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To our Dear Departed Brother.
When morning sun sends ge n/le beams
O'er all the hills and rippling etroams,
And mends and floras, and fields of grain:,
Through roves. with birds in merry strains;
At noon. ,Alan all are hushed and still,
And heat intense all things cloth fill,
And singing birds have sought the shade,
And grains and flowers begin to fads';
When evening sun sinks in the West,
And grains and flowers are all refreshed,
And birds come forth in vesper song
W hlle evening shades are being drawn
Again, in silent hours of night,
'When moon and stars are shining bright,
Or lightnings flash and thunders roar—
I think of thee, and God adore.
Our only, loving brother dear,
We never more shall meet thee here I
But Jesus says that in his throne
His saints shall sit inibewreu our home.
There we 'll no more with sorrow ory,
For he our souls will satisfy,
And " God shall wipe away our tears,"
And free us from all needless fears.
There pain and death shall not be known
When we meet thee in heaven our home;
There we shall join the wfrite-robed throng
In Love's eternal, joyful song.
For Abe Presbyterian Banner.
The Teacher Encouraged.
For the last few months a Sunday School
teacher had been inwardly deploring the
spiritual coldness of the church with which
she was connected, and of the town where
she dwelt. With its twelve thousand in
habitants, scarcely one half dozen admis
sions would be made to the churches yearly.
Under such circumstances, she felt that
evil must be fearfully -on the increase—
Christians were living to themselves—sin
ners were dying in their sins—the young
neglecting the most favorable season for re
pentance. A desire for the conversion of
her own .class, composed of several young
ladies' of about fifteen years of age, took. full
possession of her heart. In the_ class she
aimed not only to interest them, but each
Sabbath to impress upon them some saving
truth; A day was appointed for them to
meet at her house, when she talked freely
with each, and prayed with them. Not
only did she remember them by name daily
at the throne of grace, but asked for herself
to be directed to means for their salvation,
and that the whole school might participate
in the, blessing. And what was the result ?
The same that has attended prayerful ef
forts in all ages and climes. The reaping
time was not delayed. The teacher could
say, "I love the Lord because he hath
heard my voice and my supplications."
Four of the ydurig ladies give good evi
dence of a change of heart, and the remain
ing two are serious inquirers. One of the
last is an interesting and delicate child, the
only hope of the Jewish parents.
To a former pupil, surrounded by evil
influences at home, she wrote the following
note :
• "E— May 16, 1863.
"A&_Dear Scholar—hough you have
left 11—, and consequently my class, I
cannot but feel a deep interest in you. I
hope
,you still attend a Sunday School, if
there as 'one in s your neighborhood, and that
you are becoming more and more interested
in the truths of the Bible. Since you left
our school, four of your classmates enter
tain
the hope that they have met with a'
change of heart, and you cannot imagine
what joy it gives both them and me. I
wish you were here, that I might, perhaps,
get some clue to the state of your mind—
whether, like them, God has mercifully led
you, too, to confess your sins and seek his
forgiveness, I should feel sad, indeed, if I
found you were careless and indifferent to
this important subject —so diverted by
the pleasures of the world, or occupied by
its cares, as to forget lour first duty, the
one thing needful, the great object of your
existence. You will excuse my plainness
when I tell you that I greatly desire your
soul's prosperity, and your usefulness and
happiness in this world. My advice to
you, whether converted or unconverted, is
to pray, pray, pray—it will bring every
thing right. Pray in the words of the
Lord's prayer, and for all that you need in
your own words. Then you will have an
appetite for the Bible and be abundantly
satisfied by its truths and promises—will
live right and be happy to all eternity. I
should be pleased to have you write me, or
call when you are in town. It will always
give pleasure to hear of your welfare.
" Truly your friend."
I will only add that simultaneously with
this effort on the part of au humble Sunday
School teacher, one of the churches of the
city was blessed with the refreshing pres
enoe.of the Spirit, and numbers added to
its communion, doubtless of such as shall
be saved.
]tor the Presbyterian Banner,
Allegheny City Presbytery.
The statei meeting of this Presbytery
was held on the 15th of September, in
Bridgewater and Beaver. At the latter
place the ordination and installation of the
Rev, D. P. Lowery as pastor of the churches
of Beaver and Freedom, were the incidents
of chief interest. In the services connected
with the ordination, Rev, L. li. Conrad
preached the usual sermon, Rev. Dr. Wit-
limns delivered the charge to the pastor,
and Rev. Dr, MeAboy the charge to the
congregation. The attendance of the pea
pie of Beaver and vicinity was quite large,
and all seemed interested and gratified.
We trust that, in the providence of God, a
bright future has opened before these
churches and their pastor, and that a great
blessing will attend the pastoral relation
which has been so au'sploiously inaugurated.
