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Christ Our Life.
Because I live, ye shall live also,"
.ist said to his disciples when their
As were bursting with sorrow at the
tpect of separation from • him. This
ld be true of their preseut spiritual life,
it would be true of their future bodily
Because Christ lives, the dead bodies
I his saints shall live again after the
suspension of their life; and because
ives, their• spiritual life shall never
be suspended. "Yet a little while
the world' seeth me no more, but ye
)," and that mind was their life. To
esus with the eye of frith,' and hold
-se with him by a loving heart, is to
" This is life eternal, that they,might
thee the only true God, and Jesus
et whom thou hast sent." The world
Christ, but the world' did not . kh
Lst, and so the 'World had not etkikaT
lat the world saw in Christ washis
and figure, his external appearance,
conduct among men. His Messed and
dterions life had nottouohedtthcir hearts
it had touched the disciple's heart, and
when his bodily presence was no longer
ig them, he was DO longer among them.
so with the disciples. What they saw
him was not his face and fisure so much
holiness, and sphiptitlyi aid truth, and'
\teousness. These things had entered
Jr hearts and made'an impression which
Id never be effaced. Bodily, he might
absent; they . might see his face no more,
grasp his hand, still he was present
them, animating them, inspiring them,
forting. them .in their .sorrows : and
43ghening them in their trials. Thus
would see him while the world - would
him not. Thus, too; thei*Ould live in
while the world was dead. This is the
Christian life—to be in fellowship
Jesus; to have , his blessed life touch—
; our lives, his divine spirit animating
r spirits, his love firing our love, his
it inflaming our zeal, hisholiness making .
holy, his pity. and. compassion making.
pitiful and compassionate.
This is life. And the Christian who has
)t, of these qualities, whose heart is in
rsest fellowship with the heart of Jesus,
the most of life, and is the best Chris,
I. We have here, too, a ,pledge of eo?,i7
lima life. As long as Christ lives, his
pie live. No more can the stream run
which gushes out from living mountain
ngs, than can Christian ;graces die,nut
that heart which is in living fellewshiP
;h Jesus. And the reason wbfehris- -
i grace does, in any measure , die out of
hearts, ii, that our converse daily is not
h Jesus, nor is` du meditation of hinil
who, in the 'morning, turns his4face ts;-'
11 the East, will have it all lit with
glories of the rising sun, while the
lows will fall blick and heavy enough
,he face of him who turns' his back on
glorious luminary.. And he Who' looks
eons out of his sOrrows, and-his earthly
s, and his daily business, will have his
all lit up with his glories; and this is
secret of a vigorous, Christian life.
itual fellowship with Jesus while hi%
is absent—who does not understand
? Will the mother tell tut she has no
, wship . with her beautifui. , boyi. whose:..
iy purls ~now lie beneiqls flie Winter
? An: hundred .planes ahs meets him
it the house, and hears the patter of his
e footoud the, ring of his merry,
aid murmur of his evening prayer.
this she hearken this she sees; though
may have ,beed in his grave as many
rs as the br(ither of Mary and Martha.
days in his. Will thehusband
has no fellowship with the wife of hie
ith anymore, since the day he deposited
i
sacred dust n thegrave T. We 'know
;er than that. On the door-step she
ta him again, and by the . fiie-side she
; at the , evening altar she kneels, and
the bed-side of his children she watches
1 weeps, as she always *Moiled and
it. The friends who have gone befoie
not lost;' they come to., us Often again
spirit, as Jesus came back to his disci
in the spirit. In our hearta and
lories we live with them . the' game hap-
Life over again and walk with them in
same familiar paths, and talk over the
loved themes. e, are • in living
7n with them Mill,. 'The. world, may not
them, but we see, them. just so, the
1 and ascended Sayinur Was not' ost; to.
disciples. The bond which bound
together was not severed, it had only
!me invisible. By that invisible bond
7 were still united' to Iran, and thiough
fe, and love, and holiness, and strength,
grace were poured over their heads and
.ts. Because Christ lived, they lived
and beonntalie lives, uie liVe
by faith on, and` fellownhipiiviti h
ltlin:
TM the Presbyterian Beam.
Soldier-LIM
I have written a little, in .a plain way,
It the camp and theynorch.; presuming
to some of your readers, these artistes
ht convey more clear ideas of soldier
than are to be obtained from the Com
' allusions to it in neviipapefe. 'With
same design, and in
,the .same style, .1:
speak of the battle. - - -
tale is the- great event of'.war. ',Ta
, the drilling and discipline, the strategy
movements, all tend, and In this they
sinate. Battle 'is the - trial of the
;th, skill and valor of opposing hdsts.
expected to decide the nisei) of war.
one.' doss' not icoomplish this oatilte
ter or a series of them does.. A York•
secures independence to the American
As, a Waterloo settles the controversies
Europe. Defeats are always damaging
it losing party, and often destructive to
power and hopes. It may sometimes
ti long series of disasters to convince a
gerent party of his incapacity to con-
the contest, A single serious reverse,
afford argument sufficient, -at other
. A consciousness of right and of
may inspirit a people to bend the
manfully to the oargi, when adverse
sweep strongly aud„long against_
, while, in other easee,::desperation
nerve ambitious and usurpiag leaders
srsist in a contest after all hope of ulti
suceess has forsaken them and their
This I take to be about the phase
he forlorn cause of our. Southern aris.
its. We have lost some battles, but not
rota of our hopes of suppressing the re=
lion and of restoring the unity of the
nment ;_they have gained some bal.
and yet the gloom of despair settles
, in unmitigated darkness, on all their
sets. To an impartial, observer of in
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man nature, no stronger proof of the utter
hopelessness of the Southern conspirators
can be presented, than is found in their
ostentatious malignity and vituperative
railings against the North. These are ex
hibitions of conscious impotence and infe
riority in the conflict which they have
begun. And the demonstration of despair
is the more palpable, as these revilin g s pre
accompanied by whining appeals ' to the'
West; and` both are the legitimate succes
sors of the empty boasting of former days,
that they 'could nagily ' Whip: both the
North and West. 'The mighty bragging
of last year, arid the equally mighty -bil
lingsgate of this, show that neither the bat
tle of Fredericksburg nor the. Northern
elections have added a feather . to the pin
ions,of their_.fiagging hopes. Our victo;
ries inevitably hasten, the downfall of i the
despotic usurpation in the Sonth; :theirs
can, at best, only postpone it.
