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The Men for the Times.
Richard Cecil said in the introduction to
his sermon on The True Patriot, " To meet
everywhere peaceable citizens in arms ! to
hear fields and .gardens daily echo with the
din of martial exercises! Surely this be
speaks a time critical—alariniug—new ! a
time, which a minister cannot but feel, and
might not to neglect." We live in such
tie-) and not. only should every minister
be Thily awake, but every Christian, should
also be aroused' to the pressing. necessities
of the hour. Action ! action I should be
the watchword of the hour, but with ac
tivity, zeal and courage, there must bedeep
humility, earnest prayeroind an overcom
ing faith. " The effectual fervent prayer ,
of a righteous man availeth much." And
do'we not need something just at this mo
ment, that will'avail much, for our brave
soldiers, for our Government, and for the
efficiency and success of our arms? When
the Government calls for brave hearts and
ready hands,'to come speedily to its help,
do we not need something to give a new
impulse to our patriotism? In the excite
ment, and hurry, and anxiety, do we not
need. a wonderful outpouring of the Holy
Spirit? Well, " The effectual ferveut
prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
These are the kind of prayers that are now
needed. . We want Christian patriots—
men who, like Enoch of old, walk With
God—men who love their closets, and
the prayer-meeting, men whose hearts are
temples of the Holy Spirit, and who inter- '
cede by day and by night, with the Lord,,
in behalf of our struggling nation. Such
men will prayy, that the sword now in the
hand of the Government, be made " a ter
ror to evil-doers," and if a terror' to evil
doers,
it will certainly be a praise to those
who do well. These faithful intercessors, '
(would that there were more of them I )
are blessings to our country and the Church.
Jehovah delights in contemplating them.
" To this man will I look, even to him that
is of a broken and contrite spirit." For
toe sake of humble believers, God spares
wicked nations, among whom they dwell,
even as he would have spared Sode i nn had
there been ten righteous persons found
therein, and as he spared 'Jerusalem long
for the sake of David, his servant. For
the sake of pious men, he bestows mani
fold blessings; as on Egypt, for the sake of
Joseph; on the house of Obed-edom, for
the sake of the Ark; on the widow of Za
rephath, for the sake of El jah; and on
Babylon, for the sake of Daniel.
What a blessing it is to the Church and
nation when there are many stirring, up
themselves 'to take hold of God. These
like Moses, stand in the breach to turn
away the wrath of God. " Therefore, he
said, that he would destroy them, had not
Moses, his chosen, stood in the breach, to
turn away his wrath, lest he should de
stroy."
God can do nothing contrary to his per
fections. All his actings are the imme
diate result of them. But it pleases him,
that his saints in seasons of national dis
tress should plead his perfections, and, as ,
it were, take held of them in holy, huinble,
fervent importunity. Some of his greatest
deeds and manifestations of his perfections
upon earth have been performed in answer
to the prayetleand according , to the pleWB
- his praying people. Was he read}"
to spare Sodom 7 It was in conformity to
the pleadings 'of Abraham, wholook hold
of his justice and righteousness. Why did
he spare Israelin.thedesert, after their idol
atry and rebellion,'upon the report of the
spies? Becalms, as it is said, Moses would •
not' suffer him to .destroy them; he took
such hold of his perfections. Why did he
restore Jerusalem after the seventy years'
captivity? In answer to the prayers of
Daniel and the angel of the' Lord, pleading
the righteousness, faithfulness, and mercy
of God. Those who have grace to take
hold of Godin this manner, are the pillars .
of a Church and the strength of a nation.
Thus it is evident, that the great strength
of a Church or nation does not consist in
the outward forms, privileges and multi
tudes of the one, nor in the wealth, popula
tion, laws or armies of the other, but in
those among them who constantly offer up
the , effeetual fervent prayer of the right
eous man. When Hezekiah and Isaiah cried
to God, Sennacherib and his hosts could
not even approach Jerusalem. 0 how
many, like Isaiah and. Hezekiah, should be
at the throne of grace, pleading importu
nately for the success of our arms and the
restoration of peace, when brothers; hus
bands, tethers and sons are sacrificing their
lives on the altar of. their country I The
humblest believer in -the land has a power
at the throne of grace, which not even ar
mies and navies possess,
But we are not to expeekthe end, \ while
we tiegleist the means, "Abraham be
lieved God ; but, on a properoccasion, he
armed his trained servants born in his 'own
house, three hundred and eighteen, and,
after recovering his brother, was met lie
his return and blessed by Melehizede.
1\
Jacob wrestled with God for deliveranc
from a cruel avenger ; but still planned,
with, as, much policy as if he had never
prayed. -..David was wise in not trusting to
his bow; but did he throw it a w a y ? H e
resolved not to trust in chariots or in
horses. '
but did he destroy them ?"
And 110 W, marnot all good men confi
dently hope and pray that the results 'of
this great struggle, which at present con
vulses 'and crushes the country, may be the ,
establishment of our nationality on a basis
more enduring. As the pelting storms
and driving winds cause the oak of the for
est to sink its routs deeper and to clasp
Avg pre firmly the solid ;ook, so may this
/Cr, Arm of rebellion, which is now shaking'.
Wireibly . the Tree of 'our liberties, cause
„to sink' its•roota deeper and to clasp more
- vigorously the bean of the ;nation.
