REV. DAVID M'KINNEY, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS IN ADVANCE. - 4 INOLE 8111180RIPTIONEI $l.BO IN 01.0138 135 DILIVIIIIRD IN EITHER 01 THZ CITIES ZOO For Two Domttna, we will send by mall seventy number ud ior ONE 'DOLLAR, thirty-three numbers. ~astorn sending no TWENTY subscribers and upwards, will thereby rattled to•a paper without charge. Renewals lbottlei be prompt, a l ittle before the year expires. Send psym"tei by. Bate hands, or by mail. INrsot , alOottors to :REV. DAVID M'KINNEY, Pittsburgh, 'Pa. The Other Side. We dwell this side of Jordau's stream, Yet oft there oomes a shining beam Across from yonder shore; Whilst visions of a holy throng, And - seund of harp and seraph song, Seem gently wafted o'er, The Other Side! ab, there's the plane 'Where saints in joy past times retrace, And think, of trials gone, The veil• withdrawn, they clearly. see • That all on earth had , need to be, To hrini them safely home. The Other Side .no sin is there To gain the robes:that blest ones wear, ,Agtgle white iw Jesus'• blood.; No cry of grief—no role° of woe, To mar the, peace their spirits Unow— • Their constant peace with God The Other Side! its shore, so bright Is radiant with the golden light, Of Zion's city fair; And many dear ones gone before Already tread the happy shore; I seem to see them there The Other Side oh, charming sight— Upon ite,banke, arrayed in white, For me a loved one waits Over the stream he °ells to me— Fear not, I am thy guide to be Up to the pearly gates." The Older Bidet hie well-known voice, And dear bright face, will me rejoice ; We'll meet in fond embrace He lead me on until we stand, Each %it& a palm branch in our hand, Before the Saviour's-face. The Other Side The Other Side ! Who would not brave the swelling tide Of earthly toil and oare t To wake one day when life is past, Over the.stream, at home at last, With all the bleat ones there For the Preebytensu, Balmer,. Nay Christiana Dance? As the dancing question often causes great trouble in many of our churches, it might not be amiss to give our experience in Silvertown on this question. Afany of the church members persuaded themselves that it was an innocent amusement, and by them the ball-room was as much frequented as the prayer-meeting. Brother Christians reasone,4 thelnatex.with them, but all to no purpose, for they could see no sin in a " mere shuffling. of the feet." It was finally agreed that Mr. Parsons should preaeh on the subjept, and if he could show it to be unseriEttut.4l, they, would cheinfully desist. He did so, and the followinct is an outline of his sermon, which we sketched at the time. Text--1. These. 10-12. Introdnc don. Ile designed his remarks on this oc casion only, for the people of his flock, over whom God, had made him ashepherd. Ile felt the deepest interest in their spiritual Welfare, and. was pained to find any, of them entertaining views which, when reduced to practice, must prove detrimental to their piety. There might be no harm in a "mere shuffling of the feet;" but it was the poison mixed with the wine, that kills. Efe thought dancing unbecoming Ohrifitians for the following reasons.: Ist. /t is so engrossing in its nature. Dancers can scarcely resist dancing, when present. Expense and inconvenience offer hilt slight impediments in going to the ball-room. There, the pleasures of earth increase and grow more enticing, and the jgys of heaven recede from the mind till they die in the distance. Thus the mind is soon drawn from religious thoug,lits. "Love not the, world nor the things that are in the world; for if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." 2d. It takes away the spirit of prayer. The speaker knew this from experience. We cannot in sincerity ask God's blessing to accompany us to the ball. Returning, we have no dipposition to pray. We may repeat a forte, but can't pray, Family worship becomes a drag. To follow the apostolic injunction, " pray without ceas ing," that is, maintain a continual spirit of player, is out of the question. So, idly. It saps the vitals of our piety. As working, active Christians never dance, so dancing Christians seldom work. They are not the, sustainers of the weekly prayer meetings. 'They never speak to their fel lowi on the State of their souls, They talk but little of iiriglon, and feel less. Their piety soon sinks - to a low ebb. 4thly. it strengihons those affections al ready too strong. " The, lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, &ea, the pride of life." It makes us " lovers of pleasure more than 'mere of God." We beceme in a manner, trig*. Hence, it, is better to go to the house mourning than to the house of feast:mg." '. 44 If any man will come after toe, let him deny, himself," sthly. It grieves the Spirit of God. ".Quench not the ,Spirit." The (welter mentioned ,two cases,of persons in ,his. ;ea vintence who lost all religious ataxic tion, and became perfectly callous, by going to one of these places of amusement while, under .conylet t lon. Doubtless all .present, had felt,semething of the sam e , 6thly, it breaks down the distinction, be tween the Church, and the world. " Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God." "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the un godly,'ner standing in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the. Seat of the scornful." "Be not conformed to the preseet evil world." David said, " I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked are before ,me." But in theee balls the un godly andpieus (?) meet. in the most inti mate relation, and often vulgar arm encir cle the, Christian lady's Test. " Let him that nameth the name of Olieiet be maul ts-dePert from all iniquity.", Christians are in the, orld but.not of the t world. . 