REV. DAVID M'KINNEY, Editor and Proprietor. REV. I. N.,IWKINNEY, ASSOCIATE Eruron. TERNS IN ADVANCE. . „ Br MAIL $1.50 DELITERES IN EIPIIER os TIES CITIES 2.00 For 1:wo Bowles, we will send by mall seventy numbers, std for Ose DOLLAR, thirty-three numbers. P telore sending us TWENTY subscribers and upwards, will thereby entitled to a paper without charge. Renewals should be prompt, a little before the year expires Bend payments by safe hands, or by mall. Direct all letters to • REV. DAVID M'KINNEY, Pittsburgh, Pa. Borhim,(*) "And it came to pass, when the angel of the ord spoke these words unto 01l the Children of arael, that the people lifted up their voice and ept. And they called the name of that place oohim."—JUDOEB 4, 5. Through Boohim's valley all must tread— ' Some bitter, burning tears, Must ev'ry heav'n-bound pilgrim shed, Before his home appears: Before he sees hie Father's face, yy In realms of endless day ; before in Jesus' fond embrace, t All tears are wiped away. Dark deeds of sin, wrought long ago, In wild and thoughtless youth, Whilst yet we wandered to and fro, Strangers to God and truth-- These oft, like ghosts, will leave the tomb, In stillness of the night, Oppress the heart with deepest gloom, The trembling "sout affright: Many the dreary, sleepless nights, Many the tears and prayers, Before these dim and ghastly sprites Are driven from their lairs! Beside some little"grassy mound, With olinging wild flow'rs Oft will some kneeling form be found, By 'whelming grief opprest: Some must, like kingly David, weep Above a sickly child : (f) Some must, like faithful Rizpah, keep Death-watoh on mountain wild: (t) Some o'er their own deep-seated Woes, - The flowing tears must shed; - Whilst others, Christ-like, weep o'er those Whose day of grace is fled. The, easily besetting sin— The secret, gnawing woe-- These wring the grieving soul within, And make the sad drops flow : These drive us to the "sinner's Friend," These lift our thoUghta above; In him our dark forebodings end, There grid is lost in love. ..- ( 4 ) a Weepers ;". "place of weeping." (0 IL Sam. xli t 22. (T) IL Saul. xxi : 10, --PtOm Songs by the Way Far the Preetryterian Banner Toaorrow. " To-morrow shall he as this day, 'end much more abandant."--Isa. lvi : 12. Men calculate on to-morrow. They think it will be as this day as it regards life, health, reason, the prospect of 'repentance, the means' of grace, the influences of the Spirit, and all their possessions and enjoy ments. Nay, more; they, think that to morrow.will be more abundant than this day, in regard to wealth and the means of acquisition; in regard to pleasure, the 'fa cilities for becoming pions, and all their hopes and enjoyments. But to-morrow is really more abundant - than this day, often in disappointments, in care and 'trouble,, in ev erything distreining, and :hack' more abun dant in sin, in guilt and misery. Besides, to-morrow is really mere abundant than to day in diffuliilties and hindrances in the way of becoming pious. Men have heaped up riches, and these• distract the mind. Their families require attention and call it off from religion. They have so long re sisted the trtith;:that their' heart's are bar- dened. They Cannot feel. A InOtintain is in their way; but it is - a mountain of their own forming, and well for them if it shut them not out of heaven—well, irthere re main nought but, a fearful looking ' for of judgment - cud" fiery indignation—well, if there be not, already so many difficulties in the way, of their becoming pious, that .they will never break the chains in which - , they have bound thethselves, and' escape the snares and enchantments of the fowler let' the reader remeiriber that how great sOever the obstructions in his path to-day, to-mor row they will be much more abundant. Nay, - more ; if yet impenitent, to-morrow will really be more ebundant in probabili ties that you shall be, lost I Once your sal vation may have been probable. You were not far from the kingdom of God. But now there are so many diflithilties in 'your way that it may be improbable Yea, there may be many probabilities on the side of your eternal damnation I The longer you live in sin, the stronger do these probabilitiejs become I Soon it may be said, Thy damnation is Sure I 0 reader, beware of to-morrow! To-day is the time to awake—the time to flee from the wrath to come—the time to lay hold of eternal life ! Flee to Christ to-day; and' never put off until to-morrow what' should be done to-day—never count on the future —improve the 'present hour—be wise to day ! To-inurrow May never come. To day 'repent, believe, and you shall live. W. J. M. New BRIGWFON, Pa., March 49,1663 MUMS, EDITORS :I—On visiting the twin cities of Allegheny and Pittsburgh, after an absence of some six years in the Far West, upon the broad. prairies of Ne braska and among the beautiful scenes and lofty , heights of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the mind is presented with many interesting sights, and made more interest ing by former associations. To one from the new country of the Far West, where everything is new and fresh, these iron, smoky cities present quite an old appear ance. Made black by the dense smoke and thick dirt, everything