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"Flll DUD OP TILE PRESENT WILL"
This is the title of an excellent sermon
preached by Rev. JOHN C. Li.uo,D D., Buffa
lo, N. Y., June 28th, 1802. One design was
to commemorate the young men of Buffalo
who had fallen in battle; but the sermon
is replete with valuable thoughts and sug
gestions. We give a sample. After
noting some of the horrors of war, Dr.
LORD says
" There is in this view of the dark side
of the present conflict a strange forgetful
ness of the teachings of the course of the
Divine providence, and the testimony of
the Divine Word. How were the founda
tions of Anglo Saxon liberty laid in the
old world? By one or the bloodiest civil
wars since the Christian Era, the war of
the Commons of Great Britain with the
Stuarts, a war which arrayed, not opposing
communities of the North and South, but
household against household, brother against
brother, father against son. How were the
liberties of the thirteen colonies of North
America secured ? By a couflict in the
nature of a civil war, not merely because it
Was waged against the parent government,
but because it divided the colonists them
selves, and Tories arid Whigs from Massa
chusetts to 'South Carolina were arrayed
against each other in arms.
" Have not a multitude of wars proved
blessings in disguise ? Is not the Word of
God full of proofs that he overrules the
greatest apparent evils for good? For
what does the Government wage the present
war ? Is it not to sustain its existence and
authority assailed by traitors, false to their
country, false to their oaths of allegiance,
false to the cause of freedom and humanity ?
Fur what have we sent our young men to
the battle field to receive back the mortal
remains of so many of them for burial ?
Is it not for the life of the country, for our
nationality, for the government and the
laws established by the fathers and founders
of the Republic? What do we resist at
such amazing sacrifices of life and fortune?
Is it not an attempted revolution, backward
to barbarism; a rebellion which seeks to
give a small minority the right to rule over
the vast majority; which aims to perpet
uate and strengthen African slavery as the
highest form of Christian civilization.;
which adopts as a fundamental principle
the right of secession, nullifies all govern
ment and all authority, and which would,
if successful, divide this great Republic
into nearly forty warring sovereignties as
imbecile, as incapable, as poverty stricken
and as belligerent as those unfortunate
South American States where a condition
of civil war has for the last thirty years
been accepted as the normal and natural
condition of society.
" This, then, is a defensive war for all
that men hold dear; a war for our life as a
nation ; a war for our Constitution and
laws; a war for the institutions received
from WAstirsioroar and his compatriots;
for an inheritance which every considera
tion of' religion, patriotism and humanity
binds us to transmit to the future genera
tions which are to multiply oo this vast
continent; a war to make personal liberty
the rule and slavery the exeept;on ; a war
against anarchy in the State and despotism
in the household; a war for a free Church,
free speech, and free soil; a war against
the assaults of a desperate oligarchy, who,
having dishonored their own white race on
their own soil by reducing the common
people to a state of universal ignorance and
indolence,
seek to make the system under
which such a miserable result has been ob
tamed, universal and not exceptional. &o
doubt the primary idea of the leaders of
this great conspiracy was to establish a
grand slave system over this Continent; in
fact this has been publicly avowed; a con
spiracy not merely against the nation, but
against humanity itself; a taking counsel
against God and the Gospel ; a defiant as
sault upon his mission and purpose who
came to break every yoke, and let
every captive go free—a Inifiluaeut in
our day of the words of the second
Psalm, where the rulers and, great men
of the earth are represented as taking
counsel together 'against the Lord, and
against his Anointed, saying, let us break
their bands asunder, and cast away their
cords from us,' •Concerniug whom it is
written and even now fulfilled : He that
sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the
Lord shall have them in derision."'
For the Presbyterian Banner
A Sabbath School Association.
LENVISTOVN FULTON CO., ILL. 1
Sept. Bth, 1862.
DEAR BANNER:—As some of your read.
ers may be ready to employ anything that
has a tendency to help along the Sabbath
School cause, I have taken the liberty to
send you a short notice of the annual
meeting of our County Association.
The Fulton County Sabbath School As
sociation met this year in the town of Ver
mont, on the 2d or September. Notwith
standing the state of the country, the meet
ing was nearly as large as usual, and in
many features better than ever before.
More schools and scholars were reported
than at any meeting previous. The dis-
CUSSiOUR were about practical things, and
as much as possible to the matter in hand.
The aggregate experience of the teachers
and superintendents of a whole ,County,
upon u given practical question in regard
to the Sabbath School work, makes a com
mentary not to be despised.
In regard to systematic benevolence, we
had a fund of fiats far better than a philo
sophic lecture.
Mr. Stephen Paxson, the missionary of
the Sunday School Union, was present at
all the meetings, and heartily engag ed in
its exercises. lie was taken to Sabbath
School when thirty years old, through the
instrumentality of his little daughter, and
to that he now looks as the time when he
began to live. Now his influence is very
great.
The Association has a - Vice President in
every district, who is the executive •of the
Association in his district. 4.e is expect
.ed to organize schools wherever he can,
and visit. al I the schools in his district once
it year. The superintendents report to the
Asociation the state of the schools sew
4tely, and the Vice President reports the
• istrict. When these are submitted, we
hen have at a glance what the Sabbath
Ichools have done in the year, and their
. uditien at the time. When a measure
adopted it can be asceituiued how it
orks in the different kinds of schools.
any districts not supplied with a preach-
Gospel, by Dionne of this' organizations
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have the Gospel taught in the Sabbath
Schools.