744. 1 ,, The experience of devoted Chris tians h'st always been againei; it. They joinin wing it mars. hear peace with. God; ,The speaker "read, from t4e action of the '.General Assembly, (Digest, p. 802,) "It steals away our precious time, dissipates religious, impressions, an hard ens the heart," etc. flatly.' The world testifies against, it. They'rejoice over the inconsistency of Chris tians "who -do it. When convicted of sin, they do not inquire of them, what must I do to be saved 1 but go to others in' whom they have more confidence. lie had heard the man of the world tell the Christian there was nothing out of the way in.diere- ' , _ CIL ) . • _ • .101 ts . : ./pettn . . . 441 . V 01.,. x., NO,. 50. ing, and afterwards boast to others that, the, Christian was no better than he, for he goes to the ball. Lastly. He exhorted any who thought they could dance and still be good Chris tians, to desist for the sake of ()doers. If they could do so with impunity, many could not. They were grieving and offend-, ing their brethren who thought it wrong. They were giving the world occasion to re: joioe. He commended to them the noble saying of Paul, " If meat make my, brother to offend, . I will eat no Mesh while. the world standeth." But •it was objected, that other things Christians sometimes did were as bad as dancing—certain plays, for instance. Hav,e nothing to do with them. They can't ex cuse the sin of dancing. But the Bible says there is "a time to dance." Granted. But the ball-room is not the place, and promiscuous company not that time. In Luke vi : 22, 23, the Saviour recom mends a better time and way than this. In conclusion, he offered them joys far higher than the ball-room could afford, a peace which passeth all understanding, and exhorted them to, walk worthy of the voca tion wherewith they, were called. The. eyes of the world were upon them, and Christ was expecting much at their hand. So much for the sermon. Now what w,as the result ? Sam Hiscut declared le never ,would enter the church again. But next Sabbath he was on hand. Sallie Pool did stay away fora time, and demanded an apology from the preacher before she.ould return, but receiving none, in a few weeks she came back, and, has attended well ever since. Deacon Fearful thought Mr. Par sons had better explain matters a little, lest many would leave the church. Mr. P. replied', " truth don't bear diluting." But , the balls were suspended " on account of the troubles," and have never again been commenced. Mr. P.'s strongest friends are among those that were so bitter against him. And the church has been a unit on the dancing question ever since For the Preebyterien Banner Mattoon, lllinois. Mn. EDITOR :—Every loyal heart bound ed with joy on opening, the last Bamer, (the 9th). Allegheny ,Theological Sem inary gave no uncertain sound as to her loyalty, in the present fearful crisis. She stands forth before the world fully vindi cated, in the heartfelt tones of one of her worthy Professors. No trimming of words. No studied sentences. The outburst of tree, patriotism shows us Secession and its sym pathizers in their hideous deformity. Your retaarks, Mr. Editor, were timely. Ordinarily, no right-minded person wishes to see any of our ministers .or Profes fes,sors, in any of our , Theological Semina ries, mount the platform, or take part in any political or railro* , meeting. These are extraordinary times. if, as all believe, civil governments are ordained of God, (Rom. xiii I,) then Secession is of the devil. He was the first Secessionist,. This cast, him out of heaven. All aid or en couragement to. Secession, is doing the devil's work. Are not.all God's ministers called upon now to maititaiuthezight, and oppose the devil in all his =ways-? Any other position shows the lurking virus. "With trembling all loyal hearts, during the last few weeks, have looked toward Allegheny Theological Seminary. If re deemed souls are sent as angels of mercy to our ruined world, and angels are filled with sorrow as with joy, what•feelings.must those redeemed ones have had, who founded Allegheny Seminary with their, money and prayers, especially that one who coneecrated every room in the former building with prayer, " that God would bless the lads," when olking on the uncertainty of the last few months. Now there is no uncertainty. Thanks ten thousand to the untnistak takably loyal Professore in Allegheny The ological Seminary, for the noble stand taken in this hour of rebuke, laden with portentous events, that will tell upon the cause of Christ and civil liberty to the end of time. Taking this , noble response, with the last order from the„ War Department respecting disloyalty, the silver lining of the dark cloud which, hung as a pall over our stricken country betians to appear. That order has made ahead; a beginning in • this place. It must be confessed that this community, like.iill others, has ~a; few sympathizers with the hydra, monster, the Beast. A few outspoken expressions land ed one of our , citizens in. the guard-house, in the camp of our soldier boys. After twenty-four hours' " standing guard," as.he calls it, be was permitted to take one of: the most stringent oaths to support the Consti tution and Government of these United States, and was for the present released. A few more of the same sort, it is _Said, will he put through, to 7 day, in the same way. This is, at least, beginning in the right direct*. Thus the work goes brave ly on, and , we may soon hope everywhere to have a pure loyal atmosphere,,all over our country. Disloyalty is smillihere, consid ering how many originally came from the South, where many. of, their• friends still live. This place stands on the ',confines of. Egypt. Like it—though not of it—it is made up principally