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Christ Our Life.
Because I live, ye shalllive also.—Jon xtv : 19
No. 2.
This was the comfort wherewith Uhrist.
mforted his disciples in their sorrow at
a speedy separation from them. Al %
lough absent, be was still living, and they
iuld live in fellowship with him. But
is, I think, does not exhaust the fullness
comfort which wasp his words. Although
Ire would be com:oit inexpressible in
lowahip with Jesus, there would still be
- turning in the hearts of the disciples
his bodily presence again ; and this
.ning, I. think, he means to satisfy.
will meet again, face to face, and the
,iple's heart will be comforted with the
ily presence of his Lord. Because
-ist's body lives and reigns in heaven,
bodies of all his saints shall live and
igu there also.
This is the great mystery, and, I may
d, the great consolation of the Gospel.
'e are united to Christ not only spiritual-.
but bodily. Our souls are united to'
~ and our - bodies also. He took on him
‘r whole nature—" a true body and a 'ta
mable soul "—and redeemed our whole
ture, body and soul, from the power of
,ath. He redeemed the soul from spir
ual death, and the body from bodily
'ath. "As in Adam all die, even so in
irist shall all be made alive." We know,
a sad experience, how all die in Adam.
him we have inherited a nature, not
id-like, but. degenerate and sinful. We
)w, alas I how degenerate and sinful. All
world, where the redeeming truth and
.ce of the Gospel have not come, tells us
terrible was the poison which sin intro
led into the soul. Now, for all this,
Fist is the cure. His Spirit is the life
the soul, and as all in Adam died spir
ally and morally, ilia all in Christ are
,ie alive spiritually and morally. But
is, we know, is not all of death. Neither
this all of life. We have inherited from
lam not only a diseased and corrupt
iral nature, but a diseased and corrupt
tysiccsl nature. The body became subject
death, in Adam, as well as the soul ; and
redemption of Christ a extends to both
1 and body. And this is the other
let of the truth which Christ announced
these comforting words: "Because. I
'e, ye shall live also." He had already
itructed his disciples . fat he would die,
I after three days rise again. He said
Martha, weeping at the grave of Leo
;S, "Thy brother shall rise again." And
in she, not comprehending all; his mean
said, " I know that he shall rise again
the resurrection at the last, day," Jesus
lied, " I am the Resurrection and the
e; he that believeth on me, though he
;e dead, yet shall he live!'
Here, then, is the precious truth in, all
extent—" Because I live, ye shall live
1." Nov, a spiritual, holy, and happy
and hereafter, a blessed life, soul and
', in a better world—possibly this
1, regenerated, where 'we were to have,
had not sin so marred it and us.
r, Christian xeli4e n iire. you ready ,to,
e this r trfitli tn ei tktleg
unwavering ai
lost husband, wife, son, brother, or
iful little child, can you look forward
lently and calmly, with a realizing
, to the day when, at the command of
is, the Prince of Life, "the sea will
up the dead which were in it, and.
h and the grave deliver pp the dead
I were in them," and' all our quiet,
a places shall give up the forms which
ier in theta ? And can you ,believe
the loved, forms which you shall re
) from the dust shall be deathless
les, on which disease, and weakness,
pain shall fasten again no more for
? If you can really so believe, then
are you! It is a blessed faith—a
inspiring truth. And we may weli
God, too, that these weak and die..'
bodies do, die, if we shall thereby get
back again to " taste death no more
fee And well may we bless that
air too t who by his own death, hath
.oyed him that had the power; of death,
is, the devil; and delivered them who,
)h fear of death, were all their life
subject to bondage.
Because I live, ye ahall live also."
vine truth, blessed fact, which gives
lack from the dust all the beautiful
J which slumber there—gives them
, far more beautiful, the smile of joy
very lip, and the seal of immortality
very brow 1 And' why should the
Atian fear to die, when, in the sleep of
grave, he gets rid of the seed of decay,
gets back a body which, knows no
17 As we tear down the decaying=
irs of the worn-out dwelling, in order
we may may build in their place
ly cedar, and marble, and solid gold,
vs God crumble away to dust in the
e these mortal limbo, this mortal flesh
bone, that he may give our souls an
wing temple in which to worship him
a building of God, an house not made
hands, eternal in the heavens." And
is we receive through Christ, who is
fe. • IL
Following God.
v: 1-130 ye therefore followers of
as dear children.
WRAT ere we to fellow Gad? We
it fellow his example as we would the
le of a man, only .as that is seen in
Jesus. Bid we are to folloilis will
is revealed to us in Ids word. This
rule. We are alsO to follow , him in
1, in doinggood, in imitating Chiist,
ding in him, following and trusting
evidence', making his glory our, end,
.1 our rule, and his love our motive.
How are we to follow God ? Foi
1, not as slaves, but as dear children.
our Father ; we are his children ;
such we must follow him.
dren follow their parents afection
thowing their love in every act of
Ice. They follow confidingly, never
sing, but having,the„mtmost confi
in their parents. They follow cheer-
Ad with sad, but with joyful ilearts•
follow hopefully, expecting the re
of every difficulty and discourage
and success in every labor. He nc ie
Lllow AUM/y; with their parent'fi
;a and layor-they are not only con
but 101‘eased ;.they are happy and
so must we follow qod, and thus
manifest that we ar&his
,ehildrep.
so do not-follow him, um:vont Aaiun
ationship. They are his ene-.
ind must expeot his displeasure.
For the Preebyterian Bannon
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VOL. XI., NO. 25
Let it not be so with us. But let us em
brace the Lord Jesus Christ by faith, and
henceforth follow God as dear children.
NV. J. M.
For the Preabyterfau Banner
A Political Prisoner.
