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The Errors of the True Christian.
Blame not the spirit, blame the shrine I
The frail, the human heart of sin,
Where oft religion's light Divine
Is sullied by the gloom within.
Then ere thou blame the faithful few,
For speech unwise, or zeal undue,
Bid the quenched dew-drops of the morn
Glitter as when they gemmed the thorn,
The trampled snow upon the earth
Be pure as at its heavenly birth ;
Expect thy roses in the storm,
Fadeless in hue, and fair of form,
And bid the limpid streamlet swell,
Bright through the city, as the dell.
'T were vain ; yet ev'n the sullied snow,
Dimm'd flowers, fall'n dew, and darken'd rill,
Despite, the earthly taint they show,
Beauty and blessing scatter still.
lidnight Hymn.
BY HANNAH MORE
Whereser I am, whate'er I see,
Eternal Lord, is full of thee ;
I feel thee in the gloom of night,
I view thee in the morning light.
When care distracts my anxious soul,
Thy grace can every thought control;
Thy word can still the troubled heart,
And peace and confidence impart.
If pain invade my.broken rest,
Or if corroding griefs molest,
Soon as the Comforter appears,
My sighs are hushed, and dried my tears.
Thy Wisdom guides, thy Will directs,
Thy Arm upholds, thy Power protects;
With thee when I at dawn converse,
The shadows sink, the clouds disperse ;
Then, as the sun illumes the skies,
o Sun of Righteousness, arise !
Dispel the•fogs of ntentitl night,
Being of beings, Light of light
Doubtless many readers of a Christian
newspaper will be at a loss to know the
meaning of the word which stands at the
head of this article. What are wakes ?
Addison, in the Spectator, has the follow
ing passage " Had you stayed there a few
days longer, you would have seen a coun
try wake, which, you know, in most parts
of England is the eve-feast of the dedica
tion of our churches!' Dr. Kennet, in his
Parochial Antiquities, published in 1695,
says : " These wakes were in imitation of
the ancient love-feasts ; and were first
3tablished in England by Pope Gregory
;he Great, who, in an epistle to Melitus
the Abbot, gave orders that they should be
_apt in sheds or arbories made up of
branches or boughs of trees around the
Church." " This laudable custom of
wakes," he adds, " prevailed for many
ages, until the nice Puritans began to ex
claim against it as a remnant of Popery,"
The remark, made by Braude, in his
Acyclopaidia, that these feasts were not
uncommonly followed by revelling and
.unkenness, is a strange commentary on
Kennet's " laudable practice," and
ids us to think the Puritans were not so
ice " as he would have us, believe, in
king against them. This custom is
kept up, however, in many places in
own country by people of' Irish descent
in the Papal communion. I have seen
enthusiastic Irishman ride up, post
te, to a neighbor's door, to borrow the
ley with which he might buy whisky
the "revel" connected with the dedi
ion of their chutth.
The word " wake,' among us, is now
°sally applied to another custom.
Later defines the word, " the sitting up
'rsous with a dead body, usually at
:1:1. with drinking." I am told this
au is very common among Irish popu
is in country places. And just here,
j be observed, is it not curious bow
depravity of man has prostituted the
sacred seasons to the basest uses I
',mas, Hallow-e'en, the dedication of
les, and the vigils kept over the sa
.emains of the departed, all have been
,crated to revelry and drunkenness !
would it be believed that this ous
with slight variations, is still observed
'rotestant communities who have bad
Gospel preached among them for three
four generations ? The writer has
instances, not five hours' ride , from
own city, in the heart of a dense
,estant population which has had the
Lel preached for forty years, in which
old Irish custom of wakes has been
:rued. And these wakes were not
Lgils," but emphatically " revels." For
sacred be the custom of two or four
len friends keeping devout watch over
remains of the dear departed. But
ver execrated be the heathenish prac
ot filling a house with thoughtless
;re and merry-makers, destroying all
solemnity of the occasion, and harrow
lip the feelings of the mourners, while
remains of a friend or neighbor lie
and neglected in an adjoining chain-
And let no Christian fear "giving
so" by refusing' to allow such orgies
held in his house. Let who will take
from such a refusal, the sacred still
licit hangs around the dust of our
id friends must not be broken by the
of heathen riots.
writer of this has been astonished,
wiry, to find how general, in some
titles, the observauce of this cu
ll is; and has given this hearty on
ion of it iu the hope thatit may
Id influence some of those commu-
Yet he is aware that people who
in, or allow, such heathenish prac
) not often read the religious news
or anything else religious.
'era, if there are "wakes" in your
'hood, do not rest until you have
to every good man of your ac
le about them, and they have been
forever. Too long has this
Rome rested on our fair Prot
aitage. H.
For the Presbyterian Banner
From the Sonth•western Army.
. EDITORS :—The camp is not
favorable place for writing, espe
w, the field officers and staff of a
,ry regiment has been ordered to
three wall tents—about ten feet
campa i gn i ng .',W e are now re
`,hat; and consequently the chap
:s a most inconveniently small
privacy, furniture,; or any thing
food. We cannot hold prayer-
Per the Presbyterian Banner
Wakes.
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VOL. XI., NO. 14.
meetings in this weather out of doors
Here, in Moscow, Tenn., we have found a
church, which we occupy every evening.