looks old. And yet those flourishing cities, separated by` the pure, „limpid waters of the beautiful Alle gheny, contain , many very fine residences and large business houses. Money is plen ty, times good,' and business lively. Many of the streets are quite throng with people. While many a bereaved parent is mourning the severe loss of brave sous who have fallen upon the gory field in the fierce con flict still going on between Union and Dili union, still the war has not ohecked busi ness. We heard a Pittsbnrgher say, " The war is' .a - good tlaing for Pittsburgh." Though very unusual, the beautiful Ohio has beerC'open all Winter, and the little puffing steamers have made their regular trips without cessation. The railroads cen tering here are all doing an immense amount of business. The new Allegheny bridge is a very fine specimen of wire-suspension.. WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. This flourishini school of the' prophets was founded in 1825, and went into opera , . fon'itclB27; with four students' and , ' two for the Presbyterian Banner. i _ + /a _ ~:. - -.- , ;. s q - ' : .7 '''' "`'.11 : "•V -' r.- + . . 44 i ;C VOL. XL NO. 29 instructors. The Seminary building is a neat three-story brick, beautifully situated on the West Common in Allegheny, and , handsomely overlooks a large portion-of that growing city. Well devised and finely finished, with all the modern improve ments, it is an ornament to Western Penn sylvania and to the nation, and an honor to the Church. Founded in prayer and con secrated to God, it has been a rich blessing to the Church. It is a light to the world; and blessed with the smiles of Him who " is LIGHT," it has long been a fountain "whose streams make glad the city of God." The number of students this , year is one hundred and thirty-two, and th whole number of alumni is six hundred and ninety-four; making in all eight hundred and twenty-six, many of whom have gone as foreign missionaries to tell the story of the cross to the dying millions of heathen lands ' from whose dark borders still comes up the earnest cry, " Come over and help us." With an able Faculty, and a well-selected library of ten thousand volumes, many of which are very rare and valuable, the Op portunities for instruction are of the first Order. Four Professorships are completely, widowed with a. fund of $lOO,OOO. And ample means are provided for the acooni modation of some one hundred and twenty students with comfortable rooms in Beatty. 'Hall and the Seminary building, tree of .charge. Besides, liberal provisions are made for needy students who are unable to pay their own expenses while prosecuting the theological course. Having always en joyed the ebnfidence of the Church and the blessing of God, with slight variations this popular Institution' hoe been itkoSeasing not only in the number of its students,•but in strength and usefulness. It well de series the prayers and patronage of the Church. COI;ORADO. For the Presbyterian Banner In Memoriam. At a meeting of the Union Literary So ciety of Washington College, Pa., held Fri day evening, March 20th, 1863, the follow ing resolitions were unanimously adopted: Inasmuch as it-hath seemed good to Him who " doeth his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of earth," that our late friend and fellow-member, A. M. Mclntosh, should, while bravely doing service in the gallant 126th Ohio, Regi ment, be summontd home; and whereas, it is proper that 'we express our high estima tion of his character; therefore, be it Resolved, That during our acquaintance with this departed brother, he ever 'dis played those noble qualities which mark the faithful student, the. true patriot, and the devoted Christian. Resolved, That in that ligh,toned -man liness which distinguished his life, and in that faithful attachment to country which characterized his death, we recognize the conduct of one who was a deservedly hon ored-member of this Society,. Resolved, That we truly and deeply ,sympathize with the numerous other friends who mourn his loss. Resolved, That a copy of these restau tions be' sent to the family of cledeased; and'also forwarded. for publication to the loyal paper of this town,' and, the Piisby- Seri= Banner. 1 11. A. ROSE, T. R. EWING, COM. H. M. AMIN, , EVROPEIN gORiESPONDENCB. The Bishops', Entreaty--Colenso's Refusal--The " Times Criticising Advising—krigest -of Ox ford Graduates for oroviett vs. - Prosecution and Pussy—The "Liberation -- ,Society" Professor 41 Stanley and the Pentateuch—o ! for' Palestine —The New .Terusalem—!Religion and Morals 'in France—The 'Priesthood and the .Prench'Cotton Famine—Paid Reli,gious Advertisements—Quack Doitors and a Scottish Elder's' Newspaper— Epigram on Colenso—London is -flame with Ex ' sitement— Reception of Princess 'Alexandra— Route of Piocession—Enthusiam--.llturnincitions —The Mother Honored in her Son—The Coming . Wedding and the Balmoral Servants. LONDON, March 7, 1863.