A battle , may" coins: on unexpectedly to
both parties ; their scouts may meet and
,engage, , and, so . inaugurate a,zeneral con
flict., 'n intended attack _on an 'enemy'
is preceded by indications:not diffictilt to
detect.' The vigilant'surVey of thecOnntry,
by competent officers, the activity of cav-'
airy 'scents, the Close inspeotion of arms,
'the issuing of ammunition, the sending
away of the sick; theledndentration • of
troops, are, among these indications., The,-
ittrangement of' the ambulance corps, the,
appearance of stretchers in their hands,
and the approach of the army to the
knoWn positions of the enemy are evi
deuces that the battle is near at hand.
I have noticed one sign of an expected
battle, which is not, I presume, laid down
in* the books on the art of war. During
our march froin Maryihrid;thereirai at one
point a good deal of cannonading between'
Gen- Pleaatinton's cavalry and the'enemy'
It was' fiVident that:rebels were- net very
distant. Indeed 'at one place feir of timid
were captured; and lest more Should' he
near, and make a dash on our train-; of.
-wagons, stretching; for miles along' the
Joads, a regiment, the 14th Reserves, was
sent over the hills, , as skirmishers. It
seemed to me to' feel as though there Wag to
he a collision: New, time iign that this feel!.
ing was not confined - to the bosom of the
chaplain was this. 'Along the road I no
tieed a profuse sprinkling of playing-cards,
which MA had lost nut br their-pbek'etg:'
Again, 'when the troops converged and col
lected; with a punctuality-andin a:number
that was astonishing to me, , epPosite. , Fred.
ericksburg, on December 11th, I happened
tego down the following morning, alone.
If Vas four or five milea, !Many-brigades
hid passed in the night. I noticed, at va
gobs points, the-Phenomena 'of 'tlre7eards
`again. Some new and some with the cor
ners rubbed off-by ame, some plain-backed
and. some pictured, they were scattered
siting the, road in great numbers. Thiatm
usual deposit of Cards a . i . eng the high Way,
I took to Id;itleast, indication that a
considerable number ".of the' Men thought
that a battle was near. It might also be
reckoned an evidence - ef genie reaction of
conscience` or' of some littering regard for
post morteni, reputation 'in the - Minds of
men geinginto,a.hattlewiththe contingency
heti:ire them of possibly not coming out of-it.
alive. Cards in' the ptiCket,'lritfer then,
are poor ballast to a soldier's eourage.
infer,lifither,"that *hen a Min's conscience
begins 'te 'quake, it *ill Seen shake playing
cards .out 'of his pockets -and out of `his
hands. And - still again, if these imple
menteof tithe-wasting and-gatibinfg
pockets of. a - dead ilioldierlaiiildentail dts
grace on his memory, they are not crediti.-
hie to a living soldier, when seen in his'
hands or carried his knapsack
The moving out of an army tothe battle- ,
field is the most goleinia - acid affeetineotnll"
'sights. Nor is it the less so, that they - go
with LA cheerful, look and with , a brave
heart. - It is a grand sight'; sublime;` in
the, terrible Annightg which' 'it -7 iniggeiti,'
The heir`" artillery thunders; `alongl "drawn'
by its spirited horses, to, take its advanta
geous positions ; the quiet columns .of in=
fantry march to their assigned 'posts,: firm
'and' bitiVe; the ambidadeetorpe, • *Wit
badge on each hat td dietmgoish them; - and'
with A supply of Stretchers on which :to,
bring off the wounded, file along quietly in
the rear of Divigiona ;The roar of cannon`
usually itiiingfirates':iffe''contlieer
hips the eharp, arid?,r4ieeled Volleys frond
the Skirmishers introduce : In, a pitched_
'battle, the opposing hosts soon" become gen.-
erally'erigaged,
_although it rimy' rage - more
fiercely et ene'point of,the'eXtended line,
that:Litt:another, and; for a`tinde, it May be
*aged with various: success at different
portions of ..therfield.
!ICetidlteslne that the popular idea of,
the destructiveness of artillery
`rect. It is 4 indispensable, indeed, *bile
tls' combatants are at-Odistance- from each
other, too great for4tlie range - or muskets
or rifles. . During this preliminary artillery
duel, the, infantry, are inactive, lying, as
much as pessible, under cover; that is, be
hind any elevation Of - ground, piece of
weeds, fence, or wall that may be available.,
SOme,POrtion of them are near the 'cannon,'
as supporters, ready if the battery , is at
tacked by infantry; to repel the attaeln, I
depict-it one ef thellieverest trials of nren's
courage to support a' battery; lying -per
'haps for hours on the ground, doing pith
ing; and exposed all the time to the enemy's,
shot and shells. The casualities from this
kind of firing are ,Often very serious, but
they are far less numerous than'result from
musketry. In one contingency, it is
the efficiency of artillery is terrible :')it
- when the enemy attempt to take it hattery
,by assault, or on any other occasion when
it is discharged into their columns' at short
range. On such occasions, the-- missile vis•
'changed from the Imavier single shot
f 1 .64,1, to the graPeshot or canniater. The'
former of these discharges nine or. ten iron
balls, of the gimlet a blacg-walnut, scattering
among the foe; and the latter Sends forth
from fifty to eighty bnllete; winged with
death, into the crowded ranks.,
-=I noticed in the'progress of the battle' of
Fredericksburg, that while` only the bat:"
i teries were engaged, ilidnilither - orateribe
ed brought off the — field - ikfiS comparatively
'snail!, but that it increased rapidly as soon
as the volleyEkof the infantry began to roar
along the lines. It may be, that laui
correct inmy. estimate Of the eernrial'atiVe
o tf l i
ddtty44ess" of 'artillery nffiririfintiy.
