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TILE NEW-YORK NEWS BOYS.
The following letter, addressed to the
lerintendent of a Sabbath School in Al
teny City, is kindly luinisbod for pub
ion.
NF,tv-YonK, Dec. 3, 1863.
ltaoToEft :—When you were in
, ry, I promised to send a letter con
our newsboys. It affords me much
'sure so to do, and I trust that the peru
of it will lead your scholars to value
,'C highly the privileges they enjoy.
The newsboys are_much improved of late
ars. A few years since, the poor boys of
r city passed their days in the streets,
slept at night in the hay-barges, mar
:-places, cellars, door-ways, and• empty
;ous. Ten years since the sympathies
a number orphilanthropic individuals
.e enlisted in their behalf,,and a Lodg-
House for newsboys and other help-
Is and homeless ones was opened at
). 12S Fulton Street, and placed under
superintendency of Mr. Tracy. Many
led upon it as a useless expenditure 'of
and money, but the yorolcotors parse-
fed, and success crowned their efforts. •
A comfortable reading•room, and a neat
airy sleeping apartment, were the in-
Leements offered to the poor, friendless
iilk. At first discord reigned supreme,
it kindness exerted her magical charms,
d the boys learned to love the pleasant
Ims provided for them.
The Lodging House is designed for all
isses of boys who need- a home. Hence
accommodates match-venders, boot-blacks,
tggage-earriers, and peanut merchants.
,nce its organization it has been twice eii
xged, in order to accommodate- an in-
•easing number of applicants. Soon an
litioaal room will be opened and fitted
with iron besteads:
Perhaps you would like a description of
Lodging House. The visitor climbs
six stories, and isushered into the recep:
alion-room, This is used as a play and
ini'school room. It is large and well-ventila
and contains many attractions. The
k, wherein the boys deposit their say
;, is divided into compartments, each
which is numbered. Such as desire
'e one of these compartments, and on
first of each month receives five per
interest on the amount deposited.
ie have saved $l5 or $2O during a single
ith. Bach has the use of a closet for
clothing, which is provided with a lock
key. Adjoining the sohool-room is a
,h-room,. which' is abundantly supplied,
hot and cold water. Cleanliness is
of the rules and regulations most
icily enforced. Boys accepting the priv
;gcs of the Home, are compelled to wash
, triselves before retiring. Those whose
r is long and matted, are put under the
of the barber, who quickly removes alf
,ra and superfluous hair.
The charge for longing is five cents;
as are unable to pay are trusted until
ter times dawn upon them. Those who
fire, are placed in good situations in the
entry. Many hundreds are now in the
cat, who, had it not been for the
, tecting hand extended to them, would
re suffered punishment for orimes com
tted.
A teacher instructs them four or five
'eniogs during the week, and interesting
3rvices are held on Sabbath evenings. A
•ee dinner (a gift of friends to the poor)
given on Sabbath to such as refrain from
-king on the Lord's-day. Many accept
is generous gift.
Since the Home has been established,
y hundreds have been saved from ruin
sough its blessed instrumentality. Some
the boys, as Winter approaches, sadly
led clothing. Donations for this purpose
ould be sent to Mr. O'Connor, Superin
ndent, 128 Fulton Street.
In closing, it might be well to say that
1r three hundreed of the boys are now in
Le army, battling for the Union cause.
My dear friend, you are at liberty to pub-
Leh this, which if done; you will please
Ind me copies of the paper.
Yours, &0,, S. M. OSTRAVELER.
War-Work.
lilor more than a year, I have been so
urning and traveling within the bounds,-
is of five or• mix counties of Virginia—
ose counties which have been most over
in by armies. The contending hosts have
lased and fought each other, over the
lls, through the fields and woods, , and
.gong the roads and rivers of this part of
the poor, boastful " Old Dominion." The
crime of rebellion has been followed by the
alamity of desolation. This once beauti
-11 and, in parts, highly cultivated region
,s, since that crime was committed, been
'hanged to a waste and almost to a solitude.
:ts soil is untilled, its fields laid open, its
;noes burned, its trees destroyed. No
usbandman is seen at his peaceful toil, no
;rds graze in the wide pastures, no trav
eller pursues his journey on the highways.
The old homesteads are forsaken, and many
of them utterly demolished. I can scarce
refrain from sadness, almost to tears, as I
look at the desolations.; nor is the sadness
diminished, though I recognize the justice
of the retribution, when I reflect upon the,
crime that has occasioned them.
Let me, before attempting to depict some
of these scenes, exhonerate our soldiers
om the charge of vandalism, to which
hey may appear to be obnoxious, During
' the months that I have been with them
cognisant of their conduct, I have
oar known them commit acts of wanton
struction. I have never known them in
iy way injure a house that was occUpied,
destroy a fruit tree; they do 'not burn
epee rails, or damage a forsaken house, ex
cept for the purposes of their own need,
and comfort. Fences are used, as the most
convenient fuel, on a march ; and old build
ings, near camps, are stripped of boards, to
make the quarters of the men comfortable.
Nor Is the wretched appearance of the
country to be altogether attributed to the
Union army; the rebels have done their
part, and, of course, without the palliation
and excuse that our men could plead.
While lying, for a few weeks in the early
Autumn, in the vicinity of Culpepper,
there was more damage done to out-build
ings and abandoned houses, than at any
other place or at any other time. The se
ditious character of the region, as the home
01' a prominent rebel General, may have
had some influence in 'outing to this re
sult.