- FORTY-ONE BISHOPS • have addressed a remonstrance and entreaty to Bishop Co lenso, asking him to "considerUnce more" —seeing that in his recent works he says he could no longer use the 'Ordination and Baptismal services, in which the authen ticity of the Pentateuch is recognized— seriously, "whether you can, without.harm to your own conscience, retain your- posi tion, when you can no longer discharge its duties, or use the formularies to-which you have . subscribed." To this appeal; , fauleiiso has responded,4efusing to resign, and; with marvellous blindness, - holds himself " set" for the rectificatiWoWopular mistakes as to the Pentateuch t"ur"f, The Times, with itallinal Mephistopheles sneer, exposes the weaknmts and helpless: ness of the Bishops, ai Virfnally confessed in such a document. " This, then, is the proposal of a parley, and no besieged reb els, in the last stage of despair, evershmed the white flag to a ruthless foe in:an hum bler tone and guise. It is difficult to be lieve that the persons appealing tothe con- - science of the man they address; are all the prelates of this powerful Church, while he is a solitary Colonial. They ask him to be so gdod as to settle, the 'question, whether he`can conscientiously retain his position. It is like inviting a man to appear al the bar of a criminal court, and then request-. ing him to decide,lor the convenience. of the public, what eharge he would like to be tried upon, whether he is guilty or not guilty, and what punishment he would think 'most appropriate to the offence. This` evidently'is the very question which puz sled Dr. Colenso himself. He finds him self a Bishop in charge of a Diocese, but, owing to some newly adopted convictions, no longer able to use some of the formu laries of the Church. "According to all Church law, he Would be still a Bishop, even.though he professed utter unbelief; and nothing short of an Act of Parliament, if that, could make him no longer-a Bishop in the eyes of English Churchmen. Only last session, 'Parlia ment refused to,release a elergynian from his spiritual ofihracter, on any pretence whatever. But if a bishop, priest, or dea con, cannot possibly get rid of his qualifi cations, it follows that his qualificatibris are equally inalienable." There is inexorable logio in all this,,as well as ridierile. The absurd priestly the ory of ." indelible orders" is now bringing its oonsequences with it But let us- hear the Times still further " Ns Dr. Colenio very recently' proposed to r :Si go the Bishopric of Natal,' and start on u missionary expeditiont , into-the tintn:' lior;' it is ipossible thatliknesuoir - ithain a.cif PITTSBURGH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL I, 1863. of ideas has been passing through his mind, and that he contemplates retaining the naked Bishopric without the Prayer Book, without English jurisdiction, and, so far as regards the text, without the Bi ble. This may seem strange, but Churches have been founded by equally simple means. If the subscribing prelates do not allude to some such contingency, what do they mean by asking Dr. Colenso to consider whether he can retain his position ? Do they sim ply want him to - be passive or. consenting in any measure that may be necessary for superseding him in the See of Natal ? If that is all—if they are asking him to be so good as to walk out of Natal, that is a very feeble,,and, as - it seems to us, a very in complete result. We have several retired Bishops, who lake confirmations, preach, and make themselves generally useful. Retired from Natal, Bishop Colorise Wbuld be one of theie supernumeraries, though for the present unemployed." - The Times, hiving argued thus fir,asks , the Bishops to carry out the qiiestion to another issue : "He is either fit Or unfit - ; as we thoroughly believe, the latter; but as the Bishops are quite as fit to decide as he or we,.it'is for them to start the inquiry, and to bring it to a practical conclusion. The Address gives him an'opportunity of Starting, frep`and un impeadhed, in an-inde pendent career, not without its dangers to the Chnreh. Unless he is even more im prudent than we take hint to be, he will not pronounce a Condemnation on himself, when he can release hiniself from his See without it He Will not pronounce on his own 'head, ' Anathemaliaranatha, utterly unqualified for any ministerial function. Nobody would - purhinTself in•such a, posi tion withont:tbinking a . good- doilrabout it. The Bithops, have no right to constitute themselves a Court of Honor, to decide cases of conscience or professional feeling. If •they can't manage ,to, convict Dr. Colin so of heresy, for denying the ,truth of a ,quarter of the Bible, they will hardly in, unfrocking him by a'gratilitous ap peal to'his sense of .deceney." While the Bishops might retort on the Times, that it has discouraged prosecutions for heresy, and while, the " sense of de cency" is .a fair ground of appeal to any honorable body of men, addressing one who is not supposed to'be lost to all feeliagoret their helplessness is here laid naked and bare before the nation and the world, to the increasing damage of Episcopacy, and a fettered and Erastianized Establishment, . in .