REV. DAVID •NI'ICIITNEY, Editor and Proprietor. REV. I. N. M'KINNEY, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. TERMS IN ADVANCE. lir MALL. $1.50 Demo:atm Iff ilf HMI 9r THI CITIES 2.00 For rwo Dot Leas, we will send by mall seventy numbers, nd for Owe DOLLAR, thlrty-threo rrnmbers. P Wore sending Ile subsdribere and upwards, will lho roby entitled to a paper without charge. Itenewalashould be prompt, a little before the year expire. Bond paymetfts by safe kande, or by mail. Direct all letters •to REV. DAVID M'KINNEY, Pittilburgh, Pa. New Hymn for the Lord's Day. The following beautiful hymn is calm the pen of the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, Canou of Westmin ster Abbey, and nephew of the late poet-laureate, one of England's greatest divines and scholars. —Episcopal Recorder. Oh day of rest and gladness, 0 day of joy andlight, 0 balm of care and sadness; Most beautiful, moat bright; On thee the high and lowly, Bending before the throne, Sing, Holy, Holy, Holy, To the great Three in One, On thee at the creation, The light first had, its birth; On thee for our Salvation Christ rose from depths of earth; On thee our Lord victorious The Spirit dent from heaven, Aridihus on thee most glorious A triple light wa's given. - - Thou art a port protected From storms that round us rise; A - garden intersected With Streams of paradise ; Thou art a cooling fountain In life'eLdry, dreary sand; From thee; like - Pisgah's mountain, We vieVour,Promised Land. Thou-art a holylailcier,• Where angels go and come; Each Sunday Eulll6llB gladder, Nearer to hediren,our home. A - day of sweet reflection, lhon art a day. of lore ; A dar of resurrection From earth to things sigma, To-day on Weary itaticinti The heavenly Manna To holy oonvoostinns The silver trumpet. calls; Where Gospel light is 'gloWing With pure and*radiant beams, And living water flowing With soul-refreshing. streams. New graces ever gaining Front this our day. of rest, We reach the rest, remaining To spirits of the blest; ,, To Holy Ghost be praises; To Father and to Son; The Church' her voice upraises To thee, blest Three in One. For the Fregkaterian Bannoi. "IA and le Mall Find," The Lord must be diligently sought. We' are commanded' to htriv6 to bitter in at the' strait gate, 'The'firovaise of antiattanee is to those *ho 'Weal' and aSstiraziee giv-, en that those,sl49.,Feeeive who as Yea, , 4 if thou seek hum, he, will be. found of thee : but , if thiM forsake -him / he will mat, thee off forerter.n Let it be fr didtiictly iindilitidod and con stantly po,vrto t krf4: l / 4 44t1 lel :no ANTI. )*Alit ever great, — vtkoli ,we. may put forth in: seeking the Lord, has, itself, any proper' efficiency in , proattnitig ' the • result. There is no sitoli rdliftitii3 Ad of ;cause .and effect between the seeking of the Lord and the the finding of his favor; but there are es tablished means of grace, , Without the use of whieh we can have no eipectatibn of his blessing, but in the use of which *e have the most eimuraging Promiin of Di vine aid and ultimate success. God must be sought (and it is reason enough,) beeatale he requires it. There surety is iftetive enough in thatlhe blessing follows. Besides the direct • assertions • of this truth, observe the language which is so freJ queritly employed fit the &riptide's in'ad-: dressing sinnerifVfid-0 ifistiftiee, " seek;' ; " ask ;"" kne4jl • ' 44 .l,ittive to enter' ;" " come unto me ;I'M wile ye to the waters."' Do not these expretasions; and such as these, plainly inchoate that the Lord must'' ie sought. There is prdoision'in the langnage • of the Bible, and the freqtient . :inefirrenbe of such words and forms of expreinia l ln. such connexions as they are found; ennuei be misunderstdod. Moreover this trial is in accordance, with what wo know of God's Method of op eration. St ordinarily works by means; indeed so far as we can see, this Seetns to be a universal hi* in the' active manifesta tions of his Might. The few cases, as in the working of miracles, where God has for a special purpose wrought immediately, and without the employment of secondary causes, are sufficient to demonstrate 'his ability to adeomplish his ends Without the use of means ; but it has,• nevertheless, pleased him to make the relation of events as antecedent and consequent so , fixed, as