It is tornied frOiny own very limited cb- 1
servation. I am aware that _at :Malvern'
Hill i ;the frightful slatighter of the rebels
was chiefly by our batteries • i _hut
cause enemy',persisted in the' insane
effort to approach- and capture them, over.
an open and extended field
It is ,not often, ndeed it very seldom,'
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that a large army is all engaged at the same
time. The lines may extend for several
miles; and portions, here and there, may
be engaged, while other portions are held
in.reserve,`eitber to relieve or to reinforce
them. Some may be engaged with the en
emy in front, while others may be moved
around, with the design of attacking them
on their flank or. rear.
In the midst of the fight, the ambulance
corps, consisting of musicians and, other
unarmed men, are busy carrying off the
wounded and taking them to the field-hos
pital, which is some. sheltered .position;as
near the field-as cOnvenien,e 'requires''.or.
'Safety allows, where the-surgeons are occu
pied ii dressing the wounds. The wound- -
ed, who are unable to walk, are 'carried on
stretchers, a convenient sort of hand-litter
on which they are extended, at full Jength,
and gently borne from the bloody field by
their comrades. The ambulance, proper,
is. a 'covered spring-wagon, which is used
for the conveyance of the woundedi to
greater distances. • .
' While the conflict is ragingat its height,
and near, it is not easy to distinguish the
.musketry 'firing from.thatut the moderate 7
- sized field , artillery: .The volleys are, espe
-Cialli at' the- .commencement, so uniform
And simultaneous, that the report may, at a
short distance, belreadily mistalten , foriAat
of cilium The combined roar of both,, ; in
the earnest, heat of battle, is tremendous,
even apart from 'the ConsidhiatiOn of the
,work 'Of "death which accompanies No
thunder storm utters more terrific tones. -
The field presents scenes that sheck, ‘ hu
nniuity,,beyond any , others which ; guilty:
man is the agent.or Ihnoutrerer.,..lThese, l l
-have net. witnesied. , The precincts of the,
battle-field, wher6;,mangled.: and • bleeding
menare brought together,,, for. the -relief. of
their'Sufferings, offer,Ao l ifiethmnaue -eye a
sight sufficiently,„frying.. ,T he- : sympathies
of patriotitlm and humanity are : Aimed 4o t
their bonest and honorable depths on visit
ing, for the first ; tincut,qaca one„0 1 019 stkijrct
xnerous, hospitals,lin , - our cities, where our
brave young men are confined _by wounds.
llut the first scene of hespital suffering,
presents that suffering in its most affecting
stage. The shatteredlimb yet hangs by its
lacerated integuments; the fgaping. wound
,is yet bleeding; the clothing-is ; drenched
with blood yet fresh; every form of muti
lation 'and injury awaits the skillful hand
of the surgeon; and the air resounds with
- the groans and screams 'extorted by agedy
from the brave men, in the intensify of
'their 'sufferings. Thiti a scene that, 'at
first, stupifies = one - with horror, and then
engrosses every humane feeling of the heart,
and 'eveily helpful . effort of the hand. -
I have had no sight of a: hattle-field im
mediately,afterthe cessation of the conflict.
I haVe not seen the dead lying in heaps or
'scattered over the ground. The horror of
this'sighels for the victors, who retain pos
:seesion of the bloody scene. A feW weeks
or a few' days after , the battle r Where-large
'numbers-`have 'fallen, one •seeir *tough `to
distress every 'Christian sensibility. At
Pittsburgh Landing, the old oak forest'was
converted into a cemetery. < At Antietam,
the - cultivated fields were ridged with
graves---those of Union men individual
and well inarked mounds; . and those' of the
infatuated' and unfortunate rebels, long
ridges of indiscriniinate sepulture. At the
end of..one, Among many, of these, .I no
ticed on a stake the ,melaucholy, memorial,
4 ,158 buried, here.”
On the diy after the battle of Fredericks
hilt& I had my .first exrietieitceiri the office:
burying the dead from the 'battle-field.
`S.it , of the brave men who had died of thelr
wounds, were laid, uncoffitted, the bosom
or their -mother-earth, side by eide; their.
names' were written on strips of board, and
placed "severally at'their heads; and they
Were rovirontlyocivered from sight by the
hands of their commodes in arms. I
thought, iorrowfully, of their „Mends - and
kindred, in their :Pennsylvania"hOines,
whose hearts will be wrung with anguish
when the tidings of, their' untimely death
shan't - 40h `them:' - I . thought sadly of our
country;by'the horrid wickedness of a few
ambitious oonspirators converted into_ one
oast house'of deuthAnd of mourning .
. May the time soon"Come‘*hen the battle
, of the wittier shall ~ oesic. ; when peace,
unity; and prosperity "'
shall' shall' smile over all
our broad land; when government_ and lib
-fel Elia threll together in univers al amity,
'4l`And Peace, -with sunny cheek of toil,
.Walk p'sr the free, Unlorded soil,
Effacing, with her splendid' share,
, The drops that war his sprinkled there."
'Mc LAREN.
Granville _
.Church.
MESSRS. EDITORS :—Permit Me to ex
presamy :grateful acknowledgments to the.
members of Greenville church, and to the
kind Maids and members of sister church
es, -who united in Making a' donation 'visit
on thiP6th - of February. The occasion was
a delightful one. It was like the - home
gathering of a large and scattered family,
where friendly greetings and pleasantyords,,
were exChanged; reniitidin 6 one of thelan
guape of the Psalmist', " B:hdli:Vho4 good'
and' oir pleasant -its islor_brethren to dwell
together in tinily!? An ,excellent dinner,
prepared by theiadies,•contributed to the
Sociarenjoyinent of the day. - After a little
season 'spent in- religious :exercises,
_atm
friends retired to 'their, homes, leaving ,a
variety of valuable and appropriate gifts as
new --tokena of their thoug,htfrit Care for
our comfort.