The Association meets in different parts
of the county. Every one at the meeting
this year felt that - it did him good. Some
were encouraged, and some felt ashamed;
but they were sure it did nat do them any
harm.
This may be suggestive to some of the
Associations in other parts of the land. I
wish there were more Sunday School Asso
ciations. Some may look on them with
suspicion, but I think they will do good.
I am sure they will work well in the re
gions where the way of doing good is not
stereotyped.
'Yours, very truly, FULTON.
For the , Presbyterian Banner
Presbytery of Toledo
The Presbytery or Toledo held its Fall
meeting on the 4th and sth inst., at Monte
zuma, Powsheik. County, lowa. The min
isterial members were all present except
brother John Steele, who is in the army as
chaplain of the 13th lowa Regiment.
We numbered, in all, live ministers,
eight elders and . one licentiate, Robert B.
of the Presbytery of Washington,
who is now preaching, and we hope with
promising prospects, at Montezuma.
The small amount of business on hand
left us time fur devotional exercises which,
we hope, were profitable, as well as truly
pleasant.
The war has weakened all of our
churches, and some fields whic.t were on
the point of becoming self sustaining, are
obliged to ask aid from the Board. These
are truly perilous times; very trying to the
faith and patience of missionaries who
labor in the little' scattered churches of the
far West. The little flocks which we
gather, with so touch anxious toil, are
weakened, and our congregations scattered
and gone. Our labors and expenses are
increased, and our resources diminished.
Fields which two years ago gave fair
promise, have so far changed their popula
tion that those prospects have all vanished.
But notwithstanding all our trials, the
Presbytery of Toledo are encuuraged to la
bor iu hope of better times. We are all
suffering from the inability of the Board
of Missions to pay our quarterly appropria
tions when due.
During the sessions of Presbytery, the
following paper was reported by the Com
mittee appointed to examine the Alinutes
of the General Assembly, and unanimously
adopted :
1. That it is enjoined upon all the min
isters, in concurrence with their sessions
severally, and the Sessions of vacant
churches, to see to it that a contribution be
made annually to each of the Boards of our
Church, and report of the same be made at
the Spring meeting of Presbytery.
2. As the Bible inculcates beneficence,
or giving for religious purposes, as a Chris
tian grace, it is the duty of ministers to
teach their people, on, this, as well as all
other objects of religious duty and obliga
tion
3. Presbytery recommends that the min
isters and Sessions thereof, do what they
can to introduce the Home and Foreign
Record into every family belonging to our
several chnrches.
4. Presbytery highly approves of the pa
triotic minute passed by the General As
sembly; and as a Presbytery, feeling that
our nation is now passing a very solemn
crisis, and recognizing our dependence upon
God for our salvation, in this the hour of
our peril, we earnestly recommend to all
under our care, that they make continual
and earnest supplication• to God for the
favors of his Providence.
LUTHER Dorm, Stated Clerk
From the Presbyterian.
The Pleasures of Dancing.
A lady was once speaking in the pre
sence of the excellent Hervey, of the pleas
ures of dancing. Such parties gave so
much pleasure in anticipation, there was
such a pleasant excitement in the prepara
tions, and then the recollections afterward
were so delightful. Hervey heard her
through, and then remarked:
'• There is one pleasure connected with
dancing you have forgotten to mention."
" What is that ?" she inquired, with a
little surprise.
" It is the pleasure it will give you to re
member it on your dying bed."
These earnest, solemn words proved an
arrow from God to the heart of that thought
less young lady.
Mrs. W— was a lady who approved of
dancing, and took especial pains that her
drily daughter should, he carefully instruct
ed in the accomplishment. Naturally gay
and thoughtless, she needed no peculiar in
ducement to lead her to forget God, to for
get death, and to forget the long eternity
which follows. She was lovely and beauti
ful, and the admiration and affection of a
large circle were freely lavished on her. But
when the morning dew of life was sparkling
brightest, the grim messenger, death, was
bid to summon her. The stroke was sud
den, and they laid her down on her last
pillow, with all her gay adorninga scattered
around her. They need not be folded away
to take with her, for in the narrow house
there is no room fur display. 0 I what an
guish seized her soul when she knew that
she must die I
"0, mother!" she shrieked, despairing
ly, as she turned to her in agony, ".you
never taught me how to die !" A beautiful
ball dress was lying in sight. "0 ! take it
away !" she cried. 0 ° For these I have bar
tered my soul. Why did you teach me to
be so fond of them ? You have ruined my
soul, mother !" What words for a mother's
ear ! Would their echo ever cease to ring
through the chambers of her soul ? With
a dying energy, she sent for the young
companions or her gaiety, and bade them
take a warning by her hopeless death.
The eye which gazed on her agonized
parents had looked into eternity, and there
was only reproach in its wild glance.
There was no for g iveness for those who
had thus " ruined her . soul," and thus she
passed into eternity. 0, mother ! when
you take your child to ball-rooms, when you
instruct and fill her mind with its vanities,
are you teaching her how to die? Could
you bear to hear from her lips the, words,
" You have ruined my soul, mother!"
when you knew the harvest time was passed
forever ? 0 ! when you lie on your own
death bed, the memory of such unfaithful
neas will bite like a serpent, and sting
like an adder." B. K. C.