D. A. C.
. Rochester, Pa., July 28,1862.
The follitwing 'from the Agotit of the
American and Foreign Christian`Union, in
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Italy, will be read with much interest:
On the 22d of Ma.y, the Rev. Mr Hall,
our Wkasionary Agont at Florence, , wrote
as follows:
‘.`. For some months there has been an
earnest call for another Evangelist on the
Island of Elba. Early in April, I applied
to Dr. Revel to aid me in securing the-ser
vices of a good man, to open a place of, re
ligions worship there, in the town of Rio
Marina. I am, happy to say that a most
excellent person has been-lound—Mx. E.
Marohand—a native, I believe, of 'Pied-
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moot, who has finished his theological
course at Geneva, and who lately arrived in
this city, intending to seek a field of labor
in Italy. E. have secured his services for a
few months, till the time of his ordination
by the Waldensian Synod. Whether he
will return to Elba after that event, de
pedds on the decision of Synod, which de
termines the field of labor for each of its
members. Unless a more important work
is found for him, he will don4less be re
turned there.
" Mr. Marchand passed his first Sunday
on the Island at Portoferraio, with the
Evangelist Peccenini and Del Bono, of
whom he speaks, as excellent, evangelical,
and faithful laborers. The Lord's Supper
was celebrated that day at Portoferraio for
the first time, in which impressive service
about twenty persons United. Mr. M. says
he was deeply moved by the simplicity and
seriousness with which these newly con
verted persons presented themselves, and
expresses the hope that this service will
confirm their faith, and contribute to in
crease -the light which begins to shine
so brightly in that pleasant country.
" At Rio Marina, he found the friends of
the Gospel as sheep among wolves; with
no encouragement from without, and no
centre of union among themselves ; exposed
to the oppositoon of an ignorant and perse
outing population. He says :' I leave you
to imagine with what joy they greeted my
arrival to establish myself among them.
They, thanked God and took courage ; and
gave me all possible assistance to open
a place of worship, which; if it please
God, shall x be permanently established
there.'
" The number of evangelical persons who
openly declare themselves at Rio, is about
forty. A room for meetings was at once
rented and furnished. The services have
been well attended, -by a quiet, earnest, and
attentive congregation.
"To show the ignorance of some of the
population, Mr. Marchand' related the fol
lowing•incident A very old and poor
woman came to me one-day in great dis
tress, and.asked with much perplexityi: if
the good Jesus would be willing to save
even her. " And why not ?" said Ito
her. "Ah ! because I cannot read or
write." pressed warmly the land of the
dear old woman, and explained to her how
she could partake of the grace of Christ
without reading or writing. She left me,
her face beaming with joy.'
It is my desire to open, as soon as- possi
ble, 'a school in Portoferraio,-and in Rio
Marina. The children of , those ' who turn
away from the Roman Church, should be
gathered into schools at the earliest practi
cable moment. E. E. 11ALL.
WORK OF THE WALDENSES IN ITALY
In the July number of The Christian
World, Mr. Hall gave a brief but interest
ing account of 'the missionary efforts of the
Italian Church in Italy. In a recent letter
he has sent us the '"following notice of the
work of the Waldenses in Italy, which we
are sure will be read with deep interest :
Since Is4B the Waldensiau Church of
the Valleys of Piedmont has been enlarging
its borders. From 1848 to 1859, this an
cient Churoh,A•ejoieing in the freedom se
cured to it by Charles Albert, sent out
missionaries' and established missions in
several towns and villages in Piedmont.
And when the late revolution opened the
greater part of Italy to the—eolporteur and
evangelist, the Vaudois Christians, with
others, were ready to enter this new field
of evangelical labor.
Some statements frond the last RepOrt
[May 20,1862,] of the Ccininiittee ef
gelisation, may be acceptable to your
readers.
The Report speaks first bf those steam
which have been occupied al longer or shorter
period before the last yea; then 'of new
enterprises.
At Cornaayeur a small .church has-been
established, composed of those who have
separated thernSelves from the old traditions
of Romanian:l. Though there has been no
increase the last year, yet the members
have been confirmed in the faith. A school
for girls has been opened, and now numbers
sixteen pupils. The evangelist also gives
instruction' to some boys.
At Aosta the curious 'multitude which
first came to hear the evangelist has disap
peared, leaving about , thirty Who are con
stant attendants on religious services.
Many causes, says the Evangelist, have
bronght about this decline; and first- of
all, the enmity and opposition of thelfty
priests and 'thirty sisters of charity living
in the city;'they have sworn - the ruin' of
the evangelicals, and have left no means
untried to destroy their inftnene,eund their
work. Many hearers have withdrawn from
the evangelical worship, because they found
the Gospel too severe, and inconsistent with
their natural' passions. So long as contro
versy was the subject of discourse, they
were pleased ; but when the way of salva
tion has been plainly and pointedly an
nounced, many have said=" This is a hard
saying, who can hear it?" The colporteurs
in this region have been very successful
the last year; their sales have -been in
creased probably by the violence' of their
nemies, who have committeduiany :Testa
''eats and religious tracts 'to the flames.
In, the neighborhood of Aosta,' at Bris
nis,
so es, a small and faithful congregation
has' (len formed : being confposerof multi
veto' of the soil, they are more independ
ent a d conscientious. The Miesion. at
Aosta may be regarded as firmly estab
lished, Miming secured'a house sufficiently
large for‘i church, a residence for the min
ister,and Thorns for the schools.
