christ has called to the minis try be excluded from the harvest-field. 2, The readiness of the Church to sus tain candidates for the ministry is implied in that prayer which, in obedience to the command of her Lord, she is ever present ing 'before his Throne of Grace. In be seeching him to send forth laborers into the harvest, she professes her readiness to do all in her power to cooperate with his providence and grace in sending forth those whom he may call. She places no restric tions around his will, either as to numbers or means. She asks him to send forth la borers, and it were a reflection, both upon her sincerity and her humility, to say that she is not ready to receive, as his ambassa dors, all whom he may choose to call, and to provide; 'is. far as in her lies, all the means necessary to their equipment for the field. Would it not be impiety of the deepest die to reply to the Lord, who, in an swer to her supplication, had conferred upon her, as an ambassador, one who was not mighty, or noble, or wise, or wealthy, saying, "Take back thy'gifts, for he upon whom thy choice is fallen•cannot bear the cost of preparation." ,If' the Church is now y siOr /he first time 'lli, her history, either on .Y ie Old Testament or the New , to take the position, that I sbe is not to hear the expenses incident to the preparation of her ministry, she is certainly tinder all the obligations which candor and sincerity can impose, in the most sacred of ell, tratisac- Cons, to express, in unequivocal terms, when she bows before the Lord of the har vest, the conditions on w,hich she is willing to receive an increase of laborers. Let her not ask as if Ellie were willing to 80101 to the wisdom of her Lord all questions rela.- Ave to persons and means, and then, as , if she had reserved to herself the right, of challenge, except'• from the list of his ap pointments those who are unable to educate themselves. On the principle that it is rislt the duty of the Church to educate these whom Christ may designate as his ambush dors, that prayer which was placed upon the altar of incense by her great High Priest, cannot be offered any longer withi out modiffnation. Tostead of simply ask ing laborers , she must, in conformity with . . • It :7 ;di 111111,, • - . • . . , • . . - , . , VOL. X., V.O. 30. the principle, that those who are called are bound 'to bear the cost of their own prepar ation, pray the Lord of the harvest to•call and send forth wealthy laborers into his harvest. 3. Justice demands that the cost of pre paration be borne by the Church. If it be said that such questions are too sacred to be determined on such principles, we would refer those who have any such doubts to the argument of the Apostle in support of the temporal claims of the Christian ministry, 1. Cor. ix. He appeals to the customs of men, and argues from the fact that the hus bandman, and the soldier, and the shepherd, and even the very oxen which tread out the corn, are rewarded for their labor, that the ministers of Christ ought to be reward ed for theirs. It is true the Apostle is here simply laying the basis of an a forti ori argument, the conclusion of which he advances interrogatively, ‘4 If we have sown unto you spiritual, things, is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things ?" But in laying the foundation of his argu ment on the principle of work and wages, he sanctions and authorizes the application of the principle of justice between man and man, in the settlement of all questions which may arise between the Church and her servants, in the advancement of the kingdom of ,their common Lord. The question between the Church and her can didates, during their course of preparation, belongs to this class. As the duty of prep aration rests upon both, by virtue of the general commission and the specific call, the question is, By which of the parties— the candidates of the Church—shall the cost be borne ? There can be but one answer to this question. The Society, and not a few of its members, ought to bear the cost inci dent to all its operations. The Church, as an organization for the evangelization of the world, as the Apostle argues, is not to be regarded as exempt from the operation of this principle. In order, therefore, to prove that it is not the duty of the Church to bear the expenses incident to the prep aration of her candidates 'for the work of the ministry, it is necessary to show that her commission to preach the Gospel to ev ery creature, does not lay upon her the ob ligation to provide the means, or that the ministry is not embraced in' the means. We are persuaded, that when a Christian man finds himself driven to the necessity of establishing , either of these positions,.he, will prefer abandoning his opposition to the susteutation of candidates for the min istry. In these remarks we have had reference to endidates who are not possessed of the means necessary to their support during a course of preparation. We wish it to be un derstood, however, that we do not base the Church's obligation, in this matter, upon the indigence of her candidates. We have argued -the will of the Master from the temporal circumstances of those whom be is wont to call to therwork Of, the ministry; but we would be very far from resting the claims of the future' ambassadors of Christ upon their present poverty. Had'it been our purpose to advocate the cause of Christ's poor, we might fitcre appealed simply to the benevolence of his, people: But the cause in hand is the cause, not of the poor; but of men whom Christ has 'designated, and whom the Church has recognized, as his servants, to execute the great commission committed to her trust. So'long as the Church is responsible -for the execution of the commission, so long most she be held responsible, not simply On principles of benevolence, but on the- principle of-.jus tice, for the sustentation• of those who are preparing to execute it. The full development and'application of this principle are so important, that we shall devote another arable ,to the subject in the'next numiber of - the'ReCord.