The Committee on the Minutes of the
last General Assembly, in their report, di
rected the attention of the Presbytery .to a
decision on page 87, being a reply . to the
inquiry, "whether in no case of sickness
or peculiar,conversion, the Session of a
church Is at iberty to administer the Lord's
Supper in a private house ?" The answer
adopted by the Assembly is, " that with a
member of his Session and a few other
communicants, the pastor may proceed to
administer this Sacrament in such circum
stances:"
The Onnaaittee also directed attention to
the action on 'I the state of the country; "
especially to the following paragraph of
the paper adopted by the Assembly, viz.:
" Nothing that this Assembly can say,
can more fully express the wickedness of
this rebellion, that has cost so much blood
and treasure; can declare in plainer terms
the guilt before God and man, of those who
have inaugurated, or maintained, or coun
tenanced, for so little cause, this fratricidal
strife ; or can more impressively urge the
solemn duty of the Government- to the
lawful exercise of its authority, and of the
people each in his several place, to uphold
the civil authorities, to the end that law and
order may again rdign throughout this en
tire n a tion—than these things have already
been done by previous Assemblies.
"Nor need this body declare its solemn
rebukes toward those ministers and members
of the Church of Christ who have aided in
bringing on and sustaining these
. immense
calamities; or tender our kind sympathies
to those who are overtaken by troubles they
could not avoid, and who mourn and weep
in secret places, not unseen by the Father's
eye; or reprove all wilful disturbers of the
public peace ; or exhort those who are sub
ject to our care, to the diligent discharge of
every duty tending to uphold the free and
beneficent government under which we
live, and this especially for conscience' sake
and as in the sight of God—more than in
regard to all these things the General As
sembly has heretofore made its solemn de
liverances, since these troubles began."
At the reeonatnendation of their Com
mittee, the Presbytery unanimously ap
proved of the sentiments contained in these
extracts, and urged their solemn and
prayerful consideration and cordial adoption
upon all the pastors, Sessions and churches
under their jurisdiction. And to this end
the Presbytery directed this publication by
their Stated Clerk. W. A.
CumsTrArt HOPE
Christ's ascension into heaven secures
the believers admittance there. The glori
fication of Christ is an earnest and, pledge of
his people's glorification, just as his resur
rection from ..the dead is an earnest and
pledge of their resurrection. He said to
his sorrowful disciples, "In my Father's
house are many mansions: If it were not
so, I would have told you. Igo to prepare
a place for you. And if I go and prepare
a place for you, I will come again and re
ceive you unto myself; that where I am,
there ye may be also."' Again he said :
".Father, I will that they also whom thou
bast given me, be with me where I am ;
that they may behold my glory, which thou
hast given me." Has Christ gone to pre
pare mansions ? They are prepared for his
people. Will he come again ? He, will
come to take them to himself, that where'
here he is, there they may be also. Yes,
Christian, heaven is prepared for you.
Fear not, little flock; it is your Father's
good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Has Christ gone to heaven 7 You shall go
there also. Those shining courts are pre
pared for you. Do you fear the dark valley
Christ has passed it before 'you. He has
taken. away the sting of death and robbed
the grave of its victory; he has smoothen
the pillow of death, and." can make a dying
bed feel soft as downy pillows are." Fear
not, for heaven is yours fear not, for all is
yours. Christ is all. With him, poverty
is riches; withoulhim, riches is • poverty.
With him, want is plenty; without him,
the greatest plenty is the deepest want.
Then confide in him; and look forward
with hope and joy to your eternal crown.
If we expect such things, what manner of
persons ought we to be in all holy conver
sation and godliness 7 0, reader, live for
heaven ! Live as 'an expectant of glory!
Lay' up your treasure above, and there let
your heart be also; and amid all the dark
ness and trials of earth, ecinfide in him who
died for you, and now in heaven ever lives
to intercede.
The Presbytery of Susquehanna
Met at. Canton on the 25th ult., and was
opened with a sermon by Rev. Philander
Camp, Moderator.
The Rev. J. Caldwell, from the Presby
tery of Cincinnati, and the Rev. J. A.
Bossed, from the Presbytery of Winneba
go, being present, were invited to sit as
corresponding members.
Mr. Caldwell was afterwards received by
letter, and a call from the church in Can
ton for his ministerial services was laid be
fore Presbytery. But upon inquiry it ap
peared that their proceedings in the mat
ter had been so irregular the Presbytery
decided not to accept the call, but admon
ished said church to make out a call 'ac
cording to the directions of the Book, and
appointed a special meeting in East Can
ton, the 2d Thursday in September, to at
tend to this business.
Presbytery having been requested to ex
press its opinion upon the subject of min
isters playing cards, held an interlocutory,
in which the members unanimously ex
pressed their disapprobation, and some even
their abhorrence of the practice.
Resoled, To hold an adjourned meeting
in Wilkesbarre, in October next, at the call
of the Moderator, during the sessions of
Synod. •
Dismissed Rev. Philander Camp to the
Presbytery of Genesee Valley (N. S.)
On the 2d Thursday of September, Pres
bytery met in special session at East Can
ton, when a call regularly made out was
presented for the ministerial services of the
Rev. John Caldwell, and the installation
took place according to previous arrange
ment, to wit : The Moderator, Rev. C. C.
Corsa, of E. Smithfield, presided, and put
the constitutional questious; the Rev. J.
Gordon Carnochan, of Troy, preached the
sermon and gave the charge to the pastor;
and the Rev. J. Poster, of Towanda, gave
the charge to the congregation; and the
pastor pronounced the benediction.
