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For the Preobyterlon DRUMM%
Continuation of the Narrative of Dr. Marks.
About two miles beyond the White Oak
Swamp, toward J 1141106 River, is the field
of battle or Monday. This is sometimes
called the battle of Nelson's Farm. The
enemy were defeated and driven from the
field on Sunday evening ut Savage Station,
and there was but little expectation of
close pursuit on Monday—so little, indeed,
that Paymasters had apppeared in some of
the Regiments, and had commenced paying
off the troops. The battle commenced
with the enemy rushing on our lines about
2 o'clock. P. M. The struggle continued
with unabating violence until 10 o'clock at
Alight; when the, guns of the enemy were
silenced, and our pickets held possession of
the battle-ground until 2 o'clock in the
morning.
On this battleground, extending about
two and a half miles, I found that every
dwelling house, stable, barn, and out
building, was converted into a hospital,
and yet many of our men were lying under
the shade of tree's, and under shelter of
boughs, grass, and blankets. The battle
was most severe in that portion of it where
our Reserve Regiments and the 63d Penn'a
were placed, in the defence of' batteries;
ten graves are found in this portion of the
line, where one is elsewhere seen. In the
neighborhood of two small farm houses
near to the crossing of the Richmond and
White Oak Swamp Roads, the conflict was
most deadly and long-continued. , These
farms are enabosomed thick, dense pine
forests, and from these the enemy rushed
upon our lines and artillery.
In one of these houses I found Adjutant
Gaither, of the 10th Reserves. The hos
pital was under the care of Dr. Donnelly,
of the '3d Reserves, who had nobly volun
teered to remain on the battle-field with
our wounded men. When I entered the
room where Adjutant. G. was lying, I was
much struck by his appearance;- his face
expressed fine culture and education, and
purity and elevation of character. These
impressions were confirmed by subsequent
acquaintance. He was wounded in the
right breast, the ball passing through the
body. He had been left for dead, but was
found alive by some of the Confederate .
soldiers, and borne to this houie. He told
me in my first interview that he had
been praying to God - that some min
ister of the Gospel might •be sent to
his dying bed, to counsel, instruct, and
pray for him, and now God had answered
his prayer. He had been for years a mem
ber of the Presbyterian Churoh i and-during
his life in the army he bad not forsaken
his Saviour. I have seldom witnessed a
more impressive scene. The dying officer,
fanned and upheld by enemies; the floor of
the room covered with wounded men in
every posture of interest, or distress—some
listening with the greatest anxiety, and
others too absorhed in their pains to hear
anything. In the presence of them all, he
bore his testimony, as a dying man, to the
righteousness of 'our cause; that he had no
regrets over his early death, for he died for
his country. He likewise spoke of his
hope as a sinner in the mercy of God,
through Jesus• Christ ; of his painful sense
of unworthiness, and that he had accom
plished so little of any value, but that he
was not withal afraid to die, for Christ his
Redeerner i was mighty to save; and not
by works of righteousness, but by his
mercy and grace be saved us. At the
same time he indited a letter to his parents,
full of gratitude and thankfulness for the
past and hope for the future, and of joyful
expectation of an eternal union in heaven.
This was ow Saturday, the sth of July.
I returned. on Monday, and= found that
while many whom I bad , seen on my first
visit were gone, the. Adjutant had' revived
and breathed with less painfulness; but he
was not hopeful of' the end, but felt assured
he must die. I bade him farewell, with
no expectation of ever seeing him again.
But when I reached Richmond, and at 11
o'clock at night was marched into Prison
No. 1, I was greeted by many familiar
voices; and as I turned the light which I
bore in. my hand to the faces, I found many
whom I had first seen on the field of dukth.
To one of these officers, when I bad spoken
to him and congratulated him on his safety
in Richmond, I said, " And the Adjutant?'
"He is there," said his friend, pointing to
a camp bedstead, on which the wouned
man was lying. I approached him ; he
grasped my baud, and blessed God that he
again saw me. He again assured me that
he could not live;; that the conflict was all
over, and he now lei:Ted to be in the bosom
of his Saviour; that he felt no fear nor ap
prehension of the future. Thisiwas-Sun
day, the 13th of Jaily ; he did not mate
rially change for the worse until Wednes
day following, when it became plain he was
passing from us. On Thursday morning,
the 17th, he called me to himiand said the
struggle was nearly over ; that,his faith in-
Christ continued -unwavering. He asked
me to pray with him, and commend his de
parting spirit to his Redeemer. Nearly
the last words he uttered were : u I have
fought a good fight, I have finished my
course, and henceforth there is laid. up for
me a crown of righteousness which the
Lord," &a., &a.
As I repeated the first words of the 23d
Psalm, he took up the words and repeated
&oh of the Psalm, saying, with an eye
brightened apparently by the, light of an.
other world, cad a smiling face, " Though
I. walk through the valley of the shadow of
death,,l Will fear no evil; for thou art with
me, and thy rod and staff comfort me."
His end was peace. About 2 o'clock P. M.
he passed from us, and went up, we hope,
from the blood-stained germents, to be
clothed in the spotless robes of the glorified.
Thus died a young man of the greatest
promise, whom to know was to love; who,
if God had been pleased to continue him
with us, would have been an honor to his
fanagy and State. He lies amidst .a great
thrnig of his countrymen, in the Potters
Field of Richmond, and rom their graves
go up an appeal to the God of justice, to
remember and avenge.