A poop man gave this advice to his son:
"My son, when you feel a disposition to
sin, seek fora place where. God cannot see,
Ion"
PITTSBURGH, SATURDAY, SEP TEMBER 27, 1862. WHOLE NO. 52,2.
Fox' the Presbyterian Banner
Presbytery- of Marion.
The Presbytery of Marion met at Pisgah
church, Middleton, on the 2d inst.
Rev. C. H. Perkins was installed as pas
tor of Pisgah church. The pastoral rela
tions of Rev. D. M'Carter to the church of
Liberty, and of Rev. Mr. Templeton to
the church or Marseilles, were dissolved.
Very few churches made reports on
Beneficence for the Synodical year. It was
resolved that all those churches which had
not made report on this subject, should
send one to the Stated Clerk previous to
the meeting of Synod. It should 'be par
ticularly noted that these reports are to be
for the Synodical, and not the. General As
sembly year.
Presbytery calls attention to the appoint
ment, by the General Assembly, of " the
last Thursday of February as a day of
earnest prayer fur children and youth,
especially the baptized children of the
Church, with particular reference to an in
creased supply of laborers in the vineyard
of the Lord, and that a collection be taken
up on that day for the College Fund."
Presbytery adjourned to meet at Dela
ware, on the Second Tuesday (11th) of
November next, at 7 o'clock P. M.
H. A. TetrE, Stated Clerk.
Tell , Me Ye Winged Winds
The poem which follows is said, by a corres
pondent, to have been written by Charles Mac
kay, some time editor of the Glasgow Argue,
and to have appeared in a little volume called
"Voices from the Crowd."—Carolina bite lli-
ge z er
Tell me ye winged winds,
That round my pathway roar,
Do you not know some spot
Where mortals weep no more ?
Some lonely and pleasant dell,
Some Valley in the West,
Where from toil and pain,
The weary soul may rest ?
The loud wind softened to a whisper low,
And sighed for pity as it whispered—" No !"
Tell me thou mighty deep,
Whose billows round me play,
Know'st thou some favorite spot,
Some island far away,
Where weary man may find
The bliss for which he sighs,
Where sorrow never lives
And friendship never dies?
The loud waves rolling in perpetual flow,
Stopped for a while, and sighed to answer—" Nor:
And thou, serenest moon,
That with such holy, face
Dost look upon the earth,
Asleep in night's embrace,
Tell me in all thy round,
Haat thou not seen some spot,
Where miserable man
Might find a happier lot?
Behind a cloud the moon withdrew in woe,
And a voice sweet but sad, responded—"No!"
Tell me, my secret soul,
Oh! tell me, Hope and Faith,
IS there no resting place
From sorrow, sin and death?
Is there no happy spot,
Where mortals may be blessed,
Where grief may find a balm,
And weariness a rest ?
Faith, llope, and Love—hest boons to mortals
given,
Waved their bright wings, and whispered—.Tes!
TN HEAVEN!"
EIJEOPBaII GotiIIESPONDENCE
St. Barthawnew'a Day-r The Times on. the. No
nconformist Bicentenary commemoration—The Sys
,..tem of' Advowsons—lts Workings—The Simeon
Trust— Anulysis of the Bicentenary Discourse of
Rev. 7'. Binney—lts Characteristics—English
Presbyterians, College Endowment, and Church
Extension—Deputation. to Ulster—Special Col
lection—" Weekly Review "—Americans Praised
by the Times—The Daily News, English FePling,
and. Mr.. Roebuck—The. Queen, and her. Mourner's
Companion.
LONDON, August 80, 1862.
" ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY, the 24th of
August, is," says the " associated
with three great examples of cruelty. On
that day, it is supposed, that the Apostle
himself was flayed alive by the Indians.
Ou that day, in 1572, in the midst of a
Court rejoicing, Charles IX. and his moth
er, began the massacre of the Huguenots.
On the same day, 90 years afterwards, in
1662, two thousand. Presbyterian clergy: re
signed their livings, rather than submit to
the hard requirements of the Act of Uni
formity."