from Kentucky and Tennessee. Mostly of the better and more intelligent class ; , many of them wealthy. They know what slavery is, and what it does, and consequently came away to get clear of it and its influences. With a few families from old Pen9a.TPvaPia, Ohio and some, other free States, the moral character of the people may be known. There is no lack of energy in all the people. As an evidence, we have here, progress and material prosperity in almost every - respect. One woolen faiitor3r and one largnfiour mill are being erected. - Twe,large meat-packing houses, and five corn-shelling, with several grain warehouses. To_give an idea of the way corn is disposed Of, and the amoußty one of the five corn-shelling establishments will bear an outlin e description. Like the others, it is worked by steam power. •This one is an eight-horse power. Wiph three, hands it _can shell, and turn into•cars oath° railinad, five thousand bushels of corn in one day. Farmers drive in their teams and throw their corn =into one room, of the warehouse; and when Pill, a sliding floor, moved by machinery attached to the engine, turns the corn jiikto elevators which carry it to the thrashery..and.,when shelled, to upper rooms, from which a spout conducts it into cars on the track. The cobs make the fire toxlrivet the engine i .the engineer and Are man, find one man to superintend, pemataor lands. All thi.earn<is shipped to. Cincinnati, Boston,,nad elsewhere, to,be made into whiskey. So much for the enterprise of the place. An anecdote will give you an idea of the healthfulness. Last Fall the writeri'on re turning to his family, one hundred and fifty miles North-west, after making ar rangements to move here, said to them : " You need have no hesitancy in going to Mattoon, for there is no graveyard there, and it is the next place to Paradise!' The nearest town to this place is called Para-, dice, and there has been no cemetery here since the place was laid out, until this Spring, when one was voted by the people: When the company comes in to-day from Paradise, there will be fourteen Qom panics in camp, and only five counties rep resented .out of the thirteen to rendezvous here.. All will be in this 'week. Nothing here but.,.war. The rebellion must he ,put down, at any, east. From yesterday's re port of fighting in Eastern Virginia, the boys here say, the East had, better send for them. In every engagement where West, ern men.were on the side of the Quern , ment,, not a battle was Jost. M. Mt ROMAN ÜBUBSPONDENCE Government Emigration Enteeprtse—lts Results— Female Emigration—Female Employment in Eng land—The London " Homes"--British Colum bia and Women's Work—Factory Girls and.their Distreas—Faith, , and "Song s in the Night" of Sorrow-Relief Fund—The Pacha of Egypt— The Queen's" Title," and Therefore "Entitled P to Relieve—The Little Warbler, at Kensing . ton— A llorological Curiosity—Crowds at .the Ezhi bition--Crystal Palace and Grounds. LONDON, _August 2 1862. E MOVICATION, an Rremeted bY the gov ernment, employing Commissioners as its agents, presents.some interesting statistics, Emigration to Amprie,a, 4 , 9 4, Canada, is,en l tirely left to the private desires and re sources of parties; many of, the emigrants also, especially those from Ireland,: being largely assisted by remittances from the other side of, the Atlantic. But the ne cessity of help is great, considering the inequality of the sex, the demand ,for la bor, and other matters essential to,tbe ,full development of colonial prosperity, in ref erence to New South Wales Queensland, Victoria, the Cape of Good Hope, and. N atal. All the ships are first class; they are , carefully inspected before starting. The Commissioners take, care that there shall be no overcrowding, and that there shall be an ample supply of wholesome food. The following are the statistics of ernigra-. tion for the year 1861, to the. Colonies air ready, indicated : The number of ships chartered by the Com missioners was 16; 2 of these sailed to New South , Wales, 3 to Queensland, 4. to: Victoria, 4 to the Cape of Good Hope, and 8 to Natal. The number of emigrants conveyed to the colony of New South Wales amounted to 865 souls, equal to 804 statute : adults, of whom 68 were married men, 69 married women, 332 single men, 284 single women, 55 boys between the ages. of 1 and 12, 47 girls between the same ages, 5 ; male infants, and 5 female; 284 were English, 33 Scotch,, and 548 Irish. The number of emi grants conveyed to Queensland was 1,128 souls, equal to 1,013 statute adults, of whom 134 were married men, 135 married women, 31 - 5 single men, 368 single women, 84 boys between the ages of 1 and 12,,68 girls between _the same ages, 20 male infants, and 19 female ; 411 were Englih, 317 Scotch, and 400 Irish. The number .of grants conveyed to Victoria was 1,307 souls, eqUal to 1,244 statute adults, of whom 112 were married couples, 7 singlemen, 962 single women, 39 boys between the ages.of 1 and 12, 88 girls between the same ages, 7 male infants, end :5 fe male; 645 were English, 371 Scotch, and 291 Irish. To South Australia, 4. emigrants were conveyed; to Westarn Anstralia, 68; 27 were English, 8 Scotch, and 88 were from the Emerald Isle, and to the. Falklands, 5. The number of emigrants conveyed to, the,Cape of. Good Hope, was 1,036 souls, eqns,l to 894 statute adults, of whom 140 were married couples, 297 single Men, 215 single women, 107 boys between the ages' of 1 to 12, 100 girls between the same ages, 20 male.infants, and 16 female ; 537 were English,- 239 Scotch, and 269 Irish. The number of mi grants conveyed to Natal was 839 semis, e.qttal 288 statute adults, of whom 63 were married couples, 84 single men, 58 single women, 42 boys between the ages of 1 and 12, 38 girls between