Itteaddition - to this cheering demoristra
,
tion - of- kind feeling, would , record- my
heartfelt appreciation of a handiome:Pres
ent from the young gentlemed who have
gode ' from this c,huroW :and" . vicinity, And
are now iethe 148th Regimeht"P. V: It
was accepted in compliance Wieh.their earn.L.
est entreaties during visit while, they
were in 'camp- near Coekeyiville, l Md
, Since then' their regiinent has beef( ordered
t 6 the 'Rappahannock; and alreadY , one
manly form with which - We were' all fairlii
jar, is cold in -.death. J. - Mnnson Corbett's
grave farlronV.his' earlrhonie. 4 ll "cts - a:
;;May theseiisihti lingeiivfifthe-tehtedlfieldi
and thoie whodwell in- their quiet homes,
who have so liberally :giVeri, 'enjoy the
choicest blessings of heaven.. " May. God
supply all tbeir need, according to his
riches ; in; glerY . by
this churelq . which has experienced dark
days,- be made .to rejoice id-'the i light of
pod's counteriande,-is the earnest - prayer
of its` present pastor. S. ELDER.
An idle man always thinks he has a right
:to be affronted if a 'fraty*an does. not de-
Note to'binijuit'sia plush of his time as he
himself has leipiinlo"waite. "'-
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Presllyterial.
The Presbytery of St. Clairsville, at its
late meeting, held in :Kirkwood on the 3d
and 4th inst., dismissed Rev. John Moffat
to join the• Presbytery Of Washington.
A call from the second churelkof W heel-
ing, was presented and put into his hands,
which call he accepted. The. Presbytery
and the congregations in* which our good'
brother has been BO adceptable and useful,
were sorry to pert with him: , ,But a sense.
ofiduty impelled him to 'enter, this .new
ftel4 of labor where weliope
,lite.may be as.
much blessed in his efforts to'build up th'e
SaiioUr's kiegclotd 'as he 'has`beeii - in
other pastoral' Chita. - " = •
A Indicial.iibU Wairliettled Without coin
itik to a trial; doubtless , to 'the benefit 10t...
the paities, and for the beet interests of the .
ehtireh,
Rev. John B."GralUitu i ris - elected Stated"
Clerk and' Tielistiier - oPPreibyterY!' ,-"“
'the , fellliwitfeiesblitin'dwaS , ntranimoUsl'
ly'adOptbd and orderWto - le - publishid.t , aL
-" It is clearly the conviction of ,this,,
Presbytery, that it threatens immense_
to the Church of 'God, Midis 'alanieroiLt
prstedenC for Presbyterf to nitti*' tinfide==
ple„pn require "" their ininiiterrilkhepti t ipitV't
to giie publicity to anypciliticaPsentintent-:.
lie may,• entertain, or, to, identify
with any .. political question in the , State;; ,
but, the cdatrary;tbak in 443 public''
ministrations" he Ise guided by the •ivord4iif
Gin' in, presenting the Gospel
'and in no-way,favor, an, lalliatteesot Ohurah
and State, and that every.minister r equally,
with the,,laymen, is peqeetly free te,enter 7
tato and exercise, his Rritittetuifitieel vain
inns, but'sbnulditni way introduce
them into his public tainistrations." , IL-1
.A esneiderable length.of time ivas spent ,
in devotional
,exercises. ~As f teji • cdl, the:
linsiness.-for which the mueting, was held*fit finighed, I"risliytery , hajhurned to Meet'
in - ori tiketfourth`itfiSsdel'Of=Aprif
ioxt. J. 4:r;GßAtiti . m' S
ED ROPEAF CORIPPONDENCE,
' htediration," arid thi FrehCh 1"-inPer'94.:-.4Pecuta='
tions and ; • Conjectures=-The4nsurrectiont-in: -80--
luncl 7 -Prussia anA,4l4strfa r ,.. l -teDoctor C01en.94 and;
.Bishop Bickersteth:—ColensO Refuted by Learied
:Tcwi—The Present ConClition oftl a J:evish
"as ea Docpine - and Cerernoniesr--11r. Stern and
the .'eats, of Abyssinia—European Jews and their
brfiede - Parties=Prench Jews' and M. SalegdOr
--Boity • , :Pretensions of; a, MoettieJfillefunk"
- P.rayer for the Jews—lts iffg,,Ye!--7, 4rodern..!-Mi 4 7,
sions to the Texes,-Zeal of Cornish Christiaiis "fir
Ismel4-..-Cornishl•Miners---014ffigte--Backed Spits
Postscript. • ,
"January 'BO 1868 .•"
MEDIATION is now much talked of; and
considered a probable event; since the arri=
vat of the •news that seems' -to indicate'a.
desire.. for it on, both sides in America.,
When Atot.only , t t lie detunerstic Mr. yallan,
dingham makes 3 p,peecti favoring an armis
tice or &reign mediation and 'when ou the
other . side the New-York Tilbfine says that-
Mediation should' bcc acceptedi- - should
ferson,Davis ask for ititit-isAbolight ,p9BBi
ble that ere. long.,there will be snme.,deft-...
nite movement. The. commercial intelli
gence, also, which.. arrives,. indicating ,the
feeling of the New-York-bankerS-4A refer
ence 'to Mr. Chase's - financial proposals, and
the rise of gold, weighs much with, our.
inercanlike clapses. Money is a tyrant; tied'
many IC good cause has been . lost for want
of aliiiiident Supplies' of " the sinews of.
war" this-sense of the term.
The 'Shipping 'Gazeite seems to think it
possible, - that Napol eon 111, makes_ the ,offer
of, mediation- a secret, understanding with ,
England. Of this, we have , no evidence . .
Mit many persons think that IT the Ern
i:tarot:a' proposal of an armistice, or - of a
conference between .'Northern. or -Southern
delegates" is rejected ~by the; North,. the,
South wAbezecognized at once by #ritice.
He is evidently taking advantage orNorth='
ern troubles to proseente* deSigns in
Mexico, and will only be too glad, if he
can do it with impunity, to fortatclose ai
Hance with .the Confederate States. All.