Such are the operat" sentences of a re
markable leading article which appeared on
the Saturday preceding Lord's day, August
24th, 1862. Its tune will greatly depress
and annoy both High Churchmen and
Evangelicals; at least it will be a rebuke
to the latter, in that it does honor to con
scientiousness, and, shows that the sufferers
of 200 years ago were indeed men otprin
ciple, and
_are to be remembered among
" the invincible knights of old." The
Nonconformist leaders have behaved with
great wisdom. This is specially noticed by
the Times, in emanexion with an adver
tisement which had previously appeared In
its columns " in which the Nonconformists
of England are invited to celebrate the
Bicentenary with a .hearty syiupathy for
the expelled clergy, a deep, admiration of
their heroisra, and a qualified respect fur
their opinions and, their cause." This ad
vertisement is characterised as "very mod
erate in its terms, and most reasonable in
its views." It then proceeds as follows:
"The spectac;e of 2,000 resigning, their
worldly position in the cause of truth, is
one that should not be forgotten. It has
not been forgotten ; nor has time dimmed
its lustre, or obscured its features. That
great act of resignation has told, powerfully
on the English character, on the, freedom
of religion and opinion in this country, on
the spirit of inquiry, our independence of
judgment, and the determination with
which all classes act .up to their religious
convictions. It is admitted (by the son
conformists,) "that the two thousand,
while resisting, one may say, unto death,
Prelacy and the Prayer Book, stood out for
a Form of Government and a Directory,
only less offensive to other equally consci
entious men; so it is not, the doctrine, or
the system, or the government, or any par
ticular rite that is to be commemorated or
ennobled to morrow. It is the broad fea
ture of a great protest against spiritual
tyranny and temporal dictation in matters
of conscience. In this all sects can agree,
(?) and when the Church of England re-,
members, the Bartholomew's day of 1572,
it, too, for ot:ice, can ~join hands litith :the
rtielo4or2l
This " joining hands" idea is a bitter
draught administered by the Times to High
and Low Churchmen. They wont do any
such thing; although numbers of them
must ?miens miens, in their inmost souls,
do homage to moral greatness and its no
ble self-sacrifice. But, ,even against this
idea, or admission, numbers Of them, in
cluding some Evangelicals, recalcitrate t
their own great disgrace and dishonor, and
some of them, I hear, - are likely to make
to-morrow a day of proud Church-boasting
and of misrepresentation, cursing and bit
terness. That is truly deplorable. Nor
are we to forget how the Bishops are op
posed to any relaxition.of the Act of Uni
formity, and how fear of change and cov
etous grasping of vast' endo.wwents causes
even the Recorri to cry out against change,
and to ridicule Lord Ebury's attempts at
Liturgical Revision. -How will thany of
the clergy this day, read with wry faces,
the article I now quote and comment,upon ;
and how will it make some of them think
twice before they produce before congrega
tions which are far more lovers of liberty
than themselves, those bilious and bitter
discourses which they =`were preparing for
Sunday morning! Verily the< Times, when
it comes out on the right side as in this
case, is " a thunderer." And thus with
unsparing, impartial justice, while it pro
claims to the world, " the fact that these
2,000 men were among the best, if not the
very best men, in the church," * * it
is the persecutor that predorninat3s in this
instance. This was an act of tyranny.
"Church and State" joined to override and
trample underfoot freedom of conscience
and opinion. They succeeded for the time;
but they inflicted a worse harm on them
selves, by paralyzing the Establishment.
They struck a terror into it ; they hardened
its touch ; they seared its conscience; they
made it the creature of another's will. It
has had small cause to 'envy the baffled
Nonconformist. It had rather to lament
the arm of flesh, which recovered for it
the sacred building and the parsonage, and
the stipend, leaving to others the more
open heart of the people, : a house not made
with hands, and an interchange of kind
nesses measured by no law.
"The Church of England was not jus
tified even on its own view in inflicting a
grievous injury upon itself It was not
justified in hardening and perpetuating the
uniformity which had already been found
an intolerable bcrndite . e, and which could
only be maintained by the exclusion of
half the people. After all, the expulsion
of 2,000 clergymen onlY threw them on
the kindneas of tbeir friends," (a mitigat
ing plea not justifiable <in this case,) (1 a
resource which never fails in a country
where poverty is the plea. There are now
2,000 or even 5.000 clergymen in this
country, who are as-poor as even the Non
conformists-were: So this is a small mat
ter. Not so, none of the poor clergy'
now are deprived of the liberty of preach
ing, or are thrust into prison, or compelled
to flee to other lands." But the concluding
sentences of the article are better: "Thence
forth much of the; voluntary spirit, much
of the zealonach 'of the education, much
of the learning fell into Dissent. It is
the self-inflicted wounds of the Church,
and the consequent rise of Dissent, that is
to be celebrated to-morrow?' All this is
excellent, because it is just and true. The
Times, with a perverseness and self-contra
diction worthy of its general career and
character,_ adds as last words, the absurd
sentence : " The 2,000 expelled ministers
were themselves generally too much like
other men to deserve a canonization ;"' in
contradiction of which heartless words the
silent shades of a Calamy, a Bates, a, John
Howe, or Joseph AlkiJe, seem to rise up
before us as well as others of that band of
whom and whose writings George the Third
said: There were giants in those days."
Nevertheless I repeat, the article has been
a heavy blow, and sore discouragement
bigoted Churchmen on the one hand, and
an endorsement and an encomium must
reasonable and highly prized, of the Non
cmformist Bicentenary Celebration on the
other.
AnvowsoKs, or the system of the sale
of church livings, is, as heretofore, in full
swing. [n the same number of the T,mes
in which appears the " leader " above
noticed, are twelve advertisements. One
party wants to purchase a living " by the
seaside ;" i. e., the: right of the next pre
sentation to the liVing, after the death of,the
present living, and offers any sum, propor
tionate to the annual value, underXl,2,ooo.