FROG THE FRENCH
Constantine of Renneville relates to us,
in his Inquisitien Franpise, the sufferings
into which he was initiated by a'confine
ment of eleven years in the Bastile, as well
as a history of some of his companions in
captivity. He composed verses with great
facility, and besides the poems which he
traced between the lines of a Neviv Testa
ment, by means of a pen made of a fish
bone, and ink of a mixture of wine, sugar,
and soot, he adorned the walls of his
prison with his sonnets, rondeaux, and
madigrals. He it was that invented the
plan of speaking by a stick, in
. order to
communicate with fellow-prisoners in ad
jacent cells : a mysterious, language, faith
fully preserved by tradition among the
Beadle prisoners: This language is trans
mitted by striking the walls or the ceiling
with a billet Or wood, aceording to the
order whioh each letter occupies in 'the
alphabet; thhis' one' blow stood for'an A,
two blows for a B, three blows for a C, and
thus to Z, represented by twonty , four
blows. Constantine and his pupils learned
to execute the manoeuvre with much rapid
ity' and address, so that they exchanged
long conversations, notwithstanding • the
the thickness of the walls, the vigilance of
the sentinels, and the anger of the Wm.'.
keys.
But , above all, the reading and medita
tion of the holy -books,. Constantine of
Renneville called to his aid in the sOlitude
of his prison. "1 read' and re-read my
New Testament," said he, '" with all the
respect and attention which a• book so holy
merits . ; and the more I perused it, the more
did I find that hidden, manna which as one
partakes, their hunger for it is increased
I there discovered that light which is
veiled to the eyes of the world. * *
During the first month of my imprison..
merit, I read very, attentively the whole
New Tistment through nine times, and the
last,tinie with more avidity and satisfaction
than at any previous reading.' •
L. G. S.
For the Presbyterian Banner
A Pleasant Surprise.
On the morning , of. the t 4th- instant, the
.
people' of Sugar Creek , tcontregatron, con
,vened at thelchusch, and. after making the
necessary arrangements, proceeded= to the
residence of. the' actor, seven miles tdis
taut', Abottt ennsoffolifok we looked out at
our windowieniffebs*ed.a procetisionleon
-sisting,ofscdd andt , yodrig' tpeopfei'looking
:very bhp* drawn.: up. at our .gatte. We
soon.revagruied in them , thelamiliar court
•tenances of .our good people of Sugar
Creek, After-extending - to us the most
cordial.. greetings,
they took .peaeable pos
ewtEdenf oflouri howie)iiaud-we -, cheerfully
OtiniitittOtto,khaixixfidotheirohninble iguests.
411400 , 111 1 0 1 4gliallabettrat=i
riety , and . abundance ni r tthe good things
they brought along with them, the 'whole
companyit partook oft-a bounteous' dinner
prepared in that elegant mariner which the
Sugar Creek.people so: well understand.
After , a short address and prayer,. the
company ,began to disittirse----not,.however,
without leaving behind theiry many sub-
Itantial memorials of their visit,- viz.:
Sour, oats, corn, potatoes, meat ; -apple's;
groceries, articles , of Wearing apparel, and
other things.t good and useful, to all of
Which was presented thuhandsome ,, sum of
fifty.dollars , in: money. = For -these --- exprei:
sions of , kindnessvwe tender them our sin:.
core than-ks„,tand pray that God will abund
antly reward:them -with the riches , of !his
grace. Jr D. HOW-EY:
For the Preeh*terian l ihiniitir.
1 0.AUPNEAtt
February 20,'1863
I .
MSSk. I ED/TORS : - the providence of
Gbd' haiVing called me to :the ChXplainey of
the 92d Regimenip. V. 1., I joined. it at
Can* Vinton iSaii t aihit Valley, Va., on
`2Bth 'of .theensib`a, fully to
spend "the Witte, "there. Qn the ,psth ~of
Ja!fitiativa:ielTnni4peetgilly received .or=.
den repdrt at Nailville Tenn : ::Of our
journey-the ftent-Lthe high wskiers-411e
Vtittle'et Fort Dennison '',kc &c., I cannot
speak, as I can write but briefly. Nash
ville is all changed since I saw it when
the General Assembly met there in 1855.
It is sad to see it. It is almost a hospital;
every thing looks war. Vie churches are,
hospi't'als—so are hotelg, asylums, halls,
school buildings, medical college, univer
sity, private residences I The people are
clad in mourning.
visited the First Presbyterian church.
It is a hospital. It seemed deserted as a
sanctuary of God. As I stood in the pul
pit I remembered the sweet sermon of the
eloquent Poirdinaii, and ,that startling eve
ning discourse of ilk. Thornwell, from the
text “They made light of it." What a
change' sine that sunny dined Th:en
stood among 'ariny.of Men of God,
fighting for, the kingdom of the Lord Jesus
—nate I an( in'the midst of a great army,
having given up every thing to fight for
our country, andland itdown to our chil
dren.
I am not permitted to sty 'anything'
about my present surroundings, army move-'
manta or anticipations. We 'are hopeful
for the future. I .am encouraged in.-my
work. When I consented to enter upon
the•soleinn mission, ".I knew I had a , -great
enemy,to , fight in the shape of prejudice
against Chaplains. There was , reason for
it. I ,know of nnield •of greaterl useful
ness. I know not that I can long ,endure
it. I
_am greatly, indebted to the U. S.
Christian , Commission, Presbyterian Board
of ,Publication, and American.` ible Boni
ety, for assisting me in my work. , Next to
the Word ,of - God, the Soldier's Pocket ,
Book carefully carried by my regiment,
The author of ri that little book will reap a
rick 1'9144-
We have .never failed to .have Divine
service on,the,Sabbsth, whether on land or
water. Our AegimentaLUnion church has
now ..a membership of; - one hundred and
sixteen--ammigithem Ostend field officers,'
with our medical corps. I would like to
mention some incidents of the power of
religion here. My notolo too long , Un- ,
furl the Bapner! Stand firm I Yield!
not? Terrib)e,,il34,the istruggler,hut our
Covenact,keeping God will glorify,himself
in,the evilof this revolution.,/ ;=I entreat
014,4 - Ann* to .I c atat4 tt np for ael/USA
PITTSBURGH, WEDNSDAY, MARCH 4, 1863.