This settling of a pastor is a logical se
quence of building a new church edifice,
arid we trust the Master will smile gra
ciously upon this enterprise so earnestly
undertaken for his cause.
STATED CLERK.
The Presbytery of Allegheny
Met at Plaine * church, on the Bth of Sep
tember.
Rev. Dr. Guthrie and Rev. R. M. Pat•
tenon, of the United Presbyterian Church;
Rev. Dr. MeAhoy and Rev. G. M. Potter,
of Allegheny City Presbytery; and Roy.
James H. Potter, of Baltimore Presbytery,
were invited to sit as correapoading mem
bers.
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VOL. XII. NO. 2
For the Preabyterlan Banner
Encouragement
For the Preebyterien Banner.
For the Presbyterian Banner.
PITTSBTJRGH, WEDNESDAY, SEP TEMBER 23, 1863,
The following items of business transact
ed, it may be well to publish:
Mr. J. W. Potter was ordained and in
stalled pastor of Plains church.
Mr. James .'S. Boyd, Principal of the
Witherspoon Institute, was ordained as an
evangelist.
The charge to Mr. Potter was, by request
of Presbytery, delivered by his brother,
.Rev. Jas. 11. Potter, of Baltimore.
The pastoral relation between Rev. G.
W. Jackson and the church of Bull Creek,
was dissolved.
The compen4ation for supplies in vacant
churches was increased to ten dollars per
day, and to fifteen dollars per day when the
Lord's Supper is administered.
The committee appointed at the last
meeting to instal Rev. Wm. P. Harrison
pastor of Mount Nebo and . Portersville
churches, reported that they had performed
this service.
Rev. Wm. F. Kean was requested by
Presbytery to give an account of his late
visit to the army in Tennessee, which he
did in such a way as to make all present
feel that the Christian Commission Is per
forming, by its agents, a most important
and glorious work—a work in which any
Christian man should be glad to engage.
- The Presbytery adjourned to meet at
Muddy Creek on the second Tuesday of
December next, at 11 o'clock A. M.'
The following report on supplies was
adopted : Westminster, Bull Creek, Lees
burg, and Rich. Hill—Leave to obtain sup
plies till Spring meeting; except second
Sabbath in October, J. R. Coulter to ad
minister the Lord's Supper at Westminster,
and R. B. Walker at Rich Hill on the 4th
Sabbath of October.
J. R. COULTER, Stated Clerk
EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE.
rf , aperor and the French Clergy—Church and
Antayonism—Conyress of lamanists at
Malinee—Hontqembert and Cardinal Wieemon—
Spurious Liberalism and Cunning Popery—Death
. of Dr. Raffles of Liverpool—Personal Reminis
cences of the Funeral Day—. Tributes to his Mem
ory by Ministers—Cotton Speculation in Liver
pool—. 4 Remonstrance to the Subscribers to the
Confederate Loan—Analysis—A Steam Rain in
the Mersey—Railway Statistics of Great Britain
—Scottish Farmers and Landlords—The 'Mc-
Lachlan Murder Case—News from Dr. Itioing
stone—Death of Lord Normanby--Lancrehire
Relief—Meeting of British Association at Neio
castle.
AT LIVERPOOL, Aug. 29, 1863.
THE RELATIONS of the Emperor Napo
leon and the Roman Catholic Church are
somewhat suddenly and rudely disturbed,
and that by the act and deed of the former.
There was a time when it was necessary to
pet, pamper, bribe, and win over the
priests to his nascent fortunes; but now he
seems to kick away the ladder on which he
climbed to such a lofty position of great
ness. It has been well and pithily said,
that a powerful Emperor and' a hierarchy
cannot exist aide by side with their preten
sions coming in collision, and without the
one or the other being tempted -to invade
the province of the rival power. It has
been tried over and over again, to arrange
a partnership between Church and State,
on the terms that the former should be. su
preme in religions matters, and the latter
rule in politics. But whether it is in Aus
tria, in France, or in England, the experi
ment has been a failure. No one has suc
ceeded in drawing a line .of demarcation
between politics and religion, so clear that
it would command general assent. In
many cases the two run into other in a
way which renders them indistinguishable.
Even when this is not so, Politicaljnterests
are constantly affected more or less by
measures of ecclesiastical policy; while
the acts of the State frequently tell with
great directness on the prosperity of the
Church. If this is the case in a Protest
ant country, it is far more decidedly so in
one where the Roman Catholic Church is
supreme. The fact that its head, the Pope,
is a. Sovereign in temporal matters, at
once interests it directly in all matters
which affect the security of his - throne, or
the welfare of his dominions. It is upon
this rock that the allianCe between the Em
peror and his prelates has finally split.
When by the coup di:tat Napoleon be
came master of France, and took upon
himself the role of " Saviour of Society,"
religion was one of the things whose salva
tion he professed to - be most anxious about.