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There i s ' ii congregation of about forty
persons at o,isale. The Evangelist who
has occupied that post, has been accus
tomed to visit "float
the stations at
Voghera, Castelluovo and Guazzora—in
each place the nunther of the brethren is
small, but firm in \he faith. The Evan
gelist who has minhtered in all these
places, has been recekly called to Flor
ence as master of the schbol fer boys in that
city. -,
As the present capital of•the, Kingdom,
Turin,lias become one.of the iaost important
places of evangelical labor. Among the
citizens called there from all parts of Italy,
many desire to attend occasionally tarot
estant religious service. The number - of
hearers has by this means greatly increased.'
In the last year twenty new members have
been admitted to the communion. In spite
of many difficulties and trials, a great re
ligious work has 'been done in Turin, and a
blessed spiritual influence has invaded all
accessible places. Four well-conducted
schonls are: in operation, partly sustained by
contributions in thecity ; - there is else lib
Institute for young Vaudois artizans, and a
Society for giving aid to poor children.
Such are the labors and resources which
assure for the work of evangelization a
blessed future, and cannot but have the ap
probation of God and men.
in Genoa and Leghorn interesting and
successful labors are in progress. The
church in Genoa numbers about one hun
dred communicants, and two flourishing
schools give promise of future prosperity
to this station. In Leghorn, after many
oppositions of priests and even public offi
cers, the church has passed into a flourish
ing and. prosperous state. One hundred
and twenty communicants have been added
on examination... A school has been estab
lished; also a Society to attend poor sick
people in the night, and to bear the dead
to the cemetery; all elements of a living
church.
In Florence, the Waldenses have their
Theological Seminary. Professor Geymonat,
in addition to :his lectures, preaches twice
every Sunday and twice during the week.
His congregation includes about one bun
cirod.and twenty communicants. A Sunday
School, and a day school for boys and one
for girls, are in-operation under the direc
tion of the Vaudois Committee.
The Report speaks of the work in Pa
lermo, Milan, Brescia, Bergamo, Modena,
Reggio, Bologna,-and other places—in sev
eral of which religious services are held
only occasionally, solely from a deficiency
of laborers.
Allusion is also made to the work in Ver
res, Chatisson, and Ceram, a mission sus
tained since last October by the American
and Foreign Christian Union. Also to the
missions established and supported by the
same Society in the Island of Elba.
The Report as a whole gives evidence of
progress and prosperity'in the various Mis
sionary Stations -of the Vaudois Church.
This and other Societies for evangelization
in Italy are doing a great work,'which is to
have the most important and salutary influ
ence on the character and destiny of .this
new and growing :kingdom. The thousands
of Bibles and Testaments and religious
books given to Italy by the hand of Chris
tian love, have already accomplished a work
which time can never efface. Let not those
who pray .for the coming of Christ's king
dom be weary in well doing.
E. E. HALL.
EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE
English Matters, Political and Agricultural—The
Nowa from' America—Mai-rive of the Princesi
Royal Her Character and .IVortli—Her. Hus
band and his Mother—The Queen's Grief—Per
sonal Renuniscences of a Visit to Dee Sido—The
Queen at Balmoral—Death, of Gen. Bruce-=His
Buria/,,and the Services—Visit to Aberdeen—A
New Incumbent—The "Forty Thieves"—The
Church Establishment tind•.-Pree Church—The
Slate Collar—Dr. Newinan's Denial—A Real
Dupe—The Other Extrenie—Dr. Williams and
.Essayism—Dr. Lushington's Judgment—lts Na
ture and Extent.
Erramsu POLITICS are in a calm condi
tion. The Government has suspended the
erection of forts to defend the entrance (at
Spithead) of Portsmouth harbor, but will
proceed with 'other works of detente there
and - elsewhere. Our harvest is. likely •to
be late; the weather is still unsettled and
showery, causing,some uneasiness and rais
ing Me price o grain. There is a ple
thora of gold and silver, notwithstanding
recent large loans to foreign countries, and
the rate of interest is likely to be 3i per
cent ere long. American securities have
been sold by English holders, and bought
by Americans themselves. There has been
some depression in them, on account of the
protraction of the war. The latest news
which has reached us, when I write, is in
regard to the apparently indecisive, but
bloody ,battle at or near. Charleston. The
Times still holds that the South will be
beaten, but the nation, or the best part,
mourns ever the slaughter, and the appa
rent unlikelihood of the South submitting
except as 'a conquered people, to the Un
ion sway.
THE MARRIAGE OF THE'-`PRINCESS AL
ICE has been celebrated with.great privacy,
at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the
maine residence of Royalty. Not that
there was not a large-attendance'of Officers
of State and of Foreign Princes and their
attendants—about 70 in All. But'the ser
vice took place not in a church, but in'the
drawing room; the Archbishop of York
officiating, and those residing close at hand
were not aware of this programme. The
Queen wa4 present in deep mourning, and
all the company were in 'half mourning.