A. simple board, with his name and ad
dress, marks the place where he lies.,
Dr. Hodge on the State of the Country.
In the July number of the "Princeton
Review," Dr. Hodge expresses himself on
the State of the Country. The drift of
his sentiments may be inferred from the
fact that the last New-York Observer de
clares, his position to be quite the same is
theirs, and that his views, as expressed int
the Review, are those which the o%er ver.
has long and strenuously. advocated. Bow
satisfactory- thisA•Will be to the , loyal and
lo'or the Presbyterian Battnor
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patriotic, may be guessed from the known
position of the New-York Observer. In
only one particular does the Observer dis
sent from Dr. Hodge. It is in the opposi
tion which Dr. Hodge makes to the paper
of Dr. Breckinridge, which was so heartily
adopted by the last Assembly. Dr. Bodge
admits that the body had a perfect right to
adopt the paper, but, that it, was inexpe
dient so to do : and that " the wisest and
best course would .have been entire silence
on the disturbed state of the country."
The New-York Observer, cannot quite agree
with Dr. Hodge on this point. Nor can
we. We never could - Understand how, if
Dr. Hodge considered the Southern upris
ing as a wicked rebellion, he could so
steadfastly oppose the action of the Church
in saying so. How he could so oppose the
" Spring Resolutions," we could never un
derstand—for they only. declared the sol
emn judgment of the Church as regards
the duty of loyalty, and allegiance to the
powers to whom North and South were
equally bound under oath. And to say
that this question of allegiance was not one
upon which the Church was competent to
pronounce, was simply to declare that it
was a purely political question and not a
moral one, and that, therefore, men might,
in this case, break their allegiance and not
t•e chargeable with, sin such as the Church
ought to warn against and to condemn.
Where then is the crime of the Southern
uprising in Dr. Hodge's view, if it be only
such a misdoing as the Church may not speak
of—nay if in such case, the action of the
Church in declaring the duty of loyalty
and allegiance, was unjust and to be pro
tested against ? Suppose the Southern
movement to be high-handed rebellion and
treason, as men at the North commonly be
lieve, is not the Church "to admonish and
reprove her members of such a flagrant
wrong?. Why is the Church set - up on
earth if it be not as a witness-bearer against
iniquity ? And has not the community a
right to look to the Church Tor her solemn
declaration at a time when good men are
divided in opinion and action ? Can her
deliverance be inexpedient r simply because
there are differences of opinion among her
ministers and members in the two sec
tions ? Much more;\ can this fact make her
faithful testimony wrong? What if she
does speak in a way to bear, severely upon
many of her ministers and members, must
she be a dumb dog that will,not bark, as
though she knew not on which side to
bark? The Southern Church Courts did
not deal so delicately and mincingly with
the matter. No 1 they took the lead of the
politicians, and their action was spread
out before the General Assembly, in the
Minutes of the Synod of South Carolina,
showing that they had led' the way in ad
vance o ri f the political bodies. And why
must the highest Court of our Church for
.bear to speak against the greatest crime of
the age—if they regards:dit such—involv
itg wholesale perjury, robbery, and blood
shed, such as ages of Church service could
not, repair? Why 3 Could <not the large
membership in various quarters of the
land, who were, at the moment, more or
ess vacillating about right and duty, ex
pect it.' of this highest Court of Jesus
Christ to speak out and inform them of the
true Scriptural doctrine in Romans viii,
Sze., and of its application to the case on
hand? Has the Church and the Scripture
no teachings on this subject of loyalty ?
The General Assembly did speak—kindly,
but plainly and firmly—in few words—
" acknowledging and declaring their obli
gation" to be loyal and true to the Federal
Government,,and "so far as in 'them lie"
to sustain it in the exercise of its Constitu
tional functions—for to this Government
they were sworn as. American 'citizens. It
was no 'dogma of the Vatican. It did not
bar all right of private judgment. It'was
not meant to set up in every. Presbyterian
Church an inquisition. It was not at
all " a teat of membership." And yet Dr.
Hodge saw in such a simple declaration,
only evil—and a wrong, as it would seem,
second only to the wrong,of the rebellion
itself. We never could reconcile this po
sition of Dr. H. (in which the Southern
and Border members agreed with him,)
with any proper sense of the horrible
wickedness of the political leaders of the
South. Nor could we see how brethre_n
who believed that the fresh blood of Sump
ter was spilt by traitors, could think it un
fair and unjust to our Southern members,
that the Church should, at her first Assem
bly, cry out against the wrong. It always
seemed to us that such a position could be
reconciled only with some very qualified
view of the rebellion itself..
And yet, at this late hour, when the
atrocities are so multiplied, and the brethren
of the Border States need BO to be advised
of truth and , ;duty in the • case, when Dr.
Breckinridge, from their very midst, sub
mits a paper expressive of the right, and
exposing the wrong, Dr. Hodge again utters
to the country his dissent. Isit not weak
ening to the true position of loyal men and
of a loyal Church to maintain, at this hour
of our deepest agony, that "the wisest
course of the Assembly would -have been,
ENTIRE SILENCE on the subject of, the dis
turbed state of the country ? "
Dr. Hodge,.in his Protest against: , the
action of the General Assembly of 1861,
takes! the, ground that the Church is
not competent to decide to what Govern
ment a- man owes: his allegiance. >But is
she not competent to decide .that he owes
his allegiance to that Government to which
he is solemnly sworn ? And the OATH of
all State officers shows that, the citizens of
the respective States are bound first of all
to the General,Government; and only sec
ondarily and subordinately to that of the
particular State. This is the moral point
to which the .Assembly speaks; and
this is just the• point where the
political question rises > into the sphere
of morals and religion' In Dr. Hodge's
own language elsewhere—so seemingly
inconsistent with his action here
we ask "Is Disunion morally •right ? Does
it not involve a breach of faith, and a. vio
lation of tire oaths by which that faith was
confirmed?" And we say again, in• his
own words "If a •crime at all, it is one the
heinousness of which can only be imper
fectly estimated." It would really seem
that he must regard it as no crime, or as
of doubtful importance, if he would have
the Church debarred from speaking against.
it. But this inference he disdains. And
here is his inconsistency.