" Brethren, pray for us." You know
not our privations. Write cheerful, hope
ful, religious letters to your friends in the
army. They come as food to thirsty souls.
Yours in the Lord Jesus,
W. Mows GRIMES,
Chaplain 92d Reg. 0. V. I.
Evangelical Religion in Germany.
There is no part. of Europe about whose
religious state and prospects it is more
difficult to speak intelligibly and satisfac
torily to an American than the land of
Luther and Melancthon. Indeed to many,
Germany is, in every sense, almost an in
comprehensible country. Its' geographical
and political divisions,
the constitution and
structure of the old "Empire," that lasted
from A. D. 843 till 1806, and the consti
tution and struetion of the present " Con
federation " and " Diet " (for there is' no
Empire now, nor has there been , for = the
last fifty-seven .years,) are a great, mys
tery to most people,in their school-tlays. ‘ln
fact, it is not very easy for "full-grown men "
to understand how• six monarchies, twenty
seven duchies, and four " free cities" (the
Hanseatic, towns of Hamburg, Bremen,
Lubec, and FYankfort.,) can be represented
in a Diet of, seventy members, meeting for
ten months in the year with Closed doors,
and yet some of thesreat Siates—Atistria
and PrOsie for instance—can go to war
with a foreign power without invol'Ong all
or any of the other States that - are members
of the Diet. Indeed, the greater part of
the AUStrian' Empire, and, a considerable
portion of the Kingdom of Prussia,•are.
not in Germafirat all.
No country on the ,Continent has made
so . much progress in education in all its
phases, from the common s schools, up
'through its normal schools, agri
cultural and scientific sehools, to its uni
versities, as Germany has done the last fifty
years. Ne country has made more progress
in its literature, of every species.
,None
hair made greater adVinees
In .railways.
Excepting Italy, no canary has a greater
number of fine cities, or so many , collec
tions in the fine arts.
The population may 'now be estimated at
some forty-three rnillions, (we speak of
Germany as represented by the Diet, and
not including the non-Germanie portions
of- the Empire of Austria 'and the King
dom of Prhseia,)'bf whiChtlentY millfons
are'ProteStaiits and twbntyittlice millions
are Roman Catholics. The fOrmer are more
nnurerortriu 'the North and` NortliEWebt;
the' lett-6f; in the" South and SOUth-eaSt.
Prussia is the' great Proteitant St'atli - of
Germeiky, aeAttstria' is the Rbinaii'Catho
lie. Although not forming Et:portion of
the population of Gerniany, there' are All
of 'thrbe ror four- millione of Germans_"in
Platice, 'SWitierland,'"Hungary,Tolind,and
the pro*vincee, wliVare; for 'the iiidst
riatt, Protestants.
To understand the predentrelicrnii io state
of Germany, so far as " Evangelical Proteit
autism is concerned, one must look leek a
little. The "Reformed Doctrine," as 'the
protestant systemof, faith. was called at first,
spreawenderfully in: Germany — tuther's
fdliririntafa34l3. BlimariMikveen,
Roman 'Cathelic ' princes and the Protest
ants, fomented by the Emperors', (who,
without exception , were Roman rCatholics
during the whole existence of the Empire,)
which occasionally took place, until they
culminated, if we may so speak; in the
*Thirty'Years' Wei'," (frbin 1616 01648)
and which, thanks to Gustavus Adolphus
and those brave men whom he trained up,
Plaeed the Protestant'Church in that coun
try in the possessidie"of rights that have
ever since been maintained.
But these wars, and those of the reign
of Frederick the Great, and those which
grew out of the Great Revolution in France
Of 1789, and listed i till.the battle of Wate,r
-100, Ain 18 vast injury td the - inter=
eatsof evangelical religion. So - did; and
so does the union of Church and
State—a relation in -which, the late
King of Prussia once sail•to an American
gentleman; " the Church is the slave of
the `State." -
From these causes, and-perhapirwebught
to . add, the' fahtl`that the 'Protestant doe
trines and worship Were never — quite that.:
oughly . referphedend purified from= all ves
tiges of Papal errors and prnotices,in Ger-
Many, it resulted' that evangelical religion
began to lose sonleWhic of its 'lustre and
power even in the seVetateenth 'century ;
whilst in the eighteenth, excepting in the
portions et it Which. were blessed by the
labors 'of Franke, Stion,er; and the Mora
vian brethren i formality at Irat, arid afte'r
wardi Arian, Sociniati;' and really infidel
tenets, gained extensive away in the Frei,-
estant 'Church in that country.` But God
raised up, from' lime to tithe, witnesses for
the - truth—men` , who some 'measure
for Gerinany what' Whif i efield''and Wesley
did for England in the same century.
it is'a curious fact in the history of re
ligious •errors, that it 'was• to the writings
of. English deists and infidels, if wei may
make the distinction, that Germany wesin
debted for her first 'departure
from the Gospel:"' The - infidel works Of
Hobbes-, Bolingbroke' Mime ' Gibbon, and'
others, were transla'tedi: published, and'
widely read in Germany in the eigliteentli
century, and prepared the way for the spreid
of a Christless, 'and "consequently impotent
form of Christianity. To such' ad - extent
did these errors spread, that there was very
little true piety or sound• doctrine left in
the Protestant churehes in Germany in tbe
latter part - of the eighteenth!cdiftury aid
the-beginning. of the presint._..zfatte.:l64 ,
gold had-beceme (Hui! , Notliing-remained
but a- code of morals.. We may state in
passing,. as a noteworthy , circumstance,
that after,English infidelitrhad -been the
cause of so much disaster •to the interests of
true religion in Germany, that same old in
fidelity now comes back to England, clothed
in a Gentinn ,_dress. Some of the worst
things to be found in 'the Oxford "Essays
and Reviews; which are • making so much
,
noise in England, are really little more than
thaislations - from 'the writings of Bunsen
Bauer, and other German authorsi some of
whom were avowed infidels; and :'others
(like Bnisen,) were really a; time on in
fidel groundrwithout heirig willing to own
up to it. So it e.ver-isTerror.:is never still,
but is always •reproducing - itself, with or
without modifications. Arianism, Sochi
iaaism,•Deism; Pantheism, have all, in sue
.cession,• appeared -in Germaiy, " Pacilis4
descensus Averni."