The bride (this , ' write for your lady-read
ers,) .wore a dress of white silk, of a,new
description, called c' Crystalline," with a
single flounce of Honiton lace, and a bor
der of orange flowers at the bottom of the
skirt. Magnificent presents were made to
the young lady, by the Duchess of Athole,
Countess of Fife, Dnleep Singh, an Indian,
Prince, as well as by the Queen. But the
father's (intended and prepared) presents
were also there. He vvarmly approved of
the marriage, and some time before his
death, had set apart- special gifts for his
daughter, who, alas 1 was fated to see him
lie struggling with death, until she was
borne away from the chamber helpless and
paralyzed. And to thiviscene one of the
morning papers refers as follows :
Throughout the country, last-night, how 'many
a family circle drank a hearty health to the
young bride=how many lips when bending the
kneain nightly prayer, forgot not to ask for.long
years, and happy:days for that Alice whose sweet
face is so familiar in every' village of England--
whose.fair youth
. hasbeen so tried by a sudden.
and cruel bereavement, and whose name is to
synonymous with a father's farewell and'a unith'-:
er's consolation! It is no secret how, - in :the
dark hours of last December, the young Princess
was found, by heaven's inspiration, strong be
yond' her years.; and how, in the most trying
visitation of our beloved. Queen, she was 'vouch
safed as a stay and a comfort. These are - things
never to be forgotten', and make her name a'dar
ling household word throughout theland.
This wedding is one of pure.affection on
both sides, and not of State dipldmacy.
When I was returning, last year, through
Switzerland, from the Geneva Conference,
I met a lady .who lived , at Hesse Darms
tadt, the residence of the Princess'sfhus
band, and of his parents, I 4 heard •the , best
character of him, as well -as: of his devoted
and. excellent mother. The, Times thus
presents the contrast of the presentwith
the past as'tnßoyal marriages :
A royal marriage has happily. ceased to helm
,cessarily a ,political event. Aut. that is nottlie
whole cif• the degradation whiCh it escapes in
these days. For near two centuries it has been
; assumed that not only Sovereigns, but most royal
personages, were without the • , higher qualities
which both , religion and philosophy tell . us are
necessary to the perfection of our nature. They
were:, t,o, be ; married,. not4Lthe, oh,t9c4, of,their
1 choice; but bq acmearrangenienVor somilihtit%
PITTSBURGH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1862.
tion of circumstances which precluded choice in
the matter. The parents or the ministers found
the wife, whoin it was thought very uncivil and
unchristian for the husband not to care about.
The courtship was by letter or by the attorney;
ship of stiff old courtiers; themselves long past
the sentiment of love, if ever they had felt it. A
prince compounded his debts by matrimony, and
presented himself at the altar as subjects under
similar circumstances did at the Insolvent Debt
or's Court. A whole batch of Prindes was pitch
forked into marriage for the chance of an heir to
the throne from at least one of their wives. Oc
casionally, indeed, nature has pushed in and re-.
deemed marriage from absolute deiecration by ,a
moderate scandal. The Princess Charlotte was
the first who broke a custom so degrading to
royalty and the nation: She married the man of
her choice, to the astonishment of all wise and
good old gentlemen who entertained the views of
Mrs. Malaprop on this question. Her majesty
followed the example. Feeling thoroughly coin
cided with interest in the marriage of the
Princess Royal. The marriage we this day re
cord is simply one of
__pose in which England
takes most pride and believes herself to excel
other nations. It is a marriage of affection.
The princess Alice does not acquire by it, one of
those prizes 'which usually dazzle the eyes of
princesses and their parents, and to which-the
House' of Coburg has not hitherto been insensi-
ble. A. dream of splendid alliances, of German.
ascendancy, of Peninsular dynast*, and of new
thrones has now passed away, an'el,thii Young and
attractive daughter of a British' Sovereign joy
fully accepts ` the' hand -of a Prince of Sovereign,-
Darmstadt. His position is not such as to com
pel his residence in his paternal dorainions, and
the happy couple will probably take up their
abode in England. The queen will not lose her
daughter; anti the British people will gain what
they thoroughly appreciate—a younger' branch
of the Royal Family. - There will not be that
utter separation which struck all so painfully
when the Princess Royal left her home for the
society of strangers and foreigners.' In this
'ease, for the present, the stronger attractions
draws the husbandfrom his home to dwell among
ourselves.
The Times exhorts the Queen in a re
spectful way to struggle against the grief,
and thinks that this marriage will tend to
draw her out of herself, and break what
may be called the habit of sorrow. "It
is," adds the writer, " the .universal• expe
rience that nothing lightens grief so much
.as having something to do tw hick must be
done, and which-diverts the;raind, distracts
the thoughts, and gives '°a new turn to
ideas."
I have, in the course of my peregrina
tions in Scotland, stayed at 'the mansions
of an eminent- Christian, Col. Ramsay, of
Banehony, near Aberdeen., He and his
house serve the Lord. He is (as are
many other , military men,) the trophy of
Divine - grace in connexion with recent re
vivals. I believe -Reginald Radcliffe, Esq.,
the same who=hae-been so much blessed in
London, Parisi ands Geneva, was the means
of bringing him to decision, .Assisting,'at
a public meeting •pr4sided ~over by him; I
had opportunities afterwards of hearing
much about the Queen and• her children.
Banchony is on the margin. of the beauti
ful river Dee; along which passes - the rail
way up and 4iown which the Queen' travels
as she repairs to . and.returns (Londonward)
from her Highland Home, Balmoral. The
selection by Prince Albert, of such a place
for the health of his'ehildre,n,was specially
dwelt upon. What a difference in the
aspect of Queen e and childreit-going and
returning !" was one remark.' From the
relaxing• climate of the -Isle of Wight. they
pass up to the mountain breezes, the ro
mantic glen, the springy heather, and rud
dy health tinges the cheek, and the languid
eye lights-up and sparkles.