to becdme a liar upon which we main with the greatest' 'nonfidence rely; so 'that the use of the approPriate means, universally and uniformly secures the deairedgend..' To the present and assiduous nnet•of•the means of grace it is objected, 3hit,l,litata tion being secured by God's eternarelic tion, if one is elected to be saved he will be sared,l nothing which he can do, and or shall leave undone, can make any differ enee in the result. Now, this, in the sense used, is a danger ous del.usion. It is an attempt to avoid duties in which3he natural heart has no pleasure; and:lo:throw the responsibility of the consequinceil upon God. Election is indeed the Ultilitade ground of salvation. The certain futniity, of the event is surely sedured by God's eteonal'deoree ; but, mark this well, if you are - elected to be saved, you are also elected " te' be coo fornod to the image of the Son of' God;" you are chosen from the beginning to salvation,' " through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth." The event may be certain id . I.oSped to God's decree, and yet contingent in : relation to the • oieeoe,. and agencies on which it depends. The degree does not determine the event independent of the' means, hut the event and the means. Now, you May. .be elected to salvation ; I hope you : are:l it :it you arb,,you wahe saved by seeking:.the Lord in the use of his established Means - of grace ; • and tire; sooner you seek" the' irnth of your condi tion, the sooner you bow yourself in pryer , before,God, the sooner you repent andr,bo-. lieve on Abe name of Christ, bf.so much, you will 3he sooner be assured of yotir election ; and let this truth be not'fbrgot ten, that, if yen rely for salvation upon the chances of your election, and do .not seek God, you will •strely never be saved. If salvation is worth anything, seek ; and if faithfully sought in - thestrength of God, you will find it; 464 tiiii eiidence of your election is then unquestionable. Bub it may be urge& 'that the natural , man.is•tinable to exerciet'any datiergrate, tisible to - repent of sin. ttniliebliff'elOn • piNt4 - 11 1 11/ - + . . VOL. XI.. NO. 28 Christ, and must therefore wait until he is effectually called of God to their exercise. I answer, that the only evidence you will ever have of your effectual calling, is to be found in the effectiveness of your seeking. Man is indeed impotent, and all the work of his salvation is of God ; yet it is in and through the human facqlties that it is ac complished. God worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure. Faith is the gift of God, yet it is no less an exer cise in the soul of man ; an exercise of the verTfactilties which all men possess. All men are theri3fore appropriately Called upon to believe ,on •the- Lord Jesus Christ and be saved. Moreover, if Men were elected merely to salVation, and, not also to juatificatin4and sanctification. of the Spirit, theytmustt be saved-in sin and not from, sin. They must be saved by an arbitrary act of God, with out any change of :.character._ The treat. object ,of , salvation, which, as far as-relates to man :himself, is to. bring him into holy -communion with, and -enjoyment of God, is ignored; the law of God: is dishonOredi and confuSioh introduced into his ,government. This does ,not become an Omnipotent,-All wise, and holy God, Hence the evidence accumulates that, .« If thou -seek will be - found of thee; but if thou forsake liim;,he will east thee, off forever." Tor the Presbyterian Banner Letter 'from a* eitaplaii. CAMP IN THE WOODS, NEAR CARTHAGE TENN., March sth, 1 . j 'EDITORS BArinta :-. l llly . last leiter 'was written from Oariip near Nashville, Tenn., When we were expecting, hourly to'go for , ward to Murfreesntno'. On the . /Ist of 'February we received. orders to return to Nas'hvill'e, and report en board Transport Fleet. As to our destination, there' were 'Many conjectures; seine supposing it-te'be Vicksburg, others Fort Donelson, &c. On •the 24th, donjeeture beekine certainty When the`fleet steam 'ad 'away up the Cuinberlan'd. Our knolls are very uncertain, one hav ing been captured, so that rank necessa rily omit everything hirVinc , any reference to our numbers or future Inovem'enti.. Ae_ ter an"exciting trip up the river, wear-rived Eta - rely at Oarthige ' one hundred and fifty- miles