Howc_much‘ lower errormargo in. Ger
many,; it is , not -easy,to conjecture; for •it is*,
impossible. to ;eon mire of ;anything , in re
ligious speculation, an el ief ,lowerldown;
than. Rautheiiiniramlessilit- ben Atheisin:4
But in all practical senses of the doctrine,
Pantheism is Atheism.
But a great change has commenced in
the Protestant Church ofiGermany. Doubt
less, the Bible Soeiets and Religious
Tract Societies have don much to resusci
tate evangelical piety in the churches of
1
that country. The retie on 'from a heart
less and hopeless infideli i also, did some
thing to prepare the way_ for something
better. At all events ' 011ie is a 'great ad
vance in the right direction. A very
blessed work of grace, dint, theyeir 1825,
did much good in Berlin „and` other places
in Prussia. The labor „and`
Martin Booz,
and his fellow.priests Gower and Linde',
-(both-of whom - afterwardsOiceame Protest
ants,) did much to enlighten the minds of
Romanists in Southern Germany, especially
in Bavaria, a few years' het.' The It.p.,
pearance of Toluck, He ~_, erg, Nein-,
der, Muller, and, other so *lb, as, pro
fessors in the Prussian - Itririikira: ba#
been the commencement , "a nei era , ""
Protegfaetism in that;Con , ? ..-- 'TR, twini2
ber of 'pious studentri who ' . l iifeparing 'to
preach Christ's Gospel att curi,eand abroad,
has greatly increased. , I any, sood Socie,-;
ties, or other organizatio*, have sprung
up.. There are now inrinaily no less
than six or seven " missict-inititute S ,"' or
seminaries to educate you:gliteri for mis
sionary labor in the , .uneVngelized*brld.,
There are several Misskipiory =Societies.'
One of the most inaportactiefthese is ,the
" Gnstavus A.dolphus Society'," Nilrich is
doing;
much for the PretieStiit•Dit&pora, Or.
Protestants in Catholic 81$16, -"whether' in
Germany or 'outside d.!if:4-'root, even ex-'
chiding our own country., (pT4 Society for
"Inner Missions" is als doing much to .
revive religion in German.
1
There are twenty tho san4 P4,testant,
churches 'and' chapels In Vermaili, and!
4 c
twenty-two thousand Pro ant pitstors of
churches,'and professors -gymnasia' and:
universities. Among t - psatcre . and
professors, the number o .
vshigelieal and;l
true ministers, of Chris'. - has g,,reitiYin 7 -
creased' Within the4itt etkfile:jr . c ani.
The great "Evangelical .
: iance,", meet
ineat Berlin, iiiSeptoxb 4in61,1100t
!
together more nine i l ooa ot tlipie
excellent Men, and a vast
cunt of most
iinportant information, reS. 600 3 ", re
viial "as some have call ' it. of relioinn
,flt, 1 ,e, 1 X 'OT 4..u.ua la 1
in germany. Thej a p i e . 4 , ,pziegcusl
Olitilstianity , throughout; e ; w:,ii.Ta: have
reason''' bl 'G' t ' h i t h '
great to bless ?Go.
~, a% a eis
doing in GernAnY Ma 3 k4i 04
country from the' horrors iif wti., ; iiitO*lll6ll
ii'vroiatieelii inevitable t ° ;il t .lat* .iiiia
Tar "'will' 'rush' heron; . ng.- 7 6 . 9,:ra.;,..
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ties are , in -i fity' Rand. 7
ra,ther,,l ; know that alt : , •
Is portioned out for mai;
And changes that willArely porno, ,
I do, not, tearAoAnis t g,,aw, , • . •
' Of. , thee Laalt-n presuntfraind•
Intent. otrivreitsingttiMe'
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roulirk constant. hukg r atisei'
To meet the glad with joyful smiles,, •
To wipe the weeping eyeEr;
A heart at, leisure from
To soothe and sympathize.
I would not ha4 ) 6 the reit:l'4'o;4
Inii:iie;t3 to ana fro,
Seekii*foe iome Eva thing to do,
o'r secret thing to know;
I would be treated as a child,
And - guided 'YrEife I kr.
:LA
Wherever in the'world-J. am,
In whaes l o''et
I have a fellowship-with hearts-
To keep and cultivate • - -
A work of lowly love to do
For
I ask thee for the
To none that ask denied, . i r -
A. mind totblend witkontWard life
While keePing.at thy side; '
, dontentrth fdl a littlelipaie,"
If thou be - glorified: '
ss
And if &tine thingki do.not , ask 4, •
blessingslbe,
I still would have my spirit filled
With grateful love to thee-L.-
.And oareful- , Llesa to serve thee much,
Than please •thee parfettty: '.