The tendency of Dr. H.'s reasoning in
his " PROTEST," is 'surely to acknowledge
the right of Secession, or to regard it as an
open question. To say, as he says, that it
is treasonable :for, one member in. the seced
edtStasesdoeaelenowbelge..dherFeelemb
ernment is surely to concede all that the re
bellion asks, in the way of open acknowl
edgment. It cannot be treasonable both
to disown the United States Government
to which they are implicitly sworn, and to
own the same United States Government
to which their allegiance is due by all the
forms of oath. Then which is treason.?
Here Dr. H. staggers and breaks down I
Dr. Hodge's position, if it had been taken
by the Assembly, would have .made the
Church waver on the whole question and
give all the weight of its high judgment
to strengthen .the hands of - the rebellion.
Many of our luthern ministers and mem
bers, doubtless judged with the Assembly
that they were obligated so far as in them
lay to promote and perpetuate the integ
rity of the United States, and to strengthen,
uphold and encourage the Federal Govern
ment in the exercise of all its fuctions un
der our noble Constitution. And they
could have received this deliverance of the
General Assembly without offence or harm,
only holding that so far al, in them lay,
they could - do nothing at the time, and
must wait the openings of Providence..
This would; in our view, have been the , le
gitimate operation of the Assembly's de
liverance with loyal members at the. South;
of whom, we have always hoped, there are
many.
We have the highest esteem for Dr.
Hodge as a scholar. and as a Christian
man; but we have seen him, in severalin
stance taking.ground directly opposite to
that of the Geheral Assembly ; and it is
plain that his teachings on the subject of
loyalty and of the duties we owe to the
Government, must be of questionable
bearing
The Irish Presbyterians and the Reginm
Donum.
The financial condition of the Presbyte
rian churches in Ireland ought to be inter
esting to the public generally, if it be true,
as the advocates of the voluntary system
allege, that if the Regium Donum were
withdrawn, the Maynooth grant would soon
follow, and these two buttresses removed,
the Establishment would tumble down.
The number of endowed congregations
connected with the General ~Assembly in
1854 was 462, and the income from con
gregational contributions, commonly called
" stipend," was $85,915. There was $21,620
from other sources of income, giving a total
of $107,540. In 1861 the congregations
had increased to 495,. and the stipend to
$138.710, the other sources to $25,825, and
the total to $164,535. In the former year
this gave an' average of $230 per annum
for each minister, and in the latter the av
erage was ,$332.50. The total number of
families in the Assembly is 82,155, giving
an average of 166 families to each congre
gation. The estimated annual value of
manses is $15,000, and the salaries of chap
lains tamount to $4,000. The congrega
tional incomes are very unequal. More
than 100 ministers receive less than £l5O
a year from those to whom they minister.
But for the $375 granted by Parliamentk
they, would,not be able to remain, at their,
posts, and the meeting houses must be
closed. :Dien with the " Royal Boainty,"
it must be-hard enough for a minister with
a family- to live in these times of> high
prices. With -a free manse and a small
farm, and perhaps some presents from the
wealthier members of his congregation, the
Presbyterian pastor manages to live on
$525 a year. It, is not enough' to attract
superior talent to the, ministry, with so
many other fields open for aspiring youth,
and accordingly there has been a com
plaint for some years that the candidates
for the Presbyterian ministry are not so
numerous nor so eligible as to meet fully
the exigencies of the Churchand of society.
The -curates, of the Established Church,
and many of the beneficed clergy, are no
better off in point of income than the Pres
byterians, and there is a general complaint
of a similar dearth of talent and preaching
power.—Dublin Cor. London Times.
A Magic Fountain.
The old mythology •tells , of a person who
met, "in his wanderings, with a fountain of
peculiar qualities, and, going down into it,
found himself endowed with immortality.
In the Scriptures this fiction is realized in
all the beauty and solidity of truth. By
Jesus Christ :a fountain has been opened,
which imparts, to those who, wash in its
waters, the beauty and vigor of immortal
youth. No sin is of so deep
.a stain that
here it will not be erased,. "Though your
sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow; though , they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool." (Isa. i : 18.) Here
the blind wash, and, like the matt.from Si
loam's pool, return seeing. Here the lep
rous soul comes, like Naaman, to the vraters
of Jordan, and finds himself whiter than
snow. Here the waters, unlike those. of
Bethesda's pool, are always effidacious -from
the overshadowing of the angel of God's
presence; and the lame, the halt—whoso
ever will—may take their healing power as
a gift. Here Saul of Tarsus, groping in
blindness, washed, and found the scales fall
from his eyes,. and saw, things which it is
not. possible for man to utter. Here David
came, and found his soul cleansed from its
blood-guiltiness-and made whiter than-snow.