How long we shall remain here, the most
sagacious of us cannot conjecture; but we
appoint a meeting for " to-morrow evening,
if God will ;" and if my regiment, or any
other, shall move to-morrow, perhaps the
meeting may still be held. At present, we
make them prayer-meetings—let soldiers
and officers occupy most of the time as they
may please. The chaplains lead and ex
hort. The church is crowded; and proba
bly would be so, were it twice as large. A
whole division is encamped here—most of
it crowded as closely together as conve
nience will allow. This makes it conve
nient for the devout of many regiments to
come together. There are more truly re-'
ligious mea among them than we antici
pated. When one walks through a camp,
and hears the sound of cursing on every
side, he is very apt to form the idea that
the fear of God is entirely banished from
the place; but he bears, after a time, that
there are pure voices less vociferous. We
find many who are willing to speak for
Christ, and to lead in prayer. The general
spirit of the Christians among us is ex
cellent. It was well remarked by an officer
in one of our, meetings, that if all our army
were like the body there assembled, we
should be absolutely invincible.
But this thought reminds us of that
which causes many hearts sadness—the
wickedness of the army. Some Northern
papers have given an exaggerated account of
the ravages committed by the troops since
we marched from Corinth; but there has been
wrong-doing • enough to make one fearful
that God may withhold his blessing from
us. It is not true that the army burned
all the buildings along the road; but it is
true that empty houses were generally fired
—the men saying that their being empty
showed that the men were in the Southern
army; and that, therefore, their houses
ought to be burnt. It is not true' that all
property was appropriated by the soldiers
as we passed; but a great deal was.
Sweet potatoes were all taken, unless unu
sually well concealed. Many houses lost
much by pilfering soldiers and servants.
Chickens and pigs, calves and sheep, were
almost all taken. A scene of disorder, and
almost of insubordination, both painful and
ludicrous, culminated, when we reached
our encampment at Davis' Mills, in Missis
sippi, a few miles froth' this place. Briga
diers were trying to hinder men from
carrying off chickens and pigs before their
faces; and tried in vain : the men broke
away from them, carried off their booty,
and escaped in - the .multitude. But this
was the highest point of the disorder.
Proper commands and arrangements were
immediately, made ; the Quartermasters
were set to work to supply the men with
what was necessary; and-the vile fever in
the army's blood subsided.
This outbreak seemed to follow all the
laws of an epidemic: it commenced at
the same time in both of our marching col
umns—from Bolivar, and from Corinth;
it raged with the same symptoms in both;
in both, at first it met with only the feeble
resistance that could be offered by paral
yzed or Fizzled field officers . ; and the un
holy excitement simultaneously subsided
in both parts of the army, and is now uni
versally condemned.
This devastation, , after all, is but a
type of the mischiefs of war. All indus
try, all family arrangements, are brok
en up. The churches and schools suf
, fox or are destroyed. Within the sphere
of our marches in this region, we have seen
Ripley, Migs., in which two flourishing
High Schools have been ruined; at- Cor
inth, one; at Lagrange, Tenn., two. Our
brethren, Waddel and Gray, are still there,
and something- of their congregations re
main; but their college is' gone—the
young men into the Southern army; their
book-shelves hold medicines; their building
has been hospital, then prison, and now
hospital again. The Methodist Female
College, at the same place, •has the same
history. All America ought to learn,
from that which is passing now, that to
cause a war, except in the direst necessity,
s insanity. J. W.
EUROPEAN 'OORRESPONDENCE
The :British Anti-SlaVery Society—lts Defence of
the North—The Times and Press—Anti-Slavery
Reaction—A Rornish Archbishop and Faction
Fight:in Ireland—A Late and Bad Harvest in Ire
land—The New Protestant Prelates—Sketch -of
Dr. Thompson's Career—York and New-Xork--
The York Minister Tisited—The Cathedra Ser
vice Minus Preaching—Chanting versus Metrical
Psalmody—" Intoning" Criticised Cathedral
Cost and Learned Leisure" Cut up a Bishop into
Fifty Pieces"—Mr. Spurgeon—The Pope a Rail
way Obstrisctor--Cruel Treatment of the Jews—
Lotteries at Rome—The " Loan" Trick—Father
Passaglia and his 10,000 Rome's Coming
Doom.
LONDON, November 19, 1862
THE BRITISH . ANTISLAVERY SOCIETY,
whose fundamental principle is that "slay
holding'is a sin and a crime before God," ,
and therefore " that unconditional emanci
pagan wherever slavery is; maintained, is
alone consistent with Divine law and, with
the requirements of justice and humanity,"
has issued an address intended to counter
act " the efforts made to infuse into the
minds of the people of this country, sen
timents friendly to slavery." The Society
deprecates all war, but holds that the South
" was not only the aggressor, but design
edly provoked an armed contest with the
United States Government, with the ex
press sole object of founding a Confedera
cy to perpetuate slavery." That is cer
tainly true, and very happily stated. The
North, on the other hand, gets full credit
for all that it has done, enforcing the stet-.
ntes against the slave trade which other ad
ministrations had allowed to become inop
erative, prosecuting slave traders to con
viction and punishment, promoting the
speedy settlement of the territories by a
non-slaveholding population, and prohibit
ing slavery forever in those territories.