the.same ages, 8 male infants, and .8 female- 275, were English, 41 Scotch, and 23,Irish ; the ;hole making a total of 4,761 SOWS _am:Jai to 4,322 statute adults,*of whom 512 were married men, 518 married women, 1,050 single men, 1,903 Sin gle women ; 334 boys between the ages of 1 and 12, .324 girls between the same, ages, 55 male in fants and 55 female,; 2,18 were English, 1,003 Scotch, and 1,660 Female Middle. Class,Emigration has recently occupied much attention. The, demand for cheapness by " slop " men and.. other contractors for clothing, ,to , has, .in many, cases, brought down the results of. the active needle to as low „and terrible. starvation point, as was sung so plaintiselY years ago, in the "Song of ,the Shirt." iss Faithful, a.lady of great talent and energy, has now a Beyal printing press, at work, and the fair compositurs-,40r 411, aro women--produce very beautiful books. Efforts have, been. nut& likewise, to have women recogr4sed, es suite* copyists of law papers, imp,l do not think that they, have been very sucee,ssful. There are also Societies patronized by persons of rank, and wealth, for the purchase and,sale of fine needlework and embroideri by female hands. Besides, the number ofdadies who have a talent for drawing, who. areeneour aged by prizes to those ,who only in London, but all Over the countryin ince Schools of Design,, pave done much to' make England a country truly artistic, and aesthetic: to a degree previously unknown. When at Edinburgh, I had, the pleasure of, seeing same beautiful specimens, of pencil and crayon drawings, and to see, on cards which were attached, handsome sums an nexed to the names - of the successful. Young women also .are employed in the districts where Phika is made, for • burn ishing; there are,too, in coune.xion „with shops of all kinds, and especiallY of ann.- perior class in large cities and towns, a great derand.for respectable girls. Their , pay is, however, low, and they are require4,l to dress in a,_etyle in many eases beyond their resources, so that their privations and perils are very great. Hence it is, that so much,importauee is to be,aftached to these new and admiral:4le Young Women's, Chris- ; tian Associations, the inauguration andde velopment of which, is, to be identified with Religious Awakening among, this; elms,daring the Ast three. years., InAtet there are thus provided,.." Homes." of ua. speakable value. Here, food, lodging, books, family wArighiPy Bible Classes, on .the lord's, day, are prqvaded, with a .real motherly matron over the young people, their guardian, adviser, and friend. The *hole cxPense to those who are received, is not,inare than.four shillings per- week: Of course, , generous Christians, merchants like Samuel Morley,. and -p,e,rsons of,,high degree, supply what is, lacking in the ex penses of each institution (a large sum); but they have their full reward in findifik SCIUB PITTSBURGH, SATUEVAY, AUGUST 30, 1862. many, a young person who left for Louden, a pure and happy home in theeountry,,and_ who has been the source of trembling anx iety to parents not saved from temporal, ruin, bat " saved in Christ for ever." . Female Middle class emigratien to Brit ish Columbia, has been a good deal agitated by the press, with the view of the parties emigrating, acting as governesses. But Colonel Moody writes: " The opening for educated women '‘here is very slender. Household work is, what is -demanded. Our wives, the ladies of the, colony, froni the highest to the lowest, have to labor in the nursery, the kitchen, and the wash= house." Governesies and clerks we find, are not successful even in our Australian , , colonies except to, a limited extent. The distresi in Lancashire has thrown . an immense number of young women out of employment. plane have proposed to draw off factory girle.int,9inue districts, and more 4outhern occupations: But their training has been all in one di reetion ; they haie been physically and morally fitted for a peculiar sphere of in dustry. As an eminent public writer says: "Whatever work' is now found to save these factory girls from:the Aisastrous evil of forced idleness, mast aim at, a cautious dealing with ,hand and head, lest both be come unfitted for faclery work;, the former by being blunted in its - tench, ithe latter Weaned from its wonderful sensitiveness to the demands Which :the mill machinery makes upon its intelligence." Let-us as a nation," it is added, "bear gratefally in mind, how patiently these poor creatures, have thrown the savings of years into the gap so suddenly made `between,them and breadwinning, when, they. are willing atla ever to earn.that bread by a,continued 4,a,111 industry." Deep and practical sympathy is now being shown for these 'sufferers. Their patience and good conduct have been ad mirable, and Christianity too, in the power of it, has sustainuiphern, in the day of trial. Not in vatA. for , Aare ; p s i* has Evangelism, both through English Church men, Wesleyan Methodists, and others, been busy by .SurOayy Schools in, circu lating the Seriptures,,and preaching Christ. Thirty or forty, year( ago, there,lyould have been violent 'outbreaks. Now, when in God's providence, fTliAn the cotton famine the means of earning -bread is cut off, "•there is a moral= significance," as_, Canon Stowell - truly said, in the bearing, tle spirit, and the tone of the. factory, opera tives at tancashire,` that - claims the esteem and admiration of the civilized world." The, truth of the •followinc , - touching anecdote is undoubted : outskirts, of: Manchester where there was a large infosipn of Christian in#nelice, f 1 ; 01 .4. bath Schools, and, other Agencies, it was t the paipful duty of the milt ovular to aonounce to the lands that he . 