Europe waits anxiously for the -arrival of
fresh news Lancashire: too-is , anxions, pa—
tient, but -scarcely hopeful, afterr , thellong.
aid unexpected frolongation of-the drug-,
gle. The late newsfaf thevepulse at Vicks
burg, and ,the - incomplete .victory.. of Rose
• ertios, eeems . to depress the people `here.; as
if. the North.had been -favored with decided
successes, there might hive •been---_--so it is
thought by-some—a willingness to come to
some consiliatory
ME , EDIVEROIPor RUSSIA once more
hi:deep -waters. His fanatical 'father. left
him a shattered heriage—finances broken
down,,;and the country, exhausted by
the riinean war then came the strug
gle with ihe nobles as to''the enieneipa
tion - of the Serfs—to which' they were
opposed revolutionary feeling
among students and military
then, the mentos in, Poland, assasSina7
tions, inilftary massacres, and liberty trod=
den in the dust, because. Poland was re-*
fused'her Tights as a- kiegdom. - - A-Neme ,
sis always tracks-the heels of a despotism;
'e9en though for a time its action = may
`'paternal. Austria has bled at every`pore,"
from her `retention< of Venetia; Russia is ,
still endorsing 'the."-partiti6n" 4 ,ef Poland; '
Mid•sed how the issue's are . still disastrous: ,
Afresh uprising has taken placeln connex, -
ion ;with the barbarous practice (which
must surely henceforth be abolished;) of
Surrounding a whole village . or town by ,
, sight with 'cordon of troops, waking up
the whole population, and enrolling and
carrying away at enee,,all the men . that are
needed ; for the ertuy.,,,..The bruiality of this,
system has been especielli felt all over Po
land. When we add 'id thie, that shit
still ih'bende, - that her people desire free?'
dom, and that all their attempts have hith: ,
erto failed, we'need not wonder that the
.peasants should Strangle soldiers in their
beds, 'attack aid - slay' officers, and form
themselves into. bands to resist' captures. •
Greatexertions will supprese theie- trOttb
leg; especially as the towns and the middle
classes' do not jinn in the insurrection
But .cui. bonoias lotig aa:ConistitntioeSl ,
GoVernment is denied ? -
GERMANY sees Prussia and Austria
More . and more jealous, each other: The
Prime liiinieter of Prussia has returned an
Answer to the address Of, the ,Chamber
the King,,whieh- indicates no intention to ,
rslax the dangerous Polley, alreadi inangur
ated. The King is tosolent, and his no=
hies, almie all other nobil ity in Europe,
are 'deipiseis "of the middle and lower
classes, and form a caste of the most el
elusive eharactoi. Many.of theni . aiteeper=
sonally amiable, as well as. • highly aocom-
Plishod. 80, tthOs policy is essentially
.retrograde ,the cry of " ri,",.
.Divineglit
-
and monarbh worship, are their great fail-
.ngs. . •
By accident, the illustration of the
working of the gambling tables, sanctioned
in'several States of Germany, was left out
of my kat letter. I now inclose it. It
runs as follows`: ' ii.
"A letter from Baden'says that nothing
has yet been done in the matter of
gaming tables. Thfe Chamber left it in
the hands of the Government to give or
not tO sive the notice which would close,
thebank (without its' having any claim. to
indemnity) in November 'of - this year. A
very, general feeling has latel3r:manifested
itself in various parts of Germany
these licensed hells, the objection to which
it,ie Considered, has been greatly increased by
the introduction of raOways, and the con
seqUint faCility for reaching, at small cost
of title and-money f iladen, , Hamburg, and
°Hid places' of the kind: Thonsands now,
re aLr <-whgT9 , ,fc#ll4.TllYl diklY 1111R
keds ,
the, seductiona- of the
j gaiihling-table are'fatal to thecomfert,.-iiid
we'llheing! Ofininineratillelflitrillicas of the
Sedrietive:adArtisementa,
aeap-olicurniontrains,,,ctinningly.dabri
;9oolo.:AinfilMlB,e, 1:9 11. P.r bold
n 44 fortunate „players, are put
" forward,ass
edirotintis: to travellers.' The reverse 'of
the picture is carefully ke4t 'But'of sight;
Only:those whe , theinselves witness it 'can
forth an idea,of the mass bfltoseyAiragged
41-I.by benic,,of, the amount of misery,
occasioned, and of the jives sacrificed : In.
to year 1801 the' contractors tar the play;
at Baden 'diVided - imingthernielies -no
than ;1 400 000 f - (X 56 000).4W-the gains
of the Summer:season,- If_we reflect what
expenses the, bank has, koyy, high a.,triltute
,paye,tothe State, hoi many salaried ser„
vantS it taii, iiiiae,heavy charges for saver
tispnents and for -propitiating` the Press;
ied, that it , gives , splendid;:b:lla, , find.-•con
-certs, ; Ana _theatrical.,performanees,:to ,say.
„;nuthing,of manx ‘ a thousand franc note em
.ployed to purchase the silence ot
whose Tither, or brOther, or: son has de
-1 :Prived , hhiself of life, 'We may be •.,Very
afire that the untoprofits - .lof the ?establish=
went ate,not,on4-half of the gross inporne,
;Three millions . of francs,l,
:wretchedness, how many
; tears,. what count
less curses of'Others, wives, and
'Cling -the coin I ''Snicide is 'here eon.- -
demned.to silence; and only the hank em
tp/0.y4-4especially tharged : to ,hush up, all
,troublesome, complaints, and lainentations
prodUctive of .scandal, can tell hoNv, often
his services are required by cases of it;
'and hoVritiiieh such - silence costs the Mr
'den ,bank: 'Some of those who. survive
Atelr, ruin Are in:a manner.doomed to obliv
ioa;: and few; know, that an Englishman of,
,high family; ,and a chamberlain of the
Duchess —', still langiiish in the debtors'
''
prison, because they 'ruined 'themselves at
'Baden.”. • .