" it has also abolished slavery from the
District of Columbia; it has virtually re
pealed the Fugitive Slave Act, by prohib
iting the rendition of slaves escaping from
the rebel States into the lines of the Uni
ted States army; it has recognised and en
tered into diplomatic relations with the
negro Republics of Liberia and Hayti.
Further, by the Confiscation Bill—consid
erately made non-retrospective—it in of--
feet proclaimed emancipation to the slaves
in the rebel States within a specified peri
od, a majority in Congress lam ratified the
plan of compensated emancipation for such
Slave States as :may take advantage of it."
And lastly the President's Froolamation
quoted with, approbationEL,s;,tp.,conilitional_
emancipation on the Ist of January, 1863.
PITTSBURGH, SATURDAY, DEC EMBER 20, 1862„
The Times gives the full text of this
address, which protests against "the tone
and spirit of certain artices in a certain
portion of the public press, and perver
sion of facts." Perhaps it is somewhat
penitent. It admitted a very' able article
a few days ago, signed, "Ristoricus," from
a lawyer in the Temple, London, in the
course of which the writer, defending Lord
Palmerston and the Cabinet against the
Tory outcry and the French press as to
" mediation," asserted that the great heart
of the English nation was anti-slavery to
the core, and that there was no reason why
we should befriend the South, but that we
simply should observe the strictest neu
trality.
The Morning Star remarks on the reac
tion in English opinion and feeling which
was dazzled with Southern successes. The
Daily News warmly supports the ministe
rial policy, and writes very able and tem
perate articles on behalf of the North.
At the same time as a matter of opinion',
most people think that a separation must
ultimately take place, while others look to
great results from the fleet of the United
States in river warfare.
DR. LEARi, a Roman Catholic Prelate,
has issued a Pastoral Address to the Ro
man Catholic peasantry of Tipperary and
adjoining districts, in which hemakes ex
traordinary revelations. It reminds one
of the olden times of Fiction Fights so
graphically recorded by William Carlton,
" the Irish Walter Scott," in his " Tales
and Stories of the Irish. Peasantry." Most
people thought that these bloody feuds
were at an end, and that, as in the Hyde
Park, Berkerhead, and Belfast Riots, Rorn
ish hate had expended itself in assaults on
Garibaldian " enemies of the Pope, or on
Protestant yeomen. But we find that it is
otherwise in the South of Ireland. The
Dublin Morning Journal (Romish organ)
thus explains the origin of these feuds,
which have wrought such havoc :
" The cause of the feud which 'has led
to such deplorable results, was so trivial
and ludicrous that it would be almost in
credible if given on 'a less authority than
this pastoral. A spark struck in a dis
pute between two men about an insignifi
cant fact, has blazed out in a flame of fac
tion and has now become a wide-spread
conflagration. The cause was too ludicrous
to be more than alluded to by. the Arch
bishop. It was all about a bull! The
Morning. News gives the history of the ori
gin of the feud as follows In former
times there was a bull located near the
town of Tipperary, about whose age some
persons disputed. One party asserted that
he was three years old, and another swore
as lustily he was four. It was at a time
when a lesser matter would suffice for riot,
or fury, or bloodthirstiness, and blows en
sued. One party, of course, was defeated;
and hatred sprung ups against the- victors;
husbanded for -a day of greater strength.
Then there came another trial by battle,
and defeat one side or other added' fuel -to
make the flame of discord grow. Thus it
went on. Its existence has been marked
by the ruin of many a home, the widow
hood of many a wife, and the orphanage
and misery of many an innocent child.
From time immemorial they have 'fought
their battles. Fair or market, wedding or
funeral, race meeting or hurling , match,
have seen them find some opportunity for
the deadly strife.."'
The pugnacious qualities of the Celtic
race have always been conepicuous; on the
battle field, in political and fanatieo-relig
ions collisions, the fury of the race' has
shown itself. Here, in. London, under the
influence of drink, they fight with one an
other on Saturday nights,.in the Seven
Dials, or Field Lane, or in other localities
where they " most do congregate." A'
" shindy" they like for its own sake; and
when to this is added hereditary hate, the
results have been oftimes terrible both in
Highland glens and in Irish Fairs. In the
North• of Scotland this fierce spirit is
largely subjected by religion ; and in truth
the lineal descendants of the hostile clans
of the 17th and 18th centuries, are knit
in holy love beneath the shadow of the
Cross. Popery in such a pastoral as that
of Dr. Leahy, virtually confesses its fail-
ure. It is impossible that any peasantry
possessing the Bible, and permitted to read
it from childhood's days, as well as to hear
the Gospel of the Great Forgiver, could
furnish the records of such mutual and
murderous hate as this. Dr. Leahy de
serves credit for . his honest denunciation
of such wickedness, but thereby, I repeat,
confesses the weakness of a Church which,
witholds that Living Word, which even,
when it does not spiritually change and'
convert, always educates' conscience and
elevates the standard ,of public morals.
Even when kneeling at Mass,,it is a shame
to have it to tell, but the truth it is, that
men calling themselves Chriatians and.
Catholics on the Lord's own day, in the
house of God, kneeling at his altar, then
and there thirst for one another's blood,
and scarcely' put foot outside the sacred
threshold, when they, fall upon _ones. nother
with the fury of demons.