• • which, order to retain its connexion with the State, must remain a- slave, and now finds that even Ecclesiastical Courts, so called, provide no rescue even from a heretical and blaspheming Bishop ! Verily the scandal is great, and would not be-re lieved if Con Vocation—the shadow - of a true' Church'-Synod—were to pronounce Colenso " girilty" to-morrow. PROFESSOR JOWETT'S prosecution is being protested against, in the _advertising columns of the. Times , by a large body of Oxford men. It is oubtless dictated in' part, by the extreme, narrow,__ monastic Character and career of Dr. Piisey, just as :the fact that Archdeacon Dennison leads the !say in Convocation (the same who holds that the wicked communicant actual ly eats and drinks of the body and blood in the Sacrament, and who teaches a Real Presence almost if not quite as gross as Rome does,) as the denouncer of the- au thor of "Essays and Reviews," tends to give sympathy to the assailed. But be sides.-dislike of Dr. Pusey, it is inifortu nate for his cause and, suit that the Uni versity Court before which he proposed to; bring. Jewett, was originally a' small debts court, intended to make the membereof the University liable to pay their-dues to all and sundries, and that its present phase and power to deal with heretical probity was affixed to it in the days and under the in fluence -of- that virulent ."Pope at Lam beth," Archbishop Laud, who righteously finished his career by laying his head on the block on TOwer. Hill, as the enemy of the liberties of. England. The two -con cluding reasons assigned in the protest, are as follows " Because the constitution and proceare of this particular tribunal are at(once obso lete and oppressive. It may be put in mo tion by any person, -against any resident member of the University, on, account . of any works published, or any opinions ex pressed, in any •place, or at any distance of time." This is the Lauri aspect of the business. But the nest is very-different : • "Because the institution of any Court of Heresy must create „feuds and tuspicions` fatal both to social peace,and intellectual progress." There is some justice ii,this statement;. but by " intellectual progress;" may not all mean the' license of skepticism and daring speculators, unchecked by any kind of Ecclesiastical tribunal,, even after " or ders" in the Church have been taken. This is the tendency of' the'_times; to this 'the' young men of the 'higher class are drifting-: a Church embracing all parties--- Tractarian, Neologian, Arminian, Calvinist, with all the intermediate shades. Talking,with an Evangelical clergyman a fewdays ago, one of the Most excellent and spiritual of men, I referred to the present' aspect of affairs and pointed . out how ate Church system "tied together the living and the dead ;" what was his reply ? There are_unconverted men and ministers in your own "Church; " althongh,".he add ed, " were I unfrocked, and' obliged to leave the Church of England; it is to the 'Presbyterian Church I should repair as nearest my 'views, and especially as'exactly expressing them in its Shorter Catechism, which I have, ere now, taught to youno 'people in my schools." I dwelt upon the fact that as to "unconverted" men there, were comparatively few of such in the Ministry of the NOncenformist 'Church, Whereas there was - fearftil proof in many dieceses—as I myself had seen and heard—.-a- majority of such in -the National Church. But he would not, or could not, view , the matter thus, and returned to the assertion that many Presbyterian ministers (of' Whom his knowledge is small and limited,) were un , converted Men also, and' also that a number of them do not fully hold,believe and. teach the doctrines of their own-Confession and Calechisms. Thus, practically, evan gelical clergymen soothe themselves, cling to their positions, seek the good of their own flocks and parishes, and are a rope of sand as far as ecclesiastical 'reform is con cerned. Certainly, contact' with the State, always has corrupted_ the Church, since the days of .Constantine, and the entering of the' prinst's . office to obtain a Woe of bread, la ViglitfullY - 43nimii?ka 0 aflY *manta 'at the. University in Science and Classics ensuring fat College Livings as its ultimate reward, as well as securing to the sonsiof rich men, once that the Bishop has ordained them, the " presentations 7 and Patronage by which whole parishes are handed over for a generation, to men who are- spiritually blind, and whose earnestnessrif they have any, is that of sect or prietitlYfaiitaticism; and propagandism., -„, . 4 • • Meanwhile truth has nothing_ o 1 ear.. Controversy is the token of ..lTfe: ;'A. deaa t Church is motionless, waveless, 'stagnant' i fe Troublous times for the Ch h. of. Eng; land have come, and the iss :;vaneet but favorable ultimately both to ,spirit litl freedom, and to the progress df theGoivel. in England.. And so will it be egeiliO4: It is in this spirit that the" Malay for'ihe Liberation of Religion from 41tataTatroli-- age and Control," have issued -04roular,,to the Dissenters of the United Kittgdpui. . . . . PROFESSOR S'rANLEY, ,WhOOW4krtake! i Rev. Charles 'liiimley, has ')lge# .tetely, i l nominated as _an. Honorary CiUtilain 1,,0 the ~ Prince . of Wales, ( thus , as seiqwiter4 itria ; said,•semning to indicate ed . ' . 4 . - 7 k r io c f l i adopts the" Broad Church S !