above- Nashville, on the' 2 27th, entirely unexpected to the inhabitante. I leave the yeaderto imagine. the titter Fcon sternation of the people, as depicted in their every movement .on the arrival. of such a surprise party: . With few exceptions there is a , hatred among.the, people against the Union army N And the 'orth, that is- terrible. With all You have read abotit it, you can kno* but , tl r ou midst see, lear,:feel ate It Haidithere are some Union' men -in ...thia,re gin; lading in the,- ,inoun tains, , tai= escape the eensonption 'ewers, There:are veryfewinen. to be seen. , Car*, thake is almost: deserted),4iidept ,by ale* , -here are no Schools, no Sa' 00 , no church services, no Sabbath. Sadness, sorrows and gloom seem to charaderise ev erything. Take away Sabbath gehooli, close. all your. 'churches, arid what 'a tpicture presents *fain ' Never, as novic. have I loved tbe Sabbath and its „blessed.privi leges. The army and Abe, stern facts fleeted with it, will test a man's religion, and. if lhe good , seed is' in the heart, it will take .depper. reat. Many=; men in convers ing.with. me,. declare that they neverAnter how teappreciate the prayer-ineetingpand a preached.-Gespel, until. cut off from' them. They feel ...their utter dependence upon God, and ;the necessity of trusting in the . Lord-Jesus...Christ' alone for.salvatien. I 'hive never seen-the .poWer df religion , more fully , deireloped than- sinee. , niy , connexion' with the array. There - ;is- great wickedness Among. us. We Jiro all , bibners. There is- a- great Sa % vionr. Our religious eiercisesido nit 'de crease' in interest,. I preached last Sabbath from, ‘, -This faithful saying: and ..wor thy of ,all licceptation, , • that Christ Jesus' 'name into rthe.world save sinners." Af ter •sermon - , three persons 'requeited , per mission to unite with the, Church. rtrUst, their limes are .virittea in"the—Laurb'S 'Book of life. In the evening , .wei had prayer, and donferenee meeting.' /kat . ..We sang, . • ' , lie dies, thelciend ofsinnera, the beatitiftd teflon sad the stars, Stett ed to jain in the aillillein; lifting anilieeite Up to Rims where he " ever :livetli to in r -tereede for us" ln that meeting; soldier lifter soldier; the young and the Old, stood rip Mid' Spoke - of their trust in 'the 'Redeem ' et, giving him all the praise for their hope Of -salvation. Daring thlit Sointan meeting I rettinied, spiritle the dear ehureh at hanie,• then, 'as 'I believe; praying .for me; arid' ►Vlirle' out off from all the' dear, serial fled"' associations that bind me there, I pireyed for 'grace testand my,lot„ and be made %he instrninent ef turning , irtaty -to righteousness.. More rtinklnare. ant I im pressed with the;responsibility of ,my posi tion, the great field of msefainess before ma, and my utter dependence, upon the .-Holy Spirit to " bless .the sower and L the seed.", _ ; ,I,osn - greatly fa c tored, in having, ;mi l um sual,anissont of musical talent in myregi ment. It is grand to hear a great oompt 7 ;• ny of men,' singing the , sweet old hYmos And -tones sung by so many 'milliona.laf .4310d'8. pople ,who are now chanting;!the new song ;before , the throne on hi gh. 'Reader, ben Christian. .live,to glorify God. , , • . W: Moanis„Glinitzs,: Chaplain 92d -,Ohio,Voluo teen: ; PrOvidinte. I. Cor. xiii :-.—Xovrnow.• we •eee through•a glass darkly. - , • The future is mercifully hid. l it could do'•us no good to ,knouywhat is to come. It might do us . much harm. It would I ,doubtless; occasion us muph.unhappixesn. Even• of ,the present we .know but. ;. laud providence is dark because we ' 'How inknyof )oiirreacters are' eaunestly Peeking- to; make heaven the - end .rigrtheir - lourney?: 'HOW Many feel that , they ere ravellers= aloug the - narrow-lvay.thatf leas to 'heaven? , We-tiarnestly exhortoymulte - , ..takethis I:natter , home,. and-make it aren't). i eet- Of earnest inquiry. - , One greatrObject '4.fi 'all''our labor is tO 'bring _you . . onleur Avair.i' , The;`great liammoinit . desirefbf ;,ur hearts is, thatryou and-,we,may:meettin A.1•04.1101-44ar,niliskiaili • t.c :%-rifoWifofteocdo:wiviiedir theselexprearkeis usedzbajwkillittaWhi at it, 4keYin.Rfat&lie saintt)og! Yet potl4oB..wye 01 Rise sinte'egt: their - pOntiaiiiii: GOkidneitis . 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