TEE HARVEST in Ireland has
,been late
and scanty to a powerful degree. Indeed,
with the exception of the lamentable fail
ure of the crops, or rather their destrne
tion by the> excessive rains of the Autumn
of 1816, followed by the scourge of typhus
fever, there has been no : parallel to the
present scanty crop for sixty years. The
mountain districts were still'unreaped in
the - first week of the present month, and at
other places even in the North' of Ireland,
the shocks Of grain,were still in the fields.
The great drawbacktof Ireland is its damp,
moist climate, as a rule. Hence it seems
as if the people will' gradually taint it into
a great pasture eciiintry — for . cattle and
sheep, depending little on the oat crop and
on the potato. From the uncertainties
of drought on the one hand, (following
heavy rains and stiffening the clay 'soil into
lime-like hardness,) or a "41-l'opping sea
son " from April 'to November, on the
other, as well as from the growth, of manu
factures; the drafts on the peasantry. to
England and Scotland, as railway, dock,
and bricklayers' laborers, as well as their
emigration to the Colonies, .Canada, and
the United States; it ; would seem as if a,
better state of things were to be inaugura
ted as to the use to be made of the verdure
peculiar to the Emerald Isle.
When lately in the North and East
Ridings of Yorkshire, I fonnd that but a
short :time had elapsed singe the wheat
had been gathered in, and that it had been
saved,so, b.astily, as to make the grain very
soft 'and inferior. Englandt, large
wheat crop; but as to bread-making,
foreign wheat, the product of Summer
climes, is largely needed for mixing, in
order to the production of first-class flour.
Here in the South of England, the climate
is very superior to that of the Midland or
Northern counties, or of Scotland. Our
free trade system brings us abundant corn
from every country which has a surplus.
America has already sent us large supplies,
and Prussia is contributing to an unexam
pled extent to our stores. The corn mar
kets, therefore, rule low, both in England
and Scotland, and famine prices are not
aggravating the really awful distress in
Lancashire, as was the case in the fearful
famine visitation in Ireland in 1846-47.
THE NEw ARCHBISHOPS are Dr. Long
ley and Dr. Thompson ; the former re
moved from the Northern to the. Southern
Archdiocese; the latter created Bishop of
Gloucester a few months ago, and to the
astonishinent and envy (?) of the other
Bishops, (many of them his seniors, as he
is only forty-two years of age,) r .he succeeds
Dr. Longley at York. The Times gives a
synopsis of Dr. Thompson's antecedents,
which are highly honorable to Ids abilities,
to his liberality and hreedth of view as to
University (Oxford) reforms;alcdqui , tohis
orthodoxy as a defender of the jloctrine of
the true, and proper Atortemeitiid ,Sacri
fice of Christ, in reply to the aßsaults made
upon that 'cardinal dogma in 'Essays and
Reviews." He is not openly identified
with the Evangelical School,:but there is
reason to think that he ;is virtually Evan
gelical in his views and sympathies.
The Bishop of London, Dr. Tait, was
offered the dignity of an, Arelibighop in
the North, but to his credit he preferred
hard work and administrative influence and
usefulness in his old diocese,. in London.
In truth the Archbishop of, York has a,
comparatively easy post. I spent a few
days lately, in the city of York. You
have your New York, which doubtless 're—
ceived its second name from! the old Yorki
of the ,mother country. What a difference
between the New and the Old: the one
"going ahead" with such rapidity, and
already the metropolis of the United
States ; and the other with itallforty thou
sand inhabitants, its ancient streets, its quiet
river.Ouse—with a few *barges, trading en
its bosom, or an occasional small steamer
taking a few Passengers to Goole and York
Hall ; with its ancient narrow streets,
quaint Elizabethan houses; its double Mu
scum, filled with rare specimens of the
reptiles of. the Saurian ante-mundane pe
riod, on the one hand, and with rich and
rare excavations and memeriali of the Re-.
man Occupation of the region round about,
on the other ! The " Minster," or Cathe
dral, of-York is its glory, and has•been• so
for ages. Even to one who is not an T001e..._
Biologist, or Antiquarian, this magnificent
structure is very imposing in its external
architecture, in its pealing bells, in its
deep, rieh, and solemn utterances at noon
or midnight of •the fleeing houra,,and above
all, in its noble interior. lilere renovation
and restoration have been recently at work,
as in most of the Cathedral,,,ehurches, and
other ancient ecelesiestieeMlifiels of Eng
land. The• barbarous taste of the last
century, whitewashed the noble marble or
granite pillars, daubed and disguised the
roof, filled the naves or choir with high
backed pews, and 'set up pulpits more hid
eous than even could be found in any con
venticle. Now all these outrages are being
redressed. . Thus it is at Beverly Minster,
in Yorkshire, which I have also lately vis
ited, and where I'• saw for the first time the
Friedseat; a stone chair, which, the mo
ment that a' fugitive, murderer or other
criminal , reached and sat down:in it, secured
to, 'him' the right of " sanctuary," and im
munity from the vengeance of the law.
I was present at a , Sabbath afternoon
service in York Cathedral. The choir was
quite filled. Instead; of the chilling cold
which salutes you on entering St. Paul's
Cathedral, the place was cemfortably, heat
ed, and as the shadows of evening fell,.
jets of gas poured forth their radiance over
the congregation. The Dean occupied his
proper seat—as " Diaeonus," he superin
tends, overlooks, and directs the public
worship, and sees that all things are, done
in order. The present , Dean is the Hon
ora.ble and Reverend Augustus Duncombe.,
He was promoted to the Deanery by the
Derby Ministry, when last in power, he
being the brother of Lprd torrester, one
of the Conservatiie Peers. But Dr. Dun
combe is a good man, :not a .bigot,- and al
ways presides over the York Auxiliary.