A day or two after our oamp was estab•
lisped there, taking a walk along a road which
neglect and the rains of a year had con
'vetted into a deep, broad ditch, I came to
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a farm house which I thought was inhab
ited. Approaching it, to introduce myself
to the inmates, I found it unoccupied. It
had been so for I know not how- long. It
was a plain house, and located with less re
gard to beauty of situation tharr most of
the homesteads of the country; but it had
the usual dense shade of old trees around
it. In the grounds, at•the front, could be
seen traces of walks, now overgrown with
grass; and circles in which rank weeds
were standing, where perhaps, under the
gentle culture 'of fair hands, violets and
verbenas had spread their' gay colors to the,
sunlight. At the rear of the house was
the thickest 'shade, beneath which the
ground appeared to have been trampled to
hardness by frequent use; but now it 'was
overgrewnwith weeds, and grass.
But the garden seemed to tell the tale of
desertion' and neglect, most piteously. In
the squares, the soil enriched for vegetable
culture, grew a dense mass of weeds as
high as the surrounding fence and, almost
hiding it. Among their tangled , matted
leaves, brown in Antumnal maturity, a' few
bright scarlet berries showed where the
asparagus bed had been A luxuriant
growth of hop z vines, their supports,having
fallen, was spread from one to another of a
row of altheas' ' of. I
_various hues, now n
late blossom. A vigorous, hardy crystal
themurd had maintained its piece by' the
pathway, and was promising to display, ere
long,_ its masses of, showy blossoms. A few
morning glories, had crept up, from their
shaded roots, among the weeds, and pUt
forth pale and sickly flowers, here and
there; atilidst their brown seed branches.
A daily-roie bosh, as if contemning the
base and intrusive companionships to which
it was abandoned, towered above the sur
rounding weeds, and demanded attention
to its delicate, blushing flowers in bleom,
and its innumerable buds; while .a japonica,
equally aspiring, twined its slender green
twigs and put forth its bright yellciw blos
soms with those of the rose, as its only be
fitting companion.
On the house the work of decay had
been begun by time; it had been hastened
by neglect; and in, a few days it was com
pleted, by the tranSfer of the materials to
the Union camp and their transformation
into quarters for brave men, engaged in the
great work of suppressing tke rebellion and
saving the country. J. P. M.
For the Presbyterianßetmer
Electioir.
My dear-reader, are you troubled about
election ? Yon had better be troubled about
your salvation.- Abundant provision is
made. Salvation *is freely offered. Who
soever will, let him come. Rev, xxii : 17;
Math. xi :28-30. Bat men will not.--
john v : 40. Hence Divine grace is'neees
sary ; and election is C-od.'s gracious pur
pose to have mercy on whom he will.—ROm.
viii : 28-39, and ix :15-23 ; Eph. i :4
12; 2 These. : 13, 14 ; John 1:11-13.
Reader, remember this: Election is God's
gracious purpose to have mercy on whom
he.will. But he is under no obligation 'to
have mercy on you. .Ho may save• you, or,
not, just as he pleases. He will not save
you, unless you come to Christ, and, re
nouncing your sins and every other trust
and dependence, rely only and fatly upon
Jesus Christ for salvation. Then if you
can't .get along with eleetion, get along
without it, and come to .Christ without, de
lay. Come, and you shall have life.
EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE.
" What a Mess I"—The Emperor and the Congress
of Powers—Agitation in Europe—English Stales-:
men—Dynastic. Interests and the Treaties of 1811
—What Free Italy Expects—What the Pope
Fears—Pio Nono, Me Beggars, and Me Feast—,
The Mendicant-Making System and its Contrast .
Ingram'e Lecture on Irish. Emigration and,
i d Causes—Amerieuand Bislng Irishmen—" Who
Fears to Speak of '9l3l"—Dublin City—Propor
tion of the Sects Episcopal Clergy and Laity
Irish Church Missions—Discussions and Historic
Facts—St. Patrick' not a Ilamaniet.--Niss Whale
ly and Ragged Schools- 7 Preabyterian Missionary
—Mr. Henley and Tracts—The Irish Gentry and
Conver.sions—Denham &aid and MorriOn Hall--
Thanksgiving Day of General Assembly.
Nov. 2/ 1863
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" WHAT A Mss I"—such was the ex
clamation of Lord Cowley, the English
Ambassador at. the Court of the Tuileries,
when the Emperor had concluded his
speech at the opening of the Chambers.
" A Congress "—each is his proposal to
re-arrange the map of Europe; to begin
its work with the common recognition
and confession that the Treaties -of
1815 and the work of the so-called
" Holy, Alliance " is effete, and vir
tually ignored. The Emperor professes
to ask for such a Congress in the in
terests of . general and permanent peace:
But .the effect of his utterances and pre
posal his been to alarm the whole of Con
tinental Europe, and to cause a unanimoui
protest against the proposal, by London
press. The Cabinet of Lord Palmerston
has twice met; the French Emperor's auto
graph letter to the Queen, backino. up hia
speech and its programme, has been dnly
weighed. Caution and reserve, if not sus
picion, rule the hour, and the German poli
ticians and merchants have instineavely
recoiled, and almost a panic has prevailed'
at :Frankfort, in the dark forebodings of
coloring and, not.distant war.
44 For a fortnight," says a leading Vienna
paper, "we had nothing but suppositions
as to whether the speech from the French
throne would be warlike or pacific. Now
we see that it is neither the one nor the .
other, but it contains the source of great
trouble; for it puts the preliminary ques
tion as to peace or war, and in ,a tone that
conceals a veiled• menace, not only with •
reference to the Polish question specially,
but also &Upending, European questions. A
refusal of the Congress would pre-suppose se
cret projects! In other words, whosoever is
againat the Congress must have seera views
against France. The intimidation is palpa
ble. It indicates clearly that France in
tends to raise her hand against any one
who should refuse to agree to the Congress,-
whether Itussiai Prussia, or Austria.'