The stipends of the priests and the bish
ops were increased. Prelates were called
up to the Senate and the Council of State;
the humble parish priest was petted by
prefects, and made to feel that he was a
person. of influence in the district ;. the
newspapers were forbidden to speak evil of
the Church, and that body was quietly al
lowed to assume an influence over the edu
cation of the young, which it had been the
settled policy of every liberal French
statesman to withhold from them. The
Church seemed satisfied, and the Emperor,
not like Francis -Jeseph of , Austria,
making a Concordat with Rome, yet
allowed the prelates and priests to enjoy
nearly all the license which that document
would have conferred..
Conscious of increasing strength, and
feeling that the Church has done the work
for which she was .wanted, he now has
, brought matters to a crisis.
The _Manchester Examiner, in an able
article, thus discusses that crisis and its
probable consequences:
" It is not surprising that some of the
bishops and archbishops of France came to
the conclusion that the Emperor was not
exactly what they had taken him for. One
of them called him Judas Iscariot, without
any undue circumlocution ; and we have
no doubt that, when they got together in
phiate, and the police were well out of
bearing, they even said he was Antichrist.
No doubt this was not pleasant for the oc
cupant of the Tuileries; but still, so long
as his antagonists confined themselves to
calling names, it did not so much signify;
and he knew that it is quite as futile to at
tempt to stop the tongue of a priest as that
of a woman. Waxing bolder, however,
the prelates deteimined to set up as a power
in the State. The late elections for the
Legislative Chamber furnished an opportu
nity for trying how far the tolerance of the
sovereign would extend. In May last ac
the Archbishops of Tours, cam
brai, and Rennes, with a number of bie,h
ops, met together in conclave to consider
the duty of the Catholic electors. They
came to the conclusion that they ought not
to abstain from voting; still less ought
they to support a government which had
behaved so ill to the poor dear Pope. The
result of their deliberations was announced
to the' country in a letter, to which they
affixed their names, and which was, in
truth, little' else. than a command that all
good Catholics do their best to annoy , and
distress his Majesty. M. Rouland, minis
ter of public worship, immediately admin
istered to the right reverend gentlemen
what he obviously deemed a pretty severe
wigging. Unfortunately a ministerial cir
cular is a-thing that can be replied to, and
the Archbishop - of Tours is a much more
skilful controversialist than his antagonist.
The minister was generally considered not
to have had the best of the fight. Probe.;
bly the Emperor thought so ' since three
months after • the cause of offence, lie has
thought fit to issue a solemn decree con
demning in the most direct and pointed
manner the-interference of the bishops in
politics; reminding them that by the con-.
stitntion of Church and State as it exists
in France, they have nothing to do- with
anything but religion ; and warning them
in most 'explicit terms that nothing ap
proaching synodical action will be toler
ated in France. We cannot say that we
think the Emperor is wrong." -
A CONGRESS OF ROMANISTS .nas been
held at Mania* in. Belgium, at *loch )L
Montilembert Pleaded for "a free Church
in,
in a free State," and. said that: Cathelics
should tolerate if they. expected Au be
tolerated, and many other free ibingi.
But neither the orator, nor this _Bishops
said a word about the banishment Of the
Spanish Protestants, nor of the stereotyped
deprivation at Rome by the Holy Father,,
of even the shadow of religious liberty.
When Papists choose, thertalk smoothly- 7
par example,'. A.rehbishop Hughes—bit
for them tolerance, is another word, for li
cense to the Devil and his chosen servant's,
as propagators of deadly heresy. Cardinal
WAsen3an in his own unctuous way, praised
England for her " fairness," in the sub
bdence of the storm of her anger, as it
urst forth at the time of his famous Ag
!gression in 1850. He clearly la hoping by
cajolery to get more and more, concessions
for his party. They are pretty
even now; they have their Ma.ynooth hind
' of £30,000 per. annum, paid chaplains in the army, andin jails, as well as a virtual
endowment all over England, by Education
grants to their. schools.
THE DEATH of-the Rev. Dr. Rafßes, of
Liverpool, hats excited a profound sensation
not only in that town, but over Lancashire
and Yorkshire, `as well as England gener
ally. He oommenced-his ministry at Ken
sington, in London, about 'fifty-three years
ago, but after two years there he succeeded
the celebrated Thomas Spencer, "of Liver-'
pool, who, in the midst of airiest unpar
alleled prosperity as a young minister, per
ished by drowning, when bathing in the
.Mersey. Raffles gave his memoirs to the
world. _ He had a refined literary taste, a
poetic temperament, was a hymn-writer--
one of his hymni, a very beautiful 'one
treating of the state of the redeemed in
glory, being sung with deep emotion by 'a
vast congregation, while in the vestibule of
his chapel, on Monday last, lay the coffin
that contained his remains. I was in Liv
erpool on. that day, and formed'ene of two
hundred ministers (including Episcopal
'clergymen,) who preceded the hearse to the
cemetery. It was indeed a public funeral;
the Mayor of Liverpool, and the represen
tatives of different bodies, attended, while
a large body, of police kept order and led
the way. A. vast multitude had gathered
along the the whole, line to the metropolis
—probably 50,000 or 60,000 people. Be
sides the mourning relatives and other in
timate friends in carriages behind the
hearse, there were very many other ear
riages. The bells of the Episcopal church
near St. George's chapel, tolled muffled
peals. It was .very solemn, especially after
the funeral services, conducted in the place
where so long he had preached with eaten
ishin,g fervency, fulness, and power, the
Gospel of the grace of' God. Ile was uni
versally beloved and admired ; ; generous
hearted and catholic, wan:a, affectionate and
earnest, and gifted with rhetorical powers
which captivated and carried away every
audience 'which he - addressed. On the
Sabbath preceding the day of his inter
ment, the ministers of the town paid
striking and appropriate tributes to , his
memory. To-morrow (Lord's day,) two
funeral sermons are to be preached; one
by the Rev. James Parsons, of York, long
famous as a preacher, and the intimate
friend of Raffles; the other by the Rev.