Briers Ilsetovr er3:ry,p,ath,
Which call for patient care ;
There is *cross in every, lot,
An'earnist mead for 'prayer ;,
A lowly ; heart that Jeans on thee,
Is happy anywhere. •
1
Iri service_ which thj , loyelappoints
There are , no bonds for toe;
My secret heart is , taught,"' the truth" ;
That makes thy children `f free"'
A life of ,self-renouncing love,
Is a life of liberty 1 ' •
MIME
Dr. Mvingtone igaill Attarkd
At the last, meeting of the Royal Gear
graphical Society in,London, Sir Roderick
MnreliiiiOn read a leiter' from lir: Living
stone; dated 'du the'livei'll,o 4 iiitna';'Ociolfer"
10, 1862. 'The Doctor has been 'engaged
in another encounter with the natives;•whe
seem to regard him tvi,a fair. object of at
tack, and, pay the least possible attention to
his missionary character. Re writes 'that,
while *deseeililing the'Roitinia, a Uunibeief
native river pilots followed his.party
it had catered a . narrovi„passage under: a
high bank, when a volley of arrows was
flied. He adds : ""We stopped and brims%
tulated- with'them for along time; theiegot
them to one of the boatvaild , explained to ‘i
them how easily,we could drive them off
with our rifee and revolvers, but, we wished
to be friends, and gave - about thirty yards'
of calico in presents; in proof of - friendship.
At, this , time we were within forty yard's of
a lot of them, armed with muskets, and
- bows, on the high bank. On parting as
we thought 'OIL friendly terms '
and moving,.
on, we received a volley of musket-balls
and Arrows, four bullet holes-being Made in
my sail, and finding ,that,-..ve, instead , of
running away, returned the;fire, they took,-
to their heele ' and left the conviction that
thesuare the border ruffians Who' at various
points present - obstacles to'Afriiiin t ex.Plorii-'
don—men-stealers, in fact, who care no
more. for , human , lifethan that respectable
party in Londotic.Nirh6 stuffed thiPaheeei
life:buoys with-''old straw instead' of cork.
It was'sore against , thie emir to' pay away
that calicory-it. was subkritting to be
forethrei Sakeveif &Hee
black mail,' for that implies the rendering
of important services by Arabs; nor is it
custom dues. It is robbery perpetrated by
any one who has a traveller or a trader in
his power, and when tamely submitted to,
increases in amount till wood, water, grass,
and every conceivable subject of offence is
made an occasion for a fine. On our return
we passed gaited through them all, and
probably' the next English boat will be
respected."
EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE.
Great Pro-Northern Meeting in Exeter Hall—The
Timee in a Rago—Cosnwall and its Fertile Vales
• First Fruits of Increase" Dedicated—The
,Poor Woman and her " Offering Bag"—Covetous
Professors—" Talents" and "Allies" Rev.
Wm. Arthur—Preaching . and Practise—Giving
in Prapprtion to Means—Methodism in Cornwall,
`and' its Edrig Prials•=Pereecution—The ‘" Par
son," , Mr.. Wesley,• and "Fools"--Wondrous
alagnge—Spread. of Education—The Student=
• :Miners--elanshig Feeling...—DEoye,of Absent Cor--
-ma en. G: one
some ar It
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IlYinn, - u . E4 rot Naribui 'Neck of tat"'
• *2: 4 " 7 "- • February 6, 1863.
GREAT Cl:krailtrim was held last
Hall, of the friends of' the
North and of 'the haters of slavery. The
insolence of the pro-Southern symPatbizers,
the enitiMiedlittapti to pervert and poi
son public -opinionithe Unfairness in not
credit to. President Lincoln for what
lifill'alitady - been done in the"' way of abol
ishing'islaVdry, and Of preparing for its
filaPdownfall, hadrevised good men7 - ilnd,
ifbnibrife nobly restionded. Not only'ias
'tlirgreat Hill erammedlnaerfrowing,
the lower .Hall' alib, and a' thir'd meeting
was -held 'in the open street! Vain , ;at
tempts were made to pass pro-Southern ank
anti Lincoln resohitions. Baptist Noel and
were the chief speakers; and
ii"efo`re .them were a' mass - - of Evangelical
"Noliebilfolitdsti: The - gimmes was hooted
ai:lgroaned: day
Nest`but one, the Timei came out
with an abustve article, deprecating the
value of 'the meeting because `‘‘ two dis
sentiniininisteri," and a " Ekeeend-rate au
thef," "(the Well-known 'Thoiliai Hughes,
of -"Tom Bidwn i s SChoolboY'Days," &o
were- the 'chi l d - spe'akers, and none of
the" heads of 'the' Church, or of the
-.aristocracy, were '``there I NO one 'knows
better than the Times, that'in the face of
'"Alfe'Chtireh!" and Tory clergy, and in
tke . .face 'praPrietors
'tiiid'thhieorgiiticiit-fthi'Preis;'ilieNoncOP
foitabitik;of Etigland swept slavery out of
Ilifinolenies in' 1830. - '
• , mt.
. 'paw& CORNWALL .. T: continue to / wrie.
and'Mines,' the County of
l'COrnYvtll has anOtheiSonrce of wealfhfrom
thevailt:4iiantitier of vegetables raised, in,
Shaded
. loOks and *stieltered South-lying
Weide There is 'the innit t etrikin' differ-'
*nee .when one, after visiting the Land's
"End,drivee4welve piles? across the noun-:
"try, and finds hireselfdescending into the
valley "which terininates in„ the town, of.