A second offers a vicarage tor,sale " within
fifty miles of London`."—a valuable con
sideration in the advowson market—and
" the incumbent ninety years," and " net
income £3OO a year," and the "price
£2,500." "It is," moreover, " situated in
the immediate neighborhood of a good
market town." In a third case there is
ready to be invested £5,000 to X 7,000 for
" ituniedhlte possession." In a fourth also
is " wanted to purchase," and " with im
mediate possession, a living with not less
than £4OO per annum." And of a fifth
case, in a Midland County, it is said, " the
parsonage is very well situated, in a very
healthy neighborhood, and the income is
£541 per annum. The population is un
der three hundred and fifty, and the present
;incumbent in his seventy-first Wear." Think
of that! the old g,entleimin is like a tnellovt
apple, ready to drop any day from the
branch, or "like the' last rose of Summer."
And then what a nice little flock,v what
gentlemanly ease and luxury, and what a
fine income for the Master John or Augus
tus, the son of a wealthy. father, who de
voted perhaps the simpleton of the family
to " the Church," and who is just ready
for " orders I".
But let us give a little further illustra
tion of this- odious. system. Here is " a
vicarage for sale, with immediate posses
sion of the living, the net income, deriva
ble chiefly - from land, nearly,-if not quite,
£9l/0 a year—exclusive of commodious
family residence, standing in an acre of
land, price £1.1,000." Then comes another
vicarage, " prettily and healthily situated,"
hat "no house suitable for residence;"
only " three cottages with land," which,
‘- however, offers a good'site for a vicarage?'
With the drawbacks, and only.£l7o tithes,.
this will be a comparatively cheap pur
chase, and yet it is enhanced by ".small
work" for such " small pay," and by the
present incumbent being seventy-three years
old. Poor old, man ! once that the parish
is sold .(pro.spectively,) how fervently, will
his expectant successor, be tempted to pray
that ; he may be speedily taken into Father
Abraham's :bosom-I
English families of rank .or „wealth hold z,
prmmamtions as park. of their hereditary e
property, so that they either present some
of their own kith and kin, or else sell the
right of presentation. Here is the exam
ple of the latter :
" Next Presentatioit of a Sale to a
Rector,y ; beautifully situated within three
miles of a railway station. There is an
excellent house, approached by carriage
drive, and overlooking a lovely country,
with the valley of the Avon. The net in
come amounts to £250 a year, derived
wholly from valuable glebe lands. The
Oburch'is very pretty, and in perfect re
pair ; 'population small. There is the
prospect" (a genteel way of saying that
the present incumbent is on hiS last legs,)
" of immediate legal possession."
Matters like this are transacted throuuh
lawyers of course. The charge of simony
in such cases is repelled by . Churchnien, as
they say that the living, the right of pre
sentation to which is purchased, can only
be held by a clergyman in holy orders, one
who has been duly examined and approved
by the Bishop, and who has professed his
persuasion, in connexion with the Ordina
tion Service to, have been " inwardly
moved by the Eloly Ghost" to fa - e upon
him the office of the ministry. But not
withstanding such pleas, the system is
abominable, and full of evil. It stimulates
worldly people, who are possessed of wealth,
10 bring up sons for the Church; it shuts
out from parishes nvirly worthy and earnest
men, who are poor, and cannot purchase
their way into them, and ofttimes it settles
down fbr successive-generations, by reason
of suoh,hateful'patronae or purcha.se, the
blight of spiritual death. In some cases—
such as that of Simeon's Trustees—men of
Evangelical principles seek to mitigate the
evils of patronage, and to secure to par
ishes faithful pastors, such.. as Charles
Simeon, of Cambridge, (the founder of
this Trust,) was himseif. These good
men go into the Advowson market, and buy
up Presentations, giving them always, when
the old inentabents• die, to godly men.
'When the right. of "perpetual presents
tion " is purchased, there is . : a moral cer
tainty of each parish being as a field which
the Lord ha.s blessed. There are a con
siderable number of such livings now.
One of them is in Colchester, in Essex,
which I visited some time ago, and where
the clergyman of the Simeon school has a
large congregation, is faithful and full in
his holding forth of the way of lif., his min
istry .effective and successful, and both the
man and his doctrine looked, upon with
some distrust by, his High Church breth
ren.
THE SERMOv of the Rev. T. Binney,
the eminent Independent minister, at the
Weigh House Chapel, London, last Sabbath
morning, was very weighty, and deeply
impressive. The Times [resented a full
outline of it on Monday morning. As I
have ere now brought your readers with me
to Weigh House-Chapel, they will remem
ber that the first minister was one of the
Bartholomew Confessors, and that he was
a Presbyterian. 14Ir. Bin ney's recent text
was, " Let every man be fully persuaded in
his own mind!' He -said that two hundred
years ago that day, many pulpits in Eng
land were vacant, many voices were hushed,
and in many places there were sheep with
out a shepherd. The significancy of that
act might well be considered. The year
1662 took its, character from the times
which preceded it. It belonged to .a period
of inquiry, search, questioning, and dis
cussion, and it was a crisis at th close of a
very stormy period.
In times behind the fourteenth cen
tury, there was in this country, on religious
matters, a unanimity of ignorance, a state
of mental stagnation being encouraged ;
the souls of men were dead, and dead peo
ple, it is well known, are very quiet.
That was the sort of tranquility enjoyed
by our fathers in those good old tim s,
when the Church was above the. State.