In her late visit to the Highlands, the
Queen preserved great privacy. There;-as
well as at Osborne, I was told, she'scrupu
lously followed out a remarkable morning
custom and • observance. I was assured of
the fact by my host,' who had it from the
best authority. In • Germany, it is the
custom (among the upper classes at least,)
to prepare and - make -ready each day and
light up at night the bedroom of 'the de
parted friend, as if he or she were alive.
The Queen has thus acted, feeding her
grief and possibly 'relieving -it too,. and
from her 'intense love to Pie departed,-thus
adopting the strange eustom"of his " Fad
erland:"
July 4, 1862
I found also that the 'Queen had found
great relief from-the-perusal of the Scrip
tures. Indeed 'a letter to this effect was
addressed to Lord Palmerstowby the-Prince
of Wales himself: She also visited, during
her late , sojourn in the _Highlands, the'cot
tages of some of the peasantry on the
estate,- and renewed her kindly intercourse
with them. To Balmoral, she • and kliter
children will return at the close of the
present -month, and remain there -for-the
Autumn.
INSTABILITY of position and success
have been remarkably, illustrated by the
sudden death of Gen. Bruce, brother of
Lord Elgin, the Governor General of India,
and governor of the Prince of Wales.
The Prince pursued '"llia studies under his
oversight, a,,d' in-hiwthe-late 'Prince Con
sort 'had entire confidence. Ile accompa
nied the Prince of Wales on his recent
visit to. Palestine and the East, and caught
a tnalarew , fever there, whieh he seemed to
have thrown off; bnt which,- returning
after his arrival in , London, has , carried
him from ,the smile of -Royalty into' the
dark domains of another monarch—Death.
The remaiiii, of the deceased were taken
for interment to Dumfermline, (in' Sciit.,
land,) in:the iibbey burial groun& Canon
Stanley, in the library -of Brownhill man
sion, and 'amid the mourners gathered
around /the' Teadgthe .beantiftill funeral
service - of the English Church; and 'then
there were devotionali services by Scottish
'Presbyterian ministers. 44 in 'this second
service,yall. the memberts' , of- the Episcopal
communion cordially joined==-Canon' Bt a nL.
ley being conspicuous for his reverent
attention. '
A wreath was borneon the coffin, <,as -it
was conveyed t 3 the tomb on the shoulders
- of six workmen -of the Elgin estates. It
was a votine offering, from a son and daugh
iter of our widowed Queen. 'These 'simple
butusignifteant words told its story : "
last-token of love and respect from , Albert,
Edward and Alice "
Almost to the last, General Bruce was
well-nigh unconscious, but, let us hope from_
whatis stated that he was not nnprepare
for the summons. Taking leave -of his
physician on the last-night ofohislife, with
that cheerful air which betokened4expecta
tion of, speedy recovery, and of soon meet
ing again, the dream was broken by these
words : " I arc afraid, General, that it must
be a sfaeAiell." '" Li it so ?" was the reply;
" thenstgood-night. - I:die imkpeace; I:die
happy." I thinkitzrery .unlikely _that the
Prince Consort would have selected for the
governor of his son, any 'other than ,
fearing man, like himself
AT ABERDEEN,' where I have - been - so
journing for several days, there is much .tirt.,
interest a stranger. In the first place it is
a "granite city" throughout. That gives
it •an aspect of solidity, which is quite
wanting in the • brick-built towns of the
South of England, (in contrast with York
shire, Lancashire, and also Somerset, in
cluding also Bristol and Bath,) and wanting
also in London itself. True, in London
we have our Cathedral churches, our Club
Houses, our Houses of Parliament, and
bridges, built of stone, as well as Bucking
ham Palace, Apsley louse, Baron Roths
child's new house, and many other man
sions of the nobility and gentry. But
London is often it congeries of brick—a
series of brick towns, as it were, placed
one after another along a vast area. And
therefore whenever I leave London for the
North, and come back, I feel disagreeably
arrested by the brick everywhere. The
contrasts presented by Glasgow, Edinburgh,
and Aberdeen, are very marked. Aber
deen granite is, among the • finest in the
world. But it is not se' beautiful in its
pale, cold gray, even . when highly polished,
as is the red, inai:bled, variegated Peter=
head granite, which, both for ornamental
pillars at our, London Club Houses, and
sepiilehral monuments, :.is - marvellously
fine.
The whole of the then Established clergy
" went- out" at the Disruption of the
Church of Scotland in 1843. The Free
Church comprises the great maskof the
merchants, bankers, and traders. A.few
landedlaroprietors, who also do business in
the town, and live at its West-cod sub
urbs, cling to the Establishment, am:la con
siderable number of the humbler orders.