The Times says that "while ntheis may
see in the Emperor's declarations an oa r
oult meaning, we , are satisfied with their
first and most obvious sense; they,earry the,
impress of candor and truth. He is in a
great difficulty." This difficulty is collision
with Russia (after a continuous friendly.
,allianoe,) on the question of Poland' and
its wrongs. The Times asks ; " Does he,
mean that war is inevitable, except upon
one condition; and that the condition in
which wai can be avoided is impossible ? If
so, the vision of an imaginary Congress fades
away; the scene opens , behind it, and dia.
closes an army drawn up tit line of battle."
The fact is, that the Emperor .wants a I
firm and treaty recognition of his own race
and dynasty from the Powers, and conse
quently a reversal of that exclusion of
Bonapartism which was necessarily em
bodied in the Treaties of 1815.. It is not
forgotten that he is the man who 'mire up
a long peace, and provoked both the Cri
mean. and Italian wars. It is ,worthy of
notice that the Italian
,press supporting
Victor Eininenuel are In favor 'of a POll--
greeS, because that " Italy is mord than' any,
other country interested-in this alternatiVe,,
because there, are accomplished facts;)and
facts to be .aceompphed, which she, has to
get accepted." In other words '
_Naples is ,
lost to the Bourbons, a part 'of the States
`of the Chureh to the Pope, Italy wants
Rome as her capital,-and so, - says. a' Milan,
journal, "-if-war eomeyas is most probable,
it is our business to :complete 01 . 11* **pen
dence; and hence to, be strongnnd prepared
for hoiiilities.'! And, so the Pope is fright
ened, the Cardinala are uneasy; and Austria
feels very unconifortable lest a storm break
forth, which shall deprive her of her Vene
tian. provinces. Gleefully does L' Opinione;-
of Turin, exclaim, that the Emperor's words
"signify - that Rome must share the fate, of.
Bologna, Aneona - , 5 arid Perugia, and be
taken from under the - shameful theocratic
and temporal gOvernment of kerne 'to be
come the capital of Italy." , •
It is possible that a Congress may assem
ble after. all. -Russia, meanwhile, .is dili
ointly preparing for war.
. .
As 'for Pio Nono's daily life and habiti l,
it is understood that they. are marked by"
quietude and , eheerfulness. It- also appears
that Cardinal Antonelli, cunning ,and dex
terous, ever compliant in aspect; while
really ruling, calling the Pope doutinually
" Ably Father,"- "Blessed Father," is MIL
tirely,conficled in by the Pope, and that a
part of the forenoon is occupied by them
in matters ,of a political, character. The
Pope fa just' now being' praised by the
Popish papers at:Ronaci and in Ireland, for
a feast prepared by his orders for the poor
of the Eternal City. But the Papacy is
the flagrant cause Of beggary and pauperism
wherever it is dominant, and 'a parenthetic,
feast amid the chronic and continuously,
enforced fast of the- Roman paupers—all
the year round at starvation, point—is a
poor mnsolation. It is when the genius
of, Protestant truth and liberty shows its
benign and unfettered action, that.'idleness_.
and rags disappear, that-employment be
comes ondant, and that commerce brings
wealth to the Merchant and comfort to the
masses. Happy the day, the miming 'day,
when, the Papal power swept away, Italy
shall be one tide of industry, and neither
begging friars nor ordinary., mendicanta
shall offend the eye and ear, or bring dis
grace on the 'name of so called Catholic
Christianity.
IRISH EMIGRATION has this week been
discussed, with extraordinary _ability, by
Professor Ingram, LL.D., of Trinity. Col
lege,,Dublin—one whom - I have the honor
to, number among my friends, and who,as
the fatherless boy Or the widow' of a elei
gymari of 'the Epispopal Church, has, by
native talent and learned industry, risen to
a lofty position in the University, and who
is universally admired and esteemed for his
noble and generous character. As Vice-
President of the Statistical Society, in the
presence .of a very learned audieute, Dr.
Ingrain announced as the subject of his
address, The Condition of Ireland,"
especially as regards its present cc:anomie
circumstances, and the remarkable specta
cle of the emigration which pis removing so
many of our fellow.countrymen to other
lands. Instead of-being surprised by.this,
Dr. Ingram considered .(justly) this great
movement as a .perfectly natural conse
quence of , economic laws- acting under
the new conditions- of humane societies.
He explained his meaning as follows:
- "If in former times the' Irish peasant
•
squatted from year to year on his 'poor lit
tle petal of land, or toiled on for miserable
wages in a statrof chronic semi -starvation,
when in other countries he and' his chil
dren might have earned, with no great
effort, a comfbrtable livelihood, it ,was not
because he wished to remain, but because
he was unable to go. Often speaking only
the Trish language, and without any dis
tinct notioneither of the geographidal sit
nation, or of the industrial condition of
other countries, he was, in the strictest
sense of the words, adnriptus glebce.. And;
even if he had learned English, and * , was.
otherwise fitted to take his place in a 'new .
social medium, how was he from his scanty
resources, to pay the expense of the Passage,
then no inconsiderable amount? The two
agencies which have set him Tree are _the
diffusion of knowledge by, ihiC, National
system of Education, and the reduCtion of
the passage-money to America and Ausitra- ,
lia i by the immense recent development of
trade and intercourse between different
countries. First of ail; in the, , Natienal
Schools he learned English. The number
of Mailmen - who could speak only Irish
was estimated in 1822 at two milliens; in
1861 it was leis than 164,000; -Here was
one obstacle removed—the same that still,
as we are told by'Sir JohnlieNeill, makes
it' impossible to apply the obtrious rem' edY
to the over population of the island of
Skye. The Irish 'farming and laboring
classes became generally better informed,
and there intelligent; they understood more,
distinctly the'facilities for obtaining land ,
in the United States, and the high rate of
wages that prevailed there, - and , they were
better able to avail , themselves of those ad
vantages. The old , narrowness, of view,.