. A+
DOCTOR Gomm) is still beforethe pub
lioti He sayi that hey has read almostev
erything that has yet.appeared in the form
ofireplies to,, hie book,un the Pentatenth,
hut that they have not in the least shaken
is conclusions an movie tons, an is
issuing-a new book .to - confirm and estab
lish them. It is now said 'that the only
way he'ean-be reached is by,his heresy_ be
ing examined, and _condemned by Donvo
cation,nna then 'by a confirmation' of the
sentence the Groiin. But observnthat
:the oc:invocation " Ithertn has been but
u_ehadowless, powerless, State , -crippled
stiintion. It is not free .Assembly of
-- Bislo,ps-...and Presbyters. - a Aave, and.
must '
remain so , as long as payment is tiled&
and a;National -- Eatablishmetit.is Maintain
ed.: Very true, the cry for freedom has so
.far prevailed that , Convocationmeets ;there
are zatherings of the,, Upper and Lower
"House. speeches are made, great questioni
- •
are ventilated ; arid resolutions are-passed.
-lint none of these' things affect` legal reali
lies ; '"and- canuot,, -deprive,any Jitishop- br
clergyman, however' zdenotioceslnef rights
secured,to bim. The. Ecclesiastical
_Court
can " anipend ." but then the 'Privy Court:
cil (that is rLatiyers, and nabinet
Minis
,Orsi) with Bishops as adseditors, but-'net
judges;(ltualijr. 'determines .-every- thing..:
But even : the. Privy ,Council:eattnet , touch
Bishop. Coleus°. .gondemnation by gnriyo-,
Cation might Shatie:bini into resignatien ;
that-1S" not' very- likely. He esti:ally .
thinks "'himself' a,.champion of both- truth
And freedomi , and ibis , while accepting his•
salary;as the ; Bishop of Natoli:who endors
ed by his signature ..the whole of the 39
'articles including the' Canonical Books-of
*Scripsnre — , - inelniiiiiithe`Tentatench itself.
r`srfrie Bishop of Ripon (Dr. Bickersteth,)
has speketr cunt. On Dr, Qolenso's. work.
,The following is a summary.of his .48er:ea-
4 On Monday the annual. meeting of the
Yorkihire Church of England Scriptare
'lteede r re Sooiety was held at Leeds, the
Bishop of Rip'on in Ihe•chair. His lord
.
ship„in the course of hia remarke, said it
,was particularly painful to 41 a man, in
high office, in the Church miserably_ per
verting his 'talents soy as to 'employ them,
npt.fer — the advancement cif Divine truth,
but falter in- fiisparageinent; of the *claims' 1
of the-inspired Word of'God. For his own
part, painful as that was, he did not
anticipate that
_any very great. evil would
'result from the. attempt to,which he, had
'referred. Theohightiorig which had been
.hrought forward against the historical
curacy of the Pentateuch were very old and
threadbare; there was nothing new
them. Nor, was it. difficult to perceive how
easily these ObjeCtiiins might 'be - disposed
'of by those who had their mina firmly
Tooted in the persuasion that the Bible was
,the inspired ::Word :,'of ,; God. Let ;it be
,borne in miud,what the conclusion : ; -really.
was, suppoking they , took Dr. - Colenso s
View 4 to be eccorate: view was a
jjiat One, then - We 'May:Suppose . the Ponta-
teuchto be the production-of, a very clever'
imposter. Ifan.imposter, the writer .of
the Pentateuch:must.have been.,an expeed
ingly ,clever one. BtO was it tobe sup
.posed for one moment that, being such a
clever iniPester!,"he have allowed
such "=palpable -absurdities as , ft 'they be
lieved!the Bishop to be , Tight, existed. in
the book ; The very openness of the Pen
tateuch, the, matters which lie on the sur
face of the' beak, and which 'Dr. Coleus°
would hive' `us take as a sufficient ground
fOr deubt were in theniselves a sufficient
answer ;the - objections .which had been
raisede on the point of historical accuracy.
They „must also bear this in mind, that
every part orthe Bible _
so interwoven
With the other parts, that to invalidate any
one portion was to - 3hrow discredit - upon.
„the Test yea- that :if you undermined:Vie
authecity.ef the Pentateuch, you. ould albo
invalidate the `authority of'the PrOpheiK of
• r
the historical portions of the Bible, and of
the New Testament. Each part so inter
twines with the rest, that to throw discredit
upon one portion was to throw discredit
upon the whole. If they could success
fully disprove the historical accuracy of the
Pentateuch, they would scarcely have any
thing left in the Bible on which the mind
could lay hold for peace and comfort, as
.truth to be relied upon, as, truth saving in
its nature."
Tfq, j.ww,s in. London are rallying round •
Moaes, as their great Leader and Legislator ;
and so* the' Chief" 'Rabbi, Dr. Adler; and
also Dr.- Bersiset,: the editor of 'The Re
breio Chioniele Aid Jewish Observer, have
been earning out with ,-replies,,in the form
(onthe part, of the Rabbi,) of a letter, and.
in a series, of 'elabOrite articles by. the Jew
iSh 'editor. Dr."Benisch is a - fine Hebrew
scholar .- He
. has' given. !to his own people'
and i noble trill:lid - Mimi of part,:
at ;least of the Old Testament into: Eng
lish. ,Attention has' been directed to this,
iii porinexiou with the Coleus° controversy,.
as by its c accuracy:and purity correcting
Bode of those errors 'Which (weir in -the
English - Bible,, (King-Jainee'‘translationo
and. as obviating some, of the. objections of
-Coleeso. -
The present condition of the Jewish
people and - their leader l / 2 - is - very reinarkable
and euggestive. The Rev. 11: , Stern," - an
eminent" missionary of the,. London -Society
for .the., .
