11EV. DAVID ACKINNEY, Editor and Proprietor. •;V. I. N. AVKINNEY, AssotHATE EDI' TERMS tit ADVANCE. I:qngly or to flubs,) ...... ...... 92.40 LIVERSA Ii EITIIER or TOE CITIES .......... ..•44. 9.5 U ?P. subscribers and upwards, 1,,, , by entitled to a paper without charge, and APO p.per for the second ten ; Are. , nek vats should he prompt, a little before the year eat Irect all lettere to REV. DAVID MICINNEY, PITTSBURGH, PA 'AEU OX THE DAT Or A NATIONAL r day a Nation's fervent cries ire the throne of God arise ; ty he bend a listening ear, at his footstool we appear 1 humbled hearts, 0 Lord, we own Ding limit all to thee are known ; own thy judgments on our land, bow beneath thy mighty hand. Nation mourns—our youth are slain, they the cause of right maintain ; human blood, in crimson stains, laims that war and horror reigns. wherefore doer thou still contend ? .1w long wilt thou refuse to lend listening ear, when at thy feet humble prayer thy people meet. t THOU WILT =KR Thy word is given, \t fervent prayer will open heaven ; shall not seek thy face in vain, len low before thee we complain. land, (though now beneath thy frown is crushed in grief and sadness down,) listened, corrected by thy hand, 11 yet in her full glory stand. ,e Nations of the earth shall see .44t. God will still a Helper, be, To such as make his name their tower In trial's dark and stormy hour. be thou still our Nation's aid! ion, should insulting foes invade, v'll look to thee for strength Divine, trust no other arm but thine. denton, Pa., 1868. Union Meetings,—The Week of Prayer. MESSRS. EDITORS.--The week of pray 3-10, 1804, is approaching. MI for prayer, it is hoped, will then everywhere. Some of these v dess be union meetings.; and hence words, not merely on union prayei sings, but union meetings in genera not be untimely. Perhaps, as a ger thing, it may be best for each deem in to work itself; but there may, b and places wherein union efforts ma (esirable. Yet some are afraid of nixie fags of any kind. Instead of harmon: fear they will produoe discord. Thi not be; if the principle which lies a basis of these meetings is well node] and faithfully adhered to, it will nc The principle is plain and simple. Each denomination while togethet aside whatever is peculiar to itself o 3ive to others, in doctrine, mode .o hip or measures; or, this is done b, odividuals present of the different & cations; and each one seeks the al Jod i and the good of all to edificatior xv : 1-11. There is no effort t art each other; and of course no eft)] convert any to any one partioulii rob or creed. Each one lays aside fo time what is peculiar or offensive all seek by prayer the outpouring Spirit, and by exhortation and persour I the conversion of sinners unto Goi ' - tis is the basis of union in such meal ,; each one lays aside what is peoulia offensive in doctrines, mode of worshi measures. The Baptist must,not tette Talon ; the Bpisco . palian must no Apostolioal summon as essential, t existence or the well-being of th :eh, or the validity of its ordinances Presbyterian must not teach Predesti )13; nor the Methodist, falling froc So of other doctrines,, and so o things, for the principle is of yer; ;naive application. Some may think i. for women to pray and speak in pub promiscuous assemblies; others may b as firmly persuaded that this is us .ptural and wrong, or, as Paul calls it, otin-,-what exoites Jlisgust—and hens to be allowed.-1 Cor. xiv : 80-40; ii : 11, 12. The principle of unio; ores that this.be laid aside; it is pecu to some, it is offensive to others : ii in meetings the women must learn ii tee. Again : some may he in the habi 'lying out and shouting, or making audible manifestations, This ina; Hying to some ; but it is annoying t .s, ',the principle of union requires i laid aside. Let all things be done 'soy and order, for God is not the as of confusion, but of peace and order Bally order in worshipping assemblie things unto edification.