The, water gushing from athe , rock smitten
by Moses pointed to those,spiritual streams *
springing from the Rock of Ages. No bar
rier's fence around this consecrated spring.
The wall of partition has been broken
down by Jesus. " And the Spirit and the
Bridesay, Come. And let him that hear—
eth.-say, Come... And let him that, is,
athirst, Come. And whosoever will, let
him take the water of life freely." (Rev.
xxii : 37.)—Episcopal Recorder.
The Life" of the Soul.
It is a law as fixed and unvarying as that
which regulates the revolution of the sea
sons, thit he will be found the , most estab
lished and steadfast .believer, who most
abounds in prayer. All who are taught by
the Spirit know that what the air of heav
en is to the body—what sunshine is to the
eye—what Spring is to flowers, and herbs,-
and trees—prayer is to the. believing soul.
Without it, that soul would sicken and:die.
As a means of increasing faith, of draw.
ing forth affection, of purifying Me heart,
apart.from all that is obtained in answer
to prayer, this privilege ranks among the
foremost in the estimate of a child of God.
Every new visit to the throne becomes a
means of augmenting the believer's sta
bility; and as each season that revolves
adds a new layer' to the oak, which, in the
end,,asaists -in ~d irterminitigith4-4tge..of tli.,
PITTSBURGH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1862.
tree, each new petition sent up -from the
heart-to the Hearer• of 'prayer, brings in
crease of strength, and the soul gradually
reaches its appointed stature—the stature
of a perfect man in Christ.
Is the heart fixed in prayer? Is it ,
speaking in all• earnestness to God ? Does
it feel its wants, and wait on him for a
supply ?—its weakness, and wait on him
for strength ?--its utter helplessness, and
wait on him for all that the soul requires?
Then its strength will grow; its graces
will' multiply ; it will shoot up like wil
lows by the water-courses. The promise
is : "It shall grow as the, lily, and cast
forth its roots like Lebanon."—Pathways
of Many Pilgrims.
A Startling Rumor—Mediation Discussed and Re
sisted—Canada and Invasionl—Doctora Cook and,
Montgomery—Ministerial Support—More Remi
niscences of Edinburgh—The Dean- Cemetery—
illustrious-Dead—Jeffrey, his Tomb—Light and
Truth in his La.rt Days—Rutherford and Cal
burn—Professor Wilson with Persona/ Memories.
—Havelock's Daughter—The Grange Cemetery
.ReoisitedThe City MissionarY's Monument—
Chalmers and phis Lazst Honors—Musselburgh--
" Jupiter ,Carlyle" "Delta" Monument—
Blackwood's Portrait.
MUCH EXCITEMENT *as caused in Lou-
don and over the,country yesterday,,by a ru
mor, based on a telegram. said to have ar
rived in New-York from Baltimore, inti
mating that Gen. McClellan was well nigh
surrounded, and had' proposed a condition
al surrender to the Confederate Generals.
This telegram, professing to. come 'from
Baltimore on the 3d of July, and we hav
ing news direct from. New-York up to the
7th, the rumor was not credited; never
theless it suspended business at Manches
ter. where it was least of all .believed.
Last night an attempt was made.by -Mr.
Lyndsay, M. P., backed by Tory members,
resisted by Mr. Foster, Member for Brad
ford, and by Lord Palmerston himself, to
urge the Government to recognise the in
dependence of the Southern (rebel) Con
federacy. The pros and, cons were earnest
ly urged by irresponsible speakers, -but the
Premier was firm and cairn, and the House
warmly supported his revest 'that thatters
should be left , to the Government, sappos
ing that auy opening- might appear for,
friendly communications..
In
In the House of Lords there was an in
cidental discussion about Canada, and the
probable invasion of it, whatever way the
war in the States might end. The Cana
dians are severely, blamed for rejecting ,a
really efficient Military. Bill, and Lord,El
lenborough .ridiculed the idea of popular
enthusiasia resisting a disciplined army,
quoting the -words of the celebrated Sir
Charles Napier, " Enthusiasm ! it- runs
away !" The high tariff.against, English ,
goods, imposed by the Canadian Parlia
ment, is doubtless like that of the 'United
States, the result of State and popular ne
cessities ; both are naturally disliked here.
English trade, save, in the manufacturing
districts, is improving, and increasing ; fields
of cotton are opening lip, and the supply is
better than expected.
MR. PEABODY, the American Banker,
has received the freedom of the City of
London, for his munificent gift of £150,-
000 for the London poor, and also a ban
quet from-the Lord Mayor. Doctors Cooke
and Montgomery, are the respective Mod
erators of the Irish General Assembly, and
the Remonstrant Synod. The Irish As
semblTmeeting was peaceful. It- devoted,
special attention to the incmase of minis
terial support, which• was grown to the .ex=
tent of £BOOO within a comparatively brief
period.