Penzance. Here are dealivities sheltered
by lofty hills and'frem the eiinable 'tem
perat9.re'scime 'kinds of plants are grown in
the ,open-air throughout the ;year, -,while
narNes„tgrow..to
, a i xeat, height, covering
'TELT enitage=frotiti tip.to
_the attics. _The
produce'of the gardens is very earry, and
the land in` the`vicinity is 'so` noted for ex
traordinary fertility and richness, that it is
considered, one thousand.aores should yield
an annual rental of :R.10,000. One worthy
man, by the early preduce of his fields—
which, sinee a railway to London was
'Opened, he 'can:transmit 'daily to theme
tropolis, receiving from wholesale dealers
large, prices—last year, at` a Wesleyan mis
sionary meeting, presented a thank-offering
of ao: He thus honored the Lord with
the firsifiniti - iif all his increase. Nor is
this a solitari hutsice* Of Christian conse
cration of money . in Cornwall:
~, A. gentle
man who profited by an unusual catch of
pelehardii in' the bay of St. 'lyes, made a
special:gift - to - the'etinso of Missions'to the
, To this causer also, two poor women,
in Separateldins, sent in the accumulatidn,
'eaFtiers,` of a year's gatherings. The
gift of , 'drie r these" was in 'a small linen
bar It;iiiire - Mittride the'following inscrip
tihni-viritten in ink " Lonn's OF=
RAG Trii'Jkivs—a penny a
Inside; - innhiging a silfer
Airline, was a bit - of blue Wrapping-Paper,
on' which-witalvtittee:-:-" Blessed is 'that
servant whom his Lord when he °On:l4th
shall find‘so doingf " Be instant in sea
son anAput of season." I was assured that
this woman had seen better
,days, and was
in''neeil. w h4Anif of help. Yet she had
caifght the Spirit of her Who`" gave 'all her
living," even though that. was but " two
mites." Nothing, surely, •:should niore
shame .rich,
,selfis.h, covetous, close-handed
irofessOrs—evangelical, professors .- of re
tUri such eiamples of deiotedness
as these. These people are obstruetivei;
they ¬ give to God's Cause ; but, as far
as, they are concerned; allow-it to starve for
lack of, aliment... Sometimes. one of these
people, when , importuned, says : Well, I
shall giViinn:it mite;" but even, the mite
is given grudgingly, "
and this by those from
whom , Christ demands .talents. Pray, sir,
are thercany. such;professors -America? :
Of ppurse, , l do now. Perhaps not !
At all oventa :there are, really some: such
iceolde " thi` okrbthintry ' over here.
And they have 'yet , to' learn—l fear while
their children may -learn, they wont.--the
proportion of giving which is demanded.
For
4 ‘ Jesus unseen, ;rho litearts,eart see,
Stillfooks and overlooks the treasury
Qest in your offerings, as`his causeinvites,
Ye rich,your tadent,s, and : ye poor your mites ; ;. ;
render to God the things which are his, due,
• He gave , his.soni , who gave ;his Son,' for you."
Undoubtedly . fibe 4tanclard of 'Christian
liberality. is. rising „all, over the kingdom.
6iving an prop9rtion to'menps also is being
practieally recognized. It is' : " laying by"
for Christ,' and one gentlethan who prac`-
tibestit,..when lately writing me, remarked'
on - " the, luxury!! of thus giving out of a
" store " set apart.
The Rev. William Arthur, M.A., well
knoWn in the United StateS and an un
-,
sparing enemy of slavery; the author of
" The :.Tongue Tongue ( of Fire;'!- and " Italy in
Transition,; N hasmithin the -last few years
been enabled„to practise what he preached.
Some time Ago 'he:delivered , s, magnificent,
lecture` On' the duty' of gi4ring in proportion
to—meaniV'whieh 'a printed form,
been scattered' 'broadcast among the church.
es. By his marriage fie acquired consid.'
erable property twice be immediately
consecrated a tenth of his income ; last
year` there Were - Inige'and - nneipected
tiorlipatd-lat able he gave; away some 'two`
or three thousandl*Ainds.
,Thed„Systepage Benevolent Society
doing real good ;. its, k principlest are finding,
WHOLE NO. 545
their. way even into Church of England
circles, and are helping at least to provide
free pews for poor parishioners, if not act
ing as pioneers to what I long for, but scarce
ly hope to see, a Free Church of England.
Were that formed, the evangelical laity
are more than able to support all charges
without State aid, and the benefit to relig
ion would be beyond all calculation.
SCENES OF PERSECUTION in the early
days of Methodism, were common in Corn
wall. , The High Church clergy and Tory
Magistratei treated Wesley and his coadju
tors, as enemies of the State and King.
The masses are with Wesleyanism now; in
fact Wesleyanism is the Establishment of
Cornwall as far as population- is concerned'.
But seventy or eighty years ago , the Corn
ish multitude as yet untamed. by the Gos
pel, were fierce against its first preachers.
Stoning, attempts to seize and put to deadl y
riotous violence, and abuse, mere comnioni .
Thus I St.•lves, where : :there-is .a popuia
tios,pow largely subduedto the •ebedience
Ctfaith, the Church mob, on the occasion
of a naval victory, got - drunk and expend
ed the overflowing of their patriotic zeal
in pulling down the little house where
Wesley, and others had beguroo preach:
"If," said Wesley, with a quaint • humor
and vivacity which I am assured (contrary
to the outside opinion,) were really his,
"If the have pulled down the' meeting
house, Admiral B beat the Spaniards,
SlAppoqp- that if they hear that Admiral
destroys a French. fleet, , they will
celebrate the victory by the, preach-.
ers." *, ~
Another. ; illuetration, I o:nay, give---- E
derived.from :local traditionFla:Q. Wives- 7 -
about the hatred of i the _Epischpir parsons
to Methodism, and l illustratof the, old
adage, also, that. 41 -.114 may laiYiwhomins."
One; day, John Wesley, was Jibing driven
from St. Ives to_St. Just, along a very had
read, and portions of which ;were narrow
lanes. , The ,eltaise ,passing along one of
these lanes, suddenly appeared another ve
hicle comingin the opposite direction.. It
was the carriage of Parson V—, a noto
rious Tory partisan. This Reverend man
found his coachman suddenly pull up the
•horses. He put his head out of the win
dow and : , said, ," What are, you., stopping
for " Mr. Weiley's_carriage, sirs stopathe
way:" " Drive p e angry Parson,
"drive on ;. I r ,, ts•a hack ,for fools."