On the Sabbath that I was in Aberdeen,
there was introduced by Principal Tulloch,
of St. Andrew's, a new parochial clergy
man, in the East church. This gentleman
was one of the men who were strong Non-
Intrusionists, and even attended the final
Convocation at Edinburgh, when extremi
ties were weighed and welcomed, (if need
be,) supposing (as was the case,) that the
(rovernment'would not grant the demands
for *freedom and spiritual independence
made by the Evangelical minority. But at
the last moment, forty of this majority, who
thereby earned and received the soubriquet
of " the Arty' thieves," resolved to stay in,
and keep their livings. , Some saiddt was
the ministers' wives that.were in fault; but
as a class, the ministers' wives and daugh
ters too, at the era of the Disruption,
proved 'themselves true heroines—as I
could illustrate, :if space permitted, by
an example which was related in my hear
ing the other day, to listen , to which with
out tears, was almost impossible. The new
incumbent at Aberdeen has been at Mon
trose hitherto. He tried to defend himself
and his position at the Disruption, by a
pamphlet entitled " Disclosures ;" but out
came, by another hand, " More Disclo
sures," which covered his plea with confu
sion. This class of men have not pros
pered, and the Scottish Establishment at
Aberdeen'and in most other towns is in a
low condition' as to religious life and popu
lar confidence. The leaders are struggling
to get free of the meshes 'of Lord Aber
deen's famous Act; in fact they want to
obtain' such a; position as the Free Church
demanded—but that -they cannot do.
Whatever theory may be dreamt about, a
modern Church Establishment must con
sent;if endovied by the State, to wear the
State-collar.
NEwmArt=Tonce the leader of Tree- j
tarianism—having been said to be ready to .
return to Protestantism, has written to the
Globe to deny the' rumor. . It is melan
choly to read the language" employed by
him; . amore melancholy specimen of a
dupe eould . not be
. .fou,nd. " not
no
had one moment's wavering of trust in the
Catholic Church, ever since I was.received
into .her fold.. I hold,:ariffever have held,
that her Sovereign Pontiff is the centre of
unity, and, the Vicar. of Christ; arid I ever
have had,. and have atilt, an ;unclouded
faith in her creed in all its. articles ; a su
preme satisfaction in all her worship and
teachings; and.. an eager longing and a
hope against. : hope,. that the: many dear
frie . nds , whom.l.have left in Protestantism :
may be partakers of happiness." [He then
waxes abusive " This.being, my state of
mind, I do hereby.profess anima, with
an absolute internal assent and ,consent,
that Protestantism is the.dreariest :of possi
ble religions; that the thought of the An
,glican. service • makes me Shiver, and the
thought, of the Thirty-Nine Articles makes
me shudder. Return ,to the Churcb, of
Englanill ND; 'the net is broken, and we
are delivered!: I should be a consummate;
:fool,:.(to,use a,mild term,) if.in old.age,
I left. a. 'land flow . ingwith milk and honey'
for the city of confusion and; the house of
bondage."
ROWLAND - WILLIAIVIS - writes ano,
''thee ":abusive letter. , He, as you know, is
the:greatest blasphemer (save-Kr. Wilson,)
of all the Essayists. He-is much enraged
at Dr. Lushington's recent Judgment, al
though it gives him and others a latitude
for speculation and denial far greater than
was expected. He employs the terms
falselpod" and " mendacity " against
these ..who do not ; join, him in protests
against," formaltheology."• =He claims for
his own writing -" an .ingenuous freedom
from disguise,"-and asserts that " no scholar
has crossed pens..witb. him in pure argu
ment?' •
Dr- Lushington finds Williams guilty of
teaching-,contrary- to the Articles, in ex
plaining " Propitiation" :to find its proper
subject in the heart of man ; to resolve
Justification into a change of our own feel
ings; to deny the efficacy or reality of the
Christian Covenant, and to gainsay the
eternity.of futurepunishment.
But , Dr. Lushington , will have Church
men I•tried not by Scripture, not by the
opinions - of great Church Divines, not even
by the :Liturgy, but by , the Thirty-Nine Ar
ticles. These, , and these alone, constitute
the crucial test of opinion, heretical or ortho
dox ; • swerve 'from these ; and you come into
the meshes of the Ecclesiastical Court. It
is now ,44 perfectly competent," as the Times
,says, "to dispute the authorship of any
book .of Scripture, so long as he Aioes not
'dispute ~ -canonicity- Any clergyman
may impugn .the veracity,of a historical
statement of the Bible—of Imo even -so sol
emn andosignificant as that of Abrahams
sacrifice of his son—and assign to _it a
meaning, 'the , very reverse , of that recorded
in the sacred: narrative, with perfect impu
nity; while on some metaphysical" (?)
" question like that of Justification, he
must' not transgress' hair-breadth. No
one,.however, is at liberty to characterize
the • Bible, =with-'Dr. -Williams:-as an cx
proffiiiin 644116;1i raiiiion,".iotwthez4writ'
WHOLE NO. 514
word of the congregation,' or to doubt,
with Mr. Wilson, whether it is miracu
lously inspired—that it is God's written
Word,'—that it is written by the inter
poSition of the Almighty, supernaturally
brought to operate.'
"At first sight," adds the Times, this
interpretation of the law seems to condemn,
all 'loose views of inspiration,' but a close,
perusal will suggest very important mcdifi
cations. It is only 'so far as the salvatiOri•
of man is concerned, that this authority is
claimed by Scripture.',..' Dr. .Lushington
says, cannot go the length of saying that
all parts of what are called the Holy Scrip
tures, were so written;, without 6xception,
The' Times says that " this decision re
minds the 'ehanipionS of clerical liberty, that
subscription to the Articles, sod Liturgy is,
a reality, and that,the courts_of law know
nothing of a non-natural,sense.. It reminds
the rulers of the Church that' dogmatic
statements drawn up -is ignoranoe of the
course which modern speculation would
take, are no impregnable bulwark of the
faith. More than this it cannot do.'