MEDITATIONS among the >graves of the
dead, in the beautiful Cemeteries of Edin
burgh—the Grange on, the South side,- and
the Man Cemetery on the North—have
had, somehow, a speoial fascination over
me during my recent sojourn in the Scot
tish metropolis. Having given you-some
notices and reminiscences in my last com
munication, of the former (to which 'I have
to add something ere I close this week,)
let me now conduct your readers to the
Dean Cemetery. It is. beautifully situated
on the banks of the titter of Leith, and
hangs over it as it were. on Shelving hanks'
and cliffs. It has been much longer in
use than the -Grange Cemetery, and there
fore the number of interments has been
greater, and _the foliage and flowers. are
more abundant. To this let me add, that
this is ,a Cemetery largely used for the biax
ial of the wealthiest classes, and - that it is
distinguished also for having received into,
its bosom the ashes of men illustrious for
eminent ability and for lofty genius. One
of these was Lord Jeffrey, long the, editor
of the Edin4urgh, Review, who died a liord
of the Court of- 'Session, the Supreme
Court of Law-• in Scotland. There was , a
noble simplicity as .welLas- transparency of
mind and character about Jeffrey ; his con
versational powers were marvellous, his vi
vircity, and also his musical, clear, ringing
voice, were charming (once Ilistened to its
cadences;) while as a Judge.he was unpar
tial,'honest, and -able. In stature he .vas
small, but both in figure and features, hand
some, and almost spirituelle.
. Harvest Hymn.
BY W. D. GALLAGHER
Great God I Our heartfelt 'thanks to thee I
We feel thy presenmeverywhere I
And pray that we may ever be
Thus objects of thy kliardian care.
We sow'dl by thee our Work was-seen,
And.blessed; and instantly went forth
Thy mandate; and the, living green
Soon smiled the fair and fruitful earth
We toiled! and thou didst note our toil,
And gar'st the sunshine and the rain ;
Till ripen'd on the teeming soil
The fragrant grass and golden grain.
And : now we reap! and oh! our God!
From this, the'unbounded floor,
We send our song of Thanks abroad,.
And pray thee, bless our hoarded store 1
EUROPEiiI CUKKESPONDENGB
LONDON, July 19, 1862
" The mind, the music, breathing from the face,"
were emphatically his own. He lived long
years; proba,bly, a stranger to vital, per
sonal religion. His literary associates had ,
no sympathy with the doctrines , of , :the
Goss, and in the pages of, the ," Edin
burgh," Christian missions to the heathen
were treated as fanatical enterprises—at
least in its early dtys. But if `Jeffrey ever
was a skeptic, , or a „latitudinarian there is
reason to believe that ; be was a -lover of
Christ in his, closing -days. When at Ed
inburgh, I had a statement made to me, the
authenticity' Of which; from the source
:" hence it-carne;-treeini undolibtiar. PrOte-
ably it has not appeared in print before.
It was to the following effect, namely, that
Lord Jeffrey, in his last days, in relating
to an.intimate friend how he ,nightly had
a warm bath in his own house, which he
found very soothing and salutary, added':
".That is to me a time of the greatest en
joyment; for some one, I know not who he
is, sends me, every week, or month, beau
tiful little publications, and when alone in
the city bath, at night, I read them with
the greatest profit and pleasure." I be
lieve it to be,more than probable that the
publications referred to were those of the
" Monthly Tract Society" of London,
which sends by post to persons of the up
per and middle classes, both at home and
on the 'Continent, little hooks with colored
paper covers; and bearing evident traces of
talent and taste, as well as rich in evangel
ical truth. So then when I stand, on this
fine, warm July t day, in the Dean Coale
tory, at the grave of Jeffrey, I see with the
mind's eye the soft sunlight of Christian
faithand hope, diffused over his graire, and
circling also around the following simple
inscription engraven on a plain marble
monument, within the railed encinsure :
66 FRANCIS JEFFREY : BORN OCTOBER 23n,
1778. 'DIED JANVARY , 26TH, 1850. -ERECTED BY
BIS,FRIENDS:"
There is not the same comfort in look
,
ing at the neighboring tomb, a Lord noble
of Sessions, Cockburn, who was specially
identified, as his publiahecl Reminiscences
show, with a scoffing,. worldly-minded,
wealth-pursuing, place-hunting race of law
yeti as well as with literary men, to whom
the doctrine of the cross was foolishness.
Neither is it so pleasant to gaze on that
vast and strangely-shaped, and ambitious
sepulchre of. Peterhead (polished and red
granite,) by a former Solicitor General for
Scotland, intended not only to honor his
wife who diedobefore him, but, as the words
ed sibi indicate to receive (as it--has done,)
his own remains.
"TIXOBI DIESSII2ERATISEIMIE, CONTRA TOTEM
SUPERSTES, ICERENS PEEWIT ANDREAS 'LUTHER
FORA), ET 5181, DOCall."
But on the principle of "nit de mortals,"
let me add, that , the prime motive of the
erection of this costly monument,, must
have been the sense of sore bereavement,
and of irreparable deprivation ofa" planet's
uxer," by wringing the heart of a fondly
affectionate husband, whose ashes now min
gle with hers.
Ia the Dean Cemetery sleep, old Indian
officers, who saw much service. Over the
dust of one General of this class, who
commenced his career as an Ensign at 14
years of age, and who died in his 65th
year, we, read what is very suggestive'hs to
the number of officers who have been (and
who are always increasingly so,) led to
Christ : "By the prayerful study of God's
Word, and the teaching of his Holy Spir
it, he was led tol.est on- the' finished work
of Christ . ;.his end was peace."
Next, let us pause before the pillars of
granite erected in memory of 369 Scottish
officers and soldiers who perished either by
the sword or disease during the Russian
War. Alas,. •for - war 'and its victims
When ; shall the time come, when it shall
be said, sung, exultingly proclaimed by
earth's millions gathered in holy brother
hood beneath the shadow of the Cross,
" How have the weapons of war perished!"
4 , 0 for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade,
Where rumors of successful or unsuccessful war
Should never reaoh me more."