tithidity, and want of enterprise -rapidly,
disappeared, and' large numbers `of thepeo
ple dekiied to try - their chances in 'a new
country. While fitness' for emigration wee:
thus increasing, and their wish for At be-.
coming;:,strong,' the wonderful increase of,
trade and'communication between different
nationastimnlated the arts of shipbuilding
and navigation ; and the cost of the pas
sage to America and Australia gradually
fell. Then the influence of the natural
law—Eiure in its, action as thakunder-which
water finds its level—began to be felt ;and
the, Irish laboring classes began to pour in
a continuous stream from, a country vrhere
wages were low, and it was not easy, to live,'
to .a country where wages were
,high, Eine
no one need want who was able and •willing
to work. The cheapness and abundance of
the potato had enabled the Irish working
classes to exist on the wretched wages
which prevailed before 1846. Its failure,
therefore, accelerated the emigration which
was already in progress. Liberal contribu
tions were sent over from America in the
period of the greatest distress,
,and it is
worthy of observation that these contribu
tions dame in the form not dritiottei;
W. J. M
PITTSBURGH, WEDESDAY,I
71 . 1;Y f..• "
of food. Nettling ; Ong Aairei w strongly
affect the imagination of a starvinb people ,
than the large sitpillie er4itient.4B ndiad
corn which- thettlarietlifrotiltla tniteor -
States. .They plated in thelstiongerit •'Con-u,
trast the abnedaneotot XliwrikkiWiArtlin,
destitution ot , Ireland, ,and i inesistahly t. at, ,
treated the. Ittorerlrcm, a n snen l e of i
penury
to a land of lettii.Y` .4 .
' - -...= loti ~ , ..ii;;..l.tn = . = ii-:.• 1:,--.4 1,
The speakti - wnt 0 to siiBw Init-tne
emigration tai)Viratitilliflicitifiliblilitithlrov..
land,rthat it' hap beverticonlitinstflaid evicii,n
creasing in, flWnkteckn EgF9PetiOPolit , l l 9; , ,
peace of I.Bl. l s;,,4l6ftast r y t taklnd, and . :
Scotland the same moiemenk is in,prniress ;...
the( tbe 'sae', &ilia" !iiliflitili%asliei t iire:i: t
dutecte , largehitig4ati6 fielti%l'idliinti ilit.dsly
England and tcdthard3,:soc that 1 Ihile *ha It I,
230,000 wenthemmicatilmilip, 0;084 L s
from 18:11 ti ff 1,851 1.,thP.1 . f e T. 41, , ;
and' froth 1851 . .t0 'fsqf abou '3v 9.' it
99
the ilait- censAS" of TegrkAa all BWotlitid - ,x'
in 1881, it ivaligiacerthlri l efi r thitithete*eitsl
800,000 ' , lrish' 'itaitbiites.their, , honntlerles
Thus, includink,,thn ,cl4ltirett, ; and Aying a
descendants
,or:al I v i be went ,ti . .tithA „sine° .
1841'; the aggiegatn:Vrotild not be lc hia than'
2,300,000. Well' might the' leettiiiiiiity '
" It is plainly ' , impossible= to stay iiniigra,
tion, with wages in England and Scotla44,
at two.shillingika. dap). and the. cost of a
deck passage -„to. • liITeEPPP). for four or five: l
shillings, the . migration will inevitably gO
'on. With wages 'in Neiv-York at fottr
shillings and Lupivaids, and the :cost. of : a •
,passage not more than ~ five. : or' six guittoa‘:
the emigration :: will inevitably s go,onr„ .. ;
The `accelerated "progress of enalgrntion,'
was
. exPlained. ' " Every one • that'goes . ,
makes'it ettsire for',Others lo follove. l -:`Eini. , ~
grants joining relatives already settled,**ill
more readily fitid..pnitable)cmpleyment - and
&milled themselves at home, We , are all .
familiar with
Irish emigiants,vitli 'gen'erous
and, touching selfforgeifulnes'sj'haVe "sent
to their relative& in :the old country ;. remit;
tances, which ip the -single . "
year 0f.1868,
amounted to neatly a million, and a half , ,
sterling; These gifiPhave a double effect ;
they supply the most convincing
. evidence
of the prosperity orthose who have gone
before, and they „facilitate the movements
of those who desire to follow." -
But other and politipal motives, says Dr.
Ingram, have something to do "with thein
creasing stream, and a .Church" paper is
scandalized beeauswit:speaks out thy trhth
as follows : •
"Besides the desire of material-prosper r ..
ity, there is alai)* in the hearts of many, a
spirit of - ambition at' libthe rather'
engenders= disOcknienO, than latimilates ewer=
Lion. The aspirintirishmin must observe
with in terest, that tke, absence .of an , aris
tocracy in America, and the Rritishcolo
nies, leaves far more open than in our _older
cornmunity; the avenues to the higheat dis
tinctions of the State..; In the, Great Re
public, Irish. blood did not prevent la Jack
son ,fromrising to .the PAesiclen#t it;;
and mo r on whom tha ban of thelit',, 6.3
been pronounced at home, in Anstra t ha it,
Oan ad a, Ititti *.bjeuminiiters 'of the
Dr. Ingram'hore *refers: 10 men, of the,
Young Ireland tLparty; with whom, when
a young stndent, in Trinity College, he had,
some sympathy. It was from his pen came
the celebrated verses beginning with a ref, -
erence to the Irish rebellion of 1708
"Who'fears to speak of' '9B?'