42411 d, it absolutely impossiblato continue to,qmploy, them, and that the factory, meat , closed„from t,114p, day, as he had, no logger, the meanp.of pay. ; ing thou! .their wAges. The poor people assembled, and received theuews.with agi tation marked. -upon their. countenances— all except, thirty or, forty, wbo received it calmly At.: that , moment when all was silence, snapeuse, and dismay, a young woman, a Sunday. School teacher, _,struck up, with a calm, cheerful, and encouraging voice, the, beautiful ,words . of Comcper!s hymn Fifty or sixty voices took up.the strain; " I do not hesitate to, say," said Stowell, in relating this, " that it was one of the most beautiful and touching, mani festations of. simple faith that has come within my knowledge and recollection." Parliament is busy upon 'a Bill which widens , the area of Poor Law Taxation in the manufacturing'districts; but until local' rates shall reach five shillings in the pound, the extension of rating is not •to take effect. This measure is to be law 1111- til the first of March next. But mean while, unless relief comes, the prospects for local residents is very, alarming. The shopkeepers, unsupported by the popula tion out of work,' are threatened with ruin ; first, from want of custom, and sec ondly, from heavy.poor ,rates. . The sums coming in by voluntary donations, are large and noble. The ,Pacha. of 800 sent, sent, last Week, 41,000 to the Lord Mayor, London. The Queen' has just forwarded £2,000 to ,the Earl of Derby, with a letter., dicAted, by hpr,_in beautiful and touching language. One of her titles is " Duchess of Lancashire," and'io for those suffering " by lamentable circumstances entirely be; ' yond- their own control," Lord Derby is in- formed:that " the Queen.. gladly"associates heraelf with those suffering districts, under. her title of Duchess of Lamashire, and is, pleased to find herself thus, entitled to' send her aid to those fOr whom she has long felt deep compassion." There speaks the true woman's imart—,--ehaoetied by.sorrow, and having therefore intensest sympathy, And as, in the case, ‘ of the (been's letter and gifts to- o,e, widows . of t4 o .4lrgeY qq4lPrlY victime,,so now her words„ and nehle deed. will be., quit ;t bearing, But w44h , do. th:ink. Pr At .94gPd , contributor to.loncashire distresS ? Yes 3 there is snch n 'contrilontor, and a most un, tiring one is he. A. slaving, ,bullfinch, owned by two al; singtonolevutes hia,piping talent, all day long, to the elteXtak..W4o.o of crowds Op gather around. No one is allowed to hea.r him without forming,part of a„group *oh agrees to giv,e ; five shillings fer a x song from the. little, Melodlst. course any (Me , . may give as ,mueh As . he likes. Well,,last, SaturdaY the singing bullfinch realised more than ten you ;, and during last week his initrib t utoiTock,the i fnud exceeded thirty pounds! r hope he won't - drop dead from his perch, some day, from over exertion; if so, his memory will be im, mortal, and either stnffed, 9r with ;his, exact image in marble, or otherwise, .be should be . exhibited, for the read of Lan cashire distress all over the kingdom. But e no, he ..will not die.; let him sing on, the.: sweet : warbier;,it is ; his, nature heaven-'to sing, and, if himself an uncon— scions benefactor, still, both himnelf and his generous masters and owners—Messrs. Aribe and .Linton—are worthy of world wide admiration. . _ 4., : .c.nripsity- the aPl , Allefe.ef, aatrowimical and geographical clocic„is ex hibited .by the proprieters Of the fatripus little bird just described. 'This Wonderful piece of horological mechanism, though very little larger than-an• ordinary drawing roPI4 ,tim,erPARV, giY4f4 0.4.#14 1 Y.0 lit9r9nt. dtganOottiollib.,„Prh.l o -rAPti r ,44,“ ,AWAVOL, e 4 Ye fearful BE4O, fresh eottra&Oake, The elonds ye sp.tnueb. drea4 Are`big with mercy, and shall ;bre*, In blessings on your hettcl.s' dials. Besides striking the hours; half hours, and quarter hours, it shows the revolutions of the sun, the solstices, the equinoxes,,the months, clays of the month, and days of the week, the equation of time, the changes of the moon, and the time of day at twenty-two princtpal cities in every quarter of the world. The pen dulum is a most ingenious.and complicated contrivance. It is a compensation formed of nine branches, and carries at its lower extremity a dial which indicates the varia tion to the 'eight hundredth part of half an-inch, and by its own internal mechanism regulates. itself to the .temperature I This marvellous clock is the work of M. Gretillat, of dofranc, Switzerland., end occupied twenty-three years in its construction. INonas.sitvo POPULARITY attends the International Exhibition, and the magnifi cent weather which has now been so merei fully—gafter a wet and dreary Summer— vonehsafed, to us, increases the ,attendance very largely. Heads of business firrns, clergymen, with their schools and parbihon ers, trades, unions, foreign workmen, (for whom special provision is made by a Lon- don Committee, as to lodgings, medical at,- tendatice, and Admission to public places,) press toward Kensington daily—along with foreigners of every land. The beautiful . Horticultural gardens are accessible for a small sum to the visitors, who step out on the turf, and •amid the fountains and flow ers, under a cloudless, and yet temperste 3 . 