Here is a grave of melancholy interest,
bearing the inscription : " IN MEmonT ov
jouN7WILSON, THE SCOTTISH. VOCALIST,
BY HIS FRIENDS.ANp ADMIRERS." Cholera
had broken out in Canada.; the vocalist,
whose thrilling, almost matchless singing
of Scotia'•s ,sweetest or most rousing strains
still linger on my ear and heart, was seized
suddenly, and .carried. away.: The same
ship ,which brought tidings of,his death,
carried a letter to his wife, written the day
before the ship'sailed. What a shock and
bereavement were hers!
A- mausoleum with lofty columns over
towering all other• monuments, commemo
rates the name and fame of James; Buchanan,
of a great Charitable Institute at Glasgow;
and as your eye, after examining the storied
structure, rests at'last on the ground, you
see the bouquet of fresh flowers—brought
daily to its.base; , and by a widow's instruc
tions, by the gardener of the Cemetery.
Two Professors of eminence—one of them
a genius soaringaloft on eagle pinion—sleep
in the Dean-. The first is- - Dr. Fleming, Pro.
fessor of Natural - Scielace in the Free Church
College---very-eminent in his department;
some people said Dr. ,James Hamilton, of
Regent Squve, is the man ,to succeed him,
for he to 'is a Naturalist and a Fellow of
the Linnean Society, as - well as a D.D. but
the Chair of Natural Science has been, by
the >Free Church, abolished. The second,
let the few words on his tomb tell us. who
lies here : " JOHN WILSON, PnoFessoa OF
MORAL PHILOSOPHY; BORN 18TH MAY,
1785, DIED 3n APRIL, '1854." That is
literally all, but-it-is , enough, ; like the sim
ple words on the-slab-that is inserted in
the Grange ' , wall, wverethe ashes, of 'Scot
!greatestlpreachen,;" Thomas +Chal
mers "so " John Wilson is enough; for.
Scotland and the world. Foet, literateur,
wit,
,philosopher,
,in One; a son of Anak,
mighty in curling; leaping, and all athletic
exercises; a lover of the Isaac Walton
pastime brriver or,out on the Scottish
lake ruffled by .the;gentie-breeze that comes
so softly from the .embosoming, and ever
lasting hills—glorious and majestic in their
very silence—such was Wilson, editor of
Blackwood.' Who of the grown-up genera
tion of the readers. of , literature , has mot
revelled in his " Notes
,Ambrosianm,"
where Tickler, and the Ettrick Shepherd,
Arid all the rest of that rare band over the
Scotch 'haggis, and its sequences, poured
forth (Wilson-the sole author after all,)
n:ion,th after ,, month *a flow , of eloquence,.
critical analysis, humor, pathos,. poetry, and
(forgive the word, but it .has a meaning,)
glorious nonsense, unparalleled either in,
ancient or modern tithes. The imaginary
SympoSion of the gods of Olympus, nectar
and , was—Homer hiniself being re
porter,—not to be compared with one 'night
out of many at " Ambrose's," amid the
fire, fervor, fun, and wisdom too, of the
.far-famed " Noctee If any 'literary
reader has not perused the "Nodes Am
brosianreils <let lira get the volume and
judge for himself,, and then, I have no
doubt; be will-join-in my verdict.,
But Wilson's other works, how excellent!
his "'lsle of' Palms," and better still, his
minor pieces, in which true lyrical poetry
com'es out so richly; his meditations—
Virien B rather among the : Scottish Lakes,
as they appeared inAk,e4ooo F 4 .; hi s n otes
e.e whew arid illustrated-wiiik,'d The Land
WHOLE NO. 516.
of Burns," and on their chief scenes of
action; his " Elder's Death-bed," and oth
er Tales, so full of tenderness and so stim
ulative to tears—all these are known to
many who will read these lines. Possibly,
too, some reader may, like myself, have
seen the warm, living man, have felt the
pressure of his hand, and received the
kindly salutation of his lips and eyes to
gether ; and then, like me, have followed
him into his class-room in the_
- Edinburgh
University, and heed him, with flashing
looks, with tangled locks often tossed back
from his great forehead, with no cut and
dry lecture, but with scattered, loose leaves
before him,' and 'passing too " from grave
to gay," have heard him deliver a lecture,
such as must have shocked the proprieties
of all who came with stereotyped associa
tions, and such too as an Ethical Professor
never gave voice to before!
' Professor Wilson left but one child be
hind him, whom he had dearly cherished—
all the more after she lost a mother and he
a spouse, dearly loved, That." sole daugh
ter of his house and heart," still keeps
green and fresh in her heart of hearts the
image and memory of her dead 'father.
Look I here is the token of her lasting
love : a bead-work basket—an immortelle
wrought by her own hands, (enduring
enough to bear uninjured Winter's frosts
and rains, as well as Summer's sunshine,)
and along the white grouod 'of the basket's
rim run the words, in dark bead-work
tracery, " A Hon, Pere."
The sun is high in the heavens ; the
birds sing cheerily; nature is gladsome,
for Summer at last has come, and the shel
tered Dean Cemetery is almost first to own
and confess its presence and its smile.
Life, even here, triumphs over death, and
the soft turf urnishes -me with a daisy
from Wilson's `grave. I trim away, and-my
last looks are arrested by the word, " Have
lock." But in what connexion ? I know
that Havelock,-the General, the Hero, and
the good soldier of Christ in one, who led
through smoke and flame those gallant 73d
Highlanders—with whom, bronzed and
weather-beaten, and their breasts lazing
with medals, L conversed but a week before
—I know that he sleeps in an Indian grave.