—Honze and Foreign Record. For the Presbyterian Banner Eating a FIISSAiR the A little girl not three years old was taken to church by her mother. Annie was a dear child, very smart thriller age and ap peared-very attentive to the' preacher dur ing the exercises. On returning homo her mother said to her : " Well, Annie, did.you hear the preaching ?" " No, mother," was her prompt reply. The question was va ried, and her reply was still the same. " Did yen , not see Dr "M in the pulpit, up high ?" Yes, mother." Ouriosity was awakened to know the child's ideas of the exercise. So her niother flaked again : "But what was Dr. M. doing up there ?" With the greatest promptness and compo-• sure, she said, "Why he was just making a fuss." Now, perhaps, she was notlar wrong, in her infantile judgment. There is not a. little of pulpit performance, that is well, described by her graphic phrase. I know. the preacher on that occasion; he is usu-' ally not a smasher in his elocution, and would not knock a pulpit Bible to pieces in a lifetime. He must have been doing something extra, on that day—aiming, pos- - sibly, at a popular impression. ' But there are more 'ways than one, of making a fuss in the pulpit. Besides the vociferous declamation and the athletic performance—what Cowper calls "the atti tude -and stare, and start theatric "--L--much of the • fineireaching comes fairly under this head. Highly polished elegances of style, or, just as much, gewgaws of tinsel brightness; sentences flowery with violets, and roses and . hollyhocks; and sparkling with the splendors of 'noonday effulgence, make a sermon very fine, there is no donbt of it—equal to a ,pretty fair novel; bating the lack of interest in the story.- But,. after the Thesis over, what are its results?; Whose conscience is awakened 7. Whose mind is enlightens - a ? Attrac tions that draw attention to the truth are valuable, however simple they may bey while those which draw the mind .away from the truth, however splendid, are per nicious. There is a picture, by the cele brated Paul Veronese, whieh has ,puzzled artists; he has placed the principal, figure in the shade, and sacrificed, of course; , the . general effect to a whimsical effort to dis:. play kis exqUisite skill in the subordinate features of the piece. What he did with design, is often done in the pulpit, Ltrust unintentionally, by putting God's truth an& man's Saviour in the back ground, seemly visible through the'preacher's tinted *IOU& and'blooming shrubbery," A great proportion of the so•calle& deep preaching, is but making a fuss in the pulpit. It-seems to be deep because, likeit well, it is dark. Not one person in five, in, a common audience, can afford to have a preacher dispense with those important qualities—simplicity and clearness. It is hard, to sit through a sermon, in doubt whether we are getting the sense out of it; but the additional doubt, whether there is any sense in it, with a strong leaning to the negative side, is any thing but an im proving exercise. I think it is told of the Persians,:that they esteem that speech the greatest, which is most difficult to be under- I I stood. It must he the speakers and not the hearers who have' this opinion. Besides, for the purposes of pulpit discourse, ab struse speculations in theology, although correct; and criticisms -on the Greek or Hebrew text, although sound, are unprofit able. Many ,a person has derived benefit from Owen's, book on Justification, who would be able to make little out of his learned " Exercitation " on the canonical authority of the Epistle to the Hebrews. One of the most common and most illu sive ways of making a fuss in the pulpit, is what may be called the Dictionary method. It is really astonishing—perhaps it is in tended to be so—to see what power in poly syllables some men possess ! Nor is the English language alone at their command. The Apostle's .doctrine on the subject of " unknown tongues" requires review and adjustment to our times. It is exceedingly embarrassing to a minister, desirous of lead ing a people, in 'the way of knowledge, to think that he is not understood ;• if he have this fear, he will spurn the suggestions of vanity, and help the infirmities of his flock by speaking more plainly. What, to an educated, Christian man, is the senseless praise of his "great larnin'!" Like Dean Swift, " I defy any man to prove that I am bound, by any law of God or man, to un derstand the meaning of such words as phenomena, &e." There is some fuss