Enoch Mellor, M.A., who is his successor
in the ministry. • -
Like many other popular preachers, Dr.
Raffles' printed sermons scarcely did him
justice. Indeed, what printed sermons can
do so, where there are wanting the speak-.
ing eye, the varied tones, the whole frame
instinct with life and earnestness.
The following are some of the •pulpit
notices by Liverpool Ministers, on the
Lord's day after his death and previous to
his interment. •,The first is by, the Rev.
Mr. Birrel, Baptist minister
" The departed preacher was certainly
originally endowed with great physical
power, an implarturable temper, quick eym- •
pathies, hunior, vivacity, and hearty social
affections. His preaching sometimes re
minded one of the change which has come
over the style of the pulpit during the last
half century . ; yet the thought.being always
just, the spirit invariably serious, the mo
tives ever richly evangelical, and the mani
fold voice adapting itself with its singular
power and melody to all the alternations of
thought and feeling, it, is not wonderful
that it readily enchained his audience.
His prayers, so important and arduous a
part in our free service, often struck me as
peculiarly. excellent. There, was .a
reverent, and filial spirit in them.. In the
earlier part of his ministry he was in the
habit, of enriching his phraseology with
the more choice petitions of the Book of
Common. Prayer; but toward the close he
was more, ample in his use of. Scripture,
making the very words,of the Hearer of
prayer distil courage into the soul. When
any individual had to be commended to
God, when any domestic sorrow or joy had
to be spread before the Throne, when any
public event involving differences of judg
ment or delicate debatable public questions
had to be laid at the feet of the .Ruler of
nations, there was a finelelicity of diction;
touching the springs of thought without
obtruding personal opinions, and calling
forth from a multitude an undisturbed cur
rent of supplication."
The next was from the lips of, my friend,
Dr. Verner White, minister of the Isling
ton Presbyterian cburch
" Some excel on the platform—some
through the Press. The field of Dr.
Raffles was the pulpit. He lived in chang
ing times—when superstition now, and
again skepticism, fascinated many who were
given to change—when the Bible, and the
Sabbath, and the Saviour, and the ordi
nances of religion were all assailed in turn
—when not a few, both of ministers and
people, wandered into new fields and filled
men's minds with doubt and perplexity.
With Dr. Raffles there was no change.
Christ crucified was the theme which he
preached, it was also that in which he
trusted. With it he began to preach when
young, with it when old and grey-headed
he closed his eyes in death. Christ in all
his offices—Christ in his full dignity as
God—Christ in the depth of sorrows as
mak t with a simple faith, with a steady
purpose, with singular skill and acceptance,
as one of the most eloquent preachers of
the day, and from :a heart which evidently
realized largely the blessed Gospel he
preached unto others, he fought a good
fight, he finished his course, he kept the
faith, and now he has received the crown
which the Lord, the righteous judge, has
prepared`Tor them that love him.
-"-He was ra. man of singular tact, and oft
large administrative powers. This must
have been evident to all who haVe at any
time been present at any* of thole`nUmerous
public meetings over which he presided.
Much injury is often done to religion - by
by zeal without knowledge and discretion.
It was not so With the subject of this ad
dress. With him there were no little jeal
nusies. He was. large-hearted and kind.
His dignity and politeness were not Com
promised by a rich flow of wit, of anecdote,
and of humor. AL the meetings of his
brethren there was no overshadowing of
younger and smaller men, and at these
gatherings the loss of the genial face and
of the enlivening conversation of our la.te
venerable father will long be felt. He was
a man of cultivated mind, and of a fastid
ious taste, that shrank from anything Coarse
or vulgar: He served his generation after
the will of God.'" '
One other is added,part of a most im
pressive and touching address, which, in
common with a vast audience of Members
- of Parliament, clergymen, merchants, &e.,
I listened to in own church, imme
diately before the procession set out for
the cemetery. Its concluding sentences
were both delivered and heard with tender
and tearful emotion
" Yonder, in the vestibule, there lie the'
remains of one than whom a More genial,
kind, and loving spirit it would be difficult
to find. His gran.d distinction was that -he
was a faithful and successful minister of
Christ, who, knew and felt the power of
that Gospel which he was htinored to preach
to others. His own Christian character
Was - above suspicion. Occupying a position
of wide and - extensive usefulness, and en•
dowed. by the Master with powers which
qualified him to fill it with- singular effi
ciency, he was necessarily brought largely
before the publics. His profession was,
therefore, open to the scrutiny of general
observation for an unusual length of time,
and 1 fearlessly affirm that its sincerity was
never impeached, by the breath of slander.