Anniversary of the British and Foreign.
Bible Society. The whole of the service,
(including the prayers, and excepting the
Scripture Lessons,) was intoned. The
choir, men and boys, with a clergyman as
their: precentor and leader,.numbered near-,
ly thirty persons. The chanting of the
psalms for the day, together with the "Te
Deum" and other sacred songs, and the'
Anthem, are defensible. Indeed it is, I
think, far liker the Hebrew and original
mode to sing or chant the Psalms,in prose,
than in modernized rhyme, or metrical
paraphrase. David himself has suffered ,
from the Procustee bed into which he has
been forced by Tate and Brady, and (let us
be just, even, with all my own earliest,
associations, drawing the other way,) above,.,
all, from the Puritan version of Rouse, as
ordered and endorsed by a Presbyterian
Parliament. ,
But, virtually, to sing Confessions of Sin,
(not as in Scripture Psalms, such as the
51st,) Collects,, and Supplications—as is
done in Cathedrals by intoning—seems
grotesque and unwarrantable, and I fear if;
ministers' ' formalism and to self-decep
tion. In 'the Cathedral at York there is:
daily service, morning and afternoon, and.
except • a few tourist strangers and some
ladies, the choristers and the clergy alone
are present. In the morning of the Lord's
day; heaides the full Liturgical service;
there is always a sermon, but none in; the:
afternoon or evening. The short " Even-.ing Prayer " service—short when read--
under the intoning system, and conpled
with elaborate anthem-singing, lasts an
hour. My heart was sad "to see 'about
seven hundred persons, rich and poor,
gathered together and allowed to go : away,
that Lord's day afternoon without hearing
from the lips of an ambassador of Christ,
the' Proclamation of Ainnesty and ReeOn
ciliation.
The Cathedral system is pleaded for as
giving centrality and solidity to the Church.,
But if it effect this, it is at the expense of
spirit, life, and real usefulness. True it is;
that in some Cathedrals the cbla . 6 Gospel
of , Hooper's days is' × , heard'—arc at
Carlisle, from, Dean Close, and elsewhere:,
This, I trust, will increase, as well aa . Spe,
cial Services for the masses, such as have
been held in St. Paul's and Westminster
Abbey, for successive Winters and Springs.
The expense of Cathedral establishments is
enormous. True, the Canonries and Dean
eries afford repose and learned leisure to
real students ; and Bishops themselves—
like Newton, Butler and Horne—have thus
been enabled to burn the midnight lamp, and
produce many works which the Church Cath
olic will "not willingly let tile." Presbyteri
anism wants some Refugiuni et Hospitiunz
pituum system for its real scholars and stu
dents, its true Doctors and Teachers. But
it would not be necessary to set up a hier
archy—to give a'Bench of Bishops,. '° pal
aces"and Cathedrals, with revenues vary
ing from £lO 000 to £25,000 per annum, in ,
order to promote and advance sacred lit
'erature. Cathalial 'towns generally owe
far more of life'spiritual which, is in
them, to Nonconformists thin <to Church
men. Aggressive and .evangelistic Cathe
dral dignitaries there are; ;hat they are
- the exception to the rule. 'The ' costliness
of Eiliscepacy aid its ineffieleitcy;was well
put by Mr. Spurgeon, when' lately referring
:to the excellent. Pastoral. Aid Society of
the Church of England : " Cat up a Bishop
intoMx.preae eac h,h a yip,gAbc,fift,ieth..
Isr.ttetilirritty r'ti . Pastoral' Aid Soei
ety will have plenty of labOrers.”
Archdeacon Law, an eminent Evangel.
cal, has been nominated to, the Deaconry of
Gloucester Cathedral.,
THE POPE still continues to be the grand
obstructive of Italian liberty,, and of 6ona
mereial prosperity. It is too ba4, ; that the
Emperor of the French shoula;give l ,hituself
over to a retrograde party represented' by
La France, and,that the Cabinet of Turin
is now being snubbed,and rebuked because
Victor Emmanuel,,through Count Duran
d% continues to ask for Rome as his Capi
tal.
,
- is curious to find, byan analysis of
the Emperor's reply to Durando's commu
nication, what a ,paok of,unprincipled, men
are doing the'editorial dirty work in con
nexion with La France. Infidels and
Jews figure most protninently. The Jew
Director goes regularly to the synagogue
every Saturday, while yet doing his best to
keep at Rome that Pope, who, like all his
predecessors, treats the Jews at Rome with
scorn,willnot suffer them to trade beyond the
confines of the Ghetto—the denin which,
like criminals, they have festered for -ages
—,-and whose' feet,, every gear, the. Chief
Rabbi at Rome must bow down and kiss, in
order to obtain a • fresh annual license for
the Hebrew population to remain and trade
in the Eternal City. A Cardinal Vicar
has lately , expelled the entire Jewish popu
lation from a town not far from Rome.
This Cardinal•was lately, if he is not still,
Chief of the Police 'in Rome. It is but
justice to the Jews of Italy and Europe gen
erally, that, they should ,abhor the Papacy.