-1 Cor. xiv Again : some think it proper. t ;hose who desire prayers to rise, or t. forward and occupy certain seats, o an audible response to some question pre are as fully satisfied that this is us and hurtful, and no . matter whethe j are right or wrong in their views a this and other things; the principle o ion requires that nothing of the kind b tempted. There must be a mutual yield • of cherished plans and practices, a II as silence on peelings and favorite doe les. We must not try to convert•esel er, either to doctrines, modes of woi ), or measures. We must just lay said it is peculiar or offensive—lay aside al rein we differ—unite wherein we agree seek the one object, the revival c .'s work by God's appointed means--th , d and prayer; unite in seeking th muting of God's Spirit, and the cot icon of men unto 'him. Thus conduct the true basis of union, understoodim Id upon in good faith, union meeting r be not only held without discord, bu harmony and love, and result in gres I lasting good. Such is the result i iy places ; may it be so every where peelally during the week of prayer, ma istians every where unite in meeting prayer and praise I Let all pastor the proper steps to.attain this end. pie principle of union—the only sin , safe principle-=As sometimes thought !sly violated : and-then if trouble or ut %smut feelings result, the fault is nc 1 those who resist, but but= With those innovations. And whenlyilipriso, is not ,observed,• union meetings her the 'occasion of discord, or of az meant feelings, or some are necessaril, ;eluded from them. That union is worti sae which it ma,de, at the sacrifice of pm . ; iple ; but surely there is no such swifts laying aside fora time our little differ ;es, that we may unite in acts of socie 'ship, prayer and praise. W.J.M. Thunders may bring their poblimi gh to Ingo their awful glory, earth may gi I beauty ;. but all these,put eagothq,4 Ever.rivto Christ. Ef/3 [0 Igl nal.] Lines MARL Pox the Presbyterian Banner O CI6 r . ti en + , " ns . . . . i e r . . VOL. XII. NO. 16 Per the Presbyterian Banner Board of Foreign Missions. A Statement of the .Executive • Committee, for use on the First Sabbath of Janu ary, 1864. The General Assembly has requested all the churches under its care, which have no other time appointed for the purpose, to make collections in aid of the cause of For eign,Missions on the first Sabbath in Jan nuary. If it should be inexpedient to take a, collection on that day in any church, then it is hoped that on the second or third Sabbath this subject will be attended to. The state of the missionary treasury, at the end of seven months of the current financial year--from,May Ist to December Ist—will appear from the following re turns. Receipts from all sources, $61,013`; of which, :from -the churches, that is, omit ting legacies and miscellaneous, $30,272. Last year in the same months the corres ponding receipts were $55,610 and $27,- 302, Showing an encouraging 'increase this year of $5,403 in'the aggregate, of which $2,970 is from. the churches. : It is with real thankfulness 'this increase is thus re ported. The financial condition of the Board, nevertheless, is one of serious con cern. This increase of receipts is by no means adequate to the increased expendi tures. These for the general purposes of. the. Board, are nearly the same this year as in each of several preceding years, but the high rate of foreign exchange will add very largely to the sum that mutt be provided this year. For this exchange alone, the treasurer ;has. paid $18,772 more in the seven months to December-Ist, than would have been required in- the same period in former years, not including the last; and if the present high rate shculd continue, a farther sum of about $22,000 will be need ed on this account before the first of next May, on the estimated amount to be remit ted for the support of the missions. The Committee would add here that the expen ses of the Board this year could hardly be less, as the missionary work was everywhere placed two years ago on closely restricted estimates, and, these have not yet been ma terially enlareed. Nor will they be much more, though some new missionaries have been sent'out this year, under. the express direction of the last General Assembly, for these will little more than replace the breth ren who were removed last year by death. It is evident, therefore, that a very consid erable increase must be made in the re. ceipts of the mission treasury during the next five months to provide for the demands upon it with the 'heavy cost of exchange, or else the year 'unit close under the em barrassment of debt. No reduction of ex penses that could now be made, in a work so far diiitant, could sake effectwithin these five months; no reduction could be inade, without striking at the life of the work at some point; no reduction could be made, as it is believed,. without incurring the dis approval of our blessed 'Lord. From whence, then, may an increase of contributions be expected? .