His reputation to the last was without a
stain. He was acknowledged to be a - good
man in: the true sense 'of the term.' The
Saviour whom he preached was the object
of his warmest attachment and the• source
of all - his excellences. He' was a good min
ister of Jesus Christ, whOie person and work
were the grand themes on which he de
lighted to dwell. He had' no fondness for
novelties, no love for speculation. He kept
to the old paths, and never did he falter in
the uncompromising. exhibition of the
truth; and never did he weary in his earnest
endeavors to win men to its reception and
bring them to obedience."
Many of your readers have ofttimes
-heard Dr. Raffles preach, while visiting
Liverpool, and, to them, as well as to others
who were not personally cognizant of his'
position, but who knew that he was an emi
nent servant Of the common Master, this
somewhat lengthened notice will not; I
trust, be unacceptable. The fact- of being
at Liverpool at the time of the interment,
and being present at the funeral obsequies,
has naturally made deep and vivid impres
sions on my mind, such as would scarcely
have been realized.at a distance.
COTTON, at Liverpool, is " king" at the
present moment. Many and eager are the
purchases, and the price is great. Some is
bought on speculation, and some for export.
The vicissitudes of the American struggle
are watched by the merchants and cotton
spinners with intense interest. It is evi
dent that their hopes of receiving cotton
from Confedemte sources are greatly on the
wane. Many of. them got involved in the
Confederate . - Loan—now at 25 discount.
A pithy and telling letter appeared this
week in the Liverpool Post, addressed to
"The Subscribers to the Confederate Loan."
It is from the pen of Robert Trimble, a
merchant; a warm advocate of the Northern
and anti-slavery cause. He gives the
" subscribers "‘ small comfort. He holds
out that "it has been proved," Ist, that
cotton can be bought in the Southern States
at one-half-the price fixed as a basis for the
issue of the loan; 2d, that cotton held on
private account would be safer, in the event
of Federal occupation, than any held by
the Confederate Government; 3d, that even
though "its independence" were secured,
it, could not pay the interest on its debts;
4th, that Jefferson Davis is the "prince of
repudiators," and is ."not politically hon
est." Next he dwells on the narrow space
into which the Confederates have been
driven hack, and on the fact that the loan,
at the, best, was " a gambling transaction."
Apropos of manning ships to "prey
upon the commerce of America," I saw in
the Mersey, to-day, a vast and formidable
Ram, lately launched from the building
yard of Mr. Laird. Ilaave reason to be
lieve that if affidavits can be obtained suffi
cient to enable the law officers of the. Crown
to seize, this vessel, it will be done. The
Times strongly condemns the building of
such ships, and - the Daily News sufficiently
indicates the willingness of Lord Russel to
act promptly, if evidence such as will bear
a legal test can be furnished.
THE_ RAILWAY STATISTICS of the King
dom, in 1862, are as follows : 180,129,007
ticket passengers, 56,565 season ; together
with 262,334 horses, 386,864 dogs, 3,094,-
183 cattle, 7,800,028 sheep, and 1,989,892
pigs. The passengers last year exceeded
those' of 1861 by 7,000,000.' They paid
Z 12,295,273 for their fares. Thirty-four
passengers were killed in 1861. The pas-
Banger trains travelled 57,542,831
and the goods trains nearly as many more.
The passenger traffic supplied forty-seven
seventy-six per- cent. of the total receipts;
the goods traffic supplied fifty-two twenty
four per cent. The money, receipts were
WHOLE NO. 674
£29,128,558, being nearly £3,000,000 more
than the interest, on the national debt, and
an increase of £563,000 over 1861. The
The working expenditure was £14,820,691.
In the year 1862, the companies paid
£270,670 for Parliamentary law expenses;
£158,160 for personal injuries; £596,410
for routs and taxes. It took £2,708,638
to maintain the way or works, and £1,242,-
744 to , maintain the carriages and wagons.
The total sum , raised by shares and loans
reache,d £385 218 I 438 I at the close of the
•
year 1862.
THE GALWAY LINE of mail steamers to
New-York,las opened its fresh career. It
has a subsidy of £78,000.
THE HanvEsT in the United . Kingdom
is almost unparalleled.
LONDON is largely " out Of town "-.1-at
English watering places, among the High
land hills lakes, and rivers; in France;
on the Rhine ; and in Switzerland. Still,
we have " nice little company," here in
London, left behind, numbering about 2,-
500,000 people ! The heat was very_ great
in the end of iTuly and beginning of Au ,
gust. In Patis it was almost intolerable,
and compelled English visitors to fiee, even
with the attractions of the. Emperor's Fete
(15th of August) at hand. The vines of
Italy, France, and Germany, are about to
yield great results.
Ix 1862, the net amount of property un
der the income tax was ,E10;196,119 in
Great Britain, and under a quarter of a
million in Ireland. Flax in Ireland has been,
more extensively grown than ever before,
and is a heavy crop. The flax mills are
profitable. The white linen trade languishes
in Ulster.