made in the pulpit, in the way of common-place preaching; or, rather, the repetition of, the same things over and over again —the only variety being, like that in the Indian's dinner courses, succatosh in a big dish, and SUCCEt tosh in a little dish. Paul's rule was, "Leaving the principles," or elementary truths, "let us go an to perfection." And his preaching of " Christ, and him cruci fied," embraced all the themes of theology. Growth in knowledge is auxiliary to growth , in grace, and the minister should lead his disciples in both. God's Word is his text book, but bringing forth things new and old, is something more than-putting new texts to old discourses. These reflections on the remark of dear little Annie, and, much more, the remark itself, may afford some light on the sorrow ful question, Why is it, that a Christian congregation, which has for ten, fifteen or twenty years attended on the public preach ing, are sometimes so imperfectly acquaint ed with the great truths of religion ? Some allowance, it is true, must be made, for the Tiiicongeniality of the subject of religion; but this does not cover the whole ground. The lack of instructiveness in the pulpit, admits of no. compensations. Rhetoric and Dictionaries furnish aid, not substitutes, for Gospel preaching and the exhibition of Bible truth. Sanctied talent and learning have,, 3 a wide orbit in theology, without losing sight AA* the cross of Christ; and their clear and steady light. , is better than the gleams of meteoric brightness. Por g the Presbyterian Banner From Port - Royal, PORT ROYAL, SOUTH CAR., I March 25th, 1862. Mn: Enrroit behalf of " Christian Union of the 76th Reg't Penna. V 01.," .1 am requested to return our most grateful acknowledgments to the. Unity congregation, Beaver Presbytery, to Mrs. Clark; of Ebensburg, and to others whose names are unknown,, for quantities of re.: ligious reading sent 'to our regiment' by express for 'general distribution. We were all greedy for Something good to read, arid when• the books and` papers were spread' upon the table, many happy hearts gath ered around, and very soon the rich least of fat things was devoured. May 'God bless the readings of these documents to the good of the soldiers, and may he 'also bless abundantly the kind donors for their beneficence. We have organized in our regiment a religious Society by the name of "The; Christian Union," for the promotion of personal piety and the ,advancement of Christ's kingdom, and I am hippy to say' that it is working most charmingly for the •good of our men. Article IV. of-our' Constitution reads as follows : " BUsineSs. At each meeting subjects may be intro duced, on which , remarks may be made by' any of the members, that will hairs a leti dency to do good, accompanied - by singing, and prayer. Committees maybe-appointed to organize Bible Classes, prayer meetings, -distribute religions reading, correspond with churches , and 'Christian Aisociations at home, and for such other 'purpose's as may be deemed important." Here let me requett our friends at holow to write us a good word, to be read in our meetings, as often as they. can -find it con venient. More than once I have seen tears fill the eyes of brave men, when they have read kind words to their souls from the loved ones at home. We have several prayer meetings-regu larly during. the week,lvihich are well at.; tended, and are truly most delightful 'and refreshing to the heart. amidst the noise and tumult, the trials . and temptations; 'of life in the camp. We have also organized a class which holds- its meetings regularly every *reek to practice in singmg, and we find it a very' pleasant andprefitable•Way of spending an. evening. , We have in 'addition to these meetings; a. regularly organised Literary Society, which is a most useful and profitable thing to men separated from the'sUrroUnd= ings and associations , of 'Society at home. Whilst I beli'eve . the chaplaincy of a regiment in the army is the most difficult positien 'to fill in which a minister of the 4 8pel is ever placed, yet 'with the use such means as' I have mentioned; and with the cooperation of' friends 'at home, I am not without groat hope-that God will: make the chaplains' of'the army' the humble instruments of doing much good' to the souls of those over which, in his providence, he has called' them to be over seers: Provideice 'has ti favored us with fine weather; iW , :this Sciothern clirieate, Tor open-air service. So that during the entire Winter we have been obliged to dispenie with preaching on , Sabbatirlintllareelinaes. For this we have reason to be' profoundly thankful. PITTSBURGH, SATURDAY, A. PRIL 12, 1862. J. F. M. Affairs in this division of: the army are moving off quietly, but firmly and steadily. Unexpected obstructions in the water courses here have prevented movements from'being executed which have repeatedly been attempted ; but very soon our, ar rangements will be complete for the bom bardment of Fort Pulaski, and we shall have the privilege of rejoicing in a gloriims vicfdry. The rebels have beer/ making great preparations for advances cation differ ent parts of our division, but as .we are forewarned they had better not be so fool hardy as to come within reach of our nu merous gun-boats. They have a whole some