(1) From churches which did not make. any collets tions..last. year,. for this cause. These churches; were over 1,200 in number. (2) From churches that have already' made: theiu collections, but have made no effort to inoreaselthe amount over what was .given in former years. There are yet five months in which. :many of these'•churches might add largely to their gifts. • (3) From churches whose .collections are yet to be made.. (4) Front .the numerous members of our body, who it is to be feared have .not yet laid to heart the•deeply solemn in teresta involved in this cause, and who therefore give either nothing, or 'else but little, to save them that: are perishing for, lack of vision. Many of these might have their attention called to this subject by their pastor, or by some Christian friend, and even if no church collection offered a channel fbr their gifts, they might send• them direct to the treasurer of the Board. (5) The gifts of Sabbath Schools, in many cases, might be- increased. The last Gen eral Assembly recommended an effort to se cure an average gift of at least one cent. a. week from each scholar;this would make a noble offering. (6) .Prayer for the grace- of giving can be made. In answer to prayer, all needed funds may be provided. Without:prayer, no amount offunds would do any good. With this statement of the ease, the Ex ecutive Committee might leave the subject in the hands of the Church Sessions, to whom this paper is addressed. On you it rests, dear brethren, to have this _cause, brought before the people of God under your charge, and an opportunity afforded to every member of the church to make his gift, for the spread of the Gospel in the countries- where our missions are plant ed. This duty will not be fulfilled, unless you give your earnest attention to it. You will, however, consider this to be no unwel come duty that is laid upon you, but a pre cious opportunity of promoting the useful ness and comfort of the churches under your care, and of making known the Goa pel of the grace of God in the world. But the Committee must not close this state ment without- calling the attention of the churches to the need of enlarged efforts for the extension of our foreign missionary work. It is indeed true that we are living in times of unexampled perplexity and dis- trees, 'but thus far in the great goodness of God, the calamity of our country has not prevented our misaionary brethren from, re- ceiving their support and continuing their varied labers as in former years, Nvhile'they have enjoyed the most clear tokens of the presenew,of God, the Holy Ghost, in - the success of their work. Many. eases of, hope ful conversion have been reported within the last few months. Moreover; new breth ren •have been sent out, and others are un .der . appointment 28 missionaries. These things show , that God has not forsaken his church in her missionary lark, even in these days of affliction. And when we lift up our *yes and look on the field abroad with reference to its wants, we see the mis sionary door still open, the, harvest•plente ous,.the laborers fearotud, the duty-mani fest of praying for more -missionaries,,es yecially for missionaries from, the ranks of the .native .churches. In •several of the .mieeions---Corisco most of, all, Brazil—there.is a call for moremen 1.1114;ehonld meet with a speedy , response. {Porrpartioulara as to these.things, therCom mittee.must-refer to the missionatyyeriod halo ; but as they look. at the differentmis sions they: ,see chiefly encouraging provi deuces:And tokens :of' the Holy Spirit's gra cious presence; and then, as they turn and look at the churches - at home, they see sur prising proofs of God's goodness and leer * to big rreople, iv putting it in 9so power PITTSBURGH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1863. WHOLE NO. 587. of so many of them to render liberal aid in carrying forward this.work of the Lord. They would therefore respectfully lay be fore their brethren the inquiry, whether God is not calling our beloved Church to make still further and much larger.efforts to spread his Gospel among the nations. This inquiry will suggest itself to our Christian brethren in their times of prayer, and it will influence - their purposes, when devising liberal things for the cause of Christ. The .Committee• will only express further their hope of being still remem bered, in the sympathies...and prayers of their brethren at home and the missionary stations, while endeavoring rightly to ful fil the responsible duties entrusted to theta in the superintendence of this cause. WILLIAM