Tun Scottish farmers are in - high spirit 4
by reason of their splendid crops. The
rents paid by them are enormous. One of
the great landed proprietors, the Duke of
Hamilton, has died in Paris. His remains"
were sent in an Imperial frigate to Glas
gow, and were interred at Hamilton, in the
family vault.
A FEARFUL EPIDEMIC is destroying
nine out of every ten of the cattle in Italy.
MRS. MCLACULAN'S Case. is agairi
brought up. .
DR. LIVINGSTONE writes that slave.hunt
ing has depopulated the district of the
Lower. Shire, and that the Lower Zambezi
had been almost depopulated. He praises
Lord Palmerston for his policy in keeping
an African squadron on the Western coast,
and for other measures.
TSB MARQUIS OF NORMANBY, who'died
lately, was the.special advocate of the Ex-
Kings .and Ex-Dukes - of Italy...
LANCASHIRE NON-EMPLOYMENT
di
minishing: Public Works, with' Govern
ment help, are inaugurated. The Relief
Committee have yet in hands ibout £812,-
TH.E TRADE of the North of England.—
The Mayor of New-Castle on Tyne, gives
the following statistics of the Milling' and
manufacturing industry of this - region :
20,000,000 - as of coal raised in 1862;
4,000 tons of this coal were transformed
into 2,250 tons of coke. The annual make
of iron is from 600,000' to 700,000 tons;
450,000 tons are consumed - by the local
forges, when in full work.. The foundries
of the Tyne turn out nearly 50,000 tons per
annum, and those of the Tees double the
quantity. 3,ooo'tons of steel are produced
on the Tyne; 5,500 to 6,000 tons of lead
are smelted in New-Castle and the neigh
borhood; and upwards of - 19,000 tons of
manufactured lead are produced. From
4,000 to 5,000 tons of iron wire, and 3,000
tons of hemp, are spun into rope on the
banks of the Tyne and Wear; and 2,500
tons of anchors- and 11,000 tons of chain
are forged on the Tyne. Nearly one-half
of the whole raw material used in the man
ufacture of alkali is 'worked up on the
Tyne. 50,000,000 glass bottles are turned
out of the furnaCes of the Tyne, the Wear,
and the Tees;
,yearly; five-sixths of the
window glass made in the Kingdom, pro
ceeds from the manufactory of Mr. James
Hartley, Mayor of Sunderland.
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION has held,
this week, an immense meeting at New-
Castle-on-Tyne. Sir William Armstrong,
as President, delivered .a remarkable ad
dress in reference to the past and the pres
ent—noticing the remarkable developments
and praetical applications of Steam Power.
He also specially &Welt on. the supply of
coal in the United Kingdom, which he es
timates as sufficient only for -the next two
hundred years. He touched on a great va
riety of topics—each full of interest—one
especially remarkable, naively, the (almost
certain) evidence now furnished, that the
Sun's "spots," so-called, are really vast de
velopements of some kind of life! About
2,000 members of the Association were
present.
Christ Must Rule iu the Heart.
BY REV. WILLIAM ARNOT
The rush of an evil heart's affections,
like other swollen streams, will not yield
to reason. When God by his Word and
Spirit comes to save, he saves, by arresting
the heart and making it new.
An engine, dragginc , its train on the rail,
is sweeping along the landscape. As it
comes near, it strikes awe into the "specta
tor. Its furious fire and smoke, its rapid
whirling wheels, its mighty mass shaking
the ground beneath it, and the stealthy
quickness of its approach—its whole ap
pearance and adjuncts make the observer
bate his breath till it is past. What power
would suffice to arrest that giant strength ?
Although a hundred men should stand up
before it, or seize its whirling wheels, it
would cast them down, and over their man
gled bodies hold its unimpeded course with
nothing to mark the occurrence but a
quiver as it cleared the heap ! But there
is a certain spot in the machinery where
the touch .o.f a little child will make the
monster slacken, his pace, creep gently for
ward, stand still, slide back like a spaniel
fawning under an angryword at the feet of
his master.
A ship driven by fierce winds is gliding
with all the momentum of great bulk and
great speed forivard—forward upon a sunk
en rock, where the gurgling breakers greed
ily, gloomy predict her doom. What ap:.,
paratus can you bring to bear on the
devoted vessel ? What chain thrown
around her bows will bring her to a stand ?
The massiest cable owning across her course
will snap like a thread of tow! But a
touch by a man's hand on the helm will
turn the huge mass sharply round, and
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leave it standing still upon the surface,
with its empty sails flapping idly in the
wind.
These great works of man laugh to scorn
every effort to arrest their course by direct
obtrusive force ; and yet they are so con
structed that a gentle touch in a tender
place makes all in an instant still.
This greatest work of God, more wonder;
ful by far—this man—this self of me—
moves with a greater impetus to a deeper,
longer doom. Moving from birth in the
direction of death, the immortal gathers
momentum every hour, bursting through
all the resolutions and efforts of himself
and neighbors, as Samson broke the withes
that were twisted round his wrists. How
Paul wept when he found that his wild
heart would brook no restraint of his better
Judgment ! I And a law in my members,
that when I would do good, evil is present
with me. No power in heaven or earth
will arrest that downward fail, unless it be
laid upon the heart. The human being is
so constituted that a touch there may turn
him, but nothing else will. Oh, to be ar
rested by the heart! Unless Jeins cast
the bands of his love about that heart, as
we are rushing past, there remains nothing
but. a fearful looking-for of judgment.