But his name at least is here; yes, and his
image, his great, services, his grand Puri
tan courage to own and ,preach Christ
wherever he went—all are before me in a
moment. Look with me, and learn the
reason why. Here is erected a fair pillar
of purest Italian marble, while a younc ,
rose branch is, - as•it were, inserted (by the
chisel of the sculptor,) near the top, and
then you read the following: " In Memory
Of HONORIA, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF
THE LATE SIR HENRY HAVELOCK, Knight
Commander of the Bath, and Grand
daughter of the late Rev. Joshua Marsh
man, D.D., of Serampore, Bengal; Born
at Serampore, 14th December, 1840 ; Died .
at Edmonston House, Lanarkshire; 15th
August, 1861. I love them that love
me, and they that seek me early shall -find
me. Blessed are the dead which die in
the Lord.' "
Beautiful flowers,includitig pansies and
the "forget me not," grow freshly.around
the grave of this. fair young maiden,. who
was early in Christ, and early with him in
heaven. There she has been reunited with
the father not long gone before, as well as
brought into fellowship doubtless with the
heroic spirit of Marshman, who, with
Carey, led the van of that great Mission
army in India of which the Baptists of
England, to their everlasting honor, were
the daring and hardy pioneers.
It is my last day in Edinburgh ; my cx
cellennt host lives hard by the Grange Cem
etery. I was there two mornings ago, (as I
recorded•in my last letter.) !walk :across the
meadows and pleasaince of the Old Town ,and
press on, rather foot-sore and weary, to rest
an hour with my friends, and then to say,
"Farewell" to my host and his wife, who
have lived in -India skies, and haveLknown,
both trials and mercies under its burning
sky, and to their radiant, loving children—
leaving Edinburgh by night train for Lon
dog. But I find myself within sight . of
the open gate of the Grange4 l emetery, and
I am constrained to enter it once again.
The soft "gleaming." is not far away, but
the sun has not yet.gone down, and his
evening smile makes this place oisepulture
beautiful I cannot but go once more to
the grave of Principal Cunningham;*'
pinching aleaf from a little plant.which min
gles with
,the turf that covers him ; ; the Suc
cessful Student," too, must be recalled; Sir
Andrew Agnew's tomb must again re
mind me of the Sabbath and its champion,
and • but stay : here is a tomb--=--a head
stone ,Aich , my readers have :notl heard • of
before :" In memory-of Robert Flock hart,
born 4th February, 1778: in early life a
chief of sinners, he was—while serving his
Sovereign in-India—by sovereign grace
delivered from the power of darkness, and
translated into the kingdom of: God's .dear
Son After having, preached, the Gospel
in the streets of Edinburgh for 40 years, he
fell asleep in Jesus, Bth September, 1857."
Immediately after these words is 'a stone
carved open Bible. It is then added : "As
a tribute to his Christian work, this monu
ment was erected by his : fellow-citizens and
friends:—
My flesh shall slumber in the ground
Till the last trumpet's joyful 'sound,
Then burst the chains in sweet surprise,'
And in my Saviour's image rise*.'"
Of Hugh Miller's grave I have ,already
spoken, as well as that of Thomas Chal
mers. Butt having ere now grasped the
hands of both, and 'especially having rev
erenced the latter with more than common,.
veneration—along with thousands abroad
and at home—l cannot but, as it were, re
people and re-prOduce in imagination' the
processidn and the multitudinous speetatora
of his funeral day, when to this very spot
he was borne amid the tears of a nation.
Wonder not if, since mor return to Lon
don, I have read with fresh and deep emo
tion Dr. Hanna's inimitable account of the
last days of Chalmers. Thus have I mused
over his noble witness-bearing Wore a
Parliamentary Committee, and in the face'
of the cunning Sir James ; Graham,, who was
the man that precipitated the Disruption,
and who before the Committee sought to
entangle Chalmers, but in vain. I have
read the account of his visit—as - he tray
elled. homeward---to a loved sister and ,her
household in Gloucestershire, and his last
prayer for them at the family altar,- that
one and all of them might be shielded
under the ample canopy of the Redeemer's
r ighteousness : that every hour thatetrtick,
- *Next to Cunningham's grave is that of his
mother, with , a head.stione memory of Mr's:
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her, sons, William, Andrew, and Chalmers."
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every day that dawned, every night that
darkened around them, might find them
meeter for death, and for the eternity that
follows it; and that when their earthly.
course was finished, they might meet and
spend together a never-ending Sabbath in
the bright abodes of purity and peace."
Thus, also, have I seemed to be present at
his side, 99 he walked round the garden,
with upturned eyes, " in low but very earn
est tones saying, 0 Father, my heavenly
Father !" And I appear to hearken to
his last conversations, when he - said, " In
the offer of the Gospel, we must make no
limitation whatever: I compare the world
to a multitude of iron filings in a vessel,
and the Gospel to a magnet. The minister
must bringtbe Gospel in contact with them
all ; the secret agency of God must/pro
duce the attraction."
Then comes the Sabbath evening—his
last on earth, the prelude of an eternal one
—when be says: " Disquietudes lie light
on a man who can fix his heart on heaven.
I'm fond •yf the Sabbath. ' Hail, sacred
Sabbath morn Do you like Grahame's
Sabbath? Dr. Johnson was very wrong in
saying that there can be no true poetry
that is religious."' Then of. Howe, he says :
I think she is the first of Puritan Divines.