dread t.f these, and I Italie but little -idea that they will venture near them. A sad accident occurred a few days ago, at Otter Island, in the 45th Penna. Reg't. Two Companies went by different roads to capture a body of Rebels, at the - house of et-Governer Aiken, on the mainland, and being misled by their negro gnides, they came upon each other in the grey dawn of morning, and one Company, supposing the other to be th - e rebels they were fired, and killed Captain E. Y. Rambo afid a Corporal, and wounded several 0t143. They were so close together that when the command to fire again was given, the voice of the commanding officer was recognized, and any further calamity was thus avoided. The Lieut. Colonel of the 55th Penba. Reg% a Lieutenant of one of the cortipa nies in the New -York 47th Reg't, and Tan agent of the'Government, on the search of cotton on Ediko Island, one day lase *CAE, were surrounded by a party of rebels, and all taken prisoners. We have captured quite a number of rebels in this division of late, and , with them we can" prtibablY buy bait our Men who have been so very unfortunate as to' fall into rebel hands. Some deserters that have come into ( pur lines lately, say there Is quite a wide spread 'dissatisfaction among the soldiVis of the rebel army; 'and many of then:if:OW(l gladly desert : if they . ould get an °pith:t ufty. A few more victories on our ; art will doubtless increase the disaffection there until there will be a rebellion within a re bellion. Gothspeed the right i I send you : a copy of a paper published at this place, which indicates very strongly, among . other things, the permanent estabf liehment of the United'States Government upon' this " sacred soil." The health of our 'army here is 'Much better now than it was for Several weeks after the division landed last Fall. Our regiment—the 76th—has been the health- . Test regiment in the whOle diVision. We have now but six in the hospital 'ax there are no dangerous cases among them. The sickly season is just about- commencing again, and it remains to be seen how our soldiers will eredirre a Senate= climate. Yours, faithfully, EUROYEAR mingESNYBENcE Railway Statistics—Speculations as to Peace or War Tracts for Priests and People"—The RishoP of Oxford and "The Layman"—Pleas!for " Doubt "—Rev. F. D. illaurice—" Morality ittyl .Divinity"-The "Negative" &hoot, and Mr. Spurgeon'sSatio- r Are, Puseyites PapisLe77—A New Order in the'ehurch of England—An "Ejected" of 1662, and the Modern Evcingeli . cals. LONDON, March 14, 1862 Oun. RAILWAY SYSTEM presents facts and figures whiCh are very remarkable. The 'Directors of riiiltays - rule an airy` of 100,000 men, control a' capital of X350,- 000,000, and receive a revenue of .Z28,- 000,000. The number of railway journeys now taken, gives an average of six for ev ery mail, woman and Child in the — United Kingdom. The price of food, -especially as to the London' supply, is Wonderfully affected by rail*Sys. West of England gardeners forward - their early fruits `to CO vent Gaiden ; &etch 'farmers fortiiird their beasts to the lnetropolitan market, and their hind quarters - of mutton to the Newgate meat-factor; and vvhile Yarmouth even with light van's and post:horse.4 form erly only brought some 2000 tons. of fish to London, in a year, the' Norfolk railways often dispatch as much in a fortnight. During . last `year 12,000,000 cattle, sheep, and pigs made railway excursions, besides 250,000 horses, and 350,000 dog,s. Some 90,000,000 tons of therchaniiik and min erals were conveyed, for which the owners paid -a' bill of 15,000,000 sterling. The London add Northwestern Railway extends from Lofidon to Carlisle;frorn Pe terborough to Cardiff; and froth Leeds' to` Holyhead. It includes more that 1000 miles of railway. Its total capital account is , nearly thirty-seven Sterling. Its rolling stock includes 972 locomotives;'. 1,972 passenger carriages, 1,048 guards' breaks, horse boxes, travelling post-offices, and carriage trucks. If a train were made exclusively of North-western engines, it would extend eight miles; if in front of them the passenger carriages wSie' placed, the train world extend beyond Herron and neafiy to Pinher; and if the guards' breaks and goods trains were — added, it would extend from London to .Northemp:. ton, 67 miles. The revenue of this one Cordpany last half year, was X,2,360,000, or at the rate of £88,200 a week, Xl2,6oovit day, or £525 every hour, day and 'night, and seven days a week, though it is' very pleasing to find that the NortiPivestgin has reduted its Stilday traffic almost to a min imum: Othar'Statisties .ee 'on the - aanie colneial scale On the various lines'of RHEA - and Irish Railways; there axe 6000 rocemotiVes; worth between X2OOO and X3OOO each. • k These engines consume half SS much coal -is the Metropolis, 'and water enough to supply all Liverpool. There are more than 15,000 passenger carriages, and 180,000 goods truCki. The engines and vehicles have cost some X35,000;000. On an av erage, 100 miles of railway require some six milesnf engines, earriagee and`trueks, to work it; and if all 'Were collected' to gether, the engines would reach ;from= Brighton - to London; the catriagei to be- yond Wol4rethainpton and - BliswOrth, anct , with trucks of all kindS, the 