The meek and placid:-Wesley hearing this,
cried,eut, witha., loud voice. t",.‘, , 8ut4 do«P .
and' sehe,Ordered. the vehicle to be turned
,round, and ,at once.rebuked and gave - way
to the parson., z
In the old title deeds of Wesleyan chap
els in Oornwall, there are_ clauses which de-
Ina what •is to be 'done with the property,
in case of persecution compelling the Wes
leyans to flee, !How significant 'of those
.dark times ,
And what a - marvellous
change - now , !---fishermen, miners,' mer
chants, farmers, eld men • and, maidens,
youngmew,antrehildren, decorouslY throng
ing-to the*house of God orfa: week night,
as well as on the Lord's day; and there,
songs.of holy-!gladness, making ft pious
mirth,' and • together praising Him whose
name alone is excellent, and Whose - glory is
_alloveLthe_eartak
IRMO
A boy or girl that cannot read' is rarely
to be found in 'Cornwall. Literature solid
and precious,-is highly valued by them. I
found one bookseller who had quite 'a stock
of 'books, scientific, &c:, for the miners;
and - Lectures in Town Halls' ind 'Literary
Institutions are delivered by the ablest
men of the day. Of' Literary men in con
nexion with Cornwall; there have'been and
are some, preeminent in' their attainments.
Great IS the clanstip of Cornishmen; when
away from like all people who have
been brought up Maid - hills, mountains,
glens, and arriid the scenes of" Nature free
and wild," they east many a- longing,
ering look from Californian or' Australian
diggings, or
from London, Manchester
Liverpool; whither trade has borne - them,
toward their awn Oceari.washed and much-
•
loved Poriii Th'us; the other` day,. flee
Conaishnien who are merchantsor -ern
,
ployers at Manchester, hid a dinner togeth
er, at which their kinsmen . at .Liverpobl
united in affectionate rethembran66`ef home
and 'early scene and days. "Thus'l hear of
an eminent London physician„ whose sec
ond wife is such a grand and' fashionable
lady,that she tried, - but could not bear the
rural quiet, and who intuit mix in Crowde,
and - be within the radius of " good eocietY."
The`poor Doctor dreams of Cornwall, and in
waking hours casts many a thought and look.
toward this his:native district; but Madani
is the marplot who dashes and dissipates
his long cherished dream of here ending
his days.
Land's-End, in Cornwall, should be vis
ited by every English or American tourist.
Arriving by, rail at 'Penyarice—which is
about, 285 milea .from London-:-you go by
cab or carriage direct over hills and vales,
till' you 'come within sight of the rolling
Atlantic: Yonder to the left, near St.
inst, juts out into the sea, Cape Cornwall,
which is almost, but not quite, so .promi
nent as the Laud's-End itself. From Cape
COrnwall, to which T. was conducted by a
Most worthy host, I had, a grand view, of
Land'i-End, and also of &remarkable mine,
which 'has yielded immense treasure, and
the 'peculiarity of which is, that . its exca
vated depths penetrate, - a Considerable way
underneath the bed of the sea. Towering,
cliffs are over-topped by - the tall Chimney
of the mine antrthe Venal timbers, and
inizelliriery'onlfthe_ierge of the sliiift;
and up which the miners descend and re
turn.- The lodes were first discovered in
the' eliffi ed frbm the ,
sands beneath. - -Thus the , " Captains" of
mines, (a class of most ; respectable and, in
telligent men whom one f'.requeritly meets,
iii railway or omnibus, moving from one
another,) together 'With local pro
Piietors, have guidance furnished. them to
the rich stores which lie Under the upper
crust—some of these lodes having a thick
ness of several yards others very thin.
But to return—l am bound,to-day, for,
the Land'i-End. It is Saturday, and it is
my holid4- 2 -lirty're'st dayltLand already in
haling the' Atlantic breezes, standing on
the high cliffs , of Cornwall , Cape, I turn my
eyes.longingly to the Land's-End itself,
about five miles away, and, long to be there..
across' Driven a" - wild'eOuntry—treeless,
and graitite-bilibki flungoVer its Weeks,
as from a giant's band—l find myserf at
last approaching the wished-for goal. Here
a little village ; ; here a little, low-roofed.-
church, evidently . very ancient, and with
the early . English' arch 'over topping its
docki , way* Here, too, is a little 'inn, of
plainest pretensions in - reality,pbut2leti
unique. for aa. you vnme up tax itqarioread,
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PILOPRECTOR AND PI7IO,INEDIA.
IN ENGLAND "; and after you have passed
beneath it, and turned round with your
back to the ocean ,
__ you read the obverse in
scription, " THE FIRST INN IN ENGLAND."
Coming down to the Land's-End, it .i,s the
" last"inn ; coming from the Land'S.End,
it is " the first" which greets the travel
ler's and the tourist's eye.
Leaving the carriage, I promed.on foot,
across still moory soil, toward the shore.
Arriving, in about tea minutes, on a pla
teau commanding a magnificent vie* ofthe
coast, especially northward and westward.
The Land's-End and the Longship Light
house, are both before me—the latter
, etan d
ing on the largest of a mass of !vela about
a mile from the shore, and around whose
base the waves clamor and foam incessantly,
throwing up sheets of spray, and ofttimes
forbidding for many successive days or
weeks, any intercourse between the three
oceupants and the shore: To-day,- a great
sterinlis but subsiding, and the Atheatie is
t B ,944e4esthtlits
reined tip . .against his impetuous, .will.
Herb indeed is a scene. which cannot fail
~'riieet: the-attention; and excite the astonish
ment and "admiration.of every stranger.