- -,- iisiiii) has recently publishedYart-.14t Lecturef, on the History of the Jewishvioi. - ;:,i,i4 is Begins Professor of EceleStaitiCaVl'Vv r fory in:thutiniversity of OxfOr4. ~i,,t':i idently - refersalthough: not naming it--6 - - Colenso's work in.aparagraplimpended to his Preface : " There : may ,lte,,„ errors in . chronology—exaggerations ifl,rttiribets:—. cont r adictions between the di tint narra tives. • iThey'may compel us` relinquish I one or other tof the numero t il.kpotheses which have been formed r besting,. . the composition or the inspiratio . .,ol , the :01d Testament. • But as they: Woad.' not de-! - stroy the value of other hittoffc'so they , need not.'deetrey 'the valus.lifilitailistory, : incense it relates to sacred.Bunste- - fOf another, note ; at the end.,eftheOiltitne,the' following is an extract,. Be ferring to arithmetical errors in the harrsitiie'Of the, 'Old Testament," lie .eays'il 'ffieir "It're;iiii- i questionably inconsistent , withiUndeviating, accuracy. -The parallel . instal* of a like tendency to the amplifieationteknumbersi in Josephus's ' Wars of the "T' is `ale-1 . cided proof of their compatibliio ;with a; substantially historical .narrileii It we : •extend to the narrative of:tbSdifferenti parts of the Old Testament, the .aame -laws; of- criticism which we apply4itther histo rips, especially to oriental Atateries, its very errors and defects ma. ,M reckoned as its' safeguards, and 'at'any fiteiare guides to the true -apprehension OfTi4 meaning and-,intention. From, .an- ; hoioat,,,ioquiryi, and from. a calm discussion cause points Which have been:raiieif thee - cause of relie.-; ion has everything tefi'ghcii - ofaixioth#i s py 1636 . ." :'-. • '.' - r '' '"—'-' r 11 ' • - Benisch,- of the ifeUelellgilerver, Rev. Mr.ltirks ' and othertfhble,*penents of Colenso, would tiotonske the Omissions thus conceded- as.to " arithrnetielterrors." But it is plain that Stanley stands aloof both L from those'who disbelieve the Patatehcli altogether and those who'foonlkleirsitrialat4 and unauthentiirdocument.- I' He has tee muelf,".it has been well said, "of the his torical sense not to feel how historical the first five books of the Bible are ;' he has too aeciirate a kaowledge 4 - Egypt, 'Sinai; and Palestine, not to feel that only an eye wit ness .could have 'described the.scenery_ ; of those lands, and put in .those life-like touches, which bring, the Nile and the des- ert before us, as in a Pictnre. It may suit the fancy of seine' German Professor who has never passed the bounds ofl the tßhina .and the Rhone, to see a myth 'here,innd - a legend there, and BO piece and .patch the Bible narrative According to some precon-* eeived theory of his own. But Canon Stanley can' use these German critics with out giving hp , that roundabout common sense which is the distinguishing mark of the ; English -intellect and which, like the ounce Mother wit; is worth a "pound' -of , clergy'? 'A journeftn - lbet;East .would be an infallible' cure to the disease of over ingenuity under, which all German critics' labor. The land is.the best interpreter of - the book. In the East,-where customs al-- ter not, and where the Bedouin' of the mineteentlreentury• after Christ is so , little, different from the Bedouin who roamed the same deserts nineteen .centuries before Christ, the evidences for the authenticity of the' Bible, multiply' upon us at' every step." 'There arenot a few readers .of , the Banner who can- confirm emphatically, the foregoing statement. Allow me sir, to ask, when, and by whose generous help,, shall you or I, - or rather you and be 'able to stand on Mount' Zion and to traverse the "whole land," from Bethlehem 'on the South, to Lebanon.'S. being) received all! through; London,` ,from.--Southwark onward over London Bridge ,through, OW 'city, proper—the Lord Vaybr - andCorparsition leading the- Wayjii their - carriages; and 'with More 'than -theirkeredzta"iy,.splendor- and lavish' deco refit:ins. .Fleet Street and xnple Bari ‘,t4e... 8 410W4 11310, 1 1 , 4 Rie gadilly past, Apsley House, andihen, amid serried' arid 'saluting lines of 'the 'Volunteer troops; they pass,.. amid dOrionstratians of affectionate loyalty unparalleled in English history. The crowds of spectators. are be yond, calculation ; the flags of England and Denmark wave side by side;: their national musiP 'Combines in harmony ; acclamations - rend - ihe air, and the-erithiisiasin is intense.. Fabulous' pricesY are , being paid for advan tageous., seats. To,night.. j the dome and ,west . front , St. Nulls Cathedral - will he splendidly illuminated. London Bridge, on `eitheriide,`4 -decorated with wOrtdrous -taste and beautyrand .beneath a Triumphal Arch. of surpassing - , splendor the young pepple have passed into the city. - The na tion's heart is full of hope as well as joy: for the Prince is a flue youth,' and his young .bride-elect has ''been broughl,' up with .the greatest care, and also in snnpli eity of life and -manners: . ,it was, however, more on this national demonstration: THE QUERN, THE MOHER, THE MODEL WIFE- 7 -- gill:mourning, yet smiling 'mid her tears— ' Slit IS llormaßo. " 44 Gbd =BLESS A.ND COM FORT HER i" That is the prayer which ,will ,find universal response from Americans, and ", PEACE, UNION, AND "UNIVERSAL FREEDOM TO AMERICA," is another prayer and cry, - whichfroni'many of our`best and noblest will arise.to heaven. J.W. P. S.