'train woiild extend'to Abeideen,'6oo miles. Upwards' of 10,060 . trairie'run every day, an average, of 7-start every minute, and nearly 4,600,-' 000 • railway trains ran ' last year. The trains;paatenger and gOods, travelled alto'- gether more than 100,000,000' miles. More than 200 new railWay'hills wilt be brought Un6er the consideration of Par liament this' session, and' among the pro- jects of'the day is that of a talibmarine, Wrought iro'n'thhe: line, twenty from - Dover to Calais. A large ventilating shaft'is proposed to befited in the centre of the Channel, and the laying of the tubes is to cominenee on kith' sidee 'from this point. Wrought iron boxes, filled with stones on each side of the tubes, are to keep them in their place, and over them a ridge, of stones or chalk, is to be raised, 40 feet in height. It is estimated that the cor:it wotild be £12,000,000, and that the railway wOuld bring Paris and London within 7 - or 8 brows of each other. The project however;will not be endorsed. PEACE OR WAR is being 'discussed, in connexion with' the Fort Donelson victory. At first it was thought that the South would suhroit. Messrs. Neill Brothers, of Manchester, hate" issued a circular which leads to despondency among Meichants, and also affects the Money Market. THE "TRACTS POE PEIEETS AND PEO PLE," written by clergymen and'laymen of the " Negative' and anti-dogmatic school, are still being circulated and read. Tracts No. 6 and 7 are. now : before me as I write. The first is by, a layman, J. M: ,Ludlow; the second -by that strange . plieriomenon, the Rev. F. D. Maurice. The two papers! form one pamphlet, pp. 42, duodecimo size. The, genergAtopic is, "The Sermon of the iehop of Oxford on Revelation, and the Layman's Answer.' en comes the lay man's " Dialogue on 'Doubt," arid Mr.. Mauriee's " Morality and Divinity." The " Interlocutors " in the dialogue are "Gray" (a. safe man,) and " Williams , " (a. speaking man.) The " safe, man " is rather timid in his utterances, and of course, the p/ain speaking-man does the giant's business in deinolishing 'the Bishop, and the " safe " Aan, Dr. Wilberforee, is re proved for saying that " doubt" is to be thrown from your mind just as you would instantly cast frOm you " a loaded shell ;" his highly wrought pictufe of the " doubter's death" (when he quotea from the Book of Job, "Yea the light of the wicked shall be pht Cut," &c.,) is set down as exactly parallel in the style of plead ing, as that of those three friends of Job, agairist whom God's wrath was kindled. " ; There, is," says Mr. Lud low, "'the same hardriesi and want of sym pathy with one of the most, acute ' l would almost say, one of the most sacred of hu- Man miseries; the same use of threats and bullyingto - orush struggles which need -rather the tenderest help." Now:---eveii I supposing that the High Church Bishop is rather intolerant and ex cathedra.in his tene and granting that there is such a thing as honest doubt or inquiry, which 1 longs for light, and has not got it, (in . which sense---rarer than is generally taken for granted---skepticism is worthy of " tender est help") surely poor Job was no skeptic, and the fault of his friends was speaking truth as applicable. 'to him, as a 'hypocrite and an enerriy.of God, which; as an upright and true man; hedid.. not 'desire to have fastened like label of infamy; upon bin,. The Bishop cif Oxford hilliself, 'speaks of those doubts., which, instead of being the resource of evil, are the trouble of " holy souls" which, " whether the result of a' peculiar'constitution of'.body or of mind, or the fruitof an 'unhappy training, or the bitter consequences of past'sin, rise unbid den, and need the tenderest 'care, arid the wisest,,and most loving discipline." But the. 4 ' fayman " says that there is an hon est drilibt which none of these assigned causes account for, and he instances, ASaph (Psalm lxxiii,) Jeremiah (cxii, xiv, „Lam. iii,) and Christ himself, "Why halt thou forsaken me ?" and therefore he says wWhen we• can once enter into the reality of that awful mystery, ''the Son of God, for Man's sake, doubting God himself, we shall feel that to try to stifle doubt by death bed terrors, is to crueify the Lord afresh." When this language is clesely examined by a sound' and well-taught mind, and when 'the real cause of Christ's Desertion on the cross by the Father ' arid of that Eclipse of soul is remembered, it can hardly fail to, shbek, as ifit almost approached the borders of blasphemy, to compare it with "the death-bed terrors" of a dying infidel. The crucifixion is called in connexion with his whole life, " that inward passion of doubt," and as justifying the golden lines of the poet B. 14. AGNEW Ana thus the "Layman"goes on to la ment " the absence of positive faith;among Our young men," (to which a righteous doubt is exactly correlative,") and main tains that the prevailing. evil of the age is net doubt, but rather " the prevalence and miiltiplication of lazy beliefs in the easily credible; or again, in either the credible or incredible, so long: as neither makes much demand on men's heart and conduct!' In fact, " this state of mind is closely analogous to that which was - exhibited in the"multiplication of gods at• and after the Christian era, when, all received beliefs