They are even circulating, wide -and far,
the New Testam,ent, because they believe
that this book, " some how or other," (as
said the Rabbi at Rome to the Rev. Mr.
Hersehell, of-London--as I heard the lat.
ter publicly state, at Geneva, in September,
1861,) " some how or other, ever since
1848, the year of Revolutions. we Jews
have got the nodal that that ,Ybok, of yours
is destined to upset the Papacy." -The
Jews at the press of 'Germany are the men
who rouse ; and direct Liberal opposition to
the absurd and narrow-niindeti King of
Prussia, who ; under' the plea of Divine
right, is 'obeying a military eamarilla, and
treading the Constitution in the dust.
The Pope s tries•to turn a dishonest - penny
by the., lottery systnm at ,Rome. Thus it
has been foe a long time; demoralization,
the gambling spirit' and poverty being the
results. Lotteries, too, are drawn on Sun
day, and a priest .presidei I Lately, the
Pope has got a few ; hundred thousand francs
in this way, but his exchequer is in, a sadly
depleted condition. An attempt was made
by Atitonelli to get a " loan " froth the Di
rectors and Proprietors of the new railway
just completed between Rome and Naples.
The Pope was always afraid of railways; the
sound' of the whistle , is shocking to the ears
Of Cardinals; it indicates an iron age inau
gurated, materialistic, practical, irreverent
to red-stocking gentry, and , totally, opposed
to the spirit and 'genius of that , goidentime
when Galileo was condemned for, the heresy,
of saying , that the earth went round the
sun.
Divine' Providence permits the Pope to
remain at Rome for great ends-and , one of
these seems
.to be the education of the peo
ple qf Italy , in the conviction, now rapidly
growing, that; the' Church 'of Rome Must in
itself be swept away before real liberty can
be enjoyed, and that the temporal and spir
itual powersheing essential to the system,
the motto must be, "de/enda. est."
FATHER, PASSAGLIA, the ex-Jesuit, the
champion of the "Immaculate Conception,"
is the man who; abOve all other's, is a R
former and a bolff-pioneer of great and mar
vellous things:. Not less than 10,000 cler
gymen of:ltaly have actually signed a docu
ment and memorial to the Popp, originating
with Passaglia, imploring the Holy Father
to 'abandon the Temporal Power I True
there are,7o,ooo' or 80,000 (what a swarm
of locusts!) priests and-ecelekasties in It
aly,,,but considering the superior status• as
tointellect,, and morals, and in, manycises
as, to high office in the Church, 'akso, con
sidering, moreover, that'poverty 'conies gett.:
erally along with the' publication of honest
convictions, the fact is most noteworthy
and encouraging: " The man," says the
Times, " who can raise 10,000 priestly sig
natures in - Italy against the temporal power,
is certainly a great tn.an. 'Father Passag
lia has achieved this feat; and , we Mark it
as an epoch in the religions' history of the
world. We are much deeeivedif this is
not the beginning of a &eat change in the
Roman Chnich. For the first time in his
tory, a large bokly of Remit 'Catholic
priests have 'declared 'themselsies•tin favor
of separating_thetspiritualities of the Pa
paey, from the temporalities." It is further
pointed out as worthy of notice, that the
attack on the temporal power for the first
time comes froni thoie who are Romanists
in doctrinal matters. The objectors " hold
all the doctrines of Ronte;,antritit is a great
thing to have rescued the Toint from, the
eenfusion and medley of a general contro
versy!' The'' generaletintrOversy," hont
ever, will surely artivit-iii time, and Rome,
beleagueredf front without •by 'unrelenting
foes, and finding her own sons within rising
up, to rebuke and condemn, will fall, never
to rise , again. Yes
4 , Rome shalt perigh—write her guilt
In the blood thit sholuistapilt."
And " So let , a,ll thine 'enemiesperish, 0
Lord, but let them, that,love thee be as the
sun Achm he 5414, 0 6, his strength
.T. W.
WHOLE NO. 534,
Sentinels for the Son].
The camp has been chosen, the tents are
pitched, and now night comes down on the
wearied soldier. The drill, the march, or
perhaps the fight, has tried his powers of
endurance; and right gladly does he lay
himself down for rest, to dream of dear
ones left in his home, and of happy days
in the future. He feels secure, though the
enemy may not be distant; he rests, con
scious that at least he shall not be taken
unawares, and that even in the night attack
he will be roused' to defend his eountry"s
honor. What is it, that thus assures and
secures him ? Were all asleep, how fool
ish would be the dream of safety ! how
soon might the enemy creep on the de
fenceless host, to spread death and terror
around. But all are not asleep. Yonder,
beyond the line of camp, some are watch
ing with ear open for the slightest sound,
and Musket' ready to give the alarm. Fur
ther on, in the deep woods, another walks
to repel with quick signal the-approach of
the foe. The pickets guarding each road
through night and day, in the cold rain or
the fierce heat, defend their comrades'
slumber& They - hold, mit were, the very
fives of thousahas in their watchfulness;
and rightly the heavest punishment is de
clared- against the unfaithful- History
embalms some of those who have laid down
theirlives rather' than not perform their
duty. What soldier heart does not thrill
at the story of the French captain ivho was
surprised by the enemy on the outskirts of
the camp ? Surrounded by a hundred
bayonets, deprived of his own arms, he
only thought of his ` . duty, gave but one
shout, " The enemy are on us," and' then
fell dead among his infuriated foes. He
saved the 4amp, but died a victim '
so, nobly
performing what his position and duty re
quired.