Who blushes at the name ?"
The rest of his address at the Statistical
Society, was equally as forcible as that-al
ready quoted. He holds that much might
be done to retain the population, by a re
peal of that part of the Poor Law Act
which forbids relief to the poor in their
own houses in times of• scarcity, and which
demands that in extremity they must break
up their families and enter the parish ,
work-houses; he holds that as the small
farmers of Ireland have it least' fourteen
millions sterling in Irish joint stock banks;
that it is not poverty drives them away,,
so much as the want, < of leases from the
Jandlords. He,,therefore, urges the assim
ilation Of the poor lawS of Ireland with
those of Englitud, and a thorough adjust
ment of the laws relating to land.
THE CITY OF DUBLIN has a populatioL.
of:about 280,000. :.Of these, 100,000 are
Episcopalians, 8000, Presbyterians, and the
remainder Roman. Catholics. The Episco-'
pallans are an influential body, and com
prise ailutnber of the gentry of the coun-,
try who have town residences fer the Wifi-
But.a greater number are: the fami
lies of Judges and Lawyers,-employees of
the Irish Government, officials connected
with the Custom HouSe - and other public
establishments; families who have - grown
wealthy in .extensive• trade, and professors,
and members of the University. The ma
jority of the Episcopal clergy. are Evan
gelical and earnest; some,of them remark
ably useful and devoted. NeVerthelese I
do not think that in Dublin this class is so
vigorous,- or itsiaborgiso telling as was the
case twenty Or ihfrty 'yeare• .ago. '- - There is
a great tendency inltlie:Church to isolation
as to:Nonconformists, not unmingled with
worldly pride. A large portion of_ :the
laity, however,are pious . and actively nse
ful. They sustain Bible Soci4ties and kin
dred institutions, "and while attaelied) to
their own cone:Mirth:olli recognize and re
joice in the ,usefulness of other sections of . ' ,
.the Church of, ChriV._
The new Arehbishop elect (Trench,) has, :.
arrived in Dublin,'but will not be " *be;
cra t ed" for some - time Yet: "'He is very
learned, refined, accomplished and amiable.'
Although of Irish descent, his father set-:
tied in England many years, ego, ,and his.,
son was, born there. It is.
ago,
to, find,
that nearly: forty years ago, when Lord .
PalmeratoU was defeated at a general elec
tion' by a Tory opposition, Dean Trench's'
father wRs ffesident gentleman in the
, County, of Hants, near to Lord Palmerst4on's
hereditary seat , at Ramsey, and earnestly
supported his cause. That was not forgot
ten in after Yearti ; it placed the' deserving
SOU in a 'favorable position when Palmer
stop became Prime Mihistei. of England,
and to do, this may be traced, first :the be-, ,
stowment of the Deanery of WestMiester,_
and secondly the filling up, by RichardUhev
enix Trench, - Onlie Vacant Archbishopric
of Dublin. 'do' not imply in tills i that'
he is not the right man in the right piece;
that, is, generally admitted. But it is not --
always that merit is, practically recognised,
or ceases to be reckoned among the unste
eess u , of whom the poet says : •
Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathomettcares of ocean bear."
THE IRISH CHUROH MISSIONS TO RO
MAN CATHOLICS p.re sustained both in Dub
lin and in the West. of. Ireland, with' re
markable energy. " I have iisited'the office
and central depot in DlOleeir' Street, Dab
DEVM8ER±1 . :64:48163.,: -. WHOLE Na 586
aud r haveulse,h,scl,,,leagthened conver
sitiPon`withthe clerical secretary. Ile has
pleb - Cain my halide specimens of - the tracts
and •publications circulated:` Many Alf the
:Roman , ,Catholies:a.,Dublin attend :disci's. :
' "
,have,,before,,me a
papte i rheaded,," Roman Catholics of Dub' :
whether'will be' Catholics or Itt.
Come to the 'Controiersy
27 , ToilisendtStieetivn' Tuesday evening;
Subject rfor ,disoussion--litrhat the
teaching, of the early Irish Church'?Or„
how Protestantism Protpstantiga and Rolnanismpanie
to Breland F Mic - b ) . speaker ' 'fifteen ininuteS.-
vA.fteritiie 7 o'cloCk; ter' ininutes." -- ( 1
:TO this are appendedrohisteric notes as ,
10 the: introduction , .of , . Christianity into
44 . 404; andshowing,t,4atUot till four mai=
eitnes after appearance : or' St Patrick,
ime'iliere iitedtioihnide, this''by-a
Itomish partisan, of that saintheing'cont ,
nectedwithr Rome?: After this comes "St.
IPArt4lB.ldXgeV-asyligNisUed ;.b t rltomiku..
figiq l9 kis
,43sr : -stikgate, at Tata,
rct ilt r which
,CArist
alone s; exalted ' Apt 'Owe Went is' &tin'
abblit the Viiiiihiktry
• Other information is , given, showing that
for seven hundred seers after ,the arrival-of
St. 'Patrick there was no such thing as
Pope's :power
in Irelnd; `that the first
bishop that' Claimed supremacy over Irelandi
Wail Gregory TIT., in 1084; the first` Pope's
Legate 'was Gilbert, Bishop of Limerick,'
1106 and ,that he was -the • first to banish
the old Irish service ,hooks and bring in the
Rornish mass in their stea s .d,:and that the
firet Primate of - Smaugh, appointed by a
Pope, Was Eugene MacGilleViler, in , the
year/1206.- • - • .
But Scliptural teaching is largely used.