sat loosely, on:men, and they were always ready to receive new ones with the old, or, instead of them, so 'long as the change required was one of forms or ceremonies only, and not of the life itself." "ht such a state of mind," it is added, " a setter up of a new philosophy, as the setter forth of strange gods, is sure of a, curious hearing. He who simply seeks to unveil the name, the nature, the purpose, and Will of the Un known God'and Father, is treated as a mere babbler." - . In the foregoing extract you have a strange union of presumption of spirit and of inconsequence of argument. First of all, our. new Rationalizing Schools claim to be doing, the work of an Iconoclast Paul amid the temples of Athens. But is it so? Is the evangelical' spirit of this age that of Frazar, who proposed to add the image of Christ to those of the gods already.wor shipped in the Pantheon ? Do we endorse every new religion, or even some that call thethaelves Christian'? No kwe leave that to the school of Theodore Parker, of Emer son, and of their Socinian and Rational izing followers, who all consider "modes of faith " as detestable.;, endorse "Jeho vah, 'Ewe, and Lord," as alike the Father of all; who set up and, worship in a °bin mon Pantheon, "Mohammet and Jesus Christ. " Received beliefs" amongst us imply the death of a real sin offering—the "resurrection`of the dead" as the proof of its reality and efficacy, and of its appli cation. •by the priest on his throne; in a word, all that Paul preached in his day, as distinctive truth, dogmatie"undoubtedly in its "formulas." And so the Layman" ends his shallow trac---without for one moment recognizing the existence of oldective truth at all, and in that kind of conceited, contemptuous tone adopted toward the Articles of his own Church, which in a layman is bad, but in a clergyman, still retaining his emoluments and status, and arguing thatit, is right and . litiffizl - to do se, is intolerable.. "There lived more faith in honest. doubt, BelieVe me, than in half the creeds." WHOLE NO. 498. And so " Gray," the man of straw, the " safe man," is made to inquire, " And what do you think all this will lead to ?" and " Williams " replies : " I think the issue must be precisely the same in the nineteenth, and. probablY the next century, as it was in the first and &Boling centu ries—the fall of all the new philosophic idols" (are not Maurice & Co. the only philosophic party in their eyes ?) " as of the old religious ones, before one whose name. is Kin. of Kings and Lord of Lords." .Alas.! for the cause, the glory, and honor of our glorious King, if these traducers of his true and proper work of obedience unto death "huper humort". for use and in our stead, are to be his recognized champions and defenders. But now let us hear "No. II,"—" Moral ity and Divinity," by Mr. Maurice. As many of your readers know, Mr. Maurice, although removed from his Professorship in King's College, London, retains a Lon-' ,don living, and this although he denies the real substitution of Christ, : regards all men as already redeemed and reconciled, and looks upon Christ's self-sacrifice ihe means of saving the world, or in other words, making men holy and happy for ever. As for the judicial character of God, he practically ignores it, and denies the doctrine of the eternal punishment of the wicked. Mr. M. begins his "'Morality and Divinity." by referring to a Layman's Letter to the Bishop of Oxford, " The Suppression of Doubt is not Faith." The author of that pamphlet said that Dr. Wilberforce, 'being a Bishop, was " bound to maintain all that a dogmatic Church de clares, by her =authority, to be Matter of faith.". But then, "1 am a Layman, and shall be content to preserve the :religious truth by which we live!' This " religious truth" " the Christianity deliVered in the Sermon on the Mount!' The Church'S " terminology," her " Creeds and Con fessions," stand on a very different footing. This is the style of this new school. Precept is " religious truth," not dog matic statement i On this principle, our Lord himself would be condenmed for de: Oaring that he came to "give his life a ransom for many;" and as for Paul, to say nothing of Calvin, Luther, and the Fathers and Founders of the Church, of England, they went away by the very fact of con tending for dogmas, from " the Christianity of the Sermon on the Mount." The shal lowness of this need not be exposed. The fatal influence of the disseverance: of doc trine from duty is the peril of the time. Sucinianism may well be glad, and Deism itA'ol may take heart. Maurice accordingly dwells on the •Sermon on the Mount; ti uutes from it about the two men who built their houses respectively on the -rock and the sand ; extracts the passages be " Judge not," &e • and then adds b : "These are not words which have paSsed away. They do not belong to the myths which a refined criticism eliminates from the Gospel." The italics are mine, not Mr. Maurice's ; but they bring out histeachpe culler views, his ignorance of what Evan gelicals tea as to duty, and the ideaa cherished and sedulously propagated against the teaching of great facts in connexion With God'S work for and in man. Mkurice, indeed, goes a, little farther than the "Layman," in that he discovers the Fatherhood of God in the