1r.y. It will interest.some.of your readers --especially one excellent gentleman in your city, who has kindred sympathies and :ifts--to know that Orlando Whistlecraft, n his Weather Almanac, has, been wonder f4ly scon.rate thus far in his predictions as to weather; the period of, brightness and beauty which is now sending up the ock-markets, lowering the price of wheat, gladdening our farmers, ripening the her- Nest, and making all England a lovely., fre e grant garderi—haying been precisely de. fined by,him in, connexion with the.elosing days of July, and the first and 'second weeks of August, 1862. The harvest will be, as to wheat, an average one, or perhaps a little under; but.oth,er crops, especielly t t he green, crops,,,with peas, and beans, are very fine. At the best, England must be largely a purchaser, but When the necessity of having several millions' of quarters over a certain-limit comes, trade:languishes, and. IncTeY.h€l9 ol m..2-4f4ar- THE•Sunultiss , of,-London are now. in ell their ,glory, includingthe. Zoological Gar, dens, fiampstead Heath, and Highgate . Hill, with the Surrey Hills, and Camber.- ,well, Pee,kham Rye, Forest Hill, Syden ham, and;the Crystal:Palace, which, under the hright.NleshinevAinee from afar like ~a magnificentand monster chrysolite. Noth ing is more plea Sing to a stranger than the lovely grounds around the Crystal Palace, with: the beds of • flowers, and the-turf in the perfeetion of .its .verdure, with....fiee old park trees, planted. long, before such structure es the Palace was thenglit of. irgeii die view from the balconies of the Palace Eastward—hedge-rows, fields, parks, curving slopes; and verdant meadows, stretching away,into Kent, is truly glori l , ens. As to the Crystal ;.Palace itself, it, carries away the palm of beauty without a rival. The International Exhibition is ca pacious, vast, and commodious ; and it is. not without attractive grandeur in its mag nificent nave and trensept,s, especially when, filled with a ,mighty throng and consider, ing its unspeAkably precious ,and varied contents. But at Sydenham you are in the pure country, and on a lofty, rising ground rises up --a vision of beauty and splendor-ImMll* .149Pieg9r child with its maternal parent's likeness and grace enstamped - upon it. Viewed especially in the lightuf closing day from the gardens in front,.a.nd.witli the golden glories.of the setting in the-Western sky, against which it is thrown in relief, the spectacle Is most impresSive. And then entering in and passing through Mediaeval Courts, with. their-exquisite statuary and carvings;: and to feel as if you were carried back to clas sic Ages, and farther and farther still: here the Pompeian Villa,. with its " 'Salve" and its " Cave arri67b," on the marble of Abe threshold; and there the cool fount in the centre, and the , shaded vespertinal table; around which the guests, .reclined;. and: anon in ,entering insnecession the Alham bra Palace, rich in its Moorish architee tnre and grotto-like coolness beneath the variegated glass which turns the light into dyes so soft and grand; then on to Assyri an Palaces with their hieroglyph lions with human beads, and the entablature of, sieges andloattle pieces; arid finally, enter between the guardian Sphinxes, sublimein their watchful repose, into Egypt, as it was in the days when Thebes,threwnpen its, gatl3§. for. the outgoing IvArrell . grioks7 buried .its dead in ,the pond sarcophagus, and .painted its temples in colors whose beauty,is,not dimmed at this _day—all this, with , the•haegimg, PNate the ~pays, ,aed_ the gater , lilies the feentaie, picture; &cries, rinil innumerable, objects of curi e4th,,se,deeoy interest met only kheaeWhe come for, the first time to, -SYdenham, but those this lovely, w,e4liqr, regye AmiL,acquaintence with families. agellOa• : ,Watthmah! What of the Night ? Certainly the signs of the times , are full of encouragernent. The world has seen nething like it in all the history of the past. On all hands, obstacles which„ had hindered, and even prevented, all, suceess ful effort to spread the Gospel are remov ing in . the most remarkable. manner. Ac cess to,the'entire 'Heathen world now ex: ists. This may be said almost without qualifieatiOn. India, China, Japan,Nada ga,acar, the Coasts of Africa, the islands, in, the Pacific and Indian Oceans, savage, tribes in North America, may now he ap proached and even entered by prudent and persevering missionaries, with good iros peet of succesS. And: nearly all this change in the state of the Heathen world his occurred within the memory of the present generaticn. We do not mean to assert that, .ticere are not still many diffi cultiestobe overcome in all parts of Hea thendom. " The carnal mind" now, as in all, ages past, "is enmity against God." Iguorant and wicked iniers, and besotted Fleets, - interested upholding idolatry and even the balsest, superstitions, still live, and are ready to opnese. Even mnniters, in human shape are not wanting, as is seen . in the land'of Dahomey: But whatever the obstacles which still exist to impede the Gospel in pagan lands, they, are not to ocrolpae with those, which Chriatianity, 11,0,..to,encoutetin the parp.e.,r stis of4tg. WHOLE NO. 518. career. The vast power and far-reaching influence of the great Maritime Christian NationS—England, France, Russia, and the United. States—have been telt in a sal utary manner' over all the continental and, insular world that is still Heathen. And thus "the way of the Lord is preparing," even a highway for the Word of. our God, in the outlying nations of the earth, even the remotest of them. A sinailar change is going on in the Mo hammedan world. The respect, and even dread, in which the great Christian Powers are held by the Turks, the Persians, the Moors, and other Mohammedan , nations, has lei them to,shrink - from displaying the, Moslem, fanatioi fiat and ferocity whieh, they did even long since the present century opened upon the world. The progress of the great principles of Civil and Religious Liberty among the _na tions of Christendom has, ; opened a large portion of the. Papal world, and bids fair to open all the rest before many years pass away. The nations which did the most to