Notwithstanding all the disturbances
and agitations, ;coupled with lydra-headed
heresy within her pale, the Church of
England will not as yet fail as an Estab-
lishrnent. There• is such an amount , of
Conservatism, such slowness to act, and
moreover, so much spiritual vitality in the
Church, that the' Revolution will only
come. after long agitation. Meanwhile,
Scepticism is but " Scotei.ed, not killed."
J'. W.
Conviction of Sin
The Spirit takes different methods with
sinners in conviction of sin. Sometimes
he opens the heart, and gives is a view of
that fountain of corruption that lies there;
at another time, he brings some actual sin,
sets it before the soul in all its aggravations
and deserts; and,at another time, draws up
a whole catalogue of sins, with which a
poor creature stands chargeable before God,
and so convinces`bm of his miserable and
wretched condition: 'There is a great dif
ference likewise as to legal terrors both as
to the degrees of:them, and as to ;heir con
tinuance. Some know not what legal ter
rors mean; they see thethselves guilty, but
their souls are not discouraged with the
view; their hearts are opened at once, and
they receive the Redeemer, and rely upon
him, sweetly pleading his righteousness
for pardon and salvation. Others are
pricked at the heart, and like the. Jews
under Peter's preaching, are full of awful
astonishment at a view of their wretched
condition; or, like the jailor, come in deep
acrony of soul, and under all the terrors of
an awakened conscience, cry out, " Oh,
what must we do to be saved ?" Acts ii:
37, and. xvi : 29, 30. Some lie for some
considerable time under awful and distres
sing views of sin, and filled with the deep
est compunction and contrition for it, before
they are cheered with a view of pardoning
mercy others just feel the smart, and are
led to Xesus. As soon as tyey'are wounded,
they are healed. But irCall those cases
where there is a saving iihrk of the Spirit,
there is such convictioiVif as — to
ble the soul. All see themselves lost and
undone without a'Sayioar ; all'confess their
guilt, fall down at the footstool of God's
throne, and there acknowledge their sins
With every aggravation; charge themselves
with the greatest ingratitude, appear, in
their own apprehensions, deserving of ever
lasting burnings, confess how much 'they
have dishonored God, and wonder and ad
mire at infinite compassion, that they are
prisoners of hope and have any encourage
ment to expect an interest in pardoning
mercy. All this is strongly represented in
the parables of the publican and the prodi;
gal. What a deep sense has the publican
of his unworthiness! bow humble ! he is
afraid to draw nigh, lest that should be
esteemed presumption; he therefore stands
afar off. He dare not lift up his eyes to
ward- heaven, the place of God's habitation,
sensible that he had not the least reason to
expect an admittance there; with his eyes,
therefore, fixed upon the earth, and with
the deepest sense of guilt, he smites upon
his breast in token of his wretchedness,
and • though unworthy to be received, and
fit only to be thrown into hell, yet he ven
tures to speak to God; but all his plea is
mercy, " God be merciful to me a sinner."
Luke xviii : 13. Thus - beautifully and
strongly is this humble frame represented
in the parable of the prodigal son. Luke
xv : 17, &c. He had wasted his substance
in riotous living, had been guilty of the
greatest ingratitude to a kind and indul
gent father; when he, therefore comes to
be sensible of it, how is his soul Mumbled`!
See how he approaches the father whom he
had abused! he falls down at his feet,
makes a free and full confession of his sins,
and only begs to be admitted as a servant.
"_Father; I have sinned against heaven and
in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be
called thy son; make me as one of thy
'hired servants." I have forfeited the ami
able title of a son; I can no more expect to
be treated as a child; I have forfeited
every endearment of a father; I ask it not,
therefore; only let me be admitted as a
servant; that is all I at present crave; I
dare look no farther.— Cases of Conscience.
David's Bible and Ours.
In the days of <King David, the Bible
was a scanty .book; yet be loved it well,
and found daily wonders in it. Genesis,
with its sublime narration of how God.madh
the worlds, with its glimpses of patriarchal
piety, and dark disclosures of gigantic sin;
Exodus, with its glorious mare'. in go, through
that great wilderness, its thrilling memori
als of Jeliovah's outstretched arm, and the
volume of the written law; Leviticus,
through whose flickering vistas David's`eye
discovered the shadows of •better things to
come; Numbers, with its natural history
of the heart of man; and Deuteronomy,
,with its vindication of the ways of God;
Joshua and Judges, with their chapters of
providetice, their stirring incidents and
peaceful episodes; the memoirs of job, so
fraught with spiritual experience and , the
domestic annals of Ruth, which told toiler
grandson such a tale- of Divine foreknowl- ,
edge, and love, and care, all converging on
himself, or rather on David'assan andDa-
Vid's Lord. - These were David's Bible,
and; brethren, whatever, wealth you have,
remember that David desired his Bible
beyond all his riches. So thankful was he
for such a priceless possession, that he
praised God for its righteous judgments
seven times a day.' But you have got an
ampler Bible—a Bible' with Psalms and
Prophets in it—a-. Bible with Gospels and
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often have you found yourself clasping it
to your bosom as the man of your counsel ?