W:'PEtILLIPs, Ch'n. :WALTER , LOWILLE, JOHN C. Louvain, See Mission House, N. Y., Dec. 7,1863. EUROPEAN COERBSPONDENCH. Visit . id ILincolnShire--Bostoir and' New Boston— The Old and the Haa—The "Pilgrim" Suffer ers—Bev. Tohn Cotton—The Church. .of St. Bo tOiph and. Cotton's Ministry—Cotton and Calvin ism--Besignation and Departure—High .Principle and SacrOce—The Persecuted a Persecutor, and Why--His Lectrning 2 —His' Portrait-:—The Pa - grim Fathers. Traced—The' !'Mayflower"—John Fox His Birth-Place— His Career His Learning-1--Pasiscript. r FROM 'BOSTON, -(not in ` New-England, or on, my way to viSit , .you at Pittsburgh !) but from Boston, in Lincolnshire, in ".the old country," I write. It gave the name to your own Boston, - and thus it has a double interest to rile, -ow this my first visit to it. Very ancient is the place, with its Corporation, -lands Court House, (under neath which some Of the early. intended fu gitives toward New-England, who had been seized in their departure and cruelly treated, once were confined, and from whose dungeons up a stair- which I saw last night, they were brought to stand before the Mag istrates.) These Magistrate's, however, ' were Puritan in their sympathies, and with a show only of severity, they soon set free the captives—to return, however, stripped of their clothing and emigrant-furnishings by a rude mob, who did the work of Tory Churchmen with an .excessive violence, of which even some of them must have been ashamed. This County of Lincoln was:full of Puritanism; this town was_ its central focus and fire. - The noble old church—a Cathedral -in grandeur, in architecture and completeness—was blessed fora "long time, nearly thirty years, with the ministry of one of the most illustrious sons of Cam bridge University, *ho afterwaids became a Legislator, a Divine, a guide to the "Pil grim -band in New-England. I refer to the Rev. John Cotton. Before me, as I write, lies an engraving from the original por trait. What a mingling of majesty and mildness,-of firmness and love in that noble faoe and form 1- And how pleasant to see a Jac simile of his autograph. underneath—: " Yours heartily in the Lord, • "e . ' 6m-rt." Very blessed was' his ministry in this town. Early did his parishioners testify their love to him •by an increase of his modest stipend, and. by testifying in, the deed of conveyance, thereof, that he was a man " of very great deserts—a worthy man, 'and well-deserving forhis learning and his life—his pains in preaching and catechis ing. very great." Great was the championship waged. by Cotton against the low Arminianism of his time, which, .from- Archbishop Laud, and downwards, infected the National. Clergy. His greatest delight and recreation was the the reading of Calvin's Institutes. Of Cal vin he used to say, " I have read the Fath ers 'and= the Sehoolmen, and Calvin too; but I find that he that hath Calvin, hath them all." Being asked, in his latter years, why he indulged in nocturnal stu dies more than formerly, he replied':_;" Be cause 'I love to sweeten my mouth with a piece of Calvin before I sleep!' He was very hospitable. In that, says Hutchinson " He did exceed all that I ever heard of: His heart and his door were ever open to all that feared God; 'especially godly min isters driven into England by the persecu tions then raging in Germany; these he most courteously sustained!' Great numbers came to live at Boatel; to enjoy Cotton's ministry. But at length he was accused of Nonconformist practices. Intercession was sought with the Govern ment through the Earl of Dorset, but he informed Cotton that "ifhe had been guilty of di•Unkenness, uncleanness, or any such lesser faults, he could 'haie obtained his pardon; but, as he was guilty of Puritanism and Nonconformity, the crime was unpar donable, and therefore he advised him to flee for his safety." He resigned his vicar age into the hands of -the 'Bishopion the 7th of May, 1633. When speaking of the peremonies of the Church of England; Mr. Cottbi says : "I forebore alike at once, many years before I left England.. The grounds for 'were : let. The significaney and efficacy put - upon them in the preface to the Book of Com mon Prayer. 