—On Tuesday next, the I.oth inst., the-Royal -marriage will be celebrated Windsor ' in the, Chapel Royal. The. Queen has sent for all—the humblest included— , of the servants at Balmoral, and shlit out nobles from the Royal Chapel, to allow them, = the living retainers of the Prince Consort; to see the wedding of hey son: Is not that queenly, womanly, and admirable? -:The- Way Eo Heaven. A.!ocitivEßiATlo* - IN COTTAGE. A'elergyman was visiting an old Couple in allistant part of his parish. The wife was poorly, and the-old 'man had no work to do-that, day ;- so they were sitting togeth er by the lire. The minister, after some conversation, opened the Bible at the' 7th chapter of Revelation, and read from the 9th versei , beginning, "And.after.this .1 be held, and, 10, a great multitude," down to the end of the chapter. The old' couple listened with great attention. When he had done, the minister turned to the old 'man and said: ",That is a beautiful. passage, Master Hill." " Ay, sir, it is indeed." " I hope you are looking that way with all your heart, and your wife too." " I , hope we are, sir, I'm sure, both of us. It's time we should." " Tell me, what is it you look to, to bring you 'to that happy place ?" The old man seemed a little 'confused by the question; but in a few moments he an ewered : " Well, sir, I must do as well as I can." "And do you think thaf will save you ?" "I hope so, sir. I do n't know as I can do any more." "I'll tell you what;-Master Hill," said the=olergyman, very solemnly, you 'll never get= to heaven so. That was notethe way those happy , people got there or whom. I have been reading. Yoi 'll never get there so!' The old maw looked as if he saw he had feitid - something wrong, but helnew not hew to mend his answer; so the clergyman 'said, " Let me read part of it again" and once more he read as,follows "These are they which came out of great tribulationi and have Washed 'their-robes' - andi-madeAhem white iii“the-hloodt of thelamb." WHOLE NO. 549. "There is nothing there," continued he, " about, having done as well as they could ; they did not get there so." "No, sir, no. I see it better now. They got there by the blood of the Lamb. It says, they did!' " Yes, by the blood of the Lamb, the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. They had washed their robes, and made them white, in the blood of the Lamb ; therefore they were before, the throne . of God, safe and happy forever_ They had lived on earth once as we do, and had been sinners like us. But they had repented of their sins, and gone* to Christ- for> pardon. They had not looked, to be saved by doing , as' well as they-could, or by being.no worse thati,pthers. They. had felt themselves, to be sinners, with no heliAnd no hope themselves, and Ted to' Jesus' to save them: They looked"to because jesua had died for , theiii, and on that groundalone:- Thus theyweru saved. Thus„they.,get,.to, o heaven.,, They , never could haVe got there any f aher way, you, and remember this; trY, both Of 'You, n tofoiget; "the Ali at the'way'VOA - iron, is to, Wasttfyour.:Tobes 'fandtttlikeHtletit white iittthesblood : of the : Lamb,,---thatis, go to Christ withall your hearts, seeking : pardon ,through .his brood. Treasure this up i 4 your hearts. iSthe I.4.4)testthing yoh'eati think of, that...tile • ivay tei heaved istbythe blood of Christ-i --that his blood ,has been, shed for ,sinners, and that you have but to wash and be clean. It is freely offered' o you, s without money and without price' In all `Your thotights, ,in all yam - prayers ' -.remember this; Oast away. all thought of living saved by, our own,doings and. take Christ for, your all in all. Now let us kneel awn 'together!' Andthey'keelt dOwiP, and the 'minister prayid -that God would teach , their,hearts hyrhis , Spirit, 'and cause. them, to sec.aul3 know. Ch rist, and bring them, through. his precious blood, to be hlppy with him -kir ever. And so be took his-leave. It was' plain thit no Gospel light-had ever befOre shone into the old man's heart. He had: never, up to that moment, seen the way of salvation. Yet he was, constant at church as far as age and distal:ice Would allow. And Schlepi in that chUreh'wsia ‘a sernion preaahed , which sal , fration through °twilit was not plainly- set forth:: He :was dark in the midst of light: ' 1t is to be feared2that there- are many such—many who hear. the' Gospel foiyears, and yet, no light es4nitheway of salvation —still dark, though living in- themidst of light. t _ ' Reader, perhaps' you are dark If so, lOdk -well at these ' blessed' Words, these words of God; and may they bringlight to your soul : (4-These are -they which„came out of. great ,tribulaiion, and ,have, washed their• robes and made them white in the bloOd 'Of the Lamb. 