But in this condition of things, a star ap
peared in the sky, sleepers awoke, the dea I
arose, and inquiry , was set on foot. By the
preaching of Wycliffe, the Morning Star
of the Reformation,' attention was excited,
and the new doctrine was everywhere ea
gerly received. Viol en t fulminations went
out against him. There were disagree
ment, agitation, controversy ; it could not
be helped, and it was by no means to be
lamented. Better, far better, that there
should have been life, action, and progress,
with confusion, than the stagnationof death
and the peace of the grave.
Coincident with this very fierce agita
tion, and this cry ,for, truth, were the utter-.
antes of the secular idea, • which became
very productive of controversy. yeliffe
had stated that in the, primitive Church
there were only, two orders of the ministry,
which were considered sufficient, namely,
presbyters and deacons,; and that in the
time of St. Paul, presbyter and bishop
meant the same thing!'
The preacher went on to say .that in the
time of Henry VEIL, there was.a contest
of another kind---a contest for National
independence. The King claimed for him
self and. his. people entire freedom from
foreign interference in matters ecclesiasti
cal, and he was right. But at this time
Papists and Protestants suffered alike, and
frequently at the same stake—the one as a.
heretic, for denying the doctrine of tran
substantiation, and the other as a traitor,
for denying the ecclesiastical supremacy of
the King. Matters went on under the
reigns of Elizabeth, .James, and 'Charles,
until they culminated in that state of
things with which' they were all familiar,
under the k ocumonwealth
"Then came a battle for greater simpli
city of Church rites, for an in. in
clerical habits, and' for a more clear and
decisive declaration of Protestant creeds.
It , was a cations fact in connexion with:
this subject, that, in the. Convocation•
held in 1562, just three hundrod years ago,
in the, reigh of Elizabeth, the Puritan ele
ment was so strong, that many members,
holding high• ecclesiastical offices, were
anxious for ritual reformation. A proposi
tion was made to abrogate all saints' days,
to •provide. that the priest:shall not turn
his baekupon the people at any portion of
the service, and to :leaver the practice of
kneeling at the Lord's Supper a• matter of
discretion. This :proposition was •carried
by ,a.majority of eight of:those who were
present.at the discussion; but proxies being
admitted, the decision. was reversed by a
majority of one---so near was the Church
being :reformed:in Elizabeth's time by the
Puritan element."
Mr. Binney, then went on to describethe
policy which forced the 2,ooo.Puritans out
of the Church;• and the persecutions which
for long years were endured: " tlett to this
Ovid& itagu*# *ad Oree l Vat'
with manifold agitatiods." He then point
ed out principles involved. First, the con•
test previous to the Act of Uniformity,
zoos within the Church. Again, "it was a
struggle between conservatism and progress,
the one party clinging to doctrines and
forms which the other party deemed erro
neous or superstitious, and wished to super
sede, so as to bring things into greater
harmony with Puritan truth and Apostolic
order. Thirdly, both parties looked to the
secular power for support. Both sought
the Regal, or Parliamentary suppression of
the other. The principle was' the same,
although the agency was different. The
fact was that there never was aught of on
intention on the part of the Bishops but to
get rid of their old adearsaries; arid on the
part of the adversaries, there was too much
desire to introduce into the Church func
tional changes."
The moderation of Mr. Binney's views
are here brought out. He is by no means
an ultra-Dissenter, and I belieVe would
gladly conform to the recognition and use
of a limited Liturgy. He is also more' Of
a Presbytherian than an Independent;
although I think he would only stand up
for a Congregational presbytery, or at most
a joint presidency of pastors over the Chris
tians of a town or district, even though
meeting in different places for worship, yet
to be under a united governmental and
.shepherdizing presbytery and pastorate.
Mr. Binney drew an argument from the
events of the past, against the principle
of Church Establislinients. He also spec
ially pointed out, as liaving been grandly,
and . .at great sacrifice,. taught by the suffer
' inas of the Ejected, " the reverence which
was due to conscience Lyman to man's, and
by each man to his own." He showed that
these men• had loOked at oaths and sub
scriptions as a solemn reality, and re:
marked,: " There are men now, at this very
day, who never think seriously of the tests
they have taken, aud who, if some new
form of test were proposed to them, would
refuse or resist, whatever might be the eon
sequence. The remainder of the discourse
is dins given by the Times :
There were principles and expressions in the
baptismal and other services, in some of the
rubrics, and in the office for the burial of the
dead, Which the Nonconformists could not admit
or approve, or which they strongly condemned
or utterly denied, and which therefore they
could not sub'scribe and confess. The lesson
taught should not be lost, especially in the pres
ent day, when the secret seemed to be possessed by
some, how subscription might be harmonized with the
denial of almost everything subscribed. The con
duct of the men had in it the germ of everything
which hail since been developed, arid much that
was now secured by law. They would not strip
themselves of the liberty to endeavor to retnov.-i
abuse either from Church or State., They would
not assert that there could not possibly he in the
realm of England congregations of Christian men
that might not be called churches, besides the
Church of England by law. Their convictions
had, not been without result, though the men had
much to suffer from subsequent. penal and perse
cuting laws. Their principles in time bore abun
dantly . their legitimate fruit. They justified
resist- nce to arbitrary power. They led to the
Act of Toleration and ultimately secured the lib
erty of worship which their descendants now
enjoy. Had not , the Nonconfornaists-resisted, in
one century there would have been no clear
stage for the missionary movements of Wesley
and Whitfield iu the next. The effect of the
ejectment on
,the English Church was a century
and' more of deadness, a wilderness of dreary
formality and hollow profession which followed
the casting out of the•Vuritan leaven. All that
ought. to be a lesson to every religious community to
beware of giving wag to revengeful feelings. of hu
miliating a rival or vexing a brother. While we
must sorrowfully donfess that they were still
only, now in the second stage of the progress of
opinion, and that it would be a long time yet be
fOre the'Cliristian Church advanced to the third,
let them all try to hasten the period of "the good
rime coming," if it was ever to come. There
never would be any religious unanimity o 1 knowl
edge in the sense of scientific demonstratien.