Lord, grasp me there ! Lord, save me,- I
perish! Thy people shall be willing, in the
day of thy power.
When they told the blind beggar at the
wayside that Jesus was passing by, he rose
and ran, and cried, "Jesus, thou son of
David, have mercy on me!" My heart,
Lord ! arrest it; subdue it; make it new.
" Create in me a clean heart, 0 God ; and
renew a right spirit within me."—Roots
and Fruits of the Christian Life.
The Locomotive Worshipped.
One of the goddesses of the natives of
India—the most dreadful looking among
them—is Kallee, one of the various forms
in which'th% wife of the god Mahadew is
worshipped. She is represented as entire
black—(Kallee• means black)—furious look
ing ; her mouth open, her tongue hanging
out, to indicate that she wants blood to
drink. In one hand she carries a human
head by the hair, and in the other a skull
filled with blood, Altogether she looks ter
rible. Formerly human sacrifices were
offered to her, though at present she must
content herself with . the blood of buffaloes,
goats and sheep. I was once in a temple
of Kallee, in Bindbachal, near Mirzapore,
where the crust of dried coagulated blood
from sacrifices, which had been offered them,
no doubt, for hundreds of years, was several
inches thick.
In Calcutta, more than in any other
place, this horrible goddess is worshipped,
not indeed always as Kallee, but also
one of her other forms, named Doorga. It
is said that Calcutta, written by the Ilin
dils,-Kalikatta, has received its name from
her, or rather from a ghat or bathing place
on the banks of the Ganges, or from a tem
ple, dedicated to Kallee, called Kalighat,
on which, or near which, now part of Kali
katta is built. .
Well, this dreadful bloodthirsty goddess,
which in these North-western provinces is
more known by the general name of De
vee, or the goddess ' has just, as it were, ap
peared in a new form in the district of
Etawah, for there we—brothers Owen,
Broadhead, and myself—on iaur tour of
itineration learned, that a good many of
the people, on- seeing the railway trains,
propelled without horses or bullocks, flying
with such velocity, and drawn by a wonder
ful looking single carriage, the locomotive,
have come to the- sage conclusion that this
is the goddess herself. There are several
things which no doubt led them to this be
lief. The fearful, irresistible power of the
locomotive, which, like Kallee in her wild
coarse, cannot be stayed by any human
effort—the great noise and apparent fury
with which it rushes along, grinding, and
blowing, and whistling, an smoking, and
steaming, and snorting, and crushing every
thing that stands in the way—and then at
night, that large fiery mouth (the fire-place
in the front,) which never closes, as if it
wanted to do nothing but to devour and
destroy, and last, though not least, the fact
that : the railway 'line was commenced in
Kallee's principal place, Calcutta, and that
all the locomotive,s in use on the whole line
have come from there. All these' pardon-
Jars have produced in these people the be
lief that the locomotive is none other but
Kellee herself.
This point being settled in their minds,
the next is, that she must be worshipped in
her new appearance. And this the people
really do, as we learned on our tour in the
Etawah district. They offer sacred flow
ers (particularly .marigolds) to her, by
throwing them on the rails over which she
passes, and sacrifice goats and sheep to her
at places near the railway. I asked several
persons why they could be so foolish as to
do this, to which they, evidently being
ashamed; replied, that this was done only
by the ignorant peopin from the villages.
U. P. Ullmann.
Beal Leniently with Little Children.
oye that-are wise in your own conceit !
never despise the young; never turn from
their first sorrow at the loss even of a doll
or peg-top. Every privation is a step in
the ladder of life. Deal gently with them;
speak kindly to them. A little sympathy
may ensure a great return when you are
yourself a second time a child. Comfort
their little sorrows; cheer their little hearts.
Kind words are the seeds sown by the way
side, that bring forth fruit, " some sixty
fold, some an hundredfold." Bear in mind
ever that " the child is father to the man ;"
and when you would pass a sorrowing one
coldly by whether you see it mourning
over a dear friend or a lost half-penny ;
whether coupled to crime by the iron hand
of necessity, or dragged into it by the de
praved will of a bad mother, or some other
unlucky eircuthstan ces—remember that still
it is a child, a piece of nature's most flexi
ble wax, and credible to false prints.
Spurn it not because its clothes are rags,
or its parents vagrants; it is the mighty,
and yet thO innocent representative, per
haps, of generations yet unborn. Give it
the look of kindness that childhood never
mistakes ; speak to it the word of cheer
that even old age never forgets. Do it, if
not for the sake of your common nature,
do it for the sake of One who said : " In
munch as ye did it to the least of these,
ye did it unto me." ",Suffer little chil
dren to come - unto mo, and forbid them
not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven."
WC are a,pt to see the clouds that hang
over us,. forgetting the blue . sky beyond
them.
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