A camp without a sentinel, and in a hos
tile land ! Can the soldier imagine any
position more reckless,' more- rash than
that? .A commander who would thus ex
pose himself would deserve defeat and dis
grace. To warn against such foolishness
would be hardly necessary in any warfare.
There' is a different sort of e-onflict,
where good and faithful watch is just as
much called for. Every man in his own
life has an enemy to fight and a guard to
keep. That enemy is sin. It is a bitter
and powerful foe. It would bring us all
up to God's judgment with unpardoned
guilt upon us. It would keep a man away
from loving Jesus. Christ and trusting in
Him,, by which trust only, the Bible says,
we can be saved.—Acts iv : 12. When
one is trying to serve God and to obey
,his dear Son, it strives to draw him away
from his integrity, that he may break his
resolution and pledge, and chge his al
legiance. It often surprises the soul,
creeping on it unawares. The devil walk
eth about, "seeking whom he May devour,"
and, we are told to be "vigilant," that is
watchful. Woe to him that keeps no sen
, tinel around,the soul.
Breaking the Sixth Commandment,
Hatred is the feeling of the heart that
leads to the commission of murder; and
whenever you hate any one, you have so
far the feelings of a murderer. It may not
be so intense as to lead you, to go and kill
him; but if you continue to hold those`
feelings of enmity, they may end in mur
der. It is not necessary for you actually
to kill a, person to become a murderer in
God's sight.. Whenever you have such a
feelin t of hatred as leads you to wish a.
than dead, then you are a murderer at
heart. I have often heard little boys and
girls say, " I will kill yen," or, "I wish
you was dead." That is the feeling of a.
murderer, and a direct breach of this Corn
ma.ndment. And suppose you were to see
a little boy fallen into the water and
drowning, and you had it in your power
to pull him out, and yet refused to do it,
you would be justly chargeable with his
death. Or if you should see some, one
about to be murdered, and you could warn
him to escape, but did not do it, you would
be guilty of his death.
When the great book establishment =of
the. Messrs. Harper's in the city of New-
York, took fire in Issl, and, one of the
brothers was asked by the firemen, " What
part of the property shall - we save first ?"
he• promptly and nobly replied, " Save the
lives." About six hundred persons 'were
employed at the time in,the various build,
ings of the establishment, all of whom were
saved, by the most earnest exertions'of 'the
firemen, from an aviful death. 'Had Mr.
Harper said, "'Rush into my , office first,
and save my books and money," as many
a one would, and left men and women to
perish, would he not have been guilty of
murder'?
A little boy was one day walking along
the sidewalk of one of our large , cities,
where some very smooth ice was covered
with a thin layer of snow,
.when he fell
doiin very hard. As he was limping away
from the pia& he met an old inart;and said
to him, " Take care, sir, when you get to
that tree-box-;`there is :very smooth ice
there, and I got a bad fall!' The old man
thanked the boy and said "God bless.
you."
In another city; opposite to an alley
where the water had run out andfformed
very smooth ice, some bad boys saw an old
woman coming along, when, they said, to,
one another, "Let us throw some snow on
the ice, and we will have the fun of seeing
the old woman fall:" She did fall, add
broke her leg.
Now look at the, contrast; the first boy
obeyed this Commandment to the letter,
the others broke it; and , if the old woman
had"died, they'Would . hive been accounta=
bre for her death. '
-Everything you do to injure another, in
person or character, is a breach of this
Commandment; 'and, the feeling that
prompts you to do it
,is, just as far as it
goes, the feeling of a murderer:
Some 'boys - and girls' are 'spiteful`;' they
are unwilling to forgive 'those' that offend
them, and are,all the time watching for;an op
portunity to take.yevenge. This, dear chi',
dren, is_ he very spirit of the devil ;, arkd,
the more you harbor that spirit - the more
you are like the devil, who; wasa murderer
from the' beginning.' Indeed; I have . ' no
doubt that liis malice against God for turn
ing him out of heaven was one thing that
led him to seek the destruction of our, first
parents. I beseech you to banish from
your mind' at Once' all'revengefur feelings.
4' Vengeance Mine ; I will repay,"' Sahli
the Lord. _s If .any. one does you harm , un
justly; it is usually best to leave the matter
with God: ts lf you are .obliged to defend
yourself, de it by some, lawful' mode, and
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be careful not to show the same evil dispo
sition that he did who wronged you. The
only safe revenge is, to do your enemy a
good turn for an evil one; in so doing,
"thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head,"
or melt him by your kindness as gold is
melted by the fire.
A neighbor once shot some fine hogs
of mine that broke into his field. This
wanton mischief roused my indignation,
and I determined while rims in a passion
to shoot as many belonging. to him. Not
many days after, his, hogs got into my field.
I took down my gun, and started to take
revenge upon them ;. but on my'way to the
field, the Words of God came to mind', , 4 0,
" Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith
the Lord." I instantly went home and
laid by the gun. In ,a few months all his
hogs became" diseased and died. So
did Goil' visit him in' his righteouS'Provi
dence.