2d' The limitation.of Church Powers (even 'of the highest Apostolical Commission) to theUbservance of the:com mandments of Christ, which made it appear to me unlawful for any Church power to enjoin the observance of indifferent ceremo nies-.,which Christ hid not commanded What favor I mus offered, notunly for con menience; but:preferiaent, if I would have conformed to any one of the ceiMikoniPl, I forbear to Mention. Yea, when I was sus pended upon special complaint made against me to the King s Andull hope of restitution denied to me without yielding, somel con formity,• at leest in one eeremony,a,4 least once; yet the good,hand of God so.kept me, that I thirst not buy my ministry so dear. And yet my ministry was 'dearer to me than any preferment. " When the Bishop of Lincoln Diopeee offered me liberty upon once, ; kneeling with him. at the Sacrament next Lord's day after, orAse OM some reasons *iv in ;conscience I could snot; I durst not' accept his offer of liberty .by once,:kneding.; but -I gave reason for my excuse and defence et Ciatit nom instieutus, non est ,adeeptus: " Onuilexio in receptioneEneharistine est online mon.institutue " - " Eogo, non est aceeptns." Plum, in syllogistic, form be said " A form of worship not Diiinely insti tuted is . not acceptable to God. " But kneeling at the Lord's table is not Divinely. appointed. . • " Therefore, . kneeling ,at: the,saeratunukis not acceptable, to Ca" Noble was the spirit' andheroic the tour- • age of this great and good' man. He was one of the true heroes who for 'eonseience sake are ready .to. sacrifice all. It: is of notice that in King Edward Sitth's Prayer Book, 1649; , there was much' liberty allowed as to eetemoniesir , " touching crossing, kneeling-, holding ,up .ef hands, knocking upon the breast, and other gestures,- they may be used or left, as every. man's 'desire serveth, without '..blarne.'• Thus we see how different , the spirit "of King Charles and -Laud , from that of Ed ward VI. and his bishops: The -former. were bigoted Churchmen .'the others were true Evangelicals and Protestants—lovers of Christand all that -bore.hi's• image. It was-Congregationalist views that Cot; tone adopted. He 'declined-the "jurisdic tion of " eathedral , *urehes and classital assemblies. , '"; It 'is melanebely to find that the sufferers for liberty-'of-con-' science,: in England, beenbae ,thexuselved:— from"a -false-theocratic thl‘ry . '-; , ;-persetititors in New-England.- "ptitrietip me -not a little," wrote Sir Riehtrd Saltenshill; 1652, one of the' original fottliders of BO ton, to Wilson and Cotton, the :ministers' there "-to hear what. sad thingS are repotted' daily of your tyranny anti , perseeutions that -yon.fine, whip, and-imprison -men!for their consciences. , * ' * These rigid ways have laid you very low in' the-hearts , of the 'Saints.' I' do lasinfie •you I' haire' heard them pray in- the public assemblies, that the Lord-would - gi*e. , you'meet g and humble-spirita, to -strive, 4108:80 much -for uniformity, as the unity of the spirit-in the bond of peace. I.hope you do- not 'as sume to-yourselves- infallibility of judg ment, when' the most -learined, of the Apos tles confesseth that he knew but -in part. * * Oh. that all those that, are, brethren, though yet they cannot speak and think the same thing, might be of ,one accord in the Lord." - December 4, 1863, It has been truly. said,by Mr. Thomp son, author of a most-interesting History of -Boston—who spent some time -previous to his writing, in New-England—that Mr. Cotton - was certainly not- , the' advance of his age as respects religious liberty; •but that subject was not understood , in his.day, either in the old world or .the new. It is, nevertheless very strange' that people who had 'fled from persecution in the rine,' should .have taken- to- the' other anything which approaches to a 'bigoted and intol erant spirit. , It is worthy of remembrance that in 141, some of the prine*ipal men in both: Houses of Parlieineet wished to send ship to oonvey - Mr. Cotton; and a feitl'otheY ' leadingiColonists, to England, to aid-in public affairs ; but the delay of, Oliver Cromwell and others, in writing, letterd'of entreaty, and the rapid development` of revolutionary events, prevented plishment of this design. : 1642, ttMic-- Cotton and other Now-England ministerS had letters signed by several of the . nobi k nobil ity, members of the House :of Com mons; ' &c:,, " to call some of them, if :all `could'not ebine - tr: assist in thepAstietlitilY orl i 2. vinein&Westulinsterr Cattber-weiild'hive. undertakenuthe ;voyage; had, others been!. willing ;to ; accompany, him. In, concluding, this notice of Cotton's ca, rear', I need make no apoloo for it American readers. Well Might' Dr: creasav Mather' say, "Both "Bostons have' reason to honor Ads . mentory, and .Newl. England most of all, which