Not. only are ,the _Roman Catholics tacitly
coniificed by the' information Circulated,
that St. Patrick, , uccoth, had no knowl
edge Of; or faith in Rome, in purgatory, in
prayers for the dead ; but, the children in
the Irish , Church. Mission Schools , are
taught to repeat over, and over till perfectly
familiar to theti, " one hundred
.texts, run
ninglrorn the "-First:Ten " to the " Tenth
Ten," all directly or • indirectly upholding
saving truth r and antagonistic to destroying
error: a z . :
The fpllowing explanation is added :
‘‘,,These Texts have been , selectedin order
to secure in all the Mission Schools a knowl
edge of passagei of Scripture on the inost
impertant` doetrines. They are arranged
.for, convenience it' sets of ten the more
simple ,texts being placed at .the!begi n ning.
Each set will be foundlo contain, some ref
erence to the' five following snbjects—SlN,
SAVIOUR, the HOIS SPIRIT, the
SCRIPTURES, the ' CONTROVERSY.
The teacher should.-carefully catechise the
scholars on the meaning of 47te words, of
each verse, as well, as the sense of the pas
sage and of the context. .The children
should also he taught to repeat these texts,
and to give the chapter, and verse from
•
which *they are taken. If the texts are
.
illustrated by parallel passages,,this scale
will furnish, sui*ble leseonk -for, more: ad-
;vane
however, notto :supersede, but, only to in
troduce or accompany, the usual Scripturak
coursu which is , followed in exery school.
",IVlny God, for Christ's sake, give his
ligly Spirit; that these texts may prove a
blessing to all who learn them."
The eldest daughter , of.the late Arch
bishop (Whateley)'still keeps up the Rag
ged'Sehool for adults in Townsend Street,
Dublin,and otherwise labori for the diffu
sion of:Gospel truth, with prayerful earn
estness. ' There are many like-minded
Christian ladies, not only: in Dublin, but
throughout Ireland. •
The Rev. Hamilton McGee, a Presbyte
terian. Minister of the Irish 'General Assein
bly, has: been occupying a mission post
among: the Roman Catholics of Dublin,
withdecided results. - 'He is thoroughly
acquainted with the controversy, but•in ad
dition to this,-is a man,..of prayer, adapting
wisdom to. uoifsou]s. The Genpral,Assem;•
bly lippreVes - of "the -doii g n of
building for him a new 44 Mission Church"
in the Irish metropolis. - .
Tract efforts are carried on most _exten
sively, and , with success, in Dublin by
Henry Bewley, ESq., who also has supplied
the funds necessary to ' open 'a similar es
tablishmentin London. At his house and
table I have met, some very devoted men.
One of them; a gentleman from. Western
Ireland, assured me that Whereas some
years ago all was formalism among the
gentry of his own country, now thore was
not &family_ of rank,> in which at least one
bold confessor.of :Christ andltis cause was
not found. The depot of tracts in D'Oleer
Street, Dublin' is constantly crowded.
Mr. Bewley ! labbrs with indefatigable en
ergy, and his wealth - is consecrated to the
best purposes. He supplied ..a large portion
of the money (X 14,000 in all) spent on the
erection of " Merrion Mall," near IVlerrion
Square, Dublin, erected fOr the well-known
evangelist, the Bev. J Denham Sinith.
It was opened abont'twO months ago, and
large - congregations attend twice-on Lord's
day,. and each Tuesday, : evening, Extra
services are also held each Sabbath after
dem in thi) 'Metropolitan Hill, Dublin, the
scene of Mr. Smith's former'dagy services
during ReviVal times in Dublin in 1860,
and afterwards.
ATAY OiIHARKSGIVINCi, coupled with
confession and prayer, was -celebrated by
the Presbyterians, of .frelamt ou the 18th
instant. _Thanks were given, for an abun
dant harvest, and also for the many tokens
of a revived' Christianity, as indicated in an
increase of prayer and of personal piety; as
well as of Christian liberality : Confession
was made-of sins, and humiliation expressed
:that a sufficient number of missionaries were
net offering themselyes for Jewish' and den.:
tile ftehts'oflabOr. PraYer was offered that
the lack might be supplied: The Irish As
sembly is both a consolidated and powerful
body, and although the number of its ad
herents „are ,poppartOively small in the
eapi4l, yet the ministers, as a body, are
eminentlY efficient, and' their influence for
good is conataiily extending. J.W.
Scene in Canip.
A devoted blinister, who labored in the
work *& the 13: - S. Christian CommiesiOn at
Camp Convalescent, draws the following
impressive picture,:,
The celebration of the Lord's Supper
was - a deeply'interesting event. The scene
was it once " '
solemn and piPturesque. The
unfinished chapel,, part of the windows
boarded up—the communion table covered
with aslieet ; ordinary plates end army bread,
with glass goblets, for the Wine—present
ed-the outward and material - aspeet of the
feadt. The picture was 6ornpleted by thP
appearance of the communicants as they
took their seats around the table of the
/ Lord. Never was there a more- solemn as
sembly; and . as we remembered -that these
Same men had, passed many times through
the shook
,of battle, we could only lift up
our 'hearts in humble gratitude:to Almighty
land for the power of that religion lit the
soul which calV.nerve men for the' deadly
strife,.and , also fill.their hearts ( with jorand
peace.in believing; • ,r,
For tho Freanyterian Foriner.
Baptism of two Brahiniiis of litgh Rank.:
[rranilsiel from tbeFrepch.]