promotion. of, Christianity among
the Jewshas juit,pn,blisbed 'a work enti
tied; anderings among
the Polishes 'in
Abylisiiiia?' The' Palashas - '(" Ekiles,"as
-
the- word signifies,) have, - as a - d'istinet:ebol
any af 'Jews, z lived in 'the,; very heart of
Abyisinia,sinee long before thee.. Christian
t They make, at ler themselves a rung
nifieent Pedigree. They say that :their an
°esters- bailie - Ethiopia reign of
Maqueda Queen. - af Sheba, and that at one
Period f tiley were 'independent and ruled
over by a King and
_Queen, called Gideon
andr,jUdith. *They are now a subjeot race,
scattered dyer five provinces .of Abypsinia,
inCt EitClliri tint to about quarter' of a
Million of souls. Their synagogues are to
be distinguished a„,- red pot on the top of
each them.: They have been sternly es
elusiveand ritua istic. , They forbid 'all
intermarriages with nnlielieiers, and if one
them even .visit ''"a Gerilile,` he 'must under-•
go i thorough back lustration before he can
be repeived_into,Ote efon,„.areption,, together
:with 'a complete ? „nod....tharough &tinge of
dress, They . are moral in their conduct,
7ndustriaais in:their''hiliffs, and 44 devoUt "
affer.their formalistlashnin ' •
The Abyssinian - Choral - , like that Of
'Rome ? has been " so : .corrupt: that , the Jews.
Were thoroughly repelled by its idolatry.
As -for Israel, she had the foul taint of
idol-adoration burnt cintinßabilon!s "'iron
furnace ;"- so the' Greek Church, with its
lareplighted pictures, and "Rotriatiism, with
its _images of Virgin and saints, creates
loathing and abhorrence. Mr. Stern estsb
halted a mission among, their people ; and
having brought with him the Hely„ScriP - -
tUres, and expoUnded tlieui to'the'peopl"e'
and' their leaders the`' High
Priest—and they finding that' Christianity
',was ,not idolatry, a _marked progress has
been accomplished.
MODERN JUDAISM presents remarkable
phases; indicati . n,s- a wonderful triznsitiots
state of mind and feelieg, and' a gravitation
ever atcelerating toward •that - Central Cross'
which.yet is "to draw all men " to Jean=-
'enee:the Divine Victim, and now -the. En
throned King of Saints, Sing, of : Nations,
and King of the Jews. It is quite a mils •
take to" suppose that the faith Of mederni
Jeers is -unchangeable. Their Talinudic
and traditional past creed has - beenAtiite.
inconsistent ,with the letter and spirit. of
their own "Moses ; and tbe Prophets.' l
g 4 This creed,_' says the Edinburgh Reek*,
4 ,is in a state of .flux; new doctrines, new
"ptietiees, new points of contact with other
efileds„ and interchange of thought with
'Gentile brethren, , all present themselves.
Much - Of this arises from the cessation of
the 'persecution and contempt heaped on
the 'Jew in fist ages. - These compelled
'Vie. to be resentful, bigoted, exclusive;
While now the, increasing accordance.. of
'civil} rights, especially in Protestant coin
_tries, including the United States', 'leads
-them. to' midgle freely, to' catch Christian
ideas - in :spite. of themselves :and to read._
`iillet the New Testament itself:" . ,••
The., Talmud ; ,was .the !!ploak
fable as to 7the traieller and the storm.
The! raging ftiry, of the tempest 'Which
biLret,.pr exiled; or prescribed, or robbed
the'aelyemade them hied their- .traditiosui
to: their.-. ' hearts; and. to,:regiird the Talmud
ee oabsoltitely , P,ivine.'.? • . • ,
:Now we
. fitllatilibizkical .Schools in. Ger
niany rare, and few . pupils in attendance.
A:.(Prineh) Jewish' writer admits that ,in
the Mishap and' Gemara, there -are grave
'mistakes, and declares that they contain an
infinity of errors which
. a man of sense
otianotiasent to:. The ; eiatieg pa.rties are
tie' follows : Ise'The Talinudically orthodox
''-.istrietly:iiihering:to - traditions; yet' yieldd- -
ing colaras to . ,allow. that women :mayrbe
educated..
,2d. The new ; orthodox , party; .
'illinging to the ancient . ritual,
.and yet not
- oCridenaning,doufita and 'disquisitions as' to
its origin, and 'idinitting that Ritualism
may. be :modified. :3d. The-Biblical - Jews,
who regard the Old Testament as alone
binding, : (not. the Talaiud,) and ; who admit
reforms into tliCeld Hebrew Pr ayer who .,
we have tlitts'a Reformed ' jeivish
gligne in ' , Louden - presided qier, by Dr.
Marks, hut on.the- ' Contitrent <this partyis
more ,learned,
s end AIM "a deeper . insight.
into thatible andleirish literature." 4th.
The Oldei Befornied . Jew, clinging to the
Divide .authorig ot•the- Old Teltament,l
and specially, to the Pentateuch;. nOt,:how
ever, freeing themselves fronts tradition.
altogether, 'and allowing the nee ofprayer
in the German, instead of the Hebrew
tongue., -- sth. The New RefOriii.s'Jews;
ditting from ;1845 ; departing still' flutter
from the .ancient ritual, entirely rejecting
. the careinonial,lesy, not only of the Talmud,
(which le abandoned;by Aem,) but also of
the Pentateu4
- Taw, FRENCH j'EWEI . seinn*.to exult , that
old :things are patelog . away, They-main
tain that the only' Berme God requires is;
prayer, gratitude,, and obedience. They
'look forward, cot to a Messiah, but to a,
Afeisiunic • Oute- 7 4.time.pf universal pea c e,
and virtue—which .. it is the peculiar mis:
gen Of Jews to promote, advance; and secure !
As Christianized, they will probably be the
world's evangelists—" life from .the dead"
tir all mankind. But that is not what M.
:Salvador means.- True, in a newly pub-
Belied 'work he pays a tribute to the gran
andiiethos of tile ,oktmoter, of Jesus,
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REV. DAVID mviaratEr,-
PROPBMOS &VD PIIBLISSILIL
and the unsurpassing excellence of hie
moral teaching. But he attacks and de
nies his claims to be the Messiah. Here
is the condition' of a large class of Jews at •
this-time in London and elsewhere It is
a transition one. It cannot logically or per
manently be. maintained. For how could
Jesus have " surpassing excellences of
moral character," and yet say, declare, (and
die for the statement,) that he was the Sou
of God, and the Anointed Prophet, Priest,
and Zing ? He must have been a bad man,
turd a deceiver of the people, and he was
worthy of the death decreed to the bias;
phemer •if be was not what he declared
himself - to be. I have seen the effect a
this argument on young English' Jews.