I have been lately reading his 4 Delighting
in God,' and admire it much." And next,
to his* friend, the Rev. Mr. Gemmel, he
'says : " You will give worship to-night,
and I expect to give worship to-morrow
morning;''and then to all he waves his
hand, adding, " a general good night," and
they see him alive no more. Last of all,
with his faithful servant and housekeeper,
who in the morning has " knocked at his
door, and received no answer," I enter his
chamber. There be sits, stiff and cold,
" half erect, reclining gently on the pillow;
the expression of his countenance that of
fixed and majestic repose—his face undis
turbed by a single trace of suffering, the
position of the body so easy, that the least
trace of suffering would have disturbed it;
the very posture of ,arms and hands and
fingers known to his family as that into
which they fell, naturally in the moments
of entire repose—conspired to show, that,
saved of all strife with the last enemy, his
spirit had passed to its place of blessedness
and glory in the heavens."
And so in a few days Chalmers is borne
to his grave. " Never before," wrote Hugh
Miller, "did we witness such a funeral;
nay, never before, in at least the memory
of man, did Scotland witness such a funer
al. It was a solemn tribute, spontaneously
paid to departed goodness and greatness by
the public mind. In the Cemetery the
procession was at once seen for the first
time, and the appearance was that of an
army. The figures dwindled in the dis
tance, in receding toward the open grave
:along the long, winding walks, as in those
magnificent pictures of Martin, in which
even the littleness of men is- made to en
hance.the greatness of their works, and the
array of their : aggregated numbers. And
still the open gateway continued to give in
gress to the dingy, living tide, that seemed
to flow unceasingly inwards, like some per
ennial' stream -that disembogues its waters
into a lake.
" The party-colored thousands on the
eminence above, all in silence, and many of
them in tears—the far-stretching lines of
the mourners belo - w—the effect, amid the
general black, of the scarlet cloaks of the
Magistracy of - Edinburgh, who had come,
,with much good taste and feeling, in their
robes of office and-attended by its officials
and insignia, to manifest their- spontaneous
respect for the memory of the greatest of
their countrymen— the slow, measured
tramp, that, -with • the_rustle of the breeze,
formed the only sounds audible in so vast
an assemblage—all conspired to compose a
scene solemn and impressive in the highest
degree.
".There. was a moral sublimity in the
spectacle. spoke: more emphatically than
ky - words, of the, dignity of intrinsic excel
lence, and of the height to which a. true man
may attain. IT WAS THE DUST OF A
PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER WHICH THE
COFFIN CONTAINEV; AND YET THEY WERE
BURYING IHFM, AMID •THE TEARS OF A - NA
TION, WITH MORE THAN II OKINGLY, HONORS."
The Parish Churchyard •of Inveresk,
four miles,of Edinburgh—situated almost
in the very centre of what was the battle
field of Penkie, so fatal to Mary, Queen of
Scotts, and commanding splendid views by
sea and land—contains the ashes of some
eminent persons, including Lords of Ses
sion„ parochial incumbents, and especially
of Doctor Moir, the " Delta" of Black
wood's Magazine, and the author of that
famous piece of wit and strong Scotch
sense—rich in the. vernacular strength -t)f
its language—" The Life of Mansie Wench,
Tailor in Dalkeitk; written by himself."
As to the parish ministers, one.f)f them
was the eoteinporary of Robertion--be
longed to.- the " Moderate" party in the
Establishment, was known iv his day under
the scmbrequet ,of "-Jupiter Carlyle," be
cause his noble, head and bust were the
models to, the Sculptore of Edinburgh of
" Jupiter Tonans " Carlyle'g autobiography,
throws wonderful, and I may add, melan
choly light upon the state- of -religion and
morals •in thehigher circles of Scottish
society in the last. century.
As . to Dr. Moir, - he was -
a practicing
physician and surgeon in the town' of Mus
selburgh, which forms a part' of the parish
of r nveresk. His inernory , an , a benevolent,
energetic and able medical man, and as an.
accomplished literateur and eminent poet,, ,
is still fragrant there. A,,very elegant
monument, presenting his figure as.a youth-.
ful bard, with a manuscript in one hand,
and the pe,ncil'in the other;
"The poeCa eye ituftne frenzy
and the. afflatus . upon. him —naititest,the
tourist on the bank of the-beautifuLEsk,,
near' to that fine specimen of an, " auld
brig,' over which' the Medina host
marched victory'uoder Oliiirleg Edward,
to the battle-field ofTreston fans. Vivid
ly did I recall my literary reminiscences of
"Delta," as .I looked
~at that monument
withthe Greek letter which was his "non
`de plunie," sculptured deeply in the stehe.
, any were ith i rig ui ri es tide' ab mit mit
who mingle° sweetly,.' • Who.was•isei lovinigila
husband, so tender a faller, (mihiebtanti-.
ful piece, " Casa after-the„ death
of a child,ltimilcates,) so true a Christian,
dying in the faith and hope of the Gospel.
And my satisfaction .was complete, when. I"
visited- his daughter—the liVing image.
of his wife, physician in Musselburgh—and
when she showed tne.her father's ;portrait
by a first-class artist, and then with.gpe
and ceurtegy not to be'forgotten, presented.
me Avith4aJ.noble , .stel.--env ° vaiing''of.
g lg.cur, from the famouninpiatair
Raeburn. J.W.