'Theft:4'6re they are before the throne of God." - The Future of Paleitioe. Is there no other destiny for Palestine' but to' remain a desert; .:or ;to become the, appendage of 'Am ambitiagtsAfro4n power ?t Syria *iirere long be the entiorbirivreen East and—West. •On' the Euphrates and along the Coast, old cities Will revive, and new ones will be built; the old times •will come back on a scale of greater vastness and grandeur, and, bridging the level dis tricts, the .sleam-car will run in the, track of the caravan. Syria, then, will be a place of trade—preeminently. And who are pre eminently the traders of•the-world ? Will there., =when the coming change has , taken place, be any ~ more congenial:-field fur the energies of the Jew ? The country wants capital and population. The Jew can'give it both. And has not England a special interest in protneting such a resto ration? Russia covets Syria, and desires to have a Greek patriarch supreme at Jeru salem. France, whether under Bonaparte or Bourbon, aspires "to the suzerainty of Palestine, with a Latin bishop, or the Pope himself=' or ratheP, a; -POpe—installed 011 Mount_ Zion. It would be a bloir to- Eng land if either of her greakrivals got hold of Syria. Her empire reaching from ' Canada in the West to Calcutta and Australia / in the southern - East, would be 'cut in two. England does not_covet any.:new territories, but she must see that they do ,not, get into the hands of rival powers. She must,pre serve Syria to herself through the Syrians. Dees not policy; then—if that were till— exhort England to foster the- nationality of the. Jews, and aid them, as .opportunity may offer, to return as aleavening power to - their 'old country? Rome persecutes the "Jews. Nowhere does opPression and con tempt attend the Jews so. much as in Rome itself,. in the despised Ghetto: quarter of the Eternal City. : Russia, too, in her Greek orthodoxy, contemns the Jew.. But . in England lie is nnfrowned en by the Church, and endowed with the fullest rights of the citizen. England, also, is the great trading' and maratime power of-the world. ':To-,England, then naturally 'be longs the role . of favoring the settlement of the Jews in Syria. And do not the dic ,tates of policy exhort her to the same course? The nationality of the Jews • ex ists; the. spirit is there, and has been for three thousand years; but the , external form, the crowning bond of union, is still wanting. A nation must have a country. And is not Syria opening to them ? They seized it of yore, as a wave of armed :,and enthusiastic- warriors;,- will they not ere long return to it as pioneers of civilization, to reclothe the land with fertility, and as the busy agents of a commerce which will bring together both East and West on- , the neck of- land between the Euphratesiand the. Levant? The, old land ; the old- peepfe; and. commerce flowing again in its old channels. We see strange things now-a• days; may at this also be one of the nota ble sights-of this epoch of resurrection ?-- `North British I?eview. . Slander. . Slander is a -deirouting- fire which:tar nishes - whatever it touchesy:which Baer cises its fury on : " the•good grain, equally as .oirthe chaff; on. the sacred as, on the pro fane ; which, wherever it passes, leavei only desolation and ruin; turns into vile' ashes what; only' a moment 'before had appeared to -ns precious and . brilliant; = acts with more` 'violence and danger than ever in the time when it was apparently smothered up, and almost extinct; which blacketiA what it cannot coriannle, - and sometimes sparkles and delikhti 'before it deitroys. It , is ,a world of an iniquity; usecretpride,.which `discovers -to-ais the..mote in our brothees eye,. but hides the beam; =which is, in out .own;.-a meanenvy,,whichbhurt at,tii:e fat entator ,prosperity -.4.4,nits,.makes them. =ME THE TiIESBYTZBIAN _Una Publication Office GAZETTE INTILDINGS, 84 Fan BT., Pinennis o PA PELLIONLPIIIA, 8011211-WZBT COR, of 7n AND ONDBrtri ADVERTISEMENTS. TEEMS IN AbTANCIe. A Square, (8 Dies or less,) ohe insertion, 110 casts; sic a subsequent insertion, 40 cents; each lite beyond d ISA A Square per quarter, $4.00; each line tafditiong aroeste A Eatrucnotur made to adterthefs by the ride: • , t EIMINEBS NOTICES of Ts* Enos or IedwALOO red 10 ethanol line, 10 cents. _ REV. • DAVID lIIIIKIN - BlEt c c, PROPRIETOR ADD PUBIIDNII62-1 the subject of its censures, and kindiett e * dim the splendor of whatever outshines. itself; a disguised hatred, which, shednlC its speeches the hidden venom of heart: an unworthy duplicity, which praises ttirthi face, and tears in pieces behind the a shameful levity, which has no command, over itself or words, and often sacrifices both fortune and comfort to the imprudence of ; an amusing conversation; a deli fate barbarity, which goes to• pierciCan' asegt brother; a,scandal, where we bedonielliiiir: jest of shame and sin to those wholtten to us ; an injustice, where we :ravish fro our brother what is dearest . , to him. ,It;11.! restless evil; ; which disturbs,,sociV . ; spreads dissension through cities andel:nal::: tries; disunites tha'strictesi . 'fritinaithip4 is the, source "bittretiliiiTifygrikiti 9nd fills every. Place it enters with aistitil3in%es and eonfusioti."- Vreadful is this evil Wlien is rroiaild inienTgst, time who, are the.profeSoAd UM*" plea-.