But M. Salvador is a .fanatic after Wi
own fashion. Chi ittianity is, in his opin
ion, effete; Judaisni will soon culminate ;
the Holy Land and the Eastern iluestion
will ere long be forced upon public atten-'
hate , ".'The land end the city will reclaim
and recover the ,clignity,predicted the.,,
Prophets, and-.all nations recognizing the
truth which each practically possesses, will
find its 'sanctuary in" Zion--their spiritual
guide; Mose:3V
Prayer,forlthe.Jews is a solemn duty on
all Christians, and this, accompanied
by efforts to save .them,,lites been awfully
neglected. "I lately heard.a Wesleyaw min
ister relate how,.n the North of England /
i .
where he once administered the Lord's
Slipper, a Jewish woman, a convert, was
'one of, the . communicants. Conversing
with , heralterwards, she .said, " Sir, I hear
many different classes and.nations prayed
for,at social meetings, and
,by ministers in
the sanctuary, and all oilier people seen , to
be'reinembered except the - Jews I" 'Alas,
how often, and how extensively this is true I
The spirit of prayer,.' zeal, faith, effort, and
conseeratien of gifts toward,Missionary So
cieties for the salvation ofthe Jews, is Un
doubtedly greatly increasing in the United
'Kingdom. Perhaps there is noplace Where
this is more, marked than in . Cornwall.
Very large assemblies. gather on iseek
ights to hpar L addressesi they give liberally
to the Cause, end the young people are
- zealoils collectors. __This,,causexas only in
trodueed, to the'Cornish,penple a few l yeare
ago by the British Society for the Props- ,
gation of the 'Gospel among the Jewa,. and
it at :once laid hold , on the peoPle. . The
WeSleyans are a large majority of the pop
tilation,, and :they are very fervent friends
of, this , work-. of faith and labor of love,
They sing the hymns. composed with regard_
to the Jews With a tearful earnestness, antik
it stirs the heart when a great Congregation`
birsts- forth a'pleading-song, in Charles"
Wesley's noble Words: _
Father' of taithrut Abraham hear
Our l eernest_prayer for Abrabian'a seed„
J:3.stly they claim the softest prayer_
From ni adopted in their stead; •
Who mercy. from theintall obtain,
'And Christ by their rejection gain.
44 Butliant - thou fcsalty.forsook, -
• Romer east thy,oarn away!
Wilt not thou bid the iiiirdereril took
On him *they pirced, weep*ridisra*l
Yes, gracious Lord, wordi3spaseed
beisaTed•itt taliti•7;l• •
Come then, thou great Deliverer, coins!
The veil from 4tibob's heart remove;
Receive thine ancient people home
That quickened by thy dying love,
The world may their reception And
Life from the dead to all mankind !"
MINING in Cornwall is identified with : ••
lead and copper, and employs -a : vast yropu-c;
lation. said, last week, that a miner is a
comparatively old man at ,60 . ; I should ..
have said 40 . Obest-disease, the result. of
foul sudden change from warmth to
cold in. oeming up from the bowels of the
earth ; 1 and in many cases, the task on lads
and men cf climbing ladders for hundreds
'of fathoms ,to the upper air. There are
now generally used," man engines," which •
take:down and bring up the men without
fatigue,.which is a great boon.
. The climate of Cornwall is very moist
and mild. It ise land of hills, and streams,
and ;rivers-7-the latter running through
deep ravines, andAhe hills, like those of
Palestine, "out of whose, sides thou mayest,
dig brass." The /lenses are all built of
stone; granite is extensively used in build
ing,. and gives a solid aspect, and often a
noble one, to publio'bnildings as well as to
the mansions
.of the rich. House rent is
marvellously o'heap. , One .could live;
es. •
ti this and as to texas, at more than . soper, ,
:cs'Ot. less than in London 1 Meat is : fai . be
purchased at morethan one-fifth les4 and'
of excellent quality. Iron works there are,
. also, especially at Hayle, on the sea. . 7
The ,nsor„ graedeur of Cornwall is its
superior morality, an the almost total ab
'Fence of . great crimes among a Population '
of 800,000 'souls. Then there are scenes
which may be called "Consecrated Heights,"
such to the Amphitheatre (the excavation
of an old and tablitidenedi.quarry,) near
9-Wennap ; where John .Wesley preached to
a vast .multitude. Here on every Whit-
Monday a great religious service is held. •
Here ifs°, during the sittings of the Wes
leyan Conference. -kat Summer at Cam
borne, there was a special Service. Theo •
was also pointed out to me, in, the suburbs
of Redruth; a lawn .on whiph the celebrated
leCturer and preacher,* William Morley, ad
dressekitilt:Sitmuter, a discourse to many
'thonianda??
2 /Iltepeople.atiy undoubtedly the same in I
origin as those of Wales. Indeed Cornwall •
seems.,,to have? r bee9ANepled from Wales.
and. proofs of this, as well as an
'account of iintiqiuti s eliand notices of FOX
'vitiits - to 'Pinyartiiailind the Land's'
End itself; I hope Sir givs liereaftei toyed? ,
Times has been declared
: Mr: -Ewart,. M. P. ,for Liverpool, not to:.
express, the opinions of the English .
This, and a severe handlinjand ex- „
. - -p9stre that it has riceifed frOnf Mr.
lake;inhis splendid' 'u the On- “-
mearVar;f' has filled. it with fury ;• and h
very-foolishly, instead of _keeping silence; q.r
, it has .been,coming out, witiveheme.pt,prco
testations that It doe; represent' .rnglish`
opinion. z. It definite its . course : on" the —
American' question, and iS Very angry that
- -it should be, for one Moment., ptaced
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is not loving us, or is unmindfa: owr../..
wants, because he•has notonewered.euslbiloEl
prayer, yet he may be.dpiog fqr ae a inont a
needful thing. Jiff& . not the ILsoid..
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