How often have your eyes glistened over a
brightening page as one who had found
great spoil? How often bave you dwelt
on its precious promises, till they evolved
a sweetness which made you marvel ? How
I many times have you 'praised the Lord for
the clearness of its light, the sanctity of
its truth, and the sureness of its immortal
ity?—Dr. Janies Hamilton.
The Sabbath.
The Sabbath is a Divine institution, ap
' pointed and instituted by the Almighty
directly, and that it did not cease at the in
troduction of Christianity, but was then
reestablished or reappointed by the Church.
The Church only incorporated the institu
tion of the Sabbath into her system, the
same as she did matrimony and other origi
nal institutions, and all the designs and
uses that were
,designed in its institution,
at the beginning, have entered with it into
the system of Christianity, leaving out all
the appendages and ceremonials that en
tered the Jewish Church with it!
God rested, he sanctified and hallowed it,
set it apart for holy purposes. And it be
comes
.7. a holy rest to us, when we are made
holy, wise and good, by the use of the
means that are placed before us, and in the
use of those means we sanctify and keep
holy the day.
The design, obviously, of fixing the time,
by the Almighty, to the seventh day, was
that uniformity and harmony might every
where prevail. Were it not so, every one
might select his own day, and while some
would be attending to their secular affairs
of life, others would be engaged in wor
ship, and their devotions interrupted by
the noise and clamor around them.
How lovely, when the first rays of the
morning sun begin to beam over a world
just emerging from darkness and inactivity,
how forcible the impression on the Chris
tian's soul, that Christ, the Sun of Right
eousness, rose from the dead, and dispels
the gloom of night, and scatters the shades
of -night from the soul I How full the sen
sation,- when like the calmness of morning,
the quiet of the rest of eternity is fore
shadowed.
May the great Author of the Sabbath
teach us to love and observe it, as he gave
the example. Amen.—E. S. H.—Luth.-
ern Standard.
Memory.
Sir William Hamilton tells some huge
stories in his lectures on Memory. Ben
Johnson could not only repeat all he had
ever written, but whole books he had read !
If we had his faculty, we should pray to
be delivered from the full exercise of it.
Niebuhr in his youth was employed in one
of the public offices of Denmark, where
part of a book of accounts having been
lost, he restored it from his recollection.
Seneca complains of old age, because he
cannot, as he once did, repeat two thousand
names in the order they were read to him;
and avers that on- one occasion, when at
his studies, two hundred unconnected verses
having been pronounced by different pupils
of his preceptor, he repeated them in re
versed order, proceeding from the last to
the first uttered. A quick and retentive
memory, both of words and things, is an
invaluable treasure, and may be had by any
one 'who will take the pains. Theodore
Parker,,when in the Divinity School, had a
notion that his memory was defective and
needed looking after, and he had an im
mense chronological chart hung up in his
room, and tasked himself to commit the
contents—all the names and dates,
from
the year one, down through Nimrod, Ptol
emy, Soter, Heliogabalus and the rest.
Our verbal memory soonest fails us, unless
we attend to it and keep it in fresh order.
A child will commit and recite verbatim
easier than an adult, and girls than boys.
To keep the verbal memory fresh, it is cap
ital exercise to study and acquire new lan
guages, or commit and treasure up choice
passages, making them a part of our mental
wealth.—Monaly Religious .Magazine.
The Sunday-School, and What Comes of It.
There is something worthy of special
notice in the. movements ,of. Divine Provi
dence in 'connexion with the formation of
the three institutions which, about the
commencement of the present century,
were established upon the principle of unit
ing Christians of all denominations in com
mon efforts for the moral and spiritual
benefit of mankind. The Sunday School
was the means devised by God for com
mencing this series of efforts; this natu
rally led to the popular day-school; the
more general acquisition of the art of read
ing suggested the necessity of the Relig
ious Tract Society to provide for a want
now becoming too general to be met by pri
vate efforts, while the demand created for
the Scriptures compelled the formation of
The British and Foreign Bible Society.
The desire felt on the part of those who
had devoted themselves to the gratuitous
instruction of the young on the Lord's-day,
to obtain instruction in the mode of con
ductinvb the schools in which they labored,
as well as to extend their benefits to others,
brought about the establishment of _the
(London) Sunday School Union. These
two latter institutions wereat reality con
temporaneous, as the arrangements for the.
formation
,of the Bible Society were in'pro- :
gress 'when the Sunday School Union was
inaugurated in 1803, although that forma
tion did not take place until the following
year,—Lond. T. S. S. 1114.9.
,who truly °fear
piTin GUidaliCe.---.l7heY
God have a seCreli, guidance from a higher
wisdom than what is barely human, viz.,
the spirit oftrutd godliness, .which
loth really,' though secretly, prevent and
direct them. A.ny man :that sincerely, and
truly fears Almighty God,- au d, calt: ,and re
lies upon him for his direction, has,it,as
really as a son has the counsel and direc
tion of his father; arid though the"voice
be not audible, nor discernible by seiiih,
yet it is as real as if a man:heard , voice
saying " This is ; the,wayy,walk t
Matt/Lew
if your superior. -treats you with famil
iarity, it will not therefore.benome you to
treat him in the same manner.
Wise Men are instructed by reason, inert,
of less understanding' by -experience. the
most. iggorant• by-necessity,. and the beast
a by nature.
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