give birth ard.add strength , to Ae Papacy are just those Roman Catholic ~nations which are now the most prepared to receive the gospel of our Lord. Jtaly and France have known by 'AU:el:experience the nature of Romanisbi, 'and are now receiving the' glorious Gospel. So have Spain and• Po rtugal, and the_ countries which they have colonized. Let us hope that their turn will soon come to hear the tidings of a free salvation, salvation through grace; not through the wretched penances and de grading arid useless rites of the corrupted Christianity for which the.y are indebted to. Rome. Even the day of Israel's redemption is evideUtly drawing nigh. Portions Of the " Diaspora"— of that wonderful nation which.exists now only in its" dispersions" —are evidently more disposed to lister, to the story of Jesus of, Nazareth than ever, before. We can but hope' that the time will not'now be long before "the blindness will be taken away" from the'hearts of the descendants of Abraham, the Friend of. God, and their ,return to, the. fold,,of, the Saviour whom their fathers crucified, be the signal for an amazing outspread of the Gospel in all directions, as well as"ther epoch of the outpouring :of the 'Spirit -from on High, by•whose mighty infiuences giations wAIL be born, in a day. These are glorious times in which to live, and labor, and give, and pray : 0 'that we were'better fit to• live in thee, and 'more worthy of the high privileze I - The , Ilea thenworld, the Mobammidanrwold, they Papal yoga, the Jewish world- -all. ing for the Gospel which they so, much needed! And, what is also cheering, the resuscitation of a real Christianity is go inn. forward in the Protestant world; .and. obstacles are removing : which long had.hin dered the progress of the Truth. Let us hope and pray that even the distressing war that is still going on within our bor ders may not, only he brought to a speedy and.happy.clese but overruled,by..the Say. vieur for the decided furtherance of his kingdom.— ChrisAian World. Bow to Begin a Prayer-Neeting. A gentleman from abroad said, at the Fulton Street Meeting, he wished to relate his experienee in starting a prayer-meet ing, as the result of a little personal effort. He was journeying across one of the dis tricts in a Western State, and came to a fine school-house in the, midst of a ,prairie. He was riding in his own private convey-,, inee. He reined up befoi4 a house,'and inquired: "Do yitever have prayer-meetings in , this school-libuse ?"--addressing a lady. " Never " she answered " never has there been a prayer-meeting in it to my knowledge." " Will you go to a prayer-meeting in that school-house next Thursday night?"• " Well, I do not know; who is going , te be there ?" she inquired. I answered : "If you will be there, that will be one. Will you be sure to be there next Thurs day night, without any fail, unless hin dered by the providence of God ?" "I will," she replied. I rode on to the next house, and the lacly came to, the deter. I asked hur if she would attend a prayer meeting, to be held" in the school-heuse next Thursday night. She seemed sur prised. - Well, I would like to be there. But, who, will be there, and who will conduct. it ?" I answered: " If two of you or More will 'be there, meeting in the' name c)f Christ, the will be there, and:youwill have rc good. meeting!' I told, b:oth,thesupersone to tell all their neighbors, that there would be a prayer meeting in the eehool-house CM Thursday night. I rode on, and called at the next Do , you. know, that there is to be a, prayer-meeting in the school-house nest Thursdayrnight ?" said I to the lady. "`Why, no," she answered, g 4 I_ have not heard of it. Is there to be 'a prayer-meet ingr / , "-Yes,. and I want yew to premise )1m that yen ,will .getn. it,and invite pour friends to ge."' To be sure I will—go myself and invite others," she replied, speaking 'with anima- I rode to ,the next house, and addressed a , lady sitting at an open window. I asked her if she would - go to the prayer-Meeting, of which I told her. She replied : "I will not only go :myself, but I will give :notice of it to my school and, ask the scholars, to invite their parents." "Are xou the teacher of that school?" ' Here ended 4by conversations and invi tations, and all had only °coupled a few, minutes of timo. I rode into ; the town,, eight miles away, and said to some, of my Christian friends that they must go and at tend that prayer-mooting. 'They, did go,s , and found about 109 gathered for prayer. There - followed a great religious serious ness. The prayer-meeting was maintained. 4 congregation has been gathered, a church organized,,and - now' hey are beildiag them selveS a honse of worship. latileCs 6 004 Pl'ollolol% " would not have preachers,' ) said Lu ther,- "-torment their hearers with long and tedious preaching. When I am the regard 4:ioithendimtors_nor magis trates, of whom above forty are here in church; buthav,,e an eye ,to _the mufti tudes. of youngpeople, children and -ser vants of whom there are above, two thou sand. ~P#4l l #9, ti ••P • • •* • • 1 • Publication Office : GAZETTE BUILDINGS, 84 PmnSr., Pirmenson, PA. PHILADELPHIA, Bomm-WIT Coa. ow Ira urn Enamor ADVERTISEMENTS. TERMS IN ADVANCE A Square, (8 Linea or lets,) one insertion, 60 ciente eaob enbeequent insertion, 40 mute ; each Bike beyond eight, 6 cis A Square per qUarter, 54.00 t. eaoh line eddlttonat,l33 cents li A mmemeir made to adver tisers by the year. BUSINESS NOTICES of Tan lines or leas, $l.OO each ad dit oral line, 10 cents. REV. DAVID MIKINNEY, Psoimnrrok could understand, and this is the art of speaking. Philip Melanothon and Justus Jonas are learned tnen, well skilled in the Scriptures. I would not tuake a step into the pulpit for them." It is. said that, Melancthon, on some oc casion, arose to preach a sermon on the text, " I •am the good shepherd." On look ing around on his numerous and respecta ble audielllke, his natural timidity overcame him, and he could only repeat the text over and over again. Luther, who was in the desk with him, at length exclaimed, " You are a very good sheep 1" and telling him to sit down took the same text, and preached an excellent discourse from it. Where is Paradise ? Ist. Paradise, is where the tree of life is ; for the tree of life is in the midst of the paradise of God.