"These -hugergranite rocks form a barier
to the tumultuous, sea; 'and prewit;iallorne
places the resemblance,of shafts cut with
the ehissel ; in other - parts they „.,,,manie
the' appearance,er
archk , thiiitfgh'whieth AA`
lows rat with tremendouitturpetTndlessly
varied, in rugged .fortiK inwfienApilavin
some parts and shelving in Am ; rec
into, caves or stretching fityrard,int i ,o the
sea, and witli r ' that sea ever restless,, but
sometimes ibssed about by the raging tem
pest, there. are no scenes of' nature mote
,diversified, and more absorbing in interest,
than such, a coast. It is calculated ; tu api
mate the vivid feelings of the poet, and
also to excite the enthusiasm, and to call
into action the pencil, of the artist."
Land's-End has a historic interest. It
is gellerattradinitted;thattißtelcitnekaled
this point : "Bolerium"; the British. bards
named it :anvil : guard, or the,proutontery
of blood. Illitorians relate that the Phoe:-
nicians visited this coast; th r irse:vin i An
glo-Saxon: Kings were here i'dgetlief
the year 600; .(were they, like Dr. Syntax,
in search .of the picturesque,?"}: that'lSte
phen i landed , here
. on
ri his.first, arrival in
flog,land; also' King ilehri on his neva
lif
ffoTieland; and 'Perkin Waiheer, j yt*.o
laid claim to the crown of England'. `s ere,
.Atheistan embirlreat , for :the Sally
Isles. In the little village of May l inAiaal
by, is a large stenc,ealleNto .41.fian,;441
concerning which ie a triidAion tfl'at thy*
kings ' on their visiting the Litid'iiikna
once, died together on it. • "
. I deseended,the cliff until I stoannithe
extreme western _verge ,of England.iAXas
sageeare 'here and there cut prough i the
rocks, thiough Which - you advance or re
turn.i After looking over the m
the
pice,,l Sat down: in a , sheltered spot, 'and
with the Sun's,light'and warmth .shOwered
upon me. Many were the, emotions awalr 7
ened ; many the thatights suggested. Sa l ine
of these Were cheerful and' glidliirie
ers sad: and sombre. •' Siferi4 Air - WA:eel
beyond that_ rolling, ocean:!,:,My, theart
in whiCh Sleep three , brothers, and. i tbe
and 'prayer arise' for peace restored, and
benediction is invoked on all the good and
true of the United States.
But the scene inspires other and sunnier
topics.. Here is the " glorious- mirror,!4
in ,whlch "the, Almighty's form
,glpass
itself in' tempests"; here, behind me and
beneath; are the "'everlasting hills"; here
are: the ,rolling Waves: coming bowitrd
their s tnajestylaod might, each'separate;.:all
one, emblem„ef the Union of
,God's people,
" distinct as the biflows,_ but one as the
sea,"; here are
,the sea-birds,. reading
me, as they - skim ever' the Waters or rese,o9.
the peak, the hand of that "God" who
" feedeth them," • and, will much more take
charge, in his'pinvidence, of our temporal
necessities; and yonder,is the lighthotinr,
safe on the rock, .while, billows threaten
and rage, indestructiblelike that Word, or
Church of God, which cannot perish, Npi
which, holds ,forth amid the darknesso
once thee - beipon to warn off the unw,ag
from a 'perilous Coapt, and a. guide to - the
voyager on the waste of waters!.
And here, too, I stand on, the spot, where
. Charlea Wesley had enggested to him the
follOwitig noble hymn
44 Lo !, on a narroat neck' of land,
' Ttoixt two ; unbounded seat / stand,
Secure, insensihle;,
• A point of time, a,monientl's apace,
Removes Me to that heaVeillYttlaoe;
Or shuts me up in hell.
" 0 God, mine inmost soul convert,
And deeply. on, my thoughtfUl hesrt
Eternal things impress; ...
Give me to feel their solemn weigh t t,
And. trembhr on the 'brink or ffite; ,
And wake to righteousness..
, .
4‘ Before , me place in dread array,
The 'pomp Of that - tremendowi day;
Wkietilthodwith elonde' shag '6040
To judge the nations at thibafr
And tell me, Lord, shall I be there,
To meet, &joyful .doom?
,4 Be this my one great business here-,
With'serions inditetrandfitir
.Eternal-hlissX ensure-, -
Thine utmost,qminse).,,tp..fplfil,
And suffer far thy , righl6us will,
And to the end endure.
" Then, , Saviour, then my add receive;;
TransportedAto,m thiglrate, Ave :
And reign. with thee above„
Where faith is sweetly loitialdght, -
And hope in full, supreme delight,
And everlasting love."
May every` "re . sdef`,o the, i j3,, l ammr.,a4m6
the z ftleiding cry of
of
this hymn is own! .
Faithfulnds.
On one occasion; he late
Charles Simeon was suminoned to the
bed , of a brother. Entering •the ' rp6m,
relative'. extended' his 'hind tolluitsiiint
with deep emotion.said,.
you never warned me of the state:ll4las in;
and of the danger toiwhichVa§ apt:Wed
from neglecting the 'salvation oftlny.imillit" .
"Nay, rny ,, hrother;":repYied Sinieti, l
" I took every - reasonable
. oppottaity
bringing.theinbject of religionbefere yodr
mind, and frequently alluded t 6 itquElfriP
letters." ".Yes,"': .exclaiined the 4yille
man; " you did; -hut= that was ittrefe
You never .came. to` me, cicied tkolle&T
and took.me,:bv , ,the collar at *W4l6lo;ll'4'
told me that I was unconverttapirid
if T. died in that :state, h; should- be !bit.
And nowT„am dying,,and,t4t. for ,figsAr,
grace - , I' ightLforever have been ntdour,
It is said tha't ' this SVating,scetie unarm
ineffaileablec , inipieskisO'`en 1 11. "Sigeallir
): r