Especially was that true in respect to those sec
ondary things in which Christians ;night direr who
were one in fai=h, which had been too often mode
(he watchwords of schism and the in4ruments of try-
faun!: but in regard to faith, there might be
and ought to be THE ONANIBILTY OF LOVE. There
might. be a distinct recoguition of the right to
differ, and a mutual respect. bet ween those who
differed. Ottr'rule . for others should be, where
there is nothing to throw suspicion on their in
tegrity, to their Owll Master they stand. or fall.
The rule of each for himself must he, be fully
persuaded—that is, intelligently informed and
rationally convince L-for whatsoever was not of
faith in this full and enlightened persuasion was
sin. Let all of •every - church carry that, with
theta, whether Conformists or Nonconformists,
and in that way they would all do something in
heralding the approach of the unanimity of love.
6 4 The discourse," adds the rnms, "was
listened to throughout with marked atten
tion, and appeared to wake a proround im
pression on the vast congregation."
ENGLISH. PRESBYTERIANISAI seeks, in
this Bicentenary year, to secure an, endow
ment of £lO,OOO for its Theological Col
lege in London. In answer to appeals
from- its respective Deputations sent in
Miy and July to the Free Church A.sssetn
bly, they proposed to give them help in
evangelistic efforts, and in Church Eaten
si.,n, by sending up some of their leading
ministers to preach in different English
towns. Nothing or this kind, however, has
yet been done. The Irish Assembly in
vited a Deputation to come to Ulster ; and'
taking advantage of the Bicentenary Com
memoration, four ministers appeared at a
public meeting last week, at Belfast, and
are now preaching and speaking through
out Ulster, for Home Missions in England..
Throughout Ulster, last Lord's day, ac
cording to the unanimous resolution of last
Assembly, they have brought before their
people the principles for which the 2,090'
ministers suffered; their fidelity to con
science ; and the importance,. of maintain
ing,
.especially at this time, the te,stimony
they were privileged to bear, and of aiding
the Presbyterian Church in England, the
legitimate representatives of these noble
men, in the work in which •they are en
gaged. .They were further instructed to
make a special collection in all their
churches, to be appropriated to this object.
The. London Weekly Review hits the fol
lowing
There are at this moment two objects of para
mount importance to the vigor and extension of
the Presbyterian Church in England ; first., the
endowment of the College; second, the.extinc
tion of congregational debt. We give to neither
of these objects precedence over the other. The
success of both is indispensable. Without a suf
ficiently endowed theological institute the'Church
cannot hold her place among the religious de
naminations of England ; and while many of her
congregations are burdened with debt, it is vain=
to look to her for that expansive energy, that
buoyant vigor, that easy and genial strength, by,
which her borders may be extended.
The Presbyterian Church has an .historical re
nown for learning, and has been characterized,
at every period, by the eitiction of a high stan-:
dard -of cultivation trorn!her ministers. In the'
second half of the sixteenth century, the most
learned• theologians in Europe were Presbyte
rians; and until the close of the seventeenth, the:
Presbyterians, of :England yielded, Ike_ palm •,of
:EpiEtropirtibno zit* Indlt
BUSINESS NOTICES of Tszi lines or leee, $l.OO each
&eons] line, 10 cents.
REV. DAVID APKINNEY,
P.II.IWHIZTOR. AIM PUBLISHM
pendents. The closing of the national universi
ties upon the Nonconformists, the most grievous
of all the wrongs inflicted by an oppressive Par
liament upon Protestant denominations beyond
the pale or the Church, led necessarily to a de
cline in Presbyterian scholarship in England;
ind only in our own day has it, become a matter
f reasonable hope, that. the extinguished torch
'3 ay be re-lit, and a Presbyterian college be es
abtished in England, which will one day restore
their European reputation to English Presbyte
tian divines. It is,
of course, not certain that
t his will be effected by the endowment of a col
lege; but without such endowment, the result.
11 be, humanly speaking, impossible.
PRAISE is given by the Times to the pa
i.ience. of the North, under disappointments,
nd " a most creditable consideration for
'he difficulties of their Generals." * *
After the disaster of Bull Run, the Fed
rals conducted themselves like a sensible
eople. Being conscious in their hearts
hat nobody would really accuse Americans
•f cowardice, they accepted their reverse
s an instructive misfortune, and set to
!ark to repair it." It goes on to refer to
flcelellan, enumerating the results of his
"ttrategy before Richmond.