Sermon on the Mount. Nay, he admits that mere moral teaching : will not operate on men ; ; that when that style has been adopted, boors have eared as little for the preacher as the gentleman ;" and that the success of both Puritans and Methodists was owing to the fact that they " both ascended into the Divine region." And one would think that he had got the experience of Thomas Chalmers when after his conversion he preached Evangelical truth as the basis and stimulus of Evangelical morality, and when Ite,saw this produce the fruit which before had been totally wanting when he only spoke of the morality of the Sermon on the Mount. " That,vvhich changed John and Charier Wesley from rather formal Oxford Divines into messengers of life to colliers and ruffians, was the discovery to their own minds and hearts of a Spirit wlao showed them their evil beneath all their respecta bility and devotion; who showed them a Deliverer from that evil; who showed them that he was not less a Deliverer for the most disreputable and the most undevout." All this is true about the Wesleyan leaders, but it is ,not all the truth. They dealt with conscience ; they spoke of sin as leading 'to the "wrath to come," and that wratk. eternal of a judgment day—an eternity of retribution, and by" the terrors of the Lord!' They roused men's fears and so made precious the Hiding Place. This' Mr. Maurice and his: school do not preach.; God is paternal; that is the Revelation; his justice inflexible, that "will by no means clear the 'guilty," ex cept by'a real sin offering, they scout "as old fashioned terminology!' And so the Puritans and the Methodists " both ascend ed into a Divine region," to, which, alas .1 the NeW School never soars. According to Mr. Maurice, Christ's prayer, ' That they may all be one in us,' " does comprehend all Churches whatso ever, the members of all schools and sects whatsoever, their positive principles what soever. W hat we want is a ground in the name of the Eternal God, which shall em brace F all, and at last subdue at/ to itself. We, cannot draw lines like those of the Evangelical Alliance, which_ shall cut off the, whole Latin and Greek churches." So that all Paul's denunciations and anathemas of " any other doctrine than that we have preached," was quite unwarranted, for the teachers were pro fessedly Girlish:an teachers. Arius was as truly embraced in the fold as Athanasius, and'ai the Article of the English Church which denounce' the " bliephernous fables and: dangerous secrets" they. are simply "judging," and the " drawing of lines,' and so of the • corrupt Churches of tie East. If he said that within these Churches God has a people—a true Church —then it Would be true, and "the barriers would not be broken down, set - up (by Apostolic exampled by the Reformers, nor would truth be sacrificed and souls imper illed by false and fatal charity." The inference drawn from the whole matter by Mr. blaurice, - is, as usual, for the toleration, by the Church of England, of every shade of opinion. He declares-that _upon this depends "the fate of. England !" And he trusts, therefore, that the Anglican Episoopate, and the Anglican clergy, Will earnehtly consider what their sPiritual faun= dation is—whether. it is an 'authoritative document or an everlasting Name." Ac-: ebrdingly he admits that there are "appos , TES PRESBYTERIAN BANNER Publication Office : GAZETTE BUILDINGS, Si FnTa 82., Prrießiroma, PA. PXPLADNAPHIA, SOUTIPWIST Cox. or 72a LID CEIXPRXOT ADVERTISEMENTS. TERMS IN ADVANCE. A Square, (8 linos or lima) one insertion, 6,0 cents; each subsequent Ineertion, 40 cents; each line beyond eight, 6 cis A Squall; per quarter, $1.00; each line additional , 8 3 Dente A Risnocries made to adrertleers by the, year. BUSINESS NOTICES of Tsar lines or lesislEoo each dlttonal line, 10 cents. DAVID 111 9 1EINNVY & CO., PROPRIETORS AND PORL ses:6i. ing truths" in the Artieles,," none of which we can afford to loose ;" he deprecates all " prosecutions," (of the Essayists,) "as equally exposing our formularies to eon tempt by their failure or success." Bish ops are entreated not to enforce their indi vidual " notions and opinions," for (what , gargon 1) " the Revelation of God is Malt" (the Bishops') " probation—that God is asking them whether they can trust it, of whether they trust rather in their own no tions or opinions." Nay, if they don't do thus, and not let things alone, "our Na tional Church will perish !" And surely every honest man, or every man not blind ed by the absurd theory of a Maurice and his school, which hates nothing but Evan gelical teaching, and hugs every form of so-called Christianity as in some way part and parcel of the 'Christianity of the Church Catholic—will say, "Let the Na tional Church perish"—if truth and error, light and darkness, grand facts and mythi cal fables, are thus to be confounded, and " Triith on her eternal throne is to be treilk,e.d as a fool;!" = I ‘ RATIONALIZING PREACHERS talk much il these days of " objective truth" and. '4 •pbjective truth." The. Baptist Mars e, (one of whose editors is Mr. Spur-. peon, and in a review which I think bears his stamp,) thus ridicules this fashion and style of teaching: " Glancing at the table of contents of the volume before us, we feel no elevation of our expectations when we read chaps. i., ii, and iii.