-of. Jesus Christ,. The. PhirceAcs-, mArly.,held, -horror the„ exhibitions, cf E lsAliat4e, cka denied that beifevurie:ictifila irtnonethly feast d'ygi.47lol 'the' Wed& and, death of the unfortunate slaves!: init these, renew inlift . detestable shows; for they briiig' upon the stig6, florinfittious wietelies`de*Cted to.death,,batlbut hien* Oft the , Saviour ;„'and ,there they: entertain the spccta„tprs:Fith wounds whiel,they flle d t .on perspns who have devoted tbeni selves to oodl-4fassiton. • • WM Moral Dtse,!plmo of:Gi . - Giving is one of the. means, oCfcePN one of thelDest means of spiritual ; growth;. If itio.good externally is done by .tll,e,egti, the charities-, stifle vital and immeasurable gosad is : done to .the enough, and vastly more than ;enough, to ; justify the deed. Thooordid`'taunt so 'often thrown; " Why .this Waste?" comes.' of the sordidness that is equal to . the site of the. Lordhimself; the thirty pieces in` the pockefbetter than he. - 4, • .1 - I'repeat, if no .outer good is done, those is no waste;` no matter what the ,airinuro given, be it only enough; if done-with the ; Christian .motive, then the character is set forwaCd; and the 'Church is' broight'iip higher and nearer to the millennial state. The Church must pass through the work and thesaerifiee of establishing the millen nium abroad r in order to mike one in-her own,pale.. These final Words' . of 'her Lard, then; Which' ley upon her this 'vitiating re sponsibility,. " GO preach the 9:ospelle:3- evangepirCall lia - gbyEr-L - reto her - an untold heritage of blessing§ and -of Vitlieddess. They 'ailabodyithe!:colrective and . expishan of lierdeadliest , foes; they ,are .to her - the necessary, .means• of the victory, ,and kingdom and the crown ; I mean on this ground of attainment, personal, separite fitness, reablied tir the 'Culture• and through the coniiictkif , berieficent giving and doing. Thel - questiOw.-before us is, will ,we these .conditinns, arid have*the millertnnm at . heme, the ,kingdoii within us? not .for getting the one condition our Lord air lirg nifiCautly,:naiiks; the giving whim of ittith Alarigtiss;firOlitive*-' To very many, this—as a means .4if irge of spiritual advance—stands in the first place, and is indispensable; stands in, a sense even before prayer; they being ahead in prayer, behind in giving. To all those, then, who have given leanly and grudging .ly, we say : Arise and give; ,give bounti fully; give heartily; give willfully; just because something within resists . and says, I won't,. Give the more and still more, from the very teeth and grip of the old re taining passion: Give with measure and intent to crucify it; -that hundre4theinail, that thousand, the spike, that ten thousand, the - spear, and. so proceed and persist i till the, base, and, slimy thing is wholly , dead.— Dr. Ge o rge Shepard. The Desire. . " Thy will be done in% earth, del It' is is leeaven."-MA T. vi 10. God's will must be wise and holy . ; there fore God's will- should ,rule. God.`willeth nothing for us but what is consistent with his' love for us and concern for -IL -. `Nor are we at a loss to`know the turn that Ged's will takes toward us;` " for this is the will of God, even your , sanctification." God wills, first his own glory, and, in' subordi- - nation to that, our present and evdrlaisting welfare. It is therefore our wisdom- to pray, that God's will' may always, -every where, and in everything, be done: And it is our`happiness to. acquiesce always, and in everything, in God's will. ludeed, we can never be happy if our wills_run,,con trary to God's mill, or if' they rtin beside it. We must belittle children. We'-niust endeavor to ascertain-what is our Father's will, and be pleased with that. If - God *ills me poverty or plenty, health'or sick ness, pleasure or pain, publicity , or ob scurity, life orleatli; I Should be satisfied with should_approve of more, I shmild,bepleasecl with it—S6 pleased with, it, that, it the turning of a strairr,would make the difference-in it, ,I should; refuse to turn that straw: , This would be to. treat God as God, and to act .just as a- siMple-, ignorant; inexperienced child Shoulthaet. Lord Jesus, send the blessed Comforter, to direct my'will into the channel of , God's —will, and`to keep it there. I eau:never be happy *bile My will crosses thy will : teach therefore, to give up my will;. 'ani tring me"into that , state, that I• may-not have a wish, but just to be, ,to do, to enjoy, or to suffer, as God willeth.' Oh, for that depth of holiness, that Inlay ever , cry with thee, " Not my will,lout- thine, be done I" Oh, my. Father, if it be possible, let this cup 'pass from me : nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.".--MATT.. =yr, : 39. The Resurrection of the - Body. "Thou Sowest not that body titaldidmll be." Strange that one who haCsetln in ear of corn with its wrappings, itsallA, its rows-of kernels on the large, bank sub, all from one grain, which "cannot 'bear : fruit except it die," can be an unbeliever. inthe resurrection. Moreover,, such 4hinga in nature should make us i exultinthe thought of future bodies4nmensurably in adyffnce of the present. ‘qt: - doth not yet appear what' we shall be."'But "ire- shail-litigike Adanis, it - ilealltiful4honght.-T-LeigitlisAitesays Those who.have lost an-infant ire over; RNA lyere ,without an infant :They are the or;l4persons who in one sense re. ':Main always, and they other parerits with the 'same'LLidea. The- , uther 'egildren srow.up toimanhood MAtelt/11- , l hooiii sand suffer Alfthe chauges,pf AgarAility. TIC alone is repdered an,im nortal child." MEI lina