--Rev. ii : 7. 2d. The tree of life is where the river of the water of life is ; for the tree of life is on either—side: of.tirat — river.—Rev. xxii : 2 i ;:` • 3d. The river of water of life is where the throne of God and the Lamb is; for that river proceeds out otit.—Rev. xxii :.2. 4th: The throne of God and the Lamb is in -the city where there shall be no more curse, no night, no need of candles, of moon or sori to shine in it; where there is DO temple, for the Lord God Almighty and theT4amb aye the. temple ofit.—Rev. xxi 22, 23 ; and xx.ii 3, 5. sth. This city is heaven. Heaven is my throne.--Isa. lxvi : 1; Matt. v : 34. The conclusion is, that where heaven is, there is paradise. To this conclusion conforms the lan guage of the ,">' male, in 2. Cor. all., de claring, in - 14 A.•, "and verse, he knew a man caught up te' third heaven, and in the fourth, into paradise.. The assumption that the Apostle intends different places, seems entirely, zratuitous. The Apostle says caught up. The Creed says, Jesus descended. The termini ad gum are manifestly different. Not that Jesus did not go to paradise, as he prom ised the penitent thief; but the .paradise to which he,went, was the presence of " Al might God," with whom do live the spirits of those who depart hence in the Lord, and with, whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity.—Epia copal Recorder. Tolerant 'Spirit of .Nr.. Whitefield. The Rev. compiler of the late Mr. Whitefield's life relates an attempt of the two Erskines L and the Associate Presbytery, to make Mr Whitefield subscribe to the 4:olPranlipagnelnd Covenant. Among other propOsalS,: they offered to send two of theirlirAhren with him to England, and two more into America, to settle Pres bytery in each. Suppose, sdid Mr. White a _purtiber .of Indeperidents should come and declare, that after the greatest search, they were convinced that Indepen dency was the right Church government, and would disturb nobody if tolerated ? No, I cannot subscribe, and abridge my use fulness. And here, very probably, ended a confer ence which Mr. Whitefield considered as an insult to the rights of mankind. When Mr. Erskine, to engage Mr. Whitefield to preach only for them urged, "We are the Lord's,peeple; " "if others," replied Mr. Whitefield, "be the devil's people, they hive more need .to be preached to: For my Tart, all places are alike to me, and if the Pope himself would lend me his pulpit I would gladly proclaim in it the righteous ness of the Lorcllesus Christ." Referring to a,serrnon preached by a minister of the Associate Presbytery, at the close of the conference aboVe mentioned, Mr. White field afterwards remarked : " The good man so spent himself in the former part of his sermon in talking against Prelacy, the Common Prayer Book, the surplice, the rose in the hat, and such like externals, that when he came to the ; atter part of his text, to invite poor sinners to. Jesus Christ, his breath was so gone that be could scarce be heard." Let all Christian ministers take care that they do not spend their en ergies, on comparatively unimportant mat ters, to the neglect of the grand themes by which their ministry should be distin guished —".repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ."— United Methodist Free Church. Magazine. Interesting ,Ineident. A writer in the Boston Congregational ist menti,ous an incident as having been re lated at the recent meeting of the General Association in New,-Bedford, which we had not before heard. It is as follows : Col. Russell, of the Tenth Connecticut Regiment, asked Gev. Buckingham for an evangelical chailain, to make (as he said,) his, soldiers the, hest of troops. He was not a Christian himself—quite the reverse; but"he told the 'Governor that he had no ticed that the bravest, most reliable men in danger were 'the religions ones. Hence his regyest. The : Governor readily promised to grant it; but before the interview, closed, ten derly said to the Colonel : " You seem anx ious about your, men, that they may be come Christians ; do- you' feel no concern about yourself?" It was but a word or two of inquiry and. appeal, and they sep arated. The bloody fight of Roanoke was over, and dol. Russell was among the dead. He had fallen leading on those brave men to victory. But before that fatal day, he had. sought the acquaintance of a Christian offiper.for guidance in the way of salvation. And to that Christian friend he stated that the few short, faithful words of the Gov ernor had been the means of arousing his conscience, to the subject-of his own salva tion, as they became the instrument of the Holy,spirit in preparing him,,a pardoned, regenerated man, for the sudden termina tion othia early 'Career: A - word fitly spo ken—how good it is. God Our Hooper. Adam had his salvation ip his own hands, he could not keep it. Esau had his birthright his own -hands,-he could not keep it. _ The prodigal %had his patrimony in his ow n hands,: not keep If Our , soul were :eft in our own hands, we could, not keep ip. The world is a false keeper. E The, devil is a churlish keeper. The body is a brittle, and inconstant keep or. Cliockody,.. t is , the sure keeper,
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