The Two Handler, : The White aut the' Mask
land°.
An ancient philosopher says,...Y.X . iery
mar haa r pon handles, Ana Write-4'144e
other b!neA:, and either maybe presented,
according to the 'disposition of the host
toward his guest."'
The ancient philosopher referred to ;
gives this illustration. A carrier -man, or
in modern language, a .carman, was seen
in a-green lane in , the suburbs of Athens,
plucking the grass, and giving it to his
horse. This is the simple fact, without
any coloring. However -.a blackt handle
was put to it. For one person, who 'saw
theoman and what he was doing, went into
the city and s told an acquaintance this tale
" I have seen a shameful sight; a man who
had been sent to the city with parcels from
a distant place, though he had money given
him to purchase provender for his horse;
had improperly squandered away his money,
and had resorted to the expedient of pluck
ing graisip refresh his horse sufficient fOr
the- homeiffard journey." This was the
black: handle of the occurrence, as- it con-- ,
veyed the report of the.aetion, accompani4
with the, indirect accusation of the double
offence of dishonesty' to his employer and
cruelty to . his horse. '';
Another person, an eye-witness. of the ,
same fact, and whoicnew the man and his
circtimt3tallOOS; went into; Athena, titidl said
to a friend, ," 1 4 have - seen- Anthrippon,
poor fellow l he is too poor to buy prpyetr
der for his horse, and instead .of raging
himself while ' his horse was feeding all the
inn, he was working hard, croppig the
finest,of -the grass, and taking; good care
that his beast might be well ;fed at *all
expense, that he, might save the money to,
provide the necessaries for his large and
afflicted family." This is the same narra.
tine with. the, white handle; and this , ern
braced the true statement of the condition
of the man, and the ffirtuous Jnotives by
which he was actuated:
Now let every reader judge himself; and
see whether he is not of that evil disposi
tion that is prone to present or take `every=
thing "by the black kandle." It is a dia
.
position altogether contrary to that charity, *
or Christian love, " Which Emigre* long
and is kind; is not easily provoked, think.
eth no evil, beareth all things, believeth
all things, hopeth all things, endiireth all
things," A man 'of this spirit, while earn;
est for the truth, will always try to take
things by the: white handk—Exchave
"per.
does
God is said to ~visit men both [ for pur
poses of judgment and mercy. He, visits
the iniquity of the, fathers upon the chil
dren, unto the third and; fourth generation
of them that hate _him. He remembers
and punishes their sins, as he poured.upon. ;
the generations which crucified the Lord of
glory, the Accnmulated judgments .of that
and preceding, generations. But the term
".visit"- more naturally suggests the idea,
of kindness and mercy. The visits of
friends and acquaintances imply this . BO
the visits Of God are often , the richest e.;.hi
bitions of his love and mercy. He comes
among a peopleyawakening the, thoughtless
to a serious consideration, of their highest=,
well-being ; , inclining. the wicked: to: break
off from sin, their worst enemy, begetting;
in the hardened a broken. sad contrite
heart, bowing'their his, and, lead
ing, them to admire, adore and love his
character. He visitsfamilies and unites
the hearts ; of ,parents and children in bonds,
of an affection which , destined to nye:,
and be strengthened , forever :around his:.
throne above. How fraught with blessings
are such visits ! How earnestly should.:
they be sought by the, Church, especially
in such s time ,as this,
_when ; iniquity,.-
abounds far and near. How sacred, how'
awe-inspiring is the idea: of a visit from.the.
Holy. One.! There was something, of this
when Jesus ; stood by: the :bier of the wider A:
oW's son,And said, " : Young.man, I say unto I
thee, arise I And he that was dead ;gat tp;
and he .delivered; him unto 2 his mother;
and great fe,ar ,came upon allond they glo
rifted God, saying, That,a great• prophetia
risen up,snd that : God ; hath visited big
people." — Vermont Vermont OAr eside...-:•;•; r
Usesl of liripfitie Histdri.
Godpertainly had a, purpose in making ;;
history and biography, the .broad_ basis.of.,
allS,cripture., Is it not manifest thati by
putting. so large a portion,,ef: his -Word .
into this narrative form, .he, thereby sought
to attract and interest the, youthful mind
,so, it is well to profit by the indication., ,
It is-wisp to., follow, in our own instrur ..
tions, the, Divine pattern thus .set us. , lie-. ;
ligion never, speaks more gracefully than
whpn she speaks by example.: It is chief-.
ly through the.living voice of example that:
she speaks to, the youngin all.the Scrip!
tare. To inculcate, Bible truth, through,
Bible characters, whether from the pulpit, „.
thepress ' or the teacher's chair, is, to,
adopt the Bible's .own method - of instruc
tion. And certainly it is one .whieh ex
perience proves to be, the most effective, as,
it is the most pleasing. ° 7,
It is strange that the experience of - so"
many ages should not mike us j'udOe' mor
, solidly 'cif thepresent; and of the tjitiire,
so as.to take proper 'measures in Ae. chip
for the other. We dote upon' thin wet*"
as if it were never to have an end, indWer
neglect the ',text' as if it were River to'
-
bave'a beginning.
je that eannot„see GO
- = ia judgment,
will never be, trigy l laurqble- and he that
I cannot
see God in zneriar; oaz .never. be
truly thankful.