oweth its name, and being to him, more than to any other Person in the world."' One of 'his 'biog.: repheis thus -draiis his portrait, ''airid` also , indicates his literary eminence : "He was a good Hebraist ;: critically, versed in Oreek,_ and wrote and:, spoke, Latin' with greatfacility, in a pure and OS : gent Ciceroniati style;dnd was - a good his-2 . tOrian. His libfaryivas great; his readiiik ami learning answerable' (correspcinding& " himself -a living and better library: • : 7 - " His voice was not_dond i but clear and , distinct, and was easily heard' in the - most capacious -auditory." This was just the kind' of yoke suited to St. Botolph, at Boa: ton, with g‘ its fretted roof-and long= maid dral.aisles." •To-preach distinotly „in this class of buildings is very difficult.. ,Re- , cently, since this beautiful church 'has had' its interior " restored;" by takinuaway from columns , and arches the , •mortar and i whitewash which- had covered -and , out -2 raged their, beauty, under the barbarous, lack of taste in the last century. There have been repeated 'experiments made as .to best,' position Of•the pulpit. --And so the'clergymairhad- a moveable' pulpit, and preached from-different parts:of the church, Now thdpulpitis placed under the shadow f of the right hand pillars, near the entrance to the choir ,Buf - to return to Cotton portrait....,." His complexiodwas fair, san guine;-and-clear-; his hair was once brown, butan. his later years, white--as the driven 5 - 0 05...: In his countenance-,,wad pressibh3sortof majesty, which, command ; ed respect from ail that approached Ill.". Tl2li PILGRIM. FATIIERS were not as ready intiinated; with one or two caner. lions; from the. town of)Bostom The most laborious .researchl -hie- not , succeeded= in tracing more than two of this illustrious band (Bradford and Brewster) to an Eng lish birthplace. It has always been - sep.- posed that - the founders of New-England came from the North of England ; more definiteinformation states .that they were religious people who lived near the adjoin ing borders of Nottinghamshire, Lincoln shire, and. Yorkshire. Another' authority tells us, " There" Were 'about the' year 1602, two. congregations. of Puritan- Beparatiets, one of Which was at Ganesborough, the other at Scrooby, in Nottinghamshire: This village is-Undoubtedly the seat and centre of that religious community., which afterwards planted itself on, the shores:of New-England, and was the foundation. of the colony, there." Before the end of 1608 the whole body of the. Baseet-tand flic4- tives were assembled at Amsterdam. They resided.there for a year, and then removed to Leyden. They., remained_ therc*Ota 1609 t0`1620, when a portion of:them left fet: Plynsonth'enetlieremainder embarked th 6 following years: The path 'thus' Operfed; Winthrop : and company of 'Puri mostlY persons of poiition .and for r tune, fitted out a fleet.and salledlor Massa chusetts Bay; where' , they laid - the fipind Lion of a city, to which they gave the name of Boston out 'Ortega - id - to some of their most'seruinent ttundbers;'whn liall 6 4iitod in Bostoni•Lineelnehire. Noble thendl;“ • What'isought they thus afar? Bright jewels ,of • the mine ? They sought beneath the forest fillies Freedom to worship God."' ' ' • And here Are we called adore Rim who overrules ,jr . ,len'A passions, Wrathi j and. bid "citry isaitmg ,tixeta him 'ho , issues of that ' - eOforCed emigraoO shall live for ever.. Thopflgritn spirit - is not dead, It walks in,noon's broad light ; And it watches the bed of the glorious dead By the holy stars at night ; - It watches the bed of the•glorious dead, • And shalt guard that kip:bound' shore, Till the waves' of the bin where the Mayflower Shall freeze and foam no more An old house fronting the market place of Boston, and now called The Bell, but originally a -private house, was the birth place in 1515, of John Fox, the , Martyrol ogist. In- the same year. Martin Luther published his Theses against the Church of' Borne. Fox was educated'' at Oxford University, rind became a Fello*. He was afterwards , tried for heresy in: 1545, when he, was either expelled. or resigned .his fel lowship: He was thustreduced to poverty, but Altiinately became Tutor of the'Earl of Sdicrift 'Children. ordained 'by Bisheraidley in 1656. - When -the hrtipersecationbbrokeniu4 the Earl of Bar ,rey,, his date, : pupilod nse all possible. ineans of ptotecting Fox ) and-offered, if he vrould stay with hirn;q6 - " partake of the danger, and to 'narike -the -destruction oommon," adding , that ,remembered -with 'What instructions zhe had 'fortified his younger, years." Bishop Gardiner " laid many traps for the young tutor." He fled first 'to 'Antiverp, and then to Strasburgh early in 1554. Afterwards he was con cerned thetroubles and discussions rel ative to, the, discipline and worship of the Church, It was at Basil that-he collected the materials for his "Acts and Moria ments;" and here he began to write and :print the , records} of the -stifferinga of the faithful. It ie worthy of notice -that Fox's work was,compilederiginally in Latin, and afterwards published in Enlish. After his return to this country, in 1568, he was' made a Prebend, but declined higher pre ferment; as hewas always unwilling to ,sub scribe, to- the , - Canons, and disliked the "habits," and some of the ceremonies en joined by the authorities. ,He died in Lon don, where he lies in the setae ohurch where repose the ashes 'of john . Milton. There his surviving-son non sine loaryrniis-dedi= cater' a-monument to his-memory : " Mar &roue .Atielissinto ;.-Antiguitatis Ristariew Indagotpri Sagacissinto Thaumaturgo A Evangeliete Veriga Propu. gndteri . Acirrinto." Fox was lioth an ad eomplished and a learned man, He " affect; ed poetry, and wrote some Latin Comments of. Bible history in a copious and grace ful style." Afterwards.he " engaged seri &Op in the study`of. Divinity and 'Church History,:and 'acquired great proficiency in the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages!' Pity leis, but true, that few MOO in either hemisphere , could write- a work in pure Latin as did John Fox, and that the " brew," in which he excelled, is so littfe cultivated. There is a return to that de . - partment of lingual studies at Edinburgh. Tillotson says : "It is a true observation, that catechising • and History of the tyre, have been the two great pillars of the , lefoirriattOri!"4robablY Fox was a' little' eredelons, butilie ii'knowri to have accept ed-cerrections mietakes; and as a his torieal and biographical work, his " Acts and Martyrs." will always remain among our standard works. Boston may well; 'cherish - his memory." - J. W. , P. B.—=Some•years ago, Mr. Dallas; theri the American Ambassador, attended -a. fes tival In Lincolnshire in - honor of the mem ory of. the Pilgrim Fathers. The reply of Earl Russell, to 'the EM peror's invitation to a - Congress; is . deScribed. as-being 44 so masterly, as to be unanswera- Ve." ' The Holstein questionia still prom inent. Money has gone up to seven per cent. This' ariSes from demands for cotton 'abroad and the supplies corning from India and Egypt. Trade, commerce, and agriculture are flourishing all.over England, except in Lancashire in part. For the Presbytertaa Benner The Presbytery of Clarion 1 At, recent meetings, this Presbytery transacted several- matters of business, which may be of - general importance to`the - churches: -' , • Rev. T. S. Leeson and elder James.Pat toni-principals, and- Rey. S. -P. Kinkaid and _elder ! Samuel Craig, alternates were chosen Commissioners-to the next General AsseMbly. The pastoral relation between Rev. J. S. Elderiand the church of New-Bethlehem was .dissolved. On the 15th,, , ,inst., at, a meeting c held at Pisgah, call, from Pis gah 'Church, for the one-half of the pastoral labors ,of Mr. Elder, was placed in his hands and accepted, and he was according ly installed pastoruf said church. At the same time and place, Alr.• Robert Sutton was. ordained as an Evangelist. In these services, 'Mr. Holliday preached the ser- Mon; 'Mr. Mont,gorriery presided, proposed the cenatitutiorial questions, made the- or ,daining,prayer, and delivered the charge to : the people; Mr. Wray, to the pastor, and to, the. newly-ordained Evange,list. Mr._Kinkaid was appointed to adminis ter the Lerd's"SuPper at Richland,' on the first Sabbath; of. February: The following paper, touching ministerial support,- was unanimously adopted, and it was' directed J-hat it be published in the .P'resbyterian ..13nr : i'MaturAsi, 1 The Lord , hath ordained 'thatAhey Who-preach- the , Gospcl, shall live of the Gospel and whereas, the expenses of living—including the support of a fam ilyhave jtriatly - increaied`Sinde the-estab lishment of the present rates of ministerial 'support within 'our bounds; averagipgfrom one-third 'to one-half -more, and in• some particulars' over one hundred per eentum more° than they' did at; that time; and mihereas, our owe Synod And several others have Called the '