" Nevertheless, and in spite of all these
reverses, McClellan has not become an un
yopular General. He has enemies, it is
• bought, in the Government, and he shares
Ole ituputations hurled by the Abolitionists
gainst all who hesitate to subvert the old
f)onstitution of the Uuion. But he is not
mipopular with the public. The public
ppeat content with the introduction of
Oren. Halleck to a share in the command,
ml have no. - asked any thing beyond this
ery moderate correction of McClellan's
t ()ousels: For the rest they are satisfied
, hat he shall remain at his post. And if
hey are indisposed to take service in his
!rtuy, that is rather because they have no
ppetite for the work, than because they
t:lstru.st the General. They are willing
nough to send him fresh troops, if troops
van be feund to go, and there has been no
elk, as yet, of transferring the conduct of
be war to a new Commander. This sin
;ular patience on the part, of a republican
leople, is, we think, very remarkable."
This is very well considering the source
'whence it comes. The Dully' News, which
.nay be regarded as the London organ of
iro-Northern sentiment—a j mum' of most
ouorable antecedents, and always the calm
nd honest friend of justice and liberty—
'vrites as follows as to the tone of the Times
other occasions, and the spiteful oratory
t.f Roebuck
Up to the breaking out of the war, the people
*t the North were, unconsciously perhaps, but.
till largely influenced by foreign, and especially
t.y English opinion. But the' kind of criticism
hey, have recently met with has largely weaned
!hem from this dependence. The ungenerous
od unworthy course puraued by our contempo
ary has, amongst other influences, contributed
o this result, Nearly a year ago one of the most
nfl uen dal and. widely-circulated New-York jour-
La's said ; strange want of judgment man
; fasted by-the runes and other English journals
n American affairs bids fair to tnrever release
• ur people from the half-colonial dependence on
'iuglish public opinion which has characterized
in times past." We are not in the least sun.
; wised ut this result. No intelligent cr reflective
unerican could, read without a touch of scorn
he :opinions which such journals as our contem
ifirary, and such orators as Mr. Roebuck. set
-,- ' 7 .tlrth as peculiarly English. These noisy oracles,
hat claim to speak on behalf. of their country
:lon, delight to represent England as a craven
.nd selfish power, yielding to the unjust demands
f the strong through fear; insulting the weak
hew/se she thinks it may be done with impu
,iv, and exulting over the calamities of her
tteighbors because she hopes they may turn to
.erown advantage.
The Ameiicans have not, however, fallen into
be mistake of confounding these unworthy eb-
Itllitions of sectional interests or class prejudices
with the opinions of the English people at large,
'Cliey have done ample justice to the friendly
pint dia . phiyed toward them by impirtial see
' ions of the community on this side' of the Atlan
tic, as iv,ll as to the noble instinct which has
!ed our working olasies:to suffer the most terri
ble privations without a murmur against the
itruggle that has for the time deprived thein of
dread. While recognizing those deeper facts of
I.ur national life, they have, however, ceased to
gay any practical regard to the 'loud-mouthed
traducers of English sentiment, or, indeed, to
tlepend in any degree on European opinion.
J. W.
P. S.—The Queen left Balmoral pester.
day, arriving iu Loudon (by 'night train),_
this morning. In a few days, she will leave
fur Berlin.
It is now announced that the Prince of
Wales will marry, nest Spring, the daugh
ter of the heir apparent to the throne off
Denmark. Her family is said to be a pater
tern, and a truly Protestant household.
There has been just published a new and
remarkable work, which has been the Royal
Mourner's companion and consolation—
" Meditations on Death and Eternity,"
translated from the German. The follow
in. , in the Preface, the second sentence of
wrilch seems to indicate that it was written
by the Queen's own hand: "The medita
tions contained in this volume, form part
of the well known German devotional work,
Stunden der Andact, published in the
.beginning, of the present century, and gen
erally ascribed to Zscokke.
" Thry have been selected by one, to
whom, in derp and overwhelming sorrow,
they, have proved, a source of comfort and
congolation."
The volume is a fine octavo of 385 pages,
printed oil fine paper, and by female com
positors, at the Royal Victoria Printing
Press. There are twenty-nine separate
chapters, to each. of which is prefixed,
freely rendered, a selection from that ,pre
eieus hymnology which, amid the blight of
Rationalistic theology, has kept; riiiistian
faith,' hope and love alive in the Teutonic
heart.
The. Aged .Christian
The wind is unseen, but it cools the
brow of the fevered one; sweetens the ;
Summer atmosphere, and ripples the ; surface
of the bike into silver spangles of beauty.
So goodness of heart, thmigh invisible to
the material eye, makes its presence:felt ;
and from its effects_ upon , surrounding
things, we are assured of its- existence.
Sometimes the sun seems to hang for a
half hour in the horizon, only just to show
how glorious it can be. -The day is done;
the fervor of the shining is.over, and the
sun hangs golden—nay, redder than gold
—in the West, making everything look,
unspeakably beautifnl, with the rich efful
gence which it sheds on every side. -- So
God seems to let some people, when their -
deity in this world is done,.hang in.. the
West, that men may look,on them, and ,see k ?,l
how beautiful they are. There are some('
hanoin.• b in the 'West now.
IBETwEEw the Fayed and' the lost soiili
the next world, the diffh . renee,ls, not i
kno,wing the truth, for both know it
in loving it. Tie firAt Joyce
ha