As, t
The agents of the London gissionary l So
iiepy, Caldntti, - arinobnce.that they",Jiave
baptized', at 'tlie Elaine ifin4 two yobng
Kulid Brahniini, , :lif. the . most respe&ed
ordor, ,of the ,Ifitidir, priesthood. Both had,
been educated in the Cellege :of the Oresi
.dPn9Y,: 44oan J3tstities
,prehihit any-direct
nstnictton iii the thriatian faith, in this
view, iliateliitofy `i's'a' 3 favo `' rabl'e syiri pt in.
It , proves,. notwithstanding all the timidity
of;the English Government, that a goodiEu
repeal). edneation.may become, under the in
fin.ence - of the Holy Spirit, a way to the faith,
by this al on e that itdestloys; in those WU . re
cieve it, all confidence and respect ter that
system of foolish-dreams andsuperstitions
practices which constitute.Hindiiism. , • In
losing
,the beliefs of their first years, these
two youths had passed successively through
several states 'of mind. They had first be
conie simpl e Deists, Then their 'reading had
made them Unitarians. BUt not having
drawn peace of mind and heart'from either_
of these systems they had sought, it ,else
where and had, finally found it in the faith
of which the3rhave now made profession.
-The eldest, named 13hogoban Chunder
Chatterjea, a young man remarkably gifted
with respect to intelligence, recounted pub
licly, on the day of baptistd, his passage
through all these fluctuations of Admit . Ile
said that from his earliest youth, religion
had been the grAt affair of his life. = He
had thenceforth been devoted to many prac
tices with which the most part of the Brett
_mins dispense, even , those most attached to
their worship. He faSted,. Made intOrmi
dable prayers, stood upon one' foot while' re
peating, twenty-eight, times in sUccession,
the gyatri (a sort‘of long formula in.great
honor in his caste) ; such, in a. word, .had
been the fervor of his devotions, that, in
his family, he was surnamed, The Ascetic.
Then, speaking of the effect produced in
him' by our 'sacred books, he described; in
striking terms, his experience during the
period when he had taken:refuge in Unita
rianism. " The beauty of the narratives of
the New 'Testament,' said he, "ravished
me with admiration. The whole world,
and all it contains, said I, might be an illu
sion • but it would be impossible to see one
in my Jesus. This Man is the only one of
the kind in the annals of humanity. So
much wisdom and godliness; 'so much hu
mility; so much meekness ; -and, above all,
a -charity so perfect, cannot be found else
-whern upon, earth, „nor even in heaven I"
Andyet these impressions, rendered more
vivid still by the, reading of the worki of
some of the most celebrated Unitarians,
such as Priestly and Qhanning, did not long
suffice for the soul of the young Hindu.
He, began, - in Consequence,, to, search the
Scriptures more carefully. There, the doc
trines of the Trinity and of the Expiation
astonished him the most, anfi were to him,
for a long time, a real stumbling stone;
Some serious conversations , with a Chris
tian, whom he met providentially, and the
reading . of a book of Dr. 'Tholuck -- the
"Letters of Guido and Julius "—dissipated',
his prejudices against both these capital
dogmas of the Christian faith"; and once
this way, the Spirit of God from day to
day made, him to comprehend better, that'
Jesus was'other than a man ; and that in
his Divinity alone was to be found= the cor
ner atone, the foundation of the - dearest and
,most efficacious hopes of the Christian.
This far," said he, "I bad always hesi
tated, to pray in the npme- of Christ; but
thenceforth I have never invoked this
blessed name without feeling myself Over
flowing with confidence and joy." *,
Kali Prusunno Choudy,, the youngest of
the two , neophytes, had had nearly the same
experieneds,.end has recounted them in a
no less"moving manner. His baptism' pre
sented this particularity—without preced
ent, perhaps, in the'annals of Hindu Chris
tianity—that it was administered- to him
by a native pastor; come out from the same
cast as himself.
=WI
These new Christians are both' only sons,
and have had to struggle, in the bosom of
their families, against resistances over
which an energetic conviction has alone
been able to triumph. The members of the
higher Castes of Calcutta have been deeply
irritated or grieved at their admission to
the ranks= of Christians; but the general
impression has been excellent, and there is
every reason to, hope that the cause of the
Gospel will tbe're find , its profit. Thus it
counts two new champions very decided to
cbmbat valiantly for it, and who are re
garded as admirably qualified to do it with
success.
Sunday Dinners
Perhaps no one thing which, at first
view, appears to be of so little consequence,
more, effectually obstructs the way to moral
reformation, than the practice of 'Dodog to
eicess' on Sunday, especially at dinner.
The whole'energies of the' brain thus be
come concentrated, as: it were, on the stom
ach; and you might almost as well preach
to a somnambulist during one of his parox
ysms,' or to a maniac, as to
. one who has
dined heartily. The person has indeed
eyes, but he sees not; he his ears, but un
.derstands not; he has a brain and a: nerv
ous system, but it is benumbed and stupe
fied ; and he has a- - heart, but it-cannot feel.
Now I do not speak of those alone who
actually sleep in church; for every one
knowS that'neither the services; nor the day,
nor the'force.of divine truth will be likely
to affect them: But I refer to a much larger
and perhaps more respectable class of corn munitY. I refer to those who, though 'they
may not actually resign themselves ' 6:the
anis of Morpheus, would yet do so if there
were no cinnamon, or cloves, or orangepeel
to masticate"; or, if they did not, make a
constant effort, or perhaps prick themselves
with pins to prevent it. '
There are many reasons why a person
should eat a lighter rather than mheavier
dinner on Sunday than on any other ; day,
among which is the fact that most people
use, on this day, a less amount than usual of
physical exercise. Another reason is that.
the air of a church,♦ confined, heated, and
impure, as it , often is,' has , somewhat , of a
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stupefying tendency. Another reason still
is found'in the fact, that these who are ac
customed to much exercase on-every other
days, are of course dull when.they, come to
sit still an hour or two, under circnmstan
-ces the most - favorable.—Cor. of English
churchman.