—Grace Objectively Consid ered; chaps. iv. and v.—Grace' Subjectively Considered. We remark in terjectively that, viewed objectively, such terms are adject , ively to be described as the offspring of a theology, which is treated most rejectively by all sound divines and is only received by those whose minds are comparatively bewildered, and are therefore trajectively impelled into an admiration of a jargon which, speaking conjectively, was invent ed projectively to propagate injectively a philosophy which would act disjectively to the Gospel of 'Christ. Re-subjectively we e remark, that we are often dejectively impressed with the mischief which, subjec tively, such barbarisms work to the simpli city of our faith; we counter-projectively exhort ail men to treat, ' objectively,' ' sub jectively,' and all such rubbish, in the style known as 'electively.'" ARE PIISEYITES PAPISTS ? is a question on which some light is thrown by recent utterances of Church organs. The Union says -" It is perfectly true that we have professed a_desire for reunion with the an cient Mother of the English Church; but it is equally true that we have also advo cated union with the more ancient body from which the Roman Church herself is sprung." The Record " presumes that it is into the corrupt and idolArons Greek Church that the Union, seeks the eventual absorption, both of the Church of England and of its 'Mother Church' of Rome." The Union thus apoligizes for the word " Mass "—" Is it worth while to differ from the rest of the Western world in the name whichwe give, in common parlance, to the Holy Eucharist ? We think not. In the first place, it is an imposition on mankind to make them, believe that the phrase is essentially Roman Catholic. Neither is there any thing in the word itself which would compromise its patrons, inasmuch as it does not imply any doctrine, one way or the other. It is simply an ancient, convenient, and accepted phrase, under wh,ich we recognize .the Great Service in general, without reference to any part of it; it includes" (here comes out the secret reason of the love for. the term) "BOTH SACRIFICE AND SACRAMENT." It is only just to say, that there are Pu seyites who do not go so far as the Union, but their proclivities are necessarily the same. The High-Churchmen, at the last meeting of Convocation, indicated their fears of Dissent, and their anxiety to keep out of Dissent the laity—to establish a vir tually new Clerical Order of sub-deacons or Readers. Canon Woodgate and the Arch deacon warned their ,brethren to take heed, that in creating this new order, they were not establishing the, nucleus of future Dis senting bodies. If they Were allowed to teach and catechize, they would by-and-by want to preach, and they,would throw off the imperfect restraints imposed. The Canon saw the advantage - possessed by the Romish Church in having numerous orders in the ministry, which enabled it to hold its strings in its hands, and to feel the pulse of the Church to the ,very extremity, and he hoped that the: time might come when the English Church might realize a machinery of a similar kind. But the time was not . et come. At present they, were obliged -to supplement Church an thority by moral authority; but Church principles were extending and taking root, and creating an atmosphere in which these' institutions might safely float. These are the ipsissima verbs, and the laity of England now know what are the hopes and aims of the High-Church clergy. All that they want by professing sub-dea cons, each of whom is to be under the direction of " the priest," (the word " in cumbent " being rejected,) is, as the Guardian' honestly confesses, to prevent religious zeal making for itself "illegiti mate employment through the ever-ready channel of Non-Conformity." And even the Evangelical clergy are getting alarmed about the • Non-Contortnist Memorial Cele bration of the Ejected of 1662. Dr. Mil ler, of Birmingham, has spoken unadvisedly and bitterly, and a public writer warns him that the "facilis descensus" of a clergyman who'has got to the windward of conscience, leads to an issue of most " unwelcome con templation." If Dr. M. and his friends are not beyond the reach of a faithful admo nition' I would commend to them the words of M. Trench, one of the ejected ministers of 1662: " I do not think that the declara tion of cm:deigned consent and assent" to all- things contained in the Book of Common •Prayer can be sincerely made by those whose judgments disapproved so many things contained therein as I de. And I am the More confirmed in this mi. sion to this esifitiatirig declaration, from observing several of thy acquaintance who ' have made it, by giving a looser construc tion to several things, to become less strict and conscientious in other things than they were before." These are indeed weighty words. Conscience may not be - tampered With; t and yet what outrages' it receives' from - Evangelicals subscribing to, the form ulas and services which their legitimate successors put away from them, as Dr. * Begs proposes that the. Veit, Free-Chtirth General Assembly stiall devote a ipciitiorr of;time: to a Bicentetaary Comtaniorstivtv, service.
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