'Baja Earnest
Runyan, in his inimitable allegory, has
drawn for us a portrait of the earnest in
quirer.. Pliable and Christian together
,approached the slough of despond, and to
gether, `they tell, into it. This unexpected
;obstacle in their path reveals the character
of the effort whidh each is willing to, make
-to obtain the crown of life. He who is
but half in earnesCories out, "Is this the
happiness you have told' me of all this
while ? If we have such r ill speed at our
first setting - out, what may, We expect be
tween this‘and our journey's end? May I
,getout again , with' my life, you shall pas
:: eal the brave country alone for me I"
Pliable finds no great difficulty - in getting
out,on the side nearest his•own house, and
;lie companion sees him no more. Chris-.
ian, heavily laden with the burden of eon
. eious guilt, sinks deep in the mire - of the
lough, but still he struggles on to the
ide farthest from his own house, and next
o the- wicket gate. He is the earnest
eeker.
Disciple of Jesus, be in earnest ! The
i.arnest Christian is the living, working
:;rowing Christian. -
Inquirer after salvation, be in earnest!
f you are only half in earnest you will
nrely, like Pliable, turn back. Are you
:roping in darkness after him who is the
ray, the truth, and the life I Strug gle on,
Tress forward till you find the wickt-gate,
t .nd the cross beyond, where the burdened
oul gains peace and rest.
These are the words of Jesus : "Strive
~.co enter in at the strait gate ;" and again :
" The kingdom of heaven suffareth violence,
and the violent take it by force." Striving,
agonizing, usinc , violence, certainly imply
a great degree of earnestness.
God was in earnest when he gave his Son
to die for you. Jesus was in earnest when
for - you, in Gethsemane, he sweat "as it
were great drops,of blood falling down to
the ground." He was in earnest when
for you he gave himself up to cruel mock
iugs and scourgings. He was in earnest
when, stretched on the accursed tree for
you,' he cried out, " My God, my. God, why
hest thou forsaken me!" The Holy Spirit
is in earnest when he, strives with your
sinful heart, convincing you "of sin, of
righteousness, and of judgment." The
holy angels were in earnest when on the
plains of Bethlehem they sang, " Glory to
God in the highest, and on earth peace,
good will toward men."
Shall there be such earnestness for your
salvation, and will you be only half in earn
est in asking what you shall do to be saved ?
--S. S. Times.
Iceland.
This island, which has a population of
about seventy thousand, is tinder the Gov
ernment of Denmark. The language spo
ken in Iceland is the old Scandinavian,
closely - akin to the Saxon, with no admix
ture of Greek or Latin roots. It has, sin
gularly enough, a literature nine hundred
years old. There are four presses on' he
island, and four newspapers. About sixty
volumes are issued in a year. There are
colleges and, academies of medicine there,
and common schools. But most of the ed
ucation is domestic in its' character. The
fathers teach the Children so effectually,
that a young Iceland boy or girl of eight
,years old cannot be found unable to read
and write. Wandering minstrels, like
those of the old time in Scotland and Ger
many, are still to be found traversing the
country, and dropping in on families happy
to receive them, who gladly give them a
night's supper and lodging in exchange for
their lay. The Icelandic Church is Luth
eran. There art, one.,hundred and ninety
nine
,:churches on the islaN, with two hun
dred and eighty clergymen.
Patriotic 't4otlier
A clergyman recently called upon Mrs.
Ellet, of Philadelphia, in company, with
Mr. George If. Stuart, President of the
Christian Commission, whom she desired
to employ as her almoner in distributing
the proceeds of two beautiful and va'uable
shawls among the widows and orphans of
soldiers fallen in battle.
The body of her grandson had just ar
rived, and the clergyman expressed the
hope that the Lord would sustain her under
her, bereavement. She stated that she had
given her two sons—COmmodore Ellet, of
the Rata Fleet, and Brigadier-General El
let, of the Marine Brigade, and four grand
children, adding, " I do not regret the gift
to my country. If I had twenty sons I
would give them all, for the country must
be preserved. And if I was twenty years
younger, I would go and fight myself, to
the last I" •
The Child we Live for.
It would be unwise in us to call that man
wretched, who whatever he suffers as to
pain, inflicted or pleasures denied, has a
child for wham he hopes, and on whom he
di;tes. Poverty may grind him to the dust ;
obscurity may cast its darkest mantle over
him ; the song of the gay may be far from
his own dwelling; his face may be un
known to his neighbors, and his voice may
be unheeded by those among whom he
dwells—even pain may rack his joints, and
sleep may flee from.his pillow. Yet has he
a gem with , which. he would not part for
wealth defying computation, for fame filling
a world's ear, for the luxury of the highest
wealth, or for"the sweetest sleep that ever
satlipon mortal's eye.—Coleridge.
Lift—What a shadow is the life of man !
What :a gothing-it is ! The time past, that
is nothing—like a bird fled from the hand
of the owner, out of sight. Thitime.pres
ent, 'that is a vanishing,' a running hour—
nay, less, a flying minute, as good as noth
ing. The time to come, that is uncertain
the evening's sun may 'See us dead.
Lord ! therefore in this hour, in this min
ute, maim me sure of thee, for in the next
I am not sure, of myself.
The central ~:'ffprd in all the Christian'a
vocabulary, is Christ. This is i the , name
that charms his ears; that makes light his
weary way, and is the talisman of hope and
joy as he advances, step by step, pro
gress towur4 inuP3l:4ll#3ll.